//------------------------------// // Episode 14: The Wisp Saga (Part 1): Alien Roundup // Story: My Little Pony: The Mobian Era (Season 3) // by Mister E-Nonymous //------------------------------// Episode 14: The Wisp Saga (Part 1): Alien Roundup There was some sort of space station that was above Earth's atmosphere, connected to Earth by a giant elevator. The station also had some planets that were connected by laser chains. At the main station, it was themed like an amusement park with the Mane 6, Sonic, Tails, MC, Maria, Sunny, Hitch, Izzy, Pipp and Zipp walking in. "Welcome to Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park, where you can enjoy five planets for the price of one!" Eggman's voice came in on a speaker. He loves to hear his own lips flap, but I gotta hand it to the Eggster, this place is epic," Sonic said. "Everyone and their brother is gonna want to come here." "No doubt but now I'm not sure why we're here," Tails said. "This place looks totally harmless." "He always wants you to think that," MC said. "Besides, if Eggman's up to something, it's gotta be bad." "Aww..." Pinkie said, looking around. "But this place is so fun looking!" "Yeah!" Izzy added. "I wanna go on the fun rides!" "I'm not so sure that that's the right thing to do, Izzy," Hitch said. "After all, does he have the official building permits to make this entire park." "Eggman doesn't care about laws unless its his," Twilight said. She then looked around. "But what the heck are those things that are connected to this place?" "Planets," MC said. "There's a small probability that life forms may be on each planet." "Life forms? Other planets?" Sunny asked. "Are you saying that aliens exist?! Oh, man! This could be a huge scientific discovery!" "We've already been attacked by evil aliens before you five got here, Sunny," Maria said. "Yeah," Tails said. "And it's because of those aliens she mentioned is why Truemen has a metal arm now." "Ouch," Sunny said. "So where do we start lookin'?" Applejack asked. "Eggman is somewhere on this metal amusement park o' death!" "I have a suggestion," Fluttershy said. "What is it, Flutters?" MC asked. "Um... Huh?" Fluttershy asked. "You're... the first one who actually heard what I want to say?" "I have great hearing," MC said. "Now, you were saying?" "How about we ask those two chasing those creatures there?" Fluttershy asked, pointing at two robots. "What the heck are those?" Twilight asked. "Eggman's always making new mechs to serve him," Sonic said. Then he started running towards the bots. The two robots were trying to capture some creatures. "Yee haw! Git along, li'l aliens!" said the cube shaped robot in a southern accent. "Your voice chip is stuck on cowboy again!" said the round robot. "Stop talking and net those aliens!" "You got it partner!" the cube shaped bot said. "Come on here, you little varmints, come back here! I'm gonna get you! Hey, come here! I gotcha! I gotcha!" He was about to snatch the aliens, but Sonic rushed in and grabbed them before the robot caught them in the net. "Huh?!" Sonic then appeared on a platform with the two aliens surrounding him. He then said, "Hey, what's going on?" Just then, the cyan creature flew into his body and he became something. He then zoomed off ahead, destroying every robot in sight, making the other heroes watch. "Whoa!" MC said. "Did you see that?!" "He just became a living laser!" Twilight said. "Those little creatures are so interesting!" "If Eggman wants them for some reason, we can't let him get them!" Sunny said. "Let's go!" Then they all nodded and started running across the place. MC smashed a container full of white aliens, releasing them. MC then looked at them as they were flying around him in delight. MC then smirked. "I have no idea what you're all saying, but I know you're all pleased," MC said. The aliens nodded and started flying away from him. He then saw Tails with one alien while he was tinkering with his Miles Electric. The Mane 6, Maria, Sunny and her friends walked up to Tails as well. "What the heck are you doing with your Miles Electric?" "I'm trying to create a new feature so we can understand what these things are saying," Tails said. "It's not as easy as it looks. Hmm. Now, let me see. Gotta connect the framistatic capacitor