Ch.6-Finding Clues
A while later, the ponies and Spike had already left the Manehattan police station and were now scouting around for Discord.
After a while, they then spotted a familiar unicorn stallion with a blue horn walking by and realized that it was Discord in disguise as a pony. They ran up to him as Fluttershy called out, “Um, excuse me. Sir, remember me?”
The stallion, who was actually Discord in disguise, heard her voice and stopped as he turned around. He looked at them with a smile as they rushed up to him. He looked at Fluttershy and grinned as he said, “Oh, it’s you. I was wondering when I was gonna see you again. And I see that you brought your friends too.”
Fluttershy’s friends looked at the stallion before Twilight spoke up. “We know that it’s you, Discord. Your sister, Antic, told us.”
The stallion just looked at the alicorn with a relaxed look on his face. “Whoops, caught me by surprise.” he said in a different voice. His entire body changed in a flash and standing in the stallion’s place was Discord, just as they thought. As he was stretching his mismatched arms and legs, he said, “Well, I must say this is a pleasant reunion. What brings you ponies to Manehattan, anyway?”
“We’re here to ask you some questions about a case.” Twilight replied.
Discord smiled and raised an eyebrow. “What happened, princess?” he asked. “Did somepony steal a briefcase? If you’re pointing hooves at me, I can assure you that my evil doing days are far behind.” An angel halo appeared on his head.
“Not that kind of case.” Rainbow Dash said as Spike held up a photo of Otterus with the cucumber sandwich.
“You sold Mr. Otterus this cucumber sandwich. Do you know him?” Rarity asked.
Discord took a quick look at the photo and said, “I know everyone. But tell me, what does that have to do with me?”
“Nelson Otterus has gone missing,” Applejack said.
“Oh, has he now?” Discord said.
“You were the last one to have seen him, so we need you to help us.” Starlight Glimmer said.
Discord sighed sadly before replying, “Sorry, but I’m afraid that’s out of the question. I have other important things to attend to.”
“But this otter draconequus is missing!” Rainbow Dash replied angrily. “I’m pretty sure your 25 bits worth of cucumber sandwiches can wait.”
“Actually, it's 13 bits.”
Spike turned to the CMC and said, “25 bits seemed pretty outrageous.”
“But we Pinkie Promised!” Pinkie Pie said desperately.
“I’ll bet you did.” Discord said, rolling his eyes.
“We did!” Pinkie Pie said. “Cross our hearts hope to fly, stick a cu-!”
Applejack covered Pinkie Pie’s mouth. “Well, ya get the idea.”
“As sad as this sounds, I can't help you.” Discord said before shrugging off with a smile. “Good luck with the search though.”
Applejack took her hoof off of Pinkie's mouth and the pink pony screamed, “-pcake in our eye!” She then gasped for air.
The ponies looked at each other before Twilight spoke. “Okay, then.” The alicorn said. “Guess we'll have to go to Plan B.”
“Whatever happened to Plan C?” Pinkie Pie asked.
“We don't have a Plan C, Pinkie.” Apple Bloom explained.
“Oh.”
Turning to Discord, Twilight said, “Oh well, then. I guess we'll have to tell everypony back in Ponyville about how you think of Fluttershy.”
Discord turned around, raising a suspicious eyebrow. “What are you talking about?”
“Well,” Starlight Glimmer said. “Antic did mention to us that you thought Fluttershy was beautiful and cute.”
Fluttershy blushed, her cheeks turning red. She thought that it was cute how her friend thought of her.
Discord, however, wasn't happy at the moment. He crossed his arms. “Of course.” He muttered before he angrily thought to himself. “Leave it to my siblings to blab everything to the whole world. Why did I even tell Antic that secret in the first place?”
He turned to the ponies, replying, “Well, it's my word against yours.”
In reply, Fluttershy held up the same flower pen Discord had given her yesterday. She pressed a button and it made a rewinding noise before she played it.
“And when Discord had those letters Fluttershy gave him, he got all mushy before putting them in a chest with a heart on it. I thought it was so adorable!” Antic’s voice said from the pen.
When it stopped, Discord was more frustrated than before. He was starting to think that he shouldn't have given Fluttershy a pen with a recorder.
“By the way,” Applejack said with a smile. “Antic allowed us to record that.”
