{"sf1_id":791300,"sf2_id":null,"title":"To Boldly Hoof It Ch 5. Getting The Gang Back Together","author":"BluebloodFan91","words":4520,"posted_at":"2014-12-03T20:05:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Blueblood","Character Development","Clean","Comet Tail","Doctor Whooves","Equine","Fantasy","Flam","Flim","Friendship is magic","Griffin","Gryphon","Hoops","Horse","Humor","Iron Will","Jet Set","Lightning Dust","MLP","Mare","Minotaur","My Little Pony","Pegasus","Plot Development","Pokie Pierce","Pony","Prince Blueblood","Sci-Fi","Stallion","Story Progression","Story Series","Sunset shimmer","To Boldly Flee","Trixie","Unicorn","Upper Crust","bon bon","caramel","collar","dumbbell","gilda","lyra","parody","score","surprise"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791300-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-5-getting-the-gang-back-together","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/791300","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=791300\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Ch 5. Getting The Gang Back Together\nBlueblood and Trixie stared at the glowing streak of\nlight just hanging there in mid air in Blueblood's living room. It\nlooked like a... crack. Just a giant crack in nothing! Blueblood suddenly\nremembered all the reports he had heard about ponies seeing cracks in\nthin air, and what Doctor Whooves had told him. He had just thought it\nwas all rubbish, but now, with this right before his eyes, he was\nstarting to think that maybe the reports were actually true.\"It looks like a... crack,\" said Trixie, apparently agreeing with him. \"A crack in... nothing!\"Blueblood and Trixie dropped their things and began backing away from the strange phenomenon.\"What is it?\" asked Blueblood.Trixie looked at him. \"You're asking me!?\" she said.Suddenly\nthere was another flash of light. When the light faded, the thing was\ngone, but then Trixie and Blueblood immediately noticed something else\nweird. They were now in a completely different building. They looked\naround themselves at the room they were standing in. They were still in a\nfancy living room of what appeared to be a big fancy mansion, but it\nwas a different one.\"Where are we?\" asked Trixie.Blueblood\nwent to a window and looked out. To his utter surprise, he saw his yard\nand his neighbors' homes right where they normally would be from his\nhouse.\"We're... still in the same place,\" he said in confusion.\"What!?\"\nsaid Trixie, equally confused. She came over to the window with\nBlueblood and looked out. \"How the heck is that possible?\"They stood there for a few moments, trying to figure this out.Blueblood looked at Trixie. \"Trixie, go outside and see what things look like from out there.\"\"Hey! Why don't you?\" demanded Trixie.Blueblood simply pointed up at the shock collar around his neck.\"Oh. Right,\" said Trixie.Trixie\nwalked out of the room they were in, Blueblood following behind her.\nGlancing around the place, they could see that most of Blueblood's\nbelongings still seemed to be here, pictures, furniture, antiquities,\nand appliances.They quickly found the\nfoyer of this building and Trixie opened up the front door with her\nmagic and looked outside. It still looked like the front view of\nBlueblood's house. Trixie walked outside onto the walkway to the front\ngates of Blueblood's land, and looked back behind her at the building.\nShe saw a completely different mansion, exactly where Blueblood's should\nhave been. Not only did it have a different design, but where\nBlueblood's had been white, this one was a tan color. It was still an\nimpressive mansion though. Just a different one.\"Well?\" Blueblood called from the doorway.Trixie looked at him. \"We're still right where we were before. Your house has changed though. Its completely different.\"\"How bad is it?\" he asked, sounding nervous.\"Its\nstill a nice mansion,\" she shouted. \"Just different.\" Trixie walked\nback to the front doors where Blueblood was standing, looking utterly\nconfused.\"How, and why, would something just turn my mansion into a different mansion?