AUTHOR'S NOTES: I thought it was necessary to keep going with this one; I want to have a good number of chapters. I think I'll be doing okay if I keep going with my summary here; there's still kidnappings going on & whatnot. 'Lickedy-Split' is the same Baby Lickedy-Split from the movie & the first chapter; I'm just not calling her that. And I know I'm using the same ponies, but I don't really care, they're my favorite ones, haha. Wind Whistler is my absolute favorite pony, so my stories will always feature her. Oh, & Megan, Molly, & Danny are gonna show up again. Hope you like it! R&R, as per usual.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own nor am I affiliated in any way with My Little Pony™ or Hasbro®.
SUMMARY: This time, Hydia and her two awful daughters Reeka and Draggle try her capture plan again, only this time she captures two Pegasi, Wind Whistler and North Star. Will Dream Valley be saved from Hydia's everlasting threat?
Chapter Two: Pegasus Plight
It was a beautiful afternoon in Dream Valley and all the ponies were gearing up for their annual Spring Festival. The Baby Ponies would, as was tradition, be performing a ballet recital for the rest of the Valley, and Lickedy-Split was first in line to rehearsals. Try as hard as she might, Lickedy-Split just couldn't get the ponies to admire her as much as she wished. Being so young it was indeed hard for her to see why she wasn't the center of attention, but nevertheless Lickedy-Split continued to display her outfit to Wind Whistler. Wind Whistler wasn't paying her much attention, as you could imagine.
"Lickedy-Split, you've shown me that move and that outfit before."
"I have? Oh well, you can see it again." She kept moving and lifting her long, light lavender mane into the air.
"Lickedy-Split! I'm not trying to me mean to you, but I'll see your outfit and your dance during the show, okay?"
"Is that all the love and appreciation I get? After being kidnapped by that awful witch?" She sobbed a very phony sob.
"Lickedy-Split, I helped save you from Hydia. And did I get a 'thank you'? No."
"Must you keep saying my name, Wind Whistler?"
"Why not? I thought you liked hearing your name."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Lickedy-Split sounded offended.
"Nothing, Lickedy-Split. Come on, the show's going to start soon."
Lickedy-Split still looked like she was hurt, but she followed Wind Whistler to the Baby Bonnet stage outside with the large 'My Little Pony' banner draped over it. A few other ponies gathered in the area designated for viewing the show, including Buttons, Gusty, North Star, Fizzy, Shady, and Magic Star. Lickedy-Split smiled at her audience through the curtains when she got backstage. She was planning another surprise, and this time she wouldn't fail. She wouldn't fall all over the stage and throw the other ponies out of sync. This time, her plan was foolproof. It wouldn't be in the beginning of the show, it would be at the end, so if she did make a mistake, not much of the dance would be disrupted.
Music filled the small area under the 'My Little Pony' banner and all eyes were on the stage. The baby ponies, Lickedy-Split near the front, looked simply gorgeous in their dance outfits, swaying their manes and stamping their hooves to the bubbly 'My Little Pony' melody. The familiar lavender mane of Lickedy-Split was bouncing more than any other, and even off to the side slightly she was the most noticeable. After half an hour of skilled dancing and a rainbow of swirling manes and tails, the finale approached and Lickedy-Split readied herself. As the song ended, Lickedy-Split switched positions as was rehearsed, but she kicked and jumped higher and harder than any other pony. She turned around to allow everyone a full view of her outfit, and held her head so high you could barely see her eyes. When she was done, she was ecstatic that she'd successfully ended the show herself.
"That was brilliant, Lickedy-Split!" Spike called to her when she emerged from backstage.
"Yeah! Thanks for not messing up the show this time," Buttons said.
"You were good, Lickedy-Split," Buttons complimented.
"I told you I'd see your show when you put it on for us all. You were really good," Wind Whistler said.
"Thanks!"
"Okay ponies, it's getting late. Let's all turn in for the night," Gusty said.
"You guys go ahead, Wind Whistler and I have something to do. Don't panic if we're not back tonight; we might be gone a while." North Star said.
"Oh...all right. Don't stay away too long," Gusty said, and walked with the other ponies to their houses.
North Star nodded to Gusty and headed in the general direction of the Black Mountains with Wind Whistler on her side. Gusty, as well as Shady, Magic Star, Sweet Stuff, Buttons, Fizzy, Baby Lickedy-Split, and Spike didn't think this was such a good idea, but it was too late to say anything as the two Pegasi took off into the darkening sky. All of these particular ponies had experience with what lurked in the Black Mountains and the Volcano of Gloom, and it wasn't pretty.
