ACT THREE
The planet Miramoni; was a blissful planet within the Dimensional Universe, home to a race of primitive, but highly functional native elf-creatures, who preferred to live their lives simply, but today they had been invaded by a group of thieving aliens, who came riding super hover-bikes, stealing all the foods, and even totem statues and other sacred talismans they planned to sell to earn a profit.
The poor Natives were powerless to save their world themselves with only primitive weapons such as spears and regular bows and arrows. As of now, they were all being held at ray-gun point by the nasty aliens-- Blue scaly like hybrids wearing punk outfits-- while their other teammates loaded all their stolen foods and treasures ready to take them off into space.
The children were very frightened, and their mothers held them close telling them to look away, much to the aliens delight seeing how scared they were.
One of the men then thought to take a chance and threw his spear at one of the aliens, but he blasted it to splinters with one shot from his ray-gun, and then he shot the poor man in the arm, injuring him badly.
"Next time, I'll shoot your head." the alien threatened "Anyone else wanna be a hero?"
The aliens stroked their guns, and one of them held out his plasma-knife, while all the hostages shuddered in fear. The chief was silently praying to the stars that a ray hope would shine on them in this dark hour...
...he was about to get his wish.
"Okay, we're all loaded." said an alien.
"Let's blow this joint." said another.
A third alien set his ray-gun "Speaking of blowing..." and he shot at the roofs of the village huts, and a few more at the trees, bursting all into flames.
The villagers began to panic, but the aliens were pleased as they opened a space-portal ready to leave, when suddenly...
...magical blasts shot at the portal, destroying it.
"Hey!"
"What gives?"
The aliens turned and then saw none other than Commander Lightning Dawn, and all his friends from United Equestria, all of them were First Class Majors, Twilight's friends, regular majors, and Spike in his Dragon Knight form, a Junior Captain.
"In the name of Starfleet, you are all under arrest!" shouted Lightning.
His wife of now five months, Major Starla Shine stepped beside him with her bow armed and ready, and sneered at the aliens "Come quietly, or face the consequences!"
The aliens all sniggered at one another, and one shouted "You'll have to catch us first!" and they all headed off in different directions.
"SPLIT UP! AFTER THEM!!" shouted Lightning.
While most of the team chased after the aliens, the pegasi, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie-- whom were both Pegasi for almost a year since earning their wings-- stayed behind to put out the fires... by using their Pegasi powers to gather rainclouds to douse them out with their rain, and flap their wings super hard to produce gusts strong enough to blow the remaining flames out like candles.
Fluttershy then attended to all the injured people, and healed heal their wounds with the aid of her emergency medical kit.
She even helped heal the poor man who got shot. "There..." she said sweetly as she bandaged the man's sore arm "You'll be just fine, I promise."
The man felt ever so grateful.
Meanwhile, the aliens were forcing their hover bikes to go faster than they had ever gone before, what with the rest of the team racing after them.
"Halt!" shouted Starla, but the aliens just poured on more speed, and other began to shoot with their ray-guns, which the fighters swerved and dodged.
"Guess we'll have to do this the hard way." said Buddy Rose "VINE WHIP!" Griping is whip tightly, he lassoed and grabbed one of the bikes from behind, and yanking hard, pulling the bike away, forcing the alien off.
"STARLIGHT ARROW"
Starla fired her arrow at another bike, striking it's hover-engines hard, causing the bike to spin out of control and ram several more of the bikers down, the others sped on ahead, while others continued to chase them.
"Okay! They wanna fight, let's brawl!" shouted an alien.
"You slothful, thieving scoundrels!" snarled Rarity, and she charged forth.
The aliens shot at her, but she dodged their eyes shot and she leapt up high and kicked all their guns out of their hands.
Outraged, the aliens grabbed their knives. "Bring it on, punks!" and they charged forth.
Artie sighed "When will they ever learn "PAINT BOMBS!"
The blobs of paint splat on the grounds near the charging aliens, and exploded, knocking them all over, making it easier for the team to rush them and tie them up.
As for the other bikers, Rhymey and Spike were still flying after them.
"Let's split up." suggested Spike.
Rhymey agreed, and gripped his sword tightly and said...
"You go left, and I'll go right.
We'll have them trapped within our sight."
They split up, each going their respective way.
