My Little Pony Ice Age
Chapter 4: Rainbow Vs Diego: Battle For the Baby!

It was beginning to turn night as Manfred held a large stack of logs with his trunk wrapped around them, Pinkie and Fluttershy carried sticks of their own, and Sid carried a single, little stick. The ponies struggled to carry their sticks, Sid seemed to be kidding, and Manfred lifted his with ease. Sid dropped his stick and hunched over, with a long breath.

"I'm wiped out." Sid complained. Manfred looked at the sloth.

"That's your shelter?" Manfred asked.

"Hey you're a big guy you need a lot of wood. I'm a little guy." Sid lifted his stick.

"You got half a stick." Manfred went back to working on his shelter.

"Yeah with my little stick and my highly evolved brain-ow!" The sloth exclaimed after he poked his eye with the stick, "I shall create FIRE!"

"Fascinating." Manfred put a long on a pile of rocks that could easily hold the mammoth. He looked down at the ponies below who sat down and started talking. The mammoth heard something about like 'we've got to get home!' and 'how can we get home?'. Manny did ask what they were and where they were from but they said they were ponies from a place called Equestria.

"We'll see if brains triumph over brawn tonight," The stick snapped in half, "Now won't we? He grinned.

After Manfred had his shelter built he went inside it. His logs covered the roof leaving no open spaces. Dark thundercloud loomed in the distance. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy had gathered logs and made a makeshift home beside of Manfred's. Sid tried to make a fire

"Ooo I know what we should do! We should have a party to cheer ourselves up!" Pinkie exclaimed with a huge smile on her face.

"No." Manfred scowled

"Aw come on Manny." She leaned onto his trunk, her eyes twinkling.

"No. Get away from me!" He knocked her off his trunk. She was really starting to get on his nerves. Every hour she suggested they throw a party. An hour later however it was pouring with rain.

The moss-covered sloth sat in the rain, and rubbed his sticks together in hopes of fire. Manfred decided he'd troll the little sloth.

"Hey, think I saw a spark."

Sid looked down and scowled at Manfred. He stood up and walked towards Manfred.

"Any chance I could squeeze in there with you Manny old pal?" Sid begged.

"Oh isn't there someone else you can annoy? Friends? Family?" He paused and thought a bit.

"Poisonous reptiles?"

"Ah my family abandoned me. They just kinda migrated without me." Sid tried to squeeze in, but not without difficulty from the mammoth inhabiting the shelter.

He laid down on Manny's tusk and used it as a bed.

"You should've seen what they did last year. Hehe they woke up early and quietly tied my hands and feet, and they gagged me with a field mouse and barricaded the cave door and covered their tracks with water so I'd lose their scent. And...and, well who needs them anyway." Sid wrapped Manfred's trunk around him like a bed-covering. In response Manfred lifted him up, by the feet, and dropped him on the wet ground. Sid knew that there was no way of getting into Manny's, and he also knew that sleeping in the pony shelter was no option.

"So what about you, have a family?" Manfred turned around where only his rear end could be seen.

"Ok you're tired I see, well I'll talk to you all in the morning." Hail started to hit the sloth who shouted in pain.

"Uh Manfred, Manfred," A piece of hail hit him in the head, "You sqooch over a slouch? Aw come on nobody falls asleep that fast...MANNY!" Sid looked over and saw the ponies had curled up, fast asleep. He bent his long neck down in defeat and walked over towards Manfred's rear and cowered underneath the mammoth's tail.

Off in the distance, Applejack watched Scrat try to climb a tree trunk with his nut. His goal was to harvest his nut. She couldn't believe how stupid her new friend turned out to be, and how lucky. He'd been crushed, burned, and eaten several times in the day she known the squirrel rat hybrid. Scrat made it to the top and was ready to smack the acorn into the leafless tree but lightning suddenly struck the poor creature.

Applejack grimaced as she heard the lightning strike. Out of nowhere the charred nut hit her forehead.

"Poor little feller." She shook her head in sadness at the charred animal.

