The CB Series: Story 1) Defeat of the Robot Zony Factory

Equestria is full of many heroes. Some are old, some are young. Some are big, some are small. Whenever something in the city of Manehattan goes wrong, this new superhero is here to defeat the villain behind the chaos. Day or night this mare will protect her city from evil.  This is a story of one hero you’ll never forget. This is a story of Captain Banana.

In her brand new rainbow castle, Princess Twilight Sparkle was pacing the room. Mumbling to herself while walking in circles around the seven thrones, her small dragon friend Spike sat in his seat, watching his mother-like friend wait. And wait. And wait. And wait even more. And wait. “Come on Twi’, you’re going to have a fun time with princesses Celestia and Luna in Canterlot. Look on the bright side, it’s just for the week.”

“Just a week? Is that how you comfort me, Spike?” The purple alicorn stopped her pacing, looking at the small dragon in his throne. “Well, yeah.” Her companion replied. “Ugh! This isn’t helping me!” She began to stress. “Twilight, last time I checked you said you were going for a vacation, you know, to relax.” Spike remembered. “But I can’t relax being the new leader of Ponyville! It’s like as if right when Celestia and Luna saved Equestria from discord, they left everyone to go to Horseshoe Bay or any other beach around here!”

“Wouldn’t surprise me. Heh, I bet that’s what they did!” He joked. “SPIKE!” Twilight yelled. “Okay, alright, anger-issues!” Spike calmly said to himself. “Now when my friends get here to rule, I want you to remind them to always stay on track. I’ll remind them of the checklist over here, and you need to act like a prince. Be on best behavior and whatever you do, don’t loose track of anything! Got it?” Twilight asked, waiting for an answer. “Got it, Spike?” She repeated. The purple dragon sat in his throne daydreaming, looking around his new castle home. “SPIKE! DID YOU HEAR ME!?” Twilight yelled. “Oh! Uh, yeah. Just keep ‘em on track. That’s all.” Spike said.

Soon the five closest friends of Twilight Sparkle came, and after greeting each other and wishing Twilight good-luck and giving her hugs, the princess left. “Applejack, darling? Didn’t you have something planned for this week?” Rarity asked her friend. “Yes, I’m supposed to go with Apple Bloom to the city to meet our cousin Babs. But that won’t take long. After all, you four, well, five including Spike, will be here. And I put family first after all.” The country pony replied.

“Very well put, A.J.! I hope you and you’re little sister stay safe the way there and back. The journey can be ever so dangerous sometimes.” The unicorn continued the conversation. “I’m sure we’ll be safe.  Now, time for fun before I leave tomorrow.” Applejack said, changing the subject. “Yes! Fun! Alright, fun. Uh, yes.” Rarity said, not knowing what to say.  “Fun! I love fun!” The pink one said, bouncing up and down getting into the A-B conversation, making herself the C. “Pinkie Pie, darling, why don’t you and Applejack go do something fun?” Rarity suggested. “Okie-dokie!” She said, grabbing Applejack’s hoof and dragging her across the room.

Meanwhile north of Ponyville, a black-furred unicorn with white and yellow straight hair, both mane and tail, named Starlit Moon sat at the edge of the steps in the front of her small but sweet apartment building in the downtown area of the busy city Manehattan. The sun was setting, and the crisp autumn air came past the mare in a slight breeze, cooling her as the warm but not hot sun beat down on her. The leaves of the trees were beginning to fall, and everything seemed perfect. Through her bright blue glasses she saw a small colt and filly playing, and seeing that this small part of her city was safe from disaster,  she sat up and went inside to the second floor where the single mare lived in  her one bedroom living arrangement.

Getting ready for bed, the mare took out her matching blue ribbon in her hair. Her hazel eyes sparkled as she remembered just a week ago when she became the new secret superhero she is today. She had preformed a magic trick wrong in her bedroom the night before her test the next day in her college she attends. She had transformed herself into an amazing being with more power than any unicorn, not counting alicorns. Automatically when the spell is preformed she gets a long white cape with a huge yellow outfit that covers most of her body. Huge black mechanical wings are created, and her horn turns long and needle-sharp.

