My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Friends from Unexpected Places

Chapter 23

Other Otherworldly Heroes

‘Dear Diary,

5 weeks have passed since Rainbow Dash left for Flight School and let me tell you, things have gotten BORING around here. For starters, Zatch has gone on a trip with his parents to who knows where. (he hinted he was going to a beach but I’m not sure where.) Gothic is being her usual self, being all secluded and secretive and Lightning… well, she tried to make herself faster but sticking herself with, well, lightning. She’s currently in the hospital with electrical burns. Speaking of hospital’s, Shine just came back from a visit, looking grim. Something’s wrong with her. I can tell.

Also, something’s going on with eTu`nes. He’s been acting weird lately. I think he’s going though some… changes. he must be reaching the dragon equivalent of puberty; they do do things like that faster… or so I heard. Either way, I don’t want to see it when it goes off. Eh… happens. Un… you know what I mean.

But I’m thinking ‘what will a grown-up eTu`nes look like? He’s cute now. What, will he be handsome as a teen? Pbbt. Doubt that. But I did notice Lightning making some googliy eyes at him when we visited her at the hospital the other day. Guess she must be a dragon lover. I never understood how ponies could fall in love with other species. It’s freaky if you think about it. I mean, who wants to see a Pony/Gryphon hybrid of a Pony/Diamond Dog hybrid? That would be freaky.

Well, I should probably wrap this up. Dash’s train is coming in in a few hours. I hope she brought back souvenirs… and deceived the letter. It’s torture not knowing how D.D. is doing. She’s 2 years older then me but she’s more frail then me. If she met eTu`nes instead of me, she’s probably be in a fear induced coma right now. I wish I could go back, I do. But… those 2 bullies, Lyra and Octavia, they really hurt me. If I see them again and they see my eyes… I don’t know what I would do…”

Having just read that entry, and destroying Derpy’s privacy, eTu`nes set the diary down.

“Lyra and Octavia…” he muttered.

“eTu`nes, hurry up!” Derpy called from below. “Dash’s train is just outside of town.”

“Coming.” he called back. He put the diary back where he found it and ran downstairs.

The train from Equestria rolled into Feather Top’s station and hissed to a halt. Derpy, eTu`nes, and Shine stood there, waiting for Rainbow Dash to come out. Sure enough, Dash was the first one out, wearing a pair of cool looking shades. “what is up here in the cap town?”

“Dash!” Derpy happily exclaimed. She ran over and hugged Dash. “you have no idea how boring it was around here with you gone.”

“Oh, I can bet.” Dash smugly said with a grin. “I do bring a certain air of coolness to a place. At least 20 percent more coolness.” She looked up at her mother and the dragon but felt a bit disappointed. “where’s the others?”

“Lightning, injured. Gothic, secretive. Zatch, vacation.” eTu`nes said with his fingers.

“That explains it then.”

“how was flight camp, sweetie?” Shine asked as she walked over.

“it was great, mom. I was top of the class, made some new friends, and look…” Dash turned and showed off her rainbow colored lightning bolt coming from a cloud. “I got my Cutie Mark!”

“Wow!” Derpy happily gasped. “you got your Cutie Mark! That’s so cool.”

“Yep! I’m awesome that way.” Dash said with a smile.

While the 2 talked, eTu`nes started thinking of a way for him to get himself to Ponyville lickaty split. Surely there must be some Unicorns who can teleport there, right?

“Oh, and by the way, I un…” Dash leaned in close and whispered into Derpy’s ear so her mom or eTu`nes won’t hear her. “I delivered the you-know-what.”

Derpy smiled even though she felt pain for making Dash do it. “It’s okay. Thanks for doing it, though.”

“no prob. Although, your sister did find me delivering the letter. Had to make up a good excuse

The two were separated by a suspicious Shine. “what are you two talking about?”

“Girl stuff.” both foals replied. All 3 laughed.

Meanwhile, eTu`nes was thinking about a plan on how to get himself to Ponyville.

