Virin the Series: Equestria Girls

by Dawn Darkness

Episode 2: New Conflict, Part II

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Previously, on Virin the Series...

"This is great!"

"Want to see Cloudsdale?"

"You bet."

"Moon, I know this is might be an excuse, but can you come to my facility for a little bit?"

"Who's this?"

"This is Riley."

"Who's that?"

"My name is Crait Grady. A pleasure."

"Prepare to move out. A mission must be completed."

"Virin! No... No..."


At the facility and the gang...

"This dragon, Virin, wasn't fully grown, but was quickly destroyed by the Crystal Prep's military." The news reporter informed the viewers. "We bring to you that people are going missing in New Mexico..." The screen went mute as Sunset pressed a button on the remote control.

"That should've been me on the six 'o clock news." Omega grunted in dissatisfaction, glaring heatedly at the television.

"Well, yeah," Alan agreed before slowly walking to a standing "frozen" soldier. "But, you can't get on te television, because of priority rights, and has the tape taking from you to a bunch of stormtroopers breaking into your cavern!"

Sunset sighed clearly distressed, before looking at her brother. "You shouldn't had called the soldiers, who had just killed my best friend from under my nose. What was your problem?!"

"Hey!" Omega cried out in defense. "Do you really think that I..."

"Hey, hey." Alan stepped in. "We didn't actually see Virin, alright? Unlike ten seconds before the military showed up.."

The door opened, revealing both Commander Arnold and Colonel Nick Hoskins. The former had an angry expression on his face, as he was ready to talk to his daughter who had kept something from him.

"You and I talk, without Commander Arnold." Nick suddenly spoke harshly. Arnold was surprised, but kept his cool. "Now." Sunset sighed as she walked together with the colonel outside.

Walking over to the balcony of the facility, Sunset and Nick talked over what happened.

"I know what you're thinking." Hoskins said. "How could I just destroy the scientific find?"

"That dragon could be of some use so we could get more infomation about them." Sunset replied rather angrily. "Couldn't you see that?!"

"You didn't think I considered that?!" Nick responded with equal anger. "I did see that we could've learned more, but someone told me to destroy him, and I took the orders maybe a bit more harsh than expected." Sunset gritted her teeth in rage.

"Well, excuse me," she said slowly, taking a deep breath to calm down. "But, he was my friend. You wouldn't kill an friend of the one who'd saved this city, now would you?" Nick blinked as he frowned at the question. Before replying to her primary answer, he just said.

"Go. Scramble up worms instead." Nick told her. "That'll be a lot safer for everybody."

Sunset blinked. "You... are not arresting me?"

"You disappointed?" Nick smirked triumphantly, happy to had won this round. Sunset just smiled in relief


After her talk with the colonel, and that of her not being arrested, to Pinkie's huge relief for some reason, Sunset and the crew worked in the lab for some time to think about what had happened to their friend, Virin.

Was he really dead? He wasn't coming back? It couldn't just end like this. Not now. If he really was still out there, then they could still have hope to survive.

"Whoa!" Riley gasped, playing his video game. "Take it easy, buddy!" He was distracting the girls and the scientist from their work, but was paying no attention to them. Applejack sighed, walking over to the television and pushed a button that made it went black, shocking Riley in an instance. "Hey! I was playing that!"

"Sorry, partner," Applejack apologized, harshly looking at him. "But, could you focus? We have to find where Virin went. He hasn't come back yet."

"Maybe because he's dead?" Riley frowned, but that frown was quickly replaced by a self-defense stance as Applejack was glaring at him hardly. "Take it easy, cowgirl!"

"Don't call me that." She warned him. "Or call me pretty girl as well. You've been warned." Riley sighed as he flipped the chair around to face her.

"Look." He said, trying his best to find his words. "What happened back there, wasn't either of your faults. I think it could've been the French people's fault. I am a French colleague student as well as English student."

Applejack blinked. "You believe that the French people were responsible?"

"Hey, anything could happen." Riley replied. "They're strict to their rules, following no orders from the outside world other than theirs. It's the same with the other countries, just like this one. But, this one's a bit more strictly than the others, because we have more soldiers than them, or something like that."

Applejack sighed, walking over to a computer to think over what she just received.

"Will you people get over your minds?" Sunset suddenly spoke harshly. The others blinked and looked at her. "We're here to find out what happened to my friend, not here to chit-chat. C'mon." Her telephone suddenly rang. "It's Doctor Sunset Shimmer here. What is it?" The person talked about some strange events happening in New Mexico. Sunset's eyes lit up with excitement. "Alright. We'll be there." She took the telephone in her pocket. "New objective: New Mexico."

