//------------------------------// // Canterlot the Waterpark // Story: Spike: The Unwilling God of Chaos // by Silver Butcher //------------------------------// Twilight groaned as Princess Luna smiled sweetly at her, Twilight looked to her friends for aid, they had all spent the days after the Picnic meeting in the Cutie Map ways coming up with half-hearted plans to tame the God of Chaos and had been in the middle of one such discussion when Luna had teleported into the room and made her significant announcement, Twilight rubbed her temple at the news. "All of them?" She questioned calmly. "Yes," Luna confirmed before elaborating "I have been told Spike now has several friends, so I shall be taking them all to Canterlot for the weekend, and as it would just so coincidentally be the very Class Spike is now attending as of yesterday is going to Canterlot this exact day for a field trip, how very luck of me," "Welp, that explains where Cheerilee found the funding for the trip," Rainbow noted casually "I'll check in with the squirts aunts, and Rumbles folks, but I doubt they'll have anything to say other than that it sounds like fun," "Just be sure to keep an eye on my Little sister," Applejack warned, "She thinks she's stronger than she actually is," "Noted," Luna said, having been barely listening "I will wait until after their class field trip and then bring them back with me to the castle," Luna gave a quick wave before teleporting away, leaving Twilight in an agitated state. "Bad enough I've been forced to go without my assistant so he can waste his time in a class for children when he's basically a college graduate, but now he's going to be gone for the entire weekend too," Twilight heard a low whisper and turned to look to Pinkie and Rainbow, the latter of who was avoiding eye contact while the other tried to hold back a laugh, Twilight chose to ignore the exchange and went back to finishing the explanation of her current plan of how to reel Havok in and get him to a position similar to the one Discord has been in. Octavia was walking confidently through the streets of Canterlot, succeeding in her task of fading into the background as she turned down an alleyway that looked about as interesting as any other. She continued walking until she felt the nagging suspicion she had left the stove on, she easily fought the overpowering need to rush home and check, as she had taken care to make sure it was off before leaving, and after a moment the effects of the charm faded as she turned to the right, pressing her hoof into a brick wall and spoke slowly as she tapped against it "Hail, Hail, The Royal Sisters," She said simply before walking into the brick wall. Octavia found herself at the top of a very nicely built Stairway, She put her hoof on the railing and took exactly three steps before standing still, after a moment the Stairs began moving and she was taken down the massive staircase, easily surpassing a thousand paces in length. "Sweet Luna that was Tedious," Octavia muttered as she found herself at a door and called out loudly "Superior Seven Meeting room," She requested, chuckling slightly at the name of the spy organization, the Door swung open and Octavia entered a very nicely decorated Square shaped room, Four Pillars decorated each corner, each decorated in the styles of one of the four Princesses and their Cutie Marks. In the Center of the room was a large Table, where four of the seven were waiting for her. "Carrot top and Bon Bon won't be joining us today," Octavia said simply as she took her place near the middle of the table, next to Luna's Squad leader. At the head of the table, the leader of their operation sat looking over several papers, He readjusted his bow tie and began reading from the first page. "Welcome all, and thank you for your timely arrival," Princess Blueblood said in a casual tone as he began reading off the minutes of their last meeting, "Last year, in mid-July, we meet for our annual meeting," Blueblood began skipping the pages and proceeded to set them all aside "Nothing but the usual Bickering and insults," He decided "Let's move to the current reason of our meeting, The new God of Chaos, Havok I do believe was his name, is planning to hit Canterlot for his next prank, as you are well aware by now Havok has notoriously stolen the Castle of the Two Sisters, matters are currently being taken to evict him from the premises with the aid of Princess Twilight Sparkle, she unaware of our involvement of course," Blueblood looked to Octavia, only for the Celestia side of the table to begin speaking. "This is a waste of time," Spitfire declared irritably at her spot as leader of the Celestia team "I have an academy to run, not to mention the currently active Wonderbolts to keep in line, why was I dragged all the way out here for the sake of a prank!?" "He could be dangerous," Photo Finish noted, sitting at the end of the table and looking at multiple photos of Havok and his team, "At least that's what the note said, Personally I'm thinking of moving my art studio to Ponyville, the little bit of his Chaos I've been hit with has all been nothing short of divine inspiration, oh I never thought a Mime could look so good," "Hush," The Luna squad leader said, easily gaining the attention of the entire room as she spoke, The table turned to her and she raised her hoof. "My Sister vouches for Havok having no evil in his heart," Maud Pie said in a flat monotoned voice "That's enough for me, he's clean," "Well I'm sorry to speak against the words of one of the Elements of Harmony, but our orders come straight from Celestia, and until Luna picks a side in this matter, your squad is duty-bound to follow her orders," "Luna has no side because she has not been informed of any of this," Octavia replied instantly, gaining Maud's attention. "It was my understanding that Luna was still musing if she felt Havok was a threat," Maud said, her voice giving nothing away "Am I to believe you have failed to inform her of our current objective?" Blueblood simply shrugged. "You know how hard it is for me to get time alone with Celestia," Blueblood sighed "My 'Bratty' persona is not to be broken in public, as such it is extremely difficult to get time to speak to her seriously because guards always follow