//------------------------------// // Season 2 Episode 4 // Story: Cyclonestorm // by Sweetlilkitten //------------------------------// As they manage to fly away from the trajectory of the scroll the wind it made within its falls makes them really sway side to side, like a boat in a storm. “Watch for landing!!!” Esperanza warns her. They crashes in the forest of the carpet of the place they were before, which now looks like a jungle of swirling sewing and fabric, while some dust can be seen here and there. “Aurora are you okay?” Esperanza looks around, as Aurora wasn’t on her back anymore. She sees her laid in middle of a twirl of cotton. Urging to her, when she reaches her she gently pats her head. Waking up, Aurora shakes her head. “Wow, you should train yourself, you know wings aren’t just for style right?” Aurora smirks. “Okay, okay.” Esperanza says. “I’m sorry having put that on you. Are you hurt?” “No, I think I’m fine.” Aurora looks around. “That place seems comfortable in fact.” “So. What do we do now?” Esperanza tries to remember what they was doing. “I have my good boy Kayron laid in another room. We might try to test and train to go inside a creature to fight sickness.” Aurora reminds her. “Okay then. Let’s go!” Esperanza smiles. Getting in air again, but fairly close to the ground, they start traveling like that in the direction of the door. Twinklesprite and Sparkle Glow stands in front of a collection of dress. They all are made of tints of a particular color, three have one primary color, and three other have halfway color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. They have precious stones and some sci-fi style and few tech-similar looking features. “Eee!” Does Twinkie with a large smile. “Yeah right?” Sparkle says. “We make a tough team!” “That’s so kind of you to have helped me on my project!” Twinkie says, so happy. “Now we need to find a special team which sings good enough to activate the powers of the dresses!” Sparkle Glow says. “Yes! And I perfectly know one.” Twinkie says. Coming by the dog, that is now just immensely gigantic for the two of them, Aurora and Esperanza stops moving. Viewing the claws of the animal they realize they aren’t as tiny as wanted indeed. “Wait. We are way bigger than I thought.” Aurora says. “We are?” Esperanza wanders. “Yes. We’re only tall as bugs now.” Aurora says. “We need to-” “Uhhh. Aurora?” Esperanza taps on her shoulders. “Kayron isn’t too active when awake, right?” Kayron wakes up. Stretching his paws the two mares get shake in every direction as soon as the canine moves. “Hang-on there!!” Esperanza says. They both get thrown away when the dog scratches his ears. Landing in an immense cupcake, they see a bee in the sky flying around, seemingly attracted by the food. Shaking their heads off the cream, they try to regain conscious. “We have to find a way to gain back our scale before something bad about us happens!” Esperanza worries. The waspy creature lands on top of the cupcake and start eating it, while Esperanza and Aurora tries to get out of the sugary texture. “Grab my hoof!” Esperanza says. She help Aurora fly out of the way even if the wasp wasn’t looking at them yet. “We better try to regain our sizes before we get hurt.” Aurora admits. They join their hooves and the magical effects of the process occurs again, while they now see the world shrink more and more when they regain their usual size. When they are now still, they sigh in relief. “Phew. Okay.” Aurora tries to stay calm. “Discord and Twilight might be not too much for helping us.” Obsidianna and Glowstone are close to one another. Laid in the bed, Obsidianna opens her eyes slowly, still weak, but this day feeling a bit stronger enough to wake up. “Hi honey..” She mumbles. Surprised, Glowstone gasps, then she hugs her. “Oh you are awake darling!” Glowstone says. “You wouldn’t think you’d get rid of me that easily huh?” Obsidianna coughs. “Oh my love I’m so sad I miss you so much every day already!” Glowstone cries. “This morning I was alone in my room and not having you by my side when I wake up is heartbreaking!” “Oh Glowy you so silly.” She giggles. “You know I always will be by your side, right there.” She touches her chest, gently. Glowstone snuggles on her hoof in a sign of love as Obsidianna pats now her head and move her hoof to caress her mane. “I’m so lost without you darling...” Glowstone tries to wipes