//------------------------------// // Stumbling and stumbling all over the place // Story: Chaos: the Age of Spike // by Kaliann25 //------------------------------// The girls quickly arrived to the clubhouse, ready for their first official day as Agents of Chaos; but of course first they enjoyed a huge laugh seeing Diamond’s and Silver’s punishment for gossipers. If with that they finally learn to stay away from their business, good; and if they don’t they’ll have more opportunities to humiliate them, so better! But back to the story, they arrived ready to listen to their new instructions. Spike greeted them with a small smile. “Finally! Come on girls, let’s get in the house, I have the perfect idea to start our fun” They followed the dragon to their own clubhouse and sat around the dragon looking at him expectantly. “So we’re listening Spike. What’s our first mission?” “First, do you still have your Twilight-Time?” Asked the dragon. The girls exchanged a look; as a matter of fact they had it next Tuesday but with all what happened during the night they totally forgot it. “Yeah, this Tuesday. Why?” “What time? Because I need you to convince her to do your famous Twilight-Time in the outside, so you could separate safely at the hour of truth. You see, my plan is…” Soon enough, the girls were laughing loudly on the wooden floor, imagining the great fun that waited for them; and that of using their Twilight Time as part of the strategy was a touch of genius. Spike nodded satisfied of himself and continued: “Girls, this is very important: I need you to keep having your Twilight-Time as long as you can. She trusts you and using it we can get a lot of information, information we’ll use to improve our pranks making them more difficult to defeat” “But isn’t that cheating?” Asked sweetly Sweetie Belle. “Sweetie! We’re agents of chaos now, we’re not supposed to play fair” reprehended Apple Bloom at the time she took her form of Shadow. “Apple Bloom is right!” Added Scoots also taking her dark form: ScootaDark. “Good guys always win, and as the new bad guys we have the mission to delay their victory as long as we can, and nothing better than a little cheating” “Or lots of it” said Spike. “Now let’s get ready; for the first time we’ll use our powers in a direct confrontation so we better begin preparing ourselves” Sweetie transformed too and the three of them made their signature high-hoof: “AGENTS OF CHAOS, YEY!!" Tuesday: “Girls, come on in please” said Twilight gently opening the door. Having the girls as her personal students were a refreshing rest from her new chores as Princess; and that day she prepared a very interesting class for them. “Twilight, in fact we were thinking…” said Sweetie with her sweet little voice: “You see we had a long day at school and we’re wondering if…” “Can we have our Twilight-Time outside?” Asked Scootaloo. “Yeah, is a very nice day, too nice to waste inside” added Apple Bloom. Twilight seemed surprised but nodded happily. “I don’t see why not, and I think I could use a walk to relax a little. Ey wait a minute, aren’t you trying to become popular again, right?” “Nope, lesson learned” said Apple Bloom. “Besides we can go to ma’ place. There’s nopony there but ma’ family and some costumers” Satisfied, Twilight followed the girls happily, beginning an interesting conversation about the process of mitosis. The girls listened to her really interested (I mean, they really enjoyed their Twilight-Time even if was only theory they were having since Twilight knew how to make it sound interesting); but they were also waiting for the right time for the first confrontation. Spike’s prank began since Celestia raised the sun and it was only a matter of time for Ponyville to be affected too. Sitting on his black floating throne, Spike killed the time reading some comics and biting an enormous diamond he made appear; clacking his fingers every half hour affecting a new city with his spell of chaos. It was two o’clock, time to mess with Canterlot. Again he clacked his fingers and waited for Celestia to show up. Meanwhile in Canterlot, Princess Luna looked at her older sister a little worried. She was acting very weird since a couple of days: refusing to eat her beloved sweets after the first bite, and that was repeating during all her meals during the day. At first she gave some vacations to her personal bakers and confectioners thinking they were too tired and because of it, their skill decreased. But when she hired new ones they failed again. And there she was: crying and surrounded