//------------------------------// // Friends Ending: New Thoughts: Chapter 29: Others // Story: Blank // by GameMakingOtaku //------------------------------// Friends Ending: New Thoughts Chapter 29 Others After a long chat about some bad and good jokes, Inn, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Spike all go to Ponyville Medical Care. Inn is only told that Nurse Tender Care will be able to help. They were now at the nurse's office. Tender Care was delivering a baby, so they had to wait for a few more minutes for her to do some last few things before she could see them. “Oh, sorry that took so long. Now why did you need to see me exactly?” asked the white and pink mare. “I lost my copy of the cure for Poison Joke. This odd looking pony needs a dose of the bath,” said Twilight. “Wait a bath? That's all?” asked Inn. “Well medical bath.” Twilight thought that she had to clarify. “Sorry Ms. Sparkle, but not long after your friend gave us the recipe for the bath, we lost it. We don't have many who get affected by Poison Joke, so it didn't seem that necessary to rush getting it replaced,” said Nurse Tender Care. “Oh my,” sighed Fluttershy. “Well thanks anyway Tender Care. We'll see if Zacura has her copy.” “Sorry Twilight,” apologized Spike. “Well Inn, there is one other chance that we can get you back to normal.” Fluttershy tried to sound as enthusiastic as possible. “Inn? Inn Cog Neato, Master of a Googolplex Disguises?” asked Nurse Tender Care. “I actually go with Inn Cog Neato, The Great Unknown, but yea that's me. I picked that one up from Trottingham, why?” “You single hoofedly saved my sister! Well, I guess it was the entire town, but still... you saved Loving Care! I just wish I could help you. Sorry Ms. Inn.” “What are you two talking about?” asked Spike. “I was banished from my home town. I broke the law by going back... but that's me I guess. During the little visit, there was thousands of monsters that attacked. So I stopped them all. Nothing big really.” “Oh, not a big deal? That is quite big! Inn, you're a hero!” complemented Fluttershy. “Yea, it's a big deal to save a whole town all by yourself!” added Spike. “Don't you agree Twilight.” Twilight seemed to have mixed emotions. “It was the hardest thing I had done, yes, but it helped me noticed some things. Like I can mix monster, animal, and pony bodies together in my transformations. I also learned that if I know the biology, then I can create some other things too.” “Wow, you can change into a lot can't you?” asked Spike. “That's what googolplex means. It has a thousand and one places. To be exact, its a one followed by a thousand zeros. Too big to really say the number. It's a good compliment to me.” Spike give out a whistle while the other look a little shocked. “That's a large number.” ============= The group was about to head to the forest, but Inn said that she had something to do first. She told the others to wait for her at the border. Inn bounced her way over to the Carousel Boutique. Inn got knocked on the door as Twilight. It took a little bit until Rarity answered the door. “Oh, Twilight Sparkle darling, it was-” “How could you?” “What?” Rarity's eyes widened at the unexpected question. Inn lowered her head and waggled her flank. “You ran from me. That was so mean. I was trying to be nice, and you ran.” “What are you talking about? I would never!” “I got you some lovely flowers and you ran from me.” Inn changes into Trixie. “I, Inn Cog Neato The Great Unknown am so hurt!” “What? Inn? Oh! Ohh~! Sorry Inn, I just have some bad memories with those flowers.” Something seems to click. “That monstrous thing was you?” Inn changes back to how she first met Rarity that day. “Yes, and I didn't know.” She changes back to Twilight. “There seems to be a funny plant that can be a little bad. So I need to get it cured with a bath. Something about seeing a pony in the Everfree. Wanna come?” “Why of course I would. I know all about that, and would love to keep you company.” Rarity seemed to be looking back at bad memories. “Goodie.” ============= Inn and Rarity walked for a few minutes. They were talking about Rarity's work. They were interrupted by two loud voices arguing. “No way! I'm like way better than anypony out there! I'm the best in all of Equesteria!” yelled a familiar blue pegasus. “Then stop cheating! You can't use wings and a strength contest!” replied a orange earth pony. “Hey, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Why are you two arguing this time?” asked Rarity. “Rainbow Dash keeps cheating