Randomness

Part 2-A

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“Trixie…Trixie…It’s…Everything’s going to be okay”

Trixie, as a foal, gradually opens her tear soaked, bloodshot eyes. She stares at a unicorn who looks much like her, except her mane is a dark brown and her cutie mark is a book with musical notes flowing out of it. The unicorn is bedridden in a hospital, her room is spotless and white with decorations of flower paintings and a vase filled with roses. It’s supposed to give the patients and visitors a sense of hope and comfort, but all Trixie finds is dread. Dread, fear, anguish, and anger.

Trixie’s lips quiver as she opens her mouth to talk but nothing comes out but a small whimper, and more tears that roll down her cheek. The unicorn smiles sadly and tells Trixie to come closer. Trixie, despite being as small as she is, manages to jump on the bed and curl up next to the sick unicorn. The unicorn strokes her mane with her shaking hoof.

“I’m scared mama” says Trixie quietly; any louder and she would’ve burst into tears

Trixie’s mother smiles reassuringly and looks into Trixie’s purple eyes.

“Don’t be afraid, Trixie” whispers her mother “I’ll always be with you. Come here”

Trixie inches closer to her mother and they embrace each other for the last time.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

It’s been a year since Trixie’s mother passed away, a lot has changed since then. She has been living with her father in the glamorous city of Canterlot, and she has been enrolled in a school for unicorns and living especially close to the Royal Palace.

Trixie bounces into her home with a grin stretching across her face, and gallops up the stairs to a large office filled with books, folders, and a portrait of Trixie’s mother and a stallion unicorn with a silver coat and blue mane, and a pen and paper cutie mark. The stallion from the picture is hunched over a desk writing something down in deep concentration.

“Dad! Dad!” yells Trixie happily as she bounces around the room like Pinkie Pie on a sugar rush

The stallion’s only reply is a grunt and faster scribbling.

“Dad, I got my cutie mark!” says Trixie “See?”

Trixie shows her cutie mark to her father, it is a wand with a star tip and a small swirl around it. The stallion stops writing and grits his teeth as he puts his pen down and then he stares at Trixie with great annoyance and…disappointment?

Trixie can’t believe that her father would be disappointed. She must be reading him wrong, she reasons with herself.

“When Starlight said that I had performed some of the best magic she had ever seen I got it” says Trixie in a desperate attempt to keep her happiness

Her father continues to stare at her. Trixie takes a cautious step forward, her smile now being forced to stay, and her father looks down and continues writing whatever it was he was writing in the first place. He mumbles something that Trixie can’t hear so she steps closer. Her smile begins to fade away.

“I’m sorry father…I didn’t hear you” says Trixie carefully as she rubs her right hoof over her left leg shamefully; her smile is now gone

“Why couldn’t you perform this ‘best magic’ when I tried to enroll you in Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns?” growls her father

Trixie opens her mouth to say something, but her father points at the door behind her and glares threateningly at her.

“Get out” sneers her father

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

In the pouring rain, a crowd of ponies, dressed in black, are huddled around a coffin that is slowly being lowered in the ground. Behind the coffin, on a lavish display consisting of flowers and reefs is a picture of Trixie’s father. Trixie, now a young adult, is standing in the back, wearing a simple black dress and hat. Unlike the others, who are crying, or trying not cry, Trixie is just staring at the coffin with a “Good Riddance” celebration attitude. She purposefully ignores the priest and the gatherer’s wailing and keeps her focus on listening to the rain patter against her hat. She doesn’t want to hear these ponies mourn for that poor excuse for a stallion. If she wasn’t so transfixed on watching her father being lowered to the dirt and mentally rejoicing that his soul will be going somewhere lower, she’d watch the gobs of rain droplets roll off her hat.

“Trixie…” says an elderly voice cautiously

Trixie’s eyes glide over to the priest, who had quietly made his way to her without her realizing it. He has a faded red coat and tan mane and tail (but with his age, it almost looks white) and he looks troubled to see the state she is in.

“I…I can see the celebration in your eyes” says the priest

“Good. I want everyone to see” says Trixie darkly

“I know you didn’t like-”

“I hated him”

“But please, I am begging you, talk to me. Don’t keep-”

“Oh so now you care!”

Trixie turns to the priest and stomps towards him so that their noses are practically touching. The priest takes a step back and some of the people in the crowd look at Trixie and the priest. Trixie’s nostrils flare and her ears flatten on her head as she leans closer to the priest. The priest shifts uneasily in his spot and Trixie’s eyes narrow.

“Now you care?” repeats Trixie in a harsh whisper, her voice slightly cracking

“Trixie…” begins the priest

Trixie scoffs and marches away from the funeral. The priest gulps back some tears and looks at the grass. The priest looks up again and sees Trixie disappear into the rain.

“May you find peace” whispers the priest

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

The night sky is covered with clouds, shrouding the moon and the stars, and Trixie is pacing around Twilight in a field dotted with small craters and pockets of fire that have fiery smoke rise into the sky. Both of the unicorns’ manes and tails are a complete mess and have twigs and other debris caught in them, and their colorful coats are caked in bloody dirt. But while Trixie looks like she’s had a rough scuffle, Twilight looks like she’s about to die. Her horn is cracked and bleeding, easily has more cuts and bruises than Trixie, nearly turning her purple coat red with blood, and one of her eyes is swollen shut. She is also trying to push herself up, but every time she tries she knocked down by Trixie.

