//------------------------------// // Fluttershy and the MC Bat Commander's Radical Adventure...A glimpse of it, anyway // Story: My Little Homie // by Lock Target //------------------------------// SOMEWHERE, AT TWILIGHT'S LIBRARY...! Spike daydreams about rescuing Rarity. They were about to kiss before Carl and Cobraman show up. "YOU HAVEN'T WON YET, SPIKE!" he shouted, pointing his staff at him, "COBRAMAN, GO!" Rarity faints as Cobraman starts shooting snakes at Spike. Spike dodges them with ease while guarding Rarity. The two make martial arts poses at each other. "You will not succeed, for she will remain here and is with us!" Cobraman said in a mock kung fu movie voice. "Never, for Lady Rarity shall be liberated and free from your grasp!" replied Spike in the sam type of voice. As the two charge at each other... "SPIKE!" Hearing Twilight's voice snaps Spike out of it to the point where he notices that he was about to slap Scootaloo with a wooden spoon. "There's a thing called self-control!" "Well you know how boys are" added AJ at the cooking station. Twilight, at the toast station, turns her head saying, "I know, but still, he almost hit Scootaloo with a wooden spoon!" She then turns back around seeing that she accidentally buttered Angel's face. Over by the counter, Fluttershy is spoon-feeding the Present Commander cereal and as he's sitting in a bathtub with the water frozen on top and his face covered in frost. "You're sure this will help you heal faster?" asked Fluttershy. "Totally" said the Present Commander, "I saw this work in a movie once" "Commander" added Present EagleBones tuning his guitar, "How many times do we have to tell you that not everything you see in the movies works in real life?" "Bones, we're in a world that looks like a giant cartoon everywhere you look" the Commander said to his weaponized guitar player, "It's gonna work. On another note, how about that craziness last night, huh?" "You mean that thing where you and Jimmy heard you whiz by on a purple blur?" asked Crash drawing with Pinkie and the Crusaders. Not knowing what to do next, Spike still looms over Scootaloo with the spoon making her nervous that he might act up again. "Oh-oh, and that fly-bys with the two Fluttershys" added Pinkie before noticing Crash sneaking a peak at her drawing making her cover it. "All I saw was a shooting star that sounded like a jet engine" Crash replied. "I didn't draw that" said pinkie thinking he meant what he saw on the drawing. "That's not what I was...Aw nevermind" Said Crash giving up on the conversation. "Hmm...What I think we might have witnessed was a predestination paradox" said Twilight getting Ricky this time. Disgruntled, AJ takes the butter knife from her and gives it to Ricky. An embarrassed Twilight gives the piece of toast to Ricky and heads into the living area. "Pre-what-now?" Asked Spike. Twilight clears her throat to begin explaining. "A predestination paradox, or casual loop if you prefer, is a time loop that sends one either back or forward in time depending on when subject A, the one sent through time is sent to correct or see the mistakes that subject B, his or her past counterpart made or is about to make, usually to either rectify the situation or cause a problem like I did for myself one time. "I remember that" Pinkie replied. "Uh, excuse me, JIMMY, but was that really the best you can do to simplify what you just said?" asked the Commander. After letting out a groan, Twilight looks around for a visual aid of some sort. "Hmm..." She then looks over in Spike's direction. "Okay, say that Spike represents subject A and Crash, subject B. Spike, please come here for a second" Spike walks over to Twilight who places the spoon on the counter. "Now, subject A had just gone back in time to say...Two months ago. Crash? Walk over to the Cakes" "Uh...Okay" Crash puts the crayon he was holding down and stands up looking around. "What cakes?" "She means us" said Carrot Cake. "Oh" Crash said walking over to the Cakes "Okay then...Subject B is now at the spot before his first encounter with subject A, and he's...On his way to work ready to get that big promotion" Crash starts marching in place acting like he's carrying an attache walking down the street with glee. "OOH-OOH-OOH! I think I know what happened with subject A!" shouted Pinkie making Crash stop and slowly relax his body to listen. "Um...What is it?" asked Twilight cautiously. Pinkie clears her throat. "Subject A GOT the promotion only to find out that the ponies he was working for were actually aliens planning an invasion to strip the planet of its resources, use us as their food supply and SELL THE REMAINS TO SLAVERY!" "Hoo, good thing I'm subject B" responded Crash, "Don't wanna go through all THAT again...It's happened to me before" "Actually, that's the point of this" Twilight said to him. "Now then, both of you stand between that spot in front of Jimmy, Rarity and that adlet over there" "Is that bacon I smell?" asked Fauna. "Miss, please be quiet during the lecture" Said Twilight nonchalantly to Fauna. Crash and Spike move over to the spot. Spike breaks out into a sweat as Fauna counts down from five on her fingers. "As I was saying, that spot represents the crosswalk where- ADLET!?" "ADLET!?" Rainbow and Pinkie, the Cakes and the Crusaders cried. "OH GOODNESS!" yelped Fluttershy. "MATH DOGGY!?" said Crash not getting why