The Revolutionary Six

Yona basked happily in the sun. Her fur made contact with the moist grass under her and tickled the skin underneath. “Ah. Yona like bright sun.” She sighed. Yona rolled around in the grass and turned over, looking around.

For a time, she wondered. Where Yona friends been whole time? Sitting up, she took in the sunny ambiance and looked up at the clear sky.
The grass brushed against her hooves and crunched lightly when she stood up. “Yona go find friends. Friends never leave her behind.”

And so, Yona set off to find her friends in the school. The stone floors made the clopping sound of her hooves seem loud as she trailed around in the hallways.

Lots of ponies seemed to crowd around her when she entered the library. She looked around nervously and proceeded to search the library. The clopping of her hooves soon slowed, however, when the crowd of ponies continued to grow.

“E-Excuse Yona— O-Oh, P-Pardon Yona— um—“ She stammered, gingerly pushing her way through the crowded library. Eventually, she made it into a distant corner and stood there silently. Searching for her friends right now could be difficult.

“I see you’re having a bit of trouble,” Somecreature said. A familiar green colored pony approached Yona slowly. He smiled at her, and soon, she smiled back. “The library gets really crowded after Headmare Twilight’s classes.” He continued. Yona practically bounced happily up to him.

“Yona soooooo glad turtle pony here!” She exclaimed, wrapping him in a tight hug. Sandbar chuckled, and Yona let go eventually. “Yona was trying to find friends, but she got caught in... pony flood.”

Sandbar chuckled once more. “Once you’re in here, you’ll probably have trouble finding your way out.” He turned away from Yona and started to find a table. She followed closely behind in hopes to stay close to him so she wouldn’t get lost in the sea of ponies she described as a ‘pony flood’. “But as for our friends, I... I actually don’t know. It just... feels like the group’s been splitting lately. Might be a little tension.

“Smolder was the first to draw from the group, Ocellus started to slowly withdraw herself to be with her, Gallus started hanging out with them, and Silverstream’s the only one that’s really still with us. I think she’s still carrying around that giant hammer and claiming she has ‘powers’.”

He stopped trotting to make quotation-hooves as Yona looked on in confusion. Yona opened her mouth to possibly suggest a solution to their ongoing conundrum, but Sandbar just moved on.

“It’s kind of weird, though. After getting in trouble in class for smashing all those desks, Professor Rainbow Dash couldn’t pick the hammer up. Even though she’s an element of harmony, she’s saved the world so many times, she couldn’t even make it budge. It was really weird...”

“Uh, Sandbar—?” The yak asked, already getting an earful. Sandbar continued on trotting through the crowd of ponies, and Yona continued to follow reluctantly.

“...But at the same time, Silverstream started fashioning this weird iron-plated armor. I didn’t even know anything in the hall of armor stands came with a cape.”

“Sandbar.” Yona finally reiterated. The two took a seat when they finally made it to a table, and Sandbar looked up at her, blinking his eyes innocently.

“Yes, Yona?”

“Yona think Sandbar overanalyzing. Friends just taking time away from each other, and... Silverstream is Silverstream.” She continued. “Anyway, Yaks not really believe in power. Yaks believe in strength. Silverstream has strength. Yona and Sandbar have strength. Friends have strength.”

“Right! Of course. Exactly. Powers aren’t a thing. Maybe Smolder and Silverstream just used spells for whatever they were doing. Maybe this is just a huge prank. Like, if we were all getting powers, where are mine?” Yona looked at him quizzically, and then inhaled slowly.

“Friends probably just getting ahead of themselves.”

“R-Right. Exactly.” He agreed. Sandbar slowly tapped his hooves on the table and looked around nervously. It grew oddly silent in the library, which made it really awkward. “So... should we confront them about it?”

“Yona think we should let friends have fun. Pay no mind.”

“So... what if we’re left out?” He asked, rubbing the back of his neck with his hoof. Yona looked at him annoyedly and proceeded to explain her thoughts.

“Friends. Are. Friends. Friend Sandbar got hay in his ear again?” She questioned, irritated at Sandbar’s persistent and ongoing inquiries.

“Hey!” He replied with a stretched whine. “It was that once!”

“More like that twice,” she repeated. Sandbar crossed his forelegs and pouted.

Yona trotted to her dorm, a little ticked off in the moment. How could Sandbar question her? And after all the time they’ve spent together, he acted so strange. Like he didn’t believe her. She continued to think about her endeavor with Sandbar as she unlocked the door to her dorm.

