open Equestria's Darkest Hour

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"I see your plan." Butajiri said, sheathing his sword and moving to Nova. "I doubt that a few C class will make much of a difference, not that our enemies are anything impressive either."

 

"Do you know where that mirror is? All I know is that it's in a swamp." Hirue asked.

 

"Hirue will kill her alone. He blends with the swamps well. I will only get in his way." Said Rotto. "I have a different target in mind." He pulled out his button and held it in his cold hand. "All I have to do is tell Twilight to stand still and let me hit her as I please and she won't be able to say no! Oh, I just love the look of forced submission! Those emotions that your race is so proud of are just so easy to screw with!"

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Pinkie finally got to the mirror. She sighed and looked at her reflection.

 

"I solemly swear not to be scared, at the chances of being doubly mared."

 

Sure enough, another of her came up. She kept on doing that, and suddenly an army of herself was in front of her.

 

"LISTEN UP!"

 

The pinkies listened.

 

"I know you guys crave for some fun-"

 

"We do! Funnn! Where is it?" One pinkie asked.

 

"And that's why I called you. Somepony is attempting to take our fun away."

 

All of the pinkies gasped.

 

"So that's why we're going to fight! FOR FUN!"

 

"YEAH!"

Edited November 21, 2012 by Shift

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Hank still carries rarity as he looks like he will pass out any minute "applejack is there a way you can give me something that will keep me awake or give me energy.. i feel like i am about to pass out.." He coughs as he starts to trail behind applejack while he still manages to keep rarity on here back. He bumps into twilight and Skullkin "Twilight.. can you give me a spell for energy.."

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Hanks fatigue was evident in his features. The dark circles under his eyes, the large pools of sweat making him glisten. Skullkin pulled rarity off of hanks back as slid off of his.

 

"Next time, I can gallop fine." She jeered, trying to add some sort of comedy to lighten such tragedies She knelt beside hank, now laying down in rest that his marey-friend had been taken care of, and began funneling magic into her horn. With what little bits of strength she had left (magical strength) she cassted a minor envigor spell, and he rose with new found strength.

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Hanks fatigue was evident in his features. The dark circles under his eyes, the large pools of sweat making him glisten. Skullkin pulled rarity off of hanks back as slid off of his.

 

"Next time, I can gallop fine." She jeered, trying to add some sort of comedy to lighten such tragedies She knelt beside hank, now laying down in rest that his marey-friend had been taken care of, and began funneling magic into her horn. With what little bits of strength she had left (magical strength) she cassted a minor envigor spell, and he rose with new found strength.

 

While Hirue waited for his question to be answered, Rotto walked away and tried to find the place where he had last seen Twilight. It hadn't been too long, so she couldn't have gotten far. He didn't bother to morph back into a pony whle he walked in the streets, keeping his humanoid body instead and keeping in the shadows.

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"Sorry sugar, I can't help her. I'm afraid that ah'm going to go ahead...we should really split up, as if they find us here it will be...horrible. I suppose Pinkie went to the Mirror Pool...Rarites here, Ah'm here, Rainbows with that other stallion, Twiligh's here, and...uh..." Appplejack said, looking out a window to see Pinkie pie's pink army hounding up the hills. "Well, I know where Pinkie is...anyway, you guys know where flutters is?"

 

Pinkie Pie was directing her 'troops' to Canterlot, shouting "ELEMENT OF LAUGHTER ARMY COIMN' THROUGH! OPEN UP THE BUCKING GATES!"

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Pinkie Pie was directing her 'troops' to Canterlot, shouting "ELEMENT OF LAUGHTER ARMY COIMN' THROUGH! OPEN UP THE BUCKING GATES!"

 

Rotto heard the yelling. He was only a few blocks away from the army of pinkies. "I'm willing to bet that Twilight is near that noise. It's a safer bet than wondering around here." He clenched his button with his left hand and held his right arm. His middle finger transformed into a blade that attached to his forearm.

