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((Yep, this be a 1x1 RP with mross, with one having seven characters which will likely be used. The premise is simple, Alphanus meets the ponies and they exchange some rather shocking dialogue, and then they may or may not do battle. Elements of Harmony likely included. This takes place about 600 years after Shrouded within Darkness, my other RP on here.))

It was a pitch black night. In Alphanus's new lair(now an underground castle), he waited at his damned throne. To any nearby beings he extended a magic field, which compels anyone caught within it to explore to it's source, and has no other effects. He was bored, and needed some playthings.

"Aaaahahahahahaaaaaaa..."

Up above, it was just another beautiful day in Equestria.

"Ah, just another beautiful day in Equestria. Isn't it nice out today, Spike?"

Twilight was trotting down one of Ponyville's streets, on their way to Quills and Sofas to acquire more stationery.

"Ugh, it's too early." Spike was on his back, on Twilight's back, still half-asleep. It was before noon, after all.

{Since there are so many of them, I keep the ponies' posts short, but you can expect me to post more frequently than normal.}

"WOOOAAAHHHHHH!"

Rainbow Dash crashed right in to Twilight and Spike. Again. All three of them went barreling directly in to a nearby cabbage vendor's cabbage stand.

"My cabbages!" Cried the pale blue pony. "The horror!"

Twilight apologized as she stood up, shaken but not seriously injured, being a cartoon pony and all.

"Oh dear, I'm terribly sorry. Please, let me pay for the damages."

"Oh no, that won't be necessary," replied the salespony. "This happens at least once a week. I'm well-insured!" He had already righted his stand and was re-stocking, giving each cabbage a thorough rinsing before replacing it.

Rainbow steadied her head with a hoof, which stopped her pupils from spinning in circles.

"Heh, heh. Sorry about that, Twilight. I just haven't been able to get right lately! I don't know what's going on - I'm crashing even more than usual!"

"You know, Dash, now that you mention it, my magic has been kind of-"

They were cut off by an impossibly high-pitched scream blasting across the town. It could only have come from one place - Carousel Boutique.

The two ponies looked at each other.

"RARITY!"

They were off at a gallop, with Spike struggling to keep up.

Twilight and Rainbow both bucked Rarity's door at the same time, causing it to fly off the hinges.

Rainbow Dash rubbed her neck with a hoof.
"Uh, heh. Maybe we overdid it?"

Twilight was busy posing dramatically.
"There's no time for that now, Rainbow Dash! Rarity needs our help!"

Rarity was laying on a plush sofa with one hoof thrown over her eyes. It was almost as dramatic as Twilight.

"Oh, Twilight! Dash! Thank goodness you're here! Of ALL the worst things that could have happened, this is

THE

WORST

POSSIBLE

THING!!"

Both ponies rolled their eyes in unison.

"Okay Rarity, what's the mat... oh. Woah! What happened?!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash. Twilight's jaw was too busy hanging open.

The interior of Rarity's store was a train wreck. Clothing, cloth, spools of thread, sewing supplies, sewing machines, and mannequins lay scattered around, covering every visible surface. Maybe for once, Rarity wasn't exaggerating.

"Oh, it's terrible! Just look!" As she spoke, Rarity's horn glowed, and a nearby roll of green fabric lifted in to the air. For a moment, it just floated there, and everything was fine - then it suddenly zipped off in a random direction and crashed in to the wall. Twilight and Dash both ducked reflexively, even though it hadn't come close to hitting them.

Rarity threw her face back in to her hooves, speaking between sobs. "It's awful, just awful! I can't get any work done, and I almost hurt poor Opalescene! What am I going to do?!"

"Don't worry Rarity, we'll get to the bottom of this! This is right up my alley, after all," Twilight reassured her. "I'll need to stop at the library though, and maybe Zecora's."

"Twilight, I can help Rarity get this place cleaned up," offered Dash. "You do what you need to do."

"Oh, thank you, both of you!" Rarity hugged each of her friends, having mostly recovered from the shock of being unable to use her magic.

"I'm worried, Spike." A few minutes later, they were headed back to Ponyville's library, Spike walking alongside for once, rather than riding on Twilight's hindquarters. "My magic's been acting up lately as well. It hasn't been as severe as Rarity's, but... well, what if this isn't a coincidence? What's going on here?"

Spike threw his arms up in the air. "I'll tell you what's going on! I've had barely half a line of dialogue, and we're already like eight minutes in to the episode! What, I'm not a pony, so the audience just doesn't care about me or something? Sheesh!"

In Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie suddenly stopped icing a cupcake and looked up, her ears twitching, as though she was listening for something.

"HEY! I'm supposed to be the only one who's able to do that! What gives?!"

((PINKIE SENSE. NOTHING CAN GET PAST IT.))

Alpha laughed evilly down in his abode. Apparently since the field wasn't having too much effect on them, he had done all that - not only was he trying to compel them to come to him, he was disrupting their magic and innate abilities to further tick them off to what's going on. Only audible to the Mane Six and Spike was this line, delivered by his voice which is Christopher Lee's, it seems:

"I do hope you enjoy you magic and abilities being disrupted, little ponies. I need some playthings to dispel this damned boredom, so if you'd like to know the source of these issues, the entrance to my residence lies fifty-two miles due west from your Ponyville."

{Awesome.}

Rainbow Dash was up on a ladder - she'd decided not to risk using her wings while she helped Rarity clean up her store. As the store was owned by a unicorn, many of the shelves were too high up for a pony to reach normally. They worked together, Rainbow stocking all the high stuff, while Rarity focused on getting the main floor organized and presentable.

Right up until they heard what sounded for all the world like the voice of the ultimate evil math professor.

"Woah-oh-OOOHHH CRABAPPLES!"

