//------------------------------// // Country Carfuffle // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls of Star Command // by Mister V //------------------------------// The next day, Booster and Casey were watching Applejack show her strength to the LGMs. "Oooh, strong!" The LGMs said. "Thanks." Applejack said. "I've always been working out, even before I got this geode." Just then, there was a call on the intercom. "Booster, Applejack, Casey Jones, get your seats over to the briefing room, PRONTO!!" Commander Nebula said. Everyone did as they did and came to the briefing room. He proceeded to then gave them mission by showing them an image of a male alien, large and broad-shouldered, possessing four arms, five eyes and two legs. He has three thick fingers on each hand and frond-like appendages on the top of his head. He possesses strips of brown facial hair just below his mouth, which might not even be hair. He is usually seen wearing his biker-like outfit, complete with red shirt and boots, and a long brown overcoat. "Applejack, Jones, this is Torque, best known as the self replicating crook. He's called that because of a a cell-separation device on his chest, allowing him to self-replicate and produce countless identical clones. These clones, however, are unstable, and are easily destroyed by a single hit from any weapon. He was last seen near Jo-Ad." "That's my home planet!" Booster said, a bit nervous. "I better go and see if everyone's okay, just in case." "Good Idea, and take these two with you." Commander Nebula said, while pointing at Applejack and Casey. They soon got into the shuttle blasted off to Jo-Ad. Along the way, Booster told Casey and Applejack the story of how he met Buzz Lightyear. "It's all started back when I was working in my family's farm." Booster said as a flashback showed Booster carrying a hover plow with not much effort. "I was working in the fields when I saw that one of my prize winning Totama plants sick." "Hey there little fella" Past Booster said "What's got you feeling so bad." He opened it up and saw little bugs coming out. "Ahh! Tunnlemites! They attack from the inside. Don't worry. Everything's gonna be..." But before he could finish, he saw something zooming though the sky. "...Be alright?" The flying object zoomed past Booster and destroyed several farms before arms and legs sprouted out of the sides, making stand on the legs before Zurg came out from the bottom on a hovercraft. "Mega-Hornet!" He said. "Smash that silo!" The Mega-Hornet did as he was told and smashed a nearby silo "Excillent! Now... smash that barn!" The Mega-Hornet did that as well, just after some citizens and the animals inside ran out in a panic. Booster then decided to give that guy a good talking to. "Hey!" He said. "That was my uncle's farm! What do you think you're doing." "Why, I'm taking over the Galactic Alliance!" Zurg answered. "By the by, feel free to grovel in terror before me." "You know, this is Jo-Ad, Right?" Booster asked. "I mean, shouldn't you be trying to take over Capital Planet or something?" "Yes, I know this is Jo-Ad!" Zurg answered. "Once my Mega-Hornet destroys this bread basket, famine will spread across the entire Galactic Alliance! That's a best case scenario, you understand, the price of food will go up and all-you-can-eat will become a thing of the past, uh, um, at the very least, there will be no dessert for anyone and staight to bed. Not as flashy maybe, but still evil" "You're not trashing my planet, mister!" Booster said before the Mega Hornet grabs him with a giant fist and lifted it up to it's face, causing Booster to scream. "What a country bumkin." Zurg said. "Who do you think you are? Buzz Lightyear?" "No, that'd be me." A voice said as Buzz zooms in to save the day. "Buzz Lightyear!" Booster said in awe. "Zurg!" Buzz said. "Unhand that citizen!" "Gladly." Zurg said with an evil grin before snapping his fingers, which caused the Mega-Hornet to drop Booster, so Buzz zoomed down to catch him. "Gotcha." He said as he took Booster to safety. "Buzz Lightyear?!?!" Booster asked in glee, while Buzz was straining to hold on to him "You're on my planet?! No way! I'm seeing it but I'm not beliving it! Buzz Lightyear save little old me!" "Little?!?!" Buzz asked in shock. "Mega-Hornet!" Zurg