A New World

A New World

0000 Chapter One: Getting Around and Trouble in Everfree

Raiden was slowly examining his surroundings; all he could see was trees, trees, trees, and…more trees. He only growled in annoyance.

“Worst possible place to come out. I can barely even see through this place.” Raiden thought as he continued his search, after a few moments he looked down to look at his new body he was in.

“Hooves? How am I supposed to hold my weapons? Snout, teeth, a mane and tail.” He noticed a puddle and walked over to it and stared. Stared at his reflection. “A horse? No…a pony. I seem smaller than a horse.” Raiden mumbled as he cocked his head before shaking his head.

“No use in sitting around on my rear, better get out before the locals come, that made quite a bang.” Raiden muttered as he began to slowly tread forward to get used to the feeling of going on fours rather than twos. “This isn’t too bad.” He thought as he walked.

A beeping noise clicked in action on his right arm, Raiden brought up his arm or leg, he didn’t care. He brought it up for an examination, a small holographic screen phased into existence showing a compass pointing north. He looked towards that direction and only saw an eerie darkness.

“Hmmm…” Raiden hummed as he looked into the darkness.

*Snap!

Raiden was on alert the instant. His eyes looking around for anything in the forest with him, his hoof slowly inched towards his pistol in his holster. It was a surprise when he felt that he could feel invisible fingers wrap around the weapon. He slowly drew the weapon out and looked around. When nothing came out from the bushes, he placed the pistol back in place, but never lowering his guard. Raiden took another look around this time narrowing his eyes a bit into the darkness. He could see something moving in the bushes, lots of them, yellow glowing eyes stared right back at his own.

“This could be troublesome…” Raiden thought as he glared at the creatures, they glared right back giving small quite snarls.

Raiden moved his eyes scanning the trees, scanning his hostile targets. From the outline of the shadows, it looked wolf-like. Raiden slowly began to tread towards his destination while keeping his guard up and eye on the bushes. The wolf creatures followed out of site, moving with deathly silence, but Raiden was one to be fooled so easily. They were just waiting for the right time to get him by surprise, and he wasn’t going to let that chance occur.

“I need to be able travel more safely…hmmm…” Raiden thought as he looked around, giving his rear an occasional glance.

He spotted a tree about 15 to 18 meters away, low enough for him to climb; he hoped the invisible fingers would apply to climbing. The wolves were getting restless, due to the more scrapping and less stealthy movement now, they wanted his hide sooner or later. In a blink of an eye, Raiden bolted towards the tree, the wolves jumping out in hot pursuit. One wolf gaining on Raiden’s flank, Raiden just scowled as he kept on sprinting. As soon as he reached the tree, Raiden made a tall leap upwards, hooves outstretched. Raiden was praying that the invisible finger grasping would apply, when he felt his grip on a thick branch, he gave a mental sigh and pulled himself up hastily. The wolf jumped up after him, jaws a gape. But to the loss of the wolf, it missed Raiden by mere inches. The wolves howled, barked, and snarled in frustration and anger that their-would be meal had just escaped death.

As Raiden got his bearing, he turned his head to look at his pursuers. “Wood? They’re made of wood? Timber Wolf would be a fitting name.” Raiden thought with a raised eyebrow as he examined the specimen.

Raiden shrugged as he turned his attention back to moving along the trees. He looked around and saw another thick branch not too far, a jumpable distance. He backed up a bit before moving hastily to gain momentum, he gave a grunt as he jumped off the branch and catching another. He looked downwards to the hungry wolves following him, just waiting for him to screw up.

“Not going to be lunch today, dogs.” Raiden mumbled as he continued to jumping from one thick branch to another. (Similar to how Conner moves around in the trees in AC3) As he was jumping, the device on his wrist beeped. He took a glance at it when he landed on a branch.

“Greetings Captain Raiden.” A feminine voice spoke.

“And to you.” Raiden replied as he made another jump, his foot slipped as he landed onto another branch but quickly fixed his mistake by grabbing another branch. The wolves below snarled.

“You are nearing your destination. Distance 575 meters, I see you have a problem with the local wildlife. Would you like assistance?” the voice said again.

“Perhaps that would help, send two Drones over.” Raiden replied.

