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// 49. 
// Story: 8-Bit Pony 
// by Dawn Flower 
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“We have to do something to help her,” Rainbow Dash spoke up.

“And how are we supposed to do that, exactly?” BM interjected. “Isn’t Nightmare Moon or whatever her name is basically a God in your world?”

“Well, we have to try something – she’s going to kill Twilight at this rate. Black Mage, can’t you use your Hadoken spell to stop this?”

“Unfortunately I can only use that spell once a day.” He responded, scratching at his head.

“Well, isn’t that convenient?” Rainbow Dash deadpanned.

“Oh yeah, well what about you ponies?” BM turned around so that he was facing her. “Don’t you have some sort of… I don’t know – magical rainbow blast or something that can instantly defeat her?”

“Yes,” Rainbow answered, awkwardly scratching at her head, “but we all have to be together to use it.”

“Well, isn’t that convenient?” BM parroted her response, in the same deadpan tone.

Rainbow just silently snarled back at him.

“Ooohh, oooohh, I know,” Fighter chimed in, behind Black Mage, with his arms in the air. “I could use my swords. That’s totally something that I could do right now.”

BM turned back around to face him. “In any other circumstance I’d say go right ahead, since you’re so reckless that you’d probably end up killing Twilight as well, and that’s one less headache for me to deal with, but since I’ll inevitably end up getting blamed for it, I’m instead gonna say, ‘no’.”

“Then what are we gonna do?” Fighter asked.

“Don’t worry, I have an idea. Fighter, give me your sword.”

“Sure thing, best buddy,” he responded, handing BM his sword.

*Snap*

“…you broke Slashy,” Fighter said, looking down.

“Well, I lost my knife all the way back in the forest and your sword is too big for me to use, so I need it to be knife-sized if I’m going to use it.”

“But wait, didn’t you have a knife earlier when you stabbed me in the back of the head?” Fighter asked, pointing out a plot hole.

“Shut up,” Black Mage said, immediately shutting him down… ironically. “Now one side, idiot,” he said, stepping past him. “I have a princess to sa…” However he stopped midway when he saw the sight in front of him: Twilight lying unconscious on the floor, and Nightmare Moon was nowhere to be seen – the fight apparently having ended a while ago. “I don’t know how this happened, but I have no problem taking credit for it.”

At the back of the room, Princess Celestia was legitimately confused and just absently looked between the others. “Soooo… has everypony just forgotten that I’m here?”

“Join the club.” Fluttershy and Rarity said in unison.