Twilight Sparkle paced back and fourth in her room, the invite that had appeared the previous night still on her desk.
Ever since the invite had arrived, Twilight had read and reread the invite trying to find something that could tell her if it was a trap or something along the lines of one.
She had run every test she could think of, but all the results had turned up nothing.
She had since texted her friends, telling them to meet at her house and now she was waiting for them all to arrive.
After several more minutes of waiting, there was a knock on Twilight's room door and Midnight Sparkle poked her head round.
"The others have arrived," she said, "they're waiting with Spike downstairs."
Twilight nodded and followed her sister down to the living room, bringing the invitation with her to where her friends along with Spike were waiting.
"We got your text, Twi" Applejack said.
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash nodded, "whats the emergency?"
"It's," Twilight replied, pulling out the invite and placing on the coffee table, "this."
Applejack and the others all stared at the invite in confusion, curiosity and disappointment.
"I don't understand, darling," Rarity said, "you called us all here for a piece of paper?"
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash agreed, "we were expecting a real emergency, like a supervill.....ow"
Rainbow was cut off by Applejack nudging her in ribs and giving her a disapproving look.
"Rainbow Dash," she said, "if Twilight says it's an emergency, it's an emergency."
"Right," Fluttershy nodded, "Twilight won't have called us all here if she didn't have a good reason."
"Agreed," Rarity added, Pinkie Pie nodding in agreement with her, "Twilight has always had a good instinct when it comes to these things."
"Alright," Rainbow Dash conceded, "no need to jump on me like that, geez."
She turned to Twilight, "so what do you suggest, leader?" she asked.
"That's just it," Twilight replied, "I don't know."
She went on to explain about how the invite had appear the previous night and how she had subjected it to every tests she could think of, with the end result being nothing.
The others all passed the invite round, each other reading it and then pass it on until it reached back to Twilight.
"We're invite to participate in a contest?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "HOW COOL IS THIS!!"
"I've never even heard of the Contest of Champions," Fluttershy said, "is this even legit?"
"I agree," Rarity interjected, "are we sure this isn't some prank or something?"
"I know what you mean, Rar," Applejack responded, "something about this seems a little shady."
"And thats why I called you all here," Twilight concluded, "I have absolutely no idea what to do about this."
"Well," Rainbow Dash said, "I say we accept and deal with whatever comes."
A collective, "WHAT" arose from the rest of the group.
"Are you serious, Rainbow?!" Applejack asked, "we have no idea what this contest even is."
"For all we know," Rarity added, "we could be leaping straight into the middle of a war or something."
"Think about it," Rainbow Dash replied, "we've faced Kang and Starro the Conquerors, on top of that we were recently trained by Wonder Woman and the Amazons."
The others were about to argue, but Rainbow Dash had brought up some good points thus they really didn't have much room to argue the point.
"And besides," Rainbow Dash continued, "what better way to put our training to test than in a contest fit for Champions?"
"I don't know," Twilight said, "I still don't think this is a good idea."
"Come on, Twilight," Rainbow Dash urged, "what do we have to lose?"
Twilight's instincts were screaming at her not to accept the invitation, but at the same time Rainbow Dash had made a good point that they, along with other teenage heroes, had faced threats from both time and space and, yes, recently they had gotten some extra combat training from Wonder Woman.
"Alright," she said, finally, "we'll put it to a coin toss, heads, we accept and tails we don't."
"Cool," Rainbow Dash smiled,
Twilight pulled a coin out of her pocket, "call it, Rainbow," she stated.
"Heads," Rainbow Dash replied.
With that, Twilight flipped the coin.
"Yes!" Rainbow Dash cried.
It landed heads side up.
"Alright," Twilight sighed, "Looks like we're going."
She looked down at the invite, "I guess we accept the invitation," she said, aloud.
Just after Twilight had finished her sentence, the invitation started glowing suddenly and Twilight, her friends vanished.
And it wasn't just them, but all the heroes and villains of earth also vanished.