After Nightmare Moon's return, she entrances everypony even the mane six to enjoy her eternal night. It is then up to a batpony named Night Vision to save Equestria. However, there are a few issues he runs into when on the mission.
Set on the pilot episode~
It was the Summer Sun Celebration, Celestia goes missing and Nightmare Moon returns, entrancing all the ponies to love the eternal night. With all of Equestria in a nightmare trance, Celestia's region of Batponies and her special guard legion take action.
Sending out their best associate for the job, a bat pony named Night Vision takes the reigns. However, his attention gets swayed after meeting a stallion named Quick Glance and the other citizens of Ponyville waking up from the trance.
Little does he know that this stallion named Quick Glance might be a reincarnation of his old coltfriend Polaris. Why did Destiny choose to reunite them in this moment? It soon becomes a shaky mission as he tries to come to terms with the situation from all sides. Also, running into the bearers of the miracle stones isn't easy either.
Chapter One: It was a warm summer evening, the crickets were chirping as fireflies opened their eyes to begin their night flight. The moon was raised high in the sky along with the sun and as the sun began descending, the evening was turning darker.
Nightmare Moon’s return was odd. It didn’t seem like there were any ponies panicking for Celestia’s return, and even Celestia’s pupil wasn’t fazed. All of the ponies looked almost spellbound. As if Nightmare Moon had cast a hypnosis spell on them. They just cheered in such a way that it seemed like Celestia had done the sunset.
Nothing sat well here with the batpony in the far back end of townhall. His pulse began to quicken as he darted his eyes throughout the room. He was hoping for anypony, any unicorn pony for that matter to at least cast an attack spell. Nothing happened, and the room fell silent after many hoofstomps and cheers died down. Nightmare Moon gave a speech, and it was a drawl of what the male batpony had read in books and the old fairytales.
It was true. He could just stand up to the mare. However, when her guards were his species, he thought it would be an even fight. He wasn’t looking to test his strength tonight. As he yawned he heard a gasp and saw a blue unicorn stallion looking at him out of the corner of their eyes. Why were they shocked? Had he done something indignant? All he had done was yawn, and he was tired after all. Him and his organization were sent to retrieve the six miracle stones to get rid of the unworthy tyrant. However, to find them, he would need to find the keys to them; whatever that meant.
Soon enough, Nightmare Moon had vanished in a puff of smoke and all ponies were left to do their own “after-the-sun-celebration-fun” as one pony called it. He turned his eye to the left where the doors were and with bored eyes started walking towards them. Until, a blatant force tugged at him. He let out the first emotion in years and showed some fear in his eyes, until he felt a hoof on his back. He turned and it was the same blue unicorn stallion. His eyes then went emotionless again. “Oh, you again…” He trailed off. His voice was gravelly, but then again he hadn’t eaten anything in a long time either. Let alone drank something, but most of the ponies in the room were too sweet for his liking. Also, a certain pink pony was making him gag a little.
The blue unicorn just glared at him. “Yes, me again!” He growled. Was he angry at him? What could he be angry at? Then it hit him, the force must have been him levitating him back. It kind of made sense, but that would have to be his guess for now. “You are very rude! Yawner! How dare you yawn during the Princess of the Night’s grand speech?” The pony paused and he got a glance at the unicorn’s eyes. Yup, they were glazed over: definitely entranced. “Who do you think you are?”
The batpony sighed and looked at the poor stallion. “I am sorry. Let me introduce myself,” He paused giving the entranced pony time to absorb his sentence. He was speaking more clearly than he had in months and it was taking up all his strength to do so. “My name is Night Vision.” He tried to smirk but it seemed like the pony had just gotten a headache. “Pleasure on meeting your acquaintance.” Vision finished, holding out a hoof.
On a closer look, it seemed like the stallion looked faint. Suddenly, their eyes rolled up into their head, and then he was suddenly on the floor.
All Night could do was look in shock at the pony on the floor. “Well, that never happened before.” He looked at around at the other ponies and then his eyes went back to the stallion. He sighed, and his conscience fought with him. “You can’t just leave him here unconscious, everypony knows what happens when you faint during an entrancement spell. It. Wears. Off. If Nightmare Moon finds him without the spell, she might annihilate him.” “He’s just a pony, I don’t know, him. He does not know me. It’s probably good that he fainted.” “Good? You want him to die?” “Well, no…” “Then pick him up, and take a bullet out of here. Plus, you felt that force earlier.” “That was levitation magic.” “That was not levitation magic. That was something else entirely. Something pulled you back into this room.” “Yeah, the stallion…” “JUST GET HIM OUT OF HERE!”
