//------------------------------// // Season 2 Episode 3 // Story: Cyclonestorm // by Sweetlilkitten //------------------------------// The six friends are now in a throne room of a castle. A king, that looks similar to the knightess, have been informed of their arrival. Several guards are aligned aside of the pillars that holds the majesty place, a castle made of candies and stuff, which Twinklesprite surely would love to taste. “Your majesty, your daughter have arrived.” A guard tells. “Hello, you’all. I heard you are talking and magic ponies. Is that true? What are you here for?” The king says. “We are from Equus, more precisely from Equestria.” Aurora says. “We built a dimension portal to travel through the universe. We are here because we seek for friends.” “Friends? You travelled until here. For friends?” The gingerbread king says. Aurora makes a note appears in front of her. “Equestria and Equideer have formed an Alliance with one objective in mind: Find as most friends as possible. Because every time in history of Equestria, when we have more friends, we are safer. That is why, to improve our own well-being, and help who ever is in need, are seeking to make many many friends.” Aurora explains. “That seems great.” The king says. “And you six are...?” “I am Aurora Sunshine, this is my friends Flowercorn, Twinklesprite, Luster Dawn, Strawberry Jam, and Suncream.” Aurora smiles and gesture at each of her friends. “She is the Princess of Creativity, by the way.” Flowercorn smirks. “I guess we could work around for some in-depth collaboration with your alliance.” The king says. “Huh, and to say we almost have been took as prisoners for this place’s donjon. Our relation would have started way less nicer than that I guess.” Suncream smirks. “Interesting.” The king glances at the princess that looks away. “I’m pretty sure to have talked about things like this to somebody already...” The gingerbread seems to try to make herself as quiet as possible for a second. Eris and Ambiset are aside of themselves, in front of Derpy, Starlight, Trixie, Discord. Using their powers, Ambiset creates a body, and Eris drives the soul in it. The mare takes big breaths after her comeback to life and her filly jumps in her hooves. “So. Caution with fire. You’re made of cotton and fabric now.” Ambiset says. “Thank you so much, you’re a hero!” The mare says. Ambiset turns around and smiles to Starlight and Discord. “Alright so I guess we earned our reformation diploma, we don’t have to be watched over to use our powers now right?” Ambiset says, impatient to be free. “Huh, it’s not how it works.” Starlight giggles. “Hmm let’s see.” Discord have a scientific blouse for a second and looks through a notepad. “In fact you two could manage to revive everyone since the day you two messed up with the world. But now there should be the part where you dedicate to everyone, yourself, for the world to recover what it could have been without your intervention.” “Oh come-on, you just made up this! There is no way I’m going to work for these ponies now! I want to be free and respected!!” Ambiset is upset. “It’s okay, we will pass through that together...” Eris place a hoof on his shoulder. “I don’t want to pass through that!” Ambiset says. “I need to do things by myself!” “Alright.” Starlight says. “I guess we could start giving you more liberties with the effort you put into staying nice and lawful.” “Yay!” Eris smiles. Ambiset is happy and can’t stop smiling, still proud to have gone through that kindly. Eris and Scootaloo are equipped with gears and stuff. Aside of them there is a modern or sci-fi scooter, colored with Scoot’s gears. “I wanted to show you.” Scootaloo says. “I can’t fly with my wings. But I can fly with this.” “With this? How it works? It doesn’t even have wings...” Eris is concerned. “Let me show ya!” Scootaloo grab Eris and place her on the seat right next to hers. She place her hooves on the steering and press the throttle, which surprises Eris even tho she is well kept in a belt. The next instant they both rush down the hill in direction of the cliff. “Hey- But- We’re going to fall!!” Eris says, stressed out. “Oh no, we are going to fly!!” She says, confidently. Then they reach the side and it makes like a ramp, which throws them in air. Scootaloo activates the scoot which transforms to a glider: Wings exits under the skirt of the vehicle and the tail extends to make fins. The steering have now pitch and roll controls. A sort of triangle chute glider tissue deploys from the hatchback and the rear wheel that have blades as rims changes angles to act as a