Prologue
Planet Mobius
It was night time, Big the Cat, a large purple cat who was fishing by the lake, was seen sleeping next to a tree, while still holding his fishing rod. It had white fur on his belly and chest, dark purple stripes over his arms and tail, white muzzle, long years, brown gloves, a belt with a gold buckle around his waist and dark purple fishing boots with two brown straps over them each. There was a small frog sleeping next to Big. It was Froggy, Big's best friend and companion.
Suddenly Big woke up at the sound of an alarm coming from the distance. Curious he turned his head over to where the sound was coming from and saw a tall tower in the distance.
The tower was built in the middle of a futuristic looking military base of sorts, as robots and weapons appeared all around ready for battle as the alarms were still on, alerting everyone that an enemy was on the way.
Then a blue streak of light appeared running toward the base, the robots fired their weapons at it, along with the defense weapons around the base. The blue streak moved around at supersonic speed, dodging every bullet and missile.
The blue streak slowed down a bit, revealing to be a blue hedgehog with sharp quills, green eyes and plain muzzle, belly and arms. He was wearing red sneakers with a white strap over them and gold buckles on them and white gloves.
He was Planet Mobius' Fastest Thing Alive and one of its greatest heroes, Sonic the Hedgehog!
Sonic dashed toward the entrance while avoiding incoming fire from the robots and the defenses. He jumped on top of one robot, then leaped toward the next one, using them as steps to jump over the gate. Now on the outer perimeter of the base, the blue hedgehog continued running while avoiding enemy fire.
Then more robot guards suddenly appeared and chased after Sonic with the intent to kill the spiky intruder. As the chase went on, Sonic ended up stepping on a pad with a human face wearing glasses, a pair of goggles over his bald head and a huge mustache. This pad turned out to be a spring, as it sent Sonic flying. The blue hedgehog did not expect that as he yelled in surprise and shock. One of the robots leaped toward and punched him, sending poor Sonic flying.
"SONIC!" a voice shouted.
Up in the night sky, a small orange two-tailed fox, with blue eyes, three bangs on his forehead, white muzzle and belly and chest, wearing white gloves and read and white sneakers, appeared flying in a blue and yellow bi-plane. In the back seat was a pink female hedgehog with green eyes, her quills curved downwards, clear muzzle and arms, wearing a red dress, white gloves, gold bracelets and red boots with a white stripe up the middle.
They are Miles "Tails" Prower, Sonic's Best friend and mechanical genius, and Amy Rose, Sonic's self-proclaimed girlfriend and a tarot card fortune-teller.
Tails piloted the plane, known as the Tornado 2, toward Sonic, with Amy acting as her navigator. But as they did, some enemy fire hit the side of the bi-plane, damaging it.
"AH! Tails! We've been hit! What do we do?!" Amy nearly panicked.
"Don't worry Amy, we'll be fine!" Tails said.
Tails then fired a missile at Sonic, who was still flying due to the robot's attack. Sonic recovered and saw the missile close in on him. As it got closer, the missile split open in half and a large golden ring fell out of it. The blue hedgehog grinned as he grabbed the ring.
The ring began to glow a strong, blinding light, as Sonic closed his eyes and channeled its energy into him. He curled into a ball and Spin Dashed at supersonic speed, back into the base.
The robots panicked but were immediately destroyed as Sonic Spin Dashed against them, reducing them to scrap metal, then he Spin Dashed the gates down blasting through and destroying the robots and the defenses on the base's outer perimeter. One robot managed to catch Sonic with its robot claw and tried to pin the blue hedgehog down, but it was futile as Sonic managed to break himself free and destroy the robot with his Spin Dash move. He then proceeds toward the tower, spin dashing the side of the tower up and smashing through one of its search lights.
Meanwhile, Tails was having a hard time trying to keep the plane steady due to the damage it suffered, so he tries to land, however a rock was in their way as the two panicked.
"It's a rock! Dodge it Tails!" Amy screamed.
"It's no use!" Tails panicked as he couldn't turn the plane around or the breaks weren't working.
But just as they were about to hit the rock, a red streak suddenly appeared and smashed the rock to pieces, allowing the plane to pass through where it used to be, Tails finally manages to stop the plane.
