//------------------------------// // Fili-Second // Story: Power Ponies Secret Origins // by Grenazers //------------------------------// HIGHLIGHT COMICS NO.4 Presents FILI-SECOND Whirlwind actions with the fastest mare alive! It was field trip day for a group of students of Greystone Highschool. Their destination: the Evergreen Forest. A long line of teenage colts and fillies trotted through the woods, their guide, Ranger Pathfinder, talked about all the interesting things about the forest. The ranger talked about the history of this place, what kind plants grows here and what species live in these woods. While the students and teachers were listening to the ranger, at the far back of the line, a blue teenage colt with yellow hair and a couch for a cutie mark, was slowly following after the group. “Jeez this place is boring.” The teenage colt said. “Don't know why I agree to come here.” “Because of me silly.” Answered a very feminine and energetic voice. The colt turn his head and saw his fillyfriend, Rapid Dash trotting along side with him. The teenage filly had a pale green coat with a orange mane and pink eyes. Her cutie mare display yellow lightning bolt with vibration over it. “Right, why did convince me to come along?” He asked. “Because Cozy, you need to go out more.” The filly explained. “Besides you could sure use the exercise. A hiking is a perfect to burn off all that fat.” She poked his large belly. “Jeez, your not my mom, Rapid.” Cozy responded. "Of course I'm not your mom, I'm your fillyfriend and soon to be wife.” Cozy gave the filly a perplex look before talking. “Soon to be wife? Um Rapid we only been dating for a month now, I think it too soon to think about marriage.” Suddenly, the filly turned around and the colt saw that her once cheerful face has turn to sadness. “So what? Are you saying that we're not meant to be and you're breaking up with me?” She said, with tears starting to come down her eyes. “What! No Rapid, that's not-” “No, I get it, our love was not to last.” She then turned around and started weeping. “Guess I'll spend the rest of my life alone, without anypony to be with.” “Jeez, Rapid look I'm sorry.” Cozy apologizes and went up to face the mare. When he did, he saw that the filly's face didn't match her expression. Instead of sad, Rapid had a smirk on her face. Realizing that his fillyfriend was messing with him, he gave her a unamused look. Laughing, the filly slapped him on his back. “Relax Cozy, I'm just messing with you.” He teased. The filly trotted along ahead, with her coltfriend following behind. The two ponies hiked through the woods, finding no sign of the rest of the group. “Man, we must have been way far behind if we haven't catch up with the group yet.” Cozy pointed out. “Oh we're not following the group, we're actually hiking through the woods.” Rapid explained, nonchalantly. Cozy stopped in his track and looked at the mare with disbelief. “What! Why would you do that?” He demanded. “Well like you said, the trip was boring, so I though it would be more fun if we go through the woods by ourselves.” She answered. “Yeah, getting lost in the woods will be so much fun.” Cozy said sarcastically. “Don't worry Cozy, I been to these woods before, I'll find us a way out if you're scared.” Rapid assured him before turning around and explore the woods some more. Cozy sighs and follow after the filly. 'Might as well make the most of it' he thought in his head. The blue pony then spotted his fillyfriend, standing near a cliff, looking down at something. “Rapid, what are you-” He was quickly silence by the green filly. She had her hoof covering his mouth, preventing him from saying a word. She shush the colt and pointed to something at the bottom of the cliff. Looking down, Cozy's eyes widen in shock. Down at the bottom, were three aliens and their spaceship. Their ship was large, metallic, circular in shape. The aliens were the most bizarre. They resemble pony in shape, but are made entirely of rocks. Two of these stony aliens stood near the entrance of their spaceship. They watched as the third rock alien trot up to a yellow flower and plucked it from the ground. It then turn and showed its prize to the two other rock aliens. Their stony features made it hard to know what these guys are feeling, until the one of the left spoke. “Are you telling me, we travel across the cosmos just to get a flower!” The rocky alien yelled angrily. “This is no ordinary flower, brother Granite.” The alien with the flower responded. “This is a rare Celestial Flower, a flower grows faster then any other plants on this planet. What would take weeks for a single plant to grow, the Celestial Flower can be fully grown in a matter of seconds.” “Brother Rubble, how is a flower going to help us take over this planet?” The rock alien on the right asked. “Simple brother Ashlar.” The one called Rubble said. He then took out a mortar and pestle and began grinding the flower. “It is the final ingredient I needed to perfect my speed formula.” Rubble then took out a tube of strange liquid and added the grinded up bits of the flower into it. Mixing it all together, the rock alien took a small sip from it and felt incredibly energized. “Brother Rubble, does your formula work?” Ashlar questioned. Rubble then looked at Ashlar and within a blink of an eye, he appeared right in front of him. “Yes, brother Ashlar, my formula worked!” He exclaimed, zipping around the place as he talked. “No longer are my movements slow and sluggish, I move faster then a split second, the world around slows down before my very eyes!” The two other rock alien watch in amazement as their brother move with super speed