Recap for Act 2 Part 2 · 6:16pm Jun 21st, 2014
Okay, so here goes the first one of these things. Let me know if this works. Cue dramatic music!
Previously on IAIMAY
Church nodded, “Put simply, Project Freelancer is bad news. They were a program that tried to create super-soldiers by implanting aggressive A.I into their agents’ heads.”
“Now, you managed to track the equine alien and those who were helping it to the Mother of Invention, correct?” The Counselor asked.
The Reds all nodded.
“Do you know where the alien is now?”
“Actually sir, it’s possible that she was able to teleport herself and the Blues back to her homeworld,” Simmons said.
The Counselor nodded, “I see. As it happens, the equine homeworld is our current destination. With any luck, this matter will be resolved relatively quickly."
“What’s more stupid, Private Grif...?” Asked Sarge. "Going down there to get to the bottom of this alien pony business, or staying here and waiting for the bigwigs of Project Freelancer to find a reason to court-martial us? You know as well as I that that Counselor fella trusts us about as much as he trusts a dinosaur with an erection!”
“Um… what?”
“But if we go down there and get that pony, we may just gain his trust!”
“So, Twilight. About our agreement…” Church’s voice interrupted Twilight’s thinking session and she turned to look up at the man walking beside her as he continued, “your friends obviously told me about what happened with Tex after she arrived here…”
Twilight nodded as she remembered what they’d told her about Tex’s apparent disappearance after getting O’Malley out of Pinkie’s head.
“I’ve decided that I still want to see her ship,” Church concluded.
Immediately Applejack felt wetness on her chest as Applebloom began to sob hysterically, “Sugarcube? What happened?”
Applebloom stared at the ground and sniffed again, “W-well, the crusaders and I went into the Everfree Forest…
“When we got far enough in, something attacked us! I don’t know what it was but…” Applebloom’s voice became a squeak as her eyes watered some more, “It took Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo!”
The monster turned away from Applejack’s inert form and faced the livid Fluttershy. The butter pegasus closed her eyes and drew in a breath. When she opened them again, she brought the full power of her intense Stare down on the entity before her.
Any other creature that Fluttershy performed the Stare on usually became cowed with such thoroughness that openly threatening them with immediate physical violence would be less effective. The armored monster that Fluttershy performed the Stare on now only tilted its head in confusion causing Fluttershy to Stare harder.
For some reason, the more Fluttershy used her Stare, the more she felt like running and hiding. More and more she was becoming overcome by feelings of terror and shame that she couldn't explain. It was as if she were feeling the effects of the Stare in place of the monster. Fluttershy saw her own furious reflection in the domed visor of the monster’s helmet and then she realized what was happening.
Fluttershy was using the Stare on herself.
Derpy’s brow furrowed over her uneven eyes as a growl escaped her, “Get in my bag right now or I’ll rip you up and stuff you into the other envelopes! YOU WILL BE EATEN BY YOUR OWN KIND!”
After finally grabbing the slippery piece of mail and stuffing it into her saddlebag, Derpy’s eyes widened and she glanced around. She thought she’d felt another’s presence as she… lost her cool there. Fortunately, Derpy was spared the embarrassment and ridicule that usually came with her moments of oafishness. Satisfied that no one saw her clumsy display or her subsequent breakdown, Derpy flapped her wings and took to the sky with a content smile on her face.
Still, something about what happened made her feel uneasy. Derpy never usually got so angry…
Minuette’s carefully neutral face began to slip. Her ears folded back and her mouth began to slowly drift open as Pinkie’s possessed snout scrunched against hers.
"Even after I’m gone, those that I’ve been in still have a piece of me left!"
Rainbow Dash took an uneasy step backwards. There were dark circles under Pinkie Pie's eyes and her mane was even more unkempt than usual. Rainbow thought her night had been sleepless, but it looked like Pinkie hadn’t even been in bed.
“Pinkie? What’s wrong?”
“Nothing! Why would anything be wrong? O’Malley’s gone!”
The only reason Spike was even awake at this early hour was because the aforementioned pegasus had crashed into the bedroom window with troubling news, “Pinkie Pie’s still not herself!”
The ship passed right over the group’s heads, its loud engines nearly deafening them. As it did, the Warthog dangling from its underside was released and suddenly came plummeting down... right towards Big Macintosh and the cart he was pulling.
“BROTHER! MOVE!” Applejack yelled.
Big Mac was one step ahead of her. The large farmpony had just enough time to unhitch himself from the cart and dive out of the way before the Warthog came crashing down. The ship continued to fly past and out of sight as the Warthog landed on the cart, crushing it along with all of the apples it had been carrying. Twilight thought she might have seen a single tear roll down Applejack’s face at the sight of the crushed fruit, but it might have just been her imagination.
What Twilight saw when she looked back at the Warthog was definitely not her imagination, but it shocked her no less. Three familiar soldiers in red, orange and maroon armor occupied the vehicle.
“You ponies’d better saddle up, because Red Team’s ridin’ to victory!” Sarge exclaimed in his gruff Southern drawl, “Nothin’s gonna stop us now!”
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