//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 "the meeting" // Story: Nightmares Coming to Life // by Spore Harvest //------------------------------// It was a beautiful day in Equestria. The birds were singing and the bees were buzzing and Twilight and her friends were having a slow day. It is for that reason that they decided to meet together at the castle to just hang out. "So does anypony have any ideas on what we can do for today?" Asked a bored Twilight Sparkle. "Well, we could play a board game." Suggested Applejack. "Nah, that's boring. How about we go to Canterlot and see if we can do something there?" Asked Rainbow Dash. At that Rarity shook her head. "No, sadly there is nothing going on in Canterlot or I would surely know darling." Then Fluttershy raised her hoof and asked in her usual quiet voice. "Um, why don't we go and help out the town with something. If you don't mind my suggestion." "That would be a great idea Fluttershy, but sadly there is literally nothing to help out with. There are no upcoming holidays, there are no friendship problems and there are no emergencies for us to deal with. So yeah nothing to do." Said Twilight and then face planted on the table with her friends soon following suit. After a moment of everyone admiring the table, Pinkie raised her head and somehow snapped her hooves and said. "Why don't we try to quote on quote take over Equestria?" After that comment, the whole room lifted their heads and started staring at her. "Um, Pinkie I don't think that is such a good idea." Said Applejack. "Yeah are you completely bonkers Pinkie. We are the elements of harmony what are you thinking we would get blasted and after that either trapped on the moon or in stone." Everyone else also voiced their disagreement except for Twilight. She raised her hoof to calm down all of her friends and when everypony finally stopped she voiced her opinion on the matter. "Pinkie is right we could quote on quote, mind the quotations, take over Equestria." After that, she put her hooves together in an evil way and started smirking and after a minute she said in a determined tone. "We are going to pretend to take over Equestria. I'm going to create a plan..." But then she was stopped by Rarity. "Darling you can't be serious if we do that we are going to be in some serious trouble with the princesses." "I was just getting to that, we are going to get the princesses, my brother and Discord in on it." After she mentioned the Draconequuses name he appeared in a puff of pink smoke. "You called." Everyone in the room was startled at first, but then Twilight said. "Actually I did we are going to need your magic to get the plan underway, but I still need to finish up everything." Discord just looked confused for a moment then he leant over to Fluttershy and asked. "Um, what's this all about?" "Twilight is creating a plan to quote on quote take over Equestria." After that, he raised his right eyebrow, pulled off his ears, cleaned them and then reattached them. "Could you please repeat yourself, because I swear that you said that you are planing to take over Equestria?" He asked and then Twilight answered. "Yes, we are planning on pretending to take over Equestria as Fluttershy already told you, but I still need to finalise all of the details, but when I do I'll make sure to call you all. You all just make sure to keep this under wraps. Actually, let's Pinkie promise to keep this a secret. You two Discord." With that, they all did the Pinkie promise and when they finished all of the motions they all went home. *** After a week of planning Twilight finally finalised the plan. With that done she sent letters to all the princesses and her friends telling them to come to the castle. After about half an hour they were all assembled. Then princess Celestia asked. "Okay, Twilight why have you called us to come to your castle?" Twilight started her little presentation by pulling down a big chart from the ceiling which basically explained the whole plan. After about a moment of them checking everything and double checking Luna finally started to speak up. "Do you have to use Nightmare Moon as your base for your evil forms?" Celestia then turned to her sister with a shocked etched into her face. "Luna why are you complaining we are getting a vacation after a thousand years of work or did you just skip over that part." Then she turned to Twilight with a serious expression on her face. "Look I am going to allow this under the condition that none of our subjects come to harm." "Of course we are not going to hurt anypony that would just be redundant. We are just going to scare them a bit. So does everypony here get the plan." Everyone nodded except for Shining Armour he raised his hoof and asked. "The only thing that I don't get is the part in which discord is going to give the clue to the new elements of harmony. Who are going to be the ponies chosen for that position?" "Ah, I'm glad you asked brother if you look at the chart here." She pointed to the upper right corner. "Then you are going to see who the new elements are going to be." After a minute of looking at all of the pictures he said. "Good choice Twily." "Now if none of y'all have any more questions then get started on your ends and we are going to get started on ours. We're going to meet again after a week to check if everything is ready. Until then Pinkie promise to keep this between us." Said Applejack. After that everybody in the room did the Pinkie