“Fight back!” orders Trixie “Fight back! Defend yourself from the Great and Powerful Trixie!”

Trixie shoots a blue beam at Twilight that blasts her a dozen feet in the air and when she lands, she skids across the ground, leaving a trail of bloody dots. She coughs painfully and watches in horror and sadness as Trixie approaches her with murderous intent. She can also hear her friends screaming for her and demanding Trixie to stop.

“FIGHT BACK!” screams Trixie

When the other five run up to her, Trixie quickly takes them out. For Rainbow Dash, she uses a bolt of lightning from her horn that strikes her in the chest, knocking her down and most likely stopping her heart for a second or two. For Rarity, that high maintenance marshmallow unicorn, Trixie purposefully launches her head first into a pile of mud. Trixie has to teleport away from Pinkie Pie’s Party Cannon and wrap her body in a stone casing. She then uses that stone casing to whack Applejack away when she tried to buck her. As for Fluttershy, well she was standing in front of Twilight defensively and Trixie doesn’t wait for her to use The Stare. She uses Fluttershy’s enormous mane to cover her head and then she flings her at Rarity’s little mud-hole. Fluttershy hits Rarity and they both fall into the mud. All this takes place in a matter of ten seconds.

“Wait!...Stop!” cries Twilight weakly

Trixie smiles devilishly.

“Your fight is with me…not them…please…let them go” pleads Twilight

As soon as Trixie turns around to look at Twilight lightning flashes in the distance, closely followed by rolling thunder. Twilight manages to push herself back on her hoofs, but collapses a few seconds later. Rain ours down and Trixie puts her hoof on Twilight’s neck and pushes down so hard she can feel Twilight’s pulse. Twilight gasps for air but does nothing to try to free herself. Trixie can see the fear in Twilight’s good eye and it makes her smile. Her rival is under her hoof, powerless, and in the middle of pouring rain. Just as her father had been buried in the rain, so shall Twilight Sparkle.

“At least tell me why…Why are you doing this?” sobs Twilight

“You took everything away from Trixie. Now you shall pay with your life” says Trixie ominously

Trixie brings her hoof up and-

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

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Trixie gasps awake, sweating profusely, and slams her hoof on her alarm clock, effectively turning it into a flattened piece of junk.  She stares, wide-eyed, at nothing in particular as she tries to get her breathing and sweating under control.

“Bucking dreams” sighs Trixie while flopping back in her bed

Trixie then notices the condition of her alarm clock and scowls.

“Piece of junk” mutters Trixie while flinging it away using her telekinesis

The alarm clock lands perfectly in a garbage bin filled with other flat alarm clocks. She reluctantly rolls out of her bed and magically opens the drapes on her curtains to look at the city of Canterlot. It has to be at least noon; the sun is high, the sky is cloudless, and the new vehicles called zeppelins are lazily gliding around the airspace displaying advertisements for PP’s Deliveries, Lulamoon Entertainment, and other big name companies.  She also takes a moment to marvel at the towering buildings that have been recently put up in Canterlot. Sure Canterlot has had its fair share of tall buildings, but the skyscrapers are so huge that she can barely see the Royal Palace behind them.

‘A lot sure has changed the last few years’ thinks Trixie

Trixie walks over to her kitchen and checks the messages on her answering machine, another new invention that ties in with another invention called a telephone. Only the elite class has the privilege of owning one.

“You have one new message” says the creepy computerized voice

Beep!

“Trixie, this is Filthy Rich, I hope you have considered my proposal for allowing my assistance of the ‘3 Barns Up Benefit Concert’. I know that if our companies work together we can do a lot of good for Equestria. Call me back when you have an answer. Thanks, bye”

Beep!

“End of message. To delete, press-”

Trixie deletes the message and walks into her living room and turns on the television. The news is on, and it is about Mare-Do-Well and Shining Armor’s response. The footage is live at the Royal Palace, and Shining Armor is standing behind a podium with a bundle of microphones in front of him. Princess Cadence is standing next to him on one side and Celestia on the other. With the constant flashes from the cameras bombarding the trio, it’s a wonder none of them have been blinded yet.

“…Mare-Do-Well’s actions are not only dangerous to herself but to the city of Canterlot” says Shining Armor into the microphones “The law is the law and my colts are fully capable of handling the wave of crime and corruption. We cannot afford more discord in this city, whether it is between rival gangs or civilians taking on the criminals, we simply cannot allow these acts of vigilantism to continue. The only one who can truly protect you is the Equestrian government and her Guards. Whoever you are, Mare-Do-Well, I urge you to stop this charade before the repercussions become too grave. That is all”

Shining Armor steps away from the podium and walks inside the palace; the two princesses follow him inside, and the crowd of reporters and photographers surge forward while shouting their questions and a line of the gold armored Royal Guards step forward to block them.

Trixie turns off the television and smiles boastfully.

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At E Gadd’s House…

In the basement of E Gadd’s house, Luigi and the Dude Brothers are waiting patiently for E Gadd to come down. Everyone is carrying a backpack filled with basic survival gear and communicators as a precaution.

“So, Blue…” says Yellow gruffly while lighting a cigarette

“Yeah, Yellow” says Blue while polishing a wand

“Why exactly are you bringing your wand?”

