//------------------------------// // Season 1, Chapter 18: Who is better? // Story: Armor Fillies // by MarkTheWolfpony //------------------------------// Imp began to struggle, trying to get sleep. But as he tried, that voice kept coming in when ever he tried to sleep soundly within the clubhouse. “HA HA! You let that fillie abuse you again! YOUR SUCH A WIMP!” The voice took pleasure in his sorrow. Imp couldn’t take it anymore. He woke up admittedly, hoping the voice would stop. Luckily it did just that. He took a look out of the window and noticed that it was almost morning. “What is wrong with me? This voice came out of nowhere and its bothering me nonstop!” He laid his hooves on his head as he rubbed his eyes. “It seems that seeing Gemstone again was the cause of it and I wouldn’t be surprised if that is true.” He lied back down on his sleeping bag. “I hope I don’t get involved with her again. She just screams trouble.” ___________________ As the sun rose, Scar managed to get to the castle before anybody could spot him. Once he entered, the others began to gang up on him. “Good job Scar. It seems that this was very easy for you I presume?” Darla smiled. Scar sighed. “Why did you gave me an easy job?” Darla snicked for a bit. “Its because you fit the job. Beside I don’t think Bracker and Dufus could go one second with causing such ruckus.” “HEY!” The two shouted. Scar rolled his eyes in annoyance. “So where do you want me to put all these then?” “Over here!” Dufus pointed next to the glass vase with energy next to him. Scar quickly pulled the carriage but Darla put her hoof out in front of him. “I think you earn a rest.” She clapped both of her hooves together. In response, two stallions came at her aid. “You two! Carry this for me!” With that, the two begin to push the carriage. “How long until we can start?” Scar questioned. Darla couldn’t help but smile deeply. “In all do time Scar. But I will say it will be one hell of a ride.” ___________________ In the midst of the desert, a train passed by normally. It may seemed that way on the outside but in the inside, its a whole different situation. “ALRIGHT THIS IS A STICK UP!” A Brown unicorn, with a black mane and tail as well as a cutie mark of a money bag began his robbery. The pony civilians began to scream and panic. Soon the other stallions that worked for him begin to point their horns and hold them hostage. “Alright I’m gonna make this clear! If you try to be a hero, then we will blast you to kingdom Kong!” The voice level was so high that it made the civilians shiver in fear. “Put them in the back of the train!” The other unicorns began to escort them. “Come on boys! Lets begin looting!” The robbers shouted a manly cheer before they began. As they grabbed whatever they can hold in a bag, One of them caught a shadow passing by. “Who’s there!?” The gray unicorn asked cautiously. He took a look around only to see it was nothing. He sighed in relief and began looting again. However he didn’t think to look twice. A yo-yo quickly wrapped around his neck and is pulled back at fast speed. “What the!” The leader saw one of his Stallions heading to the next cart. What came after was the sound of punches and kicks. “Well it seems we got citizens who are acting like heroes here! You two! Go get the others now!” “Yes sir!” The two robbers headed to the back of the train. “Come on out. You don’t want to make it worse than it is!” His horn charged up, getting ready to attack. “Come on out now…” As he got closer to the door, a yo-yo appeared in front of him. He quickly managed to dodge it. Soon, the others came in. “Hey boss! I got the others and-” He was greeted with a yo-yo on the face. The leader took a look and saw 4 foals right in front of them. “Alright you stallions time to receive your punishment!” Imp said with a confident look before all of them went into action. “GET THEM!” The boss ordered his stallions to get on the attack. Imp dodged every magical blast from a horn. He managed to get in front of them and began to fight him off. The light brown unicorn attempted to thrust his horn at him. Every attempt he tried ends up missing. Applebloom summoned her hammer in the heat of battle as two unicorns tried to blast her. She grabbed apple seeds and launched them in the air. Once they were in range, she hit them with her hammer, launching the seeds at them. They shouted in pain as the rain of seeds began to hurt them with every scratch. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo began to tackle one of the robbers. They dodged every blast of magic, chipping off the seats with every shot. Scootaloo managed to get and upper cut one of them. But she got the short end of the stick as the unicorn next him blasted her out of the train. “Scootaloo!” Sweetie Belle cried. Scootaloo held on the edge of the window. She tried to climb up but a magic blast knocked her off. Luckily she summoned her scooter out of panic. It took her a few seconds to recover, going much speed. Sweetie Belle gave the attacker a mean look. “YOU DON’T HURT MY FRIENDS!” She launched her mic at the robber, wrapping around all his legs which caused him to trip. She finished it off with kick in the face. Scootaloo quickly caught up to the train. She put out her hoof, hoping to reach the window. Unfortunately this distracted her from the incoming rock that was ahead. It was too late to react. As she slammed into the rock, it knocked her out of her Scooter. “Oh sweet Celestia!” She panicked and quickly fly on the top of the train with as much strength in her tiny wings. It was just enough for her to be on top of the roof of the train. “Wow that was awesome!” “Hey there she is!” Scootaloo turned around and saw three more of them came out from the rooftop entrance. She made a cocky smile. “Well this should be fun!” Scootaloo made the first move. She charged but the unicorns had a trick on their hooves. Two of them shot from both sides, closing Scoots to middle ground. The one that stood in front of her shot his charged laser at her. The impact of the laser was a lot more tougher than she thought. “UGH!” She landed at the edge of room. Scootaloo struggled to recover. “Darn it!” The three headed up to her and got ready to push her off. But suddenly they were all pushed back by a gush of wind. “What the heck was that!” One on the left shouted. A figure landed down on the roof top. Scootaloo managed to recover and got a front view of who save her. A light brown griffon filly with a yellow beak and front legs on the lower half. He had a dark brown tail tip to boot. “Are you ok?” He put out his left leg out. Scootaloo grabbed on as she nodded. “Who are you griffon scum!” One of them asked menacingly. He shrugged. “Well if you want to know my name, it would be Glaive and…” Scootaloo noticed his tail holding what seemed to be a coin. “ARMOR UP!” Glaive flew up in the air, being surrounded by many armor parts. He flew through them, which began to attach to him. Diving down from the air and to the ground, making a small mushroom cloud. He made the first attack. The three unicorns used the same tactic as they did for Scootaloo but didn’t think through that he was a better flyer. Glaive took flight and managed to dodge the incoming blast. He dived to one of the unicorns and knock him out of the train. The two continued shooting beams at him. However he was too fast for them to get a clear shot at. Glaive spread his front legs. Suddenly a silver medal began to cover all over, reflecting light off. The two were blinded by it which left them open for a attack. Glaive dive bombed and punched them both off the train roof tops. “Well that was easy,” He smirked. “HEY!” Scootaloo wasn’t happy about it. “Ummm is that anyway to thank the griffon who saved ya?” “I didn't need any help!” She said frustratingly. He smirked. “Well you don’t need to be upset about it.” “I-” Before she could speak, the two heard the other one coming to their position. “Scootaloo are you ok?” Applebloom and Sweetie Belle said simultaneously. “Well you could say that,” She shrugged. As Imp took a closer look, he quickly noticed who the Bruce was. “Bruce its a been a while…” “Imp! Buddy!” Bruce wrapped his arm around him and gave him noogie. “I can’t believe its been so long!” “You know this griffon?” Applebloom scratched her head. “Ya!” He said proudly. “ Glaive was one of fillies that I knew of during my younger days,” “I remember that I had to help you get out of a sticky situation if you know what I mean?” He made a wide smirk. “So did Faust send you here?” Scootaloo asked sarcastically. “Not really. I have finished a mission over at Appleloosa and decided to head home until I saw this young missy, who was fighting against three stallions on her own,” Scootaloo gagged as she faced the other direction. “Well lets clean up the mess here and head back to the temple ok?” Imp suggested. Glaive nodded in agreement. “Sure! Let me help you with that,” The rest headed back inside the train, with Scootaloo being the the last one to come in with a frustrated look on her face. “Show off…” ___________________ The very next day, The group headed to sugarcube corner for some milkshakes to cool down on a hot summer day. Things began to get a little fun around…Well almost everyone. Scootaloo sip her milkshake slowly as she drown in sadness. “Something wrong Scoots?” Sweetie Belle ask. Scootaloo head shot up. “Oh I’m fine.” “You don’t seem fine there?” Applebloom wasn’t fool by her facade. “I’m fine!” She tried to make it clear. “Lets just get back in drinking our milk-” “Hey there folks!” Scootaloo spits out