//------------------------------// // the ending of the end rewrite part 1 // Story: Season 9 finale rewrite // by writing dragon //------------------------------// Grogar walks into the hideout where the four villains have been hiding for quite some time. The water runs through the cavern as he jumps from rock to rock. The cave was quiet and calm the only sounds the dripping of the water as it fell from the roof in the small puddles and river. That and the echo of Grogar’s hoofs landing on the rocks. “Today is princess twilight’s coronation and we are going to ruin it with this artifact.” The bleu goat said while holding up a pink gem encased in gold. “But for us to succeed you must work together.” “Oh, we’re way ahead of you Grogar.” Queen Chrysalis said. Turning her head 180 degrees and spitting a green sticky substance. Suddenly Tirek breaks through the wall and Cozy Glow fly’s in and destroys the artifact that Grogar held in his magic grasp. Then they floated Grogar’s bell in front of his face “That’s right we ticked you and now, we have all the magic in the bell.” Cozy gloated. “Hahahahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha.” suddenly Grogar started laughing. “You fools! Did you really think it would be that easy? I have known from the very start you stole my bell; I can always sense its presence. That fool Gusty once used the bell on me. Did you really think I wouldn’t set measures to make sure that wouldn’t happen again? So, when you were off enjoying the ponies sun holiday I placed a magical curse on the bell in case anyone uses it but is not me.” Grogar stated blasting the bell with a magical blast activating it and forcing an electric shock to be sent to Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Queen Chrysalis. As they screamed in pain and all fell to the ground and reverting to their regular forms. “Now bow down to me and do exactly as I say. Or I will continue to electrocute you until you do.” He ordered the three villains. “We submit mighty Grogar,” Tirek stated bowing his head. While the others did the same. “Now that I have, your complete obedience you will be very useful for my plans,” Grogar stated. “Today I will reclaim my throne as emperor of Equestria!” he declared. Meanwhile, in Canterlot, Twilight is sitting on the throne and preparing for her coronation. “So worried about taking the throne yet?” Spike asked. “No, I have never been more ready for anything in my life.” Twilight comforted him. Then suddenly spike burped up a letter. Confused twilight looked at princess Celestia and Luna, who gave a confused look back. “I thought only the princesses send letters through Spike.” She stated. “We should be the only ones capable of doing so.” Stated Celestia. Twilight carefully unrolled the letter and read it out loud. “Dear Twilight, congratulations on becoming the ruler of Equestria you really deserve the promotion. Sadly, we regret to inform you that you are not going to rule it for much longer. As we are going to conquer every bit of land in your kingdom. Regards, Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Queen Chrysalis.” “What, but Tirek and Cozy Glow should be in Tartarus and Queen Chrysalis hasn’t been seen since Starlight defeated her,” Spike stated. “This doesn’t make sense.” Twilight said “They couldn’t have made it out of Tartarus by themselves. Someone very powerful has to have pulled them out, and why would they write a letter it’s not their style to reveal their coming before they attack. They usually like to attack us by surprise?” “Well, we should consider that later, right now we need to find out if they are really going to attack and where they're coming from,” Celestia said. “Right, we have to warn every pony, spike writes a letter,” Twilight said. “Tell all of our friends to come to Canterlot. Queen Chrysalis will probably go after starlight so tell her to prepare. We’ll have the pillars station around the city and the royal guard stationed inside.” Twilight and her friends have all gathered in the throne room of the castle. “So, Twilight have you heard something,” Applejack asked impatiently. They had been there for quite some time but heard nothing of the villain's attack. “Are you sure they're going to attack, maybe the letter was just a prank.” “No, we checked Tartarus and Cozy Glow and Tirek are gone,” Twilight stated. “We’re sure they're walking free and besides only the princesses can send letters through Spike. It must have been someone powerful with magic to do that. So, it’s either them or Discord.” All ponies in the room turned their gaze to the Draconequus in the corner resting in a bed with