Pony POV Series Season Six: Dark World/Shining Armor

by Alex Warlorn


Special Episode: Nightmare World: Nightmare (Sweetdreams!) Granfalloon

Nightmare World
Nightmare Granfalloon
Optional-Canon
By Alex Warlorn

"It's a beautiful day isn't it Cheerilee?"

"Yes Rarity is it, and I must say that is a lovely dress you have on."

"Why thank you, you would like one yourself?"

"Really? That would be wonderful."

"Alright." Rarity called out, "Zipzee! Could you come here?"

The breezie pony flew in the window with her other two-thirds Tiddlywink and Tra La La right beside her. "Yes Princess Rarity?"

"Could you guys please make a dress like mine for Cheerilee too?"

"We'll get right on it!" The three breezies said together.

Nightmare Granfalloon looked with satisfaction using her telescope x-ray goggles that saw through walls but not ponies.

Sitting in the math room of Celebration Castle, she turned to look at the grinning Twilight Sparkle.

"How's it goin' Twilight?"

"Almost done your happinessness! I've had to work really really hard, and had to work for a really long time, like I think," She looked at a pocket watch, "one thousand years give or take a decade, I'm now proud to say I just need to figure out this one last little thing and . . . DONE! DONE DONE DONE DONE!" Twilight Sparkle began to hop around her mountainous maze of chalkboard and notes and books.

"That's nice. wait! So it really is done?! It's finished? You got it?"

"Yes yes yes!" Twilight Sparkle cheered, "I've got it Sweetdreams Grandfalloon! I had to figure out the spell from scratch, I had to do it all by myself, and I had to work . . . so many bugs with the spell . . . but I've done it done it done it! Nothing will ever go wrong again!" Twilight Sparkle said happily, not that she could be anything but happy, but that was okay, why would anypony not want to be happy? And Sweetdreams Granfalloon made everypony happy, how could that be a bad thing? It couldn't! That was just silly! HEHEHEHHEHH!

Twilight's direct link to the spell meant all her hard work instantly paid off on the spot!

She was a smart pony! Who did smart things! Like figured out how to remove the paradoxical traits of exponential leyline convergence feedback loops.

And she did i all by herself, she was a smart pony, Sweetdreams Granfalloon said so!

It would have been easier if she had help from their friends, like her number one assistant. But they they had all been fixed!

Twilight Sparkle remembered when she was a meanie pants who thought Sweetdreams Granfalloon was breaking their friends instead. Heh heh, mistake fixing for breaking, she'd been so silly.

Then Sweetdreams Granfalloon showed her the truth, the real truth. That everything had been happy, but the big shadow-pants were bored with everypony happy, such big meanies!

But Sweetdreams Granfalloon had fixed everypony! Moon-Catcher played with Star-Catcher. The pegasus Golden Feathers played with Rainbow Dash who always dressed in style!

Magic Trick, she wasn't lonely on the inside or nasty and cruel on the outside anymore and everyone loved her magic shows.

And Scootaloo and Cheerilee couldn't stop thanking me for helping them remember they were sisters. Plus Scootaloo has her cutie mark now, like she wanted for so long.

Sweetie Belle's cooking had also greatly improved to the happiness of all.

"And I've got a sister who's royalty, that makes me royalty, a friend whose sisters with my teacher, and that weird sickness that always pops up whenever just before I cook anything making ponies not able to try anything has gone away too!"

Lilly Lightly didn't mind being an Earth pony or a unicorn with glowing horn like she as now. She was just happy not to be a 'fraidy-cat anymore. She had chosen to move to Ponyville and continue to live with Desert Rose and Daisy Jo.  

Story Belle decided she still wanted to live in the library, but had chosen to make a extra special reading spot ready for Minty.

Kimono . . .  still insisted on living outside of town. Also she refused to stop speaking in rhyme. She said she liked it and nopony could argue against that. She had also taken up Applebloom as her apprentice.

Diamond Crown, Golden Crown, Silver Crown, Pearl Crown (who ever heard of onyx, black jewelry?), were back together again.

Diamond Crown and Applebloom are best of friends now.

The Foam and Flan sisters are good at helping Applejack and her family and are taking dancing lessons from Apple Smith who dances every chance she gets now.

Twinkle Twirl is still determined to prove to be the better dance instructor though with Sky Wish's help.

