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// The Replacements of Harmony - Part 2 
// Story: Friendship is Epic - Book 3: Blessings of the Night 
// by FlareGun45 
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After the Body of Evil attacked Ponyville, lots of the ponies around town were taking shelter inside my trailer. It was really tight in there, despite it being like a TARDIS, if you know what I mean. My fish were even feeling uncomfortable with the whole situation.

“Hey look!” Darrel pointed out. “A pony’s bum is leaning on our tank.”

“That looks more disturbing than funny, Darrel.” Dorthey said.

“Why are they all here anyway?” Pearl asked.

“Is Pinkie Pie throwing one of her parties here?” Yoyo asked.

“Yeah, I doubt that, Yoyo.” Rainbow said.

“Where’s Apollo when you really need him?” Dorthey asked.

“I’m here.” Apollo said, hanging on top of the tank. “I’ve been here for 10 whole minutes. You didn’t see me?”

“You’re right on top of the tank. We only look up there if somepony is giving us food.” Yoyo said.

“Right. Hey, where’s Piddles?” Apollo asked.

“Oh, Piddles is sleeping.” Rainbow said.

“Yes, I’m sleeping. Don’t bother me.” Piddles demanded as he was lying down on the rocks at the bottom.

“Hey, Apollo? What do you think is going on outside?” Dorthey asked.

“Oh, it’s just a bit of chaos roaming about out there. Something called the Body of Evil is attacking.” Apollo said.

“The Body of Evil?” Dorthey asked.

“A combination of the three most powerful foes in Equestria.” Apollo said.

“Oh no. Somepony is trying to get in Flare’s personal chest.” Pearl pointed out. “Apollo, can you stop them?”

“Sure.” Apollo said as he flew over to the pony at my personal chest, and started flapping his wings on the pony’s face.

“Oh… ok.” My Facebook poking buddy Adventure Blade, or Keith as most of you may know him as said as Apollo flapped his wings on his face.

“Excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, coming through.” I said, as I was going through the crowd of my trailer to get to Water. “Water, what’s going on here?”

“What do you mean?” Water asked.

“I mean where’s my can opener.” I said sarcastically. “What do you think I mean?! Why are all these ponies in my trailer?”

“What? It’s nice having company. You said you liked company, didn’t you? The more the merrier.” Water said.

“That’s not true, more doesn’t equal merrier. If there were 2,000 ponies in this trailer right now, would we be celebrating? No, we’d be suffocating.” I corrected her. “Now why are all these ponies here?”

“Well, I might’ve said your trailer and your shop is indestructible from the outside, so everypony in town started going inside them.” Water said.

“Water, this is my home, not a storm shelter.” I reminded her.

“But these ponies were so afraid of what’s going on out there.” Water said.

“The Body of Evil is gone, sista, they can return home.” I said.

“No, the Body of Evil left town. It’s not gone yet.” Water corrected me.

“Whatever. I gotta get to my fish. They need to be feeded.” I started going through the crowd again until I got to my fish. “Hey, fishies. You won’t believe the problems I’ve been having.”

“Oh trust me, we believe you.” Dorthey nodded.

“Where’s Piddles?” I asked them. “Piddles is sleeping!”

“Yes, I’m sleeping. Don’t bother me.” Piddles demanded.

“You feeling happy to have so much company?” Darrel asked me.

“No, he’s saying this is a waste of space and ponies keep touching his stuff.” Rainbow corrected him.

“Alright, let me feed you guy- HEY! Button Mash! STAY OFF MY COMPUTER!” I yelled at him. “You want to play on something? Go play in the Lounge. That there is my personal computer!”

“Wow, I haven’t seen Flare this angry since the time Fox announced the depressing news.” Yoyo said.

A cutaway shows me in my Lounge (by myself) watching Fox. “Well this is great! After all these lonely months, I get to finally see Animation Domination again!” I said.

“Fellow Fox viewers, this is Animation Domination.” The announcer said.

“YAAAAAY!” I cheered.

“We have four new episodes for four awesome shows!” the announcer said.

“Oh, looks like they finally canceled Bob’s Burgers. Thank Wizard of Hope for that.” I wiped the sweat off my forehead feeling relieved.

“First we have a new episode of the Simpsons.” The announcer said.

“As expected.” I shrugged.

“Followed by a new episode of Bob’s Burgers.” The announcer said.

“Oh…. It wasn’t Bob’s Burgers.” I said upsettingly.

“Followed by a new episode of Family Guy.” The announcer said. “Then finally a new episode of American Dad.”

“Wait a second, where’s Cleveland Show?” I complained.

“We’re sad to say fellow viewers that the Cleveland Show has been cancelled.” The announcer said.

“WHAT?! NO! I’m about to go on a berserk rampage if you don’t tell me you’re joking!” I yelled at the TV.

“We are not joking.” The announcer said. After that I started screaming, and running around, breaking everything in my path, as heavy metal was playing in the background. I ran outside, still screaming, and then I started punching Lucky Clover in the chest multiple times REALLY fast, but as I was doing so, the announcer on the TV said, “But good news! Cleveland is returning to Family Guy, WITH his family!”

Just then, I stopped punching Clover and berserking, and I said happily, “Oh YAAAAY!” 

After that Lucky Clover fell to the ground, and the Mortal Kombat voice in the background yelled, “K.O.” and the Mortal Kombat victory theme played in the background. The cutaway ends.

“HEY! Keep away from my personal chest!” I yelled at Keith.

“Sorry.” He said.

“Oh Addie, I didn’t know it was you! You’re cool, bro.” I said.

“Ok.” He said.

“Wait, why is Addie allowed near it, but I’m not?” Water complained.

“Cause you’re my sister, and he’s someone I’m having poke war with. Major difference, sis.” I corrected her. “Oh, hey Addie, before I forget… KEEEEEEEEEEEEEITH!”

“Flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare!” he said excitedly.

“We haven’t said that in a while.” I said to Water.

“Flare! Hey Flare!” Crèmepop yelled in the crowd.

“Crèmepop! Don’t worry, Flarey’s coming!” I yelled as I went through the crowd again, found my way to her, and pulled her into the bathroom with me.

“Excuse me? A little privacy, please?” a pony asked while sitting on my toilet.

“You know, nopony even invited you here but my sister, and she’s freeloading me!” I yelled at the pony as I took him and threw him outside.

“But I still need to go!” the pony whined.

“You’re a horse; you can use the bathroom wherever you want. I need a minute.” I demanded as I closed the door and locked it.

“Flare this is getting way out of control!” Crème complained.

“Why are you complaining? This is my trailer, and Water invited everypony in without my permission.” I complained.

“It’s not that, it’s the Body of Evil. Twilight and her friends are the only ones who can weld the Elements of Harmony and stop them.” Crème said.

“You know what’s weird? I can’t figure out if the Body of Evil is a boy or a girl. There are two guys, but one girl, but one body.” I said.

“That’s not the point. The Mane Six are at the hospital right now, in a coma, and the princesses are really worried. You should head over there and see if you can help in anyway.” Crème ordered me.

“Awww, but I don’t wanna!” I whined.

“I’m not asking you to do this, I’m telling you! Water and I will keep this crowd at bay for you, while you should go to the hospital with the Noble Six. I mean, you and your friends are the backups after all, right?” Crème reminded me.

“Yeah, that’s true. But Celestia’s there.” I whined.

“What do you have against her?” Crème asked.

“I don’t. I’m just afraid of seeing her. In the past, I kept asking for Luna, trying to give her more attention, but at the same time, I was probably hurting Celestia’s feelings, and now I’m too nervous to go near her.” I said.

“Flare, if you don’t go to the hospital right now, I’ll take away your XBUCKS privileges for a week!” Crème threatened me.

“YOU WOULDN’T!” I yelled.

“TRY ME!” Crème looked me mischievously.

We just stared at eachother in silence for a few seconds; until I figured out she was being serious. “Kay kay, you win, babe. I’ll go to the hospital and see if I can help.”

“And no, don’t go to the Cider Bar on the way. Go straight there!” Crème ordered me.

“Awww man! Why do you know me so well?” I complained.

“I’m your special somepony. I know everything about you.” Crème said, and gave me a kiss. “Now go!”

“Alright, alright, I’m going!” I complained as I opened the door and was about to head out. “Hey, who spilled lemonade on the floor?!”

Over at the hospital, the Mane Six were all sleeping on their hospital beds, still in a coma, with their friends and family there to support them. Zecora was also there, trying to figure out the problem. She shook her head.

“Did you get anything?” Luna asked.

“I checked them all real good, but I do not have a clue.” Zecora said. “I’m sorry, but there’s nothing I can do.”

“Thank you, Zecora. You did your best.” Celestia said.

“Oh, Rainbow.” Rainbow Dash’s sister Candy Cotton moaned next to her bed in tears. “No matter what happens, dear sis, we’re always here to support you.” After her moaning, she started complaining to Blaze, “Ok, I grieved Rainbow Dash, NOW TAKE ME GOLFING!”

“Didn’t Crèmepop take you golfing already?” Blaze asked her.

“She did, but it got interrupted, we were almost at the eighth hole! I was winning!” Candy complained.

“Candy! This is your sister, Rainbow Dash! Show some respect!” Scootaloo yelled at her.

“If you like her so much, why don’t you be her sister?!” Candy yelled at Scoots.

“I wish I would!” Scoots yelled back.

“Will you two calm down?! Rainbow Dash wouldn’t want you two to be arguing right now!” Blaze yelled.

“You’re right, Blaze. Sorry, Candy.” Scoots said to her.

“Yeah, sorry, Scoots.” Candy said back. She turned to Blaze and demanded, “Now take me golfing!”

“I really can’t believe this. How can the Body of Evil work with this type of ancient magic?” Aqua asked.

“Ancient magic?” Wind Racer asked her brother.

“These types of curses that takes ponies in a coma has died out centuries ago. Only the most powerful magic-welders can perform curses like these.” Aqua explained.

“Not even Princess Twilight here knows a magic spell like that.” Celestia said. “It should’ve stayed died out.

“Ooooh, AppleJack! It’s too soon! Don’t leave us. We need you!” Apple Bloom cried.

“Eeeyup.” Big Mac said sadly.

“Why does she have to be in a coma now? She was sooo innocent!” Sweetie Belle cried.

“Uhh, Sweetie Belle, isn’t that Fluttershy you’re moaning to?” Psyche asked.

“Yes! She was so innocent!” Sweetie cried.

“What about Rarity?” Psyche asked.

“Meh. She was alright.” Sweetie said, not caring.

“Hey, we should look on the bright side of things. This Body of Evil isn’t as bad as our last town guest.” Crystal reminded them. 

A cutaway shows Mayor Mare at her desk, crumbling up a piece of paper and throwing it at the trash bin, but a basket ball player was right in front of the bin, and blocks it, and the paper flies right back towards her. “Not in my house!” the player teased, then he ran away laughing. Over at the Laundry place, Shoeshine was folding some clothes and throwing them at her basket, but the basketball player blocked the clothes, and wiggling his hoof at her, and ran away laughing. After that, a taxi carriage driver was riding along the highway, throwing his change at a toll booth, but the player blocks the throw and says, “No, no, no!” Then after Big McIntosh bucked some apples, he threw some at his cart, but the player blocks them and says, “Not today! HA HA HA!” Then finally, at the supermarket, Featherweight picked out a cereal and threw it at his shopping cart, but the player blocked it, and ran away laughing again.

Just then, two guitar players were playing on a stage in the middle of the supermarket, and one them asked the other; “Jimmy, how happy are folks when they save hundreds of bits by switching to Geico?”

“Happy than Dikembe Mutombo blocking a shot.” Jimmy said.

“Get happy, get Geico.” A TV announcer said in the background, as the Geico logo popped out, then Dikembe slaps the G down and runs away laughing again. “15 minutes can save you 15% or more.” The cutaway ends.

