Oh, boy. I done goofed.
That bet I made with Twilight has made her lose it, and I thought she would have given up before she fell apart this bad. Nooope, she's still refusing to quit, and now that crazy pony's on the loose in Ponyville. With her magical abilities, she could do just about anything she wants.
Seriously.
Twilight's not strong enough to blow up Equestria but, on a smaller scale, there's not much she can't do because of the spells she's mastered or capable of learning: she is the Element of Magic. I sometimes forget how powerful she is since she rarely needs to show it, she's great at making you feel like you're her equal, despite her Princess status, and because of her (usually) modest nature.
Now running through the streets of Ponyville and asking ponies we ran by if they've seen Twilight anywhere, Starlight, Spike, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and I hoped that we'll be able to find where she's at, try to calm her down, and at this point buck the L-a-a-a-z-y Colt Five Thousand! Without knowing where she was, Starlight couldn't teleport to Twi, so we had to find her the old-fashioned way: by simply searching, and we hoped we'd find her before she did something crazy!
After two minutes of combing Ponyville, we spotted Twilight in the air, looking to her left and right, and maybe trying to decide whom to "clean" next.
"Twilight Sparkle! What in tarnation are ya doin' now?!"
"Who, me? Nothing, just looking to clean up messy, messy dirt."
"Twilight, seriously, read a book!"
"Nope, Starlight! I'm not giving up that bet!"
"You know what, Twi? Let's just--"
Before I had a chance to say more, Twilight laughed in manic fashion and flew away, but remained about a foot off the ground.
"She's getting away! After her!" Rainbow ordered. Not that she needed to!
I can't run as fast as ponies when they run at full speed, except the slower ones, so I hopped on Applejack's back and Spike got on Starlight's, and we bolted after Twilight, who five seconds later flew into a yellow building through its red double-doors. After another five seconds, screaming and insane laughing came from inside, and it made us stop and wonder what was going on, before we snapped out of it and ran in. Though we really should've known on the spot what Twilight was doing.
As soon as we busted through the door, about ten seconds after the yelling started, our mouths widened at what we saw. Around ten round tables that were spread throughout the room, ponies lay on the floor, growling and dripping water. But we had to re-focus since the Princess of Craziness, while chuckling, flew over us and back out the door two seconds after we barged in. Once out, she came closer to the ground to about a foot in the air, like she was when she flew into that building. There were no tubs or rags in the room, but the floor around the ponies was soaked, so Twi must've already got rid of them.
We spun back and sped back out the door and again chased after the "laughing" Twilight. Those ponies in that room were not happy, but we couldn't worry about that: we had an out-of-control Alicorn to stop.
Three seconds into the chase, Applejack said, "Hey, Eric, I'm gonna need ya to get off my back. Starlight, pick him up!"
Starlight used her magic to pick me up and pulled me to her, as Applejack gritted her teeth and sprinted ahead. Once she was close, Applejack dived towards and wrapped her forelegs around Twilight's midsection and wings, so she wouldn't fly away and took the pony to the ground. They slid on the ground on their sides from their momentum, kicking up dirt as they slid. But Applejack was also on Twilight's back with her forelegs still clamped around her.
After they stopped sliding, as Twilight yelled to be let go, she struggled to wriggle free, but Applejack wasn't budging and was begging Twilight to calm down. However, before anyone else could join Applejack in her begging, Twi's horn glowed and used her magical telekinesis to force Applejack to release her, then flew off with Applejack on the ground growling. You know how she hates losing.
Rarity's horn glowed blue and used her magic to hold Twilight still, but Twi's horn glowed pink and immediately negated Rarity's telekinesis on her. I'll give the Unicorn an "A" for effort: she did her best with her far weaker magic.
Rainbow Dash flapped her wings faster to catch up to Twilight in a second, and wrapped her forelegs around Twi's midsection and wings, just like Applejack did. With Rainbow latched on Twilight, as both mares yelled, "Whoa!" their bodies spun sideways in the air before they crashed and rolled on the ground, and the patch of grass they landed on slightly softened their landing. Despite the rolling, Rainbow still held on to Twi, but her grip was weakening and the grunting she did while holding on to the wriggling Twilight showed it.