Princess Sky-Catcher is best friends now with Princess Rarity, now she can appreciate what it's like to be a spoiled filly and where Sky-Catcher was coming from.

And Dusty Light is much more of a team player now and fun to be around.

Queen Sparkle Fireworks Snowflake Fizzle Misty is a LOT MORE friendly now. She even said Spike and Whimsey Weatherbe make such a cute couple!

And Sweetdream Granfalloon felt she had given more depth of character to Queen Scary Story, she took lots and lots and lots of hard work. Her new subjects were all so sad and scared before Sweetdreams Granfalloon came along!

Not to mention all the new breezies could have all the love they wanted now without having to steal it.  And Zipzee would teach them all about being a breezie. Queen Butterfly loved singing with heartsong.

Ruby and Mittens were really surprised when Sweetdreams Granfalloon brought her gift to Sunnytown.

Cupcake, Carrot Cake, Pound Cake, and Pumpkin Cake? Sweetdreams Granfalloon still baked and played with them every Tuedsday. You didn't think that was going to be thrown away did you?

Sweetdreams Granfalloon just needed Twilight Sparkle to fix a few things first.

Like conflicting temperal causalities inconsistencies in the space time continium, desire dissonance in the omi-spell matrix of existental revisionism.

And those annoying cause and effect loopers causing a build up in the cache of the theatrical critical mass that might have blown up the universe, Twilight Sparkle had fixed them all, she was a smart pony, and done it for her friendly friend Sweetdreams Granfalloon.

Those notes her friends gave her really helped.

Even the unicorn Zoo Puzzle was friends with everypony, what was her name from before? Disc-rope or something?

He and Sweetdreams Grandfalloon right had a, oh right, a 'right,' when Granfalloon really got started, there was cake and chocolate milk everywhere. But it was all cleaned up.

Heartsong and Bright Shield had been almost more trouble before they became Heartsong and Bright Shield, but the two were so happy now they thanked Sweetdreams Granfalloon on the spot.

And of course there was Play Time, she really wanted things to stay broken, with the bluebox of hers, but she was the most happy, Sweetdreams Granfalloon said she had been so sad inside.

While Twilight did all the work herself, Play Time did help her collect notes. So she still did it all by herself.

Play Time and Grandfalloon even got Twilight notes on stuff she could have missed.

Her friend said the notes were from the future when the shadow saw her work and do what shadow do and point out all her mistakes and not saying anything she did right.

Play Time even moved those events to a dummy timeline to prevent a paradox.

All her friends, Rainbow Dash, Zipzee, Princess Rarity, Master Spike, Applejack, were all fixed.

Her friends all played and thanked her for giving them back what had been lost to them.

It wasn't perfect, but everypony was perfectly happy again, and that's what counted right?

"Toola-Roola, Starsong Melody, we did it."

Next to Twilight's work, that had been the hardest part. Dragging her friends Shadows Of Existence out of the nothingness . . . and Sweetdreams Granfalloon cutting out pieces of her own Light of Existence to give her friends so they'd have their own lives again. Slicing up your own soul tickled! HEHEHEHEHH! Star-Catcher and Moon-Catcher had helped her with that.

She felt a little like a balloon without enough air in it after each time she gave a bright new light to her friends. But she wasn't a balloon, even if her name sounded kinda like one! She could be more silly than Applejack!

Her returned-no-longer-erased friends all had such wonderful tears of joy after that, even if they all had to get over a fear of the dark and a fear of snow of all silly things. But a few good hugs and laughs and friends fixed all that up too!

Good thing too . . . she had to do it so many times . . . so much air taken out of the balloon . . .

Puzzlement, Fiesta-Flare, Sparkle Works, so many others, it was worth it for all of them.

She never did figure out what that funny roar of unyielding not-love was from the cold blackness each time she did fished out of her friends (she used hugs as bait) though.

There was also when one of those meanie pants dragon-lick-thingie showed out through the fishing hole.

She had the arm of a bear and a witch, she had the wing of a flutterpony and swan, the leg of a black cat and duckling (so cute!), and the tail of a foxy. It was ready to give a great big fun fun fun going away party!

But she was wearing a t-shirt that said 'I Want To be Friends' so I gave her the benefit of the doubt.

Turns out she wanted to take notes on everything Twilight was doing because she said she wanted to help some dear friends of hers with a very special dream before they were actually her friends. Oh silly! But she left and zipped up the fishing hole when she left. But Sweetdreams Granfalloon had gotten all her friends out already so she didn't mind, and some unhappy and unfeeling winter-but-no-christmas was leaking out of it anyway.

