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A Gizmonk in Ponyville - Chapter 29

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A Gizmonk Fugitive

As the foxes continued to ravage the streets of Ponyville in their search for Goggles, the Cuties Mark Crusaders were on a search of their own, unseen by the foxes, they kept themselves hidden amongst the alleyways of Ponyville until they reached the trees of the Apple Family’s orchard.

“You sure he’s gonna be there?” Scootaloo asked Apple Bloom, who was leading the other three.

“Positive,” Apple Bloom said confidently. “Ah know Goggles better than any pony else, if there is one place he’ll go when there’s nowhere else it’s there.”

Scootaloo nodded at that and she along with Silver Spoon and Sweetie Belle continued following her towards their destination. Finally, after running through the countless Apple Trees, shivering from the cold of the snow, CMC had finally reached their clubhouse, upon climbing up the ramp, they found the door locked from the inside, as expected.

“Goggles!” Apple Bloom called, banging her hoof against the door. “Come on, we know y’all are in there!”

At first no one answered, but the clear rustling from inside suggested that someone was indeed inside. Finally the familiar voice came from the other side of the door.

“Uh… Meester Goggles no here, he die, I clean Clubhouse,” it said in a terribly fake accent, convincing no pony at all.

Rolling her eyes with annoyance, Apple Bloom banged on the door again.

“Goggles just let us in!” she demanded.

This time the Crusaders were met with a more positive response in the form of the Clubhouse door opening, the panicked look of their Gizmonk mascot meeting them in the process.

“Ah thought you’d be here,” Apple Bloom said plainly.

“Did any of the foxes see you?” Goggles asked worryingly as he ushered the four fillies inside, slamming the door shut behind them.

“No, they’re still searching the centre of town,” Scootaloo answered. “Diamond Tiara told them everything.”

Goggles sighed at that.

“Figures,” he said, rolling his eyes. “I should have guessed that SHE would be the one to rat me out.”

“Applejack and Trixie said they’d keep them busy for as long as they can while we were supposed to look for you,” Apple Bloom explained, her expression suddenly turning serious. “Now ah think y’all have some explaining to do Goggles, and this time we want the WHOLE truth, no details left out.”

Upon seeing the same expression upon each of the Cutie mark Crusaders faces, Goggles couldn’t help but sigh in defeat.

“Well I suppose there’s no point hiding it now,” he admitted, taking a seat on the floor. “What with the Gem Foxes roaming the streets and all.”

“Gem Foxes?” Sweetie Belle asked with a raised eyebrow upon hearing the official name of the creatures ravaging the town at this moment.

“Distant cousins of the Diamond Dogs from originating the Far East,” Goggles explained. “Not as big or strong, but faster and much more cunning, not only that but they have an extremely powerful sense of smell that can track a rabbit amongst a hoard of hares.”

“Never mind that!” Scootaloo snapped. “It’s WHY they’re here that we need answers for!”

“They say you’re a thief and a traitor wanted by their Queen,” Silver Spoon added.

“It’s not true is it?” Apple Bloom asked, her eyes on the verge of tears.

As the young filly looked at him with pleading eyes, almost crying with disbelief, Goggles’ heart sank as he gave his answer.

“Not entirely,” he finally said.

“What do you mean by that?” Silver Spoon asked in response.

Goggles sighed again.

“I suppose it would probably be best if I started from the beginning… again,” he said as the girls leaned in closer to hear him. “You remember what I said after the whole Diamond Dog incident?”

“Ah do,” Apple Bloom responded with a nod.

“Well I may have tweaked a few details a bit and avoided telling the entire story,” Goggles explained. “Remember when I said that I was bought by a wealthy family from a travelling animal trader?”

Once again Apple Bloom nodded.

“Well wealthy was just putting it mildly,” Goggles continued, scratching his head in anxiety. “In reality I was bought by the Royal family of Kappan, specifically for their Princess, Icicle, AKA the Mistress of the Frozen Heart Magic.”

At those words, everyone except Goggles gasped, Icicle? As in the same Icicle that was mentioned on Goggles’ wanted poster? This whole situation was already beginning to become more interesting and the Gizmonk had on just began telling his story.