\" he asked.Trixie\nshrugged. \"I don't know. There are only a handful of ponies out there\nthat could be powerful enough to do something like that with magic.\"\nThen she frowned. \"Sparkle being one of them.\"Blueblood\nremembered the streak of light that had appeared in his house only\nminutes ago. He wasn't so sure it was a pony that had done this.\"Well, I've had enough!\" Blueblood shouted, turning and stomping back into the mansion.\"What are you doing?\" asked Trixie curiously as she followed him in, closing the front door behind her with her magic.Blueblood's horn glowed with light blue light as he walked back into the living room. \"I'm bringing in some help!\"Trixie\nthen noticed movement in the room. A side table drawer on one of the\ntables holding a lamp in the room suddenly opened up, and something came\nlevitating out from inside it. It was some sort of small device, with a\nfew buttons on it. Blueblood levitated the device over to him and,\nusing his magic, he pressed one of the buttons on the device, which then\nmade a beep sound.........................Far\naway from Canterlot, out in the country, the twin unicorn brothers,\nFlim and Flam, were hard at work on their new, but still relatively\nsmall, apple orchard. They were planting another young apple tree in the\nground. So far, their orchard was pitiful. They only had about twenty\napple trees so far, and most of them weren't fully grown yet. Needless\nto say, their business was coming along very slowly.Flim\ndropped the shovel he had been using to plant the tree out of his\nmagical hold and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his front leg.\nHe looked over at his brother, who was levitating a bucket of water to\npour on the recently planted tree.\"Whoever\nsaid hard work pays off was clearly an idiot!\" Flim complained. \"We've\nbeen doing this for a year now, and this is how far we've gotten! We're\nnot producing nearly enough cider to compete with other apple cider\nbusinesses!\"\"I know,\" said Flam as he\npoured the bucket of water onto the small apple tree. \"But what else can\nwe do? They agreed to drop the charges against us as long as we agreed\nto stop trying to swindle other ponies out of their apple orchards.\"Flim let out a long moan. \"AT THIS RATE, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO BECOME RICH SELLING CIDER!\"\"Well, at least it can't get any worse,\" said Flam.Suddenly, in two bright flashes of light, they were both teleported away against their will......................... Gilda\nand Lightning Dust were in a dungeon cell with Lyra, Bon Bon, Comet,\nPokey, and Caramel, when the two of them were suddenly teleported out of\nthe cell.\"Hey! Where did those two go?\" asked Pokey.\"And why didn't they take US with them!?\" moaned Lyra......................... A\nfew miles away in Canterlot, Jet Set and Upper Crust were at a garden\nparty in Fancy Pants' backyard at his estate when in two flashes of\nlight, they were suddenly teleported away, leaving everypony at the\nparty who had seen them vanish with stunned expressions.\"Did you see that?!\" said Fleur to her husband, Fancy Pants.\"I say!\" exclaimed Fancy Pants. \"I didn't know those two could perform a teleportation spell!\"........................High up in the clouds, the three Cloudsdale pegasus jocks, Dumbbell, Hoops, and Score, were racing each other in the sky.\"Come\non, you slow pokes!\" Dumbbell shouted as flew out ahead of his two best\nfriends, doing a barrel roll to evade an incoming cloud. \"If we want to\nlearn to do a sonic rainboom, we're gonna have to get a lot faster!\"\"BET I'LL DO ONE BEFORE YOU!\" Hoops shouted as he suddenly folded his wings and dived down towards the ground below.\"HOOPS,\nSTOP! YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ALTITUDE YET!\" Score shouted at his friend\nin concern, but Hoops either didn't listen, or couldn't hear him.Suddenly, all three ponies were teleported out of the air in three bright flashes of light.........................Blueblood\nand Trixie waited, and then after a few seconds, there were several\nbright flashes of light before them, and then Gilda, Lightning Dust,\nFlim, Flam, Jet Set, Upper Crust, Dumbbell, Hoops, Score, and Surprise,\nall appeared in the room with surprised expressions on their faces.