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There were letters. They appeared at every doorstop, room, etc. in the omniverse at the same time. On it, in letters that literally shone, it said:

When you next step out of your door, you will find yourself at a party, regardless of time.

- The Embodiment of Light, Zuriel

Kitty was first to see the letter, and brought it to the attention of Bunny and Moose, who screamed like little girls.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

"I would recommend you guys let me do the talking, lest we somehow get kicked out of this universal party."

"-AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Oh-Okay, Kitty. Whatevew you say."

"-RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"MOOSE!"

"Err?"

"Get ahold of yourself, you overweight freak of science! It's time for us to party!!"

"Merr merr..." Said Moose dejectedly. Being called overweight made him extremely self-conscious. Green Bunny, however, was already at the door.

"C'monc'monc'monc'monc'mon!!!!!! We'we gonna be wate!"

Kitty merely rolled his eyes, and followed Bunny through the pet door, where the three found themselves at the biggest party in RPR history.

Unit's sensors went off and he looked to the hangar door "I don't think this will be good." The bot's intelligence had included a bit of the multi-dimensional research the government had done in recent years, all of it had been failed, though he had gotten laser upgrades recently, he attatched the smaller shoulder cannon and went out of the hangar, not quite sure what would happen.

They would both find themselves in a gargantuan, almost cavernously large room, intricately decorated and bearing some resemblance to a cathedral, just without all the stained glass and religious stuff. As it happened, Zuriel had accidentally sent the invites out early, and he had not had the time yet to set up. It's not like he can just snap his fingers and manifest a bunch of party things like Q can...well, really, he CAN, but he'd rather do this personally and make sur everything is right, and just what would be fun with taking the cheating way out? There were a few tables out, some of them with a scant few things on them, and a guy with eight angel wings going around setting up. He saw that there were already guests, and his heart sank low.

"......Oh no. I shouldn't have sent those invites out so early......I'm sorry, my distinguished guests, but by some fluke, the invites were sent out far too early. You could stay here and wait, maybe even help out, or go back and you'll be able to come back when I'm done. Also, my name is Zuriel, for future reference."

((Yeah I'm trying to set up for characters like Pinkie Pie to arrive XDDDDDD))

"But... But... We bwought cheese whiz!" Said the distraught Bunny, as if having brought Cheez Whiz was going to make the party start faster. Kitty carefully examined the room, while Moose happily sniffed the "Robot-Man."

"Some party this is. Where's the disco ball? And the catnip?" Kitty was obviously displeased. "You're lucky I arrived, otherwise this would be a total disaster." And so it was that Kitty took it upon himself to be in charge of the arrangements, whether or not Zuriel said otherwise. Kitty is as Kitty does, I guess.

He passes Kitty a glare, that was uncalled for.

"You don't need to be so rude, so I messed up - happens to us all. But, thanks for pitching in anyways. You're also lucky that you're the first guests to arrive, so the embarrassment from this is minimized a bit......yeesh, this is gonna weigh on me for a while."

Hrm, disco ball? That actually sounded like a fun, if not novel, idea. In an instant, there was a gigantic disco ball hanging from the ceiling of the gargantuan extra-dimensional room. One of the tables also became stacked with catnip. Then he pointed at a table with other assorted snacks.

"Could you please place the cheese whiz there?"

It was a typical morning for Twilight. Spike was high-dusting one of the many shelves in her house that was also a tree and a library from the top of a ladder which was leaning at far too steep an angle to be safe. Meanwhile, she was studying a book about astronomy and magic and math with an improbably whimsical and alliterative title, and enjoying some lavender chamomile chai honey jasmine lemon tea (recommended by Fluttershy of course).

There came a sudden plot device knocking at her door. By now, Twilight could tell which of her friends was at her door by the rhythm they used - WHAM, WHAM, WHAM for Rainbow Dash, a barely audible tapping, usually followed by an apology, for Fluttershy, and shave and a haircut: two bits for AJ. Rarity's was always different, but invariably based on a complex rhythm from some Canterlot musical.

This was none of the above. It was not the sound of hooves at her door, but a pony's face rapidly smashing in to its solid mahogany.

