My Brave Pony Starfleet Humans STARFLEET EVENTS

by DakariKingMykan

Act 3: Let the Games Begin!

ACT THREE

That afternoon, everyone was gathered in the big fields in back of the school, which were all decked up and the whole place resembled that of a small stadium.

The Starfleet gang were all dressed up in their outfits that Rarity made them, and were now waiting in their dugout to be called out.

“Well, here we go again.” said Sunset “You all ready?”

The others gave her a thumb-up, but they did not seem very optimistic. “Ready to seize another easy win.” said Artie.

Even Rainbow didn’t feel much like this was anything to jump for joy for. “Well, at least we’re playing sports.” she said, trying to feel the flow. “Not working.”

“Well, I’m ready.” Pinkie said with glee “Ready to go out there and really have some fun. That’s what the friendship games are all about, right?”

Fluttershy however was still worried about the Crystal Prep athletes “They really seemed raving mad. I think they really want to win this year.”

“Who doesn’t?” said Dyno.

“I think she means they may try to cheat their ways in.” added Myte “Even I can feel they were.”

“I say we just let ‘em.” said Applejack.

Rarity gasped in shock “Applejack, how can you say such a thing? Cheating at the games; could there be anything more inconsiderate and more indiscreet.”

“All I’m sayin’ is, it’d be nice to have at least some form of challenge to these here games.”

The others still didn’t feel too optimistic.

Suddenly, Sunset’s message book began to glow from her bag. “It’s a message from Lightning.”

“You mean our Lightning, the pony?” asked Starla.

Sunset nodded and read her message.

“Sunset, could you please do me a huge favor and check the portal outside of the school.

Something unusual has happened; the transporter here in the lab has lost connection with the human world, and we suspect something is wrong back there.

Please look into this and report back at once. This could be very serious.

--Commander Lightning Dawn.”

“Check the portal…Now?” Sunset said.

The others felt confused too, but unfortunately they had no time to question things any further, nor look into the portal issues, because the big doors to their trench opened wide. It was time to head out.

Sunset however, was not willing to let this go so easily and began to rush off. “I’ll be back, don’t worry.” she called out.

“But Sunset?” Buddy Rose called out, but she had already gone, and the crowds began to cheer loudly for the athletes to appear.

“Leave her for now, let’s get out there.” said Buddy Rose.

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The gang all exchanged looks of readiness and all dashed out into the field, and the Crystal Prep athletes as well.

The crowds cheered like crazy as the players soon lined up on opposite ends of the tracks.

Celesto sat proudly from his position with the other staff members and spoke clearly into his microphone.

“Hello and welcome one and all to the new Canterlot High Stadium for the annual Friendship Games of Canterlot High VS Crystal Prep Academy.”

The crowds cheered louder than ever and chanted for their respective schools.

The Canterlot gang all waved to everyone, but the CPAs sneered and growled fiercely as their opponents.

Fluttershy couldn’t help but gulp hard, but the others all stood strong.

Indigo was determined more than ever to beat them all and really put them in their place. She whispered silently to Sour Sweet “Is everything all setup.”

Sour Sweet nodded her head sweetly and then her features hardened “And if you ask again you may not be around to actually play in the events.”

Indigo gnashed her teeth, but remained calm.

Then, Applebloo, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Daphne Dill all marched from the school and into the stadium, carrying with them each a large key.

“Ah…” Celesto announced “I see the Crusaders are here to activate the traditional glow torch.”

The girls each climbed a separate set of stairs leading to a small console to insert their keys into. Once all the keys were in place, they all counted backwards from five to one, and all turned their keys, causing the large torch in the center of it all to ignite with artificial and harmless flames.

“That’s it!” cried Celesto “The torch is now lit thanks to the girls’ cooperation and efforts. Let the games begin!”

While the crowds cheered, Twilight, who was sitting with her fellow Crystal Preppies didn’t seem to interested in the events, and kept looking down at her detector which was still glowing softly.

She tried to open it to observe it closer, but the second she did, there was a large glow of light. She shut the detector quickly, but her fellow schoolmates were already looked at her wondering what that light was.

