Ben Tennyson and his friends morph into ponies getting taken to Equestria after a battle with the Forever Knights and now contest with the world of many magical creatures.
After the Changeling Invasion, Equestria gets the famous Ben Tennyson and his friends over to their world as they were suddenly shipped here by unknown forces believing they were supposed to be dead. Princess Luna starts acting more aggressive and isolated jeopardizing the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration, but what everyone on the surface world does not know is that a sentient piece of Nightmare Moon seeks a return to the real world and plunge it back into her everlasting night.
The underground mines in Bellwood were once filled to the brim with miners and workers shoveling out piles of rock in order to see what they might fine which is a precious resource called authentic shiny gold bars during the Gold Rush days. These would be shipped off and sold at the furthest corners of the village for close to ridiculous prices, but it made a lot of townsfolk rich which allowed them to expand on the construction of Bellwood from a small village to an inner city much like what it is today in present time. However, the mines were shut down once the gold became priceless and other means of money were made, but the legend is still told that gold remains hidden within the cave walls of the mines which makes it the perfect hunting grounds for a certain group of bounty hunters.
Mine carts were pushed on two separate sets of train tracks as they were filled each with six canisters meant for holding rare valuables. The pushers were two men donning silver metal suits with three rectangular holes revealing pitch blackness inside the suits. Each knight had a sword, a drill, and a laser pistol at their waists and one of the knights held up a flashlight to see in the darkness of the mines. Each knight had a special symbol on the chest area of their suits which is a shield with four squares cut out with colors of red and yellow filling the squares and a black infinity symbol in the middle.
"It sure is a spooky place being locked up for so many years," One of the knights said breaking the ice in the quietness.
"Don't wet your suit," His partner retorted with a chuckle. "We just need to get to the hotspot the boss told us about and get the gold."
"How do we know there's even gold left? It's been close to 25 years since this dump has been used," The first knight stated.
"The boss tracked it with a special chip and located various hotspots where the stashes are. I'm sure we didn't get sent in here for nothing," His partner replied as he saw his metallic palm vibrate bringing up a circular holographic map showing multiple red dots inside a map of the mines.
The two knights passed by a small opening between two cracks as a little light attached to a wire peeked out along with an alien soldier with periwinkle-colored skin wearing a blue and black uniform. The alien soldier retracted the light back to his suit and tapped into his wrist communicator.
"Everyone, two Forever Knights have just entered the vicinity of the area. How is everything on your end?" The alien soldier asked into his communicator.
The view transitioned to a boulder as a girl and boy peeked over the top using the darkness to conceal their hiding place as the knights came down their way. The girl has green eyes and red hair tied back in a pony tail wearing a normal red shirt with a white collar and sleeve coverings, navy blue skirt, black leggings, and black shoes. The boy has long black hair wearing a sleeveless black leather jacket with a white tank top underneath and white sleeves covering his arms that were ripped. He has blue ripped jeans and black boots as he picks up his walkie-talkie connected to his belt.
"We see them coming. Just waiting for Ben to give the signal," The boy reported back to the alien soldier as both teens kneel down in their hiding place.
"Just what do the Forever Knights want with centuries old gold anyway? It's practically worthless compared to today's price on the material," The redhead girl wondered.
"These creeps always want the latest leftovers. I wouldn't be surprised if they happened to find out it was alien gold" The boy whispered.
From above, a blue monkey with a bushy mane came into view hanging upside down from the ceiling as he hunched close to keep himself hidden. He has a buckle vest with green straps filled with black stripes leading down to a dial with a green hourglass symbol on it. The monkey looked down waiting for the knights to get under him.
"Ooh! Ooh! These guys should really look out from below," The blue monkey whispered as he lowered his tail to shoot a strand of silky web to wrap one knight up with making him yell as he got hung on the ceiling.
"What the devil?!" The first knight exclaimed as he tried grabbing for his sword, but the darkness prevented his sight.
The boy came up towards the knight touching his armor as the boy's skin started going full metal and he turned the knight around punching the noble warrior down with a straight haymaker. The boy stepped foot on the soldier’s chest looking down with a smile as the knight flashed the light on the metal-absorbed teen with his hands on his hips.
"Didn't see that coming, huh?" The boy taunted as the knight fought his way back up grabbing his sword.
"Levin? So, you and your rapscallion crew are behind this assault then?!" The knight recoiled as he gripped his weapon tightly.
"I like stopping you doofus soldiers. What did you expect?" Kevin taunted as he cracked his knuckles while Spidermonkey joined his partner's side.
"Certainly, you haven't forgotten that we don't come alone," The first knight stated as he raised a gloved hand while lasers started pouring out in the mines from both sides.
Gwen got up creating a mana shield as the lasers made cracks causing her to create a new one shielding the right side of the mines. The first knight came forward swinging his sword to which Kevin tried blocking, but the strike sent him back sliding across the stone floor. Spidermonkey jumped the walls fast trying for a swift punch, but the first knight ducked taking a knee and kicking the blue monkey alien backwards. Spidermonkey put both feet into the chest of the first knight and Kevin grabbed his arms locking him in a Full Nelson hold, but the first knight broke free grabbing Kevin and launching him straight into Spidermonkey taking out both men. Rook unhooked his Proto-Tool from his back and started unleashing blasts on the first knight, but the first knight used his sword to block the shots swiping Rook away with one heavy swing. Knights came from the left side swiftly holding out their laser pistols shooting at Kevin which connected taking Kevin down on his back. Spidermonkey flipped through the lasers using one paw to lift himself high hitting kicks to three soldiers and their heads piling them up against a wall.
"Very pathetic attempt at stopping our plans," The first knight boasted as he stood his ground against the heroes. "None of you possess the capability to defeat a true knight."
"You're just one roadblock. Ooh! Ooh! You ain't anything special!" Spidermonkey exclaimed as he rose on his paws.
"A fool can only keep trying and delaying his inevitable defeat. You haven't changed one bit, Tennyson," The first knight stated.
"It's like I've said before. I always win when I don't give up," Spidermonkey stated as he slapped the dial on his chest beginning another transformation.
Spidermonkey began transforming out of his current form and became much bulkier getting very heavy armor in the form of building blocks. The new alien has a body structure of a gorilla and very large fists. The building blocks creating his body have colors of red, blue, and yellow with his eyes remaining green. The green hourglass dial appeared on this new alien's chest as Ben Tennyson has become the Segmentasapien known as Bloxx.
Bloxx chuckled and crushed the ground sending a wave of crumbling rock towards the first knight launching him back sending him rolling on the ground. Gwen started losing her current shield as Bloxx extended his arms lifting himself up and creating an indestructible wall protecting his cousin and the laser blasts were absorbed into his body.
"Kinda tickles, but they sting so bad," Bloxx stated in an amused yet painful tone.
Gwen created two mana discs launching them at the first knight sending the noble warrior into a double punch from Kevin slamming the knight into the stone wall. Kevin kicked the knight into the wall punching the face and really giving it to the knight before the first knight punched Kevin to the ground hard. Gwen created a mana force field around him as the knight tried slaying him. Rook changed his Proto-Tool into the bow and arrow setting launching three orange energy arrows taking the knight out. Bloxx then turned into a colorful sphere launching himself down on the knight slamming him into the ground further returning to his normal form. The first knight groaned as his cohorts started shooting with their laser pistols, but Bloxx easily dismantled them with parts of his body thrown as projectiles. Rook took out some with energy arrows blasting their enemies backwards and effectively getting rid of the Forever Knights.
"By the authority of the Plumbers, you all will stand trial for your crimes," Rook stated.
"Not likely, cop boy. Not without this rare beauty," The first knight retorted as he pulled out a silver ball with a white light fixture.
"The heck is that?" Bloxx asked.
"Oh man…how did you get that thing?" Kevin asked.
"A very valuable and illegal piece of alien machinery. A level 13 dimensional sphere void incinerator…able to blast any of you twerps towards the farthest reaches of the galaxy," The first knight replied.
"You're not thinking straight…setting that off will destroy all of us, these mines, and anything within the radius," Rook warned.
"It beats rotting in a jail cell. We had a failsafe just in case you came to stop us and now it's payback time!" The first knight stated as he turned the sphere's top half and activated it making the sphere shake.
"We need cover!" Bloxx stated as he began acting as a makeshift dome covering up Gwen, Kevin, and Rook, but the dial started beeping red turning Bloxx back into a human boy.
The boy has brown hair, green eyes, a black shirt with green lines down the middle and sleeves with a white '10' in the middle of the shirt. He also wears long brown khakis and green/white sneakers as Kevin and Rook caught him going down on the ground.
"Really? You couldn't have lasted five seconds longer when we wouldn't be dead?!" Ben yelled at a mysterious watch on his wrist known as the Omnitrix.
The sphere started rumbling and began levitating in the air as the Forever Knights began their getaway from the sight with the first knight launching a laser beam at the ceiling closing off an exit route with many boulders. The sphere started exploding as Ben, Kevin, Gwen and Rook all closed their eyes bracing for the worst with the light enveloping them all as their forms disappeared from the existence of reality.
As all four individuals would probably guess, they were deader than doornails and their souls were sent to different corners of the galaxies, but in hindsight, the dimensional sphere teleported their souls along with their physical bodies intact as they were slowly beginning a unique mutation into different forms. As for where they were going, it was about to be a different experience for all those involved.
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"Oof! Agh! Ugh! Ahhh!"
The grunts and groans came as Ben, Kevin, Gwen, and Rook all hit the ground on the blades of grass out in the middle of a field dog-piling on top of one another before they all rolled off nursing their bodies from the fall. Kevin felt his head shaking it and trying to clear his vision as his eyes were very blurry and he rubbed his eyes of sleep.
"I feel like bells are inside my ears," Kevin stated as he covered his ears and steadied his head from the dizzy spell.
"That was a big blast. I'm surprised we are still in one piece," Ben added as he looked at himself and immediately raised his eyebrows stunned to not see his fingers wiggling…it was actually circular hooves.
"Ben…what happened to your hands?" Gwen asked as she pointed at Ben, but saw she had a magenta hoof as well gasping.
"What the-?!" Kevin recoiled as he saw his body and stood up fast on all four hooves turning around to make sure he wasn't seeing anything too weird.
All four individuals has been turned into ponies! Ben is a green pegasus with a long brown mane and tail wearing his normal shirt, but not his khakis and the Omnitrix still attached to his left wrist with green wings tucked to his side. Gwen is a magenta unicorn as she has a long orange mane and tail wearing her red shirt, but not her black skirt as she felt her magenta horn protruding from her forehead. Kevin is a grey earth pony with a long black mane and tail wearing his sleeveless white shirt and black leather jacket, but not his ripped jeans. Rook has periwinkle-colored fur and is an earth pony himself with a teal blue mane and tail wearing his full Plumber uniform as he saw the Proto-Tool near him picking it up surprisingly without fingers and stuck the device to his back like normal before tapping his chin in thought.
"It seems we have mutated into a new form. Possibly a different species of aliens," Rook suggested.
"Not even close. We are different species of horses. I'm a pegasus and I gotta say that these wings are awesome!" Ben cheered as he flapped his newly acquired wings.
"I'm a unicorn as it looks like. It makes sense since I use magic a lot," Gwen added.
"Well, I don't want to be a stupid pony. I can't even imagine how stupid I must look right now!" Kevin complained.
"Hey Gwen, what's that on your butt?" Ben asked as he pointed a hoof at Gwen's posterior.
Gwen looked weirded out by her cousin's question, but looked nonetheless gasping as she saw a image of a brown ancient spell book with five yellow lines attached to a yellow rectangle.
"It's my spell book! How did it get on my posterior?" Gwen asked as she felt a slight blush cross her cheeks.
"You have one too, Tennyson! It's the Omnitrix symbol," Kevin spotted as Ben looked to see the familiar green hourglass over a black circle.
"Okay, this is weird," Ben stated.
"Kevin, you got one as well!" Gwen yelled as she trotted over to her boyfriend and pointed towards his symbol of a stone, a metal pipe, and a piece of driftwood.
"What the-?! Someone better have a good explanation of what's going on or I'm hurting them!" Kevin demanded.
"Calm down, Kevin. We can't be sure who is behind this creation and where exactly we are," Rook stated.
"That's a good question. Where are we?" Ben asked as he strolled forward seeing grassy fields all around him and the occasional bird flying or bunny hopping by the group.
"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder. First, we become ponies and now we are in a completely new world," Gwen added.
"I think I see a town off in the distance," Rook observed as he looked over to see a bunch of buildings out in the distance pointing with one hoof.
"Looks like we're walking then," Gwen stated as she began taking a dirt trail down to the town in the distance.
Ben and Rook started following her as Kevin looked back at his form and made a frown with his ears drooping to each side of his face. Gwen yelled "Come on, Kevin!" as the usual brute of the team sighed galloping over to his team wondering what could've made him into his new form.
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Two pegasi pushed two clouds next to each other in the sky as they were following the weather report given to them calling for a cloudy afternoon with a bit of rain scheduled for the evening. An orange pony with a braided blonde mane and tail tied back with red rubber bands wearing a brown cowboy hat, sporting green eyes, and has a picture of three apples on her posterior held open a green saddle bag with a red apple logo on the front. Three red delicious apples were covered in a blue aura and levitated into the bag gently as the orange pony closed the bag.
"Thanks for making' this errand run with me, Rarity," Applejack praises her marshmallow-colored unicorn friend. "It's a genuine hassle getting these things ordered."
Rarity is a white unicorn with a spiral and well-done purple mane along with a curly purple tail. She also has three diamonds tattooed on her backside and she smiled at Applejack with a friendly nod.
"But of course, darling. It is my natural trait to be kind to other ponies and give them assistance when needed," Rarity stated.
"Ah would've had Big Mac tag along, but he forgot to do some cleaning in the chicken coop and had to stay back. Ah told him staying out past dark was a bad idea, but Granny Smith set him straight," Applejack explained as she giggled.
