My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic Season XI

by DakariKingMykan


Episode 17: Dream Hunk of Trouble

EPISODE SEVENTEEN

One morning, Applebloom was just entering New Ponyville, on her way to school.

Suddenly, she turned round the corner, and bumped into someone, knocking her down to the ground. “Oof!” she groaned “Hey, what gives!”

“Oh, I’m very, very sorry about that.” said a male voice.

Applebloom looked up at what had to be the handsomest young pony she had ever seen.

He was a humanoid Space Alicorn, with a white coat, and a golden blonde mane. Since he was a Space Pony, he had no Cutie mark, but his smile and his shimmering blue eyes made Applebloom’s eyes fill with hearts.

She giggled giddily and squeak, “…T’weren’t nothin’.”

This handsome, kindly-looking boy seemed around her age, and he offered to help her up and got her books for her. “My name’s Charm Light. What’s yours?”

Poor Applebloom was so lost and enamoured, she could barely answer, “Um… Appa-- Appa…”

“Appa?” asked Charm “That’s a cute name.”

She quickly got hold of herself, “Applebloom! Yeah… my name’s Applebloom.”

They both became lost in each other’s eyes, and stood frozen like in a trance, until they both heard the warning bell from the school ring from up ahead.

“Oh, no…! I’ll never make it in time.” cried Applebloom.

Charm, without warning, grabbed her hand, much to her quick delight, but then to her horror as he took off into the sky, lifting her up with him, and they arrived on the school grounds in seconds.

“Whoa!” groaned Applebloom. She didn’t know if she meant that more over the sudden shock, or the fact that this cute guy had just helped her.

“You go here, to this school?” she asked.

Charm nodded, “I just transferred a few days ago. I don’t really know too many here. I’m not really much of a one for grades. I have trouble with subjects, as well as fitting in.”

Applebloom saw this right away a good job as a Cutiemark Crusader.

“I could help you…” then she paused “Oh, um… I mean… if you’d like, I could help you.” she tried her hardest not to blush, or make it look like she was falling hard for him.

“Um… great.” replied Charm. “I can meet you after school, at say…New Sugar Cube Corners. We could get a milkshake too.”

Applebloom’s heart began to race. She did not just get asked out for a date, and by someone whom she had just met.

Deep down she knew better than to just jump the gun, but this guy seemed so cute, and he helped her, and he did look like he needed help.

“…Sure, I’d love to.”

The two ponies blushed at each other, and sealed the deal. “I guess I’ll see you.” said Charm, and he left leaving Applebloom about to fall into another daze.

“I’ve got a date after school!” she said excitedly to herself.

She nearly had missed the second bell, and had to run her way to her homeroom, but she could hardly wait to tell her friends about this.

What she didn’t see was that Charm was standing casually by some lockers, and he got out a small paper, which was a list he had made, with a few names written on it, and he just added Applebloom’s name to it.


All Applebloom could think of that day was her date. She almost even forgot to pay attention in class, or work on her assignments.

Finally, at lunch, she sat with Sweetie Belle, and told her all about it.

Sweetie looked excited, “No way! You actually have a date? I’ve got a date too.”

Applebloom couldn’t believe her ears!


Meanwhile, Zadovia had called her staff to her office, and showed them images of Ponyville High.

“This is our next target, a high-school?” asked Magi.

Mash seemed a mix of impressed, but non-impressed too. “Our school is way better than this dump.”

Zadovia cleared her throat angrily, “This was given to me by Lady Phantasma, whom I should point out, is growing ever more weary and irritable with your constant blunders, which is why she feels this will make an ideal target.”

“Hmm, I see…” remarked Emcee. “…A school full of odd-ball teenagers and adults, with loads of strange, yet astounding dreams. So much energy to be obtained, and while odds are still scientifically low, there’s still a remote chance of finding Arien’s sword.”

Zadovia gave her a look and said, “Glad to hear of your volunteering of this, Emcee.”

Emcee was at first shocked, but she accepted the mission.

“You sure you can handle this?” asked Mash.

Emcee snuffed, “It’s a school. How hard can it be? I have just the backup in mind for this one too.”