With swift movements with his hooves and wings, he somehow got the stallion onto his back and then flew out of the town hall with a trail of blue behind him.
When he got far enough away, he found himself near a single lone apple tree on a path to a farm. He set the stallion down and flew up and bit an apple off of the tree. Its juices trickled down his neck and some even dripped onto the stallion’s face. “Oops.” Night mumbled. As he munched on the apple he was sitting next to the stallion and he decided to actually take a look at him.
He walked in front of him, and laid down, he noticed the stallion did have some eye popping features. He wasn’t a strong one, but in the moonlight his coat kind of sparkled. It was so clean and shiny and the shadows outlined his muscles well. His eyes went to his mane and it was fairly cut to the length any “normal stallion” would cut it at. The mane was almost a dark grey with a streak of purple going through it. He remembered seeing his eyes back at the hall and they fit his scheme real well, warm yellow eyes to go with the coldness of the blue. Now, if only they would open up.
As he finished his apple, as if on command, another apple fell from the tree. Vision swiped it out of the air with his hoof as he caught it in a blink of an eye. This time he didn’t bother eating it, and just sucked the juices out with the help of his fangs. However, he accidentally spat the apple in the wrong direction and it landed in a dry heap in front of the other pony.
An hour had passed and it seemed like the stallion would never wake up. “Come on!” Night mumbled. “Just get up!” He tossed another dry apple at him and by now he was drunk on apple juice. Mostly all the apples were off the tree and Night didn’t feel as good as he did before. He could almost say he was nauseous but he didn’t want to cause a fuss. “I’ll biiitte you…” He slurred. Then, he scooted over to the stallion and put his muzzle to his ear. “I wi- hic! Biite you soo harrrdd, you neever- hic! Seen iiit-hic! Comin’.” He whispered in his ear.
Next, the moment went by in a blur, Night found himself biting the stallion’s ear, and then the stallion went and shot so far in the air, his horn sparked. “What in Celestia’s name?” The stallion shouted. His blue ear was now dripping blood and he looked at Vision to find his lips had some of his blood on them. “What-“ The stallion breathed and noticed that the batpony’s eyes were now pinpricks, and he looked more like a hungry cat than bat. “No-no, no, no no-“ The stallion’s pleads were cut off by a stinging bite to the right foreleg as the batpony sunk their fangs down into his coat. “NOOO! OWWW!!!” The pony roared.
The next half hour was followed by tiny mumbles from Vision and screams and howls from the blue pony. Then, it seemed in the next minutes, both ponies fell asleep.
Vision awoke to find himself drooling on the stallion’s foreleg as the stallion looked at him in utter shock and disbelief.
“Polaris Night…” Vision breathed. “I feel sick…” He trailed off.
The blue stallion recoiled and shot him a disgusted look. “You feel sick? You drank what?” The stallion paused fidgeting and knocking Night off of him. “-You drank almost a pint of my blood!”
“Sorry…” The batpony replied. “…but I hadn’t tasted that kind of blood since-” He stopped mid-thought. Why did he just apologize? He never apologizes to ponies for drinking them. Why was he telling this stallion this? When did he have that kind of blood? He then froze, his eyes shrinking as he realized what he had noted when he awoke. “Polaris Night?” He looked at the stallion.
The stallion just gazed at him with cold, confused eyes. Oh, how those yellow eyes of his looked cold. “I’m Quick Glance. Who’s Polaris Night?” It had to be him though. Unless, he was a relative of Polaris, but that would be impossible because Polaris had died at an early age.
“Did you experience a strange dream whilst sleeping?” Night grumbled as he sat on his haunches. “Anything that didn’t make the lick of sense?” He prodded.
Quick picked some grass with his magic and levitated it to his mouth, chewing on it while in thought. “Well, I can’t remember most of it…” He trailed off. “I thought Batponies being carnivores was a myth!” He shouted.
Vision had to sneer about that. “That is a myth, my good stallion.” He patted him on the head and smiled cheekily at him. Why had he done that, he had no idea. “However, I think you are thinking about the myth that batponies drink blood, and that my sir, is what you just witnessed.”
“-But why? Why did you bite me?” He asked.
Night’s eyes went half-lidded as he stared into Quick’s eyes. “…because you smelled delicious, and I was drunk on apple juice.”
The unicorn’s jaw dropped open at that. “You…you can smell me?”
“Not now, I’m not thirsty anymore.” He deadpanned.
Quick’s eyes went small and he started shivering. “Oh my Celestia, they do exist… Vamponies… they’re real!”
