Title: Thunder Strike and the Tree of Harmony

Premise: MLP: FIM. Thunder Strike and his friends prepare to capture the Tree of Harmony.

Date Posted: 11/29/13

Personal Comments: I watched the MLP Season 4 premier yesterday. And it was AWESOME! And aftewards, I found myself thinking about Thunder Strike and my other old crew of OCs.

In the dark of cover of night, four stallions marched silently through the Everfree Forest, until they reached a deep gorge. One pointed to a large flight of stairs on the side. The others followed suite as they all marched down and into the crevice.

One unicorn stallion puffed on a cigar in his mouth, briefly igniting his determined face. This was Metal Jacket, the current captain of the royal guards.

"This is the place," He whispered to his companions.

"Great," The leader, Thunder Strike replied. His horn ignited a dull yellow, lighting up the crevice, though not enough to attract any attention.

The four stallion party continued to march silently through the gorge until they at last reached a cave. Inside, before them, standing proud and strong, was the radiant Tree of Harmony.

"There it is, boys," Thunder Strike whispered triumphantly, "It all its glory."

There was a brief moment of silence for all the stallions to observe it.

"Never seen a tree that dazzling in all my life," said Scythe Swinger.

"Uh, Thunder?" A timid voice asked. Thunder turned to Ink Blot.

"Yeah? What?" Thunder asked, a hint of impatience in his voice.

"Are you sh-sure we should go through with this?"

"Of course," Thunder replied. "Just think of what we can achieve with this thing!"

"I just... I just have a really bad feeling about this," Blot continued. "I really don't think we should do this."

Thunder turned towards his old friend and got really close to his face, a look of burning, unabridged contempt plastered on his own. One look into his eyes made Blot tremble.

"Blot," Thunder hissed. "Are you with me on this or not?"

After a moment's consideration, Blot nodded. "Yes, I'm with you," he admitted shamefully.

"Good." Thunder calmed down, stepped back from Blot, and turned to Scythe Swinger.

"Scythe, you're the plant guy. What do you propose we do?"

"Well..." Scythe approached the tree and started taking measurements with his protractor and ruler.

Eventually he got the right measurements, and then he and the two unicorns started hacking and digging away at the earth beneath the tree. Finally, after about an hour of proper excavating, Scythe determined that it was ready.

"Excellent," Thunder smiled. He reached a hoof up and tapped a com link on his neck. "Black, we're ready. Commence Operation Dig 'Em Up!"

"Right-away, sir," Black Blur's hoarse voice crackled through the intercom.

Within a minute, several hooks crashed through the roof of the cave, causing debris to fall and creating a massive opening in the cave, and latched onto the tree.

Up above, the lines connected from the tree to several wonderbolts and pegasi guards, two of which were Black Blur and Fire Bolt.

The pegasi all accelerated towards the sky, pulling hard, until at last, the tree of harmony came loose from the earth, its roots still in tact, as the platoon carried it off.

All around, plants started to wither and die. Thunder Strike could only smile as the next phase of his plan was completed.