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There was a lot discussed in the dream realm. Pearl needed to move forward and think of what she wanted for her future and she eagerly showed Fluttershy physical representations of what her family looked like along with her student Connie, so they knew who to look for upon arriving at Beach City. Luna promised she’d seek out help for her more masochistic tendencies and lastly there was more talk about Pearl’s alien species known as ‘Crystal Gems’.
The Crystal Gems that had arrived on Equus a long time ago had obviously perished, but the remnants of their abilities were seen in the Crystal Empire’s Crystal Ponies. Crystal ponies as far as Pearl understood it were more pony than crystal gem. It was startling to know crystal ponies were all part biological and part living rocks, they were recognizable to Pearl as being at least barely hybrids given they were ninety percent pony overall. The crystal heart found in the empire granted some the ability to temporarily become a crystal pony, but it couldn’t make the effect permanent and the effects of being a crystal pony were tougher bodies and a strange affinity for certain weapons.
Pearl had shown them all her ability to summon a spear which was her personal weapon, then made mention that the only hybrid she’s known of before this was Steven and that this planet had her mind reeling at what she had been presented with. At some point in the very distant past the crystal gems led to the birth of the empire, the tree of harmony and eventually the magically powerful elements the tree held. The elements weren’t crystal gems, but the energy of a multiple crystal gems could be felt coming off of the tree itself by Pearl. Her leading theory was that the crystal gems who had previously been on this Equus had been absorbed by the tree and that the planet had formed the strange tree as a defense mechanism to stop the kindergarten from doing what it was meant to.
Luna stepped forward to explain what Pearl had told Fluttershy’s friends about what a crystal gem kindergarten was, everyone with the exception of Fluttershy were rightfully horrified. It was explained that while crystal gems could be symbiotic with the plane instead they became highly parasitical with a taste for power and tended to drain the life energy and nutrients out of planets to give birth to more of their kind. Equus was one such planet rife with energy and it certainly made it a high value target to the ones that had been here previously.
Pearls theory of her people causing the planet to resort to some sort of natural defense mechanism to prevent its energy from being stolen by parasites wasn’t very far-fetched; it was the likeliest thing considering that the ponies had information on planets like Janet Rhizome existing thanks to Fluttershy. Earth hadn’t been so lucky in being capable of defending itself from alien intrusion; it was thanks to someone Pearl fondly referred to as Rose Quarts that the planet she called home could still support life.
The explanation for the crystal ponies existing was that the planet itself had repurposed the crystal gems, the unborn and the ones that it had absorbed into itself, into something much friendlier to its ecosystem. Thus the Crystal Empire was born and formed. Pearl had been fearful for her life ever since her visit to the Crystal Empire, even if the world seemed inviting and friendly to her. It took Maud a while to calm Pearl down as she had broken down in the middle of all the talk about it.
At least it now made some sense why the elements of harmony could turn things to stone so easily, it begged the question if the Chozo were involved with the Crystal Gems when they were on Equus or were they two completely separate examples of alien visitation?
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Fluttershy yawned and opened her eyes, snuggled into her chest was Soft Echo who was still likely spending time with Princess Luna. Soft did have a big day yesterday after being born and she was still so young. She should feel horrified and disturbed by what Pearls race does to a planet, but she felt nothing and couldn’t even be sad about feeling nothing. Foxglove went through an entire week of this? Speaking of the bat she lifted her wing off of the bat and slowly nudge Foxglove awake, the little bat yawned and stretched her wings out before taking to the air for some exercise.
Lifting her head Fluttershy saw Bonnie snuggling her butt with her face, right on top of her cutie mark no less. At least she couldn’t feel embarrassment at the moment, which was a positive thing in her book. She could only hope today would be a little more pleasant then the last one was.
“Bonnie, it’s time to wake up.” Fluttershy poked at the small antenna on the alien beings head with her nose, Bonnie immediately woke up as her antennas were highly sensitive and she realized where her face currently was.
“Oh, uh… wow, yeah. I’ll just go find out if Cobra and Shush are back yet.” Leaping away from the single bed in the ship as if it had caught fire, there was a huge blush going throughout Bonnie’s head that was quite visible even through her fur.
Fluttershy just stared after Bonnie and shrugged, she couldn’t rightfully emotionally respond to that even if she did have all her emotions working. She was happy that Bonnie was comfortable enough to sleep next to her though.
Jake and Fu had camped out the night outside the Head Hunter and made sure nobody was going to bother it. Nothing happened and there was a talk of what to do for breakfast, Jake would fly out to get the food and he was taking requests.
