My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic Season X

by DakariKingMykan


Episode 17: It Came on a Mission

EPISODE SEVENTEEN

It was beginning to seem virtually hopeless. The great mission to destroy the generators and cease the energy had been on for well-over a month, and no matter how many generators Starfleet managed to destroy, there just seemed to be more and more still scattered all over the cosmos.

…There was just too many, but Starfleet was still not willing to back down and let Titan get any stronger than he already.


Today, however, something seemed to go wrong with Titan; his spirit was groaning and growling as if something was wrong.

The army of monsters on the Shadow Planet saw this.

“What’s with Lord Titan?”

“He looks sick or something.”

“That’s ridiculous-- spirits don’t get sick.”

Nevertheless, Titan continued to groan and clutch himself. “What… is happening… to me?!!” he bellowed.

The louder her groaned and clutched himself, the more the monsters felt…

“…He’s going to blow!!”

Many monsters hit the dirt, and then… IT HAPPENED!!

Something burst from Titan’s spirit in the forum of a glowing light, and sped on out into Space like a speeding comet, and it was gone.

Titan was panting heavily, but while his suffering had stopped, he felt rather weak-- as if whatever that light was had been attacking his spirit from within.

“Energy!” he thundered “I must have more energy!! GET ME MORE!!!”

His voiced echoed all across the manmade planet, and frightened the monsters to get to work and feed him more power absorbed from the planets.

They just hoped Starfleet would never learn of this-- that Titan was weaker now.



Pinkie was up, and out of bed, having breakfast with Apple Spice at the cake’s café. The doctor said it was okay for Pinkie to get up and walk around a little in her condition.


Sunset Shimmer decided to join her for breakfast, figuring she could use more company, and she didn’t want to be alone herself.

“I heard you’re going to have a baby too.” said Spice.

Sunset blushed and softly touched her stomach. “Yeah, it’s real, though I can’t believe it.”


Pinkie gave her a neutral smile and remarked, “Congratulations.”

“That goes double for us.” said Carrot Cake as he and Cupcake served breakfast to everyone.

Sunset got an extra big helping of pancakes. “What? I didn’t order all this.”

Cupcake giggled, “Just a little congratulatory gift we do to all would-be mothers. You’ll have to go on a diet soon anyway. Better to go out with a bang.

It’s how I felt when I had Pound and Pumpkin.”

Sunset couldn’t refuse.

“How’s the art gallery doing?” Pinkie asked softly.

“Oh, everything’s just the same.” replied Sunset. “Lightning and Starla dropped by this morning, asking if I had seen Swift Star anywhere.”

“Swift?” asked Spice “He came here last night before sundown. He was making one of his inspections of the village after the big battle.” He paused and realized. “Matter of fact, he usually comes in here every morning to buy a breakfast bagel from the racks before going on patrol, but he hasn’t shown up.”

Pinkie thought that odd. She knew it was an offense to neglect duty unless it was a good enough reason.

“I wonder where he is.”


Swift had stayed with Starlight Glimmer right through the night while she rested and recovered, in the cabin by the river.

Starlight began to awaken to the aroma of tea boiling.

It was Swift…

He had gathered some more clear water from the river, and gathered good brewing herbs from the meadow, and boiled them over the fireplace. He had even carved two cups out of wooden blocks of wood using a jagged rock he found-- all thanks to what he learned from survival skills in Starfleet training.

Starlight, still unable to use magic with the manacle locked around her horn, sat up over the sofa, which made Swift turn to face her.

“Good morning.” he said softly with a rather deep expression “I see you made it through the night.”

He got up and handed her a cup of tea, Starlight looked up at him rather sternly, and wasn’t sure if she should take it.

Swift merely placed the cup on the table next to the sofa. “It’s yours if you want it. You should take something.”

Their eyes met again, and Swift found himself mesmerized yet again by the beauty, but keeping well in mind, she was the enemy.


“Why are you doing this?” Starlight asked.

