//------------------------------// // Memories. // Story: My Little Musketeer! // by Appl3dashie //------------------------------// "So Rainbow are you ready to face your friends?" Shining said. "Yes..." Rainbow said solemnly. "Okay." they trotted through a bush to see the 4 mares and one dragon. "Rainbow!" Applejack and Twilight ran up to her. "Are you okay? Need water juice or punch?" Twilight asked worriedly. "Nah I'm cool." she walked down to Pinkie. "Hey how's it goin'?" she grinned. "Just fine! Come on we'd better be going!" she skipped down the path followed by Rainbow. "Hey Applejack have you seen Pearl?" Twilight said. "No... besides Pearl is probably stuck under a rock." She replied. Applejack... Twilight... whispered a voice near them. "W-WHOSE THERE!" Applejack shouted. Don't be afraid! I just need you, Twilight and Shining for a minute... Shining overheard the whispers and quickly ran over to Applejack and Twilight. "Who are you!" Twilight shouted. Pearl... The ground shook violently. "Stay close!" Shining huddled them together. The ground opened up to a slide. They fell backwards twisting and turning. "WHOA WHA!" Shining squealed. They landed on a mattress. Twilight scanned the room and then gasped. "A LIBRARY!" she screamed. "Look at the books!" the siren went. They became ponies once more. "BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!" "Why are we here?" Applejack watched Twilight pushing books out of cases. "Who cares why!" Twilight squealed again. In the corner something glowed. It shone brighter. Before a painting was flung at Twilight. You know this Twilight... Don't you? the whispers said. Twilight's blood froze. Her heart skipped a beat. "T-That painting." She picked up the dirty portrait brushing cobwebs off. "It was the painting from my dream." she hugged it close. "Your dream?" Shining said. Twilight explained how Sparrow doesn't like us together. "Right." she walked off silently. "Well then... That's not a cool portrait." said a familiar voice. "Rainbowdash!" Applejack cried. They talked for a bit until they were interrupted by the whispers. Hello dear ponies! silver mist appeared from the corners of the room joining up to be... "Pearl!" They cried. "Its been so long Pearl!" Twilight hugged her. Yes yes... I know.... she went silent. "Is something the wrong?" Applejack asked. Shining and Libra won't know but you know Princess Silver? "Yeah?" She took away my throne... Pearl remembered the incident. It was long ago. But she still remembered it. "Stop it Crystal!" Pearl cried. "CRYSTAL!" their mother yelled. "Hurry up and get dressed. We're leaving for your cousins soon!" "Don't worry Sunshine... we're not that late." their other sister came down the stairs. "Oh Zestari these girls I can't control..." "I know they are. But give them time and you'll see." The zebra walked off. After hours of chasing, slapping and talking they set off to Princess Silvers in Sunshine's chariot. "I wanna knock!" Pearl raced to the door. "No! Only the older gryphons can knock first." Crystal walked up and smiled smugly at her. "BUT I GOT HERE FIRST!" Thank goodness the shrieking from outside couldn't be heard in the palace. "I'M GONNA KNOCK AND THAT'S IT!" she body slammed into the door. "Oh greetings Princess Sunshine." The gryphon at the door said. "Good day Iceline." "Crazy morning?" Iceline sighed. "Yeah... I'm used to it." "SQUEE THERE YOU ARE MARIGOLD!" screamed her sister Princess Neonite. "Hello Coloursnap." Sunshine hugged her sister. "Where is Lily?" she asked. "OVER THERE!" Coloursnap pointed to a black alicorn. She flew gracefully down from the railing. "Hello Sunshine..." she hissed. "Hello Lily..." Sunshine hissed back. They started to giggle then they burst out in laughter. "Oh Princess Lullaby!" "You can call me Lily. I am your sister." "Mama..." Two small fillys came out from behind Lily. "Aww Tia and Luna right?" Sunshine nuzzled them. "Come on go play with Crystal and Pearl." they galloped over to Dare and Pearl who was throwing darts at what looked like an expensive vase. They saw each other and instantly felt a connection. They started playing darts on Iceline. "Hi Aunt Sunshine and Hi Aunt Lullaby." a small batpony came from behind Neonites legs. "Hi Ginger."" Sunshine smiled. Another filly came from behind her legs. "Hello Silver." "Hi..." she mumbled. Then one last filly came from behind her legs. "Aww hello SeaBreeze!" Lullaby cried nuzzling her. "Hwello." she said. "Hi