Chapter 2: Mad MAD Rulers
The ponies stood in front of what used to be the leaders of the three tribes of long ago that used to feud but no longer: Princess Platinum, Commander Hurricane and Chancellor Puddinghead who said to put aside their rivalry once and for all.
But is that's the case, why are the Mane Six and the CMC, along with Spike and Nyx feeling a bit uneasy around them?
"Uh, who are these guys and why do they look like Rainbow, Rarity and Pinkie?" Phobos asks his pals puzzled.
"Foolish dragon," Hurricane snaps as she fires an ice blast at Phobos but he got out of the way in time. "Do you not know me?! I am Commander Hurricane, leader of the Pegasus Tribe!"
"And my name is Princess Platinum, ruler of the Unicorn Tribe and ruler of Unicornia!" Princess Platinum laughs madly, making the unicorns a bit uneasy.
"And my name is the Puddinghead Formerly Known as Chancellor!" Puddinghead exclaims, making the ponies a bit confused or annoyed.
"Ugh! You got to be kidding me?!" Hurricane groans as she slaps herself with a hoof to the face. "Your name is Chancellor Puddinghead, you idiot."
"Hey, it's the modern age, I want a name change! Bad enough I have to listen to you two bicker."
"You aren't doing any better, you dumb Earth filth!" Platinum exclaims to Puddinghead angrily.
"Well, we know how the whole 'Earth filth' started." Ben Mare remarks dryly.
"Wait, these are the three rulers of long ago?" Lyra asks Bon-Bon puzzled, watching the three ghosts argue amongst one another.
"Most likely; But I thought they have put aside their differences, became friends." Bon-Bon said, getting scared.
"Me; Friends with this Pegasus brute and this Earth filth," Platinum screams upon hearing what Bon-Bon just said. "Don't you dare suggest yeah!"
"Oh, like I rather hang around you horn-head for anything," Hurricane snaps to Platinium madly and bitterly.
"I hate bickering, I want to hurt someone!" Puddinghead snaps madly, the ponies look confused while looking to the Mane Six, wondering what's going on.
"These aren't the rulers whose hearts were changed from the pageant." Derpy said a bit concerned while chained up.
"That's because they aren't." Nyx said uneasily while pawing the ground. "The ending of the pageant has...changed around."
"For ponies who don't know, the three rulers never overcame their rivalry and hatred to one another." Twilight explains to the living ponies sternly. "They were frozen by the wendigoes while Clover the Clever, Smart Cookie and Private Pansy was the one who help founded Equestria and reunite the tribes into the Equestrian Alliance."
"Right and I got a feeling that these meanies aren't working together by choice." Pinkie said uneasily.
"Ooooh, very good, clone of me," Puddinghead remarks to Pinkie with a chuckle, "We were stuck, unable to go to the other side because of our feuding."
"I have put up with these two idiots for years." Platinium snarls furiously at her rival leaders. "And it came to us one day that there's only way to deal with it."
"Oh, don't tell me!" Applejack exclaims while slapping her forehead. "Yew decided 'ta go 'ta war wit' one another one more time just to settle yer dumb rivalry?!"
"It isn't dumb you Earth filth! It is logic; But how disgusted I am that the ponies of these years have gotten nice despite some fighting here and there."
"If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, then forget it!" Time Turner snaps to the ghosts furiously. "We won't be going to war with each other."
"Right, I am friends with my friends the Cutie Mark Crusaders!" Pipsqueak snaps hanging near his fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders. "And you can't make us fight."
"We were trying to! We were messing with the weather, causing insanity and making illusions just to make you blame one another!" Platinum explains to the ponies. "But we will continue doing our best."
"Yeah, we've learned some new tricks over the more than thousand years since our deaths!" Hurricane exclaims as she uses some magic to making the weather more dangerous, sending out icicles at the ponies.
"Run out of the way!" Cheerilee screams as the ponies dodge the icicles. They yelp as lightning almost hit them.
"Hey, you can't send out lightning blasts during winter!" Fluttershy protests to Hurricane angrily. But she yelps as a lightning bolt almost got her. "On second thought..."
"Ha! Foolish foal's play! Check this out!" Platinum scoffs as she sent out ice magic. Some ponies gasp as they are turned into icicles or slip onto the ices, "Very irony considering the nature of my death. I also got a telepathic ability to make illusions r representing her targets' worst fears many times magnified."