"Why?" Rarity frowned. "Why's so suddenly?" She, along with the others were curious about what she had been talking about, and who she had been talking with. Who was the person? What did he/she want?

"Apparently," Sunset began, "People are going missing in New Mexico. We're going there to investigate it. And, we'd better check it out." Her friends blinked at her tone. It seemed so familiar.

After grabbing their belongings, the nine friends walked to the harbor where a ship had been resting the whole time. It was brown, but was painted white.

"I hope you don't mind that I renovated the old boat." Riley spoke up. "If we are going on adventures, then we'll need a proper boat to sail through the ocean and seas." Sunset smiled at him, glad that he was so thoughtful.

"Knew I could count on you." She spoke so suddenly. Riley smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck. They got up on the boat with a set of stairs, but someone was already up in the boat. Sunset blinked as she looked at the new person.

She had azure blue eyes, black hair, a black jacket with black jeans. She had a red shirt underneath the jacket. She had brown shoes.

"Hello." She spoke in an French accent. "You must be Doctor Shimmer. Am I correct?"

"Yes." Sunset replied cautiously. "Who are you?"

"I am Monique Farrow. Member of the French military. A pleasure." Monique held her hand out, but Sunset didn't take it. She had an angry stare in her eyes.

"You mean..." Realization slowly came into her mind. "You and your people had been shadowing me the whole time?" She walked to the door to the bunker, before she turned as Monique spoke up behind.

"Why, yes, in fact." She said not very cautiously. "We were also the ones that had told the Colonel to kill that beast of an friend of yours, Miss Shimmer."

"What?!" The others gasped in horror, not believing what they've just heard. They couldn't believe it. Riley was right!

"So, you say that..." Sunset began slowly. "You were the ones that ordered them to kill my friend?!"

"Hadn't you done your work properly, this creature would never had been born, nor would he still be alive." Monique argued, eyeing the light ambered girl.

"How could you say that?!" Sunset gritted her teeth angrily. "He was my friend! And you would just kill him off?! He was the one who had saved this planet multiple times before! He's a hero, not an antagonist!" She was really angry at this Monique Farrow person. She couldn't hold her anger. "And for your information, he's not an beast. He's an living organism. Hadn't thought of that, did you?"

"An organism that must be destroyed." Monique responded calmly. "He is an threat to humankind. His species didn't help us when Gojira had arrived in our own world. They are savages that had been destroyed for over a decade, but only one had survived."

Sunset clenched her teeth in anger, before taking a deep breath. She couldn't take this feeling off. This Monique Farrow was a troublesome person. Taking a deep sigh, she nodded in understanding but only once. Monique smiled happily, glad that she understood her point.

"Glad to see you've come to you senses." She said calmly in French accent.

"This is not that I've come to my senses." Sunset responded. "I'm just going to take you in on the team, not going to help neither you nor your people to kill an vanished dragon." Monique blinked, not realizing this.

"He had vanished?" She asked in her local accent. She then said, "So, he's not killed then."

Riley spoke up. "Yes. He's not dead, mind you. Now, can we take off?" He suddenly had an idea. "Hey. Our team needs an name."

"What kind of an name?" Spike suddenly spoke. Riley jumped up in surprise, even Crait jumped. They looked at the dog, eyes widened in shock and disbelief, hanging their arms down.

"The dog just spoke." Twilight giggled at their reactions.

Riley cleared his throat, causing the conversing girls to look at him. "We need a name that matches that Virin guy. Hm. How about L.R.D?"

" "L.R.D"?" Rainbow frowned in confusion.

"It stands for "Lucky Red Dragon"." Riley translated. "What do you think?"

"Well, I think it suits us." Rarity spoke, agreeing with the title.

"Me too." Pinkie added, agreeing. The other girls just nodded in agreement. Sunset and Monique were still skeptical for the name, but got along with this.


New Meciso seas...

After having taking the L.R.D Seeker to the seas of New Mexico, the group of ten had been glad to get out of the lab since weeks ago. They've been relieved to come out in the fresh air for a while, even Monique were happy to get out for some reason. She was a mystery the girls had yet to solve.

"Ah." Crait breathed out. "Is it just me, or does it feel good to get out of the lab?"

"It does feel good." Rarity agreed, looking at the girls. "What do you girls think?"

"I think so." Applejack added in agreement.

"Focus, people." Monique told them. "We're here to investigate missing humans, not breathing in the fresh air." An robot suddenly came up to them, surprising the girls.