She turned and headed off to prepare for her mission.

“Hey, wait…!” called Magi as she and Mash headed after her.


Sweetie explained how one morning she was racing to school, having over-slept her alarm clock, she accidently ran into someone; a cool space pony, with a green coat, a brown mane.

“I can help you get to school quick. I’m going there now.”

Sweetie was lost in his big brown, shimmering eyes, and felt her temperature rising.

“He said his name was High Heart. He got me here on time, and then he just asked me to a movie, just like that. He seemed okay, so I said “yes!”

She and Applebloom both felt so giddy and excited.

“Hey, where’s Scootaloo?” wondered Applebloom. “We’ve got to tell her this.”

Just then…!

…Bonk!

A soccer ball hit the wall near the window where they were sitting inside. It made the two girls jump, but then they saw Scootaloo rush up to it, and while the girls did wave to her, up came another handsome-looking space pony, with a red coat, and a black mane, and she passed the ball to him.

He seemed quite a hotshot, and Scootaloo seemed more than just playing a soccer game. She seemed more like she was floating on air.

The girls got the message right away, and both said at the same time, “She’s met someone too.”

“Golly! Time sure is flying by fast.” said Applebloom.

Sweetie Belle agreed. “Seems like only yesterday, we were just little fillies…”

Soon, the warning bell rang that Lunch Hour was about to end, but the girls dashed to the front door to catch Scootaloo and hear about the whole thing.

“His name is Speed Burst.” she explained “I was practicing my kicks, when I miskicked and nearly lost the ball over the fence when he just showed up and caught it for me.

It was, like, love at first score, and we’re going stay after school, and he’s going to show me some of his moves.”

“EEEE!!” the others squealed.

“We all got dates after school!” cried Applebloom.

Scootaloo was surprised to hear this as well, and while she wanted to hear about the other two guys, the girls had to hop to it to class.

“We can talk about this tomorrow.” suggested Sweetie. The others agreed, and quickly headed for class because they still had to write quick letters to their respective homes saying they’d be late coming home from school, as they always did.


Overhead, DD and Buddy were training up in the sky above the school. They were practicing aerial combat skills, as well as concealing.

DD was hiding behind clouds while Buddy sought her out, without using his visor and scanning. “I’m going to find you, DD!” he called.

DD did her best to keep still and silent as she could be.

She could see the high school down below her and could see all the students heading back inside… all except for one space pony.

Even from way up high, she could still see him magically changing his color tone, to a pale grey, with a dark mane.

“Wait a second…” DD whispered to herself. “…I think I know him from somewhere.”

Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted when a small magical zap struck her. “Argh…!”

“Got’cha!” Buddy shouted “You let your guard down. Stay sharp!”

DD growled, but continued her training.



Meanwhile, The Apples had already received Applebloom’s letter.

“Aw, ain’t that sweet.” cooed Pear Butter.

Applejack couldn’t believe herself. “Applebloom’s actually got a date? This is, like… it’s just…” she couldn’t find the words of how excited and happy she was.

Bright Mac sighed, “Seems like only yesteryear she was wearing diapers.”

“Eeyup.” agreed Big Mac. “But it’s not like we all couldn’t see this coming. I remember being “Mr. Popular” in my school days. The mares were all over me.”

Applejack chuckled, “Yeah, and yet you couldn’t pick just one of them, so you didn’t bother.”

Her brother groaned in embarrassment.

Pear then looked worried. “She’s actually going on a date?! Her first date…?! What if she doesn’t know what to do, or how to handle herself, or what if she--!”

She was cut off by her husband, “Easy, honey. We already know Applebloom can take care of herself, and it’s just a little study date. It ain’t like anything funny’s going to happen.”

Applejack wasn’t too convinced herself, “I hope you’re right, Pa.”



That afternoon after school, Scootaloo was out on the soccer field, which was empty as all the students had gone home.

Suddenly, a Soccer-ball bounced right before her, and there was Speed Burst. “Ready for me to show you some moves?”

Scootaloo blushed and sighed, but then she looked really ready to get her game on.

Then, an hour later, Charm and Applebloom met up at New Sugar Cube Corners.

