A Boy's Tears 3: New Beginnings

Chapters

Dawn of a New Day
The Parents Reappear
Comic Book Chaos!
Making A Machine To The Real World
The Mane-iac Comes To Life!
Spike, Run!
Mane-iac On The Trail
Captured Once Again
Back to Maretropolis

Dawn of a New Day

Three Months have passed, and it was another beautiful morning today in the beautiful land of Equestria, and a peculiar boy was sleeping in a nice little cottage that was owned by his loving and caring foster mother. Colin Fraser had been through so much since he was abducted by the evil George, and his girlfriend: Shadow Mavis. Not only that, but how he lost his parents to a terrible fire back on Earth, but he managed to bounce back after all that he has been through, and he was living a happy life with his new friends and family.

His bedroom door slowly creeped open and the sound of hooves clopping on the wooden floor were heard. It was Fluttershy, the adorable pegasus mare that took the poor boy in after he was transported to Equestria from the wishing star.

"Colin," Fluttershy sang in an adorable voice, "time to wake up sweetie. You have school today." she was gently rubbing his sides to try and wake him up without being rude. Angel Bunny came in the bedroom, and hopped on the bed to smell the boy's face, making him giggle from how ticklish the rabbit's furry face was. Ultimately, it did the trick, and Colin was awake with a yawn. He looked at his new mommy, and smiled at seeing her sweet, smiling face.

"Good morning, mommy." said Colin.

"Good morning, sweetie. Did you sleep well last night?"

"I did." the boy replied. "I had a cool dream of becoming a rock star like my brother is."

Fluttershy smiled and said: "that sounds nice. I'm always happy to see you happy."

The small boy got out of bed, took off his pajamas and took a shower to clean himself and went back downstairs to get some breakfast.

It was a nice plate of waffles that had a small amount of butter and some syrup for Colin to eat, just how he loved it. "Thanks mommy. I know you love waffles."

"I know you do, Colin. And are you feeling okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, I'm sorry." Fluttershy breathed. "Ever since me and my friends rescued you from George and Shadow Mavis, it made me more worried about your well-being."

"Mommy," said Colin, "you don't have to worry about me like that. Everything's okay now. I'm fine, and I'm back home with you."

"You're right, sweetie. I'm just concerned about you because I love you."

"I know, I love you too mommy." then he began eating his breakfast. Yes, Fluttershy had been more worried about him since she and her friends saved him from the evil kids and their forces from taking over the world.

Despite Colin being okay now, she is more greatly worried about him when it comes to some dangerous things. Colin is a capable boy and he can be brave and take care of himself.

Everything was going good for the young boy and it was as normal as it was. For now, he just had school to attend, and he wanted to see his usual friends and classmates.

After he was done eating his breakfast, Fluttershy gave him his lunch in a brown bag, which was a cucumber sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes in it, one of the usual things the boy would have for a school lunch.

He then felt Fluttershy gave him a tender kiss on the cheeks making him have a very comforting feeling that reminded him how lucky he was to live with a pony like her.

"Thanks mommy. I'll see you after school."

Fluttershy smiled sweetly at him. "Okay Colin, bye. And stay safe."

"I will."

All of her animal friends waved bye at Colin, and Colin said bye to all the lovable animals that lived inside and outside of the cottage.

Fluttershy opened the front door for her son to come out of and she was looking at him as he was walking to school.

When he arrived at the Ponyville schoolhouse, he heard the bell ringing and it meant that class was about to begin at any moment.

As he for there, he was greeted by some familiar faces. All of the school foals were very happy to see the human boy again, and he was greeted by the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"Hi Colin!" said Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle before they went up to him.

"Hey guys!" Colin said in a happy tone of voice.

"Did you have a good sleep last night?" Scootaloo asked him.

"Yeah, I did. How's your scar, Scootaloo?"

What he meant was that during her torture with George, Scootaloo was given a scar on her belly from a knife while being tortured like a lab rat.

"It doesn't hurt. But don't worry, Colin. I'll live." then she hugged the boy. Normally, she didn't like giving hugs, but in Colin's case, she made an exception (along with Rainbow Dash and her friends.)

Colin hugged her back in response and he even gave her a kiss on her right cheeks making her blush with flattery. "Glad to hear that."

"Colin," said Pip, the smallest foal in the class, "I have a cool video game I want to show you after class. Wanna play with me? After school?"

"Sure Pip."

"And Rumble can be with us too. He loves video games."

Every one of the kids entered the classroom and took their seats. Cheerilee then began teaching the class about some animals that were native to the forests here.

"So class, I was thinking we can do an outside activity later on." said Cheerilee. "Go on a field trip to the woods next to the school, and look at all the animals that lived in the forest, and insects too.

The kids all cheered and were glad to hear that idea. It was a rare opportunity for the class to have it outside instead of the usual classroom.

"So Colin, can you tell me the difference between a coyote and a wolf sweetie?"

"Yeah. Wolf is bigger and coyote is smaller."

"Excellent Colin, very good. Of course, we won't find any wolves out in the woods. They like to keep to themselves."

Something told Colin that it was going to be a fun day with a small field trip to the woods that is not the Everfree forest, and he would enjoy looking at the scenery.

At last, during lunch, Cheerilee sat next to colin on the ground while he was eating his sandwich. "So Colin, are you doing okay?"

"Yep. Just fine miss Cheerilee." said the boy before taking another bite.

"Good. I know I shouldn't worry about it, but I am so glad you're okay from after the.... event from before."

"Oh. I'm glad to be out of there too, Cheerilee. I became more brave than before."

"I know. You're growing up so fast."

The Parents Reappear

In the forest near his school, Colin looked around at his surroundings of the beautiful woodland area that he was in, and he was looking for some insects that would live in an environment like this one. He hasn't found anything so far, but he knew that he will find some kind of insect that lives in the forest, and maybe more kinds of animals as well. Deep down, he wished that Fluttershy was there as well to help him find the insects he was looking for in particular, but alas -- his mother wasn't there, so he was on his own, or Cheerilee would help him out if he needed it; since she is his teacher.

