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// Mirror, Mirror On The Wall... Actually It's Standing 
// Story: Equestria Brahs 
// by FlareGun45 
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So I went over to my trailer so I can pack up my stuff so I can go to the Crystal Empire. I marched into my bedroom, took out my suitcase, and started putting in a couple of vests, as well as a few other stuff. My fish were watching me pack.

“What’s ol Flare up to?” Piddles asked.

“Another trip, huh? How many trips is he going to take?” Yoyo asked.

“He’s not running away is he?! PLEASE! Don’t’ tell me he’s running away!” Darrel cried. “PLEASE, RAINBOW! TELL ME!” he shouted in his face.

“DARREL! Calm down! He’s not running away!” Rainbow yelled at him, trying to calm him down.

“You don’t know that! He could be abandoning us, like he always does! I know there’s something fishy about him.” Darrel said.

“And there’s nothing fishy about us?” Yoyo teased.

“Darrel, every time Flare goes on a trip, you always panic, because you think he isn’t coming back. He will come back.” Rainbow said.

“Hey, with him gone, more time to ourselves, right?” Dorthey asked.

“Exactly, Dorthey! Exactly! See? C’mon, buddy! Be more positive! He’s still here!” Rainbow said, patting Darrel on the back.

“I hope he doesn’t forget to install the auto-feeder again. Remember what happened last time?” Yoyo asked. A cutaway shows all the fish in the tank, in nothing but dry bones. Yoyo was the only one that was alive and he was all fat. Yoyo gives a burp, and the gag ends.

“Don’t lie, Yoyo! That never happened.” Pearl said.

“Oh yeah, Pearl? How would you know that? You were eaten!” Yoyo corrected her.

”If I was eaten, how am I still here?” Pearl asked.

“You’re all ghosts. You’re all figments of my imagination! I’ve gone crazy! Right, I’m crazy right? I can’t feel you right? Piddles, you’re not there right?” Yoyo kept asking, while pushing on Piddles, and shoving him.

“Hey, hey! Trust me, if I was a figment of your imagination, Yoyo, I wouldn’ve even felt that.” Piddles said.

“That’s what a mirage would WANT ME TO THINK! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! ALL OF YOU!” Yoyo started to spaz out and then hide inside the fish-sized castle in the tank.

“Don’t mess with any of my make-up in there!” Pearl shouted while knocking on the castle door. While the fish were having their conversation, I got my suitcase all packed up.

“There we go fishies, all packed up! I might as well get that special treasure from my personal chest since Water is obviously going to take a while to determine which make-up or dresses she should take it with her.” I said as I trotted to my personal chest, but before I opened it, Water was standing right behind me.

“Finished packing!” Water yelled.

“Ow! Do you have to yell in my ear, sis?” I complained.

“Sorry about that, bro! Wow, I’m finished packing and you’re not? How many hours has it been?” Water teased.

“It hasn’t been any hours, Water. You just packed pretty fast. How could you though?” I asked. “You never get done this fast! You don’t know which dresses or make-up to take!”

“Hey, it can’t be hard to choose if I just bring everything I have!” Water said, pointing to seven suitcases outside my bedroom.

“Wow, pretty smart, sis. Pretty smart.” I said sarcastically. “Now all you have to do is find out how to carry it all!”

“No problem!” Water said with a big grin on her face. She used her magic to pick up all her suitcases at the same time. “Ta da!”

“Oh, why didn’t I think of that?” I chuckled and bopped myself on the head. But just then, Water takes all the suitcases, and places them all on my back. Yes they were really heavy, and I fell on the ground.

“You’re gonna carry them! That’s what I’m going to do with them!” Water said, still grinning.

“I guess I should’ve seen that coming.” I said annoyed. I took whatever I needed out of my personal chest, I finish packing, I install the fish feeder, and we both walk out of my trailer along with me carrying all these suitcases. I start sweating, and grunting, and I just threw the suitcases on the ground, and dust off my legs.

“HEY! There is fragile stuff in a couple of these suitcases!” Water complained, and she said ‘fragile’ how it was spelled.

