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An evil so profound it threatens all mankind, the mightiest heroes on the planet uniting to defend everyone on it all. A secret crisis of such utter finality that a countdown to civil or infinite war seems unavoidable. The Seven, Payback, Teenage Kix, Fantastico and every other supe on Earth team up for an annual event like no other. And this year Alicorn is going while her team the Superdupers stays behind and look after things.
The reason why Alicorn is going for the first time is to explain why the G-Men are gone. The G-Men's death is used as the prime excuse as to why nearly all supes in the world suddenly disappear, with Homelander lying that the G-Men were killed by the 'Battelite of the Marith'rai', and that all superheroes were leaving to face the invaders, when in reality, the supes are heading to the annual Herogasm event.
Homelander leading the other supes headed for the island where the Herogasm event is taking place, where high class hookers and tons of party favors are waiting for them. Homerlander is also worried how quickly Vought got rid of their second most profitable superhero team, and begins questioning whether the same could happen to him, increasing the thoughts of rebellion in his head. And the one who help in getting rid of them is Alicorn, who is going to be flying later after she handles taking care of her park while she's away.
Homerlander hates how Alicorn is the most profitable supe with Vought, not that she needs to be at this point. She is also untouchable by orders of Vought, with the billions that she ranks in she's the top earner and she cost the company nothing in terms of coverups and legal fees. And that park she built from nothing basing it on the Equestria crap she made up for her back story, that's theme park money she's racking in, making her extremely popular.
Then there's how she refused to have anything to do with any other supes, till she was force to have a team working with her. Lots of teams hearing that tried to get on her good side, but she ended up choosing the Superdupers of all teams. Homelander had thought that her choice be an epic fail but instead the Superdupers turn out to be a good fit for the multibillion a year franchise she created herself. Making the team of losers into a big name team.
Many supes tried to join the team but thanks to the contract Alicorn has, she gets to pick and choose who gets on the team. The only way a supe could join is if they not only pass Alicorn's judgement but also be able to get along with the rest of the team and not be a problem with how they act. The only ones who joined the Superdupers are the new and younger supes.
His thoughts changed as he sees the hired entertainers and the party favors at the secret hotel for him and the other supes.
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Elsewhere on the island -
Looking around the jungle of the island far from the hotel, Alicorn is searching for the magic she felt. She had gone to the hotel in her full gear to check in and found that the orgy is already started with male and female supes having sex with each other or with the high class prostitutes both women and men. The only good thing she's looking forward to is some time off to relax from her high stress workload in running a park and her franchise.
Alicorn was heading for the buffet but stops when she felt the magic. She has tone her senses to detect magic, which in Equestria being a place of magic, she was numb to it and only sense powerful magic. Here on Earth she honed her senses to detect the magic that could be found here, and she's surprise that there is something magical at Herogasm that she has been avoiding for years.
Following her sense, Alicorn came upon some quicksand and whatever is magic is at the bottom. She uses her telekinesis to move the quicksand and was surprised that there looks to be a magic portal at the bottom, she used her cellphone video camera and connected it to her helmet. She ties the phone by some cable she has on her tool belt and drops it into the portal and the fee is still connected thanks to the portal being open.
Inside the portal she finds a dark tunnel and using her telekinesis she frees it from the cable and move the phone around in the cave. Using the phone light she explored the tunnel till she came to the entrance that leads out to a forest. Outside she see something she hasn't seen in years, a Timberwolf.
Jumping down into the portal Alicorn, found herself a unicorn pony again and her costume has changed with her to fit her pony form. She could feel her magic returning to her, she'll be able to use the spells she has been working on that are inspired by spells of fiction in the human world. Alicorn stumbles as she hasn't walked on four legs in years.
"Alright get use to my old body and then find out how much has changed since, I been home. The party will distract everyone for the next several days," Alicorn said to herself as she slowly and awkwardly walk on her old pony legs, relearning how to move like a pony again. The party would last for 2 weeks before everyone left, giving her plenty of time.
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Crystal Empire -
On a train heading towards the Crystal Empire, the mane 6 are heading there to help with getting the city to be pick to host the Equestria Games. Rarity is reading a fashion magazine, Applejack and Pinkie Pie are playing cards, and Fluttershy is napping. Twilight is reading one of her books while Rainbow Dash and Spike are looking at something in the newspaper. (1)
"What are you two reading?" Rarity ask.
"The latest news of that mysterious supervillain that has been stealing magic items all over Equestria," Rainbow Dash said showing the picture of the pony wearing a costume that makes her look like a alicorn.
"Uniscorn is like a villain from The Power Ponies," Spike said.
"Whoever she is, she has horrible taste in costume," Rarity said.
"What I want to know is how she seems to know where all the magical items princess Celestia has stored around Equestria," Twilight said popping her face from her book.
"The villain is robbing the princess?" Applejack ask.
"Yes, the princess has many magical items stored around Equestria. And somehow this Uniscorn knows where they are," Twilight said.