He looked on the ground since some insects dwelled on the soil, and he did find a rainbow caterpillar crawling on a large leaf attached to a bush, and he's seen it while at his cottage before. Rainbow caterpillars are a rather common sight in the woodlands and bushes of Equestria, so it wasn't really anything new to Colin anyway.

Another insect that Colin saw was a couple of ladybugs on a couple blades of grass, for it was that time of year again, in spring. Flowers bloomed, and more insects were present in the Springtime. Ladybugs were a sign of Colin, and he realized that this day was lucky for him, although he doesn't exactly know what exciting thing will come to him out of thin air (even though chances like that are a little slim). "Wow, they look so beautiful." he said to himself

He gently reached out his hand, and one ladybug crawled on it, making it tickle a little, but Colin was used to it, and it was a good thing ladybugs don't really bite. Yes sir, it looked like Colin was having good luck on his side with these ladybugs that he is encountering.

The insect flew away from Colin's finger after exactly five minutes. Everyone was split because: Cheerilee told everyone that they have to look for the insects themselves, and to meet back at the single tree in the middle of these woods after the children were all done in their little searching.

Besides, the school wasn't very far from where Colin, and the other kids were in these woods, so it wouldn't be very hard to find their way back if they get lost. Not to mention that Cheerilee knows these woods well as much as she knows her school like the back of her hooves. Colin was looking for more insects to see and spot, and a light appeared from behind him. It startled him a little bit, but when he turned around, he was greatly relieved to see two very familiar faces.

Colin gasped, and he exclaimed: "Mommy! Daddy!" he ran up to try and hug them, but he stopped, remember that they were spirits and they couldn't really be physically touched. "It's good to see you again."

"And we are always happy to see you, champ." Brendan replied with his fatherly smile.

"Sorry for scaring you sweetie," said Evelyn. "we just wanted to talk to you again, and see if you were doing alright."

"I'm doing okay mommy, don't worry about me. And, I'm braver now."

"We know that," the father proudly said with a chuckle. "You are as brave as me and your brother."

"Yes, and we are very proud of you for having strength and new bravery." the mother added.

"Do you think Johnny will come back and visit me again?"

"Of course." Brendan said. "He is your big brother, and he loves you just as much as we do."

Colin smiled with hope hearing that. "Good. And I hope he and his friends are doing okay since they stopped George from taking over Equestria."

"We can assure that he is just fine." said Evelyn. "Just have faith in him, like we have faith in him."

"I do too."

"Of course you do." said Brendan. We're not saying you don't."

"Well, can you guys help me look for some bugs for Cheerilee's class? We're having it outside today."

"That sounds fun," said Evelyn. "But, me and your father think you can find some on your own. All you have to do is keep looking around, and they might appear before you."

Brendan then added: "You're mother is right, son. The key is patience, like when you are out fishing for big fish."

Colin was thinking about what his parents were saying, and he remembered the time when he and his dad would go out fishing in the lake together when Brendan was still alive before the terrible fire. Yes, he and his son would catch some bass, trout, and some small sardines on the little rowboat they would rent near the lake, and they had so much fun together. It was a shame that they couldn't do it anymore, but Colin didn't care, because he can still see his parents in spirit.

Besides, he was happy that Johnny was still with him. "Okay daddy. I'll look on my own then."

"We know you will, son." Brendan remarked

"We want you to know that we love you and that we're very proud of you and your strengths." Evelyn added. "Just have faith and never give up hope in yourself at times of severe trouble."

"Always remember, we are always there for you if you need us. Just call our names, and we will always answer you."

Those words always give the boy comfort and solace whenever he heard about it. "Thanks guys."

"Always happy to help, sweetheart." Evelyn said. "We love you, and we will see you soon." then she and her husband slowly faded into nothingness, and Colin would wait until he would see them both again. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, he will just have to wait and see what happens in the future.

The boy was lucky to have a good mother like Fluttershy and not a mean, abusive person as a foster parent. "Colin, are you here?" called it a voice. It turned out to be Scootaloo, and she had a horn beetle on her right hoof. "There you are! Look at what I found." then he showed him the Beatle.

"Wow. That's cool."

Comic Book Chaos!

Collin was interested in this peculiar bug that can only be found in Equestria. A horn beetle. Sure there were horned beetles in his home universe, but this beetle was very different from those kind. It actually had horns like a cow would have and a horn on it's back like one of those insects that look like the thorns on plant stems to disguise themselves from predators. "So what brings you here, Scootaloo?" asked Collin, looking at his girlfriend

"I wanted to invite you to my clubhouse with the other Crusaders. I want to give you a surprise in the clubhouse." said Scootaloo. "You' love it. Trust me."

"ooh! OK." said the human boy, clapping his hands. "Are Sweetie Belle and Applebloom already over there?"

"Yep, they're waiting for us right now." Scootaloo nodded her head. "Before we get inside, i need you to close your eyes, ok?"

"Sure Scootaloo." Collin smiled. He followed his own girlfriend to the clubhouse and before he could even set foot inside, the human kid closed his eyes like Scootaloo told him to do, and waited for what happened next as he heard the door to the clubhouse opening, and he could hardly contain his excitement about what the girls have for him inside.

"Stop right there." Applebloom sang. "Don't open your eyes just yet."

"Just keep them closed for a little longer, Collin." said Sweetie Belle

The excitement was killing him even more than ever since he was now inside the clubhouse. It took about twenty seconds as he heard the sound of movements and after five more seconds, Scootaloo said to her human boyfriend "OK Collin, you can open them up now."

Wasting no time in doing so, Collin opened his eyes like window shades flying up. His eyes widened as he was looking at a blue sweatshirt with the "Cutie Mark Crusader" logo on the front of it, and it looked like a perfect size for Collin.

"Surprise!" the three fillies exclaimed.

"Your own Cutie Mark Crusaders jacket just for you." said Applebloom.

