Luna awoke with a start. It had been three weeks since she had disguised herself as a pink alicorn with a crystal heart as a cutie mark, and she was beginning to get nervous that her "beloved" Shining Armor would discover her dark secret. She had thought this through, though. Her only method of getting closer to Twilight Sparkle that was socially acceptable was to marry her brother, and not as the Princess of the Night. It was all because she admired Twilight Sparkle for freeing her from the darkness within her that was The Nightmare.
The wedding was in a week, now, and NOPONY would be able to stop it! They had picked out the invitations, table settings, and flowers, and had chosen the most DELIGHTFUL spaghetti for the reception. Celestia had arranged to send out the invitation to Twilight as well as the announcement about the engagement two days before the wedding. She would be so surprised!
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Spike, however, was on to Luna's Nasty Plot (+2 sp.atk stages) and yelled to Twilight. "TWILIGHT! I NEED YOUR HELP!" Twilight heard him from upstairs in the library and ran down as quickly as she could. She tripped on the last stair, fell over, and had to start from the top. She made it on her next attempt, though, as she is the world QWOP champion.
"What is it now, Spike? You know I have books to read, and after that, I need to read more books! I don't have time for this!" Twilight yelled angrily at Spike. He looked up, annoyed at her 'tude.
"I've discovered a Nasty Plot (+2 sp.atk stages) and I need to be sent to Canterlot to warn Princess Celestia! Now c'mere and cast that sweet, sweet horn juice all over to send me there!" Twilight reluctantly agreed, and fired up her horn. It began glowing with a bright purple aura, the grooves in her horn shining more brightly as the magic flowed through the leylines and into the air between her and Spike. He began to feel strange and tingly all over, before blinking out of existence. Twilight shrugged and went back upstairs to read books, then read more books.
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Spike awoke with a start. He looked around. This did NOT look like Canterlot, although there was another magnificent white city in the distance. Trees littered the landscape, and he thought he spotted a few deer in the distance. Looking to his left, he spotted a path, with what appeared to be a chestnut brown pony with a dark brown mane walking down. However, there was an odd creature upon it, riding it as a form of transportation.
The creature appeared to be me made of metal, with joints that could bend and straighten with ease. As the pony(?) and the odd creature got closer, however, Spike could see light tan skin beneath some of the metal.
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Back in Equestria, Lyra began crying and had no idea why.
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“Halt! What kind of creature be you?” exclaimed the guardsman.
“Uh, my name's Spike, and I'm a dragon.”
“A DRAGON? Ha! Don't make me laugh. Dragons are things of myth and legend that are forty feet tall that breathe fearsome flames! On top of this, they can't speak! Wait... By the nine! A TALKING LIZARD!”
Spike took offense to this, and walked up to the guardsman, climbed on top of his horse, with a mumbled “I'm sorry” to the equine, and opened the guard's visor and quickly blew fire into it. The man cried in pain and fell off the horse, who began running north as Spike held on for dear life.
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Back at the treebrary, a knock came at the door. Applejack walked in the door, and yelled “Twahlaht! Ah need yer help with Spahke to help me roast apples! Where is the lil' feller?”
“He's in Canterlot, and I'd appreciate if you didn't come into my library with your useless hick self and yell at me.”
“Useless, am Ah? Weeeell, How's about Ah help y'all shelf some o' those books thar?
“Ha! You? Help me shelve books? If you can do THAT, I guess you aren't as uneducated as I thought!” So the two ponies began shelving books together, Twilight's innate racism against earth ponies slowly giving way to appreciation for Applejack.
“Uhm, Twahlaht, whah do y'all look big as mah bruthur? And whah do y'all have red stickin' out at various plahces in yer coat?”
“Well, it's certainly not because I'm your brother, Big Macintosh, in a shoddy disguise! No way, no how!” And Applejack seemed to buy this, although it was an obvious lie, and Twilight Sparkle actually was Big Macintosh in a shoddy disguise. So the two earth ponies, one disguised as a unicorn, were shelving books together. Applejack was doing it wrong.
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Shining Armor was in Canterlot, getting ready for his big wedding with his (and Twilight's) parents. Nopony would ever suspect that Shining Armor, the Captain of the Royal Guard and sibling to Twilight Sparkle, was secretly a toothless alligator under a spell! Twilight had been feeling sorry for herself, seeing that she was an only child, so she had decided to make a big brother for herself out of Pinkie Pie's pet. She had altered the memories of her parents and Celestia to make them all believe that she had always had a brother, and to get him into a high status position in the Royal Guard.
Luna, of course, had no idea about this when she had gotten engaged to him.
“So, you say the red suit looks better on me than the traditional black? Hm, I dare say that you are right there!” Gummy Armor said. Suddenly, in through the window, Tank flew in on his magic-propelled flying device.
“Yo, man, that shit ain't cool.” Tank said to Gummy. Gummy turned and blasted Tank with a burst of magic from his long, white, pointy horn and sent him flying all the way back to Ponyville. Tank was shocked at his fellow pet. How could he have betrayed him so? He resolved to let him know just how he fel-
THUNK
Tank's thoughts were interrupted as he flew smack-dab into his owner, Rainbow Dash, as she was going for her daily flight around Ponyville. She spiraled out of control towards the ground, hitting it with a resounding "CRACK!"
"NOT MY WING! NOT AGAIN! I NEED THAT TO FLY WITH!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. Pinkie Pie was walking nearby, sucking on a 1-inch diameter, strawberry-watermelon flavored lollipop, and heard Rainbow Dash screaming.
"Ohmigosh! Dashie, your wing is bent in a way your wing should not be bent! We gotta get you to the hospital right right right now!" Pinkie Pie worriedly spoke to Rainbow Dash.
"Not the hospital! The wedding we aren't supposed to know about is happening in less than a week and they'll keep me in there for another week like that time I had to read books and then dressed like a cat burglar and tried to steal the book to finish reading it and--" Pinkie shoved a hoof in her mouth and wouldn't hear any more of it. She knocked her on the head and dragged her forcefully to the hospital, which, frankly, wasn't doing Rainbow Dash any favors.
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When Rainbow came to, Pinkie Pie was sitting at the foot of her bed, with a board game box in front of her. "I'm so sorry for knocking you out, Dashie, but you needed professional help for that wing of yours. I brought battleship to cheer you up!"
"But Pinkie, Battleship is so boring....." Rainbow Dash replied.
"Hmm.... How about... STRIP BATTLESHIP!"
"Yeah, that might work! Wait... You're not wearing clothes! How are we supposed to play STRIP battleship when you have nothing to STRIP off?"
"Well, obviously we'd just put on more clothes instead, silly!"
"That might work..."
Forty-four and a half minutes later, Pinkie Pie was just about to lose for the thirty-seventh time. She wasn't thinking so clearly, therefore she had chosen to put on another jacket each time she lost. "Come on, Dashie, don't make me Lose The Game again! I've already lost thirty-six times!"
"Sorry, Pinks, E-7! Looks like you just Lost The Game yet again!"
"That's it, I'm outta here. Good luck getting better, asshole." Pinkie said as she walked out, slipping on a thirty-seventh jacket on the way out.
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