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// Chapter 6 
// Story: How the Mane 6 met Screwball 
// by Musiclover435 
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"Tootsie Roll? You teleported us here, how? Alicorn magic is stronger than unicorn magic, how did you interfere with mine?" Twilight asked obviously confused with how a young unicorn without her cutie mark was able to overpower alicorn magic.

"That doesn't matter right now. What's important is getting you and your friends back to Ponyville," Tootsie Roll told them.

"Why are you helping us?" Fluttershy asked her.

"That doesn't matter either. Mayor Sweet Tooth wants me and only me. He doesn't care you six unless you interfere with his plans. I can get you to your friends and take you home but after that, you must never come back to Candy Town."

"We can't leave. We have a friendship problem that we need to solve and we know it has something to do with you and Mayor Sweet Tooth," Twilight told her.

"Maybe we can help you have a better relationship with him. He is your adopted father after all."

Tootsie Roll scoffed. "He didn't adopt me. He found me and took me in. He had something that I thought would be of use to me and once I learned that he lied about it, he made it to where I can't leave even if I wanted to. I'm the only one who can help you save your friends, please, you can't reverse what he did. Just go home and forget about me." Tootsie Roll turned away from the two and continued sadly. "You can't help me. No pony can. I have no pony anymore. The one who truly cared about me was taken away from me forever by a bunch of meanies and I'll never see him again."

Twilight and Fluttershy looked at each other with a look of sadness. It was obvious that Tootsie Roll was miserable and lonely. She had no pony to look after her and the only ponies who could help her were them. They walked over to the young filly and Twilight told her, "You have heard of our accomplishments, right?" Then young filly nodded. 

"Well, we can help you. I know things seem bad but if you let us help you then we can find your real family," Fluttershy told her with a smile.

"Really? You can help me get my dad back?" She asked with disbelief in her voice.

"I don't about that, but with your help, I think we can try. Look, I know things seem bad now but we can help you."

"You can't! Mayor Sweet Tooth has something that keeps me here and unless you destroy it, I won't be able to leave."

"Do you know what it is?" Twilight asked. 

Tootsie Roll nodded. "Yes, it's a piece of chalk."

Twilight and Fluttershy looked at each other confused then back at Tootsie Roll. "A piece of chalk? How is that keeping you here?" Twilight asked her.

"It's magical chalk! It's designed to keep creatures like me in one spot."

"What do you mean by creatures like you?" Fluttershy asked hoping the filly didn't think of herself as just a creature and not a pony.

"Look, this chalk is something that was created from some kind of dark magic. Once my DNA was connected to the chalk, he drew an invisible line around the town. I couldn't escape even with your magic, Twilight. It's impossible. Unless you find a way to destroy it, I can never leave."

Twilight smiled once she had a plan. "Tootsie Roll." She looked at Twilight who had a determined look on her face. "With the help of our friends, we can destroy that magical chalk and take you back to Ponyville. I'm sure Princess Celestia and Princess Luna can help you control your magic."

"NO! I refuse to be trained by them!" Tootsie Roll them with a surprising amount of anger in her voice. Twilight was about to ask why but Tootsie Roll sighed and said, "Look, I don't expect you to understand and we don't have time... but if you can help me leave then... I'll help you. What's the plan?"

Twilight and Fluttershy smiled. With Tootsie Roll willing to help save their friends, this meant that they were one step closer to solving their friendship problem.



Using an invisibility spell that she learned from Starlight a few months back, Twilight used it on herself and Fluttershy to sneak inside the factory from behind Tootsie Roll. They weren't even able to talk with each other because they could reveal they were behind her. They entered the factory without any problem which was phase one, now phase two was to find and free their friends from the jail cell that they were being kept in.

"Tootsie Roll, you've returned." Mayor Sweet Tooth said as he entered the room. "Where were you?"

"Where I always go when I want to be alone. The only place where I can truly be alone to use my magic freely."

Mayor Sweet Tooth rolled his eyes. "Yes, that magic that I need you to use right now. Let's go."

Wanting to see her magic in action and not being able to find their friends until Tootsie Roll leads them to them, they have no choice but to follow her. They followed the pair to a garden full of candied fruits growing on what appeared to be chocolate trees and the leaves were obviously made of candy as well but it was hard to tell. In fact, everything seemed to be made of candy, even the grass and dirt were made of some form of candy. 'Did Tootsie Roll do all this? How is a young unicorn's magic so powerful? If this gets into the wrong hoofs, then who knows what could happen?'

