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*Applejack: "Ya mean he's an ornery old hermit with property issues?"
  
*Applejack: "Ya mean he's an ornery old hermit with property issues?"
 
*Rarity: "That's just your way of putting it. He's, a stallian who prefers his privacy."
  
*Rarity: "That's just your way of putting it. He's, a stallian who prefers his privacy."
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*Chow Mein: Sounds fine by me! Good luck! (They split up and head out)
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*Chow Mein: Then we better head there and hope he's in a good mood! (They head out)
 
Everfree Forest
  
Everfree Forest
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*Fluttershy:...Oh, sweet Celestia. Do we REALLY have to go back in there?
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*Fluttershy:... Oh, sweet Celestia. Do we REALLY have to go back in there?
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*Rarity: Relax, darling, I know a safe passageway there. As long as none of those monsters in there pop out, I'm sure we can handle it. (They head out and entered a swampy portion of the Everfree)...
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*Rarity: Relax, darling, I know a safe passageway there. As long as none of those monsters in there pop out, I'm sure we can handle it. (They head out and entered a swampy portion of the Everfree)...
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*Applejack:...Yikes. This seems pretty ominous for a safe passageway.
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*Applejack: Yikes. This seems pretty dern ominous for a "safe passageway".
 
*Rarity: It may seem that way, but Mystic says that this swamp hardly serves as homes for beasts. Especially since he can scare off many of the creatures that used to live here, including those Cragadiles, or worse those swamp grindylows that he chased down the river. They have been known to be very rude and murderous to anypony who ventured in and tried to drown anypony who got too close.
  
*Rarity: It may seem that way, but Mystic says that this swamp hardly serves as homes for beasts. Especially since he can scare off many of the creatures that used to live here, including those Cragadiles, or worse those swamp grindylows that he chased down the river. They have been known to be very rude and murderous to anypony who ventured in and tried to drown anypony who got too close.
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*Fluttershy: (Shivers in fear)
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*Fluttershy: (Shivers in fear).
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*Rarity: That obviously didn't help your uncertainty about this place. Easy, Fluttershy, they're all gone now.
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*Rarity: Easy, Fluttershy, they're all gone now. If you should be afraid of anything, be afraid of the pony skeletons they left behind that rest underwater.
 
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*Fluttershy: (Shrieks until all the ponies covered her mouth)
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*Fluttershy: Question? Why does Mystic live near this area?
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*Rarity: Simple. He wants isolation AND protection. This area is infamous enough for him not to be disturbed. (They approached a hut) There it is! Mystic's Hut.
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*Rainbow Dash: I wouldn't scream, though. It could still lure beasts here. And worse, Mystic wouldn't be fond of that.
 
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*Twilight: It seems pretty nice.
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*Fluttershy:...Sorry. (They walked through the swamp as Fluttershy was scared, getting as far away from the murky water as possible)...Question? Why does Mystic live near this area?
 
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*Rarity: I may've given him a little makeover when I first got here.
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*Rarity: Simple. He wants isolation AND protection. This area is infamous enough for him not to be disturbed. (They approached a hut)...There it is! Mystic's Hut.
 
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*Applejack: Another question, how did you find out about Mystic in the first place?
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*Twilight:...It seems pretty nice.
 
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*Rarity: He happened to venture into Ponyville prior to our Crystalling event. At first, ponies thought it was Zecora, but then another identified him as a new stranger that might've been 'worse'. He's not a zebra or another intelligent ungulate, but he said he had been taking trips to the land where Zecora was said to have come from. He even met Mare-Zan every once in a while after rescuing him from a Cragadile. Now come, let's go introduce ourselves. (They entered the hut)... (Clears throat) MYSTIC! It's me, Rarity! I've got friends who might need you! Hello?
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*Rarity: I may've given him a little makeover when I first got here.
 
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*???: "(Echos) Ordenarly, I complaint about having to contend with guests of those I do not know, NOR have invited, but this will be an exception."
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*Applejack:...Another question, how did you find out about Mystic in the first place?
 
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*Torches dramaticly turned on by themselves and reveiled that the hut is unrealisticly bigger inside then it is outside. It is also very unhut-like in interior design, looking more like a wizard's monistairy then a hut, filled to the brim with books, african relics and masks, skulls of every known creature of equestia, even some from beyond that, and even in the center, a magical pool with a reflection of the entire united universes.
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*Rarity: He happened to venture into Ponyville prior to our Crystalling event. At first, ponies thought it was Zecora, but then another identified him as a new stranger that might've been 'worse'. He's not a zebra or another intelligent ungulate, but he said he had been taking trips to the land where Zecora was said to have come from. He even met Mare-Zan every once in a while after rescuing him from a Cragadile. Now come, let's go introduce ourselves. (They entered the hut)...(Clears throat) MYSTIC! It's me, Rarity! I've got friends who might need you!...Hello?...
  
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*Pinkie: "...... WOWIE KA-POWWIE, RARITY, YOU REALLY DID A NUMBER ON THIS GUY'S HUT!?"
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*Rarity: "Actselly, all I did was made the outside look nice in hut standerds. The rest of this is Mystic's doing. This, alone, speaks volumes of what he is capable of."
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*Fluttershy shivers around the creature skulls.
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*Twilight: "(Looks at Mystic's libary)..... I don't even think modern book publishers even make HALF of these anichent tomes anymore! I envy his ability to aquire these anichent books!"
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*Rainbow Dash: "If only he had something SOME OF US other then you would enjoy."
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*Pinkie gets very close to the Universe reflecting pool.
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*Pinkie: "Ohhhhh! This pool is pretty!"
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*Rarity: "PINKIE STOP! Mystic told me that this pool is very speical to him!"
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*Pinkie: "Would that be because of the fact you can see the united universes in it?"
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*???: "More then just that, pink one."
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*A door at the end of the room opened abrubtly as a blinding white light engulfed the room as a figure walked forth.
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*The door closed as the light faded away, reveiling a bearded, aged, but somehow still walking upright and properly unicorn dressing like a powerful sage.
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*Applejack: "Mystic Pool, I assume?"
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*Mystic: "I actselly go by many names, but this one has become most common because of my discovvery of the biggest secret of everfree never thought possable."
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*Pinkie: "Ya mean this coolio universe pool?"
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*Mystic: "Careful! That pool is both very speical, sacred, and impourent to the universes as a whole, if not just to Equestia in a big way!"
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*Applejack: "And what's suppose to be so dang speical other then it's speical effects?"
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*Mystic: "More then any one would ever realise. I studied long about the fabled and lost, Everpool of Gaia."
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*Twilight: "This..... This thing is..... The legendary Everpool of Gaia?"
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*Rainbow Dash: "Wait, you mean, Gaia Everfree, The Alicorn Goddess of Natrol Selection? She's been AWOL since the Choas Wars! What does she have to do with that freaky swimming hole?"
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*Mystic: "Gaia was the only one who realised how speical Equestia was, and how shockingly impourent to all things magic into this universe, and beyond."
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*Applejack: "Wait, are you going to suggest that-"
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*Mystic: "Yes..... Equestia, is the ever needed shorce of all magic to the rest of the universes."
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*Rainbow Dash: "HOLD UP, HOLD UP! That would imply that magic never existed until Equestia showed up! I mean, Gods have magic, do they?"
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*Mystic: "The power of gods is different from the kind of magic mortals can process. When the Alicorns created this world, they unknowingly created a pool that has caused magic to become avaluable to mortal kind. They inadvertingly made Equestia the shorce of all magic, and even outside devinities never truely understood why mortals can actcess magic and just assumed it was part of their natrul progress. This pool is how magic can be actcessed in worlds outside of Equestia, even in worlds where magic is not plentiful, though it's rare. But those pool, if you bathed in it, it will make you the most powerful being in this universe, as you will have actcess to both light and dark magic of every known and unknown world of these universes."
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*Main 7: "Whoaaaaa."
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*Starlight: "This pool is incredable!"
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*Spike: "Good thing you didn't knew about this pool back when you were still bad, huh? Then we would've been in BIG trouble."
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*Starlight: "No need to bring that up."
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*Rainbow Dash: "..... Ok, so, Equestia is like, the mother of all magic because of like, a cool looking swimming pool. I can get that. But, WHY is it in the Everfree Forest?"
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*Mystic: "Like the answer isn't obvious. Not only very little people would dare traverse this place, but it was because of Gaia Everfree herself. She knew this pool was a dishastor waiting to happen if any dangerious threat made itself known. So.... That is why Everfree, and many other dangerious places exist. For you see, this pool, which has the misfortune of being in this filthy swamp, isn't the only one of it's kind."
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Flashback.
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*(Mystic): "In many places that became inhopsitiable or dangerious, there are at least 6 great Pools of Everfree in each part of the entire world of Equestia. The 5 are carefully hidden underground or an extremely uncharted part of the area they're in by Gaia's design. But Gaia was one who was, over-cautious. She created the many hostile beasts and monsters designed and created to guard the pools. She became dedicated to the point that she never attended the Choas Wars. She abandoned her alicorn bretheren for a cause more impourent to her then to commit to what is simply yet another conflict of the universes. She wanted to make sure that the pools do not end up being included in that, or any other fight. But the news of the loss of her fellow alicorns did broke her heart. As an act of self punishment, she cursed herself into a deep sleep and casted her horn to run on auto-magic, allowing her to create more and more creatures to keep the pools safe without her direct preasence. The downside is, without her direct enfluence, not many of the new creatures understood their purpose, and simply acted like wild animals. But it benifited the protection of the pools reguardless."
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Flashback ends.
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*Applejack: ".... Well, if that's true, then what's this one doing not secludedly hidden?"
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*Mystic: "It's barial was disturbed, by those that wanted to absorb the pool's magical gifts, for themselves. Two Gargoyles, named Narbol, and Pyrogrowmong. Under the orders of the Gargoyle King, and the Griffin, Manreious."
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*Rainbow Dash: "AKA Man-Vulture."
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*Applejack: "But why are they bugging the pools?"
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*Mystic: "They found one of them by accsident in the Goyland caves. They were attempting to capture the Goyland Pool's guardian, A Giant Cancer."
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*Pinkie: "Yikes! A giant uncureable desise protects a magical pool?"
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*Mystic: "(Sighs).... I meant Cancer like the name of the Star Constilation of the crab! Like, you know, the Ursas?"
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*Pinkie: "Ohhhhhh."
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*Rarity: "Ohhh I know this is going to lead to a "Rarity, get your sword" joke somewhere. Honestly, ever since that pirate adventure with that litteral giant crab in the comics, there was like alot of fanart and fanfics centered around me being a giant crab slayer for some bizare reason! Sometimes the Brony fandom is undutifully weird!"
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*Mystic: "This is why I came here. Prior to the day we have met Rarity, Manreious has been making the Gargoyles seek more of the Pools. From the darkest jungles,"
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Flashback.
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*The Temple of Chicomoztoc was seen.
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*Another Pool was seen guarded by the Cipactli.
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*(Mystic): "The coldest unforgiving regions of the Frozen North."
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*Inside the cave around the path to Yak-Yakistan, is the cave that housed the Yeti-Babboon beast as it was seen sitting contently by another pool.
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*(Mystic): "The hottest desert of Saddle Arabia."
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*Deep within the Saddle Arabian sands lies Mongolian Death Worms hissing about around the pool.
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*(Mystics): "In the heart of the Badlands."
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*A great Badlands Golum carring a ghastly club rests around the pool in the center of the badlands.
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*(Mystic): "And as we now know, the ones in everfree,"
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*The formerly buried pool was guarded by the Hydra.
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*(Mystic): "And Goyland Caves."
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*A giant Star-Constailation Crab Beast simular in color like the Ursa creatures was seen guarding <span style="font-weight:normal;">the pool </span>jealiously.
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*(Mystic): "These creatures served as the main guardians out of the many others designed to deter adventures in the places at all, to protect the pools incase of the possability of one adventurer being too determined to be detered. However, thanks to the Pony-Gargoyle War..... Gaia's hopes of keeping these things obscured were compromised by the vengence hungry Gargoyles."
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*The Gargoyles are seen over-wealming the Cancer Crab and trapped it to the ground by chains.
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*(Mystic): "The beasts began to harvest the magic of the majustic Everfree Pool to try to rebuild what they had lost. But then Man-Vulture came and desided that it will be made to be given a greater use. It, and the many other pools, shall be used for a dark grand sceame. So, two of the strongest Gargoyles, have went out of their way to claim the othe pools. One by one."
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*Two Gargoyle Silluettes, one big and strong, another seemingly with it's hands on fire, were seen, beating the Cipactli, the Yeti-Boon, The Death Worms, and the Golum."
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*(Mystic): "The two captured the other guardians of the pool, and have them sent to be imprisoned into the Gargoyle donguins. The Hydra was the last of the creatures they chased. It's leading head was smart enough to lead them away from the pool while it was still unknown."
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*The Strong Gargoyle slams the Hydra down and tied their necks into a knot!
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*(Mystic): "But still ultamately captured....."
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Flashback ends.
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*Mystic: "Thankfully, the other creatures kept the pool safe in event of returns, then I took over when I asserted myself as the the alpha of this land. I gave this pool something unsentient creatures could little offer."
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*Applejack: "Wait, Rainbow, didn't ya head to that Chicomozotc place in the new episode?"
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*Rainbow Dash: "Well yeah! But.... I thought it only hold that ambulet we got from there."
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*Mystic: "The Ambulet was but one of many treasures it protected. The Temple was made by anichent Aztec Goblins who were dedicated to Gaia Everfree."
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*Twilight: "But why the pony symbolisum there?"
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*Mystic: "It was part of their tribute. They created hylogriflics dedicated to Pony culture instead of their own."
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*Pinkie: "I think I ran into that Yetbooni once. He kinda tried to kill me."
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*Mystic: "The Yetbooni was only trying to scare you away from the pool's location. If he wanted you dead, he would've done more then just given you a free mane-cut."
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*Twilight: "Well, did the same implied to that Hydra that chased us?"
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*Mystic: "Indeed. The Hydra just wanted to keep the pool safe from potaintional misuse, so it only wanted to scare you away from it. After you gotten out of it's reach, it felt that it's job was done and mocked you on your failure for what it assumed that you were here for the pool."
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*Fluttershy: "Oh dear, I didn't mean to make that thing concerned, I was only releasing some frogs there that day."
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*Applejack: "But why would she create critters that want to kill and eat us?"
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*Mystic: "She is the Alicorn of Natrol Selection after all. She had a, darwin view of the world. And she was looking out for the pool's best interests because their power could easily be used to upset balence in the wrong hooves, or hands for that matter."
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*Pinkie: "Wow...... Is, that how you managed to pull all this off?"
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*Mystic: "NO!? I would not dare tamper with the magic being shared to the universes for things like this! I earned my great skill in magic through time and patience. You see, magic is respondsable for more then just it's own devices. It's the reason why there's such a thing as other forms of great mortal potaintional. It is why in some worlds, science became king, because magic is respondsable for imagination, which lead to even the likes of futuristic uptopias, and even super-beings, though they're no longer true magic as they're more mortal imaginations fully realised. In other worlds, magic is respondsable for the birth of Chi and enlightenment, and sometimes, the incredable physical feets most mortal beings could not hope to dream.... Even when magic has no influence to a truely scientific or a world dominated by another shorce of power, those have happened, because of Equestia being the shorce of all things impourent, and the Gods themselves, never realised this."
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*Rainbow Dash: "..... Whoa..... Badass. HA! Can you imagine the Lougers' reactions when they discover that the reason why even like what half of what they are now are because of Equestia having magical pools!? Espeically Kolwalski! He'll be like when he was reacting to the rocks from that Groka place! Rememeber that episode?"
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*Pinkie: "(Laughs) YEAH! He was all like "It makes no seaaaa.... It makes no saaaa!"! (Laughs) And I can only dream of what Icky's gonna be like!?"
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*Rarity: "Most likely he'll do a couple minutes of ranting and then get bonked on the noggon for being rude."
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*Spike: "Wow, this got serious. It surely can't get more serious then this."
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*Mystic: "It does. Gaia's self-punished sleep will soon come to an end, and when it does, she will not like what the Gargoyles are doing, and will gain control of every creature of equestia of her creation, to destroy the Gargoyles for their reakless actions and for being parasites of Equestias' accsidental gift to all of the United Universes."
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*Chow Mein: "Yikes?! Who she be THAT cruel?!"
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*Mystic: "Again, Alicorn of Natrol Selection. What did you expect of her?"
   
 
==='''Chapter 4: An Epic Foxfight Battle Erupts/Rainbow Dash vs. Acidburn'''===
  
==='''Chapter 4: An Epic Foxfight Battle Erupts/Rainbow Dash vs. Acidburn'''===

Revision as of 22:54, 30 July 2016

Real Tests with Unreal Problems is the 49th Episode of the 3rd Season of the SpongeBob and Friends Adventures Chronicles series. While the rest of the Mane Six are busy with the trial concerning the fate of former-Headmistress Shineflare, Rainbow Dash discovers that she isn't the only one not doing well in the 'learning' of the Wonderbolt history department since Lightning Dust was reaccepted into Wonderbolt Academy. Lightning Dust, despite being a bit jealous that Rainbow Dash is already a Wonderbolt, is all about speed, and of course, while not an idiot, learning about the Wonderbolts' story is not what one calls a good talent. Naturally, Dust will basically learn like how Rainbow learned: through flying, but because she doesn't do it completely, and does it mostly through experience and mind, they let her go through a simulated historical journey as she gets to experience the Wonderbolt history by witnessing it as it had occurred. But while this is going on, the Wonderbolt Headquarters is getting routinely attacked by thought-to-be-defeated enemies in the form of deadly gargoyles, which keep attacking in the night when they are not stone. These particular gargoyles are under the command of thought-to-be-vanquished foes Man-Vulture and King George, followed by a group of trigger-happy personal henchmen that would give the Team Fortress Mercenaries an inferiority complex, and commandeered by a rogue brother of Spitfire, Acidburn, plan to take down the Wonderbolts for good through any means necessary, so when they plan to secretly make Dust flunk her test by sabotaging all contributions of Lightning's friends, Dust will learn absolutely nothing, and therefore, will flunk and lose her chance to get into the Wonderbolts for good, leaving her vulnerable for Man-Vulture to manipulate into his perfect destruction force. Luckily, The Shell Lodgers were around to aid in Shineflare's case, and offer some of their members to help the Wonderbolts stand up to this threat as they begin planning to counter-sabotage any attempts, take down Man-Vulture, Acidburn, and the gargoyle armada, and secure Lightning's future.

Transcript

Chapter 1: Shineflare's Case/Lightning Dust's Learning Report

Equestria, Twilight's Castle

  • Twilight:... Well, girls, you'll be glad to know that the case concerning Shineflare is going to be starting tomorrow.
  • Applejack: Thank Luna! After she was single-handedly responsible for a dragon hating ponies, then I called that the last straw! I say the bitch deserved it.
  • Rarity: Applejack, dear, I would advise that you not use such foul words about Shineflare... Even if it is warrentied. We all know why she's like this to begin with, don't we?
  • Applejack: It's still no excuse to treat non-ponies harshly, though.
  • Twilight: Whoa, AJ, easy! As much as she is a jerk to non-ponies, can we at least sympathize with her? She was among many victims of Malevolent Flames after all, if not also a pony slavery group. How can anypony stay sane after going through stuff like that?
  • Applejack: ".... Well, to be fair, I'll at least give Shineflare some points for not being MEANINGLESSLY racist, but I am still against her for letting her tragity be used as an excuse to hurt others! I tend to frown at folks like that!"
  • Starlight was nerviously smiling.
  • Applejack: ".... Present company excluded, Starlight."
  • Rarity: "In all fairness darling, she wasn't a 100 percent foul. The fact she saved Canterlot from Roughber and congradulated Peng for not sunsiding to his mother do show redeeming traits."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Yeah, but they're like finding diamonds in a pile of cow poop! You would often be too disgusted to even care about that."
  • Pinkie: "They're also like the yummy strawberries on top of a gross icky yucky mud ice cream sundae!"
  • Twilight: "Ok! So maybe she does have ALOT of work cut out for us! But let's remember that she's still a pony, and still has purity. It just needs a chance to shine more then her negitive feelings."
  • Applejack: "I don't object to that Twi, but I ain't exactly holdin' mah breath either. Shineflare is likely to still be a might resentful to mythic critters for awhile."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Well let's at least be glad she won't be able to find a new Pred Judu Des without her former council position. As well as the fact the other council ponies will finally think straight without being influenced by Shiny-butt."
  • Spike: "But just to be safe, let's do a roll-call on all things we covered to make sure things go smoothly for once. First item on the list: Is Shineflare kept from using magic to escape or cause any form of unexpected trouble?"
  • Twilight: "WAY ahead of you on that Spike."
  • Spike: "Next item on the list: Are any previous mythic being and creature enemies of Shineflare prevented from taking advantage of this to seek horrorable vengence?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Aw, yeah! Me and the Wonderbolts' totally kicked their tails!"
  • Spike: "3rd item: Did we make sure Shineflare doesn't have a surprise living relitive that would've sought to free her?"
  • Applejack: "With granny's help, I was able to find two of them, both cousins. Both were a-plotin' to bust Shineflare out, so I made sure the royal guard knows about them. Thanks for having your brother there to make sure the guards do it right, Twi."
  • Twilight: "Your welcome."
  • Spike: "4th item: Did we made sure Discord will behave himself?"
  • Fluttershy: "Black Kat was more then happy to take Discord on vacation with her to that Paradisa place. I, just hope Discord doesn't start to feel too mischivious."

