//------------------------------// // An Old Face a New Problem // Story: Hybrids And Harmony // by RoxonTheDemon //------------------------------// Twilight, Pinkie, Roxon and Cyxon could be seen in the park near a fountain. Twilight was on a bench next to said fountain reading a book titled “Crossbreeding and Hybrid Spawn: Possibilities, How’s and Why’s”, while Roxon lied in the grass behind the bench reading a book of his own titled “Equestria: Deadly Creatures and Feats of Bravery” both were invested into their books completely, with Cyxon sitting on the edge of the fountain listening to everything Pinkie Pie said about Rainbow Dash doing some stunts. “HoofbitingactionoverloadshewaslikeastuntsuperstarflyinghigherandhigheruntilRainbowDashswoopeddownSWOOSHandrightbeforeshehitthegroundSHOOMshepulledupVROOM…” Pinkie said excitement VERY clear in her voice. “Uh huh…” Roxon said not even listening to her. “…andthensheloopedaroundandaroundlikeWHOOWHOOWHOOWHOOWHOOWHOOWHOO…” Pinkie said falling to the ground. “Uh huh…” Twilight said paying just as much attention as Roxon was. While Pinkie was still lying on her back she saw Rainbow Dash flying overhead and immediately ran after her as soon as she left Cyxon’s face suddenly had a frown. “Aww, I wanted to hear the end of the story,” Cyxon said like a child whining about not getting a toy and left to find something fun to do. As soon as he was gone from sight a pair of headphones appeared on Roxon’s head (He can make things invisible if he concentrates on it) he pulled them down to hang around his neck, if someone was paying close attention when it was quiet they could hear the lyrics of the song that was playing said, “Finally, I can read my book in peace.” “Me too,” Twilight added.   “I don’t want to do this but…” an amorphous blurry image said to Roxon.   “THEN DON’T PLEASE, I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE YOU MOM!” Roxon yelled.   “I’m sorry son… but just know I love you with all my heart,” was the last thing he heard before everything went black. ‘What was that and why did it seem so real…’ Roxon thought to himself, ‘and why did I call that lady mom? I don’t know my mom, do I?’ “Roxon are you alright?” Twilight asked concern filling her heart and showing in her voice. “Yeah what gave you the idea that I wasn’t?” Roxon asked her as he got out of his trance. “You whispered the word ‘mom’ to yourself,” she told him. “Sorry memory came up in my head,” he answered. When she heard that she dropped the subject with a simple, “If you ever want to talk about it tell us or me if you don’t want others to know.” Roxon let out a small rare genuine smile and said, “Thanks Twilight, by the way, did you hear or care for a word Pinkie said?” Twilight gave a deadpan expression and tone of voice as she said, “Not in the slightest.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pinkie Pie and Cyxon hummed as they walked around in town, things had changed a lot since the demon attack, and the ponies no longer looked at the Morph Six strangely not after they were shown some of the things that the hybrids had gone through but the ponies did seem to have become accustomed to some things that happened in Ponyville easily, such as the constant property damage the random bloodstains found on the dirt roads and on walls as well as the loud noises sometimes heard in the middle of the night. Anyway Rexon was napping on a cloud he had jumped up to and woke up when he heard the pink pony’s humming. “Ugh, can’t those two keep quiet for just one second, geez,” Rexon whispered to himself. Pinkie and Cyxon then came across some ponies, “Hey have you seen Rainbow Dash and Rexon?” ‘Oh come on, not now! I don’t want any part of anything that has to do with them right now!’ Rexon thought to himself eyes wide not wanting to deal with the both of them at that time. “Don’t know where Rainbow Dash is, but I can probably find Rexon,” Roxon said to the party pony. He then heard Twilight say, “Wait, isn’t Rexon up there?” pointing to the exact cloud he was on. ‘Fuck! Well I’m not suffering alone though,’ he thought to himself and immediately let loose a pulse of energy and found Rainbow Dash a few seconds later, ‘Gotcha!’ He teleported right on top of Rainbow Dash’s position only to be reminded he teleported to her position in mid-air, while she was on the ground, as he fell. “LOOK OUT BELOW!” Rainbow Dash looked up to see Rexon falling towards her. Her eyes widened in shock as she dived out of the way to have Rexon leave an indent of his body in the ground. “Sweet Celestia, are you okay?” Rainbow Dash frantically asked. “Hmph hmph hmph mhphmhph (Do I look okay)?” Rexon said the sound muffled with the dirt and rock in his mouth. “Sorry generic question why’d you teleport while on top of a cloud this time?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Pmmphm Phm mmph hmmhm (Pinkie Pie and Cyxon),” He said. “Oh those two huh? Let me guess they’re looking for us, they found you first and you decided to lead them here?” Rainbow Dash asked the hybrid looking out at the lake (the place they are right now is the same place Rainbow Dash gave up on running away from Pinkie Pie). “Mmm hm (Uh huh),” he finished. “There you two are,” Pinkie said as she popped out of the lake, “We need you help with something.” Rainbow Dash and Rexon could only groan. “We tooooootaly promise it’ll be toooootaly fun,” Cyxon, popping out of the ground behind them, said happily. Rexon pulled his head out of the ground swallowing all of the dirt and rock in his mouth and with Rainbow said, “Fine.” “Great, Rexon I need your transformation abilities and Rainbow Dash for the clouds,” Pinkie Pie said. As Rexon and Rainbow Dash heard this they knew what was going on.   