But, after they stopped rolling, because Rainbow doesn't have quite the pure physical strength Applejack has, Twilight wriggled harder and broke Rainbow's weakening grip. Rainbow tried to grab Twilight again, but grabbed nothing but air, and punched the ground with her hoof and groaned. As Twi flew away again, laughing, I thought, 0 for 3.
Maybe it was because Fluttershy couldn't fly fast enough to catch up to Twilight, or if she could, she knew Twilight would free herself, but Fluttershy didn't try what Rainbow did.
Time for the main event: After sitting me down from her levitation, Starlight teleported in front of Twilight and, while levitating herself with her magic, pleaded, "Twilight, you gotta stop! Just read something!"
Twilight showed no signs of stopping, though, and I thought a Twilight Sparkle vs. Starlight Glimmer magic duel was imminent. But before Starlight brought out the spells, Twilight teleported away. We spun our heads around to scan the area, but Twi was nowhere in sight, and we all groaned. Ha, that might've been the shortest main event in the history of Equestria, or even the Multiverse.
0 for 4 on catching and stopping Alicorns.
Starlight admitted, "Okay, we got to try something else because this isn't working."
"Guys, I have an idea," Rainbow said.
Applejack turned to face Rainbow. "Well, what is it?"
"What if we set a trap?"
Thinking of what we were up against, I huffed and deadpanned, "Yeah, like that would work."
"Why you say that?"
"All right, Rainbow. First, how can we trap her? And second, if we do, how can we keep her trapped? You saw how she kept breaking free, and even Starie can't stop her from teleporting."
"Well, Eric, do you have any better ideas?"
I couldn't think of anything, so I sighed and had no choice but to confess, "I got nothing."
"That's what I thought. But I have an idea on how to trap her."
Fluttershy asked, "What is it?"
"She's going around cleaning anypony that's 'dirty', right?"
"Yeah?" Rarity asked.
"One of us could get themselves 'dirty' so Twilight will come running, but before she gives them a 'bath', Starlight could use her magic to hold her. Even if she can't keep her trapped long, maybe she can do it long enough for us to calm her down."
Starlight placed a hoof on her cheek. "I guess that could work, but where should we do it?"
Spike suggested to do it at Applejack's farm, where there'd be less of a chance of other ponies getting "baths" too if Twilight saw them.
Fifteen minutes later, with all of us except Pinkie hiding in the barn of Applejack's farm, Sweet Apple Acres, we readied our plan, and Pinkie will be the one to get herself dirty by hopping in the dirt near the barn. I still had doubts about this, but I didn't have another idea, so I was in no place to whine.
Rainbow asked, "Okay, you ready, Pinkie and Starlight?"
Starlight and Pinkie at the same time answered, "Yep!"
Giggling, Pinkie started hopping up and down and a dust cloud formed around her, and just two seconds later, the Princess of elusiveness teleported herself in front of Pinkie, also 'giggling'. But before Twilight could do anything, Starlight hopped out of the farm and fired a beam of light-blue magic that hit and froze Twilight in place.
"What? What's going on?!"
In a soft voice, Rarity said, "Okay, darling? We know you are just trying to help, but you can't keep forcing ponies to take baths."
"Yeah! And please, read a book!" Starlight begged.
"Oh, don't worry guys. I wasn't going to get Pinkie to take a bath."
"Really?"
"Yeah, Fluttershy, why would I give baths to a few ponies at a time, when I can clean all of Ponyville at once like a gooood Princess of Friendship?"
"What do you mean by--"
Before Spike could say any more, Twilight's horn glowed, and something white and bubbly fell on and buried us! With its lemon scent, at least it smelt nice.
The surprise of what happened made Starlight lose her magical grip on Twilight, and once we unburied ourselves, Twi was much further away and deeper in Ponyville. I thought, 0 for 5.
Rainbow and Fluttershy flew in the air to get a better look of what happened, and Rainbow explained, "Guys, I think these soap bubbles are covering all of Ponyville, and it looks like we had a snowstorm."