One of the bikers look round "Hey, I think we lost them!"
The others looked round as well, instead of watching where they were going, and they suddenly looked forward and saw Rhymey and Spike soaring out and heading straight towards them, with their swords ready.
SLASH!!
The bikes were totalled, and the aliens fell to the ground with such a thud.
They aliens then decided to run for it, but fell through trap-holes in the ground, courtesy of Dyno and Myte.
"Going somewhere?" teased Dyno.
"Si, to jail, that's where." added Myte.
The brothers slapped each other a high five.
The remaining five aliens were the ones who had all the stolen goods with them, and were still on their bikes.
Suddenly, they stopped for they saw Lightning up ahead just standing there with hands on his hips.
The aliens laughed and thought him a joke. "Let's get him, guys." said one of them, and they all charged forth with their guns and knives ready, while Lightning just stood where he was not even flinching.
The aliens got closer and closer ready to ram him.
"Now!" snapped Lightning, and he changed into his Enticorn form and roared loudly, giving off huge bursts of energy.
The aliens SCREAMED in fright, and, knowing they didn't have a chance, they immediately surrendered like scared little kittens, even dropping all their weapons.
Lightning changed back into his form and sighed in boredom "Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother." It seemed these days all he ever had to do was transform, and the bad guys would crawl away like cowards.
He just wasn't getting much out of his battles these days.
Nevertheless, the aliens were shrunk down, imprisoned in glass spheres and ready to be hauled away to prison. All the stolen items and food were given back to the village. The fires had caused some damage, but nothing that the ponies couldn't easily help repair in mere moments, and they did.
"We thank you all." said the chief "This was truly a work of the gods."
"No, not really..." said Starla "We were after those creeps for some time, and we spotted them heading this way."
"We were ever so pleased to help..." said Rarity "Although, I must say you land and your homes could use some lightening up; perhaps with a few ruffle curtains there, and a rug or two here, and..." she stopped when she noted the villagers not taking a liking to her suggestion. They liked their village just as it was, despite the danger they had just come out from.
"Sorry."
Nevertheless, it was time for the team to head back to United Equestria, but Commander Lightning had one final gift to give the chief. He handed a simple Starfleet badge with a red button on it. One touch of the button would send an emergency distress call straight to United Equestria, warring that danger was lurking around.
"Whenever you are in danger, and you require help, we shall come."
The chief bowed in thanks, and the friends all bowed back.
Lightning then whistled loudly, and his lifelong fairy friend, Krysta, Queen of the fairies, came fluttering down, and used her magic to warp the team back into space, and back home.
The journey took no more than two whole minutes to cross the vast distances between the two worlds.
It felt so wonderful to be back in New Ponyville, on a bright and sunny day.
Pinkie Pie sniffed the air. "Ah, smell that... it's the smell of smiles."
"Um... I'm not so sure smiles have a smell, Pinkie." said Applejack
"Ah, you know what I mean." said Pinkie, and she began to hop, skip, and bounce around humming merrily.
"That Pinkie..." said Krysta "She gets wackier every day."
The friends all shared a laugh, but felt it was nice to be home, and as they walked along, Rhymey spotted a small wild-flower, and picked it for his wife of two months; Fluttershy.
"I flower I've here,
For you, my dear." he said.
Fluttershy giggled as she accepted the flower, and pecked his cheek.
The others thought it was sweet, and this reminded Lightning. "I got these, Starla." he said as he held out a reservation to one of their favourite restaurants for their five month anniversary.
"Oh, honey!" Starla cooed, and pecked him hard.
"I don't get you guys..." said Spike "You've only been married five months, don't you think it’s a bit soon for an anniversary?"
Lightning and Starla giggled, and Buddy Rose answered "Go on, Spike. It's their first year, they're entitled."
"Rhymey and I do the same thing." said Fluttershy.
Rhymey nodded.
"Besides..." Rainbow had to tease "You and Rarity might want to think of doing the same thing, right...?"
Spike and Rarity both blushed and felt embarrassed. Ever since Spike had his magical growth spurt, and changed into his new adult form, he and Rarity became engaged, after he confessed his true feelings for her, and she finally discovered just how much she loved him too... that and the fact she felt she wouldn't find anyone better, what with all her past failed attempts.
"Really… This is hardly the time to discuss such things." Rarity said, trying to change the subject.