The ladder teetered, then totterred, then tumbled over, taking Rainbow with it. Luckily, she suffered no major injuries - cartoon physics.

"Rainbow Dash, are you all right?!"

"Are you kiddin'? I blew up a barn with my face last week! ...But hey, did you hear that creepy voice just now?"

"Yes, it was just dreadful! I thought I was hearing things!"

-

"Calm down, Spike, there's nothing to be worried about."

"What are you talking about, Twilight? We know who's responsible, let's go get 'em!"

Twilight and Spike were back in the Library, and Twilight had set up some diagrams of incomprehensible magical mechanics.

"Look, what we just heard is known as a 'sending.' You know how you breathe fire on scrolls, and they show up at their destination just moments later? Well, that's what a sending does, except it sends images or sound, and they go directly to a pony's mind."

She was using telekinesis to sketch out what she was saying on a chalkboard as she spoke.

"Now, a sending is a powerful spell by itself, and normally, the sender and receiver need to set up a magical link beforehand. To send a message without prior consent, over a significant distance - well, that would require a very powerful caster, maybe even on the level of Celestia and Luna. Which, along with that creepy voice, leads me to believe that we're being led right in to a trap!"

She punctuated this with a crude stick figure drawing of a baby dragon and a unicorn being trapped in a cage, tapping the chalk emphatically on the board as she finished.

"But we have to do something! All the pegasi and unicorns won't be able to fly or use magic! What'll happen to the weather? The earth ponies won't be able to plant or harvest crops! We've gotta DO someth-"

Spike was cut off by a lavender hoof in his mouth.

"Yes, we absolutely must do something. But rushing headlong in to the waiting arms of whatever villain of the week is setting us up this time isn't it!"

What they don't know is that sending is also working in reverse, allowing Alpha to hear the Ponies.

"AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! You would be as blind to equate me to beings so pitiful! You'll end up making me die of laughter!!! No, I am far more powerful than them - my power reaches infinity. I'm far stronger than even the one you know as Discord. I am no villain of the week - I am the Big Bad of it all. All shall be explained shortly."

Pitch-black dark energy enveloped the Mane Six(and Spike too), teleporting them into Alphanus's demense. They were inside the foyer of his underground castle, and massive as it was, it wasn't too terribly far to the castle keep.

Fluttershy's cottage erupted as hundreds of small woodland creatures reacted to a disturbance in the peace. Fluttershy herself was in the middle of preparing a tiny splint for a baby bird's leg when she lost her sight, and she flailed around helplessly.

"Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness!"

Pinkie Pie vanished before the Cakes' eyes.

"Pinkie Pie!" they screamed, and held each other. For all they knew, their adopted daughter had just disappeared forever.

"Just hang on, Spike! We'll be okay!" Twilight yelled. Spike had latched on to her back leg, but they couldn't see each other. She tried to cast Magic Missile at the darkness, but to no avail.

"You won't take me alive, you ruffian! Have at you!" Rarity threw everything in the store she and Dash had just cleaned in all directions with her haywire unicorn magic, hoping to hit something. Dash launched innumerable karate kicks and headbutts at random, but hit nothing.

Applejack had been working on her farm when she was taken. She simply stood there, calmly.

"I reckon Twilight musta botched another teleport spell. Is it time fer another fanfic already?"

And finally, Alphanus' spell captured one more target he (it?) hadn't counted on. Near the middle of the town, one final bubble of darkness drifted, lazily, in to the Ponyville post office.

"Oh, hello Mr. Impending Doom! Open up, it's time for your breakfast!"

Just before being enveloped by the creeping gloom, the blonde-haired pegasus shoved several envelopes stuffed with muffins in to the globe.

Even though the information given indicates that the spell doesn't work this way, the mail is delivered directly to Alphanus, as opposed to the same location the ponies arrive at. That's just how Ditzy rolls.

Noticing an unwanted guest, and a shit-ton of mail has arrived, he immediately teleported Derpy (that's what I call her) and the muffins right back.

"Ugh..."

He didn't need to do a Sending now - he just spoke with a volume far greater than that of the Royal Canterlot Voice. It literally shook the entire area, if not the entire world.

"Welcome, Elements. This is my domain whilst outside the infinite Void that extends outside all existence...or should I say, that Void happens to be me. You've only a few large rooms separated by long hallways between yourselves and me. Please don't keep me waiting, I'm terribly bored and would like to see some blood and devour your carcasses."

((This doesn't reflect my opinion of the ponies, I think they're awesome beyond compare and would never want them dead.))

{What?! You can't teleport Derpy back! She's... she's DERPY!

I mean, just look at her. You've disappointed her and hurt her feelings. SHAME.}

*asterisks around 'ignores SPIIIIIIIIIIIIKE', not parenthesis))

Of course Rainbow Dash was the first one to recover from their sudden and involuntary travel. She flew up and shouted at the general area, "Oh yeah?! Well if you're so big and bad and scary, why are you hiding behind a bunch of rooms and walls?! How 'bout you come down here and say that to our faces!"

Applejack pulled her back down again by her tail. "R.D., every time I have ta pull ya back down, it's 'cause you were mouthin' off to some god creature that could kill us all with a thought. Don't ya know by now we all gotta go on some epic quest to recover some thingies before we can do anything?"

"What are you talking about? Did you see what I did to that barn? I'll just do that to this guy's face!"

"Oh dear, can't we solve this without... you know... violence? He could just be lonely, after all."

"No way Fluttershy! He said he was gonna EAT us! That's super mean!"

"Girls, girls! Now, we're not going to get anywhere arguing. We can figure out a way out of this. We just need to keep moving forward!"

Twilight Sparkle set off down the nearest passageway, Dash flying close air support above her, the rest of the ponies two abreast behind, although Fluttershy was lagging behind slightly.