The Misadventures of Ponified Friends
Chapter 19: The Curious Case of Rosea Crustum (Feeling Pinkie Keen)
(Blast's POV)
Okay, Robert. Concentrate.
Feel the magic within… Transfer it all the way up to your horn aaaand…
I shot the charged energy in my horn towards my target. Spike now has a tuxedo, which was formerly a chain of leaves tied around his head.
"This is hard." I declared, my face straining.
"Just two more, Blast." Twilight said. "Remember to focus on those specific objects and transfer your magic to them."
I took a breath and continued to practice my magic. Twilight was making me turn a stone and a stick into a cane and top hat for Spike.
I shot a burst of magic again and the stick turned into a cane. Spike took a moment to admire himself.
"Eyes over here, Spike." Twilight told him.
"Oh, sorry." He went back into position.
"For this to work, it's crucial to keep our concentration totally unbothered. Now, the rock, Star Blast." Twilight instructed.
I nodded. "Here goes." I concentrated once more. I was about to shoot another magic pulse when Pinkie Pie came into my peripherals. She was sneaking around with an umbrella hat and I couldn't help but look at her oddity.
I heard a loud smack and I saw Spike on the ground clutching his head. I think I accidentally dropped the rock on him.
"I'm so sorry, Spike. Are you okay?" I said.
"What happened, Blast?" He asked.
"This magic needs full attention to make it happen. There's no other way." Twilight reminded me.
"I know, but… Something's weird, I mean, weirder with Pinkie today." I pointed to said pony, hiding behind a tree, ducking under a porch and lifting and covering herself under a huge boulder while looking around in a panic.
Twilight scoffed. "Never mind her. She's just being Pinkie Pie."
"Super EXTRA Pinkie Pie today." Spike added.
Pinkie crawled on the ground and stopped. Her tail started to twitch rapidly.
"I think we should ask her what this is all about." I said.
"What about your practice?" Twilight asked.
"It can wait, and now I can't start without knowing what Pinkie's deal is." I started to make my way to Pinkie Pie. I could hear Twilight sigh behind me.
"Twitchie, twitchie, twitcha-twitch!" Pinkie said to herself.
"Pinkie Pie, what in the wide world of Equestria are you up to?" Twilight questioned.
"Oh, it's my tail! It's my tail! It's like twitchin' twitchin'!" Pinkie answered, shoving her tail into Twilight's face to show the twitching. "and you know what that means!"
"Actually Pinkie, I haven't the slightest idea." Twilight answered.
"The twitching means that my Pinkie Sense is telling me that stuff is gonna start falling! You should better duck for cover!"
"… Pinkie Sense?" I repeated.
"Oh Pinkie. It's not gonna rain, when there's barely even a cloud in the-" She was stopped by a green frog that randomly fell out of the sky. It cling on her face as it croaked.
"He just said nice catch in frog." Pinkie said.
"Oh, I'm so, so sorry." We looked up and Fluttershy was holding a basket and a wagon full of the same breed of frogs. "You okay, Twilight Sparkle? I just couldn't stand to see the pond getting so overpopulated, well, with the frogs hoping into each other and all. So, I decided to fly as many as I can over to Froggy Bottom Bog."
"Of course, you did…" Twilight said in irritation.
"Are you okay with that many frogs, Fluttershy?" I asked.
"I can manage, Star Blast." She said.
"All right then. Take care."
"Goodbye." She then carried the basket with her teeth and flew away.
"Uh, Twilight? You got a little something on your face there." Pinkie said, referring to the frog.
"Oh really? Did your Pinkie Sense tell you that too?" Twilight replied sarcastically.
"Nah, I can just see it." Pinkie then skipped away while singing.
The frog hopped off Twilight's face that clearly showed how annoyed she was. "Come on, you two. Let's continue our practice session where there's little less commotion."
"Wowza! That was amazing!" Spike exclaimed. "Pinkie Pie predicted something would fall, and it did!"
"Oh, come on. She said something would fall, and a frog just happened to fall right around the same time. A coincidence. Nothing else to it!" Twilight argued.
Pinkie Pie popped up behind us. Her tail was twitching like crazy.
"My tail! My tail! Twitch-a-twitch, twitch-a-twitch! Something else is gonna fall." Pinkie warned us. I looked around the sky on instinct.
"Pinkie, please. Nothing else is gonna fa-AH!"
Twilight suddenly disappeared from my sight. Turns out, she fell into a deep ditch right in front of us. How didn't I notice it?
"Are you okay, Twilight?" I asked.
"Is it safe to go help her?" Spike asked.
"It's okay, my tail stopped twitching." Pinkie answered. She took off her umbrella hat and happily skipped away like she did earlier. Eventually, I helped Twilight out by jumping to the ditch and supported her as she rises.
"That was amazing!" Spike said.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Oh please."
"You don't believe her?" I asked.
"Like I said: A coincidence."
"Uh, Blast? Twilight? Why are you two hanging out in the ditch?" We looked up and saw Applejack.
"Because Pinkie Pie predicted Twilight to fall!" Spike exclaimed.
