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Confrontation
"It took a while, but I finally manage to get it back together." Rainbow said to herself. She was thinking about last night while on her way to Fluttershy's cottage. "Those guys were really nice enough to help me get my house together by the time Scootaloo wakes up." She gleefully remembers how she impresses her devoted, sisterly fan. Rainbow uses this moment to relax, but at the same she's trying to keep herself awake.
"Grr. Not only did those guys in that red airship wrecked my house, they also ruined by good night sleep...and my Daring Doo collection." Again, she's doing whatever she can to keep herself from falling asleep while flying. "Twilight said that everypony must get together for this mission given by Princess Celestia, that includes Fluttershy, however reluctant she may be for this mission...or I could just fly over the Everfree...and beat those guys to a pulp...and finally get some...rest..." Rainbow slowly closed her eyes, drifting away from her course, and...causing her to crash onto Fluttershy's lawn.
Many of the animals were alerted by her collision. Only one figure went on towards the crash without fear but concern.
"...ainbow...Dash..." She can barely understand what's going on and wonders whether or not if this is a dream. Her eyelashes manage to dig out some of the dirt in her eyes and shaking off dirt in her ears. "Rainbow Dash, are you alright," a soft-spoken voice had said.
"Yeah," she gets up. "I've been better." Then she closes her eyes as she fell back into a hole of dirt she made, and would've stayed in that hole if her element wasn't loyalty. She has a job to do, so she got up and flapped her wings to shake off the dirt around her. "We have mission from Princess Celestia," she said to Fluttershy and reminding herself. "Twilight wants us to get together at the library."
"Oh okay," said Fluttershy. "Let me get ready then." She places the frightened animals back to their homes, gathered all her necessities, manages to fulfill Angel's every needs, locked the doors, and departs. Rainbow was about to use this opportunity to take nap around the fence, but Fluttershy was already packed up and ready by then, adding much irritation to Rainbow's restlessness.
"You'll be alongside me, Rainbow?" Knowing her, Rainbow would've given herself a headstart, but today's an exception."
"Yeah, I am." She covers her mouth as she yawns. Trying her best not to be rude and rowdy from her crankiness, Rainbow decides to converse with Fluttershy to keep herself awake. "I'll explain."
"Alright then," and the kind pegasus flies at a steady pace with Rainbow Dash en route to Twilight's Golden Oak Library. Little did they know, they were being watched. Two shadowy figures walked out from the Everfree Forest and approached the cottage. This startled some of the animals locked behind their doors.
Cake, check. A carrot cake, check. A carrot cake with cherry, check. Angel was happy to be at home by himself, and a locked door ensuring a secured privacy made things even better. And to top it off, Angel can do whatever he wanted all by himself, especially with a carrot cake with cherry ready to fill his stomach for days. However, every moment he wanted to do was ruined. He saw two shadows passed by the window. They went to the door and banged it several times. Angel gets into a fight-or-flight response as he hid the carrot cake with cherry somewhere out of sight. He then put on a military helmet out of nowhere, hid behind some pillows like trenches, and readies himself to whatever the outcome. The lock broke, and the door was knock down showing the two figures, one tall and one short, making their entrance. Angel readies his ammunition of…pillows, fruits, vegetables and plenty of house accessories against his targets.
Meanwhile, on the way to Ponyville.
"So, Rainbow. What caused you to be this tired?"
"It's about last night, Fluttershy."
"Eeep." Fluttershy mentally squeaked from remembering last night. Did the dragon cause her friend's distress? At the same somewhere within her consciousness, it is telling her to calm down knowing that is not what she feared. Someone from the higher authority must made her at ease. Calmly she would ask her friend as if it were normal day. "What happened?"
"That thing nearly tore my house down!" Rainbow angrily said. Her restlessness is getting the best of her.
"The...dragon?" said Fluttershy fearfully.
"No, it's not a dragon." That's a relief. "It was an airship; at least I knew it was an airship. Derpy's the one that got a firsthand experience with it, and I happened to watch by as it destroys my house!" Feeling she should cool off, Fluttershy changes the topic from the 'airship' to the cross-eyed, blonde pegasus.
"So how was Derpy involved?"
"Hmm." Rainbow was remembering and recovers from her restlessness, "According to her, a green light flashed out of nowhere."
"Oh? That was what happened yesterday?"
"Yeah, everypony awake must've have seen it. What happened was that after that flash, this giant, red airship appeared; and Derpy happened to be in its way."
"Oh, is she okay?"
