//------------------------------// // Press // Story: Jurassic Pony III // by mistercokehold8 //------------------------------// In the four years that have passed Ponyville hasn't changed much at all. It still remained the sleepy little village it always was, in fact the most change would have to have been its six most famous residents. Despite no longer being ousted as liars about an island filled with dinosaurs, Twilight Sparkles, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash hardly spoke of the subject. They mostly spoke of it if the subject just happened to come up. For the southern mare, the meek pegasus and the fashion unicorn, they wanted absolutely nothing to do with dinosaurs for the rest of their lives. But today wasn't a day about that. Today was about a nice simple meal the six were planning later that evening to celebrate Rainbow's promotion to active duty within the Wonderbolts. Naturally whenever any sort "celebration" is going on within Ponyville you can expect a certain pink pony with a passion for parties to be involved, and today is no exception. Pinkie Pie is bouncing off the walls to get this party prepared, quite literally in fact. She ricochets between the walls in the halls of Twilight's castle leaving blue, and yellow streamers in her wake in a lightning bolt pattern. After that she reloads the confetti cannons hidden around the castle with party favors of rainbow coloring. Satisfied with the basics she bounces her way over to the banquet hall with a grin. Once there she whips out her party cannon, and loads a custom round for this party. With a loud bang, and a squee she fired it off, instantly changing the decor. Across the long table goes a Wonderbolt blue tablecloth with a big rainbow colored lightning bolt going from end to end. From the ceiling hang rainbow streamers arranged in two large rings to resemble the Sonic Rainboom, and around the room float massive balloons a little bigger than ponies showing pictures of clouds.Sighing to herself, Pinkie turned to her friends. "I wanted to use real clouds too, but they wouldn't pack into the party cannon... Oh well!" She perks up, and starts zipping back and forth to the kitchen to bring in lots, and lots of sweets to eat. It just isn't a party without cake! Despite knowing the party pony for so many years now, Princess Twilight Sparkles still would never know how in the world Pinkie could set all of this up in the span of a few hours. "There's the biggest mystery in life girls." Twilight said to her closest friends. "It's Pinkie Pie darling, don't question it," Rarity advises. "You'll hurt head just thinking about it." Applejack said as she finished unloading the last crate of Rainbow's favorite drink in all of Equestria, Apple Cider. Pinkie zips up to AJ. "Hey, did you get those pies I ordered? After Soarin had that one at the Gala all those years ago the rest of the Wonderbolts have been dying or a piece of apple pie, along with some shippers on FiMfiction!" "All set and ready for eatin'!" Applejack said with a salute. Pinkie puts a hoof to her belly. "Oooo, speaking of which I got butterflies in my tummy! That means my Pinkie Sense is telling me somepony's very special somepony has just arrived!" Twilight trotted to the door and peered out. "You called it Pinkie! They're here!" The castle doors open as the Wonderbolts fly in. Led by Spitfire, Fleetfoot and dozens of Pegasi file in dressed in Wonderbolt flight suits. Above them hovers Soarin looking for the guest of honor to the party. "Getting held up with her flight suit?" Twilight asked Rarity, who was tasked with stalling the cyan mare for as long as possible. Rarity smiles deviously, "Oh yes, you see I made her quite a few custom outfits... All of which are either a bit too small, or large. She insisted she had to attend in her new outfit which had to fit just right..." Fluttershy finally trotted into the room. "Ummm, word finally got out...." She said, being tasked with trying to keep the press out. Twilight sighed. "Bound to happen. Rarity, go give Rainbow her fight suit. I think we're all set." Nodding Rarity adjusts the wrapped bundle on her back, and trots off to go find Rainbow Dash. Pinkie meanwhile watches the procession of pegasus ponies, before muttering to Applejack. "I hope you made enough pie..." "Made enough to feed all of Canterlot." Applejack said. "Say Twilight, where's Firefly? Figure he might've been here seeing how close you to are." The southern mare teased her close friend. "Scorch said he couldn't make it because