It was all a blur how he had gotten there... his fellow Rangers sending him away in a pod... him watching as they were cut apart and slaughtered right before his very eyes... his mother watching him leave with tears in her eyes as she whispered one thing: "Please find help, JJ. We need you. More than you'll ever know..."
The tears in his own eyes were all too real as he watched everything he knew fade away, the colors of the multiverse swallowing him up as he flew through the infinite realm of colors, his destination unknown...
His pod crashed into the ground as he smacked his head, hanging on as he felt the pod slide to a stop... he slowly got out, looking around at the strange new world... one thought going through his head at that moment: 'Where am I...?'
A girl with red and yellow hair that looked like it was aflame sat bolt upright in her bed, hyperventilating slightly with her pale skin dripping with sweat. Her cyan eyes darted around quickly as she saw her bedroom again before she relaxed and facepalmed, muttering to herself, "Oh man... those dreams are getting more and more vivid by the day..." She wiped the sweat off her face and frowned, muttering more, "I wonder if Pinkie sensed anything..." She knew her pink colored friend had been having major shudders, meaning a doozy was coming, but she wasn't sure what the doozy would be.
She snatched up her phone and dialed a number, putting the phone to her ear and whispering softly as she listened to the ringtone, "Come on, Pinkie, pick up..."
The ever so chipper voice of her pink-clad friend suddenly picked up. "Hello?"
Sunset sighed in relief as she spoke, "Pinkie, it's Sunset. Listen, I gotta ask you an important question. Has your Pinkie Sense picked up on anyone entering our world?"
"Uh... my left eye blinked. That means there's a new boy in town. But no girls, and I've been shuddering and shaking like crazy still, so the new guy isn't the doozy." Pinkie explained to Sunset as a little shivering was heard.
Sunset sighed softly, nodding a little. "Okay, thanks. I just ask because... my latest dream was showing that weird boy again... and he has some family in another world..."
"Yeah, I was wondering what else my Pinkie Sense was picking up. Ooh, ooh! Do you think there will be others coming?" Pinkie asked in excitement.
Sunset bit her lip, thinking about her vision as Drakkon's words echoed in her mind:
"They could have been gods..."
She shuddered slightly herself before responding to Pinkie, "As long as they're good guys, I won't complain."
Pinkie was quiet for a moment before she spoke again: "Hmm... okey dokey lokie! Now I'd better get to sleep before I start shuddering again. Did you know I actually shudder in my sleep sometimes when I have a massive doozy? True story."
"You don't say," Sunset smirked lightly, knowing that her best friend was speaking the truth. Sunset herself had seen Pinkie twitch in her sleep when her Pinkie Sense went off. "Well, sleep tight, Pinkie."
"Will do! Night, Sunset!" Pinkie hung up afterwards.
Sunset hung up and sighed in thought, looking at the ceiling. 'I wonder if Princess Twilight and the group found anything in Equestria...?'
~ MLP ~
Meanwhile across dimensions, in the pony-filled world of Equestria, the young lavender alicorn was looking through every book, every scroll, everything to find what she could on everything that was going on. She tossed books around, muttering to herself, "No... no... nope... no... no..." She tossed one more book aside and groaned, "UGH!! There is NOTHING in here!! Nothing about wars or multi-colored heroes or anything!" She face-planted into a pile of scrolls and snorted angrily.
The lavender unicorn who was Twilight's protege, Starlight, levitated some books in her aura, seeing a scroll that piqued her interest as she opened it and started reading an entry from it: 'Through my studies of ancient pony magic, none were more interesting than the creations known as the Power Coins.' She blinked and looked at Twilight, curiously asking, "What are Power Coins?"
Twilight perked up and zipped over, exclaiming quickly, "Power Coins?! You found something on them?!"
Starlight nodded and showed Twilight the scroll, which was entitled The Legend of the Power Coins by Moondancer.
Twilight gasped and zoomed to her desk, writing a quick message before teleporting it away, muttering lightly, "I can't believe I forgot about Moondancer's dissertation! She sent me a copy a long time ago, but I never thought it might be relevant until now!" She grinned happily, a toy squeak coming from her for some odd reason before she looked at Starlight. "Keep reading, Starlight! What else does it say?"
Starlight looked over and kept reading the dissertation:
'Using the powers of the Elements of Harmony, the Coins were created by a being known as Zordon, their original intent to be used for good and justice in the multiverse. Through my research of these Power Coins, there is a theory I have read on that Starswirl himself proposed many moons ago. If two Power Coins are joined together forcefully, the unstable energy from the combination could cause a more unified power, but as a result, would also minimize a person's lifespan substantially, no matter if broken or not. The union of two Coins would also cause a disharmonious upset in the balance of harmony in the Coins, creating darker energy that would grant the user stronger powers than one individual Coin. If fused correctly, they can forge a union with equal power to the Elements of Harmony combined.'
