Cleared to Engage
Chapter 13
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"Ma'am, we have found it. We've found the source of the Darkness." A very shady voice said, and in the other end of the room a single spotlight turned on, revealing Celestia. She gave a sly smile, laughing a bit before talking.
"Good, good. Everything is falling into place, just how I planned. Now all we have to do is get the humans to do me a favor." She said, all shady like, and you couldn't see her eyes, the most shady part about it. The spotlight turned off and the scene faded to black, Celestia giving out an evil laugh before the scene changed.
"CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE! DO NOT BE ALARMED, AS YOUR VERY OWN PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT HAS ARRIVED!" She said, blasting out the eardrums of everypony within range.
Everypony cowered under her, fearful of what Luna could do to them. She wasn't expecting this at all, they wouldn't even shake her hoof. She got really offended, beyond the point to where she went towards the Nightmare Moon Statue to be alone. Twilight looked over to Andrew, he nodded and went into the general direction Luna went into. Luna stared at the statue, she looked very distraught.
"Princess? My name is-" Twilight spoke up.
"Starswirl the Bearded, thou even got the bells right."
"Finally! Somepony gets my costume!" She said out loud, Andrew snickered.
"Whatever, you still look like Gandalf or Dumbledore to me." He chuckled, which made Twilight have a deadpan expression.
"IT THOU WHO UNLEASHED THE ELEMENTS UPON US, AND THE ONES WHO FREED US FROM OUR DARK POWERS!" Andrew stood back as Twilight got yelled at.
"That's a good thing, right?" She asked.
"But of course, we could not be happier. Is that not clear?" She asked.
"Yeah, but it sounds like you're yelling at me." She said.
"It is tradition to use the Royal, 'we,' and TO USE THIS MUCH VOLUME WHEN ADDRESSING OUR SUBJECTS!" Twilight fixed her beard and her hat, as they were blown out of place by Luna's voice alone.
"That maybe why you're getting mixed results, maybe you should try to change your approach." Andrew said, crossing his arms.
"Change our approach?"
"I'm sure we can try to get Fluttershy to teach you. She has the sweetest voice." Twilight said, Andrew's helmet went back into its suit, and he followed behind. He was acting body guard for Luna, even though she doesn't really need one, Princess Celestia tasked him to do it.
"So Luna, how are things in Canterlot lately? How's your sister doing?" Andrew asked, Luna smiled and nodded.
"'Everything is fine Captain. Our sister however has been immersed in a project to eradicate the Darkness. Which has been released ever since we were freed from Twilight Sparkle's friends." Andrew grabbed his head as it started to hurt, and he stopped dead in his tracks, Twilight and Luna looked concerned for him.
"Andrew? Is everything alright?"
"Are you okay Drew?"
"Yeah, just a headache. I'll get over it." He said, smiling sheepishly.
'Something's not right here, I guess key words trigger my headaches now. I wonder...' They arrived at Fluttershy's Cottage, she opened the door to reveal Twilight, Nightmare Moon, and a robot.
"Oh, Twilight, it is you... and Nightmare Moon, and a robot. *GASP* Nightmare Moon?" She slammed the door shut, but Twilight pulled a Leeroy Jenkins and went inside to get Fluttershy to come out. There was a rather large commotion coming from inside, Twilight must have been struggling to get her out. Andrew and Luna looked at each other and then looked at the door as Twilight opened it, with Fluttershy too.
"You remember Princess Luna, right Fluttershy?" She nodded as Luna greeted her.
"Should we start lessons?" She said with her raised voice.
"O-Okay."
"What about now?!" She said again with the same tone of voice.
"O-Okay."
"How's this?!" She asked again.
"Perfect! Lesson over!" She said, rushing back into her Cottage, but Twilight closed the door and Fluttershy flattened like a pancake on the door. Andrew went over and peeled Fluttershy off of the door, and he got down to her level, helmet off.
"Fluttershy, it's alright. Princess Luna is not Nightmare Moon anymore." He patted her on the head and got back up. Fluttershy blushed, but she was still dazed from hitting the door so hard.
"A little lower Princess." Twilight said.
"Like this?" It went down just a little bit.
"Lower."
"How about now?" She asked.
"Just perfect." Andrew said, Luna grabbed Fluttershy in her telekinesis and started to hug her to death. As if on cue, Pinkie and the group of foals came from out of the blue, looking for Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy! Nightmare Moon is-" She started to scream as she saw Luna.
"Nightmare Moon is sucking the energy out of Fluttershy so she can't scream!" She screamed, running away. Luna dropped Fluttershy and went after Pinkie Pie, using her loud voice.
"Nay children! Wait! I mean, wait children! Don't be scared!" She said, correcting herself. Luna's lip quivered, but Twilight reacted fast.
