//------------------------------// // Field trip // Story: Friendship is Eternal // by Alchemystudent //------------------------------// Chapter 5: Field Trip.                     Fluttershy satin her hut in her, crying softly on the couch. It isn’t fair, Rarity didn’t need to die, Twilight shouldn’t be dead either. Why did we lose one just to lose another. She put her head into her hooves crying, much like she hasn’t stopped since she got home. Sure, it was one thing for her to be strong for Rarity on the way home, trying to hold in all of the pain. It had come easy to her for years, making sure that no one else but her would feel pain and sadness. Here at home, though, it was her time to let it all out. She could feel Angel’s paw on her mane, rubbing softly trying to comfort her. “nothing can be gained without first giving something in return” Those words were said by some scientist, and to her they were as hurtful as if someone told her that a person is in a better place when dead. Dead is not better, it never is, and when you give up a life, the loss is worse than whatever you get back.  Worse yet, it was two friends in a week, it might as well as been madman gunning every animal down in her face. She was too far gone into her tears to hear the door open, nor did she  feel a cyan hoof on her back, “Hey, Fluttershy. You can stop crying now.” Dash said with a smile. “It’s hard to do that Dashie, I can’t turn it off.” Fluttershy turns her head to the couch, not wanting to see Dash, determined to keep her pain to herself. “Why shouldn’t I cry, Twilight’s gone.” “What if I told you we are going to get her back?” Dash whispered into her ear, and was surprised to see Fluttershy’s sudden turn to her. “What? But how?” She looked into Dash’s eyes, hoping that it wasn’t just some false hope. “We found about some stone that could cut through stuff, like dimensions. I am not sure about the technical details, it involved a lot of science stuff that I usually sleep through. The important thing is that this can help Twilight come home and we need you to come with!” Dash walked a few steps back, smirking. “So me, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rarity are going off to get that stone and her back.” “Me, but what can I do to help. I…I’ll just be a burden to you and the others.” Fluttershy looked at Dash, her heart rising at this light of hope. Dash sighed, she knew Fluttershy had little confidence to herself; however, she also knew Twilight would love to come home and see all of her friends there, ALL of them. “ Sure you can help. What if Twi is badly hurt by the time we get there. The only pony here that would know of anything about that doctor stuff is you. And besides…wouldn’t she be happy to come home and see her friends again, and have the homecoming she deserved?” Fluttershy nodded, she may have had her doubts about what she could do on this journey; however, She was ready to do anything for her friends.” All right I’ll go, just give me time to get packed. “                     In Applebloom’s room, the mood was very sad and downtrodden. Any other time for the young crusader, this would be like a long sleepover; however, the room lacked any of the joy one would have when your best friend is there. “Come on Sweetie, get up. You haven’t moved from this bed for a week…you need to eat somethin’!” Applebloom quietly nudged her friend, trying to move the little unicorn out of her bed. “Please.” Her plea came across as heartbroken. “Go…away” Sweetie bell kept her head looking at the wall, still crying much as she had been for the last week, “ I’ll just…I’ll just find a way to get you hurt or worse too. Just like I did Rarity.” “Sweetie, Rarity would hate for you to go like this…giving up on everything in your life.” Applebloom laid her  head onto the bed. It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand her friend’s situation, she might be just as in much pain if she were lose Big Mac or Applejack or worse the both of them. She also knew, however, that the worst thing one can do with the memory of a loved one is to let it hurt you. “She is right my dear, I wouldn’t want you to waste your life like this. I am quite curious to what your talent will be one day and I want to see it.” Rarity ran her hoof through her young sister’s purple and pink mane, smiling. “Stop playing with my hair Applebloom, I am not going out ever again.” Sweetie bell tried to move the hoof away. “Are you sure ,Sweetie? It’s a wonderful day to play.” Rarity leaned to Sweetie and nuzzle her, kissing her cheek softly. Sweetie turned to see Rarity, and immediately gave her a big embrace, crying harder now, rubbing her face into the soft white fur. “Oh, Hi Rarity, y…you are ok, you’re alive.” “Yes, my darling, I am not going anywhere from you.” She smiled down at her. “I am not going to look up, and I am not going to open my eyes. This is how the dreams always end, I will see you here and then when I open my eyes…I wake up.” Sweetie