//------------------------------// // Chapter 19 // Story: Equestria Crossover Confusion // by Garfield23 //------------------------------// High above Ponyville a meeting of Lord Zedd’s forces was underway, all but one pony from Canterlot had been captured and she hid from view. The arrival of reinforcements from Lord Zedd’s master had overrun the castle and Canterlot boutique but Moondancer knew if she could make it to Ponyville she could get help. She watched the meeting hoping to learn of a weakness in the invader's ranks. She watched as the procession of captured ponies, who were in chains, were marched in front of the city to act has a shield and she felt a small pang of guilt. Fancy Pants, Spitfire, Sassy Sandles and Soarin looked to Moondancer’s hiding spot their last hopes with her. Sombra and Chrysalis had arrived soon after the reinforcements but Puppetmon was causing the evil alliance a headache, the little control freak had to know every little detail. “So the master’s old plan is a fake?” Puppetmon said as he continued to play with his new puppet, Celestia, who was now dressed as a clown, Puppetmon had been playing with the princess like a child would his new toy, he looked over to Godzilla wrecking Ponyville and yawned “So we wait here, till the ponies and their new friends try to retake Canterlot and when they do we wipe them out? That’s boring” as Puppetmon saw it the only way to beat the ponies was a direct attack on the elements but their master’s plan had to be followed “So our plan to bring that Smooze thing, from that other dimension with ponies, to this dimension was a diversion? Why would the ponies know that was our plan? Oh! Is the master going to give them an alley from that other dimension!?” the seven generals before him all nodded “So what is our new plan then?” Lord Zedd shook his head “A need to know basis, it means the six other generals and I know and you as a commander follow orders!” he snapped as he looked at Princess Celestia with an amused chuckle and changed her costume, using his magic, so she looked like a Power ranger with four legs “Ah Princess, I can tell your curious. Our master’s army has seven generals and fourteen commanders! All the allies your precious elements have met are gifts, our master has granted them, once the final battle begins, they’ll be wiped out and then we’ll conquer your dimension!” he laughed at Celestia’s horrified look “Sombra and Chrysalis here are two of our commanders!” Sombra hissed with resentment but he nodded and said “With the crystal heart here, there’ll be no last second save and thanks to Zedd those Rainbow powers are worthless” it was then Sombra hit Celestia with his hoof “That was for taking my empire from me!” Chrysalis also struck the Princess but unlike Sombra didn’t breathe a word “I can’t wait to exact a more poetic revenge on you, princess!” Zedd shook his head “That remains to be seen, you two failed at the Crystal Empire! You let the three other princesses slip through your fing…uh…hooves and now we have to open the portal without that energy!” he then raised his staff “Failure! It’s something that won’t be tolerated!” lightening began to strike the ground around Zedd before he pointed the weapon at Chrysalis who screamed as she was struck by the lightening and reduced to ash “Ah, Sombra remember the only reason I spared you was because your still of use to us!” Moondancer watched in shock as the Changeling Queen was struck down, she couldn’t help but feel a deep rooted sense of fear take effect and knew if she got caught at this point, there was a strong chance she’d be killed too. She watched as one of the generals of evil approached Zedd and then wrapped her arm around the evil, Zedd, then she kissed Zedd on the lines of his mask but that hardly surprised Moondancer, all these generals looked weird to her and the female general looked strange in gold armour. She knew with all the evil generals, she’d would have to wait for the cover of night to make a break for Ponyville and hopefully Twilight would be there but if she saw a chance she would take it. “Dear, you forget we need to open the portal to create the false warning” she said with an evil look at the Princess, she then said “Hmm I might like to keep this pony, I need a new riding mule to transport me from place to place, any objections?” she turned to the other generals who all shook their heads, so long as they got what they wanted, what did it matter what happened to Celestia “My suggestion is we bring through the commanders at the same time as we open the portal to bring the prisoner through and see what they have to say at the same time” “Ah, Galaxia, you’ve always got such wonderful ideas” Zedd said as he wrapped an arm around her and cast the spell to open the portal. The remaining commanders and a pink pony with a bright blue mane in chains stepped out from the portal “Ah Firefly! You look terrible I take it, your friends are doing just as well?” “You won’t get away with this!” Firefly said weakly as she tried to raise her head “I’ll tell the ponies of this dimension of your plan and the Smooze will never rise again!” she yelled defiantly the last word. “Oh shut up!” Zedd snapped as he zapped her chains “You’ve annoyed the master enough! Now fly away before I zap those pretty wings of yours!” Firefly