To start out this new chapter of pony, the five ponies of Sunny, Izzy, Hitch, Zipp, and Pipp are all walking out of the Maritime Bay Movie Theater, having just spent the last two-and-a-half hours watching the movie ‘Sky Wars: The Alicorn Menace’.
“So, how did everypony enjoy the movie?” Sunny asks everyone on their thoughts on the movie.
“It was alright.” Said Hitch.
“Okay.” Said Pipp.
“Forget the movie. Did you not see those prices? Like, eight bits just for a small bag of popcorn.” Zipp speaks her frustrating thoughts on the movie theater’s apparent high concession prices.
“That movie was terrible. It had absolutely no character development and the plot was all over the place. Why, the only good thing about it was the wacky, comedic relief character, and he got killed off in the first five minutes!” Izzy ends her rant, everypony staring at her in shocked silence.
“Well, I at least enjoyed it. Anyway, let’s head to my house now for lettuce and crackers.” Sunny breaks up the silence, letting her friends all follow her back to her house.
Not knowing of what, or who, they were about to see.
***
“I’m telling you Sunny, who eats just lettuce along with crackers? Like, the lettuce has to go with at least a vegetable. Not just crackers. What you’re doing doesn’t make any sense at all?!” Hitch explains very thoroughly of how you can’t just have lettuce without a vegetable. The other four ponies rolling their eyes and giggling amongst themselves at Hitch’s latest weird rant as they all walk on the path that leads to Sunny’s house.
“Ah come on Hitch. It’s not like nothing bad will happen because Sunny is only serving lettuce and crackers?” Izzy says to the stallion.
“Hhmph. Well, something bad can still happen.” Hitch puts on a frowning face.
Almost like Hitch knew what would happen, as the ponies got closer to Sunny's house does, out of nowhere, not even out of left field, does a portal magically appear right in front of them all.
All ponies Immediately stopping in their tracks once they see it. Surprised (and shocked) to be sure by the sudden appearance of this portal.
“Uh, guys, I’m sorry for summoning this portal to existence.” Hitch quickly apologizes for just out of spite.
“What...? What is it?” Sunny asks herself, still shocked and surprised by it.
Right as Sunny has said that, the portal stretches upward, widening also, then out through the portal, walking into their world, comes Luster Dawn, human Sunset Shimmer, and Pony Life Rarity. All but the former looking with confident, brave daring expressions. The portal magically evaporating behind them once they all fully entered through it.
The five ponies look on at their world’s newest arrivals with continued shock and surprise. Mouths may or may not open agaped.
“Hm, so this is Equestria now. And youponies, taken by how you’re all different races, must be the new mane ponies.” Luster Dawn breaks up the silence between them, taking in the sight of her surroundings.
The five ponies still continue to be silent, each one’s mouth still open agaped.
“They’re most likely freaked out about us, as expected. Should we introduce ourselves?” Sunset asks Luster, also noticing too of her surroundings.
“Yes," Luster walks over closer to the five ponies, “My name is Luster Dawn. Former student of Twilight Sparkle’s School of Friendship.”
Sunset walks on over closer too. “My name’s Sunset Shimmer. Former protégé of former Princess of Equestria, Princess Celestia.”
“And I am Rarity!” Pony Life Rarity dances over by them. “Actress, social media influencer with many followers, and-” PL Rarity interrupts herself once she sees both Luster and Sunset look down at her with confusion.
“What? I am only introducing myself.”
Both Luster and Sunset facehoofs/palms.
“I... I...” Sunny tries to say something, anything about what is happening right here in front of her and her friends.
“Who are you?” Izzy though is the first one to ask the newest arrivals.
“We already told you. But you should tell us who you are.” Luster tells either one of the five ponies.
“Um, we’re... we are,” Sunny straightens up her posture in newfound confidence, pointing a hoof at each pony, telling their name as she does, “Hitch Trailblazer, Izzy Moonbow, Zipp Storm, and Pipp Petals,” Sunny points her hoof towards her, “and I’m Sunny. Sunny Starscout.”
“Huh, cute names.” Sunset comments on.
“Really so. Are you sure you’re not from around where I used to live?” PL Rarity comments too, asking either any of them.
