Episode 1: Poached Eggs/The CMCs & A New Home
Episode 1: Poached Eggs/The CMCs
Long ago in what 'used to be the' magical land of Equestria[ /i]
More than a thousand moons ago, months after the founding of Equestria. An event called the Magic famine occured and drained 90% of magic from Equestria. There were many riots and hundreds of casualties.
The pony society of Equestria has collapsed and many pony groups were made to survive on their own. Weather began moving on their own along wth the sun and moon, crops were harder to grow and took months, moving was constant because of the dangerous unpredictable weather conditions so towns were never built, tasks became very hard to do.
The pony population has changed a lot since then.
Twilight Sparkle along with the other members of her herd Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and 2 members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders Apple Bloom and Scootaloo were on the outskirts of Equestria. This land was called the Badlands by most ponies which were really just dry trees, occasional cactus and small sand storms
"Face it Twilight we're not gonna find shelter or Sweetie Belle out here she's a filly just like me. Do you really think she could make out here without any supplies." Apple Bloom informed the leader
The whole reason why Twilight's herd was out here in the Badlands in the first place is because they moving around Equestria for survivable. There seems to be something going on in the place that ponies describe as a magic famine
which basically means that all of the powerful magic like a magic blast, supersonic flight, alicorn magic and sonic rain booms are all gone. While all the basic magic telekinesis and flight stay intact.
"Applejack why can't we stay at the apple orchard anymore?" Apple Bloom asked her older sister
"You gotta understand Sugarcube that there's nothing left on the orchard Granny Smith was already gone by then and Big Mac shortly followed. There's nothing left for us on the orchard all the trees have rotted and the remaining one was taken out by my temper."
"Um have you seen Scootaloo" Fluttershy asked Apple Bloom, which made the filly look next to her and finding that Scootaloo's gone before spotting her trying to balance on a tower of rocks.
"Hey get off of there" the older pegasus said trotting over to the tower of rocks. But when she reached the tower of rocks the peagsus fleapt off the tower. This caused luckily only the small rock to fall on Fluttershy's forehead causing her to let out a quiet ouch. She then got scared when it looked like the big rock was gonna fall but it stabilized at the last second.
"Welp everypony we tried but there's nothing here, guess we'll have to go back" She informed her herd
They all turned around and started to head back all with a sad expression , all of a sudden, out of nowhere, unconventionally, Murphy's law etc, it started raining.
"Raining in a desert, how bad is our luck." Scootaloo pointed out by putting a hoof on her face.
"Even though it's not raining that hard we don't want to walk through all this, so lets just set up camp here." Twilight told the herd before dropping her saddle bag of supplies, followed by the others as they set up their camp.
Once nighttime came due to the sun and moon cycle being natural now. It stopped raining and Twilight was staring at the stars wishing that she wasn't born into a world with barely any magic, things like cutie marks being elusive and survival requiring a herd. Speaking of a herd she then decided to reflect on her first encounters with the members of her herd starting with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo or the CMCs.
Flashback
Ever since Equestria had fallen into a magic famine as most ponies call it and ponies started creating groups to survive on their own. This famine had drained Equestria of powerful magic like alicorn magic and supersonic flight, leaving basic magic like telekinesis and normal flight.
Twilight was looking for the right ponies, the ones that were rational and capable of surviving a long time in the wilderness.
After a while of searching for any ponies since of course Ponyville and Canterlot were in ruins and all there was now for miles was the wilderness she found a somehow still intact treehouse. She approached the treehouse knocking on the door, with no answer of hearing any movement she let herself in.
Inside the small treehouse Twilight found 2 fillies inside, they were both sitting in the corner and they had a worried look on their faces. When the unicorn approached them she simply asked "Um what's wrong, are you two okay?"
The yellow filly with a red mane spoke up "Hello there i'm Apple Bloom this is Scootaloo, were looking for a lost member of The Cutie Mark Crusaders her name is Sweetie can you help us?" she asked the unicorn
Twilight was hesitant at first while she could already tell these 2 weren't gonna help with survival, but she did want to help find this Sweetie Belle and plus she knew a side quest could make things more interesting for her "You know what i'll help you two look for her come." she told the fillies
In The Present
The next day Twilight and her herd had headed back to the Everfree forest their previous base camp.
"Gosh i wish i could actually fly properly" Scootaloo said to the others before laying down on a pile of rocks. All of a sudden the pile of rocks fell over catching the pegasus off guard but luckily she wasn't hurt.
"What was that-" Twilight said before looking into the pile of rock, her eyes widened as she had found a nest of 3 dragon eggs , each a different color and pattern and when she pulled them out of the pile of rocks the entire herd was shocked.
Twilight suddenly gained a lot of energy and had a lot of questions "Are these actually dragon eggs? Why were they in a random pile of rocks? Should we take them?"
Eventually after the rest of the herd was able to calm the leader down she then got out an Equestria history book to learn more about these dragons.
"According to this Equestria history book dragons used to be pretty common creatures, until they became homicidal and they started killing each other and eating their own eggs. They never united forming some sorts of dragon kingdom, which made them very rare and such things as dragons eggs elusive." Twilight explained to the others before putting the history back in the saddle bag.
"Wait so what should we do with these dragons eggs?" Apple Bloom asked "I say we should take care of them, and wait for them to hatch." Fluttershy suggested
"We don't have that long, how about we just find a dragon and have them take care of these eggs." Rainbow suggested.
"Alright everypony i'm the leader so i'm deciding, we're gonna take care of these eggs cause first of all dragons are already very rare creatures and second of all the dragons are cannibals the history book said they killed each other and ate their own eggs." Twilight reminded the herd
The herd packed up camp and moved again leaving the Everfree Forest and headed east. And after a few days they eventually found themselves in this flat terrain with the occasional tree.
"This looks like a nice environment for the eggs to hatch in." Fluttershy stated wrapping the eggs in a blanket and placing them in a nest the herd had just finished making.
Meanwhile not too far from the nest, 2 hippogriffs were scavenging for food "Wait hold one a second why are we here again?" Silverstream a white hippogriff with a teal mane asked Silverstream a pink hippogriff with a light blue mane.