The batpony rolled his eyes and stood up. “No, I am not a Vampony. I am a batpony. Vamponies can’t even eat apples…” He told him. “Two different things.” He stated waving a hoof in the air. “Now, don’t talk too loudly or Nightmare Moon might hear you.” He hissed.
Quick stood up on his hooves, and when he did, he found himself swaying and almost falling to the ground again. “I don’t understand… What do you me-“
“Hush.” Night put a hoof over his mouth as two bat silhouettes flew overhead.
He could just make out what Quick mumbled under his hoof, “Hey look there’s your friends!”
As the two batponies passed, they seemed to turn their heads down towards them. Then, it seemed like they began to dive.
“Oh no…” Vision whispered. He seemed to tap something on his ear, which seemed to be a black earring.
“Oh no what?” Quick looked at where Vision was looking and the batponies were diving straight to their location. They landed with a sliding screech and regarded the two ponies with cold glances.
“We are going around this town looking for suspicious ones. Are thee suspicious?” They stared at them for a long while until Night coughed.
“No sirs. Just enjoying a beautiful night!” Night Vision had a huge smile and was waving his hoof about in such a way that just made him look ridiculous. It was then that Quick had noticed that Night Vision had the appearance of a Pegasus pony with a dark blue wing.
Quick had to laugh at that and one of the bat ponies reeled.
“What is the joke of the matter?” One of them asked.
Night slapped the unicorn and looked onwards at the two lunar guards. “Don’t mind him, he has uncontrollable laughter sometimes.”
The blue stallion glared at Night. “Why I oughtta-” He growled.
“Hail Nightmare Moon and all her glory.” Night interrupted smiling.
The bat ponies looked at Night Vision then took a final glance at Quick. “Come on brother, it is obvious that these ponies are still in the trance. Let us be going.”
When both guards took off Night’s smile faded and he turned back to Quick Glance. “Well, that went horribly…” Night trailed off.
“Uncontrollable laughter?” Quick growled.
“What? Normal ponies don’t laugh when they are entranced. It’s just not in the books.” The bat pony tapped his ear piece again and then he was back to batpony form.
The stallion shook his head back and forth trying to adjust to the transformation that just took place twice now. “What is that?” He pointed to his ear piece.
“Oh?” He flickered his ear and then smirked at the stallion. “Just a simple accessory containing some transformation magic.”
“Oh…” Quick repeated.
Night Vision watched as the unicorn stood there and as he did, he noticed a glimmer in his eyes that reminded him of Polaris. He couldn’t figure out why. “So, you don’t know who Polaris is?” He prodded.
“No, not a-” Then, it seemed like Quick held his head and then he swayed again. “What is that?” He rasped.
“What?”
“There’s these-” His voice cutoff and it seemed like he fainted again.
“Quick?” Night trotted over and poked him with his hoof. However, it seemed like the pony was out cold. “These what?” He growled.
Night grunted and then fell to the ground letting the air whoosh out of him. Then, he noticed three other ponies coming up the dirt path. “You have got to be kidding me…” He trailed off looking at the passed out Quick.
He flapped his bat wings and got back on his hooves. “I guess we’re doing this again…” He rolled his eyes and then transferred Quick to his back. Then, he bolted into the air, however, seeing a Pegasus flying through the air he stopped mid-flight and the pony on his back inclined into the back of his neck from the brunt of the stop. Thankfully, he remembered to keep flapping his wings. Finding a nearby cloud, he tapped on the ear piece again and then flew off once his Pegasus form had took him over.
However, being a Pegasus didn’t stop him from getting the suspicious look from a rainbow-maned pegasus. Luckily, her eyes were also glazed over and she didn’t seem to care all that much about his “passenger.”
Carrying the unicorn stallion to the base was too risky and he didn’t really have a home here in this pony town. His eyes darted to the stallion on his back. All he needed to do was find a raincloud and hit it to wake this guy up. He searched around for a gray cloud but it seemed like the Sun Celebration’s requirements for the day had cloud bursting involved. The skies were clear of any rainclouds from what he could see. Then, he spotted it: a fountain with a pony statue grazing the center of it. All he would need to do, is throw the stallion in it.
He flew over to the fountain, and although it wasn’t running at night, there was still a pool of water in the bottom of it. He gently took the stallion off of his back, sliding him gently down the slick feathers of his right wing and then he dragged the pony over to the fountain.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a pink earthpony watching him with wide eyes. He gave her a long glaring gaze and then she bounced off and went somewhere else. It wasn’t easy to spot if she was in the trance still or not.