The two sight in relief that they were safe. They look back at where the rock was and standing on its remains was a red echidna with dreadlocks, purple eyes, a white curve on his chest, white boxing gloves with two spikes coming out of his knuckles, red sneakers with yellow stripes and metal plates on top and green socks.
"Knuckles!" Tails exclaimed as he recognized the echidna. "Thanks for the help!"
Knuckles didn't reply back as he looked back at where the base was.
"Knuckles…?" Tails wondered.
"Just what's wrong with you?" Amy asked annoyed.
Knuckles didn't listen as he sighted to himself. "How annoying…this is too much…"
Meanwhile, inside the tower, security gates closed shut throughout the hallways. In the control room, two robots: Decoe, a yellow tall one, and Bocoe, a short grey one were monitoring everything happening in the tower.
"Dr. Eggman-sama, every security gate has been engaged." Decoe announced to a large fat human standing next to a machine in the middle of the room.
The human was Dr. Eggman. He was large, fat human, whose body was shaped like an egg and a large brown mustache under his pinkish nose. He wore small thick glasses, black goggles over his round, bald head, a red long-sleeved shirt with a short white zipper, a long matching stripe down the back, matching stripes on the side of each sleeve, four white solid stripes across his chest and back with gold square buttons at the end of the stripes with two to a side of the zipper, two white round buttons on front at the bottom with one to each side, tuxedo-like tails on the back at the bottom, and yellow sleeve cuffs, long black pants which his shirt is on top of, but slightly shows on the front beneath the zipper and white leather gloves and black boots which seem attached to his pants.
"Dammit! Why is that cursed hedgehog always getting in the way of my plans?!" Eggman growled in frustration.
"Isn't it obvious Doctor?" A cute and kind female voice spoke.
Eggman turned to see his prisoner (and the owner of the voice), a cute cream-colored female rabbit, with brown eyes, long ears, wearing an orange dress, a baby blue ribbon around her neck, orange and yellow shoes and white gloves. In her arms was a small light blue creature with yellow on top of its tear shaped head, hands and feet, pink wings and a red neck-tie.
They were Cream the Rabbit and her Chao friend Cheese, both of them are friends of Sonic and the others.
"It's because you are always doing many awful things and that's why he'll always come to stop you." Cream explained.
"Chao!" Cheese chippered.
"Is that so?" Eggman grinned as he pulled out a red gemstone from his pocket; an evil grin appeared on the mad doctor's face. "Well, he's not going to stop me this time! Once I place this last Chaos Emerald into this machine, my robots will become all-powerful and invincible!"
"Please, don't!" Cream begged.
"Chao chao chao!" Cheese chippered.
"That's right! Sonic-san won't forgive you for this!" Cream said.
Eggman simply chuckled evilly. "I'm afraid he won't be able to catch me this time!"
While they continued to argue, they were unaware that a female bat, with white hair, pale green eyes, light blue eye shadows and pink lipstick; wearing a black body suit with a pink heart plate over her chest, wearing long white gloves and matching boots with pink hearts on each end, was hiding in the shadows above them.
She was Rouge the Bat, the mysterious and sexy treasure hunter, seeking to steal the Chaos Emeralds when they least expect it.
Eggman continued on. "Every security gate has been engaged, there's no way he'll make it here on time without-" his gloating is suddenly cut-off when the doors were suddenly blasted open.
Everyone looked at the destroyed door, they saw Sonic standing there with his ring in hand, and a sly smile on his face.
"Sonic-san!" Cream cried with joy.
"Chaooo!" Cheese cried as well.
"That was fast…" Eggman murmured.
A sweat drop rolled down the side of his head
"However…!" Eggman grinned evilly as he wasted no time and placed the Chaos Emerald inside the machine and grabbed the switch. "I'm afraid you are too late to stop me! All I have to do is press this switch!" Eggman laughed evilly.
"Yeah? Then how about I snatch that switch from you?" Sonic grinned.
Eggman fell silent for a moment, until a Sonic look-alike robot entered the room. He had black and red eyes, only three spikes, a jet engine on his back, a yellow energy cannon on his belly, red shoes, and yellow hands with sharp metal claws.
It was Metal Sonic, Sonic's robotic counterpart.
"Well then, why don't you just try?" Eggman asked evilly.
