In one of the chamber rooms of the royal sisters, Princess Celestia sat up straight in her bed. Her eyes went wide with worry. She sensed something that made the small hairs on the back of her neck go straight.
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
Her magic was able to pick up traces of an anomaly in Canterlot. She sensed dark magic in the air and a feeling of dread. Her initial thought was Tirek, but this feeling felt much blacker and much more sinister. Celestia managed to control her erratic breathing and composed herself. She dangled her feet on the side of the bed as she got up.
She opened the doors to her chambers and padded along the halls until she reached Luna's door and knocked on it quickly.
Luna opened the door, her eyes groggy and bloodshot. It was clear her sister needed more sleep, but seeing her sister had made her a bit more awake.
"Sister?" Luna asked, still tired and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, "Why are thou awake at this hour?"
"Luna," Celestia replied firmly, "I need you to send some lunar guards into Canterot for patrol."
Luna raised a brow, "Why? What is the matter?"
"I felt a massive magical disturbance, here in the city." Celestia explained.
"Was it Tirek?" Luna asked.
Celestia shook her head solemnly, "I'm not sure, but it was close by. Still, I need you to send a lunar squad to patrol the nearby area."
"Very well." Luna nodded and went to inform the lunar guards.
I coughed violently.
Feeling my throat was killing me after swallowing a few macarons too fast. My mom was right about taking your time and enjoying your food. Now I know what she meant by that. You can't enjoy your own food if your choking on it.
After Hoopa ringed us dinner we all had partaken in the meal Hoopa delivered. Some fish for the carnivorous Pokemon, which Reshiram heated up the fish and cooked it using his flamethrower breath, macarons for us with a sweet tooth, and fruits and berries. And surprisingly for Groudon, hot coal. He gulped down freaking hot coal.
Anyway after most of us ate our food. Except Darkrai who had some sort of weird habit of just staring blankly into space. I returned everyone in their pokeball except Metagross and Hoopa, who I came to accept as my best poke-friends in this new alien world.
It wouldn't be easy if I were on my own. If it weren't for them I wouldn't know which direction town was, and would have been wandering the deep woods aimlessly forever, and that lion we encountered before surely would have eaten me if Hoopa and Metagross weren't there by my side. I was thankful to whatever force brought me here, somehow brought all my Pokemon to life. I'm not even going to question it, but rather thank it.
'Sir,' Metagross spoke mentally, 'Go easy on the macarons.'
After finishing my coughing spree, I settled down and relaxed leaning against Metagross side. Meanwhile Hoopa continued eating like twenty macarons he ringed up.
"BAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRP!" Hoopa belched loudly, after his sixteenth macaron.
I sighed, relaxed, "Damn, sorry...got a little carried away there."
'Quite,' Metagross nodded his head/body, 'though next time you really should-'
CRACK
We all paused and went silent as we heard the sound of a twig snapping under someone's feet. We all turned to each other, wondering if we each heard the same thing.
Metagross spoke in a hushed whisper, 'did you two hear that?'
Hoopa and I nodded, Hoopa spoke up "That's a surprise"
I stood up and whispered to Metagross, "What if it's another predator like from yesterday?"
'Then it would be ill advised to remain out in the open.' Metagross suggested.
Me and Hoopa nodded, we quickly hurried to a nearby bush away from the direction we heard the twig snapping. We crouched down behind the bush, Metagross lowered his body as low as he could on to the ground and Hoopa hovered lower next to my shoulder. But I gasped when I saw the five macarons Hoopa had left where we were. Hopefully if there are predators they'll take the macarons and leave.
Then I thought to myself. Why were we hiding? I have my most powerful Pokemon team with me. I quickly reminded myself I was on an alien planet and there was the possibility it might be one of the inhabitants. But if it was a predator I'd be ready for a fight.
'Lad,' Metagross said, nudging me with one of his white legs, 'Look I think I see humans up ahead.'
I quickly perked up at the possibility of signs of actual humans, "Wait really?"
'I believe so, they are bipedal and appear female,' Metagross stated, 'Oh my, there's quite a lot of them.'
I narrowed my eyes and leaned forward to get a better view. Since it was dark I could only catch a glimpse of their silhouettes, but Metagross was right, they were bipedal, that's a good sign right? And there was a whole lot of them. I counted six, wait there was a smaller figure with them. Seven then? As they approached the area me and my Pokemon ate, their features became more clear.
Once their feature were clearer. Me, Hoopa's and Metagross eyes widened. We were all dumbstruck at what we were looking at. I had to rub my eyes twice to make sure my eyes weren't fucking with me.
Hoopa spoke up, 'Thats a big surprise.'
Me and Metagross nodded, "Yep." We said solemnly in unison.
As the mane six and Spike headed in the direction they saw the two hulking figures near Ponyville. Twilight began reading the journal Discord gave them, she read all the bookmarked pages and noticed a pattern.
