//------------------------------// // Gilda of Rage part 3 // Story: Twilight Sparkle: Green Lantern of Sector 2812 // by cornholio4 //------------------------------// Twilight managed to at the last second dodge an attempt by Gilda to charge at her. Gilda roared in frustration as she tried again. Twilight facing Gilda’s back after dodging that second attempt used a construct of a cannon sent Gilda to the ground. Levitating several rocks at once she used them to enclose Gilda in a rock prison but knew she it would not hold her for long. Then suddenly Gilda broke out was now being fired at by several spells by reinforcements. Gilda grunted, they would have to finish it later. Gilda then flew off before any Pegasus Guards could catch her. Suddenly Shining Armor arrived with Princess Cadence Shining’s marefriend and Twilight’s old foalsitter. Nurse ponies began showing up to help the injured and a cleaning crew came to wipe up all the blood. “Twiley are you alright?” Cadence asked Twilight as she and Shining enveloped Twilight into a huge hug. “I am........” Twilight managed to say before she was let go. Shining looked alarmed. “How could that griffon become like that?” Shining asked when Twilight had a brainstorm. “Maybe someone on Oa can help me........” Twilight realised her ring started glowing before Shining could ask what she was talking about “Green Lantern of Sector 2812 requesting advice.” said Twilight. Then appeared from her horn was a green hologram of a Guard looking at Twilight with a fatherly smile. “How can Ganthet of the Guardians help you?” asked the Guardian called Ganthet as Shining and Cadence looked amazed.. “Well Mr Ganthet, Gilda a former friend of one of my friends has appeared causing havoc and she is wearing a red version of the GL uniform, she also seems to be spitting blood.” explained Twilight and then suddenly Ganthet looked alarmed. “Oh dearly me, that’s not good, my dear it seems this ‘Gilda’ has been recruited by the Red Lantern Corps!” said Ganthet and Twilight looked surprised. “Red Lantern Corps? What is that?” asked Twilight shocked at the fact there were apparently other Corps modelled after colors. “Many eons ago before the Green Lantern Corps had been created, the Guardians made a very big mistake that cost over billion intelligent life forms their lives.” Ganthet said shaking his head sadly to the shock and horror of Twilight and the other three ponies with her “a survivor of this mistake called himself Atroctius and he used his rage and anger of losing everyone he ever knew to discover and master the Red Energy of Rage. He created his own Corps with their own rings to seek out those with rage in their hearts. Their rings draw on the wearer’s rings.” “Powered by.......rage?” Cadence asked afraid as she was being comforted by her coltfriend, as a Love Alicorn she was against negative emotions like rage, fear and hatred which was why she used her magic to spread love whenever she could. “Twilight’s new bosses have killed a billion creatures?” Shining muttered in disbelief. “So Gilda has all the powers my Ring grants me.” Twilight muttered but then Ganthet smiled a little. “That’s not the case as Red Lanterns cannot use Constructs.” Ganthet responded making Twilight confused. “Why not?” Twilight asked wondering if something to do with rage was preventing them from using constructs. “Let me explain.” Ganthet said before explaining “the Green Lanterns such as yourself have to use concentration in order to create and use their constructs. Red Lanterns have their thoughts clouded by nothing but rage and hatred, making them unable to have the concentration necessary to create a construct. The most they can do is spit blood to use as a weapon, the strength their rings give them and Red energy from their rings in order to fight.” “That makes sense.” Twilight nodded her logical mind understanding Ganthet’s explanation “Any advice on how to beat them?” “No Red Lantern has been beaten by the same strategy, they are unpredictable but I think the best course of action would be to overpower their rage with your will or get them to lose focus on their rage.” Ganthet replied “I would ask that you try and not remove Gilda’s ring though.” “Why not?” ask Twilight looking confused on why taking away Gilda’s source of power would be a bad thing. “Because when a user wields a Red Lantern Ring it replaces their blood so it can be used as a weapon and it becomes connected to their hearts, removing the ring could very well kill them.” Ganthet clarified to the horror of the three Equestrians. “Th-thanks for your help Ganthet” Twilight said once she caught her breath earning a smile from