//------------------------------// // Episode 7: Going on a search // Story: Equestria's Heroes // by ArmorKamen85 //------------------------------// Previously on Equestria's Heroes: A villain from the world of Equestria Chrysalis has returned to hatch a plan of revenge as she assistance of a hooded figure who helps her create clones of the mane 6. Meanwhile Yusei, X and Starlight managed to get Twilight gain the confidence to reopen the school of friendship. As Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rainbow Dash head to the other kingdoms to get the students, the leaders have revealed that their student is gone. Things get worse as it is revealed that Hibiki and Shinji are gone aswell. What will happen next? Yusei and X explained to Spike and Starlight that Hibiki and Shinji had disappeared which shocked the two so they four went to tell Twilight the news which almost made the said Alicorn freak out since there was more bad news. She told the others that she was told by the rest of the Mane 7 that the students from the other kingdoms went missing. This was bad. Very bad. So the five headed to canterlot so that they can help the Princesses try to sort out the situation and find out what caused the students to go missing. (Later) Right now, Yusei, X, Twilight, Starlight and Spike were with Princess Celestia and Luna to handle the problem as the leaders from the other kingdoms came into the throne room, and they did NOT look happy. "Where Yona?!" Rutherford asks furiously. "This all pony's fault!" "You're pretty quick to blame them!" Ember said to Rutherford. "What are you hiding, yak?!" Rutherford snorted. "Can... can we just focus on finding our lost students?" Thorax asked nervously. "Nice try!" Grandpa Gruff shouted. "You grubs are probably hidin' the whole lot of 'em!" "Geez, why is he so racist?" X thought. "Please, everycreature!" Celestia pleaded. "If you can just explain what happened." Seaspray steps forward and explains. "The students left us notes before they disappeared. When the school closed, they didn't want to say goodbye to each other. They claim they ran away to stay together." "I can't believe it!" Twilight said amazed. "They did learn friendship!" "Oh, so its your fault that they're missing?" Seaspray asked as he and the other leaders glared at Twilight. "Not helping." X whispered. "Sorry." Twilight said sheepishly. "But how could they have hidden themselves so well though?" Yusei asked. "He's right." Luna said before looking at the leaders of the other kingdoms. "Do any of you have any ideas?" "The students couldn't have done this by themselves." Seapray continued. "Some creature is hiding them! If the niece of our Queen is not found soon, I promise there will be retribution!" "Yeah? Well my dragons will burn every kingdom until we find which of you is hiding Smolder!" Ember yelled. "Tell that to the Griffon army!" Gruff yelled as he came up to her. "Yaks fight Griffons and Dragons!" Rutherford shouts getting between them. "The Changeling Empire can't afford an international incident." Thorax said. "If any creature blames the changelings for this..." "What are you up to, shapeshifter?" Ember asked furiously. "B-But we're friends!" Celestia leans to Yusei and X. "You two must help Twilight and the others find the students quickly, or I fear our world will be at war!" Yusei and X nodded before they quickly left with Twilight, Starlight and Spike as they hoped that they'll find them soon. Because if they don't... The 1st Equestrian World War will happen. (Later) Right now Yusei and X were with the mane 7 and Spike were at SugerCube Corner, trying to work out where the students, Hibiki and Shinji might be. "Okay." Twilight began. "Let's review what we know." "Smolder, Ocellus, Silverstream, Yona and Gallus, disappeared together." Spike said looking at the list. Twilight gestures him to continue. "That's all we know." He finished. "Not only that, Hibiki and Shinji are missing aswell." Yusei said "They're probably just off hidin' somewhere." Applejack tried to assure. "Unless they used some kind of spell to disappear." Starlight suggested. "Ooh! Or went undercover!" Rainbow said. "Maybe they were attacked by a ferocious shrimp!" Pinkie excalimed nudging Fluttershy. "Nopony ever expects that!" "Shrimps can attack?" Fluttershy gasped. "Nope! That's why nopony expects it." "Guys! can you take this seriously?!" X snapped scaring the ponies. "Your world is on the brink of war unless we find the students! Plus, we need to find Hibiki and Shinji!" The ponies nodded at that, then Sandbar came in and saw the chart of the missing students and grew nervous. And he went to the counter with a nervous smile. "Hi Sandbar!" Pinkie greeted, grabbing his order and came back with 5 boxes of cupcakes. "Are you having a party?" "No!" He replied nervously and shakes. "I-I'm just, um... really hungry? Yeah?" Sandbar heads to the door as Pinkie helps him with opening the door. "We need to think like our students." Rarity said. "If someone told us we would never see each other again, what would we do?" "GO someplace we could all hang out and eat lots and lots of cupcakes!" Pinkie suggested. The others just stared. "What?" "Wait," Yusei began. "Pinkie might actually be onto something. Me, X, Hibiki and Shinji were friends with the students. And Hibiki and Shinji went missing the same time the students did." "You might not be suggesting that they hid the students, are you?" Starlight asked. "Not really. But that can be a possibility." Yusei replied. "Or maybe they went to look for the students once they heard that they were missing." "But how would they know about it?" Twilight asked. No one answered but then X got an idea. "Wait," X began. "Sandbar was also friends with those students..." "And he just got plenty of cupcakes. Fluttershy finished. "Huh, now that you mension it..." Applejack began, as she was remembering something. "He was at the farm this morin' pickin' up a wagonload of apples." "And I saw him in a shop buying