"It was a little difficult for Rarity to get the right size for you," Sweetie looked sheepish. "Kinda hard for her to memorize the sizes of kid sizes on clothes from Earth. But she managed to get it right at last."

The human boy picked up his new garment and it felt warm and soft.

"And we washed it for you, too." said Scootaloo. "We made it nice and warm for you."

"That's so cool. i'll have to thank Rarity for this."

"Well, it was our idea and we asked her to do this for us." said Applebloom. "And she agreed to do it for you."

Smiling, Collin tried on the sweatshirt to see how it would fit him, and to his surprise; it was a perfect fit for him. It also felt so warm and cozy against his body. This would certainly come in handle for any chilly days in the fall or rainy days at home.

"Do you like it?" Scootaloo asked, hoping that her boyfriend would give her the correct answer.

"I love it!" the human replied.

"Hooray!" the three fillies cheered at the top of their lungs. They knew that Collin would love this new present they gave him and the human boy felt a hug by Scootaloo herself. He was touched and flattered by this gesture, and he hugged her in return.

"Thanks guys. I should get something nice for Rarity as a thank you gift for her."

"I know just the thing." said Sweetie Belle.

"You do? What's that?"

"She always wanted a special kind of sewing machine for her outfits she works on for orders." Sweetie Bell answered. "Her old one is slowly falling apart and malfunctioning. Though... it's a little expensive though. Around two-hundred bits."

"Two hundred?!" said the human boy. "I don't have all that money for a new sewing machine." The boy was thinking on how he can find the right kind of dough for that kind of machine for Rarity. There had to be something he could do to get that kind of money for one of his friends. Then an idea came to his head and snapped his right fingers with a smile of confidence

Meanwhile, in a large, fictional city called: Maretropolis, there lived an evil, twisted, unhinged, and crazy mare that is one of the most dangerous supervillains ever in existence. The Mane-iac, a very crazy and unhinged mare as her name implies. Good thing Twilight and her friends defeated her some time ago, and they got back hoke after defeating her.

While the heroes went back to the real world, Mane-iac herself was hauled all the way to the most secured security prison in all of this large city; Hated Hills Superm max asylum.

being a very dangerous and unpredictable supervillain, Mane-iac was placed in the most secured part of this prison with a straight jacket and ties and locks over her mane and tail since that is her power: use her hair and tail as tentacles or appendages to help her walk or hard-to-reach places where one couldn’t reach before.

But what’s this? Something was very wrong. The alarm was blaring and the whole prison was under lockdown mode. The Mane-iac has escaped! Every guard was searching high and low around the prison to look for their most dangerous convict, but she was nowhere to be found. There was no underground tunnel, for she was too bound by the straight jacket and her mane and tail bound by locks and ropes. How did she even get out of prison by being so bound from her powers?

The warden of the prison has already begun a search party to locate Mane-iac and bring her back to justice. Outside of the prison and in the sewers, Mane-iac was running as fast as she could on two tendrils from her green hair from the cops. “Mwahahahahaha! Fools! They will never find me!” She exclaimed.

She heard the sound of police sirens going off above her, and knew that they were already looking for her right now, but she is a clever mare and managed to quietly sneak out of the sewers so the cops wouldn’t see. She had to sneak through several alleyways like a ninja and made it back to her old headquarters, the old abandoned shampoo factory.

“Ha! Those fools!” Mane-iac said. “Now to get my revenge on those meddling Power Ponies for putting me in that confounded prison! Mwahahahahahahaha!”

Boy, things did not look good at all. What will this mean for Maretropolis and the real world of Equestria?

Author's Note

I am so sorry for the long absence. The thing is since MLP ended all those years ago, it kinda made me lose purpose on here. But I realized that the fandom is totally not dead

Making A Machine To The Real World

The Mane-iac was already getting to work in creating a device that can transport her from her world to the world of Equestria where Spike and his friends had defeated her before. She went from many hair saloons or hair care product stores to get her own henchmen back, either by persuasion, promises of better pay, or by sheer intimidation. There were a few henchmen that she couldn't bring back, but that was only a few loose ends, and many of them still rejoined her. Only two, three, four, or even five of her former henchmen chose not to return under her employ.

As soon as every one of her henchponies were present and accounted for, Mane-iac was standing high on one of the catwalks of her shampoo factory hideout.

She wanted to wait as soon as every one of her minions had their eye on her. When they did, she cleared her throat, and began: "my loyal employees, as you can see: I have returned from Maretropolis' dreaded prison!" She heard the thunderous applause from her minions below her. "And now that I am free, i can officially say: we will continue to reign mayhem and chaos into Maretropolis once again."

Another round of thunderous applause was heard from her crowd of henchmen. "What are we going to to first, boss?" asked a minion named "Hair Stylish".

A cunning, evil look appeared on Mane-iac's face, and she replied: "Well, my dear Hair Stylish. I have discovered something very interesting. You all remember those dreaded Power Ponies, don't you all?"

Then a sound of loud exclamations of pure anger and hatred were thundering across the whole factory. The Mane-iac smiled hearing the uproar from her own minions, knowing that they hate her as much as she does.

"Good answer. Very good response. bravo." Mane-iac clapped to herself. "Yes, I hate those stupid, meddling heroes as much as all of you.... though, probably more than you all, but still. Which is why i have formulated a plan to get back at those meddling heroes. You see, i noticed something rather... fishy since our last fight with them. Humdrum, that stupid, useless sidekick of theirs, is a dragon. And, what are the odds of that useless Humdrum being a dragon?!"

All of the henchponies murmured to one another, beginning to realize that little detail they had missed when they fought Spike and his friends. "She makes a good point." said one henchpony

"Humdrum's Not a dragon." a second one said

"Quiet!" Mane-iac announced. "Now there is definitely something rather odd going on in the atmosphere."

"So what exactly are you saying, Mane-iac?" asked a third henchpony

"What I am saying Curl Twist, is that they were from another world. And i think we should create a machine that will transport us from maretropolis to some other world. The world where that dragon boy and his meddling friends live at, and get revenge on them for all they have done to us, especially Miss Saddle Rager." It sounded like she also hated Saddle Rager the most. "Now, get going and find some metal supplies to make the portal to that dimension!"

