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Things calm down since Shining and Cadance's date at the House of Pony. Cadance begins coming by every once in a while, and it was wonderful for both of them. Luckily, since that incident, Twilight and the others kept out of their way whenever they're dating and need privacy.

Sometime later, Twilight and her friends have recruited new staff members into the House of Pony: Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst, Twilight Sparkle's student and her boyfriend. Starlight works out in being a waitress alongside Pinkie and Fluttershy, while Sunburst stays up front often to help out in greeting the guests with Rainbow and Rarity.

The two got used to their new jobs to the point of being good works: Sunburst helped out in mapping the whole entirely of the prop basement below. So whenever Twilight or her friends wanted to go down there for something, he is always there to help them out...

Of course, there was one show. Rainbow was out training with the Wonderbolts while Fluttershy was helping her animal friends at their new shelter home. As for Pinkie? Who knows? Plus, Shadow Dragon (the PM version) was unavailable. Luckily, Ben's best friend Flash Sentry and his girlfriend Sunset Shimmer was available to help out fill in for those jobs for a while.

But on to the fortunate part: somepony went down to the prop basement...taking not only the wrong pony with them but someone who he has a bit of rivalry with, even if both are related by blood...

Spike smiles as he begins the announcement, "And now, see the fun-filled antics of Lauren Faust's famous creations, one of them anyway, TWILIGHT SPARKLE!"

The audience applauds as Twilight gallop onto the stage. With a smile, she spoke, "Hey, everypony! Welcome to...." But the Alicorn was cut off as most of the lights in the area, especially the spotlight one, were off. "What the hay? Hey, what happened to the lights???"

"Who, who, who, who?" Twilight's owl Owlowiscious spoke repeatedly at the seating area.

"I kinda like the dark." Grogar spoke out at his table with a smirk. Of course, he is still scared of the dark, but the villain has since conquered his fear of it.

"I don't." Marble Pie mumbles as she shivers at the dark trees (from the Season 1 second part) frightfully.

"Hee hee, sorry, folks. We may have some minor difficulties. No worries, I will be back soon." Twilight apologized sheepishly. She left the stage to the backstage, seeing someone who she believes to be Ben. "Ben! Hey, did you forgot to ask AJ to cue the lights? What's wr..."

Twilight stopped as she saw, to her surprise, that the figure that she thought was her coltfriend wasn't Ben. The one standing there was Flash, wearing a copy of Ben's scarf, having a faux Triforce cutie mark sign on her flank as well as a faux brown mane and tail. The stallion turned to her, giving a sheepish smile to his friend.

"Hey, Twilight!" Flash said with a shrug as Dragoking came backstage, obviously looking for Ben. The Hydragoon is still ticked off for what happened last episode.

"Yeah, very cute. You look just like Ben." Twilight said. Dragoking, hearing this, glares at "Ben" and growls. "No, no, Dragoking! That isn't the real Ben, it's just Flash!"

Dragoking growls, grunting a bit as he sniffs the nervous Pegasus. Then the Hydragoon shakes his head and continues his search for the one who wronged him.

"So where is Ben anyway?" Twilight ask as she looks around in concern. "We don't have any special acts planned for today."

"Oh, no worries. Ben will be back soon, I'm sure of it. I'm sure he's just rummaging around in the prop basement, trying to find you a nice birthday surprise for you." Flash said happily. Dragoking, hearing that, groans as he slaps his forehead with his claw.

"Oh my gosh! It's my birthday already?!" Twilight gasps in shock and alarm. The mare was so busy lately that she has forgotten about her birthday until now! "Oh man, how could I forget already?!"

"But don't tell yourself that Ben went to get your birthday surprise. Otherwise, you may ruin it for yourself." Flash said with a happy smile. Dragoking just rolls his eyes while sighing. Too late for that!

"Prop Basement?!" Twilight yelps as she looks towards the direction of the basement. "The same place where we put the props from our past episodes and fan-fictions, future fan-fictions that didn't happened yet, as well as props from past generations of My Little Pony from Gen to the previous one with the pretty ponies?! THAT prop basement?!"

"Yep, same place." Flash remarks with a shrug, causing Twilight to groan. The prop basement is so big, one can get lost in it for years without knowing how to get through it.

"Oh great! Ben must be lost down there, like everyone is when they go down..." Twilight pauses a bit, then realizes something, making her smile. "...unless he takes Sunburst with him! Yeah! That unicorn may be new here, but he mapped the whole basement and knows his way around! Sunburst can zip right down and go back up whenever we need something down there! Yeah! Ben must've taken Sunburst with him, right?"

"I'll check." Flash said as he takes out a walkie and pushes a button to speak into it. "Hey, Sunburst! How fast can you get over to the backstage area?"

"Uh, I'm here right now." A familiar unicorn said as he arrives on the scene with a smile. "What can I do you for?"

"Oh, well, Twilight here wanted to know if you went with Ben to the prop basement."

"Well, no, not really. But I do recall Ben taking Starlight downstairs with him a few moments ago."

"Wait, what?! He took Starlight with him?!" Twilight's eyes widened in alarm as she gasps. "But Starlight hasn't mapped the area yet! Hay, she couldn't even find her away around the castle! Oh, what could be worst?"

"Oh, did I mentioned Ben also took Strikespell with him?" Sunburst added, making Twilight more worried. Not good, Ben and Strikespell may be half-brothers but they aren't actually the best of friends.

"Not good. Flash, get Sunset and Rarity over here now. We got to make a game plan."

Unless Ben, Starlight and Strikespell get back here in 10 minutes, we're going on a rescue mission." Twilight said seriously. Who knows what trouble those mentioned three would get down there?

At this moment all the way downstairs, we see a box marked "Flim and Flam's Robots", near a set piece of the Everfree Forest, past the Midnight Castle props for the Rescue at Midnight Castle pilot, a little to the left of the set piece for the town from "My Little Pony Tales", as well as deep in woods set up for Camp Everfree, the mentioned trio saw some signs nearby.

"All right, Starlight, any idea where to go to next?" Ben ask Starlight curiously and a bit impatiently.

"Well, so far we have gone "this way" and "that way"...so we need to go "yonder"." Starlight said as she points a hoof at the direction of the third sign. "I don't imagined that the humans from the EQG World would have signs like that."

"I still say we should've taken Sunburst with us." Strikespell said to his half-brother dryly, causing Ben to frown deeply at him. "You never seem to think these through."

"At least, I'm giving Starlight a chance. Come on." Ben said as he, Starlight and Strikespell headed onward. Twilight's student walks down locations as the group moves onward.

Starlight is mapping out the area now. At least this time, she will know her way around!

Returning to the backstage area, Twilight, Sunset, Flash (still in the Ben outfit), Dragoking, Rarity and Sunburst gathers around to listen to the princess explaining, "And that's the gist of it. Now, we'll wait until the first cartoon is over. If Ben, Strikespell and Starlight aren't back by then, most of us will have to go down there to rescue them."

"Okay. I'll go and get the rescue gear!" Flash said as he goes over to a nearby closet and open the door...just in time to see a big backpack about to fall out. "Huh? What the..?"

A giant pile of rescue gears fall on him to the ground. He groaned in pain while muffling, "Ouch. Sure wish I have Pinkie Sense."