"Honestly, Spike, she did not. Two coincidences in a row like this maybe unlikely, but it's still easier to believe than twitchy tails to predict the future." Twilight remarked indignantly.
Applejack suddenly gasped. "Twitchy tail? Pinkie Sense?!" She immediately crawled under a vegetable cart and looked around in fear.
"It's okay, prediction already came true." Spike told her.
"Wait, you know about the Pinkie Sense?" I asked. "This has happened before?"
"Don't tell me you believe in this stuff too?" Twilight said in disbelief.
"I know it doesn't make much sense, but those of us who have been in Ponyville awhile have learned over time that if Pinkie's a twitchin', you better listen." AJ explained.
Pinkie Pie came back and this time her ears were going haywire.
"My ears are flapping! My ears are flapping!"
"There's more than one Pinkie Sense? What do the ears mean?" I asked. I noticed that she started backing away from me.
"I'll start a bath for you." She told me.
"A bath for me?" I said in confusion.
Twilight laughed. "A bath? This thing keeps getting ridiculous by the minute!"
I felt my whole body become drenched with thick mud suddenly. There was a pony who passed by with a huge wagon apparently. I blew my mud-covered mane in my face, and I released a long sigh.
"Why don't you tell us more about that sense of yours in my bath…"
"These are way too many bubbles." I blew the excess foamy stuff off the tub. Twilight was standing next to the bathtub while Pinkie was finishing setting up my bath.
"So basically, it works like this:" Pinkie started. "I get different, little, niggling feelings, namely different things! Like when my back gets itchy, it means it's my lucky day! And when my knee gets pinchy, that means something scary is about to happen."
"Is your knee pinchy now?" Twilight asked.
"No, but my shoulder's achy. That means there's an alligator in the tub."
"Wait, what?" I said.
Pinkie ducked her head on the water, and from out of nowhere she pulled a tiny alligator. I backed away at the sight while Twilight hid behind the covers with a frightened yelp.
"How come your knee didn't get pinchy?! That isn't just scary, that's also dangerous!" I exclaimed.
"No, it's not, silly! This is my pet alligator Gummy! He's got no teeth! See?" Pinkie said as the tiny reptile began nibbling around her body until it reached her tail.
"Okay, okay…" Twilight said behind me. I calmed myself down after a while.
A few minutes later, after I dried up from the bath, Twilight, Pinkie and I walked out of SugarCube Corner. Twilight was still in denial about the Pinkie Sense and was mouthing off about it.
"Well, I still don't believe about this special power stuff. It's just a bunch of mumbo jumbo." Twilight said.
"What's not to believe? You two do magic, and he's an alien! What's the difference?" Pinkie replied. I shushed her at the mention of the word alien.
"Uh, HUGE! For one thing!" Twilight exclaimed. She really looked offended about what Pinkie said. She found a wooden box and climbed on top of it before clearing her throat. "Magic is something you study and practice. It only happens when you decide to do it, and it's meant to make something specific that you choose to happen, happen! With you, well, it makes no sense at all!"
"That is SO not true Twilight. Sometimes it's a BUNCH of random things happening to my body at random times that supposedly predict the future. I call them Combos." Pinkie replied.
"Combos? You mean that there are more variations to your Pinkie Sense?" I asked.
"Uh huh! Like an ear flop then knee twitch then eye flutter!" She demonstrated. "That means that the sky is about to be graced by a beautiful rainbow!"
"Yeah, sure." Twilight hopped down the box and began walking to the library. She was still in denial.
"Your Pinkie Sense is way too specific." I said. She had got to be making this stuff up.
Pinkie Pie stopped walking. "Uh oh, I feel a combo coming on!" Her ears flopped, her eyes fluttered, and then her knee twitched. I wondered what was going to happen until I heard the door of the library open loudly. Silver was walking backwards as he dragged the huge box that we use to store our groceries.
As the door closes, we saw Twilight stuck and flat on the surface of the door.
"Hey, man." Silver greeted with a nod. I just smiled at him, not knowing what he did to Twilight.
"You said that combo meant beautiful rainbow, Pinkie." I told her.
"Oh, no-no-no-no-no. You're thinking of an ear flop, then knee twitch THEN eye flutter. This was an ear flop THEN eye flutter THEN knee twitch!" she corrected.
"So that means?"
"It means look out for opening doors!"
"… Way too specific."
"I don't believe this." Twilight grumbled as she got up.
"You don't believe because you don't understand." Pinkie said. "I bet Star Blast believes me! Right?"
I didn't know what to say so I shrugged. "I guess…"
Twilight made this look that she was planning something. "I know just the thing to explain all this stuff."
"Uh, when did we have a lab under the treehouse?"
"Since we moved here."
I looked around this used to be secret underground laboratory that Twilight led us into to study Pinkie's senses.
"And you've been using this for how long?" I continued to ask.
"I started around the second month, I think. I only come down here once or twice a week though." Twilight answered, setting up a machine to check on Pinkie's vitals. "You seriously don't know?"
"Even if I did, what would I even do here?" I replied. I guess potions and stuff like alchemy.
Twilight placed Pinkie in the machine, making her wear a helmet with flashing lights and locking her hooves in position. "Okay, now when you get another twitch, we'll have all kinds of scientific explanation."
