In the Everfree forest, after checking to make sure nopony was around, the Ghostrider transformed himself back into Soul Chain.
“Even after centuries of transforming, it still sucks!” Soul Chain complained as he stretched his body.
He teleported himself to the now empty outskirt of Ponyville, and started to make his way to his house so he could get some rest.
On the way to the library, Fluttershy woke up. “Uhhm... Where am I? What’s happening?” she asked she as she slowly became conscious.
“Oh thank goodness you’re awake sugarcube. No offence, but over the time ya get heavy.” Applejack huffed as she let Fluttershy down.
“Oh, sorry Applejack. Ehm... What happened? Where are the Diamond Dogs, and what was that terrible roar?” she asked.
“We'll tell you later. First we need to get to the library and find Spike so we can send a letter to the princess.” Twilight said.
“Uuhm okay.” Fluttershy whispered as they continued making their way to the library.
“SPIKE! I need you to take a letter right now!”
“Geez Twilight!” He yelled as he came down the stairs. “You woke me up from a beautiful dream about gem ice-cream and Ra...” he stopped ranting when he saw the whole gang was there, including Rarity.
“Ra Ra emh?” Spike was sweating bullets as he looked for anything that he could use to finish the sentence. He saw Rainbow Dash’s mane and yelled, “RAINBOW! Yeah I dreamed about gem ice-cream and rainbows!”
Twilight rolled her eyes. “Spike could you pppllleeeaaassseee take a letter. It´s really important!”
“Yes Twilight,” he saluted and ran off to find a quill and scroll.
He appeared with both and said, “Ready when you are Twi.”
Dear princess Celestia,
Today Ponyville was attacked by Diamond Dogs. Fortunately, nopony was seriously hurt. We tried to stop them, but the Diamond Dogs had a crystal which nullified pony magic, so we were helpless against them. Then something unbelievable happened, the Ghostrider appeared and stopped them. I thought that he was an old mare's tale, but I saw him with my own eyes, a burning alicorn skeleton with a black harness and chains. Princess, the most of the stories about him seem involve you, so maybe you can answer some of my questions.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
“Got it Spike?"
The drake finished scribbling down the last part. "Got it. But Twilight, if this really did happen, is everypony safe?" He looked and saw that something was on Rarity's muzzle. “What’s that stuff on your muzzle?” Spike asked as he pointed at Rarity.
“Well Spike, the dogs remembered Rarity’s “complaining” so they used that stuff to keep her quiet.” Applejack tried to suppress a giggle.
Twilight looked over toward Rarity “Hmmm... Let me take a look at that.” Her horn glowed as she scanned the substance on Rarity’s muzzle. “It looks like this stuff will break down and fall off on its own eventually. I could try to remove it, but I would probably pull some of your fur off in the process.”
When Twilight finished, Rarity used her magic to pull a couch out of nowhere and promptly fainted on it. The girls rolled their eyes as Spike started to fan her.
“SPIKE, send the letter now!” Twilight demanded.
Spike rolled the scroll up and went to the nearest window to send it on its way.
“This Ghostrider guy was pretty awesome, not as awesome as me!” Rainbow Dash started gloating. “He could be a cool stunt flyer but the name must change something with Blaze would be cool.” Rainbow Dash told everypony in the room while hovering.
Pinkie popped up next to Rainbow and explained.
“Dashie, Jonny Blaze or Danny Ketch would be so unoriginal, or what do you think?” Pinkie pointed in a direction where nopony was.
“Pinkie there is nopony and how many times must I explain it to you that there isn't a crowd watching us!” Twilight explained Pinkie near a mental break down.
“Yes Twilight there is NO PONY watching us!” and she winked in the same direction where she pointed.
Meanwhile in Canterlot:
At Canterlot Castle, Celestia was sitting on her throne, thinking about how nice this day had been. Suddenly, a scroll manifested itself in front of her.
“Well, what do you know. A report from Twilight. I couldn’t think of a better way to end the day.” However, as Celestia read the scroll, her eyes widened in surprise at what had happened.
“GUARDS, PREPARE A CARRIAGE TO MOVE OUT TO PONYVILLE IMMEDIATELY!” she yelled in the royal canterlot voice. She took a quill and some paper and quickly wrote Twilight a response before heading out.
Back at Ponyville library:
“When do ya think the princess will respond?” Applejack asked.
At this moment, Spike burped, spurting out a letter. Twilight caught it with her magic and opened it.
She read the letter out loud.
My faithful student,
I hope you are alright. I'll be there any minute to help you deal with the problem.”
Princess Celestia
“Wow, he must be more dangerous than we thought if Princess Celestia is coming here herself!” Twilight exclaimed.
Rainbow Dash snorted. “Yeah right! I don’t care how dangerous he is, you all have me to protect you!” Everypony stared at Dash. “I mean, we have the elements to protect us,” she quickly said..
“Ah don´t know Rainbow, he seemed pretty strong.” A slightly nervous Applejack said.
In one of the houses in Ponyville, a mint green unicorn stood in front of a mirror and cast a spell.
The mirror turned black and a deep, creepy voice came out. “My little pony, what do you have to report?”
“The Ghostrider was seen here in Ponyville my lord,” the unicorn answered.
“Hmmm... The Ghostrider. If we’re not careful, he could ruin our plans. Let’s just eliminate him to be safe.”
“My lord, I have one question. Why is his name Ghostrider?”
“My spy, there are two reason for his name. The first reason is that I had named him Equestrian Ghost, but that name didn’t strike much fear into the hearts of anyone. That leads me to my second reason, which is that any vehicle he enters automatically changes to match his magic. Hence the name Ghostrider.
“My lord, I hope that you don´t forget what you promised me,” the unicorn said.
“I didn't forget. When I rule this land, you'll get what you want,” he said, slightly annoyed.
“Good, who do you want to send to eliminate him?” the unicorn asked.
“DEADPOOL the griffin.” The name was spoken with as much hatred and detestation as possible.