to the maximizing modulationzor..." The creature then started talking. "I wish I knew what you were saying, little guy. Or gal. Or whatever you are." Then a Cyan laser came in, revealing it to be Sonic. Oh man! That... was... CRAZY!" "It looked crazy to all of us," Twilight said. "And awesome!" Rainbow Dash said. "You became a living laser for a moment! How did that happen?" "I absorbed those aliens and got powered up with like, some kind of wild energy!" Sonic replied. "And after a few seconds they'd pop outta me!" "There's gotta be some kind of logical explanations for that," Hitch said. "This is definitely something I have to look up," Zipp said, pulling out her phone and spoke into it. "New mystery update. Alien creatures that can distribute powers into figures just by absorbing them. Cyan alien power, laser. Able to make absorber go at high speed at any angle towards any enemy and bounce off towards another one." "These things are so strange," Rarity said. "But... strangely useful in some situations I suppose." "It's kinda hard for me to believe," Tails said. Then the creature started talking in a non-understandable language. "Okay, seriously, we need to find Eggman and figure out why he's catching these aliens fits into whatever heinous plan he's hatching," Sonic said. "And wreck his plan, right?" Tails asked. "Obviously," MC said. "What else do we have to do when Eggman's up to something. The others nodded. Twilight then looked towards Sunny. "Sunny," Twilight said. "I need to talk to you about your... magic." "My magic?" Sunny asked. "It would seem that your magic hasn't left you since you became an alicorn thanks to the Chaos Emeralds," Twilight said. "I think that you were destined to be an alicorn to lead the Equestria of your time to help the ponies of Equestria in that time to help keep Harmony among the other ponies." "Huh," Sunny said. "All I was doing was just being myself. Like when you showed me around Ponyville. I wanted to help some ponies on some of their eating habits, and nopony was paying any attention. Then when I became an alicorn, everypony just... seemed interested in me." "Alicorns are technically royalty in Equestria," Twilight said. "Believe me. I've had a hard time adjusting to being an alicorn full time when I got these." Twilight then unfolded her wings to show Sunny what she was talking about. "But since your wings are ethereal and not flesh, bone or feathers, you're only a part-time alicorn." "I guess that makes sense," Sunny said. "Although, I might just have to... adjust... to what I have." "We'd better get going," Twilight said. Sunny nodded and the two ran over to catch up with the others. At another part of the place, Eggman was looking at all of the collected alien creatures. He was even counting them himself. "...twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five... Bah! Not nearly enough aliens!" Eggman said. He then looked towards the two robots. "Want us to get more?" the orb shaped robot asked. "No, I want you to get me a cheeseburger and a shake," Eggman said, sarcastically. "That'll be easier," the cube shaped robot said in a cowboy voice. "Cheeseburgers don't run as fast as them l'il alien varmints." "IDIOT! Get me more aliens!" Eggman demanded. Then the two robots started hovering away. But then the cube shaped bot turned around. "Y'all want fries with that?" the cube shaped bot asked. Eggman then threw a wrench at him, the wrench hitting the robot in the face. "OHH...! I reckon' that hurt a bit..." He was heading off in a direction away from the round shaped bot, but then he realized where he was going. "Wait a minute! I need to go over yonder! Heh, sorry." "Hmm... Precious little aliens!" Eggman said, looking at the Wisps. "I'll harness their Hyper-go-on power and then nothing will stop me! I know, I say that every time, but this time, really, nothing will stop me!" The round shaped robot returned, looking in one direction, saying, "Eh, boss?" "What?" Eggman asked before seeing where the round shaped bot was looking. "SONIC!?" "Who you calling 'nothing'?" Sonic asked as he was standing with the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, MC and Maria. The robots from earlier came in and floated in front of Eggman's transport. The cube shaped bot then