Chapter 19
Author's Note: Written by Samaru163 and Tricondon.
Chapter 19
Rainbow Dash
I watched as Twilight and the others ran for the exit; I followed them for a bit, but I stopped after a while. I turned around again, watching Prince Jake and his followers fight ponies, these really strange lizard things, and more humans. I knew they were all being controlled by those Yeerk things, but it was still so disconcerting to see them all fight so viciously.
Ggggggrrrrraaaawwwrrrr!
A maddeningly loud roar from Prince Jake cut into my thoughts and I shook my head, trying to make sense of it all. I glanced up the stairs, but the others were already gone. I looked back down; the aliens were fighting each other, but for the moment were ignoring me.
Across the pool I could see the figure of Sweetie Belle still held up by two lizard monsters, but aside from them almost no other aliens were in that area. Before I knew what I was doing I shot over Prince Jake and the others, making a beeline for Sweetie Belle. One of the lizard-things grabbed Sweetie’s head and forced it into the pool, the filly struggling as best she could.
“Let her go!” I yelled moments before my forehooves connected with the unsuspecting lizard beast. He went flying backwards, crying out in shock. Not missing a beat, I backflapped, coming to a stop in midair, spun around and kicked the other lizard with my hind legs before he could react. He tried to grab me as he fell, but I easily flew out of his reach. I landed and rushed to Sweetie Belle and yanked her head out of the pool.
She looked around wildly and opened her mouth to scream. Quickly I shoved a hoof in her mouth and forced her eyes to fix with my own. I saw tears form in her eyes as she hugged me tightly.
“Rainbow Dash! I knew you’d save me! I just knew it!” Her words were almost unrecognizable from her crying.
“Easy, kid, we’re not safe just yet,” I said, and immediately wished I’d said something more reassuring. With a determined snort I grabbed Sweetie Belle, wrapping my hooves around her stomach and flapped my wings experimentally. “Hang on, kid. I’ll get you outta here!”
We gained altitude at a reasonable rate, and once we were well above the pool I steered us towards the stairs. Prince Jake and the others were still fighting for their lives against the controllers, so our way was relatively clear.
“Rainbow Dash, look out!” Sweetie Belle cried. I turned my head around and followed her gaze. Coming at us quickly were two medium sized metallic spheres with what almost looked like some form of eye on its front. The two of them split once they were a few feet from us and began flanking me on both sides.
TSEEEEW! TSEEEEW!
I had maybe a second to move before twin lasers shot from both orbs. I gave a yell of alarm and folded my wings close to my body, falling for a half-second before spreading them again, breathing heavily as the lasers shot where I just was. The spheres seemed to notice my escape, however, and began their pursuit.
“Hang on Sweetie Belle, this won’t be pleasant,” I said and took off.
I glanced over my back, the spheres in hot pursuit. Despite my predicament, a smile formed on my face as I bobbed and weaved in the air, easily avoiding the lasers that the spheres were shooting. I kept making my way towards Prince Jake and the others, who were quickly running back up the stairs.
My attention on them for the moment, I almost didn’t see the human between me and them, pointing a strange looking device at me. Sweetie Belle shouted at me and I glanced down in time to see a white beam of light headed for me. I shrieked and quickly turned around, wincing in pain as the beam just grazed my right wing. I planned to fly backwards a bit, but had forgotten about the sphere and crashed into it head-on.
Like a couple of stones we plummeted towards the grey tide that was the Yeerk Pool. I tried desperately to open my wings, but I could only succeed in fully raising my uninjured left one. As the surface of the pool drew closer, I brought one of my hooves from around Sweetie Belle and began lifting my injured wing. Once it was extended we were lifted away from the free fall, gaining some much needed height. I winced at the incredible pain shooting through my wing, but once we were high enough I began our descent to the stairs again.
Suddenly a jab of pain shot through my injured side as the second sphere slammed into me. In the confusion I didn’t feel my grip on Sweetie begin to weaken. I kicked off of the orb and sent it to join its companion in the grey tide, but the force caused Sweetie to slip from my grasp.
Sweetie yelled as she fell, the sound stopping as she plunged under the water. I let go of my injured wing and dove in after her, folding my ears tightly against my head.
Ignoring the pain in my wing I started swimming, peering through the murky water as best I could. All around me I felt thousands of strange, slimy things brush against my body. I quickly realized that they were Yeerks in their natural state and quickened my swimming. I found Sweetie Belle quickly enough, though she wasn’t moving when I found her. I grabbed her as best I could and swam for the surface, reveling in filling my lungs with fresh air.