\nHoops, who had been in the middle of a sky dive when he had been\nteleported, crashed into the carpeted floor head first, and crashed\nthrough the floor down into the basement, leaving a large, gaping hole\nright in the middle of the living room. Everyone immediately turned and\nlooked down into the hole with concern.\"I'm... all... right,\" they heard Hoops' weak voice call up from the hole in the floor.They\nall then continued looking around at their new surroundings, and each\nother, with utter confusion, until their eyes fell upon Blueblood and\nTrixie, who, unlike everyone else in the room, did not look at all\nconfused to be there.\"Hello, everyone,\" said Blueblood. Trixie also gave them all a small wave with her hoof.\"Blueblood!? Trixie!?\" they all exclaimed.\"Huh?\"\nHoops suddenly climbed up out of the hole in the floor and stood with\nthe others, a bit wobbly and holding his head with his hoof. He then\nnoticed Blueblood and Trixie and the others in the room as well. \"Oh\nhey, guysh,\" he said, his voice a bit slurred. \"What'sh up?\"\"How did we get here?!\" Jet Set asked Blueblood and Trixie.\"Yeah. How did you do that?\" Trixie asked Blueblood.\"Oh.\nI used this teleporting device,\" said Blueblood, holding up the small\ndevice he had used for them to see. \"I got it so I could teleport you\nall here incase of an emergency.\"Everyone in the room except Blueblood groaned.Then\nBlueblood suddenly noticed that one of his friends was missing. \"Hey!\nWait a minute! Where's Iron Will? He was supposed to be here to!\"They all looked around for the large minotaur, but he wasn't among them.\"Hey. What's this?\" Flim picked up a piece of paper off of the floor. \"It has Iron Will's name on it.\"\"What's it say?\" asked Blueblood.Flim\ncleared his throat. \"It says, 'Blueblood, I can't make it to another\none of your hair-brained schemes today. My daughter's school play is\ntoday and I promised I'd be there. Sighed, Iron Will.'\".....................Meanwhile, in Minotaur country, a bunch of minotaurs were inside a school auditorium, watching a school play.\"Hamlet? Hamlet? Where art thou, Hamlet?\" a young female minotaur calf on the stage called out.\"Juliet!\"\nsaid a young male minotaur as he walked onto the stage from backstage.\n\"You're time is up, and your parole has begun! You know what that\nmeans?\"Just then, Iron Will spoke up from\nthe audience. \"Kids, I just want to tell you right now, you are not\nsucking me into this story at all. I am very much aware right now that\nI'm watching a play.\" Then he noticed every other minotaur in the\nauditorium staring at him in shock. \"What? I'm just trying to give these\nkids some helpful criticism!\" he said.Just then, Iron Will's daughter began crying and ran off the stage.\"MAYBELLE, GET BACK HERE!\" shouted Iron Will. \"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT BEING A DOORMAT?\".....................\"Well, I guess Iron Will is out,\" said Blueblood disappointedly.\"Out\non what?\" asked Gilda. \"You still haven't explained anything to us yet!\nWhat are we doing this time? Invading a micro-nation?\"\"NO!\" countered Blueblood. \"Now, I'm sure you've all noticed the strange stuff that's been going on lately.\"\"You're\ngonna have to be more specific,\" said Dumbbell. \"This is Equestria.\nWeird is pretty much par for the course around here.\"The rest of them all nodded in agreement.Blueblood\nsighed. \"I mean the weirder than usual stuff that's been going on\nlately,\" he said. \"It's been reported in the news papers, and on the\nradio.\"\"You mean like ponies saying\nthey've seen 'cracks' of light in thin air appearing and disappearing in\ndifferent places?\" asked Upper Crust.\"And certain unicorns getting weird dreams and head aches?\" said Flam.\"And things disappearing and showing up other places?\" asked Score.\"And ponies acting strange?\" said Lightning Dust. \"Well, stranger than usual?\"\"Exactly,\"\nsaid Blueblood. \"Well, unfortunately, it turns out its all true. And\nit's only getting worse! One of those 'cracks' just showed up in my\nhouse! And when it was gone-\"\"Hold on!\" said Gilda. \"You saw one of those things too?!