Years have passed and the Mane Six where still protecting Equestria ith the Magic of Friendship. But now it will be different. Starting tonight. For a mysterious figure in a cloak watched over Ponyville from a mountain. He began to speak in a sinister, dark voice.
"Look at them. So cute, so peaceful laying in their comfy beds. Gotta give credit to their so-called ruler. It's like she really brought peace and harmony to this world. But not for long. The time of waiting is over. This time nothing will stand in my way of achieving my goal. This world along with the others will be doomed for life. And I will possibly recreate it in my own image. Now that's peace and harmony. But this boy, even so I can do it on my own, can't do this all by himself. Not now. Always search for allies in combat. But who could insist me to do this crime? I will search all over this whole world looking for dark ones. Griffins, dragons, whatever race they are. These villains can surely help me. With them and men of my own, it won't fail. Celestia, your time is up." He chuckled showing a grin underneath his hood.
Morning, Celestia's sun shined over Equestria and each pony began to wake up. We'll focus our attention on a castle that's in Ponyville. it's called the Castle of Friendship. Inside the castle, somepony is still asleep. A unicorn/alicorn pony with a pale, light grayish mulberry coat, violet eyes and streaked dark sapphire blue, violet and brilliant rose mane. Her cutie mark is a six-pointed star surrounded by five little stars. Rays of sunlight began to shine through the curtain and the pony's eyes opened. She yawned cutely and got out of the bed. She went to another room where another resident is still asleep. A purple dragon with green spikes. The pony nuzzled the dragon awake. His eyes began to open, he was still sleepy.
"Wake up, number one assitant. We got a lot to do." The pony said.
"What's so important that I have to get out of bed much earlier?" The dragon asked.
"Have you forgotten?!" The pony asked in shock.
The dragon gave a questioned look.
"I'll give you a hint. It has something to do with Princess Celestia." The pony said.
The dragon began to think.
"It's a very special day for her." The pony said giving another hint.
"Wait. Wait. Don't tell me. I know. Let me think." The dragon began to think and think until he couldn't find anything. "I don't know. Unless it's her birthday."
"That's it, Spike." The pony said.
"What? It's her birthday?" Spike asked.
"It's her 1001st birthday." The pony explained.
"Wow. That's really..." Before Spike could finish his sentence, the pony gave a small glare.
"A large number. I was going to say a large number. But isn't that tomorrow?" The dragon asked again.
"Yes, it's tomorrow. But we want to prepare something special for her in Canterlot and in Ponyville." The pony said.
"Alright, I'll help." Spike said. But then his eyes felt heavy and slept again.
The pony rolled her eyes and couldn't help but chuckle.
"Why don't you sleep a little longer. Me and my friends will take care for the most important stuff." The pony said.
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During the soundtrack, Twilight prepared herself. Brushing her teeth, washing her mane and then she walked outside. She takes her checklist and quill with her. During that time, other ponies in ponyville were coming out of their houses. Many of them, also remembered the princess' birthday and want to surprise her. Somewhere in Ponyville was Sweet Apple Acres, the farm that belongs to the Apple Family. One of Twilight's friends lives there. An orange Earth pony with a blonde mane, a Stetson hat and three apples for a cutie mark. She prepared carts filled with food and other members of her family arrived to help her to bring it to Ponyville. Somewhere else there's a cottage where a yellow pegasus with pink hair lives. Her cutie mark is three butterflies. She and her animal friends were taking flowers with them. Up in the sky, in a cloud house, a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt for a cutie mark. stepped outside, stretched herself and flew away in a flash. Inside Carousel Boutique, a white unicorn with a purple mane and three diamonds as cutie mark was preparing fabulous costumes for everypony. And inside the bakery known as Sugarcube Corner, a pink mare with a pink fluffy mane and three balloons as cutie mark was baking many cakes as possible. Joyful and excited as ever. Even a blue mare and an orange stallion where helping her.
Everypony was excited. Many were decorating the town. Even some of the trees, bushes and bridge was decorated with bells, bows and streamers. They actually don't know that a hooded figure was watching them. Sometimes there were clumsy moments. Like a grey pony named Derpy, who was accidently dropping a basket of muffins on somepony's head. The pony looked angry at her while she was giving a sheepish smile. The purple unicorn pony has arrived. She controls everything and checks everything on her list. Sometimes she helps when there's trouble. Even three little fillies, a yellow Earth pony with a bow, a white unicorn and an orange pegasus who also got their cutie marks, created a special gift for the princess. Some of their friends helped them to make it perfect. At the ending of the song, The purple unicorn pony checked the last thing on her list.
