Mico's Adventure:MLP(Season 1)

by Swordfighter125

Swarm of the Century

Featured Characters:Parasprites, JR Diamondhero

Warning:A few swear words only.

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JR burst out of Sugarcube Corner's kitchen, coughing in an attempt to breathe through all the smoke that had been filling the room.

The reason why the golden pony was attempting to make baked goods was because Princess Celestia will visit Ponyville tomorrow. Everypony in Ponyville was helping prepare for her arrival, and Twilight had asked JR to pitch in. He was supposed to be helping Mr. and Mrs. Cake prepare the desserts for the banquet, but he wasn't doing a great job, since he haven't cooked for atleast 2 months, as evident by the current state of the kitchen. The last time he cooked was 3 days before they got into this world.

"Oh Goodness! Goldie, are you alright!?" Mrs. Cake rushed over to him after hearing his coughing fit.

"Yeah, I'm good. Now, I need to clear the smoke." JR turned to face the entrance to the kitchen, smoke pouring out of it. He enveloped himself with yellow aura, and waved his right hoof horizontally. His swing was powerful enough to create a large light-blue gust of wind that blew through the kitchen, forcing the smoke out through the open windows and airing out the kitchen in seconds.

"There. The kitchen is once again safe to enter!" JR stepped back in and approached the oven. After opening it, he used his magic to pull out a muffin tray filled with nothing but charred ashes. "Can't say there's any hope for the cupcakes, though."

Now that he thought about it, perhaps there was a reason their parents take care of cooking. JR didn't even want to think about the time he set his kitchen on fire while cooking, or the time he placed his foods in the refridgerator, only for the foods to be completely frozen thanks to his Cryokinesis.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Cake! How's the banquet coming?" JR heard Twilight's voice as he exited the kitchen, still carrying his failed attempt at baking. Twilight had poked her head through Sugarcube Corner's main entrance to check up on them, and gave him a wave once she spotted him.

"W-Well, not that great, actually. JR's having a bit of... difficulty in the kitchen, and Pinkie Pie is..." Mrs. Cake pointed to a large table containing all of the desserts that were made for the banquet. While some of them remained untouched, most had large bites taken out of them, if they hadn't been eaten entirely.

Pinkie, while wearing a crown that she got from... somewhere, was currently demolishing a giant two-layer cake in just a few bites. A large chunk of frosting remained on Pinkie's face, looking a lot like a beard. As expected of the pink pony, she promptly licked it off of her lips before eating that too.

'Welp, hours of work wasted.' JR thought.

"Pinkie!!! What are you doing!? Those sweets are supposed to be for the princess!" Twilight expressed, an understandable look of shock and horror on her face.

"I know, that's why I'm tasting them! Somepony needs to make sure that everything is tasty enough to touch the royal tongue!" Pinkie stuck out her tongue and pointed at it to emphasize her point. She then marched out from behind the table and started speaking in a much more regal tone of voice. "And I, Pinkie Pie, declare that these treats are fit for a King! Or a Queen! Or a Princess!"

Pinkie then caught a glimpse of JR's burnt cupcakes, causing her to grimace. "Except for that. That is definitely not fit for royalty... or anypony for that matter." he groaned at Pinkie's criticism as Twilight stopped her from chowing down on another cake. Just then, the front door opened again.

"Twilight, Pinkie, JR! You won't believe-!" Fluttershy had run through the door, clearly excited about something, before skidding to a stop. "O-Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, am I interrupting?"

"No, not at all! Come on in and make yourself at home!" Pinkie answered. Since Twilight was distracted by Fluttershy's entrance, she took the opportunity to grab another cake with her tongue and swallowed it whole in one gulp. "What's goin' on, Fluttershy?"

"You won't believe what I found at the edge of the Everfree Forest! Come on out little guy. It's okay." On Fluttershy's cue, a small, blue, sphere-shaped creature with transparent wings popped out from within the shy pegasus' mane. It also had four stubby legs and big green eyes, and its appearance made it look pretty adorable.

