Communication, Risk, and the Truth
Fluttershy swallowed hard as she, Rainbow, and Rarity got closer to Frank. He was truly gargantuan now and towered over them. As they got closer Frank finally freed himself of the remnants of the vault and rose to his hind legs, letting out an angry roar. Fluttershy stopped in her tracks, he heart pounding in her chest.
What if it doesn't work? What if he's too far gone? The poor thing looks like he's in so much pain.
Her thoughts were interrupted by something squeezing both her hands. She looked to see Rarity and Rainbow holding her hands reassuringly. She smiled as she felt their love forher. She took a deep breath and stepped forward. Her geode began glowing with a soft light.
“Frank? It's me, Fluttershy. Can you hear me?”
There was the sound of wrenching metal and a roar as Frank finally freed himself and stared down at her. His mad yellow eyes glared uncomprehendingly at her. Fluttershy swallowed and flapped her wings, taking to the air.
“I.. I know you're scared and your hurt, but I promise I'm only here to help you.” She steeled herself and flew closer to Frank's muzzle, trying very hard not to notice the razor sharp fangs that dangled from it. She tentatively reached out a hand.
“I promise, we'll do everything we can to fix you and get you back to the woods, okay? There's nothing to be afraid of.”
Frank snorted and rumbled. Fluttershy swallowed and flew closer. She felt the hot breath rushing from Frank's nostrils, and gently made contact.
“”Do we have readings?” Tempest asked one of the techs seated at the control board.
“Yes, ma'am. Some kind of energy reading coming off all of them.”
“What about her?” The Director pointed at Fluttershy.
“Definite spike there, sir,” said the tech.
“What is she doing?” the Director asked. Tempest looked down and frowned in thought.
“I'm not a hundred percent on this, sir,” she began. “But I think she's communicating with it. She was in a similar position when I found them in the woods.”
“Interesting,” rumbled the Director. “I wonder if she can control animals as well as talk to them. That could be very useful.”
“Yes, sir,” Tempest said. Her voice was even, but something inside her really did not like the tone of the Director's voice. It sounded... “hungrier” was the only word she could think of.
“I just know how people like him work. I should, I used to be one. You're just as much of a prisoner of STORM as we are, Agent Shadow.”
“Where are the other four?” The Director demanded, snapping Tempest out of her thoughts. She turned to the tech.
“Get them on the cameras!” she barked.
The tech flipped through the feeds until he brought up Sunset's group at the doors they had entered from. Applejack was trying to fit her fingers in the nearly invisible crack between them.
The Director let out a laugh. “Seriously? They think that will work?”
“It might, sir,” said Tempest. “She's the one with the super strength.”
“Well, let's give her a little correction, shall we?” The Director stepped forward and pressed a button on the console.
“OWWWWWW!” There was a flash, a whiff of ozone and Applejack flew back from the door and landed on her back.
“Applejack!” cried Sunset, Twilight, and Pinkie. They rushed over to the fallen farm girl, who was pushing herself into a sitting position. Her fingertips were slightly charred.
“Are you all right?” Twilight demanded, knewwling dsown next to her. “How many fingers am I holding up?”
“I'm fine,” Applejack said. “Just got zapped pretty good. Guess we should have expected that.”
“Probably,” Sunset replied. “My fault. I'm sorry.”
Applejack waved the apology away and let Sunset help her up. “Ain't your fault. Ya can't think of everythin'.”
Suddenly, Frank's roar echoed throughout the chamber and the four girls turned and gasped in horror as he slapped Fluttershy away with the back of one massive paw. Fluttershy was screaming as she flew through the air. Rainbow Dash grabbed the handles of Rarity's wheelchair and zipped them both away from the crazed Ursa.
As they moved, Rarity threw up her hands and a ball off crystals surrounded Fluttershy. The ball bounced off the wall, above the window of the observation room and down to the floor. The crystals dissipated, leaving a dazed, but otherwise unharmed Fluttershy on the floor.
The girls clustered around her.
“Are you all right, darling?” Rarity asked. Fluttershy nodded her head.
“I really want to go home now,” she said.
Another roar echoed through the chamber. The girls looked up as Frank began moving toward them, slowly at first but picking up speed.
“What do we do?” Rainbow asked. “Fluttershy can't get through to him!”
“And they have defenses to keep us in!” Twilight replied. She looked at Sunset. “Do we try to heal him?”
Sunset looked at the rapidly approaching Frank. Her mind raced as she tried to figure out a way out of the situation that wouldn't reveal their full power to the Director.
This would be so much easier if we had a friend on the inside. Wait.