Belatedly I realized Sweetie Belle was still in my hooves and maneuvered onto my back, letting her rest on my stomach. I hoped she was still breathing.
I began paddling, using my hooves to swim through the water, trying to keep Sweetie Belle balanced as best I could. Once at the shore - which I only realized I was at because I bumped my head against it - I turned over, making sure to keep Sweetie Belle’s head above the surface. She still wasn’t moving, so I had to lift her out of the water and throw her onto the ground.
Just when I got her onto the shore a three digit claw grabbed me around the throat and yanked me from the grey water. Next thing I knew I was face to face with a lizard creature, though I don’t think it could qualify for a face. I tried to move but the thing’s grip was strong.
<Stop squirming so much. Is this how you thank your rescuer?> Rachel asked. I gasped, staring at the lizard thing in front of me.
“You could loosen your grip a little,” I managed to choke out.
<Sorry, it has to look realistic.>
I wasn’t sure if she was joking or not, but it was the least of my problems at the moment. Looking past Rachel I saw that we were fairly close to the stairs, and that Prince Jake and the others were almost to the top. Most of the lizards, humans and ponies were still barring the way, but it looked like we could make a push through them.
<Alright, hold on Blue. We’re making a break for it!> Rachel said smugly.
“Wait! Don’t leave Sweetie Belle!” I managed to shout, motioning towards the filly’s still-unmoving body.
<Was she in the pool with you?>
“Yes!” I nearly screamed.
<Then no,> Rachel said coldly. <There’s too much of a risk.>
“I won’t leave her behind!” I yelled, drawing the attention of some of the nearest humans. “She’s only a filly!”
“Hey! What are you doing with that pegasus?” one of the humans shouted. Rachel growled softly.
<Great, now we’re in trouble. Nice work, Blue,> she said, backhanding the human effortlessly. More humans and lizards arrived and began firing their lasers at us, forcing Rachel to dash towards the staircase. I kept my eyes fixed on Sweetie Belle the whole time, and I felt tears fall down my face. The rest of the world then seemed to rush by me as nothing but distant voices and blurred images.
I didn’t notice the sun beating down on me until Rachel dropped me, rather rudely, onto the ground.
<C’mon, use those wings, Blue. I can’t carry you forever,> she growled.
“My right wing got hit,” I replied with the same level of annoyance.
<Then use your legs. We’ve still a bit to go before we’re in the clear.>
Without another word, Rachel ran off. I grumbled and followed behind her, glaring at her back the whole time.
“How could you leave her behind?!”
<She was most likely infested.>
“No she wasn’t! I got to her before those lizard-things did anything to her!”
<And then she fell back in.>
“We could starve it, like we did to Spike!”
<This time they’ll be looking for us. We can’t afford it.>
I put on a burst of speed, easily running in front of Rachel and stopped in front of her.
“Hey! These are my friends! I’m not going to stand idly by and let them get taken away from me!” I shouted.
Rachel narrowed her eyes.
<You think you’re the only one who’s lost friends to the Yeerks?! You think that freeing them now is going to save them from this nightmare? No, they’ll just get recaptured and lead the Yeerks back to you!>
I backed away from her, somewhat shocked by how angry she had sounded.
<I know it sucks and you feel horrible, but we need to save the planet before we can save your friends.>
Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew she was right, but I was too upset at the moment to care.
“Yeah? You speaking from experience? How do you know that she’ll get recaptured again? I wouldn’t let her get taken away!”
With surprising speed Rachel lunged at me. I barely had time to move before she wrapped a clawed hand around my throat and squeezed it just enough to choke me. She brought me up to her face and scowled at me.
<You think I haven’t made that exact claim before? That any of us haven’t?> My vision started to fade, but I kept looking at Rachel. <Don’t assume you know the first thing about us, Blue.> And with that, Rachel tossed me on the ground. I landed on my bad wing, but I was thankful I could breathe again.
I looked up in time to see Rachel storm off. She swung out her hand and cleanly cut down the two trees on either side of her before disappearing from view. I laid there for a bit longer, catching my breath and nursing my injured wing as best I could. The damage was mostly superficial, but it hurt to flap; I suspected I had done nothing more than pulled a muscle, but I would need to see a doctor just to be safe.