“C’mon, you know I never go anywhere without it. Besides, you’re bringing an axe”

Yellow looks at his tomahawk and snickers.

“C’mon, you know I never go anywhere without it” mocks Yellow

Blue rolls his eyes.

“Now that I think about this, I’m having doubts” says Blue to Luigi

“Why is that?” asks Luigi

“Well, E Gadd is smart and all, but he has bad luck with his inventions. They’re always breaking or catching on fire or imploding”

Before Luigi can reply E Gadd walks in wearing his lab coat over a safari outfit and carrying a backpack almost as big as him. He giggles like a child in a candy shop as he bounces down the steps. When he’s at the bottom of the stairs he waves and the group returns the favor.

“How’severybodydoingareyouexcitedI’mexcited!” says E Gadd energetically

“Relax, E Gadd” says Luigi

“Right…relax…Okay I’m relaxed! Who’s ready to go!?”

Everyone raises their hand and E Gadd’s smile stretches from one ear to the other as he rubs his hands together.

“Excellent!” says E Gadd gleefully “We’ll begin right…what the heck are you carrying?”

Yellow holds up his axe proudly.

“I’m taking my axe with me” says Yellow

“No! You can’t bring weapons to Equestria!” says E Gadd horrifyingly

“Why not?”

“It’s a peaceful place of lovable ponies and they will feel threatened if you bring any weapon with you. And that means no wands either, Blue”

“But-but this a gift from my daddy!” whines Blue

“No ‘buts’ or ‘butts’ about it. No weapons!”

“But you said there were dragons and other evil things there” says Yellow angrily

“Can we at least bring Power-Ups?” asks Blue

“We are going there strictly for observance; so nothing along the lines of wands, axes, hammers or Power-Ups”

As soon as E Gadd mentions “hammers” Luigi tosses his hammer away and whistles innocently. E Gadd waits patiently as Blue and Yellow lay down their weapons and after doing so he smiles and pulls down a large lever on his wall. The wall groans and grinds against steel as it slides to the side, revealing a large hangar that leads to a clear opening outside; it also has an enormous star-shaped craft parked in the middle. The craft is not only shaped like a star, but on the (what is presumed to be) back are three jet engines, and there is a giant glass dome showing off the cockpit, and it is also painted yellow with “Transdimensionaljumpingatron 9000” painted in black letters. On the bottom of the name is another set of letters; these ones are pink and say “Parts supplied by PP’s Deliveries” and next to the pink letters are three balloons (two blue, and one yellow).

“Transdimensionaljumpingatron Nine Thousand is a beauty isn’t she?” says E Gadd proudly “She has the capabilities of traveling between dimensions using power generated from a Starman and a miniature Shaw-Fujikawa Trans-light Engine from the Halo Dimension. I put all my life’s savings into her and also took out a nine hundred thousand gold coin loan from Big City Bank”

The group’s jaws drop.

“She’s capable of holding up to a dozen passengers comfortably and the interior is carpeted and each seat is an ejection seat, just in case something bad happens. I got the seats from the Double-Oh Seven Dimension. They have amazing seats. Did I mention Dimension Hopping is fun? Of course I did!”

Luigi look at E Gadd with some concern.

“What did you mean when you ‘in case something bad happens’” says Luigi inquiringly

“Well you do know that despite my best efforts, sometimes bad things just happen” says E Gadd casually

“That’s it, I’m leaving” says Blue

Blue turns around to leave, but Yellow stops him by stepping in front of him.

“Hold on, a second, you aren’t chickening out are you?” says Yellow with a devilish grin

“N-no of course not!” says Blue uneasily “But-”

“Oh that’s a relief; I thought my brother was a coward for a second”

Yellow puts his arm around Blue’s shoulder and forcefully escorts him to the ship while sarcastically explaining all the fun they will have by talking to talking ponies.

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Luigi climbs into a seat that looks strangely like an easy chair complete with a cup holder and a massage setting. Luigi plays with it a bit and reclines as far as it can go while having the massage setting at max.

“W-w-w-w-w-o-o-o-o-w-w-w-w” says Luigi blissfully

Blue takes a seat next to Luigi and buckles himself in without paying any mind to Luigi. Luigi can barely understand what anyone is saying or what is going on over the vibration and the Godly relaxation he’s getting from the chair. He doesn’t notice everyone strapping themselves in and he doesn’t understand what E Gadd is saying over the intercom. He closes his eyes for a second, but within that second he feels the full force of the ship lurch forward. Luigi screams and watches in a mix of horror and wonder as they rocket through the atmosphere. Basically everyone is screaming in the ship, the only one who isn’t is E Gadd. He’s laughing like a maniac

E Gadd slams his hand on a red button labeled “Do Not Push Unless You’re Insane” and the ship’s speed increases tenfold and pushes everyone back in their seats so hard that they can’t move. A few seconds later, there is an intense, crazy and brilliant show of lights that could give anyone a seizure if they stare at it too long appears.

‘So this is what it’s like to trip out on acid’ thinks Luigi while drooling like a brain dead fool

“Wow!” laughs Blue “And here I was, about to say nothing can go wrong, but sarcastically! But-but this is amazing, E Gadd! Now I mean it when I absolutely nothing can go wrong!”

