Chapter 3: Double Trouble
Inside Grand Sensei Dareth's Mojo Dojo, Lloyd has a light bulb being hold by his magic while his horn was glowing blue. Right now, Thunder is trying to teach him how to control his power. "Focus, Lloyd," Thunder told him. "Control the electrical power inside you. When you feel a surge welling up... harness it."
"I understand," Lloyd told him. "I am in control..." He focused hard on the light bulb as he did his best to control his power and light it up.
"Come on, Lloyd, you can do it!" Landrush cheered as the light bulb flickered.
The Ninja looked hopeful, but just when Lloyd just about had it...the light bulb exploded, "Agh! Stupid light bulb!" Lloyd complained before turning to the Ninja. "You're putting too much pressure on me! Let have another try!"
"Sorry, Lloyd. That was the last light bulb," Flash told him as the floor was covered in light bulb shards, the results of Lloyd's previously failed attempts.
"Clean up, Lloyd. We'll continue training tomorrow," Landrush told him as he gave Lloyd a broom, who took it just to use it to whack a sandbag in frustration.
"I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong, Sensei. No matter what I do, I just can't teach him to control his power," Thunder told Wu. Lloyd then hit himself with the broom and fell back.
"You dare to defy the Light Ninja?!" Lloyd shouted at the sandbag before he went back to hitting it.
"Patience, Thunder," Wu told him. "Sometimes, the greatest opponent we face is ourselves, and that's especially true of Lloyd. Remember where he came from. He's the son of Lord Garmadon. It's going to take time for him to embrace the light."
"Yes, when you grow up in the shadow of the Lord of Darkness himself, it takes a long time for you to step into the light," Gaia added as Aqua then walked in, wearing the same dress from her first date with Thunder, and with Twilight.
"Hey, guys," Aqua and Twilight greeted.
"Hey, Aqua! Hey Twilight!" The Ninja greeted as Thunder stared at Aqua.
"Hey, Thunder," Aqua said with a blush. "Uh, wanna come by the autobody shop later?" she asked as Twilight approached Flash with a sweet kiss.
"Uh, the autobody shop?" Thunder asked with a curious smile while the others talked quietly behind them.
"Yeah. I got a part-time job. Thought I could fix up the Ultra Sonic Raider in my off time," she explained as she smiled. "Maybe if you come over, I can show you what I've been working on?" she offered.
"Uh s-sure, heh," Thunder laughed nervously and then noticed the envelope in Twilight's magic. "So uh, Twilight, what's that you got there?"
"Oh, it's a letter for Lloyd," Twilight answered, passing it to Wu.
Wu opened the letter read it. "Hmm. It's from Lloyd's old school," he read to his pupils.
"The Darkley Boarding School for Naughty Foals?" Landrush asked as they others approached.
"Formerly naughty foals," Wu corrected him, "Since the last time we were there, they've changed to the 'Darkley School for Wonderful Foals'."
"Heh, wait. They've turned good?" Trail asked finding it hard to believe.
"Why not? Lloyd and Cozy Glow changed for the better, didn't they?" Twilight reminded him.
Wu read more of the letter. "Hmm, it is ironic you mention that, for it says here there's going to be a ceremony for the two of them."
"I love ceremonies! That means there's going to be cake," Landrush said.
"Lloyd and Cozy's change inspired them. Now they've invited them to give him an honorary degree in excellence," Wu explained to them before they heard wood snapping. They turned to see Lloyd breaking the broom and then headbutting the punching bag.
"Don't know about Cozy Glow, but are we sure we're talking about the same Lloyd?" Gaia asked as they watched Lloyd take out his frustrations on the punching bag.
Meanwhile on the Black Bounty, the Serpentine gathered around on deck while Garmadon, Chrysalis, Tirek and the Generals stood above.
"That's it, sssqueeze in tight!" Skalidor told the soldiers. "You here and you over there! Plenty of room for everyone."
"Can everyssssnake hear usss," Acidicus asked as the Serpentine nodded. He then turned to Garmadon, "They're all yourssss, Lord Garmadon."
Garmadon nodded and stepped forward. "Okay everycreature, the reason why we gathered you all here is that we need your help in brainstorming on how to use the Mega Weapon to destroy the Ninja and the Council of Friendship!" He told his army.
"But remember, the Mega Weapon can only create, recreate or resurrect, never kill or destroy," Tirek reminded them.
"And Garmadon can only use it once a day, as it drains out all his magic," Chrysalis added.
"Ssso we must be sure, that whatever we come up with, isss good enough," Fangtom finished.
Garmadon looked out at the Serpentine. "So, no such thing as a bad idea. Any suggestions?" he asked as one Constrictai raised her hand.
"What if you made more piratesss?" she asked.
"Oh, I'm so sorry but… BAD IDEA!" Chrysalis hissed at the Constrictai who asked.
"Throw her over the side!" Garmadon ordered.
The Constrictai grew worried at that as she was grabbed. "No, no, I-I was just kidding! No, wait!" But her pleads were for not as she was thrown into the drink.
"Anyone else?" Tirek asked, but they now knew they had to watch what they say. "Don't be shy. No bad ideas," he smiled, as if no one was at risk of being thrown overboard. A Venomari then raised his hand.
"What if you recreate the Devourer?" he asked.
"Congratulations, you just come up with a bad idea," Tirek told that Venomari.
"Over the side!" Garmadon ordered and that Venomari took a dip. "Instead of using old ideas that failed to destroy the Ninja, how about something new?"
"Can you create giant blueberry muffinssss?" said another Constrictai.
The three villains gave weirded out expressions; the idea was different. "Er, poisonous giant blueberry muffins?" Asked Chrysalis with a confused look.
"I hope not! I'm ssso hungry." Then he screamed as Tirek threw him over the side.
