//------------------------------// // The attack of the tomatoes!! // Story: Chaos: the Age of Spike // by Kaliann25 //------------------------------// Attack of the tomatoes!! That Saturday in Twilight’s Palace, both Bearers of Harmony and Agents of Chaos dediced to spend some time together as Siblings-Friends-Enemies having a family breakfast and forget all tensions. And for the first time after that incident with Princess Celestia, they decided to have pancakes, and they were good. “But I don’t understand Twilight” said Pinkie Pie devouring a tower of blueberry pancakes with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. “You said you won’t allow Spike make pancakes again after he used the candy of all candies syrup with Princess Celestia” The purple alicorn smiled and took some she made with bananas and covered generously with syrup and fruits. “I know but after all we lived together, I learnt to trust Spike, and if he says he won’t prank us, I believe him; right Spike?” The dragon clacked his fingers to summon more small diamonds and pearls for his pancakes along with half liter of liquid candy of all candies for his pancakes. “Right Twi, I promised that the only pancakes with candy of all candies will be mine and Rumble’s” “It’s a shame I got pranked before I turned into an agent of chaos, but whatever” said Rumble eating his. Sweetie Belle just rolled her eyes sighing. “That’s what happens when you try your pranks on yourself. Your first prank with your new powers and you had to be the first victim” “In my defense I had no idea I had my powers at that time and that candy will become my second best creation ever” “And what’s your best creation according to you?” Asked Pinkie Pie. Spike smiled and hugged his team much for the girls’ delight but Rumble’s disgust. “My team of course! We work hard having fun to defeat the Elements of Harmony; be with my friends was the best of my ideas” Most of the team just said a little ‘awww’ but Rumble and Scoots were fake-puking. At the end it was a good moment between the two teams. “Can we turn on the radio?” Asked Rarity once she finished. “Is too quiet in here” “Yeah, I don’t see why not” said Twilight. “I like to listen to music when I eat as well, but I’m more careful since certain foals and a dragon I know turned a hit of the eighties into an educational nightmare” Babs blushed and took a sip of her milk ashamed but Rumble laughed happily, at least he enjoyed that day without school that ended up with a Cheerilee so traumatized that cancelled the final exams. Twilight glared at him but preferred to keep quiet and turned on the radio: “And now, again Number 1 in our Top 10, Friendship is Magic” The agents of chaos grumped in annoyance but the older ones didn’t paid attention and sang along with the voice singing the same damn song from so many years ago: My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! A beautiful heart Faithful and strong Sharing kindness It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends “Not that song again!” Complained Sweetie Belle. “ “Why did all the ponies have to have the same damn tastes?” Asked Scootaloo covering her ears. “I’m so sick of that song” complained Rumble. “Vinyl’s lamest album is better than this!!” Added Babs. Applejack chuckled. “Come on girls, is not that bad. A’ still remember that preschool fest when you sang it together, you were great” “Yeah, before we got sick of it” said Apple Bloom. “I’m tired of this, we’ve been hearing this for at least six years, just make it stop!” “Come on girls, is over already” said Twilight. “Why don’t we keep having breakfast in peace, huh?” The agents of chaos agreed but again the presenter had to speak: “We just got a mail by Dragon SMS, from Vinyl from Ponyvillle, who want to greet her fiancé Octy for her birthday and request us a song. Which song you all ask? Well, the Number 1 hit from all times! Friendship is Magic, enjoy Vinyl and Octy!!” My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! A beautiful heart Faithful and strong Sharing kindness It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends “That’s it, we’re done!!” Complained Spike. The agents of chaos stood and left the Palace grinding their teeth and covering their ears. “Fucking song” said Rumble to his friends’ surprise. “What? Thunder taught me how to swear as an adult” “I hear you Rumble” said Spike. “I’ve been sick of it three years ago” “Well, you’re a god, can you do something about it?” Asked Sweetie. “Maybe but I don’t have any ideas” sighed Spike. “Any of you?” No one had one, so they kept wondering all over Ponyville, leaving aside the worst song ever, they had an entire Saturday to spend along with friends so they better start now. But then they suddenly stopped when a chariot drove by a traveling merchant almost hit them, the