"Oh." Crait smiled at their reaction. "This is A.N.G.I.L, A millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison. Say hello. A.N.G.I.L."

"Hello, b-b-babe." The robot greeted in a metallic voice that were out-synchronized.

"Wasn't he the one that was destroyed by Virin's tail when you first introduced it?" Rarity asked as she pointed out. Crait sighed n depression at her point, not happy that she found that out quickly.

"In fact, yes." He sighed. "A.N.G.I.L has a hobby of causing him to be destroyed when's not carefully enough. He's also intelligent that helps me with my research, and I was hoping that he could be of some use for our group with our own research, as he's an capable machine to help."

"Sure." Applejack nodded. Crait sighed in relief, glad that the robot was accepted. Looks like this group just got a whole lot bigger.

"Land ashore!" Riley shouted, seeing New Mexico in the distance. The others looked over, smiling as the land of Mexico was in sight. As the L.R.D Seeker landed ashore at the beach, five of the group walked down to the sand, while the others sailed out again.

Observing a piece of tarn, Applejack took a piece of tarn into a glass that A.N.G.I.L held out, which caused the robot's circuits to go all like KABOOM.

"It...it...Hey...hey...Ho...Ho..." Crait looked at his robot in slight confusion, hearing a laughter from Applejack and the girls.

"Remind to never let that hacker mess with A.N.G.I.L's circuits." Crait told the girls.

"Sure." Rainbow smirked humourously.

Applejack held her hand on the tarn, feeling a pulse. "You feel that?" Crait held his own hand on the tarn, feeling the same pulsing. "That pulsing is there. Something's in here." Suddenly, a fish came struggling out of the tarn, causing the girls to shriek in surprise while Crait reared his head back a bit.

"It looks like the tarn was draining it." He pointed out. "But why?"

"Who knows?" Rainbow quicken her breath, her own pulse took the heck out of her.

Inside the L.R.D Seeker, Sunset and Monique were still arguing over for what to do with the slightly undefeated dragon.

"I told you," the former spoke harshly. "He's my friend. I'll never kill him."

"If you don't want to, then I'll just have to call your military to kill that dragon."

"Are you daring?"

"Yes. I dare."

"Try it."

"With pleasure."

"Alright. Cat fight." Riley suddenly stopped their arguing, causing both girls to look at him.

"Shut up!" Riley closed his mouth at the call. Then, Sunset's telephone rang, which relieved her. She took it out and heard what the others had found.

"What did you find?" She asked.

"Well, we found out that the fish found in the tarn, was completely drained." Came Applejack's voice.

"What kind of creature are we dealing with?" Sunset mumbled in wonder before she heard Applejack's scream of surprise. "Applejack!"

From on a boat, a flock of squids were crawling up to the girls and Crait, who stood back as the squids came closer. As one of the girls tried to pinch the squids, one of the squids took the stick Rarity was holding, crunching it to pieces with its teeth. One of the mutated squids took the robot that tried to electrifying it, dragging it under the water.

"A.N.G.I.L!"" Crait cried out in horror, before he noticed the girls were taking by the tentacles of the squids as he was taken as well, which engulfed them in tarn as they were dragged under water.

In the dark night, the L.R.D Seeker sailed over to the tarn, with the light in front lit up so they could see. Sunset looked down at the water with narrowed eyes, before seeing a telephone in the tarn.

"Halt!" She cried as the boat stopped. Running to the back of the boat, Sunset took the telephone in tarn in her hand. "Applejack..."

"This is why we should've been there for them." Monique spoke up, causing Sunset to turn to look at her. "If we've never been so far away, then the others would've never had been caught by the tarn."

"Are you blaming this on me?!" Sunset barked.

"In fact, yes." Monique confirmed. Sunset gritted her teeth, before Riley made a dinging noise above them.

"We have a winner." He said. "If I could just call the little 'bot, then we can receive the others in no time at all." As they waited, A.N.G.I.L came into view as the robot held out multiple metallic arms, carrying the five girls and Crait as they were unconscious.

After taking them inside the boat's lab, Sunset said, "Subject remains unconscious, if I just pull something like this..." She sprayed some hot liquid onto the unconscious bodies, vaporizing the tarn as it puffed up. Crait suddenly awoke, screaming as he was in tarn.

"Ah! Squids!" He screamed. "Get it off! Get if off!" The girls coughed out water.

"It's over." Sunset reassured them. "It's over now. Relax."

Walking out of the boat's lab, Sunset was met with Riley and Monique.

"How're they?" The former asked in worry.