“That’s right, Blue,” says E Gadd “me and Tails built this baby together! If anyone can build anything to last, it’s Tails! So nothing can or will go wrong! Viva la science!”

The group cheers and struggles to do a fist pump, but the give up and stick with cheering. As quickly as the lightshow began, it ended and is replaced with a natural utopia. The sky is as blue as it can get, the clouds white and fluffy (and without faces, which is a huge plus for Luigi), and the beautiful white tipped mountains act like a natural wall to a lush valley below. Luigi puts his chair in the sitting position and looks out the window. He spots a city being overlooked a giant white castle built into a mountain and other villages here and there with two large forests near the mountains. One looks like a creepy haunted forest where light somehow hides from it, and the other looks like a pleasant forest from a children’s book. Smack in the middle of the area between both forests is another small town that they fly directly over.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Equestria” says E Gadd theatrically

The group cheers once more and this time they are able to do a group fist pump. And as the group celebrates a warning light blinks on the control panel and E Gadd looks at it with minimal concern.

“What’s this about?” asks E Gadd to himself

“When do we get to meet your friend?” asks Blue, completely unaware of what E Gadd had seen

E Gadd checks the ship and his minimal concern turns into a major concern. Luigi instantly spots the shift in E Gadd’s demeanor and gets a knot in his stomach. But he tries to convince himself that it’s nothing. They are in a ship built by E Gadd and Tails. Then Luigi remembers what Blue said before they left.

“Well, E Gadd is smart and all, but he has bad luck with his inventions. They’re always breaking or catching on fire or imploding”

Luigi gulps and silently prays that the ship does not implode.

“Oh…well that’s not good” mumbles E Gadd

He turns to his passengers and puts on a brave smile. Now Luigi knows, without a shred of doubt in his mind, that something is wrong.

‘Please don’t let us implode’ prays Luigi

“Passengers of the Transdimensionaljumpingatron Nine Thousand, I’m afraid we’re going to have to eject” says E Gadd

“Why?” asks Blue

Suddenly, a giant fireball erupts from one of the ship’s stubby wings and everyone screams in horror.

“Holy shit!” shrieks Yellow as an explosion tears through the wall next to him, showering him with small chunks of metal and wires

“Oh my God! I’m too young to die!” sobs Blue

The glass dome that covers the main part of the ship pops off and the rushing wind creates a deafening howl. The wind is also quick to dry out Luigi’s eyes, which makes him close his eyes. He can barely hear the passengers eject, but he’s certain he heard Yellow shout something like “Screw you guys! I’m outta here!” before launching himself out of the doomed vessel.

Luigi opens his eyes for a brief moment and sees that it’s just him and Blue. They look at each other and yank the ejection levers on their seats, and rocket away. The ship explodes into a fireball ten seconds flat afterwards. The burning vessel, now a skeleton of what it once was, plummets down towards an apple farm and skids across the field, leaving a gash of burnt dirt and grass, until it crashes into a barn. Half the barn collapses as soon as the ship hits it.

Luigi cringes and hopes that no one was in that barn, but his concerns go back to him and Blue when he realizes that the seats have sprouted little boosters and stubby wings, and are flying straight into the creepy forest. When a pair of joystick slide out of the arms of the chair Luigi desperately tries to control the seat but he quickly figures out that he’s handicapped in the art of piloting ejection seats and crashes into Blue. Both of them scream in terror as they spin out of control and crash into the forest.

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In the Everfree Forest…

Fluttershy is closely, yet nervously, following a trail of burnt ground. Originally she had been searching the forest for Daisy, who had disappeared the night before. They found her basket in Whitetail Wood and a sign of struggle, including horrible slashes on the trees, but no Daisy. All abled ponies of Ponyville had been searching for her nonstop, but things have been looking grim. Despite all the magic used, and the eyes and ground the Weather Patrol had and covered, there was still no sign of her. Even Pinkie Pie, the one mare that can find anypony or anything, can’t seem to find her!

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had volunteered to go into the Everfree Forest to recruit Zecora’s help and (if possible) find Daisy, but something happened where a strange something-or-other appeared out of the sky, exploded, and crashed into the Apple Family’s barn. Fluttershy insisted that Rainbow Dash help Applejack and Big Mac clean up the mess while she goes to Zecora herself. Sure she was nervous at first, but she kept on reminding herself that if she can stare down a Cockatrice and a dragon she can handle anything in the forest. That has helped her gain some confidence.  However, when she saw two objects fall from the sky, she completely forgot about Zecora and went on to investigate.

As Fluttershy carefully trots along edge of the burnt ground, she flaps her wings and lifts herself up slightly, but in her nervous “Why-the-hay-am-I-doing-this?” state, she just can’t muster enough wing power to keep herself up for long. So she’s half walking and half flying, like the chickens at her cabin. She gasps and takes a step back when she sees an empty smoking, mangled mechanical chair buried in the ground. The chair is sparking and a small engine on the back is still sputtering out oily black smoke. She gulps, walks over to it and lightly taps the seat with her hoof. Something clicks and it begins vibrating.