"Okie-dokie-lokie!" Pinkie said cheerfully. She began concentrating as the machine reads her vitals and brain activity.
"Don't you think this is too much? It's just Pinkie being Pinkie." I said to Twilight, who paced around the lab, awaiting the results.
"Too much may not be even enough to explain it, Star Blast." she pointed out. She looked at Pinkie and began observing her. "Any twitches yet?"
"Nopey-dopey!" Pinkie said.
Twilight checked the readings. "Now? Anything?"
Pinkie felt something after a moment of concentrating. "Wait, hold on… Uh, no."
"Are you kidding me? After a whole day of non-stop twitching, now that I've got you all hooked up, you're not getting a single one?"
"Maybe it's the kind that just comes and go." I reasoned.
"That makes no sense!"
"Twilight, there are some things in life that just happens with no explanation." I said. "I mean, I'm literally from another reality but you're not doing all this stuff on me."
"It's because there's proof! You, Speedy and Silver ARE the proof!"
I sighed. "Okay, that's true, but this whole thing is unnecessary."
"I will NOT believe in anything I cannot explain!" Twilight declared.
"Wait! Hold on, I'm feeling something." Pinkie said suddenly. The machine made noises and the papers were rolling faster.
"Oh my gosh! What? What is it?" Twilight observed Pinkie closer. Pinkie concentrated for a few seconds, and we heard a growling sound.
"It's my tummy! That usually means I'm hungry. Let's eat!" Pinkie stated.
"Urgh! You know what?" Twilight snapped the wires and cables that connected Pinkie from the machine out of frustration. "Just forget it! I don't need to know if this is real or not! I don't need to understand it, I don't even care!"
"Okie-dokie-lokie!" Pinkie Pie then slipped out of the cuffs of the machine casually before following Twilight upstairs. I followed on the way up, then Pinkie Pie stopped hopping.
"Uh oh."
"What's wrong?" I asked her. Her body started to shiver. Her ears flopped, her eyes fluttered, and then her knees twitched.
I already knew what was coming, but Twilight surely didn't. "Wait, Twilight! Stop!"
Twilight looked back, but she inevitably got squished as the door was opened by Spike. I know that this was a pretty normal form of slapstick comedy in cartoons, but seeing it personally was messed up.
"Pinkie, Blast, have you guys seen Twilight?" Spike asked. How strong was he to be able to open the door THAT hard?
"Uh huh." Pinkie nodded as she exited the door.
"Close the door, Spike." He did what I told him, and Twilight was flat as a pancake behind it.
"Twilight? What are you doing back there?" Spike asked innocently.
The Unicorn mentioned groaned in frustration. "Did you two plan this?"
"Plan what?"
"This is ridiculous! This can't be happening! This makes no sense!" she stomped her hooves. "I have to figure this out."
"You're not gonna stop, aren't you?" I questioned. "Because if you don't, you're going to keep hurting yourself like this. Maybe it's best if you just let this one go. If Applejack, of all ponies, believes the Pinkie Sense then that's more than enough reason to prove that Pinkie can predict the future."
"Then I just have to see it for myself and find solid, scientific data!" she announced. "I'll watch her every step forever if that's what it takes!"
She then left the room in a flash. I have never seen her this obsessed in something, and it was really unhealthy.
"What was that all about?" Spike turned to me.
I responded by asking him a question. "Spike, you believe in the Pinkie Sense, right?"
"You bet I am! Pinkie predicted something happening twice and it did!"
"Well, she just predicted something just now too and it happened."
"Don't tell me Twilight still doesn't believe in it."
I sighed. "Is there are a way to convince her?"
Spike scratched his head, unsure. "Knowing Twilight, the only way for her to believe is if there's solid explanation."
"That's what I fear." I placed Spike on my back with my magic. "Let's go look for her."
"Any sign of her?"
"Nope. Not a purple mane on sight."
Spike and I were led to the town's park after asking questions about Pinkie's whereabouts, figuring wherever she was, Twilight's bound to be spying on her or something.
Not long after, we saw Pinkie Pie hopping around near the fountain, smelling the flowers in the area.
"There's Pinkie Pie. Twilight must be around here somewhere if she's studying her." I said.
"Look!" Spike pointed to a bush, suspiciously moving near Pinkie. "That's got to be her."
"Okay." I began to approach Twilight quietly. She was wearing a hunter's hat as she pulled out a pair of binoculars and studied the unaware Pinkie. She started to write down her research in her notebook.
"Twilight?" I called. She jumped out of surprise with a yelp before dragging me and Spike behind the bush.
"Honestly, don't you two know better than sneaking up on ponies?" She asked out of frustration.
"That's what we should be saying to you too, you know." I replied. I peeked over the bush, but Twilight suddenly pinned me down to the ground.
"I am not! I'm doing scientific research!" she told me.
Her face was uncomfortably near mine, though. "Okay, well, can you get off of me now?"
As soon as she realized our position, she got out of my way and blushed. She cleared her throat before continuing to observe Pinkie. "Like I was saying, I'm doing scientific research and observing Pinkie Pie, Scientific name: Pinkius Pieicus, in its natural habitat."
