Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Pinkie Pie and Spike all looked at each other.
“Well that was pretty cool.” Spike said amused.
Pinkie jumps up and down. “Yeah! They all just POOFED right before our eyes!!!”
“I’ve never been left behind in a dream before… so yeah that was awesome to watch!” Dash said just as excitedly as Spike and Pinkie. “What’s up with you A.J.?”
“Well, Ah think… that we have ta… uhh… RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Apple Jack starts running away towards Rarity’s Boutique.
The three friends turned to see what they were to run from and didn’t even ask questions as they, too, started running. Stampedes of King Sombra’s Dream Troops were charging towards them and they were pretty quick.
“Those guys look like spitting images of the one Unicorn guy that took out Discord’s mouthy wowthy!” Pinkie was panting because she hasn’t had any cardio exercise in ages. “Well, the front of the line does! Everyone else looks uglier and nastier and bigger and stronger!”
“I can start flying right now but, as you know, I never leave my friends behind!” Dash says as she almost caught up to Apple Jack.
“Too bad this is only a dream because we’d be burning calories right now!” Spike says to Pinkie right behind her. “Should’ve hopped into Trixie’s car!”
With no hesitation after Spike mentioning Trixie’s car and it only being a dream, Dash blinks her eyes and imagines Fluttershy’s car and her already driving it. Pinkie blinked herself into Dash’s car. The two of them laughed together. They soon were joined by Apple Jack after being driven by. And lastly, Spike who finally grasped what was going on.
“Where are we driving to?” Spike asks while buckling his seat belt.
Apple Jack started to cough a bit. “Yeah! Ah’d like ta know that too!”
“OOOO, DASH! YOUR SAFETY ZONE!” Pinkie squeals with delight from coming up with what to do next.
“OKAY! Afterrrrrrr… we run some of them over! We’ll retreat there!” Dash drifted the non-driftable car and did a U-turn.
“Uhhh, sorry ta bust yer bubble and all… but, uhhh, they, son, are Unicorns in the front line!” Apple Jack says in a low key voice.
“Pinkster! Think of a bubble shield to protect us!” Dash says to her copilot.
“Aye aye, Captain! You got it!” Pinkie says and blinks her eyes. Soon a bubble inflated and started to roll with the car. It was as pink as Fluttershy’s hair.
“Is it me? Or do I smell cotton candy flavoured bubble gum!?” Spike starts to worry again.
“Nah, it’s not just you, Spike!” Dash starts to worry as well. “PINKIE! I MEANT FORCE FIELD BUBBLE SHIELD!”
“You Silly Dashie-head! You should have been more specific!” Pinkie says frowning.
“EVERYONE, hold hands and blink on the count of three and blink together!!!” Dash commands. “ONE! TWO! THREE!!!” they all blinked as the car crashed into the Sombra Dream Troop and the bubble gum popped into a big gooey mess.
*******
“You. What the hell was all that? Ah was a scared outta mah knickers, R.D.!” Apple Jack punches Dash in the arm after standing up from the soft green grass of safety landing space.
“I had it under control, Dude!” Dash says placing both her hands on Apple Jack’s shoulders and looks into her eyes.
Apple Jack calmed down. “Ah'd hate ta see it out of control.”
“Why and how did they know where we were right away, Guys!? I thought we were to hunt them down! Not the other way around!” Spike asks. “Disgusting Beastly Creatures! They looked like Orcs from ‘Lord of the Rings’!”
“Cause, they, being the subconscious, noticed a big shift of change within the dream world when half of our group woke up and they followed the source.” Dash explains getting an ‘I get it now’ look from the asker.
“Spikey! You can be the Gandalf Wizard Man! Instead of a staff, shoot flames from your mouth at them!” Pinkie says all smiley face again. “I’ll play the Dwarf Gimli! One, cause the name is fun to pronounce. And two, my hair looks trollerific at the moment!”
“Trolls are different from dwarves, Pinkie!” Dash says placing her palm to her forehead. She starts to play along. “Who gets to be Legolas? And who gets to be Aragorn?”
“Ah can be Legolas. Ah’m a pretty good shot there with a bow an’ arrow.” Apple Jack joins in on the game.
“You’re blonde enough, A.J.!” Dash starts to laugh with Spike. They both received the middle finger being stuck upwards towards them from Apple Jack. Dash continues to talk shrugging her shoulders “I thought we would go all military with our hunt, but playing Aragorn seems cool to me.”
“LET’S GO GUYS!” Pinkie shouts “Let’s KICK SOME ASS! I’m going to wake up really soon!” she got a confused face from Apple Jack.
“Pinks only asked for an extended 5 minutes.” Dash explains. “So she can be with her new boyfriend, AHHH HAHAHAHA!”
“He’s not my boyfriend.” Pinkie defends herself.
“Come on now, Pinkie. Cotton Candy Bubble Yum?” Spike asks while chuckling a laugh of his own.
“Don’t ya look at me, now, ya hear! Ah’m not judgin…!” Apple Jack proclaims after being looked at as if she was next to say something negative to Pinkie.
