It's Hero Time

A couple of years ago, a stallion traveled to the Dragon Lands to do something. It was hatching season during that time, and Dragon Lord Torch was keeping watch. The stallion hid behind a giant rock, and pulled out some sort of grenade and tossed it at him. Torch was confused at what was thrown until it went off.

BOOM!!!

A small grenade released a very big flash of bright. The flashbang blinded the Dragon Lord and gave the stallion enough time to steal half a dozen eggs from the hatcheries. He quickly ran off as Torch’s sense started returning. He looked around and could see the stallion running with the stolen eggs. He flew after the stallion, not wanting him to getaway.

The stallion was a unicorn and used his magic to teleport himself away. Torch looked around and let out a frustrated roar as now six dragon eggs were lost.

The stallion teleported into a lab and placed the 6 eggs down on the table.

“Finally,” he sighed. “Now I can finally make my ultimate creatures.”

Soon, years started going by as the stallion extracted the DNA from the eggs to create a couple of dragon clones. The clones would develop inside of tubes until they reached the age of a toddler. Not all of the clones made it too far though; their internal organs couldn’t work properly and inevitably failed on them.

The stallion worked his hardest to create his ultimate dragon. What the station hoped to gain with his experiments was something more powerful by adding some magic into their dragons’ DNA. He managed to create a few successes, two of which were a red and yellow dragoness and blue and green dragoness. They both had silver eyes and ram horns.

The two grew up over the years with some other successes. The two had special powers with the magic infused within them. The red and yellow dragoness could control fire and wind while the blue and green one had control over the earth and water.

However, the two were wingless and that wasn’t their only flaw. The one controlling fire and air didn’t have working legs meaning she had to crawl wherever she wanted to go or use her wind manipulation to make her float. The blue and green one could walk, but she was blind. If she needed something like some food, or use the restroom, she would need some assistance from the stallion. Still, they were some of the few successes, the stallion kept them around.

They had several tests and the red and yellow dragoness proved she was quite useful. As for the blind dragoness, she had quite an interesting ability. Similar to a bat, she had echolocation that didn’t require her to screech. The stallion saw potential in these two and was hoping for an excuse to use them. Then one day, their chance had come.

The dragonesses were sitting by themselves talking as the stallion walked over to them. “Girls,” he said, “Guess what we’re doing today.”

“Are we going to do another test?” the red dragoness questioned.

“In a way. We’re going outside.”

“Outside?” the girls asked.

“Trust me, it’ll be fun.”

He carried the red dragoness on her back as they walked past some other dragons that were in some tubes. They were all unconscious right now, which made the dragoness that could see a little uncomfortable. Soon, they got to some heavily armored doors.

Using his magic, the stallion opened the door. The dragoness squinted as the sunlight hit her eyes. The blind dragoness held the red one’s claw as they walked outside. “We’re... In the middle of nowhere,” the red one stated.

“Yeah,” the blue one agreed. Using her echolocation, she sensed that they were the only ones out there.

“I’m aware of that,” the stallion replied. “We’re coming out here so your eyes can adjust to the light.” He used his magic again to teleport them to a country area.

“Where are we now?” the red one asked.

“Somewhere where there aren't too many ponies,” the stallion answered.

“Why didn’t we do it in the middle of nowhere.”

“This time, I want you to use all of your power. If you did it at the lab, you could destroy it.”

“Right,” the girls replied.

The stallion looked over to two hills on the side of the path. “Girls, each of you moves one of those hills.”

Both dragonesses did as they were told. The one with fire and wind had a bit of trouble getting the hill to move. On the other hand, the one controlling earth and water lifted her hill with little issue.

“Very nice,” the stallion commented.

“I can’t do this,” the red dragoness groaned.

“Harder.” The dragoness did, but this ended up blowing the hill up. The blast caused the stallion and dragons flying backward as the blast grabbed the attention of a couple of ponies. As soon as he recovered, the stallion instinctively teleported away.

This left the two dragonesses behind, a couple of the ponies got a closer look. The girls started gaining consciousness as one could see the ponies around them, the blue and green one’s ears were still ringing due to the blast.

She looked at ponies surrounding them. “Uh oh,” she muttered. She didn’t know what to do or say.

“Hello there,” another stallion said. This stallion had golden-brown fur along with a red mane. He was an earth pony that had a shovel for a cutiemark. He was one of the few calm ponies. At this point, ponies hadn’t really been that close to dragons. “Can you speak?”