\" Gilda and Lightning Dust suddenly look very interested.\"Um... yes,\" said Blueblood. \"Wait! YOU saw one of them?\"\"Heck,\nyeah!\" said Lightning Dust. \"We were with these two doctors, Lyra and\nBon Bon, while they were examining Princess Luna, and then-\"\"You were with my aunt Luna?!\" Blueblood asked.\"Yeah,\" said Lightning Dust.\"How is she?\" Blueblood asked with concern.\"Oh,\nyeah,\" said Gilda. \"They did say Luna had broke into your house the\nother night.\" This got a lot of shocked and intrigued looks from the\nrest of the ponies in the room who didn't know anything about this yet.\nGilda continued. \"Well, Blueblood, your aunt is... well... there is\nsomething definitely weird going on with her.\"Blueblood's expression fell.Gilda\nand Lightning Dust then explained about the computer test that looked\ninto Luna's head, and how it said stuff about Starswirl the Bearded,\nholes in space around Saturn's moon, Titan, and a warning. And then they\nsaid that Princess Luna had started convulsing and fell unconscious.Blueblood felt deep-rooted worry for his aunt.\"Starswirl the Bearded?\" asked Trixie with intrigue.Gilda and Lightning Dust nodded.\"Anyway,\"\nsaid Lightning Dust, \"after all that, some royal guards showed up and\naccused us of kidnapping the Princess. And then one of those 'cracks'\nappeared in thin air, and when it was gone, those two doctors had\ncompletely forgotten about being doctors!\"\"And then we were all arrested and thrown in the dungeons,\" said Gilda.Lightning Dust nodded. \"If you hadn't teleported us out of there, we'd still be rotting with those losers!\"Blueblood\ntried to put his worry for his aunt aside and put his hoof to his chin\nin thought, considering everything he had just heard. \"The Doctor did say that auntie Luna had something to do with this,\" he muttered.\"What are you talking about?\" asked Lightning Dust.So\nBlueblood explained to them all about his visit from the Doctor, and\neverything he had said to him about Princess Luna, about the 'cracks'\nand something about something not being right with time and space, and\nabout some great evil being afoot.\"And also,\" continued Blueblood, \"as I was saying earlier, before I was so rudely interrupted,\" he shot Gilda and Lightning Dust a glare, which they just rolled their eyes too, \"one of those 'cracks' also appeared in my house before I brought you all here! And when it was gone, my house had been replaced with this one!\" He gestured to the room around them.The others except for Trixie all looked confused when he said this.\"What do you mean?\" said Upper Crust. \"This is your house!\"Blueblood and Trixie looked at each other, both of them equally confused by this statement, and then looked back at Upper Crust.\"No,\nit isn't!\" said Blueblood. \"My house is completely different from this\none. Come now, you've all been in my home before. I mean, sure, its still a mansion, but it's a different mansion!\"\"This looks like your regular home to me,\" said Flam. The others all nodded in agreement with him.Blueblood and Trixie looked at each other again.\"They don't notice that it's a different house, but you and I do,\" whispered Blueblood.\"Just like when I was the only pony who noticed the trees change color,\" whispered Trixie.\"But how is that possible?\" Blueblood asked.\"I don't know,\" whispered Trixie. \"But lets not worry about it right now. We can figure it out later.\"Blueblood\nnodded, and they turned back to the others. \"Well, okay. Whatever,\" he\nsaid to them. \"The point is, I don't know what's going on, but I am\ngetting sick and tired of all this bizarre craziness that is happening,\nand I want it to stop! Now, I know I've never asked anything of you guys\nbefore...\"Everyone except Blueblood looked at each other in disbelief.\"Did he realy just say that?\" asked Dumbbell.\"But\nwe need to come together and make things right,\" said Blueblood,\npretending he hadn't heard Dumbbell's remark. Now Princess Luna is\nsomehow a big part in all this.\" He looked at Gilda and Lightning Dust.\n\"Do you know where she is?\"They shook their heads.\"No,\" said Gilda. \"When they took us to the dungeons, they took Luna somewhere else. We have no idea where she is now.