Ganthet. “Glad I could be of assistance and good luck with your next encounter with this Gilda!” Ganthet said before the hologram disappeared. “Looks like we need to think of a plan to defeat Gilda without getting her ring off.” Twilight then before Cadence felt a light bulb switch on inside her head. “I think I have an idea...” Cadence said a smile growing in her head. *TS: GL 2812* Gilda was flying around looking for a place to hide. She felt a red blur fly past her. Outraged she flew as fast she could to the blur until he went to hide in a corner. She then flew into it to come face to face with a smirking Stolen March. “Gilda of the Griffon Kingdom is it, the new Red Lantern?” Stolen March asked smirking causing Gilda to roar. Gilda was about to pounce before Stolen March said “he- hea- hear me out for a second, I have a proposal!” Gilda looked like she was at least going to listen. “I am an opportunist and a visionary.” Said Stolen March circling Gilda “I am a part of a master plan to change Equestria for the better. Join with us and we will be able to make it worth your while, what do you say?” One minute later Gilda was flying away leaving Stolen March knocked out on the ground and covered in blood. Then came Slade using a levitating spell to carry a bucket of water he used to wash Stolen March of the blood and then helped him out. “Lesson learnt March.” Slade said sternly to Stolen March in a tone of voice a teacher would give to a student who made a really stupid mistake “there is no use reasoning with those griffons, they are nothing more than just barbarians who exist solely for soldiers like us to vanquish to protect Equestria!” “When I saw her fight that Green Lantern earlier I thought with those Red Lantern powers she could prove to be a usefully ally in our cause......” Stolen March muttered annoyed. “We won’t need her anyway, when Shimmer is done mastering the spells she has learnt we will have the power to enact our master plan ourselves.” Slade said in reassuring tone of voice. *TS: GL 2812* Granny Smith led Applebloom, Big Macintosh and Applejack to a shed that Granny Smith kept locked in all times. She opened up the lock using a key in her mouth and opened the door to reveal three rockets. ”Truth is I am not actually your grandma but your adopted mother.” Granny Smith muttered to the shocked looks of the three earth ponies. ”About a decade or so ago after my children left the farm to start up their own families I was running the farm with the help of mah friends.” Granny Smith explained “One night I found a rocket containing a young colt, I adopted him and passed Big Macintosh as mah grandson who has come to stay. Months later one night two rockets crashed and had a younger filly and an even younger one. I did the same to Applejack and Applebloom, luckily I had a friend in the town council to help falsify documents so nopony could get suspicious.” the three ponies looked crestfallen and shocked beyond belief. “So what you are saying is that not only are you not really our granny but we are not even sibling?” Applejack asked bewildered and finding it hard to accept it “We are not actually Apples but aliens?” ”Listen here!” Granny Smith scolded “you are Apples, you just came from somepony else!” ”Yeah...” Applejack said looking up “Apples to the core:” After the song they inspect the rockets and although all they had found in Big Macintosh’s was a symbol in Applebloom and Applejack’s rockets halves of a stone. They put them both together and it revealed a hologram of an orange earth pony with a red mane and a red cloak. “Ap-El and Bloom-El, hello I may not be the real pony but I am the artificial intelligence of Jor-El to help you explain your roots.” Said the hologram and he then pointed to both Applebloom and Applejack. “Hello my daughters – am Jor-El a leading scientist of the now deceased planet Coltron and i am your biological father!” said to the shock of the Apple sisters who now realised they at least were biologically related. ”You’re our pa?” asked Applebloom amazed at the hologram of the stallion and then it nodded. ”Let me explain.” Said Jor-El and the Apple family were watching “I was one of the leading scientists of the planet Coltron but I saw that our planet was doomed but unable to convince the Council to evacuate the planet. Me and my wife – you’re mother decided to save our daughters. We built two rockets to send you both into safety and ere designed so they would not fall behind.” ”I gave this so I could explain all this to you when you were ready.” Said Jor-El “Under the rays of the different sun than the one Coltron had you will develop extraordinary abilities as you