“I’ll bet she did.” Discord thought to himself. He took a deep breath and regained his composure. “Well, I'm sure that anypony will find that hard to believe if it's lost in Bugbear territory!” He said with a smug smile. He snapped his fingers, expecting the flower pen to disappear.
But for some reason, the flower pen remained in Fluttershy's hooves. When Discord saw that the pen was still there, he couldn't believe his eyes. He snapped his fingers again and again, but the flower pen still remained intact. The ponies and Spike just watched this whole scene with smiles on their faces.
As Discord looked at his hands in confusion, Twilight said, “In case you're wondering why you can't teleport the pen, I put a protection spell on it. We couldn't have you do the same thing like you did with the Elements of Harmony.”
Discord tried to grab the pen from Fluttershy, but the pegasus pulled it back.
Starlight spoke to the draconequus. “If you want this pen, you'll have to help us find this missing otter draconequus. And only then will we give you the pen.”
Discord scoffed in shock and disbelief as his jaw dropped to the ground. Spike just gave a smug smile at the draconequus. “Sorry, buddy. It’s called a hustle.” He said, pointing a claw at Discord.
Discord looked at the baby dragon with a frown before snapping his fingers. Instantly, a zipper appeared on Spike’s lips and zipped his mouth all by itself. Spike's smug look disappeared once he realized what Discord did. He shouted out some muffling words as he tried to speak. Finally, he managed to unzip the zipper. As he gasped for air, Spike decided that maybe taunting Discord wasn’t the wisest decision.
Fluttershy, on the other hoof, didn’t like the idea of blackmailing Discord. But he was the only one who had a lot of vital information that could be very useful if they wanted to find Otterus.
“So,” Twilight asked. “Do we have a deal?”
“Please?” Fluttershy asked with a gentle voice.
Discord was steamed up with anger as he growled before taking a deep breath. “Fine. We have a deal.” He said, crossing his arms with an annoyed look on his face.
“Okay. Start talking.” Rainbow Dash said.
“Look. I. Don’t. Know. Where. He. Is.” Discord said with a frustrating glare. “I only saw where he went.”
The ponies faces didn’t change. “That’s close enough.” Twilight said. “Let’s go.”
Then Discord had an uncomfortable look on his face. He raised an eyebrow. “Um, I’m not sure you want to go there. It’s not a exactly a good place for ponies like yourselves or for those like me to be there.”
“Aw, stop being a baby and let’s go, Romeo.” Rainbow Dash said with a smirk. Her friends laughed at her joke.
As they were walking, Discord materialized a pencil, glasses, and a notepad. He began writing in the notepad and he thought, “Note to self, stitch Antic’s mouth shut when she becomes a full-fledged doctor.”
Soon, they arrived at a place called the Soothing Springs.
As they walked inside, they looked around until they saw a male draconequus at the front desk. He had the head of a yak that had orange flowers covering his bushy hair, his body was a turtle, tail of a llama, right arm of a moose and left arm of a camel, and his right leg belonged to a lizard while his left leg resembled a mountain goat. Around his neck he wore a beaded necklace and buzzing around his hair were swarms of flies.
When they approached the desk, they noticed that he was meditating and chanting, “Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm...”
“Who’s that?” Sweetie Belle asked, pointing at the yak draconequus, who was still chanting in his meditation.
“That’s Mental,” Discord replied. “He runs the place.”
Twilight approached the desk as Mental continued chanting. She cleared her throat and said, “Excuse me, hello?”
Mental didn’t appear to have heard her as he continued chanting. “Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm...”
Starlight tried to have a go. “Um, excuse us, sir? Hello?”
“Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm...”
“Hey, buddy! Can you hear us?” Rainbow Dash said, trying to get him to notice them.
“Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm! Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm!”
Then Pinkie Pie got up close to him and held up a megaphone. “Hello?” She yelled and her voice came out of the megaphone in a louder voice. “Hello! HELLO!”
It was silent for a moment and Mental just continued chanting. “Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm…Oooooooooohmmmmmmmm...”
As they watched him continue his chant, Twilight looked at Spike with a confused look on her face while she pointed a hoof at the yak draconequus. Spike just shrugged. He didn’t know what was going on.
Finally, Fluttershy spoke up. “Um, excuse me?”