In Ponyville at Town Hall “Move it a little bit more to the right…”Pinkie directed an increasingly frustrated Rainbow Dash, “…Now up a bit…” Pinkie continued not seeing the slightly angry look on her friends face, “…Ok now to the left by a centimetre aaaaand there…hmm…” Pinkie Pie contemplated the position until a smile that threatened to split he face apart appeared, “PERFECT! Now wait for my signal.” The pegasus and hybrid gave great sighs of relief when their pink friend voiced her satisfaction. They couldn’t believe that just setting up the clouds took an entire hour for them to do. It took them a full five minutes to come up with their pranks, and get their supplies, but the cloud setup was the longest thing they did and they found it ridiculous. Cyxon just didn’t care about the preparation time. As Pinkie looked inside Town Hall through the window she found the purple scaled dragon with red spines to be fetching a large pile of letters for some unknown and unimportant reason as he hummed a little melody to himself. When he was finished and had all the letters in hand he walked out of the open door. Pinkie gave the signal as soon as the oblivious dragon was outside, causing Rainbow Dash with her high experience in weather management to cause a small part of the sky to turn dark and stormy with the clouds rumbling with lightning, although to Spike it seemed like the whole sky was becoming stormy because of Rexon using clever illusionary powers. Spike gradually slowed his steps until he came to a stop, “What’s going on here? Where did these clouds come from?” he asked confused as to where thunderclouds came from on a scheduled lightly cloudy day. He was about to turn around and head inside when, what could only be described as, a cage of lightning bolts surrounded an area fifteen meters around town hall stopped him, courtesy of Cyxon and his demonic guitar Nevan. His surroundings grew darker to the point where he could only see a meter in front of his own face and a sinking feeling formed in the pit of his stomach. “I-I have a b-bad feeling about t-this,” Spike said to himself, his voice quivering with his growing fear. As he looked around a sound drew his attention to the top of Town Hall where he saw a demon holding on to the flagpole, but not just any demon it was a Blitz. As Spike looked to where the demon was the Blitz was looking in his direction then teleported away. He immediately started searching for the demon to keep it in his field of vision he looked everywhere…well almost because he never thought of looking behind until a shadow that dwarfed him appeared. When he had turned around he came face to face with the deadly Blitz, centimetres away from being electrocuted by the electricity that creates its armour, its hot breath blowing across his face, smelling strangely minty fresh for a demon. The dragon tried his best to keep from trembling but failed miserably as the demon sniffed him. When the demon let out a roar Spike jumped due to the suddenness all of the scroll he was holding flying everywhere, then as the demon raised a clawed hand up he closed his eyes and hoped that it would end quickly…then gained a confused expression on his face as he heard laughter, actually make that four different types of laughter. As Spike opened his eyes he saw that the scene of thunderclouds, lightning and darkness had vanished to be replaced by four laughing friends of his. Pinkie Pie’s high pitched laugh was the second most attracting and drew his attention to her rolling form, Rainbow Dash’s unique raspy-like chuckles were not as noticeable but Spike still noticed as she was on her back kicking her legs around, Rexon’s gasping was nearly as noticeable as Pinkie’s laughter but fell short in pitch and Cyxon’s loud hyena-like laughter definitely drew the most attention to him on his knees pounding his fist on the ground. When Spike talked it only led the others to laugh some more. “Let me *hiccup* guess *hiccup* this was planned *hiccup* by Pinkie Pie?” Spike asked as he hiccupped. “Yep,” the mentioned pony answered as she regained her composure, “so what do you think?” “You’re *hiccup* always pulling *hiccup* a fast one *hiccup* on me, but *hiccup* it was a *hiccup* great prank,” the dragon said between hiccups, then picked up a black scroll…which he promptly breathed fire on, “OH *hiccup* COME ON!”   