Twilight sighed, "Sunset, Sunburst, help Flash out. I'll introduce the cartoon. And when we begin rescuing my boyfriend, I don't want any of us get lost. And more importantly, no eating Ben, Dragoking. Understand?"

Sunset Shimmer groaned and grunted as she struggled in getting Flash Sentry out from rescue gear.

Rarity pause, smirking as if having an idea. She raises a hoof to speak, "Twilight darling, who will be in ch..."

"Hold that thought, Rarity." Twilight then slid back to the backstage which is now all lit up by now. The folks applauds as she speaks, "All right, everypony! Here's a cartoon which we just lost...AND now found!"

JUSSONIC PRESENTS...

A TWILIGHT SPARKLE, RAINBOW DASH AND PINKIE PIE CARTOON

Twilight Sparkle and the Color Caper

All was peaceful in Ponyville. Inside her cottage, Fluttershy was yawning as he prepares to get to sleep for the night. The yellow Pegasus pony sighs as she gets himself comfortable.

But as Fluttershy prepares to sleep, she is unaware that a shadowy figure was lurking...making an ear-splitting sound which woke her up.

"What? Who's there?!" Fluttershy yelps as she looks around. The shadowy figure disappeared just as she turns the light back on.

Fluttershy looks horrified as she looks around. Her room...and she looks at herself in horror. All the color is gone, including herself! To make matters worse, her animal friends came in, all of their colors are gone too!

Fluttershy goes to the window with the animals. The mare gasps as the whole area has just turned black and white. There's no color to be found at all!

Now, at this moment, Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie were in their building on their new job for this month, changing their occupation every month per usual. This month, they were running a lost and found.

Inside the building, the phone rang as the trio digs around through the boxes like mad. Twilight exclaims, "Where the hay is that phone?!"

"Hoo boy, I think I lost it!" Pinkie yelps as she tossed out stuff, Rainbow has to move to avoid being hit by them. The Pegauss pony yelps as she catch a trophy and almost tripped over a cord, much to the mare's notice.

Twilight grabs the cable to follow it. Sure enough, there's the phone, right in Pinkie's mane!

The pink pony, noticing, giggles as she exclaims, "Wow! I thought I heard ringing in my ears!"

Twilight rolls her eyes as she pulls the phone out of her friend's mane as she answers it, "Hey! Equestrian Lost and Found! If we cannot find it, it isn't lost!" However, to the mare's notice, the phone hung up by itself. "Hello, hello? I guess we must've lost the connection."

Just then, a knock is heard at the door. The trio answers, "Come in!" As the door opens up, the trio are surprised to see Mayor Mare coming in, colorless.

"Princess Twilight Sparkle! Everyone in Ponyville needs your help in finding something!" Mayor Mare exclaims to the trio in worry.

"Well, this is a Lost and Found so you came to the right place, Mayor." Twilight said with a smile, although she is still puzzled by the mayor's black and white look. "What do you need finding?"

"I mean, look!" The Mayor exclaims as she pushes buttons on a nearby machine to activate the monitor. Twilight is startled as she spotted images of Ponyville, Canterlot, Cloudsdale, etc. are in black and white, the folks are confused by what happened. "It's happening all over the place! Almost every city in Equestria has turned black and white, and Princesses Celestia and Luna lost their color, and can't use their magic get it back! So far, this area is the only one not effected yet. You got to help find where all the color has done."

"Well, no worries, Mayor! Rainbow, Pinkie and I will find those lost colors! Right, girls?" Twilight assures the Mayor as she turns to her friends...who appeared to be missing from the room. "Girls? Well, as soon as I find them, we will be right on the case!"

It didn't take long for Twilight to find her friends. Pinkie somehow got herself and Rainbow trapped in a pile of junk. Once the Alicorn filled the two in, they head out of the building with their magnifying glasses to begin searching for something unusual...they failed to see a weird looking car pulled up, making the ear-splitting sound as the color in the area begins to disappear from sight.

Twilight's group stills fail to notice the color disappearing from behind them. As they got on the road, the car pulled up, causing the girls to run into it.

"Hey, excuse me! The light was green, pal!" Twilight snaps to the driver of the car in annoyance. The light for the ponies trotting is green so they got the right away!

Twilight chose this time to look up and gasp in alarm. Pinkie's right, the spotlights has indeed turned black and white. In fact, as the heroines looks around, the whole area is in black and white now!

"All the color is gone except for us! Who is responsible for this?!" Twilight demanded. Sure enough, the driver rolls his window down to reveal himself to be a familiar red lipstick of a white make-up Earth Pony with a greenish spiky mane and short tail, wearing a white shirt, purple pants, and a purple suit. Upon seeing him, the Alicorn frowns in recognization. "Psychopath Joke! Of course, I should've known! You're the one who is taking away all the color!"

"Right, and you're next!" Psychopath Joke laughs madly as he took out a gun, aiming it right at the trio.

The trio tries to make a run for it, but it's too late. Psychopath Joke zaps the trio and sucks all the color out of them. To Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie's horror, they are all now in black and white.

"Ha ha ha ha! Joke's on you, girls! Well, as much as I would love to stay and chat, I must get going now. Here's an idea: get lost and don't come back!" Psychopath Joke taunted as he made a portal to the Dark Mystics Realm appear and drove into it as it closes behind himself.

Our heroines, now colorless, looks shocked and around before sighing, it looks like Psychopath Joke has won.

"Oh, let's face. We're lost and founders. We're losers." Pinkie said sadly as her mane flattens a bit.

Twilight pauses, then smiles as she spoke, "Girls, let's not give up yet, we're not losers! All we got to do is find Psychopath Joke's hideout! There's still a chance to get all the color back!"

Fortunately, the princess has an idea as she and her friends rushed back to the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom castle, which is now black and white. Regardless, the mare pulls out a book from her library which has the addresses of every Dark Mystics that Equestria has ever face.

"Let's see...Dark Curse, evil Shadow Dragon, Tech...ah, here it is! Psychopath Joke!" Twilight exclaims, finding the address for the villain in question. "He lives at Psychopath's Hideout Road!â€

"Oh yeah!" Rainbow exclaims as Twilight uses her magic to make a portal to the Dark Mystics Realm open. "Time to kick some flank!"

Psychopath Joke has taken every from Equestria...except for the Dark Mystics Realm, but that's mainly because Dark Curse threaten to skin him alive if he tries to take the color from their world. In his hideout, the evil clown pony smiles insanely at a large paint machine which held every color in Equestria.

"Ooooh, yes. All the color of Equestria is now mine!" Psychopath Joke laughs as he goes towards the bottom floor where the main machine's part was pointing towards the ground. "Shame my faithful assistant isn't here and on her day off. Oh well..."

Of course, the evil villain didn't know that outside, our heroines were climbing up to the top floor of his hideout, trying to sneak in. Twilight gave the signal of all clear as her friends quickly joined her. Upon doing so, the trio sneaks around for a moment until their leader found what appears to be an open window.

Twilight signals Rainbow as the two begins to try to open the window, but to no little success. Even Twilight's magic can't open this window! The mares groaned, looks like this is taking forever. Of course, the two then looks up and their eyes widened upon seeing a surprising sight: there's Pinkie waving from inside the building! How did she get in???

The confused mares saw a door with the obvious sign marked "SECRET INTRUDER ENTRANCE" which has been opened. Twilight and Rainbow rolls their eyes, but shrugs it off as they rushes in to join Pinkie. Their friend can so random!