Finally, he hoisted the stallion over the edge of fountain and with a big splash the stallion plopped down in the water.
Immediately, there was a reaction. The stallion sat up and blinked his eyes a couple times. “What? What? I’m alive!” In a daze, he jumped out of the water and then his eyes met Night Vision’s.
“Where do you live?” Night Vision asked him.
“Um, just over the bridge on the other side of town. Why?”
“Let’s go.” The batpony started trotting off and Glance stood there in a daze.
“What?” The unicorn caught up to him and ran in front of him. “I’m not taking you home.” He told him.
Night Vision stepped closer to him and he was right in his face. “Why?” He asked.
A blush was slowly creeping up on Quick’s face and he couldn’t understand it. “Why what?” The unicorn asked.
“That’s the spirit!” The batpony patted the unicorns mane again and then began trotting ahead.
“Huh?” Quick was lost in thought and then went after the strange pony. “Oh wait! I don’t know you, um, you bit me-”
Night sighed and peered at Quick out of the corner of his eye. “Still hanging on to that huh?” He interrupted.
“-and yes! Also, you are a total and complete-”
“Stranger?” He interrupted again. “I know.” He continued walking and then spun around. “Take me to your house and then I’ll explain who I am, where I come from and how I got here.” He told him.
“No!” Quick blurted. “I’m not going to take you home.”
“Pol-Quick!” The batpony stopped in his tracks and then found Quick several feet in front of him. “Teleportation magic…” Vision mumbled. “I saved your life twice!” He called after him.
“No you didn’t because it was never in danger!” Quick responded, now breaking into a run.
Vision looked up at the sky and then to the side of him at a daisy. “What do I do?” He mumbled.
Quick looked at the door to his house. “Saved my life twice… Ponyville isn’t a dangerous town.” He mumbled. “It’s quite peaceful.” He sighed, as he levitated some keys out from underneath the doormat. “But then again, this Nightmare Moon stuff is pretty…” He trailed off shivering. “…scary…” He whispered.
Then, he noticed his neighbor Lilypad looking at him strangely. He smiled to her, but all she did was frown back. “You think our blessed ruler of the night is scary?” She questioned. Her voice wasn’t all velvet pitched as it usually was, instead it was downright creepy and sent chills up Quick Glance’s spine.
“Um…No?” Quick responded. He fumbled through the keys looking for ones to unlock his door and found them.
He could hear Lilypad trotting up behind him. “If you do, that’s okay.” She replied, now standing a couple of inches behind him.
“Oh thank Celestia I have someone-“ He was cut off by a blue blur knocking him through the front door and down on the ground. In the uproar he could hear another stallion’s voice and Lilypad shouting something. Hoof beats sounded as if some fight was going on and then a bunch of dings and whistles and bangs were heard along with brown and blue blurs going throughout his house.
When Quick finally came to his senses and stood up he found his living room had been emptied and moved to up against the front door and windows.
“What were you thinking?” He heard a voice say. As he stood up he came to meet a green-eyed familiar Pegasus pony with dark blue wings.
He blinked his eyes hoping he would go away but after a few blinks, he just stayed put his same green spears glaring at him. “I was talking to Lilypad-”
“That wasn’t Lilypad that was one of Nightmare’s spies! Get your head in reality here!” It seemed like Night started shaking him at the shoulders.
“Hey-okay!” Quick shouted. He pushed Night Vision to the ground and then trotted to the kitchen. “Celestia, I need my tea…” He trailed off.
“Make me a cup too!” Night Vision called after him.
“Oh, you can drink tea now?” Quick called as he trotted back into the main room.
“I could always drink tea.” He smiled. “Especially in this form.” He added fluttering his Pegasus wings.
“Ugh…” Quick grunted and then trotted back into the kitchen.
As he made the tea, a bright flash of scenery change dawned his vision. He blinked and it went away for a little bit, however, it still made him scream when he saw a snowy field instead of his teapot.
“Quick? Was that you?” He heard from the living room.
Another flash of the snowy field appeared along with him looking onto a body with a pale yellow coat. Was that him? Although, his coat was blue not pale yellow! He suddenly began hyperventilating and out of the blue, he heard a young teenage colt’s voice echo off the mountains. “Polaris loves me!” Then, there was shaking.
A bright blue flash illuminated the room as Quick came to the kitchen stove once again and found his teapot in shards around the room. The once boiling water was now sizzling on the gas burner. Had he done that? He turned around to find Night Vision standing there in the doorway speechless with a concerned look on his face.
