//------------------------------// // Chapter Two // Story: One Winged Pony // by Majin Syeekoh //------------------------------// "So, Twi, how the hay are we s'posed ta fix that!?" Applejack exclaimed, waving a forehoof at the black mass gaining volume over Ponyville. Twilight shook her head. "I don't know." "Well I do!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she made a flying kick at it. She bounced off and flew through somepony's roof. "Sorry!" she yelled. "Always rushing into things, Dashie! I swear you'll never change!" Pinkie shouted as she approached the mass. "I got a solution!" Twilight chucked. "Pinkie Pie, the proper Equestrian is 'I have a solu..tion'...where did you get those fireworks from?" Twilight intoned worriedly. "I have fireworks all over town, silly! And this qualifies as a Class 1 fireworks emergency! Fire in the hole!" Pinkie yelled as she hit a button, launching what appeared to be about twenty rockets into the cloud. They shot up into the air, contrails trailing behind as each rocket exploded upon the mass. This only appeared to make it angrier as it increased in size, bolts of lightning arcing inside of it. "...oopsie." "N'aice goin, Pinkie. Now ya done riled it up!" Applejack growled exasperatedly. "If I may..." Twilight, Applejack and Pinkie turned to look at Rarity, who brought with her a white pony with a spiky azure and cyan mane. She had a black box about pony-high in front of her. "I take it you remember Vinyl Scratch, from the Royal Wedding? Well, she has this miraculous device which p rojects subsonic soundwaves at an immesurably loud volume, tunneled at an immensely high velocity in a specific direction." Rarity sighed. "Say what now?" Rainbow Dash and Applejack said in unison. Twilight spoke up with, "I think what Rarity's trying to say is that that device is-" "MY BASS CANNON!!!" Vinyl Scratch screamed at the top of her lungs as she slammed down on the button located on top of the 'bass cannon'. What proceeded was an insanely loud noise that pummeled into the side of the cloud with immesurable force, slowly pushing it out of town. Twilight and Applejack were holding onto Rainbow Dash who was holding on to the hole she made in the poor pony's roof. Pinkie had somehow managed to move in front of the massive subwofer as it blew her hair back violently. "THIS IS AWESOME! HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS!?" Pinkie screamed at Vinyl. "THIS IS HOW I DO MY DISHES! I FIGURE IT'LL DO THE SAME FOR EVIL AS IT DOES FOR DIRT!" Vinyl screamed back. "CLEAN IT ON A MICROSCOPIC LEVEL!" Pinkie and Vinyl screamed in unison. The cloud was blasted straight into the Everfree Forest. Vinyl hit the button and the cannon shut off, leaving Twilight and Applejack to collapse through the roof, leaving another fresh pony-sized hole. "Sorry 'bout that" Applejack yelled. Thatching wrapped in a purple glow patched both holes as Twilight and Applejack walked out, nodding at whoever was inside as the door slammed shut behind them. Rarity cleared her throat. " Well, then, now that that's done with, I suppose we can get on with our lives-" "VINYL THAT WAS AWESOME! You have to come to my parties!" "I just might have to, Pinkie. Catch you later!" Vinyl said as she wheeled away her bass cannon, the squeaky wheel irking Rarity, her eye twitching as it rolled away. Rarity coughed. "Well, now that that's over with-" "But it's not, Rarity. We just moved it-" "-away from my window, Twilight. Problem solved! Congratulations all around!" Twilight shook her head. "No, Rarity. We have to destroy it before it can-" KRA-KOW! All five ponies turned towards the Everfree Forest where the sound came from. The black mass had ballooned to enormous proportions. "I came to investigate a subsonic blast that scared the animals," Fluttershy announced as she walked up to her friends, who were staring in her direction. "What is it, girls? Is there something on my face?" They shook their heads. Fluttershy brushed her hooves through her mane, "Is there something on my mane?" They shook their heads. "Oh no, is there something on my face AND my mane?" They shook their heads in unison. "Then what is it?" Rainbow Dash lifted a hoof to point behind Fluttershy. Fluttershy turned her head back and caught sight of the cloud. "Oh, that's just a giant scary cloud-" she did a double take and screamed at the top of her lungs, "THAT'S A GIANT SCARY CLOUD OF EVIL OVER THE EVERFREE FOREST!!" and shot behind her friends, shivering in fear. "Definitely NOT awesome!" Rainbow Dash said painfully. Twilight separated herself from her friends and faced them. "I have an idea. But I'm going to need all of your help to do it." Fluttershy whined, "I hope it doesn't involve going into-" "We're going to need to go into the Everfree Forest!" Twilight announced. Fluttershy let out a whimpering, "That's what I was afraid you were going to say," and fainted. Everypony looked at Applejack. "What're y'all lookin' at me fer?" Twilight motioned at Fluttershy, then at Applejack. "Aw, shucks." She pulled Fluttershy up on her back by her mane,"get on up, little doggie" "So, what're we gonna do in the Everfree, Twilight? We gonna give the bazz-kim-bah to the cloud? Huh? Huh?" "No, Pinkie, we're going to use the Elements of Harmony!" "But aren't they on the Tree of Harmony?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Yep." "Ok...so what do we do about that?" Rainbow asked. Twilight took a deep breath, then said, "I have no idea!" They all stared at Twilight, except for Fluttershy, who was still unconcious atop Applejack. "Let's go find a Tree!" Twilight beamed. "Alright, let's wrangle us up a cloud!" Applejack hollered.