her tears. “Please fight these demons inside you..” “I’d do my best honey.” Obsidianna says. “But what’s that belly of yours. What are you hiding from me?” Glowstone leans towards her and whispers. “I have a secret to tell you, Obsi.” She says. “I’m pregnant. It’s a she.” “What?!?” Obsidianna asks again. “But we have a daughter already!? The age gap would be just, crazy?! She’s months younger than her own niece and nephews!” “I know, I know!” Glowstone says. “But it’s for soon already!” Happy about that news, but still knowing one sad thing, she’d get worried a bit. “She’ll never know one of her mother...” Obsidianna sighs. “I thought you could write her a little letter or something for when she’ll grow up. If ever she’d need you, she would read your words for her once more.” Glowstone says. “I think it fits perfectly the being you been for every one of us all that years.” “That’d be an honor.” Obsidianna smiles. “I have ideas what to write already.” Glowstone nods, and respectfully exits the room for her to write her wills on a scroll. Dear little me, Once upon a time, there was a little mare. A mare that was sad and angry, because she have been made thought she was alone and wrong. But one day her friends made her see how happy and fine she was with them around to support her. She hugged her friends and thanked them, and they all sat and peacefully watched the sun setting and the sea of stars in the sky all together. I live in you. In your heart you’ll see the light. Your mother, Obsidianna. Esperanza and Aurora meets Glowstone outside the building where Obsidianna is. As they arrive, Starlight, Discord, Twilight, Sunburst and Starswirl prepares their magic “She have awaken.” Glowstone says. “What’s going on?” “We are ready to proceed.” Esperanza says, after a nod of Aurora, both ready to go. “Great. Now get in there, fellows.” Discord says. Aurora and Esperanza equip a suit, similar to the one used when traveling the new dimension, and walks in a sort of space-themed manned crew ship. All the magic bearers uses their powers, and with enough effort, they can manage to shrink the ship, which they now seal in a pill. Glowstone grabs the pills and flies towards her wife. “My love.” She tells. “I didn’t wanted to make false wanders but we might have a solution to help you against your sickness.” “What is it?” “Espy and Aurora will fight it inside of you.” Glowstone shows the pill. “How courageous my daughter is. I will never thank Aurora enough about what she does anyways.” Obsidianna says. She swallow the pill with a bit of water from a glass. Everyone wishes the best for them now. Esperanza and Aurora see the ship trembles. As some thruster are heard, a text appears on the sci-fi screen saying they have landed. “Let’s explore outside. We need to understand this world first.” Aurora says. “After what we will work on it.” They open the door of the ship and the pill have opened. Aurora make a first hoof on the ground and she see the squishy place seems slowly starting to make acids. The suits are well resistant of these for now yet. “We need to get away of here before we are absorbed by her.” Aurora tells. “Let’s switch the Ship’s state.” Esperanza says. Activating a button they see the ship now ready to exit the pill and fly away. Returning in it, they close the door and take off from the ground. As they travel, the world around them seems filled with life and creatures. The world seems bright even if no sun are to be seen. As they found a spot to land, traveling in intestines and veins, they disembark again, this time, colorful creatures walks nearby them. Some cells are shaped as red diamond dogs with a back rack which they hold big clear bubbles, some gargoyles and yaks like creature seems transporting other assets, such as acids and fibers, vitamins and such. They are all living and shaped as rabbits, birds, snakes and snails. “Um.” Esperanza gets worried for a second. “That place is very diverse. Can you explain me things before I get lost?” “Oh yes.” Aurora says. “This is vitamins.” She points the rabbits and jackalopes. “This is red cells.” She shows the red diamond dogs. “And this is proteins.” She shows the gargoyles. “That’s everything I seen in books at least.” A slim yet bit muscular feminine minotaur of their size waves at them. “Hello, you two seems new here? What’s your names?” The creature says. Esperanza is a bit surprised that every