> Derpy's Family reunion > by thewriter133 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Day 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The morning sun warmed the ground as Derpy took her daughter Dinky to school. As soon as she made sure Dinky got to school safe it was off to start her mail route. The sun warmed her feathers as she stretched. She arrived right on time as her boss began giving out mail and directing the mail ponies. Her route would take her past Pinkie Pie's party meadow. She loved hearing Pinkie, because Pinkie's laughter was contagious. Her mail route started as normal. She would always end up destroying some poor pony's property. She got constantly yelled at but it was all worth it if she just heard Pinkie laugh. She arrived at the field and saw a pink pony hopping and picking flowers for her friends. And also to decorate her cakes. Derpy opened her bag and pulled out her favorite treat. She sat on the puffy cloud and ate her muffin. Suddenly and without warning she... ----------------------------------- Twilight Sparkle was out about town getting some important ingredients when she heard screaming. She looked up and saw a black stallion hauling a body. He was rushing towards Pony General Hospital. Twilight saw Pinkie looking distressed racing after the stallion. The screaming was coming from the grey pegasus on the stallion's back. Blood was running down the pegasus' forehead. Twilight followed Pinkie into the hospital. The nurse had immediately checked the grey pegasus in. Twilight and Pinkie followed her into the room where the very familiar Pegasus lay. The nurse spoke "what's going on?" Pinkie panicked and blurted out a sea of words. The nurse looked confused. Twilight was trying to comprehend it as well. But she had gotten most of the words. "She says that Derpy fell on her and just started screaming and slamming her hoof against her head." At this Derpy began punching her forehead sobbing "mommy make the pain stop. Mommy make it stop!" The nurse looked over at Twilight. She went over to a cupboard and pulled out some rope. She spoke quietly "Twilight help me bind her to the bed." Twilight gasped and looked uncertain. She gulped saying "what! How dare you." The nurse closed her eyes saying "it's the only way to keep her from hurting herself. Now help me or leave." Twilight grabbed some rope, bound the wings and left side of Derpy. She then went over to Pinkie. Pinkie sat there staring intently at Derpy. Twilight put her foreleg around her friend. She spoke quietly "don't worry Pinkie. I'll help her. Now where's her mailbag?" Pinkie's eyes were watering and she was attempting not to cry. She spoke "it's in the party field. I asked Sturdy Running to help Sunflower pick it up. His brother Shadow Runner brought her here. The screaming was horrible." ------------------------- The noon sun shimmered in the sky. Everypony was out and about. Very few noticed the grey stallion with one gold eye and one eye covered by a strip of cloth that was blacker than night. He was grizzled and his mane was like a skunk, both black and white. On his flank was a sinister looking mark. He also had scars on his hide. He looked around his horn glowed red and the door behind him closed. His landlady was out so he was quite alone. He wandered around. Due to his blind side he bumped into a tree. Several apples dropped he caught them with his magic instinctively. A voice spoke "watch where you're goin old timer. Don't want to have to take you to the hospitals." He turned to see a tan mare with a hat over her eyes lazily sitting with a piece of wheatgrass in her mouth. The only unique thing about her was her hat and the cutie mark on her flank. He looked at the girl and her three apples cutie mark then smirked and walked off. He entered a boutique where a white mare with three gems on her flank was piecing a suit together. He smiled and spoke "Rarity my dear I am here for my suit." This caused the white mare to jump. She growled "well don't just stand there getting my nice clean floor all filthy and help me pick this mess up." He looked around and said "what mess?" Rarity looked around thinking she had dropped all the fabric she was working with and saw a red glow surrounding what she was working on. She sighed dramatically. -------------------------------------- In the hospital Derpy was still struggling against her bindings. The nurse was scanning her for any abnormalities. She sighed looking at the writhing pegasus. Nothing was wrong. No abnormalities. She tried wiping the blood off but as she got near one of the ropes broke. And the pegasus began striking her head and accidentally striking the nurse. The nurse struggled to see straight and tied the hoof down again. She saw two Twilights walk in. She spoke wearily "I can't find anything wrong with her. Maybe your magical ability may find something so I'll leave you two alone. Twilight scanned the still writhing pegasus. Nothing showed up. She heard whimpering coming from the corner. She saw Pinkie Pie looking downtrodden. Her hair had gone from happy frizzy to depressed flat. Her bright complexion had darkened and she had tears running down her beautiful face. Twilight sniffed the air learning that her friend was in heat. She gulped and said "Pinkie,why don't you go for a walk you have been here all day. The cool wind may clear your head." Pinkie nodded weakly and shuffled out no longer her bouncy self. ---------------------------- Outside the midday air was chill. The sun was just beginning to set. A pony with electric blue hair was walking getting some supplies. She first went into Rose Luck's floral shop to buy a special flower for her special somepony. She then walked to Bon Bon's Dulce Extraordinaire for some candy. She smiled slyly and went over to Fluttershy's home. She entered and saw the object she desired to use. She saw the pastel pink haired pegasus sitting with a carrot down in her nether regions whimpering. She cried out in ecstasy the mare she was thinking of. Which just happened to be the mare that had come into her home. She looked up at the slack jawed pony in front of her and blushed deeply "I didn't expect you so soon Vinyl. Sorry you had to see that." Vinyl Scratch shook the image she had just witnessed from her head. The spoke "nothing to be ashamed of. Though I, personally, thought you had the hots for Big McIntosh. Didn't think you were one of us mare for a mare types. Anyways, I need to borrow big stallion Octavia is coming over tonight and I thought I'd make her night one she won't forget anytime soon." Fluttershy smiled weakly and got down the very large box. She whispered quietly "here you go Vinyl. Just please don't tell anypony what you saw." Vinyl smirked and walked out purposely flaunting her flank. She then went back to her home. She placed the flowers in a vase and then placed the candy next to the vase. She placed the massive box under the table. She walked out and went to Berry Punch's wine store. Berry, as usual, was intoxicated. Berry smiled and said "Vinyl dear! That special blend you ordered came in today." Vinyl placed the bits on the counter and said "here you go Berry. Thanks! And I just want to invite you to my little get together with Octavia. Celestia knows we could have extra fun with more. Spice it up a little." She then winked at this and walked out saying "eight o'clock if you're interested." Vinyl closed the door and saw a very dejected Pinkie Pie. She walked over and butt bumped her saying "hey hot flank what's up." Pinkie mumbled something incomprehensible. "No offense girl, but you look terrible. Why don't you come to my party with Octavia. For at least a few minutes. We sure could use somepony to hold the camera." This brightened Pinkie's day a bit. She did not wish to celebrate with her friend in the hospital. But she also couldn't turn down a party. ------------------------- Twilight was in the hospital writing a letter to Celestia. She was begging for help with Derpy's mysterious ailment. She couldn't bear to see a pony.. no... A friend in pain. She walked out and went to the library and had Spike send it. Then she hurried back to the hospital. She was really worried the doctors had no way of calming her so Twilight decided to lay next to the mare and calmly licked the blood. This had quite the opposite effect than she planned. Derpy was now sleeping soundly her head resting against the purple mare. The whimpering had subsided. She sighed and looked out the window at the sun set. --------------------------- The grizzled