“Um... Yes,” the red dragoness replied.

“What about your friend?” The fire and wind dragoness looked at the one that controls the earth and water. Judging by her facial expression, her hearing had returned and she was using her echolocation. “Can you tell us where you’re from?”

“We... Don’t know exactly.”

“Why do you mean?”

“The only home we know is in the middle of nowhere.”

“Right. Hmm.”

“Soil, what are you planning?” one of the other ponies asked.

“These dragons don’t seem to be that much of threat. In fact, I think they might need some help.”

“...Maybe,” the blind dragoness said.

“I’ll see if I can help these girls out,” the white stallion said.

“Okay, fine,” the other pony said. “But if you get burned, don’t blame me.” The ponies all walked off, leaving the stallion with the dragons.

“Now, girls, would you follow me?” the stallion asked.

“Um... I can’t,” the red dragoness said.

“Oh, is something wrong?”

“I just can’t walk.” Noting this, the stallion helped the dragoness on his back. The two dragons then held each other’s claw as they walked down the path with the stallion.

Soon, the two were led to a farm, where the stallion was met by a mare. Like the stallion, she was an earth pony that had white fur along with a dirty-blonde mane and had a milk churn for a cutiemark. “Soil, what are those?” she asked.

“Milkey, it’ll be alright,” the stallion explained.

“Milkey?” the dragons questioned.

“I suppose I should actually introduce ourselves. I’m Rich Soil, and this is my wife, Fresh Milk.” The two dragons looked a little confused. “Don’t you two have names?”

“Do numbers count?” the blind one asked.

“You seriously don’t have names?” Fresh Milk questioned. “How were you raised?”

“We’re... Not sure,” the red one admitted. “What... What should we be called?”

“We’ll think about names for you in awhile,” Rich Soil said. “Let’s get you two inside, so you can get comfy.”

He took the girls inside his house and took them to an extra bedroom.

"Milk and I used this room when we usually have guests," he said. "You girls get comfy."

He helped put the red and yellow dragoness onto the bed as the blue and green one was helped onto the bed. After the stallion walked away, the two dragonesses were left to talk to each other.

"This is pretty soft," the red one said.

"It is," the blue one agreed. "I've never felt anything like this back at the lab." The two lied down on the bed and sighed as they started getting comfy.

"Do you think that other stallion will try and find us?"

"Maybe. I mean, he said we were important." The two stayed there as they thought about their current situation.

A little while later, Fresh Milk entered the bedroom where the dragons were resting. "Hey, Milk," the blind one replied.

The mare was a little interested as the dragon didn't even move her head to look at her.

"Um... Hello girls," she said. "Soil and I have been talking for a while and we have thought of a could of names for you. How do Ruby and Sapphire sound?"

"Maybe," the red dragoness replied.

"I like the sound of it," the blue dragoness admitted.

"...What else do you have?"

"These were the best names we could think of. We've only just met you. You said it yourself as you don't have names."

"Well, that's true."

"You know, how about we show you around the farm?"

"Okay," both dragons said. Milk walked out of the room and the dragons would've followed, but instead, they called out for her.

"Um, Milk," the newly named Ruby called. "I can't walk."

"Excuse me?"

"Yeah. My legs don't work."

"Oh. I was wondering why you were sitting on Soil's back." Milk walked to the side of the bed so Ruby could get on her back. Sapphire then followed them downstairs and outside.

Rich Soil was outside digging in the field as his wife & the dragons walked over to him. "Oh, I see you two are up," he said. "Are you liking your new names?"

"We are," Sapphire said.

"If we were just referenced by our numbers we'd get mixed up easily," Ruby commented. "So, what are you doing?"

"Farming," Soil replied. "We grow some produce for the town. Sometimes we even ship this to over places in Equestria."

The dragons look at the field and were interested in the crops. "Is this where the food comes from?" Sapphire asked.

"Seems like it," Ruby said.

"I'm assuming you don't get out very often," Milk guessed. Both dragons shook their heads. "Where have you been living?"

"A lab."

"Seriously?"

"We're not lying," Sapphire added.

"I see." Soil then noticed that Sapphire's pupils were faded. "Um... Do you... See okay?"

"...Kind of."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well... I am blind, though I can still see with my hearing."

