Cold.
That's all what they felt.
Cold.
A freezing chill passed through their bodies.
Cold.
The sensation of frozen metal bars touching one's body paralyzed them with chills.
Cold.
The sound of dead footsteps neared the two cold bodies.
Cold.
"Feeling a bit too frozen eh?" The undead scientist said, laughing at what seemed to be beyond-success.
Cold.
Dr. Zomboss tapped on the frozen surface of his lab, wondering what should he do with not one, but two alicorn princesses.
Cold.
This was a chilling prospective. He wanted one, not two. Wrong move would lead to him receiving the full wrath of both.
Cold.
The monitors showed the slow beats of the two as the sub-pony conditions threatened them to be frozen to death.
Fire.
The heat of complex machinery booting up and running filled the room, drifting away the chills of the two alicorns.
Fire.
A needled plunged into each alicorn, collecting blood samples from them. The two cried out as they felt the immense pain.
Fire.
Stacks of wood were thrown into the fireplace before being lit up, heating up the two mares.
Fire.
"Now just because you're my captives that doesn't mean that I should let you two die. However I have so much in store."

The evil genius let the fire heat up the two alicorns. Celestia and Luna's eyes looked up to their captor with hatred. This was the one that was in charge of the deaths of those poor 500 ponies. He was the one responsible.

Luna fired a midnight blue bolt of magic, but it was instantly absorbed by the cage they were in.

"Surprised right? This cage has been covered with a bunch of potions, specifically a serum that makes zombies immune to the attack of the Shadow Plants, plants who use shadows as their weapons." The two princesses became surprised. Did some of these plants use dark magic, just like King Sombra, ruler of the shadows? "That sample I took from you is being examined by my scientists. Soon we'll use that same power you have against your friends."

"I would like to see you try." Luna said. "Our ponies carry the power of the Elements, which is hundreds times stronger than we." Luna said. That might be a bluff, but still it was somewhat true. They had needed to use the Elements when Discord appeared, who was dozens of times stronger than the two combined. The doctor laughed.

"I'm very aware of your dependence on those elements of yours. It would be such a tragedy if somehow they all perished at most, if not fall into my hands." The doctor said. Celestia gasped.

"You're not planning to kill them right?!" Celestia yelled. The doctor laughed.

"Of course I'm not." The doctor said, fishing out two microchips and aimed them at the princesses. "It will be you two." The doctor said before a little mechanic bug jammed one into Celestia's ear. The bug attempted to do the same with Luna but Luna being more on her hooves dodged it. But when she faced her sister, her eyes widened as she saw the chip release something inside of her sister, which took over Celestia. Celestia looked at Luna with fright, before her body calmed down now under the doctor's control.

"Do the same with your sister." The doctor said. Celestia grabbed Luna with her magic, but while Luna tried to get out of her grasp, it was not use as Celestia was able to insert the chip which brought Luna under the doctor's control. With a press of a button the princesses were given back control. The doctor laughed.

"There's more where that came from. From now on you'll be under my control. Obey me voluntarily and I'll be kind to you two, but disobey..." The doctor said, pressing another button which sent high waves of electricity to the princesses, which made them cry out in pain. "...and I'll make sure you'll pay." The doctor said. "James! Have you done what I told you?" The doctor said. James nodded.

"They're now under our control." The mad scientist's friend said. The doctor laughed.

"I'm certain they and the plants will receive a fiery surprise when they hear about this." The doctor laughed before pressing another button which activated another command.

The sound of the train screeching to a halt was heard as the Mane 6 and the plants dropped to their location.

"Why is this place called the Bad Lands?" Peashooter asked as he looked around at what seemed to be a beautiful world.

"Well this isn't actually part of the Bad Lands. This is the closest the train can get before entering into its dangerous area." Twilight said. She grabbed all of her friends and the plants that accompanied them. "Hold on this might feel uneasy for all of you." Twilight said, before they disappeared in a flash of light.

The team found themselves on a rocky area. There were some fissures on the ground with a red glow coming from them. Volcanoes spewed out molten rock from far away, and rivers of lava heated up the ground. The sky was red and black, with ash covering the sky. Somehow light was still able to pass the thick clouds, and with the light they had, they began their journey.

"This is called the Bad Lands, the land of dragons." Spike said, both with a cheerful voice but also with a hint of annoyance. Here was where he met both his friend and his rival, Princess Ember and those annoying teenage dragons who wanted him to destroy an egg to be part of their clan. The ponies and plants started to carefully walk around. Randomly fiery objects whizzed around the air, heating it up. Lightning sometimes traveled through the clouds, lighting them up even better. They carefully traversed the rocky terrain careful to not trip themselves up. A intense heat was being formed from a distant part, in which they saw randomly dots of flame travel around. The ground was scorched to the max as

"Hmm....I don't remember that this place had become a battle field...." Rarity said. Spike nodded.

"This place is known for fights, but not this type of ferocity!" Spike said as they saw the flames burning the ground. Suddenly a voice called his name.

"Spike!"

Immediately the baby dragon was knocked down by a much more older dragon. Before Peashooter could even enter his Power Mode state, Twilight placed a hoof on his mouth so that he wouldn't fire on their ally.

"Hey Ember!" Spike said as he greeted his dragon friend, Princess Ember. Ember smiled. "What's happening here?" Spike asked. Ember's smile faded a bit.

"Take a look for yourselves." Ember said as she lead them to a different part of the field. The Mane 6 and the plant followed. Ember suddenly noticed Peashooter and flew up.

"I got you now!" Ember said before breathing fire on the Peashooter. Peashooter dodged the fire and was about to shoot his own attack when Twilight grabbed both of them with her magic.