Day started to break and the Sabre-Tooth pack stood on a mountain. They watched the human camp below. The humans in the camp were sleeping silently. Diego walked up to Soto carefully, one slip up and the humans could wake up to face the cat's head on. The Sabres creeped down, towards the camp as quiet as they could.

The dogs heard a kicking of gravel and instantly started growling at the Sabres. They charged but the pads on their feet kept their running muffled. The canines started barking when a loud howling moan caught their attention. The cats stopped and looked around in confusion. The humans had no sort of alarm system other than the dogs so where did that come from. Soto growled and knew the fight was on then. Runar woke up and exited his tent and saw the cats running towards the camp. Runar grabbed his spear and he, as well as other humans charged the cats.

Soto pounced and landed on his spear, but was deflected off his spear. Zeke bit into a human's spear. Lenny swiped his paw at a human. Everything went according to Soto's plan if a fight broke out. Diego sneaked silently and out of sight of the battle.

He soon got to Runar's tent and he creeped inside. There lied the baby, wrapped in a mammoth skin sleeping bag. Suddenly Nadia picked up her son and hit Diego with a club. She took off running with Diego close behind. Runar saw them run and went to help, when Soto and Oscar lept in front of him, blocking his path. It left Nadia all alone to fend off Diego.

She saw a waterfall and crossed a stone bridge. Diego swiftly cut her off. He swiped his paw and grabbed a necklace that was wrapped around the baby's sleeping bag and snarled. Nadia ran back and under the bridge, where Diego once again cut her off. She turned back and ran again. The orange Sabre began to give chase when, out of the corner of his eye, a blue blur hit the cat.

"Aw yeah!" Rainbow Dash hovered just above the ground. Diego snarled at the rainbow maned pony.

"Get out of here! I'm busy." Diego growled and went after the human, but he was stopped by Rainbow.

"No, I heard your conversation about that baby, I'm not letting you hurt that baby." She smirked, she was confident she could beat this cat and protect that baby. The cat's plan disgusted her to her very core so she devised a plan of her own, to defeat the cats. Rainbow landed on the ground and snorted. Diego snarled and circled the pony. He was using a simple predator tactic, circle the prey for any weaknesses and attack. She followed his movements, it seemed like they were dancing to the death. Rainbow couldn't afford any mistakes, she could use the air to her advantage but then again she could be making a mistake.

Diego pounced at the Pegasus who leaped into the air. Diego landed and looked up to see the Pegasus flying above him. He ran after Nadia but was tackled by Rainbow Dash. Rainbow jumped off, but she spun in the air and landed on her side. She stood up just in time to see that Diego pounced on her and pinned the pony down. She grunted and struggled in vain, the 400 pound cat kept her down. A rock hit Diego's back and he growled and saw that Nadia had thrown it.

The pony bucked the Sabre off her, and got into her hooves. She looked at Nadia who picked up the baby and started to run off. Diego smacked her with his paw, causing her to fly towards the river. She hit the cold water and stood up. Dash glared at the smirking cat.

"Come on is that all you got?" She spit some blood into the water. The swipe had left three, bloody claw marks on her left cheek. Diego roared and charged the pony. Rainbow turned and bucked the Sabre in the chest. Diego roared in pain and clutched his chest with his paws.

"Yeah! That's what I thought!" Rainbow laughed at Diego. She looked at Nadia who was at the edge of the waterfall on a rock.

"You ok?" Rainbow asked, but the human could only hear whinnies from her. Nadia backed up from her, Rainbow's ears fell in disappointment and she turned around. Suddenly she felt a pain in her face and she flew off the waterfall and her head bounced on four boulders. She hit the water below. Diego smirked and growled at Nadia.

He creeped towards the human and her child. She knew there was only one place she could go, down with Rainbow. She clutched her baby and leapt off the edge, much to Diego's surprise. He looked over the edge but he couldn't find her. He went back towards the camp.

An axe cut the dogs free and they attacked the Sabres. Everything had gone well, Oscar mortally wounded one of them and none of Soto's pack were seriously injured. Soto saw Diego run up.