“Just… um… something I’m working on. Heh-Heh…!”

The students shrugged and went back to watching things, and Twilight sighed in relief. “That was too close.” she whispered to herself.

Meanwhile, Sunset was already out in the front of the school by the statue where the portal was supposed to be, but as she laid her hands on the stone…

That’s all she felt; nothing but solid stone. Now she began to fret and panic “Where’s the portal? Where’s the portal?!”

It was no use, she couldn’t find it.

She had to run back and inform the others immediately!

The first event was already well underway; a simple five-hundred meter dash. The contestants were all lined up and soon… they were off!

The first event, Canterlot won, due to the team having excellent running skills, as usual.

“Okay, it’s on!” growled Indigo.

Pole-Vaulting!

Artie’s opponent cleared his jump perfectly, but when Artie went up, and dashed with his pole at the ready, as soon as he stuck his pole into the ground for the leap, it snapped before Artie could spring himself up, and he crashed onto the ground.

The crowd gasped, the CPA students all laughed at him, and Indigo secretly sniggered at the deliberate sabotage. However, Artie wasn’t beaten yet, and picked up the remains of his pole, sticking it hard into the ground, and he actually leapt up on top of it, and then gave a huge leap, up, up and over the bar.

The crowd gasped in awe, and Lightning was most intrigued. “How did he do that?”

The referee’s checked the rulebook, but could nothing to challenge the action with. So the round was a tie.

Indigo was really annoyed and couldn’t believe it.

In the fencing competition, it was Rhymey against Lemon Zest.

“Ah, Lemon Zest,
I hear you’re the best.” he complimented.

“Shut up, and keep your compliments to yourself!” snarled Lemon “I can’t you still use those stupid rhymes to talk!”

Rhymey’s features hardened, but decided to let his blade to the talking, and sure enough, he beat her in a total washout.

“My rhymes are neither dumb nor stupid or lame
But they have nothing to do with how I play my game.
So I suggest that next time you show respect and more
I leave you now to wallow in defeat upon the floor.”

And he left, leaving Lemon to angrily pound the ground.

Indigo was even more angry than ever, especially when she found out that her friends had forgot to switch out Rhymey’s good blade with the a rusted one as part of their plan to cheat.

In a three legged race, racers all dashed along, but suddenly, Indigo and Sugar Coat sneakily dropped a couple of wads of very sticky chewing gum in the way of the Spanish twins.

The twins toddled along the gooey gum, and their cleats got stuck and they fell over. Indigo and Sugar snickered as they continued to race.

“You okay?” asked Dyno.

“Si, but the race!” cried Myte.

Rather than try and unstick their shoes, the boys then gazed at each other and nodded and quickly jumped out of their cleats, and tied their arms together and began to race on their hands.

Once again, the referees found no rule that could challenge it, seeing as no one ever tried racing on their hands before.

They caught right up to Indigo and Sugar. The girls could not believe what they were seeing and it became a neck and neck tight run to the finish, but Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie had already claimed first place and another easy win for Canterlot.

The Crystal Preps were starting to lose their patience, but it was just no use.

Even during the next event which was a simple tug-of-war; Buddy Rose against a strong male from Crystal Prep.

They stood atop two tall pillars and would have to pull until one or the other fell from his stand.

“We can’t lose this time.” hissed Indigo “I replaced the plating on our guy’s stand with a special magnetic field that our genius from campus rigged up, and he made sure to put the iron pellets into his cleats. There’s no way he can be moved.”

Sugar Coat blinked once “You frighten me sometimes, ya know that?”

Indigo scoffed and watched the match.

The two boys pulled and pulled, and Buddy Rose was already showing signs of losing the match “What’s going on? I can’t budge him!”

The other guy pulled and pulled hard well, despite his was big and ripped, that still didn’t mean he was in good shape, and he started to lose his breath and was sweating more than Buddy was.

Of course, his shoes didn’t move an inch!

“Come on! Come on!” shouted Buddy as he pulled and pulled, and suddenly the other guy got yanked right out from his shoes and fell from his stand, pulling Buddy down with him.