by all kinds of sweets, that she left aside as soon as she took the first bite. “But why? They’re as good as always, but I can’t eat them anymore; even if everypony keeps saying my candies are as good as always they taste so inferior to me. Why? I NEED SOMETHING DELICIOUS AND SUGARY SO WHY I CAN’T ENJOY MY DELICIOUS CANDY ANYMORE?” Luna sighed, even if she was still worried about her sister, this was getting annoying. The Princess of the Night disliked sweet things, something very ironic considering that during her special celebration that was the children’s tribute; but even she had to taste the sweets her sister refused and didn’t found any changes in the flavor. “Sister, I really don’t understand” said Luna. “When was the last time you ate something sweet?” “The Saturday next to Nightmare Night, I went to visit Twilight Sparkle and Spike to check if he was really the new god of chaos and he received me with delicious pancakes. Oh, when I think about that pancakes; so soft, so sweet, so perfect. But I think it was because of the syrup, I never tried something that good in my eternal life ande…” At that point Luna began to laugh loudly, using her infamous Canterlot voice that she couldn’t control at that point. God, this was hilarious. “Luna! I demand to know why is my disgrace so funny to you!” Luna couldn’t answer since she was still laughing hysterically on the floor, unable to control herself. Celestia waited what her patience allowed, that wasn’t much so she used her own Canterlot voice: “LUNA SHUT UP IN THIS INSTANT!” A little recovered, Luna motherly put a hoof on her sister’s shoulder with a condescending smile: “Sister: I have very bad news: you’re the latest victim of the candy of all candies” The white alicorn froze shacking lightly. “No…” “I’m pretty sure he is worried about you, after all you keep complaining about your weight but your sweet-tooth is stronger than you” Celestia remained on the same spot for a while, until she extended her wings with decision. “Okay, if the dragon wants to play, I’ll show him who I am. Lord of chaos or not, I’ll not tolerate this insult. He will pay, sooner or later but he will. Luna had a sweat drop on her temple, anime style. Her sister could be really childish when it was about candy and she wasn’t in the mood to deal with her so she retired to her private chambers followed by her captains of Lunar Guard: a blue Pegasus called Black Swordsman and his wife, a white unicorn called Lighting Flash. “See you Tia” But when she was about to leave, a poor Pegasus crashed through the window destroying it in the process and fell just in front of Celestia. He stood and tried to walk to her, but instead he began to move backwards and crashed to a small table destroying a jar on it. “What’s happening to you? Are you alright?” The Pegasus shook his head seemed very scared. Tried to move again but failed miserably and fell again, stumbling to a wall. “Are you drunk?” asked Black Swordsman. “Your majesties, captains; I risked my life coming here to inform you about the horrible curse that affected Cloudsdale this morning. None of us can move properly; every time we want to move to right, we ending moving to left; when we try to move forward, we move backwards and such. Please, we need help, our city is in chaos right now; we can’t move and don’t let me say about flying. We’re desperate! The Princesses exchanged a concern look. Seriously, what the hay? “I passed by several cities your majesties, and I saw the same curse in all of them. Please help, the rest of the emissaries are about to come” Effectively, they all could hear the crashes and complains and apologies from there. After indicate the young Pegasus to stay still, the two Lunar Captains carried him to a couch while the Monarchs ran to confirm the story. And it was true: nopony was able to move properly at Maredrid, Trottingham and Fillydelfia. Probably much more cities as well, the situation was unique. “Tia, I have a feeling that your plans of vengeance will have to wait. Spike made his first official move” “It seems so, I’ll go to Ponyville immediately to alert Twilight and her friends; and better if I think a new way to communicate with her since Spike is the problem now” Said that, she flew to action on her chariot carried by two Pegasus soldiers; but at the middle of Canterlot something horrible happened, and when the clock tower announced a new hour, both Pegasus lost control and crashed to the nearest mansion. “Are you okay?” Asked Celestia recovering from the accident. They grumped