> Darkness Rises Pt1: A Rift in Time > by ConfusedMemer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Core > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information- So this takes place after season 14 of Ninjago, and season 8 of Mlp, The ponies are not actually ponies, but humans with horns and tails, like in the cover, And the ninja are also humans. It was a peaceful night in Ninjago, the breeze was cool, and the moon was bright. Sensei Wu sipped his tea looking at the sky. The ninja were asleep, as they had early morning training. Wu noticed a faint tint in the sky, a blue crack that glowed and sparked. Wu jumped up and ran out the gate. “Oh no... The Core, it’s pulling back together… He’ll be allowed to escape… Wu ran down the steps to where the Core was located, underneath Borg Tower. Lloyd woke up and stretched as he got out the bed. “Stupid morning training” He could hear Kai mutter from his room. “Better morning than night!” Cole yelled. “Can you guys SHUT UP” Nya said, angrily. “Sorry Princess, we’ll be quieter so you can get your “Royal rest”” Cole mocked. “I’m going to kill you one day” Nya rolled her eyes. “Uh, guys, Sensei’s gone…” Jay butted in. “WHAT!” All other 5 ninja yelled in unison. “Yeah… I don’t know where he went..” Jay motioned them to come outside. The Monastery door was wide open, with no trace of footprints or spilled tea. “He was in a hurry it seems” Zane pointed out. “No duh Zane!” Cole face palmed. Lloyd walked around, looking for clues as to where his uncle went, there was nothing of interest, untill he looked up, the huge crack in the sky… “Guys, What the hell is that!?” He pointed. “Lloyd what are you- Oh my GOD WHAT IS THAT” Jay screamed as the crack started to glow. “It seems to be a rift, a tear in time or universes, which means our universe is tearing into another reality.” Zane explained the situation. Suddenly, a burst of lightning came from the rift and hit the center of Ninjago city. “Borg Tower! We have to go Check on Cyrus and Pixal!” Kai yelled. The ninja ran to go get into the bounty. “Thrusters are on?” Nya asked. “On!” Jay replied. “Alright, Let’s take this show on the road!” Lloyd turned on the ignition as they flew off. As they were getting closer to the tower, the lighting from the rift kept striking more furiously, like it was trying to hit the bounty. Then one huge lighting strike struck the middle again. This time making a huge purple wave that blinded the ninja for a few seconds. When they opened their eyes again, there was a castle and people with wings and tails flew by, marveling at the structure of the bounty. “What the f-“ Kai was about to say until another wave came and they were back in Ninjago. “What was that?” Cole asked. “Not sure, but the bigger question is, what is that!?” Lloyd pointed at a halved glowing cube, that was cracked and the lighting strikes from the rift, floating above Borg Tower. It seemed to have a slightly invisible barrier. “Can we go though it?” Jay questioned. “We’ll just have to see” Nya steered into the Zone. --------------Twilight's Castle-------------------- Twilight Sighed as She looked out the window, There was nothing to do! She walked down the stairs to her friends, who were sitting at their chairs. She sat down with them as they looked like they had just seen a ghost. "Um, Guys, are you alright?" Twilight worriedly asked. "Sweetie, we're fine, unless you can see this letter from the princesses!" Rarity Shrieked. Twilight grabbed the note and looked at it. "Twlight, our world is going to collide with another, we must brace the citzens for impact, this could cause both of the worlds to collaspe under pressure, So me and Luna are using our magic to keep the Core intact." Twilight read. "Twilight, what's the core?" Rainbow Dash tilted her head. "Not sure, but we have to go help, I've never read about the core in my entire life" Twilight ran to the library as the others followed. "Core...…Core! I got it!" Twilight Levitated the book, and set in on a table. She opened it a peak and the book started to glow and float, until a huge wave of light came upon the room. "The book is making a hologram thingy" Applejack pointed out. "It has words.. In ancient pony language!" Twilight looked up at it and started to read. "Long ago, before time had a name, the First Spinjitzu Master created Ninquestria, but not without help, he met a beautiful humine (that's what the ponies are called now) who he fell in love with instantly, Her name was Sunlight Moondust, the only one who was able to control all the elements of harmony at the same time. They made the world side by side." Twilight was interrupted by Rarity. "OMC THAT'S SO CUTE, but what is spinjiztu?" Rarity exlaimed. "Can I finish reading?" Twilight asked with a hint of annoyance. "Of course" Rarity twirled her hair. "The Fsm had a brother, but he was favored by the Oni and took on a dark path. He saw what Sunlight and The Fsm had created out of their love, and