//------------------------------// // Attack on the falls // Story: Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity: Trio in time // by FireDasher24 //------------------------------// Both Applejack and Rainbow Dash are still traveling inside the time hole. Both of them are spinning around in a spiral like a vortex with yellow and magenta colors. "Wooooaaaahhhh!" Both of them screamed while she was spinning around in the time hole. Then something popped up in the screen saying: Equestria's past. Winsome Falls. Suddenly, a white glow came at the end of the time hole and both of them were engulfed by the glow. Applejack and Rainbow Dash jumped out of the time hole. Applejack landed beside the time hole and Rainbow Dash just hovered above the ground using her wings. Applejack fell down to the ground, looked around, and recognized the place, it was Winsome Falls. But to her surprise, the ground felt a little... soft? "You okay AJ?" Rainbow Dash asked her. "Yeah, but why is the ground soft? It should've been a rough landing for me." She looked around a little, she then looked down. She saw that she accidentally landed on Rarity's back, who was unconscious. Applejack quickly jumped off of Rarity's back. "Oops, sorry about that Rarity! I didn't to-" Applejack paused as she saw something else pop out from the time hole, it also landed on Rarity's back. "Ooff" Rarity said again, while still unconscious. The thing to Applejack and Rainbow Dash's surprise, looked like a suitcase with eyes, a mouth, and even with two small legs, with shoes on. "Watch the leather doctor! No need for the shoving!" It yelled while looking at the time hole. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were confused. They clearly wanted to know what the hay is that thing. "Hey, Mr. Suitcase!" Applejack said to the living suitcase. That got the suitcase's attention. It turned over to the earth pony. "Oh you must be Applejack." It said to Applejack. She was a little surprised that it knows her. but shrugged since it said the doctor sent him. "And who are you?" He asked facing Rainbow Dash. "I'm Rainbow Dash, the best flyer in Equestria!" She answered causing Applejack to to roll her eyes. The suitcase looked around, to the right, and the left, like it's looking for something, or someone. "According to the doctor, there should be a Rarity here with you two as well. However I don't..." The suitcase said. Applejack and Rainbow Dash knew why it was looking around. About that, they looked down at Rarity, who the suitcase was still standing on top of. "Yeah...about that, you're standing on top of her." Rainbow Dash tells him. The suitcase now realized that it was standing at the one known as Rarity. To their surprise, Rarity immediately jumped up, with the suitcase jumping a little back. Rarity was fully awakened from her unconsciousness, and she looks pretty frustrated. "HOW DARE YOU STAND ON TOP OF A LADY LIKE THAT?! YOU OUGHTA LEARN SOME MANNERS!" Rarity yelled at the suitcase angrily. The suitcase looked at Rarity. "Oh, my! Are you Rarity? I... Sorry about that." The suitcase apologized. Applejack then walked in front Rarity. "Calm down Rarity, the suitcase here just apologized to ya." Applejack said to Rarity. "Yeah, no need to get all mad." Rainbow Dash added. Rarity seeing her two friends calms down and hugs both of them. "Oh Applejack, Rainbow Dash it's good that i'm not alone in this place." Rarity said, while still hugging them really hard. "Yeah, now could you please let us go?" Applejack asked. Rarity released her grip and let go of them, then all three of them turned towards the suitcase. "I am pleased to meet you. I am known as Stuffwell." The suitcase, now known as Stuffwell told the three ponies. "Doctor Whooves invented me. I am what is called a suitcase." Stuffwell said. "Yeah, we noticed." Rainbow Dash said. "The doctor sent me back in time to be your assistant." Stuffwell said. The three ponies looked at each other for a moment. "Yes, "assistant" IS accurate... I'm more than just someplace to store your belongings." Stuffwell said. He was then cut off by Rarity. "You can store our belongings inside you? Oh Celestia, i should have bought my dresses with me." Rarity said. Applejack and Rainbow Dash roll their eyes, indicating that she was disturbing Stuffwell's speech. Rarity blushed in embarrassment a little. "I have MANY complex sensors... and various memory apparati for data retention...and...er..." Stuffwell said. "Yes?" The trio asks Stuffwell. "Well, suffice to say, I am very technologic by contraption standards. I'll be a BIG help." Stuffwell said. Now Applejack was the one who