Garmadon then rubbed his face. "Ugh, this is impossible!"
"I know! Those pesky ponies always come out on top!" Tirek complained as Garmadon paced around. "How do you defeat enemies who so rudely refuse to be defeated?!"
"This is even more complicated than when I created evil doppelgangers of Twilight and her friends to try and take the Elements of Harmony!" Chrysalis rolled her eyes before Garmadon stopped in place and looked at her.
"Say that again!" He told her.
"… 'This is even more complicated than when I evil doppelgangers of Twilight and her friends to try and take the Elements of Harmony'?" Chrysalis repeated in confusion as Garmadon gave an evil smirk.
"That's it!" he declared.
"The giant blueberry muffin?" asked a Hypnobrai as the others were hoping that would be it.
Garmadon then punted the Hypnobrai off the deck and smirked. "Better. No more brainstorming!" he declared before turning to the Generals. "You three gather me any of the Ninja belongings left on this ship! And Chrysalis… bring me what's left of those clones you made!" he ordered.
Six Serpentine went below deck and found the Ninja's spare Gi's before coming back up. Chrysalis soon came back with the six pieces of wood that were the doppelgangers of the main six. They placed the logs and suits in front of Garmadon as he held the Mega Weapon.
"Ninja, Council of Friendship. Today I wish for you to meet your match!" he declared as the Mega Weapon's power activated. The Weapon's power, which mixed with Garmadon's magic, lifted both the logs and suits into a ball of energy. The others looked at it in awe while Garmadon grunted from the exertion of creation.
Then in a flash of light, twelve identical clones of the Mane Six and the Ninja appeared. Unlike the copies Chrysalis made of the Mane Six before, these copies, along with the evil Ninja, had glowing red eyes like Garmadon's, and their color coats were a lighter shade. Garmadon panted as his energy was completely drained
"This is your idea?" Chrysalis asked as she learned from experience before. "Take it from me, creating clones of your enemies doesn't mean they're going to listen to you."
"Don't worry… I created these clones… to be equal to the Ninja and Council of Friendship," Garmadon panted as he sat up, "and loyal...only to me."
The twelve copies then bowed down, "Yes, Lord Garmadon!" they all said in unison, their voice with a slight distortion.
"Then I command...you to find...and destroy them..." Garmadon ordered them before Mean Twilight stepped forth.
"Rest easy, master Garmadon," she said with a bow. "Soon, they'll be destroyed and Equestria will be yours to remake into your image." She then looked at Chrysalis, who is still not convinced about this idea. "And you have nothing to worry about us. We're nothing like the ones you made before."
Chrysalis just sighed. "If you insist," she said before Mean Twilight walked back to the other clones and then teleported them away. "You know they won't succeed right?" she asked Garmadon as he stood up.
"Perhaps, but they will distract them long enough for my back-up plan," Garmadon said as Chrysalis arched a brow in confusion. "Chrysalis, I need you take a little trip to Canterlot for me."
Ultra Dragon took to the skies with the Ninja, the Mane Six, and Cozy riding on back. "Whoo-hoo-hoo!" Thunder, Pinkie, and Rainbow shouted.
"Ha-ha, just like old times!" Wisp said happily.
"Remind me why we're coming along?!" Applejack shouted to Twilight.
"Well, since we founded the School of Friendship, I want to see how much of an influence one good seed can have," Twilight answered.
"Yeah, and now that we can ride Ultra Dragon, we should get to Darkley's in no time!" Thunder added.
"That's if Lloyd can get us there in one piece," Trail said nervously.
"I hope he does," Fluttershy said nervously.
"Just be gentle, Lloyd," Gaia told him. "Any sudden movement could cause them to-"
"Any sudden what?!" Lloyd asked, giving a strong tug of the reins. That caused Ultra Dragon to do a nose dive and everypony but Lloyd screamed.
"The reins! Let go of the reins!" Gaia shouted before Lloyd did what she told and Ultra Dragon stopped diving.
Ultra Dragon then glided down and landed just outside the school. Nimbus then turned to look at Lloyd, "Never! Do that! AGAIN!" she growled as the others sighed in relief.
"Um, sorry," Lloyd apologized as they all hopped off though Rarity and Fluttershy trembled a bit and need Landrush and Rainbow to help them out. "Well, at least I'm getting better," he said sheepishly.
"All the same, I will be taking the reins going home." Gaia told him as they all walked through the entrances, seeing the sigh that said "Darkley's Boarding School for Wonderful Foals" in gold.
Then a cornflower blue, black-maned filly was working in the garden and then turned to them. "Lloyd?" she asked seeing him.
"Uh, Daisy?" Lloyd asked when he saw the filly.
"You came!" Daisy said before she over to him and gave him a hug. "So good to see you!"
Lloyd raised a brow, "Really? You put fire ants in my bed." He reminded her.
"Please forgive me. I wasn't myself and have learned the error of my ways," she apologized and looks at Cozy Glow, "Oh, you must be Cozy Glow. We've heard so much about you!" She took her hoof and shook.
"Really? Golly, that's… really nice," Cozy said, a little suspicious of Daisy's "niceness".
"And they must be the Ninja and the Council of Friendship!" Daisy said excitedly when she saw them.
"Uh, guys. Meet Daisy Tudabone." Lloyd introduced the filly.
"Such a huge fan!" she said, shaking their hooves. "Go good! Haha… Uh, please, will you follow me to see the principal?" She then led them inside, and the mares and stallions noticed the empty rooms.
"Uh, forgive me for asking sweetheart, but shouldn't you all be in class?" Rarity asked Daisy.
"Actually, today is a new Darkley School tradition: Ninja-Friendship Day," she explained. "We stay out of sight and show goodwill to one another at the same time, to honor the way of the Ninja and the Council of Friendship for showing us the light."