Paradisa

  • Discord: (At a Hawaiian-style party on the beach performing a magic trick with Kat) Alright, everyone! I shall now saw my lovely assistant in half!
  • Guy #1: YOU'RE BOTH DRACONEQUUI! THE TRICK IS SO OBVIOUS, IT SUCKS!!
  • Black Kat: I told you to just go with comedy!
  • Discord:...Well, if it's laughs they want, then let's give them a mouthful! (Dresses up like a familiar In Living Color Jim Carrey character) BOY, this party is an accident waiting to happen!...LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING!! (Approaches a torch) Let's just say you're about to serve some apple liquor to a lovely couple! And you're working a night shift, and you're COMPLETELY drowsy! You become so drowsy, you don't pay attention to the cork, you pop it out, and BOOM...(Liquor splashes onto the torch as it blazes the wood) Next thing you know, it's like Zozobra's having a little cookout! (Cackles as everyone panics)...EVERYBODY REMAIN CALM, I AM A FIRE MARSHALL! LET ME JUST PUT OUT THE FIRE! (Pours the liquor on the fire as it explodes, literally turning him and the wooden structure cartoonishly into ash)...Oops!...Oh well!...I guess this is why you never serve alcohol in a party surrounded with fire. (Laughs, and the whole audience ends up laughing)
  • Guy #2: Now THAT'S funny! (They laughed)
  • Black Kat: (Sighs)

Equestria

  • Fluttershy:... So, Rainbow Dash, to suddenly break from an impourent list, how has life been since you became a Wonderbolt?
  • Rainbow Dash: One word: Awesome! Though I haven't had a mission as of yet, Spitfire gave me a chance to teach at the Wonderbolt Academy. Though, I've had a little problem concerning... A familiar friend.

Wonderbolt Academy

  • Lightning Dust: YOU'RE A WONDERBOLT NOW?!?
  • Rainbow Dash: Yeah. I've been one for a couple of months.
  • Lightning Dust: "...... AW NOW I REALLY WISH THAT MESS WITH THE FUCKING TORNADO NEVER HAPPENED!? THEN I WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET ALONG WITH YOU!?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Only one wonderbolt member retired that day, so, even then-"
  • Lightning Dust: "BESIDES THE POINT?! IT'S CLEAR I NEED TO DO MORE TO PROVE THAT I CHANGED FROM THAT SCREW UP?! I am just glad that stupid story about the Chirstail Empire Seige never happened. I WON'T STOP UNTIL I PROVEN MY WORTH!?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Ya kinda did when the Gala fiasco happened and-"
  • Lightning Dust: "EVEN MORE THEN THAT!"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Well, luckly for you, Spitfire's team aren't the only wonderbolts. They're the Wonderbolt Alphas. There's still the Betas, Deltas, Etas, Episions, Omegas, Sigmas, Zetas, Thetas, and-"
  • Lightning Dust: "Those teams are fine and all, but I want to be with the Alphas! Not just because I'm a huge fan of Spitfire's legacy, but because..... I consider you a great friend, Dash. Ok, there was that, REALLY awkword fallout, but, we patched up, and now we're great friends again! I always wanted to get involved with the Wonderbolts with you! Your THE Rainbow Dash of the Elements of Harmony! You saved Equestia from threats even the entire Wonderbolt squads can't stop! It would suck not being in the same squad as you! You had any idea how badass an element of harmony hero and a member of the legendary dust clan on the same wonderbolt team would be like?! IT WOULD BE TALKED ABOUT FOR GENERATIONS?! I WILL NOT MISS OUT ON THAT BECAUSE OF MILLATERRY POLITICS! I WILL PROOF MY WORTH AND EARNED THAT LEGACY!?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Look, it's WAY more complincated then that and-"
  • Lightning Dust zoomed off!
  • Lightning Dust: "I WILL PROOF THAT WORTH!?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "...... Oh boy."

Twilight's Castle.

  • Rainbow Dash: "So I'm afraid she's back to her trying to hard self and might end up making herself look bad again."
  • Rarity: "Have you tried making Spitfire aware of this?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Last time I did that, Lightning Dust got kicked out and she wanted to kill me for it, remember?!"
  • Applejack: "That time was different. This time could mean just having Spitfire stop her from doing something bone-headed."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Trust me on this! The only things I am ever actselly afraid of, is ANYTHING ACTSELLY CAPABLE TO KICK MY ASS?! And though I like Dust as a friend and respect her as member of the fabled Dust clan, I AM AFRAID OF WHAT SHE CAN DO!? REMEMBER HOW BADLY SHE KICKED MY ASS BACK IN THE GALA FIASCO?!"

Flashback.

  • Rainbow Dash panics, and tried to sneak away, but it was too late, Lightning saw her!
  • Lightning: "YOU?!"
  • Rainbow Dash gulped.
  • Rainbow Dash: "Uh, hi Lightning..... Uh, no hard feelings?"
  • Lightning grabbed a rock, and crushed it with her hooves in one swift crush!
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Aw, s***."
  • Rainbow Dash zoomed out of there, Lighting followed in fast persuit all the way to Canterlot causing want and destruction to various objects in the way of the chase, to the panic of Canterlot residents!
  • Rainbow Dash: "Come on Rainbow Dash, you need to lose her somehow! There has to be one thing not even she is capable of..."
  • Lighting: YOU CAN'T KEEP OUTFLYING ME FOREVER!!! YOUR FLANK IS MINE!!!!!
  • Rainbow Dash remembered the Sonic rainboom! This is here only chance to lose Lightning!
  • Rainbow Dash started to boost up more speed!
  • Rainbow Dash starts to go faster and higher above Canterlot!
  • But Lighting caught her before she got any higher and faster and did the Sizemic Dust Toss!
  • BLAM!
  • Rainbow Dash is seen laid into the ground.
  • Luckly, Rainbow Dash is still alive, but wounded greatly. the feathers in her wings have been vaporised, holes are seen on her skin, she got bruzed in her eye, and Rainbow Dash was bleeding in the eyes and mouth.
  • Rainbow Dash was in a realm of disbeif..... Someone, actselly outpassed the Sonic Rainboom. It was her only hope.... and she was robbed of it.
  • Rainbow Dash struggled back up to her feet.
  • Lightning Dust only flouted above the weakened Rainbow Dash.
  • Lightning: "Your more duriable then I thought. I once did the Sizemic Dust Toss on a rouge Centaur on my way here, and all that survived was a piece of his armor... Shoulder blade if I can recall correctly."
  • Rainbow Dash relucently realised she was in no condition to fight, let alone to continue running. She had no choice but to surrender.... But wait, she realised something. Did Lightning Dust just said "Sizemic Dust Toss"? That legendary move is known only to the legendary dust clan...... Then it hit Rainbow...... She had wronged a member of that very clan. A family, with Pegicious horses in the family generations and genes, and birthed the legendary Shining Dust of the wonderbolts and the famed milliterry hero Thunder Dust.
  • Rainbow Dash coughed, as she is about to speak....

Present

  • Pinkie: Oh, yeah, you lost outright to her.
  • Rainbow Dash: EXACTLY! Granted she could've been a good Wonderbolt had it not been for that recklessness of hers, but I don't think I can even SURVIVE a jealousy attack!
  • Twilight: Well, SOMEPONY has to stop her from doing something reckless! So if YOU won't do it, I will!
  • Twilight aimed to teleport Lightning Dust here, but Spike stopped her!
  • Spike: "Actselly, teleporting her isn't nessersary! She and some new friends are already around the area."

Elsewhere, In the near-by hill near Apple Acres.

  • Lightning Dust: "Lo and behold, wonderbolt hopefuls! (A crudely crated contraption was seen), the Lightning Daredevil! The Ultamate in Wonderbolt Impressing Stunt Tecknowagey!"
  • Chow Mein, A Harpy, A Griffon, A Hippogriff, and a nerdy Spyro-Recolor Dragon were seen.
  • Harpy: "..... Pretty sure it's the ONLY in Wonderbolt Impressing Stunt Tecknowagey, Dust."
  • Griffin: "Oh come on, Harpz, at least she's trying!"
  • Hippgriff: "I don't know, sis..... That looks dangerious."
  • Nerdy Spyro-Eqse Dragon: "Not to mention a hulking violation of very safety proceedure known to pony and dragon kind."
  • Lightning Dust: "(Gets on the contraption) Trust me guys, this thing is garrentied to get us noticed."
  • Chow Mein: "Aw come on, Dust. You know your parents don't approve of you doing stupid stunts."
  • Lightning Dust: "Trust me, this will turn out fine."
  • Harpz: "..... Why not? I'm up for some dare-deviling. You game Gem, Bronze Pen, Drokre?"
  • Gem the griffin: "Hell ya! You coming bro?"
  • Bronze: "Oh dear. I know this won't end well."
  • Drokre: "The rate of failure is at least 50-50. Depending on circumstances."
  • The 4 climbed on.
  • Lightning Dust: "Anyone wants a deminstraightion?"
  • Chow Mein rolled his eyes as he climbed on.
  • Lightning Dust: "It's REAL easy! It's just the matter of being able to press this button and-"
  • Lightning Dust mistakeningly pressed the button and activated the rocket like contraption.....
  • Drokre: "..... Premature launghes are commenly known to end in failure...."
  • Lightning Dust: "...... Ohhhhh."
  • Chow Mein: "Well, Dust, when I say I told ya so, I-"
  • The Contraption blasts off with the five on it as they scream as music started to play!
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Mud - North Mississippi Allstars Barnyard 2006

  • During the song, after a series of wacky moments simular to that of the Start of the Barnyard movie, Lightning Dust, Harpz, Gem, Bronze, Drokre and Chow Mein all got off the contraption high in the sky!
  • Chow Mein desperately grabbed onto Bronze!
  • Drokre desperately tried to keep stedy!
  • Lightning Dust, Gem, and Harpz were the only one who maintained position after completing actrobatic tricks!
  • Lightning Dust: "(Sees the out of control contrapsion)..... OH NONONONONONONONONONO?! WE HAVE TO STOP THAT THING BEFORE IT HITS TOWN!?"
  • The Group chased after it and tried to intervent it, but every time, the unpredictable mess turns at random directions until it looks as if it'll get away!
  • Twilight: (Teleports to the front of the rocket, and opens a portal that sends it to space, and causes it to explode)
  • Lightning:... I... I... I... (Sighs in relief)... That was a close one!
  • Rainbow Dash: I should say so!
  • Lightning Dust gasped at this....
  • Lightning Dust nerviously chuckles...
  • Harpz: "(Gives Chow Mein back) Lates Dust!"
  • Lightning's new friends vamoose!

Twilight's Castle

  • Lightning: Look, guys, I can explain everything-
  • Twilight: Lightning, calm down! We need to talk!
  • Lightning:... Alright, what Rainbow Dash told you, don't take it the wrong way! I was merely-
  • Applejack: Lightning, if we hadn't appeared, you would've made the same mistake you made at Wonderbolt Academy. Not to mention that crazy contraption could've caused serious property damage, or I shudder what could be worse then that! We need to end this jealous edge of yours.
  • Lightning: Look... I just wanted to prove that I can be as successful as Wonderbolt Team Alpha! Now that Rainbow Dash is a Wonderbolt, what better way to be in a grand legacy than to be her partner in Team Alpha? It's going to make history!
  • Rarity: Lightning, dear, there is more to life than just popularity! You changed because you made a bold sacrifice. You're an Element of Harmony now.
  • Lightning: Well, tecnecally speaking, YOU aren't anymore! You've got Rainbow abilities that make you look like rockstars! You girls can kick smug asses all over the place! As for me? I've barely made some progress in proving that I'm qualified to be as successful as Rainbow Dash!
  • Twilight:... And why is that?
  • Rainbow Dash:... Lightning, is there something you wanna tell us? What exactly happened before we met?
  • Lightning:... I... Uh... I was just finished with a test.
  • Rainbow Dash: Really? Because I could tell it didn't go well given the fact that you were like...

Flashback

  • Lightning: (It's seen she's got a D- in the test, and when Rainbow Dash comes in, she is surprised, hides the paper in her bed, and smiles) HEEEEY, RAINBOW DASH! You'll NEVER believe how good I've been doing in my classes! It's a blast! By the time my exam to get into the Wonderbolt Reserves comes, I'll finally be ready to make my family proud! I... Uh... What's with the getup?

Present

  • Lightning:... Uhhhh... It was just a momentary surprise, that's all!
  • Rainbow Dash: Lightning, I know when you're lying to me. I learned from Rarity to know when a pony is full of s***, and you bare ALOT of those signs! Hestitation, saying "Uhh", then actselly saying something, those are commen lie tropes! ESPIECALLY for amaturs! I want the full truth, and as an official Wonderbolt, I am asking for that right now, and that's an order!
  • Lightning:... Alright, FINE! Here's the truth! I'm not keeping up on my grades since I was reinstated! Even though I am not entirely a reckless mess anymore, BARRING certain events, I'm still not exactly up to stuff to the kind of ponies that got into the Wonderbolts. I just... Didn't want to let you down now that you're a legend.
  • Spike:... Wait... You have troubles with studying?
  • Rainbow Dash: I should've known something was up. If you ask me, all she's been doing is horsing around doing dumb stuff, and just watches the Wonderbolts History Movie because she thinks it actually represents the REAL history! I mean, seriously, it took ME a while to figure out that movie was just historical fiction.
  • Twilight: Duh, that's why I said we couldn't watch that when YOU had the same damn problem!
  • Lightning Dust: "Wait..... The Wonderbolts History Movie was fiction?"
  • Rarity: "Historical fiction. It means that, while it's BASED on real events, Ponywood made adjustments to make the film, um, easier to swallow for the unenlighten masses, or else it may as well should've been a documentary."
  • Lightning Dust: "..... In that cause, I..... AW, S***!? NO WONDER I'VE BEEN FLUNKING?!"
  • Pinkie: OOOOHHH, another pony in need of some learning? I'll get Vinyl and the boys!
  • Twilight: No, no, no, Pinkie, that won't be necessary!
  • Lightning Dust:... You mean to tell me that Rainbow Dash was once a loser with history?
  • Rainbow Dash: Look who's talking! I could ask YOU the same thing!
  • Lightning Dust: Look, I remember a LOT of things from the classes!
  • Rainbow Dash: You couldn't remember the goddamn alphabet!
  • Lightning Dust: "DO TO?! A B C D, E F...... W X Y AND Z?!"
  • Rainbow Dash: "YOU JUST SAID THE START AND SKIPPED TO THE END?!"
  • Lightning Dust: "Hey, I didn't say I was an Alphabet wizard! I was more of the athletic jock in my school days, so sue me!"
  • Pinkie: OH, (Laughs) WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE ALPHABET?!?
  • Rainbow Dash:... It was a figure of speech!
  • Lightning Dust: (Sighs) Ok, all horseplay aside, one, I remember the goddamn alphabet, even the ones INBETWEEN the start and the end! Secondly, I DO remember!
  • Rainbow Dash: Oh yeah? Well, how did the Wonderbolts originate?
  • Lightning: It was just a police force founded by a kickass general who wanted to fight crime and-
  • Rainbow Dash: (Does this)
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Lex Luthor in "Superman Returns" - Wrong

Rainbow's Reaction

  • Lightning Dust:... What did I get wrong?
  • Rainbow Dash: (Sighs) Well, no wonder you got jealous and nearly made a mistake that cost you a last chance to be a Wonderbolt! You're an inexperienced, ignorant, envious little pupil who needs a proper tutor!
  • Lightning Dust: What're you talking about, of course I'm not! How do you think I got into the Wonderbolt Academy the FIRST time?
  • Rainbow Dash: Well, your heritage to Thunder Dust and the entire Dust clan, obviously, but that's not enough! I can assure you that your dad and your grandpa Shining Dust didn't spend their free time flying haphazardly through towns high-fiving his fans like Po would!
  • Po: HEY! (The Lodgers came in)
  • Rainbow Dash: Oh, hey, guys! Wow, you all are pretty silent.
  • Icky: "Yeah, we came in about the Shineflare case and we also came to check up on you guys cause we saw a freaky poorly constructed scrapheap appearing from nowhere and blowing up! We came to see if you guys knew about it?"
  • Lightning: (Everyone pointed at her)... (Shrugs)
  • Trixie:.... Wow. Trixie figured that the Dust girl has risen above that sort've nonsense now.
  • Icky: "Don't ya just hate character relapses inbetween an episode from season 2 all the way to now?"
  • Lightning: Long story short, I was jealous of Rainbow Dash finally becoming a Wonderbolt, and I wanted to be her partner... Until I ended up going too far with it.
  • Applejack: "And she was lucky that contraption never made it to town, NOR did considerable damage to Sweet Apple Acres."
  • Shifu: Well, what's this we heard about Lightning being inadequate with her studies?
  • Rainbow Dash: She says she's not been doing well in them ever since she was reinstated. She needs to be taught.
  • Lightning: (Sighs) Well, yeah, I got issues. So what? At least I might get better.
  • Twilight: Just expecting to get better is not going to get you anywhere. With the kind of habits you go through, I highly doubt you'll make it by your exam.
  • Iago: "Trust us Lady, the Wonderbolts aren't the kind of people that accept dumbasses! That runs the risk of them making mistakes that poison the team's names!"
  • Pinkie: "But what about the time they failed to save Rarity by being smacked by her frailing hooves? Or not being able to stop Spike as an adult raging dragon? Or when they were quick to ditch Soaren in faver of Rainbow Dash? Or when Wind Rider framed Dashie and the wonderbolts just quickly assumed Dashie did the crime and-"
  • Iago: "THOSE, have some ounce of justification. The Wonderbolts were not able to plan better on rescuing Rarity or were able to properly combat Spike other then just giving him a hair-cut on his skales! What happened in Rainbow Falls and that Investigation episodes were just moments of poor judgement."
  • Fluttershy: "There's uh, still the matter of the useage of that rude nickname."
  • Skipper: "They were doing that to eachother! It was just harmless millaterry provado teasing and fun! No harm done!"
  • Icky: "But ya can't deny that alot of the Brony Analist Community say that the Wonderbolts are in serious need of reform of their standerds. I mean, let's be honest, if they can't even beat a hyperised baby dragon or detect foulness in their own team like an excitable spazz, no offence Lightning, or an aging bitter psyco from an ugly part of their history, or even their OWN failings for that matter, then how is Equestia suppose to take them seriously as heroes?"
  • Rainbow Dash: Okay, all of you, I get where you're coming from. I mean, I should know that the military is not supposed to be completely perfect. Their actions are justified a bit. Like when I was framed. They told me that Spitfire serves as their voice of reason, and without her, the team tends to be a little...well...less perfect. And the worst part of that is, Wind Rider KNEW that. Getting rid of the leader was supposed to disrupt the rest of the team more than just being a leader. I mean, Soarin once told me that he used to be temporary leader a couple of times, but his poor judgment, misguidance, and lack of foresight seemed to make the Wonderbolts themselves look bad, as he had to be put on chore duty multiple times.
  • Iago: Oh, really? Does THAT excuse their choice to ditch Soarin during the Rainbow Falls event?
  • Rainbow Dash: Okay, in context, that would seem like a d*** move, but they told me that they did that because they were just being cautious. With what I said before about Soarin's flaws, they wanted to make sure he didn't cause some kind of mistake, and wanted a less-flawed pony to take his place.
  • Fluttershy:...I still don't think that's good companionship. They still lied to him.
  • Rainbow Dash: They didn't tell him because they didn't want him to feel abandoned or left out. They wanted to make him feel like he was important. When you're a Wonderbolt, you look out for each other, and as such, you have to make sure your team doesn't become flawed.
  • Tigress: I still don't think this is making the Wonderbolts look any better. If you ask me, the only person who's making them function better is you and your friends.
  • Icky: Yeah, I mean, come on! Why did you still wanna be with them after they just turned on you and threatened to kick you out WITHOUT a proper investigation?
  • Rainbow Dash:...You really wanna know why I still defend them? You wanna know WHY I have dreamed of being with them? Well, then, I'll tell you! When I was just a filly, before I was the pony who defended other fillies from bullies, and BEFORE I was the pony who loved racing and winning, I was... Lost.

Flashback...

