Jet Force Twilight

Twilight’s eyes widened in surprise. A broad smile formed across the face of the pony princess.

“Floyd!”

“Hello, Twilight.” The propellers of the flying robot rotated more fiercely. It gave him the boost he needed to fly up to the alicorn. The royal guards were soldiers of the crown and wore golden armor. Two of them walked toward the newly arrived guest. Twilight looked at them and smiled nodding, signaling that she did not take offence to Floyd’s presence. The guards backed away.

“I see that you have mustered quite the gathering here.” Floyd remarked about the atmosphere of the private party. All around them the air filled with the sound of ponies chatting. Floyd turned his silvery appearance downward and beheld the beauty in front of him. His two artificial eyes, which were usually nothing more than two small dots, widened until they gazed like two black stones. “Oh, Twilight, I anticipated I was going to be happy to see you, but I never thought that you would awe me.”

The alicorn pony was wearing a dark-blue dress that sparkled like the night sky. She had violet ribbons hanging down from her back that mixed perfectly with the streaks that ran across her purple mane. The dress had purple lines running down from her tail to her hoof fittings. The dress had a round brooch fastened up front, which in turn had a lavender sapphire in the middle, glimmering like a star version of the pony that wore it.

“Thank you, Floyd. I had my friend Rarity make it.” Twilight replied, trying not to sound hoity-toity. She knew by now that being herself was the best way of being a good princess.

“Rarity? Now, excuse me, princess, it has been so long. Where…?”

Floyd glanced around the mingling room of the Canterlot castle. It was broad with giant, pink curtains hanging down beside its tall windows. The towering roof made the room almost feel like being outside in a way. Twilight giggled. She had forgotten how long it had been since she gave Floyd his new body. She pointed her hoof at another beauty that sparkled ahead.

“Over there.”

The white unicorn, a rare one whose name was also Rarity, did not notice the extra attention. She was too busy entertaining the one she had already received. Her light blue dress had diamonds on it that formed a slightly chaotic pattern. She had a crown made of gold and blue gems, making her almost look more princess-like than the actual princess in the room. Rarity chuckled at a joke that had just been told by the colt she was speaking too, who was wearing a white costume.

“And the one she is talking to now is named Star Streak, they are both in fashion.” Twilight informed.

“I see, and the others?” Floyd asked.

“The others?”

“The ones you introduced me too after you helped me.”

“You mean Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash and Starlight Glimmer?” Twilight pointed her hoof at a group of Pegasus ponies. “Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are over there.”

Rainbow Dash’s rainbow-colored mane stood out more than her dress did over her blue coat. Fluttershy had a cobalt dress that made her yellow coated face appear like a rising sun. Both pegasus ponies had their wings folded at their sides. They were talking to a group of others wearing blue uniforms with yellow lightning bolts painted across them.

“And the ones they are talking to are members of the Wonderbolts, an elite flying group that Rainbow Dash is part of.” Twilight pointed her hoof at a pony that was standing behind a stand. “And Apple Jack is over there.”

Being an earth pony, Apple Jack had neither a horn nor wings. Her orange coat almost appeared to be a part of the bakery wares she was selling. She smiled invitingly to every passing pony. She had a light brown mane that was tied into a large braid behind her head.

“I see,” Floyd said.

Twilight was genuinely surprised to hear how eager the robot was of meeting her friends again. She guessed that having him socialize with them after she gave him his new body a had been a great idea. It was times like these that Twilight was proud of being the princess of friendship. Nothing felt more fulfilling for the alicorn than watching a recently lonely soul let friendship into his heart. That, and reading about the science behind it. Twilight studied Floyd’s changed appearance.

“I see that you have upgraded the body I gave you.”

“I knew you noticed that, Princess Twilight.” Floyd said polite.

After randomly finding Floyd’s computer chip in the middle of the forest Twilight made sure to give him a plastic body along with propellers and a rocket engine that allowed him to navigate through space. That was several years ago. Floyd was now glistening with his platinum surface. His metal propeller was rotating so even and gracefully that almost no wind current could be felt. A small door opened at the side of his chassis, allowing for Floyd to extend a robot arm. He grabbed a champagne glass from the table nearby.