Fluttershy gasped as two more creatures that were identical to the first also popped out of her mane. Only the two have different color, one being yellow and one being brown. Seeing as how Fluttershy's calming smile had been replaced by a look of shocked confusion, JR assumed she didn't know about the other two creatures.

"They're amazing! What are they?" Twilight approached to get a better look at the creatures.

"I'm not sure. I'm also not sure where these other two came from." Fluttershy pointed to the yellow and brown ones as they flew around the room.

"I'll take one off your hooves. I've never seen anything so adorable!" Twilight cuddled the yellow one. "Besides, it'll be nice to have a companion for Spike so he won't bother me so much while I'm studying."

"Pinkie, JR, do either of you want the other one?" Fluttershy addressed the other two ponies.

"Ugh! A parasprite!? Are you kidding!?" Before he could answer, Pinkie had shown her apparent disgust for the creatures and made her way to the exit. JR, Twilight, and Fluttershy all shared confused glances. "Ugh! Now I've gotta go find a trombone!"

"A trombone? ...Wait, hold on a sec, Pinkie. What the heck are you talking about?" JR voiced his confusion first.

"A trombone! You know..." Pinkie did her best to imitate the sound of a trombone while pretending to play one. Before he could question her further, the party pony had hopped out of the building.

"Typical Pinkie." Twilight sighed as she gave the creature, what Pinkie had called a 'parasprite', more nuzzles. "What about you, JR? Do you want the other one?"

"Nah, I'm good. I already have animal pets in my cave, anyway. Appreciate the offer, though."

"Alright then. I need to go check on Rarity over at her boutique, so I'll see you two later." With a final wave goodbye, Twilight left Sugarcube Corner. Once she left, JR looked at the sorry excuse for cupcakes he had made, as well as all the other sweets that Pinkie had eaten. He gave a tired sigh, knowing how much work they would have to do over.

"Welp, guess I gotta do this..." JR said as his green hoof glowed with blue aura and touches the burnt cupcakes, transfiguring them into a cooked and fresh one. He grabbed the transfigured cupcakes and ran to the exit faster than an eye can see.

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(Insert intro here pls)

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Because he had stayed to help the Cakes remake all the sweets Pinkie had eaten, JR hadn't gotten back to his cave until after midnight. At that point, he had been so tired that he went straight to his room, flopped down into his bed, and eat the transfigured cupcakes before going to sleep. For a couple hours, he was able to get some sleep when...

He was jolted awake in the middle of the night by the sound of his spinning globe. He checked the clock to see that it was around 2 AM. Groggily, he got out of bed, left his room, went over to his desk, and answered the call, wondering who was crazy enough to be calling at this hour.

"I hope this is mom and dad..." JR answered. His tone wasn't very professional, but considering what time it was and how tired he was, he couldn't care less.

"JR!!! I NEED YOUR HELP FINDING AN ACCORDION!!!" Pinkie Pie screamed on the other end. JR was surprised and shocked that it wasn't his parents and instead was one of his friends.

"What the-? Pinkie? How are you calling me?"

"Whaddya mean?" She asked.

"To call me through any spinning globes, you need to cast a certain spell. Only unicorns can use it. How the heck are you even calling me?"

"I have my ways! But that's not important right now! If I don't gather the right instruments in time, all of Ponyville could be in danger! I was busy wondering how I was going to find all of the instruments I needed all by myself and then I remembered 'Hey! Mico does a bunch of different jobs for everypony if you call him and ask him to help you because he is called 'Mr. Jack-of-all-trades'! Normally he would do it, but he was camping in Everfree Forest with Macoy, Justin and Lloyd!' So that's when I got the idea to call you instead and ask for your help collecting all the instruments I need and I couldn't help but think to myself, 'Pinkie Pie, you are such a genius!' and then I was like, 'Thanks, Pinkie Pie!' and then I was like 'No problem, Pinkie Pie!' So then I called you and asked for your help finding an accordion, and then you asked how I was calling your phone since I'm not a unicorn so I said, 'I have my ways!' and then I retold every detail on how we got to this exact point in time! Talking over the phone like this is really fun, by the way!"

"...Pinkie, do you have any idea what time it is?" JR said as a brown hedgehog approached him and cuddles in his mane.

