The Cipher

by Dark Nightshade


The pranks begin

The sleepover was in full swing. Twilight and the girls were playing Life and eating snacks. Rarity rolled the dice and moved her piece across the board. She was the closest to the end.

"Why can't real life be this easy?" she wondered aloud. Twilight shrugged.

"People have different skills that could help them make it easier," she offered. "Being really good with magic certainly does." Rarity sighed.

"Well of course!" she said. "Of course being exceptionally good at magic makes life easier!" Rainbow Dash snickered as she rolled the dice.

"Honestly, why is this even an argument?" she asked.

"It's not," Twilight and Rarity said in unison.

"Well, duh!" Rainbow Dash said. "Just look at the princesses and how powerful they are!"

"True," Pinkie said as she moved her piece. "Just look at how much more powerful Twilight is now that she's an alicorn!"

"It has increased," Twilight commented.

"Exactly!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"I'm going to get something to drink," Twilight said. "Anyone want anything?"

"I'll take some lemonade, if you don't mind," Fluttershy said.

"Anyone else?" Twilight asked. Everyone else replied with no's. Twilight walked into the kitchen and poured a glass of lemonade for Fluttershy and some water for herself.

"Hey!" Bill whispered. Twilight jumped and looked around.

Where is he? Twilight thought.

"I'm down here!" Bill said. Twilight looked at the glasses she was holding with her magic and saw Bill in the lemonade.

"What are you doing in there?" Twilight hissed at him.

"Why not?" Bill said. "Anyway, back to the point: I felt like I should warn you that I'm going to start a few pranks."

"What kind of pranks?" Twilight asked. Bill snickered.

"I don't know," he said. "Don't worry, I won't kill anyone." Twilight sighed.

"Well, please don't embarrass Fluttershy!" Twilight said as she exited the kitchen.

"That was a long time just for some drinks," Rainbow Dash said. Twilight shrugged.

"I was thirsty," she lied and handed Fluttershy her drink. "So who's turn is it?"

"Yours," Rarity said. Twilight rolled the dice and was moving her piece when she heard Fluttershy's stomach growl. Twilight glanced up and saw Fluttershy blushing.

"Uh, sorry," she said as her stomach growled again. "Uh, where's the bathroom again?" Twilight pointed towards the kitchen.

"On the other side of the kitchen, on the left side of the hall," she said. Fluttershy stood up and started scurrying towards the bathroom, all the while her blush deepening.

"Did you put something in her drink?" Pinkie asked. "Is that why you were gone for so long?" Twilight was about to answer when they heard a loud and long sound.

"Was that Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I've never seen Fluttershy with a stomach this upset," Rarity said. "I've seen her with an upset stomach before, and this was nothing like it." They heard the monsters sound again. Rainbow Dash groaned.

"Discord must have done this," she said.

"He wouldn't do something like this to Fluttershy," Twilight said. "You've seen the amount of control she has over him."

"Yeah, but the lemonade was in you're house," Rainbow Dash said. "I don't think he would know if anyone else would drink it, besides from Spike."

"I'm going to go see if I can help," Twilight said, standing up and walked towards the bathroom. If she had been blind, she would have been able to locate it be smell alone. Twilight gagged as she hit a nasty stench cloud.

"Fluttershy?" she called. "Are you ok?"

"I am so sorry!" Fluttershy called out. "My stomach has never reacted like this to lemonade before!"

"It's ok!" Twilight said. "I may know a spell for this!"

"Please cast it!" Fluttershy called out. "This is so embarrassing!" Just then Bill appeared in front of Twilight. Twilight scowled at him.

"I told you to not embarrass Fluttershy to much!" Twilight hissed at Bill. Bill shrugged.

"I didn't think she would get so embarrassed!" he whispered. "Besides, I didn't know that that was Fluttershy! You should have told me what she looked like!" Twilight growled and mentally punched herself for making a mistake like that.

Chaos lords, she thought.

"Thank you!" Fluttershy called out.

"For what?" Twilight asked.

"Casting the spell!" Fluttershy said. "I'm starting to feel a bit better!" Just then she farted again, as if to destroy the meaning of what she had just said. "Sorry!" Twilight sighed and looked at Bill.