Puzzling Frost’s Comment
Master of Shadows’s Comment
As you stare up to the giant worm, with battle music playing at the back of your mind and pumping you up, it roars and dives toward you, seemingly goaded by your taunt. Thinking quickly you extend your power pole pushing yourself up into the air. The worm looks up in surprise as you pull out your mallet and slam it into its head. However, to your surprise you see the worm shrug off the attack like nothing.
“How in the-Are you a cartoon character? That should have hurt you a buck ton more,” You ask as it continues to dive and burrows back into the ground.
“Nightshade! Stay back! That thing could eat you!” Twilight shouts a warning and you roll your eyes and extend your power pole to the ground where it breaks through the earth and makes a steady post. With grace, you land on top of the pole much to everyone’s surprise.
“Did you forget who I am, Miss Twiliiii-!” Your sentence is interrupted as the worm resurfaces with its mouth ensnared around the base of the power pole. “Hey! Let go you jerk!” You shout as you fire a magic missile to the beast's face. It grunts in surprise as the blast hits, releasing the pole.
“That’s bet-Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!” you shriek as the now unsteady base of the pole starts to teeter.
“No I didn’t forget who you are, but that’s still very dangerous! Look how high up you are for goodness’s sake!” Twilight chides.
“I’m well aware!” you shriek just as you grip onto the pole and it retracts, leaving you with no base at all. “Uh-Oh!”
And with that you are once again at the mercy of gravity as you start to fall towards the ground.
Crap! I’m gonna have to use my wings! How the buck am I gonna explain that to Twi-
*FWOOSH*
-Light?
You now stand on a yellow cloud which breaks your fall.
“Good catch Discord!” Cadence thanks and you give a curious look to the draconequus who just smiles sheepishly and points to his wings as they disappear.
“Uh, yeah, thanks Discord,” you say as you wipe some sweat from your brow.
That was a close one. At least he’s still helping out even after the whole using him as a missile thing, you think impressed.
“We should get out of here quickly!” Twilight shouts as she and Cadence fly towards you.
“Probably, but how come you two are having such a hard time with it?” you ask. “I mean, you’re both Alicorns.”
“Because that thing is a Tatzelwurm!” Twilight yelps nervously looking around the dirt for any sign of it. “Its skin is nearly as strong as dragon scales! Making it mostly magic resistant!”
“Greatttt.” You moan. “So I’m guessing it’s fire resistant and the whole shebang as well?”
“Possibly,” Cadence nods before gagging. “Plus it’s slimy tentacles are just…Ugh!”
“Exactly,” Twilight agrees. “But as long as we stay in the air we’ll be fine.”
“But what about Discord then?” you ask pointing to the god on the ground and both Princesses’s eyes widen.
“Oh shoot!” Twilight gulps before looking towards him. “Discord!”
“Don’t worry about me,” he handwaves. “I’ll be just fi-“
Suddenly Discord is lifted off the ground as the worm bursts from underneath him.
“EEEEE!!!” he shrieks as he summons a jetpack and launches himself upward…only for one of the tentacles to grab him and hurl him toward a nearby rock pillar. The two princesses wince as he crashes into the rock making a draconequus shaped hole.
“Oooohhhhh…” some groaning comes from the indent.
“Are you okay?” Cadence asks. In response, a talon with a white handheld sign pops out with the words ‘Ouch!’ printed on them.
“I think he’s fine,” Twilight observes just as the worm’s head turns towards you three and lunges up at you.
“Ahh move!” You shout as you prepare to hitch a ride on one of the alicorns when suddenly the cloud beneath you jolts right. “Whoa!” You gasp and fall onto your back as the worm dives back down into the earth.
“Yeesh, how big is this thing?!” Cadence says through gritted teeth.
“It’s hard to tell,” Twilight says and looks to you. “So do you have a hang of that cloud?”
“I don’t know, do I?” you ask curiously as you get back to your hooves, just as Discord appears next to you in an orange robe with a red dot on his forehead and his horns and mane shaved down.
“A little bit,” he answers. “But once you do master it then we’ll have completed your Sun Wukong outfit. I mean you already have the outrageous powers, power pole, and the emotion shard in your chest after all.”
“Son of Kong?” you ask curiously and he chuckles.
“What, you thought I was going to compare you to that muscle headed Kakarot buffoon? Please, I’m not that cliché. Besides, your Dad was ripping off that annoying orange haired “Ninja” early on, so why steal more from Jump when we don’t have to?”