Meanwhile In Canterlot Celestia was in the middle of having a cup of tea with her sister Luna, who was still the same size as she was in the third chapter but had her ethereal mane back, and Nightmare, who was the same as Luna except for the ethereal mane. “Well, well, well what do we have here?” Celestia asked no one in particular as she picked up the letter in her magical aura and began to read it, “To my dear knight…” That was as far as she got before the letter burst into flames, on an unrelated note Nightmare’s grey blue-ish horn glow was slowly fading away as the scroll burnt. “Ohmyhowdidthathappenwowwouldyoulookatthetimegottagobye!” Nightmare frantically said hoping to escape before questions arose… …But alas she found herself floating in mid-air as Celestia, with a sly grin on her face, said, “Not so fast Nightmare…”   Back In Ponyville “Uh you want some help we kinda owe ya for nearly giving you a heart attack,” Rainbow Dash said nervously after being jabbed in her side by Rexon. “That would *hiccup* be appreciated,” Spike said with a thankful smile on his face. As they picked up the scrolls Rainbow Dash said, “I didn’t know that you two were pranksters…Pinkie Pie is obvious but not you two,” referring to Rexon and Cyxon. “We may have never pulled pranks in Hell but when we were out we pranked random people, our friends and even each other sometimes. We always came up with one prank or another and even got involved in some prank wars,” Cyxon said zealously. “We could have been considered the prank kings, if you had to give us titles,” Rexon added with a cocky grin. “You guys wanna come and cause some trouble with us?” Pinkie Pie asked slyly. “Does a manticore have bat wings?” Cyxon asked in an equally sly tone. After they were done helping Spike with his scroll trouble and hiccups, which were surprisingly easy to get rid of, they had got and picked up some pranking supplies from a building shaped like a jester’s hat, and had gone in search for their targets. Rarity was busy in her home/workplace making an elegant looking wedding gown for a client who was having a wedding soon, until her doorbell interrupted her. She got up from her sowing and answered the door as he opened the top half of her door she expected to see a pony her roommate or his brothers at the door but found nothing waiting she turned left and right but fund nothing. She then looked downwards and noticed that a bouquet of flowers had been left at her door. She bent down to smell them, found they smelled lovely with no tampering at all and as she lifted her head she noticed that there was a card that came with the flowers. She was curious as to what was written on it so she picked it up in her magic aura, opened it and began reading, and this is what it said… Dear Rarity Words cannot describe the love I feel for you every time I see you face I feel a though an angel has graced my presence. I lose all feeling in my limbs and feel like a wooden figurine compared a marble masterpiece. Your beauty is like the full moon on a cloudless night under the stars in a beautiful meadow, your coat is like the pure driven snow, your mane like the softest, purest silk scarf placed on my heart and your eyes sparkle like diamonds. You are the light in my darkness, the yin to my yang, the fire to my ice and the silver lining to my dark cloud. The word that follow are only a fraction of my love for I would climb the highest mountain, walk the longest distance and fight the most dangerous monster to only tell you that I love you. Your loving secret admirer Rainbow Dash As Rarity read the name on the letter her mood did a U-turn and her face gained a look of absolute shock, her door did not wing that way. She had no clue how to process how the words she just read were linked with the name that was signed at the end and her brain did the only thing it could do and shut down. When she woke up the first thing she saw was darkness but before she could freak out she notice light coming in from the bottom of her eye. As she pulled of what she found out was a type of portrait from her face she examined it and the gained a furious expression on her face at what was on the A3 sized paper. The chibi faces of Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rexon and Cyxon greeted her all of which sticking their tongues out at her in their respective corners of the paper clockwise with the words “Got you with the letter. PS: RD’s door does not swing that way” in large letters and bright orange ink. Needless to say she was pissed and relieved that her rainbow headed friend was straight. Twilight, being ever so studious and curious, was busy with some chemicals in her tree house parchment, quill and pot of ink at the ready to record any data. She began her experiment by pouring the green chemicals in one beaker into another with a blue chemical and observed the result of the dark purple stably bubbling liquid, she turned and wrote some of the data she recorded with the orange ink in her ink pot turned and saw that her black result chemical was violently bubbling…wait orange ink, she turned back to her parchment to find ashes in its place…then her she remembered… “Uh oh,” Twilight said as she cast a transparent bubble shield faster than she thought possible, before… …BOOM! “AHHH MY EYES!” only to just be blinded by a bright flash that her shield was ineffective against. As she blinked away the spots in her eyes for nearly a minute and finally regained her sight completely, she saw a vial with a thick red liquid inside then as she found her ink pot replaced by another vial with the strange orange ink inside it. She picked up both offending items, turned them around and found nametags; the red one had “Chemical unstable DO NOT USE” while the orange one had “Hot Ink: Caution burns into metal”, then sighed tiredly as she heard laughing outside. She looked out her window to