18 years later…

Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash walked though the forest, on their way back to Ponyville with a… unexpected guest.

Eris softly slept on Dash’s back. Dash looked back at the baby Draconequus. “can we put her on your back now? Or maybe carry her in your hooves so we can fly back?” she desperately asked Scootaloo.

“from what I learned, you’re not supposed to wake a sleeping baby. Otherwise, you’ll regret it.” Dash rolled her eyes. Scootaloo stopped in her tracks. “why… did you try to kill yourself, Dash?” she shakingly asked.

Dash was caught off guard by that question. Looking back on it, trying to commit Suicide, it was a stupid idea. “I… just had a lot of bad things happen to me, Squirt. I forced Shadow to leave…” her eyes welled up. “…my mom just died…” Dash broke down and fell to the ground. Eris squealed as she involuntarily rolled off Dash’s back. “dammit… why is my life going this way?” she choked.

Scootaloo sadly looked away. “how… did she die?”

Dash sniffled. “she had a incurable decease. Had it before I was born. It killed her slowly and painfully but she never lead on about it. Always kept it in the dark.” tears fell from Dash’s face.

A sharp pain hit Scoot’s heart. She knows how Dash feels. She went though the same thing. Eris, meanwhile, is completely mesmerized by a pair of butterflies. “wait, you said that you had no chance with the Wonderbolts before you jumped. What happened?”

Dash sniffled again. “I screwed up with the Buccaneer Blaze. Messed up bad and sent two of the Wonderbolts to the hospital. My chances are pretty much shot now.”

“Dash…”

“My life is crashing around me and I can’t do anything about it.” Dash cried. She continued to cry and Scootaloo let her. What could she say to make this all better.

“Rainbow Dash.” Eris said.

Dash opened her eyes and rubbed the tears away. She looked up to see Eris offering her a wildflower. “Rainbow Dash.” Eris still offered the flower.

Dash sniffled and took the flower. She stared at it and smiled. She looked at the baby, who smiled back. “Thanks, Eris.” Eris laughed and ran to Dash, hugging her. Caught off guard, Dash looked down at her, afraid that she‘ll catch the plague from her. “but that doesn’t mean I’m keen on hugging Draconequus’.”

Eris didn’t care, or rather she didn’t understand. Dash scooched her away. “All right…” she took a deep breath, still feeling a little shaken. “…let’s go.” Dash took a few steps forward when her stepped on a stick. It kicked up and hit her in the face. Eris found this amusing and laughed and clapped.

“Oh crud.” Scootaloo winced. “last time she clapped, she teleported you out of the dirt.” Eris continued to clap. “please stop, Eris. Please stop.” but she didn’t stop. That bogus rake thing had her laughing and clapping non-stop. “it wasn’t even that funny.”

“hope this won’t do anything bad.” Dash winced.

After learning that Dash had jumped off the cliffs of Canterlot from Fluttershy and Edge, the gang gathered at the Library to figure out what to do. “we’re gonna have to start planning a funeral tomorrow.” Sora sadly said, leaning back on the door in the library.

“two funerals.” Zil added. “Scootaloo went after her, remember?”

“forgot.”

“but why would Dash try to commit suicide in the first place?” Twi wondered. “it doesn’t make sense. She was joining the Wonderbolts, even has Soarin’ for a cousin… was this because of Shadow?”

“Couldn’t be.” Satoshi said. “She was depressed, sure, but not to the point she would kill herself.”

Applebloom nodded. She and Sweetie couldn’t believe that Scootaloo may be gone for good. Suddenly, the table under them disappeared in a flash of white light. They both yelled as they fell to the floor. “What the hay!?” Applebloom exclaimed.

In a flash of white light, a few ferns and fichus’ appeared inside the books themselves, assorted hats appeared on their heads, and several books disappeared.

“what in tarnation is going on here?” Applejack asked. A fish suddenly appeared in her mouth. She pulled it out and tossed it away.