of.....you know what." Twilight said, trying to remain professional about her relationship with the stallion that has caused her friends nothing but unintentional grief. Pinkie bounced over to her. "Is he alright? He wasn't doing so hot the last time we saw him since... Well, Blueblood." She glances at Applejack with a sheepish grin. Applejack didn’t make a comment. She hardly ever spoke of that night. "I figured he needed someone to nurse him back to health....and well he's charming." Twilight admitted. Pinkie pats her shoulder, "Well I'm sure it'll work out... You know, apart from all the press drama around a princess being all lovey-dovey with the stallion most everypony considers solely responsible for the biggest disaster to ever happen in Equestria since Tirek, or Sombra, or Nightmare Moon, or Chrysalis, or maybe all of them put together on a regiment of steroids! by the way have you ever noticed that Tirek sounds a lot like T Rex?” “I actually heard from Fluttershy that her friend Tree Hugger managed to get every species of dinosaur on those islands on the endangered species list so now it's illegal to hunt them, and so far nopony has been stupid enough to try to capture them since word got out that's what Blueblood has been trying to do. I've even heard from Luna while planning her 2,576th birthday that Celestia has lost a lot of favor with the nobles because of him. Oh look who it is!" Pinkie finally pauses for breath as she waves to the only non-pegasus ponies she invited to the party, them being a certain blue mare with a silver mane, and her colt. Even without the star spangled purple cape, and wizard hat it's easy to recognize her. Twilight noticed Trixie walking into the room. "She's the other reason he didnt want to be here." She whispered quietly to her friends. Twilight remembered the last time Trixie and Scorch were in the same room. Not pretty. "That colt must be Crimson's son," Pinkie notes. The colt in question is a deep blue color, and looks old enough he should be getting his Cutie Mark any day now. He has his father's ice blue eyes, and double colored mane. In this case his mane, and tail are back with streaks of his mother's silver. "Looks just like his father." Fluttershy noted. Twilight was ready to go over and strike up a conversation when she saw Rarity being followed by Rainbow Dash, who looked highly annoyed. "Oh come now Rainbow Dash, it was all in harmless fun," Rarity soothes. "I thought you liked practical jokes." "You had me try on over a hundred flight suits when there was this one already for me!" Rainbow said as she walked in through the door, before going wide eyes. "Attention!" Spitfire called. One by one the Wonderbolt pegasi lined up and snapped into a salute. Rainbow herself saluted as Spitfire and Soarin stepped forward. "At ease Rainbow." Spitfire said returning the salute. "Enjoy yourself." From beside Spitfire Soarin shoots his cyan marefriend a wink, "Congrats Dashie, let me be the first to officially welcome you to the Wonderbolts." Rainbow's cheeks turned a bright shade of pink. "Well I did learn from the best." She said before hugging Soarin. "Hey! What are we supposed to be?" Pinkie said. 'Oh come here girls." Rainbow said as her closest friends put her in the middle of a group hug. Then Rainbow feels someone tugging softly at her tail. It's Trixie's kid, having ducked away from his mother at a buffet table to come meet the guest of honor. The cyan mare turned to see who wanted her attention. "Hey there squirt! What can I help you with?" He smiles as he holds up an autograph board with his magic, and smiles up at her. "You're a hero right? Can I have your autograph?" "No problem!" Rainbow took a marker and signed the board happily, unaware who this colt belonged to. Fluttershy quietly returned froma quick trip outside and whispered something to Twilight. "They want in that badly?" She asked. Fluttershy nodded. "It seems the press have few questions for our newest Wonderbolt." "Shooting Star." Trixie called. The colt looks over, and with a wave goodbye at Rainbow Dash he gallops back to his mother. Applejack sighs, "Well RD it looks like you get your time in the spotlight... Just remember if that ask any questions about... you know what, just say 'No Comment.' Alright?" "Crystal." Rainbow responded before taking her seat at the head of the main table. Fluttershy opened the door allowing the press to flow in. Twilight and the other slowly joined her at the table as cameras began flashing and questions were being shouted. "Can we do this in