find the four pranksters simply trying to breathe in between their laughter. Applejack walked out of her barn with an applecart strapped to her, only to see all of the apples in the orchard with the pouting chibi faces of Rexon, Cyxon, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie and the words don’t eat me underneath. When she heard chuckling she turned its source and found the four pranksters with paint brushes and covered head to toe/hoof in paint. The four pranksters had taken pride in their work, then found apples being flung in their direction making their eyes widen before they ran. Applejack stopped when she was sure they were gone and caught sight of an apple that had landed in a barrel full of water as the face that was on it and the words underneath washed away, and couldn’t help but give her own little chuckle at the prank. Fluttershy was busy feeding some fish, bunnies and some other assortment of animals, with the help of Roxon, Raxon, Nyxon and Ryxon. There were several unnoticeable things thanks to the Rexon and Cyxon’s illusions, the first being that there was a rubber turtle that had a water squirting hose attached to it and another was that there were three fake birds that were on the ground that were actually paint bombs. Behind some bushes Rainbow Dash was looking through a telescope directing her pranking cohorts to move the fake birds, “…little more to the right, stop. Perfect right on their heads, this is gonna be so hilarious.” “Hey Dash who’s over there anyway?” Cyxon asked, hating being kept in the dark. “Your brothers and Fluttershy,” Rainbow Dash answered with a chuckle. The two members of the Morph Six had their eyes widen in fear as they immediately took control of the fake birds and flew them away, while Pinkie Pie dropped the squeeze trigger for the turtle squirt gun. The two hybrids and party pony then asked in a loud enough tone as to not alert their friends on the other side of the lake, “Are you crazy?!” “What’s the problem? It is only a prank, isn’t it?” Rainbow Dash asked taking her eye off of the telescope and looking at them. “Roxon isn’t the best guy to pull a prank on ‘cause he’ll either do the following: A, kick our asses to Hell and back, B, put us through one of our obstacle courses without our powers and trust us that is suicide even with the powers, or C, he pull a revenge prank and by the way did we forget to mention he has a pretty dark sense of humour when he wants to have it, in fact we all do,” Rexon explained in a slightly scared tone to try and hide what Rainbow found to suspiciously sound like a chocked laugh. “Also Fluttershy is soooo sensitive, we’ll hurt her feelings even our most harmless prank,” Pinkie Pie added in also sounding like she was choking back a laugh. “Well then we’ll need another target one made of tougher stuff, but who…” Rainbow Dash said to herself. “Oh we know someone…hehehe…the toughest pony we know,” Cyxon said holding in a laugh. “Really who, do I know them?” Rainbow Dash asked excitedly. “Oh yes,” Rexon said as he pointed into the water, “You’re very close.” Rainbow Dash looked into the water and saw that her reflection had a dark circle around one of its eyes and she gave a little laugh, “Good one guys.” This led to the entire group laughing as they recalled their day, until… “Could one of you four explain to me why I found a fake turtle with this pipe leading me here and what you are doing with that squeeze trigger?” Roxon asked in his public bland voice. “Y-Ya see the thing i-is…” Pinkie nervously said then suddenly yelled out, “RUN FOR IT!” The suddenness of the yell coupled with the fear they all felt meant that the prankster just ran without knowing if Roxon would follow them or not…which he surprisingly didn’t. Roxon sighed, “I wanted to join in the fun too,” he said in a pouty tone, “Oh well.” “Try not being such a strict asshole all the time,” Despair said flatly. “Despair you’re my friend but please shut up,” Roxon said irritated at his partner’s tone of voice. “It’s true,” the entity pouted.   The Next Day Rexon was napping peacefully on the floor of Rainbow Dash’s cloud home, which was as soft as nearly everywhere else in the home, until a knock on the door woke him up. “Ugh, who could that be?” Rexon groaned. He sat up from his spot on the floor and looked at his watch and seeing that it was already morning he simply got up and went to answer the door. As he opened the door he saw what he assumed was a griffon due to the eagle head and neck with feathers reaching her chest, eagle claw front legs and wings and lion body, back legs and tail. “What do you want?” Rexon asked in a cranky manner due to the interrupted nap. “I’m looking for Rainbow Dash, cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail, do you happen to know where she lives?” the stranger at the door asked. “She lives here, what's it to ya?” Rexon rudely answered. “Wake her up and tell her Gilda came to see her,” the stranger answered ignoring Rexon’s rudeness. “Fine,” Rexon grumbled as he turned and called up the stairs, “HEY RAINBOW SOMEONE’S HERE TO SEE YOU SAYS HER NAME’S GILDA.” Rexon had seen Rainbow Dash move quickly before but had he never seen her move as fast as she had when he had finished calling her, he didn’t even expect to be bulldozed out of the door yet here he was on his