“I don’t know, but all these flashes…” a anvil appeared and dropped on Pinkie’s head. Everyone reacted like she had died. Pinkie pulled her head out from underneath. Marble tried to hold back laughing when he saw that Pinkie’s head was as flat as a pancake.

“yeah.” Halo muttered. “These are like when Di--” a BIG white flash came from above.

Everyone slowly looked up and saw that there were multiple bodies up there. Some of them looked like they were in battle but stopped when they saw where they were. “where are we?” all 12 of them asked.

Aura gulped. “This is going to--” the 12 newbies fell and landed right on top of everyone. Halo moved Twilight just in the nick of time, preventing her from being flattened. “--hurt.” he squeaked.

Everyone groaned in pain and agony. Satoshi pushed whoever landed on him off. “That hurt.” he groaned.

“no doubt.” a familiar voice said. Both went wide-eyed as they both recognized the other’s voice. They slowly looked at each other. “AH! Satoshi!?!” “Fox!?!”

“Fox?” Ash asked in surprise. He’s supposed to be in another galaxy.

“Who?” someone familiar asked. Ash looked over just as the new guy looked up. “Ash?”

“Riku?!”

“This is going to a problem.” Twilight said. Halo nodded.

A bluebird landed on a branch and chirped. Eris reached up to try and grabbed it but missed. The bluebird flew away. Eris whined as it flew off.

“How much farther?” Scootaloo asked in a whiny tone. “my legs are killing me.”

“well, we would be there be now if we didn’t have a add-on.” Dash grunted, looking at Eris. Scoot’s whined, lowering her head. ‘dammit, I don’t want to lose anyone else important to me!’ Scootaloo‘s voice echoed though Dash‘s head as that painful memory played back. “(lose anyone else?)” Dash contemplated what to do with that. What could she have met by that? “Scootaloo?”

Scoots’ looked back. “yeah?”

“back when we were at the bottom of the cliff, you said that you don’t want to lose anyone else. What did you mean by that?”

Scootaloo stopped in her tracks. “I…” she stopped. She didn’t really want to talk about it.

“Squirt?”

“I… lost my family in a fire.” Dash gasped. Eris heard the gasp and looked over. “a fireball came down from a mountain and crashed into our house as we were celebrating my mom‘s birthday. The fire from it quickly spread though it and hit some tanks in the basement. Blew up the place and killed everyone. I survived because my mom pushed me out the nearest window. I would’ve died to if Soarin’ and the Wonderbolts didn’t arrive to save me.”

“Soarin’ wasn’t there with you? I thought he was your cousin.”

This part hurt’s Scoot’s the most. “we’re not related. He adopted me not long after the fire. I’ve been living with him ever since. He’s the only family I have left.”

“Squirt. I-I’m sorry.” Dash gave a wry chuckle. “you lost your family and didn’t try to off yourself. I lose my chance to enter the Wonderbolts, force Shadow to leave, and my mom dies. Compared to you, my problems are like something out of a kid’s show.” Dash reached into the back of her hair and pulled out a flower.

“What’s that?” Eris walked over and stood beside Scoot’s.

“a Sunflower. Had it hidden in the back of my hair. Nobody looks there.” Scootaloo slightly shrugged in agreement. “While many consider them to be weeds or food, my mom say them as beautiful flowers. She had a garden in the backyard dedicated to these things. She said it reminded her of the day she met Dad.” Dash’s eyes welled up again. “I never even got the chance to say good-bye. I should’ve visited her in the Gryphon Capitol when I had the chance.”

Suddenly, Eris grabbed the Sunflower out of Dash’s hooves and ran off. “HEY!” Dash yelled. “Give that, you little twerp!” she ran after Eris. Scootaloo followed not far behind.

“okay, How is this possible?” Requiem asked. “I mean, we left you guys on other worlds!”

“We know!” the newcomers exclaimed.