his jealously fueled his darkness, he began to study a darker magic, Rift magic, giving him the ability to destroy entire universes. The Fsm and Sunlight would not stand for this, they tried their hardest to stop him, but it was too late. They did the only thing they could do. They went to the core, an infinite source of power that held the fabric of the universe together, and created a crystal out of it's power. They used the crystal to safely split the core, and divide the realms. Then they used the true power of the crystal to banish Darkwave, his brother. After the battle was done, they had four children, two girls of which were humines, and the other two boys were humans. The only way Darkwave should ever return is if the Core joins back together and the realm crystal is destroyed and overloaded..." Twilight gulped at the last sentence. "Isn't the core already combining again?" Rainbow asked. "Yes, we need to go help them, If the core becomes one once more, we have a chance of him coming back..." Twilight said. "We're going to that blue crack in the sky" She pointed to it and off they went. ----------------------------------Back in Ninjago-------------------------------------- The Ninja went full thrust into the core's zone, they thought that they would crash into the barrier, but they were able to make it inside, until they started to float off the bounty. "Who turned off the gravity in here?!" Jay yelled. "I believe the cube is altering reality as we speak, causing what I'd like to call a reality strike, which is what that giant wave that transported us did" Zane explained. "How come it happened only to us?" Kai asked. "I think everyone in Ninjago was transported there for a good second" Zane said. "Then how come we didn't see anyone?" Cole asked, confused. "It might have to do with location" Jay said. "Guys, I see Sensei!" Lloyd pointed. "Try to dive to him!" Kai pointed himself downwards and headed towards the old man as the others followed. The halfed cube shot a bolt at them, and Zane blocked it as they reached Wu, who was also floating. "Jay, Strike the core!" Wu yelled. "Why! Won't it do something weird?" Jay asked. "Just do it Jay!" Wu said. Jay shot a burst of lighting at the core causing the zone to fall and for gravity to return to normal. "Whew, that was close" Kai said as they floated down. Pixal and Cyrus were also there. "Is everyone okay?" Pixal asked. "I'm fine, you?" Zane hugged her. "I was able to us down with this gravity shifter" Pixal pulled out the device. "How did you guys know to make that for this situation?" Jay asked. "Let us explain" Wu and Cyrus said. -------------------------2 mins later--------------------- "Wait, wait, wait, this is only one half of the core?!" Lloyd said. "Correct Lloyd, the other half is in another dimension" Wu said. "But if it was okay being halved about 5000 years ago, why is it upset now?" Cole asked. "Since Lloyd destroyed the realm crystal, the core's balance was shifted, and it has been slowing getting worse since the attack of the Oni" Wu explained. "The overlord came to this location because he could feel the source of power, yet that power helped Lloyd, I had Cyrus bulid over it so he could keep it in check, yet it has broken out, as you can see, floating above borg tower now" "So since the shards are not together, this is making the core unstable?" Zane asked. "Yes Zane, We have to find the shards, because if they rejoin, and the realm crystal is not intact, it will overload the shards and allow Darkwave to escape..." Wu said. "What I had Jay do was keep the core intact for a second, since lighting is connected to rift energy "Sensei, I have two aunts?" Lloyd wondered. "Yes, my sisters, we used to always be with them, but I haven’t seen them since after you were born." Wu sighed. "Sorry to break to moment but, the core is freaking out!" Jay screamed. The core started to crack and glow, until it shot up a huge burst of lightning into the rift in the sky, opening it wider. "What... the... fuck...." Nya said. ----------------------------Equestria-------------------------- Twilight and the others arrived at the core and saw Celestia and Luna using their magic on the core, trying to keep it intact. "Princess Celestia!" Twilight yelled. "Twilight! You shouldn't have come!" Celestia yelled back. "Sister, I can't hold it, Much.. longer.." Luna started to faint. "The princesses are getting drained! We have to help!" Rainbow flew towards them, but as she did, the rift in the sky shot lighting into the core and blew everyone back. "Oh no, It's starting" Luna groaned. "Wha- what's starting" Fluttershy asked. "Brace for Impact!" Celestia said as a great blinding light came over them. -------------------------------------------Ninjago------------------------------ "Get ready for wahtever comes!" Lloyd yelled as everything blacked out. -30 seconds later- Lloyd got up and scratched his head. What happened? "Kai, Zane! You there?" He yelled. "Here!" Kai