commanded. "Hit Lightyear with everything you've got!" The Mega-Hornet did as he was told and blasted the two of them with a lot of missles. "Look out!" Booster said when he saw the missles, which made the two of them dodge them. The soon landed behind the plower. "Oh man, the Buzz Lightyear! This is so cool!" The Mega-Hornet then fired a blaster from the side of it's head as it walked on all fours. Buzz then fired back at it with acute accuracy. "So what's the plan Buzz?" "Experience taught me that everything has a weakness." Buzz said. "We just need to find it." Just then Booster saw tunnlemites crawling into the hole. "Wait!" He said. "Tunnlemites! They attack from the inside! We could do that!" "Good Idea." Buzz said before holding out his hand. "What's your name, son?" "Booster Sinclair Munchapper, sir!" Booster said as he shook Buzz's hand while crushing it accidentally. "Well, Booster, you find a way inside that Mega-Hornet, and I'll distract Zurg." He commanded. "Sir, yes, sir!" Booster said as Buzz flew off to distract Zurg. "Hey, Zurg!" Buzz said in a taunting voice. "Catch me if you can!" "Mock all you want, Lightyear!" Zurg said as he and the Mega-Hornet chased him. "But this time, I WILL PREVAIL!" "Hot Rockets!" Booster said to himself as he got up onto the plow. "Buzz Lightyear and me in heated battle together! Who'd've thought?" He then turns it on the plow and charges it at full speed to the Mega-Hornet. The blades on the plow break through the hull of the Mega-Hornet, and makes a big hole on it's side. Buzz then sees the hole and goes in. "Great job, Booster!" Buzz said when he got inside. "Now take out the Central Processing Computer!" "You got it, Buzz!" Booster said before going to work, smashing up everything in sight. This caused the Mega-Hornet to start shutting down as our heroes made their daring escape. a few missles were launched randomly and nearly hit Zurg who dodged them as the Mega-Hornet collapsed into scrap, while our heroes landed safe and sound before it blew up. "Hahahaha!" Buzz laughed. "Ya see, Booster, no matter how bad things may get, it's never hopeless." "Dare, I say, CURSE YOU BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!" Zurg said in anger. "And..." Buzz added. "I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name." Zurg said to Booster. "Booster." He said with a smile. "Aw, nice to meet you, welcome aboard, AND CURSE YOU TOO, BOOSTER!" Zurg said before taking his leave. "And the very next day I applied to the academy, and the rest is history." Booster said as he finished his story. "Hold it." Applejack said in shock. "You were a farmer before Star Command?" "Yes." Booster answered. "Your among friends." Applejack said in joy. "I come from farm life myself. It's people like you and me who sees the most important: Family." "Yeah, and eversince then, I owed Buzz a debt I could never repay." Booster said, unaware of two things. One, that during the whole trip, Booster had his elbow on a button that linked to the ship communicaters that let Space Rangers contact Star Command. And two, Buzz overheard the whole thing, including the part about Booster's debt, and doesn't feel right about it. Back on the ship, Booster takes his elbow off the button and holds his head with his hands. "But you know, sometimes I feel like I'm letting my family down. They're on the farm and I'm here." "That's stinken thinkin!" Applejack said. "Your intergalactic police officer. They gotta be proud of you." "And you bring in criminals on a regular basis." Casey added "No way they wouldn't have clippings of your accomplishments gathered together." "Thanks guys." Booster said, feeling better. They soon arive on Jo-Ad and land on the planet's surface. They soon discover all of it's inhabitants, dressed in beach clothes, partying like there's no tomorrow. This made them confused, yes, very confused indeed. Booster soon got the attention of one of the inhabitants. "What's going on here?" "We're on vacation dudes!" The local said. "But Jo-Adians don't get vacations, do they?" Applejack said. Booster just shrugged his shoulders. "Hey, you don't get a vacation dudette!" Another local said. "You take a vacation!" "This has gotta be Torque's handywork." Booster said. "We have to find him and