Star Ocean: A New Frontier

Chapter Four

Combat Ready

[Ponyville]
[Castle of Friendship]

“Dear god! Look at this place!?” Nelsha yelled while making her way through the castle of friendship. “This place is like something you would see in a fairy tale of somekind.”

“It’s indeed impressive. Hard to believe the entire town isn’t made out of crystal. That or Royalty in a nutshell.”

“I can never understand Royalty wanting big places to live in. Seems like a waste of materials and time when you can just live in a small home.”

“To each their own I suppose, but let's focus on the task at hand. Your weapons are located at the end of the hallway upon making a right turn around the corner.” Vi said as Nelsha quickly took a right turn and bolted it down the hallway of the castle. Once she was a few feet from the giant double doors, the lesser fellpool quickly jumped into the air, kicked the door open, and landed gracefully in the map room.

“And that is how you make a grant entrance!”

“Now if only there was someone to watch you do that...which there isn’t.”

“...Must you always ruin my moment, Vi?” Nelsha asked as she began to explore the room in search of her weapons.

“Only so you don’t get a bloated ego like most people would. Your gear is located behind the seat with the star like sign on it.” Vi said as Nelsha quickly walked over to the chair. Looking behind it, she saw her swords, shield, and firearm neatly lined up against the back part of the seat as she grinned.

“Nice to have my stuff back.” She said while reaching for it and placing them back onto herself. “Vi, scan my gear for anything out of the ordinary. I prefer not to have anything weird happening if I have to get into a fight.”

“Doing it right now actually...so far, nothing out of the ordinary both physically or magical wise.”

“Good. Now let's get the hell out of here before-” Before she could finish her sentence, her ears twitched upon hearing the sound of someone teleporting into the room she’s in. She soon turns around to lock eye contact at Twilight as the two stare at each other. “-someone comes here...shit.”

“I had a feeling you would be here.” Twilight said as her horn glowed, which caused Nelsha to back away from Twilight and unsheath her sword. “Shouldn’t have left those weapons behind my seat.”

“Vi, how’s the translator repair going?”

“twenty-five percent repaired. To them, it’ll sound like broken english given how similar their language is to the human language of english.”

“Great. Starting to regret not taking those translation classes.” Nelsha whispered before focusing on Twilight. “You got about five seconds to move aside or else I’m going to knock you off your butt lady.” She said which caused Twilight to raise her hand and slowly walk over to the lesser fellpool.

“Easy there child. I’m not here to hurt you or anything. I’m just here to talk. Why don’t you just put that sword away, and we can work something out-” Before Twilight could finish her sentence, Nelsha bolted it towards the door to try an escape. Just as she was inches away from the open doors, she was soon pushed back due to Twilight shutting them with her magic. “Nice try, but I knew you might try to escape. So I planned ahead and set up a means to make sure you wouldn’t escape.” She said as magical chains appeared around the doors and windows in the room.

“Vi, escape plan?”

“She blocked the doors and windows, but not the floors. I would recommend you use something to blow a hole in the floor or something.” Vi said which caused Nelsha to look at her sword and smirked. The lesser fellpool’s sword started to glow bright blue as she quickly made a circle on the ground. Twilight’s eyes widened at the sudden realisation of what she was doing as she tried to use her magic to levitate her from off the floor. But it was too late, as the floor underneath the alien gave way as she made her escape into a spare guest room on the second floor.

“Haha! Later, old hag!” Nelsha yelled before bolting it out of the room and down the hallway of the second floor. Twilight lets out an annoyed groan from this as purple color wings made out of magic appeared on her back. She soon quickly gave chase after the lesser fellpool as she followed her down to the second floor and down the hallway. “Vi. Please tell me that you have an exit strategy on hand?”

“I have a few, but all of them end in you having to fight her and the group outside waiting for you.”

“Great, not only her but her friends are waiting for me outside. This is starting to become a problem.”

“Sorry, guess my plans on getting that woman with the light pink hair made things worse in the aftermath.”

“It’s fine. I blame that weird bug looking lady for that.” Nelsha said as she looked behind herself to see that Twilight was flying after her as the alien kicked it into high gear and pulled out her rifle. As she turned the corner of the hallway she was in, she took aim at a closed window and fired off a photon shot at it. Upon impact, it made a hole big enough for the Lesser Fellpool to hop through as she did just that.

Twilight’s eyes widened as she used her magic to teleport outside in an attempt to catch her from falling, only to blink in surprise as the lesser fellpool landed on her feet with ease before running off towards the front of the building. Once Nelsha was about to turn the corner around the side of the castle, her ears twitched upon hearing the sound of something flying towards her as she quickly jumped over an oncoming Rainbow Dash trying to catch her, but ended up missing and crashed into a nearby bush.

“Thank you long rabbit ears.” Nelsha said before feeling herself being lifted up into the air. Looking around, she saw Starlight’s hands glow as a sign she was the one doing it.

“I got her girls. Applejack, get the rope ready-” Before Starlight could finish, she felt her body freeze up and fall to the ground. Applejack looked over at the alien as she noticed that her weapon was aimed at her and quickly jumped out of the way of the stun shot heading towards her. Nelsha felt the magic around her vanish as she landed back onto the ground.