Surprisingly, Fluttershy's soft, gentle voice got the yak draconequus’ attention. He shook his shaggy hair before he pulled the bangs in front of his eyes aside and saw the ponies.
Noticing Discord, he smiled and chuckled as he said. “Hey, Discord. My main draconequus.” He gave Discord a small fist bump, leaving some sweat on Discord's paw.
Discord rolled his eyes while he continued staring at the yak draconequus. “Yes, it's good to see you again, Mental,” he said while shaking the sweat off of his paw.
Twilight then spoke up. “Excuse me, my name’s-”
“Oh, you know, I'm gonna hit the pause button right there, cause we're all good on Pony Scout Cookies.” Mental said with a friendly smile.
“We're selling Pony Scout Cookies?” Pinkie Pie asked with a surprise look.
“Uh...no.” Twilight said before she continued. “I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle. My friends and I are on a missing case and are here to ask some questions.”
“We're looking Nelson Otterus, who might have recently been here.” Fluttershy said before handing Mental the picture of the Otterus family.
Mental looked at the picture for a moment. As he gasped, his eyes widened, as if he was about to say something important.
“AH-CHOO!”
Mental sneezed, spraying mucus on the nearby ponies. Rarity twitched in disgust. Flies scattered everywhere before returning to their place, hovering around him.
“Oh yeah, Ol’ Nelson.” He said with a chuckle before giving Fluttershy back the picture. “Haven’t seen him in a couple of weeks. But hey, you should talk to his yoga instructor. I’d be happy to take you out back.”
“Er...yes. That would be just fine.” Rarity said, trying not to sound disgusted while Spike used a handkerchief to wipe draconequus snot off her.
Mental walked from behind the counter and stopped at a door entrance. “Just one minute, folks. I gotta unlock the door.”
He picked up a key ring with a bunch of keys around it and began to look through each one. They watched as he said, “No. No. No. No. Ye- no. I know I saw it somewhere.”
Apple Bloom spoke up. “Couldn’t ya just unlock the door with your magic?”
Mental turned to the young filly. “Huh? Oh, no can do, little dude. We’re an Anti-Magic Club.” He said nonchalantly before chuckling and continued rummaging through the keys.
The ponies and baby dragon look at each other with confused faces. “Anti-Magic Club?” Spike said, raising an confused eyebrow.
“I thought all draconequuses use magic,” Scootaloo said.
“We do,” Discord said. “Some of us, however, think that using magic is ‘unproductive’.” He said the word with quotes. “They believe that hard work will give them what they need. And they also like to…uh…engage in different kinds of stuff.”
“What do you mean?” Sweetie Belle asked.
Discord sighed sadly. “You’ll see soon enough.”
Mental had finally found the right key and unlocked the door. “Kayla’s just on the other side of the pleasure pool,” he said. “Right this way, folks.”
He pushed the door open and showed them the way. Once the ponies and baby dragon looked outside, their jaws dropped.
The courtyard was filled with draconequuses and some ponies. Many of the draconequuses had their fur completely shaved off and were sunbathing. Others, like bear draconequuses were rubbing their backs against trees. Some were doing activities without using their magic, such as sawing wood, playing the game Twister and getting all tangled up. There were some monkey draconequuses picking at each other for fleas and tick, which they ate with their feet and their mouths open.
The ponies felt as if they had wandered into another planet. Now they knew why Discord didn’t like this place.
It was no picnic for Discord either. He looked at the ponies and said, “Oh boy. Is this bothering you as much as it’s bothering me?” They didn’t respond, presumably from the shock. “If so, there’s no shame in turning back.” Discord wanted to leave this place as much as they did.
Twilight frowned and gulped very hard. “Yes, there is.” She said with determination, although the alicorn sounded disgusted at the same time.
As he watched them walk into the courtyard, Discord muttered, “Boy, that’s the spirit.”
Meanwhile, outside the building, the Thief was looking around. So far, he hadn’t managed to steal anything all day. Ever since, the wild ride earlier, he was sore all over; not to mention he still smelled of fresh manure and it had attracted even more flies.
“What an idiot I am!” He thought to himself as he walked along. “All that trouble for a stupid pocket watch!” He stopped once he noticed the Soothing Springs. “Soothing Springs.” He thought as he read the sign. “I think I might have a look around. I could use a nice bath.Ugh, these flies are driving me crazy!” He thought as he climbed up the wall.
