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// Chapter 8: Another Brick in the Wall; Part 2 
// Story: Equestria Girls 2: Shards of Harmony 
// by Zurvan 
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Chapter 8: Another Brick in the Wall; Part 2

Applejack takes her hat off and wipes the sweat off her forehead. “Whoa, bricklaying sure is harder than apple bucking.”

“I’ve never done this hard of work in my life!” Twilight says as she looks at her blistered hands.

“You seem to catch on quick enough,” Rainbow Dash says.

“I read a book on it when I realized it was going to be necessary to do some,” Twilight mentions nonchalantly.

“You learned bricklaying from a book?” Rainbow asks.

“No, I learned the basics from the book, I learned the rest from all of you as we went along.”

“Well,’ Applejack says, “we’ve fixed the school up, again, so hopefully we won’t need to do this again.”

“I don’t know,” Twilight says, “with Queen Chrysalis and her changelings out there I have a feeling we’re in for trouble.”

"We'll really kick her butt next time!" Pinkie exclaims..

"Pinkie's right," Rarity says, "the shards have given us impressive abilities, along with the physical changes."

"What do you mean?" Twilight asks.

"Well, obviously you can use magic now!" Rarity states, "while I can levitate objects rather easily."

"Any of the rest of you get abilities?" Twilight asks.

Pinkie does 5 cartwheels, and spins, and a few other miscellaneous tricks, "Olympic gymnastic team here I come!"

"I... um... feel the weather changing," Rainbow Dash admits, "I think I might be able to control it."

Applejack shakes her head at Rainbow, "the shard made me even stronger than Big Mac, and y'all know how strong he is!"

"Fluttershy?" Twilight asks and notices Fluttershy is off to the side with her dog Spike.

"Yes, Spike it does seem unfair that I am on only one that can understand you," Fluttershy says, "you want me to tell the other's what?"

"Fluttershy?" Twilight asks as she comes upon the girl, "what are you doing?"

"I'm talking to Spike," Fluttershy answers nonchalantly.

"He's a dog," Twilight points out.

Fluttershy blushes and very quietly says, "I can talk to animal's now."

Twilight smiles, "you must be very happy, you told me you wished you could know what they wanted."

"Um, Twilight," Fluttershy murmurs, "I told that to the other Twilight."

"Oh," Twilight looks down, having had not realized she was getting her double's memories again.

"Anyway," Fluttershy starts, "Spike wants me to tell you that he has all of his double's memories, apparently it wasn't hard for him to assimilate them."

"That's... just amazing," Twilight says, "we'll have to talk about that later," Fluttershy nods and they head to the others, who have finished cleaning up.

"Who wants to come back to the farm with me and have a nice cool glass a cider?" Applejack offers. Then they all nod and head off.