//------------------------------// // Times to work // Story: The Adventures End? // by Dragon Shimmer //------------------------------// The competition begins as Sunset sees the competitors are going out. Everyone in the stadium cheers their competition as her friend is doing so. When Sunset sees Rainbow Dash, who is shaking like a leaf, she really wants to shoot her to boost her morale but that is cheating so she just ignores her to believe that she will pass this mentally. Sunset stirs a scope a little and sees Rarity is wearing fancy in the flying competition. The orange dragon takes out the scope immediately and cleans it, then she rubs her eyes and hopes that she just sees the illusion. When Sunset attaches the scope to her sniper rifle, the scene doesn't change. Sunset presses the magic circle, "Why did you let my friend Rarity come here? She will change it into a beautiful competition." Flora answers, "Sorry dragon, anypony have wings can sign this competition," "Come on. Even a magic one?" "Yes." She shuts down the magic circle as she sighs. But the good way for her is that everyone will look at these stupid wings as she starts to look around the audience's zone and sees three ponies looking somewhere. Judging by their look, she stirs the scope in the direction of the ponies and sees Princess Luna. Glaring at them, she feels that the explosion will be used to be a blind one. Sunset presses the magic circle, "Hey Flora, I got some suspicious ponies, can you go check?" Flora smirks, "Of course, I can check it with my acting skill." "Right," Sunset sighs, "First, you check the ponies in zone 1, line 4, third chair. Next is zone 2, line 2, second chair. Finally is zone 3, line 1, fourth chair." "Got it," Flora smiles, "I will check them. Flora, out." Flora presses the magic circle and runs to the dressing room to act as another character for her. Meanwhile, Sunset feels something is not right about Flora, a normal pony or actress will hesitate to do this mission, not Flora. The white pony doesn't even show fear to this mission. Shaking her head, Sunset must focus on this one as many ponies are in danger. Wearing her costume, Flora dresses like a popcorn and food seller and will start acting like them. The white earth pony lies to her dancer team that she has to go because someone calls her for some... acting. Flora quickly goes to the audience zone with a cap that can hide her face and starts shouting, "Food, popcorn, drink," and start walking to the targets The first contest is flying over the barrel and pole. Every competitor has to fly zic-zac over it. Twilight, Spike, and others cheer to their friend, Rainbow Dash, to pass this one. The purple dragon looks at the big cloud and notices something weird. "Twilight," Spike calls as Twilight looks at him, "Why is that cloud not moving away?" "It may be for using something from pegasi," Twilight giggles, "I thought you mature." "Yeah, I'm more mature than a bookworm," Spike teases back, making Twilight huff as the purple dragon giggles. Flora walks to the first target while shouting about the food, there are some ponies buying it as she has to sell it for them. The first target is a yellow unicorn with a red and black mane. When Flora is walking close to the target, she fakes tripping on the ground to see if the stallion is careful or not. Everypony around helps her up while the stallion doesn't have any response. Flora decides to ask him, "Sorry sir, do you enjoy the competition?" The stallion answers barely, "Yeah... Yeah... the competition is great. Especially number 40." "Oh, how about another number?" Flora asks more, "I see number 2 is good," She points at Rainbow Dash. "Oh, he is good too." The stallion answers, "and he is just so cool," Flora nods, "I see. Sorry for disturbing you." Then she goes away to the next target as she knows this is a criminal cause there is no number 40 that does not exist. It's just because the judges hate that number. She pokes at the magic circle and announces, "First target is exposed. He is a criminal." "Good, check out the second target," Sunset says, "We need to check all of them to see if this is just one or not." "Sure," Flora taps the magic circle to cut the signal, then she runs to the second target. Flora goes to the second target at zone two, the zone has Sunset's friends in there. When the white pony just shouts about the food, Spike sees her and already wants to call some popcorn. Spike calls, "Hey, we need some popcorn here." Flora comes to the group, "Hello there. How many bags do you want to buy?" Spike counts and answers, "Six. Please give me six bags." "12 bits," Flora says the price, "12 bits." Spike gives her the bits, "That's cheaper than I thought." "Maybe?" Flora received it, "Thank you for your buying." Then she goes away from the group. Spike gives Twilight and others the popcorn. Twilight huffs, "You should spend your money carefully, not for food." "Yeah," Spike wraps his claw around her, "And you are my bank." Flora giggles at the purple duo when seeing Spike have an ice book on his head. The white pony goes to the second target as she looks at her. It's another cyan pegasus with the orange mane. Flora looks at her as she is only looking at Rainbow Dash Flora decides to ask, "Sorry for disturb but what are you interested in number 2?" "She is my daughter," The mare giggles, "I came here to see her for participating in the competition." then she looks at Rainbow Dash, "Aww, look at her. She is shaking like the first time she joins this." "I see." Flora walks out of the spot as she feels safe from her. She taps the magic circle and replies, "Hey, the second one is clear. She is Rainbow Dash's mother." "Oh really?" Sunset grins, "Why didn't she talk about her parents before?" "Just give her time," Flora giggles, "I'm sure that she has the reason." "You got me," Sunset sighs, "Anyway, let's move on to the third target. I'm sure that this is a target we are looking for. This pony is just staring at Luna." "I see," Flora looks at the cloud, "Hey, how can you see that? It is 300 yards, you know." "Just let us move," Sunset grunts, "I am not telling about this." "Fine," Flora shuts the contract down and she is moving to the third target. Spike looks at that cloud and feels so weird cause the