Hello everypony, my name is Special Hoof. And, I'm the leader of the Universe's unstoppable heroes: the Great Defenders of Friendship. We started out as regular ponies living in separate ways until magic returned throughout the world. Since a princess appeared before and told me that I need to go on a quest with some friends, my life had changed forever. I wasn't sure if I was prepared for an adventure, but in the end, I had friends who helped me and we all became heroes. And after that, we continue to do more rescues, quests, and adventures. We'd got magical geodes, which gave us our very own powers. We traveled around the world and see amazing things, even in outer space. Most importantly, our own thing to do is to make friends with everypony and remind them of how important friendship is throughout the land and years. And of course, we told everypony to accept themselves and others the way they are because being special is what they have to do. And, we also became friends with other creatures: griffons, changelings, kirin, zebras, kelpies, abadas, breezies, dragons, yaks, deer, auroracorns, and hippogriffs/seaponies. They were amazing creatures, they'd show us ponies about how great they are in some way in the different species. But, what I'm gonna tell you is how me and my friends came to be. I was accepted to everyone, but my problem was that I couldn't figure why I was born so different. So, allow me to tell you of how we became heroes in book form.
Once upon a time, there was an earth pony named Sunny Starscout. She was living in a world without harmony, all she wanted to do is to get all ponies: earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns, back together, but she didn't prevail. One day, a unicorn named Izzy Moonbow came to Maretime Bay and befriends Sunny. Izzy revealed that she and the rest of the unicorns have lost their magic. For that, Sunny began to help Izzy to figure out how the magic was lost by traveling to the pegasus city of Zephyr Heights, ruled by Queen Haven. But, when they got there, they got arrested and sent to the dungeon, which was more like a luxury hotel room, but only behind bars. The queen's elder daughter, Zephrina Storm, or Zipp Storm, visits them in secret and helped them escape. She lead them to her secret hiding spot, which was an abandoned station for when unicorns and earth ponies used to visit Zephyr Heights. Zipp showed Sunny and Izzy a stained glass window, and on it were two crystals: one of pegasi and one of unicorns. Sunny figured that the magic was gone when the crystals were separated. So, they decided to find and bring the crystals back together in order to bring back magic and get all ponies back together too. Queen Haven had the pegasus crystal as part of her crown. Zipp, Sunny and Izzy made a plan to steal the crystal by replacing the crown with a decoy. They got the crown, but they didn't plan their escape, they accidentally ruined the royal celebration and performance of Princess Pipp Petals, Queen Haven's younger daughter and Zipp's younger sister. Since the whole city discovered the royals were faking their flying, the queen was sent to prison. But, Zipp and Pipp escaped with Sunny and Izzy. And, an earth pony stallion named Hitch Trailblazer, the sheriff of Maretime Bay, followed Sunny and Izzy along the way, only to arrest Sunny for breaking the town's rules. But then, he changed his mind to see how friendship is important for all ponies.
After the five ponies got the pegasus crystal, they had to get the unicorn crystal in Bridlewood Forest, home of all unicorns. The crystal was in the hoofs of a tall unicorn named Alphabittle Blossomforth, owner of the Crystal Tea Room. The only way to win the crystal is to beat Alphabittle's challenge of a dance game. Sunny won the challenge, but got her and her friends' covers blown, so they began to escape. But then, they ran into Queen Haven, who escaped from prison to search for her daughters. Sunny combined both the crystals together, but nothing happened. She went back to Maretime Bay to accept her failure. She started to storage her childhood stuff, and while she was organizing her pictures, she discovered a slot below the lighthouse light, and the last crystal: the earth pony crystal. The slot was for all three crystals to be placed into. But, before she could tell it to everypony, she and Hitch discovered that a bad earth pony named Sprout Cloverleaf took over Maretime Bay and was about to start a war. Sunny and her friends has to put the three crystals together in the slot, before it was too late. But unfortunately, it still didn't work, and Sprout destroyed Sunny's lighthouse with his war machine. Sunny was down to see her home gone and magic still not coming back. But then, she realized the true answer: it was the ponies that need to be brought back together, not the crystals. It was up to everpony to get everything that was lost back to where it was, once they do the right stuff. What's important is that love and friendship is true magic, like it was many years ago. All the ponies choose friendship instead of fear, just the way Sunny wanted. And by that, the crystals became activated, turned Sunny into an alicorn, and magic came back to all over the world. The unicorns can finally levitate objects with their horns, the pegasi can finally fly with their wings, and the earth ponies can control plants with their hooves. Sunny was proud to bring harmony back.