Yep, Twi literally cleaned all of Ponyville at once. Starlight levitated herself in the air about as high as Rainbow and Fluttershy and, after her horn glowed brighter, the soap bubbles vanished. As Starlight came back down, she said, "Well, I guess we now know what Twilight meant by she'd 'clean all of Ponyville at once'."
With Rainbow and Fluttershy still in the air, Rainbow added, "And guys? Twilight's now in the air and firing pink blasts over Ponyville, but I can't tell what her blasts are doing."
Applejack's eyes got huge. "What?! Twilight's not hurtin' anypony out there, is she?!"
Fluttershy answered, "No, I doubt she's hurting anypony. They are probably harmless spells to clean something the soap missed or something."
"Guys, I hate to say it, but we might have no choice but to wait for Twilight to tire herself out, because we might get hit by those blasts if we try to get near her. Even if they won't hurt us, they could still do something unpleasant."
But as I thought Rarity had a point, Starlight responded, "I don't know, Rarity. With how Twilight is now, she might keep going for hours, and she knows dangerous spells that she'd usually never use unless she must, but might use now to 'help'."
"Well, in that case, Starie, your magic is practically Alicorn-level, so are there any spells you can use to stop Twilight from using magic even for a few seconds? Maybe you could form an anti-magic barrier around her?"
"Hmm. Now that you mention it, Buggie, there is a special spell that can nullify magic from Unicorns that might work on Alicorns too, and I think there's a version of it in ring form."
Spike asked, "There is? Where can we get one?"
"I think there's some in Cloudsdale, but they won't give them to just anypony."
I facepalmed. "Great. So if we can't get them then what now?"
"Twilight told me about the spell and there are books on it in her library, and I really don't want to do this. But it's similar to the Cutie Mark taking spell I once used, and I might be able to modify it into a version of the anti-magic spell as a ring. But even if I can, I'll only be able to create one and it won't affect Twilight unless it's on her horn. Plus, it won't last long against an Alicorn, so we'll have to calm Twilight down fast."
"Well, then we'll just make it count. Plus, we better worry more about how to get it on Twi's horn. Even now, she probably could tell what it is and won't let us put something like that around her horn," I said.
"Oh, don't worry, I got an idea to take care of that."
"First, let's head back to the castle so I can work on that ring, and you can tell us there, Rainbow."
Starlight teleported all eight of us in the library of the castle, then read about the anti-magic spell. For the next twenty minutes, she worked to adjust her Cutie Mark stealing spell to create one of those anti-magic rings, and we hoped Twilight wouldn't cause too much trouble in Ponyville. Even for Starlight Glimmer, it wasn't easy, and her first four attempts failed. Memories of her old self taking Cutie Marks probably filled Starie's head because she was frowning most of the time, and it didn't seem to just be fatigue. It tugged on my heartstrings, and I wanted to tell my big sis that she could stop trying to modify that spell, but we had to stop Twilight before she did something crazy!
But on her fifth try, she did it, and the ring matched her magic's color, light-blue. But because it's a type of spell Starlight needed to continuously cast, she couldn't test the ring on herself so Rarity tested it, and it worked like a charm. However, Starlight used eighty percent of her magic to make it and wouldn't be able to create another one any time soon, so we couldn't buck up! Especially not after seeing Starie look so sad while making it.
And Rainbow's idea? Starlight would use a voice-enhancement spell on herself and yell for Twilight and hope she'll come running. She'd then ask Twilight to straighten a picture in the room with the Friendship Map, and as she focused on it, Rarity would lift Spike with her magic and slowly move him towards and over Twilight, so he could put the ring on her horn.
Now, with the tilted picture in place with all of us smiling, with Twi in the middle (of course) with Spike, Starlight, and me beside her -- Spike was on Twilight's back -- we were ready to do the plan, feeling like the mice that had to put a bell around a cat's neck in a certain story. Starlight wore a white sock on top of her head to hide her horn's glowing, so Twilight wouldn't suspect something was up.