As they were all moaning to the Mane Six in a coma, maybe nopony would notice me coming in, or that’s what I thought, I tip-hooved in, and Crystal was the first one to notice me. “Flare! Hey, we were wondering when you’d show up!”

“Shhhh!” I shushed her.

“Oh, I’m sorry, were you gonna try to surprise somepony?” Crystal asked.

“Flare Gun, nice of you to join us.” Celestia greeted.

“Please, Celestia! I’m sorry, alright?” I begged.

“Sorry? What are you sorry about?” Celestia asked.

“He’s probably sorry because of telling everypony there was a party in Canterlot, not an attack, so he decided to make a festival here.” Luna assumed.

“Well…. that’s one of them.” I said.

“It’s ok. By doing that, you distracted the townsfolk on what’s really going on. Fear is something we cannot have in our fair town.” Celestia said.

“I appreciate it, but that’s not what I was apologizing about.” I said.

“Oh? Why were you apologizing then?” Celestia asked.

“Because in the past, I keep asking for Luna, because after she’s been gone for a millennium, and I felt bad that she hasn’t been getting much attention.” I explained. “I mean, Luna is an awesome princess, but by saying that, it’s like I’m saying you’re not. I’ve been trying so hard to give Luna all the attention, and not giving you the respect you deserve. I thought I might’ve hurt your feelings.”

“You didn’t hurt my feelings.” Celestia said.

“You say that now, but inside you still might be. I’ll do anything to make it up to you!” I begged. “I’ll get you present. A little something to show it.”

“Flare Gun, it’s ok.” Celestia chuckled.

“No, it’s not ok, I have to give you something to show my apologies.” I said.

“I’m afraid now is not the best time for that.” Luna said. “With the ponies that weld the Elements of Harmony are in a coma, there’s nothing we can do to stop the Body of Evil.”

“It’s too bad. Ah’ve always thought we’d be protected by these, and it’s too bad these are the only ponies that can weld them.” Engie said.

“Don’t worry, I’m sure the princesses have somethin’ else we can use.” Aqua said.

“I’m afraid there’s not, Aquatic Armor; none that I know that is.” Celestia said. 

“C’mon, let’s be honest here.” Psyche started. “I’m sure we’ll think of something. There’s always a way, there’s always a weakness. I’ve never seen a mighty foe that doesn’t have a weakness.”

“Hey, no matter what happens, we’re all together no matter what. I’ll stick by your side no matter what.” Blaze said. “Unless it has something to do with Mountain Dew, I cannot drink Mountain Dew. Too spicy for us draconians.”

“Oh yeah, I second that.” Spike said.

“That is some loyalty you have, Blaze Goldheart. Probably just as much loyalty as your wife here.” Celestia said.

“Hey, if it makes y’all feel better. Ah got us all some cake at the hospital cafeteria.” Engie said. “The most delicious kind, the most expensive!”

“Oh how generous, Engie.” Psyche said, taking a piece.

“Yeah, for sure.” Wind Racer said, also taking one.

“Hmm… wait a second.” Luna thought to herself and just watched us.

“Hey, Candy. Don’t worry about a thing.” Aqua said, trying to comfort Candy. “Rainbow Dash didn’t know what she was up against. It’s not her fault.”

“But I want her back!” Candy whined. “Who’s gonna take me golfing?”

“When this is all over, we’ll all play some mini-golf together, I promise. But for now, let’s just hope we can find a way to stop this monster.” Aqua said.

Candy smiled at hugged Aqua. “Thanks, Aqua. You’re too kind!”

“Wow, I’m getting more confused right now than the time I watched The Dark Knight: The Secret of Batman’s Bat Logo.” Crystal said.

A cutaway shows Batman going back to his mansion after a day of fighting crime. “Well, this is city is safe once again. Your shift is over now.” Batman said to his outfit.

“Good.” The bat on his outfit said as he flew off his outfit. “I dunno why you use me as a logo when you can just paint a bat on the outfit yourself.”

“I’m not good at painting.” Batman said.

“Well, then I expect a raise. Either that or stop the villains from punching you in the stomach.” The bat demanded.

“I have a sensitive face.” Batman said. “Why else do you think I wear this mask?” The cutaway ends.

We all laughed. “That’s pretty funny, Crystal. You really know how to make us laugh, even at the darkest of times.” Blaze said.

“It’s not dark in here though.” Crystal said. We all laughed again.

“ARMOR LOCK! ARMOR LOCK! ARMOR LOCK! ARMOR LOCK!” I repeated myself as I kept doing my armor lock spell.

“Why do you keep doing that magic spell?” Psyche asked.

“It’s fun! Armor lock! Armor lock!” I said as I continued.

Luna saw everything that was going on, and knew what had to be done. “I got it!” she yelled. “Celestia, dear sister, I have the solution to our problems!”

“What is it?” Celestia asked.

“The Elements of Harmony are powered by Magic, Laughter, Honesty, Loyalty, Kindness, and Generosity.” Luna explained.

“What are ya gettin’ at Luna?” Engie asked.

“You six!” Luna said.

“You gotta be more specific. There are more than six of us in here.” Psyche reminded her.

“You, Aquatic, Flare, Crystal Iceblast, Red Engineer, and Blaze Goldheart.” Luna explained.

“Us?!” we all said at the same time. “Jinx!”

“What do you mean? Only these six can use the Elements of Harmony.” Spike reminded her as he pointed to the Mane Six.

“Too right, but nopony can use the elements forever. My sister and I used to wield them once, then Princess Twilight and her friends welded them, maybe it’s now time for another group of ponies to weld them.” Luna suggested.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! I don’t think the Scooby-Doo gang should wield them.” Crystal suggested.

“I’m not talking about them, I’m talking about you.” Luna said.

“Us? But…. We don’t represent the magic of friendship.” Aqua said.

“In a way, you somewhat do.” Luna said, using her magic to take off Rainbow Dash’s necklace and giving it to Blaze. “Blaze Goldheart, you show loyalty better than any other I seen. No matter what, you’ve always stuck by your friends in their time of need; even at their worse.”

Blaze looks at the loyalty necklace around his neck and says, “Wow. I guess you’re right, Luna.”

Luna takes off Rarity’s necklace and gives it to Engie. “Red Engineer, your generosity I’ve seen is certainly uncanny. I’ve never thought there’d be another who can represent that same element.”

“Out all of mah days defendin’ the base against the blue team, ah never even thought of the generosity ah didn’t know ah had.” Engie said, looking at the necklace.

Luna takes off AppleJack necklace and gives it to Psyche. “Psyche Illusion, despite being the one that’s always being teased in your group, your friends respected you for an important reason: Your honesty. If you’ve looked up ‘liar’ in the dictionary, your face wouldn’t be there.”

“Actually, we don’t use dictionaries anymore. We use Wikipedia.” Psyche corrected her.

“I can see why you’re the one who always gets teased.” Luna said as she then removes Fluttershy’s necklace and gives it to Aqua. “Aquatic Armor, your kindness is not as visible as Fluttershy’s here, but it’s still there. Despite your past, you’ve always shown true kindness more than many other ponies out there.”

“Wow. Thank ya, princess. This was really unexpectin’.” Aqua said shockingly. “I didn’t think ah was THAT kind.”

“You are.” Luna nodded. She then removed Pinkie Pie’s necklace and gave it to Crystal. “Crystal Iceblast, even at the darkest of times-“

“Wait a minute.” Crystal said cutting her off. “Can I get this in green?”

“No.” Luna said. “Even at the darkest of times, you, like your ancestor, Willow Iceblast, has made ponies feel joy and laughter in their lives. You certainly have proved yourself to be a true bringer of happiness.” 

“Are you sure you don’t have these in a different color?” Crystal asked.

“I’m sure.” Luna said. She turns around, and walks towards Twilight. “Flare Gun, a personal friend of mine; you, like Twilight Sparkle here, never knew what friendship was until you moved here. After all that’s happened in your old town, you’ve never given up hope. You learned quite a lot since you’ve moved here, and despite all your flaws, you know, I guarantee you know the magic…. Of friendship.” Luna removed Twilight’s crown and set it on top of my head. “Do you have anything to say, Flare Gun?”

“Yes I do. I wanted to be laughter!” I complained.

“Too bad, Jack! That part is mine!” Crystal teased, sticking out her tongue. “I get to be laughter, and you don’t! HA HA HA!”

“Aqua, you wanna trade with Crystal so I can trade with you? Since you’re a unicorn, you can do magic.” I asked.

“Nope, sorry, Princess Luna said I’m kindness. I don’t think it’ll work the other way ‘round.” Aqua said.

“Twilight! Is she ok?” Cadance asked as she entered the room.

“Cadance, hi!” I said excitedly.

“Hey, Flare! Good to see you again!” Cadance said.

“I’m still mad at you though.” I added.

“I know.” Cadance said, rolling her eyes and chuckling.

Shining Armor ran to Twilight quickly to check up on her. “Is she gonna be ok?”

“She’ll be fine; once the Noble Six here will defeat the Body of Evil.” Celestia said.

“Hey cool, both Shining Armor and Big Mac are here! Hey, can you two hoof-wrestle? I wanna see which one of you is stronger.” I requested.

“Princess, how are you supposed to know that we can handle this task?” Blaze asked.

“We wouldn’ve given it to you if we didn’t think you can do it.” Celestia said.

“But the elements failed to defeat the body the first time. What makes you think they’ll do it this time?” Psyche asked.

“If you listened to what the body said, they said….” Celestia used her magic to show a flashback on what the body said as it was flying above Town Hall; “As long as we pay attention to what’s going on, no power of friendship can ever take us down! NEVER!” 

“But we still don’t understand.” Engie said.

“You’ll know what to do soon enough.” Celestia said, smiling at them. “Now go, there’s no time to waste!”

“We’ll do our best, your highness!” Blaze said as we all ran out of the hospital, and back home to pack up our stuff for the road.

“Be careful, Aqua! Make sure you remember your spells.” Wind Racer reminded him.

“I won’t, sis. Thank ya.” Aqua said as he was packing.

“And don’t forget to pack clean underwear.” Wind Racer reminded him.

“Yes, I know.” Aqua said.

“And don’t forget to pack all the food you need, including fruits and veggies.” Wind Racer reminded him.

“Thank you, mom.” Aqua teased with an annoyed tone. He put on his satchel and ran to his front door.

“AQUA!” Wind yelled.

“What?” Aqua asked.

“I only do this because I care. You’re all the family I have left.” Wind Racer said.

“I know, and I’ll be back; don’t worry, Wind Racer.” Aqua said as he opened the door and ran outside. Wind Racer just stood there, watching her brother run out to save Equestria. She looked down in worry.

Over at Blaze’s house, he was getting all the stuff he needed for the road. “Blaze, are you gonna be ok?” Candy asked.

“I’ll be fine, Candy. You’ll be staying with Crèmepop. She’ll look after you.” Blaze said.

“Is she gonna take me golfing?” Candy asked.

“I dunno.” Blaze said.

“Blaze, I WANNA GO GOLFING!” she yelled.

“Candy, I wish I can take you golfing, I really do! But this entire kingdom is at stake right now! If I don’t go, the Body of Evil would take off Equestria, and we’ll never see your sister awake again! Is that what you want?!” Blaze asked.

Candy started to tear up. “No.”

Blaze sighed. “I’m sorry I yelled, but this is important. I wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t so important. Believe me on that.”

“I know, Blaze. You represent the Element of Loyality now. You must do your duty to make sure the kingdom is safe.” Candy said.

“I knew you’d understand, and don’t worry, I’ll make sure Crèmepop takes you golfing.” Blaze promised.

“Actually, I kinda feel like pool now.” Candy said. Blaze facehooved himself as he continued packing.

Over at Crystal’s house, she was having a rough time getting packed, because she wanted to pack EVERYTHING, but she was getting her husband Thunder to pack for her. “Ok, I found your emergency stash of ranch dressing. Is there anything else you need?” he asked.