As the heroines snick in, they watch as Psychopath Joke is looking at a picture while speaking, "Yes, for a long time, I wore the same old colors while everypony else looks brighter and more better than me. Well, that will end today! Soon, all of Equestria will live out their days in black and white while I will be the only colorful character ever! All will called me...PSYCHOPATH RAINBOW!!!"

With a mad laugh, Psychopath Joke flips the switch as the laser that is pointing at his head begins to activate. As the girls watch on, all the paint dissolved from inside the machine, and soon the clown begins turning from his normal self into a rainbow colored pony!

Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie nodded as they hopped/flew down. They got to put a stop to this mad scheme!

"Oooh, yes, my plan has come through with flying colors!" Psychopath Joke chuckles as he looks at himself in amazement. "Ha, I could get used to this!"

"Not a chance, Psychopath Joke!" A familiar voice exclaims. The villainous clown looks up and growls upon seeing his determined enemies looking at him from the first level floor. Twilight continues, "We will be taking the rightful colors back now!"

"Well, well, the Lost and Found!" Psychopath Joke sneers as he begins to climb up the ladder to get to the first floor. "After I get done with you trio, you will be what you really are...LOST AND NEVER FOUND!"

Once Psychopath reached the same level as the girls, he points his hoof to fire a laser at the girls. Twilight and Pinkie moves out of the way in time, but Rainbow got hit by the laser. To her shock, the mare is now completely covered in purple, which makes her faint to the floor.

Twilight then begins to fly around and kicks Psychopath Joke in the flank. Angrily, the evil clown turns and begins shooting rainbow lasers like mad. The Alicorn flew around as Pinkie watches on in worry. Twilight flew around, doing so well in dodging...until a lucky shot hits the princess, coloring her blue as she is sending right into the control area.

"Eeek, we're losing!" Pinkie up above panics as she gallops around in worry. "What should I do? What should I do?"

Luckily for our favorite random pony, she came into luck as she accidentally tripped on Rainbow still unconscious (and purple), sending her falling over the railing screaming. Pinkie sure enough pulls a switch at the bottom which causes a word to light up: REVERSE! And that starts the machine up all over!

Psychopath Joke not realizing what is about to happen trots over to the horrified Twilight...standing in the exact spot where he got his powers from. The evil clown gave an insane smile as the powerful being remarks while taking out the color gun, "Hmmm, actually, I think you will do better in black and white...and your blood will too!" Psychopath Joke laughs as he prepares to make do on his threat. But then, to his confusion, the laser hits him. "Hey, what's going on?!"

Twilight gave a smirk as the villain dropped his color gun. The reason? All the color that he stole is disappearing from his body, going back into the paint canisters as Psychopath Joke is going back to his normal self.

Twilight grabs the color gun, taunting, "Well, we're seeing your true colors now, Psychopath Joke!"

"No, my colors, my beautiful colors!" Psychopath Joke cries in horror as the machine begins to shake as the paint drips like mad. Rainbow waits up as she yelps, the machine was about to blow up! She joins her pal who noticed as they rushes off to the exit. Psychopath Joke, watching the heroines escaping, groans out, "Well, color me foiled..."

Sure enough, the whole hideout blows up in a huge color phenomenon...and just as a portal opens up magically as it is send out back into Equestria. Looks like the world, somehow sensing what's going on, is about to get its color back!

Twilight, now painted red and green, grins as she turns to speak to Pinkie, now painted purple and yellow, "Well, Pinkie. Got to hand it to you. You finally lost something that helped us out!"

Rainbow, now painted lavender with pink stripes, spoke up, "Well, we got to help the princesses clean up Equestria and return everything to its right color. And ourselves too! I preferred my cool awesome look!"

"Right, and while we do that, we may as well captured..." Twilight spoke as she held up the color gun, looking around at the hideout's ruins. "Wait, hang on! Psychopath Joke's gone!"

It took a lot of work, but soon, almost all the colors in Equestria were back to their rightful ponies. Even Twilight's group has gotten their colors back, and everypony breathes a sigh of relief.

The trio arrives at Fluttershy's cottage, the last place that needed to be colored in. Twilight knocks on the door as she calls out, "Fluttershy! We got your and the animals' colors back!"

Fluttershy opens the door, smiling as she spoke, "Oh, thank goodness. Can you color us in, please?"

Twilight uses the color gun to zapped Fluttershy and the animals. The animals yelps in confusion and are surprised that their own colors are back. Fluttershy smiles happily as her usual color is back to normal.

"Uh, Twilight?" A familiar voice spoke as everyone turns. To their surprise, Celestia now has moderate cyan eyes, a moderate cobalt blue mane, and a light dark sapphire blue coat. Twilight's former teacher spoke awkwardly, "I think there was a mistake in the color restoring progress."

Sure enough, the girls now saw Luna who now has a white fur coat and a light blue/green, and purple mane and tail. She groans out, "This is embarrassing."

THE END

A JUSSONIC PRODUCTION

Once the cartoon is over, the audience applauds. Another good one. Even Psychopath Joke in the audience was applauding as Fluttershy gave him to serve him a drink which he drank a bit.

Pinkamena pauses at her table as she spoke, "I have the strangest feeling things will be more different this time."

In the basement, Ben's group is still looking around for a present with no success.

"Brilliant idea. Give Starlight a chance while we get lost!" Strikespell mumbles to Ben in annoyance. "I knew we should have brought Sunburst. But always go with soft spot than the head."

"Hey! At least, I try to give people some chances!" Ben exclaims to his half-brother in irritation.

"Watch it! I've done this plenty of my times! I've got more experience than you are! I got heart too!"

Strikespell just scoffs at this, "No brains means stupid that's what you're trying to say. That's exactly what you are!"

"Wanna mess with me again?!" Ben scowls, preparing to kick Strikespell's flank. He isn't afraid to do so!

"Cut it out! As if my team didn't give me enough headaches, you two are the worse." Starlight exclaims in annoyance at the two bickering brothers. "So, put your attitude aside now!"

In the backstage, the rescue group (with Flash now wearing a backpack and explorer's gear) were getting ready. Twilight spoke, "Okay, Ben, Starlight and Strikespell are still not back. We better get down there to rescue them."

"Yeah, I'm all set! Got everything we need right here!" Flash exclaims proudly as he patted his backpack. Unfortunately, that resulted in him falling on his back like the turtle, the backpack is on the bottom of his said back.

Rarity came over, coughing as she speaks, "Uh, Twilight, darling? I wanted to ask you. If it's all right, perhaps I could run the show for a while. At least until you get back with Ben, Starlight and Strikespell, yes?"

"Well...I suppose I could." Twilight said in hesitation. She isn't sure if it's a good idea to do this, but the show needs to be kept going as the search happens. "At least promise me that...."

"Twilight, I promise I won't let you down! I can keep the audience entertained. Nothing could go wrong?"

"...that you won't book any acts, right. I think you've got it covered." Twilight finished as Rarity begins to go off. The princess smiles a bit. Perhaps she shouldn't worry, Rarity wouldn't do something crazy. The mare gallops off to the others as she spoke, "Time to get going, everypony! Operation: Find Ben, Strikespell and Starlight begins!"

"Err, you still think it's a good idea to trust Rarity on this?" Sunburst ask Twilight uneasily as the five heads down to the basement door.