\"\"Darn,\"\ncursed Blueblood. \"Well then, I think we should go tell my aunt,\nPrincess Celestia, what's going on. She'll know what to do.\"\"I'm not sure that's such a good idea,\" said Gilda.\"Me either,\" said Lighting Dust.Everyone stared at them in confusion.\"Why not?\" asked Blueblood.Those guards that arrested us, they were Princess Celestia's guards,\" said Lightning Dust.\"So,\" said Blueblood. \"They arrested you because they thought you had kidnapped Princess Luna. Once we get that all cleared up-\"\"We don't think that was really the reason they arrested us,\" said Gilda.Everyone still stared at them in confusion.\"What are you talking about?\" asked Blueblood.\"Right before they arrested us, we heard one of the guards say something about that we knew too much,\" said Gilda.\"Yeah.\nAnd while we were in the dungeon, we met some other ponies who said\nthey had been arrested because the guards said they 'knew too much'\ntoo,\" said Lightning Dust. \"Those ponies also knew about a hole in outer\nspace near Titan. Whatever is going on, it seems like somepony doesn't\nwant anypony else to know about it for some reason.\"\"And\nyou think it's my aunt, Princess Celestia?!\" accused Blueblood angrily.\n\"Why would she do that? She's the most honest, caring, wisest, and\ngreatest pony there is!\"\"I don't know!\" said Lightning Dust. \"But they were her guards, and given what we've seen, I don't want to risk ending up back in the dungeons.\"\"Me either,\" said Gilda. \"So lets just not involve her for right now, just to be safe.\"As\nmuch as Blueblood wanted to protest against what they were saying about\nhis great aunt, and Princess of Equestria, Princess Luna's last words\nshe had said to him suddenly bubbled up inside his mind again. 'Find it!\nBefore Celestia finds out! She must not find out! I have to tell you... I\ndon't have much time!'\"Fine,\" Blueblood reluctantly agreed, but then he thought to himself, I'll just have to prove my great aunt's innocents in all this. \"Then what are we going to do?\"Everyone started thinking for a few moments.\"Well,\nwe should probably try to find out more about what's going on,\" said\nTrixie. \"Because, at the moment, we know pretty much jack squat!\"\"And how do we do that?\" asked Jet Set.\"We need to find somepony else whose smart enough to possible know what's going on and give us some answers,\" said Trixie.\"Who in Equestria could possibly be smart enough to know what's going on?\" asked Flam.Hoops spoke. \"Blueblood, you said Doctor Whooves visited you. Maybe he could give us more answers.\"\"Hey, that's actually a good idea, Hoops,\" said Dumbbell.Blueblood\nfrowned. \"Actually, I don't know if he's coming back,\" he said. \"He\nsaid he was going off to fight the 'great evil' by himself, and that if\nhe fails, its up to us.\"\"Well, things aren't getting any better, so I guess he failed,\" said Flim.\"Okay, the Doctor's out of the question,\" said Dumbbell. \"Any other idea's, anyone?\"They kept thinking.\"Wait\na minute,\" said Trixie. She turned and looked at Blueblood. \"Blueblood,\nwhere did you get that teleporting device? The one that brought them\nhere!\"Blueblood smirked. \"I stole it from\nSparkle's basement,\" he said. \"You would not believe the stuff she has\ndown there. Its like... Nerdvana down there!\"\"Oh,\" Trixie groaned.\"Well we can't ask her for help,\" said Lightning Dust. \"She's best friends with Celestia, and we already agreed we can't go to her for help.\"\"I doubt she'd know what's up anyway,\" said Trixie.\"Okay. So no Doctor, no Celestia, and no Sparkle,\" said Upper Crust. \"Is there anypony else out there who might be bat-shit crazy enough to know what's going on?\"\"HEY! What about Discord?\" said Flim. \"If any creature would know something, its him.\"\"Yeah! Discord!\" agreed Flam.\"Only one problem,\" said Blueblood. \"We have no idea where to find him. He could be anywhere!\"\"Yeah,\" said Trixie. \"And there's no guaranty he'd help us even if we did. Remember, he has this whole 'rule' about not solving ponies problems for them, because of something to do with the plot.\"\"Yeah, you're right,\" Flim said disappointedly.Upper Crust moaned. \"This is impossible! I can't think of anypony we could go to for help!