Applejack looked around. "Huh, this here's a good school. I'm impressed, sugarcube," she complimented.
"If you want to learn more about being good, the School of Friendship is always opened to you," Twilight offered.
Daisy then smiled. "Oh, I assure you, we plan on seeing the School of Friendship very soon," she said as Cozy looked suspicious again. They soon made to the principal's door. "Principal Noble Heart? Our guests are here for the ceremony!" she called inside.
"That, and the cake," Landrush added. "By the way, do you know what kind it is?"
"Yeah, chocolate, strawberry, tangleberry salsa?" Pinkie guessed.
"I'll be with you in just a moment," the principal said from behind the door.
"I should get back to the flowers," Daisy said before she exited the room.
"Okay, I know I don't go to the school, but she was really suspicious," Cozy Glow told them when Daisy left. "She was way too nice when we met her at the entrance. I would have expected a bit of unease in her voice when she spoke to me, considering my… well, checkered past."
"Plus, has anypony seen a single teacher?" Thunder asked.
"Indeed, their absence is most strange," Frost added as they all grew suspicious.
"I'll see you now. Come in, come in," the principal told them before they entered.
Inside they saw a colt with a bright orange coat, red mane, and wearing glasses while standing on the principal's desk. Next to the desk was a fabricated skeleton, dressed up to look like a principal. "Welcome back, Lloyd!" the colt greeted his old schoolmate.
"Gambit?" Lloyd asked.
"And welcome Ninja, Council of Friendship, and of course you Cozy Glow," he said as some colts and fillies along with Daisy walked out from behind the desk, "to the new Darkley's School for Evil Foals!" Then he cut a rope and large sandbags landed on the heroes, knocking them out.
"Ugh, Gambit. I'm gonna get you… for… this…" Lloyd said before he passed out.
The Ninja and the Mane six soon came to and find some mares and stallions looking down on them before they sat up.
"Thank goodness you're here!" an elder stallion told them as they sat up.
"What happened? Where's Lloyd and Cozy?" Flash asked. "And who are all you?"
An elder mare answered. "We're the teachers and we've all been taken prisoners," she said. "We tried to teach the fillies and colts to be good but they overthrew us! They're monsters!"
"But I thought Lloyd and Cozy were getting honorary degrees for inspiring them," Rainbow asked.
"Oh, that was just the children's trick to lure Lloyd and Cozy Glow here and convince them to be their leaders. They're planning to take over the School of Friendship and turn it into the new site for Darkley's School for Evil Foals," the stallion explained.
"They're what?!" Twilight asked in shock.
Landrush and Pinkie looked horrified. "Wait?!" Landrush started.
"You mean, there's not..." Pinkie continued.
"GONNA BE CAKE!?" they both screamed.
Cozy and Lloyd then woke up and found themselves tied to chairs before a light was turned on. They saw the Darkley's foals smirking at them. "Welcome to your ceremony, you two. Or, should I call it an evil Intervention?!" Daisy asked.
Cozy struggled to free herself. "I knew you couldn't be trusted!" she said.
"Where are our friends!?" Lloyd demanded.
"Aw, they're better off without you," Gambit told him. "With friends like you, who needs enemies?"
"You may have forgotten, but we're your true friends," Daisy told Lloyd as walked around them. "And we want to help you undo the damage you've done to yourself and our school's reputation."
"But why am I here?" Cozy asked. "I never even went to this school!"
"Maybe not, but you are a legend around here!" Daisy told her. "I mean, stealing all the magic in Equestria, teaming up with Lord Tirek and Queen Chrysalis to divide the ponies, bringing back the Windigoes?!" she retorted, shaking Cozy Glow before looked starstruck. "Are you kidding?! You never went to our school, and yet you turned out evil beyond evil! The evil bottom of the barrel!.. Or at least… you were, until that Princess of Friendship adopted you, and you changed!"
"Yeah, and I don't regret it all!" Cozy assured, looking away.
"Oh, do you? Well, we're gonna change that, and then help you take back your rightful place as the Headmare of that school once we make it our new base of operations," Daisy promised as she held both Cozy's and Lloyd's shoulders, smirking again. "Be honest, you two. Doesn't a part of you miss being the bad guy?" she asked as the foals looked at each other in concern.
Back in Equestria City, the Evil Ninja and the Mean Six arrived, wearing sunglasses to hide their glowing red eyes as they searched for the real Ninja and the Mane Six.
A mare then noticed them. "Oh Ninja, Princess Twilight. Thank goodness," she said before pointing to a cat in the tree. "Could you please help reunite me with my dear Pebbles?" she asked only for the twelve to put her in the tree as well. "That's not what I had in mind!" the mare retorted as the Evil Ninja and the Mean Six just laughed and left her.
"You wanted to be your cat, well you got it lady!" Mean Fluttershy said as the mare sighed and just hugged her cat.
They were causing trouble all over the city, like messing with the traffic lights, taking candies from foals, or even breaking ATMs. "Remember, we must find the Ninja and the Council of Friendship," Evil Flash told them.
"And I think I know just where to look," Mean Rainbow said as she saw a Sign that Dareth put up to say that the Ninja were training at his Dojo.
They eventually made back to Grand Sensei Dareth's Mojo Dojo where they found Wu sweeping up. "You're back," Wu said when he saw them. "So, how was it?"
"It was great. We had so much fun, we almost forgot where we were," Evil Flash answered as the others looked around.
"Hmm. I bet Lloyd and Cozy Glow had a blast," Wu said, noticing the foals were not with them.
"Lloyd?" Evil Flash asked.
"Cozy Glow?" Mean Twilight added, "Uh, yeah, sure, yeah. In fact, they're still there. They wanted us to tell you they think you should go. Like, now." She told Wu as he noticed their sunglasses.
