8-Bit Pony

by Dawn Flower


47.

While everypony was still reeling and trying to figure out how a villain that they had defeated years ago, redeemed, and not given a second thought to since then had suddenly – and unceremoniously – returned, Twilight was the first to recover, and already had an idea for how to deal with this.

“Wait, I know what to do,” the purple alicorn princess announced, with a confident smile on her face. She then trotted right up to Nightmare Moon and slapped her right in the face. “Snap out of it, Luna.”

Nightmare Moon suddenly reacted, telekinetically grabbing Twilight and pulling her towards her, creating a comical ball of dust, like those seen in a comic book to denote a fight scene.

Just off to the side, BM simply said, “Yeah, see there’s this thing called ‘Rule of Funny’. You should really learn it.”