Author's Notes:

Yay, chapter 20! I might take abit longer to post and edit each chapter, due to my sister needing help with some kittens. Not like any more than three people care about this story.

When I arrived, it look exactly as weird as i had expected it, and a few other ponies had stopped to stare with me, as if they hadn't seen it before.

A wall of brown bread-like blocks that were dotted with various foods lined along the outer area of ponyville. The foundation towered up even over Rainbow's cloud mansion, spanning out a perfect circle around ponyville. Each brick was matted and cemented with peanut butter, which dried together in the little sun we had. At the top of the pillar was a pink pony. She was smearing the top with peanut butter.

"Pinkie!" I called. She couldn't hear me, but i could register her giggling and singing about peanut butter ponies. "Do i have to go up there?"

No response. With a strong jump of my hind legs, i hit the wall, running up at her. My forehooves would have pushed me off, so i just kicked up like a satyr with wings, using them to keep my body forward. Ten seconds later, I was at the top.

Wind ripped through my fur, being at a higher elevation, which made me fold my wings. At the top, i had a beautiful view of the entire land of Equestria. Mountains spiked along the horizon, trailing throughout the landscape. Beyond that was the colder areas, where the Crystal Empire stood in it's love barrier. The Everfree Forest seemed to be raining in it's area, a wall of clouds swirling violently through it. Our village had been powdered in white, besides Twilight's library. The town looked sad, surrounded by a mile tall wall. I knew it was for the best, since the place would get destroyed if it wasn't.

"Pinkie!" I shouted over the wind.

This time, her ears perked up. She looked to me, smiling even though she looked like she took a bath in peanut butter. "Hi Zaanne!" She skiped to me and gestured a hoof to the wall. "Just as you asked! 130 thousand blocks of fruitcake in a wall around the town, covered in peanut butter-" she looked at a leather watch that appeared out of nowhere. "-by noon too!"

"Bravo Pinks, you've really outdone yourself this time. Now if i may ask for one more thing."

"What might it be?!" Her hair was covered in the fruit peices and bread, smiling up with a cute twinkle in her eyes.

"Twilight and Fluttershy are escorting everypony out to Canterlot. Being the main jester here, can you go encourage the town to go? We don't have much time."

Before she could ask why, a roar broke through the cloudy sky. I could hear the townsponies start to chatter cautiously, from the dragon and the fruitcake fort.

Pinkie's hyperactivity melted into confusion. "What smells like bubble gum?"

"It's not bubble gum, i think it's eucalyptus leaves. Dragons like them." I could smell the minty scent as well, obviously wafting from the outer side of the wall.

"Uh, how do you know that?"

"Zoë and Ladon, it's in a book."

"Ooh i love books! They take you to worlds far beyond your imagination!" She smiled to me, waiting for a response.

"Imagination is the door to all worlds, the key to these worlds is the knowledge that all fantasy has a sliver of reality to it, which is what pulls you to it. Therefore the things in your imagination can lead to being real events in some cases."

Drop the mic.

Pinkie seemed to calm down by that somehow. "That's one way to look at it. I better get to helping the others." She jumped off the side like it were a two foot high diving board.

"So were gonna go kill dragons now right?" Zaanne asked impatiently.

"We won't kill them, just make sure they don't attack the ponies." The plan formed in my head, going from hard, to dangerous, to just plain impossible. Fortunately, I had an odd knack for doing impossible things. I survived an explosion to the heart, psychotic aliens with a control problem and amnesia. Why not a team of dragons?

Unfortunantly, it would also mean Ponyville would definantly be destroyed, which was not my original plan. But every pony will be healthy.

I summoned some paper and pencil and wrote a note. Walking to the edge of the inner wall, i tossed the note, noting the wind sticking it to the fruitcake.

"So," Zaanne cleared his throat, "what's the plan? Just gonna jump from here and hit them hard?"

"That's step one." I remembered when the aliens fought Zaanne for the first time, and what happened when they punched eachother's fists. "Ship, inform Scootaloo and Rayden I'll be out."

"What are you planning to do?" Ship asked, strangely amused.

"I'm gonna hit them hard." I charged the destructive punch through my hind legs and forehooves, then jumped into the air. Angling my back to the direction of the dragons, I slammed all of my legs together. The limbs glowed in cybernetic lining, and everything went white... again.

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If I had a bit for everything that could go wrong here, I could properly pay off the million fruitcake barrier. I could miss the dragons, i could hit a tree, or another pegasus, or a cloud (which are apparently like the ooblic of high velocity pegasi.) and an endless amount of injuries could show.