"I'm just glad to have a very uneventful day and with the rain settling in, it will give me more time on working on our special dresses for the Summer Sun Formal. The princesses wanted something more special to raising the sun and lowering the moon so they created this extension to the festivities," Rarity added.
"Yeah, plus, we don't have ta worry about troublemakers coming' through and causing a ruckus," Applejack stated.
Applejack and Rarity went about their business as other ponies crowded the marketplace and a few zoo keeper ponies had on tan uniforms along with tan hats labeled "Ponyville Exhibit of Exotic Creatures" written in gold writing on the front of a green circle stitched into the hat. They were grabbing ropes keeping hold of a big beaver-type animal. It has brown fur all over it's body and red bulgy eyes with sharp claws along with a peach beaver tail. It struggled against the restraints snarling to break free as the ponies led it to a cage carefully.
"He's a scrappy fella," A purple pony with a black mustache commented as he used his hooves to mark down on a clipboard.
The beaver locked both hands around the ropes pulling back as the zoo keeper ponies went flying hitting the ground hard. The beaver animal roared tearing away the ropes binding him and other ponies started running in fear grabbing their belongings and hightailing it. Vendors completely abandoned their stands as the beaver animal smashed through them and wrecked them to pieces.
"Ah guess ah spoke too soon on that thought," Applejack stated as she stared wide-eyed at the beaver monster.
"We need to run!" Rarity exclaimed as she and her farmer friend started making their way for the exit as the beaver reigned over the marketplace.
Rarity and Applejack almost made it, but got knocked over by some other ponies running in fear so they quickly took shelter behind a fallen table waiting for a way out. Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Rook trotted into the town square noticing a herd of ponies coming their way kicking up a dust cloud. They were lost in the shuffle coughing violently as the locals had made it to safety.
"This is quite the first impression," Kevin stated.
"They're running in terror from something," Gwen added.
The four took notice of the giant menacing beaver terrorizing the town and picking up plywood to smash together. The beaver threw wooden tables on the ground breaking them and roaring at the top of it's lungs as Ben noticed it right off the bat.
"Something tells me that cranky beaver has an attitude problem," Ben observed as he pointed a hoof at the beaver.
"Well, why don't we fix it for him?" Kevin asked as he grabbed a piece of wood absorbing the material and breaking it in half.
Kevin's whole body became encased in the material he absorbed as he charged forward standing on his hind legs going to punch the beaver's chest, but that made it really angry as the beaver picked up Kevin. Gwen jumped into action charging up a surge of magic with her horn and blasted the beaver in the face making him drop Kevin.
"What the crud? I have less strength with this form!" Kevin exclaimed as he backed up from the beaver.
Rook took off his Proto-Tool standing on his hind legs shooting the beaver with laser blasts distracting it from it's path of destruction. Kevin hit it with a double swing with his hooves taking the beaver down a peg. Ben thought over what form he could use cycling through his selection before deciding on one that could be useful for this fight and the dial popped up. "Just for once, give me what I ask," Ben muttered as he slapped down the dial beginning his transformation.
Ben started morphing as his muscles started getting stronger and two more limbs came out from his sides as well as another pair of green eyes. Ben wore a leotard that is black in the middle and green on the sides as well as black shorts along with a green belt with white rectangles on the sides. The Omnitrix dial appeared on the belt and Ben's skin became more red in color. Ben became a ponified version of the Tetramand, Fourarms!
"Whoa, not too different than my actual form! Just what I needed!" Fourarms stated as he stood up on his hind legs going forward into battle.
Rook turned his device into a Power Sword with a energy blade attached as he tried slashing the beaver to calm it down, but got a kick to the body launching him far. Kevin tried creating a spiked mace with his hooves and succeeded with his right hoof hitting the beaver in the stomach, but he got grabbed and smashed into a nearby ice cream cart. Fourarms ducked under fists coming at him as he jumped on the beaver hitting the face with his upper fists and jumping down crushing the feet with his lower hoofs. The beaver animal swatted at the Tetramand as Fourarms skidded across the ground and Gwen kept blasting magic with her horn keeping the beaver at bay.
"We can't rely on brute strength…it won't be enough to deter it's rampage," Gwen stated.
"What else can we do? It smashed most of everything around here," Fourarms retorted blocking a punch off with his arms. "We need it to calm down. Maybe put him to sleep with something," Gwen suggested.
"I know just the thing, but you'll have to cover for me," Fourarms interjected as Gwen nodded firing off another surge of magic.
Fourarms weaved his way around the action as Kevin managed to get a punch to the chest and Rook stabbed the beaver from behind to keep it occupied. Fourarms climbed the beast once more shifting to the back area before getting up to the neck and he started putting pressure on the right side of the neck as the beaver roared loudly trying to buck Fourarms off, but the brute alien kept himself stable. The beaver started feeling sleepy before finally going down and taking a nap settling down from it's path of destruction while Fourarms rolled off on all sixes.
"Ugh…you think there would be animal control around here," Kevin stated as he returned to his normal pony self.
"Yeehaw! Ah don't think I've ever seen a beaver go down like that before!" Applejack announced as she stepped out from behind the flipped table.
"It's a good thing you all didn't hurt the poor thing too harshly," Rarity added as she joined her friend.
"That's how we usually handle it. Put it to bed and it will wake up happier than before," Fourarms stated as he chuckled to himself.
"We felt like we needed to do something," Gwen added with a friendly smile.
"And it's ah good thing when you did. There's no way we could've calmed that feller down long enough to get him to stop breakin' everything," Applejack stated.
"You all saved the town," Rarity added.
The Omnitrix timed out as the four-armed pony that stood before them quickly changed back into Ben in a matter of seconds from a green flash of light. Applejack and Rarity closed their eyes being blinded before reopening them to see Ben with a sheepish grin on his face.
"What in tarnation? Where did that six-hooved hustler run off to?" Applejack asked with a confused stare.
"Um…this is going to sound really crazy, but I can't really lie my way out of this. He was me," Ben replied.
"Come again?" Rarity asked as everyone groaned knowing this would be a long story to both explain and make sense about.
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Applejack took every pony back to Sweet Apple Acres giving everyone a glass of their famous apple cider that the family makes with the apples in their backyard. They currently were seated in the kitchen at the dinner table while Ben recollected everything about what the Omnitrix is, how he got it, his adventures, the various villains he faced when he was younger, and even the other devices he got in his hero career. Gwen and Kevin discussed their powers as well as Rarity could feel similar vibes from Twilight and Rainbow Dash concerning these two with similarities in personalities.
"So let me see if ah understand you all…you come from another dimension and you fight with this watch doohickey that turns you into aliens? And you both absorb material and use magic?" Applejack recounted back to the group.
"That's correct. At first, I kept most of this a secret and just used the watch to stop evil where it happened," Ben stated. "Where does this involve you, darling?" Rarity asked as she looked over at Rook.
"I'm a officer for the intergalactic police unit known as the Plumbers. We stop alien criminals and lock them away in the prison in the Null Void," Rook replied.
"That's a freaky dimension none of us want to go to," Kevin added as he drank the rest of his cider.
"Duly noted. Ma next question might as well be this: what are you all doing here in Equestria if you all are from another dimension?" Applejack asked.
"It's all a little fuzzy. We were fighting this group of vandals known as the Forever Knights trying to prevent them from stealing some gold and one of them had some…weird sphere object that blinded us and next thing we know, we are here in this new world," Gwen replied.
"My word! Who knew knights could also be thieves as well!" Rarity gasped as she placed a hoof over her mouth. "Ah normally be inclined to not believe any of y'all and what you said, but seeing things and believing them is kinda how it works around here at this point. Plus, ah can sense when somepony is lyin' and you folks don't seem to be those types," Applejack stated with a friendly smile.
"We wouldn't make this up if it wasn't true," Rook interjected.
"It's a hard nut life for us," Ben added. "We just go along with everything and try to do the right thing for the world."
"Well, let me and Applejack here be the first ones to properly introduce you all to Equestria and even here in Ponyville. You all also have some notable fashion choices," Rarity stated as she looked over each of the ponies.
"Really? I hadn't noticed I was any good at putting clothes on," Ben said as he looked himself over.
"Darling, your outfits speak very highly of where you regard yourself and how you carry yourself. A inspirational design of personality," Rarity explained her point further.
"Whatever you say," Kevin scoffed as Gwen nudged him to mind his rude comments.
"Well, ah got some chores to catch up on. You fellas wanna help me out?" Applejack offered to Ben and Kevin with a smile.
"We got nothing better to do. What kind of chores are we doing?" Ben asked as he got up from the table putting his glass in the sink.
"Me and ma family do apple bucking so we can collect the delectable apples before they go bad. It's been our tradition for many years ever since ma and pa had us," Applejack replied.
"Apple bucking, huh? I like the sound of it," Kevin stated.
"Your idea of fun is really scary, dude," Ben muttered to his best friend.
"I guess while you guys do that, me and Rook will check out more of Ponyville," Gwen chirped in.
"It will be good to know more about this place and we can introduce ourselves to the locals as well," Rook added.
"I'll be your tour guide, darlings. I know my way around Ponyville like the back of my perfectly manicured hoof so it shouldn't be a problem to show you around. I can even take you to see Princess Twilight," Rarity offered.
"Princess?" Gwen asked.
"Well, she would prefer us to call her just Twilight, but I do have my formal side on at the moment and I just have to know who your designer is," Rarity replied as she inspected Gwen's outfit.
"Is she always like that?" Ben whispered over to Applejack.
"It's better to let her have the moment otherwise we'd be hearing an earful. Come on, fellas, I'll show you two the backyard and you can meet my brother," Applejack stated.
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The fields of Sweet Apple Acres were vibrant with many trees swaying in the wind that was casted by the weather pegasi as scheduled. A big red pony with a flat orange mane and swaying tail was trudging through the dirt dropping seeds into marked holes for their growing phase. He had half of a green apple as his cutie mark and sweat poured down his forehead as he dropped each seed into the place meant for them covering them up with dirt he shoved on top with his hooves. The red pony pulled a rake attached to his brown neck brace in order to straighten the dirt in the field and make sure it didn't get clumpy.
"Hey Big Mac, did ya learn yer lesson?" Applejack asked as she trotted over to her brother with Ben and Kevin.
"Eeyup," Big Mac replied as he continued his work while Applejack led Ben and Kevin over to the apple trees.
"Alright, boys, we just need ta get those apples down and into baskets. Y'all get started while ah fetch the carriers," Applejack explained as she ran off.
"This can't be too hard. I'll just go Humungousaur and shake the trees to get all the apples down. Seems easy enough," Ben stated.
"I hear you don't have the best track record of getting the alien you want," Kevin added.
"That's cause this thing doesn't like me for some reason. It's happened ever since I got this thing," Ben defended as he started selecting an alien on the Omnitrix.
Kevin rolled his eyes before looking over at one tree getting an idea together as he placed both hooves on it absorbing the wood onto his skin like before. He breathed before putting his hooves together and standing on his hind legs bending down to one knee. Kevin put both hooves together slamming them down as apples started raining down on the ground due to the force affecting the trees. Ben took flight flapping his wings hard to get away from the rumbling before he fell on his flank and Kevin blew some leaves out of his mane as he smirked.
"Did you really have to do that?" Ben complained.
"It got the job done, didn't it? I'd be more worried about you catching up, slacker!" Kevin retorted as he playfully pushed Ben back.
Ben glared at his former nemesis and best friend as he cycled through the aliens selecting one he knew could get the job done. The dial popped up and he slammed a hoof down on it beginning his transformation.
Ben started getting reptilian skin, but maintained his pony shape before his head grew a black mask with a sharp end. His hooves gained claws out of them and his skin along with his face turned blue with green eyes showing as well. Ben's feet became blue and had ski balls under them supporting his weight as well as his tail turning more reptilian being black with blue stripes. His chest became green and his sides became black with the Omnitrix dial appearing on his chest. Ben became the Kineceleran known as XLR8 as he struck a pose.
"You want me to catch up? I'll do it in a flash!" XLR8 challenged as he zipped to each tree he could and brought down piles of apples placing them in front of Kevin placing his hooves on his hips.
"Of course you had to take the easy way out," Kevin retorted as he returned to normal.
"You did the same thing!" XLR8 complained.
"I feel like mine was a much more effective plan and actually had some critical thinking to it," Kevin suggested.
"Critical thinking? You're kidding me, right? All I had to do was use super speed and I had them all down ready for picking," XLR8 argued.
"You used super speed. It's an easier way to get the apples rather than working it out the old school way," Kevin stated.
"I can't believe you're getting on me for using superpowers when you used them as much as I did," XLR8 retorted as he placed a claw in Kevin's chest.
"What in tarnation did you fellas do?" Applejack asked as the boys looked over seeing the farm mare carrying three empty baskets on her back.
She trotted over dropping the baskets off seeing the piles of apples on the ground to the ones that fell out of the trees to the empty trees themselves. XLR8 and Kevin smiled sheepishly with their hooves behind their backs hoping they weren't in any kind of trouble.
"We kinda decided to speed up the process," Kevin joked as XLR8's face fell flat with annoyance.
"That….is….amazin'! This is much more effective and faster! With you two around, we can have a whole baker's dozen of pies before the Apple Family Reunion," Applejack explained.
"There was nothing to it," Kevin boasted.
"Now, if we get just get the corn growing, ah think we can move on to making a big feast in a few days," Applejack stated as she looked over to see Big Mac finishing his work in the dirt patch.
"Why wait a few days?" XLR8 asked as he slapped the Omnitrix dial and began to transform again.
Ben's form started getting covered in red armor and a metallic mask with green eyes took over his face. The armor formed a hood over his head and covered his body head to toe with a black patch in the middle and claws coming from the suit. The Omnitrix dial appeared on his chest as Ben became the Orishan named Water Hazard.
