//------------------------------// // Imagination Invasion // Story: A Friend from the Stars // by AntiBronyBenSwolo //------------------------------// The sun shone right through the dome windshield of the spaceship as Cosmica lounged at her computer. She had nothing on her computer at the moment. There were no questions Cosmica wanted to consult Princess Twilight or her friends about. Cosmica only had two items on her bucket list checked off, and only recently added on the very bottom to see if she can get a Cutie Mark. And even then, she didn't have the motivation to check off the third thing on her list. Cosmica's pet skunk, Potato was sitting quietly, sipping at his water bowl that Fluttershy had gifted him. The heat was really getting to the poor alien. So, it would be fair to say that Cosmica was bored. "Hey Cosmica? Are you out there?" a voice called out. Cosmica's ears perked up as she had no idea who knew of her spaceships location. The only ones who knew were herself and Princess Twilight. Potato chirped in curiosity as he finally had the energy to stand up. Cosmica activated the entrance and headed down the stairs to reveal Pinkie Pie waiting at the bottom. "Oh. Hello there Pinkie Pie. How did you find the location of my ship?" Cosmica asked as Pinkie held up a piece of paper. "Twilight cast a spell on your spaceship so anyone who knew of your existence can see your ship. And then she drew a map to its location, and here I am," Pinkie explained as Cosmica looked back at her ship, looking perfectly normal to her. "She cast a spell on it? Must have been in the middle of the night. I must really be a heavy sleeper if I failed to notice that," Cosmica theorized as Pinkie Pie giggled at Cosmica's reaction. "Also, I see you ditched your spacesuit. You kinda just look like a normal pony without it," Pinkie commented as Cosmica blushed redder than a tomato. "I was told my suit was immoral for pacifying my emotions. Besides, it was broken, so I ditched it anyways," Cosmica explained as Pinkie nodded. "Anyway, I was wondering if you'd like to play a little game with me," Pinkie Pie offered as Cosmica was intrigued by Pinkie's abnormally large (and kinda creepy) smile. "Just what is your idea of a 'game'?" Cosmica asked as Pinkie was worried Cosmica would get mad at her idea. "So...is your alien race...known to invade other planet and take them over?" Pinkie asked, just to make sure. "Honestly, not that I know of. Where are you going with this?" Cosmica confessed. "I was just wondering if you'd like to pretend to be an alien invader with me," Pinkie Pie asked as Cosmica raised an eyebrow at her. "What exactly do you mean?" Cosmica asked as Pinkie beamed, mostly due to the fact she hadn't offended Cosmica. And with that, Pinkie dragged Cosmica to Sugar Cube Corner, where she set up an entire military base with toy figurines of royal guards and soldiers and other toys in the "battleground". Cosmica surveyed everything and immediately figured out what Pinkie was planning. "So...what do you think?" Pinkie asked as she placed a plastic helmet on her head. "Bring it on!" Cosmica laughed as she picked up a water gun filled with lemon-lime soda. She pumped the water gun up and sprayed Pinkie's toy soldiers down as Pinkie retreated. "The alien's are attacking!!" Pinkie laughed as Cosmica brought out a toy spaceship and alien minion toys supplied to her as Cosmica's army. Cosmica laid out her troops and laid out an evil cackle as she aimed her toy weapon at Pinkie's army. "General! There are too many of them! What do we do now?" Pinkie dubbed, pretending to be one of her soldiers asking her. "Don't worry brave soldiers. I have an idea," Pinkie schemed as Cosmica built up her forces and scattered her alien soldiers throughout the city made out of cardboard boxed and old cookbooks. Just then, Pinkie placed her tanks in the city to stop the aliens. The tanks rolled in and knocked over the toy soldiers as Pinkie made explosion noises. Cosmica's forces were failing to take control of the city until Cosmica made her toy spaceship fly over one of the tanks and blowing it up. Pinkie mourned the defeat of such a brave soldier as Cosmica cackled with her toy ship hovering around the city. Pinkie then had a nearby tank fire at Cosmica's ship as the alien ship simulated uncontrollable swerving. The tank had a direct hit! "Sir! We're losing control!" Cosmica said, acting in a panicking manner as her ship crashed into the small city, knocking some of the cardboard boxes over! "No! The civilians!" Pinkie cried as her soldiers ran over to the rubble to rescue any survivors. Cosmica, however, used this to her advantage and had her surviving soldiers surround Pinkie's soldiers at the rubble. "There's no escape, General Pie!" Cosmica cackled, aiming the water gun at the toy soldiers. "Pinkie Pie, what is going on back here?" Mrs. Cake asked as Cosmica and Pinkie snapped out of their playtime trance. "We were playing Alien Invasion," Pinkie Pie explained, breaking character. Mrs. Cake simply laughed at Pinkie's childish and innocent ideas of fun as the Cake Twins crawled out to play with Pinkie. "Well, could you play Alien Invasion with Pumpkin and Pound Cake? I need to get some