The door opened to reveal Pinkie Pie, just as expected. She was wearing a basket on her head which contained two envelopes.

"Hi Twilight! You'll never guess what I found outside my door today! Party invitations!" She reported excitedly. She hopped inside, beaming.

"And I found one outside your door, too! And they're super mysterious! Take a look!"

Twilight was doing just that. A magenta aura enveloped the closed envelope (Pinkie had already opened and read hers) and floated it over to reading distance - her magic extracted and unfolded the invitation inside at the same time. She'd been silent up to this point. These days, she usually let Pinkie spend some of her energy before trying to respond.

"Well, that IS mysterious!" she commented when she had finished reading. "It even seems a little... sinister... Wait a second." She briefly re-read part of the letter. "Pinkie, it says you were supposed to wind up at the party when you stepped out your door. And I can sense teleportation magic embedded in the letter, so it's probably for real - point being, how did you get here without setting off the spell?" She had one of her skeptical faces on, eyebrow fully cocked.

"Huh? Oh yeah! Well see, the Cakes are remodeling Sugarcube Corner today, and today they're painting the door, so I went out the window!"

"I... guess that makes sense. For you, anyway."

"Twilight, can we go to the party? Please? It'll be so much fun! Oh, I have to get some snacks and drinks and my party cannon! There's so much to do!" Pinkie was already hopping toward Twilight's window. The purple unicorn sighed. It might be dangerous, sure, but she could do nothing to dissuade her friend. Better to face whatever lie ahead with her. Twilight vaguely wondered if anypony else in town had received similar invitations - Pinkie seemed to have headed straight here from her home / bakery in her excitement, so she probably wouldn't have noticed.

Across town, a somewhat similar scene was unfolding - again between a unicorn and an earth pony.

"Hey Octavia, check it out!"

(Haha, woops

That's weird, I didn't have any issues when posting)

((Nice double-post, mang))

Just then, another letter came in.

"Actually, you might wanna hold that order for a while now - due to an unfortunate fluke, I sent the invites out too early, thus meaning I'm not done setting up yet. If you wish to help out with this, however, leave through any opening into/out of the building you may currently be in, and you'll be sent here. Sorry!

- The Embodiment of Light, Zuriel"

The robot's sensors went off "Detecting new guest through temporal-dimensional-spacial anomaly." The robot went and began looking for supplies to help out with. (will be putting Zandris in now. )

Zan stepped out of his door, surprisingly this time he was in the angelic board's meeting hall and disregarded the words of the note, he blinked "Ummmm, I was cleared for duty but this doesn't look like my area I am to watch." The angel began blinking as he pulled out a piece of jerky he'd made and munching on it.

Twilight and Pinkie were inside the bakery when two copies of the second letter poofed in to existence above their heads. At the same time, Twilight became aware of a subtle change in the magic enchanting the original invitations.

"Well Pinkie, I hope you've got everything you needed, 'cause it looks like that loophole you found just closed." There was some concern in her voice - on the way over, she had paid attention to her surroundings. There had been a letter in front of practically every home and place of business that she had been able to see. Just who was the party planner, and what kind of venue was he / she / it using?

"Absotively posilutely, Twi Pie!" Pinkie had converted her Welcome Wagon in to a mobile storage device. Knowing Pinkie, it undoubtedly held more than its already considerable apparent capacity.

"Come on, we don't wanna be late! Even though there was no time printed on the invite, or any other information whatsoever! Wheeeeee!" Pinkie hopped out the front door and vanished in a blaze of light. Twilight was not surprised.

"Discord better not have returned somehow," she mumbled. She didn't really believe this was his doing, but there could be anything waiting on the other side. She'd prepared her usual "just-in-case" spells today, but still felt vulnerable.

"At least we'll all end up in the same place," she thought aloud. There was some comfort in the idea of having her friends by her side. She followed Pinkie outside.

-

"What is this, some kind of lame prank?" Dash's voice rang out from her magnificent cloud house. "Well, joke's on you buddy, 'cause my place doesn't even have openings!"

This was true, in a way. Being made of clouds, Rainbow Dash's home could be called open-air in more than one sense. However, the rainbow trail that streaked outward from one of the balconies ended abruptly after just a few meters all the same.

