And so, the gang of eleven entered the castle. They stopped in front of a large pedastal containing five orbs.
"The Elements of Harmony!" Twilight sighed with relief. "We found them!" Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew up to grab them as Twilight urged them to be careful.
"Let's see here..." Joey said with a finger under his chin. "One, two, three, four... Hey, there's only five!"
"Didn't you say there were six, Twilight?" Krillin asked as he scratched his head.
"Yes, Krillin." Twilight replied. "The book said when the five are present, a spark will cause the sixth element to be revealed."
"What in the hay is that supposed to mean?" Applejack asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm not sure, but I have an idea." Twilight replied. "Stand back! I don't know what will happen..." As everyone stood back, Twilight started using her magic.
"Come on, y'all." Applejack said, motioning for everyone to follow. "She needs to concentrate." Everyone nodded and they all left the room. Twilight focused her energy on the elements. But then, a strange purple whirlwind swept around the elements, levitating them in the air. Twilight looked up and screamed.
"Twilight!" The rest of the group minus Bowser, who just looked confused, shouted.
"The Elements!" Twilight shouted as she jumped into the portal. The others ran toward her... but they were too late. She was gone. Everyone started talking all at once.
"What in tarnation?!" Applejack said.
"Where did she go?!" Pinkie Pie said, looking under bushes.
"What the hay happened to her?!" Rainbow Dash said from the sky, trying to get a bird's eye view.
"However did she just disappear?!" Rarity shouted.
"Ohmygoodnessohmygoodnessohmygoodness...." Fluttershy panicked.
"Nyeh, this ain't good." Joey said shakily.
"What happened?! Why is Twilight invisible?!" Tristan panicked.
Krillin was screaming like a little girl.
"Holy crap! She's totally gone! It's like the aftermath of an explosion, only less messy!" Achmed exclaimed.
".....Meh." Bowser said, crossing his arms.
"Twilight! Where are you?!" Krillin shouted when he finally stopped screaming.
"Yeah! We've got some work to do now!" Tristan added.
"Oh, you'll find her soon enough." A familiar voice sounded throughout the room. They all turned to see three familiar faces.
"Dimentio!" Achmed gasped.
"Dark skin guy!" Joey exclaimed.
"FAWFUL!!" Bowser roared.
"Yes, koopa klutz. It IS I. And Nightmare Moon currently has your friend in the room of grandness!" Fawful replied.
"So uh... basically she's in the throne room." Marik explained, totally ruining their cover and earning a kick to the shin from Fawful. "But you told them first, Fawful!" Marik whined.
"I was vague!" Fawful snapped.
"You're gonna pay!" Rainbow Dash shouted. She flew at the trio. Dimentio smirked.
"Well, my dear friends, I daresay we shall make our leave. CIAO!" And so Dimentio snapped his fingers, causing the trio to vanish and Dash to hit thin air and snort in anger.
"Well, what are we waiting for?!" Rarity exclaimed. "Our dear Twilight is in danger!"
"Let's go get her!" Pinkie said, uncharacteristically determined.
"I KEEL THE FOOL WHO KIDNAP TWILIGHT!" Achmed shouted, doing his best Mr. T impression.
"LET'S JUST GO!" Bowser shouted. "THIS COULD BE MY ONLY CHANCE TO CREAM FAWFUL!" And so the group marched up the stairs.
Meanwhile...
Twilight appeared in the middle of a room. She shook her head and gasped at the figure in front of her. It was a tall, black alicorn with blue armor around her hooves and the top of her head, and a cutie mark in the form of a crescent moon. Lightning crackled around her. Twilight lowered her horn and charged the alicorn, who looked unamused.
"You're kidding." She said. "You're kidding, right?" Twilight kept charging. Suddenly, a flash of light appeared in front of her.
"NM!" Marik shouted. "WE'RE BA-" He didn't get to finish as Twilight charged right through him, sending him flying into a wall, flattening him like a pancake. Dimentio and Fawful chuckled.
"Marik, I told you not to call me that." Nightmare Moon said before charging. The two ponies glared at each other. Marik, Fawful and Dimentio leaned in closer, intrugued by what was destined to be an amazing battle of epic proportions. The combatants drew nearer by the second. They were so close they could feel each other's breath. They prepared for combat... and Twilight vanished, reappearing on the pedastal containing the elements. Nightmare Moon turned around in shock, and the other three weren't exactly expecting it either. Twilight shook her head out of dizziness and knelt down towards the elements. "Just one spark...Come on....Come on....."
"STOP HER!" Nightmare Moon shouted. Dimentio snapped his fingers, causing Twilight to fly back, but it was too late.
"No!" Nightmare Moon gasped as the elements started glowing.
"Oh crap." Marik said. Fawful frowned with disappointment. Dimentio remained unaffected. But then, the elements stopped glowing, much to Twilight's horror.
"But...where's the sixth element?!" She exclaimed. Nightmare Moon laughed as the other three smirked. Then, the trio walked up to the pedastal. Marik and Dimentio grabbed two elements and threw them against the ground as hard as they could, and Nightmare Moon stomped on the fifth one. Twilight stared on in despair as the elements shattered in front of her very eyes.
