//------------------------------// // Prolouge: Recap Part 1 // Story: Spiders and Loyalty: Deadly Vengence // by Alvaxerox //------------------------------// The magic of friendship has always been... And always will be... The most powerful magic of all. For years, many creatures have been trying to destroy it for years. Some see it as poison, a weakness and for fools. Time after time, each villain has been defeated by Twilight Sparkle, the princess of friendship and her friends, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Applejack. But there are those who choose to redeem themselves thanks to their influence in friendship. Discord, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Stygian and the changelings. But the new threat of evil has 3 faces now. You see, 4 individuals has been chosen by the ancient emperor Grogar. They have been beaten by Twilight and their friends, families and allies multiple times. The first of them, was the queen of the changelings herself... Chrysalis, who took over Princess Cadence's form and invaded Canterlot, but because of Twilight's suspicions, and saving her former foalsitter, Cadence and Shining Armor used their power of true love to banish Chrysalis and her army away from Canterlot. Years later when Twilight became the princess of friendship, Chrysalis returned and she planned a secret ambush and she and her changelings took over Equestria and hid their forms as they conquer everything. Starlight Glimmer, Trixie Lulamoon, Discord and the reformed changeling Thorax banded together to save everypony that Chrysalis captured. And thanks to Starlight, Thorax and the changelings rebelled against Chrysalis but giving her love, which bloomed them into a new brand of changelings. Defeated and alone, Starlight offered her hoof in friendship to Chrysalis but she refused, informing Starlight that one day, she will return for revenge against the unicorn. The second one, an evil unicorn with a black heart. King Sombra. He ruled a kingdom known as the Crystal Empire. And enslaved the crystal ponies. Until Princess Celestia and Princess Luna turned him into shadow and banished him. Unfortunately, the Crystal Empire payed the price as well, and got shrouded in everlasting snow. A thousand years later, the Crystal Empire returned, but an artifact that protects the crystal ponies, the crystal heart, was missing. Twilight's brother Shining Armor and his wife Princess Cadence created a fake heart to keep the crystal ponies full of hope. But... Not only did the Crystal Empire returned... King Sombra returned as well. Cadence tried to hold the barrier until the crystal heart was found again, but Shining Armor's horn was block with dark crystal specks. Twilight and her dragon friend Spike went searching for the heart as Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity keep the crystal ponies happy. They found it, but so did Sombra, and he trapped Twilight in his magic-canceling dark crystals. Spike brought the crystal heart back but Sombra was on his tail, and tried to stop Spike. Luckily Cadence swooped in and saved Spike and the crystal heart before Sombra could kill him. And with the crystal ponies help. King Sombra was finally destroyed. The third, was the power hungry centaur. Lord Tirek. He came to Equestria with his brother, Scorpan, to steal equestrian magic and use it to become unstoppable. But then Scorpan had a change of heart, and appreciated Equestria's ways of friendship, and pleaded with his brother that they forget the plan and live in peace. But Tirek refused, knowing his brother was weak thanks to friendship. Having no choice, Scorpan ratted his and Tirek's plan to Princess Celestia and Luna, and that he longer wanted part of it. Tirek was locked up in Tartarus, and Scorpan left Equestria, back to his homeland. A thousand years later, Tirek escaped Tartarus when the guard dog Cerberus left his post. He has been gaining his powers back, by stealing one pony's magic at a time. Until Celestia had an idea to use Discord to find Tirek and bring him back to Tartarus. But Tirek took advantage of Discord's reformity, and manipulated him into joining him into making him grow strong and in return, he can spead some chaos in Tirek's amusement. Discord joined forces with Tirek and betrayed everypony. Although Tirek is getting stronger, Celestia, Luna and Cadence had a new. If Tirek gains their alicorn magic, he's been the most power creature in Equestria, no one will ever stop him. Their plan is to get rid of their magic and place it in Twilight. Tirek doesn't know that there is a forth alicorn princess. So its the perfect plan. Later, Tirek ambushed the castle, but when he found out that the princesses got rid of their magic, he banished them to Tartarus. To keep Discord at his