“A toast, for the princess of friendship,” Floyd said with a proud boast in his voice. Twilight smiled and grabbed one herself. “Now, where are the pink one?” Floyd asked.

“You mean Pinkie Pie and Starlight Glimmer? Away somewhere.”

“Will they come back?” Floyd asked with a tinge of worry in his voice. Twilight laughed.

“No doubt they will, they needed some time away from the crowd, that’s all.”

The door to the dressing room had been shut tight. The locking spell that Starlight Glimmer had put on it prevented curious ponies outside from entering. The pink earth pony named Pinkie Pie was lying on a large table in the middle of the room. She felt Starlight’s lips move across her chest. Pinkie Pie touched Starlight’s purple mane with light blue stripes and whispered.

“Starlight.” Starlight Glimmer looked up at Pinkie. “I want all of you.”

The lilac unicorn named Starlight climbed up on the sturdy table, giving the on-top spot to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie then proceeded kissing Starlight on the mouth while letting her strong agent hooves push the table, allowing for her to infuse a back and forth rhythm. Pinkie let her kisses run downward across Starlight’s belly. She then ran her tongue inside her. Starlight’s unicorn horn gave a spark. The magic flowed behind Pinkie Pie and grabbed her tail. She pulled it.

“Oh, Starlight, you are so mean.” Pinkie Pie said.

The two mares continued breathing in the same rhythm as they made love. Beside the ponies laid the dresses they wore in public before getting dirty in private.

“Ah… Pinkie…”

“Yes… Starlight.”

“I think… I think I’m…Ah!”

All the muscles in Starlight pulled at once. She gave a loud moan while her orgasm flowed through her body. Pinkie looked up at her lover.

“Starlight, careful. The others might hear.”

Starlight grinned. “Will you ever learn Pinkie Pie?” Starlight used her horn to pull Pinkie up until she laid face to face with her. Her breath warmed Pinkies face while whispering. “I…Don’t…Care.”

Pinkie Pie looked at Starlight with a loving gaze. It was the same words that had been spoken when Pinkie and Starlight first realized that they liked each other.

Pinkie Pie recalled it like yesterday. It had been after a magical experiment pulled off by Starlight and her best friend Trixie. All three of them had been magically transferred into a VHS movie called Goldeneye. There they had accidentally changed a scene in the movie, leaving them all stranded inside. Their mission had then been to put the movie back on track.

It hadn’t gone well.

For every action the took they only managed to drive the movie further away from its intended script. Tragedy had struck when Trixie was killed inside the movie. Even though they knew she would be revived once they successfully made it out, the death of her best friend still tore a hole in Starlight. To make matters worse, Pinkie Pie had accidentally killed James Bond, the main hero of the movie.

This unfortunate event had caused the movie to pick Pinkie Pie as its agent instead of James. Since 007 was the main protagonist of Goldeneye, Pinkie Pie had been forced to finish the agent’s job, or else, she and Starlight would have been stuck inside the movie forever.

From that moment Pinkie Pie had decided that she would become two ponies at once: Pinkie Pie the party planner, the happy pony that always sought out fun, even in even the most threatening situations, and 007 Pinkie Pie, the secret agent that relied on a blacker humor and didn’t hesitate to kill.

This intentional split personality allowed Pinkie Pie to avoid becoming Pinkamena Pie - the incompatible and horrible combination of both ponies - meaning a smiling, insincere, anti-social and psychotic pink nightmare that kills for fun.

Starlight let her hoof run inside her lover’s curly, pink hair. Her loving eyes looked straight into Pinkie’s blue eyes. “You are my party pony.”

Pinkie Pie answered Starlight by kissing her on the mouth.

Indeed, Pinkie Pie was a party pony or a party planner in working terms. Pinkie Pie had planned this party they were having right now. Not the fucking, oh no, that one Starlight had kept as a surprise, but the one the other ponies were having throughout the rest of the castle.