“Carry them yourself! I nearly broke my spine!” I complained.

“Heya Flare! Howdy Water!” my friend Red Engineer said while walking over to Water and I.

“Hey, Engineer! What’s up?” Water asked.

“Nothin much, just protectin’ the intelligence.” Engie said.

“I wonder what’s in that case anyway?” I asked.

“Ah wouldn’t look if ah were you. Scout tried lookin’ inside, and the only thing ah could see in that room was him taking a long dirt nap.” Engie said.

“He killed himself?” I asked.

“NO! What is wrong with you, partner? Ah never said that! Ah said he took a dirt nap. Room was full of dust from the desert and he was just asleep on the sand. Ah gotta say, once you find out what’s in that case, y’all would go crazy!” Engie said.

“I’ll keep that in mind. Did you bring it with you?” I asked.

”Sure did!” Engie said, patting his suitcase.

“Yo dawg, I heard you like suitcases. So we put a suitcase in a suitcase!” Water said.

“I brought something really special with me.” I reached into my vest pocket and took out a small black box.

“Whoa, what is that?” Water asked.

”Uhh, it’s a small black box. How can you not know it?” I asked with an attitude.

“GEE FLARE! I was asking what’s inside!” Water complained. “You know, you’re a joke. You’re gonna make me scream! AAAAAAH! AAAAAAH!”

Engie started to laugh, “You sound like a eagle or a hawk!”

“Hawk smash!” Water cried.

“No, that’s ‘Hulk’, not ‘hawk’.” Engie corrected her.

“Oh how would I know? The words sound exactly the same! Hawk scratch then… I guess?” Water asked. “Anyways, Engie, you’re distracting me. Flare, what’s in that box?”

“Something very valuable to me, something I won’t be able to live without. I swear, if I lost whatever’s in this box, I’d give up ANYTHING to get it back! That’s how important this is to me! It’s a valuable treasure and I can’t let anypony let hooves on it! ANYPONY!” I explained. I looked beside me and I saw my other friend Crystal Iceblast trying to reach for the box. I leaned the box away from her, and I whispered, “ANYPONY!”

“C’mon, Flare! I won’t tell anypony!” Crystal begged.

“Sorry, Crystal, but this box is way too valuable for anypony to touch or see.” I said as I placed the box back inside my vest pocket. “That is that. Now, let’s head over to the trainstation and help guard the Reversing Mirror.”

“Reservin’ mirror?” Engie asked.

“I mean, Universal Transport Mirror!” I corrected myself. “Dang, I watch too much Xiaolin Showdown!” So we all took our suitcases and trotted over to the trainstation. Safer transport than airplane, but still slower; the only reason I like taking a train better is because I don’t have to worry about my ears popping, or babies crying; not to mention lame in-flight movies! Just then, a tiny spider bot was watching us and it listened to our conversation. Looks like somepony was spying on us. I didn’t notice the bot at first, but once we got to the station, I kinda noticed a glimpse of it. So…. somepony is spying on me. I think it’s my old buddy Dr. Swinebutt, but I can’t skip to any conclusions at this time. So we all went by the train, but the guards wouldn’t let us in.

“Halt! All rail transport must be shut down at this time to make way for royal business.” A guard said.

“That’s alright, buddy! I’m a friend of Luna’s! She’s sent me and my friends here to help guard the mirror.” I explained giving the guard a scroll.

The guard takes the scroll and reads it; “Roses are Red, Sunflowers are gold, you are my darling little angel that’ll never make me feel old?”

“Oh, sorry! That’s a poem I wrote!” my friend Blaze Goldheart said nervously, while taking the scroll. “It’s for my daughter.”

”How did it end up in MY pocket though, Blaze?” I asked him.

“I dunno man.” He said.