Water Hazard trotted over to the dirt patch and raised himself up on his hind legs putting out his covered hooves to release fresh water out onto the seeds. The seeds started sprouting stems and leaves growing in size a little bit. Water Hazard got on all fours again trotting back over to his friends.
"That should give them a head start," Water Hazard stated.
"That's perfect. Think you got a form that can help with berry stompin'?" Applejack asked as she pointed over to two giant barrels filled with grape berries.
Water Hazard took that as a challenge and he slapped the Omnitrix dial getting ready for yet another transformation.
Ben's body began to take a thinner shape with the armor going away and him losing the ears, but he grew a sharp edge from his head and his green eyes stuck out more. His hooves turned more thinner with pinchers growing out of them and longer legs with more flexibility. Ben wore a green shirt with one black stripe on top and the other on the bottom with a white stripe going around the back as well as the Omnitrix dial on the chest. Ben became the Orthopterran known as Crashopper.
Crashopper took off jumping high into the air and into one of the barrels continuously stomping down on the berries. Applejack looked over at Kevin with an amazed look.
"Does he always get this excited?" Applejack asked.
"Once he's gone, he's gone," Kevin stated as he trotted over to the other barrel going to climb the ladder placed by the barrel.
Kevin started squashing on the berries as Applejack brought over two metal buckets so the grape juice would fall from the pipes extending from the barrels.
"I have been meaning to ask Applejack….just where are we in terms of a new world?" Crashopper asked.
"Well, yer both in Equestria. A very magical land with all kinds of creatures and sights to see," Applejack replied.
"That sounds like something out of a children's fairytale book," Kevin muttered.
“Ah think you mean a foal’s fairytale book,” Applejack corrected.
Crashopper and Kevin would continue on the conversation about Equestria with Applejack learning more of these sisters named Celestia and Luna ruling over from the main castle in Canterlot, the trinkets known as the Elements of Harmony, the many evil doers that Equestria has seen ranging from Nightmare Moon to Discord to Lord Tirek to many creatures from the Everfree Forest and more including the various celebrations they like to do from time to time like the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration as well as the formal happening afterwards. This would be their new home for now until they could find some way back, but Bellwood would be the farthest thing from their mind in the coming weeks.
(Scene Break)
While the boys helped out back at Sweet Apple Acres, Rarity led Gwen and Rook into the heart of Ponyville as they got waves and welcomes which they responded positively to. Rarity stopped by her workplace known as the Carousel Boutique, which is a building shaped like a merry-go-round and has a cylindrical shape to the entirety of the building. Colors of pink and purple were on the decorative pillars and pony statues allowing both visitor ponies to marvel at everything they were seeing. Rarity turned back to them before she opened the door.
"I'll be only a spilt-second, darlings. I have to show Twilight my designs for our dresses so we can make arrangements. My sketchbook is upstairs," Rarity stated as she disappeared behind the front door ringing the bell on her way in.
"A very colorful display," Rook observed as he cocked his head at Gwen. "I've heard that pink and purple are the preferred colors of many female humans."
"In a sense you're right, but we like a lot of other colors as well," Gwen corrected.
"So what do you think about meeting this princess?" Rook asked.
"If we get in good graces with a ruler, it's a good sign for us and maybe we can find a way back to Bellwood," Gwen replied.
"But what is the way home? Alien technology of the caliber that dimensional sphere was can't be reversed easily," Rook stated.
"Hmmm...it's gonna have to stay in the back of our minds for now. I'm no expert on that stuff," Gwen added.
"The only known place the Forever Knights could've gotten it would be from the intergalactic black market. Prices are very high there and some sellers have been known to handle really dangerous pieces of technology all for a big profit," Rook explained.
"Any ideas on big name sellers?" Gwen asked.
"Those are in the confidential records back in the Plumbers Base and due to our current conundrum, I can't go access them," Rook replied.
"Well, I guess we'll have to rely on this princess knowing something and providing a remedy to our situation," Gwen stated. Rarity exited and locked up her shop with her sketchbook stored in a white saddle bag with three diamonds on the front. She then trotted back into the main town sqaure with Gwen and Rook in tow as they would soon be heading for an enormous purple castle with a diamond star hanging above it.
(Scene Break)
Rarity trotted up to the front door of the castle knocking three times and allowing the gold door to open accessing inside. Gwen and Rook enter right behind her seeing the green stain-glass windows, crystalline-lathed columns, and six thrones placed in the middle each with a different symbol at the top. Sitting in one throne with the magenta star at the top is a purple alicorn with streaks of pink and lavender in her mane as well as her tail. Her eyes, horn and wings are purple as she is currently reading a scroll with a mystical aura around it. Next to her is a small purple dragon and a yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail.
"Hellllooooooo! I have some guests that I brought along with me and they are new to Ponyville so I thought they should meet with you, Twilight," Rarity greeted as she headed over to Twilight, Spike, and Fluttershy.
"New ponies? That's wonderful news!" Twilight expressed as she hopped off her throne and folded up her scroll. "Welcome to Ponyville! I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, but there's no need to be too formal as you can just call me Twilight."
"Nice to meet you! I'm Gwen Tennyson and this is my friend, Rook," Gwen introduced to the Princess of Friendship.
"An honorable pleasure to meet your acquaintance," Rook added with a courtesy bow.
"No need for the bowing, Rook. I may be a princess, but others have learned that I'm still the same Twilight as before my promotion," Twilight explained.
"I'm gonna be honest and not mean to be rude, but I wasn't expecting you who we were gonna meet," Gwen stated.
"It's a common misconception I get all the time," Twilight explained. "I see you've already met Rarity and these are my other friends Spike and Fluttershy. Pinkie and Rainbow were busy elsewhere so they couldn't come today."
"Hello!" Spike greeted as Fluttershy meekly waved with one of her wings.
"This is going to sound a little strange when we explain this, but me and Rook aren't from...this world persay and we aren't naturally ponies," Gwen began talking.
"Huh? You can't mean-?!" Twilight gasped as her wings went up for a second.
"Wait...do you know what I'm going to say?" Gwen asked.
"No, no! I just had a spur of the moment flashback to something from the past," Twilight replied, but she knew exactly where this conversation might be heading.
"We are from a totally different dimension and I'm a human where I'm from while Rook over here is a pure alien," Gwen explained.
"Alien? What's that?" Spike asked with a newfound curiosity.
"The proper term is extraterrestrial, but it's a being of a different species that comes from outer space. Some range from different planets," Rook replied.
"Wow! I never knew such a thing existed," Twilight interjected.
"My cousin can turn into almost any alien from those worlds with a device on his wrist known as the Omnitrix. Back when we were kids, it landed from space and attached itself to him," Gwen recounted the origin of the most powerful device in the galaxy.
"First, a new race of creatures and a device that lets the user turn into them. This is science not even my books can explain to me," Twilight beamed with excitement as Spike rolled his eyes knowing how giddy Twilight got over science.
"Her cousin and another fellow are currently helping Applejack over at Sweet Apple Acres. I'm sure they'll be by once they are finished," Rarity stated.
"That other fellow is Kevin. He's my boyfriend," Gwen mentioned.
"So, you're a unicorn and that must mean you have must have some special talent with magic," Twilight stated as she pointed at Gwen's horn.
"It feels funny casting magic out of this thing and it tickles my forehead. As to answering your question, I do have a talent for magic and I specialize in various types of arcane magic," Gwen explained.
"Arcane magic, huh? I never thought I meet a unicorn who has a special talent for magic that existed outside the realm of Equestria itself. I know many unicorns who are up to my level and even alicorns, but this is such a discovery," Twilight stated.
"I'm more interested in this alien talk. What exactly is that getup you're wearing?" Spike asked as he walked up to Rook.
"It's an official Plumbers uniform. I'm an intergalactic police officer and stop rogue alien criminals bringing them to detention before they stand before justice," Rook explained as he searched for his badge taking it out and the ID picture even showed his ponified face.
"Sweet! I thought plumber ponies just fixed sinks and faucets, but now I know they are superheroes as well," Spike stated.
"HELLO, NEW PONIES!" A sudden voice screamed making Gwen, Rook, Spike, and Fluttershy get startled in unison jumping into the air before falling back on the ground.
"Pinkie? What are you doing here? I thought you had to babysit the Cakes," Twilight stated as she trotted over to her pinky pony friend.
"Their parents came home early so I got the rest of the afternoon off as payment and I just remembered I had to come here, but then I saw there was new ponies I never knew existed and wanted to know more about and maybe even throw a party for them-UHHHHHHHHH! Yeah, that's about it!" Pinkie exclaimed with a smile in her usual excited tone.
"Could've used a little warning, though," Gwen stated as she got up.
"What's your name? You're a unicorn, aren't you?" Pinkie greeted as she got face-to-face with Gwen, but Twilight used her magic to drag Pinkie away from Gwen a few inches.
"This is Gwen Tennyson and that's her friend, Rook," Twilight greeted.
"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie and I throw the most exciting, bestest, intense, funniest, wildest, cataclysmic parties you can ever imagine!" Pinkie greeted as she shook Gwen's magenta hoof rapidly.
"Nice to…uh…meet all three of you…ow, my head is dizzy," Gwen stated as she held her head trying to regain her vision. "There's only one of me here…unless I went to that lake again and didn't know about it! But wouldn't I know where I've gone if I had the intention of going there?" Pinkie asked as she pondered over her random thoughts.
"Does she have an off switch?" Gwen asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Ahhhhh! Do I? I don't see it…am I a ponybot?!" Pinkie recoiled as she searched everywhere around her body.
"Pinkie is a special pony. She always gets wrapped up in her excitement moods and is the definition of a party pony," Twilight replied.
"I think a party would be good to let everypony in Ponyville know how much uniqueness you all have. I would also say they can say thank you for saving the town from that beaver monster," Rarity interjected.
"It was really just our duty," Rook stated. "We didn't want to see anyone-uh, anypony get hurt."
"You really adapted to their language fast," Gwen muttered to her alien friend.
"That settles it then. I'll go set up something with the mayor and then we can get to partying! See ya soon!" Pinkie Pie explained as her back hooves did a rapid spin motion before she ran out the door at lightning speed.
(Scene Break)
The ponies and townsfolk of Ponyville would never miss a chance to celebrate one of Pinkie Pie's famous parties even getting a special invitation out to everyone. Ben and Kevin came in with Applejack as they regrouped with Gwen and Rook trying to enjoy themselves, but the constant stare of ponies on them really felt a little awkward. They got praised for stopping the beaver monster from destroying the town, but most of the ponies just celebrated the fact they were new residents and didn't know these four were the actual heroic group they heard rumors about.
"I have to say that at least parties are a still thing in this new world," Kevin stated as he drank some fruit punch.
"As weird as this adventure turned out to be, I'm glad we finally get some down time. We're usually patrolling the city for bad guys," Ben added.
"Me and Rook were discussing the object that brought us all here earlier and it came from the intergalactic black market. It would certainly explain where the Forever Knights got the device from and knew of its key abilities," Gwen explained.
"Tech like that just doesn't fall into anyone's hands. They must've had a special connection with the seller," Kevin stated.
"Are you saying it's deliberate we were sent to this world?" Rook asked.
"Criminals are desperate. Look at me, I get out of the Null Void and I started making deals with those tincans. It was mainly laser pistols and very expensive gear pieces," Kevin replied.
"So they were just picking up what they could…it does explain why they try new plans and fail miserably," Ben stated.
"They are very organized on a concerted effort, but opportunities never pass them by. They have to have some type of insurance policy in all of those, because a blast from level 13 alien technology would blow up half a planet," Kevin explained.
"Does it depend on the tech itself?" Gwen asked.
"Sure does, but each piece is as powerful as the next. Let it fall into the wrong hands and we're doomed," Kevin replied.
"How are ya folks handling yersleves?" Applejack asked as she trotted over with apple cider.
"I'm definitely used to the attention considering I'm famous back home, but getting it from ponies is strange," Ben replied.
"It just takes getting used to. Are you the one with the watch device that lets you turn into aliens?" Twilight asked as she trotted up with Spike and Fluttershy next to her.
"Are any of them scary?" Fluttershy asked with a nervous tone.
"Are any of them dragon-like?" Spike added on top of the piling questions.
"He's got plenty of hard workers cooped up in that thing. A lizard-type creature that could rapidly get apples out of the trees, a metal pony who can be used to water the soil, and a grasshopper who is a natural at squashin' berries," Applejack explained.
"Those don't sound nearly as bad," Fluttershy stated as she seemed to tense down a little.
"They may have an intimidating stature, but I'm in full control of them since they are technically my body and identity," Ben ensured.
"Ooohhhh! I wanna see one! Please! Pretty please!" Pinkie begged with both hooves crossed in a begging tone.
"I guess I could give a little demonstration. I think Humungousaur should be plenty enough for a sight to see," Ben stated as he chose his selected alien and the dial popped up.
"Oh, I wanna press it!" Pinkie exclaimed as she slammed the dial and Ben gasped, but the green light starts enveloping the both of them.
"Pinkie!" Twilight, Spike, and Applejack exclaimed as they all got blinded as well as most of the ponies attending the party. The green light would soon fade as Ben went straight to the ground and grabbed his head before groaning as Gwen helped him up.
"Ben, what happened there?" Gwen asked.
"Urgh…I'm not sure. It's like when Pinkie tried pressing down the dial, the Omnitrix reacted with the same function as always, but I'm not an alien," Ben replied as he checked himself over and wagged his tail.
"Um…but I know who is," Spike stated as he pointed in front of himself as the others pondered to what he is talking about.
"Whoa! I'm so liquidated and my body feels all gooey. I feel so stretchable!" Pinkie exclaimed as her body became a liquid-based body of pink slime with a black UFO device hanging above her head.
"Aw man, you got to be kidding me!" Ben exclaimed.
"So, ah don't mean to pry into the shock of the moment, but what just happened to Pinkie?" Applejack asked.