cut him off. "Like what for an example?! You seriously need to tell me how the doctor created you! Oh boy, I could really learn a lot from him!" Applejack said to Stuffwell, while holding him close to her face. Now it was Rarity's turn to poke at her. "Now Applejack, you do remember the make him finish his speech you told me." Rarity said to Applejack, now Applejack blushed a little in embarrassment. "Oh right, sorry Stuffwell." Applejack apologized to Stuffwell. "Why don't we get started by having you go ahead and open me up?" Stuffwell said, before laying himself down on the ground. The trio looked inside Stuffwell. It was really messy inside, but he had many things, like a few dresses, a hair brush, and a bag of Cupcakes. "Seriously Stuffwell, your insides are messy, and needs a little pizzazz. The doctor must have forgotten to install those things inside of you." Rarity complimented the insides of Stuffwell. Rainbow Dash glared a little at Rarity. "Rarity show a little respect, he is going to help us around." Applejack said to Rarity. Rarity looks down at Stuffwell, still open. "Oh right, sorry about that Stuffwell." Rarity apologized to Stuffwell. "None taken Rarity." Stuffwell said, before closing, and standing up again. "BACK TO ADVENTURE!" Stuffwell shouted out, he then shrunk, while jumping to Applejack's backpack. "Well girls, now that we have the assistants. Don't you think that we should go back, and see our friends? I'm sure they're really worried about us." Rarity said to Applejack. "Ah don't know ya'll." The cowgirl answered much to Rarity's dismay. "Yeah, Princess Celestia is out here in the past somewhere. Somepony must find her!" Rainbow Dash said. "If Twilight was here, she would obviously want us to find her." But right before, they could make a decision, they heard a little earthquake from the time hole, they saw the time hole slowly disappear from the ground. All three of them especially Rarity was really shocked. "That ain't good." Applejack said. "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rarity yelled. She ran to the exact point the time hole was, and tried to dig the time hole out again, much to Applejack and Rainbow Dash's surprise, since Rarity, isn't the type, to get her hooves dirty. "You can't leave us here." Rarity said while still digging. "Now how will we get back home?" Rainbow Dash asked. "We're stuck in the past FOREVER!" "Now don't worry ya'll, ah'm sure we'll find another time hole and get back." Applejack tells them. "OH THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING!" Rarity yelled, still crying. Later, Rarity has finally stopped crying. The trio began their journey in the Winsome Falls. They knew that a village called Rainbow falls was at the top. So they began their journey to the top. At the start, they saw some blocky rocks around the area. They eventually heard a voice. "Applejack!" The voice yelled. The three of them were confused at first. But then they saw their backpack shake a bit, and then Stuffwell jumped out. "If it's not inconvenient, I'd like to proceed with some basic instructional." Stuffwell said. As you know, the primary action for mobile creatures is the jump, if you follow." Stuffwell said. Rarity was a little confused. "Uuhh... what exactly do you mean by jumping Stuffwell darling?" Rarity asked Stuffwell. "I think he means is that we need to somehow jump on these rocks to continue." Applejack told Rarity. Rarity understood it better, but she was not much of a jumper. Stuffwell continued. "If your timing is serviceable, the three of you should be able to jump these ledges." Stuffwell said. The three ponies looked at each other, Applejack was in the front, Rainbow Dash was in the middle, while Rarity was at the back. They walked over to the nearest rock, first Applejack jumped up to the top of it, and then Rarity, they were surprised that they could actually jump so high. "They continued jumping on all the blocks. Until they reached some rocks, with a little distance between them. "Ladies, do you see the gaps in your path?" Stuffwell asked them. "Yes we do." They all said. "It would be a good idea if you all jumped together." Stuffwell told them. They jumped over the first gap, then the second, and then the third. "I think that's enough instructional for now." Stuffwell said, he then jumped back into Applejack's backpack. The trio then found five blocks with their cutie marks on it. Two of them were Applejack's and Rainbow Dash's, and one of them had Rarity's cutie mark. They hit the blocks with their cutie marks and receive a few coins. What happened next was the moment the last block was hit, a wall slid down revealing a staircase. The trio continued up at some stairs. They reached a cliffside, it was beautiful, very beautiful, with lots of grass and flowers. But then, they heard a noise. "What the hay was that?