"She's fine. She just bumped into one of their windows and got a glimpse of them, and at the same time they rammed right through my house!"
"Oh gosh! With Derpy along with it?"
"Yeah, I saw Derpy from the wreckage. The other pegasi working nightshift came and helped me fixed my house." She did not want to let Fluttershy know that Scootaloo was involved, so she didn't mention her in the conversation.
"That explains why you looked so tired."
"Yeah," Rainbow yawns, "I only got a few hours of sleep."
"At least it was nice of them to help." Not many pegasi she knew and didn't knew would help. The exception was the time when she helped Ponyville made a tornado and everypony was cheering. But that was then, nowadays they would still treat her as that shy, little pony, though things have been calmer and friendlier since Twilight came to Ponyville. Guess this must be the Magic of Friendship at work. "But still, you needed some rest," continuing back at the conversation to keep Rainbow at bay. "A lack of sleep can ruin your entire day."
Rainbow just grumbled with look saying, "Gee, tell me something I don't know."
It became a little awkward with a few seconds of silence for the both of them, but they did got into view of Ponyville. To break the silence, Fluttershy asks, "What was the mission given by Princess Celestia?
"Look, I'm not sure exactly. Twilight send a letter to the Princess after listening to Derpy's story. So she, Spike, and everypony are probably already there, with me picking you up." When Rainbow answered, they got through Ponyville and were right in front of Twilight's Library. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie are already there. "Hey Twi. Where's Spike?"
"He's out for the day. Spike needed some more rest after receiving that message. He didn't get enough sleep after what he wrote to Celestia."
"What was the message the Princess gave us?" asked Applejack.
"It's a mission. A diplomatic one to the beings that passed over the Everfree Forest." Twilight answered.
"Diplomatic?" asked Rainbow with her red, restless eyes. They were already walking their way to the trail. Once they were afraid of the forest, but with their many adventures they've gotten used to it.
"It's a non-aggressive approach when meeting with unknown entities. That means no violence or any attempts of a preemptive strike; always keep a friendly face and do whatever appeases the other."
Rainbow grumbles. Mentally she's pounding herself for not being allowed to beat those guys to a pulp.
"Oh cheer up Dashy!" Pinkie spouted next to Rainbow with a cupcake on her hoof. "It'll be a party! We'll have cupcakes, some cakes, maybe piñatas, and ooooh! Maybe even some chocolate. Everypony loves chocolate!"
"Pinkie darling," cried out Rarity. "We should be less assertive and more exquisite in our approach." She pulls out something like a fabric of some sort. No doubt made by her expertise. "This silver silk is quite the hard work. I was staying up all night working on it!"
"And you weren't even one bit tired?" questioned Rainbow.
"Of course not, dear! I'm always working hard to appease somepony with the highest taste."
"Heh," smirked Rainbow, "And what would happened if you meet somepony, someone, or something that is already silver colored?"
"Oh my stars. I have no idea what to say. That really is an interesting question."
"And what happens when he is named Silver?" asked the ever-so-random Pinkie.
"Oh that'll be dashing! I do hope he'll be a knight in shining armor, much better than that prince charming, Blueblood," Rarity said with disdain when mentioning his name.
"So are we all just giving these...guys some gifts?" complained Rainbow as they were traveling.
"Uhm well...uh." stuttered Applejack.
"You brought apples, didn't you?"
"Sure did."
"Why didn't anypony tell me about this?"
"We did," answered Twilight. "You left off before I could even state the mission. But don't worry about it, I didn't have anything to bring except a quill, ink, and paper."
"As gifts?"
"For notes."
"Oh."
"Well even if I knew if this was a gift-giving assignment, I wouldn't have much to give." said Fluttershy shyly.
"Hmph, I wouldn't have much to give anyways." grumbled Rainbow.
"And I hope it's not something physical." doubted Twilight.
"Well uh no...maybe...but I would like some apologies or some compensation for my house."
"That's what this mission is for. We give a friendly face, let them know we mean no harm, and then we come into an agreement for a peaceful resolution, right?"
"Oh alright." said Rainbow finally giving up this whole conversation. They then talk further about their thoughts about last night and what Derpy saw inside the airship. Their talks in the travel have already leaded them into the middle of the forest. What they've been seeing so far aside from the dangers they've been used to, such as the poison joke, is something quite messy. Trails of blood and sweat are seen more often along with some damaged trees and clawed ground.
"The wild animals must've have been fighting all last night." said the animal expert of the group. "They must have been terrified of the airship. Oh...if only I was there for them."