"It must've been a glitch with the Omnitrix. She pressed down the dial hard enough to trigger a malfunction," Ben replied as that could be the only explanation.
"I don't think it's a malfunction if I became this cool form. What's it called?" Pinkie asked as she trotted up to Ben.
"It's called Goop. His main powers are being really stretchable and spraying acid which is the substance of his body," Ben explained.
"While this is an incredible sight to see, how exactly can we turn Pinkie back into….Pinkie?" Twilight asked.
"I've never encountered something like this before so I'm not sure where to start," Ben replied with the shrugging of his shoulders.
"Hmmmm…this is a tricky situation, but I know a pair of alicorns who can help us out," Twilight stated.
"Alicorns?" Kevin asked.
"That's right. Princesses Celestia and Luna can help us figure out how to turn this around and maybe even have a way to fix yer watch," Applejack replied as she pointed at the Omnitrix.
"You really think they can help? I mean, this watch was created by an alien known as a Galvan and they are pretty intelligent creatures," Ben explained.
"Maybe they don't have the greatest track record with otherworldly technology, but they are more intelligent enough with magic so maybe a reversal spell from the archives could help us," Twilight stated.
Pinkie was too busy testing out her new body outstretching her hooves and flicking her legs in different karate motions while also doing cartwheels as everypony around started laughing at her antics or felt freaked out by the new form.
"Come on, let's get to the train station before she bumps into something," Twilight urged.
(Scene Break)
The train started setting off as Twilight used a lot of bits to gather tickets for her, Spike, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Ben, Kevin, Gwen, and Rook. The vehicle started rolling on the tracks setting off for a white castle in the distance connected to the side of a mountain.
"So you're sure nothing like this ever happens back where your from?" Twilight asked the group as they began sitting down.
"There was this one time where me, Kevin, and Gwen were fighting this one mad scientist-type villain who wanted to purge my Ultimatrix for secrets and research purposes. That ended in a major malfunction turning Gwen and Kevin into my aliens whenever I hit the dial to try and transform," Ben replied.
"Ultimatrix? You had another device before this one?" Twilight asked.
"I've had several versions of watches that I've worn. First, it was the original prototype of the Omnitrix, then the Ultimatrix, and now, it's the new version of the Omnitrix," Ben explained.
"How many alien forms can you exactly turn into?" Spike asked.
"It's kinda hard to estimate. At one point, Azmuth unlocked the Master Control function and let me have access to over one million forms," Ben replied.
"Over one million?!" Twilight recoiled.
"But most of those forms were locked prior to the creator doing that and went back into lockdown mode afterwards," Gwen stated.
"It's by a stroke of luck Tennyson even unlocks one and doesn't know how to use it," Kevin remarked.
"You think I want it to do that? I ask for aliens I want all the time and it never gives me what I want," Ben replied.
Ben tried tapping the faceplate, but green electricity crackled and shocked him which activated a charge of power. The surge started getting brighter as Ben aimed the watch away letting a green beam of energy blast itself at Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Spike as they all felt their body structures start to change rapidly. Gwen looked between covering her face with her hooves seeing their new pony and dragon friends start to change.
Twilight's body started getting covered in purple stones and her skin hardened all the way up to her head as she now had one purple eye and her horn became longer in size.
Applejack's body started morphing completely into that of a small anthromorphic chicken with her hooves replaced by claws. Her head became shaped like a chicken’s and she grew brown feathers all over her body except around her chest area which remained orange. Opening her eyes revealed they were the orange color as well and she wore orange chest armor, bracelets, ankle bracelets, and a belt with two black lines on opposite sides of each other along with black trunks.
Spike's skin hardened and broke apart as streams of fire coursed through his body system and his head became molten red with his head catching on fire. The rest of his body and tail became red with molten rock-like skin.
Fluttershy's body started becoming more slender and snake-like as she retained her wings and mane, but not her tail. She had one pink eye and her head became encased in a Venus Flytrap and her hooves disappeared being replaced by tendrils for feet and hands.
The green light died down as all four otherworldly heroes along with Pinkie Pie gasped as their new friends became variations of Ben's aliens. Twilight opened her eye and looked at herself screaming to what she saw.
"W-W-W-What happened to me? Why am I covered in stone?!" Twilight recoiled as she pressed a hoof to her hardened skin.
"And why am ah a chicken? Is this some kind of joke?" Applejack asked as her brown hat was still atop her head.
"Speak for yourself! I'm on fire!" Spike exclaimed.
"What is this?! What are these?!" Fluttershy screamed as she checked out her new tendrils.
"Oh, you got to be kidding me!" Kevin stated.
"Everypony, calm down! We can't be too sure of what's going on," Gwen stated.
"It's kinda hard to remain calm when the same thing that happened to Pinkie happened exactly the same to us," Applejack replied.
"You're all alright. You just turned into different forms. Spike, you're not really on fire...on a technicality. You're Heatblast, you control the element of fire," Ben corrected.
"Controlling fire, huh? Not that different then," Spike stated.
"Fluttershy, you're Wildvine. An alien who is basically a living plant and you can throw explosion seeds or trap others in vines," Ben explained to the scared pegasus.
"But w-w-why would I do that?" Fluttershy asked as she trembled in fear.
"Of course you don't have a reason now to do it. I'm just explaining your abilities," Ben replied as he put his hooves up in defense.
"Well, why am ah a chicken?" Applejack asked as she walked towards Ben.
"You're Kickin' Hawk. An alien designed to be a really good combat fighter and has specialties with his legs," Ben replied with a smirk knowing Applejack's talent.
"Good with buckin', huh? Okay, I could get use to him then," Applejack settled.
"And Twilight, you're Chromastone. A crystalized being that's pretty much resistant to many forms of energy and can fire ultraviolent laser beams," Ben explained.
"So, you're telling me I can absorb energy and redirect it? That sounds awesome!" Twilight perked up.
"Yay! You guys have cool forms just like me!" Pinkie announced.
"Don't get too use to it, Pinkie. I don't plan on staying a stone pony for very long," Twilight stated.
"Oh come on, Twilight! You can't deny this is cool. Watch what I can do!" Spike yelled.
Spike climbed up on the seats and opened the window to the train as he conjured a fireball in his claws before launching it. Once the fireball was a little high in the sky, Spike conjured up his dragon breath shooting a stream of fire to make contact with the fireball causing a giant meteor explosion in the sky.
"Oooh, so cool!" Pinkie exclaimed with stars in her eyes.
"Spike! You can't be doing that! You'll alert the royal guard and I really don't feel like explaining this situation to just about every soldier there is," Twilight scolded as she closed the window quickly.
"Some ponies just aren't any fun," Spike grumbled as he crossed his arms.
"Twilight is right. We can't give ourselves away and Equestria doesn't need to be thrown into chaos straight away right now," Applejack stated as she put a claw on Twilight's back.
"Did someponies say chaos?" A smooth-savvy voice asked as a draconequus appeared with the head of a horse, a deer antler on the right side of his head and a blue goat horn on the left side.
This new creature bears one white fang, different-sized pupils, a white goat beard, white bushy eyebrows, the right arm of a lion, the left claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. The mismatched creature has a bat and a Pegasus wing along with a dragon-like snake's tail with a white tail tuft with the body shape of a snake.
"Discord...just what we needed at this time," Twilight groaned.
"Ooooh, Fluttershy, a very nice appearance you have now. Did you lose weight?" Discord asked.
"Now's really not the time, Discord," Fluttershy replied.
"Oh, come on now, dearie. You all look fantastic! I've never seen such creative appearances. And just who might you four be?" Discord asked as he bent backwards looking at Ben and his group upside down.
"Uh...I'm Ben Tennyson and the reason for everypony looking the way they are," Ben greeted.
"Discord, this is Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Rook. They are new to Equestria," Twilight introduced.
"New ponies? Pinkie, what did I say about invitations to welcoming parties?" Discord scolded the pink slime pony.
"You never answered my RSVP address!" Pinkie replied.
"The nerve of you! I answered right as I got it, but I never did get my invite," Discord argued.
"ANYWAY, what are you doing here?" Gwen asked interjecting herself into the argument to bring it to a swift end.
"I just thought I check up on you all. I'm surprised Rarity, Rainbow, and Starlight aren't with you all," Discord replied.
"Rainbow's been busy with the Wonderbolts and Rarity is working on our gowns for the Summer Sun Formal," Applejack explained.
"Plus, Starlight volunteered to stay back to hang around with Sunburst. They are going to perform with Trixie at the celebration," Twilight added.
"Tell me what happened here then," Discord stated as everypony groaned knowing this would be a long train ride.
(Scene Break)
After explaining nearly everything to Discord on the train, he broke out into a fit of laughter much to the dismay of the ponies involved. His laughter followed himself into the main throne room as he threw the doors open and two alicorns were present in the room. One is white with a multi-colored flowing mane and the sun as her cutie mark as she wore a full golden crown and matching hoofshoes. Her sister is fully navy blue with a blue celestial flowing mane and a crescent moon as her cutie mark with her own dark blue crown and hoofshoes. They saw their subjects walking in along with Ben and their crew as the two princesses rise.
"Hello there and welcome to Canterlot! My name is-" Celestia started speaking until a familiar voice brought her out of her introductions.
"It's just us, Princess Celestia," Twilight greeted with the wave of her hoof as both princesses stared in complete shock.
"WHAT?!" Luna recoiled in her royal Canterlot voice.
"Geez, talk about an overreaction," Kevin stated as he covered his ears.
“W-W-What happened to my students and her friends?!” Celestia exclaimed as she checked out Twilight in her new alien form.
“I’m so squishy that I can morph into a big ball,” Pinkie replied as she used her gravity-defining abilities to morph into a huge ball of pink slime.
The two princesses continued staring in shock as Ben had to facehoof himself in the face not contemplating on how many ponies he had to explain this story to. He sighed and came forward as he did a courtesy bow when both sisters lowered their gaze towards him.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you, your Majesties. I’m Ben Tennyson…and this whole ordeal is somewhat my fault,” Ben stated.
“Did you turn our royal subjects into these monsters?” Luna asked with a hesitated glare.
“Not directly if that’s what your thinking,” Ben replied as he scratched the back of his mane.
“Calm yourself, sister. We must let him explain this situation before jumping to our own conclusions,” Celestia explained.
“Thanks. Me and my friends, who are named Gwen, Kevin, and Rook, accidentally came here by some unknown means. It’s a little hard to explain, but we aren’t from this world per say and definitely aren’t ponies by choice,” Ben stated.
“He’s from another world where they are humans and what’s known as an alien. He has a device on his wrist that lets him turn into different species of creatures. He was gonna demonstrate for us before Pinkie had to get excited,” Twilight added as she came forward ruffling her wings.
“I just wanted to press the button!” Pinkie defended.
“We came over and some sort of green bean of energy turned us into these creatures. He had no control over his watch so he’s not the one to blame,” Twilight finished.
“A device that turns this colt into…aliens? What even are those?” Celestia asked.
“Look! We are heroes from another world and we kick a lot of butt! Is that enough of an explanation for you?!” Kevin yelled which made both alicorns gasp in shock at the demanding tone.
“Kev! Are you trying to get us killed?!” Ben yelled at his best friend pushing him back.
“To put what my…friend here said in actual diplomatic words…we’re lost, we’re confused, and we’re stuck,” Gwen added.
“Well, I can firmly see it wasn’t intentional so I believe you, Ben Tennyson, but our lack of knowledge on other worlds outside Equestria is very limited. Also, we know more about magic then actual technology as Equestria has very little use for it. I’m afraid we will be of no help to you all,” Celestia explained.
“So, we’re stuck here forever?” Ben asked.
“I wouldn’t go that far,” A echoing voice replied as a blue mystical portal opened up as another pony made their way out into the throne room.
This pony was an earth pony with a short jet black mane, goggles with green lens around his neck, a white lab coat with a yellow trim decked out with bronze epaulettes, brown shoulder pockets, a buttoned-up brown vest, four brown boots on his hooves, one of his front hooves having a metallic glove on, and a cutie mark of a pocket watch. The four otherworldly ponies gasped as they saw who it truly was.
“Professor Paradox?!” Ben recoiled falling on his flank.
“Surprised, I see. Yes, yes, it is. I have to say that alternate reality physical features are very peculiar,” Paradox replied as he looked over his new appearance.
“Ah hate to spoil this reunion, but who’s this feller?” Applejack asked.
“I’m Professor Paradox, Miss Jack. A time walker to be more exact as I can walk through many timelines seeing many pasts, presents, and futures,” Paradox replied.
“How did you know her name? And time travel?!” Twilight recoiled as she backed up in surprise.
“Ah yes, you would know what I’m talking about after the very reckless actions by Miss Glimmer. I would tell you to keep a close eye on your student,” Paradox suggested as he walked passed Twilight.
“How did you get here? I thought you only walked through the timelines of our universe,” Gwen stated.
“Gwen…I can travel between dimensions and explore various spaces of time as I please, but just like any human dweller, I am forced into the form that universe demands. I seen you needed help when the whole Earth was about to blow up and shifted you all to another dimension entirely,” Paradox explained.
“You’re the reason we are here?” Kevin asked as he jabbed a hoof at Paradox.
“That’s correct. Your timeline is inhabitable after it’s destruction by the blast that sphere caused,” Paradox replied.
“So we have no more home?” Rook asked with a shocked look.
“Grandpa Max?!” Gwen added as she hugged Kevin.
“My parents? Everyone in Bellwood? They’re all gone,” Ben replied as he looked down with his head.
Twilight and the rest of their friends felt a little teary-eyed as well knowing what could happen if they lost their loved ones. Twilight came over and helped Ben back to his feet levitating a handkerchief over to his eyes to dab them of tears.
“Yes, a tragic end that is, but it’s never too early to save them. With my assistance, rescuplting time will not be too much of a challenge or there’s the benefit of depositing you all to another timeline exactly like yours,” Paradox explained.
