The night of the crazy doors
Twilight was in good mood; after a long time of waiting, organizing books and writing to several editorials all over Equestria, she finally could re-open her library. Without Spike to help her the process slowed a little, but Twilight knew the dragon needed his own space now than he was the new menace for Equestria.
But leaving that aside, she was happy very happy for her new library. And then it was when a little voice called her out of her daydream:
“Hi Princess! I would like to borrow this book about advanced spells for enthusiastic unicorns please!”
Twilight couldn’t repress a condescending smile, since the voice belonged to a little girl.
“I’m sorry darling but you should wait until your magic grows with you, young fillies like you can’t cast not even one of this spell” she said without even looking at the one who was speaking.
“Come on Princess Twilight! You know I can, after all I suppose to have your same amount of power back when you came to Ponyville”
It was when Twilight lowered her sight, gasping. It was Spike’s agent Black.
“Oh it’s you Black… sorry but I don’t think is a good idea?”
“Why? Because I’m an agent of chaos?” Asked Black sounding offended. “Princess, we haven’t done anything evil, even Princess Celestia support us saying that chaos is necessary too! Besides this is a public library and anypony with a library card can borrow books from here!”
Twilight grinned, yeah, this was her chance.
“You’re right Black: anypony with a library card can borrow books from here, but you don’t have a library card yet so…”
Black showed her the card. Effectively, it was an official Ponyville library card at Black’s name.
“Here. Can I borrow that book now?”
Twilight couldn’t believe it, why on Equestria would Black have a library card being an agent of chaos? She knew she didn’t authorized that card, so who it was then? The only library employees were her and…
Twilight’s eye twitched in irritation.
“SPIKEEEEEE!”
“He’s not here, we’re having a chaos meeting at our headquarters and I’m missing it because of this. Please give me that book” said Black
“Fine!” Grumped the purple alicorn registering Black’s borrowing and seeing how she left. “Mental note: fire Spike as a library employee. Well, I better tell the others than we better prepare ourselves for trouble”
She walked to the door but when she opened it, she screamed in fear. Instead of Ponyville she saw the Froggy Bottom Swamp with an already met hydra ready to devour her. Twilight quickly closed the door. When she spied the window, she was that Ponyville was still there. What was going on? She opened the door again only to end up at…
“Twilight Sparkle!” Shouted Princess Luna. “What are you doing at our Royal Bath?”
Twilight closed the door again and re-opened it. This time she was at Carrousel Boutique.
“Twilight dear!” greeted Rarity. “What is it? Do you want me to make you a new dress? I’d love to!”
Twilight was about to close the door again but she thought it better and entered to her friend’s house.
“Perhaps later Rarity. We have a problem.
“Let me guess: Spike” said Rarity tiredly.
Twilight nodded and Rarity fixed her glasses sighing.
“Those days have being the worst of all my dear, I don’t think I can use to the idea of the sweet Spikey-Wikey being our new nemesis. His pranks are delaying me from my work”
The purple alicorn sighed too.
“I know! My plans to re-open the library delated two weeks since we started with all this. Anyway, let’s call the others and finish this at once”
“Okay darling, just let me go for some water” said Rarity finishing her bottle and walking to the kitchen for more, not giving Twilight the chance to warn her about the doors.
As soon as Rarity opened the door she was received by a giant stream of water making her scream in surprise and shut the door.
“Twilight dear, why on Equestria the Poniagara falls are in my kitchen?”
Twilight dried her friend with a quick spell and opened the door again showing Rarity an enormous cliff just where the falls were a moment ago and finally closed the door with a sigh.
“That’s the prank for tonight: none of the doors go where it’s supposed to. We can end up at any place of Equestria.
Rarity made an annoyed groan.
“So we have to use windows now? Come on! It’s so unlady-like!” Then she realized something. “But… darling you entered here using the door, so the spell doesn’t affects you?”
“That was only luck” explained Twilight.
“Okay, then I suggest to try our luck again. Really darling, I can’t picture myself using windows as entrances” sighed Rarity opening the door that this time leaded to a great and beautiful hall. Rarity smiled and walked in, followed by Twilight.
The place seemed very familiar but they couldn’t tell where they were yet. But then a known and cheerful voice called their attention while the air closed the door trapping them inside the place:
“Twily! You came to visit sist? Good, but you should wrote us first so we could receive you at the train station”
Both mares turned to see Shining Armor smiling to them pleased.