  • (Rainbow Dash): "To abridge things.... I kinda used to be as bad as Gilda."
  • (Gilda): "I'd be offended if it wasn't true. In fact, I'm kinda guilty of being a bad enfluence cause of how crappy Griffinstone was. Granted, we both started out fine as kids, but by our teens, that was when our nastier attatudes began to show."
  • Teenage Rainbow and Gilda went around caused mischief to locals.
  • (Rainbow Dash): "I was known to get into flight drag races with other adelesson punks for street cred, money, and.... Questionable activities."
  • (Icky): "Yikes, I didn't knew that about you guys. What caused it?"
  • (Rainbow Dash): "Typical teenage hormoans. Now, in some unrelated event, I did lost that sense of jerkiness, but now..... I was an empty shell.... I re-understood what I should've really been and not what I acting as. I began to remember all the times when my dad took me to see Wonderbolt shows and rediscovered the Wonderbolt mercentdise I locked away when I entered defiencehood. Then..... It hit me. I realised that becoming a Wonderbolt was gonna be a new part of me, and to take me into a better life.... I became dedicated to them ever since because..... It was my old childhood love of the Wonderbolts that helped me out of the rut I was in...."

Flashback ends.

  • Rainbow Dash: "And now..... I finally completed that goal....."
  • Spike: "..... Yeah, but it looks like your gonna have to take them out of their OWN ruts!"
  • Shifu: "I have to agree with young Spike. It appears on like how they changed your life, you need to inspire them to make changes of their own. It's obvious with their quickness to embrace unreliable members, inconsisent sense of loyalty, and not always being reliable in times of danger, that they need someone who will set them straight."
  • Icky: "No s***! Remember when they ended up getting corrupted by Crane's industrial bro and went after us in alou to the chase senquence of the 3rd Madagascar movie?"
  • Squidward: "How about when one of them almost got eaten by a flying clone of that monster shark?"
  • Boss Wolf: "And the fact they weren't able to help out Big Mac from that clone of Jigglodon."
  • Lord Shen: "And the biggest issue that they aren't always around to put a stop to a major problem! Or when they do, they aren't capable to stop it!"
  • Rarity: "But they aren't always that. Remember the things they did do correctly. The fact they rescued us from being in the grips of Wind Rider while you lougers were away on a mssion comes to mind."
  • Rainbow Dash: (Sighs) Go ahead and say what you want. They helped inspire me to become the well-recognized town hero I am today. I couldn't have gotten anywhere without them. That's why I still stick by them even after how much flaws they have. I don't know what happened to make them this way, but I've long proven to be reliable to them than they are of each other. That's why Spitfire honors me. Ever since I inspired them back in Rainbow Falls, they know that they can always use some new surprises from me every once in a while.
  • Mr. Dodo:...Actually, I think that sounds fair. I mean, the phrase 'nobody's perfect' exists because it describes all people. Spitfire's got flaws, Soarin's got flaws, even Rainbow Dash does. Why do you think they consider nicknames a bit of a tradition? Rainbow Dash wasn't the ONLY one who did a bad impression when joining.
  • Rainbow Dash: (Chuckles) Yeah, I was surprised, too. I just thought they were doing it to be jerks. I really should consider talking it out with my fellow teammates that way I don't end up ruining another presentation. It was actually the first time the Wonderbolts shared something personal.
  • Mr. Whiskers:...Speaking of nicknames...what exactly did they call Spitfire?
  • Rainbow Dash:...(Chuckles)...It's better if you don't know. Let's just say that it was worse than MY nickname and leave it at that.
  • Mr. Whiskers: Let me guess, Gritfire? Zitfire?
  • Rainbow Dash: Guys, guys, let's not worry about that! This isn't about me, anyway. This is about Lightning Dust. If we don't help her learn, she's going to be back to being an outcast.
  • Icky: "Well to save us a repeat of that episode about how to teach YOU about history, why not just teach Lightning like how you were taught rainbow? Though doing what she loves? Flying."
  • Pinkie: "Awww..... I really wanted to do that rap."
  • Starlight: "Hey wait, isn't that gazelle lady usually with you?"
  • Icky: "She had to go back to Zootopia for a charity event her manager is holding."
  • Duke: "(Looking kinda down) As she always had done in the past before this space adventure started."
  • Fluttershy: ".... What's the matter, Mr. Weselton?"
  • Duke: "WEASELTON!?..... Sorry. I'm just.... Coping with loneliness..... I'm used to being without Gazelle, don't get me wrong, but, I never gotten to spend more then just a few moments."
  • Starlight: "..... You miss your friend, do you?"
  • Duke: "Hey hey, whoa whoa! "Missing" her is a strong word there!"
  • Twilight: "Duke, you don't have to hide your feelings from us."
  • Icky: "Or else we'll be forced to bring Mr. Lie Detecter Test into this."
  • Duke: "OK OK, FINE!? You hussled me! I am, kinda, sort've, missing Gazelle. She's among the cloest things I ever came to having a person for a friend, followed by you guys and fellow bootleggers. And my family, wife and kids, but, besides the point."
  • Applejack: "Aw shucks, don't you worry much about nothing, Weaselton. I'm sure she's feeling mighty homesick about you too."
  • Duke: "She does, but it'll be quickly mended by being surrounded by screaming fans. She does care for me, but she knows I usually can handle myself, so she doesn't worry like an anxious mother over me."
  • Lightning: Well...how exactly are you going to teach me again?
  • Rainbow Dash:...You do learn through sight, don't you?
  • Lightning: Actually, it's kinda different than that. Much stuff I see when I'm in the air seem to never catch my attention. Even things that seem interesting.
  • Shifu:...Then how DO you learn?
  • Lightning: Well, I usually learn by experience. You can actually learn things by watching and experiencing them in your mind. Like with that Wonderbolts History Movie. When I was watching that movie, MAN, was I hooked! I wanted to fly with those guys. You get sucked into a movie so much, you wannabe there in the fight with them.
  • Rainbow Dash:...So...basically seeing things in flight is now how you learn?
  • Lightning: Oh, I actually think of seeing things in flight as my own activity of pony-watching, entertainment, adrenaline-rushes, and actually living out a personal fantasy. When you actually do something like it is in a movie, you feel like you're one of them. You're ready to make your cherished hero icons proud. You intend to impress them with all you've got! Show them what their tales can inspire.
  • Rainbow Dash:...Kinda like ME! THAT'S IT! THAT'S THE TRADITIONAL WAY YOU LEARN!
  • Patrick:...By watching movies?
  • SpongeBob: Nope. With...(Makes a rainbow with his hands) IMAGINAAAAATIOOON!
  • Sandy: Now hold on just a rootin-tootin second! This sounds a bit silly when you think about it. With a limited mind like Lightning's, how in the name of the Alamo are we gonna get her to live out an entire history?
  • Twilight:...I think I may have a spell for that in my library.
  • Sandy: Yep, I was expecting you did!
  • Twilight: Are you kidding? This isn't one of those random spells! It's a cousin to that spell I used to create Order City to test Discord's reformation during that Blot mission. It's like augmented reality, only with magic.
  • Icky: "Ohhh, a magical simular eh? Sounds dandy as candy!"
  • Lord Shen: "So basicly, your going to magicly simulate historic events of the wonderbolts?"
  • Starlight: "Why fake history when you can just travel back in time and-"
  • Everyone just stares blankly at Starlight....
  • Alex: "Of course YOU would suggest that."
  • Starlight: "..... Nevermind, I realise that in hindsight of certain actions and mishaps, maybe fake simulated history IS safer then the real deal."
  • Lightning Dust: "But probuly not as exciting as that OR the movie."
  • Lord Shen: "Well history was never meant to be as hollywoodingly exciting as a popcorn thriller, Miss Dust. But it is impourent to learn from it, or you will repeat it."
  • Lightning: "YA MEAN I'LL GET CAUGHT IN A TIME-LOOP IF I DON'T LEARN HISTORY!?"
  • Silence.....
  • Duke: "...... Not a very good head on her shoulders."
  • Applejack: "That kinda isn't what Shen meant, Suger cube. He means you'll end up being back in the position of the last time you failed at something."
  • Lightning Dust: "Well.... I hate being bored, but.... I kinda hate failure abit more."
  • Squidward: "So does that mean the simulation stuff starts now?"
  • Twilight: "Not exactly. The spell works better in giving you the history you want if your in the accreate location of the event that took place in it. Otherwise, if I do it in the castle, (Casts the Spell as an exsample, and everything turns into a simulation of an empty field)...... You'll just be in the history of the current area your in. In fact, this is what the field is like a day prior where I would first come into ponyville."
  • Suddenly, a simulated Snips and Snails came in.
  • Simulated Snips: "..... So, Snails..... Ya got the goods?"
  • Simulated Snails: "..... The good what?"
  • Simulated Snips: "..... THE PRETTY MARE PICTURES FROM RARITY'S PALCE, YOU IDIOT?!"
  • Simulated Snails: "..... OH YEAH! I got them! (Brings out a pile of dirty magazenes) From "Playpony", to the "X-Mares"! And Look! Check out this one of this hot blue mare with the wizard costume!"
  • Simulated Snails shows a magizene that shows Trixie in erotic undergarments.
  • Everyone stared in surprise!
  • Rarity: "..... SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE EROTIC LITTERATURES?!"
  • Fidget was stucked in a happy surprised face!
  • Thunderclap: "..... Uh, Great One? Why are you on those pictures?"
  • Icky: "Jesus Christ Trix, YOU WERE A PORN STAR!?"
  • Trixie: ".....That was a dark and sorrowful life in Trixie's days of yor that I wish to not repeat."
  • Rarity: "Well I thought I recinised you from somewhere the moment I saw you."
  • Fluttershy: "Uh, Rarity, why WERE you keeping those dirty magizenes?"
  • Rarity: "Well I only needed them to learn how to draw mare bodies to the most interic detail, even the more, private, details. And the magizenes that best offer that is erotic litterature."
  • Applejack: "Well see what happened when ya get them trash magizenes? Now two young colts are (Looks at the direction where the simulations are and suddenly her pupels srhunk) OHHHH?!"
  • Pinkie: "..... Why are they touching their pee-pees?"
  • Icky: "The adult word is "Penis" Pinkie, and it's obvious that those two are ma-"
  • Twilight: OKAY, SIMULATION OVER! (The simulation ended)...Whew! We didn't need to see any of those.
  • Gilda:...Well, Trixie, I don't think I can look at you the same way again. Especially since those two are so drawn to you, they want your body.
  • Trixie: (Shivers) Now I NEVER wanna be near them again! What has been seen cannot be unseen! And I thought they were too young for that!
  • Icky: "It was obvious that those two are a cause of early-age curiousity for sex. All kids start out with porn."
  • Rarity: "I do believe that I will need to have a good conversation with Snips and Snails' parents about this. Not just to get my errotic littature back, but to alarm them of maturing quicker then they have anpisipated."
  • Lightning:... Okay, how does this simulation spell work again?
  • Twilight: Well, like I said, you need to be in the exact spot the events happened in order to experience, and even interact, with what had occurred eons ago.
  • Lightning: THE WONDERBOLTS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR EONS?!?
  • Twilight:... I wouldn't say that. It's just that they... Well... Well, learning is the whole point of this. If you learn by experience and imagination, then just witnessing through flight is not going to be enough. But be warned, sometimes these simulations can be traumatic to the mind. And they're often abit more worse then two idiot boys fabbing to dirty paper books! The history of the Wonderbolts is a really graphic and violent experience, especially when you get to certain battles like those against the violent Razor Feathers.
  • Lightning: You mean those griffins that were supposed to be like the Wonderbolts for the griffins? How did they come into fighting? They're still alive and fighting, aren't they?
  • Rainbow Dash:... (Sighs) Oh my, Celestia!
  • Twilight: Just look. I'll have the map set up for your long journey, then I'll have the simulation spell cast on you. Just remember what I said about the violence. Sometimes, they might hurt both mentally AND physically. In fact, there's going to be a LOT of outer and mental magic spells that will be used here. Oak Golden is gonna have to be your guide through the whole thing.
  • Lightning: If it means I have to learn and become the hero I have always wanted to be, then I'm gonna take the chance! I don't care what historical evil is thrown at me! I'll kick his ass into the ground if he can at least feel the pain!
  • Twilight:... Then let's do it!
  • Po: "Well we'll watch over the Shineflare case while you guys are out of your way to teach Lightning alot of impourent stuff. But we'll keep watch of you guys through the spybug if there's to be unexpected trouble."

The first place of the Simulation Journey: An old Wonderbolt building.

  • Lightning Dust and the Main 7 arrived.
  • Oak Golden was seen carried in a christailised compus.
  • Oak Golden: "Remind me again WHY I have been taken from the Map and transfered into a Christail Empireian Compus?"
  • Applejack: "We're assentually taken Lightning Dust on a field trip to teach her wonderbolt history. And ya'll are a libarian ghost in a sense."
  • Oak Golden: "..... Well, indeed I am. And our lucky that I did kept a decent collection of Wonderbolt history, AND I did caught up on recent events thanks to Miss Sparkle's own and larger collection. But do I still have to be in here?"
  • Twilight: "Well that's kinda because your a type of spirit that can only be inside an object. The only hope we have of taking you along is if we transfer you into another object with a powerful of mana consuming spirit transfer spell. But trust me, it's only until Lightning Learns enough."
  • Oak Golden: "Well as long as the living arrangements are temporary."
  • Lightning Dust: "Ok, guys, why are we at this dusty old building?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Your lucky that I can't be offended to something that is true. But believe it or not, this dusty old place was once the original Wonderbolt Capitcal! In fact..... IT'S THE BIRTH PLACE OF THE WONDERBOLT LINE?!"
  • Lightning Dust: "..... A building that gave birth to Wonderbolts? I kinda thought those guys had moms and dads like the rest of us."
  • Starlight: "(Face-hooves) Oh my Celestia, please tell me she's not THAT dense!?"
  • Lightning Dust: "Re-LAX, I was just joking that time! I knew what she meant."
  • Rarity: "Goodness, this palce has clearly seen better days."
  • Applejack: "Here's what I don't get though. If this place was respondsable for making the Wonderbolts happen, then why did they abandon it?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "The Wonderbolts were, NOT a well funded group back then. You'll see why in the minute."
  • The ponies entered the building.
  • Rainbow Dash: "Ok Twi, do your stuff."
  • Twilight: (Casts the spell on Lightning as the building's appearance changed from shoddy into very well as several ponies were seen, and Lightning was a part of the group)
  • General Pony (Brown-and-Red Pony in a uniform):...Well, everypony, it seems that a LOT has changed since we lost our great Princess Luna. So Celestia is counting on us to bring light to the first Celestial Year of Peace. We've been specially trained to make that possible!
  • Lightning:...Uh...who the hell is that?
  • Pony #1: Ssssh! Don't interrupt General Firefly when he's talking! It's against regulations!
  • Lightning:...("General Firefly? I've at least heard THAT name a couple of times.")
  • (Oak Golden): ("Yes. You see, this is a couple of years since Nightmare Moon was banished, and the E.U.P Guard was founded to act as a military force. This squadron was meant to shine hope to the people of Equestria by performing in the Celestial Year of Peace.")
  • General Firefly: DID SOMEPONY SAY SOMETHING?!? (Lightning was shocked, surprised that even Firefly saw her)...YOU! DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?!? HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT ME?!?
  • Lightning:...Uh...
  • (Oak Golden): ("Don't worry! This is just a simulation. No interaction is going to make a difference. Like Twilight said, you're going to be experiencing history through your own eyes.")
  • Lightning:...Uh, sorry, sir! Please continue!
  • General Firefly: That's a soldier! As I was saying, Celestia has been a bit...depressed that she had to banish her own sister to the moon. But we must lift her spirits with this performance!
  • Lightning:...("Wait!...Does this mean...I GET TO PERFORM AS WELL?!?")
  • (Oak Golden): ("Yes. But don't worry about screwing up the performance. Just be sure to ignore anything disruptive and just do the best you can.")
  • Lightning: ("And THIS is supposed to help me learn? I know I said I learn through experiencing, but I never realized it meant THIS degree!")
  • (Oak Golden): ("What did you expect? The Wonderbolts history was SUPPOSED to be at that degree. But don't worry. I'm sure you'll be fine. You said you wanted to fly with them, so go ahead.")
  • Lightning:...(Gulps)...Let's make her proud, General!
  • General Firefly: That's a soldier!
  • ???: "Good morrow, General I-am-named-after-a-bug."
  • Everyone looks to see a stuffy and unimpressed pony regelmen.
  • Lightning:... ("Who the hell's the stiff?")
  • (Oak Golden): ("That, would be Councilpony Stiffbutt.") (Lightning giggled softly) ("Don't laugh. Laughable as his name is, Stiffbutt is a POWERFUL pony of the Unicorn Council of his time, and was the one who gave funding the reestablished E.U.P. Guard.... Though not very good funding since the Counciler was a strong Alicorn loyalist who believed that normal ponies can't defend Equestria as well as an Alicorn can. He would be the reason why the E.U.P. wouldn't be given very strong funding until his term ends."
  • Lightning:... ("And I'm suppose to impress that jerk?")
  • (Oak Golden): ("Oh, not just him. But the Princess, and an entire crowd of ponies that have been...well...lost since the banishment of Nightmare Moon and the loss of a praised princess. This performance is supposed to not just lift spirits and declare the founding of the Wonderbolts, but it will also inspire certain inviduals to join the E.U.P Guard, and bring an era of protection.
  • Lightning:... ("I guess that could be easy enough. I mean...what exactly happened during the performance?")
  • (Oak Golden): ("You'll see. Just roll with it and play along.")
  • General Firefly: Good morning, Councilpony Stiffbutt. (Some of the soldiers snickered) I DON'T WANT NO SNICKERING IN THIS PLATOON! BE RESPECTFUL IN THE EYES OF THIS COUNCILOR! AM I CLEAR?!?
  • Soldiers and Lightning: YES, SIR!
  • General Firefly: Good! Now then, Stiffbutt, have you got any progress on the funding of the E.U.P Guard?
  • Stiffbutt: Oh, unbelievably rough. The recruits are...well...
  • General Firefly: Inexperienced?
  • Stiffbutt: Ah, they stink! The combat funds have been only 3 bits an hour! If you guys don't get your plan up and running, they might quit before anything impressive happens!
  • General Firefly: No need to worry, sir. Princess Celestia put her full trust and confidence in us. As long as my ponies remain focused and remember what I taught them, then we'll prove that ponies can do anything as long as they have a little push in the right direction.
  • Lightning:...("Are you sure I can pull this off?")
  • (Oak Golden): ("Well, to be openly honest, if it was me out there...I'd show them my own skills and techniques. That is, those that aren't THAT reckless. Maybe the Dust Clan's techniques can help make a difference. Like I said, it's just a simulation, so nothing you do will affect anything. Just give yourself a little self-confidence.")
  • Lightning Dust:...("Okay, if you say so.")
  • General Firefly: Alright, my pony brethren, we perform in 50 minutes. Get ready.
  • Soldiers and Lightning: YES, SIR!
  • General Firefly: Dismissed! (They saluted and flew out)
  • Lightning:... ("Well...what now?")
  • (Oak Golden): (Now you head over to the location of the next event. The old Celestial Coliseum 9 miles north of Canterlot.
  • Lightning:...Okay. (Flies off as the simulation fades and everything was seen by the Mane Seven)
  • Starlight:...Did it work?
  • Twilight: I was able to see everything through Lightning's eyes. She did well. Now she's heading for the Celestial Coliseum.
  • Rainbow Dash:...To be perfectly honest, I'm just glad I get to see the many historical sites of Wonderbolt history. Let's go! (They head out)

Chapter 2: Plot of the Gargoyles and King George/Arrival of Acidburn

Meanwhile, at Wonderbolt Academy...