they are panicking. Everypony who panicked starts running around while AJ stays by the stove frozen. Ricky waves the butter knife at Fauna as EagleBones gets ready to fire. Fauna hides behind Jimmy who gets ready to defined her. The Future Aquabats, except their Commander who is sound asleep join him. The Present Commander struggles to grab the spoon from his cereal to also wave it around, to no avail. Through this commotion, the babies cry leaving their future selves to calm them down. Future Pound is rocking Pumpkin's past self and vice-versa. Crash looks at Fauna shouting "YOU'RE SCARING EVERYONE, YOU...MATH DOGGY...GIRL...THING!" He leaves the library so he wouldn't break the roof off of it. "GETTING EMOTIONAL!" As Crash unintentionally terrorizes everypony outside, Granny wakes up looking down. She lets out a yawn. "What's all that hootin' and hollarin' abou- AGH! BIG MACINTOSH, GET A BROOM! AN ADLET GOT IN!" Hay Flower, having just come out of the shower, uses her magic to pull down a volt of lightning to get everyopony to stop. "Now, what is going ON!?" she boomed stomping her right front hoof at the crowd. Emerging from the corner getting out of his meditative state, Fizz reports, "Rarity and the Robot found Fauna and everypony's freaking out about her being inside the library" "What!?" Hay Flower said turning her head towards Jimmy and Fauna. Fauna waves at Hay Flower. "How did you get here so fast? I sent the letter yesterday. And if I read the paper correctly, the trains are out of commission while they clean up an avalanche- did not think that through" "When I recharged, I found her asleep on a table in my laboratory" Jimmy explained, "Ms. Rarity was found on the floor" "The room was at such a comfortable temperature, I fell asleep through the rest of the day" Fauna added. "I'd hate to break this up" Rarity said remembering the situation, "But DO keep on track, would you?" "...About what?" asked Fauna. With a sigh, Rarity reminded the forgetful adlet. "Book? Pendant? Interdimensional window? DANGER!? HONESTLY, darling, keep up!" "THEY FOUND THE BOOK!?" shouted Twilight in distress. "Wait, pendant? THE PENDANT OF QUANTUM COSMO!" "You know of it?" asked Jimmy. "The pendant was forged by the great unicorn, Quantum Cosmo who was best known for her work with interdimensional magic" geeked Twilight, "Legend has it that she hid a book of her spells that contained where she hid the pendant in a cavern...Where did they find it?" Rarity took a deep breath and began. "Do you remember that DREADFUL dragon incident" Spike and the girls think about this for a second. "Be specific" requested Present Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, like, are you talking about the one where we had to convince one to go sleep somewhere else?" asked Pinkie "Or the time Spike went kleptomaniacal?" added Twilight. "What about that mess with the teenage ones when he joined the migration?" Fluttershy wondered. "How did you know about THAT!?" Rainbow asked her. "She told me during our spa date the next day" she answered. "...The first one" Rarity answered. She then looks over at Jimmy and Fauna. "We have a lot of unusual things happen here in Ponyville" "Oh no...THERE!?" As Twilight rubs her temples growling, Spike burps out a flame and a book materializes from it. There was a note being used as a bookmark. Twilight takes the book, opens it, then reads the note. "Ahem, 'I can't explain right now, but we managed to attain the book in our own time. I requested Princess Celestia to send this copy to you on this day. You needn't worry about the pendant or the last two ingredients to the potion that will get the Aquabats home, we'll take care of that. You just worry about the trash monsters approaching the town. Signed, a friend...' Trash monsters? 'P.S, do not read past page 50 until I say so'" Twilight finished. Noticing the Present Commander is bursting out of the frozen layer, Fluttershy moved the bowl away. The Commander stands up and reveals that he is wearing a pair of Aquabats-print swim trunks along with his hat and mask. Fluttershy covers her eyes after placing the bowl on the floor next to her. "Sounds like Eva Mudlark is making her move! Aquabats, LET'S- GOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" he cried clutching his abdomen falling submerging into the water. Fluttershy jumps in after the Commander, fishes him out, listens to see if he has water in his lungs and proceeds with performing CPR on him. The Commander coughs out the water. The Commander looks at EagleBones then points to him saying, "Not a word, Bones, technically, it's working!" Crash, still in an upset state, asks "So she's on our side?" "Seems like it, big guy" Replied the Present Commander recovering from his cramp and standing up, "Just one question...What the heck is an adlet, some kind of...warewolf?" "That's not really what we were talking about" Twilight reminded the Commander, "But I guess it doesn't hurt to have a quick lesson. Even if the one I was giving was interrupted by the subject" "Hang on" requested Jimmy as he scans through his database, "According to my data, the Adlet is a mythical beast of Inult origin. In some tales, it is said that early members of this race were..." He takes a quick glance at the Cutie Mark Crusaders and then Crash. "Delivered by the stork to a beautiful Inult girl and a big red dog. The litter consisted