“You even brought your friend! Good, Rarity Belle; Candace is always saying how satisfied she was by how you fixed her mane at Crystal Empire’s signature style; perhaps you could help her again”
“I would love to” said Candace walking to them. “Ey Twilight, why didn’t you wrote you were coming for visit? We could receive you at the train station and…”
Twilight shook her head sighing.
“Sorry for disappointing you guys but we came here by accident. You see: all the doors in the kingdom are enchanted”
“What you mean?” Asked Candace.
Twilight was about to answer but a door opened again, letting Chrysalis get in.
“Again? COME ON! I JUST WANT TO GET INTO MY F&%·@ING ROOM!”
She saw the Crystal Governors ready to fight but she raised a hoof calming them:
“Right now I’m planning an invasion to Reptilia, the Dragon Kingdom, not to you. Now, can somepony tell me what the F&//CK?”
Twilight facehoofed.
“Sorry, what I meant was that all the doors in all kingdoms are enchanted. Every time you open one door, it leads to everywhere in the world. And if you close it and open it again, it leads to a completely different place”
Queen Chrysalis rolled her eyes annoyed.
“Thank you for the information, so I’ll tell my children to use windows or teleport then. This new lord of chaos reminds me Discord when he was young: pranks, more pranks, even more pranks and pranks for dessert! New employees have unlimited energy, right? Well, see you”
And she returned where she came from.
Shining raised an eyebrow:
“So, new lord of chaos? What happened with Discord?”
“He retired” explained Rarity. “And named a replacement who is making our lives impossible, really impossible. I can’t believe that my dear Spikey-Wikey have this twisted imagination and annoying personality”
“Spikey-“Wikey?” Asked Shining. “You mean Spike is the…?”
“That’s right Shining!” said the dragon appearing in the middle of them on his floating throne eating a gem, along with Black who was drinking from a juice box. “Twi, you figured my trick! I’m so proud of you”
Twilight glared at him:
“Very funny Spike, very funny. Funny and dangerous, much more problematic than your last jokes. So why are you here? To laugh in our faces?”
Spike smiled shyly.
“Twilight, you know I’m not that bad. No, in fact I came here to explain you the rules: the doors are one thing and as soon as you spread your Harmony wave with the Rainbow Powers they will fix immediately. But only the doors. If somepony ended twenty miles away from his house, he’ll stay there and should manage to get back by himself. Before you fix my doors you better make sure everypony is where they belong”
Candace raised an eyebrow, this was very clever; she didn’t know that side of Spike. He really had potential to be the new god of chaos.
By her way Twilight had to breath slowly to get some patience. This time the little dragon to make things very, very difficult.
Rarity shook her head in disappointing.
“Spike, you are a sweet little dragon but right now the idea I had about you is vanishing. Now I see you as a foal who can’t stop annoying the adults to get some attention. You don’t know how much I despite such behavior! You have disappointed me Spike, if this keeps like this I don’t think we could be friends. I’m sorry”
It was like a bucket of icy water for the little dragon’s heart. But Sweetie Black came to rescue confronting Rarity. She loved her sister but this time she was going too far.
“Don’t listen to her Spike, she’s taking advantage of your crush on her to make you do what she wants; like she always does” said Black looking to Spike and then she turned to Rarity. “He is the god of disharmony and chaos, his role in the universe is to make disasters; much more important than make dresses. Chaos is necessary for the balance in the universe, but we ponies go naked almost all the time; so who is the one with the relevant role, eh?”
Rarity was shocked, how dare this little filly to said such things?”
“You! I don’t know who your parents are but I’ll have a long conversation with them as soon as I find out and…”
“Ey, how dare you to give such treatment to a friend who truly cares about you?” Asked Black.
Spike looked at Black, who dedicated him a comforting smile. She was there for him, because they were friends and a team; great to know it.
But then it was time to get back to business so Black began to sing. Rarity groaned.
“Oh, hay no!”
“What’s the matter? She sings alright” said Candace.
But she understood when servants and guards, possessed by the power of Black’s hypnotic voice, began to walk to the nearest door and open it to slam it after they got in.
Candace raised an eyebrow.
“Agent of chaos? Wow, Discord never used them”
Twilight and Rarity nodded sighing. That’s why Spike was so difficult to defeat.
Black winked an eye to her rival and gave a friendly punch to Spike:
“Come on Spike! Last time was Dark’s opportunity to act now is mine. Let’s make more ponies to get through the doors”
Spike smiled to his friend and teleported away, like Black said, they still had a lot to do spreading chaos all over Equestria and other kingdoms.