grey stallion was walking contemplatively. His one eye wandering the small town. He heard a frantic yelling and saw a tiny filly running up and down the street. She finally ran into him in her frantic search. He looked down at the small unicorn. He quietly spoke "what's wrong small one?" The filly cried "momma is gone she's not home! Where's my momma?" The stallion used his horn and lifted the filly up to face level. He spoke “who are you?” the filly whimpered and said “I’m Dinky sir. My momma went out to do her mail job and she’s not back yet. Where’s my momma?” The stallion smiled and said “well small one how would you like some food. I have a few bits so we can go to the sandwich shop and you can get some food. How does that sound.” He turned and was face to face with a pink mare she was shaking uncontrollably he could smell the booze on her breath. She started giggling then immediately crying followed by hiccups. He knew instinctively that the little filly he was now putting on his back was about to hear bad news. He smiled and spoke to the little filly “well Dinky, was it? Dinky your mother is in the hospital she’s fine so would you like that sandwich now?” Little Dinky squeaked “yes sir, food sounds good.” The two walked into the small cafe as the sun set. He bought her a small sandwich and she ate it on his back as he walked out into the night. the moon had yet to rise. ---------------------------------------- Twilight was pacing frantically in the small room. Pinkie and Vinyl Scratch were standing there watching Twilight pace back and forth. Pinkie was unconsciously following the movement so her eyes were twitching back and forth hypnotically. “Why hasn’t the princess responded yet.” Twilight cried exasperated. The nurse said “I’m sure she has a reason for being late. You need to rest. why don’t you lay next to her she was calm while you were there.” Twilight obliged and sat near the mare and tried her best to sooth the pain of the writhing pegasus. ----------------------------------------------- The grey stallion looked up in the sky as a large carriage descended in the moonlight. Out of the carriage stepped a black mare with both wings and a horn. Her mane was shimmering purple in the moon. He recognized her as Luna sister to Celestia. He followed the night guard as they escorted their princess to the hospital. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight gasped and bowed as Luna walked into the room. Luna looked at her and spoke melodically “no need for that Ms. Sparkle... I mean Twilight.” She walked over to the bed and the nurse and Twilight pushed another bed closer so That Luna wouldn’t have to squeeze onto the same bed as the writhing pegasus. Luna carefully licked the wound calming the young mare nurse untied Derpy’s bindings. Derpy looked up at the alicorn and whimpered “mommy it hurts so much.” Luna looked down at Derpy and smiled saying “mommy’s here darling. Momma’s got you.” The nurse gasped and Twilight spoke nervously “what’s going on?” The nurse looked forlorn and said “Derpy’s dying, that’s the only reason a princess would come and say that.” Luna’s musical voice range out “Do not fear dear Twilight your friend is not dying I am her mother.” Everypony in the room screamed “what!” Luna responded smiling as if she remembered something. She looked at the small crew in the room and began to nuzzle Derpy. They all looked as her forehead bumped up and a horn formed. It was the most beautiful horn they had ever seen. Luna smiled again and said “yes my beautiful daughter borne from a forbidden tryst. a tryst I welcomed.” a dark yet soft and pleasant voice rose from the shadows. “So this is my daughter she is truly magnificent.” Everypony turned to see the grizzled grey stallion with one eye sitting there. He looked around and said “I am sure you all are wondering why would a princess fall for somepony like myself. Well the story starts with a war.” with this his horn glowed red and everypony was enveloped in the red glow. -------------------------------- > Night 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Flashback was enveloping the minds eye. There was a red hue to everything. Twilight gasped as a black coated mare walked through her. She looked around at the black mare nurses. They were busily tending to the wounded. She was horrified at the look. On the cot near her there lay a stallion missing his foreleg. His jaw was also severed and hanging loosely. Over him stood a young stallion with golden eyes. The red hue was only in the sky now so all the grisly details were visible. The grey stallion closed his eyes and said “there’s nothing I can do for this soldier. I can, however, give him a swift painless death.” The stallion’s horn glowed and he placed it against the soldier who winced and was soon limp. The nurse hauled the lifeless body away. --------------------------------------------------- The group was then on a battlefield where many unicorns in battle armor were fighting. Pinkie was watching in a vague semblance of awe mixed with horror. She saw a white unicorn impale a black unicorn through the chest. the white unicorn turned and slashed three black unicorns in the throat. It then gutted another who had jumped over his fallen brethren. This white unicorn was then thrown a distance by a grey stallion as he rushed over to the one who had been stabbed in the chest. The grey unicorn looked older now but not much older than thirty. he quickly placed a magical wrap on the chest wound. and the magic dissipated when the wound healed. He looked at the corpses and a magical fire started incinerating the dead in a flash. ----------------------------------- They now stood facing a familiar white Alicorn. Twilight looked around she saw she was standing near Nightmare Moon. She backed away slowly as the sky became purple hued. They were now in the memory of Luna. They saw a tall muscular grey stallion standing facing Nightmare moon. He spoke melodically “My lady we are not going to come out of this unscathed. Your sister is strong she may even be stronger than you. We must exercise caution. You have already lost over half your troops. Celestia still has over three fourths of her soldiers.” Nightmare Moon spoke “My dear baron; as much as I crave your input I make the decisions. And my decision is to stay and .... No... I control you! You have no....aaahrgh." there was a bright flash and a smaller alicorn collapsed onto the stallion. He hedged the weight and yelled for a full retreat. The three hundred or so unicorns fled into the Everfree forest. As they ran the grey unicorn was throwing magic left and right protecting as many as he could from the terrors of the forest. A timber wolf had caught the scent of blood. The sky was red now as they entered a cave. --------------------- The remaining soldiers had serious injuries that the grey stallion tended to. As they rested, Luna of the moon was just waking she was staring intently at the large stallion. Her tongue slid across her lips. They heard her voice "I wonder what that delight will feel like. I look forward to this." Twilight blushed deeply and fidgeted. She proceeded to watch as Luna tried to seduce the grey stallion with her sultry gaze. Ultimately he did tend to her visible injuries. When he patched her wings up he heard her groan in pain. He looked worried and spoke in a more stern voice "Lady Luna I see you have some semblance of control over this secondary persona. I am a doctor, not a psychiatrist. However if you let me I would like to try an experiment. I would like to see if a companion will help you maintain control over Nightmare Moon." Luna grinned ecstatically. Until a small mare was placed next to her. She frantically struck the mare away and wrapped her arms around the stallion. He spoke "ah, I see you don't want to be a fillyfooler." He walked over to the little filly and tended her injuries. He nudged her and wrapped a cloth around her. He smiled softly and said "sorry for that Cheerillee dear. I'll teleport you home." With that she vanished and the stallion walked over to Luna. She eyed him and her voice expressed her desire more than any gesture. "I want you handsome my fragile body needs a strong stallion like you." The grey stallion adjusted his coat nervously. And he visibly gulped. "W..well Lady Luna I feel that you need to rest and heal before any thing. Also we hardly know each other." Luna smiled and said "au contraire my dear baron. I know you are the doctor who has been helping my soldiers even though we do not deserve it. I