Chapter 14
Party on, Rangers!
The gang finally arrived at the castle of Canterlot, just as the galloping gala was taking place. The group of 13 made their way from the carriage. As the rangers were escorted by their new pony friends, they marveled at how so many came to the gala.
"Incredible. I know this party is about the country’s anniversary, but I’d never thought so many would come."
"Why of course they would. All the biggest names in Equestria are here. Which makes this the perfect opportunity for me to display my new works."
"I…I don’t know what to say about all this. I mean..I’m down with parties. But this seems a little fancy for me."
"Yeah, these Richie richies prefer some old fiddlie di music."
Zack then sees an opportunity see if he can lighten up the mood. A nearby DJ stand was unattended. He nudged Pinkie who looked over and the two both nodded in agreement to a telepathic plan between them.
"Hey guys…me and pinkie are..Uh.. Gonna have a look around."
"Okay. Pinkie, just make sure you two don’t get lost."
Pinkie salutes Twilight
"Euy mon Capitan."
"Zack, make sure you keep in contact."
"Right."
The two departed from the group to carry out their plan. Rainbow dash then noticed that spitfire was with the other Wonderbolts. Her eyes widened, and a grin took her face.
"Kim, look. That’s them, the Wonderbolts."
Rainbow dash points out spitfire with several other Wonderbolts. Kimberly looks over to see what she was pointing at.
"Really,Those guys?"
"Come on! I’ll introduce you to them."
She takes Kimberly to meet her idols, leaving only eight left. Applejack looked around for an excuse or opportunity to break off from the group, and spend some time with Jason. She looked constantly, almost nervously.
"hey…you okay?"
"Hmm?...Oh! Yeah, I’m fine sugar cube. I was just…eh… wonderin’…"
"Yeah?"
Her prayers were soon answered, in the form of a dance taking place on the main floor. She saw that this was her chance more than ever to get a little more acquainted with the red ranger.
"I was just wonderin’..if you’d escort a lady to a dance?"
"Huh? Oh, sure. Yeah…."
"Something wrong?"
"Eh..No. no. It’s just…"
"Just what, Jason?"
"It’s just…I’m not really good at dancing."
"Aw, don’t be shy cause of that, Jason. Shoot, I ain’t that good either. But it doesn’t stop me from tryin’. Come on, may ah have this dance, handsome?"
Jason was a bit reluctant. But he eventually put aside his nervousness, and held her hoof.
"Why not? What’ve we got to lose?"
"That’s it partner."
As did Kim, and Zack. Jason departed from the rest of the group, and escorted the element of honesty onto the dance floor. Fluttershy, and Tommy noticed their departure, as well as Billy, and Twilight.
"Three down. Three to go."
"If we all keep separating, it’ll be more difficult for me to show off my latest works."
"You’ve still got me, Rarity."
"That I do. But a whole set would’ve been nice."
"Oh, Rarity. You have all night to show everyone off. Let’s just meet up with the princesses, okay."
"Quite right, Twilight."
"Have you guys noticed how applejack was with Jason. I’ve never seen her that nervous, or excited to be with another stallion."
"Yes. You’re right. She did seem rather…enticed by him."
"Affirmative. They seem quite attracted to one another. Even if they’re nervous to express it."
"Well, he did save her life, and he did help her out an awful lot at the apple family reunion that week."
Tommy lets out a sighs.
"Something tells me it’ll be a heart breaker when we leave. If we ever do."
The group remained silent, processing the possibility of both outcomes.
"Well…we won’t know until it happens, right?"
"Of course. We should just enjoy the time we have."
"Sounds good to me."
Fluttershy nodded.
"Mmmhmmm."
"Affirmative."
"Come on, Princess Celestia’ll be waiting for us."
The small group made their way through the crowd hall to the thrones of Celestia and Luna.
*meanwhile*
In the fortress of Rita, and Chrysalis The two gazed into Rita’s globe to see the gala going on, and their foes attending it.
"The galloping gala. Oh. How I despise the very thought about how that wretched Equestria nation came into being."
"Well then, my friend. How’s about you and I make it more tolerable, and crash in on their little party. And make ourselves known to these four legged halfwits, and their princesses?"
"Sounds awfully tempting. But is it worth risking our location?"
" Who said we were going? Why go when we have people we can force them to go? Goldar! Sphinx!"
Goldar and sphinx enter her throne room, and bowed to their queen.
"Yes, my empress?"
"You, and sphinx take putty patrollers, and changlings for a little party crashing exercise."
"Infiltrate the palace at Canterlot, and deliver our message to the royal sisters. Oh. And while you’re at it. See that you destroy those elements, and their ranger friends along with any who’d appose you."
