The dramatic silence that had held reign over the Everfree Forest clearing was quickly swept away by the indescribable voice of the Patriarch, and it serves that smug the dramatic silence right, always bragging to the awkward silence.
Anyway, if you were to describe the indescribable voice of the Patriarch, you would probably say it was like text floating up in front of your eyes. Of course, then your head would explode so I'm not sure it'd be worth it.
"What you all fail to realize is that Starswirl hasn't revealed our existence to the ruling body, as far as they're concerned, we don't even exist."
"Then why do you think he's holding back?" the intellectual voice asked half-earnestly, "Is it shame? Does he fear retribution? Or is he simply attempting to keep his options... open?"
"Considering who we are speaking of, Wilhelm, it is likely that he has considered all sides, and is merely waiting, after all, it is his favourite tactic."
"Is that so?" Wilhem sounded vaguely interested, "I must say that I find his actions to be quite... fascinating."
"Regardless," Sombra's voice boomed out, "we need to plan out our next moves carefully, we've been lucky to avoid suspicion thus far, but don't forget that we are vulnerable right now, and until we regain our power we have no choice but to remain in the shadows."
A murmer of agreement passed around the clearing, and the mysterious meeting soon came to a close.
Rainbow Dash and Ghirahim were strolling down Cheddar Boulevard, which is strange because Ponyville didn't have a street made of cheese during the gryphon attack.
"Why are we walking on a cheese road?" Ghirahim of course, still had enough marbles that he was asking unsensibly sensible questions.
"Because somepony asked for cheese!" hey Pinkie, "Hey mister writer-man!"
Ghirahim looked on in confusion as Pinkie Pie waved to me, Rainbow looked on in bemusement as Pinkie Pie.
"So Dashy, who's your new-" Pinkie suddenly jumped up and gasped, her uncommon sense having finally caught up to her other uncommon sense, "Oh my gosh, you must be new around here!"
"Yes, my name is Ghirahim," said the Demon Lord with a wicked smile and a wave of his flowing hair, "but I don't believe I've had the pleasure of making your acquaintance."
"My name is Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash is gonna fill you in on the details!" uh, Pinkie that's not what we planned. You also didn't plan the gryphon attack, but that turned out okay! Well fine, but don't write me into a corner, that's why Chapter Two turned out the way it did. "Anyway, I gotta go plan the party, and say bye to Ann Marie, so see you Dashy see you Debbie!"
Ghirahim was about to object to nickname he had apparently recieved, but he was interrupted by the road boiling over, flipping about, being cut in half, twisted, and then taped back together, for some reason, this made it a road of grass with brown checkerboard patterns on the sides.
"What was that and where did the cheese go?" Ghirahim was not in a pleasant mood, it seems that the dissolution of Cheddar Boulevard to make room for Möbius Way did not sit well with him.
"Well, that was Pinkie Pie, and she's probably gonna throw you a party don't eat the cupcakes," Rainbow explained ominously- It's foreshadowing! Pinkie! Anyway, "as for the road, I'm not sure, but are you really that broken up about it?"
"I liked the cheese road, it was whimsical," Ghirahim was dead serious, it's kind of frightening, "but I suppose all good things must end, so..." Ghirahim trailed off, his eyes widening slowly.
"What's the matter, Ghirahim?"
"Well Rainbow Dash, it seems that this road is not a good thing."
"What are you..." Rainbow's question caught in her throat as she looked around, only to find nothing.
Well, there was the grassy road they were standing on, but nothing else.
"Oh damn it all to-"
"-the gates of Tartarus, where we will begin our attack." Twilight Sparkle was in full armor, two rapiers buckled to a waist-like part of her lithe Draconequus body, behind her was a detailed battle plan that was completely indecipherable to author, politicians, and especially military leaders, "Now are there any questions?"
The lavender Draconequus turned to her troops, consisting entirely of Spike, Derpy, and some pony who looked like he really wanted to tell you something.
"Uh yeah," Spike raised his hand while he spoke, "Twilight, explain to me again why we're going to literally invade hell?"
"BECAUSE TARTARUS STOLE MY ICE CREAM!" Twilight explained rationally.
"ICE CREAM KILLED MY PARENTS!" Derpy countered philosophically.
"I AM YOUR PARENTS!" Twilight revealed dramatically.
"I ONCE KNEW A PONY WHO LIKED YELLING THINGS!"
"What?" Derpy ignored the odd stallion, too confused to bother with him, "Is ir true?"
"Yes Derpy!" Twilight rushed over to embrace her daughter, "After you were born, I had to go into hiding, I never wanted to abondone you!"
"I understand, mother, and I forgive you!"
