Mission (not so) impossible

Chapter 11

"Hmm, so what do you thinks goin' on up there?" Nitro-x asked Bumblebee, gesturing to the cloud city.

"I have no clue," The yellow Autobot replied, when the two had arrived at Cloudsdale, a problem had immediately arisen; the city was on clouds and the Autobots couldn't fly. So now all the two did was look up.

Ponyville Hospital…

"All right Spike, where's our next stop?" Twilight asked her purple and green assistant.

"Next we have to pick up a package from the post office," Spike told her, "And after that, we meet this 'mysterious' friend of yours."

"You say mysterious like it's a bad thing."

"It is a bad thing if I don't know who it is!"

Twilight smiled. "Guess you'll just have to wait and meet him."

Spike slouched and complained. "Awwww." Then stiffened when he realized what she had said. "Wait. He? As in the male gender? As in the opposite of your gender? You had a boyfriend and you never told me?!" Twilight rolled her eyes and sighed. "No, Spike. I do not have a boyfriend."

Unfortunately, the pair did not look where they were going and crashed into a pony.

"Oof!"

"Ow!"

"Oh dear!"

The pegasus they had bumped into jumped up and quickly helped Twilight to her hooves. "I'm so terribly sorry, ma'am."

"No, no. I'm fine." Twilight responded, shaking the dust off.

"Nightwatch, would you please assist the young dragon?" Noonblaze asked a small blue unicorn.

Nightwatch rolled his eyes but gave Spike a hoof, only to snatch it back at just the right moment so Spike fell backwards into the dust. Nightwatch stuck out his tongue and blew a raspberry at the dragon.

"Nightwatch!"

"What, Dad? This place stinks. I wanna go home." The yellow pegasus clenched his jaw. "You know very well we can't." He then turned back to Twilight. "I do apologize; we didn't have much sleep last night. We're both under a…bit of pressure. My name is Noonblaze and my son's name is Nightwatch. Do excuse us; we are both new to this town and its inhabitants."

"Oh. Well my name's Twilight Sparkle and this is my assistant, Spike."

"Hey." Spike mumbled from where his face was on the ground, eating dust.

"Err, yes. We must be on our way now; we have a meeting with the realtor in a few minutes. It was nice to meet you both." Noonblaze gathered Nightwatch and began to trot off.

Twilight sighed before noticing Spike and rolling her eyes. "Spike!" She scolded and picked him up with her horn power, "This is no time to be playing games! We have a lot of work to do!"

At the train station…

"Where is he?!" Demanded Spike, tired of waiting.

"He should be here soon, his train has already arrived." Twilight replied, scanning the crowds.

Suddenly there was a flash of lime green in the crowds. The pony they were looking for soon appeared. He nervously trotted up to them, eyes darting every which way as if to make sure there were no threats. He finally came up to them, although he wasn't looking at them so Twilight said. "Hay, Applewood."

Applewood shrieked and jumped about five feet in the air. He finally noticed it was only Twilight and calmed down. "Oh, hay Twilight. Ah was told that'cha got a job for me?"

Twilight nodded and went through all the 'hello's and 'how have you been's' while Spike looked Applewood over. He was a lime green earth pony with a bright red mane, an apple with a chef's hat on it for a cutie mark (Spike wasn't sure what that meant), and black glasses were perched on his snout.

Twilight finally finished all the greetings and got down to business. "Okay. What we really need you for, Applewood, is to be our body guards from the Decepticons. Evil alien robots who want to-"

She wasn't able to finish because Applewood dove into an abnormally large bucket.

"Applewood, what's wrong?!"

"There ain't no way Ah'm gonna protect anypony from alien robots who will be me out for mah blood."

"What?! Then why'd you say you were a bodyguard in the first place?!"

"'Cause mah cuzin made me do it. She says ah need to man up."

"Who's your cousin?"

"Applejack."

"Oh well that's-WHAT?! APPLEJACK'S YOUR COUSIN?!"

"Uh huh." He replied, slowly emerging from the bucket.

"Huh, well, look we need to get to the Autobots base; it's not too far from here."

"Ok, who are Autobots?"

"They're good alien robots."

"How do ya know they're good?"

"Because they're helping us."

Applewood hesitated, before replying. "All right, Ah'll take the job."

With that, they both began to walk off to Ponyville.

"Are ya sure they're the good guys? Ah mean, they could just be acting and at the last moment they-"

"Applewood!"

"All right, all right. I was just asking, yeesh!"