“Affirmative. Sending drones to location, estimated time 10 minutes.” The connection died, and Raiden cursed as he was at the end of any available branches to jump.

“Damn…I guess I’ll have to wait…” he mumbled as he leaned onto the tree, he kept his eyes on the wolves below. “Perhaps it would be a good time to see what the team collected on.” He said as he glanced at the device on his arm, he somehow pressed a few buttons before a holographic screen came up.

Selection

0-Wildlife
0-Geography
0-Natives
0-Drone Logs

0-Alert Base

Raiden pressed on the option for Drone Logs, the screen enlarged and gave a list.

Drone 1

Drone Alias: Hardhead
Form: Equestrian/Pony
Type: Earth Pony
Job: Repair Worker
Logs:
Log One: It appears that there was an incident earlier today. An equestrian by the name of “Nightmare Moon” had interrupted a party. Chaos was everywhere, and from what I saw. Six mares had left town in search for Nightmare Moon.
-Update
It appears that the 6 mares that went in search have been able to defeat the Nightmare Moon. How they did, I’m unsure of, but my receivers did pick up huge amounts of magic being used in the forest. The shan kin’s should look into this.

Log Two: I happen to be strolling around town casually, well that is until I bumped into another specimen. Looked like a female griffin should I say. Had a hostile attitude, lucky that I can only retaliate if she attacks first. After that encounter, I saw her again this time roaring at another pony sending the pony crying.
-Update
I was invited to a party by the pink mare named Pinkie Pie, fits her for some reason. But the griffin appeared again but it had company of another mare this one had rainbow colored features. The party went well until the griffin cracked. For some reason during the party, something glassy smashed into my head.

-Data Still Updating

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Drone 2

Drone Alias: Shocktastic
Form: Equestrian/Pony
Type: Unicorn
Job: Cook
Logs:
Log One: Apparently they have a season named Applebuck Season or something like that. The farmers at Apple Acre’s seem to be working non-stop especially that mare, I admire her work but she cannot work forever. If she was a robot or cyborg then yes, but not flesh and bones. I gotta get back to cooking, troublesome foods.

Log Two: I met a unicorn today, her name was Twilight Sparkle. She appears to be non-hostile, but I can sense some form of suspicion. I’ll have to keep my eye on her-oh no! The food! NOOOOOO-CRASH-End*

Log Three: Today I was assaulted…I think…a pink mare just happens to appear out of nowhere in my FOV(Field of View). Apparently it seems her friend told her of my existence. What basically happed was when she suddenly appeared in my FOV in front of my face, I happen to give out a small, err no…a huge blast of electricity in surprise. Shocked four ponies in the process, whoops.

-Data Still Updating

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Drone 3

Drone Alias: ShadeyHoods
Form: Equestrian/Pony
Type: Pegasus, Foal
Job: A student
Logs:
Log One: Was attending school like usual, except those troublesome Cutie Mark Crusaders. They did something again today and trashed the whole school, including my project. *Sigh. Children just being children I guess, why did masters make me the size of one? Oh right, to see what the natives learned in school, right right….

Log Two: Met the Crusaders again, apparently they wanted me to help them with something… So I helped, and helped, and helped….didn’t really know what they were trying to do. But it got us into a load of trouble with the adults and I stuck in a huge ball of gum, Applebloom seemed to be the main cause of our troubling situation since she came up with the idea so she was getting yelled at the most. Alas though, I intervened and took all the blame for myself. Not like it mattered anyways.
-Update
………I have no clue what just happened……….I was just accepting a thanks from Applebloom for taking the blame and she pressed her lips on mine and galloped off, leaving me dumbstruck in the dust. What did that mean? My brain refuses to cooperate right now and my system feels like exploding…..I need to think…….a lot….

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Drone 4

Drone Alias: SteelToe
Form: Equestrian/Pony
Type: Earth Pony
Job: Ponyville Guard
Logs:
Log One: Been about 5 weeks since my enlistment and post. Sort of odd for such a peaceful place to have guards, but I guess thievery is a problem around such place. I usually deal with the occasional thug, bar fight, so and so. That Rainbow Dash is really starting to grate my nerves with her arrogance.

