//------------------------------// // Chapter 12 - TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON // Story: The Stuff of Legends // by Harvs //------------------------------// Chapter 12 TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON "WAT!?" Captain Planet yelled at his right hand man standing to his left, baffled by the words that came out of his mouth. "It would seem that Robotnik was not as strong as we had originally thought." Will Ferrell stroked his chin. "I'm actually starting to see a trend here." Captain Planet, oblivious to his utter failure to compile a team that could actually do things, just shrugged and said, "What kind of trend? What does you mean?" Will raised his index finger and opened his mouth to speak, when he saw the Captain picking his nose, and decided to remain silent. "We need to come up with something fast as lightning!" The Captain looked up and began to pace back and forth, deep in thought. "These heroes aren't messing around. They've managed to take out four of my minions! Four!" "To be fair, you may have underestimated their abilities from the start." The mysterious man in the shadows murmured. "After all, we aren't just dealing with any ordinary six people." "They have accomplished great feats." Will continued. "Magical powers, expert swordsmanship, anvils from nowhere, and a taco. They seem to have just what they need to win." "Not to mention their..." The masked man stopped and quieted his voice. "special powers..." The entire room fell void of noise. The three just sat at the table except for Captain Planet, Will, and the masked man as they were all in fact, standing. "Why did you say that all quiet like?" Will asked, raising an eyebrow. "No one else is here anymore." Completely ignoring Will, Captain Planet just raised his fist in the air. "No matter what powers they have, we will have a perfect world!" He looked at the table below and smirked. On it was a blueprint of how his world would look when it was completed. "Maybe we just need to hit these 'heroes' a little... closer to home." "What do you mean Captain?" Will asked, intrigued by his devious stare. "Well... While it was mainly Dr. Robotnik's primary operative to extract pieces for my new, perfect world, I still have control over the entire operation." He strolled to a small collection of computer consoles and typed in a few characters. This brought up a surprisingly serious hologram of a giant claw attached to a moar gianter spaceship. "But that doesn't mean that we can change the plan, does it?!" Will stated, rather flustered. "We had it all figured out!" "And now we're going to... edit the plan. And the planet." The evil captain turned a key in the main console and with that, the moar gianter spaceship began moving towards a planet that any brony should recognize. "But sir!" Will burst out, furious at the turn of events. "But nothing!" Captain roared back. "We need something to break those heroes! And this is how we are going to do it! YOU!" He yelled, directing his attention to the mysterious man whom the authors still don't feel like revealing just yet. "Yes Captain?" "I have a trace on the heroes." He said, typing a few more codes on the keyboard. "Apparently they fled the Death Star and are now in a space pod, headed towards the moon." "Say no more." The man bowed. "I'll take care of them." "Good. And you Will, begin the cleansing of this new planet, this... Equestria. I want it completely devoid of those wretched pollutant ponies!" ***** We rejoin our heroes yet again, sitting in a rather compact space pod, with barely enough space inside to go around. (ba dum tss) Vinyl Scratch was forced to sit on Sephiroth's lap, though being through so much, the two didn't mind it too much. It started off rather awkwardly though. Yakko sat on the other side of the pod, Vinyl's amp next to him and Latisha and GLaDOS on that. The Pyro took the last available seat inside the cramped ship. They had originally tried to plug GLaDOS into the pod with the adapter cable, but there was no where for to plug said potato in. The pod seemed to be reading off of some preset coordinates. So the six just sat there, uncomfortably close to each other. To pass the time, Yakko pulled out his favorite toy which he had purchased from Dan so long ago and began to play with it. However, there was so little room that the ball just kept smacking the Pyro in the face. "Don't you ever get tired of playing with that thing?" Sephiroth asked, hoping for some peace and quiet rather than the constant smacking of the face of the gas jockey. "Not really Seph." Yakko thought out loud. "It sure passes the time." Vinyl, who had been sitting quietly staring at the floor, suddenly looked up and said, "Speaking of time, how long have we even been on this crazy trip?" The question caught everyone off guard. Even Yakko stopped playing with his paddle ball to acknowledge the question. "Hmmph mmph mm mmph hm hmmph hmm." The Pyro muttered, making some specific hand gestures. "I don't know Pyro." Sephiroth said. "We've been on this adventure for quite a while. I've actually lost track." "Well fortunately for all of you, I've taken the time to calculate how long we've been together." GLaDOS said. The others leaned closer to her, anxious to hear what the all-knowing potato had calculated. "And?" Vinyl asked. "Entirely too long." GLaDOS said. Silence. "So... you don't actually know?" Yakko asked, looking rather unimpressed at the spud. "Not the slightest idea." She replied rather cheerfully. They all leaned back, disappointed in GLaDOS' knowledge, or lack there of. None of them spoke. Even Yakko put his toy away, succumbing to the quietude. After a long while, the Pyro looked outside of the pod's only window. He saw stars... more stars... lots of stars... Until finally, he saw something bigger than a star... well not astronomically bigger, but it was closer so it appeared to be bigger. "Hmmph!" He yelled to the others, pointing toward the large something. "What is that?" Vinyl asked, standing up on Sephiroth's lap to get a better view. "It looks like..." Sephiroth squinted his eyes. "A small moon." "That's no moon." Yakko said, pressing his face up against the glass. "It's a space station." Upon closer inspection, the dog shook his head and said, "Oh whoops. My bad, it is a moon." "Then I guess that's the destination." Sephiroth said, still looking at the giant rock. As the pod grew closer, the moon appeared to be unlike any other. It had a face. And not a smiley one like this: :) but a mean one like this: "That's no ordinary moon." Sephiroth said judgmentally. "Hmmph mmph mmph hmm." The Pyro added. The moon was not happy to see them. And so it started to pull them towards its mouth hole (if this is dirty to you, go away). "What's happening?" GLaDOS said, sensing the sudden shift in speed of the pod. "We're all in a pod, that's the extent of my knowledge." Yakko paraphrased from a really hilarious movie. "It's the moon!" Sephiroth said, trying to keep his balance in the shaking and shifting pod. "It's sucking us into its mouth hole (we don't really care). "What's gonna happen to us now?!" Vinyl Scratch cried, hugging Sephiroth's boot for her dear life. The shaking pod rattled back and forth, all of the inhabitants panicking at this point, even the angel. The mouth grew wider and wider, about to swallow them whole. "I don't know..." Sephiroth said, just before the pod fell into darkness and the group lost consciousness yet again. (filler chapter is filler)