  • Spitfire was seen walking down the hallway concerningly along with Soaren, Fleetfoot and her team.
  • They entered into the door that leads into an impourent office, where there sit some major generals, a major commander, and other impourent leaders, all over-seen by a fire-colored staillian with a cool looking wing prostetic.
  • Spitfire: "..... You..... Wanted to see us, sir?"
  • The meeting leading general: "Yes Spitfire dear. This concerns you as well."
  • Soaren: "It's, an honor to meet you at last, General Breathflame. Your daughter said great things about you and-"
  • Breathflame: "Thank you for the flattery, but it came at an imoppertune time. Alpha team, take a seat."
  • Spitfire's team did that....
  • Breathflame noticed a seat was still empty....
  • Breathflame: "..... Where is Miss Rainbow Dash?"
  • Fleetfoot: "She's away on Elemental Harmony business sir, concerning Shineflare. I, also heard she's engaged on fixing the confidence of Lightning Dust."
  • Spitfire: "But we'll be sure to make her aware of the meeting if it's exactly what I think."
  • Breathflame: "Alchourse. I respect the fact that Miss Dash wasn't at first a Wonderbolt. Now, onto impourent matters. Shorces have confirmed our worse fears..... The Gargoyles and their leader, Man-Vulture, are once again moblising and preparing their forces."
  • Soaren: "Whoa whoa whoa, wait?! I thought Equestia was cool with the Gargoyle community."
  • Breathflame: "..... Those Gargoyles are not native to this world. We speak of Gargoyles that once owned an entire sector of Equestia that used to be Gargoyumna. But, thanks to a mistake caused by an early member of the Judu Des clan, and because ansisterial Equestrians were not as enlighten to friendship back then, that's no longer the case."
  • Fleetfoot: ".... You mean..... Equestrian-native Gargoyles?"
  • Major General: "Preposterious! Equestrian native gargoyles are extinct! There's never been evidence to prove otherwise."
  • Breathflame: "That's because only the most trusted Wonderbolts knew of them.... That is until today. The Equestrian native gargoyles have begun kidnapping non-native gargoyles and began poisoning their minds with dark lies, turning them into angry vengeful drones. Like how a gang of punk Gargoyles randomly ambushed a pony bank out of nowhere. They're being radicalised. And now, I desided that I can't afford to uphold the royal promise to Celestia herself, and must make Equestia aware of a very serious problem."
  • Major General 2: "Do you have evidence suggesting this?"
  • Breathflame signeled a unicorn to come in.
  • Breathflame: "..... Proceed."
  • The Unicorn casted a spell that reveils the undeniable proof that the Native Equestian Gargoyles are well enough real, silluettes of ten gargoyles, plus a humaniod vulture beast. This surprised the meeting members, except Spitfire.
  • Breathflame: "..... That'll be all."
  • The Unicorn undoes her spell and leaves.
  • Commander: "...... How can this be? I thought the Native Equestians died out after the Pony-Gargoyle war. I-"
  • Surprise: "Wait, there was a PONY-GARGOYLE WAR!?"
  • Commander: "..... It, was a war we ponies were ashamed off and kept secret."
  • Fleetfoot: "Ok, I'm confused here, what's going on here?"
  • Breathflame: Well, you see, after thousands of years being hidden in the shadows of their secluded home of the inhospitable and strictly forbidden Goyland Caves, the gargoyles have finally decided to make their move. Just last night, they attacked Wonderbolt Team Delta's headquarters, and over 4 of it's members have disappeared.
  • Spitfire: Oh, God, they're not dead, are they?
  • Breathflame: No trace of blood was seen, and the gargoyles would never have cleaned it up in time.
  • Surprise: Hold on, I'm still lost! What's this about a Pony-Gargoyle War?
  • Breathflame:...Well, it's kind of a tragic tale which everypony was instructed to keep quiet about. It all started not too long before the founding of Equestria....

Flashback

  • (Breathflame):... Clover the Clever and her future circle of friends were not the only ones who ventured out to escape the cold of the Windigo Ice Age. There was an ancient pony settlement that was located inside a dried-up, arid, and inhospitable valley which the ponies believed they were safe from the cold. However, they too suffered the cold. But what they didn't know was that Equestria, at this time, was not completely a prosperous land. It was one filled with monsters. One of the most dominating in particular was the Gargoyles. (Mysterious figures on large treacherous and unreachable elevations were seen cracking as the sunset faded and the temperatures started to drop, and the stone figures shattered and revealed monstrous beasts that roared loudly into the night, spreading their wings out wide, and had red menacing eyes that glowed ominously in the dark. Then they took off)...The Gargoyles were disturbed by the dramatic changes in the weather. They couldn't tolerate it, and when they found the source of the problem, they tried to warn the ponies about the Windigoes. But because of their beastly appearances, and the ponies' impaired distrust and hate, they shunned the Gargoyles, and they failed to listen to their warnings, and after being convinced by early barbaric ancestors of the Judu Des Clan, they threatened that any Gargoyle found on their grounds would be prosecuted and sentenced to death. Angered by the ponies harsh actions, and when constant persistence due to the conditions getting worse only lead to the ponies, particularly the Des Clan, executing gargoyle after gargoyle that failed to warn them, the Gargoyles had enough, and felt that if the ponies wouldn't listen, then they would either leave their land or die. Thus, the Pony-Gargoyle War began. (The Gargoyles armed themselves with crossbows, bows and arrows, swords, their own claws, knives, and rocks as they launched an assault on the colony) The war was long and bitter, and as the hatred between the pony tribes and their Gargoyle enemies escalated with kill after murder, the Windigoes' storms only got stronger. The Gargoyles couldn't stand the cold and had to end the war quickly. But as a result of their weakening health due to the temperatures, the dying crops, and for lack of viable resources, the ponies won. As punishment, the Gargoyles were banished from Equestria, and their lands were claimed as their own. But we didn't realize until too late that ponies were not their only enemies. It didn't take until the warnings of Clover the Clever for the ponies to realize that the Gargoyles have only been trying to warn them, and that their bitterness and cruelty had drove them to aggression in the first place. Feeling guilty and sorrowful, and swearing to treat strangers better, the Windigo Ice Age was forever wiped out. The Pony-Gargoyle War had remained one of the darkest events of pony history, and was viewed as so cruel to future generations, that in order to prevent ponies from losing hope of their own ways, they had to withhold the Pony-Gargoyle War from the public. The Pony-Gargoyle War has since been known to only those that are entrusted with it's secret.

Present

  • Surprise:... I... That's... Wow, I don't know what to say about that!
  • Breathflame: Yes. It may sound cruel, but that's how post-Chaos War and pre-Equestrian ponies were back then. The loss of the Alicorn Gods have caused the ponies to lose hope in the beliefs they cherished so greatly, and because the chaos reaped by the Draconequui left the world's landscape into a wasteland for the last hundred years, resources were scarce. Thus, the pony tribes began to care for nothing but their own welfare.
  • Soarin:...I have to admit, that really IS one of the darkest we ponies ever went.
  • Breathflame: Yes. Celestia even said that we needed to find the Gargoyles and make up for our mistreatment. But to be honest, if anypony should be blamed for that event, then it would be the Des Clan. But like the rest, they were overly bitter. After the Windigo Ice Age ended, we tried to search for the Gargoyles, but all we have ever done was fail. Now, we do know of the Goyland Caves, but.... We never mapped the caves, so..... Yeah, the bad planning of ansisterial ponies backfires once again. We feared that the Gargoyles would come back for revenge. But now, our fears have finally been realized. It's possable that the Man-Vulture appears to be serving as a negtive influence and has kept them in this desire for vengence.
  • Surprise: "..... Ok, seriously? Vulture-People? I mean, I know Equestia houses alot of freaky creatures, but come on!"
  • Breathflame: "Man-Vulture isn't nessersarly an actual Vulture Men. Real Vulture men are tribal beings. Man-Vulture was once an entirely different creature. A griffin named Mandreious Vul-Turea. A revolutionary griffin genius of his time.... That is until, an ambitious dream turned into a horrendus mistake."
  • Fleetfoot: "I have a feeling this origin story is gonna be more unpleasent."

Flashback...

  • (Breathflame): Mandreious was formerly a griffin scientist who was raised by ponies, and grew up fearing that Nightmare Moon's return would be inevitable. So he was among many to offer a solution to this problem. He became interested in evolving ponies into stronger forms. He offered to give them power beyond anything magic could offer. He would give pegasi stronger and bigger wings for augmented control over storms, he would give unicorns enhanced magic, and Earth ponies would be boosted in strength, stamina, and endurance, meaning easier harvests. At first, Celestia saw potential in this. But when she asked if his serum would work, and he tested it on himself...let's just say...his body was warped beyond belief. (Mandreious was seem mutating into a man-vulture beast)...(He was shocked)...
  • Mandreious: DON'T LOOK AT ME!!! I'M HIDEOUS!! I-I-I GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!!! (He tries to leave)
  • (Breathflame): Celestia tried to help him, but he was just too long lost. He believed that pony society would never look at him the same way again, and he escaped without a trace. Fearing that this would corrupt him, Celestia had no choice but to restore the E.U.P Guard in order to track him down and help him. But over the next few centuries, he was never found, and fear for his return escalated. Little did we know that he had allied himself with the Gargoyles as they resided in the Goyland Caves, knowing what it was like to be shunned for beastly appearances. He sought to conquer Equestria as he got prepared for his first invasion.

Present

  • Breathflame: And the first attack was situated on Canterlot, all in the night since Gargoyles are stone statues by day. The limited lighting made it hard to know where each attack would come from, and the Gargoyles benefitted on surprise and stealth. They showed no mercy, and injured, maimed, or even killed, many ponies until...
  • Spitfire: Until my family stood in their way.
  • Fleetfoot:... Wait, you knew about this too, Spitfire?
  • Spitfire: Yes. My father had fought against the Gargoyles. Fortunately, the secret was still kept as to this day, the ponies didn't know what struck them since they only attack at night. My family and their squadrons were able to fend off attack, after attack, after attack, considering it a priority to cover our HQ's locations.
  • Breathflame: But now I fear that things have just gotten worse. That attack on Delta Team's HQ has lead us to believe that the Gargoyles have finally found our locations, and are likely to strike another HQ tonight.
  • Soaren: "But what do they have to gain from it? We're not the only defenders of Equestia anymore! We have the elemental barers now! They can totally mop the floor with those Gargoyles and this Man-Vulture dude! They beaten a powerful demonic centaur and a skeletail alicorn! I don't think a bunch of vengeful gargoyles and a mutanted griffin pose no true problem!"
  • Breathflame: "This is the downside of not letting the public know about this. Even Princess Sparkle can't fight what she doesn't beleive to be real. That runs the risk of her and her friends being easy targets for as long as they're unaware should Man-Vulture deside getting rid of us isn't enough."
  • Fleetfoot: "Wait.... You said there was no evidence of Wonderbolts being killed in the Delta attack.... Does, that imply..... They were kidnaped? But what do they have to gain from that?"
  • Breathflame: "Man-Vulture is a genius mind.... Perhaps it's not nessersarly the ponies themselves..... But their biology."
  • Surprise: "Our Bio-Whats-it?"
  • Breathflame: "It's, highly likely that Man-Vulture and the Gargoyles aren't at all ignorent of the legacies of the heroes of equestia at all.... They simply don't want to directly challnage them.... Yet..... Not without a method to get by that...... And I think he may've gotten inspiration from the Starfem situation...."
  • Spitfire: "...... You mean....?"
  • Breathflame: "Yes....... He wants to give the Gargoyle army, anti-element protection, by injection a purity serum that would protect them from the effects of being easily congured by the powers of harmony. He means to render the power useless."
  • Fleetfoot: "Bu surely he knows that with additional elements, Starfem was defeated anyway! He's wasting his time otherwise."
  • Breathflame: "That's why we're believing that the purity serum is a just in case plan. It's possable his more major plan, is simple, but direct..... Taking away at least only one of the elements from the circle, and rendering the element barers incapable to fight back from there."
  • Major General 3: "Their bond's unbreakable! No way a Gargoyle or even Man-Vulture would destroy that."
  • Breathflame: "..... He..... Has a secret weapon....."
  • Spitfire: "..... Father, do, you mean......"
  • Breathflame: "..... Spitfire....... Your brother's returned."

Elsewhere, a dark and dank cave.

  • Some Wonderbolts were seen dragged by Gargoyle troops.
  • As the Wonderbolts were forcefully dragged, music was heard playing.
  • Sitting on throwne next to an empty bigger one and another throwne, a robed beast with a sword hand was seen.
  • ???: "I feel song..... Coming on."
Down_down_down_in_Goblin_Town!

Down down down in Goblin Town!

  • Sword-Handed Gargoyle: "..... How's that for music? It's one of my own comsitions."
  • A Well-dressed Gargoyle was seen.
  • Well-dressed Gargoyle: "Oh please, Elder, you clearly ripped that off from that "Hoppet" Movie. That was about as original as a plaugerisum band."
  • The Elder: "HEY SHUT YER YAP, FRENCHY?!"
  • Well-Dressed Gargoyle: "Nice try, but only the king and a much better elder can order silence from me, you broken former shell of a gargoyle."
  • The Elder: "YA WANNA FIGHT LIKE MEN, SPINOK!?"
  • Spinok: "How surprisingly boarish for an elder to speak."
  • Elder: I'LL BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU LIKE A PONY, YOU SCUM-SUCKING CROUTON!!! (The two began fighting)
  • ???: THAT...IS ENOUGH! (A cloaked skull-hatted gargoyle with rainbow wings was seen)...
  • Elder:...Oh, you're in big trouble now, cupcake!
  • Spinok: (Sighs) Oh don't flatter yourself. He's judging BOTH of us. You espeically, no doubt.
  • Wonderbolt #1: WHATEVER YOU BEASTS ARE UP TO, YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH IT!!!
  • Leader Gargoyle: Ah, yes, the Wonderbolts I was told we had acquired. (A specific Gargoyle with a bandaged hand, a blue shirt, and a helmet was seen)
  • Scout-like Gargoyle: Yo, boss, I gotta ask, why couldn't we just kill these lil' punks in their sleep? Yeah, we may not be able to cover it up, but wouldn't it be easier to just kill all of them in one fell swoop? I mean, come on, I don't have this here bat for show! BOINK! (Smacks a wall with it until it causes rocks to fall on him)...I meant to do that!
  • Leader Gargoyle: The order was NOT to kill them, Segnal. Man-Vulture insisted that they need to be alive for their purity to be useful. Killing them would render any purity attempt useless.
  • Segnal: "Well that sucks. Now we're gonna live in a dank smelly cave with barn smell!"
  • Spinok: "Impatient fool! If they die, so will their purity. No pony means no purity, and no purity means no defence against being easily defeated lke a bunch of insignifient nats by their rainbow powers."
  • Segnal: "Ok ok! I get it! I'm just saying living them alive isn't any fun at all! Sheesh."
  • Leader Gargoyle: "There's bound to be plenty of violence apawn ponies soon enough, you impatient blood-luster."
  • Segnal: "Yeah, espeically since those Judu Des creeps lost their edge, and they finally turned on that Golden Sword clan member! This'll be a snitch!"
  • Spinok: "They're not the only mythic beast slayers of Equestia, half-wit. There's still so many of them we would end up wasting time trying to bring it up. We're lucky caves are the only thing keeping us active in day and night, or otherwise the idea of prisoners would seem fruitless."
  • Segnal: "Yeah, but they ain't within miles of here, so we can basicly-"
  • Gargoyle Leader: "Never bring a mythic slayer's effiectentcy to question, Segnal. Overcopidence like that can get you killed."
  • Spinok: "No truer words have been spoken."
  • Gargoyle Leader: "Now..... Take the equines to the donguins. Man-Vulture will know what to do with them from there. And I want NO ATTEMPTS ON THEIR LIFES!? Not EVEN if they challnage your pride and diginty! If I heard that even so much as their manes being yanked off, you will have to answer, (picks up a rock) TO ME?! (CRUSHES THE ROCK WITH NO EFFERT?!) UNDERSTOOD?!"
  • The Gargoyle troops nodded in agreement, and dragged the Wonderbolts away from the area.
  • From another platform, an Engineer-dressed Gargoyle, a Sniper-like Gargoyle with an Australian hat and a half-mask, and a Medic-like Gargoyle with tiny wings were seen.
  • Doctor Gargoyle: "....... Dah, dummkopfs! Our kind still continutes to waste their efforts on being enemies to the equines!"
  • Engineer Gargoyle: "In all fairness, Elfwork, losing a war can pretty much make bitter losers out of ya. Now, I'm for getting back what was once ours, but it's obvious 'Equestria' as it's now called is no longer very Gargoyle worthy. No more perches for us to rest on, there's now at least more then just two Alicorns now, any remnants of our old culture lost in time. We're pretty much considered extinct, so why bother?"
  • Masked Australian Gargoyle: "... Desires for bloody revenge is the problem, mate. Thank our king for not letting our blood starving brethren having it now, but he can't hold it off forever. And that bloody Man-Vulture is being a bad influence to us and himself."
  • Doctor Gargoyle (Elfwork): "Well in retrospect, how can anyone ignore the promise of reclaiming what was once ours when they were unfairly taken away from it cause of very bad circumstances? And I'm still surprised your not among the more resentment drivin, Half-Face. You were badly injured by a pony."
  • Masked Australian Gargoyle (Half-Face): "... Grudges offer no true rewards. You'll only end up being left empty and broken."
  • Engineer Gargoyle: "Ain't that the truth. That's why I ain't entirely ornery about being the last Architect Gargoyle alive. It was obviously only a stratregic move designed to keep us from over-powering them. And hell, it's clear they ain't proud of it."
  • Elfwork: "And that's wundebar for you, Tecmeck, but the others don't see it. It's not enough for them that the ponies feel remorse for the mess the Windigoes caused them to make since they were warned too late. They refused to accept that maybe we were trying to warn them about those ice spirits in a bad time considering that they lost a majority of the mighty Alicorn race to the Chaos War."
  • ???: "And that's understandable, lads."
  • A Large, elderly and eye-patched Demoman-like Gargoyle came in hunched, and on a walking stick.
  • The Bigger Elder: "But those ponies still need to acknowledge that they shouldn't've taken their pain out of us! Also, this is more then just reclaiming land and mere vengeance. It's about reminding the world that the Gargoyle race is still the mightiest there is."
  • Elfwork: "Of course, Elder Mokoma. It is reliefing that your still more sensiable then Elder Jubbjibberstab. It's ashame that sword-handed twat gets to be the king's adviser."
  • Demoman-like Elder (Mokoma): "Make no mistake, lads. The king considers me just as impourent as ol' sword-hands. Oh I do pity Jibb for this..... I hope the hand he lost, WASN'T THE HAND THAT PLEASURES HIM IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN!?"
  • The four laughed!
  • Engineer-like Gargoyle (Tecmeck): "Or otherwise, no wonder he's so dang angry!"
  • The four laughed again!
  • ???: Oh, you all seem to be in it for your own reasons besides what Jibb was through. (The Leader Gargoyle appeared)
  • Tecmeck: Oh, uh, King George!
  • Leader Gargoyle (King George): You all have already made it clear that you are in this battle for your own reasons. Jibb is in it for the loss of his hand, Half-Face for being horribly disfigured, Tecmeck for being left the last of his kind, and sometimes even Segnal partially for s***s and giggles.
  • Mokoma: Well, sir, we're ALL supposed to be in it because the ponies took away what was ours! That's why we're ALL in it for our own personal gain. They took me bloody eye for crying out loud!
  • King George: They took more than just your looks and body parts. They took our land, our families, our friends, everything we held dear because they failed to listen to our warnings about our homes being changed by their antics. Especially me. I was the only one who put my trust in ponies, and hoped for the best that they would offer an ounce of compassion. But...
  • Tecmeck: But them varmints proved you wrong, huh?
  • King George: Yes, but it wasn't because of the Des Clan... For the most part! It's because ponies considered us beasts! They called us savages, unnatural creatures. They said themselves that we didn't deserve that land! None of those insults got to me at first, and by all means, they mean nothing now in light of current events, but that's not relivent to the story. But then came the day when the Des Clan's executions and slaughtering lead many gargoyles to turn against me and the Elders. I didn't blame the Des Clan that much since I thought they were just mentally unwell. But then... They demanded we declare war. I was outraged by such words. I tried to justify that war was not going to make the situation any better as it will justify their prejudice... But then the people threatened that they would attack the settlement themselves if we didn't comply. I couldn't risk that! Such an act without Elder permission and support would've been suicide, and it would've lead the ponies to declare a genocide on the rest of us. But then things got worse even further! A rogue pony platoon had went to a gargoyle peak and smashed all the Gargoyle statues that rested on top. None of them were spared, and the few that DID survive were frozen to death by the Windigoes. THAT'S where I couldn't afford to hold it off anymore! To the eyes of too many of my subjects, that act openly declared that ponies were not welcome on our land. So, to avoid being an unpopular minority, I had to support the war. Now look where my cowardice to peer pressure had lead us. Obviously, we did not won the war! And all because we didn't just instead waited for the problem to resolve itself.
  • Tecmeck:... Wow, you sure got into a heap of trouble, your highness!
  • Elfwork: "In, all fairness, we had no way of knowing if it'll ever be resolved. Who knows how many gargoyles would die out by then?"
  • Half-Face: And then the rest was history. The cold was too much for us to handle and it caused us to lose, and get banished to this place.
  • King George: "Now the least I can do for my people is simply take our land back, no questions asked. I haven't truely given up on ponies, but I have stopped trying to make a bad situation better. Too many Gargoyles are too angry and infuriated by the sins of the war. They couldn't accept that it was all purely the fault of bad timing! It was obvious after what became of the alicorns that the last things the ponies wanted to see was any form of creature, let alone us. I mean, look at us! Do we honestly look like the first thing any troubled race wants to see after losing a majority of their gods?"
  • Elder Mokoma: "Obviously not. To them, we look like something Tartarus would spawn. I can get that, but they're the ones who really pushed it. They also took the Judu Des clan too seriously. AND it was BEFORE Dred and Shred showed up."
  • King George: "Well, at least I can acknowledge that the ponies were only guilty of submiting to their depression and the unrelenting cold of the Windigoes. But too many of my people can't see that. They're too absolute. They want them either dead or gone. And if I don't adhere to that, my crown will be given to a far worse Gargoyle who will only proceed to further demonise us."
  • Half-Face: "And that would be a pisser if that happened."
  • King George: So THAT'S why we need to do this. Our people are suffering greatly and are being completely unreasonable. They're just too determined to make those ponies suffer because of what they did to our homes, and our families! Too many gargoyles were killed to even allow my people to show ANY sign of mercy to them.
  • Tecmeck: Sheesh, tough crowd. Maybe we ARE beasts.
  • King George: We are NOT beasts, Half-Face! My people are just ACTING like beasts because they want revenge. And if I don't do as they say, then I WILL be replaced. Hopefully, Man-Vulture is giving us a chance to fight back and be protected from the Elements of Harmony.
  • Mokoma: Well, that's dandy! Our revenge is going to be perfect. Plus, they'll never be able to find us.... Even though we never really left the Goyland caves, of which they know exists. How does that suppose to work!?
  • Tecmeck: "I hear Celestia has a bad hapit of keeping unpleasent history obscured. Most likely she never allowed the Goyland Caves to be mapped, so, by all grounds, it doesn't exist on maps."
  • Elfwork: "Well, it kinda ended up working against them, along with NOT sealing the caves in!"
  • Tecmeck: "They actselly were, but Clover the Clever came and brought to light our real darn intentions and the cave-sealing was kinda canceled as a result. Though on a stragitic level, it would've been plumb smarter to do it anyway to ever keep us from coming back, and should've figured that our people's too dang ornery to get over it."
  • Elder Mokoma: Well, I brought it up to begin with is, from what I heard, those lollipops have been searching for us for eons just to apologize, and have NEVER done so. If they didn't find us before, how will they find us NOW?
  • King George: If I were you, I wouldn't be so foolish as to underestimate those ponies. They'll figure out a way to find us no matter what we do. That's why we need to move in, and move out, leaving no visible traces behind. Darkness is a trusted friend to us, and it helps us seclude ourselves from the watchful eyes of ponies. That's our most valuable way of keeping our location a secret.... In, a sense. Cause, they know Goyland Cave exists, they just neglected to map it and thus in tecnecally, doesn't even exist to pony maps. So if you think that ponies will never find us because they haven't before, then you're CLEARLY underestimating their intelligence.
  • Mokoma: Sorry, your highness.
  • King George: Now, then, I must check up on our newest ally. He did well in providing us with the locations of all the Wonderbolts' bases, as well as all their tactics and skills.
  • Tecmeck: Damn right! I'm kinda surprise he's even helping us, considering who he is though. Never thought the fella would do that to them.
  • King George: "..... Like us, tragity has brought out his worse. And given where he came from, who and how am I to blame him for his actions."

