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// Boast Busters 
// Story: All the Elements for Disaster 
// by Radicool223 
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AT TWILIGHT’S LIBRARY

“C’mon Twilight, this is the only spell you haven’t done yet, you can do it!” Spike encouraged, leaning forward to make it easier for Twilight to cast her spell on him. Twilight’s horn glowed and sparked purple.
In itchy sensation appeared on Spike’s upper lip and a bushy moustache sprouted on it.
Twilight wiped sweat off her brow and grinned, summoning a checklist and marking the last check box on it. “Sheesh, that’s difficult, but that’s trick 23.”
Spike was stroking his moustache, but it disappeared when Twilight cast the counter-spell. “Hey!”
“Sorry Spike, but this is only for practice purposes only, so it has to go.” Twilight reasoned with a slight smile.
Spike let his shoulders sag. “Fine.”

ONE TITLE SEQUENCE LATER

Twilight and Spike wandered through Ponyville.
“Come one, come all, to see the great and powerful Trixie!” a voice projected out from the town square.
“Who with the what now?” Spike questioned. The two ran to the square where a blue unicorn in a wizard hat and matching cloak was performing cheesy magic tricks in front of a huge crowd, including their friends.
“Watch in awe as the great and powerful Trixie, the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria, shows you her most amazing exploits!” the unicorn, identified as Trixie cried, darkening the sky a little bit and making fireworks appear.
The fireworks depicted a cartoony version of a giant bear and the unicorn fighting. “The great and powerful Trixie vanquished a great Ursa Major with one spell!” the unicorn announced, making the Ursa Major explode into sparks. “That gave her the title of the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria!”
“What!” Spike yelled in outrage. “There’s no way that this unicorn is more magical than Twilight! Twilight’s the most magical unicorn… uh… heh… hi Rarity.” He trailed off as he looked up at his crush and looked embarrassed. “Uhhh, moustache!” he ran off.
Rainbow Dash flew up into the air “Whoa, whoa, whoa! We don’t need somepony around here to be better than us!” she put on a sly smile. “That’s my job.”
“Exactly!” Cobalt yelled from his vantage point in the crowd. “Wait, what?”
“Hmph.” Trixie sneered. “Well, if you choose to play it that way, Trixie will prove to you that anything you can do, she can do better.”
“Is that so?” Applejack called, pulling out her lasso. “Watch this!” she hurled the rope at an apple on a cart and lassoed it, bringing it back toward her and taking a bite.
The crowd roared in approval, sure Trixie was beat.
Trixie simply rolled her eyes and used her magic to make the rope act like a snake and wave back and forth, putting Applejack into a hypnotism-like trance. The rope lunged forward and tied her up, and then an apple jammed itself into her mouth.
Applejack hopped off while Rarity approached Trixie. “You may able to beat that farmpony with your roughhousing, but in civilized fashion, I am superior.”
“Trixie thinks not.” Trixie said, her horn glowing. Rarity looked around, noticing the looks that she was getting.
“What.” Rarity said in nervous apprehension. “What did she do?”
Pinkie hesitantly held up a mirror. Rarity looked into the mirror and screamed, her hair was a vomit-green mess. She ran off, shrieking, “Green! Green isn’t even in this season!” causing a nearby earth pony with a green mane to narrow her eyes in anger.
“Okay, that’s it!” Rainbow yelled, flying up into the sky and bursting through several clouds and getting the moisture droplets to follow behind her.
“You show her, Rainbow!” Cobalt encouraged, a little too loudly.
Rainbow dove back down and spun around a windmill several times, then flew back on the stage, letting the water droplets hit her back and make a rainbow around her, really showing off her color.
“They don’t call me rainbow and dash for nothing.” She announced, grinning.
Trixie sighed. “If I must.” She used her magic to grab the rainbow before it dissipated and spun it around Rainbow Dash, making her dizzy and nauseous.
Dash’s face turned green and her stomach heaved. “Ohhh. I don’t feel too good…” She covered her muzzle and ran over to a flowerpot, stuck her face into it, and sounds of retching were clearly heard. The flowers wilted comically.
A few seconds later she raised her head, her face still tinted green, and smiled weakly. “I think I’m better no–” her stomach heaved again. “Nope!” She started vomiting again.
Then, to add insult to injury, a stormy cloud appeared and zapped her in the flank, causing her to scream in a high-pitched voice.
Cobalt narrowed his eyes and growled aloud. Trixie noticed this and actually got a bit scared. Cobalt bit back his temper and grinned confidently, an insane, fiery look in his eyes. “You may be able to beat us with your home turf, but I have something you will never have. Flight!” He flew around at super speed, making shapes in the sky with his blue color trail.
Trixie knew she couldn’t beat him at his own game on this, so she decided to take away his playing field. She focused all her magic on making Cobalt’s wings useless, and they obliged, refusing to extend and glide.
He desperately tried to flap them and gain some air, but instead he fell like a missile down to earth, crashing into the ground and skidding several feet. He restrained himself from making any noise, but it was hard as he had gashes all along his stomach from cutting himself on the rocky ground while sliding.
He struggled to his hooves and limped off toward the library with a glare back at Trixie, leaving a faint, red spattered trail behind him.
The crowd was appalled at this; they could tolerate their citizens being humiliated, but actually wounding one of them was unspeakable (that’s why that never happens in the show, and why I decided to make this story a bit more grown up).
“Oh come on!” Spike (somehow back now; had probably circled around and come back) called. “Twilight, you’ve just got to show her you're better, you’ve just gotta!” Twilight started to sweat and used her magic to zip his mouth shut, then pulled him onto her back, running away and leaving the crowd staring uneasily at her retreat.