"How?" Soil and Milk asked.

"It's like echolocation," Ruby explained. "If she can hear, she uses it to listen around to know what her surroundings are like."

"Like a bat?"

"Exactly," Sapphire replied. "I can see you, the trees, even those birds." The ponies looked around until they saw some birds flying in the sky.

"Amazing," Milk commented.

"I'm even able to sense things in the ground. Though, there are some limits."

"Sensing things in the earth sounds to be a little different from echolocation," Soil commented.

"Well, that's what I've been told my abilities is."

"And who told you about these abilities?"

"The stallion."

"That doesn't sound very specific."

"We didn't really get his name," Ruby spoke. Suddenly, Sapphire jumped. "What's wrong?"

"Something big just flew by," she explained.

Ruby looked around in the sky until she saw something black flying towards them. It was a drake that was covered in black scales and had yellow eyes and horns. This dragon didn't say anything and just glared at Ruby and Sapphire.

The black dragon charged at Sapphire. Before she could react, he grabbed her and took her into the air. Ruby saw this and started manipulating the wind. This slowed the dragon down, but he kept on flying. Seeing that wasn't working, Ruby summoned some wind around her. This created a twister around her legs and she flew into the air, much to the ponies' shock.

The black drake could see Ruby was chasing him and tried breathing fire at her. This would end up backfiring as Ruby just manipulated the fire and sent it right back at him. Ruby quickly flew up to the drake pushed him back thanks to her wind powers. This caused Sapphire to free fall for a little bit until the fire and wind dragoness caught her.

"Hold on," Ruby called. She quickly got the two of them to the ground. Once they landed, Sapphire heard the drake flying down towards them. She moved her claw up which caused the ground to move up to uppercut the drakes. When he got hit, some strange green ooze splattered from him.

When he landed on the ground a few feet away and felt his jaw. Suddenly scared, he flew away, leaving the girls by themselves. "That was weird," Ruby spoke.

"What did you just do?" Rich Soil asked. He and Fresh Milk were both speechless at what they saw.

"Well, we have special powers," Ruby explained. Moving her claws, she created a small flame while Sapphire lifted a small ball of dirt into the air.

"I didn't know dragons had that kind of magic," Milk admitted.

"I'm not sure if they do have this kind," Sapphire said. "This is our first time out of the lab."

"I see," Soil commented.

"We're sorry we didn't tell you earlier."

"I don't see how you could explain that to us. It would explain how you blew up that hill."

"Wait, what?" Milk questioned.

"Don't ask," Ruby said.

Eventually, nighttime rolled around. Ruby was looking out of the window to see the moon in the sky.

"Excuse me, Ruby," Milk called, grabbing the dragon's attention. "Dinner's about to be served."

Using her wind powers, she flew over to the dining area where Soil and Sapphire were already sitting.

Ruby sat down with them as Soil started serving mashed potatoes. “Do you need any help with eating?” he asked Sapphire.

“No, I think I can do this,” she said. Her hearing was able to let her know where her silverware was. She picked up her fork and started enjoying her mash potatoes.

“Those are often much better with butter and cheese,” Milk commented. She then passed the said items over to the blue dragoness. Soil helped put them on her mashed potatoes as Ruby placed some of the salad on her plate.

“This food looks interesting,” she commented.

“What kind of food did you have... At the lab?” Milk asked.

“Mostly some gemstones and things that were like those potatoes.” She was given some mashed potatoes and took a bite. “Honestly, I think these taste better.”

“Well, eat up,” Soil said. Ruby and Sapphire did so. However, it didn’t take long for Milk to ask another question.

“So, Sapphire,” she said, “What other elements can you manipulate.”

“Well, water,” the blind dragoness replied. She had some water in her glass, which she could sense. Holding her claw out, Sapphire started levitating the water out of her glass before she carefully placed it back.

“Impressive.”

“Can we not talk about our home?” Ruby asked. She looked down at her plate as she ate. Soil was wanting to know more and thought if he wouldn’t get answers out of Sapphire, though now wasn’t a good time.

After they ate, Ruby floated out of the room as Sapphire simply sat at the table. “I’m not sure if you’ll like this, but what was life at the lab like?” the stallion asked.

“It wasn’t something I like,” Sapphire admitted. “Most of the time we would just train and the rest of it we would be sleeping. That’s what we’ve been told. Whenever we woke up from our tubes we would often be bigger.”

