Run Ponies! Attack of the Flying Pumpkins!
Chapter 1: Gahoo! Flying Pumpkins!
Twilight awoke, the scream of some-pony outside of her home. The comfort of her bed had to wait even though it is late at night. She quivered from the loud shout ringing in her ears. She went to Spike and found him sleeping without a care in the world. It is odd that he slept through the loud scream.
"Wake up Spike." said Twilight Sparkle with a shake of his tiny bed.
"Wuh, what's going on? Twilight? Do you know how late it is?" Spike groaned while scratching his bagged eyes.
"Thats not what matters right now, I think some-pony could be hurt outside."
Then, the scream made itself known once more. Twilight quickly out to onto the main library. Each step, galloping, to the rescue whomever was in trouble. Unlocking the door, she shot stopping seconds later abruptly, Outside.
What she saw nearly stupefied her eyes.
"This can't be!"
Up in the sky, the usual darkness of night had thickened with a bright orange smoke. The moon itself shaped like an actual farm pumpkin the size of a small planet. Huddled a little further from herself was a crowd of ponies watching the sky. They spoke amongst themselves.
"Its an omen!" one would mutter amidst the conversation. "I've never seen anything like it!"
Twilight rummaged through her mind of any reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. Things such as, Princess Luna doing a practical joke, or even some Unicorn who might have pissed off some eldritch god. Whatever the reason be, she needed to find a solution before anything dangerous happened.
"Psst. Hey Twilight!"
She turned to its source and found Discord hiding behind the tree, with a nervous befuddle on his face. Now everything came together.
Twilight went over to behind the tree and found him scratching his head.
"What did you do now Discord?" She questioned him angrily.
"Well, for the thing that is currently in the sky..., I'll tell you right away that it was my fault."
"What happened Discord?"
"I might have stole a powerful amulet from space... pump... You know what, here catch!"
Discord then dropped a stringed amulet to the ground before disappearing out of thin air with a light Plop.
Twilight raced to the periapt, jumped, and snagged it before sliding in front of a wall.
She stood up, and scrutinized the precious pumpkin shaped topaz, it shined as handsomely as a slightly moldy orange.
Darn it Discord, whatever you did, you're gonna pay for it!
Placing the amulet around her neck, Twilight outstretched her wings and flew into the sky. Flying so high, it felt odd to flap through the orange atmosphere. The moon's pumpkin gaze driving terror through every inch of her feeble pony spine at what could be in store. Arriving at Canterlot Castle, she flew down to the entrance and found two pumpkins situated where the usual guards would be.
Could they be... ! Oh no, the Princesses!
Twilight sprinted in desperately; if anything were to happen to them then what could possibly be in store for herself? Moving past the place littered with pumpkins whome must have been ponies at some point; she continued upwards until she found the double doors that lead to the throne room.
Twilight forced the door open herself with her herculean strength. It flew in the air before slamming down against the base of the opposing wall.
There is Princess Celestia, tied up in a Pumpkin Leaf trap, settles within her siege. She was blinded under the magical leaves tightening against her skin. Twilight neared and readied her horn, a sudden blast of fire scorched the leaves and caused them to elongate and restrain Twilight from every limb. She could not move, and felt her magic being drained as they slowly covered her.
Princess Celestia quickly opened her eyes and felt her student being entangled within the rambler. Sudden anger and she let loose an surge of fire that scorched the entire throne room, burning the now screeching leaves at they shriveled into mulch. Celestia caught Twilight as she fell.
"Twilight! Twilight! Are you alright, say something!" cried Princess Celestia, with her in the safety of the caressing hooves.
"Nngh, I'm alright Princess.", Celestia lowered Twilight and watched as she got back on her hooves.
"We must hurry now, they've abducted Luna and are using her magic against Equestria."
"W-Wait, who is they?"
Celestia leered the pumpkin shaped moon in dread. There was something she feared for them returning, but it never dawned on her how soon it would be. Fear had seared into her soul, reeking epochs.
"Princess, you're scaring me! What would make a goddess so afraid!?"
Locked in the sky, reveries of catastrophe, pain and blight went through her mind like a speeding truck. She turned towards Twilight.
"The Flying Pumpkins from Outer Space have come."
Twilight looked at her Princess confused, the ridiculous words she'd just uttered were outweighed by the fact that a powerful creature the likes of her was so... afraid! It boggled the newly enriched lavender alicorn's aromatized mind.
She couldn't help, but smirk and then giggle.