“Alright, here’s the scroll!” I took the actual scroll out of my pocket, and was about to give it to them, but before they grabbed it, I whooshed it away. “Oops, too slow! You have to be faster than that if you want this!” I kept teasing the guards, giving it to them and then whooshing it away, and they even tried to fool me and take it when I don’t expect it, but I was one step ahead of them! Suddenly, one of the guards got angry and he just grabbed the scroll away from me with his magic. “Awww, way to ruin the fun!” I complained.

The guard read the scroll and said; “Alright, this looks good. You can go in!”

“Thanks!” I said as I walked inside along with Water, Crème, Blaze, Crystal, Engie.

“EPIC FALLOUT!” Crystal cried as she jumps inside the train. Just them, a couple of more friends of mine, Aquatic Armor and Psyche Illusion showed up and followed us inside as well.

“Show off!” one of the guards whispered to Aqua.

“Excuse me?” Aqua asked the guard feeling insulted.

“Quit being a show-off!” the guard said with an attitude.

“Uhh, I wasn’t doin’ anythin.” Aqua said confusingly.

“Yeah, you think you’re soooooo cool with the blue armor! Seriously, most of us guards have been dreaming of blue armor for generations; and now you show up with your blue armor, and you’re not even part of the guard! You make sick!” the guard said rudely.

“Oooooook….” Aqua said feeling really confusingly. He just ignored him and just walked inside the train awkwardly. Inside the train, we got ourselves in position so we can protect the mirror. There weren’t many guards though, in fact, the only guards were the ones outside.

“Hey where are all the guards?” Psyche asked.

“Reporting back to Canterlot. We need to max-up security in the castle after the raid.” a guard said.

“So who’s going to help protect the mirror?” Crystal asked.

“Uhh, you are. You’re helping yourselves.” a guard said.

“Alone?” Crystal asked.

“Yeppers! Have a nice trip!” a guard said as they shut the train door, and the train whistle blew.

“Oh how nice of Luna to make us the only ones to protect this piece of junk!” Crystal complained.

“Calm down, Crystal! Luna has her reasons. I don’t think she would’ve given us this job if we couldn’t do it.” Blaze explained.

“Well, we have guard duty, and so far nopony is attacking. What do you guys wanna do?” Psyche asked.

“I’m thinking of a number between 3 and 5! What is it?” Water asked, giving out a riddle.

“4.” Aqua guessed.

“It’s obviously 4.” Blaze guessed.

“3 ½ !” Crystal guessed.

“BINGO! Crystal got it!” Water said.

“Wow, that was smart.” Aqua said.

“You know me, Aqua!” Water said, smirking at him.

“So, Flarey? Is there anything else you did when you tried to run for president back at your old school?” Crème asked.

“Yes, I ran around the school many times until I became prez!” I said.

“No, I mean, what did you promise the students?” Crème asked.

“I already told you everything pretty much. Except I wanted the school’s spirit anthem to be Venus!” I said.

“What?” Crème asked.

“Venus! It makes a great anthem!” I went through my suitcase, and took out my boombox. Unlike all the other boom boxes I have, this one doesn’t explode. I turned on the boombox, and it played Venus by Bananarama. The music started, and I started dancing in the middle of the train. Everypony just looked at me like they were saying ‘what is he doing?’, except for Crystal and Water, they liked it. I started singing along with the song: “Goddess on the mountain top-top-top! Burning like a silver flame-flame-flame! The summit of beauty and love-love-love! And Venus was her name! WHOA! She’s got it! Yeah baby she’s got it!” Before got to continue, Psyche walked over to my boombox and turned the music off. I continued singing though. “Well, I’m your Venus, I’m your fire, at-“ Just then, I figured out the music was off. “HEY! I was still listening to that!” I complained to Psyche.

“Flare, we don’t have time to be singing and dancing. We have to guard this mirror with our lives.” Psyche reminded me.

“Ah don’t think the letter said anythin’ about guardin’ with our lives.” Engie said as he read the letter I got from Luna.

“I wonder what this mirror does anyway?” Crystal asked, as she was about to touch it.

“You think it’s a good idea to touch it, Crystal?” Blaze asked.

“If we’re guarding it and Luna knows we’re reckless, then it’s obviously safe to touch! Duh!” Crystal said.

