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Insane Cafe 4: The Insane Frontier

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Rainbow Dash led Spitfire to Sugarcube Corner.

"Hello dearies, what can I get for you?" Mrs. Cake said pleasantly.

"Just two chocolate cupcakes," Rainbow Dash said.

Dash then occupied a table in the corner of the bakery.

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Twilight lay down next to Trixie. "Trixie, I know its hard but you need to rest and let your body heal itself."

Mr. Bigmouth examined the readout from his tricorder. "It appears several of your ribs are broken and you have internal injuries along with multiple cuts and bruises. I suggest you avoid physical exertion."

He then opened his messenger bag and started rooting for the necessary supplies.

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Trixie just sighed back a little, glancing at Twilight "Trixie knows that....but Trixie doesn't want to rest....she wants to get better with magic...." she muttered to herself, eyes turning to Mr. Bigmouth as he explained her injuries.

She just looked to the side at that point with a light gulp.  Though her eyes did glance back to Mr. Bigmouth rumaging through his bag, which just caused Trixie to shuffle backwards a bit "Trixie is....she is....fine....really...." she tried to argue back, unsure of what Mr. Bigmouth would be pulling out of his bag "You....you must be reading that thing wrong....try it again" she spoke, doing her best to let off a little smile "Or...it's....broken....yeah, that must be it....it's broken...."

Riley eyed Trixie and what she was doing and looked to Mr. Bigmouth again, whispering to him lowly so that Trixie couldn't hear her "What's up with her? She just seems to be acting, well....weird"

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Spitfire followed Rainbow Dash inside and glanced around, but before she could take another step forward, Derpy poked her head upwards from the bottom "It's you! That Wonderbolt! You're like, awesome!" she practically called out as she took a few steps backwards "I've seen you preform a few times myself, and I've even tried to be like you too....but I keep on messing things up...."

Spitfire's eyebrow arched as she looked at Derpy, then over to Rainbow Dash "A friend of yours Dashie?" she asked rather curiously.


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"You can read while you are resting and healing." Spike said.  "or do we need to have Twilight Sparkle cast a sleeping spell on you.  Or maybe I should ask Applejack or Big Macintosh to tie you down in bed to ensure you get rest." Spike said.



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(Twilight's Library)

Mr. Bigmouth shook his head. "It's correct. My eyes and ears tell the same story; you need to rest and avoid physical exertion."

He then pulled out a single dose vial of an emerald green liquid from his bag  and handed it to Trixie. "Drink this; it'll help with the pain."

He then turned to Riley. "I've seen this before; people who pretty much ignore doctor's orders or refuse to believe they're seriously injured," he whispered. "She'll realize how serious her injuries are and that she should take medical advice seriously."

The Spirarian medic turned to Spike and Twilight. "If you two want to tour the ship with Captain Carson, you'd better hurry. Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejackare outside with her."

Seeing the look on Twilight's eyes. Mr. Bigmouth spoke. "Don't worry, we'll make sure she gets her needed rest.

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Rainbow Dash nodded. "Derpy, I'd like you to meet Captain Spitfire."

She then turned to Spitfire. "Major Lockie's much slower than either us, Rainbow or Lt. Martin. Coupled with his trick of flares, it would be much safer if he were at the end. Lt. Martin, could be paired up with the other Wonderbolt. As for Rainbow, her Fire Kulbit and my Sonic Rainboom can b the main act.

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Stripetail led his group back onto the ship. " Go find your partners everyone" Stripetail said to his team "  take the rest of the day off you deserve it after helping deal with the slavers."
_ Kopa deactivated his armor, his mane was matted with sweat.. " thanks Stripetail. I'm going to go find Vitani and Kovu and hang out with them for awhile..
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We'll tell them what we've been up to' Kiara added " it will certainly be an interesting tale, although I'm not sure if we should tell mom or dad.."
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"Yea, we should hurry if we don't want to be late." Spike said to Twilight Sparkle as he looked at her.  "You do want to go don't you, I know I do." He said with excitement in his voice.  

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Sara looked over at Terrax, "How are you doing?" She asked.  She had found someone to give the star chart paper that Jason had printed out with the info on the enemy ship's path based on what information he could get from the long range sensors in his tardis.  

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"I wonder what the others are doing." Gnash said to the others he was with.  

"Resting & recovering." Brooklyn said.


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Trixie looked at what she was given and sighed, using her horn to levitate the vial in front of her as she sniffed it.  Her facial expression changed to disgust, but she took a deep breath before she took a sip of it.  And her expression just changed again, indicating that she was indeed, even more disgusted by the taste of it as she started to spit out what she had taken so far and started to just gag.

Sure, she was overreacting a bit in regards to the drink, but she still didn't like it at all, which Riley only let off a small little laugh at that....only to have the rest of the vial thrown at her by Trixie in annoyance.

Though luckily, Riley managed to catch the vial and just held it in her hand "Lucky, wouldn't want this to spill" she spoke looking over to Trixie.