right before them. “Incredible brother Rubble!” Granite praised. “With this formula, we will take over the entire planet within a matter of hours!” “So what's next brother Rubble?” Ashlar asked. “Next.” Rubble said, before disappearing and reappearing back in a second with two ponies in his hooves. “Next we got to deal with these two.” Holding up the two surprised/scared ponies in front of his two companions. “Spies!” Granite yelled angrily. “I crushed them!” “No, brother Granite, these two can be useful.” Rubble stopped his aggressive friend. “They know this planet more then we do, we'll to interrogate as much information from them as possible. For now take these two to the brig.” Both Granite and Ashlar took the ponies into their ship and locked up behind some cage walls. When they left, Cozy started panicking. “Oh no oh no they got us and they're going to do horrible things to us!” He shouted, remembering hearing stories about prisoners being tortured for information. Suddenly he felt a warm embrace from behind. It Rapid Dash, hugging the colt. She was attempting to comfort the colt and while it seem to work, he was still worried. “Don't worry Cozy I got this covered.” She then took out the tube with the strange liquid in it. “Where did you get that?” “I snatched it off that rock guy when he displayed us to his two buddies.” “What are you going to do with?” He questioned. “Well obviously I'm going to drink it.” “But Rapid, you don't what's inside of that thing. It could kill you!” Cozy warn the filly. “That rock guy drank it and didn't die, so I'm sure this thing is safe.” She pointed out. “Besides would you rather sit here and wait for them to come to us?” She then proceed to chug down the entire content of the tube and dropped it on the ground. “Rapid, are you alright?” He asked, concern for his fillyfriend. Then all of sudden, Rapid zipped around the room. Going in the exact speed that rock alien was going. “ThatstuffisamazingIneverfeltsoenergizeinmyentirelifewellexceptthatonetimeyoutookmeoutforcoffeeandItookasipandfeltsoenergizethat-” “Rapid! Please slow down, I can't hear what your saying!” The green filly slowed down, but was a bit twitchy. “Like I said that stuff was great! I never felt so energize in my life.” “That's great and all, but can you use that power to free us from this jail cell?” “Let's find out!” She zipped to the door and repeatedly punch the lock. Like a jackhammer, the lock gave way inch by inch until the lock was completely broken. With the door open, Rapid picked up Cozy and carried him out the spaceship, passed the rock aliens and back on the cliff edge. Cozy blinked his eyes and looked at his surroundings. “Wow, that was fast.” He then got off the filly and stood on his own. “Rapid, we need to alert somepony about this.” “No Cozy you need to alert somepony, I need to stopped these guys before they can enact their evil plans.” Rapid said to him. “But, Rapid those guys are made of stones, there's no way for you to stop them.” Cozy pointed this fact to her. “Obviously, you never heard of momentum.” Rapid said before she zipped right back down the cliff. What the filly meant was that she was going to use this mechanic to defeat these rock aliens. Momentum is basically about the mass and velocity of the object. The larger the and faster the object is, the higher the momentum. However, the smaller and slower the object is, the momentum is lower. What this filly was attempting to do was increasing her own momentum, so that she has enough force to break through these guys. Despite her being smaller then them, a small object with enough velocity can be deadly as any bullet. Once she got enough velocity, she galloped straight towards Granite. She pierced right through him, shattering him into a million pieces. Ashlar looked in shocked to see his companion breaking into a many pieces. Before he could say anything, Rapid pierced right through him, shattering him into pieces. With the second one taken care off, she looked around for the third one, but found no trace of him. Suddenly something tackled the filly and she fell on the ground. Looking up, she sees the rock alien glaring down on her. “So you're the one who took my speed juice!” Rubble angrily stated. Rapid tried the same trick on him, but he quickly evaded it. “Ha, you think you can beat me at my own game! Foolish creature, I have studied the way of the speed, I know how to use better then you!” “You're all talk, let's see you put your money where your mouth is!” Rapid challenged. “So a speed duel, very well, prepare to be bested!” Rubble accepeted. Their duel starts with both combatants charging right at each other. They clashed and broke off, they repeated this process all around the spaceship. Both fighters didn't deterred and continue clashing. Finally Rubble saw an opening and knocked her down. “Ha! You were good, but Rubble is better!” He was abut to finish her off, but something hit him in the back of his head. Turning around he spots a blue teenage colt throwing rocks at him. “Leave her alone1” He yelled. “You must either be really brave or really stupid, to come and attack me.” Rubble said menacingly. “Now you'll suffer my wrath!” Rubble trotted towards the colt, but stopped when the filly began galloping in circle around him. Suddenly he felt himself being lifted off the ground. “What is this? What's going on?” The rock alien questioned, panicking at this point. “Let's see you try you gallop with no ground to gallop on!” Rapid answered as she creates a small tornado that sucked him up high in the air. When she stopped, the tornado disappeared and Rubble fell down, shattering upon meeting the ground. Rapid took