Saving the Elements

by Flames173


Laughter is the Best Medicine

"Girls, I've called you all here today for a very very very very, very, important announcement. I cannot stress how important this is." Rainbow Dash began to explain to the girls.
"GET ON WITH IT!" Applejack shouted. "WE DON'T HAVE ALL DAY!"
"Spitfire is the leader of a secret evil organization and they have teamed up with a bunch of ponies I don't know and the changelings and their goal is to take all six elements of harmony, I don't know why but it's probably to destroy Equestria and I need your help to make sure that they don't succeed for whatever reason." Rainbow Dash explained quickly.
The mares looked at each other then dashed home. They all returned in 10 minutes.
"Ok, is anyone missing their element?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"ME ME OOH ME PICK ME!" Pinkie Pie raised her hoof and jumped up and down excitedly. "I LOST MINE!"
"Pinkie, was there anyone taking it when you got there?"
"Yes, it was Soarin, he had two other pegasi wearing all black with him."
"So you just let him take your element?"
"No, I gave it to him!" Pinkie smiled widely.
"WHY?"
"What, did I do something wrong?"
"YES YOU DID RETARD!"
Rainbow Dash quickly ran out of the house and stared up at the sky.
"If your story is correct, they should be flying then, right around, THERE!" Rainbow Dash pointed at three small shapes quickly streaking through the sky. "Pinkie, got your party cannon?"
"Always do!" Pinkie Pie pulled her party cannon out of nowhere and began to load it with party charges.
Rainbow Dash crawled in it and commanded Pinkie where to aim. "Left, left, left,left, a tad bit up. Fire on my command."
"Wait, here, for protection." Twilight used her magic to put a pair of goggles over Rainbow Dash's eyes.
"Thanks Twi, now girls, plan delta ultra minor."
Twilight enhanced Fluttershy's flight ability, and she flew into the air. Pinkie Pie lifted the cannon up, Applejack kicked it as hard as she could. Fluttershy flapped her wings as hard as she could, causing a small gale force. Rarity used her magic to pull the cord on the cannon to shoot it. Rainbow Dash was shot out instantly. Her speed was, in mathematical terms, flight speed+cannon launch+ cannon flight speed+wind speed-drag=HOLY SHIT WHAT WAS THAT? Bugs blasted the goggles while she flew. She almost immediately crashed into Soarin. He dropped the bag he was carrying. She managed to stop there.
"Take that you dick!" Rainbow Dash shouted at him. "Rainbow Dash 1, Soarin, ehh, umm, 2. But still, I BEAT YOU!"
"You are truly foolish, I won this." Soarin said, chuckling slightly.
"How? You dropped the element of laughter, and the girls have it."
"I'm a decoy you imbecile!"
"What?"
"The real element of laughter is in Spitfire's possession. I gave it to her when none of you were looking."
"GIRLS, SPITFIRE, GET HER!" Rainbow Dash cupped her hooves around her mouth as she shouted to the mares at least 10 miles below, then she pointed to another black shape on the other side of the sky.
Rarity barely heard her friend, she used magic to form binoculars and looked at the pegasus, then she pointed them where she was pointing, Spitfire was wearing a necklace with a pink balloon on it.
"TWILIGHT!" Rarity shouted. "That shadow there, is Spitfire, she has the real element of Laughter!"
"WHAT?" Twilight shouted, she took the magic binoculars and looked. Sure enough. "Shoot her down." Both unicorn's horns began to glow, a bolt of lightning shot from Twilight's while a giant icicle launched from Rarity's the two magic spells intertwined.
"I have never noticed that my element was made of cardboard before." Pinkie Pie said, trying on the face necklace.
"Lightning?" Rarity asked.
"Yeah, it's fast and powerful, and much more natural. Why did you pick ice?" Twilight asked.
"It's much more marvelous." Rarity answered as if it were obvious.
"Ok then, hey, why didn't Spitfire go down? We should've hit her by now."
"Well, that there is our magic, that is Spitfire."
"We had the wrong trajectory? But how?"
"Don't ask me, you're the one who aimed."
"Oh shut up."
"GIRLS, shut up! If we keep up like this, this will have all been for nothing, they have half of the elements. We have none." Rainbow Dash said, bowing her head in shame.
"So, how will we protect the rest?" Applejack asked.
"We keep them all in the same building, and two of us defend each one."
"So which building?"
"I saw we go with Fluttershy's house, not many ponies know where it is, and the animals would surely warn us if someone was nearby."
"Well then, what are we still doing here?"
The six mares took the remaining elements of harmony and went to the cottage just outside Ponyville.