creatures seems living and sentient. “Oh I’m Aurora and here is Esperanza. We just arrived yet.” Aurora explains. “I’m sorry are we talking to a microscopic creature?” Esperanza mumbles to Aurora, not trusting what’s happening. “Oh yes we live in a host I know. You two must be from a very far place to learn that now! I’m Solace, nice to meet you.” The minotaur says. “Nice to meet you!” Aurora shakes the hand of the minotaur with a hoof. Suddenly the ground trembles. In the distance, an explosion can be heard, and what seems to be sirens or serpents invade the place. Every creatures panics as the snakes have cobra like features that spread from their neck and their sabertooth jaw opens to shoot lasers into the crowd. “We need to get somewhere safe!” Esperanza says. “Let’s go to the ship!” Aurora says. In a second a laser explodes the ship and it shambles. “Oh no!” Esperanza says. “Let’s go there!” She points out the other side of the valley. The next instant a dozen of monsters exits the pointed out direction. “Uh oh...” Aurora says. “What do we do now?” Suddenly a flock of pegasi pony cells charge in direction of the group of monsters. On ground, a line of earth ponies attack by hoof the monsters, and sometimes, some unicorn can be seen generating a swarm of breezies that withers the monsters on contact with the swarms. “Hey there! What are you doing here?” A tall pegasi says. “And what’s your HLA?” “Huh what?” Aurora says. Esperanza stands in front of Aurora, in will to protect her. “Please don’t hurt us, we don’t mean harm to the host. We do are here to help her.” Esperanza tries to convince the white cell. “Is that true?” He asks again. “Are you not here to be against us?” “Yes.” Aurora says. “We are here to fight the deceases.” At that moment Esperanza sees Solace in a duel against a small monster that tries to eat her. She galops towards her and within a second she both use her telekinesis to bring her close to her and makes a particles explosion trick on the monster to stunt it. “How to fight these things. Don’t you have any weapons?” Esperanza asks the minotaur. “I don’t know, do you have an idea?” “This may work. It’s the shell of my pet named Quiet.” Solace shows a turtle shell. “He passed out once on an attack at our home..” Esperanza grabs the shell with her levitation and punch the monster with it which then flees. “Thank you. Will you stay with me to save me against the monsters?” Solace asks. “Yes, of course.” Esperanza says. Coming back towards Aurora, Esperanza worries. “The ship is destroyed! What are we gonna do?” Esperanza asks. “We are not stuck here for ever are we?” She panics slightly. “When we will had done our job here we will disactivate the spell like when we were the size of bugs.” Aurora tells. “But without the ship we might have shortage of goods to sustain ourselves...” “We have to ask Twilight if we could bring an army here to help us!” Esperanza says. They follows the microponies until the spleen and there they find a great pony that seems quite busy. A lot of ponies are working, and in some radios some terrain units shout they need help, while the receivers are quite stressed out. “Hello.” The great pony says. “I don’t know if you seen but we are quite busy.” “We would like to help you.” Esperanza says. The morning shines, the sun shimmers, and Luster Dawn and her 4 friends are around a table, also with Sparkle Glow, at the mansion of friendship. “For what ever reason, Aurora isn’t here, but let’s have fun together anyways.” Luster smiles. “I wander what princess things could be more important than her friends.” Suncream pouts. “She told me she have a very special task to do for few days. She can’t be always here for us. Like all of us have stuff to do sometimes.” Sparkle Glow says. After a meal Sparkle was writing stuff and Luster walks to him. “Hey.” She starts. “What Aurora told you?” “That she was busy?” Sparkle replies. “I mean. Why would she have told you that and not me?” Luster pouts. Sparkle doesn’t understand what she means for a second. “What are you talking about Luster?” Sparkle says. “I just am close to her, what do you mean?” “What? That’s so unfair!” Luster retorts. “I’m in love with her. Since I moved to Ponyville. We grew up together from our late teens. And you? Who are you?” “I don’t know?” Sparkle stands up and gets angry from her jealousy. “Maybe I’m the one that earned their cutie mark in the exact