Here is the next chapter in Sonic and Tails Equestrian adventures. some new faces are going to be joining the story in this chapter, ugly faces. I just thought that it would add a bit of a twist to the Tale.
Disclaimer:
My Little Pony is property of Hasbro and the Hub
Sonic the hedgehog is property of Sega and Sonic team
Now to the story…
Pre: After the days celebration, Tails and the princesses are working hard to locate the next emerald from the looking-glass's new coordinates (sort of). Later that night, at the ends of Equestria, a deal was being made with an old 'friend.'
Chapter 14- I've got a proposal for you.
The party came and went as the day soon turned to dawn. It being so much closer to the night, Princess Luna had finally woken up and was able to join Tails and Celestia, who were now the sol residents of the throne room. Every-pony went about their own business while Tails and the princesses began to triangulate the coordinates for the next emerald. With the four emeralds in their hooves, and paws, the signal of the looking-glass had, once again, grown in intensity, and gave another faint signal of an emerald of a much farther distance.
"So ladies, what do you say?" Tails addresses the princess.
"That's 'your highnesses' to you" Luna responded, irritated.
"Be calm Luna, there is no need to be so formal amongst friends," Celestia pointed out
"Right, friends, so 'ladies,'" Luna got even more irritated, "(hehehe, looks like I got a bit Sonic's mischievous side) do you have any ideas, on this one."
"We regret to inform that we are unaware of this location," Luna announced.
"Well it is obviously close to Ponyville, I can see that, but the location seems a bit open." Celestia pointed out.
Tails and the princesses continue to ponder just where it is that the emerald could be located. The area on the map, indicating that the emeralds location, seemed to be an open field very close to Ponyville, but in an area that was bellow the surface. The indicating light was giving a very wide area of search and it was difficult to get an exact location.
"We have the coordinates, but without any instrument to calculate them, how will they know if they're in the right location," Tails theorizes.
"Perhaps if they had Twilight's looking-glass they could…"
"No," Tails interrupted Luna, "the area is still too wide, and I won't have anyway to communicate with them if they go too far. Maybe…, Celestia do you think you can zoom in on the image," Celestia follows Tails instruction. Her horn starts to shine its golden light and the image map starts to zoom in a bit, but so does the indicating light. "That's enough, now let me see, Luna," Tails looks toward the night princess, "could you try lifting one of those emeralds, but not all the way." Luna's horn starts to glow, in an attempt to lift one of the emeralds up, "Wait, Luna!" The scream causes Luna's horn to stop glowing, "Remember what Twilight and the others said, we can't use magic on the emeralds or we may risk blowing up your entire palace."
"My apologize I forgot," Luna apologized
"Well be more careful, unless of course you and Celestia are thinking about getting a new home," Tails joked.
"I quite like where we live now actually," said Celestia
"Well tell that to Luna," Tails added
"Luna, I quite enjoy where we live."
"I Understand Already!" Luna began to lift the red emerald up, with her hooves this time, while Tails guided her.
"Alright, a little bit higher," Luna raised the emerald, and as she did, both the map clarity and the indicating light's intensity grew dimmer and dimmer. "Okay, that's enough," Luna stopped while Tails inspected the location again, "I can see it now; the emerald seems to be inside some kind of large fissure in the ground."
"Yes, I recognize it now," Celestia claims, "that's the gorge just outside of Ponyville. The name escapes me, but it is suppose to be very dangerous to those who do not know where they are going."
"Dangerous huh, looks like it's time for us to call in our pair of daredevils," Tails suggests.
"I agree," Celestia responded
"Quite," agreed Luna
"Alright then, it's final. Good work team, a fox could not ask for better assistants," Said Tails.
"Come again," Luna was not happy about her new title.
"Well, the day grows dim, and I believe that it's time that we all get our rest, so I bid you goodnight," said Tails as he began to leave for his room.
"Oh, is there anything that you would like us to bring you sir," Luna said sarcastically, "…some warm milk, your slippers perhaps."
"That's very kind of you to offer, but I think that I can manage."
"Well goodnight then professor," now Celestia said sarcastically
"Goodnight Celestia and goodnight Luna." Luna's anger was clear on her face at this point. Her eyes had been blazing with dark energy and her horn was even more so.
"She says goodnight as well," Answered Celestia, while Tails left down the hall and toward his room.
"You relies that he was trying to annoy you right." Celestia addressed Luna as the two began walking the castles many halls, attempting to reach their chambers.