her milkshake, surprise that Glaive was here. Sweetie Belle manage to dodge it but Imp wasn’t so lucky. All cover in sticky chocolate and vanilla cream. He slowly open his eye and glare at Scoots. She embarrassed blush. “He he he he sorry about that.” “Well that is one way to show that you're happy to see me.” Bruce smile deeply. “Well what do you want!? Can't you see I’m hanging out with my friends.” Scootaloo wasn’t showing a warm welcome for him. “Well that is rude.” Imp said annoyingly. Glaive scratch his head. “No I don’t mind. Besides she had every right since I stole her moment of glory.” “So what business brings you here?” Sweetie Belle ask. “Well you see I was inform for a mission that they need me asap and I thought that I ask you to come along.” “Alright time to kick some bad guy flank!” Applebloom throws some punches in excitement. “Hey keep it down! You don’t need to inform everybody here!” Imp said worriedly. “Alright then.” Once he made the offer, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom nodded their head. “Well then what do you need help on?” Imp ask. “Well….” ___________________ Scootaloo quickly dodged the incoming paw of the ursa minor. Applebloom and Imp quickly ran up to his arms but he was too loose. The ursa minor shook his entire body to knock them off. Sweetie Belle took very breaths while Glaive defends her from timber wolves. “Sweetie Belle I suggest that you start singing!” Glaive said while destroying one of the Timber wolves. “Sorry but I need a little concentration,” she continued to drop deep breaths. “Ok why did these Timberwolves wake this ursa minor in the first dang place!” Imp quickly dodged an incoming claw attack. Scootaloo quickly drove up on the ursa’s back.“Boy would that be the million bit question!” She turned her head back to see ponyville up ahead. “We gotta put thing to sleep or else ponyville will suffer a lot of damage than the last time!” Glaive noticed one of the Timberwolves heading right towards her “Scootaloo look out!” Scootaloo ignored his warning and pushed on. Glaive needed to get to her, but he needed to protect Sweetie Belle as she concentrated. As he was in a panic, Imp was sliding right past him. “Hey Imp! Protect her while I go to help Scootaloo!” He spread his wings and quickly took flight. Scootaloo stuck her tongue out as she puts her scooter at full speed. “Alright you ursa minor time for a...Huh!?” Scootaloo noticed the timber wolf jumping in for the attack. Scootaloo didn’t had enough time to react. Luckily Glaive managed to stop it just in time. Unfortunately Scootaloo lost her balance and began to fall. She quickly flapped her wings out of panic but to no luck. But just in the nick of time, Glaive was able to get her before she hit the ground. After a while of deep breathing, Sweetie Belle was ready to sing. Go to sleep, Go to sleep, Go to sleep little ursa. Go to sleep, you’ll meet a nice pony who will be your friend. Close your eyes and you’ll go into a happy place. The smooth voice calmed the ursa down. He slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep with all the timberwolves just under him. “Well so much for the timberwolves there.” Imp was whelmed of all the them being squish by the ursa minor “Well now we got a new problem...HOW ARE WE GONNA PUT THIS BABY BACK IN THE CAVE!” Applebloom proclaimed. “I think I can ask my mom for that,” Imp suggested. “You are really lucky to have a alicorn mother,” Glaive pat him on the head. While everypony was sitting down resting after the mission, Applebloom noticed Scootaloo in a unhappy mood. “Something wrong there partner?” “No not really.” Scootaloo faked smile at her “You’re lying to me are you?” She didn’t fall for it as Scootaloo had hoped. “Well fine! If you want to know, I have been feeling like the fifth wheel here!” She criss crossed her back legs and sat down with her lower lip sticking out. “Is this because of the griffon?” Scootaloo was surprised she noticed quickly. “You noticed,” She said annoyingly. “Well what does he do that is annoying you so much?” Scootaloo raised her left eyebrow in annoyance. “Well for one he was stealing my thunder there!” Applebloom rubbed her head. “Is that what you care about? I mean don’t you think you're taken this a bit too seriously? Besides, I think he is a nice griffon and you shouldn’t let that get to you,” She headed to regroup with the others. Scootaloo just shrugged off what she said. “What does Applebloom know! Well I know that for now I will be the one rising from the top! Just need to make sure that I think one step ahead of him and if that lesson really does help, I’ll be one step ahead of him,” She made a cocky smile. ___________________ Scootaloo unfortunately hasn’t been able to deal with the problem. For a while now, Glaive has been upstaging