“I dunno, mate.” Aqua said. Crystal didn’t listen, so she just went over to the mirror and she touched it, but she released her hoof quickly after she saw her hoof just went right through it.

“AAAH! The mirror’s made of liquid!” Crystal yelled. “Wait, does that mean it’s drinkable?”

“See? I told you it wasn’t safe to touch!” Blaze said.

“Shut up, Psyche!” I instructed him.

“I’m Blaze.” He corrected me.

“I know, but I’m saying shut up to Psyche.” I said.

”What did I do?” Psyche complained.

“You turned off my boombox in the middle of a song, and I won’t take that too kindly.” I warned him.

“Uh huh. Yeah, sure.” Psyche said as he rolled his eyes.

“Hey, Aqua you know a lot about liquid. What was the big idea about my hoof going right through the mirror?” Crystal asked him.

“How should I know? I never seen this thing before and I don’t know what it does.” Aqua said.

“Alright, who knows a lot about liquid stuff? Hmm…” I looked around the train to see if any of my friends knew anything about liquid. Everypony just looked at me confusingly, Crème winked at me, and Water was jumping up and down raising her hoof. “OOO! I know who might know! Shining Armor!”

“Why him?” Engie asked.

”Trust me I know it because of his Liquid Pride.” Water said.

“Liquid pride?” Blaze asked.

“Yeah, the new shampoo brand he made. Didn’t you see the commercial?” Water asked. A cutaway shows Shining walking through the Canterlot park with Princess Cadance on his back, sniffing his mane. Just then, a bunch of other mares came by to sniff his mane too.

“Whoa, ladies! One at a time!” Shining said, pushing them all back.

“I’ll pay your bills for you!” a mare promised.

“I’ll give you two tickets to a cruise!” another mare promised.

“I’ll give you my chocolate chip muffin!” Derpy promised.

Shining looked at the camera and said, “That’s the power of Liquid Pride, baby! Made of 100% manly tears!” He winks at the camera.

“Call 1-800-555-6606 to order your Liquid Pride today, for only $19.99. Ask your doctor if Liquid Pride is right for you. Liquid Pride isn’t for mares, it’s for stallions only. Side effects include: crying, burning eyes, seeing your sister as a princess, and getting trampled on by mares. Use Liquid Pride at your own risk. You must be cutie-marked or older to call.” The TV announcer said.

“Lame! Billy Neighs is better ad salesman.” Water complained as she watched the commercial. The gag ends there. Meanwhile the train makes it to the Crystal Empire and the mirror is still in one piece. An orange pony was waiting outside along with some other Crystal guards. The train door opens.

“Wow! We’re finally here! I wonder if my ancestor is here! I should go see her!” Crystal said excitedly. Crystal has an ancestor who’s a Crystal pony. She’s her great, great… umm, I don’t know how many greats grandmother. She’s still young because the kingdom disappeared and came back. You remember right? 

“You guys the Noble Six?” the orange pony asked.

“Oh no, it’s him.” Engie complained.

“Sure is! Hey how come the other guards are sparkler than you?” I asked.

“I’m not really a crystal pony, my friend.” The orange pony said.

“I think you should take more showers like the other guards, just look at them.” Water suggested as she pointed at them.

“Ok, so this is the Universal Transport Mirror, right?” the pony asked.

“Sure is! What’s your name anyway?” Blaze asked.

“They call me Flash Sentry!” the orange pony said.

“UGH!” Engie groaned.

“So you’re a combination of a camera and a turret right?” Crystal asked.

Flash Sentry laughed. “Sure, if that’s how you picture me!”

Crystal then suddenly took a picture of Flash Sentry. “Nope! This is how I picture you!” she said, showing Flash the picture.

“Aw man, I think I blinked!” Flash complained because in the picture his eyes were closed.

“I know how you feel, buddy.” Earl Hickey said as he walked by.

“Alrighty then. Shall we take this mirror over to the castle?” Aqua asked.

“Right away! Please follow me!” Flash instructed us as he led us out of the station and onto the city itself.

