I was almost to peachy’s home when I was stopped by Pinkie Pie. Pinkie bounced on over and said, “Whatcha doing?”
I jumped into a bush near by and said “Keeping a close eye out for anything suspicious.”
Just as I said that the door to the clubhouse opened, I grabbed Pinkie and pulled her into the bush. Peachy walked out and started heading somewhere. I looked at Pinkie, covering her mouth with my hoof, and said “If you want to help me, then shake your head up and down (She shakes her head up and down), Here’s what we need to do, we need to follow Peachy to see if chrysalis does anything to harm her. If we discover anything new about her plan, then we report to Twilight right away, Understood!”
Pinkie removed my hoof and said softly, “Okay, Ooh, Can we grab snacks before we go?”
I responded with “Fine! But we must hurry.”
After Pinkie grabbed snacks we caught back up with Peachy who was walking towards a house. we watched the door open and could clearly see Chrysalis and some other pony. Peachy and Rose spoke but what they were saying was unclear. Rose and Peachy left that house and continued onwards towards another location.
They were standing in front of Twilight’s library. Before they got to the door I saw Tick walk on by and so I stopped him and said “Hey Tick, where are you going?”
He turned around and said “Oh hey Wisdom, I’m just going to go over and say hi to Peachy and her new friend.”
I then said “Can I join you?” and Tick said “Sure!”
Pinkie then followed us as we approached Peachy and her new friend. When we got close enough Tick said "Hey Peachy," (he lifted a hoof as we approached) then he continued and said, "Who's your friend?"
Peachy looked at her friend and said “Rose Petal, She's helping me find my Cutie Mark and I figured that the best way to repay her is to let her met the rest of my friends. Get her to know the rest of us and hopefully everypony will be friends by the end of the day.”
I looked at Rose very carefully and said “That's cool, (pulling up in front of Rose and looking over her carefully), I hope you know what you're getting into Peachy.”
She looked at me and said “Of course I do, (She had a very puzzled expression, as if I knew something she didn’t), Anyway, where's Rocket and Twilight?”
"Inside the library," Pinkie said, hopping around happily, "They've been doing something and won't come out."
"I was reading a letter Pinkie," Twilight said, the door opening to show the alicorn waiting for them, "and Rocket has been resting. It seems he was practicing his magic last night and exhausted himself before he was able to return. Apparently Princess Luna brought him back and failed to wake me up. But he's here in case you want to talk to him."
Inside the library we were all shocked to see Rocket standing by a window, twirling a gem in midair while he read from a book. Spike was sitting below the gem, waiting for the stallion to drop it so he could eat it. Rocket looked up and smiled as he noticed us, closing the book while keeping the gem suspended.
"I see you're improving," Twilight commented, "Levitation isn't easy for beginners."
"I think we have established that I am not a beginner," Rocket said, allowing the gem to drop into Spike's awaiting claws, "Besides, I need a break before I try anything too dangerous. Who is this?"
"I don't know about infamous," Rocket commented, "but it appears that more and more are coming to meet me the more I stay here. Just an hour ago Vinyl and Octavia came by to drop off Tick for the day and I got to formally introduce myself."
"She also reminded us that Nightmare Night is only a few days away," Rocket continued, the entire group, excluding Rarity, gasping at once, "I take it the town is unprepared?"
"No no no," Twilight said, hurrying into her study, "I was so caught up teaching and making sure the town was stable that I forgot that Nightmare Night was around the corner. There is so much to do in so little time. Girls, we must prepare immediately."
Sure enough Twilight and her friends, except for Rarity, left the library to prepare for the special night.
"Ugh, such a dreadful night that is," Rarity said, looking over the five remaining ponies, "but that doesn't mean I won't accept a challenge. Come along and I will make costumes for the lot of you. Costumes that will put the scare into the rest of the town."
We followed Rarity who asked what we would like to be for Nightmare Night. We wanted each other to be surprised by our costume, so we told Rarity our Idea’s separately.
Pinkie and I left and headed for the bakery. When we arrived, Spirit jumped Pinkie and wouldn’t stop licking her. Pinkie said “Who’s a good Panda, Who wants a CUPCAKE!”
I turned around to see Pinkie with a cupcake made out of bamboo and frosting. Spirit ate the cupcake from her hoof and when he wouldn’t release her hoof, she tried to force it out of her mouth. She kept trying and started tumbling everywhere, I walked upstairs during the commotion and was planning for an interesting and eventful Nightmare Night.
Peachy and Tick came on over and said “Rarity has our costumes ready. If you want to, we can all go over and get them.”
I looked around and said “Sure!”
We arrived at Rarity’s home and she gave us our costumes in boxes. The only oddity that I could see was that Rocket wasn’t with us to get our costumes. It was as if his wasn’t ready, or at least, not just yet. No matter, for Nightmare Night was upon us.
We all got dressed in our costumes. "Come on guys," Peachy, dressed up like Miku the Vocaloid, not that she told anypony who she was, with her fox on her head, said, "Nightmare Night is upon us."
