//------------------------------// // Chapter 20 - The Griffon brush off part Two // Story: The True Me // by lightningman //------------------------------// As we looked in through Twilight's window. We saw that she was getting some lab equipment and writing things down. I sigh. "No safety equipment and multitasking when you are dealing with something that could explode." "Wait. Explode?" Rainbow says gulping. "not majorly. Just enough that she'll barely feel it." "Oh, ok." She smiles and looks back in. We see twilight was wondering where the words were going. Suddenly the beaker begins to bubble rapidly and POOF! a violet gas cloud goes off. Twilight hears our laughing and looks out the window. When she sees us we burst out laughing. "Oh.. that was a good one. Applejack next!" "Alright. Ideas?" Rainbow asked "You still have that paint?" "You know it." "We're going to become apple artists." I chuckle a bit. -------------------------------------------------------------------1 hour later.------------------------------------------------------------------ We were hiding behind a barrel and I was putting an artist cap on Pinkie Pie and myself. Suddenly we hear the barn door open and a voice say "Land Sakes!" She was gawking at all the multi-colored apples. We come out of hiding and we begin to laugh a bit. "It's just a prank bro!" I laugh. I then pull out a card to in response to Applejack grabbing a bunch of apples. "Glacial wall. There is no confusion as to the boundary of the archmage's territory." A wall made of ice springs up between us and Applejack. She throws apples but they bounce off the wall and land in a barrel of water. We run as fast as we can away. --------------------------------------------------------------------Half an hour later----------------------------------------------------------- We were on the other side of some bushes. Rainbow Dash said she had the perfect idea for a prank. She was at a telescope. But little did she know, Pinkie and I had coated the end of the telescope with the black eye. "Who's over there?" asked Pinkie pie as she had a squirter in her mouth. "Heh heh.... Fluttershy." "WHAT!" Both me and Pinkie say as she spits out the squirter. "No no no. We can't prank her. She's so sensitive. It'll hurt her feelings." "Yeah, and I just managed to apologize to her. I don't want to prank her." I say as I frown and cross my arms. "Alright, your right. We need to find someone made of stronger stuff." "Oh.... (snicker)..... Lightningman and I have an idea." "Really? Who is it?" "The toughest pony around." I laugh a bit as I point to the river. Rainbow dash looks in and sees the black mark around her eye. We all laugh. "Good one you guys." She says. 'No problem. But if you'll excuse me, I want to go do something." "What is it?" "I"m going to go interrupt the day court." "What? Why?" "Because I get to screw with the nobles. Hey, speaking of which, do you want to see me interrupt it?" "Sure. But how are we going to get there?" I think for a second. "Apparition?" I think to myself. "I could try that." "What's apparition?" "It's basically teleportation without a wand or horn." "Cool, how do you do it?" "Destination, determination, deliberation." I repeat. "Huh?" "You'll see." I take a deep breath and focus on the center of the day court. I put my hands on pinkie and Rainbow dash and allow how much I want to go there to fill up the entirety of our bodies. "Whoa, what's that?" Pinkie says. "It's a kinda tingly feeling." I don't answer as I take a step forward. a loud crack fills all of our ears as we appear in the day court. A loud yelling comes out from someone I landed on. I get off of the pony and notice it was Blueblood. "Oh, it's you again." I groan and facepalm. "Lightningman?" I turn to see Celestia on her throne. And, Amazingly, Princess Luna. "At your service your majesties." I laugh. "How did you know?" "Know what?" "We were just talking about you." Princess Luna said. "Oh, I didn't know about that." I smile and stretch. "I just came to screw up the day court. I figured that I have nothing else to do. So why were you talking about me?" "Well... since your the only one of your species on this planet..." "You want me to be ambassador to the humans?" "........How?" "A bunch of fanfictions has that in their stories." I groan. "Oh.... so you were expecting this?" "No... I just figured this would be one of the stories where I go along with the mane 6 on their adventures. Not have adventures of my own." "And also, when you came at the exact moment we were talking about you.... that seems like something out of a story. I'm not sure what the term is." Celestia said. "Plot convenience?" I suggested "Yeah, that's it. Plot convenience." "True. But sure, I'll be ambassador to the humans. As long as it doesn't interfere with my other activities." "Alright. But I have to tell you something. There are.... certain ponies....... that would rather you have no place in the government." "Blueblood?" "That's Prince Blueblood to you peasant." He growled at me as he got up. "Not anymore. Besides, do you want a repeat of last time we met?" I then smile as I have a smug idea. I disappear with a loud crack, a second later I come back with blueblood's chair in my hands. The ponies lining the wall, watching this exchange, gasped. I put it down and sat down on it. "I will sit wherever I want, whenever I want. I will not follow any rules you make as I have respect for you in the negatives. I will listen to most other ponies, however. As I don't know most of them, and I'm not one to judge on appearance alone. For example," I look around and see filthy rich. "For example, Mr. Rich." I smile as the awestruck face he made as I knew his name. "Him, I have some respect for." I turn back to blueblood. "He is kind to the everyone at ponyville. He is not a stuck up noble like everyone else. His daughter...." I shrug. "She'll be much better in the future. I'll say that much. While his wife...... Not very nice." I shake my head. All the while I was saying this, Blueblood was gritting his teeth and becoming redder in the face. Once I had finished talking he quietly said. "You insolent fool. You dare?" "Yep! I dare to defy you with anything you will ever say. I will never listen to you. And if I'm able to, I would gladly challenge your right to be a prince." I lean forward toward him. "Um... If I may..." We both look toward a pony that looked like she was a royal advisor of sorts "Yeah?" I ask kindly while blueblood said "WHAT!" "Um... You can challenge him. It would be a test of intelligence and power. You would both take a test about the history of Equestria. And then you would both fight in a battle against each other." "Alright! Can we battle right now? And in a week we would do the test? I need to study for the test." "Actually, we need to do the battle after the test, for fear that one of the combatants will die during the fight." "Ok, that makes sense." I nod. "I'll be back in a week for the test. Come on you two." I nod to Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. They come towards me and I put my hands on them. Apparating us back home with a loud crack. We reappeared at my house. "This is my stop. I'll see you two later. I have some stuff I want to do." "Like getting ready for that test?" "no... well... yes. But that's not what I had in mind." "Then what are you doing?" "I'm going to make my own house." Silence......... "What?" Rainbow dash said confused. "Why would you do that when you have this place?" She gestures to the house I've been living in. "Well, what if a pony moves here and needs this place to live? I'll be homeless again. So I want to get out of here as soon as possible." "I.... guess that makes sense." She shrugs. "Where are you going to build it?" I pull out the harmonic wand and I conjure a map of ponyville. I then point to a spot between the greensward, where Fluttershy lived, and the school. "Right there. That's where I'm going to be making my house." I look up and see a surprised look on the girls' faces as they look at each other. "Um... Pinkie and I kinda forgot to mention this to you, but have you talked to Twilight today?" "I talked to her this morning, yeah. I then talked to Fluttershy, I left and ran into you two. Why?" "Did she tell you what was going to happen?" "Noooo......" My voice trails off. "What's wrong?" "Well, Twilight had the idea..... since you are supposed to still be in school. She enrolled you in the local school." She pointed it out on the map. "SHE DID WHAT!!!!!" I yelled. A bunch of birds flew out of tree half a mile away from the noise.