//------------------------------// // Maho Drive Begins! The First Step Towards the Great Race! // Story: Maho Drive! The Dazzlings' Story (A Spin-off of Maho-Shojo Sunseta) // by Vocal Chord //------------------------------// If you haven't read Maho-Shojo Sunsetta, this might be confusing. Go read that first. "This is the worst." The Dazzlings sat in the cafe, listening to Adagio go over her extensive list of why she hated everything that ever happened. "Sunset Stammer, super-powered? It's like the universe hates me." "You could at least shut up about it once in a while," spat Aria. "And, I dunno, actually accomplish something for once." "Says the girl whose idea of a good time is kicking any living thing she can reach," replied Adagio. "Don't make me add you to the list." Basically, none of them were having a good time. Not only did Celestia banish them to this place, making them endure a thousand years of pain, suffering, and two world wars, and not only did they lose to a kids' show wannabe band, but now one of their worst enemies had the ability to transform into a strangely-dressed fire queen. The more Adagio thought about it, the more she wanted to strangle the nearest living being. Aria inched away slowly. "I am sick of always being second best to that--that Faust-bucking spawn of a buck-weasel! Why doesn't anything good ever happen to me? Wh--why? *sob* It's not fair!!" "Cool it, faucet," said Aria. "It's not like being a baby's gonna get you anywhere." "Yeah, I tried that," said Sonata. "It was weird." Adagio rolled her eyes. "I need some air..." she said through grated teeth. "You guys follow me. I might wanna punch somebody." "...and she thinks she's so great and powerful, just because she got those fancy magic super-powers! I mean, what's she actually do? Yeah, she saved the school a bunch of times, but come on, those sheep would leap off a bridge if Celestia went first! It's just so...I'm so sick of all the...things she do!" "Things she do?" Aria scoffed. "Adagio, you've been running your chew hole for an hour. Shut it before I force-feed you a knuckle sandwich." "FOOD?!" Sonata leapt up. "I wanna pastrami on rye with jalapenos!" "Will you both shut up?" Adagio sat down on a nearby stump, having led the Dazzlings into the middle of the woods, where she wouldn't get in trouble for screaming too loudly. "I just wish there was some way we could be as popular and omnipotent as Sunset Stupor." Then, as if it was a badly written plot device in a story that wasn't going anywhere otherwise, a massive crash sounded throughout the forest. "Wha'sat?" Adagio leapt up. "Something happened." "Maybe it was your brain finally crashing..." muttered Aria, smirking. Sonata raised a finger. No, not that one. "Look! Smoke! Maybe there's a barbecue!" "Sonata, do you ever think?" asked Adagio. "I tried it that one time," replied Sonata. "It hurt." "Go back to sleep, Sonata," said Aria. "You already used that one," said Adagio. "Try again." The three teenagers approached the tower of black smoke. "Whadda ya think it is?" asked Sonata. "Pork BBQ? Ham BBQ? Bacon BBQ?" "Those are all the same things, and it's not food!" replied Adagio. "Something crashed. I can feel it." "Like how you felt going to CHS was a good idea?" asked Aria. "I say we go back to the swimming pool locker rooms and make fun of all the fat people in their bikinis." "That's just you, Aria," said Adagio. "And, also, eww." She stopped. "There it is." In a clearing, surrounded by downed trees and rubble, was a strange, winged...thing. It had two balloons strapped to either side, and a propeller at the back, but didn't look like any kind of flying vehicle on Earth. "I bet it's an alien ship!" said Sonata. "Like in that one movie!" "Our life isn't a movie," said Adagio. "That part ended when we ran off the stage, humiliated." "Let's grab everything valuable and get out," said Aria. "I don't like the look of this." Something stirred inside the ship. "What...was that?" said Adagio. Suddenly, a door flew open, and something tumbled out, covered in soot and obviously wounded. "Help--me..." "KYAAA!" Sonata leapt backwards. "It's some guy! Run!" "Wait..." Adagio approached the figure. "You. Almost dead guy. Is this your ship?" "Y--yes..." "Can I have it?" "Um...sure? *cough*" Adagio pushed the guy under a bush and looked around inside the ship. "Guys, I think we found our new home," she said. "No more living in that abandoned greeting card factory!" "Does it have HD TV?" asked Sonata. "Or food? Either one's fine." Adagio ran a hand over the dusty, broken controls. "Whatever hit this thing, it hit pretty hard," she said. "Not like I want to, but this thing isn't gonna fly anytime soon." "What's this button do?" shouted Sonata, slamming down random switches and levers. "What's this button do?! Ooh! What's this button do?!" "Hey, what's this?" Aria picked up a piece of paper. "It's a note." Help Cloud Empire here No time Evacuate Do someth The rest of the note was torn off. "Who writes a note during a battle?" asked Aria. "It's just stupid." "Maybe whoever wrote it was hoping that, when the ship crashed, someone else would get the note and send help," said Sonata. "That'd explain why they made it a point to crash towards a populated area; or, at least, it's what these readings say." "But that's just a string of random numbers," said Adagio, looking at the screen Sonata was pointing to. "How do you know what..." "Hey! Look!" Sonata ran over to another screen. "It's got repair drives!" She pushed a lever. "This'll get the ship up in no time!" "Again, how do you know so much about this stuff?" "I read a lotta sci-fi." The Dazzlings walked home having covered the airship in branches and leaves. Adagio had insisted it'd make it less noticeable, but the resulting mossy teepee was more suspicious than any downed alien ship. "Well, now," said Adagio as they re-entered town. "I think I know what we're gonna do tomorrow." "Go see that one movie?" asked Sonata. "'Cuz I heard it's really good." "No, Sonata," said Adagio, grinning evilly. "We're gonna take care of Sunset Schism once and for all. And this time, well have something we didn't have before." "It's an alien spaceship, isn't it?" asked Sonata. "If I guessed right, do I get marshmallows? I want marshmallows."