“I have to.” answered Swift “It’s the law of Starfleet: to help those who are injured, even if they are the enemy.

Truth is: I could’ve just taken you in any time I wanted, but you were in bad shape. So I did what I had to.”


Starlight only felt slightly flattered, but remained as sour as ever as she sipped the tea.

Swift took it as a good sign.

“You do realize what a fool you’re being.” said Starlight. “Because you healed me, I can destroy you any time I want.” She pointed up at the manacle on her horn “Without my magic, I am still physically stronger and swifter than you are.”

Swift could only slyly remark, “So why haven’t you tried to destroy me yet?”

Starlight began to steam like a kettle got up from the sofa ready to fight, and Swift looked ready to defend himself…

…But Starlight just stood there.

“What’s wrong with me?!” she grumbled in thought “Why am I just standing here like this?! He’s in plain sight, and I can knock his head off easily…!”

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door, followed by Lightning’s voice. “Swift, we know you’re in there.”

“Come on, open up.” called Starla.

Swift had no choice but to answer to his superiors, and as he went over to the door… Starlight began to slip quietly away.


Swift opened the door, and found Lightning and Starla standing there with rather stern looking expressions.

They had discovered his dereliction of duty and tracing his life signals to this place.

Swift knew he was in trouble, but quickly said, “I’ve actually been tending to my duties right here.”

“How’s that?” asked Starla.

Swift opened the door wide and looked behind him, but he noticed. “Where did she go?”

“Who?” asked Lightning.

“…Starlight. She was right here?”

Lightning and Starla nearly jumped out of their skins.

“Starlight Glimmer was here?!!” yelled Lightning.

Swift felt like kicking himself for taking his eyes off of Starlight, even for a split second.


Starlight had snuck out through an open window and began to dash across the meadow. With her magic still locked she couldn’t levitate, or teleport, or even contact the Spider-Base.

She growled as she fiddled with the manacle on her horn, but was unable to remove it. “I’ve got to get out of here. I can’t let them take me!”

She ran off looking for a place to hide.


Meanwhile…

Applejack and Buddy were visiting the planet R-L-X: the vacationing planet-- built and furbished on the remains of, what was once, The Dark Planet, and Titan’s former base of operations.

They were not here to rest…! They had come to once again, stop Titan’s forces from absorbing the planet’s energy, and enslaving the vacationers.

They had arrived just in time to find the place already under attack and a generator absorbing power from the planet.

The Starfleet guards were doing their best to stave off the monsters and free the vacationers.

“Of all the places for Titan to attack, he chooses here!” growled Applejack “…A place where people come to relax, and have fun. It really drives me through the hayfields.”

Buddy was more concerned with the generator. “Look at it! The energy is flowing twice as hard as ever.”

The dark power was blazing faster and crazier than ever.

“Come on, keep that power flowing!” the monsters leader shouted. “Lord Titan needs this power! You know what happened.”

Applejack and Buddy gawked at one another in confusion, but there was no time to ponder over it. They had to help the Starfleet forces stop all this.

Already transformed, they leapt down from the skies to assist in the battle and free the slaves…

…When suddenly, from the skies something big and bright came crashing to the ground, causing a small quake.

All the Starfleet ponies, the slaves, and even the monsters looked up.

“What was that?!” cried Applejack.


“Hey! Who’s trying to crash our party now?!” bellowed the monster leader.


As the dust from crash settled, a faint glow of brightness shone, and the creature stepped forth.

Everyone, even the monsters gasped in horror.

“No way!” cried Buddy.

“It can’t be!” added Applejack.

It was an Enticorn; an actual Enticorn-- gold, glowing body with a black, sparkling stomach, although.

Applejack and Buddy almost recognized its facial features imedeatly. “It’s Lightning’s Enticorn.” exclaimed Buddy.

“But how’s that possible?” asked Applejack. “Lightning’s clear across the galaxy.”

The Enticorn glared at everyone with a look of fury, but all it could say was, “Unite! …Must unite!”