Metal Sonic lashes at Sonic with his claws, but the real hedgehog dodges it swiftly. "Alright, bring it on!" Sonic taunted as he ran across the room, Metal Sonic gave chase, using his jet engine to keep up with Sonic.
"Go Metal Sonic! Take him down!" Eggman cheered.
Rouge watched and immediately took cover as Metal Sonic started shooting laser beams from his belly, but Sonic dodged them swiftly. "Do I smell perfume?" Sonic though as he could have sworn he picked up Rouge's scent, but shrugs it off as he continued dodging Metal Sonic's attacks.
"That's it Metal Sonic, chase that damn hedgehog out of here!" Eggman cheered for his metal creation, but then Sonic jumped in front of Eggman as Metal Sonic began to charge up electricity. Realizing what Sonic was doing he screamed in horror. "NO! STOP! ABORT ATTACK!"
But it was too late, as Metal Sonic fired electricity from his body, Sonic jumped out of the way and Eggman ducked as the electricity hit the machine where the Chaos Emeralds were in, damaging it.
"You Metal Idiot!" Eggman yelled at Metal Sonic, who stood there emotionlessly. "Never mind, I'll teach that hedgehog a lesson!" He pressed the switch, without realizing the damage that Metal Sonic caused to the machine.
"Huh?" Eggman looked back and noticed the damage, as the machine began to short-circuit, sending sparks flying everywhere. "It's broken!" he cried in terror.
As the machine began to malfunction, the Chaos Emeralds started to glow brightly, everyone in the room looked at the machine worried of what is about to happen. And then it happened, the machine unleashed a giant light explosion, Sonic, Cream, Cheese, Eggman, Rouge, Metal Sonic, Decoe and Bocoe were all caught in it. But the explosion didn't stop there as it emerged from the tower and started growing even bigger. Meanwhile, Tails, Amy and Knuckles saw the explosion and they looked worried.
"W-What's that?" Amy asked worried.
Knuckles stared silently with his arms crossed, he whispered. "Chaos Control..."
Then the explosion caught all three of them. Big the Cat and Froggy, who were only bystanders in all of this were caught in it as well. The explosion continued to expand as it caught even more creatures from across Mobius. When the explosion was finally gone, everyone, including Eggman's tower were all gone.
Equestria
It was night time over Equestria, the pony kingdom, ruled by its all-powerful ruler, Princess Celestia. Or it was, until her castle in Canterlot, the capital of Equestria was taken over and converted into a base of operations for a mad pony and his army of steam powered robots, patrolling the streets of the city.
All of the inhabitants were taken prisoner and forced to do Steam's bidding as he desperately tried to accomplish an experiment the princess had tried to stop years ago.
However, the alarms went off as they detected an intruder heading for the city, all robot soldiers got into position and readied themselves, along with the defense weapons scattered around the city.
Just then, a rainbow streak of light came in flying down to the city, the defenses start shooting machine guns at it, but it dodged swiftly, as it entered the city. The streak slowed down a bit, revealing to be a cyan female Pegasus with a rainbow colored mane and tail, magenta eyes and a white storm cloud with a rainbow colored lightning bolt mark on her flank.
She was Rainbow Dash, the fastest flyer in Equestria and the Element of Loyalty.
The robots attempt to chase after her, as the exotic pony with wings taunted them into chasing her around the city, while dodging incoming bullets.
Meanwhile, while Rainbow was keeping the robots distracted, two more ponies sneaked into the city and started freeing the prisoners. They were Fluttershy, a cream yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail, cyan colored eyes and 3 pink butterfly marks on her flank; she was shy but tough when she wants to animal lover and the Element of Kindness; and Rarity, a white unicorn with a stylish purple mane and tail, blue eyes, with light blue eye shadows and long eye lashes, and she had 3 diamond marks on her flank; she was a fashionista with a keen eye for detail and the Element of Generosity.
"Don't worry friends; we're here to rescue you." Fluttershy spoke in a quiet but kind voice.
"Oh, thank you so much, I don't know what I would do if someone didn't come to rescue us!" one of the prisoner ponies thanked them.