“You just had a magical outburst. Is everything okay?” Night’s voice rang through his ears but they were ringing so much that he just wanted to collapse then and there.
Although, instead of passing out, he composed himself, and stood up straight for a change. With a sigh, he also wiped the newly found sweat off his brow. “I’m fine.” He then levitated all the broken pieces of the teapot and molded them back together with a “fix it” spell.
“What happened?” The bat pony disguised as a pegasus looked very weary.
“Nothing.” He responded quickly. He wiped some leftover water off the front of the stove with his hoof and didn’t bother looking back.
Vision kept steady eyes on him as he walked over and seemed to turn the stove up some. “Nothing always means something.” He declared.
Finally, the unicorn looked him in the eyes and when he did, the whole world went black and he heard Vision shouting something.
The earth was warm with a soft feeling and the ground was moist from the wrap up of winter. He could almost smell the spring flowers as he watched a batpony cover some seeds in the ground. “Like this Polaris?” The bat pony was just a teenager like him and his mane spilled over the one side of his face. “I don’t think I’m doing it right…” The batpony sighed.
A yellow hoof came up in the field of vision. “No you are.” He smiled.
“Polaris, what’s it like being a unicorn?” He asked him.
A huge slap to the face made Quick recoil and groan as the pain seared up his jaw. As he came to, he noticed a feeling of something wet under his nose and then his jaw cracked when opened it up to speak. “Did you punch me?” He asked.
“Yes, you spaced out. You didn’t hear the kettle squealing?” Night raised a hoof and gestured to the kettle that was steaming on the counter with two cups of tea in front of it.
“No.” Quick responded. “I didn’t. I was…” He trailed off watching a stem of steam rise from one of the tea cups. “Dreaming, I guess.” He finished. He brought a hoof to his nose and looked at it to find red spots on his hoof. Glancing up at Night, he noticed a towel in his hoof.
“Here, your nose is bleeding.”
Quick snorted taking the towel in his hoof huffing a bit and making a bubble of blood trickle down his muzzle. As he held the towel to his nose, Vision was standing there goofily smiling. “What?”
“Nothing.” Then, the batpony picked up the teacup and trotted out to the living room.
“Hmm…” Quick trailed off taking the other teacup in his magic and following Night out of the kitchen.
Although, through the kitchen window a green earthpony was spying and so was a few other ponies with their eyes glazed over.
Night and Quick sat in front of each other as knocks came from the kitchen window.
Sipping his tea, Night just sat on the rug and stared at the stallion in front of him. “So, dreams?” He asked.
“Who are you?” Quick asked.
More knocking came from the door and windows, but the bat pony across from him still sat stoically still. He breathed out once more and then ran his hoof across the threads underneath him. “My name is Night Vision as I told you before at the hall.” He told him. “I come from a-“ He stopped talking when they heard a huge bang from the kitchen. As the bang resounded it was followed by something that sounded like broken glass.
Standing up, Quick went and peeked his head into the kitchen, and he saw Lilypad standing there with a huge grin on her face. “My window!” Quick yelled.
“Your what?” Night stood and then ran over to the Quick. “Oh fruit bats…” He sneered. “We gotta get out of here.”
“Why?” Quick Glance turned around and looked at him, as a purple unicorn pony flew through the kitchen wall.
“-because of that!” Night pointed at the pony who was previously Celestia’s pupil.
“Who Twilight?” Quick turned and looked at her. “She’s just a-“ His voice was cut off as Twilight fired a spell directly at him. In an instant, Quick’s eyes glazed over again.
“No!” Night shouted. “Quick, you’re a stupid idiot pony!” He threw a teacup at him but it just broke into pieces. “Okay, that was probably not a good idea.”
Looking around frantically he searched for anything to throw at Quick and the others. However, it seemed like Twilight was aiming her spell towards Night now- Night’s eyes widened as the beam of the spell was aimed directly at him, using swift speed and agility he dodged it barely avoiding the adjacent wall of the living room.
“Hold still…” The purple unicorn bantered.
“No!” Night ran over to the door where he piled up some furniture earlier. He picked up a clock off of an end table and threw it at the unicorn blasting her magic everywhere.
The clock hit her in the side of head with a huge WHACK, and she fell to the floor in a thump. It seemed like Quick started to charge up his horn when he saw the mare fall.
“One of us…” Quick moaned.
Night trembled where he stood as he watched his friend fire a beam at him. Using his wing, he picked up a dusty owl ceramic art piece off of a table and flicked it in the direction of Quick Glance. It seemed to hit him in the jaw again and then he slumped to the floor; however, it seemed like he wasn’t out fully yet. With his brute strength he picked up the end table and whacked it on the floor making one of the legs splinter and fall off. Then, he ran over to the blue stallion and whacked it on his head and the unicorn was soon out cold once again.
