When I woke up, I remembered I haven’t eaten since yesterday morning. I found the eating area, and decided to have some holographic meatloaf (yum). After eating my highly nutritious meal, I did a quick check of the ship’s systems, making sure that the food synthesizer will start working, before respawning my suit, and teleporting out of my ship.
I decided to just visit that one shy pegasus, Fluttershy, because we were never properly introduced. After checking with my map of the area, I found the way to go to find Fluttershy’s cottage. I noticed I needed to walk through town, so I deactivated my helmet, before entering town.
As I was walking, I noticed ponies running into their houses, and watching me from behind their windows. I guess they’re still afraid of me. I shrug, before continuing my walk.
After about half a minute, I heard the sounds of someone yelling, and someone faintly crying. Deciding to see what was happening, I started running, activating my speed booster and my helmet. I arrived at the edge of the town square, to see the pony I was hoping to meet slowly backing away from an angry griffon. I quickly scanned the griffon, trying to figure out what the problem was.
Subject: Gilda
Race: Griffon
Age: Who gives a crap.
Analysis: A bully who was self-exiled out of Ponyville after freaking out, and publicly insulting Pinkie Pie. She was once an old friend of Rainbow Dash, as both went to the same flying school. Has also committed crimes.
Crimes: Stealing of (one) apple.
Bullying Fluttershy.
Made Pinkie Pie seem like she’s jealous.
Destroyed property of another.
Attempted assassination of a king.
Disturbing the peace.
Using terrible slang and insults.
‘So, it seems this Gilda is a criminal. And now she’s scaring Fluttershy. I better listen in to the conversation, so I don’t accidently attack her if she’s trying to apologize.’ I activate my helmet’s ability to eavesdrop, their conversation appearing on my HUD
“Please don’t hurt me.”
“It’s too late for that. Since no one is around, I can kill you, and Dash will never know what happened. Once I’ve killed all of her friends, I can go and comfort Dash, and we will be friends again. She doesn’t need to be friends with losers like you.”
After hearing what Gilda said, I deactivate my eavesdropping mode, before using my speed booster to run over and help Fluttershy.
“Any last words?” I raised my talon up, and was about to bring it down, when I felt something stop it. I turned my head, to see a giant orange creature holding my talon back. I struggled to break it free, but it was like the creature had a grip of steel. I decided to play it cool, and make it become afraid. “Let me go you overgrown tin can. You don’t know who your dealing with.”
“An overgrown turkey that’s who.” It replied, not even caring about what I said. I instantly got angry, wanting to punish the idiot who insulted me. I kicked my back legs out, pushing the creature back, and making it let go of my talon. I quickly turned around, finally getting a good look at the idiot who decided to mess with me.
It looked like a giant orange and red monkey, with a green face. I instantly charged at it, too fast for it to react, and I swiped my talons across it’s chest. When I did, I felt my talons sting, as I only made light sparks come off of the chest plate. As I jumped back, preparing for another attack, The creature pointed it’s dark green cylinder-like arm at me. I noticed it filling with some weird light purple stuff, and it shot it out, but before I could react, my body started spasming, as I felt a sharp pain go over my entire body.
The creature walked up to me, and pointed it’s arm cylinder at me, which was full of some white stuff, and I could feel extreme cold coming from it. I stopped spasming quick enough to lunge up at the creature, who fired it's cylinder again, causing me to be covered in ice. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t move. I was forced to watch, as the creature pushed me away from the stupid pegasus.
Once the ice thawed, I charged at the creature again, only for this time, to feel a burning pain on my chest. I looked down to see some of my feathers were burnt away, leaving a burn mark on my chest. I looked back up at the creature, who’s cylinder was full of red stuff. ‘I will not submit to a stupid tin can!’
I charged forward again, this time feeling a burning sensation in my left eye, but I kept on running. Right before I reached the creature, I was instantly on my back, the creature standing over me, charging up another red thing. I quickly got back up, to only get slapped by the creature’s other arm.
Right as I was about to charge again, a blue blur quickly appeared in between us. Once the blur was cleared, I could see that Dash was standing in between us, a look of anger on her face.
‘My missile message seemed to have worked. While Gilda was distracted, I was able to fire a missile into the sky, that blew up, to hopefully get Rainbow Dash’s attention, who I could see flying around, near the edge of town.’ Gilda spoke up before Rainbow Dash.
“Dash! Good you’re here. This overgrown tin can was trying to attack that pegasus, I tried to stop it, but it keeps on beating me up. Together we can stop it!” Gilda took a step forward. I looked at the burnt eye I gave her earlier when she was charging at me. I thought losing an eye would have made her see how futile it is to continue that battle.