“This pony is a complete waste of character.” Engie complained.

“So how long have you been working for the castle guard for, Flash?” Psyche asked.

“I just started last week. I’m kinda new to all this. I moved here because I was really interested in the Crystal ponies! I found them to be pretty amazing!” Flash explained.

“I have an ancestor that lives here, Willow Iceblast! You heard of her?” Crystal asked Flash.

“No, I can’t say I have.” Flash said.

“She’s amazing, dude! She’s purple too!” Crystal said.

“I see.” Flash said.

“I remember bein’ here. It was so relaxin’.” Aqua said.

“I’m still wondering when the Equestria Games is going to come.” Blaze said.

“Oh yeah, Blaze?” Aqua asked.

“That’s right, Aqua! I’ve been preparing myself ever since! Rainbow Dash has been really getting me going in the bedroom!” Blaze said. 

A cutaway shows Blaze on a treadmill as Rainbow is flying near him with a stopwatch and yelling at him. “C’MON, BLAZE! GET YOURSELF INTO SHAPE!” Rainbow yelled. “YOU SUCK! YOU SUCK! BULLIES ARE TEASING ROSE! YOU’RE A GARBAGE PONY! I LOVE SOARIN!” After Rainbow shouted that last part Blaze ran on the treadmill faster and faster out of rage. The cutaway ends.

“CRYSTAL!” a voice called.

“WILLOW!” Crystal yelled as a purple crystal pony with a blue mane started running to her and gives her a big hug.

“Hey, Crystal! You didn’t say you were coming!” Willow said excitedly.

“I’m sorry, Willow! I came here on business. We’re transporting this mirror over to the castle.” Crystal said.

“This must be the Universal Transporter Mirror!” Willow assumed as a mirror was riding by.

“No, that’s just Water’s mirror.” Crystal corrected her.

“I never leave home without my big mirror!” Water said as another mirror was going by.

“THIS is the Universal Transporter Mirror!” Crystal said.

“Ah! I can tell because this one is dustier.” Willow said.

“You said it! The Universal Mirror was in storage for a long time.” Psyche said.

“I was talking about Water’s mirror.” Willow corrected him.

“Hey come with us to the castle, Willow. They might be giving us a feast! I can get Cadance to put you on the guest list!” Crystal offered.

“How?” Psyche asked. “She barely knows us.”

“Oh, I already had dinner, but I’ll be happy to walk with you!” Willow said.

“Awesome! C’mon, Willow! There’s so much I need to tell you!” Crystal said as they started walking. “So Flare’s special somepony Crèmepop was captured by Dr. Swinebutt and his goons, and were taken to the Magic World theme park in Mareami, right?”

“Uh huh.” Willow nodded. As Crystal was explaining our recent adventure; we finally made it to the castle grounds with the mirror.

“And so Herb Leafhorn and the Friendship Mafia took us home, Crèmepop became Flare’s special somepony, and we all lived happily ever after!” Crystal said.

“You can’t think of a more original conclusion other than ‘happily after ever’? Because that’s really getting old.” Willow said.

“Yeah that was a pretty fun adventure wasn’t it? It’s too bad we didn’t get to see the whole polka video though.” Blaze said.

“That’s not true, Blaze! I brought a copy with me!” I said as I was carrying a CD.

“Oh really? You should show the video to the princesses, I bet they’ll love it!” Blaze suggested.

“Hey I also have it uploaded YouTube.” I said. So we all entered the castle, the guards took our belongings and we entered the throne room where the crystal guards were blowing their trumpets.

“Aww! The guards are blowing their trumpets at us like we’re royalty! How sweet!” Crystal said.

“Oh, sorry. We thought you were Princess Twilight.” One of the guards said.

“Of course you blow for Twilight. She gains wings and she’s now royalty!” I complained. “It’s my turn to get wings! Somepony give me a Red Bull!”

“Noble Six! It’s good to see you again!” Cadance said with an excited smile.

“Well it was a nice introduction to the guards. It made my day!” Psyche said.

