//------------------------------// // Curiosity met the Crazies // Story: Uncontrolable // by BetaGravGear //------------------------------// “Sorry Twi; was trying a new trick when I got distracted by some weird looking vehicles driving away.” The figure on top of Twilight said. Cy watched as the figure, a female Wingie with cerulean wings and strange multicolored hair, helped Twilight back onto her feet. She appeared to be wearing an unzipped track jacket and pants that matched her wings with a white shirt that had a picture of a rainbow colored thunderbolt coming from a white cloud. The Wingie turned her head to look at Cy before squinting her eyes and marching right up to him. “Are you a spy?” she demanded as she looked over the foreigner. Twilight walked up to her and, putting her hand on the Wingies shoulder, introduced Cy. “No, he isn’t a spy Rainbow Dash. He is a new foreign student from Cryteria, Cy Core, who Celestia has put me in charge of looking after.” Twilight said as she looked over to Cy. “Cy,” she began warmly, “this is Rainbow Dash. She is one of the best…” “Is the best!” Rainbow Dash interrupted, which won a glare from the purple haired Unimagi. “Sorry, just had to be sure you got the facts straight.” She said, prompting a sigh from Twilight as she continued. “Like I was saying, Rainbow Dash is one of the top athletes in Equestira and holds a couple of records.” Twilight was about to continue, but once again got cut off by the multicolored athlete. “That list includes speed, agility, strength, awesomeness, coolness, and radicalness.” She said proudly as a loud sound of frustration came from Twilight. “How many times must I tell you that one; those last three are not real records and two; that they are the same exact thing?” Twilight asked, an annoyed expression on her face. Rainbow Dash just looked at her and then ruffled Twilights’ hair. “You would say that Twilight.” She said as she started stretching before letting out a loud yawn. Looking back to Cy, she then realized a question she had forgotten while boasting. “So what are you exactly doing right now with him?” she asked as she stretched out her wings. Twilight looked back to Cy before answering Rainbow Dash. “I am showing him around campus. He just got here a couple of minutes ago.” She said as Rainbow Dash once again got close to Cy and started to look him over again. Before Dash could observe anything else, a light purple aura surrounded her as she started to levitate away from the young man. “You really should learn to respect someone’s personal space a little bit more Rainbow Dash.” Twilight scolded as she lowered the Wingie at a more reasonable distance away from Cy. She released her magic hold of Rainbow with a simple flick of the wrist, causing the aura to dissipate from Rainbow Dash’s body and from her horn and hand. “Now, you are more than welcome to help me show him around if you want.” Twilight said cheerfully as Rainbow glared at her before putting a confident smile back on her face. “Sorry Twilight, but I got work to do. Weather Club is having a meeting very soon and I can’t be late for it.” The rainbow-haired athlete said as she turned around with a wave. “It was nice meeting you though, Cy. We’ll have to talk some other time. Peace!” she called out as she took off into the air towards another one of the buildings. Twilight waved goodbye to her friend as Cy observed the horn on Twilights’ head. “How does it work?” Twilight heard Cy ask. She turned her head and gave a look of confusion. Cy clarified, “How does your horn work?” “What do you mean by that?” Twilight answered as they started walking towards the closest building. “You picked her up as if she weighed absolutely nothing. Exactly how did you do that?” Cy asked again as they neared the building. Before Twilight could even answer, they both heard what sounded like arguing coming from the other side of the building. Curious, both of them walked on the path towards the other side and were met with a strange sight. Five figures surrounded a strange looking contraption. Four of the figures seemed to be Equestrian natives, while the other seemed to be rather unique, and familiar to Cy. The figure nearest to the contraption, whom seemed to be tinkering on it, had long teal hair with pink highlights. She wore a pair of blue jeans which had multiple burn marks on them and wore an unzipped light-tan jacket with four front pockets on it and a teal shirt underneath it. On the right shoulder of the jacket was a patch that looked like two lines with a green arc going between them. Standing over her was a darker skinned Wingie with gray wings and long dark red hair. She wore a long gray coat that ended around mid-calf with dark grey jeans. Dark combat boots encased her feet and a white shirt with a bass clef overlaying a green wave form decorating its center. Leaning on a nearby pillar was a very light skinned Unimagi wearing large purple shades over her eyes and big electric blue headphones around her neck. Her hair was the same electric blue but with lighter highlights, most of it was covered by the hood of her unzipped blue jacket. A white shirt was visible underneath the jacket. Purple cargo pants ended with electric blue and white skater shoes on her feet. A double eighth note decorated her headphones and left side of her jacket. Standing on the other side of the path was what at first appeared to be