"Theres Diego. Fall back!" Her ordered and the Smilodon gave up the fight and went towards their pack member. When they reached him, Soto looked around for the baby.

"Where's the baby?"

"I lost it over the falls to a freaky, blue, flying horse." Diego explained, he sounded like Zeke when he was easily subdued by Twilight.

"You lost it?!" Soto snapped. Oscar watched Soto's reaction curiously. Spears landed beside the cats and they saw four humans, including Runar, running at them.

"You sound like Zeke," He growled for a moment, "I want that baby Diego."

"I'll get it."

"You better, unless you want to serve yourself as a replacement. We'll go up to Half Peak. Meet us there...it had better be alive." Soto ran off and Oscar stopped in front of Diego.

"Can we trust you with that Diego?" He growled at Oscar.

"Lets go!" The pack ran off, leaving Diego to find the baby.

The dogs sniffed at the necklace before Runar picked it up. He panted heavily hoping to whatever god he worshiped that Nadia was safe. The cats retreating caught his eye. He ran in the direction of the cats, his men following right behind him.

Manny, Sid, Pinkie, and Fluttershy walked through a red leafed forest. In this forest it was hard to tell that there was an Ice Age coming.

"And then she picked this hair of my shoulders and said, "You're gonna have to mate, at least pick a female with the same color pelt." And I told her whoa! She's gonna go praying mantis on me. Know what I'm saying?" Sid finished a story he was telling to pass the time by.

"If you find a mate in life, you should be loyal. In your case grateful, now get away from me."

"Well I've had my eyes on Big Macintosh, buuuuut." She nudged Fluttershy.

"What?" Her cheeks became as red as a tomato.

"Come on Fluttershy, I've seen you checking out Big Mac." Pinkie hooded her eyes.

"Aw Fluttershy got a crush?" Sid chuckled. The yellow pony blushed even deeper.

"Oi." Manfred glared ahead.

"Oh please don't tell Applejack!" Fluttershy begged to them.

"I Pinkie Pie swear!" Pinkie held her hoof to her head. Sid then asked what a Pinkie Pie swear was.

"It's my special promise processy thingy. Want me to teach ya?" She asked. Sid nodded.

"Hey Manny wait up!" The mammoth looked back and groaned. Manny stopped and watched her do her Pinkie Pie Promise.

"Cross my heart," She made an X with her hooves, "Hope to fly," She jumped, "Stick a cupcake in my eye." She poked her eye, somehow it didn't hurt her. Sid followed her movements and almost poked his eye out with his claw. Manny walked off and the smaller mammals quickly followed the mammoth. Sid picked up an apple and started chewing it.

"Well in response you Manny, I think mating for life is stupid." He bit into the apple.

"I mean there's plenty of Sid to go around-" Sid bumped into Manfred's rear. Pinkie and Fluttershy walked up beside Manny, while Sid called his name and went underneath the mammoth. He stopped when he noticed Manfred starring forward.

There was a Nadia, holding on to a log and her baby. She opened her eyes and saw the mammoth, sloth, Earth Pony, and Pegasus Pony. By clutching the log, she carefully made her way towards the shore. She placed her baby onto shore, Manny caught the baby before it could roll back into the water. The four just stared at the human. The ponies knew to wait and let Manny or Sid make a move, they were strangers in a brand new world were any wrong move could be their last. Pinkie wanted to go and help her, but a primal fear she never felt before stopped her.

Pinkie Pie gave into her instincts and didn't move a single muscle. Fluttershy did the same. She closed her eyes and rested her head on the dirt. Manny pulled it back to reveal the baby.

"Look, it's ok." Sid smiled.

"DAW It's the cutest little thing I've ever seen!" Pinkie Pie giggled. 'I guess Lyra was right about humans.' Pinkie thought to herself.

They looked at the mother and saw her gone. They looked around for her.

"She's gone." Sid said.

"Where did she go?" Fluttershy asked.

