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// Season 1 Episode 1: Harmony and Holes Part 1 
// Story: The Good Fandom Man 
// by Jake Witt 
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"Do you think we are defeated?!"

Twin lasers shot out at seven ponies, each dodging or blocking the attack but never getting an opening to counter. One pony found a pillar intact, taking cover as a bright blue laser swung overhead. She blew her long, pink mane out of her eyes, timidly peeking as her cyan eyes surveyed the scene before returning behind her pillar. She tucked her wings to her body, trying to be as small as possible.

"Fluttershy!" A cyan pegasus shouted from above, "Get your butter-colored butterfly butt out here!"

Fluttershy rolled as her cover was destroyed by a fireball, she squeaked, "Rainbow Dash, I almost had a plan!"

"Ah can't hear you, sugar cube!" An orange pony drawled, backflipping away from one laser.

The rainbow maned pony related, "She said she almost had a plan, Applejack!" She flew under a laser following her, which switched to break the concentration of the lavender unicorn near the beam. "Heads up!"

The mare ducked, the laser grazing her dark purple mane, "You girls are crazy!"

"Cwazy!" Repeated a very tiny version of the unicorn, popping out of her bigger counterpart's mane briefly.

"Tiny Spark, get out of here!"

"I wanna help, Twilight!" the creature in her mane replied, sticking out her horn to fire a charged energy blast. The blast hit their foe, both heads growling. "Uh, oh!"

Applejack shielded her green eyes with her hoof as the two headed alicorn began pulling out her energy stores. "Rarity! Gem Pinkie Pie!"

A white unicorn whipped her head to nearby saddlebags... or what was left, her curled violet mane bounced as her dramatic cries reigned.

"I've got rocks!" A very, very pink pony screamed with an armful of rocks, "Stone the blasphemer!" Twilight Sparkle ran up to Pinkie, pulling her back by her tail as a pillar of dark magic shot up from where she initially stood. "Hey! I only my pets bite there!"

Twilight spat out Pinkie's tail, "Give me the Elements of Harmony! Every shard!"

"You mean these Elements of Harmony?"

Tiny Spark poked her head out, "You will give us the wocks, now!"

Pinkie did such before tossing a not-element at Nightmare Moon, a two-headed demon alicorn. The red and white rock opened, engulfing the villain in a blue aura as it captured her with a dual scream of, "NOOOOOOOO!!!"

Everyone stared at the metal ball that sat where Nightmare & Moon stood.

Fluttershy took a step closer, "We won?"

The ball shook three times before exploding! It was under effective! "Little foal! You think you can defeat us?!"

As they stood Moon screeched, "The night!"

Nightmare laughed, "Will last!"

"FOREVER! HA HAHA HA!" they shouted together in a voice much louder than normal pony shouting, our heroes fell to their knees in a forced bow and blew off Applejack's stetson. "Where's your precious Celestia, now?!"

Nightmare asked, "How can you defeat us without strong magic, your strong ruler, or even stones of legend? Well, what's left of the last two." A tear fell but nobody could see it.

Twilight got up, holding out one shard in her magic, "You mean this? I assume it was a conduit for the elements so that they could never be abused." She tossed the shard, which bounced off Moon's helmet. "The elements spirits are right here!"

The black alicorn snarled and tried to act brave.

Rainbow lowered her head, "The elements have spirits?"

Tiny poked her head out, whispering, "Bluuuuuff."

Twilight turned to the blonde pony, "Applejack is the spirit of Honesty! I was about to fall off a cliff and she held onto me so that I wouldn't fall!" There was a pause, "She was also very honest about her feelings."





"You should really lose ten pounds," Applejack said, struggling to hold onto Twilight. Tiny poked her head out briefly. "There's the ten pounds!"

"Are you kidding me?!" Twilight screamed.

"Alright, I feel myself sliding towards the edge and losing my grip on you. We have some options: I don't die and I live to farm mushrooms alongside ice, we both die and my family suffers, or I drop you and hope for the best."

"What?!"

"I don't want you to die but my family is really important. The needs of three apples outweigh the need of one sugar cube! What separates me from the monsters... Morality."

"So what now?!" Twilight screamed.

"Now you trust me; fall and you will live."

Twilight let go of Applejack and was saved by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.





"Fluttershy tamed a manticore! That's pretty sick... I-I mean kind of her!" Twilight exclaimed as each element shard circled those she named. "The element of Kindness!"

Fluttershy tried to swat the rocks away.

"Pinkie Pie did some unspeakable things to some trees! The element of surprise! Or... the element of..."

"The element of Laughter!" Pinkie shouted between a hooful of popcorn.

Twilight rolled her eyes, "Rarity gave a dramatic serpent a magic jasper, capable of transforming hair, as a generous gift! The element of Generousity!"

Rarity watched as the pieces of rock floated around her, giving her blue eyes a glitter effect that matched her three-diamond mark on her flank. "Oh, wow, I'm special. Didn't see that coming."

Twilight pointed a hoof at Rainbow Dash, "Rainbow Dash found her own kind but didn't bail on us! The element of Loyalty!"

"Aw yeah! Bros before rainbows!" She paused, "Hey! Are you calling me a bootleg Wonderbolt?!"

"And I'm the missing element! The element of...! The element of...!" She looked to her coligues for help and she continued her phrase like a broken record. "THE ELEMENT OF...?!"





Nightmare looked at her identical twin head, her cat eye pupils shrinking, "They're so close..."

"Hold your ground..."

"But they have one more!"

"To name," Moon reminded, "The name, it is still missing among them."

"All but one," Nightmare pointed out, nervously. "They're going to get us!"

"You."

"What?!"

Moon smirked, "I win either way. They will purify you and our minds will return to normal."

"No!"

"This was never about balance between sun and moon. Prove me wrong, fire the first laser and stop them."

Nightmare flinched, her knees shaking, "I... I don't-"

"Then we are not equals."





"The element of..." Twilight repeated in defeat. Suddenly twin lasers flew for her and her alone.

Tiny Spark hopped out, screaming, "THE ELEMENT OF MAGIC!"

The laser bounced off a magic field as unseen shards surrounded, forming a stone orb above them with twin six starbursts representing Twilight and Tiny. All the shard formed chokers around each pony neck while Twilight got a tiara with a seat for Tiny.

Tiny Spark shouted with a voice identical to Twilight's, "The seven of us are friends, like it or not!"

The five murmured their opinions behind the twin unicorn's backs.

"Friendship is Magic!"

Twin rainbows shot out, arching and containing Nightmare Moon in a miniature rainbow cyclone. When the magic faded, the sun rose out of the window.