Dimension Lost

(Waring contains spoilers for Earth & Sky))

We stumbled through the portal into a dark alleyway with a big cart just sitting in front of us.

“Where are we, oh fearless leader?” I asked wiping some of the dirt out of my coat

“It seems to be in the middle of Canterlot’s poor section, other than that no idea.” Kyle replied as Dasher flitted over and looked in the cart.

“Wow, Queen Faust wasn’t kidding when she said we would be attracted to the artifacts. Dudes I think I found the first one by the vibes it’s giving off. It’s making my wings go out of control”

“When is that new?” Kyle snarked

“Awwww, now I’m sad” Dasher putting her head down and just perching on the cart in her own gesture of shame and sadness. “You sound just like aunt Scootaloo when she tried to train me.”

“You know I didn’t mean it”

“Yeah but still can I have a hug?” She said taking the appropriate stance

“No, not while other ponies can see us!” He snorted in reply

“Fine…..NOT! As my aunt would say” The silly mare flew off the cart and tackled the stubborn earth pony. Luckily for us all, there was a massive pile of trash behind them, meaning we didn’t just lose our leader and our secret keeper in one go. While Light went over to lend a hoof, I just facehoofed and went to go see what was in the cart that was so important that we must have it in order to save our home.

What I saw was the coolest damn thing I saw in my life. It was 2 sets of batwings strapped to a rocket that was painted to look like a shark or maybe the painter really thought that was what bats really look like. But the really fun part was the fact that the creator had put a rig underneath the contraption, meaning this is a flying machine for earth bound ponies! My only complaint was they didn’t have any kind of system in place so that an earth pony could use the rig.  I then knew whoever built this thing was just some mad horn head trying to become an alicorn, forgetting as every other freaking evil “genius” does that you also need to be part EARTH PONY to become a true one. “Guys, guys, guys, guys. I call dibs on this! Just needs some changes here and there and your basic earth pony can fly this wonderful, mad, destructive flying machine.”

“I am so pleased you like my machine, but”

“OUR machine now brother.”

“Oh fine, our machine. As was saying, is it not customary for the owners of anything to have ‘dibs’ as you called them.” Two unicorns stallions had started to walk around the cart from where we couldn’t see them. Both were a tan color with the strangest cutie marks I had ever seen.  The first one, currently glaring at us with a large poofy mustache ( that mustache) (Get out of here Dasher! Don’t mess with my journal, I’m trying to spread it throughout the worlds as a warning to everypony else), had a set of skull and cross bones as his. The second one looked a lot more haggard and had a grouping of bats as his cutie mark. “So I would suggest you step away or we shall have to use drastic force!”

“Who are you?” Light stepped up to the cart and finally started to do her main job.

“I am Professor Destiny, brilliant genius and inventor of the B.A.T 19!” the first one almost shouted in our face.

“And I am Doctor Insanity! Equally brilliant genius and better inventor!” the second one said, though almost more to Destiny then to us.

Light just had to speak up at that moment “Wait a moment. I know you two. I remember this designing style. I have spent hours and hours on end defusing them, or trying to find out if they have not destroy the world setting. You two goons are the Fli”

“WE ARE NO LONGER KNOWN BY THAT NAME! WE CAST THAT NAME AWAY YEARS AGO!” They both started to shout.

“Wait, how could she tell that? Their cutie marks are totally different from back home” I asked Kyle

“Well maybe this is a darker universe, ever think of that oh smart one?”

“Well I never thought that these 2 con artists could amount to something like those marks. Huh the Fli”

“STOP SAYING THAT! DO NOT SAY THOSE NAMES OR OTTO WILL SHOOT FREELY!” At that outburst from Insanity I finally noticed a short green thing that I guess could be a pony aiming a massive cannon right at our little group.

“Umm guys, look behind the two loopy brothers. I spy a big old cannon pointed at us….ummm…I nominate Kyle to take my spot now!” And like the smart stallion I am, I dove right behind the colt with big energy blade and the mare with the shield spell.

“Coward” Kyle laughs at me,

“Hey I’m still alive aren’t I?”

“True” He then draws out his plasma sword and sputters through his mouth “Light, maybe you best do your whole diffusing angry ponies thing to them. Dashier you prepare to get her out of harm’s way, with flight if you can but knowing you, you better just glomph her out of the way. Drive, just stand behind me and try not to make too much of a target”

“Now gentleponies perhaps we could talk over this calmly, perhaps I could just borrow your notes and help you build another one.” Light said.

“Yeah maybe even improve it, you know an earth pony could add a whole new perceptive. Maybe even make it even less geared towards pompass donkey’s with their horns up thei.” That rant just got me Dashier’s hoof in my mouth and a death glare from Light. Kyle on the other hoof just started to crack up at it.

“What did he say?” Asked Destiny

“Should I light the cannon bozz?” said the little green thing in the back.

“Not yet Otto, I want to hear what this mud pony has to say frist”

“MUD PONY! You pompous jerk! I’m goina shove that horn so far up your flank”

“Ahh, it’s fun to bait the lesser intellects. Now you where saying my dear? Why should we let you walk off with the tool to our success and the crushing defeat of Harmony Aeronautics  and the princesses little pet?”

"Because you could change a few things here and there and you will be able to need to use one set of wings. Less problems that way you see, and we can cut down on the smoke output. Overall I can see a lot things you would need a third set of eyes to catch, and I'm volunteering to be that third set of eyes." Light quickly tried to get past my seething rage.

"Well that's very kind of you, but you see that still doesn't let you just run away with our stuff" Destiny replied "So I do regret my associate will have to escort you away from our property. Otto? Fire away as you please. Don't hit our cart though. I placed some of our equipment for the race coming up, and we don't have time to go back home to get more."

"Yezz bozz, i wont'z hitz the rocketz." And with those words Otto aimed our doom.

"Hey Light, sugercube, don't you think its time to use that spell you were telling me about earlier? Shining Nova's shield spell?" Dasher murmured out as she was taking cover behind the cart. "Cause now might be a good time to use it to save our butts."

"Ohhh yeah, hang on to your flanks everpony! I have no idea if I can do this properly" Light started to concentrate as a large magenta bubble went up around us.

"Guys now might be a good time to tell you. The next portal we need is going to open right behind us" Kyle chimed in "So Light if you could move the shield foreword we could make our escape"

"Ummm I don't think I can sorry guys. Looks like we have to survive this first shot and hope that he can't reload in time." And with those last few words the cannon fired and the last thing I can remember is the shield starting to warp inwards until.

(Yes, this is a cheap cliffhanger, but Drive just had to pass out. So tell me what you think in the comments and special thank you to Warren Hutch for letting me mess up his stories, I'm sorry if i really did mess it up too badly. Go read them now! And if you accuse me of being too out of character with anyone they meet, I would like to say Hard Drive isn't the best or the most reliable narrator in the world so they are all warped by his perception.