//------------------------------// // The Orange Star // Story: The Disney Tales of Equestria // by DreamsCanComeTrue //------------------------------// The Disney Tales of Equestria The Orange Star ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The morning sun rose up from the hills behind Ponyville and one by one, nearly everypony had awakened from their beds and begin their day with a smile on each face. Mr. and Mrs. Cake, who owns Sugarcube Corner, start their morning by making the freshest batch of their breakfast muffins. Mr. Cake makes a batch of lemon muffin surprise muffins and cinnamon-apple crumble muffins and Mrs. Cake looks over their shelf of their baked goods to ensure that they do not go stale and each of them are fresh. Pinkie Pie, the pink pony who works with the Cakes, sweeps the floors and wipes the tables clean to prepare for the morning rush. As always, Pinkie Pie is the first to sample the batch of morning muffins to make they taste good and she always gives them a hoof's up for approval. Down at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack and her brother Big Macintosh walked over to their big apple orchard and begin their day harvesting their apple trees. Apple Bloom, Applejack's little sister, looks over each and every apple to see that there isn't a rotten apple in each basket and also checks them for worms. Granny Smith watches over their grandchildren while she's knitting, giving them a warm smile to ease up their hardworking day. Applebloom finishes looking over the apples and picks up her backpack, trotting on her way up to school, catching up with her friends, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Up at Cloudsdale, all the pegasi fly all over the skies of Equestria to break away the clouds so everypony will enjoy a clear morning sky. They halt their work at the moment to watch Rainbow Dash kick out every cloud sight with lightning speed. She did it all at 9 seconds--a new record! The pegasi cheered for Rainbow Dash for her hard and fast work on getting rid of the clouds. Rarity had finished eating her elegant breakfast and goes straight to her work room to design a new clothing line for her shop, the Carousel Boutique. But before she goes to work on her latest line, she went to finish the dress custom-made for her client from Manehattan. The dress is periwinkle blue with navy-blue ruffles with a couple of touches of dark green and gold-yellow to compliment the colors of the lapis lazuli. Rarity uses her magic to carefully place the lapis lazuli pendant on the skirt of the dress and pins it securely and marks it a finished product. She smiles gleefully with the finished dress. At the small cottage near the Everfree Forest, Fluttershy sings a melody to awaken the birds and the birds sang back as a way of saying "good morning". She goes over to the chicken coop to feed the chickens and finds that her chicken had laid quite a few eggs overnight. She and her bunny friend Angel picked up the eggs and put them in an incubator to keep the eggs warm, and Fluttershy cannot wait to see the new hatch-lings. Twilight Sparkle and her assistant Spike were setting up a telescope on the balcony of the Golden Oak Library. "Twilight," said Spike. "I know you're fascinated in looking up constellations and astrology and such, but it's morning already!" "I know, Spike," said Twilight Sparkle. "But even when the sun's up, there's always a star leftover high in the sky. There's supposed to be a morning star up there still and I want to write down the data of the morning star before it vanishes. I got to do it now while I got the chance. Got a quill and paper ready?" Spike finishes setting up the telescope and grabs the quill and paper. Twilight puts her eye on the telescope, twisting the knobs to adjust better viewing and becomes astounded by the sight of the morning star. "There it is, Spike. Take this down--at 8:32 am, at the northeast sky, a morning star still remains and shines brightly, competing with the sun's brightness. However, when the sun is slowly rising higher and higher, the star is completely still and..." She stops speaking at the moment to readjust the telescope to get a closer view of the morning star. She gasps quietly, leaving her mouth gaping open. "What's the matter, Twilight?" Spike asked. "Did something happen?" "You know that when the star brightens, the color of their light is white, right?" said Twilight. "But this one...it's orange." "Orange? Maybe it's a planet." "Not fiery orange." Twilight zooms in the picture to see that the star is reflecting all types of orange lights and small bits of fire are popping out, one by one. "We need to report this to the Princess now!" Twilight gasped. "I think the star's going to explode!