//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Operation Magic // Story: Bring Your Friendship Game On! // by Pinkie Pie Sweets //------------------------------// It's been a few months since their winter break, and the students of Canterlot High are doing what they do in school. However, next month Canterlot High School will be hosting the Friendship Games against Crystal Prep Academy. Everyone are kind of excited, but no one are more excited are the nine friends. Today, Sun decide to hold a special band practice with her friends, so she invites them to one of the room. The eight friends walk into the room so they can start practice, but they can see that Sun is working on something else. Sun is wearing a lab coat, holding a clipboard with paper and pen, and is working on a machine. Sun turns to see her friends, and says with a smile, "Hey guys." The girls are look rather confused seeing Sun with a machine, and are wondering what she is up to. Adagio comes over, and asks, "Um Sun, what are you doing?" "Yeah, I thought we're supposed to be at band practice," Rainbow adds. Sun looks at her clipboard, and says, "Well, we are… sort of…" The girls look at each other with a curious look. "Sun, what in the hay are you up to?" Applejack asks. Sun giggles, and answers, "Easy, I thought it will be a good idea for us to understand our magic from this world." "Huh?!" The girls reply, questionably. "Back in Equestria, when I was Princess Celestia's student, I always do much better with actually doing something. Studying ancient books or spell books are fine for some students, but I'm all about rolling my sleeves and getting my hands dirty," Sun explains, while getting her rubber gloves on, and setting ger machines around. "In other world, you like to do more actions for these things," Aria bluntly answers. "Yep," Sun answers. "I can relate on workin on the farm, but what does this have to do with us playing music?" Applejack asks. "Like I said, I thought it will be a good idea for us to understand our magic. For example, how we pony up, with wings, and what our instruments had to do with it," Sun adds to her explanation. Fluttershy shyly asks, "Are you sure we need to figure this out?" "I think it sounds interesting," Sonata replies with a grin. "I think it sounds fun," Pinkie happily adds. "I think it sounds pointless," Aria says with an annoyed look on her face. Adagio turns to her sister, and says, "Come on Aria, I'm sure all of you're a bit curious about it." "Yeah, I guess I'm a little bit curious about it," Aria admits. "So let's give it a try," Rainbow agrees. "Great!"Sun says with a smile. Sun then turns to Fluttershy, and says, "Fluttershy, you can go first." Fluttershy gulps a bit, feeling nervous about being the first one to be the test subject, but she trust Sun completely and will give it a try. Sun puts a funny headgear on her head, and Fluttershy plays with her tambourine. As Fluttershy plays the tambourine, Sun looks at the results of the machine. To her surprise, she can see that the wave has changed into a buttershy. Sun turns to see Fluttershy is having a good time playing her instrument, that she glows light yellow, pony up, and causes butterflies to appear in the room, and causing the light to go out. One of the butterflies lands on Sun's face, and she smiles to see the little flying bug. After Fluttershy, Sun moves on to Applejack. She watches as Applejack playing her base and is beginning to transform. For some reason the transformations wares off. Sun and Applejack are not sure is something supposed to happen, but their answer has been solved in an unexpected way. A bunch of apples have fallen on top of Sun. Sun gets out of the pile to see a bunch of apples. Applejack grabs one of them and start eating it and walks away. Next, Sun puts these sticky cups with wires on Rarity's face. On Sun's signal, Rarity starts to play her keytar. Rarity plays her keytar so much that she grows ears and ponytail. Sun likes the results she is seeing, and is writing down the details. However, as Rarity is being lifted up into the air, the wire is tangled to Sun's foot, and the wire trips her, and falls to the floor. Rarity stops play and lands on the ground. After that, she writes down notes as Pinkie plays her guitar. Taping her pencil, Pinkie plays her drum set hard, and causes her to transform. However, she plays it hard, and the last bang causes a bunch of balloons to hit Sun, making her slam to the wall. The static charge of the balloon causes Sun to spread around, and feels like she is sticking to the wall. Next, The Dazzlings are shining through the microphones, while Sun is typing on her laptop. The three glow their colors and cause them to transform. Just then, the three wings cause the wings to shimmer and shine so much, that it causes a blinding light into the room. Sun covers her eyes in the nick of time before she ends up blind or something. Then it's Rainbow Dash's turn. She plays her guitar, glows blue, and transform, gaining her pony ears, tail and wings. Sun is in another room typing on her laptop as she is seeing the results. The rainbow sound waves from Rainbow Dash's electric guitar starts to travel through the wire and onto Sun's laptop. Sun looks to see her laptop is shining a rainbow color it, and can see a very strange result. The next thing she knows, the rainbow color splats out of her laptop and all over the room. After the experimenting, The Dazzlings and the others are simply putting their things way as Sun gets the results. The look to see Sun is at them and are giving them the results. However, they can see something different about her. Sun says, "Finally after all this testing, I come to a definitive conclusion." The girls can see Sun's hair is standing on ends, and has a static magic charge, and her hair is sparkling. Sun coughs up smoke and a small rainbow of their colors appear. She feels very exhausted and looks like she has a tiring experience with researching magic. "I have no idea how magic works in this world," Sun says, feeling exhausted. She then falls to the floor and passed out, and only been like that for a half hour or so. After that, Sun and all of her friends head back home after a long day at school. Sun still wants to know more about the magic that has come to this world, can tell it's going to be harder than it looks. She's gonna need more details for another time.