propeller. “Woohoo!!!!” Scootaloo shout, happy, she closes her eyes that are now two lines towards the sky. “Wow.” Eris is impressed by the sight. “You like that view huh?” She smirks. “I never flight that high.” Eris admits. “I am impressed, for sure.” “Great. That’s what I aimed for.” Scootaloo smiles. The view is beautiful. Most of Equestria and Equideer is visible at this height, almost over clouds, there is Canterlot in the distance, Ponyville and the Friendship School and the Friendship castle right under them, Vanhoover in the distance, the Crystal Empire, Yakyakistan and Manehattan too. Clouds are fuzzy and blurry as always, mountains looks majestuous and the sun and moon looks great too. The sun is rising up and the moon at the opposite side is settling, while the scene feels warm and calm. Peaceful and colorful. Aurora and her five friends are on top of a hill, right where they got here first. And Twinklesprite grabbed a piece of the tree’s cream to eat it on the way back to Equestria. “We are happy to have met you, Aurora.” The king says. “We are willing to join the Equestrian alliance and follow your heading towards friendship.” “Goodbye, friends!” Aurora smiles. The six friends gather around and they join eachother with a hoof. The purple portal reappears, and they enter it, after a last bye wave. They get transported to Equestria back again and some guards salute them. Starlight comes-by shortly after that. “Hello! How are you? Does your adventure was successful?” Starlight greets them. “I can announce this mission is a doubtless success!” Aurora smiles. “Congratulation!” Starlight says. “What this dimension looks like?” “Very. Very tasty.” Twinklesprite says. “Twinkie.” Strawberry Jam tries to make her behave. But Twinkie drools. “Let’s go see Twilight and the others!” Starlight smiles. Aurora, Esperanza, and Ethan, are in a room. The triplets are playing nearby. The cozy and baby room is warm and smooth. Aurora feels nice, even if she isn’t at home here this place seems pleasant. “Hi!” Aurora says. “Hello, Princess Sunshine.” Esperanza says. “Oh. I’m not used to that yet.” Aurora feels conscious for a second. The turquoise coated and dually color maned princess walks towards the babies. “They are so cute!” Aurora says. “What’s their names?” “Oh well. The cheeky stallion is Pincoat, the pretty pegasi doe is Mathilda, and Mathew is the cute fluffy unicorn over there.” Esperanza smiles. “They are so big already! They grow up so fast.” Aurora says, happy. “It have been quite some time since you last seen them, yes.” Ethan says. “How the travel been?” Esperanza asks. “Pretty common.” Aurora says, looking at the playing foals. Then she turns around and concentrate on the two royal figures again. “How Obsidianna’s going?” “She’s... Quite sick at the moment.” Ethan says. Esperanza looks down at her hooves, sadly. “Her mother have very little chance of survival.” “I’m sorry.” Aurora says. “If I can do anything for you. Let me know. I’d be at your wills.” “Thank you Aurora. You’re an angel.” Esperanza says. “But nothing can save one from cancer.” Aurora have a hoof on her chin. She thinks about a lot of things. “Wait a minute. Very little chance of survival you say... What if it is the solution?” Aurora says. “What do you mean?” Esperanza gets curious, knowing her overflowing creativity. “What if, the thing was, we have to somehow become tiny tiny rescales of ourselves... And had to fight it on our own!” Aurora tells. “If we use magic and your advanced knowledge on war as Equifrancia, we might get rid of the sickness as we would be helping her directly by her side!” “That is a great idea... But how do you change your scale? Obviously an age spell won’t work if it makes you back into a single defenseless cell.” Esperanza says. “Yes. That’s why we might talk about that with discord, he surely could help us with his magic!” Aurora says. “But wait. Imagine if you get hurt. Or worse. If you die eaten by a microbe? That seems like a ridiculous end!” Ethan retorts. “I wouldn’t suggest you to go in your mother’s body. That seems dangerous.” “I won’t force you.” Esperanza says. “Great, I wasn’t willing to go.” Ethan says. “I’m not talking to you!” Esperanza retorts. “I said that to Aurora.” Aurora seems surprised. Ethan is shocked and leave the room, annoyed. “I won’t force you if you don’t wanna go. But I know I’ll do anything to save my mother. You shouldn’t even propose that task to your friend, I wouldn’t want too much harm to happen if something goes wrong.” Esperanza announces. “I have to go with you. I know a lot of things of anatomy and global