They went over textbooks as promised, and Applebloom found it hard to concentrate.

“Now, um…” Applebloom said trying to embarrass herself “If you’re still having trouble fitting in, I’m sure my friends, and I could help you work on that together.”

Charm smiled, “I’m sure that would be nice, but I think it’d be easier if we just took it easy at the start. I mean, starting out with you is pretty nice, and we can work our way up as we go along…”

Applebloom wasn’t too sure about this. She felt it would be nicer to have her friends join her and help her with this client of the CMCs services, but then again: she did rather enjoy these moments she had alone with him, and Charm did have a point about jumping into making so many friends too quickly.

“So, is that a deal… we just take it slow?” asked Charm. His eyes shimmered brightly, making Applebloom’s pulse race.

“…Uh-huh!” she said in a rather goofy tone.

They clinked their milkshake glasses together, and the scene changed to a little later, with Sweetie Belle and High Heart, clinking their soda drinks as they sat together in the movie theater, sitting side-by-side as the feature began.

When the movie ended, and everyone cleared out, Sweetie and High left the theater together.

“Thanks so much, I had real good time.” Sweetie said.

“Me too.” replied High, and then he looked kind of bashful.

“What’s the matter?” asked Sweetie.

“Well…” High said “…It’s just, I don’t know too many other ponies, and I really did enjoy myself tonight.

Do you think maybe we could… you know… hang some time?”

Sweetie felt her cheeks turn bright red.

High Heart then offered to walk her home, but Sweetie insisted she would be just fine. So they bid each other goodnight, and they both headed off, while Sweetie twirled and sighed with joy.

“Wow! I can’t believe I just did all that.” she said to herself. “I can’t wait to tell the others about this.”


That night, at New Sweet Apple Acres, while Applebloom was telling DD on the fence about her date with Charm…

“And then… I don’t know what came over me, but I’ve never felt like this before.”

DD chuckled, “Sometimes I wish I could go to school with you and the others… just like old times.”

Suddenly, she remembered something from earlier, “Um… you said Sweetie and Scootaloo had dates too?”

Applebloom nodded, “I didn’t see Sweetie’s date, but we both saw Scootaloo’s at lunch.”

She went into details about Speed Burst. She didn’t know much about him, but she explained his colors; “He’s a space pony with a red coat, and a black mane.”

DD’s insides suddenly turned cold; she remembered that pony she saw transform into someone she thought she remembered.

She was suddenly snapped out of her trance when she heard Buddy call to her for dinner, and Applejack called her sister for dinner as well.

The girls bid each other goodnight, and Applebloom was first to head off, but as she headed off, a single thread of dark hair that was stuck to her fell off, and into DD’s hand.

“Huh?”


Much later, rather than being in bed, DD was analyzing the hair under a special Starfleet microscope with a built in computer analyzer Buddy had given to her as a birthday gift, and to help further her training as a future Starfleet officer.

Analysis of the hair and who it belonged to made her gasp softly. “…I knew it!” she whispered.

“Applebloom had this hair on her, but she said Charm had blonde mane. Then she told me that Scootaloo was with some guy in the yard.”

She didn’t have to go on, she knew what had to be happening, and she didn’t even try to guess about Sweetie Belle either.

The next morning, Buddy was about to get DD up for her dawn training, when he noticed a note pined onto the door.

“Bud… I’m sorry to skip training this morning, but I have a real emergency-- nothing dangerous or super serious like that, but I’m afraid my friends may be in a little bit of trouble, and I’d like to handle it myself.

--DD.”

After reading the note, he let himself into his cousin’s room to find she was indeed gone, and judging from the equipment on her desk and the pictures and things, Buddy believed in DD and felt he could let her handle this, just once… as a little bonus test.


First DD had caught Applebloom doing her morning chores, when she confronted her by showing her a copy of a picture of whom looked exactly like a younger version of Charm Light.

“His name is Huey. I knew him from my grade-school days on Unicornicopia.”

Applebloom was confused and asked, “Why are you telling me all this?”

DD explained. “Charm Light, Speed Burst, and High Heart are all this one guy.”