Terramar spat out a lump of dirt "Bleh salty, look sis we're here to look for food for the kingdom, apparently these land creatures had better food sources than dead sea creatures and barely edible seaweed."
"Hold on a second bro , who are these land creatures you're referring to ?" Silverstream asked "These land creatures are creatures that walk on something called hooves, some have wings and others have something called horns."
"Seriously another one of your stories about the surface to creep me out." she countered "I wasn't trying to-" he suddenly interrupted by his sister who made a random noise.
"There's gotta be something good around here." Silver said looking around the flat terrain. "There doesn't seem to be anything but this short land seaweed and these strands of seaweed on these trees." Terramar told her plucking a green lead off a tree
After a bit more searching Silverstream spotted some food "Hey i know what we can try, BOILED EGGS!" she yelled out. "Uh Silver where are we gonna find some eggs? There's nothing but land seaweed for miles." the male hippogriff reminded her.
"The eggs i was talking about are over there." Silverstream said pointing a talon at the nest of dragon eggs. "Huh good eye sis but I think you need to double check, look closer."
When she looked again she noticed Twilight's herd surrounding the nest of dragon eggs.
"We're gonna need some help" Terramar simply said before grabbing his sister's arm
"That group of land creatures are guarding those eggs so we might have a problem if we steal their foals." Silverstream explained to Princess Skystar
"Uh cousins those land dwellers aren't like us so they can't make or produce eggs." Skystar countered "Now do you have a plan cause i don't?" she informed her cousins her voice, losing its tone when she reached the end of her sentence
"Actually i do" Silver said before walking into a bush and came out a few seconds later trying to pull something out of the bush that looked like a giant rubber band. It was revealed a few seconds later that this rubber band was connected to a wooden Y.
"Uh Silver what is that suppose to be?" Terramar asked her.
"This is something i like to call a slingshot i made it myself, saw others playing a sport with it" Silverstream explained setting up the slingshot
"So what's the plan Silverstream? How is a slingshot gonna help us get the eggs?" Skystar asked "Are we gonna fling ourselves at those land dwellers?"
"Here's the plan i'll set this slingshot up and since the land ponies have probably never seen a slingshot it'll distract them and then we'll swoop in and grab the eggs." Silverstream explained before grabbing the band of the slingshot and started dragging it to a nearby rock.
Twilight was looking over the eggs, Fluttershy added twigs to the nest and wrapped a blanket around them, Applejack was using a magnifying glass to inspect some apples and Rainbow was on lookout duty to spot any danger "Uh hey i think i see something on a rock it looks like a wooden Y with a rubber band across it."
"Must be some kind of sign come on lets go check it out" Applejack said signaling the others to follow her.
"Now's our chance" Skystar told her cousins before they all flew over to the nest and grabbed an egg, Terramar grabbing the magnifying glass Applejack was just using.
When the herd returned they all gasped, realizing what happened at the same time "What how?" Twilight asked, approaching the nest a little, she got angry, the herd following shortly. "Whoever did this is gonna pay." Twilight stated through gritted teeth.
"I think i know who" Rainbow said spotting the 2 hippogriffs not too far from the nest. Terramar was trying to cook the eggs with the magnifying glass, Silverstream blew some steam away from the eggs. "Hopefully i can get these eggs cooked fast enough!" Skystar stated before licking her beak.
"HEY!" Twilight yelled approaching the hippogriffs "First of all what are you three suppose to be and second of all what do you think you're doing with our dragon eggs?"
"First off all were hippogriffs half pony half bird creatures and second of all Dragon Eggs? These aren't even your own eggs." Skystar responded which was followed by a laugh.
"Well at least we're not trying to cook and eat the eggs!" Twilight countered, she then started growling and gave the 3 hippogriffs an angered expression. "Look just give us the dragon eggs back and no creature gets hurt."
"Terramar throw the magnifying glass at them" Skystar told him in a panicked tone, the male hippogriff proceeded to do this throwing the hot piece of glass at Twilight burning her muzzle knocking her back into her herd.
"MAKE A RUN FOR IT!" the princess said before all 3 hippogriffs ran off with the eggs
"Those Hippogriffs are gonna pay!" Twilight said through gritted teeth. "I got just the thing" Rainbow said dragging the slingshot over to the herd.
"Ah-ha we can use this to launch stuff at them QUICKLY GRAB EVERY BLUNT OBJECT YOU CAN FIND!" the unicorn yelled. The herd grabbed rocks, boulders, logs, pieces of wood, and a bunch of other things. They loaded them all into the slingshot and fired it towards the hippogriffs, unfortunately all of the debris missed them.
"They're getting away!" Rainbow altered the herd "Oh no they don't!" Twilight said loading a torch into the slingshot and firing it, the torch ended up hitting a tree which set it on fire.
Fluttershy quickly flew over to that tree rolling a giant boulder onto it putting out the fire. "You're gonna hurt the animals" the pegasus told Rainbow.
"Um Twilight there seems to be something going on over there." Applejack said pointing a hoof at the thing she was talking about.
What she saw was the 3 hippogriffs from earlier were building something and they put another random hippogriff in the middle of it.
"Looks like some kind of fortress or structure " Fluttershy said, the structure itself was on a platform 2 small pieces on the edge of them2 wooden planks were holding it up. Inside those wooden planks was a small rectangle structure 2 more wooden planks placed horizontally and 2 glass planks placed vertically.
Back to the main structure above the 2 main wooden planks there was another wooden plank placed horizontally, that plank being the platform for an identical copy of the bottom part. Except there was a small piece of wood at the top and inside it was another small piece of wood with a female hippogriff placed on it.
"Just try to knock this down" the hippogriff taunted the herd before giggling at them "That's not very nice" Fluttershy stated her voice angering a little
"How does they except us to fight against this fortress" Apple Bloom said before getting a response from Scootaloo "You know we can just go around this structure it's not like we're required to beat this."