pillows and blankets." Rarity said. "He must be taking all that stuff to the other students!" Rainbow gasped. "We've gotta follow him!" The 5 quickly rush to the door, but got stuck in the doorway for a few seconds. "Well that's a start." X muttered. "Come on." Yusei said. "We've got no time to lose!" (Meanwhile) Right now we see Hibiki and Shinji walking in the forest. You see, while they were depressed, they looked outside and saw Sandbar pulling a wagon and talked about taking somethings in the wagon to his friends. That sparked interest to Hibiki and Shinji on what he was talking about so they managed to sneak out and tried to look for him. "Um...maybe this was a bad idea to sneak out..." Shinji said nervously. "Don't worry." Hibiki assured. "Just stay alert in case anything happens. That made Shinji feel a little better. However he became alerted once he heard a sound. "Do you hear that?" He asked. "Hear what?" Hibiki asked. "That sound." "I don't think so. Let's be quiet and listen for a bit." They remained quiet and listened, but then they heard what sounded to be laughter. "I think we're getting close." Hibiki said. "Come on, let's keep moving." Shinji nervously nodded and followed Hibiki. (Elsewhere) Meanwhile, the Hooded Figure, Chrysalis, and clones known as the Mean 6 were still searching through the forest for the Elements. And then Cloned Pinkie landed in front of Cloned Twilight, Chrysalis and the Hooded Figure. "I'm soooooo bored. Are we there yet?" "Where yet?" Cloned Twilight said. "We don't even know where we're going!" "The quicker we search the forest, the quicker we find the Elements." Chrysalis walked. "I know where the Elements are." Cloned Applejack lied. "This, uh, here boulder just told me." She gestures to a rock The hooded figure then heard something. "Quiet fools." He hissed. "Do you hear that?" They listened and heard sounds of laughter. "Wait...its those students from the school!" Chrysalis said suprised before growing an evil smirk. "Looks like things got easy." "Then let's go." The hooded figure said as the group walked of. 'Look at them, acting all high and mighty.' Cloned Twilight thought. 'You need us way more than we need you, masters. The others are fools. But with me to lead them, there's no reason we can't find the Elements and keep the power for ourselves!' (Meanwhile) Meanwhile the students were hanging out at the Castle of the Two Sisters as Gallus was flying around. "Huh. This place is way cooler than I thought it'd be." Gallus said. Then Yona trip over her braid when heading down the stairs and fell onto the ground. "Even I'm impressed." Smolder said snacking on small gems on a helmet. "What's it called again, Ocellus?" "The Castle of the Two Sisters." Ocellus answered reading a book on a staircase. "I remembered it from class. Princess Twilight's "History of Pre-Equestrian Friendships." "Huh. Who knew?" Gallus said impressed. "School was actually good for something." "Yona not really like school." Yona said before she then pulled Ocellus, Gallus and Smolder for a tight hug. "But Yona like new friends!" "Smolder... like breathing!" Smolder gasped trying to pull free. "Hey, you guys!" Silverstream called out who was flying and peeked through a window. "Sandbar's back!" And went to the door as she sees Sandbar heading to the castle while pulling a wagon. "Cupcakes are best cakes!" Yona opening the doors while cheering and she then took off running like a zooming race car. But Gallus quickly got ahead and grabs her braids causing her to trip. She came rolling towards Sandbar before she came to a stop and wagged her tail like a happy dog. "Thanks for the assist, Gallus." Sandbar said thanking thanking his feathered friend. "I was saving the cupcakes." Gallus scoffed with a smirk. Then the lid was then removed as Gallus and Yona shoved their face in the cupcakes eating them. Then Ocellus came and saw the cart of pillows. "Pillows!" She said diving in the wagon "How nice! The castle is gonna be so much more comfy." "And fun!" Smolder said as she poked out from behind and grabs a pillow. "Pillow fight!" She then threw the pillow at Sandbar and the two started fighting. Then a shadow appear above them as they saw Ocellus as a bear bug before she drops on to them and they started laughing. "YOU GUYS!" The five look over to Silverstream who was in a excited mood. "I just found...STAIRS!" She shouted near the staircase leading inside. "...Aaaand we care because...?" Gallus asked. "Stairs are awesome!" She said. "We don't have anything like 'em underwater,'cause you know..."She uses her necklace to turn herself into a Seapony and sat on the stairs. "No way to climb 'em!" She finished. The others saw her fins and got the point. "Ohhhh." "This place has everything! Silverstream said who turns back into her Hippogriff self. "If only my family back home could see it." Then a apple was toss up and bounces off her head. And she takes a bite out of it. "I wish the other changelings could meet you all." Said Ocellus. You're not as strange as the stories say. "Gee, thanks." Smolder said. "But yeah, hanging out with other creatures is actually... not bad." "Though I wish Shinji and the others could be here with us." Ocellus admitted. "Yeah," Silverstream said. "Are you sure it was a good idea not to invite them?" "Sorry Silver." Gallus aplogised. "But we can't risk being found out and having to be taken back to your kingdoms." "Even though I miss Yusei and the others," Smolder began. "I don't want to be seprated from you guys." "Yona wishes to see X again." Yona said sadly. "Hey, I'm sure we might meet them again." Sandbar assured. "Besides, what's the worse that can happen?" "Wouldn't you like to know..." The students gasped as they turn to see Chrysalis smirking at them. "C-Chrysalis!" Ocellus said in fear. "Looks like finding the elements just got easier." Chrysalis amused. "Now!" Those were the last words the students heard before they felt a pain at the back of their head and everything went black.