With reluctance, I stood and began walking after Rachel, hoping that she could at least lead me to Twilight. Maybe we could attack again. Twi could come up with some strategy. We go in, grab Sweetie Belle, hit those cages and get out. Easy. I knew we were missing a few steps, but Twilight’s an egghead; she could fill in what I couldn’t figure out.
I followed Rachel as best I could, which was easy considering the damage she was doing to nearby trees. Her path led to a small clearing where the others were waiting; by the time I had arrived, Rachel was already back in her human form, though she was fuming off by herself away from the others. Immediately Pinkie shot up and embraced me in a large hug.
“Oh Dashie, we were so worried about you! Prince Jake and the others told us you’d been attacked, but that Rachel was going to help.”
I saw the rest of the girls begin to appear with similar expressions on their faces. I tried to smile as well, but I just couldn’t find it in me to. I looked to Rarity, whose normally beautiful face was stained and smeared with tears and running makeup. She was standing away from the others, looking down at the ground. I sighed, furled my wings close to my body and walked up to her.
“Hey, Rarity. I’m sor-”
“Leave me alone!” she sobbed, cutting me off. “All this time. All this time my precious Sweetie Belle was being controlled, and I never noticed!” she wailed, more tears flowing. “And I couldn’t even save her when I had the chance.” Her voice broke, and she sank to the ground, laying down and covering her face with her hooves.
Prince Jake and his group then came over, and while Cassie had a look of relief the others were more skeptical.
“What is it?” I asked in a slight tone of annoyance.
“Well, you were down there an awfully long time. Both of you,” Prince Jake said slowly, looking from me to Rachel and back again.
“So, what does that matter?” I looked to Rachel who seemed to have a glint of suspicion in her eyes, but it didn’t look like it was for the others. “Why are you looking at me like that, do you think I’m a controller or something?”
“You did fall into the Yeerk Pool,” Rachel said.
I shook my head in disbelief.
“You guys can’t be serious?” I looked at them and expected this to be some form of joke, but none of their expressions had changed. Even the girls were giving me another look over.
<A Yeerk is capable of perfectly imitating its host,> Ax said coolly.
“Wait!” Twilight’s voice rose above everypony else, and we all turned to look at her. “It won’t do us any good to start accusing each other at random. That will just tear us apart.”
“Thank you, Twilight!” I half cheered to her.
“But if she did fall into the pool we need to be sure she’s not infested,” Marco said calmly.
“Any ideas on how we’ll do that?” Cassie asked.
“I know a spell that can help us,” Twilight explained. “It can detect all life forms in a certain radius. I was testing it on Spike when I learned he had been taken.”
Marco stared at Twilight with disbelief. “So you’ve had a spell that can detect if someone has a Yeerk in their head, and only now tell us about it?”
Twilight blushed, flattering her ears against her head. “I, uh, sorta forgot about it, considering all that’s happened.”
<We could definitely use a spell like that back on Earth,> Tobias mused.
“Guys, can we focus?” Prince Jake interrupted. “Twilight, could you find out if Rainbow is infested or not? We’ll worry about what to do after that.”
Twilight walked towards me, her horn lighting up.
“Hey, I already told you I’m not a Yeerk controller!” I protested.
Twilight ignored my protests and continued to channel her magic. Once she had accumulated enough she began her spell. I felt my head tingle and everything around me gained a purple hue to it. The whole scenario couldn’t have lasted more than ten seconds, then the world went back to normal and Twilight opened her eyes.
“She’s Rainbow, no doubt about it.”
“I’ve been telling you guys that from the start,” I said with a smug grin.
“Hey, guys?” Cassie asked once the chatter had died down, “where are we going to hide? The Yeerks are going to be combing through Ponyville, won’t they? After all, we did attack their Pool, and chances are they’ll be combing the woods for us. They may even come to your town.”
“We could morph you guys again and hide out in Twilight’s basement,” Prince Jake suggested, but Twilight shook her head.
“No, none of you have Cutie Marks. We got lucky the first time, but I don’t think we can get through town a second time without drawing attention.”
“No problem. We’ll just morph flies again and you can carry us,” Rachel said, finally contributing to the conversation.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Pinkie said. “Remember that spy? We never found him or who he is, so chances are he knows that there are too many Twilights in Ponyville.”