"Well these hippogriffs have to pay for what they're doing to the dragon eggs if they eat them it'll take away the only chance the dragon species has to repopulate and form a kingdom." Twilight explained
"Got just the thing" Rainbow said setting up the slingshot they found earlier sitting on a rock "Since super sonic flight is gone guess me and Fluttershy can use this to gain some and speed and for the rest of you to knock down the structures."
"Guess i'll go first" Twilight said before hopping into the slingshot, it being held down by Fluttershy "Be careful Twilight" the pegasus told her.
"I need some help here" Twilight said having trouble with stretching back the rubber band of the slingshot. Rainbow and Applejack helped her with this problem pulling the slingshot back and aiming it toward the structure.
"On the count of 3 release me" the unicorn said "1 2-" suddenly Rainbow smacked Applejack in the face causing her to let go as the pegasus willingly let go launching Twilight "I WASN'T READY!" the unicorn yelled being launched at the structure.
Twilight yelled which caused her horn to suddenly glow and a few waves of magic came out. But when it hit the structure instead of destroying the fortress it toppled over, and crushed the female hippogriff with a wooden plank. Twilight crashed into some wooden planks destroying them "Did i do it?" she asked weakly.
"Rainbow what was that for" Applejack asked rubbing the place where she smacked her. "Oh come on it's funny" the pegasus simply responded.
The next structure or fortress the herd came across was on a hills with 2 parts the first one on the lower hill, 2 stone planks holding it up on the left and 2 glass planks holding it up on the right. On top there was 2 stone planks placed horizontally, and on top of those planks were 10 glass cubes. There was also a small piece of glass placed across touching the 2 glass planks and inside the structure was a male hippogriff.
On the upper part of the hill was an identical
On the upper part of the hill was an identical copy of the structure on the bottom hill except both sides had stone planks and there was no piece of glass placed across and touching the right stone plank and inside that structure was a another female hippogriff.
"Guess what you land ponies stone is 5 times stronger than wood." the male hippogriff taunted, the 2 hippogriffs laughing at the herd.
"I'll go this time" Apple Bloom said before hopping into the slingshot and Applejack pulling it back. "Alright let's see here" the older earth pony said trying to aim the filly at the right spot, she first thought about aiming her at the stone but then decided against it since stone is stronger than wood.
In the end Applejack decided to launch Apple Bloom to the top where the 10 glass cubes were.
Apple Bloom was launched into the structure on the lower hill. When she hit the glass cubes on top she shattered all of them but also caused the fortress to tip over crushing the male hippogriff in the process.
"You completely missed me!" the female hippogriff taunted. "I'll finish them off" Scootaloo said before hopping into the slingshot "Launch me where you launched Apple Bloom." the pegasus requested, before being launched by Rainbow Dash towards the structure on the upper part of the hill.
Scootaloo just barely missed the 10 glass cubes she ended up hitting the 2 stone planks but luckily this was enough to knock over the structure crushing the female hippogriff and shattering all 10 glass cubes.
"Hey i spotted the hippogriffs they're up ahead." Rainbow said pointing a hoof at them. After Twilight picked up Apple Bloom and Scootaloo they made their way to the 3 hippogriffs.
"What? How did you catch up to us so fast and how did you get past our defenses?" Skystar asked in a surprised tone.
"First of all we didn't have to get past your structures or fortresses" Scootaloo started "We just decided to knock them down because we knew you hippogriffs had to pay." Twilight completed "We've also used the slingshot you 3 left behind" she concluded
Princess Skystar looked around before looking at her cousin "Silverstream you distract them!" she said , before she along with the Terramar left.
"Sure thing cousin, see you all later" Silverstream said in a cheerful tone waving a claw goodbye. "Your quest ends here nothing gets past me." She told the herd
Twilight growled at Silverstream before shouting which released the same waves of magic from earlier which knocked the hippogriff into a nearby rock. "This battle cry is a lot stronger than i thought it'll be."
"When did these land ponies have abilities?" Silverstream asked weakly, trying to get up "NOT SO FAST!" the 2 crusaders yelled in unison before beating her up.
Twilight stomped on Silverstream with all 4 hooves as Rainbow spotted the 3 remaining hippogriffs. Terramar giggling followed by Skystar bursting into laughter as they both headed towards the sea shore.
"We gotta keep following them" Twilight told the herd, before stomping on Silverstream one last time leaving her badly bruised but not bruised enough to draw blood.
"Uh oh they're catching up to us" Terramar warned his cousin as they were walking between 2 trees "Don't worry i've got a plan." she told him before pulling out a remote and pressing the big red button.
All of a sudden 2 massive structures exploded knocking wood, glass and stone onto the path that blocked Twilight's herd from going after the 3 remaining hippogriffs.
"Is this suppose to stop us?" Scootaloo asked "Says the filly that can't fly properly" Apple Bloom responded "HEY!"
"Stop it you two, we've gotta focus on getting the dragon eggs back." Fluttershy reminded the 2 fillies
Once Twilight and the herd go over the huge pile of materials they found themselves on a beach shore with the remining hippogriffs nowhere in site.
"Where'd they go?" Applejack asked and wondered "Hey everyone they say that you can hear the ocean if you put a seashell up to your ear." Fluttershy told the others before putting a seashell up to her right ear.
"I think i have a clue of where they went" Twilight informed the herd, spotting a trail of structure materials floating in the water.
Putting on scuba diving equipment which was just a bubble with a tube in it which was connected to an oxygen tank. The herd dived into the water bringing the slingshot along and luckily there was a trail of sinking fortress material so once following that they found a small sign saying Seaquestria and an arrow pointing to the right.
"Um guys there's literally a bigger sign say Welcome To Seaquestria kingdom of the Seaponies." Applejack said pointing at the bigger sign.
"Do they expect us to fall for this cheap trick." Apple Bloom said before punching and destroying the sign, it sinking to the bottom of the ocean
"Wait so you're telling me that not only are these hippogriffs half pony half bird creatures but they can also turn into new creatures called seaponies and live in a kingdom called Seaquestria. Things just got a whole lot complicated for us" Twilight said in an annoyed tone
The next thing they found after swimming past the was a structure made completely out of wood which explains all the sinking structure material. The fortress itself was on a platform of rocks 2 blocks on either side holding it up and 1 block on either side placed horizontally on top of them.