also recognize your cutie mark. You are an elite shadow guard. Quite possibly the only non hidden one. I also recognize you as heir to the Blackmane temple. So that would make you the last of the Blackmanes. Your mother was the one to help me realize I wanted to slip out of my sister's shadow. She also taught me the secret art of the stars thus allowing me to become Nightmare Moon. If only it didn't go so wrong." She started crying and felt a strong muscular foreleg embrace her. She smelled the cool air radiating off of Blackmane's fur. She sighed and soon fell asleep in his embrace. ---------------------------- They were now on a battlefield the sky was both purple and red. If it was one thing that both Luna and the stallion could agree on was this was an important battle. The battle was fierce all remaining black unicorns were slaughtered in the opening ambush. Only Nightmare Moon and the Stallion now dressed in magical armor were standing there. He slashed a white unicorn's throat and blasted many away. He turned getting three cuts across his flank. He bucked the assailants and ran to protect Nightmare Moon. She was challenging an elite unicorn guard. He slashed her legs causing her to fall and he went in for the final strike. He pierced her throat and tried to finish her off but his horn was shattered by a bloody hoof. The grey stallion stood over his enemy and lifted him up flinging him into Celestia. He growled "leave my wife alone." He then turned to Nightmare Moon and grimaced. He scooped her onto his back and fled. When he got safely away he began mending the injured mare. When she healed she began kissing him desperately. He looked at the mare and sighed "no offense my dear but the only reason I am doing this is for Luna. She means more to me than you." Nightmare lifted herself up and whispered in his ear "I want you inside me." The scene that followed was all blurred and quick. It was as if the two did not want to share this intimate moment with the viewers. ------------------------- The last scene they watched was nightmare moon giving birth to a grey foal. It opened its eyes revealing they were gold. The doctor nodded and kissed the foal on the head. He then vanished with the child. They then witnessed the guard drag the mare away sending her back to the moon. And they were treated to a scene where he placed the small pegasus on the steps of a home in Cloudsdale. He then pulled a black hood over his head. And knocked finally leaving whispering "take care little one someday we will be reunited." The flashback ended and they were in the infirmary. Only Dinky and the nurse had not been privy to the information. The stallion walked over to the sleeping pegasus and placed the small unicorn next to her. He then walked out and said Lady Luna I fear our time is short you are needed back at the castle. And I must go get some rest. I recommend Ms. Sparkle get some rest. Twilight walked out along with Vinyl. None saw Pinkie climb onto the bed and lift Derpy's head onto her stomach soon falling asleep there after. > Day 2: Pinkie Pie > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As pinkie helped Derpy out of the hospital and to Mr. and Mrs. Cake's place where she was renting a room. She helped Derpy onto her bed and nuzzled her. It was the weekend so Derpy had time to recover a bit before her rout started. Pinkie bounced happily outside. She hopped to her nearest neighbor. She knocked on the door and Berry Punch woozy from her night of drinking answered. She groaned in pain as the sun hurt her eyes. She looked at the blurry pink figure in front of her and sighed saying "Pinkie, dear, you know not to interrupt me on the weekend. Do I have to punish you again." Pinkie giggled "no mistress Berry! However, I would like to invite you to my Derpy's all better party. She peeked in and saw Vinyl and Octavia sleeping on a subwoofer in each other's arms with a very large box opened in front of it. She saw in one corner Lyra and Bon Bon curled up together. She smirked and said "wow you guys had an orgy and I wasn't invited!" With that a hoof was up against her mouth and Berry spoke "I will tell them you invited us all to your party. Now please leave so I can get back to my juice." Pinkie smiled, hugged Berry, and bounded off like an amorous French skunk. Everypony was eyeing her flank as she passed. After going throughout all of ponyville she was now shuffling around depressed. Almost all of Ponyville had brutally dismissed her party invite since it was a party for Derpy. She entered into Rarity's boutique. Rarity, as usual, was busy working on some new dress or another. Pinkie appeared from under Rarity scaring the life out of her and causing all the work Rarity was working on to scatter. Rarity looked down at her friend and focused trying to refrain from yelling. "Pinkie, dahling, what in Celestia's name do you want." Rarity spoke exasperated. Pinkie spoke slightly afraid of her friend "Rarity, I..I'm sorry I..I just wanted to invite you to my party for Derpy." Rarity realized her friend was in pain and sighed dramatically, "ooh if you promise to leave now I promise to come. Ok sweetie?" Pinky exploded bouncing out the door saying "it's at the field and at nine pm see you there marshmallow." Rarity rolled her eyes and began cleaning up. If only Sweetie Bell were here. ------------------------- Applejack was bucking the orchard trees when a pink mare dropped onto her. She yelped "what in tarnation are you doin' Pinkie?" As pinkie was hoisted off of Applejack by a red stallion who set her on her butt and helped his sister up. Applejack shook her head and said "what do you want Pinkie. I'm busy." Pinkie began hopping around her speaking real fast "Ijustwantedtoinviteyoutomy Derpy's allbetterparty!" Applejack placed her hoof up to her eyes and said "sugarcube if it will shut you up and make you leave I agree to go to this here party. Pinkie promise." She flinched visibly at that last line and went back to apple bucking. "I suppose you wanna come too McIntosh?" She said with curiosity. "Eyup!" "Don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact she's in heat does it?" "Eyup, I want some sweet, sweet, sweet cotton candy." Applejack rolled her eyes and heard a yell "IT'S AT NINE PM. USUAL PLACE." She looked up to see pinkie holding a megaphone and struck her head against the tree. ------------------ Rainbow Dash was flying doing her usual showoff stuff. A pink blur shot past her face causing her to get startled and begin to go into a dive. She swore she heard the pink blur call her Dashie. As it fell past her face she swooped in and caught the falling mare. Her eyes rolled of course it was Pinkie. "Hi Dashie!" "Hello Pinkie. Why are you here?" "I want to invite you to my Derpy's all better party." "I'm dropping you now. You know for a fact I would rather sit in the hospital for a week than celebrate anything to do with that clumsy pegasus." Pinkie dropped and pulled out a balloon that floated her down lightly her eyes were wattering. She had really wanted Dashie there. She moped off to go see Twilight. ----------------------- Pinkie walked past a hut near the forest and saw Fluttershy frantically running about. She walked over and spoke up causing Fluttershy to bleat and topple over. She helped her friend up and asked "why are you in a rush Fluttershy?" The panicked mare rapidly shot off with Pinkie hot on her tail. They arrived at a cave where booming sobs were coming from. Fluttershy ran in and tried to comfort the large bear. "See Brutus, I didn't forget your birthday. Please stop crying the other animals are scared." The bear sniffled and curled up. Fluttershy gulped and approached the bear and snuggled him. Suddenly streamers and party horns were everywhere. Both bear and mare were startled. Pinkie bounced up and placed a party hat on the bear. She started celebrating while saying "ohmygoshwhydidn'tyoutellmeFluttershy? Isowouldhaveplannedthis. Yay! It's your birthday Brutus! Happy Birthday!" The bear was sitting now and clapping his big paws together laughing only as a bear could. Pinkie bounced out of the cave leaving an invite behind for Fluttershy. Now on to Twilight's home. -------------------- On her way through town to the library she saw Berry and Colgate being harassed by eight large stallions. She saw the look of fear on the two mares' faces. She saw Octavia and Vinyl in the wreckage of some crates with Bon Bon halfway in a broken window and Lyra's legs flailing from a rooftop. She hurried over and said "hey, big bullies