"Relax. The show will be fine. Come on! Oh, and Dragoking? Before we go, no more eating Ben! We're gonna be there to find and get Ben out. Understand?"

The group begins heading into the basement. Flash is the last go in but he is having trouble doing so at first due to the gear he packed. Eventually though, the Pegasus pony got inside by ducking through the door.

As the group arrives in the basement, Twilight led all of them as she orders, "All right, everypony. Remember, it's easy to get lost in here, so stick together, no matter what. Okay?"

"Stick together. Let me make a note." Flash said. He stopped to take out a notepad as he begins to write down. "'Stick together, I.E. No matter what...'" However, as he looks up, the Pegasus pony looks alarmed: the others are gone. "Wait, where am I?! I'M LOST! Okay, okay, I'm prepared."

Flash didn't waste time in unpacking the rescue gear, which consisted of a hammock attached to two tikis, a campfire tent, a makeshift shower with a water tower and barrel, a canoe, a campfire, a picnic basket, a lounge chair and umbrella, and a glass of apple cider.

"All right, now to wait until I'm rescued." Flash said as he hops into his hammock, smiling as he begins to enjoy his drink...

...much to the disbelief of Twilight, Sunset, Dragoking and Sunburst who weren't even that far away from their frown. Sunburst shakes his head as he sighs, "Really? Flash!"

"Come on, you lunk head!" Sunset scowls as she uses her magic to grab her colt friend and drags him off. "We're on a rescue mission here."

Twilight's group continues on their search, going past the flower from the Gen 3 era. Ben and his own group has to have to be here, somewhere!

Suddenly at this time, music began to be played as three Breezies in the flower suddenly leaped out to appear. They were Tiddly Wink, Tra La La and Zipzee from the Gen 3 era.

We focus back on the search party as they continue to perform their search as they came out dress as Diamond Dogs mining for gems.

Tiddly Wink: Ahhh! Is he here, is he here?
Is Ben here?
When Ben walks in, then the fun begins

Next scene shows Twilight swinging across a rope off a familiar temple from Daring Do to land near stone gargoyle versions of the alicorn's search party members.

The scene shows that as Twilight's search party continues across a log with a full moon in the background, they get turn into Gen 1 versions of themselves. Soon the Breezies appeared to lift the screen to change location.

Tiddly Wink: Now Ben's here, it's a stallion house party
And if he went away, we really miss him!

As the search party searched some trunks for anything useful, Twilight pulled up a magic mirror. When that mirror was magically about to reveal where someoneâ€™s location & what they are doing was about to occurâ€¦it showed the words: OUT OF ORDER, which left someone sad the thing was not working.

The dance floor is his heart & soul territory
That's his story of Ben Valorheart

As the scene was flip over to a large rock hill where Sunset lifted Twilight up to get a better view of the whole area as if done from a movie.

As the Breezies sang their number, they pulled two sliders to change the scene to where Twilightâ€™s search party continues their search.

Male Singers: Ben Valorheart, Ben Valorheart, Ben Valorheart is in the house, Ben Valorheart, Ben Valorheart, Ben Valorheart in the house

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Now back with Ben's group. They were looking around when Starlight looks up from the map she was drawing, looking puzzled as she ask, "Hey, you two hear something just now?"

"Not really, I didn't hear a thing." Ben said, puzzled as he has no idea what Starlight is talking about.

"Then again, in this place, you got to expect something weird to happen." Strikespell added with a shrug.

Sure enough, Lorcan appears nearby, remarking dryly, "Yep. Still down here. Waiting for the 'AU Lorcan's Wrath'."

"Lorcan, you're a guest, not a prop, there's no reason for you to be down here." Ben sighs to Lorcan as he came over. "Besides, Twilight has forgiven you already."

"Oh sure, you say that now, but thanks to the reboot, she probably doesn't remember me anymore."

"I'm sure the author regretted what happened! Now, go back upstairs and we will talk about this later."

Lorcan shrugs as he heads on off. Strikespell groans, "This is ridiculous! We must've search every nook and cranky of this basement and still haven't found a birthday present for Twilight! You should've let me do this."

"Wait, what's that over there?" Starlight ask as she notices something. "You think that could be good?"

Ben turns and saw that Starlight is pointing towards a chest with familiar six keyholes in it. He smiles and trots over as he spoke, "Starlight! You're a genius! This is perfect!"

"Say, isn't that the Chest of Harmony from when Twilight and her friends has gotten the Rainbow Power?" Strikespell ask as he looks at the box carefully.

"Yeah, still is. Twilight and her friends opened it, getting the power needed to stop Lord Tirek. It can still be open and still got some magic and power inside."

Ben opens the Chest of Harmony. To his and the other two's amazement, some magic came out of the chest, exploding in wonderful firecracker noise. Starlight gave a smile as she said, "Wow, this is amazing when Twilight told me about it!"

Of course, what Ben and his group didn't know is that Twilight's group are close nearby, climbing up obstacles. Flash sighs, "Wow, Ben sure is good at getting lost. He does that to avoid Boris and his goons when we know him."

"Ben's here somewhere, I just know it!" Twilight exclaims. Dragoking roars as he motions his head upward. "Hey, what are you looking..."

The others look up and saw what Dragoking is seeing: fireworks in the guy. Sunburst frowns as he ask, "Who in the world would send off fireworks inside a building?"

"That's where the Chest of Harmony is at, which can still be opened to send out fireworks and magic!" Twilight exclaims eagerly as she claps her hooves. "Ben must've opened the chest as a sign to help us find him!"

"Are you sure about that?" Sunburst begins to ask, a bit concerned and wondering if the mare was right.

Twilight gallops towards the area where the chest's at. Flash, Sunset, Sunburst and Dragoking do their best to follow the Princess of Friendship. Hopefully she's right!

At this moment upstairs in the staging area, Rarity trots onto the stage, smiling to the audience as she spoke, "Hello, darlings! Now, normally at this point, we would show another cartoon right now...but before we do, I am delighted to inform you that after this cartoon will be an act which is written and is starring someone who has been hoping to get on stage for a long time! And you won't believe who is going to be in it!"

"Yeah, me!" Dr. Lizardo exclaims as he peeks behind a curtain nearby eagerly. After all this time, the villain is finally getting his chance to sing!

"And what did I tell you?" Pinkamena told Golden Heart with an amusing look. "Something different will happen."

"I guess so. So tell me little sister, are your senses telling you what will happen next?" Golden Heart ask Pinkamena curiously.

"Well Big Brother, I will just say this, it will be something that will shake the house. Just wait and see."

"Ugh! Quit torturing us and show the cartoon already!" Blueblood groans out in irritation at his table.

Kibitz held his head while groaning, "Honestly, even when I was under Accord's spell, I didn't feel this much torture!"

"Oh sure, try to change yourself on time and you're branded for life!" Discord exclaims in annoyance to Kibitz at this own table. No one ever let him live it down!

"Fine, I'm done. But after this cartoon, it's Dr. Lizardo's act." Rarity remarks with a shrug, knowing that she shouldn't keep the audience waiting any longer.

The audience gave an uncomfortable round of applause as the last cartoon of the night begins.

JUSSONIC PRESENTS...

A RAINBOW DASH CARTOON

Rainbow's Pool

Yes, sir. It is another bright sunny day in Ponyville. Rainbow, Starlight and Applejack are working at the community pool for at least a week. They get a little bit of pay as long as ponies followed the rules.

