PROLOGUE - The Pinkie Future

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Azure Island Chronicles

:The Pinkie future:

My Little Pony Lock-On Story

[Crossover] [OC] [Sorta-Creepy?]

It was about 2 o’clock at night, and Knockout, a young echidna boy that had just turned 8 years old, was fast asleep in his house in Redwood Valley. While he was sleeping the phone rang from the kitchen. The young echidna waited in bed for awhile expecting his parents to pick it up. After it rang for several minutes he slowly crept downstairs trying to be quiet and picked up the phone.

“Hello? Who’s this?” Knockout asked worried by the fact that someone was calling this late at night.

“HI! I’m looking from somepony by the name of Knockout Steel Coatrack, I have some important news for him!” A female voice said over the phone in a bright and happy tone.

Knockout was scared out of his life at the fact the person knew who he was when he hadn’t even heard their voice before. “Uh, I don’t give my name out to people I don’t know... Do you want me to get my parents on the line?” Knockout said trying to keep calm.

“Su- I mean, no. You see, well, this is hard to explain...” The voice said trying to think of a way to explain what it was about to say. “It’s going to be like a surprise party, and only you can know about this! A-a-and I already called your parents and let them know earlier!”

Knockout was still a bit uneasy about the whole deal, but the thought of a party got into his small little mind. And like all other echidnas his age, he LOVED parties. “Well... I- yes, I am Knockout Steel Coatrack. But who are you?”

“My name doesn’t matter right now, but here’s what I need you to do. There is a box outside of the door of your house, I need you to go get it and keep it at your house until I call you again, okay?” The voice said over the phone in a bit of a panic as stuff shuffled over the phone and you could hear someone else in the background. “Look, I got to go now. I’ll make sure to call you back when everything set up! And remember, this is all a secret! And I pinkie-promise that nothing bad will happen!” The voice said as the call disconnected.

After the call ended Knockout turned around and was heading outside, but after he reached the hallway he saw a tall package waiting in front of the door, with a note on it saying:

“Oh silly me, I should have remembered, you are only 8! It would scare your parents if you would have went outside at this time of night. So I put the package here instead! ;) ”

After staring at the package for awhile trying to figure out if it was really moved, or if it had always been there, trying to take his mind off the thought he carefully and quietly Knockout took the box back to his room and looked for a place to put it, his closet? No, he kept a lot of his clothes and toys in there, it would be to hard to hide it there. Under his bed? No, EVERY young echidna hides stuff under there, it would be a stupid place to put it. He looked around the room and saw another note posted onto a wall near a bookshelf. he was starting to get a bit creeped out by now. First a phone call in the middle of the night, next a package in their house that wasn’t there before the call with a note on it, and now another note? How did could have it got here, He knew there wasn’t one when he got up to get the phone. Carefully walking up to it he read what it had to say.

“Oh, I guess I should have told you WHERE to put it now shouldn’t I? Oh silly me, okay here’s what you have to do. The bookshelf next to this note should have a book that is sticking out. First, push it all the way in and then pull it back out. It should open up to a hole where you can stick it in, and then put the book back in to the place it was at. :) ”

Slowly he looked at the bookshelf seeing a green book sticking out that was one of his favorite stories “Clash of Two Worlds” a book about aliens attacking his planet Earth, and a war breaking out. To his shock, after doing what the note said the bookcase slid out of the way and small room opened up that was just big enough for the package, and on the wall had another note that he pulled off from the wall and read.

“Remember! Nopony must know about this, in fact, it might be best you forget about it. but I will still call you back when everything is ready! It’s a Pinkie-Promise! ;D”

After reading the note Knockout carefully pushed the box into the small space and he put the book back into the shelf and watched as the bookshelf moved back into place, he then crawled back into his bed and went back to sleep.

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Knockout woke up to the sound of his alarm going off. It was a nice summer day but he didn’t want to get out of bed. He had a strange dream last night about him being a young kid again and having had been awoken by a phone call in the middle of the night with a package at the door. Shoving that off he slowly got ready to go about his daily business, he was going to meet with his small group of friends to meet a person that was found on the outskirts of Skyrise Metropolis near a blue police phone booth, where they fought one of Knockout’s old friends, Blackout, better known to them as Oscuridad. He was hoping that with here they could find out why she got into a fight with Blackout, and also to find out about her strange abilities, he had never seen this kind of energy before in his life, save from when Blackout used it.

After walking to the meeting place for where the team meets, his old home in Redwood Valley, Knockout started to make sure everything was set up.

“Okay, let’s see what we have here...” Knockout said to himself as he pulled up a clipboard with a checklist. “Wide screen TV with a PS3, XBox 360 and Wii? Check! Mini-fridge filled with soda and other stuff? Check! Computer with tons of awesome games and stuff? Check! Last but not least, killer sound system with over one thousand songs? Check! Looks like everything’s ready!” he said looking around what used to be the living room of his old house, turned into a hang out for all of his friends. Fond memories of his childhood came into his mind while looking at the room. Blackout and he used to love to reenact stories from the books they read and make
up their own when they played together. Unfortunately those days came to a end a long time ago, and he was now fighting against him for real in a long and seemingly endless warfare that has torn the once safe island apart. But it had been peaceful for awhile after they had managed to trap him into the Dark World after his last attack, at the cost of one of his friend’s lives that stayed with Blackout to keep him still as they trapped him in there sealing both of them in. But after Blackout showed up again fighting with the girl the whole island went back into panic at the fact Oscuridad was free again, so Knockout had called his friends together again to reform the Azure Island Protectors team to stop any attacks that might be made.

“Knockout, are you there?” A voice came from outside as there was a knock on the door breaking him away from his thoughts.

“Yeah, I’ll be there in a second Ryan!” Knockout called as he walked to the door and opened it, outside was a short brown fox dressed in a white lab coat and black pants with a large pair of glasses.

“Neo and Violet are going to be here soon, they are getting the new girl a bite to eat first though seeing she was rather weak this morning, she must not have eaten in awhile.” The fox said as he walked in and set down his backpack on a table near by. “So this is the new hangout you’ve been working on for us? Seems sorta run down, like it hasn’t been used for awhile.”

“Well Ryan, I lived here in my early childhood with my parents. And I moved out to Skyrise Metropolis when they had to move off to the Radiant Mountains, but luckily this place wasn’t torn down by people looking for anything over the years. It should serve nicely until we can afford a new place, and who knows, we could just do a small fix-er-up on this place and keep it!” Knockout said leaning on a wall as it cracked a little bit.

“Yeah, a small BIG fix-er-up at least.” Ryan scoffed as he started to unpack some stuff from his backpack, most of it was papers and info he took from the old hangout they used before they disbanded a few years back. “Are you sure this is going to work though, the whole recruit-someone-who-popped-out-of-a-hole-in-the-sky-with-Oscuridad thing? I mean, it could be one of his evil minion things...”

“Stop being such a worrywart Ryan, what’s the WORST that could happen?” Knockout said slapping Ryan on the back.

“Besides her turning on us and killing us all, or her killing us all in this meeting, or...” Before he could finish they was interrupted on another knock on the door. “Oh, it looks like Neo and the rest are here. Well, let’s hope this goes over smooth...”

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After the meeting Knockout and Ryan decided to spend the night at Knockout’s old house since Ryan was still had to finish getting everything ready for them to use, since they had decided to keep this as there meeting place. It was about 2 o’ clock at night, and they were both in their own rooms fast asleep. Knockout was awakened in the night by his cellphone ringing, he tried to ignore it, but it kept on ringing. So still being half asleep he picked up the phone to see who it was and yell at them for waking him up.

“Hello, who is this?” Knockout mumbled half asleep.

“Hi again, it’s been awhile since I’ve talked with you Knockout!” A female voice chirped happily on the other side.

“Who are you, and how on Earth do you know my name?” Knockout said, a bit more than scared by the fact that the stranger knew his name.

“Awwww.. Don’t you remember me Knockout? Oh wait, I told you to forget about it didn’t I? Silly me!” The voice on the other end said while there was some sounds of some sort of blender in the background. But before Knockout could say anything the person on the other side started talking again. “Okay, remember back when you was about 8 years old you lived in this house and got a phone call at about this same time?”

Upon hearing that his blood ran cold remembering the dream he had last night, it was him when he was a young echidna, 8 years old, and being woke up by a phone call. “How do you know abou-” Knockout tried to say something, but was quickly cut off.

“Oh goodie, you DO remember! Now, here’s what I need you to do, go to your bookshelf and pull out the book called “Clash of Two Worlds”, just like you did last time. Get the box and come to the dining room, I’ll tell you the rest once you get there.” The voice said in a more serious tone this time. “Oh, I gotta go, do as I say and I’ll talk to you again, okay? Bye!” and with that the call was ended.

Knockout slowly got out of his bed and thought about what had just happened, he was about to just forget it and go back to bed when he looked up at his door that was closed, but was now open and saw a note on it. He slowly got up and read the note.

“Oh silly Knockout, I TOLD you I was going to call you back, I pinkie-promised even! Why would I break a promise to a friend, now go get the box and come down to the dining room!”

Knockout just stood there, he was shocked and scared out of his life, how could someone have opened his door while he was on the phone without him hearing them? He turned around and headed over to the bookshelves that were in his room and looked for the book he was told to remove, and sure enough, the same book was there just like in the dream he had the night before. Slowly and carefully he removed the book and the bookshelf groaned and creaked as it slid open revealing a old box that looked to be about five years old, the wrapping-paper and the ribbons had faded and were all raggedy. He slowly removed the box, by now he was scared out of his mind, almost to the point he was wondering about his sanity. He went over to the closet and opened it up to get his coat, and something to use for self-defense, his Emerald Ax. But to his horror in the place the ax should have been, there was another note.

“Aw, why are you going to bring this sharp ax down with you? I thought we were friends, you act like you are in some sort of horror movie or something!”

There was suddenly a loud crash from down stairs, Knockout jumped and was bout to dash across out side of his room when he took one last glance at the note. And he note had a new line written on it, how did it get there? Did he miss it, was his hand blocking it, or was something horrifically wrong going on? He didn’t want to know, all he wanted was to see what it said and get down there.

“Oh, and don’t worry about the sound you heard. Just get the box and come down here, the party is ready! You DO remember the party, right?”

Knockout grabbed the box and slowly walked down stairs, once reaching the bottom he turned and saw a light on in the dining room and slowly walked into the room. The room was filled with party decorations, streamers hug from the roof, balloons floating everywhere. On the table was a party table cloth, and on top of that was a plated with two cupcakes, a pink one, and a blue one, the same shade of blue as his own fur. Between the two cupcakes was another note, that Knockout read as his heart was pounding from fear.

“Glad to see you made it to the party! Now all you have to do is set the box behind the chair on the side with the pink cupcake, and take a seat on the side with the blue cupcake!”

Following what the note said to do, he put the box on that side of the table and turned around and walked to the other chair and sat down and looked up to a balloon that, of course, had a note on it.

“Turn around”

Was all that the note said, slowly Knockout turned around in his chair and nearly jumped through the roof at the sight he saw and heard.

“HI!” A pink pony sat in the chair right across from the table said with a big grin on her face. “I’m so glad you didn’t chicken out, It took me forever to get this all ready after all. I mean, jumping through dimensions is hard to do.” She said spinning around in her chair.

Knockout just sat there in dead silence, trying to figure out what was going on. Was this a dream, some twisted prank, or was it real? Before he could say anything else the pink pony started talking again. “Oh silly me, I guess I should tell you my name like I said I would! I’m Pinkimena Diane Pie, but just call me Pinkie Pie! Of course, now would be the part where you would say your name, but I already know your name, sooooo.”

“So what are you doing in MY house!” Knockout finally screamed, he couldn’t take it any longer. If this was the same person who had called him when he was young, and now she called him again, he wanted to know just WHAT was going on and WHY she didn’t tell him in the first call.

“Whoa whoa whoa, cool down Coaty, here have a cupcake!” Pinkie said as she stuffed a cupcake in his mouth. “I know this whole thing might have seemed odd, but I have my reasons of why I didn’t, or rather couldn’t tell you the first time I called.”
After chewing the cupcake up enough he could talk Knockout was just about to lash out again, but couldn’t for some odd reason. “W-what have you done?” He ask in a calm tone although on the inside he wanted to scream.

“Silly, I didn’t want you to wake up your friend with your yelling, I TOLD you it was supposed to be a secret that only you could know. So I put some special chemicals in the cupcake to make you relax a bit, there is no reason to be afraid. After all, I am only here to warn you about what’s to come, and how you can save this world, and my world from their untimely ends.” Pinkie said in a voice that kept her normal chirpy tone, but at the same time it took on a serious tone.

“Okay, fine. but I still want to know why you couldn’t tell me the first time you called me. This whole thing scared the living daylights out of me!” Knockout said finally chewing the rest of the cupcake and swallowing it down.

“Okay, I’ll tell you why. You see, well. Hm, I don’t know why I didn’t tell you the first call. Maybe it is because it would ruin the plot of this chapter...” Pinkie said scratching her chin.

“The what?” Knockout asked blankly trying to figure out what she meant to say or if she was just blabbering.

“Oh never mind, that’s for the next time we meet. Anyways, about the box. It’s something I’ve been building for an adventure that you will be going on tomorrow. It’s a trans-dimensional teleporter that links my world to your world, when you use it you will follow somepony who looks like me, but is yellow with a pink mane. Of course we won’t be the same pony since there can’t be two of me. Save for that one time when me and Applebloom was making cupcakes, then I could make clones of myself while I was singing the cupcake song. Save we burnt the cupcakes, oh well back to the teleporter thing! The yellow pony will need to use this to bring you to my world so you can save both worlds from Oscuridad.” Pinkie said while trying to keep from going off on her pinkie-rants.

“Whoa whoa whoa, wait up one second.” Knockout said stopping Pinkie before should could go on. “How do you know about Oscuridad, have you been spying on me my whole life?”

“Nope, only for the past two days! Well, at least for the past two days in my world. You see, this Oscuridad came to me when I was asleep one night and gave me this strange chip thing, I think it was called a microchip. He put it in my ear and then knocked me out cold, when I awoke I found myself in a small cave somewhere with a metal door in front of me. I walked over and put my hoof on the door to see if it would open, and it did! On the other side was something AMAZING, a huge room filled with machines and robots, and all sorts of stuff!” Pinkie said full of excitement and paused for a moment and took a bite out of her cupcake before going on. “Wow, the ingredients here sure are different from the ones back home, but anyways! I looked at all of the things in the room, and each one of them I some how remembered how I made them, and how they worked. I quickly decided to try to look on one of the huge computers to see what all files there was stored on there to see if I had finished all of them, the only one I could find was this dimensional gateway that not only travels to worlds, but across time too! Something inside me made me want to build it, and before I knew it I started gathering the parts and making it like it was nothing! once I finished it I decided I would test it and set it to go into the future, and that’s when I saw what was going to happen. I would LOVE to tell you, but it would ruin the next two chapters of this story, so I’ll just say that I knew you would be needing this. So I went back to my normal time and made another so I could set things up so I could give you this one, now all you have to do is go put this teleporter in the hole behind the bookshelf and keep it turned on, what you will need it for will have you in a pinch for time!” Pinkie finally stopped talking, Knockout was now trying to grasp what was going on and what she was trying to tell him. After spending a bit of time sorting it all in his head he gave up.

“Okay, yeah. but I still don’t see how I can trust what you said, I mean you sorta poisoned my cupcake and all...” Knockout said tiredly and sleep deprived, he had been up since 2 at night, and the sun was starting to rise.

“Oh no, it’s already sunrise? I guess I forgot you guys don’t control the sun here, well it’s been fun, but I need to leave now. Maybe we can have a party after the next time we meet?” Pinkie said with a small little smile on her face.

“Uh, yeah, sure whatever.” Knockout mumbled getting out of the chair.

“Okie-dokie-loki! It will be a super fun one too. And trust me, you will see me again, it’s a pinkie-promise!” After Pinkie finished her last word she slowly started to fade away as she hopped past Knockout heading to the door. Leaving him just standing there staring at the party decorations and the empty plate that used to have the cupcakes on it with a small note. “Oh, and don’t worry about the teleporter, I already set it up. see you soon!”

“Well, I should REALLY stop eating Ryan’s burritos before going to bed.” Knockout said slowly while walking back to his room to go back to bed. He then fell into a deep sleep that he really, REALLY needed.

The End?

“Hey, are you still here? You’ve just read a prologue chapter to a super-duper fanfic! You should really see the rest of it!” Pinkie Pie said while she grabbed you mouse cursor and pointed it to the “Next Chapter” button.

“There, just click that and off you go!” Pinkie paused for a moment. “OH! And don’t bug the authors about finishing it, not happening, they Pinkie Promised on it! BYE NOW!” she said cheerily before closing the monitor back up.

Chapter 1: The Beginning

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DISCLAIMER THINGY
I do not own any of the ponies, they are all owned by Hasbro/The Hub/Lauren Faust.
Coat Rack owns Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet.
Shandra is owned by me.
No profit is being made from this work.
Azure Island Chronicles
:Eclipse Of Destruction:
My Little Pony Lock-On Story
[Crossover] [OC] [Grimdark] [Comedy][Adventure][Random]
[We clearly have no grasp of the TAG concepts, huh?]
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Azure Island, July 11th, 2011

It was a nice summer day, and a teenage, steel blue echidna with black stripes that marked his six dreadlocks had just woken up from a nice, long sleep. This echidna was Knockout, Knockout Steel Coatrack. After getting freshened up he headed down stairs, once he got to the bottom he looked to his right and took note of the dining room, it seemed like a party was held sometime yesterday since there were leftover decorations in the dining room. He then looked to his left and saw three of his friends talking about something one of them had brought over in the den.

“So let me get this straight, this is a device you call the ‘Chronic Watch’ is powered by a small shard of a old relic that can bend time and space?” Ryan, a beige fox wearing a lab coat and black pants inquired examining a very high-tech looking watch in his hand while sitting in a chair. “And that the machine hardly even taps the surface of the relic’s power, so that the real power has never been seen?”

“That’s right, Doc, and if it was to fall into the wrong hands it would spell disaster for everyone.” Confirmed a black hedgehog and echidna half-breed, her quills were styled in a star shaped pattern. She sat on a couch to the right of Ryan facing to a TV against the wall. Her name was Shandra, and she was found just a few days ago when she was seen fighting with one of the villains Knockout and his friends were used to fighting, after they popped out of a worm hole beside a telephone box.

“Well, this thing might come in handy sometime. But if one of our enemies were to get a hold of it, we will all be dead seeing they all have powerful abilities of some sort...”

“Hey guys, what’s going on?” Knockout asked as he walked into the room and sat down in the open chair to the left of the couch in the light-grey room. “And what’s that you’re holding Ryan, a new watch of some sort?”

“It’s a Chronic Watch, a watch that can bend time and space with a magical relic with unknown amounts of power.” Ryan said handing the device to Knockout. “We should keep it in a safe place so our foes won’t use it for one of their evil plans, if they got a hold of it, we would all be as good as dead.”

“Well, we could just keep it here in Knockout’s old house.” Colson, a green-colored fox, that was sitting beside Shandra said taking his eyes off a book he was reading for a moment. “This place is pretty well-hidden after all, it would take them forever to find it!”

“I guess it could work, but we would need some sort of security system to keep it safe when we aren’t here...” Knockout pondered aloud while scratching his chin thinking of some sort of trap he could make out of household items. “Maybe the old bucket of water triggered by opening the door?”

“Knockout, this isn’t some kid trying to get into your room, this is trying to keep a evil villain and his friends away from a relic with unimaginable power. We are going to need A LOT more than a bucket of water.” Shandra deadpanned while crossing her arms looking rather annoyed. “And I TRUSTED you guys to let you see the watch, what was I thinking?”

“Oh relax will you, Knockout and Ryan are good at keeping things safe most of the time. Sure they lose their keys to this place sometimes, but other than that they are fine!” Colson said, jabbing Shandra with his elbow.

“Well, I am better at keeping track of stuff, but Knockout seems to misplace something EVERYDAY.” Ryan scoffed while looking at Knockout with a hint of annoyance. “Anyways I’m going to head out to buy some stuff for a REAL security system, you two keep Shandra company here by watching that DVD we found outside our door.”

“Wait, you guys just watch DVDs that you have no clue where they came from that are at your front door?” Shandra asked while blankly staring at them. “You GOT to be kidding me.”

“Hey, it’s free! What better price can you find for DVDs out there?” Knockout reasoned as he pulled up the blank DVD case. “I’m sure it will be fine, I mean, when was the last time I got us into a big mess?”

“Are we counting last night or not?” Ryan asked, rolling his eyes.

“Hey! You can’t blame me for happening to trip on the wire you had on the floor causing the machine you were setting up to go haywire!”

“Here we go again...” Colson sighed as he slumped back into the couch. “They go through this every time the question is asked.”

“Oh never mind. Just do whatever, I don’t even care anymore.” Ryan mumbled, not feeling like getting into another argument with Knockout. “Just TRY not to get into anything that is way out of this world.”

“You too Ryan, after all. YOU are the scientist, not me.” Knockout scoffed while opening the DVD container. “Huh, no name on the DVD...”

“I am not THAT kind of a scientist Knockout, I am a medical one.” Ryan corrected as he walked out of the house, closing the door behind him while mumbling something under his breath.

“Wow, and I thought SHANDRA was grumpy.” Colson said while grabbing the remote, flipping on the TV as Knockout put in the DVD. “Anyways, Let’s see what this thing is!”

“I’ll go get some popcorn and soda, I’ll be back in just a second. Don’t start it without me, okay?” Knockout called while walking out of the room. It was only a few seconds later that he walked back in with three sodas and popcorn holders filled with popcorn. “Ready?”

“Ready” Colson and Shandra replied at the same time, although Shandra wasn’t quite as interested compared to the others. Colson pressed the play button and started the DVD...

My Little Pony, My Little Pony! Ahh ahhh aahhhhh!

“..What is this I don’t even...” Knockout choked out, staring at the screen. “My Little Pony, Is this some kind of lame trick being played on us by Ryan? And here I thought I was the trickster in the group!”

“Hey look, there is a note on the back of the container!” Colson reported, trying to distract himself from the ear killing music. “It says ‘Skip thirteen scenes over’... What is that supposed to mean?”

“Maybe it is a hint to a secret message about a plan our favorite group of foes are planning sent to us by some random guy?” Knockout said while grabbing the remote and skipping the scenes.

“Maybe you guys are just insane and should hurry up and find a way to get me home?” Shandra responded, and looking even more annoyed than earlier.

“Oh no, my friends don’t like my parties and don’t want to be my friends anymore!” A dark-pink pony that had a grey-tinted blue eyes said sorrowfully on the TV while sitting in a black void with only a single light shining on her, and then everything just froze there and refused continue.

“Okay, seriously, what is going on? The remote won’t even work anymore.” Knockout complained, mashing the play button on the remote. “Can’t we just get to the end of this thing and slap whoever played the prank?”

“Maybe it’s, I dunno, at the end of the DVD?” Shandra said grabbing the remote away from Knockout. “All you have to do is rewind it and re-watch it, maybe your ‘secret message’ is hidden deep in the black void.”
She then hit the rewind button, but nothing happen.

“Yeah, maybe we should replace the batteries you think?” Colson theorized taking the remote from Shandra and flipped it open and checked the batteries. “Okay, this is odd. the charger says they are all good... Maybe I’ll try turning off the TV...”

“That MIGHT be a good idea...” Knockout said as Colson hit the off button on the remote and watched as the screen flashed off. “Okay, maybe we SHOULDN'T have played that DVD after all.”

“You think?” Shandra asked, crossing her arms again. “Now what are we going to do?”

“I donno, Maybe we can...” Colson was about to say something, but got cut off by another voice.

“Make some cupcakes?”

“Uh, what? Did you say that Knockout?” Colson asked, looking at Knockout, who in return shook his head slowly with a hint of fear in his eyes. “And Shandra is too busy pouting to say anything, so who could have said it?”

“Me silly!” The voice called from the TV, the three of them turned around to face the voice as the TV suddenly flashed back on, showing the same pink pony looking right at the three of them while being notably closer to them than before.

“Okay, now THAT is just plain creepy” Knockout said backing up a bit keeping his eye on the pony. “How’d you do that?”

“Oh silly, I just took your remote!” The pink pony pulled up the remote Colson was just holding, causing Colson to quickly look to his hand to find the remote missing. “It’s not nice to turn off a DVD when it’s being played you know, what if your other friends wanted to watch it?”

“Okay, WHAT is going on here?” Shandra asked marching up to the TV and staring the pony in the eye. “WHO are you, and WHAT are you doing, and WHY are you doing it?”

“Don’t be so mean, Shandra!” The pony scolded, quickly whacking Shandra back with her hoof, and causing them all to jump. “I am Pinkamina Diane Pie, and all I am wanting is to find some people to make cupcakes with me! And you three look like the best of helpers!” She said with a grin plastered on her face as Shandra slowly got back up.

“Did she just... slap her from inside the TV?” Knockout asked while walking over to inspect the TV from a side angle, everything LOOKED normal. “Am I the ONLY one who is getting freaked out right now?”

“You’re not alone bud.” Colson said while helping Shandra up. “But I say we need to get Ryan back here FAST before the pony does anything else. I mean being able to slap someone from inside of a TV is bad enough, but what ELSE can she do?”

“I can do this too!” Pinkamina said as she hopped out of the TV and landed on the ground in front of Colson and Shandra, with a knife in her tail. “Isn’t that cool, we can now start to make some cupcakes!”

“Okay, but WHY do you have a knife? I don’t think cupcakes requires a knife to make them.” Knockout said slowly backing up to the rest of his friends who were equally scared as he was.

“Colson? Knockout?” Shandra asked, her voice softer and kinder than before. “Wha... what happened?”

“Okay, uh, did she just get some kindness slapped into her or something...?” Knockout asked turning to face Shandra.

“Oh Knockout, you’ll figure it out by the end of the adventure!” The pink pony half-sang..

“...What? Knockout, do you know something that we don’t know?” Colson asked raising his eye brow.

“Ooop, nevermind.” Pinkamina returned.

Shandra shook her head and then saw the same pony that was in the TV now standing in front of her. This sight shocked her out of the haze and her voice was instantly hardened again. “WHAT THE- HOW’D SHE GET HERE?!?”

“We don’t know that yet, but we plan on finding out.” Colson reported as he walked over to Pinkamina. “I must agree with Knockout, why do you need the knife?”

“You silly filly, I need the ingredients first!” Pinkamina explained, smiling as she flicked her tail back and forth, swinging the knife around. “And you guys have the best ingredients I could find here!”

“Really, what is it? Our sugar, flour, sprinkles?” Knockout asked confused.

“You.” Pinkamina said with an evil grin, as an awkward silence followed. “You have 5 seconds to run to Knockout’s bedroom before I come for you guys, ready?”

Knockout, Shandra, and Colson each gave each other a quick stare before making a mad dash up the stairs to get to Knockout’s bedroom while Pinkamina started her countdown, and no matter how far away they got, they could still hear her voice just as if she was right in front of them.

“WHY did she tell us to come up here?” Shandra said frantically searching the room as they could hear hoofsteps coming up the stairs after she stopped counting. “Is there a gun or a death trap we can use to stop her?”

“As far as I know, no!” Knockout was busy piling stuff in front of the door as the steps stopped and a knock on the door was made. “That should keep her while we wait for Ryan!”

“Maybe, that is if he knew where we are at right now.” Colson pointed out the window to show that they were in what seemed to be, an endless black void. “I have an odd feeling, that instead of her jumping out of the TV, she brought US into the TV...”

“Oh you meanie pants, you blocked the door so I can’t get in!” There was banging coming from the other side of the door as Pinkamina was talking. “Oh well, I can still get in there in a blink of an eye!”

They all gave each other a quick glance and then looked back at the door seeing Pinkamina standing in front of them. “Hi, I told you I could still get in here! Ready to make some cupcakes?” She said as she walked over to a bookcase and pulled out a green book that had Clash of Two Worlds on the front as the title. “Of course, the only good way to make some is if we get to my kitchen!”

“How will we do that if we are in a black void though?” Knockout asked while puzzled by the fact she pulled a book out of his bookshelf for no reason. “Unless you plan on using whatever it was to warp us into the TV or whatever.”

“Oh silly, it’s a gift I gave you last night, don’t you remember?” Pinkamina said as the bookcase slowly moved out from the wall revealing a portal with a swirling purple vortex inside it and slowly begins to drag them into it. “I am not able to warp you guys with me, if I could I wouldn’t have made this thing!”

“Knockout, are you SURE you aren’t hiding something from us!?” Colson asked while grabbing onto a wall-mounted coat hanger. “If it is, you have A LOT of explaining to do!”

“Are you kidding me. I don’t know a THING about what she is talking about!” Knockout defensively yelled while grabbing hold to a battle axe he had hanging over his bed. “And how THAT thing got there is beyond me!”

“I TOLD YOU TWO NOT TO WATCH THAT DVD, BUT DID YOU LISTEN? NOOOOOO, AFTER ALL, I’M JUST SOME DUMB GIRL!” Shandra screamed over the growing sound of the vortex sucking everything in. “AND NOW LOOK WHAT YOU’VE GOT US INTO!”

“WELL SORRY FOR NOT EXPECTING THE DVD TO SUCK US INTO A DEADLY VORTEX OF DOOM!” Knockout yelled back as one of the braces on the wall keeping the battle axe up flew off. “MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY BEING IN MY SHOES FOR A DAY!”

“Oh you silly fillies, you aren’t going to die when you enter the vortex! You will die after you get out of it, you are coming to my world!” Pinkamina said as she watched Shandra fly into the vortex while she was yelling some choice words that are best-not-repeated.

“KNOCKOUT! WHAT DID RYAN SAY ABOUT NOT GETTING INTO THINGS THAT ARE WAY OUT OF THIS WORLD!” Colson bellowed as he and Knockout both flew into the vortex.

“OH WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY, I MAKE ONE BAD DECISION AND I GET HAMMERED FOR IT!” Knockout whined as they were finally sucked in.

“Wow, those guys sure make a lot of noise! Oh well, soon they will be much quieter!” Pinkamina chirped with a happy tone before hopping into the vortex and the bookshelf slid back in.
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“...I leave for two minutes and this is what happens?” Ryan groaned as he walked into the house and saw what kind of a mess the place was in. “UGH”

Chapter 2: Everfree Forest Trouble

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Somewhere far away from Azure Island...

After being sucked into the vortex our three friends find themselves lying in a pile in the middle of a thick forest that seemed to go on forever on every side...

“Ugghh... What happen?” Knockout said trying to get up, only to find himself buried by Shandra and Colson. “Hey uh guys, mind getting off me? You are KINDA breaking my back...”

“Wha-what, who is that, are we about to be killed or something?” Colson asked while opening his eyes to find himself on top of Knockout. “Oh, hey KO. Why are we still alive, and why are we in a forest?”

“Urgh, that’s the last time I watch a DVD with YOU idiots...” Shandra said rolling off the other two, Knockout and Colson slowly start to stand up to get a better look around. “What happened to that crazy pink pony, and where are we?”

“I don’t really know, but I DO know is that it is night time in this world and we are in a thick forest. BOTH of those things added together is something I don’t like.” Knockout said looking around, they was surrounded by trees and wild plants on all sides. After looking closer he noticed a small opening of what he thought would be a path way out. “Let’s try this path, maybe it will lead us to a safe place to spend the night.”

“Sounds fine to me, but....” Colson stops for a moment and hears a rather loud breathing sound behind him. “I don’t like the sound I hear behind me...” Colson turns around slowly seeing what seemed to be a cross over of a dragon, scorpion and a lion.

“WHAT IS THAT?!?” Knockout yelped in shock, causing the beast to become hostile and lunge at Colson pinning him to the ground. “Rats, I should have kept my mouth shut. HEY YOU, LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Knockout dashed over to the beast and was about to give it a punch, but was whacked back by it’s tail.

“Oh please, this is just a simple lion! How can you possible fail at-” Shandra was getting her gun out of her holster and a ear piercing scream was let out, her and Knockout quickly turned over to the beast that had stabbed one of it’s huge claws into Colson’s chest while having him pinned against a tree.

“COLSON!” Knockout and Shandra both gave out a yell and were about to run over, but was given a motion to stop by Colson.

“It’s to late for me...” Colson said weakly as he spat out a bit of blood. “Save.. yourselves...”

“N-no, Colson...” Knockout said in a voice of anger and sadness. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU STUPID BEAST!” In his anger, he grabbed a rock on the ground and threw it at the beast, only to have it bounce off and make it give off a warning roar before turning back to splitting Colson open.

“Come on Knockout, there’s nothing we can do for him now. Let’s hightail it out of here before the thing comes after us...” Shandra said grabbing Knockout’s shoulder and trying to turn him around, he resisted for a moment, but went ahead and followed Shandra down the path. As they were walking away they could hear their friend’s screams fill the air chilling them to the bone.

After a couple minutes of sprinting they found a strange house carved into a tree, they looked around and found a path that lead to the door.

“Are you sure this is a safe idea Knockout? I-I-I don’t want to end up like Colson.” Shandra said still shook up at what they had just witnessed.

“Relax, when was the last time I got us into trouble?” Knockout joked in a attempt to lighten the mood as he gave a knock to the door, only then realizing the stupidity of his question. “Er... Don’t answer that.”

“You are going to get us ALL killed before the pink pony shows up again...” Shandra mumbled as the door opened, behind it was what seemed to be a zebra with golden rings around her neck with a large earring on her each ear.

“What strange creatures from the forest to my house comes in such a form? Best not be coming for trouble, or I shall send them back to whence they come from.” The zebra said in a rhyming-song like voice.

“Well, we aren’t from this forest but we do come from another world.” Knockout said while taking a few steps back. “And me and my friend were wondering if would could spend the night here while we wait for day...”

“If rest is what you seek, then you may stay here for the night. If you are in trouble, perhaps I can help with your plight” The zebra stepped aside and motioned for them to come in.

“Oh, I don’t think we’ve introduced each other yet.” Knockout said realizing that he forgot to mention who they were. “I am Knockout Steel Coatrack, but you can call me Knockout. And this is my friend Shandra.”

“And I am Zecora, pleased to meet you.” She said as they made there way into the house, Knockout and Shandra looked around seeing vases and masks lying every where. “I apologize for my mess so uncouth, all you see are items that remind me of my youth.”

“You don’t suppose she knows anything about the Pinkamina character that brought us here, do you?” Knockout asked Shandra quietly.

“I don’t know, but it wouldn’t hurt to ask.” Shandra responded, but before the could ask there was a knock at the door.

“Now who could be here at an hour so late?” Zecora questioned as she opened the door. “Oh, Fluttershy, seeing you is just great.”

“Hello Zeco-” Fluttershy stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed the two other figures inside the hut. “O-oh, I- I didn’t know you had guests over, I can come back later for them if you want...” She quietly said while slowly backing off.

“Oh no, it’s quite alright young one. We were just about to have stew, would you like some?” Zecora asked as she was filling up some bowls.

“I was just coming by to pick up the tea that’s made from the herbs here, but I could stay for a while... If you don’t mind that is.” Fluttershy shifted her gaze at Knockout and Shandra, her expression becoming suddenly very interested. “What kind of animals are those two? I have never seen anything like them before.”

“That I know not, but the food is now hot.” Zecora said while everyone sat down around the pot of stew that was over a fire. “My guests please sit down by the table so near, which of you would like to explain where you came from and why you are here?”

Knockout and Shandra exchanged glances for a brief moment before Knockout spoke up. “Well, my friend is still shook up about something that we saw a moment ago so I’ll try my best to explain.” Knockout took a deep sigh, he was never good at explaining things. “We come from what I am guessing would be a far off planet that we call Earth. There we live on a small island group known as the Azure Islands, I lived on the island that was called Sapphire Isle. We were having a small get-together with me and my two friends, I popped a DVD into our DVD player and we were going to watch it when things started getting odd.” Knockout stopped for a moment to take another breath.

“What is a DVD and what is a DVD player, you are sure you are not playing us for foals?” Zecora asked looking a bit unconvinced about the whole story so far.

“Yes I am telling the truth, and I have proof to go with it.” Knockout said as he pulled up the DVD case he had stuck in his coat’s pocket. “We found this on our doorstep the day before we watched it, and it is because of this thing that we are even here.”

“Uh, hello? Earth to Knockout, that’s probably not going to mean much as proof to them if they never heard of the things,” Shandra informed her echidna companion, having recovered from her earlier shellshocked state, before turning to the rhyming Zebra and yellow pegasus to explain “DVDs are little, flat discs that our worlds use to hold information. Sometimes they hold recorded videos, other times they store other forms of information, like little books. DVD Players are machines that replay the videos, whil the books-type discs can be read with other devices.”

“Very well then, go on with your story, the stew won’t get cold.” Zecora finished her rhyme.

