Spike, this time let us protect you
Spike, for this time let us protect you
A new day started in Ponyville, and in the town’s finest hotel, Maud Pie was getting ready for a new day of conspiracies and machinations. But when she was walking out of the shower the first thing she noticed was the empty bottle aside of a rock on top of the room’s desk. The earth pony sighed.
“I’ve heard about owners who give a little liquor to their pets but I’m pretty sure I’m the first pony who owns a rock with problems of alcoholism.
And looking through the window, she had to put a hoof on her heart when she saw her sister Pinkie Pie going to the store to get some orange juice for her breakfast with the Cake family.
“So close but so far” said Maud dryly. “No, Boulder, I’m not talking to you. Stop complaining and go to sleep, this is what happens when you don’t know how to drink moderately. You have thousands of years but sometimes you act like a foal”
Pinkie Pie wasn’t in her best shape, since the night she learnt her sister was a wanted pony she had to pretend that nothing was wrong with her, but in the bottom of her heart she could barely handle all this. She felt betrayed, betrayed by the pony she loved the most and spent most of the night remembering all the good times she and Maud shared.
Why? Why was this happening? Maud was truly evil? She deliberately tried to kill Spike and the agents of chaos? No, it couldn’t be!
And in Twilight’s Palace, the Princess of Friendship was listening the report from lieutenant Hooves.
“You heard me your Highness, the target is definitely Spike”
“But are you sure?” Asked Twilight gulping.
“I’m afraid so” said the gray Pegasus biting her lip. “Maud even bothered to threaten him directly, and we all know that Maud Pie is brutally honest. When she threatens somepony she means it”
“But it has no sense!” Protested Spike. “Isn’t her quarrel against the Crown and the cohabitation of the three pony races? And I’m not even a pony!”
“Sorry kiddo, but I’m afraid that’s the situation” said Derpy placing a hoof on Spike’s shoulder. “And then there’s that message about the Rock of Madness, I don’t know what it mean but we have our best code-breaker working on it”
Twilight smiled grateful, of course, if somepony could find the meaning of all this that was agent Lyra; who right at that moment was studying multiple documents at the time looking for any reference to the Rock of Madness. It was literally a ton of paperwork, so much that Lyar stood awake the whole night, but still found nothing useful.
“Lyra?” Asked Bon-Bon walking downstairs worried about her wife. “What are you doing? Did you spent the whole night investigating that fantasies of yours?”
Lyra sighed internally, she really hated arguing with Bon-Bon just to keep her identity as a secret but she had to, that was the downside of being a secret agent.
“Fantasies? What you mean with fantasies Bonnie?” Asked the minty unicorn suddenly enraged. “This is no fantasy, the truth is out there! In fact I’m very close to find concrete evidence that certain famous anthropologist about to prove the existence of humans was silenced by the Crown. This is a conspiracy to hide them from us, but look at every-day items like cutlery or musical instruments! Those are clearly designed for fingers not hooves!”
Bon-Bon rolled her eyes patiently, she loved Lyra with all her heart but this obsession with humans was a mayor annoyance.
Lyra was famous all over Equestria for being one of the main authors related to the HUMAN-phenomena and every day the minty unicorn received at least one letter from another fan of those paranoid fantasies. And Lyra’s paranoia went to the point every once in a while she ‘detected’ an agent from the government sent to silence her. But of course as a former secret agent Bon-Bon knew it wasn’t more than nonsense because the spies existed to defend Equestria from real threats as monsters or organized crime; not paranoid morons. But still Lyra refused to believe her and keep looking over her shoulder.
But Lyra wasn’t truly interested in such things, if she published those books for conspiracy-theorists because her position as a spy was to decode all kind of hidden messages from the enemies of Equestria and encode some messages on her own to other agents of the Secret Service. Hidden inside the paranoid fantasies about humans, the secret messages were mostly ignored for most of the ponies; and if an overly obsessed fan found the secret, it didn’t matter since most of the ponies wouldn’t take them seriously.
What Lyra wished the most was to tell the truth to her wife, but precisely because of the terrorist organization Salvation she wasn’t allow to tell her anymore; it didn’t matter if Bon-Bon used to be a spy as well.
“Lyra!” Suddenly called Bon-Bon getting the minty unicorn back to reality.
“Yes Bonnie?”
“You are going with me to buy groceries and then straight to bed, understand? I’ve told you a thousand times I don’t like you to stay awake because of this human nonsense. No Lyra, it’s dangerous for your health”
“Yes mom” ironized Lyra.
“Quiet” ordered Bon-Bon. “Taking care of the love of my life it’s something I have to do, okay? Now let’s move!”
Lyra resigned to reorganize the papers, after all she couldn’t find any clue in Maud Pie’s message; but perhaps a little air and a good nap would help her to advance. So once she put everything in order, Lyra followed Bon-Bon to the market, the life of a married couple was hard from time to time; especially when she couldn’t tell her wife the truth.