when we try to see who is better at sports!” Applejack answered simply. “You're just jealous at how good I am.” Rainbow buffed out her chest. “There is no pony better than-” she stops as she takes another look at Rarity. “I-I mean... no pegasus... better than me!” Inn, who looked like Twilight, looks at Rarity for a second. Then the gears turn. “Oh, that's what you were thinking Rainbow. Rarity saw an earth pony fly faster than you.” “I think you should-” started Rarity. “Oh, how could you have told Twilight about that Rarity?” Rainbow looked a bit defeated and irritated. “You were out flown by an earth pony? I find that hard to swallow.” “Hay Dashie, you up for round four? I'll win in one second flat!” Inn changed into an alicorn version of Rainbow. “I've flown around the world in under seven hours. Going fast is so much fun! Racing is fun! Let's mix them!” “I'll say no... you are much better than me Inn. Ah, maybe if you weren’t using magic, but that last race was pretty crazy!” “Inn, as in Inn inn? You can do magic? What in tarnation is going on?” Applejack seemed so very puzzled. “Yes, and right now we need to get you to Zacura's place.” Rarity looked a little irritated that Inn was about to waste her time with a race. “Why ya'll going there sugarcube?” “Funny plant thing,”said Inn. “She got into that horrible Poison Joke.” Rainbow looked shocked, confused, then started laughing. “I don't get it. What happened?” asked Applejack, as a pink blur whizzed past them. “Did I hear somepony mention Poison Joke?! I hate that flower! It makes me sound funny,” said the fast freaky fizzy fuzzy wonder known as Pinky. “That sounds funny!” laughed Inn. “Hey!” Pinky seemed upset by that. “Do you want to see what happened to me?” asked Inn. “Yes!” said everypony but Rarity. “Okay here it goes.” Inn then disappears. She then hops on Pinkie, then she breathes heavily on Applejack's neck. She grabs Rainbow's wing, then turns back to look like Rainbow. “I can't be seen or heard unless I am using some other ponies identity.” The three look a little scared. “Yea, Ah say we need to get her fixed up quick.” ============= The group made it to the edge of the forest. They gave their ‘hello’s and explanations as to why they were with Inn, were the pink one's was too odd to understand. They were about to go into the forest, when Inn pauses one hoof from entering. “What's the matter Inn?” asked Applejack. “I... I have a lot on my mind.” Inn sounded melancholic. The others stopped and looked at Inn. Inn slowly made the first step into the forest. As she set her hoof down, she armored her entire body with the same type of armor that she used on just her legs before. She looked ready for war. “Whoa, what's up with the new look?” asked Rainbow. “Oh, the red glowy thingys make it all look so super duper scary!” bounced the pink babbling pony. “I've got a lot on my mind. Using lots of high ranking spells helps.” “Really?” asked seriously surprised sugary pony. “How would that help? It would use up so much cognitive processes that you wouldn't be able to think right at all?” asked Twilight. Rarity shared Twilight's confusion. “That's exactly what I want,” said Inn calmly as she continued to walk past the others. “Inn, what would be so bad that it would make you not want to think about it so strongly?” Fluttershy asked. “I agree, that's some heavy duty stuff to stop thinking about it.” Twilight looked really worried just like all the others. “Ah, well... I told you Lil Twi. Weren't you listening to me at your house?” Inn tried to speed up. She needed them ahead of her though, so she couldn't do it for very long. “You di-, oh, the miming. Is that what you were saying? I didn't understand anything other than flowers.” Inn laughs nervously. “Oh, yea. There... is... a lot to say.” “You mimed it quite fast though. It can't be that long,” said Fluttershy. “Can you not mime again?” “He he, ah, yea sure. I guess that I should start with my first return back home. It looked as if my parents aged more than three or four years. Much more. Then I see that Luna is back. This is much more than what I needed to know, that I had lost several decades of my life. I am kind of in my fifties right now.” “Hold it! How can you be 'kind of' in your fifties?” asked Applejack. “Yes Inn, I know that ladies don't just say what their age is, but that can't be.” Rarity was mirroring Applejack's confusion. “I went to see Luna again, and she wanted to learn what was up with the gap of time I have. So she used a spell, to learn about me... That's when