As she entered the room, she thought even more. Although it would’ve been reasonable to chew him out at the spot, it wouldn’t make any sense to yell at a friend, especially when you’re embarrassing yourself doing it.

Wait, what was she thinking? Sandbar was a good friend of hers, if not more. Yelling at him for such a silly prank her friends were pulling made no sense at all. Or did it? Yona made a grunt of frustration at her constant change of course.

“Agh! Yona should make up mind already!” She shouted, flopping onto her bed soon before shouting into the mattress. The covers quivered in distress at the sudden change of frequency of the sounds in the room. She flailed her hooves around in distress.

“Yona should... Yona should be mad at friends. Friends left Yona!” She exclaimed. At this point, even she wasn’t sure of herself this time. “Wait a second. F-Friends no leave Yona. Yona just overreacting.” She stood up and looked around, taking in a few deep breaths.

She was calm for a time, that was, until she arched a brow in even deeper thought. “Friend Sandbar been acting really weird. Maybe Yona give him piece of her mind!” Yona declared, stamping her hoof on the floor and causing it to shake. “Yak talk to all friends!”

She continued to stomp onward, knocking her own door down as she did. In the hallways, down the stairs, and through the base of the school, many other students watched in concern and fear at the sight of an angry yak stomping through the school.

For Yona, it would be a tad unorthodox to just up and attack her friends as angry as she was, but this? This was important. Important to her. If her friends were just going to practically abandon her— Wait, abandon her?

Yona quit walking and stopped to think clearly. Being moral in this situation was necessary, right?

Now Yona really losing it.

Now, it was almost like her anger was controlling her. It was like... like she couldn’t even think straight. Like something was beating against her from the inside. Like it was slowly chipping away at her subconscious and begging for release. She took in a few deep breaths.

“Woah. What happened to you?” Yona jumped for a second, whipping around to see who was talking to her so suddenly.

“Oh. Dragon. It just you.” She let out a relieved sigh, happy to see Smolder accompanied by Ocellus. Two of her friends. Nothing could go wrong here, right?

“S-Sorry we haven’t been hanging out with you for a while.” Ocellus spoke. Yona quirked a brow before narrowing her eyes for a second, but her gaze softened as she found a way to calm down.

“Y-Yona... forgive friends. Where dragon and changeling been?”

Ocellus’ eyes widened. “W-Where we’ve been...? Um...” her cheeks singed with pink, and Smolder looked at her with a smirk. She smiled sheepishly and finally decided to fill in for her own answer. “W-We’ve been... around...” she giggled nervously. Smolder chuckled, looking back at Yona.

“What she’s trying to say is, we’ve been hanging out in the clubhouse. Extra study stuff, y’know?” She replied, nudging Ocellus softly. The bug retaliated by brushing her hoof on the ground, a new thing she’d do when she was nervous.

“Hm. Funny friends should say. Yona been alone for long time without friends to hang out with.”

Smolder and Ocellus glanced at each other, and then returned their gaze at the petulant poephagus. “Oh.” The discomfited dragon said. Yona glared at her before continuing on.

“Dragon friend have some nerve. Yona been alone for long time, you know.” She stepped toward the two. “Friend Ocellus probably forgot about Yona too, hanging out with Smolder.”
Yona snorted, and Ocellus and Smolder stepped back a little.

“Easy there, big girl.” She tried to persuade Yona a little; at this point, she was too close for comfort. Yona growled at Smolder addressing her.

“Y-Yona! We’re really sorry we didn’t... invite you to hang out with us.. it’s not anything personal, it’s just—“ Ocellus was trying to reason with her, but...

“Friends too important for Yona now?!” ...Yona has already blocked herself off from any reasoning. Her anger was still taking over her body, causing it to swell up. The little bit of moral left in her was withering away, keeping her from thinking straight.

“Seriously, when did we ever say th—“ Smolder stopped herself. “Y-Yona, you’re... you’re growing a little.”

“N-Now Yona...” Ocellus and Smolder continued to step farther away from her, to which she responded by stepping even closer. “W-We never meant to exclude you from anything...”

“Yona doesn’t feel that way...” She scowled. Yona grew bigger and bigger, the ponies in the vicinity watching in fear.

“Ocellus...” Smolder muttered, looking at her partner.

“S-Smolder...” Ocellus looked back, glancing at Yona each second. Every second she glanced at Smolder and back, Yona got bigger and bigger. The good news was; she stopped growing eventually. Bad news; she was angry. The nervous couple looked up at the gigantic yak.

She was enormous in size, and... green. Her mouth was close to foaming as she loomed over the two. Shaking in fear, Smolder spoke.

