//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 - Friendship games - The First Events // Story: The Brother's Adventure 3 // by lightningman //------------------------------// The next morning, I woke up rather early. I pick up my usual stuff to get ready. I go to the gym and take a shower in the changing room. After which, I get dried and dressed in some different clothes. I go to the teacher's lounge and put my clothes in the washer. I go to the front door and wait for Principal Celestia. Once she's inside I walk up to her. "Excuse me?" "Huh?" Celestia sees me. "What are you doing here so early?" "I came to ask you if I can give a song before the Friendship Games today." "Why?" "Because I want to." I shrug. "That's about it." "Fine." She nods. "Before we start the Friendship Games, We'll allow you to give your song to everyone." "Alright. I need to get this set up." I smile and run off to set everything up. I grab a projector from a classroom. My own Xbox from my base. Some amplifiers. I then go and start to hook it all up in the Entrance Hall. I was nearly finished when Students started to walk inside. They looked oddly at me. I merely wave and continue on it. Soon enough I have the song that I wanted to show set up. I whistle while waiting. Soon enough, however, All of the contestants for the Friendship Games are here. Vice-Principal Luna and Dean Cadence both had microphones. "Good morning, students. I'm sure you're all thrilled to start the first day of the Friendship Games. Our competitors will face off in every aspect of the CHS curriculum, culminating in the elimination equation finale." said Luna "Welcome to the first event, the Academic Decathlon! You'll be scored on chemistry, home-ec and everything in between. But remember, only the six students from each team with the most points will move on to event number 2. Good luck!" Dean Cadence said. Just then Celestia said into the microphone she had taken from Luna. "However. Before these Games begin, Xayvier has asked that he might set up a song for us to see. I don't know what the song is. I will allow him to show it." I ask for the Microphone and I get it from Cadence. "Thank you, Principal Celestia. I know what most of you are thinking. 'Why show us a song now?' Well mainly because it's a song about the Friendship Games. It can also kinda explain to the CHS students how I know about a lot of this important stuff that's been happening during the past month." I shrug. "Anyway. If you could please sit back and relax and watch." I go and grab my controller and start the song. Once the song ends. Everyone was slackjawed. "But... My students never posed for those pictures that are on there." Said Principal Cinch. She turned to her students. "Have you?" They shake their heads. The CHS students were surprised that I would show this now. The Main Cast look at me in amazement. "Anyway." I smile. "I believe we have some Events we need to compete in?" Everyone shakes out of their stupor and get competitive. I smile and put some headphones in my ears. As We began, I took the place of Derpy in most of them. Except for the final one, In which I took the place of Sunset Shimmer. "Excuse me?" I take my headphones out. "Yes?" Principal Celestia asked. "Do we need to show our work or just the answer?" "Just the answer," Cinch said as she frowned. I smile and grab a piece of chalk and write down X = 20 degrees. After a few seconds. Twilight writes down her answer, Which was the same as mine. Cinch growls as she says. "Tie. Please flip over your boards for the Tie-Breaker Question." I widen my eyes. Tie-Breaker Question? I flip over the board to a rather simple question actually. I widen my eyes and smile. It read this. "A bat and a ball cost one dollar and ten cents in total. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" I remember the answer to this. People mistake that the difference between the two is exactly 1$ instead of 90 cents. I smile and write down 5 cents immediately. Twilight smiles and writes down 10 cents. Cinch sighs. and points to Twilight. The Crystal Prep students smirk. But then Cinch says "Incorrect." All of the students gape at me. I merely smile and do a two fingered salute and walk off the stage. The Crystal Prep students were glaring at me while the CHS students were just blinking at me. "That means the Winner of the First Event is Xayvier Chapman and Canterlot High." Announces Vice- Principal Luna as all of the Canterlot High School students cheer. "That was awesome!" Said Rainbow Dash. "Truly Amazing." Said Rarity. "Thanks. It wasn't really that hard honestly that Tie-Breaker Question. I wasn't expecting it." I smile. "What do you mean? Surely you expect everything?" "Not that. I was expecting that first question and the answer. That's how I got it so easily. But I wasn't expecting the Tie-Breaker." "Huh." the girls widen their eyes. "Well, with you on our team, we're sure to win." Rainbow Dash said. "Ok. True." I shrug. "After a careful tally of the points, we'd like to present the students moving on to the Friendship Games' second event." All the girls minus Fluttershy stood with each other and the girls cheered. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------LATER------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was walking with Fluttershy and we sat down near the Canterlot High sign as She opened up her backpack to reveal a kitten. Some nearby bushes rustled and Twilight appeared. "Would you like to giver her a treat?" Fluttershy asked. twilight looked hesitant before joining us. "Guess I'm not the only one to smuggle her pet into school." "Not just one." I smile as well as Fluttershy as she opened up her bag more to reveal a rabbit, a hamster and a bird. "Oh, wow. All I have is Spike." Twilight said as she opened up her backpack. Spike jumped out at me and landed on me. "Off. Yes, hi, big guy." I smile at him as he licked me. "It really is uncanny. Does he talk?" Fluttershy smiled "Um... Not that I know of." Twilight said "Congratulations on second place by the way. That was extremely close." I said. "Yeah. But it didn't seem like any of your team was very happy about it." "Nobody at my school gets excited about anything they didn't do themselves," said Twilight sadly. "that sounds awful." Fluttershy consoles Twilight "Shipping fuel." I cough into my fist. Twilight blushes while Fluttershy looks at me with an innocent confusion look on her face. Fluttershy looks around and holds out her bunny. "Here. Hold this." "Um...Why?" Twilight asked as she gently took the rabbit. "Holding a bunny always makes me feel better." "Well, that's ridiculous." Said Twilight skeptically. But then The bunny nuzzles into her and she smiles. "But... Aww. It actually kinda works." She smiles. She then frowns a bit and looks down. "I'm on the other team and you just won. Why are you being so nice to me?" "You looked like you needed it." Fluttershy smiles as I put on sunglasses. Suddenly she ponied up and I smile as Twilight looked amazed. Just then her necklace floats up and sucks away the magic. The portals start to appear and a weird jackalope bunny thing appears out of one of them. Spike growls and begins to chase him through the portals. "SPIKE!" Twilight calls. Spike jumps through a bunch more portals but eventually jumps into the stream of magic. fluttershy catches him as they fall to the ground. "SPIKE!" Twilight yells worried as Fluttershy holds him out exhaustedly. I pull out a mana potion and run to Fluttershy "Spike. Are you ok?" Twilight says as she holds him and I feed Fluttershy the potion. Giving her back her energy. "Um, I think so," Spike answers, his eyes seeming more intelligent. A beat as both of them processes this. "AHH!!!" They both yell and Twilight drops Spike and runs away. "Twilight! Wait!" Spike chases after her. "I'd better go with them," I say to Fluttershy as she nods. I go run after Twilight as well. Twilight bursts inside while Spike yells. "Twilight, come on! Wait for me!" She eventually hits a dead end and pins up against the wall. She begins to walk sideways along the lockers. "Why did you run away like that?" "Um, oh, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the glowing girl, or the hole in space. Or my talking dog! Or maybe the person with superpowers!" She points at each individual thing except for the first two in which she waves at mid air. "Yeah. Weird, right?" Spike says as he scratches his ear. Twilight looks for a second before bending down and petting Spike. "Are you okay? How do you feel? What happened? Where did you go?" Spike licks Twilight's face to stop the questions and while she wipes her face. Spike talks. "Hey, one question at a time! This is pretty new to me, too." "Sorry." Twilight says "All I know is I chased that pointy rabbit through the glowy thing and then I was somewhere else. Next thing I knew, I was back in that nice girl's arms and I could talk! I don't really understand why I couldn't before. I mean, it's so easy." "There's a difference between talking and babbling. Your babbling right now." I smirk and Spike looks at me with a semi-annoyed look. "Anyway." I open a locker. "Get in." "Why?" Spike asks. "Twilight." Principal cinch's voice echoes. "That's why," I say and Spike jumps in and I close the locker door. "Are you two talking to each other?" Cinch asks Twilight and I. "Well, mainly she's been talking to herself. But yeah we've been talking to each other." I shrug "Um... We're you looking for me?" Asks Twilight. "Indeed I was. I wish to talk to you alone." She glares at me. "Your here to talk about infiltrating the girls and me who managed to get into the second events," I say. Both of them look at me a bit surprised. "What?" I ask. I shrug. "Fine, I'll leave." I went and caught up with the girls, they were in the middle of talking. "Oh, it puts you on a playing field alright." Applejack points, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie gasp and stare at the large course. "Am I the only who thinks this is overkill?" Sunset asks. "I'm pretty sure this is to counteract the magic that's happening." I frown. "Won't work, but valiant effort." I shrug. "I don't suppose you made us motocross outfits," Applejack asked Rarity. "Oh don't be ridiculous... Of course, I did." She squeed as she pulled out two outfits from nowhere. "Did you learn how to break reality like pinkie?" I frown as Pinkie giggles at my exasperation.