leave my friends alone!" This earned her a slap across the face by one of the stallions who said "oh and what's the little bitch gonna do." Pinkie lashed out at this insult knocking her assailant back. As his friend went in to strike his hoof was caught in a magical hold. Dinky was standing there. Pinkie wrapped her hooves around the little filly. And she felt a vicious kick that caused her to black out. She felt her body crash through a window she tried her best to cushion Dinky as her body hit a table of sorts. She felt several things fall on her. She opened her eyes weakly to see Spike standing over her. He helped her up but she couldn't hear what he said. ---------------------- Twilight had, unfortunately, been in the library when a Pink and grey ball burst through her window. She looked outside and saw the stallions about to have their way with two mares. She ran out to help them and that was when she saw Derpy on the ground, her wing bent at a wrong angle. Next to Derpy was a terrified blue mare who she recognized as Colgate. Next to her was Berry, the town floozy and drunk, thoroughly bruised and bloody. She gasped and threw several stallions away with her magic. But a grey unicorn bucked her into a wall and advanced in to rape her. He felt his bones pop and he dropped, howling in pain. Blackmane stood towering over his downed opponent. He bucked the unicorn into the sky scaring the others away. He used his magic to collect the injured mares and he brought them to the hospital. Derpy smiled and said “I knew you’d help me daddy.” He smiled and carefully laid the mares on the beds and began helping the nurse tend to them. Pinkie was brought in by Spike she was all frazzled and was soon calm when she saw Derpy. It was then she allowed herself to fall asleep. > Night 2: Party Crashers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It took three hours for Blackmane to heal the injuries of the small group. He spent the longest on Derpy just to make sure her wing healed fine. The sun was setting when they all left. They had agreed to go to the party in pseudo fear of Blackmane. It didn't take long for them to reach the Party field. Pinkie was ecstatic. She had gotten help from the Cutie Mark Crusaders in decorating the party. She had also stopped by Berry Punch’s vineyard. It was here that she picked up a special adults only drink. Derpy sat at the head table with Blackmane and Dinky. She was nervous to see if anypony would show up. She saw Twilight walk into the brightly lit party tent. She then saw a very disgruntled Rainbow Dash being Dragged by Applejack and followed by Macintosh. She was ecstatic that Dash had made it. Pinkie was looking over the field and sighed only three of her friends came then an eloquent voice spoke up “Pinkie dear, I must really congratulate you on this decor. It is simply exquisite.” Pinkie turned to see Rarity and Fluttershy she squealed with joy and pushed them inside. Then the party got really rowdy when Vinyl came with her equipment and three sturdy stallions to help her set it up. Two of these stallions were Sturdy Running and Shadow Runner. The third was a small black colt who was doing the wiring. when they were done Vinyl started the music. Over at the adult beverage table hovered Berry Punch and her best mare friend Colgate. both drinking heavilly. Lyra, Octavia, and Bonbon were easting party sandwiches and Lyra was explaning to Octavia why her roomie had come home in bandages. This strangely did not seem to phase the mare. She was wistfully staring at Vinyl spin the records. Pinkie was giddy and dancing with anypony who wanted to. She saw Fluttershy snuggle up to Big Macintosh. She smirked and suddenly stopped when she saw the familiar faces from earlier. She stopped dancing and slowly backed away to protect Derpy. She noticed that Blackmane was nowhere to be seen. ------------------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash saw the eight males two were pegasi, like herself. Three were Earth ponies and two were gryphons. The last was a grey unicorn and he seemed to be the leader. They advanced into the tent. The two gryphons sauntered over to the table with Lyra, Octavia, and Bonbon. they had a sinister look in their eyes. One touched Octavia inappropriately earning him a slap. The other gryphon grabbed the fairly weak Octavia and lifted her up grinning stupidly. The other gryphon advanced on Lyra but he was shoved out of the way by a rainbow blur. he stumbled into an unoccupied table and got all tangled in the chairs and splintered wood. The other turned hearing a cocky voice saying “and I thought this was going to be a boring party!” The three earth ponies had decided to pick a fight with the wrong farm stallion and one was now on the ground nursing a broken jaw. The other two were squaring off against the brothers Shadow Runner and Sturdy Running. Shadow grabbed hold of one of the assailants with his hooves and twisted his arm breaking it as the stallion hit the ground. The other earth pony helped his friend up and they backed away. They backed into Applejack who bucked them to the ground. That was when she was lifted in the air by the unicorn who threw her into Vinyl's turntable. The unicorn had helped his remaining comrade up. He turned and stared intently at Derpy. He spoke in a menacing voice "We will keep hunting you until we finish you off. But first I'm going to kill your friends." With that he began using his magic to crush the three mares in his magical grip. He saw his cronies back up and begin fleeing. He was beginning to feel terror himself. A magical cut appeared on his flank causing him to drop his victims. The fear overran his common sense and he bolted along with his cronies toward the Everfree forest. They ran hearing howling as they were all soon set upon by several Timberwolves. The four flyers were soon nothing but a meal. As the howling subsided the three earth ponies fell off a steep cliff with jagged rocks at the base of it. Only the unicorn remained. He looked around and saw he was near a hut. He walked in and saw a Zebra mare near a cauldron speaking in some nonsense rhyme. He snuck up carefully and was about to push her into her cauldron. His hooves were stopped by an intense red magic. Blackmane stood there with his eye patch off. His eye glowed red with pure energy. He spoke “If you value your life you will leave and never come back.” the unicorn struggled and sneered. He then spoke “I thought you looked familiar. Did you know that when I abused that filly she screamed for you. I enjoyed it soo much.” Blackmane remained stoic but the magic was slowly wrapping around the unicorn’s neck. One swift snap caused him to go limp. The zebra looked at the body. She then looked up to see Blackmane. She spoke “What’s this before me I see, but Baron Blackmane as handsome as can be.” “Hello, Zecora my dear.” Blackmane smiled as he spoke. “We meet again. I didn't know you lived this close to my daughter.” Zecora looked quizzically at him saying “I knew not you had a daughter got.” “Yes well I really must be going. But first this body must go.” “Fear not friend for poison will be the mend.” With that she poured a vial of liquid on the dead stallion. The liquid quickly dissolved the corpse leaving behind only the smell of cinnamon. ----------------------- Rainbow Dash was helping her friends clean up the mess when she noticed Derpy sniffling and little Dinky was trying to help her. There was a pink unicorn mare holding Derpy. Pinkie was sitting forlorn, her party ruined. As Dash walked over to comfort Pinkie she heard Derpy say “Sparkler, dear, could you bring Dinky home. I need to say goodby to my friends.” Sparkler gasped shaking her head saying “No! Mom, we can’t move again. Not so soon.” “You won't have to move at all, my daughter.” They all looked up to see Blackmane standing there with some blood on his pelt. He smiled a dark smile, with hints of gentleness, saying “The assassins from Stalliongrad have been........taken care of. Though one did tell me something interesting.” ----------------------------------- Luna of the moon descended in her chariot to see her daughter. She had seen the Timberwolves devour some pegasi and gryphons. She also swore she had seen three earth ponies jump to their deaths. The smell of cinnamon was what finally prompted her stop by her daughter’s home. She landed in the party field and walked out of the carriage. She saw her daughter, safely in the hooves of her granddaughter, she smiled and glided over. She whispered in the pink unicorn’s