"Alright, everypony. I guess we have everything. Now I need to look if everything's perfect." The purple unicorn spoke.
Two ponies named Berry Punch and Carrot Top raised a banner that says 'Happy Birthday, Princess Celestia'. The purple unicorn saw this and was very happy.
"Now that's better, girls. You, finally, placed her entire name on the banner." she said.
"Yeah, we couldn't fit her name the last time we did this, so we used a longer banner." Carrot Top said.
"And what have you got, girls." she said referring to the three little fillies. They showed her a beautiful picture of Princess Celestia. "Simply beautiful, Apple Bloom."
"Thanks, Twilight. But we couldn't have done it with the rest of the class." The little filly called Apple Bloom said.
Twilight then saw a mountain of presents.
"Whatever is in there, I'm sure the princess would love it." Twilight said.
All of a sudden, the mountain of presents seems to get smaller. Derpy noticed that.
"Is it me or are those presents running away?" She said.
Twilight heard what she said and turned around and saw that more of the presents are gone. She quickly ran at the back of the mountain of presents to see what's going on. To her shock, she saw three familiar creatures. They seem to be dogs. They digged a hole and took all of the presents.
"Hurry up, you muts. I'm sure there are some gems in those presents. I can smell it." The leader dog named Rover said.
"Hold it right there!" Twilight shouted. The dogs turned to her. "Those presents are for the princess. Keep your dirty paws of them."
"Stay out of this, pony. These belong to us now." The small dog named Spot said.
"Give them back right now! Or I'm going to have to make you." Twilight threatened.
"So you want a fight, eh? Than a fight it will be. Fido, get that pony!" Rover shouted.
The big dog named Fido charged at her, but Twilight shot a magic blast at him that send him flying. The two other dogs also charged at her. She shot another blast of magic, but this time the dogs digged under to try to attack her from beneath. Behind her, Rover digged up to the surface and grabbed her.
"AH!" Twilight screamed. And she was thrown to the ground.
The other ponies ran into their houses. Just as Rover was about to attack her again a cyan blur knocked him over.
"Rainbow." Twilight said.
It was the cyan pegasus with the rainbow mane.
"Not only me." She said and showed Twilight their four other friends and their little dragon friend.
"Alright, doggies. Get ready to meet Bucky McGillicuddy and Kicks McGee." The orange cowpony spoke while referring to her hind legs.
"Give those presents back, you ruffians." The white unicorn said.
"It's that whining pony again!" Rover screamed.
"Quick the earplugs!" Spot shouted. They reached behind them and placed some earplugs in their ears.
"That won't help you from being punched." Rainbow Dash said.
"Alright, girls. Let's teach them a lesson." Twilight said.
They each showed of their special abilities to the three dogs, but the dogs also give them the best they got.
The orange pony was bucking Rover and he lands into a cannon that's being used by the pink Earth pony. She pushed the button and Rover was sent flying into a wall. In the mean time, Fido was fighting Rainbow Dash. She kicked as hard as she can, but because Fido's so strong he gave Rainbow a punch in the muzzle which caused her to bleed. He then threw a large boulder at her, but it was blasted by Twilight's magic. The white unicorn summoned some gems in the fight, while Rover threw some gems of his own. But she didn't know that Spot digged up to the surface right behind her. He placed a bomb under her. Twilight saw that.
"Rarity! Look out!" Twilight shouted.
Rarity looked underneath her. She began to scream and ran as fast as she could. The bomb exploded and she was hiding behind a cart that was turned over. The pink pony was behind that same cart.
"Wow, that could have really ruined your coat, Rarity." she spoke.
"At this moment, I'm more afraid to be a goner than that my coat would be ruined." Rarity said.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash was trying to chase Spot who's still under the ground. But each time she tried to catch him, Spot closed the holes.
Rainbow became annoyed.
"Pinkie! I need your Pinkie sense right now!" she called to the pink pony.
Pinkie went straight to her friend. She waited until something happened, then her knee got pinchy.
"He's about to come out right next to me." Pinkie said.
