III
Pie Pie Pinks
Twilight opened the pod and crawled out carefully. It was a rough landing into the ground, and she felt dizzy. Luckily, no injuries to any of the Jedi. She looked at Sunset and Kai and pulled them out. As they touched the ground, the looked around, noticing the strange area around them. Grey rocky terrain, yet trees were around and so were plants. They were a little surprised how they never noticed the terrain like this.
"Where are we?" Twilight asked out loud. "I mean, look at this place, it looks-"
"Deserted?" asked a female voice.
"Yeah. Just like that, Sunset." Twilight said, scratching her chin with her hoof.
"Uh... I didn't say anything." Sunset said. "That didn't even sound like me." After Twilight stared at Sunset, she quickly turned on her lightsaber, and so did the others. They looked around.
"Who said that?" Twilight said out loud. She was very sure that whoever spoke was still around. "Show yourself!"
Suddenly, a figure emerged from behind the pod. "Here!" Twilight quickly turned around in reaction and threw her lightsaber like a boomerang, and it went towards the figure, which ducked under the lightsaber. It returned to Twilight, and she held her lightsaber in defense. The figure slowly peaked her head. "Jedi no like me?" she asked.
Twilight's eyes widened. "Who are you?" The figure climbed up the pod and showed herself. She was pink, had poofy, pink hair, and wore a blue outfit with a black sash on it.
"Me Pie Pie Pinks!" she said with a large smile.
Kai raised a brow. "Say again?" he said, slightly annoyed already. Her voice was very high-pitched, and he couldn't stand voices like that.
"Name is Pie Pie Pinks! Who are you three goonies?"
Kai widened his eyes in shock. "Goonies?!" he said. "No, no, no. We are-"
"Jedi. I know." said Pinks. "Just teasing ya." She giggled, but only got a glare from Kai. "Jeez, harsh crowd." She got down from the pod. "I suppose you came from an evil ship in this pod and crash landed after one of you got shot by some laser, yes?" she asked.
"How'd you know?" Sunset asked, very surprised, yet scared, also.
"Lucky guess? Or it could be my little Pinkie sense." she answered.
"Pinkie se-" Kai stopped himself. "You know, never mind."
"Where'd you come from?" Sunset asked. "Do you live here in this... forest?"
"No, silly!" she responded. "I live in the city of Rockaud!"
"Rockaud? It's near?" Twilight asked, remembering hearing of such a city. It was a large city owned by the large tribe of Pietes, and it was all made of rocks. Not normal kind, though, since the planet had special kinds of rock, and so they created durable and strong walls and buildings. Even armor!
"Yes! But it is a loooong walk." the pink mare answered.
"Twilight, do remember that I can contact Celestia." Kai said, reminding Twilight. Twilight had a sheepish smile, while Kai pulled out a small device. Or the remains of it. "What?! Oh, bloody hell!"
"It's destroyed?" Sunset asked.
"Yeah... not so good..." Kai looked at the device, their only way of communicating and calling for a ride, done for. Pinks looked at the device and observed it closely. Literally, her eye was a centimeter away from the device as she observed.
"No problem." Pinks said.
"Huh?" the three ask.
"Back at Rockaud, we have great builders! And although we have rocks and don't have technology like... whatever this is, we do actually have a Crystal guy who is GREAT at fixing things! Even this thing-a-mobbaber!"
"Really?" Twilight asks, bringing hopes up for the Jedi. Pinks nodded. "Lead the way, Pie Pie."
"Please, you can call me- SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA!!!" Pinks then ducked behind the pod.
"Sugar honey iced tea?" Twilight questioned, soon hearing a vicious and loud roar. She looked behind, only to see a large bear-like creature with large horns and black fur, including long claws. This was a beorn. Clearly, this thing wanted to feast on it's prey, which were clearly in front of him. "Look out!" she yelled, as the bear lurched forward towards Kai.
Kai dodged, but his lightsaber that he had in mid-air didn't. It was smacked into the bushes, and Kai lost it, which wasn't really good. Sunset struck the beorn in the sides, making it roar in pain, but still stood. She struck it three more times, not getting much out of it. Even with some slash marks shown on his black fur, red and burning, it acted like it felt no pain, and probably wasn't affected much by it. "Thing has durability." Sunset said. "Try to stab- Agh!"