By her way Twilight and Spike went out of the Palace very concerned, followed closely by Vinyl and Octavia.
“Believe me Twilight, I don’t know what Maud Pie wants but I assure you Twi that she’ll know what I’m truly capable of” said Spike charging the black and purple energy of chaos in his claw.
Twilight looked at him worriedly and shook her head.
“Spike please, don’t take this so lightly; you may be a god now but still a kid. And Maud Pie is a different kind of enemy than us or even Star Swirl” said Twilight hugging the dragon. “I’m scared Spike, I don’t know what can happen to you”
“But Twi!” Protested Spike separating from the embrace. “You said that, I’m a god, nothing can stop me now!”
“Spike shut up! This is not one of your games, out here there’s a pony who unlike Star Swirl knows who you are and actually wants to kill you! Don’t you understand?”
“Yes, but don’t worry about it…”
“IT’S MY JOB WORRYING FOR YOU, BOSS DAMN IT!” Cried Twilight shaking Spike violently. “Spike, please, I understand you’re a god and have incredible powers, but also you’re still my little brother and I should be the one watching you. Everyone needs to be protected once in a while”
“I…”
“Just for this time let us protect you Spike” said Twilight hugging the dragon both with wings and hooves.
Spike returned the hug this time, he was ready for the scolding but see Twilight crying got him out of guard; and just what Twilight needed to make him understand. At the end Twilight was the one who finished the hug and looked Spike to the eyes.
“Go for your friends Spike, I spoke with the Princesses, they’ll be taking care of you in Canterlot while the Secret Service stops Maud here”
“But Twilight!” Protested Spike.
“Spike, please do me this little favor. I’ll be more comfortable if I know you’re safe out of here, and more important: you owe at least this”
The dragon nodded now defeated, but suddenly he thought in something.
“Fine, we’ll go to Canterlot” sighed Spike. “But now, you know who needs support urgently? Pinkie Pie! Knowing Pinkie she surely didn’t took well the thing that her sister is a dangerous criminal”
“You’re right Spike, we must got talk to her” agreed Twilight walking to Sugar Cube Corner.
The Cakes were cleaning and attending costumers respectively, when Twilight and Spike entered to the bakery.
“Good morning mister and missis Cake, is Pinkie home?”
“Yes, she seemed a little down so we said her to take the day off” explained Miss Cake worriedly. "She’s upstairs in her room if you want to see her”
Twilight nodded quickly and went upstairs with Spike right behind her.
They found Pinkie watching her old scrapbook of memories with her dear older sister; especially the photos she took the day Maud and her friend went to her family’s farm just to gain Maud’s friendship. So it was true that Maud hated her friends because of their races? And then saw Spike and Twilight looking at her doubtful about what to say.
“Twilight be honest. You knew all this time Maud was part of Salvation, right? Why did you lied to me?!”
Twilight sighed deeply.
“Because I didn’t knew much Pinkie Pie, military business are rarely discussed with me unless Princess Celestia and Luna consider it absolutely necessary. I knew Maud provided explosives but nothing more, and I didn’t say anything to you first because I wasn’t allowed to; and second because I thought she was being forced. And to be honest I’m still unsure if she’s truly the leader of Salvation or somepony is setting her up”
Pinkie nodded, at least she knew Twilight was telling the truth.
“Okay. I need to go for a walk to clear my thoughts, want to join me?”
“Pinkie of course!” Said Twilight shyly.
“What are friends for?” Asked Spike with a smile.
Pinkie thanked them from her heart and together they started to walk around Ponyville.
Pinkie was advancing slowly and with her head down causing to everypony mumble around her, looking her like that wasn’t a good sign; but looking her along with the Princess and the Lord of Chaos was also relieving, it meant that Pinkie was feeling bad but her friends will cheer her up soon.
“By the way, the agents of the Secret Service are looking for any sign of danger or any disguised” said Twilihgt suddenly. “Sorry Pinkie but if Maud comes…”
“Don’t worry Twilight” sighed the pink pony. “But if you catcht Maud it would be great if you let me speak with her. I want to understand”
Twilight nodded awkwardly when Rainbow joined them.
“Ey Pinkie! Why the long face?” Greeted the cyan Pegasus.
“Do ya’ really have to ask?” Scolded Applejack joining to the group as well. “What would happen to you if you suddenly figure that yer’ role-model is a dangerous sociopath? Oh, sorry Pinkie”
“Don’t worry about” said Pinkie sadly noticing that their friends joined them out of nowhere. “I can’t deny it anymore now that Blue Blood gave me the file on her. I just want to understand”
“Well I can try to catch her for you so you two can talk” offered Spike charging his powers.