“Come to think of it, I think I’ll need my special comb.” Crystal said.

“Got it!” Thunder said as he ran as quickly as the Flash to get it, and placed it in her satchel.

“My special collection of bowties; I need those!” Crystal said.

“Right on it!” Thunder said as he got the bowties and placed them in the satchel. “Are you sure you can fit anything else in here?”

Crystal looks inside her bag that looks like it’s about explode; it has so many things in there. “Nah, I think there’s plenty of room. Just move the bowling ball to the bottom, and the tennis racket to the side, I think we’ll have plenty of room.”

“Why do you need a bowling ball and a tennis racket again?” Thunder asked.

“In case of bowling ball and tennis racket emergencies of course!” Crystal reminded him.

“Of course! What was I thinking?” Thunder asked himself, bopping his head. “Is there anything else you need?”

“My trendy sunglasses.” Crystal said.

“Got it!” Thunder said as he took the sunglasses and was about to place them in the bag.

“No! Don’t put them in the bag.” Crystal stopped him. “I wanna wear them now.” Thunder gave Crystal the sunglasses and putted them on. “Wow, look at me. I look like Katy Perry in these!”

“Anything else you need, Katy?” Thunder asked.

“One more thing: my lucky penny.” Crystal requested.

“Got it!” Thunder said as he took her lucky penny and placed it in the bag. Just then, the ground started shaking and everything in the bag just exploded, leaving hundreds of knit-knacks, clothes, and other items all over the room.

“Ok, maybe I shouldn’ve packed the washing machine. I’m sure there’ll be a laundry place on the way.” Crystal said. “Besides, I can’t bring a washing machine without a dryer too.”

Meanwhile, over at my trailer, I was almost done getting my stuff packed. “Wow! Another adventure!” Darrel complained. “When is he gonna bring us with him?”

“I have no idea.” Dorthey said. “I also have no idea when he’s going to kick out all these ponies?”

“Flare, are you sure we can’t come with you?” Water asked.

“As much as I’d love you to, this will be too dangerous.” I said.

“But we’ve done lots of heroic deeds. I saved you from my abusing coltfriend, remember?” Water asked.

“Yeah, and I handled myself when Swinebutt’s goons captured me.” Crèmepop reminded me.

“So why can’t we come with you now?” Water asked.

I inhaled, and then said, “Sigh.” I shook my head. “Water, Crèmepop, you two are the most important ponies in my life. If I lost you during the mission, how could I live with myself?”

“What if you die?” Water asked. Crèmepop then smacks Water on the back of the head. “OW!”

“If I do, then Crèmepop, you’re in charge of the pizza shop. You take control of all the funding, and this trailer will be yours. Everything I have will be yours.” I said.

“Oh… that means a lot to me, really.” Crème said, smiling and tears in her eyes.

“What do I get?” Water asked.

“You? You’ll get a good kick in the flank from Crème, and tell you to move out of my trailer already.” I said.

“HA!” Crème pointed and laughed at Water.

“Aw c’mon, bro!” Water complained.

“You need to learn to take care of yourself. Even if I don’t make it, you’re still a Gun, and Guns take care of themselves.” I said.

Water started to tear up and hugged me along with Crème. “Don’t ever say ‘if you don’t make it’. You will!” Water said.

“You’re right; I will! I will be back! I will take down the Body of Evil, and I won’t end up in a coma like the Mane Six, because…. I HAVE…. THE POWER!” I yelled as I took out a sword and aimed it towards the air, and lightning struck it.

“HE-MAN!” a chorus sang in the background.

Afterwards, we all met outside and started walking outside of town, where some royal guards were waiting for us. “We were ordered to give you a ride.” A guard said.

“Nuh uh. I know how slow you guards can fly; we’d rather take the coach.” Blaze said, pointing to another carriage in front of the guard’s carriage. We all walked to the other carriage, and the guards just looked down at the ground, upsettingly.

“I wanna drive!” I yelled.

“Oh no, you’re not driving again.” Blaze demanded. “Remember what happened in our last road trip?”

A cutaway shows me driving a carriage on a highway in the middle of the night, while Blaze is fast asleep on the passenger’s seat, and I turn up the radio real loud to the Mess Around by Ray Charles. I was dancing to the music while I was driving the carriage; I pretended I was playing a piano, and I waved my arms across from me like an ocean wave, and even placing my hoof near my mouth making it look like I was playing a trumpet. I did lose track on my driving a couple of times though. As I was doing all that, Blaze was moving around his seat, trying to get comfortable. As the song ended, I tooted the horn, matching the beat. The cutaway ends.

Time went by. I was the one pulling the carriage along with Engie, while the other four were sitting in the passenger seats. “Hey, Engie, talk to me. How do I look with Twilight’s crown on my head?” I asked.

“Like a girl.” Engie teased and chuckled.

“Really? This crown makes me look like a girl?” I asked. I turned around to the others and asked them, “Does this crown make me look like a girl?”

“Oh yeah, totally.” Psyche nodded.

“Listen to you talk, Psyche! Look at your mane style and everything. I think you are a girl.” I said.

“I’m not a girl, dude.” Psyche corrected me.

“No, he’s right. I bet you’ve been mistaken as a girl a couple of times, Psyche.” Blaze said.

“NO!” Psyche yelled. “Well… yeah, maybe…. A little….. so?”

“Hey, maybe after we save Equestria and all that, we’ll be getting our own little window art at the castle like the princesses do to all who saves the kingdom.” Crystal assumed.

“Oh yeah, I’ve been dreaming to get myself to be in one of those windows! Wouldn’t that be awesome?” I asked.

“It would.” Blaze said.

“Hey, dudes, what would you rather do? Get some artwork of yourself on a Canterlot window with the Body of Evil puppeteering you using strings, or get statue of yourself in an embarrassing outfit, but standing on top of King Sombra’s head?” I asked.

“I’d totally pick the embarrassing outfit. At least I’d be heroic.” Crystal said.

“I second that.” Blaze said.

“On the contrary, being in an embarrassin’ outfit can be a bit…. Embarrassin’. Being a puppet would be pretty funny.” Engie said.

“Oh yeah, can I change mine to that?” Crystal asked.

“Here, I got a better one.” Psyche started.

“Why ya gonna start one on yer own when ya didn’t even answer Flare’s question yet?” Engie asked.

“Ok fine, I pick the embarrassing outfit, heroic.” Psyche said. “Now how about this one? Would you rather wear a dress to a bar, or walk around a mall wearing make-up?”

“I dunno how that affects me. I’m mare, so either is fine.” Crystal said.

“Well, this one isn’t for you, Crystal. It’s for them.” Psyche corrected her.

“Ah’d wear the dress.” Engie said. “It would make a good disguise is nopony would recognize who ah am. Besides, everypony would be drunk on cider anyway.”

“Yeah I pick the dress one too.” Aqua said.

“I’d go with the make-up, but I’d be carrying an electric guitar or drums or something, so it won’t look like I’m being weird, it would look like I’m in a 70s rock band.” I said.

“Ok, it would seem that one was a little too easy.” Psyche said.

“Hey look up ahead.” Engie pointed out.

“What?” I asked.

“Over there. Ah think that’s a Changeling.” Engie said.

“Oh no, not more of those Changelings. Quick, we must defend ourselves!” Blaze yelled getting himself in a fighting pose.

“No, wait. Changelings are normally not alone without good reason. Maybe he or she needs help.” I suggested. 

“For our energy’s sake, I hope ya’re right.” Aqua said.

“Excuse us?” Engie called out at the Changeling.

“What?” the changeling asked grouchy.

“We’re lookin’ for where we can find the Body of Evil.” Engie said.

“That stupid Body of Evil! I thought Queen Chrysalis was reformed. I was at the attack in Canterlot, but it didn’t feel right, so I fled the battle.” The changeling said. “Wait a minute, you guys look familiar.”

“Well, all you changelings look the same to me.” Blaze said.

“BLAZE! That’s racist!” Crystal yelled.

“Wait, I remember you.” The changeling said, pointing at me. “Flare Gun, isn’t it?”

“Maybe; who are you?” I asked.

“Flare, it’s me, Silver Link! Remember?” he asked.

“Wait, Silver Link?” I asked.

“Who’s Silver Link?” Aqua asked.

“Remember the time I had to work overtime at my shop because the changelings wanted my pizza because it was full of love, and I was a changeling temporarily?” I asked.

“Yeah, unfortunately.” Blaze said.

“This is that same changeling that collected the pizzas to take back to the kingdom.” I said.

“You mean the one we captured because we thought it’s been causing pranks throughout Ponyville, but it turned out to be you?” Psyche asked.

“Affirmative! This is him.” I said.

“Wow, it’s been a while!” Silver Link said.

“It sure is! What are you doing out here all alone, brah?” I asked.

“I had to flee the Canterlot battle. It didn’t feel right. I thought Queen Chrysalis was reformed, but boy were we wrong!” Silver Link said.

“It’s not her fault. Whatever has caused her to be combined with Discord and King Sombra, it must’ve raised her anger at attitude. That’s what the princesses told us.” Aqua said.

“Well, I guess that explains it. The Body of Evil has returned to Chrysalis’s castle, that’s where they’re HQing.” Silver Link said.

“Well, whatever is in that HQ, we might be able to find out the one responsible for creating the Body of Evil in the first place.” Psyche assumed.

“Can you lead us to yer kingdom?” Engie asked.

“You bet! Let’s go!” Silver Link said, climbing inside the carriage.

“Don’t go anywhere near me, you freak.” Blaze ordered him.

“Blaze Goldheart, right? I remember you.” Silver Link said, glaring at him. “By the way, Flare, nice girly hat you got!”

“Oh shut up, Psyche!” I said feeling annoyed.

“I didn’t say that.” Psyche said.

“I know, but you know I like blaming you. Winky face.” I said and winked at him.

Back in Ponyville, Crèmepop, Water, and many other pony folk were inside my lounge, playing my XBUCKS without permission. The ponies were chanting; “Crèmepop! Crèmepop! Crèmepop! Crèmepop!” then they all cheered as Crèmepop beat Water at the game they were playing.

“In yo face, Water Gun!” Crèmepop yelled in Water’s face.

“Alright, you don’t need to be all in my face about it.” Water said with an annoyed tone.

“Phew! Well, that was a nice rush, you know?” Crème asked.

“Sure was!” Water said.

“Hey, do you miss Flare at all?” Crème asked.

“Of course I do, but not as much as I don’t miss him and his silly Roomate Agreement rules.” Water chuckled and said.

“What do you mean?” Crème asked.

“Oh, Flare didn’t tell you?” Spike asked.

“Didn’t Flare tell me what?” Crème asked.

“Yeah, it turns out if you live with Flare, he sets up a contract. There are things you should do, what not to do, what to put in your mouth, and what not to put in your mouth, what to touch, what not to touch, etc.” Water explained.

“Ooooh, it’s like his silly Friendship Agreement, right?” Crème asked.

“More or less, except this one’s worse.” Water said.

“When Flare has one of his sleep overs, he always makes contracts for those.” Spike said.

“Well, contract or not, this sure is a comfee couch!” Thunder said as he was leaning on my spot of the couch.

“NO!” Water, Crème, and Spike yelled at the same time.

“What’s wrong?” Thunder asked.

“Yeah, you can’t sit there.” Water said.

“Why not?” Thunder asked.

“That’s where Flare sits.” Spike said with an annoyed tone.

“Flare isn’t even here.” Thunder said.

“Yeah, but he’s got security cameras all around. If he sees you, well…. there will be consequences.” Water said, pointing to the camera.

“Why does Flare like this spot so much?” Thunder asked.