"I agree..." said Spike, but the others thought it cute the way they were acting so shy.
Still, everyone was looking forward to that wedding, which was a long time off, several months actually, but for now they dropped the subject.
As they all walked through town, Lightning suddenly stopped, and the gang walked ahead of him.
"Lightning...?" Starla said when she noticed him just staring at the spot where the Golden Oak Library once stood. Now in its place was a statue of Twilight Sparkle, dedicated to her memory... and passing this spot and looking at that statue always made the others feel low, but none as low as Lightning.
Starla came up to him and softly held his arm "Darling...? Are you okay?"
He gazed sadly at his wife. "Yeah, I... I'm alright."
They all walked back to the gang-- all them were feeling a bit low remembering her, and wishing she was there.
Spike missed her especially "I wouldn't be the great dragon I am today without her."
Rarity thought was so sweet. "We all have fond memories of her."
Those words only hurt Lightning more inside, it showed on his face. Despite the many number of times he was told to remember it was not his fault that Twilight was killed in that battle, it still hurt him the way she died in his arms.
Nobody a thing to him; there was nothing really much to say, and pointless to repeat the same old speeches to him again.
Finally, Krysta broke the silence. "It's alright, Lightning, we understand."
The others all nodded, and Lightning smiled sadly but thankfully.
Suddenly, a magical glow appeared before the gang, and the light morphed into a holographic illusion of Princess Luna.
"Princess, what's going on?" asked Lightning.
"Queen Celestia and Grand Ruler Celesto have summoned you all to the royal palace. It is very urgent. You must come immediately."
"We're on our way!"
The magic illusion faded, and everyone huddled close as Krysta prepared her magic. "Ready? Here we go!" and she teleported them all off to New Canterlot.
All of New Canterlot seemed blissfully unaware of what was currently going on in the royal palace. The alarms were sounding like crazy, and the warning lights were flashing slowly in red and yellow, warning of extreme danger.
All the royal guards were running around back and forth with concern and panic, and even Goldwin wasn't enjoying this. "I've never seen anything so frightful like this in a long time." he said to himself.
"Steady yourself, Goldwin." said Princess Luna "We must await for Lightning and his friends."
No sooner had the friends all materialized in the throne room. They were all shocked by all the noise and panic going on.
"Silence those alarms!" demanded Princess Luna.
"What's going on here?" Lightning asked Goldwin.
"I don't know, but from what I've heard, something's really wrong somewhere."
Suddenly, in a bright flash of glowing light, their majesties, Grand Ruler Celesto and his wife Queen Celestia appeared.
Everyone bowed to their royal highnesses.
"Lightning…" Grand Ruler said "Thank goodness you have arrived. We have received distressful news from the human world!"
"The human world?!" cried Lightning.
"That place where you and Twilight once visited." exclaimed Fluttershy.
"But how is all this possible? It doesn't make any sense." said Artie.
"All of you, come to the briefing room." said Celestia "We will explain everything there."
Once in the briefing room, Celestia showed everyone the magic book she had.
"This I had given to Twilight Sparkle when she was still my student. After she had been tragically destroyed..." she paused a minute remembering her beloved friend "...I took it back as a keepsake and remembrance of her."
She went to explain what the book was, and how it worked. "Recently, I have received a distress message form Sunset Shimmer, whom you all know has reformed and resides in the alternate universe where the humans dwell. She has reported that the world as she knows it is now facing a grave danger."
"Danger... from what?" asked Krysta.
Grand Ruler shut his eyes and brought his hands together. At once, his three golden horns glowed, and poof; there on the table appeared an extremely old and ancient tome with familiar markings on it.
"Those marks..." Spike said "I'd recognize them anywhere. They're the same as the Magic Mirror Gate."
"Indeed so, Spike." said Grand Ruler. "This tome originated in the most ancient times of Equestria of old. I myself found it fascinating during my youth, before I was cast into space by Nightmare Moon. It originates the origin of how the mirror was created, and the very first transfer to the human world was made."
The ponies all leaned in; their interests were at an all-time high as Grand Ruler opened the book to reveal very old, faded pages that told a frightening tale.
"Five-Thousand years ago, the part of the human world where Lightning and Twilight visited the inhabited by five evil spirits; Demons if you will, and their only desire was to destroy and conquer. The spread chaos and destruction wherever they went, and vowed never to rest until the entire world belonged to them."