asked, "Huh?" "He means since the boss said 'nothing will stop me' and Sonic here is going to stop him, it's like the boss was calling Sonic 'nothing'," the orb shaped bot said. "Great! I thought nobody would get that," Sonic said. "Fine! You're so smart, robot, you take care of this mess!" Eggman said, pointing at the round shaped robot. "Release the Big Boy! At least I know he won't screw it up!" Then the transport he was in put up a dome over him. "Hasta la bye bye, suckers!" "Wait! Wait for me!" the round robot said, chasing after Eggman. Just then, over a gate, a huge machine came in, holding onto a Ferris Wheel like ride. "Whoa," Rainbow Dash said. "Never fought a Ferris Wheel before," MC said. "Should be interesting." "Guess it's time for us to start stopping," Sonic said. Then they all headed towards the robot. Sonic jumped on the cube shaped bot's head, and catching up with the others. "I git it!" the cube shaped bot said. The Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Sonic, MC and Maria were fighting the machine that was climbing all over the Ferris Wheel. It fired lasers and tried grabbing some heroes. "Whoa!" Zipp said. "Okay. This thing is mad!" "You got that right," Rainbow Dash said as she grabbed Zipp just as the robot was about to attack her. MC then looked up at the robot, looking at it dead in the eye, and he smirked. He then said, "Found it's weak point." He then whistled and called out, "Yo, cyan guy!" Then the Cyan Alien looked towards MC. "Mind helping me take this guy out?!" Then the Cyan Alien flew towards MC and got absorbed into him. Then MC became a living laser, attacking the creature in the eye. Combined with MC's claws, the damage was more destructive. Then the robot started coming apart, and it spread across the place. "Wowie Zowie!" Pinkie and Izzy said in unison. Then they looked at each other and they started laughing. "MC, you are something else!" Sonic said. Then MC came back to the group. "I need a vacation," MC said, his head spinning. "Man, am I dizzy." "I'm sure it'll pass," Maria said. "We should get back to Tails." They all nodded and started moving over to where Tails was. Twilight then looked up, looking at the Earth that was above them at the moment. She then said, "What a view. Sure, the ARK had a good view of the planet below, but here, there aren't any windows to block certain views." "Yeah, you're right," Maria said, looking up. "And to think, that creature you called Chip, said that your entire world was just a missing piece of the planet we had here." "Oh, yes," Rarity said. "I still wonder how something like that was even possible." "Chaos Control," MC said. "Obviously, Chip needed a lot of power to transport the Equestrian Continent from our world to somewhere in the cosmos for its own safety from Dark Gaia." "MC's right," Sonic said "It'd take a lot of power just to send a part of a continent to another part of the universe. If Equestria was originally a part of Earth, it would've been written in the Gaia Manuscripts." "Perhaps they are," Zipp said. "I'm probably going to have to ask Professor Pickle about that to see if it's true." "That's actually a good call, Zipp," Twilight said. "We'll do that once we get back down to Earth." Eventually, the Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Sonic, MC and Maria went back to Tails who was with the white alien from before. "Okay, just tighten this last bolt..." Tails said, making an adjustment to his Miles Electric. Then he saw the group walking up to them. "Oh, there you all are. Where'd you run off to?" "I did a little shopping, grabbed a bite to eat, and trashed a giant killer robot," Sonic answered. "Oh. Really?" Tails asked. "They've got shopping here too?" "This place has everything," Pipp said. "If this place wasn't an evil base, I'd take a selfie right now and send it to my new Pipp-Squeaks." "Pipp-Squeaks?" Rarity asked. "It's what she calls her fans," Zipp said. "She's a very popular singer and trendsetter back in our timeline." "Ah, that makes sense," Rarity said. "So, how's that translation app you're making coming along?" MC asked, looking at Tails. "I think it's done," Tails said. "It's in binary code so, only I can read it." Then a satellite dish attached to the Miles Electric started aiming towards the alien. "Okay, ask away." Sonic cleared his throat and asked, "Who are you and what is happening to your people?" The alien then started speaking in a non-understandable language, which Tails was looking at his Miles Electric, trying to see what the creature was saying. "Okay, he says his name is 'Talks a lot' and he's from a far away soda and where flowers water them with dances," Tails said what he was reading. "That is not what he said," MC said, shaking his head. The alien was shaking his head as well. "See, he agrees with me." He then thought of something. "You are a 'he', right?" The alien then nodded. "Good. 