“Nice work on stunning the symbologist users. But you might want to make a hasty getaway.” Vi suggests as she saw Twilight landing next to Starlight in an attempt to heal her of her paralysis. She soon looks behind herself to see Rainbow Dash pulling herself out of the bushes, quickly bolts out of it, and heads towards the lesser fellpool. Nelsha quickly jumps over her and lands onto her back.

“Hey! Get off of me you little-” Before she could finish, Nelsha placed her hand onto her back and stunned her like she did with Starlight. Rainbow Dash let out a loud yell of pain as Nelsha jumped off of her back. Upon jumping off of Rainbow Dash’s back, the humanoid pegasus crashed into a nearby dumpster.

“This is like trying to get Winona to take a bath after playing in the mud.” Applejack said as she noticed Twilight landing next to her. “Please tell me y’all have some kind of plan in trying to get her to calm down.

“If I can hit her with a translation spell, then we might be able to get her to stop.” She said before looking over at Fluttershy. “I need you to use the stare on her so I can get the spell ready.”

“I’m on it.” Fluttershy said as she quickly flew over to Nelsha. The alien took notice of the pegasus flying over to her as she placed her rifle on her back and prepared to stun her with her gauntlet. Only pause upon seeing her glaring down at her.

“You should be ashamed of yourself. Young children like you shouldn’t be carrying dangerous weapons like this, nor should you be using them to hurt others.” Fluttershy said before pointing a finger at Rainbow Dash and Starlight. “It's obvious that your parents did a poor job in teaching you on how to behave. And they should be ashamed of themselves for raising such a-” Before she could finish, the pegasus let out a yelp of pain from feeling Nelsha zapping her with the gauntlet as she fell to the ground spazzing out due to being tazed.

“Now would be a good time to leave. Mainly because you’re starting to draw attention from the people around you.” Vi said as Nelsha noticed a few humanized ponies starting to gather in the area they’re in. She smirks upon seeing this before looking at Twilight and the other before speaking.

“Much as I'd love to play with you some more, I have more important matters to attend too.” Nelsha placed her hands up into the air as a dark circle appeared along with a ball of darkness above said symology like circle. “Till next time.” The Lesser Fellpool said as her hands slammed down onto the ground as it caused a dust cloud to erupt from where she stands. Twilight and her friends quickly covered their eyes for a good few minutes until the dust cloud slowly began to vanish. Once it was gone, the girls looked around to see that Nelsha was gone.

“Great, we lost her. Again.” Applejack said as she quickly ran over to Fluttershy to help her up.

“This is just dreadful!” Rarity said as she looked over herself covered in dust from the dust cloud. “Do you know how much cleaning I’m going to have to do to get all this dust out of my mane?” She said as Twilight rolled her eyes at this as she walked over to Rainbow Dash and levitated her up from out of the dumpster.

“Did we get her?” Rainbow Dash asked as Twilight placed her back onto her feet.

“Sadly no...I may have underestimated this child more than I originally thought. For now, we need to head back to the castle and think of a plan to deal with her.”

“So pretty much regroup to the castle and think of a plan?” Starlight asked as she limps over to Twilight and Rainbow Dash. “Because we’re going to need something better than just charging at her.”

“That would be best.” Twilight said as she and her friends began to head off inside. As they were making their way inside the castle, Nelsha was on a nearby house watching from a distance.

“Not the best when it comes to combat, well minus the farm girl and rainbow haired girl.” She said before beginning to make her way out of the village she was in. “For now, I can finally get out of this place and get to my ship.”

“That might be a problem.” Vi said, which caused the Lesser Fellpool to pause.

“Explain technical support.”

“My fault for not telling you this, but there’s a barrier surrounding the town upon entering it. And said barrier is making it difficult for me to teleport you back to the ship.”

“What about the denchi bunny?”

“Currently back on the ship.”

“Great, so I’ll have to lay low in this place until I can figure out a way to get out of here.”

“I’m afraid so. I’ll try to find a map of this town to see if there’s any escape routes. Till then, try not to get into too much trouble or lay low for a while as you suggested.”

“Wonderful. As if I needed this much trouble for me.” Nelsha said as she brought up her gauntlet and started pressing a few buttons on it. Once she was done, a barrier appeared around her body like a second suit before making itself invisible. “Don’t like using this barrier, but I’ll make an exception seeing how it’ll nullify their ability to use binding symbology on me.”

“Smart move for once on your part.”

“Thanks smartass.” She said before darting off towards the far east part of town. While she was jumping from rooftop to rooftop, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were chasing after the Lesser Fellpool that was heading far into town.

“Did you not see what she just did, Silver Spoon?” Diamond asked as her friend nodded while holding up her phone to show her the recording. “Oh, nice job on recording the fight.”

“Thanks...I just can’t believe that girl did that to Princess Twilight and her friends. You think her parents are some kind of secret agents or something?”

“We won’t know until we can try and talk to her.” She said before starting to follow after Nelsha, only to pause once she heard the bell to the school ring. “Ugh, seriously?”

“Looks like we’ll have to put the hunt on hold until after school?” Silver asked as she noticed Diamond walking towards the road that led to the Cheerile’s school.

“For the time being, yes. But this does give me an idea for how we’re going to get that girl.”