"Oh, my!" cried Rarity.
"That's horrible!" added Fluttershy.
"But wait a minute, what does this have to do with Equestria of old?" asked Buddy Rose.
Celestia cleared her throat "This tome that tells the story was written by an ancient and powerful warlock, who was the ancestor of the famous Starswirl the Bearded. In his time, he was working on an ancient spell to create powerful shortcuts between areas of Equestria, but his initial experiments went wrong, and he ended up creating a rift which lead him to the human world, where he confronted the five demons in their domain."
The friends all had extreme looks of awe on their faces.
"The warlock engaged battle with these monsters..." Grand Ruler said "And although he was not strong enough to effectively destroy them, he was able to overpower and conquer them. The demons were capture and imprisoned behind a large door in a hidden crypt deep under the land, which was then sealed with Equestrian magic, so that the demons would, hopefully, never again crawl forth and regain their evil desires."
Celestia nodded "The warlock, content with his efforts, returned to Equestria of old, and then decided to conjure a gateway to contain the magnificent portal magic he had discovered. Thus, the Mirror Gate was formed. He then sat down and began to write of this tale, however, before he could continue writing, he had fallen ill, for he was very old and extremely weak after his great ordeal. He then shortly died, and took all undocumented secrets with him."
"Ay Carumba!" Dyno exclaimed softly "Even the humans have their monsters to fight."
"Si, and to think..." said Myte "The way to the human world was discovered by chance."
"Unfortunately..." Grand Ruler suddenly said "From what we have just heard from Sunset Shimmer, the demons have been released, and even as we speak are plotting treachery."
"WHAT?!" everyone shouted.
"But, how can that be? Who could have released them?" asked Lightning.
"I haven't all the full details, but there is only one explanation." said Celestia "From what Sunset Shimmer has written, this sounds like the work of The Sirens!"
"Not the Sirens!" Pinkie Pie shouted out... She then whispered to Fluttershy "I don't actually know what that is."
Celestia made another book appear which told this history of the sirens.
"And by other world..." Lightning said "Obviously it must refer to the human world, where all my friends from Canterlot High live."
Starla felt worry "If those creatures have sided with the demons, who know what trouble there, could be. That magic they control sounds really wicked!"
Lightning bolted upright "I've heard enough! That world is in danger, and so are my friends. I have to go... I have to help them!"
Their majesties agreed, and were both hoping Lightning would consent to that.
"Uh... I hate to break it to you all..." said Rainbow Dash "But the connection between our world and there world was totally destroyed."
She had a point!
During the great war, before Equestria blew up, the magic mirror portal was shattered, and lost all it's great magic with it. When United Equestria was formed, the mirror was restored to its former state, but the magic did not return. The mirror was nothing more than just that; a plain mirror. Even their royal majesties could not restore the magic; having no clue how the ancient warlock did it.
There was no record of the spell used in the book, as it was among many of the things the warlock did not jot before dying.
"So, it's hopeless then..." said Fluttershy.
"There will never come another day
When that mirror shall open the magical way." said Rhymey.
All the ponies felt downhearted, but suddenly Lightning looked up.
"Maybe not..."
The others all gazed at him.
"Lightning, you have an idea?" asked Grand Ruler.
"It's just a theory, but it might work."
He then told Krysta to go and fetch Cadance and Shining Armour, and tell them to bring the mirror with them. Lightning then requested the assistance of Professor Brain, and Abra Kadabra for what he was about to do, and he also required the magic message book.
"What is that little rascal up to?" Applejack wondered.
Abra Kadabra was summoned immediately to the palace, and he arrived almost instantly, then, after Cadance and Shining Armour had delivered the mirror, Lightning, Abra and the professor got straight to work
In almost no time at all, everyone else watched as the three ponies worked and worked. Lightning seemed to be giving all the instructions, as well as constructing and attaching unusual gizmos and gadgets to the mirror, as well as attaching the magic message book.
The professor was astounded "This is fascinating. Most fascinating!" he exclaimed.
"I agree..." said Abra "I've done my study of magic, and I've never seen anything of this sort."
Once finished, everyone gazed in awe at what Lightning had created...
The mirror now stood on a large platform, attached to it were machine parts, and magical wirings and units. Placed on the platform in front of the mirror were several round plates to stand on.
