//------------------------------// // Arrival // Story: What if Goku Landed in Equestria as a Baby? // by Desert Tortoise 22 //------------------------------// Baby Kakarrot has escaped planet Vegeta as Frieza decimates it. The Spherical pod enters a distortion in space and time as the ship tears through warps and spacial distortions until it’s spit out in another location, passing by a moon. In Canterlot castle, Princess Celestia is staring up at the moon, reminiscing of her long lost sister and catches a glimpse of something unusual. A shimmer in the sky. Surely it must be but a shooting star because the mare in the moon is clearly still visible and shows no need for concern to the princess. However, unbeknownst to her, something was racing by at a frightening speed. She whips her head back to see debris hurling towards the castle. Celestia immediately puts up a barrier to deflect the incoming projectile. The guards rush to her side to aid her but there’s no immediate cause to alarm. The threat had seemingly been contained, though upon examining what fell from the sky, one could easily believe something was amiss. BOOM!!! CRASH!!! In the distance, far away from Canterlot, outside of Ponyville, in the Everfree forest there is a stack of smoke and a faint glow as if a fire had been there and suddenly put out. Celestia is advised by her guard captain and security council to stay in the castle, but she refuses. Something came from the sky and should it have anything to do with her sister, she would be needed to fight off this threat and hopefully reason with her. Fear clouds her judgment as she hopes to see her sister and perhaps regain their long lost bond once again. No matter, the princess marches forward despite all warnings. The captain pleads once more: “Princess, you must stay here in case the kingdom needs you. We can’t allow your safety to be compromised.” “If you believe that so strongly you are welcome to stop me captain but if this threat is truly from the moon, I will be there to stop it. Are we clear?” Celestia raises her head. “Yy..yes your highness.” The group flies to the forest, spreading into two teams. One team serving as a guard to keep villagers from entering the forest and the other to scout what could be the greatest threat Equestria has ever known. The captain leads his squad and the princess into the forest, treading lightly so as to not disturb the wildlife. “RRRROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!” A pack of timberwolves running away from a group of cockatrices races towards the group. The guards stand strong, shielding their eyes from the cockatrices' gaze they begin to fight off the wild animals. Timberwolves reconstructing themselves (one getting stuck midway as a knocked down cockatrice stares at it giving the beast an awkward position to land in.) Hmm..... that reminds me, I should probably check on that trickster when this is all done Celestia thinks to herself. Enough was enough. Celestia would see to it none of her guards would be harmed while she was here. The princess raises her head and readies a spell to cast the creatures away. Her horn glows but something rustles in the brush. The guards are too preoccupied with the beasts to regroup but it doesn’t seem to matter. One by one, the wildlife of the Everfree forest disappears, as if they were never there in the first place. A sudden faint noise as if a pop sounds off. Trees start to break and fall, crashing into one another. The magic of the forest quickly repairs the damage and attempts to retaliate against this threat to itself. The dense forest suddenly turns into a clearing. The atmosphere almost seems scared. The guards rush to surround Princess Celestia, the captain readying his troops, when out from the shadows comes forth a creature unlike anything anypony had ever seen. It was small sure but it’s coat was bare. It’s mane wild and unruly. It’s tail was like that of some kind of animal. Perhaps a pet? No no, maybe something from this very forest? No that couldn’t be it either. And that thing? What was that between its- Oh. Celestia thought to herself, quickly shaking her head, returning to the situation at hoof. In any case, the creature grits its teeth, lets out a... roar? Well not so much a roar so much as... I suppose one could think of it as if a child was pretending to be a ferocious lion. It was almost adorable. The creature stumbles and stands it’s ground. The captain steadies his troops but one recent recruit decides to go in alone, firing a beam of magic at the creature. This catches the captain’s full attention as he yells: “GET BACK HERE NOW SOLDIER! THAT’S AN ORDER! I DID NOT TELL YOU TO OPEN FIRE!” The soldier winces and shakes but as he turns back, the creature takes the blast head on and comes out nearly completely unscathed save for some dirt and smoke covering its body. The creature lunges forward to attack but Celestia unleashes her spell she had prepared earlier. It was a blinding light that catches the creature off guard. The creature stumbles, backing into some blinded guards, while the trigger happy newbie gets scared and fires another blast knocking the creature straight into the princess. Neither he, nor more importantly the captain noticed that fact. As the creature hurls towards the princess, one of the guards who was slightly less hindered attempts to block it from hitting the princess. This guard flings her way between them and knocks it square and the head, hurling it into a nearby tree. It tries to get up but stops dead in it’s tracks as the timberwolf statue from earlier which was knocked away earlier comes crashing down on its head completely intact, knocking the creature out cold and leaving the entire group completely at a loss for words.