there!" Sunshine smiled. Silver scowled at her younger sister causing her to wither. "Why don't you all go play in Silver's room?" Neonite said. "MUM!" "Silver." she sharply said. "I HATE YOU!" she cried before stomping up the stairs yelling at the others to follow her. "I can never seem to find out whats going on in her mind. This morning she wanted ice cream then she wanted pizza!" Neonite said. "Kids... you'll never predict them." Lullaby smiled. Up in Silvers room things weren't pretty. It was a usual filly's room. Pink walls. Yellow carpet. Blue bed with a blue desk. And on the bed stuffed animals. "Ywo never twold us ywo had stwuffed animals." SeaBreeze said. "Aww..." everypony went except Silver who scowled at her. "What a loser." She mumbled flopping onto her bed. "Lets play animal adventure!" Ginger grabbed 6 stuffed animals. "Here you go!" she gave a giraffe to Luna, a horse to Celestia, a kangaroo to SeaBreeze, a tiger to Crystal, a deer to Pearl and she threw a snake at Silver hitting her on the nose. "SCORE!" she yelled. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ALL DOING?" Silver yelled. "GET OUT ALL OF YOU! Actually... SeaBreeze and Ginger stay here the rest of you all get lost." she snapped. The 4 ponies ran out while SeaBreeze and Ginger hid near the desk. "You know I love my sisters." Silver smiled innocently. "We know!" Ginger smiled. "I know I can be harsh." She flew over to her desk and opened a drawer. "We alweady know." SeaBreeze said cutely. Silver brought out something sharp. Something dangerous. She turned around holding the object. "Do you know what this is?" she held up the butchers knife. "A-A knife!" Ginger stammered. "What type?" "A butchers?" "What do butchers use knifes for?" she grinned smugly. "Chopping animals up to kill them!" Ginger shuddered at the thought. "That's why I have this!" she swung it down at Ginger. But she dodged. "Nice trap." Silver grinned before turning to SeaBreeze who was cowering in front of her. "Why would ywo do this?" she said. "BECAUSE GUESS WHO ALWAYS HOGS THE WHOLE FAMILY? GUESS WHOSE ALWAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF ATTENTION? GUESS TO TAKES MY BLOODY TOYS WITHOUT ASKING?" She snapped her head towards Ginger. "YOU DO!" she flung the knife and SeaBreeze right in the chest. "I never thought the hate inside you would become this monster." Ginger said staring at SeaBreeze's dead body. She flew down and put her hoof in the blood before drawing 2 lines on each side on her cheeks. "You may be a monster... But I know your my sister!" She cried. "Please lets just b-" she got cut off. Literally. Her neck had been sliced of by the knife. Her body collapsed on top of SeaBreeze's dead body. Everything went silent. Silver stared at the blood everywhere. She stared at her two sisters bodies. "Hey Silver are you okay? I heard shouting and..." Zestari opened the door to see the bodies and Silvers bloody hooves. "What have you..." her eyes widened. "YOU K-" she also was cut of by the butchers knife. Her body was flung back onto the railing outside. The butchers nice engraved deep into her head. "ZESTARI!" Crystal cried. "Stay away..." Silver took the knife away from her head. "I'm a monster." she said underneath her hair. "You murderer!" Crystal was going to punch that girls head off but the threw the knife not at her but at Princess Neonite who was trotting up the stairs. The knife struck her in the heart which knocked her down the stairs. They heard two shrieks from bellow before two alicorns flew up but by then Princess Silver had transformed. She'd became a raging beast. Her wings were as long as a tree branch (plus were razor sharp to. Extra details for being a monster!) her skin faded to grey. Her eyes shone and turned red. But the most disturbing thing about her was her horn. It was grimy and it had mold and it was chipped. "My daughter..." was Princess Neonite's last words. "Ah! My new form feels oh so great. I feel more powerful then Princess SunShine!" she cackled. "You may have become a monster. But it doesn't mean we can't use these!" Sunshine yelled. They summoned six different colored jewels. One red another blue, another purple and on the left side was a light pink an orange and a darker pink. The jewels shone but Silver couldn't care less about their crap. "Fail!" she summoned a massive tornado overthrowing the two Princesses into a wall. The jewels crashed onto the floor. "No... NO!" There was a massive explosion as one of