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Derpzilla

by Mr AJ

Chapter 1: OH NO! They say she's got to go...

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....Go! Go! Derpzilla!



The boat arrived at the port in the early morning. The sun was just peeking over the horizon as our group of friends disembarked from The Sun's Crown and took in the sights around us. Everything was lit in a light orange glow as the locals went about their daily routine and-

"HEY! ANTHONY! YOU COMING?" Lyra shouted, interrupting my internal narration. I quickly trotted down the short ramp and joined the three ponies and griffon waiting with their bags. I still found this puzzling after all this time. Each of them had at least two bags apiece. We didn't need clothes, so why did they bring so many? As for me, I had one small saddle bag with the bare essentials. I was still kind of bewildered that Lyra and Bon-Bon had invited Andy and I along in the first place. Of course, once Derpy had found out what was going on and where we were going, she invited herself along, after she had arranged for someone to take care of Dinky. (How she got princess Luna to do it, I'll never know.) Bon-Bon was actually pretty okay with it. She mentioned something about it would be nice to "Come home to a fridge that hadn't been emptied for once." Not that I'm complaining or anything. I'd never been to Japan back home so, I'd jumped at the chance to see their version of it, Neighpan. Specifically, the city of Tokhayo. We walked down the street taking in the sights, sounds and smells around us. Given the hodgepodge level of tech for this world, it was hard to pinpoint the corresponding era from home. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say,

"Bloody impossible." I said out loud, turning my head from side to side like it was on a swivel. We got a few looks from the locals that seemed to either say, "Oh god. Not more tourists." or "Show me the money!" The five of us made our way to our hotel. It was a largish, wooden building called the Mikado. (Luckily, it had nothing to do with a certain play.) Our rooms were on the top floor, giving us a beautiful view of the city below. Lyra and Bon-Bon were in the room across the hall from mine and Derpy's room and Andy's was next to that one. Once we all got settled, we met in the lobby to decide what to do. There was a movie theater near by as well as countless shopping outlets and playhouses and restaurants. There was also some smaller islands close by.

"PLAYS!"

"SHOPPING

"ISLAND TOUR!"

"Doesn't really mat-

"FOOOOOOOOD!"

"QUIET! I'm trying to run a business here, if you could please keep it down. If not then SCRAM!" The desk clerk bellowed from the other side of the counter. We decided to go our separate ways and meet up again later on for dinner. Derpy trotted over to me as the others walked and flew off.

"What were you going to do?" she asked. "You never said." I stroked my imaginary beard thought.

"Not entirely true Ms. Hooves, however, the island tour sounds pretty good. Let's grab some snacks and head out."

About an hour later, we were on our way down a pier with a full bag of goodies. Derpy flapping along just above me annnnnd...

"Derpy, where's the boat?" I asked. There was no boat and only a few tiny islands in the distance. "How do we do this with no boat?" The grey mare landed and leaned down slightly.

"Hop on. It's not so much a tour as I just wanted to explore a bit. I'd heard these islands were almost untouched and completely uninhabited." she explained. I climbed on.

"How am I supposed to hold on? I don't have any haaaannnndddddsssssss....." I yelped as she took to the sky unexpectedly. Oh well, good thing I can swim.

><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle<><><><><

Having raised the sun for the day, Princess Celestia floated a cup of coffee along side her as she made her way to an early meeting. It was fairly important she recalled. Something about a new weapon the military was developing to use in the event of something like Discord happening again. When she got to the meeting room, she found it nearly empty, save for a few older stallions in the standard Equestrian military uniform. They stood and saluted her as she made her way to her seat at the head of the large oak table. She sighed.

"At ease. Now I'd like to get this over with fairly quickly, can you give me the condensed version? Capt. Thundermane?". The electric yellow unicorn stood up and passed a folder to the princess. She opened it and flipped through the pictures and information within.

"Your highness, as you may already know, we have run this by your sister already. Our research and development team has come up with what they think might be a feasible answer to strong magic like what Discord used. It is a bomb basically. Its payload consists of condensed neutral magic. Just regular, everyday magic, not Chaos magic like Discord employed. It is designed to sense what magic is at work and at the moment of detonation, act in the opposite manner."

"That sounds interesting Captain. Could you provide a demonstration?" The princess asked, finishing her coffee. Thundermane smiled.

"Your sister asked the same thing. We have a test site picked out and one is being flown out now."

"I'd like to watch. Where is the site located?"

"An uninhabited island off the coast of Neighpan."

Author's Notes:

So, yeah. As some may have noticed, I took down In Service to the Crown. It just wasn't going how I thought it should. I'm going to try things like this instead of a direct sequel.

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