The monsters were far from impressed. This creature had no right to butt in on their business.

“Come on, let’s take him!” shouted the leader. “That thing can’t take us all on at once.”

The monsters, foolishly agreeing with their boss, abandoned their slaves, and the other Starfleet fighters, and began to rush straight at the Enticorn to strike it with all their weapons and power.


“No, wait!!” shouted Buddy, but it was too late…!

The Enticorn glared at the oncoming monsters, and thrust out his arms, “ULTRA-UNIFORCE!”

POW!! The burning wave of power surged forth, consuming the monster army like jellybeans.

“I WAS WRONG…!!” the leader shouted as his body began to disintegrate “…IT CAN BEAT US ALL AT ONCE!!”

Then they were all gone-- disintegrated into ashes, and the blast kept going, hitting the generator, blowing it to bits.

Everyone hit the dirt or covered their eyes from the brightness of the explosion.

The dark power ceased, and with the monsters gone, the slaves were freed, but that Enticorn still looked mad and ready for more.

“Unite!” he kept shouting “Must unite!”

He looked ready to rush the vacationers and start going on a rampage, prompting Starfleet to take a stance.

“Wait!” cried Applejack “That’s Lightning’s Enticorn. We can’t fight him. He’s got more power than a hundred herds of steer.”

“Yeah, but we can’t let him destroy the resort or hurt the people.” said Buddy.

One of the soldiers spoke up, “There’s a small island off the shore. Take him there!”

Applejack and Buddy looked out over the ocean and could see the island, and some of the soldiers offered to come with them and assist while others tended to the freed slaves and the damages near the resort.

“All right… here we go!” said Buddy, and he was really regretting what he was about to do.

“LEAF SWARM”

He unleashed his razor leaves at the Enticorn, which were ineffective in damaging him at all, but did make him angry and turn to growl and glare at him.

“Follow me…!” hollered Buddy, and he took off over the water with the Enticorn following him.

“Hey, wait up!” called Applejack as she and the soldiers flew after the two.

Buddy could see the island up ahead. It was mostly flat, without much vegetation, and rocky mounds.

He was ready to set down, but the Enticorn, sprinted right up to him, grabbing him, and tackling him down to the ground hard… really hard…!

He was slammed down with such a crash that he made a small crater.

He wasn’t really hurt, but the Enticorn was glaring at him furiously and looked ready for the kill.

“Buddy!!” Applejack called as she and troops rushed in.

The Enticorn looked up in a raging sneer.

One of the soldiers poised her magic lance to fire at him, but Applejack stopped her. “Don’t! You might hit Buddy!”

The Enticorn stepped off of body. The aura around him was flaring brightly.

Buddy got up onto his feet, and gave Applejack a thumb up, showing he was okay.

She nodded at him, but the Enticorn just shouted again, “Unite! Unite!!”

“He keeps saying that.” Buddy said to himself.

“What does he mean?” wondered Applejack, but now was not the time to ponder.

“Applejack!” called Buddy “Let’s do it.”

Applejack nodded, and together they shouted, “SUPER-MODE, ACTIVATE!!”

One touch of their energizers, their suits were charged up, sparkly, and glowing with strength and power.

The other soldiers were astounded, and did the same thing-- activating their own Super-Modes.

Even with this mode activated, the ponies still weren’t sure they could stand up to the Enticorn, but they couldn’t let it rage on the planet.


The Enticorn gave a huge roar, and fired powerful pulse blasts from his hands, forcing the fighters to scatter.

“VINE WHIP”

Buddy grabbed his whip and rushed in to attack.

He cracked and lashed his whip all around, but the Enticorn effortlessly swerved and dodged his every blow.

He grabbed the whip, and yanked it hard sending Buddy up, over, and slamming hard to the ground.

“Attack!!” shouted Applejack to the soldiers.

The soldiers charged, surrounding the creature, but even with their Super Modes and working together, the Enticorn punched, kicked, bashed and thrashed at all of the fighters; knocking them down with such ease.