“Kinda hard to transport us anywhere else since we don’t have a way home now,” Kevin stated.
“That comes later. I can’t give you the main details, but you’re about to serve a much bigger purpose here,” Paradox explained.
“How would you-wait, a bigger purpose?” Ben recoiled as he looked at Paradox
“How is something like that possible?” Twilight asked as she looked equally as shocked.
“The many wonders of inter-dimensional travel allows me to explore anything in full view and as it were to happen, there’s multiple timelines where this sort of accident has happened. Each much different in context, but similar in execution. Equestria is on a path of war in each timeline and this one may have devastating consequences if you were to leave now,” Paradox replied in a very serious tone.
“Serious consequences…?” Twilight wondered as she held her head down to think.
“Not like it’s anything different from the normal baddies we faced,” Spike added.
“Yet we shouldn’t take this dire warning as anything different. After the changeling forces kidnapped me and my sister along with the rest of Ponyville and Canterlot, I made an oath to take any threat seriously no matter how little we would pay in the end,” Celestia explained.
“Then we have yer back as always, Princess,” Applejack declared as she nodded her head.
“Yeah! We won’t be taken by surprise anymore, because only I do the surprises around here!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Consider this a free one. You have a crisis to attend to. Ta-ta for now,” Paradox explained as he checked his pocket watch before disappearing in a blue flash.
“What did he mean by that?” Spike asked as a huge rumble shook from underneath the castle putting everyone on edge.
Celestia and Luna kept themselves steady on their hooves as they had fearful expression on their faces as they darted their eyesight over to one another.
“The gem vault!” Celestia exclaimed.
“Who could be trying to break into that vault for a bunch of gems?” Discord asked with a thoughtful expression.
“Diamond dogs,” Spike answered as everyone gasped not hearing that name in a long time.
(Scene Break)
The royal guards were fighting a whole horde of big muscular dogs in silver armor armed with spears outside the castle gates, but the rumbling heard was down in the caves below as a dog wearing a red jacket used giant boulders on the lock mechanism of the turning wheel for the vault.
“Are you sure this is working, Rover?” Spot asked as he came up to his fellow leader.
“You got any better ideas? I’ve been at this for an eternity and I’ve only managed to crank this thing a few inches,” Rover replied.
“Maybe we should find bigger boulders?” Fido recommended as he stroked his chin.
“Argh! These are useless! The entirety of Canterlot’s gem valuables and we are gonna pull off the heist of a century even if I’m running to the end of my chain to bark. It’s always worse than my bite,” Rover declared as he walked his past his partners.
“And with our forces keeping the guards busy, no one should suspect us down here,” Spot added.
Suddenly, a long slender body appeared from the rocky ceiling as Discord slithered down in a snake formation and appeared right in front of the Diamond Dogs smirking startling them as he returned to normal.
“Discord! What are you doing here?” Rover asked.
“Just seeing what you boneheads thought what you were doing and clearly you didn’t think ahead of this plan,” Discord replied.
“Aren’t you supposed to be in solid stone or something?” Spot asked.
“Let’s just say that won’t be happening anytime soon. Unless Princess Celestia decides that harsh punishment for you,” Discord replied.
Discord snapped his fingers bringing Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Spike, Ben, Kevin, and Gwen to his presence as they all stood ready against the trio.
“Diamond Dogs! What do you have to say for yourselves?” Twilight asked as she stood up front.
“The Princess of Friendship?! Oh boy, we’re in the doghouse now!” Rover exclaimed as he fell on his backside.
“First villains to acknowledge that their toast,” Kevin muttered as he stared at the dogs unamused.
“Oooh, toast? DISCORD, TURN THEM INTO TOAST!” Pinkie screamed which echoed in the underground caves as crumbles of rock fell from the ceiling.
Medium-sized rocks fell to the floor giving the dogs an idea to fight back as Fido started picking up two rocks at a time throwing them at their adversaries as Spike created fireballs to counter the rocks from hitting his team. Ben tried fiddling with the Omnitrix to get it working, but he only got green electricity in return. Gwen created a mana shield with her horn blocking out the rocks while Spike released his dragon breath melting the rocks.
“We ain’t gonna be able to hold them off like this forever!” Gwen exclaimed.
“Then let’s get rough!” Kevin added as he absorbed some stone and ran punching rocks away heading for the Diamond Dogs.
Spot got slammed into the side of the cave as Fido blocked shots from Kevin, but Kevin hit a double punch to the face slamming him into the other side. Rover sweated a little bit as Kevin smirked coming up just as Ben saw more electricity coming out of his Omnitrix before another green beam shot forward reaching Rover. Kevin gasped and got blinded by the green light as Rover’s body started changing.
Rover’s body started growing as he became more muscular and grew green diamond-like rough skin as his eyes became fully yellow as large diamond shards stuck out of his back. His feet and claws became sharper as he laughed looking at his new form.
“Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Whoa, talk about a being stuck between a rock and a hard place!” Rover boasted as Fido and Spot both gasped at the appearance of their fellow leader.
“Ben! What the heck?! Why’d you turn this mutt into Diamondhead?” Kevin exclaimed as Rover reared back a fisted claw sending Kevin back to his allies.
“Just what we needed as well,” Twilight muttered as Spike sent a stream of fire at Rover, but Rover summoned a wall of green diamonds letting the fire fizzle out quickly.
“My fire isn’t having any effect,” Spike observed.
“That’s because he’s Diamondhead or a Petrosapien. He’s resistant against any kind of energy and can even absorb it all to send it back at us,” Ben explained.
“So we can’t hurt him?” Spike asked.
“I’d take that explanation alone as a yes,” Discord replied.
“Wait…you said I could do the same thing…so if I blast Rover, then I can just push his energy back at him,” Twilight concluded.
“Two energy resistant beings could create a cataclysmic shockwave. It could cave us in,” Gwen warned the Princess of Friendship.
“Sorry Gwen, but if I don’t do something, the whole vault is going away with these thieves,” Twilight stated as she charged up a rainbow surge of magic.
Twilight fired a stream of alicorn magic as Rover stuck his hands together growing a green diamond shield as the offense struck the defense allowing Rover to absorb the energy. He giggled redirecting upwards as the blast went through the ceiling of the cave as a large hole showed everyone under a gold grand ballroom. Rover fired large shards of diamonds at the group as Gwen creates a mana shield over her, Ben, and Kevin while Twilight flew away. Discord and Fluttershy used their slender bodies to slip through shards as Pinkie got impaled in the back, but easily used her slime body to reattached herself together giggling and bouncing around the place.
“He’s too strong! I can’t use magic to shake him!” Twilight exclaimed.
“Come on, you dumb watch…I need something from you!” Ben complained as he slammed down on the watch.
“Omnitrix malfunctioned. Life forms are unavailable. Primary functions are unavailable. Possible shutdown is recommended,” The Omnitrix spoke back through a glitchy tone.
“Well, there goes our main weapon,” Kevin stated.
“Wait…Ben, what if you reset everything?” Gwen asked as she created another mana shield that was already cracking due to the shards.
“Reset? I could break this thing more than it is now,” Ben replied.
“What I mean is….urgh…reset the cycle and set everything back to default…maybe recalibrate the DNA from everypony,” Gwen suggested as she created her third shield, but the magic was taking a lot out of her.
“Like the Highbreed…they had blank DNA and you used the Omnitrix to reset their DNA using some of your own forms. Maybe you can take back DNA in this case,” Kevin explained.
“Better than no plan, I guess. Omnitrix, access recalibration, command code override,” Ben ordered.
“Command system override complete. Omnitrix recalibration functional. Would you like to reset device?” The Omnitrix asked.
“Recalibrate Petrosapien sample. Code 000 Recalibrate 0,” Ben ordered as a green beam started appearing from his watch.
“Petrosapien sample selected for recalibration. Choose form to switch to default setting,” The Omnitrix instructed as Ben saw Rover beginning to swing around him.
Kevin went out there to distract him punching back at the leader of the Diamond Dogs getting some punches in, but ultimately, he got swatted away with one rough claw. Discord snapped his fingers creating a blaster with a red foam cover over it leading to a big container of chocolate milk as he put some goggles over his eyes with orange lenses. He flipped a switch on the container blasting a wave of the brown substance drowning Rover in the milk. Ben came up shooting the green beam building from the Omnitrix blasting Rover as the Diamond Dog started shrinking.
“What are you doing?!” Spot exclaimed as he held his head.
Rover shrank back down as all the diamonds started crumbling to smaller pieces and his grey skin returned. He looked at his form returning to normal as he fell on his bottom and felt his vision becoming a lot more blurry.
“Oh, I don’t feel so goooooooddddd…,” Rover stated with a woozy voice and his face turning dark green.
“Petrosapien sample recalibrated and returned to Omnitrix. Default settling enabled,” The Omnitrix reported.
“Sweet! I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks,” Ben stated.
Kevin walked up to the dog trio as they all were fearful of the stone-covered earth pony as he smirked at their trembling frames. He took Spot’s head and Fido’s head as he clonked all three heads together effectively knocking all three leaders out.
“Now, stay down,” Kevin ordered as he returned to his normal form.
“That was so much fun! I was all squishy and bouncy and floppy and gooey!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“That was a little too real. Can we go back to normal?” Fluttershy asked as she fiddled with her tendrils.
“I don’t know about that Fluttershy. I could always use a fellow slender friend to chat around or have adventures with,” Discord stated as he stroked his small beard.
“But I don’t want the animals to be afraid of me!” Fluttershy protested.
“Ah found them down here, Rook!” Applejack exclaimed as she hopped down in the hole with the Plumber cadet as they landed while throwing dust in the air.
“We were helping the royal guard fend off their dog soldiers and it looks like the field is clearing out,” Rook stated.
“Not to mention, this form gave my bucking a super charge. Ah was kicking those dogs left and right,” Applejack added with a smirk.
“Well, you won’t have to worry about being aliens forever. I found out what was wrong and have a chance to correct the wrongs,” Ben stated as he pointed to his broken Omnitrix.
(Scene Break)
Back in the main throne room, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna sat atop their platform as Ben finished changing Twilight back to normal letting the Omnitrix shuffle the alien samples back into the database. Ben then tapped on the Omnitrix seeing the familiar green wheel of selected aliens, but it shut down quickly going red.
“Recalibration is complete. Alien database reconfigured and set to default mode. Shutting down for recharge,” The Omnitrix explained.
“I knew that was going to happen,” Ben stated.
“I’m just happy to be myself again. It felt cool and all being made of fire, but I’m better not being a living barbecue,” Spike stated.
“As much as I love plants, I’m glad I am not one no more and I’m so glad I didn’t accidentally hurt anyone,” Fluttershy added.
“It wasn’t all bad, you two. Not the ideal animal I wanted to become, but that feller sure packed a kick in his steps,” Applejack stated.
“I just miss being a squishy body alien,” Pinkie added with a sad expression.
“I want to congratulate all of you in your efforts in making sure that The Diamond Dogs did not success in raiding the gem vault,” Celestia interjected as she smiled warmly.
“It’s not like they were that hard to take down,” Kevin stated.
“We were just to glad to help,” Gwen added.
“However, I do have concerns if this means war between your two species,” Rook suggested.
“The Diamond Dogs are usually non-hostile, but their determination to get into the vault worries me that the leading ambassadors are planning something. This won’t make relations with them any easier,” Celestia explained as she held a hoof to her chin.
“What’s their infatuation with gems and diamonds?” Ben asked remembering encountering Vulkanus that one time he had Taydenite that Kevin forcefully absorbed so he had a supply to sell.
“Most likely they consider that their treasure,” Kevin added.
“More or less, that’s true. They are usually miners and work in the underground caves to find lost gems to bring back to their stash. Some even might make profit of it if they really wanted to,” Twilight explained.
“However, they would never dare consider coming to Canterlot in order to raid the vault. That is an act of aggression against the throne,” Luna noted.
“I’ll contact the ambassadors and see what lead to this decision. I don’t think they ordered a premeditated attack on the castle, but we cannot be too sure,” Celestia stated.
“Most likely someone else put them up to it. Probably spun some kind of story to make you all look bad or fed their lust for greed,” Ben suggested.
“Whatever the case, we still thank you four for helping out and you all as well, Princess Twilight, Applejack, Discord, Spike, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. Once again, you’ve proven your dedication to Equestria with your service,” Celestia praised.
“All in a day’s work, Princess Celestia,” Twilight stated as she flapped her wings a little bit.
“In the meantime, I would like to invite Ben and his friends to stay at the castle for tonight and be our guests at dinner. I would like to know more about where they came from and about the Omnitrix Ben has around his hoof,” Celestia invited.
“We’re certainly taking that offer. You don’t mind, right, guys?” Ben asked as he turned to their new friends.
“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity that the princess asks anyone to stay in the castle,” Applejack noted.
“We’ll see you all back in Ponyville soon enough. If you chat with Princess Celestia, she can tell you all about how Equestria was founded and all the amazing features of our world,” Twilight stated.
“Then I guess that settles it,” Rook concluded.
“It would be our honor to stay with you for the night, your Majesty,” Gwen stated.
Princess Luna smiled friendly at everyone, but something suddenly irked inside her as she felt a twinge of....jealously....jealous of her sister. This can’t be right....she grew out of that since she became reformed. She also felt a smidge of hatred as well and she had to shake her head loose of the thoughts.
“Are you alright, sister?” Celestia asked over to her occupied sister.
“Huh? Oh, yes, I'm quite fine. I became in my own head for a second there,” Luna replied honestly as Celestia nodded.
(Scene Break)
After the sun was settled by Celestia and Luna raised the moon to take over the night shift as well as listen to ponies in their dreams, Ben, Kevin, Gwen, and Rook all shared the same bedroom with the boys on one side and the girl with the alien on the other.
“What a weird first day this has been,” Gwen stated as she stared up at the ceiling.
“Saying that is the understatement of the century,” Kevin retorted as he placed his hooves behind his head.