Log Two: Was on my day off, was making my way back to base until I ran into some trouble. A huge reptilian just bursted out of nowhere trying to eat me. Not fun trying to evade that multi-headed beast. I think I even saw a few familiar ponies running away from it as well.

Log Three: Another day off, I spent some time in Sparkle’s library looking at all the information I could gather and send back to base. Read something really interesting and checked it out. I’ll have to read this more; title is “Forgotten Alliances”.

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Drone 5

Drone Alias: Buckitup
Form: Equestrian/Pony
Type: Earth Pony
Job: Construction Worker
Logs:
Log One: Just doing the daily work, pushing, pulling, lifting, etc. Nothing too bad in Canterlot, but some of the unicorn guards seem suspicious of me. I better be cautious and ready to fight. Masters will not be pleased if I get captured. But they’ve prepared for such things, if I were to be captured I can use the information Steel has gathered from that book. I can use one of the species as a cover up. Better go the Princess is coming now, wonder why?

Log Two: Frak. Things just went downhill, I’ve been discovered by the damnable princess and I’ve been put into custody. They’re observing now, I can sense their fear. For now, course of action is to give false information, I cannot self-terminate for they would acquire my metal and that would be disastrous.

Log Three: Masters are furious, but they are intending to come and extract me ASAP. I feel…ashamed…

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Raiden glared at the last entry, he was so into it he almost slipped off the branch. He quickly caught himself and repositioned himself on the branch. He noticed that the wolves were long gone but he knew they were still around somewhere.

“Drones inbound, approaching location.” A feminine voice spoke, Raiden gave out a relief as he heard hovering noises.

Two circle like objects were moving towards his location, Raiden gave one last look around and jumped down onto the earth. He quickly took out his pistol and hobbled over to the incoming drones. Better to be safe than sorry.

“Greeting’s Master Raiden. We shall escort you to the base.” A masculine voice spoke out from one of the drones. Raiden only grunted in response and began to hobble after the drones when they began to move in the opposite direction they came from.

-Twelve minutes later….

“Destination arrived, welcome to Granite Bunker.” The drones said before leaving Raiden, staring at a large camouflaged door. He approached and stood still, a red wall of light sparked to life and went over his form.

“Welcome to Granite Bunker, Master Raiden.” A voice said as the door opened showing a stair way downwards.

“Mmhmmm…” Raiden gave his reply as he trotted down the stairs with some difficulty. “I wonder of Raven Team had worse trouble-ouch. That definitely left a mark.”

The camera turns to Raiden’s right to see a pony shaped dent on the metal wall, the pony was upside down in the dent. He continued to trot downwards until he reached another door which opened as he got into distance, revealing a largo room. An emblem was embedded into the wall, a sword with two black raven wings sticking out from both sides. Underneath the blade were words that said “Raven Guard”.

“Took their time to put that there eh?” Raiden thought as he went down another hallway, his hooves clicking and clacking on the metal floor. He entered another room that showed a huge screen on the wall and its controls on a stand.

“Activate Computer.” Raiden said loudly, the machine crackled to life as it powered up.

“Initiate connection with HQ.” The screen beeped for a moment before another screen popped up.

“HQ do you read?” Raiden spoke.

“This is HQ. You found the base huh? Well done.” A voice replied.

“Affirmative sir. Base is secure and useable.” Raiden said as he did a system check around the base.

“Alright proceed with next objective to extract our captured drone. You’re going to have keep a low profile, the drone is located in a castle in the mountain. The place is called Canterlot, and only lucky ponies can reach that place. You’re going to need a way up there without any trouble or suspicion.”

“Hmm…I can try blending with the crowd in Ponyville, best place to start trust gaining.” Raiden suggested as he pulled up an image of Ponyville.

“That could work, from previous logs and data Raven Team sent us, it appears that there are six important individuals located in the town. They’re called the Mane Six, they have connections with the rulers of this land.”

Another screen popped up and showed six ponies, two unicorns, 2 Pegasus, and 2 earth ponies.