"You little foal." Nightmare Moon exclaimed. "Thinking you could beat ME!"
"Foal? Really?" Marik asked, cringing slightly.
"Yes. Is there a problem, Marik?" Nightmare Moon asked in annoyance.
"No no! It's just a really bad pun is all." He replied.
"That is the grammar the ponies use, Marik." Dimentio cut in. "Don't be insensitive towards their grammar."
"Yes Marik." Fawful said. "Do not have insensitivity."
"Shut up, Fawful!" Marik snapped. The two started sissy fighting. Twilight wasn't paying attention to any of them.
"I failed...." She thought. "I'm sorry Princess Celestia..."
Then she heard voices. Familiar voices...
"Don't you worry, sugarcube! We're coming to help ya!" Applejack... Twilight thought.
"After we win, I'll throw the biggest, most super fun party ever!"Pinkie Pie...
"Hang in there, Twilight. We won't leave ya hangin!" Rainbow Dash...
"We're coming, darling!" Rarity...
"Nyeh, Twilight! You okay?!" Joey....
"After this, lets get ice cream!" Tristan...
"Hang on Twi-AGH!" Someone could be heard grunting in pain as they fell down the stairs. Krillin...
"I'LL KEEL YOU NIGHTMARE MOON! I KEEL YOU TILL YOUR DEAD!" Achmed...
"FAWFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL! I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!" Bowser...
"Bowser, please don't use such language." Fluttershy....
"Yeah, Bowsie! Nintendo won't like it." Pinkie Pie again...
Twilight, with newfound hope, turned to Nightmare Moon with a smirk. "You think you can destroy the Elements of Harmony just like that?" She asked. The four villains exchanged glances.
"Um... yeah, pretty much." Marik replied.
"Well you're wrong!" Twilight exclaimed. "Because the spirits of the elements are right HERE!" And with those words, the rest of the Mane Six stepped by Twilight's side. Joey, Tristan, Krillin and Achmed stayed a few feet back, and Bowser immediately made a beline for Fawful. Fawful's eyes widened.
"Dimentio...I request that we go to the castle of Bleck." He said nervously.
"And so we shall leave! Like a tree in the fall."
"So long, suckers!" Marik said as Dimentio snapped his fingers and the terrible trio vanished, leaving an infuriated Bowser stumbling forward and faceplanting. Bowser roared at the sky while breathing fire.
Suddenly, the fragments around Nightmare Moon levitated into the air. "W-what?" She said in confusion. Twilight motioned to Applejack.
"Applejack, who reassured me and Krillin when we were in doubt, represents the spirit of...HONESTY!"
"Whooo!" Krillin shouted from offscreen.
"Fluttershy, who tamed Bowser with her compassion, represents the spirit of... KINDNESS!" Bowser clapped slowly a couple times, just to be polite to the one who was housing him.
"Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of... LAUGHTER!"
"I did that too, but YAY!" Tristan shouted offscreen.
"Rarity, who soothed the sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift, represents the spirit of...GENEROSITY!"
"Way to go Rarity!" Joey shouted offscreen.
"And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own hearts desire, represents the spirit of...LOYALTY!"
"Good job!" Achmed shouted from offscreen.
"The spirits of these five ponies got us through every challenge you threw at us!" Twilight concluded.
"Y-you still don't have the sixth element!" Nightmare Moon said uneasily. "The spark didn't work."
"But it did." Twilight continued. "A different KIND of spark!" She turned to the smiling group of ponies, humans, skeleton and one bored turtle. "I felt it the moment I realized how happy I was to see you! To hear you. How much I cared about you. The spark ignited inside me...when I realized that you all....are MY FRIENDS!" Bowser was the only one who looked against this, but he chose to just quietly grumble to himself. "You see Nightmare Moon...when these elements are ignited by the...the spark that resides in the heart of us all, it reveals the sixth element. The element of...MAGIC!"
"Way to go, Twilight!" Deadpool shouted-wait, what?
"Deadpool, you're not supposed to be here yet! You show up much much much MUCH later!" Pinkie pointed out.
"Whoops. My bad." Deadpool replied before disappearing into thin air. After much confusion, the Mane Six levitated into the air, much to the other five's amazement. They had each gotten a necklace, or tiara in Twilight's case, and were levitating in midair. Then, a massive rainbow was fired at Nightmare Moon as she screamed.
"TASTE THE RAINBOW, MOTHAF*CKA!" Deadpool shouted.
"DEADPOOL!" Pinkie snapped.
"Sorry." Deadpool disappeared again. Then, it was silent. The six ponies fell to the ground. The others rushed to help them up.
"Ohh...My head...." Dash groaned as Achmed helped her up.
"You all okay?" Krillin asked as he helped up Applejack.
"Oh thank goodness!" Rarity exclaimed. Her tail had grown back to its former glory....somehow.
"Wow! It's real nice, Rare." Joey said.
"I know!" Rarity said, waving her tail. Then she brought it to her cheek and nuzzled it. "I'll never part with it again!"