"I thought that all of that would be kept in the royal vault?" Pinkie Pie said.
"The powerful ones yes, but there are several others for one reason or another are kept elsewhere," Twilight said.
"Didn't she also attack Cloudsdale and beat up the Wonderbolts?" Applejack ask.
"Yeah she did but only because she got the drop on them," Rainbow Dash said.
"I remember reading about that, she just walk into the vault as the walls of the vault are just made out of clouds," Rarity said.
"We pegasus ponies can't just walk through clouds," Fluttershy said having woken up and heard what's being said. (2)
"Well at least the elements are safe in the vault," Applejack said.
"Well anyone who is foolish enough to steal from the royal vault would have to be crazy. There are tons of royal guards and the princesses themselves to deal with," Rainbow Dash said.
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Canterlot Castle -
Alicorn who the newspapers have labeled as Uniscorn after somepony misheard her, walks down the underground hallway leading to the vault. With her is a magical chest, it's the first item she stole in one of the vaults that Celestia has around the kingdom. The wooden chest is like a bag of holding that allows anyone to keep vast amounts inside of it, with the limit of how heavy you can carry it and if it can be put inside of it. And thanks to her telekinesis that she has been training to increase the strength of her power, allowing her to easily lift the chest of holding.
Alicorn already emptied the royal library of the magic books and stole from the royal treasury. She also destroyed Celestia's hidden stashes of cakes she keeps around the library, by putting cockroaches on them. Speaking of Celestia, she'll be busy in the Day court hearing from nobles. She has plenty of time and the guards are still a joke. She only had to deal with 2 guards who were in the guard room eating before she knock them out and take the keys from them.
Alicorn open the vaults containing magical items that Celestia has picked up here and there. The vaults are full of wands, staffs, necklaces, belts, amulets, magic ingredients, potions and other magic objects. Alicorn check the potions, knowing Celestia some of these potions have been in the vault for years. And with all things magic potions do go bad if they're not used within a certain time frame.
Alicorn began dumping everything that could fit in the opening of the chest as she moves from one vault to the next emptying them out of everything she could get. With what she's getting and no one any wiser of who she is, she'll be able to get all she needs and they never know what's happening till she reveals herself. Her time in the human world has charged her and the ponies are just not use to dealing with someone like what she has become. Allowing her to easily break into the other vaults around Equestria and take everything that she can take.
Next is the armory where she stole all the armor and weapons stored inside. While the guards are just a joke their armor is magical protected and their weapons also made of the same magic alloy. She came upon a large black caldron, used to create potions and cast large scale spells. It's cast from special metals to withstand the caustic ingredients used in the concoctions. With some of the magic being from the pot itself, she took it also as she could use it later.
The final vault is the one upstairs where the elements of harmony are kept. Which is why she saved those for last. With guards, servants and nobles all around the top part of the castle, and Celestia be there, she doesn't want to make herself known to Celestia, yet. The vault door would be all but impossible to break through before the alarms would sound off, but thankfully Celestia only ever thought about making sure that the door would keep the vault safe.
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Upstairs -
Celestia was in the day court listening to another noble asking for some money for a project, when an alarm rang out. The alarm caused many ponies to think that the fire alarm went off and are in a panic. With the guards, castle staff and nobles running around in a blind panic.
"The elements!" Celestia said as she flaps her wings and flew to the vault.
Landing in front of the vault she saw the magic door still there, she opens the vault and saw what caused the alarm to go off. The floor has a large hole and the chest that if moved without despelling the magic protection would cause the alarm to go off. Celestia realized that while the door is magical protected, the walls of the vault aren't, she leaps down the hole and race through the tunnels. She saw that the underground vaults have all been open and from what she can see as she race down the hallways.
She wondered how the thief managed to enter the underground vault area. The answer came to her as where the toilet use to be is a hole leading down to the underground tunnels where the changelings had hide themselves before the invasion. She never thought anyone would go and come up from underneath.
"Princess!" a guard shouted as he and others caught up with her.
"Wake up my sister and have all the guards on alert. The thief couldn't have gotten far," Celestia orders and looks at a group of guards. "You 6 with me we're searching the tunnels."
"At once," the lead guard said.
"Yes princess," the guards pick by Celestia said and follow her into the tunnels.
The search went for hours as the castle and the city were combed over. But there was no signs of the thief or the loot stolen, from the both the royal vaults and treasury, but the most important items taken are the elements of harmony. Celestia and the guards with her only found how the thief enter the tunnels, by a hole that leads to the sewers of Canterlot.
Several ponies did see something flying out of one of the drains that lets out on the side of the mountain, on the northern part of the city. Celestia sent out the Wonderbolts to see what they could find but ended up finding nothing. Word spread quickly of the elements being stolen and panic quickly spread through Equestria.
As Celestia was looking over the stolen books from the library, she opens one of her hidden stashes of cakes and found it covered with cockroaches. She got rid of the cake and cockroaches, then went for another stash and found it also covered with cockroaches. She search the library and found all the cakes covered in cockroaches.
