//------------------------------// // Distress Signal // Story: My Little Legion: Friendship Is Super // by Dreamgirl //------------------------------// Rokk Krinn, more often referred to by his hero-name of Cosmic Boy, brushed a hand through his normally neatly trimmed black hair as he stood upon the bridge of the star-cruiser. Reaching out through the magnetic manipulation powers common to the people of his world but for which he was exceptionally proficient in, he summoned the holo-communicator pad to his hand. Straightening his purple and black bodysuit to look in proper decorum as de-facto leader of the Legion of Super-Heroes, he thumbed the communicator on and keyed it for Brainiac 5's laboratory. "Brainy, Kara, report to the bridge, please." It was pretty quiet so everyone was just hanging around the cruiser waiting for trouble. Brainiac 5, who the whole legion called Brainy, came in with Super Girl (A.K.A Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin). And since Brainiac 5 had lip-gloss on his face it was pretty obvious that they were making out again. Everyone in the legion knew that Brainiac 5 and Super Girl were a couple and agreed to keep it a secret from Superman, Brainiac 5 was scared that Superman would rip his head off if he found out since he was a bit over protective. "Any trouble?" Brainiac 5 asked. "No, and um Brainy when did you start wearing make-up?" Rokk teased. Brainiac 5 realized what Rokk meant and immediately wiped his face and Super Girl blush. Before anyone could say anything else the alarm went off and a red light flash Rokk turned to Brainiac 5 and asked him what was going on. "We're receiving a transmission on the emergency channel, look" An image of a man with blue hair came up; he was dressed in armor with a symbol of a blue shield and a pink star with 6 points on his chest. "Legion of Superheroes, this is Prince Shining Armor of Equestria requesting immediate assistance. Please hurry." The transmission was immediately cut off, Brainiac 5 check to see exactly where we were supposed to go "Coordinates locked, the Crystal Empire." 'Awesome we got a mission.' Rokk said to myself "Set a course for Equestria, hyper-warp speed." He turned to Phantom Girl (A.K.A Tinya Wazzo) with her being the daughter of the President of United Planets he figured she might know something about Equestria or the Crystal Empire. "Phantom Girl can you tell us anything about the Crystal Empire or Equestria?" "Yes, the empire contains a powerful magic. Two thousand years ago (before anyone says anything this story takes place in the 31st century) King Sombra, a warlock whose heart was black as night took over the Crystal Empire. Equestria's princesses Celestia and Luna defeated him, turned him into shadow and banished him to the ice of the artic north. But not before he was able to put a curse on the empire, a curse that caused it to vanish into thin air. If the empire is filled with hope and love it will be spread all over Equestria but if hate and fear take over, eternal darkness." Rokk hung on Phantom Girls every word and with each passing second he became more aware of how important this mission was, he waited for her to continue. “After a thousand years the empire returned, the people had no memory of their kingdom before King Sombra took over. King Sombra also returned and threatened to invade the empire again, so Shining Armor and Princess Cadance were sent by Princess Celestia to defend it, projecting a defensive barrier around it. Celestia also sent her student Twilight Sparkle and her friends to help. They overcame various obstacles and reached the Crystal Heart, the key to protecting the Crystal Empire, when the barrier started to run out of power, Sombra began to cover the empire with shadow crystals and when it fully disappeared, Sombra invaded again. Crystal Heart returned to its original place. The citizens’, using its power to unleash an explosion of love and light that restores the Crystal Empire, destroyed Sombra along with his shadow crystals." "Well that is quite a story, and do you have any idea on why the prince would request our help?" "No, although I'm not surprised my mom told me that the rulers of the Crystal Empire have been through a lot of trouble, they even had to deal with an invasion of shape-shifters on their wedding day" "Wow, really?" Colossal Boy (A.K.A Gim Allon) said surprised "Yep, pretty crazy right" "Yeah" About twenty minutes later Rokk was starting to wonder when they'll arrive at Equestria "What's our ETA?" he asked Brainiac 5 Brainiac 5 tuned to him and replied "We should be entering Equestria's atmosphere in about five minutes and we will be arriving at the Crystal Empire in thirty minutes. 35 minutes later The legion arrived at the castle, it was made entirely out of crystal; though that was expected and there was an enormous amount of guards. One of the guards led them into the throne room where they saw the man from the transmission, and a young woman next to him; she had long dark violet hair with moderate rose and pale gold streaks, grayish purple eyes, pink lipstick and on her shoulder was a symbol of a blue diamond in the shape of a heart. She was wearing a small tiara and a long pink dress with yellow trim. Rokk remembered what Phantom Girl said back on the cruiser and realized that this was Princess Cadance, "Welcome Legion I am Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, Cadance for short" As the leader of the legion Rokk stepped forward to introduce himself and his team mates "It is an honor to meet you princess, I'm Cosmic Boy the leader of the Legion of Superheroes and these are a few legionnaires Super Girl (Long blonde hair, blue eyes, a black head-band, a costume a lot like Superman's except she wears a skirt and her cape is a lot shorter. Powers: Same as Superman), Brainiac 5 (Blonde hair, magenta eyes, green skin, a mark on his fore-head that's a bit hard to describe it's sort of looks like three white circles connected with three black lines forming a v shape, and a purple and black costume. Powers: A twelfth level intelligence), Colossal Boy (Brown hair and black eyes, Powers: Can increase his size and strength to gigantic levels.), and Phantom Girl (Long black hair, grey eyes, grey lipstick, a black and white costume with a long white cape and little ghost symbol on the chest, Powers: Hence her name, she is very similar to a ghost in which she can phase through solid objects and make herself intangible. She can also make other people intangible through physical contact.)" The princess smiled warmly, but Rokk saw pain and fear in her eyes and he knew it had something to do with this mission. "It is wonderful to meet you, your reputation precedes you" she said. Most likely knowing that his wife couldn't tell them what they needed the legion for her husband Shining Armor stepped forward and said "I'm sure you must be wondering why we called you here, like I said we needed your immediate assistance...a threat has been made against our daughter..." he paused Rokk assumed it was because he didn't like to think about something like that, then he continued "... someone plans to take my little girl's life." "How do you know?" Brainiac 5 asked Princess Cadance began to tell the story "Our daughter was out back practicing her archery, when she suddenly screamed in pain, the guards came running to find her on a bench struggling to keep herself up. She told them her arm was numb and her stomach wasn't all that great either, they found a poisonous stinger in her shoulder...it would have killed her slowly and painfully and she asked them to pull it out; there was a barb so pulling it out would have really hurt and she was very brave about it...didn't even ask for anything to bite down on. Once it was out the guards took her to be treated." "Oh man...well I promise the legion will help in any way we can" Rokk said Then they all heard a voice "Um...Mom, Dad...what's going on?" everyone turned to see where the voice was coming from. And that's when Rokk saw her, her emerald eyes, her long red hair with a few curls that fell over her face and a butterfly hairclip, she had on a white tank top, a green skirt with two pink and white butterflies on it, and a pair of green boots (The outfit Fluttershy wore in Equestria Girls). He thought she was so beautiful.