"Son of a glitch!"
Miguel was astonished at the sight. It appeared to be a large blue bear with fur that looked like the night sky, "When did Parker get a shocking giant bear as a pet?!" he questioned in disbelief. Fluttershy looked at him in silence, caught offguard by his sudden outburst.
"Oh, Peter found her while he was hiking with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. He saw that she was trapped and helped her and took her in. He wanted me to help," explained the yellow pegasus.
"Really? Why'd he ask you for help?" wondered O'Hara. 'In fact, why did he want me to come here? I got better things to do with my time. Like... Okay, I still I have no lead on Sloan. But that's besides the point in my case.'
"My cutie mark. My talent is to care for animals..." she replied, pointing on the mark on her flank.
Looking at his own flank, Miguel noticed that he had no 'cutie mark' as she called it, "Well, it seems I have no talent to speak of other than being a Spider-Man. Why am I here again?"
"I needed help feeding Ursa since Peter was sick... If you don't mind that is." Fluttershy muttered.
"It's fine." Miguel assured. 'A shocking bear. Why?'
Fluttershy pointed to the forest, "There should be something for her to have in there. Can you get it? I need to perform a checkup..." she said to the time-traveller.
"Sure." replied O'Hara, and he walked away, leaving Fluttershy to care for the bear. Before he left though, Ursa, seeing that he was friend,y, licked him, covering him in saliva. He gagged, doing his best to wipe off the drool from his body, "Ugh. This is why I prefer AI." he muttered.
Fluttershy giggled lightly upon seeing Miguel's reaction, "I think she likes you."
"Yeah. Sure." grunted O'Hara.
"Well. That happened." said Miguel, still wiping any loose spit from his mane. "How much saliva can a creature have, anyway?" he added, gagging again.
Having finished helping Fluttershy, the two pegasi were on their way back to Ponyville to discuss the matter with Peter, though there really was nothing to discuss, since Ursa was still healthy. 'Glad to have gotten that out of the way.' thought O'Hara. 'Now to get back to focusing on more important matters.'
"So... D-do you like Ursa?" Fluttershy wondered.
Nodding, Miguel answered, "She's not too bad. But I still need to take a shocking bath once I get back."
"Oh. That's fine. She can be a little clingy." replied the pegasus. "Thank you for coming."
"No problem." said Miguel.
"Hey, um, Mister O'Hara?" Fluttershy got his attention again.
"Yeah?"
"What do you do in your world? When you're not Spider-Man?" she wondered.
"I'm... As much as I hate to admit it, I'm an employee at Alchemax, but that's so I can dismantle them from the inside when I discover something that could endanger the world. That's basically it-" he paused once he heard a strange sound.
Footsteps were heard, alerting the two wandering ponies. "Son of a glitch. Stay quiet and follow me." Miguel whispered through gritted teeth, and Fluttershy nodded, walking behind the stallion next to a tree for cover. The two noticed strange armored ponies passing by. "Oh shock..."
"W-What are they?"
The armored pony in front turned back to the officers, and said something, "Alright, officers. According to Sloan, Spider-Man should be somewhere nearby, we'll ask the nearest town if they have spotted him, if not we'll draw him out, and once we find 'em, you stop any opposition and I'll take Spider-Man down myself." said their leader, gaining chants from his officers. Along with the ponies, there appeared to be a number of robots with them, and they marched on to find their target.
"Jam it. The Public Eye and Venture. Sloan must've told them I was here. I gotta find the rift, and see if Parker's awake." Miguel muttered to himself. 'That's just shocking great. The last thing I needed was all of Alchemax and my enemies coming for me.'
"Fluttershy. Stay close. We need to avoid them for now." warned the time-traveller, "The Public Eye doesn't care about anything as long as they believe they got the job done."
"W-What do we do?" Fluttershy wondered.
Miguel looked at her, "We need to get back to Ponyville, get Parker, make sure the ponies are safe, and see if Twilight and Trixie have enough energy to close the rift nearest to here once we stop them."
Miguel started to flap his wings, as did Fluttershy. "We'll take to the skies for now. We should get back there faster." he told the yellow pegasus.
"Okay."
The two arrived in Ponyville, with Miguel noticing that the Public Eye had yet to arrive. "Good. Fluttershy, get the girls. I'll find Parker and warn him about this."
"I will..."
Fluttershy flew off on her own, leaving O'Hara to run to the Treebrary. The door slammed open, "Parker!" he shouted. Twilight, Trixie, and Spike all gave him a weird glance at his sudden entrance.
"Is everything alright? Was it Ursa?" Trixie wondered, "I told Peter not to leave you to the bear." she sighed.
"No. It wasn't the bear. Something came up on the way back. We need to be ready."
"Why? What's wrong?" Twilight asked.
Miguel looked out the window, seeing no strange figures yet, "The police force of 2099, the Public Eye found their way to Equestria. From the looks of it, they're on their way to Ponyville to find me. Fluttershy and I got here before they did and I told her to get the others."
"That's not good." Trixie gulped.