“Thank you, now where was I?“ Knockout ”Oh yes, we just started to watch the DVD when we were met by a ear piercing song that killed my ears in the first few seconds. One of my friends found a note on the back of the case that said to skip to Scene 13, we quickly skipped over to the scene to get rid of the horrible song that was playing only to find a rather depressed looking pink pony rambling on about how her friends didn’t like her or her parties.”

“Oh my.” Fluttershy said, while bringing a hoof to her mouth. “That sounds like what Pinkie Pie said when we were going to throw the surprise party for her, how did you find out about that?”

“Well you see, in the world we come from, you guys are a bunch of... erm, how should I put this...” Knockout stopped and looked over to Shandra. “How should I put this without hurting their feelings?”

“Honesty’s best, Knockout.” Shandra responded, before continuing with a very blunt. “You guys are a cartoon in our world, apparently.”

“How rude of you to say we are fake, here I was giving you a place to take a break!” Zecora gave off a displeased snort at Shandra, who in turn merely glared.

“Uh, don’t mind my friend, she is still upset about this whole thing.” Knockout said sticking his head in between the two to stop a fight from happening. “Anyways, after the pony you call Pinkie Pie quit talking the DVD froze and the only thing we were able to do was to turn off the TV. We were thinking of something else to do while we waited for another friend of ours to get there when a voice came from behind us mentioning to ‘make cupcakes’, we all were a bit shocked when we heard it and made sure none of us said it. Before we could decide if we imagined it or not we heard the voice speak up again saying ‘Me silly!’. We all turned back around to the TV to find the same pony back on, but notably closer this time.”

“--and then she leaped out of the TV, tried to kill us with a knife, and sucked us through to a place where a lion-scorpion-dragon thing killed the friend who came with us. We ran because he told us, now we’re here.” Shandra finished coldly.

“...Thank you for giving them the Reader’s Digest version Shandra...” Knockout said snorting a bit before turning back to Fluttershy and Zecora. “Anyways, I am a echidna, and Shandra is a echinda-hedgehog half-breed.”

“I prefer hedgechidna, and you know it.” Shandra growled.

“Oh... I’m sorry about that...” Fluttershy said sadly looking at the ground. “The Everfree Forest is no place to be at night, there are many strange creatures roaming about here.”

“Its seems you had a bad run in with a Manticore that was hungry, but you were wise not to make him angry. And if it is Pinkie Pie whom you seek, we have not seen her for a week.” Zecora said while standing up. “But going with Fluttershy would be best, she may be able to help you on this quest.”

“Okay, sorry about causing you the trouble.” Knockout said getting up. “Ready Shandra?”

“Yeah, whatever. Sooner we get home, the sooner I can pretend this is a bad dream caused by Ryan’s burritos.” Shandra said as she got up and headed out the door, Knockout and Fluttershy followed shortly afterwards. Upon heading outside, Fluttershy took the lead knowing that she was the only one who knew how to get home. As they walked down the dark path, they found themselves at the spot where they last saw Colson alive and stopped for a moment.

“This is where we were attacked by the beast that killed our friend.” Knockout said looking over at the remains of his friend who had all his flesh and fur ripped off, and on his head was a note. “Uh great, a note?” Slowly he picked up the note and looked at the writing, it matched the writing on the back of the DVD case. “Hey Shandra, check this out.”

Shandra walked over and took the note from Knockout. “Can’t you read, the note says ‘This is what you will all soon look like’ ...” She quickly glanced to KO who then gave a weak nod. “Uh Fluttershy, I think we should get out of here fast....”

“You should really be careful, the Everfree Forest...” Fluttershy was cut off by another voice.

“Hey Fluttershy, what are you doing out here this late?” A deep blue pony said while walking out of a bush, on her back were two saddle bags that seemed to be filled all the way up. “Oh... What kind of creatures are those? I don’t remember seeing any of them in my books...”

“Who are you?” Knockout asked raising his eyebrow at the pony who just walked up.

“I’m Twilight Sparkles, a friend of Fluttershy’s. And I guess you guys can talk like us, that’s nice to know.”

“Yes, we can, and you have star with smaller stars around it on your butt. Now that the obvious is taken care of...” Shandra quipped.

“Uh... Please don’t be rude. She has probably never seen anything like you before...” Fluttershy said before walking over to what she thought was her friend. “Hello Twilight, what are you doing out here?”

“Oh well, I uh... Just came by here to pick some flowers, I was doing some studies and I wanted to get some of the ones that I saw in my books!” Twilight said pointing to her saddle bags. “I might have over stuffed them in here, these bags are rather heavy for being flowers!!”

“Well, I think we should get going now. Have you two seen what that Pinkamina pony did to our friend?” Knockout asked while pointing to the skeleton of his friend, when Knockout pointed they all winced a little besides Twilight who just stared.

“Pinkamina? Who’s that?” Twilight asked while walking up to the skeleton of Colson, regretting that she did. “Oh no.... Did this Pinkamina pony do THIS to your friend?”
“Well, he was attacked by a ‘Manticore’ when we arrived here, I don’t think the beast would have had time to eat him since we’ve only been here for a little while...” Knockout said scratching his chin. “But this note makes me know that what it DIDN’T eat Pinkamina took.”

“I’ll have to hear you’re guy’s story later on, we should get out of here before the Manticore comes back for seconds.” Twilight said walking away from the dead body.

“Sounds like a plan to me, let’s go.” Knockout said as he, Shandra, and Fluttershy walked off leaving Twilight behind for a moment. Twilight just watched them walk off and gave a small giggle. “Okie Dokie Loki!” After she said that she started walking off to catch up with them.

Chapter 3: Pink-a-Mania

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But I DO own Shandra. Coat Rack owns Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet.
This Disclaimer shall only reflect content in the Chapter it appears atop, when further disclaims are needed, and they will be, they will be added on.
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Ponyville Outskirts, July 12th, 2011

After traveling though the Everfree Forest they reached Fluttershy’s home, the sun was already starting to rise over the mountains as the reached the edges of the forest. Tired the group opened the door and made their way inside...

“Here we are everypony, welcome to my home.” Fluttershy said as they walked into the main room. “Please stay here for a while, I have some animals that I need to take care of.”

“Will do, and thank you.” Knockout said as he fell back onto a couch and closed his eyes to get some rest, Shandra simply opted to lean against the wall and close her eyes, though. It wasn’t but a few moments when they heard Fluttershy give out a yelp causing them to snap out of their rest.

“Oh my... Pinkie, you scared me for a moment, when did you get here?” Fluttershy said as she walked into the room followed by a light pink shaded pony with light blue eyes. “Mmm...I quite like your hair, it looks wonderful when it’s all down. It’s like when you tried straightening it down for the Gala, right?

“Yeppers! Oh, and I am sorry I snuck up on you back there. I saw Twilight as she was heading into town and asked her what was up when she told me about what happen when you were in the Everfree Forest. I was going to come over here as soon as I could, but I decided to try out that special mane-styling-spray Rarity gave me at my party.” Pinkie said as she walked into the room, the first person she made eye contact with was Knockout, who stared back at her nervously. “Hey... haven’t I seen you before?”

“What do you mean Pinkie?” Fluttershy asked, but was ignored, Pinkie walked closer to Knockout as something in her tail flashed off the light in the room. Each step she took her color became darker and darker, her once light blue eyes now becoming a grey-tinted blue color. Shandra slowly put one of her hands on the gun she had in her holster getting ready for the worst.

“Yeah... I think I DO know you...” Pinkie said with a grin growing on her face as she had her nose up against Knockout’s face, staring into his eyes as if she was searching for fear. “Fluttershy, you may need to leave for awhile.” Pinkie turned and gave Fluttershy a pleading stare. “Trust me, this won’t be pretty.”

“What do you mean, Pinkie?” Fluttershy’s ears folded back with apprehension.

“Just make yourself a daffodil sandwich or something, hush now!” Pinkie insisted while shoving her friend to the door.

“O-okay...” Fluttershy slowly back out of the room and shut the door behind her, fear was evident in her eyes

“Why yes we- I mean, no, I don’t think we know each other..” Knockout said slowly getting off the couch and walking back towards Shandra, Pinkie following him every step of the way. “Wh-what do you w-want from me, money?”

“Oh you silly little echidna, I already TOLD you what I wanted before!” Pinkie giggled as she stood up on her hind legs getting eyeball to eyeball with Knockout. “I want YOU guys to help me make some cupcakes!” She said, and no less then half a second after she said it she flicked her tail causing a knife to stab Knockout in his left leg sending him to the floor while giving a scream of pain as the knife was still in his leg. “Oh come on Knocky, even Gilda did better then you! Toughen up and be a man will you?”

“LEAVE HIM ALONE YOU MONSTER!” Shandra yelled while kicking Pinkamina into a bookshelf near by. “Knockout, are you okay?”

“Y-yeah, I think the knife only got stuck in the side of my leg...” Knockout said while looking at his left leg seeing the knife on the side and blood dripping out. “Gah, just our luck to be tricked...” While they were distracted by Knockout’s wound, Pinkamina took this as cue for her to strike again. She leaped onto Shandra pinning her onto the ground and gave a slice at her face, leaving a gash above her left eye.

“Oh silly, you thought I forgot about you?” Pinkamina said with a evil grin on he face as she got ready for another blow. “Well, guess what, I didn’t. And kicking a chef into a bookshelf isn’t the polite thing to do!” She scolded, but before she could give her next strike she was punched across the face by Knockout, who had managed to turn himself over to give the hard blow. Followed by Shandra giving her a hard kick sending her into a bookshelf again.

“Gah, This knife in my leg isn’t helping me...” Knockout groaned while looking at his leg, and before he knew what happen, Shandra reached down and yanked the knife out of his leg and threw it out the window. “GAH! Shandra, what are you THINKING?!?”

“If you are going to cry about a knife in you’re leg, then pull it out. Duh” Shandra scoffed as she grabbed a curtain off a window near by and wrapped it around Knockout’s leg. “That should hold off the bleeding for awhile.

“Thanks but, where did Pinkie go?” Knockout asked looking over to where Shandra kicked her to.

“Probably dived out the window to get her knife back.” Shandra said while wrapping another curtain around her head to stop her own bleeding.

"But... she already HAD another knife...” Knockout reminded Shandra by pointing to her eye.

“It’s called dual-wielding, KO, I do it with my laser pistols all the time.”

“I know I know, but she only use ONE on me so that means she could be anywhere...”

“Like right behind you two!” Pinkamina yelled while jumping through a window behind the two and took Knockout to the ground causing him to give off another scream of pain as his wounded leg hit the ground. Upon hearing the commotion in the room Fluttershy peaked into the room by opening the door a bit. “Fluttershy, what are you doing! I told you not to look in here, I don’t want lose both my pegasus friends in one day! Only one of their numbers came up today!” Pinkie sculled Fluttershy, causing her to give out a quick squeal and quickly shut the door again.

“Numbers...? Is this some sort of GAME to you?!” Knockout asked glaring at Pinkamina in horror while trying to get her off him, but was failing.

“Oh silly, of COURSE it’s a game! Although I didn’t make the rules, I just follow them!” She said taking her eyes off the door where Fluttershy was at and staring back at the echidna she was pinning down. “You see, everyone has a number! Well, besides you guys and Gilda. But when Rocky draws it out of his hat... Presto, the next winner is up!” she said waving her arms into the air. “They get to help me make cupcakes!”

“That.. is messed up...” Knockout said turning a bit green. “And who is this Rocky, a crazed nut head?”

“Oh silly me, you never met him, only Rainbow Dash did!” Pinkamina said with a evil grin on his face. “You’ll have to meet him, he’s a great guy. In fact, he came up with this game when my “friends” tried to trick me into thinking they were throwing me a birthday party!”

“Pinkamina, you are SICK!” Knockout yelled in frustration and tried to give a punch to her nose but was blocked with one hoof, and got whack to the side by her other hoof.

“Hey! Learn some manners will you?!” She growled, she then rolled across Knockout and flung him into the wall causing him slump down as if he blacked out. “Man, you guys are nowhere good at this game than the others were!”

“Last I checked,” Shandra countered, slapping the psychotic pony causing her attention to be taken off of the echidna that was against the wall, “none of us ever CHOSE to play this game except you!”

“Oh silly, it’s like life! You don’t CHOOSE to enter in, you just do!” Pinkamina then flicked her tail trying to stab Shandra who grabbed it with her free hand. “Oh phooey, now what am I going to do?”

“Now.” Knockout said leaning against the wall next to her, and gives he a hard blow to the head. “You take a nap.” Pinkamina showed a expression of shock while trying to figure out what just happen, but quickly fainted as she slumped to the ground knocked out. “Think you can get her far away from here Shandra?”

“Yes, since I still have this.” Shandra said looking her watch that she had on her wrist. golden gemstone, which began to shine.

“How is THAT going to help?” Knockout asked puzzled. “Can’t that thing only be used on the person who holds it?”

“There are certain... abilities certain individuals can use if they possess one of these. It can also be used to warp others near by, or just those who I wish to be warped. ” Shandra explained. “Like this. one, CHAOS CONTROL!!” A flash of green light erupted from Shandra’s watch hand, and Pinkamina vanished. After the bright flash faded the door Fluttershy left in creaked open as she stuck her head back out.

“I-is i-it s-safe?” Fluttershy asked looking around, and was soon relieved to only see Knockout and Shandra in the room with no sign of Pinkamina. “where is Pinkie at...?”

“Gone” Shandra answered..

“G-gone?!” Fluttershy squeaked. “Wh-what happened?”

“Well, Shandra here warped Pinkie far away I think.” Knockout said, and then got a worried look on his face. “Where did you send her?”

“I saw a bakery on the horizon on the way here, I sent her there.”

“You mean Sugarcube Corner, that’s Pinkie’s home!” Fluttershy yelped, and was followed by a knocking on the door. Everyone froze stiff.

“D-d-do you th-think that’s Pinkie again...?” Knockout whispered to the others.

“FLUTTERSHY! IS EVERYTHING OKAY IN THERE?” Came a voice that was clearly not Pinkamina’s.

“Don’t worry guys, it’s only Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy said walking up to the door and opening it, still shaking a bit. “Hi Rainbow Dash.”

“Whoa... what happened in here, and what are those two... things?” Rainbow Dash asked puzzled and somewhat shocked.

“O-oh, well uh. we was uh....” Fluttershy just started to mumble after that while kicking the ground.

“Nothing really.” Knockout lied while limping over to the door with a half-bandaged leg.

“Are you sure.... You don’t LOOK alright.” Rainbow Dash said pointing to his leg.

“Oh, that? We uh, just got back from the Everfree Forest and we uh....” Knockout tried to come up with something, but Shandra interrupted him.

“Run-in with some lion thing in the forest, got KO’s leg, and one of our friends.” Shandra finished for him.

“So, the blue one is called KO? That’s a odd name.”

“Short for Knockout. And I’m Shandra”

“Okay then.... Well I just came over to make sure everything was okay.” Rainbow Dash paused and flew outside as the others followed. “Well, I am gonna go to Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie wanted me to hang out with her today so I gotta go.”

“Rainbow Dash, wait!” Fluttershy called out, but was to late as Rainbow Dash had already left. “Oh no...”

“T-this won’t end well...” Knockout said in fear.

“Rats, I guess warping her there was so good of a plan after all.”

“We better get the others, we have to stop Pinkie from doing this.” Fluttershy said looking over to a farm in the distance. “Applejack is the closest one so let’s go get her first, but wait here while I go get something.” Fluttershy quickly flew into her house, and shortly returned with a golden necklace around her neck, a butterfly like her cutie mark’s emblazoned on its front.

“What is that for?” Knockout asked puzzled. “Are you trying to impress someone there?”

“No, this is a Element Of Harmony.” Fluttershy said looking at her necklace. “Twilight could explain more, but let’s go get Applejack right now.”

“Okay, let’s go and maybe if we are quick enough we can save Rainbow Dash.” Knockout pointed out as Fluttershy started down the path to the farm aways away. “So, what is the place called exactly?”

“It’s Sweet Apple Acres, a farm Applejack’s family runs.” Fluttershy said. “They have the best home-baked apple pies ever!”

“Well that’s good.” Knockout said while his stomach growled. “Because I’m getting hungry after that fight.”

“We’re trying to chase down Fluttershy’s friends, so we can somehow save Rainbow Dash from Pinkie with jewelery, and YOU’RE THINKING OF FOOD?”

“Oh shut it, I am already skinny enough as it is!” Knockout barked back, Besides, if we don’t eat we won’t be strong enough TO fight.”

“Please stop fighting now.” Fluttershy asked flying up in between the two and pushing them back with her hooves up to the entrance. “We don’t want AJ to think you two are always fighting.”

“She started it!” Knockout protested.

“That’s enough.” Fluttershy said while giving him a paralyzing stare. He immediately interrupted himself, and sat motionless on the ground.

“Well howdy Fluttershy, what brings y’all here to mah- WHAT IN TARNATION ARE THOSE THINGS!?” Applejack said while jumping back at first sight of the two.

“Applejack, they are Knockout and Shandra, Shandra and Knockout, meet Applejack.” Fluttershy said while pushing the two forwards.

“A pony wearing a cowboy hat. I’ve seen a lot but this is a first.” Shandra deadpanned.

“Oh stop it, Shandra.” Knockout said rolling his eyes. “I’m Knockout Steel Coatrack, and I am an echidna.”

“An eh-kid-na? What the hay is that?” Applejack asked while tilting her head.

“Well, I am a exotic anteater.” Knockout said. “But I HATE eating ants, go figure.”

“If you say so, and you must be Shandra?” Applejack asked turning to Shandra.

“That’s right, and I am a hedgchidna”

“A whatnow?”

“Echidna Hedgehog Half-breed” Knockout said bluntly ignoring Shandra’s hatred for the word.

Shandra sighs, “Yes... that. Knockout, if you MUST keep listing the individual halves, at least use a different word, like ‘hybrid’, or something.”

“Oh would you give it a rest already?”

“You two don’t get along well, DO you?” Applejack asked staring at the two of them with a raised eyebrow.

“You honestly expect me to get along with someone who popped out of a wormhole?” Knockout asked pointing to Shandra and raising his eyebrow too.

“You honestly expect me to get along with this knucklehead?” Shandra asked simultaneously, pointing at Knockout.

“STOOOP!” Fluttershy yelled causing everyone to instantly shut up and look at her. “Thank you, now Applejack we have a big problem on our hooves.” Fluttershy said walking up to her friend. “Pinkie Pie may have lost it again, and tried killing these two. And she mentioned that one of her pegasus friends was also going to be killed today.”

“--and it’s not her.” Knockout piped up.

“So that means it’s.....” Applejack said staring blankly at the others.

“Rainbow Dash.” Shandra said blunt enough to knock someone out.

Are you all curious what Rainbow and Pinkie Pie are doing while the others are running around?

It’s “Cupcakes”

Oh, and we don’t own that either. We are just linking up this story with its little sub-universe!

Chapter 4: Twilight of Ponyville

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Sweet Apple Acres, July 12th, 2011

Upon Knockout and Shandra telling Applejack the story of how they got there and what was going on with Pinkie Pie, they all decided they would get a small bit of rest in the barn before heading off to find Twilight and Rarity. But Knockout, as was common for him, slept in and they got a late start.

“Stupid echidna, thanks ta you sleepin’ in we may never git to save Rainbow Dash from Pinkie!” Applejack yelled in anger as Knockout was waking up, the sun had already started to set again.

“Say what, the french toast is burning and Jimmy fell into the well?” Knockout mumbled still half asleep, and was then smacked across the face by Shandra who was not in the mood for his stupidity, “HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!”

“For making us late and being an idiot at a very inopportune time,” She replied flatly.

“Guys... Please stop,” Fluttershy murmured, poking her head into the barn.

“We ken fight on the way there, but let’s juss git to Twi’s place as fast as we ken. We got to make up time thanks ta sleepy head,” Applejack drawled as she walked out of the barn and headed down the path leaving the others behind.

“What’s with all the grumpy people in my life? First Ryan, then Shandra, and NOW Applejack!” Knockout complained as he got up, stumbling a bit as he remembered the wound on his leg as he limped out of the barn. “Ow, and I still have this messed up leg.”

“Quit being such a baby, Knockout,” Shandra scoffed as she walked by him rolled her eyes.

“Oh, um... please, can we just go?” Fluttershy muttered quietly, “I don’t want to see anypony else get hurt...”

After a long while of walking they finally reached Ponyville, by then Luna had already risen the moon and everything was silent. They walked down the deathly silent streets on their way to the library where Twilight lived.

“So, this is where the one named after a horrible, HORRIBLE book lives?” Shandra asked with a scoff.

“Excuse me? What do ya mean ‘named after a horrible book’? ‘Ow would y’all like it iffin someone made fun o’ your name?!” Applejack asked in a rather angry tone.

“Uh, where we come from Twilight from what I’ve heard is the title a horrible book, never read it though.” Knockout chimed in. “But if you don’t mind, we should TRY to keep things down a bit seeing as it is rather late and people are trying to sleep...”

“Yeah, like YOU, Mr. Sleep-in.” Shandra barked at Knockout, who in return rolled his eyes.

“Twilight, are you in there?” Fluttershy softly asked while she knocked on the door, no response was heard.

“What part of ‘people are trying to sleep’ did you not understand Fluttershy?” Knockout asked getting the feeling he was being ignored.

“I know, but normally she is up late studying...” Fluttershy said while she gave another knock to the door as it suddenly creaked open a bit. “Oh my, is she home?”

“If she was, whah would she only part way open the door?” Applejack asked as she walked up to the door and pushed it open, and shock covered her face. Inside was a complete disaster-zone: books thrown all over the floor, and several bookcases had been toppled over. There was literally no sign of any life in there, “We were too late? BLAST IT KNOCKOUT, LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!”

“WHY AM I ALWAYS THE ONE BEING BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG!?!” Knockout yelled back at Applejack, his anger had finally spilled over. “EVER SINCE SHANDRA POPPED UP I’VE BEEN THE BLAME FOR EVERYTHING! WHY ISN’T IT SHANDRA’S FAULT, THIS ONLY STARTED AFTER SHE POPPED UP!”

“Actually, from what Ryan had already told me, you got blamed for a lot before I showed up, too.”

“What in the wide, wide world of Equestria is going on down there!?!” A voice called out from a room above them, they all turned to the stairs they saw when they stepped in as a lavender unicorn walked down the stairs looking a bit annoyed. “I am TRYING to get so- oh, Fluttershy! What are you and Applejack doing here this late at night?” she stopped for a moment and looked and the Knockout and Shandra. “And WHAT are those creatures, if you came here to ask me what they are I don’t think any of my books cover those.”

“Didn’t we already go through this back in the forest?” Shandra asked, finding it strange that the purple pony could have forgotten already.

“I haven’t been to the forest in a week, I don’t know how I could have met you before.” Twilight asked, showing a bit of a shock while noticing the creature could talk. “I guess I’ll introduce myself. I am Twilight Sparkle, faithful student to Princess Celestia.”

“Don’t you mean Twilight Sparkles?” Knockout asked raising a eyebrow. “At least that’s what you said in the forest...”

“What in tarnation is goin’ on?” Applejack asked confused by the whole matter. “Are you sayin’ there was a Twilight in the Forest y’all ran intah that ain’t this Twilight?”

“Well...” Fluttershy started, being a bit nervous. “I did think I hear someone say “Okie Dokie Lokie” behind us, I turned around to see if Pinkie was there and only saw Twilight...”

“So wait, Pinkie dressed up as Twilight, and in the bags was....” Knockout froze mid-sentence and turned a shade of green. “I... think I am going to get sick now.” Knockout said dashing over to a window as he gave the flowers outside his last thing he had to eat.

“Hey Knockout, what are you doing here?” A familiar voice called out. Looking up Knockout saw a Rainbow maned pegasus that he figured must have been Rainbow Dash.

“Guys!” Knockout called out into the libary. “Rainbow Dash is alive!”

“Of course she’s alive.” Twilight said looking at the echidna with a face of confusion. “What do you mean?”

“Long story made short, Pinkie is going around killing people and Rainbow Dash’s number came up today.” Shandra gave the abridged version.

Rainbow Dash flew in and landed in the middle of the group. “Why were you guys so worried about me going over to Pinkie’s place, we had a great time!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “She had found a great costume to pull a prank on some ponies that she knew and she had me help her with it!”

“Oh really? What did it look like...?” Fluttershy asked someone nervous if she was really seeing Rainbow Dash or not.

“You sound... different, than before, Rainbow.” Shandra asked, aiming a suspicious squint at the flying fanatic. “Did you inhale helium on the way here or something?”

“Well that had something to do with it, it’s sorta funny really.” Rainbow Dash said thinking for a moment. “The idea was that we would swap places for the day, I would be Pinkie and she would be me. And boy you should have seen the faces when they saw I wasn’t really Rainbow Dash!”

“Wait... WHAT!?” Twilight exclaimed, catching the slip.

“Ooohhh phooey” Rainbow Dash said wings slouching down, the next line the voice changed dramatically. “I was going along so good, but oh well.” The phony pegasus put her hoof on her mane and pulled on it, upon pulling on it the cover came off showing the crazed dark-pink pony staring at them. The rest of the costume fell off rather quickly afterwards, this caused Fluttershy to give out a small squeak and pass out, slumping against Shandra’s leg..

“Now THAT’S just plain creepy!” Knockout said stepping back, having the urge to give the plants another taste of his lunch. “How could you DO such a thing, making horse-flavored cupcakes is ONE thing. But WEARING a pony is just plain wrong!”

“Oh silly, I was going to stuff her but I then remembered the rest of my friends! I didn’t want to come in here like this KNOWING you would beable to catch the second I showed up, so I used this as a disguise!” Pinkie giggled as she brought up her tail, which flashed in the light revealing the knife that was in it. “So! Who’s ready to make ♪cupcakes?♫ Knockout, Shandra, Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy?” She looked around the room and gave off a evil smile.

“Uh... none of the above?” Knockout asked getting ready to fight when something landed in-front of him, stabbing into his boot barely missing his foot. “My... Battle axe?” Knockout asked puzzled while picking it up.

“Oh you silly-filly, I have to give you SOME sort of a way to play too!” Pinkie said before tackling Knockout to the ground again. “But you are too slow again!”

Knockout quickly tried to grab his axe but the crazed pony quickly took it in her mouth and flipped Knockout over and put in around his neck and got him into a arm lock of some sort. “Gah! How’d you do that?!” Knockout gasped while trying to break free, failing miserably the whole time. “A little help here guys?” suddenly the pink pony froze.

“I think I like this game.” Shandra said as she re-holstered the gun she fired to stun the crazy pink assailant and knocked her off Knockout into the only bookcase still standing.

“What is going on!” Twilight yelled in shock at what was going on in-front of her.

“Well I guess you can say, we are on the verge of a war.” Knockout said while grabbing his axe and standing up. “So get your attack spells ready!” Knockout said while charging off at Pinkie who had started to get up.

“I gave you the short version earlier, Pinkie’s gone nuts and wants to make cupcakes out of everyone. She’s already gotten Colson and Rainbow Dash, and I think we’re next.” After this re-iteration by Shandra, they see Knockout fly across the room after Pinkie gave out a loud scream of pain. Knockout landed in the pile of skin that WAS Rainbow Dash as something fell out of his pocket.

“What was I thinking!” Knockout exclaimed while holding up the strange medical syringe. “Ryan gave this to me in the event someone was found dead or mostly dead, he claimed it would be able to bring them back with some of the magic he was able to gather in one of our battles!” Knockout quickly got up and spread the skin of the rainbow maned pegasus out, he notice a bag beside it, upon opening it bones spilled out along what he feared was a brain.. “Ugh this will be messy. Can you guys hold Pinkie off me for a while, I am not sure how long this will take!”

“And you didn’t pull that out when we found Colson... why?” Shandra asked, facepalming. “Whatever, let’s get going with this plan.”

“HEY! What do you think you are doing snooping around in somepony’s stuff echidna!” Pinkie said from a wall, the noticed that Knockout’s axe had her pinned there but wasn’t going to hold her for much longer. “When I’m out of here I’ll show YOU what it’s like to be pulled open and snooped around in!”

“Like hay you are, Pinkie. Now snap outta this!” Applejack scolded loudly, trying to buck Pinkie in the head. But Pinkie ducked and the kick loosed the ax from the wall and freed Pinkie instead. “Oh, horsefeathers!” was all Applejack could manage before she was pinned to the floor by the pink earth pony.

“I got her!” Twilight said as she set up a magical sphere around Pinkie. “Magic Bubble, that should keep her! Now help me get some more stuff over here to make a small wall around her!” Twilight said while motioning to some of the fallen bookshelves.

“On it!” Applejack quickly ran off to a bookshelf on the ground and got a rope out and tied it onto it and started to drag it over when she heard a popping sound. “Oh what now?” Applejack asked as she sees Pinkie come flying at her with Twilight standing shocked at how she managed to break free.

“Suuurrrppprriiisssseee!” Pinkie said with a smile on her face that quickly turned to a frown that was full of fear as she got a buck to the head sending her to the roof, Twilight took this chance to strap Pinkie up there with some sort of a magic web.

“That should keep her!” Twilight said in a pleased tone as Pinkie squirmed around. “How’s Knockout doing?”

“I don’t know if this will work or not, seeing that I forgot WHERE to place the needle...” Knockout said as the now more-or-less filled skin of Rainbow Dash was laying on the floor. “Where should I put it you think? Near the brain, the heart, in the back?”

“I wouldn’t be so sure, she’s teleported before. Through a wall.” Shandra informed Twilight before turning to Knockout. “Glad he told me about it then, directly to the b--” Pinkie then appeared out of nowhere and kicked Shandra in the face, interrupting her.

“Hey, looks like someone pays attention to me!” Pinkie said with a grin “Now, how about we stop delaying this, hmmm?”
“Better idea, YOU take a nap!” Twilight said as a purple glow surrounded the crazed pony and Twilight’s horn.

“Twilight, I’m not even... tired...zzzzzzzzzz” Pinkie tried to protest, but soon fell asleep.

“Sleeping spell, I knew it would come in handy sometime.” Twilight said as she walked over to the sleeping pony.

“Berry nahs” Shandra said, holding her nose.

“Uh Shandra, it’s not a smell, it’s just a simple alteration of a mind control spell.” Twilight corrected noticing what Shandra was doing. “You see, The mind control spell is a---”

“I dunn really nid to know, bud dat kick really herd is aw.” Shandra interrupted Twilight. “Brain, KO, brain.”

“Well, let’s hope this works!” Knockout said as he injected the medicine that was in the syringe into the core of Rainbow Dash. “Come on........ work work work!”

They all stood there with eyes fixed on the pony as they waited for something to happen, the silence was enough to drive anyone mad.

“Are you sure it was going to work?” Twilight asked looking at Knockout worried.

“...Darn, I kinda liked her too.” Shandra admitted, “She had that tenacity that just screamed ‘Always there to help, always able to.’”

“I don’t know Twilight, the medicine was made in my world so who knows...” Knockout said before turning to Shandra “And Shandra, you only knew for a few minutes. How do YOU know that was who she was?”

“The way she talked, it was arrogant, but not obnoxiously so, like she’d actually earned a few bragging rights.”

“Urrghh, can you guys keep it down, somepony is TRYING to get rid of a killer headache...” A voice mumbled from the middle of the room, they all turned and saw Rainbow Dash move her hooves over her ears.

“She’s ALIVE! IT WORKED!” Shandra cried out, her voice once again losing its steely and cold tone.

“See, I CAN do things right!” Knockout said rejoicing that medicine didn’t fail him. “Now all we have to do is find Rarity!”

“You’re right, I’m sorry I was so hard on you before Knockout. Let’s get go--” Shandra started, voice still noticeably kinder.

“Whoa whoa whoa, did I hear that right?” Knockout asked interrupting Shandra. “You, APOLOGIZING to ME? Did your brain get scrambled when Pinkie kicked you?”

“No Knockout, I guess I never told y--” Shandra once again began, only to be cut off.
“Oh fer crying out loud, don’t blow this Knockout!” Applejack interrupted not wanting a fight to break out. “Twi, can you go get your Element Of Harmony, we may need them to knock some sense into Pinkie here.” Applejack motioned to where Pinkie WAS at, only to notice she was gone.

“Oh bother.” Knockout said quickly looking around. “Twilight, get your thing and let’s hightail it out of here. We will have to find some way to carry Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy too, seeing they are both still out of it....”

“Don’t worry, I got that.” Twilight said before giving out a loud yell. “SPPPIIIKKKEEEE!”

A small purple dragon walked down from the stairs still half asleep. “What do you want, can’t I get ANY rest?” He paused for a moment when he saw the mess that was made in the room and the two newcomers, but didn’t pay much notice to them.

“Spike, get the wagon, we need it to carry Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. We need to leave here as soon as possible.” Twilight instructed as she walked up to the her room. “I’ll be down in just a second.”

After the others had got the two Pegasi onto the wagon, Twilight walked back down the stairs and gave a look around. “Ready?” Knockout asked as he grabbed his battle axe from off the floor.

“To make cupcakes?” A voice chimed in causing them all to jump.

“YES, WE ARE READY!” Twilight yelped as she dashed out of the room, followed by the rest of the group.

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But I DO own Shandra. Coat Rack owns Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet.
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Streets of Ponyville, July 12th, 2011

After fleeing from the library our heroes find themselves in the dark streets of Ponyville, tired, scared, and hungry they made their way through the town to get to the Carousel Boutique. But upon getting within a few blocks they see a thick cloud of smoke and fire fill the air, as a loud explosion rang through the air followed by a insane laugh. The racket caused lights to start to turn on in the once quiet town, and the streets were soon filled with ponies looking into the wall of flames and smoke in the sky.

“WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THAT!?!” Knockout yelled jumping at the sight of destruction he saw flash through the night sky.

“Oh no!” Twilight gasped looking to the flames in horror. “That’s coming from the block where the Carousel Boutique is located!”

“BLAST IT ALL!” Applejack yelled while kicking a stone on the road. “We failed to save Rainbow Dash at first, even though we managed to get her back thanks to Knockout’s forgetfulness. And now we are going to lose Rarity, what ELSE could go wrong!”

The group quickly made their way though the crowded streets to the Carousel Boutique to see what caused the destruction, upon reaching it they saw two large spotlights shining through the thick smoke. The lights swept the crowd for a moment before they locked onto the group, then a voice crackled over a extremely loud speaker from behind the smoke.

“Oh look who decided to show up for the closing of the Carousel Boutique!” The voice that was none else than Pinkamina giggled. “I’ve been waiting so long to show you guys something I’ve been working on, of course, Knockout already knows a TINY bit about this, but not all of it!”

“WHAT THE HAY KNOCKOUT! Are YOU the one behind this!?!” Applejack said angrily glaring at Knockout.

“No, I am NOT behind this! I was accused of this before, and I still have no clue what she is talking about!” Knockout barked back, but was interrupted by Pinkamina.

“Oh don’t be silly AJ, he’s telling the truth! But just wait till you guys see this present I have for you all!” Pinkie said with a insane tone in her voice, the following sight sent everypony who was in the streets into a panic fit save for the heroes. They was to busy trying to figure out what they what they was seeing was real, or fake. From behind the smoke and the fire marched a two story robot modeled after the pink party pony that Twilight and her friends used to know, eyes locked onto the group with two rocket launchers sticking out of it’s side. “I would like you to meat my ultimate party gift to everypony, MECHA PINKIE PIE!”

“WHAT THE- HOW ON EARTH DID- PINKIE, HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE THAT!?!” Twilight yelled over the panicked screams of the ponies in the streets.

“Does it really matter, Twilight?“ Shandra responded, “It’s already been made, and it’s going to hurt everyone in this crowd!”

“Ugh! Can’t I get a few more seconds of sleep?” Rainbow Dash murmured while lifting her head up, upon smelling the smoke she slowly opened her eyes and jumped at the tall machine in front of her. “Whoa whoa, what?! What is that thing?”

“We can explain later, right now we have to find a way to stop it!” Knockout said grabbing his battle axe and charging forward, only to have his coat bitten by Applejack to keep him from running off.

“Now just wait one second there eh-kid-na, y’all really think that axe’ll do it any harm?” Applejack said through her closed mouth while pointing to the axe. “That’s like tryin’ to take on a manticore with a stick!”

“Silly, you call THAT a weapon? Let me show you a real weapon!” Pinkamina said, one of the cannons on the side of the robot quickly turned to the group of heroes. “THIS is a real weapon!”

“Uh... guys?” Shandra started.

“May I make a suggestion?” Knockout asked interrupting Shandra. “Run!”

“Sounds fine to me!” Twilight said as a rocket was shot from the robot landing near the group, they all quickly started to make their way though town when Twilight ran into a white unicorn with a purple mane. “Rarity, you’re alright!” Twilight said after the two had bumped into each other.

“Why wouldn’t I be, darling?” Rarity asked getting up from the ground, dusting off her dress.