said. The light went back to normal and all the ninja could clearly see borg tower, but it wasn't Borg tower, It was a castle.... Well half of a castle and half of Borg tower. "It's that same castle we saw in the reality strike!" Nya pointed out. "That's not all..." Zane told them to turn around. There was city houses replaced with fancy houses. Zane made a hologram of Ninjago and they looked at all the new things. Jamanakai Village was halved with some less fancier houses, The forest had a darker shade on one side. The sea seemed to have a city in it now, and the lost city of Ouroboros had more mountains, and there was a cloud city in the sky. But the thing that was interesting to them was that there was another castle floating above the monastery. "Our realm just collided with another..." Jay said. Suddenly, people with spears pointed at their faces. "Who are you and what's your business!" "This is just the life of a Ninja..." Lloyd sighed. > Worlds Collide > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ninja were brought into the weird structure, The tech and metal side fused with the rural and stone side. “Someone had a bad design day,” Jay remarked. “You only talk when you have permission!” Some guy with two shades of blue hair yelled at him. “Ok, Jeez” Jay groaned. They approached the middle room, which had two thrones in it now and one of Cyrus’s computers. Cyrus and Pixal were tied up next to the throne, and the ninja saw 8 people talking around the throne. “LET THEM GO!” Zane yelled. The soldiers put their spears closer to Zane. The 8 females turned around to the sudden outburst. One of the soldiers felt their spear getting hot. Kai was melting it. “What the-“ “NINJAGOOOOOO” All the ninjas yelled and spun around in their tornadoes. They knocked out all the soldiers and brushed themselves off. “What..was..that” Shining Armor passed out. “YOU JUST HURT MY BBBFF” Twilight charged at Kai. Nya stepped in front of him and shot water at her. Twilight stopped and shook out her hair. “Stop!” Celestia and Luna yelled. As the separate teams were about to fight, they all froze and looked at the princesses. “How do you know spinjiztu?” Luna asked. “Better question yet, how do you?!” Kai took out a sword. “Get your sword away from the princesses!” Rainbow said. Lloyd felt something memorable, yet unknown towards the two princesses. He put away his sword and walked to them. Everyone stopped to look at Lloyd and wondered why he was approaching them. “Wait....L-Lloyd?” Celestia said. “You know him?!” Rarity asked. “Sister, It can’t be, He should be 14 right now “ Luna put a hand on her shoulder. “Tomorrow’s tea...” Celestia said. “Ok someone please explain!” Applejack said. “Lloyd is our nephew,” Luna said. “WHAT!?” All the others yelled. “Wait, duh, The princesses are the two daughters of The Fsm and Sunlight, and the two brothers are in this dimension, but one of them is evil and that’s Lloyd’s father!” Pinkie smiled. “Wha?” Cole asked. “Just a hunch” Pinkie responded. "Better if you don't question it," Rainbow said. "You had a nephew this whole time and you didn't tell me?!" Twilight asked. "We didn't want to tell you until you were ready to find out," Celestia said. "IM A ALICORN PRINCESS AND YOU SAY I'M NOT READY" Twilight yelled. "Sugarcube, calm down" Applejack put a hand on her shoulder. Ok, ok, I’m sorry princess, but if your father is a human, and your mother is like us, why aren’t you half-human?” Twilight asked. “Because, The Oni were human-like dark creatures, and the dragons are what gave the FSM the good human-like form, then there was the pony, which is what our mother came from” Luna explained. “So humines are half-human already, but Lloyd Is half humine” Celestia said. “So I can have a horn and wings?” Lloyd asked. “Well, actually, you’ll have one or the other because you have to earn being an-“ Twilight started. “Yes, because you are the grandson, you’ll have both once you figure out how to shapeshift” Celestia interrupted. “What! He didn’t even know we existed and he gets a shortcut?” Twilight grumbled. “Maybe we should take a break and get to know each other, sounds good right?” Jay tried to calm down the situation. “Yes. It would be nice to catch up for a while” An old man came out of the elevator. “Wu?” Luna said. “Hello, sisters,” Wu said, cheerfully. “Sensei!” The ninja ran over to him. “Sensei did you get attacked?” Cole asked. “What do you know about this place?” Kai asked. “What is that castle above the monastery? Nya asked. “Students, I need to catch up with my sisters, while you make some new friends, go explore the new world or something,” Wu said. The ninja agreed and walked over to the other team while sensei Wu walked to his sisters. “So Wu, Where’s Garmadon?” Luna asked. “I haven’t seen him since the oni attacked,” Wu said. Celestia gasped. “They returned? How did you defeat them?” “It’s a long story…” Wu got ready to explain. The group made their way out of the castle/tower, looking all around at the new merged land, not knowing what was what anymore. “This world has only been merged for like, 10 mins, and I already hate it” Kai groaned. “I don’t even know what anything is!”