Somehow, Riku, Lloyd, Emil, Fox, Hiccup & Toothless, Spyro & Cynder, and Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, and Amelia have somehow teleported from their worlds and ended up on Equestria, and all parties are confused as hell how this happened.

“one minute, I was getting ready to blast this little annoying doll to dust…” Lina snarled. “next thing I know, I’m falling on top of a white pony.”

“That hurt, by the way.” Rarity snarled, rubbing her bruised behind.

“Can we get back to the question at hand?” Lloyd asked. “somehow, we’re all here and not on our worlds. Someone want to wager guess’s on how that could’ve happened?”

“we’re in the dark as well.” Sora said. “you didn’t happen to perfect teleporting when we weren’t looking, did you Req?”

“I can barely move a apple to another side of a table. What does that tell you?”

Sora got desperate. “Twilight?”

“cutting back on magic till Starlight arrives. And before you ask, none of the Unicorn’s here, or anywhere on the planet, are powerful enough to bring in beings from another planet, not even Celestia.”

With that said, everyone came to the same conclusion. Satoshi was the only one to vocalize it. “In short, get comfortable. you’re going to be stuck here awhile.”

“wait wait wait. You guys have a flying ship capable of traveling between worlds.” Hiccup said.

“That’s right. Who’s to say you can’t take us back in that?” Spyro asked. Satoshi pointed out the nearest window at the half-finished Orion. “oh.”

“well, as long as you’re stuck here…” Aura walked over and pulled down a overhead. “…you may as well get caught up to speed.”

Eris ran though the forest, laughing as Rainbow and Scootaloo ran after her.

“You better give me that flower or else I’m going to turn you into a statue!” Dash threatened. Eris ran into a bush and out of view. Dash and Scootaloo dove in after her.

Dash and Scoots skidded out though the other side, dirt getting in their teeth. Dash took her mouth out and spit out the dirt. She looked up and noticed Eris just standing there, looking at something in the distance..

“Okay, you little cretin!” Dash got up and walked over with force. “You give me back that flower or else I’ll--” she noticed what Eris was looking at and gasped with in surprise and admiration.

Stretching out in front of them was a sunflower field. A breeze came though and lifted off petals from some of the flowers and into the air.

“Did you know about this?” a astonished Dash asked Eris. Eris just handed the flower to Dash, who took it. “you’re smarter then you look, kid.” she looked from her mom’s flower up to the field then back to her mother’s flower again.

“Dash? You’re not going to jump again, are you?” Scootaloo asked.

Dash gave a breathy chuckle. “no. but… I am gonna say good-bye.”

“Good-bye?”

Dash nodded. She held the sunflower close to her for a full minute. “Bye, Mom.” she tearfully said. with closure in her heart on at least one horrible thing in her life, Dash held her mother’s sunflower over the edge and let it fall into the flower bed below. “……bye, Shadow.” she felt a sudden gain of weight on her front left leg. She looked to see Eris hugging her. Instead of trying to force her off, Dash just smiled. “thanks, kid.” she bent down and hugged Eris.

Scootaloo smiled and glanced up at the sky. They still had 5 hours to get back home. “Come on. We should probably get going.”

“right.” Dash sniffled. She cleared her throat and spoke clearer. “right. Come on, Eris.” she said as she walked off. The baby followed not far behind.

After walking for 3 hours, the trio finally made it back home.

“Finally. My leg’s are killing me.” Scootaloo moaned.

“mine too.” Dash groaned. Both fell over and raised their legs to the air, giving them time to breath. “this is why Pegasi have wings.”

Eris, still feeling perky as ever, ran by them and into town.

“we have officially landed in crazyville.” Lina said. Each group from a different world found themselves in separate parts of the room, talking over their predicament.

“I don’t know. These ponies look like nice people.” Amelia said.

“you say that about everyone, Amelia.” Zel and Gourry said.