face on the ground. His sour mood shifted as he heard Pinkie Pie, because of the party favor, approaching but instead of getting up he rolled onto his back and just said, “Hi Pinkie.” Pinkie noticing his still slightly sour mood, “Aww what's wrong, tell auntie Pinkie everything.” Rexon raised an eyebrow and said, “Pinkie we’re the same age I think it would make more sense to say sister Pinkie.” “Okay, but I really like Auntie Pinkie Pie” Pinkie pouted then turned to her normal self, “So what's the problem?” “Oh nothing much Rainbow Dash just rammed me out of the door this morning,” Rexon said nonchalantly. “Why?” Pinkie asked. “Why don’t you ask her and find out,” Rexon simply stated. “Rainbow Dash it’s a new day and we got a lot of pranking to…” Pinkie cut herself off when she saw someone else looking down from the cloud house, “…Oooh.” “Morning Pinks,” she said then noticed the indent in the ground and the dirt covering Rexon, “Did I accidentally…?” “Yeah ya did,” Rexon answered. “Sorry,” Rainbow apologised. “Forget it I need to go change these anyway from yesterday,” Rexon said calmly although he was slightly angry inside, “Just be more careful next time.” Rexon then jumped up to the cloud house shocking Gilda, who had no idea who Rexon was and was still standing in front of the door. “Could you please move so I can go upstairs and change my clothes?” Rexon asked in a cold tone of voice. Not saying a word Gilda moved out of the way and let Rexon walk in then he disappeared upstairs, Rainbow Dash asked if they could land so she didn’t need to strain her neck looking at Pinkie who was still on the ground. “Who the heck was that Dash?” Gilda asked confused as to who she just saw, when they both landed in front of Pinkie. “Oh that was my roommate and friend Rexon,” Rainbow Dash answered, “He’s staying with me for the time being until they find their own place to stay, and his brothers are staying with my friends too, like Pinkie over there stays with Cyxon.” Gilda asked her, “Who is Rexon?” “One of the guys who helped us beat a threat to Equestria,” Rainbow said proudly, “but we didn’t need their help ‘cause we beat Nightmare Moon without their help, mostly because of my awesomeness.” “In your dreams, if we weren’t there those Cutlass demons would have killed you when you first saw them,” Rexon said from right behind them. “AH!” the ponies and griffon yelped startled. “Hold up it’s just me…sheesh,” Rexon said, “Anyway what were you talking about?” “Oh yeah before we were side-tracked, Pinkie this is my griffon friend Gilda,” Rainbow Dash introduced. What’s a griffon?” Pinkie asked confused. “Simple explanation, half eagle half lion,” Rexon said. “And all awesome rar,” Gilda added. They began a special handshake but Rexon had no idea what to call it due to Rainbow’s hooves and Gilda’s talons. “Gilda’s my best friend from Junior Speedsters Flight Camp,” Rainbow Dash where she knew the griffon from, “Hey remember the chant?” “Yeah they made us recite it every morning,” Gilda said with a slight resentment that only Rexon picked up, “I’ll never get that lame thing out of my head.” “Sooooooooooo…” Rainbow said with an eyebrow wiggle. Gilda sighed, “Only for you Dash.” They then went on to do the chant, Rainbow doing it more enthusiastically than Gilda.   Junior Speedsters are our lives Sky bound soars and daring dives Junior Speedsters it’s our quest To someday be the very best As they ended the chant Pinkie began laughing at the display she had seen, while Rexon seemed focused on something else, but then said, “That performance was alright, so wanna go out and cause some trouble with us Gilda?” “Well I groove on a good prank as much as the next griffon, but Dash you promised we’d get a flying session in this morning,” Gilda said as Rexon picked up a lie coming from her. ‘She’s lying, Rainbow never promised that,’ Rexon said to Treachery. ‘Do you feel that presence?’ Treachery asked, ‘There is a demon nearby in the vicinity of Ponyville but I can’t tell where it-’ ‘I know we need to tell Roxon,’ he interrupted before he began walking for about twenty minutes to where Roxon usually is at that time…   The library As Rexon arrived at the library and entered he heard the end of a conversation so he stayed at the door and listened. “…improve her attitude,” Twilight said. “Improve my attitude,” Pinkie said outraged, “But I-it’s Gilda tha-are you seri-GRRRR” Pinkie sputtered uselessly before leaving in a huff and slamming the door not noticing Rexon who was next to it. “Twilight…” Roxon, who was reading a book leaning up against one of the shelves, gained the unicorn’s attention, “…you’re an idiot.” “Hey!” Twilight said taking great offense from the statement, “She sounded jealous to me so I told her what she should probably do.” “Roxon’s right Twilight, you’re talking about Gilda as if she was your friend but you haven’t even met her. I want to give you some tips on friendship because you need them,” Rexon said slightly startling Twilight and Spike who had started growing accustomed to the Morph Six’s stealth, “Tip number one, ‘Trust the friend you know than the stranger you don’t even if your friend isn’t close’.” “Sometimes I hate when you guys make more sense than me,” Twilight sighed. “Sue me,” Roxon and Rexon said simultaneously. “I may actually do so,” Twilight joked, “Come