So, you might be asking, "Why did Gabriel rocket propell himself to demon lizards on his own?" Well, silly reader, the answer is the exact reason you asked. It would completely confuse the enemy. The aliens know I have most control over the body, and that either me or Ship would make the planning, which would be a far more defencive side of staying together. They wouldn't expect us to follow any of Zaanne's satanic ideas. Therefore, to have the element of suprise, choosing a stupid idea sounded the most logical.

What, it's legit.

I must say though, unless you are either the main character or rival to the main character, don't do suicide missions.

The white turned into large spots in my eyes, allowing me to take an overview of where I was flying. Wind screamed in my ears hauntingly as I spiraled through the sky, over strong clouds and through the weaker ones. The dragons were close, i could feel their energy thanks to the crystal.

I repositioned myself to face the dragons' presence, then spread my wings. I'm unsure how, but gliding after I got shot like a rocket was easier than basic takeoff. My wings cut through the wind and stiffened out, balancing me immediately. With a quick look behind me, I could see that I somehow made one of those comet trails that Rainbow Dash could make when she flew fast enough, though mine was green with a blue and yellow glow. As cool as it would have been to explode into rainbows, the acceleration remained too constant. I concentrated forward and soared through the sky.

The clouds finally parted from it's snowy environment. I was flying over a sea of trees, none bigger than the library but still a good height. It spanned in all directions and dissappeared into the horizon. The sun beated down on my fur coat, making things far too hot for my type of comfort.

Dragons aren't hard to find when they're in a group. There were six, each one different sizes and shapes. The tiniest one was electric blue and about the same size as Spike, but with wings long as his body. The second one appeared to be a neon green Komodo Dragon, with skinny bat wings and yellow spikes running along it's body. The spikes sparked with charged electricity. Third dragon appeared to be a biped, red with orange down the belly, puffing out his chest and giving a cocky grin that Zaanne really wanted to smack off him. It didn't take me three seconds to remember he was Garble, one of the dragons that Spike had ventured with for a short time.

The three taller dragons appeared full grown, growling in the sky and roaring at eachother. These three looked relatively the same, though it was obvious they resembled different types of dragons. Big Red was there, spitting fire at trees and causing a huge mess of the forest we flew over.

Big guy #2 was white with beautiful blue eyes, it's roar sounding just like the wind in my ears. It's spikes were transparent, but glowed in it's core like giant blue glow sticks. It breathed out pure snow. Anything it touched would immediately freeze, so his flight path became a path of snowclouds and hail.

The last dragon held a green and yellow mix of scales, and the only one with no spikes at all, not counting it's claws. It coursed with lightning, like Zaanne had in the black room, but this guy was more than just a show-off. Tendrils of electricity sparked the clouds, making thunder storms where he passed, sending more forest life on fire. It's roars sounded like the sky booming with thunder.

I would have landed to let the hot chocolate crawl back down from my throat, but I realized I still couldn't land. Luckily I found two aliens to break my fall.

I had plenty of time to examine the dragons, since they flew through the air, but the aliens were simply perched on a high tree. Rocketing to them, I spun back-down and kicked my legs out, bucking one clean off the branch. I reached out and snapped the branch like it was butter as i flew by, making the other alien drop like a stone.

By the time we hit the floor, I lost nearly all of my momentum, so landing on the alien in horse mode wasn't nearly as satisfying for Zaanne as we had hoped. I rolled off before the alien I landed on, who was apparently the hippy girl, could regain its senses.

Alien two landed on it's feet, brushing itself off carelessly. It was now dressed like he/she was cosplaying. Female, with an intricate white dress that looked like ice. It was close to a ballerina outfit, really fluffy but only going down to her knees. Her hair was bleach white and very long, some of it tied into a bun at the top. She had a weapon, some spear-like sword with multicolored gems around the hilt. Her eyes were obviously alien, the usual green glow, but added with a gentle scowl.

Her voice was stern, like an annoying eighteen year old. "What a rude little horse we have here, running into us. Though you aren't a horse, are you?" The dragons were too far away to make very loud noise, but it still sounded like explosions in the distance.

"What a rude woman, trying to destroy my planet. Though you aren't a woman, are you?" It suddenly clicked in my head that I didn't have a weapon, nor did I have the hands to hold one.

"This isn't your planet, why should your kind care?" Hippy was starting to get up, still too dazed to talk.