"They're fine." Sunset assured him. "They just need time to recover." Riley sighed in relief, glad that Applejack would be alright. Suddenly, the boat started swirling from side to side, causing them to yelp in surprise.

The six inside the lab came out by the sudden nudges. Coming up from the water, were the squids from before.

"Not again." Crait groaned as his nightmare came back.

"Get inside." Monique ordered them. "Now!" They listened to her, walking backwards back in the boat's lab, closing the door as the was locked just as the squids came up on the boat. The squids began barging on the door, succeeding in tearing it away, pulling Sunset as she was the closest to them. But, as she held onto the stairs, with Riley's help, she was pulled out of the room as the squids lifted her up in the air. Slowly making her way down, the squids holding her was crunching happily to have human meat. However, suddenly, the squids were pulled under the water by force as Sunset landed on the boat's floor, grunting in pain.

"Excuse me?" Riley came up to her. From the water, a large, red dragon with orange and markings on his body and wings, came out of the water, holding the squids in his large arms.

"Virin." Sunset breathed out in surprise. Virin looked at her. "You're alive." The dragon nodded before he was pulled under the water by the squids, causing Sunset to gasp in worry. From the water, a giant arm sprung up as Virin got back out, with his spikes glowing a blue colour as he fired his atomic breath attack, roasting the squids as they fell to down to the water. Riley let out a cheer.

"Whoa-ho!" He cheered. Virin walked away as he laid back under the water, swimming. Monique held a hand on the back of her neck, surprise overtaking her.

"I can't believe it." She said. "That dragon...saved our lives."

"Luckily, he doesn't hold a grudge." Sunset pointed out. Monique smiled for a first time, glad to be alive along with the others, her new friends. After seeing Virin alive and well, Sunset was happy that her studies weren't finished yet. He did say that she was allowed to study him, unlike how Princess Twilight wasn't allowed to. She silently giggle at the thought, lowly enough so her friends didn't hear her.

After sailing through the seas to shore, the group of ten came down from the boat, observing the mutated squids. Sunset had an radioactive device that was so she could scan for radioactivity from the squids, which was possible to grow bigger through radioactivity.

"It seems like these squids were grown bigger through radioactivity," Sunset echoed her thought. "But, how could they possibly be that?"

"Who knows?" Rainbow frowned. "It's not like there could've been nuclear testing in these areas. Or, could there?"

"Nuclear testing..." Sunset then tapped her chin in thought. "That could be the reason. Good thinking, Rainbow. Now, for how the squids were able to grow big was because of the radioactivity from nuclear testing. That could also be the reason for how their growth was from the testing of nuclear waste." Rainbow rubbed the back of her neck in anticipation.

"Is it like how Vrin spits blue warming breath of radioactivity from his mouth?" A voice called, making the group to look in the direction of the voice. They saw Omega and Alan coming down from the ridge. As Monique opened her mouth to ask how, Omega said, "Been there. Done that." He was in an angry mood of not being invited to the team, and having adventures.

"Please." Monique suddenly pleaded. "You mustn't be here. It's too dangerous. something may come out unexpectedly." That's the cue. From the water, a giant theropod creature of above average height stood tall and mighty. It had two powerful legs, a tail and a short neck that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It had three small fingers, long arms. Its scales were a black colour. Its eyes were a blood-red colour.

"A ." Pinkie whispered fearfully, backing up behind the girls along with Fluttershy.

"A mutated one, at that." Crait added just as fearfully, backing up quietly. The walked over to the squids, biting onto the burned flesh, but spit it out right afterwards. The Tyrannosaurus looked over to the town where people was walking, saliva dripping from its mouth as its stomach growled in hunger. The Tyrannosaurus let out a powerful roar, blowing the leaves off the trees, making everyone in town to look at the fearfully, before running for their lives.

The Tyrannosaurus walked up to the town, rampaging through it as the group looked on helplessly. Monique, however, was intending to borrow a motorcycle near the parking place, getting on it, taking a helmet on.

"C'mon." She held a helmet to Sunset, who took it.

"What are you going to do?" The light ambered girl wondered.

"Let's see if it likes fire." Monique smirked as Sunset also smirked, before the former drove the motorcycle close to the Tyrannosaurus, who chased it as it got into view in front of its eyes. The Tyrannosaurus took the motorcycle by the back, causing both Monique and Sunset fall to the ground face first but stood up quickly. As the motorcycle neared the Tyrannosaurus' mouth, Monique took out a pistol and fired a bullet of stone at the motorcycle, destroying it as fire was met with the Tyrannosaurus' mouth instead.