Gargoyle Dungeon

  • Wonderbolt #1: (They were thrown into the cell)... LET US OUT OF HERE YOU BEASTS!!!
  • Jibb: Watch your racist words, you little mules! Don't make me use this sword-hand!
  • Spinok: Jibb, the king ordered us to keep them ALIVE! I do not care if they use racist remarks or even if they were to insult your mother, I will not allow you to make even a single scar on their heads!
  • Jibb: You'll start to care if they start referring to you as bête, crouton!
  • Spinok: Well even then, the worse I would do is reply with a witty retort and mock them on acting uncivilised about their situation, as unfortunate as it is. How the hell do you even know what that word is in French?
  • Jibb: A French pony said it before I tore out his head-hair and left him a cue-ball! The next best thing I like from killing ponies is scaring them for life?!
  • Spinok: "Oh there you again, further making yourself look uncivilised. I advised you at least show the decenty to shut up before you mark a periment bad exsample in their minds."
  • Jibb: "They already hate us, frenchy! That war is proof of it! Why should I bother acting like a damn Democrate to them?!"
  • ???: You'd better listen to him, Elder! (Man-Vulture himself appeared)... I mean, you DO want to be immune to the Elements of Harmony, right? It will be easy for them to use those things. You'd be defeated before you could even harm one hair on their bodies. Unless you want that to happen, you will leave these ponies alive!
  • Jibb: "Well, yeah I do want that, but THAT DOESN'T MEAN I SHOULD TAKE THOSE PONIES INSULTS AND-"
  • Man-Vulture grabs Jibb by the throat and strangles him!
  • Man-Vulture: "YES, IT DOES, IMBACLE?! Their insults are not true opinions. They are bait-words designed to trick you into trying to go after them, then take advanture of your less faster lumbering frame and lack of flight and escape! THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE RUINED?! THEY'LL REVEIL THAT THE GARGOYLES ARE INDEED STILL ALIVE AND IN HERE, WE HAD NO MEANS TO PROTECT AGAINST THEIR ELEMENTAL POWERS, AND WE'D BE OVER-WEALMED BY THE TIME PRINCESS CELESTIA EVEN ARRIVES?! (SLAMS JIBB INTO THE WALL), DO YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU SHAM OF A GARGOYLE?!"
  • Jibb: ".... (Painfully) Affirmative, Man-Vulture sir!"
  • Man-Vulture: "Good. (Lets go of the elder as he fell face first as comical sounds are heard.)"
  • Jibb's voice: "Damn it."
  • Man-Vulture turns to the wonderbolt team.....
  • Man-Vulture: "(Sighs). I would've loved it if it was the alpha team, but, I suppose these lessers will do."
  • Wonderbolt 1: "What do you want with us? And why didn't the Gargoyles killed us off?"
  • Man-Vulture: "As you most likely already heard, they obeyed my orders to not to. I'm also the reason why these people never attempted to attack Equestia by now and reclaimed the land they lost. I warned them of your people's weaponised harmony powers and how threats that would make them look like mere insects have failed in their own such attempts. It was so I can devise a way to get defence against these powers, and, luckly.... Such an idea came when the creature Starfem came to mind."
  • Wonderbolt 3: "Wait, you mean the freaky Bat-Pony lady?"
  • Wonderbolt 2: "Why interested in her? She was just as defeated by the elements as the rest of them."
  • Man-Vulture: "Ahhhh..... But she wasn't defeated right away by the elements, was she? Being part pony, she had purity, ergo, giving the gargoyles purity serum will serve as biological sheilds against even all the elemental gems combined."
  • Wonderbolt 4: "HA! How do you know that won't end up back-firing on you and the elements used that purity sheild against them, ya quack!?"
  • Jibb: "WHY I OUGHTA-"
  • Spinok stuffed his hand into Jibb's face.
  • Man-Vulture: "I considered that a possability. And yes, I am aware that Starfem was defeated eventally. Her drawback is that she never fully-capitialised on her purity genes. I, on the otherhand, plan to take it to an extreme messure. As for your serum back-firing throey, indeed, just giving the Gargoyles' purity and leaving them at risk of being unintentionally cured of their anger is not an inheredly perfect solution. No plan is entirely flaw-free. But, I aim to at least make it well protected from those such flaws. And I do have an emergency plan in mind."
  • ???: "Yeah, and he's walking into the room, folks."
  • A Fire-Themed Stallian was seen in a costume simular to the Shadow Bolts walked in.
  • Wonderbolts: "..... (Quietly) Acidburn."
  • Man-Vulture: "Ahh, Acid. We were just talking about you."
  • Acidburn: "And our kickass plan to devide those over-rated elemental babes by cohersing Rainbow Crash and Lightning Bust onto our side."
  • Jibb: "Wait, I thought their names were Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust."
  • Spinok: "They're insults, you baffoon."
  • Jibb: "Oh....... HEY?!"
  • Segnal: Wait, wait, wait! Is THAT the one who revealed the location of the Wonderbolt HQs?
  • Wonderbolts: HE DID WHAT?!?
  • Spinok: "As a matter of fact, yes.... And why does that concern you, as if I don't already know what your gonna complain and moan about?"
  • Segnal: Okay, 1. He's a pony! 2. Why would he betray his own people? 3. He's a pony! 4. How did he find us? 5. HE'S A MOTHERF****** PONY!!!
  • Spinok: You said that twice already!
  • Segnal: I WAS TRYING TO GET A POINT ACROSS! Also, why are we not killing him right now? Seriously, you fellas seein' this? (Takes out his bat) I say we beat on his skull until we hit tonsils! (None of the gargoyles responded)... What the hell is you guys' problem? THERE'S A FREAKIN' PONY IN OUR MIDST!!!
  • Spinok: Yes, there's a pony! But it's okay!
  • Segnal:... Okay? What'sa matter, you freakin' stupid? Why would we EVER ally ourselves with him?
  • Spinok: Well, the entire clan is fully aware of Acidburn. It was explained during the king's last speech. You were just too excited in waiting to knock some heads in to pay attention and RUDELY ignored our king's acknowledgement.
  • Segnal:... Ohhh..... I really should try to pay attention to those! Okay, does anybody wanna explain what the hell gives, and why we have agreed not to turn this pony into a mule? I mean, seriously, doesn't it make us look like hypocrites that we say we hate those horses and yet we're freaking working with one?! That's kinda gonna make other pony haters think that we're not being serious about this and-
  • Man-Vulture: "Segnal, it is simply NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!?"
  • Segnal: "But I just wanna-"
  • Man-Vulture grabbed Segnal's throat!
  • Man-Vulture: "IF YOUR GONNA WASTE OUR TIME WITH STUPID QUESTIONS, THEN I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE, YOU IGNORENT WASTE OF SPACE!?"
  • Segnal: "(Strained), Ok, ok, I'm out!"
  • Man-Vulture angerly tossed Seganl out as Segnal screamed!
  • Comical crashes and sounds were heard.
  • Segnal's voice: "..... That didn't hurt."
  • Acidburn: "..... That guy was a twat."
  • Spinok: "Oui, but he's our twat."
  • Wonderbolt 1: "Your wasting your time with this and them, Acid. Nothing breaks the elemental barers' bonds."
  • Acidburn: "Well, maybe not turning them into their oppistes or their extremes would stop them, but..... How well can they handle..... Guy trouble?"
  • Wonderbolt 2: "Wait, that depends..... Has a guy ever come inbetween their friendship?"
  • Wonderbolt 4: "Well, Trenderhoof in a sense did when he fell in love with Applejack-"
  • Acidburn: "That doesn't count! I mean, when Lightning gets too into a guy, while, according to my best shorces, she is suppose to learn more about wonderbolt history."
  • Wonderbolt 2: "..... That's your plan? Simply just, ruin Lightning Dust's chances of being a wonderbolt and then somehow drag Dash into it? I kinda doubt that would work!"
  • Acidburn: "It's smarter then it sounds. I'll make Lightning Bust so distracted from what she is suppose to do, she'll be eating from the palm of my.... Hoof. It's a known fact that Lightning Dust doesn't have a known boyfriend. She's single and has failed matchmaking many times."
  • Wonderbolt 3: "Yeah, odds are kinda against you on being able to woo her, Burn."
  • Acidburn: "But that's the thing. She doesn't know I exist. As far as she's aware, (opens his mask to reveil a normal face), I'm just another guy."
  • Wonderbolt 2: "The lougers will stop you!"
  • Acidburn: "Are YOU kidding? They don't even know we exist! And they can't stop, what doesn't exist. And don't think Sis-Fire would warn them, because thanks to Celestia's bad hapit of keeping shit a secret, as far as they're aware, she's an only child."
  • Man-Vulture: "Remember not to get careless like that. Underestimation has lead to the downfalls of greater forces before."
  • Acidburn: "Relax, Manny. I am not underestimating them. I am just insisting that by the time the misfits ARE aware, there'll be very little they can do to stop us. And now, without further ado, (removes his costume), I'm off to woe a silly over-hyping mare."
  • Acidburn flies off.
  • Jibb: "(Grumbles)..... I bet ya six Gar-coins he ends up actselly falling in love with the bitch."
  • Spinok: "10 saids your own."
  • Man-Vulture cleared his throat to order obedience.
  • Man-Vulture: "Gentlemen.... Have more faith in Acidburn then that."
  • Spinok: "I mean no ill-will on the pony. But do remember that their purity keeps them from truely following dark paths. And we can't deny that vengence is in of itself, a dark path. Some careful planning, and Acidburn might end up being used against us."
  • Man-Vulture: "I never said I am not aware of it. I am merely saying to be trusting to Acidburn's abilities. But worry not. I do have a back-up plan should Acidburn's purity get cleansed from it's current taint from his, rather unfortunate past. Elfwork insisted that a speical spell will keep his purity from being untainted for as long as the spell itself isn't cleasned, nor that of it's original caster. By all means, I trust Acid as an individual and a partner. It's the purity is the trust issue. And for as long as the spell is stable and nothing happens to cleanse it or the caster Elfwork, then I think Acidburn would stay a relieable ally."
  • Spinok: "But alchourse sir."
  • Jibb: "I'm still not withholding my bet!"
  • Spinok: "Then someone will be a few pretty gar-pennies short, then. (Laughs as Jib growls)."
  • Man-Vulture: "If you two are gonna bicker, take it outside. I need silence when I commence to collect samples."
  • The two Gargoyles leave, but Segnal came back.
  • Segnal:... I'm still confused-
  • Man-Vulture: I SAID OUT!
  • Segnal: I'M GOIN', I'M GOIN', I'M GOIN'!! (Runs off)
  • Man-Vulture: "..... Now, if there is to be no further interuptions."
  • Wonderbolt #4:... I need an adult!
  • Man-Vulture: I am an adult.
  • Man-Vulture bared his claws to the Wonderbolts as the shadow of the hidious claws are seen casted over them.
  • Man-Vulture: "I promise you..... The Pain, will be brief."

Meanwhile...

  • Lightning: (They all arrived at the Celestial Coliseum as it was currently run down)... Well, this is it!
  • Rainbow Dash: The exact place where the Wonderbolts were starting to originate.
  • Lightning:... I'm still a little iffy on performing in a crowd of over a thousand ponies!
  • Rainbow Dash: C'MOOOOON! It's not THAT bad! Whatever the Wonderbolts and General Firefly did in that performance is going to be legendary! The whole world of Equestria DEPENDED on that performance!
  • Lightning:...(Gulps)...That only makes me feel more tense!
  • Twilight: Just stop worrying and get it over with, Lightning! It's not going to matter what happens! Everything will be fine!
  • Lightning:...What if I end up screwing up the performance?
  • Twilight: It's only a simulation. Nothing you do is going to make a difference, not just in the past, but...well...in the past, as in, it'll still do well on it's own.
  • Lightning:...You sure?
  • Twilight: Positive. Now go!
  • Lightning:...Alright! (Flies into the stadium as the setting changes when she lands, seeing an entire crowd of ponies within the Coliseum, and squires were heard playing)
  • Celestia: (Appears, and speaks I royal voice)...MY GOOD CITIZENS OF EQUESTRIA! WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TO CELEBRATE THE FIRST CELESTIAL YEAR OF PEACE, AND THE FOUNDING OF THE ELITE E.U.P GUARD! AS YOU ARE ALL AWARE, MY SISTER WILL NO LONGER BE AMONG US! BUT WE MUST LEARN TO COPE WITH HER LOSS AND COMEMMORATE HER HONOR! SO, WE SHALL HONOR BOTH HER AND THIS NEW ERA OF PEACE AS WE DEDICATE THESE PONIES' PERFORMANCE TO THE E.U.P GUARD WHICH WILL BRING US HOPE IN SUCH A HARD TIME! NOW, LET THE PERFORMANCES BEGIN! (Everyone applauds)
  • Lightning:...(Suddenly, a pony guard approaches her)
  • Pony Guard: Hey! What're you doing? You're supposed to be with Firefly's platoon!
  • Lightning: Uh...sure...uh...where is that?
  • Pony Guard:...What do you mean where is that? Don't you know?
  • Lightning: Look, I'm...just a rookie, and I don't know my way around this place. This is the first time I've been here.
  • Pony Guard:...Oh, well, why didn't you just say so? Come with me.

Firefly's Platoon Room

  • General Firefly:...Well, ponies, we perform in 10 minutes! And you've gotten PLENTY of time to prepare. So I advise we stop horsing around and MAKE THE PRINCESS PROUD!
  • Soldiers: YES, SIR!
  • Pony Guard: (Comes in with Lightning) Sir! I believe this is yours!
  • General Firefly: Oh, there you are! Where the buck have you been?
  • Lightning: I...I got lost.
  • General Firefly: Oh, you got lost, huh? What were YOU doing over the past 40 hours, worrying that you'd screw up the performance?
  • Lightning:...No! I was just-
  • General Firefly: Don't answer that! I don't care! You got here, and that's all that matters!
  • Lightning: Oh, heh, for a second there, I thought you were gonna be mad at me!
  • General Firefly: So what if I was? And don't think I won't tolerate your tardiness, soldier! Because you're a rookie, I'll take it easy on you. Just know that if it happens again, I'll make you do over 9000 wing-ups! GOT THAT?!?
  • Lightning: YES, SIR!!
  • General Firefly: Good. Now get in formation! (Lightning did that)
  • Soldier Pony #2:...Eh, don't worry about the General, rookie! He's always that way, even to somepony he respects.
  • Lightning: (Chuckles) Yeah!
  • Soldier Pony #2: You nervous?
  • Lightning: (Laughs) Of course not! I wanna break a leg out there!
  • Soldier Pony #2: Oh, you'll break more than a leg as far as I'm concerned with rookies. What we're about to perform is death-defying! It's going to blow the Princess's mind!
  • Lightning:...Death...defying?
  • Soldier Pony #2: (Chuckles) I like you, rookie! You got a sense of humor! The name's Private Jinx Fury by the way!
  • Lightning:...Lightning Dust! (The two shook)...("I...I must say, for a soldier, he seems kinda nice, even to a washout rookie!")
  • (Oak Golden): ("Yes, Jinx Fury was one of the greatest in the performance the early Wonderbolts did. He comes from a long line of pegasi who performed in the Coliseum before, and his legacy still lives on to this very day. In fact, his family is almost related to the Spitfire family as they have reproduced over 20 times, and their current descendant is a ninth cousin three times removed.
  • Lightning:...What does 'three times removed' even mean?
  • (Oak Golden): (Sighs) Just forget I said that! Let's just say the two families kinda share similar biology.
  • Jinx: Hey, Lights, you okay?
  • Lightning: Uh, yes, I was just...uh...thinking.
  • Jinx: Thinking about what?
  • Lightning: About what technique to use in the performance.
  • Jinx: Oh, pfft, it won't matter what you use. As long as we stick together.

Back at the Collusium.

  • Acidburn secretly arrived and waited in the shadows.
  • The Main 7 were seen in the seats.
  • Rainbow Dash: "I can't believe that I got to see one of the most historic ever Wonderbolt games!"
  • Royal Councils were seen along side Celestia, including Stiffbutt.
  • A Royal Announcer was seen.
  • Royal Announcer: "A-PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPRESENTING, THE E.U.PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP-P GUARD!?"
  • Pinkie: "(Quickly) I think that guy as a moter-boating speech impediment problem."
  • As the crowd cheers, the E.U.P. guard, and Lightning zoomed in as music played.
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Through My Own Eyes- Aaron Carter and Kayla Hinkle

After awhile.

  • Suddenly, A figure knocks Lightning Dust down to the shock of the Main 7 and the Simulations.
  • Lightning crashed into the ground.
  • The figure was reveiled to be Acidburn!
  • Acidburn: "Oh my gosh, miss, I am SO sorry!"
  • Lightning Dust: "It's cool bro, just try to watch where (Sees Acidburn)...... Your....... Hot- Duh, I mean..... Going......"
  • Acidburn: "I heard alot of communtion here, so I came to investigate, and when I did, suddenly everything looked as if it was the beginning of the Luna Banishment Era again."
  • Lightning Dust: "Oh, don't worry. That's just Twilight conjuring up a historic simulator about the Wonderbolts so I won't fail my exam."
  • Acidburn: "Really? Well, that's sweet of them. Well, if that's all what's been going on, guess I better-"
  • Lightning Dust: "WAIT! Your..... Welcome to stay."
  • Acidburn gave a brief smug smirk.
  • Acidburn: "Ohhh, little ol' me? I'd be delighted to."
  • Acidburn and Lightning Dust flew up.
  • Lightning Dust: "I, didn't get your name."
  • Acidburn: "Acidburn. But you can call me A.B. if ya like."
  • Lightning Dust: "I'm Lightning Dust. You might be familier with the Dust clan."
  • Acidburn: "THE DUST CLAN!? The defeaters of the Black Orc?"
  • Lightning Dust: "TWICE! And I was the one who killed him!"
  • Acidburn: "Nice! I heard so many awesome things about you!"
  • Lightning Dust: "Ya did!?"
  • Acidburn: "Yeah! Say, I kinda don't think that being in simulated history is proper conversation zone, so, ya mind if we-?"
  • Lightning Dust: Oh why not? It's not gonna change anything, so, we're out!?"
  • Lightning Dust and Acidburn flew off to everyone's confusion!
  • Stiffbutt: "What, wha, WELL I NEVER?!"
  • Firefly looked incredably pissed off!
  • Celestia was bewildered.
  • Twilight face-hoofed as the others stared confused, shocked, or unimpressed.
  • Rarity: "Oh dear, (Sarcasticly) I know where this is going."
  • Starlight: "She did NOT, just ditched us for a boy!"
  • Pinkie: "Ha! That sounded very High-Schoolian of you!"
  • Rainbow Dash: "SHE DID NOT JUST FLEW OFF OF THE MOST HISTORIC OF ALL WONDERBOLT EVENTS!? WHO THE HELL WAS THAT GUY?!"
  • Chow Mein: "Safe bet HE ain't part of the simulation, that's for sure!?"
  • Spike: "Ohhh boy. Is this gonna be one of THOSE episodes?"

Elsewhere in a local Amusement Park.