"Pinkius Hoolicus? You're treating her like an ancient creature now?" Spike asked.
"There's something fishy going on with the whole twitchy, prediction thing, and I'm getting to the bottom of it. So, shhh!" she boldly told us.
I gave her a skeptic look while Spike pretended to zip his mouth shut. She looked up the bush and then gestured us to move.
"Come on. Pinkius Pieicus is on the move." She lifted the bush up and I was forced to walk along with her.
Why didn't I leave something more important to do than this?
Pinkie Pie ended up on Ms. Cheerilee's school house, where she was in the playground rolling in the dirt for some reason. The three of us watched her a few yards away to keep us unnoticed. I'm surprised Pinkie didn't have a sense about spies or stalkers.
She hummed about, minding her own business before she stopped and scratched her nose.
Twilight quickly took note of it. "Hmm… Itchy nose…"
"We're not even sure if it's a Pinkie Sense, Twilight." I told her.
"Ah ha! That makes no sense!" Twilight exclaimed as she continued to watch Pinkie. "See? She's hiding like something's about to fall from the sky, but a twitchy tail means something is about to fall from the sky, NOT an itchy nose."
I borrowed her binoculars to see what she was talking about. Pinkie was hiding under a horseshoe sculpture, and she was looking around the area, scanning something.
That's when I started to hear buzzing sounds, and it was getting louder and louder. My eyes finally caught a swarm of angry hornets flying in the air.
I took off the binoculars as my eyes grew wide.
"Uhm, Twilight?"
"This proves, perhaps conclusively, that…" she continued to drag on her research while the hornets flew closer to us in an insane speed.
I went with my instinct as I grabbed Spike and ran away as far as possible, conjuring a shield for extra protection. I hid us behind a huge tree.
"That was close." I said.
"Hey, aren't we forgetting someone?" Spike reminded.
My eyes shot up at the realization. "Twilight!"
"Guys? Where did you go?" Twilight called. "I'm trying to teach you the value of scientific evalu- Ow! Ouch! Ooh! Ow!"
My face instantly cringed. I was hopeful that she would finally stop after that.
"You're still not stopping?"
She shushed. "I'm kind of in a middle of something here, if you don't mind?"
I ran my hoof in my face as a result to Twilight's stubbornness. Here we are in Sweet Apple Acres where Pinkie Pie was smelling a flower. Thanks to the hornets, Twilight was patched up with a bunch of band aids all over her body. Good thing we still had the ointment for stings that Fluttershy gave us after that Winter Wrap Up incident.
"What is Pinkie doing now?" Spike asked.
"Still smelling flowers." Twilight answered.
"Holy Guacamole! I wonder what that means?"
"Probably that the flowers smell good." Twilight used her binoculars again. "Wait, I'm getting something. Ear flop. Eye flutter. Knee twitch."
"Hold on. That's the combo to watch out for opening doors." I immediately looked around for doors. The ones nearest were the barn doors and the cellar.
"Yowza!" Spike ran away and hid behind a haystack. I remained in place, because I'm pretty sure I'd be safe if I didn't move.
Twilight found Spike's panic hilarious. "You really, really believe in this stuff, don't you? Let me show you that there's nothing to be afraid of." she moved to the barnyard's doors and rested her hoof on it to prove it was safe. "You see?"
Twilight began walking away with her eyes closed, towards the direction of the cellar door that opened suddenly.
"Twilight!" I called her. I tried, but she ignored me.
"Blast, I promise you that there's nothing to fear about- WAH!"
I winced every time she cried in agony all the way down to the bottom of the cellar. Spike and I looked down, and Twilight was in worse shape than ever.
"Twilight! You came to visit my new apple cellar! How nice." We heard Applejack's voice from down there. "Twi? You okay? Uh… Twi?"
I need to call the hospital ASAP.
When Twilight fell down the apple cellar, and breaking a few bones here and there in the process, you'd think that she'll finally stop. But nope, it somehow urged her more to continue spying on Pinkie Pie, who was back in Ponyville's park.
I looked at her beside me, and she had this deep scowl that was a mixture of anger and frustration as she watched Pinkie. I chose to not say anything since she wouldn't stop trying anyway.
"Here, let me help you." Spike pulled the lever that elevated Twilight's wounded front hooves so she could use the binoculars.
"Okay, take this down." Twilight said. I sighed and complied her request. "Twitchy… tail."
"Twitchy tail?" Spike repeated, then he remembered what that meant. "TWITCHY TAIL!"
He let go of the lever and Twilight's forehooves slammed down, causing her to grunt in pain.
"Spike! We can't let Pinkie know we're here, remember?" Twilight said.
"Something's gonna fall! Something's gonna fall! Run for your lives!" Spike ran around, desperately trying to find shelter.
Knowing better than Twilight, I conjured a small shield of magic on top of my head and looked around for any signs of danger. I noticed a delivery truck, or cart rather, and a group of Pegasi taking things out. The cross-eyed Pegasus tried to lift more than she can handle, but she let go, and the bunch of stuff began falling right… below us.
"Spike, honestly. You're overreacting to-"
"Twilight look out!"