Princess Celestia could grasp only gasp at her insolence. Flying through the sky in a blaze, magic cannibalized and frames of the past whirled through Twilight's mind. Millions of ponies being turned into pumpkins, whole continents shrouded in odd beams of squash energy, transforming billions of ponies into pumpkin patches.
Look now in horror Twilight Sparkle! For this is no game, all of Equestria shall be nearly extinct from this attack, buildings destroyed from lack of ponies to toil them and soon, for those that were left it was back to the stone ages. And we'll have to eat Pumpkin by-products for hundreds and hundreds of years!
Twilight could merely think, lingering upon the horrors which had been unbosomed. Now, she truly knew why there was no historical evidence before the three tribes were made.
"So... thats why you have a limitation law on pumpkins in Equestria..." she swallowed, continuing. "and why you are so worried about Pumpkin Cake all the time."
"Exactly! Who knows if that little colt could be a spy for them! I'm just doing my best for all of Equestria."
Twilight felt the fury of fear crumble any trace of sincerity. Hope lovingly smothered in a thick doubt.
"W-What do we do?" asked Twilight nervously.
"We must appease these monstrous pumpkins Twilight! They are too powerful for you I to stop! Even Discord is no match for their awesome might!"
"But, what could they possibly... " And then it hit the young mare. She gasped.
Twilight Sparkle eyed the pumpkin necklace sagging her smooth chest and suddenly remembered everything. Her confidence grew and grew from within and she knew what to do at this moment.
"Discord brought them here, Princess, he told me that this was stolen from them by him."
"That fool, hmmph, let me see then.", Celestia removed the necklace and stared into its radiance, she pondered for a moment before coming to a realization.
"My goodness, Discord, you crazy Draconequis!"
"What is it?"
"Twilight, what you stand before is the power source of the Flying Pumpkins, there very life force is stored here."
"Wow, that must have been hard to get."
"Yes, and we may finally have the power to destroy these monster pumpkins, but first we must go save Luna.", Princess Celestia put on the Pumpkin Necklace and readied her magic. "We must go to the heart of the moon, there we will find her caged."
"There will be dangers Twilight, if you come, I won't be able to provide safety for you." said Princess Celestia.
"With all due respect, I'm ready for anything." said Twilight with a confident tone.
"Alright, we mustn't waste time, grab my tail and I'll teleport us to the moon."
Twilight trotted behind Celestia's behind, there her beautiful tail was bitten on.
"Nready." said Twilight with mouthful of spectral tail.
Princess Celestia closed her eyes before suddenly opening them with a bright yellow power glowing its way through them. Energy swirled around them like lightning that hit the ground with a zap. Twilight would watch before a sudden bright light overcame her sight.
And they were gone.
Run Ponies! Attack of the Flying Pumpkins!
Chapter 2: Oh Baby! Flying Pumpkins!
The slumber, an illustrious equine laying in her bed with peace in her face. Eyes covered with a sleep mask of such a vibrant pink. Usually, nothing would get in the way of beauty sleep. And, for good reason, no pony would dare rise the scowling rage that would scream itself through.
But, this time, things were different.
KABOOOOM!!!
"What what what!?" said Rarity as she is rudely awakened. Tearing off the mask without harming it, she turned and looked outside her window to find that a piece of the full moon had been blown apart, now it looked like a cookie that had a piece bitten off. Terrified, Rarity screamed at the destruction. The scream caused the young Sweetie Belle to barge in all the way from her room. She carried a kitchen knife and was ready for anything that would harm her dear sister.
"What is it!? What happened Rarity!?"
"T-The Moon..." said Rarity with a shiver.
"Aww come on! Did you have a bad dream again or something?"
"No... Sweetie Belle, please come."
The sister walked up to whatever her crazed family member must have seen, and before you knew it, she was gasping as well. The moons destroyed self would drive any-pony to madness.
"Oh." said Sweetie Belle.
Then, from the broken hole of the moon, an orange terror in mass were flying. Thousands upon thousands of Pumpkins; laughing and chattering so loud that it could be heard from all over. They were coming down to Equestria from the coldness of outer space and they definitely meant trouble.
"Sweetie Belle, go get my Musket, this is going to be a long night."
Sweetie would watch the enormous mass of Pumpkins falling from space, she could only freeze.
"Sweetie Belle! Go get it this instant!"
Startled, she ran to her closet and pulled out a very large musket that had metal linings on its silver skin. Rarity lifted the magical weapon to her side, intensity grew in her eyes.