“Well, your house just got leveled, for one thing.” Shandra said flatly.

“WHA-HA HA! WHAT IS THAT THING!” Rarity yelped jumping back at the sight of new creature. “And what kind of style IS that you are wearing!”

“We would LOVE to explain, but we should REALLY be getting out of town.” Knockout said, pointing to the deadly machine marching up to them. “And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to die today, or night.”

“What ever do you mean?” Rarity asked, looking up into the eyes of the Mecha Pinkie for a moment, before fainting and falling to the ground.

“Uh... she do that often?” Shandra asked the nearest pony, who happened to be Rainbow Dash.

“Waaay to often...” Rainbow Dash said flying off the wagon. “And if we need to get out of here quickly, then we better get Rarity on this wagon and get somewhere safe!”

“If we all have our Elements of Harmony, we should make our way to the temple in the Everfree Forest to get them powered up! It’s our only hope of stopping this thing!” Twilight exclaimed to the group. “And it’s a good thing you wore yours to whatever it was Rarity, other wise it would have been blown to bits!”

“Oh man, I left mine at my house!” Dash said looking up to her house off aways. “I’ll go get it, you guys can go on ahead!”

“Are you SURE Rainbow, I don’t have any more of that medicine to use on you if you die again.” Knockout pointed out. “It would be best to have someone go with you.”

“I could go.” Fluttershy spoke up while walking up to the group, “After all, only pegasi can walk on clouds.”

“Are you sure sugarcube? Maybe Twi can use the spell she used for the Young Fliers Competition again.” Applejack said, looking at Fluttershy with a worried expression. “I don’t want you to get hurt or anything.”

“Oh friends, come out and play!~” Pinkamina called out as she launched her machine into the air and in a attempt to land on them.

“Do you think this cloud-walking spell will work on me?” Shandra asked with urgency in her voice.

“I don’t know... I have never tried the spell on your type before, only us ponies.” Twilight said unsure while watching the machine fly into the air. “But I guess I’ll have to try it, or get us all flattened.”

Twilight’s horn began to glow as the group’s feet slowly began glow, Within a few seconds a white flash covered them all causing them to vanish to a building a few feet away from where Pinkamina landed.

“What the, I thought you were going to let us walk on clouds!” Knockout said looking at Twilight with a confused look, but quickly changed when he heard the loud crashing of the robot’s landing. “Oh...”

“Okay, now that we are safe I can perform the other spell!” Twilight said, her horn gave off another flash causing the other’s feet to flash at the same time. “Okay, we are all set! Lead the way Rainbow Dash!”

The group quickly made their way from Ponyville to Rainbow Dash’s home, while the Mecha Pinkie was getting up from its uneven landing. Upon reaching the destination Rainbow Dash went into her home and began to look around frantically searching for her Element.

“Come on, I KNOW I put it in here somewhere!” She said looking in her trophy room, after moving aside a few trophies she found a box, a smile quickly formed on her face. “Found it everypony, let’s get to the temple and charge these things up!” She called as she met with the others in her living room where they were helping her look for her element.

“I STILL don’t see how these will help, unless you think giving them to Pinkie as a present of some sort will calm her down.” Knockout said as he joined the group eating a banana from the kitchen in his hand. “So are we ready to go?”

“I’m sure these ponies have a legitimate reason for gathering their jewelery., Knockout. They know what’s what in this world, we don’t. For all we know, bananas on this planet are poisonous!” Shandra scolded Knockout, making him gag on the fruit.

“Hey, Knockout! Who said you could walk into my kitchen and grab a snack!” Dash asked looking at him with a annoyed look. “I don’t even know what you are, or why you are even HERE and you just walk in and get a snack?”

“Um... girls?” Fluttershy spoke up holding Rainbow Dash’s box that contained her Element. “ I think we have bigger problems...”

“What do you mean Fluttershy?” Twilight asked as she walked over to Fluttershy , looking into the box she gave off a gasp. “Dash, your Element has been stolen!”

“What, stolen! Who in Equestria would want to steal my-” Rainbow Dash was quickly cut off by a rocket that flew in through a open window and blew up a section of her house’s wall. “Okay, I think we know who MIGHT have stolen it.”

“We gotta get out of here, gather around girls!” Twilight said as her horn began to glow. “I am not sure if I can get us all the way to the forest, but we’ll see!”

“Hey, I’m a guy!” Knockout said as a white flash covered the area they were just at, followed by a missile impacting the area blowing the floor up.
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[At this point the authors stopped caring and quit. See next “chapter” for the Full story intended.]

Original Version. NEVER TRYING THIS AGAIN.

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MEGA ALERT! This will make absolutely no god damn sense and contains Strong Language (read: we say Fuck every 5 lines or so when Pinkie's near) This is only intended to show the basic storyline the previous, ACTUAL chapters were meant to tell before we lost the will to continue.

and with that, here's pure, unfiltered, raw IRC Chat format, insanity.

DISCLAIMER THINGY

We do not own any of the ponies, they are all owned by Hasbro/The Hub/Lauren Faust.

But Coat Rack DOES own Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Neo, and Violet.

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Muffins was made by Derpy Hooves, FOR Derpy Hooves. -Ditzy Doo

Cupcakes were made by the Pie Twins, although the immature one did most of it. -Pinkamina

Sonic Rainboom is patented by Rainbow Dash. ORIGINAL TRICK DO NOT STEAL.- Rainbow Dash

To late Rainbow Dash, I already made a Shadow Rainboom. - Oscuridad

FFFFFFFFF... -Rainbow Dash

GUYS! GET BACK INTO THE STORY! - Knockout The Echidna

Okay okay. -Everypony

Aww, can’t I have ONE MORE CUPCAKE? -Pinkie Pie

NO! -Knockout The Echidna

Azure Island Chronicles

:Eclipse Of Destruction:

My Little Pony Lock-On Story

It was a nice summer day on Azure Island, the sky was clear, and the temperature was well in the 90s. Most people would be outside enjoying the weather, but one echidna isn’t. That echidna being Knockout Steel Coatrack, he was just logging on to his Internet chat program after having quite a odd dream last night after a party of some sort, he couldn’t make it all out, so to take his mind of it he decided to catch up on what his friends were doing and found a VERY interesting sight....

---> KOTE has joined #SRB2Pony

<Colson> ...A friend stabbed me. Pinkie Pie needs to bake him into a cupcake :(
<KOTE> Whut? You were stabbed?
<Colson> Yes, a friend stabbed me because I wanted him to be baked into a cupcake
* Shandra_Hedgechidna hands Colson a pony whistle
<KOTE> .
<Colson> so I was sadface :(
* Colson blows the pony whistle
<Colson> er... that sounded wrong.
*Pinkamina shows up and bakes Colson's friend into a cupcake, and Colson's pony whistle broke!
<Colson> So... how do I get another one?
<KOTE> Now she can't get back to Equestria D:
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Sorry, Colson, I'd pinkieport in and save you...
<Colson> so she's stuck here and is gonna go on a rampage and bake everyone into cupcakes?
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> ...but that is kinda useless against Pinkie herself So...
* Shandra_Hedgechidna flees
<Colson> We're SCREWED.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Only if we can't get 5 more pony whistles
* Shandra_Hedgechidna hands Colson a map.
<KOTE> Colson: Quick! Trap her in a cage!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Take the south 3 dungeons, I'll take the north 3.
<Colson> Wonderful...
* Colson goes into a dungeon
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> KOTE, that won't work, she'll just Pinkieport out of it
<KOTE> Do I have to keep a eye on Pinkie? Since you guys are going to b- oh no... NO!KEEP AWAY!!! BACK I SAY!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* KOTE dies
* Shandra_Hedgechidna pinkieports KOTE, but is too late.
<Colson> NOOOOOOOOO! HE'S BECOME A CUPCAKE!!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> ...I... failed...
*KOTE respawns at a checkpoint.
<KOTE> 1ups, gotta love 'em. JUST DON'T TELL PINKIE!
*Shandra_Hedgechidna pinkieports to KOTE.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Take my hand if you wish to be not-cupcake-batter!
<KOTE> Where are we going?
<Colson> lol
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Safety... OH FUCKBALLS HERE COMES PINKAMINA!
<KOTE> HURRY!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Take my hand!
<KOTE> TO THE HIDE OUT
* Colson and KOTE grab Shandra's hand and they vanish, pinkieporting to the Rainbow Dungeon.

---> KOTE has joined #RainbowDungeon
---> Shandra_Hedgechidna has joined #RainbowDungeon
---> Colson has joined #RainbowDungeon

<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Okay, we have to find Rainbow Dash's whistle before Pinkamina or Psychoshy show up.
* Shandra_Hedgechidna hands KOTE a shotgun.
* KOTE loads his shotgun
<KOTE> Okay, we are safe.
<Colson> So. WE SHOULD BE QUIET SO WE DON'T GIVE AWAY OUR LOCATION TO HER!!! RIGHT?!?!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> We're 5000 miles away.
<Colson> Good. SO SHE'LL NEVER FIND US IN THIS SUPER SECRET RAINBOWDUNGEON!!!!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Pinkamina can find us with pinkieporting, but Psychoshy will have to run. We have to find Rainbow Dash's whistle before Pinkamina shows up.
<KOTE> Quick, game plan is needed
* Pinkamina pops into view.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> By the Ancient Walkers... We. ARE. SCREWED.
<Colson> oh... shit.
* Psychoshy walks in through the door.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> GAH!
<Psychoshy> he he he
<Colson> FUCK!!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> SHE'S FAST
<Psychoshy> You’re.. Going to... LOVE ME!!!
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> HURRY! LOSE THEM IN THE LABYRINTH!
* Psychoshy lunges at Shandra_Hedgechidna, but she runs through a door and closes it so Psychoshy bonks her head on it. Colson then throws tennis balls at Psychoshy, knocking her out. However, Pinkamina grabs KOTE.
<KOTE> EEK!! HALP!!!
* Colson runs like a scared pussycat as KOTE bats at Pinkamina. Shandra_Hedgechidna kicks Pinkamina off KOTE.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> FALCON KICK!!
* Pinkamina bites Shandra_Hedgechidna in retaliation.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> OW!!
* Colson punches Pinkamina as Psychoshy gets up and tackles Shandra_Hedgechidna.
<Colson> FALCON ...PAWNCH!
* Pinkamina tries to bite Shandra again, but fails. Shandra then grabs KOTE and Colson and runs into the labyrinthine dungeon.
<KOTE> HURRY! THEY ARE CHASING US!
<Colson> EEEEE! HURRY TO...
<KOTE> AAAAAAAAA
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> WE HAVE TO FIND RAINBOW'S WHISTLE!
<Colson> ...LABYRINTH ZONE THING
<Psychoshy> You can run... BUT NOT HIDE!
* Shandra hides in a corner.
<Colson> Yeah.
<Psychoshy> YOU... ARE GOING... TO LOVE MEEEEEH!!!
<Colson> That's nice dear...
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Wait. Fluttershy, is that all you want? Love?
* Psychoshy pops out of a door right next to Colson taking to the ground
<Colson> AHHH!!
* Colson hugs Psychoshy as Pinkamina pops out of a picture on the wall taking KOTE down.
<KOTE> AAAA
<Colson> oh God.
* KOTE pulls up his Emerald Axe as Shandra_Hedgechidna casts Magic Missile at Pinkamina.
<Colson> It's like Clock Tower!
* Colson runs away while KOTE cuts some of Pinkamina's mane off with his axe
<Pinkamina> ...
* Pinkamina hisses, but is swiftly silenced when Colson kicks her.
<Psychoshy> ...
* Psychoshy looks at Colson and Shandra_Hedgechidna hugs her. Colson responds by staring at them awkwardly. She then looks at Shandra_Hedgechidna, further confused.
<Psychoshy> ...
* Finally, KOTE joins the others and hugs Psychoshy
<Psychoshy> ...
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> We DO love you Fluttershy.
* Psychoshy is now known as Fluttershy
<Fluttershy> ..you do...? ;-;
<Pinkamina> What?
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> You can just be a little intense sometimes.
<Pinkamina> NO THEY DON'T! THEY ARE LYING!!
* KOTE puts a muzzle on Pinkamina
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Don't listen to her, Fluttershy, she is holding Pinkie Pie captive.
<KOTE> Permission to keep running?
<Fluttershy> ...okay...
<Colson> I'm scared
* Fluttershy pats Colson.
<Fluttershy> No need to be afraid.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> The only way to save her is to get Rainbow, Twilight, Rarity, and AJ here ASAP
<Fluttershy> I know where they are!
* Fluttershy opens a hidden door.
<Colson> WHAT
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Fluttershy, we're in another world.
<Fluttershy> This way... if you don't mind, that is...
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> The only way to...
<Fluttershy> It's a portal.
* Pinkamina struggles out of the muzzle.
<Shandra_Hedgechidna> Okay then. KOTE, no shotgun use on Pinkamina, we need her alive
<KOTE> Eep
<Colson> lolololol
<Fluttershy> This will lead into Everfree Forest...
* KOTE ropes Pinkamina up as Shandra_Hedgechidna and Colson follow Fluttershy through the portal.
<KOTE> That should keep her for a bit...
* KOTE follows them through.
<Colson> WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

After that last line was posted, the three friends felt a small tug coming from their monitor. At first Knockout thought he was falling to sleep, but then he felt another tug that made his head bonk into the monitor. And then another one that was stronger then the last one, and then another one that was stronger then the last. Finally Knockout had his head smashed straight into the monitor, but felt nothing but his whole body being crushed up as if he was being sucked up into a black hole causing him to black out.

Upon waking up, Knockout found himself and his two friends... And Fluttershy?

“Okay, What happen to us? Is this some strange virtual reality game?” Knockout said slowly getting up from what felt like a week long nap.

“I don’t think so, Knockout”, Shandra responded. “It seems to me like we just entered one of those crappy self-insert fics. Because... isn’t that the Ruins where the Elements of Harmony were found?”

“Uh, what do you mean by that, the likelihood of us being in a fanfic is from slim to none.”

“Here we are guys, we are at the edge of Everfree Forest. My cottage is just up a little ways from here.” Fluttershy said turning around to look at her three

“Okay, now I believe you. I mean, how else can I HEAR Fluttershy talking to me?”

*Pt-ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss*

“Hey guys... what’s that sound?” Colson asked, frightened.

“Uh Shandra, does that sound like a.......”

“Oh, crap... you’re right. It does.”

“Oh my, what IS that thing!” Fluttershy said looking at a tall four-legged monster that jumped down from a tree behind Colson.

“Something we should run from... NOW!” Shandra answered before running.

“Good ide-” Knockout said, but before he could finish they heard a explosion followed with a scream of pain.

“COLSON!!!” Shandra cried, “HE OWED ME $20!!”

“EEEP!” Fluttershy yelped and dived into some bushes near by. “D-did... th-th-that thing j-j-just blow u-up?”

“That was a creeper, a green monster that sneaks up and blows the living daylights out of you. And it just killed Colson... This IS just a dream, right?”

“I don’t think so Knockout...” Shandra shakily replied.

Fluttershy crawls out of the bushes shakily replying “We.. better get to my house before we find another one...”

“How far is that?”

“About a 30 minute gallop”

“What does gallop translate to for us?” Knockout said scratching his head while looking puzzled.

“Me? A jog.” Shandra replied with a playful tone. “You?” She continued, her tone now deadpan, “A sprint.”

“Hurry, before it gets dark. Everfree Forest is the worst place to be at night!” Fluttershy said turning and galloping down the path to her cottage, Knockout and Shandra soon follow.

After about 30 minutes of walking, or galloping for Fluttershy’s case, they finally get to the cottage. Only to find a not-that-comforting surprise waiting for them...

“WELCOME BACK FLUTTERSHY” A crackling robot voice said from the side of room.

“A DALEK!? WHAT’S THAT DOING HERE?!” Shandra cried.

“Hello, Salter.” Fluttershy said rubbing against the seemingly peaceful deadly alien robot thing

“Well... a good thing neither of us is the you-know-what, right Knockout?” Shandra whispered, clearly insecure about the robot’s presence.

“Wait a second Flutter... are you keeping this thing as a pet of some sort? Don’t you know how DEADLY that thing is?” Knockout inquired, completely ignoring Shandra.

“Oh don’t be silly, when I found this one it was almost dead in a lake in the forest! I couldn’t leave the poor thing there.”

“YOU, THE HYBRID, SEEM TO KNOW ABOUT THE DALEKS.”

“Hey! Who are you calling a hybrid!” Knockout snapped back at the Dalek. “If I were you, I would watch what you say before you find an ax mashed into your head!”

“I think he means me, he must have some kind of DNA scanner.” Shandra postulated.

“ Oh... Wait a second, something is odd about my reflection in this mirror... Looks like.... oh dear...”

“Please tell me I’m dreaming that I see Pinkie in that...”

“Sorry Knockout... I see her too.”

“HEEELLLOOOO MY FRIENDS! DID YOU MISS ME?!” Pinkamina said with a crazed smile on her face as she held a knife in her tail.

“OH NO, Quick, Dalek, attack or something! I’m to young to become a echidna-skin coat!”

“Are you sure about that Mr. Knockout? I um... don’t think Salter can help much...” Fluttershy objected, concerned for the little robot’s well-being.

“Fluttershy, it’s a DALEK! The most deadliest enemies of the Doctor out there, of course it can help!”

“DOCTOR, DID YOU SAY DOCTOR? DOCTOR IS THE ENEMY OF THE DALEKS, AND MUST BE EXTERMINATED! ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE FRIENDS OF THE DOCTOR MUST BE EXTERMINATED!” The Dalek crackled as it suddenly sprang to life with its arms waving around.

“Yes, and uh...” Shandra stuttered, thinking as she went.”That Pink one is a new Doctor!”

“EXTERMINATE!”’ it cried as it shot a laser at Pinkamina, who promptly flicked her tail causing the knife to reflect the laser back at the Dalek, killing it.

“Well, so much for that plan, any better ideas? Shandra, Fluttershy?”

“Um... yeah... I have one.” Fluttershy answered.

“Run?” Knockout guessed.

“YES!” She cried as she was already halfway out the door.

The three run for Sweet Apple Acres.

“Oh no, I almost forgot! I need to get my Element of Harmony!” Fluttershy said turning back and dashing back to her cottage in hopes to find it while the others kept running.

“I’ll keep going and get help!” Shandra told her, taking off even faster.

“I’m gonna try to distract Pinkie!” Knockout said right before he ran into a tree, knocking himself out cold.

“See my little Fluttershy? They are already leaving you! They don't love you! Come back and join your Auntie Pinkie Pie.” Pinkamina said in a sweet voice.

“N-no they’re not! Knockout was just knocked out because he didn’t pay attention,” Fluttershy returned with shaky defiance, “and I’M A YEAR OLDER THAN YOU!”

“What about Shandra, she ran off and left you all by yourself with that careless echidna!”

Just then, Shandra comes back with Applejack.

“You were saying, Pinkie?”

“CONFOUND YOU AND YOUR SPEED” Pinkie yelled tackling Shandra to the ground.

Fluttershy hides behind Applejack. Shandra tries to think quickly and jams a conveniently-placed bucket over Pinkamina's head. Applejack then bucks the bucket on Pinkie’s head a few times till she falls off Shandra. As this goes on, Knockout finally regains consciousness and pops his head through a window.

“Hey guys, what did I miss?” Knockout said right as a knife hits the window frame above him. “EEP!”

Pinkamina’s eyes roll in the back of her head and she faints

“Now why is it we are pummeling poor Pinkie Pie again?” Applejack questioned as she hog-tied Pinkie’s legs using only her tail.

“She's gone insane again, and she’s turning ponies... and these.. what are you anyways?” Fluttershy asked looking at Knockout and Shandra with a confused look.

“Well, I'm a echidna.” Knockout said getting his head away from the knife that was hanging above him.

“...and I'm a hedgechidna, my mother was hedgehog, and my father was an echidna, so we just combined the two words to save time.”

“Oh, okay, let's go get Twilight. We can explain things to you to when we get there.” Fluttershy said flying up into the air a bit looking at the out-cold Pinkie.

Pinkamina emits a quiet moan indicating she is beginning to wake up..

“RUN!” Knockout yells while bonking his head on the door on his way out.

“SHE'S WAKING UP!” Shandra decried, equally spooked.

The two off-worlders run away as Applejack and Fluttershy lead their way to Twilight's house. While they are running off Applejack trips and falls without the others noticing because of their panicked rush.

A short few minutes later, they are in Twilight's library treehouse, but when they get there Twilight is nowhere to be seen. They all fear for the worst as they start to search for her....

“Oh my... where is Twilight? This place is a mess, you don’t think... Pinkie got to her, do you?” Fluttershy said flying up and looking around at the mess of books.

“I... I don’t think so, unless she came for Twilight while we were getting to your cottage....” Knockout said lifting a fallen bookshelf from the ground to see if Twilight was under it.

“SPIIIIIIKE! I'm back!” A voice said from the door from the library, it was none other than Twilight Sparkle. “What are you doing here at this time of night Fluttershy, and... who are those two... things?

“Oh Twilight! It's AWFUL!!” Fluttershy said in tears as she grabbed Twilight in a tight hug.

“There there Fluttershy, we can talk over it in a second. I’ll fix us some tea and we can talk about it over by the fire.”

So they all gathered around the fire with some tea to discuss what was going on, and after a long time of talking they finally finish...

“...and that’s everything there is to know about us, how we got here, and why we were pummeling poor Pinkie Pie into a pink and purple pulp. Problem?” Shandra finished explaining to Twilight as they were sitting next to the warm fire warming up.

“Not this again...” Twilight Sparkle groans.

“I fear for Rainbow Dash, I mean... The last time this happened she was almost killed.” Fluttershy said as she finished her tea, trying to clear her thoughts when suddenly there was a knock at the door.

“Hey, maybe that’s Rainbow Dash?” Knockout said looking at the door as the knocking got louder.

“I just hope it isn’t--” Shandra started as Twilight opened the door.

“HI!” yelled Pinkamina as she leaped on top of Twilight holding a pan of freshly baked cupcakes. “Want some... Cupcakes?” Pinkamina pointed to the orange-colored cupcakes.

Shandra ran to the far side of the room and shouted “I KNEW IT!”

“O-orange... cupcakes...?” Knockout said staring at them, noticing a small bit of a red swirl on them, and apples on three of the cupcakes. “Oh man, don’t tell me they are....”

“They are apple flavored!” Pinkamina said, taking a bite of one. “YUMMY!”

“EEP!” Fluttershy yelped and hid behind Twilight. “S-sh-she got Applejack!”

“I thought she was with us!” Shandra yelled.

“I don’t know, but we better stop her before we’re next!” Knockout said pulling out his battle ax and getting ready for a fight.

“Silly echidna... It’s not safe to play with such sharp objects!” The crazed Pinkie said as she put the cupcakes down and walked closer with her knife in her tail. “Awww, why so serious? How about we put a smile on that face of yours...?”

Twilight Sparkle uses her magic to bind Pinkamina to the ceiling.

“HEY! LET ME GO!” Pinkamina commands as she drops a bag that falls to the floor, spilling parts of Applejack everywhere.

“Oh... no...” Shandra stares in shock as the contents of the bag spills.

“Aw, there goes my special ingredients!”

“...Oh dear, this isn't good, she really DID get AJ!” Twilight said backing away from Pinkie. “And without her, we can't summon the Elements of Harmony to suppress Pinkamina!”

“Why'd you tie me up here? All I want is to make some cupcakes with my best friends....”

“So, Pinkie is gone forever...” Shandra said, tears forming in her eyes.

“...Wait a second!” Knockout reaches into one of his coat’s pockets and pulls out a monitor that has the word ‘1-Up’ on the screen. “I have two 1-Ups still, we can use one to revive her!” He quickly dashes to the pile in a search to find some way to make it so Applejack would be the one to get the 1up.

“Fluttershy! Do you still have that feather Philomena gave you?” Shandra inquired, realization spread over her face.

“Yes, why?”

“The 1-Up can’t work without her being able to be the one to break it...”

“I know of a... spell from another world that might work...” Shandra explained. “But it requires that Phoenix feather to work.”

“Shandra, you know magic spells?” Knockout asked, looking up from what he was doing.

With a new determination starting to shine through, Shandra replied, “Only a few. I’m not even sure if they work right in parallel worlds.”

“Ggggrrr... LET ME GO!” Pinkamina screamed as she wrestled furiously against the magic binding her.

“Well.... If it is what we need to save Applejack, then take it...” Fluttershy said as she pulled out the feather.

“Augh... can't... hold... her... much... longer...” Twilight said as she strained to keep Pinkie bound to the roof, her horn glowing brightly as she fought through the mental stress.

“Come on!” Pinkamina continued her protesting.

“...but it will be destroyed in the process. Are you sure, Fluttershy?” Shandra continued.

“Yes, Applejack’s life is worth far more than any feather could ever be.” Fluttershy stated firmly.

“All I want is to make cupcakes! And what better way than to do it with friends!?”

“Okay, here goes... I haven’t really tried this recently...” Shandra half-truthed as she took the feather and focused. “You all might want to stand back a little.”

They all stand back as Shandra casts Phoenix Down on Applejack in an attempt to revive her.

“...NO!!” Pinkamina exclaims as she finally breaks free of the magic and tackles Shandra. As this is going on, Applejack's remains shine with a brilliant white light and begin to reform into the golden-maned, orange earth pony.

“AAAH!” Twilight screams as the rebound from her magic’s diffusion sends her careening back and into a bookcase.

“NO. NO! NOOOO!” Pinkamina screams as she lunges and bites Shandra, shaking violently trying to shred flesh with her flat, vegetarian, pony teeth.

“AAAARGH! That HURTS! How about a...” Shandra shrieks, charging a pink glow in her hand. “ MAGIC MISSILE!”

“Not good, NOT GOOD!” Knockout says as he tries to think of what to do looking for his ax, only to find a piece of wood beside him, using that he bonks Pinkamina over the head. Only to be met with a buck to the face as Shandra's spell blasts Pinkamina away.

“ARGH” Pinkamina shrieked as she was blown back.

“Uuuungh...”Twilight Sparkle moans as she comes to just when Pinkamina slams into the bookcase next to her.

“...HELLO MY FRIEND, THOUGHT YOUR MAGIC COULD HOLD ME?”

“EEP!” Twilight Sparkle gallops away as Pinkamina pulls up a knife and rolls over.

“Awww Phooey!” Pinkamina said looking at where Twilight was at with a grin. “Oh well, Shandra's are just as good!”

Just then Shandra grabbed Pinkamina around the heck and put her in a vice-like grip, trying to render Pinkamina unconscious from lack of air. “Guys! RUN!” She cries as Pinkamina flicked her tail that had the knife and stabbed her. “GET RARITY!” Shandra ordered, “I’ll hold her hee--AAAAH!”

“MEEP” Fluttershy yelped as she stood still in fear, as Pinkamina continues flicking her knife-wielding tail and stabs Shandra again and again. While Pinkie was distracted, Knockout sneaks up behind Pinkamina and bonks her on the head again as Shandra fights through the pain to pull out her gun and set it to stun. Pinkamina falls unconscious.

“Ow... this is not good. I don't know any healing magicks for those who are still alive...”

“Quick, help me get the bookshelf on her!” Knockout said as he struggled to tip a bookshelf filled with books over on top of Pinkamina. After a few minutes struggle Knockout finally tips the shelf over on top of Pinkamina. “That should hold her.”

Shandra stumbles up. Fluttershy follows Twilight Sparkle to the Carousel Boutique. Shandra follows, supported by Knockout, after the others, despite being in so much pain.

“Oh my. I thought... where is Shandra?” Fluttershy questioned just before she turned around and saw Shandra and Knockout limping toward them ”OH MY! You need some help?” In response, Shandra collapses, spitting up a little blood. Fluttershy dashed to her with a first aid kit. Twilight Sparkle knocks on Rarity's door furiously.

“Ow... “ Shandra moaned as the pain finally started registering.

“Twilight, do you have any sort of healing magic? I don't think first aid will help...”

“Maybe... the nurse ponies at Ponyville urgent care showed me a few things during the baked bads incident.“ Twilight said as Fluttershy tried to use first aid on Shandra.

“Well, Pinkie shouldn't be here too soon she's under a bookcase at your library, Twilight!“ Knockout said as he was getting caught up with the rest of the group.

“Knockout, she's also able to pinkieport, like me, remember? ...Why can I anyway? I never had that power before Colson blew the whistle...” Shandra exposited, slowly regaining her strength with the wounds now magically healed.

“Maybe the good Pinkie gave you the power just before Pinkamina consumed her...” Knockout said thinking about that fact, not quite sure how it worked.

“Makes about as much sense as anything else that's happened today.” Shandra concurred, equally puzzled by it, but deciding it was best not to think too hard about Pinkie’s abilities.

“Wait, where's Applejack?” Twilight said panickedly looking around to find her.

“...Did we leave her behind... AGAIN?”

Fluttershy dashes off to the Library as Apple Jack comes from the other direction..

”Sorry Ah'm late everypony, ah got a bit confused on what happened, last thing ah remember was being attacked by Pinkie, and then I found mahself alive.” Apple Jack said as she walked up.

Sensing the obvious deception, having seen many films where the exact situation was presented, Shandra punches out Apple Jack with almost no hesitation. ”Stop being a liar. Applejack isn’t that short.” She stated bluntly. as the disguise fell off revealing...

“OWWWWW! What was that fer?! Ah didn't do nuttin' wrong...” Apple Bloom sobbed.

“Hey guys! I heard something was going on over here!” Rainbow Dash said as she and Fluttershy return from the library.

“OH GREAT! Now we don't need to find you!” Shandra called back to them.

“Quick, Rainbow Dash! Hide!” Knockout said remembering that Rainbow Dash was in the first “Cupcakes” thing.

“Pinkie's gone NUTS... AGAIN” Twilight informed Rainbow Dash with a seriously annoyed tone.

“Really? Well, I guess it’s a good thing I saw you guys running and decided to follow you. And besides, I need to ask you...” Rainbow Dash said as she pulled off her skin to reveal that it was a disguise.
“LIKE MY COSTUME?” Pinkie said with a gleaming and twisted smile. “IT’S MADE OF 100% RAINBOW DASH SKIN!”

“EEP!!” Fluttershy squeaked in shock before jumping behind Shandra.

“RAINBOW DASH, WE WERE TOO LATE!” Twilight said as she saw Pinkie throw off the costume, transforming from rage into Twilight Rapidash!
.

“ ...I should have known she would have been the one she would hide in...” Knockout mumbled under his breath.

“Also... It’s been VERY tiring chasing you guys around, so I am gonna make things easier for me, but harder for you!” Pinkie said with a giggle as she she pressed a button and hops off screen.

“ Pinkie....” Twilight said quietly.

Suddenly, the ground starts to rumble as a huge robot in Pinkie Pie's image emerges from the earth. Apple Bloom gasps, wets herself, and runs back to the farm to hide under her bed in terror. The real Applejack stumbles to the group, still slightly dazed with revival sickness.

“PINKIE...” She repeated, with more force

“BEHOLD! MY NEW PARTY INSTRUMENT!” Pinkamina said over a loud crackling speaker coming from the robot as it turned it’s head to look at the group below it. “MECHA PINKIE PIE!”

“PINKIE!!!!!!” Twilight shrieked as her flaming mane danced and singed Knockout’s ax

“But...” Shandra stammered ”...but that isn't supposed to come for another...

Twilight Rapidash dodges the hoof.

“Silly Hedgechidna! You KNOW you can't keep me out of the plot! I can break the fourth wall!”
Pinkamina said as she kicks at Twilight Rapidash with the mecha's large Stainless-steel hoof.

Fluttershy faints as Twilight copies Shandra's Magic Missile spell and spams it. The blasts having no effect whatsoever.

“Well, THIS wasn’t expected.... Any ideas?” Knockout said as he swiped his ax back from Twilight. “I doubt my ax will have any effect on this thing...”

“One...I have one.”

“Run?”

“No, we use your extra 1-up on Rainbow Dash by smashing it while it is inside her skin, get Rarity to WAKE UP, and THEN we run.

“Can’t a pony get her beauty sleep? Just WHAT is all this racket?” Rarity yelled as she came to her window, cucumbers covering her eyes.

“OH LOOK!” Pinkamina exclaimed cheerfully.

“Pinkie? Oh what could you possibly want at this ho--” Rarity said as she took off her eye cucumbers, stopping as she noticed the giant, metal pony of death in front of her..

“MORE STUFF FOR CUPCAKES!!” and Pinkamina powered up the robot’s forelegs to stomp mode.

Rarity screams as Pinkamina puts her mech's foot over Rarity. Shandra leaps up to the second story window and pulls Rarity out, down, and away from danger, just as the hoof pulverizes the Carousel in one strike.
“Oh no, she isn’t getting away that easily.” Pinkamina claimed, starting up a vacuum machine that tried to suck Rarity inside the mech to her doom.

“Quick! Applejack, buck this monitor once I put it in!” Knockout instructed as he stuffed a 1-Up into Rainbow Dash's skin.

“Agh... That’s about my limit...“ Shandra panted, fighting the tendrils threatening her mind with unconsciousness.

“...Uh... okay, but ah’m not shore how that’ll help...” Applejack slurred in her fogged mind, doing exactly as she was told.

“Come on 1-Up, do what you are built to do!” Knockout said crossing his fingers. Suddenly, Rainbow Dash's skin quickly closes and comes back to life.

“WHOWHATWHEREWHEN. WHERE IS THAT PINKIE AT! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON THAT BACK-STABBING PINKIE...” Rainbow Dash said furiously punching the air, but then sees the huge mechanical robot towering over them. “Is that a....”

Shaking her head at the sight of this, Applejack exclaimed, “WHAT IN TARNATION?!”

““Rainbow Dash is alive, GREAT!! We need to get out of here...”Shandra said, observing Pinkamina’s mechanized murder mare, trying to figure out why Pinkie wasn’t trying any of her weird reality warps. Eventually she realized it. “Of course! With her party energy powering the mech, she can't follow us. Everyone grab on!”

“He he he! Why are you all leaving so soon, you should stay for the CUPCAKES!” Pinkamina exclaimed as the mech’s mouth opened and started to lob huge cupcake shaped bombs around the area.

After Twilight calms down and changes back, she grabs everyone with magic and touches them all to Shandra as Mecha Pinkie Pie's cupcakes starts to destroy everything around them

“THIS PLACE IS GONNA BE A CRATER SOON! WHERE ARE WE GONNA GO?!”

“Only one chance left, the Ruins!” Shandra replied as she pinkieported everyone back to the Everfree Forest.

”YOU CAN RUN MY FRIENDS--”

Upon reaching the forest, they can see the smoke already starting to rise from where they were just at as the huge mechanical robot turns it’s attention to the rest of Ponyville.

“Well, we saved ourselves, but what about the other ponies in Ponyville?” Knockout asked as he watched the machine’s rampage.

“UGH, would someone tell me what's going on! And WHY there is a huge Pinkie Pie spitting cupcakes from her mouth?!” Rainbow Dash asked looking rather annoyed about the whole deal.

“Pinkie...” Shandra tried to start, but couldn’t finish because she was too busy gasping for air.

“...she went nuts again. But this time she brought these other guys along from another world I think, or something.” Twilight finished.

“Last thing I remember was being skinned alive! and... something about... cupcakes?” Rainbow said, holding her head.

“We need to regroup and explain to the ponies just what the heck is going on.” Shandra muttered.

“Okay, so we have Rainbow Dash, Twilight, AJ....Fluttershy is out cold...and Rarity. You guys have got your Elements of Harmony, right?” Knockout said looking around, noticing that the Mecha was nowhere to be seen. “Hey... where did Pinkie go...?”

Suddenly Pinkamina’s robot came from the sky, having leapt almost the entire forest in one bound. “--BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM ME!”

“ALRIGHT PINKIE, PARTY TIME IS OVER YOU BACK-STABBING PONY!” Rainbow Dash yelled as she tried to rush the robot, only to be smacked effortlessly to the ground. Shandra rushed to catch Rainbow but their momentum drives them both into the ground hard.

“AH!” Shandra cried out in pain as her knee was plowed into a upwards-pointed stone.

“Regroup to a cave maybe, Like that one?”

“Definitely” Shandra said as she ran into the cave as fast as she could with her hurt knee, supported by Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash flies inside.

Knockout dashed into the cave and found countless gems. “WHOO HOO! WE'RE RICH!”

“MINE! Rarity yelled as she magicked the gems away from Knockout

“HEY! Why are you in my cave?” A angry dragon poked it’s head in from another part of the cave. “And what are you doing with MY gems?”

Applejack bit Rainbow Dash's tail as she tries to kick the dragon's snout. “Hey!” Rainbow protested.

“Whoa there, Nelly! No need to kick another dragon for no reason.” Applejack retorted.

