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// SPECIAL:Battle of Hooftar(crossover) 
// Story: Spike's Journal 
// by WorkingClassWriter 
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Spike's Journal
Written by The39Ponies
Edited by cwiis


SPECIAL: Battle of Hooftar(crossover)

Dear Diary,

Well, it's happened. For the first time since she was nine, Twilight Sparkle has joined me in one of my crazy antics. Well, I suppose she had a perfectly good reason to join in, so it's not all that unusual. Plus, it was all kind of a mishap anyway. What kind of a mishap? For starters, it involved Daring Do, a Hoofy Potter book, and mistaken identities. Somepony get the imaginary popcorn.

You see, it all began when Rarity invited us to go to her cousin's twenty-fifth birthday party. It turned out that her cousin was Thornhoof Gallop, a really famous party host. Since Rarity didn't have anypony else to go with her (the rest of the gang had work to do), and since there was a high chance of meeting famous ponies, we decided to tag along.

Unfortunately, two days before the party, Rarity got a fever. Since we still had tickets to the party, Twilight decided we should go anyway and deliver Rarity's present to Thornhoof. Well, I wasn't complaining; I had nothing better to do anyway. It just kinda bummed me out that Rarity wasn't coming along. So, the night of the party, we packed our supplies (including some Hoofy Potter books just in case the party got boring) and took a train for Manehattan.

We had a bit of trouble getting to Thornhoof's birthday party (there was a three-pony-pileup on Mane Street), but we managed to arrive two hours before it officially started. Thornhoof came across as a pretty cool guy, giving us treats as thanks for attending the party. While waiting for it to start, Twilight decided to walk off and chat with a nearby stallion (non-romantically, of course) to pass the time. That's when Thornhoof spotted her. Thinking that Twi was flirting with the stallion (who happened to be his brother), he got really mad and threw us out of the house. Jerk.

Pissed off, Twilight told me to stay near the building and went off to find a bathroom. Although I was kinda mad at Thornhoof, I also felt a bit sorry for him. I decided to give him one of the Hoofy Potter books in the bag Twi brought as a way of making amends. I picked out the thinnest one in the bunch, hoping she wouldn't notice it was missing. Stupid me.

Well, I wasn't that stupid. At least I knew that something was off when he shoved it in his bag, blew me a raspberry, and quickly went inside.

When Twilight came back, she seemed to have cooled off. That is, until she decided to check her bag just in case somepony (or someone) took anything. In a matter of seconds, she noticed her autographed first edition of Hoofy Potter and The Prisoner of Pegazkan was missing. How the hay was I supposed to know?

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Unique Equine Facts #16:
The good deeds that ponies do sometimes lead to troublesome results.


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So, I was forced to explain why the book was missing. Instead of panicking, giving me a lecture, or doing both at the same time, Twilight grabbed me and skedaddled around the tower, trying to find Thornhoof to get her book back.

After a minute or two, we bumped into a sign that said "Battle of Hooftar Reenactment". Temporarily forgetting about the book, we decided to investigate. Turned out Daring Do And The New Hope was being turned into one of those TV films (we still have yet to get a TV, but Twi's family has one back in Canterlot and it's amazing). To raise hype, they were shooting this really epic part, the Battle of Hooftar, in public.

Right then, I remembered that we were supposed to be looking for the book. Just as I was about to remind Twilight about it, some guy grabbed us and shouted something about being late. At first, I didn't understand what the hay he meant. Then Twilight told me (through telepathy; she'd learned that spell the day before and was practicing any chance she got) that the scene they were filming involved a unicorn and dragon. I guess that meant the director thought I was in costume. Oh joy.

Since the director was practically steaming, we decided to go along with it and pretend to be the real actors. One of the managers came up and gave us some hoofsabers and they started filming. Since everypony but us was fighting, we realized that we were supposed to duel. Which would be a bit difficult, since Twi is my mother, sister, boss, and best friend at the same time. How can you fight somepony like that?!

...Well, at least I was the good guy, right? Wrong. Twilight was supposed to be somepony in the Rebel Alliance. Me? I was supposed to be a friggin' Imperial Guard. Come on, can't I be the darn hero for once?

So yeah, we tried to recreate a Duel of the Fates. Needless to say, we weren't doing so well. After a few minutes of onlookers staring, Twilight used her telepathy spell again. In a few seconds, a script called for her to call me something that I refuse to write here (hey, what if those fillies grab my journal again? I don't wanna be responsible for them using that kind of language).

As we were trying to decide what to do next (Twi doesn't use that kind of language; she finds it, as Rarity would say, "uncouth"), guess who passed by? Of course, it was Thornhoof, reading a Hoofy Potter book. Forgetting about the whole movie thing, we leaped out and grabbed the book from him.

Well, at least we tried to. I'm not entirely sure what happened next, but we ended up rolling around on the floor and I got crushed at some point.

After that, I heard Twilight pause for a second before shouting something along the lines of "You Pegalon jerk, you squashed Spike!".

She then tackled Thornhoof, grabbed the book, grabbed me, and ran like hay. Fortunately, a train had just arrived. Twilight practically threw the money at the conductor, dragged me off to the back of the train, and closed the curtain. We arrived back in Ponyville around midnight.

Today, I learned to never give gifts to a stranger unless they're penniless. Otherwise, it will lead to big-time trouble (and possibly a role in a movie).

-Spike