//------------------------------// // dammit b..... // Story: my little supernatural // by thepinkparty //------------------------------// "Sunshine, Sunshine, ladybugs awake. Clap your hooves and do a little shake." Twilight and Cadence fell into each others arms and giggled. They spotted each other earlier and couldn't resist running across the room to say hello. Trixie hung back and tried her best to appear the least awkward she could in the room full of pink hearts, sparkly dresses, and a multitude of photos showing her and Shining Armor on a beach in Califor-neigh-a. "So how was your honeymoon Cadence?" "It was wonderful, Twilight. Shining and I really lit the place on fire, metaphorically speaking that is." Cadence winked. "Though he set a bush on fire." "Well that's good to hear. Oh, Cadence this is Trixie, Luna's prized pupil in her school of magic." "Oh, yes how do you do." "Fine, thank you. Twilight if you've gotten your hello's out of the way we I do believe we're here on business." "Oh, right. Cadence we're looking into a prophecy that could be fulfilled in a couple of days. It said the one way to stop it was with the light of love. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" "Hhmm. The light of love? I've never heard of that before but I do have a number of spell books about love. Maybe you could find something there?" "It's worth a look. Don't you think so Trixie?" "Maybe, but we're going to need more than just books about love. What else do you know about ancient schools of thought? Maybe if we can understand the mind of this Horseshoe Jack we might be able to comprehend the prophecy better." "I think I may have something from my university days." Cadence started handing them a multitude of books as a gathering of seamstresses entered the room chattering excitedly about different designs. "Oh, dear I forgot. Could you excuse us girls, everyone seems to insist I wear a different gown for every occasion." "Of course, Princess. We'll be outside if you need us." Twilight piled the books into a saddlebag and left promptly with Trixie at her side. "Princess Cadence is the leading authority on love. If she can't help us, nopony can." "Let's just hope for our princess Luna's sake she can." The streamers were set, the balloons were inflated, the food was all laid out, the lights were dim and the music was playing. It was only her second time in the palace gala ballroom but Pinkie Pie felt as though she had never left. She was especially happy to help with the decorations hoping that they would cheer up the mean fussy agent mister that attacked his own brother. But something wasn't quite right. Sure the decorations were fine and the music was being played by a 30 piece orchestra, but it all seemed too stuffy. Secret spies were already stressed out enough because of their jobs, what this party needed was something fun and exciting. "Oh, Pinkie Pie dear you haven't seen either of those two ruffians have you?" "No, Rarity. Ooh, but I was just thinking about one of them." Pinkie gasped. "Do you think we could be psychic?" "Come now, you must be jo-"Pinkie's tail twitched and she shoved Rarity aside quickly as a pegasus dropped a box of decorations where she was standing seconds before. "I'm so sorry. The box just slipped." He said as he came down to pick it up. "It's okay. Anyway Rarity what were you saying?" Rarity trailed off a bit before regaining her composure. "It's just that those two are meeting the princess and they're all dirty and horribly disheveled. You know I saw one of them earlier and he was still such a horrid mess. Sure he cleaned his face a bit but he is completely unpresentable." "Which one did you see? The one with the funny name, or Doodles?" Pinkie turned her head on its side. "Err, the handsome one. Che'vee I think his name was." Rarity mispronounced his name hoping to make him more exotic, and it worked as she imagined him speaking in a foreign accent. "Rarity why are you blushing?" "What? Oh. Oh! I was just thinking about how furious I am because they dirtied my clothes. I simply must find them, nobody wears clothes by Rarity when they're in need of a good hem and wash." "Why don't you try looking for them in garden?" "You really think they'll be in the garden? What makes you so sure?" Pinkie's faced scrunched up. "Hmm, let's just call it a hunch because I'm not sure what it is." Rarity stared at her astounded. "Also I saw them talking with Applejack earlier." "So the stars are going to predict the pony armageddon? That's a,uh, new one?" "Yeah, tell me about it. When was the last time a prophecy was fulfilled on a regular schedule?" Dean pretended to open an envelope. "Telegram for the Winchesters. 'World's gonna end. Stop. The stars are aligned. Stop. Also need more ink toner and-. Let's just end that right there." "Alright so we got the when, we got the who, so what about the where, why, and how?" "Aren't you forgetting one?" "The what?" Sam asked. "What about the 'what'? I can't think of any." "Maybe what set this all in motion? Maybe what exactly is going to go down? What that frilly white pony is doing coming toward us?" Rarity walked in front of the both of them and frowned, not saying a word. Both of them waited a fair amount of time before they broke eye contact. "Um, need something dollface?" Rarity's frown lessened at the sound of the word dollface coming from Dean's mouth but she didn't break it completely. "Do you two have any idea how long I slaved over your outfits? How many hours of hard labor I poured into making a pair of suits that would make you two seem like convincing detectives?" Sam kept quiet recognizing this as a rhetorical question, but Dean didn't. "A half-hour maybe? Didn't you throw these together at the last minute?" "How dare you!" Rarity's scream nearly toppled Dean over. "Here I am putting myself at risk of getting arrested for helping you two commit fraud and what do you do? You go and get into a big messy fight with each other and...well, just look at yourselves! All torn and muddy and, ick messy!" Sam and Dean inspected their suits and saw the various rips and tears Rarity was referring to, along with the mud and their undone ties. "You two cannot possibly go before princess Celestia, or any pony of high society looking like that!" "I guess we could clean up a bit." Sam said and Dean nodded. "Clean up? A bit? You can't be serious can you?" Sam shrugged. "No, you two are coming with me for a complete overhaul." Rarity walked away as her horn glowed and the Winchesters felt a tug on their ties. Startled at first they realized that Rarity was leading them inside to work on them. "You don't need to do this you know. We could just take showers and walk around naked. Hell, doesn't everyone walk around naked around here?" "Hhmph, it's obvious you two haven't been taught the first thing about appearing decent in front of a crowd of sophisticated ponies." "Looks like you got us there." Sam looked at Dean before they entered what looked like a sewing room. "Perfect, this place will do as I get started on some new designs." Rarity let go of their ties and moved some other things around with her magic. Measuring tape, scissors, an iron, chalk, and thread all floated around magically in front of their eyes and in the center of the room she placed a stool. "Up." She said simply. Neither of them moved until they were sure who she was talking about. Turning around she looked at Dean and spoke again. "Now, we don't have all day and it'll be a miracle if I actually pull this one off." "Why me?" "Because it was your fault you two fought." "Hey, he provoked me." "Up. Now." Rarity pointed at the stool and stared him down until he complied. Of course she did have an ulterior motive. After having so many of her friends model for her it would be a refreshing change to have a stallion model for her, and what luck that it was Chevy who was her first. "Now hold still dear, I wouldn't want