"Hmm, is that so?" Wu asks before turning to the other Evil Ninja and rest of the Mean Six, messing around on the equipment. He knew full well that they would never behave like this, and came up with a theory as to why. "Mega Monster Amusement Park is no place for an old stallion. I'd just slow them down," he said, testing his theory out.
"Mega Monster Amusement Park? Oh yeah, sure!" Evil Flash said before he and the others saw that Wu vanished before he reappeared with a battle stance.
"Lloyd and Cozy are not at the amusement park!" Wu declared. "You are not my students!"
"And you are not our master!" Mean Twilight shot back.
"NINJA, GO!" Evil Thunder shouted as he did Spinjitzu right towards Wu, but he easily knocked him back before he ran over and use Dareth's trophies knock the others down as well.
"Whoever or whatever you are, you all could use a lesson!" Wu said grabbing a sword on the wall. But the moment he had his back turned Evil Gaia threw her Sais at him, pinning the old stallion to the wall.
Evil Flash then went up to Wu, took off his glasses and revealed his red eyes, "Teach us, then. Where are the Ninja and the Council of Friendship?" he asked but Wu simply scoffed and turned his head from him.
"Forget it, he won't talk," Mean Pinkie said before they heard a phone ringing.
"Thunder? Are you back yet? Can't wait to see you at the autobody shop. See you then!" Aqua left a message on the phone, giving both the evil Ninja and the Mean Six an idea on how to find the Ninja and the council. They soon left the Dojo, leaving Wu hanging as he sighed.
Back at Darkley's, the Ninja and Mane Six were trying to find a way out. Frost then opened his panel and flipped a switch. "Battering Ram Mode, engaged," a computerized voice said as Frost stiffed up. The others then picked up Frost and tried to break down the door by slamming him into it, only for it to stay up.
"We're never going to open that door!" Trail complained.
"But we have to break out!" Fluttershy told him. "I hope they haven't turned Lloyd and Cozy. I don't think things can get much worse," she said as they put Frost down.
"Look, don't worry, guys. I told Aqua I'd meet her at the autobody shop," Thunder told them. "And since I'm so punctual, if I'm even one second late, she's gonna suspect something's wrong."
"That's right, Aqua will always come through for us!" Rarity added.
Aqua was working on the Ultra Sonic Raider in the auto body shop as Evil Thunder was humming and walking all cool like towards her. Aqua then turned to see him, lifting her welding mask up. "Oh, there you are!" she said, thinking it was the real Thunder. "I was wondering are you going to get here. You're usually not late."
"It's a whole new me, baby," Evil Thunder replied as he looked over the Ultra Sonic Raider, "Nice work. We should take it out for a spin. Bet we could make a lot of creatures jealous," he offered.
Aqua smirked at Thunder's new flirty behavior. "I should've known spending time at Darkley's School would turn you into a bad colt," she said flipping the keys of the Raider, walking in front of Evil Thunder.
"Darkley's School? Heh," Evil Thunder repeated, adjusting his glasses. "Is that where we were?"
"What's gotten into yo-" Aqua asked before Evil Thunder quickly grabbed her and locked lips with her. Aqua was taken back this sudden action before she enjoyed it. Evil Thunder took this opportunity to take the keys from her.
"Heh, it's a bad colt thing," Evil Thunder said after breaking the kiss, which left Aqua dazed with a dopey smile. He then hopped into the Ultra Sonic Raider and drove off.
Aqua leaned against the wall as hearts danced over her head. "Call me," she said flustered before she fainted.
Half of the Evil Ninja and the Mean Six were riding in the Ultra Sonic Raider while the other half was flying next to it. They were driving down the road, not bothering to stop even when an intersection had red lights on.
Then Garmadon came up on the communication screen, "Did you find them?" he asked.
"They're at Darkley's," Evil Trail answered.
"Excellent! Now destroy them!" Garmadon ordered them.
"It will be our pleasure, milord," Mean Rarity replied as they kept on driving.
The Ninja and the Mane Six were using long rulers to pry open the door before they broke in half. "If we don't get out of here, they're going to brainwash Lloyd and Cozy and undo all the lessons we tried to teach them," Flash said as he looked around the room.
"Not to mention, never taste cake again," Landrush added.
"Crime of the century!" Pinkie added, shaking her hoof.
"Would you two let that go already?" Gaia asked as Frost walked over to the Teachers.
"Principal Noble Heart," he started, "how well do you and the teachers know this building?"
Noble Heart shook his head. "We barely know it at all, actually. We're new," he confessed as the other teachers nodded. "The old teachers were highly committed to teaching evil and quit in protest when the school went good."
"So, if the school building was originally built for evil, don't we have to assume there are hidden passages which none of you would even know about?" Frost theorized.
"That would explain how we saw Daisy in the principal's office after we saw her leave," Gaia added.
"You're right. It just wouldn't be an evil school without hidden passages," Rainbow spoke up. "Like one of those horror or mystery movies."
"Everypony spread out and find a switch!" Flash instructed. "It could be anything: a book, a plant, a tile, a fixture, even a painting." They all spread out and flipped books, moved furniture, and shifted paintings for anything that could be switch. Thunder then pulled back on a book on one of the shelves and heard a click.
"I found it!" he told the others before they all saw the ceiling coming down.
"Wrong switch, keep looking!" Twilight shouted as they were looking around faster before they were about to become pancakes.
Applejack then turned a plant and it was a switch too. "Ah-ha!" she said but her celebration was short-lived as the falling ceiling sprouted spikes. "Oh that is so evil!" she griped.
As the teachers began to panic, Frost noticed the lamp next to him and pushed it forward. Third time being the charm, the switch opened a secret passage behind the fireplace. "This way!" he told them as they quickly went through the passage and into a dark corridor.