With me covering my ears beside her, Starlight, in a booming voice that made the room slightly vibrate called, "Twilight?! If you can hear me, we need help with-"
Starlight didn't even have to finish; Twilight teleported in front of us with a crazed giggle and eye twitch. "I heard you, and, yes, yes, I can help!" Twilight turned her head to the tilted picture on the wall. "Is it about that picture?"
Shaking my head to recover from Starlight's yell, and with Starlight ending the spell on herself, I answered, "Yep! It's tilted, so can you help us fix it?"
"Yes, yes, I will!"
Twilight, a foot away from the picture, grabbed it with her magic to straighten it and Starlight, three feet back, said, "A little to the left. No, a little to the right. No, a little..."
With Twilight's full attention on "fixing" that picture, Rarity, who was behind her chair (feels weird calling it a "throne" for some reason) and couldn't be seen by Twilight, lifted Spike with her magic. As Spike got closer, Rarity muttered, "Come on, stay still a few more seconds..."
Suddenly, Twilight gasped, gently set down the picture on the floor -- Even now I guess a picture of her friends meant too much for the Princess of Friendship to just drop it -- and exclaimed, "Oh, I need to finish that! I'm sorry, I'll be back!"
Twi teleported right as Spike had his arms coming down to put the ring on her horn, making him put it on nothing with air. Welp, 0 for 6 now.
"Buck! We almost had her!"
"But what did she mean by 'that'?" Fluttershy asked.
Applejack shook her head. "I have no idea...*sigh*...I guess we're back to square one y'all."
Starlight added, "Well, I guess we better look for Twilight again or find a hint of what she meant. And maybe we can find a way to catch her off-guard."
With Spike holding on to the ring, we left the castle again, and since we didn't see Twilight firing magic blasts, we didn't worry about her accidentally blasting us.
Deeper in Ponyville, Twilight was still out-of-sight, and at first, nothing seemed different, and ponies trotted around talking about one thing or another like nothing happened.
Before one of us could ask where Twilight was, our noses picked up the smell of blueberries. In a blue-painted shop to our rights, we spotted three brown-crusted pies through a window sitting on a counter of the shop, with a brown Earth Pony stallion picking up one of them. They looked twice as big as pies usually are, and Rainbow pointed a hoof at them. "Guys, hold on. Look at the pies in that shop."
"Yes, they are really big, but why are they like that?" Rarity asked.
When we ran into the shop and ask about it, a yellow Unicorn mare, who stood behind a counter that blocked the lower half of her body, told us, "Oh, those pies? Princess Twilight grew them bigger with her magic, so they'll 'be more to eat' the way she put it."
Of course Twi did, and Starlight asked, "How many pies did she do this to?"
"Every one we made, and there are ten more in the back. She grew some this big earlier when she was flying and firing magic blasts all over the place, and she just stopped by to do the rest. At first, I thought Princess Twilight lost her mind and was attacking Ponyville, but her magic blasts only hit pies and made them like those on the counter. In fact, before she teleported off, she said she'll do this to more pies in Ponyville, and to let her know when we have more pies ready and she'll come back to grow them bigger too."
Spike sighed and suggested, "Well, at least Ponyville will be well-fed in pies, and maybe we should leave Twilight alone till she finishes making pies bigger. What could go wrong?"
Yeah, when someone/somepony asks that last sentence, you know things will go wrong. Badly wrong.
And here it comes: After having a hoof on her cheek, Starlight's eyes got huge and her mouth dropped.
"Uh, Starlight? What's wrong?" Fluttershy asked.
In a dire voice I have never heard her use, Starlight answered, "Oh. My. Celestia. We really have to stop Twilight now, because there's a reason spells aren't used to make foods bigger like how Twilight's doing. Especially not by very powerful ponies."
Rainbow asked, "Huh?"
"If she cast the spell I think she did, the magic in every pie she cast the spell on will build up, then in about forty-five minutes the magic in the pies she did the spell on first will blow them up!"
"Hold on, Starlight. It might make things a little messy, but it won't be that bad. Besides, you could just fix the mess from the pies like how you got rid of the soap."
