//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: A Rough First Impression // Story: Pokémon Journey - A Trainer & His Adventure in Equestria // by NinjaMare //------------------------------// “Rainbow Dash I don’t think this is a good idea.” Fluttershy said to her cyan friend as both her and Rainbow Dash stood on a small piece of cloud, while the butterscotch mare looked out to the open air before them. Out in the open sky above the open fields there were other clusters of clouds, all of which of varying sizes, as well as various ropes and other knick-knacks that tied around various clouds. To the shy pony the whole make-shift obstacle race set up, looks down right ridiculous. And possibly dangerous. But then again, Rainbow Dash was one to push herself to the limits of her physicality, as well as her own desire to test out her own level of, coolness. “Fluttershy you say that about all my training exercises.” Rainbow Dash rebutted. “Well it’s just that, you always try to push yourself further and harder each and every time, but…” Fluttershy once again looked out to the obstacle course, and took notice of the stuff tied in-between the clouds along the ropes, all of them wobbling in the air and battering against each other. “I think you may be going a little bit overboard with this one.” “Ah you worry too much Fluttershy.” Rainbow said as she starts to stretch her wings, legs, and back. “I gotta push myself to the limit and surpass them if I want to join the Wonderbolts.” “I suppose.” “Now just sit back and watch ‘the Dash’ strut her stuff!” And with that Fluttershy watched as Rainbow Dash zooms off the cloud the pair was standing on, and started to do her usual aerial escapades. From high speed drifts, loop-de-loops, nose dives, and other acrobatic tricks that the cyan flyer had up her metaphorical sleeves. But as the speed flyer was pulling off her usual feats of flying prowess, Fluttershy felt herself get increasingly more nervous when she watches her friend start bobbing and weaving through the obstacles Rainbow Dash set up, from the swaying logs, the make shift spinning poles with rakes and other garden tools ducted tape to them, there were even cart wheels tied to ropes and were swinging like pendulums. But despite her rising dread of her friend possibly harming herself, Fluttershy kept watching her friend go about her practicing. Just as Rainbow Dash was going into a power climb into the air, swirling around a large column of tower, Fluttershy noticed something just out of the corner of her right eye and when she looked over to what caught her attention she saw something. It was just a small spec in the distant, but as the seconds role by the spec started to get bigger and bigger, until the object became more clear in what it was. But even then Fluttershy was dumbfounded at what in the world she was currently looking at. The ‘thing’ that was closing in was a pair of creatures. One looked like a giant rock, with a very bushy mustache with a rather goofy face, especially that big red honking nose. It was surprising to see it somehow fly through the air. By the stones side was another floating creature, just as tall as the stone face was, but looked like a tall lanky creature. But what Fluttershy found a bit more odd about the lanky creature was that it was wearing clothes, not fancy looking clothes that her friend Rarity would make, more like casual wear that she’s seen other ponies wear. “What in the world are those things?” Fluttershy said to herself as she kept watching the two creatures, and as she does so she watched as the clothed creature started to jerk around a bit, before both it and the stone head changed their flight path. Heading more to the left of the pegasus. “Where are they going now?” The pegasus asked herself as she continued to watch the pair, her curiosity of seeing two new creatures she’s never seen fly by, before flying off. However before the two creatures got to far Fluttershy then heard something swish past her, and that something was Rainbow Dash! The cyan pegasus was diving towards the two creatures, however to the shock of not only Fluttershy but also the speed flyer, the two creatures were able to dodge the pegasus improve dive attack. “Rainbow Dash! What are you doing!?” Fluttershy asked worriedly as she jumps to her hooves. “What does it look like I’m trying to make these, these…whatever they are leave! They were heading towards Ponyville.” Fluttershy looked in the general direction that the two creatures were going, and sure enough, they were heading towards Ponyville. Or at least its general direction. “But Rainbow—” “Hey!” Before Fluttershy could continue with her statement, she was cut off as Rainbow shouted loudly. “Get back here you two whatever you are!” That’s when Fluttershy watched her friend chase after the pair of creatures, who for doing their best to try and avoid the fast flyer. As the rainbow