Vision sighed in his tirade staring at the two unicorns on the floor. He then looked up, noticing that the green earth pony was still standing there. Her ears were flattened against her head and she was looking at the scene with wide eyes.
“How-“ Her voice was choked and it seemed like she was fighting her head for words. “How dare you hurt ponies under Nightmare’s night!” She screamed as tears welled in her eyes.
“Gosh, where were you standing? Up front?” Night asked her flatly.
“Why does that matter?” The earth pony growled. “What matters is ending whomever betrays our lovely-” All of a sudden the pony was interrupted by a pink blur coming in to jump on her back.
“Oh hush silly Lily! Have some cake!” The pink earth pony from before seemed to shove some cake in her mouth and that seemed to cause her eyes to let up and soon enough the glazy eyes were gone.
The green pony recoiled, but then continued chewing. “Oh! Thanks Pinkie!” The pony muffled under a face full of cake.
“No problemo!” The pink pony sang. “What’s going on here? Is there a party?” Pinkie asked. “Oooh! Are we playing an apocalypse game?” She gestured to Night as he looked at her with a face that was a mix of shock and confusion.
“What?” He asked. Then, he shook his head. “Ugh, never mind.” He looked towards the kitchen wall. “Quick’s going to kill me…” His eyes darted towards Quick, then back at the pink earth pony. “Who are you anyways? How are you not entranced?”
“Whooo arre you!” The pink earth pony bounced up to him and bumped him on the nose. “I’ve never seen you around here!” She laughed.
He watched her with intense curiosity. Why isn’t she answering his questions? “I don’t have time for this…” He walked over to Quick Glance and then remembered he was unconscious again. Then, he went into the kitchen and retrieved the tea kettle; it had to have cooled down by now. He carried it out to the living room and then poured some on Quick.
However, it seemed like the liquid, for whatever reason, was still steaming hot. As the liquid trailed down to Quick’s face, Night was immediately regretting his decision. “Magic kettle, magic kettle, magic kettle!” He screamed.
When Quick began to stir, he immediately scooted out of the way of the hot water that Night had apparently still been pouring. “What in Tartarus is wrong with you!” The unicorn yelled.
However, Night Vision still stood there pouring the hot liquid now on the rug.
“Night?” Quick waved a hoof in front his face. When he got no reaction out of him, his mind started panicking. “Night?” He slapped him across the face but Night still stood emotionless. By now, the kettle was empty but Night’s hoof still had it pointed down. “Batty you’re scaring me…”
“Scaring you? He’s scaring me!” Pinkie’s voice emanated from behind the unicorn.
Shock rang through his body as he turned around to face the party pony standing behind him. “Pinkie? What are you doing here?”
“Pfftt,” Pinkie waved a hoof in the air as she took out a map. “Well, your neighborhood is crawling with ponies. They said they were after the blue stallion out of the trance, and I just assumed they meant you!” She announced. “I mean, they could have meant Noteworthy but I figured I would check here because well, the wall was crashed in!” She finished. “Oh look, there’s Rarity!” Pinkie sang. “Hi Rarity!” She waved.
Quick looked at Pinkie and then back at Night. Then, he looked at where Pinkie was looking and found the fashionista pony behind Night with her horn smoking. Rarity wasn’t the one to use advanced spells, then it hit him. “Rarity entranced Night Vision?” His eyes widened as he looked at the white pony. Her blue eyes were now staring straight at him and Night finally looked at him.
“Oooh! I bet nopony saw that coming!” Pinkie exclaimed with a bag of popcorn.
Quick looked at the pink pony and then at Rarity, as she seemed to charge up her horn again. “Rarity, you’re gonna injure yourself…” Quick trailed off with his eyes wide. “Remember magic class as a filly?” He had to finish his questions short as he dodged her spell at him.
“I don’t care!” Rarity shouted.
Then, the blue unicorn saw the purple mare starting to stir on the floor. “Ugh, my head…” Twilight stood up and then when her eyes met Quick’s she turned around just in time to cast a shield spell against another one of Rarity’s spells. The mare gasped for air after making her shield fall and then greatly regretted it. However, it seemed the Pegasus pony standing in front her jumped in her direction and pummeled her to the ground holding her down. “Aagh! What are you-” She looked at his eyes and they weren’t a clear green.
“Twilight be careful!” Quick told her. “He’s-” Quick stopped talking when Twilight screamed and fired a spell at Night Vision.
