A Flim Flam Situation

Today, Kelly and Osaka have met up with each other once again. Thanks to Kelly, Swift and Shower, Osaka is a good flyer once again. "Kelly," said Osaka, "You're a good friend. I'm really happy to have met you." "Thanks," giggled Kelly.

But then, the two ponies heard a strange sound. "What's that noise?" asked Osaka. "I'm not sure," Kelly replied, and then she looked at where the sound is coming from. "Oh no," groaned Kelly, "It can't be." "What?" Osaka asked.

A large machine chuffed into full view. It is piloted by two unicorn ponies who almost look alike. "Man, they're sure a teamwork bunch," said Osaka, "Piloting that thing like it depends on it." "I can't be," groaned Kelly.

The machine, which almost looks like a giant spider with multiple legs and arms, settled down. Also, the way it moves, it looks like it hadn't been put together properly.

"Well, brother" said one of the two unicorn ponies, "Looks like this town is a perfect place to demonstrate our new machine." "You're right there, brother," said the other. "Hey!" a pony said out loud, "Who are you two?"

"Why I'm Flam," said one of the unicorns, "And this is my brother, Flim." "Right!" the other unicorn said. "We're the Flim Flam brothers!" the two unicorns said together. "Oh," said Osaka, "The Flim Flam brothers?"

All of the ponies gathered around the brother's odd machine. "Hey, wait a minute," Kelly said stomping up to the two, "I remember you two! You're those crazy ponies that nearly destroyed my school with that bad excuse of a earthquake machine!"

"You know these brothers?" asked Osaka. "Not really," said Kelly, "But I have seen them." Flim looked at Kelly. "You've seen her before?" Flim asked Flam. "Nope," answered Flam, "I don't think I have and I don't remember some school."

"Have you two forgotten that you've nearly destroyed my school with your machine many years ago?!" Kelly asked furiously. "Hmm," the two brothers thought for a moment. "Nope," answered Flam, "Never been to a school." "Well," said Osaka, "If they say they don't remember."

"Then you two better not cause any trouble here in Fillydelphia!" Kelly burst out. "If you say so," said Flam. "So what are you guys here for?" asked Osaka.

"We're here to show everypony in Fillydephia our latest invention," announced Flim. "The Ultimate Picker-Upper!" finished Flam. "So that's why it's shaped like an armed spider," said Osaka.

"Tired of picking things up yourselves?" asked Flam. "Don't worry," said Flim, "The Ultimate Picker-Upper can do it for you!" "Demonstrate!" said Flam.

The two brothers fired their magic onto the machine and it did what they said it would to. "It's powered by unicorn magic," said Flam. One of its multiple arms picked up a cart loaded with oranges and took it away.

"Ok," the pony who was pulling the cart said, "I was going to deliver it to the market." He chased after his car just as the machine placed it in the market place. "Oh," the pony said as he arrived, "Thank you."

Everypony was impressed of the machine. "Fine then," said Kelly, doubtfully, "But don't make any mistakes!" "What's going on?" asked Osaka. But Kelly didn't answer his friend's question.

For most of the day, the Flim Flam brothers were true to their word. But Kelly remained suspicious about the two unicorn brothers. "So what happened with those Flim Flam brothers?" Osaka asked Kelly.

"Well," Kelly began, "You see, when I was a teenager and I was presenting my final school project, these two ponies brought a pressure machine bomb to school. Technically, it was supposed to be an apple storage tank. They screwed that up and it exploded. It nearly destroyed my school, but then I set my magic to overdrive and I stopped the destruction myself. That's how I earned my cutie mark."

"I see," said Osaka, "You save a whole school by yourself? Amazing!" "Well, if it weren't for the Flim Flam brothers," said Kelly, "I thought I would never see them again after what had nearly happened on that day."

"Well," said Osaka, "I see. And congratulation on earning your cutie mark from saving the day!" "Thanks," smiled Kelly.

Meanwhile the ponies were amazed by the Flim Flam brother's multi-armed machine doing the picking up and moving for them.

Then suddenly, just as the machine was getting ready to move a tree, it stopped working. "Hmm," thought Flim. "Uh," a Pegasus pony said, "Wasn't it supposed to pick up my tree?" "Uh, yes," answered Flim, "Brother, magic power overload 2.0!"

"You've got it, brother!" Flam said in response. The two unicorns fired the magic at their machine.

Unfortunately, they've overloaded the system and the machine threw the tree away. "I think we've made a mistake, Flim," said Flam. "That's a no-no?" asked Flam.

The machine then grabbed a whole building and tossed it aside like a used tissue. This sent everypony in Fillydelphia running and screaming in terror.

At the same time, Kelly and Osaka were on their way home when they saw the tree flying through the air. "A flying tree?" asked Osaka, "I didn't know Cloudsdale had just come up with that."

"Or really," said Kelly, "There's trouble in Fillydelphia! Come on!" Kelly charged towards the city as Osaka followed. "Look!" shouted Osaka. He and Kelly saw a earth pony being grabbed by the now out-of-control machine and being thrown away. This made all of the ponies change their mind about the machine.

"Hold on!" Osaka shouted and he managed to save the earth pony. "There you go," he said. "Thank you," the pony said as Osaka let him down. "Kelly!" Osaka shouted. Kelly saw that the machine was about to stomp on a mother pony and her child.

"Hold on!" Kelly shouted, "Magic barrier, activate!" Kelly used her magic to save the mother and her child. The machine's foot ended up breaking off when coming in contact with Kelly's magic shield. "There," sad Kelly, "You two should be safe."