"Hoo doggy, glad to see ponies having fun at that there pool." Applejack said, smiling as she relaxes in her high chair.

"You betcha! I'm glad Twilight allowed me to do some work to make sure that ponies are safe here." Starlight said with a smile. "And having fun! Right, Rainbow?"

Rainbow was sleeping...until she jumps out and pulled out a whistle, yelling, "HEY, HEY! NO HORSING AROUND!"

Dr. Hooves was balancing himself on a bit but only to stop short to stare in shock and confusion. The pony protests, "But I'm a pony!"

Applejack's dog Winona kayaking in the water with a paddle, causing her to stop short and give a look of confusion.

"Err, you sure that was nice?" Applejack ask Rainbow in concern. "Winona was having fun, in a odd kinda way, and...

"NO CHICKEN FIGHTS, YOU TWO!" Rainbow snaps at two chickens boxing in a corner while standing on two other chickens in annoyance, causing them to stop and cluck in surprise. "Anyway, you were having, Ap...HEY, NO CANNONBALLS!"

Mosamite Sam was about to fire a cannonball into the pool, only to stop to give a look a shock to the mare. Applejack groans out, "Dang it, Rainbow! Was that even necessary or fun?"

"Of course! I gotta take this job seriously! I mean, haven't you even read the rules?"

"Of course." Starlight rolls her eyes as she motions to the sight nearby. "'No running, splashing, jumping, laughing, eating, no fishing, parking, smoking, swimming, crying, whining, asking mommy for anything because you just as, and Timmy, stop hitting your sister, and positively having NO fun whatever! Nope, forget it, don't ask! So have a nice day, the management'. But seriously? Are those even rules that you wanna go by?"

"Nah, not really." Rainbow remarks with a shrug as she lies in her chair. "But as long as they followed them, I can get some rest and no pony can bother me!"

"Oh, Rainbow Dash!" A familiar voice spoke out, causing Rainbow to yelp in alarm as she and her friends turned to see two ponies trotting up to them. One of them, the one who spoke, has purple fur, a pink mane and tail, green eyes, and her cutie mark has three pink flowers. "Nice to see you again!"

"Yeah, hee hee, having fun!" The other pony spoke as she begins to laugh. It is a foal with pink fur, a yellow, orange and dark pink mane, a blue, purple and green tail, blue eyes, and a cutie mark that is a heart with a rainbow swirl.

"Oh no! The other Cheerilee and Princess Rarity!" Rainbow groans to Applejack and Starlight in annoyance.

Now, before you folks ask, let me explain. This isn't the teacher Cheerilee and the fashion pony Rarity that you know of. No, these two versions are from Unicornia, near another version of Ponyville somewhere in the northwest who the heroines of Ponyville has met up. And this isn't the first time that our Rainbow had met them.

You see, Rainbow was working at a local photography shop which Gen 3 Cheerilee took Princess Rarity to have her photo taken, and the Pegasus pony was given the task to taking the little unicorn's photo while her teacher was busy. Unfortunately, long story short, the mischievous Rarity wouldn't cooperate and Rainbow was trying her best to take her picture. She manages to succeed in doing so after a few minor difficulties. And after all that trouble, the Pegasus was hoping that would be a one-time thing and she wouldn't see that Rarity again.

Applejack grins, unaware of the likely trouble ahead, as she spoke, "Howdy Gen 3 Cheerilee! What brings you here today?"

"Well, I'm taking little Rarity here for her first time here at the pool." Gen 3 Cheerilee explains to the trio with a chuckle

"Great, sounds awesome, hope you have a great day." Rainbow said with a nervous smile as she backs up a bit. "Listen, I'm about to go on break, so..."

"Actually, I was wondering if you three can do me a favor. I'm planning on doing some sun bathing alone, and I need somepony to keep an eye on Princess Rarity while she's in the wading pool. Can you do that for me?"

Rainbow gave a nervous look, preparing to say no. Starlighnt spoke up, "Listen, Miss Cheerilee. We would love to do so..."

"Oh, that's great, she's in your hooves!" Gen 3 Cheerilee interrupts before Starlight could finish as Princess Rarity pulls on Rainbow's tail, much to her discomfort. "Now, she's only in the wading pool, because she's still a little foal after all and I'm worried she may get hurt! So I'm counting on you to make sure she's safe! Understand?"

"Oh, sure. You can count on us." Rainbow said, groaning in comfort while giving a nervous smile.

With that, Gen 3 Cheerilee trots off, leaving the trio to look at each other, while glancing at Princess Rarity who was laughing happily. This may be a mistake!

Princess Rarity was laughing, splashing around in the wading pool, having fun despite the rules saying not to in an inner tube. The life guards watch through their binoculars.

"All right, as long as she stays in the wading pool, we shouldn't panicked." Rainbow said hopefully as she kept her eye on Princess Rarity.

"Come on, I don't see why she be a problem." Applejack said to Rainbow, not sure why her friend would panick.

"Right, I'm sure she will be all right." Starlight said in agreement. "There isn't any reason to panic."

Perhaps her friends are right, maybe Princess Rarity won't be a problem this time. Time to see how the other guests are doing.

Rainbow turns her attention to Gen 3 Cheerilee who came out of the dressing room in a bathing suit, smiling as she prepares to sun bath. The Pegasus pony chuckles, "Man, she looks so silly in that outfit."

"Now, Rainbow, let's not poke fun at that Cheerilee." Applejack said sternly to Rainbow. "Anyway, we are supposed to keep eye on Princess Rarity, remember?"

"Say, where is she?" Starlight ask puzzled. The others turned to saw, to their shock, that Princess Rarity was no longer in the wading pool. "She was here a few seconds ago!"

The trio turns to the direction of the main pool. To their alarm, Princess Rarity was galloping towards it, preparing to dive in. But Rainbow flies up and grabs the little unicorn and takes her back to the wading pool.

"Whoa, whoa, hey little miniature crazy version of Rarity!" Rainbow exclaims in alarm. "You are supposed to stay in the wading pool, remember? You aren't old enough to handle the big pony stuff yet!"

"You're no fun!" Princess Rarity remarks with a frown as the life guard left. She waited until she's sure that no pony was looking then smirks mischievously. "Pool time!"

Princess Rarity begins to set up her inner tube and pulls it back then puts herself on it. She's about to fire herself towards the big pool...and fires!

But to her dismay, Starlight rose up from the pool to catch her in a hoofball mitt in time, remarking, "Nice try! But I am not getting into trouble with you!"

"Come on, let me in the big pool! I want to have fun!" Princess Rarity protests as Rainbow came over while the two came out of the pool. The two trots over with the protesting foal in Starlight's magic, "The big pool looks like fun!"

"Hey, look. Your teacher tell us to keep you in the wading pool." Rainbow said to Princess Rarity while shaking her head.

"Right. And further now..." Without warning, Starlight yelps as the mare somehow slipped out from her magic. "Hey! Rarity!"

Rainbow quickly grabs Princess Rarity by her swimming suit as she tries to gallop off, only for it to pull right off and right onto Rainbow's bottom somehow. Starlight couldn't help but snicker, to her friend's annoyance.