[“Massage Mode Activated. Prepare for pleasure, Occupant!]” says a mechanical voice in a threatening tone

Fluttershy squeaks and stumbles back as the vibration gets more and more intense. Soon the whole chair is shaking violently and more sparks and parts shoot out, and to Fluttershy’s horror, the chair looks like it’s eating itself! The chair folds inwards and the materials inside groan and snap, and some pop out of place. One of the pieces that fly’s out hits Fluttershy in the nose, causing her to squeak and jump back even farther. Within a matter of seconds, the chair is nothing more than a jumbled mess rolled into a ball.

“[This way, Blue!]” shouts an alien

“[You’re going too fast, Luigi!]” complains another alien

“Oh no” whispers Fluttershy horrifyingly

Her eyes dark around for any clear sign of escape, or at least get an idea where the aliens are coming from. But it seems like the aliens are everywhere! The snapping twigs and chatter are all over the place. Fluttershy feels like her heart’s going to burst out of her chest at any moment. To her, her heartbeats sound like jumbo sized drums and she’s sure that everypony, or everything, can hear them.

“[Jeeze, going through this forest is like a maze]” says the second alien

“[I think we’re going in circles]” says the first one

“[Maybe if we go this way]”

Fluttershy eagerly paces in circles, trying to figure out which way to go. She’s certain that they are circling her on purpose, to trap her and possibly…eat her. Fluttershy shudders at the thought of being a meal, and now that she thinks about it, in the most inconvenient of times, Applejack did find a strange rectangular vehicle of some sort near the scene of the struggle. These aliens must have had something to do with Daisy’s disappearance! Maybe they ate her!

‘Oh no! I’m a dead mare!’  cries Fluttershy’s thoughts

Fluttershy bites back her whimpers and feels thick streams of tears roll down her cheeks. She knew she should’ve gone with Rainbow Dash to help. But no! She had to prove how assertive she was and because of that she’ll become someone’s stew. And once she’s stew, who’s going to warn the others ponies or Zecora of the carnivorous invaders!

“[Hey, I see something, Luigi]” says the second alien

“[Shush, we don’t want to scare it]” says the first alien

Fluttershy instantly becomes petrified when she feels eyes on her. She tries to keep calm and think of a way out. But between her raspy hyperventilating and the thought of being turned into stew, she can’t come up with anything.

“[Do you think it’s friendly?]” asks the second alien

‘I wonder what they will eat first’ thinks Fluttershy glumly as she sits down ‘My wings? Pegasus Wing Stew‘

“[Only one way to find out]” says the first alien

‘Wings…I have wings!’

Fluttershy softly flaps wings and as she listens the bush behind her move and the alien approach her, slowly. Just like a hunter.

‘I can fly! I will *not** become stew!*’

“[Hello]” says the approaching alien

Fluttershy screams and uses all of her might and willpower to fly away. She can feel her fear melt away as she gets closer and closer to the freedom of the open sky. But then her back hoof somehow gets tangled in a random vine and she’s yanked down. She yelps and falls down, and bounces off seemingly all of the branches of the tree she fell into. After getting a beating from all the branches she hit, she finally lands basically back in her original spot, face first.

“[Oh my God! Are you okay!]” says the first alien

She groans and looks up and sees a tall, bipedal alien wearing a thick green sweater underneath overalls, and he also has white gloves, boots (or was it shoes? Fluttershy can’t tell since most of it is hidden underneath the legs of the overall), and a green hat with a white circle that has a green “L” in the middle. And to finish it off, it appears he doesn’t have much hair covering his body but makes it up by having an epic mustache covering most of his lower face. But she doesn’t see a killer in his eyes, rather a genuinely concerned alien looking down at her. The alien stretches out his arms to help her up. Fluttershy lets the strange alien help her up and she smiles shyly while hiding behind her enormous pink mane. The tall alien smiles and kneels down at her level.

“[Dawww, isn’t that cute]” says the tall alien while smiling kindly

While Fluttershy stares at the creature, she can’t help but wonder if he’s some kind of reptile due to his lack of hair and the large amount of clothing he’s wearing, since reptiles need help staying warm due to their cold blooded genetics.

“[Is it friendly, Luigi?]” asks the second alien (still obscure from view)

“[More than friendly. She’s adorable]” says the tall alien

The alien, whom Fluttershy is guessing is ‘Luigi’, gently stretches out his hand and strokes her chin. He seems to like it, but Fluttershy loves the feel of the gloves scratching against her coat and actually leans forward without realizing it. When Fluttershy hears the second alien come out of cover and walk up to them she opens her eyes expecting to see another one similar to Luigi. But what she sees instead stumps her. She’s seen some weird things in her life, but this one is put in the top five. (Discord will always be Number One in her book)

The other alien is barely half the size of Luigi, and it looks like a sentient mushroom being of some kind. It’s wearing a blue vest and thick blue pants, has blue spots on the large puffy part of its head.

“[Does it have a name?]” asks the second alien

“[I don’t know, Blue]” says Luigi while scratching his head

Luigi points at himself.

“[I am Luigi]”

Luigi points at Blue.

“[That is Blue]”

He points at himself and Blue at the same time.

“[We are friends]”

He points at Fluttershy.

“[What is your name?]”

Fluttershy points at Luigi.

“Luigi” says Fluttershy quietly

Luigi’s eyes widen and Blue cocks his head. And then Fluttershy points at Blue.