Inside those 2 sets of blocks was another block in the middle separating 2 male seaponies. On the top part of the structure the 2 blocks placed horizontally along with 2 planks the middle block was holding up worked as a platform for the top part of the fortress.
The top part of the structure had 2 planks, on the left side of the structure on the left it was held up by 2 small cubes and the right side was held up by a short plank and inside it was a female hippogriff. The right side of the structure was identical to the left except the short plank and was on the left and the 2 cubes were on the right and inside it was another female hippogriff.
"This structure is made out of 2 layers of thick wood you need some insane speed to break through this." a female hippogriff taunted
"This might sound crazy but i think i should knock this one down hopefully i can gain some speed." Rainbow suggested before setting up the slingshot on top of a rock and hopping in.
"Aim for the middle part" the pegasus requested as Twilight adjusted her aim and pulled back the slingshot.
When Twilight released Rainbow the pegasus wanted to try something that might help break through the 2 layers of wood. She flew forward which made her gain a huge amount of speed which was enough to break right through the wooden structure causing it to collapse crushing all 4 hippogriffs inside leaving a rainbow trail.
"Yes flew right through it" Rainbow said with pride as she brushed herself off as the wood sank to the ocean floor.
The next fortress they came across was completely made out of stone there were 2 castle towers both with female seaponies. In between them was another structure 2 planks holding it up, 2 blocks in the middle separating 2 male seaponies. There were 4 planks placed horizontally on top.
2 blocks were placed in the middle of these 4 planks and above it was 2 blocks that reached the top and 2 small planks were placed on either side. 2 planks on either side were leaned over, only being stopped by 2 stone cubes on either side.
"If you thought the first stone structure was bad, this one has 2 layers of stone." a female seaponie taunted, the herd hearing laughter from the other seaponies.
"Hey Twilight i should take this one out since i do have an explosive temper." Applejack explained "Yeah we all do, these half birds, half ponies but also half hippogriff, half seapony creatures stole the dragon eggs." the unicorn responded
"No serisouly i have a explosive temper as in if i get mad i blow up like a bomb." Applejack corrects her "You're kidding right?" Twilight asks "No i'm not i'll prove it to you" she responded before hopping into the slingshot.
"If you say so" the leader simply responds before pulling back the slingshot "Launch me into the middle structure" The earth pony requests. Twilight takes note of this and pulls the rubber band down.
When Applejack is launched she flies over the first stone tower and hits the middle structure. Once she lands there she manages to break some stone, she then starts growling, which just gets her laughed at by the 2 male seaponies.
All of a sudden her ponytail (the one in her mane) catches on fire acting like a fuse. Once the fuse reaches her main mane Applejack blows up, destroying the middle structure taking out the 2 male seaponies. Blasting stone to either tower taking out a part of them which causes them to fall over crushing the 2 female seaponies.
"Alright that's taken care of just one more structure to take out." Twilight informed her herd as they swam past the stone castle, Fluttershy picking up Applejack in the process.
"How did you learn to do that?" Apple Bloom asked her older sister
"I discovered it when this loss of powerful magic started unfortunately when i discovered it i couldn't control it everytime i would be surprised i blew up but luckily around the time i met Twilight i managed to control it now being able to explode at will." Applejack explained to her sister.
The final structure they came across was a wooden structure with metal wheels there was also starfruit lying around. As for the structure itself it was in the shape of a train, the last wooden cart carried a female seapony in it and the first cart had 3 starfruit in it. Finally there was the biggest part of the structure the locomotive made out of wood planks and blocks and inside it was a male seapony.
There was also a smaller wooden structure in the shape of a train except the locomotive was way smaller and inside it was a male seapony. There was also the cart which was somehow bigger than the locomotive which carried another male seapony.
"All aboard the starfruit train." the male seapony in the big locomotive said, the herd knowing it was an attempt to taunt them.
"I'm starting to rethink this, I mean we're destroying another creature's home over 3 dragon eggs." Fluttershy said swimming back a little.
"You do realize how rare dragons are and how such things as dragons eggs are elusive." Twilight reminded her. Unfortunately this wasn't enough to convince Fluttershy to fight back against these seaponies.
"Hang on Twilight i'll handle this" Rainbow told her pushing the unicorn aside a little "Those seaponies are gonna eat baby dragons" the pegasus simply told Fluttershy which angered her.
"THOSE SEAPONIES ARE GONNA PAY!" she yelled before hopping into the slingshot. She then noticed the seashell she was using earlier to listen to the ocean was shaking a lot "Um that seashell seems to be shaking a whole awful lot" she told the others going back to her normal shy tone.
"Huh this must be the sea pressure" Apple Bloom stated picking up and examining the shaking seashell. "Give it to me might be effective against those seaponies." Fluttershy requested
"Aim me up i'm gonna airdrop this like a bomb." the pegasus explained as the slingshot was being pulled back. When Fluttershy was launched she flew right over the structure and then dropped the pressurized seashell on the big wooden locomotive blowing it up taking out the male seapony inside.
The explosion blew wood into the back carts destroying the one carrying the 3 starfruits and the one carrying the female seapony. Chunks of wood were also blasted into the smaller wooden train which took out both male seaponies.
"Something tells me that's where the remaining hippogriffs are." Twilight told her herd pointing at a big lantern, once they swam inside they found a large white seapony with a purple mane trying to crack open one of the dragon eggs "Come on, come on break" she said banging the egg against her throne.
"Wait a minute YOU'RE THE QUEEN!" Twilight assumed since Novo seemed to be the only ruler of Seaquestria. "Yeah i'm the queen the name's Queen Novo and that means i can do this GUARDS!" she yelled
All of a sudden 4 seaponies dressed in armor surround the herd all pointing a spear at them, which finally gave Twilight a good look at the seaponies.
These seaponies were completely different from their hippogriffs form, they didn't have any feathers just fur and their beaks were replaced by a seahorse snout. Their front hooves were replaced by fins, their wings if they had some and manes were replaced by fins as well. Their back legs were replaced by a fish tail and Twilight noticed that Queen Novo had a light above her head.
