“So Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity survived and rescued Amura from the Spirit of Darkness,” Pinkie told her two friends. “While we’re heading towards Destroia to face the Spirit of Chaos. I mean, how can we even defeat Discord with only us? How did Twilight defeat Nightmare Moon with only three elements? Did they use something special? Oh, so many questions left unanswered!”
“Not to mention the nation between the two is where the Spirit of Destruction is hiding,” Rainbow added in as they walked down the purple path. “Anyways, how did you know the Spirit of Darkness is gone?”
Pinkie pointed towards the light blue beam of vertical light. “Ms. Ravenshire told me what those beacons meant. Yellow for Destroia, Green for Markia, Blue for Eraida, and Light Blue for Amura. If they’re not lit up, that means something is really really really wrong in that place.”
“Huh.” Applejack looked back at the path they took. “How come Eraida’s beacon isn’t up yet?”
Pinkie frowned. “I have no idea. Maybe they forgot to turn it on.” She watched a blue beam of light turn on. “See? Now they’re turned it on.”
“I’m really starting to hate this Dreamer Squad business,” Rainbow confessed as they continued walking. “I hate the name itself. Can’t they create a better name for us since Ms. Dashing Awesome™ is on this little group?”
“Ah had an idea of naming our little group Equestrian D-Team,” Applejack told them. “Maybe Twi’s group could be Dreamer Squad while we’re the Equestrian D-Team, don’tcha think?”
“That sounds 20% cooler.” Rainbow nodded. “Let’s go, D-Team!”
Pinkie Pie suddenly pulled Rainbow and Applejack close to her as a herd of cows walked across the path. After the herd passed, she didn’t move as a herd of shepherds and their sheep passed by. Surprisingly, one of those shepherds were Applejack’s Soira, Mistress Jack.
Mistress Jack stopped as the herd of sheep and their shepherds continued. She went towards Applejack and kneeled down. She fixed Applejack’s hat, secretly placing a note, and then lead them towards the boundary of Destroia where things have changed a lot. The trees were upside down, there were dried blood and guns lying around, and most of the people were hiding from one another.
“Ever since Chaos came, we’ve been like this,” Jack explained. “Well, at least chaos caused a resistance group who humbly waited for ya.”
“It did?” Pinkie asked. “What kind of chaos is war?”
“The deadly kind of chaos.” Jack took her hat from her head and looked at a picture inside. “Those chaos-incarnates tried to kill me once, but they didn’t knew Ah was protected.”
“Protected by what?” Applejack asked. Jack chuckled and showed her left wrist to everypony present. “That’s not… it’s not by chance that ‘Vine Mark,’ is it?”
“Unfortunately, yes.” Jack took an armband and put it one while adjusting her hat. “Now come along, sugarcubes. The day ain’t over yet, and Chaos doesn’t know you three.”
“Maybe he does,” Pinkie objected. “Ms. Ravenshire knew me, so maybe they all know me.”
“Why’d you say that?” Rainbow Dash questioned.
“Well, rumors tell that Ms. Ravenshire is a Dreamer who ruled Dream Realm Eraida,” Pinkie explained. “She also was the one who guarded Dream Realm Destroia before the Evil Cycles began. I even heard a few of her friends calling her ‘Last One’ or ‘Survivor,’ which really intrigued me since no record told her that she survived something! And her accent is something I’ve never encountered in my life.”
“Are you sure those nitpicks are rumors, though?” Jack asked. “‘cause you sound like you actually know these things way before then, which is impossible since nopony or no one has ever heard of what you said, lass.”
‘Whoops.’ “Maybe you haven’t listen so hard,” Pinkie innocently excused. “Yeah. And maybe that. I dunno, they have a pony party coming, and nopony expects the Pony Inquisition!”
Applejack and Rainbow Dash groaned as Pinkie continued following the path until she fell into a hole. Pinkie landed safely and looked up before she realized that it had gotten dark on her location. Because of this, she cautiously wandered around until she spotted a torch where she trotted towards it. Pinkie stretched out her left hoof to reach the torch only to feel a burning sensation. She quickly withdrew the hoof and found herself back on the path.
She stared at her left front hoof to find a symbol she barely recognized. It was a something between a compass rose star and a four-finned fan. ‘What is this?’ she thought as she pointed the hoof to a crate and imaginarily pulled it towards her. The crate moved, which surprised Pinkie even more. ‘By Starswirl’s crazy beard, I have an 1843 Class II Magi Mark! Wait!’ She stared at her hoof again and pushed the crate away. ‘This is that scar I got when I was initiated as an Aware. Does that mean Agent Pinks the Laughter is back?’ She heard her friends calling her. ‘Mystery later, rescue party first. Then I’ll tell Jack about this mark and how it was different with hers!’ She hopped towards the others who were deadly worried about her.
