I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock and I quickly turn it off. God, I can’t believe that it’s already May 1st and that means that it’s finally my 25th birthday. I guess I need to get us and get everything ready for when Matt arrives later today. Usually, I would get ready with Ben, but he and Jenna are out of town for a while, so it’s just me to get ready for this time.
I get out of bed and make myself look good before heading downstairs to get everything ready. I shouldn't have too much to do since it’s just going to be just me and Matt.
It almost feels like forever has gone by as I clean most of the house up, but shortly after I finish up, I hear the doorbell ring.
“Hey Sam, Happy Birthday.” Matt says as he walks through the door and sets some things on the table. One thing seemed to be a bottle of some kind of drink, while the other looked like a bag. “I hope you're ready for one great celebration.”
“I hope so too, even though both Ben and Jenna are out so it’s just going to be the two of us.”
“Well, that’s ok. Hey, do you want to watch an episode of MLP?” He asks me
“Yeah, sure. What episode do you have in-” I say before he cuts me off
“Could we watch the finale?” It's strange that he would want to watch the finale. When that episode first aired, he despised it and I mean it. He went on a rant on how bad it was back when it came out and how it made no sense and stuff. He’s calmed down since then, but it’s still odd. The two of us sit down on the couch and I turn the episode on.
The two of us haven’t seen the episode since our first viewing, but it's just how I remembered it. The episode begins when Princess Celestia gets alerted to a giant hellspawn that came from Tartarus, so she and Discord go out to try and stop it. I do have to admit the battle is pretty cool and it was pretty well animated for My Little Pony.. Then suddenly during the battle, Celestia gets injured pretty badly and falls onto the edge of a volcano. Discord comes over to her and she tells him that she can't move. It looks like he's gonna save her but instead, he laughs and explains how he fooled everypony into thinking that he was reformed and that he waited a thousand years to that day to come as he kicked her into the volcano.
I don't know how this managed to air on a kid's network. This must have traumatized some kids and maybe some adults too especially since Celestia has a blood curdling scream as she falls into the volcano. I’m shocked at how the FCC didn’t come after their asses when this aired, but I guess it’s a mystery.
After that Discord went after Twilight and after a long battle between the two, Discord defeats Twilight with an attack that causes the screen to go white. The next scene is of course the scene where the Young Six fight Discord with the help of Starlight and Garb- Wait, the credits? I don't remember the episode ending this soon!
"Hey, is it just me or did they cut a scene here?" I ask worried that something was wrong with the episode
"Hey, you're right! They cut that scene where the Student Six alongside Starlight and Garble fight DIscord!" Matt says
Thank god, someone remembers that scene and it just wasn't a figment of my imagination. I thought for a second there that he wouldn’t remember it and that I was just crazy
“It’s strange. I thought that scene was in this episode. Maybe it was cut, because it was too dark. But, then again the whole episode would be totally different considering their contents.” I said confused
“Me too, I could have sworn that we saw that scene when that episode first came out. Maybe it was just some fan animation that the two of us just so happen to see.”
That is a possibility, but I remember the scene so clearly being in the episode, but who knows?
“You know what? Let’s just forget about this whole debate for now, and let’s just celebrate our birthdays. We have plenty of time to argue about the events of a cartoon later.” I tell him
“I guess so. Oh! I almost forgot to give you this. Happy Birthday, dude!” He says before he grabs a bag he had and gives it to me.
When I opened the bag, there was a dragon plush inside but it wasn't any ordinary plush, instead it was a plush of Smolder. She was always one of my favorite characters from the show despite the fact that she never really got the chance to do much in the two seasons she was in. It looked pretty accurate for a plush.
"Wow, where did you get this? This looks too good to be official." I ask him
"I commissioned it from someone online. They never really made any plushies of her during the show's run, so I had to get the plush from somewhere." He told me
"I didn't think you would get me this so thanks! I should give you this too while we’re exchanging gifts.” I gave him something I got him.