“And that’s why I’ve being having much more headaches than usual” complained Twilight to her older brother. “Spike’s originality is making us work some extra time”
At a mall at ManeHattan:
“Ey Spike, you shouldn’t let her treat you like that” said Sweetie to her friend. “She doesn’t see you as you wish. You’re my friend and I’m telling you because of it Spike. Keep going, now than you are the lord of chaos you have much more before you and perhaps you’ll find somepony else who makes you happy”
Spike looked at Sweetie’s serious look and smiled.
“Thank you Sweetie Belle, I suppose I needed that”
She smiled back.
“Whenever you want my friend. So, ready to spread some more chaos?”
Spike grinned and nodded, so the black unicorn began to sing; and with her voice powerfully amplified by Spike’s powers, everypony at the mall ended at her mercy, entering to different doors and shutting it after they got in, getting lost all over Equestria.
At Sweet Apple Acres Shadow Bloom were playing with her hula-hoop whistling happily when the barn’s door opened suddenly.
“Babs!” Called Shadow to her cousin.
Once free from Sweetie’s dark influence, the ManeHattan pony screamed in fear when she saw the black red-eyed pony who walked to her.
Shadow blinked surprise but then she got back to normal:
“Ey Babs! There’s nothing to worry about. It’s just me, Apple Bloom.
“Apple Bloom? What’s going on? Why did you looked so weird? I only remember that I was shopping with mom and dad and suddenly appeared here. What’s going on?”
“A’ll tell ya’ but we better sit down” said Apple Bloom making appear two apples of chaos and offering one to Babs, who reluctantly accepted.
After a while de fourth Crusader was amused.
“Apple Bloom! That’s so awesome!”
“A’ know, is great to be an agent of Chaos. Unlimited power and the only thing A’ have to do is to annoy ma’ sister. Isn’t that great?”
Babs nodded but suddenly looked around her a little worried.
“But are you sure she isn’t here? If she sees you in your form of chaos…”
“Nah, don’t worry about it; A’ saw her entering to the barn with Pinkie Pie; so A’ decided to ‘accidentally’ close the door; so they’re far from here, where A’ can’t really tell”
“It wasn’t, a little; you know, a little mean?”
“You don’t understand cuz, the idea is to make difficult for them the task to stop Spike. But as long as we don’t become truly evil, the Elements of Harmony won’t do anything to us except for lock our powers by only three hours”
Babs nodded, if they only had to put obstacles on the Mane 6’s way that was okay, not good but at least not evil.
And in the meantime, the new lord of chaos along with Sweetie were traveling from city to city, using Sweetie’s hypnotic sing to force the ponies to enter the doors all over the place to make them appear on random places. But Sweetie Belle was a little distracted, still thinking in what Rarity just tried to do: as always, she tried to use Spike’s feeling for her in order to make the little dragon to do her will. How dared she?
The doors kept sending the ponies to all kind of places, and it wasn’t going to end well. Especially because the Element Bearers didn’t know where their partners were. Only Twilight and Rarity were still together on the Crystal Empire, opening and closing door looking for their friends.
And at this point Shining and Candace were sharing a smoothie waiting for them to realize.
“Why don’t you help us?!” Complained Twilight after a while.
Shining and Candace shrugged.
“Come on, don’t you two realize this isn’t bringing us to anywhere?” Asked Candace. “Twi, you’re the Element of Magic; I’m pretty sure you know a spell to stop this one”
Twilight sighed exasperated.
“Of course I know how to return the doors back to normal, but only one at the time. But supposing that would work, we still have to return all the ponies to their respective homes; and with Spike and Black sending them to random places this entire time, this is getting harder and harder”
Shining nodded.
“I know, that’s the idea; after all he’s the lord of chaos. Anyway, listen: I have an idea, why don’t we use Spike’s magic for a little advantage? Come on, do you know how to make a door to transport only to one place?”
Twilight nodded, looking at her brother. Knowing him, he already prepared a strategy.
“Yeah, why?”
“We can reunite all the ponies in only one spot, and from them send them back to their respective homes once you repair all the doors”
“And we can use the three palaces as a point to reunite ponies” smiled Candace looking at her husband. “And my aunts, you and me can maintain Spike away in case he wants to hypnotize the ponies again while Twilight is gathering her friends to make Harmony prevail”
Twilight smiled excitedly.
“Thanks! Now I know where to go in moments of crisis!”
