//------------------------------// // Green dust and 3 Knights // Story: Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale // by TheothersideofSunny968 //------------------------------// "Thank you for coming Twilight" Princess Celestia half smiled at her star pupal. "I know this must be hard for you." "I just don't understand," Twilight began, a worried look on her face. "How could he be back? I thought that he was destroyed with the Crystal heart when it was powered by the light of the crystal ponies... How can he be back?" "Trouble in paradise, ladies?" That slick voice of Discord echoed, and out of nowhere, the master of Chaos appeared in a white flash on top of twilight's head, no bigger then Gummy. "What's the matter Twilight? Sky's falling?!?!" He chuckled and disappeared, only to reappear floating over the pile of crystal powder. He picked a small bunch of it up in his claw and rubes his claws togeather, the powder falling down and back into the pile. He then licked his claws clean. "What do you make of it, Discord?" Princess Celestia asked, thinking the Draquis had some insight on the situation. Twilight let her anger annoyance for the half pony half dragon creature die down and was listening for an answer. He then coughs up a cloud of green powder, acting like he was choking, then took in several breath before swirling his hand around in the air, making a glass of water appeared out of nowhere. He drank it. The cleared his throat. "Such a terrible taste. So delicious." "And?!" Twilight pushed growing inpatient. "Did you find anything out?" "And what was I supposed to find out?" He said with a smile. "Other then don't eat the dust?" Twilight faces hoofed as Celestia let out a huge sigh. "Well by any means" Celestia directed her students attention back to her. "We need to keep an eye out for anything dangerous-" " a unicorn" Discord interrupted. "A powerful one at that. Maybe a little bit more." He smiled at the two princesses. "Looks like you two will have a fun time looking." He chuckled at the serious looks on their faces before he pulled a out a paint brush, painted a black hole on the wall, then jumped threw it, the hole closing up behind him. "He's our friend" Twilight began, her tone reflecting her annoyance for the reformed villain. "But sometimes I wonder if he really is here to help." "Regardless" Celestia continued. "He told us what we were looking for. A unicorn. And ...." She trailed off. "'A little bit more', right?" Twilight finished her sentence. "What do you think that meant?" "I don't know. But we'll be on the look out." Her face softened. "You should get home. I have a feeling that trouble will find us in time. You should regroup with your friends. I have one of my best teams guard on the job. There is no doubt in my mind that between all of us, we will find something." -forest- "I can't believe we lost the trail!!" Midnight Blossom screeched while Alister examined the fading hoof prints and crystal dust. "Calm down, Midnight" Cloud Skipper tried to reason with his companion. "Calm down?! CALM DOWN?! I am calm!" She began to squeak in her high pitched bat pony "We're in trouble" was all Alister said as he rose from the ground and looked to the sky. "Well no kidding, Sherlock!" Midnight snapped. "No" Alister added taking a few more steps forward, in the direction the scorch marked path had lead. "About 24 meters ahead, you said there was a road, right?" Midnight Blossom began to calm down. "Yeah. One that split into four directions." "And that's a problem" Alister replied. "But her highness will have some troops here to aid us momentarily." Cloud Skipper added. "Splitting up shouldn't be a problem." "More so then you think" Alister told his Pegasus friend. "We work best as a team because of our differences. I'm able to look at the finner details of things. You Midnight Blossom" he motioned to the bat pony "are quick to act and to react, giving me time to plan, and Cloud" he motioned back to the white pegusus with a golden mane. "Help to keep us leveled and balanced. Splitting us up might not be a good idea." "Then what do we do? Just search the areas one by one?" Midnight Blossom snapped again, getting more annoyed. "No, I'm afraid that would take far too much time." Alister thought for a moment not liking the cards he's been delt. "Midnight, I want you to take the road leading to Los Pegusus. The city is loud and fast moving, but I trust you can take it better then any of us." "Bright lights, big city, and shopping malls" the bat pony began to lighten up. "Finally an order I like." "Stick to the mission." Alister yet turned to Cloud Skipper. "I want you to check the desert and the mountain side. You are just as fast as Midnight, but you work better with other ponies more then her and I put together. See if you can dig up anything." "Shouldn't you take the Desert area?" Cloud Skipper protested. "I mean, you did grow up near dodge-" "I will take the small towns and individual houses all on the eastern area." Alister interrupted. "I will be able to spot the houses and homes that you two couldn't see above the trees. Besides that, the forests get to thick to fly threw. When I comes to walking and running, I could leave you two behind." "Is that a challenge?!" Midnight began to growl. "Enough Midnight!" now Cloud Skipper snapped. The bat pony recoiled and withdrew, her burning anger subsided. Cloud Skipper turned his attention back to his unicorn friend. "Are you sure you'll be ok?" Alister nodded. "It's me we're talking about. When have I ever gotten into a scrape I couldn't get out of." He put a hoof on both Cloud's and Midnight's shoulders. "But my friends... I ask you, not as a solider... But as a friend... Please... Please be safe." Midnight blushed, shocked, as was Cloud. Then both of their expressions softened and the three soldiers of Equeatria joined in for a group hug. "Just like old times, eh?" Midnight commented as she smiled. "Just like old times Cloud confirmed. And with that, the team Disbanded. As the two fliers took to the skies, Alister made his way towards the road that lay 24 meters ahead. "Excuse me!" Alister heard a pony's voice cry out from a short distance away. He looked and saw an Earth pony, brown coat with a lime green mane and tail. "Excuse me, sir! " "What is it?" Alister asked the panicked earth pony. "I'm busy. What do you need?" "I need to get to Ponyville! It's an emergency!" The brown stallion frantically told the grey unicorn guard.