"Ember! What was that for!" Twilight said. Ember growled.

"He's the enemy! We have to destroy those who attack us!" Ember said, trying to get out of the alicorn's magical grasp. The alicorn raised her eyebrows.

"Wait wait wait.....you're saying that you've met someone like him?!" Twilight yelled. Ember nodded.

"We've been fighting those things since last hour! They're getting annoying right now!" Ember said. Ember rolled her eyes. "Take a look." Ember said as she peered down from where they were. They peered down and saw what was going on.

The ground had become a battlefield with dragons getting pushed back by heavy waves of fiery objects and organic material. On the other said were some strange plants that were fighting them, firing with no end. One plant looked up and Peashooter and the plant's eyes met. Peashooter gasped.

"F-fire Peashooter!?" Peashooter gasped. The named plant glared at the Peashooter and suddenly the air was filled with peas surrounded by a blue fire. The plants, dragons, and ponies took cover as they tried to protect themselves from the fiery barrage. Suddenly two blurs soared from the cliff, one yellow and the other icy blue. Peashooter gasped.

"Snap Dragon and Ice Dragon!?" Peashooter gasped. Ember pushed the Mane 6 out of the way.

"Duck." Ember said, before breathing her own fire at the two soaring plants. The plants did a screech before launching their attack, a fiery yellow flame and a chilling blue breeze. The two attacks collided with Ember's, and to their shock it was actually repelling Ember's attack.

"The ice coming from the blue one must be weakening Ember's attack while the flame coming from the fiery one must be pushing it back!" Twilight yelled. Fluttershy was hiding behind Spike, afraid of seeing the battle going around. The zombie invasion both made her stronger and weaker at the same time. She seriously hated these fights.

"Time to go back to the ground you came from." Ember said as she increased her flame output, her's pushing back the two plants. Suddenly a huge green rocky pea suddenly collided with her in the stomach, causing her to get pushed back. The two dragon plants pushed back and their attack collided with Ember. When it was settled, Ember was still standing, but shivering a bit from the cold. What had done the most damage though was the flying pea that had pushed her back.

"Primal Peashooter!?" Peashooter yelled as he saw the familiar figure of his ancestor. The plant was surrounded by various dragons but each was being pushed back by the heavy peas of the Primal Peashooter. Next to him was the Primal Sunflower who was producing massive amounts of sun every few minutes. A Primal Potato Mine suddenly appeared and suddenly a huge explosion occurred, causing various dragons to be thrown away or knocked down.

"Why are they fighting them?!" Fluttershy asked. Peashooter was in shock.

"I don't know! Like I do know that these plants come from the dawn of the dinosaurs where they fought dinosaurs everyday to protect themselves, but they always did it defensively. I don't know why did they attack first!" Peashooter yelled. His eyes narrowed. "I'm going to talk to them." Peashooter said before he began to skid down the cliff.

"Peashooter!" Fluttershy yelled, wanting their plant friend to come back. Rainbow Dash and Applejack nodded.

"Forget it Fluttershy we have to figure out what's going on! Let's go with him!" The blue speedster said before she flew down with Peashooter. Applejack slid down the cliff as well, followed by Pinkie Pie and Rarity.

"This is not going to go well." Twilight said as she grabbed Fluttershy and the two went down. Spike grabbed a skateboard-shaped-rock and he jumped on the lava runway and surfed-way downward, followed by Ember who did the same.

Peashooter was sliding down the cliff, dodging the blue fire peas from Fire Peashooter. A huge lava river was up ahead, and instinctively Peashooter knocked down a piece of rock and started to surf on the lava way. Lava jumped on both sides of the jagged rock, and Peashooter was very carefully of not accidentally burning himself up, after all, he was a level 10 type with a huge amount of experience with survival skills. Various fire peas whizzed past by him, but Peashooter dodged each one with a simple tilt of his head. Peashooter jumped from his surf board of rock right when a fiery pea blew it up. Peashooter jumped on the tiny pieces of rock that were flying from the explosion before landing next to Fire Peashooter.

Fire Peashooter attacked Peashooter by using her flame peas and heating them up till they turned from orange to blue. She fired each pea, each which Peashooter dodged with his own.

"Fire Peashooter! It's me! Peashooter! Your friend! Remember!?" Peashooter yelled through the sound of war. But Fire Peashooter seemed to not hear, if not she did not pay attention. She continued to fire volleys after volleys against the Peashooter who held back from firing his own friend.

"You are no friend of mine!" The fire type plant roared as she fired this time a white hot pea. Peashooter slammed his front leaf down, propping up a rock which tanked the hit. But even though it tanked the damage, the Peashooter was still flung away from the shockwave that was produced from the pea. Peashooter curled into a ball as best as he could so that he could create more distance between him and his rogue friend. The fire peashooter was already covering the distance by creating a flame trail that pushed her forward, but in that moment where her head was fully shown to Peashooter, he noticed something off.

A chip.

A grey chip was on the side of the Fire Peashooter's head, blinking every few seconds. A type of electricity was run into the plant's mind, making her eyes glow blue as the chip sent signals to dominate the plant's mind. Peashooter was in shock, a shock that turned quickly into rage.

"That Doctor Zomboss!" Peashooter thought in his head as the other plants drifted downward, all having the chip connected to their minds. Peashooter growled. He used to despise that zombie leader, but now he wanted him dead, erased from existence. The doctor has pushed this too far! And the plant that was staring at his friends was determined to liberate them from the doctor's mind control....for his new friends...and for the world....

To be continued in part 2....

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