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Meanwhile, back at the Friendship School...
"After everything Twilight's done for you, why would you want to destroy her school?" Cozy Glow pouted to the Young Six.
"We don't!" Gallus glared. "You're the one using these artifacts to drain magic from Equestria!"
"Me?! We all just saw you with your claws all over them!" Cozy Glow replied with a gasp. "It all makes sense. These creatures want magic gone from Equestria because it's the only thing ponies have that they don't!"
Lionel snorted. "Don't kid yourself."
"Technically, there's a magical component when Silverstream and I transform." Ocellus soon told Cozy Glow.
"And Yona's friends' friendship is magic! Twilight said!" Yona added in.
"Aye, the kids speak the truth!" Lionel replied.
"And you repay her by sending her to Tartarus on a wild goose chase so you could destroy everything she built!" Cozy Glow cried before gasping. "They've even trapped Starlight and Atticus in th-that thing!"
Starlight and Atticus seemed to roll their eyes to that.
"We have to defend this school!" Cozy Glow told the other students.
"No! Don't listen to her!" Clark told the students. "Can't you see she's fooling you?!"
"Exactly! She's playing you all for chumps!" Lionel explained. "Why else do you think she never mentioned the missing magic until now, instead of addressing the problem she chose to distract you from it...like a POLITICIAN!"
The students looked to each other, but they soon charged for the Young Six.
"Hey! Stop!" Clark cried out.
A pony soon grabbed Gallus by the tail and he flew off, but smacked into the wall, and fell into the sphere with Atticus and Starlight.
Lionel cracked his neck. "That does it...I'm going in. Hang on, man!" he shouted as he lunged at the sphere.
"Are you sure about that?!" Clark cried out to Lionel.
"As sure as I can be..." Lionel replied as he tried to pry the sphere open. "Because best friends...close as brothers...ALWAYS have each other's backs...no matter WHAT!"
Atticus and Starlight soon watched Lionel as they floated in the sphere. Hands soon came out of the sphere to grab a hold of Lionel to trap him next. Lionel grunted and struggled against the grasp as he began pulling out multiple random items to hold the sphere open, even a crowbar and a doorstop! The Young Six tried to help out Gallus, but they soon got themselves trapped next. A giant hole soon opened up in the floor, taking them all of them down with it.
"They just sacrificed themselves trying to save their friend," A unicorn filly commented. "Professor Dash always said there's nothing more loyal than that. Shouldn't we try to save them?"
"They brought this on themselves," Cozy Glow snorted. "There's nothing we can do."
"Yes, there is!" Lionel yelled. "Nothing is keeping you all from helping, apart from your own hesitancy!"
Cozy Glow turned to him, hissing as she narrowed her scarlet eyes.
"That doesn't seem very generous. Or kind." A filly commented.
"Yeah, yeah. The Elements of Harmony are very important," Cozy Glow rolled her eyes as she went to fly them out of the room. "They're just not applicable in every circumstance. And with magic gone from Equestria, I'm not even sure the Tree of Harmony will be as helpful as it once was."
"Well? You gonna let a little kid make all your decisions for you all?" Lionel asked. "Are you mares and stallions, or are you mice?"
The ponies all looked to each other.
"Come on!" Lionel told them.
However, before anything was said or done, there appeared to be some sort of magical glowing which began to save the Young Six from the danger they were faced with.
"What's happening?!" Cozy Glow cried out.
"They're glowing like the Elements!" The filly replied. "I think the Tree of Harmony saved them!"
Lionel blinked in amazement as he began glowing as well...but it was...a camouflage color. "Is this...my Element...?" he asked.
Starlight and Atticus both looked curious, they weren't sure, but it was rather amazing as he glowed along with the Young Six.
"Guess our friendship is pretty magical after all." Gallus smirked boastfully to Cozy Glow.
"Hurry! Grab the artifacts!" Ocellus told the others.
And so, the others obliged and grabbed the artifacts from their spots.
"Um, didn't you say that could destroy the school?" Silverstream asked the young Changeling.
"But if we don't try, we could lose magic forever!" Ocellus replied.
Lionel gulped nervously before bracing for impact.
"You all better get clear." Sandbar suggested to his fellow students.
The student body soon rushed out.
"Wait! Where are you going?! Stoooooop!" Cozy Glow complained before screaming.
Lionel put on a pair of earmuffs and covered the others as a large white flash engulfed them all completely.