I powered up my magic to conjure a force field around me and Twilight. A flowerpot landed on top, followed by an anvil, then a wagon full of haystacks. We were covered by so much stuff that I wasn't sure if a piano landed last on the force field. It took a mental toll on me to keep my shield up as I struggled lifting literally tons of debris from crushing us. With one last effort, I turned the force field into a huge bubble that levitated the debris over and dropped those away from us.
"Star Blast! Are you okay?" Twilight said in concern. I was so fatigued.
"That was…" I exhaled. "…Close."
"You saved me."
"Of course, I did." I shook off my dizziness. "I can't let you get hurt, in that condition especially."
"Hey, Applejack!" I overheard Pinkie Pie. "Watcha doin'?"
"Taking more apples to my apple cellar. What are you doin'?"
"Letting Twilight secretly follow me all day without me knowing."
"What the, she knew?" I said to myself. Actually, why am I even surprised?
"What!?" Twilight took in the information way too differently. "You knew all along?! Why didn't you tell me?" she rushed out of the wheelchair to confront Pinkie. Looks like her wounds are healed.
Pinkie laughed. "Silly. That would have spoiled the secret!"
Twilight's face began twitching to her bottled-up rage. This could become ugly quick.
"Is your tail still twitching?" Spike interrupted to break the ice, thank goodness.
"All done. Clear skies from here on in as far as I can tell." Pinkie answered when all of a sudden, she began shaking violently.
"Oh no! What does that one mean?" Spike asked, hiding behind me.
"I don't know! Never got anything like it before." Pinkie informed. "But whatever that shudder's about, it's a doozy! Something you never expect to happen is gonna happen!"
Pinkie began shuddering again. Twilight and I shared a look of confusion.
"And it's gonna happen… at Froggy Bottom Bog!"
That name rings a bell in my head. I recall Fluttershy saying something about that place.
"That's where Fluttershy is headed!" Applejack said.
"Oh no, is it about her?" Spike asked.
Pinkie shook her head. "I'm not sure."
"Then we better go and see if she's okay." I declared. "Do you know where that place is?"
"I do." Applejack said. "Follow me!"
Applejack led the way as she ran, and Pinkie Pie and Spike followed.
"Calm down, everypony. All we know right now is that Pinkie Pie just got the case of the shivers, that's all."
"Twilight, they already took off." I said. "Also, save the chit chat for later. We have to check on Fluttershy and see how she's doing."
She groaned. "Fine, but only because I want to see the look on Pinkie's face when we find out that nothing's wrong."
"You still don't believe in it?" I said. We soon took off towards the Everfree Forest. "Twilight, we were attacked by hornets, you got sent in a HOSPITAL, and we escaped certain doom from a wagon and an anvil thanks to Pinkie's instinctive warning signals. Are those not enough to convince yourself that it's legit?" I continued to question her.
"Wait a second, please don't tell me that you finally believe in that stuff." Twilight asked in incredulity.
"I was unsure a while ago, but I do now." I said. "Still, I hope that you're right about this one."
Twilight and I had caught up with the others just inside the edge of the Everfree Forest. We slowed down once we reached the swamps and started to search for Fluttershy's trails.
"Hubububububu~!" Pinkie Pie started to shudder just as violently as before.
"Cold? Need a jacket or something?" Twilight asked Pinkie quite smugly.
"No thanks, I'm fine! Hubububububu~!"
"So… whadda' ya' think happened to Fluttershy?" Spike asked worriedly.
"I hope nothin'" Applejack replied.
"I know, but what do you THINK happened?"
"I think it's best if we don't, Spike." I told him.
"Hmm… I guess you're right, but I kept thinking about it anyway. Like, what if she exploded?!"
"Exploded? Just like that?" I said, confused.
"Yeah, like, Boom!" Spike imagined.
"Woah, what if… what if she exploded! A-and then exploded again?!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"Can you do that? Can you explode twice?" Wow, Spike and Pinkie Pie had some pretty innocent chemistry.
"Again, why would she explode?" Twilight asked.
"Ain't no way that will happen." Applejack said.
"But what if she exploded, and then exploded again, and then-" Spike's imagination continued to run wild until Twilight stopped him.
"Seriously, will you two stop? She's fine, I'm sure of it." Twilight said confidently.
"I hope you're right, Twilight." I said worriedly.
"Look!" We heard Applejack exclaim ahead of us. "There's Froggy Bottom Bog!" The area was covered in thick, murky water and mud. I wouldn't want to fall in there.
We started to look for Fluttershy when we split up. The sounds of frogs croaking caught my ears and I followed it. I finally found the pony we were looking for, who was still releasing the frogs.
"Fluttershy!" I called out of relief.
She turned around. "Star Blast? What are you doing here?"
"We were looking for you. Pinkie Pie's Pinkie Sense went off and she said you were in trouble." I explained to her. I called the others as well to say the good news.
"Really?" Fluttershy asked.
"Fluttershy! You're okay!" Spike cried as he jumped and hugged her.
"Of course." Fluttershy said calmly. She was still confused about the whole situation.
"What a relief." Applejack said.
"I'm so glad everything's alright." joined Pinkie.