“Don’t you dare Spike!” Scolded Twilight angrily. “Seriously”
“But is no big deal! I defeated Star Swirl, remember?” Asked Spike overconfidently.
“Star Swirl was a demented elder who could be easily defeated by annoying him to his breaking point, Maud Pie is a dangerous terrorist who wants to kill you, there’s no comparison!”
“My only question is, why does Maud want to kill Spike? What he ever did to her?” Asked Rainbow Dash.
“Yes, he’s annoying but not to this point” mumbled Fluttershy. “Why would Maud want to harm Spike?”
“Definitely something isn’t right here” said Applejack.
“I know” said Twilight. “Anyway, we’re here!”
Spike blinked surprised when he noticed they were in the train station where the agents of the Secret of Service and the Agents of Chaos were already waiting for them (except for Babs who was safely in ManeHattan).
“What?”
“I told you Spike: until Maud Pie is stopped the six of you are going to Canterlot and I we won’t take a no for an answer”
“But isn’t this a little too much?” Complained Spike. “Again, I’m a god, what I have to even concern about?”
Sweetie Belle just approached gently and placed a hoof on his shoulder.
“Spike, I love you but this time I prefer to listen to Twilight”
“A’m too young to explode” added Apple Bloom.
“Dude, we never question your leadership but this time I have to agree with the grownups” mumbled Rumble. “If you want to stay be my guest but you’re on your own. If the psycho wants the Lord of Chaos she surely wants us as well”
“Not to mention that Maud won’t stop even if you’re children” said Twilight really serious and then turning to her friends. “Now girls, are you okay with the team of chaos going to Canterlot?”
“Do you have to even ask?” Said Rainbow Dash. “Scoots, go with the Princess. Seriously”
“It’s the wisest thing to do” agreed the Pegasus filly. “Spike, listen to common sense for once”
“Fine, fine, I already agreed and I’ll keep my promise!” Said Spike. “But seriously, I think you’re all overreacting”
The ponies just rolled their eyes but didn’t say anything to the dragon and made him board the train along with his friends. And for extra security measures, the train wasn’t a regular one but an exclusive one to the Secret Service previously revised by their respective technicians and engineers from the Secret Service; and also Blue Blood himself was on that train as the kids’ personal security.
“Is all this really necessary?” Complained Spike again.
“You’re asking for a punch in the face,” warned him Sweetie Belle. “What the hay is wrong with you Spike? A psycho is after you trying to kill you!”
“Yeah, what do you have to prove anyway?” Asked Scoots.
“Spike if you’re trying to impress me you’re doing it wrong. In fact I’m seriously considering to break up with you, sorry but I’m not dating a suicidal dragon”
That was it, Spike finally fell on his knees and let escape a few tears.
“First Twilight now you, why don’t you leave me alone?”
“Because we’re your friends and Twilight your sister, pal” said Scootaloo face-hoofing. “And Spike, Princess Luna taught me something: it’s okay to be afraid, you have nothing to be ashamed of”
Spike created a small smoke puff and smashed the floor.
“Is not that, I’m not ashamed”
“Then what?” Asked Sweetie cuddling to him.
“I, I, I don’t know what to do!!” Said Spike. “Want me to say it? I’M AFRAID, OKAY? I’VE BEING AFRAID SINCE SHE ALMOST MADE TWILIGHT AND ME BLOW UP BUT… I’m not afraid of Maud”
“Then what?” Asked Apple Bloom.
Spike sighed.
“I’m afraid for you and our sisters, just like that time when we fought Star Swirl… like I said I am a god, I know I can defend myself, but what about you guys? I don’t want that Maud Pie use you as bait or a shield, I know my life is in danger but you’re the ones who worry me guys. I can’t lose you, and if I go on my own I’ll make sure you’re safe while I fight the terrorist”
And he began to cry, hugging his friends wanting to protect them.
“Spike” said Blue Blood entering to the wagon.
“What?”
“I couldn’t help but hear you” said the most secret agent of Celestia’s most secret service. “I know how you feel, believe me; that’s why I preferred to pretend to be a jerk, to make sure that nopony gest in danger because of me. But come on kid, you’re a team player! And I know you want to protect your loved ones but come on, you’re eleven years old, even with all your power you’re just a kid and there are some things you can’t do. It happens to everypony!”
Spike half-smiled.
“Thank you Blue Blood”
“Whenever you need. In the meantime enjoy your stay in Canterlot”
In Ponyville, Maud saw the train leaving along with a hot-air balloon and a Royal Carriage; oh and spark of teleportation magic coming from the Palace of Friendship. Apparently the little Lord of Chaos had left and the Secret Service wanted to make sure she couldn’t follow them too easily.
“Okay Boulder, he’s already far from your only weakness: the power of Harmony. I guess you can take care of this on your own, right?”
