{Canterlot}
"Twilight, come quickly!" called Celestia, alarmed about Shining Armor's discovery of an alliance between the changelings and griffins. "The elements of harmony are needed, please come quickly!"
The bearers of the elements of harmony rushed to the throne room, each fearing the worst.
"Yes princess, what is it? Why are we needed?" Twilight questioned still in a daze from just waking up. "Wait, don't tell me....." Twilight said coming back to reality.
Celestia looked at her former student with a disheartened look in her eye.
"I'm afraid.....we are at war. Your brother's reconnaissance in the borderlands has lead to the discovery of an alliance between the changelings and the griffins, and they have already attacked several small villages near the borderlands."
"Then we have no choice," Twilight said wishing this was just another nightmare. "Girls, it's time to perform the summoning." she stated to her friends as they nodded in agreement.
A few minutes later they retrieved their respective elements and put them on. "Now what?" Rainbow asked Twilight, hoping that she would know how and where to preform the summoning.
"We will preform the summoning in the court yard, then we will have plenty of room," Twilight answered her cyan friend. "We will also need to concentrate because this spell will take approximately three day and nights."
After telling her friends this, they gave her surprised looks in response to the amount of time they would need to preform the spell.
"Three days! Are you kidding me!?" Rainbow commented not wanting to do one thing for that much time. "I mean I know that it's important that we save Equestria and all but isn't there a different way?" She then asked desperate to avoid that time being spent.
"Not that I know of, but there is no time to look for a different rout, so we will just have to deal with it," Twilight said losing her patience with Rainbow despite expecting such a reaction. "Now get into position," Twilight directed as they formed a perfect hexagon. "Is every pony ready?" Twilight asked as they began to levitate off the ground.
"Ready as we'll ever be," Applejack said, confirming Twilight's question.
Right after that last statement, their eyes started glowing white and their elements shot out separate beams into the center of the hexagon they formed. All the colored beams collided and powerful wind encircled the six of them. After a few minutes a massive white beam of bright light shot up into the sky from the center of the hexagon, where the colored beams had collided.
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"Hurry up, Hidan!" Called a large man with a mask that covered his whole head except the upper portion of his face and a large black cloak with a red cloud pattern on it. "We need to meet with the others back at the hideout," he said to his partner in annoyance.
Hidan was wearing the same cloak as him and had white hair and holding a very large, three bladed, red scythe in his right hand. "Will you shut up already Kakuzu! I'm in the middle of a ritual over here!"
"I don't care for your rituals, we are already late as it is! Just hurry up, or I'll kill you."
"Oh come on Kakuzu, not that stuff again," Hidan said while pulling the rod out of his chest. "Really, I wish that someone would kill me!" he said putting his scythe behind his back and putting away his rod. "But, unfortunately, I'm stuck here, so deal with it! He taunted, walking to Kakuzu's side. Kakuzu and Hidan started walking into a forest in the direction of their hideout.
After the long, arduous walk through the forest, they finally reached the side of a very large cliff.
"We're here." Kakuzu said to his partner while half expecting an outburst from him.
Hidan looked at his partner thinking he was playing him like he was a fool. "What? Seriously!? This is our hideout!? You have got to be-"
"Shut up Hidan! The hideout is behind those rocks you idiot," Kakuzu pointed out to him while becoming even more annoyed with his partner. He then used an earth style jutsu to move the rocks long enough for the two of them to walk in.
"Your late!" called the voice of an orange haired man with several piercings, a ripple pattern on his eyes, and a cloak that matched Hidan's and Kakuzu's.
"Yes, and I don't like to be kept waiting." stated another voice from a large hunched over man with a mask covering his mouth. "Now, why have you called us here? Deidara and I were chasing after the nine tails after he had rescued the one tail!"
"The tailed beasts can wait, we have to discuss an other, even more important matter." The orange haired man said as he lead them into a room with one woman and five other men all wearing the same cloak as the others."Now that everyone is here we shall begin the meeting." he then said looking toward a man that was black on the right side of his body and white on the left side of his body, with green hair, and had what appeared to be a very large venus fly trap growing from his shoulders.