Rainbow readied a cloud. When Spot came out from the ground, she shot a lightning bolt at him. The impact causes him to cough a small cloud of smoke from his mouth and at that moment Rainbow punched him as hard as she could.
"Enough! Retreat!" Rover spoke. "You win this round, ponies."
And they ran away. The Mane Six won and they took the stolen presents from the hole the Diamond Dogs digged. The other ponies were cheering for them.
"Phew, they're not damaged." Twilight said in relief.
"Why would they take these presents?" The yellow pegasus asked.
"That's what they always do. Those dogs are like a bunch of pirates. They steal everything. Mostly gems." Rainbow Dash explained.
"A bunch of party poopers, you mean. Trying to ruin a birthday. How mean." Pinkie Pie said.
"Well, at least we saved those presents. Nothing's going to stop our princess' special day." the orange pony spoke.
"That's right. Come on, girls. Let's make sure everything's perfect for tomorrow." Twilight said.
And they went back doing their preparations.
Meanwhile, the Diamond Dogs ran behind a bunch of trees.
"Oh, we were so close." Spot said.
"Those ponies ruin everything." Fido said angrily.
"We only want some gems. Is that too much to ask?!" Rover shouted.
"If there was only a way to get everything we want without any of those ponies ruining our plans." Spot said.
"Perhaps I could be of some help." Somepony spoke.
The dogs widened their eyes by that.
"Who's that? Show yourself!" Rover shouted.
"Temper. Temper. I don't mean you any harm." The voice spoke again. "I reveal myself to you if you listen to my plan."
"Plan? What plan?" Fido asked.
"My masterplan to bring Equestria and all the other worlds to their knees." The mysterious voice said.
By hearing those words, the dogs became more interested.
"Hm. Okay. We'll listen." Rover said.
"A wish choice indeed. Very well, I reveal myself to you." the voice said.
The voice belonged to a strange creature. He wore a cloak and a hood so nopony can see his face. He came from behind a tree and went straight to the dogs.
"Who are you?" Spot asked.
"Just a friend. I have another name, but I despise that one. You can call me 'Spectrus'. Get it? It has the word 'spectre' in it." The mysterious being said.
The dogs looked at each other with weird expressions.
"Anyway. I want you three to join me in my gang. As long as you cooperate with me, you can have everything you want. Imagine it, every gem in Equestria will all be yours." The mysterious being called Spectrus said.
"If what you say is true, then were in." Rover said.
"Anything to get rid of those ponies, uh, Mr. Spectrus." Fido said.
"Excellent. But you three is not enough. I need more allies." Spectrus said.
"More allies?" Spot said.
"And I know just how to find them." He said. He reached in his cape and sent multiple small metallic balls in the sky and sent them far away from Ponyville. The dogs never seen balls like that before, but they also couldn't help but to look at his paw or something. Unlike the Diamond Dogs who have four fingers, Spectrus has five.
"What are those?" Fido asked.
"Science, my friend. Science. These message orbs will go to the ones with a heart of darkness. And speaking of more allies, I found one in here." Spectrus spoke while reaching in his cape. He picked out what looks like a comic book. "I stole it from a store in Canterlot."
The balls went to many places. They've found some suitable individuals. You can only see a bit of how the ones that were chosen look like. Those are an eagle creature with the hind legs of a lion, A red lizard about the size of a human, a strange kind of alicorn with holes in their legs surrounded by an army, some kind of giant dog with another hand for a tail, two yellow ponies who seem to be brothers, a blue pony with a jacket, a large being with horns, a pony who seems to be an archaeologist and trader and a pony with a suit who seems to be a manager. The orbs came to each of them and revealed a holographic picture of Spectrus. They were surtenly surprised by this, but when Spectrus hologram began to speak, they listen with great interest.
"Friends. Those who are evil. I know what you're all thinking. This is totally new to you. But I say, don't be afraid. I came here to help and to ask for your help. This might be strange, but we have a lot in common. We lost things that we desire. We've been humiliated and we were cast out by these ponies and we've been denied our rightful places. But not for long. I have a plan that will make us kings and queens for eternity. But it only works if we work together. The choice is yours: you shall unite or you shall fall. I don't want to see you as minions, but as allies and comrades. Do you finally want the things you desire most? Then come meet me at the Castle of the Two Sisters. It lies somewhere in the Everfree Forest. You can't miss it. If you agree, we will finally de-throne Celestia."
With that said, the hologram disappeared.