//------------------------------// // The Six Magical Artifacts // Story: Equestria Ninjas: Friendship School // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// Inside the Technodrome, Shredder was pacing in the main room while Krang and Chrysalis were busy going over some things. “Agh!” Shredder shouted in frustration, “It's been weeks since we came to this miserable dimension, and we're nowhere near close to getting the Technodrome portal fully powered!” “Which is why Chrysalis and I have been working overtime to discover a new means of powering it.” Krang answered calmly. “And we may have a new solution, Shredder.” Chrysalis added. “Well, don't just stand there, you two. Fill me in!” The two ignored his rudeness, as Krang pulled up six artifacts on the monitor, and explained, “These are some very rare artifacts here in Equestria.” “What good are old relics going to do?” Shredder asked. Chrysalis hissed, “These are no mere relics, Shredder. They're much more powerful than you think.” Krang began listing the items off, “The Amulet of Aurora, the Talisman of Mirage, the Helm of Yksler, the Crown of Grover, Knuckerbocker's Shell, and Clover the Clever's Cloak.” “Alone they are powerful in their own ways, but used together the magic they can produce is unspeakable.” Chrysalis added. “And how is that?” Shredder inquired. Chrysalis continued, “Yksler the Yak's Helm is imbued with the power to peacefully disarm one's enemies. Grover of Griffinstone used his Crown to become the first ruler of his home. The Amulet of Aurora can reverse the tides and summon tsunamis. The Shell of Knuckerbocker was said to have the ability to summon said dragon himself. Clover the Clever's Cloak was imbued with magical powers allowing him to go in undetected by anypony. And finally Mirage's Talisman. Long before I was queen, an old changeling named Mirage used this talisman to cast mirages and illusions to confuse her enemies.” “With their magic combined we will have more than enough power to bring the Technodrome portal online.” Krang finished. “Excellent, but where can we find these relics?” Shredder inquired. “Fortunately, they're all together in one location.” Chrysalis said. “Right here.” Krang pulled up the School of Friendship on the monitor. “Isn't that?” Shredder trailed off as Chrysalis answered. “Yes. Twilight Sparkle's School of Friendship.” Shredder shouted at his brain partner, “Are you insane, Krang? A place like that is bound to be guarded heavily!” “Not to worry, Shredder. I have a plan,” Krang pressed a button and spoke into the intercom, “Night Terror! You and your gang get in here now!” Soon enough the doors opened and entering was Night Terror and the Purple Nightmares. Only this time the pony gang were standing on their back hooves like the mutants. “You called?” Night Terror asked. “It's time to put your new bodies to the test,” Krang began, “Which is why we're sending you on another retrieval mission.” “And what're we retrieving?” one of the Purple Nightmares asked. “These artifacts.” Chrysalis showed them the monitor. “Is that really Clover the Clever's cloak?” the lone female Purple Nightmare asked, “And The Amulet of Aurora? And the Crown of Grover?” “All that and more.” Krang answered. “With these six artifacts we can power out Technodrome's portal to Dimension X.” Shredder explained. “Arm yourselves and move out.” Chrysalis ordered, as the Purple Nightmares took their leave. When nighttime came, the teachers had returned to their homes, and all the students went to their dorms at the school. Outside the school a module popped out of the ground, and out from it was the Purple Nightmare's armed with blasters. “Alright, we're here.” Night Terror began. “How're we going to get inside?” one Purple Nightmare asked. “It's gotta be magically locked.” another noted. “Queen Chrysalis gave me something to help with that,” Night Terror pulled out a black shard. “What's that?” “This shard was a fragment of her former throne. It's properties damper and cancels all magic outside of Changeling magic.” Night Terror explained before putting it to the front door's lock causing the magical lock to break allowing them to slip inside. The gang walked through the dark halls of the school, as Night Terror was feeling nostalgic, “This takes me back to my school days. Until I flunked out.” he chuckled. “You gotta give the princess credit, she sure knows how to design a school.” one of the gang ponies said. “So where can