LATER

They met up with Cobalt at the library, him now bandaged.
“Twilight, you know that you can show her up, so why don’t you?” Cobalt asked, wincing as he sat down. Twilight squirmed under the question, she had an answer, but she didn’t like it.
“Uh, so… how did you know how to fix yourself up?” she countered with another question.
Cobalt raised an eyebrow at her dismissing his question, but didn’t ask about it. “Well, I feel like this kind of thing happens a lot to me. I just saw the bandages and knew what to do. Rainbow’s told me it happens to her too during flying practice. She’s gotten cuts and scrapes all over.” He noticed Twilight’s weird expression when he mentioned that Rainbow Dash actually failed some of her tricks. “Uhh, I think I’ve said too much.”
“Anyway, why didn’t you do to the stupid and pompous Trixie what she did to everyone else?” Spike reopened the question.
Twilight started to sweat and avoided the question by running out of the library.

MEANWHILE IN THE HALL OF STUPIDITY

Two young and slightly stupid unicorn colts who had been watching Trixie’s show wandered into the Everfree Forest to go try to find an Ursa Major.
One of them ran into the other and whined. “Oww! Snails, why is it so dark! Give us some light here!”
Snails focused really hard and lit his horn just a little bit.
The two proceeded a little farther and suddenly stopped. Snails spoke nervously. “Snips, is that you breathing?”
Snips froze completely. “No.”
“Then who is it?”
The two looked up slowly and saw a giant bluish bear with stars in its fur glowering down at them. Needless to say they screamed and ran.

AT THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE’S CART

Snips and Snails ran up to Trixie’s cart and started pounding on it. “O great and powerful Trixie, open up!”
The upper door to the cart opened and Trixie poked her head out. “What makes you disturb the great and powerful Trixie’s re–” she cut off when she saw the Ursa Major.
“Stop it like you did before!” the two colts pleaded.
“Uhh,” Trixie started to sweat and cautiously stepped out of the cart. Her horn glowed and she tried all the tricks she’d bragged about, but none of them worked.
“Ummm, the great and powerful Trixie will now… flee for her life! Ahhhhh!” Trixie ran away screaming.