"Where can we find that?" asked a fourth hench-stallion

"Tear apart a bunch of buildings or materials for all i care, you moron!" Mane-iac sounded impatient. "Now get going!"

Without hesitation, the henchmen scattered out of the building to look for some supplies while others, including Hair Stylish stayed with their crazy boss to look at the blueprints she was making. It took a rather long time to process the ingredients on how to create the portal, and then the unhinged mare remembered something.

She looked at what remained of her doomsday device that is now destroyed and turned into rubble, and she excitedly to see if the battery, the Electro-Orb, was still there, and she was correct. Mane-iac gasped excitedly to behold it in one of her tendrils, for this thing still had power in itself to create something powerful.

"Today is my lucky day." Mane-iac smiled evilly into the Electro-Orb, knowing that this was one step closer to her success in building the dimension machine. “I have all the battery power we need right here, gentlecolts.” Said the unhinged mare. “The Electro-Orb that was supposed to fire up my doomsday device, but now I think this will serve a new purpose.”

It took about an hour, but the henchmen that were sent to fetch the building materials for their crazy leader, finally got their hooves on some metal and stone and other things to help build the machine.

Building this machine was no easy task, for some of the hench-stallions were having trouble building this thing, for it looked so much easier on the paper. Annoyed, the Mane-iac had to help some of her underlings build some components.

It took about two hours to assemble all the parts together, but it was finally done. Mane-iac grew another crazy smile on her face in her supposed moment of triumph. She pressed the button that was labeled “power” on it, and the machine began to glow a purple-pink portal, and the unhinged mare began cackling evilly as she had done it. But then the nose of her cackling died away when the thing suddenly turned off. “Grah!” Mane-iac exclaimed in frustration. “What happened here?!”

“Well, it seems that there isn’t enough power to make the machine function, mistress.” One of her minions pointed. “We need something with a little more power to make this device fully functional.”

Mane-iac scowled and made a small growl in frustration. “Ooh! This gives me an idea.” Then a sneaky look on her face appeared. “Uranium. We need a uranium rod to power it up. Hair Stylish!” She barked at one of her closest minions. “You and the rest of my employees stay here. I’ll be right back.”

“Where are you going?” Asked Hair Stylish.

“Don’t you worry.” Mane-iac said. “It is just a small errand I need to fulfill. I know exactly where to find the uranium rod.”

The Mane-iac Comes To Life!

Within Maretropolis, Hair Stylish and a faction of Mane-iac’s henchponies were sneaking inside a power plant in the downtown part of the whole city. They needed that uranium rod so they, and their unhinged leader can travel to that dimension where that baby dragon that defeated them came from.

Hair and his cronies were hiding in a closet within the building so they wouldn’t be detected and they snagged scientist outfits to disguise themselves and blend within the other scientists to avoid arousing any suspicion.

It took rather thirty minutes to find, but when they finally did find the uranium rod, they had to wait for the perfect moment to strike at the other scientists by bringing out a gas ball that emitted sleeping gas into everyone, but Hair Stylish and his cronies had put on their gas masks so they wouldn’t be affected by it. The sleeping gas wouldn’t last for long however and the goons had to get out of there fast as soon as they got the goods.

At last, the uranium rod was theirs and the Mane-iac can put her plan into full effect once her henchmen give it to her.

Surprisingly, they managed to get the rod and escape the research area unscathed. The rod was secure in some sort of metallic case so they wouldn’t accidentally drop it since uranium is a very dangerous element.

After running up to five-hundred yards, the evil goons heard the faint sound of a siren in the far distance. “Ah no.” Said Hair Stylish, “it’s the police coaches! Come on, slowpokes, put your hooves into it!”

“How do we ditch them, Hair?” Asked one of his colleagues in desperation.

“Quick, through that sewer line!” The leader of this operation pointed.

His colleagues look at the sewer entrance in disgust, knowing very well what the sewers are meant for, but they did not want to go back to prison either. To them, anything was better than prison.

Then the third hence-stallion opened the sewer hatch, and they all climbed done to the stinky sewers back to the headquarters, and the sound of the police siren became fainter and fainter after every mile they had been running through the sewer tunnels.

“I think we lost them.” Said Hair Stylish. “The mistress is going to be so happy to see this.”

When they made it back to the abandoned shampoo factory, the machine was almost completely finished, for the unhinged mare needed one last tool for this machine, and her errand boys that were sent to find it have already got it in their grasp.

“We got it, boss!” Said the second hench-stallion. “The uranium rod for you to power this baby.”

“Mwahahahahahaha! Well done, Hair Stylish!” She cackled. “I knew you would be up for the errand. Now give me the rod so I can finally fulfill my revenge!”

“Got it, mistress.” Said the second-in-command before doing just that.

Mane-iac was looking at the rod with a very crazy look on her face (as usual) and used hair pieces to place it in the center of the machine to power it to the max. “Yes! Yeeees! The power is rising in my invention! Hahahaha! My revenge is imminent now! That baby dragon will regret making a fool out of me the last time we had met.”

“Be careful out there, Mistress.” Said a goon named “Callous Comb. We don’t want to lose you again.”

“Don’t worry about me, my subjects” said the Mane-iac. “There is a good reason why I am the leader of this bunch: because I am the smartest and strongest one! Now a majority of you come with me so we can create mayhem and craziness in that dimension, the rest of you stay here and keep watch for any intruders or trespassers!”

“yes mistress.” Her underlined replied. At last, a pink or purple portal was created from the power of the machine and Mane-iac knew that it was time. “Onward to victory!”

Meanwhile in Ponyville, Collin was helping Applejack out with her farm, for Big Mac was taking a little break from doing heavy lifting form the hard work he would normally do around the farm. His legs weren’t broken or anything, he just felt like he needed a little break from his usual chores, or he would burn himself out.

As of now, Big Mac was having a nap in his bedroom to recharge his batteries. Winona, Applejack’s family dog, was sitting on Big Mac’s bed next to him to give him more comfort and warmth in his soul.