“The purple unicorn goes by the name of Twilight Sparkle; she is the direct student of the ruler Princess Celestia, she lives in a library in a shape of a tree house. The white one is named Rarity, she works in a boutique, shouldn’t be too hard to find as the building looks like for high class individuals. Plus she has a younger sibling living with her. The pink one is an earth pony named Pinkie Pie, be cautious around her, she is…unpredictable, she works at a bakery. And be careful too, she’ll throw a party for those new to Ponyville, so you might get a surprise. The other earth pony goes by Applejack; she works in the Apple Fields not too far, and lives with her family. She also works around the market district of Ponyville selling apples. Now for the Pegasus, the rainbow colored one goes by Rainbow Dash, she’s works as a weather pony occasionally but mostly she trains for trying to earn a spot within a group called the Wonder Bolts. The other one goes by Fluttershy, she lives in a cottage not too far from town and she’s shy and an animal lover. Though gentle she can get serious when she needs too, oh yes, beware of her stare.”

“Why?” Raiden asked with a raised eyebrow.

“It can break a dragon down bit by bit.” The commander retorted.

“Hmph. Trust me, I’ve seen my fair share of stares. I’ve looked death right in the face without faltering once. I’ve stared into a creature of horrors from all nightmares. I’ve looked into the eyes of a basilisk and lived, I took one of its eyes for a trade from one of my own that it crippled. An eye for an eye.” Raiden said with a scowl.

“I guess, oh and one more thing.”

“Yes?” Raiden was beginning to become irritated.

“There’s an pony you should be aware of, goes by the name of Time Turner. But some people call him Doctor Whooves. That is all, good luck on your mission. Another thing, you might want to rid your wear of attire, it might make you stand out.”

“Acknowledge sir.” Raiden said with a huff.

The screen went black as the connection died. Raiden gave a glance to the screen again before walking out of the room towards the dorms to change. As he left the dorms with less clothing, still donned his black bandana on his head and his left hoof bandaged for the portable device ; Raiden gave a glance behind him as he trotted to the exit.

0000 Ponyville

“Twi are yah sure about what you saw? I mean I coulda been anything, why don’t we check it out tomorrow?” Applejack said.

“There was something suspicious of that light, it seemed similar to the one from 4 weeks ago. Plus it occurred in Everfree just like the last one.” Twilight replied.

“Hmph. Whatever it was it ruined my sleep! I outa buck whoever is the cause!” Rainbow Dash said with a scowl.

“Whatever it was I scared me and made me mess up on my dress in progress! I demand to know who was the cause of that racket!” Rairty spoke with a glare.

“M-maybe somepony got hurt…” Fluttershy peeped in.

“I dunno, where is Pinkie?” Twilight asked that until a familiar pink blur suddenly appeared in her vision.

“Hiya Twi! Whatwegonnadotoday?! She said hastily with a smile.

“Hey Pinkie, well I gathered us up become I saw a light in the forest earlier, and I thought maybe we should check up on it.”

GASP!* “Ohmygosh! Are we going on an adventure?! I love adventures! They’re so fun! Wherearewegoingwherearewegoing-GASP!* My pinkie sense is twitching! We’re going to meet new friends today! Ishouldgetapartystarted!” She was silenced when Twilight placed a hoof on her mouth, though continued to babble even when covered.

“Maybe at a later time when we meet this said person.” Twilight put in, Pinkie gave a wide grin and nodded franticly.

“All right, let’s get to girls!” Twilight said as she led them towards Everfree. Little did they know, a trio of foals were listening onto their conversation.

“Didya hear that girls?! There was something mysterious in the forest! I bet if we went in and found whatever it coulda been, we might just get our marks!” a familiar Pegasus piped, the other seemed to be agreeing.

“Yeah lets go find what it was!”

“Yeah!”

“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!! YAY!!!!”

“Goodness how loud do they need to shout?” Shadeyhoods said as he rubbed his head.

“How am I supposed to know?” a voice in the sky replied.

“Well you’re the author? Right?” Shadeyhoods replied.

The voice in the air only grunted before fading away.

0000 Raiden

*WHACK!

“Ouch! Damn branch.” Raiden grumbled as he trotted across the forest, getting a branch whacked into his face every five minutes.

*WHACK!

“OOF!!! Ow!” Raiden said as he rubbed his muzzle. As Raiden entered a trail he gave a sigh of relief.

“Finally out of the damnable forest-*Bonk!-ouch!” Raiden said as he glared at the fallen acorn which was quite unusually large.