BACK AT THE LIBRARY

Twilight looked up from her reading as Spike burst through the door.
“Twilight, we’ve got a huge problem! In fact, it’s a major problem!” Spike yelled.
“Um, by major, would you happen to mean Ursa Major?” Twilight asked apprehensively.
“WELL DUH!”
Twilight facehooved. “Okay, don’t worry. I’ve got this.”
“Good, because right now it’s whacking everypony around and Rainbow and Cobalt have gotten a few nasty cuts from trying to rescue them!”
Spike pulled her out of the library and in front of the giant bear just as Rainbow was backhanded and dug a ditch into the ground in front of them, unconscious.
The ponies who were running scared suddenly stopped and started pleading for Twilight to save them.
Twilight took a deep breath and focused her magic on a water reservoir that oddly looked like a bottle. It glowed with a soft lavender light and levitated up out of its resting place. It swung down like a pendulum and emptied its contents, then flew through a farmhouse door and out the other door, causing several cows to moo in annoyance. The reservoir then hovered over to the Ursa Major, who dropped Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie and started to drink the milk from the cows out of it.
Twilight released her hold on the reservoir; moving it to the Ursa Major and making her horn start sparking purple with the strain of lifting such a big object.
She levitated the now sleeping Ursa Major into the Everfree Forest, then back into its cave.
She finally lifted her levitation spell and exhaled in exhaustion. “Whew.”
The crowd who had gathered to see this amazing feat cheered in triumph.
Rainbow woke up suddenly and relaxed slowly, seeing that the bear was gone.
“How did ya do that, Twi?” Applejack asked in awe.
“When Trixie mentioned an Ursa Major, I did some reading up on them. But it turns out that wasn’t an Ursa Major at all. It was only an Ursa Minor, a baby.” Twilight informed her friends.
Cobalt’s eye twitched. “If that was a baby, then what does an Ursa Major look like?”
Twilight smiled slightly. “You don’t want to know.”

IN THE CAVE IN THE EVERFREE FOREST

A giant-er purple colored bear with sharp fangs and red eyes stroked its newly returned baby.