me in when I formally request a meeting," "They probably think you're the one who let the Changelings in," Photo Finish noted with a chuckle, Fleur de lis and Fancypants both seem Certain of it at the very least, though they do both hate you extremely," "I ruined their wedding," Blueblood noted, slightly red face "I'd hate me too," "Moving on," Maud cut in bluntly "I won't speak on behalf of my squad, but I will not be a part of this to any extent until such time that I receive word from Luna personally," Maud punctuated her declaration by getting up and heading to the door, no one bothered trying to call her back, as she was the only pony in the team who was Loyal to Luna and no other Princess, Blueblood, and Spitfire were both known for their loyalty to only Celestia, Bon Bon to was loyal to Celstia but had made it clear she was liking where Twilight was taking things, Carrot top and Octavia were both firmly split between Luna and Cadance, and Photo Finish was the wild card of the group, as she and she alone was loyal to none of the Princesses, stating that in the event of a war, she would be staying firmly neutral. "Alright now that she's gone what are doing about Havok?" Spitfire demanded. "Spitfire, you and I will be going to see Celestia immediately, we'll both request a meeting at the same time and begin fighting, once Celestia catches word she'll have us both in and with you at my side, the Guards should stand down so we can warn her about Havok," Blueblood offered Spitfire a hoof and once she took it the two teleported away. Octavia got to her hooves and made her way to the door, Photo Finish chucked as she gathered her photos and followed suit. Octavia's ears twitched, having been hoping to leave alone for the next part of her plan, she figured she could just come back later only for Photo Finish to quickly outpace her and whisper something to the door. "Come, my friend," She said in far too polite of a tone "I do believe this is your next stop," Octavia walked through and found herself in a massive Library, she frowned upon realizing she had been found out and turned as Photo Finish shut the door and held up a picture to her. "I must say," She said casually "I rather like your normal colors," Photo looked back at the photo in her hoof, one of a Purple and Green Dragon with a young Unicorn Filly reading a Comic book. Photo looked back up to where the fake Octavia had been and found Havok inspecting the Picture in her place. "Dam you are good," Havok laughed, recognizing the photo, "This was taken right before the Attack of the Yodeling cows, wasn't it? How'd you get past the armor?" "Oh I make a very convincing bush," Photo said happily. "Alright, well before this goes to wherever it is you're taking it...It's stupid right?" "Oh completely" Photo agreed "Had I known you as Spike before seeing you as Havok I'd have recognized you immediately, no idea how Princess Twilight doesn't but I suppose some ponies are just blind to things they had no desire to see," "Yeah," Havok agreed "I'm confident she knows, so now what?" "I see no reason to stop you," Photo said casually as she put the Photo back into her saddle bags "You are working directly under Luna's Demand, and that's good enough for me," "Oh, alright then do tell me, what gave me away? and how do you know about me and Luna?" "I heard you chuckling when you walked in the door," Photo said simply "I've never heard Octavia chuckle and figured it was you, and I was hiding in the bushes watching you when you called Luna up to vouch for you," Photo produced another Picture, one of Havok turning his hand to a phone and Havok simply whistled "I know, I'm good, now as my friend Fleur would say, Au revoir mon cher," Photo waved as she asked to be taken home before opening the door and leaving without another word. "I like that lady," Havok decided "I should make her a prank as thanks. Now then," Havok looked around the massive library and clapped his hands together "Where is that spell?" Cheerilee knew what she was leading herself into, but did her best to act casual as her students all looked out the Train window in excitement, having paid for an entire train car for the class and even gotten a catered lunch, Cheerilee had disguised their trip as an educational trip to the Canterlot Musume, followed by two hours at a pool courtesy of the Pony who had politely paid for the trip. "Now then," Cheerilee spoke up, getting some of the class's attention "As you know we usually visit Canterlot once a year on a trip through the Canterlot gardens, our grateful patron..." "It was one of the Princesses right!?" Twist asked instantly "Because of Spike joining the class right," "Yo," Spike said, not looking up from his enchanted chess game against Diamon Tiara, with both Silver Spoon and Sweetie Belle acting as the cheer squad," Applebloom chuckled as Cheerilee did her best to hide her affiliation with Team Chaos, across from her, wearing a visiting student vest was Babs. "You know this is my first time visiting Canterlot," She noted to her cousin, "Kind of a shame we won't actually get to check out that Musume," Applebloom chuckled at the notion when Pip popped up from behind them. "Why not?" He asked curiously. "I got some insider information," Applebloom said instantly, rubbing her chest proudly "As you know the Cutie Mark Crusaders and the God of Chaos have somewhat of a working relationship, let's just say me and the girls pulled a few strings to get out of the huge spelling test that was supposed to be happening today," Pip gasped before sliding out of sight and passing the vague information along to Rumble, who took to it like honey, within Minutes all of the students knew they were rushing to a trap of chaotic proportions. "Mrs.Cheerilee," Rumble suddenly called out, Looking at Pip with a devious gaze. "You mad lad," Pid said, realizing what Rumble was about to do right as he did it. "The God of Chaos is the one funding this trip," The class all went quiet, save for the handful who had tried to shut up Rumble too late to do much about it. "I'm aware," Cheerilee replied bluntly, earning a quick response of confusion from her class. "Hu?" Rumble asked as he plopped down, doing his best to look stupefied by the information. "She said she's aware," Havok