Meanwhile, the royal guards escorted Princesses Celestia and Luna out of the kingdom along with Drell by their sides as something very amazing happened thanks to the students of the School of Friendship.
Drell soon got hit and he blinked before grinning. "By the power of Equestria..." he muttered before jumping in the air, feeling strong magic wise. "I HAVE THE POWER!"
Lionel got up and blinked, holding his head. "My magic? It's back? But was it ever gone to start with...?" he asked.
"I'm not sure, but I'm glad it's back wherever it went." Clark smiled to Lionel.
Lionel shrugged. "Guess you're right. Not everything needs forced drama." he replied.
The Mane Six were joined together and soon had their magic back which turned the creatures back to normal, and soon, Twilight took herself and her friends out of Tartarus. The students kept running all over campus as Lionel and others were soon sent outside along with Atticus and Starlight.
"Aw, YEAH!" Lionel whooped. "We saved the world!"
"Counselor Pony!" Yona beamed as she ran for Starlight, only to be stopped by the unicorn's horn so she wouldn't get squashed.
"It's nice to see you too." Starlight smiled to the young yak.
"I guess magic is back." Ocellus stated.
"Got THAT right, bud." Lionel replied with a chuckle.
"You've ruined everything!" Cozy Glow glared to the others. "Now Twilight and her ridiculous friends can escape from Tartarus!"
ZAP! The others soon appeared.
"I SHOULD'VE KILLED THAT MEDDLING CHERRY AND ATTICUS AS SOON AS I TOOK CHARGE!" Cozy Glow soon yelled which echoed all around just as the others came back.
"Hmm... That seems to bring back some memories." Cherry smirked as Cozy Glow soon looked stupid and bashful from her accidental public confession.
"I mean... Yay! All my friends are safe!" Cozy Glow smiled innocently to them.
"Nice try," Lionel replied as he cracked his knuckles. "You've had this coming since I first laid peepers on you! Nobody threatens my best buds and gets away with it. NOBODY."
"You can drop the act, Cozy Glow!" Applejack added. "Yer pen pal Tirek told us all about how he helped you suck up all that magic!"
"But I still don't understand why." Twilight pouted to the pegasus filly.
"Who cares WHY she did it?" Lionel replied. "It's time she got a serious helping of hurtage!"
"Why?! Because friendship is power!" Cozy Glow growled before glaring at Twilight. "You might be the Princess of Friendship, but as headmare of this school, I can collect even more friends than you!"
Drell soon cam up behind Cozy Glow, picking her up by her wings with a glare.
"Perfect timing," Lionel snorted, winding up his fist and drawing back. "Now hold 'er steady-I don't wanna miss and slug you instead...do I?"
"Trust me, it wouldn't even hurt." Drell muffled with a smirk.
"WHOA! You'd hit a little girl?" Cherry asked Lionel.
"One, she TOTALLY deserves it," Lionel replied. "Two, she's still EVIL. 3, she didn't care about what would happen to everyone else as long as she got her way."
Cherry soon paused for a bit.
"If you don't wanna watch, that's fine, I just want this to be over before I get feathers in my teeth again!" Drell muffled.
Lionel prepared to land his punch...but sighed as he hit Drell instead. "What am I DOING?! This isn't the way. A really smart guy once told me that he who fights monsters should be careful not to become that which he swore to destroy...and he was right." he remarked.
Drell narrowed his eyes as he got hit, but like he said, it didn't hurt him.
"Anyway, I'd like to say something if you're done with Cozy Glow," Twilight said before coming up to the pegasus filly. "You're the one who doesn't get it, Cozy. Friendship is powerful, but power isn't why you make friends. I'm sorry I couldn't teach you that."
"I won't hit her..." Lionel replied. "But...I will do THIS!" he grabbed Cozy and began wringing her neck a la Homer Simpson. "Why, you little...! Steal the world's magic, will ya?!" And then after a few minutes he dropped her. "Okay, I'm done now."
Cozy Glow coughed and gagged from the choking before gasping for air once she was let go.
"Okay, that was kinda funny." Cherry chuckled as the strangling made her think of The Simpsons.
"I aim to please," Lionel took a bow again.
"Well, you taught us." Gallus stated.
"You can't let one bad apple make you think you failed." added Silverstream.
"And we never could've stopped her if we hadn't learned what you taught us about friendship." Sandbar added.
Lionel shrugged. "It's kinda schmaltz-y, but it works for this show." he remarked.
"Ponies are awesome!" Atticus beamed.