“I’d like some fruit; I’m not entirely an insectivore and some of my best friends are insects.” Having a bit of a mixed heritage was quite nice for Foxglove; she could live off fruit or insects alone. She might even enjoy the occasional walnut.
“Fruit is good for Soft and I’m okay for eating anything, though I would like some eggs and biscuits with some cheese or jam.” Fluttershy wonder if they had something like a hay burger joint on this planet that had a breakfast menu spread.
“I can easily do that. Can you spot me some money Fu?” Jake got forty dollars from Fu and he transformed and was off to pick up breakfast.
It was a slow morning and the food wasn’t bad at all, little Soft Echo especially enjoying biting into all the sugary little jam packets that Jake had grabbed for her.
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It was a few hours later when Cobra and Shush arrived, he had garnered their attention and got them to stop playing in the sand.
“Okay, here’s what we’re going to do. It’s going to be a little odd, but I managed to pull a few strings in the CIA to make this a legitimate thing. Now how far can the legs on Head Hunter stretch out and how well can they bend and rotate?” Cobra smiled slightly and Shush was also as cheerful as she ever was.
The situation that was Cobra submitted was exactly like Shush being labeled a giant red Sumatran chinchilla. It became apparent that it was simple and easy on resources, since all Cobra needed to do was pull out some thick rubber and inflate it. The rest would obviously take care of itself, since he already made the arrangements.
It was by far the most ridiculous idea Foxglove had ever heard, which is why she and everyone else knew it was going to work. The only problem was that the Head Hunter was obviously going to attract a lot of unwanted attention given what it was going to be labeled as.
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The Head Hunter rolled down the road towards the bridge leading out of Manhattan; its four legs were bent outwards and had a larger than normal tire on each one. The plan was going so well at the moment.
Fluttershy was test driving a new ‘tank’ for the military and said ‘tank’ was built for speed and it was said to be made with the technologies previously used by some of the scientific maniacs from around the globe. This was all an excuse so the Head Hunter could be out in the open as it made its way out of New York towards an unknown destination where the so called ‘government’ would pick it up. The ‘hidden in plain sight’ angle was an ingenious way for Cobra Bubbles to get Head Hunter out of New York without anyone asking questions. They were testing how far it could go one full tank of gas and since Head Hunter didn’t run on gas they already had an answer waiting and ready for when Head Hunter made it to its destination.
To take things one step further Cobra was having MIB make a weak copy of the vehicle using only Earth made resources that would be produced by a fake manufacturing company that wanted to sell said vehicle to the United States military. All the proper channels were being used and there were only a few hang ups with plan, such as people wanting to be hired by the fake company. Said people were obviously corporate espionage attempts and were swiftly caught by the CIA as Cobra saw fit to use it as a trap to capture corporate espionage spies as well. In fact the plan was proving to be useful on many levels for the MIB and the CIA who didn’t know of MIB’s existence. It was win-win all around for Mr. Bubbles; his intelligence and quick thinking was why he was one of the greater MIB agents out there.
Shush and Bonnie had hugged and said their goodbyes before their ‘tank’ set off with a fresh load of supplies, Foxglove personally got a large case full of well kept mashed insect paste bars all to herself for the road.
The Head Hunter had to drive inland to so it could go south and the trip would be estimated around two hundred fifty miles at least, it was a good thing the four legs of Head Hunter could rotate at a really quick speed that got it going up to at least sixty miles per hour. It would go at least seventy and it would take approximately four hours to reach their destination barring any unforeseen circumstance.
It was a good thing the foreseen circumstances were no worse than the unforeseen ones. Given that the Head Hunter was an ‘experimental tank’ out on a test drive, it was not a hard guess that it would be attacked by all kinds of crazy nut-bars. The better the performance the ‘tank’ gave in defending itself, the likelier it is that the lie would be bought.
At least they made it out of New York alright and Jake in dragon form provided aerial escort for at least five miles after that. It wasn’t until about a hundred miles later that things became hectic
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“Look alive, we’ve got incoming! Armed monster trucks by the looks of it on the long range scanners.” Bonnie was wondering why in the world they would be attacked by monster trucks, then two more things on the long distance scanners popped up. The Head Hunter had some really good long range scanners, mostly because Samus Aran never wanted to be figuratively caught with her pants down. “There’s a large armed group of overweight people riding motorcycles. Getting a satellite feed and… Sumo Ninja Bikers, I don’t know if I can actually take that seriously. Also lots of vehicles with a Hench Company logo painted on them. Looks like we have a four way party getting started up in here and we have definitely attracted unwanted attention! To think we almost made it through Philadelphia without any problems, so any pony related name you care to bring up Fluttershy?”