Sunset was hit by a large paw, and was thrown into the tree. She wasn't sliced or scarred, thankfully, but was hit pretty hard. She stayed down for a while, and lost her lightsaber as well. Meanwhile, Twilight jabbed at it, and though she made contact, she couldn't really sink it in due to the tough hide. Soon enough, the beorn swung a hit, which Twilight backflipped and backed up to the pod, which Pinks was still behind. Kai used his force and tried pushing the beorn, but did no good. Fact, it got the creature's attention towards him. It swung, and luckily missed horribly.
Kai hid in the bushes while the beorn looked at Twilight, and quickly searched for his lightsaber. He found it in thorns, and tried to yank it out. Twilight hit the beorn some more, but it still stood, no matter what. It was like it was unstoppable, and what could end this thing? The beorn lurched forward and pinned down Twilight, then roaring in her face. Suddeny, Pinks emerged from behind with a spear with a stone tip that she made.
"Nobody hurts my friends! YAGH!" She lunged and stabbed the beorn on the head, which got stuck in real good. "HAHA!" A little too good, as Pinks can't get it out. She jumped off the beorn, and stepped back. "Uh..." She started panicking, but luckily, Twilight, Kai, and Sunset got their lightsabers. Soon, they ignited it at the same time.
The beorn didn't notice the three, and only focused on Pinks. It slowly creeped up towards her, a malicious grin from cheek-to-cheek on it's face. "YAR!" the three yelled out, releasing a battle cry as they ran towards it, in which the beorn lurched forward... at Pinks. Pinks did nothing but stand there, have a scared expression, and push her hooves out to keep him away. What happened was something not so natural. Randomly, the beorn was pushed back. Fast and hard.
The beorn let out a yell, and hit it's head on the pod, knocking it out. Soon, the three, who were running towards the beorn, stopped and looked at it. It was... pushed... by force. "Did that thing just get pushed by force?" Kai said.
"Force?" Pinks questioned. "What force?"
"Jedi force." Twilight said. "And I read up on your kind, and in the books, it said that... it's impossible to have the force as a Piete."
"What?!" Pie said, as she stared at her hooves. She did do a little pushing motion before the beorn would claw her to death, so... "Quick, give me something to push!"
"How about hold?" Kai said, making Pie tilt her head. "Here." He placed a large branch on the ground. "Try to levitate it."
"Um... okay..." Pinks looked at it, and tried to focus on it as hard as possible. She supposed that's how Jedi do their... thing. After a minute passes, Pinks just felt weird for staring at nothing but a branch. "I dunno." Pinkie said, shrugging and moving her hooves up... with the branch levitating.
"Dear Celestia, he really can." Kai said, not believing one thing about this. "You really have the force!"
Pinkie looked at the branch, which had a green aura around it. She flinched and the branch fell. "Wha... Wha... What?!" she said, starting to panic more. "Is that bad?"
"Uh... No, having the force is good, but... it's impossible to have the force as a Piete, like I explained." Twilight said. "Uh... Are you born like everyone else?"
"Yup. My mom and dad were just like Pietes, and I don't have anything different from the others, really. Well, except for this, but still!"
"Calm down, Pie Pie." Kai said. "We'll just... solve this situation. Once you take us to Rockaud, we can get our thing fixed, and we'll have the Order pick you up and see if we can either find out why you have the force, or if the force really is in you. In that case, we might train you to become... a Jedi."
"Oh boy!" Pinks said, feeling a little better now. She jumped in the air and punched air, smiling with joy, while a force pushed towards a tree, almost knocking it over. Everyone had their jaws dropped. "Oopsie."
"You seem a little out of control with it." Sunset said. "You might want to be careful."
"Yes. It might be best to do so anyways. Just lead us to Rockaud, and we can settle this problem, okay?" Kai said, making sure Pie knew.
"Okie-dokie-loki!" she said, while spreading her arms out and a push of the force went towards the sky, thankfully not destroying or harming anything. Kai turned around and facehoofed.
"This is gonna be a long day..."