Collin was just about done feeding the pigs at the farm, and they were all happy to be given nice, juicy chow to munch on as their lunch. There’s nothing more pigs love than to eat whatever they can get their teeth on.

“Here you go, guys.” Said Collin. The pigs all grunted happily at the human boy and began digging in on their food. For the kid, it was the last thing he needed to do today, and he was starting to sweat from all the hard work he was doing earlier around the farm, and he did it to help get money to get a new sewing machine for Rarity.

Deep down, Collin hoped that it would be enough to purchase that expensive piece of junk. Though he knows not to get his hopes up. It wasn’t like he was going to get a check of a million bits for all the hard work he did today. He drank some orange juice to refresh his body, and walked up to Applejack, who was fixing Applebloom’s signature bow on her red mane.

“Umm, Applejack, the chores you told me to help you with are” said Collin.

“Thank you, sugarcube.” The earth pony smiled. “Not only have you helped us fill in for Big Mac’s usual routine, you helped us get it done earlier than usual, Collin.”

“That’s good. So do I get my pay?”

Applejack chuckled before saying: “of course, Collin. Of course. I’ll be right back.” She went in the farmhouse to get the promised pay for Collin after a hard day’s work.

“How’s daddy?” The kid asked Applebloom

“He’s been napping all day. I’ve never seen him so relaxed before. Felt like he needed that day off.”

“Here you go, Collin. Fifty bits for you, though may I ask why you did this for us? I mean I am very grateful for your help, but what made you want to help me and my family with the farm?”

“Because I want to help Rarity by buying her a new sewing machine. Sweetie Belle told me that her old one is falling apart.”

“Ah. She was always complaining about that doohickey.” Applejack smirked. “But honestly, you don’t have to-“ but before she could finish her sentence, there was an explosion in a far distance, like a bomb had went off. “What in tarnation!” Applejack exclaimed

“It looks like it came from Ponyville!” Collin pointed. He got on Applejack and she ran as fas as she could towards the town. Suddenly, an old wagon was seen flying above them, crashing into a tree, and then another explosion was heard, and then a loud, maniacal laugh was heard int he far distance as they got closer to Ponyville.

"Wait." said Applejack. "That laugh. Sounds so.... familiar." a crowd of other ponies were running away from whoever was causing this chaos, and Applejack gasped to see who the creature was. "No... it can't be." she said as her eyes were wide in shock.

Collin himself was shocked, as he recognized this pony from a few comic books he read during his time in Equestria. It was the Mane-iac! but he didn't think that she was real at all. Just a comic book character. Looks like the human boy was wrong. He got off Applejack and was still looking at her in shock as she was causing some damage and more mayhem in the town

"Where is a little dragon boy!?" Mane-iac demanded. "I want that little dragon! Bring him to me now, or you will all face the wrath of the Mane-iac! Mwahahahahahaha!!"

It was just then that Fluttershy, and her other best friends came to see what was going on.

Applejack soon joined them and they were all ready to fight while Collin just stood back to watch the fireworks in a safe distance, hiding behind a pile of garbage bags. Twilight and her cohorts dealt with the Mane-iac before and they can do it again.

Spike was on Twilight's back as he was watching this whole thing going on.

Tearing apart more buildings, Mane-iac finally got her sights on the baby dragon, and she smiled wickedly. "Ah, there you are, sweetheart. The one I have been looking for in this boring town. The one who was called "Humdrum" the last time i saw you!"

"What do you want, Mane-iac?" Twilight demanded.

"Revenge!" Mane-iac exclaimed in the sky. "And that little dragon boy you have. Hand him over, and i will, at least, let you all live."

"Over our dead bodies!" said Fluttershy. "If you want Spike, you'll have to get through us!"

"If you all insist, hehehe." Mane-iac smiled evily

Spike, Run!

The baby dragon was absolutely scared witless just seeing the Mane-iac come to life. The worst part of this situation was: she was after him. Figures since that Spike unintentionally made him and his own friends get inside tjat very comic book to take her down, just to get back to the real world. He felt like it was all his fault that the Mane-iac just came to Ponyville like this. The only question in this was: How did she even get here?

"Just hand over the baby dragon right now, and I will go easy on you all." Mane-iac said. "Or you can all die and I will take him by force anyway."

"Try and do it, you crazy mare!" Rainbow Dash. "You want him, you'll have to get through us!"

Mane-iac let out another evil chuckle before saying: "Very well! Have it your way!" then she got a look at Collin and looked very confused. "Hello, what the hay is this?" she said. Mane-iac ran over to him while on four of her tendrils like a spider to get a closer look at Collin. It got to the point where she was invading his own personal space. "You don't look like any gorilla i have ever seen."

"What?" Collin sounded offended. "I'm not a gorilla. I'm a human. We're separate species. though we are both apes."

"Yes, i can see that on your hands. Look very similar to an ape." Mane-iac continued observing him in an intrusive way that was violating the boy's personal space. "Where did you even come from, child?"

"It's complicated." Collin admitted as he felt the ankles of his legs being lifted, hanging upside down. "It's a... very long story anyway. You wouldn't believe me if i told you anyway."

"By the looks of a creature like yourself, i believe otherwise." Mane-iac had an evil smile

Fluttershy's maternal instincts were immediately kicking in after seeing his adopted human in this kind of situation. She got extremely angry as her teeth were seething and got mad enough to fly up to Mane-iac and give her a very painful uppercut to her chin, making the crazy mare fall into a pile of barrels.

"Get away from my boy!" said Fluttershy with the angry look still on her face. It immediately turned into concern and worry when she turned to Collin. "Are you ok, sweetie? Did she hurt you?"

"No." Collin replied. "Thanks, mom."

The yellow pegasus hugged her human cohort tightly, so glad that he was unharmed like this. Unfortunately, this sweet moment was cut short when the Mane-iac was slowly getting back up from the barrels she crashed into, and she was quite mad after that blow to the face. "That hurt." she said. "That really hurt! Now you will pay!" she rushed forward and was more than ready to tear her enemies apart, limb from limb.