The Unicorns and Alicorns tried to combine their telekentic magic and hold the creature, but the Enticorn’s burning aura rendered it ineffective.

The Enticorn thrust his arms out, repelling the magic back towards the fighters, forcing them to scatter again.


The soldiers began to holler…

“He’s too strong!”

“We need more power!”

Applejack agreed and bolted upright onto her feet.

“Valkyria!” and with her shout, she transformed into the Valkyrie of Honesty, and glowing brighter than ever thanks to her Super Mode.

She leapt up high, roaring, with her sword at the ready, and came down for a strong strike, but the Enticorn zipped out of the way, making her miss and strike the ground, making the entire island shake.

The Enticorn then appeared behind her, and attempted to karate chop her in the back, but Applejack zipped out of the way, making him miss.

And Buddy came rushing in, and gave the creature a huge kick to its head, but the creature seemed hardly fazed by it, much to Buddy’s horror.

The Enticorn slowly turned his head, with Buddy’s foot still clinging to it from the kick, showing an extremely furious, expression.

Applejack could see for herself what was coming next!

The Enticorn began charge up, and Applejack quickly used her powers to wrap Buddy’s leg in a magical stream, and pull him away, and then huddled the group of soldiers together.

“Magical barriers, now!” she shouted “Layer those walls!”

The soldiers complied and combined their magic together to seal everyone in a few layers of dome barriers.

That’s when the Enticorn let out a mighty powerful roar, unleashing an incredible wave of power that engulfed the whole island.


The people on the mainland saw the big explosion, and covered their eyes. The guards began to worry of the fighters and hoped they were okay.

The barriers and the super mode armor barely managed to help. When the light had faded and the dust settled from the explosion, all the fighters lay on the ground. Their super armor had powered down, and they all lay about looking dirty and looking as if they had all been trampled by a stampede.

Buddy and Applejack, wearily struggled to get up, and saw the Enticorn still standing, and not seemingly the least bit exhausted.

“Must unite!” he growled. “Must unite…!”

Then he leapt up, taking off high into the sky like a rocket, and actually made it into space.


“No!” groaned Buddy.

“He’s gone.” said Applejack.

As grateful as the soldiers were, the planet was now safe; the fact they had nearly been trounced by the Enticorn was bad enough. Now he was loose and roaming through Space. Who knew what he was capable of doing?!

“We’ve got to warn United Equestria.” suggested Buddy. “Lightning’s going to flip his lid when he hears this.”

Applejack agreed.


While all that had happened…

Starlight continued to run and duck from the soldiers perusing her.

Lightning had sent for a small squadron of flyers and foot-soldiers to aid in the search.

They tried all their scouting devices, but it was no use.

One of the soldiers reported to Lightning and Starla. “Ma’am, Sir. I’m afraid we just can’t lock onto any signals.”

“Rats.” said Starla “I guess even with the manacle disabling her powers, her energies are still unrecognizable.”

“Well we’ve got to find her.” said Lightning “If we can capture her, she may have the information we require about what Titan is up to.

Everyone spread out.”

“Aye-Aye, Sir.”

Lightning and Starla went off together, while the rest of the soldiers spread out, and Swift Star helped too.

Part of him was really hoping to find Starlight before any of the others did.

He had combed an entire area of the meadows, moving clear up the river.

Suddenly, he heard a rustling in the shrubs by a nearby small patch of trees huddled together. It turned out to be just a silly squirrel dashing out and into the fields looking for nuts.

“Humph!” grunted Swift, nevertheless, he kept on searching.


Starlight peeked her head from around a tree, sweating nervously.

Then she accidently stepped on a twig making it snap loudly.

Swift looked up ahead, and saw her.

Starlight began to run for it.

“HEY!!” Swift shouted out to the soldiers, “SHE’S OVER HERE!!”


Lightning looked up and saw Swift running into the small forest, and he whistled for the troops to rush in.