Princess Rarity laughs as she prepares to dive right into the pool, only for Rainbow to get ahead of her and got the pony into her swimming suit, grabbing her once more. The Pegasus smirks in triumph, but it didn't last long before she was standing on top of the water.

Rainbow yelps as she fell into the pool, keeping Princess Rarity up to allow Starlight to grab her.

While Rainbow was drying herself off, Applejack came over and took Princess Rarity back to the wading pool. As she puts her back in, the Earth pony said sternly, "Now stay put, sugah cube."

Applejack trots back to her chair. But unknown to her, Princess Rarity got out of the wading pool again and heads towards the pool. She gallops alongside the side of it, going towards the deepest end of the pool, which goes from '6 ft' to '12 ft' to 'Off The Deep End' to 'In Over Your Head' to 'Seapony Level'.

Applejack was about to sit down when she spotted the filly, causing her to gasp, "Gah! Great apples!"

The others turned to see Princess Rartity standing near the edge of the pool, making them yelp. She was about to jump in...but luckily, they show up in time with the cleaning pool net to grab her before plopping the mischievous foal back into the wading pool.

Princess Rarity laughs mischievously, preparing to climb out but the three ponies surrounded her. Rainbow groans out, "Listen, kid, we are nice ponies, but even we are losing our patience with you! Stay in the wading pool, got it?!"

"Right!" The two mares snapped as the trio heads off. Although, they turned back to glare at Princess Rarity who had climbed out, making her yelp and jumps back into the wading pool, giving an innocent smile.

The trio sighs in relief. For a moment, it looks like Princess Rarity has gotten the message. The trio prepares to head off...but stopped upon hearing her giggling. They saw that the mischievous pony was now balancing herself on a pool rope that separates the deep ends of the pool...and she was now standing on a buoy!

"Whoa, hey, are you crazy?!" Rainbow yells out in alarm as Princess Rarity gave a taunting wave. "I can't believe this! One of us got to get her...NOT IT!"

"Not it!" Applejack exclaims quickly. Starlight blinks and groans in annoyance. Her friends always do this to make her do all the hard work!

"Aw horse feathers!" Starlight groans as she begins to balance on the rope carefully. "Maybe I could do this without magic. I mean, what are the odds that..."

At the same time however, Princess Rarity made a pair of scissors appear from out of nowhere and opens them up. The adult unicorn's eyes widened in shock as she aims the scissors at the rope! Starlight shakes her head rapidly...but Princess Rarity just laugh as she cut the rope with the scissors, causing Starlight to fall right into the pool!

"All right, time to dive!" Princess Rarity exclaims as she jumps up...only for Rainbow to appears and catch her in the inner tube. "Aw, nuts!"

As Applejack helps Starlight out of the pool, Rainbow scowls as she lands nearby, "Listen, I am having enough of you..."

"Uh oh! The other Cheerilee's coming!" Applejack exclaims in alarm. Sure enough, there's Gen 3 Cheerilee trotting right over.

Applejack grabs Princess Rarity from Rainbow and quickly puts her back into the wading pool. She gave an innocent smile as the teacher came over, smiling as she said, "Just coming over to see how Princess Rarity is doing. Gen 3 Cheerilee spots the little princess splashing around in the wading pool. "Ah, she's doing fine. Well, I am glad she's in good hooves."

"Right, precisely." Starlight said with a nervous smile. "So, you done with your sun bathing?"

"Oh, well, I only need a few more minutes. So make sure she stays in there, because I forgot to tell you: she can't swim."

"Yeah, right." Rainbow said with a groan. Why bring THAT up now? "Out of curiosity, and not saying it will, but what would happened if she was to walk out of that wading pool and goes into the big pool? And something bad happens to her?"

"Oh, we will sue you trio for foal endangerment and have you arrested." Gen 3 Cheerilee gave a stern look to the trio as they gasp in worry. But the unicorn smiles as she continues, "But I'm sure you wouldn't do that. So who am I to worry, right? I must go, I will be back in a few!"

Gen 3 Cheerilee trots off as the trio of girls gave a sigh of relief. Now they are now more determined to keep that silly foal in the wading pool at all times.

"Right, now we gotta keep an eye on..." Rainbow yelps as she and her friends saw that the wading pool is empty again! There's a note nearby. "What the hay?! Where is she now?!"

Applejack took the note and opens it, reading, "'Dear Miss Dash and Friends, while I admire your silly attempts to catch me, it will only end up leading to your own undoing. Sincerely, Princess Rarity. Giggle, ha some more. P.S. Look up'...aw, horse feathers!"

The mare's eyes widened in shock as they look up to see Princess Rarity...up high on the diving board and is jumping up and down like mad! They screamed in horror, if something bad happens to that foal, they're in deep trouble!

The three mares galloped up the stairs of the diving boards and climbs up the ladder. To their horror, Princess Rarity jumps off the diving board. But they calmed down as they see that she landed safely on a lower diving board.

"You two, surround the boards, she's mine!" Rainbow exclaims to her friends. The two nodded and climbs down the assume position. Rainbow jumps off the diving board to land on the one that Princess Rarity was on, sending the ponies upward. The two were in the air as she grabs her, snapping, "I got you now!"

Too bad Rainbow ends up getting her head hit by the bottom of a higher diving board. This made her release Princess Rainbow, causing the filly to land safely on the same diving board above. As she recovers, Rainbow landed on the diving board again, looking up to see Princess Rarity standing still.

With a smirk, Rainbow was about to grab Princess Rarity, only for her to pull out a couple of items, hitting the mare on the head every time she bounces up and down on the lower diving board. Rainbow cringes, preparing for the worst on the next jump. For a while, it looks like nothing happen, making her look...

Only for Princess Rarity to pull out a mallet and hit Rainbow on the head, sending her into the water. The filly giggles, "Silly life guard!"

Starlight with a frown climbs up the other diving board, she sees Princess Rarity waving to her on the left diving board. The unicorn jumps on the diving board and springs to the left. Unfortunately, the mischievous foal had the same idea as she jumps off the diving board, flying past her to her confusion.

The two went back and forth for a while, with one jump showing two Starlights jumping each other at the same time. How did that happened? No one knows! Anyway, both she and Princess Rarity were on the same diving board, jumping up and down in the air...only for the filly to stop jumping and for Starlight to fell right into the wading pool, making a crack inside that drains all the water out. Ouch!

Off the diving board, Princess Rarity laughs but saw Applejack trotting after her, causing the foal to ran up further. The Earth Pony yells, "Get back here, ya vermint!"

Applejack chases the filly all the way to the top, the two are now up on the highest diving board in Equestria! The cowpony yelps in alarm, the two were up so high, they could see the planet!

"Yeah, I can jump!" Princess Rarity giggles as she prepares to jump off the highest diving board.

"No, wait, no! Rarity, Cheerilee said you can't swim!" Applejack begged frantically. But no use! Princess Rarity finally jumped down for the most fun ever.

Applejack screams as she gallops somewhere as fast as possible! During this time as she fell down to what could be a possible watery grave, Princess Rarity kept herself busy by drinking pink lemonade, eating some candy, reading comics books, playing with a train, and sleeping until morning. Don't ask how this is possible!

Applejack manages to get to the bottom as her friends recovered. The Earth Pony yells out, "She's about to come down! Rainbow!"

Rainbow in a panic grabs a nearby inner tube and throws it into the water. Hopefully she will lands in it! And Princess Rarity...drove into the water past the inner tube, to the trio's horror!