“I WASN'T! I was just trying to get into the cave, and THEN kick him!”

“Oh, uh hi. Hey Twilight, think you can explain to the dragon why we are in here?” Knockout said as he slowly backed away and then dashed behind a rock.

“Okay, well mister dragon, we're hiding from a giant robot.” Twilight started to explain but was cut off by the dragon.

“What is a robot?”

“A beast about your size made of metal.”

Applejack facehoofs and a giant explosion is heard outside of the cave.

“What was that?” The dragon said lifting it’s head at the sound.

“ ...and I'd assume it's the source of that blast.” Twilight said as she turned her head to the exit of the cave.

“It DARES attack MY cave and MY gems!?!?” The dragon said as fire snorts out of it’s nostrils, causing a idea to form in Twilight’s head.

“Why... YES!! It dares attack your cave and gems!”!

“WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT” The dragon walks out of the corner to show its head is about 5 times larger then it's body...which is the size of Spike's. The group stood in silence being dumbfounded at the dragon’s size

“...THAT is gonna take on the robot?” Rainbow Dash said in a mocking tone while looking at the dragon.

“Uh, Do you have a spell to fix that?” Knockout said looking to Twilight

“I think I do... but I have no idea how I cast it.” Twilight said thinking for a moment. “The only time I did it was when I got my cutie mark, and that was because I lost control of my magic...”

“I -er, give me a second second...” The dragon covers himself in a cloud of smoke, when it clears he is a huge, awesome deadly dragon.

“H-how did you do that?”

“Dragon trick. Trade secret. NOW THEN, TIME TO SHOW THAT ROBOT WHO NOT TO MESS WITH!” The dragon flew outside to face Mecha Pinkie Pie.

“OH HO HO HO! THEY SEND OUT A DRAGON?” Pinkamina chuckled at the sight of it. “I don’t see how the old generation’s war weapon can stop this new generation’s!”

“Now if you would PLEASE tell me what in Celestia's mane is going on?” Rarity questioned as fire, smashes, and explosion sounds start flaring outside.

“Well for starters, Pinkie's lost it.” Knockout said leaning against the caves wall.

“Again?” Rarity and Applejack said in perfect unison

“She had the nerve to skin me alive!” Rainbow Dash added.

“And turned AJ into cupcakes!”

“Then how are they...” Rarity asked, eyes widening. “GHOSTS!!!!”

“Uh no, not a ghost. I used a 1-Up. on them.”

“A What-up?” Rainbow Dash asked, confused.

“In simple terms, it’s a magic spell from another world.” Shandra quipped. Over the Dragon’s groans and the cave’s shaking.

“Uh, Not really a-” Knockout starts to explain but gets interrupted by Shandra whispering to him.

“Just go with it. We don't want to risk breaking their pony brains yet.”

“Yeah, it's a magic spell that brings people back to life.” Knockout said as the dragon smashes into the cave. “ Let's hope this cave can take a pounding...”

“But he can only use it once a day.” Shandra continued.

“Then how am AH still around? Last thing I reme--” Applejack started, only to be drowned out by Pinkamina’s loudspeaker.

“You guys are no fun! Sending out a poor old dragon to fight me, how would you like to fight against something that can easily outmatch you!” Pinkamina said from outside in a mocking tone. “While you guys hide in that small cave, I'll be making cupcakes in Canterlot!”

“OH NO! Princess Celestia is there!” Twilight said panicked about the fact that he teacher was about to made into cupcake batter.

“After all, SOMEPONY needs to show them a REAL party!” Pinkamina declared as the mecha’s jets begin to flare up. “GOOD BYE FRIENDS!~”

“...time to run?” Knockout asked as Twilight Sparkle got a panicked look on her face.

“No... we just need Spike to sent a note to get everyone out of there.” Shandra calmly told him.

“Okay! Spike! TAKE A NO-” Knockout stopped mid-sentence and looked at Twilight Sparkle who had gone into the fetal position. “Uh, wrong line?”

“I’m way ahead of you, dude.” Spike told him as he fired the note away.

“Oh, okay. Now to wait.”

Meanwhile, at Canterlot. Pinkie Pie is already making the town nothing but rubble with her cupcake bombs.

“MREEHEHEHEHE!!!” Pinkamina giggled with glee and started to sing her cupcake song in a menacing tone. “ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS TAKE A CUP OF FLOWER AND ADD IT TO THE MIX!!!!”

Back at the cave, our heroes await a letter back from Canterlot.

“Now, please explain how if only one of us could be revived with yer spell, both me and Dash here 'ave been?” Applejack pushed the issue again.

“I revived AJ...ow... with Fluttershy's Phoenix Down...” Shandra said, still nursing her knee.

“Her whatnow?”

“Philomena's feather...”

“So in short, we were killed and we are alive? That’s nice and all, but when will we go kick some robot tail?” Rainbow Dash asked getting ready to dash out of the cave.

“Spike, got a letter back now?” Knockout asked walking up to the rest of the group.

“Does it matter? We can't possibly win with Twilight catatonic and Fluttershy unconscious.” Rainbow Dash said with her own special brand of blunt truth.

Spike burps out a letter. “Yep”

“Okay, what does it say?”

"’We've escaped, all of Canterlot has been evacuated to Fillydelphia, don't worry.’" Spike read aloud to the others.

“WHOA! LOOK OUTSIDE!” Rainbow Dash yelled with urgency.

Everyone crawls out of the cave and sees a monster-sized explosion.

“Isn't that where... Canterlot was?” Knockout asked in a tone of fear and shock. “ If that is the kind of firepower that thing has, should we go meet with Celestia to find out what to do?”

“G-good thing sh-she moved them... hehe.” Twilight said nervously, coming out of her trance.

“Wh-what? What's happening?” Fluttershy said as she slowly got back up, still frightened by all the fighting that had happened. “Wh-where did Pinkie go, what happened to the dragon?”

“You just missed a dragon fight, and a town blowing up!”

“No... now that Fluttershy is up, we have all the ammo we need.” Twilight started, a creepy tone mixing with her serious expression.

“Wha-wha-what do you m-mean?” Fluttershy asked in shock of the sight of the smoke coming from Canterlot.

“Using the Elements of Harmony, we should be able to reawaken Pinkie from the depths of her mind!“ Twilight explained.

“Oh...that. Well uh... I think I dropped it at Rarity's..”

“WHAT!?!?!?”Twilight yelled at the top of her lungs, her eye twitching.

“...Wasn’t that place that was bombed?” Knockout asked, and then saw a capsule fall from the sky and it lands inside of the cave. “Uh... Where did that come from, and what’s in side it...?”

“No, fool, that was Canterlot, Rarity’s place was just stomped... then cratered.” Shandra corrected.

“I guess I’ll open it...” Knockout opens the capsule and reaches in side. “Oh uh, look... HALF of the Element of Kindness... It was split in half... Is that even SAFE?”

“Maybe I can locate the other half using our other 4.” Twilight theorized “I’m not sure if it will work, but anything is worth a shot right now.”

“Inb4 Pinkie is using it” Knockout called

“Twilight, darling... I left mine at my Boutique.” Rarity revealed

“Wait, we needed to bring our Elements of Harmony? I left mine at my cloud-house...” Rainbow Dash dished looking at Twilight with a faint, awkward smile. “Should I go and get it...?”

“Mahn's still back at the farm.” Applejack plainly admitted.

“D-guh- wha-” Twilight stammered, unable to find words to carry her feelings.

Knockout and Shandra stare dumbfounded at the two over the fact that they left the mighty artifacts at home. Knockout then bonks his head against the cave's wall as Shandra bashes hers against the floor to express how dumb they find this.

“OKAY! That’s just GREAT! We have a giant killer robot out there trashing everything, and WE are in here without the ONLY THINGS that can stop it!” Knockout yelled, annoyed by the whole situation. “What is the closest place to go you think?”

Twilight Sparkle pulls out her Element tiara and puts it on.

“Uh... y’all just carry it around with you, all the time?” Applejack questioned.

“Yes, I do. Now then, after Fluttershy's cottage... I'd say Sweet Apple Acres is the closest.” As she said this, the capsule starts to smoke.

“Uh... Knockout? Ponies?” Shandra tried to get the others’ attention. As the capsule began emitting a hissing noise.

“...It's a....Bomb?” Knockout said as he watched the capsule as the hissing sound grew louder.

“HIT THE DIRT!” Shandra screams as she tackles everyone, adrenaline allowing her to ignore the pain in her knee briefly, just as the bomb blew up. When capsule blew up the cave’s roof caved in showing Mecha Pinkie Pie standing outside again. “Aw... horsefeathers.”

“HELLO MY FRIENDS~” Pinkamina giggled. “I heard you guys were looking for your Elements of Harmony! So I went and got them all FOR YOU!” She squealed at the group and saw the other 5 Elements were embedded into the robot's neck.

“...A robot powered by the Elements of Harmony...?” Rainbow Dash said glaring at it with fear seen all over her body.

“Twilight! NOW OR NEVER!” Shandra called.

“Right!” Twilight responded as she tried to channel the powers of the Elements

“...Sounds like a scheme that the fat man I've heard Shandra rant about tries over and over again...” Knockout muttered to himself.

“OH NO YOU DON’T TWILIGHT!” Pinkamina scolded as the mech shoots out a tazer at Twilight Sparkle. “I’m not going to let you ruin this for me!”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Twilight screamed as she lost the Element of Magic and flew into the wall.

MechaPinkiePie then launches a claw to grab the Element of Magic.

“GOTCHA!” Pinkamina said as the claw places the last element into the robot’s neck. “HE HE HE! Now then, all I need to do is find Luna! While you guys wait for Twilight...” The machine opens a small hole from one of its hooves and a pan of white cupcakes with a sun on one of them is dropped. “Enjoy some freshly baked cupcakes!”

“Well... we're doomed.” Spike deadpanned in a tone that would make Bender B. Rodriguez proud.

“What?” The others all asked at once.

“Wow, that sounds might del--OH NO!” Apple jack said before realizing what has been placed before them.

Twilight Sparkle tears up.

“Oh dear...”

“...How dare you...” Fluttershy said looking at the pan and then at the robot. “How DARE you!” Her eye began to twitch as she started to fly into the air. “HOW DARE YOU?!?!”

Shandra just stood there with shadows hiding her eyes from view. She put an arm in front of Fluttershy, holding the pegasus back from rushing the mechanized murder-master.

“...No...” Shandra started in acreepily calm voice.

“Awww.... You angry little Fluttershy?” Maybe you want some... ANGEL fruit cupcakes instead?” Pinkamina chuckled as a second pan falls out with two bunny ears on one of the cupcakes.”

“KEEP AWAY! FROM ME SHANDRA!!” Fluttershy screamed louder than anyone ever thought her capable.

“Fluttershy... I'll handle this...” Shandra continued setting her gun to HYPERDEATH as Fluttershy slapped her with her tail.

“SHE'S MINE! ALL MINE!” Fluttershy delivered with an evil laugh.

“Not THIS again...” Knockout groaned as he watched Fluttershy getting even angrier.

“I don't want you getting hurt by this attack... please stay back.” Shandra pleaded, hoping somehow it would get through Fluttershy’s psychopathic rage. “...There's no guarantee you'd survive even an indirect hit... any of you.”

Fluttershy hisses at Shandra, but is tackled by Rainbow Dash “Cool it Fluttershy! I'M the hotheaded one! Not you!” She said holding her down.

“Eh, you guys are so BORING! The Grand Galloping Gala was funner then this!” The mech’s jets start to flare up again. “I’m going to find Luna, when you guys are REALLY ready to try to stop me, let me know.” Pinkamina said as she flies off to find Luna.

“Well then...” Shandra looks up revealing the cold, vengeful fury in her expression. “Let's see how boring...”
Shandra pinkieports onto the robot's back. “...you find THIS!!”

The huge robot sends off a static burst. “Nu UH UH! Didn't think I would expect this, right?” Pinkamina said as the robot’s head turned around to face Shandra as cannons fold out of the back.

“Actually... I did.” Shandra came back as she jumped away from the voltage.

“Remember, silly? I KNOW the plot! I broke the 4th wall!”

“Then you know THIS...”

Pinkamina stopped for a second and then remembered what was about to happen. “AND I can Pinkieport!” she yelled as she tried to warp away but failed. “...Phooey. I forgot I couldn't warp the robot...“ she said as she looked down while floating in the air.

“...is going to happen!!” Shandra shot the robot vaprorizing it as Pinkamina fell to the ground. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!” Shandra pinkieported to the ground and caught Pinkamina, saving her, and then threw her away before she could start attacking. Pinkamina blinks then twitches while starting to giggle softly..

“Uh... Pinkie? Are you coming back now...?” Knockout ask as he slowly walked closer.

“He he MREE HEHEHEHEHE” Pinkamina said as she twitches again.”You may have stopped THAT mecha-me...” she pulled up a remote and smashed a button and a group of Mecha Pinkie Pies slowly start to pop up everywhere. These ones, just flying heads, rise into the sky behind Pinkamina.

Twilight Sparkle catches up to the others with Rarity and Applejack

“What the... WHAT?”

“MREEE HEHEHEHEHEHE” Pinkamina laughs maniacally as she pinkiports away.

“SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS. 5...” A Loudspeaker extends from the army Mecha Heads crackles out loud.

“Not good...” Shandra commented

“4...”

“EEP!” Knockout said trying to think of what to do, but kept drawing blanks.

“3...”

“I’M TOO YOUNG TO DIE” Wailed Rarity as she grabbed onto Twilight.

“2...”

Fluttershy whimpers, covering her head with her hooves and closing her eyes.

“1...”

Shandra grabs everyone and pinkieports to SugarCube Corner just before a bright flash erupts from the heads covering the forest.

After the warp, they find themselves in a dusty kitchen that appeared to be out of service for a few days at least.

“I'M SO SCARED” cried Fluttershy who was hiding behind Rarity who had fainted.
Shandra gasped for breath tired from jumping so many passengers so far so often. When she recovered they all looked outside to see a huge mushroom cloud explosion over Everfree Forest.

“...That was... a nuke” Knockout said as he watched the explosion from one of the windows.

“A what?” Twilight asked trying to figure out what Knockout just said.

“Not JUST a self-destruct, but a stinking nuke. A bomb that is able to make a place uninhabitable for YEARS!”

“Are you... serious?” Shandra asked, stunned Pinkie, or Pinkamina, or whatever, would even know HOW to build said device.

“You guys don't have nuclear power here, DO you? Well, save for Pinkie. ...Did Pinkie even live through that though?”

“New...” Twilight started.

“...clear...” Rarity picked up.

“...power?” Applejack finished.

“..In short, a bomb, that sends off deadly radiation, and with a blast that big...” Knockout stops and thinks for a bit “ ...it should reach Ponyville in a few hours. And bring almost certain death upon anyone that inhales it.”

“At the risk of invoking the trope...Nothing Could Have Survived That.” Shandra said cautiously .

“WHAT?!” Twilight shrieked. “ IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO STOP IT?”

“Well, if you can find some huge something to suck it up, maybe.” Knockout gets interrupted by Shandra.

“No. Unless they’ve painted the buildings with lead-based paint, the town is pretty much doomed.”

“...or that. But you guys don't have that here... right?”

““Oh hi guys!” A voice rang out from a chair in the corner.

“I knew it would invoke the trope.” Shandra cursed her own knowledge of how things were going down.

“I KNEW you would come here! Since it's the only safe place in town” The chair spinned around showing Pinkamina with a cute, yet twisted smile.

“Safe?”

“Only?”

“But how?”

“Whah?”

“Silly ponies, it was coated in that stuff they were talking about!” Pinkie said spinning around in her chair.
“Now then, here we are at my bakery like old times, right Rainbow Dash?~”

“...of course it was... Why would you not shield your own home base.” Shandra cringes in memory.

“Oh no... not again...” Rainbow Dash said as she started to back away.

“Don’t worry friends... We all know how this will end, so I’ll you these options!”

“...options?” Knockout asked.

“I know how this goes down...” Shandra said quietly to herself. “Why do I know...”
“Ah.... So I shouldn't give you the question then?” Pinkamina said with a grin.

“and Rainbow won't like it one bit...” She continued her mutterings.

“What won’t I like?” Rainbow asked fearfully.
“If you’re so smart, then tell me what I am gonna ask. If you are right, I'll let you all live!”

“You are going to kill Knockout and me so we can't interfere... then... carve everypony up into cupcakes... starting with Rainbow Dash.”

“Ohhh... so sorry!~” Pinkamina said mocking Shandra. “YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG!”

“What? But... this is exactly where that vision...”

“Shandra? What the hay are you talking about?!” Twilight questioned.

Pinkamina spins in her chair and Pinkamina points to the red button. “See, I've lined the town's buildings with the SAME explosives my robot had! All I have to do is press this button, and BOOM! THE BEST FIREWORKS SHOW EVER!” She said with a crazed grin on her face that sent a chill down Knockout’s spine.

“That grin....” Knockout thought to himself shuddering at the though of who it reminded him of.

“WHAT?!” Everyone else screamed.

“MREE HEHEHEHEHEHE! And just like I said, I would let you live if you were right, but now you will all die!” Pinkamina said as she presses the button and a pop covers the chair ”GOOD BYE MY FRIENDS, IT WAS NICE PARTYING ONE LAST TIME!~”

A speaker then starts to crackle. “ONE MINUTE FROM FIREWORK SHOW” It said in a monotone voice.

“I'm giving TONS of time to say your good byes!” Pinkamina said as the pod launched through the roof.

“50 SECONDS LEFT” The voice said as the ground slowly starts to shake.

“Okay, who is GOOD with diffusing bombs?” Knockout said looking around. “If Ryan was here, he would be able to defuse them...”

“Well, he isn’t so what’re we gonna do?”

“Portal gun...?” Knockout asked showing no clue of what to do.

Shandra facepalms. “Knockout, Aperture is several universes away...”

“We could run far away!” Rarity said shaking. “ I can’t let my new manestyle get ruined!”

“Even Sonic’s not that fast Rarity, ugh... Only one thing left to try...”

“Awww... no fair! You're missing the show!” Pinkamina pouted from the speaker. “Here, let me speed it up! How about... TEN SECONDS. Surely Rainbow Dash can clear it up like she does with the clouds!”

“Is that a cha- WHAT AM I THINKING!” Rainbow Dash stopped herself before she dashed out to try to defuse the bombs

5...

“Uh... Shandra?” Knockout asked with hope in his eyes.

4...

“I can go maybe one more warp before passing out, but I’m not sure...”

3...

“You have to try!” Twilight said, “I can’t warp with my magic and bring more than one passenger!”

2...

“Eep!” Fluttershy said as they all held hands, and hooves.

1...

“HOLD ON!” Shandra pinkieported onto Pinkamina's pop.

A loud ear piercing beep echoed through Ponyville making all the ponies there stop their work and look for the source of the sound.

...0!

From space Pinkamina watched the explosion with a smirk on her face and popcorn in hooves, knowing that no pony could have survived the blast. Or so she though when she hear a loud popping sound behind her, she spun her chair around and saw the group of heroes all fall from a white flash in a pile. “HEY! What are you doing in here!?”

“Guh--hah... hah...surviving... the blast...” Shandra managed before passing out from exhaustion.

“Well, if you are gonna be in here...~” Pinkamina said as she presses a button.

“Oh no, is she going to go suicidal on us...?” Knockout said watching her press the button.

“I think I'm gonna be sick...” Rarity started up her complaining.

“Have a seat, it’s going to be a long time till you all can walk on that small planet again!“ Pinkamina said as chairs popped out and she spun around with a happy smile much like the old Pinkie Pie they used to know. ”And enjoy the ride!”

“I can feel the presence of the Element of Magic!” Twilight announced to the others, excited that their chances weren’t zero just yet.

“Silly Twilight, the robot had them! ...I think I left them there” Pinkamina hopped out of her chair and checks the cargo bay finding all 6 Elements in neat glass cases on pillows. “…Oh phooey. Oh well, next stop, THE SUN!” Pinkamina giggled “Time to do some more dumpi-” She stopped mid-sentence and looked at Twilight who was now channeling the powers ”Wait, what? No... NO... NO!” she screamed jumping out of her seat and pulling up her knife. “YOU ARE NOT GOING TO RUIN THIS FOR ME!” She wailed in a demented voice.

Twilight Sparkle shot a violet ray at Pinkamina just as she leapt at her.

“OW! THAT HUUUUUUURTS!!!” Pinkamina whined.

Rarity shoots a white ray at Pinkamina as Knockout tackles her.

“Keep her down!” Knockout yelled, not quite remembering what exactly the Elements did when used.

Applejack shoots an orange ray at Pinkamina.

“HEY! WATCH IT!!” Knockout yelled as the rays shoot by him.

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash shot a set of yellow and blue rays.

“No... NO... NO NO NO! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO! YOU'LL KILL US ALL.” Pinkamina screamed as she began shining in a vivid, hot-pink glow.

Shandra comes to just in time to witness as a large white flash fills the entire ship...

The brilliant, white flash gave way to an large rainbow-colored tornado swirling where Pinkamina had been standing. The prismatic cyclone swirled faster and faster as Pinkamina continued her whinnies and neighs of protest, eventually being drowned out by the roaring of the turbulent, light-forged funnel. After what seemed like an eternity, the rainbow emitted by the Elements of Harmony unleashed a devastating explosion which just fell short of managing to penetrate the hull of the space pod and suck all aboard into the merciless vacuum of outer space.This blast knocked out the pod’s engines. When the dust cleared everyone slowly got up to see if they were successful.

“Gotcha...” Shandra muttered, raising slowly to her feet.

“Hyeguys'swhat'supwhat'sbeengoingonwhyareweinspace!” Pinkie said as she was hopping around everyone else who was still getting back up. “Oh, hi Knockout. I knew we would see each other again!“

“What...?” Knockout asked dumb founded, but was interrupted by Twilight.

“P-Pinkie!” Twilight Sparkle interjected with joy.

“Why are we in space? Oh oh oh, Wait, I know! A party, IN SPACE!”” Pinkie said as she looked out a window. ”Oh wow, what is that a planet? Looks like Swiss cheese!”

“Same ol’ Pinkie...” Applejack said as everyone then joined together in a giant group hug.

“Yeah, that’s the Pinkie I’ve seen on Youtube...” Knockout moaned as he was regaining his breath after the hug. “WHY must you girls hug so tight?”

“...It's... It's the moon.” Shandra stammered... hoping against all hope she was right.

“Oh no Not THAT one!” Pinkie said as she looked out the porthole and pointed to the planet they had taken off from. “THAT ONE!”

Shandra looks out the window and sees the destruction.

“That... was Equestria...” Applejack said staring at the planet that looked like swiss cheese. “Ah cain’t believe it done that much damage.”

“Uh, didn’t we stop the nukes from going off...?” Knockout said in disbelief as he saw the wrecked planet.

“P-Pinkie! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?” Twilight shrieked in horror

“What do you mean Twilight, I just woke up! How could I have done anything if I was asleep, unless I was sleep walking. Then I could Ha-” Pinkie was about to go on one of her random rants be was interrupted by Twilight.

“You mean... “ Twilight started, only to be interrupted by Rarity.

“Darling, you truly don't remember anything?”

“Yeppers! Also, why am I in this spaceship, and... why is there this thing in my ear?” Pinkie said as she scratched her ear and a small chip falls out.

“What was THAT?!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed, being the first to notice the chip.

“...a microchip?” Shandra said, questioning why it was in Pinkie’s ear.

“This... spells trouble... You don’t think that Dr. Mansion would have done this, would you?” Knockout said Looking at Shandra with a worried look.

”Chip? Like Potato chips?”

“But... how?” Shandra said, completely puzzled.

“He was busy fighting Blackout back at our world... Wasn’t he?” Knockout said while trying to recall the events that happen before he was pulled into this crazy adventure.

“ENOUGH SECRETS YOU TWO!” Twilight said as she was on the edge of bursting into flames “WHAT THE HAY ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT!”

“Eep.” KO.T.E and Shandra squeaked in unison.

“TWILIGHT!” Pinkie scowled “You know telling a secret is the fastest way to lose a friend FOR-EEVVVEEERRR!”

“NOT NOW PINKIE”

“...O-o-okay..” Pinkie said with tears in her eyes.

“NOW THEN. You two have A LOT of explaining to do.” Twilight said as she started to emit smoke from her mane.

“OKAY OKAY OKAY” Knockout said backing away from Twilight. “Yeesh... No reason to turn into a Rapidash again...”

“WE'LL TALK! WE'LL TALK!” Shandra finished, face betraying her terror.

“Good. Now, for starters... Shandra...”

“Y-yes?”

“What did you mean when you said you knew what was happening?” Twilight ask with a... x.x

“Oh oh oh! She broke the 4th wall? I thought I was the only one who could do that!” Pinkie said popping out from a corner.”

“...Kinda. KOTE and I are from BEYOND the fourth wall, in a sense..” Shandra attempted to explain.

“The what?” Twilight questioned, rage still in her eyes.

“I mean, watch!” Pinkie then popped her head out at YOU, the READER and waves. “Hi reader!”

“GAH!” Shandra yelped as she pulled Pinkie back in your monitor. “ So anyway... We are from parallel universes, quite unlike the one we’re in right now.”

“Now THAT makes no sense! How can you jump between worlds, even Twilight can’t do that with her magic!” Rainbow Dash said promptly annoyed by the fact that she was cooped up in a small space pod with no way to fly around without hitting something. “And can’t this wait till we get back home?”

“Ask Fluttershy, she showed us the portal, and do you really wanna go back to THAT?” Shandra deflected the question away, pointing at the now devastated planet..

“Anyways... We came from a far away place after SOMEONE--” Knockout said as he looked at Shandra who gets a sheepish grin on her face. “--summoned Pinkie to our world...”

“How was I supposed to know she was in Pinkamina mode?”

“Oh, so that's where she vanished to...” Rarity said thinking “We were in a middle of a party at her house and she suddenly vanished!”

“My best guess is someone got a hold of her on her way there, or before, anyways... We then summoned Fluttershy in hopes she could calm Pinkie back to normal, and Pinkamina made her go Psychoshy on us, and we ran for our lives.” Knockout continued

“Oooooooh, so... I was warped? I don't remember that! I heard a whistle and then I was here!” Pinkie declared in a tone that was more cheerful than inquisitive.

“Yes but... ,” Shandra answered, “If you don't remember the warp... someone must have intercepted you and made you go Pinkamina. But... who?”

“Maybe... ...Oscuridad?” Knockout theorized. “He knows a thing or two about breaking into worlds”.

“...I doubt Eggman did it... so Oscuridad is the most likely.” Shandra agreed

“Me and some friends had to close a portal that he opened when he came back from your planet....”

“WHOAWHOAWHOA,” Twilight interrupted, “Oscuri-who?”

“Well, long story made short: Friend of mine who has gone insane. I have a pic somewhere...”
KOTE said as he dug around in his pocket, quickly producing said photo. ”THIS is Oscuridad.”

All the ponies jump backwards in shock Fluttershy emitting a tiny squeak.

“Great Golden Delicious! What IS that thing!” Applejack said as she jumped at the sight of the creature.

“What an EYESORE!” commented Rarity.

“...wow...creepy.” Twilight spoke in a flat tone.

“Well, wouldn't YOU be a eyesore if you were half DEAD? He was killed but was brought back to life, flesh shredded and burned from all the ruins he was found under after our last mission together....” Knockout said remembering the last mission him and his old friend went on.

“Halfway-back is more like it.” Shandra interjected. “It looks like his body was reanimated while his soul was locked away or something.”

“But... why are me and Rainbow Dash fine, if he came back... like that?!” Applejack said still trying to figure the whole thing out.

“Uh... He was found dead by a evil group of people who used some sorta of corrupt magic on him and....” Knockout said but was cut off by Shandra.

“They botched the resurrection while trying to bring him back. Dark magics don't blend well with the minds of the pure.” Shandra added.

“The dark magic blew his mind out and made him want everything and anything dead EVEN HIMSELF. TONS of times he's pulled stunts even HE couldn't live through and yet, he never dies....”

“He even killed my brothers, Nicolas and Glare. Nobody else has ever stood up to them except either each other or Sonic the Hedgehog.”

“So, here's an idea, we go meet up with my friends and brain storm”

“You aren't thinking of... “I suppose--” Shandra started, but was cut off as a strange scratching sound followed with a whirring sound is heard. “What the?”

“Oh, you GOT to be joking me... Is that....” Knockout said as a blue barn house started to fade in and out from the area where the sound was coming from.

”It can't be...” Shandra stammered as the door creaked open.
“Hello!” Said a beige stallion with a brown mane as he poked his head out of the blue barn house.

“A DOCTOR?!” Shandra and Knockout shouted, shocked that another universe-hopper had just landed in front of them.

“Dr. Whooves?” Twilight asked puzzled

“Dr. Whooves, I thought you left this place on a adventure with Ditzy and Derpy!” Rainbow Dash said in shock.

“I did Rainbow Dash, traveled through time and space, saved planets. Oh wow, Twilight Sparkle! How you've grown since the last time I saw you!”

“um... thanks...” Twilight said unsure about a strange stallion know her when she didn’t know him.

“You helped me make this, remember when I asked you about those time and space spells?”

“ I did...?” Twilight asked flatly, remembering absolutely none of this.

“Uh , never mind, we’ll talk about this later. Right now I need to save Equestria!”

“We already took care of it Doctor.” Shandra said as respectfully as she could.

“Oh? RATS, I guess I was to busy hunting down that last Dalek and lost track of time. Where can it be!” The Doctor said as he scratched his chin with his hoof.

“Say... where are Ditzy Doo and Derpy Hooves? Ah thought those twins left wit’ you.” Applejack inquired.

“Should I tell him about the one in her cottage?” Shandra thought as she looked at Fluttershy

“I-I-I...” Fluttershy started to try to explain, but was cut off by The Doctor.

“Oh well, one Dalek isn't THAT bad. As long as it ain't here we're fine! But I must ask, why are we all smashed up in this little pod and why are we sailing to the sun?” The Doctor said, sending everyone into a state of complete panic.

“PINKIE! PLEASE TELL US YOU KNOW HOW TO FLY THIS!” Shandra cried. Few things can make a person more frantic than hurtling uncontrolled towards the sun.

“Pinkamina DID mentions something about dumping at the sun, but since she isn’t here anymore....” Knockout said with fear in his eyes.

“Uh uh uh... What is this? Pinkie said quickly looking at all the panels “Ohhh! My science project from three years ago!” Pinkie said as she hopped into a seat and hit a few switches. “Okay, first stop, Ponyville!”

Everyone looks at each other, then straps in. Pinkie turns and faces Ponyville.

“WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED WHILE I WAS GONE, I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU SAVED THE PLACE!” The Doctor cried as he saw the ruins of the planet. “IT LOOKS LIKE SWISS CHEESE!”

“Pinkamina happened...” Shandra said meekly. “We uh... prevented the worst of it?

“He he, sorry doctor?” Pinkie said looking back from he chair at The Doctor. “I wasn’t myself when it happen...”

“We got rid of 50 bombs, but the remaining 10 did well...this...” Rainbow Dash explained, putting up a poor effort to defend their honor.

“That's it, I'm going back in time and fixing it the RIGHT way!” The Doctor said as he opened the doors to his TARDIS and was about to get in side but was grabbed by Knockout.

“DOCTOR, WAIT! We may know who is responsible for this, but we need something that can jump to worlds.” Knockout said trying to convince him not to leave.

Picking up on Knockout’s attempt, Shandra continued, ”and eliminating him from this world will undo all the damage!”

“Say, doc? Where's Ditzy Doo and Derpy Hooves? Ah thought those twins left wit’ you.” Applejack asked.

“Oh Them? Well they insisted I leave them on some place called Azure Island.... I don’t really know why I stopped there...” The Doctor said as he tried to remember the last place he was at with them.

Shandra looks at Knockout.

“Uh Doc, that's where we need to go. I come from Azure Island.” Knockout said flatly while staring at The Doctor

“I don't... but our supposed enemy destroyed my world.” Shandra kept the talk going.

“ ...Now that I think of, you DO look familiar so does Ms. Shandra Hedgechidna... You guys were fighting some cloaked man I think!” The doctor said suddenly getting excited. “Wow! You guys must be another sort of Time Lords!”

“Uh, We are no- wait what did you say you saw us fight a cloaked man?” Knockout said trying to paste everything together, but was startled by Shandra’s yell.

“THAT'S HIM!” Shandra loudly blurted.

“That’s who?” Doctor Whooves asked.

Shandra points to Equestria. “The guy who did THAT!”

“Hey guys, I just remembered something...” Pinkie said looking at the control panels. “I... uh, forgot landing gear...”

“What do you MEAN you forgot landing gear, Pinkie!” Twilight shouted in panic as Rarity fainted.

“And we are about 15 seconds till impact...” Pinkie was quickly looking at all the switches and buttons trying to figure out if she was over looking anything. “Hey wait! There was no landing gear, but there is a robot mode!” Pinkie said and quickly started to flip away at the switches.

“Quick! Everypony into the TARDIS!” Dr. Whooves called.

“Pinkie I....” Shandra began as Pinkie flipped away at switches to no avail.”I destroyed that mode...”

Shandra runs for the TARDIS

“WE ARE ALL DOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEDDDDD” Pinkie shrieked as a fountain of tears poured from her eyes. Shandra drags Pinkie inside the TARDIS.

“T-minus 5 seconds” The pod’s speakers crackled as the TARDIS is seen vanishing as the pod smashes into the planet

“Ya know, should we go talk with Cele... oh wait... She's dead...” Knockout began to say. “...Wait a second, if we bring the remains to my world, we could use 1ups!” Knockout brightly chirped.

Twilight Sparkle crawled into a corner and wept over the loss of her beloved mentor as Shandra slapped Knockout upside his head.

“TARDIS. TIME and relative dimensions in space.”

“Now wait just a second, we can go back and save someone that should be dead! But doing that could doom us all!” the doctor said as Twilight finished programming the TARDIS to go back before Celestia was killed.

“Wait, Celestia? What about the Princess?” Pinkie asked.

“Yeah you... uh...” Shandra began, but was interrupted by Pinkie

“Oh I do remember being with Celestia for a bit now!” Pinkie said suddenly popping her head up. “Oh yes! She was off on business trip to Manehattan, so I only did something with a plush I found of her and that's all I remember!” Pinkie finished in a chirp.

“She must have weakened Pinkamina's hold on Pinkie’s mind slightly with residual mystic energies. Or some other nonsense that works in this world.” Shandra postulated as Twilight Sparkle pushed a big button labeled “GO”.

Twilight then registered exactly what was said ”Wait, what?”

“Twilight what are you doing!” The Doctor yelped as he dashed to the controls.

“Saving... Celestia?” Twilight said with the face of a guilty child, which was then buried by her determination once more. “You said we could!”

“Oh dear, you sent us back in time... By about, 5000 years”

“No matter. We can just warn her now.” Twilight said, making clear how she was intending to save Celestia this far back.

“Silly Twilight, she isn't dead! I only used a stuffed toy!” Pinkie said as she hopped around Twilight while Shandra facepalmed and Applejack facehoofed

“inb4 rage” Knockout said mockingly as he picked up a fire extinguisher.

“WHAT!?!?!?!??!” Twilight said as she quickly burst into flames, followed by Knockout promptly saying “called it” and dousing her with the extinguisher’s contents.

“...again?” Shandra asked. “Girl, you really need to get that under control.”

“Oh, indeed she must.” Rarity chimed in. “If only she knew how hard it is to fix her mane after she burns it so severely.”

“Twilight: chill out all we have to do is go find her now.” Knockout said throwing the extinguisher aside and looking at Spike. “Spike, do you have a letter from Celestia?”

”Er... no, but I have the back of the one she sent to us though!” Spike said as he pulled up the last letter that was sent to them.

“Look, I'll drop you guys off, you find Celestia while I gather stuff for our trip.” Doctor Whooves said, giving in as he realized they couldn’t possibly be dissuaded from this mission.

“Um.. Doctor, if you don’t mind, we can go to my cottage to get the stuff...” Fluttershy said softly. Shandra and Knockout getting nervous looks on their faces.

“What, is something funny?” The Time Lord asked.

“You'll see.” Shandra answered cryptically ”Just be on guard at her cottage.”

“Um, let's go shall we?” Knockout said, trying to get away before the Doctor learned of Salter.

Shandra exits TARDIS into Canterlot 5000 years ago.

“Whoops! Let’s fix this really quick!” The Doctor said as he set the TARDIS to be at the right time and pulled Shandra back in. “Off we go everypony and uh... things!”

After traveling to the right time, Knockout steps out of the TARDIS to get a look out side, and sees Manehattan filled with panicked ponies

“I think we're there...” Knockout said in shock at the state of the town. “Pinkie, you better wear something so nopony can see you.”

“Oki-Doki-Loki!” Pinkie said and then spun around and changed into the present costume she wore when the ponies were charged with evicting a napping dragon.