"I think I’ve found something!" Twilight said, turning to Applejack’s bookmark. "I’ve been reading our journal, and there’s something interesting about the sections that Discord bookmarked. Applejack, do you remember when you had to tell everypony that the tonic Granny bought from the Flim Flam Brothers didn’t really work?
Applejack nodded "How could I forget? It was one of the hardest things I ever had to do." She replayed the events of her exposing the so-called "miracle" tonic in her mind, "But in that moment, I knew I had to be honest. I just knew it. But what’s that got to do with openin’ the chest? "
"I've been noticing a prompt pattern where each of you face a situation where living up to your Element of Harmony wasn't easy." Twilight explained, she turned to the rest of the girls, "For Fluttershy it was forcing the breezies home."
Fluttershy puts a shocked hand over her mouth at the recollection.
Twilight continued, "For Rarity it was with Fashion Week at Manehattan with Suri. Rainbows, was when she chose to compete on her friends team instead of flying with the Wonderbolts."
"Ooo! Ooo! My turn! My turn!" Pinkie squealed in delight.
"Pinkie, you realized making your friends laugh was more important than proving you were a better party planner. Each of you received something from the pony whose life you helped change. I know it sounds crazy, but maybe there's something special about those objects that could lead us to the location of the keys. The chest is connected to the Tree of Harmony, the Tree is connected to the Elements, and the Elements are connected to all of us. There must be a connection! I hate to admit it, but maybe Discord was trying to be a good friend after all."
"Yeah yeah!" Rainbow rudely cut her off, "I know this is important and all Twi, but we got like a monster to find first."
"Speaking of which, what do monsters eat anyway? Do you think they like cupcakes? That’s a silly question, who doesn’t like cupcakes? What else do you think monsters eat? Oh I know, maybe pasta, with monster jumbo sized metaballs. Mmmh.." Pinkie hummed, hungrily, "All this talk of pasta is getting me in the mood, I know where we can-"
"BAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRP!"
All the girls paused when they heard the tremendous eruption of gas. They all knew it didn't came from an animal, at least no animal they ever heard that belched as loud as that.
Twilight turned to the others and put a finger infront of her lips to keep silent, and motioned them to follow her. Pinkie accidentally stepped on a twig, snapping it, making an echoing sound around the forest.
CRACK
The girls flinched at the loud noise and turned their heads and glared at Pinkie Pie. She noticed all eyes on her, she smiled sheepishly and shrugged, raising her hands up innocently.
The girls continued quietly to the area until they saw a clearing up ahead. They all stepped into the clearing and noticed footprints, and...macarons?
"Ooo! macarons!" Pinkie squealed, "My favorite, well next to pies, cookies, and cake of course."
Pinkie proceeded to grab a hand full and popped a few in her mouth, "Mmmm, yum yum for my tum-tum."
"Pinkie, put those down!" AppleJack scolded, "You don't know where those treats been."
"Silly AppleJack, they've been in my mouth."
Meanwhile, Twilight kneeled down and began inspecting the various footprints, there was a total of five footprints "Look at these footprints girls. I recognize one of them to belong to a pony." She stated looking at some footprints made by a pair of sneakers.
"Wow!" Rainbow yelled, looking at two pairs of giant foot prints one that was about four feet and the other was five feet, "Check out these, they look like dragon foot prints."
"It could be." Fluttershy said, looking at the larger footprints.
"Look at these one though." Rarity said, pointing at a flat circular prints on the dirt with three claws marks, "Whatever do you think could've made these."
"I don't recognize those as any animal I've encountered before." Fluttershy stated, looking nervous at the prints.
"These ones look like they belong to a much smaller dragon." Twilight said examining the last pair of footprints, "Like around Spikes age."
"Let me see." Spike said, he put his foot in the prints to measure them by comparison, it was obvious if it was a dragon it was older than Spike by a couple of years.
"Mmm, fascinating." Twilight muttered.
As the six were busy with the footprints, Pinkies attention was still invested in the macarons left behind. After she put another in her mouth and chewed, everypony heard some rustling. Followed by muffled yelling. Everyone turned their heads in the direction of a bush nearby at the edge of the clearing. It shook violently and the sound seem to originate from there. They then noticed on the ground the circular footprints and the ones made by sneakers were going in the direction of the bush.
Okay.
No, no. I've been turned into a cartoon version of myself, fine. all my Pokemon have come to life, fine. giant lions with wings and a scorpion tail, no big deal. But out of ALL of those things, nothing made me question my mental health more than this.
Pony girls.
They were girls with the heads of ponies. Like a demented four year old ripped the heads off of both her pony and Barbie dolls and glued the pony heads on to the Barbie bodies and stuck the ponies tail behind the dolls ass. And added wings and horns for the hell of it. That is the best way I could describe what my eyes were registering into my mind.
I remembered something in Toy Story where that sick fuck, Sid, did something very similar. My eyes twitched and my jaw was hanging. My Pokemon stared in disbelief also.
