Ch. 10: Alien vs Alicorn
"And so, after getting back from our Egypt landing and knowing Evil Ghostfreak snuck into my Omnitrix, which Azmuth took out and locked up a couple of months after the Battle of Bellwood and sent him faraway where he can't escape to do more harm. We all got back into the Rust Bucket and continue our road trip. But what made this victory so much greater is that I no longer feel scared turning into normal Ghostfreak ever since, the end." Dan finishes up his story as he leans back and floats with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face.
Skystar and Novo both had awed looks at the story, amazed at what he had done in that event. "That was so intense!" "Wow… All I had ever done exciting is watching the sea races down here, which can get boring after a while." Skystar said while Novo complains, jealous At Dan's adventures while she and the other Hippogriffs are stuck under the water, hiding from the Storm King.
Just then, they heard a ping sound from the others as the alien kid and the mother-daughter royal duo looks at them. They saw that they were getting out of their trances one-by-one and were shaking their heads. Dan swam back in front of them just as they stop shaking and opens their eyes to see him in front of them, making the group of friends stares in wonder at the boy whose memories they had just saw.
"Wait just a minute, here. You're a kid?" "You're from another world?" "You found an alien device that is called the Omnitrix?" "That watch really contains over 10,000 alien DNA, that each one has amazing powers, inside it?" "You became a superhero and help others and battled monsters, villains and bad aliens?" "You really saved the universe, twice?" AJ, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Spike and Twilight questions him respectively. "Uh… Yea?" "That… is… so AWESOME!"Rainbow Dash exclaims out loud as she and the others swarm around him and asked him questions about his life, adventures, family and his aliens.
Later, after answering some questions from his new fan club and getting everyone to calm down, Twilight got an idea. "This is Amazing!" She then swims up to the queen, who is holding her pearl protectively away from her as he leans on her throne rest. "If we could combine your pear's magic with the alien DNA of the Omnitrix, we can turn everypony back home into powerful aliens to face the Storm King's army!"
"Or… The pearl will end up in his greedy claws and you would be doing what Vilgax tried to do, also going against Azmuth's wishes: Weaponizing the Omnitrix and giving innocent civilians uncontrollable power that will make them cause more harm than good!" Novo scolded Twilight, warning her that she was planning to make the Omnitrix into a weapon when it is not and reminding her of the consequences. Twilight realizes what she was planning was the same thing that intergalactic warlord was planning, especially after seeing Vilgax's horrible vision of him ruling the Universe via Dan's memory, fearing the exact same thing will happen to Equestria if Vilgax had an army of Omnitrices invaded her home instead of the Storm King.
"I'm sorry. I was so excited of discovering something more powerful than anything in this world, I didn't realize I was doing the same thing that horrible monster is planning." "It's okay, sweetie. Honey, I'm sorry about your home. I truly am. But my responsibility is to protect my subjects. The pearl... is not going anywhere." Novo accepts her apology and sympathizes with her, but was still frim with her decision on the pear as she returns it back to it's jellyfish.
Twilight swims in front of her throne, begging to reconsider. "But we've come all this way. And you can't just hide down here! Trapped forever! There's so much you're missing!" "We are one hundred percent okay with that!" "Really? Cause to me, you sound like your scared!" "What!?" Novo yells out as she turns to Dan, who had his arms crossed and his face in a scowl. "You're scared! Instead of facing the Storm King, you and others just ran away and hide! Like scared babies." Dan insults her as the others look in shock.
Novo narrows her eyes and growls at the kid. "How dare you insult me, young man!" "I'm not scared of you, queeny. I faced down Vilgax, Chaoticcaster, Forever Knights, Bounty Hunters and Animo and his mutants. Do you honestly think I'm scared of an angry sea queen?" Dan counters, making Novo realized that he was right and decided to just listen to him, but keeps glaring at him.
