//------------------------------// // Chapter 32 // Story: Mobile Suit Gundam: Alicorn - Volume 2 // by Alines Reinhard //------------------------------// In front of her is a dark figure with a faceless human as its heart. That’s everything she and her friends saw. “Luster Dawn, Griselda, Yolinda, Butter Burger, Spring Garden, use your magic! Don’t let those evil witches escape with that poor human!” Black Wine’s voice screamed into their ears. The group have long been told that there’s a poor human who have unknowingly been captured by the evil Psycho Gundam MkII in the time they don’t see it. Of course, it was all a lie. However to a realm of magic and power that absolutely no one in Equus have touched before, they believe what he said. “What... what do you mean by releasing him?” Twilight said. “You evil spirit wanted to have more friends during your own imprisonment? NEVER!” Butter Burger screamed. Flash then suddenly felt another punch beneath his seat, causing him to lose control. The dark blue MS fell down the thick tree. However, the Elements have helped him regain control just in time, allowing Flash to take himself back to full consciousness and return to combat. “Luster, BB, Spring Garden... is that you guys?” Flash screamed back. “Yolinda, Griselda too!” “Wait... Flash? Is that you?” Luster Dawn gasped “Flash? Mr. FLASH? Are... you okay?” “Yes.. Yes! I’m okay! I have... Arg!!!” For a brief moment, he was once again reminded that he was still a heavily injured pilot: a bullet pierce through his lung and another into his left arm, which luckily taken out just a month ago, heavy burns that will probably never healed, which result in bandages wrapped all over his upper body and part of his legs. His face was luckily left out during the dangerous attack from the enemy that attempted to knock him out of consciousness. “Arrgh...” he moaned in pain again, hardly positioning himself on the pilot’s chair “I’m still okay, guys... I can handle this“ “You got multiple heavy injuries on your body for Celestia’s shake!” Griselda scolded “You won’t live for long to get that ‘Friends for the rest of the live' gift from us!” “Wh... What?” Flash slightly gasped, but his face quickly gained back that serious temper and said “That’s it guys, now you have to fight back Black Wine’s urge!” Flash said. “No we’re not! He did not control us!” said Yolinda “But he said you are being captured!” “Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!” screamed Butter Burger in a rapid succession “Blink twice if you are in danger!” The Alicorn suddenly reminded him that he was in the middle of a battle by performing a powerful kick into the chest, causing the Psycho MkII to crash down the swamp below. The white winged mobile suit then proceeds to do the unthinkable: after putting the beam rifle on its forearm mount, it jumps right on to Flash’s MS and uses its hand to try to rip the cockpit hatch out. “Guys, do something about it!” Rarity screamed “They are losing control!” Flash can already hear the sound of bending metals outside of his cockpit. He, and probably the majority of the engineers that design and build these mobile suits, would never expect one of them will try to rip open the cockpit hatch of it’s enemy mobile suit by just the force of its hands. Right when he saw the fist alarming sign of severe bending of the cockpit hatch in front, he immediately pushes his feet on the pedals and worked his hands harder on the control stick and screamed: “No they are not!” The dark blue MS then did the same kick into the Alicorn’s torso and freed itself. “Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, I want to use your speed!” he said. The two pegasi then help Flash launch the suit upward as fast as possible, which are both fast enough to pull around 9Gs on Flash's body. The suit then decided to just run around the place with the Alicorn trying to pursue them right behind. “Okay guys, what’s the strategy?” Spike looked around in panic and disbelief “I didn’t know they could be that powerful and furious before!” “You have some extremely loyal friends there, Flash. Scarily loyal!” said Rainbow Dash “I want you to report, in full, about what happened after all this madness ended.” “Hug them...” he said calmly, then looked behind to see the 52.4 tons, of furious metal, according to an engineer who told Manatee when they have a discussion about the Alicorn itself (and Flash wondered where did they get that information), pursuing him and the Psycho MkII at, at least, Mach 3 “...if we can somehow show them that I’m not really in trouble, then we can clear the fog. Twilight, Starlight, can you help me do it?” Flash’s sudden request has made the two most powerful ponies in Equestria stunned. “Wait... when is he in charge here?” is their initial reaction. But given the urgency of the situation, they nodded and smiled in return. “Welp... as you wish, Flash...” Twilight said “Everyone, turn yourself facing the