Pinkie Pie was known throughout Equestria for her friend-making skills, much of it being a direct result of her amazing ability to remember ponies faces. This had proven to be a great skill after being forced to mantle James Bond’s role as this allowed her to read the intentions of her targets and pick out double agents in the field.

But as great use Pinkie’s abilities had been they had also proven to be her greatest weakness. Pinkie Pie knew smiles better than anypony, and for every face she saw came the possibility of a new smile and a new friend. This was something Pinkie Pie could not simply turn off, it came by pure instinct for her. She remembers the faces of everypony she meets in Equestria as a potential friend, the same she remembered the faces of every human she met as a potential friend, even her enemies, only seconds before she killed them as a 00 agent.

These faces had then stayed with Pinkie Pie the party planner, looking at her with dead eyes and unmoving expressions. This had in turn given her nightmares, filled with bloodstained party cakes and screams, all while the smiles of the ponies from Equestria had slowly faded from her memories. When Pinkie Pie’s psychological problems had been at their worst she had completely forgotten about all smiles. She had felt worse than lonely, she had almost been driven to complete insanity. In her head she had almost become Pinkamena Pie.

It had been during this unbearable part of her life that Starlight had stepped in and chased Pinkamena away. Pinkie Pie stopped kissing Starlight. She laid her head on her chest. The words Starlight spoke inside Goldeneye came back to her. To me, you will always be the same happy, kind and funny Pinkie Pie that I've always known, no matter how this turns out.

“Starlight?”

“Yes, Pinkie.” Starlight answered.

“You know I love you, don’t you?”

Girl, we just fucked! Starlight almost blasted incredulously. She smiled. “Yes, I do, and I love you to Pinkie.” Her face changed to bewildered. “Why do you ask?”

Pinkie Pie hesitated. She had no idea why she needed to ask that question. She said the first thing that came to her mind.

“I want this moment to last forever.”

Starlight laughed while answering. “You know it won’t silly.” She laid herself on top of Pinkie Pie. “But I’ll give you a reason. Do you know why?”

“Why?”

“I just told you.” Starlight replied and landed a kiss. She then gave the same treatment to Pinkie Pie as Pinkie gave her.

(Two years earlier, roughly)

Starlight galloped toward where she heard the explosion. She saw a bright light once she opened the door into Twilight’s library.

“What in Equestria is going on in here?!”

Twilight was standing in front of a black cloud of smoke. She turned to Starlight, her white teeth smiling crazily. Her purple mane had a disorganized look, which could only mean one thing. Starlight frowned.

“You are trying to confirm a farfetched theory by performing a dangerous scientific experiment, don’t you?”

“Farfetched? Oh no, not at all, not this time!”

“If you say so.” Starlight replied bored.

Twilight’s face gained a teasing look. “Besides, who are you to tell me about dangerous experiments?”

Starlight flung her hooves in a ‘same old story’ manner. “I know, I know. You are thinking about the time when I sent myself and Trixie into a James Bond movie.”

“…And my party planner.”

“And your party planner. Look Twilight, I experienced firsthand how that endeavor turned out. I won’t be doing the same mistake again.”

“Well, you’re still doing her, don’t you?” Twilight teased. Starlight did not get it at first.

“I’m telling you, I’m not doing that again… Her? You mean…?” Starlight’s voice dwindled. She turned her face away, trying desperately to hide her nervous smile. Twilight decided to go with the new direction of the conversation, even though she regretted every word that she just said. She put her hoof on Starlight’s flank in a soothing gesture.

“I am so proud of you Starlight. When we first met you had a long way to go, but ever since you graduated from being my student you have taken huge steps in friendship, steps that I could never have imagined within my wildest dreams.” Starlight looked up at Twilight, a smile forming beneath her modest eyes. She turned it down again, only to have it risen by Twilight’s hoof. “And now I get to be proud of Pinkie Pie too. You are both the best friends that a pony like me could have, and I am so happy for both of you.”