“...Interesting. Tell you what, I’m going to take you and your friend downtown for a bit of fun.”

“Fun?”

“Oh, I see you have a lot to learn. How about I take you to your room?”

“Okay.” The stallion and dragoness walked upstairs where Ruby was sitting on the bed.

“I’ll see if I can figure out if we can get another bed for you two. You just get comfy for the night.” Sapphire sat on the bed next to Ruby as they found they could get under the bed’s covers. “You two sleep well.” Soil left the room and turned off the light, leaving the dragons by themselves.

“...This bed is pretty soft,” Sapphire said.

“It is,” Ruby agreed. “...It’s kind of weird not to sleep in a tube. It kind of feels... Relaxing.” The girls laid down on their pillow and relax as they slowly drifted off to sleep.

The morning sun shined across the lands. The rooster’s crow woke up Soil, Milk, and the dragons. Ruby and Sapphire rubbed their eyes as they haven’t been used to waking up this way. After taking a few minutes to wake up, the dragons made their way downstairs.

Looking outside, they could see that the two ponies were already getting to work. Soil was making sure that the crops were watered while Milk was feeding the animals. “Morning girls,” Soil said while waving. A little confused, the dragons walked and floated outside of the house.

“You’re already up?” Ruby asked.

“Of course. When you’re running a farm you’ve got to get up early. Sapphire, do you think you could use your water abilities to help water the crops?”

“I think so,” the blind dragoness replied.

“Is there anything I can to help?” Ruby asked.

“I think you could help Milk with the animals,” Soil answered. Ruby nodded before floating over to where the mare was, leaving the blind dragoness behind confused.

“So, where do you get the water?” Sapphire asked.

“Follow me.” The stallion and dragoness walked across the field as Ruby found Fresh Milk feeding the chickens.

“Morning,” the mare said. “Care to help?”

“I figure I might as well be doing something,” Ruby stated. “What do I do?”

Milk looked at the bag of feed she was carrying. It felt quite light and she found out it was empty. “Looks like we need another bag of feed.”

“I can get that. Where is it?”

“We have it in the barn. Just look for a sack that has a picture like this.” She showed the bag’s image of a chicken. Ruby nodded before floating off to the barn. Inside, she found a couple of sacks of animal feed. She found one containing feed for the chickens. She picked it up, surprised to find it heavier than she thought.

Because of the weight, Ruby got closer to the ground, meaning she had to use more wind power to keep herself airborne. She slowly floated back over to Milk as she struggled to keep herself in the air. She dropped like a rock when she stopped using her powers to sit on the ground.

“Are you alright?” Milk asked.

“Yeah,” Ruby replied. “I’m not used to carrying things.”

“I’m sure you’ll get used to it.” Milk was given the bag of feed and continued to feed the rest of the chickens.

Meanwhile, Rich Soil had led Sapphire over to a well. The stallion started turning the crank and lowered the bucket down to the water. The dragoness listen and her echolocation let her see the bucket dipping into the water. “Can you see the bucket?” Soil asked.

“Yeah.”

“I’m impressed. Is it full?”

“Yeah.” Soil nodded before he turned the handle the other direction to bring the bucket back up. “Did you say something about having fun today?”

“Of course. We just need to take care of a couple of things before we head into town.” Once the bucket was up, Soil poured the water into his watering can. “I wish I had a faster method.”

Sapphire thought for a moment before moving her claws over the well. She lifted out a bit of water until she had a rather large drop of it. She levitated the drop over to the field. Soil could see what was going on and quickly got out of the way. Sapphire used her echolocation to figure out how large the field is dropping the thin layer of water all over the field.

“Did it work?” she asked.

Soil took a look at his crops. Some of them were drooping due to the excessive amount of water as there were a few small puddles on the field now. “Technically, yes,” he commented. “Though, I feel like you overdid it.”

“Sorry.”

“It’s alright. No harm is done. These crops will be fine.”

“So, what do we do now?”

“We can check and see how Milk and Ruby are doing with the animals.”

They walked over to chicken coops to see they were all fed. Looking inside the barn, they found Milk was milking one of the cows with Ruby sitting beside her. “What is she doing?” Sapphire asked hearing the sound of the milk going into the bucket.

“Milking,” Ruby answered. “Is that right?”

“Yep,” Fresh Milk replied. “These cows help produce some of the best milk.”