"Hmm, I'm pretty sure it's around 2:45 a.m. right now. Why do you ask?" Pinkie wondered innocently.

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"...Listen, I'll help you with whatever you need as long as you let me and my pets sleep. Whatever it is, can it please wait until morning?"

"Really?! You'll help!?! WOOHOO!!! Okie-dokie, I'll see you tomorrow! Meet me in front of Sugarcube Corner at 8 o' clock sharp! Bye!"

Before JR could respond, Pinkie disconnected the call, leaving JR to watch as the spinning globe stopped glowing with spectrum of light. He hung up the phone and dragged his hooves back to his room. He flopped back into his bed, falling back to sleep soon as his animal pets did the same.

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"WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!"

Once morning came, JR was once again rudely awakened by Pinkie Pie. Instead of calling this time, she woke him up by bouncing up and down on his bed and yelled for him to wake up.

The yellow pony rubbed the sleep from his eyes before locking them on to the pink pony, feeling very grumpy. "Pinkie, I thought you said you would let me get some sleep. Didn't you say we were meeting at Sugarcube Corner? Why are you here?"

"Yeah! I said to meet me at 8 o' clock! You're late!" She exclaimed louder than what he should be comfortable with. To confirm Pinkie's words, JR looked over at his clock to check the time. It was 7:54 a.m.

"No, I'm not. It isn't 8:00 yet." He grumbled.

"It's almost 9:00, and you aren't even out of bed yet! Now c'mon, time's a wastin'!" She zoomed out of his room and left him to get up. Reluctantly, JR get up of his bed, grabbed his important things and followed. He found Pinkie outside the shop hopping in place, looking like it would be torture for her if she had to stay in one place for more than five seconds.

"Alright, let's get down to business!" Pinkie pulled out a checklist from who knows where and began listing off items. "I managed to find the trombone and the accordion already, so we don't need to worry about those. I still need a harmonica, a banjo, a pair of maracas, a tuba, some cymbals, a flute, and as many tambourines as you can find! Hopefully we can find everything in time to stop the parasprites before the princess gets here!"

"...Run that by me again?"

"Here, just take the list! I've already got it memorized! Find as many items on the list as you can then meet me in the center of town!" After that, Pinkie ran off at the speed of light. With a sigh, he reviewed the list for himself.

'Shouldn't be too hard. But then again, I can memorize things easily.' JR thought before going to start his job.

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JR underestimated his current job.

He figured out the simplest answer was to go to a music store and buy the instruments. However, this plan was pretty useless once he got to the music store. As for why, there were actually two reasons: The first reason was that the store was miraculously out of stock for every instrument on the list. The second reason was that even if the instruments were in stock, JR didn't have nearly enough money to afford them.

'Mico, tell me you didn't cause this.'

Thankfully, JR was able to find a couple of alternatives. He had gone to Sweet Apple Acres, remembering having seen Applejack with a banjo once. The apple farmer was happy to lend it to him, but she also asked if there was some sort of music event going on, since Pinkie had shown up earlier asking for her harmonica. JR only said that it was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.

He hit up a couple of other places before eventually finding himself knocking on the door to Rarity's boutique. Instead of Rarity answering the door like he expected, he was met with a young unicorn filly. JR noticed that the filly had a bit of a resemblance to Rarity, and he realized why when the filly introduced herself as Rarity's sister, Sweetie Belle. According to her, Rarity left a little while ago to take care of something. When JR showed Sweetie Belle the list, the filly told him that they had a flute, and was kind enough to let him borrow it.

'Alright, 2 down, 7 more to go-'

Before the yellow pony could finish his thought, he felt someone bump into him. He turned to see Twilight carrying 2 saddlebags, both of which were stuffed to the brim with... something. The bags jostled around as whatever was in it most likely wanted to get out.

"Oh! Sorry Goldy, I didn't see you there!" She quickly apologized.

"No problem. Say, you wouldn't happen to know where I can find some maracas, a tuba, some cymbals, and a tambourine, would you?" He asked, and Twilight just blinked at him in confusion.