“Maybe we should ru—“

“Yona smash!!!” Smolder let out a cry of surprise as Yona swiped her hoof in her direction, knocking her into a bookcase.

“Smolder!” Ocellus shouted, reaching her hoof out.

“I’m okay!” She gave a thumbs up to Ocellus, who sighed and smiled thankfully.

“Friends left Yona!!!” The yak continued to storm, now knocking Ocellus in the opposing direction, eliciting a surprised scream from her as she made contact with the wall on the other side of the library. Ponies screamed and shouted, rushing out of the library. The crowded library soon dissipated, and was now empty.

Smolder stood up slowly. “Well, guess we’ve gotta do something about this.”

“Guess so.” Ocellus grunted, standing up also. “You’d better be glad I carry around your stuff.” She continued, tossing a box toward Smolder. Yona growled at the two conversing so calmly as she was clearly trying to make a point.

“Why friends so calm?!” She shouted, slamming her hooves on the ground. She kicked at shelves, tossing various books that fell before her at Ocellus. The bug flew around the library trying to dodge all the books currently flying at her so fast.

“ARI!! We’ve got trouble!” Ocellus landed near another bookshelf.

“Currently equipping.” ARI said. “Ocellus, What’s going on?”

“Yona. I’ve gotta distract her.” She whispered, careful not to blow their strategy as her armor covered her chitinous body. “Smolder’s still putting her suit on. W-We don’t wanna risk our identities in school... a-and stuff.”

Yona now launched herself into the air and slammed herself on the ground in front of Ocellus. Books from the shelves behind her piled around. She took to the air, her mask finally covering her face. Yona looked at her with extreme rage and anguish and shouted in frustration.

“Exactly what I was thinking. Examining Yona for you now.”

“Thanks ARI. Remind me to tell you how great you are.” She breathed, watching Yona storm around the library.

“According to my analyzation, Yona is currently in a state of hyperactive anger stimulus. Her bigness appears to be induced by her emotions.”

“Right. Thanks AR-“

“Ocellus needs to pay attention!!!!!!” Yona butted her head into the shelf where Ocellus was hovering up against. She gasped before zipping over to the opposite end of the room once again.

“You’ve got some serious issues, yak.” Smolder interluded. Yona peered at her before roaring with rage. She was perched on top of a bookcase wearing her spandex Spider-Smolder(Or at least that’s what Ocellus calls it) suit, and her eyes narrowed.

The mesh always kept shape with Smolder’s eyes and allowed Yona to perfectly see that she was probably glaring at her. She launched herself at the Spider-Dragon and butted her horns into the shelf which she was on top of.

Smolder reached out her arm and shot a web with perfect precision onto one of the shelves on the opposite end out the library. Yona chased after her, thrashing and bumping around the objects in the large room as she swung onto various things.

“Ocellus! A little help here?! I’m running out of things to swing on!”

“J-Just hang in there!” She called back. Ocellus examined the rampaging Yona closely and tried to find a possible opening. The two couldn’t take action on their own, or at least not without the rest of the group. “S-Smolder! Try and hang in there a little longer!!”

The dragon mentioned was currently dodging all the yak’s attacks, springing from one object to another. “Yeah, I don’t think I can!!!!!” she shouted in sarcasm.

“I’m going to try and get our friends to help!! Just... try and sustain her, alright?”

“I’ll try, I guess- Woah!!!” She dodged another close call from Yona.

“Smolder! need to! stay STILL!!!” Yona shouted. Smolder stuck to the ceiling whilst she tried to hold out the best she could.

“So, you’re saying Yona turned into a giant and is trying to kill both of you?!” Gallus asked frantically in between breaths. Both him and Ocellus were rushing through the hallways.

Gallus had his suit on with some arrows in the quiver he carried on his back.

“Yeah! Smolder’s in there dealing with her now and we sort of needed your help.” They both stopped running for a moment.

‘Thud, Thud, Thud!’ A loud, distant noise echoed from within the walls.

“I’m guessing that’s her?” Gallus sighed.

“You guessed right—“

‘BOOM!!!’ With a crash, the walls were burst through. Dust swarmed the area. When all the dust and debris dissipated, a heavily done in Smolder lay against the wall surrounded by chunks of wall. She coughed for a moment, then stood up.

Ocellus and Gallus looked at her in surprise. Smolder groaned, and then inhaled. “Sorry,” she wheezed. “I couldn’t really keep her at bay long enough.” Smolder smiled nervously through her mask. Luckily, nothing was torn(thanks to Ocellus), so her Spider-Suit was close to untouched.