“Sure do,” Soil said. “Ruby, you want to head into town?”

“Um...”

“It’ll be fine,” Milk said. “I’ll handle things here.”

“Okay then,” Soil said. “Follow me, girls.” Ruby sat on Soil’s back as he led the two of them to town.

“What are we going to do?” Sapphire asked.

“There’s quite a variety of activities that can be done.” After a few minutes of walking, they made it into town. A couple of ponies looked at the two dragons accompanying the farmer. Ruby took note of this. “Don’t worry. Once you start getting along, I’m sure you’ll just like one of the villagers.”

“If you say so,” Ruby said.

Eventually, they walked up to a market stand where a pegasus with yellow fur and feathers was standing. “Soil, how are you doing?” the pegasus asked.

“I'm just fine Brass,” the farm pony replied. “I'm looking for something for Ruby and Sapphire here to socialize with the town.”

The pegasus thought for a moment as he had an idea. “My kid said she was interested in them. They could become friends.”

“That could work.” Ruby and Sapphire were a little confused by what the two stallions were talking about.

Soil followed Brass from his stand towards a field where a pegasus filly was flying around. Like her father, the filly had yellow fur. She also had a white mane and green eyes.

“Polish,” Brass called. The young filly flew over to her father and was curious by the dragons.

“Ooh, they're really here,” the filly cooed. She flew up to Ruby's face, making the dragoness feel a little uncomfortable. “Hi, I'm Polished Steel.”

“I'm... Ruby,” the dragoness said. “Could you back up please?”

Polish did so, feeling a little embarrassed at what she did. “Sorry.”

“Soil, I think I know somepony you should get to know,” Brass whispered. “He says he could help increase the funds for your farm.”

“Hmm, I'm listening,” the farmer replied.

“I think we'll just be fine here,” Sapphire said.

“You sure?” The dragoness nodded. “Well, I'll try not to go too far.” He set Ruby down on the ground before walking away with Brass.

“So, what can you do?” Polish asked.

“We don't really know what normal dragons can do,” Ruby admitted. “But I can do this.” She summoned a small twister around her legs and started floating into the air.

“Whoa, so cool.”

“I can do this,” Sapphire said. She could sense some stones that were nearby into the air. Polish was fluttering her wings, barely being able to contain her excitement.

“Do you think you can fly too?” Polish asked.

“I... Maybe.” Sapphire stood still for a moment and started lifting the earth she was standing on into the air. She was using her echolocation the best she could to make sure she knew where she was going.

“Sapphire, are you sure about this?” Ruby asked.

“I'm doing fine.” She slowly made her platform float forward with Ruby and Polish following by her side.

“This is so cool,” Polish said. “I thought dragons could breathe fire though.”

“Well, I can control fire,” Ruby said. She created some fire around her claw, amazing Polish.

Sapphire decided to bring herself back to solid ground before she hurt herself. She heard some running water nearby, that water was from a river. She decided to show what else she could do and levitated some of the water from the lake.

“Oh, no way,” Polish gasped.

“Yeah,” the blind dragoness said, “I can control the earth and water and Ruby can control the air and fire.”

“We were given these powers by someone who... We didn' know his name.” Suddenly, the heard some cracking sounds. The water that Sapphire was levitating was starting to get colder until it started freezing solid. The dragoness dropped it out of shock, making the ice shatter on the ground.

“You can make ice too?” Polish asked.

“Actually, this is new,” Ruby said.

“I... Don't know how I did that,” Sapphire admitted.

“Just try not to think about it.”

“My not you try and practice?” Polish asked.

“I literally just found out I could do this,” the blind dragoness spoke.

“Which is why practice is a good thing.” Sapphire thought for a moment before releasing that the filly might have a point. She got some more water and tried to make it into ice. However, the ball of water just stayed floating in the air as a ball of water.

“It’s not working.”

“Try thinking about something cold.” Sapphire did her best and soon started hearing cracking sounds. Soon, the ball of water started freezing in less than a minute. Sapphire carefully placed down the ball of ice. “Great job.”

“This looks quite nice,” Ruby commented. “I wonder what new power I could have.”

“Let’s show our dads what we can do,” Polish cooed. She flew off, leaving the dragons confused.

“Our dad?” they questioned. Still confused, they followed the filly while taking their ball of ice with them.