“...ANYWAYS” Knockout said as he was trying to not let the vapors of Pinkie’s randomness sink in and make him scratch a hole in his head.

“Something you AREN'T known to have worn.” Shandra said as she put her beret on Pinkie's head.
“Well, it worked for Fluttershy when she was famous.” Twilight said. “It should work here too.”

They walk out of the TARDIS, while everyone else was paying attention Knockout was still trying to keep his sanity and bumped into a steel blue stallion with a black mane because he wasn’t paying attention.

“Hey, watch it!” The stallion yelped in shock “There is a giant robot going around and I DON’T want to be killed!”

“I erm” Knockout stopped and looked at the stallion realizing it was pretty much him as a horse. “I... feel like my head should pop right about now....”

Twilight trotted over and stared at the scene with Spike in disbelief.

“Great... two of him. Come on, Coat-boy.” Shandra groaned, annoyed.

“A pony form of me, BRILLIANT! JUST BRILLIANT!” Knockout said and was about to go on a rant but was dragged away by Shandra. “Well, I think Fluttershy is gonna have explaining to do...”

“YOU ARE DOING WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTT!?!?!?!?!” The Doctor yelled from the TARDIS.

“...yeah”

“Tell me about it!” Pinkie said rolling her eyes “This reminds me when I tried to explain all my digging under Sugarcube Corner to the Cakes!”

“Watch out Shandra!” Knockout said as Shandra ran straight towards a pole on the side of the road.

“GAHHH!” Shandra cried in pain as she ran into the pole.

“There's a pole there...”

Shandra looked up at him. “...Thank you, Captain Obvious.”

“Hey guys! Want me to fly around to find Celestia?” Rainbow Dash said, seeing this would give her a good excuse to fly around.

“Oh... hey Rainbow... ow” Shandra began, nursing her head injury. ”Yeah, that would probably help.”

“Hey Spike, Write a le-” Knockout stops mid sentence and looks at Twilight. “I REALLY need to stop taking other people’s jobs!”

“Spike take a letter. Dear Princess Celestia...” Twilight began.

About 5 minutes of composition later Spike sends the note and the group waits.”Okay, it’s here!” Spike said as he let out a loud, firey burp. “It says....’Turn... around.’?”

“Oh no!” Pinkie said as her tail began to twitch. “Twitchy-twitcha twitch! My tail is twitching!” Pinkie said as they heard something land behind her with a thud.

They do as the note says, and there is Celestia, Rainbow Dash at her side. “You guys didn’t wait till I came back before moving on?!” Rainbow screamed as Twilight ran up and tearfully hugged Celestia.

”Twilight Sparkle, my brightest and most faithful student!” Celestia praised, “I see you’ve brought your friends along but...where is Fluttershy?”

“Awww... isn't that cute? BUT IT'S WRONG!” Knockout yelled “Wait a second, wrong line.” Knockout shuffles some papers around while being slapped by Shandra.

“Oh boy! Hi Celestia! Did you have fun at the rest of the GGG? I was soooo tired after we lef-” Pinkie said about to go on one of her endless Pinkie-rants but Rainbow Dash put her hoof in her mouth.

“Uh, she's with Dr. Whooves” Rainbow Dash offered as an alternative explanation.

“Dr. Who?” the tall alicorn asked with a puzzled look.

“Some guy who said he was going to make the Time machine? He bugged Twilight a lot? Or at least that’s what he told us. We are... going to be on a mission to find who is responsible for this mess.”

“I see, well... I wish you all the best of luck.”

“Anyways... We came to check up on you and clear some things up. First off, Pinkie Pie wasn't the cause of this mess.” Knockout continued.

“Yep yep yep! I was taken over by some EVIL potato chip!” Pinkie said popping in from seemingly nowhere.

“Yes, Rainbow Dash explained the whole incident, and I am well aware of Pinkie’s temporary loss of self.” Celestia remarked.

“...microchip Pinkie, not a potato chip” Shandra corrected the pink pony while shoving her out of the way.

“If it wasn’t a potato chip, I guess I shouldn't have ate it now should I? PATOOEY!” Pinkie said as she spits out the microchip and Shandra and Knockout facepalm.

“We are from a different universe...” Knockout began.

After Knockout and his friend explain the story from the start to right then.

“...and that is why we are here.” Shandra finished before she passed out from lack of oxygen from talking for so long in one breath.

“And THIS, is who we are going to go after.” Knockout said as he pulled up the picture of Oscuridad and showed it to Celestia. “He can shape shift to a extent... But I’m getting tired....” Knockout said slowly nodding to sleep due to being deprived of sleep for so long.

“Oh dear.” Celestia commented, “Quite a sight isn't he?”

Twilight Sparkle sighs. ”Well, better find a hotel...”

“Nonsense, come with me, we'll all stay in the house I keep here as a getaway.” Celestia offered.

“Thank you, Princess, that's mighty generous of you” Applejack said as they all started on the way to the house, dragging Knockout along the way while Twilight Sparkle picks Shandra and Rarity up with Telekinesis and carries them to the house.

After reaching the house the ponies talked about the day’s events before going to bed, the next morning they started to get ready for the adventure that lie ahead.

“Uh, where am I? I had this crazy dream as if I was in Equestria...” Knockout moaned as he slowly came out of his slumber.

Shandra wakes up hyperventilating and screaming “NOOOOO! haah haah haah”

“Uh, are you okay...?” Knockout asked concernedly.

“I’m fine... it was just the nightmare again...”

“Oh, their awake!” Pinkie exclaimed happily, busy making everyone chocolate chip waffles.

“Okay, ready to go out and get that guy? He going to PAY if he’s the guy who messed with Pinkie and everyone!” Rainbow Dash said hovering around impatiently while punching the air.

“So are we ready to go?” Knockout said walking over to a window and sees something in the distance.

“Yes. Everypony is all packed and prepared for whatever may face us.” Twilight confirmed confidently as a grey pegasus with a yellow mane bonks into the window.

“Derpy?” Knockout asked puzzled at the fact that Derpy smashed into the window.

“No, Knockout, that's Ditzy Doo.” Shandra corrected. “Derpy's out this window.” Shandra then pointed to an identical pony with crossed eyes chasing a muffin trick.

“Oh, what are they doing here?” Twilight said as she opened the window to let them in.

“Do you have mail for us?” Pinkie asked Derpy popping her head out of a small kitchen.

“Muffins mail here is it!” The wall-eyed mailmare replied in her usual cheerful manner.
“I take that as a yes?” Applejack said trying to understand the gibberish.

“Hey guys! Hey guys! Who wants some cupcakes?” Pinkie said as she hopped out from the kitchen with a plate full of cupcakes, everyone then stares at Pinkie with hints of disgust on their faces while muttering stuff under their breath.

“Erm...” “Uh...” “Daah...” “Hssss...”

“Don't worry! They're from the bakery in town.” Pinkie said as she put the plate down “Yeeesh, I go insane ONCE and you still think I am still insane!”

“Oh, sure.” Shandra says, taking the sugary treat. “...and it was twice.”

“If you ask me, I think you are ALWAYS insane...” Knockout muttered under his breath as he picked one up.

“At least she's the GOOD kind of nuts most of the time...” Shandra granted.

“So Ditzy Doo, what's the news? Any word from Fluttershy or the Doctor?” Rainbow Dash said in hope they could FINALLY get to the adventure.

“Well...Yes... But here's the weird thing.” Ditzy started hesitantly.

“Okay everypony, let’s get goi- Wait, what?”

“Some metal thing is in the TARDIS, and Doctor Whooves refuses to tell us what it is.”

“Maybe it's a muffins oven!” Derpy shouted in her excitement over the prospect.

“I think I know what it is. Where is the TARDIS?” Knockout asked looking at Shandra.

“...me too.” Shandra agreed looking right back at him.

“Follow me, Muffins! I'll lead you to the muffin.” Derpy cried before taking off in the wrong direction.

“Oh and Twilight Sparkle, I might suggest you tell Celestia good-bye...” Knockout said in a low voice of fear.

“What?!” Twilight yelled, tears forming in her eyes.

“Let's say... some of my old friends didn't survive fights with Blackout, and died horrible, horrible deaths fighting to stop him.”

“Wait... I thought his name was Oscuridad?” Twilight asked, confused.

“Here’s a bit of the story I haven’t told you guys, Oscuridad has been attacking my home world. Me and some of my other friends have tried stopping him. Some died in fights, and some locked away in worlds unknown when they tried to keep him from reopening The Dark World.” Knockout said trying to push the thought of dieing off.

“No guarantee Plot Armor will save you if you leave this world.” Shandra said.

“Plot Armor?” Pinkie asked puzzled.

“It's figurative, Pinkie,” Shandra said. “basically, if any of you six ponies are lost in the battle, your world will devolve to utter chaos and explode or something, so it tries to keep you relatively safe.”

“OH! I just forgot something I've been making for you guys!” Pinkie quickly spins around spins around and stops showing her waring a suit of armor. ”TA-DA! I made it myself!”

Everyone looks at Pinkie in awe.

“It's sorta strange though...” Pinkie said ready to go on a Pinkie-rant.

“Ah'll say...” Applejack quipped.

“One day I woke up with the urge to experiment with the data-magic-machine magic stuff you let me borrow Twilight, seeing that the stuff could tack body energy and stuff like that!”

This statement caused a noticable shock to everyone. ”But... you're an...” Shandra stuttered.

“...Earth pony like me. How in da heck did y’all use magic?” Applejack finished for her.

“ Back to what I was saying. So I started to try to make things that would increase the rate we move and stuff. Oh, and Applejack I.. Well, I er... don't even know how I did it myself! Hm... I wonder if I had that chip way back then too....” Pinkie stopped and pondered for a moment. “Anyways I made armor, and then moved on to trying to make robots.”

“Oooooooh... kay. Derpy has probably circled the planet by now so...” Ditzy Doo asked, trying to get everyone back on track and failing miserably.

“And one of my first was a robot that..” Pinkie stops looks around to make sure Fluttershy wasn’t around ”Used a small animal as it's power source, the animal had it's life sucked out by the end of a few seconds...” Pinkie said in a small whisper. “Don't tell Fluttershy, okay? It would hurt her so bad, I don’t know WHAT she would do!”

“...Okay that hits close to home here.” Shandra stated quietly. “Only if she doesn't use the Stare on me. No one can keep secrets from a Staring Fluttershy.”

“But don’t worry, I quickly started hunting for a new power source, so I created this!” Pinkie chirped as she pulled up an emerald that crackled and sparked.

Shandra instantly recognized the gem and shouted, “A CHAOS EMERALD?!”

“I call it "Power Emerald"! ...Wait what? What's a Chaos Emerald?” Pinkie the stopped and her hair started to deflate. “ Did someone steal my plans and make a cheap knock off!?” She said starting to get upset.

“THAT IS!” Shandra answered, her loud voice more from overpowering joy than anger. “THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN EACH UNIVERSE!”

“Uh, no Pinkie Pie, no one stole your plans...” Knockout said trying to keep Pinkie from snapping again.
“Oh! Well in that case then I’ll continue. When I made the Power emerald all I did was mix a bunch of chemicals and made a fuel source that had unlimited power! Of course, I had to find something to hold it in, so I picked a emerald. I made seven though. Since that was the only thing I had handy in my workshop under Sugarcube Corner.

“...Oh... like Tails did for the fake he tried to use destroying the Eclipse Cannon...” Shandra muttered to herself, quieter than anyone but Knockout could hear. “...Pinkie.”

“I think someone has broken the 4th wall 50 times by now....” Knockout muttered to Shandra while jabbing her with his arm.

“What is it?” Pinkie asked, craning her head upside down.

“You just gave us the one weapon we needed.” Shandra said with a strong determination in her eyes.

“Oh, one small problem, six of them were used in that huge robot and when it blew up, I have no clue what happened to them.. In fact, I made these for the robot.” Pinkie said kicking the ground with her hoof.

“So what? The things are supposedly completely indestructible.”

“Uh, not really, I once dropped one and it broke and the chemical spread everywhere...” Pinkie stopped and thought for a moment. “I wonder if the chemical could have gotten into the water....”

“...I think you three lost me about 5 hours ago. When are we going to gooooo...” Rainbow Dash asked, head propped up in her hooves.

“Pinkie made fake Chaos Emeralds to power that robo-horse. And now...” Shandra summarised.

“Chaos Emerald?” Rainbow asked, still completely lost.

“Ancient gems with mystical properties.” Shandra explained as she took the emerald.

“HEY! Give it back, I’m not finished yet!” Pinkie yelped trying to grab it back.

“Just let me try something.” Shandra bargained. “I want to see if these can work like the emeralds I know.”

“Ooooh... Fine” Pinkie said, making one last attempt with a cute pout.

“...Chaos... CONTROL!” Shandra said and was suddenly behind Applejack after a green flash enveloped her..

“HOW'D YOU DO THAT?!” Applejack yelped in shock. “I thought unicorns were the only ones who could teleport!”

“So it DOES work like a Chaos Emerald.” Shandra confirmed before returning the gem.

“Oh wow, that was so cool! Hey I wanna try something!” Pinkie said hopping up and down. “Gimmi gimmi gimmi!

“Are you sure it’s safe for her to hold it Shandra?” Knockout asked worriedly.

“Of course... it’s not like she knows any of the Chaos techniques, let alone their names.” She responded.

“Okay now then! Hmmm... I know! Chaos... Uh, um...Blast?” Pinkie said gripping the emerald tightly
“What the f--!” Shandra shrieked, appalled that Pinkie’s first guess was not only right, but that particularly destructive technique.

“...RUN! RUN AWAY!!!” Knockout yelped knowing of what was about to happen.

A large red dome enveloped the entire house, reducing it to rubble nearly instantly. Everyone but Pinkie remained out cold in the crater that was left behind.

“...I wasn't expecting that” Pinkie said looking around and seeing everyone was knocked out. “Hey! Wake up!”

“...ugn...” They all groaned just before Pinkie dumped water on them.

“COOOOOOOOLD!”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAA”

“WHAT IN TARNATION!?!”

“HEY!”

“MY HAIR!”

“It's not nice to go to sleep when someone is trying to show you something!” Pinkie said and then paused, taking another look around the crater.“Hey... What happened to the house?” Pinkie chirped innocently.

“...you blew it up.” Shandra said. her expression as unamused as you’d expect of someone who was just blown up.

“WHAT?!” Twilight cried in fear.

“All I did was say Chaos--MMPH” Pinkie said before getting tackled by Knockout while Shandra took the emerald that flew away.

“phew... We don’t need ANOTHER of those.” Shandra sighed. “Pinkie. Chaos Bl--wait..” She stopped herself from doing the exact thing they had just prevented.

“Twilight, you have a spell to fix this, right?” Knockout asked.

Shandra hands emerald off to Knockout. ”Ok. Now... Pinkie, Chaos Blast is VERY dangerous!”

“Ohh...” Pinkie said, feeling slightly guilty. After that they all walk off to find Dr. Whooves and the TARDIS.

At the TARDIS

“For the last time Fluttershy! IT'S NOT A HELPLESS ANIMAL!” Dr. Whooves repeated for what must have been the 42nd time that day.

“I’m sorry, I just couldn’t stand to leave him li--WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU ALL?!” Fluttershy cried in concern for her friends well-being when she saw them..

“Pinkie Pie happened.” They all said at once.

“I sorta, made a small, "boom”, like a party popper, but it blew up the house!” Pinkie said with a smile.

“Yeah, a 60-yard radius boom that took out everything but US!”

“Yeah yeah, come on! Let's go to your planet already, I wanna see it! Just thinking about it makes me excited, I mean it’s a new world full of places to explore!” Rainbow Dash said while flying into the TARDIS, and the others quickly followed, Shandra helping the flightless ponies up the step.

“Okay, to Azure Island?” The Doctor said while messing around with the control panels.

“Aye, Captain”. Shandra said, performing a mock-salute.

“OFF WE GO THEN!” He said with a big smile and pulled a lever that started the TARDIS on it’s voyage.

“Oh, Doctor, you REALLY should get your brakes on the TARDIS checked! It shouldn't make that groaning sound!” Pinkie Pie said as the TARDIS was making a loud groaning sound.

“What? It's made that sound all my life!” The Doctor said trying to figure out how she knew about the brakes.

“Well, do you turn the brakes off after you stop?” Pinkie asked pointing at a lever near a break pedal that was in the position that had the brakes locked on. “You should read this manual sometime, It would really help! This thing isn’t easy to replace you know!”

“Uh, where did you find that?” The Doctor said dumbfounded

“In the library room with the swimming pool! It was under M!~” The pink pony said as she hopped by them

“When did I get a library in this thing...” Doctor Whooves asked nobody in particular.

“Never question Pinkie Pie, trust me.” Twilight said as she rolled her eyes while walking to the door.

“Whatever! here we are! Okay, everyone off! Azure Island here we are!” Dr. Whooves said ushering everybody out. Knockout the instant he steps outside.

“Aaahhh, It’s good to be ho-” Knockout stops mid-sentence and looks around seeing the sky the color of blood and everything in flames. “...home?”

“...Oh...crap...” Shandra managed as she looked over the edge of a cliff.. “Knockout...?”

“A... diversion?”

“Oh my! What happen here!” Doctor Whooves exclaimed looking around at the devastated island and then remembering that he left his two helpers here on the last trip. “What about Derpy and Ditzy, Are they okay?! I KNEW I shouldn't have left them here!”

“Doctor, We're fine. You picked us up and sent us to get them before, remember?” Ditzy said as she climbed out of the TARDIS to join the rest of them.

“I think we're gonna need a load more Emeralds than Pinkie's fake” Shandra said looking at the destruction.

“Yeah...I hope Ryan and them are okay...” Knockout said looking around.

“Oh good. It would have been horrible if you were...” The Doctor gulped and pushing the thought out of his mind, there would be no way he could live with himself if they had died.

Derpy Hooves crawls out from a stump with Knockout's crew. “Derpy found the lost muffins for the enchilada. Derpy can haz muffins now?”

“Ryan, just what on Earth happened here? We go away for a little bit to stop a crazed pony from killing us, and come back to this?” Knockout asked worried about what had went on while they was away.

“Seriously...it looks like hell on--” Shandra started before being cut off by Dr. Ryan Maxwell.

“Well, in the week you were gone, Blackout, Freezor, and Metal Knockout attacked. They
beat us all. And in the end he tore Metal Knockout apart piece by piece and almost killed Freezor.” A beige fox said walking up to the group.

“Oh no! That’s horrible! ...Who?” Pinkie said.

“And uh, who are these... things?”

“Well, these are some “ponies” that we got dragged into their dimension to help save them thanks to SOMEONE...” Knockout shoots Shandra a cold glare. “And now we are on a hunt to see if Oscuridad is behind this whole thing, and I think the state of this island confirms it.”

“HOW MANY TIMES CAN I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT?!” Shandra belted out at the top of her lungs.

“We managed to save what little was left of Freezor as he pulled him apart.” A short, but muscular lion said as he joined the rest of them. “But let me tell you, it’s not a pretty sight.”

Ryan pushes a cart that has a Cyborg Echidna head hooked up to a life system. “So.. you finally decided to show up? I wouldn't have ever thought that the day we teamed up would
come...” The head said weakly as he gave out a cough.

“Sweet apple fritters...”Applejack passes out.

“We are trying are best to rebuild his body, but materials are hard to find now days...”

“Oh my... By the Ancient Walkers, I wouldn't wish such a state on anyone... not even you.” Shandra muttered sympathetically.

“Hey, you know me, I've ALWAYS been mostly robot. So I’m used to this by now.”

“But... reduced to just a head?”

“Yeah yeah, I know it would come to this sooner or later. I should have known better than to trust Blackout... But oh well, I just go with the flow, you know what I mean?”

“Okay, so how long have we been gone for?” Knockout asked in disbelief at what all happened.

“Knockout, it was only about 3 hours.” Shandra said after a brief glance at her watch.

“3 hours? HA! More like 3 years!” Freezor scoffed as he rolled his eyes. “Even if you had gotten back in a week, you would have been too late.”

“What?!”

“...Time is a strange thing to figure out ya know, it’s like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimy... stuff. Like jello!”

“...you're telling me” Shandra said, still slightly dumbfounded by the extent of the time-dilation.

“Not really THAT hard to understand! You just have to study the rotations of planets and see how fast it takes for them to do 365 days and the speed in which they rotate...” Pinkie was then cut off by Rainbow Dash stuffing a hoof in her mouth.

“Twilight, have you been teaching this pony all this stuff?” Rainbow Dash asked a bit worried at how Pinkie was rambling off like she knew what she was talking about.

“I'm as shocked as you Dash.”

“...or how long it takes to circle around the--” Shandra started to add, “Nevermind, that information might break pony minds.”

“Anyways, All that is left is me, Neo, and Freezor everyone else in our protector team is dead, or dying.”

“Any chance Fluttershy and I can see the survivors?“ Twilight asked with a stern look on her face.

“And Shandra Hedgechidna, sorry about your brother... I killed him when I was working with Blackout...”
Freezor said before he started coughing some more as Shandra’s eyes suddenly turn blood red.

“I think you need a new memory board, buddy. I watched Oscuridad kill them BY HIMSELF.”

“Ah, you see, about that... While you were away, a portal opened and your brother stepped out, I don't know how, but he did. He was looking for Blackout, so Blackout sent me to dispose of him.”

“He’s... aliv--” Shandra started before remembering Freezor’s previous sentence. “YOU BASTARD!” She screamed as she drew her guns.

“Look, I need to save my energy or I won't be able to give you guys the scoop on what's happen...” Freezor said as he closed his one natural eye and his cyborg one faded out.

“Wait, is this Blackout guy a friend of Oscuridad’s or something?” Rainbow Dash asked, now even more lost than ever.

“No, Oscuridad is just a name he picked up. He was called Blackout before he went insane. Anyways, I say we should go to where you've guys been staying.”

“Ya know, if this Blackout guy was using me as a distraction... What if this is a distraction too? I mean, sure it would seem like a long and almost successful plan. but who knows!” Pinkie said in her normal chirpy voice, that was followed by a long moment of silence.

“Uhhh... Twilight?” Rainbow Dash said as she nudged Twilight. “Do you think....”

“If that parasprite infestation taught me anything, it's listen to Pinkie about this stuff.”

“Mind having Spike write a letter to the princess and check in?”

“Good idea, Spike? ...Spike? SPI~IKE? Oh horse apples... I think we left him back at...”

“Now why would I bother leaving this world when you would come here...?” A voice said from up above. A voice that had a deathly dry tone that echoed around them. “Ooh, and is Spike a small purple dragon?”

“WHAT THE?” Twilight cried as she backed slowly from where she was.

Slowly turning around Knockout checked to see what Twilight was looking at, and to his horror it was exactly who he thought it was. “...OSCURIDAD!” He yelled getting into a battle stance.

Oscuridad wore a gleaming, ghoulish smile as he held what looked very much like the skeleton of Spike in front of the group by it’s tail.

“...Spike?” Twilight whispered to herself, tears starting to pool in her eyes. “No...”

“I must say, it was nice to get some fresh meat!” Oscuridad said with a chuckled while tossing the skeleton at Twilight’s hooves.

“That’s... just so horrible...” Ditzy Doo said as she placed a comforting hoof on Twilight’s shoulder. “Are you going to be okay?”

“Ditzy... if you want to keep that hoof, get away from her, quick.” Shandra said, expecting Twilight to ignite at any second.

“Spike... I’m sorry... I’m the closest thing to a mom you ever had, and I failed at that.” Twilight’s tears flowed freely as she then turned her attention to Oscuridad. “and you...” she spat at him as she flamed up yet again. ”...are going...”

Oscuridad continued talking, completely unfazed by Twilight’s fiery form. “I mean, feasting for 3 years on Echidna, Hedgehog, all those animals gets quite boring!”

“...to PAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!” Twilight screamed as she releases her full power and became enveloped in a bright magical aura with pure, glowing, white eyes. She then began firing innumerable magic lightning bolts at Oscuridad, who merely shrugged and clamped her mouth shut as the bolts just went through him.

“Save your idle threats, Pony,“ The demon commanded. ”Now now, I know you are angry, but how can a poor old man live off leaves? Oh and, might I suggest checking on your... ‘Pink and red’ friend...?”

As Oscuridad said this, Applejack woke up. “...Who the... JIPES!”

“HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!” Pinkie pie screamed as branches on the trees started to act as hands and grab her, while Oscuridad let out a twisted laugh.

“PINKIE! NO!” Applejack called out.

“GET THESE THINGS OFF ME!! GIGGLING ISN’T WORKING ON THESE GHOSTIES!” Pinkie screams.

Rainbow-Dash dashes to kick them, but the clouds grow arms and grab her. Shandra shoots the branches off
the trees. All this while, Twilight continues her enraged onslaught at Oscuridad.

“While you fools were off saving Equestria I've managed to use my friend Pinkie Pie, to get me all the magic spells I need!” Oscuridad said as he slowly walked to the trapped Pinkie and patted her on the head. “And do try NOT to damage this hologram! It's very hard to maintain you know!”

“You what?” Applejack asked not quite getting what he was saying.

“See, when Pinkie was looking up that info on machines, I was using her to learn spells on shape manipulation. Using that, I can now shape this planet, or any planet, to anything I want!”

Ditzy Doo kicks the clouds and lightning strikes Oscuridad, still having no effect.

“For example, see that puddle-” He stopped mid sentence when Ditzy Doo kicked the clouds and lightning struck Oscuridad, still having no effect. “STOP MESSING WITH THE HOLOGRAM YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME” He yelled angrily as the hologram flickered a bit, causing Fluttershy to squeak in fear then back up off a ledge and fall into a mud pit.

“Now like I was saying... I can make anything come to life... like that mud pit...” Oscuridad said with a twisted smile as claws start to emerge from the mud and try to drag Fluttershy down.

“YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!” Twilight roared, her voice now laced with a frightening reverb that outclassed even Oscuridad’s.

“TWILIGHT! NO TIME FOR HIM! WE GOTTA SAVE FLUTTERSHY” Knockout yelled grabbing hold to Twilight trying to make her snap out of her rage. Twilight powers back down to normal at the friendly contact, and fights back more tears.

“What will it be Twilight? Revenge or saving your friend?” Oscuridad stopped for a moment and gave out a small chuckle. “Either way.. you will lose someone you care for...”

“...I've already lost Spike...”

“But enough small talk... I’ll leave you fools to TRY to be a hero, although we already know who will win.” Oscuridad said as the hologram faded out while a twisted laugh was heard echoing across the swamp.

“I WON'T LOSE FLUTTERSHY, TOO!” Twilight decried as she made rope for everypony to use.

“...Okay, anyone got some rope?” Knockout asked as Applejack spawned her lasso. “Okay, Rainbow Dash, take this rope and get it on her hoof that is above the mud.”

“Got it, hold on Fluttershy! I’M COMING!” Rainbow Dash called out as she flies over and gets it on her hoof that was still above the mud.

“Shandra, try to see if you can find what's keeping the mud alive.” Knockout said and then turned to Twilight. “Twilight, make more rope so I can make a safe way to get down there.”

“Right!” Shandra replied, and started frantically searching for anything that could be the weak point.

“Got it!” Twilight called, already surrounded by enough rope for to encircle Equestria.

Fluttershy squeaks out a “HEEEELLLPPP!!!” before sinking even faster.

“Applejack: See if you can rope her other hoof!”

“Can do!” Applejack said as she makes fancy work with her tail lassoing and hooks Fluttershy's hoof with ease. “Don’t worry Fluttershy, we’ll have you out in a giffy!” She said with as much of a smile she could get to cheer her up, but was soon broken when bubbles in the mud started to appear. And then a skull formed of mud, sticks, and stone emerges from the mud and roars out at them.

“...THAT is not a pleasant sight.” Knockout said taking a few steps back.

“And something tells me it's what I'm looking for.” Shandra said to no one in particular.

“Let's hope Rarity don't see that!” Pinkie called as she continued to try to break free of the trees that had now stopped moving.

“Yeah, she won't touch mud unless it's imported.” Applejack scoffed and looked over to Rainbow Dash to see how she was holding up, when skull lets out another horrible scream and arms come from its mouth trying to grab Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow Dash, look out!”

“Hey! back off!” Rainbow Dash yelled at the muds-arms.

Shandra blasts the arms but gets no effect out of it. “Darn! What can I do to stop this thing...?”

“Please... HURRY!” Fluttershy called out in a panic, only her hooves and snout above the mud now.

“Okay guys, on the count of three, pull! 1! 2! 3!” Knockout called out to the others that was holding on to the rope.

“Huuuuuurgh!!!” Everyone grunted as they pulled at Fluttershy, causing here to pop out of the mud with arms still latched onto her. As Ditzy Doo breaks apart the branches holding Pinkie.

“WHO HOO, way to go team!” Knockout said about to high five the ponies, but then remembered they didn’t have hooves. “Oh, well. Shandra, how's the head coming?”

“It's impervious to my guns!” She replied.

The arms slowly let go of Fluttershy and try to form together and get back to the mud pool.

“Hey... is there something tugging at my feet?...” Knockout asked as he felt a small tug on his feet.

A frightful look crept over Shandra’s features ”Knockout! RUN!”

“EEP!” Knockout yelped as he leaped back from the monster’s arms. “I knew I shouldn't have stood so close to the edge...”

Shandra, thinking fast, ran over and grabbed Rarity as the mud monster grumbled a bit and then slowly receded into the pit.

”Wait, what are you doing?” Rarity protested.

“Rarity, take your pick: Get attacked by THAT...” Knockout said as he pointed to the mud monster.”...or come with us”

“This is all I can think to do, and we can’t leave that thing to capture someone else.” Shandra explained as she ran towards the pit, carrying Rarity like a living lance.

“Uh oh! Twitcha twitcha twitchatwitch!” Pinkie called out as her tail started twitching furiously.

“TWITCHY TAIL, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!” Rainbow Dash yelped and quickly flew under a tree, not that it helped much seeing as it was dead.

“W-what? What are you talking about, how will... OH NO!” Rarity cried as she realized what was happening. “Anything but that! USE TWILIGHT!” But it was no use, Shandra had already leapt across the pit and piledriven Rarity horn-first into the monsters head-bubble.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! MY HAIR!!!!!!!!!” Rarity wailed as the mud and gunk splattered everywhere. “It’s going to take HOURS to get it cleaned!”

“Wait... that piledriver wasn't the fall?” Shandra asked, now being the confused one for a change.

Suddenly, a coffin falls from the sky right in front of Twilight.

“GAH!” Twilight cried and backpedaled away rapidly.

“Uh, should we open it...?”

“Hang on... My tail’s still twitching!” Pinkie said, and as if on cue, two more coffins fall in front of Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

“What the? Coffins?” Shandra asked nobody.

The coffin slowly creaked open as a pony, much like the three of them, emerge. Applejack joins Twilight and Rainbow Dash near the treeline..

“Oh dear. That’s... different.” Shandra said.

The three ponies from the coffins have manes and hooves of dark-purple fire.

“Ohhh... Did we forget to mention he LOVES to make evil clones...?” Ryan asked as he kicked at the ground.

“Kinda.” Twilight said backing away from the fake ponies that slowly walked to them with demented smiles.

“Eeeyup.” Applejack chimed, channeling her brother as she did the same.

“Okay, how about you guys take care of them, while WE find out more info on what happened?” Knockout said, not really wanting to get involved with those things.

“Um... o-okaay.” Twilight quirked her brow.

“Look, the best thing you can try is to think of what you would say your weakness is, and use it against them. Wait, where is Rainbow Dash...?” Ryan said calmly seeing he had faced one of them before.

“Well shoot, that'll be a cinch.” Applejack declared..

“OKAY YOU SILENT WANNA BE! COME BACK AND FIGHT LIKE A REAL PONY!” Rainbow Dash yelled from several feet in the air while dashing at the clone as it dodged with it’s twisted smile.

“Oh, THAT'S where they are.” Knockout said before running off with Ryan to figure out what happened

“Hey you, wannabe-me!” Applejack yelled at her dark double. “Ah bet y’all can't clear this entire canyon like Ah can!” Applejack then started to run at said cliff. Appledark raced alongside her straight at it. Applejack stops just short of the cliff, but Appledark tries the jump and plummets to her doom. “Hehe, Mah own stubborn pride got me in trouble more times than I ken count.”

“One down, two to go! How is Rainbow Dash holding up you think?”

*back in the sky...*

“Okay faker! We are as high as we can get, LET'S DO THIS!” Rainbow Dash called out to her fake that just stood there and grinned and then dashed straight at Rainbow Dash. The two impacted and did a nose dive as they both flew down, spinning in a spiral as they increased their speed.

“Oh dear, are they gonna do a..” Knockout said fearing what was about to happen.

Shadow Dash fights to stay ahead by constantly accelerating, not willing to face failure.

“HEY! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU!” Rainbow Dash called out as she dashed forward to try to cut he fake off, only to have it do a Shadow Rainboom to get an edge, but Rainbow Dash counters with her Sonic Rainboom. The Sonic Rainboom mixes with the strange negative version and the result was a Sonic Boom with no accompanying lightshow.

“RAINBOW DASH! PULL UP!!!!” Everyone called out to her as they was spiraling to the ground, and at the last second Rainbow Dash flies out leaving Shadow Dash to impact the ground alone. And when Shadow Dash did, she exploded from the impact in a huge black explosion.

“HA HA! I KNEW I could beat that fake!” Rainbow Dash cried. “Nopony hates losing as much as I do... so by cutting my losses and pulling out early, I can at least save some face.”

“Okay, that was, interesting... So here's the news Freezor is almost fully operational again, and we THINK we know where Oscuridad is.” Knockout said as Twilight walks up with a potted plant. “Had fun with your fake?”

“Oh yes. I know I can be naive sometimes, but wow.”

“Anyways, we think he is at one of his most over used hideouts...Eggmansion. It's atop of Moonlit Mountain.” Ryan sait pointing off to a mountain in the distance. “What was Dr. Mansion doing up there.... I dunno, we don't have time for that now... Let's get on the move, more time we waste, the more chance Blackout is in Equestria.”

“Egg...mansion...EGGmansion?!” Shandra asked, fury palpable in every syllable. “That no good fat piece of SHIT!” Shandra runs off faster than anyone can blink.

“...You know, that reminded me of that Leeroy Jenkins guy!” Pinkie blurted out randomly with a smile, they all just stared at her for a moment before Knockout dashes off after Shandra.

“I wonder what that rage was about...” Twilight pondered out loud as she galloped off after the others.

“Wheee!” Pinkie cooed as she bounced after the group.

Upon reaching the top of the mountain after a days journey, the group arrived at the door to the old mansion, it looked to have been abandoned long ago. But they knew that this had to be the place judging by all the things they ran into along the way.

“Here we are!” Knockout announced.

“It's so... creepy here...” Fluttershy squeaked as she looked around.

Shandra is heard screaming inside.

“Hey, just like Leeroy, she went in without us!” Pinkie chirped and hopped up to the door.

“What are you talking about, Pinkie?” Rainbow Dash asked in an annoyed tone.

“Uh, never mind Rainbow Dash.” Knockout said as he dashed inside to see what was going on. “Shandra! What are you doing?”

Shandra was standing in a room of some kind, destroying anything and everything in her path. “WHERE IS HE?! I'LL TEAR HIM TO SHREDS FOR WHAT HE DID!!!!!”

“What who did, Shandra?” Twilight asked trying to figure out what she was raging about.

“Girls and their rage fits...” Knockout groaned while facepalming.

“EGGMAN!” She spat the name like it was a lethal toxin. ”He destroyed my entire hometown... his armies WIPED OUT MY PARENTS!!!”

“Uh wasn't that Oscuridad...” Knockout asked while looking at the damage.

“No... he only killed Nicolas and Glare... my brothers.” Shandra said, suddenly calming down. “We were living on our own afterwards... this was almost 13 of my world's years ago.”

“Oohhh... Anyways, I have no clue why Pro. Mansion called this Eggmansion but I know where we can find Blackout, or Dr. Mansion here.” Knockout pointed out.

Shandra blinks. “Wait... so this ISN'T one of Eggman's bases?”

“Yeah, you should REALLY ask questions before you do things.” Neo said as he walked by. “Now follow closly, this place isn’t like your haunted house at a amusement part.”

“Oh, this is a haunted house LIKE the ones at amusement parks? Oh this is going to be so fun!” Pinkie Pie said hopping ahead of the group and stopping in front of a mirror.

Shandra blushes and hides her face with her bangs. “So an Eggbase in everything but owner. Got it.”

“Uhh... guys...?” Pinkie called from in front of a full-length mirror that had survived Shandra’s wrath.

“Yes? Pinkie, darling, what is it?” Rarity asked.

“Can you come here and tell me if I am seeing things...?” Pinkie said nervously as she pointed to the mirror, that had the reflection of Pinkamina holding a long, bladed pole and wearing a pink headband..