The real spell was supposed to make her inspired for what her cutiemark means and they were supposed to write papers on it. The spell had never worked correctly for her, or at least she thought so. Her cutiemark was (supposedly) a white crescent moon. But then Starlit Moon realized that night that it wasn’t a moon at all. It was a banana. She would save the world with her new banana powers and be known as Captain Banana, Protector of Manehattan. She repeated the spell once again, like how she had been doing every night since the first time she tried. Starlit Moon read about the spell in a book in the Manehattan Library, and never did she know research could do this to her. Heck, she should’ve been nerdy back then and became super long ago.

Turning herself back into Starlit Moon, she climbed into bed and went to sleep. Tomorrow would be another exam in class, this topic being working with mechanics, her professor’s personal favorite.  The mare soon fell asleep listening to the usual downtown city noise of traffic, stray dogs barking, and late-night partiers.

The next day Starlit was walking in the hallway going to class when a friend stopped her. “Hey, Starlit!" She yelled, rushing over. Catching her breath she quickly said, “Did you see the mechanics professor? At all today?” Her co-student and best friend asked her. Starlit just arrived to her a.m. classes at school. “No, I haven’t. Sorry Bubble.” She replied to her usually quiet friend. Bubble Rose, her best friend, was never this loud at school. After she thought about it, she couldn’t remember her being loud at all.

Starlit walked over to the classroom she was going to take an exam in. The professor wasn’t in it, whereas he’d usually be sitting at his desk either grading tests and exams, which he gave a lot of, or he’d be reading a book. Mainly Sci-fi books about robots, aliens, and weird things like that  is what he’d read.

The fairly young mint green and pitch black furred pegasus zony with matching strict black business style hair with bright green eyes, and usually in a tight white lab coat was nowhere to be seen. The community college students anxiously trotted around, not knowing why their professor was missing. “The dean! The dean!” One student said, and the hallway went from a loud roar to a still, dead silence. “Where is Professor Electoxium?” She asked, knowing no one had an answer. The older mare, with her droopy eyes looking through her small glasses looked around and saw a shadow of a pegasus. “Who’s that? Back there? Professor?” She mumbled. Starlit Moon turned her head, and then turned her whole body. Slowly walking over to the wall were the other hallway began, the turned into it and a black and green feather lay on the floor, and the doors going outside were closing. Only a black, white, and green blur could be seen quickly dashing away into the city, and Starlit knew that it was professor Electoxium.

“He- he ran away,” Starlit said, students now following her, even though she hadn’t moved since she saw the feather and the doors, “I can’t believe- he, he ran, away... but how- why?” She asked herself. Everyone stood in the small, claustrophobic hallway full of other friends and students, and now other staff members. “Everypony,” The  dean clapped her front hooves together, “go to your classes. I will get someone to watch the class.” The worried and now stressed dean hurried to the college library, seeing if one the librarians could “substitute”. Starlit Moon gazed through the doors, wondering why her teacher had run off.

In Ponyville, Applejack and Apple Bloom were at the train station waiting for the Ponyville Express. “I can’t wait! I can’t wait!” Little energetic Apple Bloom shouted, bouncing up and down. “Whoa Nelly, sis! Now, I know you’re excited and all sugarcube, but ‘ya don’t have to act all sugar-high. Remember, we’re just spending the night. I’ll be visiting with Bab’s older sister, and we’ll have to be back here tomorrow by lunch. I’m not even supposed to be leaving, but I’m being nice.” Applejack instructed. “Lookie! There’s the train! There’s the train! There’s the train, Applejack! There’s the train!” Apple Bloom yelled, almost covering the noise the loud the train itself made pulling into the station, the loud brakes screeching to a stop, and the whistle blowing. Puffs of air came out, and steam arose from the top of the engine. The station became busy with ponies of all ages, sizes, species and colors getting on and off the train.

