Prologue
So, it was true. In front of her own eyes was a ring of gold suspended in the air, a swirling void held in its centre. It didn't make much sense to her; she couldn't feel anything holding the ring up as she approached it cautiously. The implications of new, unknown magic always fascinated her. But, what really held her attention was the power that exuded from within the ring. It was a force that could be felt even in Unicorn foals when the mysterious golden rings had fell from the sky, exuding powerful magic unknown to ponydom. It was precisely why she was gathered by Celestia, along with the most capable of scholars, the other Princesses, the other Elements of Harmony, as well as Discord himself. A power that could spell destruction for Equestria, if not properly understood. Twilight hoped it wouldn't come to that. Instead, she set her focus on the positives. If this magical artifact could be brought to Canterlot, or even Ponyville and studied, magic as ponies knew it could be revolutionized!
Or it could end up like Discord’s chaos magic. Real useful, that had been…
So they had been called. When Discord denied claim on the strange rings the third time in a row, Fluttershy helped sway the Princesses to other possibilities, and they had immediately treated the situation with the grave seriousness it deserved. No pony, especially not the Alicorns themselves, could deny the power the rings seemed to hold. If any being were to learn of and harness that power, to use it for their own schemes against Equestria... Twilight didn't want to think about it. The mesmerizing power had rivalled the Elements of Harmony in intensity. It was imperative they understood it! Beads of sweat trickled down her face; she was frankly exhausted, and the humid air didn't help.
The Princesses and Discord had found centralized forces from which all the rings had descended from, which, as it turned out, were 5 bigger rings. Very anticlimactic, Twilight would have thought, if they had not discovered a 6th source, which had simply been a tear in space-time, floating on the horizon. By all means, the tear was impossible through pony physics. It should have collapsed on itself or expanded, destroying the fabric of reality. Discord had been sent to that one. His experience with chaos and other unconventional magic, as well as his supposed higher understanding of the universe's fabrication, made him the best candidate to study it, and more importantly, to identify threats to Equestria's safety.
"Careful, sugar cube. We might not have gotten the strongest one, but I wouldn't touch the thing if I were you, ya hear?" Applejack's anxiety showed when Twilight reached out a hoof. Her friends nodded together in agreement, peering at the ring from behind Twilight. Well, it was a powerful artifact that had appeared out of nowhere, so what was the harm, right? To Twilight's disappointment, it quickly became apparent their suggestion was a sound one. She wasn't even sure if it was safe to touch, how would she go about bringing it to Canterlot? She set her hoof down, turning her attention to her friends.
"Right, definitely was not planning to, cause' that would be silly! Haha..." She backed away from the ring, turning to her friends, who all seemed to relax. She gave an exhausted sigh, giving the ring another glance. Having found her query, Twilight quickly came to realize how tiring their journey was, and the others seemed to have come to the same realization. They had already found the ring, and it wasn't going anywhere... probably, so why not take a break? "Anyway, I'm just glad we found this thing!" The search took them hours, despite Twilight's ability to detect its energy in the air. The others chorused the sentiment.
"It's as if the ring was actively hiding from us, wasn't it?" Fluttershy gave a look of thought as she spoke, but it was abruptly turned to surprise when Pinkie jumped in front of her.
"I think it was super fun, kinda like a game of hide-and-seek!" Illustrating her point, she covered her eyes with her hooves, wiggling her tail in excitement. "Oh, oh! Can I hide now?" With a leap, Pinkie dove into the bushes. Twilight chuckled at Pinkie's antics.
Achoo!
"Oh dear, please excuse me. It seems the air's become much chillier, hasn't it? Must be that dreadful wind that's come up. Rainbow, could you be a dear and direct it elsewhere?" Rarity sneezed again, muttering before turning to search her saddlebags for tissues. Twilight blinked, feeling for the air. It had gotten breezier. But wasn't it just burning hot when she had been looking at the ring?
"I don't think this is normal. Heck, it doesn't take a weather pony to tell something's going on. Where's that breeze coming from, anyway?" Rainbow flapped her wings a bit, looking around, before narrowing her eyes in suspicion. It was getting awfully cold, and as Rainbow mentioned, it shouldn't have been; there weren’t any clouds hanging about. An unsettling feeling of being watched surfaced within her as she followed Rainbow Dash's gaze to the ring. Fluttershy followed their eyes, and grew nervous as she understood their thoughts.
"You think it's the ring making that awful breeze?" Fluttershy shuffled away, jumping as she backed into Rarity. Approaching the ring, Twilight held a hoof in front of it, testing for wind. Cold penetrated her fur as she felt strong gusts of wind blow from the ring. With a yelp, she pulled her hoof back, rubbing it against her chest. It was like she had touched the Frozen North! She narrowed her eyes at the ring. Why was it generating a breeze? What was it? Looking into the purple swirl of energy, her eyes widened in shock when she thought she saw something looking back. But when she took a closer look, she instead saw the texture of ice. But why would there be images in the ring?
"I... I think I see something in there!" Twilight called to her friends. She noted it wasn't cold anymore, as she looked into the ring again. It almost looked like a talon with razor sharp claws. What type of magic was this? Why was it showing these images? It wasn't anything she understood, yet it looked familiar.
A swirling vortex of energy with an image in the middle? Where have I seen that before?
The gala. Discord had opened a portal to another dimension in his fit. It wasn't like any type of portal made through pony magic, but it was just like the ring she now stood in front of. But... If this was a portal, then...
The ring wasn't emitting power, it was whoever was right on the other side, staring back at her. There was something that had talons and magic and glowing eyes and... was that fire? Yep, fire... that had set its eyes on Equestria. She needed to tell the Princesses!
"Girls, we have to..." They were unconscious on the ground. When had that happened?! Panic rose within her, and the suffocating Pressure emanating from the ring gave her a sense of vertigo as she rushed to check on them.
"Girls, are you-"
Gyaoo!
She stumbled, feeling gusts of wind blow around her. Blue, yellow and red flashed in front of her eyes, before her senses started to blur. The last thing she remembered was a figure of purple and a strange alien sounding cry.
Mew!
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Whoops, I added this to the wrong part of the Pokémon Fics group (The One-Shot folder). How do I remove it? The "Delete this Story" button on the page kind of scares me...
HOOPA!
This story needs more chapters.
Like now.
6375139 Perhaps tomorrow!
Or a year from now? 
Who knows, it's me... 
But seriously, I think it'll be done by next weekend, if not earlier. School's starting for me on the first of September, and I have no idea how much work I could get in the first week. But I doubt any big project could eat up my weekend.
Unfortunately, I only have about a fourth of it written, and I edited Chapter 1 three times to get it to how it is now (and one time I was feeling particularly inspired, which was also when I wrote that quarter of Ch2 I mentioned, before I fell asleep with my iPad.)
6375197 It's all good, I just like to know that the stories I'm reading aren't dead.
6374801 Ask a moderator or admin in the group for help.
Lugia=ginyu
Ho-oh=jeice
Articuno=recoome
Zapdos=burter
Moltres=guldo
The ginyu force of Pokemon