“Go on,” Silver Spoon urged, receiving another sigh from the Gizmonk in response.

“For many years I stuck with my code to never speak and was raised as a play-thing to that spoiled Princess of theirs,” Goggles explained. “At the time they all thought I was just some regular monkey with a weird defect at the end of his tail, which was lucky for me at the time since Gizmonks hadn’t been seen that often for the last 100 years.”

As Goggles spoke, certain memories began flooding back to Apple Bloom’s mind, specifically about Twilight telling her sister about that incident with the Kappanese Ponies’ meeting with Celestia all those years ago, and why Goggles hadn’t spoken when they first met, so far what Goggles was saying at that moment all began tying in with what she knew. But still there was more to come.

“For a while I thought I was safe from major harm,” Goggles continued. “That is until that Princess eventually grew up to become Queen and started making my life worse, somehow she managed to find out what I really was and like the spoiled brat she was from the very start, made me her personal whipping-boy under threat of being fed to the Gem Foxes that served as her personal guard.

“That sounds awful,” Sweetie Belle said sadly.

“Indeed it was,” Goggles said in agreement. “I knew it was only a matter of time before I went mad with all that suffering I endured, so one night I tried to leave the castle only to end up being captured and accused of the theft of the royal jewels,”

At those words all four fillies looked at each other with a look of understanding, now Goggles was beginning to get to the more important fact.

“Whoa,” Scootaloo exclaimed.

“And the worst part is that they apparently had evidence pinning me to the crime, like paw prints and hair samples,” Goggles continued, rubbing his temples with discomfort. “But I swear to you, I didn’t do it. I may be a little naughty at times but I would never cross the line like that.”

Deep in their hearts the Cutie Mark Crusaders desperately wanted to believe the Gizmonk they’ve come to know as they’re friend, but in all honesty that didn’t stop them from thinking that he may be lying again.

“Really?” Apple Bloom asked simply.

Upon hearing that Goggles couldn’t help but look back at her with disbelief in his eyes.

“Girls, you know me, why would I do something like that?” he argued. “I swear, on Celestia’s name, I did NOT do it.”

The look that Goggles gave at that moment had to have been the most heart-breaking the Crusaders had ever seen him make, as silent tears fell from his eyes, Apple Bloom could tell from that moment that Goggles was indeed telling the truth, she must have been similar to Applejack in that way.

“So what happened next?” she asked, wanting to know more.

“When I was accused of the theft, I was placed into the dungeons,” Goggles answered. “Luckily for me I had at least one friend left on the inside of that castle, we cultivated a plan to break me out my cell and sneak off on the next boat out of the country so the Queen could never get to us. But then the stupid Queen brought the execution time forward by a day and the whole plan goes to Tartarus.”

“What happened?” Silver Spoon asked, her interests in the story beginning to grow immensely.

“After my friend broke me out of my cell, we managed to get outside of the city gates,” Goggles answered, his face turning even sadder than it was. “After that we ran as far as we could, only…”

“Only what?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“The Gem Foxes tracked us down and shot arrows at us,” Goggles answered with a heavy sigh. “One of them hit my friend in the leg and it took her down after about a few miles. When I checked the wound I noticed a strange smell coming from the arrow, the smell of poison.”

Every pony’s eyes shot wide upon hearing that.

“By Celestia,” Silver Spoon gasped.

“Before she closed her eyes, my friend told me to run, so I did,” Goggles continued, his head looking down at the floor to hide the shame he was feeling at that moment. “After that I kept running and running until I reached the docks, stowed away on the next ship out of the country and took off. The rest you already know. When I reached Equestrian shores I thought I was finally free from those beasts, but I never would have thought that the Queen would be so petty as to have them track me here, I’m actually amazed that they finally managed to catch up to me.”

At this point the Cutie Mark Crusaders looked at Goggles with a deep look of sympathy, with every word the Gizmonk spoke they felt their very hearts break.

“Look, I don’t expect you to believe me,” Goggles admitted. “After all, I practically lied to everyone ever since I got here, but I swear to you I’m telling the whole truth this time.”

But the fact is they DID believe him, they had ever since the first time he claimed his innocence.