"We can not stand this insolence any longer," Luna shouted in response. "Visitors or no, to show such disrespect to their superiors is simply unforgivable. Calling us, the rulers of the land of Equestria, his assistants…"
"Technically we were assisting him. We have no clue how that devise works; Tails is the one that created it, and without him we may never find the emeralds."
"That does not excuse it!"
"Luna calm down, remember that both Sonic and Tails are risking their lives for us in order to help protect our world, a world that is unfamiliar to them, it is probably taking its toll. Making jokes could very well be their way of coping with this".
"Yes but…" Luna began to calm herself.
"…and recall, in their last mission, Tails protected Fluttershy from whatever Tatarin' like events went on in the Rainbow Factory, so that shows just what a good person he is, right?"
"I suppose…"
"So there you have it; next time he tries to get under your skin, just remember that. Can you do that for me?"
"…alright, 'I' shall try."
"Good, now we should probable get some rest. Goodnight sister," Celestia said as she began toward her chambers
"Goodnight Tia," Luna said as she did the same. However, before she reached her room, Luna could not help but look back at her sister, who was still wearing that long cloak. "(Why does that cloak give me such a feeling)." The more she looked, the un-easier she felt. Luna tried heading to her chambers and just push back the feeling, as she had done for so long now, but it proved far too difficult this time, "Tia..."
Celestia reached her chambers, where she could be alone with her thoughts. "(Our little guest really did get under Luna's skin today,)" she thought to herself, "(not that I really enjoyed that taunting myself, but I suppose the benefits will just have to out way the costs this time. At least I will only have to deal with this for a little while longer)," Celestia began to stare at the Chaos inhibitor armor that one of the guards had hung in her room at her request. "Only a bit longer..."
Meanwhile, far out on the outskirts of Equestria, deep within a dark cave were light struggled to escape, a large group laid in wait, the Changelings. The pony-shaped, bug-like, parasitic creatures, which feed on the very love and feelings of friendship that Equestria runs on, took refuge in this cave after their last run in with Twilight and her friends. Within the caves core, their queen, Queen Chrysalis, stood within her nest, deep in thought.
"Curse that Twilight Sparkle, and her pathetic pack of friends," she muttered to herself in her echoed voice. Chrysalis had a similar black, cell covered body and insect-like wings that her changelings did and a long mint green mane and tail; she was as tall as Celestia herself with a horn to match; and her mouth was fanged like a bats, for draining the love out of her victims. "My children and I can not reside in this sorry excuse for a home forever. If things continue as they do, it will not be long before I wither and die, and my children shall not be too far away," Chrysalis looked over toward her 'children;' while many of them fought and fed like normal, a lot were noticeable weaker and slower than the rest. "No, I refuse to quit, I will find a suitable source of nourishment for my family if I have to destroy the princesses and their little followers myself to do so."
"Such a devoted mother, I must say that I respect that."
"What the…" Chrysalis turned her attention to the cave entrance path, toward the source of the comment.
"So your family is in a bit of a famine," The voice said, as the source walked up to Chrysalis, "Well I might be able to help with that." A tall pony, rapped from head to toe in a black cloak walked across the path. Her voice echoed, similar to Chrysalis's and was definitely that of a mares.
"Who are you?" Chrysalis asked in anger
"That's not important, I'm offering you the chance to save this infestation of a family, do you want it or not?"
"Infestation…, you know, I think you already gave me a way to save my family. Children…," all of the Changelings began swarming around the stranger at their mothers request, "…feeding time," they launched toward her in a feeding frenzy.
"Pathetic," before they could get close, three massive snake tails appeared from under the cloak and began striking the changelings from out of the sky with blinding speeds. The stranger began walking closer and closer to Chrysalis as the tails continue mercilessly attacking the changelings around her. Chrysalis began backing up in fear as the stranger kept getting closer and closer still. Once the last changeling fell, the tails contracted together and struck right above Chrysalis's head, causing the sealing the collapse. Before the ruble could crush the Changeling queen, the tails smashed through it, causing them instead to land around her, crushing the nest and any unborn changelings with it.
Chrysalis looked back toward her nest in terror, "My children!" she screamed, "you…"
"Yes…," the stranger appeared right in front of Chrysalis's turned head, causing her to jump back into the ruined nest. She looked around the cave to see that every one of her changelings, that were not hiding by now, had been completely incapacitated.
