Chapter 2 Come Sail Away

Yonder there be ponies
“Gilda come on it’s just a small trip to equestria you make it all the time we just need a ride.” Clockwerk pleaded with the stubborn griffon.

“For the last time Clock-lame, I’m not letting you borrow my boat it’s for official griffon postal business only.” Double Bubble was laughing to the side.

“Oh sweet Celestia did you just say Clock-lame.” Gilda marched toward Double Bubble angry.

“Do you have a problem with my sense of humor candy wings?”

“Only that it’s bad,” he said still laughing. “I mean how old is the candy wings joke Gilda. Hey the dark ages called they want their joke back.”

“Hey Bubbles maybe we shouldn’t be making fun of our only transport.” Clockwerk added coming in between the two. Gilda completely ignored him and pushed him out of the way.

“Maybe my jokes are just so smart that you dumb brain can’t comprehend them.”

“Oh, is that the problem?” Double bubble said getting in Gilda’s face. “I’m just too dumb. Well you see here, and this is funny you’ll like this, this,” he said pulling out a bottle of tap water “This is a potion of intelligence,” He drank the water and smacked his lips a little. “No no that joke was still stupid.”

“That’s not even a real potion it’s tap water.”

“Of course its tap water I wouldn’t waste a potion of intelligence to prove your comedy sucks.” Gilda gave the two ponies a stern angry look.

“That’s it you two are never getting a ride on my boat ever if it’s the last thing I do I’ll make sure two never see the equestrian shores again!” She shoved Double bubble to the ground and roared in Clockwerk’s face as she stormed off to her small boat and slammed the door shut.

“Well good job Bubbles,” Clockwerk said in anger. “She had the only boat left in port now we’ll have to wait another week if want to get a ride.”

“Not necessarily. I think I've got a plan”

After the ponies labored into the night they were finally finished with their plan and had drug all of the equipment to the beach near Gilda's boat and hid it in some nearby tress. Clockwerk was making the final adjustments to his friends new enhancements

“Okay last check do we have stilts?”

“Check”

“Wings?” Double Bubble gave his robotic wings a quick flap.

“Check.”

“Horn?” The other pony gave the metal rod attached to his head a thump.

“Check.”

“Voice modifier?” Double Bubble answered with a deepened scarier voice.

“Check.”

“Okay you've got the lines just say them and look scary. I've got everything else ready to go. Execute plan 'scare the feathers off of Gilda' in ten, nine, eight.” Clockwerk ran up to Gilda’s door finishing the countdown in his head. He knocked on the door and immediately hid in the nearest bush as Gilda emerged from her boat tired and irritable.

“Hey what’s the big idea waking me up do you know what time it is?” Double Bubble responded using the voice modifier to make his voice deeper and more threatening.

“ARE YOU GILDA THE GRIFFON?” The sudden scary voice concerned Gilda, but she stood her ground not yet frightened.

“Whose there what do you want?”

“FOOL YOU DO NOT KNOW ME BUT I KnOW YOU. YOU HAVE COMMITTED HIGH CRIMES AGAINST THE COUNTRY OF EQUESTRIA.”

“And just who are you to say that? What crimes did i commit?”

“ME I AM THE MIGHTY THE POWERFUL …" Double Bubble moved away from the voice modifier to talk to Clockwerk, "C.W. are you ready yet.” Clockwerk answered while he was rummaging around his makeshift control panel.

“Just a minute stall for a while.”

“YES IT IS I THE GREAT, MAGNIFICENT, ALL KNOWING, FASHIONABLE…”

“Quit stalling!” Gilda said seeing momentarily seeing through the pony’s ruse. As she said this though Clockwerk finally gained control and dropped a sheet in front of Double Bubble with a light shining behind him which cause the image of a dark and terrifying alicorn to appear on the sheet.

“I AM LIFTOFF THE ALICORN PRINCESS OF SPACE. AN YOU HAVE COMMITTED TREASON AGAINST EQUESTRIA BY NOT ALLOWING MY ROYAL MESSENGERS PASSAGE TO OUR BORDERS ”

“Oh no an alicorn princess!” Gilda said finally succumbing to fright. “Oh great princess what would you have me do?”

“THE TWO PONIES CLOCKWERK AND DOUBLE BUBBLE MUST REACH EQUESTRIA, YOU MUST PROVIDE THEM SAFE PASSAGE DO THIS OR FEEL MY WRATH.” There was an awkward pause as if something that was supposed to happen didn't. “I SAID FEEL MY WRATH.” The pause repeated itself. “Clockwerk I said feel my wrath feel my wrath that's your cure.”

“Oh right sorry.” Clockwerck whispered as he crossed two wires.

“FEEL MY WRATH!!!” This time the shout was accompanied by a massive fireworks display that left Gilda cowering on the ground.

“Ok ok I’ll take them to euestria just don’t hurt me.”

“GOOD AND ALSO AS A SIDE NOTE YOUR JOKES AREN'T FUNNY.”

“Ok.”

“I WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY IT!!!!!”

"Say what say what?"

"MY JOKES AREN'T FUNNY SAY THE WORDS!!!!!"

“My jokes aren't funny.” Gilda said through tears

“SAY IT AGAIN!!!”

“My jokes aren't funny.” At this point she was crying

“Now maker her dance.” Clockwerk whispered egging his friend on.

“Right good idea, NOW DANCE, DANCE FOR YOUR PRINCESS.” Through terrified tears Gilda performed a quadrupedal version of the chicken dance which caused Clockwerk and Double Bubble to burst out into laughter which translated into evil cackling through the voice modifier.

“Please princess let me go.” Gilda begged. Double Bubble struggled to reply through the laughter.

“YES YOU MAY GO, BUT REMEMBER FEAR MY WRATH AND STUFF. AIGHT PEACE.” The two ponies gave each other a quick hoof bump as they prepared to approach Gilda for the second time.

“Oh hey Gilda,” Clockwerk struggled to say through laughter. “We just thought we’d ask again about that ride again.”

“Why of course you can ride to equestria why wouldn't I help out my dear pony friends.” Gilda cried more toward the sky than to any pony standing before her, which was beneficial as neither Clockwerk nor Double Bubble could keep a straight face.

“Alright great let’s get going then.” Double Bubble said already loading his luggage on to Gilda’s boat. “Next stop Manehattan.” Gilda hurriedly started the boat and made way toward the port city of Manehattan giving the two pony friends time to relax. “Hey clockwork what’s going to happen to all of that equipment we used to trick Gilda?”

“Oh don’t worry about that I've rigged it all to explode you should hear it any time now.”

“Wait you set everything to explode?”

“Yeah why?”

“I’m still wearing the wings you moron.”

“Oh, oh, OH NO!” Clockwerk said panic slowly rising.

“Get it off man get it off.”

“I’m trying you need to hold still.”

“How am I supposed to hold still you strapped a bomb to my back.”

“Ok I've got it.”

“Throw it overboard quick.” With a heave Clockwerk threw the metal wings as far into the sea as he could where they could be heard giving a small boom.

“At least it didn't blow up the boat.” Clockwerk said looking on the optimistic side. As he said this though a large purple dragon rose out of the sea in a fit of rage.

“What is the meaning of this, you blew up my priceless vase?”

“Oh hey a river dragon what’s he doing out in the middle of the ocean?” Clockwerk had no time to answer because the angry dragon’s fist slammed down into the boat and destroyed it.

Author's Note

First off don't expect updates in the future to come this quickly, I just got a snow day off of school and had a lot of free time on my hands. Secondly, all credit for the character liftoff goes to the user runujhkj