//------------------------------// // The plan unfolds // Story: The Komodo Brothers in Equestria // by Mr101 //------------------------------// The brothers entered the library and headed for the guest room to settle down for the night, the two brothers nodded to each other and got into the beds that Twilight had set up. They both stuck out slightly due to the beds being pony sized but it didn’t bother them that much, Joe quickly fell asleep with a smirk but Moe remained awake staring up into the celling, his brothers words still mulling in his mind. “Ssso what’s this idea then?” “It’s sssimple Moe…Doctor Brio needs gems, yes?” “Yes?” “And you heard that unicorn talking about the magical gems yes?” “Twilight” “Whatever” “What about them?” “You know that Doctor Brio will most likely have ussss killed for failing again yes?” “Yes…” “Well, here isss my idea…we will gain the trust of these poniesss…gain accesss to that gem mine…and steal the gems for ourselvessss to give to Doctor in exchange for our livesss…and a small fee of course…” “But wasssn’t the portal device destroyed?” “I’m certain we can ussse the gemsss or something let me worry about it Moe…” Moe kept mulling the words around in his mind, he wasn’t too sure the plan could be pulled off but sighed and thought it best not to question it, after all Joe was the more intelligent of the pair. Moe rolled over and closed his eyes slowly drifting off to sleep. As the sun shone in through the window Moe sat up slowly lazily yawning as he scratched his chest, he saw that Joe was already up and shrugged, Joe was an early riser anyway. He got up and sluggishly headed down the stairs and entering the sitting room, Twilight was sitting on the sofa levitating a book in front of her whilst a warm cup of what Moe assumed was tea or coffee next to her. “Ah good morning Moe, I hope you had a pleasant sleep?" she said upon seeing Moe enter. “Yesss….it was quite nice” he smiled back at her “Have you ssseen my brother at all?” “Joe said he wanted to go for a walk around town, he should be back soon for breakfast. Oh yes before I forget Moe I received a scroll a moment ago from the Princess saying she has invited you and your brother to meet her and her sister Luna. Don’t worry it’s just a formality, she wants to make sure you too won’t cause any problems for us but I can vouch for you” She smiled at him as she spoke, Moe’s heart sank slightly remembering the plan he and Joe were going to do to them. “Uhm…ok I sssee well thatsss good” he replied, he felt something clambering up his back before settling on his shoulder he eyed what it was to see Spike. “Morning Moe!” he grinned. “And to you Sssspike” “So…can I go with you guys when you go and see the princess?” he asked Twilight clinging to the side of Moe’s head like a little brother, Twilight giggled. “Well I don’t think I could pry you off Moe anyway, yes, you can come with us Spike” “AWESOME!” Spike hugged Moe’s head as Moe just smiled and chuckled softly. They were interrupted by the door opening as Joe strode in his mischievous grin still etched on his face as he waved in an odd cheery manner to the group. “Good morning Twilight Moe and Sssspike, it isss a beautiful day” “Uh…sssame to you Joe” “Ssso what is the plan for today then?” Joe asked Twilight. “Well as I said to Moe you to will meet our rulers, just a formality don’t worry” Twilight replied smiling at him, Joe nodded then pointed at Spike” “Why…isss he on your shoulder Moe” “Becaussse he climbed up there?” “Well don’t encourage him” Joe didn’t want either of them to have any close connection to the ponies due to their plan “He may…fall off and hurt himsssself” Spike frowned and was about to get off but Moe stopped him glaring at Joe. “He’s fine Joe I don’t mind him being there” Joe hissed then sighed giving up turning back to Twilight. “Ssso when are we leaving?” “The chariot should be here in an hour or so, we can have breakfast first before meeting the girls and heading off” she replied hopping off the sofa walking to the kitchen with Moe Joe and Spike following her. Breakfast was relatively quiet, the only ones really talking was Spike asking questions about the brothers, he hadn’t been this close to anything that like a dragon before that hadn’t tried to kill him. Moe was more than happy to converse with him, Joe on the other hand remained silent as they ate their food, Twilight had prepared them bowls of porridge as she wasn’t sure they what they actually ate but was happy to see the two were wolfing down the meal. After they had finished their breakfast there was a knock on the door. “Spike can you get that?” Twilight asked him, Spike nodded and hoped of Moe’s shoulder and headed to the door opening it. “Oh hello girls, come in” They heard Spike say turning their heads to see the other girls enter the library, Twilight stepped down from the table and greeted her friends followed by the brothers who also greeted the girls, they started chattering to one another about the days forthcoming events, Moe was talking away to Rarity and Applejack with Spike on his shoulder again grinning widely asking him more questions to which Moe simply laughed enjoying the attention when there came the sound of wings beating and a dull thud of something touching the ground. Twilight opened the door to be greeted by an armoured pegasi who bowed before addressing