“Where have YOU been?” Applejack asked.
“Fell into a hole and just came back,” Pinkie replied. “Then got this.” She lifted up her hoof and showed all of them her burn. “It still hurts, you know. No touching.”
Applejack looked closer and felt like her hat was about to fall out from her head which was strange since it was secured. Pinkie chuckled and waved her hoof up, causing her hat to fly up. Applejack immediately notice this and quickly took her stetson back down to her head as Pinkie giggled in embarrassment.
“Whoops?” Pinkie muttered as she pointed towards Jack and pulled something from her.
Something came flying at her which Pinkie caught and stared at it. It was a vial with blue liquid inside. She looked at Mistress Jack and noticed that she was glaring. Pinkie playfully ignored this and drank the liquid, surprising all three of them. Pinkie threw the empty vial away into a bin and then stared at the others who stared back in shock. Pinkie looked at herself and shrugged before she continued walking towards Unovis City as stated by the signs Jack were following. The others quickly caught up and then stared at the city before them.
“Huh,” Jack commented. “Unovis is just a regular city but look at that, it has its own shield.”
“Surprising, huh?” Pinkie told the others. For a split second she thought she heard herself saying the same thing on another location near them but she ignored it. “Let’s go! Maybe they have a Pylon Tower! I’m starving!”
“Starvin’?” Applejack questioned.
“Starving for fun!” Pinkie answered with a smirk. “Because the real fun’s about to start!”
Nopony but Mistress Jack failed to notice the barrier breaking apart as she grinned.
“Why are the people here afraid to do their own things without asking others first?” Twilight asked.
Meteor shrugged. “Maybe because the cycle’s breaking up since the actual Amura is full of scientists and explorers who keep tangling into ancient ruins.”
“They are?” Rarity exclaimed. She looked around and saw someone familiar. “Hey, isn’t that my elegant Soira?”
Said Soira flinched and looked at Rarity. “Oh, hello.” Rarity’s Soira walked over them. “You look…familiar. Anyways, I am Bella the Head Dressmaker of all of Dream Realm Destroia. Call me Belle, darlings.”
“My name is—” Twilight was stopped by Meteor Freathers.
“We all already know,” Bella answered, much to Twilight’s bemused expression. “Besides, we just wanted to surprise you all.” She nudged Meteor gently who blushed in reply. “We don’t really hate ponies, the ponies hate us for our hospitality and supreme cowardness around ponies.”
“You’re an Amuran,” Fluttershy pointed out. “No wonder you tried to persuade Diana.”
“Did not!” Bella defended. They then began to argue over who was correct.
“Stop fighting!” Twilight shouted, stomping her foot.
Rarity noticed something and took away Twilight’s bandage on her left wrist to find her burn glowing in a violent shade of violet. She looked over her feet and saw some few sparks coming from where she stomped and then told her to slightly lift her foot. Twilight followed and gasped at the outcome. They saw that the land was also pulsing violet as it repaired itself. Meteor looked at Twilight and bowed down before the three of them became ponies all of a sudden. Fluttershy was the first to react.
“Uh…how did this happen?” Fluttershy asked as the ponies went on all fours.
“I may have an idea what did this.” Rarity pointed to Twilight’s left foreleg where Twilight’s scar is seen. “That mark.”
Twilight looked at her scar and pointed upwards. The scar pulsed white and then released a small beam of violet light upwards.
“Woah.”
“Awesome.”
“That’s impossible!”
Everypony and everyone else looked at Bella, glaring in confusion.
“Only the founders can do such!” Bella abruptly shouted as she pointed at Twilight. “You are not Soira nor Dreamer! You’re one of them! You’re here to destroy the cycle as prophecy tell us all! You are the chosen from the roots of Harmony itself! You’re not a regular pony, you’re the Ha—”
Bella was interrupted by gunshots coming from… Fluttershy?
“Uh… girls?” Jack called. “Ah think Unovis is under attack.”
“Attack by what?” Applejack asked as her eyes passed the barrier and back to Jack. “Oh.”
“It doesn’t seem like the bad kind of under attack,” Pinkie pointed out. “I mean, if I’m seeing this right, that’s the same shapes I found back in Eraida.”
Jack squinted. “Ah don’t see—"
Applejack and Rainbow Dash watched as Jack fall towards the road after Pinkie kicked her in the stomach. They then glare at Pinkie who dusted herself and looked back.
“Why did I did that?” Pinkie guessed. “Because she’s our target. I know how these work out, alright?”
The three look at Jack only to find a mass of black smoke. Pinkie smiled and pointed her left hoof towards the smoke and began to mutter a spell. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash wondered if Pinkie has gone mad. Applejack also had the same thought until Pinkie stopped and a beam of white light hit the black cloud. The black cloud promptly vanished and then they watch the barriered city react toward the attackers which then vanished.