Twilight Sparkle and Play Time explained there had been a mix up of things to the Endless Laughter, that Sweetdreams Granfalloon had no clue about. This mix up having something to do with why the world in the first place had to be made to become all wrong and sad with arguments that didn't end in kissing and making up and dreams not always fulfilled if you just tried hard enough.

She didn't understand most of it herself, but they said they fixed everything even if there had to be a few . . . what had they called them? 'Con-sessions?' Something about the past being 'in-mute-able' this time. But whatever.

While Sweetdreams Granfalloon wanted her best friend back, she wanted everything perfect for her best friend more. It wouldn't be a perfect welcome back party for her best friend otherwise. She made sure Twilight Sparkle was always happy until everything was ready.

"Is the other thingie I ask about ready ready ready?" Sweetdreams Granfalloon asked the purple unicorn.

Twilight nodded eagerly and of course happily. "YOU BEATCHA!" Twilight skidded over to a draped over object and revealed what was underneath.

"TA-DA!" Twilight presented her present to her friend, "The Super-Duper-Protecto-Reflecto-Magic-Repellant-Safety-Mirror! With this full length pony mirror, you can reflect any meanie pants' magic who tries to make things unhappy for others right back at 'em! It's the perfect shield and doesn't not-help anypony unless they try to not-help them first! Doesn't matter how powerful they are! If any black-winter like you told me they might, they're in for a great prank! I did it right down to every last detail you asked for!"

Sweetdreams Granfalloon inspected the mirror, gently touching it, then made several funny faces at herself, and burst out laughing, so did Twilight.

Sweetdreams Granfalloon looked at the window at her beautiful world, smiling all the time, she hadn't frown in a thousand years.

"Very very very, good good good, Twilight Twilight Twilight." The Nightmare laughed.

"You're welcome, welcome, welcome!" Twilight giggled in response in imitation.

" . . . Twilight, it's time."

"Time?"

"Time for you."

"For me?"

"To be fixed."

"Fixed?"

"Yes."

" . . . YIPPIE!!!!" Twilight jumped and clicked her hooves together. At last! At last! She'd waited so long! It was really happening! She was finally going to be fixed.

Twilight began to run in circles she was so excited.

"Right now-?!"

"Right now."

"Yes yes yes yes yes yes!"

"Hey that's my line line line! HEHEHE!"

Twilight Sparkle suddenly stood perfectly still with her front hooves forward and her rear on the floor smiling up at Sweetdreams Granfalloon. "I'm ready."

"Right now?" The Nightmare blinked almost in surprise.

"Right now." The purple unicorn nodded in a perfectly patient and calm tone.

The Nightmare tilted her head. "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Twilight's smile didn't wave.

"You really sure?"

"Yep."

"Are you really really really-"

"Yes I am!" Twilight shouted sounding agitated.

" . . . Okay. Just hold still. No fidgeting. And Twilight?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

"Thank YOU!"

". . . You're welcome, my very best friend." She touched her horn on the purple unicorn's own.

In a flash of rainbow colors and echoing giggles of children, a green earth pony with a pink mane and peppermint candies for her cutie mark sleep on the floor curled up, sleeping so peacefully, so innocently.

Sweetdreams Granfalloon just down, just looking at the beautiful sight before her, watching her breathing, imagining the color of her eyes underneath her eyelids. Looking at her beautiful mane and fine coat. An vision she had missed for over a thousand years. That smile, the smile that was so precious.

She made a quite distant laugh.

"Now there's only one pony left to fix."

She slowly turned towards the mirror, Twilight's gift to her. "Dreams do come, yes they really do."

She trotted over the mirror, and touched her horn against the glass. Everything went white.

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Pinkie Pie woke up, feeling groggy, what had she been doing again? Didn't she have a party to plan? Well, she was pretty sure she did. Celebration Castle? What was she doing here?

She noticed a little right in front of her. It was addressed to her.


The gods are in their heavens, mortals are on earth, may all be right with the worlds.

All that is here, is for you and your friends.

I have traveled across the desert, and stand before Dream Valley, but I find that I am not a dream, and have no place there.

I am not as I should be. The picture is incomplete. I am garish to this world that is yours and your friends.

If you read this now, then my last gift is now here for the pony who meant the most to me.