'Cause that would've been awkward." "I think your machine still has some bugs," Sonic said. "I don't see any bugs on his machine," Pinkie said. "I'm sure it's a figure of speech, Pinkie," Hitch said. "Yeah. I think I can figure this out though," Tails said. He then tweaked the Miles Electric. "Okay, he said his name is Yacker. He's from a race of beings called 'Wisps'." The alien, known as Yacker, started nodding. "Lisps?" Sonic asked. "No, he said Wisps," Twilight said. "With a W." "Wisps," MC said. "Like Will o' the Wisps, from Scottish Lore?" "Oh, yeah," Maria said. "Just like in that Disney Pixar Movie, Brave." "Perhaps the Scottish found some kind of evidence that these guys were on Earth many years ago and it must've fallen to legend," Zipp said. "That's a possibility," Tails said. "Yeah, I'll just stick with aliens if that's OK with everybody," Sonic said. "Sure, so anyways, they are either being used for their magical powers by an evil man, or to make underwear to be worn by salad," Tails said, not understanding the translation. Sonic and Yacker were exasperated from what Tails was saying. Then Yacker went into a pleading position. "I just hear save them, save them, over and over." "When I was running around trashing robots I saw a map that had a couple of interesting places," Sonic said. "Think I'll go check them out, and maybe save some aliens." MC then looked around and he sensed something. He then said, "Interesting." "What is it?" Twilight asked. "I sense a Chaos Emerald here," MC said. "Perhaps we should go get the Emerald before going to other worlds." "He's right," Tails said. "If Eggman has the Emeralds, it could be bad. It's best we get them before he can use them for evil." "Then let's find it," Twilight said. "Then we'll get off of this part and move onto the other places." "Let's move it," Sonic said. Then they all spread out, trying to find the Chaos Emerald that was there. The Mane 6, Sunny and her friends, Sonic, Maria and MC were looking everywhere for the Chaos Emerald that was there. Meanwhile, the two robots from earlier were cleaning up the battle. "The bossman said to wrangle every piece o' this mess," the cube shaped bot said. "When you consider what we're doin' from a robot's point of view, it's actually pretty gruesome." "Don't think about it," the sphere shaped bot said. "Iffin' ya say so," the cube shaped bot said. The sphere shaped bot then looked around and said, "I'm missing an arm. Have you got an arm?" "Naw, but really, how much can it matter?" the cube shaped bot asked. "I guess it can't matter much," the sphere shaped bot said. He then set his tools aside and the two hovered off. But what they didn't know is that on a tower, the arm from the robot was wedged in, some purple gas leaking from the tower. Meanwhile, MC was looking all over the place for the Chaos Emerald that was there. He was looking around for it, but he couldn't find it. "Odd," MC said. "I sense it, but I can't see it." He then jumped to the ground, where Twilight and Sunny were. "Are you sure you sense it?" Sunny asked. "It could be a fluke." "It's not a fluke, Sunny," MC said. "I'm sure it's here somewhere." Twilight then looked up at the lamps. She saw that most of them were glowing white while one was glowing green. She then said, "Uh... MC. Look at that lamp." She pointed at the lamp. MC and Sunny looked towards where Twilight was pointing. They looked at the other lamps. "Out of the seven Chaos Emeralds, they couldn't use the white one to disguise it as a lamp?" MC asked. He then went to the lamppost, and ripped off the top. He then grabbed what was in it. "Seriously... they couldn't use the white one?" MC