"It was no trouble at all." Rarity said proudly.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash was still distracting more robot guards, using her flying stunts and using her agility to dodge their attacks. Then two more ponies appeared and set free more prisoners, while the robots were distracted by Rainbow Dash. They were Applejack, an orange earth pony with blonde mane and tail, both with a red ribbon tied around at the end of each, green eyes, a Stetson hat over her head and 3 red apple marks on her flank; she was one of the owners of Sweet Apple Acres and the Element of Honesty; and Pinkie Pie, a pink earth pony with dark pink cotton-candy like mane and tail, light blue eyes and 3 party balloon marks on her flank; she was a fun and party loving oddball of a pony and the Element of Laughter.
"Have no fear; the Mane Party is here to the rescue!" Pinkie Pie cheered.
"Are y'all alright?" Applejack asked the prisoners.
"Thanks to you, we are, thank you." One of the prisoners said.
"Aw, no problem, Mr. Unamed-Background-Pony." Pinkie Pie broke the 4th wall.
"Uh, my name is Onyx, for your information." The prisoner said, with a deadpan expression.
"Pinkie Pie, could you please mind the 4th wall for once?!" Applejack sighted.
"Ooops, sorry." Pinkie Pie apologized without losing her smile.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash continued on messing with the robots, even tricking them into destroying each other, as she continued on messing around. Rainbow Dash laughed and gloated about how stupid they were, but her gloating is immediately cut-off when a large robot bursted out from a house, destroying it and catching Rainbow Dash by surprise. Rainbow Dash didn't see this one coming as the robot threw an uppercut at Rainbow Dash, sending her flying off into the night sky while screaming in shock and pain.
"RAINBOW DASH!" a female voice cried as a purple unicorn with a baby dragon riding on her back, charged out of hiding toward her friend's rescue.
She was Twilight Sparkle, a purple unicorn with dark purple mane and tail, with a pink streak on the left side over them both, purple eyes and pink star with white sparkles around mark on her flank; she was Princess Celestia's number one student, the leader of the Mane Party and the Element of Magic; and Spike, a baby dragon with purple scales, green quills, green eyes and yellow underbelly; he was Twilight's number one assistant.
As Twilight galloped to the top of the tallest building, her horn started glowing a magenta colored aura as she enveloped a magical shield around herself and Spike, protecting themselves from the bullets. But then a bomb landed next to them, causing her to scream in horror as she lost focus and was sent flying a few feet next to the edge of the building, while Spike hung on to her neck.
"Twilight, are you alright?" Spike asked
Twilight flinched in pain as she struggled to get up. "I'll be fine Spike…but Rainbow Dash needs help!" she said as she prepared another spell, she fired a beam of magic toward Rainbow Dash, who was still dazed from the robot's attack. The end of the beam then takes on the form of a golden ring. Rainbow Dash noticed it and she reached her hoof as the ring fit right through it. Rainbow Dash then closed her eyes and channeled its energy into her as the ring glowed brighter.
And in just 10 seconds flat, she was fully recovered and immediately blasted off back toward Canterlot, she was going so fast, she broke the sound barrier, as a rainbow colored ring was created as she did. This was Rainbow Dash's ultimate skill: the legendary Sonic Rainboom!
In a speed faster than the speed of sound (and leaving behind a rainbow trail) she flew around the streets, ramming and destroying every robot in her path. The Giant robot from before saw her coming and prepared to block her attack, but it was futile as Rainbow Dash smashed through his hands, and then right through its chest, and emerges from its back, leaving a huge hole in it. The giant robot collapsed and exploded to bits.
"That…was…AWESOME!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she finished by doing a back loop over the city, leaving a rainbow shinning over the city, before she then smashed through one of the castle's windows.
Meanwhile, Twilight smiled but frowned as she fell exhausted from using her magic, Spike kneels to her side in concern. "Twilight!" he said worried.
"That took too much magic…" Twilight murmured.
Just then another robot appeared, holding a sword, Spike and Twilight reacted in fear as it was about to attack them, but just then, a sword stabbed right through its head, then a fist uppercutted it right into the air, and finally a lightning bolt struck on it, destroying it.