“I’m going to kick whosever ass is making me suffer this shit.” Raiden promised as he went down the trail. Suddenly he tripped, landing on his face, flank facing upwards. “You’re pushing your limits dude.” Raiden growled towards the sky as he picked himself up.

“Meh. I’m bored. Maybe some humor could do.”

“You suck at humor.” Raiden stated bluntly only for another acorn to bonk on his head. *BONK! “Oof!”

“Screw you! I don’t suck!”

“Mmhmm, suuurrreeeee….”

“I’ll show you humor bitch! Eat this!” the sky crackled before lightning shot out. Raiden quickly bolted left and the bolt hit nothing but the ground.

“I feel like I should say this.” Raiden suddenly began to prance in circles joyfully. “Missed me, missed me! Now you gotta kiss me!”

*bbzzzzzzt!, a blackened Raiden was groaning on the floor, his mane sizzled a bit.

“Kiss that yah deep fried beat!”

“Proves you suck.” Raiden said bluntly.

*bbbbbzzzt! Bbbzzzt! BBBBBBBBBbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbzzzzzzzzttttt!

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“Uh oh! Somepony’s angry angry! I should send cookies to make them happy!” Pinkie Pie said cheerfully as she pranced around, this left confusion in the group but they shrugged it off as Pinkies antics.

“We should be nearing the spot anytime now.” Twilight said as the continued onwards.

Just as they entered a clearing, they gasped at what they saw. Everything in the surrounding area was blackened a bit; a few fallen logs were smoking. Small pouts of fire were abundant. But what got Twilights attention was the small crater in the center of the field. The soil was black as night and still warm, the rocks around were sizzling and breaking down slowly. Crackles of electricity sparked occasionally.

“Whoa…what could’ve caused all of this-this destruction?”

“I hope nopony and any animals were hurt.” Fluttershy whispered, she almost fainted when she saw a smoldering corpse of a cockatrice.

“Man, sucks to be whoever did all of this.” Rainbow Dash said as she poked a nearby tree which instantly broke in half, revealing blackened insides as well.

“Whad’ya think Twi?” Applejack spoke as see looked around.

“This is really hard to comprehend, something big must’ve happened. From what I see, it seems there was a high amount of energy being used for something. That should explain the black spot right there.” The Twilight replied as she looked around.

*SNAP!!!!

“Who’s there?! We know you’re out there!” the Twilight said in alert.

When no reply came her horn glowed and a red hot rock was lifted into the air surrounded by the same energy. Applejack narrowed her eyes and took out her trusty lasso; Rainbow Dash and Rarity were looking around cautiously. Pinkie seemed oblivious as she pranced around, while Fluttershy was cowering behind Rarity. Then something came out from a bush and out from the shadows; it was a tall avian bipedal drone. It had two scythe like blades where the hands were supposedly were. Three red fins protruded from the back, a beak full of teeth clicked at the ponies, a line spikes protruded from the torso and abdomen, and a single pupiless eye glared at the ponies, it screeched and swished it tail with hostility.

0000 image for the drone http://dreager1.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/gigan_4.jpg (sorry don’t know how to make the pic appear only just link)

“Uh, Twi? What in bucks name is that thing?!” Rainbow Dash pointed out, everyone was just dumbstruck and fearful of the creature.

“I-I don’t know! It’s doesn’t look like anything from the books!” Twilight choked out.

The avian screeched before clanging it’s scythes together loudly, sending echoes across the forest. It glared at them for a few moments before words were spoken from it.

“Identify!” the words came out crudely.

“Twi did that thing just talk Equestrian?” AJ asked, Twilight was dumbstruck before replying.

“I-I th-think it did.” She stuttered, the creature screeched again before saying again.

“Identify! Failure to comply will result in termination!”

“I-I’m Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia!” Twilight said in fear when she heard the word “terminate”.

“Verifying identity…searching…searching…Identity not found! Engaging intruders!” the avian said before giving a deafening war cry and charged.

“Everypony lookout!” RD shouted as she and Fluttershy took to the air, everyone else had to jump out of the way of the incoming monster.