Back in the courtyard, Mental continued to lead the ponies, Spike, and Discord around. By that time, the Thief had finally managed to reach the top of the wall and looked into the courtyard.
He saw all kinds of strange things. Three orangutan draconequuses were doing the strangest stretching exercises he had ever seen. One had its legs behind its head. The second one had its arms underneath its legs. The third one had its head underneath its rear end.
“Well,” The Thief thought. “This is certainly all kinds of wrong. My eyes hate my brain for saying this.” Suddenly, he lost his grip. “Whoops!” He fell down and landed in a dumpster. No one seemed to notice.
As they continued following Mental, the ponies noticed a panther draconequus licking its leg before it looked at them. “Yeah, some draconequuses say the anti-magic life is weird.” Mental said while the others looked around, trying not to looked disgusted. “But you know what I think is real weird? Using magic to give you everything you want when you can work hard for it.”
They spotted a group of lemur and raccoon draconequuses in a huge tangled pile, each one grabbing each other's throats with paws or feets while stretching their limbs. When they noticed the ponies, they all smiled and waved with whatever free limbs they had. Pinkie Pie smiled and waved back, while Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack covered Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle’s eyes. They just looked at the strange formation with raised eyebrows.
“Here we go.” Mental said. Twilight and her friends looked straight ahead before the alicorn gave out a disturbed moan.
What they saw was a female draconequus leading some ponies and draconequuses a yoga move, to which they were doing it also. The female draconequus had the head of an Indian elephant while her body was a bear and her tail was a tiger. As for her arms, her right arm was a panda while her left arm was a gorilla. Her right leg belonged to a hippo while her left leg resembles an orangutan.
“As you can see, Kayla's part elephant, so she’ll totally remember everything.” Mental told Twilight and her friends. He then turned the the elephant draconequus, who was still in her same yoga pose, and said, “Hey, Kayla, these dudes have some questions about Nelson the otter draconequus.”
“Who?” Kayla asked, opening her eyes and looking at Mental.
“Uh, Nelson Otterus,” Mental prompted. “Been coming to your yoga class for like six years.”
“I have no memory of this beaver draconequus,” Kayla stated while in her yoga pose. Pinkie Pie seemed interested in what she was doing that she tried to do the same thing, only she fell down backwards with a yelp.
“Uh, he’s not really a beaver draconequus,” Applejack corrected her.
“Um...yes, he’s actually an otter draconequus.” Fluttershy added as she showed Kayla the Otterus picture.
“Oh,” Kayla said before she continued. “I have no memory of this otter draconequus either.”
“He was here a couple of Wednesdays ago. ‘Member?” Mental prompted Kayla.
But the elephant draconequus just shooked her head while she stood up and stretched downwards as she said, “Nope.” The students copied her pose while Pinkie Pie tried doing the pose too before she fell down again with another yelp.
The ponies looked at the yak draconequus with amazement. Kayla didn’t remember much, but Mental has an impressive memory!
Twilight nudged Spike with her leg and whispered, “Spike.”
Spike looked at her before he realized what she wanted him to do. “Oh, right. Got it!” He said before grabbing a notepad and pencil. He began writing down everything Mental was saying as fast as he could.
“Yeah,” Mental continued. “He was wearing a green cable-knit sweater-vest and a new pair of corduroy slacks. Oh, and a paisley tie, sweet Windsor knot, real tight. Remember that, Kayla?”
In another pose, Kayla replied “No.” Once again, Pinkie Pie tried to copy the pose the elephant draconequus and the others were doing. Unfortunately, she felt herself wobbling a bit and yelped as she fell over. Again.
“Yeah, and we both walked him out and he got into that big ol’ white car with the silver trim. Needed a tune up. The third cylinder wasn’t firing. Remember that, Kayla?” Mental said.
“Nope.” Kayla replied while she was in her next pose with her students.
“Um…you didn’t by any chance see the license plate number did you?” Starlight asked, hoping they could get something from the yak draconequus that could be very useful to them.
“Oh, for sure,” Mental nodded. “It was 35NV1L7.”
Kayla and her students were standing upside down and spreading their legs apart, doing their next yoga pose while Pinkie Pie tried doing that also. However, she couldn’t stand in her position for long and fell down with a yelp. Again.
“-L7. Got it.” Spike said as he finished jotting down the license plate number on his notepad.