knowledge. In fact, it could be a thing just between the both of us. We won’t say too much about it, we will just tell Twilight to keep a safety belt in our bag if ever we need help, but she could also easily make up we are on a special trip or mission together for the public. I’d like that, it seems fun.” Aurora proposes. “You’d do it? You’d really like to do it?” Esperanza is amazed. “Yes, of course. Anything for you. I really didn’t got much information yet about why my cutie-mark seems to be an Equifrancian-history-themed book, I’d like to talk more with her.” Aurora says. Rarity opens the door of her boutique. The carousel of Ponyville looks peaceful and in order, almost cozy even. Rarity have her usual hairstyle, with a gray line throughout her hair, while a light robe or nightdress covers most of her coat. “Oh, hello my lovely.” Rarity welcomes her guest. On the other side of the door, Eris stands there. “Thank you Rarity. Your help will be divine.” Eris sighs. Entering the carousel, Eris feels the comfyness invading her and her mind. Rarity place a seat on the little scene with mirrors around it. “I’m going to make you look beautiful, darling!” Rarity smiles. She spends the next hour polishing her head, her hooves, improving her coat and putting her eyelashes and a light blush. After enough and great pampering, she makes her turns around on her seat and let Eris sees herself in the mirror. “So! What do you think of yourself now, darling?” Rarity smirks. “I bet you wasn’t thinking you could be even more feminine than you were already huh?” “Yes, thank you Rarity! You are the best!” Eris eventually feels good about her looks. Flowercorn and Suncream are laid in the grass, in a forest and wooden area. “I’m so glad for Aurora. She just been so giving and dedicated.” Flowercorn says. “I hope that the candy place can be our friend soon. It’ll be nice.” “Hmpf.” Suncream pout. “I don’t see the reason of making her an alicorn, nor a princess. If you think about it, I and all of us five did same for everyone.” “She is pretty creative.” Flowercorn retorts. “Plus she did saved us many times.” “I feel like she is given everything and never had a true difficulty to overpass. What was her biggest hardship happening in her life? Because she knows magic and stuff she is a princess, but like, me and you that did many things are just not recognized by anyone.” Suncream says. “It is better that way isn’t it..” Flowercorn says. “I’d better not have responsibilities as a princess nor having to behave like one publicly.” “Oh yeah you right.” Suncream says. “Plus we are young, and just different than her. Imagine if whole Equestria are on her shoulder. Or like in the future she would be the last princess and have to carry everything around. That’d be painful.” “I guess so.” Suncream says. “But I think that because she is a princess it makes an unstable relationship within our group. Imagine if one day she would be snooty and superficial against us. I wouldn’t want to see her walking away from us.” “Just see what she have been until now. Since she is a princess, what she helped us for is healing us, organizing the building of the Friendship Mansion, organizing Equideer and Equestria meetings and improving their relations and also with other nations, and be an icon for every LGBT+ people of Equus because of her parents.” Flowercorn says. Suncream stands up and walks around in circle a bit. “What’s wrong?” Asks Flowercorn. “Hey. If both her parents are mares. How did she was made in the first place?” Suncream points out. “I... Think they used magic?” Flowercorn says. “I’ve been lurking on some studies or stuff that tries to do that. I just know that. It’s possible.” “How could you know that anyways?” Suncream raises an eyebrows. “I did some. Researches.” Flowercorn blushes. “You wandered how we could have kids?” Suncream smirks. “No!! Not at all!” She turns around. “Totally!” Suncream flies until facing her. “How cute! You want to have kids with me!” “Shush, don’t shout that out loud!!” She blushes immensely. “Or I’ll tell everyone you are jealous of princess things.” “Urgh okay, you got me.” Suncream stops. They both looks at themselves and giggles, happily. Twinklesprite dresses up her wooden companion. “What do you think about this dress?” In a whoosh she slides her wooden friend in the dress she made. The being does a little nod, as Twinkie smiles. “Eee!” Twinkie makes a sound. “Yay! You like it?” A blue coated and red-yellow maned pegasi enters the boutique. “Hel-lo-oh~~ What’s up Twinkie?” Sparkling glow asks. “Oh, I’ve been wandering on making a new collection with