“Blue” says Fluttershy quietly, and nervously, something about the mushroom headed creature is just unnerving to her

Luigi laughs and nods and says something that sounds like a praise, which makes Fluttershy smile. But when the mushroom alien, Blue, approaches her, she starts shaking.

“[What is your name? Name…Naaaaaaaammmmmmm-uh]” says Blue

“[Dang it, Blue, you’re acting like your brother!]” says Luigi irritably

Fluttershy trembles and hides behind her mane and desperately wants to fly away. But when she flaps her wings she feels a sharp pain surge throughout her right wing that is strong enough to make her slump and cry softly. Fluttershy makes no attempt to resist as Luigi inspects her wing, he doesn’t seem like the kind of creature that would eat a pony.

When Luigi sighs though, she gets an uneasy feeling on top of the pain she’s in.

“[I’m not a vet or anything, but I’m pretty sure your wing is broken…or at least sprained]” says Luigi

“[If only Mario was here, he’d know for sure]” says Blue

Luigi shoots Blue a dirty glare, which makes Blue shrink back. Fluttershy wonders what Blue had said to make his superior (?) give him that stern look. But Blue quickly recovers from the glare and pulls out a wand with a small star at the end. It kind of reminds Fluttershy of the wand on Trixie’s cutie mark.

“[Blue…what are you doing with that?]” asks Luigi angrily

“[I can fix her wing in no time. It’s a spell I’ve been practicing on Yellow]” says Blue reassuringly

“[You’ve been practicing spells on your brother?]”

“[Well yeah, he’s got no job and no hope, so I’m giving him a purpose by making him my lab rat]”

Fluttershy really wishes she could understand what they are saying.

“[This spell, effectively forces all of the alcohol and tar out of his system. It’s painful, but effective]” continues Blue

“[Broken bones do not equal alcohol poisoning or lung cancer, Blue!]” says Luigi crossly

He sounds really angry and annoyed this time, which makes Fluttershy worry even more. She backs up slowly as Blue aims his wand at her. Luigi points at Blue threateningly.

“[Blue, don’t you dare]” says Luigi threateningly

“[I just have to focus the energy on mending instead of expelling. They are both healing spells after all]” says Blue desperately

“[Blue…]”

Fluttershy’s eyes widen when the wand glows a bright blue. She prays to Celestia that Rainbow Dash will swoop in and save her, or that Luigi can talk some sense into Blue.

“[FUS RAH DAH!!!]” yells the mushroom headed man

“[NO!]” screams Luigi

Luigi tries to stop Blue, but he’s too late, a blue octagon shoots out from Blue’s wand and strikes Fluttershy in the chest and she feels an intense shock ripple throughout her body as well as feeling herself go airborne before blacking out a second later.

***

Luigi stares horrified at the light yellow pegasus’s stiff, smoking body; the blast from Blue’s wand had blown the adorable creature off of its hooves and into the tree behind it, rendering her unconscious (probably dead). Luigi’s eye twitches and Blue laughs nervously while putting his wand away. The world around Luigi disappears as he continues to stare at the creature. It seemed so cute and harmless...so adorable. Nothing could justify the horrendous action perpetrated by Blue.

“Oops” whispers Blue

Luigi snaps.

“You shot it!” cries Luigi

Blue cowers.

“E Gadd said no weapons and what do you do!? You bring a wand!” screams Luigi

“Uh…”

“What spell did you use!?”

“What do you mean ‘what spell did you use?’!?”

“What was that thing you said!?”

“’Fus Rah Dah’?”

“Yes!”

“That’s the spell I use on Yellow to de-toxicate him!”

Luigi screams and practically rips his ears off as he paces in circles and says “Ohmanohmanohman” over and over again.

“Does it have a tag?” asks Blue Dude

“It’s a flying horse! Who owns flying horses!” snaps Luigi

“Well I’m just saying that maybe it has an owner. I mean it looks well groomed and it kinda smelled like…strawberries?”

“Blue, please shut up and let me think”

Blue walks over to Fluttershy to check on her but Luigi runs in front of him and puts his hand out like a police officer would when ordering someone to halt.

“No! You’ve done enough damage already” says Luigi harshly

“I just want to see if it’s okay” says Blue sadly

“If anyone is going to see if any adorable Pegasuses are okay it’ll be me”

“’Pegasi’”

“What?”

“’Pegasi’, it’s plural for ‘Pegasus’. You wouldn’t say…um…”

“’Chineses’?”

“I don’t know what a ‘Chinese’ is, but I guess that works”

Luigi yanks a branch off of one of the eerie trees and approaches Fluttershy.

“What are you going to do?” asks Blue

“The only thing I can do” answers Luigi grimly “The Stick Test”

Luigi pokes Fluttershy in the side with his stick.

No response.

Luigi frowns and pokes Fluttershy all over the place; her mane, tail, face, nose, inside her ear, hooves, legs, stomach, he even takes the time to poke each of her butterflies, hoping that those marks would be ticklish or something.  But nothing generates a response.

Luigi kneels down and pokes Fluttershy one more time in the face. And just like the dozen other attempts, there isn’t a response. Luigi stands up and looks at Blue with a mix of sadness and anger.

“Congratulations Blue. You killed a Pegasus” says Luigi

Suddenly, another Pegasus rams Luigi in the back and while he bounces across the ground the same Pegasus bucks Blue and sends him flying into a tree. It takes him a couple of seconds to fall down, due to all the branches, and when he does land, he lands on his head with loose leaves and branches falling around him.