noted casually, making Diamond Tiara and Spike both Jump as he moved Diamond's queen and checkmate Spike for her. "Son of a-" Spike managed to say before having his mouth clamped shut but Sweetie and Silver. "You can't swear in class," Sweetie informed him as Havok slunk out of the seats like a snake and onto the floor, bouncing over to Cheerilee and pulling her to his side as he motioned to the mountainside of the train. "I must say, nice location, Honestly when I let you pick the prank this time around I never suspected this, thanks by the way, as many creatures have noticed, My team and I have been kind of creatively bankrupt as of late if that mime crap is anything to go on," "What did I say about swearing," Cheerilee said instantly, making Havok take a step back. "Not to," Havok noted "Sorry bout that, none too good at being child friendly," "I have so many questions," Snails called out, having been the first one in the class to get over the shock of the situation happening before him. "By all means," Havok said, motioning to Cheerilee as he lied without effort about the origin of the team-up "She did come to me after all," The Class all turned to Cheerilee, a low buzz indicating the ones in the back were theorizing about what she might say. "As you may or may not be aware, next Friday will be our last class in my old school house, as per an arrangement with Princess Twilight, Starlight Shimmer, and Myself, We will be joining the school of Friendship, I suspect a few of you might find the change hard and I was hoping to spare you till the very end on the most crucial of details...It is unlikely I will be allowed to remain your teacher I'm afraid," The outroar upon the end of Cheerilee's statement was so fierce Havok had to magically mute the class so Cheerilee could continue talking. "After some talk with Twilight, she has informed me that, despite no longer managing the day-to-day of the school, her word in how it is run is still absolute above all, and she has told me she doesn't think I am capable of teaching Spike," Emerald Sparks drew some eyes to Spike, who seemed less than happy at the news as he began smoking from his nostrils and green flames could be seen in the back of his throat as he began raging in silence. "The Fffffig," Havok said, his rage faltering for a second as he tried not to swear "You didn't tell me that part, I am so gonna tar and feather her castle, or turn it into a maze, or...or...or turn every-book in Equestria into a Comic book," Havok blew smoke for a second before pulling a scroll and quill out of nothing, "Were where these ideas when the Mimeapocalys was being planed up?" he muttered angrily as he unmuted the class. "I am so quitting my job," Spike said instantly "If she thinks she can go behind my back she can think again," "You just got here, what reason do you have to be so loyal to Cheerilee?" Silver asked suspiciously. "Well she was one of the first ponies ever to give me a present that wasn't a book," Spike noted "She gave me a hat, a really cool hat I might add," "About as good a reason as any," Silver decided. "You have a hat?" Rumble asked, "Why don't you ever wear it?" "Well it blew up with all the rest of my stuff when Tirek blew up my house," Spike noted bluntly. "Oh, sorry," Rumble turned away awkwardly as the rest of the class continued being mad about Cheerilee's potential departure from their Class. "But this is 'your' class," Diamond called out in a huff "How could she remove Ms.Cheerilee from Ms.Cheerilee's Class!? That doesn't make any sense," "I thought she was the princess of Friendship," Snips called out "Your our teacher, what better kind of a friend is there than a teacher!?" "Man this class must be awesome if there this mad," Havok chuckled, "You should have said something, we're friends now, and no one messes with a Friend of mine...except for me of course," Havok clapped his hands happily "Alright, since the cats out of the bag, what say we skip the train ride and the little play set up to make it look like Cheerilee wasn't involved in this, You kids have fun, oh and don't take of your wrists bands, it'll be easy to bring you all back to Cheerilee at the end of the day when the prank is over" Havok snapped and the class found themselves in the center of Canterlot, all dressed up in their swimsuits and wearing a flower bracelet, Cheerilee, and Havok stood away from them as Havok snapped again and sent a wave of Chaos across the Capital. Photo Finish was inside her home, burning any picture that might so much as suggest Havok and Spike had any connections when she saw the wave of Chaos coming her way through her very large Windows. "Oh, I wonder what he has in store for us," She smiled at the incoming wave and upon being hit by it felt her attire change, she quickly rushed to her personal mirror and grinned ear to ear at what she saw. "Ah, bathing suits," She realized as she looked at the one-piece suit with a zebra pattern on it "Yes, no one ever sees designer Bathing suits, oh My next Fashion expo shall definitely be themed off of Havok's disaster, speaking of which I should snap a few pictures of the main event for the scrapbook," Photo Finish grabbed her Camera and head out to her balcony, there she found a small pool with a waterslide leading to the streets, streets that where now all one massive lazy river. She took haste in finding a hapless victim of Chaos to get the perfect picture of the surprise and anger that was woven into Havok's design. Havok was standing atop a pool floaty in the shape of a large Gazebo with the rest of Team Chaos, across from them Back up Harmoney stood on their own Floaty Gazebo, most looking shocked, in the momentary Chaos of the unannounced Teleport Bulk accidentally pushed both Trixie and Doctor Whooves into the water, Trixie found her cape had become a life preserver and Doctor Whooves had a floaty tube where his scarf had been. "Oops," Havok realized "My bad, forgot to call with the heads up," "It's okay," Thunderlane noted as he took flight to help his teammates out of the water. "Trixie is always prepared," The Wet unicorn declared immediately, "Tell her and her team what the game is and how to play it," "A simple game of tag so to speak," Spike said casually "My favorite game as I'm sure you've