//------------------------------// // Subaru Impreza WRX 44s Rally Car, Ponyville - Old Ruins, Stage // Story: Colin McRae Equestria Rally // by JustDing //------------------------------// The drive out of the town will be difficult but quick. It is suggested to put on tires for mud because the track through the forest will be fast and an intense test for the drivers reflexes. It was a sunny morning as Twilight read her most favourite book of all books she had. It was a book about the strongest magic spells, containing transforming spells, portal spells and interdimensional portal spells. At that moment, she read a chapter about the latter, the interdimensional portal spells. She was not really interested, but she never tried to create one before. "Ah yes, there we have it..." It said that those spells can open portals to long distance worlds. It can not be controlled which world and what can pass through, whatever matter and source it could be. But it also said that no danger can come, so what she can lose? She placed the book back into the bookshelf and took position in the middle of the room. Then she closed her eyes and began to concentrate. Her horn glowed brightly as a flash came from the tip. BANG! After the loud thunderclap, it was over... She looked around in her library, but to her dismay, nothing changed. She hung her head in disappointment, she knew that she did everything right. Maybe the spell was outdated, no longer working or else. In any case, nothing happened. She went back to her bookshelf, searching for a book about flora and fauna in the Everfree Forest. The everfree forest has always been a mysterious forest. It was one of the places in Equestria which did not have an proper map. Suddenly, and without any warning, Spike bursted through the door of her library. Twilight jumped in shock, but then she groaned "Spike! I told you so many times to knock at the door and-" "It... is... an..." the little dragon panted heavily. He ran down the streets in a big hurry as something had happened... "emergency..." "What kind of emergency?" Twilight said worried. Spike took some really deep breaths before he said "On the marketplace! Hurry!" Without a second thought, Twilight used her magic to sat Spike on her back, before she dashed out of her library and into the living town of Ponyville... if that was so. The whole town has gathered around a little area in the marketplace. Every pony chattered about what the chariot is, why is it blue and mainly, what are the strange creatures inside it are doing. "Excuse me? Can I get through? Sorry..." Twilight repeated, trotting past the ponies who moved aside for her. Soon she found the reason... In the middle of the crows stood a strange vehicle she never saw before. It was plain blue, with a yellow crescent moon with stars on the left and right side. Did it has something to do with the night sky? She could read names like 'Pirello', 'Michelin' (a ugly-looking bipedal creature was painted next to it) and 'Mountain-Dew'. But each side had the name 'Subaru' written on. The wheels were not made of gold, wood or metal, they were made of black rubber. The rims were made of what looked like gold, but it was a little bit too brown for it. It was then when she spotted the strange creatures inside the vehicle. They had helmets on, and blue suits. They looked like they were discussing something. A strange sign displaying the number five stood at the left side on front of it. It did not do anything. "What are these strange beings?" Twilight asked herself, fearing that they might be extra-terrestrial invaders. "Lyra said that they're humans!" Pinkie Pie, the pink party pony, appeared out of thin air next to her. It was the second time that day where Twilight jumped in the air in shock. "Hu-what?" "Humans! Lyra had read about them in a book she borrowed from you!" she said smiling as her eyes were starting to glisten in joy "Oooh! I'll make an Humans-Welcome Party-" Five! Suddenly, the vehicle made an loud roar as smoke escaped from a tube below the rear side of it. Twilight and Pinkie seized together in surprise, but not due of the roar. They were surprised of the voice, it sounded like it came from their ears. Four! The roar considered all ponies retracting from the vehicle and hiding themselves in their houses. Three! The smoke coming from the tube did not smelled like water. It smelled like burnt fuel. Twilight was horrfied and amazed at the same time. A engine, similar to that of a train, small enough to fit in a small vehicle... but what good they would do? Two! "Where did the voice came from?" Twilight asked over the sound of the vehicle's engine. "I don't know! My Pinkie sense don't do anything!" One! Twilight and Pinkie were staring at the vehicle, what would it do when the count down was over? Go! The wheels of the vehicle were spinning wildly, propelling dirt on the two remaining equines and swirling dust high in the air. At the same time, it's engine was howling a loud and high-pitched hum as the vehicle jumped forward... Thirty six left into alleyway tightens, then hundred straight ahead over bridge. Jump. Then sixty three left on lose gravel over crest. Twilight was coughing like mad, she tried to free her nostrils and eyes from the dirt. Pinkie tossed a pair of protective glasses from her snout as she said a