“So what happens if you get caught?” Scootaloo asked, still curious as to what was going to happen now.

At first Goggles didn’t speak, in fact the very thought of it made his very stomach turn inside out, b ut regardless he knew that he had to answer regardless.

“If those Gem Foxes find me then they’ll take me back to Kappan,” he finally said, his fists clenching in terror. “After that… Well let’s just say that’ll be the day the Gizmonks finally go extinct.”

At those words, every pony gasped in horror, Goggles may not have used the specific words but they knew what he meant.

“What!?!” Apple Bloom snapped in shock. “They can’t do that!

“Yeah, I mean you’re a citizen of Equestria now right?” Scootaloo added, sharing Apple Bloom’s look of shocked anger. “They can’t just do that to you!”

As much as Goggles appreciated the two fillies for saying that, he knew that he needed to set them straight there and then, for he knew a lot more than they do about the one who wanted him executed.

“Well technically speaking, I’m NOT an official citizen yet,” he said, looking all four fillies in the eye with a serious expression on his face. “And let’s face reality, my business isn’t legally mine either, everything I ever made was traded for cash-in-paw and Silver Lining and Applejack are technically the legal owners since Silver Lining supplies the Materials and Applejack owns the property I’m stationed at. Heck, some of the stuff I made for Silver Lining’s business partners were packaged with another company’s logo, when Silver Lining asked me why I told him that I wanted my name to be off the books for now, I thought it would avoid any risk of my whereabouts somehow finding their way overseas. But then again it wouldn’t matter if I was Equestrian Citizen or not, Queen Icicle has been getting what she wants for so long that she would use any method she can just to keep things that way. She would even commit political suicide just to make sure those she places on the executioner’s block stay there until their time comes.”

“Well maybe Celestia or Luna can do something about this,” Silver Spoon argued. “Maybe even Twilight can protect you, I mean she and the other Princesses are royalty too right?”

Goggles chuckled at that, if only slightly.

“They can try,” he said with a slight hint of sarcasm in his voice. “Princess Twilight can even send Princess Celestia a letter and then all four princesses would be down here in just a few hours, but it wouldn’t do much good for long. Icicle has frozen entire cities just because ONE of its citizens gave a mere insult to her pride, some even say that her Ice Magic is so strong that it’s possible one of her ancestors was actually a wendigo. So what do you think she’ll do if she finds out that the royalty of Equestria apposed her?”

With every word Goggles spoke, it was as though he had already lost all hope, Apple Bloom didn’t know whether to feel sympathy or shock.

“That… that’s just insane,” she stuttered.

“Maybe so, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Queen herself was insane,” Goggles replied, almost laughing to himself at the sheer irony of the idea. “But even if she was, the truth of the matter is that every pony in Kappan is too afraid of her power to remove her from the throne, not without any just cause at least. And I highly doubt chasing down a wanted criminal seems like a just cause to usurp her from the throne, she’d probably try to twist things around and tell everyone that Equestria is a mass of wannabe criminals and tyrants or something. And what’s worse, those foxes of hers will follow her orders to the last beast standing with no questions asked, I don’t know why they do but for some reason they’re the only ones who will. So no matter how many Princesses defend me, no matter what methods any pony uses to oppose her, Queen Icicle always gets her way no matter the cost.”

At this point Apple Bloom felt like she was gonna cry, neither she nor the rest of her friends found it easy to believe that such a pony could even exist, but then again this would explain why Goggles somewhat despised Diamond Tiara ever since he met her, in many ways Goggles could possibly make an easy comparison between the two.

“To put it bluntly girls, “Goggles finally said. “Queen Icicle is nothing more than a spoiled tyrant who couldn’t care any less about her own country much less someone else’s as long as she gets what she wants in the end. “And right now… all she wants is my head.”

Hearing this, all four fillies were at a loss for words, after what felt like an eternity of silence, Silver Spoon finally spoke.

“Please tell me you’re just exaggerating,” she pleaded.