sunglasses on. “Well, I can ensure you this time it wasn’t me. I was honestly looking forward to a good battle, I’m sure it would have been quite a spectacle.” Discord said. “But I agree with apples here I’m getting bored.” He said with a deep yawn. “Also, I think they have already been doing some work,” Twilight explained. “I’m sure you have all already noticed the way ponies are acting. Hiding in their homes, accusing other ponies of horrible things. I think they might be behind these things it can’t be a coincidence that this is all happening at ones.” Suddenly a royal guard came rushing through the doors. “Your majesties the villains have been sited walking to Canterlot.” The guard reported. Everyone in the room got a serious expression on their face, except discord who was now smiling and had lost his bored expression. Meanwhile, outside of Canterlot, three villains were walking up to the city. The pillars were standing ready to fight. When twilight and the rest teleported beside them. “That’s probably them, right?” Starswirl asked. Looking at the trio that was solely walking towards them.” “It should be.” twilight said, “But they look different.” “Looks like someone got a redesign.” Discord stated. The trio of villains looked a lot more menacing Tirek was a lot bigger Cozy Glow had transformed into an alicorn and Queen Chrysalis was greener and had much bigger wings. “How is that possible, there’s no way they could have done that on their own,” Twilight exclaimed. “And why all attack the same place, if I knew that I would have called starlight glimmer as well.” With that, the three villains suddenly collectively fired a blast. Meanwhile, starlight glimmer had led all the students to safety and was keeping a lookout for Chrysalis. When she noticed a bleu goat walking towards the school. ‘is that chrysalis in disguise?’ starlight thought ‘that’s a horrible disguise if it is her.’ Starlight then teleported in front of Grogar. “Not a step further Chrysalis.” “Chrysalis, hah don’t confuse me with that bug,” Grogar stated. “I am much more than that I am, Grogar.” “Who? Never heard of you” starlight retorted “Really, you too all you ponies have forgotten who I am.” Grogar said annoyed “No matter, you will remember who I am.” Then Grogar grabbed Starlight in a magical grasp. With a shocked expression, she struggled in Grogar’s magic. “You’re definitely more powerful then Chrysalis.” Starlight observed. Then with a magical burst of aura, she broke free off his grasp and blasted him with magic. Grogar dodged the blast and retaliated with his own. Where starlight teleported away just before it hit her. The blast hit the side of the school blowing up a part of the wall. “Hey, you are going to pay for that wall.” Starlight said lifting the crumbled pieces in her magic field and throwing them at Grogar. Grogar jumped out of the way of a few of the rocks but was eventually hit. “You will regret that.” He stated as he used his magic to immobilize Starlight’s hooves. Starlight used her magic to levitate herself from the ground and blasted Grogar with another magical blast. Which Grogar stopped with a magical shield. “Is that all you can do you old goat.” Starlight boasted still floating in the air “Hmmm, interesting flight using levitation that is a new one, you’re stronger than I suspected.” Grogar complimented. “But not strong enough.” Then Grogar used his magic to cast a weird circle with ancient text on the ground. The earth beneath Starlight’s feet began to break and weird black lightning came out of it. The black lightning shot from the ground and hit starlight in the air and maid her fall to the ground in pain. “Yes, your magic will be quite useful to me,” Grogar said and lifted his bell and cast the spell. The bell then sucked up all of Starlight’s magic. Then Grogar just walked away using a teleportation gate leaving a weakened Starlight behind. Meanwhile, the mane 6, pillars, Celestia, Luna, and discord were hiding behind a shield that Twilight, Starswirl, Celestia, and Luna created. Holding back the magical blast from the three villains. “Hah, do you really think your weak shields will be able to stop us.” gloated Chrysalis. “We have more power now then all of you.” “Your strength will not be enough to defeat all off us.” Star Swirl declared “Not when we work together.” With that, both sides charged at one another. Flash Mangus, Somnabula, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy charged Cozy Glow. Rockhoof, Mage Meadowbrook, Applejack, Pinkie, and Luna charged Tirek and Mistmane, Star Swirl, Rarity, Twilight, and Celestia charged Queen Chrysalis. Cozy Glow was