//------------------------------// // A fresh start.. for evil // Story: My Little Pony: Friendship is Eternal // by AlphaToothless95 //------------------------------// It had been almost ten years since the defeat of the legion of doom, who were currently still frozen in stone thanks to Twilight and her friends. One centaur, one changeling, and one pegasus filly, all frozen in stone for ten years. Their statues were currently an attraction in the Canterlot gardens. Twilight, out of guilt and respect had not allowed anyone to disrespect or disturb the statues and they had remained undisturbed ever since.. until today. The statues suddenly started cracking, the cracks glowing purple and getting brighter with every second that goes by. They continue to glow until an explosion releases the three deadly villains. As they slowly take in their surroundings and their minds start to catch up with them, they also realize that they hear a voice.. talking to them.. from inside their heads. Once their minds become clear, the voice does the same. “There you go.. I know you’re probably wondering who I am and how you’re free, but I’ll explain later, right now you all should get ready to fight your way to freedom.” The voice says before they all suddenly are fueled up with magic as they hear guards coming their way. Possibly because of the explosion, but they didn’t have time to figure that out. As Tirek grew bigger and stronger he also felt like he had some new abilities.. why not test that out? When the first wave of guards comes from around the corner he slams his fists down, making the ground crack right underneath them and fire seems to come out of it and the guards are sent back a bit and they stay back, all being Earth ponies. When the unicorn guards come, it’s Chrysalis turn. She sends a huge beam of destructive green magic in their direction, and as soon as it hits them, sure enough it sends them flying and majorly injured a few. She smirks evilly, enjoying freedom and these new abilities. Cozy glow looks between them then looks at her own hands. “What about me?!” She asks before suddenly feeling a rush of power and when she looks up, she has a horn on her head and she smirks. “This’ll do.” She says before using her magic to hold the guards in place before sending them in every direction and finally, after a few seconds, slamming them into buildings. Afterwards, they all make their way through Canterlot and try to avoid being seen. Realizing it will be difficult if they don’t have disguises, Chrysalis uses her newfound magic to turn herself, Tirek, and Cozy Glow into Earth Pony guards. While they’re disguised, they quickly take the chance to slip past the defenses and leave the city. They couldn’t help but notice while they were there, that everything looked a bit different, there were other creatures in the city and the number just increased as they continued through it. “Golly how long have we been trapped?” She asks and Tirek and Chrysalis can’t help but wonder the same thing. Before they could think about it too hard, the voice snaps them back to reality. “Hate to burst your thought bubbles, but you can think about that when you reach the location I’m sending you too. Better yet? I’ll tell you how long when you get there.” The voice says before the Legion of Doom continues towards their destination. They didn’t know who was talking to them, why she freed them, or what she wanted, but they definitely were glad that she showed up when she did. As they continued to walk, they couldn’t help but think about how they were going to get their revenge on Twilight and her friends, little did they know, the pony, as far as they could guess what the owner of the voice was, was listening the whole time and was intrigued by this.. “Twilight”. She wanted to know more but she would talk to them once they reached their destination. Eventually they make it to a mountain and the voice tells them to climb it so they do until they see a cave with damaged statues outside it. They all become uneasy when they see an old marking of a skull with a star in it’s mouth but the voice tells them to continue forward. They seriously thought about it before doing what she said and walking inside the cave. They walked and walked until they were deep inside the mountain.. which had a massive tomb-like structure inside it. This place was probably almost if not just as terrifying as Tartarus. Actually no, it was twice as terrifying. They walked around, letting the voice guide them until they were right in front of a throne. “Now, all of you, fire your magic at the skull at the top of my throne.” The voice says and they all use their magic on the same skull that they saw outside this place and it slowly starts to glow until it releases magic of it’s own which slowly forms into a shadow of who they assume was talking to them. It was an alicorn.. but evil and scary looking. Purple eyes, black and purple mane, sharp teeth, huge wings, long horn and ancient looking armor. “I’m guessing this isn’t what you were expecting?” She asks and they all look at each other before shaking their heads and she chuckles. “I thought as much and I would like to introduce myself.” She says before her shadow stands up from her throne and holds her hands behind her back. “I am Midnight Starkiller. The first natural-born alicorn of Equestria.” She says and Cozy Glow realizes something and points it out. “Huh.. so you’re just like Flurry Heart.” She says and Midnight tilts her head in confusion. “Who?” Midnight asks and Cozy Glow continues to explain. “The first natural-born alicorn of this generation? Daughter of the Princess of Love? Twilight Sparkle’s niece?” But Midnight just shakes her head, confirming that she’s never heard of Flurry Heart. “Geez, where have you been?” Cozy asks and Midnight frowns and Cozy starts to think she might’ve offended her. “Stuck inside a dead dimension thanks to two certain alicorn sisters.. you might have heard of them? Celestia and Luna.” Midnight asks and all of them growl and nod and she smiles as she realizes that they share the same resentment for the two alicorn sisters that she does. “Good, then we can help each other. But before I explain any further, you all should get settled in and we’ll talk more later. Oh and one more thing,” Midnight says just as the others turn to walk off and look around, bringing their attention back to her before she continues. “Tell me more about this.. Twilight Sparkle.” Back in Canterlot Twilight was irritated, concerned, and confused. Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow had been imprisoned for ten years without a single sign of escaping anytime soon, but now all of a sudden, they were able to break free and use magic. Twilight had asked the guards what had happened but all they had been able to tell her was that they tried to stop the villains, but using their new abilities, they were able to get away. New abilities.. things couldn’t be any worse than they were now. Seeing some fragments of stone, Twilight used a scanning spell on them and the spell picks up a powerful form of magic, the likes of which she’d never encountered. “They didn’t escape on their own.. they were freed.” Twilight says, as she picks up one of the fragments and stands up, planning to study it and hopefully learn something about this magic and who used it to free them. She hears footsteps from behind and immediately recognizes them. “Spike, I might need you to send a few letters out, eight to be exact.” She says as she walks past the young dragon who nods and walks with her. “Who to?” He asks and Twilight continues walking as she explains. “Celestia, Luna, Starlight, and the rest of our friends. I’m afraid we might have another crisis on our hands.. now let’s just hope they make it to them in time.” Twilight says and Spike takes out paper and a quill and starts writing down what Twilight wants the others to know. If this new threat was as powerful as Twilight thought, then the future of Equestria was uncertain.. but she would do her best to ensure that it was a bright one. As she watched Spike send the letters one by one after finishing each of them, she hoped that once again like it has many times in the past, the magic of friendship would protect Equestria.. She looked at the fragment that she picked up and one of the cracks in it flash with purple magic and she grimaces at it. “Whoever did this and why they did it.. they will not prevail. We can’t let them..”