Maud felt how the weight of her pocket jumped to another place and nodding, she left the room after disguise herself with sunglasses, a hat, a camera; and last but not least, a huge smile. Everything that she needed to look like another tourist.
Pinkie and her friends were trying their best to cheer up the pink pony. After their walk around Ponyville they decided to have a picnic that kind of worked making Pinkie felt loved.
“Thank you girls, I knew I could count on you” smiled Pinkie Pie. “Maybe I’ll be better after a nice nap”
“I understand this whole situation can be a little overwhelming for you and sorry for not telling you before Pinkie Pie” smiled Twilight. “But we’re here if you need us, okay?”
“Okay girls. It’s a good idea, can you stay with me while I’m sleeping?”
“With pleasure” said Fluttershy kindly.
Pinkie smiled back to her friends when suddenly her entire body trembled.
“Pinkie Pie?” Asked Rainbow Dash fearing the worst.
“Pinkie-Sense!” Declared the pink pony before start running at full speed to who-knows-where.
“PINKIE WAIT!” Called the others, but it was too late, she had already disappeared.
Pinkie was running, her Pinkie sense couldn’t be wrong.
“We have to do something! She can be dangerous in that state!” Said Twilight.
“Yeah, Pinkie Pie is especially terrifying when she loses control” said Rainbow Dash remembering what happened during the remote’s prank.
Roseluck was happily selling a beautiful flowerpot to an especially charming tourist, everything seemed fine.
“Thank you Miss Rose” smiled the tourist.
“Those are especially resistant in long trips” assured the florist.
So the tourist was about to grab the flowerpot when suddenly Pinkie Pie jumped out of one of Rose’s biggest flowerpots and tackled the tourist beginning to punch her with all her strength. Pinkie’s eyes were burning with anger and pain; and both her body and mane in a darkish tone than usual.
No matter how much makeup or dye Maud was wearing, Pinkie would recognize her no matter what.
And for the ponies around, they ran to help the tourist because everypony knew Pinkie could destroy a rock without a problem, but this tourist was receiving Pinkie’s fearsome attacks like nothing, until she got bored and sent Pinkie flying with a single punch.
Pinkie landed on the other side of the town creating a huge crater with the impact. Then the tourist walking towards her calm and slowly. Clacking her neck, Maud put aside the broken sunglasses and just stared at Pinkie apparently indifferent, but Pinkie knew her better.
“Tell me, since when you can compete with me in strength Pinkie Pie?”
Pinkie slowly stood facing her older sister and getting ready for a fight.
“Why Maud? WHY?! ANSWER ME, ANSWER ME NOW!!” Demanded pinkie.
“Well, because I hate unicorns and pegasi. I know they didn’t asked to born inferior to the earth-ponies; but they need to learn their rightful place and not mix with us; because then you have cases like your bosses’ children. Even if the Cakes are both earth-ponies their blood is so stained that their…”
“DON’T DARE YOU TO MESS WITH POUND AND PUMPKING!” Shouted Pinkie trotting to Maud again.
Maud simply made a step aside and Pinkie went to crash straight to a wall.
She stood difficultly still facing Maud, when her friends came to the rescue. Rainbow screamed in anger and charged against Maud, but the terrorist reacted quickly taking a huge rock from the way and throwing it to Dash. The rock smashed Rainbow to the ground, still the cyan Pegasus was relatively fine since she was used to crash a lot.
Still Maud took another rock and looked at Rainbow with what Pinkie said was malice.
“You know bird-brain? I love wining, but victories against weaker and inferior ponies like you barely counts”
Twilight stood in front of her group of friends with her wings extended and horn glowing ready to fight.
“Give up Maud, I won’t let you hurt my friends or my little brother! Spike is already away from here where you can’t touch him!”
Maud shrugged.
“Do you really think I actually care about that dragon? He’s annoying but the times he was in my way he didn’t meant to. No, is Boulder the one who haves a problem with him, I only prepared the terrain. No your Majesty, as usual I have my own plans!”
“Still you won’t got away with it Maud!!”
“And you six are going to stop me? How if you’re too busy saving innocent lives?”
A powerful explosion right behind Maud resounded all over Ponyville and before the Mane 6 could do anything, the clock tower fell threatening to squash several innocent ponies who screamed in terror. Twilight screamed as well and used her magic to stop the tower and save them. Same for Pinkie, that guided by her Pinkie-sense detected that a construction was about to explode killing all the workers and people around. Another explosion, this time Princess Celestia’s statue was destroyed and the debris were about to fell on the unware ponies; and Rainbow went to action along with Applejack to put everypony safe before it was too late.
Rarity and Fluttershy exchanged a quick look and began to guide the ponies to the only place they knew it was safe (after a careful inspection by the experts of the Secret Service): Twilight’s Palace. Normally they would choose the town hall but it exploded as well threatening even more ponies.