on Spike let’s go.” “Why do I have to be dragged nearly everywhere you go?” Spike said, so quietly only Roxon and Rexon should have heard him, as he got up and walked out the door. “What was that Spike?” Twilight asked as she was closing the door. “Now that they’re gone,” Rexon said his demeanour shifting to serious, “Did you feel it?” “Yeah and we have another problem…”   With Pinkie While the events at the library took place Pinkie went to get a milkshake when Rainbow Dash and Gilda arrived in the area, she made an effort to make herself as small as possible as to not be seen by them, she had overheard something about weather jobs from Rainbow Dash and something about “chow-down” from Gilda. Rainbow Dash left as soon as she was done talking to Gilda, leaving the griffon with an attitude to her own devices. Her thought was scaring Granny Smith which she thought was funny. “Aww poor Granny Smith, she didn’t know it was a joke, how mean,” Pinkie pie said sympathetically, “No, no can’t misjudge her it…was kind of a funny prank…I guess.” As Pinkie said her thoughts Gilda had move to another produce vendor’s cart, and had demonstrated some impressive tail flexibility and dexterity by stealing an apple unnoticed by other ponies, except Pinkie, and eating it. Pinkie gasped, “I did misjudge her she’s not just a mean meanie pant but also a thief,” Pinkie said but dismissed the thought with, “No, no maybe she’s gonna give it back.”(How does that work when you have eaten the damn thing?) In another timeline the shy Fluttershy would have run into Gilda but alas she was met with the hyper, crouching moron hidden badass, member of the Morph Six, Cyxon. “…I’m like stop…hatin’s bad one more shot for us, another round, please fill up a cup, don’t mess around…” Cyxon sang the lyrics to LMFAO’s song Party Rock Anthem with his eyes closed somehow not bumping into ponies as he spun on his heels and swung from side to side until he bumped into Gilda knocking his headphone to hang around his neck. “HEY!” “Oh sorry lady didn’t see you there,” Cyxon apologised with a polite smile on his face. “I’m walkin’ here!” “Give me a break I said I was sorry!” the pink haired hybrid said as his hair darkened very slightly as wel as his smile dropping a little. “‘Sorry, sorry’ why don’t you just watch where you’re going doofus your lamer than that other freak that lives with Dash,” “Did you just call my brother…?” Cyxon whispered to himself his hands clenching into tight fists as he fought the urge to break this stranger’s bones. Gilda then took in a large breath and unleashed a great roar that suddenly made Cyxon’s hair fall limp. What happened it the following moments would forever confuse everypony, since it all happened in a split second, as one moment Cyxon hair went limp and turned a very dark shade of pink, accompanied eleven holes appearing around Gilda. “I’m gonna leave before I do something I’ll regret,” he said using all is restraint, due to the profuse amount of blood leaking from his hands which were somehow clenching even tighter, to hold him back from lunging at the offending griffon. He then turned his back to her and opened a portal for somewhere but as he walked through everypony there swore they could hear a type of growl sound emanating from either Cyxon or the portal, but none of them had time to figure out where the sound came from as Cyxon entered the portal and it closed. “Whatever you lame ponies and your freak friends are driving me buggy, I’m outta here!” Gilda said before she flew off in a huff not noticing the holes around where she stood. When Gilda disappeared from sight Pinkie fully recovered from what she saw. “She’s a grump, a meanie and a bully the worst kind of meanie pants there is,” Pinkie said a frown on her usually smiling face, “I can take it but no one talks to and about my friends like that, NO ONE. This calls for extreme measures,” she continued as a look of determination spread on her face, “Pinkie Pie style!”   Sugarcube Corner Pinkie Pie was busy greeting guests as they arrived with a smile on her face while the Morph Six, who had no clue how the pink party pony talked/got them into coming in the first place, taked about some other matters. “Do any of you have the faintest idea of how we were talked into this?” Ryxon asked confused as to why he was there. Shaking heads were his brother’s replies except Rexon whom Rainbow Dash had found and asked help with something that involved the party. “All I remember was a barrage of words then I end up here as soon as I processed them,” Nyxon groaned out. Roxon who had been sitting quietly with his eyes closed suddenly opened them and said, “At least she spoke to you I just remember being dragged…somehow…” he said before putting his face in his hand. “I like Pinkie’s parties,” Cyxon added in a chipper tone. “We like parties too but seriously when some one doesn’t want to go to one they don’t wanna go,” Rexon said in a simple tone. “Okay…” Cyxon pouted, “I just wanna spend time with you guys.” “That’s why we stay at parties when you’re around because you do the same for us when we argue,” Roxon said kindly. “Gilda!” Pinkie loudly said, “I’m so honoured to throw you one of my signature ‘Pinkie Pie Parties’ and I really truly sincerely hope that you feel welcome amongst us pony folk,” she said in one breath