“Hey, where’s Shinin’ Armor?” Engie asked.

“He’s got some royal business at Canterlot because as you may have heard about the crime scene.” Celestia mentioned.

”Plus, since we’re here, somepony has to be in charge.” Luna said.

“So we brought the mirror here. Safe and sound.” Aqua said.

“Thank you all so much for helping guard the mirror! It should be in well hooves here in the Crystal Empire.” Celestia said.

“I shall do my very best in making sure the mirror stays protected, Aunt Celestia.” Cadance said. She then turned to us, and asked, “So how are you all feeling?”

“With our hooves.” Crystal teased.

“Pretty good, Cadance! But guess what?” I asked.

”What?” Cadance asked.

“I’m still mad at you.” I said as I smiled at her.

“That’s fine! You’re all welcomed to stay for the night as well as for dinner!” Cadance said.

”Why that sounds lovely, Cadance! Thank you for the offer!” Blaze said.

“You all must be exhausted after the train ride. You should get settled in your rooms.” Celestia suggested.

“We just got here and yet you’re already askin’ us to get some sleep? How can one train ride make us exhausted? Yeah, like that was SOOOOO much work.” Engie complained.

“I’ve never been here before. This kingdom is nice!” Water said.

“Yeah, I’ve never been to the Crystal Empire before! It’s very nice!” Crème said.

“Hey, everypony is welcome here, Water and Crèmepop!” Cadance said. “But just be on your guard.”

”What’s going on?” Water asked.

”We’re needed to keep more guards patrolling the streets. More and more disappearances have been made ever since our kingdom was opened to the public.” Cadance said. 

A cutaway shows a crystal pony trotting around town alone at night, but then a masked pony kidnaps the crystal pony and stuffs her in his sack. “HA! I’m gonna be rich!” the thief said as he runs away. The cutaway ends. After a little over an hour, we all gathered in the dining hall to have a fantastic feast that Cadance’s chefs made for us.

“Wow! Crystal Empire food! They look like they’re made of gems!” Engie said excitedly taking a big bite of a crystal egg plant. 

“That’s because they are made of gems.” Cadance said. Engie gasped as he then spit the crystal eggplant out of his mouth, and his teeth shattered like glass.

“Looks like somepony forgot to melt one of these eggplants.” Cadance complained.

“YEAH AH’MF GETTING’ THOSE PEFS A FEASE OF MY MINSH!” Engie yelled with his shattered teeth and he ran inside the kitchen to complain.

“So Cadance? How’s it like running the Crystal Empire?” Psyche asked.

“It’s wonderful, Psyche! It was a lot easier than I expected! The only problem is a lot of paper work!” Cadance said.

“I hear you, sister. I sometimes have to work overnight to get paper work done for my boss.” Psyche complained.

“Trust me; I don’t think your paper work problem is as bad as mine.” Cadance said.

“Now, now, Cadance! No use complaining about it. You’re doing a wonderful job as a princess!” Luna said.

“Thanks, Luna!” Cadance said.

“Didn’t you have the same problem, Luna?” Blaze asked.

“Not really. Celestia was the mare in charge and I’m just a backup. Not as much paper work!” Luna said and grinned.

“Yeah.” Celestia said with an annoyed tone.

“So I was talking to my employee Lyra and she made a great point to me earlier today.” I said.

“Oh yeah?” Aqua asked.

“You got it, brah! She’s been dreaming how much she wanted to be a human!” I said.

“Oh yeah, I heard that today!” Crème nodded.

“She’s been saying how much easier in life it’ll be with hands, and just walking on two legs instead of four, it’ll be easier to type on the computer, it’ll be easier to text, and I won’t have to rely on my magic doing it all.” I said as I tapped on my horn.

“Look, Flare, I know you’re a broman and all, and you love watching My Little Human: Friendship is Greed and War, but you gotta know that being a human is not all as fun as it seems.” Blaze said.

“Oh yeah? You ever been a human before?” I asked.