as an answer getting up, but when they tried to walk the ended up stumbling each other and falling again. The same for the owner of the mansion who came to see what happened to his home. After promising to pay for everything, Celestia decided to walk to Ponyville but she also crashed as soon as she began to move. “Great, now I’m affected too. Interesting one Spike, very interesting” she complained starting moving. It was difficult, she had to concentrate to go to the exact opposite direction that the one she really wanted too. For a moment she thought about teleport but it was too risky to try so she kept walking arriving to Ponyville after three hours or more. Spike spotted the alicorn and grinned. “Just in time Princess, just in time” “Oh Spike, very funny about your pancakes. So funny that I forget to laugh” The dragon blushed a little (even if it couldn’t be noticed with his new black scales) “I’m sorry Princess Celestia, but it was a favor to you. When you finally lose all the extra weight you keep complaining about, I’m sure you’ll thank me” An irritation vein appeared on Celestia’s forehead, but somehow she controlled herself. The dragon smiled. “Now, as I was saying, you arrived just in time!” The Ponyville Clock Tower began to ring and Spike clacked his fingers. Big Mac, who were walking around there, stumbled against a rock and rolled to crash to a tree. When he stood he began to move backwards at great speed, crashing again. The girls facehoofed, now they were affected too; of course this had to happen. “Thank you for the idea Rainbow Dash, see you with that banana skin gave the inspiration that I needed” Twilight tried to keep her calm. “So this is your first official prank as the lord of chaos, and let me guess: you hided the chest” Spike shook his head. “I don’t have to. You see: there’s someponies I want you to meet. Ey friends!” The same three black ponies from Nightmare Night arrived, smiling evilly and staring to their rivals with their weird-looking eyes. The earth pony shook Applejack’s hoof. “Hi, nice to meet ya’! Ma’ name is Shadow and Spike magically gave me all your strength and agility. Oh, and I’m also in charge of twist nature to my will with my black apples of chaos” The Pegasus shook Dash’s hoof. “And for me my name is Dark and my stuff are the wacky weather patterns. And also I’m a flyer as fast as you; so good luck trying to stop me from now on” Last but not least, the small unicorn bowed to Rarity. “And finally I’m Black, your counterpart Rarity. My thing is to make the ponies do crazy stuff using my beautiful hypnotic voice; but to make things a little more unfair, I have all the power that Twilight had when she first arrived here. So nice to meet you” Spike crossed his arms satisfied. “Okay, now if you excuse us, we have tons of chaos to create. And Fluttershy and Pinkie, I’ll let you know when I find who can be your counterpart; you see, my goal is to create a six member team to face you” Said that, they left leaving the Mane 6 shocked. Five agents of chaos plus Spike, this didn’t sound good for them. Celestia shivered. “I’ll be honest my faithful student: if there wasn’t that Spike is our new enemy, I would be really worried about Equestria’s future” Finally, the Mane 6 began to advance; or at least they tried because as soon as they moved a hoof, all of them ended on the floor after a massive collision between them. “Great” mumbled Twilight. “ “The key is to concentrate in go to the different direction you really want to go” said Celestia not moving. They tried and managed to advance a little, but they had to go really slow; something that seemed like the hell on earth for Rainbow. Especially because she could see her rival flying all over around presuming her great speed that was the same that Rainbow’s. But of course flying was out of the question giving their condition. They kept walking but the sun had no mercy on them since the pegasi were unable to fly and catch a cloud or two to cover them. “Uf! A’ll kill for something to drink!” Complained Applejack. A cloud positioned over the six girls and uncharged a grape flavored rain on them. “Sports drink?” Tasted Rainbow. “Okay, that’s a new one” Dark’s head appeared between the cloud. “My signature move, but you should see my salt and pepper wind. It doesn’t matter now anyway, what I highly recommend you is try to relax a little, drink some and recover your strength, because this is about to get good” Said that, she moved at Raibow’s speed again. The blue Pegasus was furious, she really wanted to