Cherry rolled her eyes to that.
"Honesty? Loyalty? Generosity? Blah-blah-blah!" Cozy Glow scoffed before flying off once she was finally let go of. "I can make more friends without using any of them! And if I can't do it here, I'll do it somewhere else!"
"Oh, I don't think you'll get the chance," Lionel smirked. "Specially after what you did. By now everyone on the planet knows who you are and your sinister actions. You've got no friends and no chance to win anymore."
Cozy Glow kept trying to fly away, but no matter where she turned, she was trapped.
"Toldja so," Lionel remarked. "Now you're gonna get your just desserts!" As he said that, a birthday cake fell on Cozy Glow's head with a SPLAT! "And they'll throw the book at ya!" After he said THAT, a large book was thrown at her head with a KLONK!
Cozy Glow muttered as she suffered from slight abuse.
"Last time I saw slapstick like that was Feeling Pinkie Keen." Cherry smirked.
"Ah! Do not remind me of that!" Twilight yelped.
"Oh, I remember that," Lionel replied. "Though it was a reference to that old Beetlejuice cartoon."
"You do remind me a lot of Beetlejuice," Cherry said to him. "I guess that makes me Lydia."
"If it fits, it ships!" Lionel replied as a large boat was briefly seen in the background.
Drell put his hoof to his face, looking a bit annoyed.
"Why the long face?" Cherry asked before laughing out loud to herself. "Because we're ponies!"
"Seriously though, what's got YOU down in the dumps?" Lionel asked as an actual dumpster fell and hit the ground.
"The puns... So many puns!" Drell cried out.
"Called wordplay." Lionel replied as he appeared on a stage with a bunch of other words dressed in random costumes and holding scripts.
Drell's left eye soon twitched before looking around. "Oh, my gosh! Where's Phoebe? Phoebe?! Oh, man, my sister is going to kill me!" he then panicked for his young niece. "THORNTON!"
Thor soon appeared.
"Why didn't you watch your little sister?!" Drell glared, shaking his nephew a bit violently.
Suddenly, the kids popped up from a tunnel they had dug under the school. Drell continued to shake Thor a bit senseless.
"Um... Drell?" Amber called.
"Not now!" Drell glared.
"But Drell!" Darla cried out.
"I'm busy!" Drell replied.
"Hi, Uncle Drell!" Phoebe piped up.
At that, Drell nearly passed out in shock. Luckily, he turned around. Phoebe smiled and waved to her uncle.
"Bebe! I'm safe!" Drell beamed, hugging his niece before smiling nervously. "I mean you're safe, which means, I'm safe!"
"Even though we got locked in a stupid closet and played no important role in this story at ALL, we're all safe and sound!" Phoebe replied.
"I'm so glad you're okay," Drell said as he hugged his niece. "I may not have a daughter of my own, but you will always be my number 1 girl. I love you, Phoebe, and I don't want anyone to hurt you."
"Aw, thanks, Uncle Drell!" Phoebe replied. "I love you too!"
Drell soon hugged Phoebe.
"...Wow... Drell actually has a heart..." Cherry commented.
"Yeah...too bad he rarely shows it around those he considers expendable." Lionel replied.
They were soon back in the school once things were safely back to normal.
"I'm glad you're back in charge of the School of Friendship, Princess," Chancellor Neighsay sighed in relief with an actual smile on his face. "It's clear to me now that there is nopony better suited for the job."
Just then, they heard Spike belching up a scroll and handing it to another of the Young Six as they stood in graduation robes and caps.
"Oh, my gosh~" Darla and Amber gasped to each other for the Young Six.
"What's going on?" Twilight asked.
"Hi, Headmare Twilight! We're just practicing for graduation!" Silverstream beamed.
"Aw, YEAH!" Lionel whooped, doing a Speed Racer pose.
"Graduation?" Twilight asked her students.
"Now that we've saved Equestria, we figure we're done with school." Gallus smirked.
"Especially ME!" Lionel grinned as he did a victory dance.
Some of the others seemed to chuckle to that.
"Saving Equestria is nice, but I'm afraid it'll take more than one semester to learn all there is to know about friendship." Twilight remarked.
Spike burped up a scroll before handing it to the griffin. "Told ya."
"Aww!" The Young Six pouted to that.
"Weak! Sauce!" Lionel groaned.
"Maybe we'll have more of a chance to interact with the school since Annabelle couldn't make it to this adventure." Amber said to Darla.
