//------------------------------// // Encountering Black Beetle: Part 1 // Story: The Blue Beetle of Equestria // by PK-Pony 2002 //------------------------------// It's been a week since Button met the Super Friends and the Foal Titans and a few things have happened since then. The first thing to happen is Button got to use the training equipment in the base and got to spar with the Foal Titans to improve his fighting skill. Though he still doesn't know who they are. The second thing to happen is he met the hero known as Trixie Gold, another member of the Super Friends who joined a little later. Though she seemed suspicious of him for some reason. This brings us to what's going on currently. We find Button in his armor in the base with the rest of the Super Friends being introduced to a new member of the group. "Titans, this is Aqua Colt, the partner of Aqua Pony. He'll be working with you from this point onwards." Says Mare-Do-Well. "Welcome to the Foal Titans. " Filly-Be-Good says,extending her hand for a handshake. "Thank you, it is a pleasure to meet you." Aqua Colt says politely. "Aqua Colt, you stay here. Beetle, could you come with us, we need to discuss something." Says Mare-Do-Well. "Uh, okay." Button says as he follows Mare-Do-Well. Button follows her to a meeting room where The Dash and Wonder-Mare are waiting. "Glad you could make it Beetle." The Dash says with a slight grin. "So what's the meeting about?" Asks Button. "Captain Alicorn and I were searching the remains of the Star Industries buildings and we came across some files." Mare-Do-Well says as she and Captain Alicorn show Button the files they discovered. Needless to say there was a lot of papers to look through. "That's a lot of papers to look through." Button says, a bit startled. " Not all of it is from the Star Industries building either. Some of it is from the Super Societies database as well. " Dash says as she begins to leave the room. "Where are you going? " Asks Mare-Do-Well. " Kid Dash and I are going on patrol. We'll be back later. " Dash says she speeds off to go get her partner. "Anyways, I'll be sure to look through these and see if I can find anything." Button says as he heads back to the room where the Foal Titans are. "What are you thinking Mare-Do-Well?" Asks Captain Alicorn as he looks at the caped crusader warily, knowing how she was suspicious of situations like this. "I think we need to ask Trixie Gold about this." Mare-Do-Well says knowing that the time traveling mare might know something about this. Meanwhile Dash and Kid Dash are patrolling the area, looking for signs of trouble. "So far so good." Dash says with Kid Dash looking bored. " This is getting kind of boring. Why can't something happen? " BOOM! An explosion immeditaly catches their attention. Dash gives her partner a look as she grins nervously. "Let go check it out. " Dash says with a sigh as they both head towards where the explosion is. At the same time we see Blue Beetle and Filly-Be-Good looking through the files, trying to figure out more about Khaji Da. "Okay so far we have more questions than answers. Khaji gave Magic Star a suit like with me, but the suit changed several times and it never looked like mine. Not to mention he didn't merged to her like he did with me." Beetle says, frustrated. Filly-Be-Good just looks at him reassuringly. " Let's take it one step at a time. Why don't we start with what we know so far. " Says Filly-Be-Good. Blue Beetle nods his head and looks over the information they have. "Okay, before she formed Star Industires, Magic Star worked as a researcher studying ancient magical relics. Then one day, she discovered the scarab, who I know to be Khaji Da. She then discovered that Khaji Da has an unknown power that she used to become the first Blue Beetle." Button says looking through the papers and notes." "Yeah, that makes some sense. Magical Items tend to do different things. However, Magic Star was unable to find any other Magical Objects like Khaji Da. That makes me think Khaji may not be a Magical Item like they thought." Says Filly-Be-Good. This makes Blue Beetle look at Filly-Be-Good. Before he can ask her what she means an alarm goes off and Mare-Do-Well appears in front of the door. "Dash and Kid Dash need back up. Lets move." Says Mare-Do-Well. To Be Continued...