"Princess Skystar you distract them, use the pearl if you have to, while i figure out another way to cook these dragon eggs." Queen Novo asked her daughter before swimming off with the dragon eggs.
"See you later mom" Skystar simply said in her sea pony form with the same light above her head. She then reached into a giant white jellyfish above the throne and pulled out a pearl.
"You see this, this is the Pearl Of Transformation meaning i can turn you land ponies into anything i want i'm thinking...huh never thought about this." she then started thinking about what she should transform Twilight's herd into.
Twilight started growling which confused not only the herd but also the guards a little. Her horn glowed for second before she screamed which let out a massive battle cry which knocked back the seapony guards and also knocked the pearl out of Skystar's fins.
"I got it i'll transform you all into bubble fish!" the princess said, opening her eyes and immediately noticing the pearl missing from her fin. "Hey where did the-"
Rainbow Dash swam forward managing to kick Skystar in the neck. Fluttershy then swam up to the seapony and threw another pressurized sea shell at her which blew up badly bruising her. Finally Applejack punched Skystar in the face giving her a black eye, she then ignited her ponytail fuse.
"I hope you like explosions, cause you're about to get one!" Applejack told the seapony before the fuse reached her main mane creating an explosion which finished off Princess Skystar.
Twilight stomped on Skystar with all 4 hooves as Rainbow spotted Queen Novo and Terramar who were swimming towards a massive structure that was still under construction, seaponies still putting on new parts. Terramar giggled at the herd which was followed by Novo bursting into laughter.
"Alright everypony we've taken out 2 half bird, half pony but also half hippogriff, half seapony creatures now we just need to take out 2 mo-" Twilight's voice slurred as the herd came across not only Queen Novo and Terramar but also a bunch of other seaponies in a massive fortress. The structure itself was just a giant square but it had a variety of all the materials glass, wood and stone block, planks and cubes.
"Face it you land dwellers you'll never break down this fortress it has multiple layers of materials, and once you all give up i'll boil these dragon eggs in an underwater volcano." Queen Novo said before licking one of the eggs.
"I'm gonna be honest Twilight i don't think any of our abilities can take down that structure in one try." Applejack admitted
"Looks like we're gonna have to use all our abilities one at a time." Twilight responded.
Twilight jumped in the slingshot and fired herself into a stone part of the structure before letting out a battle cry. "Didn't do much just dented it a little." Twilight said trying to get up.
"I'm going for that box of dynamite" Rainbow stated before launching herself up into the air and dashing forwards hitting the TNT crate causing an explosion that took out almost all the seaponies at the top of the structure.
"Uh what just happened to the roof?" Novo asked the seaponies around her in a panicked tone. Only getting a reponse from Terramar pointing at Apple Bloom and Scootaloo hopping into the slingshot.
"Are you sure about this?" Scootaloo asked her friend "Trust me we'll do more damage like this." Apple Bloom told her before launching themselves at the top part of the structure taking out the remaining seaponies on the roof and knocking down some wood.
Fluttershy went next firing herself at the same area the last 2 fired themselves at the top part. But this time with the roof part gone she threw another pressurized sea shell into the structure blowing up a huge part of it taking out Terramar and a few other seaponies.
"Phew that was a close one" Queen Novo said before letting out a sigh of relief. Unfortunately for her this didn't last long as Applejack launched herself at the part Twilight hit earlier her fuse igniting and causing a explosion taking out both the structure and the remaining seaponies.
The explosion Applejack caused blew glass wood and stone everywhere. A chunk of stone hit the underwater volcano Queen Novo was talking about earlier causing it to erupt and destroy a part of Seaquestria.
Hearing a volcano eruption immediately alerted the seapony ruler "Uh oh better get out of here" she said spotting the Pearl Of Transformation floating around she used it to turn into her hippogriff form and float back up to the surface, getting out of a pond.
"Better make a fire if i want to cook and eat these" Queen Novo thought before trotting off looking for sticks. Twilight's herd quickly recovered from their battle injuries and followed her back to the surface finding themselves in a completely new place.
"Woah where are we?" Fluttershy asked looking around the new area they just discovered. The place they were in had abandoned statues and trees that were covered in moss.
"HEY THERE YOU ARE!" Twilight yelled through gritted teeth spotting Queen Novo hiding behind a statue. "Uh oh" the hippogriff said but before she could fly away with the dragon eggs Twilight grabbed her tail and knocked her back with a battle cry.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo then beat her up, Rainbow punched her in the face giving her a black eye, Fluttershy threw another pressurized sea shell at her blowing her back and finally Applejack ignited her ponytail fuse blowing Queen Novo away.
Twilight let out a sigh of relief having gotten the dragon eggs back, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo jumped for joy, Applejack and Fluttershy inspected the eggs to make sure they were safe and Rainbow growled at the defeated Queen Novo who was badly bruised with bumps all over her body, 2 black eyes and a bent crown, well at least what the herd assumed was a crown, they even caused her nose to bleed.
"If you ever try to steal our dragon eggs again you're gonna pay." Twilight told the hippogriff "Oh yeah well guess what you land dwellers me and the other seaponies will try everything, we're not gonna stop until we eat those eggs." Queen Novo countered.
"Looks like these half birds, half ponies, but also half hippogriff and half seapony creatures will be a problem now." Twilight informed her herd, face hoofing herself.
"I'm gonna be honest look on the bright side Twilight even though they will come back at least it'll be a while." Applejack stated pointing a hoof at the defeated Queen Novo.
Author's Note
I decided to make the actual backstory of the herd and the dragons short cause i wanted to get straight to the plot and i want this story to live up to the comedy tag.
I'll also be writing the other Angry Birds Classic Episodes Mighty Hoax, Danger Above, The Big Setup and Mine And Dine.
But for Ham 'Em High i'll be skipping that one since it makes the least sense to me it's just Poached Eggs but the pigs wear cowboy hats and use a lasso to take the eggs. (Never played the game so correct me if i'm wrong.