Instantly, a rush of events happened. As soon as the beam hit Night Vision, he began seeing spots in his eyes and then his earring piece started sparking and shocking him. As he screamed he kept switching between Pegasus and bat pony. His screams echoed off the walls of the house as enormous pain crept through his ear, and he finally threw the earpiece off, the piece sparking some more and then catching the rug on fire. Night Vision collapsed to the floor in a heap of exhaustion and he twitched as one last tremor of transformation ran through him; changing his ears into normal pony ears and turning his pupils normal, however, his wing was stuck on batpony with a Pegasus appendage. He screamed again as the final tremor ran through his legs.
“Oh my gosh! I’m sorry! I didn’t know that was-” Twilight was interrupted by another hypno-beam of Rarity’s. “Eep!”
Quick looked towards Rarity and then levitated the clock and threw it at the white mare, hitting her unconscious. “Seriously…” He huffed.
Quick Glance ran over to Night Vision, now crossed with Pegasus and bat pony traits. “Night?”
The stallion looked up at him with glaring eyes and moaned. “I feel incredibly sick…”
“You know, I think you get sick, mixed with hurting…” Quick mumbled. “Are you okay? We could take you to-“
With an exasperated huff, Night Vision stood up. “Am I alright?” He asked. “Am I alright?” He growled. By now, everypony in the room was staring at him. “No.” He paused. “I am not alright. In fact, I am more or less than alright.” He added. “I am supposed to be stopping Nightmare Moon in her tirade, but all I am doing is getting side-tracked, by somepony who could be my old coltfriend in a past life and nonetheless, getting entranced by a unicorn!” He blurted. “…and if that’s not enough, I am also hit with a spell so powerful enough, to damage my transformation accessory!”
The moment Night stopped talking he noticed Quick’s ears had flattened against his head. Also, the purple unicorn whom used to be in front of him, somehow disappeared to beside Pinkie.
“Also, I don’t know what they are, but I am also supposed to find the miracle stones…” He breathed, stomping a hoof. “-and…your house is ruined.” He finished, his own ears falling back against his skull.
The blue unicorn huffed and his eyes went wide. “Coltfriend-” He gasped, before a blast of a breeze followed by a cyan blur flew through the house and knocked the wind out of him.
“Yes! Coltfriend!” Night Vision hollered over the intruding pegasi.
A beam of purple light came from Twilight’s horn, blasting the cyan Pegasus off of the stallion and knocking her down. “Why is everypony coming to us?” Twilight breathed heavily, rubbing her horn with her hoof. A unicorn mare like her shouldn’t be using her magic so profusely.
“-because they believe we’re against Nightmare Moon…” Night Vision hissed under his breath stomping his hoof again.
“Nightmare Moon?” Twilight’s eyes went to pinpricks and every pony in the room suddenly noted the herd of ponies trotting up to the house.
“Enjoy Nightmare’s beautiful night…” One of them mumbled.
“It’s great for the owls…” A yellow Pegasus murmured from the back. “-and the other nocturnal creatures.”
Night Vision inhaled and rolled his eyes. “I’m nocturnal, and if I don’t have my day to sleep, I will go insane…” He shot back.
“The night is beautiful!” A rosey pink colored pony shouted.
“Mmhmm.” The yellow Pegasus nodded.
Quick Glance looked at the ponies surrounding them. “What do we do?”
“You ponies need cake!” Pinkie Pie suddenly raved.
“What?-“ Night Vision squealed suddenly as Pinkie pulled a cake out of her mane, and threw it at the herd.
Twilight’s ears fell back against her head. “We need to get to the library!” She shouted. When she shouted that, Rainbow Dash began stirring, and Twilight darted out of the house through where the kitchen window once was, firing magic at ponies whom came at her.
“Twilight!” Quick called after her, his eyes pinpricks. “Where’s she going?”
“To the library silly…..” The pink earthpony leaned on Quick.
Rainbow sat up, holding her head. “Ugh, she shot me!” The cyan pegasus’ face twisted into anger and frustration and shot off.
“No! Rainbow Dash!” Quick reached out a hoof but the rainbow maned mare was too fast to grab.
“What’s wrong Quicky?” Pinkie asked, bubbly.
“There are still tranced ponies out there.” Quick mumbled, looking down at his hardwood floor.
Night Vision huffed, shoving his hoof into the floor and trotted over to the window that was shattered. “I need to report back.” He stated emotionlessly. “What? Now you’re gonna leave? Is that even-“ The stallion didn’t even get to say his thoughts before Night shot out of the house. “Safe?” Quick breathed, finishing silently.