maned pony continued to try and make the creature fly back the way they came, Fluttershy hopped off the cloud and flew off after the trio, where she hoped she could stop her friend in trying to fight two clearly non-aggressive creatures. Yet something told the mare that this is going to get worst, before it got better. “I really hope things don’t get to out of hoof!” Fluttershy flapped her wings as fast as she could to reach the trio in time, before something bad could happen. ~~~~~ Rainbow Dash darts, then she swoops, then she tries a summersault tackle, she’s using every offensive take down maneuver she knows. And yet somehow, someway, these two creatures who are barely flying faster than Fluttershy, were managing to out maneuver her, and dodge all of her attacks! And each and every time they do so, it just made Rainbow Dash more frustrated. She was the fastest flyer there is in Equestria, she should be able to take these two creatures down easily. Before they could do, whatever it is they can to Ponyville, or the ponies that live there. “Hold still so I can Smack ya!” Rainbow screeched in her scratchy voice as she once again does a nose dive at the pair, and once again missing by just a hair by the big fat rock thing swivel to the side, and the tall lanky thing back flip over her tackle. “Okay you two are really ticking me off!” As Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth she noticed that the tall, clothed creature said something, but whatever it said it sounded to Rainbow Dash like Pinkie babbling in some kind of random langue when she rambles off, especially when she gets really hyped up on whatever surgery treat she scarfed down. Ignoring the creatures un-intelligible chattering, Rainbow rocketed towards the pair, but this time before either one could dodge, she flipped herself in mid air and changed direction. And this sudden mid-air flip managed to put Rainbow in the perfect spot to deliver a kick to the clothed creature, right at its head! But before her hoof was half-a-foot from its head, the creature was quickly vaulted backwards as its left claw was yanked behind it. Then as the tall creature was quickly moved back, Rainbow Dash watched as the large rock thing moved to where the other creature was, and butted its red stop cap into Rainbows hoof. The moment that the pegasus’s hoof made contact with the stone creature a dull ‘thud’ briefly echoed, before Rainbow felt a surge of pain race up her leg all the way up to the tips of her ears. While her body quivers in the sudden rush of pain. “YEOW!!!!!” Rainbow Dash cried out as she pulled her hind leg back, and clenched it tight against her barrel all the while saying ‘ow, ow, ow, ow’ in a looping manner as she rubs her hoof. “Okay. Now your really starting to make me mad.” Rainbow said as she continues to message her hoof, trying to dull down the pain. “Rainbow Dash!” the cyan pegasus turned to look behind her and saw Fluttershy panting as she flies over to her. “Fluttershy what are you doing here?” “I came to try and stop you from hurting yourself, and give these creatures a chance to…” Fluttershy took a moment to stop and catch her breath as she floats over to where Rainbow Dash currently was. “Let them explain themselves.” “And how is that possible? It’s not like we can talk to—HEY!” Rainbow Dash shouted as she caught the pair trying to fly off out of the corner of her left eye, causing the mare to speed after the duo. And this time the cyan pegasus was able to catch the creatures off guard, tackling the clothed creature and causing both herself and it to go swooping down towards the ground. Although since she chased the creatures quite a bit away, the duo are on a crash course down into Ponyville instead out in the fields. ~~~~~ The Silver Bit Diner is a nice little place for any pony to grab a nice meal, especially around lunch time where they have a wide selection of great foods from salads, cooked dishes, stuffed pies, and other such delectable morsels. And at the moment Twilight Sparkle was having a good time with her friends Pinkie and Applejack, as they were all sitting around at a table with food and a glasses of some kind of beverage in front of them, while they talk. Which was mostly Twilight more or less talking to herself, on how she could make the spell she’s been experimenting for the past few days, with Applejack and Pinkie chipping in every now and then to give their unicorn friend a helping hoof. But the majority of the time at the diner was just three of them enjoying each other’s company, over a nice, good meal. “So Twilight after lunch are you going to try and give that spell another go?” Pinkie asked as she takes a big gulp of her glass of strawberry lemonade. “Maybe. I’ll probably go over the spell and its inner workings one more time, and if I can’t figure out why the spell isn’t working then I’ll put it on hold and work on something else.” Twilight explained