"Alright girls, you know what do you." Twilight ordered.

"Yeah!" her friends said.

Spike was about to join in on the fight too, but was stopped by Twilight with her magic from her horn. "Spike, wait, you need to get out of here. It's not safe for you now."

"But i want to help, Twi." Spike persisted.

"It's you she wants, Spike. I don't want anything bad to happen to you. Now go."

"But Twilight-"

"Go!" Twilight ordered before she went to join her friends in fighting the Mane-iac.

"Collin, get far away from here. It's not safe for you." said Fluttershy. "You can get hurt."

"OK. Be careful, Fluttershy."

"I will try."

The human boy ran off and caught sight of Spike running away from the fight as well. "Spike?" said Collin.

"Oh, you're running too?" said the baby dragon

"Yeah, the Mane-iac looks dangerous."

"But i've dealt with her before. I should be able to face her again."

"But she looks dangerous."

"True, but i have dealt with many dangerous things before. Remember how you got kidnapped before and how we all saved you?"

"right. But they told us to just run away. She might kill you."

They both stopped to catch their breaths as soon as they were far enough from the chaos happening in the middle of town. Speaking of which, the Mane Six were fighting and fending off Mane-iac with all their might. She was definitely fighting them in a fierce matter. But the Mane-iac almost wished she had the hairspray ray of doom on her to make things go smoother (for her). But she knows she can make good use of her hair and tail since she can use them like tentacles under her whim.

She managed to whack Pinkie Pie into a window like a fly and a flyswatter. "You call that an attack?" Mane-iac taunted the heroix ponies. "I've seen better attacks from the lousiest of police officers!"

"Pinkie!" said Rarity. "You beastly beast! You are really going to pay for that!" she used her magic from her horn to try and blast a wave of energy at the unhinged mare, only for the crazy pony to dodge and whack her into a hairspray stand nearby, and the white unicorn got up, looking angrier than before, panting like an angry bear that woke up from hibernation.

“Ha! You look good in green, you weakling!” Mane-iac taunted Rarity.

“What?” Rarity gasped as she pulled out a nearby mirror to get a better look at herself, and she gasped to see what this crazy mare had done. “My mane! Not again!” Then she fell to tue ground, crying her eyes out in a dramatic way. A way that she would normally be like when she is in a very bad situation.

Rainbow Dash just facepalmed herself at how being overly-dramatic, but that didn’t stop her from continuing to fight her old foe. She needed friends to protect and defend from uncertain danger. With the Mane-iac, anything unpredictable was certainly possible.

“You’ll pay for what you did to Rarity!” Said Applejack. “You mess with the bull, you get the horns!”

Mane-iac On The Trail

Poor Rarity was still crying about how her hair had been forcibly died green by the evil and crazed Mane-iac, and she put a large bag over her face to cover her so-called shame. While hiding herself under a wagon, the rest of her cronies were still fighting Mane-iac and stopping her from causing anymore chaos and destruction throughout Ponyville. Without Rarity using her unicorn magic to help them out. Nevertheless, the rest of the elements were putting up a good fight with the unhinged mare at least. And Fluttershy was being uncharacteristically heroic and brave than she would normally be, going as far as to punch the Mane-iac in the face three times, making her nose bleed from the impact of the blows.

Rainbow Dash herself had the honor to try and zap her with a random storm cloud, and it did incapacitate the crazy villain for a moment, but the Mane-iac retaliated by using one of her tendrils to swat her into the window of a nearby house with the sound of glass shattering. “Stupid little insect!” Mane-iac bellowed. “Do you really think that some lightning will kill me? Ha! Do not make me laugh!”

Being a random and bold one, Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere, right in front of the Mane-iac, invading her personal space, prompting the crazy mare to try and squeeze the life out of her, only for Pinkie to escape and pop out of many random laces at the same time. “Over here!” Pinkie sang. “Nope! Over here!” She popped out of the ground with a rock over her head. Mane-iac was growing more and more frustrated and tried so hard to catch the tricky pink earth pony, then Pinkie appeared from a bush, only do dodge at the last second from another swipe from the Mane-iac.

“Hold still, will you?!” Mane-iac shouted in frustration. “I want to break you in half and make your spine crunch, but I can’t do it if you do not hold still!”

"Hmmm, no, I don't want to be torn apart or skinned alive, but thanks for the offer." Pinkie naively said as she was ducking more and more into random object to not get hit by the Mane-iac's tendrils, making the unhinged mare even more frustrated and anger at the fact that Pinkie is the most slippery kind of prey she had ever tried to encounter.

Applejack used her signature lasso to hold Mane-iac's tail together in some kind of knot and tried to throw her down many times like a hammer. Despite how painful it looked for the villain, the Mane-iac was too smart and formed a large hand with some of her mane tendrils, and grabbed Applejack with it. "Nice try, you worm." she sneered. "But it will take a lot more than mere rope to slow me down! Hahahaha!"

The next thing Mane-iac did was try to squeeze the life out of Applejack like a python or an anaconda suffocating its prey so it wouldn't have trouble eating it whole.

"She's going to eat Applejack!" Pinkie shouted in horror.

"What?" said Mane-iac. "No, don't be stupid. I may be evil but i'm not that evil. Besides, that sounds a little too barbaric for my taste. Then she resumed trying to squeeze Applejack to death. But then, thanks to Twilight's quick thinking, she used some kind of blinding flash with her horn to temporarily blind Mane-iac and let go of Applejack.

Now that she was stunned and blind by the ray of light, it gave Fluttershy the perfect opportunity to charge at Mane-iac and give her some more punches and with the thought of protecting her friends and her adopted human child. Yes, it was really unlike her to go berserk. Yet again, it's always the nice ones that can be the most dangerous kind of people if one isn't careful enough to behold that certain event.