"Don't worry Princess, I'm sure they'll come around eventually. C'mon! Let's go find Applejack, she'll show you how to have fun." Twilight said, going into town, with Andrew and Luna following close behind. Andrew left his helmet off, not wanting to scare anypony any more than Luna did, you could tell that she was getting frustrated.
They walked on over to where Applejack was, she was watching over the party games, making sure that everypony was safe, and that they knew how to correctly play the game.
"Hey Twilight, Andrew! What brings you around these parts?" She asked, Andrew waved his hand and then he whipped around, pulling Pipsqueak from the apple bobbing bucket.
"Watch it there. Don't want to fall in y'know?" He said playfully, Pipsqueak screamed and ran off, probably to join the others. Andrew shrugged as he joined Luna in the party games, she looked like she was finally getting the hang of it.
"Haha! The fun has been doubled!" She said, and the ponies cheered for her. She was actually having fun for the first time in probably 1,000 years, Twilight and Andrew were proud of her.
Then, Pipsqueak fell into the water bucket, and Luna took notice of this. She rushed over to get him out, and just as if on cue Pinkie walked in on the scene.
"Nightmare Moon is eating Pipsqueak!" She screamed, and utter chaos broke loose. The ponies all freaked out because the kids freaked out, and Luna tried to make it better by making real spiders out of he fake ones. She was finally fed up, and she cracked. Her eyes started to glow and the clouds started to swirl.
"BE STILL!!!" She yelled, Twilight went up to Luna to try and calm her down. Luna, with her lost temper, did not listen, and instead forbade Nightmare Night from ever happening again. Andrew facepalmed, making a metal clang when his hand hit his helmet.
"We need to try to get Pinkie. Any ideas?" Twilight asked, Andrew pointed his finger up, signalling an idea. By pure luck a lamp post went on above his head, he chuckled as he explained.
"We lure Pinkie into that back alley to confront Princess Luna. With candy of course, and when that happens we make negotiations." He said, Twilight nodded as she got out her bucket of candy.
When Pinkie found the trail of candy, she fell for it quickly, and Twilight ambushed her.
"No! No screaming, hollering, or yelling of any kind! Got it?" Pinkie had a worried look as she nodded.
"Okay, it's safe to come out Luna!" She yelled back, and Luna appeared, which made Pinkie freak out.
"Has thou come to make peace?" She asked innocently. Just then, a clap of thunder scared the daylights out of Pinkie.
"Rainbow!" Andrew yelled. Pinkie started to yell and run away, Andrew shot her with a beam of Stasis and Twilight pinned her down.
"Pinkie! She's not going to eat you!"
"Well... duh." She replied.
"Huh?"
"Well, I'm almost as big as her, of course she isn't going to eat me. Sometimes, it's just fun to be scared!" She said, Twilight's pupils shrinked.
"Pinkie! You're a genius!"
"No I'm not, I'm a chicken! Bockaw!" She ran off, Twilight had found new hope. She went back to Princess Luna, Andrew trying to talk to her.
"Princess! I know why everypony is so scared of you!"
"Forgive me if I with hold my enthusiasm."
"C'mon, I'll need you to follow me! Andrew, you can come too if you want." Andrew fist pumped.
As the children approached the statue, they started to dump the candy and tried to leave. Before they could do so, Princess Luna, as fake Nightmare Moon, scared the jimmies out of the kids, probably going to rustle until the cows come home.
"I am not sure if that was supposed to do what you think Twilight Sparkle." She said, but Pipsqueak came back, talked to her for a bit, and she was utterly happy again.
"You know what? I completely forgot! I need to be on stage right now!" Andrew rushed back towards Ponyville, with his helmet off. He met with the rest of his team, who had been waiting for quite a while for Andrew to show up.
"What took so long man! Dayum!" Nick said, tossing him a mic.
"You guys want to go old school up in this shit?" They all bobbed their heads.
(Le Music)
Once the song stopped, they all cheered, even Princess Luna was impressed with them. Andrew smiled sheepishly as he put a hand on the back of his head. Andrew got off stage, because he and his team were tired as fuck, and their costumes were getting worn out.
"Goodnight everypony. Have a safe trip back Princess!" Andrew waved as she left in her chariot, and on he went back home. He undressed and put away his Advanced RIG into storage and did everything necessary to go to bed.
Once in bed, something in his mind was not as ease, the fact that something about when Luna mentioned the, 'Darkness,' just rustled his jimmies. He knew something bad was gonna happen, and soon too.
Next Chapter: Chapter 14 Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 38 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
There it is, the secret's out. The "Darkness" won't be mentioned very much, because it's top secret. Top secret secret is secret.