//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 // Story: Code: Equestria // by Navy Shadow //------------------------------// AN: Please excuse any spelling and grammar mistakes because I wrote this at 7AM after doing an all nighter "Hmm, these readings are off the charts, what is XANA doing in there" It was 4PM back on earth, Jeremy had just gone to the factory basement to check on the recent power surges that had been happening around the school and factory. XANA was doing something big, but he didn't know what William had just finished going for a walk around ponyville, he was headed back to twilights treehouse when he saw a strange pony walking into town with no cutie mark. he was a Maroon coloured pony with a yellow coloured mane. William decided to introduce himself, as he had never seen this pony before, which means he must be new. As he got closer he realised something was weird about the ponies eyes, but he shrugged it off. "Hey there" William said as he approached the pony The maroon pony looked at William with those weird eyes, stared at him for a couple of seconds then walked away, towards the Everfree forest. "Weird... I'd better tell twilight about this" -------------------------------Twilight's Library----------------------------- William knocked on the door before entering, when he did enter the place was a mess. books were thrown about everywhere, as if Twilight's magic had gone crazy and just rocketed every book out of place William heard twilight groaning to herself upstairs "Twilight... I need to talk to you about something strange" William shouted up the stairs William heard a thump, as if something had just fell from the floor above "Oh erm, I wasn't expecting you William, I'll be down in a minute" William smirked. He knew exactly what twilight was doing upstairs. and figured that's why all the books were thrown about. he took a sneak peek at one of the books. 'Clopping For Bookworms' William let out a hearty laugh after reading that book title, just as Twilight was walking downstairs. Twilight started to blush "erm.. hehe, yeah...." Twilight looked nervous "Oh man, this is too funny. I knew ytou had a lot of books but... wow..." Twilight started to flick her hooves back and forth. "You're starting to look like Fluttershy... whats up with you?" "Oh.. its nothing... really, dont ask. What's this thing you wanted to tell me?" "Oh yeah... there's this new earth pony in town, his eyes are kinda weird and when I tried to talk to him he just looked at me and walked off like I was from another planet or something" "Erm, William... you Sorta are from another planet" Twilight was still looking nervous. "Oh yeah, forgot about that... so is clopping like what we call ma-" Twilight gave William a glare, basically telling him to shut the buck up. William of course already knew, he just wanted to make twilight blush more, as he thought it was cute. He also knew what was making twilight so nervous, she had a schoolgirl crush on him which makes her even more cute in his eyes. "Well I gotta get going Twilight, I'm going to keep an eye on that new pony, last I saw he was heading into the Everfree forest. I'm suspicious of him, cya!" after William left, twilight quickly tidied her books and ran back upstairs, shutting her door and continuing her... activity Ulrich caught William heading towards the Everfree forest and caught up with him "What's up?" Ulrich asked "Oh. Ulrich... Not much, new weird pony came into town this morning... headed into the forest. I'm just about to go look for it... you coming with me?" "Yeah, but we should pick up Fluttershy first, she probably knows the forest like the back of her hand, she does live next to it" "Good thinking, lets go" Ulrich knocked on Fluttershy's cottage door, Odd answered. "Hey you two, whatcha doin'?" Odd asked "About to go into the forest to find a weird red pony who came into town this morning, is Fluttershy here?" "Yes.. 2 seconds!" Odd shut the door and shouted Fluttershy. Fluttershy opened the door again. "Um.. Hello?" "Fluttershy can you escort us through the Everfree forest? we're trying to find a suspicious pony who went in there this morning" "Oh, sure thing... let me just ask Odd to take care of the animals" ----5 Minutes Later---- Fluttershy re-opened the door and stepped out, ready to escort the 2 humans through the forest. "Ready? because if your not I can wait" Fluttershy asked timidly "We're ready, lets go" "Sure is dark and creepy in there, I hope you know your way around Fluttershy" William remarked "Oh don't worry about it, We'll be fine, as long as theres no dragons I can tame the animals!" "Hm, there seems to be some hoof tracks in the dirt here, quite new too" Ulrich called to the others "We following them? William asked "Of course we are, its the only lead we've got so we should take it" ----Another 20 minutes later---- "William... it was a spider, calm down already!" Ulrich begged William, a spider had jumped on him about 10 minutes later and he had not stopped crying about it since "I hate spiders..." "We're here, so SHUTUP!" "Looks like an abandoned old castle." "I know this place!" Fluttershy piped up after being silent the whole way through the journey. "Me and the others were here when we discovered our elements!" William and Ulrich looked confused "Oh... Twilight will tell you later!" "Well" Ulrich spoke "I guess its time to find out who this mysterious pony is then... no point in wasting time, lets go!"