Mane-iac herself was feeling scared and was realizing that she had no other options, but to run. "Grr, these may not be the real Power Ponies," she thought to herself, "But they really know how to fight a good fight. I have to get out of here and find Humdrum!" an evil and devious idea struck her head and put out a smoke bomb from behind her, throwing it on the ground, and making everyone around her cough and wheeze from the smoke. Laughing in triumph, Mane-iac continued searching for Spike into the woods, using four tendrils as legs to help her move faster than she would normally move at so she can be able to shake off the heroes from her tail.

In the woods, Colin and Spike were still running to Fluttershy’s cottage for refuge from the Mane-iac who was already hot on her heels (or tendrils in her case). The cottage was the only possible place of solace for these two boys. “Where do we hide?l spike panted, trying to catch his breath.

“Uhhh, under my mom’s bed!” Colin realized. “We’re small enough to fit under it.”

“Ooh, good thinking Colin.”

Rushing up to Fluttershy’s bedroom, they both hid under her mattress as a good hiding place.

“I hope she won’t find us here.” Spike said

“Mom would hide under here for Nightmare Night.”

“Why am I not surprised?” The baby dragon rolled his eyes. “But I believe you if you say no one can find us under the bed.” Silent and quiet for a few minutes, they were as still as statues and didn’t even move a finger out of the bed. “If she does find this place, she might tear the place apart just to find us.”

“As long as we keep quiet and not move, we’ll be fine.” Said the human boy. “And… maybe she’ll forget the search about us?” He had hopeful thinking.

“I hate to say it but the Mane-iac is relentless in her goals and she’ll never stop until she finds us.”

“So, what does she want with us, Spike?”

“Well Colin, I might not be an expert but I think it has to do with her taking revenge on me and my friends for defeating her before.”

Captured Once Again

Hiding under the bed, Collin and Spike were scared witless, worried that the Mane-iac will come find them here. Spike was the one most scared for obvious reasons, but maybe the animal friends of Fluttershy could help stop this crazy, unhinged mare. “Come on out, little ones!” Mane-iac. “I know you are in here! Just be two good little boys and show yourselves.”

Not about to let the two kids be taken by the crazy mare, Harry the Bear, the strongest critter in this whole cottage, tackled the villain with his brute strength and to Mane-iac, Harry was like a large, furry bag that weighed as much as a large couch. The brown bear was trying so hard to keep the Mane-iac from causing anymore damage, but the mare used some of her Tendrils to pick up Harry by coiling him up like a boa constrictor, and tossed him outside the cottage.

“Hmph, annoying.” Mane-iac said. Angry that Harry had been tossed aside like that, the other animal critters decide to fight her too and the Mane-iac was feeling a little overwhelmed at what she was experiencing. Large or small, the animals were going all-out at the crazy villain, and it wasn’t even time for dinner yet. Despite combining all of their strength to keep her at bay, the Mane-iac overpowered them with her tendrils both from her mane and her tail. “I’ve had enough of this!” She shouted. “How hard can it be to find two little kids?” Going upstairs, she flipped Fluttershy’s nightstand to find the boys.

knowing that she will look under the bed next, Collin and Spike looked at one another with grim looks on their faces about what was going to happen next. As expected, Mane-iac pulled the Ned up with four tendrils and smiled in wicked delight, and threw it out of Fluttershy’s bedroom window.

“Peek-a-boo! I found you!” The villain sang in crazed delight before laughing. “Now come to mama!” She then grabbed the two boys with two large tendrils. “You’re mine now, young ones! You’re coming with me!”

As she was about to walked out, Fluttershy and her friends popped through the front door to stop her. “Let go of my boy!” Fluttershy shouted demandingly. This made the Mane-iac laugh in response.

“What can you do to stop me, you foolish girl?”

“Didn’t you see how tough she is in the town before, lady?” Asked Rainbow. "She can whoop your crazy butt instantly."

Mane-iac let out another cackle. "I like your bravado. Really, i do. But i know you are all afraid deep down."

"I'm not afraid of anything, lady!" the blue pegasus insisted.

"Nothing but me!." Mane-iac sung. At last, angry enough, Rainbow Dash charged at Mane-iac (on foot this time since the crazy mare clipped one of her wings), and of course, like before, the Mane-iac swatted Rainbow away into the Fluttershy's fireplace this time, leaving her covered in soot.

At last, getting angry again, the other mares launched themselves onto the Mane-iac a second time. This time; they were fighting her more fierce than ever, and Fluttershy was the one who was hitting her the hardest since she wanted the Mane-iac nowhere near her own adopted human son. If there was anything scarier than many things, it would be a mother’s fierce love and devotion for her own child.

Despite their best efforts how, the wrest of them were overpowered by the Mane-iac with her mutagenic mane and tail, and were all knocked out cold.

“Now that these pests are dealt with,” the crazy mare said to herself, she looked at where the two boys were hiding before, but she noticed that they were gone, and soon found them running out the front door very sneaky-like way.

Smiling wickedly, Mane-iac used two tendrils to coil them up again. “Ah ah ah!” She sang. “Trying to escape? I don’t think so.” I have very special plans for you boys.”

The unhinged mare walked outside the door with the two boys still in her clutches and laughed maniacally in triumph.

When she got into the forest nearby, she used the comic book to teleport herself back to Maretropolis. Back in the cottage, waking up and realizing what just happened, Fluttershy looked upstairs in a panic and was searching for her adopted son, even lifting the couch and other furniture as she was searching. But Collin was nowhere to be seen.

“Collin! Spike! Where are you?!” The yellow Pegasus called out as she was fruitlessly searching for both kids in and around her humble home. Many of her animal friends, including Harry, got back on their feet looking guilty. "Oh, my critter friends!" she noticed. "Did she hurt you?" They all replied to her in many different animal sounds. "Good." she sighed in relief. "Just a couple of bruises. But what about Collin and Spike?"

"Fluttershy, calm down." Twilight tried to help her friend.

"How can i calm down when my baby and our friend have been taken by the Mane-iac!?" Fluttershy began hyperventilating into a brown paper bag in a crazed manner. "I lost Collin again, and it's all my fault!"

