The True Me

by lightningman


Chapter 34 - Boast Busters Part One

As Darkning went and grabbed his other suit. I went over to Twilights. I opened the door as I heard this.
"Come on, Twilight. You can do it!" Spike said.
"Alright, here goes." Her horn began to glow as she began to make a mustache form on Spike's upper lip.
"HA HA! You did it!" Spike said excitedly. He then ran to the whiteboard and said. "Growing magic, number 25." He turns to Twilight. "25 different tricks, and counting." Twilight blushed and ducked her head a little. Spike meanwhile looked at himself in the mirror. "And I think this is the best trick so far. Helllloooo, Rarity. What's that? Oh, it's just my awesome mustache." He said proudly.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Sorry, Romeo. As attractive and enticing as you look, it's just for fun and it's gotta go."
"WAIT!" Spike yelled as he tried to grab his mustache. "Aw... Rats." I smile and shake my head.
"Let's go for a walk, Spike."
"Alright." He nods and I hide around a corner. I wanted to see what would happen in this universe when they talk about magical abilities. They soon left and I followed behind soon.
"25, Twilight. 25 different kind of tricks and counting." Spike said as Twilight looked a little proud. "I thought unicorns were only supposed to have a little magic that matches their special talent."
"True, for ponies who's special talent is cooking or singing or math," Twilight said. "But what if a unicorn's special talent is magic?"
"Like you, Twilight. And you know a ton of magic."
"Oh, spike stop. I'm sure there are lots of ponies right here in ponyville that know just as much magic as me. Like lighting man. He raised the sun and moon." Twilight said.
"Yeah, But he's an entirely different species. I don't think the same rules apply to him and Darkning. Seriously, you saw what he does on a daily basis. He looks for ways to make himself more powerful. He created a wand that uses the Elements of Harmony as a power source for Celestia's sake. He created a body for a being that was inside of his mind. He also has those cards that can summon creatures and power himself up." Spike said. "And we are just talking about unicorns. And there's not another unicorn in all of Equestria that has your kind of ability Twilight." I get to where Snips and Snails were going to knock Spike over.
"Gangway!" Snails yelled. "Coming through!" Snips runs into spike making him force them with them.
"Snips! Snails! What's going on?" He said as they both make a sudden stop sending him flying at me. I catch him. "Whew. Thanks, Lightningman. How'd you get here anyway?"
"I've been following you since the library. It's another friendship lesson today." I shrug as I put him down.
"Well, Haven't you heard?" Snails asks. "There's a new unicorn in town!"
"Yeah, and I heard, she has more magical powers, than any unicorn EVER!" Twilight joined us and looked surprised.
"Really?" She looks down a bit sad.
"No way. That honour goes to Twilight. And maybe Lightningman, if you want to classify unicorns as magic users that aren't the princesses." Twilight blushes and I smile under my mask.
"Where is this unicorn?"
"Yeah, where's Trixie?" I ask.
"Oh, she's in the town square. Come on!" I smile and begin to follow them. Soon enough, we were joined by Darkning in the copy of my suit.
"Alright," I whisper to him. "I need you to hide in the on a nearby rooftop. I'm gonna challenge, Trixie." I whisper what he's supposed to say. Soon we get to the town square and we hear yelling.
"Come one! Come All! Come and witness the amazing magic of The Great and Powerful Trixie!" A flash of smoke appears onstage and everyone gasps as Trixie appears. I merely stifle a yawn. "Watch in awe, as The Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular ever witnessed by ponykind." I almost laughed there. Her? The greatest feat of magic was raising the sun and moon daily. I doubt, she could do that.
"my, my, my. what boasting." Rarity said.
"Yeah. Complete Blowhard, at least right now." I say as I rub my eyes and groan a bit.
"Right now?" Rarity asks as she looks at me.
"Spoilers."
"Come on. Nopony's more magical than Twilight." That's where Spike realizes who he's near. "Oh, Hey rarity, um..." He realizes something. "Mustache!" He zips away.
"What was that about?" She asks me.
"He wants to show you a mustache that Twilight can summon on him."
"oh." She looks back at the stage. But Twilight comes up.
"There's nothing wrong with being talented is there?" Twilight asks rarity.
"Nothing at all." Applejack answers from nearby. "Except when somepony goes showing it when like a school filly with fancy new ribbons."
"I do that." I frown.
"Yeah, but your not a pony and you have the talent to back it up. So you get a free pass."
"Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic, does not make her better than the rest of us." Rarity says
"Again, I'm right here. And I don't think I'm better than you." I say frowning.