her in every mission that they got involved in. Every chance she took to save the day, he was always there to take her moment of fame. It only made her mess up within the chances she got and ended up looking like a fool. Scootaloo, with all her anger built up, headed to the Armor Fillies temple and headed straight to the training room. She quickly went to the the practice dummies to home in on her skills. She put them into position and stood in a fighting position. “Alright time to outclass the griffon with a training montage!” She rubbed both of her hooves together. But just as before she could start, someone called her name. “So Scootaloo decides to train huh?” Scootaloo turned around and saw Glaive standing by the entrance. “What do you want?” Scootaloo said dismissively. “Can’t you see that I’m about to home in my skills?” Glaive snickered at the thought. “Oh no I didn’t even mean to bother you. After all how could I not be interested in you trying to one up me,” Scootaloo’s face started to get pale. “Ya I know.” He shrugged with a cocky smile. “So you don’t like it when I outshined you from your glory am I correct?” “Well...I...UGH!” Scootaloo bucked the nearest dummy. “Well I wouldn’t be surprised to be honest considering the kind of pony you are?” He let out a quiet laugh. “You know I really want to kick your flank right about now.” She grinded her teeth out of sheer frustration. “Well you could have the chance to do that,” he smiled. Scootaloo tilted her head. “What do you mean by that?” Glaive began to walk ahead. “Well then follow me and you will understand.” She hesitated. But she wanted to see what he wanted to show so she followed him. The two walked between the set of doors until they both stop in front of a door with a symbol of two ponies, giving death glares at each other. Bruce’s tail rise up and snapped just like it had fingers and the doors began to open with a sudden burst of cheers. Scootaloo was amazed to what she saw. A huge scale arena that is just as huge as a sports stadium. A huge holographic screen is displayed with statistics of two fillies. It all tops off with a announcer stage just at the side of it. Scootaloo dropped her jaw very slowly. “What is this place?” “Scootaloo…. welcome to the battle arena!” He said proudly. “You see since we like to home in our skills as much as we can to face any threat in full strength, what better way than to fight each other in head to head combat,” He looked at her very devilishly. “So what do you say, you want to fight me one on one?” Scootaloo began to make a satisfying face as she rubbed both of her hooves around. “Oh you're on!” ___________________ “Has anybody seen Scootaloo?” Applebloom asked in the middle of their meeting in the treehouse. “Ya she is awfully late isn’t she?” Sweetie Belle said as she looked out of the window. Imp rubbed his chin. “I find it odd that its taking her this long to get here unless…” Then it hit him, “She must be at the armor fillies temple!” “Why would she go there without us?” Sweetie Belle asked. Applebloom pucked out her lower lip out in annoyance. “Some friend! Why didn’t she take us along,” “Well lets go and see what she is up too,” Imp suggested. With that, the three headed to the armor fillies temple at a fast pace. ___________________ The crowd of fillies cheered in the midst of a intense battle. The two fillies, one light read earth filly, and one dark green unicorn duking it out and pulling out every attack they have up their sleeves. A young aqua pegasus with a dark blue mane and tail, a cutie mark with a speaker took the announcement room as he commentated on the action. “Alright it seems that we are coming to close here!” He said with excitement. “Cotton Wave had gotten the slight advantage as the cotton spores began to block out Candy Bloom’s sight! She will need a miracle to get out of this situation!” “Where are you?” Candy Bloom looked around desperately in the sea of cotton. Suddenly she heard a noise coming from behind. “He was behind me!” She summoned a bunch of candy canes and launch them right behind her. “Hmph!...No way he could of dodged...HUH!?” The cotton began to clear up and she notice the candy canes stuck on the arena walls. “What! Where did he?” “Right behind you!” Candy turned around and was surprise to see Cotton Wave right behind her. Candy didn’t have enough time react. Cotton unleashed a kick right in the side of the chest. The force was so strong that it pushed her right on the wall. A cloud of dust burst out once she crashed. As it cleared up, she fell flat on the ground, twitching from the damage she had received. Suddenly a white earth filly with a poofy indigo mane and tail as well as a cutie mark checkered flag while wearing a black and white striped referee shirt comes in and headed to Candy