\"\"Well we have to do something!\" said Lightning Dust.\"Well...\" began Blueblood.Everyone looked at him.\"What is it?\" asked Trixie.Blueblood looked nervous. \"Well... there is still one pony who might be able to help us,\" said Blueblood. \"But you're not going to like who it is.\"\"Who?\" everyone immediately demanded.Blueblood paused and took a deep breath before he answered. \"Nightmare Moon.\"Everyone stared at Blueblood in silence.\"Nightmare Moon?\" said Gilda with a chuckle. \"You do know she was just an alternate personality of Princess Luna's, don't you?\"\"And that alternate personality was destroyed by the Elements of Harmony,\" said Jet Set. \"Wasn't it?\"\"Actually...\"\nbegan Blueblood. \"It turns out, when the Elements of Harmony were used\nagainst her back when she returned, they didn't destroy her. They separated\nher from Princess Luna. Since then, Nightmare Moon has somehow obtained\nher own body, but she's still too weak to be a threat to anypony, so\nshe's been allowed to live in isolation as long as she 'behaves'.\"They all stared at Blueblood in complete silence again, looking even more bewildered then the last time.\"You're kidding,\" said Trixie.\"That... doesn't make much sense,\" said Gilda.\"Yeah, that sounds really farfetched,\" said Flim.\"It\ndidn't make any sense to me either when I found out,\" said Blueblood,\n\"but its true! Besides, look around!\" He extended his hoof into the air\nto emphasis his point. \"All sorts of stuff is happening that doesn't\nmake any sense! That's why we're here, remember!\"\"He's got a point,\" said Lightning Dust with a shrug.\"Okay,\" said Trixie. \"So where is Nightmare Moon?\"Blueblood\npaused again. \"In the same place she's been for the past couple years,\"\nhe said. \"Hiding in a cave in the Everfree Forest.\"\"Oh, not that Faust-forsaken place again!\" moaned Upper Crust.\"How do you know this?\" Dumbbell asked Blueblood, raising an eyebrow at him.\"Being\nthe nephew of the rulers of Equestria, I pick up on stuff,\" said\nBlueblood. \"Apparently, they've been trying to reform her like they did\nwith Discord, but so far she hasn't been swayed.\"Everyone considered this for a few moments.\"So you really think Nightmare Moon might know what's going on?\" asked Gilda.Blueblood shrugged. \"She might! She did used to be a part of Luna, after all.\"\"And you're sure she won't try to... kill us?\" asked Score.\"Like I said. She's too weak to harm anypony anymore,\" said Blueblood. \"Otherwise, why would she be hiding in a cave?\"\"Good point.\"\"Alright,\" said Lightning Dust with a shrug. \"I guess Moony's our best option so far. Lets go!\"\"Hold\non a second!\" shot Upper Crust before Lightning Dust could flap her\nwings even once. \"Do we really want to get involved in another one of\nBlueblood's plans again?\" She looked at Blueblood. \"No offense,\nBlueblood, but the thing about your plans is they... well, they never work\nout.\"Blueblood glared at her. \"Oh, come on!\" he said. \"When has a single one of my plans never worked out?\"Suddenly\nthey heard the front door open and close, and then they heard hoof\nsteps approaching. They turned around to face the entrance to the living\nroom just as a light orange unicorn mare with a red and yellow mane and\ntail came walking into view. Blueblood recognized her as none other\nthan Sunset Shimmer. She was levitating a familiar looking envelope\nbeside her head.She came into the room\nand looked at them all. \"Hello,\" she said. \"I'm here about some quest\nfor a big reward, or something like that.\" She glanced at the envelope\nshe was levitating beside her, and then back over at them. \"Is this the\nright place?\"They all stared at her.\"What?\" she asked, confused.\"That was a year ago!\" exclaimed Blueblood.Sunset's\neyes widened. \"Oh!\" she said in surprise, and then looked down at the\nfloor. \"I should really start checking my mail more often.\"\"Who the heck is this?\" said Trixie, her and everyone else turning to look at Blueblood.\"Oh,\nyes,\" said Blueblood. \"Everypony, this is Sunset Shimmer.