"Because it's not suddenly okay if it's not Earth, which need I remind you that you also tried to destroy that place?"

"With no prevail, thanks to one badass here." Zaanne commented.

"Ugggggg~" hippy alien groaned. "Duuuuuuuude."

"What are you even morphed as? A killer Barbie?"

Ship scanned for information. "She is Weiss Schnee, a character in a show called RWBY, it will be viewable by Rooster Teeth this July. They have character previews on YouTube, if I'm correct."

Considering it was only February, I just assumed they were still making the show.

Weiss smiled sweetly. "Thank you, computer. You may service us with more useful information if you and your green haired friend were to come with us."

I laughed out of habit. "Real smooth on the invitation there bud, but no." My hooves flickered into four green infernos. "We'll be taking you two down now, again."

Hippy had collected herself and stood behind me. "It's two bodies against one, and we have become stronger. As you can see, we can now travel great distances, we obtained the energy to create two weapon staffs, though your friend took mine." Hippy circled slowly around me to Weiss. "You have only learned how to destroy things. Zaanne has the better knowledge of this crystal than you and that A.I. system has together."

Weiss' green eyes beamed gleefully. "Yes. Zaanne has far greater power than you three realize. He shouldn't have to waste his time with you people. Why take us down, Zaanne?"

My brain buzzed from both sugar and concentration. Though I couldn't stand to stay put another second, I really wanted to hear the aliens' words. "If the ship controls the crystal's power, why would Zaanne know more about it?"

In the back of my head, I could feel Zaanne's want for sudden control, also pushing to shut them up, but I settled him with my will.

"If you succeed at stopping us, that being very unlikely, then a hint will present itself, like last time." Weiss' smile faded. "When you die though, I'm sure whatever high being that controls the universe will explain."

"Challange accepted." I grinned, my body flickering with energy. "I'll destroy you two, save Ponyville, learn about Zaanne and this stupid crystal's past, and unlock it's full potential. I'll start with stopping you." alright, destroy isn't my style, but they were about as real as Kim Kardashian's face. they were also ticking me off, and I was a bit too hyper to listen to reason. An odd wind had picked up, blowing through at near tornado speeds. I stood on my hind legs and crouched down for balance, preparing to battle.

I had expected the duo to prepare as well, but they simply tisked and smiled again. "We have no need to fight you," Weiss cooed. "You have much bigger problems, if I'm correct." She spun in her frilly dress and shouted, "Oh Garble!"

Within ten seconds, the teenage dragon landed next to them. He was easily their height, flapping his yellow wings. "What do you want?" He asked rudely.

"Be a dear and eat this pony up. He is far too much of a bother, but he comes with a delicious reward." Hippy motioned her hand to my crystal, which had begun to glow with a slight blue tint.

"Nobody tells me who to eat!" But Garble eyed the glowing rock curiously and sneered. "I'll eat this punk, but not because you told me to!"

I sighed of boredom. "Sweet, one day here and I get to fight an idiot. But I guess you can help me find dragon weaknesses." The magic fire circled around my body as the wind whirled faster and I smiled to the annoying dragon. "Come at me, bro."

I honestly expected a better fight. He huffed, puffed, and belched out a column of red fire at me. Again the heat only struck me as a warm stroke. I walked toward him slowly, fanning the flames with my wings as my own became bigger, now in a complete green sphere of inferno around me. After a moment of realization, Garble stopped shooting flame at me. "Fire won't protect you from me, stupid pony."

"And fire won't protect you, idiot, so we're even there." The fire sheild died to my will, but the wind continued. "I'm not sure how I'm doing that, though..."

Zaanne was the one to explain, weirdly. "Pressure from the crystal storing a lot of energy, then being released. The steady use of fire created a constant pressure release, like when you slowly press on a whoopie cushion"

"So the crystal can fart too? Awesome. Why is it still going then?" As I asked, I grabbed the branch that had snapped from the top of the tree. It was sharp and pointy at the end, but too unbalanced to count as a spear. how I was holding it with a single hoof was not a current concern.

"It's preparing to do more magic, since we have so much." I planned on saving the magic for the larger dragons, since my idea had been formed for them on the flight there.

Garble stopped listening and charged me, baring his shark teeth and razor talons. I rolled to the side and swept his legs with the branch. He tried again, but i just hopped the opposite direction and planted the stick to aim at his chest. the thinner side dug into the ground and the splintered section caught him in the ribs. It didn't cut him somehow, but he did pole vault over it and into a tree. He hit the grass on his hard head and was out.