“Huh? What in the world are you-“
“EEEEKKK!!!” You are cut off as your cousin shrieks as the worm bursts forth again and tries to swallow her.
“Cadence!” Twilight shouts as she teleports a boulder between the two, filling the worm's mouth full of rock.
“Thanks for the save,” Cadence says as they regroup near you. The worm’s jaw snaps crushing the rock to pieces and chewing them before it roars in your direction. “Talk about a loudmouth.” Cadence quips.
“Wait a dang second! If that thing can eat rocks, then why the buck is it trying to eat us?!” you growl. “It’s got plenty of food!”
“I don’t think he’s eating it,” Discord says summoning a giant pie pan as a shield, and not a moment too soon. The worm mouth puffs up before it fires off rocks toward you like a cannon.
“Nimbus dodge!” Discord shouts as the projectiles near you. At his words the cloud moves on its own and begins to dodge the rocks with great speed.
“Gahh!” You shout as you cling to the fluffiness with all you have. Twilight and Cadence summon a barrier of magic that blocks the rapid-fire.
“Nightshade! Just say or think what you want the Nimbus to do! It’ll do the rest!” Discord shouts poking his head out from the pan and a stray rock hits him in the face making his muzzle spin around his head.
“How am I supposed to do that when it's going too fast?!” you shout…and suddenly the cloud begins to slow down, allowing you to stand up. “Oh neat. Um, Nimbus fly me in closer?” you ask more than command.
In response, the yellow gas ball changes directions and heads right towards the monster.
“NO! Don’t get close to it! It’s still shooting!” Cadence calls out in alarm.
“I know!” you shout back as you take the power pole and twirl it like a mad filly deflecting shot after shot. The worm roars as you approach, having depleted it’s missiles and reaches it’s tentacles out for you. “Uh, Nimbus! Corkskrew!” The gas ball does your bidding and you zip around the worm and repeatedly hit it with the staff much to the worm's annoyance.
“What does she think she’s doing? Her attacks aren’t leaving a dent!” Cadence asks, biting her hooves in worry, as Discord’s eyes extend like spyglasses.
“Oh, I understand what she’s doing! A clever filly that one!” He says with a toothy grin.
“What? What is she doing?” Twilight asks. Discord snaps his fingers and a pair of yellow and silver-colored robots appear before them.
“Huh?” the robots squawk.
“Take these volunteer references for example,” he says as he summons two buckets onto their heads before pulling two mallets from nowhere and proceeding to smack them over the heads over and over again until they become dizzy and fall over. “As you can see, a series of rapid strikes on the worm's thick skin will cause an intense vibration, which will mess up the worm from the inside.”
“What the hay are those creatures?” Twilight asks.
“Just mindless automatons, pay them no mind,” he handwaves despite their moaning before he snaps them away.
“Wow, she’s sure thinking tactically then,” Cadence says impressed. Unknownst to them, you are not as clever as they think.
Why! Won’t! You! Fall?! You mentally shriek as the tried and true method of hitting it over and over again isn’t working. All it’s doing is turning the thing green for some reason!
The Tatzlewurm is indeed feeling a bit sickly, but you don’t notice that as it opens it’s mouth and spews forth some sort of foul smelling mud like liquid, which knocks Nimbus out from under you.
“Gah!” You yell as you land on top of the worm. “Ew, what the buck dude?” you gag as the thing finishes up retching on the ground.
“Oh Sweet Celestia!” Twilight shrieks and covers her nose as does Cadence, while Discord summons a clothes pin around his snout.
After emptying it’s stomach, the Tatzlewurm roars as it tries to fling you off, and you grip onto it’s head for dear life.
“AAAAAAHHHHH!!!” you yell as it whips you back and forth.
“Nightshade!” Cadence shrieks before her face becomes quizzical. “Nightshade why aren’t you holding on with both hooves?”
“Because that’s what Braeburn taught me!” you shout as you whip past them, your left hoof waving in the hair bereft of a customary cowboy hat and instead substituting your power pole.
“Braeburn? Applejack’s cousin Braeburn?” Twilight asks as you come by for another sweep.
“Eyup! And he’s a rodeo champion so I think he knows be-Hey! Simmer Down Now!” you yell at the wriggling worm, but of course it doesn’t listen. “Alright, you asked for it!” you yell as you take your pole and jam it into a loose scale underneath you.
