As Spike sent the letter, Jet notice it was getting dark. "Whoa, when did the time past?" Jet asked, making everypony looking around and noticing it was getting dark.
"That fight must have token longer then expected I didn't even notice the sun was going down" Loyalty said.
"Yeah it's like the sun was meant to go down fast for something to happen at night" Pinkie said confusing everypony.
"I guess we should all head home then" Cosmic said.
Everypony agree and soon they all head their separate ways, but soon after Cosmic and Jet suddenly fallen asleep. "Really guys you fall asleep now... great." he said to himself. He somehow place them on his back a carry them home. It took a long while and he was willing to drink another potion just to carry them home, but he didn't want to wake up in puke. As he walk alone with his asleep friends on, he notice how bright the moon was. It was a breezy night and he almost felt like just flying but he knew he couldn't abandon his friends, even if there were asleep. As he got to his place, he notice a package in front of the doorstep with a letter sticking out. He open the letter, but only to find the word "Thanks" he then proceed to open the package to only find muffins. He only assumed it was from Derpy because he help her the most for today. He then tossed his friends to their room and at least put a blanket over them and he then proceed to his couch. He wanted to try a muffin before he hit the sank and as soon as he took his first bite, he found the muffin to be very sweet and soon ate a bunch more muffins and got hyper. "Great" he said to himself, he knew he had to burn it so he decided to travel to Sweet Apple Acres and work there and once he was tried he head back. He agree to his plan and head out.
Cosmic woke with a expecting to smell something good but all he got was nothing. He suspected that Loyalty was asleep as well as Jet since he couldn't smell anything burning. As he walked out of his room he notice that Loyalty wasn't on the couch, he also notice a box with some crumbs in it. He decided to try the crumbs and discover it was very sweet.
Later Jet came out of his room. "Where's Loyalty?" he asked.
"I don't know but I did find this box, it was fill with some type of food, maybe a cupcake, anyways it was very sweet. Any idea?"
"I guess he got hyper and went out to burn off the energy, he probably asleep somewhere in Ponyville."
"That's make sense I guess... I'll go get breakfast started" Cosmic said going to the kitchen. Jet only nodded and decided to read a book. Soon after breakfast Cosmic and Jet went different ways. Jet wanted to check out more books, but only if Twilight was there because if she wasn't there that would mean the library was closed then. Cosmic went straight to Sweet Apple Acres. Once he got there, he notice Applejack was standing in front of the barn. "HEY APPLEJACK!" Cosmic yelled, while running to Applejack.
"Oh hey, Sugarcube. Uh... did you do this?" Applejack asked, poking to the barn's inside.
Cosmic stopped in front of the barn and discover that it was a bunch of zap apples. "No."
"Then who could have done this, with this many zap apples here it would have taken a lot of energy."
"Than it must have been Loyalty."
"Why him?"
"He wasn't here this morning and he got hyper last night so he probably came here to get rid of his extra energy."
"Well how about you try to look for him, you will need those baskets later."
"Ok Applejack" Cosmic said, and soon took to the sky. He did a quick check for clouds because he recall that Sweet Apple Acres wasn't supposed to have any clouds for the next week. He soon spot a lone cloud in the sky and went to it. He went to the cloud and found Loyalty. "Hey get up" he said, poking Loyalty to get up.
"What, who where... oh hey" Loyalty said.
"Dude, what happen to you?"
As Loyalty check himself and found out that he was cover in mud and leaves. "I guess I was high then, pun entirely intended" Loyalty said with a big grin on his face.
"So what happen then?"
"I don't know really, I ate really sweet muffins and last I check I wanted to waste the energy I had."
"Muffins? where the hay you get that?"
"It was in a box outside our house, I think it was meant for me."
"That makes sense, I guess but you could have left some for us.."
"What was that last bit you said?"
"It's nothing you should get yourself clean."
"Fine I go to some lake or something."
"That or you could head to the spa."
"Like I would head there."
"I don't really care."
"Good, I guess I'll see you later than."
"Bye" Cosmic said, while watching Loyalty leave. He didn't know why, but he felt a little jealous that Loyalty might have a fan. He quickly try to get rid of the idea and head to see Applejack for the baskets.
Jet was traveling to the library, but got distracted by Scootaloo's crying. Jet went to her wondering what's up. "Hey, Scootaloo why are you crying?" he asked.
"I broke my scooter" she said.
"I thought you won't be using your scooter anymore because you learn how to fly."
"Yeah I thought so do-" she stopped crying "-but the more I avoid it, the more I want to use it again but now I can't" Scootaloo was about too start crying again.
"I could probably fix" Jet said with some regret.
"You would do that" Scootaloo said with the happiest smile as she said it.