Platinum dodges so. The ponies gasps in fear as monsters from the Everfree Forest appears, roaring madly as they attack, causing them to flee. Twilight frantically uses her spell to cast away the illusion but was tired out.
"Well, that explains the illusions." Nyx said, frowning upon remembering the Nightmare Moon illusion. It was Princess Platinium who was trying to scare her.
"Big deal, I can warp reality, look!" Puddinghead laughs as she turns the area upside down, literally. Ponies scream as they fell before it was turned right side up, the falling ones land on toys, books, ice, "Neat-o, eh?"
"Stop it, stop it! Please stop!" Twilight exclaims to the feuding leaders.
"We will stop when the ponies agree to stop playing nice and agree to fight for us." Hurricane explains evilly. The idea of this is to make the ponies fight each other or be tortured by the mad ones' magic.
"By my side, unicorns will wipe the others off of Unicornia!" Platinium laughs insanely, much to the other rulers' annoyance.
"Big deal; not if us Pegasus can wipe you both out first!"
"Bad bad rulers! Bad ones," Puddinghead snaps as she slaps the two rulers with...fish (don't ask). "The ponies of Dirt will win!"
Within the shadows someone was watching and look worried.
"This is really not good. The gang needs to be careful. These three ghosts are much stronger than the last time I heard of them and i know Goldie will come to help the gang." The figure said in concern. "May the fire of friendship give you strength."
With that she heads off but makes sure to be ready to do stealth attacks from within the shadows. During the whole thing, Big Macintosh pauses as he comments, "I done think these gals are gone loco."
"I know." Cheerilee said with a frown. "It seems like these three have nly gotten crazier and more bitter in the more than thousand years since their deaths."
Spike comment, "These three ghosts are as bad as Trixie when she was wearing the Alicorn Amulet".
Twilight answers, "No; Worse; At least with Trixie, all we had to do was trick her into removing the amulet."
"Enough of this horse stuff!" Hurricane snaps as the weather gotten worst. "All right, Pegasus ponies, you got two choices: join me or suffer."
"The same goes for you unicorns. We will win this war...but I will wipe out anyone who goes against me!" Platinum snaps at the unicorn recovering from what happened.
"And I will take D for block!" Puddinghead exclaims with a mad bitter laugh.
The ponies look worried. They don't wanna help these mad ghosts but they themselves will get hurt if the ponies refuse. What will they do?
Ben frowns as he snaps, "Why the hay would we wanna work with you freaks?!"
"Right, your advisers and soldier saw the light, why won't you?" Fluttershy asked Hurricane, Platinum and Puddinghead, earning a growl from the first one, "Err, please answer?"
"Simple, because we got something they cannot refuse." Platinum said with a sly grin. "I can give my unicorns luxury where they belong..."
"Well, that doesn't sound too bad..." Rarity said thoughtfully.
"But if they refused...I will cut off their horns!" Platinum exclaims with a mad evil laugh.
"WHAT," Rarity gasps in shock and horror.
"Cut off our...that's blackmail!" Lyra protests to Platinum angrily.
"No, that's servitude." Platinum said with a shrug. The unicorns don't want to lose their horns but they shouldn't want to hurt one another.
"As for me, I will make the Pegasus the masters of the skies..." Hurricane said with an evil smirk. "But if they don't know come to war with me..."
"Or what," Rainbow asked the lookalike of her with a frown.
Hurricane smirks as she continues, "I will do what the princess brat threatened to do...but instead of horns, I will be ripping off wings!"
"You sick monster!" Feathermay shouted.
"For all the Ponies that are stuck on the ground, I'm offering a once in a life-time deal! Join my side, and you'll have a life-time of sweets around, especially tasty cakes!" Chancellor Puddinghead proclaimed out in giving a tempting offer that only fools would ever be gullible to take.
"FREE SWEETS; Oh boy," Pinkie Pie popped up from the crowd in cheering in what she has heard. "What a bargain!"
"Pinkie Pie," Applejack scolded the pink pony for being so quick to accept a terrible offer.
"Oops!" Pinkie Pie sheepishly replied in seeing she made a little 'boo-boo' on her part.
