Applejack and the Remote Sentry Buster

by efug25g


Twilight's Research Studies, Rainbow's Counseling Therapy

Next Morning, at the Castle of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle made a couple of more tests with the Remote Sentry Buster by reading the instruction manual while operating the iPad that controls the robot. After several more minutes of reading, Twilight finds that if a Sentry Buster gets destroyed, another takes its place immediately. During Twilight's findings, the Remote Sentry Buster can move automatically by pressing all four movement arrows on the iPad all at once. Meanwhile, Derpy Muffins appeared outside of the Castle to deliver the latest headlines from Gabby Gums. After knocking on the castle door several times with her hooves, Derpy finally gets a response from Princess Twilight. The moment Twilight opens the door, she sees the newspaper in Derpy's delivery bag. In an instant, Twilight uses her magic to levitate the newspaper before reading it. The newspaper states that "An unidentified robot wreaks havoc at Wonderbolt HQ." After reading the headlines, before Twilight could say anything, Derpy makes her first speech in front of the princess.

"You should see the look on Rainbow Dash's and Soarin's faces." Derpy cackled happily. "It was so priceless, that I almost fell out of my seat laughing. Her parents were causing quite a commotion at Wonderbolts HQ out of worrying for their daughter's safety."

"Oh. Oh. Oh." Pinkie spoke as she hopped right in front of Derpy and Twilight as she waved all four of her hooves left and right. "When I heard about what happened at Wonderbolt HQ, I just couldn't stop reading this newspaper article for like a dozen, gazillion, trillion minutes this morning. The look on Rainbow Dash's face was just so funny, I even posted it onto Cheerlie's School. The entire class was laughing with me; it was AMAZING!!!"

"Well, now that you mentioned it, has any pony seen Rainbow Dash lately??" Twilight asked both Derpy and Pinkie.

"I think Soarin took Rainbow Dash straight to a counselor to go over her traumatic experience she received at Wonderbolts HQ." Pinkie answered, smiling with a happy squeal.


Meanwhile at the Ponyville Hospital, Rainbow Dash was scheduled for counseling therapist. After explaining the incidents revolving around getting chased by a two-legged robot at Wonderbolt HQ, Therapist Silver Watch writes down everything that Rainbow said in his notepad. He was a red earth pony with a silver mane and tail. He had glasses on his head and bears the cutie mark of a silver pocket watch. In his office, he's sitting on a red chair that's 8 feet across where Rainbow Dash is. She was sitting on top of a green couch in front of Silver Watch. Rainbow's parents and Soarin are sitting outside of Silver's office, hoping that he may have come up with a solution in dealing with the robot that was chasing Rainbow Dash all over the area. After he finished writing down everything that Rainbow Dash explained started from last morning, Silver gets out of his seat before asking questions to the light-blue pegasus.

"So, you're so say that you were chased around by a robot twice? Once at Ponyville and once at Wonderbolts HQ?" Silver asked while adjusting his glasses.

"Y-Yes, it's like that thing was trying to kill me!!!" Rainbow said in a panicked tone. "Even my fellow Wonderbolts weren't able to stop him from coming after me!!!"

"Is this the robot you're talking about?!" Silver asked as he showed Rainbow a drawing of a two-legged robot with a huge round body on a sheet of paper with his left hoof.

Upon seeing the image on the paper, Rainbow yelped in fear and curled herself into a ball, cowering in fear behind the couch.

"I'll take that as a yes." Silver Watch said to himself as he put the picture away in his briefcase. "Do you have any pony that can escort you around?"

"I have Soarin comforting me." Rainbow said while still under a state of fright.