BACK IN PONYVILLE

“So back on the question from before, why didn’t you beat Trixie in the first place anyway?” Spike pressed.
Twilight blushed. “I know I’m good at magic and all, but I didn’t want to show it in front of everypony and look like a boastful jerk.”
“We wouldn’t think that of you at all, darling.” Rarity said.
“Yeah, as long as ya didn’t go braggin’ about it like somepony we know.” Applejack shot a pointed glare at Trixie, who was sitting in the crowd.
Trixie looked left, then right, as if she was expecting somepony to stand up for her, then growled. “You haven’t seen the last of the great and powerf–”
“Ah shut up will ya!” Rainbow yelled.
Trixie growled one last time and used a magic smokescreen to visibly run away.
“And as for you.” Twilight said, rounding on Snips and Snails, who were slowly slipping away. They turned around and started cowering.
“W-we were just trying to give Trixie a chance to prove herself and she turned out to be a fraud a-and PLEASE DON’T HURT US!” they stammered.
“I think they deserve number twenty three, don’t you agree, Twilight?” Spike suggested.
Twilight narrowed her eyes in mock anger. “I think you’re right Spike, number twenty three it is.” Her horn started to glow again, and the two colts squeezed their eyes shut while Spike leaned forward.
Big bushy moustaches sprouted on all three of them, and the two colts opened their eyes. All three did a triple high hoof/five, yelling, “Sweet!”
All would’ve been well after that, if not for an explosion and the sound of crackling flames in the distance.
The crowd fled in chaos again, while the Elements, Cobalt, and Spike turned to see what was going on. A shiny blue figure hovered through the air over a row of buildings and landed in front of them, wreathed in flames.
“Who the hay are you and why are you destroying our home?” Rainbow asked it threateningly, while Fluttershy hid behind the rest of them and the others looked at it in bewilderment, all except for Cobalt, who was itching for a fair fight with something his size. He got into a battle stance.
“I AM THE TRUE SONIC.” The thing said in a monotonous voice. “I AM METAL SONIC.”
“Who with the what now?” Spike asked for the second time in one day.
“I HAVE COME TO DESTROY THE ONE NOW KNOWN AS COBALT SPIKES.” The thing that had identified itself as Metal Sonic announced, pointing one clawed finger at Cobalt. “NOW WE SHALL DUEL TO THE DEATH.”
“You mean your death.” Cobalt said. “You ready for this, Rainbow?”
“Have you forgotten who you’re talking to?” Rainbow asked, brushing some fresh blood off her foreleg. “Let’s do this!”
The two sides charged each other.
Metal Sonic hummed with the unmistakable sound of charged electricity, and Cobalt made the mistake of trying to buck him. Electricity flooded his system, and he screamed in pain, nearly blacking out.
“Cobalt!” Rainbow yelled. “You piece of–” she hurled herself faster than she’d ever tried to go before at Metal Sonic out of rage.
Metal Sonic backhanded her, which she was really sick of having done to her. Cobalt had clung to consciousness just long enough to see that, and would’ve passed out if rage hadn’t flooded his system and given him an extra boost of adrenaline.
He summoned up the last bit of energy he could get, and flew high up into the air. Metal was too focused on Rainbow to notice him diving down and accumulating speed.
Metal began to lower a laser blaster at Rainbow’s head.
The mach cone began to form around Cobalt.
Metal locked on target.
Cobalt’s cheeks were pulled back from the rush of the wind around him.
Metal started to tense his robotic finger.
A millisecond passed, and then a huge explosion was heard for miles around, followed closely by the expansion of a dark blue ring.
Cobalt had created a sonic rainboom, pulled up at the last second, and then sky uppercutted Metal Sonic high into the air.
Pinkie followed the path of Metal until it passed behind her, then held up both forelegs and yelled, “It’s good!”
Cobalt flew back down into Ponyville, using the long street leading up to where his friends were as a landing strip and letting the boost from his sonic rainboom fade.
Fluttershy let her jaw drop. “A sonic rainboom. I-I’ve heard of them before in legend, but I’ve never actually thought one existed.”
Cobalt nodded as if he liked what it was called. “Sonic rainboom, eh?”
“Yeah, but there weren’t any of the pretty colors with it.” Pinkie pointed out.
“True,” Cobalt agreed. He grinned. “Call it... a sonic boom.”
“Sounds good to me.” Twilight said.
“That's for sure!” Applejack let her feelings about the name be known.
“But what about Rainbow Dash?” Rarity asked, nodding to their friend, who was struggling to her hooves.
“Oh Celestia.” Cobalt muttered, running over to his friend and desperately checking for injuries.
“Jeez, I’m fine.” Rainbow assured him weakly. “I don’t need a second dad.”
“Sorry.” Cobalt said, giving her a big hug. “I just don’t want you to get hurt.”
“But on the topic of the thing that just nearly killed her,” Twilight interrupted. “What the heck was that?”
All of them stared at Cobalt as if he would have the answer.
“What, me?” he asked, shrugging. “In case you haven’t noticed, I have no flipping memory.”
“Sheesh, memory loss, enemies, chaos emeralds, it seems our lives are getting crazier every day.” Twilight commented.
“Hey, it was part of the package deal, signing up to be an element of harmony.” Rainbow reasoned.
“We didn’t sign up,” Applejack said dryly.

MEANWHILE IN THE EVERFREE FOREST

A cloaked colt approached a hut in the middle of the woods, knocking on the door.
A sleepy looking zebra opened the door. “Who is it here, disturbing my rest? At nighttime for this, it is not the best.”
The colt ignored her question. “I take it you are Zecora?”
“Yes, that is me, but who would you be?”
“I need a big favor of you.” The colt announced, his light blue eyes darting left, and then right furtively.
“It seems you are the object of a hunt. Tell me what it is that you want.” Zecora asked wisely.
“Take this.” The colt pulled a glowing green gem out of his saddlebags. “And give it to who you think owns it.” The cloak’s hood fell off, revealing a yellow pony with a darker yellow mane.
“Ah, now that you have taken off your mask, I will do the thing which you ask.” Zecora said with a nod. She calmly took the gem and brought it inside her hut, leaving the colt to dash away in a hurry.