“Okay. Look, just tell us why you are here and all that. Then maybe we can continue on our way.” Hitch says with upmost confidence, having with a puffed up chest.
“Right. We’re here to see you guys,” Said Luster, “Our Equestria is no more. We’ve been cancelled.”
“Uh, cancelled?” Pipp speaks up, breaking up her silence. “You mean, like, social media wise?-"
“No. Absolutely not like that!” Sunset quickly speaks up. “We mean, the Executives cancelled our worlds for this one’s!”
“Executives?” Izzy quietly asks herself.
“Back on track. We’re here to see you guys... and also to find a certain crystal that’ll, with the right spell, will bring about destruction on this world, totally destroying practically everything you know and love.”
“WHAT?!?!” All five ponies shout out.
***
“I know it sounds crazy complicated, but we have to do it.” Sunset tries to reassure everything is okay. “It’s... complicated.”
“How?! Destroying our world is complicated maybe to you, but to us...” Hitch loses his train of thought, thinking instead intensely of how what he just heard doesn’t make any sense.
“It just doesn’t feel right. Why do you want to really do this?” Sunny asks them, getting suspicious of the three visitors.
“We told ya. It’s complicated. Plus besides, you guys will all survive the destruction.” Said Luster, trying to still reassure to them everything is okay.
“You’re still not explaining this?!?!” All five ponies shout out at once in anger.
“Oh, we’ll explain it alright. After we find the crystal needed. It’s hidden in this world somewhere. I should know, I read a book about it.” Said Luster, saying the last part geeklily.
“Yes.” Both Sunset and PL Rarity say at once, the three of them then deciding to just walk away from the five ponies and going off on their adventure to find the crystal hidden somewhere in this world.
Leaving them all still in shocked and surprised silence.
“Well, whatever we do next, we absolutely cannot let them find that crystal.” Zipp states, breaking up the silence, to her friends.
***
“This is bad. This is really, really BAD!! This is bad times infinity, which equals bad!!” Sunny ‘sunnying’ about the situation at hand.
“Uh yeah, Sunny, we get it. Everything is bad. But the more time we say how bad it is, the more likely they’ve already found that crystal," Hitch says to his panicked friend, “We need to find that crystal. Anypony know where to find that crystal?”
Hitch asks anypony, either one of them (besides Sunny, who’s still panicking) staying quiet, strugging their hooves in the air, let alone not knowing anything.
“I uh, think I saw something like that last week,” Izzy finally speaks up, Hitch’s expression livening up in relief, “Though, it was more of a rock than a crystal.”
Hitch’s expression turn towards disappointment once he hears that last part.
“Well, I think we’re pooped.”
“Hey! We are not pooped. We just need to look harder. Like, twenty-percent harder.” Zipp says motivationally.
“All this crystal talk is making my head hurt.” Pipp says quietly to herself, bringing out her phone to look at anything on it.
“Wait, that’s it!” Izzy, noticing Pipp bringing her phone out, dashes over by her.
“A crystal that can bring destruction on our world. Sounds just like your phone there Pipp!”
“That doesn’t even make any sense.” Pipp responds back to Izzy.
“Nor feel logical.” Zipp responds also.
“No, don’t you get it,” Izzy snatches Pipp’s phone out of her hoof, “This ordinary household item is the perfect place to hide a crystal in. Now, I know there are many complicated inquiries and all that but, I just have a hunch.”
Everyone stares at Izzy in dumbfounded silence.
Until Sunny finally snaps out of her panicked funk and gets what Izzy is lying down.
“I get it! Crystal that can destroy our world. Why not put it in an ordinary household object. It’s the perfect plan!”
“Sunny?” Hitch walks closer to her. “I uh, think you ate too much popcorn from earlier, and-”
“I’m going to go find a book so I can find out more about this crystal. You guys, stay here and figure out the ‘crystal in the phone' theory a little more. I’ll see you in an hour!” Sunny interrupts Hitch, then immediately gallops on off over to the Maritime Bay Public Library.
Leaving her friends all by themselves. Them too processing in their brains of what they’re supposed to do.
***
“So uh, got anything?” Pipp asks either one of them, the four ponies all sitting down on their haunches inside Sunny’s living room.
Nopony answering her as they continue their undisturbed silence.
