//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: What Happened? // Story: Spikezilla // by DarkFang116 //------------------------------// Twilight was sound asleep, enjoying her little dream. It seemed like everything was peaceful, nothing could wake her up. "TWILIGHT! TWIIIIIIILIIIIIGGHHT!" Screamed what sounded like Rainbow Dash. Eh, probably still dreaming, thought Twilight as she quickly went back to sleep. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK "TWILIIIIIIIIGHT!" "TWILIGHT?" "WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD, WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!" It wasn't just one pony, it was three. It sounded like Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie. Twilight grumbled under her breath and slowly and messily got up from her cozy bed, heading towards her door. When Twilight finally got there, the door broke, flattening Twilight as Pinkie Pie barged into the library. "TWILIIIIIGHT, TWILIIIIIGHT!!!!" WHERE ARE YOU?" screamed Pinkie Pie, wearing a worried look on her face. The other two ponies hurriedly went inside, also searching for Twilight. Twilight groaned from under the broken-down door, gathering the three's attention. When Rainbow Dash and Applejack had lifted the door, they found Twilight, all smashed and dazed from the door, "Did anypony catch the number of that bus?" Everypony laughed except for Twilight, still all fuzzy on what happened. Applejack had grabbed Twilight's hoof and pulled her up from the floor, "You al'right sugarcube?" Twilight had finally gathered her thoughts and was wide awake now, "Yeah, yeah, I'm ok. Pinkie, next time you got something important to ask me please just wait a moment." Pinkie Pie nodded. Twilight had something in mind, as did the other three ponies, "So, what was it you all had to tell me?" All three ponies had opened their mouths, gasping air in to explain their dilemma, but before any of them could speak or release the air that they had breathed in, Twilight has raised her hoof, "Bup bup bup bup, one at a time. Applejack you first, then Rainbow Dash and finally Pinkie." The three grunted in agreement and Applejack took a couple of steps forward to speak, "Well Twilight, my orchards, all of them, were destroyed and smushed, the trees that were left standing were clawed. I don't know what kind of varmint did this, but I'm sure it ain't friendly." Twilight as well as the others gasped in horror, especially Rainbow Dash, "WAIT, you mean ... no apple cider? NOOOOOOOO," cried Rainbow Dash, "what kind of monster would do such a thing?" Twilight had a couple of ideas, but they all lead to a dead end, If it was a dragon then we would have heard or at least seen it. If it was timber wolves well ... they don't really like apples. If it was the parasprites then what about the claw marks. Hmm, maybe ... Twilight was deep in thought, scaring the group a little, so Rainbow Dash had to take action, besides it was her turn to explain her problem, "TWIIIIIIIIIIIIIILIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!! SNAP OUT OF IT, YOU'RE SCARING THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF US." Twilight had been broken from her trance as she was snapped back to reality, "GAH! Oh," Twilight blushed slightly from getting distracted so easily. Twilight giggled slightly and said, "Sorry. So Rainbow Dash, it's your turn to tell me your problem." Rainbow Dash had cracked her hooves as she was about to tell them her story, "It all started when I was practicing my awesome flying skills, everyone knows that I really really really REALLY want to be in the Wonderbolts. But this time however, I pushed my limits to unexpected lengths, I was swooping through my home-made obstacles and was about to break my record of 10 seconds and wanted to go for 5. Then this huge pony-sized, if not bigger, tortoise shell without the tortoise and had fire coming out of the 4 leg holes flew by and roared, flying faster than me. If it was paying attention to me then it might have killed me or something, I'm lucky to be out of its vision." Everypony in the room stood silent, even Pinkie Pie, which was unusual of her to do so. Twilight couldn't even believe all this, first all the orchards were smashed plus claw marks, then a huge tortoise shell with flames that could fly, what next? Pinkie jumped up and down, up and down, ohh-ing to Twilight, "Twilight it's my turn now. It's about Gummy, he's missing and most of my room had vanished or turn invisible or something and a HUUUGE footprint was in the middle of my floor." Now twilight was REALLY in a pickle, now adding a missing alligator with no teeth and a smashed room with a weird footprint on the floor to the list of crazy things that she had just heard ... at least the alligator thing makes sense. Twilight couldn't think straight, but if this triple mystery isn't solved then things were just going to be worse. Twilight finally thought out a plan and opened her mouth to reply when Zecora, all out of breathe, entered the library and spoke, "Twilight *gasp* come quick, there is no time to loose. If we don't hurry soon then we must vamoose. There are creatures, Meganula, far deadlier than the old, all vicious and quick and hearts that are cold. They sore through the sky, making everything it's prey. If we don't do something they we will all pay." Twilight's mind was now undergoing a meltdown, her mind couldn't comprehend all of these weird situations and problems all at once, Just once can problems like these just happen at most once a week? Now what am I gonna do, Meganula's, giant flying shells, a giant creature, and a smashed and clawed orchard. Why is this happening so fast? Why can't life just give me a break? In reality, everypony and every zebra was seeing crazy Twilight mode. Twilight was speaking gibberish, jittering, wobbling her lips with her hoof, scraping her flank on the ground like a dog, and she even had her crazy look from episode 3, season 2. Zecora felt concerned about Twilight and had the feeling that she and the other trio had something to do with it, "Uhh girls, I think we should leave. Twilight is unstable, that is what I believe." The group had left Twilight alone for a little before talking to her, that was a good bet. Twilight was still in her crazy mode right in the living room.