  • Acidburn and Lightning Dust were seen having fun.
  • Acidburn: "You see, I kinda came from a family of high expectations and.... I just failed to meet them."
  • Lightning Dust: "Wow.... I kinda started out that way too. Eventally I met my family's legacy expectations through friends. I'm sure we can help you do the same."
  • Acidburn looked legitamently sad.....
  • Acidburn: "....... Trust me, that's, not impourent to the grand sceame of things."
  • Lightning Dust: "Well, what is?"
  • Acidburn: "..... Making your own choices and your own life, even if it's crazy...."
  • Lightning Dust: "Well, I'm kinda doing that."
  • Acidburn: "Kinda's the key word here. Your following a pre-determined desteny set by your family. Wouldn't've it be cool to, do something different with your life?"
  • Lightning Dust: "..... Well..... I'm, worried about if whether or not I end up being able to get with the Wonderbolts..... What's there for me then?"
  • Acidburn: "..... Your own life..... And It would be awesome to share it with ya."
  • Lightning Dust: "(Music starts playing)..... Same here...... Hey, can I say something crazy?"
  • Acidburn: "I, LOVE, crazy."

This song plays.

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4. Love Is an Open Door - Frozen (OST)

  • Acidburn: "...... Can I say something crazy?"
  • Lightning Dust: "I can dig crazy."
  • Acidburn: "Will you, spend alittle more time with me?"
  • Lightning Dust: "Can I say something crazier? HELL YEAH!?"
  • ???: LIGHTNING DUST!!! (The Mane Seven arrived)
  • Rainbow Dash: Just what the hell are you doing? You're SUPPOSED to be studying with the simulations! I wanna know who this stranger is and-
  • Acidburn: Uh, look here ladies, we've been having a good time together, and we kinda don't want a bunch of spoil-sports ruining that. So leave!
  • Applejack: Uh, leave? Why? You just interrupted our studies!
  • Rainbow Dash: Yeah, I mean, what kind of nerve have you got to do that? She needs to learn by her exam week, and you're starting to distract her!
  • Acidburn: Look, lady, I was just taking a free flight to the Coliseum, and next thing I know, it's in the middle of the Luna Banishment Era! And the NEXT thing I know after that is I meet this BEAUTIFUL pony!
  • Rainbow Dash:... Are you kidding me? You're SERIOUSLY in love at a time like this, Lightning? You shouldn't even trust strangers, even if he's an albeit kinda cute looking guy! I mean, I don't feel a good vibe coming from him. He HAD to have a motive in interrupting your studies!
  • Lightning: I wouldn't expect YOU to understand!
  • Twilight: Oh, we understand! We understand that you can't even stay focused on what's more important for even a couple of seconds. It's no wonder you're failing in the first place!
  • Acidburn: Hey now, there's no reason to bad mouth your friend like that. A small break wouldn't really hurt and-
  • Rainbow Dash: Hey, buster, you're not involved in this!
  • Acidburn: I'm feeling pretty involved through.
  • Twilight: Lightning, you WANT to be a Wonderbolt, don't you? We're only trying to help you, and you're not making it easier for us by hanging out with a stranger! So you're going to have to choose! It's either your studies or that guy!
  • Rarity: "Is it REALLY advisable to ask Lightning Dust to make a choice in the matter? You might not really like her answer."
  • Twilight: "Are you assuming that Lightning Dust would actselly pick some random guy over-"
  • Lightning Dust: "I CHOOSE ACIDBURN!?"
  • Twilight was shocked!
  • Lightning Dust: "...... Look, Twi, I'm sorry, but, I don't think I have a shot at becoming a wonderbolt anyway. If I had to relie on freaky hocus pocus to just pass a stupid exam, then.... I just don't have what it takes."
  • Rainbow Dash: "BUT THE FUCK EVER HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE DREAMS YOU WANTED?!"
  • Lightning Dust: "That's, the thing about dreams guys...... You wake up. All the same Dash, congrates on being a Wonderbolt though. You earned it more then I could ever. I mean, come on! I'm pretty much the last ever pony to ever be allowed even in the reserves, let alone the actual team! You guys are aware on how much of a damn screw-up I am anyway! Who was I kidding trying to meet high expectations! Acid tried to meet the same expectations of his family, and failed! Poor guy has no one left who would actselly cared about him. (Acidburn was caught off guard by that.) Until I came in. Perhaps..... I was just not meant to be a wonderbolt..... The simulation stuff was fun, but, it's time to think about what can actselly be realisticly possable. You don't have to be happy for me and Acid, but at least respect my final choice on this matter. (Wing hugs Acidburn) Come on babe, let's continue enjoying ourselves."
  • Lightning Dust and Acidburn turned their backs on the group.
  • Rainbow Dash huffed angerly and air-bucked as she turned around and left.
  • The Defeated other 6 of the Seven simply look sad, broken and confused and left.
  • Acidburn looked incredabily conflicted. He succeeded with what he was set to do, but he never expected Lightning Dust to actselly admit to care for him that easily and quickly, figuring that she would put her dreams before her true heart's desires, something others never really done before to him. She actselly sacriviced her dreams of being a Wonderbolt, for someone she barely even knows..... Acidburn feels some part of him mended, but he remembered that he's doing this for a greater grand sceame, and mentally told himself to stick to the plan.

Ponyville.

  • Rarity: "You see Twilight, in almost every romantic novel, it is NEVER a good idea to give a confused lover a choice in the matter! That will only drive the conflict deeper! Honestly, for a bookworm, I'm surprised you've never figured THAT one out!"
  • Twilight: "COULD YOU PLEASE NOT RUB IT IN, RARITY!? I get it! I should've just dragged Lightning Dust by her tail and force her to resume her study, but that is just not how Celestia expects me to be!"
  • Rarity: "Ya know, even Celestia of all ponies knows when to put her hoof down, even at the cost of looking alittle cruel! But no! Instead, you allowed Lightning Dust to deside that her dreams aren't atthiveable anymore when she can easily gained rush romance! And it probuly didn't help that we accused the colt of something! As far as really all of us know, he just came in at unfortunate circumstances."
  • Twilight: "Are, are, ARE YOU INSINUATING SOMETHING!?"
  • Rarity: "I'm just saying you should've avoided the conflict by not being self-rightious about the matter. Honestly, expecting a self-respecting mare to choose her ambigiously possable dreams over her heart? I hate to say that your relationship with Flash Sentry might be in question!"
  • Twilight: "ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF CHOOSING MY PRINCESS DUTY OVER FLASH!?"
  • Rarity: "If the horseshoe fits, wear it! Obviously, you don't spend too much time with Flash Sentry."
  • Twilight: "THAT'S BECAUSE OUR DUTIES ARE ORBATORY?! WE'RE NOT MUCH ALLOWED TO HAVE ANY FREETIME!?"
  • Rarity: "Oh? And what do you call going on extravigent adventures into the world of Equestia and beyond? if those duties don't even keep you from getting involved in life-changing journeys, I see practicly NO excuse neglecting your signifigant other!"
  • Twilight: "THOSE ARE DIFFERENT?! ALSO, BEING A GUARD IS PRETTY MUCH A 24/7 JOB!? EVEN IF HE WANTED TO, HE'S NOT MUCH ALLOWED TO LEAVE HIS POST?!"
  • Rarity: "Oh be honest Twilight, would Flash being around make much of a true difference? Our canon show ALONE deminstraights that the guards are not very effictent that their job! THEY COULDN'T, EVEN, PROTECT CELESTIA AND LUNA, FROM PLANTS?! PLANTS!? Hell, this one time, three guards accepted a cake bribe from a disguised Wind Rider! I really must insist that Celestia makes an effert to reform the standerds of the guard! Other nations probuly think that pony guards are nothing but a battalion of baffoons!"
  • Twilight: "MY BROTHER'S PART OF THEM!?"
  • Rarity: "I meant no intentional ill will for your brother, but it's clear he's not being a very postive influence to the guard! If anything, he might, though I trust unintentionally, have something to do with their bungling! I mean, he even CRIES at weddings! Granted, there's nothing wrong with a staillian with emotion, but I don't think that's proper guard captain behavior! He can't even handle a baby, Alicorn or not! HIS OWN BABY NO LESS!"
  • Twilight: "TAKE, THAT, (MAGIC FLARES WILDLY), BACK!?"
  • Rarity: "(Sarcasticly unimpressed) Ohhhh, I'm sooooo scared. (Seriously) But I'll be blunt, Twilight. I have made my guns, and I'm sticking to them, and I have no actual fear of you harming one of your friends. I am just being honest here."
  • Twilight was snarling like a dog, before Starlight stopped her with a hoof-touched onto her shoulder.....
  • Starlight: "..... Twilight, I see you as someone who rise above that sort've thing. We're all hurt and confused, Twilight. Don't make the same mistakes the old me would've made."
  • Applejack: "I'm kinda with Starlight there, Twi. Though Rarity DID crossed the boundery line, she does have some points on you not being firm with Lightning Dust. You were basicly allowing a mare who made dumb-founding desidions before to make her own desidtion and expect her to be smart about it? Lightning Dust? The mare almost respondsable for our deaths with a tornado, doesn't do a mighty good job with impressing matchmakers, and just now made a contraption that almost could've crashed into town! That doesn't sound like somepony I let makin' their own choices."
  • Twilight: "(Calming down)..... But.... But I thought she considered being a wonderbolt impourent..... More then anything."
  • Rainbow Dash was seen on a cloud, brooding and shedding silent tears.
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Well clearly she doesn't anymore. If she thinks some dude's more impourent then being a wonderbolt, who the HELL are we to force her?"
  • Fluttershy: "...... Your taking this really hard, aren't you, Dashie?"
  • Rainbow Dash quickly sprung up, angry face full of tears!
  • Rainbow Dash: "WHAT THE F*** DO YOU THINK, ZOOPHILE?! OF COURSE I'M UPSET ABOUT THIS?! WHAT?! DID YOU THINK I'M LAYING DOWN ANGERLY ON THIS (STOMPS ON RAGING STORM CLOUD AND CAUSED SOME LIGHTNING TO HAPPEN) F***ING CLOUD, UPSET AND HURT, BETRAYED BY WHAT COULD'VE BEEN AN AWESOME PARTNER, FIGHTING BACK TEARS IN MY EYES WAS PART OF A NEW DANCE CRAZE?!? (Makes the same face she made in the Tanks for the Memories episode)."
  • Fluttershy: "..... Oh..... My......"
  • Starlight: "Ok, girls, it's OBVIOUS that we need to cool our heads over this before we end up saying or even doing more things we'll later regret."
  • Applejack: "Starlight made a good point. Pinkie, your gonna have to throw some "Feeling Better" parties for Twi and Rainbow cause-"
  • Suddenly, the mares were surrounded by such a thing!
  • Pinkie: "(Finishing off decrorating a cake) WAAAAAY Ahead of you, A.J."
  • Rainbow Dash was surprised by the change of scene..... She looked as if she recovered abit from her latest tirade.
  • Rainbow Dash: "(Chuckles), Pinkie Pie, You're so random."
  • Twilight:...That kinda doesn't make me feel any better, though. I still feel a little bit skeptical. What if we were right about Acidburn? I mean, he HAD to be there for a reason.
  • Rainbow Dash: "Maybe like Rarity said, maybe he just came in at a bad time. I mean, let's be honest. Those simulations are not exactly stealthy. Even Derpy would've noticed them."
  • Twilight: ".... Good point, I mean, history being magicly re-created could've gotten ANYONE's attention. But still..... It just seemed TOO convinent for that Acidburn guy to just SHOW UP from nowhere. We DON'T even know who he is."
  • Pinkie: "Though, he kinda reminded me of Spitfire as a dude."
  • Silence.....
  • The Main 7 ponies laughed!
  • Rainbow Dash: "(Laughs)! Like, your saying that Acidburn's Spitfire's brother or something?! (Laughs)! Come on! Everyone knows that Spitfire was an only child! Every offitcal wonderbolts' mercentdice said it! Like, seriously!"
  • Pinkie: "Just an observation, girls."
  • Spike and Chow Mein were seen eating cake.
  • Spike: "(Stuffed with cake) So, how are we gonna handle a guy we know nothing about?"
  • ???: "AHEM!"
  • The Spybug came in.
  • Sandy's voice: "Don't tell me ya'll forget about us, did ya? We said we were gonna keep watch with the Spybug, remember?"
  • Starlight: "Oh. Right. The Lougers."
  • Sandy's voice: "Anyway, we saw about everything that happened and kept track. We even saw those two sang that song from Frozen."
  • Pinkie: "Ohh, you mean (Suddenly Dresses like Elza) Let it go, Let it go! I'm one with the wind and skaaaaaaa-eeeeyyyy!? Let it go, Let it go! You'll never see me cr-"
  • Squidward's voice: "No. Not THAT one."
  • Pinkie: "Oh, is it "Fixer Upper?" Olaf's song? "First time in forever"? The Starting song? That song where Elsa and Anna singed togather? Ohh, I get it! (Suddenly dresses like Anna) Do you wanna build a snowma-"
  • Icky's voice: "OH MY GOD, ARE YOU RETARDED!? IT'S THE SONG ANNA AND HANS SUNG TOGATHER YA PINK DIPSHIT!? (Smack) OW?!"
  • Pinkie: "Ohhhhh. You mean "Love's an Open Door". Ok."
  • Sandy's voice: "Anyway, we agree with Twilight that there is something up, but on closer expansion, it's only to a certain extent. (The Spybug uses a holographic screen to replay footage from the Carnaval and shows where Acidburn looks conflicted about this.)..... See this? That's the face of someone with a guilty consience conflicted with personal business. If this guy was looking to cause trouble, he wasn't expecting Lightning Dust to actselly sacrivice everything fer him."
  • Starlight: "Well if so, what does he have to gain from interfearing a future Wonderbolt's test?"
  • Sandy's voice: "I'm guessing that based on what we reconed, he was a former student who failed, most likely miserablely."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Then that could mean he's trying to turn Lightning Dust into a Wonderbolt hater!"
  • Sandy's voice: "Now I wouldn't say that. He could just as easily be trying to lead her away from the place that most likely broke his dreams and protect her from ending up the same. Only, he wasn't expecting to be successful at it."
  • Fluttershy: "Well, at least that means he's not dangerious or anything."
  • Sandy's voice: "Well, that's what's worrying us. Soothsayer has a concerning feeling that he's only part of a bigger picture. It could be more then just an ex-fan. This "Acidburn" guy could be a major issue a-waitin' to happen."
  • Twilight: "Then we need your help in trying to get Lightning away from him. She might not listen to us alone cause-"
  • Icky's voice: "Ya stupidly made the same clished mistake of letting the lover make her own choice? Yeah, we saw that."
  • Twilight: "..... Right. But, I don't nessersarly want to make Lightning Dust hate Acidburn. I just want her to understand that Acidburn might not be good for her real dreams."
  • Sandy's voice: "I got ya, ya'll want Lightning Dust to remember her true self, but ya don't wanna make her hate Acidburn."
  • Icky's voice: "But falling out relationships usually END in hatred."
  • Twilight: "Hey, I don't WANT to destroy their relationship! Destroying a blossuming romance, even a rushed one, IS UNREDEEMABLY EVIL!?"
  • Icky's voice: "..... Is that what Candence told you or is that apart of your "Friendship Religen" stuff?"
  • Twilight: "Kinda, both."
  • (Icky): Look, I think this relationship they formed was what this Acidburn guy was DEPENDING on! I mean, I can't see a pony NOT falling for him with a face like that. I bet he was so handsome, he was an extreme chick magnet, and all the girls were going putty in his pants too much like Squidward when HE was handsome!
  • (Squidward): Yeah, I can tell! That might be why we've never heard of him. He was so handsome, he hid himself from the public.
  • Fluttershy:...Doesn't that sound a little crazy?
  • (Icky): I mean, think about it! Do ANY of you girls get that vibe from him? (The ponies were a little skeptical)...I'll take that as a yes.
  • Rarity: WE WERE NOT LIKE THAT!!!...Well...maybe we were a little bit, but he was just a stranger who dropped by and ruined Lightning's studies as if that's what he WANTED to do.
  • (Kowalski): And that pretty much feels accurate. We're still gonna need to talk to someone about this.
  • Icky's Voice: "And our best chance is the Wonderbolts since we were talking about this guy being some kind of drop-out."
  • ???: "Rainbow Dash!"
  • Spitfire and the Alpha Wonderbolt team arrived!
  • Spitfire: "My dad majorly needs to talk to you about (Gasps when she saw the halogram of Acidburn)........ You already saw him....."
  • Starlight: "You know him?"
  • Spitfire: "Uh, well, dad was insistent that Rainbow Dash should know first before we tell everyone else."
  • Applejack: "..... Say, Pinkie..... Remember when ya said Acidburn makes you think of Spitfire as a fella?"
  • Pinkie: "(Begins looking at the Hologram of Acidburn and Spitfire back to back)...... Sayyyyyy. Your right! Acidburn DOES kinda look like you as a dude!"
  • Applejack: "Spitfire, is there something ya'll ain't being honest about?"
  • Spitfire: "..... Look, I'm instructed to only make Rainbow Dash know, and I am NOT in a good position to break protocal! But.... If you want answers, ask Celestia. That's all I'm permited to say. Come on Dash, it's impourent we arrived to the base."
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Spitfire, be honest with me..... I am not gonna feel very comfertable about what's going on, am I?"
  • Spitfire: "..... Understatement of all of Equestia, Dash."
  • Spitfire, Rainbow Dash and the Wonderbolts flew off!
  • Spike: "..... Well, now I wished we checked to look out for surprise out of nowhere staillians with ambigious agendas!"

Wonderbolt Base.

  • Breathflame was stareing out to his window as Rainbow Dash was escourted in by Spitfire.
  • Breathflame: "..... There you are, Wonderbolt Dash...... You were not present at an urgent meeting."
  • Rainbow Dash: "(Gulp).... Sorry sir.... Still, kinda new to the Wonderbolt biz. I, was not given any kind of memo about a meeting."
  • Breathflame: "That was because it was too urgent for memos."
  • Rainbow Dash: ".... Uh..... Did it, had anything to do with that Acidburn guy? Was, he some kind of drop-out? Was he a delinquint? (Gasp)!? WAS HE A ROUGE?!"
  • Breathflame: ".... The answer's yes, and no. Acidburn was more then another Wonderbolt....... Had you noticed, that he bares certain simularities to Spitfire?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Oh yeah, Pinkie made a funny comment about him being a guy verson of your daughter, (Laughs), cause, we know that in no way is he related to-"
  • Breathflame: "Try to think, very hard about the names, Dash. Spitfire..... Breathflame....... Acidburn........ Fire...... Flame....... Burn...... What, do those three words have in commen.....?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "They, involve fire?"
  • Breathflame: "Think deeper then that, Rainbow."
  • Rainbow Dash:...Is he like a relative?
  • Spitfire: He's my brother!
  • Rainbow Dash: BROTHER?!? BUT YOU SAID YOU WERE AN ONLY CHILD!!
  • Spitfire:.... We lied about that to aviod controversey. My family were still relitively new leaders that replaced Slaughterhouse!
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Ok, fair enough. I mean, the E.U.P. Guard is very controversey sensitive, so, in an extention, the Wonderbolts are too! So, what was Acidburn like? Was he assentually, some trouble-maker or drop-out?"
  • Spitfire: "Far from it. In fact, he was the oppisite. He was a Wonderbolt Legend."

Flashback.