chariot was full of tomato baskets that ended up rolling all over the floor. Spike reacted quickly and create a protective force-field for the pony (Fresh Veggies) and Sweetie used her power to repair the chariot and put the merchandise back on its place. The local carrot seller (and one of Fresh’s suppliers), Carrot Top, ran to see how Fresh what’s going. “Fresh! Are you okay?” “Kind of, thank you god of chaos” “No problem!” Said Spike. Carrot just sighed. “Fresh, I love your visits but your tomatoes are kind of a menace” “However, wanna buy some? My tomato provider, Fuzzy Tomato, had a very good harvest” “Only if you buy me some carrots” said Carrot Top. Fresh nodded and offered the team of chaos a basket of tomatoes. “Here, have this, thank you for the help agents of chaos. Now let’s go to business” The team of chaos shrugged and left them while wonder what to do with the tomatoes, when suddenly Spike took one and began to study it. “Spike, we just had breakfast” sighed Sweetie “Is not that!” Said Spike. “Is just that I just had the stupidest idea; an idea so bad that it might be good even if is one of my dumbest plans. The… TOMATO MENACE!!” His friends raised an eyebrow, what the heck did he meant? Spike took a tomato and covered it with his black and purple aura of chaos and smiled to the action. Then he released the tomato that began to roll by its own mumbling ‘ngmn, ngmn, ngmn’ turning the other tomatoes on its way, possessing them with the strange force of chaos. “You’re right, the dumbest idea ever” said Babs turning into Night Seed. “”What should we do?” “Nothing, this prank will act by its own; but you better keep your transformations, it’ll keep you safe. Believe me, this will be the one of the greatest disasters, very funny to see” At the end the agents of chaos obeyed and kept walking waiting what was going to happen. Diamond Tiara was counting her money when she noticed the hour. “Time for my half-morning sandwich!” She commanded. The maid, Giant Patience, rolled her eyes and began to make the sandwich: she took a slice of rye bread where she spread mayonnaise, placed a leaf of lettuce and then she took the tomato. Or she tried to, the tomato rolled away and began to mumble: ‘ngmn, ngmn, ngmn’ and turned to the maid this time mumbling louder: ‘NGNM, NGMN, NGMN’ charging to the maid. Giant Patience shouted in horror, but it wasn’t over, the kitchen drawer where she kept the tomatoes opened and the tomatoes in storage attacked. Giant screamed in horror and ran away from the tomatoes rolling to her. “What’s the meaning of this scandal? And where’s my sandwich?!” Shouted Diamond Tiara running downstairs. The maid ignored her and keep running for her life. “My daddy will know about this!” Shouted again the irritating filly. The maid kept running for her life, and then Diamond Tiara turned to see what was going on. The legion of tomatoes mercilessly rolled over her. Silver Spoon was coming to hang out with her friend, but in the middle of the way she spotted Diamond’s maid running. Raised an eyebrow but kept going, when she saw Diamond covered in a red substance. “Silver, run while you can!” And she fainted. Silver looked at her friend and tasted the substance covering her. “Tomato juice?” The ‘gnmn, gnmn, gnmn’ mumbling was approaching. “What the hay?” As her friend, the tomatoes rolled over her. Diamond and Silver just got a taste of the ultimate menace to ponity. But that was only the beginning. Vinyl and Octavia’s neighbor, German Farbage, while taking out his garbage had a terrible fate; and Octavia, who was taking out her garbage as well saw it all. She quickly ran to hide in her home and reinforced the door praying that it held the tomato menace. “Ey Vinyl, remember German Farbage?” “They guy you always say hi while taking out the garbage?” “Yeah. He turned around and he did see tomatoes hiding in his tree, now he’s just a memory” Vinyl checked her marefriend’s temperature. “Tomatoes? Are you feeling alright Tavi?” But then she heard the horrible sound, ‘gnmn, gnmn, gnmn’ coming out of their kitchen and when they saw what was going on, they saw a legion of tomatoes marching down the hall and crawling up the wall to surround them. Luckily for them they were trained agents of the Secret Service and tried to fight back, even if the tomato menace was too big for them. “This is useless!” Cried Octavia. “They’re gooey, gushy, squishy, mushy, rotten to the core!” “This is good bye Tavi, I love you” said Vinyl. “They’ll beat us, bash us, squish us, mash us… chew us up for brunch… and finish us off for dinner or lunch!!” With their best moves they got rid of the tomatoes they had home but they noticed more tomatoes were standing outside their door. What was going on? This would be the end of the ponies? And where were the Bearers of Harmony? They