The creature roars in pain and it’s shout of anguish even manages to stagger the flying patterns of Twilight, Cadence and Discord.
“Ha! How’d you like the taste of-EEEP!” you shriek as the thing dives headfirst towards the ground.
“NIGHTSHADE!” all three adults cry out in unison. And just as Discord is about to snap his fingers, you grit your teeth and thrust out your hoof, earthbending the compacted soil that would have hit you in the face. So instead of landing on the surface, you are now dragged below the ground with the monster.
“Did…did she just create a tunnel for herself?” Cadence asks in stunned disbelief.
“Oh right, forgot she could earth bend,” Twilight says, remembering how you tunneled everyone out during the Vampire incident.
“…Anyone else equal parts concerned and confident in her abilities?” Discord asks, but they don’t answer.
Beneath the ground, you all but pancake yourself against the thing’s scales as you passively earth bend any stray soil that comes near you.
It’s like someling’s trying to bury me alive over and over again, you think morbidly as you dare to open your eyes and use your changeling magic to have owl eyes so you can look at your surroundings in the darkness.
You see the worm drilling through the ground using its teeth and tentacles, seemingly making up the contents you made it lose earlier. As two of the tentacles pass near you, with great strength and speed, you grab the appendages and yank them back. The monster roars in surprise and pain, but you show it no mercy.
“Alright, you oversized Marelasken Bull worm! Time to hit the skies!” You shout as you take another lesson you learned from Braeburn and yank the tentacles even harder causing the worm to dig upward.
Above your companions search for you through each and every hole the worm has made, but you save them the trouble as with a loud rumble, they turn and see you burst from the earth steering the worm topside with one hoof, and brandishing your power pole in the other.
“She is the Kwisatz Haderach!” Discord shouts in awe at your majesty.
“Yeeeeehhhhaaaaawww!” You shout to the heavens as the sand, rock and dirt sprinkle around you.
Hundreds of miles away in Appleloosa, Braeburn suddenly stops mid buck of an apple tree as a large swelling of pride hits him.
Back with you however, your glorious moment is cut short as you forgot to change your eyes back to normal and the sunlight is blinding.
“ACK!” you grunt and clench your eyes shut, pulling on the tentacle reigns in the process and inadvertently steering the monster right towards your three companions.
“AGH!” Cadence yelps as she is grabbed by the beast and you are flung off it’s head.
“BUCK YOU LADY LUUUUUUUCCCCKKK-OOF!” your shout is cut short as you are caught by something big and furry. Once your eyes are back to normal and you blink back the sunspots, you see that you have been caught by Discord.
“You really are remarkable, you know that?” he grins and you puff your cheeks out.
“You’re Gorram Right I Am!” you boast just as Twilight lets out a terrified,
“EEEEKKK!!!”
Kichi’s Comment
Looking over, you both see that Twilight and Cadence have again been caught by the creature’s tentacle tongues.
“Seriously?! Again?!” you complain.
“Ew, Ew, Ew!” Cadence gags as the appendage raps around her lower half.
“It’s so slimy and constricting!” Twilight bellows out as the thing wraps around her mouth.
Discord raises an eyebrow at this and blushes.
“I hope this isn’t going where I think it’s going. That beaded back room of that Manga shop Fluttershy took me too was traumatizing enough,” he says with a shudder.
“Huh?” you ask just as Cadence produces a pink fire that runs down her restraint, causing it to slacken and Twilight teleports out of the grip.
“Whew! That was a close one,” Discord says wiping his forehead. “That could have potentially changed some ratings.”
“What are you talking about? What does Manga have to do with this?” you demand and he looks at you nervously.
“Pray you don’t find out child,” he warns as Cadence blasts the creature again and it scuttles back, just as Twilight hits it with a beam. You narrow your eyes and go slack in Discord’s grip.
“This thing is annoying. If I could go full power I’d be able to fry it in an instant,” you pout as your shards blip.
“Well, giant worms tend to be that sort of enemy,” Discord points out. “Annoying and frustrating and sometimes very op.”
“Well how do you beat a giant worm then? A giant bird? A giant fishing hook? A giant shovel?” you suggest and he puts his lion paw to his chin.
“Hmm, if only my good buddy Beetlejuice was here, he’d make great bait for the thing.”
“Beetlejuice?” you ask and he nods. “Who’s Beetlejuice?”