side, Tirek gave him a medallion that was given to him by Scorpan as part of his loyalty. But then Tirek saw a window monolinth of Twilight, and learned that she is the fourth princess. So Discord hatched up a plan. he cages Twilight's friends and Tirek drained them of their magic. But then, hoping they will rule Equestria together, Tirek double-crossed Discord and drained him of his chaos magic and left to go hunt down Twilight. While Twilight was learning to use the princesses magic, Tirek found her, and then, they fight. Tirek knows that the princesses put their magic in Twilight as they fought. Knowing that their evenly matched. Tirek decided to bargain. He trapped Twilight's friends in bubbles. He deal is, he'll release her friends, and in return... He takes all of the alicorn magic. Having no choice, and knowing it was the right thing to do, Twlight gave up the magic for her friends. Even though he betrayed them. Twilight even included Discord to be free. He was very sorry for what he did. Tirek let him free and absorbed Twilight's alicorn magic and the princesses as well. And he became indestructible. Discord apologizes for his deception, and as proof he really means it, he gave the medallion to Twilight as proof. You see, the mane 6 discovered a chest from the tree of harmony, and it can only be unlock by certain keys, and Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy have unlocked their keys by perfomring their part of their element. Twilight was the last one. And the medallion Discord gave her, was the last key. They unlocked together, and unleashed their rainbow power and blasted all the magic out of Tirek and it blasted him back into Tartarus. The fourth one, the final one, was an evil brat. A filly. Seriously. Cozy Glow. When Twilight and her friends opened a school of friendship for every creature in Equestria. Dragons, Yaks, Griffons, Changelings and Hippogriffs, Chancellor Neighsay didn't like the idea of other creatures learning about friendship and only ponies must attend. Cozy Glow was one of the students in the school of friendship, she helped the crusader graduate to tutors for the school. She was kind and innocent. One day, all the magic from Equestria was mysteriously disappearing. The Mane 6 suggested it could be Tirek. But he's still locked up in Tartarus. So Twilight and her friends decided to go check on Tirek while Starlight takes care of the school in her absence, with Cozy Glow as her assistant. But then... Neighsay showed up. Claiming that Twilight made a mistake, and Cozy Glow being in charge is a bad idea. Assuming that the creatures are responsible for the magic disappearence, he tied up the student six, the dragon Smolder, The griffon Gallus, the yak Yona, Sliverstream the hippogriff and the changeling Ocellus. Yeah, Neighsay is racist. He spared Sandbar cause he's a pony. Meanwhile, Twilight and her friends made it to Tartarus to ask Tirek some questions. Turns out he wasn't behind everything. His protegee is. Whiched turned out... To be Cozy Glow. Sandbar asked help from Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to help save his friends and stop Nieghsay but they later found out that Cozy Glow went beneath the a school that Sandbar and his friends went through, and they found out that Cozy Glow had Starlight trapped in an orb and with the equestrian artifacts, she used them as a magnet to suck all the magic in Equestria. She is responsible for the magic disappearence and soon, the artifacts will open a vortex and suck in all the magic into another realm. She claims that friendship is not magic. It's power. And she'll make an army of friends and rule Equestria as the Empress of Friendship. Nieghsay claims that the school of friendship will go under the rule of the EEA, but Cozy Glow manipulated the ponies to turn against Nieghsay, so she can start building her friend army and become powerful. But in Tartarus, Twilight and the other persuaded Cerberus, Tirek and all the other creatures to use their magic essence to escape. But they were too late. Meanwhile back in bottom of the school, the student six learned how to restore the magic, but Cozy Glow ordered everypony to get them, she told them that they sent Twilight and her friends on a wild goose chase to Tartarus and they attack them. But the tree of isaved them and they grabbed the artifacts. They warned eveypony to get away in case the school explodes. Cozy Glow tried to stop them from leaving. The explosion didn't destory the school. It restored all the magic back in Equestria. Starlight was finally free, Twilight and her friends teleported back in time. And now everypony knows Cozy Glow's deception. She's devious and power hungry as Tirek. So she got locked up in Tartarus next to him. Also Nieghsay realized he was wrong