to poke you." "Oh you don't have to worry about him, Rarity. My brother's got buns of steel." Dean shot him a look and Rarity had to resist the urge to shiver as she began measuring him. …... Rainbow Dash was busy relaxing on her sofa cloud until it was dark enough to see the stars. After the sun had set she started searching for and found all the constellations that Chevy asked her to look out for, all that was left was to report back to him. Rainbow shot back down to earth and searched the grounds for him but to no avail. She did spot Twilight and Trixie however and thought she should pop in just in case Trixie wanted to start trouble. But when she got down there she was surprised to find them working together, comparing notes and star maps. "Hey, Twilight. How's it going?" "Well, we're doing our best to try and figure out what these constellations have to do with anything. But we're coming up blank, Cadence said she heard stories about something like this but can't quite remember. We're also working on trying to decipher the rest of the words on the seal. We think we might be able to find someway to counteract it's spell." "Excuse me, 'we'?" "Yes, 'we', it might've been your idea but we're a team now remember?" "All I know is that I'm the one who's making more headway than you." "Ugh, can we just keep reading? Fighting isn't going to get us anywhere." "So things are good here? Alright, I guess I'll see you later I gotta get these constellations over to Chevy. You don't know where he is do you?" "Last I saw he and his brother were heading to the southern gardens where the party is going to be held." Twilight said not taking her eyes off her book. "Wait, what about those constellations? He made a big deal about them." "Oh, he just wanted me to write down where I found them in the sky. You know south, east, west, all that stuff." Rainbow Dash handed over the paper she was carrying with her. "Why would he want to know about this sort of stuff anyway? Is going to geek out with Twilight?" "No, but it does confirm it." Trixie said as she stared at the notes. "All the constellations are together in the exact place the prophecy foretold." "Prophecy? What, now are we going to have to fight a giant space worm or something?" Rainbow Dash joked but Twilight's attitude stopped her fun. "Oh, great. Who do we have to fight this time?" "Nightmare Moon." She said. "Are you serious? Isn't princess Luna like the biggest victim out of all this?" "Yes, but it seems she is also the culprit. I'm not sure how just yet, but the tale of the Witch Queen must have something to do with this." "The what?" "We don't have time to explain this to you. Just take your notes and pass them along to that detective, let him do all the talking. We have to find a way to save the world." "Trixie's right, Rainbow. Chevy explained it all to us so I guess he's the best pony for the job." "Right. I'll leave you two eggheads to your books." Trixie gave her a mean look as she flew away but Twilight brought her back and they continued to read. Rainbow found Applejack first and they ran into Pinkie who told her she saw the super secret undercover agents head into the castle with Rarity. Being the fastest pony in Equestria paid off as she flew from room to room looking for them until she knocked on the last door and heard Rarity's voice telling her to go away and a small yelp. "Rarity it's me. Is Chevy in there with you?" She heard her scuffling around until she opened the door. "Yes, he is and so is his brother. Come in, I'm almost done with my latest work." "Latest work?" Rainbow Dash walked in and found Doodles standing on the stool in an awkward position. She immediately felt sorry for him. "Ow, can we get this over with now?" "Hush now, your brother didn't make so much of a fuss. Why must you?" "Maybe because you weren't trying to turn him into a pin cushion?" Rainbow looked around the room for Chevy and saw him straightening his bow tie in the mirror. Apparently Rarity's newest creation was a tuxedo with coattails that hung over his flank. A small red flower accented his breast pocket and he had a new clean white shirt underneath. "Lucky for me I got buns of steel. Ain't that right Doodles?" "I really wish I wasn't here right now." Sam said when Rarity started sewing his inseam. "I feel your pain buddy." Rainbow suppressed a laugh. "Oh, hey Rainbow Dash." Dean said looking at her reflection in the mirror. "What do you got?" "I found all those constellations you asked for. Twilight and Trixie said something about a prophecy being proven right? Usually that means we have to kick butt." "Ain't that the truth." Dean looked at the paper she gave him and after a while threw it over his shoulder. "Yeah but we already turned princess Luna good, and not to mention how we kicked Discord's sorry flank, and the changeling queen." "Yes she was a bit overzealous wasn't she? Could you imagine a world without love?" Rarity asked as she turned from Sam to Dean. "I certainly couldn't." "Uh, yeah me neither. Listen Dash, how about you tell me more about that other thing I asked you about? Outside, right now?" Dean pushed Rainbow Dash out the door and closed it behind him breathing a sigh of relief as he leaned against it. "What other thing? You didn't ask me for anything else?" "I know. I lied. I just had to get out of there." Rainbow took some time to figure out why he was uncomfortable. "You know usually stallions can't resist Rarity's charms. What's with you?" "Oh, yeah. See the thing is your friend is..." Dean wanted to shout out 'She's a freaking horse! I'm a human! What the hell do I look like some kind of backwoods inbred hillbilly donkeyfucker!?' but instead settled for. "...not really my type." "Huh. So what is your type?" 'Oh, I don't know. A HUMAN!' "Well you know, my perfect gal has to be...'hot'...cute and uh...'easy'...nice. She also has to have...'a decent pair of double D's'... a decent personality, you know not something over the top. Like your friend back there. Is she that way with all the guys she meets?" "No, sometimes she chases them down with a net." Dean laughed a bit at the sight of the cartoonish pony chasing down some poor horse with a bugs bunny type of net. The door opened and he fell backwards onto the floor. "Che-vee don't you dare, not after you saw how hard I worked." Dean picked himself up and saw his brother wearing a nearly identical suit with a yellow flower. "Nice suit bro. And it's 'Chevy', not whatever it is you just said." "Oh, boo." Rarity pouted. "Che-vee sounds so much more sophisticated. Now then take my hoof and escort me to the courtyard. The party is sure to have started by now." "Take your what?" "My hoof, you honestly didn't think the princess would expect us to arrive alone. Isn't that right, Rainbow Dash?" Rarity put special emphasis in her words. Dash didn't know what to say until Rarity nodded at Dean and got the message. "Uh, yeah." She giggled. "It's a, uh, policy or something. All mares have to be escorted by a stallion to these fancy dinner parties." "Seriously?" "You know Dean, it's one thing for a guy to show up at a party alone. But a girl? Come on, be a gentlecolt and take Rarity to the party." Sam let a wide grin spread over his face. "I told you about the language." "Come now, we're wasting valuable dancing time. Oh, and Dashie dear I laid out some things for you and the girls to wear, nothing too impressive just something I whipped together in two seconds." Rarity walked out of the room completely and showed off her bright new gown. "Yours will look the same but with a different color scheme of course. You know how embarrassing it can be to wear the same outfit to the dance. Come now, Che-vee, let's mingle." Rarity held her hoof out expectantly and Dean swallowed hard before taking it and walking down the hall with her. Sam and Dash were left behind. "There isn't a dating policy is there?" "No, but you know I wouldn't mind going with someone." She leaned close to him. "Just as a precaution." "Oh, uh..." At that moment Soarin came around the corner. "Oh, hey there Rainbow Dash. I'm glad I found you. I was wondering if you wanted to go to the party with me?" Rainbow's jaw dropped. She turned to Sam and said, "Tough break kid. Better luck next time. Hay yeah, I'll go with you Soarin. Just give me a second to get dressed." She flew into the room and shut the door in the blink of an eye. Sam turned to Soarin and nodded his welcome. "Hey." "How's it going?" Rainbow Dash came back out and took his leg as he offered it. "Oh, you can tell the girls about their dresses right Doodles? Thanks." Rainbow dragged Soarin behind her as she tried to catch up to Rarity. "No, problem." Sam said. 