"But, for the record, you won't be sharing your sweets OR cakes to anypony that's a Pegasus or unicorn. And most DEFINITELY NOT any Earth base pony that comes to be on my team." Chancellor Puddinghead sternly proclaimed in what she'll be doing, Earth Ponies can have their sweets, but are forbidden from sharing with anyone but their own, and ONLY those siding with her, any outsiders are not to be given any.
"WHAT," Pinkie Pie shouted out in outrage in hearing this debate. "You be so selfish to not share any tasty treats? That's...so mean!" To the pink pony, she shares her tasty sweets, especially for parties, this is so wrong.
"Yeah, I'm not sharing with any Earth Pony that doesn't come to fight for me!" Chancellor Puddinghead declared off in making her decision be final and that's that.
"Why, you...your sweets maybe sweety accepting but I wouldn't take a nibble of them." Pinkie Pie protest out in making a decree in what she would not do. "In fact, if you were the only pony in all of Equestria that had sweets and I get some by joining and hurting my pony friends, then I rather go on...A SWEET STRIKE!" The pink pony held up her right hoof in declaring that she's going on strike, meaning; SHE WON'T EAT ANY SWEETS!
"Gaaaugh," The other ponies gasped in hearing this declaration; especially from Pinkie Pie.
"A sweet strike," Sweetie Belle responded off in shock to hear Pinkie Pie actually say something like that.
"The pink pony wouldn't eat anymore sweets?" Golden Harvest whispered this out to a friend in not taking this for doubt if Pinkie Pie was serious.
"No cookies, no cupcakes, not even a cake?" Caramel whispered to another in knowing how much the pink pony loves those sweet treats, to not have those is...unthinkable.
"You can't be serious! No pony has a habit to give up on eating sweets! Even these two I'm stuck with kept robbing me of my sweet treats!" Chancellor Puddinghead protests out in looking to Pinkie Pie like she was even crazier then she was, no pony would dare say they don't eat sweets, it's not natural!
"Then I guess I'm different, and you can't make me eat sweets if it means I work for somepony wanting to hurt others." Pinkie Pie declared as her final choice in what she's gonna be doing even against this spiritual tribe leader of Earth Ponies from before her time.
Soon, Chancellor Puddinghead narrowed her eyes at Pinkie Pie; this was the first stubborn pony that couldn't get her issues. Course, they both share such things, but this present pony has done something she's never expected to see.
"That's it!" Chancellor Puddinghead declared off from holding her left hoof up. "I challenge You!" She pointed her hoof to the pink pony before her, issuing a challenge.
"NO! I challenge you!" Pinkie Pie pointed her right hoof in declaring her own challenge to the chancellor.
"Well, I challenge your challenge!" Chancellor Puddinghead re-declared her challenge against Pinkie Pie.
"And I challenge your challenge!" Pinkie Pie started to say, until she came across a bumpy part of her sentence. "On my challenge..." After looking at the ground in thinking up an answer fast, she stated this, "With a challenge!" She then made herself look fierce, as if being serious of her challenge.
"Wooh, that's good!" Phobos responded while looking at Pinkie Pie and Chancellor Puddinghead be between their foreheads, snorting with glares at another, not backing down here.
"Okay, enough!" Twilight Sparkle came up to cut the two off before speaking. "Look, you can't have your war involving us. It was settled, so even if you scare, frighten, or threaten us, we won't stoop as to go to war and hurt our pony friends." The smart pony declared that even if the spirits of the tribe rulers was wanting to go to war, the ponies of today will not just be force to do something they don't wanna do.
"Bite your tongue! You're saying you prefer these... commoners without horns that live on the dirt and the ruffy skies?" Princess Platinum exclaimed in shock in hearing her own unicorn breed speaks of such nonsense.
"Doesn't matter if you don't wanna join up; we're settling the score!" Commander Hurricane snaps off to the unicorn smarty to state with attitude, they ain't through till they had their war.
"I'll be a mix old dry raisin if I don't agree with the gladiator Pegasus right here!" Chancellor Puddinghead popped up to point that for the first time, she's agreeing with her own enemy on that idea.
"And I also agree on such a term." Princess Platinum shockingly responded in agreeing with something to her hated foes of the past. "We settle this here in this day and age!" It was decided, all three sides of different ponies would settle their score. "You all have one hour to prepare and decide what fate you wish to play in!" She pointed to the other citizen ponies, that they have an hour to decide their fate of choice.