ear “I think, my dear Sparkler, you should take your sister home and bring the Crusaders with you. Your mother has something she needs to get off her chest.” Sparkler smiled and rounded up the CMC and Dinky saying “come with me, my little ponies we will have a sleepover. Ok?” The small fillies followed her out along with the small tech pony and his older brothers. Blackmane walked over to Luna and she nuzzled him. She placed a wing over Derpy smiling saying “I think your friends will want to know.” Twilight spoke “Derpy... you have a small filly as a daughter but I hardly ever see a male in your life. Who is the father of Dinky?” Dash looked up as pinky rushed Twilight yelling “how can you be so insensitive to Derpy’s secrets.” Dash tried to grab Pinkie but failed and watched as Pinkie struck Twilight in the face. Twilight reeled and Derpy spoke “calm down Pinkie It’s ok my friends deserve to know.” Twilight rubbed her nose and looked at the stage. Vinyl was being taken to the hospital by Octavia due to her broken leg from when a speaker fell on her. Derpy looked around and sighed “I was raped before I arrived at Ponyville. There I said it now you can shun me.” Pinkie looked mournfully at Luna who stepped away. Pinkie grabbed Derpy saying “No one’s gonna shun you muffin.” Applejack went over to the two saying “Yeah sugarcube! We don't care about that.” “Dahling, really, who would dare to do something so horrible to one such as you.” Rarity had spoken tactfully. Dash stood slack jawed. She hadn’t realized she was not the only one who had such a violent act done to her. She tried to steady herself as Derpy continued speaking. ----------------------------------------------------------- It was a while back. I was just about to go from filly to mare when I was kidnapped by a unicorn who wanted money out of my adopted parents. He raped me on video and sent it to them. My adopted mother was furious. Both she and my father hunted the unicorn down but when they found us he tried to kill me. Mother took the deathblow and shoved me out of the way with her dying strength. She used her horn to break my bindings and she died begging me to take care of my little sister. My father told me to run and get out of town with his daughter. So I ran. And picked up my little sister Sparkler. And I ran and ran hiding anywhere I could. But whenever the vicious stallion and his cronies found me they would kill someone near to me. I gave birth with help from Zecora and she suggested to hide in Cloudsdale for a while. So I did. When I got fired from my mail mare job up there I came here. I had wanted to abort the child but when I saw Sparkler’s face light up whenever I would talk about the unborn foal inside me I couldn't bear to. I decided to adopt my little sister as my own and she, in gratitude, helped me raise Dinky. Carrot Top helped whenever she could but it was as minimal as she could be so as not to reveal my hiding place to my hunters. So now you know why I have two daughters. Now whenever I look on Dinky I am glad I gave birth to her. She is the most adorable and happy filly I know. And I hope she will grow to be strong like my adoptive parents. > Interlude > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERLUDE Meanwhile in Canterlot Princess Celestia was receiving some horrible and disastrous news.She was pacing uncontrollably and nervously. She spoke in a huff “Where is my idiotic sister. I need her here now! Where is that STUPID SLUT!” her royal voice reverberating off the walls and shattering a few windows. “SISTER! HOW DARE YOU!” Luna’s royal voice cried out knocking the stressed mare off her feet. She looked into the blazing eyes of her sister and yelped cowering. She then felt her sister’s wing around her. She whimpered. Luna looked down at her sister. and sighed saying “what is the problem Cellie? Why are you so stressed?” Celestia looked into her sister’s eyes. She lowered her head and whispered “The thing I have been running from is back I can't face it after all these years.” “Then maybe, dear Celestia, you call the rest of the council.” The two mares looked up to see Discord sitting on a pink cloud with a champagne glass of chocolate milk in his claw.” Celestia shivered saying “you hear to finish me off honey?” Discord smiled saying “hardly.” Discord pulled up a tv from nowhere and sat down with popcorn in his claws. On the screen stood a black mare with holes in her legs. She looked like swiss cheese. Discord spoke “seems your mistakes have caught up to you. But I sense something even more dangerous over the horizon. How strange this feeling is.” -------------------------------------------- In the Everfree forest stood a black mare with holes all over her body. She stood talking to a chimera and a cockatrice with sunglasses on. She looked at the two and spoke “Generals are your armies ready? We march into Ponyville tomorrow. If we can destroy the elements of harmony we can conquer all of equestria in the name of our Lord. We will be benevolent saviors freeing the ponies from the tyranny of the sun and the moon.” A voice near her spoke “Crysalis save your speech for the troops.” The cocatrice squacked and leaped into the air joyusly. And the Chimera bowed. The voice spoke again “Seems all is ready. May our dread god watch us and help us in battle.” ----------------------------------------- Several thrones appeared two were occupied by a pink Alicorn and a white unicorn. Another was occupied by a vicious looking bear with scars on his face and some of his scraggly fur was white. The last two held the emblems of the sun and the moon. And the tallest one happened to be shaped like a giant chicken. This was the one Discord sat on. They saw Crysalis on the screen and the pink Alicorn spoke venomously “I thought she was dead.” ------------------------------- Crysalis sat looking out the cave. She was mournful and lost in thought. Her mind wandered back to when she had been forcefully removed from Canterlot. She was flying through the air and she landed on a bunch of stones breaking her body. In her pain fogged mind she saw her nemesis Cadence. The mare had sat down in front of her watching curiously. She felt her body strengthen. She was soon enveloped in a pink aura that mended her bones and chitin. From that day onward Cadence would secretly visit her feeding her. She in turn tried to feed her remaining children. But one day that all changed. Cadence had been followed by that bitch Celestia. Celestia had used her magic to bind Cadence and forced her to watch as she tortured the changeling. The final kick was when Celestia had severed her connection to her children and bound her in immortality so that she would forever be alone. This had been enough to break Cadence who surrendered and eventually became a queen herself. That was when he appeared. He offered her redemption and she took it. His gold eyes attracted her to him. But soon her learning from him lead her down this dark path. She had gouged out his eye in her attempt to escape judgement for releasing the wyrm. Now her life belonged to the wyrm and it enjoyed the petty insect that she was. ----------------------------------------- Cadence looked at the frail sleeping form on the screen and hid her face to hide the tears. Her husband knew of her tryst with the changeling queen but had chose to ignore the fact. Discord sat there and looked over to the Princess’ Luna and Celestia. He smiled his snaggle toothed grin. He spoke “so the mistake of the past will come back to haunt you. It’s just as the prophecy foretelling the return of The Wyrm of Destruction foretold. He is here in Equestria and the only people who may have a chance to stop him will be destroyed tomorrow unless someone does something to warn them.” With that Luna bolted out the door. > Night 2 continued > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna of the moon smiled at the party goers. She was very nervous on how to explain what was coming. She looked at each one intently and she felt a hoof on her back. She looked around and saw Blackmane. He was using in red magic to send up something she could not quite make out. as the shower of sparks ended she was startled to see three extra ponies and one zebra in front of her. She caught a sense of trepidation from Twilight. She heard the warm voice of Blackmane speaking “sorry to call you here my friends and most loyal students. Wait! Where is the gryphon.” They all looked around. He sighed again and tried to contact his most inexperienced student. but all he received for