Trixie just looked at Riley for a moment, then looked to the side before she turned and headed off towards Twilight's bed, grumbling to herself as she did so.  All that was heard from Trixie were the words "books", "magic", "learning" and "fine"

"So, who's going to watch her? Make sure that she gets the rest that she needs?" Riley asked, looking to Mr. Bigmouth and Twilight in particular.

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Derpy just looked at Spitfire for a moment then over to Rainbow Dash "Are you two on a date?" she asked straight away.

"You could say that" Spitfire told Derpy, only for the other pegasus to let off a quick little laugh.

"Sorry, was that out loud?" Derpy asked, doing her best to sound innocent in regards to the laugh she had let off.

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Jackson looked to Stripetail "What about him?" he asked, motioning to Blackheart "I take it you'll be taking him to the ship?"


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of coiurse I am.. and we will be questioning him at length to see if we can make a deal.. whether w will, naturally, remains to be seen. do you have any fresh news on the search for the phoenix?' Stripetail asked/
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 Phoenix" nick carried the box of supplied on the ship.. they were a bit lighter as he had snuck a couple out of the box and put then into his pocket.. ' You two are late" chong sneered..  as they ebntered. " we are heading to another planet for supplies and refuelinmg.. get back to work..
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Jackson nodded back before answering Stripetail's other question "No word as of yet, both Aimee and Darwin are working on it still, but as I've said, I've heard no word back from them on the progress of it just yet.  But I assume that Darwin will be the one that's doing most of the work, while Aimee is just over-seeing everything" he replied back.


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The radio officer gasped as he received a transmission from Nick. Granted it was very faint but audible. He quickly recorded the transmission and set the ship's AI to find out where it came from.

He then activated the ship's intercom. "Darwin and Aimee report to the radio room immediately!" he barked.

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Rainbow Dash nodded as Derpy spoke. "Yeah, we're dating."

She the turned to Spitfire. "So Captain, here's my plan for the airshow. You, myself and Rainbow will fly over the crowd first and then we will climb and then split off into three separate flights. Then Lt. Martin and the rest of the Wonderbolts will enter in their diamond formation. Then on cue, the formation will split apart.  Major Lockie will then enter with his Angel Flares. Finally we will finish off with Rainbow's Fire Kulbit; at the same time I will try to do a Sonic Rainboom through the middle of that circle of fire. Sound good?"

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Twilight Sparkle bounded out of the library. "Come on Spike! We're gonna be late for the tour!"

She hopped into the waiting dune buggy with Captain Carson and Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.  

"Hey, what took ya?" Captain Carson asked as she started up the dune buggy. "Ready to go?"

"Yes," Twilight said.

Captain Carson stepped on the accelerator and the vehicle sped off towards the starship.

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Scooby and Dixie had reunited and were stopping at a Winterville shop to get a midafternoon snack. there were sandwiches pies and sweet rolls. clank was sitting at a nearby table checking up on the holonet.. vitani was sipping from swome water while Kovu and Kiara were in line looking over their options.. both lions were figurinbg out what to do wit  the coins Stripetal had given them..
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"Right." Spike said as he ran along a bit behind Twilight Sparkle.  He jumped up once he was at the dune buggy and climbed into it beside, or close to, Twilight Sparkle.  "Wow, I wonder what we'll see." Spike said all excited.



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"Seems like they've got something" Darwin spoke up "Shame too, that I couldn't actually get a proper signal to lock onto, but we might as well go then, see what all the fuss is about"

Aimee nodded to Darwin "Good call" was all she said and the two were off, heading for the radio room.

Upon entering said radio room, Aimee spoke up first "Have you got something for us?"

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(Twilight's Library)

Riley remained in the library herself, taking a seat on the ground, back up against the wall.  After all, she was just after some rest herself, even if it was just to sit down for the time being.  Well that, and to keep an eye on Trixie herself.

Trixie on the other hand, had entered Twilight's room....only to head to the back balcony area, sitting down, chin resting on the railing as she did so "Trixie doesn't need rest...." she muttered to herself, eyes gazing to Twilight who had gotten onto the vehicle and watched as it just sped off.

But as it left, Trixie moved, climbing up onto the railing and jumping towards the nearest branch, then to another one and before long....she had made it to the ground and walked off, just grumbling to herself as she did so, not wanting to even try and rest up and instead, headed to a nearby cafe, sitting at one of the tables available and ordering herself a hay shake.

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Spitfire listened to Rainbow Dash's suggestion and nodded to her "That actually sounds good, I can picture it right now all coming together" she smiled and in turn, nuzzled Rainbow Dash, before her gaze fell upon Derpy again.

Derpy put a hoof around Rainbow Dash, bringing her in for a hug herself "Rainbow Dash is in love, Rainbow Dash is in love, l-o-v-e, loooove" she sang a bit off key.

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(Dune Buggy)

"Oh! I bet we'll see some more aliens" Pinkie Pie spoke up in a spooky sounding voice, well, as spooky as she could make it anyway.