a dark skinned human with gray stripe tattoos running across parts of his visible body. Upon closer inspection, he appeared to have a broken horn barley poking out of his messy silver and gold hair. His eyes were hidden beneath a pair of rusty looking machinist’s goggles with blacked out lenses. He wore a dark brown trench coat that went all the way down to his ankles with a dark brown and gray vest visible underneath it. Leather pants that seemed to have some wear-and-tear to them hid most of the dark brown and gray boots he wore on his feet. A gold and silver messenger bag rested on his right hip and seemed to be filled with something. Standing right next to him was a white feathered Gryphon, a race usually only seen in the Griffin Empire. His eyes seemed to have blue designs around them and he had an unusual white beak. His front claws and wings were gray with tribal designs on them. He wore a light looking snow white coat with dark gray and light blue cargo pants. He wore no shoes, instead choosing to let his white furred-padded feet be free of any confines. “I’m telling you Viridian, this machine will not work!” the goggled figure said as he rubbed his forehead in what looked like annoyance. The brightly haired Unimagi working on the machine looked up at the speaker before looking back to the machine. “Nonsense Grav, of course it will work. I spent more than enough time perfecting everything.” she said cheerily as she took out a black rod looking object from her pocket. She took off the top and activated the small blowtorch and started to weld some of the metal parts together. “You only spent five minutes thinking about it then just started working on it.” The Gryphon retorted as he observed the Unimagi work on the strange machine. “And that is all that it needs.” She said as she hopped up and looked over her machine. “This machine will revolutionize everything we do!” She uttered as she raised both her hands toward the sky. “Sooooooooo… what exactly does it do?” asked the brown Wingie standing next to her. Viridian turned around to face her and put her hands to her chin in thought. “Hmmm” Viridian tapped her chin in thought for a few moments before a big smile came to her face. “I have absolutely no idea Cassie, but it has to be good with this much complexity to it.” She energetically stated as everyone face palmed. Twilight finally approached the small group with Cy. Viridian, seeing her, quickly started to wave at her. “Hey Twilight, what do you think of the worlds next great machine?” she asked as she motioned toward the strange contraption that looked overly complex. “It looks… interesting, Viridian” Twilight said as she smiled at the now beaming eccentric Unimagi. “Wait until you see wha… who is that person,” Viridian asked as she finally noticed Cy standing next to Twilight, “and what does he think of the machine?” “Viridian and company, this is Cy Core. He is a new foreign student from Cryteria.” Twilight specified as she looked at the group of people surrounding the contraption. Twilight turned to Cy as she named off the group in front of them. “Cy, this… energetic Unimagi right here is Viridian Arc, one of the most interesting people you will ever meet and president of the Inventor Club.” Viridian beamed at the foreign student as she quickly bounced up to him and rapidly shook his hand at what seemed like an impossible speed. “Nice to meet you Cy.” she said as she let go of Cys’ hand and went back to working on the machine. “The Wingie standing next to her is Cassandra Altish. She is currently taking classes here for her university credits and she is co-founder of the Wub Club here.” Cassandra nodded in acknowledgment. “Pleasure.” She said as she stared at the two. Cy noticed that there was a slight delay in the blinking of her eyes. Cy decided to let it pass as Twilight went on. “The Unimagi leaning on that pillar over there is Vinyl Scratch. She is quite well known around town as one of the best DJs and she is the president of the Wub Club.” Vinyl lowered her glasses to reveal pure red eyes. “Sup.” she said as she nodded towards Cy. Cy returned the gesture as Twilight continued. “And those two over there are GravGear and Air Raid. These two have been all over the Griffin Kingdom and a lot of Equestira. They know some things that even I have never heard of.” “We know some things that even Celestia herself doesn’t know.” Air Raid claimed. He took a step forward to get a better look at Cy. “So Cy, you must be part of the Cryterian military, and more than likely a special sect of it. But which one is what I wonder.” Cy looked at the Gryphon. He had to admit he was mildly impressed that this Gryphon was able to decode all that just by looking at him. Air Raid quietly spoke to GravGear before turning back to face Twilight and Cy. “It’s a pleasure to meet you young Cy. I do hope our interests don’t conflict in the near future.” Everyone looked at Air Raid and GravGear with a confused expression before Viridian stepped back in front of Twilight. “So do you two want to see this contraptions maiden voyage?” she asked her smile wider than ever. “Sure, what will it do Viridian?” Twilight asked as the energetic Unimagi walked up to a lever sticking out of the ground next to the machine. Viridian put her hands on the lever as she looked directly into Twilights eyes. “Good question, let’s find out” She yelled as she pushed the lever down.