It was like Maud said, they weren’t able to stop her at this conditions.
…
Spike and his team were having a good time along with the Princesses, especially Rumble who went to meet his parents who worked as Lunar Guards. Luna was kind enough to give Miss Night Wing and Mister Red Hood the day off so they could spend the day with their son and his friends by showing them Canterlot.
“By the way, can we see Black Swordsman and Lighting Flash?” Asked a very excited Scootaloo.
“Yeah, I heard that recently they went into the creepy Sunny Town defeating the evil spirit Ruby who had cursed the town” said Apple Bloom excitedly. In fact she had lived a horrible experience in Sunny Town and when she heard that Equestrias’s strongest warriors freed the town from its course she wanted to ask them personally what happened.
“We’ll see what we can do” said mister Red Hood. “I think they have patrol-duty tonight”
Princess Luna shook her head.
“Today is all about to please this children” assured the Princess of the Night. “Of course you can see my captains, girls. They’ve been asking for you since the night of the wolf Pies”
So the group lead to the Palace to call the soldiers. And for Spike was slowly getting more relaxed until he was having a little fun himself; such a shame Babs couldn’t join them for that day but everypony agreed she was safer in her home.
Then a dry sound right behind them called everypony’s attention. They turned to see what was going on and the soldiers prepared their swords ready for combat, but there was nothing; just a forgotten rock in the hallway.
“And this?” Asked Spike scratching his head.
Then the rock started to roll towards Spike ready for the final battle. A voice was head in everypony’s head: THE POSITION IS MINE!
…
Inside Twilight’s Palace, all the citizens of Ponyville were praying this building didn’t blow up as well, even if they didn’t understood what was going on there. All they knew was the Bearers of Harmony were fighting but not against Spike, because he never was this violent. Then who they were facing?
Outside the destruction kept going and going, and the Mane 6 were trying their best to save all the ponies they could but they couldn’t keep going like this forever. What did Maud Pie wanted? What was she doing in Ponyville if she wasn’t looking for Spike?
Vinyl Scratch was looking through the window every once in a while and then to her partners of the Secret Service. Luckily they were in the Palace, in the town hall they couldn’t sneak out that easy. At the end they were waiting for Derpy’s instructions; and once the gray Pegasus made sure her daughter Dinky was safely with Doctor Hooves (who really loved the filly) she made a sign to the agents. It was show time!
“This is madness, what do you think is going on out there, Lyra?” Asked Bon-Bon to her wife.
But Lyra didn’t answered.
“Lyra?”
Bon-Bon noticed she was alone, but why? Where was Lyra?
With her trained eyes of a former secret agent, Bon-Bon began to look for her wife, and she got Lyra sneaking out of the Palace with Vinyl, Octavia and Derpy; all her friends, but what were they doing in such a dangerous situation? Bon-Bon raised an eyebrow and went after them.
Unaware of Bon-Bon, each of the spies took their respective secret weapons: a hypersonic lire, a mailbag full of bombs disguised as letters, a hypersonic cello and laser-beam sunglasses.
“In the name of the Secret Service let’s finish this!” Said Derpy that much for Bon-Bon’s surprise had fixed her divert eye. “Maud Pie is the greatest threat we ever face and we have to stop her now that we have the chance. Remember your training, and take care”
And suddenly Derpy turned to Bon-Bon who was spying on them from the window.
“Especially you Bon-Bon, fight with terrorist isn’t the same that fight with monsters”
Everypony turned where her leader was seeing.
“Bonnie?” Asked Octavia.
“Unexpected” giggled Vinyl. “Such Secret Agents we are!”
“We’ll worry about that later” said Octavia. “At least she’s a trained spy too”
Another explosion.
“We’re leaving you two so you can talk, but don’t take long!” Commanded Derpy. “Secret Service, GO!”
The agents arrived at the moment an expansive wave from the last explosion destabilized Rainbow Dash making the cyan Pegasus to fall, but this time she was caught on air by Derpy.
“Derpy?” Asked Rainbow Dash.
The gray Pegasus left her gently on the floor and charged against Maud Pie with all her speed that made Rainbow Dash drop her jaw to the floor. What the hay?
Maud threw several heavy rocks to Derpy, but the agent agily avoided it and tackled Maud dragging the earth pony through the field and then do an elegant flip on the air throwing several of her explosive letters to Maud. The terrorist answered by taking a huge rock and using it as a shield.
“Derpy since when you can fly like that?” Asked Dash.
“Since always” shrugged Derpy with half of a smile and then turning to Maud. “Maud Pie, in the name of the Secret Service you are under arrest!”
Maud boringly shrugged.
“Oh, the Secret Service have finally arrived” said Maud dryly. “Now I can move on”
“What are you planning to do lunatic?” Asked Vinyl arriving with Octavia.