“It’s really by some miracle we aren’t dead right now and that’s all thanks to Professor Paradox. I can’t shake that feeling of this world being on a path of war, though,” Ben stated.
“War is definitely not normal and the last one we got involved with wasn’t pretty,” Gwen reminded.
“That was pure pettiness and Argit made some serious coin off it,” Kevin muttered.
“I recall you helping him trade weapons to the red and blue sides,” Ben retorted over at his best friend.
“I’m partially reformed and you know this,” Kevin muttered as he turned on his side with his back facing Ben.
“I know this is worrisome especially after today’s events, but we better get some sleep and worry about this in the morning,” Rook stated.
“Rook’s right. A good sleep and rest are needed. We can sort out details when we are back in Ponyville,” Gwen added.
Kevin took that as the cue to get some shut eye as Rook and Gwen flipped the covers on their smaller pony bodies while Ben still had the thought in the back of his head. Paradox was a reason they were here, but what’s the purpose of it? What’s this state of war Equestria would be put through? He guesses he would find out sooner or later, but things happen so quickly for him and he needs his prep time so he can go hero when it’s necessary.
Ben snored as his right hoof hung over the side of his bed and drool fell onto his pillow as he readjusted himself stretching out his wings. Kevin twisted and turned trying to ignore the snoring knowing Ben could be loud in his sleep. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t have Gwen in the bedroom to tell her cousin to knock it off as she was the first one up followed by Rook, who left a note saying he would be testing the Proto-Tool with the royal guard. The young cadet still had ways to go before he reached to being an instructor or magister like Max Tennyson, but he could show the guard knew fighting techniques while he was here in Equestria. Kevin woke up with his mane disheveled and grab a pillow throwing it like a frisbee as Ben’s face waking him up and knocking him out of bed with the cover over his body.
“Hey! What’s the big idea?!” Ben complained as he ruffled and shook the covers off him.
“It’s 6:50 in the morning, Tennyson, and I’d like some peace while I sleep in,” Kevin explained.
“But how did I disturb you?” Ben asked as he glared at his best friend.
“You were snoring like always. Now I know how Gwen felt when we were just kids and she had to share a room with you,” Kevin replied as he wiped his eyes of sleep.
“Rook and Gwen must be up already so I guess we should get a bright early start. Just be glad I won’t do the same to you in the near future,” Ben stated.
“You want to settle something? Give me the time and place,” Kevin challenged with a smirk as he grabbed his jacket throwing it on.
The boys walked out of the bedroom in their normal clothes as they walked along the purple carpet to the main dining room as Gwen was eating a batch of homemade pancakes with strawberries on top as she used her magic to levitate a fork to eat small chunks.
“Boy, those look good!” Ben exclaimed as he quickly took a seat grabbing a plate of four pancakes.
“Princess Celestia made them herself and I never thought ponies were actual good cooks, but my skepticism has been defeated once again,” Gwen added.
“So what’s the plan for today?” Kevin asked as he got his own breakfast and two bananas while pouring a glass of orange juice for himself and Ben.
“Well, I was hoping to head back to Ponyville, but the princess requested our help with finalizing decorations and events for the Summer Sun Celebration along with the formal dance,” Gwen replied.
“I think Twilight mentioned something about that,” Ben stated.
“Rarity is working on their dresses as we speak. We’re also being sent on a mission towards the Wonderbolts Academy to get a progress report on the team’s training for the festivities,” Gwen added.
“Didn’t Applejack mention a Rainbow Dash was working with them as well?” Ben asked.
“Oh yeah. I guess we’ll meet her soon enough as well,” Kevin replied.
“Good morning, everypony. I hope your suite wasn’t too crowded with all of you in there,” Celestia greeted as she walked into the dining hall with two royal guards at her disposal, but she dismissed them as they went back to their post.
“Best sleep in ages if you ask me,” Ben commented.
“For most of us,” Kevin grumbled.
“I have a question, your Majesty. How does a government system work here in Equestria anyway?” Gwen asked as the princess took her seat.
“Well, it’s usually just me and my sister ruling over the land. I raise the sun and take over most royal duties whether that is making special appearances or warning the entire land of a crisis. Luna handles the night raising the moon and talks to ponies inside their dreams. We don’t have a direct way of choosing rulers. It just mainly becomes whoever we decide is our successor,” Celestia replied.
“So you get to choose who becomes the ruler?” Ben asked just for clarification.
“It has to be someone with the absolute best intentions for Equestria. We can’t reign forever, but we won’t rest on somepony that might trick us for ultimate power,” Celestia replied.
“Reminds me of the creator, Azmuth, trusting me with the Omnitrix. He didn’t necessarily trust me at first and the watch was more for my grandfather. However, I have been kicking alien butt my entire life and have proven I’m worthy to have this watch,” Ben explained.
“It sounds like you’re one to defy expectations. I like that in a noble warrior,” Celestia praised.
“Don’t get him started. He won’t keep his trap shut about his awesomeness and excellence,” Kevin retorted.
“I don’t have an ego for the last time!” Ben argued.
“Of course you would say that, Tennyson,” Kevin stated with a chuckle.
“What is their relationship like?” Celestia asked Gwen.
“They get along, but they weren’t always friends. They started out as mortal enemies when Kevin found out he could absorb Ben’s forms into his body making exact carbon copies and then he fully mutated taking on all forms. Kevin got trapped in the Null Void for five years and became normal again working in a detention center where he learned to control his absorption powers better,” Gwen replied.
“Null Void? What is this place?” Celestia asked.
“An alien prison dimension. Very nice folks and view,” Kevin joked.
“It’s where some of the most dangerous aliens from all over the galaxies go when they are declared guilty of crimes. Grandpa Max and the Plumbers are the ones with a good hold on it after D’void was defeated,” Gwen added.
“D’void?” Celestia asked with another curious expression.
“Dr. Animo as we usually called him back when we were just 10. He mutated animals and made them his deadliest creations. When I got older, he controlled most of the Null Void,” Ben replied.
“Mutated animals? Thank goodness Fluttershy isn’t here to hear that,” Celestia stated.
“He’s more or less harmless as he doesn’t have any superpowers he calls his own,” Ben stated.
“Are there any other villains you have faced in your past?” Celestia asked.
“There is one…someone I usually don’t hear from. His name is Vilgax and he’s been my mortal enemy ever since I got the Omnitrix. He’s a galactic overlord who likes conquering other planets and obtaining his power from their resources. He doesn’t like playing with others and wanted the Omnitrix to create an unstoppable army out of my forms,” Ben replied.
“Oh my!” Celestia exclaimed as she sat back in her seat.
“He succeeded as well. He would’ve killed Gwen and Kevin hadn’t I given up the Omnitrix and then he used it to power up his droid army giving them the power of my aliens. I outsmarted him and made the watch self-destruct, but he’s no slouch and just as powerful without controlling the watch,” Ben added.
“Twilight did much the same thing like you did. She gave up her entire magic to a menace known as Tirek. Tirek could absorb any energy he wanted much like Kevin, but with every ounce of magic feeding him, he only grew that much tougher to defeat. Me, Luna, and Princess Cadence gave all of our magic to Twilight for safe keeping knowing she would need it to fight Tirek,” Celestia explained.
“An energy absorber that never goes hungry….whew! Dealt with those types a lot,” Kevin stated.
“We have moved past that in recent months and Twilight is reforming another pony named Starlight Glimmer, who had a less than appealing equal community where she took everyone’s cutie marks and eliminated what made ponies special,” Celestia mentioned.
“I think Twilight mentioned her before. She took cutie marks away?” Gwen asked.
“Yes, I also presume that Professor Paradox knows about her and Twilight going through time too much and altering different futures,” Celestia replied.
“Time travel is serious stuff and it’s not to be a toy,” Kevin remarked.
“She has redeemed herself with her recently saving all of us after the Changelings returned and they have a new leader named Thorax that we are trying to mend relations with,” Celestia explained.
“Sounds like you’ve had quite the enemy entourage,” Gwen stated.
“One can say the same about you three. I’ve never met ponies or otherworldly beings that have as much as trouble as we have here in Equestria,” Celestia added.
“A hero’s life is never dull or boring. Even the downtime can be challenging. Speaking of which, Gwen told us you needed our help with this Summer Sun Formal,” Ben stated.
“Completely voluntary, but it would be nice. I heard that you helped Sweet Apple Acres pick more apples in one day than they would in an entire week so I figured your forms would be useful,” Celestia explained.
“Well, I picked them down, but Kevin smashed the ground to get them down,” Ben remarked as his ears drooped.
“There’s also getting an update from the Wonderbolts at the academy. I need to know if they are finished with their routine,” Celestia announced.
“Call us your express mail route then,” Kevin stated.
“Speaking of mail, I do have a package coming in from the Griffin Kingdom. It’s a peace gift for making amends during an outbreak of war years ago. They are trying to be more friendly since that treaty was signed,” Celestia stated.
“We can go pick it up for you. I can just use Jetray and fly here and back in a few seconds,” Ben offered.
“That’d be wonderful. It was suppose to arrive at my private mailbox, but it got mixed up with a few letters so I had my royal fleet redirect the package towards the Ponyville Post Office. Just pick it up there and bring it back to the castle,” Celestia explained.
“Is there anything else on the to-do list?” Gwen asked.
“Well, I do need a substitute teacher to help teach the unicorns magic at my School of Gifted Unicorns. The main professor is out sick so I’m short on staff and don’t have anypony else to turn to,” Celestia replied.
“I’d be happy to teach. I’ve studied all forms of magic since I was 10 so this shouldn’t be too hard,” Gwen offered.
“That’d be wonderful. I know it’s all on such short notice, but this will help speed things up for me and I can focus on the Summer Sun Celebration,” Celestia explained.
(Scene Break)
Ben trotted out to one of the main balconies after breakfast as he decided to head back to Ponyville to retrieve this important package. He figured a quick trip would be necessary and he can come back to help Kevin with the finished product of the festivities. Ben tapped the dial on his Omnitrix switching towards the Jetray icon hoping the watch wouldn’t screw him over like it tends to do.
“Let’s hope you’re feeling generous,” Ben commented as he slapped the dial down beginning his transformation.
Ben’s body started morphing into a black ball of dark energy as the new form became covered in a purple aura. His eyes popped out becoming green entirely and he grew black claws with a purple trim as the Omnitrix dial appeared on his forehead. He unlocked a new alien and this species is called a Telemorter.
“Huh? A new guy…this is just what I needed at a time like this,” The new form groaned as he slumped his nonexistent shoulders and spoke with a otherworldly celestial tone.
Ben decided to test his new form out stretching his claws to the sky seeing if this new alien was a blaster and then tried floating around in his orb body. He scratched his head before his left claw had a purple orb in it which startled him.
“I just….touched my body and this energy residue came off. I wonder what this could mean,” The alien form wondered.
He used his free claw to rub his head gaining another purple orb before pushing the two orbs together seeing connecting lines of purple energy start appearing to do their magic. He started disappearing as he reappeared a few feet away and looked around himself seeing his new location.
“He’s a teleporter, huh? And he can transport himself by gaining energy off his body….not a bad alien! I think I’ll name him….Teletouch,” Teletouch named as he created two new orbs and thought about his destination being near Ponyville as he crossed the orbs teleporting away.
Teletouch appeared as he opened his eyes and looked down seeing the multiple buildings that he was familiar with and saw the Castle of Friendship way in the distance as he would smirk if he had a visible mouth.
“Sweet! Now, I just need to find the post office and get that package to be on my way,” Teletouch stated as he stroked his chin trying to find the post office.
Teletouch snapped his fingers at the small blue building with a sign featuring a white envelope over a blue background just above the roof. Ponies could be seen dumping mail and packages inside the mailboxes outside as Teletouch floated over the scene.
“Better make myself decent and not scare the locals,” Teletouch stated as he reached for the Omnitrix to transform back to his human form, but he heard some rustling coming from the building as three griffons were spotted breaking out of the post office with a brown package in one’s talons.
One is wearing a red bandana around the neck and blue check marks on their cheeks while their partners wore a green bandana and a yellow bandana around their heads with the same blue check marks painted on their cheeks. The leader smirked as she held the package in her claws.
“The Griffin Kingdom shouldn’t be wasting their time with friendship. I think we’ll just keep this for ourselves,” The leader stated.
Teletouch saw the royal gold seal on the side of the package and faintly saw Princess Celestia’s name in bold black letters so he knew these griffon rebels had intent to steal.
“That’s the package! And of course there has to be a rebel group to steal it. I hope this guy has some offensive maneuvers to him,” Teletouch stated as he rubbed his spherical body and casted two purple orbs.
Teletouch launched one at the package hoping the theory he was thinking was correct and the purple orb was noticed by the griffons as the orb struck the package making it disappear from the leader’s claws and into Teletouch’s left claw. The griffons saw the alien as they gritted their teeth.
“This guy must be an errand colt for the pretty princess,” The green bandana griffin said in a gruff voice.
“Ever heard of never taking something that isn’t yours?” Teletouch asked as he used the other orb on his body teleporting down to the ground.
The griffons dive-bombed down on Teletouch as they go straight for the package which made Teletouch cast another orb teleporting out of the way just when the griffons thought they had him. Teletouch figured he couldn’t hold off the griffons too much longer in this form and he had to think fast. He slapped the Omnitrix hoping for a better alien against the rebel trio.
Ben’s body started forming back into his natural pony shape, but he grew taller by a few inches as he got covered in bulky yellow armor and grew a metallic tail out his backside. His two front hooves turned into big jackhammer-like pistons and the Omnitrix dial appeared on his chest. He became the Talpaedan known as Armadrillo.
“Oh yeah! Time to take this battle up a notch!” Armadrillo exclaimed as he set the package down looking at the three griffons.