  • (Spitfire): "Acid was the best of the best. He earned it and had it all. He was an athlet. He was a champion.... He..... He was everyone's hero..... (Softly) Even mine.... (Openly) He had fame. He had it good with endorsement deals.... And was quite a chick magnet."
  • (Rainbow Dash): "(Sarcasticly) Oh is THAT why Lightning fall for him."
  • (Spitfire): "Don't be sarcastic and snark around superiors, Dash. Everything was going great for him and us.... Unitl.... It happened."
  • A Dragon-Porqupine hypred was seen roaring it's head off angerly as it was attacking the Accadamy!
  • (Spitfire): "A Drago-Pine attacked the accadamy while it was in it's musk during mating season. It attacked our accadamy because it was the perfect ground to build a nest to attract a would-be mate."
  • (Rainbow Dash): "I'm sorry to interupt, but this is why Icky complains about the kind of freaky stuff Equestia always has. It's gotten too much for even me."
  • (Spitfie): "We evacuated our newbies and reserves just in time, but our accadamy was in danger of being destroyed.... That is, till big bro charged in."
  • Acidburn in normal Wonderbolt attire charged it!
  • Acidburn was seen giving a huge smack down to the Drago-Pine
  • (Spitfire): "Acidburn pretty much defeated the Drago-Pine effertlessly.... However, one buck to the Drago-Pine's face, was what was gonna changed everything!"
  • Acidburn bucked the Drago-Pine so hard, it tripped backwords and fell onto it's back!
  • A LOUD BOOM WAS HEARD!?
  • The Drago-Pine was defeated.
  • Acidburn: "WHAAA-HOOO!? ALL RIGHT!? DID YA SEE THAT SARGE!? I KICKED THAT DRAGO-PINE'S ASS?! I..... Sarge? Sarge?"
  • Acidburn looked around the area and saw what horrifived him!
  • A Sargent's hat was seen impaled by the Drago-Pine's quill.
  • Acidburn: "...... Sarge?! Sarge, please tell me this is another one of your famous jokes Sarge, cause I think this one isn't so funny?! SARGE!?"
  • Silence.
  • Acidburn started to cry....
  • (Spitfire): "A famed, aging, and beloved Drill Sargent lost his life because he pushed his daughter away from ground zero of where the Drago-Pine was gonna crash. He sacriviced himself for his daughter. A leader, a friend, a hero, and a father, was lost that day. Nopony blamed Acidburn for what happened, he didn't know about the sargent saving his daughter while her leg got impaled by a loose quill, it was nothing but bad circumstances and unfortunate timing. But Acidburn refused to forgive himself. He feared that everypony secretly hates him, so, in anger, he lashed out and attacked dad, trying to force him to admit that he hated him for what happened to the sargent.... But father was too forgiving..... Acidburn thought he was lying and desided that pain was gonna get him to be honest!"
  • Acidburn stomped onto Breathflame's wing as he screamed!
  • (Spitfire): "I charged in just in time to stop it from getting worse!"
  • Spitfire and Acidburn began fighting!
  • Acidburn: "SIS, I KNOW, THIS IS A FAMILY MATTER, BUT THIS MATTER IS BETWEEN FATHER AND SON!?"
  • Spitfire: I'd hardly call breaking your own father's wing deserving for just the both of you.
  • Acidburn: EVERYPONY HATES ME!!
  • Spitfire: For the last time, everypony does NOT blame you for that incident! You're just letting your own fears control you! You know that fear leads to hate, and then to anger, then to-
  • Acidburn: SHUT UP!! SHUT, THE F*** UP! YOUR WORDS MEAN NOTHING TO ME ANYMORE, SISTER!! NOW, I ADVISE THAT YOU LEAVE ME AND FATHER ALONE! THIS IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN!
  • Spirfire: It IS my concern, this is assaulting your own father! That's not a pretty thing to look over. I am in the RIGHT for doing this! Now stand down, or I will have no choice but to arrest you and have you sent to court martial!
  • Acidburn: I will NEVER stop until I get what I want! And I wouldn't do such a thing if I were you, sister! I know JUST the way to make you and the rest of the Wonderbolts pay, just know that!
  • Spitfire: Is that a threat? Or worse, is that an attempted blackmail, soldier? That's more court-martial worthy and FAR more punishable than assaulting a commanding officer!
  • Acidburn: IT IS A WARNING, ZITFIRE! I WILL DO IT IF YOU DO NOT LEAVE ME ALONE! SO THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! LEAVE!
  • Spitfire:...Fine! You leave me no choice! (They continue fighting as Spitfire immediately overwhelmed Acidburn and cuffed him) You are under arrest!
  • Acidburn: I'm warning you, Spitfire! If you do this, you WILL regret it!
  • Spitfire: Me? Regret doing the right thing? I'm sorry, but that's never going to happen! (On intercom) Security!
  • (Spitfire): I had him sent to the Wonderbolt Maximum Security Prison for his own good. I had thought he would never make good on his promise of blackmail because, as you might already know, nopony has EVER gotten out of that prison alive. It's the best prison in the Wonderbolt business. But somehow, he escaped.
  • (Rainbow Dash): WHAT?!? BUT I THOUGHT THAT PLACE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IMPREGNABLE!!!
  • (Spitfire): It baffled us, too! At first, we thought it was Acidburn's strategy and cunning, but even ponies with identical skills to HIS were stopped from escaping. Then we discovered that...he had help. (Bird-like footprints were seen at the crime scene)

Present

  • Rainbow Dash:...Wait...bird-like footprints?
  • Breathflame: Yes. They looked similar to a griffin's talon-prints, but we also saw no paw-prints. Whatever attacked must've been a harpy, roc, or any bird-like creature. But when we showed the photos to Princess Celestia, she recognized them. She believed that it was the work of...Man-Vulture.
  • Rainbow Dash:...Man-who?
  • Spitfire: It's kind of a long story. He was a griffin who wanted to accelerate pony evolution to prepare for Nightmare Moon's return, but when he tested the serum on himself and became a mutant freak, he ran away from the public.
  • Rainbow Dash:...But...why would he wanna free a rogue Wonderbolt who broke his own father's wing?
  • Spitfire: The Princess said that the serum may've had...untold side-effects. It must've tainted his mind as well as his body. So now, we have reason to suspect that he's teamed up with some old ill-gotten enemies from the Pre-Equestria Windigo Ice Age period. The Gargoyles.
  • Rainbow Dash:...Wait, did you say gargoyles? As in EQUESTRIAN Gargoyles? Aren't they supposed to be extinct?
  • Breathflame:...It's...kind of a long and classified story...

Later...

  • Rainbow Dash: WE SERIOUSLY GAVE THEM THAT MUCH CRAP?!? WOW, WHAT THE HELL KIND OF MONSTERS WERE WE BACK THEN?!?
  • Breathflame: "How was ANY race suppose to behave after losing a great majority of their gods?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Good point, but, other then that, WHY would ponies be driven to attack the Gargoyles like that, OTHER then taking the Judu Des clan seriosuly!?"
  • Spitfire: "Well, when your part of a race that lost a majority of their gods, suffering from decades of newfound hatred for eachother, and suffering from the coldness of the windigoes, creatures of the Gargoyles' caliber are pretty much the last thing those kind of people wanted to deal with. Also, it helped little that the anichent ponies felt it was RUDE of the Gargoyles to basicly tell them to leave the land after they work pain-stakenly hard to build up homes, and even ruder to make up tales about "Ice Ghost Horses", ya know, before we realised that Windigoes were real. And then there's the Gargoyles' good name falling victim of nasty rumors about them being baby eaters and harvesting organs for gore-feasts, that they liked to torture puppies and kittens and other animals, and the nastier ones like them being spawns of Tartarus. Their, appearences helped little in that reguard as it looked like they fit those rumors well."
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... (Facehooved) Ugh...... No freaking wonder those guys want to get even! Equestia CLEARLY once belonged to them! And we just BOOTED them out of their homes like we were running the place! Man, you guys are LUCKY that Gazelle isn't here or else she'll go political correctness on our asses!"
  • Spitfire: "I'm sure she would've understood that it was back when ponies were suffering from mass tainted purities, being abit medevil and stupid, and suffering from god loss and Windigo coldness."
  • Rainbow Dash: "She's a bipedal gazelle pop-star who supposes fairness and equility among races from a planet that won't even bring themselves to DESTROY A BUNCH OF ZOMBIE CAUSING FISH! She CLEARLY sounds like the type who would COMPLAIN LIKE HELL about this!? CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE ON WHAT THE UNIVERSES WOULD THINK OF US SHOULD THEY HEAR ABOUT THIS?!"
  • Spitfire: "I'm pretty sure the universeals are also guilty of making simular mistakes."
  • Rainbow Dash: "MAYBE SO, BUT THAT'S NEVER STOPPED PEOPLE FROM COMPLAINING ABOUT IT REGUARDLESS!? AND IT'LL BE WORSE FOR US BECAUSE WE'RE SUPPOSE TO BE THE PLANET OF CUTE HORSES!? THEY THINK WE'RE ABOVE THAT SHIT!?"
  • Spitfire: "Tecnecally, Pred Judu Des alone has already long put that rep into question, along with any other tainted pony."
  • Rainbow Dash: "BUT GARGOYLE NEAR-GENISIDE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT!?"
  • Spitfire: "Hey, people gotten over what that Peacock General did to a village of pandas and that uptopian paradise place miss Kairi was from, didn't they?"
  • Rainbow Dash: That was only because it was COBRA who orchestrated all that mess to begin with. THIS is far different! Ponies made this genocide mistake all by themselves. And before you blame the Windigoes for it, THEY DIDN'T ASKED FOR PONIES TO DO THIS!? All they're guilty of is inadvertingly causing it and benifiting from the hate they caused, but otherwise, they had NO ENFLUENCE OR CONTROL OF THE WAR, Whatsoever! (Sighs) I can see why this was kept a secret!
  • Breathflame: And the only reason we're telling you this is because my son made DAMN good on his promise of blackmail. He has revealed the locations of ALL Wonderbolt HQs to Man-Vulture and the Gargoyles, and already four members of Team Delta have gone missing.
  • Rainbow Dash:... (Sighs) Okay, WHY didn't you have Acidburn mind-wiped of that information beforehand? Doing so would've prevented this problem and would've rendered him useless to the Gargoyles and Man-Vulture.
  • Spitfire: That's what I suggested, had it not been for the fact that the judge is one of the unfortunate ponies who goes into the crappy ethics about mind-wiping being a bad thing!
  • Breathflame: Honey, don't blame him for being like that. He has been mind-controlled in the courtroom over 7 times, so it makes sense why he would protest about such a thing.
  • Rainbow Dash: And I myself can't say I blame the guy. Remember when Discord and Mayhem mind-controlled me? That makes such a decision 100% justified.
  • Spitfire: THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU ASK ABOUT MIND-WIPING, YOU GODDAMN HYPOCRITE?!?
  • Rainbow Dash: YIKES, ok, let me explain! Because that's a different means of mind-control. What was inflicted on me was a personality-alteration, which was WAY worse than mind-wipe. Mind-wipe can sometimes be beneficial, but only as a precaution or when there's no choice. While I think he judge was a little bit preachy for deciding not to authorize the mind-wipe, I understand WHY he would do it, besides his own history of being mind-controlled.
  • Spitfire:... I guess that makes sense. But still, Mystery Dare has assentully risked Equestia's well-being because of magic efnics, understandable or not! This mess would've been EASILY prevented if the Judge just swallowed his pride and approved the messure and not expect us to just sit and hope Acidburn won't say jacksquat! When this is over, I am SO gonna complain this guy to the judge council and ask them to cut out that magic efnics crap and that stuff about his own personal bad instences of it being misused
  • Breathflame: Let's not blame Judge Mystery Dare for Acidburn revealing our base locations. Our top priority is to get the Wonderbolts prepared for another night attack.
  • Rainbow Dash: "Well that's kinda cowerdly they're attacking by night, barring the fact that they're clearly steriotypical gargoyles that turned into overgrown garden orniments or park statues by day. I mean, attacking their enemy while they're sleeping and unpreparped is BEYOND dishonorable."
  • Spitfire: "To be fair, we ponies were kinda guilty of the same shit of doing that to THEM while they're stuck as statues during the day, so fighting us honorably is no longer doable. Also, we may think it's cowordly, but to them, it's just an insulting label for what they think is litterally basic survivable. Trust me, had they been those "Modern Gargoyles" like the ones in the gargoyle communnies the natives are corrupting right now, that can only be statues of their choosing or are assentally living statues, yeah, they would've been MORE then glad to just charge up by the hundreds and attack MORE then just one of the time. SO yeah. THANK CELESTIA THEY'RE TRADITIONAL GARGOYLES!"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Tots! And it's not like Man-Vulture is planning to use the Wonderbolts he has to not only cause some kind of element of harmony sheild, but in a way turn those Traditional Gargoyles into Modern Gargoyles and leave them no longer limited to night where they can attack whenever they want and there would be little anyone can.... Do.... To.... Stop..... It....."
  • Silence.
  • Breathflame: "....... Then I'm afraid that means this attack on Team Delta was a one time attack. Think about it. Lack of evidence of bodies or blood, the delta base wasn't TOO ransacked, by tartarus, they didn't even degraded the building with anti-pony symbolisum akin to their more traditional attacks. The attack wasn't to kill or terrorise..... It was to collect samples. And as we speak, Man-Vulture is already proceeding to make his serum."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Then let's go to the Goyland Caves and kick their asses!"
  • Spitfire: "Yeeaaaah. Censoring an unpopular part of our history, has downsides....."
  • Rainbow Dash: "...... Let me guess..... Goyland Caves is NOT reckindised in any Equestian Map, is it? We're talking, "Taiklar was a myth" bad, right?"
  • Spitfire: "That on super-steriods."
  • Breathflame: "Afraid so. It would be impossable to find the location thanks to ansisterial shame and preference to keep it quiet."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Not helping is the fact that THEY NEVER BLOCKED OUT THE CAVES?! Luckly for you guys, the Cutie-Map is not like other maps and will find Goyland Caves no problem."
  • Spitfire: "Not that I question it's usefulness, but not only is it too overkillingly easy, it's un-nessersary. Cause, Man-Vulture and the Gargoyles inadvertingly gave us a chance to find it on our own."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Ya mean through Acidburn? I get what ya mean, but since he's CLEARLY a total tool, he'll never confess to us! And he's smart enough to not flat-out admit to Lightning Dust until he earns her beyond die-hard loyalty and totally converts her to Team Gargoyles!"
  • Spitfire: "Yeah, but I saw that halogram their bug was producing. That clearly looks like he's showing signs of reconsidering. But Acidburn was always a die-hard professional, and he knows to keep personal feelings under control. But that clearly looked as if he does or has started to give legit feelings torwords Dusty. And it's likely that the Gargoyles will send some guys to keep eye on the two. That's why, we're gonna counter-sabotage their desires of ruining Lightning Dust by, ruining Acidburn's ability to stay professional by actselly making him love Lightning, and make the spying Gargoyles look incredabily bad and force them and Acidburn to go into conflict bad enough to make it look as if Acidburn's purity has returned to full form."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Yeah but, what if he's been place under a spell to prevent that?"
  • Breathflame: "The closest they got to that is Elfwork. And he's much skilled with magic. While a very powerful mage, his spells are not unfallable. The Spell will be removed by either cleansing it or if Elfwork is comproise in anyway. And since the Gargoyles know well enough to keep Elfwork close to the cave at all times unless battle calls, we have our hopes of simply undoing the spell.... And luckly, it showed some sign of going away on it's own thanks to Lightning's own kidness, ill-advised as it may, cause he never expected Lightning's loyalty to a "complete stranger". If we have Lightning express more acts of kindess to him, her love will cure him of this anti-purity cleanse spell and, well, the rest can take care of itself."
  • Rainbow Dash: "But that's the problem! She litterally just met him! If the Gargoyles or even Man-Vulture knew even something's alittle off, they'll quickly intervene and.... Do the unspeakable. They would ruin the budding romance by exposing Acidburn's supposedly true side!"
  • Spitfire: "Again, we make the spying Gargoyles' look bad enough that Acidburn won't let them get a word in edgewise. But as a procaution, we also have to make Lightning's love for him so strong, it won't matter what they say. Whether or not she'll think they're lying or simply won't give a giant fuck about the truth is debatable, it could go either way since, well, Lightning Dust is never an easy pony to read."
  • Rainbow Dash: Yeah, but...what about those simulation classes? I think she'll need to resume them.
  • Spitfire: We can worry about her studies later. It was nice of you to use that popular spell and let her experience our history, but right now, we must worry about Acidburn, because there's no way he's going to let her study in the simulations again.
  • Rainbow Dash:...How about...if the BOTH of them experienced the simulation?
  • Spitfire:...What? Look, Rainbow, I can agree that that will work, but the whole point of Acidburn's seduction of her is to get her AWAY from studies so it will lead her to join their side.
  • Rainbow Dash: Yes, but just hear me out! What if we don't have to use the simulation we used before? Remember how I was taught about your history? What if we combined both methods into one? The simulations appear on the ground wherever they went. Acidburn won't get her out of it as they will appear wherever they go!
  • Breathflame:...And what does that accomplish in terms of Acidburn?
  • Rainbow Dash: Well, he won't be able to keep track of the mission until he inevitably gives in. Who knows? It might develop their relationship enough for us to reach our goal.
  • Spitfire:...And you're sure such a thing will work?
  • Rainbow Dash: It's worth a shot! I'll go get my friends ready. I'm off! (Flies away)

Chapter 3: The Lodgers' Counter-Sabotage

Canterlot, Celestia's room.

  • Lord Shen: "GOOD GRIEF, WOMAN, ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
  • Celestia: Yes. It appears that Acidburn was a rogue Wonderbolt who became rogue out of guilt, and had mysteriously escaped thanks to Man-Vulture. And what's worse, is that I fear that the Gargoyles that we ponies treated badly have returned to seek revenge.
  • Lord Shen:...Okay, so let me get this straight! We're dealing with a rogue Wonderbolt who went evil out of guilt and denial, escaped thanks to a mutated griffin who wanted to prepare for Nightmare Moon through genetic-engineering, and now both are working for a race of Gargoyles thought to be extinct yet were actually kicked off of their own land by a bunch of cruel ponies, and now they're going to plan something big that might need OUR attention?
  • Icky: Jesus, past ponies, what the s***!
  • Po: Well, to be fair, when you lose all hope after a chaotic war against the Draconequui and Alicorns, which ends with the Alicorns being completely destroyed, you tend to get a little bitter and cruel, even if it's to people who are trying to warn you of the consequences of their expansion.
  • Lord Shen: ARE YOU KIDDING, PANDA?!? WE WERE TOLD THAT PONIES WERE SO CRUEL, THEY LISTENED TO BARBARIANS, HAD INNOCENT GARGOYLES UNETHICALLY EXECUTED, AND DROVE SAID GARGOYLES TO A WAR WHICH ENDED WITH THEM GETTING BANISHED?!? I'M BEGINNING TO QUESTION THE PURITY OF THE PONIES HERE!
  • Celestia: Shen, PLEASE understand! The Alicorns' departure was still a very devastating blow to mortal ponies. Plus, it wasn't just the loss of the Alicorns, but it was also the chaos the Draconequui reaped. Especially Tyranny. At the end of the war, he went on a destruction spree that the Alicorn Gods had to stop by sacrificing themselves. I can't see how such an act would be life-scarring to many ponies.
  • Lord Shen: "I don't really see how that should flat-out EXCUSE robbing an entire race of their lands!?"
  • Shrek: "Look at it this way..... Your part of a race that recently lost their gods, you worked hard on the foundations you made after leaving your former country, and the coldness doesn't help on your attatude, does that REALLY sound like that you would want a bunch of scary looking Gargoyles coming down from perches and basicly tell you to amscray dispite all your hardwork and your troubles, and, keep in mind that this was BEFORE the Windigoes were discovered, all the while talking about ice horse ghosts?"
  • Lord Shen: "...... That, actselly makes the Gargoyles sound like rude liers."
  • Shrek: "EXACTLY! Now, as unfortunate their tragity is, it's not like it was entirely unprovoked. In all tecnecally, the ponies were provoked into hating them because the Gargoyles desided it was a smart idea to try telling them to leave while they're sufferin' god loss anxity. They were rattling their cages by being the last things they really want to see right now after losing the alicorns. I mean, if you were in their position, would you really trust the word of random and intimidating looking strangers telling you to pack your things and go elsewhere?"
  • Lord Shen: "Well no! I would take that as a terratorial challnage and an insult to my hard work establishing a home here! To me it would sound disrespectful and dishonest and make me think that the locals don't want me here!"
  • Icky: "There you go! No one's the true victim or the true instigater. They were BOTH being stupid."
  • Celestia: Exactly! But the Gargoyles had attacked Wonderbolt Team Delta's HQ and abducted four of their members just last night. Apparently, Acidburn told all the information on the secret bases to them.
  • Lord Shen:...And you couldn't have him mind-wiped because?
  • Celestia: Because the Wonderbolt Judge Mystery Dare, because of being mind-controlled 7 times, is one of the ponies who argue that mind-based spells are unethical.
  • Mushu: UNETHICAL?!? Are you kidding me?!? What's so wrong about a little memory-wipe?
  • Celestia:...Why don't you ask other ponies who are in mindwipe ethics? You should know as well as I that magic comes with consequences. The way magic is used commonly here, there can be untold consequences that come from even changing a grain of sand into a rock. The world is in equilibrium, and sometimes it can cause a slight bit of chaos. As for mind-spells, ponies argue that it can be used to manipulate free will, change identities, taint people, and even disrupt society. Sometimes, mindwipes can affect a person's future. Sometimes, even unpleasant memories can allow people to build a better future.
  • Crane: But what was so wrong about erasing sensitive information from a criminal's mind? The way you put it, it seems like the judge was not making sense with the decision NOT to erase the memories?
  • Celestia:...Well...because one of those mind-controls were...a memory wipe.
  • Crane:...Ohhh...now I get it.
  • Celestia: You see, the magic was used to eliminate the important memories of what fuels his guilty verdict. He was in a case where a pony used a mind-spell to name himself the winner of a competition when he was immediately caught cheating. Then he used the same spell on the judge. The parts he removed was the cheat, and the accusation. This lead to him declaring the law enforcement corrupt had it not been for authority members who were required to have knowledge in occlumency reminding him. THAT'S why Mystery Dare is a magic ethicist. He sees such an act as a form of manipulation as he could easily rethink his life. He had hoped that he would after so many years of imprisonment. But he was broken out before he had the chance to do so. So, by all accounts, Mystery Dare has ended up making a fatal mistake that could easily cost him his career over his bias.
  • Soothsayer:... That is actually a fair point. Being a being of purity, even Acidburn would have some standards. And the expression he showed with the decision of being with Lightning proves it. Though admitingly, his faith was clearly poorly placed.
  • Lord Shen: Okay, okay, we get it, the judge was just trying to be as ethical as he could. I mean, come on, we've had our fair share of magic ethicists in the form of our critics and even MSM from time to time. But this is clearly an exsample of why being ethical doesn't mean being smart in hind-sight, espeically concerning someone who KNOWS YOUR WEAKNESSES!? It would've been bloodly better for everyone if the judge swallowed his pride and allowed the mind-wipe to happen, and thus preventing this Acidburn from being a threat! But personal opinions aside, let's just not worry about that and instead focus on telling Lightning about Acidburn!
  • Celestia: I'm sorry, but we can't do that!
  • Boss Wolf: Why the hell not?
  • Celestia: She could come to an awful conclusion. Telling her the truth would shatter her. What we NEED to do is change Acidburn's mind, and make sure his allies don't expose the truth as punishment. Also, we Equestians take romance very seriously here. Breaking one is not considered very forgiveable.
  • Icky: "Let me guess, your friendship religen said so?"
  • Celestia: "More or less."
  • Spongebob: "Gees, I wonder how Twilight's gonna handle it."