promise and then they all went their separate ways. *** "Welcome everypony and welcome to the first annual Friendship festival." Said, Celestia, while standing on a stage in the middle of Ponywille. The Friendship festival was something that Twilight made up to start off her plan. As for how it looked. Well, it looked like any other festival. There are various stands where you can participate in fun carnival games. There were also decoration set up all over town and for the icing on top of this cake is, of course, the food, which was being taken care off by the Apple and Cake families. But enough about that you are here to see the mane six terrorise the populace so let's start with that. After the festival was about two-thirds complete the skies started to darken with storm clouds which started to cover the entirety of Ponywille. It sure had the citizens of Ponywille were freaking the fuck out. After that, the skies parted on top of the stage and down came Spike in his own nightmare mode disguise. Then he started to speak in a booming voice. "Citizens of Equestria my name is Spike the dragon and it is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you the new and improved elements of harmony." With that said the main six dropped down from the sky also in their respective nightmare disguises. They all stood on the stage and after a moment for everypony to admire them Twilight stepped in front of everyone and started to speak. "Hello, there my little ponies I am here to inform you that there is going to be a change in management because we are taking over." She finished her sentence with a sly grin. After that, all of the princesses and Shining appeared in front of them with determined faces except for Celestia who looked confused and worried. After a minute of everypony staring down the other, Celestia stepped forward and asked. "Twilight what happened to you? Who did this to you?" Twilight started to walk towards her. "Oh, my dear dear mentor. No one did this to me. I did it myself I embraced the darkness that was inside of me. We all did. Now if you would all please step down so that we could take over that would be swell." She said while also flashing a deranged smile. Her friends also joined her with their own versions. "Twilight you have to fight it." Screamed Luna and she would continue but was stopped by her sister. "It's too late Luna. Don't waste your breath. They are all to far gone. The only way to stop them is to put them down." After that Celestia charged up a spell and fired it at Twilight. She struck her mark and sent her flying over her friends. That of course was a mistake because then all of her friends charged straight at all of the princesses. Pinkie and Applejack ganged up on Shining, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash took Luna and Rarity took Cadence. While they were fighting Spike helped Twilight get out of the wall that she got stuck in and when she got out she said. "That was a mistake, my dear teacher. A big mistake. Spike destroy her." After that Spike lunged at Celestia and punched her straight in the chest sending her flying back straight into a wall. "Ain't so fun when you are getting blasted into a wall now is it." Said Twilight. "You haven't seen nothing yet." Said, Celestia. Then she summoned in her armour and her claymore. "Now show me what you are really capable of." After that Celestia tried to attack Twilight but she was intercepted by Spike who used his fire to blast her away. Then they both lunged at each other and started to fight, Celestia used her claymore to slash at Spike, while he blocked her attacks with his scales while also attacking her with his claws and fire breath. After about a minute of that Twilight had enough and blasted her away from Spike and straight into the other two princesses and Shining. "Enough fighting It's time to end this. Elements to me!" Then they all assembled behind her and started to power up their elements and when they were finally powered up Twilight said. "Say goodbye to your subjects x rulers of Equestria." Then they all released their attack and then the rainbow beam started shooting towards the princesses and Shining and struck them all sending them to God knows where. When all the smoke finally disappeared it revealed a scorch mark and nothing else. "Well that was easy, but that's not the point now elements spread to all the corners of Equestria and take control over your designated districts." After that was said they all saluted and flew off to their respective corners of Equestria. ***Random Island*** "Celestia do you think we made the right choice leaving Twilight and her friends in charge of Equestria." Asked Luna while laying on a beach chair enjoying the sun. "They've got everything under control. Twilight thought everything through to the smallest detail, so stop worrying and start enjoying yourself." Said, Celestia, while magicking up a beach chair, a sun hat and a coconut with a straw inside. "Yeah enjoy yourself. This is probably going to be the only time that we are going to be able to get more than one week of vacation. Make the most of it." Said Cadance. She was currently sitting at a bar waiting for Shining to finish up a cocktail that she ordered. "I'm sure as Tartarus going to enjoy this time off." Said Shining while placing down two glasses and pouring in the drink. "To boredom." After that they all said. "To boredom." And then they all took a drink and started enjoying their vacation.