“Huh?” Applebloom said in total disbelief. “I don’t believe that.”

“I’m serious.” said DD “Huey was very notorious in my school. All he cared about was impressing girls, like he had something to prove. He found a way to change his colors to pretend he was some other guy, and then use his charm to sweep a girl off their feet.

He even tried it on me, but I caught on and had him expelled for harassing students.”

Normally, Applebloom would take a chance to consider what a friend was trying to tell her, but today she completely denied it. “I don’t think Charm would do that to me. He really didn’t seem to know his math too well, or his science the other day.”

“That was all part of his act.” exclaimed DD. “You’ve got to believe me.”

Applebloom was about to protest when Applejack called to her, “Hey, Applebloom… shake a leg. We got them cows to milk, and you got to get to school soon.”

“Comin’ sis.” called Applebloom. “Sorry, D… I got to go.”

DD was most annoyed, but realizing that time was wasting, she flew towards town.

It was in vain that she told the same story to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle either. They didn’t believe her, having been overly-charmed by their own dates.

“I don’t believe you.” they would say, and they would brush DD off, leaving her more frustrated than ever.

She still wouldn’t give up.


Later on, as it got much brighter in the mid-morning, the three Crusaders all met up and walked to school together, when DD landed right before them.

“Girls, we have to talk!”

The others sighed.

“DD, no more of this, okay?” insisted Sweetie.

Scootaloo agreed and pointed out, “You shouldn’t even be here anyway. You’re not a student at this school.”

DD wouldn’t let them go so easily. “You’ve got to listen to me; you’re all being played like cards. I can prove it!”

She was about to show the evidence, when the school bell rang.

“Whoops... saved by the bell.” joked Sweetie.

She and the girls began to walk past her, but DD still refused to give up, and zipped right in front of them.

“You have to listen to me!”

“We’re going to be late for class!” shouted Applebloom.

“Get out of the way, DD!” demanded Scootaloo.

DD gave her friends a very serious glare. “I’m just trying to help you.”

The girls just ignored her and walked up into the school where she couldn’t follow them, but she did have an idea.

She reached into her pocket where she had four folded squares of paper. Then she used her magic to levitate the pieces of paper she wanted to show her friends, sending them into Applebloom’s backpack.

Then she turned on her heal stomping off in a huff, grumbling under her breath, “So much for friends forever. I’m just trying to spare them from total embarrassment.”

The other girls entered the school. All three of them were rather aggravated with DD.

“She’s just jealous.” Sweetie suggested. “It’s not like some handsome guy ever asked her out.”

Her friends agreed, but then all three girls stopped in their tracks at what they saw up ahead.

Ruby Ring, their school enemy, was standing at her locker and fliting with a cute space pony. He had a brown coat, and long black hair.

The Crusaders couldn’t help but notice…

“He looks just like--” was all they all said at the same time. The guy had a strong resemblance to each of their respective dates.

The girls gawked back and forth at one another still unable to shake off a sick feeling…

…When suddenly, the school began to darken!

“DREAM FIELD!!” one of the students panicked, causing screams of fear to erupt all over the school, but it was too late! The field had already formed all around the entire building.

Only a handful of students were still outside of it, having arrived to school late, and they, too, began to panic at the danger.

“Call Starfleet…!” someone shouted, and the alarms were sounded.

DD had already seen the field form around the school, and she was very worried for everyone inside, as well as her friends.

“DD!” called a familiar voice, and buddy came soaring in from the skies.

“Bud!” cried DD. “My friends, the students!”

“Take it easy.” said Buddy “Remember, you’re training for this. You help the sentries get everyone out here to safety. I’ll head in.”

DD saluted, “Yes, Sir.” and off she went.

Thanks to the special cadet badge she wore, the sentries knew to let her help out in whatever way she could.

With that done, Buddy transformed…

“Starfleet Magic!”

Then he dashed inside Dream Field, but DD still couldn’t help but worry for all the students and her friends still trapped inside.


All the panic-ridden students and staff were foolishly running up and down the halls screaming and wailing because there was no way to get out from this place.

The Crusaders, while scared, tried to convince everyone to stop running about, but it was no use, especially when Emcee appeared in the main lobby, laughing wickedly.