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The morning sun rose up from the hills behind Disney Town and one by one, nearly all the residents had awakened from their beds and begin their greeting each other and doing about their planned day. Donald Duck had awakened his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louis for them to get ready for school. He made breakfast for the boys to eat, but suddenly, he stepped on one of the boy's toy cars, got rolled away to the backyard and crashed inside his refrigerator. Before he blows his temper, the school bus honked his horn, alerting the boys to pick up their backpacks and hop on the bus. The newspaper boy throws the newspaper, aiming at Goofy's door, but then Goofy opened the door at the wrong time and the newspaper landed on his mouth. But he recovered in time to wave at the boy as a way of saying "thank you" for the paper. He closes the door behind him, only that his coat got caught on the closed door, causing him to fall down. He reopens the door and picked up part of his coat and closes it again. Shortly after, his little son Max picks up his skateboard and rides his way to school. Clarabelle Cow jumps into her car and drives on her way to her business, Crazy Cow Real Estate, which is one the most successful real estate of all of Disney. Every day, she starts her morning with a promise that anyone looking for a home or a place to start their business, they'll sell to them at the right price. She also always start the day ensuring that her employees will help provide for potential client seeking the perfect space. After watering the plants and arranging the beautiful roses in each vase, Daisy unlocks the door to her store, Daisy's Flower and Garden Shop, and opens for business. She greets a long line of male customers waiting for her shop to open and welcomes them in. The men had eagerly awaiting the arrival of Daisy's latest variety of roses to give them to their loved ones. Daisy claims that it's like this every morning. Minnie Mouse finishes her cup of coffee and begins rolling out pie dough to prepare her pies for the town bake sale. She prepares the following fillings for her pies--cherry, blueberry, apple, and strawberry-rhubarb and pours them into many pie shells and puts them in the oven. 45 minutes later, she takes the pies out of the oven to cool and gets herself dressed and prettied up and then puts all of her pies into her car. She drives to the Disney Town Hall where the bake sale is taking place near the steps. The Mayor sees Minnie pulling up and is delighted to see Minnie with her pies. Pluto fetches the morning paper as Mickey eats his breakfast and drinks his coffee when Pluto brings him the paper. Mickey petted his best friend's head as a thank-you and begins reading the paper. The headline "ORANGE STAR BRIGHTENS OUR HEARTS" caught Mickey's attention. While he reads the latest story, the television Mickey left turn on puts out music from the news station. "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM TO BRING YOU A BREAKING NEWS REPORT. WE HAD RECEIVED RECENT FOOTAGE OF THE ORANGE STAR, WHICH IT WAS DISCOVERED LATE LAST NIGHT BY THE SPACE STATION. THE FOOTAGE WE ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW IS THE ORANGE STAR AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU WILL SEE BALLS OF FIRE POPPING OUT FROM THE STAR. OUR EXPERTS FROM THE SPACE STATION ARE CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THIS UNUSUAL PHENOMENON BUT THERE ARE ALSO REPORTS OF OUR CITIZENS PANICKING AT THE SIGHT OF THIS FOOTAGE, SOME BELIEVING IT WOULD BRING THE END OF THE WORLD. WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU THIS STORY..." "Gosh, Pluto," said Mickey. "That doesn't sound so good." Pluto barks with worry. "Don't worry, pal. I'm sure everything will turn out okay. I need to call Master Yen Sid, though. He keeps in eye on the sky and I hope he's handling the situation." Mickey walked up to his telephone and began dialing Yen Sid's phone number. While he's waiting for an answer, he sees from his windows a large crowd of the Disney Town residents blocking his street, looking up in the sky to see the orange star covered in flames. Then all of the sudden, the power went off. Mickey hangs up his phone in frustration. "I got a bad feeling about this," Mickey thought. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All the residents of Ponyville gathered around the Town Square, looking up at the flaming orange star. Twilight Sparkle and Spike meets up with their friends in the middle of the crowd, all six of them wearing the Elements of Harmony--Twilight with the Element of Magic, Fluttershy with the Element of Kindness, Rainbow Dash with the Element of Loyalty, Pinkie Pie with the Element of Laughter, Rarity with the Element of Generosity and Applejack with the Element of Honesty. "Are you sure this is necessary to bring out the Elements of Harmony?" Applejack asked. "What did the Princess say about this, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked. "I don't know," said Twilight, who looks frazzled. "I sent her a message regarding that star but she never responded. And when I noticed that my magic is fading away, I believe that the use of the Elements would make us safe." "You're magic's fading too?!" Rarity gasped. "I was in the middle of rearranging my beloved pieces of fabric, buttons, and those beautiful gemstones when my magic faded!" "All this excitement about this silly star is driving me NUTS!" said Pinkie, getting herself excited. "We had to close down Sugarcube Corner 'cause the crowd is becoming quite chaotic and the Pumpkin and Pound Cake are crying, crying, crying! And then Fluttershy's animals are running all over the place--a bunny there and raccoon there--" "I tried to put the animals in place," Fluttershy explained. "But they are spreading everywhere I had a hard time keeping up with them. They are so scared of all this!" "Things had gotten worse up at Cloudsdale," said Rainbow Dash. "It got so hot up there, we evacuated down here where we can close to the water and cool off! That star up there sure quite gave a heat wave in the matter of minutes!" "I went up to the schoolhouse to check on Apple Bloom at school," said Applejack. "And the kids are as frightened like crows scared at the scarecrow. I helped Miss Cherrilee calmed the kids and made sure the kids went straight home safely. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are staying with Granny and Big Mac 'til this whole mess is done with." "We really got to sort out this mess," said Twilight. "And fast." All of the sudden, the crowd screams at the sight of the star's flames expanding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mickey puts on his Sorcerer's garb and his own Sorcerer's Hat and headed outside, glancing at the star. He sees that the crowd is getting more frightened at the sight of the exploding star. "Stick tight, Pluto," said Mickey, petting his best friend. "It'll all be over before you know it." Pluto whined a bit when Mickey magically levitates himself on top of his roof. Mickey begins concentrating on the sky, beckoning the clouds and the stars to form a galactic storm, which is one of the most complicated spells he was taught with that creates weather out on space. Mickey has high hopes that the galactic storm would stop the star from exploding and there would be peace at Disney once again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Mane 6 brought themselves to a circle and began summoning their powers from the Elements of Harmony. A magical aura surrounds their bodies, with their Elements started to glow much brighter and their power grew much more powerful. Then, with a wink in an eye, a strong rainbow beam flew straight up to the sky, coming straight at the star. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ground shook, silencing every one, every pony, and every animal when the star exploded. Though the sound is faint, they hear an explosion. At Disney Town, Mickey regains his consciousness, thanks to his friend Pluto for being at his side. At Ponyville, the girls are having trouble getting up for they had used their energy to break out that powerful rainbow beam. Their eyes are hooked on the sight of the star, becoming a bright, white ball of light, stunning everyone of its unusual sight. Later on, the ball of white light, faded away when a clear wave of a sonic boom aimed directly at them. It started out like big gusts of wind, blowing away tons of natural debris, alerting everyone to take shelter indoors. Because everyone is inside of each building, they did not see that there is a planet coming straight at them, like an asteroid impacting the earth. Without warning, a wall of white light covered both sides of the planets, covering Ponyville, Disney Town, Canterlot, New Orleans, Manehattan, Agrabah and many more parts of each planet. All is quiet. One by one, each living being exits the building, each of them are astounded by the sight of a brand new sky, clouds looking different than they were before, and the grass has many shades of green. Then they meet someone new--a pony. And to a pony, a mouse. "Wha...what is going on here?" spoke Mickey and Twilight in unison. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Be Continued...