not fast enough to outspeed the 4 flyers, but she did have magic and with it, she continuously tried to blast the pegasi. Eventually, she was able to hit Somnabula who was knocked out of the sky away from the battle. Rainbow Dash was able to close the distance and take Cozy down to the ground, where Flash Magnus helps to keep her down. “Oh, be careful not to hurt her too much,” Fluttershy said compassionately. “Fluttershy, come help us detain her,” Dash said a little annoyed that her friend was just standing at the side-lines. Meanwhile, Tirek was having trouble trying to keep the 4 earth ponies and alicorn away. Applejack had jumped up and kicked him in the face making him lose one of his teeth. He then proceeded to try and blast Applejack with magic, luckily Applejack was fast enough to dodge his attacks. Rockhoof was trying to hit him with his shovel but when he hit his leg the shovel broke. Tirek than hit him away sending him flying. Pinkie was wearing a mustache and shooting him with her confetti cannon. Which did not do anything except annoying Tirek? Luna however was his biggest concern as he countered one of her blasts with his own, making their magic connect in the air and crackle with power. With all of this happening at ones Tirek was having trouble trying to keep up and was on the constant defense. “You can’t keep this up Tirek just yield,” Luna said. “You think this is enough to stop me, I can take anything you throw at me.” Said Tirek with disguised confidence. Then Mage Meadowbrook threw a potion in Tirek’s face making him dizzy. At that point, Applejack lassoed Tirek’s feet and with the help of Rockhoof made his trip. Chrysalis was at the same time holding back a blast from Celestia “Ha, this reminds me of when I defeated you last time.” Chrysalis gloated. “Well, this time I have help.” Celestia declared as twilight and star swirl assisted Celestia with their own blasts of magic. The balance shifted and Chrysalis was pushed back by their power. With the magic eventually hitting Chrysalis in the face. Chrysalis then blasted the ground with her magic making dust and earth fly everywhere. When the dust settled there were suddenly two Twilights. “Oh no, not this old trope.” Discord said from the side-lines who had been sitting there eating popcorn the whole time. “You know you could do something more than just sit there.” One of the Twilight’s said. “Hey, hey, I’m doing something very important cheering you on.” Discord said holding up an Equestria’s flag and then spawning a bunch of buffalo cheerleaders. “Besides now we know that you’re the real twilight because I can only annoy the real Twilight like that.” “You annoying Draconequus.” The other Twilight said before being hit by a blast by Celestia and Starswirl and rarity raping her up in a bow. That Mistmane enchanted so she wouldn’t be able to get out of it. “See I’m very helpful.” Discord said while Chrysalis turned back in her regular form, everyone just rolled their eyes at that. ‘What a bunch of useless fools.’ Grogar thought. ‘Even after all that time they still have not learned to work together. Oh well, I guess I will help them out.’ Underneath the three detained villains suddenly appeared more casting circles with weird ancient symbols. “What is that,” Twilight said in surprise. ‘How is that possible.’ Thought Discord. With a very sudden burst of strength, the three villains broke free from there binds. Cozy Glow threw all the pegasi off her, Tirek broke the rope and when Rockhoof tried to kick him he punched him away sending him flying even further than last time. Then Applejack tried to do the same but was blasted by magic. Chrysalis broke free from the ribbon and with a shockwave blasted Rarity, Mistmane and Celestia away. All this chaos created a large amount of dust and debris making it impossible for anyone to see each other. “Twilight I can’t see you.” Said Star swirl. Suddenly he saw two yellow eyes in the dust. “Who are you?” “Oh, out of everyone here, I was certain you would remember me,” Grogar said rising his bell and casting its spell. Meanwhile Twilight was also struggling to find her friends saw the three villains coming towards them. As they prepared a collective blast twilight ripped out a part of the ground using it as a shield. “Can’t hold it.” Then twilight saw a white alicorn with a flowing mane. Celestia came out of the fog assisting twilight in her fight. While twilights friends, also stepped out of the fog and charged at the three villains. Meanwhile, in a different area of the fog, the pillars and Luna could not make out where their enemy was. “Show yourself, you, coward,” Luna