I desire to see all ponies smile, and I realized the pony who meant the most to me could never smile if you weren't there to be with her.

If you don't understand this, then I've done my deed, and you are as she would wish you to be.

Your friends will say many things to you, sometimes things you might not understand, but know that they truly love you, and that they owe everything to you.

I've built much, I've destroyed much, but if you all find happiness, and smile, smile smile, then I'm happy. For it has always been the happiness of others that have brought me my greatest happiness.

I don't think everypony thinks I've been very funny.

Maybe you can make up for it. Maybe.

Just please, always make sure your friends are happy.

The world is wonderful. Forever days stand before you. Live them all WITH them.

Good-bye.

"PINKIE PIE!" A green pony came up behind and hug tackled her to the ground causing them to roll around like a wheel, laughing.

"MINTY!" The two hugged on the spot.

"Hello!"

"HELLO TO YOU TOO!"

"You seem happy!"

"I'm always happy!"

"So me being here doesn't change a thing?" She asked smiling.

"Yes it does! You make me super-happy!"

"Is that so?" Minty's smirked almost into a grin.

"YEP!"

Minty nuzzled her. "So... wanna hold a Welcome Home Everypony Party? Or maybe help me organize my sock collection instead?"

"Sounds like fun! And maybe later!"

"Just make sure to not dance near the punch bowls," Minty said with a pure smile.

And Pinkie Pie remembered. From long ago, before they had met the pegasi like Star-Catcher. A costume party being held at Celebration Castle. Wysteria had gone as a hula dancer (with a flower necklace of course). Cotton Candy was... a chef, not concisely a costume, but it worked.

Rainbow Dash's costume was even more minimalistic, going as a movie star with sunglasses and some sparkled mane gel, no pony was sure what a movie star was exactly, but it fit her.  

Pinkie Pie unsure of what to wear. Minty, Sparkle Works, and Sunny Daze had tried to brainstorm a costume for her (Minty sadly turn up nothing).

Sparkle Works suggested a tutu for a ballerina (a non-glitter one amazingly), while Sunny Daze tossed on a fuzzy rainbow wig, suggesting a clown, but Pinkie couldn't see through it.

Then Sparkle works had an idea involving a (naturally) sparkling cloak, and a rubber-band horn. It was the universal consensus, Pinkie Pie made a lovely unicorn.

At the party Pinkie Pie got to see her other friends costume. Sparkle Works dressed as a black cape and top hat birthday machine, while Minty looked like a 'space pony' with a silver shirt and antennae.  

Kimono's costume was large white butterfly wings, the ponies said she made a perfect angel (even if they weren't quite sure what those were).

Sunny Daze was dressed as a princess, a rather royal one rather than the over the top gaudy one she'd wear when Wysteria declared everypony in ponyville a princess.

An accidental step by somepony resulted in a torn cloak for Pinkie, Rainbow Dash assured her no one was going to notice (or care). But a suddenly self-conscious Pinkie Pie plus a careless dance step equaled a crashed into the punch bowl and a broken horn and a soaked torn cloak.

Pinkie Pie was not having fun.

Sparkle Works did a mock magic spell on the spot, declaring for a new costume to appear.

One did.

Without hesitation Minty gave her silver antenna, Rainbow Dash her glasses, Kimono her wings, and Wysteria donated a boutique.

Pinkie Pie pretended to smile for her friends efforts, even if the costume looked like a big miss-mash to her.

Sunny Daze changed costumes when nopony was looking and was now dressed as a cheer leader and began to cheer for Pinkie Pie, declaring her to be a beautiful butterfly.  

And it all clicked for Pinkie Pie, and smiled for real. All the garish conflicting parts, when brought together, did make something truly unique and beautiful. Like her friends.

"Pinkie? PINKIE! I didn't mean it like that!" Minty said hugging her friends as Pinkie Pie broke down crying.

"It's . . . it's not that, I... I'm not sure why I'm crying."

Minty nuzzled her gently. "Okay then. It seems kinda silly to be crying when you don't know why. But . . . if you want to cry Pinkie Pie . . . then go ahead and cry. I'm right here for you. Cry as much as you want."

Minty hugged her. Pinkie Pie hugged back.

"Thank you . . . Minty."

"It's what friends are for. We're there for each other."

"Right, that's exactly what friends are for."

~Fin

And they all lived happily ever after.