"Sorry, I know it's not nice to gloat but," Twilight began. "Ah HA! I told you there was nothing to worry about, and I was right!"
I figured that I should just let Twilight talk and brag after all the stuff she had gone through. In a way, she earned it. As she continued to rant, I noticed that the atmosphere around us became a lot heavier, and smellier?
"Pinkie Pie said whatever she was shuddering about was a *cough* *cough* doozy, and the only-*cough* *cough*-doozy here is how right I am."
Something gigantic that was covered in mist began rising from the muddy water behind Twilight. We all looked up in fright.
"Uh… Twilight?" I said to her in a frightened tone. I backed away as the huge creature finally revealed itself to us. Its scales were as muddy as the water, its neck was as big as a ten-story building.
"Pinkie's made a lot of predictions today, but-*cough* *cough* *cough*- what is that horrible smell?"
Something in the water behind us emerged as well, the same scaly, muddy and gigantic serpent-like creature.
"…Twilight?"
"But what we've shown here is that there's no point in believing-*cough* *cough*-anything you can't see for yourself."
Spike, Applejack and Fluttershy huddled behind me, their bodies shaking in terror as the four-headed monster stood behind an oblivious Twilight.
"Twilight… Everyone… on the count of three, I want you to all to close your eyes…" I whispered to them.
"What are you talking about?" Twilight asked.
"Please just trust me…" I started. "One…"
The creature let out a growl, and Twilight finally looked behind her, taking in the scary sight of the Hydra.
"Two…"
Twilight's face had been drained of life as the Hydra heads let out a mighty roar.
"I… can't believe what I'm seeing." She meeked.
"Three!"
Twilight and the others turned their heads away as I charged up a flash of light that blinded the monster, at least momentarily.
The only word I could say was, "RUN!"
"Way ahead of ya, Blast!" Applejack exclaimed and we ran for our lives. The Hydra was trashing about in the swamp, shaking its heads to clear up its vision.
"Was that a Hydra?!" Spike wondered.
"Who cares?! Just keep running!" Applejack responded.
"Wait, where's Pinkie Pie?" Twilight asked. We looked back, and Pinkie was frozen in fear. One of the heads that had recovered saw the pink pony and it glares its teeth at her.
"Pinkie!" Twilight called as she went back to grab Pinkie by the tail, avoiding the Hydra's attack by the skin of their teeth. Twilight pulled Pinkie so hard that she flew right past us.
The Hydra had finally regained its concentration, and to make things worse for us, it began barreling its way. Each head seemed to lock onto their targets, and I needed to think quickly.
"Guys! Scatter!" I instructed them. We maneuvered in a way that could hopefully confuse the Hydra by jumping out of sturdy trees and huge boulders. It continued to lunge at us recklessly, and all the heads only managed to bite chunks out of trees and ruin its teeth with rocks.
We reached a dead end after we shook off the Hydra. We weren't within its reach, but not far enough from us.
I looked around for a way out, and I noticed a hill side that went upwards.
"Everybody go up that hill!" I yelled.
"Spike!" Twilight cried out. I turned back to see Spike struggling to swim in the water. The Hydra recovered and continued its pursuit.
"You guys go ahead. I'll save him." I instructed. Twilight hesitated but followed my lead with the girls. I sprinted back and got Spike out of the water just as one of the Hydra heads reached him. I urged Spike to run as fast as he could while I was trying to figure out a way to slow down the Hydra.
Frustrated, the Hydra looked at me with the intent to kill. It roared as all of the heads lunged at me, and I quickly jumped out of the way. I levitated a dead tree into the Hydra's short legs, and it fell. I seized the opportunity to follow the others on top of the hill.
As I ran in the steep land, Pinkie Pie started to shudder again while Spike pushed her up. They stopped at the peak and not a moment later I caught up.
"It's another dead end!" Fluttershy exclaimed.
We all gasped as the ground started to quake, caused by the Hydra who started to climb up the hill.
"He'll be up here in no time!" Twilight cried. "We need to get to the other side!" She gestured to the mountain next to the hill. The only thing that separates the two mass of land were pillars of stone, but those looked way too unstable to jump onto.
"Quick! One at a time!" Twilight immediately instructed us. Spike started to pick his pace but stopped after seeing how far the jump was and how high we were.
"Do you two know any spells to turn a Hydra into a mouse?" Spike asked us.
"No." Twilight replied.
"How about a squirrel?"
"No!"
"How about a-"
"No small rodents of any kind!"
"Well that sucks."
"A hop, skip, and a jump!" Fluttershy jumped off the edge and onto the stones effortlessly. Why didn't she just fly?
Twilight threw Spike to the pillar and he finally jumped across. Pinkie Pie shuddered once more, and her vibrations moved her to the edge, but Applejack pulled her back before she could fall.
"The Hydra's too close." Twilight said. We looked back and the monster was closing the distance.
"Even if we cross to the other side, there's a chance that the Hydra could jump over thanks to its sheer size." I assumed. "We need to lose it once and for all."
"But how are we gonna do that?"
I bit my lip. I must trust my gut. "I'll stay. You three go."
"But Star Blast-"
"Go!"