Similar scenes were taking place all across Ponyville. Whether they reacted with fear, suspicion, excitement, or curiosity, everypony outside had to return home eventually, and those indoors would have to go outside at some point. In ones and twos (or by the dozens, when school let out), ponies everywhere were sucked out of existence in brilliant displays of light.

A few hours later, only tumbleweeds moved through Ponyville. Fluttershy's animals whined and cowered. Angel provided for them as best he could - by whatever fluke, creatures without language did not seem to be subject to the enchantment's effects.

A single blue unicorn wearing a fancy cloak came in by the south road. She was immediately perplexed.

"What on Equestria is going on here? Trixie demands that you stop hiding from her this instant!"

No response.

"Very well, you leave Trixie no choice! I shall make an official complaint to the Mayor!"

Had Trixie been more knowledgeable of enchantments, as opposed to illusions, she might never have opened the door to Ponyville city hall. She probably would have gone straight through to Canterlot and asked the Princess why Ponyville was radiating intense residual magic. Instead, she disappeared.

-

"Sister, what is happening? Where are our subjects? The villagers are in danger!" Luna had awoken in the middle of the day when thousands of magic pings had interrupted her slumber. It hadn't taken her long to order a brief on the situation.

"Be calm, Luna," was Celestia's reply. "It appears somedeity is having a bit of fun at our expense."

"Discord has returned?! Then let us ride out to meet him on the field of battle!"

"Nothing like that." Celestia took a sip of tea. She did her best baby dragon impression. "You really should lighten up. It's a party!" One of the many invitations floated over for her to read.

"But this cannot be! Who is mad enough to whisk away thousands of innocent ponies against their will to some unknown location? Foalnapping, civil rights violations, war crimes!!" cried Luna.

"Shall we go and rescue them?"

"Yes of course! We need only step through a door or window, correct? Let us make haste!"

Thing is, Zuriel's never been too good socially, or anything like that. Odds are, he had just inadvertently angered quite a few beings of many species......if they decided to try and come through and kick his rear for this, they'll find him hunched over a table with a palm to his face.

"I should have remembered to specify that the spell only works if they hold the letter as they move through a building's opening..."

He looked over at the immense number of new guests, and slammed his head on the table.

He also decided to curse his roleplayer, for OVERLOOKING SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT AS THAT. "DANG YOU, GRANDFINALE!!!!!!"

Zan shakes his head "How were you able to get a letter into the Angelic review board meeting hall?" It was usually unreachable by anyone who wasn't of angelic heritage but unknown to Zandris they had had to let ssome of the warders off of doing their work for their warding reviews and too many were up for review to hold protections. He was still munching on his jerky, occasionally offering some to other guests, his multi-realm people had had to mingle with many inhabitants so he had to know of otherr species, the ponies would find him offering apple slices instead for them.

He looked up at the angel, groggily. He's not in a good mood right now.

"You think the Embodiment of Light wouldn't know about such a place? Besides, I sent those letters to every single person in existence...just a moment, gotta fix it for those who aren't here..."

The original letters then underwent a change - on them now said at the end: "P.S., you have to be holding this invite for the teleportation spell to work. Otherwise, you'll just step out as normal."

"Oh my goodness it really IS a party! Look at all the new... thingies?"

Pinkie was having difficulty figuring out what pronoun to use.

Zan shakes his head "We are usually off-limits to anything other than angels." He blinked and walked over offering his wings to them to taake to help them up "You three should be more careful, or at least which ever one bowled into the other two." He blinked "I'm an angel. I can shift forms if you all would be more comfortable with form similar to you all." The angel gave a benevolent smile and held out apple slices for them.

Sighing in defeat, Zuriel materialized his eight massive angel-like wings and flew over to a chair in the corner, wondering how he's gonna sort this out. This was definitely turning into a screw-up for him, but was at least looking up.

"Awww how nice! Oh hey, I've got something for you, too!"

She rolled her party cannon out of her welcome wagon and struck the button on its back with such force that she lifted off the ground, sheer joy on her face.

The hall is now covered in banners, streamers, balloons, refreshments, confetti, and party hats. Yes, the entire hall.