Looking at the notepad, Twilight smiled and said, “Wow. This is a lot of great info.”
Turning to Mental with a gentle smile, Fluttershy said, “Thank you so much, Mental.”
“Told ya Kayla has the mind like a steel trap.” Mental said with a smile as he looked at Kayla and her students, who were now meditating. “I wish I had the memory like an elephant.”
“Yeah,” Pinkie Pie said as she got up with a frown. “They’re so lucky!” Her friends looked at her in surprise. She probably didn’t know what happened this whole time.
Outside, Discord, Spike, and the ponies walked outside the building.
“All right!” Sweetie Belle cheered. “We got our first clue!”
Discord looked at Fluttershy. “Well, I had a fun time.” He said with a smug smile. “You are all very welcome for the clue. And seeing how anypony can easily run a plate, I’ll just take that pen off your hooves and bid you all adieu.” He held out his claw, hoping Fluttershy would give him the flower pen that had the recording of his secrets about having a crush on her.
Before Fluttershy could give him the pen, Twilight realized something and stopped her. “Wait a minute...the plate. We can’t run the plate...Officer Gruff hasn’t given us permission to have access in the system yet.” Her friends looked at each other, realizing that they had a problem.
“Now what’ll we do?” Scootaloo asked with a frown.
“Give me the pen, please,” Discord said, still holding his claw out.
Looking at Discord, Starlight Glimmer gave a smile said, “What was that you said? ‘How anypony can easily run a plate’?”
The others saw what Starlight was up to and each gave a smile. “Gee...if only there were someone around who was up for the task…,”Rarity said, looking at the draconequus.
Discord gave a frown. “Look, I did what you ponies asked; you can’t keep me on the hook forever.” He said.
“Actually, we can.” Rainbow Dash said.
Fluttershy looked at the draconequus. “Please, Discord? We told Mrs. Otterus that we would find her husband and bring him back home to her and the kids.” She said, looking at him with pleading eyes.
Discord looked at the pegasus. He couldn’t say no to the sweet face of the pony he had feelings for. He sighed and gave in. “Fine.”
Smiling, Twilight said, “So, can you run the plate or not?”
Discord looked at the alicorn. “Actually, I know a guy at the DMV.”
A while later, the ponies, Spike, and Discord arrived at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles).
As they walked through the doorway, they saw a long line of ponies and draconequuses, who were waiting to be helped.
“George is the fastest guy I know. You need something done, he’s on it.” Discord said.
“I hope so, because we’re on a tight schedule.” Starlight said.
Just then, Twilight realized something and said, “Wait. They’re all part sloth?!”
At the desks, the employees all had the same head of a sloth but different animal body parts.
At one desk, a draconequus watched as a sloth draconequus stamped a paper very slowly before slowly moving it aside to stamp the next sheet. The draconequus, who was waiting, just face palmed.
At another desk, an earth pony was impatiently watching a sloth draconequus slowly staple some paper.
A pegasus was at another desk waiting to have her picture taken while the sloth draconequus slowly pressed the button to take the shot.
Twilight looked at Discord in disbelief. “You said this was gonna be quick!” She exclaimed.
“Hey! I'm not the one who gave them the job!” Discord said innocently with a shrug.
“Aw come on, Twilight. Are you saying that just because he’s part sloth, he can't be fast?” Spike said.
“Don't worry. George will run that plate as soon as possible.” Discord said before deciding to give them a warning. “A word of advice, don't get him into any other conversation.”
“Why not?” Asked Scootaloo.
“Trust me. Just don't do it.”
As they approached the desk, behind the counter was George, a sloth draconequus.
“George, George, good old George!” said Discord, greeting the sloth draconequus with a smile. “Buddy, it's nice to see you.”
George just looked at Discord for a long time. “Nice to...see you...too,” he said slowly.
“George, I like to meet my friend, Fluttershy, her friends from Ponyville, Spike, the CMC, and…,” He stopped when he looked at Starlight Glimmer. “Darling, I seem to have forgotten your name.”
The unicorn looked at Discord for a moment before turning her attention to the sloth draconequus. “Starlight Glimmer. How are you?”
George looked at her and didn't respond for ten seconds. “I am... doing...just-”
“Fine?” Fluttershy asked, trying to be quick and polite at the same time.
