A Journey of a Stranger

Inside of Fluttershy’s house, The Chimera (Triabelle) is going outside to chop some wood. The heads are talking with each other.

China (the tiger head) says, “I hated doing all of that cleaning.”

Clara (the goat head) says, “It is the least we can do since we are staying here. Beside I kind of liked doing thaaat. Maybe we should staaart doing more cleaning  in our…”

Spike walks up to them and says, “Hello.”

The heads turn to him in curiosity.

China asks, “What do you want?”

Rose (the snake head) says, “Hello.”

Clara says, “Oh umm… hi.”

Spike says with worry, “I come with bad news, Leon is…”

Clara says, “We all reaaaady know aaabout Discord’s visit to him.”

Rose says, “It lessss it makesss up….”

Spike says, “That’s the problem the Leon at Sweet Apple Acres is a fake.”

Rose says, “Of course, he…”

Spike interrupts, “It’s not a… Leon got captured by metal creatures and they’re taking him to the Everfree Forest and would like some help rescuing him.”

China says with a smile, “It would be nice saving him for once.”

Clara asks, “What’s the plan?”

Spike says, “I have to give you something but close your eyes. I get nervous when casting spells.”

Rose asks, “How come…?”

China says, “Shut up and close your eyes. Let’s get this over with.”

The Chimera’s eyes close and Spike starts his “spell”.

Spike says as he removes his magic eye and throws it at the Chimera, “Babilo Sighist.”

The eye turns into a compass and sticks itself the Chimera coat. Spike goes back to normal and passes out.”

The Chimera hears a mysterious female voice in Triabelle’s heads.

The voice says, “I am your magical guide for today. I can use my magic to show you where to go and where your enemies are even with your eyes closed.”

China says, “Fighting with my eyes closed! I can’t wait to try that on Leon.”

Clara opens her eyes and sees Spike passed out.

The voice says, “Don’t worry about him. In fact put him in a barrel, he likes to sleep on wood for some reason.”

Rose says as Clara puts Spike in a nearby barrel, “I have a log at the swamp and I love sleeping in it.”

China forces the body to move towards the glowing path. The rest of Triabelle quickly follows China’s lead.

Within minutes, a group of robots suddenly appear out of thin air with a crate and a strange device with long legs nearby the Everfree forest. The group walks towards the forest.

One of the baseball bots complains, “I hate this part of the mission.”

The broken heavyweight says, “Don’t worry about them. They will be gone in moments. I bet my family business shotgun on it.”

The baseball bot says, “If this part takes less than 5 minutes you will get my crit cola.”

“Deal.”

They shake their hands on the deal.

Meanwhile, in trees almost a mile away, a group of hunter ponies are ready to ambush the incoming robots.

One of them spots them and he says to his friends, “Here they come with the rare prized gift, wrapped in wood.”

Another one whispers, “Let’s thank Shroud for this lead.”

Shroud says with a smile, “I hope everything goes to plan.”

Unknowingly, the ambushers are being watched by dim glowing eyes with plans for them to become the prey.

Triabelle is getting close to the future battlefield. The trail of lights suddenly ends.

China says, “Where are the lights…”

Rose says softly, “Sssshhhh. There’s something in the trees.”

The voice says, “3 actually and you might want to break them quickly but silently.”

The light show, 3 skinny targets wearing rectangular baseball caps.

The Chimera quickly jumps in the tree and breaks 2 of them and the third one jumped out of the way with some damage on it. The target turns out to be a metal baseball player. It pulls out a frying pan and runs around to find and hit the Chimera.

The voice warns the Chimera, “Break him before he hits you.”

China says as she opens her eyes, “That will be easy.”

Triabelle jumps at the bot but it gets a few swings before it get wrecked. The pan’s banging alerts the other bots and they start using their battle cries and gunfire quickly fills the air.

The voice says, “Oh no. We… we have to improvise now.”

China asks, “Do you mean just break more of these things?”

“We also need the wooden box some of them are guarding and the key to it.”

“Can’t we just break it with…?”

Clara says, “We don’t want to wound Leon again.”

The voice says, “That’s right and I see an opening to the box but getting the key might be harder than it looks.”

A glowing path appears and Triabelle follows it. The path ends and they see the robots finishing out.

Rose whispers to the group, “Leon’s body heat is low; we need to take him to Fluttershy’s.”

Clara looks closely at the box and how it’s locked and whispers a plan to China.

The voice says, “That might work.”

With stealth they go behind the crate and then they hear the battle is over and then some chatter with the pony survivor.

The pony survivor says to a tuxedo bots, “Shroud, I though we were friends.”

Shroud says, “We still are, that’s why you are going to be our messenger pony. Tell the rest of the group of amateurs, ‘Don’t hunt Mankind anymore or we will go for the rest of you.’ I’m afraid I can’t save you next time, Mr. Core. So please take that warning to heart.”

The Chimera makes behind the crate and gets spotted by a tuxedo and a baseball bot and notices the compass on them. The tuxedo bot hands baseball bot a sapping device and texts him a plan.

The baseball bot whispers, “Gotcha ya.”

The BB bot drinks some soda from a blue can and then charges at them with blurrily speed.

As the bot charges at the Chimera, he gets tagged with a red magic light.

The voice screams “Stop him!”

Before the body of sisters could do anything, The BB bot uses the sapping device to sap them, and takes the falling compass and rans away. They quickly recover and Clara uses her paw and her horns to grab the box by its chains.

Clara whispers to China, “We will open it at Fluttershy’s.”

Rose asks, “What about the key?”

China says, “We already have one. Let’s go.”

Triabelle rushes out of there but the bots do not pursue them.

Shroud finishes his chat, “You can leave now. If you are willing to be…”

The bots make an opening for Mr. Core.

Mr. Core says, “After what you did, The Silver Blades will never forget this and I will never forgive you.”

Shroud says as he pulls out a glowing revolver, “Go before, I get ordered to eliminate you.”

Mr. Core leaves as fast his hooves can take him.

A Bb bot goes up to Shroud and says, “Sir I… I mean we got the Guide of Fate that Dice failed to recover.”

One of the bots says, “Umm, Sir… the package is gone.”

Shroud says, “It is great that we have the artifact but we need time to recover.”

“But…”

“Let’s regroup at the camp.”

All of the bots go deeper in the forest.

Meanwhile back with the Chimera, they are out of the Everfree and they have a strange moaning from the box.

Clara puts the box down and China breaks two of the links in the chain with her teeth. The lock and chains fall off and the crate slowly opens.

A mechanical Scottish voice, “Error, What happened.”

Triabelle sees what comes out of it and are shocked at what is coming out.

Clara asks the thing, “Leon is that you?”

The Owner looked like a metal Shipyard Cyclops.

It says, “Yes, Can’t ya lasses remember me?”

Leon covers his mouth with the worry of not recognizing his own voice and accent. He looks at his hands.

Leon asks in great worry, “What happened… no wait what are we going to do about this?”