"My Grandpa taught me sometimes, you need to take a chance of doing the right thing, even if there's a possible chance of failure! Weather it's fighting back invaders or helping others, you need to take a risk in order to win! But instead, you made everyone wuss out and keep them locked in this place, with no chance of going back! Look at your subjects and daughter, Novo! They want to explore the world! They want to be free! But instead, you're acting just like the Storm King! Making people doing what you want and never caring about their wishes." Dan told Novo and gestures to her guards and her daughter.
Although, they were tough when they first came here, but now looking at them and the others outside, they had all had a face of fear and despair as Skystar rubs her left fin on right foreleg in a guilty manner. They weren't living in a paradise; they were in a prison as prisoners and their queen is the warden.
Novo looks down in thought at what he had told as she looks at her daughter and guards. So wonders if what she is doing is not the right thing, is she really holding her people as captives and hiding like a coward instead of being a brave and great leader? She knows from his memory that Max Tennyson is a wise and great leader, so is what he said is really true? Is what she has been doing wrong? Should she have taken a chance and fight back instead of running with there tails between their legs
She also thought about what Dan had said about her refusing help. As she thought about it more and more, she realizes that she is basically selling the ponies out to the Devil himself. She starts realization herself that she really is acting like the Storm King while adopting a look of guilt on her face.
Just then, a small octopus that looks like a butler appears by the queen, talking in gibberish that the queen apparently understands. "Yes, Jamal?" She then gained an excited look on her face at what her servant had just told her. "Ooh! Time for my seaweed wrap." She then swims off the throne and through one of jellyfish tendril-covered windows as Jamal calls out to her.
"Yes, a massage, too. Mama needs her deep tissue." She then leaves the throne room with her butler, leaving the kid hero and his friends as they all gather around him. "While we all are impressed with your speech, sugarcube. But is that it? We left our homes for nothing?" Applejack questions to the hero, just as Skystar spoke up, gaining everyone's attention.
"Oh, my gosh! Best… idea! You can stay with us! Forever! There are so many things we can do! We can make friendship bracelets out of shells and… picture frame out of shells and… decorative wastebaskets out of shells…Oh, I have so many projects that involve shells, Haha! Now I have someone new to share them with! I mean, aside from my friends, Shelly and Sheldon. Right? "Shelly?" and "Sheldon?" Get it?" She chuckles as she holds her friends, which are really a couple of clams with google eyes on them. Pinkie smiles at the clams while the ponies and Spike had uneasy smiles at her "friends", a bit weirded out by them. Dan had puzzled expression as he blinks blankly at the princess, questioning her sanity.
While Pinkie swam up closer at her "friends", Dan starts pointing his left thumb at the princess, gaining the other's attention. He then starts twirling his right finger around his bubble helmet as cuckoo clock noises are being heard in the background, the sure sign of craziness.
The others mild glare at him for the rude meaning while Rarity nudge at him to stop, Making raise his hands in mock surrender as Rarity then swims up to the 2 and tells them.
"Ooh, ooh… That sounds lovely, darling, but you must realize, we can't stay." "We've gotta get back to our families." " And I need to get back to my world to my family and to defend it against evil." Rarity, AJ and Dan explained to Skystar why they can't stay, gaining a sad expression at her new friends leaving her. "Oh, no. Of course. Heh. Of course you have your own friends back home. It's fine. It's fine. Heh. Shelly and Sheldon get jealous anyways. Heh. It's probably for the best. Yeah, I'll just, um… I'll get Mom to, uh, turn you back so you can go home." Skystar sadly tells them as she swims off to her mom, feeling heartbroken.
Dan and Pinkie watched in sadness as she left, feeling bad for her as Dan rubs at his arm in guilt. "I know we have to go, but you guys saw how disappointed Princess Skystar was. Couldn't we stay for just a little longer?" "Pinkie, we just don't have time for—" "Oh, no. No no. Pinkie's right." Twilight interrupts Applejack and agreeing with Pinkie, much to Rainbow and Dan's confusion and said in unison. "Say what now?"