“Well, you see, in the winter that spot is close to the radiator to keep it warm, yet not so close where he sweats; in the summer that spot has a cross-breeze by opening windows there, and there; it faces the TV where it’s not direct so he can talk to everypony, yet not so wide that it looks distorted, I’d go on, but I believe I made my point.” Water explained.

“Wow. If Flare were here, he’d be impressed.” Spike said.

“Yeeeeeaaaaah, no. I’ll move from this spot when he gets here. What bad is gonna happen?” Thunder asked in denial.

“Well, don’t say we didn’t warn you, dude. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.” Water said.

Back with the seven of us in the carriage, it was Blaze and Psyche’s turn to drive the carriage because Engie and I wanted to take a break, and we drank some cider together, having a great road trip so far. We were all laughing. “Alright, alright, I got one now!” Silver Link started. “Would you rather have a mop for a mane, or a huge amounts of chest hair?” 

“Huge amounts of chest hair. Ah wear a shirt.” Engie said.

“Yeah I second that with my armor.” Aqua said.

“I’d choose the mop hair if mops weren’t so stinky.” I said.

“For sure, man, for sure!” Silver Link said.

“Hey, are we almost at your kingdom yet, Silver Link?” Psyche asked.

“Almost there, dude. Almost there.” Silver Link said.

“I’m in no rush.” Blaze said.

“Uh oh.” Psyche said.

“What’s wrong?” Blaze asked.

“Flare, you might wanna see who’s up ahead.” Psyche said, pointing over to the side of the road, showing Dr. Swinebutt with his thumb out, wanting a ride.

“Hey, do you guys mind I- oh no!” Swinebutt said with an attitude as he facehooved himself.

“Hello, Dr. Swinebutt.” Psyche said.

“I was hoping for somepony to give me a ride to the nearest airport, but I never imagined it would be you guys.” Swinebutt said with an annoyed tone and he snorted.

“What are you doing here, brah?” I asked.

“I was, uhh…. working on an invention, but the experiment gone terribly wrong, and I need a ride.” Swinebutt said.

“You sure ya wanna do this, Flare?” Aqua asked.

“Yeah, I mean, this is Swinebutt, the only friend you used to have that stabbed you in the back.” Engie reminded me.

“I know, and I’ll allow him to ride with us, under one condition.” I said.

Swinebutt rolled his eyes, snorted, and said, “Alright, what do you want?”

“You heard of the Body of Evil, right?” I asked.

“Well, I did hear some rumors on my portable radio, but I never heard of such beast in my life.” Swinebutt said.

“We’ll give you a ride to wherever you need to go; in return of helping us beat the Body of Evil. What do you say, Porky?” I offered.

“Normally, I’d say I would rather use a mop as a mane than work with you.” Swinebutt said.

“How ironic, I just made a joke like that not 5 minutes ago.” Silver Link said.

“But since I have some lose ends to tie up…. I’ll work with you, but just this once.” Swinebutt said.

“You’re not gonna stab me in the back again, right?” I asked.

“Crimson, I stabbed you in the back already. Why would I do it again?” Swinebutt asked as he hoped onto the carriage.

“Ooooh, just precautionary measures.” I said in a high-pitched voice.

“Uhhh, partner?” Engie whispered. “Ah can’t believe y’all have agreed to have this pig work along side us?”

“I know what I’m doing, brah. We have the Elements of Harmony. If so happens we’d have to use it against him, then we should be willing to take that chance.” I whispered back.

“I have snow cones in my portable freezer if anypony wants some.” Crystal whispered.

“Oh yeah? What flavors do ya have?” Engie whispered.

“Cherry and Grape.” Crystal whispered.

“Ah’ll take grape.” Engie whispered.

“I’ll take mixture.” I whispered.

“Wait…. why are we still whispering?” Crystal whispered.

“I dunno.” I whispered.

“It’s no use whispering. I can hear every word you’re saying.” Swinebutt whispered.

“Quick! Our mission has been compromised, I repeat, our mission has been compromised.” I whispered. Just then, Crystal started whispering alarm sound effects. As time went by we made it to the main Changeling Hive and got out of the carriage.

“This is it; this is where the Body of Evil is holding up right now.” Silver Link said.

“This place looks creepy.” Blaze said.

“Hey, thank ya for your help on gettin’ us here, Silver Link.” Aqua said.

“My pleasure. Good luck on freeing Chrysalis from this evil curse.” Silver Link said.

“Technology, actually.” Swinebutt corrected him.

“How did you know it was technology?” Psyche asked.

“Trust me, I can tell technology when I see it.” Swinebutt said.

“But you said ya heard it on the radio.” Engie reminded him.

“Are you gonna keep pestering me, or are we going to get rid of this monster?” Swinebutt asked as he snorted.

“Are you coming with us, brah?” I asked Silver Link.

“Sorry, but there some loyal changelings inside that hive that’ll do anything Chrysalis says, even if she has been brainwashed. Only a few several of us are breaking her new brainwashed laws.” Silver Link said.

“So I take that as you’re not coming?” I asked.

“Obviously.” Silver Link said. “But I’ll give you some tips. Once you head inside that hive, the way to Chrysalis’s throne room is left every five.”

“Oh cool, you know poetry!” Crystal commented.

“It’s not really poetry, it’s a hint. I can’t tell you too much. I swore an oath.” Silver Link said.

“You swore an oat? Well I hope there’s a Hall with that Oat.” I teased.

“Not an oat, an oath.” Silver Link corrected me. “Now good luck on freeing our queen, and getting rid of the awful tragedy her inner self is experiencing right now. So long, Noble Six.” Silver Link flies away.

“You know, Flare, he’s right. That crown does make you look like a girl.” Crystal said.

“Will you shut it with the crown thing? It’s not even mine!” I demanded.

“It’s yours now, partner. All of these Elements are ours now.” Engie said.

“Yeah, but… I wanted to save Equestria, but not like this. I don’t wanna take the Mane Six’s jobs.” I complained.

“Well, we can always talk it over with the princesses later. For now, we gotta get inside that cave and find the Body of Evil.” Psyche reminded us. The seven of us walked on inside the hive to look for the Body.

“Ew! Looks even more disgusting from the inside.” Blaze commented.

“Meh, it’s nothing we haven’t seen before.” Engie said.

“Maybe with this stuff I can clone my own changeling army…. Hm.” Swinebutt thought to himself.

“Yeah, good luck with that. Remember last time you made a clone? It went against you, brah.” I reminded him.

“Yeah, no need to remind me of that.” Swinebutt said and snorted. “Maybe I made a few duds though. I really should’ve tested out the clone first.”

“Maybe you should stick to what you’re best at, partner: Makin’ robots. Like what ah do for example.” Engie suggested.

“I got all the robots I need, ‘partner’.” Swinebutt said.

“Ok, is it me, or do we keep goin’ in circles?” Aqua asked.

“Of course you’d notice that, Aqua.” Crystal smirked.

“No, really. I think all we’ve been doin’ is walkin’ around in a circle.” Aqua said.

“What makes you say that?” Blaze asked.

“First off, I keep our same hoof prints every 20 seconds or so; second, we keep going left, and third, we keep running into Ron Burgundy.” Aqua explained.

“On my right is the new Dodge Durango, with up to 360 horsepower.” Ron Burgundy said. “On my left.... are six horses, with six horsepower. That makes you feel pretty dumb, doesn’t it? All six of you can’t even come close to what this fine machinery has to offer!”

”This idiot is really racist against horses, let’s get outta here.” Engie said with an attitude as we all walked away from him, feeling offended.

“The only advantage you have is that you come with bacon!” Ron teased as they were walking. Just then Swinebutt used his mechanical horn to light Ron’s bum on fire. He started screaming and running around. “THESE HORSES ARE INSANE!” he yelled.

“I really hate it when I’m called ‘bacon’.” Swinebutt said.

“You won’t get that from me, brah. I may not like you, but I wouldn’t go that far.” I lied.

“And let’s keep it that way.” Swinebutt said while leaning close to my face. If you seen past chapters, you know I called him that like… a bazillion times… give or take.

“Alright, so how do we do this? We gotta stop getting lost.” Blaze suggested.

“Wait, I got an idea.” Psyche said. “What did Silver Link say?”

“Heck if ah know. Silver Link said a bunch of things.” Engie said.

“No, I mean what was that last thing he said?” Psyche asked.

“Make sure our queen gets freed?” Aqua asked.

“No! The poetry!” Psyche said.

“Oh right the poetry, but what did he say?” Engie asked.

“He said: ‘Once you head inside that hive, the way to Chrysalis’s throne room is left every five.’ Now each of these caves has two tunnels, a left one and a right one, which can only mean one thing.” I explained.

“What is it?” Aqua asked.

“You think I know? I’m not good at riddles.” I said.

“The way to Chrysalis’s throne is left every five.” Swinebutt said. “That means we have to keep going right until we reached the fifth tunnel, then we go left. Then we keep going right again until we reached the fifth tunnel, etc. etc.”

“Wow, that was genius!” Crystal said impressively.

“It’s child’s play.” Swinebutt said and snorted. So we did what Swinebutt said; we kept going right until the fifth tunnel. We kept on going until we reached a staircase room.

“Well, it looks like we’ve taken a wrong turn.” I said.

“What do you mean? We’re doing fine.” Blaze said.

“No, we’ve reached one of the fifth tunnels, and now look where we are. There’s a staircase. The riddle didn’t say anything about going up.” I said.

“If there’s a staircase here, Flare, then that means we’ve past that riddle and going on to the next one.” Psyche corrected me.

“But there’s no riddle here. Just…. SHTAIRS! SHTAIRS, SHTAIRS, SHTAIRS!” I said.

“Oh yeah, that reminds me, remember when the Cutie Mark Crusaders called Fluttershy the Stare Master?” Crystal asked.

“Yeah.” Blaze said.

“Well, Donkey from Shrek, is the STAIR master.” Crystal said.

“Okaaaaaay, what does that have to do with anything?” Blaze asked.

“Nothing, I just wanted to point it out.” Crystal said. The seven of us then climbed the stairs and we’ve reached a tunnel that’s collapsed.

“See? Told you we’ve reached a dead end.” I said.

“Well, there’s another riddle here.” Swinebutt said. “For giant lasers that go shoop, it’s from a YouTube video that’s a big whoop.”

“Hmm…. Shoop and whoop.” I thought to myself. “Nah, I got nothing.”

“Really, Flare? How can you not know?” Psyche asked.

“I don’t have to know anything now that our brains are over here, Swinebutt, has things under control.” I said.

“Flare, you have a spell like that. Your shoop spell.” Aqua said.

“Oooooh, that.” I nodded.

“So go ahead, partner! Do your stuff.” Engie said.

“Yeaaaaaaah, no.” I said.

“Why not?” Blaze asked.

“I don’t do that type of magic anymore. I keep being called ‘God-like’, or ‘mary-sue’. I don’t know what that means, but I know it can’t be good. What others don’t understand is how hard that spell really is!” I said. “I get exhausted everytime I perform it! I sometimes I regret even discovering that spell in the first place.”

“Flare, that spell is ya favorite spell.” Aqua reminded me.

“Yeah, so?” I asked.

“So you should use it to break down this collapsed tunnel, so we can get to the Body of Evil.” Psyche said.

“Magic laws!” I said. “You must obey the magic laws! Magic laws, magic laws!”

“Flare, nopony will judge you any different if you just perform that spell.” Blaze demanded.

“I said I’m not going to!” I yelled.

“If you don’t, then Equestria is going to be destroyed, and Rainbow Dash will never awaken!” Blaze yelled.

“Oh, Rainbow Dash; is that all you care about?” I asked.

“Flare, you’re being very stubborn right now. Now perform your stupid shoop spell so we can get outta here!” Psyche demanded.

“FINE!” I yelled. “But if I’m going to be hated because of my overpowering magic, I’ll surgically remove my horn entirely!”