'No dating policy? Great.' He thought as he was left alone in the hall. …... "Twili, there you are. Cadence told me you wanted to borrow her copy of Arisaddle's conversations and arguments. You know the party just started maybe you and Trixie should take a break and head on over." Shining levitated the dusty old book over too her. "I don't think so. We only have a few days before Nightmare Night and that's supposed to be the time when the prophecy is fulfilled." "Come on Twili lighten up, remember the last time a prophecy was fulfilled you fixed in no time at all. It'll all work out in the end." "Yes but this time it's more serious. You don't understand we have to keep working." Twilight became short with her brother. "You're not going to get anywhere if you keep stressing yourself out." "Your brother's right Twilight." Everyone looked up as Sam trotted up to them. "If you don't take a break now and then it's going to get to you, and then when the time comes you won't have the energy or metal stability to face it." "I think your friend here has a point. Go to the party Twili, you too Trixie, and both of you just have fun." Shining said as he tried to take their books away only to have both mares tug back at them. "Thanks both of you for your concerns but I think we can manage." Trixie said. "That's right. Doodles I know you think you know what's best for me but this is what I do best." "I get it, really I do. I know you may not know this from what my brother pulled off today, but I'm usually the brains between us. And for the past couple of years I did what you two are doing right now and my brother was always the one getting me out of my funk by telling me to enjoy life while I still could." "See even his brother worries about him, and his brother is a train destroying-fight-picking-room-pilfering maniac." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, what did you just say?" "Are you going to deny that he's a bit off edge?" "He may be off but that's only because it's the way he was brought up. Our dad taught him to be strong and resilient because we didn't come from the same Candyland board game you did." "Shining don't say those things about his brother. Besides it was Doodles who blew up the train, you have no idea how may changelings there were after us." "You blew up the train?" Sam nodded. "You couldn't some other way to defeat them?" "Could you?" "Yes actually, the first time those changelings came to our kingdom my wife Cadence and I used the power of love to banish-" Shining stopped short because of Sam's laughter. "Something funny?" "You used the power of love? You and your wife? I'm sorry that just sounds ridiculous." "But Doodles I saw it happen. They joined their hearts together and used their love as a weapon against them." Sam was dumbfounded, his mouth hung open wide enough to let in a mach truck. "Wow." Sam blinked a few times before letting out a huge breath of disbelief. Shining continued. "Apparently love is a foreign concept to you seeing as how you fought your own brother and then let him ransack Princess Luna's room." "Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. We both had to blow off some steam and that was the fastest way." "I suppose you're going to defend his thievery then as well?" "No, but I suppose I will." Trixie spoke up. "Truth be told I had almost all the pieces of the puzzle before he burst in. However he and his crazy speculations did serve a purpose in the end, which is why we're here now." "That's right and we're not budging one inch until we figure out more about this prophecy or how to prevent it." Shining Armor sighed. "Suit yourself then, I'll send over one of the butler's with some food at least. Wouldn't want you working on an empty stomach. As for you," Shining looked at Sam. "keep an eye on your brother, and try not to ruin your own party with another fight." "Don't worry about it." Shining walked away after pointing his hoof on his eyes and then at him in the universal I'm watching you sign. "So you don't want to go to the party?" "I've made up my mind." "Oh, that's too bad. See your friend Rarity made these dresses for you and your friends to wear at the party." "She did?" "Yeah, and she and Rainbow Dash told me about this dating policy. Apparently you can't attend if you don't have a date, and I was going to ask you but..."Sam shrugged. "I guess I'm going to have to find somepony else." Twilight's eyes lit up at the mention of the dating policy because there was no such thing. She knew because she had studied and memorized all of the rules, laws, bylaws, treaties, and policies Celestia had ever passed in Canterlot. This had to be a ploy by Rarity to get Dean, or Chevy, to take her out on a date and if Doodles had fallen for it too now could be her chance. Sam started to walk away and she panicked, jumping to her feet. "Wait!" She said louder than she meant to. "Uh, ahem, that is if Rarity made a dress for me I guess I can't let her down by not wearing it to the party." "She did say she worked hard on it." "Right, and the um, dating policy you mentioned?" Trixie looked up at her suspiciously. "I can't let you go alone can I? It would be a shame if you had to go alone all dressed up in your snappy new suit." "So you'll go to the party then?" "Yes Doodles I would love to go out with you." "He invited you to a party, not a date."Trixie spoke softly behind her. "Shush." Twilight promptly shushed Trixie, surprising her. "So where's the dress?" "It's up there somewhere. I'll take you." Sam shared a smile with Twilight as he led her away. Twilight hid her ecstasy well as she trotted alongside Doodles. Thank Celestia for her stallion crazy friend Rarity, if she hadn't come up with that dating policy at the last minute she might not have had a date tonight. Luckily Rarity's little fib gave him the nerve to ask her out when she didn't know he was even interested. 'Doodles, you may be the brains of the operation. But you're definitely not smarter than Rarity.' Sam in the meanwhile couldn't really explain his feelings. Not wanting to attend the party alone he had asked out a horse on a date under the pretense of sham policy. It was lucky for him that Rainbow Dash came up with it when she did, that made it easier for him to ask out Twilight. It would also help him later with Dean if and when he asked why he voluntarily took an animal on a date. Sam wasn't without his own arguments though. Sure the bible forbade bestiality, but he wasn't having relations with this animal, it was just a mutual attraction of minds and personality. Had Twilight been a human he wouldn't have though twice about asking her out, and aside from that these ponies were capable of consciousness thought which set them apart from regular animals by light years. So after all is said and done he had nothing to be ashamed of right? He was a pony at the moment too right? So there's no reason to be ashamed. 'Twilight I really hope you don't read too much into this. But if you do, I guess I can adjust.' "Who's ready to party?" Pinkie Pie hopped around the group as they made their way through the trellis. Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Applejack were following behind Sam and Twilight in their new dresses all chattering excitedly. A flash caught their attention, up ahead there was a photographer taking pictures of all the ponies. Applejack held out her foreleg and stopped the other two ponies in their tracks, Pinkie and Fluttershy giggled quietly when they realized what she was trying to do. Earlier Twilight had helped Sam search for them in the gardens and told them about the dresses for the party and invited them to accompany them in a group wanting to keep the phony dating policy a secret. But Applejack knew something had to be up, Twilight wasn't one to be interested in asking boys out on dates. Shoot just a few years ago she wasn't even interested in making friends with any of them and now look at her, so chuck full of friends they're hanging back to let her get a picture alone with the stallion of her dreams. Applejack chuckled a bit as she saw them reach the photographer and telling her invisible friends to smile. The photographer snapped the picture and she turned around to find her friends nowhere in sight. From the distance they were set apart AJ could see her blush as Doodles ushered her away, now it was their turn. The girls came up to the unicorn and laughed uncontrollably when he told them to say 'Cheese'. Farther away Dean desperately trying to lift a cup of punch to his mouth with both his hooves when Sam and Twilight came up behind him. "Hey Dean, your brother tells me you were cornered by Rarity." Dean turned around still struggling with the cup. "Yeah and he wasn't much help either. If it wasn't for this dating policy you ponies had around here I would've come stud." "Oh, yes. The dating policy, you know that's how Doodles and I ended up together tonight. He came to tell me about the dresses and decided to kill two birds with one stone. Metaphorically speaking of course." "Yeah, I get it." Dean's cup slipped from his grip and started to fall to the floor when Twilight stopped it with her magic and returned it to him. "That seems a bit unfair don't you think?" "What does?" "That you unicorns can use your magic to drink. How am I supposed to drink from cup when I can barely hold it with my hoof?" Dean held the cup again with both hooves giving it a mean look when a blue hoof came into view. It took the cup from out between his hooves and lifted one of them straight up then set the cup in the middle of it. Dean looked up and saw Rainbow Dash hovering next to him smiling before she set down besides him. "Yeah, the trick is to hold it in the palm of your hoof. Makes it easier to hold things don't you think?" Dean became speechless holding his mouth slightly ajar. "You okay bro? You look like your having an epiphany all of a sudden." Dean didn't say a word but kept looking at the cup until his brother spoke up. "Yeah sure. It's like I'm seeing colors I could never see before." Dean thanked Rainbow Dash and drained the cup before getting another. "By the way glad to see you worked up the nerve to ask Doodles, Twilight." Rainbow said. "You know all this time I thought he was gonna be the one to ask you out. You know you two make a cute couple." Dean spit out a bit of the punch back into his cup. "Well first of all Rainbow, he was the one who asked me. And secondly, can I talk to you in private?" Twilight led her away from the Winchesters. "Bro you asked her out on a date?" "Only because it was policy. You heard Rarity back there, and I told you we had to fit in around here." "Yeah, well sometimes fitting in isn't important. How the hell is Cas supposed to find us if we act like these damned ponies. Isn't it enough he carved us up with angel radar scrambler?" "But we have no idea how long it'll take him to find us here, for all we know he's looking for us on the other side of the globe right now. It could be weeks before he finds us." Dean shook his head. "Fine act however you want to act. Just don't get too cozy. It'll break my heart if I have to be the one to tear you two crazy kids apart." Sam wasn't very amused. "Okay, Rainbow here's the story. Doodles is a really great guy and I like him a lot. But I could never ask somepony like him out because I have no formal training in romantic courtship. So when he asked me out it was an opportunity too good to waste, the trouble is he only did it because of a fake dating policy Rarity made up. So he can't know that otherwise he might think that I'm not worth his time and just walk away." Rainbow Dash listened to her story and smiled a bit at the end. "Don't worry Twilight, something tells me he isn't going to go anywhere anytime soon without you." "What makes you say that?" "Just the fact that you two have so much in common, you both being eggheads and all." "Rainbow!" "Wait, wait here's the good part." Rainbow cleared her throat. "He knows the dating policy is a scam. He was there when Rarity made it up to trick Mr. Big tough scary guy over there to take her out. He even asked me if there was an actual dating policy. Uh, speaking of which...there really isn't one, is there?" "No, there isn't." Twilight gasped. "There isn't, and he knew, and he still asked me out." Twilight blushed as she looked over to Sam who was talking to his brother. "An egghead too shy to ask out another egghead out without having to make up something about a dating policy. Geez it's almost like it's out of some geeky love story. If you need me I'll be with the wonderbolts, Soarin asked me out without needing a fake policy." Rainbow Dash took off and left Twilight trying to hide her face from Sam as he walked over. "Hey what were you guys talking about?" Twilight took a deep breath trying to lessen the red in her cheeks. "Oh, you know, girl stuff." "What, she lost an earring or something?" "Yeah, or something." "Right. So you want to dance? Dean already got dragged out there by Rarity." Twilight looked over his shoulder and saw Dean struggling to dance on his four hooves. He was constantly stepping on her toes as he moved his body in awkward directions and bumped into other ponies on the dance floor who reproached him only to be scorned into submission. "I suppose we can't let him embarrass himself, but I certainly hope you're a better dancer than him." "Slightly better, which means I may need some instruction, or a lot. I'm not too familiar with pony dance moves." It wasn't long before both Rarity and Twilight decided to give up on trying to teach them how to dance. Twilight stopped teaching Sam after his head began to hurt again whereas Rarity stopped for her own protection. Dean walked over to the refreshments table and stocked up on a variety of cakes, pies, and brownies. He picked out a table and started digging in to Rarity's disgust. She started lecturing him on the importance of having a crisp, clean suit at a social function and started to wipe his mouth and cheeks with a napkin. Much to Rarity's surprise she began enjoying wiping his mouth and remarked about how good she was at taking care of him and how good she could be at other things. Dean stopped mid brownie, shivered a bit, and started eating more considerately. Twilight took Sam and sat him down at a different table to help him with his headache. "Just stand still and I'll use a spell I learned from Cadence. It really helped my brother when he was protecting Canterlot from the changelings." "It's not going to hurt is it?" "No silly it's a healing spell." Twilight's horn started to glow and brought it down onto his head. When she did Sam felt a bit of relief at first but suddenly felt a sharp pain so intense it shot down his spine. The pain was so great he had trouble breathing so he shoved Twilight back and unintentionally fell to the floor panting. "Doodles? Sam, what's wrong?" She asked but it was apparent Sam was having trouble speaking. Twilight went to fetch him a glass of punch and held it up to his lips. Sam sipped a bit and started to come back around. "That hurt." "I don't