Since the other guy fell first, Buddy was declared the winner.

Indigo turned bright red with rage like a boiling kettle!

More and more events occurred, and despite Indigo’s best cheating efforts, Canterlot still won. Sunset even dominated the dirt-biking course.

“Don’t you guys ever lose?” Indigo snarled angrily.

“Maybe or maybe we don’t.” Sunset playfully said.

Indigo angrily threw her helmet to the ground and kicked her bike like a mad-girl.

Lightning could hardly believe this at all. Never had he seen such determination, such skill. It was like watching himself take on a swarm of challenges. “How are they all doing this?” he kept wondering and felt that maybe, it had something to do with what he had witnessed at the statue.

Cadance and Shining Armor sighed heavily, feeling that once again everything was going to be one-sided. Celesto, Celestia and Luna hated seeing the two like that, but the two sisters couldn’t dare ask their students to simply stop winning, and Celesto, though he was pleased that Canterlot was winning, he too felt the boredom and dissatisfaction from all the easy victories. It wasn’t good for Crystal Prep, nor all any other school he supervised as Chairman of the schoolboard.

“The final event for today is archery!” he announced “Starla Shine and Sour Sweet take their positions as the targets are set.”

Sour and Starla glared at each other strongly, and the contest was on. The two girls were phenomenal and hit their every target perfectly. So perfectly the score was tied, and so a final shot would decide it all, and one last special target was set.

This special target was made by Indigo, in a last ditch effort to try and humiliate Canterlot high at the games.

“And just how is this supposed to work?” asked Lemon Zest.

“Just watch.” hissed Indigo.

The target was set firmly and Sour was up first. She fired her shot, and the target spun round and around and around and stopped with its backside facing the archers…just as Indigo had set it to do.

The spotter checked the shot “Not quite a bullseye, but still a hard shot to best.”

“Turn the target back please.” Starla said.

The referee blew his whistle “Wait! You can’t. The rules state that the target must not be altered.”

The Canterlot crowds were outraged, even the two sisters were.

“This is an outrage.” said Luna. Her sister agreed and asked Celesto “Can’t you lodge a protest?”

Her husband shook his head “I can’t, the rules are the rules, but I am concerned as to how this happened?”

He had already begun to suspect cheating was a foot, but without proper proof, he couldn’t point any fingers or lodge any protests.

“Aw, isn’t that a shame…” Sour said sweetly, and then she sneered “How can you hit a target you can’t even see?”

But Starla just stood where she was with her arms folding and a smug grin on her face. “This is what I get for playing with amateurs.”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

Starla licked the tip of her finger and held it up to feel the wind, and then calculated all the angles and velocities she needed. “Watch and learn…” she said as she backed further away from her standing point, and turned to her right.

Twilight watched with astonishment and curiosity “What’s she up to?” she wondered.

Starla then armed her bow, and then shot her arrow sending it banking off of metal poles and other obstacles and it went straight at the center of the target, while reciting a rhyme of her own which went…

“I shot an arrow in the sky
And when it hit they yelled…”

“…Bullseye!” shouted the spotter

Sour’s mouth hung wide open in shock, and the Canterlot crowds cheered for joy.

Indigo finally gave in and fell to her knees, but she was in far too much shock to speak or even more. Sugar even gave her a small flick. “I think she’s out of these games.”

Starla waved to everyone, and then she looked up at the main judges stands where Lightning sat with the others, and their eyes met. He couldn’t help but nod proudly at her.

She smiled at him, and then ran off to join her teammates.

“And that’s all for today…” Celesto announced “What a performance we’ve seen today by the Canterlot High Wondercolts.”

The Canterlot crowds cheered, but the Crystal Prep students booed and hissed, much to the chagrin of Cadance and Shining Armor, and even the others were annoyed by their poor attitudes as well.

“Tomorrow the games continue with the Academic Decathlon, where the points will doubled, and Crystal Prep may still catch up yet. So get a goodnight’s sleep and be ready for tomorrow here at the Friendship Games.”