that only ponies should learn friendship. And he apologized to the student six for his racism. And peace was restored to Equestria. The next year, Twilight Sparkle has gotten word that Celestia and Luna will be retiring and Twilight will become the new ruler of Equestria. Her friends supported that they have saved Equestria from many threats over the years. Meanwhile in the far reaches of the forest, Chrysalis, now being a little coo-coo. Was building log with her changeling kinda on them, until she disappeared in a black mist. Meanwhile in Tartarus, Cozy Glow was trying to suck up to Tirek by trying to be his friend as Tirek brutes. Just then he too disappeared in a black mist. Cozy Glow was shocked until she disappeared too. Meanwhile in an unknown cave, a ritual was made and it brought back somepony. King Sombra. Cozy Glow, Tirek, Chrysalis and Sombra found themselves in some kind of secret lair in a swamp. And the mastermind who brought them all together, revealed himself... The ancient emperor of Equestria, Grogar. He brought the villains all together for his plan to destroy Twilight Sparkle and her friends once and for all. Grogar explained that a thousand years ago, he ruled Equestria in darkness until Chrysalis pointed out that then he was banished by Gusty the Great. But Grogar revealed that he was defeated, but only temporarily. He was weaken. So he spent the next thousand years biding his time to take Equestria, and he's been watching Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek and Cozy Glow's defeats at the hooves of Twilight and her friends. Some of them think they cheated or very lucky. Grogar explained that they beat them cause they work together. And that is his plan. To all the villains to form an alliance with him. And they can defeat Twilight Sparkle and her friends and allies and finally conquer Equestria together. Unfortunately, King Sombra refused, claiming that he'll take back the Crystal Empire on his own without any help. So Grogar offered to send him to the Crystal Empire to get started, while Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow learn to work together. And that brings us up to date. Back at the swamp lair, Cozy Glow, Tirek and Chrysalis were holding hands and hooves. Cozy was trying to teach them to be friends if they are to work together as Grogar intended. "Now I'll say something nice about centaurs, Tirek, you say something nice about changelings, and Chrysalis, you something nice about ponies." Cozy Glow said. "Never!" Chrysalis said. Just then, they heard Grogar walking out of the shadows. "Let us hope the three of you will be enough for my plan." The villains let go of each other's hand and hoof as they face Grogar. "And what of King Sombra?" Chrysalis asked. "Did he succeed?" Tirek asked. "Hah!" Grogar revealed in his orb what transpired for Sombra at his attempts to rule Equestria. All of Equestria was under Sombra's control. Discord was badly wounded by King Sombra's blast. But with some word of wisdom from him. He gave the mane 6 the motivation to keep fighting back. Sombra tried blasting the girls but Twilight kept shooting her magic back. Until she gets magic from her friends and they joined hooves together. "For our friends." Fluttershy said. "For our families." Applejack and Rairty said. "For our home!" Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash said. "For Equestria." Twilight said as they started to float. Sombra shoots his dark magic at them again but this time... There was no effect. "No! That can't be possible!" Sombra was now feeling... Scared. Unfairly scared. "Your magic can't defeat mine! I DESTROYED THE SOURCE OF YOUR POWER!!!" "You can't destroy our friendship Sombra." Twilight said as her eyes glow white and her mane flows. "And we keep telling bad guys..." Rainbow Dash said. "But y'all don't seem to remember..." Applejack said. Then they all talked the same sentence. "Friendship is magic." Sombra keeps blasting them a bunch of times but there was still no effect. She back away but the magic of friendship blasted him. "NOOOO!!!" He got vaporized to smitherines, and this time... For good. And Equestria was saved. The orb finished showing what happened. "I'd say he gambled." Grogar said. "And lost. But at least he can serve as a warning to those who doubt continuing with my plans, unless... Any of you have doubts?" The villains were intimidated by Grogar, they fear his wrath. "Um... Not I." Tirek said. "Nope." Chrysalis quickly said. "I'm good." Cozy Glow said as she smiles innocently. "Then we shall join forces, and bring Equestria to its knees!" Grogar said as he laugh maniacally. The others joined in while they're nervous. And thus... Grogar, Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow have form... The Deadly Alliance.