So i'll be replacing it with either a brand new plot, something having to do with the Pearl Of Transformation or have the Hippogriffs/Seaponies wear hats but of a different theme (Maybe Pirate Hats)
Episode 2: Mighty Hoax/Rainbow Dash/Bonus: IE
Off Duty
Watching the dragon eggs was a painful task for Twilight, First off, was the rainy season, so it was hard for her with no strong cover to protect from the falling water or from the possible sickness causing bacteria in the water. After that, it was onto fall, while it started slow, it really picked up quite fast. It was the easiest for Twilight, it was a little cold but overall the hazards weren't anything dangerous, just a bunch of loose leaves blowing in the wind.
And after that came the worst one yet snow season or snowy season, it basically combined rainy season and cold temperature together, and made it 10 times worst just like the rain no real cover from the snow or temperature. Luckily for Twilight after all that crazy weather was spring no real problems during this season with temperature or conditions. The only real problem here seem to be her mood from experiencing all that crazy weather
Everything that was just described was only 1 one month of this. Yep that's right this ended up lasting for 6 months which felt like a eternity to Twilight the whole point of watching dragon eggs was to wait for them to either hatch or for a dragon to find them all the while protecting them from hungry seaponies/hippogriff.
"I'M AWAKE!" Twilight yelled waking up from a night of watching the dragon eggs, she suddenly found herself get a pair of sunglasses on her face, a sunhat on her head and given a camera.
"HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" she protested "Twilight it's your Off Duty Vacation, your week off" Fluttershy explained to her friend "Vacation i didn't even know, we did that." Twilight responded.
"We all take turns on an Off Duty vacation, everyone else had already taken theirs so now it's your turn, come on get going." Fluttershy said shoving Twilight along "HOLD ON, Hold on who's gonna watch the dragon eggs while i'm gone" the unicorn asked
"Oh don't worry Applejack, Rainbow Dash and The Cutie Mark Crusaders will look after them" Fluttershy explained to her.
When Twilight looked at the nest area she found the others slacking off. Rainbow Dash stretching out her wings , Applejack was busy eating apples from a basket and the Crusaders were drawing a picture.
"Don't worry i'll handle this LISTEN UP EVERYPONY!" Fluttershy yelled in an angered tone, before going back to her normal shy tone "Twilight is going on a Off Duty Vacation it's her week off so she's leaving you 5 to look after the dragon eggs got it?" she said getting a nod from the others.
The other 5 ponies gathered around the nest of dragon eggs and started looking around "See Twilight the eggs are in good hooves, come on better get going" the pegasus said giving Twilight her luggage before pushing her. "Bye see you in a week"
Fluttershy said before flying off back to her garden.
Twilight was never really sure if she should trust the other members of the group with the dragon eggs since it was pretty common for the others to get cocky and distracted. In fact most of the time they act cocky led to close calls with the Hippogriffs almost getting away with the eggs if it wasn't for her. Twilight picked up her luggage with her magic and took a few steps before looking back, finding the others slacking off, as soon as they realized they went into their defense mode.
"Not so sure about this" Twilight thought before taking a few more steps forward before turning around again, finding the other members slacking off before going back to their defense modes. She looked back taking the last few steps before going out of sight.
"You think she's gone?" Rainbow whispered to Applejack "I'm gonna be honest pretty sure she is" the earth pony responded.
"I think it's safe to say that it's safe to go back to whatever we were doing." Apple Bloom said before her and the other 2 crusaders went back to drawing shortly being followed by the 2 older ponies going back to what they were doing.
"HEY!" Twilight yelled trotting over and stopping in front of the group causing them to go back into their defense mode.
Even after that whole mess was solved with the others slacking off and Twilight finally made it to a beach sitting in a folding chair, with a sun umbrella and a coconut cup with a cocktail umbrella. She was still anxious not fully trusting the others with guarding the dragon eggs. Scared of what might happen or how they could screw this up while at the same time trying to enjoy her vacation.
She tried to play some calm beach music to get her mind off this fear, but this didn't really have much of an effect on her. Twilight decided to go for a sip of her drink, but when she did she saw it turn into a dragon egg for a split second "WHAT THE!" the unicorn yelled almost knocking her drink over
"Calm down Twilight don't let all that dragon egg protecting get to you" she thought to herself before putting on her sunglasses trying to relax
Meanwhile back with the others they've just finished with a scavenger hunt "Thought a scavenger hunt for the coolest would make things more interesting." Rainbow said before pulling out a pair of goggles
"Found this pair of goggles looks brand new and could definitely help with my flying." the pegasus said before trying on the goggles
"We managed to find the remains of what looks like a treehouse or a clubhouse not the coolest just strange to us." Scootaloo explained
"I'm gonna be honest i'm not really sure what i found it looks like some kind of orange shiny stone on a golden collar." Applejack explained examining the strange item.
Princess Skystar in her hippogriff form was watching the ponies from the bushes
"Alright every hippogriff not only are the land ponies distracted Twilight Sparkle also isn't there giving us a huge advantage. Here's the plan we'll ambush them and steal the dragon eggs it's that simple." Skystar told an army of Seaponies/Hippogriffs with a variety of weapons.
Applejack and Rainbow started playing ball with the Cutie Mark Crusaders before they noticed shadows under them getting bigger. When they all looked up they saw a huge army of hippogriffs with nets and a variety of weapons.
"AMBUSH GET THE DRAGON EGGS!" Skystar yelled guiding the army.
"Maybe taking some pictures will take my mind off the dragon eggs." Twilight said to herself before looking for something photo worthy. See then found a coconut tree and knew that it was photo worthy, but when she pointed her camera at it the coconuts turned into dragon eggs.
"Dragon Eggs?" she said in a confused tone before pointing the camera at rocks that also turned into a dragon egg "Dragon Eggs,DRAGON EGGS AHHH!?" she yelled before dropping the camera and stomping on it breaking it.
"Phew glad that's over" Twilight thought before looking up at the sun which was in the shape of a dragon egg "DRAGON EGG!" the unicorn yelled "I can't take this anymore!" she admitted before trotting off at a speed not even Rainbow Dash could beat.