were their only hope, without them… tomatoes will have their day. Well, the girls were just finishing breakfast and decided to walk around town to relax a bit, after all it was Saturday and they had the entire day to their disposal. “It’s unbelievable how the team of chaos don’t appreciate good music with a positive message” said Rarity. “They’re just tired of it Rarity” said Twilight. “They’re too young to appreciate a piece of good music, give them time” “Ey, what’s that scandal?” Suddenly asked Pinkie. “Are they having a party without inviting me?” But it was no party, only ponies running away from a tomato rampage. And it wasn’t only Ponyville, every corner of Equestria was under attack of the tomatoes. For example in Maredrid a small cart crashed in the main street, and when the cops approached to ticket the incautious driver they quickly ran away from the tomatoes who rolled for them. Another example of the horror the ponies were having was in the beaches of Trottenaghe, where several tourists were swimming happily until tomatoes swam to them ready to finish them all, always making their horrible mumbling: ‘gnmn, gnmn, gnmg’ “To make things worst Mayor Mare is on vacation!” “And the Governors fled the nation!” Nopony could do anything against the red plague spreading all over Equestria, the tomatoes jumped out of fields, supermarkets, pantries, every place on the Kingdom was being invaded and there was nothing that both Guards could do about it. “They’re crawling on the walls!” Shouted the Black Swordsman. “Pegasi, go now, is our only hope!” The soldiers followed their brave leader doing whatever they could, but the tomatoes were simply too much for them; nothing could save them, not even the legendary technique of the Black Swordsman: “STAR BURST STREAM!!” Nothing, he destroyed only a few but the tomatoes were too much for them to handle, and they jumped from the walls to his wings, crashing him to the ground at the mercy of the red fruits. Everything was lost. The Lighting Flash and her soldiers ran to help her husband but he shook his head. “No, leave me. Save the Princesses, let them to Twilight Sparkle, is our only hope!” The warriors nodded and gave a respect look to the bravest warrior ever and left. Celestia and Luna were ready to leave but they were surrounded, so the guards attacked, they had to protect them on matter what. Tomatoes rolled to the soldiers, who took their swords and received them ready for anything. At the end only Hylian Shield and Lighting Flash could made it. “We must leave now sister” said Luna. “Saddle-cramento fell today, they’re marching into Sand José” “So tomatoes are on their way” said Celestia. “I don’t like to leave the capital but there’s no other way. I’m so sorry” “Princess Celestia: we must live to fight another day” said sub-captain Hylian Shield. “Is what Black Swordsman and captain Master Sword would wanted” “It was a great honor fought side by side with them” said Lighting cleaning a tear because of her fallen husband. At the end they flew out the window, leaving. The Palace had fallen, and with it, Canterlot. Tomatoes had their day. The trip to Ponyville was short but too scary. Everywhere they saw ponies running away from the horrible tomatoes who mumbled ‘ngmn, ngmn, ngmn’ and seeing their Princesses flying away meant that their probabilities to survive were practically zero. When they landed, they saw a crowd of tomatoes running for them “Twilight Sparkle is our only hope!” Shouted Celestia. “Hurry, let’s run to her Palace!!” They ran, but they were stopped by a tomato squad. Luckily Lighting Flash and Hylian Shield didn’t doubted, they took their swords and exterminated the threat before it touched the Princesses. “Come on, run while we can!” Commanded Luna. And of course they ran away, the tomatoes must not touch them. It was when the Princesses noticed the pair of pissed off fillies on a bench all covered in tomato juice. “Girls what are you doing? Run! The tomatoes are everywhere!!” Warned Celestia. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon cursed. “Girls, such language” said Luna. Diamond Tiara grinded her teeth. Usually she would be more respectful with the Princesses but this time her anger got the best of her. “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? They’re just tomatoes, STUPID TOMATOES!! WHY EVERYPONY IS ACTING LIKE THIS IS THE GREATEST CRISIS OF EQUESTRIA? THEY JUST SQUISH AGAINTS YOU COVERING YOU WITH TOMATO JUICE. TOMATO JUICE!!” Luna shook her head disappointedly. “We know girls, but don’t you have sense of humor? This thing is another of Spike’s stupid pranks, and it’s funnier if you play along” “Tomatoes threatening the pony-kind, is so stupid that is fun” added Celestia. “Come on, play along like the other ponies maybe you’ll have a good time” “I think