“Nice school you have here…” she mocked. “…For a bunch of worthless dolts.”

The Crusaders backed away from her, and out of the corner of her eye, Sweetie Belle saw Ruby’s new hunk, trembling in such fear that his colors magically changed-- to a pale grey, with a dark mane.

Before she could even say anything…


Emcee snapped her fingers summoning Dream Siphons all over.

“Look out!!” shouted Scootaloo. She and her friends leapt out of the way, but other students had already been struck and were having their dreams read and the energy absorbed.

“Hey, you let them go right now!” shouted Applebloom, but she suddenly cowered when Emcee gave her a fierce glare, and growled, “…Maybe I should I teach you a few school lessons myself?”

She looked ready to strike, when Buddy, already in Dream Mode, suddenly came leaping in and over the girls.

“RAZOR LEAFS!” He unleashed his leaves, severing many of the siphons.

He then snarled at Emcee, “School’s out for you!”

“Ha!” scoffed Emcee “According to my calculations, class is only just in session.”

She was right! The school with its many floors and hallways there was plenty of students and staff being siphoned.

Sadly, not one of them seemed to have the golden sword within their dreams, but Emcee wasn’t too discouraged.

She eyed at Buddy and the girls. “With all this power I’ve gathered, you’re all in for the nightmares of your lives!”

She pulled out a flask of flaring red liquid, and slammed them onto the floor.

POW! There was a small explosion, and suddenly a snarling monster had appeared.

“Behold…” Emcee hissed “…The Red Plasmus!”

This monster had a dripping, goopy substance with a nasty, snarling face.

Buddy gagged, and The Crusaders thought it looked just as sickening.

“You’re overgrown slime-ball doesn’t scare me!” snapped Buddy.

Emcee snickered, and right there and then, the monster divided into two, and then four, and then eight!

“Uh, oh…!” Buddy groaned.

Emcee snickered, “Looks like you need brush up on your figures. This monster is made with one of my best formulas that give it a gooey substance.”

She snapped her fingers, and several of the monsters leapt up into the ceiling, actually squeezing, and slinking through the tiles and emerging in upper floors to terrorize more students and staff members.

“No!” shouted Buddy. He couldn’t handle all the monsters himself, but help had just arrived on the scene as Lightning and Applejack dashed into the school-- both transformed, and in Dream Mode.

Krysta was with them.

“Buddy!” called Lightning.

Emcee was most annoyed.

“Quick! Get to the upper floors!” he called to them.

Applejack and Krysta agreed, and dashed out ahead.

Lightning called to the civilians, “Everyone, outside! Now, move it!”

Everyone began to dash for the doors, and some on the ground floor leapt out through the windows and out onto the school grounds.

On the upper floors, some of the pegasi and unicorns levitated or flew out through other windows, while others began to take refuge on the school’s massive roof…

...A big mistake as two of the plasma monsters emerged up onto the place, in front of the doors, and stairs, forcing the people to being to back away.

“We’re trapped!”

“What can we do?!”

The snarling, gloopy monsters began slowly began to slink towards the helpless civilians, when suddenly Applejack leapt up onto the roof.

“Everyone, stay back!” she ordered, and then turned to face the ugly globs.

She already had her suspicions about these monsters, even without scanning them with her visor. Instead of attacking them directly herself, she picked up a small rock on the ground, and with her super strength she pitched it at one of the monsters…

The rock passed right through the monster’s goopy body, making a small hole, which instantly healed, and the monster wasn’t the least bit harmed.

“I knew it!” growled Applejack.

Krysta, who was two floors below, had two monsters cornered, and she tried her own experiment-- zapping them with magical blasts from her wand, only for the monsters to rejuvenate again.

“Rats!” she growled. “This isn’t going to be easy.”

She looked behind her at all the civilians peeking through the classroom doors. She knew she couldn’t let the monsters get at them.


Emcee laughed wickedly…

Lightning and Buddy hadn’t tried to attack yet, and they didn’t have to. They already got the idea.

“You see?” sneered Emcee “Even if you attack my plasma monsters, they’ll simply reform. That’s the wonders of being made entirely of plasma.”

