What if MLP G5 was "Fullmetal Alchemist" and also Shakespeare's "Hamlet?"
A specter with wings AND a horn instructs Zipp and Pipp to avenge their mother's death...with necromancy!
"And that's how I lost BOTH my BUCKING FRONT LEGS!" -- Zipp Storm
Ponykind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth. -- AU Pipp Petals (definitely not some human kid named Alphonse Elric)