sugar and some chocolate frosting. Princess Cadence has commissioned quite the cake," Mrs. Cake explained as Pound Cake knocked down another cardboard building. "Okie Dokie Loki," Pinkie Pie replied, proudly saluting to her boss. Mrs. Cake was about to leave, but not until she noticed Cosmica sitting idly by and reacting to Pumpkin Cake knock down another building. "Who's your new friend there?" Mrs. Cake asked as Pinkie grasped Cosmica in a tight hug. "This is Cosmica. She's an actual alien from Outer Space," Pinkie Pie explained as Mrs. Cake chuckled once more. "And I'm Discord. Nice to meet you. Good luck Pinkie" Mrs. Cake joked as Cosmica was confused by her sarcasm. "Wait. Your boss doesn't believe I'm actually an alien?" Cosmica asked as Pinkie scratched her mane. "It appears so," Pinkie responded as the two turned around and saw Pumpkin and Pound Cake destroy the makeshift city, defeating both Cosmica's invasion and Pinkie's military force. "Well, that's that I guess," Pinkie Pie muttered, as she cleaned up the toy soldiers and boxes and spaceship. Cosmica picked up one of the larger boxes and got an idea. "Well, it doesn't have to be," Cosmica teased, as Pinkie knew where she was headed with this. And it'd be even better as the Cake Twins can join in as well. Just then, Cosmica sat in the larger cardboard box with Pound Cake in hand and placed a bike helmet on her head. "You ready to go into space, Astronaut Pound?" Cosmica asked as Pound Cake babbled confusedly. Just then, Cosmica began a countdown. "5..." Cosmica said as Pound Cake heard the ignition of a rocket, "4..." Cosmica continued as the little one strapped himself in. "3..." the alien continued, with Pound Cake holding onto his helmet tightly. "2..." she responded, holding onto her own helmet and keeping Pound Cake secure in the cardboard ship. "1...and Blast Off!!!" Cosmica shouted, and the two were soaring into space in their cardboard box. Cosmica and Pound soared through space as they passed a rainbow nebula and landed on a planet with a brown crust and pink grass. The two astronauts scoured through the alien world and examined the peppermint trees. Just then, one of the peppermint twigs snapped, catching the attention of the two brave explorers. Cosmica and Pound Cake turned to the sound of the noise to find two creatures, one being a giant pink octopus monster made out of cotton candy, the other being a crab looking monster made out of pumpkin pie! "Give us your candy!" the pink monster demanded as Pound Cake his behind Cosmica scared. Cosmica chuckled as she pulled out her secret weapon: a stalk of celery. "Time to eat your greens," Cosmica remarked as the monsters stood back in fear of the veggie. Just then, Cosmica tripped on an oatmeal raisin cookie and dropped the stalk of celery. Without her stalk, the monsters promptly surrounded Cosmica, leaving her nowhere to go. Pound Cake, however, hiding behind a bush, saw Cosmica in danger and the nearby celery stalk. And just like that, the little astronaut knew what to do. Gathering up his courage, Pound Cake grabbed the stalk of celery and forced the monsters away from Cosmica. "Great job Pound Cake," Cosmica said as Pound Cake blushed at her. Just then, the two space ponies made it back to their cardboard ship and flew off back home. Until something zoomed right past them. Cosmica turned around and couldn't believe their eyes. The monsters had their own spaceship as well! "Pound Cake, they're on us!" Cosmica notified as Pound Cake looked behind them and saw the monsters chasing them. Pound Cake, however, inspired by his act of bravery before, wasn't worried. He promptly turned the cardboard ship around and prepared to fire at the alien monster's ship. Cosmica looked on at Pound Cake's bravery, ready to pull the trigger on the monsters when-- "Pinkie, I'm home," Mrs. Cake explained as she found Cosmica and Pound Cake making spaceship noises while Pinkie and Pumpkin in another as they made pew-pew noises at one another. Mrs. Cake spectated the dogfight and chuckled to herself. "Ah, kids. Gotta love their creativity," Mrs. Cake commented as she placed the ingredients down. 5 hours later, as the sun was about to set on another day in Equestria, Cosmica and Pinkie chatted with one another as they shared plenty of laughs throughout the day. But now was time for Cosmica to head home and get some rest. "I gotta say, thank you for inviting me over," Cosmica said as she helped Pinkie clean everything up. "Thank you for coming over in the first place," Pinkie retorted as Cosmica began to pack her things. "Alright, I'll see you, hopefully, Tomorrow maybe," Cosmica called as she and Pinkie said their goodbyes to one another. The trek back home to the alien spaceship was a dark and lonely one, but the fireflies helped Cosmica light the way, and she eventually found her spaceship, her actual spaceship, just as she left it. Cosmica headed inside and found Potato had somehow picked his cage lock and was just lounging around the ship being a complete and total grump. Cosmica picked him up and held him dearly as she sat back into her ship's chair and let her mind drift off as she fell asleep, ready for tomorrow, excited for what adventured come to her.