Meanwhile, with Soil and Brass, they were walking downtown. “So, you’re sure having two dragons is safe?” Brass asked.

“They’re actually nice,” Soil stated. “Sapphire even helped water the crops. Though, I feel like she might wanna be a little more gentle next time.”

“Aren’t you worried they might catch something on fire?”

“Well, only Ruby can generate fire, and she seems to have that under control.”

“What?”

“Dad! Dad!” Polish cried. She and the dragonesses raced over to them. “Sapphire just did something cool.” The dragoness then showed the two stallions the ball of ice she made.

“I think I’ve just found a new power,” Sapphire spoke.

“Incredible,” Soil commented.

“Wait, by new power,” Brass spoke.

“She means that she’s never done this before until now,” Ruby spoke.

“And I just released she is riding a tornado to make her fly.”

“Yeah, it’s quite shocking,” Soil admitted.

“Do you think that Ruby’s getting a new power?” Polish asked.

“I doubt it,” the floating dragoness admitted.

Sapphire was worried if any ponies were looking at them. She used her echolocation to see who was staring but she found something else that was shocking to her. She could sense a mare being carried away by some creatures that were in similar shape to her and Ruby.

She pointed into the air, Ruby and the ponies were shocked to see Fresh Milk being carried away by two dragons. “Milk!” Soil cried.

Brass flew up towards the dragons, who could see him coming. One of the dragons held onto Milk as the other dive-bombed the pegasus. Seeing that Brass was most likely going to be injured, Ruby flew up and used her air power to help slow them down.

The dragon saw the dragoness and flew over to her, ignoring the pegasus. The two dragons started getting into a fight as Sapphire could hear them. She tried launching a couple of stones at them, but because of their distance, the mysterious dragon just dodged them.

Then, Sapphire thought of what she did a few moments ago. She stood still for a moment before lifting the ground beneath her. She created a makeshift board and started floating up to help Ruby.

The dragon carrying Milk soon started flying away as the one fighting Ruby would get some more trouble as Sapphire flew up to him. She had also brought her ball of ice with her and smashed it against the mysterious dragon. Green ooze started coming from the dragon’s face like blood as he was blasted with Ruby’s fire.

Using her earth board, Sapphire surrounded the dragon with it and trapped him in a ball. Unfortunately, this meant Sapphire had nothing to hold her up and started free falling. Luckily, Ruby was able to catch her and they brought the trapped dragon down to the ground safely.

“Where’s Milk?” Soil asked.

“The dragon carrying her must’ve gotten away,” Ruby sighed. The stallion felt quite upset.

“I think we managed to catch one of them though,” Sapphire said. She opened up the ball of dirt, but inside they were surprised to see nothing but green sludge. “What the?”

“Where is it?” Soil questioned.

“He was in there a minute ago,” Ruby stated.

“Let’s get back to the question of where my wife is now.”

“Where’s my dad?” Polish asked. Brass wasn’t with the group.

The pegasus was actually flying after the dragon carrying Milk. The flying thief saw him and quickly flew down the ground. He set the mare down before flying over to Brass and smacking him in the face. “Back off!” the dragon ordered.

“Grn,” Brass cringed. “What are you going to do for here?”

“Just holding her for a ransom.” The dragon then handed a piece of paper to the stallion before flying over to Milk, who was trying to run away. The dragon picked the mare up and flew off again. Brass took a look at the note and flew back to tell his friends.

They met up at the farm, which was quite torn up. Brass showed the ponies and dragons the note he was given.

“You have something that belongs to me. Bring the girls to the location on this map, and the mare will live.”

“What does that mean?” Polish asked.

“I think he means us,” Sapphire spoke.

“...Who’s he?” Soil asked.

“The stallion that created us. The one that had us in tubes to grow bigger, the one who always had us train, and I think he wants more of us.”

“That sounds terrible,” Polish said.

“It does, but I don’t know what he’s going to do to Milk,” Ruby said. She took a look at the map and flew up to get a sense of direction.

“What are you doing?” Soil asked.

Ruby floated back down. “We’re going to turn ourselves in so Milk will be safe.”

“You can’t do that,” Polish said.

“If we don’t, Milk will be in trouble,” Ruby said. “She’s a good a mare that doesn’t deserve what’s coming to her. We’ll try and make sure that they’ll bring her back safely.”

“Girls, please,” Soil said.