“My plans are none of your business”
“So this is how is gonna be” sighed Octavia preparing her cello. “Vinyl, now!”
The white unicorn teleported away and Octavia played her cello that shot a huge sonic wave that sent Maud to the other side of the town where she was captured by Vinyl’s magic.
“This is the end of the way Pie” said Vinyl with a smirk.
Maud just stared at the agent indifferently.
“Aren’t you Fancy Pants’ daughter? Tell me how did he took you are a secret agent?”
“Go to hell” mumbled Vinyl.
“You know, I thought my family had issues but then he told me how all this years he was guiding your sexuality to like mares to not to risk of having non-unicorn grandchildren. That was just cruel, Fancy Pants is father of the year”
Straight to the heart.
Vinyl couldn’t answer to this since she began to remember her puberty, her father’s pressure about not dating stallions, the trips to the strip-clubs where Fancy forced Vinyl to molest another mare… it was just too much for the unicorn and she unwillingly released the earth pony.
Taking her chance Maud kicked Vinyl who was caught by Octavia.
“Tavi…”
“Vy, don’t listen to her. You are with me because you want to, remember? Not because your horrible father wanted it this way, but because we fell in love for being ourselves…”
Vinyl cleaned her tears.
“Yeah, I’m sorry for worrying you…”
Right at the moment the building behind them exploded, but luckily for them they both had a device with a hidden shield-spell: Vinyl in her headphones and Octavia in her bowtie, so they barely felt that.
And for the Mane 6 they just finished evacuating ponies to Twilight’s Palace but Maud Pie had caused a lot of destruction already, and they were just having a taste of this enemy’s true strength.
…
Luna and Celestia couldn’t believe what they were seeing, after all this years the Rock of Madness had returned.
“It can’t be… the Rock of Madness” gasped Luna.
“Rock of Madness?” Asked Sweetie. “What on Equestria is going on?”
Spike’s eyes widened.
“I remember! You were Discord’s first sentient creation, the rock who would give any pony extraordinary powers but it would drive him/her completely insane in the process”
Yes, yes I am little dragon! Said Boulder’s voice inside everypony’s heads. The Rock was using all its power to be listened by soempony else than its owner but it didn’t care now that the final battle was about to start; once he defeat Spike power wont’ be a problem anymore. My original owner Pinkie Pie was a disappointment, instead of the dangerous psycho I wanted her to be she became the incarnation of Laughter one of the Elements of Harmony. I wish I gave that power to my best friend Maud but she refuses to accept my gifts since she prefers to remain sane.
“Okay, there are a lot of words to describe Maud Pie but sane isn’t one of them” whispered Celestia to Luna.
Still the rock heard her.
I admit Maud is a total sociopath but I swear I didn’t had anything to do with it. Anyway, I challenge you Spike, and once I defeat you I’ll be the new Lord of Chaos as master Discord promised me when I was born.
Everypony had a sweat-drop on their temples.
“Let me see if I get this right” said Scoots raising an eyebrow. “The weird-ass rock Maud Pie always carries is a creation from Discord from several years ago?”
“And that’s why Maud wants to kill Spike?” Asked Apple Bloom as confused as her friend. “Because her pet-rock asked to? Are ya’ sure ya’ didn’t affect Maud?”
“Yes because Pinkie does weird stuff and all but that doesn’t mean she’s not crazy, right?” Said Sweetie Belle softly.
You’re getting this wrong, Pinkie Pie does that weird stuff precisely because she’s crazy! Explained Boulder patiently. And no, I haven’t touch Maud. But it doesn’t matter now that I’m about to take the position as Lord of Chaos! Prepare young dragon, because my owner made sure we’re far from the only thing that can turn me back into a normal rock so there’s nothing you can do to stop me now!
Spike face-clawed.
“Let me guess: the Bearers of Harmony and the Rainbow Power”
Precisely.
And the rock rolled to Spike, who simply took it and threw it away.
“I guess battle is over” said Spike.
“Most anticlimactic battle ever” said Sweetie.
Luna grinded her teeth.
“So many lives in danger because a stupid rock? The most dangerous terrorist in the Equestrian history is attacking Ponyville because of a rock?”
Spike charged his powers again.
“Damn it, I must go save the others! Maud is creating a disaster because of this rock’s quarrel with me! I can’t allow this!”
Celestia stopped him.
“Spike stop, please. You fought your battle and you won, but Maud is out of your league Spike. Believe me, the rock was just an excuse for Maud to create a distraction. For the last time your day and let the experts take care of this. As everypony have been telling you, you’re a god but still a kid, let us protect you for this time okay?”
At the end Spike sighed and smiled, yeah, he was in good hooves.
…
Lyra and Bon-Bon ran to action ready to help their friends against the demented pony.
“So all this time you’ve been lying to me too?” Asked Bon-Bon.