“Fillydelphia is a place back on Equus, it’s a little strange how there are so many places that are named like the ones from home. The two planets have vastly different geographies despite the weird similarities. New York was much bigger than ‘The Big Apple’ back home.” The reason why Fluttershy was letting Bonnie drive was because she was trained getaway driver and Fluttershy, while a decent pilot, wouldn’t be able to do as well in a combat situation. It now occurred to Fluttershy why exactly Cobra left out the fact that the Head Hunter was armed, just in case anyone got any bright idea’s they’d be horribly surprised. Even if she didn’t like it, she couldn’t feel bad about the ensuing mess they were going to cause. “Please don’t hurt anyone too badly Bonnie.”
“How you wound me Sweet Cheeks. That I would even dream of ever being the first to break the long held Jookiba tradition of never directly killing anyone. Despite having the capacity to and the really big and awesome weapons this thing is armed with making it highly tempting.” No one had to guess why Bonnie was smiling; she thought this was going to be really fun. “How’s the kid doing? The first of the inbounds will intercept us in… approximately seven and a half minutes.”
“Oh little Soft has been so wonderful and quiet, it’s almost like she’s a… well technically she is kind of a copy of me. I was like that when I was little.” Fluttershy being happy or having positive emotions was never a problem; it’s the ones she couldn’t feel that were worrying. She could mentally worry about Soft in the upcoming rigmarole, but she couldn’t do it emotionally. A thought occurred to her and in her current state it would work; she would be upset with herself for it later though. “When they get close I’ll head out and intercept them.”
“The monster trucks and maybe bikers sure, if you can safely slow them down or stop them. As for the Hench Company guys, I’m giving you a flat no go on that. As a reminder you’re not immune to the ballistic weaponry that they’ll definitely have on them.” Seeing that the pony was giving her a blank stare, Bonnie waved her off. She pulled out a cell phone, while she may have given Fu back his cell phone it was kind of funny that they never asked if she had taken Jake’s phone as well. “Go on, we’ll deal with them as they come. Let’s see if Shego can take care of one of the problems for us.”
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Shego went through a lot yesterday, causing Ron pain and misery made her happy and hearing that Ron and Kim weren’t getting married or already were made her feel pleased. Of course she wasn’t interested in children and being bisexual wasn’t hard for her, she just had a slight leaning towards women since she wasn’t going to get pregnant that way even if she still could. Her super powers possibly made it impossible for her to have children. Why did her nemesis Kim have to be so beautiful and a goody two shoes at that? Hearing her phone ring Shego pulled it out and looked at the caller. It was Bonnie and she had somehow not only stolen a phone in the last twenty four hours, but she had also managed to personalize what her caller ID would read as and the message had Shego chuckling.
“Oh, she’s good... okay, what’s going on? Uh huh, sumo guys clan? Sumo Ninja Bikers… are you serious? At least I see we have similar tastes in the suspension of disbelief. Okay I’ll help you out, but Tubbimura’s mine as I got some payback to dish out to him.” Shego listened on for a few seconds. After having snorted at the biker thing, she sat up on the couch and checked her computer and noticed something strange before she answered Bonnie’s response. “I’m glad we have come to an agreement, now stop trying to hack my bank accounts through my phone you cheeky little green devil. By the way that side effect thing that the troll caused wore off, so I’m definitely pissed that you tried to get something by me again.”
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“You can’t blame me for trying though; my pony is still sadly stuck in bliss town. Come on and join the party at your leisure then, oh and the other players are Hench Company and these guys in monsters trucks.” At least Bonnie was happy to know her attempt to hack the mercenaries bank accounts through her cell phone was caught and blocked. She and Shego were already the best of friends! “Okay Fluttershy get out there, the monster trucks are really obvious and if you can disable them then we won’t need to worry about them as much.”
“What part are their engines usually in?” Fluttershy didn’t want to hurt anyone while she was unable to feel bad about doing as such by hitting the wrong thing.
“Front part of the main body of the vehicle; fuel is in the rear end and is explosive.” At the moment Bonnie was turning up the shields and arming the weapons on Head Hunter, It’s been a while since she’s been involved in a car chase culminating in costing billions in property damage.
Turning around Fluttershy moved into the back where Foxglove was making sure Soft didn’t get into trouble, Soft Echo managed to get to her hooves and canter over to Fluttershy to nuzzle her. She easily returned the affection to her daughter and turned to Roller.