“Which means my library will be a first stop for any Yeerks," Twilight said, gritting her teeth. “They’d better not touch any of my books...”
“Um, you could stay with me,” Fluttershy said. “If you’d like.”
“Sorry Fluttershy, but your home is too close to the forest,” Cassie said, putting a hand on her head.
“Ah know,” Applejack cut in, “we could use mah barn. There’s plenty of room on th’ farm, and it’s far enough from town that not many ponies will be comin’ around in th’ first place.”
“That’s perfect, Applejack,” Twilight said happily. I saw Marco shake his head.
“Even on a world of multicolored ponies we end up in a barn?” he said.
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Back to the barn they go.
Sorry, Marco, there's no escaping the barn.
Poor Sweetie Belle. If she's infested... what about Applebloom, or Scootaloo? Applebloom may be harder to justify, considering how close the family is, but Scootaloo...
Looking forward to more! Keep up the good work!
Sweetiebelle!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Aah.....Marco Marco Marco...won't you ever figure out that Barns are the best hiding place ever?
Oh my. An Animorphs crossover? Eek. I'll definitely read this, but the concept is horrific. The poor ponies...
Morphing into ponies sounds interesting. I wonder what their new battle morphs will be?
Ah, Marco, when will you learn to stop worrying and love the barn?
Animorphs with ponies?!?!?!?
Can't wait!! The Animorphs books were some of my absolute favorites when I was younger!
Well ywiligh's spell should be usefull!
Great! Now all we need is for Twilight to come up with a spell that can yank 'em out! Or maybe starve them faster or something.
...I wonder if the Elements of Harmony could purge a yeerk?
I'm just waiting for one of them to acquire a manticore. Much Yeerk blood shall be shed...
Marco, nopony ever finds you when you're hiding in a barn.
Also, Sweetie Bell controller? Seems legit…
No. No, Sweetie Belle can't be a Controller. She just can't. It's impossible.
Dictionaries don't have ears.
Humor aside, this is where we really start seeing the horror of Aniverse leaking over to Ponyverse. The tough choices. The agony of wondering if you could have saved that one person. ...I'm really not looking forward to if and when a pony is forced to kill. If anypony, though, I'd say make Pinkie do it. Put some of the fanon violent personas to good use.
There's no way that hiding place is gonna last, though. If the Andalite Bandits are here, that means they need to step things up... and that means taking the Elements of Harmony before they can figure things out.
Should've hidden at Derpy's place. Those Yeerks just wouldn't have known what went wrong.
Breathe man, breathe. this is a crossover. No way they'd change the status quo for either of those shows/books too far, right? Right?
right? meeep.
Also, the horror! The horror! Nobody is safe, are they? I mean, if you can get to spike, then the whole supporting cast is open for use. Already, we got sweetie and the mayor, and next? Uuuuugggghhhhh, who knows who's next. Also, I'm suspecting that Luna's gonna be coming back down to town soon, since A) the train is late, and B)She'll hear about Fluttershy being turned away. Hmm, so will the princess of the night see through the yeerks?
Further, why do I get the suspicion that the power of the Unicorns is going to provide most interesting times in the future? I mean, for one, we have Cast Dectect Person to work with to keep people straight, and for two, we still haven't figured out the mysterious side effects of unicorn morphs with no thought speak, but can pick it up, and no memories from before. Magic and technology.
Rainbow Dash, I guess you really were born under a lucky cloud. You fell directly into the pond and not one yeerk made it in? You are a lucky pegasus.
but, even the hero of cloudsdale can't save everyone, and thus, cut and run is in order. Also, now that I think of it, if Jake could learn magic, maybe their war could become a little easier, as dectect creature could prove quite helpful in the return home.
First thing though is to regroup, and plan the next move. Perhaps Twilight can teleport in with Jake and explain the situation from there? Maybe they can launch a raid back to the first ship, see what they took, and make plans from there? Panic?
(eh, the last one probably wouldn't be that well off)
One things for certain, I'm guessing that Equestria will never be the same after this. Also, I think I see what you're doing with this crossover: you're fusing the worlds. While the yeerks always intrude here to the tone of MLP, the cheery love of friends, and the determination and hope to set things right might just give the freedom fighters a chance to loosen up and believe in their cause's success once more.
Also, on a technical note, how come your story isn't labeled Dark? I dunno, but this story does seem kinda dark.