then moment to take a breather. As she did this, she felt the warm embrace of her coltfriend hugging her. “That was amazing Rapid! You totally destroyed those guys!” “Yeah I sure did.” She said and hugged him back. “C'mon lets head home.” She carried Cozy and zipped out of there. The second those two left, two pony forest rangers arrived on scene. “Look Ranger Bark, this was the cause of all that commotion.” The green ranger pointed to the alien spaceship. “Well holy smoke, it's an UFO.” The brown stallion name Bark stated. “This is the discovery of the century!” “What with all these rocks?” The green stallion questioned as he examine all the bits of rocks surrounding the ship. “Who cares about that, their is a actual spaceship right in front of us! We got to tell somepony about this!” Somewhere far away from the place, near the edge of the forest. A teacher was counting all her students at they entered the bus. “Cutter, Scarlet, Tinker, Coz- wait a sec, where Cozy and Rapid?” She asked out loud. “Here we are!” Answered Rapid from behind. The teacher yelped in surprise. “Rapid, how many times I keep telling you, don't surprise me like that.” “Can't help it, Miss Applebee, it's just so much fun!” She exclaimed. The mare sighs. “Just get on the bus.” She ordered. Rapid and Cozy did as they were told and entered the bus, they took the back seat. When the teacher climb aboard the bus started moving, leaving the forest and heading back to school. “Well that was a eventful day.” Rapid said. “Encountered aliens, got captured, got superpowers, broke out and defeated them. I should become a superhero!” “What?” Cozy said, sounding surprise. “I said I should be a superhero. Going around fighting criminals all the while wearing a skin tight outfit.” “That sounds like a terrible idea.” Cozy commented. “Yeah well I wasn't exactly asking you for permission.” She pouted. And thus the day was saved, thanks to the filly that would later become: Fili-Second! THE END Zapp & Mare-Velous in Island Vacation. It was summer time and both Zapp and her friend/teammate plan to head out and relax on some island resort. Upon getting there, the so called resort was a trap set up by the native inhabitants. At the top of active volcano, both power ponies were tied and placed near the edge of the volcano, facing the lava pits below. Surrounding them were the natives of the island. Each wore the stereotypical get up you see in most fiction. Such as leaves for skirts/kilts, flower necklaces, leaf headdress and face paint. “You know we wouldn't be in this situation, if we have went to Applewood.” Mare-Velous nag to her pegasus friend. “Shut up.” Zapp responded. Suddenly the native leader approach the two. He was the leader because he had more leaves on his headdress then anyone else. “We apologize for this, but we needed sacrifices to appease the volcano. Otherwise it destroy our home.” He then motion for his ponies to begin pushing them over the ledge. “Hope you got something other then nagging, Mare-Velous.” Zapp said. “It just so happens I do.” The earth mare then pulled something out and toss itinto the volcano. Suddenly the volcano rumble a bit before stopping, the lava retreating back underground. “What did you do?” The native leader questioned. “You somehow appease the volcano, but how?” “Simple my native friends.” Mare-Velous explained and showed him a Hostess Fruit Pie. “These delicious snacks serves a much better sacrifice then any ponies.” “We thank you Mare-Velous, for appeasing the volcano. For that we'll treat you like royalty.” Half an hour later, the two mares were relaxing by the beach, with the natives providing food, drinks and the occasional fanning. You Get A Big Delight In Every Bite Of Hostess Fruit Pies Radiance in To Steal a Hostess At the Canterlot castle, our heroine Radiance has been summon to the castle for an emergency. She arrive on location and was met with the pony ambassador, who was panicking. “What seems to be the problem?” Radiance asked the ambassador. “Oh it is awful Radiance, somepony has stolen all the hostess snacks! They were meant for the griffons who are going to arrive soon. We promised them hostess snacks, but if they find that we don't have it, they'll take offence to it and declare war!” After the ambassador's expositions, Radiance thought of the one thief who would dare steal from royalty. “There is only one pony who could've done this, Shadowmane!” Indeed Shadowmane, a well known thief across the world. “Don't you worry Mr. Ambassador, I'll find those Hostess Snacks!” She said, putting a hoof on his shoulder, assuring him. Now the question is how? How will the mare go about doing this? Suddenly an idea popped in her head. “Since Shadwmane will no doubt place all the stolen snacks together, all I have to do is use my scanners and find the largest concentration of deliciousness in this castle.” With her plan made, she uses the power of the gem and scan the castle for the highest concentration of deliciousness. Her scanner lead the mare to the castle's main kitchen room. “No gem, not here, Shadowmane will never hide it in someplace so obvious.” Then it hits her. “Unless.” Using her powers, she x-rayed the place and found the Hostess Snacks hidden in the walls, floor and ceiling. Radiance quickly grab all the Hostess Snacks and brought them all back to the ambassador. “Sir, I have found all the stolen Hostess Snacks, but I couldn't find Shadowmane.” “That alright, what's important is that the snacks are secured and just in time too, the griffons are here. Would you like join us?” The stallion asked. “I will be my pleasure sir.” You Get A Big Delight In Every Bite Of Hostess Fruit Snacks