It was a simple morning in all of Equestria, it didn’t seem to be any different from the regular days. The birds were singing outside as usual, the sun was shining through the cloudless sky, filling ponyville with sunlight. Ponies were leading their everyday life, and foals were playing outside. Twilight and her friends didn’t have to watch over the school this month, since it was the summer break, so they decided to meet at Twilight’s castle and do some stuff together, like the old times. They rarely had the ocasion to nowadays.
“Howdy Twilight! So, what have you got in plans for us?” - Applejack asked Twilight as soon as she entered the room with the rest of her friends.
“Hello everypony, thanks for coming by. It was some time since we all just hang out, wasn’t it?”
“Certainly it was darling, we were quite busy with saving Equestria and taking care of the school recently. It feels good to take a little break from all of this mess.” - Rarity replied to Twilight’s question.
“I wanted go star gazing, you know, like we did some time ago, on the top of that hill near the forest.”
“That’s a splendid idea dear!”
“Yay, If it’s not a problem, I will bring my animal friend with me...” - Fluttershy shyly joins the conversation.
“Yeah, it’s been some time since we could just chill.” - Rainbow Dash cuts in.
“We’re going to set off 8 ‘o clock, be sure to bring everything you need with you, it’s going to be lots of fun!”
“Eeeeeeee I’m SOO excited! Are you excited too?!”
“Yeah, it’ll be fun Pinkie, see ya in an hour Twilight!” - Rainbow Dash said enthusiastically as they were heading towards the castle doors.
And so everypony went home to get things they might need for the little expedition of theirs.
When everypony got back, something didn’t seem quite right. The sun dissapeared into the clouds, and the sky became dark, making everything much harder to see, especially stars.
“Twilight, I don’t wanna be a party pooper, but Ah think’ we might wanna rearrange our plans. The sun is, well... Gone for some reason, and the sky is really unclear.”
“Yeah, and it’s not even my fault this time! Me and my pegasus team cleared the sky this morning!”
“I see-” Twilight couldn’t finish her sentence.
Suddenly, the peace gets disturbed by a loud thunder strike, and what sounded to be an... Eathquake? The earth began to shake, and quickly ponyville looked like a long-time abandoned town.
“What in tarnation’s goin’ on?!” - Applejack exclaimed running to the window - “Look through the window!”
It was raining outside, it all seemed so wrong. The sky got even darker then before, the town square now seemed like a ghost town.
Mane six ran outside the castle in hurry.
“Rainbow, wasn’t it supposed to be sunny today?” - Rarity glared at Rainbow Dash furiously.
“It was! And these are not any regular clouds, it’s like there made out of some weird magic-”
“LOOK OUT!” - Twilight shouted, shooting a beam of magic into Rainbow’s direction. There was a small, black monster-like figgure with yeallow eyes behind Rainbow Dash, there looks like to be more of them nearby. Ponyville seems to be under attack!
“Warn me next time! You gave me a heart attack. What was that thing anyway!?” - Rainbow yells at Twilight
“I have absolutely no idea! I've never seen them before, a-and they weren't in any books I've read! It doesn't look like magic does much against, we need to get out of here now! Oh, Fluttershy, maybe you know something about these creatures, maybe there are just some weird animals?"
"N-No, I don't think so..."
"Okay, but where to?" - Applejack cuts in, visibly disorientated and confused. She didn't see these creatures before either, everything seemed so wrong!
"To Canterlot! We need to alarm the princesses!"
Saying that, Twilight teleported out of there. Minutes later, Ponyville was totally invaded by the black creatures with a pony in a black hood commanding them all...