hardly needed any more encouragement and she flew off and over the cliff towards Ponyville “Hmm and so the end game begins” Moondancer saw everything and knew if Twilight and her friends weren’t told they’d prepare to fight an enemy that'd never come, what made that dangerous was they might focus their attention away from the real danger but Moondancer wouldn't let that happen. Whatever they were really planning would be devastating and only she could tell them but she needed to get the information to Twilight. She then noticed the seven generals were forming a circle and she wanted to hear their names. She’d heard the name Galaxia and Lord Zedd that just left five more to give their names. The commanders prepared a table with seven settings and the generals sat at each seat. The first general to speak was a pale man with a long black robe who raised his glass full of a blood red wine “I’d like to propose a toast to our master who’s allowed us a chance at revenge on those who profess to fight for good!” he said as he spat out the last word “I general five Voldemort!” Moondancer took a mental note of the general but she knew names and descriptions wouldn’t be enough but it was the best she could do “I for one cannot wait to return to my home dimension and exact my revenge!” as he took a sip of his drink. The general sitting next to Voldemort raised her glass and said “I general six Maleficent will drink to that toast!” to Moondancer, Maleficent looked like the most terrifying general of the lot and yet of the seven generals, her rank was only six, however on the bright side it looked like this was all very official and each general had to give their name plus their rank. So Moondancer knew she’d get the information she wanted. Maleficent took a sip of her drink. “Yesss, Oooo I like that toast, I General four Megatron will drink to that toast” A large red monster said as he raised his glass in a red dragon head “YYeesss, I do however want to reserve right to have those Maximals to myself!” he looked to the other generals all nodded in agreement “Excellent!” and like the previous he took a sip of his drink. Lord Zedd raised his glass and said “I general three Lord Zedd will also drink to that toast!” he then looked to Galaxia who raised her glass and he topped her up “Sorry my dear” before he too sipped his drink “That’s quite alright” Galaxia said as she raised her glass “I general two Galaxia, will too drink to that toast!” she then took a sip of her drink. “I general seven Loki will also drink to that toast!” he then took a sip and spat out the liquid “I can’t believe how bad the wine is! Who is responsible for this rubbish!” “Indeed but allow me to enjoy my drink” The final general said as he raised his glass “I general one will not drink to the toast, we haven’t achieved victory yet. Many of us were defeated when we achieved minor victories but let our guard down at the worst moment and thus I will drink only when victory has been achieved!” he crushed her glass to dust “I general Aizen demand no less than total victory!” The other generals and commanders all screamed “Yes Supreme General!” and as they sat back down, Moondancer began to move away careful not to make a sound and she spotted a path that was marked with signs that pointed down to Ponyville. She thought to herself that it couldn’t be this easy and she was proved right when a pony jumped in front of her “Hey check out what I found! What your name cutie? The name’s Flash Sentry!” Moondancer looked at him with horror “How could you?! You betrayed Equestria!?” she said as Flash leapt forward, she sidestepped and ran for the path as two monsters tried to stop her but Flash kicked her in the back “P…Please you can’t!” Flash landed in front of her “Such a shame, I’m not alone. You wonder how the Crystal heart fell to the changelings?” he said with a sad look “I gave it to them! You were also found by two more who saw reason, we cannot win and you know I speak the truth!” “N…No…You’re a liar!” she screamed as she hit Flash with her magic but before he could stand up, she ran for the path and made it “Who else did he mean?” she said to herself but she didn’t get much time to think about it. As she reached the bottom of the path she saw Godzilla but she ran for the castle hoping to make it “Come on! Twilight please be there!” Fluttershy was flying towards her cottage in shame, her eyes in her hooves as she cried, she still couldn’t believe all the evil things she’d done, Cloudsdale was gone because of her and what made it worse, she’d hurt Rainbow and her other friends. How could she ever help Twilight ever again? She was a total disgrace to Pony kind “I…I’m a monster!” she cried into her hooves but she couldn’t see where she was going and flew right into Godzilla “What the?!” “Fluttershy! Get away from that thing!” Maud Pie screamed up at her, for the first time showing a reaction other than dull indifference and it was clear she was worried “He’ll kill you!” Fluttershy mumbled “I deserve to die!” she screamed the last word “I destroyed Cloudsdale! I killed goodness knows how many!” she flew in front of the monster’s nose and mumbled “Go ahead kill me! I’ve done so much evil! Please just make it quick!” the monster seemed stunned at the pegasus’s utter insanity. “Fluttershy! NO!” The CMC called up “Please