Until they all turn their heads and see the front door open, and Sunny walking in. Having a not-so-good expression.
“So, did you learn anything?” Izzy is the first to ask.
“Yes, and no. I don’t know. Either way...” Sunny brings out a book from her saddlebag, “...According to ‘The Trotwalker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, and after reading from chapters two through five did I realize that yes, the crystal is real. But also that it being inside a phone is total ‘down the road pony conspiracy theory’.”
“Okay, but it is real, right?” Hitch asks after hearing what Sunny just said.
“Maybe we need to try a history book next Sunny. I’m sure somepony from the past knew all about the crystal.” Izzy suggests.
“Don’t you remember Izzy. We tore all those up because of that song you sang.” Hitch says with a facehoof.
“Oh right... wanna hear me sing it again?”
“NO!!” All three of Zipp, Pipp, and Hitch shout angrily out loud.
“Hey, no need for that,” Sunny quickly comes to the defense of Izzy, “It’s, fine. Plus, I do think we have one history book that wasn’t torn up. I’ll just go get it.”
Watching Sunny leave to go upstairs, the rest of the ponies stare at one another in slight sorrow.
“Sorry for yelling, Izzy. We just, really wanna find this crystal.” Hitch speaks up for him and the other two pegasi, them both nodding their heads, being ‘sorry’.
“Ah, no big deal, I get it all the time.”
Izzy’s reply back leaves the room back in silence until they hear the clopping of hooves coming down the stairs.
“I think I may have something.” Sunny says relieved, holding close to her a nicely, well colored book.
(What Sunny Reads To Her Friends)
“Princess, are you so sure about this?”
“Indeed. My friends in the other world all have them, so why not us!”
Princess Twilight replies back cheerily to the head scientist pony in charge of the first ‘official’ smartphone project that Equestria will maybe benefit from.
“I get that, Princess. But the thing is, why do you want us to put a crystal that can destroy everything we know, inside of a phone?”
“Meh, details!”
The head scientist pony looks up at the tall, purple pony princess with doubt.
“Okay. I guess this is the prototype after all.”
(End Of Reading)
“So wait, you mean to tell me that my phone has not only potentially the crystal needed, but that it’s also a century year old prototype?!”
Pipp being the one to ask rightfully after hearing what Sunny just read.
Sunny can only just strug at Pipp’s question.
“Yes, no, maybe. Either way, we need your phone to... take it apart and hopefully find a crystal in there.” Sunny smiles a big sheepish ‘trustworthy’ smile.
Izzy, Hitch and Zipp doing the same thing.
“Uh, okay, I guess.”
***
“Well, if anypony ever asked us what exciting thing we did today, and taking apart a phone isn’t considered “as exciting” by that pony’s standards..., well I guess he has a point then.” Izzy talks to herself after her and her friends had just participated in the surgery of Pipp Petals’ smartphone.
Each pony even wore the proper surgical equipment usually needed.
“Righto!” Sunny exclaims enthusiastically after accomplishing what they just accomplished.
“Well, Sprout will most definitely not believe what I just did. Nopony no matter what would.” Hitch says his take on the job.
“Hey, at least your phone wasn’t being torn apart by the very same ponies you know!! I mean, the ‘pippsqueaks’ must be worried about me!!” Pipp freaks out over.
“Worry like, as a part of family or worry like, ‘why hasn’t Pipp posted anything?! This is... The... Worst... Possible... Thing!!’” Zipp snarkly mocks Pipp.
“Look, I know you’re not much into ‘my thing’ but you can at least be supportive!” Pipp yells back in defense.
“Ladies, ladies. Now is not the time to fight. Remember, all everything can possibly be destroyed. Anytime soon.” Hitch gets in the middle of the two sisters, hoping to try to defuse their little fight.
“Uh guys?” Sunny tries to get everyone’s attention. “We found it.”
Sunny said as she points towards the clear, bright blue crystal lying on the table used for the surgery they just did.
***
(Somewhere in a far off random jungle)
“Hold on, I sense something.” Luster Dawn suddenly stops in her tracks, concentrating heavily, Sunset and PL Rarity taking notice almost immediately.
“What is it? Do you sense the crystal?!” Sunset asks.