Luigi shakes the stars out of his eyes and sees his assailant. The Pegasus has a light blue coat, rainbow colored mane and tail, and a design made up of a cloud with a red, yellow, and blue lightning bolt coming out it on its flank. The Pegasus’s nostrils are flaring as it approaches him, and despite its colorful appearance, he gets the feeling that he’d rather have a showdown with Bowser or Waluigi than this thing. The Pegasus charges him and Luigi braces himself for impact.

“Gay Pride Pegasus heading your way!” shouts Blue

Luigi tries to block the Pegasus, but he proved to be too slow and gets a pair of hooves to the gut that knocks him on his butt, and also pushes all the air out of his lungs. Luigi coughs and gags as he tries to stand up with one hand over his gut; his attempt is a bit tipsy at first, but when he feels his assailant jump on his back and bite him he shrieks, jumps to his feet and runs in circles while yelling “Get it off! Get it off!”

“Rabid horse!” screams Blue while swan diving to cover behind a bush

Luigi screams hysterically as he desperately tries to get the blue Pegasus off of his back. But with the noise from the wings flapping at insane speeds, the blue feathers clouding his vision, and the pain from the teeth in his shoulder, he can’t think straight.

“I think it thinks you killed its mate!” hollers Blue from the safety of his bush

Luigi is finally able to grab the angry Pegasus’s front hooves and swing it over his head and slam it on the ground. The winged pony stops moving and its eyes close and its tongue rolls comically out of its mouth. Luigi breathes a sigh of relief and then raises his fists in the air while screaming victoriously. Blue also cheers and runs out from his cover and high fives Luigi.

“Yeah we did it!” cheers Blue

Luigi’s grin is instantly replaced with a scowl.

“You didn’t do jack shit” sneers Luigi

***

Rainbow Dash keeps her eyes closed and tongue hanging out, as far as she can tell, the two freakish things that attacked Fluttershy think she’s dead. And she’s certain that the tall one will be too difficult to take on head on. So the only option she sees is another surprise attack. Let them think she’s dead and strike when they least expect it.

“[I gave you morale boosts!]” says Blue defensively

“[Bullshit! That’s pure! Ugly! Bullshit!]” screams Luigi

“[You don’t have to use such harsh language, Luigi]”

“[First, E Gadd’s thingamajig explodes; then you killed a Pegasus; and then I’m attacked by another Pegasus, and to top it off, we’re alone in another dimension! I have a right to use harsh language!]”

Rainbow Dash knows those two are having a heated argument just by the tone of their voices, but she really wishes that they would move!

‘C’mon, move already!’ screams Rainbow Dash thoughts

She can’t sit still much longer and twitches a little bit, but they didn’t appear to notice.

“[Did you kill it?]” asks Blue

“[Don’t know. Don’t care. I’m leaving]” replies Luigi

“[W-Wait for me!]”

Rainbow Dash hears them walking away and she quietly rolls on her stomach and watches the two aliens walk away. Her eyes narrow and she blows hot air out of her nose and prepares herself for a charge.

“Show time” whispers Rainbow Dash evilly

Rainbow Dash whistles and Luigi and Blue turn around almost instantly and both of their eyes widen and they pale from sheer horror. Rainbow Dash launches herself towards Luigi and tackles him dead in the center. Luigi screams “[Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuueee!!!]” as Rainbow Dash carries him into the sky. Rainbow Dash flaps her wings harder as she carries Luigi through the clouds and when they are a good three hundred feet or so in the air, Rainbow Dash zooms out from under Luigi and then pushes down on his back with her fore hooves.  Luigi’s high pitched scream mixes with the wind rushing past her ears and with precise calculations she pulls up before hitting the ground…without Luigi. Luigi hits the ground and creates a rainbow colored mushroom cloud that flings dirt, grass, and chunks of other things into the sky.

Rainbow Dash does a few twists and turns and spirals to mostly show off her skill, but to also slow herself down. She stops directly above the crater and pounds her hooves against her chest like an ape and then points at Luigi.

“That’s for Fluttershy!” yells Rainbow Dash

“[Hey, Luigi, are you okay?]” asks Blue

Rainbow Dash turns to Blue and gets a glint of evil in her eyes.

‘It’s time to show the mushroom headed midget what happens when people mess with my friends’ thinks Rainbow Dash angrily

She swoops down and Blue screams and calls Luigi while trying to run for cover. Rainbow Dash, using her gift of extreme agility, weaves through the trees of Everfree forest and lands in front of Blue. Blue yelps and stumbles back. As Rainbow Dash approaches him, she purposefully stomps her hooves on the ground as hard as she can, as well as spread her wings at full length and flap them slowly to give them a menacing appearance. Blue looks easy enough, so why not toy with him first? (Revenge can be fun after all)

Blue yanks out his wand and aims it at Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash stops walking and cocks her head.

“You’re kidding, right?” asks Rainbow Dash rhetorically

“[Back you devil!]” shouts Blue

A blue square is launched out of the wand and Rainbow Dash jumps over it in the nick of time. The square blows out a huge chunk of the tree behind it, covering the ground with burnt splinters.