understand it was supposed to be a simple healing spell how could I have messed it up?" "Don't blame yourself, it worked for a bit but, oh wait a sec- Yeah, it's going away. I guess it was just getting all the bad out of the way." Sam lied, in truth his head was still splitting but it wasn't anything he couldn't handle. He rubbed his forehead and felt a large lump beneath his hoof. "Really? I'm so glad. But that wasn't supposed to happen, healing spells don't make the pain worse it just makes it go away." "Go figure. Hey what are those ponies doing over there?" Sam pointed over at some well dressed, if slightly eccentric looking ponies gathered around a telescope. "Oh, those are some of the top scientists in Equestria. Come on I'll introduce you to them, I don't mean to brag but I actually worked with a few of them for paper a few years back." Twilight started without Sam, for which he was glad as he swayed heavily as he stood up. When he caught up with her she was already talking to a tan pelted, blue eyed pony with a wild grey mane. "Oh, Doodles this is professor Stargazer he's with the Baltimare Research Organization, department of Newfound Yore Studies. Professor I'd like you to meet Doodles he's a..."Twilight couldn't decide what his profession was. "I'm a lawyer, just passed my bar exam as a matter of fact." Sam offered his hoof to the professor who shook it vigorously. "So nice to meet you mi-boy. Lawyer is well met career, well met. I always knew Twilight would meet a fine young stallion." Sam's eyes were spinning in his head by the time the professor let go of him. "Oh, professor we're not dating. We're just good friends, right Doodles?" Twilight asked feeling her cheeks burning again. Sam though didn't catch any of that as he held his hoof to his head to steady the dizziness he was feeling. "So, um, what are you guys doing over here?" He managed to ask feeling like his old self again. The professor grew excited again and wrapped his leg around his neck and led him to the telescope. "Feast your eyes mi-boy. Our subject of discussion is the universe with all its hidden wonders!" "Oh, yeah?" Sam peered through the telescope and saw the planet Saturn. "Hey, what planet is that?" "The one you're looking at? Why that's Saturn of course. Please tell me your time at law school hasn't wiped your memory of elementary science class." "No. No it's just I haven't really seen it before except on the pages in books." "Oh so that's your problem eh? You haven't lived your life as one should. You've had your nose in your books all this time. No wonder you chose a desk job, you want to play it safe all your life." Sam couldn't help but smile. "Yeah, I guess I should get outdoors more often. So you're an astronomer I presume?" "Precisely, my focus of study is in the movement of the stars and the effects of their gravitational pull on other objects in our galaxy. Lately I've been struggling with the most impervious of obstacles as I seemed to have found an empty region of space from which no light is visible. It is very strange." "Wow that sounds interesting. But tell me, exactly what kind of effects do you think the stars gravity have?" Several tables away Dean had just finished his smorgasbord of sweets when Pinkie Pie came over and sat down with him. "Hey, how's it going?" "It's going marvelous dear. Che-vee and I were just resting our aching hooves, we've been dancing for the better part of the night." "Is that what you call it? It looked more like you two were trying to wrestle with each other, and Chevy was winning." Rarity turned her nose up. "Yeah and I guess your a real swell dancer." "I'm okay I guess. I'm better at having fun, just ask anypony around here who the life of the party is and they'll tell you it's me." "It's true dear. It's just like everypony says around here, there's no party like a Pinkie Pie party." "Yep, whenever I throw a party we have all kinds of cooky fun. We eat cake, play games, dance...oops." Pinkie smiled at the look on Dean's face. "Sometimes we even have contests to see who's the greatest party goer-er is. But I usually end up winning. Last time I won a pie eating contest by two whole pies!" Dean sat up at this highly interested. "A pie eating contest you say? And you won by two pies?" "Yep, I don't think there's anypony out there who can beat my record." "Is that a fact?" Pinkie glowered at him sensing danger. "Yes, that is a fact." "You know I've been known to down a couple pies myself. I once ate eight pies in one night." "Respectable." "Course that was when I was a kid. Now that I'm all grown up I'm sure I can fit three times as many pies in there." "You know I bet you could, you look like a lightweight." "Excuse me?" "My record stands at thirty pies, and when I was a filly I ate twelve pies every night before I went to bed. I'm sure you can understand what I'm saying." "Is that a challenge?" "I don't know, is it?" Dean felt his coat tight around his waist. "Well I did just eat my weight in sugar." Dean unbuttoned his coat. "But I reckon I can take you to school. You're on!" Pinkie and Dean faced off before Rarity split them apart. "Oh, no. You two are not going to ruin my newest creation before they even had the chance to survive the night." Dean and Pinkie looked at her and then nodded to each other as they took off their clothes and tossed them at Rarity. They left her behind to grudgingly fold up their clothes as she spat her concerns. "And that is why many ponies nowadays believe that if we can somehow harness even the most minute amount gravity produced by the stars at this distance we can travel at the speed of light and on to new and marvelous new worlds. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't lose you did I?" The professor smiled at Sam who was rubbing his chin and frowning. "Doodles, do you want me to explain it to you?" Twilight quipped. Sam shook his head and looked back up at the professor. "Actually no, you didn't lose me. Everything you just said makes perfect sense to me." "It does?" The professor was astonished. "Yes, it helps me to understand a theory I heard not long ago from an astrophysicist friend of mine. My guess is that you want to travel through time and space using specific chains of gravity and anti gravity produced by these stars. But you're not sure how to harness them, my friend told me that these chains would be better defined as constellations and thus why we believe they hold special meaning. These constellations though," Sam looked up at the night sky. "would have to be in specific places from where we can see them before we could arrange their patterns onto a sort of device that would then direct us in the desired direction." Sam looked all around him as he counted the four constellations Dean told him about earlier. "These constellations though wouldn't direct us anywhere though if we didn't have a ground, or single neutral location identifiable by itself. When that happens you have full access to the universe at large through a device known to the ancients as a Star-gate." "Fascinating. And where is this star-gate?" "They're actually all over the world in different continents and varied in design. The one thing they all have in common though is that they were said to be used by the ancient gods and priests that existed in those days. All kinds of stories were built up around them as well as doomsday prophecies." Sam stopped and looked back at the castle. "Some tribes even hold them so sacred as to protect them with their lives. Twilight where exactly did you say that fountain came from?" Twilight felt a bit blindsided by the question. "What? From the old kingdom, but what does that have to do with star-gates?" "Maybe everything. Was it moved there from anywhere else?" "I'm not sure. I never looked further back into pony history, we mostly concentrated on Celestia's rule after Discord was banished. Why Doodles, what are you thinking?" Sam nodded