"You really think so Pinkie?" Scootaloo spoke up....revealing that her, along with the other two CMC had seemed to have snuck out of the farm house and onto the dune buggy as well.

"Yeah, at least they'll recognize you as being one of them" Apple Bloom added in to tease Scootaloo.

Scootaloo just groaned back and in turn, just shoved Apple Bloom away somewhat "Haha, very funny Apple Bloom" she deadpanned sarcastically to her friend.


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Agumon and Agumina were on the other side of the city just walking around, Above them Spyro , Cynder, Dulcy and Samia where Flying together, cynder and Samia were chatting about wing repair, while Dulcy and Spyro kept to themselves. the two girls were a bit older than Spyro and Cynder, about a years difference, although for dragons a year was not much of a gap..
- Tigress and Tiger had stopped in front of the town meat market, gazing at the various cuts of meat.. " all this place is missing as a sports stadium Tigress said.. " And a video arcade' Genki smirked.
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"Yes, I wonder how long we'll get to remain here." Brooklyn said, sitting in the cafe with the others.  

"I expect not to much longer, since we'll have to chase after whatever his name is." Jason said.

"Can't remember his name?" Velma asked.  

"It's not that.  His name isn't really very memorial, and he's a pretty petty bad guy overall." Jason said.

"Aren't they all?" Gnash asked.

"No, some are pretty complicated.  & there are others who you have to wonder if they are really bad guys or not." Jason said.  

"Like that Sith that fights evil, using sith stuff." Guilmon said.  

"Yes, the blood squad member." Jason said, not saying anything further.


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The radio officer nodded. "I got a transmission from Nick. It's real faint so I'm having the computer try to find out where it's from. Unfortunately, even with tachyonic communication, it still takes several minutes to reach us. But it's better than nothing."

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(En route to starship)

Captain Carson's hair curled as she heard the CMC talking.

"Who-" she began before Applejack cut her off

"Easy Captain, ah'll watch them to make sure they stay out of yer mane," Applejack said.

Captain Carson bit her tongue to avoid swearing as she continued driving.

"So Captain, what'll we see on the tour?"

"Whatever you want but there are some areas I will not show you due to security concerns."

Several minutes later, the group arrived at the vehicle bay. Captain Carson, Applejack, Twilight and Rarity disembarked. All around them where vehicles of all sorts - ranging from hoverskiffs, dune buggies and hovertanks. And in their own dedicated section of the vehicle bay were the living planes who were busy chatting.

"All right, so what do you want to see first?" Captain Carson asked

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Nick meanwhile was back at his job.. slaving away at the stove for Chong who was currently looking over a map of the nearest constellation.. the only inhabited planewt is Monstertopia 17 parsecs away' he muttered still its better than nothing.. we need more recruits and some will need to check up on Kratis in the dingeon.. I nominate-- Kerzach for that job Chong smirked.._
 Spire of Winter
Stitch and gel were walking along claw in claw as they strode on the artifical beach- Winterville afterall had nearly every type of scenery packed in a small area- except for desert quicxksand filled jungle and frozen mountain peaks..
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The three fillies seemed to just grin amongst themselves as they hopped off the vehicle "Don't worry Captain Carson, we'll behave" Scootaloo spoke up first as the three of them just stood there, smiling brightly as three halos appeared above their heads, to show that they were nothing more than three little angels.

"Yeah....what is on this big ship anyway?" Apple Bloom asked next "Anything, I dunno.....fun to do?"

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Darwin approached the radio officer and looked over what he was dealing with before turning to Aimee "I'll be right back, trust me" he spoke and turned, heading out of the radio room.

Aimee nodded as Darwin left before turning to the radio officer "What's the message about anyway? Some sort of distress signal? And might I ask if there's any word of a girl called Hailey as well?"

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(Ponyville)

Trixie just sat at the table, hay shake on the table now, not using her magic, just in case she would hurt herself in doing so.  After all, she knew that her head and horn were as sore as anything, but that wasn't stoppping her right now as she just lazily started to sip at her hay shake.


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"I guess those are places where you keep gems." Spike said, getting out of the vehicle to go over and stand next to Twilight Sparkle.  "Though I think gems should be in the pantry or kitchen, so they would be handier."  Spike said.

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"So what do you want to do next?" Velma asked sipping her chilled apple juice drink.

"I'm not sure yet, how about the rest of you?" Jason asked looking at the rest.



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(Radio Control Room)

"Oooh! Oooh! Is she your very best friend in the whole wide world of Equestria!?" Pinkie Pie's voice rang out as she was seen just standing there, next to Aimee.

Aimee looked to the hyperactive pink pony, blinking a few times in suprise "Where did-? I mean, how did you-?"

"Something important to do with the plot, duh" Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes back "Fluttershy's here too!" she added in, motioning to Fluttershy who was indeed, also in the room.

"I uh....I actually don't know how I got here..." Fluttershy added in herself, a little more quietly herself, but not by too much.