Twilight nodded, "You're right, Trixie. Hopefully, the others get here soon before the Public Eye catch us off guard."
"What you is mean they'll blindside us?" Spike joked.
"Is everypony here a jokester all of a sudden?" groaned the blue unicorn in frustration, slamming a hoof to her face.
Ignoring the comment, Miguel turned to Twilight, "Is Parker awake yet?" he asked. The alicorn shook her head, giving him an answer without saying a word. "That's just great. In the meantime, ready yourselves for a battle, and I'll suit up. Fluttershy should be here soon." he said, walking into the guest room. He put on his costume and looked out his window, 'Still clear. Good. At least the others can be caught up with what's going on.'
Miguel heard the door open, "Perfect timing." he whispered. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie and Rarity walked behind her.
"Alright, we got the message! Where are the bad guys?" Dash questioned in a confident tone.
O'Hara paused, "On their way here," he answered. "Anyway, they mentioned that they're looking for a town nearby to start their search, which would be here. Obviously, they're going to find me eventually if I run away, and that'd put others in the crossfire."
"So, yer suggestin' to just fight 'em off while we can." Applejack finished Miguel's statement.
"That's my kind of plan!" Dash boasted.
"Yes. But be warned, their technology is far advanced than anything Peter has made in this world. Or anything I have available. The bounty hunter, Venture, will stop at nothing to bring me in. Combine that with an army of officers and robots, this will be difficult." Miguel explained briefly.
"I think we can fend off the officers, Mister O'Hara." Rarity assured, "But this Venture pony sounds dangerous."
Nodding, Miguel looked out the window again, "He is. Alchemax usually hires him to take me down and is very shocking stubborn to stop by himself. He'll even go as far to bring innocents into the crossfire, although he says he doesn't want to. So we have to watch where we fight. But I've stopped Venture before, and I'll do it again."
Meanwhile, Peter's eyes snapped open, still feeling the aches in his head. "Ah! Stupid migranes... What's wrong with me?" he asked himself, rubbing the sides of his head. 'What's happening to me? My Spider-Sense is going nuts right now!' he sat up and pulled the covers off from his bed.
'Might as well get out of bed. I mean, nothing can happen today.' thought Peter, placing his hooves on the ground. He turned his head and spotted his costume hung up, the tears patched up cleanly, 'Awesome. I gotta thank Rarity later.' he mused. He yawned, having slept longer than usual. 'Thankfully, Twilight didn't wake me up. I needed that nap. Where is she, anyway?'
Peter walked out of his room and looked into the next room, seeing that Mayday was still sleeping, "D'aww." he whispered, "I'll let her sleep for now."
He then arrived at the living room, seeing all of his friends together, "Mornin' everypony!" he greeted, "By the way, thanks for fixing the suit Rarity. Wait... Why are you all here?" he turned to Miguel, "And why are you wearing your costume?"
"It's about shocking time you woke up. Sloan told the Public Eye and a bounty hunter that I'm here and they're on their way to Ponyville." explained Miguel.
"Are you feeling better, Peter?" Twilight asked.
Slowly nodding, Peter answered, "Yeah. I think I'm good for now. Let me just get my costume and I'll help."
"There it is." said Venture.
The officers and robots of the Public Eye looked ahead and spotted Ponyville, "Spider-Man should be in that town. You'll draw him out and then while he's distracted, that's when I'll kill him."
The small army made it to Ponyville, where they were all given strange glances. "Alright gents. Do your thing." he said. The cops and robots scattered about, grabbing as many ponies as possible to force Spider-Man to reveal themselves.
"This is what it came down to, Spider-Man! Your stubbornness forced me to do this. Either come out and face me like a man, or watch these people die by your inaction!" Venture warned aloud.
Venture felt something on his metal hoof, "Ah, there he is!" he shouted, looking up to see Spider-Mane 2099 perched on a rooftop, "Now, it's about time we ended this."
"I don't have any shocking time for this, Venture." Miguel declared, hopping off the roof to face the bounty hunter, "Call off your men, now. Or so help me if you hurt so much as one pony..." he threatened.
Venture laughed, "How can you possibly stop me and this army all by yourself, Spider-Man?" he asked with confidence, "Now come with me, or things will get messy, son."
"Who said I was alone?"
Suddenly, a rainbow blur sped by, destroying a robot holding a filly by its arms. Rainbow Dash caught the child and placed her gently her gently on the ground, "Gotcha kid! Now get to safety! We'll take it from here!"
Applejack ran by, using her hind legs to buck a Public Eye officer hard enough to stun them. Fluttershy, not wanting to fight, ducked underneath two officers charging after her, causing them to run head first into each other. Twilight and Trixie combined their magic to play both offensively and defensively, using various lasers and forcefields to cover her friends to cover for their friends.
Venture looked at the battle, "Well, I guess I was wrong. But Sloan paid me to take you down, Spider. Maybe I'll get a bonus if I do the same to your pony friends." the bounty hunter held up his gun with both of his hooves, but something jammed his weapon. "What the-"
"Sorry! Looks like you're gonna need a new gun! Oh, and no offense to AJ, but the 1880's called, they want their cowboy phase back!" Spider-Mane joked. The two Spiders stood next to each other, staring down Venture.