“But Flare, this magic is who you are. If others don’t like it, forget about them.” Blaze said. “You know how hard it is to perform it. Maybe they’re just jealous. Look at Twilight. Look how many magic spells she can do that you can’t!”

“Well… I’ve always wanted to perform the ‘walk on clouds’ spell, but no matter how much I try, I can’t do it.” I said. “I’m just able to turn that cloud into a Lakitu from Mario.”

“See? There you go. You admitted you’re not as strong as Twilight. Now just blow up this debris and we can continue with our mission!” Psyche demanded.

“Alright, alright! MOVE!” I demanded. So I got myself into position, stretched out my legs and my neck. I got my horn to aim towards the debris, and I said, “Imma firin’- I don’t wanna say that phrase, I’m just gonna do it.” I activated my horn, and it started glowing. I was charging it up and was about to fire at the debris.

“WAIT!” Swinebutt yelled, and I stopped.

“What?!” I yelled. “I was in the middle of something!” But then I accidentally activated the spell, shot the laser at the roof and a giant rock ALMOST fell on us. “Swinebutt, you idiot! That was a waste of energy! Now I need to drink a lot of iced tea to get my energy to come back!”

“Sorry to burst your bubble, Crimson, but I found a secret passageway around the collapsed tunnel.” Swinebutt said pushing a button on the cave wall and a secret passageway opens.

“Well then, it would cause a little less attention that way.” Aqua said. We all started to walk over near the passageway, but I was feeling a little dizzy.

“You alright, man?” Blaze asked.

“I haven’t done that shoop spell in a LONG TIME. Normally I’m used to it, but right now I’m feeling pretty dizzy.” I said.

“Here, just lean on me, I’ll help you.” Blaze offered.

”Lean on you?” I asked in a creeped out voice. “Yeaaaah, I think you should take me out to dinner first.”

“Quit being a wiseguy.” Blaze said as he took my left front hoof and laid it on his back, and we started walking again. We’ve been walking for a while, but after all the walking, we’ve made it to a couple of giant doors.

“This is it. This is Chrysalis’s lair, just past these doors.” Engie said.

“How you suppose to know that, Engie? Have you ever been here before?” Crystal asked.

“I think I can walk on my own now, brah.” I said as I leaned away from Blaze.

“Alright good.” Blaze said. But just then, I fell, face down to the ground. Too bad the ‘do the flop’ guy wasn’t here.

“I hope you all have a better idea than just using the Elements of Harmony against the Body of Evil.” Swinebutt said. “You told me when the Mane Six used the Elements against them, they failed.”

“Right, the princesses said what the Body said, with the ‘as long as we’re paying attention’ thing.” Aqua said. “That probably would have to mean we have to distract them.”

“Distract them, huh? Well since I’m the Element of Laughter, I can do it!” Crystal said.

“Nah, it’s gonna take a lot more than that to distract them, especially Discord.” Engie said.

“Brahs, I think I know just what to do!” I said.

“Oh yeah, what is it?” Blaze asked.

“Oh man, Blaze. I’m totally afraid of the answer of that question.” Psyche said.

“It’s time to bring out the bag!” I said.

“What bag?” Crystal asked.

“I think I know of the bag he’s talking about.” Aqua said.

“You dudes and dudet ready? It’s time to finally defeat the Body of Evil! Mischievous face.” I said mischievously.

“I would’ve never thought we’d be using these again.” Psyche said. 

But just then, out of the flash, a swarm of Changelings ambushed us. “Ambush!” Aqua yelled.

“What are we gonna do?!” Blaze yelled.

Just then, I started singing, “Like a good neighbor, Statefarm is there.” I snapped my hooves and a Statefarm agent appeared. “Hey, Steve! We’re ambushed by Changelings, and we acquire assistance.”

“No problem.” Steve said. “When you switch to Statefarm, you get over 5% of discounts right after you enroll, from automobile, house, health, and even Changeling attacks. We got just what you need! All you need to do is sing the jingle again and say what you need.”

“Like a good neighbor, Statefarm is there.” I sang.

“With a tranquilizer gun!” Aqua said as a tranquilizer gun appeared on his hooves. “Oh yeah, this will do nicely.” Aqua started firing poison darts at the changelings which paralyze them.

“With a bunch of banana cream pies!” Crystal said as pies appeared on her hooves. “Alright! Somepony play Afro Circus in the background.” She said as she threw the pies at some of the changeling’s faces.

“With a magnify glass!” Psyche said as one appeared on his hoof.

“LAWL! What are you gonna do with a magnify glass, Psyche?” I asked.

“This!” Psyche said as he aimed the magnify glass towards the sun on a hole on the hive that shows outside, then he tries to aim the rays on the changelings, burning their eyes.

Engie build himself a sentry. “Ah don’t need anything from Statefarm, thank ya.”

“I don’t have Statefarm, but insurance please assist me.” Swinebutt sang as Droopy from Looney Tunes appeared with an insurance outfit. 

“Peek-a-boo.” Droopy said.

“I need some help.” Swinebutt said and snorted.

“If you need help, you’re going to have to catch me.” Droopy said in a low-attitude tone. Swinebutt started chasing Droopy throughout the cave until Droopy jumped in a hole. Swinebutt peeked through the hole, and then Droopy appeared in the hole behind him and said, “Here we go again. Boo.” Swinebutt turned around and tried to catch him, but Droopy disappeared and appeared in another hole. “Now let’s not get nosy, bub.”

“And now for the finishing touch.” I said carrying a bowling ball, and a bunch of changelings were swarming in front of me. I spat on the bowling ball, wiped it, and I concentrated on the changelings up ahead, about to take my shot.

“Don’t try anything stupid, cousin!” Roman yelled next to me. I started rolling my ball towards the changelings and knocked them all down, except one whom was tilting from side to side. I got really nervous, hoping I’d get a strike. 

Swinebutt was still chasing Droopy. He looked through one of the holes, and Droopy appeared behind him and said, “And this little piggy went wee-wee-wee all the way home.” Then he gave Swinebutt a big kick in the behind. Swinebutt started flying across the cave, and he fell on the ground next to the Changeling pin that was still standing, and the impact of Swinebutt’s fall knocked it over, and a giant X appeared on the side of the screen.

“YES! STRRRRIKE!” I yelled.

“It’s pretty ironic that strikes in bowlin’ are a good thing, but strikes in baseball are a bad thing.” Engie said.

“Yeah…. very.” Swinebutt said as he was rubbing his head, and stars were flying around it.

Just then my phone started ringing. 



“Sorry, brahs, I have to pick this up.” I answered the call. “Sup brah?”

“Dude, how are things with the Body of Evil?” Spike asked.

“We’re just about to face it. How’s Twilight and the others doing?” I asked.

“Still in a coma.” Spike said. “Flare, I’m getting really worried. I’m afraid these conditions can be critical. I can’t bear on losing Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie…. or even Rarity.” Spike walked over to Rarity and started playing with her hair. “But I suppose being in a coma has its advantages.”

“That’s the spirit, brah!” I said. “But don’t worry; they won’t be in a coma for much longer. We’re just about done with our mission.”

“Hurry.” Spike said. “Oh, also, I have this funny picture of your friend Keith; I’ll text it to you later.”

“Sounds good. Talk to you later, brah.” I said, and then I hung up. “C’mon, my friends; it’s about time we finished this.” 

As we were about to head inside the throne room, Spike hung up his phone and checked up on his friends again. “Your highness, are you sure this will help?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“It has to.” Luna said. “Flare and his friends are the only hope we have.”

“I wasn’t actually talking about that.” Sweetie Belle said. “I was talking about, are you sure putting them in these weird breathing masks are necessary?”

“No. They can breathe just fine. I don’t know why they’re there.” Luna took a look at them and placed her hoof under her chin.

“Just precautionary measures.” Nurse Redheart said.

“If you say so.” Scootaloo said. 

Spike saw Apple Bloom sobbing on AppleJack’s chest, and he decided to comfort her. “C’mon, Flare. I don’t know how much we can take.” Spike said.

“Are you talking to yourself?” Scoots asked.

Meanwhile in Chrysalis’s throne room, the Body of Evil was right there, sitting on her throne, and Discord was jugging down cream soda. “JUG! JUG! JUG! JUG!” King Sombra chanted.

Discord finished the whole 2-liter plastic bottle of cream soda, burped so loud that it caused an earthquake, then threw the bottle to the other side of the room and it shattered like glass. “Now I normally like to work alone, but it’s been an honor taking over with you two.”

“Yeah, but I don’t feel comfortable with all of us sitting on MY throne.” Chrysalis said as the throne couldn’t take the weight of the Body of Evil, and it breaks.

“I’ll fix that.” Discord said as he snapped his fingers and created a newer, better throne, that’s red, with three of their heads on the top of the back piece of the chair.

“Not bad, Discord.” Chrysalis said. “I never liked your magic at first, but I’m starting to get used to it.

“Aww, Chrysalis.” Discord said with a high-pitched voice and popping out eyelashes on his eyes, and his eye pupil grows to cute puppy-dog size. “That is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever said to me. Almost as beautiful as the time I watched Cloverfield.”

A cutaway shows Discord watching the movie Cloverfield, seeing all the destruction this beast is creating. Discord just watched the movie with tears in his eyes. “This…. This movie…. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life!” Discord blows his nose. “Who’s the celebrity who plays Cloverfield? I must meet them!” The cutaway ends.

“Umm, excuse me?” Crystal asked, getting the Body of Evil’s attention. “We’re looking for the Body of Evil, have you seen it?”

Discord uses his magic to create an Information Booth. “We may know where he is. I’ll just have to ask for your name and phone number, and tell me what he looks like.” Discord said coughing up a notepad and a pencil out of his mouth.

“My name is Crystal Iceblast, and my number is-“ before she could finish, Psyche covers her mouth.

“We don’t have any time for this.” Psyche said. Just then as Psyche was laying his hoof over Crystal’s mouth, he moved it away quickly, wiped it on his side and said, “Ew! Hooflicker!”

“Well, well, well, who do we have here?” Chrysalis asked.

“Who dare disturbs our little bonding?!” Sombra asked in a deep voice.

“Inserts answer here!” I yelled heroically.

“Ah, I see.” Sombra nodded. “Well, I don’t know what your precious princesses are thinking, sending you six here to stop us. The Elements of Harmony couldn’t defeat us at first. What makes you think it’ll work this time?”

“Ahhh, Dr. Swinebutt, our good friend!” Discord said excitedly. “How are you?”

“Swinebutt, you know them?” I asked.

“Y-yeah, funny story about that actually.” Swinebutt said embarrassingly and snorted.

“I don’t know how you six didn’t notice it at first. He’s the one who made us like this.” Discord said.

“OF COURSE! Why couldn’t we see that before?!” Blaze yelled, bopping himself on the head.

“I knew that.” I said.

“You did?” all my friends asked at the same time. “Jinx!”

“You think I’m stupid, Swinebutt? I know I’m not the brightest pony in Equestria, but I do know you, brah.” I explained, winking at him.

“Can’t argue with you there.” Swinebutt said.

“But we’ll deal with you later. We have some unfinished business to take care of first.” I said.

“The time has come for the Body of Evil to reach its end.” Aqua said.

“Yeah, I highly doubt that.” Chrysalis said, rolling her eyes.

“It’s true! The princesses wouldn’t given this job to us if it wasn’t important.” Engie said. “We got the Elements of Harmony by our side.”

“Oh, what are you gonna do? Use the power of friendship against us?” Discord asked.

“The last six ponies that tried that failed…. epicly.” Sombra said.

“The power of friendship?” Psyche asked. “HA! Yeah, right.”

“We aren’t using the power of friendship this time.” I said.

“Y-you’re not?” Chrysalis asked.

“Nope! We’re using the power….. of POLKA!” I said as I took out my accordion.

“Polka?!” the Body of Evil all asked at the same time.

“Please tell me he’s joking.” Sombra begged.