noticed, however, we've added a few extra rules, no pairing up this time, it's all of us versus all of you, we can fly but only if Bulk and or Thunderlane are actively after us, no Teleporting for us, and both Vinyl and Trixie can use basic levitation spells but not on any pony, Oh and just to spice things up this game isn't one and done, we'll be playing till Sunset, for those of you without a watch that means this game will be lasting around six hours, as such once you catch a member of Team Chaos instead of leaving the game we'll just come back here and won't be taggable against for twenty-second, to keep you lot from spawn camping," "So technically we could just stand here and do nothing," Cheerilee noted 'If this is a scheduled prank," "If you six can manage to tag me and my team thirty times, or five times each if you need a simpler number, You all win a prize, any prize in fact, Dealers choice. I'm Not a Genie though so it's best if you ask for an item of some kind" "Oh, I'm all about this," Thunderlane friend "I'm gonna make you give me a medal every time I win one of these games," "You do you man," Strom laughed back "Course you'll have to beat me for most of those medals so it might not be as easy as it was your first time around," "The Game starts," Havok cried out as a bubble surrounded Team Backup Harmony "After our twenty-second head starts, Scatter," Havok and his team all jumped into the water and began swimming away, Storm, Vile, and Havok transformed their wings into fins for extra mobility. Rot and Rust began using their tails like Propellers and Shade chose the simplest option and turned herself into a Seapony and rocketed away. "I guess Shade is the boss fight this time around," Cheerilee noted as team Chaos split apart at Random, With Havok going after Shade, with Storm and Vile both going at it solo as Rot and Rust locked arms and used each other for stability as they became what was essentially a Pony fan boat. Cheerilee spotted her class beginning to spread apart, realizing how much time they had to enjoy Havok's Prank they all set out as a large collective, seemingly all trying to teach Spike the ways of how to have fun properly. "So who's going after who?" Trixie asked of the team "We'll need at least two solo Acts," "Me and you should probably team up," Viynl noted casually to Trixie, her usual headphones having been turned into magical ear plugs to keep water out and let sound in "Since Havok and Shade are going at it together best we do the same," "Alright," Thunderlane nodded "Then I'll mix it up a little, I'll take the doc and go after the Fan boat twins, Bulk, and Cheerilee, can you two go after Storm and VIle?" "I'll take Vile," Cheerilee replied "Better I take on Evil Fluttershy than evil Rainbow Dash," "I'll take Storm," Bulk declared loudly and proudly "We'll fight by Sea and Air!" "Alright, I guess our goal is to rack up five tags each," Thunderlane noted as he recalled Havok's recommendation of five each. "Roughly," Vinyl agreed "You and Bulk should probably go for seven or six, since the rest of us are at a major disadvantage here, once we tag them we are going to have to travel all the way back here and try to find them again so better if the ones who can fly take up the brunt of that search," "Alright, let's go, team...uh...team..." Trixie paused for a second before declaring loud and proud "Team Neutral?" "I love it," Bulk declared loudly as the rest joined in. "Team Netrual, with Trixie leading the charge!" Trixie pointed out as the bubble keeping them in place popped "Alright let's all go and Follow VInyl and Thunderlane's Plan!" Blueblood and Spitfire rushed to Celestia's Aid, the two had been in the middle of informing her that Havok planned to center in on the capital for his next prank when a wave of Chaos had come bursting through the doors and had transformed Celestia's throne room. The floor was now several inches lower and filled to the doorway with a shallow sheet of water, The three inside had been given swimsuits, and Celestia had half a second to take note of this before a Giant Bucket with Havok's face on it tipped over and dumped her with several gallons of water, the same thing happens all across the room as more random buckets on poorly balanced axis began randomly dumping water onto the floor. "Starswirls blazing beard what just happened?" Celestia demanded as she vacated her throne and tried to her mane back with her magic to get the wet mass out of her eyes. "Your throne room's been turned into a waterpark," Blueblood realized. "Fitting that it's the best part of a waterpark to boot," Spitfire noted, Blueblood looked like he wanted to argue that fact but chose to rush to his aunt's side several guards dressed to the gills in pool floaties tried in vain to wobble inside the room. Spitfire stifled a snicker as the guards all knocked one another over. "Odd," Celestia noted as she looked around "I'm told Havok usually announces his pranks just slightly beforehand, Either he's in a hurry, or I am not his dance partner today," "Still we better stay by your side," Blueblood noted in a soft tone as the guards all failed to coordinate, "You blathering fools," Blueblood called out in a bratty tone "Take off those stupid floaties and keep me safe," Blueblood waited a moment before adding "Oh, and my auntie to of course," "fricking hate his bratty side," Spitfire muttered "That stupid voice tone hurts my ears," Luna sat back in the area that used to be the Gardens, having been pleasantly surprised by a large number of Children showing up to play on the slides that had once been statues and bushes. Most of them were local but she quickly spotted a few Ponyville children in the mix and soon spotted a very familiar Dragon floating on his back with some of his friends. "Hello Spike," Luna greeted as Spike got off his back and waded over to her, Luna had found a floaty in the shape of a chair and was using it to keep above the watery mayhem that had befallen her city "Figured I enjoy myself a little before me and Havok broke the news to my sister about our strange relationship," "It's even stranger when you phrase it like that," Spike noted "You are my Aunt," "Yeah but I'm the cool aunt that takes you to that move no one else wants to go see," Luna countered with