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// Space Cases 
// Story: My little short stories- Tales of Dream castle 
// by Paradise Oasis 
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"Ahhhh, Fizzy! We gotta get out of here!" Gusty wailed, looking around at the vessel they were trapped on. "I don't wanna end up as one's of their weirdo experiences!"

The two aliens began looking over several instruments on a nearby table, some that looked like they went into some very disturbing places on the ponies.  

"These mares will be perfect for our plans." Doctor Stardancer declared, holding a strange-looking cutting tool with a light on the end over Fizzy. "We must learn all we can from them."

"Be sure to get some samples before we are done." Captain Star Hopper agreed, holding a pocket buzz saw near Gusty's face. "And leave the subjects intact enough for further experimentation when we get home." 

As the two aliens hovered over those two menacingly, the blue Pegasus next to them managed to get a micro-blowtorch out of her saddlebag with her wing, and burned through the straps holding her down. Slipping off to a nearby ventilation shaft, Wind Whistler quietly got a screwdriver out of her bag, and removed the screws from the hatch. She quickly flapped up and slipped inside the air ducts, slamming the hinged hatch shut behind her as she went.

"These extraterrestrials much be especially incompetent, they didn't even notice one of their prisoners had absconded from the chamber." Wind Whistler said in surprise, scuttling away down the shaft. "I believe I am forming a hypothesis that, despite their apparently highly advanced society and achievement, our otherworldly captors don't seem to be highly intelligent or perceptive. I must test this hypothesis further, as I believe my friends are more than able to take care of themselves." 

Wind Whistler was indeed correct, as the two mares were already making life miserable for the two aliens. As Stardancer came within a few inches of Gusty's muzzle, and the unicorn mare turned her horn towards her attacker.

"Oh no, you ain't gonna dissect me!" The unicorn pony's horn began to glow. Gusty suddenly blasted the alien pony away with a concentrated blast of wind, blasting Stardancer against the wall behind her. "Fizzy, look out, she's gonna let you have it!" 

"Hee hee, I'm sorry, but I really don't have time to play spaceman with you!" The mare giggled, creating a large bubble with her horn.  She trapped Star Hopper inside of the bubble, causing the Sparkle pony to float up to the ceiling. "C'mon Gusty, it's time to go!" 

The other unicorn nodded, and the two winked out of their restraints, and went running towards the exit. The metal doors slid open, and the two ponies galloped out into the saucer's passageway. Behind them, Stardancer popped the bubble trapping her captain. "This is unacceptable! We cannot let the test subjects escape!" 

"Affirmative, this must be remedied!" Star Hopper snorted. Using her horn, the alien unicorn hit a button on the wall. "Attention security detail! We have prisoners loose on the vessel! Send in the clones! I repeat, send in the clones!"

Gusty and Fizzy were frantically galloping down the hallway, with lights and alarms sounding all over the ship. Soon, doors began opening on all sides, and the aliens guards began pouring out. The two mares stopped dead in their tracks, not sure wither to run in terror, or burst out laughing. 

"Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me!" Gusty sputtered in disbelief. "This can't be happening!"

"Ohhhh, alien Nightshade impersonators!" Fizzy giggled. "These aliens must read the tabloids, too!"

White sequin jumpsuits, pompadours, guitars and sideburns.... an army of the earth stallions that looked exactly like the pony equivalent on Elvis stood before them, staring the two dumbfounded mares down.

"Whoaaaa mercy, lets get these purty little fillies!" One of them declared, slicking back his pompadour with a comb in his hoof. "Uh hunh huh!"

"Okay, that does it! These aliens are insane!" Gusty snorted, stopping and sitting down in the exact spot in disgust. " I can't even take em as a serious threat anymore! All right, you Nightshade wannabees! Do your worst!"

"Ummm, Gusty...?" Fizzy muttered nervously, taking a step back. "I don't think that's such a good idea...."

"You ain't nothin' but a pony!" All of the stallions started to sing at once, strumming their guitars with their hooves. "Whinnying all the time!" 

Their singing was terrible... so, terrible, in fact, that the two mares collapsed in pain, clutching their ears as they writhed in agony on the cold metal floor. Fizzy and Gusty were powerless before the noise pollution that was the clone's music, as the two aliens came trotting out of the examination room.

"So these two thought they could escape us?" Stardancer asked mockingly, looking down at the two helpless mares. "They shall pay dearly for their attempted escape!" 

"Clones, get these two back to the examination table!" Star Hopper narrowed her eyes. "I believe it is time that we send a probe to the neither regions."

But before the Nightshades could move, the ship suddenly began spinning and turning and jolting about. All of the ponies in the hallway were knocked to the ground, leaving Fizzy and Gusty hanging on for dear life.

On the ship's deck, a blue mare stood next to two alien pilots she had knocked out, pulling levers and pressing buttons as she experimented with the ship's controls. 

"Hmm, intriguing... these controls seem really simple." Wind Whistler commented, taking control of the stick on the main console. "I believe I can get us back to Dream Castle in no time." 

She played with even more of the controls, as the ship continued to spin wildly through the blackness of space...