grow later and due to the lower gravity that Coltron had. I know you will be able to use these powers wisely! Inside the rockets are suits made to help you and are designed to be one size fit all! Use this device if you need any help from now on.” After the hologram disappeared Applebloom realised she would have to wait till she was older before getting cool powers. ”Sorry we have nothing on your birth folks Big Mac.” Applejack said sadly but Big Mac just smiled clearly not that affected it. ”Jor-El may be our birth pa but you raised us Granny Smith!” Applejack said as they shared a hug. Minutes later Applejack was in the barn trying on the suit from her rocket. Her family was outside waiting on her when she finally stepped out. ”How do I look?” Applejack asked and her siblings (blood or otherwise) and granny (or technically adopted mother) smiled at her. Ap-El or Applejack as she was known around Ponyville smiled to herself, as Supermare she began rescuing ponies from accidents since then in Ponyville, but she could not help but wonder who Big Mac’s biological family was. She decided it didn’t matter; they were real family after all. *TS: GL 2812* Later Gilda was flying about Canterlot trying to find Twilight. “WHERE IS THAT STUPID PONY?” Gilda roared out in frustration. She then saw a giant green construct of an arrow pointing down. She followed it and when she got there, she was sent to the ground by a giant construct of a fly swatter. “Ready for round two?” asked Twilight with a smirk floating in air. Gilda roared out, she was supposed to be humiliating the unicorn, not the other way round. She then flew up to Twilight and began trying to punch her but Twilight blocked it with the construct of a shield. Gilda tried firing red energy from her ring, which Twilight blocked with her shield construct. “I WILL CRUSH THIS SHIELD AND DESTROY YOU!!!!!” Gilda roared out trying to pour more energy into the attempt. “Wanna bet?” asked Twilight with a smirk as she managed to fly up and used a construct of a ball on a chance to hit Gilda’s cheek and knock her to the ground. For good measure Twilight used constructs of a chain to tie Gilda up though it was clear she was trying to use her strength to break her out. “Now Cadence!” said Twilight as Shining and Cadence came out to put their plan into action. Cadence went up to Gilda and immediately felt the rage in her heart which saddened her, she started using her strongest love spell to Gilda’s head. Usually when faced with two arguing ponies that were still in love, the spell would have made them forget the quarrel and remember why they love eachother. But when used on an individual the spell would remind him or her of their fondest memories, giving them a state of piece in their mind. Gilda’s thoughts of rage and destruction was mellowed out by the spell and replaced by thoughts of peace due to remembering her times at Junior Flight camp. Due to no longer having Gilda’s rage to power it her ring then suddenly lost its power and Gilda’s uniform disappeared. “Your plan worked Cadence and nopony got hurt, this time!” Shining said pulling Twilight and Cadence into a hug as the Royal Guards began to take Gilda away and fitted her with goggles designed to fill the wearer’s mind with peace and prosperity, so Gilda would not try and use her powers to escape. There were not any casualties in this rematch and a cleaning crew was dispatched to clean up what debris there were. *TS: GL 2812* Twilight was talking to Ganthet’s hologram again, “I take it you managed to beat this Gilda?” asked Ganthet and Twilight nodded happily. “Yes I did and Gilda has been taken to Arkham Asylum a place here in Equestria for insane residents, she will be in a place where the surrounding cell emits peace and love so she cannot try and use her powers to escape.” smiled Twilight. “Very good Green Lantern of Sector 2812, be clear though there are many threats in the universe besides the Red Lantern Corps.” warned Ganthet but Twilight just laughed. With my friends and family, I will be ready for them! responded Twilight confidently. “That’s good to hear.” Smiled Ganthet, before the hologram disappeared. *TS: GL 2812* Dear Princess Celestia, Since getting this ring i think I have become a little too cocky, thinking I could take on threat with a wave of my ring. Since facing Gilda the Red Lantern Griffon, I realised I may not be able to defeat every threat on my own, I also realised I don’t think with the help of my new friends along with my family I won’t have to be alone and with their help I know I will be okay. Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle Green Lantern of Sector 2812