Night Vision glided through the sky. He hated this inbetween form. He also still felt like heaving, due to his insides being crossed between bat and Pegasus. He flapped his wings once and turned his flight pattern to land on a cloud beneath him. “I wish I was a unicorn right now…” He trailed off gazing at his hybrid wings. A knot in his throat surfaced and he turned his head up to the sky. He found himself coughing and then he rested his head on the cloud’s surface. “I can’t fly like this…” He sighed.
There was trotting then underneath the cloud, but predicting it was just any other pony, he didn’t feel like looking. He shifted his position on the cloud, turning onto his left side when he heard shouting. “Hey you!”
He growled, shifting his weight, so he could peer over the side and then saw some bat guards yelling up to him. His ears suddenly pinned back and he shrunk himself against the cloud, picking his tail up.
“Hey!” The other guard shouted. “We know you are up there!” With each of their shouts, Night began getting more and more nervous. It seemed like his mind reverted back to when he was young and his nerves were acting up at the moment.
‘Why would they want me? What would they want me for?’ He thought to himself. He snorted breathing out, and then suddenly blazed into the sky, some phlegm in his throat coming up to his mouth. However, when he thought he was in the clear behind a few other clouds, a rope soon found its way around him. “Aah!” He screamed, thrashing about trying to get loose, but it was hopeless. “What is-” He looked back at the batponies and standing beside the two guards was an orange earthpony, pulling him back down.
“Thank you for your assistance.” One of the batponies told the mare.
“No problem ya’ll. I live to serve Nightmare Moon. The apples look so beautiful in the moonlight.” The orange mare told them. She had an accent, and a tri-apple cutiemark.
Night Vision sighed, and let them pull him down. He was too tired to struggle. “What do you want?” Night Vision asked.
The two bats stood there stoically and then looked at Night Vision’s wing. They inhaled and then shared a glance with each other. “We have orders to take you to the Queen.” The one said defiantly.
Night Vision backed up, and his ears flattened against his head. “Mmm, are you sure?” His hoof picked up and his tail docked in between his legs. He wasn’t counting on himself getting caught, or a request for Nightmare Moon to request to see him. He felt himself gulp, and then his eyes and ears picked up on a blue blur and sounds behind them. Then, it seemed like his courage returned. “Um, I mean, her night is awfully beautiful.” He smiled. “I wouldn’t have it-“
“Oh please.” The orange mare rolled her eyes. “You ain’t one of us. I can see through it like I was reading a book in the desert with no sun.” Her hoof stomped on the ground in anger and she walked up to him. “Just go see our beautiful ruler!” Her green eyes looked full of anger as Night Vision stared into them.
“Oh…but I am.” Night Vision choked. ‘What is this pony a lie detector or something?’ His thoughts echoed throughout his head. He inhaled and raised his hoof in the air. “This night is the most beautiful I have seen in a while. Far better than the nights we have ever had before!” He smiled again, this time wider.
One of the bat ponies glared at him. “I do not know.” The bat pony shook their head. “Though, if thou are still under, what is the new prayer?”
“New-” Night whispered under his breath. His eyes darted to and fro and his stomach churned again.
Suddenly, a cyan blur shot from the left of them and knocked both of them down. “You bats need to be taught a lesson!” A raspy voice sounded.
“What?” Night squealed at the sight of the once tranced Pegasus.
“Hey Batty!” The rainbow maned-mare called to him as she landed in front of him. “How’s it going? Love the wings!” She smiled at him, nudging him in the Pegasus appendage.
“What?” Night asked again his ears now pinned to his skull in annoyance. His eyes went half-lidded and then opened wide once a blue coat stallion came out of the shadows.
“I thought you were going back to base?” A stallion’s voice sounded, as Quick Glance came shyly forward.
“I got sidetracked...again.” He responded. “-and a crazy mare pulled me out of the sky!” He jabbed a hoof into the earthpony’s direction.
“What? I don’t know how I would do that-” The orange mare replied.
Rainbow Dash stared into the mare’s eyes and looked at her. “Applejack? Are you okay?”
“I am fine.” Applejack responded. “Are you enjoying Nightmare Moon’s night?” She questioned, smiling widely at Rainbow Dash.
Quick Glance recoiled and rose a hoof to his chest. “Applejack is in the trance?” His eyes widened.
Rainbow Dash poked Applejack and stepped towards her. “AJ, are you?”
“Ah don’t know what ya’ll are hootin’ about.” She declared. “Ah’m fine.” She exclaimed stomping her hoof.