“Sam, is this true?” Rainbow Dash asked in a tone that told me she didn’t exactly believe Gilda. Gilda didn’t pick up on this though, as she was smirking like she thinks that she just won.
“No.” Gilda flinched, clearly forgetting that I could speak. “I was going for a walk, looking for Fluttershy, because we haven’t been properly introduced. So, because of the ponies not being used to me, they were hiding from me. Gilda used this to her advantage, and was going to kill Fluttershy. She mentioned that if she killed all of your friends, she could comfort you, and you could become friends again.” I stated, telling Rainbow the truth.
“Lair! I would never do that! You have no proof!” Gilda yelled, but I smirked underneath my helmet, before activated audio playback.
“Please don’t hurt me.”
“It’s too late for that. Since no one is around, I can kill you, and Dash will never know what happened. Once I’ve killed all of her friends, I can go and comfort Dash, and we will be friends again. She doesn’t need to be friends with losers like you.”
After playing this out loud, I watched as Gilda’s face turned even whiter somehow. Rainbow Dash looked shocked, but I could see that she was really angry. Rainbow Dash turned around to face Gilda before speaking. “So G, is this true?”
“W-what! Of course not Dash! This stupid tin can is clearly messing with you. That sounded nothing like me.” Gilda took a step back.
“Oh, I think it sounded a lot like you.” Rainbow Dash said, with a surprisingly menacing voice.
“Dash, how could you side with a random stranger, over your best friend?” Gilda asked, accusingly.
“You stop being my friend when you treated my other friends like dirt! And now you think that killing my friends will help you become my friend again? I thought you might change when you left Ponyville, but now I can see that you got even worse. I don’t think I ever want to see you again.” Even I flinched back when Rainbow Dash said this, not expecting it.
“GAH! My plan would have worked so perfectly! It’s all because of you, you piece of scrap metal!” Gilda yelled out in a way that kinda reminded me of those breakdowns in Phoenix Wright. Gilda immediately charged past Rainbow Dash, and started swiping at me, to almost no effect. She was making my energy go down by about one point per minute.
Wanting to test an idea, I grabbed Gilda, to her surprise, and jumped up and used the high-jump, before activating my screw attack, which as it turns out can be used to get higher, instead of just going sideways. Once my screwattack stopped, I was already rather high above Ponyville, and while looking down, I noticed that some ponies are gathering around, and Gilda is disoriented.
As we started to gall, I put Gilda underneath me and quickly used my space jump before we hit the ground, to slow our fall, but still using enough force to almost break all of Gilda’s bones. Once we were back on the ground, I took a few steps back, waiting for Gilda to get back up, before speaking. “Do you want to leave? Or do I need to put you in more pain until you finally decide to give up?”
Gilda looked around, noticing the angry faces of the ponies, before charging at me again, giving off an angry yell. “DIE!”
Right before she got to me, I hit her with my wave beam, causing her to start spasming again, before I pulled my fist back, and then punching her straight in the face, using Smash Bros logic to send her flying out of town.
After Gilda did a Team Rocket style exit, I turned to face Rainbow Dash, before speaking. “Sorry.”
Rainbow Dash was confused by that. “Sorry? Why would you be sorry? You defended my friend, and managed to hold back Gilda.”
“Well, she was your friend at some point. I imagine it would be hard to see one of your friends try to attack others like that.” I said, before scanning Fluttershy to make sure she was okay.
“I was mostly over it last time she threatened my friends. Although I never imagined she would go far enough to try and kill another. By the way, do you know what happened to her eye?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“She tried charging me, so I used a non-lethal version of my plasma beam on her, first I hit her chest, but she ignored that, and kept charging, so I hit her in the eye, hoping that it would stop her.” My shoulders sagged. “I guess it didn’t work.”
“Eh, she had it coming. But thanks for protecting Fluttershy for me.” Rainbow said with a shrug. I decided to deactivate my helmet, now that the battle is over.
“It was no problem.” I looked around, to notice all the ponies that were watching the battle. When I looked at each pony, they all started panicking, and running back into their homes. “I guess the ponies are still afraid of me.”
“Don’t worry. They get used to you… eventually.” I didn’t quite believe that. Before I could say anything else, my HUD told me I got a message on my ship.
“I got to go.” I start running back to my ship, waving to Rainbow Dash. “See ya.”
After a minute or two, I arrived at my ship, and teleported myself inside. I sat down in my chair, before checking on the message.
Message start:
Sam Aran… if you can hear this, this is Princess Celestia. Can you arrive at the Canterlot Castle? We have a possible mission for you.
Message end.
A bounty? I let out a small smile, at the thought of my first mission.