Chapter 2: Platforms and Trolls

Artist's note: I will use Eridan and Sollux's text quirks when they speak! Except I won't double the "i"s. I will us the "2" to indicate Sollux's lisp. I will also use the "ww" and "vv" because of Eridan's accent!

The five minuets passed and the meteor crash landed, and the trolls were going to wake up soon due to the fact that Luna no longer needed to keep the sleeping spell going. As the two royal sisters, Twilight and her friends made their way passed FlutterShy’s cottage, they saw that all of her animals were running around in fear, and now FlutterShy was hastily, trying to calm the animals.

“Oh no! What are we gonna do? If we keep moving, FlutterShy will lose all of her animals! And if we try to calm all of the animals, the trolls will wake up before we get there and they’ll probably hurt somepony!” Twilight began to stress even more.

“Don’t worry Twilight, lets help her. Besides the trolls need to adjust to their new forms!” Luna smiled.

Twilight looked at Luna then at FlutterShy, then said “Okay.”.

They all quickly began to gather and calm the animals, remarkably it took them less than a half hour to calm them. Before they left, Angel Bunny, FlutterShy’s pet bunny, insisted on going with them. Now they were making up for lost time by galloping to the meteor.

Once they got to the crash site and saw the crater and how huge the meteor was, caused all the ponies to gasp, even the two princesses were surprised about the questionable size of the meteor.

“The trolls are in that thing?!” Twilight screamed.

“Yes.” Luna sighed.

“Could the six of you go get the trolls?” Celestia smiled softly, “We will stay here in case if anypony comes here wondering whats going on.”

“Sure,” Twilight gulped “Lets go girls.”

Her friends nodded. As they began to slide down the crater, they looked at the meteor.

“How are we gonna get inside, Twi?” AppleJack asked.

“The same way I found Cadence!” Twilight started concentrated her magic then blasted a side of the meteor creating a hole that they could use to get inside.

Once they saw what it looked like on the inside they were nearly in shock.

“Wow it looks bigger on the inside!” Rainbow began flying around near the roof.

“Yer tellin me! This place looks like it could fit the whole Apple Family and still have room!” AppleJack said, stunned.

Twilight was partly ignoring the two athletes, she was too busy looking at the thirteen strange platforms that were in the room. There was one in the middle of the room, and the other twelve were surrounding it, they were all a great distance from each other. All twelve of the surrounding platforms had the symbols of the zodiac hovering over them, the middle one had nothing above it.

“What do you think the platforms are for, darling?” Rarity asked, looking over Twilight’s shoulder.

Twilight walked over to the middle platform to get a closer look.

“I don’t know but I’m going to try something.” Twilight mumbled.

She stepped onto the platform then suddenly a grey light surrounded her and she disappeared.

“TWILIGHT!” Her friends screamed in utter horror.

Twilight was now in another room, she looked around, and saw that her friends were nowhere to be found. There were just strange machines on top of tables that were by the walls of the room, they all looked the same. As she looked around she saw a grayish-red pegasus pony with a black mane and tail, and a candy red zodiac cancer symbol cutie-mark, messing with one of the machines. Twilight stepped off of the platform and slowly walked to the pony. She took a deep breath.

“Um… Hello?” She said in a gentle tone.

The strange pony’s ears twitched, then went down, the pony slowly turned around. Twilight saw that it was a colt, he had candy corn colored horns that looked small and a little nubby, his hair seem to slightly hide them, and there was no white part on his eyes instead they were gradient from red, orange and yellow, and black irises; he also had a feather in his mouth. He didn’t seem pleased that she was in the room with him, he suddenly spat out the feather.

“Who the fuck are you?” he growled.

“M-My name is Twilight Sparkle. What’s your name?” She stuttered.

“My name is Karkat Vantas. Now tell me Sparkle, What the fuck do you think you’re doing here?! Is it your fault that we all got turned into hoof-beasts?!” He growled, slowly walking toward Twilight.

She was now slowly backing away from him, with each two steps she took, he took one toward her.

“I’m going to ask you this one last time: what the fuck do you think you’re doing here, and is it your fault that we all got turned into hoof-beasts?!” Karkat was now yelling.

Twilight was now cornered.

“Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are the ones that brought you to Equestria! They sent me and my friends to get you and your friends!” She cried.

Karkat stared at her for a moment.

“Yeah, right! And let me guess they want you to show us how this world works?!” He said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.

“How did you know?” She mumbled.

He paused for a moment

“ Y-…You’re kidding right?” he asked in a confused tone.

Before Twilight could answer. A strange sound interrupted her and a bright light came from the platform, it was AppleJack.

AppleJack got her lasso, swung it around then lassoed Karkat and pulled him away from Twilight.

“Are you okay, Twi?” AJ asked.

“Yeah, but I think you just annoyed him.” Twilight mumbled.

AJ walked up to Karkat and asked, “Ya wouldn’t happen to be one of dem trolls, would ya?”

“Yes, I’m a troll. Do you mind untying me?” Karkat said, annoyed.

AppleJack looked at Twilight. The unicorn nodded. AppleJack then untied him. Once he got up he stretched his wings. Suddenly a strange sound and light came from the platform

“Twilight! Applejack! What is going on?”

They all looked at the speaker, it was Rarity with FlutterShy, Angel Bunny, Rainbow Dash , and Pinkie Pie.