It quickly halted its movement but it slid a couple feet before completely stopping. It gave a shriek and turned around scythes barred. It targeted Twilight first and sprinted towards her. Twilight yelped as she ducked to avoid a decapitating slash from one of the scythes, she sent out a burst of magic making the monster stumble backwards a bit. She quickly leaped backwards in avoiding another slash, this time she shot a concentrated beam hitting the beast dead-on the chest making it stumble a bit, but it shrugged it off before resuming its attack.

“Take this foul beast!” the voice of Rarity shouted, a barrage of large rocks and small boulders pummeled into the creatures torso.

The creature gave out a deafening screech before its claws glowed a sickly red before it slammed them both down into the ground causing an earth shattering quake. Everypony except the Pegasus stumbled from the quake. The creature quickly turned its attention towards Rarity and marched towards her only for a lasso to wrap around it.

“Oh no you don’t!” AJ declared as yanked the monstrosity back. While the creature was distracted for a few seconds, Pinkie ran up to and pointed her party cannon right in the face.

“SURPRISE!!!!” *BAM!!!

The crearure shrieked as it was hit by confetti; pies, etc. and fell on its haunches. As if angered the monster gave out a screech and the spikes on the torso and abdomen began to move rapidly like a buzz saw cutting the bindings of AJ’s rope. It quickly rose up and wiped a piece of cake off its optics only for a hoof to greet it.

“Take that punk!” RD shouted as the monster screeched. “Man what is its skin made of? Punching it hurts.” She thought as she planned another run.

As she was thinking she suddenly felt something yank her out of the sky. The world blurred and she smashed into the ground harshyly, RD looked around confused and dazed until she noticed something was wrapped around her body tightly. It looked like a rope…a rope made out of metal, she followed the link towards the beast. A hole near the base of the scythe was present, suddenly the beging pulled forwards hastily, the buzz saw of the creature began to rumble as it pulled her.

“DASH!!!” Twilight and AJ shouted in union.

“Help me out! I can’t move!” Dash shouted in panic as she neared the buzz saw.

“Take this!” Rarity shouted as she launched a boulder, it smashed into the avian stunning it. Twilight and AJ quickly rushed over to Dash to free her from the bindings.

“Darn it! What is this rope made of! It’s not even chains!” AJ said as she tried biting through the odd rope. It was hard as steel, yet looked like a regular rope.

“I’ll try to cut it with magic!” Twilight suggested as her horn glowed, a small beam of condensed magic shot out striking into the rope. There was no use as the rope wouldn’t cut, she couldn’t really focus on the rope since there was a blank void, and she didn’t even know where she was cutting.

“It’s getting up again, hurry Twi!” AJ scolded as the creature was starting to regain its bearings.

“I’m trying! I just-I just can’t focus!” Twilight replied harshly.

“Why not!” AJ shouted angrily.

“I-I-I don’t know how to explain!” Twilight replied.

“Look out!” the voice of Rarity shouted, the two mares quickly jumped from their spot dodging a deadly blow from the creature’s claw. For a good thing, its blade had hit the rope which sliced it in apart, Dash seeing the opportunity quickly rolled and freed herself from the bindings and flew to safety.

“Whew that was a close one!” Dash said as she rubbed her sore wings while glaring at the avian, it clanged its claws again screeching as if mocking the mares.

“Fluttershy, maybe you should use your stare on it.” AJ suggested, Shy just fearfully shook her head no.

“I don’t think it’ll work AJ.” Twilight said.

“And how do you know?” AJ retorted.

“When I use magic I can feel presence of other life forms since they give out some magic. But that…that thing though…there’s nothing there, as if it were…hollow…a ghost…an endless void. Similar to that metal pony Celestia reported. They both gave off no magic at all, just empty soulless husks.” Twilight said logically, everyone seemed to be thinking about her explanation.

“Then how is it moving and talking then dear?” Rarity asked, Twilight had to think on this one.

“I don’t know…I don’t think it’s even alive.” Twilight replied, as the avian gave out another mocking taunt.

“That thing is really grating my nerves. It keeps making fun of us!” Dash said with a scowl on her face. She tried to taunt the creature only for it to chirp in laughter at her attempt. The two sides were now in a face off.

0000 To be continued….

Hey hey people! Drake is back! Here’s chapta two of my fanfiction!
Hope you like it!

And Iz outta here!

“You suck at humor!”

“Oh yeah!”

“Yeah!”

Bbbbzzzzzt!!!!