Twilight and Spike looked up and saw three of their most unlikely allies: La Tormenta, a Sahuagin with yellow eyes and green scales, who looked like a super hero/luchador, wearing a white luchador mask with light blue designs around the eyes, black lethar jacket with white fur around the neck and black lethar gloves; he was goofball yet a noble warrior working hard to better the image of his people; Hawkeem, an old griffin with black feathers, wearing goggles over his eyes and an eye patch over his left eye, his left arm was replaced with a robotic one, wearing a cobalt blue scarf around his neck, some old ragged sage clothes and black cape, and a staff with a lamp hanging from it, strapped over his shoulder, along with a scabbard; he was the Griffin Kingdom's greatest hero, who became a wash up, but was later changed back into a hero thanks to Twilight and her friends; and finally, standing on a storm cloud was Derpy Hooves, a cross-eyed gray Pegasus with yellow eyes, blonde mane and tail and bubble marks on her flank. She carried a brown mail bag strapped over her shoulder.
"Thanks a lot you guys!" Spike said.
"La Tormenta is here to salvar el dia!" La Tormenta said in a super hero style tone.
"It was an honor." Hawkeem said in a calm manner.
"No problem at all Spike and Twilight Sparkle!" Derpy said as she hopped on the storm cloud, but accidentally ends up shocking herself, in a humorous way. "Ouch…!"
Spike, Tormenta and Hawkeem helped Twilight up on her hoofs. "Thanks a lot guys." She said. "Now, where's Rainbow Dash?"
"I think she managed to get in the castle!" Derpy said all burned up from getting electrocuted.
"Uh oh, I just hope she doesn't do anything risky!" Twilight said worried. "She has a habit of getting herself in trouble!"
"No tiene miedo, I'm sure she can handle on her own until we find her!" La Tormenta said.
"But first, we should regroup and give the order to the others!" Hawkeem said.
"Right." Twilight said as she picked up a communicator, levitating it with her magic. "Attention everyone, this is Twilight Sparkle speaking!"
Meanwhile, inside the castle, Rainbow Dash had managed to get inside, but there were security doors blocking every hallway. In the throne room, converted into a laboratory there were two robots monitoring everything happening in both the castle and the city of Canterlot.
"Steam-sama, Canterlot is under attack by the Mane Party and one of them has managed to infiltrate the castle. " One robot announced. "All security doors have been activated!"
On the other side, next to a machine was an old man grayish brown earth pony, with black turned white mane and tail and mustache, wearing a white lab coat over his brown vest over his white shirt, and red tie, large thick glasses and a large dark gray gear mark on his flank. He was Steam, a mad scientist pony, who was a former member of Canterlot Tech and former servant of Princess Celestia.
"Dammit! I can't believe those cursed ponies are still alive despite every assassin and trap I set up for them!" Steam fumed in anger.
"Of course they are still alive Steam!" a female voice spoke.
Steam looked back to see his main prisoner, trapped inside a magic-proof capsule. A white, with a hint of pink, adult sized alicorn, her mane and tail were flowing as if it were in the wind and ranged from turquoise to light pink. Her eyes were magenta and there was a mark of the sun on her flank. She wore a gold tiara, a gold neck piece, and gold shoes. She was Princess Celestia, the all-powerful ruler of Equestria.
"Because Twilight Sparkle and her friends care and look out for each other, their magic of friendship can overcome anything they go up against, and that includes defeating evildoers such as yourself!" Celestia declared.
"Magic of friendship?! PFFFT, gimme a break, there is NO magic in it, it's completely unnecessary! Just a word that is what it is!" Steam berated her, as he held up a god tiara with a pink star gem on top, with an evil smile. "And once I have placed the final Element of Harmony in my machine, I will finally be able to amplify their power and make this world a better place for everypony forever!"
"How many times have I told you Steam?! It's been already confirmed that the experiment will lead to disasterous results!" Celestia tried to reason with the mad pony.
"SILENCE!" Steam yelled. "You Celestia are nothing but a coward, this experiment will change the world and I won't let you or anypony stop me from completing it!"
"You'll never get away with this Steam! Twilight Sparkle and her friends will come and put an end to your foolish schemes!" Celestia declared, unable to contain her anger any longer.
As they argued, they were unaware that hiding in the shadows above the room was a female griffin with white feathers, brown fur and yellow eyes, and on the other side was an azure blue female unicorn with purple eyes, white mane and tail, wearing a purple wizard hat and cape with blue stars all over and the marl of a magic wand with pixie dust all around it on her flank.
They were Gilda, a griffin who is a former friend of Rainbow Dash, the latter ditching her for being a bully, just looking for some entertainment, and the Great and Powerful Trixie, an attention horse of a magician with a bloated ego that rivals Rainbow Dash's and Twilight Sparkle's self-proclaimed rival. The two of them remain hidden as they overhear them.