"Tootsie, I liked the idea of candied pineapple. It would make for a great summer candy so..." Mayor Sweet Tooth brought a plain pineapple out and set it down on the ground. "Turn this into a candied pineapple tree."

Tootsie Roll sighed. "Yes, sir." 

Twilight and Fluttershy watched in awe as this young unicorn filly in just the blink of an eye used her magic to turn a plain pineapple in a chocolate tree with candied pineapple rings growing on its branches. 

"Excellent. Oh, and find Princess Twilight and her friend tonight. Their memories must be erased so I can move forward with my plans. I will become the best candy master in all of Equestria and thanks to you, my child, that goal will be accomplished."

"Right, do you need anything else?" Tootsie Roll asked.

"No, just find those mares and erase their memories for good."

"I will. Those four can't leave their prison anyway, just like I can't leave mine." 

Tootsie Roll left the room and the two mares followed her silently. They found themselves at a locked door with Mayor Sweet Tooth's name on it. "This is his office. No pony can enter this room without a key. Mayor Sweet Tooth can't risk having the chalk on him because if it gets wet with anything or breaks then the barrier keeping me here is gone. He has no choice but to keep it in a box in his office. We just need to find it then I'll take you to your friends."

Using a spell she learned a few years ago to sneak into the library when it was locked, Twilight unlocked the door. Tootsie Roll opened the door and once she was confident that Twilight and Fluttershy were inside, she closed and locked the door. Twilight turned off her invisibility spell and said, "Okay, let's find that magical chalk. Are you sure we can keep even a small piece for further study?" Twilight asked her.

"No, we can't. I won't be able to leave unless we break it or find a way to remove my DNA from it then we can leave but I know nothing about it. I don't even know where it is, maybe we should just get your friends and you all should just leave."

"Tootsie Roll," Twilight started. "We aren't leaving. I know you don't feel that you don't deserve friendship but that's not true. Everypony deserves to be happy and free to go where they want and do what they want. Please, we want to help you be free to do what you want. You have more potential than just making candy, isn't there anything you've wanted to do with your life?"

Tootsie Roll bit her lip then said, "Well... I've always wanted to see my daddy again. He's my only family but he's been taken away from me. I just want to see him again."

"Tootsie Roll, are you sure he's not... gone?" Fluttershy asked her.

"No, he's alive. It's... complicated.  Can we find this chalk and not talk about my past anymore... please?"

"Okay, let's find the chalk and save our friends." Twilight, Fluttershy, and Tootsie Roll searched all over Mayor Sweet Tooth's office. The two could tell that there was a lot more to Tootsie Roll then what meets the eye but they couldn't talk with her about it until they got her out of Candy Town and stopped Mayor Sweet Tooth.

"Twilight, I think I found something!" Fluttershy said. Tootsie Roll and Twilight walked over to her and a white mouse was standing on her hoof. "This is Stanley. An adorable mouse whose been living in the factory. He knows where the chalk is. He says that it is in a drawer on the desk." The mouse jumped off her hoof and scurried across the floor then jumped onto the desk. He went to the locked drawer and squeaked at the drawer. "He says that this is the drawer that he has seen the chalk in. He says that it is in a small box so it doesn't get wet."

Twilight used her magic to open the drawer and she carefully pulled out the small box. "Okay, we need to make sure that it is in here." The two ponies nodded in agreement and Twilight carefully opened the box and to her surprise, she found a black piece of chalk with symbols on it.

"That's it. How are you going to destroy it?" Tootsie Roll asked her. 

"If we can get it wet, then maybe we can get you out of here and save our friends."

"Sorry, Princess Twilight." The three looked in horror and Mayor Sweet Tooth entered his office and locked the door behind him. "I'm afraid you and your friends have... overstayed your visit." Mayor Sweet Tooth pushed a hidden button which opened a trapped door below causing all of them to fall and causing Twilight to release the chalk from her magic and it rolled on the ground in front of Mayor Sweet Tooth. He sighed in frustration. "Figures, I lose her to friendship and kindness. She craved it. No matter." He put the chalk back in its box and locked the drawer once more. "I know a good memory spell to make those girls forget this town for good."