of 10-" "Wait, did you say big red dog?" Asked Crash shrinking down to normal size and reentering the library. "Not THAT big red dog, Crash" Jimmy answered "...Smaller one....Any way, half of them were regular puppies while the other half were hybrids of the worst of both parents known as Erqigdlets. The father of the girl..." He pauses to see that his comrades looked lost. "I had a notion that you wouldn't be able to keep up, so I've taken the liberty in making these before I joined the voyage here" Jimmy pulls out some puppets. "All I need is a stage-" "Hold on a second, darling" Rarity interrupted, "Where did you get the materials for those from?" "The most disorganized room in the place. Now then-" As the Commander left to get dressed and avoid the impending explosion, Rarity's mind starts reeling remembering what happened to her shop the time she switched bodies with AJ and Rainbow Dash. "My- ee- bleh-" was all she could get out of her mouth before fainting. Groaning, Sweetie Belle asked "You touched stuff in her inspiration room, didn't you?" "...Maybe?" Jimmy replied. "There's no time for this!" Twilight shouted right after Sweetie Belle called Jimmy a dodo. "Now then, we all have a busy day ahead of us. And if this book is from the future, we should be ready for what's coming our way" "Well, we can't do anything on empty stomachs" said AJ calming down, "So why don't we finish up here, and-?" She then turns back over to the frying pan seeing that the eggs spontaneously burst into flames making her and Ricky yelp. Pinkie rushes to the kitchen area's island in front of Ricky and sprays the fire with a fire extinguisher. She then tries to say something before the Present Commander, who had just gotten back and witnessed the incident interrupts her. "Don't tell me" he said expecting himself to be correct, "You have fire extinguishers stashed all over Ponyville in case of fire extinguisher emergency" "Hmm" pondered the Robot, "The same must go for flamethrowers" "Wow, you guys catch on quickly" said Pinkie sounding impressed. "Aw man, those were mine, weren't they?" asked Crash staring at the smoldering, foam-covered mess. "Uh...Afraid so, sugarcube" AJ answered with hesitation worried about what he'd do in response with to the answer. "That's okay" Crash reassured a shocked AJ, "We were talking, the doggy girl scared everyone, you got distracted" After a little bit of mumbling, AJ fainted and Ricky drops the butter knife. "...What the what?" asked the Present Commander just before he was whisked away by what appeared to be a badly damaged robotic alicorn that looked partially like Future Pound Cake with Future Pumpkin Cake's horn. "WHOA!" Crash runs out to see what just happened. "WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT!?" he shouted just as he started to grow again. "IT CAME BACK OUT!" Lilly Valley cried while tending to her garden. Meanwhile in the outskirts of town, the alicorn drops the Commander before crashing into a nearby rock. "Not a coordinated flyer, are ya?" asked the Commander standing up and dusting himself off. The robot stands up trying to regain his footing. "Functionality at 50%" a feminine voice said coming out of him. "Ugh" That's all the Commander could say. "C...Commander...My friend" the robot said in Jimmy's voice, "I don't have long to...Explain, but...I need to ask you a request" "Um...Okay, not freaky homie" the Commander answered still freaked out from the unexpected migration. "I...Don't expect you to understand right now" the robot said sounding badly injured, "...But it's crucial that you give...YOUR Jimmy this" A floppy disk pops out of the robot's head. "Functionality at 42%" he said again in the female voice. The Commander slowly approaches the robot taking the floppy disk. "Okay, now what?" "That disk...contains my memories...Do not put it in Angel's hard drive...for two days" the robot requested. "Functionality at 34%" There it goes, "How I enjoyed...Our time as a band...Like the time we found...Jimmy Jr.'s egg...I wish for him...Not to suffer what has happened to him in OUR future" "Wait a minute, how do you...?" The Commander then looks at his eye on the damaged side. "...Jimmy?" "The Jimmy that came here...Has the memories of...Before and after what really...Happened to me." The robot stood there as the Commander tries to wrap his head around this. "Functionality at 20%. Activating self-destruct sequence" "Wait, what?" the Commander asked. A group of four giant golum-like creatures made of garbage approaches their way. "As a last...Act of friendship" the robot said walking over to the advancing army, "I will stop these monsters...Before they get near the town" "Uh...Okay...Man..." said the still-confused Commander. "Functionality at 5%" the voice said as the robot flew at the monsters "Good luck, old friend...You...Must...Stop...Heeeeeeeeeeeeeer" The blast the robot produced incinerates the monsters completely. The Commander looks at the disk then at some nearby mares on a camping trip. "Uh...Don't mind me, ladies, just return to your camping" The Commander said leaving them confused. Disoriented from the passing incident, the Commander says to himself, "Well, THAT wasn't the weirdest day-starter I've ever had...He said sarcastically" What was THAT all about!? Where did that second book come from? WHEN did it come from? Tune in to the next chapter to find out!