"Its time to do what is best for the family I have here at this moment." said Rarity deeply. "Come Sweetie Belle, we need to go find my friends."
"Alright, but what about my friends?"
"They'll be fine, lets go." said Rarity while loading some magically made bullets into her musket. As the two of them ran out of Carousel Boutique, Rarity closed the entrance with magic so nothing could get in. As they were exiting their way, a pumpkin fell at them, rolling at high speeds. Aiming in less than a second, Rarity fired a shot that gouged three holes into the pumpkins mushy exterior, stopping it in its tracks.
"Move Sweetie Belle, we don't have time to waste!"
They continued running, Rarity managed to dispose many assailing, cackling Pumpkins before arriving at Sugar Cube Corner. Kicking the door down, Rarity and Sweetie Belle found Pinkie Pie smashing pumpkins with a baseball bat. With her musket newly supplied with fresh magical rounds, she helped her with supplying a healthy dosage of pain to the many pumpkins that broke through the ceiling.
"What took you so long!? I've got a healthy dose of Pumpkin for baking tomorrow!" said Pinkie Pie while wiping a smidgen of Pumpkin juice from her brow.
"Sorry Pinkie, we've had a lot of action from here but, we still need to go find every-pony else." said Rarity.
"Don't you worry, I've got just the thing for the job, come with me to the back."
Rarity and Sweetie Belle followed Pinkie Pie to the back before finding a small delivery car ready for fast movement.
"Here's our ride." said Pinkie Pie while starting the car with a turn of its small ignition knob.
The three went inside the cart and Pinkie Pie gave her baseball bat to Sweetie Belle.
"Make sure to smash some heads while we drive, Sweetie!" said Pinkie.
Out the garage door that slid open, they drove into a few pumpkins that tried to bar their way. Pumpkin pieces got in their manes and faces before they wiped them off.
"Rarity, are we going to be ok?" said Sweetie Belle, cradling her baseball bat for safety.
"I don't know! But I'm not gonna go out without a fight!" said Pinkie Pie.
"She was talking to me... ah whatever."
Another Pumpkin getting ran over, they continued past the pumpkins rolling after them. Before long, arriving near Sweet Apple Acres, they could hear the sound of gunfire in the distance. Getting closer and closer, one could see an army of pumpkins rolling through the hills of Sweet Apple Acres getting suppressed by intense machine gun fire. Pumpkins being blown apart, but the never ending amount, unceasing on their assault.
Rarity and the rest drove through the thick amount of Pumpkins before getting ready to crash right into the farm houses entrance.
"Get READY!" screamed Pinkie Pie over the intense gunfire.
Any pumpkin that even dared to get close to the car was met with Rarity blowing them apart or Sweetie Belle batting them to pieces away. The three of them screamed as they neared the entrance before suddenly crashing through to the entrance and suddenly stopping. On the stairs, Applejack awaited, her hat partly bitten off and her body smudged with dirt.
"Get out NOW! MOVE MOVE MOVE." said Applejack as she directed them to the upper parts of the home. Up they ran, till they were in Granny Smith's room, on the windows near were Big Mac and Fluttershy manning the mounted machine guns. Flutters is currently smoking a cigar and Big Macintosh wearing a big pair of goggles while firing indiscriminately at the pumpkins. Sitting on the bed was Applebloom and Scootaloo, who were both watching the carnage in safety.
"Sweetie Belle!" They would shout.
The two would come to her and hug each other.
"I thought you guys were goners. I'm so glad to see you!"
"Hey after this, maybe we will get our Cutie Marks in surviving a Pumpkin Apocalypse." said Scootaloo.
"Hah, that'd be somethin!" said Applebloom while snuggling with her friends.
Rarity and Applejack looked at the rolling pumpkins that would spell doom for them.
"I've been fighting for my life all night and I haven't even gotten a smidgen of sleep, "sigh" why is this happening?"
"Al tell ya this, Rarity, I've never seen the likes of these Pumpkins before, GrannySmith doesn't even know where they come from."
Looking pensively, Rarity scratched her chin at what would be in store for them this night.
"What should we do? Those machine guns won't last forever."
"All we can do is wait, and hope that some-pony will fix all this, just relax for now."
Rarity took a breather, the heavy machine gun fire and most of her friends situated near was enough for her to let her guard down.
She sat on the bed knowing that the extremely long ammo cache that filled the whole room next store kept her mind in peace.