The griffons separated circling their bigger opponent as the two male griffons flew down trying to trip him up, but Armadrillo dug his arms into the dirt starting to rapidly dig down into the ground creating a massive hole as the male griffons follow him down. The female leader goes straight for the package having her distractions take the bait, but Armadrillo jumps out of another hole attacking the female leader sending her to the ground as he lands shaking the ground beneath him. The male griffons come out the hole Armadrillo made coming after the alien as he punched one away, but one kicked him over and the female cracked her claws and flew straight delivering multiple punches sending Armadrillo into a fruit cart breaking it in half. One of the male griffons grabbed the package as the rebel trio try making their escape, but Armadrillo grabbed the female leader and one of the male griffons tossing them behind him as the other male griffon gasped seeing his partners trampled on top of one another.
“You gonna pay for that!” The male griffon exclaimed depositing the package in a tree and flew after Armadrillo.
Armadrillo knew an alien that could end this farce once and for all as he quickly dug a hole avoiding his adversary as he popped out the other end slapping the dial on his chest.
Ben’s transformation started decreasing his size and the amount of armor he had on as his body started breaking apart into piece of red-hot molten rock. His body coursed with fire through his veins and his head became on fire as the Omnitrix dial remained on his chest. He became the Pyronite known as Heatblast.
“I hope you don’t mind some extra heat,” Heatblast stated as he charged up his fists punching the griffon three times sending him straight into the ground.
Heatblast grabbed the griffon by the neck stuffing him on top of his allies as the rebel trio groaned all over failing in their mission. Heatblast put his hands on his hips as he had to tie these criminals up somehow so he slapped the Omnitrix dial turning into Wildvine having the same form that Fluttershy did only with the Omnitrix dial on his chest. He used one tendril to wrap up the griffons putting them in a safety net hanging outside of a fishing store then tying the net up settling it on the ground. He then extended the other one to collect the package from the tree as the Omnitrix started running out of juice turning Wildvine back into Ben.
“They say birds of the same feather stick together and I guess we can apply that now to griffons,” Ben joked as he looked at the package in his hooves.
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Gwen stood in front of a lecture hall with at least 30-35 unicorns in attendance for their class of Advanced Teleportation 103. The magic user will admit that she normally never does any teleportation moves as when she was younger, it was the basic spells and defensive magic to which she graduated from to learn more offensive attacks along with twisting spells.
“While I’m no expert on teleportation admittedly, the range of concentration it takes to focus on your destination is quite important. You can think of any image in your head, but holding that image can be really hard even when you already know where you want to go. Can you just perform the spell and know where you want to go even without thinking? Not necessarily, because that can hinder your spell uncontrollably and put you somewhere completely random. A nice quiet place to perform the spell is highly recommended,” Gwen lectured as some unicorns wrote some important details and notes.
Gwen had to admit that teaching magic felt weird and awesome at the same time especially since she was self-taught at a very young age. Even before she started using magic, she felt useless when her cousin had the Omnitrix and got all the glory which started to make her insanely jealous. She just wanted a little credit for all the good work she helped out with and even imagined what it would be like if she found the Omnitrix. Granted, she’s glad she found magic starting with all those lucky charms she managed to get off Hex and Charmcaster.
“Some thoughtful approaches can include thinking about where you want to be the most or simply what reminds you of the place you want to be. Your professor details this really pleasantly in his teaching and something I can add on is the explicit details really matter,” Gwen stated.
The unicorns wrote down everything that Gwen said as they were intrigued at a much more specific and detailed instruction then their other professor gave them. The small details did tend to matter as a lot of them had trouble focusing on a certain place and either got a random location or a similar location, but there was a situation that turned out badly for them. If they focused on extra details, their concentration can expand outwards and become more vibrant with images.
“The importance of this all is to get you all thinking more. That’s why I always check over every spell to make sure I practice it to perfection. It’s looking into the little details that matter for your magic to succeed,” Gwen explained.
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Princess Luna wandered the halls of the royal Canterlot Castle with a massive migraine as she tried closing her eyes to numb the pain. It’s been a rough few weeks for the Princess of the Night as she is constantly feeling something….eerily negative about working her usual night shift. Maybe it’s her tiredness, but she can’t help, but feel no one appreciates her night anymore. She hardly sees any ponies out during the night time and gaze upon the stars that twinkle brightly in the middle of their sleep. She couldn’t understand where these familiar thoughts came from as they were what contributed to her becoming Nightmare Moon and feeling all resentment to her sister.
“Ugh…it’s just my nerves,” Luna stated. “It’s just been so rough these last few weeks and these feelings never seem to go away. I don’t hate my sister like I used to. I really don’t.”
Sure, she would like some appreciation now and then, but she did not seek recognition and she knows her sister loves her just as much as any other pony in Equestria. However, Celestia still liked taking all the credit and hardly recognized her sister’s contribution to stopping Discord. Luna thought about that time they turned the draconequus into complete stone. Was it really chaotic with what he was doing? It was just harmless fun, right? Luna shook her head and groaned as she began having such thoughts that would make her a sympathizer to these criminals. She can’t be condoning their actions and yet here she was thinking about them.
“You know as well as I do that you are too weak to lead…”
“What? Who’s there? I command that you show yourself!” Luna exclaimed as she screamed to no one in particular darting her attention from one end of the hallway to the other.
Luna closed her eyes sighing and sat down looking up just trying to think of anything rational that was going on. She must be seeing and hearing things as she could have sworn she heard a very taunting voice just then and she held a hoof to her temple.
“I need bed….,” Luna mumbled as she continued down the hallway towards her bedroom.
“So weak…”
“Huh? What are you talking about?!” Luna recoiled as she turned around really angry at whatever voice taunted her, but yet again, she was face-to-face with an empty hallway.
Luna sighed and turned on her heels walking down the hallway just as evil black smoke started appearing from the end of the hallway. It slowly turned purple and majestic as it slithered all the way down the hall creeping in on the Princess of the Night.
(Scene Break)
Kevin began his work on a sound jam machine as his hooves fiddled with the wrench and screwdrivers from the tool box the royal guards lent him. He sighed as he used both hooves to pick the wrench up taking out a bolt from the machine so he could open up the back end.
“Greetings, Kevin! How goes it this fine morning?” Rook asked as he galloped over to his Osmosian friend.
“As you can clearly see, I’m an audio technician all of a sudden. Princess Celestia said she got a request for a handypony to fix a sound jam machine going to be played at the Summer Sun Formal. It was put in by a Vinyl Scratch or some name like it,” Kevin replied.
“It’s good that the Princess trusts us after that alien switch with her royal subjects. I gave her guard a much-needed training session so they could be ready for the next attack,” Rook stated.
“That was dangerous. A war is one thing, but she said that her and these Diamond Dogs are suppose to best friends. I’m not sure what to make of it really,” Kevin explained.
“It might be a false alarm to take focus off other matters. Diplomatic countries do not attack each other on a whim,” Rook added.
“Whatever the reason, we need to be on high alert just in case relations tend to sour between these kingdoms,” Kevin stated as he loosened another bolt carefully.
Ben could be seen flying in as he decided to practice the journey home with his wings and he made a touchdown with the brown package in his hooves. He placed it on his back galloping over to his friends.
“Ben! Good to see you back!” Rook exclaimed.
“You were gone an awful long time retrieving the mail,” Kevin noticed.
“Well, the time it is taking to get used to these wings is rather troublesome for me and I’m usually in the force of habit of picking a flyer from the Omnitrix. I figured I could eliminate one hurdle by not using the watch for abilities I already have. Also, a rebel trio of griffons tried taking this package and they didn’t look keen on delivering it themselves,” Ben replied.
“They were trying to take it for themselves?” Rook asked.
“Kind of the thing with those types,” Kevin remarked.
“This is getting bizarre. The Griffon Kingdom sent this to Princess Celestia as a gift of friendship, but having your own subjects try to get it back is highly suspicious,” Ben stated.
“I was afraid that would happen. The griffons aren’t known for taking friendship into their hearts and they rather resolve their problems through conflict. The higher authorities are very rational, but they are plagued by civil discourse in this decision to promote friendship instead of war,” Celestia stated as she overheard the entire conversation.
“Still though, that’s two kingdoms who now have tried to take something from you. It’s getting a little hectic around here,” Ben warned.
Celestia used her magic to levitate the package from Ben’s back and set it on the ground as she had to sigh.
“I’m frankly used to it to be honest. Being the ruler means you have to deal with lots of ponies trying to disturb the peace and it’s no different when other kingdoms try to restore order, but their own kind take the law into their own hooves or talons,” Celestia stated.
“That’s how it works back home. No one likes playing nice,” Kevin explained as he twirled the wrench in his left hoof, but it fell from his grasp.
“Well, we’re going to make sure it doesn’t stay like that. I won’t stand by and let innocent kingdoms be tarnished by the actions of their citizens,” Ben declared.
Discord was in the ritual of brushing his teeth getting ready for a morning of picking plants out with his garden buddy, Fluttershy, as he does on certain days and while he admitted it was boring at first, Fluttershy always sang songs to make the time pass so he couldn’t get enough of it. Plus, he felt a sense of normalcy he hadn’t felt in the longest time. It may have been primarily due to the fact that his life was more chaotic rather than sensible. He had the belief that being mature and having sensibility were weak traits for those that simply reveled more in the fact that they were going to rule over the world. Now, he’s with Fluttershy as best friends and that’s all he could really ask for. The ability of taking him in even though he was a monster made his heart three times bigger.
“Wipe that stupid grin off your face,” A sinister voice snarled as Discord’s eyes perked open and he searched around trying to find the source of the voice.
“Who said that?” Discord asked.
“Look at the mirror, dumbo,” The sinister voice replied as Discord looked ahead noticing his reflection in the mirror glaring at him and not mimicking his movements.
“My own reflection? What’s the big idea?” Discord asked.
“Look at yourself, being all happy because of friendship and warm hugs. I honestly gave you a chance to turn things around and this is what I’m seeing. So sickening!” Discord’s reflection blurted out.
“What the hay do you mean? I’m just being normal old Discord as always with a new leaf in life,” Discord stated.
“But don’t you miss the chaos? Taking over Equestria and being the ruler over all?” Discord’s reflection asked.
“I mean, I can still do all those things without taking over Equestria. I can share my chaos in more friendlier ways,” Discord explained as rubbed his pink furry robe that he had on.
“Even the color of that robe is disgusting. You really have gone soft,” Discord’s reflection stated.
“Hey! This is fine design that Rarity made for me!” Discord defended as he leaned over the sink and pointed at his evil reflection.
“These ponies are the reason you aren’t doing what you want. It’s because you know that any minute, you’ll snapped back to evil and go right back to stone,” Discord’s reflection explained.
“And what’s the matter with that? Being stuck as a statue is horrible!” Discord complained.
“But think about the first time you met those ponies and turned them into their polar opposites. You defeated them! You won!” Discord’s reflection exclaimed as he lifted his mismatched talons.
“Friendship defeated me, though. I underestimated their bond and they are the closest best friends I’ve ever seen. I don’t think anypony can beat that,” Discord retorted.
“You’re just scared! You want to reign supreme, but you’re just a chicken!” Discord’s reflection exclaimed as he made chicken noises to mock his original copy.
“The whole chicken routine? Is that suppose to sway me here?” Discord asked with a raised eyebrow and his talons on his hips.
“I mean, truth is truth,” Discord’s reflection retorted shrugging his shoulders.
“Well, move it along then, because I have a very important day ahead of me with dear Fluttershy. I don’t need any negative nancies ruining it for the both of us,” Discord demanded.
“With pleasure!” Discord’s reflection exclaimed as he grabbed the sides of the mirror pulling himself through as his original copy stared in horror.
The reflected Discord laughed manically as his form was an exact replica of the Discord right in front of him. He smirked looking over to the nearby glass window with yellow-tinted sills as he opened it up and stepped out flying away laughing.
“Oh great, this ruse again and I just know I’m the one that’s going to get blamed for it all. Just when I thought my luck was starting to turn around,” Discord stated as brushed his teeth.
(Scene Break)
“Argh! Ugh! Ah!” A very old grunt came from inside the Everfree Forest as trotting steps could be heard from inside the brushes.
The sight of tan hooves running were seen as the pony they belonged to was an earth pony with an old grey mane and a grey swishing tail. He had a tan coat covering him as he wore a red Hawaiian shirt with some sort of blue blaster pistols in their holsters hanging off a brown belt attached to his waist. He ran as fast as he could ducking inside and outside of bushes seeming to be running from something inside these woods. The things made themselves known as three Timberwolves growled and howled running after the elder pony. The elder pony turned around standing on his hind legs grabbing a pistol blasting one wolf to pieces before another tackled him struggling to eat his head off.
“Get off me!” The elder pony screamed as he blasted the wolf away and got up to continue running as more exited their hiding places after him.
The elder pony zig-zagged around the claws that were attempting to swipe at him as the colt saw a pile of logs off to his side being held back behind some bushes. He used his blaster to vaporized all the bushes and set the logs free as they rolled onto the path crushing the incoming timberwolves giving him an open window of escape. He blew a sigh of relief heading out of the site making his way towards an open exit in the forest. The elder pony slowed down his trotting speed taking a breather and falling on his side.
“That’s definitely my work out for the day. Not as young as I use to be,” Max Tennyson stated as he used a tree to hold himself up from his run.
Max was bewildered by the current form he was in as he was just at the local Plumbers Base in Bellwood testing out his new Automatic Stun Blasters when he was visited by Professor Paradox of all people who didn’t explain himself as he pushed Max into an open blue portal. Next thing Max knows is he is a pony and in a very dark forest in which he hid in some bushes along a row of trees where he slept for the night. Waking himself up, he found himself in the midst of Timberwolf territory and had to make a break for it leading to where he is now. He had a few tears in his favorite shirt, but no major injuries to report.
“I just hope Ben and the others got out alright,” Max hoped looking off into the distance of the mountains to where the Canterlot Castle was clearly visible.