Starlight felt relief. She guessed that she had been more worried about what others might think about her and Pinkies relationship than what she had let on to Pinkie Pie.

“So, what exactly is it that you’re doing?”

Twilight showed to Starlight her earlier finding. “Take a look at this. I found this outside Everfree Forest.”

The object was a plastic thingy with red, blue and green wires tangled in a mess, much like Twilights mane at this point. Behind all the mess was a card of some sort.

“Looks like nothing to me.”

“No. But look at this.” Twilight’s horn gave a glow. It pulsated in a bright light.

“That is the life detection spell?” Starlight recalled bewildered.

“Exactly!”

“So?”

“So? Don’t you see? There is life in there!”

Starlight was still seeing an alicorn princess wanting to befriend an inanimate object. “Maybe it’s a bug?”

“No Starlight, no bugs, I have checked. This thing is alive!”

Starlight looked blankly at the plastic mess. And so, the ‘Save The Electronics’ movement was born. Starlight frowned inside. She decided that she would at least entertain the possibility.

Twilight Sparkle and her former student helped each other to give the object a power source. Twilight connected it with a reader that she had in case of crazy scientific experiment emergencies. The data showed up as lines on a screen. Starlight was suddenly overcome by a feeling of uneasiness, like they both were about to walk past a point of no return.

“Are you sure about this? We don’t know what this is.”

“We have to at least try and find out.”

But Twilight wasn’t the only voice that was answering. Starlight picked it up.

“Did you hear something?”

Twilight lit up. “I did!”

“…Oyd.” A voice said.

“Hello?” Twilight called.

“F…D”

“My name is Twilight Sparkle. Can you hear me!?”

“Floyd. My name is Floyd.” A male voice said.

“Hi, Floyd.” Twilight greeted in an alarmingly all-day manner.

“The asteroid.”

“Asteroid?”

“Did it blow up?”

Twilight laughed. “Alright, I have no idea…”

“What about Jet Force Gemini?” Floyd asked, interrupting Twilight.

“Jet Force Gemini?”

“Did they make it? What about Mizar’s drones? Have they all been defeated?”

“Mizar? Drones? Alright, now must slow down. I have no idea what you’re…”

“Then you are going to have to help me back. I need to know.”

“Know what?” Starlight broke in.

Floyd told the ponies about an intergalactic war that once raged between a group calling themselves the Gemini Squadron and Mizar. He told them that Mizar was an evil robot that had been built by the brother of a Tribal leader, a native bear-like group that was simply referred to as the Tribals. This brother and his Mizar robot had then gone on a jealousy campaign against the Tribals, without anyone knowing that it was the brother of the tribal king that was piloting him. The Gemini Squadron had tried to stop Mizar but was shattered, leaving only three members to fight the dictator: A man, a woman, and a dog. Starlight frowned when the last bit of information was given.

“A dog?” Maybe you have been floating in space for too long?

“But what are you?” Twilight asked.

“That was what I was trying to get to. As I said: My name is Floyd and I was a flying robot in Mizar’s army. Now, I know that might sound bad, but I saw what the drones were doing to the Tribals and I decided to switch sides. I helped the remaining Gemini members defeat Mizar and the Tribal leader’s brother.”

“What was their names?” Twilight asked.

The robot moaned. “I don’t remember. You must understand Twilight that I have been floating in space for years.” His voice started swaying. “I have been all alone with no friends and no one to talk to. All I wanted was to know if I succeeded in blowing up the asteroid.”

“What asteroid?” Starlight asked.

“The one that was heading for Earth, the home planet of the Gemini Squadron. Once he sensed that he was going to be beaten Mizar sent the asteroid to collide with Earth and cause massive devastation.”

“Sounds like a charming guy, this Mizar.” Starlight said sarcastically.

“Not at all,” Floyd replied darkly. “Mizar may have been piloted by the tribal leader’s brother, but in the end, it had been the robot that manipulated its pilot. Mizar is one of the greatest evils that the universe has ever faced. Once his demise came on the asteroid's surface it couldn’t have been more welcome.”

