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// Hold on a Second... 
// Story: Wait a Minute... 
// by Sky Blue Scratch 
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Princess Twilight Sparkle was sitting quietly in the castle library, thinking about life, the universe, everything and maybe the occasional thought about cake when a shocking thought hit her.

Whenever a musical number appears out of thin air, typically after a serious friendship problem, issue, or Equestria invasion, how does everypony, even ponies that weren't even there, know the words and dance moves?

Twilight sat there, shocked for a few moments. How has she not seen this before? How had this not been noticed by anypony else?

She started to hyperventilate.

"Spike! SPIKE!"

Spike ran into the book filled room, looking around frantically for his adopted big sister/motherly figure/best bro.

"What is it Twilight? What's wrong? Is the castle burning down? Is there dust on the table? TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG RIGHT NOW OR I SWEAR I WILL LOSE MY..."

"Spike! I have just realised something horrific! I'm not sure if I should send a letter to the princesses or what.. this is HUGE, SPIKE! WHAT DO WE DO? WHAT IF THIS IS THE END? WHAT IF BILL CIPHER IS COMING AND..."

"Twilight! Calm down, please! Say that again, slowly, I couldn't hear you." Twilight was shaking Spike so hard that he was now dizzy. "Bill Cipher? What? And if this is so serious to you, then maybe we could send a letter to the princesses, and go straight to Canterlot ourselves, or..."

"That's it, Spike! Take a letter!"

Spike pulled a piece of parchment, a quill and a bottle of ink out of nowhere and wrote down what she recited:

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have come up with a serious flaw in our everyday way of life.

I will be arriving in Canterlot in around 30 minutes, by royal carriage (as this is an emergency).

I will be bringing cake.

~ Princess Twilight Sparkle 

"Spike! Send this immediately to Princess Celestia! And prepare your finest cake! We are leaving for Canterlot in 5 minutes!"

Spike looked at her in pure shock. She grinned sheepishly.

"Urrr... I'll explain on the way!"



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Princess Celestia read the strange and sudden letter from her student in confusion. Luna snatched it off her eagerly, hoping it was an invite to a party, event or something similar.

She frowned in confusion and panic when she read the letter.

"Sister..." Luna said shakily. "What if Twilight has found about about...code red?"

"A serious flaw in our everyday way of life? Has to be." Celestia looked at Luna with worried eyes. "Agent Moon, should we call in agent Crystal?"

"Not yet Agent Sun, we must wait for Twilight to arrive. It may not yet be code red."

"But Agent Moon, what if she knows about..."

"Not yet, Agent Sun. Again... it may not be code red. However, if she does indeed know too much, well..."

Luna flipped a small switch that was seemingly hidden behind a small potplant near the wall. A small, hidden door opened up.

"We will have to do to Twilight what we do to all who find out about CODE RED..."


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The wind whipped through Twilight's mane as the carriage carried her and Spike to Canterlot as fast as possible. Spike looked at her cautiously.

"So... Twi, I was wondering... why are we doing this again?"

"So Spike... you know, I've been thinking about something that... I've never really thought about before. It's a bit strange, really, how nopony has noticed this..."

She looked up to the sky thoughtfully. Spike looked up at her, not sure whether to feel scared or excited. 

Twilight took a deep breath.

"Well, I've just realised something, you know? And now I'm super confused about life, the universe, and everything! Whenever there is a song that is sung, I've sung tonnes of them before, even you sung one about how changelings could change or something and I've never thought this before, but how does everypony know the words? Lyrics? Dance moves? How does this happen? What is happening in Equestria?

Twilight said this all really fast, and spike had no time to process that information when Twilight said

"Well? Whadja think?"

Meanwhile, the two pegusus that were pulling the carriage and had heard the entire conversation looked at each other and nodded. One of them pulled a walkie-talkie like device out of his pocket (?) and spoke softly into it.

"Agent Sun, we have a code red, I repeat, code red, over."


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Celestia paced the room that Twilight was supposed to meet her in. She had received a code red from the two Pegasus pulling the royal carriage, meaning that her student had indeed realised the phenomenon of random musical numbers.

"Sister." Luna piped up from the other side of the room. "Twilight has arrived in Canterlot, she will be here in about..."

Luna was cut off by an angry purple alicorn bursting through the door.

"PRINCESS CELESTIA! PRINCESS LUNA" Twilight screamed. "I HAVE REALISED SOMETHING TERRIBLE! WHENEVER THERE IS A SONG OR SOMETHING HOW DOES EVERYPONY KNOW THE WORDS, AND IS LIFE LIKE A MUSICAL? ARE WE IN A TV SHOW? WHAT..."

"Twilight, take a chill pill, ok, just..."

Celestia was cut off by Luna pulling a dart gun out of nowhere and sending two tranquilizer darts at Twilight and Spike.

The purple alicorn and dragon both collapsed on the floor.

Celestia looked at Luna with a horrified expression.

"What?" Luna groaned. "She already knows far too much, and, also, she wouldn't shut up."

Celestia sighed. "I guess that worked? Anyway, Agent Moon, please call in Agent Crystal."

Luna pulled a walkie-talkie out of nowhere.


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Cadence glared at the two sisters, and they grinned sheepishly back.

"So you... stunned them? Are they ok?"

"They will be fine, Cadence, just, give them a few hours to sleep it off. Now, why are we here again?

Both Luna and Cadence glared at Celestia. Luna cleared her throat.

"Sister, Cadence," Luna greeted. "Princess Twilight has recently come across code red, the actual thought of how muscial numbers work. Which means we have to erase all of Equestria's memory of her..."

"But, Luna..." Cadence cut in. "We can't just erase the whole world's memory of her..." 

"We erased the whole world's memory of Galactic Star."

"Who?" Both Celestia and Cadence said at the same time.

"Why don't we just..." Cadence was cut off by the two sisters having a full-blown argument about whether or not to erase the memory of Twilight.

Cadence glared at them both. "ENOUGH!" Cadence yelled at the top of her lungs. She put her hoof on the table. "If we did indeed erase all memory of Twilight, who would look after Spike? So I make a proposition." She said slowly, making sure the sisters heard her. "Why don't we just erase the memory of that thought from Twilight's and Spike's head?"

Both the sisters sighed in relief.

"Yes, that is so much better."

Cadence looked at Luna. "Who's Galactic Star?"

"Never you mind." Luna snapped. "We must send Twilight and Spike back to Ponyville immediately."

"What's all the rush?" Celestia laughed at her sister. "It was your fault for putting that stupid musical spell on the entirety of Equestria more than two thousand years ago."

"Shut up" Luna growled.