“C’on, Apple Bloom. We’d better get on.” Her older sister said, wondering why Apple Bloom didn’t think that thought first. Getting a window seat, Apple Bloom asked her sister, “How long until Manehattan?” “Just a few hours, probably. Manehattan’s pretty far up there, lil’ sis. But we’ll get there before lunch.” Applejack replied. “Aww! But I wanna be there now!” young Apple Bloom whined. The conductor hollered “All Aboard!”, and soon everypony was on the train headed to Manehattan. “I hope Big Mac and Granny can do it, ya’ know, Apple Bloom. Tend the farm while we’re gone.” Applejack worryingly said. “You said it yourself, sis! Tomorrow we’ll be back at lunchtime.” Her younger sister comforted her. However, Applejack had a strange gut feeling she’d be held back, and not home by lunch. But she knew she had to go back, and tend the farm, and all of Ponyville with her friends while Twilight is gone.

After two long, mentally painful hours of hearing Apple Bloom sing, or try to sing, listening to her point out every single tree the train passed and giving it a name, looking at cloud pictures, and not to mention more singing, they finally arrived in Manehattan. “We are the cutie mark crusaders! On a quest to find out who we are! “We’ll never stop the jou-” “Alright, sugar. Let’s see, Bab’s apartment is over this way.” Applejack cut in, hoping to end the out of key singing. Soon the three were united, and Applejack left the two young fillies and went to find her younger cousin’s sister, who was in fact, her age. In no time they were all caught up in each other’s lives and events that it was already dinner time, and the two city cousins decided to show their long distance family members the best restaurant in the whole city of Manehattan, the James Stable. The four girls went, and after waiting what seemed to be the longest line, they finally got a table.

It was seven O’clock, and Starlit Moon was hungry. Being a new superhero in town, she had a fishy feeling about the professor, and had to keep an eye out. Always a mysterious stallion, the professor seemed busy and stressed a lot, but that seemed normal for the occasional hard-working professor with after school classes and busy weekends. Starlit was in downtown, and decided  to go treat herself for being a superhero. She walked into a restaurant, and ordered a small, but expensive to-go item. As she walked over to sit on a small waiting bench, she noticed something. she could only see his back, but it looked like the professor. A black furred, black haired pegasus with a lab coat was sitting at a table alone. As Starlit focused more on the pony, or zony if it was the professor, he seemed more gray than black. Starlit stood up, and she slowly, quietly, and also quite nervously, walked over to who she thought the professor was. She gasped in surprise.

“So, you all are still doing that cutie mark crusader thing?” Babs’ older sister asked as the four left the James Stable. “Believe me, Apple Bloom here sang the whole theme song countless times the whole way here.” Exhausted Applejack said. “That was so good!” Apple Bloom complimented about dinner. “I don’t get to go there often. Heh, you should come over more!” Babs said. “Yeah!” Apple Bloom agreed. The four walked through the city streets as the sun began to set. “Hey, tonight I wanna show you something.” Babs whispered to her cousin. “Okay!” Apple Bloom agreed, not knowing what would happen.

Starlit Moon gasped. A shiny gray pegasus, that looked like it was made from metal, sat in the chair. What she saw wasn’t hair; just a shadow. It had one red laser eye, and a messy, greasy, lab coat. It had blood red stripes to represent a zony, and the cutie mark reminded Starlit of the professor’s- it was a bright red toxic symbol. Professor Electoxium’s cutiemark was similar, only it was green. The robot-like zony stood on it’s hind legs, and shot a single red laser from its eye aimed for Starlit. Dodging and falling face first to the ground, Starlit knew what she had to do. “Run!” She yelled, and everypony turned and looked at the zony. Ponies began running and yelling. “How’d he get in  here?! What’s going on? Help!” Many Manehattan citizens asked in the James Stable, trying to escape. The unicorn stood to her feet, and dashed for the bathroom. There she transformed herself into Captain Banana, and unsure of her new superpowers, if she even had any at all, she raced towards the mad, raging robot, now shooting several lasers in random directions.

Starlit didn’t know what to do; she had never been super before! Not wanting to make a fool of herself, she acted slowly and very subtle, like as if she was in the background. Starlit knew that if she wanted to defeat this villain, she’d have to learn his weakness first.