Jet took a big gulp. He wasn't a professional or even tried repairing anything, but his wings. His choices were either make the filly hate him for deceiving her or making the scooter worse than before. Jet took a breath of air "Only if you would help me, maybe you learn something."
"Ok that seems fun anyways" Scootaloo said picking up the scooter. She was about to put it on Jet's back, but Jet back off.
"Scootaloo can you carry it. If you put it on my back it would get wreck if you place it on my wings."
"Oh ok, so where are we heading?"
"To the library we do need a manual on repairing the scooter now."
"I guess that makes sense" she said and soon they headed to the library. After a few minutes Scootaloo remember a question, that she wanted to asked for a while now. "Hey, Jet can I asked you a question?"
"Go ahead."
"Have you always had mental wings?"
"No, but I had it since I was a child. Why do you asked, did you really think I was born with metal wings?"
"No of course not, but...-"
"But what?"
"-but did you even get to fly?"
"No I never got to fly, I only got to glide and even gliding was hard."
"Did you ever get ashamed just because you couldn't fly?"
"Ashamed no, bullied yes."
"Yeah I got bullied too and also for blank flank."
"That isn't as bad as me."
"Oh really, I've called chicken before what could be worst."
"Well you are ready know my step-mother and her plans-"
"Oh yeah" she forgot about that and soon she knew she was going to fell sorry for him.
"I never really made friends, I can hurt myself at times, I was made fun of, I was even push off of Cloudesdale at times, and there-"
"YOU WERE PUSH OFF CLOUDESDALE!" Scootaloo shouted causing some ponies to look in their way.
"Yeah, but,Cosmic always had my back and ,Loyalty was always there to catch me."
"But did the bullies ever care what would happen to you if your friends didn't had you back?"
"If they did they would have not done it in the first place... actually I think they only did it because they knew Loyalty would catch me, he always has."
"Yeah, but didn't anypony see is what there doing was wrong?"
"Not really, my friends were called the trio of freaks, do you think anypony would actually care if they heard that."
"Ummm...yeah they would care."
"Well maybe a filly or colt, but it happens a few years ago we were pretty much grown-ups by then."
"So what did you do since you can't fly?"
"I read books and did potions brewing, I heard that your friend Applebloom somewhat does potion brewing before."
"Yeah, during Twilight Time and when she visits Zecora."
"Twilight Time?"
"It's when we hang out with, Twilight to learn stuff."
"And you didn't learn how to fix your scooter with that time."
"My scooter is custom made, I can fix a regular scooter in no time."
"And you didn't tell me your scooter was custom made I can see problems trying to fix it."
"So is this mean your not going to fix it?"
"I'll try, so how about we get to the library to figure out some things about a scooter that you might not even know."
"Uh ok" she said as than walked to the library.
Loyalty flew quickly to a nearby lake. He was able to get rid of anything that wasn't fuse with his fur going at his speed. While speeding he felt like trying do to the sonic rainboom, since he was already going fast. He plan that, if he fail he would a least land in the water, so he didn't hold back. He soon started flapping his wings so fast it might have got on fire, but with this much wing it would have been blown out. As he increase his speed, notice he broke the sound barrier, but how he was able to figure out it was broken was a mystery to him. He felt like he was able to do the sonic rainboom until a lake felt like showing up in his view and soon enough there was a giant splash coming from the lake. He felt a little sad he couldn't do the sonic rainboom, but he was at least clean. As he got out of the water and on to land he saw a wet-mane Rainbow Dash and before either of them notice both of their wings went *pomf.* They soon realize their wings were wide open and they tried to close them. Loyalty just thought that he wasn't Cosmic because he would had a much longer and harder time to hide a wingboner. Once they both calm they're wingboner Loyalty was first to speak. "So what's up?"
"I was relaxing on the lake until you came along, what were you even doing?"
"Sorry about that, but I was trying do to the sonic rainboom, I know you already done it."
"You have since when?"
"I was a competitor in the Best Young Flyer competition."
"Really you were I didn't even notice you, no offence."
"That's probably because you were hiding in the corner."
Rainbow blushed a little "I would have known if you were there I saw everypony who was there."
"Are you sure that you won't staring at other ponies' flanks as you swap your number" Loyalty said as he giggle a bit.
Rainbow blushed even more "So what number were you because I remember that I didn't swap with you."
Loyalty signed before answering "I was sixteen but due to the time constraint I was cut and you and Rarity had to share yours, I wasn't even given a chance, but I guess I couldn't beat a sonic rainboom."
Rainbow felt a little sorry "Sorry about that you couldn't try."
"It's ok like I said there no way I could beat a sonic rainboom.
"Hey, how about you show me what you were planning to do for the competition."