"Oh no, not good, we're dead!" Rainbow exclaims in horror as she dives in to help.. Princess Rarity is going to drown for sure! But the Pegasus hits the inner tube and hits more of the water toys, bouncing off the diving board before she landed right back into the pool.

"GUYS!" A familiar voice yells, much to the three's horror as they saw a surprised Gen 3 Cheerilee arriving.

"Uh, wait, this ain't all bad..." Applejack said nervously as she and her friends gulped in fear. No good, they're in trouble now...

"You taught Princess Rarity how to swim!" Gen 3 Cheerilee exclaims with a smile. The girls looked confused until they looked over. Sure enough, there's Princess Rarity swimming perfectly!

"Uh, we did?" Rainbow ask dumbstruck. Of course, her friends coughs, giving out nervous smiles. "Oh yeah, we did! Uh, amazing how awesome one can be when they can swim, right?"

"For a while, I was worried but I guess that's why you asked about the big pool! I was going to teach Princess Rarity how to swim, but I'm glad you've beaten me to it! I appreciate all you did for us!"

"Oh thank you so much!" Gen 3 Cheerilee exclaims happily as Rainbow pulls herself out of the pool. "You know what? I'm going to take Princess Rarity here every day for the rest of the summer!"

"Gah, no, not a chance! I done gotta get back to the farm!" Applejack exclaims frantically.

"Right, got some lessons to do, bye!" Starlight exclaims nervously as she and Applejack tries to take off...

But the two ends up getting hit by the fence somehow, which send them both back, crashing into Rainbow. All three are send flying into the water, sending them to the bottom of the pool. As if to add insult to injury, they looked annoyed as Princess Rarity swam by, giving a playful giggle at them.

"Aw, horse feathers!" The trio groans underwater. They hope this is the last time they see Princess Rarity for a while!

THE END

A JUSSONIC PRODUCTION

Once the cartoon's over, the audience applauds eagerly. Another cartoon well done!

All the way back down in the prop basement, Ben's group watch the magic bursting out of the box still. Strikespell closes the box as he remarks, "Well, got to say, this was something."

"I know. And it will be the perfect birthday surprise for Twilight!" Ben exclaims with a smile. "Guys, how about giving me some help in carrying this box back upstairs?"

"No problem." Starlight said as she, after putting down a map that she was working on down, and Strikespell comes over, both are preparing to help Ben out.

"Ben!" A familiar voice calls out. The trio jumps in surprise as they see Twilight, Dragoking and Sunburst appearing, coming right over.

"Twilight!" Ben exclaims quickly as he hide the chest behind himself, giving a nervous smile. "Err, what are you doing here?"

"Thank Celestia we found you at last! Once we saw the fireworks, we started following them."

"Oh great." Strikespell groans out in annoyance while shaking his head. Somehow, he knew this was too good to be true!

"Well, it did lead us to you all." Sunburst said with a slight chuckle. "Did it come from the Chest of Harmony?"

"Oh man! That was my birthday surprise to you, Twilight, and now, it's ruined!" Ben groans as he slaps his own forehead in dismay. So much for keeping this surprise a SURPRISE.

"Oh, that." Twilight said, rubbing the back of her mane awkwardly. "Well, sorry...err, Flash told me by so by accident about you trying to find the birthday surprise before I came down here. How was I supposed to know that it was my birthday today until today?"

"Wow, the Princess of Friendship: forgetting her own birthday." Starlight said with a slight chuckle while shaking her head in amusement. "I mean, really?"

"AND Twilight is at least being responsible, considering you made a mistake..." Strikespell begins to say, shaking his head.

Ben however interrupts the two, frowning as he spoke, "If I was lost, I wouldn't have memorized the entire basement beforehand!"

Ben sighs, "Yes! You see, a week before, I was down in the prop basement with Sunburst for a little tour, and the more I followed him, the more I started to take a look around. Sunburst, didn't you wonder why I kept asking for multiple tours last week?"

Sunburst pauses then spoke awkwardly, "Now that you mentioned it... yeah, I did wonder around the thirtieth time why you asked for a tour on the same day... but I never asked."

"That was so I can get a proper layout of the basement in my head, so that way, I would never get myself lost. It was my own personal map."

"So... wait, why did you ask me to come with you as a navigator, when you could have very well gone down yourself?" Starlight ask Ben curiously.

"I noticed you were feeling sad that Sunburst did a better job than you when trying to explore the basement, and I wanted to help you map the area physically, so that you can do as good as Sunburst." Ben explains clearly to Starlight, motioning to a familiar map nearby. He wanted to help her out.

Sunburst looks at Starlight's map as he spoke in amazement, "I have to say, that is a pretty good map..."

"Wait a minute... so... if you had memorized this place the whole time... why didn't you say a word to me?" Strikespell ask his half-brother in bewilderment.

Ben groans, "I was trying to explain it to you multiple times, but you kept being a butt and complained the whole time without letting me get a single word in, so I just decided to shut up and let you get it out of your system until I could properly explain it to you... but every time I opened my mouth to say something, you wouldn't hear me out!"

Strikespell pause before speaking, "Oh..." He then looks ashamed, Ben was right. "I... guess I was complaining a lot..."

"And picking fights, yeah..." Strikespell sighs. Ben was right on that too. "I'm sorry."

"Come again?" Ben ask Strikespell in surprise. Did his half-brother actually apologize?

"Look, it's not easy for me to say, but this time, I was in the wrong. You knew EXACTLY what you were doing, and I wouldn't cooperate."

"Yeah, you just butted in during my secret assignment for Starlight, helping her out..."

"I guess you have brains in that head of yours after all. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to tolerate you and I'll always be in the right, but I was in the wrong this time, and I'm sorry." Strikespell said as he offers a hoof. "Next time, I will try to hear your reasonings properly and if I have good reason to complain, I won't hold back."

Ben pause as he shakes hooves with Strikespell, adding, "Well... it's a start..." He then glares at Twilight, "As for you... I am severely disappointed, Twilight. I can't believe you actually thought I would go down here to get myself lost!"

"Uh, right...well, let's get back upstairs. Come on, guys..." Twilight turns, but looks puzzled. Only Sunburst and Dragoking are with her. "Err, Flash? Sunset?"

"Wait, Flash and Sunset came with you?" Starlight ask, arching an eyebrow in confusion.

"Oh, well. I didn't bring just Sunburst and Dragoking with me. I bought Flash and Sunset with me too...and they were right behind us..."

"Wait, are you saying that..." Ben begins to say as the others begin to give worried looks.

"Ugh. Forming a rescue team, only for them to get lost. How ironic." Strikespell groans out a bit. "All right, time we retrace your steps so we can find those two."

"Okay. Time to-!" Before he finishes, Ben got snapped into a giant mouth before gobbled up into his long neck, "Again?! Really?! Don't you ever get tired of that?"

"I think I'd prefer to let you in him. Teaching you a lesson about not using your head as usual."

"Why I oughtta!" Ben screamed as something is happening in there. "Acid?! Darn it! Ouch! That's hurt!"

Strikespell gave a smirk to Starlight, "That teach him a lesson for the prank he make when he was a brat."

After getting (or forcing) Dragoking to release Ben from his stomach, the others looks for Flash and Sunset. It didn't take long to find them. They found some interesting hiding spots while playing Marco Polo.