ordered. “Haha hahaha.” In response, there was only a laugh, and then the sound of a bell. And another one of the pillars fell to the ground. “Sweet Celestia, Discord! Help.” Twilight said. “Alright, alright hold your horses.” Replied Discord snapping his fingers and making a giant hairdryer appear blowing away all the dust. He then proceeded to snap his fingers and trap all three villains in cotton candy. But when the dust settled only the mane 6 and Celestia were still standing. But instead of three villains, there were four. “Another one, who are you?” Twilight asked. “I am getting tired of introducing myself, I am the first emperor of Equestria, the father of monsters. I am Grogar.” “Grogar? I remember that name. The one from the ancient legend.” “Yes, finally someone who knows, and now I’m back to take what is rightfully mine. But I am quite impressed with you princess Twilight Sparkle, I presume you are the one getting this ragtag group of characters together. Frankly, I have not had a real fight of wits in centuries. So, let us make this more interesting. I will retreat for now, but I will come back and when I do, we will fight for the throne of Equestria. If you win, I will leave your country alone forever, but if I win, I will rain and will take Equestria into a new epoch of darkness. One that will stay till the end of time, until we meet again Twilight Sparkle.” With that Grogar opens a teleportation gate and walked through with the other villains following him close behind. “Oh no, quickly help the Pillars and Luna up,” Twilight said. All of them teleported back inside the throne room of Canterlot castle. “Okay, can someone explain to me what just happened,” Applejack asked. “Who’s that Grogar guy and where did he come from.” To everyone’s surprise, it was Starswirl who answered. “Grogar the first threat Equestria ever faced. They called him the father of monsters and the first emperor of Equestria.” “I recognize him from ancient legends I thought he was a myth,” Twilight said. “On the contrary dear Twilight, he faded to legend because we tried to forget he ever existed in the first place. My teacher Gusty the great barely talked of him. Like she was scared to tell me who he was. Not even I know a lot about him. Past for what the legends say and how my teacher managed to banish him.” “So, the only one who knows who he was has been gone for over a thousand years”. “Well, actually.” Suddenly a voice said through the halls. It was discord who spoke up “I may not look it, but I am far older than any of you I was alive when Grogar took over Equestria. In fact, we were somewhat acquaintances. Both spirits I the spirit of chaos he was the spirit of destruction.” “Grogar came to the land that would become Equestria long, long ago. In fact, it would be more accurate to call it the old Equestria it was before all of your ponies moved here because of the wendigoes. There weren’t even any tribe’s jet just a bunch of farms and pastures, Grogar united the ponies under his tyrannical rule, that is when I first crossed paths with him. At the time I was moving across the land to spread my chaos, I went from place to place staying a while before growing bored and moving on to another place.” Discord’s voice was filled with guilt when he said that. “Of course, that was before I was reformed, anyway I was drowned to this land because of the strong magical presence that Grogar had. He allowed me to spread my chaos, but I quickly grew bored. I don’t find it fun just to destroy, I enjoy creating chaos but that’s not what he wanted so I left.” “Then you didn’t see Grogar’s defeat,” Twilight said sadly. “Well I do know one other thing, Grogar is the reason you have magic in the first place.” Everyone in the room including the pillars and the princesses looked shocked. “What but, how.” A very confused Rainbow dash asked. “Grogar uses ancient magic, it’s different from the magic you use yours is controlled but less powerful. His is stronger but you need more power in magic to keep it under control. When you use ancient magic, it leaves a magical scar behind once these magical scars pile up, they fuse with any magical creatures they can find. Most of his magic went back to him but some fused with the ponies in the land, but when Gusty removed the bell from Grogar all the magic he had stored up exploded out. It was felt everywhere I was in a faraway land at the time and even I felt it. All that magic went directly into the ponies.” “So, that is why Equestria has magic and you knew that all this time and said nothing,” Twilight said with a bit of anger. “Well, no one ever asked, honestly have you