prove herself against this new rival but giving the conditions she had to move slowly and watch her showing off. Fluttershy gulped. “I have a bad feeling about this” “Nah, I think we’re going to have lots of fun” giggled Pinkie. They keep moving for a while, but then they saw the other two agents of chaos, ready to start the confrontation. Shadow made appear a black apple on her hoof and threw it to a close tree. The tree immediately began to grow giant fruits that looked like balls. The Mane 6 raised an eyebrow, what now? Shadow keep making appear the black apples and began to threw them to every tree she saw, making it to grow the same fruits. Black was waiting the right time. Rarity grumped. “Such taste, their sense of humor is just too childish. The poor trees looks so hideous! I can’t even think something that looks worst” Shadow chuckled. “You know? I think you offended them” Effectively the trees move their branches to grab some ball-fruits and began to threw them to the Mane 6 who tried to run but again they only managed to crash each other falling again while the trees keep attacking. “That’s what I call failing at dodgeball” mocked Dark. “What about some hydrating? Again she moved her clouds starting the sports drink rain. The ‘battle’ begun and the children were wining. At least the balls didn’t hurt, were only annoying; but because the chaos team didn’t want to hurt them, only to mess with them a little, after all they weren’t truly evil. Now it was Black’s turn, who began to sing with her beautiful sweet little voice. The effect was devastating, soon the ponies began to believe they were or dogs or cats or mice and began to run (and crash) all over the place creating a huge mess. And to make things better the rain made the ground slippery and difficult to move. The Mane 6 didn’t know what to do, this was pure chaos; Spike was doing a hell of a job. Applejack quickly thought in something. “Twi, A’ need to concentrate so keep the damn balls away from me! Seriously!” “Okay!” Said Twilight creating a forcefield for the six of them, with Rarity’s help. Applejack took her rope concentrating on a close pole but when she threw it, she did but to the opposite direction. It worked. “Okay, all of ya’ hold!” Applejack pushed (pulled) the whole group making them advance. The crash was imminent but at least they were closer to the castle. “That hurt, but good thinking Applejack” smiled Twilight. “Ready to take us to the Palace?” She nodded and prepared the rope again, but when she threw it, somepony caught it, and it was as strong as Applejack. “Good idea but we can’t allow you to do that” said Shadow. “Ya’ better give me that” said Applejack pushing (in order to pull) the lace. They began to fight, and of course they had the same strength; unbelievable. Dark got down to help their friend and Black used her magic to support also. It was a pull and push fight that seemed that it won’t end soon, but Applejack let go the lace making their rivals to instantly crash. “Karma” mocked Rainbow Dash. Twilight recovered the rope with her magic and passed it to Applejack. The cowgirl was about to use it again but Twilight stopped her with a small gesture and concentrated her magic on a forgotten chariot she spotted. When Twilight’s spell touched it, the chariot began to move. “As I thought, the objects aren’t affected. Applejack try to not to catch the carriot” Applejack obeyed, catching it of course and with the rest of her friends strongly held to it, the wooden chariot transported them to the Palace, where they entered quickly. Spike received them with a jar of lemonade. “Ey girls! You made it, congratulations! Now go get the chest and do your job” Twilight shook her head. “Just like that? Aren’t you gonna trick us again?” Spike shrugged. “No, at first I thought in hide it but…” he raised his claw that had a bandage. “Apparently I can’t touch it anymore since I’m the lord of chaos. Besides you know me, I’m not evil. I’m just doing my job” They all exchanged a look. The most annoyed were Rarity who confronted Spike. “Okay, I will never forgive you this Spike! Because of you I’m all dirty and soaked of sports drink! Do you have any idea of how much I’ll have to spend in the bath to remove all of this from my fur?” “Dark is in charge of weather, not me” “She follows your plans Spike” said Pinkie. “Funny but still a little bit cruel” Spike shook his head. “I don’t have any plans, just keep with my pranks. I can’t control my own allies, they do what they want since they’re chaos too. That’s the idea”