"...Wait, what? I'm sorry JR, but I've got a serious emergency right now! I don't have time to go looking for instruments!" Before he could ask what the emergency was, Twilight ran past him in a hurry, leaving him alone.

'Welp, guess I would wait for Pinkie.' he thought before continuing to find more instruments.

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Since his run-in with Twilight, JR only found one more instrument. Because somepony had thrown a tuba into the trash. He thought it might have been broken, but after checking it, the tuba seemed to work just fine. As for why someone would throw away a perfectly good tuba, they are wasting it.(Yep, they would do it anyway LOL)

Not having any luck with the other instruments, JR stood in the center of Ponyville to wait for Pinkie like they had planned. He tapped his hoof impatiently as he waited, wondering why she was taking so long.

"Come on! You should be here in just moments!" He muttered.

He started looking around for something, anything interesting enough to keep him occupied. Unfortunately, he couldn't find anything of the sort until he looked up.

Slowly raining down from the sky were several little creatures with wings. JR recognized them as 'parasprites, the creatures Fluttershy had shown them at Sugercube Corner yesterday. Instead of just the three, however, there was an entire horde of them. There were so many that JR couldn't even attempt to count them all.

None of the other townsponies seemed to be worried about the creatures. In fact, they looked upon them with awe and wonder, too focused on how adorable the creatures looked to question what they were. A couple ponies even held them in their hooves to admire them. For the first few seconds, everything seemed calm.

Then everything has gone wrong.

The creatures began swarming the entire town like insects, eating every crumb of food they could find. Ponies' lunches were quickly stolen from them, food carts had their entire stock ripped from them, and gardens were devoured in seconds. It was pure chaos.

"Hey! Schoo! Get out of here!" JR summoned a golden spectral fly swatter with his glowing gold hoof and swatted the pests away as best he could, but proved to be futile. His first thought had been to just blow them away with his Aerokinesis, but the chances of killing them kept him from doing so. This is because he protects nature and its animals, which was stated by his father.

"What do we do? They're eating all the food in town!" JR's ears perked up when he heard Fluttershy's voice. Looking around, he spotted the Mane 6, minus Pinkie Pie, gazing upon the scene.

"My apples!" Applejack gasped just as JR approached. The farm pony took off in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres, most likely to defend her orchard from the creatures.

"I'm assuming this was the emergency you were talking about earlier?" he questioned Twilight, getting their attention.

"It's a long story, but we don't have time to explain! We've got to do something about these creatures! If we don't get rid of them before Princess Celestia arrives, it'll be a complete disaster!" Twilight responded first.

"Can't you use your powers to do something about these things!?" Rainbow Dash pointed at the golden pony before trying to mildly blow away some of the parasprites.

"I protect nature and its animals, remember? I can't just go killing the animals relentlessly. Twilight, is there some sort of spell you could use?"

The purple unicorn put a hoof on her chin in thought before a light bulb appeared on her head. "I've got it! I'll cast a spell to make them stop eating all the food!"

Twilight's horn glowed and cast forth a burst of energy. Purple glowing rings spread throughout the entire town, moving through all of the creatures. The parasprites all stopped in place once the rings had passed over them. Not a single soul moved as they waited in anticipation to see if the spell worked.

"HEY JR! LOOK! I FOUND A BUNCH OF TAMBOURINES!" JR turned his head to see Pinkie running up to him with saddlebags filled with tambourines. "How did things go on your end? Did you find all the instruments we need?"

"Uh, yeah, I found some, but not all. Here, take 'em." He handed the pink pony the banjo and flute before returning his focus to the creatures. "I'll help you with the rest later, but as you can see, we're dealing with something more important than that right now."

Pinkie's eyes widened in shock. "What!? But Goldy, that's what I'm trying to-!"

"Not now, Pinkie, I said I'll help later." He simply told her.

"I-! But-! Wha-!? GRRRRRGH!!! IF ONLY YOU WOULD ALL STOP AND LISTEN TO ME!" Pinkie yelled in frustration before running off with her instruments.

Ignoring her, he and the other girls watched as a parasprite flew near a basket with a single apple inside. It gave the apple a sniff, and they all held their breath, waiting to see if it would ignore the apple. After a couple seconds, the creature turned away from the apple, having no interest in it.