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Pinkie Pie shrugged. She simply hopped over the gates, and the began trotting around Canterlot. She ordered her troops to stay behind and attempt to bust down the gates, but hop over when needed. She noticed Rotto, gave him a direct stare, but moved on. She by mistake dropped the element of honesty necklace she was wearing on her flank, and reached her hoof out to grab it again.

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Pinkie Pie shrugged. She simply hopped over the gates, and the began trotting around Canterlot. She ordered her troops to stay behind and attempt to bust down the gates, but hop over when needed. She noticed Rotto, gave him a direct stare, but moved on. She by mistake dropped the element of honesty necklace she was wearing on her flank, and reached her hoof out to grab it again.

 

Rotto smiled and held out his hand with the bladed finer and stabbed it into the ground between Pinkie's hoof and the element. "What is this? My my, I have been very lucky today. Give those to me." He commanded. "I know what you're trying to do, and I'm afraid you can't go on helping your friend."

 

He squeezed his button tightly and said, "I'm sure you're familiar with a little dragon named Spike. It's just such a shame that he's too far away for you to protect him. Maybe you should give those to me now before someone decides to kill him."

Edited November 22, 2012 by Pretty Koenma

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While Hirue waited for his question to be answered, Rotto walked away and tried to find the place where he had last seen Twilight. It hadn't been too long, so she couldn't have gotten far. He didn't bother to morph back into a pony whle he walked in the streets, keeping his humanoid body instead and keeping in the shadows.

 

Nova started to walk away "It's located somewhere in the Everfree Forest even I'm unsure of it's true location only the pink pony does find her and stop her. But don't kill her I have a special plan in store for the Harmony users one that will render that power useless." Nova continued on with Butajiri the first stop was a cave not far from where they were. Even though it was close in standards it would still take half a day to reach on hoof or by wing, and with a heavy storm starting it would make things even harder. Nova looked over at Butajiri "Don't underestamate the ones who weild the Elemants of Harmony we can't just kill them or the Elemants will seek new owners we need to shatter their friendship it will turn the Elemants back to stone and render them useless."

 

Storm flew around a bit more rain falling through the holes in the ceiling from some of the flying rubble that was part of the main door, when he decided to stop looking he saw a medical team heading in to treat Celestia. Storm landed next to Dash and motioned for her for come with him "Hey come on lets head back to Ponyville there's not much more we can do here." Dash looked around as she took to the air with Storm as they started flying back towards Ponyville. The castle had taken quite a bit of damage from the attack "I want to stay and help the Princess but I know she can handle herself. All I know is that I'm going to make sure this doesn't happen again." Storm escorted Dash back to her home in the clouds before bidding her goodbye and heading back to his home/school, he wanted to get a good idea on where Nova would send her army first when she started to attack Equestria.

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Nova started to walk away "It's located somewhere in the Everfree Forest even I'm unsure of it's true location only the pink pony does find her and stop her. But don't kill her I have a special plan in store for the Harmony users one that will render that power useless." Nova continued on with Butajiri the first stop was a cave not far from where they were. Even though it was close in standards it would still take half a day to reach on hoof or by wing, and with a heavy storm starting it would make things even harder. Nova looked over at Butajiri "Don't underestimate the ones who weild the Elements of Harmony. We can't just kill them or the Elements will seek new owners. We need to shatter their friendship it will turn the Elemants back to stone and render them useless."

 

"You said you had an army." Said Butajiri. "I'm guessing there's something keeping you from obtaining it. Allow me to give you an option that's more readily available." He pulled out his sword and cut an invisible circle in the sky. "The Banshee Shriek can slice into other realms, particularly the one I come from: The Demon World." A purple smoke emitted from his body and filled the invisible circle, creating a purple hole in space. A green, frog-like creature the size of a pony with a turtle shell and beak hopped out of the hole and plopped on the ground before the portal quickly evaporated. The creature looked around and began sniffing the dirt.

