//------------------------------// // The Misfit Club // Story: Heart Of The Guardians // by BodhiBRO100 //------------------------------// "What is Hopper doing in there?" the mare asked herself. She then pulls out some binoculars, trying to look into the windows, to locate Hopper. Hopper finally appears, with Bling, at the second third floor window, talking to each other. "I see him. I wonder what he and that blue stallion are talking about." the mare said, putting the binoculars away and gets out from the bushes. A male Irish voice is heard on a intercom from the mare's left ear. "Jelly, if you go in there, don't do anything that would compromise your cover." the voice said to the mare, now revealed to be named Jelly. "Hopper is very dangerous." "I took precautions before, Whitney." Jelly replied to the male voice. "I'm sure I'll be okay." She then sneaks into the building that Hopper entered, and looked around. Inside the building, is a casino, with many ponies and animal humanoids from other lands, are gambling, drinking apple cider, and winning bits. Jelly looks around for a set of stairs, and sees an elevator instead, to the east of some slot machines. "Whitney, I found an elevator east of the entrance of this building." Jelly said on her ear intercom. "Alright then, go there, which room is Hopper in?" Whitney asked. "Third floor." Jelly replied. "I'm on my way there now." "Be careful, he might have bodyguards around." Whitney said to the mare. Jelly went into the elevator, and later, at the second floor, she gets off the elevator, and looks around, as she stands in an elegant looking hallway, with all brown wavy patterned walls, and 8 room doors on each side of the hallway, and at the end, a 9th door, colored red, with whimsical looking patterns on it. Jelly walks slowly down the hallway, towards the end door. "Fancy hallway." Jelly said, smiling abit. She talks through her intercom. "I found the odd door out on this floor, I believe this is where Hopper is." Whitney asked. "Any bodyguards around?" "I won't know till I get inside, but I know he has another stallion in there with him." Jelly replied. "I don't think he's a bodyguard though." "If you don't believe that this stallion is protecting him in any way, don't go inside. You have that sonic virtual screen I gave you." Whitney said with caution. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot about it. I'll use it against the door, hopefully nopony opens it." Jelly said, taking out a brown rod, that she shakes abit, and a small blue, pixelated screen pops up from the rod. Jelly then sticks the screen onto the door, and looks at it. The screen visualizes the entire room inside, and locates Hopper and Bling, talking to a stallion with a light orange colored coat, no mane, a jungle green tail, brown eyes, and wearing a formal suit, taking a sip of apple cider. The mare gasps. "Whitney, Mr. Apricot is in there!" she exclaimed in her intercom. "What?" Whitney asked in confusion. "Hopper, I told you before, you can't expect me to do what seems inconsistent for Canderlot." Mr. Apricot said to the changeling. "They haven't even known about the Hippogriffs for a long time, ever since the Storm King broke in half from stone." Hopper smiles. "I know, Mr. Apricot." he said. "But we need the message to Celestia's royal guard, and we know you're the messenger, since Mercury has retired. You're our only hope for us to get past Celestia's wishes." Jelly keeps looking through the screen in shock. "Hopper's trying to get him to send some sort of message to Princess Celestia's royal guards. Why?" she asked, whispering. "I don't know, Jelly, but I don't like the sound of it." Whitney said. "Maybe I can make an exception, but not today. I have a meeting to attend to in an hour." Mr. Apricot said. "We can make a schedule." Hopper chuckles sinisterly. "We don't have time to make a schedule." he said, and then looks at another stallion with a purple coat, red bare hooves, short but wavy mane and tail, and grey colored eyes, signaling him. "Octopi!" he said to the stallion. The stallion points his right arm at Mr. Apricot, and it quickly extends to an unnatural size, and the arm hits Apricot, making him go flying, and he hits the wall hard, which makes Jelly gasp and cover her mouth in even more shock. Mr. Apricot groans in pain, and in his first person perspective, Hopper walks up to him, smiling evilly. Bling walks up next to Hopper, with a more serious expression on his face. "But we do have time to get you to your meeting, and tell what we need you to tell." Hopper said. "Wha..What did your friend just do?!" Mr. Apricot asked, alarmingly. "Ah, well, let's just say that Octopi, over there, has a special ability. Just like the glamorous Bling, here next to me." Hopper said, looking at Bling. Bling looks at Hopper, nods, and looks back at Apricot, revealing his power, which makes Bling's body turn into complete diamond. Mr. Apricot looks at Bling in surprise, and Jelly sees the transformation, and sits by the door, mind blown. "Your friends have all these gifts, and you don't tell anypony but me?" Mr. Apricot asked Hopper. "That's why I came up with the Misfit Club." Hopper said. "But they are actually survivors of thousands of different creatures, including ponies, that were born with gifts as beautiful as they have." he explained, and smiled devilishly. Jelly breathes heavilly in shock. "Whitney, you will not believe what I've seen." she said. "Now, Mr. Apricot, we'll get you to the meeting, and you will tell them what we need you to." Hopper instructed to him. "What's in it for me then?" Apricot asked. "I already have plenty of bits for you when this is all over with. I promise you that. Then you can just walk away, like none of this happened." Hopper said with authority. He then looks at Bling. "Where's Vanish?" he asked him. Bling whistled in an eerie, and very shrill tone, that was so loud, it made Jelly, Apricot, Octopi, and Hopper cover their ears, until suddenly, Vanish appears in the room, smiling at Hopper. Hopper smiled back. "Vanish, you beautiful illusion." he said to her. "Take Mr. Apricot to his meeting. We wouldn't want him to miss it." he then said, looking back at Apricot. Vanish held out her hoof. "Sir." she said, nodding her head. Mr. Apricot takes her hoof, and they both disappear. Jelly gasps, turns off the screen gadget and takes it off the door, and rushes out of the building, towards a taxi carriage. "Get me to the other side of the bridge, please." Jelly told the carriage pony. The carriage departs from the building, and Whitney's vocie is heard on Jelly's intercom. "Jelly, what the hay happened in there?!" he asked confusingly. "I..I don't know, Whitney..." Jelly started. "...but this is beyond what my powers can do. We're gonna need help from the master mind gamer." she finished, looking off into the distance, with a serious look. Later, Brainy and Poison are seen walking back into Ponyville. "That was a good breather for me, and you finally got to meet my sister." Poison told Brainy. "I know, you both are very extrodinary to me." Brainy replied, with a smile. Poison chuckled, and from behind them, while they're walking to somewhere else, Jelly is seen, with a fedora on, following them. Back in Sweet Apple Acres, Private is seen talking with Applejack.