his troubles was an arm. He was startled and dropped it. Blood was still oozing out of the severed claw. He paled considerably when the blood oozed to form the words I HAVE HER. COME ALONE. EVERFREE FOREST. YOU WILL BE MET. With that the arm incinerated. He looked at Luna who was trying to repress her vomit. He spoke quietly “The only one I know who can control blood is the wyrm. Please Luna, don’t tell me he’s back.” Luna started tearing up saying “my dear baron our worst fears have been realized. The Wyrm of Destruction is alive again. He aims to conquer all.” The baron grimaced and held his hoof up to his eye patch. He looked around and said to Luna “You will have to explain to them. I am going to save my apprentice.” He wandered off not realizing he was being followed by Derpy. She was gliding through the air unseen. ---------------------- Luna looked at those she still had with her. Shadow Runner was standing with his two brothers all looked fierce. He was in some purple armor and wore a blue cape. He growled saying “Is it true princess. Is that foul thing alive?” His brother wore a lighter black armor over his dapple coat. the only one not wearing armor was their youngest brother. Green flames suddenly surrounded the colt and, to everypony’s surprise, a changeling stood there. Twilight immediately went into attack mode. Luna yelled “HOLD TWILIGHT!” Twilight stopped charging and looked at the princess who continued “There are many changelings in ponyville. they came seeking refuge when my sister made the unfortunate decision to sever them from their queen. He is not the only one is this tent. Am I right Macintosh?” Where Macintosh stood there was now a taller more muscular changeling who simply nodded. Applejack stepped back nervously saying “What’d you do to mah big brother?” The changeling warped back into Big Macintosh and spoke “He sent me here in his place. I have been posing as him for three years now. He had to go somewhere. He found me and taught me the apple family ways and traditions. His love for me helped me survive. Just like y’alls love fer him fed me.” Applejack rushed him and started beating on him yelling “What’d you scum do to him? I’ll kill ya. I swear.” The changeling posing as Mac smiled saying “He’s around. But the princess has something important to say an I suggestin you listen.” Luna looked at those present and said “My dear friends as of three hours ago we are at war.” --------------------------------- Blackmane was walking along the forested path he was following a cocatrice with sunglasses on. As he entered a clearing he groaned and said “when did I get to Wondermane. Knew I shouldn’t have drank that bottle.” Towering above him was a mystical land. The forest had become crystalline and purple and pink. Several trees were moving around frolicing. He shook his head and sighed. He continued following the cocatrice with sunglasses. He Grimaced when he saw a tattered gryphon sleeping in a cage. He walked over and nudged her saying “Gilda, Gilda my dear wake up.” The gryphon stirred weakly and struggled to get up but colapsed. A voice behind him spoke “you see I hold the cards. I have, not only, your daughter but I also have your apprentice. Oh how sweet this is. I am salivatng just thinking about it.” He turned to see Crysalis standing there with Derpy in her magical grip. He smirked saying “I should have figured this trick sooner. You traitor!” With a swift strike Crysalis’ horn severed and she dropped in pain. He shattered the cage and tore off his eyepatch. He lifted Gilda up with his magic and placed the unconcious Derpy on his back. He then bolted. He heard squaking and knew several cocatrice were hot on his tail. He threw the two through the portal and turned to see Crysalis. She spoke weakly “You’re too late master. The town is already under seige. The abhorred element bearers will die and you, you will be unable to help them.” She slashed him with her newly regrown horn. He fell back into the portal. He smiled saying “You’ll have to do better than cutting my neck dear traitor.” The portal closed behind him and he was outside the Everfree Forest with Derpy standing over him. She was wimpering and doing her best to use her newfound magic to heal him. He whispered in her ear “You have to focus. I know you are scared but if you cannot control your magic you will die.” Derpy focused so hard her eyes lit up golden in the dawn’s light. Pinkie appeared out of nowhere and kissed Derpy on the lips. This was the catalyst Derpy needed for a beam of magic wrapped around her father. His slashed neck healed leaving a nasty scar. He smiled and looked at the sunrise. He would live for another day. Damn was it beautiful. > Crystal Fall > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When Derpy got back she was startled to see three of her friends fighting. She was angry and hurt. She saw Twilight arguing with a blue pony in a magicians hat and cape. She saw Dash eyeying and headbuting a yelow pony with lightning hair. She saw Applejack flailing against her big brother and then she Zecora sitting having a nice cup of tea with Berry, Colgate, Lyra, and Bonbon. She sighed in exasperation and looked at Pinkie saying “Pinkie can you try and sort this mess out I am nervous but I can’t place it.” Pinkie giggled, kissed her again, and said “Okie, Dokie, Lokie.” she then hopped off. Blackmane was gently carrying Gilda who was in in pain and kept whimpering. He closed his eye and whispered an incantation. next to him stood a mighty minotaur. He spoke “Hello Eichenstrahl. I need your unige carving skills to create a prosthetic claw for my young apprentice. I saw the work you did on that stallion it was glorious.” The minotaur spoke in an oxtrian accent. “Eichenstrahl will help magic pony; if magic pony help Eichenstrahl. Need find special wood. Good carving kind only found in Oxtria’s national forest. Big monster trees protect it.” Blackmane sighed and muttered under his breath. A large log of wood appeared along with the minotaur’s tools. He spoke “Will this do Eichenstrahl?” The minotaur looked at the wood and sat on it then tasted it then taped it a few times. He spoke “Eichenstrahl like wood. One gryphon arm coming up.” The sun was just peaking over the horizon when a horde of monsters charged out of the forest. They were of varying size. There were Cocatrice, there were cerberus, hydra, feral dragons, wolves, Timberwolves, and finally there were parasprites oh so many parasprites. The creatures charged past Derpy, who flew up above them towards Cloudsdale. They ran past Eichenstrahl who was busy carving and measuring the wood for Gilda’s arm. They ran past Blackmane who looked unimpressed. He sat there watching and silently counting the army. His good eye rolled in its socket and he stood and followed them casually. ------------------------------------------- Pinkie jolted from the sleep she had been in and scratched behind her ear. She looked around and saw all her friends sleeping. She then rushed over to Rainbow Dash yelling “Dashie, Dashie, Wake up you need to get to Cloudsdale to help Derpy. The monsters are coming.” Pinkie saw that her friends weren't going to move so she pulled out a megaphone yelling “EVERYPONY WAKE THE BUCK UP!!” This startled the sleeping ponies awake and they began rubbing their eyes. They saw a dark cloud on the horizon. Dash immediately shot into the air along with her rival Lightning Dust. They were going to help if it meant saving Ponyville. The two rushed and soon met with Derpy who was currently getting heavy clouds thrown at her. She sat down dejectedly as Dash and Lightning Dust quickly rallied support especially when several dragons flew overhead. ------------------------------------------- In ponyville the small group was making defenses pinkie had a large muffin canon pointed out of the Mr. and Mrs. Cake’s home. On top of the home stood a very large spoon-a-paullt. Lyra was standing in the middle of town with Octavia and Vinyl. She wasn’t holding her lyre, however, she was holding an electric guitar. Vinyl was on the mixers and octavia had her cello. Vinyl spoke “how is that going to help us.” Octavia strummed a note then set in on her side gripping it like a gun and strummed again causing a large nozzle to clunk out of the cello. she smeared paint on her face and said “Let’s do this thing bitches!” Lyra now had a heavy metal wig on her head and she stuck her tongue out She had chains hooked up to her body making her look totally metal. The stage they were on became electrified as techno