'Finally it worked, now I can finally-'

His thoughts were cut off when the creature opened its mouth wide and ate the entire basket instead, leaving the apple untouched. Similarly, all the other creatures had begun eating inanimate objects all over town. Signs, streetlamps, storefronts, even houses. The only thing they didn't eat was the food.

'...Frick' JR thought as Rainbow grumbled sarcastically, "Hey, it worked. They're not eating the food anymore."

"...Oh no! If they get inside my store...!" A look of horror quickly found itself on Rarity's face as she came to a realization. "EVERYPONY FOR HERSELF!!!"

Rarity took off, racing back to her boutique to save her dresses. The others all came to the same conclusion and ran back to their own homes, hoping to stop the creatures from eating their stuff. JR did the same, using his Supernatural Speed to go back to his cave. He didn't have anything important besides his weapons and personal items, and he was already carrying them. Still, he'd rather not have to pay to replace anything.

With the current state of his wallet, he probably wouldn't be able to afford it.

As JR was running back to his store, he caught a glimpse of blue shockwaves in Everfree Forest, which was accompanied by an orange one. "Mico's fighting someone? But then again, he can handle it."

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JR arrived in his cave and found the place swarming with the creatures. His pets are running away in fear, but some are trying to fend the parasprites off. Some of his furnitures are damaged, while the others are untouched due to having nearly a hundred of furnitures.

"Oh no you don't!" He summoned his spectral fly swatter once more(but slightly bigger) and started swinging wildly at the pesky creatures. After a few minutes of constant swatting, the creatures gave up and flew out of the cave, narrowly avoiding his wrath. Once they were gone, JR inspected the damage in his home, which made him upset.

An idea popped out of his head as he closed his eyes and reopened them again. Yellow aura appeared around JR once again, his mane glowed neon green, orange and red while flowing, same for his tail, only glowing blue and yellow. His hooves glowed with green light and his pupils glowing yellow.

"Let's do this." He said as he waved his left hoof, enveloping the whole cave in yellow wave and undoing the damages that the creatures did to his cave.

"Now what."

While JR was having his thoughts, they were cut off by the sound of music.

He can barely hear the sound of an orchestral band playing music, but he easily recognised it. From the sound of it, the music was coming from outside. Curious, JR ran outside to find the source of the music. It was none other than Pinkie Pie of all ponies marching down the streets of Ponyville, carrying all of the instruments she had gathered. What was even more bizarre was that she was somehow playing all of them at once! What really made JR's jaw drop, however, was the effect the music was having on the creatures.

The little pests seemed to be mesmerized by it, following Pinkie in a single-file line.

'Impossible, only... me and my... brother Mico could do... that.'

JR spotted Twilight and the rest of the girls at the end of the line, all have equally surprised expressions. He exited his cave and joined them, following Pinkie and the creatures out of town. After walking fo a bit, they soon found themselves just outside of the Everfree Forest. However, JR felt the ground faintly shake, along with the girls(except Pinkie), but ignored it.

"Look!" Twilight got everyone's attention and pointed to the sky. A golden chariot being pulled by two royal guard ponies, both pegasi, was flying down to their location. Sitting inside the chariot was none other than Princess Celestia herself. Everyone except Pinkie ran to where the chariot had landed to greet the princess. Once Celestia stepped out of the chariot, the girls all bowed down before the princess. The only one that remained standing was JR.

"Twilight Sparkle, my prized pupil!" Celestia greeted her student.

"Hello, Princess!" Twilight returned the greeting, though the tone of her voice didn't hide how nervous she was. With their bowing finished, the girls all stood back up.

"So lovely to see you again, as well as your friends-" Before Celestia could continue, her attention was drawn away by the sight of Pinkie Pie and the line of creatures passing by. Going by her wide eyes, even the Princess of the sun had been taken off guard by the miraculous sight.

"So, uh, how was the trip? Hit much traffic?" Twilight attempted to change the subject.