asked. "Who even put this one in there? Cubot?" "Cubot?" Twilight asked. "Eggman has given those two robots names," MC said. "The red round one is Orbot, and the yellow cube one is Cubot. For obvious reasons." "That makes sense," Sunny said. "So, should we go find the others?" "Might as well," MC said. "Let's move out." Then they headed over towards Tails. He then held up his communicator wrist and said, "MC here. Sparkles, Sunny and I have the Chaos Emerald. Meet over with Tails." Tails looked up at MC and asked, "Where'd you find it?" "Some idiot bot thought it'd be a good idea to disguise the Chaos Emerald as a lamp," MC said. "If you're going to disguise it, at least use a color that matches the other ones." Then Sonic ran in, saying, "I agree. All the lamp lights are white. Why hide the Green Chaos Emerald in a lamp? It's too obvious to not know it's not the right place to hide it." Then the rest of the group came in. MC then checked out the souvenir map. He then said, "This place has five planets connected to it. Are there any more of these Wisps on them?" Yacker nodded and spoke in its unrecognizable language. "He says to go up to each airport to brave the mothers?" Tails asked, reading his translator. "That is not what he said," Hitch said, with Yacker shaking his head. "Were you trying to say, 'save the others'?" Yacker nodded. "So, I guess we should go there." He then pointed at one planet. "Which planet is that?" "According to the map, that planet is known as... Sweet Mountain," MC said. "Ironically, it's an entire planet... made outta baked goods." "Oooooooh!" Pinkie and Izzy said in unison. "Don't even think about it!" MC said. "This is a mission, not a vacation." "Then let's get moving," Twilight said. Then they all headed towards where Sweet Mountain was." Everyone of them headed for the place. While they were doing that, Eggman was watching them from one camera from his base. Eggman was groaning as he was watching. "That was stupid," Eggman said. "I can't believe those robots actually hid the Chaos Emerald in there instead of somewhere else!" Meanwhile, the heroes arrived at Sweet Mountain. the group looked around at all the sweets around them. "This place is weird," MC said. "More like sweet!" came Pinkie's voice. The group looked towards her and they saw her leaning down and licking the ground as she was walking. "What did I say about this place?!" MC asked, raising his voice. "Forget it, MC," Twilight said. "When it comes to Pinkie's appetite, she's gonna listen to her stomach rather than to her friends." MC grumbled. "How do you put up with her zaniness?" MC asked. "We've all gotten used to her zany self," Rainbow Dash said. "Twilight's still trying to figure it out herself." "I'm gonna have to agree with Pinkie," Izzy said. She was eating a piece of the ground from under her feet. MC sighed and said, "I don't eat what I step on." He then walked over towards one area and saw a capsule container containing a different kind of alien. "Whoa. What do we have here?" Yacker started speaking and Tails was translating. He said, "Yacker said that this one is... a frill wisp, and has the ability to frill through burps?" "That is not what he said," Hitch said. MC groaned and said, "Only one way to know what he's saying due to that faulty translator." MC then punched the capsule and the alien absorbed itself into MC. MC then went down into the ground, leaving a big hole in the ground. "Whoa!" Twilight said. "Wait a minute. It doesn't say 'frill'. It says..." Then a yellow drill came out of the ground, going 20 feet up in the air. MC and the alien separated and land near the group. "Drill." "Oh, that makes much more sense," Tails said. "So, how deep you go?" "200 meters in the ground," MC said. "My claws combined with the drill made it even sharper." "Well, we're gonna have to be careful when we work with this guy," Sunny said. "Any sign of the Chaos Emerald?" "Not from down there," MC said. "It's not in this area." He then grabbed the Chaos Emerald and used it as a compass. When he faced in one direction, the Chaos Emerald started glowing brighter. "It's that way." "Then that's where we're going," Sonic said. "Let's move!" Then they all started heading off in the direction. They continued running off in one direction.