a organized matter please?" Twilight asked after amplifying her voice. The press finally began to quiet down. "Good, now if you have a question just calmly raise your hoof and Rainbow Dash or any qualified pony up here will answer." As soon as she said that every reporter raised a hoof. Twilight sighed, knowing what they were wanting. Rainbow took over. "Ok, does anypony have a question that doesn’t relate to Jurassic Park?" A little under half the hooves go down. "Or the incident in Manehatten," Rarity chips in, leaving only a few Reporters with their hooves in the air. "Much better." Rainbow said, before selecting a hoof towards the front. "Is it true that you are in fact in a relationship with one of the Wonderbolt current members?" "The answer to that is yes." Rainbow said, putting a hoof on Soarin's, and then she picked another hoof. "Would you ever consider going to the second island?" Twilight frowned deeply. The technically never said don’t ask anything about Site B. Rainbow raised an eyebrow. "Why would I? I mean since I'm a Wonderbolt now if there was a rescue mission then yeah, otherwise no." "Can I take over for a second?" Twilight asked. Rainbow let her have the floor. "Thank you, the answer to that question is no, and let me be perfectly clear on this point." The princess said. "Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago. What's left of them is fossilized in stone the actual scientists spend years to undercover. What Scorch Firefly and InGen created are theme park monsters. Nothing more, nothing less." Twilight said, finishing her rant. "Princess Twilight," one reporter says. "Records show before your ascension to a Princess you were quite the studious mare, and still are to this day. Are you saying you would really pass up any chance to go to Isla Pegasus, and study the animals in person? Surely an Alicorn would be powerful enough to protect herself from some overgrown lizards." Twilight put on a firm smile. "No force on this planet or any other can get me or any of my friends to step hoof on that island." "Yet you don't have any issue with an active romance with the stallion behind these 'theme park monsters' as you put it," a reporter mare says as she puts notes down in a notepad. "Hey! That's out of line!" Rainbow said as Twilight made a face before turning to her friends. "I'll excuse myself." She said before standing. Suddenly there were several flashes of light with the whizzing of fireworks, frightening most of the reporters away. When the smoke clears a very put-out looking Trixie extinguishes her horn, and takes a seat at the end of the table with her son. "Oh I'm sorry," she says sarcastically. "I was attempting to power that spell for the guest of honor's enjoyment, however it seems i set it off prematurely. It seems even the Great, and Powerful Trixie can make mistakes." She fixes the rest of the reporters with a flat look who quickly take the hint to beat it. "Thank you for that Trixie." Twilight said. Trixie closes her eyes with a firm sigh. "You're welcome Princess Twilight... Just to be clear I might not approve of your choice of... partner... but I understand nopony can tell you who to love." She deliberately focuses on levitating a plate of vegetable over to serve some to herself, and Shooting Star. Twilight looked sympathetic. "Trixie if there is anything Scorch and I can do." Trixie gives Twilight a hard look. "My husband gave his life for your sake Twilight... died a hero protecting you from the monsters your colt-friend made. So long as you make sure Scorch Firefly is doing all he can to fix his mistakes with Jurassic park then that's all I could ask." With that statement Twilight could only looked down at the table. Trixie looked down as well, "I'm not trying to make you feel guilty Twilight... But you need to understand what Crimson Wrath meant to me... I was just a traveling performer when we met, now thanks to him I'm a famous storyteller, and a mother. I'm not sure I can ever forgive Scorch for taking him away from his family." "He didnt mean to alright!" Twilight snapped. "Ok girls lets tone it down a notch." Applejack said, trying to keep the situation calm. "Yeah, it's a party," Pinkie says as she bounces over. Trixie stood from her seat, "Maybe coming here was a bad idea. I promised myself to try to put...that... behind me. For Star's sake at least..." Shooting Star pouted. "Do we really have to go mommy? This party looks cool!" Twilight didnt say anything. By now her little spat was gonna be all over tabloids in the morning.