“Uh, what do you see?” Shandra asked, really hoping that Pinkie was seeing a giant cupcake or something.

“Mree heeheheheeee... you thought you GOT RID OF ME!?!?!?!” The reflection yelled out at them with a twisted smile.

“Did that reflection just talk?” Knockout asked weakly while keeping his eyes locked onto it.

“Don’t be scared, I JUST WANT TO BAKE DELICIOUS CUPCAKES WITH YOU!” Pinkamina called as she leapt at the group in an attack pose.

Knockout turned tail and fled as the mirror broke open and Pinkamina burst out.

“It's just a funhouse mir--OH NO!!” Twilight screamed.

“EEEK! STAY BACK, ME! BACK!” Pinkie cried and turned tail to follows Knockout

“Pinkie, Pinkamina. Psycho, Party Queen.“ Shandra ran the introduction before she bolted too.

Everyone follows the three.

“QUICK! IN HERE!” Ryan called out as he opened a door and ran inside followed by everyone else leaping in, and then shuts it.

“♫I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!!!♫” Pinkamina called out as she bonked her head on the door., not noticing Applejack on a chandelier above here. Who then drops down and hog-ties Pinkamina.

“Hoo, doggie,” Applejack said, “That was one o’ the tougher roundups Ah’ve done.”

“I think I know how you guys felt now...” Pinkie Pie said curled up in a ball. “A-and I don’t think giggling at her will work...”

“HOW CAN THAT PSYCHO BE HERE WHEN PINKIE IS RIGHT NEXT TO ME?!” Shandra yelled, ruffling Pinkie’s mane further to prove she was there.

“Uh, ya know Blackout and his fakes?” Knockout asked looking at Shandra.

“But she isn't FLAMING!” Shandra complained.

“If the person has enough darkness inside, they will be perfect clones.” Ryan popped in. “I’m a scientist, trust me.”

“Uh... guys?” Applejack chimed in from outside, “Ah got 'er.”

“LET ME OUT OF THESE ROPES!” Pinkamina called out from behind the door that was shut.

“OH, well now we run... This way!” Knockout said as he headed to what would normally be a boiler room, and everyone else follows.

“Okay guys, there is a walkway up there that is very old, and it is over some VERY DEADLY chemicals. So we will have to take it slowly or else we might break it. Got it?” Neo said taking the first step onto the walkway as it gave out a weak groan.

“Eep!” Fluttershy cried once they reached the walkway.

“Perhaps Dash and Fluttershy should fly over.” Shandra suggested.

“♪♫Oh friennndddsssss♫♪” Came the terrifying sing-song call of Pinkamina. “♪♫Thought you could Lose me?♫♪”

“No, but another couple of hours would’a been nice.” Applejack deadpanned.

Wait, did I hear TWO of them?” Knockout asked, and then looked around seeing a Pinkamina with a bladed staff on one side, and one holding a bazooka loaded with a third on the other.

“I DON'T WANNA BE CUPCAKES!” Rainbow Dash cried as she curled up and started shaking.

“Damn, Pinkie... you have THAT MUCH darkness in your heart?” Shandra asked, now totally afraid of even THEIR Pinkie

“I don't know!” Pinkie called out just as scared as Rainbow Dash. “And I don’t think I want to find out!”

“Wait, I know this trick.” Ryan said looking at the two. “One of these is fake, normally I could tell the apart. But these are so perfect I can’t seem to find any flaws!”

“You mean BESIDES the fact that one looks like normal Pinkie?” Applejack said as she pointed out the fact that one looked normal-Pinkie while the other one didn’t.

“Okay then! I’ll find the right one!” Shandra yelled as she shot them both. She sees the blade-wielding Pinkamina phase through the shot, and doesn’t bother checking the cannon--toting Pinkie

“WAIT! First off, you can't kill them like that.” Knockout yelled grabbing Shandra’s shoulder before she dashed off.

“I figured, but look...” She explained, pointing to the Pinkamina, “...the one behind us just phased through the shot. The one in front is real.”

“They both would do that, because they can’t be killed by energy attacks.”

“What?” Shandra now saw the scorch mark on wall behind the cannon twins, ”...Crap.”

“My idea is we ignore what I said earlier and run to that exit over there, if we run through the one over there, we will know we made the right choice” Knockout said before dashing across the walkway to the one holding the Pinkie-Pie launcher.

“WAIT UP!” cried the group’s Pinkie.

Once they reached they other side the Pinkamina just stood there lifeless. holding the staff. “Hey, mind giving me a hand?” The third normal looking Pinkie Pie said looking at them. “I’m sorta stuck here.”

“Mmeeeeee...eeeeeee...eeeeee” Fluttershy whimpered.

“Oh for crying out loud!” Rainbow groaned as she grabbed Fluttershy and flew her across.

“So if this one is fake that means the other one is real...” Knockout then turns around and sees the other one walking in his direction and Shandra running across the scaffold dragging their Pinkie.

“Well, at least the door is still- “ Knockout stops as he hears the door slam shut.* “open...”

“...shoot!” Applejack cried as she got off the bridges.

“Aww. ♪♫No escapey from me this time♫♪”

”Shandra, I said SHOOT!” Applejack called out again.

“That won't WORK, AJ!!” Shandra reminded her.

“Not her, the BRIDGE!”

“Oh...” Shandra said as she blew out the bridge between Pinkamina and the group. As Pinkamina takes a step on a panel over the chemicals the walkway gives out. Pinkamina grabs one of the panels near the ledge

“ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Pinkamina screamed in pain as the chemicals slowly burned the skin off her as she sunk deeper.

“Uh guys, I might suggest we not watch this...” Knockout said trying to block out the scream, while Shandra covered their Pinkie's eyes as Pinkamina screamed a scream that would make even Jigsaw flinch.

The door slowly creaked open allowing them to move on. “Let's move on..” Neo said trying to shake the scream out of his head..

After several hours of running around the mansion, they finally enter a dining hall. It had a large table decked with the finest dining stuff they had ever seen, with a golden chandelier hanging from the roof and pictures lining the walls.

“Well...” Rarity said, impressed, “he certainly knows how to decorate.”

“Ah, my old nemesis Knockout has come back!“ A voice of a man is heard from the end of the table in a chair that is facing the door at the other end. “And it seems he brought some friends along to eh? “ The man added as Shandra walked in. “Ahh... Shandra Hedgechidna, so nice to meet you in person!”

“How do you know who I am?” She asked him, maintaining calm appearances.

“Dr. Eggman has told me much about you when he split the worlds when looking for Eggman Nega!” The man chuckled a bit. “Of course, you've probably heard of me by now... Right?”

“Hmm... Dr. Mansion, I presume?” Shandra boldly stated.

“Professor Mansion, if you please!” The man said turning around in his chair as Twilight Sparkle pushed Knockout aside to see Prof. Mansion. “Now I know you will think I am an evil madman who teamed up with Eggman, right...?”

Shandra’s face instantly snapped into one of pure vengeful fury upon seeing Prof. Mansion’s face. “YOU KNOW IT!” Shandra cried as she lunged forward only to be held back by Applejack.

“Whoa there, girl.”

“Well, you're right to be honest.” Professor Mansion said with a grin on his face. “I needed someone to test some experimental robots, so I talked with him. In exchange for the free robots, he built this mansion for me.”

Shandra growls with a deep scowl on her face.

“He used the robots to attack a small town... your town. Oh you should have seen the joy on the man's face! He wanted TONS of the robots!” He said with a chuckle as Shandra’s left eye starts twitching in rage.

“But you know me, I'm not the type to just go and make stuff, so I gave him the plans and retired knowing someone was able to take my job.” He finished with a sigh and leaning back in his chair. “ So... what brings you here?” Shandra just growled even louder.

“Um... sir, you might want to stop talking...” Twilight said, taking notice of Shandra’s reactions.

“Now just wait a second Ms. Hedgechidna! I didn't know he was going to use them for that, I was just being a kind alter Mansion of him and giving him robots!” He said standing up from his chair and sticking his finger in Shandra’s face. “Now really, why are you here? Is it for that Oscuridad nut?”

Shandra closed her eyes and took a deep breath, calming herself before speaking. ”Okay... I'll just kill Eggman twice as hard then... and yes, we are”

“Well... He was here, but he left about a month ago.” He said looking up to the roof in though. “”He said he has some business to take care of... I think the place was called Equst? No... A Quest? No, that sounds stupid....”

“Equestria?” Rarity asked.

“YES! That's it! Not sure why, but he told me to wait here for you guys, and to give you a message...”

A group gasp comes from all the ponies.

“We're all listenin’.” Applejack said.

“He said, I quote. "Foolish creatures, you should have listened to the pink one while you still could have!" unquote.” he said in a voice that sound like one you would hear at a meeting where your boss was quoting something.

“The Pink One...?” Shandra asked as she looked at Pinkie.

“P-Pinkie?” Knockout asked, noticing said pony wasn’t in the room with them.

“HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPP” Rainbow Dash called as she dashed into the room being chased by Pinkie. “SHE'S LOST IT!”

Shandra whips around to see Dash coming. ”Oh crap.”

“Oh, this is not good... at all.” Twilight said.

“SHE KEEPS FLASHING BETWEEN PINKIE AND PINKAMINA!” Rainbow Dash yelped as she hid behind Shandra and pointed at the Pinkie that looked like she was going to have a mental breakdown.

“...Don't tell me, a fake Pinkie's been with us this whole time.” Knockout moaned as he watching the possible fake Pinkie walk over twitching violently

“In that case...” Shandra said as she walked toward the Pinkie with a baseball bat from the corner.

“Aww... Don't be*TWITCH*♪♫SILLY DASHIE♫♪*TWITCH*Why would I hurt you guys?” She said switching betwean her normal voice and a insane singing voice. Just before Shandra indiscriminately attempted to knock out the flashing Pinkie, which merely bounced to the side and ran back toward the chemical vats.

“After her!” Knockout yelled as he dashed to the same door she went though, only to be hit by it slamming shut.

“Smooooth...” Shandra said, sarcasm dripping from her tongue.

“Hint, watch out for doors, Knockout.” Ryan said mockingly as he opened the door causing Knockout to fall down. “I am still shocked he is alive after all the stupid things he’s pulled...”

After running though the maze like mansion they finally catch back up with the Pinkie Pie as she was backing onto the already broken catwalk above the chemicals.

“Pinkie, don’t back up anymore, you are trapped!” Knockout yelled from the door not wanting to get to close.

“Give it up, Pinkie, are you a real or a fake? We have you cornered” Rainbow Dash said, game-face on full-throttle.

“Oh silly Dashie.*TWICH*♪♫WHY WOULD I BE STUCK?♫♪*TWITCH*when there is that nice... glowing... water down there?” Pinkie said tilting her head with a twisted Pinkie smile.

“Wait, Pinkie DON’T--” Fluttershy implored her, but it was too late.

“Don’t worry about me Fluttershy, just remember what I’ve told you guys in the past, giggle at the ghostie!”
Pinkie dove in, doing a perfect triple-backflip with a half-twist and a jack-knife entry. Leaving them all to stare at the chemical stew watching in shock, as Pinkie swam around in it. Knockout holding up a sign with a 10 on it.

“What the... Shouldn’t she be screaming in pain?” Neo asked Ryan, who was equally confused as him.

“I.. Don’t know, and Knockout. Put that sign down, this is serious!” Ryan scolded Knockout as he threw the sign off the walkway and hitting Pinkie on the nose, causing her to sink into the chemicals. “oops...” Then the sign exploded in a ball of flame once it touched the chemicals.

“Look who’s scolding who Ryan...” Knockout muttered as he watched her sink into the chemicals as there was bubbles starting to appear rapidly in all the tanks in the room. “Something feels wrong about this...”

“Whom.” Twilight said. Earning a look from everyone,

“Er... what?” Shandra asked, shocked at the non-sequitor.

“Who’s scolding whom.” Knockout used the wrong form of the pronu--” Twilight said before an echoing Pinkie voice interrupted her.

“Hey guys!” said the echoing voice of Pinkie Pie which sounded like she was talking from underwater. “I told you to giggle at the ghostie, didn’t I, why aren’t you--” The voice suddenly got louder. “--laughing?”

“Uh, Pinkie, are you feeling okay. Those chemicals didn’t mess with your brain, did they?” Rainbow Dash said peering over the railings looking into the open vac that had a large Pinkie Pie eye staring back at her. “EEP!”

“She should be dead,” Ryan reminded everyone. “Knockout’s random “10” sign exploded the instant it touched that stuff.”

“Uuh, guys, am I seeing things or do you all see a large eye floating in there...?” Rainbow Dash asked, slowly backing away from the railing.

“You what?” Ryan said blankly. “T-That’s impossible, it should have KILLED her!”

“Oh you silly fillies... ♪♫Things don’t always appear to be what they really are♫♪” They hear even clearer now. “Oh, and turn around if you don’t mind, it’s not nice to have your back on someone who is talking to you!”

They all exchanged glances for a moment and all slowly turned around to see what Pinkie was going on about, only to be met with a lime green Pinkie Pie that was about as tall as Knockout. “Hi guys, I had to go freshen up a bit, we can move on now if you want!” she said with her pinkie smile.

“Pinkie, hold still.” Ryan said as he walked up to her with a sharp needle that would be used to take blood samples. “This will hurt a bit, but it’s for your own good...”

“EEP NEEDLE!” Pinkie cried and kicked at the needle.

“Pinkie, we are only trying to help you, something’s horribly wrong with you and we need to find out what!” Twilight said trying to calm her down. “It will only hurt for a second, I promise!”

“How DARE you try to stab me with that needle, you KNOW I’m allergic to them!” Pinkie screamed as she started to shake violently and heaving angrly.

“...you can’t be allergic to the needle itself...only the contents... and this being used to take out of you, not put in.” Fluttershy remarked, citing her veterinary school textbooks.

“She’s right, watch!” Knockout said oblivious to the fact she was shaking and stuck another needle into Pinkie’s flank which simply melted on contact and Pinkie just gave him a cold, heartless stare of death and the shaking stopped. “Heh heh, now how did that happen...” Knockout said backing away, but Pinkie kept walking close, each step Knockout was pretty sure she was getting bigger.

Shandra facepalmed, “Knockout... PLEASE stop helping.”

“Uh guys, don’t you think we have BIGGER problems besides Knockout’s stupidity?” Rainbow Dash said flying in front of Shandra pointing at the Pinkie who was now twice the size of Knockout and growing with each step.

“HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT, SHE’S GOING TO KILL ME!” Knockout yelled back as he pulled up his battle ax. “St-st-stay back, I have a ax, and I KNOW how to use it, sorta...”

“You saw what that needle got for touching her!” Ryan yelled back. “She’s obviously somehow merged with the chemical!”

“Oh, you sure know how to use a ax, just about as good as you used that NEEDLE!” Pinkie yelled, her voice now booming. “How about I show you how you REALLY use it!?” in a blink of a eye she swiped it away from Knockout and began chasing him around with it as he ran screaming his head off.

“Tell me, WHY was he selected as the A.I.P’s leader, Ryan?” Neo asked facepalming at the stupidity of Knockout.

“Because he needed to feel important” Ryan replied in a deadpan tone, sweatdropping at Knockout’s most recent set of antics.

“That does it, I’m tired of just sitting back and watching!! PINKIE STOP THIS MADNESS RIGHT NOW!” Rainbow Dash yelled as she charged off at Pinkie who didn’t even care.

“WAIT, DON’T TOUCH HER!” Ryan cried out. Pinkie was now the size of Applejack’s barn. But he was too late and Rainbow Dash dove straight into her and flew out the other side.

“Wait, what?” Shandra asked unable to comprehend dthe sight.

“AAAAAAARGH!!!” Rainbow shrieked in agony. “It... IT BURNS!!!!!” She began writhing on the ground under Pinkie.

“Rule number one of being a good doctor, always carry a cure for a deadly infection, like this!” Ryan said dashing to Rainbow Dash with a tube connected to a needle that he WAS going to use on Rainbow Dash.

“I thought your doctorate was in a research science like physics, not pharmaceuticals.” Shandra said.

“I own a health care place, what do you expect? A fox who makes huge killer robots?” he called back over his shoulder.

“Er...yes?” Shandra said, remembering Tails wasn’t in this dimension.

“Wait, what?” Pinkie Pie stopped dead in her tracks and turned around to see what was going on, and then looked at Ryan as he ran up to Rainbow Dash with... a needle. “EEEP, NOT ANOTHER NEEDLE! she yelped and dived off into the chemicals again.

“...that’s some fear of needles she has.” Neo observed.

“Don’t worry, I had it planned out the WHOLE TIME!” Knockout said with a large grin plastered on his face while picking his ax back up.”

“Oh fer Luna’s sake, Knockout!” Applejack hollered at him. “Pinkie’s green, toxic to the touch, and the size a’ mah BARN. ‘Ow in Celestia’s mane could you ‘ave possably planned alla this?”

“He’s more stubborn than YOU Applejack, and that’s shocking!” Rarity said jabbing Applejack in the side.

“Well, I did have it planned out, except for THAT!” Knockout said as a Pinkie head the sized of half of the room they was in popped up from the chemicals.

“So you planned out everything that’s happened...” Twilight started

“...except everything that has happened.” Shandra finished nose suddenly bleeding slightly as she stared into nothing.

“Oh... are you okay?” Fluttershy asked her.

“Yes... just an aneurysm from sheer stupidity.”

“Uh Twilight, he’s just saying that to make himself sound special. You get used to it.” Neo whispered under his breath.

“Hey, mind giving me some help?” Ryan called as he was dragging the out cold Rainbow Dash over. “It seems that my new medicine works fine, she was the first test subject so if we can get some to Pinkie she should be-”

“ARE YOU CRAZY RYAN!” Knockout yelled grabbing him by the doctor coat he was waring. “YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HER WITH YOUR UNTESTED “CURE”!”

“Every time we try a needle, she grows another 5 times larger... exponential growth of deadly-to-the-touch Pinkies is not a good thing.” Twilight said. “I doubt this will be a good idea to cause since she’s already probably the size of PONYVILLE.”

“Ummm, guys, I have a idea...” Fluttershy said walking up with a cupcake. “maybe if we give this to Pinkie with the cure she will be fine again... that is if you don’t mind...” she squeaked as she put the cupcake down.

“Where’d ya get that?” Applejack asked.

“Oh um, it’s mine. The one she gave me before we came to this place, remember?”

“You didn’t eat it?” Shandra asked.

“We don’t have time for that now, we don’t know how much longer till Pinkie ge--” Ryan said before two hooves as large as Sugar Cube Corner land on the walkway trapping them in. “--ts back into the attacking mood...”

“Hey, is that a cupcake?” Pinkie said putting her face even with the rest of them looking at it. “It’s been soooo long since I had one! Well, only about a hour, but still!”

Fluttershy drops the cupcake and “eep”s in fear at the huge pinkie face she sees. Knockout picks it up and passes it to Ryan. “Here goes nothing....” he said as he injected the medicine out of Pinkie’s sight so she wouldn’t panic at the needle. “Uhhh... SURE! Here, catch!” He said tossing it to Pinkie, who promptly opened her mouth letting off a foul smell as she ate it out of midair and took half of what was left of the walkway with it.

“I feel funny...” Pinkie said, before popping back to normal size and standing just at the end of the barely-remaining walkway. “Hey, why are you all looking so scared? It looks like you saw a ghostie! I thought I told you t-” She stopped and looked over to the huge gap over the chemical vats and just stared at it “Wow! Where did this hug--” She was interrupted when her hooves started leaking a green fluid. “--AAAAAAAHHHhhhblbrbrlrlblrblrlb...” the still green pony blurpled as she dissolved into goop.

“So, now that that’s taken care of, let’s go meet back with Prof. Mansion and see what’s going on... Something smells fishy about this whole thing.” Neo said walking to the door and slips on some on the green goop falling face first onto the catwalk.

“Why isn’t that stuff burning him?“ Rainbow Dash asked angrily.

”Smooth move, Neo.” Knockout said before he realized that the impact of him smacking onto the catwalk finally made it give way and it was starting to fall. “Uh, talk later, run now?”

Shandra was nowhere to be found, and Fluttershy found a note on Knockout’s back. “You have to ask? ~ Shandra” it read. Everyone immediately ran back to Prof. Mansion’s dining hall.

Once they got back to the dining hall they found the professor sitting in his chair looking rather upset.

“It seems you wrecked my chemical room, can’t you step into my place JUST ONCE without breaking something you pesky rodents?!” Professor Mansion scolded them when they entered the room. “You guys just WALK IN HERE and destroy whatever work I’ve done and not even care!”

“Uh huh, Yeah, sorry.” Knockout said in a tone of complete apathy.”So guys, next stop, Equestria?”

“Looks like it.” Shandra confirmed.

“Should we try contacting Celestia?” Knockout said looking around and trying to see if Spike was awake or not.

“How? Spike's dead, remember?” Shandra shouted back at him just as Twilight entered the room.

“..Good point.”

Having been reminded of her younger-brother-figure’s demise, Twilight Sparkle galloped away crying hysterically, teleporting as necessary.

“Spike, is that the name of that dragon that Blackout left me with?” The professor said turning to a large safe on a bookshelf to his right and began fiddling with it.

“Oh, oops...” Shandra said “Wait... what?

“If he belongs to you then take him! PLEASE! He's driving me nuts!” he said tossing a more than familiar purple dragon at them.

“Hey, where’s Ripto at!” Spyro said looking around.

“Erm, wrong dragon.” Professor Mansion said putting him back into the safe and tossing out Spike in return. “How did he get in there...?” he mumbled to himself.

“Hey guys... what’s up?”

“Spike! you're okay!” Rainbow Dash said as she flew over and flew around him quickly.

“...I hate clones.” Shandra said, failing to remember that one of her brothers was one.

“Where's Twilight? I thought I heard her out here.”

“I invented the technology, really...” The professor said with a grin on his face as he sat back down in his chair. “Anyways, off you go!” He said as he smashed a red button and a portal opened from a bookshelf behind them, pulling with a vacuum-like force. “Of course, you DO have to remember.. I. HATE. ANIMALS! And I just CAN’T let them roam around here freely.”

“We'll meet again... Professor...” Neo said as he shook his fist before being sucked into the portal, everyone reappeared outside as the bookshelf closed. Twilight Sparkle was sitting next to the TARDIS, sobbing uncontrollably as Ditzy Doo and Derpy Hooves tried to comfort her.

“...Look, there's the TARDIS!” Knockout cried. “oh, and Twilight too! Spike, go on and talk to her. She's been worried sick about you.”

“Oh, really? Gee... I better let her know I’m okay then.”

“Yes, you silly dragon, she thinks you are DEAD.”

“It's about time you guys got back here!” Doctor Whooves said leaning against the TARDIS spinning his Sonic Screwdriver around.

Spike taps Twilight on her shoulder. She sniffles. “What is it n-- SPIKE?!” She shouts in ecstatic joy before strangle-hugging him.

“Awww... isn't that cute? BUT IT- er, wrong line, again...” Knockout said making the motion of shuffling papers around.

“...can't...breathe...” Spike gasped

“Uh... Twilight Sparkle, YOU are going to kill him... again?” Knockout said looking at Twilight and getting a hoof to the skull from Rarity for saying something so insensitive.

“We have no time to waste! Every second we wait is another pony dead for all we know!” Dr. Whooves called from the TARDIS door. “Quick, into the TARDIS!”

Twilight Sparkle releases Spike, and he gasps for air and hops inside the TARDIS.

“Knockout, me, Neo, and Freezor will stay behind and try to get things to shape up better. You go on ahead without us.” Ryan said waving good bye to all the people in the TARDIS.

Everyone else gets in and Shandra hands Rarity a wet wipe. “You still have a little mud on your... everything,” she told the unicorn with a apologetic expression on her face. Rarity just shot her a death glare and cleaned herself off.

“Will do Ryan!” Knockout said as he slammed the door shut.

“Next stop, Equestria!” Dr, Whooves said as he flipped away on the controls and started the thing up, and the TARDIS started making the screeching sound again.

“Um... wait. Where's the real Pinkie?”

Doctor Whooves looked puzzled “What?”

“Long story made short: we had a fake the whole trip.” Knockout summarized as Pinkie crawled in from the poolside area, still under the branches.

“Didn’t I tell you to take the brakes off?” she said to The Doctor nearly making him jump.

“Uh... Yeah, whatever. So, are you sure that guy's at Equestria?” Doctor Whooves asked while typing the rest of the data into the TARDIS.

“Well, No not really...” Twilight said looking at the floor.

“But we know he WAS.” Shandra offered. “We’ll just have to keep tracking him.”

“Only one way to find out!” The time lord pony said as he flipped a lever causing the TARDIS to start to make the screeching noise again.

“HELLLOOOOO?” Pinkie said in a rather annoyed voice while looking at Doctor Whooves. “Can you guys... please... GET THIS THING OFF ME?!”

“Oohhhh... Hi Pinkie.” Knockout punches the dried branch off as Dr. Whooves opens the door

“And here we are, Equestria!” The Doctor said while a smile and taking a step outside. “Well, everything looks fine here...”

“...Nope...” Shandra deadpanned, looking outside with a very shocked look on her face..

Knockout pops his head out and takes a quick look around. “Clear skies, Nice sunny day....”

“But how can she be...”

“ And... Applejack at her apple stand? Don't tell me the Applejack we have is a fake!” Knockout cried as he facepalmed at the thought..

“No, ah'm the real one all right.” Applejack said stepping out of the TARDIS to take a look around.

“So, then that is a fake?”

“Summon your element necklace, then.” Twilight ordered and Applejack did so.

“Wait... they can do that?” Knockout asked. ”Hm... one second...” Knockout said as he sees a news cart and grabs a paper, then gets a horrified look. ”Hey guys, listen to the headline...”

“Lemme guess, we overshot on the timestream and now we’re in the past before Twilight came to Ponyville?” Shandra quipped as she took the newspaper. "June 9 1001...
“...Well, one: that’s the date we left, disproves my theory. And two: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUU--” Shandra screamed.

"Celebration being held Friday held by Pinkie Pie, Celestia

and Luna will make a appearance to award him"

“A Celebration?!” Pinkie yelped as she jumped into the air “I better get cracking on --Wait WHAT?!” she then said when she realized that she was already planning it. “How can that be? I’ve been with you guys the whole time! Well, besides the time I spent in the branches, maybe I was planning it then...”

"Party will be held at the castle on Friday."

“... Another fake Pinkie Pie? Pinkie, what's with you and you having so MANY FAKES! How many have we ran into so far!?” Knockout said trying to make a account for all the Pinkie Pie clones the had ran into.

“About 5, and someone PLEEEEEASE Tell me this is the distant future AFTER we subdue Oscuridad...” Shandra pleaded, “Or that I shouldn’t have had that chili dog before bed and this is all a horrible nightmare.”

“Uh... no, The party is for Oscuridad for defeating US and saying you guys were the spies.” Rainbow Dash pointed out briefly scanning the paper.

“THAT DOES IT!! YOU GUYS GO AHEAD. I HAVE BUSINESS TO HANDLE ELSEWHERE.” Shandra screamed as she climbed back into the TARDIS.

“Okay, what day is today? Thursday, right?” Knockout said trying to figure out if they should hop back into the TARDIS too or not.

“Yes.” Twilight said looking at the paper at paper. “So that means we have about 24 hours left.”

“Okay, that’s good! Wait... what, Shandra, what are you doing?” Knockout said right before the TARDIS vanished.

“Er? Okay... So we will have to lay low till tomorrow.” Knockout said looking back to the group of ponies. “And what bites even more is that I am now the ONLY one from Azure Island who’s here...”

“Well shoot sugahcube, that’ll be easy enough.” Applejack responded as she tackled her double and took her place, as Knockout roped the twin up. “One down, 5 to go!”

“Um... wait. Shouldn't we... uh... let the Pinkie be... to stay hidden?” Fluttershy asked shyly, worried.

“Erm, what?”

“Someone is bound to notice when she doesn't remember how the party is ALREADY planned.”

“Ohhh... good point” Rainbow Dash said flying in front of Knockout. “It’s sad when Fluttershy’s smarter then you.” she said mockingly

“Fluttershy. This is PINKIE PIE we’re talkin’ ‘bout ‘ere. Nopony un’erstands her brain.”

“I have to agree with Fluttershy,” Twilight interjected, “We'll get her at the party.”

Friday morning...

“Okay, so off to the castle! Twilight, you know how to get there, right?” Knockout said walking up to the group, they were meeting at Twilight’s Library.

“So Twilight, how'd you take out your double?” Applejack said as she walked into the door.

“She was buried in books when I got home. Twilight said as she put her saddlebags on. “I just left her there.” She motioned to a pile of books that took up half of the room.

“Somepony HELLLP me!!!” came the muffled cries of the clone.

“I gave her the same treatment as that dark clone!” Rainbow Dash said flying around the room. “So are we ready now or what?”

“Fluttershy? How about you?” she asked looking at Fluttershy who was still outside.

“Um...” Fluttershy squeaked as rustling comes from the bushes behind her.

“...Don't tell me, you let yours live...” Knockout groaned, and just as he feared a second Fluttershy comes out of the trees, accompanied by a blue pegasus with a blond mane and tail and a crystal ball Cutie Mark.

“I KNEW IT!” Knockout shouted angrily, then, “Wait... who’s that”?

“Oh... um... I won't say anything. It isn't a problem. I never liked that Oscuridad guy. I’ll just go to another place and find some new friends in another country, if that’s okay I mean...” The Clone said kicking the ground not looking up at the raging echidna.

“Well, Okay.” Knockout said as Fluttershy's double trots off back into the Everfree Forest. “Now who are you?” he asked the new pony.

“Oh, hello Crystal Clear, what are you doing here?” Twilight greeted the pegasus.

“Hello Twilight,” Crystal returned with an annoyed look on her face. ”Fluttershy was the only one among you who wrote about missing your appointments.“

Applejack stepped in and said, “We’re a might sorry, Dr. Clear--”

“Please,” Crystal stopped her. “I’m a psychiatrist, not a medical doctor. You can call me by my first name.”

“--We’re a might sorry, Crystal.” Applejack continued.“We kinda... got caught up in somethin’ yesterday.”

“So I see from this new friend of yours.” The shrink said as her cutie mark glowed faintly. “Hmm... So they are from another universe and need your help to save all creation from a mad zombie, correct?”

“Th-that’s right...” Knockout stammered. “How did...?” He left off unable to finish from the shock.

“She’s just that good at her job.” Rainbow Dash offered up.

“Yes,” Crystal added, ”and I could tell this Oscuridad fellow was no good, and that those yous weren’t the real yous.”

“So, anyways, now we have to... *gulp* Face off against Oscuridad...” Knockout said with a hint of fear in his eyes. “Hm...I need some sort of thing to hide my identity. Otherwise I’ll stick out like a sore thumb...”

“Oh wow, would you like some help?” Crystal asked “ Nobody messes with my favorite walletstuf--I mean--patients.“

“It would be nice to have someone who can tell friend from foe. Welcome aboard.“ Twilight welcomed Crystal before turning to Knockout. “Well... I have an idea on how to fix that problem...” she said as her horn started to glow with a large amount of magic.

“...Don't you DARE turn me into a pony.” Knockout said staring at Twilight who was still focusing on her spell. “ ...Twilight? Hello, you listening?” Knockout said waving his hand in front of her right before he turned invisible. “Well, that works. Save I can't see myself.”

“Really?” Twilight asked puzzled. “...I must have messed the spell up then.”

“No, I’m just joking! I can see myself fine.” Knockout said as he let out a small chuckle. “I guess you can’t take jokes that well.”

”She never did get sarcasm...” Crystal muttered as she rolled her eyes.

“Come on, let's go already!” Rainbow Dash said crossing her hooves and looking annoyed that they hadn’t left yet. “I thought we was here to kick Oscuridad’s tail!”

“Oh girls!” Rarity started as she walked into the library, but was cut off by Pinkie Pie who hopped in ahead of her.

“Are you guys ready. cuz I’m ready!I meam, I wanna go to a Pinkie party Pinkie made! Although I always go to a party Pinkie made since I AM Pinkie, but this time it will be like a surprise party for me made by me!” Pinkie rambled as she hopped around.

“I'm a guy you know!” Knockout said glaring at Rarity, who couldn’t see him anyways since he was invisible.

“WHO SAID THAT?!” Rarity yelped as she jumped into the air.

“It’s me, Knockout!”

“WHAA!!! IT’S A GHOST!” Rarity screamed as she jumped behind a desk.

Knockout groaned and picked up a book “See the floating book?” Knockout asked annoyed.

“Y-y-yes.”

“I’m holding it because Twilight cast a-” Knockout was cut off when Rarity fainted, again. “Invisibility spell...” Knockout facepalmed.

“Um... maybe we should tell her when she wakes up.” Fluttershy said, dazed.

“Yeah, but we gotta hurry before the party starts. Was it at 2 when it started? 2PM, that is.” Knockout said looking at the clock “And it’s 1:30 right now, so we have 30 minutes to get there...”

“Oh! There's the voice again!” Rarity yelped as she woke up after fainting.

“Yo, Rarity. That voice is Knockout, Twilight PUT AN INVISIBILITY SPELL ON HIM TO HIDE HIM.” Rainbow Dash said while facehoofing.

“Hehe...” Rarity blushes. “What was I going to show you...”

“Okay, where is your hot air balloon, we need a fast ride to Canterlot.” Knockout said walking to the door about ready to leave.

“Oh yes. Girls, I found these dresses in my boutique,” Rarity said, ”My double must have made them.”

“Do we REALLY need them?” Rainbow Dash groaned as she fell to the ground and crossed her hooves.

“Judging by their label having been ‘Party gowns’ I'd say yes.”

“We are gonna be taking on a bloodthirsty zombie! Why would we need to get all dressed up” Rainbow Dash huffed angrily.

“Well,” Twilight reasoned, ”aside from Pinkie, we're all still pretending to be our doubles, so...”

Later

“Okay here we are, the castle!” Knockout said looking at his watch. “And it’s just now 2:00. Right on--” He was interrupted by a loud crash of lighting, causing him to look up and see the lighting and the dark clouds floating over the castle slowly making the sky turn red. “--time?”

Fluttershy is scared stiff, a goat’s bleat coming out of her mouth..

“Rarity, I TOLD you not to worry about the clothes!” Rainbow Dash said giving Rarity a death glare. “Now look what you caused us to miss!”

“Well,” Rarity defended herself, “I’ll remind you that if we hadn't we'd be stopped back at the gate.

“Don't worry, if Blackout is in there then Celestia can take care of him!” Knockout said looking at the group with a forced up smile “...Right?”

“That's what I'm worried about. Why HASN'T she?” Twilight said with a tone of anxiety just before an explosion happens from the ceiling of the center room

“Spike, any letters?” Rainbow Dash asked getting ready to dash ahead of the group.

“N-n-n-n-n-n-NOPE” Spike stuttered, unable to control his chattering teeth.

“Well, that’s just great....” Knockout said while looking at the sky looked into the air and noticed three figures flying around fighting each other. “Is that who I think it is...?”

“And if she couldn't... why hasn't Luna done anything?” Twilight continued.

“Ah think that answers that question, sugar.” Applejack said pointing to the three figures who was fighting in the sky above the castle, right before a an ear-piercing scream is heard and Luna falls to the ground missing a wing and her horn.

“Oh..... bother.” Knockout said as the alicorn landed in front of the group.

“LUNA!” Twilight gasped as she runs over to Luna’s body.

“Twilight, does that thing have any weapons?” Knockout asked. “The balloon thing I mean.”

“LUNA, are you okay?” Twilight asked the dead alicorn.

”She can't hear you, Sugahcube. And no, it doesn't.” Applejack said staring at the once-princess of the moon

“D-d-don't worry, I've seen him do this.” Knockout said trying to think of a way to cheer them up. “They are only dead for now. If we can beat Blackout, she'll be fine.” He wasn’t quite sure if this was true, but he thought he remembered Ryan telling him this before.

Twilight Sparkle started emitting smoke and a second scream rings out from above as Celestia joins Luna in a lump, her horn also missing. ‘No... I'm not going to lose myself in rage again... not this time. The others are right, I really shouldn’t, transformations take a lot of magic.’ She thought, taking a deep breath.

“Well well well, if it isn't little Twilight Sparkle!” Oscuridad called out from the air as he slowly started to float down to them, now with two wings, one of Luna's, and two horns sticking in his skull, one Luna's and the other's Celestia's. “It’s been ages since we last saw each other, I mean, one can lose track of time when they are hopping from planet to planet you know!” He said wile a twisted smile causing Fluttershy to whimper and hide behind the rest of the group. “I told you that you would lose someone you cared for, didn't I? I gave you a fair warning, no hard feelings, right?”

Twilight’s face contorts several times between expressions of wrath and resistance until she ultimately covers her head and starts shaking.

