Welcome to the newest chapter everypony!
DB: And I'm here to co-host, since I'm currently not planned to be in the story!
Me: And now you're leaving.
DB: No I'm not. You can't make me.
Me: Please enjoy the newest chapter while me and DB argue behind the scenes.
Steel was in his base of operations. Which was really just a clearing in Whitetail Woods far enough off the path that it wouldn't be found by accident. But, even if it were, no pony would know it was Steel's base, as the suit was always hidden in bushes. Anyways, he was having a conversation with himself, it seemed.
"Of course this is a great idea! Sure, we may have two ponies that don't really like Steel, but everypony else likes us." He paused for a moment before waving his hoof dismissively. "Practice is unneeded. There's no way we can mess up." Another pause. He shook his head. "The controls are already known inside out. The functions are already known to us." He paused again, then groaned. "Fine. We'll find out what all we can and can't do."
His boosters lit up, and he took off, being just above the trees. He flew to the mountains. He searched for a little bit before finding a boulder about five times his size. "Perfect start for a strength test." He flew to it and got into the best position to lift it up. He lifted it over his head, with little strain. He then gave it a toss and blasted it into bits. "Okay. Seems we found the maximum we can lift. Let's see if we can still use the unicorn ability, even though I'm not a unicorn." He grunted slightly before the metal horn began to glow an orange color. He then shot a blast out of it, hitting a rock and it turned into an orange. He chuckle slightly. "Seems we have a snack for later. Let's see what other things we can do!" He then lit his horn again, and he shot a blast out of it, hitting a mountain, revealing a dragon in it and the dragon seemed to have been sleeping and they woke it up. "Uh oh."
He blasted off just before the dragon blasted where he had just been. The dragon followed them into the sky. The dragon shot a few more blasts of fire that Steel barrel rolled out of the way of. Steel turned over to be flying on his back and returned fire. Each blast was dodged by the dragon. Steel turned back around and narrowly dodged a mountain. "Woah! That was close." He turned his head back to see the dragon push off against the mountain. They dodged a few blasts. A gun came out of his shoulder. He turned around as fast as he can and blasted the dragon with the gun, which only seemed to anger the dragon more. Steel pointed his hooves forward and blasted with all three of his weapons, causing the dragon to fall some, as they hit the dragon's face. When the dragon got reoriented, he turned t follow Steel. "Isn't there something else we got!?" Suddenly, part of the wings opened up and shot a couple of missiles. "What was that!?" Steel turned around and watched as the dragon dodged the first missle, but was hit by the other, knocking it out of the sky with a big explosion. "AWESOME!" Steel then slammed into a mountain. "Ow." Steel peeled himself off of the mountain and looked at the cracks he put into it. He then turned to where the dragon was currently trying to shake the cobwebs out of its head. "Time to go." Steel flew off as fast as he could.
a few minutes later, middle of nowhere in the air
Steel hovered slightly in the air, again talking to himself. "Okay. We need to practice more. We should also get more of those...whatever they were that we shot out of our wings." Steel hovered to a cloud, but when he tried standing on it, he fell through. "What the? Why can't we stand on it?" He was silent for a few moments, again trying to land on it. "You mean to tell me we can cast spells with no training, yet we are unable to stand on clouds. How does that make sense?" He sighed. "So, what else should we do to train?" After a few seconds of silence, he said, "Alright. Speed test it is." He then flew off in a random direction, the mach cone eventually began to form. He put his hooves behind him and began to use them to increase his speed, then closed his metal wings to increase how aerodynamic he was. The mach cone was just about to break before the boosters stopped, launching Steel out of control. "WHAT HAPPENED!?" After a few seconds, he screamed, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SUIT RAN OUT OF POWER!?" He let out a groan. After a while, he finally crashed into the Everfree, his eyes not lit up. "Great. Now what?" He was able to just barely move his head and noticed they were just a few feet away from the edge.
that evening
Steel's suit was recharged and he was again talking to himself, though his voice sounded a little different. "Alright. We're going to need to keep a better watch on power drain. We need to study what drains the power the most, and we need to finish the speed test later." Steel was quiet for a moment. "Well, what if we're in the middle of a burning house and we run out of power! Or what is something is attacking Ponyville and the suit runs out of power? We need to make sure to keep the suit charged. Tomorrow, we're going to see what takes more energy." The suit then opened up, the eyes shutting off and whoever inside hid it again before leaving.
Me: And that is why we can't have grapefruit in the intros and outros!
DB: Um, I think the argument went longer than it should have, since the outro has started.
Me: Oh. Right. Anyways. I would have done more for them crashing into the Everfree, had it not been for the fact it would have given away who was the Steel Stallion. But, I'm sure some of you have figured it out. Others are wondering how anyone could have figured it out.
DB: We will say those of you that haven't figured it out, you will be laughing when it is revealed. Those that have figured it out may also be laughing. Right now, if you've figured it out, you're probably thinking either, "Oh brother. What's gonna be happening next?" Or , "Really? They are the Steel Stallion? Really?" The first group, most likely chuckling.
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