“I guess I like him just a teensy weensy tad bit! But, nothing too serious… what do you call the guy version of a cougar!?” Pinkie asks only slightly serious because in the end, she doesn’t really care, care.
“Or he can be your Sugar Daddy!” Dash says this time everyone joined in on the laugh moment. She blinks her eyes. “I just gave us all ear pieces!”
Apple Jack does a stretch real fast. “We ready yet, ya’ll!?” They all hold hands together and blink. “YEEEEHAW!”
*******
“Keep count of your own score, peoples!” Dash says to them after they landed on a hill top back in dream Ponyville.
“Psssssssssssssssssssssst! Maybe we should do half military style!” Pinkie says lying on her stomach blinking herself a set of binoculars.
“Well, why not. We already have ear pieces.” Spike agreed blinking a pair of binoculars over to him too also lying on his tummy.
“Watch me here, ya’ll! This here arrow will travel all the way strikin through 4 orcs one after the other in a row!” Apple Jack says kneeling down.
“A.J., not yet! We gotta plan this through!” Dash hissed.
“Ya chicken, R.D.?” Apple Jack challenges. “Bawk! Buh-bawk! Bawk! Bawk! Someone ruffle yer feathers tagether?”
“Nope. Game on. Pinkster needs a chance to try to out beat us, anyway!” Dash takes the challenge. “Spike will need a lotta help too! HAHAHAHA”
Apple Jack shoots her first arrow. Spike and Pinkie get up from the ground. The four of them stand next to each other in fighting stances.
“All of Ponyville is emptied.” Dash states “Open war is upon you whether you would risk it with me or not.”
Pinkie calmly says. “Let them come.”
“So it begins.” Spike whispers.
Apple Jack blinks and four strong stallion horses appear before all of them. She says “Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them.”
“For death and glory.” Dash declares.
“For your LADIES, this does include me!” Pinkie chimes in. “For your people.”
The three girls turn to look at Spike. So he says “Crops can be re-sown, homes re-built. Within these walls of Bubble Yum... we will outlast them.” He gets rolling eyes down the line.
They hop on the horses and start to spring towards their enemy who were making their way over to them. They meet and clash with the orcs counting heads of those they take down. The four of them talk into the ear piece to brag on how they are doing.
*******
The last remaining minutes were ticking for Pinkie before she had to wake up. Her head count was up to 241.She threw 5 confetti grenades over her shoulder behind her. Okay, so now her head count was at 303. She was satisfied.
“Hey you guys! Dinner totally smells awfully tasty!” Pinkie Pie brags. “Get ready for my grand finale!” she twirls around with a sword swiping 9 more orcs. “312!”
“You call that a finale?!” Dash yells out to her!
Spike grunts as he pokes his sword into one orc. “177. That wasn’t it, I’m curious to watch as to what she has in mind.”
“Ah don’t think so neither!” Apple Jack says. “497”
“498” Dash says right after. “A.J., Spike come over to me and grab on… I’ll lift us into the air so we can watch the Pinkster in action!”
Spike and Apple Jack make their way to Rainbow Dash and they hold on to an arm each. Dash takes off into the sky. She gives Pinkie a head nod and says into the ear piece “Go for it, Pink Stuff!”
Pinkie turns a full 360. She is surrounded. She shouts to the orcs “Lend me your face! Lend me your face! Lend me your face! I'll bust it up and I'll replace it! I wanna cut you with glass! You haven't got such a pretty ass now!”
She turns into her Pinkie Ninja mode and Kung Foo’s several more asses. More orcs start to attack her as she looks like she’s giving up. “See you at the dinner table guys! HAVE FUN! 389!” she says as she ***POOFS*** out of the dream just as an orc was about to stab her in her gut but the blade found nothing but air.
*******
Pinkie shot straight up from how she was sleeping on her back. She opened her eyes and looked right at Scootaloo who was waiting anxiously to hear all about the King Sombra Dream Troops.
“I let you sleep for an extra 2 minutes, Pinkie Pie!” Scootaloo said to her beaming.
“AWESOME BLOSSOM THING THAT YOU DID KID!” Pinkie jumped up and hugged Scootaloo. “They looked like Orcs so we pretended to be characters of ‘Lord of the Rings’ but us of course! And Dash and A.J. are at a tie. I only got 389. No way Spike will beat me even with his extended stay!”
“That’s cool. I’m going to grab Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom so we can wake the three of them up at the same time.”
“See you in a few minutes, Scoots!” Pinkie says still smiling and adjusts herself in bed again.
A knocking on the back barn’s door was heard moments after Scootaloo left. “May I come in?” Discord said still knocking. “Please?”
Pinkie got out of the air mattress sleeping bag thing completely and raced to the barn entrance swinging the door wide open. She gives Discord a humongous hug. “You have your mouth back!”
Discord places one of his fingers on his lips just to feel them there. “Yes, yes I do. You’re most welcome, Pinkie Pie!”
Pinkie Pie saw his putting a finger on his lips as a kiss me now hint. So, she took it as that and kissed him sticking her tongue inside his mouth. Knowing she took his breath away, she pulls away and says “Thank you!” With that said and done, she skips her way passed him towards the main house.
Discord just stands there. He is stunned.