You are transported into the world of heroes and villains. A page from the Book of All Stories has appeared in the heart of Maretropolis, the comic book city under the watchful protection of the heroic Power Ponies. Your attention is immediately grabbed by a great commotion off in the distance. You run towards the great noise only to see a grave situation laid before you!
The Mane-iac triumphantly stands atop her ultimate doomsday machine, THE HAIRSPRAY RAY OF DOOM! Before her stands the Power Ponies, assembled here to face off against their greatest foe. There was Zapp, Radiance, and the Masked Matterhorn! Saddle Rager, and Mistress Mare-velous! Fili-second, and Humdrum, looks like the gang’s all here!
“Maretropolis has nothing to fear!” Masked Matterhorn cries aloud, “The Power Ponies are here to save the day!”
The Hairspray Ray of Doom shines with a mighty yet sinister light as thunder and lightning leap forth in the skies above. You can tell that the absolute worst has happened, because the villain’s nefarious machine is no doubt powered by one of the pages from the Book of All Stories. Standing before the mighty weapon sits dozens of Maretropolis citizens, already with wild and crazy manes from the evil power of the Mane-iac. The poor citizens call out for help as the Mane-iac had stolen their hopes with the power of her ultimate weapon.
The Mane-iac utters what must have been the greatest and most vile evil laugh in the unending history of evil laughs, “FOOLS! You have come too late and already my power has grown beyond your comprehension! The power this page has given me has allowed me to make my Hairspray Ray of Doom infinitely more powerful than ever before. The ‘mane’ event is upon us, evil rises, and I have attained UNLIMITED POWER!”
You can only hide and watch as the epic struggle between good and evil rears its astounding head before you.
“Power Ponies GO!” Mistress Mare-velous shouts as the heroes strike a heroic pose and leap into action.
The enthralled manes of the townsfolk, empowered by the pure evil of the Mane-iac’s device, go to meet the heroes. The scene is unbelievable. Like an unyielding tower of goodness, the Power Ponies put forth their heroic might to free the townsponies from the vile curse that had ensnared them.
Radiance conjures magical clippers to clip the magically mangled manes from their unwilling hosts. Mistress Mare-velous lassoes them into bundles, while Masked Matterhorn freezes them solid with blasts from her horn. Fili-second, with her great speed, zipps the frozen manes far from the battlefield, while Saddle Rager wrangles the rascally, radicalized, raging manes all by herself. All the while Zapp, with her magical amulet, thrusts all her heroic might into a great tornado that sucks the captive townsponies together allowing Mistress Mare-velous to lasso even more crazy manes.
“Hmm,” The Mane-iac ponders, “They’re doing well…too well. My woefully wonderous wickedness cannot be undone by these dangerous, dithering do-gooders. It’s been fun, but the time to destroy them has come!” she laughs.
However, before the Mane-iac can activate her Hairspray Ray of Doom, Humdrum leaps from the shadows and snatches the page, the power source of the insidious device, from right before the Mane-iac’s eyes.
“No! You foolish faltering foal! What have you done!?” she cries in vain.
Suddenly her doomsday machine, deprived of its source of power, sputters and spins, bursting apart in a slithering wave of evil, mane-based magic. The ray collapses in a heap and a great burst of smoke as you continue to look upon it from a distance.
When the smoke clears, you see that every one of the ponies present has been frozen by the power of the evil device. The Power Ponies, the citizens, Humdrum, and even the Mane-iac herself have all fallen prey to its paralyzing effects. As you step from your hiding place, the BAS page gently floats down and lands in front of you.
“Help us! With that page, you have the power to be a hero!” The Power Ponies call out, barely able to speak from the paralysis.
The Mane-iac looks desperately over to you, her eyes wild and crazed as her evil mane wraps and coils around her, trapping the villain in her own hair, “No! Think of the power we could wield! The fun we could have! Evil is great and good is dumb!”
You pick up the page, its gentle glow radiates outwards, reflecting off your face as you gaze into it.
[CHOICE]
What do you do with the page?
> Help the Power Ponies (Hero)
> Help the Mane-iac (Villain)
> Free everypony and send them all to Equestria (Chaos)
[ENDING A: Hero]
With a stroke of your pen the townsponies and the Power Ponies, those most heroic of heroes, are freed from their magically inflicted bindings. They rear up in victory and give a heroic “Huzza!” as they find freedom.
“Don’t worry friend,” Masked Matterhorn says, patting you on the back, “We’ll make sure this page is kept safe and sound. You should be proud of yourself.”
The other Power Ponies subdue the Mane-iac who now looks very unhappy as she is carted off to prison for her crimes. The Power Ponies take the page for safekeeping and the city is saved.
(+1 page for Heroes)
[ENDING B: Villain]
You decide that the Mane-iac is correct and that good is indeed dumb. You write down that the Mane-iac is free and is to be set loose in the real world upon an unsuspecting Equestria.
The Mane-iac’s evil laugh echoes throughout the city as she and the page are sucked into a vortex of magic to be let loose upon the real world.
(+1 page for Villains)
[Ending C: Chaos]
After a moment of thought you realize that watching this battle was awesome and that having a superhero team and a villain for them to fight in Equestria would be super cool and fun.
With a single stroke of your pen, you write that everypony would be freed and transported to Equestria. Everypony assembled has a confused look on their faces as they are all sucked into a vortex and transported into Equestria. The page is sucked away on its own as your time in Maretropolis concludes.
(+1 page for Chaos)