(Scene Break)
The decorations for the Summer Sun Formal were completed and Rarity even hopped on the train to come to the castle to show Princess Celestia some designs from her sketchbook. Ben, Rook, Gwen, and Kevin looked around the big ballroom inside the castle as red banners were hung up, a sound stage for Vinyl Scratch was in place, balloons were hanging or even dropping to the floor bouncing around the place, lights were also hung up by some construction ponies making sure wires connected together, and regal gold banners were placed vertically on the walls near the windows.
“It really reminds me of high school prom,” Gwen stated.
“But we missed that dance,” Kevin reminded.
“Still, I got to go to others and they paled in comparison to what these ponies came up with,” Gwen explained.
“Let’s just hope it goes off without a hitch,” Ben stated.
“Not to worry, I recommended a high security detail should the place need it,” Rook added.
“What these ponies would do without us if they were to get stuck in some sort of crisis during the festivities,” Gwen muttered.
“HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!” A female voice screeches as all four individuals are startled and immediately head for the doors bursting out to the courtyard.
“What was that?” Kevin asked as he felt his ears start to ring.
“A cry for help, genius! Sounds like it came from that hedge maze over there,” Ben replied as he pointed a hoof over at the local hedge maze.
All four ponies galloped over to the Canterlot Hedge Maze seeing different stone statues of many famous ponies over the years and upon seeing the many turns that come with this unique location, they had to marvel how big it all looked for a few seconds before seeing a distressed pink mare with a brown mane and tail with a cutie mark of a cash register on her posterior pacing around the entrance looking up ever so often trying to find something it seemed.
“Ma’am, what’s the matter?” Ben asked as he galloped over to her.
“My baby is stuck in the maze! I put him down for just a few seconds admiring one of these statues, but I guess he wandered off in the maze alone,” The pink mare replied.
“That’s a pretty big maze,” Rook stated as he looked into the thick brushes of the hedge maze.
“Oh, this is so horrible! He must be so scared without me!” The pink mare exclaimed as she held her hooves together.
“No better time to get to heroing than now! Come on and please don’t mess with me here!” Ben yelled as he tapped the Omnitrix hovering over the XLR8 icon.
“We’ll scout overhead and see where he could be located,” Gwen stated as she created mana steps with her horn magic letting herself, Kevin, and Rook walk up them to be observing from the sky.
Ben nodded as he popped the dial up and slammed down on it making sure he was going to turn into the alien he wanted despite his watch’s previous use.
Ben began getting more fur over his body becoming a bit bigger looking like a feral cat and having orange fur with black stripes. His stomach was white and his hooves were switched out for claws with his eyes becoming all green. The Omnitrix appeared on his chest as he became the Appoplexian known as Rath as he roars smashing the ground with his hands.
“LEEME TELL YOU SOMETHIN’ NEW OMNITRIX THAT NEVER SEEMS TO GIVE RATH THE ALIEN HE WANTS! RATH WILL CRUSH YOU INTO TINY PIECES IF YOU CONTINUE TO GIVE RATH THE ALIENS HE DOESN’T WANT! YA GOT THAT?!” Rath raged as he looked at the hedge maze and the pink mare stared in absolute shock.
Rath took off jumping over the hedge maze wall and continued doing it as Gwen, Kevin, and Rook got above the maze looking out for a little baby colt filly anywhere in the vicinity. Rath himself jumped from corridor to corridor to corridor searching for this little filly looking under potted plants and going through the walls leaving Rath-size holes through them all.
“LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHIN’ LITTLE COLT FILLY! RATH IS GETTING SICK OF SEARCHIN’ FOR YA SO COME OUT FOR RATH ALREADY!” Rath screamed as he search around the maze some more.
“I guess he doesn’t understand that his screams won’t make the filly come out,” Kevin stated.
“He’s never bright as Rath,” Gwen added.
Rath jumped down into the center with a big water fountain stationed there as he scratched his chin and thought over what to do next before he snapped his claws on what to do.
“RATH HAS AN IDEA!” Rath announced loudly as he slapped the dial on his chest.
Ben started growing more into a more circular alien as this new form traded out the fur for hardened scales and two large flippers with a large shell on the back representing a green sea turtle. The Omnitrix dial appeared on the chest and he opened his green eyes becoming the GeocheloneAerio known as Terraspin.
“Don’t want to show yourself, then get blown away!” Terraspin exclaimed as he floated up in the air turning his flippers on fast blowing around the hedge maze with leaves scattering everywhere.
“And now here comes the property damage,” Kevin stated.
“I guess he isn’t bright in any crucial situations,” Gwen added as she shrugged her shoulders, but she happened to look over seeing a pink colt hanging off a stone wing of a Princess Celestia statue.
“Look, the child is right there!” Rook exclaimed as he pointed the little child out.
“Ben! The filly is on the stone statue of Princess Celestia! Get it before they fall!” Gwen called out to the flying turtle scissoring off leaves in his cyclone.
Terraspin heard Gwen stopping himself just under the statue as he saw the pink colt crawling along the wing just at the very top wearing a diaper as it laughed and played on the structure.
“How did he even get up there? That’s also a pretty tall order if he falls off so I better make this quick,” Terraspin stated as he started rising up like a helicopter towards the filly colt.
The colt laughed clapping its hooves together sticking out its tongue adorably looking over to see Terraspin looking at it with glaring green eyes. The colt perked up backing up a little startled as it began slipping and fell only hanging on by a thread with its hooves. It cried out for help as Terraspin came nearer lifting it up softly on the shell before settling back down on the ground and grabbing the baby.
“I’m a nice turtle. See! I saved you from all the way up there and now you’re safe,” Terraspin stated as he pointed to the high structure the colt once occupied.
The baby colt looked up tongue sticking out and he laughed clapping his hooves without a care in the world as Terraspin set him down on the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief as he noticed droplets hitting his head and he used a fin to touch the top of his head seeing it was a brown kind of substance. Before he could question it, more brown droplets rained down hard as pink cotton clouds replaced the normal white ones and the sky darkened.
“What the heck?!” Kevin exclaimed in shock.
“Anyone want to tell me why it’s raining….chocolate milk?” Terraspin asked as he tasted his fin that had the droplet on it.
“What kind of weather does this place have?” Gwen asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Look out below!” Discord exclaimed as he appeared above all three individuals with a devilish and mischievous look on his face as he twiddled with his fingers and twisted in front of them.
“Hey, it’s that mismatched freak!” Kevin exclaimed as he pointed an accusing finger at Discord.
“Freak? That’s a bit harsh after a first impression, don’t you think?” Discord asked.
“What’s going on, Discord?” Gwen asked.
“Oh, nothing, Miss Gwendolyn, just spreading a little chaos and fun as I go merrily through Canterlot,” Discord replied as he slid a finger under Gwen’s chin tickling it before mimicking himself frolicking through the hedge maze.
“Don’t be getting too touchy,” Kevin muttered at the draconequus and glared at him.
“What do you mean by chaos? It’s raining the substance of what earthlings call chocolate milk and there is pink clouds in the sky,” Rook explained as he turned around to make sure he was right with his observations.
“Well, I never said my type of chaos was the “doom and destruction” kind. Just spreading a little more taming touch on it, but I can make it very, very deadly,” Discord replied with a chuckle.
“I’m not sure if we should be threatened or humored,” Gwen stated.
“Just know that I’m back to take over like I once did. This place has been too colorful and magical for my liking. A makeover is seriously needed,” Discord explained as he snapped his fingers holding two paintbrushes in his claws with a few buckets of grey paint appearing around him in a circle spinning around him.
“Something tells me this is more than an extreme home makeover,” Kevin stated.
“But you joined us in stopping the Diamond Dogs? You want to take over Equestria all of a sudden?” Gwen asked.
“Let’s face it: Celestia and Luna are getting a little wrinkly under their eyes and they’ll have to settle into retirement sooner rather than later. I might as well speed up that process,” Discord replied.
Kevin sprung into the action going for a hard punch to the face of Discord as he slowly moves out of the way slithering his body in a wavy manner. Discord snap his fingers before disappearing and reappearing behind Kevin pushing him into the hedge maze on a wall causing him to crash and get dowsed in leaves.
“Argh! That was so uncool!” Kevin exclaimed.
“Now, want to try that again?” Discord asked with a cheeky smile.
Gwen created a stream of magic to launch at Discord, but he snaps his fingers making it dissipate with ease and Rook brought out his Proto-Tool standing on his hind legs shooting blasts at Discord. The draconequus did his best ducking in and out of the shots smirking as he snapped his fingers as Rook raised an eyebrow wondering what was coming. He soon found his hooves becoming more frosty as he shivered from the ice attaching his hooves together in a big block of ice as Discord laughed his head off. Terraspin returned the baby colt to his mother before turning around seeing Discord facing off with Gwen as she fired more charges of magic at him.
“That can’t be good,” Terraspin stated as he took off going to fly over as he flew in front of Discord mid-battle.
“Oooohhhh, a flying turtle! I don’t think I summoned you yet,” Discord stated as he put on some glasses and checked a white piece of paper looking to be a schedule. “I’m afraid I’m all booked up with other appointments.”
“Well, clear that schedule and make room for this butt kicking if you’re going to mess with my cousin,” Terraspin stated as he shot a fin out socking Discord across the face sending him down into the hedge maze straight into the fountain.
Discord has his eyes rolling before he closed them shaking his head and getting back in the air glaring at Terraspin. Discord snapped his claws donning a cowboy outfit fitted with a black hat and white strap belt holding two toy pistols. He grabs both twirling them for dramatic effect and firing off different ping pong balls from them at Terraspin that obstruct his vision.
“Ow! Hey! That’s not fair! Ow! Stop it!” Terraspin exclaimed.
“What you gonna do about it, partner?” Discord taunted as he held his pistols up.
“You are going to regret asking a hero that,” Terraspin stated as he landed on the ground. “I’ve got a whole inventory of tricks right here for ya.”
Discord raised an eyebrow as Terraspin slapped the Omnitrix starting to turn into another form as the green light blinded everyone in the area.
Ben started shrinking to the small size of a yellow bug with pinchers and a large horn protruding out of his forehead. He had a green collar around his neck with two white rectangles on each side as the Omnitrix dial appeared on it as well. Ben now became the little insectoid known as Ball Weevil.
“A little bug? That’s seriously the best you got?” Discord asked as he laughed as he landed on the ground dispelling his cowboy attire.
“Well, I may be little, but small things come in big packages,” Ball Weevil stated as he created a large green plasma ball rolling on it.
Discord narrowed his gaze snapping his fingers to make animated bowling pins with hands and feet as he pointed to Ball Weevil telling them to attack. The pins came at Ball Weevil, but he just rammed them out of the way with his plasma ball rolling it towards Discord as it exploded making contact with the draconequus sending him straight through a hedge wall.
“Oooohhhh, that wasn’t fun,” Discord stated as he rubbed his head.
“Neither is this!” Kevin exclaimed as he whacked Discord across the face with his hooves after he absorbed the material of stone from a statue.
Kevin kept up his attacks with punches to the face and he grabbed Discord throwing him through another hedge wall made of leaves. Rook and Gwen made their way down with mana steps as Discord was flying towards them fast. Rook struggled breaking the ice finally smashing his hooves on the ground and firing a capturing net sealing Discord in as he struggled to get out. Ball Weevil crawled on over to the open section as the Omnitrix began timing out turning him back into Ben.
“Well, that was fun for us and it seems you didn’t think through your return to evil very well,” Ben taunted.
“Like this simple net can hold me,” Discord stated as he flashed out of it and stretched his limbs out.
“Aw man!” Ben yelled as he slumped his shoulders.
“Chaos cannot be contained and while I may not be able to trounce you all on a combative front, I can certainly make it harder for you all to stop me,” Doscord stated as he dropped a few seeds into the ground summoning a yellow pail of water spraying the ground with it.
The seeds started sprouting from the water as black vines started appearing out of the ground as Discord smirked triumphantly when four black vines wrapped around the bodies of Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Rook.
“What the heck?!” Kevin exclaimed as he lost his stone material.
“Argh! Let us go!” Gwen demanded as she struggled against her restraints.
Ben got scooped up tightly as he went for the Omnitrix, but another black vine grabbed his watch wielding hoof covering up his device to prevent him from using it. He struggled to breath in his captive state as Discord started laughing his head off.
“Argh! There has to be something we can do!” Gwen exclaimed.
“My Proto-Tool is on the ground and I can’t reach it!” Rook stated as he tried reaching for his weapon until Discord appeared in front of him picking it up.
“This is a very fine piece of technology you have here. I think I’ll keep it for myself, but I promise you’ll get it back…probably,” Discord stated as he flew off with the Proto-Tool to cause even more chaos.
“That’s a vital piece of Plumber technology! Get back here!” Rook yelled, but a vine covered his mouth preventing him from speaking.
“Well, we’re toast!” Kevin added.
The vines started overthrowing the hedge maze as royal guards started seeing from the balconies sounding the alarm that the castle was under attack from an enemy threat. Princess Celestia burst through the doors with Rarity at her side as the generous unicorn saw the black vines growing outwards.
“What in the blazes?! I thought we got rid of those!” Rarity recoiled.
“Maybe there were some leftover that Discord forgot to tell us about and this isn’t good if they reach the castle,” Celestia stated. “I need all colts on the frontlines!”
“Where’s Ben and everypony else? He would be able to help here,” Rarity stated.
Princess Celestia glared ahead as she started blasting some of the vines back with her yellow magic at least to keep them near the hedge maze.
“Get back to Ponyville as fast as you can and round up Princess Twilight! I need the Element bearers here with me,” Celestia ordered.
“Right away, Princess!” Rarity exclaimed as she dashed past everything as the royal guards started attacking the vines with their spears.
The vines started growing evermore larger as some royal guards got taken prisoner crying out for help as Princess Celestia summoned a massive explosion of magic pushing the vines back even more. She would hold out for as long as she could, but these things are too relentless for her to face alone. Where is Luna?!