 

Butajiri leaned on his sword and panted from exhaustion. "It worked," He said. "But the stronger a demon is, the more powerful portal it needs. This one is literally the weakest they come. Notice how stupid it is."

 

The frog creature was hitting a rock with his beak and looking to see if any insects were hiding inside it.

 

"The weaker demons tend to be very stupid. If I had more energy I could transport Yokai as strong as you and I, but the Banshee Shriek only responds to pure Demon energy, something that is very rare in this realm."

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Hank smiles "thanks twilight." He also noticed the pinkie pie army "um applejack.. should i go down there and help them?" He looks at rarity as he picks her up "i think we should go.. we need to stick together cause once they are done here, they will go after you all.. and if you are not protected its like easy picking.." once Applejack mentioned Fluttershy he shrugs "i don't know who that is.. and i never seen her here.." he sighs

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Shadow Stalker soon woke up. She was still in the bookstore back in Ponyville, and she had no idea why she had thought of coming here. She had already destroyed it once, even if it was already fixed up. She slowly walked out the door, trying not to draw any attention to herself. That was the last thing she needed when she was so weak. Her passing out did nothing to restore any of her energy. She watched the town for a bit, the ponies walking around, wondering what she might do next.

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"You said you had an army." Said Butajiri. "I'm guessing there's something keeping you from obtaining it. Allow me to give you an option that's more readily available." He pulled out his sword and cut an invisible circle in the sky. "The Banshee Shriek can slice into other realms, particularly the one I come from: The Demon World." A purple smoke emitted from his body and filled the invisible circle, creating a purple hole in space. A green, frog-like creature the size of a pony with a turtle shell and beak hopped out of the hole and plopped on the ground before the portal quickly evaporated. The creature looked around and began sniffing the dirt.

 

Butajiri leaned on his sword and panted from exhaustion. "It worked," He said. "But the stronger a demon is, the more powerful portal it needs. This one is literally the weakest they come. Notice how stupid it is."

 

The frog creature was hitting a rock with his beak and looking to see if any insects were hiding inside it.

 

"The weaker demons tend to be very stupid. If I had more energy I could transport Yokai as strong as you and I, but the Banshee Shriek only responds to pure Demon energy, something that is very rare in this realm."

 

Nova stared at the creature and scoffed "I do have an army but raising that many ponies at once would kill even me nopony in all of Equestria can pull off that there are too many bodies centuries of dead ponies litter this land." Nova grit her teeth knowing that she couldn't do such a feat but her army would take a few days to bring to life unfortunately giving Celestia time to recover and come up with a counter measure. "I do believe that I can use them to my advantage once my castle has returned I will need almost a week to bring my army and those demons to this world. For now though the others that failed at taking Equestria will do as generals." Nova grinned while she continued to walk the storm still raging on through the night.

 

Storm was interrupted later that night with a knock on his door opening it to see Dash just standing there in the pouring rain with a depressed look on her face. "Dash what's wrong? Is everything alright." She just shook her head as Storm helped her in and let her dry off by the fireplace. "I'm worried Storm I don't think that even we can beat Nova it just seems hopeless we should just give up." Storm held her close and put his forehead "Dash it will be fine I'll make sure nothing happens to you or anypony else." They stayed up a later in the night until he felt she was getting better before he went to his room followed shortly after by Dash. Neither one of them would leave eath other that night both unaware of what Nova and the rest of her team were up to.

 

(I know this isn't normal for RD but I wanted to show a sensative and vulnerable side because even though she might be tough and cool she's still a normal pony and can't hold all emothion inside.)

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Butajiri followed Nova after sheathing his sword. The frog creature watched them and decided to follow. He felt like they owned him, and he was unable to think of anything else to do.