“Milk is a nice mare. We’re going to get her back safely.” Ruby floated off to where the map told her to go with Sapphire following shortly behind. The farm pony and the pegasi stayed behind, knowing talking them out would be futile.

Sapphire used her echolocation and floating platform to catch up with Ruby. “Are you sure about this?” she asked.

“Sapphire, we don’t have much of a choice,” Ruby stated. “If we don’t do this, Milk could get hurt.”

“But... They’re so nice.”

“I know. That’s why we need to do this.” Ruby held Sapphire’s claw and they kept flying to the location on the map.

Milk was chained to a wall with some dragons watching her. The stallion that created the dragons looked down at her. “What are you going to do with me?” Milk asked.

“If those dragons show up, nothing,” the stallion replied. “If they don’t... Well... Some of these dragons are in need of a practice run.” The mare looked at the dragons and started figuring out what he meant by that. The stallion teleported outside and could see two figures flying towards him. One was red and the other was blue.

“There he is,” Ruby said. The two dragons landed in front of the stallion.

“I see you’ve learned a couple of tricks.”

“Where’s Milk?” Sapphire asked.

“She’s inside. Let me show you.” He teleported the three of them inside, startling Milk.

“Girls!” she gasped. The two dragoness didn’t say anything as the stallion started releasing Milk from the chains.

“Alright, now. You leave.”

“But... What about them?”

“These two aren’t going anywhere. They’ve been exposed, so we might have to have a little rest in the tubes.” Ruby shuttered at this comment.

“Y-you can’t do that. They’re just children.”

“Teenagers, probably. Still, they require some work.”

“You’re a terrible pony. How dare you...”

“Listen!” the stallion’s tone flipped on a bit. “I’ve spent years working on these dragons. If you think I’m going to let somepony like you throw all my work down the train, you have another thing coming.”

“Hey, don’t talk to her like that,” Sapphire said.

“Silence!” At this shout, the girls were grabbed a couple of dragons to keep them from moving. Ruby and Sapphire tried using the elemental powers, but the dragons kept using them against the girls, except for one.

Sapphire managed to use her new ice abilities to push the dragons back. With them off guard, Ruby used her wind to launch her into the air. The stallion growled in frustration before he used his magic to force the two onto the floor. He then got some earmuffs and placed them on Sapphire so she couldn’t use her echolocation.

He then proceeded to move the blind dragoness across the room. “I had a feeling that you’d fight back,” the stallion commented. “These earmuffs I made in my off time. They should keep her in line.”

“Let her go,” Ruby demanded.

“I’m your creator. You do as I say. I made you and I just as well deconstruct you. Like that dragon, you decided to fight.”

“What?”

“His DNA was unstable as I let him out too early. You and the other subject, on the other hand, much better project.”

“Her name is Sapphire.”

“Did I ask for her name? You and all the other dragons are my creations. Unless you want to become a puddle of goo, you’ll do as I say.” With that, he forced Ruby into a tube, closed it, and then started filling it up with water.

Ruby tried using her fire and wind to break the glass open, but she couldn’t. Sapphire couldn’t hear a single thing through her earmuffs, so she couldn’t do anything. The trapped dragoness didn’t like being stuck in the tube and she didn’t want to figure out what the stallion was going to do to her. She could hear some sparking sounds and suddenly, lightning shot out of her claws and struck the stallion right in the face.

This sent him flying backward and making him let go of Sapphire. When he let go, the earmuffs were knocked off the dragoness. Ruby’s lightning had broken through the glass tube, allowing her to get out. Ruby looked towards the stallion, who now had a lightning scar going down from his face all the way to his forehooves.

“Get them!” he ordered. The rest of the dragons started to attack Ruby and Sapphire, and Milk was stuck in the middle of the crossfire. Ruby had to learn how to use her new lightning powers fast as she floated around to try and avoid getting hit by the dragons.

“We’ve gotta get out of here,” Sapphire cried.

“But we can’t,” Ruby said, “He’s the only one who can let us out.” The two found they couldn’t stay inside forever. The stallion’s dragons were starting to overwhelm them. “We’re going to have to break out of here.”

Both dragonesses made their way to where the exit was. Sapphire used her earth manipulation while Ruby used her lightning abilities. The door started getting weaker, but so were the girls. They eventually stopped to catch their breath, which gave the stallion the opportunity to grab them.

