“Taylor you okay?” Twilight asks
“Yes, I’m just trying to figure out how to fly.” Taylor says trying to be as serious as possible.
“Hey!”
‘I can!?’ Taylor asks surprised
“Earth ponies can’t fly” Twilight answers
“well I’ve seen a horsefly, and a Dragon fly.” Taylor says with a bit of mirth in her voice.
“Yeah, I seen a housefly, ha-ha-ha-ha” Twilight says matching Taylor’s voice.
“Then you’ve done seen 'bout ev'rything
When you see a Pony fly.” Taylor sings back.
“Where are you going with this?” Twilight asks turning around. Twilight makes eye contact with Taylor before her jaw drops.
“You’re flying!?” Twilight shouts
“Have you seen everything yet?” Taylor asks with a smirk as she does an aileron roll.
“What!? how!?” Twilight shouts
“Magic~” Taylor says waving her hooves. While floating upside down.
“That’s not how it works!” Twilight shouts
“Well that’s what I’m doing unless you wanna say it’s something else.” Taylor says with a smirk.
“What about those long tubes you shot at discord how do those work?” Twilight asks not a second later she can tell she made a fatal mistake just by the look on Taylor’s face.
“The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. ” Taylor says smiling.
“What? No that’s not it there must be more!” Twilight says not understanding the answer.
“You want the rest? Shall we sing a song?” Taylor asks as music fills the air.
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“That was the weirdest song yet! And pinkie lives here!” Shouts a pony that abruptly leaves
Taylor breaks out into giggles.
Twilight is glaring at the giggling filly in front of her.
“That was the most fun I’ve had in a while.” Taylor says smiling still floating.
“Can you just start a harmony song on command?” A pink pony asks
“Do you wanna see?” Taylor asks smirking as music starts to fill the air again before stopping abruptly.
“How?” Twilight asks
“Magic and imagination.” Taylor says giggling as Twilight twitches a little.
“Twitchy tail!” Shouts the pink one before ducking in cover.
Twilight immediately runs away diving under a park bench.
“What does that mean!?” Taylor shouts before realizing that her radar pinged 3 flying objects closing in fast. The CIWS spin up, the second the contacts are in range there is an empty clicking sound followed by a stomach rumble.
‘Right, ran out of ammo fighting that escalation guy.’ Taylor thinks looking up.
“Look out below!!!” Is shout from above by three familiar voices.
There is a few quick thuds as the trio nail Taylor then the four tumble onto the ground.
“Your landing could use some work.” Taylor wheezes out.
Twilight walks back over to watch the four Fillies interact.
“Are you okay! We were trying to get our skydiving cutie marks.” Sweetie Belle says
“Without a parachute?” Taylor asks
“I knew we forgot something!” Apple Bloom shouts
“How did you 3 get that much altitude anyways?” Taylor asks crawling out from under them and standing up.
“Our trebuchet! It’s the best thing ever, it’s a shame we didn’t get our siege weaponry cutie makes.” Scoot aloo says prancing in place.
“Do you wanna come with us for the next one!?” Sweetie Belle asks
“What are we doing? Nothing dangerous I hope. I still need to restock.” Taylor says
“How about free diving!” Apple Bloom says
“I’m not going under water.” Taylor says immediately refusing the idea.
“We could go parasaling!” Scoot aloo says
“Where would we get the equipment for that?” Taylor asks
“Oh getting the equipment is easy! Just ask pinkie and we will get a list of places.” Sweetie says
Taylor looks at Twilight with begging eyes hoping to be rescued from the three.
“Sure you can play with them.” Twilight says with a smile.
“That’s not what!” Taylor shouts her eyes widening in horror.
“Have fun crusading, don’t do too much damage.” Twilight says walking away.
“Is there a pond here?” Taylor asks
“Yep! I got it girls! Cutie mark Crusaders ship building!” Sweetie Belle shouts
“Sure!” Taylor says somewhat excited.
Que expensive animation montage with music.
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Several trees were harmed in making the ship.
“It’s done!” Apple Bloom announces
“Say Taylor what’s that thingy you added?” Scoot ask
“It’s a brass boiler.” Taylor says with a smile
“A boil what? How does it work?” Apple Bloom asks
“Right so it boils water to generate steam which pushes the piston which spins the crank shaft which is directed into the gear box then it connects to the drive shaft which has the propeller.” Taylor says pointing out each part.
“That’s cool! Did we get our cutie marks!” Sweetie asks
“Yeah your good at this Taylor you drew up the plans and everything!” Scoot says
“I mean, it wasn’t that difficult.” Taylor says trying to down play the praise.
“So how do we turn it on and where did you get the brass from?” Apple Bloom asks poking around the engine.
‘The brass is shell casings from the CIWS systems… kinda had a lot of them after that duel with discord.’ Taylor thinks
“We’ll, we need stuff to burn like charcoal.” Taylor says
“Cutie mark Crusaders charcoal makers go!!!” The trio shout darting every which way.
“Oh no.” Taylor says in horror.
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30 minutes later.
There is an isolated cloud above the White Tail woods dousing the flames.
“I can’t believe you four burned down part of the white tail woods!” Rarity shouts at the Fillies
“That was just irresponsible.” AppleJack says
“Scoots, I’m not angry just disappointed.” Rainbow Dash says
“Say Taylor you built this mechanism right?” Twilight asks from inside the ship.
“Yes, I said we need to get stuff to burn like charcoal.” Taylor says
“Why do you need stuff to burn wouldn’t a magical flame suffice? I mean this design although it is a bit rough would revolutionize ship building.” Twilight says
“I know how to build a bigger and better steam engine, it’s just to large for that small of a boat.” Taylor admits.
Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow are looking at twilight with a don’t get distracted look.
“Taylor… you can’t just go burning down forests. I wanna punish you as your guardian however you four just made a significant contribution to equestria.” Twilight says going full princess mode.
“Really? Forests burning down were pretty normal from what I remember.” Taylor says
“Not in this day and age Taylor… Spike I need you to write a letter.” Twilight says