“Is that the best you got?” snickers Rainbow Dash

Blue stammers incomprehensibly and launches a barrage of those explosive squares. Rainbow Dash dodges all of the squares and the explosions they made with ease. When Rainbow Dash dodges another square, it barely misses Fluttershy and that is when Rainbow Dash realizes that it was Blue who shot Fluttershy, not Luigi. She feels a new found rage boil inside her that demands blood and mentally kicks herself for wasting so much energy on the green one.

“You…you shot Fluttershy” says Rainbow Dash through gritted teeth

“[I-I don’t know what you’re saying]” says Blue shakily

To Rainbow Dash it looks like Blue is trying to negotiate, but there are no negotiations for anyone that hurts her friends, especially when the hurting is a murder.

“You murderer!”

“[I don’t speak horse!]”

Rainbow Dash screams a bloodthirsty scream and charges Blue. He shoots a square at her and she vaults over it and tackles him head on. They roll around on the ground for a few seconds and it ends with Rainbow Dash on top, and Blue in between her front hooves without his wand. Rainbow Dash brings her hooves up to crush Blue, but before she can bring them down she is hit in the chest with a thick log. She slides across the ground and comes to an abrupt halt when her head hits a tree. Rainbow Dash shakes the pain and stars away and when she regains her focus she sees Luigi bringing the log down on her head. She rolls out of the way and with a single buck, the log is reduced to large splinters. Rainbow Dash then skips around Luigi and kicks him in the back, causing his face to collide with the tree. He screams out something that Rainbow Dash can only guess is a swear word and he whirls around with his hands placed together like he’s getting ready to shoot something out of the palms of his hands and shouts “[Feel the wrath of Weegee, fiend!]”.

Rainbow Dash stares at Luigi and when nothing happens he looks to his side and mutters “[Crap]”.

Rainbow Dash kicks him into the tree and when he slumps to the ground, motionless, she moves in to beat Blue to a bloody, pulpy mess. She sees Blue frantically searching for his wand on his hands and knees and sobbing something under his breath. When he finds it he scampers as fast as he can to it and when he grabs it, Rainbow Dash stomps on his hand. He cries out in pain and he slowly looks up into Rainbow Dash’s murderous gaze.

“Now, you’re going to get it” threatens Rainbow Dash

Then she hears water trickling on the ground, followed closely by the smell of urine. She looks down and sees a puddle of urine rapidly growing beneath Blue. She wrinkles her nose and jumps back while putting a hoof over her nose.

“Oh man! That is not cool!” says Rainbow Dash irritably “Seriously not cool!”

“[Oh cut me some slack! I have a weak bladder!]” says Blue defensively

Then Luigi shouts something unintelligible and jumps on Rainbow Dash’s back. She immediately tries bucking him off, but he wraps his arms around her neck so tight that she can’t breathe well and it soon gets to the point where her lungs feel like they’re going to explode.

“[I’ve had enough of you, you stupid horse!]” roars Luigi

“[Pegasus]” corrects Blue

“[Shut up!]”

“Get off of me!” snarls Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash jumps and twists in the air so that she falls flat on her back. But Luigi does not budge, even when Rainbow Dash rolls around like a crazed pig in mud. Rainbow Dash flaps her wings furiously in a desperate attempt to faze Luigi, but it doesn’t work, it actually makes him tighten his grip. Luigi and Rainbow Dash continue their struggle and after a few awkward twists and turns for both parties, Rainbow Dash is somehow put into a Full Nelson.

“[Yeah! Full Nelson on a Pegasus!]” cheers Blue

“[Get outta here, Blue!]” yells Luigi

“[Hang on, I can help]”

Both, Rainbow Dash and Luigi’s eyes widen as the wand charges up. They both shout “No!” in unison, but Blue ignores them and shoots Rainbow Dash in the gut with a blue hexagon. The force of the hexagon knocks Blue off of his feet and launches Rainbow Dash and Luigi backwards in full force. To Rainbow Dash, it feels like someone had hit her with a cannon ball made of molten metal that exploded on her and the last thing she sees before blacking out is fire.

***

Luigi’s screaming is come to an abrupt end when he hits a rock wall. He hits the rock wall with enough force to get stuck in it and Rainbow Dash falls limp on the ground with black smoke rising off of her (her blue coat is seared and a most of her mane, tail, and feather have been burnt away). Normally Luigi would cry because of the amount of physical and mental pain he had endured, but not today. Today he’s too mad to even shed a tear. All he can do is glare at Blue as he cheerfully runs up to him stands on Rainbow Dash like how a hunter would pose on his recent kill for a photo. Behind Blue, Luigi can see a clear path made up of burnt and shattered trees and an enormous black streak of scorched earth with small flames dancing around in little pockets.

“Did you see that? Did you see what I did?” asks Blue joyfully with an even bigger grin “I destroyed that Pegasus! It was kicking your butt and everything! Oh man, I can’t wait to tell Yellow how awesome I was!”

“Blue…” says Luigi slowly

“Yes, Luigi”

“You’re covered in piss. Could only hit that thing when I had it in a Full Nelson. And I’m battered, bruised, mentally scarred for life, and stuck in a rock wall”

“Luigi, I can understand you’re a little upset. But I think we can agree that I played the most important role here”

Luigi’s eye twitches and with an enraged scream, he pulls himself out of his entrapment and tackles Blue.