//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 - Party With A Rose // Story: Equestria In Chaos Control // by chaoswisp1000 //------------------------------// The element of laughter swiveled her trademark blue and yellow party cannon around, watching for any sign of anypony who wanted to take the emerald twilight had told her to keep safe. "I know you're out there thief, just try and take this jewel!" she said aloud, though thus far there hadn't even been a single disturbance or break-in attempt. But Pinkie Pie, as paranoid as she ever was, kept watch anyway waiting for something to happen. It was quarter to midnight when Pinkie actually started to have problems staying awake, her eyes refused to stay open, and she was starting to give in to her need for a rest. "I guess a few minuets of sleep woul - zzzZZZzzzZZZzzz." the pink party pony fell asleep almost instantly, unaware of the pink hedgehog peeking in through the shop's window. *** "Great, first Cream and Cheese wander off somewhere, and now i have to get by a horse with a cannon" Amy mentally complained, she could see the light coming from the emerald and knew she had to get it somehow. But she also knew that the horse guarding it was armed. "Well here I go" she said quietly, moving towards the door. She carefully opened the door, only enough so she could get in, without allowing the door to hit the bell above. Once she was certain that no one had heard her she moved slowly and quietly towards the emerald, and the sleeping equine in front of it. Then, with only about a foot between Amy and the emerald, she stepped on a toy, which let out a loud skweak. Instantly the pink horse was on its hooves, cannon lowered at Amy, who in response pulled out her over sized hammer from nowhere. "Put the hammer down, thief!" the horse said, much to Amy's surprise. However she quickly got over her shock and stood her ground holding her hammer in a two handed grip, readying it for combat. "The emerald doesn't even belong to you, just give it to me and neither of us will have to get hurt!" she tried to reason, hoping that this would be a quick and easy task. "No, never in a million years, I promised I would keep this emerald safe, stay away from it!" the equine said before firing her cannon. Amy ducked the shot and side swiped with her hammer. The horse jumped the swing leaving Amy off-balance, before she could recover she was hit in the back by something really, really hard. Turning around she saw the equine her cannon smoking. "Your going to pay for that!" the pink hedgehog said, swinging her hammer left, then right, then faking a right and bringing it straight up, connecting with the equine's jaw. *** Pinkie Pie felt really, really hurt. Not just from the hammer, but from not being able to keep her promise to Twilight. The creature walked over to the emerald and was about to take it from its glass case, when suddenly the sound of shattering glass broke the silence of the room. Pinkie turned as the creature did to see another being, this one was taller and instead of spikes hanging off the side of its head they jutted out from the back of its head, giving it a wind swept look. It had weird orange and silver casings on its feet, and claw like endings on its arms, rings made of a shiny gold material attached to the casings. Its body was tiny, and it eyes were a were like burning flames. "Who ar-" before pinkie could finish her question she was rammed in the gut by a spinning ball of silver and orange. She flew backwards into the pink creature both collapsing to the floor. "Ill take that emerald, thank you for dealing with her for me" the creature said, before racing out the broken window. "STOP!" Pinkie and the pink creature she had fallen on said simultaneously, both trying to get up and falling back down in the process. *** The hedgehog picked up her pace as she ran through the streets of the village. Stopping occasionally to let her two pink pursuers catch up before dashing off in another direction. "This is too easy" she thought, racing around a mare who had stepped out to see what all the noise was about. Eventually though she ran into a dead end, she whirled around to see the pink are known as Pinkie Pie readying a cannon. The pony fired the cannon, the force sending her skidding back a few feet. The hedgehog smiled, kicking away the cannonball of party streamers and confetti. The mare was about to fire again when suddenly a over-sized red and gold hammer smashed into the pony sending her flying into the wall of a house. "Your *pant* not taking that emerald!" a pink hedgehog said, the frustration in her voice was uncomfortably palpable. *** Amy charged at the mysterious hedgehog a fresh new hammer appearing at her command. Her charge was interrupted however by a party material cannonball, shot directly at her legs by the equine, who was now up again and loading another shot. The horse fired the cannon, but this time Amy was ready, she swung her hammer like a baseball bat, striking the cannonball in just the right spot, causing it to shatter into tiny pieces of confetti. "I'm taking that emerald, I made a promise to keep it safe. Let it go meanie-pants." the horse called out. Firing off another shot. Amy, instead of striking the cannonball dodged left, allowing the projectile to shoot straight towards the mystery hedgehog. The hedgehog raised its hand, the emerald glowing brightly in the darkness of the night, it's cyan glow enveloping the pony and Amy herself, the cannonball instantly vaporized by the massive amounts of energy. "What is--" Amy started, shielding her eyes from the glow which was now a blinding white. "Going on--oh shiny" the equine finished. *** The glow started to dim as the hedgehog finished the trap technique. "That wasn't so hard" she thought, clutching the emerald tightly as a crowd of ponies started towards her. "What have you done to Pinkie Pie" asked a stallion with a orange coat and mane, a symbol of 3 square cuts of cake depicted on his flank. From what the hedgehog collected from his tone of voice and his expression: he was mad. "Tell me!" he demanded, this only evoked a smile from the hedgehog, who then began to chuckle softly. "wuh-" before the stallion could finish a rumble shook the earth, as, not one but two sonic booms occurred simultaneously. One was filled with the colors of the rainbow, the other was a blue disk of shimmering energy. "i need to act FAST" the hedgehog quickly spoke the two activation words for her ability. "chaos control!" she said, everything around her slowing to a standstill, as she raced away towards the two sonic speeders. *** Inside all the emeralds something stirred, something dark and angry, powerful, ancient. It didn't have a name, more or less it had a title, it had been subdued for eons, and only recently had been freed. But it was quickly imprisoned once again, being confined to its cell, or chamber. It didn't know where it was, but it did feel something. Something powerful, and the something was also imprisoned. Encased in stone for over 1000 years, seeking to break out and reclaim what it thought was rightfully its'. Both wanted the same thing, both thrived on the same energy, and both were hungry for freedom.