Said that, the purple alicorn focused her magic on the nearest door, commanding it to only lead to one place: her Palace; and vice-versa. Candace did the same, but to Canterlot.
“Candace!” Greeted Luna as soon as her niece opened the door. “So you’re dealing too with the demented doors. This have being an interesting day but I have to teleport in my own home and is getting annoying. Don’t tell me you have a solution…”
“As a matter of fact, we (Shining I mean) have a plan. It’ll take its time so the faster we act the faster we’ll finish this. Really, we better hurry because ponies are getting transported to random places while we’re talking”
Luna nodded and turned to the window:
“Black Swordsman! Lighting Flash!”
A dark blue Pegasus with gray eyes and black mane and tail entered through the window. He wore a long black trench coat and two enormous swords in his back (one black and the other light blue). The Black Swordsman, Luna’s air force captain.
Following him, a pure white unicorn with light brown mane and tail; with copper eyes teleported in the room. She wore a black and blue armor, distinguishing her as the captain of Luna’s infantry. The Lighting Flash, Luna’s other captain and Black Swordsman’s wife.
Those two were the deadliest warriors of all Equestria and the reason why Luna’s army was the strongest among the ponies.
“So, what’s the quest, boss?” Asked Black.
“Do everything my niece say, understood?” Asked Luna. “By the way, if anypony sees my sister let me know immediately. She got lost when this stupidity started”
“As you wish” said Lighting Flash bowing to Candace, who quickly mumbled some instruction. Both of them saluted her and ran to action.
Twilight saw them talking to Shining with a sweat drop on her forehead.
“Princess, I’d always wondered, where did you get those two?”
Luna shrugged.
“I can’t tell for sure. They say they come from some place called Aincrad.”
Not having the time to keep investigating about the warriors, they began to execute the plan.
In all over the world, ponies and the other races waked from Black’s hypnosis to realize they were in the most unprovable places ever, like Reptilia de Dragon Kingdom or even the Ponyagara falls. Some ponies were lucky and appeared only at neighbor’s home.
In other cases, the agents of Chaos directly interfered, since they had the ability to manipulate Spike’s doors at will. For example, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon opened the door only to face Manehattan’s city dump, and before they could react, ScootaDark pushed them inside and closed the door.
“The largest the city is, the largest the city dump will be. Have fun you two”
But in the three Palaces, Twilight, Luna, and Candace were receiving the ponies in their homes and make them sit while they tried to fix the problem. Kindly guided by the soldiers of all Guards, the ponies politely waited until they could go home.
“Ey, I see less and less ponies” informed Sweetie Black to Spike. “I see: they thought in something to stop us”
Spike looked to the sky and smiled.
“It doesn’t matter Sweetie, look! Is night already, so we can rest for now. What do you think?”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right. You’re a great leader Spike!”
“And you a great partner. I love you all, guys”
Sweetie giggled and hugged her friend; but then yawned and Spike teleported them back home. It was kind of cool to have fun only the two of them, quieter but also nicer.
Back at Twilight’s Palace, Fluttershy finally appeared after an hour of receiving ponies. Princess Luna lowered the sun and raised the moon long ago so they had to hurry.
“Fluttershy is so good to see you!” Smiled Twilight. “Where have you being?”
The shy Pegasus smiled.
“Oh Twilight, you have no idea how wonderful it was! I ended up at Zebrica, where I met Zecora’s family and they taught me lots of stuff about medicinal herbs and caring of wild animals. This is the first time I see an elephant and it was great. I also met an old giraffe and she told me she always wanted to meet a pony and…”
“It’s great you had an awesome day, darling but we have to hurry to get all together to stop this madness” interrupted Rarity.
“And then we have to make sure everypony gets home safely” moaned Twilight. “This prank is by far the most exhausting”
“If you think about it, is kind of funny” smiled Flash Sentry passing by. “Once we recover, we’ll remember this whole mess laughing”
“Whatever you say Flash. The only thing I know for sure is that I’ll need an aspirin when this finish”
Rainbow showed by the corner.
“Ey Twi! I don’t know how I ended up at your brother’s but he sent me here. How are Spike’s door treating you?”
“I don’t want to talk about that for now” sighed Twilight letting pass more ponies.
“Well, mine wasn’t that bad but neither awesome. I appeared in Los Pegasos when I tried to go for groceries, I gambled a little, lost some money, not much to say”
“Aha” mumbled Twilight letting pass Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon covered in garbage.