slightly at her words. "I think I have to find my brother." "Fifteen!" A guard shouted as he kept track of Dean's pie count. "Sixteen!" Shouted another as Pinkie tried to keep her lead. Sam and Twilight came galloping into the crowd of disgusted yet excited ponies. They went around the most crowded part of the group before coming up front. "What is he doing?" Sam asked as he saw his brother tossing aside an empty tin and gobbling down another pie. "Sixteen!" "I think they're having a pie eating contest." "Ugh, and you would not believe how rudely they treated my clothes." Rarity walked next to them along with Fancy Pants. "Oh, but where are my manners. Fancy Pants this is Doodles, that ruffians more docile brother." "How do you do?" "Fine. Nice to meet you too. So how did my brother end up in a pie eating contest." "Oh, Pinkie mentioned she ate pies for a living and he just went off the deep end." Sam shrugged. "Dean does love his pie." He said under his breath. "This is ridiculous we have bigger problems than who can have the biggest stomach ache. I'm going to get him away from that table." "Oh, Doodles please try not to get anything on your suit." Sam nodded as he walked up behind his brother. "How's it going? You holding out?" Dean nodded sharply as he shoved another pie in his face. "That's great because I think I just figure out the what." Dean swallowed and through a mouth full of dough said. "What?" "I know where the Queen is going to make her grand entrance. I figured out what she's going to use." Kinda busy at the moment." Dean continued to eat as the guard announced his tie with Pinkie at nineteen. "Fine just listen, I was talking with a pony professor earlier and he went off on a tangent that got me thinking about where a being of darkness could come from." "Twenty!" The crowd let up a roar. "Listen I think princess Luna could've been possessed by something that came out of a star-gate that could be here in the castle. You remember that fountain you searched earlier? I think that might be it, and if we can find a way to exorcise whatever is possessing the princess and get it back through that gate we can go home a lot faster." Dean stopped eating as he turned to look at his brother, chewing and swallowing what he had in his mouth. "So as soon as we ice the demon or whatever's inside her, we go home?" "Maybe. And maybe we need that star-gate for Cas to find us. Those things are basically wormholes to other worlds, but that's where it gets confusing." "Twenty-One!" "What? Oh, damn!" Dean went back to ignoring Sam and dug his snout back into the pies. "Dean forget about this, we have more important things to do." Dean ignored him. "Dean this is stupid just let it go." Still nothing. "Dean-" "Twenty-One!" "Sam if you don't leave me alone I'm going to pop you one." "Oh, yes please do. We all know know how well that turned out last time." A new voice suddenly rose over the guards and resonated around the gardens. All the ponies and the guards looked around to find the source of it. Twilight and her friends didn't have to look around though, they knew exactly who it was. Instantaneously all six girls looked up to find Discord floating in the air above them, chuckling to himself. "Discord." They said together. "Who?" Dean asked standing up. "Oh, you haven't heard of me? Then allow me to introduce myself." Discord swooped down and shook Dean's hoof. He set hilarious pitfalls, booby traps, and corrupted every guard that came his way as he began his introduction. "My dear new friend you don't know my name But with this nifty little rhyme you'll find I'm quite tame. Whereas most baddies these days just want conquest and fear, I hold all life close, and sacred, and all of it dear. But ask what I want, because I do have my desires, I want to leave all ponykind in a miserable mire. Ask me how I'll do it and the word's not mum, Because all that I do is the utmost in fun. You see I like a good laugh, a nice chuckle or two. How I get my jollies well that's up to you. If you stick around I'll put on a show, I'll tell you my favorites on the word go. I love pranks, and tricks, and gimmicks, and twists. I love mischief and chaos in all forms and fits. I love playing with pony feathers, horns, and hooves just plain. I love hearing their voices when they call me insane. I love playing with emotions, I love playing with fate I love playing with couples whose Aunt Flo comes too late. I love hearing their pleas, I like hearing their shouts, I love hearing them cry and watching them pout. All these games and more I love them all the same. I am Professor Chaos of General Disarray fame! But my friends call me Discord." Discord flew off and spread more chaos throughout the courtyard sending silverware flying and bringing the tables, dishes, and chairs to life. Dean started to understand who this guy was pretending to be but he wanted Sam to confirm it. "Let me guess, he's the god of..?" "The god of malice and chaos. A trickster." "Yes, yes a trickster. That describes my personality to a T. Oh, it's so good to finally meet someone who understands me." Discord teleported next to both brothers and shoved cigars in their mouths. "Here have a smoke on me." He said as he lit the cigars with a fire hose. "If it weren't for you two I'd still be a living monument to all things mischievously comedic and evil in the world." Discord teleported again and the Winchesters threw away the cigars before they blew up in their faces. Laughter reverberated around as Discord's disembodied voice continued to mock them. "Poor little Twilight you truly thought you had won last time, now look at you. You don't know whether to take me on yourself or try to save Luna from her fate." "What do you know about Luna, Discord? What are you doing to her?" "Me? What makes you think I'm the one responsible for her current state of transformation? And if you ask me I think she looks rather ravishing as a creature of the night." "Show yourself Discord!" Twilight said as the tables and chairs came to life all around them and began running around them. Plates, cups and ladles started flying around as well accosting the party goers. "I would Twilight but I just don't think that would be in my very best interest at the moment seeing as how you would like to trap me again. And I am very much enjoying my newest prison break to have it cut short by you and your friends." The girls gathered around Twilight as Discord continued to laugh around them. "Whatta we do Twi? The elements of harmony are in the safe next to the Princess's throne room, and we're a long way off from there." "We'll have to get to them somehow, maybe Shining Armor and the rest of the guards can hold him off long enough for us to-" "You can stop trying to plot against me Twilight I won't stay for very long. I have other things to do to prepare for my mistresses arrival." "Mistress?" "Yes, my mistress. Of course you'll have to wait to meet her until after she gathers her power again, which shouldn't take more than five minutes past midnight." Twilight heard his fingers snap and the moon moved in its place. "And would you look at that, midnight already. I won't keep you any longer I'm sure your friends are just dying to help, especially the dopey looking one he seems quite eager." With a final cackle and lightning strike that started warping the ground beneath them Discord flew away. "What's happening Sammy?" "We have to get to the courtyard. Now." Sam led all eight of them to the courtyard which was oddly easy to find as everything else around them turned into some strange living portrait. It was also the only place that didn't seem corrupted by Discord, everything was exactly the way it was earlier that day. Sam led them all past the fairy circle and brought them to the fountain. "Alright Rarity, where exactly did you see those carvings?" "There were four of them and each one was across from the other. Here's one." Rarity pointed