Later that night ...
Manaquire lounged around the Canterlot castle throne room, Discord was trying (and failing) to make his tiny wings lift him off the ground, Celestia was reading a book on beginners alicorn magic to try and do something to stop Manaquire while stuck in the form of a filly.
“I wonder…Tell me princess do you know of a race called the Daleks?” the black dragon asked.
“No” the sun princess replied.
“Good, because you’re about to meet one” he replied, his eyes glowing as something like a large metal saltshaker with an eye stalk, a plunger and a gun appeared in the room.
“EXTERMINATE” the metal life form stated in an electronic voice.
Celestia, being unable to do anything with her magic, ran for cover, Discord eyed the strange creature carefully.
“Exterminate what?” the draconequus asked.
The dalek’s response was to shoot him, luckily it missed.
“Right...” Discord deadpanned and used what meagre magic he had to summon a diamond as large as the daleks head.
Now diamonds, being one of the hardest substances in the universe was no match for the dalekcanium the dalek’s outer shell was made out of, add that to the almost cartoon-like physics of the pony world….
And the emotionless genetically altered alien and it’s metal body crumpled like paper under the weight of the giant gem.
Manaquire looked impressed.
“That is why I’m the Spirit of chaos and disharmony” Discord said smugly.
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Sunset was staying at Fluttershy's for the night. she looked out of the window of Fluttershy's bedroom (For the yellow pegasus has refused to let her guest sleep on the couch), the faint moonlight illuminatedt he many skid marks, minatuar craters and upheaved earth around the house she was staying in. All of which were results from failed attempts to fly.
The blue pegasus found she couldn't sleep. she was worried about her new friends, about her fate in Eqeustria, but also she was worried about Manaquire.
Not what he would do, she was sure it was something the mane six could handle, but about his fate, sure he was mentally unstable and would most likely turn the kingdom upside down, But to her Manaquire was just a long lost friend.
She had created him at the age of eight, as nothing than a villian, an obstacle to test the heroes of her made-up world. But she grew up, the memories never faded, every back story, side character and abandoned plotline she had remembered.
The characters she had made as a child she had expanded upon in high school, for creative writing in English, exams and even for roleplays.
she cared about them too much to leave them completely. it was because of this that she adjusted and evolved the personalities of her first creations.
Manaquire being one of them.
He was still the villian, in some sense, still crazy, charming and with a knack for insulting almost anything. But she had made sure he could redeem himself if he wished, he had friends and family he could count on, no matter how hard he pushed them away they would stand by him.
It was a predictable plot device from her, no matter how hard it got the aftermath had something worth while, something worth fighting for.
Her musings made her relaize something...Where was the creatures that usualy stood by him to reel him in when he got over the line? She had yet to see or hear anything from her story counterpart 'Dragonfire', nor from the God of time, Tempus. And she certaintly hadn't seen anything remotely resembling the first group of heroes she had created to bring him down before.
If he was here why weren't they?
Sunset fell alseep dreaming of her characters and their world, with the faint hope that she could both Equestria and the mad man that now threatened it...
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The next morning at the Library.
"Twilight! Twilight!"
The sound of an all too familiar dragon roused Twilight Sparkle from her dreams.
"Ugh..Spike do you have any idea what time it is?" the drowsy mare grumbled as the purple dragon shoved a letter in her face.
"Twi, we gotta get to Canterlot now! The princesses are in trouble!"
Still dazed from the wake-up call Twilight read the letter, and as she did so her tired brain got working and realisation dawned on her face.
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At Sweet Apple Arces.
"Apple Bloom! get Big Mac to check all our reserve stock, we need to get as much as we can out to Appaloosa!" Applejack hollered from the front of the Apple family house.
"Why sis? is there somethin' goin' on?"
"It looks like a huge sandstorm hit the farm over there last night, most of their crops are ruined and they don't enough stocked food left to keep the town goin' for much longer, so we need to rustle up all the support we can" the orange earth pony replied.
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At Sugarcube Corner.
Pinkie Pie was packing all sorts of things into a suitcase, with three other already filled bags lying at the foot of her bed.
"Don't worry Sisters, just because a mysterious rain storm flooded the rock farms doesn't mean no pony can't help you, Pinkie Pie is coming to the rescue" the pink pony said with seriousness and determination.
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"But Rarity why do we have to go all the way to Manehatten?" Swetie Belle whined as her older sister used her magic to pack her various sewing materials into a bag.
"Well Sweetie. I have to go to Manehatten because most of my clients canceled their orders and an advertisibf agency has offered me the chance to drum up some more business, but in order to do that i need to go over to manehatten." the fashionist replied. "And you have to go too because i can't find a foalsitter".
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Back at Fluttershy's, after spending most the morning praticing, Sunset had finally achieved a state of lift that could be described as flight.
"WOOO!" she yelled in victory as she flew upwards to do what she always loved to do in any kind of video games involving flight.
Sunset tried to see how high she could go.
Fluttershy watched nervously from the ground as the sapphire pony flew higher and higher.
Sunset was ovrjoyed...so overjoyed that shefailed to notice manaquire perching on a coud further above her. So it was no surprise that she cried out in shock when the black dragon swooped down, plucked her out of the sky, and caried her off laughing.