“Believe me honey, when you told me you were also a spy I got really excited, and first thing I did was to ask permission to my superiors to tell you the truth, but then something happened and the security measures got more complicated”
“What happened?”
They were passing nearby Ponyville schoolhouse and it exploded.
“This mad pony escaped” explained Lyra. “We caught every member of Salvation including the leaders except for her. And she’s considered the most dangerous pony in the world”
“And what about Glimmer? And Nightmare Moon? And King Sombra?” Asked Bon-Bon.
“Maud Pie have genius-level intelligence, she doesn’t hesitate in taking a life (or several), uses innocents to protecte herself, she managed to hide explosives inside Canterlot Palace during the time she was invited to the Gala, she knows how to fight, incredible strength, knows how to make especially destructive bombs using only materials you find in everyday items; we’ve captured her in six different occasions and she always manages to force us to release her because she had threatened several cities, she stole several valuable files from Princess Celestia’s personal archives and sold them to enemy nations such as the Changeling Hive and the Dragon Kingdom so… yes, she’s even more dangerous that those three together”
Bon-Bon admitted Lyra was right and kept running.
They found their friends right at the time when Maud was fighting alone against Vinyl, Derpy and Octavia and the time; and she was winning.
Lyra exchanged a look with Bon-Bon and shot Maud making her fall and Bon-Bon immobilized her with her enormous strength-
“I am a rock farmer! I can easily break ten-ton rocks only with my hooves! How are you capable to restrain me?” Maud asked as indifferent as always.
“I used to be a monster hunter” said Bon-Bon calmly. “I have restrained Zodiac monsters only with my strength: you know, Ursas, Capricornios, Leos and even a frightening Virgo”
Maud Pie rolled her eyes and let Bon-Bon cuff her. Hyper-strong hoof-cuffs especially designed for Maud.
“In the name of the Secret Service you are under arrest” said Bon-Bon.
Finally it was over.
After a long discussion they decided to take Maud in a hot-air balloon not risking for a bomb hidden on the train-tracks or in the carriage and was carefully watched by Vinyl and Octavia. But they all knew she was going to escape, she always did.
“Why is a pegasi division surrounding us?” Asked Maud.
“In case… no, I mean when you explode this basket” said Vinyl angrily.
Maud nodded.
“Smart, but not enough”
Right under the balloon were the train-tracks from Ponyville to Canterlot, and the suddenly it exploded in a million pieces right at the time the train was passing by. The pegasi gasped and flew to save the innocents and Maud simply jumped out of the balloon with her dress inflating as it was some kind of parachute.
Was she afraid to be caught again? Well, a second bomb exploded, this time inside the train forcing the agents to focus in saving lives instead of pay attention to her.
As always damn Maud.
…
In the place between worlds, in one of the several bars for employees for both companies (Mr. Boss’ and the Other One’s), the bartender was looking funny to a rock in front of an empty glass of whisky. Then the bartender (some kind of angel) heard the rock’s voice inside his head again and refilled the glass. Was it weird to attend a rock? No, in that place all kinds of beings from all kinds of worlds used to hang out.
Boulder was drinking depressively when he realized half of the costumers froze in horror and left the bar; the other half just bowed in adoration but also left the bar escaping from that horrible presence. The Being sat aside Boulder, it was male and female at the same time, so young but so old… it was everything and everyone; just like Mr. Boss but unlike him, this Being was surrounded by an aura of pure Evilness. No, it was more like Evilness was an expansion of Him. The Other One.
“You’re nothing but a stupid rock with a stupid goal” said the Being with indifference. “What were you thinking anyway? You are a rock, an useless rock. Oh, what I want? You see, I’ve been watching, no, not you. Why on earth you? No, the kid, I was watching the kid. Every time my Brother recruits someone I watch if I can make him or her work for me, but apparently this kid’s heart is with my Brother. Such a shame”
The Other One looked at the terrified bartender.
“I pay for this stupid rock, okay?”
The bartender gulped and nodded to the Source of all Evil.
“Where was I?” Said the Other One thoughtful. “Oh right, I was about to stop watching when someone called my attention, your owner, what’s her name? Maud? Okay, I need you to give her a message. Don’t disappoint me, okay?”
…
Back in Equestria, hidden inside a forest, Maud was walking calmly when suddenly felt a small weight on her pocket.
“Stop complaining, I warned you from the beginning don’t try to confront him directly, but you had to do it your way. After all this years of watching me you haven’t learn anything Boulder? What was that? What was I planning? Look at this, is wonderful”
Maud showed Boulder several pictures she took in battle: Bon-Bon, Vinyl, Octavia, Lyra and Derpy.