we find the artifacts?” another member asked. “No doubt they're in Twilight's office.” Night Terror said, as they continued down the hall, before stopping before her office. After unlocking it they opened the door and looked inside, “It's clear.” Night Terror said, as they entered. “Where could those artifacts be?” a Purple Nightmare asked. “Search the office.” Night Terror ordered, as they searched around while making sure not to leave too big a mess. The female Purple Nightmare looked in a closet and found a chest, “Boss, I think I found them.” They looked over as she pulled the chest out of the closet. Night Terror put the Changeling throne shard to the chest undoing a magical lock surrounding it. They opened the chest and saw the six artifacts inside, “Jackpot.” Night Terror said. “Hey, look at me,” one of the Purple Nightmares grabbed the crown, “I'm King Grover of Griffinstone! Give me all your bits!” he laughed. Another member dawned the helmet, “I'm Yksler the Yak Warrior! Smash-smash-smash!” The girl Purple Nightmare dawned Clover's cloak, “Looking good, baby.” Another was looking at the seashell horn, “I wonder if it really works?” he was about to blow into it, only for Night Terror to snatch it away. “Are you insane?” he asked, before turning to the others trying on three of the artifacts, “And will you three quit fooling around! We wanna get out of here without causing a scene.” So they stopped with their playing around and placed the artifacts in a sack, “Back to the module.” Night Terror instructed, as they were about to head back only for the light in Twilight's office to turn on. The gang looked and saw Twilight, all her friends, the ninjas, mutants, and students surrounding the entrance, “Going somewhere... Night Terror?” Twilight asked in surprise, as the others got a look at him and his gang. “Dude, what happened to you?” Casey asked in shock. “What happened to all of them?” Gallus asked. “Looks like they got a little mutated.” Donnie noted. “Right you are,” Night Terror answered, “Now we're capable of doing so much more with these new bodies.” Cozy Glow noticed the open chest and gasped, “Headmare Twilight, they got the six artifacts!” “Return those artifacts now, Night Terror!” Twilight ordered. “Sorry, but we got orders from our masters. And we have no intention of failing. Waste 'em!” the Purple Nightmare's whipped out their blasters and opened fire. “Take cover!” Leo ordered the students who went for cover. “Booyakasha!” Mikey cheered, as they went into battle. The ninjas fought the gang ponies inside the office, as Twilight was flying around trying to keep some of her more personal items from being blasted to pieces, “No-no-no-no-no!” she pleaded. Rocksteady had Night Terror in sight, and let out a roar before tackling him out the office window that shattered. The two strong pony mutants plummeted into the moat surrounding the castle. “Not the window.” Twilight groaned. Night Terror and Rocksteady emerged from the water, and started wrestling onto dry land, “Give Rocksteady artifacts!” “Nothing doing.” Night Terror answered, as the two fought. The other Purple Nightmares escaped out the window, as the ninjas followed. They landed on the ground and fought, while the others headed outside. Bebop was zipping along on energy stream firing hip belt lasers, as the gang ponies dodged, only to get attacked by the turtles, “We need to get the artifacts from Night Terror.” Leo ordered. “I'm on it!” Mikey called, as he helped Rocksteady fight the head of the gang. Rocksteady fired a beam of magic from his horn knocking the sack out of Night Terror's hands, “The artifacts!” he tried to get them, only for Mikey to snatch the sack. “I got 'em!” Mikey called. “Not for long!” one Purple Nightmare used a pair of clubs to whack Mikey making him drop the sack. Before he could grab the sack, Casey flew in while launching exploding hockey pucks, “Goongala!” Rainbow flew in and snatched the sack only to be hit with a smoke bomb by another Purple Nightmare, “Bad move!” she called. Each of them tried to get the sack from the Purple Nightmare's until it landed in a nearby bush, “Get the sack!” Night Terror ordered one of the gang ponies, who retrieved it, “Now let's get out of here!” Night Terror blasted some trees causing them to almost fall on the heroes, had it not been for Twilight, April, Sunset, and Starlight to catch them before they could land on the others. They looked and saw their enemies enter