“Whah that no good--” Applejack started before being cut off by Rainbow Dash.

“HOW CAN YOU SAY THERE NO HARD FEELINGS WHEN YOU KILLED OUR PRINCESSES!” Rainbow Dash yelled charging at him, only to be stopped by Applejack biting her tail.

“And thanks to you Pinkie Pie, my plan worked PERFECTLY! But now the time to has come to bring on the final act of this world!” Oscuridad said while walked up and grabbing Pinkie’s head and lifting it up to be even wit his. While Rainbow Dash snorts and stomps her hoof, dragging it back in the Equestrian signal for a challenge to a fight. Fluttershy, deciding it was no time to let her fears hold her back from helping her friends, gets a serious look. “Studying your planet's day and night cycle has lead me to find the great power your weak ‘princesses’ held. Using their power, I will bring unless pain and suffering to this careless world!”

“BARBARIAN!” Rarity screamed, “It. IS. ON!”

“Since those that made me like this have been long gone, I need SOMEONE to bare the pain, so I pick EVERYTHING! starting with this planet!” Oscuridad said with a twisted smile and laugh to go with it, while the sky turned red while the moon and the sun slowly started moving to the same position in the sky.

“No...” Twilight stated, slowly rising to her hooves. “This has gone on long enough.” She opened her eyes, revealing blank-white pools of unparalleled magical power “I WON’T LET THIS COME TO PASS!” Twilight shrieked as she leapt at Oscuridad.

“YOU’RE TOO LATE TWILIGHT!” Oscuridad returned as he used a magic to knock Twilight back.
”If only you had LISTENED to Pinkie Pie when she made contact to these so called “heroes” from the other world you might have been able to save this planet. BUT NOW, NOW IS THE TIME THIS PATHETIC PLANET COMES TO A END! I WILL BRING ON, THE ECLIPSE OF DESTRUCTION!” He said with a twisted laugh as he then saw everyone in a battle stance. “You still wish to fight, eh? Well then, let's go to MY arena” He said with a evil laugh resounds as the world starts to phase out along with Blackout until the are all standing in a black void.

Knockout groans. “THIS is a new trick. Is everyone okay? Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Crystal, Pinkie Pie?” Knockout said trying to get up, but he kept feeling like he was falling down.

“Yeah, we're fine.” All the ponies answered in perfect sync.

“Okay. Now... where ARE we?” Knockout said looking around before being blinded by a bright light that soon fades showing a floor that is the color of a deep red and a long hallway that leads to what would almost look like a throne room.

“He won't get away with what he's done...” Twilight said calmly... almost too calmly.

“Never seen this side of Twilight... I mean... I’ve seen her raging... but never quietly!” Crystal stammered, in complete disbelief she ever missed this.

“Well, at least she isn’t angry at us. Now where is that Oscuridad guy!” Rainbow Dash said about ready to dash off down the hallway.

“Okay... this MIGHT be a mind game he is playing on us, I don't really know for sure... So we should take it slow...” Knockout said as he tries to take a step forward and Rainbow Dash does instead. Rainbow Dash then does the same but Knockout moves in her stead. “Well, THIS is going to be fun...”

“What on...?” Crystal questioned what she was seeing, and her Cutie Mark began glowing again.

“Er... What in tarnation?” Applejack said while taking a step, but Fluttershy goes instead of AJ causing her to yelp.

“Oh oh oh! Is this one of those games where we get our controls all scrambled up?” Pinkie said hopping up and down, however, it was Rarity who was hopping. “Pinkie! Stop making me hop right now!” Rarity hollered while stamping her hoof down.

Suddenly Crystal’s left foreleg shot up and then crushed an ant. “Gah!” She gasped at this involuntary motion.

“Quick, Twilight, got a spell or something? Or will magic not work here?” Knockout asked TRYING to turn his head to Twilight, but instead Rainbow Dash started looking at the wall. “Confound Oscuridad and his tricks...”

“...No. I've never encountered anything like this.” Twilight said with a twinge of terror in her voice as she tried to run but Pinkie started bouncing toward Oscuridad instead. “Great... Fluttershy, who do you control?”

“Oh ho ho ho! Seems like you are at a bit of a disadvantage?” Oscuridad said from the room ahead of them with a smile plastered on his face.

Fluttershy tries to back away, but Knockout runs into a post instead. Oscuridad's head then appeared from nowhere and just floated there.

“Wait second, I thought that was Rainbow Dash!” Knockout said scratching his head, but it was really Fluttershy who was getting her head rubbed by her hoof.

“Oh, don't mind me, I'm just randomly switching who you control...” Oscuridad said as a bright light surrounded the group and brought them into the same room he was in. “Sorta like what Pinkie said, just like a game!”

“Darnit! There goes our plan.”

“Nothing you can really do now, so....” Oscuridad stopped for a moment before some books floated from the bookshelves. “Allow me to let you pick your death, after all, I AM a gentleman!”

Fluttershy whimpers in fear again, but resists the urge to shrink away.

“Um... old age?” Rarity said, hopeful the ploy would work.

“Now that’s just boring, allow me to read you some much more entertaining options!” He said as a book opened up. “Shall it be, insanity, Gas, or being eaten? We also have, turned to stone, rotting alive, burning...” he said flipping through the book. “Oh wow, so many to choose from!”

“Well... none of those sound particularly comely to us.” Applejack quipped.

“If you don’t mind, I am TRYING to read!” he growled taking his eyes off the book for a moment. “And forgive me Applejack, but you keep interrupting me before I get to the better options! Now then there is severing your head off, twisting you into a pretzel, cutting you apart and pasting your parts on each other.... OH! MY FAVORITE! Cupcakes! Well, besides the 7-course meal...”

“HEY! THAT'S PINKAMINA'S THING!” Pinkie cried out in defense of her crazy alter-ego.

“...I...I can't see a way out of this...” Twilight cringed as she saw all this happening. ”Why don't you just blow us up with the planet and get it over with?”

“Of course it is, she's gonna help me!” Oscuridad retorted as a Pinkamina the size of Canterlot fell from the sky. “In fact.... You guys look lonely, I'll let her keep you company while you decide... If she doesn't make you cupcakes first! Oh, why? because I won't KILL everyone! Just make them suffer WITH me while I EAT them! You honestly thought I was going to blow the whole thing up, oh what a laugh!” He said with a twisted chuckle as the Pinkamina got a crazy grin on her face and started to hum “cupcakes”.

“Well... yeah, don’t all evil abomination-type villains usually go for that?” Twilight said referencing countless fictional writings she’d read.

“...Gosh...That's not good. is it?” Applejack said, wanting to back away, but couldn’t.

“I am NOT a fictional monster, I am quite real wouldn’t you say? But that aside, what one fate will you pick of my choices?” He said while getting up and walking to the group who was just standing there, Twilight didn’t respond, distracted by a flash of light on the roof which noone else noticed.

“Or does that shy little Fluttershy have something more horrible in her pretty little head...” He said while stopping at Fluttershy and getting to her eye level and patting her on the head.

“...n-no...no I... I don’t....”

“I definitely don't have a giant energy ball of death in mind or anything.” Fluttershy whispered quietly.

“Sorry, I don't think you got my question Fluttershy...” he said while getting up. “That was not as much as a question, as it was a COMMAND!” He said before kicking her across the room and walking to where she landed, that broke the last straw for the group.

“OH NOW YOU’VE GONE AND DONE IT!” Pinkie Pie yelled as she tried to leap at him, but Rainbow Dash went instead.

“Thanks Pinkie, I’ve been waiting for this all day!” Rainbow Dash said, trying to give a kick before realizing she wasn’t controlling herself and was slapped away by Oscuridad.

“RARITY!” Crystal Clear called out suddenly. “Turn around and try and shoot a magical laser like Twilight would!”

“Whaa? But I can’t... Oh, whatever.” Rarity replied as she tried the spell, and Twilight fired a large blast straight at Oscuridad. Unfortunately, it was reflected back by a shield.

“H-how the” Twilight stammered. “How did you know that would happen?!”

Crystal Clear simply smirked and told Rainbow Dash to motion towards her Cutie Mark. Making Crystal do the motion. “Notice anything odd?”

Applejack tried to facehoof... but Rarity smacked herself instead. “Of course,” Applejack muttered, “why did we never see that?”

“It’s not the same as mine?” Pinkie said fluttering her eyes innocently while everyone just stared at her. “Hey, it’s TRUE!”

“It seems I have a rare magical gift.” Crystal explained.

Twilight stares at Crystal in awe, “How can you have magic powers... you aren’t a unicorn!”

“Neither is Pinkie.” Knockout reminded her. “And she’s the one who started this whole thing, remember?”

“If you want to be technical,” Oscuridad chimed in. “I started it, she just helped me a lot”

“Anyway, I can see what I call auras around other beings, and right now I can see that everypony’s auras are shuffling randomly!”

“...What?” Rainbow Dash said, confused for what must have been the twelfth time in two days.

“That means we have a SMALL chance of being able to put up a good fight if you can coordinate us in time for our attacks?” Knockout said trying to figure out if they was REALLY going to risk it.

“Maybe... I can’t hold my power on very long or I’ll pass out.” Crystal confirmed. “We’ve got maybe 15 minutes to do this, so we’ll have make it count!”

“Hey guys, want to make some cupcakes?” A loud voice rang out as the Pinkamina looked down at the group with her crazy smile.

“We’re starting with her.” Crystal said darkly, “You’ve exposed me to Pinkie’s kookiness one too many times in her sessions... now I get payback.”

“So, we’re finally going to get rid of the grouchy-wouchy-meanie-mean-pants me?” Pinkie asked.

“YES! I CAN FINALLY GET SOME REVENGE FOR MAKING ME INTO A HALLOWEEN COSTUME!” Rainbow Dash cheered, pumping Fluttershy’s hoof in the air.

“Well? Are you going to do anything or not?” Oscuridad asked, “This sounds like it will be VERY entertaining to watch.”

“As you wish...” Crystal responded as Applejack started running toward the giant Pinkamina before bucking her full-force in the left hoof, and the fight for Equestria had begun.

Pinkamina fell flat on her face and looked, dazed, directly at Rainbow Dash. Crystal Clear commanded the others better than most 5-star Equestrian generals could ever dream. Every order was loud enough that Pinkamina could hear it, however, and she merely tried to dodge whatever pony did each action. Eventually, Pinkamina noticed that beyond her mouth, Crystal wasn’t moving in the slightest.

“Aha!” The enormous equine abomination cried out as she pounced directly toward Crystal, only to be dodged at the last second as Fluttershy tackled her away at speeds only Rainbow Dash could have achieved.

The fighting raged for several minutes, fatigue etching itself clearly into Crystal’s face as she held her power on for as long as she could.

“I... I can’t keep this up much longer...” She informed the others. “Pinkie! shoot a magic laser... now!” and Twilight fired one off just as Pinkamina reared up into the line of fire. Scoring a direct hit to the snout that did little-to-nothing.

“Mreeheeeheehehehe, silly Crystal! That won’t stop me!,” Pinkamina roared as she
set up to stomp Rarity into a pancake.

“Fluttershy, jump backwards!” and, as instructed, Applejack leapt back and landed on Pinkamina’s tail heavily as she missed and left huge dents in the floor.

”Clever,” Twilight praised as Fluttershy started clapping her forehooves.

“One last round...” Crystal panted as her Cutie Mark started to flicker, “Rainbow Dash... throw... the... lasso.” Crystal ordered as she passed out, landing with a heavy thud. Applejack tossed her lasso and got Pinkamina in a chokehold with it.

“Aw, that’s too bad,” Oscuridad crowed with a dark smirk, “looks like your final chance of victory just fell short.”

Pinkamina then broke AJ’s lasso and stared Pinkie right in her eyes. “Can I make them cupcakes now, boss?”

“Not yet,” Oscuridad said, turning back to Fluttershy. “Now then... where were we?”

“See, I know a thing or two about you. The whole thing at the GGG, that wasn't a mistake at all now WAS it?”

Fluttershy began tearing up.

“You and I are a lot alike in some ways. You want everyone to love you no matter what, and I want everyone to suffer with me, no matter what” He said with a soft smile while wiping away the tear off of her face with a look of sympathy.

“Don't y’all listen to ‘im Fluttershy... You are NOT like him a’tall!” Applejack called out to her friend.

“I have a special offer for you... Join me. I know the sorrow you feel” Oscuridad said as a tear started to form in his eye as if he was remembering something from his past.

“You care for the weak, he causes suffering.” Rainbow Dash chimed in.

“I... I...” Fluttershy stuttered, unable to say any more in her fright.

“The hatred by the on lookers that think you are a oddball...” Oscuridad said slowly combing his claw threw Fluttershy’s mane to “comfort” her. “You think I was just welcome after I came back from the dead? HA! I was shunned more than a crazed killer.”

Fluttershy closed her eyes and started crying, causing Twilight to get ticked off even more.

“Sh... SHUT UP YOU HALF ROTTED BASTARD!” Twilight yelled. Earning shocked looks from everypony at the fact she just swore.

“I WAS SHUNNED FROM MY BLASTED FAMILLY. THEY HATED ME, ALL I WANTED WAS SOME COMPASSION AND LOVE! DID THEY SHOW ME IT? NO! THEY IGNORED ME! NO ONE WAS THERE TO HELP ME, THEY ALL HATED ME! NOW IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO PAY!” Blackout said getting up and shooting them all a killer glare. “ALL I WANTED WAS TO RETURN TO MY OLD LIFE, BUT DID THEY LET ME? NO!”

“That vile ruffian... of all the nerve.” Rarity said with a tone of intense disgust.

“Just like you Fluttershy... All you wanted was to be loved by the animals, but they just shunned you away, COULDN'T CARE LESS about how you felt.” He said turning back to Fluttershy, who was starting to tear up as she caused to Pinkie quiver violently while curled into a ball. “They drove you to your limits and you broke! CRASH! SHATTER, ALL THE PIECES OF YOUR LIFE FALL IN FRONT OF YOU'RE EYES! YOU WAS HEART BROKEN, YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOURSELF!”

“Not happening, you zombie son of a bitch.” A cloaked figure yelled as it dove from the roof of the castle and brandished two swords, one black with a tinge of crimson etched along the flat, and one white with an eerie glow. “Will you just SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY?!“ The mysterious warrior sliced through Pinkamina with a dual swipe, destroying the demonic pony outright.

“...And YOU are...?” Oscuridad growled as he turned his head to the intruder. ”And how did you get into this world?”

“You don't remember, me?” The warrior asked, “I’m hurt, Oscuridad.”

“No, I don't remember you...” Oscuridad said as the warrior thew off the cloak revealing Shandra. “Oh, it’s just YOU. The only one of you're family that I let live because I found something in you that was promising!” He said with a hint of a mock in his voice.

“So you do remember me after all, worm-brains. You should... cause I'm the one who will end you.” She said with a conviction that spoke volumes. One who was there could tell it wasn’t a threat, but a veritable blood-oath.

“Shandra?!” Twilight cried.

“Heh...” Shandra scoffed. “Nice to see you again too, Twilight.”

“Wait... what, where did you go?” Knockout asked puzzled by the sudden shift in events.

“See these swords?” Shandra held them up. “They were my brothers', and each has a hidden power.”

“And your point being....?” Knockout said not understanding a thing that was going on.

“The black one, Harzor of Hellfire, instantly explodes anything with a physical presence that it cuts when active... and the white one, it cuts something MUCH more critical. If these fail... there is little hope.

“‘Cuts’ implying I am there for you to cut at?” Oscuridad scoffed still standing next to Fluttershy, who took this as a cue and was made to move straight behind Shandra by Rainbow Dash, and everypony else moves behind her as well.

“That's where the mystic properties come in...” Shandra continued, her tone now one of mocking.

“I am not really here, in fact you are in my mind, my own world if you please. Oh dear, I hope I didn't say too much...” Oscuridad paused for a moment. ”Oh well, a simple mind-erase will do the trick... Wait, what are you planning?”

“Good! That means the white sword can cause the most damage ever seen... on any plane of existence!” Shandra yelled as she charged full speed at Oscuridad. “Because... SOULRENDER DESTROYS THE VERY ESSENCE OF THAT WHICH IT ATTACKS!!” She stopped just short and raised Soulrender, pointing it straight at the ground.

“Ah.... just wait a second now!” Oscuridad said stepping up right into Shandra’s face. “See. if you kill me, the world you are in dies, along with you! Besides, that thing is magic powered, right?”

“How do think I got in, if I wasn't there when you sucked them in? We'll just escape in the TARDIS!”

“Only if Chaos energy counts as magic, and besides...” she paused remembering the fight from earlier against the giant Pinkamina. “Magic still works here!”

“Note that I said “WORLD" implying you are in MY world. The world that is MY brain.” He paused again. ”...Oh bother, I shouldn't have said that last part... I REALLY need to stop doing that! Ah well, you know what, just for the fun of it...!” Oscuridad said as he started to fade away.

“What?” Pinkie asked, popping her head out of a popcorn holder. “Did you guys need something?”

“Nobody can comprehend what goes on in your head, and if we're inside his... your mind might shatter the illusions!” Shandra explained.

“Like what she just did?” Knockout asked pointing to Pinkie who had started eating her popcorn again.

“Yeah, like th--...we better go.” Shandra said.

Suddenly, a nearby door flies open and an old medieval stadium is seen outside. “Come on out and let’s have some “fun” shall we?” Oscuridad called out from the stadium.

“But... We can't move ourselves.” Twilight said, unsure of what to do.

“...We can move each other, and we all have one goal location.” Knockout reminded her.

“Oh, so true, this wouldn't be that "fun" if you aren't in control of yourself... let me fix that....” Oscuridad said before a bright light flashed before them all and they suddenly realized they were controlling themselves again.

Knockout moves his right arm and it moves as instructed. “Sweet! I have my fingers back! No more fiddling around with hooves and having to stand on four legs!” Knockout said as he did a punch to the air.

“...Wait.. What AM I thinking?” Oscuridad said realizing what he just did. “Ah well, still just as small... Oh, and Twilight, I know you MAY not agree, but care to join with me?”

“Looks like you are all back to normal now.” Shandra quipped, picking up Crystal Clear and carrying her along. “Now let’s MOVE.”

“NEVER!” Twilight shoots a magic laser at Oscuridad. “ What could POSSIBLY make you think I’d want to JOIN YOU?!”

“Awww, such a shame! Celestia and Luna asked me to see if you wanted to join us!” Oscuridad said as they entered the arena, and on a stand stood Celestia and Luna, both looking normal with nothing missing off them.

“Enough with your lies, Oscuridad!” Shandra rushes at the demon with Harzor of Hellfire.

“Now just wait a second Shandra, let’s make this a fair sport!” Oscruidad said still being nowhere to be seen. “You see, I’ve been fascinated with the knight battles in those old story books, Knockout is sure to know that! So I figured we would settle this like knights!” He finished as a gate opened and a figure rode out on a horse, that looked about as dead as Oscuridad.

“Now THAT’S just plain wrong!” Knockout said in disgust at the sight, as Fluttershy fainted again.

“Hmmm.... you know guys I just thought of something...” Pinkie said looking up into the air.

“What?” Applejack asked.

“See, if we are going to do a knight-style fight, we need to fit the part! Sure this is a thing for Rarity to say, but I want to try out this armor I made!” Pinkie said as she quickly spun around and was in an armor suit that looked like something ripped straight from Halo. “Like it?”

“Uh Pinkie, this isn’t the time to be playing dress up, we need to ge- HEY! PUT ME DOWN!” Knockout said, but was interupted when Pinkie somehow managed to lift him up with only one of her hooves.

“Silly Knockout, these suits boost our natural abilities, and out cutie mark powers! Of course, if it wasn’t for Mr. Meany-Zombie-Guy I wouldn’t have been able to make these!” Pinkie said as she put Knockout back down. “Here, you guys can put yours on! I even made you and Shandra one, see?” She then tossed out armor suits for each of the people that was there.

“Hey! Mine looks like Rarity’s dress she made for me to wear at the Gala!” Rainbow Dash said while putting on her armor that looked like it would have been seen back in the old Roman empire. “But it looks great, a perfect way to boost my speed!” Rainbow Dash said while flying around even faster than normal.

“Well of course, Dashie.” Pinkie giggled. “She threw out our old dresses when she made the good ones! I saved them and made all these super-duper-mega-terrific-battlesuits out of them last week I tell you it was hard to get all the--MMPH!!” Twilight put her hoof in Pinkie’s mouth to help her stop talking so she could ask about her dress.

“Uh Pinkie, what’s with these to... tubes on the side of my armor?” Twilight asked as she finished putting on her armor that looked like another cheap ripoff of Halo, this time it was more of an alien armor though. “I don’t see how this will help me fight better..”

“Oh those? They are magic-powered cannons, they boost your magic’s attacks by a WHOLE lot!“ Pinkie said hopping up and down excitedly “Do you like it?”

Twilight got a sly look on her face and looked at Oscuridad. “Oh. I like it alright...”

“Oh! and I ALMOST forgot to mention!” Pinkie said holding a mirror up in one hoof and pointing at Twilight’s head armor. “I also put our Elements of Harmony in them so we can use them if we needed to!”

“Pinkie, my dear friend I do not know how you did this... but I am definitely going to enjoy dealing that mongrel a large pummeling with these.” Applejack said in a more cultured manner, while wearing an old-fashioned army suit with an apple-shaped helmet. “WHAT IN LUNA’S BEAUTEOUS NIGHT?!” She yelled when she realized she had spoken in her Manehattanite accent. “WHY AM I SPEAKING LIKE THIS AGAIN?!”

“Sorry about how yours turned out AJ, I couldn’t think of any thing high-tech for yours so I just used some old army clothes, they MIGHT be leaking an itsy-tiny bit, since that cloth don’t seems to keep radiation that well.” Pinkie said hopping over to her. “I think it effected your voice, maybe that’s what the radiation does!”

“Why Applejack, I’m surprised. Your voice sounds so... eloquent and cultured!” Rarity began, “ We simply MUST talk about this when this battle is finished.”

“Come on Rarity, put on your suit!” Pinkie said while tossing the suit closer to Rarity. “Trust me, it will help you a whole lot!”

“Well if you insist Pinkie...” The fashionista said before she put on another old-fashioned war suit. “Now, soldier! You mean you’ve had this hidden away from me all this time? You filthy maggot! I ought to have you court-marshaled for thi-.” Rarity clamped a hoof over her own mouth. Her eyes wide with shock, along with everypony else’s..

“Heh heh, looks like yours gives off the same effect, Rarity!” Pinkie Pie giggled. “Everyone else, hurry and put yours on to see what else happens!”

“You disgraceful maggot, I ou-” Rarity quickly shut her mouth again before could make even more of a foal out of herself.

“Uh... P-pinkie...? Is my armor s-safe?” Fluttershy squeaked while poking her armor that looked like a cross of a heavy weapons man and a medic. “I-I mean, if you don’t mind I could just um, stay back and let you guys do the fighting...”

“Nonsense Fluttershy, these are completely safe!” Pinkie said with a big smile plastered on her face. “Just go ahead and put it on, auntie-Pinkie Pie got it all covered!”

“Again... I’m a year older than you.” Fluttershy reminded Pinkie as she put on her armor. “I-I feel odd...” Fluttershy said in a MUCH deeper voice with a hint of Russian accent mixed in. “Pinkie Pie, what did you do?”

“Oh nothing, I just gave your thing a special feature to make you sound more threatening!” Pinkie said hopping around, oh and Twilight, I tweaked yours a bit too!”

“You did? Ah reckon you didn’t do-” Twilight stopped mid-sentence and started at Pinkie.

“Yep! Teeheehee you sound like a REALLY smart Applejack!!” Pinkie giggled.

“Hey! This isn’t anything special Pinkie!” Knockout said annoyed. “This is just my old armor from my house!”

“Oh, I did do a small tweak to yours, I noticed yours didn’t have any way to boost your strength, so I just added that stuff in.” Pinkie said while hopping over to Shandra with a smile. “What do you think of yours, do you like it?”

Shandra turned around and looked in the mirror Pinkie had just produced. “Well... I’m no real judge on fashion, but I like it! Nice and menacing.” Her armor was almost a direct lift of that worn by Knuckles when he was turned into Enerjak, only her face was not covered, and the color was a deep blue. “It reminds me of someone very powerful back on my world, though...”

“If you guys are done playing dress-up, I would like to have a fight BEFORE you guys die of old age...” Oscuridad said as he rode over on his zombie-horse-thing.

“Oh, I think we are ready alright...” Knockout said as he finished putting on his armor and picked up his battle ax. “Wouldn’t you agree guys... er, girls?”

“I sure hope so soldier! We didn’t just play dress up for nothing, let go bead the snot out this scumnucket!” Rarity yelled, then immediately stuffing her hoof in her mouth again. “Blast it Pinkie, why did you do this to me!”

“Um... Dah, I doan really tink zese voices vill... vork out.” Fluttershy added as quietly as she could.

“Oh girls, while I was hopping into Knockout’s world I played some of this cool fighting game that they called ‘TF2’, I loved the characters so much I added in some of the data into the suits to give you the fighting skills they have! But it seems like a bit more got put in.” Pinkie said as she pulled out a sword that was on the side of her armor, much like the sword that was used in Halo. “Oh, and I based my suit on a halo!”

“Oh sweet merciful Neo Walkers...” Shandra muttered, “FLUTTERSHY is our HEAVY WEAPONS EXPERT?”

“Well, at least Dash was left with Scout... or Spy, or Pryo.” Knockout said thinking of all the classes before he was interuptted by Oscuridad giving off a loud cough. “Oh yeah, we got to beat the life out of him, don’t we?”

“Well DUH, why else did I come with you guys, to play dress up? Let’s get this fight started already!” Rainbow Dash said dashing off at Oscuridad.

“Rainbow Dash! You forgot to yell “LEROY JENKIENS”!” Pinkie called to Rainbow Dash as she followed behind her, with her sword in her mouth. “PINKIE PIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!”

“Ugh, WHY didn’t we all go out together?” Knockout said while he followed the other two. “WAIT UP GIRLS, SAVE SOME OF THE FIGHT FOR ME!”

“This is more like it! CHARGE SOLDIERS! Rarity yelled as she ran past Knockout with a missile launcher loaded. “It’s time we show this maggot who’s the boss!”

And so the battle started, while Rainbow Dash attempted to come from above Pinkie came from below hoping one of them could land a hit on Oscuridad, but both were promptly knocked back by a purple shockwave emitted by a long purple blade he was holding that had black flames coming from it. “Try all you wont you fools, but you can not hope to stop me!”

“I say, we will see about THAT dear sir!” Applejack said before she fired a shot out of her sniper rifle knocking the blade out of his hand. “Pinkie darling, I am simply AMAZED at how you built these special weapons, do tell me what they are called!”

“Oh, they are called guns, just like what Shandra uses!! They are sorta like a deadly tennis ball launcher!” Pinkie said as she dodged the falling sword. “You seem to have gotten the hang of it quite fast!”

“Confound you and your guns, I said this was a knight fi-AAAARRRGGGHHHH” Blackout said before being blown off his horse by a missile.

“HOW’S THAT MAGGOT?!” Rarity bellowed in pride at her marksmanship. She hadn’t even used her telekinesis to correct the aim.

“THAT’S IT, IF YOU WANT TO PLAY DEADLY, THEN WELL PLAY DEADLY!” Oscuridad yelled as he got back up with his hands surrounded in a black and purple flame as his sword floated back to him. that he grabbed and then dashed at Rarity. “I’LL SHOW YOU WHO THE REAL MAGGOT IS!”

“COME AT ME YOU SCUMBUCKET, I’LL SHOW YOU HOW THE REAL MEANING OF A WAR!” Rarity called out reloading her rocket and charging straight at the crazed zombie.

“Ah don’t like the look a’dat.” Twilight said as she conjured up a wall. Instead, a strange device appeared between Rarity and Oscuridad and began firing at him nonstop. “Erecting a sentry here!”

“I got you now, TIME TO MAKE YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO PINKIE!” Rainbow Dash said as she flew down from behind and tried to buck him in the back of the head, but right as she was about to a purple fire shield erupted around him sending all the ponies flying back.

“GET AWAY FROM ME AND DIE!” Oscuridad yelled before vanishing and reappearing above Rainbow Dash and doing a rapid-slash attack with his long sword before sending her back to the ground.

“AAAAHH” She screamed, as she careened straight towards Applejack’s head.

“I got you!” Applejack said while trying to to get her gun out of the way before Rainbow Dash fell on it, only to have her land about a foot away. “Oh, my most sincere apologies Rainbow.” Applejack ran up to her fallen friend, making sure she was alright, when Rainbow’s back hooves suddenly shot out on instinct and caught the farm pony right in the face.

“I think we stood around long enough Shandra, LET’S GO GET HIM!” Knockout yelled as he dashed at Oscuridad with his ax scrapping the ground, and then crashing head on with him like they ALWAYS do in the sword fights. “We REALLY have to stop meeting like this, you know?”

“RIGHT! Knockout, GET CLEAR!” Shandra cried, pulling out Pinkie’s Power Emerald. “Chaos...”

“Oh shut it you stupid echi- what, A CHAOS EMERALD?! HOW DID THAT GET IN HERE?!” Oscuridad bellowed in shock, causing him to let his guard down and be knocked back by a swipe from Knockout’s ax.

“Trade secret.” Knockout answered for her, jumping off to the side. “He’s all yours Shandra!”

“...ARROWS!” Shandra commanded as millions of golden lightning bolts soared straight towards Oscuridad.

“Wha, what happen, did someone get the number on that tru-uh oh.” Oscuridad said before being hit by the lightning bolts that were followed by a golden explosion.

“A DIRECT HIT! TAKE THAT YOU MAGGOT!” Rarity roared jumping up into the air for joy.

“I don’t think it would be that easy...” Pinkie said as she looked into the smoke, trying to see if he was still there. “Or maybe it WAS that easy? I don’t see a trace of him at all!”

“There’s no way that I just beat him without even throwing a Chaos Spear.” Shandra called back.

“Varh do you dink he vent then?” Fluttershy said as she walked up beside the group.

“Right behind you.” Oscuridad said before whipping Fluttershy up into the air. “I can’t believe you guys fell for that trick, to be honest, any last words pathetic pony?”

“I got ya’ last words right ‘ere mate!” Applejack said right before she stabbed the end of her gun in a gap in Oscuridads armor causing him to drop Fluttershy and then give her a death glare. “Er, I reckon that didn’t hurt, now did it?” In a blink of a eye Oscuridad pulled the gun the rest of the way through and snapped it in two and threw the two parts away and lunged at her, sword blazing with flames.

“STAND BACK YOU MEAN GHOSTIE THING!” Pinkie yelled as she jumped over him and tried to stab him in his head, but wound up only stabbing his foot into the ground. “Oh rats, I over-jumped again, that’s the third time! The last two times I jumped clear out of the stadium!”

“And I’ve just got two more for you...” Shandra added, “Chaos...” and she suddenly began to glow bright gold as everyone dove away. “...SPEAR!” An single, enormous bolt of Chaos Energy sailed through the air, straight for Oscuridad’s head.

“Not going to happen again, sister.” Blackout said before he produced another shield out of flames, though it only blocked most of the blast. “AAARRGH, MY EYE! MY ONLY GOOD EYE, YOU RUINED IT!” he screamed as half of the helmet he was wearing fell off showing his one good eye fall to the floor along with it.

“Oh shut up already!” Knockout said as he slammed his ax down on their foe’s back sending him to the floor screaming in pain. He was about to attack again before Oscuridad grabbed Pinkie and put her in Knockout’s path, and dealing a mighty blow through both of them.

“Oh no you DON’T!” Oscuridad cried out.

“PINKIE PIE!” Everyone yelled as Pinkie fell limp to the ground.

“Guys... I am getting the feeling he is playing with our minds.” Pinkie said, as she fell.

“Pinkie, did he just break your brain AGAIN?!“ Shandra yelled at the party pony.

“I mean really playing with our minds!” Pinkie cried. “Almost like this were a dream... Quick, someone pinch me!”

“You got it, maggot!” Rarity yelled as she pinched Pinkie between two hooves.

“Wait, you don't have fin--OW!” Pinkie cried in pain.

“Urgh... If this works, I will forever say Pinkie Pie is smarter than Twilight Sparkle.”

“...Nothing.” Pinkie said in a sad voice.

“What?” Shandra asked, beginning to think the fight was hopeless.

“Confound you Pinkie, having to ruin my fun!” Oscuridad said pounding his fist on the ground as everything started to fade into a black void. “I KNEW giving you that knowledge was a bad idea!”

“Wait... If this is a dream...” Knockout began. “Everyone think quick, what is the best way to wake up fast!?”

“Depends on what how many dreams we're down from reality.” Shandra called out.

“Oh Oh Oh! I know!” Pinkie said before she vanished.

“...Force of will won't help those of us with sane minds...” Shandra said trying to think of a way, but was then cut off by a loud voice coming from seemingly nowher, yet also everywhere.

“ WAAAAKKEEEE UUPPPPP SLEEPY HEADS!” Pinkie chirped cheerfully “I can break 4th walls, remember?”

“CONFOUND YOU PONY!! YOU FOILED MY PLAN!” Oscuridad yelled as he pounded his fist on the ground as the world slowly faded back to normal. “I WILL GET MY REVENGE ON YOU!”

“WAAAAAGH!!!” The heroes all cried out, bolting upright, and seeing they are all in the castle courtyard still wearing their battle gear, and Oscuridad laying on the ground in front of them, the sun and the moon were slowly shifting back to their normal positions seeing Blackout had lost the two horns and his other wing.

“Whoa...” Shandra murmured as she regained her senses “That is some crazy-ass Inception stuff right there.”

“See? I TOLD you it would work!” Pinkie said as she hopped around the group while they was getting back up. “Just leave it to your Auntie Pinkie Pie!”

“Urgh, why you... YOU... YOU ROTTEN LITTLE BACK STABBING PONY YOU!!!” Oscuridad said while he slowly got up, his eyes pure white with rage. “I gave you ALL that knowledge.... Now I'm going to TAKE IT ALL BACK!” He yelled before starting to chase the pink pony who had been hopping around the courtyard.

Shandra turns on a 2-way com-watch, and asks into it “Nick? Are you there?” Her only answer: a loud buzz of static.

“Uh Shandra, don't we have a bigger problem?” Knockout said tapping her on the shoulder. “Oh, and who is Nick?”

“Oh, right” She replied, “Short for Nicolas.”

“Uh, Isn't he dead or something?” Knockout asked puzzled.

“I was making sure that wasn't just the dream.”

Shandra’s face exploded into rage. “It wasn't...”

“GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE PINK PONY!” Oscuridad yells as Pinkie Pie hops by the group as he chases her.

“...This is what I love about him. He focuses on one thing at a time” Knockout said laughing a bit. “We won’t have to worry that much as long as he don’t stop chasing Pinkie.”

Shandra noticed she still has the equipment from the dream and tries to call upon the power of the emerald, only for it to explode in her hands.. ”Whaa? Oh well. The emerald made me overpowered anyway. This will be more fun.” Shandra draws Harzor of Hellfire, but her arm suddenly freezes stiff. “What the!? herk... UUUURRRRRG”

“Heh, your guys REALLY feel for that stunt too?” a voice said from out side as two sets of metal feet are heard entering the room. The two beings that were supposedly left for dead on Azure Island, Freezor and Metal Knockout, appeared.

“You!”

“WE KNEW YOU WOULD COME TO AZURE ISLAND, SO WE STAGED THE WHOLE THING. EVERYTHING THERE WAS A FAKE, TO BUY OSCURIDAD MORE TIME.” Metal Knockout said in his monotone, robotic voice while walking over to Shandra with his flamethrower arm ready to blow.

“To be honest, I wasn't sure that the plan would work. But goes to show, they are always dumber then they look!” Freezor said with a smirk on his face as he was about to fire another blast of ice to freeze even more of Shandra.

“Oh get hacked you pile of scrap!” Shandra draws a gun with her free arm and shoots.

Twilight Sparkle summons the Element of Magic. The other ponies see this and summon their Elements. The white light immediately fills the room.

“CONFOUNDED PINKIE PIE AND YOUR CONFOUNDED JUMPING!” Oscuridad exclaimed as he tried to catch Pinkie Pie, but slammed into a wall. “OOF, When I catch you I...er what...?”

“Does it drive you to drink?” Shandra quipped as she pushed Knockout outside.

“FREEZOR! WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS?!” Oscuridad yelled in fury while grabbing Freezor and shaking him.

“Those are the Elements of Harmony you wanted to get.” Freezor said looking annoyed. “You DO remember that part of the plan, right?”

“THE PROBABILITY OF THAT IS 95%, THE PROBABILITY THAT THE PLAN WAS STOPPED BEFORE HE COULD GET TO THAT IS 2.5%, THE PROBABILITY OF IT BEING BOTH IS 2.5%.” Metal Knockout said as he walked up to the other two. “THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO STOP THEM BEFORE IT REACHES THE FINAL STAGE, ESTIMATED TIME UNTIL STAGE IS UNKNOWN.”

