"Who is it?" Ah asked.
"Yeah," Sweetie Belle asked. "Who is it?"
"It doesn't look like changlings, though I can't be sure." Cobalt replied.
"If it's not changelings, then who is it?" Scootaloo queried.
"I'm not sure," he answered. "They sure do look important, though."
"And they're comin' closer," Ah warned. "We should really go."
"No it's fine. They aren't changelings." He assured us.
"And how do we know you aren't one?" Ah questioned.
"You don't." He said.
"Hey, don't pick on him. We only just met him!" Sweetie intervened.
"Mah point exactly." Ah retorted. "We don't know 'im."
"I'm sorry, but you can't leave." Cobalt said.
"And wha not?" Ah asked. Ah turn to see behind me just as Ah git smacked upside the head.
"That's why." He said, just before Ah lost consciousness.
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"Hey, Apple Bloom," Ah heard Sweetie's voice. "You okay?"
"Yeah, A'm okay," I agreed. "Ouch," I said, feeling a pain in the back of mah head. "Ah thought that was in a dream."
"You had a dream where you got hit in the head too?" Sweetie asked.
"Yea-wait what? You dreamt the same thing?" Ah inquired. "What was that phrase we were supposed to remember?"
"Wasn't it pickled berries and cucumber juice?" Sweetie reminded me.
"Hey, how did you know that? That was in my dream!" Scootaloo exclaimed, finally awake.
"Oh mah gosh! We were all in the same dream! And look at the story." Ah told them.
"It's different! But how-" Sweetie Belle was cut off. Ah had an epiphany.
"It must be the pencil! It had the weird markin's on it," Ah told the others. "It must have some magical powers er somethin'."
"You sure it's the pencil?" Scootaloo asked.
"Yeah, I mean, what else could it be?" Ah supplied. What else could it be? Well, only one way ta find out. "Let's go ta Twiltight's and ask 'er. She knows about a lot of magic stuff. I'm sure she could figure it out."
"Yeah, we'll do that, seeing as it's our best choice," Sweetie agreed.
"Alright, let's go," Scootaloo decided, already halfway to the door.
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"Where did you girls get this?" Twilight asked. Gettin' ta her library was easy enough, but the hard part was still to come. "It has ancient runes on it that not even I can read!"
"Well, I found it outside the school, and we already used it to write a chapter," Scootaloo said, resulting in a quizzical look from Twilight.
"You already used it? What were the effects? Were there any in the first place?" Twilight asked, bubbling with questions.
"Whoa there Twilight. Could we do one question at a time?" Ah inquired.
"Oh, right. Of course." She conceded, letting us answer her first question.
"Yes we already used it," Sweetie Belle contributed. "And yes, it did seem like there were some effects."
"Yes, and what were they?" Twi asked.
"Well, we fell asleep and all of us had the same exact dream. Did we dream together?" Scootaloo inquired.
"Yes, it seems you did," Twilight confirmed, pulling out a clipboard. "It looks like the pencil created a low range, subconscious telepathic field connecting the three of you and let you dream together."
"In English please?"
"You were able to connect to each other through your heads and dream the same dream."
"Thank you," Scootaloo replied.
"Now, did anything else come up?" Twilight asked.
"Well, when we woke up, we all had our heads a hurtin' where we got knocked in our dream and what we had written had changed," Ah supplied.
"Wait, the story changed according to your dream? Wha-how?" Twilight stuttered, almost losing hold of her clipboard. "I'm sorry girls, but I'm going to have to keep this to show this to princess Celestia."
"Alright, we're gonna go now." Ah stated. As we started walking away, I suddenly felt the urge to drop from where Ah was standin'. "Wooh, Ah'm suddenly real *yawn* tired," Ah said sleepily, stumbling so quickly that Ah almost fell on mah face.
"Yeah, me too," Sweetie agreed. Suddenly, Ah saw the earth spin, and felt the ground slam into me. The last thing I saw was Twi running up to us and yelling, "Girls. Girls!" before Ah saw no more.