the module that went back down the tunnel that overflowed with lava plugging it up, “No! They got away!” Pinkie cried. “And worse they got away with the artifacts.” Twilight sighed in failure. “Oh, no they didn't.” Cozy spoke, as she tugged over another sack. The group looked inside seeing the artifacts, “They're all here!” Rarity gasped with joy. “Yeah!” Bebop cheered, as he and Rocksteady high fived. “But if the artifacts are here, then what did they take back with them?” Applejack wondered. Back at the Technodrome, the Purple Nightmares stood before their masters, as Night Terror held out the sack, “Behold, Masters, the ancient artifacts.” he declared. “Well, open it.” Shredder ordered. Night Terror smirked, as he opened the sack, “Ta-dah!” the sack opened to reveal instead of the artifacts it was nothing but garbage. The sight of this made the three villains face hoof, while the Purple Nightmare's looked at what they brought back and became nervous. The three villains looked angry, as Chrysalis started using her magic to pelt the pony gang with the garbage. “You imbeciles! You numbskulls! You idiots!” She yelled, while pelting them, “We give you one job to bring us back the magical relics, and you give us garbage!” Shredder sighed, and spoke to Krang, “You can't find good help in any dimension.” Back at the school, the group was cheering for Cozy Glow, as Donnie spoke, “That was quick thinking switching the sacks out.” “Oh, yes. They had no idea.” Fugitoid agreed. “Though where did you get a sack of garbage at a time like this?” Keno wondered. “Just this mornings from over there.” Cozy motioned to a dumpster outside the school. “Clever,” Twilight admitted, “Though how did you even know to alert us that something was happening?” “Yeah, how?” Mikey asked suspiciously. “My gut instinct. I mean isn't that part of being a ninja?” she asked with a shrug. “True, and I'm glad your gut was right on this.” Leo replied. “Why were those creeps trying to steal these artifacts?” Shini asked. “Well, these are six of the most powerful artifacts in Equestria, all ranging from different creatures throughout history.” Starlight noted. “If they were combined you can only imagine what they'd try to do with them.” Cozy added. “They must've figured the magic in the artifacts combined could power their transmat portal.” Twilight realized. “Well, we stopped them from doing that for now.” Karai said. “But we still have to stop them.” Sunset Shimmer said. “We now know the Technodrome is far underground close enough to the core. That is what you said, right, Leonardo?” Fugitoid asked. “Correct. Which means getting to them on their base isn't going to be easy.” “We'll find a way to stop them, somehow.” Twilight assured him, before addressing he students, “All of you go on back to bed, while we handle things.” As the ponies and their allies started cleaning up Twilight's office, Leo looked out the broken window, “Everything ok, Leo?” Twilight asked. “Just thinking. We know where they are. They're so close and yet so far.” “I know, but they can't stay underground forever.” Twilight reminded him, “We just need to wait for when the time comes.” Leo smiled at her, “You're right. Until then we just have to keep them from powering their portal.” Twilight nodded, as they got back to helping the others clean up the office. Cozy had placed the six artifacts back in the chest and pushed it in the closet, “All the artifacts are safe and sound, Headmare Twilight.” “Thanks, Cozy. And once again good job in getting them back.” Twilight thanked her followed by the others. Mikey remained silent, until Raph slapped the back of his head. Mikey growled at Raph before speaking to Cozy in a dry tone, “Yeah. Congrats.” “Oh, no thanks are necessary. I was just doing what any pony would do.” Cozy smiled brightly before flying off. When she was out of the room, Leo, Raph, and Donnie, scowled at Mikey, “What is wrong with you, Mikey?” Leo asked. “What do you mean what's wrong with me?” the youngest turtle asked in outrage. “Is it so hard to thank some pony with your full heart?” Donnie asked. “Yeah, why don't you give the kid a break?” Raph added. Mikey frowned, “I have nothing to say about that!” he walked out of the room much to everyone's surprise. “Wow. Normally Mikey would be so happy over a victory.” Pinkie said. “Will he be ok?” Fluttershy asked. “Let him sleep it off, he'll be better in the morning.” Raph said, as they all left the office as well.