“Well, how'd ya know that’ll happen?” Applejack asked. “Also, why are you acting like this? You weren’t like this before that lightnin’ bolt struck ya out!”
Pinkie winced.
“Why are you thinking about Pinkie like that?” Rainbow asked to Applejack. “It’s just Pinkie being Pinkie on an opera scale.”
“Woah,” Twilight commented. “That’s way beyond the meaning of kindness, Fluttershy. What happened to you?”
Fluttershy looked at the gun she used and holstered it on her saddlebag. “I don’t know what came over me, Twilight,” she calmly expressed.
“I’m sure you were hit by a spiri-temporal lightning bolt,” Bella answered. “Because you looked like it was supposed to happen so you did it anyway.”
“Spiri-temporal lightning bolt?” Twilight wondered.
Twilight’s Soira came from the crowd which war around them. “A peculiar thing for the Dream Realm. I’m still trying to solve how it happens, but since I don’t have proof, all I got are just mental pictures of things.” The three ponies stared at the Soira. “My name’s Twilight Sparkle the Ninth. Call me Lienne.”
“Ninth?” Rarity asked.
“9th Twilight Sparkle of Dream Realms,” Lienne clarified. “What? You think this is the only Dream Realm around?”
“Yes, I did.” Rarity recounted Pinkie Pie’s odd behavior. “I think Pinkie got hit by the Spiri-Lightning Bolt, darling.”
The crowd, including Twilight and Fluttershy, gasped.
“Why?” Twilight asked.
Rarity redrew the scene in Firea Ruins on the dirt. “All I know is that Pinkie seemed to be more Pinkie than before, like she really know the future which I hope isn’t true. She did explain how dying felt…”
“Aha! So she did get struck by one of those anomalous lightning bolts!” Lienne announced. “My goodness, if this is real, then the gears are coming to motion, oh my goodness!”
“Gears? What gears?” Fluttershy asked.
Lienne chuckled only for Twilight to solve what she meant by gears. “The gears of a new era?”
“Yes!” Lienne did a victory dance right on the spot and immediately stopped soon as the crowd dispersed, leaving only the four ponies and two Soiras on the park where they were the whole time.
“And Pinkie have knowledge of the future…” Twilight whispered. “The way she denied things… No…”
“No what?” Rarity, Meteor, and Fluttershy questioned the stunned mare.
Lienne blinked and called dibs for snacks before things got out of hand and hooves. After that, they headed towards a crossroad where three ponies and one revived Soira waited.
(Clearing near South Luna Sea, Equestria)
After recovering from the slight uneasy experience, Princess Luna, Celestia, and Queen Chrysalis saw themselves back on the clearing where they were sucked by a mysterious light. Luna stood up first and shot a fire spell at the book, much to Celestia’s horror. Luna watched Chrysalis vanish into the trees around them.
“Why did you burn the tome?” Celestia demanded. “Why did you burn it, sister?”
“I saw the future,” Luna answered. “And the future showed books on fire, with Twilight’s book the most burned of them all. The copies are dangerous, I doubt we aren’t the ones who have one.”
“Are you saying that somepony has tried creating this before?” Celestia mused.
“Yes.” Luna looked towards the sky for it was night time. “I have seen few of my ponies dream about their own Dream Realm Destroia. I have seen ponies dream about things they didn’t understand because they had read a book which vanished after I personally visit the said ponies.”
“Out little ponies don’t realize they’re hiding a weapon,” Celestia realized.
“Actually, we do know,” a voice called out from the forest. “We all kept it so that we could soon destroy all of it at once.”
Celestia looked around and saw a hooded pony who then revealed herself as Mrs. Cake of Sugarcube Corner. Princess Luna noticed the star figure that kept the cloak together and stepped back. Mrs. Cake looked at the pin and giggled.
“Before I was a baker I was known as the Stargazer,” she told them. “Now, to finish my job…where is Twilight Sparkle?”
“I don’t know,” Celestia lied, much to Princess Luna’s surprise. “Begone, pony.”
“I can’t,” she answered. “The Stargazer can’t leave until Twilight Sparkle is safe.”
“She is in good hooves, Missus Cake,” Luna defended. “Why haven’t you surfaced and tried to contact me when I came back?”
“I was busy,” Mrs. Cake answered. “You know, handling the customers, baking some goodies, taking care of the little fillies.”
“Huh.” Luna looked at her saddlebag.
“Huh?” Mrs. Cake pulled out the notebook and threw it towards the burning book. “Well, the only thing I need to do is to make sure Twilight is safe. Although, your highnesses, I need you to tell me where she is.”