 

"I see no swamp, no mirror!" Said Hirue. "Do you know this place well at all, Nova? Or should we rely on the frog creature to lead us? At least he's a proper demon."

 

"Hirue, hold your tongues." Butajiri commanded. "There is nothing proper about that demon."

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"Hey! No way! Don't let me throw my Pinkie army at you...and besides you'll never find the place in the everfree where the bristles are the thickest!" Pinkie said, then slamming her hoof in her mouth. "Oh, well,he'll never know the secret words! And if you do, well, you'll never find out where it is, after all, Twilight blocked it up with a rock! And....WHERE'S SPIKE? Oh! Are you throwing a party for him? Like in captured by a party? Ora pretty mare? Wait, Rarity is the pretty mare! And I love love love parties! Nopony can party like the Element of Laughter, and the element of laughter is meeee!"

 

 

Meanwhile, at the mention of parties, her clones stormed the place, badgering Rotto about a party.

 

Applejack smiled.

 

"Now, sugar, i'm gonna run ova' to Los Pegasus. See y'all later!" Applejack said, disappearing in a wisp of dust.

Edited November 24, 2012 by Shift

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"Hey! No way! Don't let me throw my Pinkie army at you...and besides you'll never find the place in the everfree where the bristles are the thickest!" Pinkie said, then slamming her hoof in her mouth. "Oh, well,he'll never know the secret words! And if you do, well, you'll never find out where it is, after all, Twilight blocked it up with a rock! And....WHERE'S SPIKE? Oh! Are you throwing a party for him? Like in captured by a party? Ora pretty mare? Wait, Rarity is the pretty mare! And I love love love parties! Nopony can party like the Element of Laughter, and the element of laughter is meeee!"

 

 

Meanwhile, at the mention of parties, her clones stormed the place, badgering Rotto about a party.

 

Applejack smiled.

 

"Now, sugar, i'm gonna run ova' to Los Pegasus. See y'all later!" Applejack said, disappearing in a wisp of dust.

 

"Gah! Shut the hell up!" Rotto commanded. "I don't care about your mirror. I want the elements! Don't you understand what's at stake? No, I don't think you're going to get this without a visual demonstration." He held out two fingers on his right hand. The twisted and reshaped themselves, changing their colors and shape until one of them looked like a tiny puppet of Spike, and the other one looked like Pinkie Pie. "All of you little Pinkies sit down. I have a little puppet show for you all."

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All of the pinkie's immedially sat down, not including the real Pinkie, who had grabbed the Element of Honesty and was attempting to get the other Pinkie's attention.

 

"Ughhhh!" Pinkie grumbled, then smiled. A puppet show couldn't hurt. However...after it was done, they needed to find spike.

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Rotto smiled and held his fingers up. "I believe you know these two characters, it's you and your little friend Spike. One day, Pinkie Pie and her friends went far away from Ponyville and left poor Spike at home alone. But don't worry, he's not really alone." He turned a third finger into a shadowy figure with red eyes. "My brother has been there watching over little Spike, because you never know what could happen. One day, I asked Pinkie Pie to give the Elements of Harmony to me, but she refused to do what I said." He held up his remote which he was still holding tightly. "So I pressed this little button, and a signal was sent to my brother. So he went to Spike..." His left index finger extended out and pierced the Spike puppet's stomach, making his own blood drip down his hand. "And so my brother was happy to kill him! Poor Pinkie pie realized that she should have listened to me from the very start, but it was too late for that. And everyone but Spike and Pinkie lived happily ever after. The end." He started to chuckle and wiped a tear from his eye after reverting his fingers to normal. The one he had used for spike was still bleeding purple blood. "I love that story so much, and unless you love it too, you should give me the Elements now!"

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Pinkie Pie first had a look of horror, but then smiled.

 

"Really. You think you can kill the savior of the Crystal Empire in one fell swoop? Y'know...I don't think you learned one little thing..."

 

Pinkie burst out in song.

