//------------------------------// // chapter 3: problems // Story: my little pony: tails of the devil fruit // by negativezero //------------------------------// As Twilight jabbed the metal pins into the fruits soft core and adjusted her goggles, the machines around her buzzed and hummed creating a rather unpleasant sounding melody throughout the basement of the library. It had been several days since the incident at sweet apple acres, and by this time, Twilight had managed (with the help of Apple jack and the others) to transfer the mysterious tree to a comically oversized plant pot and into her basements lab. Twilight had been working for a ridiculous amount of time for the last few days in the lab, she hadn’t left once apart from the times she needed to get books from the library or for her other needs, but she couldn’t stop, this tree was amazing, the way it acted, the way it grew, just EVERYTHING about it fascinated her. Twilight had been through many experiments on the tree and its fruit; she had dared not to eat any though. “Twilight?” called Spike from upstairs “How’s it going? Can I come in?” “YES come in” she replied in a rather cranky tired voice. Spike opened the door to the basement, letting the smell several days of hard work and insomnia make its way into his nostrils “You’ve been at this for DAYS, aren’t you gonna take a break?” Twilight continued her work completely oblivious to what Spike was saying, examining a slice of the fruit with a magnifying glass. This was a recurring thing with twilight, when she studied, she studied HARD, spending hours, sometimes even DAYS on what she was busy with (this being the case). “A BREAK?” boasted twilight “I can’t take a break NOW, these fruits are incredible! Do you have any idea what I’ve discovered?” “Hopefully athing called REST....” Spike said to himself Twilight went towards a filing cabinet crammed full of paper and files and flicked through them eagerly, she picked out a sheet of paper with writing on it. “Using a number of spells and going through experiments, I’ve managed to discover all kinds of things about this tree and its fruit!” she said excitedly “If a fruit is destroyed it’ll grow back on the tree in a matter of days!” Spike stared at her; he was getting kind of scared of Twilight.... “All except the one Pinkie ate, but my theory is that once a pony’s eaten one, it can’t grow back! And another thing!” she said as her ear twitched uncontrollably. “They’re all different from one another!” For the last few days Twilight hadn’t been the ONLY busy pony, Pinkiepie had also been busy experimenting with her newly found abilities, she had learned many things about herself since the accident involving the fruit, not to say she HATED her new gift, far from it, yes whenever she fell into water (which had been more than once in the last few days, which usually ended with Rainbowdash having to fish her out) she would sink like a stone, but Pinkie couldn’t help but see the POSITIVE part of being pink rubber ball of hyperactivity. “Ok, now watch THIS!” Pinkiepie cried swinging her front leg towards a pumpkin on top of a barrel. Rainbowdash stood and watched as Pinkipies front leg shot towards the pumpkin like a bullet, reducing it to a pile of orange mush and seeds. The two had spent the entire morning in the park, experimenting with a box of vegetables using Pinkies powers. “That was awesome!” cried Rainbowdash “What should we do next?” “Oooo! Well there was SOMETHING I wanted to try!” Pinkiepie walked over to the box now containing another pumpkin, a tomato and a couple of eggplants, Pinkiepie reached for the tomato. “I was thinking maybe I could get between two trees, and launch this tomato into the air!” “What you mean like.... use you as a catapult?” said Rainbowdash eagerly “Ye!” cried Pinkiepie Pinkie pie got between two trees in the park and wrapped her legs around each tree, after which Rainbowdash pulled her back and placed the tomato in the middle of Pinkiepie. “Ready?” asked Rainbowdash “Ready!” cried Pinkie pie Rainbowdash released Pinkie pie and the tomato went flying high into the sky, the two watching as it flew away, eventually becoming nothing. “That was awesome!” cried Rainbowdash as the two walked through Ponyville towards the library. “Next time we gotta try it with a watermelon- WAIT....TWO watermelons!” The two giggled and continued onwards. The two eventually reached the library. “So why did Twilight want us to come here again?” asked Pinkipie stretching her nose. “She wanted us to come over to see if she could sort something out about your whole rubber thing, I don’t remember fully” Rainbowdash knocked on the door.....no answer; she tried again...... once again, no answer. Rainbowdash was about to knock a third time when the door creaked open and out popped Twilight looking like something from a horror novel. “Whoa Twie what happened to YOU? Are you ok?” asked Rainbowdash “You seem to be re- “I’ve done something I REALLLLLLLY shouldn’t have” Twilight interrupted Rainbowdash stopped; her and Pinkiepie stared at Twilight with panicked looks on their faces. (Well not Pinkiepie, she was still busy stretching her nose and letting it snap back) “What?” asked Rainbowdash. Twilight sighed and raised a hoof into the air, and at the same time, so did another hoof the same colour as hers, but this was not attached to Twilight, it was sticking out of the ground flopping left to right like some kind of freakishly mutated weed.