Pinkie then giggled, "Haha, stop tickling me!" She told Gaia.
"I'm not tickling you," Gaia answered.
"Twi, could you give us some light?" Flash asked as Twilight lit her horn, finding that the corridor was fill with spiders. Almost all of them let out a horrified scream.
Fluttershy remained calm though. "Leave this to me," she told them, as she walked over to one of the spiders. "Um, excuse me. We're very sorry for walking into your nest here, but could you please show us the way out? If that's okay..."
The spider chittered and nodded, before gesturing for them to follow. The group followed the spider down the corridor, hoping they weren't too late to save Cozy and Lloyd.
Back with the two foals, they hadn't been turned but instead pretended to be to trick the students to letting them go. "Ha, ha. Come on, you can untie us," Lloyd told them. "Really, this is just a huge relief. I couldn't stand being good."
"Me neither!" Cozy spoke up, playing along with Lloyd's trick. "I mean, I only accepted being adopted by Twilight so I can plot my revenge and I could get away from those two losers that got me turn to stone in the first place. Thank you for saving us."
Daisy however looked unconvinced. "How do we know you're not lying to us just to escape and help the Ninja and the council?" she asked.
"Well, if I am truly good, I wouldn't be able to lie, which I'm not, but even if I was, wouldn't lying make me evil, thus giving you assurance that you could release me?" Lloyd asked with grin.
"And even we did escape after you released us, that would count as both lying and betrayal. And if we were truly good, we wouldn't do that at all, so wouldn't the thought of lying and betrayal make us evil?" Cozy added, raising a brow.
The students looked confused before Gambit spoke up. "Th-they're trying to trick us with mind games!" Soon, the building rumbled as just outside, the Evil Ninja and Mean Six arrived and busted down the front entrance and blasted the sign.
The twelve clones then marched through the halls, trashing as much as they could as the students walked out of the intervention room. "Someone's coming." Daisy said as they followed the noise and were shocked to see what they thought were the Ninja and Mane Six. "The Ninja and Council have escaped! Execute Doomsday formations! To glory!" she shouted as they gave battle cries.
"Spitball Brigade, step forward!" Daisy ordered as a few students with small straws step forward. "Fire!" Those students then started shooting spitballs at the evil doppelgangers. The doppelgangers then either dodged or hid behind Mean Twilight's shield from the incoming spitballs.
"Smoke Bomb Brigade, Fire!" Daisy ordered as the students all threw smoke bombs at the evil duplicates. The twelve were blinded and coughed from the smoke as the students laughed at them.
"NINJA, GO!" The Evil Ninja and Mean Six shouted as they used Spinjitzu to clear away the smoke.
"Dodgeball Brigade, FIRE!" Daisy ordered as the students then started throwing dodgeballs at them, but Evil Gaia and Mean Pinkie managed to catch them all and pass the balls to the others.
"Our turn," Evil Trail said with a smirk.
"Run!" Daisy shouted as the students ran away as the evil Ninja and the Mean Six threw the dodgeballs at them. Some got knocked down but quickly got back up to run away. "Retreat!" She shouted before she got nailed in the face with a dodgeball. Evil Flash walked up to her and picked her up.
"Where are the Ninja and the Council?!" he asked in a threatening tone as Daisy whimpered.
Meanwhile Cozy and Lloyd were still struggling to free themselves. "Oh, why do we always get tied up?" Lloyd asked.
"Ya think we'd be pretty good with knots by now…" Cozy added. Lloyd looked around the room and saw the light bulb before getting an idea.
"Okay, you can do this, Lloyd," he told himself as he stared at the light bulb and his horn was glowing blue. He focused his energy and then the bulb blew up and the fragments scattered. "Haha, yes, it worked!" Lloyd and Cozy then fell to their sides and used the shards to cut the ropes.
"Haha, finally! We're free!" Cozy cheered only for it to be called off when the students came back. "Aww, come on! we escaped fair and square." she retorted as the student barricaded the doors.
"What are you doing?" Lloyd asked in confusion.
"Heh, your friends have turned pure evil," Gambit told them.
Cozy and Lloyd were beyond shocked, "WHAT?!"
Meanwhile Daisy, being carried by Mean Applejack, led the Evil Ninja and Mean Six to the room where the Ninja, Council and Teachers were being held. Mean Applejack opened the door but found the room was empty, "What is this? Some kind of joke?!" she demanded.
"That's where they were, honest!" Daisy confirmed, but they weren't buying it.
"Looks like you just earned yourself a one-way ticket to Swirly Town. And don't worry; we'll be sure to use a used toilet," Evil Gaia told Daisy.
Daisy looked terrified and covered her head, "No, nonono, please! Anything but that!" she begged but then walking out of one of the lockers behind them was the Real Ninja and Mane Six.
"Whew, finally the way out," Landrush said as they stepped into the hall way only to see their doublegangers.
"Sweet Celestia, are you all seeing what I'm seeing?" Rarity asked.
"If you mean us staring at ourselves then yeah, I think we are." Trail answered as Noble Heart looked confused.
"Uh, this is too weird for us," he said stepping back into the locker. "We're just gonna stay in here a little longer." With that he closed the door.
Thunder shrugged, "Huh, those who don't fight, teach," he said as the Evil Ninja and Mean Six took off their glasses revealing their red eyes.
"Drop the filly, you rotten, uh..." Applejack hesitated, feeling like she was insulting herself, "Me!"
Mean Applejack just narrowed her eyes as she dropped Daisy. "She ain't of any use to us anymore anyway," she said as the filly scrambled away.
"Who are you guys?" Flash asked.
"Or rather, what are you?" Twilight added.