"Well, we still need to come up with a plan to get back. A few minutes won't make a difference. And if there's anypony who can cram a lifetime of fun into a blink of an eye, it's Pinkie Pie!" Twilight explains as she holds Pinkie's hooves and compliments her, making her squeal in joy.
Dan, on the other hand, is suspicious. Twilight was trying to get the queen to borrow the pearl from her one minute and now she wants the others to have fun with Skystar the next? His gut instincts were telling him something's wrong. They never let him down before in his hero work and now, they are telling him that Twilight is planning something bad. "I won't let you down!"
Pinkie saluted, snapping Dan out of his thoughts as Twilight starts pushing him and others out of the throne room. "I'm counting on it." Twilight told them as she sees them off and then turns back to the jellyfish. Unbeknownst to her, Dan snuck away from the group just as the left through one of the windows and hides behind a pillar, watching Twilight.
"What is she up to?" Dan questions to himself and then notices Twilight is staring up at the Jellyfish that contains the magic pearl. Thinking to himself, Dan tried to figure why she is looking at pearl when he remembers that Charmcaster looked at the Omnitrix the same way when she first knows about it.
Butting some thought to it, he Gasps in shock! Dan could not believe what he is seeing! Twilight is going to steal Queen Novo's pearl and from the Hippogriffs! Putting on his hero face, Dan swam out of his hiding place and behind her, calling out to her and frightening her, making her turn in shock.
"Twilight!" "Dan!? What are you doing back here!?" " I heard what you said. I'm stopping you from stealing from the Hippogriffs!" Dan declares as he gets in a battle position. "Dan, you have to understand. This is the only way to save Equestria." "No it isn't, there's always another way, Twilight. But stealing from allies is wrong and you know it." "I know, but I'm still going through with this, wither you like it or not! There is no other way!"
Twilight then turns around, but just she was about to swim towards the jellyfish, Dan quickly grabs her tail and tossed her away to just above the ground hole. She looks at Dan, who has his fists raised and his eyes narrowed, and frowns at him. "Ohh… Making me mad is a huge mistake, Watch boy!" " Me too! I'm protecting the pearl!
Dan activates the Omnitrix and twists the dial until he stops at the Ripjaws icon. "Turn me into Heatblast, you're dead meat!" Dan threatens the watch and slaps the dial. A brief flash of green light came from the Omnitrix as his body morphs while being engulfed by green energy.
He clenches his hands as scales spread though his body. He thrusts his new 4 clawed webbed hands open as a lure thrusted from his forehead while gills flared open on his neck. His ears disappeared as his face became fish-like. His teeth then burst out of his vanishing lips and became sharp as he flares open his all green eyes. His legs morphed into a black with green strips tail that has a green fin at the end, just at the Omnitrix belt formed at the waist. He thrusts his open claws out and lets out a screech just as the transformation ends.
Twilight looks in shock at seeing Dan transform from human form and in person, but steels her face at Ripjaws. "Yes! Finally, an alien I want!"Ripjaws cheers at himself as looks his claws and pops his air bubble since he needs his jaws. Twilight then approaches him as he holds out his left hand with his claws in a grabbing motion. "Stay back, princess!" "Or what? You're going to give me a pinch?" " Fight me and you're going to get a lot more than a pinch." Ripjaws counters Twilight's taunt as he narrows his eyes at her.
Twilight grits her teeth as she charges up her horn. She makes the first move and fires a purple beam at Ripjaws, who dodges out of the way. She keeps firing as he swims around the room at high speed, dodging the shots. He then swims towards and tackles her, knocking her against a pillar and punches her a couple times before Twilight knocks him back with an energy blast. She then blasts him again and sent him crashing into a part of the garden.