Bloom and began counting down. “1…2...3!” Once it hit three, it was all over. “Knock out!” The the crowd cheered as the exciting match conclude. “Well folks looks like that concludes this match! Stick around because we are about to start the next match in a few seconds!” “Well then lets head out and give everybody a good show shall we?” Bruce smiled deeply. Scootaloo was pumped with excitement. “Well then lets see how you can handle once I go all out with you!” The two headed out and was greeted with cheers all over the arena. “Alright we got our opponents for this round! In this corner, we have Glaive! The griffon with attitude!” Glaive smirked. “Well I do have attitude here,” “And in this corner, we got Scootaloo! One of the latest members that just joined the Armor Fillies!” Scootaloo sucked up all her saliva and spat it out. “Don’t go easy on my because I’m a mare,” “Oh this is exciting here! Lets take a look at the stats that shall we!” The holographic scene dropped in the middle of the stage and began to display stats. Glaive Scootaloo Strength: 156 Strength: 50 Stamina: 200 Stamina: 150 Speed: 412 Speed: 300 Damage: 54 Damage: 30 Defense: 200 Defense: 100 Power: 344 Power: 96 “Oh it seems that one has advantage over the other! This could be one interesting match here!” The crowd cheered with excitement. “Doesn’t matter! Besides I know for a fact that I would win!” Scootaloo said with much enthusiasm. “Alright mares and gentlecolts! Lets battle!” With that, the fight had began. Scootaloo took the first shot, summoning her scooter and headed right at him. Glaive took flight, avoiding her first attack. He spread his front legs and silver medal began to cover it. He glided right to her in one swoop. Scootaloo managed to get out of range, but his quick speed was proving to be a challenge for her. But she was not gonna let that be a problem. “Your really fast aren’t ya!” She complimented while dodging every strike. “Well you haven’t see the best of me yet!” Glaive stopped attacking her for a moment. Scootaloo wondered what he was up to but thought she should take her chance to attack. Unfortunately she fell into a trap. Glaive spread his wings and began to flap them in a fast speed, causing a huge wind rift. Scootaloo got caught within it, struggling in the current that was produced. Glaive clawed on the ground, sending rock piles within the current. Scootaloo quickly dodges every piece that was thrown at her. “Ugh!” the the small debris was hard to avoid. It soon covered the shades, blinding her. She quickly got out of the current and wiped off all the dirt off her shades. Only to be be treated with a kick. Luckily she blocked it but the amount of force of the kick pushed her back. Glaive came at her at full speed, launching claws slashing at her. Scootaloo used her armor on her hooves to block every one. She takes her chance to get a hit on him as well but he was very fast on his feet. The two jumped far apart from each other. “Oh it seems the two are able to keep up with each other! This will be an interesting match indeed!” The announcer along with the crowd were bursting with excitement. The two breathed heavily as they glared at each other. “Well you are a fast one aren’t ya?” Glaive complimented. “Well when you practice on your scooter for life, it would make sense that I be the fasted.” She showboated. “Well I wouldn’t say that is something to be proud of, considering that you’re sisters with Rainbow Dash am I correct?” Glaive smiled devilishly “Well it seems that I became popular!” She stroke a victory pose. Glaive began to laugh very harshly which Scootaloo felt uncomfortable for. “Well then...That means I don’t have to go easy on you!” Scootaloo snickered at his words. “Well who says you need too?” But during the midst of this, Imp, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom just came in the nick time before they could continue. They stood right next to the edge of the stands as they saw the two just inside of the arena. “What the hay are you two doing!” Applebloom shouted. “Oh hey there guys! You’re just in time for me to beat the snot out this griffon.” Imp was very annoyed at her stupidity. “Scootaloo I suggest you forth it the match now!” His words wasn’t enough to make her stop. She charged in but Glaive was faster than before. She quickly went on her hooves and dodged every attack that he is launch at but no luck. He wasn’t gonna slow down for her but she didn’t want too. She quickly backed away from him and started dashing off on her scooter. “Hey you don’t run away from a fight!” Glaive soon followed her at a breakneck speed. Scootaloo and Glaive began to have a wild good chase around the arena. The two raced around the place like a racing derby, making many laps with each pass they make. “Seriously!” He