“Girls this is Karkat Vantas.” Twilight said trotting over to Karkat.

“Its mighty nice to meet ya! I’m AppleJack.” AJ smiled

“Hi, I’m Rainbow Dash!” Dash grinned.

“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie! Do you like parties? I love parties! Wait! What am I asking? Everypony loves parties!” Pinkie Pie said gleefully hoping up and down around the colt.

“Greetings darling, I’m Rarity.” Rarity smiled, while examining him.

“um……hi….I’m FlutterShy…” Flutters mumbled quietly, hiding behind her mane.

“What did she say?” He asked.

“I….I said my name is FlutterShy…” Flutters squeaked.

Rainbow Dash sighed.

“This is FlutterShy. She is well…shy.” Dash said in a blunt tone.

“Uh-huh..” Karkat mumbled, “Its nice to meet you all…I guess…”

“So Karkat where are your friends?” Twilight asked.

“They are in their Respiteblocks. So I’m gonna have to contact them on Trollian to get them out.” Karkat said looking at one of the machines.

“What is a Respiteblock?” Dash asked confused.

“I’m gonna assume that you all have a similar vocabulary and culture as humans…. Respiteblock means Bedroom.” Karkat sighed in utter annoyance.

“Oh.”

Karkat walked up to the strange machine, he opened one of his wings and plucked one of his feathers causing him to flinch a little. He began to use the stem of the feather to press some buttons on the machine. All the fillies looked over the colts shoulder and looked at the screen.

--- Current carcinoGeneticist [CCG] RIGHT NOW opened memo on board FRUITY RUMPUS ASSHOLE FACTORY---

CCG:  ALL RIGHT! THIS IS EXTREMELY FUCKING IMPORTANT!

CCG: NGBI;RGHNBRGIBOHN ;RUIHN

Rarity pushed Karkat away from the machine, levitated the feather and said “Karkat darling you mustn’t talk in such a manner!”

He rolled his eyes and responded “You don’t like the way said it! You get them out! Unclick the caps lock and tell them to get out!”

Rarity then did as he said. But she then noticed that someone else joined the memo.

CURRENT twinArmageddons [CTA] responded to memo.

CTA: really KK? thii2 ii2 why you iinterupted my valuable tiime??? Ju2t two mash a bunch of button2?!

CTA: man you are 2o fuckiing pathetiic!

CCG: I am sorry dear! But your friend needed to watch his language so I pushed him away from this strange piece of equipment to make him stop.

CCG: My name is Rarity. Me and my friends were sent her by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna to come and get all of you and your friends so we can help you learn the laws of Equestia and how to fit into pony society!

CTA: eheheheheheh! that2 very funny KK! you mu2t have had one hell of mental break down two want to prank u2 all wiith thii2 2hiit!

CURRENT caligulasAquarium [CCA] responded to memo.

CCA: wwell this isn’t fuckin surpisin comin from you Kar

CCG: language! The both of you! Why for the love Celestia watch your language!

CCA: oh cod I can’t stop laughin! Sol do you find this as funny as I do?

CTA: you have no iidea! Eridan!

CCG: fine! don’t believe me! You can stay in your tacky little rooms while my friends, Karkat and I can go and have so much fun at Sugar Cube Corner!

CCA: Kar quit it wwhile youre behind! Its obvvious that youre fuckin bored!

CTA: For once II’m agreeing wiith him! Ju2t quiit iit! IIt2 really piitiiful!

Rarity looked at her friends.

“FlutterShy is it okay if  you could be a dear and wait for one of the trolls, in that room with all those platforms?” Rarity asked.

“ummm….okay…” FlutterShy smiled softly.

FlutterShy then disappeared on the platform.

CCG: How about this! If one of you comes out and meets my friend FlutterShy, you have to tell the rest of your friends to come out!

CTA: 2ure “Rariity” II’ll do iit!

CCA: Are you fuckin serious Sol?!

CTA: yeah thii2 ii2 gonna be hiilariiou2!

---CURRENT twinArmeggedons left the memo---

FlutterShy waited in the strange room, and looked at Angel Bunny.

“Oh, Angel do you think that they will like us?” FlutterShy asked.

The bunny just cockily crossed his arms and nodded. Before she could answer, the platform with the zodiac symbol: Gemini, glowed grey. There on the Gemini platform was standing a grayish-yellow pegasis with a black mane and tail. His right wing gradiented from grayish-yellow to red when it got near the tip of his feathers, while the left wing was similar but instead of red it was blue. The colt had four candy corn colored horns, two on one side of his head, two on the other side. His mane was neatly brushed but his tail was a little messy. He had four sharp fangs resting on his bottom lip, which showed that he had an overbite like a dog or a rabbit, and he wore 3D glasses. Right by him was a strange machine like the one that Karkat was messing with. He stared at FlutterShy for a moment.

“Let me gue22 you’re Flutter2hy….” He said, with his lispy voice.

“….yes…I-…-I’m FlutterShy…” She mumbled.

FlutterShy felt her heart pounding in her chest. Her face began to turn red, and she felt like there were butterflies in her stomach.

“He is so cute…”She thought.

He trotted over to her.

“2orry, what wa2 that? I couldn’t hear you. Could you 2peak up a little bit?” He said in bit of a harsh tone.

“I-I’m FlutterShy.” She said trying to be more assertive.

“Oh. My name i2 2ollux Captor.” He said in a blunt tone.