“No, but I’m saying, MLH shows a lot of violence and backstabbings in the human world. Trust me, Flare. You don’t want to go there.” Blaze advised me.

“Blaze, you can’t tell me what I want and don’t want!” I complained.

“I agree with Blaze, Flare. Being a human just gives nothing but trouble.” Psyche said.

“Since when did you care?” I asked him.

“Naf, ah fink he sould lif the dream!” Engie said peeping his head out of the kitchen.

“What did he say?” I asked.

“He said he agrees, and he doesn’t want you to live the dream.” Crystal said.

“Ah fin’t shay that!” Engie yelled.

“That’s right, Engie! You did say that!” Crystal nooded. Engie just facehooved himself and went back into the kitchen.

“Why do you all care about what I want? I agree with Lyra! Being a human would be awesome!” I said. “Aqua do you agree with me?”

“Cadance, can I be excused?” Aqua asked.

“Flare, I don’t think it’s a good idea.” Water said.

“Flare, perhaps…. you should sit down.” Crème suggested.

“GREAT! You got even my own sister and my own marefriend against me!” I yelled. “I don’t know why you want to affect what I dream about! This is Equestria! It’s the land of opportunities! I must live the Equestria dream! If you don’t like my dreams, then why are you friends with me?!”

“Flare Gun, please calm down.” Luna suggested.

“NO! You calm down! I should be able to live my life how I wanna live it; AND NONE OF YOU WILL STAND IN MY WAY!” I yelled.

“Flare, I think you should think twice of what you’re saying. It’s not that they don’t agree with you. They’re not saying don’t live your dream.” Celestia said. “They just want you to be calm.”

“I WAS calm!” I corrected her.

“But now you’re not. I mean, Flare, we’re just persuading you not to live a fantacy life is all.” Blaze said.

“Oh yeah?! Well… YOU KNOW WHAT I’M GONNA DO!” I yelled. “I’m going for a walk in the Canterlot gardens!” 

“Flare, this is the Crystal Empire, not Canterlot.” Psyche corrected me.

“Well there better be a garden out there otherwise I’ll a kick a tree, and I hope an anvil falls out!” I yelled.

“What are the odds of anvil falling out of a tree?” Blaze asked. I angrily trotted over to the door but Crème chased me over and held me.

“Flare, don’t take it that way. Don’t me mad at them!” Crème persuaded me.

”Get off me!” I yelled as I pushed her away, and I marched through the castle corridors, looking for a way outside. I opened one of the doors, but a scream was heard and I closed it quickly. “Sorry, sorry!” I said embarrassedly. Crème just sat there in the middle of the halls, sighing with tears in her eyes. I then walked outside, it was pretty dark out. I was walking pretty angrily, and I mumbled to myself, “Some friends they are! If I wanna be a human I should be able to! It’s the Equestrian dream!” As soon as I walked all around the castle grounds, I got really mad. “UGH! There’s no garden out here?!” Just then I kicked a crystal tree, and an anvil fell out of it. “What? I was kidding about the whole an anvil thing! How did an anvil get- Oh… right. Those were my anvils, as traps to capture Cadance after I was mad at her for not inviting Spike to the Equestria Games welcome, even though he was the one that saved her precious kingdom in the first place!” So I sat down on the anvil, and I took that black box out of my vest, and looked at it. 

“Oh, sometimes I think twice about what I say. As long as I have this treasure here, then nothing shall get in my way. You know?” I said to myself. “Maybe I was being a little hard on the others. I mean… I’m lucky to have ponies like them; Blaze with his anger issues, Crystal with her stupidiy, Aqua with his social anxiety, Psyche and his wiseguyness- THEY SICKEN ME!”

“But they’re there for you whenever you’re in need of help. No friends are perfect, dude.” Willow Iceblast said to me.

“Oh hey, Willow. What are you doing here?” I asked.

“I never left.” Willow said.

“You stood there all this time?” I asked.

“Actually I was sitting on that bench over there.” Willow pointed. “But yeah. I mean, be lucky for what you have, man. Cause without your friends, you’d feel like nothing.”

