Chapter 53: the assault

PONYVILLE

The mane twelve all came out of the portal as they landed back in the center of ponyville. "woohoo! Oh thank celestia were back!" pinkie pie said as she kissed the ground over and over, the boys got to there feet "yea, it feels good to be back pinkie" jack said. "true" Clayton said "but I think we better send a letter to princess celestia about what happened".

"that won't be an issue" a voice said above them, the mane twelve looked up to see princess celestia flying down toward them, "princess!" twilight said as she ran over to her as she landed. As soon as celestia touched the ground she was soon hugged by her start student "twilight, oh I'm so glad to see you again" she said as she nuzzled her.

Twilight then released her grip on her as she backed up from her as max and the others walked over to her side, celestia smiled at them "spike told me about what had happened and I sent my guards all over equestria, Luna and I looked all over for the twelve of you. But we had no such luck, I'm just glad that your all safe".

"same here princess" max said.

Celestia then had a serious look on her face "but now that the twelve of you are here, I do have something to tell you" she said, everyone then looked at each other then looked at celestia "what is it?" twilight asked. Celestia then used her magic causing her and the whole group to glow as they all then teleported from ponyville and went over to canterlot.

CANTERLOT

The group then all arrived in canterlot castle in the main hall as celestia walked away from the mane twelve and over to her throne, "as the twelve of you were gone, I had received a virtual letter send from my descendent brother" she said. Everyone knew who she was talking about "night shadow sent you a virtual letter?" sam said a bit confused as to why he would do that, celestia stopped and turned around to face them "yes sam, I received this letter from him when Luna and out guards couldn't find you" she said as she made the letter appear with her magic "I was able to finish it as soon as I sensed the twelve of you". She then opened the letter as it showed a large image of night shadow himself in his alicorn form as he is walking back and forth:

"dear worthless sister" he said "I have wrote you this letter to tell you that I have had enough of waiting around and have now made up my mind, I am coming back home to equestira. And when I come back to you and my dearest little descendant sister Luna, I'm going to kill the both of you! And take what should rightfully belong to me! Your godly powers should be mine! Your kingdom should be mine! Your life should be mine! Every thing that i didn't have should belong to me and me alone! I would have my right and left hands to take care of you? But since your little elements of harmony have killed both vanish and black haze, I now have no hands to use against you! But that is not going to stop me from killing you! No! This has only forced me to send out my army of highly advanced alicorn clones after you and the lives of equestira! You can try to stop me or you can send your best soldiers instead. But that alone will not save you! When I come home, I am going to finally take back what is rightfully mine! I will become the ruler of equestria and I will make sure of that starting now! Hehehe I look forward to our reunion sister".

The mane twelve were shocked by this.

"he...he can't be serious, can he princess?" rarity asked, princess celestia only shook her head "no rarity, my brother means it. He plans to start his army now and invade equestria". Twilight had a look of worry on her face "what will you do princess?" she asked.

Celestia sighed in worry "I don't know twilight. I don't want to send any of my guards nor do I want any of my soldiers to take on this task for the fear of them losing there lives". As all hope seemed lost dillon then stepped forward "what if...what if we took on night shadow?" he said.

This caused everyone to look at him as if he was out of his mind "dillon! Have you lost it!?" sam and applejack said in unison "darling I know that you think that is a good idea and all, but we can't do something like that" rarity said as she was holding onto Corey's leg.

Dillon then crossed his arms "come on guys! Think about it!" he said "were the elements of harmony! We can do anything. Besides haven't we conquered every single thing that night shadow has thrown at us?", everyone thought about all of the events that night shadow has done to them. They remembered when he sent an army against them and held Luna hostage and remembered how clayton gave his own life to save everyone, they remembered that they got rid of vanish and how blade took care of black haze albeit sacrificing his own life.

As these thoughts came to there minds Clayton then grinned at his cousin "dillon's right, we have done some pretty overwhelming things and have won in the end. I think that we can take on this final challenge" he said.

The group all looked at one another as Clayton then placed his hand at them "alright guys, what do ya say?" he asked them. Dillon then placed his hand over his cousins "count me in bro!" he said, jack and pinkie pie then looked at each other as they then formed a smile on there faces "were in two" they said as they placed there hands over dillon's. Corey then placed his hand over there's "I'm all in" he said "I couldn't stand the thought of night shadow ruling over this place". Fluttershy and rarity then placed there hoofs over his "Corey's right, we can't let a scoundrel like him get away with this". Fluttershy nodded at her "r-rarity's right. Just t-think of all the animals that h-he might hurt" she said.

Rainbow dash placed her hoof over as well "and I'm in too! I wanna give that night shadow guy a piece of my mind!" she said, applejack and sam placed there hands over hers "and will help out too!" applejack said "damn right! Were gonna buck him right in the ass!" sam said with a grin. The only ones left were max and twilight, max and twilight then glanced at each other "max" twilight said.

"yea?".

"I know that we already can't talk them out of this, b-but...I'm...willing to try and help out as much as I can" she said. Max was a bit stunned by her decision but understood what she was getting at. He then held leaned down to her and held her hoofs close to his chest "twilight, no matter what happens. I will always be by your side no matter what" he said "I believe that we can do this, I have faith that were gonna defeat night shadow and save not just equestira. But the whole world as well". This caused twilight to jump into his arms and kiss him deeply, as soon as she finished the two then held out there hands and looked at there friends "ok everyone" max and twilight said in unison "let's go stop night shadow! Just who the hay does he think we are!"

The twelve of them them raised up there hands as they cheered in joy. Celestia smiled at them, she knew that it was dangerous for the twelve of them to go after her brother, but she knew that they had the power to stop him And they were not taking no for an answer. She then used her magic as a box then appeared over the mane twelves heads.

The box then slowly descended down to them as a key then appeared and opened the box reviling the elements of harmony. "you'll need these" celestia said as each element went to there owners, as each element of harmony wrapped themselves around the mane six's necks the boys also had an element of harmony as well but in a choker type form. "sweet! We got our own elements of harmony!" jack shouted, celestia nodded at him "yes jack" she said "since the twelve of you all form a powerful bond with one another, the elements were able to share there power with you". Max then placed his hands on his element of magic as it shined brightly around his neck, twilight then placed her hoof on his leg as he turned to her "I think you look very handsome with it" she said with a smile and a blush.

Max could only smile at her "thanks twilight".

Twilight smiled even more as max then looked at the group "everyone ready to go?" he said, they all nodded as twilight and max then looked at each other and nodded there heads as they both then made there elements start to glow "ok" max said "next stop, goverment hq". And with that the mane twelve then flashed from the throne room and on there way to earth to take on night shadow, celestia then walked over to her balcony as she looked at the sky "good luck" she said as she prayed that they would return safely.