never wondered why so many villains are drawn to your land especially if they can steal magic in some way. This is why, you have all the magic that was in that bell, and you can believe me when I say your land wasn’t the first place where he stole magic Equestria has mere magic than any other place in the world.” “So then Grogar is here to re-obtain his magic,” Celestia said explaining her conclusion, even though everyone already figured that out. “Well, we won’t let him.” Said pinkie pie. “Even if it was his he is a meanie and it would destroy our land to get rid of his magic now.” “But.” Applejack said cautiously. “Is that really right I mean if it is his shouldn’t we give it back.” “That is not a good idea.” Discord explained. “Grogar would not use his magic for good even if you gave it back. If you thought living in my chaos was bad, I can assure you what he does to the lands he comes by is a thousand times worse. His rampage caused the badlands, if you don’t want Equestria to look like that then we must win.” “Alright, but we have already lost many of our forces we will have to come up with a good counterattack.” Twilight started but was cut off by Discord. “No, Twilight you will not fight now.” “What but you said.” “I said we must win, Grogar will already have a strategy in mind to defeat all of you that is why he retreated to prepare his next move. It wouldn’t surprise me if he already knows everything about you, but he’s never seen me go all out. While I fight him you will escape and go to the crystal empire, there you must gather everyone that would want to fight with you.” “Wow, are you sure you’re Discord you seem a lot smarter, and more bolt since when do you fight.” Rainbow dash said bluntly. “Oh, Dashy you underestimate me you’ve just never seen me get serious.” Discord said his eyes glowing a dangerous red. “Because nothings ever been strong enough, well except you’re rainbow of course.” He said snapping his finger and making rainbows mane extend into a big rainbow going across the room. “Uhg, never mind you haven’t changed a bit,” Rainbow grumbled having trouble keeping balance with her now giant mane. Pinkie began to laugh at dash's struggles and soon everyone in the room joined in even Celestia let out a snicker. Grogar and the rest of the villains were back in the cave. Grogar was looking in his ball at the ponies in the throne room. He was deep in thought when Cozy Glow caught his attention by yelling “Hello, Grogar I asked a question!” “What is it now you insufferable brat.” “Why did we retreat we had the upper hand couldn’t we just have taken them out, and why did you take our magic away I was just getting used to my horn.” Cozy pouted. “If you think we were strong enough to take on discord you’re truly a fool.” “I have fought him myself ones,” Tirek stated across the cave. “He was an idiot easy to manipulate and easy to steal his magic.” “Ha, I watched your team up with him. The only reason you won was that you were so weak Discord did not think you were a threat. And then not moments later you underestimated the ponies and let them go.” Tirek looked mad at Grogar while chrysalis snickered. “That goes for you as well. All of you failed because you are too overconfident in, your abilities and underestimate your opponent. Just like I ones did, but that is the difference between us even now you still overestimate yourself and say that the ponies cheat, or that they are just lucky. Instead of facing the truth that these ponies are strong, admit that there your equal and then crush them never to underestimate them.” The three other villains all pondered that statement. “Anyway, why we retreated is simple the next spell I need to perform is difficult, and I’ll need more power, that is also why I took yours.” Grogar lifted the bell and used the spell on it, for it to release its magic into Grogar. As the bell released its magic Grogar began to grow larger both horns grew and out of them just above the first curl grew one more big spiked horn. His goat became a darker bleu and his eyebrows grew blacker as if Grogar was becoming younger again, even his eyes seemed to gleam a brighter yellow. When the transformation was complete Grogar glanced back at the orb on the table. His horns began to glow with yellow and black lightning as circles with ancient symbols began to appear around the globe. Grogar began chanting in old Ponisch as the orb became completely black. It began to crack and black smoke began to come out of the cracks. As the black smoke went to the center of the cave, they began to take shape. “Now you’ll see why they call me the father of monsters.”