"Don't worry Fluttershy, we'll find a way once we can sort this out with the others over the Everfree. I just hope that the animals didn't get to them first." worried Twilight.
"Hey, isn't this the trail where we first saw that manticore." hopped Pinkie. She then went into a quick detail on how each of them tried to solve the problem that day. The group remembered it alright, without Pinkie needing to go far into detail. As if on que, the manticore appeared!
The girls stand back.
"We dwelt with this before, Fluttershy, you got this?" Twilight said.
"R-right."
To their surprise, the manticore had turned around.
"Wow Fluttershy. Just like that it stopped." said the surprised Applejack, assuming she did the Stare.
"But I didn't-" She gave a gasp. There are burned marks behind the Manticore's back. They could also hear some stomping and a monotonous chatters saying,
"Halt!" Orange, rounded, metallic creatures walking on legs, have blue eyes and blue teeth lighted up, and holding staves with electric edges. They're using them against the manticore.
"Halt where you are." said one of them. Manticore gave a swipe sending it to a rock. What shocked the Mane Six even more is that the creature broke into parts and pieces.
"What's going on?! What are they?" are questions going through their mind. The manticore swung its whole body and tail to knock out its surrounding perpetrators, sending some into trees.
"Retreat! Retreat!" They monotonously cried.
"Egg Pawns." the girls could hear another voice along with some unnatural stomping. "Hold your positions. Initiate Battle Mode." A red, also metallic, biped made its approach. It has an iron hand on its left, what seems to be like a cannon on the other, black metal feet, green lighted eyes, a label 102, and many other things the ponies have never seen in Equestria. They then saw another but shadowy figure at quick speed. It was standing on a branch of a nearby tree.
"We have a wild animal to bag." said the black creature.
The cannon was fired from the red one. Fluttershy covered her eyes, but the rest who were watching reassured her that it give the manticore a warning shot. The beast stood back, getting ready to fight. Just when it launches itself on the red one, the black creature on the branch quickly swiped its face with a kick before hiding somewhere in the forest. The manticore rubbed its head, roaring, and trying to find where that creature went. The red one then forwarded itself in front of the manticore and launch an uppercut with his iron-gripped d hand to send the animal up in the air. The black creature suddenly then appeared somersaulting above the aired manticore and gave it a dive kick to the ground. The surviving orange figures held onto their staves and surround themselves around the beast. The red one stepped forward and readies his cannon aimed at the head. It was then Fluttershy intervened.
"Wait please!" The cannon is aimed at her along with staffs surrounding her. "Please stop… whatever it is you're doing!" She spoke in tears. "Please, don't." The black one held out his hand, commanding the others to stand down. It then walked towards Fluttershy.
"You can speak?" it asked. What she saw, and what the other ponies could see, it was a black, spiked creature with gloves, shoes, green-eyes, and no mouth.
"Could this be the small black one Derpy saw?" thought Twilight.
"Y-yes." Fluttershy answered the spiked biped's question. The black creature stood there quick thinking. It turned around and walked away, the red one and the rest followed with the orange figures having the manticore tased by force. "Wait! What are you going to do to it?" asked the desperately worried Fluttershy.
"That would be up to my masters," the black creature said without turning around. "If you wish to learn more, you best follow." They then continued on with their path.
"Hold on." cried Twilight. "Who are you? What are you?"
"I am Mephiles."The black one said after turning around.
"I am unit E-102 Gamma." You may call me. Gamma."
This was a doozy when working on this chapter, especially the dialogue between the Mane Six. I already got Rainbow, Fluttershy, and Twilight's. The toughest choice was for the remainder. Like should they say this line? That line? How much screentime should they get? Then thanks to a friend's advice, I write it out simply and easily got it done.
To summarize the chapter, Rainbow got Fluttershy to Ponyville to meet up, Angel faced unknown adversities, the Mane Six travel to the Everfree, get themselves into a conversation, watched a battle between the manticore and the newcomers, intercept, and the beings introduced themselves.
Rarity on silvers. Hmmm. Dreams of an Absolution anyone?
I've look through Google search on Sonic MLP fanfics, and I'm surprised no one ever brought up Gamma in MLP. Really? Sure he died in SA, but he's a robot. He can be repaired or had another produced in his place. Of course, the one you knew back at SA is totally dead. This is just another version built, with no memory of SA whatsoever.
They introduced themselves, but what are they? What is the purpose of being here? And why did they subjugate an innocent (in Fluttershy's eyes) manticore? Stay tune.
I love saying this line, even if Eggman isn't in this chapter.
Long Live the Eggman Empire
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