Detour

by Jetset0099

Arrival

Twilight Sparkle led the throng of Ponyville citizens in the direction of the machines landing site. She hoped that whatever it was, it didn't have bad intentions.

All of the sudden, her friend Applejack ran up to her. Twilight could tell she was in a foul mood.

She yelled at Twilight, "Lets go an' sick that no good varmin! Why ah tell you when I get mah hooves on that no good low down piece of-"

"Applejack!" Twilight interrupted, "What in the hay has gotten into you?!"

Applejack retorted, "Ah tell y'all! That good for nothin pony flew his fancy contraption over mah orchard, smashed the roof o' mah barn, and the debris knocked out Big Mac and injured one of his legs! So like ah said, when I get mah hooves on that son of a-!" She was stopped by a purple hoof over her mouth.

She tried reasoning with the farm pony, "Applejack, has it occurred to you that maybe this was all an accident? That maybe whoever was controlling that machine had no options left?"

Applejack didn't want to hear it, "So his option is to take off the roof of mah barn?!"

"It could be a her." Twilight said, cringing at the rage she had just instilled in her orange friend by accidentally saying something smart like that.

"Arrrg! Ahm gonna get that swine!" and with that she was gone, running ahead of Twilight and the others to get to the landing site.

Rarity approached the lavender unicorn next, hoping she could shed some light on the situation.

"I say Twilight, whatever was that thing that just flew over the town?" she said.

Twilight responded, "I'm not exactly sure Rarity, but we're all going to find out now." She gestured back to the crowd in pursuit made up of about fifty ponies or so.

Rarity spoke again, "Well, I want to have a word with the owner of that contraption, because whoever decided to paint such a ghastly shade of grey on it clearly has no sense of style whatsoever and must be educated on the subject at once!"

Twilight just rolled her eyes and sighed at the fashionista's comment and continued on, only to be approached by a pink pony who seemed very hyperactive at the moment.

"Ohmygosh! A new pony in town! This calls for a super duper spectacular Welcome to Ponyville party! Yay!"

The party pony was stopped by Twilight, who was by now getting very annoyed, "Pinkie Pie please hold off on the party talk. We don't know what this thing is or what its reason for being here is."

Pinkie seemed a little let down at hearing this, but immediately resumed being her normal over-energetic self.

"Okie lokie dokey then! But after we meet him and ask them some questions, THEN I get to throw him or her my super duper spectacular Welcome to Ponyville party! Deal?!"

Twilight sighed, agreeing with her was the easiest way out of this situation, "Ugh, fine Pinkie. But AFTER all my questions have been answered, alright?"

"Mhmm!" she said. Then the pink pony proceeded to hop along with the rest of them, eager to welcome the new visitor.

"I...I hope he or she is nice..." Twilight recognized that voice only to be one of her other good friends, Fluttershy, who had caught up to the trio leading the crowd of ponies.

"Yes Fluttershy, I hope he or she is nice too, and I hope they're ok. It didn't seem like that was supposed to happen that way. I think the machine they're flying in is broken. It's just a hunch, but I've got a feeling I'm right on this one." Twilight said.

Fluttershy responded, "Oh...well I thought the same thing, so um...I brought my first aid kit I use on my animals that get injured just incase he or she is hurt...if that's ok with you." Sure enough, a white saddle bag with a red cross on the side of it was resting on her left side.

Twilight could only smile at her friend's nature of caring for ponies in need, "Yes Fluttershy, that's perfect. I do hope they're ok." Then she looked around and wondered aloud, "Hey, has anybody seen Rainbow Dash?"
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Five minutes ago:

The wheels of the C-130 touched down with a heavy thud. Then the nose gear touched down. Immediately after, Jake applied full brakes and pushed the nose down, a tactic he learned in order to slow down quicker on soft-field landings.

He turned to Celestia and said, "Look, there's no sense in both of us getting hurt or killed. Do your teleport thingy and get out of here before something happens. You've helped me as much as you can."

As much as she wanted to argue, she knew he was right, she had nothing else to offer in assistance. She faced him and said, "Very well, as much as I hate doing this, you're right. Ill be back in a couple minutes I promise. Please be safe." She looked ahead to the trees which were only about two hundred yards away and closed her eyes. In a split second, a flash of golden light bathed the cockpit. As quickly as it appeared, it had gone, taking the Princess with it.
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Princess Luna was sitting in the throne room up on the dais, grumbling to herself about her big sister making her leave the tower, speaking to nopony in particular.