As Swift chased after Starlight…


…Onboard Spider-Base, the henchmen saw everything on the monitors.

“So, she survived.” hissed Specter. He didn’t look a bit pleased, nor did his comrades.

“Let me at her!” growled Razor as he rubbed his blades together. “I’ll slice her into a French Fries.”

Waverline’s hands glowed with power. “Save some of her for me, will you?”


Much as Specter shared their rage, “We have to bring her back.”

“WHAT---?!” the others spat.

“We have no choice.” hissed Specter. “She’ll begin to grow suspicious if we didn’t even try to rescue our “Leader.”

“Then why don’t we just finish her now and be done with her while she’s powerless?” asked Waverline.

Specter gave her a strict glare. “We can’t take the chance.” he huffed “Besides… it’ll give us ample time to come up with another plot to be rid of her.”

Waverline and Razor rolled their eyes.

“I still say we should just slit her throat.” murmured Razor.


Starlight leapt through the trees as fast as she could and then raced along the ground with Swift closing in behind her.

“You won’t get away!” he called to her.

Starlight suddenly stopped at what was before her-- a small but steep slope down a hillside.

Swift suddenly lunged at her-- colliding into her and they both rolled down the slope together, and when they landed at the bottom, Swift found himself lying on top of Starlight…

…and their lips were barely brushing together.

Both of them were shocked beyond words, and Swift quickly sprung off of her, scooting away a few feet.

Both of them were too shocked to make much of any moves, but their eyes met again.

“What’s happening to me?” thought Starlight. “Why am I feeling like this?”

Swift was all in a deter himself. “I’ve got to get a hold of myself! I’ve got to take her in while I have the chance.”

Before he could act, a swarm of Darquines appeared and ambushed him-- grabbing him by his legs and arms so he couldn’t flail, and they carried him off.

Then the henchmen appeared.

“Miss Starlight!” called Specter.

“We’ve been looking everywhere for you.” cried Waverline.

Starlight was actually relieved to see them. “I never thought I’d be so relieved to see you all before.”

Razor resisted any and all urges to slash her for that.

“Let’s get back to the ship.” he suggested.

Since the ship’s transport beam was technological and not magical, even with the manacle still on her horn, Starlight disappeared with her minions.

The Darquines threw Swift down hard, and then they disappeared, leaving Swift outraged and upset and he angrily pounded the ground with his fist.

“Swift…!” called Lightning.

Swift looked up and saw Lightning, Starla and the soldiers atop the slope, but they could already see they were too late.

“They’re gone.” Swift called to them. “I failed.”


The soldiers were disappointed, and Lightning hated what had to come next.

“You’ll have to come with us, Swift. There’s going to have to be an inquiry regarding your actions.”

Swift complied, and yet he looked up at the sky still thinking of Starlight and what just happened between them.


Onboard Spider-Base…

It took some hard work to remove the manacle from Starlight’s horn—it was made of that much of a thick and magical-resistant material.

…Finally, it was off.


Razor groaned at how dull and beat up his blades were. “Blades like these don’t grow on trees you know.”

As grateful as Starlight felt to be home, onboard her ship, and have her magic unlocked…

…She couldn’t stop thinking about Swift and how they almost…!

“Miss Starlight, are you well?” asked Specter.

Starlight didn’t answer and walked off. “…Need to be alone.”


The henchmen were most confused.

“What’s with her?” asked Waverline.

“Whatever it is, it doesn’t concern us.” hissed Specter. “Her time will come…”

Razor snickered wickedly; looking forward to the big one!




(Promo)

In our next episode: Lightning is most distressed when he receives news of the Enticorn on the loose, and while it is decided what actions to take, Starlight and Swift still can’t stop thinking about one another, and Swift Star decides he wants to try and help Starlight, but when she suggests a rendezvous it puts him in quite the spot.

Will Swift be tempted by Starlight’s invitation, and how will Starfleet deal with the Enticorn problem?

Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic!”

(Next Episode: “Two-Timing Temptation”)