The roared angrily at the humans, who ran away as it gave chase. While running past buildings, Sunset and Monique was quickly caught up by the Tyrannosaurus, who held its mouth close to the humans before a powerful roar caught its ears. The three looked over to the roar's direction, to see a large red dragon with orange and white markings over its body and wings standing tall and mighty as it faced the .

The roared in a challenging way to the dragon, who roared back. The two giants walked up to each other, biting onto each other's necks, causing blood to appear on the other's neck, but they ignored it. The dragon reared back before punching the in the head, making it stumble back a bit before swiping the dragon's head with its powerful tail. Virin was sent flying into a harmless building, causing it to crumbling to the ground as the dragon fell on his back.

Sunset and the group watched on, before a helicopter flew by and landed near them. Out, came Commander Arnold and Colonel Nick Hoskins, the former had his hand point in his daughter's direction.

"Sunset..." He started before a roar caught his ears to go deaf. He rubbed them with his arms, looking over at the happening battle between a dragon and a Tyrannosaurus. "The colonel was right. Where'd that thing come from, anyway?"

"Same place as Godzilla." Sunset answered casually. "And, if you ask me, then I think that Tyrannosaurus is here to revenge against his kind and species." Looking back at the battle, she saw that Virin got back up and swiped at the ' feet with his tail, causing the Tyrannosaurus fell to the ground, but got back up quickly. The Tyrannosaurus' eyes boiled with rage as the dragon had swiped its feet, roaring out with a powerful roar. But, the roar only made the humans' ears go deaf, not the dragon's.

Virin watched as the roared, thinking of an plan to defeat it. He glanced sidelines over to a ridge, thinking that'll have to do. Virin spread his wings and flew over to the ridge, the Tyrannosaurus didn't follow, as it will rampage through the town's square. The walked over to a building, headbutting it with all its might, causing the building to crumble to the ground. Suddenly, the was hit in the back by a rock. Looking over to where it was thrown, the growled as it saw Virin roaring out a challenge. Accepting it, the ran over to the ridge, as Virin leaned to the edge as he began burrowing into it.

"What's it doing?" Nick frowned.

" "It" is a "he", Mr. Colonel." Arnold pointed out.

"He's tunneled all over that ridge." Sunset responded. "It's unstable." That's the cue. Virin got out of his burrowing, roaring at the , who turned around before the edge collapsed, causing it to fall to the ground with more rocks falling onto it, now seemingly dead. Virin let out a victorious roar, before the edge collapsed some more, dragging him to the ground, with the last rocks falling onto him, covering him as he was seemingly dead as well.

"Ha!" Nick laughed. "Two monsters for the prize of one."

"That dragon just sacrificed itself for us, Major." Sunset pointed out. Nick turned his head away, before a roar caught their attention. What shocked them, was that Virin was alive and well, as he had gotten out of the rubble from the rocks. Three helicopters came flying into the scene, clsoe to Virin.

"Target is locked on. Ready to fire." The lead pilot called, looking to a swimming Virin in the water.

"On my signal..." Nick began, before his hand was taken by Sunset.

"No!" She objected. "You can't!"

"I have my orders!" Nick argued.

"Don't you want just one dragon to be on our side?" Sunset questioned.

"Don't make it harder than it needs to be." Nick shook his head. From under the water, Virin was tucking some ships out of the tarn, before swimming around at a fase rate, causing the tarn to swirl as the ships and unconscious men floated to the surface.

"On my signal..." Nick's eyes widened in shock as he saw the ships and missing swimmers in the tarn that came floating up.

"Wow." Sunset breathed. The helicopters returned to their position.

"Requesting permission to fire on Virin." The lead pilot called to his chief.

"He's the only one that stands between us and every other mutations and monsters that comes crawling out of the wood work." Sunset pointed out to the Colonel, who thought it over.

"The beast is dead." He told the pilots.

"Sir?"

"Repeat." Nick repeated. "The beast is dead. Is that clear?"

"Yes, sir!" The helicopters flew away from the scene, with Virin going back into the water as he swam.

"Thank you, Major." Sunset thanked him.

"Don't make me regret this..." Nick replied.

"You won't be." Arnold responded, holding a hand on his shoulder.


At the lab...

After that fortunate event, everyone returned back to their lab, with Monique a part of the team.

"Ah!" Crait breathed. "I'm glad that it's over now." He sneezed, before that, he held a paper near his nose, so that the sneeze happened in the paper.

"Over?" Sunset echoed. "Just be glad that whatever we're facing in the future, we won't be facing it alone." From outside in the water of the facility, Virin's head came out of the water, letting out a roar as he snorted with his nostrils.

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