There was six of them and a little dragon. The purple one, which I could assume was the leader cause she had wings and a horn, wore a purple plaid sleeveless sweater with a white collared shirt underneath. A dark purple skirt with a pink star surrounded by smaller white stars, and dark stockings with brown loafers.
There were two with wings, pegasi I guess. One was yellow, with a pink silky mane, a yellow midriff with a necklace and a trio of pink butterflies. A light green skirt and sandals.
And the other one...oh my god. I can't believe it but she had rainbow hair. The rest of her was blue, she wore a dark blue sleeveless hoodie with a light blue t-shirt underneath, with a picture of a cloud and rainbow lighting bolt. Rainbow sweatbands around her wrists, denim shorts. Rainbow long socks and running shoes.
The next two looked like a pair of normal pony girls. One wore a steson over blonde hair, she had an orange collared shirt with pockets on the chest with a trio of apples, denim jeans, and cowboy boots. Working gloves and finally a lasso around her waist. Call it a hunch but I think this one was a cowgirl, no doubt she had an accent.
Yee-haw! (Sarcastically)
The next was....oh my god, it was so pink. My more gentle side wanted to hug her so bad, and my macho side wanted to burn her. I was so conflicted, but oh my god was she PINK. She had a pink t-shirt with a trio of balloons, yellow suspenders. Shorts, and striped long socks, yellow, pink, and blue, and finally regular sneakers.
The last one was a unicorn. Admittedly (don't tell any one I said that!) looked kinda beautiful. She was white with purple curls, wore a white shirt, fashionable rings around her wrists. A black skirt with a trio of diamonds (I'm noticing a pattern here), and black stilettos.
Finally the dragon looked around eight, maybe nine years of age. He was mostly purple, with a green underside, green fins on the side of his head and a green mohawk.
'My goodness!' Metagross said, 'Are those humans with the heads of Rapidash's?'
"Hoopa think he ate too many macarons" Hoopa said, he looked around, "Hey, where are macarons?"
Hoopa looked back at the pony girls and noticed the pink one picking up HIS macarons and proceeded to eat them one by one.
Hoopa gasped, he quickly furrowed his eyes and glared at the pink one eating the macarons. Our attention was busy on the girls at the mean time.
"What the hell are those?" I asked no one in particular, still gawking at the pony girls.
'Whatever they are they seem to be looking at our footprints.' Metagross replied, 'Sir, you said before this was an alien planet. But I never thought in a million guesses, the inhabitants would be human Rapidashs.'
"I think some of them are unicorns and pegasi."
'Whats a unicorn and pegasi' Metagross turned to me and gave me a perplexed look.
"Oh right, I forgot your from the Pokemon world," I then began to explain, "Unicorns are like Rapidashs, minus the burning mane. They also use magic like psychic types. And Pegasi are like Ponytas, but instead of fire types they have wings, which makes them flying types."
Metagross nodded his head/body, 'So that would explain why they're manes aren't on fire.' he then gazed to the purple dragon who was putting his foot in the footprint made by Sceptile, 'is that some kind of new Pokemon, I've seen many pokemon, but I don't think I've seen that one before.'
"I don't think it's a Pokemon, I think it's a dragon." I replied.
'Yes, I know it's a dragon type, but from what region?'
"No I'm saying it's not a Pokemon at all." I repeated.
"Macarons!" we both heard Hoopa.
We turned around to see Hoopa was glaring at the pink pony girl who was eating the macarons left behind. He narrowed his eyes and tried to control himself. But when he saw the pink pony chew another one of his macarons, Hoopa lost his temper
"Give Hoopas macarons back!" Hoopa demanded, he tried floating towards the pony girl but I quickly grabbed him and tried pulling him back, "Give it! Give it! Give it! Give it! Give it!"
I quickly covered Hoopas mouth as he raged on, hoping those alien pony girls didn't hear Hoopa.
'Honestly,' Metagross rolled his eyes, 'You can make more appear, stop making such a fuss!'
"No!" Hoopa snapped, "Hoopa only want those!"
Metagross huffed, 'Sometimes you act like such a spoiled child Hoopa.'
Hoopa didn't care, all he wanted was his macarons. He struggled in my grip, as I was certain we were starting to make too much noise, "Damn it Hoopa!"
"Give it! Give it! Give it!"
Soon Hoopa got too rowdy to control and bursted out of the bush with me still clinging on.
"Give it back!"
Hoopa and I bursted out of the bush revealing our location. After we came out of the bush, everything went relatively quiet. The pony girls were now staring at us, I noticed the pink one had her cheeks full, and some crumbs fell off of her lips.
Metagross was also exposed as his eyes darted back and forth, sheepishly 'Oh dear me.'
We all simply gawked at each other for a few moments before I glared at Hoopa and broke the silence. "Uh, Goddamnit. Are you fucking kidding me Hoopa?"