single word "Wow..." As Twilight finally freed her coat from most of the dust, she looked around "Where's... that thing... Subaru?" "It drove down the marketplace, then it took turn into a alleyway and... now it drives over the bridge to-" Pinkie said, but Twilight heard enough. "It'll drive to Fluttershy's cottage! We must stop it!" In the distance,screams of shocked ponies were heard, as the vehicle jumped over the bridge and landed on the ground with a wicked smack. The engine gave a deafening roar as it took up more speed... but the voice suddenly stopped. It seemed like they could hear the voice only when they are in close proximity to the vehicle. "Warn Rainbow Dash! She must be helping Applejack with the applebucking! I'll help, and, if it's necessary, rescue her from the humans and their bashful vehicle chariot thing!" Twilight exclaimed as her horn started to glow for an instant teleportation to Fluttershy's cottage. Fluttershy closed the door of her cottage gently as she trotted outside, basked in her little snout and ready to collect some daysis for her animals. While she trotted, butterflies encircled her as she sung a "Lalala lala la" song. There. She spotted a few daysis under a tree, which stood next to a road with lose gravel. She trotted to them and took them carefully into the basket. It was then when she suddenly heard a quiet roar in the distance. "Oh, Manfred the Manticore stepped again on a pointed stone..." Fluttershy sighed, but her smiled didn't left her face. She always liked it to help animals. To her surprise, the roar didn't stop... and actually, it sounded like it was coming nearer! She turned around... Twenty three right, don't cut, stay on the left side. A tree and a pony are at the right side! *VROOOOOOOOM!!!* A blue blur drove past her at a breakneck speed, the sharp wind punched the basket from her snout and whirled her mane into a mess. The dust ruined her yellow coat. To be exactly, she now had to take a bath... or two. She just stood there for what it felt like hours, mane a mess and basket somwhere under a bush. She was not shocked, terrified or flabbergasted... she was just immensely confused as many question appeared in her mind. What was that animal? Why it was blue? And mainly, why it was screaming and roaring? In the distance, chirps of shocked birds could be heard as they were hushed from their trees... in the Everfree Forest. The vehicle drove right into the dangerous forest. *PING!* A flash of light occured next to her, which made her yelp in shock "EEP!" "Oh! Sorry, Fluttershy, I didn't meant to scare you!" Twilight said excusing. Fluttershy shook her head as she calmed down from the shock as she said "It's okay... you couldn't have known that I'm here." Twilight sighed in relief as she realized that her friend was okay. "Did you know what that was?" Fluttershy asked, looking in the direction where the thing had drove. "Not surely, but from what I saw, it is an motorized vehicle, controlled by... humans." Twilight said, but Fluttershy tilted her head "Humans?" "I really never heard from those species before, so I don't know anything about them." "Ah... okay..." "I've already told Pinkie Pie to warn Rainbow Dash and Applejack about them. The humans and their vehicle did not seem to have any bad plans, but they have caused and will propably cause more chaos. I'll send a letter to Princess Celestia to tell her about this. And please Fluttershy, stay in your house. It's for your own safety." Twilight said as she scratched the backside, many thoughts crossed her mind... Sweet Apple Acres "Come'on Rainbow! The apples don't harvest by themselves!" Applejack yelled up to Rainbow Dash, who took a nap on a branch. The cyan pegasus mare gave a snort as an answere and turned around... Applejack groaned as she took position behind the tree and delivered a mighty kick with her hindlegs at it. The shook shoved Rainbow from her branch and she landed on the ground with a thud. She yelped in shock as she was awaken by the impact on the grassy ground. "Ah had warned ya!" Applejack said with a smugful face. Rainbow Dash gave the orange workpony a serious glare as she stood up "Okay, I'm gonna help you..." "RAINBOW DASH! APPLEJACK!" Pinkie Pie yelled as she galloped up to them with such a speed that she left a pink blur behind her. "Whoah, Pinkie! Take a hold!" Applejack called out as she prepared for a crash with the pink party pony. But Pinkie stopped from the one to the other second in front of her. And the it came from her mouth, the endless flow of words "You will never know what we saw. So, there was that strange vehicle, plain blue like Princess Luna's fur and a crescent moon on it like Princess Luna's cutie-mark, but it has nothing to do with her because she is the princess of the night and the vehicle appeared in the middle of that day on the marketplace. And suddenly it drove away and out of the town, faster than anypony had seen before and it caused a lot of panic, like a Ursa Minor, only faster and more agil..." Applejack stuck a hoof in Pinkie's mouth, finally stopping the massive flow of words. "Stop...just say what happened." she instructed. Pinkie Pie nodded "Mh-mh." She put her hoof out of Pinkie mouth. Pinkie took a deep breath and said calmly "A strange vehilce appeared on the marketplace and drove away quickly. It