"No thanks," Darla replied. "We barely had a role in this story!"
"...I was talking about for next time, Darla?" Amber replied.
"Oh, uh, right." Darla smiled sheepishly then.
"Why were they here again if they were just gonna be put in a closet?" asked Thor.
"Because Darla and Amber are honorary students to the School of Friendship," Atticus replied. "Don't you remember Equestrian School Daze and Jake's Hearth's Warming Adventure?"
"Um... Kinda." Thor replied.
"I wasn't there for EITHER of those, nor did I read them." Lionel added.
"Well, if you read them, then you would know why," Cherry told Lionel. "They're usually with their friend Annabelle, but she wasn't here for some reason."
"I had a lot of fun," Phoebe smiled as she climbed on her big brother's back. "Lionel's funny~"
"Aw, thanks!" Lionel beamed. "Also, in that bubble I started glowing with some weird camouflage color. You think it might be...my element or something?"
"Stand still a moment," Drell told Lionel as he took out a magical X-Ray. "I wanna check something."
"Alright, fine," Lionel replied. "Might as well get down to the bare bones of the situation." As soon as he said that, his skeleton reformed into that of a grizzly bear. "See what I mean?"
"Please be normal for at least five minutes," Drell told him. "This won't take long. I just wanna see what's going on in there."
"Reminds me of Discord in a good mood." Fluttershy commented.
"Okay, okay." Lionel groaned as the grizzly skeleton turned back to his human skeleton.
Drell soon used his magic X-Ray to examine Lionel. "Camouflage glow, huh?" he then commented. "I can't say I've seen that before, even in the old days of Equestria which were so... Ugh... Giiiiirly and annoyyyying..." he then imitated one of the ponies from those times. "Ooh... I love socks... Let's have a slumber party! Oh, no, someone ate all the cupcakes!"
Lionel snickered at that. "Y'know, when you're not being so prickly, you're actually pretty funny!" he remarked.
"I try from time-to-time," Drell smirked while checking Lionel. "I definitely haven't seen this before."
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna came to check themselves.
"Strange... It's like he has an out of world Element of Harmony." Princess Luna commented.
"Really?" Lionel asked. "So is that good or bad, and on a scale of 1 to 10, how much we talking here?"
"I'm not fully sure... I doubt you'll turn evil," Princess Celestia replied. "We can trust you, unlike some foes we've faced in our times."
"I don't think this Element has a name," Drell said to Lionel. "I guess... You would have to name it yourself... I mean, if you wanted to. This seems to be a great power of yours that's faced with the Magic of Friendship."
"Um...okay," Lionel pondered on what to call it. "I guess...Randomness?"
"That's fitting," Drell chuckled. "All right, Lionel Schwartz, as of today, you are the bearer of the Element of Randomness!"
As he said that, a golden necklace seemed to come out with a dark blue and silver spiral as if to symbolize the new element.
"Hoon-chaka!" Lionel exclaimed as he struck a triumphant pose. "I got...the RANDOMNESS ELEMENT!"
Drell gave a small smile to the Alicorn Princess sisters.
Lionel then put his new medallion in his pocket. "I just hope that little pipsqueak gets what she deserves."
"Oh, I'll make sure of it." Drell grinned darkly.
"Uncle Drell!" Phoebe gasped.
"Hey, she deserves it!" Lionel remarked. "She's full-on evil and she's not even sorry about it!"
"Don't worry, Lionel, I'll take care of her," Drell said before sighing. "Too bad she's not a mortal. I could turn her into stone just by letting her know I'm a warlock."
"Well, good luck to you on that, bud," Lionel replied. "But how do you know she's not a mortal? Sure, she's not a human, but she's not invincible."
"Well, I meant a mortal from back home when I said that." Drell clarified.
"Ah." Lionel replied.
"Don't worry though, she'll be taken care of." Drell smirked sinisterly.
"Good on ya!" Lionel saluted. "Good luck, and Godspeed."
Drell gave a small salute back to him to show his respect. "You are officially one of my students." he then said.
"Uh-oh." Atticus and Cherry muttered to that.
Lionel smirked. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Sounds good to me," Drell smirked back, patting him on the head. "Now, let's celebrate our victory with a pop song and a dance party!"
"What is this, a kid's movie made after Shrek?" Cherry commented dryly.
"Yeah, forget THAT!" Lionel replied. "I HATE that cliché!"
"It was a joke," Drell said. "I was trying to be funny."