Floyd may have been nothing more than an inanimate object connected to a magical generator with a couple of pulsating lines on the tv screen, but Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer were both captivated by his story.

“But unfortunately, his defeat came after Mizar had already sent the asteroid toward earth. The only way of stopping it was to blow it up. I volunteered to do it. The Gemini squadron helped me strap a bomb under my chassis and I flew into its core.” Floyd paused. Twilight wondered why he was hesitating. He eventually ended in a low voice. “The last thing I remember I was closing my eyes.”

Twilight’s eyes sparkled at this point. Such bravery!

“Listen, I don’t know what or who you are, but I really need to get back.”

Twilight looked at Starlight, her face bathing in sadness. Starlight smiled and nodded.

“We are ponies living in this land of Equestria. My name is Twilight Sparkle and this here is Starlight Glimmer, and we’ll do more than help you, Floyd.”

“You’ll do that?” Floyd asked innocently.

“Yes. In fact, I may have an idea how to go about it.”

The following days would be filled with building, and not a big wooden playhouse for the Cutie Mark Crusaders kind of building, but a small circuit board and wire mending with lead kind of building. Floyd showed to Twilight a blueprint that he had stored inside his database. They seemed to instruct how to build some kind of flying robot with a propeller. Even with their magic it had taken all of Twilight and Starlight's concentrations to follow Floyd’s stored instructions.

“We may have a problem,” Floyd said.

“What?” Twilight asked while trying to concentrate.

“My main chip has been damaged. I am not sure if I will be able to muster enough power to run myself.”

That was a dire problem indeed. It hadn’t taken long for Twilight to figure out a solution. She transferred a part of her alicorn powers into a small rock and installed it inside Floyd’s new body. The rock would generate power automatically while giving Floyd power for decades to come. Twilight even threw in an extra feature.

“This rock will sustain you for a long time. On top of that I have cast a self-mending spell and calibrated it to your plans.”

“Which means?” Floyd asked.

“Which means that if you break, all you need to do is rebuild yourself again. Don’t worry, once you and the rock are one you will know what to do.”

“Wow Twilight, you didn’t need to do all this.”

Twilight laughed. “Of course, it’s the least I could do after all the sacrifices you’ve made.”

“I’ll remember this forever, Twilight Sparkle. You really are a true friend.”

Twilight smiled at Floyd’s compliment. Starlight studied it. It was that kind of smile that did not matter how big or small it was. Stretching from cheek to cheek, no matter how you looked at it, it was a smile of pure joy, coming straight from the heart.

Two days passed. The ponies eventually managed to get Floyd airborne. Twilight decided that she would introduce him to her friends, seeing it had almost been fifteen years since Floyd had socialized with someone. They all gathered around the Cutie Map located inside Twilight’s castle. Twilight was sitting on the crystal throne.

“Rarity, Apple Jack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, this is Floyd.”

Twilight’s friends looked bewildered at the flying thing. His body was bulky and his sides jutted downward slightly.

“It looks like a flying banana.”

“Rainbow Dash! Have some manners, didn’t you hear what the poor thing had been through?” Fluttershy scolded.

“It looks like one of those things you read about in sci-fi comics.” Apple Jack remarked.

Rainbow Dash laughed before teasing. “Yea. Apple Jack reads sci-fi.” Apple Jack blushed.

Floyd was now using his propeller to hover above the map table. He spoke to the ponies with a strong, edgy voice.

“Ponies, listen, especially you Twilight.” Floyd turned to the alicorn pony, that meaning she had both a horn and wings. “I cannot thank you enough for what you have done for me, and regrettably I have no idea how to repay you at this hour, but I do know a group of freedom fighters that call themselves Jet Force Gemini.”

Rainbow Dash was suddenly alert. Her garment red eyes sparkled with excitement. “Jet force Gemini!?” She only needed to hear the name of the group to tell that they were totally awesome.

“Once there," Floyd continued. "I promise that I am going to be discreet about the existence of your world, but if you ever need me to call Gemini for your aid I would be more than happy to assist in any way I can. Do you accept this?”