the walls blew up. "GO GO!" Iceline pushed the fillies down the stairs through the doors. "Tia grab the jewels!" Luna said. "Okay... hurry!" they grabbed the jewels and hid them in their hair before dashing out the door. Suddenly Pearl realized she was talking out loud. "Uh... Wow! That was... a unique story." Rainbowdash gasped. "So then how did you become a pirate?" Twilight said. "Well..." Pearl said still trying to get over the fact that she was talking out loud. "I flew down to the ground..." "I can't believe our cousin is a killer!" Crystal cried. They flew onto the ground in a forest. "Me neither..." Pearl mumbled landing beside her sister. "And it was your fault!" Crystal snapped. "How?" Pearl said angrily. "If you let me play around with you longer then we would've avoided this mess!" "I disagree!" "Course you would!" "It was obvious that it was SeaBreeze if she weren't acting cute then Silver would've been fine!" Pearl shouted knowing Crystal is quite fond of the little filly. "It can't be that filly's fault! She was being cute because she is!" Crystal shoved Pearl into a tree. "OH YOU WANNA GET PHYSICAL?" Pearl snapped. "THEN LETS GET PHYSICAL!" she punched Pearl into a tree picking up a rock while doing so. She flung the rock and her head causing a big gash. Crystal grabbed her tail and flew up pulling her along. She then dropped her and then flew at top speed down at her punching the life out of her. Pearl smashed into the ground below her. Crystal didn't care she kept punching. "NO!" Pearl kicked her off. Punched her eye sockets before running into the distance. She saw a small sign saying Welcome to Neighgeria! She didn't stop there. She raced past into the town. Going through streets and up lanes. "PEARL! I'M COMING!" Crystal flew at her. "EEK!" Pearl flapped her wings. She lifted up into the air. "Come on come on!" she thought flapping her wings harder then before. She flew down the lane making a sharp turn into a busy road. She saw a ship just about to take off and flew towards it. "Come on wings! Pick up the pace!" she struggled to go faster. "COME ON!" she crashed onto the ship just when it took off. "EY THERE'S A FILLY ON BOARD!" yelled a pirate. "I'LL GET HER!" another pirate yelled. "Leave this to me." the captain walked down the deck. He walked down into the cabin room. "Come out filly!" "Who is it?" Pearl said. "The captain." he noticed to filly standing next to a cabin door. "What are you doing on my ship?" he asked. Pearl explained to him from getting beat up by her sister to Silver murdering half the family. "I see the problem... Tell ya what. I'll make a deal. You become part of our crew and we'll protect you for the rest of your life." he held out his hoof. "Okay." They shook. "And so he explained to the crew that we've got a new member. Yes Crystal did try to attack us sometimes... but one day she didn't come back. Until I noticed her in town. The Captain. Captain DaringHoof he passed on but gave the ship down to me as his 'adopted' daughter. I gave birth to Quill. So life has been normal." She said. "Don't get startled but I'm supposed to be Queen of Neigheria. Even though Crystal is older." Pearl sighed. "I guess that won't come true. I'm dead anyway." "But.. why?" Applejack asked. "Because my dead mother chose me to lead our country. Not my irresponsible sister." "But can't we do something about it? Like... kill Princess Silver?" Twilight suggested. Everypony stared at her in shock. Everypony except Pearl. She closed her eyes. "You know how hard it is to kill Princess Silver." "Yeah!" Rainbow said. "We nearly got killed by her before! But guess what? We're not dead like you!" she grinned. "Uh...no offense." "None taken. But before you go storming out to some physio princess you need some training. That's why yours truly is here." she pointed to herself. "You'll do it for us?" Pinkie grinned. "Heck yeah! Now anyway you all wanna learn swords don't you?" "No. I was hoping to learn different things like bow and arrow... stuff like that." Applejack said. "Bow and arrow hey?" Pearl smiled before pulling out from behind her one bow and around 15 arrows. "Perfect!" Applejack strapped the bow onto her and the arrows on her back. "How bout you Rainbow?" "Hmm I was thinking of something cool... like... I dunno magic?" "Like portals or something?" "No no... a weapon." "Like... a wizard staff?!" "Well actually I was hoping for a bow and arrow." Rainbow shrugged. "But that means copying