one of the carvings out and Sam followed it across the fountain. Wading in the water he found the other three and continued searching all the while explaining what he had just put together with the other ponies. "Sam you sure about this? Isn't this something that would normally involve aliens, because the last time I checked we weren't marines." "I'm sure of it. We just have to find the fifth carving that's meant to be the ground for this world." "Hold it right there!" Shining's voice boomed as he and a garrison of guards marched into the courtyard. "As captain of the guard I am placing you under arrest for the liberation of Discord. It's obvious you and all your violent behaviour is the reason why he was set free. I hope you come quietly but I'm almost positive you won't." "Go home, chuck. We're busy." "I knew it. Guards, seize them!" Twilight stepped in front of them. "Just a minute!" She proclaimed with authority. "These two ponies seem to know more about what's happening than you do. If you arrest them now we may never know why Discord was set loose, who his mistress is or why Princess Luna is suffering so much. Doodles is very close to understanding, uh, something very useful." "And what might that be Twilight because we're really starve for information." "It's this fountain. I think this might be a way that Nightmare Moon might try to come back. I think that's why Luna has the ghost sickness, Nightmare Moon is draining her power until she gathers enough to come back." "How can Nightmare Moon drain power from the Princess when they're the same pony?" Shining asked. "Not anymore, at least I don't think so. I think that maybe there was a personality split somewhere, now the princess and Nightmare are separate from each other." "Separate? Split personality? So she's not a ghost then, she's a tulpa." "Maybe, ghosts only carry out unfinished business and hurt whoever gets in the way. But this time it chased others and more importantly outside the castle where I doubt there's any personal belongings of the princess." "My how deductive. Discord was right about you." A harsh wind ripped through the courtyard that forced everypony to the ground. Dean couldn't lift himself off the ground until he heard his brother choking. Looking up he saw him floating twenty feet above the pool of water, held in place by the magic of Nightmare Moon. She complimented on discovering the location of the gateway and touched him with her horn. Sam started screaming as she delivered her magic into his body. "But you're not entirely correct, Luna and I were never truly split apart. I was just hiding in the darkest corner in her mind, waiting for the perfect opportunity." "Let go of my brother you bitch!" "My there's no need for such language you feeble colt." Nightmare moon zapped him back into the guards with her magic as Sam continued to scream. "You should be honored. Your brother has been chosen as the fifth catalyst for my mistress's return." "What mistress? Why do you need Doodles?" Twilight yelled. At that moment Sam screamed louder than before as a large horn grew out of his head and lost consciousness. "This one has the most untapped potential of all, he will serve our mistress well." Nightmare Moon let a lifeless Sam topple into the pool below that became dark and wispy. Once he crossed over the fountain exploded with a dark purple magical hue. The blast blinded them all with its flash and sent up a fog too thick to see. Within the cloud though they heard a heavy breathing and two bright glowing purple eyes opened up to look at all the ponies around them. Before anypony could take action the figure they were attached to took off into the sky without a sound. "My mistress lives and you shall all know pain and misery the likes of which you have never experienced!" Luna transformed into her mist form and flew over the heads of the guards to taunt them, Dean stood up and chased her down the hallway she passed through. He kept up the chase as she went down one corridor and came out another thanks to Discord and his tricks. Dean didn't give up and continued to chase her as she came out of castle and took a physical form again to declare her return to the world. Dean was just on her flank when he decided to jump at her and bring her down when he felt suddenly heavy and fell to the ground just short of her tail. Nightmare Moon took off and cackled as the ponies below her shouted in fear. Dean turned around and saw Shining Armor on top of him. "Get off me!" Dean shoved him off. "What the hell are you doing!? I almost had her!" "Are you crazy? One pony alone can't take on Nightmare Moon! Even my sister had to team up with her friends to take her down!" "I don't give a rat's ass!" "Chevy! I mean Dean!" Twilight came up behind her brother with her friends and guards. "Dean?" "I know you're worried about your brother but you can't act rashly at a time like this. We'll get your brother back but first we have to find out how." "I know how, gank the bitch and cut her open that's one way." "Dean we can't do that. Whoever she is we don't know anything about her or how to defeat her. We're going to need Princess Celestia's help if you want your brother safely returned." "Princess Celestia? Princess..? The princess can kiss my ass!" Everyone around him gasped. "God knows she can't kiss her own since she sits on it all the day long!" "Watch what you say about the princess around me you jerk!" "Oh, yeah? What are you going to do, hug me to death? Sing another one of your fruity songs? That worked wonders the first time." Dean and Shining were staring each other down when two wisps appeared in front of Twilight and transformed into two letters. "Look two letters, one from Zecora. The other from the princess!" "Read Zecora's first." Dean said. "I'm willing to bet she'll be a bigger help than your precious princess." Twilight opened Zecora's letter and began to read uneasily as she watched her brother and Dean square off. "It says their was a disaster just outside Ponyville in the Everfree forest. She has no idea what's going on but she senses it's a bad omen. Spike and the girls are okay, they're with her right now and are taking refuge in my library." Applejack and Rarity were visibly relieved. "She wants us to go back as soon as possible because she thinks a new evil is about to rise. This was sent only a couple hours ago." "And the princess?" Shining asked. Twilight opened the letter and began reading, but halfway through she stopped and her ears drooped. "She can't make it to the scene, can she?" "The princess writes to tell us that she's in counsel with an old friend of hers. He's going to help her capture the evil being that escaped imprisonment and," She swallowed hard, "she sends her condolences but..." "What did I tell you? They're all the same aren't they? No matter where you go they won't help because they say they can't. Twilight do me a favor and write a letter back to the princess and tell her I said 'Piss off because I got this one.' She won't get off her lazy ass to do something I will." Dean started walking away as Trixie finally made it to the group, she was panting and out of breath but managed to find Twilight. The guards lowered their spears at Dean but Shining Armor stopped them. "At ease boys. Let him through. If he wants to make the biggest mistake he'll ever make then let him." The guards lifted their spears in unison as Dean walked between them. "I'm calling it the biggest mistake you'll ever make because it's going to be the last. If you walk up to Nightmare Moon you're as good as dead and you won't help your brother any. Is that what you want? Are you willing to lay down your life for your brother?" Dean stopped walking. "Do you want to die a senseless death for your brother?" There was a stony silence as Dean took his time. Trixie in the meanwhile pulled Twilight aside as she gathered her breath. "I already have." He said darkly, before walking