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Ah have no idea, let's look around." Applejack said, they then ran a little closer to the middle of the cliffside. They looked around, they couldn't see where the noise came from anywhere, but then, they heard something from above them, particularly Rainbow Dash. Then a grey mare with derby eyes fell right over Rainbow Dash's head. "Rainbow Dash!" Rarity shouted. She looks at her and was feeling dizzy. Applejack and Rarity then heard a voice from the grey pony. "The... village..." It said, but Applejack and Rarity barely heard her. What got their attention more was, what was above them, many round shadow dots flew past them. They flew over to the top of the mountain. Rarity was very afraid. Rainbow Dash recovers from her dizziness and looked over to the grey mare. "Are you alright?" Rainbow Dash asked the barely conscious mare. "The village... Dank purple... mushrooms..." Was all Rainbow Dash heard from the mare. "Dank purple mushrooms? What the hay does she mean by that?" Rainbow Dash thought to herself, but she decided to find out later. Applejack walked over to Rarity, who was cowering in fear. "Rarity! Let's get going." Applejack yelled to her, but she was still cowering in fear. Rainbow Dash and Applejack ran to the other side of the cliffside. Rarity finally stopped cowering herself. She looked back, and then saw something, she jumped of both fear, and surprise. "HEY! WAIT FOR ME!" Rarity yelled, while running the same way her friends ran. Three ufos came to the place the grey mare landed. One of them then sucked the mare away inside of it, with a light green light. They eventually flew away. The trio reached some mushroom like pillars, with stairs on them, then they looked at each other. "What the hay were those things?" Rainbow Dash asked Applejack. "No idea, but maybe it might be connected to that green monster that Twilight, you, and I fought." Applejack told her. Through the connection between the ufo's and the green monster was still a real mystery, they decided to let it go for now and continue. After walking a few stairs, they saw some rabbit like creatures, they were however a bit different, their fur was purple, they had white spots on their heads, and had red evil looking eyes. They were all confused, and a little afraid of the weird looking rabbits. They heard a familiar voice again. "Applejack!" The voice yelled, it was once again Stuffwell. He jumped out of the backpack. "I understand your urgency, but who knows the dangers ahead?" The three of them looked at him. He did have a point, they should be prepared for upcoming fights. "It would be prudent to get you battle-ready before moving on!" Stuffwell said. "I don't know, i'm an elegant mare with manners you know." Rarity said, almost declining to participate in a battle. "A lady shouldn't really fight." Rarity said with her usual posh attitude. But then one of the weird rabbit like creatures arrived. "Well, look at this! The perfect practice for you." Stuffwell said. He then looked over at Applejack."Applejack! Jump on that rabbit thing!" Stuffwell said to the earth pony. Applejack however skeptical to Stuffwell's idea. "What? We can't hurt other animals. Even Fluttershy wouldn't do something like that." Applejack protested to Stuffwell. Rarity nods in agreement, since none of them would intentionally hurt innocent animals. But then the rabbit creature walked closer to them. "Well I guess we don't have a choice." Rainbow Dash said. She then jumped on the rabbit creature. The creature got damaged, that also alerted some other rabbit creatures. [Enemy battle] Rainbow Dash made the first move and jumps on one them. Applejack follows her move and jumps on the same one. It disappears in a small explosion. The remaining rabbit creature showed it's left foot, then spins over to Rarity, but Rarity managed to jump to dodge in time. "Not bad Rarity, you are really good, for somepony who makes lots of dresses." Rainbow Dash commented. "Well I usually don't fight, but i can make an exception if it's self defense." Rarity said. Applejack jumps again on the creature, and Rainbow Dash does the same thing which causes the creature to disappear in a small explosion too. [Enemy battle over] After defeating the rabbit creatures. They continued their journey up. They continued up in the stairs, but then halfway up, Rarity heard something and