When Twilight got back not only was the nest empty Rainbow Dash was beaten into a stone wall, Applejack was beaten into the ground only hat visible, Apple Bloom's head was stuck inside a tree, Sweetie Belle was tangled in a bush next to the tree Apple Bloom was stuck in and Scootaloo fell out of said tree.
With a sigh Twilight ran to a certain part of the beach put on a fish bowl helmet on and dived in, before completely destroying Seaquestria by casting a spell that created an underwater earthquake. In the end she came back with the dragon eggs and put them back in the nest.
"Why weren't any of you focusing on protecting the dragon eggs that was another close call." Twilight said in an angered tone
"Sorry about that Twilight" Applejack apologized followed by Rainbow Dash and the crusaders all feeling bad for what happened "Eh i can't stay too mad at you guys, you know this gives me an idea." Twilight told the others
Twilight returned to the beach but with the other this time who were playing ball. She had also brought the dragon eggs along setting them down in folding chairs and dressed them up in hats and sunglasses. Twilight enjoyed the rest of her vacation knowing that she can finally relax without the fear of the Seaponies/Hippogriffs stealing the eggs.
Author's Note
I decided to to replace the pigs with Seaponies since according to science cracking an egg at the ocean floor doesn't cause it to dissolve into a gooey mess and instead acts like a shell keeping the yolk intact.
Episode 3: A Wish Out Of Water (Semi-Original Chapter)/Applejack
Hocus Pocus/A New Home
Terramar in his hippogriff form was looking on the beach shore for food, more specifically food that's fresh and still intact. Seaquestria did have food and by food the seaponies mean seaweed that's just barely edible, dead fish or sea creatures, raw clams basically anything edible they could find in or around Seaqurstria luckily for them the food supply in the kingdom was pretty stable.
He found the typical things on the shore other hippogriffs had found when given the task to find food on land. Small live sea creatures and a whole bunch of trash, plastic bags, water bottles, soda rings, plastic utensils, broken beach equipment, broken coconuts, and trash bags.
"These land dwellers should really start properly throwing away their trash." Terramar said digging through a pile of trash. When he removed a broken surfboard he found a box covered in some sand, when he wiped off most of the sand and blew off the rest it revealed the box was a magician starter pack set.
"Huh wonder how this ended up here looks brand new." Terramar said examining the details of the box
Flashback
"Welp Twilight i thought practical magic would be worth it but i guess not." Celestia a new t member of the herd informed Twilight. Celestia then loaded the magician starter pack set into the slingshot and launched it away "We'll never see that thing ever again, there it goes into the ocean." Twilight concluded
When Terramar messily ripped open the magician starter pack he found a top hat, and a magician magic wand, but most importantly found a book called Magic Tricks And Magic Words For Beginners. He had seen magic before during his attempts with her older sister Silverstream to steal the dragon eggs, mainly the type Twilight Sparkle and 2 other long lost members of their herd used. But he never heard of magic tricks when he opened the first page, the introduction page the book described magic tricks as practical magic.
When he flipped the page he found the section "Magic words or Spell Words" when the hippogriff looked through the list of them and found 2 that were for disappearing and reappearing spells.
"Ohhh a disappearing spell and reappearing spell, alright lets see here Hocus Pocus for disappearing and Abracadabra for reappearing" Terramar thought reading the list of magic words. "Better show the others" he thought before putting on the top hat and grabbing the magician wand.
Right before he was about to turn back into his seapony form he noticed cake baking supplies and thought that he could use them for his magic tricks.
Once getting back to Seaquestria the houses now built like theater buildings, Twilight and the other members of her herd had destroyed the underwater kingdom multiple times both unintentionally and intentionally, but mostly intentionally. Occasionally Twilight would swim down here and get the dragon eggs back destroying all of Seaquestria in the process.
Princess Skystar had printed blueprints to rebuild and keep a certain design of the buildings but each time the blueprints were either lost or destroyed during the destruction. So each time they have to rebuild Seaquestria with a new theme/buildings in this case it is theater buildings.
"Alright every seapony see this hat, it's empty" Terramar said showing the inside of his top hat to the crowd of seaponies.
"But first i'll need a volunteer" he said looking at the crowd, unfortunately no pony wanted to. So with a sigh he just ended up picking his sister Silverstream
"Alright watch this HOCUS POCUS!" Terramar yelled and with a puff of smoke reached his magician wand into the top hat and pulled out a frosted cupcake "Here you go" the seapony said handing his older sister the cupcake before putting the top hat back on his head.
"A Cupcake serisouly?" Queen Novo exclaimed in a puzzled tone, as Silverstream sat down next to her giggling and ate the cupcake in one bite.
Terramar swam off stage, coming back a few seconds later pushing something covered by a blanket onto the stage from stage left. He then introduced his next magic trick to the crowd.
"For my next trick i'll make this cake disappear." he said pulling the blanket revealing a frosted cake with sea food toppings which fascinated the crowd especially Queen Nova who really wanted to try it.
Terramar then swam off the stage and pushed a booth with a curtain from stage right. He then proceeded to summon a roof from the ceiling and pulled it which opened the curtain in the booth, he then put the sea cake in the booth and pulled the rope again to close the curtain .
"Alright now HOCUS POCUS!" he yelled waving his magician wand and with a puff of smoke he opened the curtain revealing that the frosted sea cake was gone. Just like with the last trick the crowd was fascinated by the trick knowing that Terramar could make whole things disappear.
"THE SEA CAKE!" Queen Novo yelled even swimming off her seat towards the stage. "Don't worry every pony i can make it reappear." Terramar said before pulling the rope closing the curtain and raising his wand.
He paused he couldn't believe he forgot the magic word or spell word for the reappearing spell. "Excuse me for a second" the seapony said followed by a nervous chuckle before swimming offstage to stage left.
He pulled out the Magic Tricks and Magic Words for Beginners and flipped through the pages for the list of magic words. While Terramar was busy looking for the magic word Queen Novo swam onto the stage and climbed into the booth getting a gasp from the crowd of seaponies.
