//------------------------------// // Please stop! // Story: You're not Twilight // by Miner //------------------------------// “STOP in the name of ME!” Aaron shouts, causing ponies to become bewildered, seeing a clown and a princess chasing down an ice-cream pony dragging his chart right behind him. Misty trips on her dress before making a tear in front of it to allow more legroom and resumes the chase. No pony knows why this is happening, but they have opted to get out of the way rather than get involved. For something, this kind of thing is starting to become the normal around their town. “Leave me alone! I don’t have any more Ice cream.” The vendor begs the two crazy ponies. He has no idea what they want, but when somepony starts chasing you, you run, no question asked, “We are not after Ice Cream,” Misty calls out, trying to clear up the misunderstanding, but it only fuels the fear in the pony’s eyes. Unimaginable horrors enter his mind of the possibilities of what she meant, spurring him onward faster, “Some Pony, Save ME!” “Misty, you are not helping! Will you just stop and listen to us!” “What did I do to deserve this?!” He made a sharp turn hoping to lose them, but he had forgotten the importance of the laws of physics, specifically one's momentum. Sending himself and his cart sliding into the side of a building. He shakes his head in a daze and looks in fear at the ponies before him that finally caught up. Hoping to save some of his dignity, he lays flat on the floor with his rear end facing away from them, “Please. Don’t hurt me. I will do anything!” “Anything?” Misty wonders, “Misty, not now!” Aaron scolds her snapping her out of her daydream, “Right, sorry,” At the moment Sparky pops out of the ice cream cart, shaken but fine, “There you are Mr,” The ice cream pony looks back between the two ponies and the baby dragon. He looks again, seeing two adult ponies going after a lost baby, “Oh, you two were after your baby; that makes more sense,” He says out loud, relieved that they weren’t after him. However, his comment causes a mixture of emotions to cross Aaron and Misty. Specifically, bewilderment and flabbergasted, respectively, Misty has a minor breakdown before she found her voice, “WHAT NO! He is not my baby, He is not my husband. He just ran away from the daycare that we work at,” Misty clears up, pointing between the two of them, Aaron ignores most of Misty’s comments before moving to retrieve Sparky, “Sparky, you can’t ju-” Aaron pauses, seeing that, for some reason, the baby dragon is shaking up and down with a happy smile on his face. Suddenly he remembers where Sparky was and looks back at the cart as Sparky starts shaking more, “No,” Aaron orders him as Sparky's feet start tapping on the ground, “No, No, No,” Sparky jogs in place before taking off in a random direction, “Oh Come on!” “Not again,” Misty groans as they gave chase. Try as they might, they can’t catch the speedy little dragon, “Get Back here!” They would get close to him, only for him to start running again. This game of tag went on for a while with no end in sight, all the while not paying attention to the way they were going. As a result, they didn’t notice the open fence gate with the keep-out sign Test Area for Canterlogic or Just missing the security pony coming back from the bathroom, Miss Cloverleaf stands on the side of the testing track as their new prototype comes to a jittery stop in front of her. This was the first test of the all-terrain vehicle with a live pilot. It appears like an old military Jeep with no roof or doors. It had a rough start, but it’s showing promise. She reminds optimistically as the pilot crawls out, “So how did the testing go?” “Ah, bad; no, really bad. The steering is off, and I think there is something wrong with the accelerator. I was lucky to get this thing to stop. Any longer who knows what might happen,” Miss Cloverleaf is disappointed with the news, but she refuses to let that dampen her spirits, “That a shame. But that is what testing is for. Please report your finding to the development team and get some ponies to drag this thing off the track, please,” “Right away,” They leave the track before heading inside the main compound two seconds before a group of three wander upon the track. “Sparky, please stop!” Misty cries out, running out of breath as the Baby dragon hops into the prototype. She takes a breather putting a hoof against the vehicle as Aaron does a double-take at what he is seeing, “Wait, is that a Jeep!” “A what?” “Never mind, just get the dragon,” Misty hops inside, finding Sparky taking a nap. She