a chuckle "Anyway I hope you and your friends are ready for a weekend off at my place, Havok and his friends are of course welcome to make a few guest appearances, but do try to keep those appearances out of sight," "No worries, I was found out by one of the spies and she seems fond of me, borderline stalkerish honestly, as the God of Chaos I am both Flattered and take it as a challenge to up the ante a little," "Was it Photo Finish?" Luna asked curiously "I once caught her snapping pics of some of her fashion models in the bath for 'inspiration'" "Yeah that's the one," Spike confirmed "So," Scootaloo cut in "this big reveal you two have been talking about, think you might wanna tell us about it?" "It's nothing too fancy," Spike said simply "But I suppose I should spill the beans since you guys will at least be watching, don't wanna catch you all off guard," Celestia looked out at the many ponies enjoying the lazy river as she waited for a status report, Off to her right Spitfire and Blueblood were keeping up appearances and having an argument about the Wonderbolts, The Pegasus Guard could be seen returning and they gave a quick salute before giving their report. "The Waterfalls have been turned into a massive Waterslide, The God of Chaos seems to be there as a lifeguard, Ma'am, although he has also been spotted in almost thirty other locations," "The Waterfall is as good a spot as any," Spitfire noted, The Guards turned to Blueblood, who simply shoved past them "I'll be having a word with this so-called god, teach him a thing or two about messing with my city," "Can we please watch over Prince Blueblood," One of the guards immediately begged the Princess "It would be a dream come true to see him get turned into a toad or something," "It would also cause serious trouble with the noble faction," Spitfire noted immediately "I'll go make sure he doesn't start a civil war or try to goad the God of Chaos into trying to overthrow Celestia," "I didn't let those Changelings in," Blueblood called back angrily "They snuck their way in through the incompetence of the guards," A grumble rose from the guards present as Celestia cut in. "Spitfire you will be my escort to Havok so I might have a few words with him," Celestia lit her horn and both Spitfire and Blueblood were teleported away with her to the door used to allow entry for the Great Galloping Galla, its usual staircase was a waterslide, and sitting next to it was a shadow Pony that Celestia recognized to be one of Havok's followers, although she didn't have enough experience with the God of Chaos personally to recognize which one it was. A handful of guards were standing next to the Pony in a line. "All clear," She called out lazily as she spun a life preserve in her hooves, A large Floaty appeared before the front most guard, large enough for him to sit on, he did just that and the pony continued speaking "Just think about your destination and the floaty will provide, good luck," The Floaty shot down the waterslide and the guard was sent hurtling down the pathway connecting the gala entrance to the rest of Canterlot. "All clear," The Pony called out again before noticing the rest of the guards had dispersed back into the castle at Celestia's order, "Oh, hey what up sunny," "You should have more respect for the Princess of the Sun," Spitfire said instantly "Maybe a polite bow and an apology for this mess?" "That's not happening," The Pony said before pointing at herself "Names Rot by the way, not that any of you seemed to care enough to ask for it," "I need to talk to your leader," Celestia said at once, giving no inkling she had heard Rot's name. "Alright," Rot said casually as she continued flinging her life preserver around for her own personal entertainment "Good luck finding him I suppose," Rot waved a hoof and a floaty materialized in front of Celestia and Blueblood, leaving Spitfire to fly "You heard me explain the rules of the floaty," Rot said as she lay on her side and began melting into the water "Go on beat it you're holding up my line," Rot fully melted into the shallow water and Blueblood muttered angrily. "That brat needs to learn some respect," He managed to say before letting out a scream as his floaty shot out over the waterfall without his consent. "I heard that," Rot noted as she peaked out of the water next to Celestia "Beware that fact," Rot once again dissipated into the shallow waters once Celestia had herself taken down the slide with less speed than Blueblood, who was swirling in the water, having been bucked off his floaty, Spitfire easily rescued him and put him back on before they all speed off towards Canterlot waterfall, multiple businesses and homes had been affected by Havok, Ponyjoes was now an outdoor restaurant with floaty parking pads for customers to order donuts to eat while they floated around the streets to their destinations. Celestia could just see the waterfall in the distance when waves began getting violent, one of Havok's followers shot past them, laughing like mad as he used his fin-like wings to effortlessly mauver through the waves, hot on his tail, on her own floaty was a pink earth pony mare, one of her hooves outstretched as she tried to grab Havok's follower. "Is that mare stupid?" Blueblood wondered aloud "It can't be wise to mess with this Havok dolt and his stooges without the proper power to hold them..." Blueblood was sent flying into the water as Havok's follower pulled a U-Turn and shot under him, buffeting Celestia and capsizing Blueblood. "I heard that," the Havok Follower said angrily. "HI Vile," the mare said as she tapped him over the head. "Oh son of a-" Celestia and her two followers all recoiled as Vile exploded into Rubber ducks, Cheeilee gave no notion she had noticed the princess next to her and instead rushed away, continuing her hunt for Vile. "Ah," Blueblood noted as he got back onto his floaty "Did she just kill him?" "If I'm recalling Twilight messages correctly that's what they do when they're caught by the players of their game at hand," Celestia noted "So I guess that Mare was one of the targets, interesting," Celestia and her two loyal followers continued to Canterlot Waterfall, a massive crowd was gathered to partake in going down the slide, what looked to be a pool was hovering