before she held out her hoof with a big smile on her face. Gilda reluctantly extended her own talon out to shake the pony’s hoof, and as she made contact her body seized up as volts of electricity passed through her body then fell to the ground with her eyes spinning when the electricity stopped. Pinkie laughed as Gilda got up from the floor turning her hoof around to show a yellow band with a buzzer on the other side Gilda shook her hoof. Rainbow Dash joined in the laughter and said, “Oh Pinkie Pie the old hoof shake buzzer, you are a laugh riot.” “Yeah…hehe good one Pinkie Pie,” Gilda said with a weak laugh. “Come on G, I’ll introduce you to some of my other friends,” “Sure right behind ya Dash,” As Gilda walked past Pinkie, neither she nor any of the other ponies noticed the small crackle of red electricity going across one of her feathers before Pinkie spoke, “Everyone I’d like you to meet…” “Did you guys see that?” Rexon asked in a whisper. “Yeah but it could be anything, you know,” Nyxon responded. “That’s a lie and you know it,” Roxon cut in, “Don’t tell me you can’t feel it as well Nyxon.” “I can but I never expected…” “Whoa she’s…” Cyxon said but was distracted by a shiny object, “Ooh shiny.” “By the way did you guys see anything weird when you came in,” Rexon asked. “No,” the other five answered, “Why do you ask?” “No reason,” Rexon said with a chuckle. The brother attention went back to the party just in time to see Gilda using the dribble glass and the other five brothers knew what Rexon was talking about. “You set up pranks at this party with Rainbow Dash didn’t you,” Roxon asked. “You got that right bro.” “Hey G look presents,” Rainbow Dash said drawing all their attention. Gilda picked up the first present which was a thirty by thirty centimetre box covered in red paper with cyan stripes. Beep…beep…beep… “What’s that sound?” Gilda asked, but the ponies had no clue. Beep beep…beep beep…beep beep… “I swear that sounds like it’s coming from…” She put her head close to the box… BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- -BOOM-SPLAT Only to end up covered in paint. The entire room burst into laughter at how ridiculous Gilda looked covered in orange paint and blue, red and green polka dots “The paint bomb…somepony had the gull to play that trick on me in my boutique two weeks ago,” Rarity said laughing, “Now I see why it was so funny.” “Ha ha bet I know who that was,” Gilda growled glaring at Pinkie. “You do?” the aforementioned pony asked blinking innocently. Some amount time later Gilda had been cleaned up and the party was in full swing with ponies conversing, a chorus of birds singing as the music and the brothers standing next to their respective bearers, then Pinkie came wheeling in a large cake announcing, “Cake time everypony.” “Hey can I blow out the candles?” Spike asked. “Why not let Gilda blow out the candles Spike, after all she is the guest of honour,” Twilight answered. A split second after, Spike was rammed out of the way by the guest of honour. “Exactly,” she said before taking a deep breath and blowing the candles out… …only to have them relight so she took another breath and blew again to achieve the same result. She repeated this several more times before ponies started laughing at the prank. “Relighting candles, Pinkie pulled that on me last month,” Roxon said a rare small smile gracing his usually emotionless face. “I wonder who pulled that,” Pinkie said more to herself than anyone else. “Yeah me too,” Gilda growled with a glare to Pinkie. “G, you’re not mad about some stupid candles are you?” RD asked her friend. “Nah, just wondering what else is in store at this party,” the griffon lied. “Hey who wants to play a game?” Rexon asked. The cheer of ponies was the only answer he needed. A few minutes later the game had been set up, the game in question was darts and you had about three tries to hit the bull’s-eye and win a special surprise but the surprise in question was unknown on each play. “That sounds great can ah go first I wanna see what this surprise is,” Applejack asked eagerly reaching for the three darts. “Well I’m the guest of honour so I should go first,” Gilda said grabbing the darts before Applejack could and they immediately began crackling with red electricity. “What the-” “Oh you probably don’t know but I made those darts are made to do that,” Roxon explained. “Oh okay,” Gilda said a little nervously before walking to the indicated standing area, “Well lets go then.” Gilda then began tossing her darts, the first one was far off target inside the wall just missing a pony’s head, “Heh heh, sorry about that.” The second one came very close by mere centimetres, “Oh come on its right there can’t I get a little closer?” “No everyone plays by the rules,” Rexon said. “Fine,” Gilda growled as she prepared for her final try, “Here goes nothing.” As the griffon threw her final dart she noticed three things: first the ponies who were close to her had moved away before she had thrown the dart, second Pinkie Pie was staring at something on the ceiling and third her dart was suddenly curving from the wall to the board’s bull’s-eye as though it was magnetically attracted to it. ‘Oh no,’ was the only thought she could get in her head before the dart hit the target and what seemed to be a full water tower’s worth of ice