Suddenly the sound of thunder crashes near you and a stallion with yellow eyes wearing an almost zebra striped suit and extreme bedhead appears.
"It's show time!" the stallion laughs evily.
“That’s Beetlejuice,” Discord says pointing to the floating stallion.
“What the buck?! How did he just appear like that?” you gasp in shock.
“That’s how he works,” Discord shrugs. “You say Beetlejuice three times and he shows up.”
“He shows up if you say Beetlejuice three times?”
Once again the thunder cracks and the stallion is gone.
“Huh? Where did Beetlejuice go now?” you ask.
“You desummoned him because you said Beetlejuice a third time,” Discord explains.
“What? I thought you said that makes him show up?”
“Well yeah, but if you say Beetlejuice *THUNDER* a third time while he’s here then it’ll make him go away. Watch, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!”
“Oh what the-“
*THUNDER*
“Ack, wait, I missed it, Twilight did a solar flare move,” you say rubbing your eyes. “Let me get him back. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!”
*THUNDER*
“Will you cut that out already?!” the stallion shouts angrily as he appears again.
“Alright, keep your eyes open this time Nightshade. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” Discord smirks and the stallion goes away again.
“Neato! Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!” you say and he reappears.
“That’s it! I’m not coming back if you do that again! This is why we stopped hanging out Discord!” the stallion growls.
“Eh, you were just a reference gag anyway,” he shrugs. “But anyway, care to help with a worm problem?”
Upon seeing the Tatzelwurm fighting Cadence and Twilight the stallion’s face drains an even further white.
“Buck you Discord! Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!” the stallion shouts and pops out once again leaving you two to stare at nothing.
“Well I doubt he’ll ever show up again,” Discord says nonchalantly.
“…Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice?” you test, but sure enough, nothing happens. “I guess you’re right….what was the point of that again?”
“A comedic tension cutter since the mood is semi serious,” he says pointing to Cadence and Twilight who have trapped the thing’s head in a bubble, but it keeps striking at them with it.
“Whelp, guess we’ll just have to do it ourselves,” you said with conviction as you study the creature.
“Right…and any ideas besides hit it really hard?” he inquires.
“I’m thinking maybe we should apply video game logic. Like climbing it’s back and stabbing it in it’s weak point like Shadow of the Colossus, or letting it eat us and fighting it from the inside like Alicorn of War.”
“Oh, oh, since you’re blue right now, why not just be really fast like that wonderful little hedgehog with tennis shoes?” he suggests.
“Unfortunately I am not that fast,” you bemoan since that was actually an idea you liked. “Although if we’re going old school and blue, there’s also Bombermare.”
“Do you have any explosives?” he asks.
“I don’t think so,” you say looking into the Inventory. “I’ve got my Dark Canon, some games, this Ocarina that might or might not control the weather…Oh hey, what’s this?”
9807’s Comment
You pull out a jar with a label on it that says laughter.
“Oh right, forgot I had these,” you say and Discord raises an eyebrow.
“What’s it do?” he asks and you shrug.
“No clue, let’s try it out,” you suggest just as the monster bursts from Cadence and Twilight’s bubble and roars.
With immaculate grace and dexterity not seen by most mortal ponies, you elegantly and precisely throw the glass jar into the creature’s gaping maw and down it’s throat.
Removed From the Inventory
1 Jar of Laughter
At first, it seems like nothing happens, but then the Tatzelwurm stops abruptly and remains still.
“What’s going on?” Twilight asks.
“What did you hit it with Nightshade?” Cadence asks as the thing remains eerily still.
“A jar of laughter?” you ask more than tell as the monster suddenly hiccups. It exhales a strained growl, then another, and then another until it’s writhing mass is contorts in an approximation of hysterical laughter and you all cover your ears.
“Oh wow, that is unpleasant,” Discord quips as he summons two tied pillows around his ears.
“No kidding,” Twilight grunts. The Tatzelwurm then falls on it’s back and continues it’s ungodly guffawing as it’s tentacles wriggle to and fro.
“ACK! Make it end already!” you complain as the princesses and Discord land on the ground in front of the laughing creatures.
“Where did you even get that jar?” Cadence asks.
“A Pinkie clone,” you admit and Twilight’s eyes widen.
“Wait, really?!” she gasps and your face pales.
Oh shoot! I forgot she’s the one that killed most of them that one time! You gulp, remembering when she massacred the innocent clones in the town hall that couldn’t watch paint dry.