“Relax metal head, they’re just ponies! I expect them to give us MORE then enough time!” Freezor said with a smirk on his face, that was quickly wiped away when a giant rainbow laser exploded out and enveloped all three villains.

“Well, this is one of the saddest ways to end a villain-hood!” Oscuridad said giving Freezor a death glare. “And you said we would have plenty of time.”

“Death by rainbows, at least it's colorful!” Freezor said while loading his ice cannons. “Doesn’t mean we can’t try and stop it from happening though, right?

“THE RAINBOW IS MADE OF WATER, IT WOULD BE A COLD AND WET DEATH. LIKE THAT OF A SEAMAN.” Metal Knockout said while he scanned the rainbow. “WE CAN FREEZE THE WATER IN THE RAINBOW CAUSING IT TO BE UN EFFECTIVE.”

“Eh? You mean we won’t be dieing as we taste Skittles?” Oscuridad questioned as the rainbow filled the entire room.

““ERROR: THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE. THE RAINBOW IS GROWING and yet the light source is the same.” Metal Knockout Said while he was still scanning the rainbow that was now growing larger.

“er... Knockout turns to Shandra and asks, “Shandra! What's going on in there!?”

“I feel weird...” Oscuridad said while holding his. “Oh no... No... NO. I WILL NOT LET YOU TAKE THE FROM ME!” He hollered while pulling out his sword, that didn’t ignite into flames like it should have. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SWORD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!”

All the ponies answered him in a frightening monotone at once”WE'RE HITTING THEM WITH THE FULL POWER OF THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!”

“ERROR, NEW SYSTEM FILE IS BEING DETECTED. FILE IS SHOWN AS A HARMFUL FILE AND IS CLASSIFIED AS A VIRUS.” Metal KO was now starting to lock up when he tried to move his joints to get a better look for any possible escape routs. “THE FILE MUST BE EXTERMINATED WITH FIRE!...WITH FIRE!...ERROR, SYSTEMS UNRESPONSIVE.”

“HAH! His firewall can't repel MAGIC of that magnitude.” Shandra laughed.

“...System Check underway...Shield power is at 10%...ENERGY IS AT 5%SYSTEM IS AT CRITICAL LEVELS, MUST SHUT DOWN TO PRESERVE SELF...SHUT DOWN UNABLE TO FUNCTION! ERROR: THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE! ERROR: THIS ERROR GOT A ERROR” Fighting with all the system power inside him, the robot was determined to survive. But was quickly failing as sparks and steam started to shoot from the joints and head. “ERRO-” The robot suddenly fell silent.

“You know, right about now is when I close my eyes and let death take me.” Freezor said as he slowly laid down and closed his eyes, prepared for the worst.

“It's MAGIC metalhead! We ain't gotta explain JACK!“ Rainbow Dash said with a smirk as the robot’s head blew off, followed by a huge explosion rocked the entirety of Equestria. When the lights fade and the dust cleared, in the middle of Twilight's library lay 3 echidnas. Knockout walked in the room to see what happen.

“I... I don't believe it...” Shandra stuttered, disbelieving of what she was seeing.

“Is... it safe?” Knockout asked peering into the room.

“Knockout...”

“What...?”

“Look at them... does anything seem... different, to you?”

Knockout glares at the three villains and just stared at them trying to figure out what happen.

Shandra sighed at this show of unintelligence, “Blackout is... not a zombie! That much should have been obvious!”

“...He is like... his old self!” Knockout said with a hint of joy in his voice. “Same with Freezor!”

“and Metal KO is... a clone of you! What the he--” Shandra was cut off by Knockout

“And.... he needs his head re-attached.” Knockout said, but then he realized what Shandra just said “Wait, what, two Knockouts? This is not good...”

“Aside from the headlessness, but he looks exactly like you.” Shandra continued, before walking over to the ponies to check on them.

Looking around, Knockout tries to see what happen to the ponies, only to see they are all out cold too. “Man, what ever happened must have been strong...”

“mmmph... Ooohh... my head...” Twilight moaned as she stirred, “No more tomato coladas before bed. ...Oh LUNA!” She cried, realizing what was going on around her primarily the no-longer-Metal Knockout’s form lying in a pool of some strange mixture of motor oil and blood..

“SYSTEMRESETACTIVATE... ...ERROR... I... feel... cold?” The once mono-toned robot voice soon turned into a perfect replica of Knockout’s. “ ...Something... strange is happening... ...Something... flowing out of me... ...Lights... dark... getting... dark...” The now-fleshy copy said slowly moving it’s eyes around.

“Okay... this is just creepy.” Shandra deadpanned.

“Seems his mind was unchanged... by the blast.” Twilight managed to get out through her horror.

“ Uh... Twilight, you basically... killed the guy..” Knockout said, he was not only scared at what he was seeing, but was down right disturbed by the fact. “Isn’t there a way you could have, you know, stopped it?”

After a small streak of silence the copy spoke again.“...So... this is what it is like... to be... real? ...Knockout... This is what it is like... to be you...?...”It slowly turned to the rest, with a small fire still in it’s eyes. “I.. would never... want to be like you...”

“Then you don’t have to be any more.” Shandra said gently as she mercy-shot him directly in the face, killing him instantly.

“...You killed him...” Knockout said slowly prying his eyes away from the dead clone and looked at Twilight. “What have you done?”

“We... we weren't trying to... do this to them.” Twilight slowly said, trying to compose herself better. “Th-the Elements aren't SUPPOSED destroy or harm... only purify and heal!”

“Twilight, his head blew off at the last moment.” Knockout said pushing what he just saw out of his mind. “He was resisting it so much. he used up all the energy he had and couldn't shut himself down so he blew up. You know what I am glad about though, his body was walking around.”

“W-What?” Twilight cried, horror renewed.

“Ugh... what happen...” Freezor said as he slowly opened his eyes. “Wha... what is this place...? My... my arm... I can... feel it? Same with my legs, and body... Is this what death is like?” Freezor tried to get up, but failed. “That voice... Mother.. is that you?” Freezor said, turning to where he heard the voice came from, everything was still a blur.

“No, it’s not, and I’m not your mommy,” Shandra snarked, “You are in the library.”

“The Elements of Harmony purified and healed your body and soul.” Twilight said walking over to the once-cyborg echidna.

Freezor blinked once. “What...?”

“D-Do you remember anything?” Twilight continued, using the thought of learning new things to push aside the terror she still felt from Metal KO’s end.

Freezor lifts up his head and looks around, his eye sight had now became more clear allowing him to see who was talking. “...Wow... I AM here with YOU guys, and you did what science couldn't have done...” He said with a mix of shock and annoyance while looking at his new limbs.

“Inb4 ‘Magic, I ain’t got to explain it” or something” Knockout said with a smirk on his face.

“OH OH OH! IS THIS A GAME?!” Pinkie cried, leaping off her back and landing perfectly.

“It’s magic, sugarcube, Applejack said as she got up, “We ain't got to explain it, if even Twilight possibly can. Juss accept it an’ be glad.” Applejack then walked over while a groan was hear.

“Don’t tell me Metal Knockout is still alive.” Knockout said in fear, not wanting to see the robot in the state it was in.

“No, Knockout.” Shandra said smacking him. “It was... B-Blackout?!”

“My.. mind... my body... what... happen” The once crazed Oscuridad was now replaced with a dark violet echidna who was curled up in a ball groaning and mumbling things under it’s breath.

“They...” Shandra answered softly, motioning to the ponies. “They healed you.”

“something... crawling... crawling out...” He managed to get out, his face showed pain streaking through him.

“Uhhh, Blackout? Buddy, are you okay?” Knockout slowly walked over to his old friend trying to see what happen, but was scarred stiff when he heard him give out a ear piercing scream as his body flashes as if he was getting electrocuted. And for a brief moment they all thought they saw Oscuridad flash over him.

“WHAT ON...” Shandra cried out, shocked by the visible reaction.

“...by Celestia's mane? What’s happening now?” Rainbow Dash added her own question to the mix as she awoke. “Are we being attacked by a giant toucan or something?”

“Is.. that the medics coming Knockout...? The ones you went to find...? The rubble on me... it's so light now...” Blackout said trying to get up, but was failing.

Shandra pulls Knockout and the ponies aside, far enough that Blackout couldn’t hear.

“Uhh... I think they restored his mind back To the point of where I thought he died...” Knockout stared while Blackout continued mumbling nonsense and started to shake. “Do you think he will be okay?”

“He doesn't remember anything...” Shandra confirmed.

“Knockout... is that you...?” Blackout managed to say though his pain.

“He might try to commit suicide if he learns of his actions as Oscuridad...“

Blackout's body flashed again, this time, the image of Oscuridad stayed as he let out a raging scream, causing everyone to jump back in shock “REVENGE... I WANT REVENGE ON THOSE BLASTED--” before he finished he flashed again and vanished leaving the shaking Blackout on the ground

“Holy sh--” Shandra started, but was drowned out by Twilight screaming.

“O-OSCURIDAD IS STILL HANGING ON?!” The mage said, “The Elements should have totally purged him from reality!”

“Th-th-the pain! THE PAIN” Blackout moaned. “Help... ...The pain... ...on the back of my head... ...it hurts...”

Crystal Clear came out from behind the bookshelves, and trotted over to Blackout to help roll him upright. “Nice light show, everypony. Remind me to never overch--” She stopped midsentence and almost dropped him in shock. In the back of his head, a throbbing black-ish purple stone was embedded in his head. “LEAPING LUNAS! What is this?!”

“...I forgot about that being there...” Knockout said looking at the stone forced into Blackout’s cranium. “The Dark stone is what kept him alive, and maybe even made him lose his mind...”

“Where have I seen that before...” Shandra thought aloud.

“Hey, where is Fluttershy? Is she watching all of this? I don't want her to get nightmares or anything.” Knockout quickly realized Fluttershy would be scared to death if she saw any of this.

“She's still out, it's okay.” Rainbow Dash pointed to the still-unconscious Fluttershy.

“I'll handle her...” Twilight said as she telekinetically put Fluttershy, who was snoring gracefully, in a bed upstairs. “She should be safe now.”

“So... do we have a doctor that can get that thing out of Blackout’s head? I fear for his health at the moment.” Knockout said glaring at Blackout who was heard mumbling random things through tears between personality shifts..

“Wow! He reminds me of that time when you kept that party a secret from me!” Pinkie said popping up between the group. “Of course, this is more dangerous, so I guess I shouldn’t be bringing this up...” Everyone stared at Pinkie for a moment, Twilight then broke the silence.

“Well... it depends on how deeply embedded it is.” Twilight recalled from her medical studies during the ‘Baked Bads’ incident.

“Well, that's what X-Rays are for?” Knockout ask while walking over to Blackout and tried to pick him up, but failed miserably. “Uh, some help?”

“True...” Twilight conceded, “let's get him over to Ponyville Urgent care, fast.
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After getting Blackout to the hospital, the group recited the whole story to the nurse/doctor who was taking care of him.

“So yeah, and that's the story of what happened to him. Take it or leave it.” Knockout said finishing his story, then leaded over and whispered to Shandra. “What are we gonna do about Metal Knockout? Since he is... ya know...”

Shandra whispered back to him, even quieter, “Bleach the area, Jedi burial, never speak of it again. The tree might go bald for a while, but it shouldn’t die.”

“Sounds fine to me.” Knockout said the turning back to the ponies to face another problem. “So, I am thinking... how will we explain to Blackout about how he got here? Tell him I reached him with the medics and the war was over?”

“Ah'd go with that...” Applejack said.

“but add in a coma to explain the time difference.” Shandra added.

“I fear what will happen if he finds out the truth...” Knockout the paused for a moment. “Speaking of people who are back to normal, how are the Princesses? Blackout said the only way to save them was to beat him. Soooo... we beat him does that mean....?”

“You were right. as soon as we changed him back, they were revived!” Twilight cheerfully announced, clapping her front hooves together.

“Wait...” Rainbow Dash inserted herself, “Didn’t they die in his Dream-Zone or whatever?”

“Ah, so that’s why everything was darker than Luna’s best work.” Celestia called out as she and Luna then walked through the door. All ponies present bowed... except Twilight.

“CELESTIA, LUNA!” Twilight cried as she ran up to the princesses and they all shared a hug.

“Heh, well that's a nice reunion. All’s well that ends well right?” Knockout said with a smile while Doctor Hoofsvan walks out of the O.R. “What's the news doc?”

“He'll be fine, but he has a metal plate in his skull now.” Dr. Hoofsvan reported, his voice flat as if he had been working a triple-shift. “Don't let him near any MRI machines.”

“Better then that dark-whatever rock.”

“What are we going to do with it though? ...The rock that is.” Knockout asked, puzzled.

“I can help!” Pinkie chimed in. “I worked on a rock farm, so I know the bestest ways of getting rid of bad rocks!”

“I have one good idea... and it’s probably more feasible than anything Pinkie has.” Shandra said, her voice and posture betraying nothing of her thoughts.

“Huh?” Knockout said before Shandra snatched the rock and ran off. “I wouldn't recommend breaking it, it might blow up-...Where did she run off to...”

Later, at the nearest volcano

“THERE YOU ARE, SHANDRA!” Rainbow Dash called out to her, as she alerted the other ponies and Knockout.

On the top of the mountain Shandra suddenly hears a voice in her head. “So... you've finally done it, you've gotten your revenge... NOW what are you going to do with you're life?”

“Oh... my vengeance on you is over... but I have yet to achieve my goals.” Shandra said, confusing everyone present.

“Good, now... go out and live your life... Make me proud will you?” The voice gave a small chuckle. “I knew you could do great things, that's why I spared you.”

“Your right, I can do great things. Eggman WILL pay for his crimes...”

“I knew you would save me... I always knew you would make the right choice.” The voice said before it faded away.

“Um... Shandra?” Rarity asked, concerned. ”Darling, who are you talking to?”

“I never said I was going to save you... Oscuridad.”

“Uh, you feeling alright Shandra? Oscuridad is gone, remember?” Knockout said walking up and waving his hand in front of Shandra’s face.

“Sure, I could use this gem you reside in to save someone I love... but it's not worth you possessing THEIR mind.”

“Oh... very well” Oscuridad gave in, but this time in a voice that everyone could hear. “I never said I wanted to save someone's life, I just want to be dead! Being stuck in someone’s body for so long was getting boring!”

“Wish granted, I'll see you in hell... demon freak.” Shandra chucked the rock into the volcano as she muttered this.

“Good bye world... I will see you again soon.” Oscuridad’s voice faded away as the gem was immolated in the magma.

“W-was that...?” Knockout said but was cut off by Shandra.

“Yes. It was.”

“Oscuridad was a rock?”

“And here I thought my DESTINY being a rock was bad!” Rarity said dumbfounded. “How horrible it must be to BE a rock!”

“HEY! What’s wrong with rocks!” Pinkie snapped at Rarity her hair loosing a bit of poofiness. “I was raised on a rock farm you know!”

“It would seem so. I recognized his voice instantly.” Shandra explained, breaking up the imminent fight. “He only spoke to me at first, Tikal only knows why.”

“And here I was thinking PINKIE PIE was insane for having a friend made of rocks!” Rainbow Dash said rolling her eyes.

“What?”

“Uh, what?”

“What?”

“You DON'T want to know.” Rainbow Dash said rolling her eyes.

“I'll admit, I did think about using the stone to revive Nicolas... But then I realized... he was revived too when we beat Oscuridad!”

“Hey...Now the world's saved and all, you know what this calls for?” Pinkie asked happly. “Knockout of all people should remember!”

“Excuse me? How would I know if we only met on this adventure...?” Knockout asked but was interrupted by Pinkie.

“A PARTY! I told you we were going to have one the next time we met!” Pinkie said hopping around, they were suddenly warped to SugarCube Corner with party stuff set up and everypony in Ponyville dancing..

“Huh? How did you....” Knockout said dumb founded.

“How did we get here?” Fluttershy asked as she walked in from Pinkie’s room with an incredibly cute bedhead.

“It's Pinkie Pie... don't question it.” Twilight said rolling her eyes while giving off a sigh.

“Uh, DUH? I don't care about the 4th wall, remember?” Pinkie said with a smile. “Or do I need to pop out at the reader again?”

Shandra shrugs. “Eh, I stopped trying to figure Pinkie out around the time she took her powers back from me.”

“I mean, I could do THIS!” Pinkie said, the reaching down and pulling up a VERY angry looking Oscuridad from the floor. “See, It’s Oscuridad!” There was a moment of silence before Pinkie realized what she did, and then quickly dropped Oscuridad back down into oblivion. “Oopsies, teehee.”

“So Twilight, do you have a letter to write you think? Anything you learned on this... crazy adventure?” Knockout said getting over the fact that Pinkie almost doomed them all again. “I know I shouldn’t have to ask since I don’t even belong here or anything.” Knockout pointed out as Spike pulled out a parchment and pen.

“I learned that friendships can span even the most improbable distances, and no matter who they are, a friend will always be a friend in the end. I also learned that just because you CAN bring back those lost, doesn't necessarily mean you should.”

“Well, I guess we should be going.” Knockout said giving off a sigh. “Makes me wonder... what happened to my world...”

“Come on Coat-boy. We won, everyone’s happy. We can at least enjoy the party!” Shandra said as she challenged Scootaloo to a dance-off.

“Yeah! I pinkie-promised you it, remember?” Pinkie said putting a party hat in Knockouts hand.

“I guess we can stay for a bit, and Pinkie Pie. You are SO random sometimes, I have no clue WHAT you mean by ‘you promised me a party.’” Knockout said as he put on the party hat and walked off to get some food. Shandra began breakdancing like a champ, and Rainbow Dash bobbed for apples, checking for Gummies before each dive. Scootaloo eventually gave up and went of to get some cookies from the table.

“Oh silly me, I guess he still thinks that he should forget the whole thing. Oh well!” Pinkie then hopped off to go join the other ponies. After a long time of partying and having fun Knockout and Shandra exited Sugarcube Corner and saw Doctor Whooves resting against the TARDIS. Knockout yawns

“Goodbye you guys.” Twilight called after them.

“Well, goodbye. it's been fun...” Knockout responded, slightly saddened that he might never see his new friends again. “Tell the Princesses we said goodbye.”

“Time to go, Knockout, Shandra.” Dr. Whooves informed the travelers. Knockout boarded the TARDIS.

“Right, Doctor.” Shandra acknowledged as she began entering the TARDIS.

“WAAAAAAAAIIT!” came a shout from Fluttershy, as she flew down from Pinkie’s window to Shandra. “Um... Shandra, can we... if it’s not too much trouble, talk over there for a moment?”

“Er, okay, Fluttershy. But we’ll need to make it quick.” Shandra said, allowing the kindhearted pegasus pony to carry her just out of view. A few minutes later, Shandra came back, and got aboard the TARDIS.

Dr. Whooves asked out of curiosity, “and what was it that miss Fluttershy wanted with you, Shandra?”

“Oh nothing... just a sappy, ‘I’ll never forget you’ speech.” She answered.

“I wonder what our world is like now...” Knockout said, taking one last look at Ponyville as he got into the TARDIS. “I never though I’d be so sad to leave, not that I didn’t have fun or anything.”

“Well... only one way to find out.” The Time Lord pony said as he closed the TARDIS's doors.

“Off we go!” Knockout exclaimed, and after a few moments of silence he realized something “...Wait, where's Blackout?”

“Oh, crap.” Shandra muttered, facepalming. “I knew we forgot something.”

“Did we leave him in the hospital?” Knockout asked, paranoid of how Blackout would react when he awoke. But as soon as he said that Pinkie Pie popped out of the bottom of the screen with Blackout.

“You forgot this, sillies!” Pinkie said as she tossed Blackout to the two. “It would have been odd if you guys forgot him!”

“Thanks... Pinkie.” the two said together.

“No problem,I had a great time adventuring! Bye guys we won’t forget you!” Pinkie Pie said happily as she popped back out of the screen.
“Bye”

“...That was...interesting.” Dr. Whooves said as he made the TARDIS head off to Azure Island

“That Pinkie... quite a character.” Knockout said sitting down in a chair. “I’m taking a small nap, let me know when we get home.”

“Yeah, sure.” Shandra accepted the task, as she sat down and waited.

At Azure Island

“Ah... just the way we left it: Clear blue skies.” Knockout said as left the TARDIS. “Feels good to be home!”

Shandra walks out and sees Nicolas and Glare standing around a pair of Star Posts, waiting for her.

“I'll be off then.” Doctor Whooves said while getting back into the TARDIS. “Oh, and next time you get into a huge time and space war, let me know will you?” He said as the TARDIS slowly started to vanish.

“Heh, “ Knockout said, “Hey, Shandra.”

“What?” Shandra asked, getting off her freshly glomped brothers.

“Are you going to stay here or head to your home world?” Knockout asked while leaning against a tree. “Really, I don't know what all there is to do around here. Blackout's normal, along with Freezor. Mansion is retired...”

“I'm not sure... I mean, I’m sure I can help you take on whatever villains you still have in your world.” Shandra said, thinking aloud. “But then again, Eggman has beaten Sonic once before, it isn’t impossible that he could manage it again.”

“Well, these worlds are so similar,” Nicolas ‘Nightshade’ Hedgechidna began, “and Glare's star posts work perfectly. I don't see why we can't permanently link the two.”

“I guess we get to kick back and take it easy... Well, we can talk t-wait a second!” The two darker-furred siblings stared at Knockout, as if he had suddenly grown another head. “Do you think we can link to Equestria?”

“It is certainly possible.” Glare began, “However...”

“So we can visit them when we want?” Knockout said with a more happy tone. “How can you set up a link?”

“I'd need something from the target universe with which to lock onto its unique waveform, or else the entire fabric of space time might be unraveled.”

“The doctor left though, so we can’t get something from him...hm”

“Oh... wow! Fluttershy to the rescue!” Shandra said, beginning to laugh.

“...What?” Knockout asked, puzzled again, “Fluttershy isn’t even here!”

“Oh, isn’t she?” Shandra said playfully as she pulled out Fluttershy's tail.

“...Where did you get that?”

“I told you as we entered the TARDIS. She wanted me to never forget. So she gave it to me as part of a big sappy ‘I’ll never forget you’ speech.” Shandra said while pointing to her own hair, which was missing it’s usual pink portion. “I traded her my pony tail.”

“Ah, I guess I should have known better.” Knockout said and chuckled a bit. “Well, that solves our problem then. Hm...I wonder if Ryan got his teleporter to work yet...”

“Indeed it does.” Glare said laughing heavily... or at least for him, to the others it was more of a chuckle. ”I shall begin building the new star posts posthaste! Not a single iota of time will be wasted!”

“He was saying he would make one... But anyways, we all need rest it's been a.. long long day.” Knockout said while yawning

“Yeah... I'm...” Shandra murmured sleepily and yawned “...beat.”

“Ending what seems to be a life long war would do that, eh?” Knockout paused for a moment. “A war that hopped from... how many planets?”

“...Yeah...About 3... More if that damned black rock wasn't from here or home.”

“Yeesh... I am still wondering, Where did he learn to do that...” Knockout was thinking when he was interrupted by Ryan who came running up the hill.

“Knockout! I just finished the final touches on my teleporter!” Ryan said with joy overflowing as suddenly, Shandra falls forward, and Nicolas rushes forward to catch her. “Uh, what happened? You guys look beat.”

“Wow... she fell right to sleep on her feet.” The black brother observed as his sister snored gently in his arms.

“I think he doesn't know anything about what happened.” Knockout whispered to Nicolas. “We’ll have to explain it later I guess.”

“Huh... so THAT's where our swords went... Anyways, Glare, we should be going.“ Nicolas scooped Shandra up and started walking towards the space between the star posts.

“Anyways, I'll see you guys later.” Knockout gave out another yawn. “I need some rest.”

“Yes. We should.” Glare nodded, “We’ll be sure to get the trans-universal portal to Equestria up and running within the week.”

The Hedgechidna family entered the portal back to their homeworld, and all was at peace. ...Or was it?
“ AAAANNNDDDD That's a wrap! Good job everyone!” An old stallion said as he hopped off a chair. “This will make MILLIONS on the market!”

“Haha! She's really asleep, people!” Glare called, motioning to Shandra’s snoring self in the corner.

“What! I thought she was acting.” Knockout said laughing out loud.

“HEY! Where's the doughnuts!” Spike called out.

“Uh, burp?” Ryan said as he was holding a half eaten doughnut.

“WHY YOU LITTLE!!” Spike yelled, spouting fire with each syllable as he chased Ryan around the studio.

“Best. Ending. Ever.” Knockout declared.

“Hey Knockout, you're the guy that played me, right?” a steel blue echidna walked up to Knockout.

“Yeah why?” Knockout asked as he was slapped by the echidna. “HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?”

“THAT'S for making me seem so stupid sometimes!” The echidna said with small chuckle

“HEY! I AM you!” Knockout said right about to punch the echidna before Pinkie Pie popped up in front of the two.

“ENOUGH ALREADY! I never thought I’d have to be the one to say it but...” Pinkie took in a deep breath and everyone just looked at her.

“Whatever, I have to get this to the editors.” The old stallion said as he was walking out of the room.

“PARTY’S OVER!!!” Pinkie cried.

“THED END!” Knockout exclaimed as Pinkie shut the screen.

Pinkamina reopens the screen. “Sis, let me show you how it's done.”

“KNOCKOUT! CAN'T YOU SPELL "THE END" RIGHT!?” Ryan yelled at Knockout while slapping him.

“OKAY OKAY, YEESH” Knockout shoved the fox back “Keep your tail on fox ...Wait what? I thought Pinkie Pie was playing Pinkamina! Someone told the news people a lie.”

“Wasn't Derpy the one who was talking to them?” Neo asked as he walked on screen holding a box of pizza.

“Oh, you didn't know? Pinkie and I are TWINS!” Pinkamina said, earning a shocked look from everypony in the area, as well as every non-pony. “We brush our hair different so people can tell us apart, but no one ever does. ...or rather, I do.”

“ Eh, just another discredit to the Equestrian Equinerer” Pinkamina said shrugging it off.

“THAT DERPY... COULDN'T SEE A STOP SIGN IF IT WAS IN BOTH SIDES OF HER VISION!” Knockout moaned.

“HEY! I closed this thing!” Pinkie exclaimed as she looked around. “Uh reader, pretend you saw none of this thing right here, okay?” Pinkamina grabs a zipper and zips the camera shut. “THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S DONE SIS!” Pinkie whined.

“IT'S DARK!” Rainbow Dash called out, “SHOULD I LIGHT IT UP WITH A RAINBOOM?!”

“THE ENd” Knockout exclaimed again.

“KNOCKOUT! THE CAPS!!” Ryan yelled slapping him again. “USE IT ON ALL THE LETTERS!”

“WILL YOU SHUT UP!” Knockout yelled while slapping Ryan.

Shandra wakes up

“AAAAUGH!!! What the HELL does a girl need to do to get some friggin SLEEP?” The newly awakened girl screamed. “THE END!”

*Everything fades off*

“Okay, so. that had to be the best ending ever...right?” Knockout said while he took a step off the set. “And you have a log of this, right?”

“Yes” Shandra confirmed. “All 6 channels, we have SurroundSound capabilty!”

“Awesome, Compile it sometime and we can post it in #srb2pony or make a awesome fanfic WITH THE BEST ENDING EVER” Knockout said while sitting down in a chair while taking off a headset that he was waring. “And let’s be sure not to let anyone know about th- Is my headset still on?”

“Indeed... CRAP!” Shandra yelled. “SHUTITOFFSHUTITOFF!”

KOTE turns it off.

“Mine is still on! Mine is still on!” Pinkie Pie chirped from off stage and began to sing, but was interrupted by Shandra cutting off the sound. “All you have to do is take a cup of-_______________”

“...THE END?” Rainbow Dash asked questionably

“So umm... I-is everything over that line is in? I mean, it doesn’t have to be, but if you don’t mind...” Fluttershy squeaked. “Also, is the camera supposed to still be on?”

“NO!”

“Yeah, we-- Mario!? what are you doing here!?” Knockout yelled looking at the all to well known fat plumber

“I got 'im...” Luigi said as he walked into the studio

“OH FOR... You are supposed to be in studio 8! This is 7!” Rainbow Dash cried out.

“I DON'T CARE! WALUIGI TIME! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA” Waluigi exclaimed as he popped out from nowhere.

“But-a Studio 8 is a-labeled Awesome Spy a-Ninja 12-a...” Luigi said thinking for a moment.

“Isn't this one labeled Azure Island Chronicles: Eclipse of Destruction?” Knockout asked puzzled looking at the studio number his script had on it.

“You thought we were filming YOU?” The Director Pony guffawed “ You were behind the cameras. We were filming Cupcakes 2: The Rise of Applebloom”

“How could you be filming THAT if I was over here!” Rainbow Dash yelled grabbing the director by his neck. “IF THIS WASN’T BEING RECORDED I’D BEAT THE TAR OUT OF YOU!”

“We just used stock footage.” The director choked, “You only showed up in the backlog segment.”

“WHAT?!” Shandra screamed “I PUT MYSELF TO SLEEP ON CUE AND IT ISN'T EVEN ON CAMERA!?!?”

“Oh boy...” Ryan groaned as everyone started yelling.

“I went to school for FIVE YEARS to learn all that stuff AND IT DIDN'T GET USED!? I WANT MY LAWYER!” Pinkie Pie yelled starting to throw a tantrum.

“Just five? I went for TEN, little sister!” Pinkamina scoffed while rolling her eyes.

“I WANT A - oh shut up! I WANT A CHEESE SANDWICH!!” Pinkie Pie screamed while pounding the floor with her hooves.

“Me too, that sounds delicious!” Shandra said as she began to smile again.

“Uh, everypony?” The camerapony piped up, “I was holding the camera backwards, we got all your stuff.”

“Ooohhhh.... Okey Dokey Loki!” Pinkie Pie said hopping off. “Oh, and the mic is on guys.~”

“We're aware. Who keeps turning it on...?” Knockout asked as he turned his mic off.

“Bwahahahahaha....” A voice is heard laughing as the camera fades out showing some skinny and tall 16 year old on IRC. Celestia walks into the frame, her best trollface plainly etched on her head.

“Plan was a success Celestia, we drove them mad.” the young teenager said with an evil grin on his face.

“This is gonna go GREAT with the rest of the bloopers Rainbow Dash, great job.” Twilight said with a small snicker.

“HEY! What's that camera doing in here!” The teen yelled turning around and seeing the camera.

“Uh-oh, BUSTED!” Rainbow Dash cried. “Hurry Twilight, let's get out of here.”

“Right!” Twilight said using her telekinesis to grab the camera as a hole opened in midair. Rainbow Dash flew back into the wormhole carrying Twilight, who closed it behind them.

Cut to reveal the 20 year old the other kid is chatting with. “What is going on over there? Did I just hear Rainbow Dash and Twilight over our voice-line?”

“I-I don’t know, all I saw was a camera floating out of my room...”

“Hey! What’s that camera doing here?!” The older human cried out.

Shocked, Rarity let her invisibility spell drop. “Oh dear...”

“Um... sorry to intrude on you like this...” Fluttershy said, lowering the camera. “Pinkie said we need video of you two.”

“That’s okay. One thing though...” The human took out a pair of scissors and cut off a piece of both Ponies’ manes. “You can go now.” He said as he patted Fluttershy on the head.

“MY MANE!” Rarity wailed.

“It’ll grow back.” The human responded. “Besides, I cut it in a way nopony will ever notice.”

The two ponies walked into their own wormhole, and Rarity closed it.

Back at the studio

“Okay, let's see if I’ve got this right” Knockout said letting out a small sigh. “THE END!”

“CUT! THAT WAS PERFECT!” A director exclaimed as he hopped out of his chair.

“Almost but... needs to be about 20% cooler” Rainbow Dash said as her and Twilight dashed into the room with a video camera.

“OH YOU LITTLE--” Knockout yelled about to leap at Rainbow dash but was stopped by Twilight.

“Me and Twi got that recording of that one script writer you asked for, now we have to wait for Rarity and Fluttershy.” Twilight said while floating the camera to the director.

“Twitchy-twitch-a-twitch! My mane is itching!” Pinkie said, rubbing her head with a hoof, as a second wormhole open and Rarity and Fluttershy walked out. “Hi guys, got the recording? Oh, Rarity, what happened to your mane?”

“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!” Rarity exploded in tears.

“Well, this is good and all, but it STILL needs to be 20% cooler.” Rainbow dash huffed.

“We'll add in more Rainbow in post.” Shandra said, ”Come on. Let's get some Filly cheesesteaks.”

“Fine fine...” Rainbow Dash conceded.

“Hey, did we ever get those new doughnuts?” Spike asked as Glare let out a huge belch

“Uh... yes?” Glare held out the empty box.

Back at the Chatters’ world.

<Chaos_Knux> Dude! Are you telling me you DIDN’T get mane pieces of your ponies for cloning?!
<KOTE> Hey! I didn’t even know they was there before they whooshed away! I only had time to see the camera and see them dive into the wormhole thing.
* Chaos_Knux slaps KOTE around a bit with a large halibut.
<KOTE> HEY!
<Chaos_Knux> Did you at least notice which ones they were?
<KOTE> I saw the camera floating and a rainbow blur, so maybe it was Twilight and Rainbow Dash?
<Chaos_Knux> Well, Rainbow’s the only pony we know with a rainbow coloring anywhere, and Rarity was with me, so Twilight’s probably the other.
<KOTE>Meh, I donno. It’s getting late here, I should log off before I start seeing things again.
<Chaos_Knux> K, I’ll post up our fanfiction in #srb2pony.
<KOTE> Yeah, great idea.
<Pinkie_Pie> Fiction? Wasn’t it a movie?
<KOTE> o_O
<Chaos_Knux> What in Luna’s night sky?!
<KOTE> I THOUGHT THIS WAS A QUERY CHAT, HOW ARE YOU HERE!?!
<Twilight_Sparkle> Pinkie! What are you DOING?
<Chaos_Knux> HAAAAAAAX!!!! HAX I SAY!
<Pinkie_Pie> Oopsy, pretend none of this happened, k guys?
<Chaos_Knux> Yeah, I really need sleep.
<KOTE> Um... It’s 3 hours earlier here. and I see them too.
<Fluttershy> Hush now quite now, time to lay your sleepy heads...
<KOTE> OOOKKKAAAAYYYYYY.... THAT’S ENOUGH MIND, TIME TO GET SOME SLEEP
<Sweetie_Belle> I know this one! HUSH NOW QUIET NOW! TIME TO LAY YOUR SLEEPY HEADS
* Chaos_Knux (chaosknux@c-32-163-53-223.hsd1.in.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: So much Poneh. I need a friggin drink.)
* KOTE (kote@c-71-201-26-233.hsd1.in.comcast.net) Quit (Quit:I-I think I am starting to lose my mind...)
<Pinkie_Pie> Awww.... You aren’t going to leave too, are you Reader person?
<Twilight_Sparkle> PIIINNNKKKKIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!
* Twilight_Sparkle pulls Pinkie_Pie back from the monitor.
<Pinkie_Pie> Whaaatt? :,<
<Twilight_Sparkle> It’s the end of the story Pinkie Pie, they can’t stay here forever you know. They have lives to live.
<Pinkie_Pie> Okay... Bye reader!
* Pinkie_Pie (PartyPony@c-26-43-53-133.hsd1.in.comcolt.net) Quit (Quit: See you later, maybe we can have a party or something!)
<Twilight_Sparkle> Well, I guess that’s it.
* Twilight_Sparkle(BOOKSRFUN@c-25-125-63-236.hsd1.in.comcolt.net) Quit (Quit: I need to make sure Pinkie don’t try any other stupid things...)
* Fluttershy(KillerPony@c-25-125-63-236.hsd1.in.comcolt.net) Quit (Quit: I-I think I’m going to leave too, I mean, if that’s okay...)
* Sweetie_Belle(Cu731M4rkCru$4d3r$@c-25-125-63-236.hsd1.in.comcolt.net) Quit (Quit: CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS IRC CHATTERS GO!)

DISCLAIMER THINGY

As stated before:

We do not own any of the ponies, they are all owned by Hasbro/The Hub/Lauren Faust.

But The Enigmatic One DOES own Knockout, Dr. Ryan Maxwell, Oscuridad/Blackout, Neo, and Violet.

Crystal Clear, Shandra, Nicolas, and Glare are all owned by Chaos Knux.

“Okay, I think we learned our own lesson today, NEVER EVER edit a RP to be a fanfic, EVER!” Knockout groaned as he was walking out of the studio only to be met by a tall and skinny news reporter. “Oh no, let me guess. An interview.”

“Okay Sam, on the count of three, start recording.” Said the news reporter that was standing outside.