music sparked through the speakers. The flower girls were outside their home with several carnivorous plants that they were riding. The spa ponies had a very large hose sticking out their window and the Doctor was fiddling with a blue box completely oblivious and muttering something about Daleks. The town was ready for an attack that soon came. The monsters were vicious and wreaking havoc. Ponies that were not ready we're now running for their lives. Fluttershy stood in the path of the monsters and suddenly she stared at them causing a few to cringe and recoil. It was then that she was scooped up by a bear who charged into the army. The wolves and Timberwolves were now set upon by bears, birds, rabbits, and many other small animals. The hydra jumped over the dusty mess and landed with a thud. The cocatrice were glaring at several ponies who immediately turned to stone. Almost all those that had been running were now trapped in stone. The cocatrice then joined the dusty fight. The larger beasts were now being assaulted by giant flaming muffins and cake falling from the sky. Those that got past that assault were now set upon by carnivorous plants and shot with painful lavender scented water. They were all thrown back by a huge blast of music. Up in the sky Discord was watching with amusement. It was certainly a good day to be chaotic. He decided to help out by causing some of the larger animals to shrink. The pegasi were now in the fray and they were a devastating force. Even old Granny smith was getting into the fight with her grandchildren. It would have been funny were it not for the fact she was absolutely beating the living hay out of a dragon. The fake Macintosh broke the shin of the hydra who fell and was set upon by the rest of the apple family. The monsters were in full retreat. The rabbits all stood with their tiny arms crossed with the three bears behind them. Two of the cocatrice were be flailed around by Fluttershy. Fluttershy soon stopped when Rainbow dash startled her. Only a few monsters remained and they were currently being assaulted by Opal and Rarity. They too soon fled. --------------------------------- Crysalis walked into Ponyville and sighed in pain. Her army had been defeated by hilarious weaponry. She looked at the stone ponies who were being tended to by the Zebra bitch. She then saw General cocatrice getting his tail handed to him by the weakest member of the elements. The cowardly Fluttershy. She then saw Blackmane standing there. He spoke soothingly “Dear Chrysalis. I give you one final chance to surrender quietly and submit for judgment.” Crysalis closed her eyes saying “It’s too late for that master. You will have to kill me.” Celestia, Shining Armor, and Cadence descended from the sky in Celestia’s chariot. They surrounded her. Her body glowed red and began shrinking. Soon she was the size of a gem and her body crystallized. Blackmane handed the small soul gem to Cadence and smiled knowingly. She hugged him tightly. He turned to walk away and came face to face with his apprentices. Zecora nodded over to the statues. Blackmane winked and they vanished only to reappear as flesh blood and screaming ponies. Gilda bowed to him and he looked at the prosthetic leg. He smiled and some magic surrounded the wood causing mysterious markings to appear. He then spoke “Thank you for your support We still have one battle ahead of us. The Wondermane forces will soon set upon this town. I need you all to help train the Ponies to defend themselves.” The minotaur walked over to him and spoke “Eichenstrahl will help as well puny ponies need good workout. Flabby ponies need muscle like Eichenstrahl!” Blackmane nodded and looked over at Celestia who pulled out a map and set it on Eichenstrahl’s Twilight, Shining, Cadence, Discord, and Luna were looking at the map now strategizing. Eichenstrahl was examining the ponies, unicorns, and pegasi. He and Blackmane’s apprentices were now collecting groups to work with. The Apple family were discussing what to do. They soon began forging armor and weaponry for the ponies. A small group of bat like pegasi descended from the sky. They were led by the strangest couple anypony had laid eyes on. One was a day guard and the other was a night guard Female who looked awfully pregnant. With this backup they would have enough to work with. The three musicians were now flanked by Berry, Colgate, and Bonbon. The three had dangerous looking weapons. Berry was holding bag full of Explodito’s High Powered Flaming cider that had been sitting on her shelf for the last twenty years. Bonbon was dressed in army fatigues with a bandolier of various candies that had gone stale. And Colgate held a large brush with a lasso of floss. The spa ponies were now getting ready with some pegasi who would help siphon water into their hose. They also had bags of bath salts and oils. Mr. Cake and Mrs. Cake were preparing more food with the help of Pinkie. With all the preparations being made nopony saw a large stallion on two legs walk into town. He wore sunglasses and had a red trench coat on that covered some of his face. One of his forelegs was missing and he hid that fact by hiding it under his coat. He was on two prosthetic hind legs that had been mis-adjusted forcing him to learn to walk upright instead of on fours. He had dust orange hair but he had dyed it black and then highlighted in grey. Under his large collar he smirked and chewed a piece of wheatgrass. > another kind of reunion > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The day was getting close to noon so all the ponies were getting ready for lunch. The ponies sat down to eat. It was getting close to one when they finally got back to training. Eichenstrahl was marching various ponies through drills. He eventually bumped into the mystery stallion. He apologized and continued on. The stallion went over to where the Apple family was forging sleek armor and secret blades to help the ponies. He tested one and swung it it withered and shattered. He looked at the red stallion who was at the forge. He smiled saying “I forgot to show you how to properly forge things.” He lifted his sunglasses and winked at him. The stallion was so startled he glowed green and a tiny changeling stood there. Applejack charged over to squish it.The mystery stallion blocked her attack with his forehoof and spoke “cool yer jets Applejack.” Applejack gasped and stepped back saying, in a surprisingly weak voice, “You know me?” The stallion opened his jacket revealing a red stallion that looked stronger than any other. Applejack gasped, colapsed, and whimpered saying “Macintosh, what’d they do to you?” Macintosh smiled and said "it was mah own fault. I was in the Everfree when I had seen my little friend here." He pointed at the changeling. "She was being attacked by a behemoth plant. So I attacked the creature and it managed to get the best of me. It's toxins rendered my hind legs useless and it decided to make a meal out of my left foreleg. Zecora scared the foul creature away and helped me to the hospital. The nurses had no choice but to amputate. Luckily there was a child minotaur who forged for me new legs. However, he wasn't adept at the hammer and anvil. So he made a few miscalculations so this is what happened." Applejack looked at the changeling and then looked at Macintosh. He spoke again, reading his little sister's mind, "I trained her to first take the forme of a stallion then when she mastered that I jus showed her a picture of me before my surgery and she mastered that. I then slowly trained her my nuances and quirks. She and I spent a lot of time together." Applejack was appalled at this and said "you had sex with a changeling?!" "Eyup. Sis, I'd like you to meet my mare friend Applesauce." With this Applejack swooned in a very non Applejack way and collapsed. She was helped up by Dash. Who started mocking her. Derpy was sitting near the tree watching everybody. Blackmane walked over to her. He sat down and she slumped against him. He stroked her feathers with his magic. She soon fell asleep against him. He brought her to her apartment and was let in by a brown earth pony. He looked at the pony and smirked saying "ah the doctor, any timey whimy issues I should be aware of." The Doctor looked and said "nope none I can detect. Just biding my time." He then saw the sleeping Derpy and allowed Blackmane in and led him to her small apartment. He brought her in and looked around he placed his hoof up to the bridge of his nose. Remembering that the doctor had a unique ability