"Reappearing spell, reappearing spell" Terramar muttered repeatedly before finding the magic word he was looking for. Once he swam back onto the stage he threw the magic book aside which got him worried looks from some seaponies in the crowd.
"I got it now ABRACADABRA!" he yelled waving his wand and with another puff of smoke he pulled the rope opening the curtain revealing Queen Novo's crown which led to the crowd freaking out.
"Why are you-" he started before looking into the booth and saw the queen's crown for himself, before looking back and finding her seat empty.
"Uh uh ABRACADABRA" Terramar exclaimed in a panicked tone. Even though the spell worked something reappearing unfortunately it was the sea cake from earlier. This just led to Terramar letting out a scream that could even be heard from outside Seaquestria.
All the seaponies in Seaquestria were at the scene all of them talking about the disappearance of Queen Novo. All the while 2 seapony guards were standing at the booth as Terramar was flipping through the book for a counter spell.
"OH COME ON THERE'S GOTTA BE A COUNTER SPELL IN THERE SOMEWHERE!" a seapony guard yelled at Terramar "Are you all ready?" the guard a line of seaponies in a rope chain
"Yes absolutely sure about this" Silverstream responded trying to keep her cheerful tone "Alright here's the plan we'll be teleported to where Queen Novo is and when we get her, you all pull us out." the second guard explained before they both went into the booth.
"Hopefully this plan will work" Terramar told the guards as he raised his wand "HOCUS POCUS!" he yelled and with one last puff of smoke the guards disappeared. All of a sudden the rope started getting pulled into the booth, and before he knew it pulled in Silverstream followed by a bunch of other seaponies.
Other seaponies swam over to the ones on the rope and tried to help them but the ones trying to help in the front were knocked back which created a huge mountain of seaponies. Terramar was still watching in horror as seaponies were being pulled into the booth and disappearing, before seeing the huge mountain of them that ended up squishing him before somehow fitting inside the booth.
He saw the last seapony, a white filly seapony with purple fins get pulled into the booth and disappear. "Welp glad that's finally ov-" he was interrupted by Princess Skystar who squished him.
"Where does this lead?" Skystar managed to say before getting pulled into the booth and disappearing along with all the other seaponies in Seaquestria.
Now with a broken top hat and magician wand Terramar sighed "Welp now that's finally over."
All of a sudden Queen Novo swam through the door panting with branches in her fins and fur messed up and covered in splinters.
"You..don't..want..to know..what..i had to..go through..to get..back..here." Queen Novo said in between pants. Her expression changed very quickly after spotting her crown alongside the sea cake she wanted to try.
"THE SEA CAKE!" she exclaimed before swimming over and taking multiple bites out of the cake. She then took a chunk of the sea cake and swam back to her seat.
"One more magic trick!" she requested "Fine, i'm done with this." Terramar mumbled before going into the booth and closing the curtain "Hocus Pocus" he said lazily before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Flashback
Shortly after the herd's first encounter with the Hippogriffs/Seaponies and Seaquestria they decided to relocate to another area of this flat terrain. "Come on, we better find a new place to live in if we want the chances of those half birds, half pony but also half hippogriff, half seapony creatures to come back and steal the dragon eggs." Twilight explained to the herd before crashing into a throne bush.
But this wasn't any old thorn bush this seemed to be more of a thorn bush box which surrounded a blocked off area of this flat terrain. "I'm gonna be honest and say this is definitely out of place in a flat terrain with the occasional tree." Applejack admitted.
"I have a feeling this wall or box of thorns is hiding something especially considering that it's in the middle of a flat terrain." Twilight suggested to the herd looking at the thorn box.
"Don't worry Twilight i've got this!" Apple Bloom said grabbing a log and charging at the thorns "Hopefully this works" the filly thought before pole vaulting over the wall of thorns. Unfortunately she didn't make it over cause she crashed near the top and somehow managed to get stuck inside one of the walls of the thorn box.
"Hang in there Apple Bloom i'll get you out" Applejack said walking up to the thorns, but right as her fur touched one of the thorns she blew up the explosion was 2 times bigger than the explosion she did during the herd's adventure to get the dragon eggs back.
Luckily after all the smoke cleared it revealed that both Applejack and Apple Bloom were okay. But another thing the herd noticed was that the explosion destroyed one of the thorn walls.
"Does that always happen?" Rainbow asked the earth pony "To be honest that's actually something i didn't even know i could do." AJ explained.
Twilight noticed that behind this thorn wall and a few bushes was something shiny, and when the herd walked past those bushes they found a massive tree but this wasn't any old massive tree this one was coated in crystal, which gave the tree it's shiny look.
"I think i just found our new home!" Twilight informed her herd. Suddenly the herd heard movement and Twilight swore she saw something run by the tree. "I think i saw something, get your abilities ready." the unicorn whispered to the herd.
Rainbow and the 2 crusaders got their speed ready and charged up, Applejack lit her fuse, Fluttershy was getting ready to throw another pressurized seashell and Twilight growled getting her battle cry ready.
"GOTCHA...Ohhh" Twilight's voice slurred as she found a white filly with green eyes, and a purple and pink mane and tail. "Uh how did a filly like you end up here?" she asked the filly.
"Wait a minute is that who we think it is SWEETIE BELLE!" the crusaders both yelled before they both trotted over to Sweetie Belle wrapping her in a hug. "What happened how did you end up her separated from your friends?" Twilight asked her again.
"It's simple me and the crusaders were surviving on our own for a while until i learned about my sister Rarity so i left The Other Crusaders so i could go look for her unfortunately during my travels i got lost and somehow ended up here." Sweetie Belle explained the rest of Twilight's herd.
"Well you know what we'll help look for your sister Rarity, i mean it could make for a good sidequest for surviving in this almost magic-less world but first we better unpack and settle in our new home." Twilight stated
Author's Note
Hocus Porcus is one of my personal favorite Angry Birds Toons Episodes it's pretty hilarious especially with the rope chain joke and the mystery of where the booth leads to.
And also the joke about Seaquestria having to be rebuilt each time it's destroyed in a different way is a reference to the change of Pig City in Angry Birds Toons
