Umm...Yeah! Hi, again! It's been a looooooonnnnngggg time! I'm so damn sorry for taking about 3/4 months to upload this chapter. I've been so pre-occupied with school and whatnot...now, chapters are getting longer, the secret of Aspire is getting closer...I'll try 2 week intervals at the max but I can't promise anything! Thanks for bearing with me guys...seriously. It means a heap to me!
~mfish56

We reached the Everfree forest and as we did Dash looked at us with open and tired eyes "She's my best friend Matt….She's always wanted to help me. I feel so terrible that it wasn't me that was taken"

Dash just dropped to the ground and cried. Her tears made a small stream down her cyan face mixing with the single strands of rainbow mane that laid over her mouth.

"It's alright Dashie, we'll get Fluttershy back. I know you're the element of Loyalty but you can't be there for her right now, you have to give her some space between you two until we get things sorted. We can't take on these ponies ourselves. They're stronger than Discord and we're just 3 small Pegasai. We need to alert Celestia and Luna and hope that they can do something," Dash just stopped crying and looked at me with an adorable smile

"I ought to keep you around… you know how to win a mare's heart"

"Well, why was I so lucky to have you?"

"Because I love you"

"And I love you too Dashie, now let's go get Twilight to send a letter to the princesses"

Dash picked herself up from the ground "good idea, babe"

"Thanks, honeybunch," I smiled and took off into the sky with Dash and Daybreak following. We headed towards Twilight's treehouse until I felt a huge feeling that something was watching me. I looked down to see a human in a brony jumper, much like the one I saw on Earth. I flew down to him as he looked up at me smiling, I landed next to him and he just vanished. I turned around to Dash "Did you see that?"

She looked at me confused "See what?"

I shook my head and took off into the sky again with the same destination in mind.

It was a good five minute trip, mainly due to me flying so slow thinking of what happened with the human in the brony jumper of Dash's cutie mark.

I knocked on the door but as I did I saw drag marks on the grass that lead to the back of the library. There were even a few drops of blood. I turned back to Dash with a shocked expression as she saw it too. We followed the tracks but what we saw froze us in our tracks.

"Wha…What is it?"

I looked at it carefully and got that feeling of being watch again. I looked around, nothing. I looked back up to see a portal. The other side seemed to just be darkness with a few pony figures standing in a circle

"Twix, I think it's time to go," said Dash as the ponies turn to us with angry faces.

We backed up slowly until one finally spoke with a very deep voice

"It seems you have a very nice land here. We assume your puny race has no need for it. We shall take it and call it The Hooded Ponies Land," I looked back up to see that I never got a glimpse of their eyes. They had red fake one painted over the top of their hoods which covered their entire body.

"GIVE BACK OUR FRIENDS," Dash bellowed out causing only a laughter outbreak from them "I MEAN IT," Dash said standing in an aggressive stance "FLUTTERSHY AND TWILIGHT SPARKLE, GIVE THEM BACK NOW!"

"Well Well Well, it seems some pony wants to challenge our powers. Go on show us what you're willing to do"

Dash snorted and ran full blast at them. One just happily trotted to the front of the group where Dash was headed and stood still. Dash thought it was a perfect opportunity so she ran faster. She was a few centimetres away until she stopped as if she hit a brick wall.

"You've messed with the wrong ponies. Leave at once and allow us to get back to our rituals"

I looked at Dash who was bearing in tears of pain and desperation for her friend's wellbeing.

"Stop! You can't do this! I know you're working with Discord! I know you're the hooded ponies. But you won't ever bring him back… He's long gone! The Elements of Harmony have defeated him. They can defeat him again," I said with anger in my eyes. "And as for what you did to my fiancé, no pony gets away with laying a hoof or magic aurora on my girl! Got that?"

The ponies just took a step back and laughed.

"Do you ponies honestly think that you can beat us? We are chemically engineered to withstand any of your pitiful attacks, so to make a threat like that to us is just making yourself look more incompetent"

"There's a difference between incompetent and an incomplete plan you arse," As I finished my sentence they all gasped

"How dare you throw profanity our way you fool, keep up your act and we will have you banished to the moon"

"There are more of us, don't do something that your so called leader will have to fix. Discord wouldn't be happy if he had to bring us back from the moon now will he?"