"Polo!" Suunset calls out from another hiding spot...then as she peeks out, the mare saw Ben and Twilight's group nearby. "Oh, hey guys!"

"Marco!" Flash exclaims as he came out of another hiding spot nearby, with his eyes closed.

"Uh, guys? We're right here." Strikespell said with a sigh, causing Flash to open his eyes and seeing the others. "Honestly, even Pinkie and Fluttershy wouldn't be this obvious. At least, this mess is over..."

"Wait, hang on. Twilight? We're all down here, so who's running the show?" Ben ask Twilight in concern. Most of the staff are down here right now.

"Oh, I left Rarity in charge. Relax, I told her no silly acts." Twilight assures Ben with a smile. Needless to say, this made him worried.

"Uh...you do know this is Rarity we're talking about, right? She most likely would make some ridiculous act up on the spot."

"Come on, the only act she could come up with that could be ridiculous she could come up with was..."

Twilight stops as her eyes widened in shock. Everyone exclaims in alarm, "OH NO!"

"And now...give a warm Equestrian hooves welcome to...DOCTOR LIZARDO!" Rarity calls out from backstage4 via a mike. Sure enough, the villain in question along with Spike came on stage, both begin to sing as Sweetie for some reason tries to take the mike from Doctor Lizardo.

Dr. Lizardo and Spike: There's a fire going on, but the party's just begun,
So keep your focus looking at me tonight.
So the world's about to end, gonna party with my friends,
And ain't nobody gonna say itâ€™s not right
And I know nothing's gonna stand in my way, no matter the people may say
Just don't turn around and keep looking straight
And I see that everybody's starting to yell, how the world around you's going to Heck
I;m here to tell you all it' just fate.
I'm a distraction, of pure satisfaction,
Keep your eyes all on me, for what you're gonna see,
Will redefine the height of attraction
I'm a distraction, and I'm ready for action
So the world's gonna blow, stop complaining and go to the show.
There's explosions in the sky, and the neighborhood is fried,
But you don't have join them in all the fuss,
Act like nothing's going wrong, and just keep playing my song
Until there's nothing left around here but us.

And I know something's gonna happen tonight, all the stars around us start taking flight,
But there's something that invites me to stay
Cause I'm drawn to the rhythm of the music they play, and we're all gonna die anyway,
So enjoy it while you can, come what may.

We're a distraction, of pure satisfaction
There's a war going on, but in here we all won,
'Cause nobody is slowing the traction.

Nothing ever will come from saying never so join the fun where ever it is,
There's a power that's growing by the hour I'm positive I don't want to miss
I'm a distraction!

Keep your eyes all on me, for what you're gonna see,
Will redefine the height of attraction
I'm a distraction, and I'm ready for action
So the world's gonna blow, stop complaining and go, just start watching the show, cause there's no more to know, here we go!

Once the song is over, the two kneels down and strike a pose while Sweetie slips, falling onto the stage floor. Of course...no one was applauding at all.

Just then, a "ahem" is clear as the trio, along with Rarity, turns to see a familiar group of annoyed friends that just came out from the prop basement, giving frowns but mostly at Rarity.

"Oh, hey darlings." Rarity said with a nervous smile. "Err, I was...uh...who wants takeout? My treat!" Rarity exclaims nervously. Suddenly a giant came from offstage, pulling her away.

"I thought it was good." Dr. Lizardo mumbles as he and Spike left the stage while Sweetie got back to return to her band.

Pinkamena giggles to her brother, "Well what did I tell you what happened next would shake the house?"

"I really was not expecting that." Golden Heart comments, arching an eyebrow at what happened.

Twilight sighs while shaking her head. Hopefully, she can salvage the remaining the show into a passable one.

Fortunately for Twilight, she did manage to save the show...for the last 10 minutes, making it as salvageable as she could be able to.

"Well, that's it for the House of Pony this time, folks!" Twilight exclaims to the applauding audience with a smile. "Spike, take us out of here!"

"Sure will, Twilight!" Spike exclaims with a smile as he does the usual thing. "Lost and Services for the House of Pony has been provided by..."

"....Shorty Thinking's Lost and Found!" Spike is heard as we see a sign that has the words that he said hanging on a door of Shorty's home. "From missing spoons to shiny combs, Shorty Thinking has got them all!"

"Oops!" Sweetheart in the audience exclaims as she looks at her horse shoe-less hooves. "I was wondering where those went!"

We see a picture of a lost amulet which Smaug takes quickly as he exclaims, "I will have that!"

We see some sort of jack-o-lantern, which the Headless Pony takes in relief. We now go back to the sign as the commercial comes to a close.

"Shorty Thinking's Lost and Chance! Where he guaranteed that he has your special item!" Spike then adds in a low voice. "Not responsible for finding lost items stolen by Dark Mystics."

"Okay, ponies, that's it for today!" Twilight exclaims as everyone applauded while she gave a smile as she waves. "See you real soo..."

Suddenly the lights are off, confusing Twilight. What now? A familiar mare spoke up, "Hey, whoa, egghead! Before we end the show, we got something special! Hit it, girls!"

As the lights came back on, the CMC plays their instruments in a joyful matter as the spotlight came on Twilight while Applejack pushes a cake out onto the stage.

"Pinkie Pie?!" Twilight exclaims in surprise as Fluttershy flew, instructing some birds who put a lei around Twilight's neck. "Fluttershy?"

"Surprise ya, eh egghead?" Rainbow laughs as she flew in, doing a signature rainbow above her friend's head.

"Nah, they were saying that as a surprise for your birthday!" Applejack exclaims with a smile. "You done been with us for so long, we done think you deserve to have this in your honor, sugah cube!"

"Yes, although I took advantage of you earlier, I think we can let bygones be bygones, darling." Rarity giggled as she exclaims while coming out onto the stage. "All we got to say is...

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TWILIGHT!" All of Twilight's friends and family exclaims as they came out onto the stage. Even the princesses came to wish her a happy birthday.

And sure enough, Ben came out in a nice suit, smiling towards Twilight as he sings a nice tune to the key of the music played by the girls.

Ben: Happy birthday to you...
Happy birthday to you...
Happy birthday, Twilight Sparkle...
Happy birthday to you!

"And a lot of more!" Nyx giggles as Phobos pushes in another cake with lit candles on it.

"Aww, thanks, everyone." Twilight said with a happy smile on her face while squeezing. "What an honor!"

Twilight didn't hesitate. She paused a bit and smile while taking a deep breath then blew out all the candles. Everyone applauds and cheers.

"AJ? Switch the monitors to outside of the House of Pony!" Ben ordered Applejack. The cowpony nodded as she pushes a button on the remove. The big screen now shows the outside of the club shooting out fireworks and magic via the Chest of Harmony.

"Wow." Twilight said, smiling as she watches the fireworks before turning to Ben. "Ben? Thanks, for everything."

Ben could smiled a bit. Looks like the show ends on a big hit. He chuckled and finishes his drink, throwing it away...

Except it ended up right onto Dragoking's, knocking and hit the creature who angrily eats Ben again.

"Dragoking, will you cut that out? How did my PM counterpart handle him?" Twilight scolds Dragoking, trying to get him to let Ben out.

House of Pony: Season 2

by JusSonic

Episode Twenty-Two: Where's Ben Valorheart?