the crowd. “By the order of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, we have been tasked with brining the bearers of the elements and the two…” he shot a glance at the brothers” visitors to the royal palace in Canterlot.” The girls began an excited chatter as they exited the library and got into a large looking carriage that had several armoured pegasi at the front and back, Moe and Joe were the last two to get in with the former having Spike still sitting on his shoulders. The trip was spent with the girls and Spike talking to one another about the last time they had visited Canterlot, about how they had helped Princess Cadence and Shining Armour defeat the changelings and their queen Chrysalis. Joe had sat there in silence taking in what the girls were talking about sneering to himself ‘They HAVE to be lying…it just sssounds so ridiculousss!’ Joe thought to himself grumbling quietly to himself crossing his arms. Moe had his mouth agape as they talked. “Did…you really do all that?” “We sure did!” Rainbow said proudly “Showed that ugly Queen not to mess with us!” “Well uhm…actually…R-rainbow Dash it was more…uhm Princess Cadence and S-shining armour kinda did…all t-the work” Fluttershy pointed out quietly, Rainbow snorted. “Well yeah but they couldn’t of done it without our help” “I wouldn’t mind hearing about thisss story Rainbow” Moe said to her grinning as he leaned forwards as Rainbow beamed proudly and began to recite the events of the day. “And then I pulled off the greatest stunt ever in Equestrian history…THE SONIC RAINBOOM!” Rainbow Dash pulled a heroic pose to finish off her story, Joe had tried to block out the story and focus on the finer details of his plan but from what he had heard he had to give the ponies credit for that, he couldn’t figure how a creature so small could accomplish so much. Then he remembered Crash and how small he was compared to him and glared out of the carriage window, Moe on the other hand had been enjoying the story and couldn’t help but laugh grinning from cheek to cheek. “That isss a fantastic tale Rainbow, simply incredible all of you” The girls giggled and thanked him Fluttershy blushing as she hid behind her mane embarrassed slightly, Moe spent the remainder of the journey asking them questions on other deeds they had accomplished simply astounded at them. Joe who was still trying to not pay attention gave up after a while and began to note down what they had done thinking it was best to know how the ‘enemy’ operated, as he continued to look outside Joe then spotted what appeared to be a large city on the side of a mountain. “Were nearly there oh I can just SEE the styles every pony is wearing now!” Rarity cooed sighing contently, Moe leaned to view outside and saw what Joe had seen and gasped at the vast city never seeing anything like it before. From next to him he heard Twilight giggle. “I take it you like the city?” “It’ssss…incredible, I’ve never seen anything like it” The chariot came to a stop inside the palace ground where three guards were waiting for them, the girls got out first walking over to the guards, Moe Joe and Spike soon followed standing still as the chariot flew off, Moe scratched his chin confused as they watched Twilight hugging the pony in front of the two other guards fondly. “Shinning!” “Hey Twily” the guard grinned ruffling Twilight’s mane. “That’s her older brother” Spike whispered to Moe who nodded. Shinning looked up from his sister and walked past the girls over to the two brothers followed by two guards each levitating a spear next to them. “As Captain of the guard I must ask you to remove any form of weaponry on you before you meet with the Princess’s, do you have any weapons on you?” Shinning asked them sternly. “Well…ssssort of” Joe began; the girls gave them confused and slightly worried looks. The two guards raised their spears up defensively; Moe looked at each of them curiously watching the spears angle slowly begin to tip towards him or so he thought. “What do you mean sort of? Reveal your weapons please and throw them on the ground” Shinning asked himself taking a defensive position, Moe noticed the two guards spears where starting to angle towards Shinning. His eyes widened as Twilight screamed. “SHINNING LOOK OUT!“ Just as the spears came down Moe lunged forward and grabbed Shinning pulling him back just as the two spears slammed into the ground hard just where he had been standing, Shinning winced in pain as blood ran down his hind leg where one of the spears had sliced into him. The two guards growled and pulled their spears out and lunged for Joe and Shinning their spears pointed at them, Joe swung his leg round and kicked the spears to one side before bringing his fist into the gut of one of the guards sending him backwards. The other guard grunted as he drew his spear with his magic and tossed it at Moe, Joe let go of Shinning and with a quick flick of his wrist produced a sword and deflected the spear with ease. The girls snapped out of their sudden shock and ran over to assist, Spike who had been on Moe’s shoulder, lept down and was caught by Rarity’s magic and taken to one side away from danger. Rainbow and Applejack ran towards the guard Joe had punched who brought up his spear and began to charge at them. The two stopped as Joe pushed past them with a loud roar pulling two swords out of