over the edge of the cliff face, carrying ride goers who had already gone down back up. "No Shoving," Havok called out to the crowd, a sun visor hat resting atop his head, next to him a Unicorn follower was talking to a young girl, who looked to have been crying but seemed to have been calmed down as she was set on a Floaty and went off on her merry way. "Is anyone else missing their parents, or their children?" The Unicorn called out "Please call out now and I'll send you to them right away," "Make way," Blueblood called out, easily parting the crowd as he and Celestia made their way to Havok and his unicorn's lifeguard station. "Hold down the fort Shade," Havok called out as he jumped down and casually walked over the top of the water to the Princess. "No cutting," He said bluntly. "Hold your tongue," Blueblood replied instantly, "This is the Princess of the Sun you're speaking to you overgrown gecko," Havok immediately held up his hand behind him, Shade already charging a blast of magic to fire at the Prince. "Don't turn him into a toad," Havok said instantly "I would be funny but somepony would definitely try to squash him," Havok instead chose the simple route and ignored Blueblood. "Princess or no, back of the line," "I'm not here for the slide," Celestia said bluntly "I want you to change my city back," "eh," Havok shrugged "I'll do it later," "No," Celestia repeated as she lit her horn "You will do it now, and never do this again," "Oh, and what about all your lovely subjects?" Havok countered "The ones in the water that will turn into cement, the ones on the water slides eight feet in the air that will just pop out of existence below them, All of these lovely ponies enjoying My Canterlot Falls slide, they'll all suddenly be at the mercy of the river, and more importantly, the waterfall that's usually here," Celestia said nothing to that and Havok snapped at her without magic "Yeah, think before you act," Havok turned back to Shade, who was helping another lost child when she suddenly shot to the side and dunked Havok in the water as a spell from Blueblood flew past where the back of the head had just been. Shade immediately rose from the waves, her eyes glowing red as she fired a blast back at Blueblood, only for Havok to pop back up and hit the magic away with a giant bat, the spell flew high and exploded like a firework. Havok whistled and let go of the bat, allowing it to fly away as he spoke to Blueblood "I see why so many ponies don't like you," Havok casually pulled the floaty out from under Blueblood and gave it the child Shade had been talking to and told her it would take her to her parents with just a thought. "Hey," Blueblood complained as he managed to break the surface of the water, "That was mine," "No," Havok corrected calmly "All the floaties are mine, I'm just letting the inhabitants of Canterlot borrow some of 'em," Havok turned away from Blueblood and waved him off "Now shoo, this prank is scheduled to last six hours and there are still well over five and a half more to go, so get comfy and enjoy the water park, once we close were closed forever," A cheer followed Havok's words, he smiled at them but felt the cheer was mostly for dunking Blueblood unceremoniously into the water. Celestia lit her horn and picked up Blueblood before teleporting her two companions, and herself, away. "You ok?" Shade asked as soon as the attention was off of them. "I doubt Blueblood could do anything to me that would leave me anything less than okay," Havok replied casually before pinching Shade's cheek "Thanks for saving me though, so I still owe you that Dinner over our bet with Twilight, anything you feel like, I'm a remarkable cook nowadays," "How about we go out to eat?" Shade countered as she did her best to look and remain calm about the situation "Sugarcube Corner is a hot spot, and while Spike and Sweetie eat, Shade and Havok can snoop in the shadows to see if anyone talking smack," "Oh," Havok smiled at the idea "I love it, it's too perfect an Idea, I almost feel bad leaving the others out," "Well you could find similar activities to do with the others in our civilian attire and snoop around that, You and Rust could snoop around Manehattan, Vile could help you find all the gossip spots at the playground, and Storm knows a thing or two about finding all the fan clubs in Ponyville so you two could try to find out if we have one yet, and Rot obviously has all the dirt on the Apple Family and ears through all of the markets districts, and you and I could stick to Sugar cube corner and other restaurants and stores." "Shade you mad genius!" Havok cheered as he pulled his friend into a hug "We are gonna know so much about everypony in Ponyville it's gonna be madness!" "Happy to help" Shade hugged back with a large grin at having achieved step one of her master plan to get more time with Havok, even if she had ended up doing the same for the rest of the team to keep suspicion off of her final goals of romance. Celestia sat at the head of the meeting table for the Supiror Seven, doing her best to take the situation seriously without mocking the name her spies had given themselves. "Six hours," Blueblood said in a huff as he waded through the shallow waters that had infiltrated the meeting room "Who stays at a Waterpark for six hours!?" "You're just mad you lost your floaty privileges," Spitfire retorted, having gone out and gotten one so she could rest without worrying about water going up her nose. "I could spend six hours on a lazy river easily," "How long has it been?" Blueblood demanded of his aunt. "Still at least an hour left," Celestia noted casually. "We called them all in hours ago," Blueblood said angrily before turning to Photo Finish, who had thus far ignored them all in favor of looking over her new collection of Photo to take inspiration from "What is taking the rest so long," he demanded, as though expecting Photo to have the answer. "Maud said she's not coming back until she has words with Luna personally on the matter of how she wants to handle Team Chaos," Photo said simply "Bon Bon and Carrot Top are still in Ponyville, and there's no way to know where Octavia was when the Waterpark began, could be somewhere in the streets, could have been on the train home," Photo held up