"Well, what do you think of it?" said Lightning.
Even their majesties were at a loss for words, and Lightning explained how thanks to Abra's magic he asked him to use, as well as the professor's excellence with machinery, the magical energies from the message book were now infused into the mirror, opening the pathway to the human world.
"So, it's a gateway that we can control at will?" asked Cadance.
"Exactly so." said Lightning "This way we won't have to wait two and half years for the magic to work, also, the transport magic should be more comfortable now. All you do is stand on one of these plates, and then someone activates the controls, and zing... you're off."
"Incredible..." Grand Ruler said "Simply incredible! I've traveled across the whole galaxy and never thought this was possible."
"Lightning, how did you work this?" asked Celestia.
"Well... it wasn't really my idea..." Lightning said "It was Twilight's."
"Twily...!" Shining Armour cried with excitement, "But how did you know all this...?"
Lightning explained and reminded everyone of the time he and Twilight accidently switched bodies...
"We gained access not only to each other’s abilities, but thought patterns as well, stored deep within our brains. Even when we regained our old bodies back, we still retained the information and memories we got from one another. Of course neither of us said a thing to any of you about it as we wanted to protect our own personal privacies, but this time it's called for. Twilight had been working on this theory for some time, but she never had a chance to test it out."
The entire room went silent, and Shining Armour hung his head low, remembering his sister deeply. "Thanks Twily..." he said silently.
Everyone felt the same way.
"Cross your fingers, everyone…!" Lightning said as he inserted the book into the machine.
Everyone did just so, Pinkie Pie even crossed her toes inside her boots.
Lightning then gave both Brain and Abra to do their thing. Abra then cast his magic, and Brain started up the machine.
The machine came to life and began to absorb the power from the book, copying the magic, and transferring it all into the mirror.
At first it was rather scary to watch. Fluttershy gripped Rhymey's hand tight, and Rarity overdramatically fainted into Spike's arms.
Their majesties bit their lips nervously.
"Come on! Come on...!" Lightning muttered under his breath.
Finally, the mirror started to shimmer and shine, as it did when the magical path was opened.
"Galloping Galaxies, IT WORKS!!" cried Lightning.
"My goodness, it does!" added Abra.
"Satisfactory! Most Satisfactory!" cried Brain.
Everyone began to cheer for the success!
Grand Ruler then cleared his throat "Lightning, if you are truly going, you shall need these." he then handed him two special, identical gems, the very gems that gave his friends their Starfleet powers the first time, and the other was enchanted with the other powers of the other ponies, for the friends Twilight had made.
Lightning nodded respectfully, knowing fully well how to handle and when to use the gems.
Also, before setting off, Lightning had enchanted his Starfleet insignia, to act as a return command for the transported. So he would be able to teleport right back again.
All his friends began to look concerned. "Um... Lightning..." Starla asked "I don't suppose this time we could... go with you?" but Lightning objected to this "It wouldn't be a good idea if there was suddenly two of each of you back there. Remember, you ALL have a duplicate counterpart in that world, I'm sure even I have one; I just haven't met him yet. Besides, I'm the only one here who has the most knowledge and understanding of how that world works."
Krysta and Spike had sour expressions on their face, and both happened upon the same idea. Spike stepped forth and said "So do we, and that's why we're going with you."
"You are going to need extra help back there..." added Krysta "And Spike and I are the obvious choice to follow you."
"They are right, Lightning." said Celestia "It would be a wise move to have all the help you could get for what you are about to face."
"You will take them along too, no questions." added Grand Ruler.
Lightning agreed, and then it was time to go.
He hugged all his friends and bid them goodbye, and bowed to their majesties. "We shouldn't be too long." he said to them all.
"Lightning..." Starla said as she approached him, and they gazed deeply into each other’s eyes "Just come back to me alive...?"
"You too, Spikey-Wikey..." Rarity said to Spike.
the men promised their loves they would return, and kissed them both tenderly before stepping onto the plates on the platform, and Krysta stood on Lightning's shoulder.
Lightning then gazed over at Brain at the console...
"Energize!"
Brain threw the switch, and at once, the trio's bodies vanished into millions of tiny specks of light and got sucked through the mirror.
That was that, there was nothing they could do now but wait, and hope!