//------------------------------// // A Plan to Repel Dark Force // Story: Button Mash and The Quest to Save Ponyville // by JamesBurton //------------------------------// "Well you guys sure took your sweet time getting here!" He said running towards the strange machine as the others just sat there stunned. "You know, most ponies would say thank you after traveling across universes to get you Rain Catcher. " She said looking very annoyed. "Do you know how hard it was to get the navigational systems to pinpoint your exact coordinates?" She glances over towards the four fillies and one unconscious brown earth colt who are still just sitting there with their mouths agape. "So what's their story?" The pony now known as Rain Catcher walks towards the entrance of the strange machine. "We had a little run-in with Dark Force." He said with urgency. "What! Dark Force is here!" She gasped. "But I thought that-" "Yeah I thought so too." He replied looking back. "Scootaloo get Castor, we need to get Button Mash some medical attention." She nods and immediately rushes inside while the crusaders just sit there stupefied at this sudden turn of events. "Well come on so we can get Button Mash patched up." Sweetie Belle quickly puts Button on her back and walks inside determined to get her coltfriend some help while the other three follow behind her slowly and enter the machine and close the door behind them. "Well, I guess I should welcome you to the Phase Distorter." "Phase Distorter? is this like the TARDIS?" Asked Dinky. it had a similar feel to it almost like it was the TARDIS but it felt kind of off. "Is this your machine?" "No, its Time Winder's." "Well, well, well." A gray pegasus descends from the control panel above and lands on the ground beside the doctor with a cocky smile. "Do my eyes deceive me or is that Rain Catcher I hear?" Rumble greeted the blue pegasus while patting him on the back. "Really thought you died taking out Dark Force." He spots Applebloom standing there trying to process what's going on, he grabs her surprising the yellow filly and dips her. "Hey there Apple baby what do you say me and you go back to my room and bob for apples?" "Really Rumble?" Another yellow filly with the same red bow called out. "Ah'm pretty sure that's your oldest, lamest attempt yet. Rumble looks up to find that Applebloom was standing in the doorway giving a disapproving look at the gray pegasus, Rumble looks at her then looks at the blushing filly in his hooves then back at the Applebloom standing at the doorway and smiles. "Giggity." "If you two are done, was there somepony that needed my help?" A orange filly with a brown mane and brown eyes wearing a skull cap entered the room with a stretcher. Sweetie Belle wastes no time making her presence known. "That would be him." The white filly puts Button Mash on the stretcher. "Can you please help him?" She begins to push the brown earth colt away. "Of course I can sexy." She said smiling at the white filly. "Would you like to come along?" Sweetie Belle leaves the main room to be with her coltfriend while Scootaloo and Applebloom still try to figure out what was going on. "I see now." Muttered Dinky. "You're alternate versions from an alternate world, that's why I never saw you before." WARNING WARNING WARNING MASSIVE ENERGY SPIKE INCOMING! Rumble looks over at the doctor with a very serious look on his face. "Dark Force?" Rain Catcher turns on a monitor and sees that Rainbow Dash was approaching very fast. "Dark Force." They both fly over towards the control panel and start messing with some of the controls. "We got to get outta here RC!" Malfunction Malfunction Malfunction. The Doctor looks at Rumble confused. "Uh, Scootaloo may have possibly caused a few hiccups here and there." Rumble coughs in his hoof. "And broke a few of the controls." "SHE DID WHAT?!" Rumble rubs his mane back in embarrassment. " Yeah she got very frustrated learning how to drive this thing." Applebloom, Scootaloo and Dinky look at each other as the two continued to try escape from the corrupted rainbow mare. "We're doomed aren't we?" Applebloom and Dinky slowly nod their heads. "Ok I think I got something!" The Doctor pushes a few button and the Phase Distorter started winding up. "YES!" The machine shakes violently as it disappears from its spot near the crusaders clubhouse to parts unknown. "Ok I think we're safe now." Applebloom looks up at the control panel curiously. "So where are we?" Rumble looks at her grinning. "Well take a look outside Applebloom." The three fillies look at the monitor and their young eyes widen at their location. "Ah. Ah cant believe it." Gasped Applebloom. They where in space looking at the planet. "Its so beautiful." Dinky waves her hoof unimpressed. "Meh, I've been up here before in the TARDIS." The blond mare expression turns dire as she just remembered something very important. "THE TARDIS! IT CAN FOLLOW US!" The Doctor doesn't share her sense of impending disaster. "Don't worry about that Miss Hooves, I disabled it before that whole stint with Time Turner." "You disabled it?" She said surprised. "Way to think ahead." "But that wont keep them down for long, Rumble take the girls to Castor and Button Mash." He grabs a box full of tools. "While I fix the control panel. "You got it Doc." He motions for the three girls to follow him. "Please follow me." They leave the main control room while Rain Catcher repairs the control panel. "And there we go!" Castor finishes wrapping Button Mash's wound. "He's very lucky that knife didn't go any deeper or we would have been in trouble." Sweetie Belle hugs which she happily returns. "Thank you so much Castor Winds, thank you." Sweetie Belle tries to break the hug but Castor wouldn't let go. "Uh Castor, you