Spinel found herself once again sitting in the barn that was her home, only this time instead of being in her room area she was stuck to a chain with magic, Applejack had set up a small table and chairs, Pinkie had brought snacks and a banner that read ,Talking things out party, sitting next to Spinel was Twilight on her left and Scootaloo on her right, the later of whom seemed to be panicking slightly as she looked at Rainbow, who was currently standing outside the barn talking to two other ponies who seemed irritated.
"Oh I'm so gonna get grounded," Scootaloo muttered.
"Wow," Spinel said looking at her "I don't like you but burying you seems kind of harsh," Scootaloo and Twilight both looked at her and she smiled. "I'm joking," She amended before adding "Unless that was right, in which case that was the joke," Twilight rubbed her temple and wrote something down in a notepad, Before Twilight could explain what grounding was The two mares walked into the barn with Rainbow Dash following behind them.
"Hey," Scootaloo said nervously.
"Scootaloo," The Blue one said with a hit of disappointment in her voice "we've talked about this, how many times have we talked about this?"
"4 times," The 2nd Aunt replied.
"4 times," The first one repeated "Scootaloo we've talked about this 4 times, you can't go getting into fights just so Rainbow Dash-" the 2nd aunt jumped in.
"Not that there's anything wrong with Rainbow Dash,"
"Oh heavens no, Rainbow Dash is a great pony to look up to, but you're taking this way too far, your gonna get yourself or Ms.Dash here hurt," Scootaloo scoffed.
"Rainbow Dash 'll be fine, she's undefeatable,"
"Hey!" Spinel chipped in, getting a jump from the aunts "I was about to win before Princess dearest froze me in place," Scootaloo turned in place.
"She was wiping the floor with you, if the Princess hadn't jumped in you'd be a crater in the ground,"
"Scootaloo," Twilight jumped in, noticing Spinel had developed an eye twitch. "Please stop before you set her off, again,"
"I'm just being honest," Scootaloo replied.
"More like lying to yourself," Spinel replied simply, Twilight turned to her.
"You are not helping," She said irritable, earning a confused look from Spinel.
"What gave the idea I was trying to?" Twilight fell back in her chair rubbing her head.
"The worst part about this is I couldn't bring Spike her to help me take notes so I have to try and calm things down while also keeping thorough notes of what set's you off," Twilight began muttering as Scootaloo's aunts continued.
"Scootaloo I'm sorry but you grounded for a month," The 2nd aunt gasp.
"Lofty!"
"Holiday we have to put our hooves down if we want this behavior to stop,"
"But isn't that a little much, how about a week?" there was silence for a moment before adding "two weeks?" Lofty sighed.
"Fine, Scootaloo you're grounded for two weeks, but if this happens again It'll be a month," Holiday nodded.
"See now that's fair,"
"Two weeks!" Scootaloo demanded, "How is that fair!?"
"Cause I can still bump it back up to a month," Lofty replied "And I will if you don't turn around and apologies for antagonizing Ms. Spinel," Spinel smiled at that and looked down at Scootaloo who smiled back.
"I guess if I have to apology to Somepony it might as well be you," Rainbow's ears shot up and she snapped her attention to Spinel, who had gone from a gloating smile to a three pupil death stare.
"Oh no," Rainbow Said loudly as, with a crack, Spinel broke through Twilight's un-concentrated magic, knocking Twilight to the floor as she did so and Screaming out.
"I AM NOT A PONY!" her arms sprung out to grab Scootaloo but failed as she was body-slammed by Rainbow Dash. "Ground her for a month!" Rainbow managed to call out before Spinel's arm wrapped around her and held her hard before hitting the ground, Spinel's legs turned into one large spring, and just as she came to a stop she was launched out the front door of the barn with Rainbow in tow. Twilight picked herself up and shook her head as she watched Pinkie and Applejack rush outside to both help Rainbow and to try and calm Spinel down.
"Meet in the middle," Twilight suggested before rushing out with them, Scootaloo looked up at her aunts with a guilty laugh.
"I uh...I didn't think she'd do that," her aunts looked at her in silence. "I'm the full month aren't I?"
"You better believe you are," Lofty said as Holiday sighed.
"I deserve that," Scootaloo said as she and her aunts moved to watch the short fight, Rainbow had managed to throw Spinel off, the group watched as Spinel hit the tree, knocking all the apples off as she used it to bounce back at Rainbow. Applejack immediately lost interest in the fight and stating going nuts over how masterfully Spinel had bucked the tree without even trying to. Pinkie was running around below Rainbow and Spinel with the mattress from Spinels room tied around her middle to catch either Spinel if she fell or Rainbow if Spinel knocked her out of the air. Twilight however was writing something down.
"Aren't you going to stop them?" Pinkie demanded as she tried to stay under both of them at the same time, resulting in a strange figure 8 maneuver.
"I'll let Spinel cool off a little, I'll jump in when she does that giant fist spring, I'm worried that might do some serious damage." Above them Rainbow watched as Spinel launched herself at her for the third time, Rainbow dropped a little, and immediately realized her mistake as Spinel shot her foot down at her, with a squeaky thud Rainbow hit the mattress and splatted Pinkie.
"I'm OK," Pinkie called from under the mattress, before Rainbow could reply Spinel's arm shot down and grabbed Rainbow around the middle,
"WHOA!" Rainbow yelled as Spinel threw her up and landed on the mattress, Spinels laughed as she pulled her free arm back and positioned Rainbow so she was facing her before pulling her arm in fast, her fist held out to meet Rainbow when she arrived, Rainbow was halfway there when Twilight used her magic and froze Spinel in place.
"I hate you," Spinel called back to the princess as her hand was forcefully opened and Rainbow fell to the ground breathing hard. "I win by default!" Spinel called out.
"No yo-," Scootaloo was cut off once her aunts covered her mouth.
"Yes, you do!" Every other pony called out at once.