"Right," the half colored man then said in two different voices while nodding. "We have discovered a strange light coming from near the hidden sound village around two weeks ago with an extremely vast amount of energy, but has subsided after an hour of its appearance," he said in a single but deep voice. "But another one of these lights has appeared close to our location with over ten times the energy as the previous light near the hidden sound and hasn't subsided yet," he the explained in a higher pitched voice.
"That's quite interesting, isn't it Itachi? Come to think of it. Didn't your brother, Sasuke, disappear about two weeks ago?" a light blue skinned man with gills on his cheeks, dark blue hair,carruing a very large bendaged up weapon on his back, and slightly larger than Kakuzu said to an average sized man with blood red eyes, long raven hair, and showing no emotion standing next to him not responding to his question.
"Isn't that guy Itachi's brother? yeah, I remember him he was the one with Orochimaru that looked kind of like your partner Kisame. Hmm," A blonde haired man with a long trail of hair going over his left eye said in response to Kisame's question. "Speaking of Orochimaru, Sasori, my man." he called to the man hunched over. "Wasn't he the one I'm taking the place of?" he questioned.
"Pein, I believe it would be in the best interest of the Akatsuki to try and capture some of that light Zetsu was speaking of." the woman in of the group with long blue hair in a bun, orange eyes, and an origami flower on a bun in her hair suggested to the orange haired man who was silent while the others were discussing other matters that had almost nothing to do with their meeting.
Pain nodded in agreement but had also wanted let the others know something that he knew would come as a surprise to most of them.
"Enough! We are going to try and obtain some of the energy from this strange light as Konan suggested. But before we go, there is someone who will be joining us from now on." he finished as he took a step to his side.
As Pain stepped to his side another man walked into the room with long dark hair, snake eyes, and white skin followed by another man with short black hair and an orange mask with a vortex pattern and an eye hole at the center of the vortex to the side covering his whole face. They were also wearing the cloak that everyone else in the room was wearing.
"Well look who decided to come crawling back,” said Sasori, wanting nothing more than to turn him into his art while receiving a grin from the new comer.
"It has been a while hasn't it...Sasori? Still hiding in that Hiruko puppet of yours, what a pity," the snake man taunted.
"Orochimaru, what are you doing here? Hmm?" the blonde man questioned, not noticing the masked man who was walking toward him. "If you weren't brought here by Pain then I would have already tuned you into my art by now! That is, unless my man, Sasori here reached you first.”
"How about that Deidara? Looks like I'm your new partner from now on. We are going to work well together, the two of us," The masked man said in a lighthearted tone to the blonde artist, receiving surprised looks from him and Sasori. "I'm Tobi by the way and I'm very pleased to meet you," he then said as Deidara and Sasori both looked over to Pain, wanting an explanation.
"What is the meaning of this," Sasori asked Pain in disgust. "And why is he here,” he growled, pointing at Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru is rejoining the Akatsuki and I am assigning him to be your partner, just as he had been in the past. And the reason for this is the fact that you are the only one here with any experience working with him, Sasori," Pain said.
After their meeting, the Akatsuki left their hideout to go find the strange light Zetsu had found and attempt to capture as much energy from it as possible. They all rushed toward the strange light for nearly half an hour before reaching it. When they looked at the source of the light, they saw what appeared to be a world that was completely different from their own.
"Alright, we are going to use the sealing jutsu that we use on the tailed beasts, and we will not stop until the light his dissipated,” Stated Pain. "Zetsu, I need you to keep an eye out for anyone near our location with your jutsu, use the one with the longest range.”
Nearly an hour had passed when the light had suddenly expanded, giving the Akatsuki members no time to react to the expansion of the manifestation they were absorbing with their sealing jutsu. After engulfing them however, it had completely disappeared along with the Akatsuki members, leaving not even the faintest signs of their existence behind.
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{Canterlot}
The Akatsuki members knew they were caught by the light and they all knew that they were not going to end up as they started out when they found the light. Eventually an undefined amount of time had passed for them and the whiteness of the mass they were in had faded and they found themselves in a crouched position in what appeared to be the courtyard of a large stone castle, and were surrounded by a number of small multicolored horses.