“I mean, Pink Clydesadome! Owner of the Clydesdale Clydesadome!” you belt out which throws her off.
“Wait, what?” she asks confused.
“You wouldn’t know him,” you dismiss and look to the side nervously.
“Oookkkaaaayyy?” Twilight says unsurely and looks back to the laughing worm.
“Nice save kid,” Discord jabs.
“Oh shut up!” you bark before glaring at the hooting and hollering monster. “And you shut up too!”
The creature adamantly refuses that request, so in annoyance, you rush up to it, take two of it’s tentacles in your hooves and tie them around it’s jaws in knot. It still laughs, with air escaping through it’s teeth, but at least you’ve quieted it down.
“There! Now let’s just get this stupid flower and go!” you grunt as you pluck the thing you came for from it’s head, which it winces at and stomp over to the rest of the group who are stunned by you.
“Oh don’t give me that look, you should all know I’m kick flank by now,” you brag as you hold the flower out to Discord.
“Here! Now can we please go back to the library and unblue ourselves?”
“Oh right, that is what we came out here for,” Twilight says in remembrance. “I’d completely forgotten after that thing popped out of the ground.
“Yeah that’s right, Discord was…”sick”” Cadence says suspiciously eyeing up Discord who begins to sweat.
“That’s right,” Twilight nods before she suddenly looks at him inquisitively. “But you were handling your magic just fine during that battle.”
“…Huh, I didn’t even realize that till you said so,” you say remembering the Nimbus, the cartoon physics and that stallion who shall not be named.
“Oh well, I guess I was just feeling that motivated to help Nigh…” he starts stumbling before he looks at all of your unbelieving faces. “You’re not buying this are you?”
“Discord?” you and Twilight both growl dangerously at the same time.
“Okay look, let’s just…what even is the definition of illness anyway? I’m sure a shrink could categorize a nut or two rolling around in my head right?” he says backing up.
“Am I even sick?!” you grill pointing at your blue fur and he gulps.
“Well…” he snaps his fingers and you are both back to your original coat colors.
“Are you kidding me?!” the both of you shout and he tugs at a collar that isn’t there.
“Okay, okay, it was just a prank to make things fun,” he chuckles nervously. “And nopony got hurt right?”
“My time got hurt! I wanted to hang out with Cadence!” you harrumph.
“Me too!” Twilight huffs.
“…”
You both look at Cadence who just smiles nonchalantly.
“Actually, I kind of enjoyed this over the Starswirl museum…no offense Twilight.”
“What?!” Twilight exclaims and you look at Cadence curiously.
Huh, didn’t know she was an adrenaline junkie.
“See? Someone appreciates it,” Discord says pointing at the pink alicorn, until she frowns at him.
“That said, I still don’t appreciate how you dragged Nightshade into this. You know who her father is and what he’s capable of!” she chides and he flinches back.
“Alright, alright, I’m sorry. I just wanted a bit of fun since I’ve never seen you in action Cadenza,” he grunts.
“Well, hope you liked the show,” she smirks.
“Well I didn’t,” Twilight grumbles. “The next time you want to play a prank, do so without giant monsters!”
“Okay…” he says sullenly before looking to you. “Sooo, do you forgive me Nightshade?”
You just continue to frown at him for being such a pain. Ultimately, nothing came about because of this, and he even helped you out with getting Cadence on your side of things…but at the same time…
WARGAMES’s Comment
“Summon a glass of water,” you command and he looks at you in surprise.
“I’m sorry?”
“You heard me, summon a glass of water,” you repeat.
“Okay…” he trails off, but does so with a snap.
“And some lozenges,” you order. Raising a brow, he does that as well.
“And cheese slices to the ceiling and some honey and all that other junk you sang about earlier,” you grunt.
“Alright, alright, I get it, I could have summoned them at any time,” he pouts as he snaps it all into existence. “Are you happy now?”
“I will be in a second,” you say as you take out your Junk Jet and start loading the miscellaneous items into it. His eyes widen at that.
“Hey, come on now, I thought we were friends Nightshade?” he gulps.
“We will be after this,” you say with surety and a wicked grin. “Because nopony pranks me and doesn’t get pranked back.”
“…That’s fair,” he says in resignation as you pull the trigger, launching all the junk, hitting his face, nads, legs, and everything else and throwing him back into the worm.