"Do you mean it Derpy?" the strange family stopped hugging to look into each others' tear-filled eyes, "I never dared hope that we could be reunited, it hurt to much to consider."
"Don't worry mother," Derpy smiled a sad and joyous smile, "We can be a family, you, and me, and I have somepony I want you to meet."
Derpy stepped aside to reveal that Dinky was now present. The tiny purple filly looked up at her grandmother curiously.
A small smile, a wordless embrace, and a strong, happy family was born.
As it turned out, getting out of Möbius Way was easy, as long as you had magic, there was no known way back, but since there was nothing there it shouldn't matter.
Meanwhile, Ghirahim and Rainbow Dash had arrived just outside Fluttershy's cottage, and Ghirahim's appreciation for the world around him was suddenly increased a hundred fold!
Most likely because there were bloody gryphon corpses littering the ground, most of them being ripped apart and eaten by Fluttershy's animals.
Ghirahim smiled a devilish smile as he breathed in the aroma of bloodshed, his new body seemed to have a keen sense of smell and he was going to enjoy it.
Rainbow Dash, on the other hand, was used to the smell of gryphon blood, and so she strode forward confidently.
"Hey Fluttershy!" she called out- Party's ready! HOLY! Pinkie, what the hell?
Let's skip ahead to the party segment!
No Pinkie, we need to introduce Fluttershy first.
Oh come on, it's not like we're going to miss anything good, you don't even have a gimmick planned for Fluttershy!
Be that as it may, Fluttershy is the pony the readers are likely to be the most curious about, considering that I've made Equestria into a big bag of violent nutcases.
Okay fine, but make it quick! I wanna get to the party!
Sheesh, anyway continuing from above -to her shy, fluttering friend, "I've got somepony I want you to meet!"
Fluttershy fluttered down, shyly expressing her surprise, and then asked Rainbow who it was she was meant to meet.
"My name is Ghirahim," the so-named unicorn walked up next to Rainbow Dash, "and may I inquire as to your own name?"
Fluttershy attempted to introduce herself, but her hair seemed to muffle her voice, so Rainbow Dash took over.
"This if Fluttershy, she takes care of the animals around here," Rainbow gestured to the savage beasts that continued to chow down on the gryphon corpses, "she's not exactly the most outgoing of ponies."
Ugh, boooring! PARTY TIME!
When Rainbow Dash and Ghirahim arrived, the party was in full swing, and anypony who was anypony was in attendance.
Except for the entire family's of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who had all been hospitalized during the gryphon attack.
"Dashie! Debbie!" Pinkie quickly bounced over to the duo, "You made it!"
"Are you not aware that my name is Ghirahim?" the Demon Lord was beginning to feel his gorge rise, he did NOT like his gorge rising.
"Oh I know that much silly!" Pinkie continued on, either oblivious or uncaring about Ghirahim's gorge, "But I think Debbie suits you a gajillion times better!"
"Tell me, Pinkie," Ghirahim's eyes narrowed venomously, "do you enjoy having your entrails removed?"
Pinkie gasped impressively, "How did you know?"
Ghirahim was too puzzled to respond before Pinkie could continue.
"Of course, we can't right now," Pinkie gestured to the appropriately rocking party, "the party's in full swing now, but you can gut me like a fish and make party favours with my organs some other time!"
Despite the noise of the party, an awkward silence managed to fall over Ghirahim, they were both confused.
"Is she completely serious?"
"Yeah, Pinkie's into that sort of thing," Rainbow seemed unaffected, "you get used to it, and ripping her guts out can be pretty fun."
"I'm not even sure I want to anymore," Ghirahim looked like he was having an existential crisis, "I mean, she's just so willing!"
"Tell me about it." Dash turned her head towards the crowd, noticing something, "Hey, I'm gonna go mingle, will you be okay?"
"Don't worry about me, Rainbow Dash, I'll be fine."
And so the two went their separate ways, as Ghirahim swaggered through the party he traded names and pleasantries with the other guests, and while being Lyra had it's good points, he made sure to get his original name back in the end.
"Heya Debbie!" Pinkie came out of nowhere bearing a tray of cupcakes, "Wanna cupcake?"
Ghirahim was curious so despite Rainbow Dash's warning, he picked up a cupcake in his magic and bit into it.
"Ah, poision," he noted, as he proceeded to eat his cupcake with renewed gusto.
"Wow, most ponies are upset when they figure out that I poisoned their food!"
Ghirahim was about to respond, but just as he finished his third cupcake, he became quite dizzy, and quickly decided it was high time for a nap. By which I mean he collapsed on the floor because he just ate three of Pinkie's poisoned pieces of sugary death she likes to call cupcakes.
To be continued everybrony!