"Either you're with me, the grand spectator of glory or these two, whichever!" Commander Hurricane declared in making herself be boastful and wave off on the other two spirits while making the point clear.
"Or you fall to perish with any that stand in our way!" Chancellor Puddinghead snaps off in stating how they'll make any that get in their way, pay for it...with their lives.
"This...CIVIL WAR...ENDS...TODAY!" All 3 Tribe Rulers announced that bellowed off across the stormy atmosphere that frightened the other ponies in seeing such eyes of war from the spirits. "Frusvhmmm..." Then the spiritual essences vanish into the skies while the terrible storm clouds ragged all over Equestria.
"Ooh, doggy, 'dis ain't going well!" Tough Apple complains as the weather begins getting worst.
"What did you expect?! These rulers won't see reason except wanting to hurt one another!" Caramel yells out to Tough Apple over the snow.
Just then, the whole area begins to glow, much to the ponies' notice. They saw their friend Golden Heart arriving.
"Golden Heart," The Mane Six exclaims with a gasp. Golden Heart then uses some magic to make a building appear.
"Inside, get to shelter, quickly!" Golden Heart urges everypony and dragons quickly.
"Come on, girls!" Twilight said to the rest of the Mane 6 before they all ran for shelter.
"Wait for us!" Nyx cried as she, Phobos, the CMC and Ben follow her mother and aunts along with Big Mac, Cheerilee, Tough Apple, the Mane 6 lookalikes, Crashfire, Jakk, Colby and Matelda.
Spike glances at some of the remaining ponies, calling out, "If you want to avoid getting hit by the insane rulers' snowballs, then get your flanks in here!"
"You heard the dragon! Let's go!" Caramel said to the ponies, and they all headed for shelter with the others.
Everyone heads into the shelter, even Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Once everypony is inside, Golden Heart use his magic to close the doors.
"We should be safe in here. This is a special dimensional shelter I made in case of emergencies and this is definitely one of them." Golden Heart said everypony else seriously.
"Cousin Apple Bloom, yew all right?" Tough ask his little cousin in concern.
As she started shivering from the unnatural cold outside, Apple Bloom replied, "Yeah. Ah'm okay, Cousin Tough."
"So what 'de hay are we going 'ta do about those dead rulers? 'Dis is 'de second time 'dis year we took on someone fro' beyond 'de grave!" Applejack exclaims in frustration.
"I don't know but we will make a decision..." Pinkie said seriously...then looks happily to the camera, "Right after this next scene!"
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We see...a scene with windmills and people. Pinkie is heard yelling loudly, "NOOOOO! THE OTHER NEXT SCENE! AM I WORKING ALONE HERE?!"
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Meanwhile, back at Canterlot Palace, the weather situation there was no different then what's happening all over Equestria. In the throne room right now, Celestia and Luna look outside, seeing the winter storm become more violent and out of control and with lightning effect too. Either the Pegasus ponies were over doing it or this was no natural pony making storm...but something more.
"Sister, this storm's phenomena is not natural." Luna spoke to Celestia in not liking the weather outside.
"I agree, a storm like this was only seen from..." Just as Celestia was about to say, a magic scroll appeared before her, "Twilight?"
"Excuse me sister?" Luna raised an eyebrow in what her sister said sounded almost...silly.
"A message from Twilight has just appeared." Celestia spoke from using her magic to read the scroll which made her eyes go wide. "Oh no, this is very bad,"
"What is it?" Luna asked with looking cautiously concern by the tone,
"The once 3 Tribe Rulers of a 1000 years ago we once knew...have returned." Celestia spoke in stating the matter here of a serious notice.
"What! That can't be! They, their associates and even Star Swirl the Bearded have long since been...deceased!" Luna protest in disbelief, the ones the Royal Sisters knew a 1000 years ago are not of this world of today's present; so how?