He lets out a comedic and prolonged yell before he hits the writhing creature, and for no particular reason, he decides to blow up just like a mini-nuke.
“There, I forgive you now,” you say maliciously as you put the Junk Jet away and turn to face the Princesses. Twilight is trying and failing to hide a giggle, but Cadence is just letting loose with the laughter
“Heh heh, Nightshade that was…we don’t do that to our fri-Hee hee,” Twilight can’t bring herself to scold you and Cadence just places a wing around your shoulders and ruffles your mane.
“Aw, quit it,” you say with good natured embarrassment as your cousin pulls you into a side hug.
“No can do,” she says as Twilight breaks down and laughs. “I gotta say, growing up with only Blueblood as my cousin, I always wished I had someone like you as family…”
Her knowing warm smile fills you with warmth and for the first time in awhile, you don’t even feel your shards.
“Well, I’m glad I haven’t disappointed you,” you say gratefully and she hugs you closer.
“Oh wow,” Twilight coughs back her laughter, not having heard your exchange. “I told you she was great didn’t I?”
“That you did Twilight, that you did,” Cadence says with pride and your heart sores.
EEEEE!!! I’ve got more family that loves me! Daddy and Mommy are going to be so proud of what I’ve accomplished when they come home! You think ecstatically.
*Cough* *Cough*
You all look back to the dramatic coughing…and see that Discord is blue once again even as smoke billows off of him.
“Really? You’re gonna try to pull that one again?” you deadpan.
“I really mean it this time,” he bellows and points behind him. “The Tazelwurm sneezed on me right before we blew up.”
“…Was that a pun? Blue up?” you narrow your eyes and he scoffs.
“Not intentionally!”
Ello Calebero’s Comment
“Speaking of the Tatzelwurm, what happened to it?” Twilight ask in alarm as you all notice the smoky black husk of the creature behind the god of chaos.
“He did just explode on it Twilight,” Cadence points out.
“Right, but something is off about it,” she muses.
“Well, after it sneezed on me, it rolled up into a ball and this carapace just kind of covered it,” Discord explains as he limps over, looking genuinely sluggish.
Something about that strikes a chord with something deep inside you and you look at the smoking creature. Some part of your Changeling heritage recognizes what you’re looking at and your eyes widen.
“That’s a cocoon!” you shriek and the others look at you in alarm.
“It is?” Cadence asks as she becomes a paler pink. And because the universe loves comedic timing, a large cracking sound is heard as the shell surrounding the giant bug cracks up and two large wings billow out of it. They both have a thin membrane that filters the light of the setting sun into a beautiful array of color.
“Mothra, is that you?” you ask filled with hope that one of your favorite kaijus might appear.
“I don’t think so, no tiny island breezies,” Discord points out with a sniffle.
“And if it was bad enough as a worm, I don’t want to see it’s metamorphosis,” Twilight says as she starts to back up. Just as she says that, the wings harden into a texture that looks more like metal or glass as the rest of the body emerges. It’s smaller than when it was a worm, but it is still plenty big and you all gasp in awe.
It then turns to look at you…and you see it’s horrendous, nightmarish face in high definition resolution.
“AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!” you all shriek.
"RRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!" you shout as Cadence picks you up, and Twilight picks up Discord and you fly away from the creature.
Later
After a very, very hectic flight, in which many spells were cast and Star Fox-esque moves were used, your group was finally able to escape what you dubbed, the Tazlefly. In the end, you defeated it just as you did it’s worm form, with another Jar of Laughter.
Removed From the Inventory
1 Jar of Laughter
You couldn’t believe that it worked a second time, but then again, why fix what ain’t broke? So after felling the creature and bravely fleeing, you all arrived back in Ponyville during early evening.
The biggest surprise you found, was that Discord was actually for realsies sick this time. And since Fluttershy won’t be back for some days, Twilight reluctantly decided to lay him up in her guest bed.
Unfortunately for you, Spike was already dead asleep by the time you all arrived, but because Twilight had to deal with Discord’s actual well being, Cadence took the opportunity to finally be alone with you by saying she would take you home to Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight of course didn’t think anything of this and just bid you both goodnight.
“I suggest we all get some rest,” she advised. “Tomorrow, hopefully we can hang out as we prepare for Rainbow Dash’s birthday.”
“It’s her birthday tomorrow?” you asked in surprise and your teacher nodded.