“Well, bud. Looks like we’re gonna be here for awhile.” Hiccup said as he scratched Toothless. The dragon gutturally growled at Hiccup. “I know, I know. I miss our friends too. Besides, this seems like a good idea to learn about dragons on another world, right?”

“This is quite a pickle.” Fox and Riku said to themselves, each in separate parts of the room. “I mean, I want to go home but I can’t do that until they fix their ship. *sigh* just hope the others are doing okay.”

“didn’t see this coming, did you Emil?” Lloyd asked.

“I don’t think anyone did, Lloyd.” he replied. “but did it have to happen in the middle of my wedding?”

“can’t control these things. Otherwise, we’d be neck-deep in Gald.”

“you okay, Cynder?” Spyro asked.

“Yeah. Just a little shaken, is all. I mean, we’ve been tossed from our world to this one. Who wouldn’t be shaken?”

“hm. True.”

Bahamut walked up to them, wanting to ask a question he was desperate to ask. “un… guys?” Spyro and Cynder looked to him. “is… Sapphyre okay?”

Cynder smiled. “yes, she is. She’s thinking of you every day. She keeps asking ‘when will Bahamut come back?’”

“has she really been thinking about me?”

“non-stop.” Spyro joined in. “she misses you deeply.”

Bahamut smiled. “And I miss her.”

“Wait! Stop!”

“Hold it, Eris!”

Those 2 voices could be heard. The ponies and original humans were exited to hear those voices. “oh, thank goodness. They’re alive.” Spike sighed in relief.

“wait. Eris?” Zilver muttered. “Who’s Eris?”

“Eris, wait! Agh. Will you stop moving around for a moment and let us catch you?!”

“ah. She’s heading for the library!”

“oh no. Twilight will bite her head off!”

The new people looked at Twi. “Not literally. But why would Dash say that? Why would I… scold someone?”

“stop stop stop stop stop STOP!”

“let’s dive for her. No way she can dodge both of us.”

“Good idea, Squirt.”

Jax rolled her eyes. Murphy’s Law was just enacted. She got up and walked over to the door. She counted to 5 with her fingers and opened the door.

Dash and Scootaloo rolled into the library, past everyone, and right into a bookcase on the other side. “Ow.” they both groaned. They both looked up to see everyone looking at them.

“hey guys.” Dash groaned.

“hey.” the Ponies replied non-chalantly.

“what? Weren’t you considered about us at all?” Scootaloo asked, a bit in anger.

“we were until THEY appeared.” Edge pointed to the new humans and dragons on the planet.

Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash looked at each other. They knew who brought them here. “Uh-oh.”

“uh-oh what!?” Lina angrily asked.

“un… Hehehe. We know who brought them here.” Dash chuckled nervously.

“WHO!?!” the new arrivals asked.

Eris ran in and towards Rainbow Dash. The ponies screamed and jumped up onto whatever was closest. “mind getting off of me?” Fox asked Sweetie Belle. Eris reached Dash and hugged her right leg.

“eh… her.” Dash said with a nervous smile.

“Do you know what that thing is?!” Twi asked. “That’s a Draconequus.”

“a what?” the humans asked.

“oh, come on Twi. Eris isn’t that bad. She saved my life. Besides, she’s only just a baby.” Scootaloo said.

“wait. That runt brought us here?” Riku asked.

“un… yeah?” Dash nervously said. “At least, we think so. Her powers come on whenever she claps.”

“but she’s powerful enough to bring us here?” Spyro asked.

“you’re here, what does that tell you?”

“Dash, you have to get rid of that… thing.” Rarity said, not wanting to get close. “do you remember what Discord did?”

“but she’s not Discord. She’s just a baby. Besides…” Dash waved her leg around. “couldn’t get rid of her, even if I wanted to. She’s grown attracted to me, and I to her.”

“oh, great.” the ponies exclaimed. “we’re stuck with the daughter of the devil.” they all exclaimed.

Fox leaned in close to Sora. “you have any idea what’s going on?”

“Not a clue.”