I looked at her straight in the eyes to tell that I was being serious.
She closed her eyes and said, "You better come back."
I smiled at her and nodded. Applejack jumped across while biting Pinkie in the tail. Twilight followed finally.
I took a breath, and I immediately regret this decision. The Hydra was inching closer and closer, and my whole body just braced for whatever it was that's gonna happen.
If only Hassan and Lemuel were here, I could've thought of some way to lose the Hydra, I said to myself. The Hydra roared and charged at me, and I just had to do it.
"Ah, screw this!"
I ran towards it head on, sort of like those car scenes in movies. Once I was within the Hydra's striking distance, I ducked under its body. I glanced behind to see three of its heads follow me underneath its own body while the other one knew better. This caused the Hydra to flip over as the body crushed one of the heads.
Now that I've stalled it, I went running back to the top to jump to the other side.
"Blast! Watch out!" I heard Pinkie Pie warning me. I turned my head to see one of the heads' attack. I dodged it barely, but the impact caused the edge of the hill to be pulverized and topple most of the stone pillars. I gazed at the damage. Now there was no way I could cross!
"Star Blast! You have to JUMP!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"I'll never make a jump that far!" I shouted back.
"You'll be fine!"
"I hate to be a pessimist, but I will not!"
"It's your only hoooope~!" Pinkie Pie's Pinkie Sense was going off at the situation.
The Hydra was enraged at this point. I was seconds away from my untimely death. I looked down to calculate how far I would have to jump, and I found out that there was zero possibility of me making it.
Then something caught my attention. The bubbly mud on the surface was able to hold the boulders without it popping. What if it was so thick that it could cushion my fall? I could just avoid those pointy rocks if I ever fall down, but it was easier said than done.
The Hydra's roar signaled me to just go for it. I backed up to gain momentum to my jump just as the Hydra attacks. The ground that I was standing on was destroyed and I flew up with it.
Luckily enough, it flew me much nearer to one of the standing stone pillars left. So I drew in a breath, sucked in my gut, and I took a leap of faith.
Time seem to slow down as I glided, reaching for the ledge of the pillar. I tried reaching for it, extending my hoof as far as I could. Next thing I knew, I was making my down, and time suddenly started to speed up.
My limbs flailed in the air as I plummeted towards a literal rock bottom. My only hope to make it was the mud bubble, but there wasn't any. The only thing I could do now was close my eyes and brace for the impact.
Instead of a making a hard splash, I felt something springy below me. I opened my eyes slowly, and a mud bubble cushioned my fall. Suddenly, the bubble also shot me up in the air in an insane speed. My entire being was spinning like a ragdoll until I bounced on solid ground. Once I cleared my head, I saw everypony surrounding me. I somehow made it!
They cheered at my success as Twilight helped me up.
"You did it! You did it, Blast!" Pinkie said as she hugged me.
"Yeah, I guess I did." I said, still out of breath. "But I feel like I made it out of there out of luck." I gazed back at the Hydra on the other side. It stared right back at me before leaving to accept its defeat. I really hope it doesn't terrorize Ponyville.
"I don't know how it happened. Coincidence, dumb luck or what." Twilight said. "You said there will be a doozy here in Froggy Bottom Bog, and I say we had ourselves one heck of a doozy. I mean, that Hydra-"
Twilight was interrupted by Pinkie shuddering again. It still wasn't over?
"Pinkie?" Twilight said in confusion.
"Sorry, that wasn't it." she announced.
"What wasn't what?" Spike asked.
"What are you talking about, Pink?" Applejack added.
"The Hydra wasn't the doozy. I'm still getting the shudders." Pinkie told us while shuddering. "You see? There it is again. Whatever the doozy was in Froggy Bottom Bog, my Pinkie Sense says it still hasn't happened."
"Huh? But I-WHAT?!" Twilight exclaimed. "The Hydra wasn't the doozy? How could it not be the doozy?! What could be doozier than that?!"
"I don't know, but it just wasn't it." Pinkie answered casually.
The air began to feel warmer. The sound of a kettle could be heard from Twilight, gritting her teeth in enragement.
"Twilight? You okay?" I tried to reach out a hoof to her, but she literally combusted into flames. I stepped back and I was stunned .
Twilight cooled down, her mane, tail and coat charred. "Oh, I give up."
"Give what up, Twi?" Spike walked to her.
"The fight… I can't fight it anymore." Twilight's voice was drained. Pinkie Pie continued to shudder. "I don't know how, why, or what, but Pinkie Sense somehow makes sense. I don't see how it does, but it just does! Just because I don't understand doesn't mean it's not true."
"Y-y-y-y-y-y-you-ou-ou-ou-ou me-e-e-e-e-a-a-a-an y-y-y-yo-o-u-u-u-u bel-i-i-i-i-e-e-e-v-e-e-e?" Pinkie was vibrating violently.
"Yup, I guess I do." Twilight admitted.
Pinkie's body turned into random shapes and sizes (which was really creepy), and she suddenly stopped. She gasped in realization.
"That was it! That's the doozy!"
We all stared at Pinkie for a second. Even Spike had to shake his head at the news.
"What? What is?" Twilight asked.