same moment with her and we literally wrote a tale together for that!” “And where is that tale huh? I don’t see her referring to that often enough in fact!” Luster points out. Sparkle Glow gasps, moved by that. “That tale is- ... Our tale is- ...” He stutters for a second. “I- I can’t tell you about that.” “Huh, you just too common for her. She needs someone that is exceptional. She needs someone that can shield her from everything else.” Luster says. “She needs somepony that is her type. Me.” “Don’t you think you are exaggerating of yourself a bit here?” Sparkle says. “Besides. I don’t think it is a matter of what you can do. It may be a matter of what you deserve.” “Oh, because you think you deserve better than me?” Luster says. “No, I don’t think I deserve better than you. I think you don’t deserve her. That’s otherwise.” Sparkle pouts. “How. Dare you!” Luster growls. Luster growls angry while her horn shines. Sparkle Glow, in an instant, taps the ground and sings a few notes, which makes some nearby books flies around, both the lamp and a backpack comes to life and now stands aside of the colorful pegasi. “What did you wanted to do?” He smirks. Seeing all of this, Luster have her shining vanish, and she does a step backwards, reluctantly not wanting to know how a lamp and a backpack fights. Sparkle Glow smirks even more. “That’s what I thought.” Sparkle says. “Where would you do deserve her?” Luster says. “Where I do?” Sparkle laughs quite quirky way he sometimes does. “You mean where I don’t do?” He walks towards the bookshelves of the sort of office room of the friendship mansion they are, and he turns his back on her. “I suffered all my childhood because I wasn’t like others. I always thought something’s wrong with me because I was different. Then I met her. The smooth and bright mare she is. I had to work hard to earn bits. I had to work hard to be respected. I had to throw myself into dangers to not lose what I built so far.” Sparkle does a dramatic pause for a second, then turns around to face Luster again. “Yet you, Princess Twilight Sparkle’s little protégé, the best magic student, the best unicorn of Equestria, the best this, the best that, the one that moved to Ponyville by literal order of the ruler of Equestria now wants to steal the only one that I always dreamed of being important by their eyes!?” “I-” Luster mumbles, surprised. “You don’t have done anything to deserve her!!” Sparkle strikes the ground. “Okay then.” Luster says. “Let’s see the first that get her hoof. Then we’ll see.” Twinklesprite, that happened to be hearing them in the corridor, almost breaks the door with how strong she slams it opens. “You two are horrible beings!” Twinklesprite says. “How are you speaking of our friend like that!! Listen to you two I thought you were speaking of a grade or something. But it was our friend that you spoke about like that!” Flowercorn, Strawberry and Suncream joins the scene. “What’s happening in here?” Flowercorn asks, worried about the shouts. “What do you think happens here?” Twinklesprite gesture at the two of them that were arguing. “If she would be here she would throw you out, both of you!” “What’s wrong?” Strawberry asks. “They thought ‘getting Aurora’s hoof’ is something to compete for. She isn’t a product to bid on!” Twinkie says. “And I’m the Element of Charisma, not even the Wisdom or something. You guys are really wrong.” “If you guys are crushing on her. Just wait for her and ask her.” Suncream says. “That’d be more honest rather than starting to being silly offering her things just for you to win her or whatever you were thinking.” “Well said Sunny.” Strawberry says. “Thanks Berry.” Suncream smiles to her. “Oh my gosh, Suncream wants to be honest while she never have been about her and Flowercorn!” Luster says. “Don’t say-!” Suncream says. “You two been hiding things from us!” Luster says. “It’s rather bold to tell us to be honest when you two are secretly flirting!” Flowercorn and Suncream blushes. “Anyways. I’ll get Shy-shy’s hoof.” Sparkle pouts. “Wha- Who’s?” Luster doesn’t understand. “See. You don’t even know. It’s her surname I used to call her because of her shyness when she was a filly.” “Don’t be fool, you’ll be twilighting as soon as she’ll come back and fall right into my hooves.” Luster smirks. Luster and Sparkle growls, looking at themselves, while the other friends are worried about their group’s future.