said with glee. “Are you gonna keep doing this!” What he didn’t know was that Scootaloo was playing with him all this time. “Alright time to stop this chase!” With one pull of her breaks, she stopped dead in her tracks with Glaive flying right past her. “What the!” He was surprised on what had happened. But as he looked in front of him, he sees a wall and unfortunately he didn’t had time to react. A huge dust cloud pops up as he crashes in flat with his body spread out like a pancake. The referee comes and begins his countdown. “1!” Scootaloo nodded as she snicked. “Well I guess this is over,” “2!” But Glaive wasn’t about to give up easily. He quickly shook off the pain and was able to take flight with no problems. He slowly landed down as the referee ran out of the arena before the fight could continue. “Well I’ll be surprised, you thought ahead of me,” Glaive complimented on her plan. Scootaloo nodded side to side. “Didn’t you remember the armor fillies training? You have to think ahead but I made time to think about this plan.” Glaive began to laugh very hard. It started to confuse Scootaloo for a moment there. “Well since you show me no mercy, I might as well show no mercy as well.” Scootaloo was confused on the words he had spoken but she noticed that his tale was starting to move out of control. Imp’s eyes widen as his jaw drop. “SCOOTALOO! FORFEIT THE MATCH NOW!” Scootaloo stepped back a bit. The tail soon stopped and it began to transformed. A light blue metal began to cover it until the tip of the tail. Three claws forms around the tip, charging up a ball of electricity within the middle. Scootaloo was surprised on what she was seeing. “Wha...What is that!” Glaive couldn’t help but feel very amused by her reaction. “Well its simple.” He smiled devilishly. “Its my secondary weapon.” She was shocked to say the least. “Wait Secondary!? I thought every armor filly only had one!” “Well it seems they haven’t taught you that!” He shouted with glee. The tail suddenly began to shoot out Lightning bolts at her. Scootaloo panacly dodged every single one, but this left her open for an attack as Glaive appeared right behind her and punched her in the stomach. The amount of force was unbearable, even for the armor to take. Glaive proceeded to launch her up in air. He took flight and proceeded to slash her with every turn he took. This kept going until she couldn’t take it any more. Scootaloo fell at a slow speed before landing hard on the ground. Scootaloo quickly recovered but struggled to stand up straight. “I...Will…” She couldn’t concentrate after all the damage had she received. Glaive laughed very harshly on her attempt. “Well I like you’re ‘never give up’ attitude but that won’t get you far with in this world.” Glaive’s tail rose up, charging up a lighting ball. In one fell swoop, he threw a small electric ball at her. Scootaloo blocked the attack but it had a different effect. It ended up getting absorbed inside of her and shocks her from the insides. She screamed as the pain started to affect her very badly. Soon enough it stopped, leaving bruises all over her body. With that, she fell flat on the ground. The referee quickly headed back in the arena and began the countdown. “1...2...3 and its a knockout!” “AND ITS OVER FOLKS! GLAIVE WAS THE WINNER!” The crowd cheered as the announcer shouted the winner’s name. Winner: Glaive Loser: Scootaloo Imp and the others quickly head down to where Scootaloo was. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom took it the worst when they see their friend cover in bruises. “Scootaloo wake up!” Applebloom shakes her up in a panic. “Come on!” Sweetie Belle insist. Imp glare at Glaive angrily. “Do you have any idea what you have done!” “Well you shouldn’t blame me?” Glaive pointed at Scootaloo, “she was the one who wanted to go all out. Besides she will heal quickly as I didn’t went that far.” Imp grinded his teeth, holding back all the anger he has felt. “No...This isn’t done!” All of them turn to Scootaloo who was slowly standing up. “We will continue this match right now!” Glaive face palm. “You should really know when to quit. You lost and learn to deal with it!” “NO!” Scootaloo tries to attack once more but her friends intervene. The two put her down with all their might. “Let me go!” Glaive sighed. “Scootaloo I had enough of your crap.” He leaves the arena saying: “You know out of all the mares I have met, pony are not, you have to be the most interesting one I have set eyes on. We should do this again sometime.” He soon left the stadium. Scootaloo began to cry out of frustration. “Why!?” Imp couldn't bare looking at her. “You two!” The two turn their heads at Imp. “Just get her to the medic room quick!” With that, the two carry their friend out of here. “....What was she thinking?”