first contest is already over but that cloud is not moving away. Spike taps the purple unicorn, "Hey Twilight, I notice that cloud is not moving away." "That's just a cloud, Spike," Twilight retorts, "Why are you so obsessed about that cloud?" "Nothing." Spike turns to watch Rainbow Dash as it is her turn, "Go, Rainbow Dash, you can do it." Flora is going to the third zone as she keeps shouting about food. When she gets close to the target, a colt hugs her as he smiles at the actress. When the colt is going to announce to everyone, Flora wraps his mouth as she puts him on the chair, which his mom is next to. The colt seems sad and Flora takes out the paper, then she draws her signature on it. The colt takes it happily. Flora sighs as she continues to go to the target. When she is closed, she sees a gray earth pony is looking at Luna as he is waiting for something. Flora asks, "Sorry sir, why are you looking at Princess Luna?" "None of your business." The stallion shouts at her, "Get out of my way or I will make you regret it." Flora runs out of the spot as she taps the magic circle, "Third target, it is. And you should guard Princess Luna if you can." "I see." Sunset stirs her sniper rifle at Princess Luna and sees a pony in a black coat behind the princess. Sunset forms a bullet by her plate as she takes it, then she puts it into the gun. Sunset aims at the black coat as the pony is flying near to Princess of the Moon without the princess notice. When the pony takes a towel and walks close to the princess, the pony receives an electric bullet from Sunset as Luna feels something just flies past her face. Looking behind, she sees a black coat pony is shaking furiously due to the electricity. "Sister," Luna taps her sister as Celestia looks at Luna. The princess of the night points behind Celestia sees that pony. Celestia is surprised then she takes out the coat. Luna asks, "Who is this?" "I don't know sister." Celestia taps her hoof as she examines the towel. When she sniffs it, she feels dizzy as Luna catches her sister. Celestia shakes her head, "This is a very strong anesthetic for using medicine. How can this pony have this? And how does he faint." "I don't know sister," Luna remembers, "all I know is something is flying over my face. After that, I look behind and see like this." Celestia looks around the stallion. She sees something is sticking with him as her horn glows to levitate it. It is shaped like the head of the arrow but is very small, "What is this?" Then she looks at her sister, "Look like we have to take it to examine." "I agree," Luna nods as the Sisters walk to the balcony, they see the grey stallion is getting away at a fast speed but suddenly he falls and shakes furiously like the black coat pony. Luna looks at Celestia, "Did you see that?" "I see all," Celestia turns to the competition and it is the third contest. When she looks back at the grey stallion, he is taken by a food seller, "Look like we have to talk with that food seller before he or she gets away." "I'm on it," Celestia and Luna's horns glowing as they create clones, then they disguised as pegasi to fly down the audience zone to talk with the food seller. Sunset sees all of the things as she taps the magic circle, "Flora, the princesses are coming for you. Hide somewhere and take out that disguise." "Got it," Flora runs out of the audience's zone as the Sisters see that and chase her. When they chase to the stair, they only see the food seller costume. Looking at it as Celestia examines the costume. Flora goes out of their sight and walks to the competitor zone, "Sunset, I will go to the competitor's zone to keep looking at the first target." "Sure," Sunset says, "I will keep in his track." Sunset keeps scoping at the first target as she is waiting for his action. When Rarity is screaming, the orange dragon looks at her and sees that the White Unicorn is falling down. Sighing, she turns to Rainbow Dash as she is speeding up to catch the falling speed, until the explosion in the sky, makes the audience amazed. Rainbow Dash manages to catch the white unicorn. Her friends are congratulating her on the audience chairs. The competition is over and the judges are announcing the result while Sunset keeps track of the first target. Rainbow Dash wins the first prize. The stallion is standing up and his horn is glowing, a large magic circle is glowing at the second zone, making the ponies confused and panic. The stallion is standing on the stage and laughs, "Hahaha, you all will come down with me." "Storm Sword?" Celestia realizes that stallion, "Why did you do that?" The stallion looks at Celestia in disguise, "I don't know who you are but you will come with me, to the death. My life is over and yourrrr..." the stallion is cut off when an electric bullet contracts to his body. The magic circle stops glowing and ponies in that zone sigh in relief. "Shut the hell up," Sunset sighs, "What a crazy guy!" Celestia flies down to the stallion and once again, she sees that strange object. Look at the cloud that hasn't moved during the competition, she looks at her sister and they nod, They decide to fly there to see if someone is inside. Sunset sees that and she quickly dismantling the sniper rifle, then puts all of the parts into the bag. When the Sisters just come to the cloud, Sunset teleports away as they come inside the cloud and finds nothing. Luna looks at her sister, "What do we do now? I mean the stallion knocked out this mysterious thing," She points at the bullet, "I don't know if they can hurt me or not." "Don't worry, my sister," Celestia sighs, "It won't hurt you cause it protects you from the stallion in the balcony," Then she looks at the sky, "Looks like I have a talk with my old student. She is disappearing from the competition." "How can you be sure that she is doing these things," Luna asks, "I mean, of course, she just comes back from... somewhere and has a lot of magic but... this is an outrage." "Well, I just suspect." Celesta looks at the bullet, "And this is the thing that not comes from this world so I am doubting her, 100%" "I see." Luna nods. The sisters come back to the competition and announce the winner, then the competition is over nicely. Sunset sighs as she lies on the higher cloud to enjoy the sunshine.