"No, Rainbow, you don't get it! Because the spell was used by Twilight and she's so strong, a huge amount of magic is in them, so they're gonna blow up with an incredible amount of force. And if the spell's done on enough pies, and I think it is, the chain reaction of exploding pies will destroy most of Ponyville!!"
Yeah, that made our mouths drop and my heart sink! Princess Twilight Sparkle, The Princess of Friendship, is actually going to blow up Ponyville by mistake if we don't do something, fast, and we all yelled, "WHAT??!!"
"Why the buck would that pony do a spell like this?! She should know how her spells work, so shouldn't she know better?!"
"Normally, Eric, I think she would. But Twilight's not herself right now, and probably only thought about 'helping' by making the pies bigger so there would be 'more to eat'," Fluttershy reminded.
"Well, I guess that makes sense. But, Starlight can't you just cancel the spell?!"
"Sorry, Rarity. Most of my magic's in the anti-magic ring and I can't take it back, so I'm not strong enough to cancel a spell from a pony like Twilight, and we don't know where every pie is anyway. We could ask ponies where they are, and I have enough magic to teleport them to a safe place right outside of Ponyville. But if we do, we'll cause a panic and they'll get mad at Twilight!"
I begged, "Okay, well, in that case, Pinkie, can't you use your 'Pinkie Sense' to find the pies?"
"I'm sorry, Eric, but I don't have a 'here's an explode-y pie' sense. If they were muffins, I could."
"Sure, why not? But if I remember right from your 'cartoon', Princess Celestia doesn't know every spell in existence, so even if we got her in time, she might not be able to help. And even if she did, she'll be furious at Twilight, and we all know Twi wouldn't handle it well."
"Augh! So I guess we're back to 'how do we stop Twilight?' part of the day," Rainbow said, and I was thinking the same thing.
"Ooh, ooh! I can't use my Pinkie Sense to find the pies, but I have an idea on how to catch Twilight!"
"Well, what is it?!" Applejack asked.
"First, how about one of us do something to have Twilight come to them and ask her to play tag?"
I groaned and facepalmed. "Really? You want to play 'tag' at a time with Ponyville's about to be blown up by pies? How old are you, Pinkie Pie?"
"No, Eric, just listen to me. First, we'll make the rules be that she can't fly, teleport or use spells, and we will all be 'it'. Then, we'll chase and try to trap her."
"Hmm. That could let us catch her, but Twilight won't let us put something on her horn that'll make her lose her magic, and might use her magic to get away," Spike reminded.
Starlight suggested, "Well, in that case, we'll lead her someplace where most of us can surprise and hold her down, then force the ring on her horn before she can use her magic."
And so we prepared our latest plan to stop Twilight, and I couldn't believe Ponyville would have to be saved by playing a game of "tag". The plan would be most effective in the castle, so Starlight teleported us there and we'd use the trick from before to get Twi to come running, and Starlight recast the voice enhancement spell on herself. You have no idea how much I hoped we wouldn't go 0 for 7 on catching and calming down that crazy mare, and safe to say Starlight's the MVP (most valuable pony) in this story.
In the room with the Friendship Map and the rest of us listening behind one of the green double-doors to the room, Starlight, again in a booming voice, by herself, yelled, "Hey, Twilight, can you--"
Of course, Twilight came teleporting in before Starlight could say more. "Yes, yes? You want me to fix that picture now?
After ending the voice-raising spell Starlight asked, "Uh, actually, no. You want to play a game?"
"A game? Sure, sure, what do you want to play, Starlight?"
"Tag, and let's have special rules."
"Special rules?"
"Yep! First, you can't fly or use spells, and everypony with you will be it."
"Everypony but me?"
"Yep! You're not scared are you, Twilight?"
"Ha, no, of course I'm not scared so I'll play."
"Okay, let's start in three....two...one...go!"
The rest of us outside the door hurried into our positions and Twilight, while laughing in manic fashion yet again, sped out one of the doors with Starlight right behind her. But once in the hallway, she saw Rainbow blocking a pathway of it, which forced Twilight to run in the other direction, and Rainbow gave chase with Starlight beside her.