sighs in relief, moving to grab him when she hits a button on the dashboard, trying to readjust herself, causing the thing to come alive, “Ah Aaron, I think it’s alive,” “Get out of there!” Misty quickly grabs Sparky, but her dress got caught by something between the seats preventing her from leaving. She panics and tries to pull on the dress, but she doesn’t have enough leverage to free herself, “I am stuck! My dress caught on something!” “Hold on, I am coming!” Aaron jumps into action and climbs over her, trying to help, not noticing that he causes Sparky to fall to the floor of the car and against a pedal causing the tires to screech as they are sent into the seats while the vehicle goes followed. “It is a car!” “What is a car!” “This thing is a car,” Aaron stands up and gives a hard yank ripping the dress and freeing Misty, Misty looks at her ruined dress in grief, “Aaron!” “Can we talk about this later!” Aaron grabs Sparky and hands him over to Misty before he assumes command. After all, it is a car, and he knows how to drive a car, but the is one itsy bitsy little problem, “How do you work this thing?!” Aside from the steering wheel, everything else is different. There is only one pedal by his hindleg and what he assumes to be a stick shift with two gears on his right with a dashboard of none label buttons, “Where are the brakes on this thing!?” Aaron pushes random buttons hoping something would stop this death trap of a car, The AC came on and off, music blasts from the speakers, the whippers clean the windshield, the chairs started going back and forth, the horn echoes, and the worst part is they are running out of track. “Aaron!” Misty cries out as they approach the gated fence. They went through it as if it wasn’t there, not slowing down, Meanwhile, “What do you mean that they are not here?” Sunny asks the last filly at the daycare, “Like I said, after we all got ice cream, we came back inside, and they were gone,” “But why would they just up and leave?” “Sunny, nothing; those two do make any sense anymore,” Hitch says as his radio shouts at him, “Sheriff Hitch, come in, Sheriff Hitch!” Hitch grabs with walkie talky, “Go ahead, Deputy,” “We got a break in at Canterlogic. Unknown suspects have stolen an experimental vehicle and are running wild in Maretime Bay. They were last seen heading Northeast of Canterlogic,” “Roger that. I am in pursuit,” Hitch says, taking off dead sprint with Sunny right behind him, “Sunny, what are you doing? This could be dangerous,” “But I still want to help. My magic could come in handy,” “Ok, but you follow my lead,” They run towards the disturbance passing by Pipp’s mane saloon as the sisters were exiting the building, Pipp smiles, seeing her friends and trying to get their attention, but they zoom by her, “Hi guy-“ “Can’t talk on the job!” Hitch says as they go around the corner, leaving Pipp confused, “What? Rude. You don’t run away when somepony is talking to you,” “I think something is happening, Pipp. Even Sunny getting involved,” Zipp reasons with her Sister as they go after their friends, “Out of the way! Get out of the way!” Aaron cries out to ponies in front of them as they dash down the streets of Maretime Bay, swerving to avoid any ponies. Misty has a death grip on Sparky, who surprisingly remains asleep during this whole ordeal, “Aaron, stop this crazy thing!” “I am trying,” He pulls on the gear shift that, causes the vehicle to slow down. Relieved that he finally found the break, he pulls a little bit harder, only for it to break off in his hoof. Aaron and Misty look in horror at the broken piece of plastic, “I am sorry,” He weakly says before looking forward as trees start coming into view. They scream in terror as the car heads into the forest. Aaron does his best to avoid the trees and heavy terrain, but the Jeep couldn’t avoid all of them. And before they were going to hit a huge tree head-on. One of the wheels hit a huge pothole, making them swirl away from danger; the engine starts to make a clunking sound as they start losing momentum. Aaron turns again to avoid another tree before the vehicle came to a complete stop running into a large rock. Aaron and Misty groan after hitting the dashboard head-on, but luckily, they were only going about 15mph when it happened, so they didn’t get hurt too badly. “And that is why you need seat belts. But all things considered, it could have been worse,” Aaron says before a loud beeping sound, “What is that sound?” Was all he could say before all the passengers were sent flying into the sky and crashing into the forest below, screaming all the way.