“...as well...as...I can...be. What-” George continued.
“Hang in there,” Discord told them, trying to endure the slowness of the sloth draconequus.
“...can I...do…”
Twilight then spoke. “Well, I was hoping you could run a plate-”
“...for you…”
“Well I was hoping you could-”
“...today?” George asked, finally completing his sentence.
The alicorn waited for a moment in case George was going to say anything else. When he didn't, she said, “Well, I was hoping you could run a plate for us. We're in a really big hurry.”
George waited for awhile before he began to respond. “Sure. What's the...plate-”
Twilight began to speak. “Three five-”
“...number?” asked George.
Twilight repeated again. “35NV1L7.”
The sloth draconequus slowly moved towards the computer and began pressing the buttons. “Three...five…”
“NV1L7,” said Twilight, her face getting impatient as well as her friends. Rainbow Dash didn't know how much more of this super slow draconequus she could take.
“N...”
“V1L7.”
“V...”
“1L7.”
“1...”
“L7.”
“L...”
“7.” Twilight said with a hint of strain.
Just as George was about to punch in the last digit, Pinkie Pie couldn't hold it in anymore and interrupted him. “Hey! You wanna hear a joke?”
“No!!” Her friends yelled at her.
It was too late. George replied, “Sure.”
The others frowned at Pinkie Pie as she began to tell the sloth draconequus her joke. “What do you call a four-headed dog?”
“I don't...know. What do...you call...a-”
“Four-headed dog,” Rainbow Dash said with a growl.
“...four-headed...dog?” said George.
“Gifted.” Pinkie Pie answered before laughing while her friends just looked at her with annoyed looks.
“We know, Pinkie.” Apple Bloom muttered.
“Yeah. Heard that joke before.” Spike said, annoyed as well.
At first, George didn't show any reaction until he slowly raised his head as a smile crept upon his face. “Ha...ha...ha...ha…”
As they watched him laugh slowly, Twilight spoke up. “Ha, ha, yes, very funny, very funny.” They wanted him to hurry up with the license plate number. They had no time for all of this. “Can we please just focus on the-”
Just as he was done laughing, George began to slowly turn to a female sloth draconequus next to him as Twilight said, “Hey, wait, wait, wait!”
“Hey, Bernice…,” he said.
The female sloth draconequus, who was Bernice and wearing glasses, lifted her head up slowly and looked at George as Starlight Glimmer said, “No, no!”
“Yes...George?” answered Bernice, just as slowly like George.
The gang watched in shock while George slowly said, “What...do-”
Rarity watched with a horrified look on her face. “Noooooo!” She sobbed as she slammed her head on the desk.
“....you call...a-”
“A four-headed dog? Gifted!” Rainbow Dash shouted nervously, hoping that if she finished the joke, George would get back to running the plate. “Okay, great, we got it! Can we please just-.”
“Four…headed…”
“Aaaaaaaaaagh!” Rainbow Dash growled in frustration, banging her head on the counter while Twilight, Starlight, and Applejack just watched with looks of disbelief. Fluttershy, Spike, and the CMC just watched while Discord just face palmed his face with his claw. Pinkie Pie just smiled and laughed while George continued to tell Bernice the joke very slowly.
Pinkie Pie still laughed at her own joke. “I can't stop! I'm gonna throw up! Ha, ha ha ha!”
Hours later, a paper for the address of the license plate number began to print out of a printer until George slowly pulled it out.
“Here you…,” said George, handing it to Twilight.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah…thank you!” Twilight said, taking the paper from the sloth draconequus with her magic.
“...go.”
“35NV1L7,” said Twilight, frantically reading the printout. “It's registered to…Manehattan Limo-Service? A limo took Otterus and the limo is close by! Come on!”
As they rushed to the door, Discord looked back the sloth draconequus. He already knew what had happened. “Way to hustle.” He said as he followed the others. “I owe you.”
By the door, Twilight called out to her friends. “Hurry, we gotta beat the rush hour and-!”
Fluttershy then noticed something and tapped her friend's shoulder to get her attention. “Um...Twilight.”
The alicorn looked outside and her jaw dropped in disbelief. “It'snight!” She shouted, her voice echoing throughout the parking lot.
“Echo! Echo! Echo!” Pinkie Pie said happily as she heard the sound of her own voice.