Evil Flash answered, "You might say, we're your evil twin brothers and sisters."
"Or more precisely, your betters and superiors!" Mean Twilight added.
"Really, I was always thought my better would be taller," Trail snarked.
"Then, maybe you prefer to call us your doom!" Evil Trail snarled.
"My early assessment tells me this must be Garmadon's doing," Frost told the others.
"My early assessment tells me you will be destroyed," Evil Frost told his good counterpart.
"I like to see you try, bucko!" Rainbow Dash shouted, slamming her hooves together.
"Wanna bet?!" Mean Rainbow Dash asked as they prepare to charge at one another.
"NINJA, GO!" They all shouted as they charged, each of the mirroring headbutts, kicks, magic blasts, and punches perfectly, neither side able to land a proper. As they fought the students, Lloyd and Cozy watched from down the hall.
"See, we told you our friends wouldn't turn evil," Cozy Glow told them.
"The evils ones must be my father's creations," Lloyd deduced as Gambit observed the battle.
"Fascinating," Gambit said with interest. "It's like fighting a mirror where the reflection countermoves in perfect sync and no one appears to be able to land a blow."
"We have to help them," Lloyd told Gambit.
"Just to be clear, which them?" Gambit asked with a raised brow.
Cozy and Lloyd back up as they realized what he meant, "Uh, our friends of course!" Cozy answered as the students closed in on them.
"Uh, she means the Evil Ninja and the Mean Six!" Lloyd told them.
"Uh yeah, because we're evil too, right?" Cozy asked as she and Lloyd did an evil laugh.
Pretty soon, Lloyd and Cozy were tied up again and grunted as they tried to wriggle free. "I am Lloyd Garmadon! Evil son of the super evil Lord Garmadon!" Lloyd declared.
"And I'm Cozy Glow! Evil Empress of Friendship and most powerful pony in all Equestria!" Cozy added.
"And we demand you release us!" they finished before laughing evilly but the students ignored them.
"Here's my theory on how to help the Evil Ninja and the Council of Meanness, as I like to call them, destroy the Good Ninja and the Council of Friendship," Gambit said as went up to the chalkboard and started to write some equations down. "Look what happens when positive energy connects with negative energy. So, if an evil counterpart manages to connect a single blow against his or hers opposite, that same spark should be so powerful as to eradicate their good counterparts."
The students looked confused before Gambit walked down. "Trust me, I'm like, a total evil genius!" he bragged.
Daisy shrugged, "Okay, good enough for me!" she said.
Then Cozy sighed in defeat as they turned to Her and Lloyd. "Fine you win, me and Lloyd are good," she admitted.
Lloyd then smirked. "But guess what?" he asked before looking at Daisy. "So is Daisy."
Daisy gasped in alarm. "Th-that's a big fat lie!" She retorted.
"Is it? Then explain why, on the day we first met, you were nice to me," Lloyd asked as the students looked at Daisy while Cozy wondered where he's going with this. "When I arrived here on my first day, I didn't know how things worked around here and everypony made fun of me. Daisy even put fire ants in my bed."
That made Gambit laugh. "Yeah, I remember that. That was evil." he said before Lloyd continued.
"But when everypony was gone, she said she was trying to teach me how things go," he told them. "And after that, she took me under her wing, and she taught me the art of revenge."
Gambit turned to Daisy in confusion, "Why would you do that?" He asked.
"I wanted to get in good with his father," she confessed but Lloyd knew better.
"No. It's because deep down, she's not all evil, and it's not just her." Lloyd said as he and Cozy stood up.
"Face it, every single one of you has a secret good side that stays quiet out of fear because it think its alone. But it's not," Cozy told them. "And me? The only reason I turned evil is because Tirek taught me to and everything. I never even knew my parents, and when I got turned to stone, I regretted every evil thing that I've ever done and I regret hurting those that helped me and became my friends."
"We're not destined to be evil just because of those around us are, and the two of us are living proof!" Lloyd declared proudly as he looked at the foals. "So, who's with us?" he asked as Daisy sighed in defeat.
"It's true. And I love planting flowers." she confessed.
"You what?!" Gambit exclaimed as Daisy walked over to Lloyd and Cozy.
"Also, the Ninja and the Council saved me from a fate worse than death," she said as she untied the two foals. "A kindness I plan to return."
With the others fillies and colts joined them. Gambit however groaned, "My dad is gonna be so mad."
"Yeah, join the club," Lloyd said, already seeing the red on his father's face in his head as Gambit walked over to them. "Okay, I got a plan on how we can help our friends, but we're all gonna need to be a part of this."
"Yup, so who here can sew?" Cozy asked, holding up a needle.
The foals gasped in confusion, "Sew?" Daisy asked raising a brow.
Soon the students started to sew some costumes while others got buckets of paint. Pretty soon, the colts all had dressed up in Ninja Gi's and the fillies were painted and had their manes fixed to look like miniature versions of the Mane Six.
Cozy Glow had even made her Magenta Ninja Gi for the occasion. They all flipped up their hoods and as Lloyd and Cozy led charge, "NINJA, GO!" They declared.
Back in the hallway, the dueling doubles continued to fight and neither one of them could land a blow on the other. "We're so evenly balanced..." Thunder huffed as he and his evil counterpart were tired. "Ugh, this fight could go on… forever!"
"Or at least...before one of us...finally get...too tired," Gaia panted as she and her counterpart traded blows.
"We can't give up!" Flash said as he dodged a punch.
"Just keep fighting," Twilight encouraged firing a laser. But then they heard lots of small hooves rushing towards them and they turned to see a stampede of Mini Ninja and little versions of the Mane Six, led by Lloyd and Cozy charging straight towards them.
"NINJA, GO!" The foals shouted as they joined the fight.