“Out of all other times, I wish he was.” Swinebutt said.

“HIT IT!” I yelled as I started playing my accordion, Engie played a tuba, Blaze played a clarinet, and Crystal was playing the drums, Aqua played the banjo, and Psyche got his sound effects ready to go, and we started playing Polka Power.



Swinebutt facehoofed himself and said, “Not this again.”

“What the?!” Sombra said, not knowing what’s going on, then Discord’s jaw dropped to the ground as we began our song.

“Yeah, I’ll tell ya what I want, what I really really want.” I sang.

“So tell us what you want, what you really really want.” Aqua and Blaze sang, sticking their heads out, then back in when they finished.

“I’ll tell ya what I want, what I really really want.” I sang.

“So tell us what you want, what you really really want.” Engie and Psyche sang, doing the same thing.

“I wanna-“ I sang.

“HA!” the others shouted in the background.

“I wanna-“

“HA!”

“I wanna-”

“HA!”

“I wanna really really really wanna zigga zigga ah!” I sang. On the next part, I sang like there was multiple of me, and it showed multiple of me’s on different boxes, multiplying more and more each second I sang this part. “If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends (gotta get with my friends).” After that, two of me looked at eachother, and then hugged. “Make it last forever, friendship never eeeeends!” I’m back with the others, playing the instruments, and using my magic to give the Body of Evil a present. “If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give (you have got to give).” All the faces on the Body smiled when they saw the present, but then Crystal snatches it away from then, and they gasp. “Taking is too easy-“

“But that’s the way it is. HEY!” we all shouted.

The next part of the song, Psyche and I were at a hospital, moving a hospital bed real fast down a hallway with Aqua laying down In it, and we all went ‘ahhhhhh’ in the background.

“I’m not sick, but I’m not weeeeeell.” Aqua sang. “And I’m so hoo-oooo-ooot, can’t ya not teeeeeeeell?” I stuffed a spoon-full of medicine in Aqua’s mouth and he spat it out. “I’m not sick, but I’m not weeeeeeell.” Aqua stood up on his bed. “And it’s a siiiiiin-“

“Yes, it’s a sin!” Psyche and I sang.

“To live so wee-eeee-ell-“ Aqua sang, but got cut off after he bumped his head on the lower ceiling of the hospital.

Crystal popped out from behind Aqua’s bed, and slid towards the screen, pointing to it. “Ghetto superstar, that is what you are-“ she sang. After that, she from far away then leans up to the sky. ”Coming from afar, reaching for the stars.” She then tangles her hoof around King Sombra’s head and points to the sky. “Run away with me-“ she then starts squeezing his cheeks, “To another place-“ She then hugs King Sombra’s head, “We can rely on eachother, uh huh!” King Sombra uses Discord’s fingers to flick her away, and then she flies in barrel rolls from one place to another. “From one corner to another, uh huh!” 

We all did a little instrumental part on the song (my favorite WAY Moby polka part) and while that was going on, Swinebutt takes off his glasses, wipes them on his labcoat, and puts them back on, still confused on what’s going on. “Everypony…” Engie sang.

“Yea-ah.” Aqua and I sang.

“Rock yer body.” Engie sang dancing out wearing a rock suit.

“Yea-ah.” Aqua and I sang.

“Everypony.” Engie sang.

“Rock your body right.” The three of us sang. “Friendship’s back, ALRIGHT!”

“I find this quite entertaining.” Discord said to his partners while eating popcorn, but then a rock gets thrown on his head.

“Alright!” we sang.

In this next part (pay close attention), Blaze started running fast, then was reading a checklist to the number of crates in the room; he then pops out from a grave, then holds a calendar, turning the pages down; he then walks towards the screen in an open field as day turned into night, then night turned into day. Blaze started singing his part as they matched what he did; “So don’t delay, act now, supplies are running out, but now if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive, and if you follow there may, be a tomorrow but if, the offer’s shun, you might as well be walking on the sun!” Then as Blaze sang his next part, he was trampling on Celestia (not really though, but that’s what it’s shown); “Might as well be walking on the sun!” 

Our next little instrumental part involved Psyche using a slide-whistle and a dentist drill, and the background shown a happy, dancing field, with flowers, plants, the sun, and the clouds moving from side to side as they were dancing with the song, while we were in the field using our instruments. Psyche’s part involved him skipping on top of the Earth as it spins around, and he sang, “Intergalactic planetary, planetary intergalactic. Intergalactic planetary, planetary intergalactic.” Then four boxes covered the screen one by one showing Psyche doing the same thing, but the voices and pictures are doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled. “Intergalactic planetary, Planetary intergalactic.” All the screens got replaced by one big screen, still showing the lines of the boxes in between though, and it showed Engie playing the trumpet.

“I get knocked down but I get up again-“ I sang while dancing and playing my accordion.

“You’re never gonna keep me down!” the others added in the background.

“I get knocked down, but I get up again (you’re never gonna keep me down)!” I sang as Crystal knocked me down, and got up quickly.

“I get knocked down, but I get up again (you’re never gonna keep me down)!” I sang as I started pushing on, and tackling Discord’s leg, trying to knock him down. “I get knocked down, but I get up again (you’re never gonna keep me down)!” Discord moved his leg over, and I get knocked down again.

Blaze started flying back and fourth really faster and sang the next part; “Quicker than a ray of light!” He then flew around the three faces, tricking them into getting their necks tangled together. “Quicker than a ray of light!”  Blaze then hovered in one place, glowing his Element of Harmony on all the faces, blinding them. “Quicker than a ray of li-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yight!”

Crystal ran over to Aqua, pushed him over and sang; “I wanna push you around, well I will, well I will!” She then ran over to Psyche and pushed him down. “I wanna push you down, well I will, well I will!” 

Blaze flew down next to me and we provided an ‘Ooooooo’ in the background.

“I wanna take you for granted.” Crystal sang as she saw her Element of Harmony glowed. “I wanna take you for granted, yeah, yeah, well I will!” Psyche then was able to get up, playfully push Crystal back, but then she loses balance and falls on Aqua, whom was also trying to get up.

“I want something else, to get me through this, semi-charmed kinda life, baby baby-“ Aqua sang as he got up slowly and started walking towards us, and his Element started glowing as well. “I want something else, not listen’ when ya say: Good-BYYYYYYYE!” Aqua sang in a really high-pitched voice; so high-pitched that it shattered Swinebutt’s glasses.

Aqua, Engie, and I started dancing on a stage while wearing medieval Polish skirts, and started kicking around singing; “Doot doot doot, doot do do do. Doot doot doot, doot do do do. Doot doot doot, doot do do do, do do do - do do do do do do!” But while we were doing the dance, Swinebutt started to sneak out of the room, and escape our custody, but no one in the room even noticed.

“There’s lots of pretty, pretty ones-“ Engie started as Psyche and Crystal each grabbed one of Engie’s front hooves and pull him up to the air. “That want to getchya high. But all the pretty, pretty ones-“ Engie’s Element started glowing, then they both released Engie and he started falling to the ground, creating a hole on the floor. “Will leave you low, and blow your mi-ind.” Engie took off his hat, showing the top of his head exploding. Right after, him, Blaze, and I were dancing on stage wearing top hats and canes. “We’re all stars now, (in the dope show).” Blaze and I rolled our eyes around like ‘derp’, and stars shined on Engie’s goggles. “We’re all stars now, (in the dope show)!”

All six of us were dancing on that stage with top hats and canes, twirling our canes around, and kicking; then we all sang, “Mmmbop, do floppa do wop, do be dop ah, do wap, do zap ah dooo.”

“Yeah, yeah!” I sang.

One by one, we all moved our bodies upwards and downwards while holding our canes, and jumped out of the way making way for the next one of us to do the same thing, in the order of me, Engie, Crystal, Blaze, and Aqua, then it all ended when Psyche was revealed, and we sang while we were doing so, “Mmmbop, do floppa do wop, do be dop ah, do wap, do zap ah dooo.”

“I smell lotsa candy here!” Psyche sang. “Who’s that lounging, in my chair?” Psyche ran over to an office chair, whom Crystal was sitting in it, and Psyche spun the chair around getting her to come off, then he jumped on and sat on it while it was still spinning. “Who’s that casting, devious stares in my direction, mama this surely is a dream.” Just then, Psyche’s dream bubble of what he was doing before popped, and it was revealed he was laying on a cloud that started floating down to the ground, and then his Element glowed as well. “Yeah, mama, this surely is a dream – dig it – yeah mama this surely is-“ 

“Closing time!” I sang, as I slid out of nowhere to the spot Psyche and his cloud were at, and when I slid there, Psyche and his cloud slid away from where I’m at, really fast. After that, I was shown in a tavern of some sort, pouring cider in Engie and Aqua’s cups. “One last chance for cider now, so finish your apple or peer.” I went over to the front door, and changed the open sign to close. “Closing time, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t…. stay…. Heeee-eeeere.” I sang as I pushed Engie and Aqua out of the tavern.

Right after, we all closed our eyes and started floating, and all our Elements started getting connected with eachother with a rainbow, and I continued to sing, “I know who I wanna take me home. I know who I wanna take me home. I know who I wanna take me home.”

“Take us home.” The others all sang.

“Oh, this doesn’t look good.” Chrysalis said worryingly.

We all sang our final epic part of the song, as we all appeared on the screen two by two, starting with Engie and Crystal, “CAUUUUUUSE-“ then Psyche and Blaze, “IIIIIIIT’S-“ then finally Aqua and me. “CLOOOOO-SIIIIIIIING-“ and in the next part, we all shot a rainbow out of our elements and it charged right at the Body of Evil. “TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME (Yeah, it’s closing time! We’re talking about closing time! It’s really closing time!)!” we all sang as the rainbow finally hits the Body of Evil, then a duh-duh-duh-duhduh, duh duh!

“HEY!” we all shouted, then what showed on the screen was Crystal, wearing sunglasses, and beaded the drums, then spat in one of those spitting cups. The final part of the polka song played as a sonic rainboom-like explosion exploded out of the Changeling hive, and spreaded throughout all of Equestria, making all the Changelings, chaos, and dark crystals disappear, and repairing all damage to all the damaged buildings in Ponyville, Canterlot, Crystal Empire, and wherever else the Body of Evil has gone.

In all of the towns, the pony folk saw the damage being fixed, and they all cheered. Water and Crèmepop opened my trailer doors and saw what happened. “Our Flarey did it!” Crème said excitedly.

“I knew he wou-“ Water said, but got cut off as everypony inside my trailer ran outside, trampling Water and Crème in the process. They both stood up, cross-eyed, and full of dirt. “Uhhh, we’re ok. My manicure looks ok.” Water said as her and Crème moved around wobbly, and then fell back on the ground.

Over at the hospital, Celestia and Luna witnessed the explosion, smiled then looked back and saw the Mane Six waking up. “Uggh! What happened?” Rainbow Dash asked as she woke up all woozy.

“Rainbow Dash! You’re okay!” Scootaloo cheered in excitement and gave her a big hug.

“Huh? Oh, right. Of course I’m ok, Scoots! I’m awesome!” Rainbow said. “Now where’s that Candy Cotton?”

“Over here.” Candy said. “And somepony still needs to take me bowling.”

AppleJack woke up next. “Did ah miss somethin’? Ah don’t remember ever wakin’ up in a hospital bed.” She looked over and saw Apple Bloom, Big Mac, and Granny Smith smiling at her with puppy dog eyes. “Why y’all lookin’ at me like- OOF!” AppleJack’s family all hugged her tight.

“Please, AppleJack, not another word.” Apple Bloom said excitedly.

Fluttershy woke up after her. All her critter friends cheered all given her different gifts. “Huh? Oh, this is odd.” Angel hopped on her stomach and served her Angel’s favorite dish. “Oh, Angel; this is your favorite food. Did you make it all by yourself?” Angel shrugged then giggled. “Oh, Angel. This is the best gift I’ve ever gotten.” She said, giving Angel a hug. All the other critters all just glared at Angel in jealousy.

