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// Prologue: History of Friendship 
// Story: My Little Pony: The Great Defenders of Friendship 
// by specialhoof2022 
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Hello everypony, my name is Special Hoof. And, I'm the leader of the Universe's unstoppable heroes: the Great Defenders of Friendship. We started out as regular ponies living in separate ways until magic returned throughout the world. Since a princess appeared before and told me that I need to go on a quest with some friends, my life had changed forever. I wasn't sure if I was prepared for an adventure, but in the end, I had friends who helped me and we all became heroes. And after that, we continue to do more rescues, quests, and adventures. We'd got magical geodes, which gave us our very own powers. We traveled around the world and see amazing things, even in outer space. Most importantly, our own thing to do is to make friends with everypony and remind them of how important friendship is throughout the land and years. And of course, we told everypony to accept themselves and others the way they are because being special is what they have to do. And, we also became friends with other creatures: griffons, changelings, kirin, zebras, kelpies, abadas, poxies, breezies, dragons, yaks, deer, and hippogriffs/seaponies. They were amazing creatures, they'd show us ponies about how great they are in some way in the different species. But, what I'm gonna tell you is how me and my friends came to be. I was accepted to everyone, but my problem was that I couldn't figure why I was born so different. So, allow me to tell you of how we became heroes in book form.

Once upon a time, there was an earth pony named Sunny Starscout. She was living in a world without harmony, all she wanted to do is to get all ponies: earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns, back together, but she didn't prevail. One day, a unicorn named Izzy Moonbow came to Maretime Bay and befriends Sunny. Izzy revealed that she and the rest of the unicorns have lost their magic. For that, Sunny began to help Izzy to figure out how the magic was lost by traveling to the pegasus city of Zephyr Heights, ruled by Queen Haven. But, when they got there, they got arrested and sent to the dungeon, which was more like a luxury hotel room, only behind bars. The queen's elder daughter, Zephrina Storm, or Zipp Storm, visits them in secret and helped them escape. She lead them to her secret hiding spot, which was an abandoned station for when unicorns and earth ponies used to visit Zephyr Heights. Zipp showed Sunny and Izzy a stained glass window, and on it were two crystals: one of pegasi and on of unicorns. Sunny figured that the magic was gone when the crystals were separated. So, they decided to find and bring the crystals back together in order to bring back magic and get all ponies back together too. Queen Haven had the pegasus crystal as part of her crown. Zipp, Sunny and Izzy made a plan to steal the crystal by replacing the crown with a decoy. They got the crown, but they didn't plan to escape, they accidentally ruined the royal celebration and performance of Princess Pipp Petals, Queen Haven's younger daughter and Zipp's younger sister. Since the whole city discovered the royals were faking their flying, the queen was sent to prison. But, Zipp and Pipp escaped with Sunny and Izzy. And, an earth pony stallion named Hitch Trailblazer, the sheriff of Maretime Bay, followed Sunny and Izzy along the way, only to arrest Sunny for breaking the town's rules. But then, he changed his mind to see how friendship is important for all ponies.

After the five ponies got the pegasus crystal, they had to get the unicorn crystal in Bridlewood Forest, home of all unicorns. The crystal was in the hoofs of a tall unicorn named Alphabittle Blossomforth, owner of the Crystal Tea Room. The only way to win the crystal is to beat Alphabittle's challenge of a dance game. Sunny won the challenge, but got her and her friends' covers blown, so they began to escape. But then, they ran into Queen Haven, who escaped from prison to search for her daughters. Sunny combined both the crystals together, but nothing happened. She went back to Maretime Bay to accept her failure. She started to storage her childhood stuff, and while she was organizing her pictures, she discovered a slot below the lighthouse light, and the last crystal: the earth pony crystal. The slot was for all three crystals to be placed into. But, before she could tell it to everypony, she and Hitch discovered that a bad earth pony named Sprout Cloverleaf took over Maretime Bay and was about to start a war. Sunny and her friends has to put the three crystals together in the slot, before it was too late. But unfortunately, it still didn't work, and Sprout destroyed Sunny's lighthouse with his war machine. Sunny was down to see her home gone and magic still not coming back. But then, she realized the true answer: it was the ponies that need to be brought back together, not the crystals. It was up to everpony to everything that was lost back to where it was, once they do the right stuff. What's important is that love and friendship is true magic, like it was many years ago. All the ponies choose friendship instead of fear, just the way Sunny wanted. And by that, the crystals became activated, turned Sunny into an alicorn, and magic came back to all over the world. The unicorns can finally levitate objects with their horns, the pegasi can finally fly with their wings, and the earth ponies can control plants with their hooves. Sunny was proud to bring harmony back.

Then, Sunny and her friends rebuilt her home into a Crystal Brighthouse, and became roommates. They learned lots of friendship lessons, went on more adventures, and made Equestria better place to live again. But then, Sunny was wondering right now, who would also be like her and her friends to keep friendship going after?