“Yeah you’re right.” I nodded. “I get my anger issues from my mom mostly. I’m part Italian and part Irish so that would explain it all. I guess I was being too harsh on them. I’m better than that. There was a time I didn’t have friends, or a special somepony like Crèmepop.” I then sighed. “Sigh… maybe I should go apologize to them. I know my friends were just thinking about what’s-“ just then my phone starts to vibrate. I took it out and I saw that my friend Adventure Blade, or Keith has poked me on Facebook. “Oh Keith, not in the mood right now.” I said as I poked him back. “I know my friends were thinking of what’s-“ just then, before I could finish, Keith poked me again. I poked him back and I continued talking. “I know my friends were- SHUT UP, KEITH!” 

Just then, I got a Facebook PM from him and the message said, “Oh.”

I typed down my response, “Yeah.”

And then he responded back with one last message. “Ok.” Yes I said Addie wasn’t gonna be in here, but that didn’t count. That was only a Facebook message and poke.

“As I was saying,” I continued. “I know my friends were only thinking of what’s best for me.” I just sighed and took another look at the black box, but as I was looking at it, it WASN’T THERE!  

“GASP!” I yelled. I suddenly looked around very worriedly. “Where did my box go?! Where did it go?! AAAH! AAAAH! TINY BOX TIM! No wait… wrong box.” Just then, I saw a spider bot go by, the same one that I saw back in Ponyville, and it had my box. “HEY, STOP! THAT’S MINE!” I chased the spider bot all the way to the castle grounds. “HEY, THAT’S MINE! C’MON, THERE’S SO MANY EXPENSIVE PONIES AROUND HERE! TAKE ONE OF THEM!” I yelled. The spider bot just kept running until we reached the corridors of the castle. The bot opened doors went inside the rooms and shut them behind it. I chased the bot from door to door, like one of those Scooby Doo chases. That same mare from before screamed again when I went inside her room and every time I exited a room, I was wearing a different outfit. I know it was pretty random. Finally, I exited the last room and stood in the middle of the hallway, looking around. The bot went out another door and I spotted it. “HEY!” I yelled and I chased it through the hallway again until we reached a storage room. The bot was just standing there in the middle of the room with nowhere to go.

“I got you now, little sucker! Gimmie back that box!” I demanded. The bot turned and faced the Universal Transport Mirror that so happened to be inside the room. “If you dare go inside that mirror, you’re calling yourself an idiot that likes the new Nickeloden shows.” Just then, the spider bot runs inside the mirror and jumps in. “HA! You just called yourself an idiot that likes the new Nickeloden shows! IN YOUR FACE, ROBOT!” I teased. But still, the bot had something very valuable to me, and I must go through the portal and get it back. Before I jumped in, my sister Water bursted inside the room.

“Flare?! What are you doing?!” Water asked very worriedly.

“Don’t try to stop me, sis! Someone stole something that means everything to me, and I must go through and get it back!” I swore.

“Flare, you’re crazy! You don’t know what’s on the other side!” Water said.

“Yeah, well did the chicken know what was on the other side when it crossed the road?” I asked.

“W-what?” Water asked confusingly.

“Exactly! I’ll be back soon, sis!” I turned to the portal and I jumped inside.

“FLARE, WAIT!” Water yelled as she followed me into the portal and jumped in. We were inside some sort of vortex as we were traveling intergalaticly. 

I was screaming as I went through, but I stopped for a second to say, “Wow, dimensional vortexes look so creepy.” 

We traveled through time and space and while we were doing so, somepony started singing in the background: “Our whole universe is in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait…” Just then, I saw a lot of pictures of Equestria’s history. “The Earth began to cool, the autothrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, we build a wall (we build the pyramids)! Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with a big bang- BANG!” I then saw a picture of me and my friends all eating Chinese food in a living room, and then Water and I reached some sort of light and everything faded white. Where am I? Where ever I gone….. they better have cell phone connection. Once I was inside the Crystal castle, I lost my bars. I knew I shouldn’ve used T-Mobile!