Tick was dressed up in the strangest suit in the world and had a huge hat with a 10/6 sign and some feathers on top of his head. He was supposed to be the Mad Hatter and he was great thanks to Rarity's work. I was dressed up in a green full body suit, though I said I was supposed to be a ninja of some kind. Everypony else, meaning Twilight and her friends, were dressed up as they were last time and they knew why Twilight was because she had told them before they had arrived.
"Where's Rocket?" Peachy asked, wondering why he hadn't stepped out the door yet.
"He's putting the finishing touches on his costume," Twilight said, smiling as the group silently waited for a minute. "Okay, seriously, it doesn't take that long to finish putting on a costume."
There was some sort of crashing noise from within Twilight’s house. We entered to see a window broken into pieces.
I heard Rainbow Dash say “Great, we have a werepony on the loose,” even though I was confident that everything was going to be fine, Tick, shrieked like a little filly and Peachy had to embrace him to keep him calm.
We went and looked around Ponyville for Rocket but before we could continue Princess Luna approached the mane six and started asking them what was going on. When she was told that there was a werepony loose, she looked around and said “There should be none of those left in existence. Let us see if we can find Rocket Sky and determine the truth of this little mystery.”
Meanwhile in the middle of Ponyville, Chrysalis and her army entered and she said “Kneel before your new Queen you pathetic worms. I am the true Changeling Queen Chrysalis, Queen of the Swarm. Prepare to be conquered tonight on the night you lower your guards the most. Prepare to become food for my soldiers.”
Everypony around them stared at her and started laughing as they went about their night, ignoring the Changeling Queen and her soldiers.
"But...but...but...," Chrysalis said, unbelieving that she was being foiled yet again, "come on here. I am the TRUE Changeling Queen. How are you not running around and screaming in terror?"
"Told you this wouldn't work," one of them, number 067, said as she separated herself from the group, "now I am going to hang with Peachy Keen and her friends for the night. See you around 'Chrysalis'."
Chrysalis hung her head in defeat and walked to the nearest bar, her soldiers unsure if they should follow her or leave her alone.
"My Queen?" one of them asked, "Are you alright?"
" I'm fine," she said, waving a hoof in a dismissing manner, "Go have fun and what not. Try to gather some useful data and such while I drink myself away. I will call you if I need you."
The Changeling nodded and then the group left, following whichever pony they could find after leaving the fountain area. Chrysalis watched them and laid her head on the table of what seemed like a familiar restaurant.
"And what would you like this fine evening?" the waiter, the same one that served Pinkie Pie and I, asked.
"Got anything that makes you drunk by a chance?" Chrysalis asked.
"I do believe we have some whiskey that was just delivered recently," the waiter answered, "Would you like some?"
"I think I'll take a whole bottle just to be sure," Chrysalis said, "and don't bother with a glass please."
"Right away Madam," the waiter said, vanishing into the store as she returned to watching the streets.
Meanwhile back with the werepony hunt, Princess Luna and the group kept hunting for the Werepony when they finally thought they had it cornered. The Illusion lifted and then Rocket was seen standing in some garments that Rarity had created. Apparently, they gave him the ability to change form.
Every pony laughed and carried on with the festivities until Dragons appeared from behind Rocket. It was time for a battle. I just knew it. So we prepared for battle.
The mane six couldn’t fight the dragons due to their Elements of Harmony and any Royal members.
So Tick, Peachy, and I put on our serious faces and brought the fight to them. "You will not be taking Rocket anywhere you punk," Tick said, pulling his guitar out and plucking another nameless tune, "not if we have a say in it."
I hovered next to him, holding some sort of long wooden staff in my hooves, never taking my eyes off the dragons in front of me. Peachy, holding no weapon, stood next to us and her fox growled at the dragons. Rose growled and hoofed the ground, breaking the soil as she waited for one to strike.
I flew over the two dragons as Tick unleashed a storm of musical waves at them, causing the dragons to advance towards him. Tick smiled and raised the guitar high above his head, preparing to smash it over the head of whichever dragon got near him first. Before he could even swing it Sapphire ripped it out of his magical grasp and slammed it into Tick's side, hitting him into the side of a building.
"Tick." Peachy shouted, turning on Sapphire and charging at her.
"Peachy, don't..." I said, realizing what was about to happen.
The dragon kicked Peachy in the side again and again until she was kneeling in the ground. Never had she tried to fight others and now when she did she was being beaten before raising a hoof.
"Oh no you didn't." I said, having tried to help his friends only to be stopped by Violet, "You're going down."
"Try it you stupid pony," Violet smirked, catching the end of the staff before receiving a hoof in her face.
I released my staff and slammed it into Violet's front foot, easily cracking the bones. The dragon growled and punched me in the chest, but I bounced back and struck her in her left armpit. Bone cracked and Violet screamed in pain, confused on how the staff was hurting her so much.
"Your pressure points are visible to me," I calmly explained, turning the staff over until I slammed it on top of her head and knocked her out, "Now to rescue Rocket."
Before I tried to save him, I was punched in the chest and during that attack my staff broke. I don’t remember too much after that, I sorta passed out due to the wounds I had sustained. I do remember awakening in my room, with bandages around me. When I tried to get up, Peachy, Tick, and Rocket entered to find me awake. We all hugged and were glad that Rocket was okay. What I didn’t know, was what happened to Chrysalis after that night.