can let go now." "Mmm just five more minutes." She starts to slowly rub her back. "And please just call me Castor." "So Applebloom was telling the truth, there are other versions of us here." Another white filly enters the room. "Castor let her go already, you're making her uncomfortable." Castor lets her go and looks at the second white filly "Must you always ruin my fun Sweetie Belle? We was having a moment" Sweetie Belle ignores her friend and walks over towards the bed. "Who's this?" "This is Button Mash." Said the orange earth filly. "Apparently your counterpart said that his mother was corrupted by Dark Force and slashed him." Sweetie Belle looks over at her counterpart and smiles. "Is he your coltfriend?" "Yes." "He's very lucky. " She said gently touching his wound. "He's the second pony to survive an attack from Dark Force." Other Sweetie walks over towards the door. "Well I should get back with Scootaloo, and see what our next move is." Castor looks over towards the sleeping brown colt. "Hm, knowing Rain Catcher he'd probably want to go back down there now that he knows that Dark Force is there." "And I highly doubt that he would let them get away again." Other Sweetie leaves the room leaving Castor and Sweetie Belle alone with the sleeping Button Mash. Castor watches Sweetie Belle run her hoof through Button Mash's ginger mane. "You really like him don't you?" She asked observing the white filly. "You know a long time ago I too had a very special somepony." Sweetie Belle sadly looks back at the earth filly. "What happened to him?" "She died in a train accident." Sweetie Belle looks over at Button Mash as Castor continued her story. "I was so heartbroken over it that my parents sent me to live in Ponyville with my aunt and uncle because my old hometown held too many memories. She gets up from her seat and walks over towards Sweetie Belle. "Always treasure good memories of your loved ones Sweetie, cause you'll never know when life will take them from you." * KNOCK* KNOCK* Rumble enters the medical room with Dinky, Applebloom and Scootaloo who was glaring at the gray pegasus. "Hey Castor, RC wanted me to bring the girls here to visit their friend." Dinky and Scootaloo goes to the white filly while Rumble held Applebloom back. "Hey, uh why was Scootaloo mean mugging me?" Applebloom looks off to the side narrowing her eyes. "Well her and our Rumble used to date and it did not end well." "Oh." He turns around and heads for the door. "Well I'll guess I'll take my leave, there is a sexy yellow filly waiting for me." Rumble leaves the room with a sultry smirk. " Well I'll leave you guys alone now." Castor gets up from her desk with a clipboard filled with notes. "I'm pretty sure Rain Catcher would like a update on Button anyway, I'll be back in a few." Replied the orange earth filly as she left the room leaving the four friends alone. "Hello is anypony here?" A brown earth colt wanders in the darkness. "Where am I?" Button Mash continues to walk forward not knowing where he was going. Button Mash He stops dead in his tracks at the sound of the voice that called him. "W-w-who's there?" He tried to look tough but that didn't stop the shakiness in his voice. You will know in time little brown colt "What do you want with me?" He asked. To leave you with a warning "A warning?" Do not trust The Doctor. "What?" Button Mash looks back and a veil of darkness envelopes him. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" Button Mash quickly sits up screaming startling his friends. "Button what's wrong!" He looks at Sweetie Belle breathing heavily. "Button you can tell me." "I-I-I don't know." He said touching his bandaged chest. Dinky wondered if he was hiding something, he looked like he saw something horrible. "Glad to see ya back up Button." Said Applebloom. "We are mighty worried about ya." The brown earth looks around the room curiously. "Uh guys, where are we?" 'You're in the Phase Distorter Button Mash." Button Mash looks over and finds that The Doctor with his friends has entered the room. Button Mash looks at Rumble violently but the gray pegasus hold up his hooves as The Doctor continued to talk. "Listen Button Mash, your world has been infected by Dark Force." Button Mash looks down at his bed sadly wondering if he and the girls would be able to go home ever again. "But all is not lost Button Mash. " He continued. "They can be destroyed!" "How?" Asked the brown colt. "How do we get rid of them?" Button clenches his hooves together if there was anyway to destroy these evil creatures that had his mother he would do it. "I have a question Rain Catcher." Asked Dinky. "Where exactly did Dark Force come from anyway?" Button Mash looks at the blue pegasus. "Rain Catcher? is that your name?" "Well now that we're all antiquated." He replied. "Ok listen, In the vast darkness of space a great evil resides in another dimension. They came out of nowhere like a virus spreading their will of evil and fear thought the universe, They can control anypony they see fit, but I don't know how they do that. " His face turns determined as he continued. "I've seen their evil and I vowed to destroy them once and for all." "Do you even have a plan Rain Catcher?" Asked Button Mash. "Because going back to Ponyville with a evil entity trying to kill you does not sound like a plan." "Well I was going to go see Derpy Hooves again and go from there." He said walking to the door. "Scootaloo." "Yes." Both of them replied. "Sigh my Scootaloo." As soon as he said that Rumble started snickering and Castor gave a grin that could give the Cheshire Cat a run for its money. "That was so cute how you said My Scootaloo Rain Catcher." The blue pegasus glares at Castor who just continued to grin. "Shut up Castor."