a picture of Blueblood being flipped by Vile with a smile "What do you think? the motion Blur is a little much but I think you're recognizable, "I doubt my sister will want to get involved seeing how her last encounter with Havok ended with trading Magic beans for a castle," Celestia cut in as she lit her horn to prevent Blueblood from stealing Photo Finishes' picture of his interaction with Vile. "At the very least we have taken legal action on that," Blueblood noted as he made a mental note to get the picture from Photo later "And when Havok fails to respect the eviction notice then he will be legally considered a wanted Dragon, from there it'll be a simple hop, skip, and jump to reeling him in and showing him his proper place in the world, just need to find a Fluttershy equivalent like we did with Discord to make sure that place is serving Equestria," Before Blueblood could begin listing off his suggestions for a Fluttershy equivalent to keep Havok in check the door to the meeting room swung open and Luna walked in with Octavia and Maud at her side. "Oh," Photo quickly began to put her pictures back into her bag upon seeing Octavia, who winked at her "Things are about to get interesting," "Sister," Celestia greeted "How wonderful of you to finally show up," "I was busy setting up Spike and his friends," Luna said without hesitation "Took a little while to find them in the waterpark but I managed to arrange for them to be dropped off at the castle after their little field trip comes to an end," "Yes, great news," Blueblood said as he waved his hooves around to try and get the conversation back on topic "But we have more important things to discuss, this most recent assault on Canterlot that is still happening as we speak comes to mind," "You mean Havoks Waterpark Prank?" Luna questioned calmly "Seems a bit overdramatic to call it an assault seeing how he had permission to turn Canterlot into a Waterpark, temporarily of course," "I gave no such permission," Celestia said to her sister suspiciously. "Oh, and you're the only princess in Canterlot now are you?" Luna shot back as she took a seat at the end of the table, "Wouldn't be surprised if you said yes to that, seeing how you seem to think my troops are yours to command without so much as a word to me about it, seems only right I extend you the same courtesy when I decided to reach out to Havok, the only difference being I caught you in your lies immediately and you are so unbelievably sure of yourself that you heard the stupid lie of "I sold the castle for Magic beans," And sincerely thought I would actually do something that stupid without a second thought. "That was an outrageous lie," Octavia agreed "but Havok is an outrageous creature, it could have happened but still, can't believe no one questioned that story, like why would Luna want Magic Beans? what did she even do with them? Did anyone actually bother to check if she even had any magic beans to start with?" "Stay out of this please," Celestia told Octavia instantly "This is a matter between Princeses," "Harsh words, seeing how you're talking to one of my subordinates, Maybe that's why my faction has been growing in strength as of late, you treat them like tools for you to use, I treat my followers at the very least as Coworkers, how can you command respect if you won't even listen to the words of your or my followers? Because save for me showing you a sack and claiming it held Magic Bean, I have never once done anything with them, just that I had them and then they were gone," "Sister," Celestia said as she walked around the table and to her sibling's side "I understand we are bound to disagree from time to time, but you can not sincerely be telling me that you willingly aided the God of Chaos," Celestia was fuming as she reached her sister's side and glared into her eyes, "And that you did so by giving him our old home!" Maud quickly placed herself between Luna and Celestia as the Princess of the Moon simply leaned against the table and stared back at her sister defiantly "You said it was mine to do with as I saw fit," Luna said with as much snark as she could muster in the short sentence. "I meant for you to have it rebuilt, maybe a Musume of some kind, or maybe to act as the motivation to finally begin the task of removing that dammed Forest from our maps and turning it into usable land of some kind," "Well, then it's too bad I didn't see fit to do that isn't it?" Luna shrugged "Oh well, not our land anymore," "Due to a lack of proper legal action, the property is being revoked from Havok's care and-" "-and then when he refuses to give it back you stick your prized pupil on him and tell her to bring you back a nice new statue or six for your garden right?" Luna sighed "Original, you think of it all by yourself?" While the two Princesses were arguing Octavia made her way over to Photo Finish and the two watched as Spitfire began hovering above Maud and Blueblood stood in the back, clearly trying to figure out how to cool the tension between the two princesses. "What were you doing in the library earlier if you don't mind me asking?" Photo asked Octavia casually. "Oh just stealing the spells necessary for Time travel," Octavia replied in a casual tone "Which reminds me, now is about the right time to ensure the past causes this future," Octavia walked to the back of the room and sat next to Blueblood facing the wall. "This is a disaster," Blueblood groaned as he paced back and forth frantically "Luna's been giving intel to Havok, who knows what she, and by extension, Havok knows!" "I mean I knew enough to cause Bon Bon to try and flee, but Carrot Top has done a fine job of keeping her from warning you fools," Blueblood stopped in his tracks and turned to Octavia as 6 pairs of eyes began glowing all across her body, an old scroll tucked neatly on her back as she held her hooves up to the wall and spoke in the combined voices of all of team Chaos. "Feel our Rhythm, hear our Rhyme, Break the Walls of Space and Time!" As the wall in front of her began glowing the eyes on Octavia looked to the ones on her back "That can't be the real spell for time travel," "I actually say that," Shade confirmed as the fake Octavia revealed itself to be a wooden doll with tiny versions of Team Chaos piloting