IN THE VOLCANO OF GLOOM
"I have had it with you two! If you can't be evil like me or your relatives, you can go live with those despicable ponies!" The witch Hydia was yelling at her two daughters Reeka and Draggle once again.
"But Hydia, we've tried to be evil! We're being as evil as we can!" Reeka yelled.
"Have I rid Ponyland of those putrid little ponies? Have I made this entire area look like the Black Mountains? Is Dream Valley filled with Smooze and dark, dank, and dreary like it should be? No! If your capacity for evil is what you've shown so far, my disappointment and absolute disgust in you is justified!"
"We're sorry! Give us another chance," Draggle begged.
"And I wish you two would stop begging! It makes you sound weak and vulnerable," Hydia shouted.
"Those mean basically the same thing, Hydia," Reeka said.
"ENOUGH!"
"Sorry, momma," Draggle apologized.
"What did you call me?" Hydia hissed once again.
"I mean, Hydia, Hydia!" Draggle corrected herself.
"Now I have another plan which will probably fail if you two carry it out being your usual selves."
"What's the plan this time?" Reeka asked inquisitively.
"I want to try kidnap again, only this time those little ponies won't possibly get their friend back. If they don't have that human girl and her siblings, who they get by those disgusting flying ponies, there's no way they can throttle me again!"
"So...run your foolproof plan by me again, Hydia," Draggle said, scratching her head with a confused look on her face.
"You are so dim-witted!"
"Why do you always have to be so mean to us?"
"BECAUSE!" Hydia roared, and Reeka and Draggle took a few cowering steps back from her.
"We're sorry, Hydia," Draggle apologized again.
"And stop apologizing to me too! I'm sick of it…and I'm sick of you two! If I don't capture those ponies and darken Dream Valley once and for all, I'm throwing you two down the mountain and Aagh can have you!"
"Not that, Hydia!" Draggle whined.
"What do you want us to do?" Reeka asked hesitantly.
"Get me more phlume. Don't look at me like that!" Hydia screamed when she saw her daughters' wide and fearful eyes at the prospect of returning, for a third time, to the phlume plant. "I need it for the Smooze, you know that!"
"Hydia, the Smooze never works. Can't we think of something else? Something that doesn't involve Draggle and me going back to that phlume plant?"
"Don't you talk back to me! I realize the Smooze never worked in the past, because those foul little ponies keep getting the better of you two!"
Hydia knocked over a small table of her supplies onto the floor. Reeka and Draggle scattered to the far ends of the room once again, shaking as their mother's form loomed in front of them. Hydia's warts and bad breath were shoved in the two girls' faces as she breathed deeply, panting with anger and frustration. The cauldron at the other side of the dark, cave-like room seemed to glow and throb with the fury that was pulsating in Hydia herself.
"You two will get my phlume and the other ingredients for the Schmooze...OR ELSE! No more excuses, no more whining, no more begging! Just go! The quicker you move, the quicker you can get back! Focus on the ingredients first; bring them back here, and then capture those flying ponies. I want them in this room."
"Yes, Hydia," Reeka said gloomily as she and her sister headed to exit and departed for the Smooze ingredients.
BACK TO DREAM VALLEY
The sun was setting fast on Ponyland and Wind Whistler and North Star were still accomplishing their mission. They were trying their best to prepare the Valley for another Smooze attack. The ponies were smarter than to let it plague them three times in a row. Hydia would, of course, be thinking up some wicked scheme to destroy Dream Valley and make all of Ponyland dark, dank, and dreary, as she had been doing for some time. With Pegasi like Wind Whistler and North Star around, however, Hydia was having a harder and harder time. They were way ahead of her...at least her, her daughters, and her Smooze.
All of the ponies who had been on a quest to Flutter Valley to save Dream Valley from the Smooze the first time knew what a risk it was. The Flutter Ponies were not exactly welcoming and friendly ponies. They weren't cruel, but they preferred to be left alone. North Star and Wind Whistler prepared some of the waterfalls and grass for Smooze covering, but they were also headed to Flutter Valley. Rosedust and Morning Glory were the two friendliest Flutter Ponies in Flutter Valley, and if they were told ahead of time, they might have a good chance against the Smooze. The two Pegasi were also smart enough to know that Hydia would try more ingredients to make the Smooze more effective. Hydia was close to covering all of Dream Valley with it the first time, and the ponies could only be lucky for a short time. North Star and Wind Whistler also wanted to alert the Moochick, who might be able to help. All in all, the Pegasi had a hard task and journey ahead of them.