bell decided to risk it and look up into the face of her sister. Someone she connected to since she was held as a little foal and she saw those eyes of hers and the mane that her little hoof touched. For her, she might has well have been a baby again, feeling the warm arms of protection around her. “Oh Rarity I am so…” She wanted to ask how she came back to life, she wanted to know how she got here. She didn’t care at the moment. “I don’t blame you, I would’ve been more heartbroken if you had died as well. I can a;ways get my house back, but I can never find a better gem than you.” Rarity continued to hold her sister tightly, not wanting to leave. Pinkie Pie looked in, teary eye. “Oh this is so beautiful.” “Pinkie? Why are you here?” Rarity let go of Sweetie Belle for a minute. “Oh, because I have some super-duper great news. You ready for this? I know how we can get Twilight back!” Pinkie smiled as she bounced in followed in by Spike. “But how?” Rarity looked at Pinkie, curiously. “OH me, Dashie, and AJ found out about this weird little stone that can cut through dimensions and since nothing can truly vanish…Twilight had to have gone there when she brought you back. So we’re all going to go and get that stone for her.” Pinkie smiled. “But why do you need me?” She looked back at Sweetie Belle and then back at Pinkie. “Well it’s a stone and you are good at finding jewels and besides it’s at Unicornia…you know former Unicorn capital. You will be perfect there and I can’t very well arrange a ‘good welcome back from the dead and another dimension’ Oh, wait…another dimension is censoring terms for death. Sorry about those flashbacks author! Well anyway, it would be no fun if Twilight doesn’t have everyone there.” “I would go too, but…I would mess it up again.” Spike looked down as he felt his chin tucked by Rarity. “Spike, Darling, if you want to make it up to all of us…you can protect the crusaders for all of us.” Rarity looked down at Spike with a calm smile, one that could make the young dragon weak in the knees. “You would trust me to, do that?” Spike looked up and smiled. “I would find no one better suited to protect my precious gems.” Rarity rubbed Spike’s spines a little. “All right I’ll do it!” Spike looked up with a smile. “Y…you have to leave?” Sweetie bell looked up a Rarity, saddened,”But I just got you back.” “It’s all right Sweetie, your big sister just needs to go and get a friend and then I promise you that I will come back, and help you make a dress with me.” Rarity hugged her dear sister, rubbing her back. “Pinkie Pie promise?” Sweetie looked up, a frown on her face, deep inside though her heart was ecstatic that her sister was here. “Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye”  Rarity accidently poked her eye as she did.                      Outside of Ponyville,  five ponies stood together, bags filled with equipment. They looked towards the north and where their destination was. It was at this point some of them realized how important Twilight was to them.They asked themselves how close would they have gotten had they have not met her and went on an adventure for some items that no one ever thought existed. Pinkie Pie smiled as she walked out first, “All right here we go! Let’s get Twilight home!” The others nodded to each other in agreement, they knew they were gonna succeed; they just wouldn’t let themselves fail.                      “Yes, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes YES! I have got my ticket home!” Twilight jumped up and down happily before remembering just where she was. Upon hearing several people shush her, she blushed and sat back down, writing things within a notepad and walked out of the library, Ed following right behind her. “Wait a second, do you even have an idea where the stone actually is?” Ed looked at Twilight, not doubting the existence of such a stone but more of the location. “According to the book its last known sighting by anyone was in a place called Xing.” Twilight opened her pad and looked through it to double check as they walked to the train station. They were too busy with their conversation to note a military officer trying to talk to them but getting caught up in the public traffic. “Xing huh?” Ed smiled “Perfect, we’ll be able to get some great people to help us there.” “You know some people in Xing?” Twilight looked at Ed as they ordered the tickets. “My little brother  is currently living in Xing with his fiancé.  He is studying a lot of their alchemy and some of their legends behind that. If this stone is any way connected to it, he can help a lot.” Ed smiled as he began to think of his little brother. “Al, he is that brother of yours that you kept on telling me of all of his accomplishments right?” Twilight asked as she got on board. “Yeah. “ Ed sighed, “I haven’t got a chance to see him in a while, so it will be great to check up on him.” Ed followed Twilight, not hearing the soldier trying to call them under the sounds of the train. Twilight looked at Ed, understanding about how it feels to see a sibling after being gone for so long. She remembered how happy she was to see Shining Armor again at the family reunion and how they barely stopped talking all through the week.  