"Don't underestimate the only one worthy enough to sit in Celestia's throne"

All of a sudden I heard rustling sounds in a bush to my left but I shrugged it off as I looked there in my peripherals and saw just darkness 'that was weird,' I thought as I shrugged it off, "So he wants to sit in a girl's chair?"

"How dare you. We will ensure your friends will die after he is reborn"

"So which one of you pussies is giving birth," I asked proudly looking each one of the five hooded ponies. I could tell they were as frustrated as me with a hint of confusion. "Well? Who's the lucky mare, seeing as you're all girls?"

"What do you want from us?"

"Our friends and for you to leave and never return"

"Heh, why would we listen to you? You're a simple Pegasus that has discovered us. You should be glad. We're doing you a favour. Those two ponies we took are weak and useless. The purple one screamed the whole time we used her while the yellow one just cried and never spoke"

I was flabbergasted "What do you mean, the whole time we used her?"

"Well we're done with her; Discord can finish her off if he pleases. After all, he's the great one and he should be able to do anything that pleases him"

"No," I shouted as I flew past them into the portal where I saw a yellow and purple glare. "Fluttershy, Twilight I'm coming," I screamed as I entered the darkness.

"Oops. That's not the place you want to play around in," said one of the hooded ponies "Maybe you should just stay here with Discord in charge"

"How about you just shut up and give me my friends back," I yelled at them through tears.

"Twix, no, come back," Dash screamed in desperation "Please"

"Dad," daybreak spoke up "Please come back"

I couldn't hear what Dash and Daybreak had said because I was so far in. There was no going back. The portal closed behind me.

I looked around to see heaps of optical illusions forming around me; I swear I even heard Skrillex – Kill Everybody playing in the background.

Everything flashed white with Discord in front of me.

"Good afternoon Sunflower Twix," he said with John De Lacie's voice. His voice then turned into Skrillex "I want to kill everybody in the world," and with that the voice dispersed and everything faded black again.

It felt like I was hit by a bus as I opened my eyes. I looked around and saw Earth. I looked down to see I was still a pony, "Gah, what the fuck just happened," I moaned trying to get up.

I heard footsteps approaching me but I was too tired and sore to move so I just laid and awaited their arrival. The further they approached the faster my heart was beating. I opened my eyes to see two more ponies standing there with concerned faces

"Are….Are you alright sir?"

I looked up at him and saw what nearly made me jump out of my fur

"You! You're a hooded pony!"

"Well," he chuckled "of course I am, all of our colts are, except you. Where did you come from?"

I was scared but I never wanted to admit it to one of those violent ponies "I…I'm from Equestria, this looks like Earth," I said getting up from the ground and dusting myself off.

"Well… You're on Equesarthia"

I looked at him confused "How do you pronounce that?"

"Eques-arth-ia, I did just say it but… maybe you're new here"

"Yes, I'm new, where are all the humans?"

He looked at me with a devilish grin.

"Our master needed more energy, so they were used many years ago as a source"
I looked at him stunned "So," I gulped "what year is this?"

"Well this year is 2020," he gave a passionate smile and turned to the pony next to him "it was always predicted by the Mayans that we would take over, and we did, didn't we sweetie?"

"Indeed," the female pony said with an extremely deep robotic voice "They were weak animals with an extremely low IQ and least helpful to us to reborn the master"

I looked away "I'm taking it this master is Discord?"

I turned back to a burning pain in the side of my face, to the face "How dare you use his real name, he is the master and we should all be thankful for his generosity to be here," he stood back nuzzling the mare beside him "and we all love him, don't we love?"

"Indeed we do"

I looked back up at him with anger in my eyes "How can you love something that wants to destroy an entire race? That's called genocide! And don't you touch me again, I might be a simple Pegasus, but I used to be human, and if you try to lay a pitiful hoof on me again you will face my human powers," I lied causing them to jump back a little.

"You…..you're a monster!"

I looked down at the ground with an evil smile, if I had blood dripping out of my mouth you could say that I was a killer "If I'm a monster, how do I know that the Mayans never predicted ponies to take over in 2020, it was foretold the world would come to an end in 2012, but it wasn't true, because I was born in 1996 and never heard of this fake prophecy until 2010, but, I did late night research regarding the topic," I looked up with a devilish grin "and discovered the world was supposed to end in 2012, but it didn't, I was there last night, I just came from there, there were no talking ponies within the fourth wall, the Mayans were wrong, so tell me," I glared at the hooded pony "what is there left to believe in when you're betrayed by your own?"