Alicorn, we’re gonna talk through with them!” The dark blue mobile suit turned itself around, facing its pursuer head to head. Flash and the Council decided to lower the speed in order to bridge the gap. It was only at that moment that Flash noticed the Alicorn had been fully transformed. Its psycho frame has been fully exposed with the familiar bright pink light that Flash used to back when he was still trying to hunt it down nearly a year ago with Black Wine and his squad during Operation Phoenix Hunt. “So... that’s was that Psycho Frame thing, right?” asked Starlight. The Alicorn’s arm was wide open. “Come here with me dude! We’re gonna be back to being good friends, don’t you want it?” Black Wine giggled in a horribly sounded tone upon seeing his white mobile suit closed the gap. And just when that moment came, when they were close enough, he unleashed all the might of the rocket verniers and the strength of the Alicorn’s arm. It hugged the dark blue machine like a gigantic bird of prey. However, he was surprised to see there was no resistance from the other side. “Hmm... that’s strange, but I’ll happily take it!” he said. He proceeds to lower the speed to get himself properly contacting the Psycho MkII. “Hey Brad, nice to meet ya again!” he said with a huge grin on his face “Are you okay buddy?” No reply. “Hey, it’s me! Yes you can loathe me as much as you want after we go back to the Las Pegasus, dear, but...” “Luster...” a familiar voice said, “Can you calm down for me?” The voice sent a sudden shock towards not just Luster’s, but also her friend's brain. “Luster, listen. I like that you are trying your best to protect the friends you love. But just going berserk won’t really do anything. So... please, calm down.” “No, no, no, no!” the light cerise unicorn shook her head, which neatly translate to the same movement to the Alicorn Gundam “This can’t be true! Princess Twilight is not evil! She’ll never submit to...” “I’m not...” the Alicorn Princess said calmly “...I have never been evil like the way you think. However…” “No way! No way I’m gonna listen to your words, evil witch!” she screamed. “Flash, please tell me that’s not the truth!” The blue-haired pilot sighed and immediately told her: “That’s… that’s actually… the truth, Lustie…” he said, grinding every single word as hard as if he was lifting his hoof near the end of a long trek on a mountain site. He fully understands how they would think about the dark blue machine, the very thing that they loathe about, the machine that Black Wine, its previous pilot, have committed several war crimes with. “You… you don’t say!” Griselda stuttered. The Alicorn slowly drifted away from them, then suddenly launched itself to supersonic speed almost immediately. “Hey, Luster!” Flash yelled “You must hear me…” His feet rapidly press the gas pedal to accelerate towards where the light cerise unicorn and her friends are trapped. However, Twilight used her magic to stop his leg from pushing further when it was just halfway into the press. “Flash, we should let them have some space.” Twilight insists “Time will let them think this through easier.” “Poor them, they must have a hard time believing what just happened.” Fluttershy sighed. … “Darn it what are you doing?” Black Wine growled “You naughty creatures don’t realize how close we are to capture the Psycho MkII back?” “You… you don’t understand!” Yolinda said with a sorrowful tone, which could make you think she’s nearly crying. “I… I can’t believe she’s... No! THEY betray me!” the light cerise unicorn whimpered “...I have always dreamed of the day I reunited with her, yet why did this happen?” “Hmm... maybe it is because someone imprisoned them into that thing?” Black Wine suggested, but soon chuckled at that “theory” he made of and said “Nah, it’s more likely they do that to themself to harness the suit’s power in order to make their ‘Magic of Friendship’ more powerful. I think they wanted to take over every magic in this world with that thing!” “Just like you!” Griselda yelled. Then, the Alicorn suddenly stopped from Mach 2 to almost 0 km/h midair in a sudden manner, making the dark blue pony nearly slamming his head into the main control monitor. “You have played us, Black Wine!” she said angrily “Explain to us why they are there!” “Isn’t I just telling you they tie their own consciousness to that thing to harness all of the magic! You don’t really realize that you're fooling you guys?” ”But what for?” asked Butter Burger. “To steal all of the magic! Of course!” said Black Wine. “But... but... No way is she gonna do that!” Luster Dawn chuckled in sadness, tears dripped through her eyes. However, she quickly slash all those tears away and stood up, her face clearly showing off the determination inside her. “I will ask Princess Twilight herself. It will be unfortunate for you if you dare stop the powerful Luster Dawn the Great and her friends!” “We got your back, Lustie!” Spring Garden cheered.