“Exaggerating!?!” Goggles snapped in response, before suddenly bursting into song:

GOGGLES:
Queen Icicle’s hoard will give you a fright,
Hunting Gizmonks both day and night,
They rest for a minute, maybe three,
Then you’re running for your life from a whole army,

They don't care about nada, not zilch, no, nothing!
'Cept bringing about a Gizmonk’s destruction,


But as vile as Goggles made the foxes out to be, the Crusaders still felt to need to make an argument.

SWEETIE BELLE:
Now wait just a minute, there has to be more to this,
Surely if we talked right to them, then maybe they’ll dismiss,
Maybe their Queen can be talked down,
To allow you to live and let you stay in town,

GOGGLES:
Don’t be insane, you're being too kind!
These foxes have a one-track mind,
They’re trained to hunt with all they got,
So do you think they’ll care if I’m guilty or not,
No! They won't! That’s how they’ll always act,
They’ll follow they’re Queen and that is just a fact,

SCOOTALOO:
But maybe there is a chance,
For the foxes to not advance,
Sure they hunted you, so far and wide…

GOGGLES:
If I see one coming, I have to run and hide!
They're quick, and vicious, and mean as sin,
Will you look at the state my nerves are in?

SILVER SPOON:
So there’s no chance for them to be peaceful?

GOGGLES:
Not a chance, they’re just pure evil!

This is why I’m full of I so dread,
If I am caught, I will lose my head!
Please understand, if they catch me,
Then I am gonna be history!


At those words, Apple Bloom’s eyes narrowed with anger, there was no way that she was gonna let something so terrible happen to one of her closest friends.

APPLE BLOOM:
Then it comes down to just one simple fact,
We have save ya from that vulpine pack!

GOGGLES:
They spread death! They spread fear!
I have to run if they are near!
They spread death! They spread fear!
I have to run if they are near!
They spread death! They spread fear!
I have to run if they are near!

APPLE BLOOM:
Yes, it comes down to just one simple fact,
We have save ya from that vulpine pack!


It took Goggles a moment to absorb what Apple Bloom had just said, as he looked back it her with another look of disbelief, while the other Cutie Mark Crusaders looked at her with a smile on their faces.

“I… I don’t understand,” Goggles admitted.

“What’s there to understand?” Scootaloo retorted. “We can’t let those goons take you and that’s that.”

“You would… help me still?” Goggles asked, still in disbelief. “You actually believe me?”

“Well ah certainly don’t think y’all are a thief,” Apple Bloom answered confidently.

“And neither do I,” Silver Spoon added.

“Me neither,” Sweetie Belle said in response.

“Ditto,” Scootaloo finished.

“Besides, you’re part of the family remember?” Apple Bloom asked, almost shocking the Gizmonk with her words. “And families stick together no matter what the cost.”

Goggles couldn’t believe what he was hearing, even after everything that has happened, these girls, these four fillies, are still willing to help him even after what they had heard. Goggles could never have asked for better friends than that.

“You would really do this for me?” he asked nervously, earning a gentle nod from all four of them in response.

“Now come on, we gotta hide you somewhere else before those Foxes come sniffing around here,” Silver Spoon instructed.

“But what can we do?” Scootaloo argued.  “It’s not like it’s gonna be easy to get past those foxes without being questioned,”

“She’s right,” Goggles admittedly agreed. “And those Foxes are practically bred for sniffing out prey, if they manage to catch a fresh whiff of me then I’m finished.”

Upon those words, Apple Bloom began tapping her chin with thought, there just had to be someway of hiding Goggles without him getting smelled out by the Gem Foxes. Suddenly it hit her, it she had been a Gizmonk her tail would have been blinking violently at the idea.

“Ah think ah have a plan,” she said, catching everyone’s interest. “Silver Spoon can you stay here with Goggles until we get back?”

“You got it,” Silver Spoon answered with a trusting nod.

“Sweetie Belle, get a message to my sister, tell her what Goggles told us,” Apple Bloom instructed receiving another nod. “Scootaloo you come with me.”

“Where are we going?” Scootaloo asked, following her through the door.

“We’re gonna need some materials,” Apple Bloom answered with a look of confidence.
The newest chapter of my new MLP fic

Author's Note:

The featured song is inspired by "Bats" from the MLP episode of the same name, all credit goes to Hasbro.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8uFbz…

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