After a short chase, Pinkie and Fluttershy jumped out of a door ahead of Twilight, and Pinkie hopped a little down the hallway. With Fluttershy in front of the door she and Pinkie hopped out from to Twilight's left, Pinkie slightly farther ahead and in front of Twi, and Starlight and Rainbow closing in behind her, Twilight only had one direction to go: her right, through a door opposite of the room Pinkie and Fluttershy came out, and it led to the library.
The rest of us were hiding on the other side of the door and since I was among the ones there, I couldn't actually see what happened during the chase in the hallway, but I figured everything went exactly as planned since Twi ran where we wanted her to go.
The moment Twilight pushed open the door and ran into the library, Rarity used her magic to freeze Twi in place. It didn't have to last long; just long enough for Applejack to jump on and wrap her forelegs around Twilight's midsection and wings, just like before. As soon as they hit the floor as Twilight yelled, "Hey!" out of surprise, we all held down Twilight on her stomach and before she tried to use magic to free herself, Spike quickly placed the ring on her horn and held it, so she couldn't shake it off. All this happened in about two seconds and Twilight was caught completely off-guard, so she didn't have enough time to react.
With Twi yelling at us to let her go, she looked like she was trying to "cheat" because her horn tried to glow pink. But with the ring on her horn that was already glowing light-blue, glowed even brighter and made her horn stop glowing, proving she couldn't use magic. She kept struggling to wriggle free, but, Alicorn or not, her physical strength's nowhere near strong enough to force us off.
But, the MVP said the anti-magic ring wouldn't last long against an Alicorn, so we had to calm Twi down fast before she overpowered it and freed herself!
"Guys, I'm serious, release me this instant! And why can't I use my magic?!"
"One, it's because of that ring on your horn, and two, we're not letting you go until you calm down and read a book!"
"Nope, Rainbow! Like I said before, I'm not giving up that bet!"
"Ugh! You know what, Twilight? Let's cancel our bet, and I will even reorganize the library every other week for two months by myself. No, I'll do it every week for three months, and you were right, that 'L-a-a-a-z-y Colt Five-Thousand' isn't worth the bits! Just, please, big sis, read one of your books!"
"Yeah, listen to Eric, Twilight! He said he won't make you buy those beds, so you can read!" Rarity begged.
We finally started to reach Twilight and, in a more normal voice, she asked, "You promise, Buggie?"
"Yeah, I promise! And if you just promise you won't try to run off, we'll let you go!"
"Okay, I promise I'll stay here! Just let me get up!"
We all got off Twilight and Spike removed the ring off her horn, which vanished, and she stood up panting and out of breath from struggling to break free. Her eyes still twitched about every five seconds, despite being a little calmer now. And like she promised, Twi stayed put.
Starlight grabbed a blue book on a bookshelf with her magic and "handed" it to Twi, who picked it up from the air with her regained magic. A big 'ol smile formed on that mare's face, and she sat down on the floor and read through it, muttering crazily. As she read, her muttering became less crazed and more "normal" and, after about five minutes, Twi was finally calm and back to her old self. Her eyes no longer twitched, though her mane and tail were still ragged.
With her ears drooped down, had big sad eyes and a frown screaming "I'm sorry" Twilight admitted, "Ugh, wow. Guys, I don't know what was wrong with me, and I am so so sorry."
"Whew! I'm glad you're back to your senses, big sis."
Applejack started, "But never mind that. About that spell ya cast on--"
Twilight's eyes got big, gasped, and shouted, "Oh, no, that's right! What have I done?! I really don't know what --"
"Yes, yes, you didn't know what was wrong with you, we get it. Just go and fix that spell before those pies blow up Ponyville!"
Rainbow didn't have to tell Twilight twice. She teleported out of the library and seemed to know where all the pies were, so she teleported throughout Ponyville to reverse the spell she cast on them, and did it with around ten minutes to spare. Whew! Then Twi went around to apologize about her "soapstorm" and about the baths she "gave" a few ponies, and by the time the rest of us caught up to Twilight, she was beginning her apologies. However, despite Twi saying how sorry she was, a lot of ponies weren't happy, and a few even said they might contact Princess Celestia. Uh-oh.