“Hmm, no, dear. If it was a crystal, then I would have sensed it as well,” PL Rarity explains, “Special unicorn magic powers.”
“I... I know where the crystal is,” Luster says after deep concentration, “And they, our new friends, have it.”
***
(Back at Sunny’s)
“So, now what?” Hitch asks, not knowing exactly what to do next, neither anypony else. Almost like they didn’t think they’ll get this far.
“Now, we...” Thinking to herself, all Sunny can do is strug. “I don’t know exactly. I guess we just, hide this crystal?”
“Well, whatever the plan is, I am sure that-”
Izzy gets interrupted by a sudden magical blast that just so happened in Sunny’s living room, each pony’s vision being blinded by the light and smoke coming from the blast.
After the smoke from the blast clears and their eyesight returns to normal does everypony shockingly see Luster, Sunset, and PL Rarity are all now standing right in front of them.
“How did you-?”
“I sensed it," Luster interrupts Sunny’s question, “The crystal. NOW!”
All five ponies just stare at the three somewhat strangers who are in the same room as them.
“Uh... no.” Izzy balantly tells them.
Luster takes a deep breath, motioning Sunset to tell them about the reason of why they should.
“You see, if you give us that crystal, sure we’ll use it to destroy your world and everything in it, but here’s the thing...”
“...We only want to help you. Once your entire world is destroyed, you can start fresh. Anew!”
“Imagine, everything is in your control. As you want it! You can control how things can be! Less disharmony, and more friendship!”
Looking throughout the house while thinking of a reason as to try to persuade them even more, Sunset happens to notice how real close the earth pony stallion and the pink pegasus mare are, not too mention how he has a hoof over her neck.
“You two!!” Sunset points towards both Hitch and Pipp. “If you give us that crystal, your love can be real.”
Both Hitch and Pipp (plus everypony else) stare at Sunset in unknown, cocking their head to the side, silence.
“Uh, what’d you mean, ‘can be real’?” Hitch asks.
“She means... your whole romance saga is nothing more than the writer just doing so because he feels like you two ponies are ‘perfect shipping material’," Luster explains to Hitch, “And once your world is destroyed... you can make it so no ‘writer’ is just making your love up.”
“I’m mean think, was that whole three-in-the-morning bit you two did recently really the real you?” Sunset makes them question about what happened in the chapter about five chapters ago.
And that question would appear to really stump them both. Really confuse them.
“Hey! Don’t make fun of their relationship just because you never got a proper one!” Izzy aggressively yells out, most noticeably towards Sunset.
“Hey! I too had a... good relationship saga going on.” Sunset yells back.
“Enough of all this!! Just give us the crystal, and we’ll be on our way!!” Luster, having enough of the horsepoop, aggressively asks them as a final warning.
“And we already said, no!” Sunny confidently replies back. “And what we’re gonna do next is make sure you three don’t touch a hoof, or whatever it is your taller partner has!”
“That’s right!” Hitch walks closer to Sunny, going to stand right by her side.
“I’m with her!” Zipp stands by Sunny as well.
“Me too!” Pipp follows along.
“Crystal.” Is all Izzy says as she does what the other three just did.
“And together, with the power of our friendship, we will protect this crystal at all- hey, how’d you get that?!” Sunny interrupts her friendship monologue once she sees PL Rarity walk into her shot of view, and seeing of how she's holding the very same crystal they’re trying to protect right in her hoof.
“Sorry dearie. Nopony seemed to have noticed me so I, went and grabbed what we’re after myself.” PL Rarity explains as she walks over by her group, magically floating the crystal right in Luster’s hoof.
“It’s cute ya know. You five were about to do a ‘friendship moment’. You even had the monologue all figured out. Let me guess, you’ve been practicing?” Luster asks so smugly.
“No! You can’t destroy our world just because you don’t like it! Think about us!” Sunny hopelessly pleads one last time for the three for them to try to understand.
“Sorry, but we do care about your world. It’s... complicated.”
That was the last thing Sunny Starscout, Izzy Moonbow, Hitch Trailblazer, Pipp Petals, and Zipp Storm heard as together, all three of Luster Dawn, Sunset Shimmer, and PL Rarity placed a hoof (and hand) on the crystal.
And what came next was nothing but blinding white light.