"Unfortunately, Twilight & her friends have reported they have come back, and worst... their hatred for each other has reach a point where they are engulfed by the darkness of despising the other, even involving our subjects to side with them or else," Celestia spoke this with much worry, if the situation like this spreads, lots of lives could be injured or worst,
"Should we try to aid them against this madness?" Luna asked if they can aid Twilight's side of what's happening,
"I don't know if we can sister. No matter what we tried to do, the tribes' rulers didn't agree to our terms of a peaceful solution, only the 2 advisors and the subordinate of the 3 different tribes each saw reason at the last moment that helped save their kind." Celestia seem to be in doubt, a 1000 years ago, the Royal Sisters couldn't convince the tribe rulers, only after they were gone, did reason finally settle in...but was it the right choice?
"So is this all in Twilight and her friends' hooves to stop? Do they require the Elements?" Luna suggested in what they can do to support the Mane Six that may have to handle this.
"That maybe a problem, while it's true that the Elements stopped Discord, a spirit like the 3 tribe rulers, there is a difference." Celestia spoke in recalling an old foe that was a spirit like the tribe rulers, however... "Discord could manifest into an entirely physical being. The tribe rulers are but ghost; they can easily separate and disappear to return again later. We may need another element that can help strengthen our side to put an end to the souls of those we were responsible for." The princess felt that even the Elements might not be all they need, even Ben's Triforce Element can't be enough; there is need of another to help guarantee all can be fixed.
"Then what else can help us if not the Elements or Twilight's band of friends?" Luna asked in wondering, what else can be done if not for their usual allies to help them against such troubles?
"If the spirits of those that made peace return, their aid would be most helpful, but I fear it's still missing something. Vengeful spirits need to let go to move on or be forever bounded by chains to what they carry. We need...something to break that chain." Celestia stated in trying to ponder, a way to set everything right, the tribe rulers have to be free from what keeps them bound here to move on, but how...
"Poofvhmm..." Then without warning, a mysterious magic poof cloud appears that gets the sisters' attention. Then it cleared, there appeared some cloak wearing stallion pony figure that was dusting himself. He seems to have a horn from under his hood that covered his forehead, but let his muzzle just peek out enough.
"Sorry, was I interrupting something?" The new person responded while sounding...very friendly and not hostile or evil for that matter.
"Who are you? How did you get pass the guards?" Luna asked with a stern face in seeing someone about to cause trouble for them.
"Well, they just saw who I was, and I gave them something to give me entry." The cloak stallion exclaimed off with a calm, cool, and mysterious.
"And that was?" Luna raised an eyebrow at this figure's riddles.
"What else, my autograph?" He shrugs off to respond in a casual answer, not sounding like he was fibbing or playing, but telling the truth.
"What?" Luna responded wide eyes, whose was this pony, and how can guards let him in with who he looks like to get autographs?
"Hmm-hmm, I see you're as popular as...Little J.B." Celestia held her left hoof to stop a little giggle escaping her mouth as she happily addressed the new mysterious figure.
"It's good to be back Celestia, my travels to put on shows is never easy. I came for the Hearth's Warming after finding a good opening in my schedule to perform." The person known as J.B. happily bows before setting himself up right.
"You're timing couldn't be better, we have a problem." Celestia stated with a relief expression in seeing this pony's presence actually brought some hope in the situation here.
"What kinda problem?" J.B. asked in wanting to know that answer.
After a few moments, all was explained before he see what's happening now.
"Sounds pretty mess up, anything I can do to help?" J.B. spoke with a serious tone and wanted to know if he can aid.
"There might be." Celestia nods from Luna who nodded back before the princess of the Sun goes on. "Next to Spell Nexus, you also were a student that had excellent magic potential. Even if you had a lot of focus for music, you managed to find harmony for both, which showed the talent that made you special." The princess spoke of J.B. being a lover of music, and great in the arts of magic, enough to balance both in sync.
"It's cool, I like to rock out now and then, but if it's to help stop a war on this special event we've celebrated, then I'll gladly help in my service." J.B. wave off his left hoof on the subject before saying he'll help to save the Hearth's Warming Celebration.
"We will do what can be done, you'll have to help Twilight's group and stop history from repeating itself." Luna stated with a calm expression in wanting this pony to give aid to those that have helped them stop a war from happening.
"Consider it done." J.B. smiles on his face while he gave a positive response to the princesses.
As this discussion was coming to conclusion, someone that is known as 'guest' that was hidden in a hold watched who Celestia and Luna were talking to and about the situation happening.