Ed looked down at Twilight, My student…I hope the stone is what you are looking for and you don’t have to pay too much for it. He looked at the passing scenery as the train pulled out, remembering what another stone cost and what he and his brother would have had to do in order to use it.                      The soldier panted, looking at the fading away train. He went to the nearest phone booth and made a phone call, “This is Fury, patch me to Brigadier Roy Mustang.” He pushed up on his glasses, still panting. “Sir, I have some stressing news.” “What is it Fury, I am in the middle of something important.” Roy looked at one of his subordinates, eyes glaring with the intent to kill. “Now hold perfectly still. I will finally have him. It has taken me months to get him where I want him, so Fury you will wait.” “Yes sir!” Fury stood at attention. “Now hold still.” Roy looked at the nervous man. “Are you sure you can’t just use bug spray like everyone else sir?” The man shivered. “This creature has avoided all attempts, this time his death is assured.” With a snap of his fingers he burned the little mosquito alive, not hurting the soldier at all. “There, now that wasn’t…Wait there is a bug on your shoulder.” “Oh that’s just Wasp.” The man smiled. “A WASP! THAT’S EVEN WORSE!” Roy prepared another assault. “No! That’s just my pet wasp, Janet. Come along Janet.” Hank Pym, the bug alchemist walked out of the room. Roy facepalmed, he cant believe the people they let into the state alchemist program these days, “Ok Fury now what is it?” “Well sir, the former Fullmetal Alchemist has just left the station on a train headed for Xing!” Fury looked off into the distance. “Oh great…Get a  call out to the emperor, tell him to get in touch with Fullmetal’s brother and tell him to get in touch with me.” Roy hangs up the phone, looking down at the paper reports. “Maybe he might know why these people are suffering from such weird delusions lately.” Roy shuffled through the reports that have been flooding his desk for the past few days, any other time they would be kindling. However, they have been too rampant and far spread to be isolated incidents, reports of monsters and weird people popping in and out of existence have been occurring all over town. “Sir!” A blonde haired woman walked into the office, saluting before continuing, “We have another report, and this time it’s right here in central.” “Finally. Hawkeye, get the car ready, we’re about to capture ourselves a monster.” Roy smiled, things  have been too quiet for his taste recently.                      The car drove quickly down the street where various soldiers were looking up at a dragon, “Mustang, sir! We have been having trouble with this dragon.” A very scared soldier looked at Roy.   “That is not a dragon soldier, that…” He looked up at the red scaly monster before him. “Is a scaly chimera.” Roy snapped his fingers, burning the creature’s eye. The monster roared and swiped a claw at Roy. The former colonel jumped back and snapped his fingers again, causing a torrent of fire to spring up and knock the monster back. Before the creature could attack once more, he vanished. The crowd looked on in amazement while Roy calmly got into his car.  “Sir?” Hawkeye looked at her superior as she got in. “Hawkeye, whatever that was…I know Fullmetal is going to be in the thick of it.”   Author’s note: Finally, finally after 21 pages of work I have finals gotten a fight in…and it was the shortest I have ever written! Yes, that is an accomplishment. rpglover97: Angel being nice? This is a bizarro world if I ever seen one rpglover97: Named"Douche Nozzle" rpglover97: Oh, great, more non-canon shipping HIT THE DECK WE'RE ANGERING THE FLUTTERMAC SHIPPERS! rpglover97: You should see what happens when I read a Fluttermac fic, it happens in reverse rpglover97: RD:Cause things like other dimiensions are very hard for me to understand. rpglover97: PP:Recruting for the A-team! rpglover97: Ra:Princess Celestia? Princess Luna? The Necronomicon? rpglover97: PP:Because you're reallly  pretty! Les yay rating:9 rpglover97: Once again, Spike is left out Sp:Oh, well, I still killed Sombra, I'm happy! rpglover97: SB: But the last time I did that, it ended up gaining sentience! rpglover97: TS:Nope! But I'm winging it Ed:I like your style The Mage and the Alchemist: A Road Trip movie rpglover97: TS:Unfortunately the book is 300 years old. rpglover97: Roy knew however that they were indeed Cybermen! rpglover97: Read "Squeed" rpglover97: Footnote:LEVEL UP New Perk for Roy: Dragon Fighter: Your experience with the dragon has given you the ability to withstand high temperatures, you gain 30% resistance to heat. rpglover97: right just keep telling yourself that.