He opens the gift to see a big old set of some of the figures. “Woah! I thought that this set was really pricey!”
“It took me almost a week to find it online and it cost me about a hundred bucks, but it was totally worth it just to see you happy.” I said with a smile
When I looked back at Matt, he didn’t seem to say anything. In fact, he wasn’t moving as his eyes stayed still not blinking, as if he was staring off into space. He seemed to stay like that until I snapped my fingers in front of his eyes. “Hello? Earth to Matt?”
He blinked twice as he shook his head, almost as if he was unaware of what he was just doing before setting his eyes on me. “Smolder?” He said with a confused look on his face
Smolder? Was he thinking about that scene again? It was really odd.
“Hey, are you good? I haven't seen you do something like that before.”
“Yeah, I’m fine. I was just thinking about something, I guess I got a little lost in my own thoughts for a second there. He said, he seemed to be just as confused as I was “Anyways, I love it! Thanks dude!” He went to hug me and I did just the same.
The whole staring off thing still kinda bugged me, especially since he called me Smolder, but some time passed by and I almost completely forgot about it. Several hours and some alcohol later and it was way past dark, so Matt left, leaving me to clean up our mess. It’s a shame Noah wasn’t here like always to help, but I didn’t really care.
Soon enough it was about midnight, so I quickly got everything ready for bed. While I placed my new Smolder plush on a nearby shelf. My eyes transfixed on it as I slowly dosed off to sleep…
I soar through the sky over all of the buildings in Ponyville, soon landing near the entrance of the School Of Friendship.
"Can anyone explain what the heck is going on? I heard earlier that the school was closed due to some kind of emergency, so I want to know why." I ask confused. Earlier that day, news broke out about the school being closed for some unexplained reason and every student being sent home to their families. Luckily the others are here too, so hopefully I can get some answers from them.
“I did some research shortly after we got sent home. Apparently, the teachers including Headmare Twilight went missing. Also, some ponies think that Discord is the one behind all of this.” Sandbar explains to me
"Wait, isn’t Discord that weird hybrid monster that Fluttershy befriended? I knew he was really weird and could do some crazy stuff, but I don't know if he was the one behind this." Gallus said
"Well, right now it’s just a rumor so I don’t know for sure that he’s the one behind this. Somepony or something might be putting the blame on him." Sandbar tells Gallus. I notice something flying near us while Sandbar is talking to Gallus. At first I panic slightly as I couldn’t tell who it was, but then it soon turns out to be my brother Garble.
"Smolder! What are you doing here? I thought that the school was closed." He asked me once he landed.
"Gar Gar! You honestly should be back at the dragon lands. It’s a bit too dangerous to be here right now. Most of the teachers have gone missing and we want to know where they went! We suspect that Discord is behind all of this." I explain to him
"Wait, are you talking about that Discord? That weird thing that Fluttershy is friends with?"
“Yep, that Discord."
“Well for as long as he's out there, I'm not going anywhere.”
"Ooh! I just want that weirdo to fix everything!" Silverstream cried out
"Oh, so I'm a weirdo then?" Someone said
Everyone looks up and discovers Discord floating above us with a malicious look upon his face.
"Discord! What did you do with Twilight and the others?" Sandbar asked him
"Oh, so you want to know what happened to them? I would tell you, but I think it would be much better to show you!" Discord says before going to attack Sandbar. Before Discord could do anything to him, he got stunned by a powerful magic attack that came from Starlight who ran up to us.
"What are all of you doing here! You should go back to your homes and let me deal with him while he's stunned!" Starlight says
"Me and my friends aren't going anywhere! We want to help!." I tell her confidently
"Fine, but all of you must stay back unless I say so" Starlight says as she began to charge up another spell
"I forgot how strong some of your powers are, but you don’t stand a chance against my strength!" Discord says as he starts to attack. Before I could do anything, everything quickly went black as I heard a distant beeping noise…