\" Then he\nlooked at Sunset Shimmer. \"Sunset, this is my marefriend, Trixie, and\nthat's Gilda, Lightning Dust, Jet Set, his wife, Upper Crust, Flim, and\nhis twin brother, Flam, Dumbbell, Hoops, Score, and Surprise.\"\"Hello,\" they all said to the Sunset.\"A pleasure,\" responded Sunset, then she looked at Blueblood. \"So what's going on here?\" she asked.\"Um...\" began Blueblood, scratching the back of his head as he thought. Then he looked at the others. \"Somepony fill her in?\"Gilda\napproached Sunset. \"Okay, you're going to love this,\" she said\nsarcastically as she began to explain the situation to the new pony as\nquickly as she could.Blueblood turned\nback to the others and got back to the topic at hoof. \"Okay, so maybe my\nplans don't always turn out so great,\" he admitted. \"And I know I've\nmade a few mistakes in the past.\"\"Thousands!\" said Lightning Dust.\"And sometimes I've led you into danger,\" said Blueblood.\"Always!\" said Jet Set.\"But at least I had the best intentions in mind,\" said Blueblood.\"Your own!\" said Dumbbell.\"And things have always turned out okay in the end.\"\"RARELY!\" they all shouted in unison.\"But\nthis isn't about me this time, okay!\" said Blueblood. \"This is about\nPrincess Luna, and all this crazy stuff that is happening. This is about\nsaving Equestria from... who knows what!? Please! I'm begging you! Just\ntrust me one more time! Don't do it for me! Do it for Equestria!\"Everyone in the room was silent as they considered what Blueblood had said.\"Well I'm with you,\" said Trixie.Blueblood smiled at her.\"We're in,\" said Gilda and Lightning Dust together.\"Count us in!\" said Dumbbell. Hoops and Score nodded in agreement beside him.\"We're in too,\" said Flam, Flim nodding with him.\"I\nsuppose I'll help too,\" said Sunset with a shrug. \"I didn't have\nanything else planned for the weekend anyway. And isn't that just really\nsad?\"Jet Set and Upper Crust whispered to each other, until they looked at Blueblood and sighed.\"I\nsuppose we'll help too,\" said Jet Set, \"but only because we don't\nparticularly like the idea of living in a world that's gone\ntopsy-turvy.\"Blueblood smiled. \"That's\nthe selfish spirit!\" he said. Then he looked over at Surprise, who\nhadn't spoken yet. \"What about you, Surprise? Are you in?\"Surprise\ngave them all a dark grin, most unlike her normal bubbly expression.\n\"Oh, I'm definitely coming too,\" she said coldly. \"I have to make sure\nyou all get what you deserve in the end.\"\"Glad\nto have you!\" said Blueblood happily, he and everyone else in the room\ncompletely oblivious to Surprise's unusual behavior. \"Alright, what are\nwe waiting for? Lets go see Nightmare Moon!\" Blueblood turned and\nstarted heading out of the living room, towards the front doors.\nEverypony else followed behind. Blueblood\nopened the front doors up with his magic and stepped outside... and then\nscreamed as he was immediately shocked by the electric collar around his\nneck.\"GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!\"Blueblood quickly leaped back inside his doorway, and took deep breaths after the electric shock stopped.Behind him, his friends all couldn't help but burst out laughing.Blueblood glared back at them angrily. \"Well this is just perfect!\" he growled. \"I can't leave the house!\"\"Why don't you just take that thing off?\" asked Gilda, walking up to him.Blueblood glared at her. \"If it were that simple, don't you think I would have done that already?\"Gilda shrugged.Blueblood sighed. \"If I try to take it off, I'll be electrocut-\"Suddenly, Gilda hooked one of her claws underneath the collar, and then, in one clean motion, sliced right through it.Blueblood winced, but was surprised when he felt no pain and saw the shock collar fall to the floor.\"There,\" said Gilda with an amused grin.\"What the...\" stuttered Blueblood in amazement as he stared at the severed collar lying on the floor. \"Those guards lied to me!\"\"You're such a baby,\" said Gilda, rolling her eyes. \"Can we go now?\"","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791265-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-4-mental-examination.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791801-to-boldly-hoof-it-ch-6-the-plot-hole.json"}