“We accept it!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

Twilight merely doubted herself that this plastic thing would be a life, but she never imagined that it would also have a heart of gold. The lines on her face rose into a wide smile.

(Present day)

Twilight smiled widely at Floyd. The champagne still rocked inside the fancy glasses of which the alicorn and robot were holding. Even though Floyd was a robot, for the sake of socializing, he had installed a tasting program that allowed him to pour the liquid into his chassis and enjoy the treats along with the living.

“So, you found your way back here,” Twilight concluded.

“That stone you gave me really allows me to do more than just survive. You truly are an alicorn to be reckoned with Twilight.” Floyd complimented.

“Oh, thank you, Floyd,” Twilight said, her facial beauty mending perfectly with her lovely gala dress. There was a highly pitched voice cutting through the comfy air.

“Hello, Twilight!” Pinkie Pie noticed the new guest. “Hi there Floyd, nice to see you again, and so close to your birthday too!”

Floyd turned to the party pony and was met with the biggest smile that he had ever seen. “My birthday?”

“Of course! It is only 4 and a quarter of a day until the anniversary when Twilight finished building you!”

“You remember all that?” Floyd asked surprised.

“Of course! You are my friend, after all.”

Pinkie Pie’s smile became more static the longer the seconds of silence went.

“Sorry.”

“Heh?” Pinkie Pie blurted. Floyd shook his robot body. “I mean, sorry I didn’t remember yours.”

Twilight giggled. “There is no need to feel singled out, we are all used to it by now.”

Pinkie Pie raised her hooves in a display of modesty. “What can I say, I am good at what I do.”

The pink pony proceeded toward the next conversation to crash.

“Same old Pinkie Pie.” Twilight shook her head and smiled in a well-meaning way. She lit up. “Look! There is Starlight to.”

Floyd spotted the lilac colored unicorn. She looked at him, her smile bordering with happy to see him and bewildered. Floyd turned to Twilight.

“So, now you’re all here?”

“I guess we are. I am so happy to see you again Floyd.”

“And I am happy to see you too, I really am.”

I really am. The odd choice of words circulated Twilight’s mind. “So, why did you come here?”

“That was exactly what I was trying to get to. You remember the group I told you about?”

“You mean Jet Force Gemini?”

“Yes. There has been a slight mishap, they’re coming here to get you.”

“To get me?” Twilight asked, not sure if it was positive or negative.

“I must apologize to you Twilight. I remember everything you did for me, and I want you to know that I am more than thankful for it.”

Twilight’s smile was bordering with nervous at this point. “Come on Floyd, tell me what is going on.”

“I made a mistake. They know that you build me and they know that you gave me that magic rock.”

“Is that bad?” Twilight asked.

Starlight was standing not far from the alicorn and the robot. Her eyes festered on two tall figures that entered the mingling room. They both had their bodies and faces covered with large robes. The two members of the royal guard walked up to them.

“Excuse me, sir, this is a private party.” One of the guards informed the creature.

“I am sorry Twilight, but they are already here,” Floyd told Twilight.

“Who Floyd, Jet Force Gemini?” Twilight asked.

Floyd looked back at the two figures again. The guard standing beside the creature was getting forceful.

“Excuse me, sir. But I’m going to have to insist that you leave now!”

Floyd turned to Twilight again, his robot eyes glowing with a dark-red light. He spoke with a cold, authoritarian voice.

“My name is not Floyd, Floyd was a nothing but a pity servant!”

The two creatures removed their robes, revealing themselves as two gigantic ant creatures standing on two legs. One of them pointed something at the guard. The roaring sound of the automatic laser fire echoed throughout the castle. The colt guard gave out an agonizing scream and crumbled to the ground. The other guard fell by the hands of the other ant.

“My name is Mizar, and I am the rightful ruler of the universe!” Mizar dictated.

Twilight’s champagne glass shattered against the castle floor. She found herself looking straight into the barrel of Mizar’s gun.

Why? Twilight almost asked, but her mouth wouldn’t move. There was a blast, followed by a flashing light.