"This is horrible. If what I heard is true..." The guest figure hidden spoke in realizing the troubles in Equestria. "Then I have to aid...before what happened with my doing...causes more pain and agony." He showed a familiar claw, and gripped it in a tight fit. "Hang on tight...Spike..." The person's voice addressed the baby dragon as he soon disappeared in a portal corridor to join what's happening.
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"Okay, okay, ponies, calm down!" The Mayor calls out to the worried ponies whose quiet down. "Now we all need to know what be done with this situation."
"How? We got three rulers who are out to war with one another!" Dinky exclaims to the Mayor in worry.
"And worst yet, they want us to side with our own kind or they will rip us apart!" Blossomforth exclaims in worry.
"Then why not," Diamond Tiara ask with a scoff. "I say we may as well do it. I rather see those blank flanks done than be dead."
"Diamond Tiara," Silver Spoon exclaims to Diamond Tiara in annoyance.
"We can't give in to those ghosts' demands!" Feathermay exclaims in concern. "If we do that, we will lose sight of who we really are."
"But what will we do?" Plumsweet ask with a sigh. "Perhaps friendship is nothing but a joke and..."
Of course, the ponies begin arguing, whatever or not they should give in and go to war with the rulers, siding with their respective rulers; most of them want to agree with the three ghosts' terms. The Mane Six, Ben, Golden Heart, the dragons and the CMC watch in concern. Something's going to break.
"ENOUGH!" Golden Heart uses the Royal Canterlot voice to force everyone to quiet down. "Everypony, I'm ashamed of you. Have you forgotten what Hearth's Warming Eve is about? It's about friendship, love, helping one another."
"Right; we helped one another during the fights against Lorcan and Tirek." Twilight said in agreement. "I mean, you saw how friendship also helped us Mane Six fight Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis and King Sombra."
"Though with the last two, Shining and Cadance took them out." Rainbow chuckled. "But I digress, the point is, if we don't make a stand, Equestria will be destroyed by that dumb civil war."
"But they will rip out our wings or horns!" Minuette cries out as some of the unicorns agree. "That will make us..."
"Earth ponies; does it matter?" Applejack scoffs a bit. "Look, maybe us Earth ponies don't have magic or flying..." Ben coughs a bit. "Well, except for Ben here, but we got heart, determination, friendship an' we ain't going 'ta help a bunch o' ghosts wit' mad problems stop us."
"Right, if we stand together, we can stop them!" Spike exclaims to the ponies. "We will use the warmth of our friendship, stand against them and bring them all down."
The ponies pauses to think about this, then Caramel said, "They're right. I got friends in unicorns and Pegasus ponies. I can't let that get ruined because of those three."
"Right, plus, they ruined our celebration!" Crashfire exclaims in determination.
"Right, time we done teach them a lesson." Tough Apple remarked with scoff.
Soon most of the ponies are agreeing to the same idea: not taking a ghost ruler's side. Diamond Tiara sighs in annoyance, "I don't believe this."
"Well, believe it!" Nyx snaps to Diamond Tiara sternly, "Because unless you want to get frozen, dead or such, then you will help us!"
Golden Heart smiles as he said to the ponies, "Looks like the ponies are making the right decision."
"Right, but how will we stop the ghost rulers?" Rarity asks in concern. "We don't have the Elements...and I doubt they would work anyway."
"We will do our best...Celestia knows we must." Twilight said in determination.
Unknown to everyone, a pair of ghostly eyes was watching them...before disappearing from sight.
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Platinum and Hurricane watch as Puddinghead's eyes reappear before she put them back into her head. The unicorn asks impatiently, "Well, as must as I hate to ask, what did they decided?"
"My toon bits allowed me to sneak into that emergency house...aaaand they won't go for our demands and want to work against us." Puddinghead said to the rulers, much to their anger.
"Ugh! Had centuries of working together made my species brainless?! Do they want those winged barbarians or Earth filth take what's ours?!"
"Oh grow up, you brat!" Hurricane snaps to Platinum in annoyance. "Anyway, so what those traitors won't help. I got other ideas."
"Oh really," Puddinghead ask with an arch of the eyebrow. "What?"
"If our species won't help us...then we will make them...literally."
The three nasty rulers nod in agreement as they use their powers as if creating something. Suddenly ponies of different species, Earth ponies, unicorns and Pegasi appear...but as ice versions...
And hatred while ready for war.