away. Shining wasn't sure if he heard him right but disregarded it and called the guards to his attention and commanded them to secure the non corrupted areas of the castle and to evacuate everypony they could, when they all left he turned around and made his way to his sister. "There was a mistranslation in the books that we read, Twilight. We thought we were reading the word presence and that is what slowed us down. The word actually has another vowel in it that was rubbed off almost completely, it doesn't read presence it reads 'Crescendoe'." "The Witch Queen Crescendoe, why didn't we figure this out earlier we could've prevented so much." "Don't blame yourself Twili, there was a prophecy, you said so yourself. There was no stopping what happened today." "Yes, but we could've at least warned them. It's all my fault." "Hey, it's not your fault. I told you to stop thinking like that." "He's right you know. If anything it's that thug's fault for barging into the princess's room and finding out about those constellations. I was in the 2nd floor corridor when Nightmare Moon made her entrance. If he wasn't so concentrated on those etchings he might've been saved." "And he grew a horn too. Why?" Trixie didn't have an answer. "At times like these it's best to retreat to a safe location and plan a new strategy." "You're right Shining Armor, we'll go back to ponyville and talk with Zecora. But first we're going to need the elements of harmony if we want to stand a chance against Discord and Nightmare Moon, and something tells me Queen Chrysalis is in on this too." "Gee, Twili, you really think so?" "Without a doubt. I just hope Dean is up to it." …... Later that night the train that left Canterlot station and was just about to arrive in Ponyville had all its cars filled to the brim with soldiers, all except for one that was set apart for the mane six, Dean, Trixie, and Shining Armor. Dean sat alone and hunched over his table as the girls theorized what would happen if they didn't stop the Witch Queen in time. "Maybe she'll summon flying monkeys to take over the world?" Rainbow said. "Not unless she turns the sky gray and makes all the pretty colors in the world go away!" Pinkie chimed. "Oh, what if she starts hurting the animals?" "Girls we can't think this way. We're going to stop her in time, we have the elements of harmony, an entire army, and Trixie has turned into a powerful unicorn. We're going to win this." "Alright, stallions we're about to pull into the station. Get ready to move out." Shining Armor said as he walked into the other car. Dean stood up and walked over to the window, the girls joined him to watch the station come into view. "So I guess you're pretty amped to find this Witch Queen and give her the business huh, Dean?" Rainbow Dash broke tried to break the ice but Dean remained quiet. "Uhh, hey Dean, me and you didn't finish our pie eating contest thanks to mean old Discord. How about before we head out we try it again?" Pinkie's words fell on his indifferent ears as the train started slowing down. Trixie stepped between them and cast her die at trying to strike up a conversation with the pony who didn't speak a word the entire trip. "I suppose you also think we're doomed. Out with it, let's hear your theory." Dean shifted on his feet before he opened his mouth. "A trumpet will sound, signaling the end of times. A burning star will fall from the sky and catch all the rivers, oceans, and lakes on fire. The fire will spread to the trees and crops and burn them down to the ashes causing famine. The ashes will float on the winds and choke every living thing before spreading to the sky and blocking out the sun. The damned will be tossed into the fiery pit and be tortured by demons for all eternity and abandon all hope." Dean turned around to see the shocked faces of all the ponies behind him, including two guards who walked in on them. "The world will die and there won't be a damned thing you can do to stop it. Not if you give up." The train came to a stop and the doors opened to the platform. Dean stepped out, leaving the girls to fathom what he meant to say. It was close to two in the morning when Dean found Applejack on the same lonely country road he was walking. She was walking with Big Mac and carrying a sleeping Applebloom on her back. "Well, looky here. If it ain't mister optimism himself. That was quite a scare you gave us back at the train station." "Yeah." "Well, Twilight and Zecora have started plannin for tomorrow. Just so you know. Says you can bunk with her tonight if you don't have nowhere else to sleep." "Yeah." "Well, we're heading over to our home. Sweet Apple Acres? Ya'll are welcome to come by and spend the night with us. It's closer than Twilight's. "Yeah." "Sis, why don't you take Applebloom and let me have a talk with this feller. Seems he's fallen on hard times." "Sure thing Big Mac." She yawned. "Been a big day for all of us. Well, goodnight Dean." "Yeah." As soon as Applejack was out of earshot Big Mac walked up to Dean and whispered in his ear. "Ya know, I got something that might fix ya up." "No thanks, I've had my fill of hugs and sunshine that'll last a lifetime." "I'm not talking about a hug ya fool. I'm talking about whiskey." Dean picked his head up and lay both hooves on him. "Don't play with me." Moments later both of them arrived at Big Mac's secret distillery where he made his secret moonshine whiskey. Big Mac lit a lantern and they stepped inside, Dean found himself in heaven as he saw casket after casket and barrel after barrel Big Mac assured him were full of the sweet liquor. "Been brewin this here moonshine since mah pa felt I was old enough. This here's called Applejack Whiskey, made with apples we grow ourselves." Dean found the nearest tap and turned it all the way until the whiskey poured forcefully into the ground and put his mouth under it. "Hey now don't waste it." Big Mac grabbed a couple of mugs he had hidden and shoved Dean aside. He filled them both and turned off the tap. "Here this oughta be enough for what ails ya." Big Mac sipped from his own cup but Dean chugged his down in a matter of seconds. Big Mac was astonished at his tolerance. "Oh, God that's smooth. You never drank with me before partner," Dean filled his cup again, "so you better learn to keep up." Dean chugged the second mug as Big Mac got over his surprise and chugged his cup as well. Dean had been in desperate need for a drink since the day before and now that he got it he wasn't going to stop. The next morning the birds were chirping and the sun was shining but his hangover made everything a hundred times worse. His head hurt like it hadn't hurt in a long time, his memory of last night was gone, his throat burned and his mouth felt stuffed with cotton. He heard voices arguing in hushed tones but they still carried daggers to his ear drums, turn his head he saw through blurry eyes several figures on all fours. Dean remembered why he drank the night before and decided maybe he ought to get out of bed and look for his brother. Again Dean had no memory of this place and groaned loudly as he shifted in bed, his back was incredibly sore and the new movement sent a shock wave of dizziness and hurt to his head. "He's awake." He heard one of them say, probably Twilight, he didn't care. "I told ya'll already. Just let me at him." "Applejack, no. He looks really hurt." "Well I'll hurt him some more for what he did to my brother." Dean felt nauseous just trying to remember when and where he got drunk. "The kid's not hurt, he's just being a pansy." Dean heard a familiar gruff voice say. "What's the matter princess, can't hold your drink?" Dean's eyes shot open despite the glaring white light that surrounded him on the hospital bed. In front of him was a brown pony wearing a baseball cap with a scruffy beard and all the complexion of a worn out baseball mitt. "Get on your ass Dean." Bobby said. "We got work to do."