“Alright, so you know why I’ve called you all back here, right?” Rainbow Dash asked the four other Element bearers sitting at the big round table.
“Mmhmm!” Pinkie Pie was munching on a box of cupcakes. “Twilight’s been captured by a duo of evil robots, and Equestria is about to be invaded under the direction of evil genius Flurry Heart!”
“Yep, that’s the gist of what I could figure out. What we need to do now is we need to gather everypony we can for an assault on the Crystal Empire! I'll make some calls, you all go to Ponyville and gather up everyone who can fight. We can’t let those machines get away with this!” Rainbow bared her teeth and shook her hoof at the air in a comical fashion.
“These robots have a leader, right?” Fluttershy asked meekly. “Couldn’t we just negotiate with whoever they are?”
“Yeah, I’m actually with Fluttershy on this one. Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to talk to somepony rather than to fight an army?” Applejack added.
“Negotiation? Talking? Were you even listening to a word I said?!” Rainbow said. “We don’t need negotiation, we need decisive action! And this is about as decisive an action as we can get!”
“Darling, in all honesty, what you’re suggesting sounds like a terrible plan,” Rarity said.
“I don't care! They've taken Twilight, and I will make them pay her weight in robot blood!”
Former princesses Celestia and Luna lay on their beds in a small hotel room in one of the fanciest hotels in Manehattan, completely bored out of their skulls. They had tried everything from traveling around the world to building a rocketship to travel to other planets to running a carrot dog stand in the middle of the city, all of which ended with something large being set on fire. Celestia sighed.
“Luna, do you feel like we made a mistake when we abdicated our thrones?” she asked.
“What do you mean, Sister?”
“I know that there is a lot to do in this realm, but it still feels like there’s just nothing for us here,” Celestia said. “Whenever we were on our thrones, there was always something to do, even if it was boring, annoying, or unpleasant. But nowadays…”
Luna sighed. “Perhaps you are right.”
Suddenly, the phone on Celestia’s bedside table began to ring. She immediately picked up the receiver. “Hello?”
“...Twilight’s been what now?!”
Celestia groaned in exasperation, “She’s only been in power for seven days! How did this-”
“...Alright, where do you want me to go?”
“...I’ll be there as soon as I can.” Celestia hung up the phone.
“Who was that on the phone, sister?” Luna asked.
“It was Rainbow Dash, apparently Twilight’s been-” Celestia was interrupted when suddenly, the phone next to Luna began to ring.
“Pardon me, sister.” Luna picked up the receiver. “Ahoy-hoy?”
“...Twilight has been what now?”
“...But she has only been in power for seven days! How-”
“...I will be there with Celestia as soon as I can.” Luna hung up her phone. “It was-”
“I think I can guess who it was. Come on Luna, we have a world to save!” Celestia spread her wings and took off, ignoring the fact that there was a roof above her which now had an alicorn-shaped hole in it. Luna soon followed after her, leaving two alicorn-shaped holes in the ceiling.
Meanwhile, back in the now fully lit throne room of the Crystal Empire, Twilight Sparkle, now free from her cage, and Flurry Heart were playing Battleship.
“G5!” Twilight said confidently.
“Miss,” Flurry replied.
“What? How? Every position I’ve called out has been a miss!”
“Just bad luck I guess.” On her side of the board, Flurry moved her ships around as discreetly as she could, turning the position G5 from a hit into a miss. She had moved her ships a lot over the course of the game.
Suddenly, a swirling portal opened up in the middle of the room, pouring out at least twenty alicorns, all with coats as black as coal, manes as red as fire, and hourglasses for their cutie marks. In front of them was another, more senior looking alicorn, sky blue and dressed in full mail armor engraved with an hourglass symbol about where his cutie mark would be.
“Oh horsefeathers, it’s the time cops!” Flurry said.
“The who now?”
“Halt, Flurry Heart!” the alicorn in front said, brandishing his glowing teal sword as he flipped his purple mane, “I am Commander Spatium of the Kairos Organization! In the name of the stability of the space-time continuum, I order you to stand down immediately and allow us to take you into custody!”
Flurry smirked arrogantly. “Make me.”
Spatium’s line of warriors stepped back, and waves of hexagons settled into fixed spaces in front of them, becoming platforms standing still in the air. They sprinted forth, leaping onto the platforms and gaining every single possible vantage point above Flurry. Whenever she blasted one warrior and sent them crashing to the ground on their backs, another one swiftly took their place. Within seconds, a contingent of alicorn soldiers dropped down to the ground around Flurry, surrounding her at swordpoint. In response, she simply conjured a wind storm centered around herself, sending them and their swords flying around the room like ragdolls. Some of them were impaled by their own weapons as they collided with the walls. As the wind dissipated, and most of Spatium's legion neglected to get up, she stole one of the fallen warriors' blades and met Spatium, sword held out in front of her.
“Not bad,” he said. “But this will not be that easy.” Time began to slow down as Spatium charged up a swing of his weapon. Flurry was prepared for that, however, and lit up her horn and parried the attack as fast as if she were in real time. Spatium just stared blankly at her, not knowing what to do next.
“Did you think you were the only one here able to manipulate time?” Flurry asked condescendingly. “That’s almost cute. En garde!”
Sparks flew in the air as the two combatants clashed their swords fiercely, Flurry Heart briefly gaining the upper hand in the duel. Just as Spatium was about to swing for Flurry’s neck, she teleported behind him and slashed him across his side, slicing right through his armor and leaving a gaping wound. Spatium howled in agony and crumpled to the floor, defeated.
“Well well well, look what we have here.” Flurry laughed like a madmare at her victory, at least until Spatium began to fall up in reverse, his wound closing before her eyes as he moonwalked behind her, sword now pointed at her back.
Spatium chuckled. “You were saying?” His victory was short lived, however, as Flurry lit up her horn and Spatium began to walk forwards and fall to the ground again, wound reappearing on his side as he screamed in pain anew. “Okay, okay, you win!” He, along with his contingent of soldiers, shakily rose to their feet, only half of them still with their swords, and filed back into the portal from where they came. “But mark my words, Flurry Heart, this will not be the last time we meet.”
“Yeah yeah, whatever.” Flurry flew back to the Battleship board and pensively stroked her chin as Twilight looked on in horror.