"Ha! Ha! Two birds, one minion!"
"Yes, your evilness’s."
The two left the room, to prepare for their coming attack.
*Back at the Gala…*
Jason , and Applejack were trying to mimic the other guests on the dance floor. But had a hard time keeping their pace. And would often bump into the other ponies attending When the strings stopped playing, the two sat down in exhaust.
"That went…really badly."
"You weren’t so bad."
"That’s mighty nice of you sugar cube. But, I was th one that sent those two into the punch bowl."
They looked over to see the two ponies still struggling to free each other from the punch bowl.
"Well. It was an accident."
"I know. I still feel bad though."
"If only they’d play something we won’t send peo..I mean ponies to the hospital."
Just then, the sound of record scratching was heard, coming from the speakers. It was then replaced by the sound of party music, which got every pony grooving, and making their way to the floor. Jason got up, and reached out his hoof to Applejack's.
"Come on. I’m willing to try if you are."
Applejack was a little reluctant, but eventually threw caution to the wind, and took Jason’s hoof, and got into the groove. Fortunately, neither of them had anymore incidents since the dance was pretty simple. At the D.J booth were none other than Zack, and Pinkie pie.
"Now, this is what a party ought to be."
"This I can dig. Still up for that dance off?"
"Hey, you two!"
A guard called out towards the two D.J. bandits.
"Later, we got company."
"Time to split."
The two dashed off, only to be pursued by the guard. Pinkie and Zack moved into a nearby crowd. The guard looked, and looked to find no trace of the black ranger, or the element of laughter. Feeling famished, the guard made his way to a nearby snack table, and purred himself a glass of punch, before returning to his post. Unaware to the guard, Pinkie, and Zack hid themselves under the same table, to evade capture. Sensing that the chase was off, the two earth ponies came out from under the table, and looked around.
"Looks like we gave him the slip, Zack."
"Looks like it."
The two high hoofed each other in victory. Then their stomachs began to growl.
"All this chasing’s making me hungry."
"You know? I could use a bite."
"let’s see how good these cup cakes are?"
*Elsewhere*
Twilight, and the others reached the thrones of Celestia, and Luna. She was greeted by her mentor with a firm hug.
"So good of you all to come, my faithful student."
"I wouldn’t miss a chance to be with you, princess."
"Twilight. Now what did I say about calling me.."
"Twilie!"
Twilight looked to see her sister in law, accompanied by her brother, and captain of the guard, Shining Armor.
"Cadence, shiny!"
-"Hey, little sis. How’re you doing?"-
"Pretty good, now that you guys are here."
"Well, we were in town, and thought to drop by."
Twilight turned her attention to the remaining rangers
"Guys this is princess cadence, of the crystal empire. And my bother Captain Shining Armor, of the royal guard."
"I didn’t know you had a brother, Twilight."
"I didn’t mention it before. ..my bad."
"Who’re your friends Twi?"
"Cadence, shining armor. These are three of the power rangers. Billy Trini, and Tommy."
-"So, you’re the ones princess Celestia’s been talking about."-
"That we are."
*Meanwhile*
Spitfire, and the Wonderbolts were conversing with Rainbow Dash and Kimberly. She seemed quite interested in Kimberly.
"You seem quite the flyer, kid. But do you have what it takes to be a Wonderbolt?"
"Does she? She’s one of the fastest flyers I’ve ever seen, even without her zord."
"Dinosuars, Robots? How come we don’t have those things?"
"That’d be awesome."
"Tell you what? Come by our training camp with Dashie here, and we’ll see whatcha made of."
"Well…"
"Come on, Kim."
"We’ll make sure this doesn’t get in the way of your job."
"Well…why not? I’ll give it a shot."
Just then a sudden tremor was felt in the main hall, as if a earthquake was taking place. Rainbow Dash saw a few chunks of the roof began to fall, and then massive amounts. She and Kim cleared the debris, as well as the Wonderbolts. As the dust settled. Kim looked to see if her companion was alright.
"Rainbow? You..okay?"
"Yeah..peachy. What was that?"
The two looked above to see Goldar, accompanied by sphinx, and a mix of putties, and changelings, hovering over their heads.
"Houston, we have a problem."
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SpyderBookworm:Twilight? Remember What Celestia told you earlier? You're both princesses. If you're going to play it that way, then to be fair, Princess Celestia should refer to you as "Princess Twilight". If you don't want that, then drop the "princess" from Priness Celestia's name. Also it is unessessary for you to bow. So the same goes: if you bow to Celestia, then she will have to bow to you as well.
SpyderBookworm: What'd I tell ya?