//------------------------------// // Chapter I: The Followers // Story: Wisdom's: Journey to find Lily Peace // by InnerWisdom //------------------------------// “Where should we start looking?” Says a curious Weep. “Why don’t you ask Wisdom, he should have an idea,” Says Sleep. “Fine! Hey Wisdom, Where do you think we should start looking?” Weep asked. I had been thinking long and hard on the same question but what was really hard to decide was if I could find someone who knew Manehattan pretty well. I have an idea and say: “First, we need to get high, and by that I mean we need to get a top one of these skyscrapers. Second, we await for a friend.” We headed to the tallest building, which was called Empire Tower. It stood 2,000 ft in the sky and for some reason had only one elevator. We entered and noticed that the elevator was full. “Aw dang it, Now we have to take the stairs!” Weep said. “Well, only those who don’t have wings will have to. Those who have wings can simply...fly up to the top,” says Sgt Fears. “Sgt Fears is right my fellow ponies, those who can fly will meet you up at the top. But be careful, I sense we are being followed,” Dr. Shenanigans said as he notices two hooded ponies watching our every move. So, Dr. Shenanigans, Sgt Fears, Monstershy, and I flew to the top of the tower, while Weep, Sleep, and Dynamo took the stairs. When we arrived to the roof, we found an inscription on the wall. It says, ‘If you are reading this, then this is the possible future in which you need me to help you find or understand something. If you are reading this by mistake then this is the possible future in which you really just don’t like your life and should not jump because it won’t do you any good -Griffin.’ “Why would somepony write this here?” says Sgt Fears. I smiled, “Not somepony but more like a Griffin named Griffin.” Sgt Fears look puzzled, “ looked at him “Just turn around, and ask him how it’s going.” Sgt Fears turns around to see Griffin behind him and says, “How is it going?” Griffin smiles, “Going, how is it going, well, for me it is going quite well, unless this is the possible future in which I must get going because of an imminent attack, or if this is the possible future in which you have come here to get help with something that has turned for worse, then I am not good, but that depends.” Sgt Fears turns back to me and seems shocked. Dr. Shenanigans has been studying Griffin since he landed and says, “Such a fine specimen, if I may ask, where exactly are you from?” “I am from the secret hive underneath Trottingham. But enough about me...” Griffin said as he looks over to me and says, “Wisdom, What can I do for you?” I smile, “We need your help in locating a pony called Clank, who has ponynapped Lily Peace and Pondi. We have reason to believe there somewhere in this city.” “Oh and you’d be right. You see, they have been taken to a warehouse just on the outskirts of the city. I will be honored to help you but your five friends are about to come through the door and surprise us.” I looked at Griffin curiously, “Five? There is only three others with us.” We braced for the worst and when the door opened, Weep, Sleep, and Dynamo got bucked threw the door and as they crawled towards us, they were all saying, ‘She’s a monster, we had no chance! She wouldn’t even let us introduce ourselves, she just kept asking how we knew you.’ I threw my hood over my head and waited for this pony to reveal herself but just when all seemed to get worse, Peachy Keen walked through the doors. “You’d oughta tell your friends not to try to hit on me cause I’ll hit back!” She shouted. I smiled at her, “Peachy? What are you doing here.” We hugged, “We couldn’t find you anywhere, we searched Sugarcube Corner, Canterlot, and even the Everfree Forest but no pony could find you. That is until Some Pony came from outta nowhere and said you’d be here in Manehattan.” “We? what do you mean we?” I asked out of curiosity. “Well, Tick Tock and I of course. Rocket is far too busy being a king and all but he did say if we needed anything to just ask.” Tick Tock comes crawling from the door out of breath, “Too many stairs, why couldn’t you just wait for the elevator. It’s not like we had to keep following them, gosh.” “Stop being such a cry pony,” Peachy said with a slight annoyance in her voice. I walk over to the two of them, “My friends, I’d like you to meet my team, this is Dynamo Gunderson, my demolitionist. This here is Dr. Shenanigans, the interrogator. These two are Weep and Sleep, my hunters. Lastly this is Monstershy, my tracker. If all of you haven’t realized it yet, none of them have cutie marks either.” “Interesting, but why do you have a team and why are you here in Manehattan?” Peachy asks. I sighed, “It’s a very complex and long story, I’ll tell you more on the way down.” I explain the situation to Peachy and Tick and just when we are about to step off the elevator and walk out of the tower, the receptionist says, “Sir, yes you (as he points to me), this just came for you (gives me an envelope).” I was baffled, and asked, “Who gave this to you?” “A pony wearing a hood and heavy jacket,” says the receptionist. I open the letter and begin skimming through it.Everypony and Griffin ask, “Well, what does it say?” I look at them and say, “It says, ‘Dear Mr. Wisdom and friends, You don’t know me but you will soon learn the real threat to Equestria, for I am the destroyer of all peace and harmony, I am the one who will rule equestria with an Iron Hoof, some will call me a terrorist, others an inspiration. You however. . .can call me Destro. I look forward to defeating you and your friends. Sincerely, Destro and student Clank’ “So Clank has found a new teacher, somepony much, much worse. I fear his destiny has turned for the worst. Griffin, take us to the warehouse. I feel they already moved them but they might of left behind some clues.” We left and headed for the warehouse unaware of how dangerous Destro really was.