"Actually, I was talking about that necklace of yours." Joey corrected. "It looks just like that thing on your um...ANYWAY, it's nice."
"You mean my Cutie Mark?" Rarity asked. Then she looked down at the necklace. "So it does!"
"Hey Fluttershy, your necklace looks like your..." He threw up in his mouth a little. "Cutie Mark too." Fluttershy gasped with delight.
"Look at mine! Look at mine!" Pinkie shouted, eagerly showing it to Tristan.
"Yeah! It looks like a balloon!" He replied happily.
"You're the same as the rest, AJ." Krillin pointed out. Applejack smiled.
"Awwww yeah." Rainbow Dash said as Achmed looked at her necklace. And Twilight's tiara had a star on top.
"Hey, Twilight." Applejack said. "I thought you were just spoutin a lot of hooey! But I reckon we really DO represent the elements of friendship!'
"Indeed you do." A voice said. They all turned to look at a bright light coming down. After the light cleared, it revealed a snow white alicorn with a waving, rainbow colored mane and tail, a brown necklace...thing around her neck, and a crown. The ponies [besides Twilight] all bowed, and the others stared in interest at this new pony. Twilight smiled widely and gasped.
"Princess Celestia!" She said happily. She ran up to nuzzle her mentor.
"Twilight Sparkle! My faithful student!" The princess replied, returning the nuzzle. "I knew you could do it."
"But..." Twilight began. "You told me it was all just an old ponytale."
"I TOLD you that you needed to make some friends. Nothing more. I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return, and I knew that you had the magic inside you to defeat her. But you could not unleash it until you let true friendship into your heart. Now if only another will as well..."
"What? What do you mean?" Krillin asked. Celestia smiled and motioned toward another alicorn, this one much smaller, with black fur and a dark blue mane.
"Princess Luna." Celestia began. The other alicorn gasped. "It has been a thousand years since I've seen you like this. Time to put our differences behind us. We're meant to rule together....little sister."
"WHAT THE FU-[Boooom] Krillin ran up to the nearest friend. "Achmed, did ya hear that? Didja? Didja? Didja?"
"It's not that big a surprise, man." Achmed replied.
"Oh."
"Will you accept my friendship?" Celestia asked warmly. Everyone else [except Bowser, who really didn't give a damn] leaned in, awaiting a decision. Krillin fell over and landed on a shard of glass.
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The smaller alicorn shrunk back slightly.... Then sprang up and nuzzled her older sister. "I'M SO SORRY! I missed you so much, big sister..."
"I missed you too." Celestia replied. Both had tears in their eyes. Bowser crossed his arms and rolled his eyes, five of the Mane Six, the humans and Achmed smiled at the reunion, and Pinkie burst into tears that came streaming out of her eyes like fountains. They laster about five seconds.
"Hey! You know what this calls for?!" Then, they were back in Ponyville. "A PARTY!"
"Yay! We teleported again!" Tristan cheered. Ponies ran down the streets to welcome their new princess, who they will treat like the devil later on in this story. Spike ran up and hugged Twilight, who almost immediately returned it. Everyone except Bowser bowed before the princesses, and two yound pegasi put a necklace of roses around Luna's neck, much to her overwhelming joy. Celestia smiled... then noticed Twilight's sad expression.
"Why so glum, my faithful student?" She asked. "Are you not happy that your quest is complete, and you can return to your studies in Canterlot?"
"That's just it." Twilight replied. "Just when I learned how wonderful it is to have friends... I have to leave them." Guess who the only one who wasn't sad is.
"Spike. Take a note please." Celestia said. Spike pulled a quill and piece of paper from out of nowhere. "I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle shall take on a new mission for Equestria. She must discover more about the magic of friendship. She must report to me her findings from her new home...in Ponyville!" Twilight immediately found herself in a group hug from everyone except guess who.
"Thank you, Princess Celestia!" Twilight said joyfully. "I'll study harder than ever before!" And there were cheers from all of her friends...except, you know.
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The party had ended. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had returned to the castle, and ponies were going home. The only remaining party-goers were the Mane 6 and the Portal Travellers.
"Man, that was some party, huh guys?" Joey said, stretching.
"Yes. Yes it was." Twilight yawned. "Spike...Joey...Tristan...Krillin....Achmed....Let's head to the library. I'm tired."
"Good night girls! And Bowser." Krillin waved.
"Night' y'all." Applejack said as she headed home.
"I can't wait to do this again! It's really fun!" Pinkie headed home too.
"See ya around, girls! And Bowser." Dash flew off.
"Goodnight, dears." Rarity left Bowser and Fluttershy alone. Fluttershy waved goodbye, and looked up at Bowser in concern. He was crossing his arms, clearly deep in thought.
"Bowser... What's wrong?" She asked.
"Huh? It's nothing..." Bowser muttered.
"Oh. Um..okay." Fluttershy replied. "Um... I just want you to know that... If you want to talk about it...I'll listen." Bowser looked over, and the slightest hint of a smile appeared on his face.
"Thanks...Fluttershy." He said. The two headed to Fluttershy's cottage.