stop him." Casey added. They soon find Torque relaxing on a foldable chair. He was drinking fruit punch in a glass with a small umbrella. They decided to maintain the element of suprise and sneak up behind him. Just when they thought they'd get the drop on him, they were blasted from behind by a blast of plasma. They turned around and are suprised to see Torque standing right behind them. "What's shaking, baby?" He asked with a cruel grin. "Did you really think it would be that easy?" "What!" Applejack said in shock, then she remembered something. "Oh, yeah, you're self-replicating." "You better believe it baby!" a clone of Torque said from behind a tree, much to the shock of our heroes. "But now my cloning abilities are bigger then ever." "Thanks to this new and improved version of my replicating device, I pop up from anywhere." Another clone said from behind a silo. "At anytime." Said another just coming out from the outer field yards. more clones came out of hiding before our heroes were surrounded by an army of them. "Whoa nelly!" Applejack said, nervously. She then shook her nerves off as she prepared for battle. It was a long, gruling battle, but they managed to beat all but 10 of the Torque clones and the original. They went to take cover behind one of the silos. "So, how'd you managed to turn the Jo-Adians into party animals?" Applejack said, hoping that he might provide an answer. "This new self-replicating tech emits an energy that effects brainwaves, making anyone think they're on vacation, baby cakes." Torque said with a big, crooked smile. "But what of the crops!?" Applejack asked in pure frustration. "Have you thought of that?" "Not my concern." Torque said while shrugging his shoulders, before motioning to his clones to go around and take them by suprise. "My mission was to bag you, not to worry about the ecosystem here." "Ya know, it's people like you that give us hard workers a hard time." Applejack replied, only for the Torque clones to grab her and the others from behind. 2 of them held Applejack and Casey's hands behind them and the other 8 pinned Booster down. The original Torque then approach our heroes with a crooked grin. "And it's people like you and Gabby Mctwoteeth that tend to bore the galaxy." He said to Applejack before spiting at her. This made Booster mad. "THAT'S IT!" He said before breaking free of the clones and standing infront of Torque. "Mess with me, I don't mind. Mess with my new friends, you get a black eye." And with that thought, Booster punches Torque so hard, he flies into a silo, breaking his self replicating machine, making all the Torque clones disappear, and causing all the local Jo-Adians to stop dancing. Soon, the athourities took Torque away, who was still recovering from the punch he got from Booster. "Hey Big Boy, that's some right hook the five of you have." He said dizzily as he was being loaded on the prison ship. Buzz was there to oversee to the transport, but needed to talk to Booster. "Booster, I wanna talk with you." He said. "Were you aware that you had the communicator on?" "Uh, no." Booster said, a bit embarrassed. "You heard all that?" "You don't owe me any debt." Buzz assured him. "Booster, you saved my life and the team's more than enough times to repay 20 debts. I saved your family's farm because it's the right thing, not for any lousey debts." "Thanks, Buzz." Booster said before shaking Buzz's hand. Meanwhile, on Planet Z, Zurg is laughing at the new pools of information that Torque's tech gathered from Applejack. "Excellent!" Zurg said to one of his brainpods. "Torque has obtained all the information we need from that counrty bumpkin. Now my Magic Hornets will have the strength to crush their foes." "Yes, Evil Emperor Zurg." The brainpod said. "But Torque got locked up." "Don't worry Brainpod 29." Zurg said with a grin. "I'll have someone break him out. Someone flexible and adaptable." Just then, a being that looks like a 1930s cartoon popped out from inside a crate. "Did someone say flexible and adaptable?" He asked in glee. "Who, or what, are you?" Brainpod 29 asked in shock. "I'm Squash N. Stretch." The strange being said before coming out of the crate. "And I assume you want me to bust Torque out of jail?" "That's correct." Zurg said before cackleing again.