. “Kai, calm down, we’ll figure this out, somehow” Lloyd assured. “So, who are you guys?” Rainbow asked. “We’re super-secret agents that work for the government” Jay joked. The ninja stared at him with an unamused face. “What? I was just trying to lighten the situation about the very confusing world collision” Jay shrugged. “Jay, sometimes I worry about you” Cole shook his head. “Well, apparently, this is the original version of the realm, well, except it didn’t look like…this” Twilight said. “How do you know that?” Lloyd raised an eyebrow. “An ancient book in Equestria, I think you would want to see it” She used her magic to levitate a book out of her sack. Lloyd called his team around him and opened it. He opened the book, but It did not float and create a hologram-like it did for Twilight. “Why isn’t it doing the thing?” Aj asked. “What thing? It’s supposed to do a thing” Nya looked at the book. “Yeah, it was glowing and floaty!” Pinkie said. “Glowing huh? Here, Kai, you try it” Lloyd passed it to him. Kai opened the book and it did start to glow and float again, but not tell the story, instead, a hologram of a person was there. “What is that!?” Rarity shrieked. The hologram paused and started to turn around, its visible red eyes smoking out the corner. A dark cape, with red, purple, and yellow outlining it swished around. The ninja’s eyes widened as they started to realize who it was. “Hey, doesn’t he look like someone we know?” Rainbow pointed. “Like, King Sombra?” Fluttershy asked. “Who? That guy’s the…” Cole started. “Overlord.” Zane finished. The man turned around and an evil grin cracked upon his face. “Well, If it isn’t the ninja, and The mane 6? Wow, what a great reunion” The Overlord laughed. “We defeated you twice, and we’ll do it again!” Lloyd raised his fist. “You’re dumber than you look. The weak dragon you defeated was only a part of me, same with that useless unicorn body I had.” He explained. “What do you mean? You’re supposed to be dead Sombra!” Twilight said. “How are you this overlord guy and him, and if both of them were destroyed, why are you still here?” The overlord stared at them and shook his head. “Perhaps you don’t remember who I am, I am speaking from the realm of darkness. I was the one telling the story. I am Darkwave. When my brother banished me and split the realms, I split myself into both of them, while my main body is stuck in this stupid dimension. But now that the realm crystal is no longer together and Ninquestria is once more, I can return.” “We won’t let it happen! You’re not destroying this Realm!” Kai yelled. “We’ll just have to see about that fire one.” The book shut and disappeared. “We have to go tell Uncle Wu and My aunts!” Lloyd ran back towards the castle and the others followed. “And that’s been our adventures so far since I’ve found my team” Wu finished. “Well, it seems you have a fine team of brave ninja, who has stopped evil every time it has come” Luna complimented. “Yes, I am disappointed Garmadon was most of these. I hope he will return one day.” Wu sighed. “Our girls have also had their fair share of villains, such as “ Celestia started as the door burst open with the 12 heroes running through. “Master Wu, The Ov-“ Kai started until Rainbow pushed in front of him. “Sombra is back!” She interrupted. Kai glared at her for taking his words as she smirked at him. “Sombra? How? Wasn’t he destroyed?” Luna asked. “Sister, there is something I haven’t told you, or, all of you” Celestia stood up. “You mean the fact that Sombra is not only our overlord but Darkwave?” Lloyd said. “Yes, how did you figure that out?” She raised an eyebrow. “The book. We opened it, and instead of telling the story, The overlord started to speak through it” Kai explained. “I also couldn’t activate it for a strange reason” Lloyd continued. “The Oni Seal,” Wu said. “The what? Sir, we don’t need to use made-up words” Rarity said. “No, the Oni! Like the demons that the princesses are a part of” Twilight corrected. “The Oni Seal, when Darkwave made the book, it would drain the energy of whoever opened it. To prevent him from getting power of darkness, my father put a seal on it, so any person of oni blood would not be able to use it” Wu explained. “But, he said he was coming back! Now that our worlds are back together” AJ yelled. “Then you must find the shards of the realm crystal, and reforge it, to keep him banished,” Wu said. “Right, we can do this! We all just have to work as a team!” Lloyd and Twilight said at the same time. They looked at each other and blushed. Yooo, sorry I've been gone for so long, I've been updating other stuff on Wattpad(SomeGreenNinja), but I promise I will update this starting now! I just happened to come back to this while being bored in school