"Oh! HAHAHAHA!" Cherry said before forcing out a laugh which sounded awkward.
"Whatever," Lionel replied. "If we're gonna end on a cliché, might as well be a GOOD one."
"Come on then, let's end this sucker." Drell said as he went to take care of Cozy Glow with the Princesses.
"Your headmare is right," Chancellor Neighsay to the Young Six. "I thought friendship was something only ponies should share with each other, but you all taught me how wrong I was. I suppose true friendship can take a lifetime to understand."
"If it were easy to learn, we wouldn't need a school." Twilight added.
"Obviously," Lionel replied. "I guess that wraps things up nicely." As he said that, a ribbon appeared and tied his arms and legs up in a bow.
Drell let out a small sigh, but gave a small smile.
"Everything worked out just fine." Twilight smiled to everyone.
"As for Cozy Glow, I can assure you, where she's going, she won't be causing any more trouble." Princess Celestia smiled back.
"Thank Goodness for that!" Lionel replied.
They soon began to celebrate after facing another foe and putting them in their place.
"Ah, I love a happy ending." Darla smiled.
"You're not the only one!" Lionel replied as everyone laughed.
"Okay, Lionel, you should know this," Mo said. "Since you have your own Equestrian medallion, that means when it glows, we all meet up, and we go to Equestria together whenever they happen to call us away from home. Understand?"
"Okay!" Lionel nodded.
"We usually never know when this happens, so we usually wear them at all costs." Atticus said.
"Yeah, mine's under my Pound Puppy tag," Patch added. "Strudel helped convert my tag and medallion together."
"Awesome!" Lionel replied.
"Welcome to the team, buddy," Rainbow Dash chuckled as she looked to his human self. "Though that form will take some getting used to."
"Eh, works for me," Lionel shrugged. "I like having hands."
"What are hands?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"She asked me that after the first time I met you guys." Twilight told Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Patch.
"I can imagine." Cherry replied.
"They're like Spike's claws, except not as sharp." Lionel explained.
"Hmm... That's a good point," Twilight nodded. "But yeah, those are hands. Trust me, I felt weird being in your world as a human as you call it instead of a pony, but whatever makes you happy."
"Thanks!" Lionel replied.
"It's never a party without me!" Pinkie Pie beamed as she took out her party cannon before launching confetti.
"That's probably gonna get annoying fast." replied Lionel.
"How do you think I feel?" Cherry commented. "She always drags me into these messes."
"You have my sympathies." Lionel replied to her.
"I'm pretty much the Squidward to her SpongeBob." Cherry said with an analogy that made too much sense.
"That feels accurate." Lionel replied.
They soon celebrated for a while before the others soon went back home after another Equestrian adventure done and done.
"Well...that was fun." Lionel stated.
"Yeah, I like coming around here," Atticus smiled. "Also way to go with helping Twilight and the other Mane Six, Cherry!"
"Oh, uh, thanks." Cherry replied bashfully.
"No problem!" Atticus replied.
Eventually, a portal opened up which meant that it was time for them to go back home.
"Looks like that's our cue!" Darla pointed out.
Everyone soon said goodbye and went through the portal to go back home.
"I'm glad you got to experience Equestria," Atticus smiled to Lionel. "I know how much that meant to you."
"Yeah...thanks," replied Lionel.
"Now I can rest..." Cherry said before falling flat on the floor. "Mm... Floor's more comfortable after a big adventure like this. Maybe we can go somewhere peaceful and innocent like with Winnie the Pooh?"
"Aw, Cherry..." Mo smirked and chuckled slightly, but not in a mocking way.
"Oh, come on, like he has big and dangerous adventures." Cherry replied.
"What about The Tigger Movie?" Lionel asked. "They almost died in an actual avalanche."
"Well, yeah, I guess there's-" Cherry replied.
"Yup. And unlike in Pooh's Grand Adventure, this was NOT a figment of their imagination. It was REAL." Lionel added.
"I suppose that's a good point too-" Cherry said, a bit nervously.
The others soon looked to her.
"Okay, Pooh has darker adventures than I remember," Cherry then said to them. "And I've met the Care Bears!"
"Eh, those were lame." Lionel replied.
"I guess anything is dark in its own way..." Cherry said. "...Like Barney the Dinosaur," she then looked into the fourth wall. "Make me write a story for that. I DARE YOU!"
"And if they do, we don't have to write it!" Lionel cackled. "Nyah-nyah!"
They all soon left after another adventure was done for the time being.
The End