"We have a cockroaches problem as well?" Luna ask walking up to her sister.
"All the cakes I had stash away are covered with cockroaches," Celestia said.
"What do you really think would have happen?" Luna ask.
"I just needed something to take my mind off of all of this," Celestia said looking at the bin full of cake and cockroaches. "This hasn't happen since Sunset was around."
"Who?" Luna ask.
"An old student of mine, before Twilight. She learn about my cakes I hide around and would take them for herself," Celestia said before putting that memory aside. "But that's not important. What's important is that someone somehow stole so much and from what the two guards remember, they were in the guard room when they were knock out with them only being out for less then an hour at best."
"You think there was more than one?" Luna ask.
"Might be, there is no way to tell how many were here," Celestia said.
"What do we do?" Luna ask.
"I have no idea," Celestia said having been planning on freeing and reforming Discord but without the elements, that plan wouldn't work.
All of her plans for Twilight are now have to either be abandon or change. Then there's the lost of the elements, without them the enemies of Equestria will have little to fear. The word is already spreading and the ponies are in a panic, and she has no idea who stole it.
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Human World -
After Alicorn pops herself out of the portal for the last time, as Herogasm is dying down and after tonight the other supes will be going home. Right after the Supies which is just an award ceremony like the awards that Hollywood loves to give out. Besides she has plenty already and been slimed on the kids award for Equestria. But she does have to keep up appearances so that the people on the island won't wonder where she has been.
Walking into the ballroom she saw that the Supies are already in full swing as The Deep is giving the award for the best new team, to the Element Force. A new team of young heroes, Flameburner, The Divot, Freeflow, and the team leader Airhorn.
"Hey looks who's late to the party," Jack From Jupiter shouted out getting everyone's attention.
"Been looking for treasure," Alicorn said having explain how she just disappeared for most of Herogasm.
"And what you found?" Jake ask.
"This old cauldron," Alicorn said showing off the cauldron she gotten from Equestria. Using her telekinesis to pull the big pot into the ballroom for everyone to see.
"Haha!" Jake laughs joined by others in the room.
"And this treasure chest," Alicorn adds pulling the wooden chest of holding into the room, causing the laughter to die down.
"You really found a treasure chest?" Jake chokes out not believing what he's seeing.
"Yes but it's just full of cocaine," Alicorn said opening the chest and pulling out a large stash of bags of cocaine out and putting it all on a table. "Looks like some smugglers buried it here. So have fun."
Alicorn walks to the table reserved for her and sat down with the cauldron and the empty chest.
"You're keeping the chest?" The Deep ask.
"I don't do drugs and I like the chest and cauldron. Anyone who wants the drugs you can have it," Alicorn said waving it off.
With the heroes distracted by the free drugs, Alicorn scans the room and saw Homelander frowning as he stares at her. It's clear that he doesn't want her here, and the few times she's has been around Homelander is always looking at her. She and Homelander have a complex relationship as he was the number one till she came onto the scene and took the top spot from him. And with her never attending Herogasm, he always won by default.
Unknown to her Homelander had been counting on her not being at the Supies and the hooker he paid to distract Stillwell so that he be able to talk with all the other heroes. But with Alicorn here he couldn't give out his plan speech to the other heroes. He just has no idea what she would do and if she would side with him. Homelander sat in his seat as Alicorn won the best hero of the year award for the first time. It was always either him or Soldierboy as they take turns.
"Thank you for the award, this is my first time here and be my last if I can help it. This party just isn't for me," Alicorn said as she places the award in the chest she took with her on stage. And upon closing it, she left the room taking the cauldron that she left on the table with her. She walk pass Stillwell who stood at the doorway watching.
"Just have me leaving right after the battle or whatever," Alicorn said as she was walking pass Stillwell.
"Will do," Stillwell said staring at Homelander as he knows that he's up to something now.
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Elsewhere on the Island -
Butcher and his team are in the safehouse watching and listening to everything that has been happening on the island. They have their own mission but Butcher has been trying to figure out where Alicorn goes off to for the last few days. She disappears and reappears after some hours have passed.
Butcher had Frenchman and Female follow her to see where she goes but they lost her trail near some quicksand. He would had like to look into it further but they're working on a limited time table and couldn't waste it. They know that Alicorn said that she's been looking for treasure around the island, and she actually found some.
"A old cooking pot and a chest full of drugs, is what she found," Mother's Milk said.
"She did found something," Frenchman said.
"If the pot is old it might be an artifact," Hughie suggested.
"Alright, once the fuckers are gone we make our move," Butcher said to the team as they're targeting the vice president The Veep.
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Author Notes -
1 - I'm going with Sunset being older than Twilight is.
2 - The best thing I could come up with to how the homes and buildings of Cloudsdale works. The pegasus ponies magic that lets them walk on clouds also prevents them from just walking through clouds.
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