"Hey, it really is Ninja-Friendship Day!" Landrush said after seeing the students in the costumes. Both Evil Flash and Twilight had confused looks on their faces before narrowing dodging attacks from their good counterparts.
"Guys, I see what they're doing!" Trail said as pushed back his counterpart.
"Yeah, they're trying to confuse them!" Rainbow said as her counterpart couldn't tell which Rainbow Dash was the Real one.
"Uh, yeah but it's confusing me too!" Pinkie said as she and her counterpart were fooled too.
"Oh good, so it's not just me!" Thunder said as he and his counterpart were confused as well.
A bunch of the students ganged up on Evil Frost and Mean Fluttershy into a dog pile. Unfortunately, they were easily pushed off.
"Keep your focus!" Frost told them.
"Frost, now! While they're distracted!" Fluttershy said before they both they did Spinjitzu. Evil Frost and Mean Fluttershy were both sucked and screamed before they were tossed out and collided with each other, disappearing into black smoke.
"It works, just as Gambit says!" Lloyd called after seeing what happened to Evil Frost and Evil Fluttershy while dodging an attack from one of the doppelgangers.
"One hit from the goods, and poof they're gone!" Cozy Glow added.
Evil Landrush and Mean Applejack were flipping off the foals on them, before two caught them by surprise and knocked them off balance.
"Good BYE!" Landrush said as he punched his doubleganger into smoke.
"And good riddance!" Applejack added as she bucked away her evil twin. Mean Rarity and Evil Gaia were pushing back the students until one of them three a few dodgeballs at their faces.
"That look doesn't look GOOD on you!" Rarity told her counterpart before she blasted her into smoke.
"Looks like I'm even better than myself!" Gaia said before she did Spinjitzu and knocked her evil copy away for good.
"Don't think you can get rid of us that easily!" Mean Pinkie Pie told her good version.
"By the way, did I mention that I kissed Aqua?" Evil Thunder added, making his good counterpart furious.
"Also, before we got here, I should tell you that I crashed a little kid's birthday party. Made all the kiddies cry, too~ Hah-hah!" Mean Pinkie smirked at her red-faced counterpart.
"WHAT?! YOU DID WHAT?!" Thunder and Pinkie shouted with rage.
"Heha, yeah!" Evil Thunder laughed.
"Whatcha gonna do about it?" Mean Pinkie Pie mocked before they threw a punch at their good counterparts.
Both Thunder and Pinkie quickly blocked them before Thunder flipped behind his good counterpart and kicked him to dust. Pinkie Pie then pulled out her party cannon and blinded her evil counterpart before pulling out a metal boxing glove and punched her in the face to turn her into a puff of smoke.
Thunder panted, "NOPONY kisses MY Mare!" He declared.
"And NOPONY crashes a birthday party and makes kids cry!" Pinkie added, blowing on her boxing glove.
Evil Trail and Rainbow Dash were trying to fly up while a bunch of the students were holding on to their legs.
"Get off me, you brats!" Mean Rainbow growled as she shook her legs.
"Here, let me send you off!" Rainbow Dash told her evil counterpart as she flew right towards her and struck her in the gut. After she poofed and a puff of smoke, Rainbow quickly caught the foals as Trail kicked his evil counterpart in the face.
"Only two left!" Trail said looking at the Evil Flash and Mean Twilight.
The last two evil clones were currently wrestling with Cozy, Lloyd and some others foals before tossing them off, "Err, stay back!" Evil Flash growled.
"Forget this! Let's get out of here!" Mean Twilight told him as they tried to run only to get smoke bombs to the face.
"Ugh, My eyes!" Evil Flash screamed rubbing his eyes.
"I-I can't see!" Mean Twilight cried as the real Flash and Twilight walked up behind them. They both turned around when they found their shoulders being tapped. They soon saw their good twins uppercutting them in the jaws, and like that they were gone in a poof of smoke.
"Heh, 'betters and superiors', my flank!" Twilight smirked.
"Heh, not so smug now!" Flash gloated as the others all cheered and flipped up their hoods.
Daisy then wiped away the paint off her face. "It worked, you two. You did it!" she said to Lloyd and Cozy.
"No, we did it!" Lloyd corrected.
"Together!" Cozy finished as the foals all cheered again.
Principal Noble Heart and the other teachers then walked out, looking at their rogue students with pride. "Normally we would punish you for holding us captive," he started as they walked towards the group, "but I guess now that we've all learned a valuable lesson, I suppose it's cause for a celebration!" he declared.
Pinkie then zoomed up to his hooves. "You like with a 'real' party?" she pleaded with puppy-eyes.
"Uh, and wouldn't that also mean cake, now, would it?" Landrush also pleaded as everypony laughed and Twilight turned to the students and teachers.
"Also, if you really all want to learn and teach on how to be good, I think I know a much better school where you can do it," she said.
After the little celebration and the agreement that the teachers and the students had with Princess Twilight to be transferred to the School of Friendship, the group got back in the Raider and on Ultra Dragon as they headed back home. "Oh, man! So great to have the tank back," Thunder said.
"Mmm, you said it!" Landrush mumbled as he rode with Gaia on Ultra Dragon while eating some cake.
"Can't wait till Sensei hears about this," Trail said as on the screen of the Ultra Sonic Raider, Garmadon appeared and scowled at the heroes.
"So, it is true. You have destroyed my evil counterparts of you," Garmadon said as Lloyd smirked with a sneaky idea.
"Keep 'em comin', Garmadon," Flash told with the utmost confidence. "Your attempts to stop us are only making us stronger."
"Even with Chrysalis, Tirek and the Serpentine behind you, some day we will defeat you once and for all!" Twilight declared.