different parts of the doll. "Welp let's see if this causes Space and time to end," Havok chuckled as he grew to full size and held up the scroll like a sword. Blueblood attempted to blast them but was instead hit with a chair expertly thrown by Maud, who had been commanded by Luna to keep Havok and his friends from being interpreted as doing so while the spell was active could end all of space and time. "What did you do?" Celestia demanded, knowing full well she couldn't stop the spell she was forced to stand back and watch. "I don't like being in debt so Havok and I decided to clear the slate before he officially became my student, after all, what better way to get back at you than to have my own team to compete with your elements of Harmony?" "Do you have any idea what he could do with that kind of magic?" "Yes," Luna said bluntly "If that scroll is used outside of its proper place in time, as in this current time, it would explode into nothingness and cease to exist, which is exactly what happened to it when Havok used it to cheat and learn how his Gameshow of Randomness would end," "Oh, so very worth it," Havok said without hesitation "I made a copy mind you but if anyone tries to use it but me It..." Havok chuckled "...it won't do what it says it'll do that's for dam sure," Havok snapped and Bon Bon, Carrot top, and the real Octavia all appeared on top of the table with Bon Bon pinned beneath the other two, "Cats out of the bag everypony knows I work for Luna, ok bye Superior Seven, your name sucks," Havok and his team laughed like crazy before exploding into an army of Rubber ducks. "Feel free to Tell Twilight," Luna said casually "Oh, and trust me when I say if you don't give up on that eviction thing Havok will not only get one over on you, he'll also make himself a bigger problem than he already is," Luna got up and waved "Come along anyone who wishes to," Luna called for her private room and opened the door, Maud Led the way as Octvaia and Carrot top followed suite, they waited for Luna to follow and instead watched as she waited a moment. "Yes," She decided "You can come too," Photo Finish jumped at the offer and happily joined Luna. "What the-Your supposed to be the neutral party, the Tiebreaker," Spitfire called out in rage. "Oh when it comes to the Princess I still am," Photo Finish assured her angry comrade "It just so happens however that I'm a Havok Loyalist," Photo Finish waved as she entered Luna's Private meeting room and called back as Luna followed "Au revoir imbéciles," "Princess?" Bon Bon said from the table, still tied up "I had news but I think it to no longer be relevant," "Blueblood," Celestia groaned as she made her way back to her seat at the end of the table "Contact my dear friend Twilight, things have just gone from complicated to impossible to deal with," "Sorry folks," Havok called out as he and his team began cleaning up the prank, having shut down all the slides an hour earlier they were now slowly turning all of the roads back into roads "Pools closed, please exit in an orderly fashion, I hope you enjoyed Canterlot the Waterpark, feel free to clap and receive a complimentary souvenir water bottle and Sun Visor hat, only available while I'm in ear distance right now," After handing out the free stuff he was using to get people out of the water and sealing up the last of the roads Havok made his way to his friends, Rot was visibly still upset after the end of the prank. "We could have given him anything," She complained, "But no, all Bulk wanted was to be taken off the Reserve list, now we're down a pony again!" "Eh," Havok shrugged "I already know who's replacing him, I saw him asking to leave a mile away, Thunderlane's one medal per prank was predictable since he already said that's what he wanted, Doc asking for an endless supply of my butter and syrup was honestly kind of nostalgic," "Forget that," Rust cut in "Why did Vinyle want an infinite slice of Pizza slice that's healthy for you, who..who thinks of something like that...and why haven't we already thought of something like that!?" "I liked Trixies the best," Vile decided "A magic cape that turned into pegasus wings, her show is definitely about to increase in quality," "I mean if we're talking about favorites," Havok smiled "I loved that Cheerilee just asked me to throw a Pie in Twilight's face, oh I'm so not going to school if she isn't my teacher," as Team Chaos laughed about the prank their other halves where in the castle, laughing about the same thing. "To the Infinite Pizza," Babs cheered as she held up her slice "And Vinyle for being the one to think it up," The rest of Team Chaos and Luna all cheered as they raised their mismatching pizza slices. "I'll be sure to have a word with Twilight about Cheerilee," Luna Promised "Although recent events may result in her being less than willing to listen to me over my sister," "I dunno your a very convincing pony," Spike chuckled "maybe you could get in an entire sentence before she tries to begin the lecture," "Not even the Royal Canterlot Voice could talk sense into her," Luna smiled for a moment before she let it turn to a frown "It's starting to become a bit of a problem if I'm being honest," "She knows I'm Havok," Spike said casually "Or at the very least things Havok is trying to trick her into believing he is me, either way, she's driving herself mad trying to prove I'm not me, I think, I dunno I'm at least confident that she's in denial and it's starting to cause other aspects of her life to spiral as she spends more and more of her time trying to bring me down to prove I'm not me," Spike drank from an endless cup of Soda and chuckled into it "No worries, I have a plan, and if that fails then worry, worry a lot," "Come now," Luna cheered "Now is not a time for work-related Chaos, now is the time for free-flowing Chaos, I doubt we'll really be seeing much of my Sister, seeing how she and I are now at war with one another, or at least our factions are, can't be seen talking or it might make things worse," "Who cares about Politics," Spike declared proudly as his food and drink disappeared and he held up a large Pillow "Let's have another Pillow War!" Spike was given a cheer as a response followed by feathers flying as Luna and team Chaos began the fight.