The ponies didn't move at all, they stood still in confusion. I took a few steps back and turned around and walked away.

"Where are you going?"

I turned back around to see the hooded pony gone, I looked back in front of me and there he stood with his hood barely touching my skin.

I stood still and smiled "Like I asked, what is there left to believe in when you're betrayed by your own?"

"I do not understand"

"Maybe if you gave Earth a chance and played something called Call of Duty you would understand. But, there was a game about a war veteran who was being…interrogated…. For his actions, something about Nova 6…Anyways, when I said 'betrayed by your own'….imagine me as one of you stupid idiots."

I got hit in the face again by another black hoof "Do not discuss Call of Duty: Black Ops to us. We know everything that Earth has to offer, you humans are just on the verge of intelligence. We are not idiots, we are the hooded ponies and we're to bring back the master"

"You mean discord?"

I dodged another hoof to the face

"Yes, he is the master, we all follow his command"

"How do you manage to think of something that's full of reputed evil as a master?"

"You're not going to last here if you talk like that you disrespectful munt!"

I smiled as the hooded pony slowly faded away from my line of sight.

I got up from the ground after the hooded pony hit me again unexpectedly. I looked around and saw that I was in my old neighbourhood. 'One way to come back after leaving,' I thought as I walked towards my house. Along the way I saw hooded ponies everywhere. I even heard small faints of laughter that sounded like Discord littering the streets, blurting my mind to insanity. There were screams of anxiety and pain from each alleyway I passed. As I peered into them I saw fillies and colts getting beaten up by dark figures. I decided to keep a low profile, and ignore the ear-piercing screams. My eyes kept drifting to the cement where my hooves trailed, there was stained blood and decades of chewing gum scattered everywhere along the footpath, which now was majorly cracked. I looked back up to see it was dark and gloomy. I managed to reach my house keeping in the shadows of the night.

"What the fuck happened here," said a voice behind me that sounded familiar.

"You're tellin….." I turned around and saw the only thing that could give me answers. "Aspire?"

"Congratulations Matt, you've discovered my true form, a jumper of Rainbow Dash's cutie mark"

Ir was stunned "so it was you that gave us that disc"

"Indeed so"

I smiled without hesitation "So you know everything about me huh?"

"Why's that?"

"Because if you know everything about me then you would know where I was born"

"Melbourne, Victoria"

I took a step back "H…how did you know?"

"Like I said, I know who you are"

"Well if you're so smart, how do I get out of here?"

"You see, there's no true way to escape the Earth of the future, but you can prevent it from happening."

"So, you're telling me to go back in time?"

"Indeed so"

"How?"

"Matt, I'm actually surprised, I honestly thought that you would have wielded your special power by now and harness the power to ensure the arrival of Discord won't happen"

"How do I use this power?"

"There is just nothing stopping you from opening your mouth is there?"

"No," I said smiling at him with a small laugh "I suppose not"

"That's why I like you so much Twix, because I can relate to you in every way," Aspire said smiling

"How so?"

"Because my….. you know what?"

"What?"

"I will tell you later, but for now, not everyone wants to read about your boring life in another dimension in that diary thing you're writing."

"It's called a story, it's a story of my life"

"No, it's a fan fiction story about ponies. I've gone into the future and read it, we did a pretty damn good job!"

I looked at him bluntly "what do you mean we?"

"You will find out at the end of your journeys, when life takes on its own meanings, but Matt, you need to snap out of it"

"What do you mean?"

"You need to snap back to reality, I can do it for you, but remember, you're not going to be able to see or hear me all the time, I'm a whisper in the dark, in the rain you see my spark, yet you feel the beating in my heart, time for us all to depart"

"That's Hollywood Undead," I shouted at him in enjoyment as the world around me slowly turned black "It's my favourite song, Young!"

"Exactly… mine too… now, I'll give you a chance to save your friends, make sure you don't make the same mistake with that portal… Save Twilight and Fluttershy, and wait for time to restore…" the voice faded out. As I brought my attention back to my surroundings I saw it was black. I took a few steps around out of sheer curiosity until I started falling. I spread my wings, but I kept falling. I felt like I was falling for hours until some light soon appeared… the ground was coming up fast. I spread my wings and slowly glided down to the ground outside Fluttershy's cottage.