stopped. Applejack stopped and turned back and noticed Rarity. "Somethin' wrong Rarity?" Applejack asked her. "I don't know darling, I think I can hear something from the sk..." Rarity said, before she got her head bashed, by the same rabbit creature which fell down at Rarity's head. "You okay Rarity?" Rainbow Dash asked her, she ran over to see Rarity, she was really dizzy. Stuffwell then jumped out. "Are you operational, Rarity? Do you need service?" Stuffwell asked. But Rarity was too dizzy to answer. "It appears you've taken some damage." Stuffwell said. "Ya think?" Applejack said a little annoyed at Stuffwell. "What fortulent timing! I have something to help her." Stuffwell said, making the other two sigh in relief. They all looked at Rarity, who was still dizzy. "Ah... I know you're groggy, but try to focus Rarity." Stuffwell said, before opening himself. "It's a good thing, that the professor gave me three cupcakes, give one to Rarity, and she will be fine in no time." Stuffwell instructed Applejack. She found a cupcake in Stuffwell, and gave it to Rarity, even through she was dizzy, she could still eat it. Rarity then recovered from the dizziness. Stuffwell closed himself. "BACK TO ADVENTURE!" He yelled, with his usual catchphrase. They all looked at Rarity for a moment, and then she jumped up, fully healthy, and fully recovered. "My, I feel like I've been restored quicker than the hospital!" Rarity said. "That's good Rarity, now let's continue. The village, Rainbow Falls, is close." Rainbow Dash said to Rarity. They then continued up, they eventually fought some more rabbit creatures, and won. Then, they were finally at the top. They then continued to Rainbow Falls which was up ahead. They finally arrived at Rainbow Falls. But when they arrived, they witnessed a huge shock, Rainbow Falls is being attacked. Many damaged houses, only a few ponies left, the ufos were attacking with their laser guns. They also sucked away the villagers, one by one. When they have thought that they've captured all of the villagers, the ufos flew away. The three of them stood there with shocked expressions. "Oh, how could those ruffians do something so horrid?" Rarity said, angrily. Even Rainbow Dash and Applejack were angry, because of the destruction the ufos have caused, destroying or capturing innocent ponies. "When I find who's responsible for this, I'm gonna give them a piece of my mind." Rainbow Dash angrily said. "Hold on there Rainbow, let's see if they're any villagers left, perhaps we can get some more answers." Applejack said to Rainbow Dash. They began to look around at the remains of Rainbow Falls. There were craters almost everywhere. The houses were almost completely broken, and the beautiful trees around, was burned to crisp. The three of them searched the houses, but there wasn't a single pony in any of them. They then saw the final house, it was the biggest house with a sign beside the door. "The mayor's home." It stood. They looked at each other. "Let's go inside and see if the mayor's house has anything useful." Rainbow Dash suggested before they all walked inside the house. When they were inside the house, they heard a very small voice, which was very similar Fluttershy's whispering. "Mrrrrrrf... Mmmph..." The small voice said. That got their attention. "What was that? Was it a ghost?" Rarity asks. Applejack gave her a weird look. "No Rarity, there are no ghosts here. We need to find where that voice came from." Applejack replied. "Right!" Was all Rarity said. They began looking around the mayor's house. They found nothing but christmas trees, unopened presents, and a desk, with papers all over it. They then saw the fire place. They saw something coming out of it. Two pony legs, and a tail. "Is... anypony there? Hello?" The voice said, it sounded like a stallion. Applejack walked up to the fire place, where the stallion were hiding."Excuse me, but we mean no harm. Are you alright? Why are you hiding?" Applejack asked, with many questions in her head. "What happened to those awful Shroob things? Are they gone?" The mayor asked, what got the mares in shock was when the stallion said, the Shroobs. What are those things? Are they the ufos? They had many thoughts in their minds. They looked over at the stallion. "Yeah they're gone." Rainbow Dash replied. "By the way, who are you?" "Me? I'm the mayor of this village. Nice to not see you!" The stallion said. "I see." Rarity said. "Oh, and may i ask, why are you in the fire place?" Rarity asked the mayor. "I was trying to hide from those Shroob things and got stuck..." He said, while stuck in the fire place. "There must be a way