“Roller could you please be a dear and go get my suit? We’re about to come under attack.” The wheel revved at her and rolled off while Fluttershy sat down and started petting Soft before licking her forehead making her giggle. “Foxglove please watch her for me, I don’t want Soft leaving the Head Hunter. Bonnie will be sure to keep you two safe.”
“Right you can count on me Fluttershy.” Foxglove threw a silly salute as Roller came back with the Rhizome suit hanging off one of his four pipes.
The Rhizome made suit had been patched up and readjusted to fit Fluttershy’s real form and it was working at full capacity. She checked the saddlebags to make sure her water container was full and the same bag held two medical tomatoes, checking the other saddlebag pouch it had approximately thirty pod grenades in it.
“Roller, stay here and protect them. I’m sorry Soft, mommy has to go now, but I’ll be right back.” Fluttershy gave Soft a hug, then Foxglove and finally Roller before she stood on the pad that would raise her to the top of the ship.
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“So like seriously, we need the stuff from that tank! We can get some serious stuff from it, seriously. I can’t wait to see what awesome tech went into it and steal it for my ride! I’m serious; it’ll be seriously serious dudes.” The mullet blonde macho man in the monster truck was the leader of his pack of parts raiders, they were always after rare parts and or experimental stuff and it didn’t matter whether or not it worked, they were after this tank because it was cool sounding. “So all of you guys form up on me and we’ll seriously take them down and strip it for my baby, seriously!”
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“I Tubbimura of the Sumo Ninja Clan proclaim that my target will be dealt with today!” The other Sumo Ninja riding large motorcycles alongside Tubbimura all threw their fists into the air with a cheer. The Lunar Locket was a powerful Shen Gong Wu that could shroud the world in darkness whenever the user wanted it to do so, it would benefit the clan greatly to have that ability. “Be prepared my wily opponent, for you shall not escape me a second time. It doesn’t matter if you have armor of a tank surrounding you, may the Wings of Tinabi bring me victory!”
The artifact attached to the motorcycle activated spreading its wings, as soon as that had happened the motorcycle flew into the air leaving behind a rainbow trail and the other Sumo Ninja followed Tubbimura from the ground.
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“Remember find out what technology is being use in that machine; I want it captured intact for study.” A short stocky man wasn’t happy to hear of this company using old invention ideas for new purposes like progressing humanity. He would not have it happen; any of his things being used for good purposes was definitely something that riled him. “They may have stopped my espionage attempts, but they will not stop my attempts at taking it while it’s vulnerable.”
“We’re already on it Dementor, the target is just ahead and we have a problem of a new contact in the field.” The henchmen Dementor hired were exorbitantly paid for; they were supposed to be the best from the Hench Company. Now they were waiting for an order and until then they’d keep the target in sight. “Motor Ed is quickly approaching the target, what should we do sir?”
“Hold back until they and any other interlopers are out of the way, if Motor Ed or anyone else get’s the tank then attack them for it. Until then stay back and observe for now.” Dementor narrowed his eyes at the still image of a bright yellow and pink machine that his henchmen managed to get. “Such garish colors, they are either fools to paint it like that or they are trying to lead us into a false sense of security. Let Drakken’s cousin batter himself on it, so we can see its capabilities for ourselves. When the time is right we will make our move.”
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As Fluttershy rose up she slowly inhaled and exhaled with her eyes closed, she had no fear and she couldn’t worry herself close to death about all this. She was going to take the fight to those who would do her friends and family harm. Her suit was slightly different as it had a pink spine going down the back of her neck which held her hair out of her face.
Opening her eyes, Fluttershy knew she should be panicking about what she was going to do; instead she calmly took in her surroundings. She slowly opened her two feathered wings covered by her suit. It was time for Fluttershy to get really assertive!
With but a single jump from the top of Head Hunter, Fluttershy soared. No hopping or skipping required, as her rump was in gear.
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What a fascinating history lesson. And yeah, considering this story alone had Janet, the idea of the planet Equestria is in being alive or at least having a sort of sentient or even sapient conscience doesn't sound that far-fetched.
Hehehe, cosidering how even our Earth is in regards of stuff, that plan with passing the Head Hunter as a tank I could see it working as well. Well, as they say, refuge in audacity and all that.
Well, at least they made it to Philadelphia. I would've put my money on happening while still in upper NJ. Although as much a boon the no negative feelings thing could be for the battle, that's the sort of situation I see it where it could untimely wear off. Then again, considering what she had to be cured off, doesn't sound like it would only last for a day or two.