//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Point of Convergence // Story: The Sudden Trinity (Book 1) - The Darkness Gazes // by Blondlionezel //------------------------------// Chapter 2: Point of Convergence Joseph Lion had stealthily reached the edge of Ponyville, and looked around. He then pulled out a small box with the word “Helmet”. Joseph Lion pushed the boxes small, red button, and put it on the ground. As soon as the cube touched the ground, it morphed into a robotic being with a build similar to the HRP-2 robot. “Happy Birthday!” Helmet announced cheerfully. “Helmet, we’re on a stealth mission!” Joseph Lion informed Helmet sternly. Joseph Lion wasn’t one for being joyful or playful. “Sorry!” Helmet apologized. “Anyways...we need to find Kalvus Blood and his superior, and bring them to justice” Joseph Lion told Helmet. Helmet looked into the sky, and it was still pouring rain. “Could you have picked a better time? The rain makes my circuits rusty...” Helmet complained. Joseph Lion rolled his eyes. Meanwhile, at the apartment, Pinkie Pie was bouncing around like crazy. “I can sense something cool!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, running out of the apartment complex. “Looks like we’ve got to go follow her...” Twilight Sparkle stated. Twilight Sparkle and Rarity soon began to chase after Pinkie Pie. Back at Fluttershy’s house, Applejack looked outside. “I got a bad feeling about this...” Applejack thought out loud, “But I need to go rejoin the group” “Jakal and I will go to!” Fluttershy added. “No, Jakal would frighten them, and you would be frightened by whatever is there” Applejack told Fluttershy. “I promise I won’t be frightened...” Fluttershy promised. Applejack rolled her eyes and sighed. “Okay. You can go with us” Applejack compromised, “But Jakal has to stay here!” “Jakal go with friends!” Jakal said. “Fine! You can come too!” Applejack added. “Yay!” Fluttershy and Jakal cheered, as the three of them went out to rejoin the group. At the mysterious lair of Kalvus Blood, he was doing odd experimentation on the six ponies. “Interesting...” Kalvus Blood noted, putting Golden Harvest into a chamber. He then pressed a black button, and gas began to fill the chamber. “Kalvus!” A voice commanded, sitting in a chair, wearing a strange cape and cowl, “What are your results?!” “Master Reaper, the six I have captured are ready to be mutated!” Kalvus Blood reported, “But I fear that someone has come back to stop us” “Then send a Zellhound!” Master Reaper declared, slamming his fist on his table. “Yes sir...” Kalvus Blood responded, walking to a tube, filled with a strange gas and a creature inside of it. He pressed a red button on the tube, opening it. As soon as the gas flowed out, an armored, dog like creature burst out of the tube. “Go, my Zellhound! Find and destroy our enemies!” Kalvus Blood ordered, as the Zellhound ran out of the base and out into Equestria. At the point where Joseph Lion and Helmet had arrived, they had began to survey the local area. The weather had changed from rain to fog. Helmet scanned the oxygen content, the gravity, and the local flora and fauna in order to make sure that they were in the right place. “Helmet, do you hear that?” Joseph Lion asked Helmet. “Yes. They sound like hooves on the ground” Helmet analyzed, looking in all directions. Joseph Lion pulled out a futuristic flashlight and turned it on, looking through the fog. “Who’s there?!” Joseph Lion asked, as Pinkie Pie bumped into him, knocking them both over. “We’re under attack!” Helmet exclaimed as various weapons such as laser rifles, flamethrowers, net launchers, and mini-missiles, opened up through parts of his body and aimed them at Pinkie Pie. Twilight Sparkle and Rarity reached the same point as well, startling them. “What the heck is that?!” Rarity yelled, pointing at Helmet. Helmet then put away his weapons. “Are you ponies?” Joseph Lion asked Twilight Sparkle and Rarity. “Yes, and just what are the two of you?” Twilight Sparkled asked Joseph Lion and Helmet. “My name is Joseph Millicent Lion, Time-Police of the year 2030” Joseph Lion told Twilight Sparkle, “And this robot here is my partner, Helmet” “Helmets!” Pinkie Pie giggled. “Not now, Pinkie Pie!” Rarity told Pinkie Pie. “Time-Cops?” Twilight Sparkle though out loud, trying to put the pieces together. “We were given a special mission, to find and arrest Master Reaper and Kalvus Blood, on charges of trying to take over the world” Joseph Lion told Twilight Sparkle. “Interesting...did these two kidnap people?” Twilight Sparkle asked. “Yes. But now he has resorted to kidnapping ponies” Helmet stated. “He must be the one who kidnaped Rainbow Dash and the others!” Twilight Sparkle figured out. As soon as Twilight Sparkle finished her sentence, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Jakal came towards the group. “EEEEEK! What the heck is that?!” Rarity screamed, pointing at Jakal. “It kind of looks like a strange creature...” Twilight Sparkle stated. Helmet then scanned Jakal, doing an anaylsis. “DNA Scan, unknown. This creature has fifty-nine chromosomes” Helmet analyzed, speaking aloud his results. As if more things could arrive at this point, a growl could be heard. “Jakal, was that you?” Fluttershy asked in a scared tone. “Zellhound!” Joseph Lion announced, pulling out his laser pistol and firing. The Zellhound dodged each of the laser bullets and jumped out at Twilight Sparkle. “Eat this!” Helmet yelled as he blasted a sharpnel missile at the Zellhound, blowing it into a lot of mechanical pieces. “WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!?!” Rarity demanded. “Stop being such a little wuss! We’re safe now!” Applejack told Rarity. “Whose house is closest to us?” Joseph Lion asked. “Sweet Apple Farm is the closest!” Twilight Sparkle told the group, “Let’s go there!” Back at the lair of Master Reaper, Kalvus Blood was finishing up mutating the six ponies. He pressed a red button, and began to laugh maniacally. Out of the chamber came six new ponies. One of them was a now a plant-like creature, a heavily armored creature, a liquid creature, a eletric creature, a sharp-clawed creature, and a creature with giant black metal wings. “Go, my six and destroy them all!” Kalvus Blood ordered as the creatures deployed. (Continued in Book 2: Six vs Six)