The Power Ponies

by MrBiteo

Issue 1

Twilight was asleep in her bed when a light was turned on at the other end of her bed. The light soon got Twilight to wake up and she glanced over to where the light was coming from.

"Spike, you really need to go to sleep." Twilight rose up from her bed and told Spike, who was busy reading a comic book. It turned out the light was from the lamp he was using to read his comic.

"Aww, two more minutes, Twilight? I'm just getting to the really good part." Spike then begged Twilight, getting out of his small bed and stepping over to the other end of Twilight's bed with his comic. "The Mane-iac is about to--"

"Mane-iac?" Twilight asked with confusion on the name of the character Spike mentioned.

"The Power Ponies' most evil nemesis!" Spike explained climbing up on top of Twilight's bed and dashed over to her, holding the cover of the comic in front of her. "She was the power-mad owner of a hair care product company." He opened the book to two pages featuring said origin story and pointed to the first panel. "A tragic accident at her shampoo factory in Maretropolis not only gave her mane strange new powers, but also caused her to go *dramatic tone* completely insane!" As he explained the Mane-iac's origin story, the comic showed the villain accidentally falling off a catwalk she was standing on and into a vat of experimental shampoo her company was making, to which loose electric wires also fell into the vat and electrocuted the substance. The very last panel in the comic was of the Mane-iac rising out of the vat of shampoo, now having a purple coat and a green mane, which began to form tentacle-like appendages while she now sported an evil, insane expression on her face. Twilight playfully rolled her eyes at how seriously Spike was over a comic. "She and her henchponies are planning to break into the Maretropolis Museum and steal the Electro Orb, so she could use it to power up her doomsday device. Of course, the Mane-iac wouldn't even known if Hum Drum hadn't slipped up and told her all about it."

Twilight was left confused on who Spike was talking about. "Hum Drum?"

"Uh. The guy in the blue boots and pointless red cape." Spike explained showing her said character in his comic. "The Power Ponies' bumbling and totally useless sidekick. The Power Ponies have to stop the Mane-iac or Maretropolis is DOO-HOO-HOO-HOOMED!!"

"Believe me, Spike. If anypony understands what it's like to get caught up in a really good book, it's me. But if we're going to help Rarity restore the tapestry at Celestia and Luna's old castle tomorrow, we all have to do our part. We don't want to be too tired to lend a hoof. Or claw." Twilight said to Spike understanding his interest in the comic.

Spike turned to his comic an realized Twilight had a point. "Okay, okay, I'm going to bed. Goodnight." Spike returned to his bed and turned the lamp off before going underneath the covers.

As Twilight rested back down, Spike's hand emerged from the covers and tried to retrieve his comic. Though, Twilight soon noticed his attempt and used her magic to take the comic before he did. Spike pulled the covers off of him and was disappointed that Twilight snatched the comic away. He really wanted to see how the Power Ponies would stop the Mane-iac.

"Two more minutes." Twilight told him giving him an assuring smile.

"Yes!" Spike cheered retrieving the comic and doing a backflip. He turned the lamp back on and eagerly continued reading.

Opening

My Little Pony, My Little Pony

Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh

(My Little Pony)

I used to wonder

What friendship could be

(My Little Pony)

Until you all shared

Its magic with me

Big adventure

Tons of fun

A beautiful heart

Faithful and strong

Sharing kindness

It's an easy feat!

And magic makes it all complete

You have my little ponies

Do you know you're all my very best friends

End

The following morning, the Mane 6 were in the throne room of the Castle of the Two Sisters. Rarity was wanting to help restore the tapestry in the castle, seeing the as works of art and didn't wish to see it all rot away in a ruined structure of Equestrian history that was crumbling and falling apart. She had attempted to do it with Fluttershy a little while back, but when things didn't turn out the way she had hoped, she decided to recruit her friends and have it be done in the day.

"Looking good, darlings." Rarity told her friends. "Now, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, I want you both to take down that tapestry above the entrance to the library."

"You got it." Rainbow said flying over to said tapestry with Fluttershy.

Spike, meanwhile, was in charge of providing the Mane 6 with refreshments, as per usual. He also had a check list of all the known tapestry in the castle to help keep track if they forgot one.

On the right side of the room, Applejack was in the middle of taking down one of the tapestries down on a ladder while Pinkie was watching her on the ground and instructing her.

"A little bit more to the left!" Pinkie called out to Applejack, who then tried to remove the tapestry from the wall. "No, the other left." Applejack expressed annoyance at Pinkie's change of direction and yet followed her advice, anyway, which managed to get the tapestry down. "Awesome. On to the next tapestry."

Spike then rolled in his cart of refreshments to Applejack. "Need something to chow down on?"

"Naw, that's okay." Applejack replied to Spike.