It was slightly scuffed, however, and dust speckled off of it as she moved.

“That doesn’t matter, as long as you’re okay.” Ocellus sighed, trotting up to her and smiling softly.

“So... what do we do about the rampaging yak?” Gallus asked.

“Maybe go to the hospital. My wings are even more totaled than they already were, and— oh, wait...”

Ocellus turned to Gallus who wore a stern and serious expression. “We’ll try and stick together, and... and we’ll go to the hospital for you later. She looked back at Smolder and smiled once more. “For now though, you should probably take cover. We’ll try and take it from here.”

“You sure? I could always—“ Ocellus put a hoof to Smolder’s lips and stopped her from talking.

“I’m sure. Besides, we don’t want you to get anymore hurt than you already are.”

Smolder sighed. “Alright...” she gave in reluctantly. She looked to Gallus, and then Ocellus. “Just promise me this..” Smolder scooped up her bug-lover in a hug and squeezed her tightly.

“Woah!” She gasped, waving her hooves around frantically.

“Gallus, protect this lovebug for me.” Ocellus smiled a little, her cheeks blushing red, and Gallus let out a light chuckle while playfully saluting at her.

“Will do.”

“Also...” She continued. “Stay safe, okay?” Smolder embraced Ocellus in a kiss before letting her go. Gallus nodded, and both him and Ocellus jumped down the enormous hole in the wall to stop Yona.

Gallus and Ocellus flew around the halfway destroyed library in attempts to defeat the highly distressed Yona. “What are we gonna do about her?” Gallus asked.

“I don’t know! We can’t hurt her!” Ocellus replied, dodging a few swings from the yak.

Gallus flew above her and dove down, shooting a few arrows at Yona as fast as he could. The barrage of the sharpened arrows appeared dull and futile as they ricocheted off her back.

Ocellus tried to make up for the failed attack by firing a few weak beams at Yona. Despite her desperate attempts not to hurt her, she knew she had to do something about it. Yona reciprocated the action by swatting and batting her hoof at her.

Ocellus was rocketed into into a bookshelf and cried out in pain.

“Ocellus!!!” Gallus exclaimed. He flew over to his injured friend to help, but Yona had already had him by the tail.

“Yona SMASH!!” She shouted. Wrapping her hoof tightly around his tail, Yona swung him around.

“Woah-oah-oah-oah-oah!!!” He was waving around in the air at high speeds. He was definitely going to feel that later. Screaming out in laughter in amusement, Yona began to smash. Literally.

She swung Gallus to and fro, whipping him on the ground in each and every direction. At that moment, he could’ve sworn some of his bones had cracked.

If he wasn’t as strong as he was now, all the bones in his body would’ve been broken. Yona continued to swing him about, smashing him right back into the floor.

Ocellus tried to stand up, but only ended up failing. What could she do right now? Yona was rampaging. She needed help. Urgently.

Smolder paced around the school and kicked up dust as she walked. “There’s no way I’m leaving those two alone. I’ve gotta help em’...” she whispered to herself. “I just don’t know how to go about it...” Smolder shot a web and latched onto the roof. Zipping into the air and landing on the roof of the school building, she pondered what she’d do next.

Her girlfriend and her best friend were both fighting a giant rampaging yak. She couldn’t beat her, but it made sense since she was alone that time. Hopefully those two were working together.

“Smolder?! But what are you doing on the roof?” A voice called. Smolder lost her balance and fell off the roof where she stood. Quickly shooting a web back onto the edge, she sighed in relief. Now she was just hanging there by a string. “That suit you’re wearing is really cool!!”

“Silverstream...?” She sighed. Silverstream beamed and giggled happily. She was clad in her usual armor, and her cape waved in the wind. “What do you want? I’m trying to figure out how to save Gallus and and Ocellus.”

The hyper hippogriff’s grin soon faded into a look of concern. “Save them? But from what?”

“Yona. Apparently she turned into giant green brute, and she’s trying to kill all of us. Also, why are you still wearing that? Have you been wearing that around the school?”

“Oh no! We’ve gotta get back in the school! What are you doing out here?”

Smolder rolled her eyes(invisible to Silverstream) when she answered her question with another question. Seeing that she probably could use the help, she decided to move past the subject.

“Ocellus said I should stay out here, but I can’t. Even if Yona fuckin’ butchered me, I can’t sit here and let those two get beaten. I’ve gotta go help them.”