I guess I couldn't blame them. Twi did almost blow up most of Ponyville by mistake with pies, but I bailed my big sister out by reminding them of how many times Twilight's put her neck on the line for Equestria, and asked how many times have they done it?
Yep, that shut those ponies the buck up, and they said they'll cut Twilight some slack, this time.
The next day, standing near and facing a bookshelf in Twilight's library, I stared at the books on it and sighed. It felt like there was an endless amount of them, but I promised Twilight I'd reorganize the books in the library for her every week for three months, so I had a lot of work to do.
But as I picked up the first book, pink magic surrounded and pulled out about fifteen more and pulled them off the shelf.
I turned to where they were going, and they floated beside a smiling Twilight, about three feet behind me. I was so focused on the books in front of me, I didn't even hear her walk in the library and, by this point, her mane and tail were back to normal.
"Even if I won our brother-sister bet, you really didn't think I'd force you to do all this by yourself, did you?"
I huffed and responded, "Oh, come on, Twi, you don't have to help me. I promised I'll do this myself, and you know I hate breaking my promises, especially promises to you."
"Well, look at it this way: you're not breaking your promise." Twilight pointed a hoof at herself with her eyes closed smugly. "I'm breaking your promise. And besides, I love reorganizing the books in the library, so you're not taking my fun away."
Twi had me on that, so I chuckled and gave up. Heh, not like I can stop an Alicorn from doing something she really wants to do, anyway.
I guess she just didn't want to buy the beds, and only said she'd make me reorganize her books if she won our bet to make me squirm. I felt bad, because I'd had her buy the beds if I won.
That pony's too good to me sometimes.
After we got done Twilight saw me yawn, so she suggested that I go and rest, and I took her suggestion.
But when I got to my room, I saw the real reason she wanted me to go in there, and a big 'ol smile formed on my face.
On the other side of the room in place of my two beds (why I have two is part of its own story, but there's a reason why I do) with sunlight shining on one of them, there were two "L-a-a-a-z-y Colt Five-Thousands" and a letter on the one with the sunlight shining on it.
Dear Buggie,
I bet you are surprised to see the "L-a-a-a-z-y Five-Thousands" I bought you. I still say they are not worth the bits, but Starlight and I talked about how you are trying so hard to not rely on me so much by getting a job of your own, even though you really don't need it since you live with me, a princess. Not only that, you are even willing to put up with that mean boss of yours to do it. I might not tell you as much as I should, but I'm proud of you, so here is a reward for your hard work, and to thank you for getting me out of that mess with those ponies threatening to tell Princess Celestia about what I did. Again, I am so sorry about all that.
And I know you, so don't try to get me to take them back because you deserve them, and I don't think I could have made it another day anyway, so you would have still won our bet even if I didn't almost blow up Ponyville. You were right, so enjoy your new beds, little bro!
Your best friend and Equestrian big sister, Twilight Sparkle
P.S. I bought Spike one too to thank him for helping me so much and I left him a letter saying that he deserves it too. But please don't tell him until he sees his new bed first. I want him to be surprised too.
P.S.S. You know how much you mean to me and I will never ever want to truly hurt you no matter what. But if you joke about me gaining any weight again, I'm throwing every book in the library at you.
Yeah, that's pony's definitely too good to me, and I didn't even ask/beg her for two of them! After I gulped at the last part of the letter, I yelled, "Thank you, Twi, and I love you!"
"Like I said, you and Spike deserve those beds, and I love you too, Buggie! But seriously, don't joke about me being fat again!"
However, there was still something on my mind: how bad Twilight Sparkle fell apart over not reading anything during the week of our bet. I know I poked fun at her about it, but we really should do something to make sure she'll never do that again if she can't read her books for a while. She's too powerful to lose it like that again!
But if Twilight ever does go crazy again, maybe we'll remember that Discord could stop her...if he'd feel like helping, that is.