"Think before you react, hothead." I turned to the aliens, who snacked amused on a bowl of popcorn that randomly appeared. "I'm ready to fight you now!"

They gave me the answer I was hoping for. "Ah ah, not yet." Weiss mumbled crossly. "You still have four dragons to deal with." Hippy looked up and shouted at the small blue and green one. Blue was there half a second later and green slithered down the side of the tree creepily, hissing and spitting plasma. Weiss turned to the blue one. "Go ahead and find the pony Scootaloo, she's orange with a purple mane."

He was as hyper on the outside as i was on the inside. "Purple hair, orange body! Or was is orange hair... Who was i after?!" He mumbled through the order with apparent short term memory, spinning around the team like a blue tornado.

"Just get the small pony with the shiny thing that looks like his shiny thing, and take her to the mountains."

Little blue registered "shiny" and broke through the trees at Rainbow speeds. That left the Komodo dragon and three Titan lizards. By Ship's word, i haven't even spent ten percent of my divided energy, even when Zaanne's included. I still didn't call that an even match.

Little Green hissed at me and started moving in, shocking everything nearby it. I started to back up. I was fireproof, but i wasn't so sure with lightning.

Zaanne gave me some deep knowledge that i didn't understand. "To create lightning, you must first understand it." Then the dragon roared, shooting a wave of electricity at me.

I had just enough time to hear a Namekian tell me to dodge before it hit. Tasers can go screw off. I knew before that the crystal would buffet most of the pain from absorbing stuff, but I still felt like i was being branded in the brain. I rocketed back into a tree, my eyes seeing white spots everywhere again.

Though it hurt like most female dogs and a lot of humans I know, I did get a pretty good understanding of how lightning works. Whatever it's attracted to, it'll go through a lot to get to it. Even air, which is somehow an insulator, allows it's passage to get to where it wants, which is some proton/electron stuff I need not go into right now, mainly because i forget exactly how the scientific way is described. It loves some things, and is wild when approached with such things, like water, volcanic ashes, metal...

I got up, not caring that I was now smoking along the sides of my shoulders, or that everything stung. "Hey, Miss Weiss? What is the stabby sword called?"

Despite the ballerina's shocked look, she held up the dark grey blade. "It's called a rapier, but, unlike the regular blade, it uses Dust to activate specific spells." With a wave of it, a light blue trail followed that looked nothing like regular dust. "Care for a demonstration before we leave?"

Before i could decline her generous offer, she waved the thing like an orchestral stick. The blue separated into five miniature cerulean missiles, which, to nopony's surprise, shot at me. They were not to fast, about the speed of a weak teen's football throw (i wouldn't know; never played football).

Jumping the first two, I flapped my wings to bounce me over the rest of them, but they spiraled back. I summoned the flame sheild, which came quite easily now, but it only blew up three before blowing up the defense, knocking me to the floor.

No time to recover as the last two flew at my face, so i watched as they went, dropped at me, then exploded overhead.

There was a confused look from all of us, including the Komodo dragon, who apparently was calm enough to sit back and enjoy watching me get tossed about.

Rayden the pegasus leaped through the trees, firing two small rockets at the aliens and landing in front of them as the shots created a fiery explosion, consuming the entire area behind him.

"Dayum" Zaanne muttered. Rayden now had a full suit of armor, making his body gleam silver. His hooves and chest had glowing rockets attached to them, humming with energy. He didn't wear a helmet, but i could see an opening behind his neck, as if a helm could file out of it.

Ray didn't look too happy. "Do you know how annoying it is to track you two by some explosion on the side of a thousand foot wall?!" He pulled out the note i left them. "What is up with this note, too? 'Gone fishin'? Where's your fish at?

I couldn't help but smile, partially to his anger and partially to his accent. "I'm a horrid fisher. And what took you so long?"

"These guys were like ten miles away, and i can't fly!" He demonstrated how the razor blades also directed his wings for him. "I had to get Ship to instruct me from Scootaloo's crystal."

"Well it's nice that you're here, we done talking now? We have four dragons and two aliens to fight." The Komodo was getting restless and Hippy nodded bored.

"I'll deal with these three, you take the big guys, since you have the crystal."

"Fair enough, and i might as well hit hard. Zaanne?"

"Yeah?" He asked excitedly, knowing what i would say. We needed some insanity. So, even though his main mission is to destroy another machine, why not give him a little fun?

"Switch out!" I shouted, and just like that, Zaanne took control of the pony.