“No comments” they both said walking to the other ponies. They were furious and swore they heard Scootaloo laughing of them somewhere.
“Houdy ya’ll” greeted Applejack with Pinkie. “We took our time but finally we’re here”
“Ii was super-duper fun!” Said Pinkie excitedly. “First I went to Applejack’s to by some Zap apples for the Cakes’ cakes but when we tried to enter the barn we appeared on Ponyagara falls and I even jumped them inside a barrel even if Applejack tried to convince me to not to; then we passed through other door and we visited the mountains, took other door and we were at the sea! And then we visited Applejack’s uncle and auntie on Manehattan! Then we transported to Canterlot where Princess Luna sent us here. It was awesome!”
“She’ll sleep well tonight” smiled Applejack. “But let’s finish this now, alright?”
Twilight nodded relieved.
“Perfect, let’s move! You soldiers keep the good work, and don’t worry! This will finish now!”
They ran to the closet where Twilight kept the Rainbow Powers, but when they opened the door, instead of her closet Twilight saw an underground cave where Celestia came.
“Finally! What happened to the doors today?”
And she walked away.
Sighing, Twilight used her magic to get the closet back to normal and took the Rainbow Powers to fly along with her friends to fix everything. As always, every single door went back to normal but they weren’t finish yet. They still had to send everypony back home.
But finally they made it, it was like two in the morning but they managed to put everything back to normal.
Spying on a window, Dark sent a letter to Spike. Direct communications with their boss by dragon breath was included on the chaos powers .
The letter materialized to Spike and Black who were at the clubhouse.
“Oh, what a shame. I had a really great time” laughed Spike.
Sweetie smiled to him
“I’m glad to see you smiling Spike, what happened with Rarity affected you a lot”
“Thank you for being at my side Sweetie Belle. Is great to have a friend like you, and you know you can always count on me, right?”
Sweetie blushed but nodded happily.
But then Babs and Apple Bloom arrived to the clubhouse.
“Ey, what’s up?” Said Babs.
“Is it over yet?” Asked Apple Bloom with a yawn.
“Apparently” shrugged Spike.
And just in time, the Power of Harmony covered the whole world blocking their powers. It was alright, they were tired already.
Then Sweetie Belle noticed the fourth Crusader.
“Ey Babs! Sorry I didn’t notice you! Enjoying our little game?”
She nodded excitedly.
“It’s awesome girls, but now that everything is fixed I need to get back home soon, so I’ll go to the Palace I suppose”
Apple Bloom winked an eye to her.
“See ya’ at next disaster cuz!”
She smiled and began to move ready to sneak into Twilight’s home when Spike had his idea:
“Ey, she’s the fourth Crusader, right?”
“Well, yeah. Why?” Asked Apple Bloom.
“Nothing really, if you want I can create a Crazy Door in your closet just for the two of you Apple Bloom. We can use her help to, you know… give Pinkie Pie somepony to measure with”
Apple Bloom’s eyes brightened in delight.
“Are you suggesting what I think you’re suggesting?”
Spike nodded.
“Think about it Apple Bloom: our rivals are two unicorns, two pegasi and two earth ponies; or well, an alicorn and a unicorn but you got me. Now we have a two earth ponies, a Pegasus, a unicorn and me… who probably counts as an alicorn in amounts of power. So if we take Babs we’ll only need a Pegasus to our team”
“Cool! A’ can’t wait to tell her!” Smile Apple Bloom.
They all shared a high-hoof/high-claw and returned to their homes.
And there was it, the soldiers kept redirecting ponies for a while and the four Princesses managed to send them back to their homes. Everything was normal, with the exception that Celestia requested to her sister to add some hours to the night so everypony could sleep properly.
At the next day:
“Ey Twilight! I want to borrow this book, please” said Sweetie Belle happily.
“Of course Sweetie Belle!” Smiled Twilight. She had a tiring night but still to see a little girl entering to the library by her own was enough to cheer her up. “Let’s see: HOW TO ATTRACT THE PONY OF YOUR DREAMS WHEN HE LIKES OTHER. Sweetie Belle, this is really silly. Why don’t you just…”
“Ey, she’ll never pay attention to him but he keeps making her favors that she doesn’t appreciate properly! Not only that’s very wrong, but also I want him to look at me. If I like him, I like him”
Twilight didn’t say anything else and Sweetie Belle ran happily with her new book.
“Spike I know it hurts but don’t worry! I’ll make you forget about Rarity and probably be more than your friend someday!”