"It was not your fault, Darling." Rarity reassured her. "That dreadful mare caught us all by surprise. We all didn't see it coming."

"She's right, Sugarcube." Applejack added. "We'll find them. I know we will."

"Can't we just get back into Maretropolis like before?" asked Fluttershy

"Last time i remembered," Twilight began brainstorming, "That comic book was at Celestia and Luna's old castle and Spike was the one that opened it up by reading those hidden words at the last page. So maybe that comic book is still at the castle."

Without warning, the Mane Six all hurried over to the ruined castle and found the reading room where the comic was last seen, but when they got into the room, they saw that the book wasn't on that old podium at all. "It's gone!" they all exclaimed in unison.

"This is just perfect. Somepony took it!" Rarity said.

"How are we going to save them now?!" Pinkie exclaimed.

Pondering on how to save the boys, Twilight had a brainstorm. "Wait." she said, "I have an idea. Follow me!"

Back to Maretropolis

Sleeping and not aware of what just happened to them a little while ago, Colin and Spike were dozing off like babies in some kind of large square cell. It didn't take long for Colin to wake up and look at his surroundings. The human boy suddenly remembered what he and his dragon friend had endeavored. Beginning to panic, Colin sat that he was in some kind of cell with... a fuzzy blanket and nice bed? But still a prison cell. "Spike." he began rocking the baby dragon's small body back and forth, trying to get him back to reality. "Spike wake up!"

At last, the baby dragon woke up with a fright. "What?! What? What happened?" he looked around in a worried expression and he let what was happening sinking in his small body.

"The Mane-iac kidnapped us, remember?" Colin refreshed his friends' memory. "We were hiding from her in mom's cottage and she found us and took us to... wherever this place is." then both boys heard the sound of a crazy cackle that echoed in the room. Both of them grew scared and hugged each other for comfort as the evil and crazy cackling continued to echo. It was almost like a ghost was haunting the place.

Suddenly, the doors barged open and there she was, the Mane-iac with two of her henchponies accompanying her like bodyguards. "Excellent memory, my dear," Mane-iac said. "Yes, i pulled out some sleeping gas and brought you both here to my humble abode in Maretropolis!"

"Maretropolis?" said Colin

"The comic book world me and my friends got sucked into to fight the Mane-iac." Spike pointed. "And this is her lair."

"You really do your homework, do you, my dear?" Mane-iac used a tendril to tickle under the baby dragon's cheek a few times teasingly"

"What do you want, Mane-iac?" asked Spike, trying to be as brave as possible.

"Just you." Mane-iac flatly said with a cute smile on her crazy face. "And revenge on your little friends too. After humiliating me before, I intend to return the favor on you. All of you." she sounded rather menacing on the last part she said.

"But i had nothing to do with this." said Colin

"Oh I know. I'm an evil villainess after all, and causing destruction is what i love to best." then she let out a crazy chuckle. "They do not call me The Mane-iac for nothing!"

“What are you going to do with me?” Asked Colin

“hmm, you know, I honestly do not know what to do with…. Wait!” She snapped a tendril the shape of a a pair of fingers. “I think I know what to do with you.” She walked up to him. “Since you are… possibly the only kind of creature in my world, you can be of service to me.”

Colin gulped and he asked: “what do you mean?”

“I suppose I should be as specific with you as possible, sweetie.”

“wait! You can do whatever you like to me, but leave Colin alone!”

“now that wasn’t very nice.” Said Mane-iac amusingly. “Granted you may not be humdrum, but you have such spunk for an adorable creature your size. I deeply commend you for it, Spike. So I suppose I can have some fun with both of you.” She pulled out her hairspray ray of doom and sprayed it at the two boys? Rendering them paralyzed and unable to move. She picked them up with her tendrils and walked out to the main part of her lair and bound them to some kind of torture boards, and their wrists and ankles were bound by metal cuffs attached to the board.

Colin’s heart was racing rapidly, getting more and more scared about what was going to happen to him.

“There! That should do it.” Said Mane-iac with an evil grin on her face. Of course, let me get rid of that shirt to make it more interesting.” She used one of her tendrils to slice the human boy’s shirt, leaving his upper body naked.

“Why are you doing this?” Said Cody. “Why are you evil?”

“why?” Said Mane-iac. “Why?!” Her voice rose to a scream for moment there and suddenly, and rarely, she calmed herself down. “I wasn’t always like this.” Then she let a drone show on her face. “You see, I was trying to keep up with my work as the owner, founder, and proprietor of my shampoo. It was selling like a plague, and i had to do everything i can to make my product sell as fast as possible."

"You were power mad." Spike pointed out.

"Oh no, what you heard about me is nothing but a lie, Spike. I am... or was a business-pony. I had to do what is absolutely necessary to keep my company alive and well, like a mother with her child. So then the... event happened. I accidentally fell of a catwalk in my factory, fell into a mix of my shampoo with a down power-line in it, and then... there is the birth of me! THE MANE-IAC!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" her evil cackling echoed in her factory again. "So in conclusion, she sounded calm again, and cleared her throat. "I swore revenge on the city for what happened to me!"

"Why the whole city?" asked Spike. "They didn't do anything wrong. They didn't make you fall into that pit that made you crazy."

"He does have a point, milady." said one of her minions, only for him to be conked on a the head with a tendril shaped like a wrecking ball.

"Quiet, Hair Stylish! I'm the one who is talking here." turning back to the captive children. "Anywho, i honestly like being evil. It suits me rather well, like a perfect-size coat in a cold winter day. Anywho, prepare to meet your worst nightmare, boys!" two mechanical robot arms appeared from the ceiling and had a large, very ticklish feather in them. The two boys knew exactly what was going to happen next. "Prepare for a long, merciless tickling!"

the robot hands did their work and began tickling them on their belies and chest mercilessly, making them laugh uncontrollably. The unhinged mare watched on as the kids were being helpless in this kind of tickling.

"Ah, it warms my heart to see children being tortured like this. This is bound to lure those ponies here so i can exact my revenge."