//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 - New Ponies // Story: Worlds of Friendship and War // by Paintpaws //------------------------------// "Are you sure spell worked Princess?" Shining Armour asked the sun goddess as he turned away from the clock on the wall. "I'm fairly certain, yes." Celestia replied frowning slightly, "I feel we should wait a little longer before I try to cast it again." Shining nodded at this. Princess Luna began to slowly creep up to the corrupted mirror, "Be careful sister, I do not want to loose you again." Celestia said softly, Luna only nodded and lent forward looking into the mirror. When a snow white dove flew out and perched on the Princess's horn making jump back in surprise, "Oh, hello there." The dove simply cooed back. "You're not one of the new elements, are you?" Cadence asked, not quite sure why she was talking to a dove. Before the dove could even ruffle it's feathers a white unicorn fell through the portal and landed on the floor with an ungraceful thump. "Ah, that's more like it." Shining Armour said. The new unicorn was a stallion with a black mane and tail, both with a slight curl. He wore a pale blue lab coat. He lifted his head and blinked before staring at the ground as if looking for something. Luna frowned and looked to the floor as well, she spotted a small pair of round spectacles on the ground. She cleared her throat while lifting the spectacles into the air with her magic. "Are these yours?" The princess asked. The stallion looked up at Luna and squinted, "If zey are glasses zen yes." Princess Luna nodded and moved the glasses onto the unicorn's muzzle. He blinked twice and slowly looked the Princess up and down. "Oh, uh hallo.. Unicorn?" He said, staring at the Princess of the night. "Well, alicorn actually." Luna corrected him as she unfolded her wings. A crazed grin spread over the stallion's face. He used his forelegs to push himself onto his hind legs but quickly lost his balance, toppling over and falling onto his rump. "I take it you weren't a pony before then?" Cadence asked. "Gott, zeres more of you." The unicorn said, staring at the other three ponies in the room. "Und nein, I'm not a pony." He raised a hoof to rub his head, when his hoof made contact with his skull his eyes went wide. "Vat!" He yelped, bringing both front hooves up to his face. "No, zis is impossible!" Before anypony could explain a second pony flew thorough the portal, it was a dark green pegasus with a dark blue helmet that covered his eyes, he landed on the floor beside the panicking unicorn. "VAT!" The Unicorn shouted again, staring at the pegasus, "Soldier?!" The pegasus called Soldier groaned and looked around, then pushed his helmet up and turned to the unicorn and laughed, "Wow Doc, looks like Merasmus turned you into a hippy horse." The unicorn snorted and rolled away, "Speak for yourself dummkopf." He frowned at the portal the portal. "Why are you looking at me likeAHRG!" A second pegasus came crashing through the portal and landed on Soldier, "GET OFF OF ME MAGGOT!" The new pegasus, with a blue coat and blond mane as well as sliver dog tags hanging around his neck, grumbled and pushed himself away from the first pegasus. The unicorn shook his head, "Please don't tell me zat I'm stuck here vith you two swinehunds." "Hey! It's not like I wanna be with two old guys." The pegasus said, he looked down at himself and frowned "And anyway, why are we all sissy horses?" "INCOMING!" Boomed a voice as a massive, dark blue earth pony came charging out from the portal only to trip on his own hooves and fall over. The first unicorn tutted and shakily walked, no, trotted over to help the stallion up. Once the stallion had gotten to his hooves, (Which made him about the same hight as Celestia, maybe a little shorter), he looked looked over at the unicorn, "Doktor?" He asked. Medic nodded, "Ja herr Heavy, it's me." Heavy's brow furrowed in confusion, before an explanation could be offered a fifth pony passed though the portal, this one was a grey unicorn with a blue ski mask covering his face, a suit and a dark grey tail. He caught himself just before falling and managed to stay upright. "By ze way, Engineer is not happy." He said, frowning slightly as he noticed that they were no longer human. "Great." Scout muttered. A second earth pony with an orange coat, yellow hard hat and goggles over his eyes stormed through the portal. His expression was briefly surprised as he scanned over the other ponies in the room until he recognised Medic, and anger returned to his face. "Ya got some explaining to do Doc," He growled, jabbing a hoof at Medic, who laughed nervously. "Zat might be a little more difficult zen you might zink," He started, Engineer titled his head, "Ha ha.. vell..." "SCOUT IS FLYING!" Soldier suddenly interrupted, "SCOUT SHOULDN'T BE FLYING! GET DOWN FROM THERE! THAT IS AN ORDER!" Scout crashed back down to earth ungracefully and grumbled at Soldier "Hey, can't we just figure out why we are all colourful horses first? I think that's kinda the main thing here." Scout snapped back. "How about how we all got here in the first place?" The ski mask wearing pony asked. "What is this place?" Heavy added. "What I'd like to know is why Doc thought it was a good idea to jump down some hole in the wall." Engineer said. "Vell sometimes science needs sacrifices." Medic said quietly. "Oh and your sacrifices are you're team? You're friends?" "I never asked you to follow me!" On the other side of the room, the four ponies and one dragon watched as the argument unfolded in front of them. Princess Luna looked up at her sister, and back at the six new ponies before backing away and covering her ears with her hooves. "ENOUGH!" Princess Celestia boomed in full royal canterlot tone, making the walls shake slightly. She took hold of the six in her magic and held them still. The sun goddess sighed and closed her eyes, she put on her best smile and opened them again. "I am Princess Celestia, Princess of the sun. This is my sister, Princess Luna, she is the princess of the moon. Over there are Prince Shining Armour and Princess Cadence, and this is Spike, the dragon." She looked over the six ponies that she was holding, "Now, when I let to go, you will listen and do as you are told. Understand?" After a few more seconds she let the six go, "Explain yourselves... Without arguing if you can help it." Engineer quickly spoke before Soldier could, "Ya see ma'am, we're... er... mercenaries, working for Builders League United, or BLU for short." Celestia frowned but nodded, "We followed our Medic though that there portal, so we best be on our way now. Right boys?" The Blus nodded and began to follow shakily pick themselves up, Soldier tripped over his wings. Shinning Armor blinked, "Wait where did you come from?" "Ve came from our base in Teufort," Spy said. Shinning Armour glared at them, "My sister has just gone into your world with her friends, if she ends up hurt because your team attacked her, then I swear I'll..." "Jeez man calm down, we ain't allowed to hurt civilians." Scout yelled over him. "Speaking of which, we gotta get back to our team." Engineer added. He turned to the gateway and raised a hoof to touch the portal, when he did black sparks shot up and around his hoof and sent him flying backwards. Medic hurried (best he could in his strange new body) over to Engineer and made sure that he was unharmed before the BLU team all stared at Princess Celestia, who sighed. "I'm sorry, but you can't leave until this problem is fixed. I should have told you before but.." She shook her head. The BLUs were silent for a long time until Spy spoke up, "How long is zat going to take?" "I-i, I do not know." A wave a sock and sadness washed over the BLU team, half had their eyes fixed on Celestia, not sure whether to feel angry or sad, the others looked away, not wanting to feel either. Archimedes cooed softly and fluttered over to his master. "But, my ma.." Scout whispered "I'm sorry, I should have come here." Medic said quietly, letting Archimedes rest on his head, "It's mein fault." Princess Celestia shook her head again, "No, I'm sorry. I was the one who called you all here, you would have arrived no matter what. Please do not blame yourselves or you friend for this, as it was my fault alone, I didn't think this through." Princess Cadence smiled weakly, "Maybe we should start this again, come on, lets get some lunch."