"And again, your not a pony."
"Yeah, especially when you got me around being better than the rest of us." Rainbow Dash says as Applejack gives her a deadpan look. "Uh... I mean... Yeah! Magic Shmagic. Boo!" She looks back at Applejack as I flick her in the head. "What was that for?"
"You insulted all unicorns and me." I groan. "Think before saying."
"You don't do that," Rainbow says.
"Yes. And I make hundreds of bad decisions. But it gets the job done." I say.
"True,"
"Well, well, well. It seems we have some neigh-sayers in the audience." I almost burst out laughing as she actually neighs when she said that. "Who is so ignorant as to challenge the magical might of The Great and Powerful Trixie! Do they not know, that they are in the presence of the most magical pony in all of Equestria?"
Rarity scoffs. "Just who does she think she is?"
"Yeah!" Spike pops up. "Since we all know that Twilight here..." He's interrupted.
"Spike, shhh!" She leads him away. I wait for them to come back. Rainbow Dash has had enough and flies towards Trixie
"So. Great and Powerful Trixie." She said, "What makes you think you're so awesome anyway?"
"Why, only the Great and Powerful Trixie has magic strong enough to vanquish the dreaded Ursa Major!" She yells dramatically. Everyone gasps as an Ursa Minor picture appears in the air.
"No way." Snails say.
"When all hope was lost. The ponies of Huffington had no one to turn to. That was when the Great and Powerful Trixie, stepped in and with her awesome magic, vanquished the Ursa Major, and sent it back to its cave. Deep within the Everfree Forest!"
"SWEET!" Snips and Snails says.
"That settles it," Snips says.
"Trixie truly is the most talented, most magical, most awesome unicorn in Ponyville." Snails says.
"No! In all of Equestria!"
"How do you know? You didn't see it And besides Twilight...." His mouth was zipped shut.
Trixie laughs "It's true, my enthusiastic little admirers. Trixie is certainly the best in Ponyville!"
"Maybe before Twilight got here." I rolled my eyes and thought. Everyone was silent and you could hear a cricket chirping.
"You don't believe the great and Powerful Trixie? Well then, I hereby challenge you ponyvillians. anything you can do, I can do better. Any takers?"
"YEP!" I get up from sitting down. I stretch and pop my back.
"And what are you?" Trixie smiles condescendingly. "A hairlessm outcasted ape?"
"Pretty sure I'll be outcasted soon." I shrug. "As for the ape part. I'm either descended from them or not. Depends on whether evolution is a thing." I pull out the Harmonic Wand and my cards. "I need some battle practice anyway. I haven't had a chance to yet." I point my wand at her and think. "Sam?"
"Yeah, Dad?"
"Full power."
"WHAT! Against a unicorn? Aren't you worried your gonna hurt her?"
"If my hunch is correct, she won't get damaged. She'll just see that I'm more powerful than her."
"What do you mean?"
"The author will want the show to continue on the set course. So He'll protect her."
"It's true." the author's voice sounded in my mind.
"Well... Ok." With that, A loud bang came from the library and the elements of Harmony surround the wand.
"Watch this, Oh great and powerful Trixie." I point at the ground and a huge smokescreen pops up. I see Darkning jumps down from the nearby building into the smokescreen. When it clears, everyone gasps to see two of me.
"Can you do this?" Darking and I both as at the same time, our voices blending together perfectly.
"Wha... What? How did..." She asks as she puts on a determined face. "Fine. I'll prove to you, I can beat you." She charges her horn and makes a smokescreen. When it dissipates, a copy of her is standing there. But the real Trixie had sweat coming from her head. I smile and clap a little bit.
"Alright. I just wanted to test you to see if you could do this before we battle. I create another smokescreen and Trixie's copy disappears and Darkning hides. When it dissipates, the elements of Harmony are still surrounding the Harmonic Wand. "Create your most powerful shield." I could hear a gasp from the Mane 6 as they realize what I'm about to do.
"Don't Lightningman! You'll kill her!" Twilight yells.
"Don't worry," I tell her. "I know how this is gonna turn out." Trixie gulps a little as she makes her best shield. I point at the shield and yell. "SCUTUM RUPTOR!" The shield breaks with such a force that Trixie is sent flying. "Author? I need you to save her."
"Alright." With that, a hand of solid earth appears out of the ground and catches Trixie.
"Wow. Can you always do that?" I ask as the earth hand puts Trixie down. she recoils from the hand.
"No, just at certain times. Like now? When I was there, the author that was writing my adventures used the wall to create a baseball glove instead of a hand made of earth."
"Oh. So at times like these you have full reign over your powers? But at other times, you can't do anything except write down my adventures?"
"Yes."
'Alright. That makes sense." I nod as the hand disappears back into the earth.