nowhere and blocked the guards spear before bringing the second sword down aiming for the guards chest, the guard pulled back just as the sword sliced past narrowly missing his chest and clanged as it hit the floor. Twilight and Pinkie ran towards Shinning with Fluttershy behind them but were stopped by Moe who growled at them. “GO! GET HIM OUT OF HERE, WE’LL HANDLE THISSSS!” The two girls nodded and helped Shinning away from the guard and Joe and over towards Rarity, Moe and Joe began to aggressively duel with the two guards easily gaining an upper hand. A loud thunder of hooves came from the building as guards poured into the grounds; the two guards seeing this pushed away from the two and began to run dropping their spears in the process. “Oh no you don’t!” Joe growled as he and Moe threw their swords at the retreating figures both swords finding their targets as they let out screams of pain and collapsed to the ground, Moe and Joe ran walked over to the guards as they crawled in pain the swords embedded in their spines. The two brothers grinned as Moe raised his other sword up Joe summoned another and raised that up. “N-no spare us!” one of the guards cried blood leaking from his mouth and back. “Ssssso ssssorry” Joe said sarcastically as they both brought their swords down on the two cutting their screams off suddenly. The other guards rushed over to the two all drawing spears and swords forming a circle around them about to attack. “STOP” The guards turned to see Shinning limping over with the help of Twilight and Pinkie. “Don’t attack them, they saved my life.” The guards nodded in obedience and lowered their weapons; there was a hissing sound as they all looked to the guard’s bodies which dissolved to that of black creatures with holes in their legs. “Changelings…I should have known” Shinning spat as he glared at the bodies before turning his attention to the brothers “You have my thanks…” Joe turned to the body of the changeling to inspect it as Moe rubbed the back of his head and grinned. “It wasss nothing…” “NOTHING?” Twilight almost screeched out “You just saved my brother’s life!” she dashed over to Moe and embraced him in a tight hug; Moe was stunned for a moment but slowly hugged her back, he hadn’t been hugged before and he felt warmth inside of him, he heard Twilight sob softly into his robes as he smiled and stroked her back. “It’ssss ok Twilight…he’sss safe” “That was so awesome!” Rainbow cried out “I didn’t know you guys had magic!” “What do you mean magic?” Moe asked her confused. “You know, with the swords and such” Applejack replied. “Oh, well…I don’t know if it’ssss magic or not” Moe shrugged as he let Twilight go who sniffled. “You going to be ok?” “Y-yeah sorry” she let go of him wiping her eyes with a hoof as Shining pulled her into a hug smiling “My brother just means a lot to me…thank you guys… “ “Ssso this is a changeling then, the things from your story” Joe said as he re-joined them. The guards began to search the area for any other signs of changelings as the girls explained to the brothers what the changelings were exactly, as the girls spoke Shinning was being looked over by a white unicorn with a bandaged heart as her cutie mark who was addressing the wound on his leg. “Aahh careful!” he winced as she giggled. “Oh hush now tis but a scratch” The girls giggled as Twilight nuzzled him affectionately. “Well that was one way to welcome you to the castle I suppose” They all turned to the see who spoke to see a white alicorn walking down the steps from the building followed by a dark blue alicorn. The guards immediately stopped what they were doing and bowed in their direction as did the girls. “Princess Celestia, Princess Luna!” Twilight called out as she ran over to embrace the white alicorn, Celestica smiled at her. “Hello my faithful student, is your brother ok?” “I’m fine your highness just a” he inhaled sharply as the nurse dabbed his wound “just a scratch” Celestia and Luna giggled softly “Please Shinning I insist you call me auntie now” “I’ll try to in future auntie” Twilight and the princess’s giggled as they approached the two brothers who stood there unsure as what to do. “So you are the two new comers then, quite a performance, and not a bad way to give a first impression I must say “ She looked over to the changelings bodies “Today’s meeting could of gone better than this…but you two have my heartfelt gratitude for saving our nephews life” “Indeed you do” Luna added as both the sisters bowed their heads to the brothers who rubbed their arms slightly embarrassed. “Uhm…it wasss nothing your majesties” Joe said sheepishly, Celestia smiled at him. “Come, we can continue our discussion in the royal council room, we have much to discuss about your arrival here.” The Two sisters turned and headed inside the palace with several of the guards followed by the girls, Twilight helping her brother to hobble inside as Spike clambered back onto Moe’s shoulder. “That was so cool you gotta show me how you make those swords appear” he started as Moe softly chuckled giving the little dragon’s head spines a playful ruffle. Joe walked behind them a smirk etched onto his face as he crossed his arms behind his back. ’They seem to trust us already…this is going to be easier than I thought, now I only need to contact the Doctor…’ he thought to himself as he entered the palace.