 

"When I was a little filly and the sun was going down...

 

The darkness and the shadows, they would always make me frown

 

I'd hide under my pillow

From what I thought I saw

But Granny Pie said that wasn't the way

To deal with fears at all

 

She said: "Pinkie, you gotta stand up tall

Learn to face your fears

You'll see that they can't hurt you

Just laugh to make them disappear."

Ha! Ha! Ha!

 

So, giggle at the ghostly

Guffaw at the grossly

Crack up at the creepy

Whoop it up with the weepy

Chortle at the kooky

Snortle at the spooky

 

And tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another thing coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna... hahahaha...heh..

 

Laaaaaaauuugh!"

 

Pinkie and the other Pinkies broke out in laughter, charging up her Element of Laughter necklace, shooting lasers of her necklace at Rotto.

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Butajiri followed Nova after sheathing his sword. The frog creature watched them and decided to follow. He felt like they owned him, and he was unable to think of anything else to do.

 

"I see no swamp, no mirror!" Said Hirue. "Do you know this place well at all, Nova? Or should we rely on the frog creature to lead us? At least he's a proper demon."

 

"Hirue, hold your tongues." Butajiri commanded. "There is nothing proper about that demon."

 

Nova chuckled at Butajiri's question "Don't worry demon I've been setting this whole plan in motion since I was captured by Celestia. All those corpses in the cave were ponies that brought some of my spellbooks back and tried to use their power, but so far Shadow is the only one capable of using their power besides myself." Nova continued through the storm irritated by the ugly frog like creature as they neared the cave. "Can't you get rid of this thing it's really just an annoyance now? Once we get back to my castle I can help you bring more powerful things to this world." The sun was starting to rise over the land as a new day dawned on the scared Canterlot and soon to be Equestria as Nova stopped just inside the cave a fluttering sound could be heard inside. "Well I'm surprised I didn't think you'd show up."

 

(I'll wait until everyones gotten to the new morning before I go any further with this once most ponies have put in that the new day has started I'll post again.)

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"Now, now if it isn't Nova, the black star of Equestria.", Chrysalis' voice buzzed trough the air, "You wouldn't think I would let an opportunity like this go past me now would you." The insect like creature set her feet down, making the fluttering stop. The occasional twitch was still present. "I have heard a lot about you...", she then proclaimed. A damped buzzing could be heard behind her, further down the cave. "What brings both of you here?", her tone was difficult to discern, but it seemed as she was interrupted in something.

 

(( I am still catching up with the story, sorry for any inconsistencies! ))

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Hank kept Rarity on her back "ok Applejack cya.." he sighs as he looks at twilight "should we stick together? Its your choice i don't mind staying with Rarity." He looks outside and gave another sigh "this reminds me back when i was up north.. i wont make the same mistake again." He still looks out the window

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Rotto jumped out of the way, scorching the tail of his green jacket but avoiding being hit. "No more singing! This isn't the time for games!" He held up the remote with his thumb on the button. "After all this, you're still smiling like you're superior to me! Wipe that smile off your face! You may have faith in Spike, but are you really willing to risk his life on that? What if you're wrong? Honestly, I thought you cared for him! It doesn't matter. I'm the one with the power now! I want you and all of your clones to stand still and let me hit you as I please. Don't think I'll hesitate to press the button!" He had a drop of sweat coming down his neck.

 

 

 

"I suppose we don't need this thing." Butajiri thrust his sword into the frog creatures chest and sheathed it without wiping off the blue blood.

 

"Who's this talking?" Hirue asked. "I hear bugs."

Edited November 25, 2012 by Pretty Koenma

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Lightning flew at a slow pace towards the Ponyville bookstore enjoying the slight breez and the warm sun on his body. He gentaly landed just outside the mob of ponies in the market and trotted to the store only to find an odd unicorn standing outside the shop blocking his way. "excuse me ma'am" he said politely.