"She thinks I'm a foal! She thinks I'm incapable of handling any situation! I'm the Princess of the Night! I raise the moon and set the stars! I am perfectly capable of dealing with an unwanted visitor!"

Before she had any time to go on, her sister appeared before her looking rather flustered. Luna was surprised and irritated at her, and had a few choice words to say to the Sun Goddess.

"There you are! Do you realize it's been an hour since you sent me down here! I shall tell you right now that I am not a foal and I am capable of handling myself in a situation like that!"

Celestia looked at her, puzzled. Not from Luna's words, but from her own actions.

"This isn't right." she said. "I must've not been paying attention when I teleported, and now I'm back here at the castle instead of the landing site. Luna, lets go! We need to get back to Ponyville immediately!"

It was Luna's turn to be puzzled now, "Sister whatever are you talking about? What was that thing, and who was in it? Was it an alien come to harvest our brains?! Ill have that scum put in the dungeon for eternity!" She violently slammed her front hooves down on the arm rests of the throne.

"Luna there's no time, ill explain on the way. My magic is much too drained to teleport us both there so we'll have to take the Royal Chariot. Come on!"

Luna complied and ran after her sister, leaving the throne room and heading towards the chariot landing strip on the castle grounds.
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The C-130 was only fifty yards from the trees and closing in, still rolling at a fast pace. Jake closed his eyes and waited for the the impact. Immediately, he was viciously thrown forward and hit his head on the yoke, producing a cut above his left eye. The brown pony winced at the pain from the blow and expected the cockpit glass to start shattering around him from the impact with the trees, but it never came. After a couple seconds of silence, he fought the pain and looked up through the windshield, and breathed a sigh of relief. The plane's front landing gear had rolled into a very soft, wet spot in the grass and caused it to sink, stopping the plane abruptly only thirty yards from the tree line.

The aircraft's nose was sunk down to it's belly in the mud, and the tail end was still above ground, now tilted slightly upwards.

He laughed and spoke to himself, something he didn't do quite often, "Well Jake, you managed once again to come out of a sticky situation alive and unscathed. Well, almost unscathed." He looked up and felt his cut. He pulled his hoof from his forehead, which was now stained with blood. "I should probably get this treated now....what the?...uh oh...I think I might be in some big trouble."

He looked back through the mirror towards Ponyville to see a flying cyan pony with a rainbow mane, accompanied by an orange pony with a blonde mane adorning a stetson hat on her head, running along below her. Both were unmistakably making a beeline for his plane. The two didn't seem to have much in common except for one thing, they both didn't look too happy.

Comments

[ThatBastard]

2342741

Oh god you're so lame...

[IAreBox]

I believe the fecal matter has hit the ocillating device.

[moltendaniel]

2345530
it appears as thought this fine fellow is within an excrement filled watercourse without the means to facilitate forward motion

[mcb893]

Just one thing. Slamming on the brakes with the nose still in the air would bring the nose down extremely quickly, possibly collapsing the nose gear.

[Verequus]

The Mane 6 are behaving very stereotypical, but Rarity's reason is especially bad. Having her coming along for curiosity alone should have been enough, assuming other townsfolk is running towards the landing site. Also she would be willing to lend aid to her friends, in case they require it. Twilight is also quite fast to assume that the landing was due to emergency reasons. She might have considered this a possibility, even bringing it up to pacify Applejack for the time being, but outright moving it to be number one of the list?

Then we have Celestia again forgetting that she can levitate stuff, being her so inexperienced in magic things that she teleports to wrong place, being her so weak in magic that she can't teleport back and conveniently forgetting that her sister could do the teleport, so the Mane 6 has time to deal with the intruder. The plotholes are adding up.

[Racing Bronie]

The Ferrari is still ok! All hope isn't lost!

[Vates Despero]

OoC levels still rising Captain!
We have a confirmed Worfing!

[Seizure Specialist]

2348716 no, the nose gear was already down. No pilot would be stupid enough to slam on the brakes when the nose gear was still off the ground, as that would cause exactly what you said: the nose gear would be crushed.