"What is this?" The Princess couldn't help but ask. One of the creatures landed on her wing, giving her a closer look at it. Celestia couldn't help but chuckle at the sight. "Oh, these creatures are adorable!"

"They're not that adorable." Rainbow muttered, glaring at the creature.

"I'm terribly honored that you and the good citizens of Ponyville have organized a parade in honor of my visit." Celestia complemented.

"Parade? Actually Princess, this isn't a-" JR was cut off when Twilight elbowed him in the side to shut him up.

"Of course! The parade! That's what this is! All according to plan! No trouble here!" Twilight forced a smile as she chuckled nervously, not wanting to worry the Princess with the chaos that had just occurred. Whether Celestia bought Twilight's act or not, JR couldn't tell.

"Unfortunately, my visit is going to have to wait for another time. I'm afraid an emergency has come up in Fillydelphia. Apparently, there's been some sort of infestation." Celestia explained.

"An...i-infestation?" Twilight stammered.

"Yes, a swarm of incredibly bothersome creatures has invaded the poor town."

"Is it some villains I'm familiar with?" JR asked, his tone becoming a little serious.

"Thankfully, no, it's nothing that serious. I should be able to handle it with the help of the royal guard." She reassured him before turning back to her student. "I'm sorry, Twilight, to have to put you all through so much trouble."

"Trouble? Heh heh, what trouble?" The purple unicorn chuckled apprehensively.

"Before I have to go, would you care to give me your latest report on the magic of friendship in person?"

"My...report?"

"Haven't you learned anything about friendship?" Pondering Celestia's question, Twilight's gaze soon found itself on Pinkie Pie, still playing the instruments and leading the creatures back into the Everfree Forest.

"...Actually, I have." She answered with a confident smile. "I've learned that sometimes the solution to your problems can come from where you least expect it. It's a good idea to stop and listen to your friends' opinions and perspectives. Even when they don't always seem to make sense."

"I'm so proud of you, Twilight Sparkle, and I'm very impressed with your friends as well. It sounds like your all learning so much from each other." With that, Celestia stepped back onto her chariot, and the pegasi prepared to take off again. "Oh, I almost forgot. I trust you'll be attending the Grand Galloping Gala as well, JR, along with your 2 siblings?"

"Yeah yeah, if I don't have anything better to do." He shrugged, and the princess gave him a smile. She and Twilight said their final goodbyes, and the chariot flew off into the sky. Once it left, the group all made their way over to Pinkie, who had just finished leading the last of the creatures into the forest. Before they can have conversation, a faint earthquake interrupted them. It stopped after around 30 seconds as they resumed talking.

"Hey, what happened to the princess?" The pink pony asked curiously.

"Emergency in Fillydelphia." Twilight replied.

"Some sort of ...infestation." Rainbow Dash added.

"Oh no! Have they got parasprites, too!? Well, have tuba, will travel!"

Pinkie went to play her tuba again, only for Twilight to stop her. "I think the Princess can handle it."

"So, you knew what those critters were all along, huh Pinkie Pie?" Applejack asked.

"Well, duh! Why do you think I was so frantic to get my hooves on all these instruments? I tried to tell you!"

"We know, Pinkie Pie, and we're sorry we didn't listen." Twilight apologized first. Everyone else followed with their own apologies, even JR. "You're a great friend, even if we don't always understand you."

"Thanks guys! You're all great friends, too! Even when I don't understand me."

"You saved my reputation with Princess Celestia, and more importantly, you saved Ponyville!" Twilight cheered.

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"...Or not." Twilight sighed, staring at the ruins of what was left of Ponyville. The parasprites had done a number on the town, having eaten most of it. It would take a while to rebuild everything and fix the damages. Saying that Pinkie 'saved' the town was definitely an exaggeration. At the very least, she prevented more harm from being done.

'...Y'know. Why didn't Pinkie used the trombone when she needed it for the parasprites?' JR thought.

To answer his question, Pinkie popped up in front of the group, holding the trombone. She placed her lips on the mouthpiece and blows it.

'She trolled us.'

Author's Note:

Looking for my characters info? Well, its unfinished, but be patient.

Next Chapter is Mico vs Naeus: The Camping(Part 1)