"Yep, we're good." Pinkie then also answered.

The two walked away from Spike and moved on to the next tapestry. Spike then pulled out his list and crossed off the tapestry that Applejack and Pinkie took down. He then over and saw Rainbow Dash, who was in the middle of taking down one of the tapestries on the left side of the room.

"Rainbow Dash? You need anything?" Spike asked Rainbow Dash.

"I'm good." Rainbow informed Spike from at the top of the tapestry.

But just as Spike was about to cross off the tapestry that Rainbow Dash was taking down, he realized that they had acquired practically all of the tapestry on the list, meaning they had accomplished Rarity's goal. And as Spike looked around the room, the tapestry was indeed all taken down. He then ran up to Twilight in the middle of the room.

"Are we done already?" Spike asked Twilight surprised by how quick it took them to collect all of the castle's tapestry.

"I think that's everything, Spike." Twilight answered Spike. "Why don't you find a quiet spot and finish reading your comic while we pack everything up?" Twilight used her magic to pull out the comic Spike was reading last night from the backpack Spike was carrying and handed it to him. "Weren't you right at the part where Hum Drum was about to stop the villain?"

"Hum Drum never stops the villain." Spike rebuttaled after catching up with Twilight, expressing annoyance in his tone. "He's just there for comic relief." Suddenly, Spike yelped, causing him to launch into the air and fall back down in pain as Twilight caught him before he hit the ground and placed him down. She analyzed Spike's foot and saw that he stepped on a sticker, which she soon plucked off.

"Well, I know the Power Ponies will stop the villain." Twilight assured to Spike. He soon left to help the rest of the Mane 6 pack up all of the tapestry they collected.

Spike felt like he should say something, but chose to take Twilight's advice instead since he was wanting to finish his issue and see what happens, as Twilight pointed out. Spike chose to read his comic in the library and after sitting down, he tried to catch up on where he left off. Up above the ceiling was a spiderbot surveying Spike. However, it soon detected another source of magic nearby and saw that it was on the other side of the wall. It then used its own mini drill to burrow through the wall to reach the magical source, only to find a hidden chamber. The room was round and without a floor, with a bottomless pit in its place. The only thing there was to walk on was a narrow staircase connected to a circular area at the center of the room with what appeared to be a stone tablet placed on a pedestal. The spiderbot crawled down to the staircase and climbed up until it reached the pedestal. The spiderbot then crawled up to it and reached the pedestal's top, where it saw that it was actually two stone tablets stacked together with two ties keeping them together on it's right side. The tablets resembled a book and had spikes on the "cover" and written on it was what seemed like an ancient language. The spiderbot analyzed that the magic source it detected earlier was coming from this artifact and as it crawled on top of the tablet, it planted its underside onto it and started draining the magic within it similar to how Sunset Shimmer was drained of hers back in the world of Canterlot High.

"Mane-iac breaks into the museum... Okay, here we go." Spike said back in the library having finally gotten to where he left off in his comic. "Oohhh, what a surprise. Hum Drum is in the way again while the Power Ponies do all the work."

Back in the chamber, the spiderbot was in the middle of extracting the magic from the book.

"Spike! We'e ready to go!" Twilight called out to Spike from outside the chamber, catching the latter's attention, who placed down his comic and left to join the Mane 6.

All of a sudden, the spiderbot started to malfunction as its systems couldn't handle the magic that it was extracting from inside the tablet. The spiderbot soon short circuited and the magic it had managed to extract leaked out as a green aura and exited the chamber through the hole the spiderbot made.

"Oh, wait! Almost forgot my comic!" Spike said offscreen as the green magic then seeped into his comic. Spike re-entered the library and retrieved his comic, only for the green magic aura to swirl around the comic Spike was holding, to which the comic suddenly opened up on its own and a green vortex formed inside. The vortex starts sucking Spike into the comic just as Twilight and her friends entered the room to check on him. Unbeknownst to everyone, the spiderbot had returned to the library after having rebooted from its crash and witnessed the events unfolding.

"Spike, what are you--" Twilight almost asked before witnessing Spike being sucked into the comic.

"HEEEEELP!!" Spike pleaded in terror as he was nearby sucked in by the comic.

"SPIKE!" Twilight reacted to Spike's situation as she ran over to him and tried to pull him out, only to end up getting nearby sucked into the comic as well, saved only by Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash ended up in the same fate as Twilight, followed by Applejack, who tried to pull her out, and then Fluttershy and Rarity, who try to save Applejack from being sucked in. This, however, proved fruitless as the last two were also pulled in the comic. Lastly, there was Pinkie Pie, who instead cheerfully jumped into the vortex to join her friends while letting out the word "Whee-hee!". Once everypony was sucked into it, the aura surrounding the comic seemingly disappeared and the comic itself dropped to the floor.