out... that doesn't involve dieting." The mayor said, clearly not the one, who wanted to go on a diet. The three mares looked at each other, and got an idea. "Hold on there mr. mayor, we're gonna get you out of there." Applejack said. "Rarity, use your magic to push him out." Rarity nodded as she used her magic to give the mayor a mighty push. The mayor flew out of the chimney, and landing on the ground. Revealing himself to be a red stallion, with a white mane. "Ho ho! Safe at last!" The mayor said. Or so he thought, he then saw three purple mushroom like aliens, with white spots on their heads, white claws, and red eyes. He tried to walk back, but he got surrounded, when three ufo's returned. He looked around, there was no way to escape. "You think he's still stuck in the chimney?" Rainbow Dash asks her friends. "No idea." Applejack shrugged. "By then he should've yelled-" She was cut off by a loud yell from the outside. "HEEEEEELP!" The voice yelled out. The three mares was surprised, and then looked back at the front door. "Well ah was gonna say: could use a hoof here. But apparently, the mayor needs help with something!" Applejack said. The three mares ran outside the house. When they got outside, they saw the mayor, extremely afraid. He was stunned out of fear, but what surprised them more, was the purple mushroom looking creatures. "Are those shroobs?" The trio thought to themselves. Then one of the ufos took the mayor with their light green light, much to their shock. The ufo's then flew away again. The trio tried to run after them, but it was no use, they were already gone. "Get back here you ruffians!" Rarity yelled to the ufos. "Ya'll just can't go around and kidnap innocent ponies like that." Applejack yelled at them. Then they all turned around, they saw the three Shroobs were still looking at them. They talked with each other, with a language they couldn't understand. "What are they saying?" Rarity whispered to her friend. "How should I know?" Rainbow Dash responded. The aliens looked at each other, while speaking their unknown language. They then looked back at the trio. They all took a fighting stance. "Guess we're gonna have to teach these varmints a lesson." Applejack said. "Right behind you." Rainbow Dash agreed taking a fighting stance. "Here here." Rarity also agreed, then the trio began charging at them. [Boss Battle: 3 shroobs] All of them looked ready to fight, but then, one of the Shroobs took out some sort of Nintendo DS phone like thing. It talked to the phone. Without the three ponies noticing, a ufo appeared above them with a countdown on it that says says 3. "Any idea who it was calling?" Applejack asked. "Beats me." Rainbow Dash shrugged. Applejack attacked first by jumping on the closest shroob. Rainbow Dash did the same thing and so did Rarity. The countdown now says 2. One of the Shroobs now attacked, it spins around, and shooted a laser blast at Rarity, which she dodged. The next one showed it's claw, and then shot a laser blast at Rainbow Dash which she also managed to dodge. The third one spun around, and a laser blast was shot out towards Applejack, and she was able to dodge that too. Applejack jumps again on the same shroob, and it took some damage. Rainbow Dash repeated what she did and did the same. Rarity shoots some magic blasts at the same one and it disappears in a small explosion. Now the countdown is at 1. The Shroobs then repeated the same pattern from before, spinning around, to shoot at Rarity, or show it's claw, and shoot at Applejack or Rainbow Dash. They managed to dodge all the attacks. "Okay girls, just a few more hits on these ruffians, and i think they got what they deserved!" Rarity said, but Applejack was feeling skeptical. She felt something odd going on in this battle. "Anypony get the feeling that this is too easy?" Applejack asks her friends. "Yeah, we only have two more to defeat." Rainbow Dash answered. "What could happen?" Once again, the trio repeated their pattern again on the same shroob until the countdown reached 0. The ufo then brought out a huge laser cannon. Shooting a large and powerful blast right down at the three ponies. "OH RIGHT, THAT!" Rainbow Dash yelled noticing the blast. "COME ON YA'LL, WE NEED TO GET-" Applejack yelled, but she was cut off when the blast hit all three of them, dealing them damage so huge, that they all fell down to the ground, unconscious. The Shroobs then raised their hands, and cheered in victory. [Boss Battle over?] The shroobs look over at the unconscious Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity, then they jumped up and cheered in victory. To be continued...