"Huh…what do you want?" she said through fearful pants.
"Oh, so you're ready to listen now? Well then I have something for you." She reaches a hoof under her cloak and began to pull something out. Chrysalis prepares for the worst. The large pony pulled out a large diamond and held it out to Chrysalis.
"A gem, what I'm suppose to do with that?"
"And I thought that you were so magically inclined. Fine then, allow me to demonstrate," she held the jewel high above her head, as it gave off a great light, That breathed life back into all of the downed changelings and gave them far more energy than before, including Chrysalis.
"Huh… so much power," she looked on as the changelings started to fly around the cave after being on the ground only seconds ago. "What did you do?"
"You changelings like to absorb the magic of love in order to survive right," Chrysalis nodded, "that's cute, but this, this chaos emerald, can give you far more than that."
"Chaos emerald," she was interested now.
"These emeralds absorb much more than just their wielders love, but also their hate, their happiness, their sadness, their pain, their triumph. Just one of these emeralds is enough the feed your family for 100-lifetimes," she tossed the emerald to Chrysalis, "just think what you could do with all of them."
"All of them?"
"There are seven of these emeralds in all, each one just as powerful. Right now three more of these emeralds can be found at Canterlot castle, as well as a devise that can be used to find all of the rest."
"Canterlot Castle!?" Chrysalis wasn't too thrilled to hear about that, "What makes you think that I would risk attacking that fortress of a kingdom?"
"…Because this is your only chance to do so," the stranger sternly pointed out to Chrysalis.
"What do you mean?" Chrysalis said in absolute confusion.
The stranger was smiling, it was so easy to get Chrysalis interested, and all she needed was one more push. "I won't go into detail, but let's just say that a series of events have been set in motion that leave that kingdom almost completely defenseless; their ruler is far too exhausted to defend herself; their forces have been spread out through Equestria; and the best part is that Twilight Sparkle and her 'pathetic friends' can not use the elements against you."
"How do you know all this?"
"…Because I'm smart enough to find my every advantage before entering my targets home; a habit that you don't seem to have." The strangers tone changed to a smugger and insulting one
"Come again?" Chrysalis was not thrilled at the comment coming from her already unwelcome guest.
"I heard of your last invasion on Canterlot, if you can call it that. You tried getting rid of your last obstacle by sealing her in the same cell as your first, but those obstacles happened to be a being of immense power that knew ever inch of the cell and another being that could give her strength. Not the best option." Chrysalis was not enjoying all of the mocking. "Lucky for you, I don't leave things to chance. If you follow my instructions, you will be granted more power than you could ever possibly imagine."
Chrysalis was doubtful about trusting her (with good reason) "Why do you need me? You came into my nest and laid waist to all of my Changelings with little to no effort at all, why do you not just take the castle yourself?"
"I have my reasons. I'll only say that my own ambitions will become more possible after, you have taken Canterlot. So what is your answer?"
Chrysalis was still not sure; the emerald she already had could feed her entire family for her whole life (and that's far longer than any pony's life).
"I'm promising limitless power, a chance at complete triumph, and most importantly, revenge," the stranger stressed. Chrysalis heard revenge and somehow the stranger became much more trusting, "can you really pass on such a chance," She looked into the emerald again and gave a large smile as its light continued to feed her and her changelings. Her decision was clear.
To be continued
Rainbow Dash: OH man, oh man, oh man. Rainbow was flying around her room eagerly
Fluttershy: Rainbow Dash, are you ok. Fluttershy was ready to get some sleep
Rainbow Dash: it's my turn next, I know it. I was cheated from the search last time be new egg-head, but this time, I'm going to show them just what a mistake they made.
Fluttershy: well shouldn't you get to sleep then? You won't be in any shape to tomorrow if you don't.
Rainbow Dash: How can I sleep when I'm just so psyched!
Fluttershy: Fine, you can stay up, but you're going to have a partner, and if you're tired, they'll probably find the emerald before you do.
Rainbow Dash: What! Rainbow rushed to bed and went right to sleep.
Fluttershy: Goodnight Rainbow Dash. She went to bed too.
Next Chap: Anyone wondering why Celestia wears that big cloak yet? (I bet some people already guessed, smart guys)
That's it for this chapter, I hope you liked it. I'm trying out a new writing style, if you didn't notice; I just think it will make the story a little more enjoyable. The next chapter should be out by next week.
Until then…