Twilight's castle.

  • Twilight: "IS THAT WHY THIS IS HAPPENING!?"
  • Starlight: "So, let me get this straight: Angry Gargoyles and a mutanted Griffin genius have sent Acidburn, a former self-shaming Wonderbolt and the appearent brother of Spitfire to coherse Lightning Dust to NOT do her studies and get her to join them? I mean, in one hoof, it can tecnecally work since Lightning Dust, let's be honest here, is not the brightist star in the sky if ya catch my drift, but at the same time, I wouldn't call a pony a very relieable villain."
  • ???: "A-HEM?!"
  • Starlight looks annoyed as a collection of Brony Analists that dislike her: Jerry Preet and ToonCritic among them.
  • Starlight: "..... PRESENT, COMPANY, EXPLUDED?!"
  • The Analists leave.
  • Pinkie: "To be fair Starlight, that was a glass house case there. But you have a point."
  • Rainbow Dash: "Which is exactly why we're gonna use Acidburn against them."
  • Chow Mein: "And how are we gonna do that? Surely those Gargoyles will have their eyes on them like hawks and will swoop down the minute things go bat-guano wrong!"
  • Rainbow Dash: Relax. I considered a plan when I was discussing this with the Wonderbolts. I suggested that we have Lightning AND Acidburn do the studying, this time as a combination with both the simulation and how I was taught.
  • Twilight:... You mean... A simulation where the historical events take place anywhere they fly? Hmm... I guess Acidburn wouldn't be able to keep track, and we've already established that a lot of people can see the simulation. The Gargoyles can only attack at night, and I guess the only ones who can protect them from the Gargoyles is either us or the simulated war-fighters.
  • Fluttershy:... Are you sure that'll work, Rainbow Dash?
  • Rainbow Dash: Look, it's the best we can come up with. Lightning Dust will get her studies straight, Acidburn will start bonding and having second thoughts, the Gargoyles and Man-Vulture will be dealt with very easily, and we won't have to worry about being dirty separators.
  • Twilight:... Well... Unfortunately, I haven't learned the higher levels of magical simulation, so it's going to take me a little while to perfect that spell.
  • Chow Mein: Well, it better be quick! The day is not going to last forever, and we need to mae sure to make time count.
  • Spike: "But how is Twilight suppose to quickly learn about that kind of Simulation Spell?!"
  • Rarity: "..... I think I know an old monk who might help. He recently took up residence in a self-made tree house in Everfree. He's considered a demi-god of magic, and without even being an Alicorn. His name is Mystic Pool."
  • Rainbow Dash: "And since WHEN do you know about a pony NOT a canterlot regel or some hot-shot fastion celeberty or any of your famous clients?"
  • Rarity: "..... I'll be bluntly honest girls.... I have been seeing this particular elder staillian for some time now cause...... Well, I'm envious to Twilight's magic being stronger then me and Mystic has been teaching me on how to make my own magical engry reach a certain level so I won't endup looking like a magical weakling."
  • Applejack: "And how long have you been seeing him?"
  • Rarity: "Since the start of season 6."
  • Pinkie: "Well how come you never tried anything as great as Twilight's?"
  • Rarity: "What do you take me for? Another Trixie? I only needed a stronger mana power so I won't look weaker compaired to Twilight. I also have been more, subtle, about it. I had nothing to gain over-deminstraighting my magic like I need to. Though it has helped me out abit. Like when I contended with Zesty Gourmand. She originally wanted nothing to do with going back to The Tasty Treat, so.... I, may've had to magicly hypnotised her to wanting to go back. Thing is, the spell I used is only good until she eats something she doesn't like, which is a ludercrist drawback mind you, so that's why I couldn't've allowed Zesty be given an original Tasty Treat dish other then Zesty won't liking it."
  • Pinkie: "So, her getting hit in the face by that yummy food snapped her back?"
  • Rarity: "Yes, my plan to trick that self-rightious sow to approve a totally different restaurent backfired thanks to poor communication."
  • Twilight: "Rarity, I'm kinda disappointed at you for doing that to Miss Zesty Gourmand."
  • Rarity: "I know it was bourish, but that old miserable mare is too accustomed to canterlot tradition that she turned every restaurent into the exact same thing or left it to suffer finacel problems and eventall closing. Unethical or not, if she doesn't want to be reasonable, she won't be worked with reasonably."
  • Twilight: "And that's understandable, but you commited the act of malmitulating someone, and that could in throey run a risk to your standing in Canterlot."
  • Rarity: "Oh don't worry about that. Cause of the Tasty Treat's rise to popularity and even without Zesty's approveal, well.... Let's just say I hope she doesn't enjoy being the "Queen of Crezine" for long, cause it would be rater unfortunate when ponies deside to not care for a critic's opinion, espeically if they're not doing a very good job of it."
  • Rainbow Dash: "So what, nopony's listens to her anymore?"
  • Rarity: "Well.... That, and she's being challnaged into Canterlot court by many restaurent owners for robbing them of their originally for the sake of approval, AND she has began to have bad tidings with her superiors of the Critics Union of Equestia."
  • Pinkie: "Well that party-pooper deserved it! I'm glad that meanie old mule's getting due karma!"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Wow, that is surprisingly NOT very Pinkie of you!"
  • Pinkie: "It takes alot, to actselly make me hate a person..... And that weird-taste loving old chrome did ALOT to actselly make me NOT wanna be her friend!? She didn't even TRIED to taste something new, she just huffed like a stiff and walked off! I don't even get her fastion sense, I mean, who just wears a jacket and NOT put your arms into it?! (Sighs)..... I'm this close of actselly being happy for the day she would ever die! THAT'S, HOW BAD IT IS?!"
  • Applejack: "Yowza! That must be one miserable pony if even Pinkie Pie has nothing nice to say about 'em, I reckon."
  • Rarity: "But we're off track. I'll be glad to arrange something with Mystic. But be warned.... He's abit of a cromudgen to strangers."
  • Applejack: "Ya mean he's an ornery old hermit with property issues?"
  • Rarity: "That's just your way of putting it. He's, a stallian who prefers his privacy."
  • Chow Mein: Then we better head there and hope he's in a good mood! (They head out)

Everfree Forest

  • Fluttershy:... Oh, sweet Celestia. Do we REALLY have to go back in there?
  • Rarity: Relax, darling, I know a safe passageway there. As long as none of those monsters in there pop out, I'm sure we can handle it. (They head out and entered a swampy portion of the Everfree)...
  • Applejack: Yikes. This seems pretty dern ominous for a "safe passageway".
  • Rarity: It may seem that way, but Mystic says that this swamp hardly serves as homes for beasts. Especially since he can scare off many of the creatures that used to live here, including those Cragadiles, or worse those swamp grindylows that he chased down the river. They have been known to be very rude and murderous to anypony who ventured in and tried to drown anypony who got too close.
  • Fluttershy: (Shivers in fear).
  • Rarity: That obviously didn't help your uncertainty about this place. Easy, Fluttershy, they're all gone now.
  • Fluttershy: Question? Why does Mystic live near this area?
  • Rarity: Simple. He wants isolation AND protection. This area is infamous enough for him not to be disturbed. (They approached a hut) There it is! Mystic's Hut.
  • Twilight: It seems pretty nice.
  • Rarity: I may've given him a little makeover when I first got here.
  • Applejack: Another question, how did you find out about Mystic in the first place?
  • Rarity: He happened to venture into Ponyville prior to our Crystalling event. At first, ponies thought it was Zecora, but then another identified him as a new stranger that might've been 'worse'. He's not a zebra or another intelligent ungulate, but he said he had been taking trips to the land where Zecora was said to have come from. He even met Mare-Zan every once in a while after rescuing him from a Cragadile. Now come, let's go introduce ourselves. (They entered the hut)... (Clears throat) MYSTIC! It's me, Rarity! I've got friends who might need you! Hello?
  • ???: "(Echos) Ordenarly, I complaint about having to contend with guests of those I do not know, NOR have invited, but this will be an exception."
  • Torches dramaticly turned on by themselves and reveiled that the hut is unrealisticly bigger inside then it is outside. It is also very unhut-like in interior design, looking more like a wizard's monistairy then a hut, filled to the brim with books, african relics and masks, skulls of every known creature of equestia, even some from beyond that, and even in the center, a magical pool with a reflection of the entire united universes.
  • Pinkie: "...... WOWIE KA-POWWIE, RARITY, YOU REALLY DID A NUMBER ON THIS GUY'S HUT!?"
  • Rarity: "Actselly, all I did was made the outside look nice in hut standerds. The rest of this is Mystic's doing. This, alone, speaks volumes of what he is capable of."
  • Fluttershy shivers around the creature skulls.
  • Twilight: "(Looks at Mystic's libary)..... I don't even think modern book publishers even make HALF of these anichent tomes anymore! I envy his ability to aquire these anichent books!"
  • Rainbow Dash: "If only he had something SOME OF US other then you would enjoy."
  • Pinkie gets very close to the Universe reflecting pool.
  • Pinkie: "Ohhhhh! This pool is pretty!"
  • Rarity: "PINKIE STOP! Mystic told me that this pool is very speical to him!"
  • Pinkie: "Would that be because of the fact you can see the united universes in it?"
  • ???: "More then just that, pink one."
  • A door at the end of the room opened abrubtly as a blinding white light engulfed the room as a figure walked forth.
  • The door closed as the light faded away, reveiling a bearded, aged, but somehow still walking upright and properly unicorn dressing like a powerful sage.
  • Applejack: "Mystic Pool, I assume?"
  • Mystic: "I actselly go by many names, but this one has become most common because of my discovvery of the biggest secret of everfree never thought possable."
  • Pinkie: "Ya mean this coolio universe pool?"
  • Mystic: "Careful! That pool is both very speical, sacred, and impourent to the universes as a whole, if not just to Equestia in a big way!"
  • Applejack: "And what's suppose to be so dang speical other then it's speical effects?"
  • Mystic: "More then any one would ever realise. I studied long about the fabled and lost, Everpool of Gaia."
  • Twilight: "This..... This thing is..... The legendary Everpool of Gaia?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Wait, you mean, Gaia Everfree, The Alicorn Goddess of Natrol Selection? She's been AWOL since the Choas Wars! What does she have to do with that freaky swimming hole?"
  • Mystic: "Gaia was the only one who realised how speical Equestia was, and how shockingly impourent to all things magic into this universe, and beyond."
  • Applejack: "Wait, are you going to suggest that-"
  • Mystic: "Yes..... Equestia, is the ever needed shorce of all magic to the rest of the universes."
  • Rainbow Dash: "HOLD UP, HOLD UP! That would imply that magic never existed until Equestia showed up! I mean, Gods have magic, do they?"
  • Mystic: "The power of gods is different from the kind of magic mortals can process. When the Alicorns created this world, they unknowingly created a pool that has caused magic to become avaluable to mortal kind. They inadvertingly made Equestia the shorce of all magic, and even outside devinities never truely understood why mortals can actcess magic and just assumed it was part of their natrul progress. This pool is how magic can be actcessed in worlds outside of Equestia, even in worlds where magic is not plentiful, though it's rare. But those pool, if you bathed in it, it will make you the most powerful being in this universe, as you will have actcess to both light and dark magic of every known and unknown world of these universes."
  • Main 7: "Whoaaaaa."
  • Starlight: "This pool is incredable!"
  • Spike: "Good thing you didn't knew about this pool back when you were still bad, huh? Then we would've been in BIG trouble."
  • Starlight: "No need to bring that up."
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Ok, so, Equestia is like, the mother of all magic because of like, a cool looking swimming pool. I can get that. But, WHY is it in the Everfree Forest?"
  • Mystic: "Like the answer isn't obvious. Not only very little people would dare traverse this place, but it was because of Gaia Everfree herself. She knew this pool was a dishastor waiting to happen if any dangerious threat made itself known. So.... That is why Everfree, and many other dangerious places exist. For you see, this pool, which has the misfortune of being in this filthy swamp, isn't the only one of it's kind."

Flashback.

  • (Mystic): "In many places that became inhopsitiable or dangerious, there are at least 6 great Pools of Everfree in each part of the entire world of Equestia. The 5 are carefully hidden underground or an extremely uncharted part of the area they're in by Gaia's design. But Gaia was one who was, over-cautious. She created the many hostile beasts and monsters designed and created to guard the pools. She became dedicated to the point that she never attended the Choas Wars. She abandoned her alicorn bretheren for a cause more impourent to her then to commit to what is simply yet another conflict of the universes. She wanted to make sure that the pools do not end up being included in that, or any other fight. But the news of the loss of her fellow alicorns did broke her heart. As an act of self punishment, she cursed herself into a deep sleep and casted her horn to run on auto-magic, allowing her to create more and more creatures to keep the pools safe without her direct preasence. The downside is, without her direct enfluence, not many of the new creatures understood their purpose, and simply acted like wild animals. But it benifited the protection of the pools reguardless."

Flashback ends.

  • Applejack: ".... Well, if that's true, then what's this one doing not secludedly hidden?"
  • Mystic: "It's barial was disturbed, by those that wanted to absorb the pool's magical gifts, for themselves. Two Gargoyles, named Narbol, and Pyrogrowmong. Under the orders of the Gargoyle King, and the Griffin, Manreious."
  • Rainbow Dash: "AKA Man-Vulture."
  • Applejack: "But why are they bugging the pools?"
  • Mystic: "They found one of them by accsident in the Goyland caves. They were attempting to capture the Goyland Pool's guardian, A Giant Cancer."
  • Pinkie: "Yikes! A giant uncureable desise protects a magical pool?"
  • Mystic: "(Sighs).... I meant Cancer like the name of the Star Constilation of the crab! Like, you know, the Ursas?"
  • Pinkie: "Ohhhhhh."
  • Rarity: "Ohhh I know this is going to lead to a "Rarity, get your sword" joke somewhere. Honestly, ever since that pirate adventure with that litteral giant crab in the comics, there was like alot of fanart and fanfics centered around me being a giant crab slayer for some bizare reason! Sometimes the Brony fandom is undutifully weird!"
  • Mystic: "This is why I came here. Prior to the day we have met Rarity, Manreious has been making the Gargoyles seek more of the Pools. From the darkest jungles,"

Flashback.

  • The Temple of Chicomoztoc was seen.
  • Another Pool was seen guarded by the Cipactli.
  • (Mystic): "The coldest unforgiving regions of the Frozen North."
  • Inside the cave around the path to Yak-Yakistan, is the cave that housed the Yeti-Babboon beast as it was seen sitting contently by another pool.
  • (Mystic): "The hottest desert of Saddle Arabia."
  • Deep within the Saddle Arabian sands lies Mongolian Death Worms hissing about around the pool.
  • (Mystics): "In the heart of the Badlands."
  • A great Badlands Golum carring a ghastly club rests around the pool in the center of the badlands.
  • (Mystic): "And as we now know, the ones in everfree,"
  • The formerly buried pool was guarded by the Hydra.
  • (Mystic): "And Goyland Caves."
  • A giant Star-Constailation Crab Beast simular in color like the Ursa creatures was seen guarding the pool jealiously.
  • (Mystic): "These creatures served as the main guardians out of the many others designed to deter adventures in the places at all, to protect the pools incase of the possability of one adventurer being too determined to be detered. However, thanks to the Pony-Gargoyle War..... Gaia's hopes of keeping these things obscured were compromised by the vengence hungry Gargoyles."
  • The Gargoyles are seen over-wealming the Cancer Crab and trapped it to the ground by chains.
  • (Mystic): "The beasts began to harvest the magic of the majustic Everfree Pool to try to rebuild what they had lost. But then Man-Vulture came and desided that it will be made to be given a greater use. It, and the many other pools, shall be used for a dark grand sceame. So, two of the strongest Gargoyles, have went out of their way to claim the othe pools. One by one."
  • Two Gargoyle Silluettes, one big and strong, another seemingly with it's hands on fire, were seen, beating the Cipactli, the Yeti-Boon, The Death Worms, and the Golum."
  • (Mystic): "The two captured the other guardians of the pool, and have them sent to be imprisoned into the Gargoyle donguins. The Hydra was the last of the creatures they chased. It's leading head was smart enough to lead them away from the pool while it was still unknown."
  • The Strong Gargoyle slams the Hydra down and tied their necks into a knot!
  • (Mystic): "But still ultamately captured....."

Flashback ends.

  • Mystic: "Thankfully, the other creatures kept the pool safe in event of returns, then I took over when I asserted myself as the the alpha of this land. I gave this pool something unsentient creatures could little offer."
  • Applejack: "Wait, Rainbow, didn't ya head to that Chicomozotc place in the new episode?"
  • Rainbow Dash: "Well yeah! But.... I thought it only hold that ambulet we got from there."
  • Mystic: "The Ambulet was but one of many treasures it protected. The Temple was made by anichent Aztec Goblins who were dedicated to Gaia Everfree."
  • Twilight: "But why the pony symbolisum there?"
  • Mystic: "It was part of their tribute. They created hylogriflics dedicated to Pony culture instead of their own."
  • Pinkie: "I think I ran into that Yetbooni once. He kinda tried to kill me."
  • Mystic: "The Yetbooni was only trying to scare you away from the pool's location. If he wanted you dead, he would've done more then just given you a free mane-cut."
  • Twilight: "Well, did the same implied to that Hydra that chased us?"
  • Mystic: "Indeed. The Hydra just wanted to keep the pool safe from potaintional misuse, so it only wanted to scare you away from it. After you gotten out of it's reach, it felt that it's job was done and mocked you on your failure for what it assumed that you were here for the pool."
  • Fluttershy: "Oh dear, I didn't mean to make that thing concerned, I was only releasing some frogs there that day."
  • Applejack: "But why would she create critters that want to kill and eat us?"
  • Mystic: "She is the Alicorn of Natrol Selection after all. She had a, darwin view of the world. And she was looking out for the pool's best interests because their power could easily be used to upset balence in the wrong hooves, or hands for that matter."
  • Pinkie: "Wow...... Is, that how you managed to pull all this off?"
  • Mystic: "NO!? I would not dare tamper with the magic being shared to the universes for things like this! I earned my great skill in magic through time and patience. You see, magic is respondsable for more then just it's own devices. It's the reason why there's such a thing as other forms of great mortal potaintional. It is why in some worlds, science became king, because magic is respondsable for imagination, which lead to even the likes of futuristic uptopias, and even super-beings, though they're no longer true magic as they're more mortal imaginations fully realised. In other worlds, magic is respondsable for the birth of Chi and enlightenment, and sometimes, the incredable physical feets most mortal beings could not hope to dream.... Even when magic has no influence to a truely scientific or a world dominated by another shorce of power, those have happened, because of Equestia being the shorce of all things impourent, and the Gods themselves, never realised this."
  • Rainbow Dash: "..... Whoa..... Badass. HA! Can you imagine the Lougers' reactions when they discover that the reason why even like what half of what they are now are because of Equestia having magical pools!? Espeically Kolwalski! He'll be like when he was reacting to the rocks from that Groka place! Rememeber that episode?"
  • Pinkie: "(Laughs) YEAH! He was all like "It makes no seaaaa.... It makes no saaaa!"! (Laughs) And I can only dream of what Icky's gonna be like!?"
  • Rarity: "Most likely he'll do a couple minutes of ranting and then get bonked on the noggon for being rude."
  • Spike: "Wow, this got serious. It surely can't get more serious then this."
  • Mystic: "It does. Gaia's self-punished sleep will soon come to an end, and when it does, she will not like what the Gargoyles are doing, and will gain control of every creature of equestia of her creation, to destroy the Gargoyles for their reakless actions and for being parasites of Equestias' accsidental gift to all of the United Universes."
  • Chow Mein: "Yikes?! Who she be THAT cruel?!"
  • Mystic: "Again, Alicorn of Natrol Selection. What did you expect of her?"

Chapter 4: An Epic Foxfight Battle Erupts/Rainbow Dash vs. Acidburn

Chapter 5: Lightning's Progress Ensues

Epilogue

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