My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic (The New Member)

The day after, Grand Ruler and Lightning had Jewel in the dojo.

“Alright Jewel, today we are going to work on your physical attributes things like speed, strength, dexterity and etc.” Grand Ruler explained.

Jewel was excitied. Lightning led her to the treadmills and told her to run ten miles. In about fifteen minutes, Jewel completed the task. Next, Jewel was tasked with sparring with Grand Ruler,

“Say what now?” she questioned,

“You are sparring with my master,” Lightning repeated.

Jewel was skeptical about this,

“I can't fight him, he’s your master and I’m not getting yelled at by his wife. I've seen her when she's angry.” Jewel objected.

“Relaxed, it’ll be fine.” Grand Ruler reassured.

Jewel reluctantly agreed.

Jewel began sparring with Grand Ruler, she was doing quite good until Grand Ruler pulled a surprise move on her; swinging his leg and knocked Jewel off balance.

“You did good Jewel,” Grand Ruler complimented, “you lasted longer than Lightning when he first sparred with me.”

“Master!” Lightning exclaimed embarrassed.

Grand Ruler and Jewel chuckled together. For the rest of the morning, Jewel was put through difficult training procedures; the Hurl-a-Whirl, which she cleared on the first try, which shocked everypony especially Twilight and her friends. Target Practice; she shot every target except a mother with a baby carriage and bystander.

“Very well done Jewel!” Queen Celestia complimented.

Grand Ruler trained Jewel into the night.

The next morning, everybody, except Grand Ruler and Jewel were having a pancake breakfast. Soon, Grand Ruler walked in looking fresh as a daisy, followed by Jewel. Jewel looked the opposite from Grand Ruler; baggy eyes, her hair was messed up and she had some scratches and bruises on her body. She stumbled to her spot at the table; between Dyno and Myte.

Sitting down she promptly drove her head into her pancakes and fell asleep. Nobody said anything for a minute.

“Um, my love, did you by any chance train Jewel all night, last night?” Celestia asked,

“Yep,” Grand Ruler said proudly.

“Master, are you sure that was a good idea?” Lightning questioned,

“What ever do you mean?” Grand Ruler added,

“Jewel looks totally wiped out, even when you trained me, you never pulled an all-nighter.” Lightning replied.

“Si, the poor chica looks exhausted,” Dyno agreed, looking at Jewel,

“Maybe you should cut back on the training.” Myte suggested.

“No way Jewel is progressing excellent with the training she’s doing now. And I’ll continue to train her my way.” Grand Ruler explained.

With that, Grand Ruler walked over to Jewel and levitated her with his magic and walked out of the dining area with an asleep Jewel; who didn't even eat her breakfast.

Everybody looked at each other in deep concern.

Grand Ruler and Jewel trained all morning; Jewel was dangerously exhausted, not to mention really hungry.

“Grand Ruler, can we please take a break, I didn’t eat any breakfast this morning and I’m starving.” Jewel pleaded with her stomach growling loudly in agreement.

Grand Ruler refused and ordered her to continue training. Jewel sighed. Suddenly, the alarms sounded; there was trouble in Big Canyon. Lightning, his unit, Jewel, Styraco and Tricea all rushed to the scene; except Jewel, who was stumbling.

Arriving at the scene, everybody saw that it was Sombra again,

“Ah, look who finally showed up,” Sombra taunted.

Lightning and his team charged at Sombra, who countered every attack they threw. Sombra, then stunned Lightning and his team with a shockwave, leaving Jewel, the only one who could fight. But Sombra could see that Jewel would be easy to defeat.

Jewel stumbled towards Sombra and tried to punch him, but, due to her not sleeping last night and not eating, she was blurry eyed, exhausted and weak. Sombra quickly counter and punched her, hard.

Jewel stumbled back and tried attacking again, but everytime, Sombra dodged and countered.

Finally, Sombra had enough playtime and kicked Jewel in her chest, sending her skidding and falling to the ground. Lightning and his friends were shocked!

Sombra formed a large ball of magic in his hands and hurled it at Jewel. Jewel was too weak and sore to dodge. The last thing Jewel heard was her friends calling her name before everything went black.

Beep Beep Beep

That was the first thing Jewel heard when she woke up. She was in alot of pain. Jewel saw two brown, one yellow, one red and one white blob. Clearing her vision, she saw all her friends by her bedside,

“Oooooooh, what happened?” she moaned in pain, rubbing the side of her forehead.

“Easy chica, you’re got really banged up,” Dyno cooed,

“Take it easy,” Myte added.

“Where am I?” Jewel asked,

“You’re in the hospital wing of the palace,” Starla answered.

Jewel’s stomach gurgled loudly, reminding her that she hadn’t eaten anything since last night's dinner.

“Ugh, Man, am I starved,” she moaned.

“No te preocupes *Don’t worry* Jewel, we’ll go get you some food,” Dyno offered,

“Be right back,” Myte said.

The twins left to get Jewel some substantial food. While they were waiting, Queen Celestia walked in,

“Hello everybody, I came as soon as Buddy Rose notified me. How’s Jewel?” she asked,

“I’m okay Queen Celestia, just a little sore and hungry,” Jewel replied.

Queen Celestia sighed in relief.

“Now, I would like to know what happened out there?” Queen Celestia questioned.

Everybody went into detail about the battle from their arrival to Jewel getting blasted by Sombra. Celestia was shocked!

“My goodness!”

By that time, Dyno and Myte came in with Jewel’s food,

“Here you go chica,” Dyno presented,

“Eat it all up,” Myte added.

Jewel thanked the boys and ate her fill. Soon, Jewel was finished and was discharged from the hospital wing.

Everybody went to the throne room where Grand Ruler, Goldwin, Styraco and Tricera were waiting. Grand Ruler was confused as to why Jewel lost.

“It’s because of all that training you put Jewel though,” Lighting answered,

“Jewel was so exhausted, that Sombra easily overpowered her,” Starla added.

Grand Ruler thought for a minute and finally realized his mistake.

“Jewel, I’m so sorry, I should have never put you through such strenuous training. Can you ever forgive me?”

Jewel smiled and forgave Grand Ruler, who learned a valuable lesson:

Training is important, but over-training can be bad. Don’t overtrain or else you won’t be able to accomplish your objective.

In our next episode…

Jewel receives a mysterious vision about her dino powers and set out on a quest to obtain a special dinosaur card and stone. What will Jewel encounter?

Find out in the next episode of Starfleet Magic… Jewel’s Dinosaur Quest