to create pocket dimensions. For this small on the outside but large on the inside. He lay the mare down. And closed his eyes. A pink blur obscured his vision for a second and he saw Pinkie Pie nestled next to the mail mare. He walked out and saw Dinkie she looked worried she squeaked "grandpa!" He smiled warmly and brushed her hair. He smiled at the bigg round eyes and used his magic to hug the tiny filly. She looked at the two mares and crawled into Derpy's lap. Sparkler saw this and walked over and she too fell asleep. Blackmane left and walked outside. It was almost nightfall and the air felt thick with tension. There had been one small attempt by the living crystals of Wondermane. They had been repelled with only a few injuries. He heard a thick voice in his head "two days then you will regret crossing me Zain Blackmane. TWO DAYS!" > Wyrm fall > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The two days went by swiftly. Blackmane stood with The princesses backing him and Discord backing them. He had witnessed the birth of Shade who was a white and grey foal that was born from the night guard Chang’e and the day guard Houyi. The attack came swiftly and without warning. Numerous crystalline beings rose from the ground. An unfortunate guard had been eviscerated by the surprise attack. Blackmane began shouting orders “Remember when a crystal golem dies it blows up. Unicorns protect the pegasi and earth ponies.” A earth pony fell to the ground her body in two. Octavia opened fire from her gun-cello it ripped through many of the crystal golems. Bonbon was using her candy gun to break the magical mechanisms the golems were made from while Lyra and Vinyl shattered them with sound. An explosion annihilated the homes of the flower girls and the spa girls. The explosion had come from the wyrm. It made another pass ripping through the cake household. Pinkie was thrown by the blast of air. She now lay in a mangled mess with a wooden beam floating above her. A golden aura protected her as Derpy flew in to attack. Luna and Celestia screamed as the wyrm picked them up in his claws digging his talons into them he then dropped them they were caught by Eichenstrahl who put them under his arm and charged through the crystals that had come to finish them off. he dropped them near his log and charged through the crystals again to scoop up a lightning haired pegasus and blue unicorn who had both been cut pretty bad. He looked around and collapsed from his injuries. Several pegasi were thrown from the sky by the wyrm. Soon it was only Gilda, Rainbow Dash, and the Wonderbolts led by Spitfire. They were no match and Gilda soon crumpled as several crystals shredded her wings. Rainbow Dash charged with the Wonderbolts who fell as another barrage of crystals struck them. Rainbow looked around devastated and she flew right at the wyrm her rainboom gave her the boost she needed and she destroyed one of the Wyrm’s eyes. He swiped her out of the air and her bloody body hit the ground leaving a crater. Blackmane trotted over to the crater and pulled the wounded out only a tenth of his defenders remained. They were outnumbered. He watched Zecora fall followed by Granny Smith and Macintosh. Applesauce curled up near Big Mac and shook helplessly. There was a roar and He turned to see heavily armored bears join the fray with Fluttershy, in full armor, riding on one of them. They were backed by an Ursa Minor and an Ursa Major. Many crystal golems fell at their combined might. The ground then began to freeze and an ice pillar shot from the ground it cracked revealing several reindeer. The reindeer were led by an imposing buck who Blackmane recognized as the immortal Blizzard. They charged the remaining crystals and there was a roar in the sky as several dragons attacked the flying crystal golems known as the Crystal Wind. Twilight hurried over to Derpy who was mending Pinkie she yelled “Derpy we need your help. I want her to survive too but forget about her.” She stopped as Derpy stared murderously at her. She then spoke “Please Ditzy Doo she’ll be ok I promise.” Fluttershy was flung from the back of the bear she was riding and rolled into the broken and devastated Applejack. She saw the Cutie Mark Crusaders lying in a bloody heap with Rarity nudging the unresponsive Sweetie Bell. She got up and looked around all the injured and dead and what she saw enraged her. As Rarity walked over to curl up near Applejack Fluttershy saw flames and then...Nothing. ------------------------------------- Derpy saw the flames she saw Twilight run towards the charred ground that had once been where her friends stood. She dropped down and Derpy saw flames. There were so many dead but all Derpy could see were flames. through the haze hallucinogenic fire she saw a large stallion. She saw him fire up red magic and then she saw a very muscular reindeer who fired up white magic. Discord fired up grey magic and she hastily walked over to the three men she saw the magic was striking The wyrm and weakening him. Her rage built up and she fired off her magic. The golden beam engulfed the destroyer and his body slowly incinerated. In her mind she begged the sky, the sun, the moon, the stars, the trees, the wind, the elements that everyone would survive. Tears ran down her eyes as she remembered her friends and all those who had fallen. There was a piercing shriek that signaled the end of the destroyer. > The End? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rain fell and the smoke and smog rose from the ground evaporating into nothingness. The world was dark. Derpy could see nor hear anything. A voice she recognized spoke to her “Mommy, It’s me Dinky. Please wake up mommy.” Another voice “mom, please wake up. It’s me Sparkler.” A deep yet comforting voice startled her “Daughter. You can open your eyes and look at the beauty.” Derpy opened her eyes and saw the sky was a deep shade of gold. She watched as many beams of light struck the ground. The gold became mingled with pink and blue as more beams of light came down. The sky became grey as two large energy beams struck two bodies who rose from their dead like state and stood the grey light healed them and they opened their eyes. The sun burst through the smoke and the ground radiated a rainbow of colors rose from a patch of chared earth. Five mares stood looking around. They were soon joined by three small fillies. The torn bodies of all the fallen began mending a deep red energy mingled with the gold and soon a white glow joined in. Derpy looked and was knocked over by a pink mare with frizzy hair. The mare spoke “you saved me. You must be my knight in shining armor.” She felt the warm heat of a pink muzzle near hers and then an explosion of color as the mare kissed her. Her mind was fuzzy and she was suddenly tackled by her two daughters. ------------------------------------ Rainbow Dash was amazed as many pegasi rose from the ground as if nothing had killed them. She felt warm and she was on the ground Scootaloo had tackled her along with her friends. It was a good day to be alive. --------------------------------------- Discord looked back at Ponyville and flew away so as not to disturb the celebrations. He stood on a rock outcropping and felt the heat of another near him. he looked down to see Celestia curled up near him he wrapped around her and was soon asleep. ----------------------------------- Eichenstrahl was pinned by two ponies and a gryphon they were elated to be alive. Near him the Apple family was stirring. Big Macintosh was now a full pony his body had healed and little Applesauce snuggled deeper into his coat. He lifted her onto his back and walked off to the farm. He placed the coat he had worn over her and smiled as Granny caught up to him. ------------------------------------- Luna and Blackmane stood side by side watching their daughter hug her new marefriend and daughters. Luna closed her eyes and said “We thank you baron for your glorious help. WE LOVE YOU.” Blackmane was nearly thrown off his hooves by the royal voice and then was thrown off his hooves by the great big hug that Luna threw over him. ------------------- Thus the story ended as it began with a beautiful day. And that my little ponies is how I found my family and saved us all. “Granny Dinky is that all true?” the little white filly spoke with awe. “Yes it is” Derpy walked into the room her daughter had not aged much since she was revealed to have the same hidden genes that Derpy had. She wrapped her wing around the smaller Alicorn and smiled “Yes it is”