She looked up at the observation window, then down at her geode. Maybe we do.
She turned away from her friends and began running toward Frank. Another gasp came up from the girls.
“What are you DOING?!” Rarity demanded.
“Something that may be extremely stupid!” Sunset replied. “Twilight! Be ready to catch me if this doesn't work!”
“If what doesn't work?” Twilight asked, horror in her voice.
Sunset didn't answer, she looked back and up over her shoulder, judging the distance, then back toward Frank. When she was a few feet away, she summoned all her strength and leaped into the air towards the Ursa, letting out an inarticulate scream that she hoped he would perceive as a threat.
She caught a flash of rainbow light out of the corner of her eye. Of course. Rainbow had decided to try to stop her, the idiot.
Not now, Dash, please! She pleaded silently. Fortunately (?), Rainbow had no time to react when Frank reared up and, much like he'd done with Fluttershy, backhanded Sunset away. Sunset's vision was blurry and the wind was knocked out of her lungs, but she managed to throw her arms up over her face and squeeze her eyes shut as she sailed through the air and crashed backward through the observation window.
She hear glass break and felt millions of pinpricks in her back, arms and legs as she crashed to the ground. She managed to gasp in a lungful of air and start breathing again. She opened her eyes to find the Director and Tempest staring down at her, stunned.
“What –?” Sunset coughed then caught her breath again. She looked at the Director. “What did you do to Glitter Drops?”
“What?!” the Director snapped, his expression darkening.
“WHAT?!” Tempest yelped, her own eyebrows raising.
Sunset's geode started glowing as she reached up and grabbed both of them, putting one hand on each of their arms.
I really hope this works.
There was a flash of light, and Sunset's eyes washed out as the magic took hold.
And all three of them saw the truth.
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The truth about Glitter Drops is coming out, is it? Amazing!
Who is Glitter Drops
10521504 A friend of Tempest's in the past, I think, but it's been long enough since I read the chapter with her in it that I've forgotten the exact details of it.
I think it's in the chapter where she interviews Sunset, and Sunny uses her ability to read people with her geode, but don't hold me to that.
I might be wrong about that.
10521504 Okay, I think that THIS
will explain it.
The flashback goes all the way til this sentence below the page break:
After re-reading that, I've just got a hunch that Glitter Drops ISN'T dead.
But that's just me.
Way to go Sunset!
Finally, the blinders will be lifted from Tempest’s eyes, and she will get her answer.
10521549 Yep, on both counts!
Intelligence check passed
Damn risky gamble, but it's gonna pay off well.
I have a feeling Glitter Drop is still around but doesn’t remember anything. They wanted to the ability now storm king is probably wishing he didn’t. Or will be soon
My mind to your minds, your thoughts to his thoughts....
Oh fuuuuuuuuuu----dge
It's pretty obvious that Glitter never died, but she wouldn't be kept around just for kicks, there has to be a purpose. She was shot up pretty good so she could be a medical test subject for various things or since in this universe NASA is funneling money into STORM she could be imprisoned on some space station or colony to study the long-term effects of microgravity on humans. Lesser theories IMO are forced labor in a modern-day gulag or being kept in stasis someplace.
Or she truly is dead and we're all just jumping at shadows here.
10521504
She's one of the other unicorn friends pictured in the "Open Up Your Eyes" song from the movie and is a secondary character in "The Return of Tempest Shadow" comic. The other one pictured was Spring Rain and it was an Agent Rain who caught Rainbow Dash so maybe there's significance there.
10522868 A good theory/supposition, that.
I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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That would be the most likely scenario, admittedly. And I so called Sunset's double mind-meld, but I never expected her to fly through a window to do it. :D
Whoa. Bold move Sunset. Bold but awesome. This is sure to get under Tempest's nerves (and make her help you) but also the director's nerves.
Things certainly won't go well after that (well, less well than before), but I'm curious to see how it will go between Tempest, the girls and director. And what did he do to Glitter Drops? We know it's bad but could she still be alive?
I can't wait to read the next chapter.
Aww, shit. Well played, Sunset!
I wonder what role Cinch is going to end up playing in this.
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If she's smart she'll steer clear of Canterlot until this all blows over.
10524603
She already has.
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Hmm, which chapter was it again? Guess I forgot.
10524856
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/414158/56/consequences/meetings-research-and-rides
She was going to play a bigger role in the story, but as tends to happen, the story went in a different direction.
OH COME ON!
don't do me like this.
I NEEEED TO KNOOOOOOW. nuuuuuuu.
P.S. I love gutsy S.S.
Argh! Darn you and your wonderful use of