Steam could only chuckle darkly. "That's where you are wrong dear Celestia…my security gates are completely impenetrable, there's no way they will-" he is suddenly interrupted when the reinforced doors were destroyed in a rainbow colored explosion.
Everypony looks at the doors; they saw Rainbow Dash standing there with the gold ring still around her hoof.
"Rainbow Dash!" Celestia said happily, until she noticed somepony missing. "Where is Twilight and the others?"
"Hey Princess, Twilight and the rest should arrive shortly!" Rainbow Dash said. "But until then…" she glares at Steam.
"Uh…" Steam looked nervous.
A sweat drop rolled down the side of his head
"Alright freakazoid! Hand over the Elements of Harmony and I won't have to kick your flank!" Rainbow Dash threatened.
"Uh…" Steam still looked nervous, but then he smiled evilly. "Sorry, but you're still too late!" He wasted no time and placed the Element of Magic tiara into the machine with the other Elements of Harmony. He quickly pulls out a switch and was ready to press it. "If you take another step, I'll press this switch and then it will all be over!" he laughed evilly.
"NO!" Celestia cried in concern. "Rainbow Dash, you can't let him press that switch!"
"No worries, I'll deal with this guy in 10 seconds flat!" Rainbow Dash boasted, ready to charge at Steam.
"I don't think so, Crap-bow Trash!" an arrogant sounding voice spoke.
Then in a puff of smoke emerged a goofy-looking, diminutive diamond dog wearing a police hat, a blue jacket over his white shirt, red tie, black pants and slip on shoes, he was also armed with a large revolver. He's the Conductor, Equestria's top assassin hired by Steam to assassinate the Mane Party.
"You again?! Don't you ever give up?!" Rainbow Dash groaned in annoyance.
"Shut it horsie!" Conductor fired his revolver at Rainbow Dash, who swiftly dodged it.
"Missed!" Rainbow Dash teased as she flew around the room, while dodging the Conductor's shots.
"Don't let her get away you bubbling fool!" Steam yelled at the Conductor.
The chase went on, Gilda and Trixie remain hidden as they take cover from the Conductor's shots, which were intended to hit Rainbow Dash.
"Stop her already you fool!" Steam yelled, but then Rainbow Dash landed in front of him. "Huh?"
"Gotcha now my little pony!" He pulls out the "PONY KILLER", a hand Gatling gun and aimed at Rainbow Dash.
However Steam noticed that he was directly behind Rainbow Dash and if she moved out of the way…Steam screamed in horror. "AAAH NO! DON'T SHOOT! DON'T SHOOT!"
But the Conductor didn't listen as he fired rounds at Rainbow Dash, that latter, just as Steam predicted, moved out of the way. Steam barely moved out of the way, as the rounds ended up hitting his machine, damaging it.
"You stupid fool!" Steam yelled furiously at the Conductor.
A red vein sticks out of his forehead
"Uh…" The Conductor looked nervously.
"That's it, the deal's OFF!" Steam yelled furiously.
"WHAT?!" The Conductor gasped in shock.
"You heard me! I don't need you anymore, since I already have all the Elements in place, I'll just activate my machine now and finish the project!" Steam then pressed the switch.
"NO!" Celestia gasped in horror.
"Aw horse apples!" Rainbow Dash noticed this as well.
However, because of the damage caused by the Conductor, the machine began to malfunction as sparks were sent flying everywhere. Steam realized this, except it was too late.
"NOOO, my creation!" Steam gasped in horror as the machine short circuited, the elements were starting to glow brighter, as everyone in the room watched.
A light explosion suddenly came from the malfunctioning machine, Rainbow Dash, Princess Celestia, Steam, the Conductor, Gilda, Trixie and the robots were all caught in the explosion.
Outside the castle, Twilight and her friends had regrouped by its entrance, along with some new allies, followed by an army of pony and griffin soldiers. However the assault was halted when they notice the light explosion coming from the castle.
"What in tarnation?!" Applejack gawked.
"GET DOWN!" Twilight yelled, fearing the worst.
They did so, but the explosion of light caught everypony anyway and that included bystanders, as the explosion expanded throughout all of Equestria. When the explosion was over, everypony was gone.