She then starts swimming towards the pearl's resting place as Ripjaws rubs his head for a bit and looks to his right to see a long piece of seaweed by his hand. As he looks to see Twilight by the jellyfish and tries to get by the singers, he gets an idea and starts fashioning the kelp into a long lasso. He then swings it around above his head and throws it at Twilight, grabbing her by the waist and pulls back, making her yelp in surprise.
Ripjaws lets go of his lasso and rushes toward Twilight, who had just stop above the hole. He then starts using a hit and run tactic, slamming into her as he passes by her a few times. Just as Ripjaws stops in front of her, she surprises him with a quick magic blast that sent him flying towards the jellyfish. He bumps into the stingers and quickly frees himself, but unfortunately, it sets off an alarm as a red light blinked on and off from the jellyfish as it displays the pearl, wrapped safely in it's stingers. Both combatants did not pay attention to this as they were both glaring at each other. They both let out a battle cry as they charged at each other.
Meanwhile with the others, they had just finished a musical number about how one small thing can make a difference. Queen Novo laughs, glad to have some fun after so long. The group of friends all laugh as they grouped and hugged each other. "Well.. I guess there is one small thing we can do." She told her daughter, who nods happily with her. The others were happy as they are about to get help they had looking for.
BWOOP BWOOP BWOOP BWOOP! Just the, the pearl alarm blared out, making the group gain looks of surprise. "The pearl alarm! Oh, no the pearl alarm!" A seapony cries out as Skystar gasps in shock As Novo looks in stern at her daughter. Wasting no time, Novo and the others swam back to the palace, getting in via floor hole.
When they arrived at the throne room, he look at the jellyfish that clutching the pearl protectively. Just then, they heard a grunt of pain from Twilight behind them. They turn and widen their eyes in surprise. Twilight was tossed up high and was suddenly grabbed by the face by Ripjaws. He then dives down and drags her across the floor, passing the others as they stare in shock. He smashed Twilight against the throne and lets go of her.
He Then grabs the discarded lasso and wraps it around Twilight's waist. He then yanks up before slamming her down on to the floor and then turns around and did the same thing on the other side, making Twilight grunt in pain. He then yanks her up and pulls her towards him before slapping her hard with his tail, sending her crashing into the chair.
Ripjaws then picks up a few pieces of coral and spins around really fast before tossing them at Twilight at the speed of a torpedo, hitting her hard. Twilight then recover and snarls at Dan as she charges her horn while rushing at him as the transformed kid did the same thing.
Novo decided enough is enough and snarls, swimming to the middle point as the others look on in fear and worry. "STOP! STOP IT, BOTH OF YOU!" She calls out as she holds her fins in front of each fighter, stopping them just a few inches from her. She went to the jellyfish and turns off the alarm and grabs her pearl, swimming back down to the fighters, who are looking at her with all their attention. "All right, what in the name of whirlpools is going on in here?!"
"Your majesty, I can explain! Dan was trying to steal your pearl!" Twilight lies as she points at the Piscciss Volann, who was shocked at what she had said. "That's a lie! Novo, it's Twilight who wanted to steal your pearl in the first place! I was trying to protect it!" " No way, it was you in the first place!" "No, you!" "No, you!" Ripjaws and Twilight kept arguing back and forth as everyone was scared and confused. Who is telling the truth? Is it Twilight or Dan?
"ENOUGH! You 2, stop auguring like babies!" Novo yells out, stopping their yelling. She takes a deep breath and speaks to the both of them. "Okay, since I don't know who is telling the truth, and I can't trust you 2 alone in my kingdom with my subjects' safety at risk cause of your fighting. I giving you both a timeout up on the surface, giving you 10 mins to confess who tried to steal our pearl when I get up there by the end of the time limit."
Novo said as Skystar moves the others out the way as Twilight and Ripjaws stares wide eyed as the angry queen as she raised her pearl and commanded more magic at them. "Ohh… This is so not good." Ripjaws states as the last words from the queen before his vision is engulfed by the energy were. "I don't know who did it, but I do know this. One of you doesn't deserve to be one of us."