Somewhere outside of the Ponyville Hospital, Applejack was hiding behind a bush while spying on Rainbow Dash at the 3rd floor in the 5th window with a telescope. Upon seeing the light-blue pegasus freaking out, Applejack couldn't stop snickering at herself; however, for some reason, she's starting to feel pretty bad in turning Rainbow Dash in a total laughing stock again. It's just like last time when Gabby Gums was gossiping about Rainbow Dash being a "Super Speedy or Softie" and that the CMC were behind this. However, this time was different because the farm pony was the one making Rainbow Dash look bad in front of the public. Yet, a part of Applejack didn't want to admit it because she still wanted to show Rainbow Dash the error of her ways for pulling too many pranks behind her back. Inside Applejack's self-conscious, it's telling her that she needs to tell Rainbow Dash the truth very soon before it gets worse. After taking a deep breath to herself, Applejack leaves the area while still deciding whether she wants to tell the truth or not.

Back inside the Ponyville Hospital, after asking a few more questions during Rainbow's therapy, Silver finally came up with a solution to minimize the light-blue pegasus' fears.

"Okay, Ms. Rainbow Dash what you need to do is have some pony act as a decoy to lure that robot away from your position." Silver suggested to the light-blue pegasus. "While it's distracted by the decoy, you try to track it down to its source. Once that's done, your Wonderbolt team members will apprehend the one that's controlling that robot. What do you say?"

"That might work." Rainbow acknowledged Silver's solution, followed by a mischievous grin. "And I think I know the perfect pony to do this job."

In just a few hours later, after Rainbow Dash left the Ponyville Hospital, she and Soarin went to Sugar Cube Corner to speak with Pinkie Pie while the rest of the Wonderbolts wait outside. Inside the bakery, they see Pinkie passing out cupcakes to the CMC sitting at a table across Rarity and Fluttershy. After she drops off the cupcakes at their table, the pink pony turns around to see Rainbow Dash staring straight at her in the face, much to her shock. My

"Hi, Pinkie Pie." Rainbow said as she spook the party pony in an instant.

Upon seeing the light blue pegasus pop out of nowhere, Pinkie made a startling, high-pitched scream with her eyes bugging out and her tongue stretching 5 inches at Rainbow's face. The next thing Pinkie did was make a friendly giggling.

"Hee. Hee. Hee. Good one, Rainbow." Pinkie replied in a happy squeaky sound. "So, what brings you and Soarin to Sugar Cube Corner?"

"Pinkie Pie, I have a job for you where your amazing random abilities would be put top good use." Rainbow told the pink pony while she smirked.

"OOOOOoooooo!!! What is it? What is it?" Pinkie asked out of curiosity.

In just seconds, Rainbow goes up to Pinkie and starts whispering in her ear, telling her of a plan of how to expose the suspect behind the Sentry Buster incident at Wonderbolt HQ. As Pinkie went all ears, she started cackling to herself because she happens to come up with a plan of her own.

"Oh goody!!!" Pinkie cheered. "I just can't absolutely, positively, excitedly, amazingly, encouragingly, enthusiastically, wonderously WAIT TO GET STARTED!!!!" Pinkie cheered excitedly as she jumped 10 feet up in the air shouting at the top of her lungs before she covered up her mouth with both of her hooves.

"Easy there, Pinkie." Rainbow Dash said in a calm voice. "We must not let any pony else get involved in our plan other than the Wonderbolts.

Back at Twilight's Castle, Derpy volunteered to help Twilight with her studies over the Sentry Buster's capabilities, along with Applejack. During Twilight's research, they accidentally brought in two more Sentry Busters from the portal inside the Castle Library. As Applejack tested the Sentry Buster trio with her iPad, it now displays a larger screen that shows interior cameras of all three Sentry Busters and a rectangular map that indicates their position. Impressed by such new improvements, Applejack insisted on seeing how it would affect Rainbow Dash getting chased by all three Sentry Busters all at once. Upon looking at the Sentry Buster's target list, which was indicated on the upper right of the iPad's screen, it still holds Rainbow Dash as their primary target. Before Applejack could continue harassing the light-blue pegasus with the three Sentry Busters, Twilight gives out a fair warning not to get carried away with this mechanical prank. However, without saying another word, Applejack ran out the door with the iPad, much to the purple alicorn princess' annoyance.

"Something tells me that Applejack is going to get busted for this!!" Twilight said to herself as she sees Derpy leave with the farm pony after heading out the castle doors.