"Thanks," the mother called. "You've messed up our machine!" Flim said to Kelly, "It can't walk anymore!" Then Osaka grabbed Flim and took him high into the air. "I'm afraid of heights!" whimpered Flim. "Are you dense?" Osaka asked sternly, "Your machine is going berserk! Now stop it!" "We can't do that now!" Flim replied, "We've set it to overdrive and now it's impossible to turn it off."

"Osaka!" Kelly called, "Forget him! We have to stop this machine before it destroys Fillydelphia!" "You got it!" replied Osaka. He dropped Flim into the lake and teamed up with Kelly. "Everypony!" Kelly shouted, "Evacuate! Evacuate!"

"Right!" agreed Osaka, "Evacuate!" All of the ponies left their homes and escape to safety as the machine continued its rampage throughout the city.

"All right," Osaka said, "This machine is obsessed with picking up things. I'll keep it distracted while you try to find a way to take it down." "You got it!" agreed Kelly.

"Will it be in once piece?" asked Flam. But of course, Kelly ignored him. The machine did notice Osaka flying around and tried to grab him. "Hah!" Osaka bragged, flying in between the machine's legs, "Do you think you can become a pretzel? Well, give it a try, you oversized trash can!"

The machine tried to grab Osaka, but because he was flying tall over the place, the machine kept missing him. "Now for the power source," said Kelly, "When this thing goes down, it's over!" Osaka's plan worked.

In an attempt to grab him, the machine ended up breaking all of its arms and because it's missing one foot, it could not keep its balance and collapsed from overworking. "The arms have been worn out!" declared Osaka, "Thank you once again, Kelly!" The machine collapsed to the ground.

Then Flim ran up to Flam.

"Uh oh," said Flim. "They're ruining our machine!" said Flam. The two unicorn brothers cried at what is about to happen next. Kelly ripped off the main panel and found the power source. "This is it," thought Kelly, "Unicorn magic." Kelly jammed her horn into the power source and began absorbing the magic out of it.

"If I could drain this monstrosity of unicorn magic," thought Kelly, "It's over!" "Kelly!" Osaka called, watching his friend destroying the machine. "No magic," cried Flam, "It's going to self destruct!" The two brothers cried even more. "Kelly," shouted Osaka, "Get out of there!"

"Right!" Kelly replied dizzily and she got out of the way wobbly, "Ugh, it felt like I took all the magic out of Princess Celestia! Well, time for me to find a good use for it!" She then used the magic that she drained from the power source to enclose the ruined picking up machine in a force field.

The machine exploded. Because of the force field, the explosion did not destroy the city. After the force field had disappeared after the explosion, Kelly returned to normal.

"Whew!" she sighed, "What a day!" "You can say that, a lot of times," Osaka smiled, flying down to his friend. "Yeah!" agreed Kelly, "What a day." "Say Kelly," said Osaka, "Did you really felt like Princess Celestia with all that magic you drained out of that sorry trash heap?"

"Kind of," answered Kelly, "But I have no interest in becoming a princess Alicorn pony myself any time." "Nonetheless," said Osaka, "I still like you." "Thank you," said Kelly, "And you were great yourself. Flying to get that scrap metal all tangled up."

"Again," said Osaka, "Thanks to you!" "Oh, Osaka," giggled Kelly.

The two ponies hugged each other as every other pony returned and cheered for both Kelly and Osaka. "You're heroes!" a pony said. "You've saved all of us!" another pony said.

All of the ponies cheered with joy and happiness. "We really have proven ourselves today," smiled Osaka. "Right," agreed Kelly, "We have."

Then Osaka and Kelly noticed Flim and Flam trying to sneak away. "You two!" Osaka shouted, pointing at the brothers. "Oh, hey," said Flim, "We're leaving now!"

"Hey!" Kelly shouted at the two cowardly unicorns, "You two!" "What?" asked Flim. "You've nearly destroyed Fillydelphia, you reckless idiots!" shouted Osaka. "Oh," said Flim, "We're were on our way to another town and try our machine there!" All of the ponies stared angrily at the brothers.

"Are you two really stupidheads?!" Kelly said angrily, "Your pressure time bomb nearly destroyed my old school and everypony in it! Years ago! Just a reminder!" "Have you already forgot about this event, too?!" asked Osaka angrily.

"What did you say?" asked Flim. "I don't know what you're talking about," said Flam. Just then, bits of the destroyed machine sprung up and hit the brothers on their heads.

"I had a feeling that we've deliberately forgotten that moment years ago," said Flam, knocked out. "The unicorn is right," said Flim, "And I did get a brief glimpse of her back then." "Oh, good," said Kelly, "You idiots remembered me. Well, almost."

"And now, you remember this day," said Osaka, "Get it into your heads!" "What did you say?" asked Flam.

"Get out!" all of the ponies shouted. The ponies grabbed bits of the ruined machine and threw them at Flim and Flam. "Time to run away like cowards?" asked Flim. "Yes, brother," answered Flam, "So run away like cowards!"

The Flim Flam brothers have been ran out of Fillydelphia, never to set hoof back into it ever again. "And take your trash can with you!" the unicorn ponies shouted, throwing away the wrecked machine with their magic, maybe onto to the brothers.

"Looks like we won't have troubled with those failed salesponies again," said Kelly. "Looks like that is the final stand," agreed Osaka. "So," said Kelly, "I'm tired from that event, let's go home." "Ok," agreed Osaka.

But before they left, they were greeted with another cheer of happiness from everypony in Fillydelphia. "Uh, maybe after this celebration," said Kelly. "I have to agree," said Osaka.