we pass” said a very angry Silver Spoon. “Suit yourself” sighed Celestia. “Now if you excuse us, we have to escape from the tomatoes” And they ran to Twilight’s Palace once Hylian and Lighting cleaned their path. Still was not enough and the tomatoes were gathering around them. “TWILIGHT SPARKLE YOU MUST HELP US!” Begged Luna banging the door. “The tomatoes are gonna take us soon”· “Canterlot fell, now Ponyville is our only hope” cried Celestia. Twilight opened the door to them sighing. “Are you seriously afraid of those things?” “Of course not but as we said to the angry fillies down there, is funnier if you play along” explained Celestia. “Is like a very low-budget horror play” “So bad that is actually good” smiled Luna. The Mane 6 face-hoofed, great. But suddenly they heard the terrible news on the radio: “During last hour the tomatoes have being dominating the military cordon that protected Los Pegasus y El Trote, Ponixas. Apparently they even crossed the frontier to Reptilia and King Flames declared an Emergency Situation Class A, starting a massive evacuation to the Changelling Hive, where Chrysalis received them with open hooves but says that she won’t allow ponies to cross to her side. Speaking of sore losers, right? Anyway, young Electric Eric from Indianoponis sent us a letter asking to play his favorite song before the apocalypse, the number 1 hit of all times: Friendship is Magic” My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! And finally the horrid tomatoes broke into the Castle. “Oh no, WHAT WE DO NOW TWILIGHT?” Shrieked Rarity. “What, you’re playing along too?” Asked Applejack rolling her eyes. “Who is playing along? They’ll filth my mane and fur, tomato is very difficult to clean!” “Just stop it!” Said Twilight. “Let’s just use the Harmony Grenades!” They threw it but nothing happened, the tomatoes still tried to get them. “Great: one of the special pranks” said Dash. But suddenly the tomatoes stopped when they entered to the room. The Friendship is Magic Song kept going: It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends “What just happened?” Asked Pinkie. But the song finished and they began to squish against the girls. “Girls, help!” Called Rarity. “They’re making me dirty!!” Applejack raised an eyebrow. “Shall we help her?” “They’re tomatoes Applejack, ridiculous tomatoes for the ridiculous Rarity” Rarity mumbled something a little offended but then the host in the radio was heard again: “And we interrupt this song with some breaking news! The poor Shy Violet says: I know I’m going to miss her, a tomato ate my sister. Now she ask us to play Friendship is Magic as consolation” My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! A beautiful heart Faithful and strong Sharing kindness It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends Instantly the tomatoes froze and rolled away from the room much for general confusion. “What?” Asked the girls. “I don’t know what happened but we better take this chance, everypony take a Grenade and look for an agents of chaos, they’ll know how to stop this!” And they left leaving both Princesses in the Castle. “What now? Shall we help them or we stay here panicking?” Asked Luna. “The second one, this is too much fun!” The Royal Sisters shared a giggle and stayed there. By their way the Bearers of Harmony were lucky, they found Black laughing of Diamond and Silver while a new wave of tomatoes charged to them. “You guided them here Blank Flank!” Shouted Diamond Tiara. “Obviously” said Black. “You two spilled ink in my notebook, now you’re facing the consequences” But her fun had to end somehow. “Sweetie Belle!” Scolded Rarity. “What do you think you’re doing? You can’t use your powers to take advantage of others” Sweetie Black turned to her sister and shrugged. “Of course I can, I’m a bad guy” “Still is wrong. I’m sorry Sweetie Belle but I have to punish you” said Rarity detonating the Grenade. Instantly the transformation in Black reversed completely leaving a very confused Sweetie Belle behind; it was the first time they saw how the Grenades worked in the Agents of Chaos and it was great. Sweetie gulped when the tomatoes faced her, now that she wasn’t in her form of Chaos anymore, they recognized her as an enemy. “I wanted to avoid this but I have no choice” she sighed and then began to sing: My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! A beautiful heart Faithful and strong Sharing kindness It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends One more time the tomatoes froze in horror and rolled away making everypony raise an eyebrow. “What just happened?” Asked Twilight. “Is that song the tomatoes’ weakness?” Sweetie shrugged. “Is very easy if you think about it: when a song is bad, usually you throw tomatoes to the singer. This song is so awful that