Lightning only snuffed, much to Emcee’s annoyance.

“What was that?” she growled.

“We’ve faced creatures like these before.” Lightning called to her, “It’s simply a matter of knowing their weakness.”

Buddy nodded in agreement. “Every creature has a weakness, and we’ll find theirs.”

Emcee growled angrily, but then she smirked, “Can you do it quickly enough?” she asked while holding up a flash of green liquid.

“What’s that?” asked Lightning.

Emcee smirked and tossed the flash at the floor, and then she, herself, quickly donned a mask over her lower face.

The flash shattered on the floor, causing a huge gas cloud to start puffing and spread.

“…It’s poison!!” cried Buddy.

Emcee laughed, “You may be able to protect yourselves with your Dream Powers, but the same can’t be said for all the poor folks here in the building.” She paused and laughed. “Soon this gas cloud will spread all over, and I doubt even you fools will be able to get all the civilians within your protection in time.

…The odds are simply not in your favor!”

Buddy and Lightning gawked at each other. There was no way they, or the others could get the rest of the civilians to safety, and they couldn’t just blow the gas outside either, that would hurt all the people out on the grounds.

Their only chance was to vanquish the monsters and dispel the Dream Field.

“Let’s get em’ both!” shouted Lightning.

“Come and get some!” bellowed Emcee.

Buddy growled as he charged for the two monsters, and Lightning went after Emcee.

Lightning aimed a strong punch, but Emcee blocked it with her coat, and gave a spin kick in retaliation, which he blocked with his leg.

Both of them began to attack each other fiercely.

Buddy faced the four monsters. That were slinking their way towards him.

“Just attacking or blasting them won’t work.” he said to himself. “…But if I remember about Plasma, they can’t reform if they revert to a solid.”

Luckily, for him, he remembered trick from his days studying basic science, but he had to move fast before that gas spread any further.

Every single student and staff member escaped the ground floor and made it safely outside, including the Crusaders, and the strange pony Sweetie saw, who was now panicking worse than ever, much to Ruby’s embarrassment.

“You’re a fraud, and totally pathetic!” she scoffed at him, and walked off in a huff, completely ignoring the danger that was still about.


…Still… there were many more civilians left in the building, and the gas was starting to seep to the upper floors.


Krysta could start smelling it and she gasped. While she knew her dream magic would keep her safe, the civilians were all starting to cough by the foul stench.

“I’ve got to cast everyone in protective barriers!” she realized, but as she was about to buzz off and do so, one of the plasma monsters began to spit up a barrage of red gunk-balls like a machine gun, forcing her to swerve and dodge.

She didn’t dare use her reflecting portals for fear of accidently hitting the civilians-- whom were already still ducked inside classrooms to avoid the danger as they couldn’t escape through the windows.

Suddenly, the second monster grabbed her in its long, slimy arm, and threw her hard against the wall, where she got slammed by a slime ball; pinning her up hard.

“I can’t move!” she groaned, and this meant big-time disaster as she couldn’t try to put any protective shields for the civilians.


While up on the roof, the other civilians could only watch helplessly as Applejack faced the remaining two monsters herself.

Her regular attacks were not helping much, and it also didn’t help that they civilians were still all behind her.

She looked back at them, and then saw one of them standing near the building’s air condition unit…

…And then she got an idea.

“Listen!” she called to the civilians “Ya’ll get away from that there unit!”

Heeding her orders, the students did as they were told and backed away to the other end of the roof-- as much space as they could possibly get.

Applejack then leapt over in front of the unit herself. She reached behind, and set the dial to “Unbelievably Chilly” which was odd for such a unit to say.

She waited until the monsters got close enough to her.

Then she carefully raised her leg up, and back kicked hard into the unit, breaking it wide open, and she swiftly back flipped up onto the machine, slamming her wrist down hard onto the unit so her dream-band would connect with the machine, causing cold, snowy air, infected with the dream magic, to blast at the monsters, turning them into frozen statues.

“Yee-Haw…! Chill-out, fellas…!”


Two floor down, Krysta, struggled about to try and at least get her wand arm free from the slime as the monsters approached her, to destroy her.

