//------------------------------// // What the?!? // Story: Noble meets friendship // by Peppermint Swirl //------------------------------// "Twi' are you sure that we ain't gonna ya know, get lost an all? Not that ah doubt ya sugar cube. It's just that last we all we're here it wasn't pretty." Asked the orange and blond earth pony as the group continued to walk on the path in the Everfree forest. The lavender unicorn looked up from her map that glowed in her magical aura. She looked back at her friend and the rest of her group. Along her and Applejack was Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. Together they had decided that they would investigate this strange map that Twilight had found while cleaning the library. Even though the map was old it was very clear that they were getting close to their objective. But that didn't stop the mares to get nervous as they saw Clestia's sun lowered in the horizon. " Don't worry about it AJ. The map says we are close there is no reason to panic." Twilight Sparkle said to her companions. Applejack looked like she was going to respond but an overly excited pink mare did it for her. "OhbutthereislotsofstufftoworryaboutTwilight.Imeantheresallthescarymostersandofcoursewecouldbetrappedhereforever.Thenwewouldnevergethomeandifwedon'tgethomethen..." Her voice cut off as a cyan colored hoof covered her mouth as The rainbow colored Pegasus hovered next to her energetic friend. Relieving all of them from her long rambling. "Monsters, Smosters. If they even dared to show themselves here I would take them out with my sweet moves in no time." The cyan Pegasus said in her usual brash voice. Then she began to mimic motions of being in a fight with some kind of monster. Twilight rolled her eyes and was about to make a comment when suddenly Pinkie Pie began to uncontrollably twitch mostly around her tail. And as if on Que. a massive fireball roared past them in the sky even near the ground they could feel the intense heat as it zoomed past and with a thunderous boom and a orange glow indicated that the fireball had landed. "What in hay was that?" Applejack said. Checking her hat to make sure that her hat wasn't singed at all. Thankful when it wasn't she began too look around at her friends. Rainbow had a few singed feathers but seemed unharmed in any other way. Pinkie was...well, Pinkie. It was hard to tell if anything was wrong with that pony physical or any other way. But when she turned to check on Twilight she was the lavender unicorn was making her way in the direction where the fireball went. " whoa there Twi! Where in the hay ya think your goin'?" The farmer asked and when at first the unicorn did not answer only continued on her way. Then gently she grabbed the lavender mares tail in her teeth. Startled by this action she did not respond at first. But then she recovered and responded to her friends question. "To where ever that thing landed. I don't know what it was or where it came from but for some reason it's calling to me. I think it's magic of some kind. And I want to find out what. You girls can go back to town, I won't make you come with me." "Who said anything about making us?" Came a voice. The two mares looked behind them and saw Rainbow on her hooves and Pinkie coming up in her usual bouncy state. "Your our pal Twilight and we're not about to let our friend face, Clestia knows what! At least not alone anyway." "Yeah! And if anythingi'llgetachancetothrowa'WelcometoEquestria'partyforsomealiensoohhhh!Iwonderiftheyhavecakewheretheycomefrom?ireallyhopesoifnotthatssosadbutinthesamewayHooray!igettoseetheirfaceswhenthehaveapieceofcakeforthefirsttimeand..." Pinkie was cut off once again by a hoof in the mouth from Rainbow. Then Twilight looked back at Applejack who only gave her a friendly smile "We're all with ya sugar cube, now lead the way." With a nod Twilight looked back in the direction the fire ball went and began to walk feeling more confident now than she did a moment ago. A groan escaped Six's lips as she suddenly regained the sensation of begin alive-and to a lesser degree sore. Slowly lifting her head her eyes began to take in the surroundings around her. She seemed to be in a forest of some kind, but it wasn't anyplace on Reach,and defiantly not the place she remembered being at last. As she tried to get up on two legs she lost her balance and crashed back down onto four. Shaking her head a bit Six realized that her helmet was back on her head.But how? Six thought and as her vision cleared even more she saw that instead of her front limbs being arms and hands they were legs with stubs at the ends of them.WHAT!?! and she began to circle around trying to get a look at herself. With great effort and eventually finding a river too look at herself in she was in for a shock. Her face seemed to be elongated around her nose and mouth area into a snout. Her armor was its usual hunter green and silver streak along them. Her visor was a golden color that made it impossible to see her eyes or face. On her back were two extra limbs that were covered in a black webbing. And coming out of her backside but still protected was a pitch black tail with a silver streak down the center.Well, this is interesting. Six thought as she began to walk wobbly on her four legs in a random direction. She didn't know where she was but she needed to find out. A sudden rustling from the trees nearby caught her attention and assuming hostile Six got into a mock combat stance and prepared for a attack of some kind. But instead she got another surprise. Out from the bushes came five other armored quadrupeds. A cyan one with extra limps like Six, a olive green horned one, one with a skull etched into its helmet, a behemoth with mismatched armor,and finally the one leading the group was a blue horned. For a moment they all stared at each other not making a sound until the one in blue spoke. "Six?" At that Six was startled. That voice, and the armor. There are only one group of beings she ever knew with that armor and knew her. But could that be possible? Could they be.... "Noble?..." To be continued