Spike had flown in as Starlight was reading the dissertation, frowning as he set a tray of tea down for the group and he asked, "So basically like Sunset using the amulet for good on one hoof and Sci-Twi using it for the wrong reasons on the other hoof?"
Starlight nodded as she replied, "Bingo." She rolled up the scroll and looked at the others. "Maybe this guy in white Sunset's been seeing in her dreams has a Coin that united all the previous Coins in the right way and Drakkon or whoever he is has managed the fusion in a darker way."
Twilight nodded and wrote down the information, frowning silently as she looked at Starlight, asking a question, "Did Sunburst come up with anything else that was useful?"
Starlight looked over and nodded, opening a scroll with her magic and reading the letter therein:
"Dear Starlight and Twilight,
I have gotten in contact with Starswirl and learned more about his theory. To put it simply, the alchemy and the math behind it all would take a thousand moons to understand, but it's simple in its own right. If one had interrupted the transfer of powers through to another, the power would transfer to them instead, causing the fusion to happen improperly and cause disharmony in both powers. I think there might be a defusion spell for this, but the power needed for the process would be immeasurable, most likely needing the powers of all the alicorns and those with enough power to stand by their side to break the powers into two once more. But I don't know the spell needed for it. That's the only problem. Let me know if you find something to help.
- Sunburst"
Starlight looked at Twilight and frowned, a single question coming out of her mouth: "Do you think there might be something here?"
Spike looked at all the myriad of books and looked at the girls, speaking calmly: "Only time will tell."
~ MLP ~
The next morning at Canterlot High, Sunset met up with the rest of the Humane Seven and spoke first: "Anything on the news this morning?"
Sci-Twi nodded and pulled up a news report as she answered Sunset's question, "Someone found a crashed pod near the baseball field. No one seemed to be inside it, but it was clear that someone or something was there."
"I still say it's someone because my eye blinked," Pinkie responded, shivering and shaking slightly before stopping.
"I know I had a hard time getting the animals back to sleep last night after that crash. Oh, the poor little creatures were so frightened," Fluttershy said out of concern.
"Yep. Apple Bloom and I had to rustle up the critters at the farm too," Applejack agreed. "That crash was so loud it sounded like a backfiring tractor engine."
Rainbow scoffed lightly. "You girls think you all heard something weird? I practically saw something in the sky last night when I was stargazing. Rainbow colored blur, heading at about Mach 7 through the air. It had to be that pod."
"Perhaps," Rarity agreed, "but who could have been inside the pod? For all we know, it could have been an alien or an Equestrian from another dimension."
Suddenly, a male voice spoke up behind the group: "Hey, sorry if I'm interrupting something, but I need some help."
The girls looked around to see a handsome young man looking at them with a smile. His shaggy brown hair fell into his face perfectly, his blue eyes sparkled like aquamarines, and his fashion sense was impeccable as well; he wore a black leather jacket, a tye dye shirt in a basic white with multiple colors spread out in a bunch of large dots, blue jeans that were slightly worn out at the knees, white socks that ducked under his jeans slightly, and red tennis shoes that looked shined to perfection.
"Oh my..." Rarity blushed at the sight of him.
"Whoa..." Rainbow was wide-eyed in surprise.
"Oh my goodness," Fluttershy put a hand to her mouth, her cheeks a light red.
Sunset looked at the boy and spoke to him, "Uh, yeah. No problem." She offered him a kind smile.
"Thanks," he grinned back, extending a hand to her. "I'm JJ Oliver."
She took his hand and shook it, replying: "I'm Sunset Shimmer." Suddenly, her magic kicked in, causing her eyes to turn white as she looked into his past.
He was looking at a bloodied battleground, tears flowing down his face, his heart breaking at the sight of his family and friends dead, but his resolve was absolute. He had to find help.
He closed the door to the pod and piloted it away from the dimension, crash landing in Sunset's world. "Where am I...?"
Sunset reflexively pulled her hand back as her eyes returned to normal and she shook her head to rid her mind of the awful images.
"Whoa, you okay?" JJ asked her out of concern.
Sunset blinked slightly and looked at the others meaningfully, replying to JJ. "I'm... fine." All the while, her mind was racing, but managed to form a tangible thought:
'Is JJ the one who's fighting for good? As that... white and multicolored figure?'