light magic features!” Twinkie says. “But I’m not able to channel magic tho.” “Oh! You should have asked me that sooner!” Sparkling glow says. “I do use magic! What did you had in mind?” Luster Dawn and Strawberry Jam are in a library. “Oh, I didn’t knew that about Equifrancia.” Luster says. “It is trust that Equestria and Equifrancia was allied against an evil empire some time in the past.” Strawberry says. “When’s that? Wasn’t Equifrancia an empire too?” Luster asks. “For a very short time, compared to being a kingdom. Equestria was habited by few buffs and other creatures before it have been settled by the pegasus, the earth, and the unicorn ponies. In fact, Equifrancia helped the three tribes fleeing the lands of Grogar, that took on the Hoofed-Kingdom at the time. Before they turned against eachother, because of fear. After what happened the first heart’s warming eve.” Strawberry explains. “So. Celestia could possibly had connections with Equifrancia at her time of ruling or when she was young?” Luster asks. “Maybe. I don’t know. All of that is only a possibility, I wasn’t too concentrated at school. I spoke too much to my plants. And our knowledge have been lost in many centuries of fleeing and battles.” “Oh my. Obsidianna is sick. She tried to write as many knowledge she could but, most of it might be lost if she pass away.” Luster worries. “I’m sure it isn’t too much to worry about. We can’t always rely on past. We have to face new issues with their own appropriate responses.” Strawberry guesses. “I think you are right.” Luster admits. “It is just stressing to think about it.” Twilight, Cadance, and Flurry Heart, with Spike and Sunburst, are sat in a table with some sugar beings. “So. We are going to discuss about terms of your alliance, right?” Twilight asks. “Are you okay with us noting everything or would you like to note too?” “Yes, we’ll note it too.” A cute and shy gingerbread being mumbles. “We would of course like to not be eaten by any ponies. But in exchange our crops and sugary forest might be exchanged with money if you’d want to.” “That seems tasteful!” Flurry Heart smirks. “I’d love that. I’m always so hungry.” “Flurry!” Cadance says, trying to trim her daughter. “What.” She giggles. Within a library room, Esperanza and Aurora reads books. A lot of them are around, and they seems kind of bored. “Urgh. Why is a shrinking spell so hard to find?” Aurora complains. “I don’t know. There is some light spells of enlarging and scaling stuff, but no one seems to have done what we seek for ever.” Esperanza says. “Okay, I got an idea.” Aurora says. “Do you have a paper and a pencil?” Esperanza finds nearby what Aurora is looking for, and levitates them to her. She grabs with her own levitating and after a quiet pause of some seconds of brainstorming, she starts writing. “How ever tall creatures in the universe we might be, while this other world seems tiny, one’s size redefined at this scale will be!” She says as she writes. Her eyes becomes bright and plain white, she hovers the ground slowly as her wings unfold, her horn shines as some magic particles circles around her, but all the effects vanish as slow as they started. Aurora looks around as her eyes regain their colors and she losses the magics things happening, and she looks like she is unable to grab the required power to cast what she wrote. “I can’t do it. Without my friends, I’m less powerful.” Aurora says, a bit saddened. “It’s okay. You still have one friend with you here.” Esperanza put a hoof on her shoulder. She levitates the spell scroll in front of her. Both of their eyes becomes white as same as the unity cube’s powers shines through Esperanza’s chest. As they face eachother, they unfold their wings and the magic particles appears again. This time a flash occurs and everything seems different. When they open their eyes, they are in middle of the air, tiny, and start falling as the scroll does. Aurora shouts as Esperanza manages to fly down to her. “Aurora?!” She is surprised. Grabbing her with her levitation, raising her and putting her on her back, she wipes a sweat from her forehead. They seems under great winds as tiny beings even if no windows were to be open or such. “You scared me here! You know your wings aren’t just for style right?” Esperanza says. “I thought you’d heard about the fact that I never took a flight yet!” Aurora says. “You should train more!” Esperanza says, while the wind makes her have to really avoid falling with the disturbance of it. “No time to argue! Watch-out!” Aurora points at the gigantic paper that is now falling in their direction.