"The current must've washed her away." Manny looked down at the baby and turned to walk off.

"Whoa Manny we can't leave this cute little button of joy!" Pinkie held the baby up to Manny's face.

"Yeah you saved him." Manny moved Pinkie out of his, not harsh but gently.

"Well I'm still trying to get rid of the last thing I saved."

"Oh look at him!" Pinkie poked his nose.

"There's smoke up there, that's his herd. We should return him." Sid and Pinkie went towards the hill but Manfred stopped them

"Let's get something straight here. There's no we, there never was a we, in fact, without me, there wouldn't even be a you!" Manny made them back up with his head jerks.

"Just up the hill..."

"Listen very carefully," He made motions with his trunk, "I'm...not...going!"

"Fine be a jerk! We'll take care of-"

"TWILIGHT!" Fluttershy hollered.

Manny, Sid, and Pinkie looked to see Twilight Sparkle fishing out Rainbow Dash. Twilight turned her head and saw the small herd.

"Fluttershy! Pinkie!" She looked ready to weep. The three ponies ran towards each other and hugged. Sid and Manny watched them.

"Aw." Sid put the baby to his chest but Manny smacked him in the back of the head. The baby giggled when Manny hit him.

"Oh mi gawsh! Twilight where have you been?" Pinkie put Twilight into a bear hug. Twilight started choking out that she couldn't breathe. Pinkie apologized and let her go.

"I've been looking for you guys when I found Rainbow floating in the river. It looks like she hit her head pretty hard. I'd be surprised if she didn't suffer massive brain damage.

"Oh dear." Fluttershy went towards her friend, who was still knocked out.

"Who are they?" Twilight motioned towards the mammoth and sloth.

"That's Manny the Moody Mammoth, and Sid." Pinkie giggled. Twilight moved towards Sid and Manny.

"Thanks for taking care of my friends." She caught a whiff of the smelly sloth and stopped herself from gagging.

"Ah no problemo. Hey! We could all return the baby to his herd up there." Sid pointed to the smoke. Twilight looked closely at the baby and thought about Lyra.

"Hmm Lyra wasn't crazy after all...unless..." Twilight went into thinking mode and put everything she'd seen together. The Smilodon, the megatherium, the mammoth, now a Neanderthal human. Her fears were now confirmed, they were in the past almost 5 millions years in the past.

"Let's get Rainbow to safety first and we'll help you." Twilight smiled.

"Well have fun." Manny walked off. Sid called for the mammoth who didn't stop.

"Fine we'll take care of it." Manny laughed.

"You'll take care of it? You can't even take care of yourself. This I gotta see." Sid walked towards the sheer cliff and gulped. Fluttershy came and took the baby from Sid.

"I'll take it up there, if that's ok with you." She looked up. The yellow Pegasus could easily make the flight.

"Hold up I'll climb with you." Sid offered and started climbing. He was failing to get far, even hitting his head on the side of the mountain.

"You're an embarrassment to nature, do ya know that?" Manny joked.

"It's fine, it's fine. I'm gonna die." Sid whined. The baby's flap came undone and the child fell out of Flutterhshy's forelimbs. Sid caught him with his foot.

"Manny!" Sid screamed. The baby fell from his toe claws.

Author's Note

Note: I do not own the My Little Pony franchise or the Ice Age franchise.
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Please comment! If you don't then the story will never improve on well...anything and I'd feel as if I'd be wasting your time! Well I learned the human leader's name...it's Runar, yeah. I hope you enjoy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Update: I fixed the pony emotion problem people have been complaining about. And for those who are wondering, I am planning on crossing the other three movies after this one. I have them all planned out just as I have with this one. My Little Pony Ice Age: Discord's Meltdown, My Little Pony Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, My Little Pony Ice Age: Continental Drift, and there might be a fifth were the ponies go home, but accidentally take some hitch hikers with them :P. If there happens to be another movie that comes out after then my planned fifth will be pushed back. Unless it's like a prequel or if Manny, Sid, and Diego have passed.