Garmadon however chuckled, "Foolish princess, I knew my clones would fail to destroy you. They merely bought me enough time to gather what I needed to create new allies to aid me in my quest," he explained as the heroes gaped in shock, and Garmadon smirked. "And tomorrow is a new day, my little ponies. Mark my words, I will find new ways to finish you, once and for-" The transmission had been garbled up and the screen went all fuzzy.
"What? I can't hear you!" Rainbow taunted with a smirk.
"Aqua will be displeased," Frost said. "She just fixed it, and it appears it has to go back to the shop."
"Nah, it's not broken," Lloyd told them as he grabbed the two levers behind him and his horn glowed blue as power went down to his hooves and a video game was put on the screen in place.
The Ninja and Mane Six were surprised, "Y-you did that?" Thunder asked, stunned, "But it didn't blow up," he thought for sure the Raider would've exploded like the light-bulbs did when Lloyd used his powers.
"Hey, you go back to school and you might pick up a thing or two!" Lloyd said as he pulled out a game controller and started playing the game while the others laughed.
But as his friends just laughed Flash frowned in thought as Twilight noticed his expression, "Something still bothers me though," Flash said.
"What's that?" Twilight asked with a raised brow.
"Who are the new allies Garamadon said he was going to recruit for his alliance?" He asked as they looked up into the dusk sky in concern.
Back on the Black Bounty that night, Garmadon, Tirek and the Generals waited on deck until they saw Chrysalis flying towards the ship. "Well?" Garmadon asked as Chrysalis sat a bag down.
"It wasn't easy," she told them. "They beefed up security since last time, but I got them." She used her magic to levitate four items from her satchel: the Horn of Sombra, The Staff of Sacanas along with a head piece from the Storm King's obsidian statue, and the Shattered Collar of Nightmare Moon.
She placed them down in front of Garmadon as he smirked. "Excellent," he said as he readied the Mega Weapon.
"Are you sure this is a wise decision?" Tirek asked the Alicorn. "The last time Sombra was revived to join an alliance, he went off on his own, and got very poor results. Plus, bringing back the other two is a bit of gamble, isn't it."
"Oh, don't worry. I always have ways to keep things in check," Garmadon said with an evil grin as he looked to the clock as it struck midnight. "Midnight… A new day… to wreak evil!" He then raised the Mega Weapon and they all stood back. "Hear me, King Sombra, Storm King, and Nightmare Moon, and feel the Mega Weapon's power of creation! I wish for it to rip open the Ethereal Divide and return you back into existence!" The Mega Weapon and Garmadon's power then merged as it was directed towards the three items. A bright light filled the as everyone who was in it was blinded by it. Above them, black clouds crackled with thunder and lightning circles around the pale white moon.
The red horn then surged with dark magic as a black shadow formed from it and with eyes glowing green and purple. The shadow soon solidified into a dark grey stallion in silver armor and a red cape appeared from the smog with new life.
The Staff absorbed the lightning bolts from above, as black crystal pieces flew together to join with the piece currently present, forming a body that gripped the staff and then exploded revealing an ape-like creature reborn, as obsidian slowly became fur, flesh, and armor.
And finally, under the pale light of the moon, the broken color was surround by a miasma of dark blue energy that formed into a ball. The orb soon revealed a black alicorn mare decked in blue armor who opened her slitted cyan eyes and opened her mouth revealing sharpen teeth to take her very first breath.
As the magic of the Mega-Weapon dissipated, the three revived evils landed on the deck and Tirek and Chrysalis were amazed by what happened as Garmadon slumped forward. "Welcome back...from the Departed Realm..." Garmadon panted to the revived ones.
Sombra observed his new body with a smirk, "Flesh, bone. Once more, I return to the Realm of Living!"
"H-How am I still alive?!" Storm King shouted as he was looking at himself. "Last thing I remember was me about to turn those cute ponies into my new garden piece, until my backstabbing commander pushed me over."
"I believe he has something to do with it." Nightmare Moon said with a grin on her face when they looked at Lord Garmadon.
Garmadon then stood up slowly and looked to his new allies. "I've given you all life anew, to aid me in remaking Equestria and the lands beyond into my own image, and in preventing my son from ever becoming the Ninja destined to defeat me," he explained tiredly. "But even with my new army, I felt I need more allies to tip the scales."
"Hey, if it means I can snag some revenge on those meddling ponies, then I'm in!" Storm King quickly told him.
"A world remade in darkness as black as night for eternity? I am on board with this alliance as well. And then I can have my revenge on little Luna AND her precious Celestia," Nightmare Moon grinned.
Chrysalis then turned to Sombra. "What about you Sombra? Going to reject this offer as well and try to take back the Crystal Empire only to get blasted into Oblivion again?" She asked with a smirk.
Sombra growled. "I am not so foolish as to make the same mistake again when there is an easier method." He then turned to Garmadon. "If I help you in recreating Equestria, I want your word that the Crystal Empire is mine!"
"Oh, don't worry Sombra," Garmadon assured. "I promise once we are done, you'll all get your share of Equestria."
"Then we have an agreement," Sombra said with calmer smile.
"Good, but word of warning: DON'T try stealing my Mega-Weapon!" Garmadon warned. "Only I have the power to hold it without it destroying me from the inside-out."
"Ssso, the moment you touch it, it'sss back to the Departed Realm for you!" Acidicus added with a smug snicker as Sombra merely scoffed and turned away.
The Storm King then turned to Garmadon. "So what's the plan to get rid of those Ninja ponies, boss man?" he asked.
"While my evil clones of the Ninja and Council of Friendship failed to destroy the real ones, they did succeed in learning where they are training my son," Garmadon said with an evil smirk. "And I've recently learned that the owner of this place has fallen behind in his debts, so here is my plan…"
They all then gathered around as Garmadon whispered his plan to them. Come morning, a new plan to defy destiny begins.