(4-State Crossroad, Dream Realm Destroia)
The Six got into a group hug. Lienne stared at Pinkie’s burn at her left hoof and noticed its shape. Bella and Jessie stared at each other before they both waved. Lienne… Lienne stared at the burn Pinkie had and took notes. She noted how it faintly pulsing pink and checked her right leg. She noticed a familiar burn also faintly pulsing pink. Pinkie looked at Lienne and shrugged before noticing Twilight’s burn and stared at Twilight.
“Uh… Where did you get that?” Pinkie cautiously asked as she began to back off. “That’s… That’s…”
Lienne looked at the burn on her left hand and blinked. ‘You son of a—’
Pinkie froze and pulled out a sword from the ground and pointed it to Lienne.
“Spirit of Destruction!” Pinkie shouted.
The sky began to darken, along with the burn on Pinkie’s arm which seemed to glow brighter. Twilight didn’t realize what she was doing until the sky was black and Lienne is grinning madly.
“Oh.” She looked at her burn then summoned a match and began to burn herself more until the burn shaped different.
Pinkie smiled as the sword glowed green. “By the Past, Present, Future, in the name of Harmony!”
She swing the sword towards Lienne as it flashed violet. “You are not messing with the Pink!”
“But I just did,” Lienne answered in a dark voice. “Oh, let’s see how destructive you really are, Laughter!” Lienne’s form shifted into a dark monster.
Twilight and the others backed off as they watched the duel. Bella and Jessie looked at the others and pulled out similar-looking glass knives and pointed it towards the spirit.
“What in tarnation is that!?” Applejack shouted.
“What in the wide heavens is Pinkie doing?!” Rarity simultaneously asked.
Fluttershy added in another question. “Why is that sword glowing green?”
Bella answered. “It’s the Syn Blade. If Eraida and Amura got themselves the Marken Blade, Destroia has the Avalon Blade. Think of it, they do possess the colors…”
“I see that,” Twilight answered. “What’s with the colors?”
“Ah don’t know,” Jack answered. “Ah think it’s because the Blades are made by three siblings who were special on their own way.”
“Why are they named like royalty?” Rarity suddenly asked. “I mean, they sound like royalty, don’t they?”
The others looked at Rarity.
“They don’t sound like royalty,” Fluttershy corrected. “Unless you’re noticing something that we don’t…”
“She does,” Bella explained. “Amurans have keen sense and a bit of name-selections. Since I’m here, my influence passes over to her. So darlings, the answer is yes.”
“What does that mean?” both Applejack and Jack hissed.
Twilight blinked and looked at the duel saw a weak spot and fired a spell on it. Pinkie noticed this and loses the Syn Blade as Lienne gets spit out of the dark creature as it grew. Twilight gulped before they saw three kids running around the monster. They watched.
The kids ran around the creature until they stopped and then pulled out what seemed to be hilts and clicked a button on it.
‘Lightsabers,’ Twilight thought before realizing she didn’t have these kinds of thoughts before. ‘Are you messing with my mind, Lienne?’
‘How did you—’ Lienne looked at Twilight and rolled her eyes. ‘Whatever. Just watch.’
The laser swords– lightsabers– was then stabbed towards the creature which groaned in pain as vanished into dust. The three kids looked at each other before they morphed into men and woman. Twilight blinked.
“So, Syn,” the woman called. “I guess we just saved the future by altering my favorite moment.”
“Your favorite moment,” the taller man– Syn,– repeated. “Wow, Eva. Much wow. And please don’t tell me this is your favorite moment too, Mar."
“No,” the second man answered. “My favorite moment is the finale. The start of a new Era. Hey, when we go back home, dibs on roleplaying!”
They all nodded on each other as they retrieved their lightsabers which were on the ground forming a triangle. Soon as they touched it, they vanished. Twilight was the first to react.
“They’re Dreamers like us,” she commented.
“Not just any Dreamers, I’m afraid.” The mane six and three Soira looked back to find Princess Celestia and Ms. Ravenshire.
“They’re the Trinity Resistance Leaders,” Ms. Ravenshire began. “They created a group named Trinity Resistance Organization and they just pop up everywhere. This world, my homeworld, and your world apparently are their bases.”
“Equestria?” Rainbow Dash pointed. “Their base? Pfft, impossible!”
“I’m afraid not, my little pony.” Princess Celestia cut in. “They’re from the future, which is why you might not recognize them for now.”
Pinkie hopped over to them and then spot a mark where the creature was. “Oh my gosh, I know this symbol-thingy!” Everyone looked at Pinkie. “It’s Destroia! Something tells me a big party is going on…”
Everyone groaned.
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“Now that I think about it, we have two Pinkie Pies.” Meteor added in after a quick window of silence. “Just to point out.”
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Twilight Sparkle panicked, due to the dire realization of such horrible antics the Dreamer and the Soira Pinkies would do.