"So, you met the Spider-Man of the past." Venture noticed.
"Jam it. Are you going to keep pointing out the obvious?" Spider-Mane 2099 hissed.
Venture chuckled, "Of course not, let's end this."
Trixie erected a forcefield around Fluttershy, which covered her from the two blasts shot by three robots in her direction. The distraction allowed Pinkie to stomp on them, hopping from one to another with ease.
Rarity used her own magic to lift up the dirt from the ground, picking up stones and rocks scattered about. She focused her energy on the projectiles she had. The small rocks and stones were thrown in the direction of a few Public Eye officers. One of them shouted, "Take down the unicorn!"
Before they could reach Rarity, Twilight warped in front of her. Shooting out a powerful beam of magic strong enough to incapacitate the Public Eye. "Thanks, Twilight." said the unicorn.
"You're welcome. We have to old them off while Peter and Miguel fight off that Venture pony." Twilight said, "We'll leave him to the two."
"You okay, Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Y-Yes. But how much longer do we have to do this?" she wondered aloud.
Dash turned her head, spotting more robots. "Not too much longer, I think. I'll sink my hooves into those strange machines. You just make sure everypony's safe. We'll handle the fighin',"
Meanwhile, Applejack tied up an officer with her lasso, and threw them over her with ease. She spun around, driving them into the ground once she released. "That oughta keep ya down until we clean up." she teased the pony.
Pinkie hopped behind a robot, making it turn its head and arms to reach the pink pony, but she hopped over him and made it punch its own head off by accident, "Just like a toy!" cheered Pinkie.
Venture managed to remove the webbing off the barrel of his gun. He managed to position his hoof in a way that he was able to hold it and pull the trigger. "Stay down." he warned.
"Sorry, but us Spider-Men do not stay down as you put it." said Spider-Mane flipped upward and tried to punch the bounty hunter in the face, but Venture blocked the attack with his metal arm. "That was supposed to hurt you." he mumbled.
Laughing, Venture held up his pistol, aiming a laser at Spider-Mane, "You never faced anything like me, son." he said, "Now, I'm sure Sloan will pay me twice as much for two Spiders."
Spider-Mane 2099 flew up, distracting the hunter and once he landed, he used his talons to slice his armor underneath the vest he was wearing. "Let's end this now, Venture!" the future hero shouted. "No one will get in my way of stopping Sloan's scheme anymore!"
Venture held the areas were his clothes were torn, "You're gonna pay for that, Spider-Man."
Before he could punch Spider-Mane 2099, something hit him from behind. Miguel noticed that it was Spider-Mane, who dug his hooves into Venture's back and sent him flying across the battlefield. The ponies took notice of this, moving out of the way for him to land. Before Venture could stand up, Rainbow Dash planted a hoof on his barrel.
"You think that you can hold me down?" Venture warned.
Dash smirked, "Yeah, I think I can. Unless you wanna deal with a group of ponies who can take you down at any moment."
Twilight, and the Spiders walked to Venture, "It's over, Venture. I'm sending you back to 2099 and you'll never return." Miguel declared to the bounty hunter.
Venture activated an electric field, stunning Rainbow Dash and forced her to release him. "I'm not going back, Spider-Man." he said, getting back to his hooves.
Pinkie got a hold of a robot's arm cannon, and aimed it at Venture, "Say hello to my little friend!" she chuckled. A laser shot out of the cannon, hitting Venture in the chest, dazing him. Applejack then destroyed the robot before it could do more damage.
"You got lucky there, pony." Venture lied.
Spider-Mane covered the metal arm in webbing, "Yeah, she did. But you're not!" he said, punching Venture in the face with his right forehoof. The bounty hunter turned his head, "Let this be a warning. If you so much as think about coming back here again. You'll have to deal with us." he warned.
Spider-Mane 2099 used his talons to slice Venture more, as Rainbow Dash and Trixie ran up to him and bucked him airh their forehooves in the chest. Before he could counter, Twilight used her magic to remove the gun from his possession and Rarity threw more small boulders in his direction.
"And stay down!" shouted Spider-Mane and Spider-Mane 2099, uppercutting Venture hard enough to knock him out. Once thr bounty hunter landed on the ground, the duo turned around and noticed that the small army had been dealt with.
"Nice work, girls." complimented Peter. "Now, let's clean up and close the closest rift."
"Good idea, Parker." replied Trixie. "Last thing we need is more of these creeps to come through. All Trixie wants is a break from all this..." she sighed.
"We'll get a break." Miguel said, "But Sloan is a priority."
"Yes, but we cannot track him down." said Rarity, "We don't know where on Equestria he could be."
"Tomorrow, Trixie and I will continue to find anymore rifts nearby Ponyville. But we should warn Celestia and Luna just in case Sloan finds a way to attack Canterlot." Twilight spoke.
"Good idea. We should probably head there at some point just in case." Peter nodded.