After that, Shining Armor was waiting for Twilight to get up, but heard Rarity moaning his name. Shining Armor walked over to her to see what she wanted. “Uhh, Rarity?” he said.

“You gotta kiss her to wake her up.” Rarity said using the side of her mouth in a high-pitched voice.

“What? No I’m not gonna kiss you.” Shining said.

“You gotta kiss her to wake her up. She can’t wake up unless she’s kissed.” Rarity said.

“Hmm, maybe I’ll go get Sweetie Belle to do it.” Shining said.

Rarity woke up quickly and said in her regular voice, “Huh? What? Oh, it’s a miracle! I’m alive, and thank goodness my hair is okay!”

Sweetie Belle excitedly ran over to Rarity and gave her a big hug. “Rarity! You’re alive, and thank goodness you’re hair is okay!” she then started messing it up.

“AAAH! Sweetie Belle!” Rarity whined.

Twilight moaned and rubbed her eyes. Shining looked over and saw her waking up. “TWILIGHT!” Spike, Shining, and Cadance all yelled in excitement, giving her a big hug.

“Wait a minute? Where’s Pinkie Pie?” Fluttershy asked as she saw her bed was empty.

“Uhh, I’m right here.” Pinkie said as she was leaning on the wall, eating an apple. “I wanted to wake up, but I was hungry, so I decided to take a little break before I do so.”

“Whoa. After the Body of Evil has knocked us in a coma, ah would’ve thought we’d never wake up.” AppleJack said.

“Yeah, I’m kinda confused right now.” Rainbow said.

“It doesn’t matter!” Pinkie yelled. “We’re all fine, and that’s what matters!”

“She’s right. We are all fine.” Fluttershy said. Twilight used her magic to pull all her friends towards her so she can hug them all.

“It worked, I can’t believe it worked!” Twilight said.

“Did what work?” AppleJack asked.

“Oh thank goodness you’re all ok!” Celestia said feeling relieved.

“We never lost hope on ever seeing you again, but they did it, they were a success.” Luna said.

“Who was a success? What happened?” Rainbow asked. “Where’s Blaze?”

“It was them who saved you, and defeated the Body of Evil.” Celestia said.

“T-they did? But how?” Twilight asked.

“The Elements of Harmony, of course.” Celestia said.

“But I don’t understand. I thought we were the only ones connected to them now?” Twilight asked.

“It has seemed that we found another.” Celestia said.

“B-but, it was the Elements of Harmony that made us friends in the first place. How can we not control them anymore?” AppleJack asked.

“Yeah! They were nice and sparkly, and fun to lick!” Pinkie said as she started licking the air.

“I know the Elements did mean a lot to you, but you must know, you’re not the only ones that can represent friendship. Anypony can.” Celestia said.

“It’s in Equestria’s nature for friendship to spread.” Luna said.

“But what am I gonna use to represent my looks?” Rarity asked.

“You mean our friendship?” AppleJack asked.

“Yeah, of course.” Rarity said embarrassingly. 

“Perhaps maybe you didn’t actually lose them, but let’s not worry about that right now.” Celestia said. “It is time to welcome back our heroes, once they’ve returned.” The Mane Six all looked down sadly thinking they lost the Elements of Harmony to us. Well, this chapter is not over yet.

Back at the hive, the six of us were exhausted, and out of breath, but happy. “We… we did it! We did it, guys!” Engie said.

“Yes, yes we did. I didn’t think it was possible though, but we did.” Aqua said.

“But Flare, how did you do that?” Blaze asked.

“What? The power of polka? Well, as it turns out, you never mess with the power of polka.” I said as I turned around and saw Discord, Chrysalis, and King Sombra regaining their senses after they’ve separated, and didn’t have as much power as they did when they were the Body. “My friends, Discord, Chrysalis, and Sombra, even though we’ve have our differences, I thought I’d let you know….. nopony messes with the power of polka! The power of polka compels you, brahs! THE POWER OF POLKA COMPELS YOU!”

“The power of polka compels you, huh? That’s a pretty good phrase! I’m adding that on my Twitter!” Discord said as he took out his phone and updated his Twitter. Chrysalis’s and Sombra’s phones both vibrated, and they saw Discord’s post. “This is probably the best phrase I’ve heard all day!” he said.

“Unfollow.” Chrysalis said as she presses the unfollow button on Discord’s Twitter.

“Oh no.” Sombra said in worry.

”What’s wrong?” Chrysalis asked.

“My life bracelet that the pig doctor gave me has been damaged.” Sombra said, checking on the bracelet on his leg. “It was the only thing keeping me around after the incident in the Crystal Empire.”

“What? Nooo!” Discord whined. “You can’t go! We were gonna have so much fun together. We were gonna make crystal cotton candy clouds, crystal flying chicken legs, crystal giant smiley face balloons….”

“Actually, you know what? I’m glad to be back at the grave. Farewell.” Sombra said as he vanished in mid-air.

“Meh. I have to get this place cleaned up.” Chrysalis said as she kicks a piece of debris from one of Swinebutt’s inventions. I caught the debris and took a look at the logo on it, which is a black circle with a red ‘S’, and underneath it wrote ‘Swinebutt Industries’.

“Swinebutt Industries.” I said.

“Swinebutt what?” Crystal asked.

“Swinebutt Industries. I’ve seen this name many times before.” I said. “I’ve seen on all of Swinebutt’s inventions: The Trixie bot from the Unicorn Games, the brainwashing devices from Chaos Mountains, all of Swinebutt’s robots, the giant billboard on the interstate when Blaze, Rainbow and I went to rescue Candy Cotton, and I’ve seen a couple of giant logos with that name when we went to Magic World to rescue Crèmepop.”

“Swinebutt Industries must be the name of the company that Swinebutt makes his inventions from.” Psyche assumed.

“Speaking of which, where is Swinebutt anyway?” Engie asked.

“He must’ve escaped during our song.” Aqua assumed.

“We have to go and find him! We cannot allow him to create anymore disasters!” Blaze suggested as he was about to fly out of the room, but I stopped him.

“I doubt he’ll be causing a disaster like that again.” I assumed. “After the incident with the clones, and now the incident with three powerful disharmony foes, I think from here on out he’s sticking to robots, and even if Swinebutt causes another disaster, it’ll take him a long time to build a disastrous robot maybe, and we’ll see him again long before that happens – IF that happens.”

“Whatever. I’m exhausted. We should head home now.” Blaze suggested.

“Allow me to help.” Discord offered.

“After what you do to Equestria? No way!” Engie said.

“But hey, I was brainwashed, remember? I didn’t know better.” Discord acted as a halo appeared over his head.

“I don’t feel like walking. Let’s just take the chaotic way home.” Crystal said.

“Excellent choice! Take my paw.” Discord let out his paw and everypony but me grabbed onto it.

“I think you should ask me out to dinner first.” I suggested.

“Let’s go, man!” Blaze grabbed my hoof and laid it on Discord’s paw, and we launched into the sky away from the Changeling Kingdom, as Discord left behind a rainbow trail. Outside the hive, Silver Link saluted to us as he saw us flying away.

Back in Ponyville, we were teleported right in the middle of town. We fell on the ground after the teleportation impact. “Wow, that was some ride.” Crystal said, rubbing her head and rolling her eyes.

“Well, we’ve come back to Ponyville, safe and sound.” Aqua said.

“And it looks like the princesses offered a welcome back party for us!” Blaze pointed out. A crowd of ponies was gathered around Town Hall, and the princesses were up on stage with the Mane Six.

“Fillies and gentlecolts: The Noble Six!” Celestia said as the crowd cheered for us. 

“Whoa! This was certainly unexpectin’!” Engie said.

“I expected it.” Crystal said waving at everypony. The six of us walked over the stage through the opening center of the crowd, and we all walked up and saw the Mane Six smiling at us.

“Congratulations, Flare Gun, Crystal Iceblast, Red Engineer, Blaze Goldheart, Psyche Illusion, and Aquatic Armor!” Celestia started. “You have done what nopony has ever done before! You’ve not defeated one, not two, but three foes in one battle! For your bravery, you are now the new guardians of Equestria! With the Elements of Harmony by your side, you now represent the power of friendship to keep our kingdom safe, and for that we are greatful!”

“Good job, guys!” Pinkie cheered.

“For anypony in the world that could replace us as keeper of the Elements of Harmony, we were glad it was you!” Rainbow said.

“Never doubted y’all for a second!” AppleJack said.

“Thank you!” Blaze said.

”Yeah they look pretty good on us don’t they?” Crystal asked.

“Looks like we do represent the power of friendship after all!” Psyche said.

“You sure do!” Twilight said smiling at us. All of us were happy, well… all except me. Something didn’t feel right. Something felt out of bounds.

“And, I know you’ve always wanted this, but while you were gone we got your new window ready!” Celestia added.

“NEW WINDOW?!” we all gasped. One of the royal guards opens some curtons, and reveals the new window of the six of us using the elements and our instruments to defeat the Body of Evil, and everypony cheered. I was still not happy though. I should feel excited, but I really can’t. I mean, I got the new window like I wanted, the Noble Six became famous, and everypony loves us, the Mane Six were right there cheering along side us, but we stole their Elements of Harmony, the very thing that connected them in the first place. This didn’t make sense to me. I knew what I had to do now.

“Stop! Brahs and sistas, STOP!” I yelled. Everypony continued to cheer, so I took out my megaphone and yelled, “QUIEEEEEEEEEEEET!” everypony stopped cheering immeditaly.

“Ow! Right in my ear!” Psyche complained.

“Sorry, Psyche!” I said still using the megaphone on his ear. He took the megaphone away from me.

“Flare, is everything ok?” Twilight asked.

“No. For once in Flare’s life, everything is not ok.” I said.

“Right, it’s GREAT!” Pinkie cheered. “I know you Flare, I know your tricks!” she winked at me.

“No, everything is not great either.” I said.

“Excellent?” Pinkie asked.

“No.” I said.

“Fenomenal?” Pinkie asked.

“Will you let me speak!?” I yelled at Pinkie.

“Jeez, what has gotten your shoes in a wad?” Engie asked with an attitude.

“My shoes are not in a wad, I’m upset!” I said.

“What is there to be upset about, Flare? You’ve saved Equestria.” Twilight said.

“Yeah, and you got your own window.” Rarity added. “I wish I had my own window.

“You’re already in two of them.” AppleJack reminded her.

“Oh…. but still. This one’s newer and cleaner.” Rarity said.

“I’m flattered that we’re respected because of this, really I do; it’s just….. I didn’t feel like we did anything.” I said.

“What do you mean, dude? We all did plenty of work.” Blaze said. “Besides, you’re the Element of Magic, the main one.”

“But I don’t deserve it.” I said.

“Of course you do, man.” Blaze said.

“Yeah, after you kicked that Body of Evil’s behind, you knew what you had to do to make an awesome success at a task we couldn’t do.” Rainbow said as she hovered in the sky to say what she needed to say.

“But we don’t deserve it because it wasn’t us that defeated the Body of Evil.” I said.

“Huh?” the Mane Six and the Noble Six said at the same time.

“Ooo jinx again!” Crystal said.

“I’m sorry; I’m a bit confused right now.” Aqua said checking his ear.

“How do you know we didn’t do anything?” Psyche asked. “The Elements glowed when we knew the time was ready.”

“Yeah, we used the power of friendship to defeat the Body.” Engie said.

“We didn’t use the power of friendship, remember? We used the power of polka.” I reminded him.

“Really? I thought ya were jokin’ about that?” Aqua asked.

“I don’t joke.” I said.

“Uhh, yeah you do, all the time. In fact I think you’re joking right now.” Blaze said.

“I’m not, brah. It wasn’t us that activated the Elements.” I said.