“Nah, just the set up for it. And it’s her Birth-iversary as she pust it since it’s also the day she came to Ponyville. Pinkie Pie’s gonna need all the help she can get for the preparations.”
“That sounds like fun,” Cadence said with enthusiasm. “Perhaps even our patient will be better in time for the festivities.”
“I think I’m partied out,” he groaned before coughing again, being held aloft by Twilight’s magic.
“Well get better already. If there’s party games I want to school you in them,” you challenged the god, who despite his sickness gave a little grin.
After that, you and Cadence flew back to the Acres since no one in the know was around to snitch, and this is where we find you now, sitting at the Apple Family kitchen table in the middle of the night with Princess Cadence and your Grandbuggy.
“And then it turns out he was actually sick, so Twilight’s looking over him now,” you say to the astonished old changeling. He’s been pretty much gobsmacked ever since you walked in with Cadence to see him having a midnight snack of pie. Even more so when you told him it was okay to show his true Changeling self.
“…So, that weirdo gave you a milkshake and now you know the truth?” he asks Cadence.
“Apparently,” she says with a grin.
“Really Grandbuggy? You latch onto that immediately? What about my epic fight?” you pout and he chuckles.
“Honey, I know danged well that you kicked some flank as you always do. But if you want some praise, Good job.”
You just pout some more and look away from him.
“It’s not as great when I have to ask for it…” you grumble and he rolls his eyes.
“Don’t go getting a big head now kiddo,” he warns before looking at Cadence. “So, Princess Cadenza-“
“Please Quick Fix, call me Cadence,” she corrects. “After all, we’re kind of family right?”
“…I guess?” he says with a shrug. “My family line is all kinds of twisted right now, but alright Cadence.”
“Thank you,” she smiles.
“So let me just start off with the obvious, why did you go and rename the fool boy Bugze? He had a good name already but he latched onto what you gave and won’t let go!”
“Grandbuggy!” you scold but he continues.
“I mean, shoot, did you just look at him, see he was a big bug and just go with that?”
“Heh heh, kind of?” she admits with a nervous chuckle and he facehooves.
“Hey now, to be fair Daddy said he didn’t remember his real name before he met Cadence again,” you argue and he sighs.
“Fair point,” he cedes. “Guess I can’t fault the boy for losing that after brain damage from being dead.”
“Wait, what now?” Cadence says in shock. “Bugze died?”
“Uh, yeah, Chrysalis did him in after he fed ya before bringing him back…don’t you know this?” he asks.
“No!” she says aghast.
“I didn’t go that far back with the milkshake Grandbuggy,” you scold him for freaking your cousin out.
“Oh cheese and rice,” he mumbles and sighs again. “How much do you know then?”
“Well, I know about Nightma-Er, I mean Selena thanks to Nightshade and the truth about what happened in Appleloosa, and how we’re cousins in a way.”
“Always good points to know,” he nods.
“Also about your quest and the shards of the amulet inside her,” she says with more worry.
“Yeah, so all the recent stuff really. I figured we’d be able to tell her more with your help now that we’re all alone,” you say and Grandbuggy nods at that.
“Ah, I see, fill in some gaps here and there right Cady?” he asks.
“Y-Yes, something like that,” she says taken aback by her nickname being used so casually. “I mean, I am still in the dark about a number of things.”
“Well don’t worry, we’ll tell you all that we know cuz,” you say with enthusiasm. She smiles at this, but then her lips press together in a thin line and a cautious look comes to her eyes.
“What’s with the look Princess, something troubling, aside from your’s truly?” he asks gesturing towards his changeling appearance.
“It’s just…” she hesitates before looking you square in the eye. “I want to talk to you about Sombra.”
There is a tense silence after she says that, not helped by the fact that she said it with some heat and a faint frown sits on her brow.
“Uh, what about him?” you ask hesitantly and she frowns even harder.
“Thanks to that milkshake, I know he’s inside Bugze…and I want to know what we’re going to do about him.”
“Well, I thought we’d give him a body too?” you say, blinking owlishly at her sudden mood change.
“…Nightshade, he stabbed my husband through the stomach! You were there remember?” she all but scolds and the blood runs from your face.
“Oh right, he did do that…” you say remembering the moment your dad lost control, back when your Mommy was still in a coma. Sharing a look with Grandbuggy he just rubs the back of his neck and exhales.
“Ooohhh Boy…”
WHAT DO YOU DO?