She looked up, and saw an automatic sprinkler in the hallway ceiling, and retaining her knowledge of slimy plasma such as this.

“Come on!” she groaned as she managed to finally free her arm and wand, just as the monsters stood before her, ready to attack.

She fired a blast at the sprinkler, setting it off successfully. The water began to spay down onto the monsters, and their gooey substances began to melt down into puddles of muck that slid along down the floor.

The water also began to loosen the slime holding Krysta to the wall, letting her break free and twirl in triumph, but it was short lived as she saw the gas starting to flow faster through the vents in the walls.

“Whoa!” she quickly worked and cast protective barriers, aided with her dream powers, to keep the people safe.

Down below, Lightning and Emcee were still brawling hard. Lightning didn’t dare try to blast her with unforce, for fear of causing serious damage to the school, and or hurting someone on the upper floors if he misaimed.

“Come on, hold still, will ya!” he balked at her, still trying to land a successful blow, but the slick scientist proved to be quite the evasive one, that is if she didn’t block him with her coat.

Emcee laughed at the ever expanding gas cloud, which was starting to reduce visibility on the ground floor, and then she taunted, “I just love how you idiots think you can actually win this.

Don’t you realize the hopelessness by now?!”

Suddenly, Lightning knew how to shut her up, and he quickly lunged at her, forcing her to block him with her coat again, only then for Lightning to fire a tiny, little spark of uniforce straight at her mask, knocking it off her face!

“My mask!!” she wailed as she saw it get lost in the fog.

Lightning smirked at her, “What’s wrong? Don’t have an antidote for your own poison? And you call yourself a science monster.”

Emcee had no time to growl or snark at him for that remark, as the gas was starting to get to her, and so she teleported off, and was gone.

“So much for her.” scoffed Lightning.

That’s when Buddy came rushing down the hall from one of the school science labs, carrying two flasks of chemicals he had mixed together.

He called to the monsters, “Yo’, Slime-balls… catch!” and he threw the flasks right at them.

As he hoped, two of the monsters stretched their slime and batted the flasks, shattering them and causing the liquid to splash out all over their bodies and on their other two comrades close by. The burning liquid began to solidify the monsters, and spread all over turning them into solids—like stone.

“Good job, Buddy!” cheered Lightning.

Buddy smirked and said, “Shows what a good education can really do, and as a Gardner, I know my science. Those slime-guts couldn’t stand having hot stuff spread all over them without making them crust over.

Now let’s finish them!”

Lightning agreed, especially when he motioned at the monster with the glowing green eyes. “…That one! That’s got to be the original.”

“I got this…” Buddy said, already gripping his Vine Whip tightly, and he powered up his finisher.

“WHIPLASH STRIKE!”

It was a good deal of things…

-The main hall was big and wide
-Buddy’s finisher wasn’t too huge to hit anything else
-The monster exploding did no damage at all.

With the lead monster gone, all seven of the other blobs vanished into darkness. The dream field dispelled and took all the poison gas with it-- not a trace of it was left, and the air was immediately cleared.

Outside, DD could see the field disappearing, and she jumped for joy. “They did it!”

The sentries and other civilians cheered and hollered as the last of the field vanished.

The first thing DD could see through the clearing were here friends, the other Crusaders.

The girls saw her too, and they all ran to each other, crashing into a big hug.

“I’m so glad you girls are safe!” she cried.

“So are we.” agreed Applebloom. “We were almost goners in there.”

“Good thing the officers showed up in time.” said Scootaloo.

Sweetiebelle then noticed the papers sticking out from Applebloom’s backpack. “Hey, what are those?”

As the Crusaders examined the papers, DD remembered something else, and she quickly rushed into the crowd… and she found who she was looking for.

Huey was quietly trying to slink away like the shaken coward he was, when DD stepped out in front of him.

He was most surprised to see her. “Daphne Dill? I uh…”

“Hello, Huey…!” DD said with a very cross expression. “Still up to your old tricks I see.”

Before Huey could say something, the other three Crusaders approached him, with equally angry faces as DD, and each of them held up one of the pictures of what he looked like when he dated each of them.