don’t!” but the CMC had got too close and if Godzilla took a step they’d be killed. Fluttershy looked down and spotted the three fillies “NO! Stop!” she flew right in front of Godzilla’s face and looked into his eyes “You stop right now!” she focused her energy on using her stare “Just because your big and in a bad mood doesn’t mean you get to destroy buildings and lives!” Godzilla looked sideways clearly guilty about his actions and completely under Fluttershy’s control “Well!” Godzilla then began to talk in his own language which by pure chance Fluttershy understood “But they attached a bomb to my head and it really hurt!” he said before adding “I didn’t mean any harm, I just want to go home!” he looked at Fluttershy before saying “Sorry!” “That’s better” Fluttershy said as she flew done to the CMC “Is it true one of you attached a bomb to his head?” she asked “He says it hurt” Sweetie bell nodded “Our new friend Stitch did, but that was because he was being controlled by a giant Silver Z on his head!” she explained, she looked up at the monster “Wait so you understood all those grunts and roars?” to which Fluttershy nodded “That’s awesome!” Fluttershy quickly got Godzilla to go sit at Sweet Apple acres and she’d get him home. She followed the CMC back to the castle. The destruction of Ponyville was terrible, the only good thing was the number of causalities was zero, considering Godzilla’s track record that wasn’t too bad but the destruction of buildings near Sweet Apple acres and Flutttershy’s cottage was very complete. There was no structure over two feet that was still standing. Moondancer walked up to the castle and spotted Fluttershy “Your one of Twilight’s friends right?” to which Fluttershy nodded “I need to see her!” the ponies around her seemed unsure if Moondancer was trustworthy because it could be a changeling “OH come on!” Spike then stepped out from the castle having heard the commotion “Moondancer! You got away from Canterlot! Discord just told me, it’s been overrun hasn’t it!?” he asked as he walked up and hugged her “Twilight will be thrilled to see you! Well there she is now” An hour later, Ponyville broke out into excited chattering as the word Twilight was seen approaching the town from the north but there was also a good amount of blame, some wondered where she had been and maybe if she had been in Ponyville their homes wouldn’t have been crushed. Twilight however walked past the ponies in silence, Discord had told her what had happened and the news had been depressing to hear. Tien sighed looking around and tapped Shining Armour on the, what he assumed, was the shoulder “What’s going on? Why are they blaming her?” he asked in a hushed whisper, Tien had already figured out that Twilight was a very brilliant pony but to him it’d be like blaming Goku for his death against the Sayians “It’s silly” Shining however shook his head and whispered back “They won’t know about the attacks throughout Equestria, maybe they saw the Canterlot one up there” he nodded towards the mountain “But the rest…no and since she’s stopped so many other attacks they must believe she should always protect them” Basil leaned in and whispered “Well dash all that, she always has to be? I’d have to say that’s jolly silly” he ruffled his whiskers “She can hardly be everywhere at once, eh what!” Even with the hushed whispers Twilight heard the three talking, she sniffed but got a light tap on the shoulder from Sailor Jupiter “Hey are you okay?” she asked holding out a tissue and throwing Tien, Basil, Shining and Shadow, who’d been quiet, a dirty look but she continued “I don’t know how things work here but you’ve got to know this isn’t your fault?” Twilight sniffed again “Why isn’t it?! I got Discord to open the portal to other worlds and I didn’t think about what might happen!” she sobbed as she took the tissue to see to her puffy eyes “I…I should have known better” Tien suddenly snapped “So what?! So what if it’s your fault that the portals were opened!?” this caused Twilight to shy away, Jupiter looked at Tien horrified and looked about ready to punch him “It doesn’t matter! What matters is what you do about it! I have a friend who would be more concerned with fixing the problem than worrying about how it was caused! You already showed me you want what’s best but if you keep blaming yourself it won’t help! The other thing you can do is learn from this experience!” Basil put his hand on Tien’s shoulder and snapped “Now on hang on there, sir! There’s no need to be so harsh with her…she’s dealing with a bally lot right now!” he looked ready to kick Tien but then they heard a laugh from Twilight. All present looked at her, apparently she had lost her mind but she turned with a smile. “Your right Tien!” She said whipping the tears away “You’re right that I need to fix the problem and worry and I’ve learned from my mistakes before!” she then looked to Basil and Sailor Jupiter “Thanks for your support!” then looking at her brother and Shadow “Let’s move!” Twilight walked up to the castle, she looked at Moondancer with a smile, certain the information Moondancer had couldn’t be good but information was always helpful “Hello Moondancer” she said before she turned to Spike “Spike need to convene a council of War!” this was the first council of war in over one thousand years.