before taking a bite of her double decker daffodil sandwich. “Well if you do find a way to make this conflagering spell to work, try and not to destroy anything.” Applejack half-joked, and half-cautioned her academic friend. Which Twilight could only give a nervous but well-meaning chuckle. “What about you Applejack. What are you going to do for the rest of the day?” Twilight asked her farmer friend. “Meh. Ah don’t know yet, Ah rarely get time off from work and harvest, and chores.” Applejack took a sip of iced tea as she developed a contemplating expression, before a look of realization quickly popped up. “OH! I could go to the spa, Celestia knows my legs and back could do with a nice deep tissue message, and a nice steam chamber bath.” Both Twilight and Pinkie couldn’t help themselves but chortle as they saw Applejack’s expression of awe, as she was probably thinking of experiencing said treatments. And just as the unicorn was about to take a drink of her glass of cranberry tea, a loud crash could be heard down the street from the diner, which was followed quickly by ponies screaming and the thundering of their hooves stomping the ground. As ponies race past the three mares while panicking, the trio then heard what sounded like a fight going on, especially with all the yelling. Now concerned that something really bad might be happening the trio of mares bolted from their table, not before placing their payment as well as a tip down, and then rush down the street from where the other ponies were running away from. Reaching the end of the street the trio came upon the east side of Market Square, Twilight and her two friends saw a strange sight. Which wasn’t a total surprise as they were expecting to find something strange. But this, this was defiantly something that they weren’t expecting. What the three ponies were currently looking at was their friend Rainbow Dash, zipping and flying around the market place while trying to fight a pair of creatures. Or at least it looked like it was supposed to be a fight, but the tall lanky creature with clothes on seemed to be doing nothing but dodging, or catching Dash and tossing her to the side. While the large rock thing floating around the creature, and either tackles Dash back, or sends out three smaller rocks at the pegasus, causing her to change course and try attacking from a different angle. “Incoherent noises!” the clothed creature seemed rather upset or just down right annoyed as it keeps shouting at Rainbow, while waving its claws at her in a frustrated manner. “Well…this isn’t exactly what I was expecting.” Twilight said as she just continued to watch this little scuffle. “Ditto.” Both Applejack and Pinkie said. “Rainbow Dash!” the trio heard the sound of a familiar voice before seeing something yellow and pink tackle Rainbow Dash, pinning the cyan pony to the ground. “Fluttershy?” Twilight and the others said in unison as they looked at the panting mare, who didn’t seem to notice them as she surprisingly keeps Rainbow Dash pinned to the ground. “Rainbow *gasp please *gasp* give these *gasp* creatures a chance to *gasp*, explain themselves!” the usually quite pony said in a surprisingly stern tone that Twilight and the others never thought the pegasus was capable of expressing. “Um girls.” Twilight said to get her two winged friends attention, as well as the two other creatures. “What’s going on here?” “These…these two creatures were flying towards Ponyville, and Rainbow Dash just started attacking them.” Fluttershy said as she managed to get her breathing under control. “And why is that?” Applejack asked as she trots over to the pair, while she and the others took notice of the creatures slumping to the ground, and looking like they were trying to relax. “She thought they were monsters coming to attack the town.” “Well I mean look at them guys, have you ever seen anything like them?” Rainbow Dash remarked as finally managed to get out from under Fluttershy and then gesturing to the two creatures. “Who knows what they could’ve done.” “Well attacking them isn’t going to get any answers.” Twilight said as she hesitantly approaches the creatures, but stopped when the rock creature floated in front of the unicorn and making a very clear threatening droning sound, which caused the violet mare to take a step back, but she ultimately steeled herself and just stood before the floating rock creature. “It’s okay I’m not going to hurt your friend.” Twilight said to the floating rock, but it seemed uncertain and just droned at her again. A hoof then patted on the unicorn’s shoulder and when she turned to look who it was she saw it was Fluttershy. “Why don’t you let me handle this.” Twilight did as the pegasus suggested and stood off to the side, and let Fluttershy try and approach the pair of unusual creatures. Hopefully her talent with talking to animals and understanding them could help her in this situation.