“Oh snap! If it wasn’t us, then who was it?” Crystal asked.

“It was them.” I said as I pointed to the Mane Six.

“Huh?” the Mane Six said at the same time.

“Jinx!” Pinkie said.

“Wow, there’s been a lot of jinxing today. Is it a coincidence, or are we all connected like the Delightful Children from down the Lane?” Crystal asked.

A cutaway shows the Delightful Children from Down the Lane at a job conference. “Ok, Delightful Children from down the Lane. That’s your group name right?” the manager asked.

“Yes, it’s been our name that has been chosen by our Father.” The Delightful Children said.

“Well if you want this job then I’m going to have to ask for your individual names. Delightful Children from down the Lane won’t cut it.” The manager requested.

“My name is…. No, my name is….” The Delightful Children said at the same time. “My name is….  Will you let me speak? No, let me speak! She asked me first! No, she asked me first! GAAAH! Why do we all have to share the same mind?! How do we talk individually?!”

“Yeah, this is creepy. I’m gonna have to ask you to leave.” The manager asked.

“Well this is just great!” the Delightful Children complained as they exited the building. “Father’s going to kill us when he hears we can’t hold down on a job. I’m starting to think this was a bad idea to share one mind. I heard that!” they said angrily at eachother. The cutaway ends.

“How can we use the Elements of Harmony when we were all in a coma?” AppleJack asked.

“Actually, I think I may have an answer to that.” Twilight started. “I performed a spiritual spell on us. While our bodies were out-cold, this spell sends our spirits inside the Elements of Harmony. All we needed was somepony to deliver us to where we needed to be so we can perform them.” Twilight looked over at us. “But we knew the answer; Discord yelled us the answer: As long as they couldn’t pay attention to what’s going on, the Elements would be able to defeat them. Then we activate the Elements and we defeated the Body of Evil.”

“Wow…. how did you know that, Flare?” Psyche asked.

“You think we know how to use these things?” I asked. “We may represent the same types of friendships as them, but we’ll never have the honor to actually use them.” I removed Twilight’s crown from my head and walked over to Twilight. “I knew it was you that activated this element. I only know computer or video game related magics. It’s impossible for me to perform the magic spell that is used to activated this crown. Only you know how to use it, Twilight. It’s not just that though, I felt you were there. I felt that you were the one that activated it. I dunno how though, but I felt it.” I placed the Element on Twilight’s head.

“Yeah, me too.” Blaze said as he took off his necklace and walked over to Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow Dash, you were there with me. I felt it. Even though we are married, and I should be saying that anyway, but you know what I mean.”

“I sure do, Blaze.” Rainbow smiled and said.

“Yeah, Fluttershy. I don’t deserve usin’ this old thing. Ya’re much kinder than I am.” Aqua said, giving the Element to her.

“Thank you, Aqua, but I don’t think I deserve it either.” Flutters said.

“Just shut up and take it.” Aqua said.

“Ok now I agree.” Flutters said, putting on her element.

“Rarity, ah never knew ah was that generous until ah was told that. Y’all knew it all along.” Engie said giving the element to her.

“Well, even though my generosity is nothing compared to my looks, I somewhat agree.” Rarity said.

“AppleJack, I’m way too busy to use this Element. How about you take over?” Psyche asked.

“Ya think ah’m not busy too, Psyche?” AppleJack chuckled along with Psyche, and AppleJack laid her arm around him.

“Awww, but this is so shinny and lickable.” Crystal complained.

“Sorry, Crystal, it’s mine.” Pinkie smiled and squeed. “But I think I’ll have an alternative for you.”

“I can’t wait!” Crystal said excitedly as she gave Pinkie her element back.

“So yeah, I don’t know why you set up  congratulations for us, when you should be congratulating your student, Celestia.” I complained.

“Flare, I thought ya apologized to her?” Aqua asked.

“I know, and I am sorry for that, but I’m not sorry for this; and this time, I’m also disappointed at you Luna.” I said. Luna was shocked to hear me say that. “Luna, you knew well I don’t like to be lied to. The girls deserve these congratulations, not us.”

“Flare, calm down, you think the princesses new?” Blaze asked.

“We did.” Luna said.

“Yes, it was us that given Twilight that emergency spell in case things went wrong.” Celestia said. “But how did you know?” Luna started whistling and Celestia glared at her.

“I don’t offer any disrespect whatsoever, your highnesses.” I bowed. “I’m really thankful for this, really. It’s just….. I don’t know why you’d give us these rewards without giving Twilight and her friends some too. Thank you both very much, your highnesses, but no thank you.” I turned my back and walked off stage and away from the ceremony. My friends all looked at eachother, and then they did the same thing. Twilight went over to Celestia to comfort her.

Over at my trailer, I was laying down on my bed, facedown. “Is he sleeping?” Dorthey asked.

“No, I think he’s just grieving.” Rainbow said.

“I was talking about Piddles.” Dorthey corrected him.

“Ugh! Yes I am!” Piddles said with an attitude.

Water and Crèmepop were watching me outside my room. “You talk to him first.” Water whispered to Crème.

“I’m not talking to him first, you talk to him first.” Crème argued with her.

“I’m not talking to first, you talk to him first.” Water said.

“I’m not talk-“

“You do realize I can hear you, right?” I asked them while still facedown on my bed.

“Flare are you ok?” Water asked.

“What do you think? I feel betrayed…. Again.” I said.

“That’s no reason to talk to the princesses that way.” Water said.

“I didn’t offer any disrespect, I just told them how I felt. But…. Yeah, maybe I did get carried away.” I said as I sat up on my bed.

“I thought you walked away, not get carried away?” Crème asked. Water glared at her. “What?”

“It’s ok, Flare. Everypony gets these guilts sometimes. When ponies done something and they get rewarded, and they feel like they don’t deserve it, it happens to others a lot.” Water said.

“They do?” I asked.

“Sure! All the time.” Water said. “Like, you remember when I won first prize at the science fair?”

“Yeah.” I said.

“Well, when I found out that my friend Cheese Cake actually made the same type of science project, she felt betrayed and thought I stole the idea from her. I felt so bad that I felt like I didn’t deserve the award, so I gave it back.” Water explained.

“And what happened next? Did you get a good reputation after that?” Crème asked.

“No. Everypony in the school laughed at me, and called me a quitter. I then found out Cheese Cake didn’t actually feel betrayed, she said there was something in her nose. That’s why she was making the face.” Water explained.

“But I suppose your reputation won’t change with us, Flare Gun.” Luna said as her and Celestia walked inside my room.

“Your highnesses?! What are you doing here? How did you get in?” I asked.

“Guilty!” Crème said, raising her hoof.

“I know how you felt. I’ve had other ponies feel that way too over the years.” Celestia said. “And I have to say, I don’t blame you.”

“I apologize for saying those things. I really feel bad.” I said.

“Don’t, it’s ok. We rewarded Twilight and her friends properly, as well as you and your friends. You equally saved Equestria, together.” Celestia said.

“Yeah, it feels nice being a hero. But I don’t feel like a proper hero. I felt like a delivery boy.” I said.

“Well, maybe someday your actual heroic days will come.” Celestia said.

“Yeah, I suppose you’re right. Hey, I got something for you, Princess Celestia.” I said as I went inside my pocket and took out a rock of some sort.

“A rock? That’s what you’re giving the princess?” Water asked.

“It’s no ordinary rock. This one has carvings in it from prehistoric times.” I said. “I think if you translate the language, it says ‘Buttscratchers are made of wood’.”

“Really?” Water asked.

“I dunno, it’s a guess.” I shrugged.

“It’s perfect, thank you, Flare Gun.” Celestia said.

“I hope all is forgiven.” I asked.

“All is forgiven.” Celestia said. “Now I have some unfinished business right now, but my sister here has something for you.” Celestia walks out of my trailer and Luna walks over to me.

“I have a present for you, Flare Gun.” Luna said.

“Did you wrap it up and put a little bow on it?” I asked.

Luna giggled. “No, but it may not look like much, but it’s something I’ve never given to anypony else before.” I hold out my hoof, and Luna places a necklace over my neck.



“I was holding out my hoof, I didn’t ask for this to be around my neck.” I complained.

“Apologies, but once you hear this, you’d never wanna take it off.” Luna said.

“What is this anyway?” I asked.

“Looks like a necklace of Luna’s cutie mark.” Crème said.

“It also has stars on it.” Water added.

“This thing may not be as powerful as the Elements of Harmony, but this is something that may save your life.” Luna said. “It’s called: The Blessings of the Night.”

“Blessings of the Night?” I asked.

“Mhm.” Luna nodded. “I was given this to me when I was a foal, but since I’m far too busy in Canterlot right now, and I’ve been gone a thousand years, I’ve never had the chance to actually use it. Now, since you’ve been such a good friend in helping me redeem my name, I’m giving it to you.”

“Wow! Thank you, Luna! But what does this thing suppose to do, and how do I charge it up? I don’t see a cord or anything.” I asked.

“This necklace does not get charged by power, it gets charged by friendship.” Luna said.

“Just like everything else around here.” Crème said.

“So friends have to charge it up, huh? That should be easy. How do I charge it?” Water asked.

“You touch it.” Luna said. 

Both Crème and Water grab it at the same time and started arguing over it. “I’m charging it first!” Crème yelled, pulling it towards her.

“No, I am!” Water argued, pulling it towards her.

“No, I am!” Crème argued.

“No, I am!” Water argued.

“You both aren’t.” Luna said. “Not yet that is. Flare has to do a special deed for each of his friends; then they have to say a good deed that Flare has done for them. While they explain, they touch it, and all of the friendship that Flare has given them in the past, and what they have given him, it all gets stored in here. The more friendships Flare collects, the more powerful the Blessings will get.”

“So what’s the reason for this?” Crème asked.

“Like I said, it may save his life.” Luna said.

“This is awesome, Luna. Thank you, but you didn’t have to do this.” I said happily with tears in my eyes.

“Don’t get any ideas, Luna. He’s taken.” Crème informed her.

“I’m giving this to him because Flare will need it more than I.” Luna said. I went up to Luna and gave her a hug, and Water and Crème joined in.

Just then, Spike opened my trailer door and said, “Flare, you here?”

“I’m here, brah. What is it?” I asked.

“You have to come to Canterlot! There’s something you need to see.” Spike said. So we all went over to Canterlot, and when we got there, the window was modified. The Mane Six was included in the art. Their heads were just above the Elements of Harmony that me and the Noble Six were wearing, and we were using our instruments to defeat the Body of Evil.

“Wow! We look amazing!” Aqua said.

“Yeah, ah’m really glad we finally get our own window!” Engie said.

“And they included Twilight and the others.” Psyche added.

“I think I look kinda fat in it.” Crystal said.

“Well, Flare? What do you think, brah?” Blaze asked.

“I less then three it so much!” I said. “Only one problem though.”

“What’s that?” Blaze asked.

”Why did they have to put the picture in the Royal Guard Mess Hall?” I asked.

Well, that’s our premiere of our story. But wait! This new season has only just begun! We still have another 28 new awesome possum chapters to go, and I gotta say, it’s gonna blow your mind! I’m gonna put some TNT in your minds, and it’ll blow up! Oh, there’s only one more issue I had to solve. Later that night, Thunder returned home from the celebration with Crystal.

“Babe, I’m gonna use the hot tub for a little while.” Thunder said.

“Okie doki! I’ll see you upstairs in a few minutes!” Crystal said as she gave Thunder a kiss on the cheek. 

When Thunder went to the backyard to his hot tub, he gasped because the hot tub was missing. “WHERE’S MY HOT TUB?!” he yelled. Just then he saw a note on the ground where the hot tub used to be; it reads: “Dear Thunder, I stole your hot tub. Next time, don’t steal my spot on the couch, you jerk. Love, Flare.” Thunder smiled and said, “Aww, love you too, Flare!”