“Exactly!!!” Squawked Silverstream, picking up Smolder and soaring from the roof and into the school. The dragon almost protested and insisted that she’d go in herself, but she decided against it. Silverstream soared through he hallways at high speed. “We’ve gotta go—“

“Agh!” A voice cried. The wall was knocked down, and debris filled the hall.

“Ocellus!” Smolder shouted. “Are you okay?! Where’s Gallus?”

Ocellus’ armored suit was scratched up and scuffed. Her mask had the worst of it, as it was slightly dented and some of the color had worn off.

“I-I was trying to keep her from him as long as I could...” she coughed. Her mask withdrew and showed Ocellus smiling timidly. “She’s really good at throwing creatures through walls, and— Wait, what are you doing back inside the school?”

“I—“ Smolder started, but Silverstream butted in.

“Because we’ve gotta save Gallus!!” She shouted, waving her arms around. Ocellus looked at Smolder with sad eyes.

“You trust me, don’t you?” She asked in a soft, disappointed whimper.

“Of course I do, but—“

“There’s no time! Negotiate later!!!” Silverstream rushed into the destroyed library, and the two looked at her in confusion and surprise. At this point, she wondered.

Where the heck are the teachers?!

Ocellus looked to Smolder, who smiled nervously and shrugged. “We’re talking about this later.” She spoke sternly. “ARI?”

“Right.”

Her mask came down and covered her face, and she zoomed off before Smolder could say anything else to her. Smolder sighed and shook her head and held out her arm. Swinging with her webs she followed Ocellus back into the empty library.

The gigantic, destroyed study was dusty and hazy. The tables were destroyed, and the bookshelves fragmented. Smolder and Silverstream looked around in bewilderment, and... fear.

Gallus hovered high in the air, and Yona stood growling at him from below. “We’ve tried everything!” He shouted. “She’s too stubborn!”

“No shit.” Smolder deadpanned. The griffin glared at her, and then continued.

“Why don’t you try something, smartass?”

“Yona have idea!!! Yak pummel both of you!!” Yona shouted, kicking and swinging her hooves at both Gallus and Smolder.

Smolder took action by shooting a web at one of her giant horns and grappling onto it. She clung onto the point of it while Yona thrashed around angrily. “Gallus! Just shoot her in the ass already and we can be done with this!!”

“No! Don’t hurt her!” Ocellus reprimanded, flying up to them while ducking and diving away from the yak’s flailing around.

“Yeah, we might have just worn her out.” Gallus replied, shooting a barrage of arrows at Yona as fast as he could. She roared in reply and flailed around some more.

“Well, until then, I’ve got to knock her out or something. After all, she’s still destroying the library.” Silverstream replied, flinging her hammer at Yona from all kinds of directions.

The hammer(tiny to her) hit Yona square in the nose. She sneezed, and stumbled around confusedly and in a daze.

“Exactly. Ocellus had already forced all of my gems out of me.” Smolder said, narrowing her eyes at Ocellus and letting go of Yona’s horns and letting herself drop. “Wouldn’t want to waste my only means of payment on trying to repair the school.” She continued in a deadpan tone as she landed.

“W-Well, I’m sorry you didn’t trust me enough to give them back.” Ocellus turned her back to Smolder, withdrawing her mask and making her sadness and disappointment quite clear.

“I keep telling you! I did trust you, I just—“

“What in Equestria is going on here?!” Sandbar asked, entering the library in a frenzy. “What did you all do?!”

“We can explain!” All except Yona exclaimed altogether.

“So, you’re saying Yona got really angry and wanted to kill you all?” He asked. The six were in their clubhouse with Yona lying peacefully on a mat in her regular state.

“And now she’s resting peacefully on that blanket.” Ocellus pointed out.

“So... it’s true. You all have powers now... all of you except me...”

“Sandbar.” Gallus voiced, catching Sandbar’s attention. “I used to feel the same way you did. Smolder and Ocellus helped me get my powers. Maybe Yona could help you get yours?”

“If she doesn’t crush me trying to do it.” He chuckled, looking at Yona sympathetically. Trotting over to her, he snuggled up to her and shut his eyes slowly.

“We’ll leave you two alone.” Smolder said, and with that, Her, Gallus, Silverstream, and Ocellus all exited the treehouse while saying their good nights and parting for the evening. Sandbar, however, stayed right beside Yona.

“You’re perfect.” He whispered. “If anyone can help me, it’s you.”

Yona seemed to hum in reply, snoring and turning over onto Sandbar. Enjoying the moment, the two cuddled together and hunkered down for the night, ready to catch some good, much needed rest.