DD had drawn him on different pages using different colors, and another page was evidence she had obtained by analyzing the thread of hair from his own mane.

Huey knew he was busted, and had to come clean, but not until DD excused herself first and then came back with Principal Miles Stone, feeling he had to hear this too.


Huey explained everything.

“I had a dream once. I dreamed I wanted to be the most popular guy there ever was by dating so many different girls, or at least having them fall for me.

Then people who grow envious of me, and, who knows… Maybe I’d become a popular ladies man.

That’s why I relied on this trick to change my appearance. Then I could fool so many girls, and date them all as I saw fit.”

Now the Crusaders were horribly repulsed for being sucked in by his scam.

“I must say, Huey…” said Miles “This sort of behaviour is not only disturbing, it’s horribly baffling. You could very well have disrupted the entire school spirit with your actions.”

After all these years, Huey still didn’t believe that. “How can dating a few girls be troublesome?” he asked.

“Just look at us!” sneered Scootaloo. Applebloom and Sweetie glared at him too.

“You played us like a bunch of saps.” growled Applebloom. “You took advantage of us because we’ve never had dates before.”

“You also made us feel like we could handle ourselves, seeing as we’ve never been on dates before in our lives.” added Scootaloo.

Sweetie then cast a look at DD, and then scolded Huey. “And worse than that, because of you we almost had a huge argument with our friend.” She paused, and thought deeply about what she wanted to say next, but seeing as the others all agreed with her when they nodded at her for it. “…You made us look like total fools.”

Applebloom and Scootaloo looked ashamed.

“DD was just trying to warn us and help us.” said Scootaloo.

“But we didn’t listen.” added Applebloom “We just assumed she was jealous and a bunch of other crazy things because were having fun with dating.

Friends should always hear what friends have to tell them.”


If that wasn’t a heartfelt apology, then DD didn’t know what was. She felt a small and proud smile coming to her.

Then she stepped forth and confronted Huey herself. “I told you this a long time ago, and I’m telling you it again…

You don’t have to date lots of girls to be popular. There’s tons of ways to do it, and you already do them.”

Huey looked confused. “What do I do that’s so good?”

Scootaloo pointed out, “Those soccer moves you showed me were pretty decent. You could try out for the school team.”

“And you sure picked out a great movie.” added Sweetie. “You could join the school paper and write a cultural section.”

Applebloom then said, “Well, I don’t know exactly what kind of grades you really get, but if you study hard, you could get into great clubs and have loads of respect from peers.

…Much better than just tugging on a girl’s strings and pretending to be someone you aren’t.”

For the first time ever in his life, Huey began to realize maybe he had been such a fool, and while he still had to answer for his bad behavior before…

He stood up and declared, “I’ll try it. I swear: I’ll really try it.”

The girls and the Principal were pleased to hear that, and Huey looked at the girls. “I… I still hope someday, you can all forgive me for putting you through this.”

DD held up her hand, “Just take it one step at a time, and see what happens.”

Huey agreed.

“Well…” said Miles. “I think you all better bet getting home. I’ve canceled school for the rest of the day because of worried parents.”

The girls and Huey beamed at the very idea, to which Miles just chuckled, and then went off to help make a few minor “repairs” to the school.

Huey then headed off himself, while DD faced her friends.

They all looked at her feeling very ashamed for the way they treated her, but she shook her head. “…At least I remember…” she paused “Friends forgive Friends.”

The girls all huddled together in a big hug, much to all the fighters delight as they watched from the school gateway.

“Ain’t that just sweet?” sighed Applejack.

Krysta nodded, and Lightning said to Buddy “…She’ll make a great officer.”

Buddy smiled warmly as he watched the girls. “…I’ll make sure she does.”


(Promo)

In our next episode: Fluttershy is called to help out animals in New Canterlot forest, which leads to a new side mission for her as well. Meanwhile, the School of Nightmares continues to grow in strength as Lady Phantasma makes a grand announcement of their next biggest plot which is nearing its goal.

Will Fluttershy succeed in her mission, and what is the School’s plot?

Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic!”

(Next Episode: “Animal Nut Crackers”)