even tomatoes run away from it” And of course everypony face-hoofed. “I know” said Sweetie. “A bad joke inside another but that’s how it works. Now if you excuse me, I’ll shelter in the headquarters” Sweetie retired while the Beares were still analyzing the situation. “So, the Friendship is Magic Song?” Asked Applejack. “Who would say that?” “Whatever, at least this mess is easy to fix” said Twilight. “Let’s go to the radio stations and make sure to play that song over and over to weaken the tomatoes and then we’ll use the Rainbow Powers. Let’s go!” Back to Diamond and Silver, they exchanged a little grump but grinned. “So now we know how to avoid being filth. Shall we go anywhere else, Siler?” “After you my friend” And they walked away when the tomatoes stopped them. No problem, Diamond Tiara began to sing: My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! A beautiful heart Faithful and strong Sharing kindness It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends But the tomatoes still attacked. “Is just me or the tomatoes doesn’t like your singing Diamond Tiara?” Asked Sweetie’s voice above them They looked up, she was cuddling with Spike on his floating throne. The rich girls just glared at them, it was always the same since he became the Lord of Chaos, he and his agents never missed an opportunity to humiliate them. But the dragon hadn’t time for that, he moved to supervise other sides of the town. “And my plan is going on greatly, in a matter of minutes every radio will play that horrible song” “Seriously, that was your idea?” Asked the unicorn filly. “Why?” “You’ll see soon enough but first I highly recommend to cover your ears, you know how awful that song is” Sweetie Belle raised an eyebrow but just nodded, so this prank had a hidden purpose? That was weird. Anyway there was something else bothering her: “Ey Spike, aren’t we becoming evil?” Spike hugged her. “Why do you ask that? Of course not, we’re just pranksters and you know it” “Yes but I was being too mean with Diamond and Silver, probably I crossed the line” “EY, they always cross the line first with you; you’re just paying them back. Isn’t that enough?” Sweetie nodded sadly. “Perhaps but I’ll be more careful from now on, I’ll leave them for a while” “As you wish” In the meantime, Twilight and the others reached the radio station and played the famous song ‘Friendship is Magic’ along with the message of how to stop that prank. Soon enough the news spread like gunpowder; and everything went as they planned, the song was sounding all over the Kingdom the whole day: My Little Pony, My Little Pony Aaaaaaaaaaaah My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be Until you all shared its magic with me! Big adventure! Tons of fun! A beautiful heart Faithful and strong Sharing kindness It's an easy feat And magic makes it all complete! My Little Pony Did you know, you are my very best friends And once they released the Harmony Wave, it was all over. Only a little tomato juice to clean but everything went back to normal. Or almost everything, at next day (Sunday) they decided to have another family-friends-enemies breakfast together and as last time, Twilight turned on the radio: “Today we have another request, one more we live you with the number one hit of all times, Friendship is Magic” “CHANGE THE STATION!” Shouted everypony. They played the damn song the whole day and they were all sick of it. But it wasn’t necessary since the host change her mind: “You know what? I’m sick of that song, I always loved it but I played yesterday the whole day, THE WHOLE DAY PEOPLE! So I’ll leave you with Octavia Melody’s latest single: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the song” Attack of the killer tomatoes! Attack of the killer tomatoes! They'll beat you, bash you, squish you, mash you Chew you up for brunch and finish you off for dinner or lunch! They're marching down the halls They're crawling up the walls They're gooey, gushy, squishy, mushy Rotten to the core They're standing outside your door! Remember Herman Farbage while taking out his garbage He turned around and he did see tomatoes hiding in his tree Now he's just a memory! I know I'm going to miss her a tomato ate my sister Saddle-Cramento fell today They're marching in San Jose Tomatoes are on their way! “What the heck?” Asked Rainbow Dash. Spike just grinned evilly. “I told you there was a hidden purpose, now all Equestria is sick of that song as we are, I created chaos and also got rid of it. What do you think?” Rumble smiled. “Dude, you’re great!” “That was very clever” said Sweetie amazed. “Great job Spike” Twilight sighed. “Okay, you won Spike, I have to admit it was brilliant. Anyway somepony pass the orange juice please” Meanwhile in Carrot Top’s garden, a carrot stood: “Okay guys, they’re gone. It’s time!”