"You believing!" Pinkie told her. "I never expected that to happen, and that was the doozy! Oh, and oh what a doozy of a doozy it was!"
We all watched Pinkie trot down the mountain in bewilderment, like nothing happened. She even sang all the way down gleefully. That's Pinkie for you.
"Well, that just happened." I commented.
"What a day it's been, huh?" Applejack added. "How about we all head home before another monster appears?"
"Sounds like a good idea."
When I began walking, my left front hoof felt like it was burning. I looked and there was a huge scratch and a bruise. I winced at the sight.
"Star Blast, you're hurt!" Twilight saw my wound. She grabbed my hoof and checked it.
"I'm fine." I said, but my face showed the opposite. Applejack, Fluttershy and Spike checked on the wound too.
"Hmm, that's no good." Applejack said.
"Can you walk Star Blast?" Fluttershy asked worriedly.
I tried moving my hoof, but I couldn't tolerate the pain. The adrenaline I felt earlier definitely hid it. Spike went under and rested my hoof around his neck.
"Don't worry, I gotcha."
I smiled. "Thanks kid."
"Let's go home quick so we can patch it up." Twilight said, and we went down the mountain and back to Ponyville.
Applejack and Fluttershy had bid farewell once we reached the library. Spike continued his errands somewhere in town while Twilight was tending to my wound.
"You don't have to do this, you know. I can take care of it." I said.
"Relax, I know how to treat something like this." She sat down next to me with a gauze pad, bandages and a disinfectant. "Shining Armor used to come home with cuts and bruises back then because of his training. I watched my mom treat him, and it kinda stuck around in my head."
"I see." I nodded in understanding.
"Now, this is gonna sting just a bit." She patted my wound with the gauze pad dampened with disinfectant and my whole body jerked because of the prickling sensation.
"Woah, are you okay?"
I sighed. "I'm sorry. I'm really bad at handling pain."
"Well, with a wound like this, who wouldn't be." She said, and this was the pony who got squished by doors twice and fractured both of her hooves in a nasty fall hours ago. If I had to guess how she recovered so quickly, cartoon logic. It didn't apply to any pony sometimes, I presume.
After she disinfected the injury, she carefully covered it and wrapped the area around my hoof with the bandage. She stopped midway, and I looked at her frowning face.
"I… think I owe you too an apology. You know, because of how I acted to the Pinkie Sense." Twilight started.
"Yeah, you did go way overboard a few times." I responded. "But you were just sticking to your beliefs. I understand."
"It's not just that. Also, after what I put you through today, especially you with the Hydra."
"That wasn't your fault. That thing just appeared."
"I know, but I just can't help but think that I'm responsible for this." she gestured at my injury.
"Well, don't be." I told her. "It was my choice to stall that Hydra, so it's pretty much my fault that I injured myself. I mean, I'm extremely lucky that this is all I got from it. I will not let anything bad happen to my friends. That's a promise."
Twilight made a smile, and I gladly returned mine. My hoof was still being held by Twilight, who realized it and she let go, with an awkward laugh and rosy cheeks.
Spike entered the house after doing his errands for the day. "How's your hoof, Star Blast?"
"All fine and dandy, thanks to Twilight." I said.
"Good timing, Spike. Grab your quill and take a letter." Twilight instructed. "Dear Princess Celestia, I am happy to report that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can't explain, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less true. It just means you have to choose to believe in them, and sometimes, it takes a friend to show you the way. Always your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."
"Aaaaaand done!" Spike exclaimed. "Oh, and speaking of friend, Pinkie Pie's outside with an umbrella hat on."
"Is her tail twitching?" I asked.
"I dunno, maybe." Spike left and went up the stairs to deliver the letter.
Twilight and I decided to see her ourselves. Pinkie was outside with her hat on, and her tail was indeed twitching.
"Hey, you two!" she greeted when she noticed us. "My tail's a twitchin', so go grab your umbrella hats!"
Twilight, who knew better, immediately conjured a shield bubble around us. "No thanks, we're good."
"I wonder what's going to drop out of the sky this time." I questioned.
"You never knoooow~." Pinkie Pie mentioned playfully.
"Whatever it is, it better not be another delivery wagon." Twilight commented.
The window on the second floor opened and Spike was about to breath fire on the letter to send it. We heard a loud wooshing in the air, and from out of nowhere, Celestia herself landed on one of the tree's branches. All of us were surprised at her appearance.
"Twitchy tail?" Spike asked himself. Celestia waved at us before she grabbed the letter and flew up in the air without saying a single word. "Holy Guacamole!"
"So… that happened out of the blue." Twilight remarked.
"That's what the Pinkie Sense is capable of." I added.
I could certainly say that this is one of the weirdest days of my life, and that's all because of a pink pony's supernatural talent. Could it be surpassed? That all depends on her.
Author's Note!
Glad I finally finished this chapter. College is certainly a handful :|
My goal is to finish Season 1 of this story by the end of the year, but it's highly unlikely.
Anyway, feel free to leave a review. Hit a favorite and a follow if you wanna stick around, and I'll see you guys in the next chappie! Buh-bye! - Super Bright Brat
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