was something I... we ALL never seen before." This explanation gave yet no clue to Applejack, but she get enough to understand the seriousness of this situation. Rainbow Dash, however, was in other thoughts... Was there something that was faster than her? Not with wings, but by hoof? "Pinkie? Maybe it sound ridicolous... but I want to know how fast the vehicle was at it drove away?" Pinkie put a hoof to her chin, humming incoherent words, before she said "Actually, it's speed was more than ninety kilometres per hours, or fiftyfive dot nine miles per hour, or twentyfive metres per seconds, or 328 hooves per seconds... what you want. In any case, it just needed less than ten seconds to get out of the town." She could not believe what she just heard. Now there was something in Equestria that was faster on the ground than THE Rainbow Dash. "Where it went?" "To the direction of the Everfree Forest." "I'll take a look at that!" she said before she leapt up in the air. Everfree Forest Zecora, the zebra, trotted on the path to Ponyville to buy some herbs and spices. Of course she could search after them, but they were rare and the shops in Ponyville have plenty of them in sale. Suddenly, she could hear a sound which she never heard before. Not a second later, she could hear a voice... Fourty straight ahead over long jump, attention, trees at both sides. Time seemed to slow down to a crowd as something jumped from the crest before her and over her head. It was large, it was loud. And it was REALLY fast. She let out a yelp of fear as it landed behind her with a resounding clank, it wheels propelled dirt on her back as it drove away, deeper into the forest. Another shadow flew above her. At first she thought, it was a dragon, but the rainbow coloured trail was an indicator for Rainbow Dash... Her enthusiasm was higher than before as she had took chase of the blue vehicle underneath her. She was close enough to listen to the voice… Sixty two left, attention outer side hangs out, then downhill to a lake. It was then when it hit her. The blue vehicle underneath her drove the exact same way as on that day when she was with Twilight and her friends on their way to get the elements of harmony and defeat Nightmare Moon. The path into the Everfree Forest, the trees, the hill and the lake, everything. The exact same way. Only way faster. Water splattered everywhere as 'Subaru' drove on a hightened ground over the lake. During that, it lost a little from it's speed, but then it accelerated again as it was on the other side. She had no problems to follow it, she had her strong wings. But the forest thickened and she lost sight of the vehicle. Fortunately, she could hear yet the voice and she saw the cloud of dirt it caused. Twenty left turn, then over bridge thightens into thirty two right, opens over crest. It was going to drive over the bridge she had to repair to continue at that night? And at that speed? She could not bring out what all those numbers meant, but she get enough that it was really going to drive to the old ruins. It was a big surprise and shock as she saw the bridge. It was plain new, made of dark wood and seemed to be very stable, except for the grandma-old bridge she once had repaired. The vehicle had driven over the bridge as it drifted through a not so fast right. The old ruins were already in view. A few puffs of fire came out of the tube under the rear side of it as the engine's sound deceased for an blink of an eye, before it howled again. Sixty four left over crest, don't cut, into stop. In front of the old ruins were two roadstop signs, next to them stood what looked like a stopwatch with digits. Four minutes and twentyfour seconds, actually and it was counting upwards. She stopped in the air as the vehicle drove between the signs. Suddenly, it seemed like the vehicle get down to a brake as it's wheels stopped spinning; they were blocking themselves. Her jaw dropped as she spotted the stopwatch. The stopwatch stopped at four minutes and twentynine seconds. It just needed almost five minutes to arrive at the old ruins! Her friends spent almost a full night to get to the old ruins and the creatures with their blue vehicle, named 'Subaru Impreza' just needed four minutes and twentynine seconds? She dived down to the vehicle and landed next to it... She raised an eyebrow as she spotted the creatures inside it. They had plain faces and a what looked like a noise coming from the middle of their faces. At that moment, it looked like they were discussing something, maybe about the ride to the finish. She raised a hoof, to knock at the window, to gain the creatures attention... Suddenly, and without any warning, the vehicle disappeared in thin air. Her hoof hit nothing but air as she swiped it. She blinked in surprise as she looked around. The roadstop signs disappeared as well as the stopwatch. "What the...?" She just stood there for a few minutes before she leapt up again, to leave this dangerous place and telling her friends what just happened to the vehicle... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mode: Stage Car: Subaru Impreza WRX Best Time: 4:29 Country: Equestria Course: Ponyville - Old Ruins Next Course: Everfree Forest - Hoofington Author's Note: Here's a nice video to give you an image about how fast rally drivers are (if you don't know):