A few months later, Sunny and her friends were enjoying their days in Maretime Bay in their shared home: the Crystal Brighthouse. They opened Sunny's community garden, helped the earth ponies to control their magic, Pipp has opened her own beauty salon, and Hitch had found and adopted baby dragon named Sparky. What they didn't is there was an evil alicorn named Opaline Arcana. She was the reason everypony tribe was seperated. Princess Twilight Sparkle was the rightful ruler of Equestria. Her reign was peaceful, until Opaline appeared, when she was banished from Skyros, the land of the alicorns. She thought alicorns were superior, she wanted to rule all ponies. But, Twilight and her friends were strong, their friendship had created such powerful magic that Opaline to resort to dark ways to overthrow our homeland. She even attacked the old dragon to transform into a fire alicorn. The three Unity Crystals were made by Twilight to hide the magic of Equestria in them, all the pony magic. And the dragon magic into the dragon stone. Twilight sent the dragons to the Isle of Scaley to protect them and put a spell around Equestria to hide it from Opaline. But as magic returned, the spell was broken down. Opaline had built her own castle to live in. Then, she had found and 'rescued' a lost unicorn filly named Misty Brightdawn. Misty became Opaline's slave and spotted Sunny and her friends and tried to steal their stuff. Opaline stole the dragon stone from the dragon lands to harvest dragon fire for herself. Misty didn't earn her own cutie mark at all. All ponies earned their marks when they're foals, when the magic of their true selves starts to shine. But, Misty didn't shine because of Opaline. Misty captured Sparky for her master, and Opaline used the dragon stone to drain Sparky's fire. When Misty realized her terrible mistake, she went to get help from Sunny and her friends. But, the five heroes got captured by Opaline, before they know Misty's truth. But then, Misty set them free, and because of her actions, she earned her cutie mark. Hitch and Zipp rescued Sparky and Sunny beat Opaline in her alicorn form. Misty joined forces and started move to the Crystal Brighthouse with them.
Opaline was growing stronger she had captured two adult dragons to gain more fire. When Sunny and her friends showed her around Bridlewood, she got reunited with her real family: her father, Alphabittle. They need to stop Opaline from gaining more power. Luckily, Sunny's father had left a map to the Isle of Scaley, where they met the dragons, and Twilight's former assistant, Spike. As they joined forces, the dragons went to Opaline's castle to get the dragon stone back, but Opaline captured them and got them under her spell, except Sparky. She corrupted the three Together Trees from each town of Equestria, so she would steal all the ponies' cutie marks for herself. Then, she stole the heroes' mark as well and the Unity Crystals had completely lost their power. But, everypony in Equestria gathered around the Together Trees and used up what magic they had left to heal them. Sparky got the dragon stone and used it to give the cutie marks back to their rightful owners, freed the dragons from the spell, and made Opaline's tree to grow bigger, causing her castle to fall apart. Opaline's cutie mark got stolen from the tree's root, she tried to get it back, but then, she got trapped inside the new and improved Together Tree, powerless and gone for good. Equestria was finally at peace after all these years. But then all of the sudden a portal appeared leading the hero ponies to a snowy wonderland called Starlight Ridge, home of the auroracorns. The village was ruled by an evil snow leopard named Allura. With help from two auroracorns, Violet Frost and Comet, Starlight Ridge was finally at peace. Sunny and her friends went home with their special prize, the Nova Charm. It was a star that lets you travel to different places around the world. Allura followed them to get the charm back for her brother.
Then, they learned lots of friendship lessons, went on more adventures, and made Equestria better place to live again. But then, Sunny was wondering right now, who would also be like her and her friends to keep friendship going after?