“That’s it,” he growled, “You two will be melted down. I had such high hopes for you.”

Milk was put to the side as the girls were the main targets at the moment. That gave the mare the chance to run up and tackle the stallion, making him let go of the girls. This anger the stallion and ended up smacking the mare in the face.

“How. Dare. You,” Ruby growled. Fire and lightning started generating from her claws as Sapphire raced over to Milk to form a dome of stone around them. This would quite handy as Ruby created a large blast that sent the stallion flying back, breaking the door open, and injuring several other dragons.

The red dragoness panted after her blast as Sapphire lowered her dome. She and Milk were completely intact and the saw that Ruby was completely worn out. Milk ran over and placed the tired dragoness on her before she and Sapphire ran out of the lab, leaving behind the stallion, his dragons, and the remains of his lab.

Ruby groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. She felt she was lying on something soft. Her vision started to return as she found she was back in the bedroom at the farm. This bed was a little different from the one she and Sapphire shared the night before.

There was an identical bed that Ruby was lying on sitting right next to her. Sapphire was sitting on it as she heard the red dragoness waking up. “Good, you’re awake,” the blind dragoness sighed.

“Are we back at the farm?” Ruby questioned.

“We are. Soil and Milk are waiting downstairs.” Ruby used her wind abilities to carry herself downstairs, following Sapphire to the living room.

“Ruby, you’re okay,” Milk sighed. “I would’ve felt so guilty.”

“I’m... A little confused,” Ruby admitted.

“Well, Milk said that we wouldn’t last long at the lab,” Sapphire said. “So, we agreed we live here.”

“Really?”

“Yes,” Rich Soil said. “You’ll be living with us. If that’s okay with you.”

“...It is,” Ruby responded. “Anything’s gotta be better than staying at the lab.”

“We were hoping you would say that,” Milk said. “By the way, we also got you this.” She walked out of the room for a moment before returning with a wheelchair. “We figured that you would get tired of constantly using your powers to just get around. This will be a good substitute.”

Ruby sat down on and grabbed the wheels and pushed them to make her move. “I think I could get used to this,” she said.

“I’m glad you like it.”

“How about we try and get to know the ponies in town now?” Soil suggested.

“Okay,” Sapphire said. The ponies and dragons left the farm as Ruby got used to her new wheels.

“You know, I’ve been trying to think of some other names for you,” Milk said.

“What do you mean by that?” the dragons asked.

“We weren’t aware of your powers when we first met, so we thought we would give you second names.”

“Kind of like how you’re called Milk, even though your full name is Fresh Milk?” Sapphire asked.

“Exactly. We were thinking of Ruby Sparks and Sapphire Flow.”

“I like the sound of that,” Ruby commented.

“That’s good,” Soil said. The four carried on into town with a new family relationship.

Elsewhere, there was some grumbling as a stallion with a new metal leg walked by some large tubes containing some dragons ranging from infancy to young adults.

“I don’t care how many times I fail,” he said, “I’m going to have the ultimate army.”

“So, what do you think?” Peridot asked.

“Well,” Sandbar said, “I feel like the villain might need some work.”

“We didn’t want to reveal too much of him at first,” Emerald said. “Imagine if they did that about the Mane-iac.”

Sandbar then thought for a second. “Yeah. Fair point.”

“I like the duality of Ruby and Sapphire,” Ocellus commented.

“I have to admit,” Moss said. “I think the naming was kind of clumsy.”

“Yeah, I think those got away from us while we were trying to write the story,” Peridot admitted.

“I’m sure you were just trying to write a good story,” Sandbar remarked.

“That’s true. So, who’s next?” Tanzanite asked.

“Let’s find out,” Discord said. He pulled his horn again and the chairs lit up. This time, the light stopped at Kelpie’s chair.

“Yes,” the hippogriff cheered, pumping his fist. He quickly showed a picture of a hippogriff, or rather three. One was small and sitting next to some ants, one was gigantic as it stood next to Canterlot castle, and one was normal size.

The hippogriff was yellow with a black mane, white beak, talons, and hooves. His costume consisted of a yellow and blue jumpsuit with a matching helmet that covered his face, some gloves, and boots.

“This is Scope,” he explained. “As you can see, he can change his size to make himself bigger or smaller.”

“I like this already,” Discord commented. “Now, how did he get these powers?” Kelpie soon started explaining the origins of this hippogriff.