Get a spartan Hork Bejork gene-spliced with a dragon THEN you will see carnage>>1009704. Or make Discord a controller. I feel sorry for the yeerk who gets to do that....
Agreed,1010221. And>>1010456, you may have taken the story apart.
1009704 do they even have blood outside thier controllers?
but yeah, if they do, yeah, yeerk blood will be replacing the current blood in my fountain(forgot what i massacared for it some kind of small green thing from runescape...)
1010577 I do that sometimes.
And you do it well>>1010861.
1010221
Neither do robots...
1010993: Robot dictionary, then?
Also you lied to me, it's August 1 and it's not finished!!!1!!one
1008962
I can't help it: Move faster Pokey. And why would they have different battle morphs.
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Another epic chapter, with a Dogfight. Marco lost his mother to the Yeerks, Jake lost his brother. So now Rarity lost her sister, all we need is someones father, I can't remember if anyone else lost loved ones to the Yeerk invasion from the books.
Sweetie Bell, nooo!
1008807
Scoots is Vissor Seven, I'm calling it.
1008807
They did say that around chapter 17 that Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara led Cherrilee to a trap to infest her.
1012132
What we said was that Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara wanted to show something to Cheerilee. Theoretically, all three could have been captured and infested then.
990228
Super Gex? Is that you?
-Tricondon
1012583 FORESHADOW!!!!
I had just recently finished the series for the first time when I started reading this about a month ago. Tricondon, you are doing an excellent job in capturing the personalities of ALL the characters, including the humans, alien, and bird.
Keep up the excellent work, good sir/ma'am!
Here, a moustache for you:
I think I'm high on day-quil. I just read the title as MLP: Morphine is Magic. o.O
Thank you author, thank you so much!
Twilight finally did something!
Forgetting the most useful spell thay could have in the current situation...
Well at least that pocket of stupidity is over, and she can screen the rest of her friends!
And then send a letter to the Princess!
Please!
Oh God PLEASE!
I need this!
I need them to do the obvious thing to do!
And not be stupid 24/7!
Or however Equestrian time works!
1025900 CURSES UPON THEE!
1026055 No! I'm allergic!
1026110 You yeerk!
1026127 Oh sorry, I meant jerk.
1026148
1025900
Mr./Mrs. Samaru, I do apologize. My neglect was uncalled for. Since this is a joint effort between yourself and Mr./Mrs. Tricondon, I should have included you and I didn't. I feel ashamed.
For you, sir/ma'am, I give thee mustaches:
1026859
Hey, why does he get more mustaches than me? I feel slighted.
-Tricondon
1026870
In all fairness, I do like your avatar picture much better. Filly Nerd-Twilight is adorable.
1008807
Applebloom is infected, remember? she was the one who brought Sweetie Bell into the woods, and thus to the Yeerk pool, so she is likely a controller, and so, by correlation, Scootaloo is also one.
1009282
A bit of surgical telekinesis could probably be used to kill the Yeerks while they're still in the host's skull.
1035370
I say they should give that a shot. Assuming there are no horrible side effects, that would be an effective way to fight back.
I can't wait to see what kind of battle morphs the Main 6 (The Animorphs six, not the ponies) will get. Maybe a Manticore, a cockatrice, or a dragon.....
Oh my god..what if they get to Canterlot and aquire Discord!?
The Yeerks would be royally screwed then! 
“Even on a world of multicolored ponies we end up in a barn?” he said.
Your attention to detail is subtle cuz it goes smoothly with the rest of the story, but when I catch it I appreciate it. Hey, there's this guy on youtube, name "poparena". He does reviews of animorph books almost like he wishes he worked for the Nostalgia Critic. I wonder how he would like to read this, even if he didn't review it.
Alas, poor sweetie bell. She was my fav CMC. Bloom follows closely afterwards. I don't hate Scoots, I like her just not charmed by her. I guess that means I can take her more seriously.
When we first heard Sweetie Belle in the story, and she didn't say specifically what talent they were going for that time, I KNEW that she was controlled, they ALWAYS say specifically what talent, "Cutie Mark Crusaders Lion Tamers" and such, this time, she said she was trying to get a cutie mark IN exploration.
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Poparena is awesome. I think he has also actually reviewed some MLP episodes as well, although he's not a fan.
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Well its past 2 and i show no signs of stopping, damn you for making an awesome fic
Great referance to the Animorphs meeting place
I think that's a bad idea. Applebloom is most likely a Controller as well.