“Outside nations such as Reptilia, Griffinstone and the Hive would pay millions for the true identity of an agent of Equestria’s Secret Service, not to say five. With that mony I can rebuilt Salvation completely. What? Why I didn’t included Blue Blood? Well I want him to make him pay personally, I thought you would understand the feeling”
Maud nodded once and kept walking.
“And by the way, where were you?”
Maud raised an eyebrow.
“The Other One? And who the hell is the First One?”
Is not important my friend, what matters is that the Other One saw what you saw and was impressed by your intelligence, combat abilities and much more. And he wants me to give you a message.
“Okay…”
Maud Pie: how much for your soul?
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7938809 I mean for this chapter
7938816 good point then.
Every Halloween I see more star wars themed costumes than I care to count. So where's the pony equivalents?
Plus it would have been a great chance for an epic Jedi vs Sith battle all across Equestria.
Actually that would be an awesome prank: make everyone in Equestria a force user and give them a blank lightsaber that would morph to the user's desired specs(blade color, single or double sided, wielding one or two, etc.), and let the fighting commence.
7938809 In fact it was a reference to the Creepypasta 'Abandoned by Disney'
I love this story. Man this chapter have me laughing out loud. Maud Pie was good villain.
Can not to see her in the future.
Great chapter but I feel like everyone forgot Spike's immortal
in actual fact, spike is not immortal and neither is discord.
in the tv series, discord can be turn into stone permanently. so in other words, he is not immortal.
immortal = invulnerable to all kinds of things including being turned into stone.........etc.
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Real One: Isn't being immortal means able to live for ever? I think you want to Invulnerable.
Hells Fire: Spike is a god but is kid? That's the most stupid argument to use, everypony saw what's he is capable of, the plan could've gone like this, take the agents of chaos to somewhere safe and let Spike take care of Maud, simply as that, because Boulder, you know, IS FUCKING ROCK!
True One: The premise was idiotic, I know you wanted to do something like what occurred with Starswirl, but, it didn't have the same feel...
Real One: And...
Real One: The second Twilight should've been Rainbow.
You got to wonder how will the Pie family will react to this?
Also Mr. Boss will have no choice but to give a direct order to Spike to apprehend Maud by any means necessary if the situation becomes grave.
then i say spike and discord are not indestructible at all.
but since discord can be turned into stone by the elements of harmony.
then do you think he is indestructible or immortal???? i will say no to it.
Good chapter ,but I'm sorry Spike is the Lord of choas. A being of power that out matched both Luna and Celestia combined even if he's not immortal and just a kid he could beat Muad by snapping his fingers and trap her in a steel cage in the center of a volcano or better yet he could just mess with her mind like Discord did to the main 6 and make her completely apposite of her normal self
"You may be a god, but you're still a kid" Is quite possibly one of the dumbest arguments I've read yet. Spike is a god now, a GOD. You've already established that he's both immortal and indestructible. He may not be invulnerable due to being able to be turned to stone (However, as a stone state, he wouldn't be able to be destroyed, so still indestructible), but he's still immortal. He even tries to point it out multiple times the stupidity of trying to blow up an immortal god with limitless power to warp reality to their will, and how it'd be insanely simple to just catch Maud. Seriously, he has limitless power. He could have just teleported her into an indestructible cage instantly, and been done with it. I understand twilight being panicy, but everyone else including the Agents of Chaos being all "we're gonna die!" is just...well....silly. In previous chapters, everyone is scared of spike because of how powerful he is. How he can change the whole world on a whim, mess with time with a snap, how he has more power than all the alicorns combined. But as soon as someone tries to do something stupid like blow him up (which, by the way, wouldn't have worked even if he wasn't the god of chaos, because he's a naturally resilient fire proof DRAGON), everyone looses their shit.
This could ultimately end up as some plot brilliance though. Everyone treated him as a little kid again, him getting pissed off and becoming a little darker and more sinister because of it. Especially if he gets mad and points out all the death and destruction caused by Maud to ponyville could have been completely avoided if they had just let spike handle it. It could also be pointed out that if Discord had still been the active god of chaos, they probably would have immediately asked him to handle the issue. However, since spike is "still a kid" in their eyes, they don't realize they idiotically put tons of people in danger, let a villain escape, and probably made spike shift a little closer down the dark path. If this was your plan for the plot all along, you are amazing.
Thinking about it. How is Maud scarier or more of a threat than Starswirl? Both had zero regard for life, and are geniuses in their own right. But Swirl has near limitless information, and can use insanely complex magic on a whim. His casual insanity also made him completely unpredictable. Maud is just blowing things up, something spike could easily stop by making all the explosions pop corn or something. He could snap his fingers and just make all the bombs duds.....
The adults are so freakin stupid.....
BUT, this story rocks, I'm loving it. It's probably becoming one of my favs
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You....you are...you are a fucking genius.
Man I hope they catch maud and actually defeat her in the end...
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I know that I am writing at the wrong time, but you read my mind.