things get odd.” “Things aren't now?” asked Rainbow. “The spell worked flawlessly and failed at the same time.” “How can that happen?” Twilight and Spike asked. “Spells being used for the wrong thing will lead to bizarre result. The spell was for the living, and only the living.” “So what's the problem, sugarcube?” Inn paused for a few seconds. With this time Twilight thought of something. “It can't be? How can a spell-?” “I know what you must be thinking Twilight. But no, a spell didn't bring me back from the dead. I didn't even die naturally. Luna's spell showed me it all.” “Do you know who did it?” asked Twilight. “Ah, well... yes. I think you and Fluttershy saw him... once.” “What?” Fluttershy gasped. “Remember that time we went to an all metal house? His name is Moonstone.” “Are you saying somepony you know did this?” asked Applejack. “Wow. That's heavy.” Rainbow looked gloomy. “How horrible.” Fluttershy looked down to the ground. “Do ponies like that really exist?” asked Applejack. “Man, that's pretty dark,” said Spike. “I can't believe that there really can be such horrible Mc Horriblcins.” The pink one's mane and tail deflated like a balloon, showing none of its normal curls and bounce. “Inn, why didn't you say something sooner?” asked Twilight. “The spell continues to show me all of Luna's life. Do to it being a glitch caused by my death though, it wasn't as good as when I saw my own history. I, thought,” she moves over to Rainbow and waggles her body as if ready for a race, “got to learn a lot about magic.” “That's why?!” Rainbow was shocked. “So this is what's been on your mind? That's not something you push off to the side dear,” Rarity said, trying to get them back on the main topic. “Well, that got me to it actually.” “Then what is it?” they all asked. “I've been wondering if I should kill him, how I should? If I could turn him in, if that would work? What would his other victims think?” Inn just walked on ahead of her dumbstruck friends. “Turn him in!” they said. Inn stopped and turned around to her friends. “I think that was done already though. What's to say it would work this time?” They were silent. “This is what I was trying to work on not thinking about. This is what I was trying to stop my mind from going on with.” Inn looks at the sad and confused faces of her friends. “Makes me seeing my death look trivial, ha?” said Inn with a smile that wasn't seen do to the armor. “How can you act happy?” asked Twilight. “It's normal for me. I've dealt with bad things since I was little. Sometimes if I really need a 'pick me up', I think about the odd funny things I've seen. Like I used to hid in a box outside, and at night, my teacher, and one of three stallions would meet her near there. I find it funny that one time one I was panicking, I acted a little like my teacher.” “You're an odd one,” Applejack noticed. “It doesn't always work though, and that can make my head spin.” “Is that why you need that scary looking armor?” asked the the pink pondering pony, as she impossibly twisted her head around. “Yes, kinda,” laughed Inn as they made their way to this new ponies home. ============= There was nothing said after that. They just walked until a hut made out of a tree and plants was seen. Why didn't Inn think of this again? Any way, they knock on the door. A pony with stripes answers the door. “Oh my word, what a herd? There are so many here, it brings a delightful tear,” rhymed the odd pony. “Hello Zecura, can we come in?” asked Twilight. “Why yes my little one. This lights my day like the glowing sun.” The black and white pony motioned the group to enter the house. Inn saw many odd looking masks and pots around. There were bulls and bottles that looked hoof made. Near the center was an active cauldron that gave Inn the creeps. “To what honor do I owe? For I see, there is a large pony flow. With that, comes many a questions.” Twilight looked at Inn, who was just looking around at the scenery. “We need some assistance with her.” “Oh, it don't look to be acute. Has this one gone mute? Is it the orange tree, Orenji Tsuri maybe?” “No, just Poison Joke... again.” “My word Twilight, those words bring great fright.” Inn looks at the odd pony wondering what she was saying. “Have you once again overlooked, the oh so important book?” Inn relaxed. “It got burnt,” said Inn as she looked at Spike. Spike had a guilty look on his face. “And Nurse Tender Care doesn't have a copy ether.” Twilight tried to changed to topic of from Spike. “There is no need for panic. All I need to help is organic.”