water poured all over her and ponies laughed only seconds later. “Gilda…do you…need…a towel?” Pinkie asked trying to hold back laughter. The griffon’s face contorted as she felt her anger reach its breaking point and go well past that before she let out a mighty roar, red electricity lightly crackling in both her wings, which went unnoticed by the ponies but not the Morph Six silencing all of the ponies in the room. “Is this your idea of a good time, I’ve never met a bunch of losers more lame than you in my whole life, and then there’s you,” Gilda said singling out Pinkie Pie, “You and you little ‘pranks’ were the lamest of all. Dash doesn’t need you all because the both of are cooler than your entire town combined,” she said wrapping her talon across Rainbow Dash’s neck, “Come on Dash we’re leaving!” As Gilda was leaving the room Rainbow Dash said something that shocked the griffon. “Gilda you are one selfish, shallow piece of, what would Roxon say…uhm…oh yeah, shit, that I am even surprised I made friends with in the first place,” Rainbow Dash said, “You not only have the guts to insult my friends but you also insult the town I live in, and for your information Gilda, Pinkie never set up those pranks Rexon and I did it was only coincidence you set them all off except for the paint bomb that one was for you!” “Who’s Rexon?” Gilda asked. “I’m Rexon, you know the guy you met THIS FUCKING MORNING!” Rexon said walking to Rainbow Dash’s side. Recognition went through Gilda’s eyes, “So you want to stay friends with the freaks inste-” BANG-BANG-BANG The griffon was interrupted by three bruises appearing on her chest. “Gilda I think you’d better leave…NOW if you want to live because nobody and I mean nobody talks about my brothers like that,” Cyxon said angrily holding one of his pistols with a smoking barrel in his hand and added in a voice laced with malice, “unless they have a death wish.” With that threat in the air Gilda immediately took off out of the door without a word, no witty remarks, no insults, nothing. The ponies in the room began murmuring amongst each other. Rainbow kept looking out the same door Gilda had flown out of for some time before she spoke. “I’m sorry everypony for bringing Gilda here; she was once a really great friend a long time ago but now I see that she changed a lot since then,” Rainbow Dash sincerely said, “I just hope you can forgive me.” “What for?” Cyxon asked confused, “You weren’t the one who was mean to us after all, it was Gilda.” “You had no way of knowing she was that rude and besides you’re our friend, and friends make mistakes,” Rexon said. “But she-” “-Called us freaks,” Roxon said shaking his head, “Rainbow none of us is sensitive to that Cyxon did that because he wanted her out of here before she said something she would regret, besides we’ve been called way worse.” “The comment doesn’t affect us much but it does sometimes hit a nerve when used at the correct times,” Raxon added in. “I guess I don’t need to apologise to you guys then huh,” Rainbow joked, “but seriously sorry that Gilda ruined this awesome party you planned Pinkie.” “No hard feelings Rainbow Dash,” Pinkie said as she hugged the pegasus. Twilight approached the two ponies as they broke away from each other, “Pinkie I want to apologise for accusing you of being jealous, I should have believed the friend I know than the stranger I don’t.” “No hard feelings Twilight,” Pinkie said as she extended her hoof for a shake. As Twilight took the hoof she was immediately shocked for a few seconds, her mane and tail standing on end, before it stopped then the friends began laughing. “Come on everypony there’s still a whole lot of party to finish!” Cyxon enthusiastically said. “Hey you stole my line,” “You snooze you lose Pinkie,” “Dear Princess Celestia…” Twilight started with her letter. As this all happened none of them noticed Roxon quietly slip out of Sugarcube Corner.   The Everfree Forest Gilda had flown to the closest place she could to try and vent her anger and that just happened to be the Everfree Forest. “Stupid Rainbow Dash with her lame pony friends and those freaks if I ever get my claws on them I’m gonna…” She stopped wrecking trees as well as her rant when she heard a rustling in the bushes followed by a voice. “Well it seems I caught you just in time…wow this is a lot of damage you did here all by yourself,” Roxon said as he entered the clearing Gilda had created, “I’m gonna take a wild guess and say you aren’t a normal griffon are you.” “Why do you care freak?” Gilda asked angrily. The clearing suddenly became colder as Roxon spoke in a cold voice, “I care because when demons show up I need to do something about it…Half-breed.” “How do you-” the griffon said taking one step back eyes wide in shock. “The ponies may not have thought much of or noticed the lightning during that temper tantrum and the darts but my brothers and I know better than that,” Roxon said still as cold as ever, “I made sure my brothers stayed out of this… Now how about we get down to business,” he finished drawing his sword and getting into a ready stance. “So be it,” Gilda said as electricity started dancing on her talons and wings. They sized each other up for a little while before they charged at each other getting closer and closer with each step until… Their attacks collided.