Applejack." "Take mine." she smiled. "I'll just learn something else." she turned to Pearl. "I'll use a gun." "Okay then!" she tried summoning a gun but she only summoned a gem. "Haha... hold on." she tried summoning again but she just got another gem only a different color. "Umm... Again." she just got another. "Okay...." she studied the gem. "Oh since now I'm in heaven I think guns are to 'violent'. This is a summoning gem. Summon some guns.... and any other thing you like." she hung the yellow gem around her neck. It glowed a little before returning to its natural color. "Heaven.... whats it like up there?" Twilight said. ' "It's horrid. We're all controlled by..." she coughed. "Sir Francis De Glados." "Wow... But still can you do anything?" "We can d-" she stopped. "ERROR ERROR ERROR. Erasing dialogue Erasing dialogue. Returning previous session. Returning previous session. Restarting test data restarting test data. Downloading files... Previous session dialogue returned." she shook her head. "Ugh... what were we saying again?" she said. The others blinked in confusion. "Your a robot?" Pearl sighed. "Damn I didn't want you to find out." she sat on the floor. "Heaven isn't pretty. When you die your soul flies up. I remember it oh so clearly. It feels fine. Your flying up. But then..." she shook. "These... robot fillies grab you. If you struggle their grip becomes tighter. T-They threw me into this machine a-and.." she stared at the floor. "Are you okay? You don't need to continue if you can't.." Pinkie put a hoof around her. "Thanks Pinkie. I'm okay though..." she took a deep breath and continued. "They threw me into a machine. It strapped me up. Before spraying knockout gas all over the room. I'm pretty sure they operated inside my brain. I have a black box and lots of other gadgets... Then I woke up in a room in an inn. Umm then... yeah." She shrugged. "So that's what it is..." Twilight sighed. "A-Any way..." she felt a tear trickle down her cheek. "OH CRUD A TEAR!" she wiped it off. "Sorry if I get any water in me. Oh... they'll be pretty annoyed." "Anyway forget the sad mushy things. We'd better sort out our weapons!" Rainbowdash said. "Right!" Pearl got up to her hooves. "Okay... Rainbow and Applejack are sorted... How bout you Twilight?" she turned. "I'll just use a sword." she grinned. "Pinkie?" "Hmm... Well I want something cool... and pink! Oh and it must have streamers! OHHH I'LL USE PARTY BOMBS!" "Isn't that basically bombs?" Twilight said. "YEAH!" she grinned. "Applejack could you summon it?" Pearl asked politely. "I'm kinda tired." "Sure thing!" Applejack pressed a hoof to her chest and thought about bombs. Then 10 bombs appeared at Pinkies hooves. A bright spark from the gem flashed in front of her then... BOOM. She lay on the floor looking around. "IT WORKED!" she jumped up and down happily. "Thanks Applejack." Pearl grinned. "How'd ya do that Applejack?" Rainbowdash grinned. Applejack held up a manual. Rainbow read the title. "How to control magic necklaces for idiots... Sweet!" she laughed. "We'll how about you to?" Pearl turned to Shining and Libra. "I'd lik-" Libra was cut off by Shining. "I'd really like to be half robot! Like a cyborg. A pony with lasers and a metal heart. SQUEEE!" The others sighed. "Typical." Applejack mumbled. "Okay then..." Pearl held out her hoof and pointed it at Shining. She rose up light starting to shimmer around her. "I know what I'm doing. I know what a robot is doing..." she said under her breath. She looked up at Shining. She was not visible anymore. Actually Shining was covered in yellow. "Pearl you have to stop! Don't you see?" Twilight said. "I know what I'm doing!" she stammered. Finally the light died down. A shriek of pleasure erupted from the side of the room. "ITS PERFECT!" they looked over at Shining. She had metal robotic legs with green robotic eyes and now robotic wings. "Wow... That's pretty impressive." Rainbow said. "Watch this!" she kicked her left hoof. Suddenly all the robotic parts folded away. "Epic isn't it?" she grinned. "That's awesome!" Pinkie cried. "Pearl you okay?" Twilight laid a hoof on her. "I'm fine... Just a little shock." she grinned. "Okay." Libra said. "My go." She sighed. "I'm not wishing for anything special... I just want a simple old axe." She smiled. "Thanks for making it simple." Pearl said giving her an axe. "Now... Lets go!" she grinned. "Not so fast Pearl!" All the book cases fell over causing a loud smash. "It's you again..."