"Sure" Loyalty said and soon did a trick that was similar to Rainbow's Buccaneer Blaze. "So how do you like that-" he looked at Rainbow and saw her jaw dropped. "-I guess you like it?"
"Where did learn that?" Rainbow asked with a little anger.
"I somewhat made it up for the competition I call it the Trio-Blaze, you know to show off my friends."
"That trick looks like my own move the Buccaneer Blaze and I never showed that off ever."
"Jet somewhat help out and, Cosmic help me perform it, so I named it after on how my friends work as a trio."
"Hear I show you the Buccaneer Blaze."
"OK" and soon Rainbow show the Buccaneer Blaze. "That does seem similar to the Trio-Blaze, I guess it shows were somewhat alike.
"But' I'm a mare and you're a stallion how is that a like?"
"What I'm mean is that your the element of loyalty corrected?"
"Yeah, what's your point?"
Loyalty was about to do a hoof-palm but held back. "Loyalty is my name and being loyal is my game."
"Oh but there no way your the element of loyalty."
"What I'm trying to say is, that were both loyal. Heck, Jet said that I might as well be the element of loyalty, I challenge that title a lot but we all know I can't be the element of loyalty."
"There's no way your more loyalty then me, I even gave up a spot to work with the Wonderbolts, and that's was my dream to be a Wonderbolt, but instead wanted to be teams with my friends."
"I guess giving up a dream is pretty loyal but how many times have you risk your live to save a friend?"
"I don't remember times why I risk my life for a friend but I would do it if you asking."
"Yeah I risk my life before and the only thing scary is that you may only get one chance to do it and you aren't careful there might not be a second time."
"How many times have you risk you life?"
"The problem is you might suffer brain damage, but I do remember the two recent one you know the two, the lighting event coming to Ponyville, and Jet's step-mom coming here."
"Oh yeah, I remember now."
"So now what?"
"Want to have race to Sweet Apples Acres."
"Sure, but why there, is it that you like Applejack even more than a friend" Loyalty said cocking a eye brow.
"NO! it's just the farthest and it could help get rid of the water."
"Sure" Loyalty said, blasting of to Sweet Apple Acres.
"HEY NO FAIR!" Rainbow shouted. She soon got up but she had to admit it wasn't easy. Loyalty was fast, but he couldn't pull of the sonic rainboom. During the race she wonder if Loyalty did the Trio-Blaze would he won the Young Flyers competition. She also thought that he never got to go was because of her, holding up the competition by swapping numbers, but it was a while back and so many things happen, she tried to forget about it and focus on the race a head.
Cosmic just finally made it the barn to find that some baskets are empty. He never thought that Loyalty was far from the barn, and felt like he miss a lot of time during that point. "Hey Applejack, I found out who buck your zap apples."
"Really who might that be?"
"It's was Loyalty, he got a sugar rush so he came here to buck some apples to get rid of the sugar rush."
"Well he almost harvest and entire quarter by himself it's mighty impressed."
"If you would in a sugar rush you would feel like you can do anything, the only problem is your teeth, it be rotten to the core."
Yeah, well about we started apple bucking, partner."
"Sure, but I was wondering where's Big Mac, Applebloom, and Granny Smith?"
"They had some business at Manehatten, Big Mac might be still hurt but there be ok."
"Tell that when one of you legs starts to fail" Applejack shot a glare. "What I was joking" Cosmic said, picking up some baskets with his wings.
"Let's just get apple bucking."
"Can do" he said walking out of the barn. Before he knew it, he saw Rainbow for a spilt second and soon Loyalty, but crashing into him.
"You should really work on the reaction time" Rainbow said, floating down.
"Yeah yeah... sorry about that Cosmic" Loyalty said helping Cosmic up.
"What are you even doing here?"
"Asked, Rainbow" Loyalty said as he pick up the fallen basket.
"So what are you doing here, Rainbow?"
"We wanted to dry off so we race here do to it. Well since were here we minus well help out, right, Loyalty."
"Right."
"Whatever come on Loyalty we're buck the apples you miss last night."
"Ok" he said running off to the field with Cosmic.
"Last night? He was here."
"Yeah but only because he was hyper."
"Oh ok, how about we buck the other side."
"Ok, Rainbow. Just let me get the buckets" Rainbow nodded, grabbing some buckets as well. They walk for a long while, silent. It wasn't until Rainbow spoke thinking the stallions were really far away.
"Hey, AJ can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead, Sugarcube" Applejack was curious on why she would asked something.
"Do you like Cosmic?"
Applejack blushed a bit. "Why in the hay would you asked something like that?"
"I was just wondering, I saw how you were staring at his flank and how you grab him, when he you asked if he would work for you."
"Now, where did you here that?" Applejack was sweating up a lot.
"Loyalty told me during the race here, now confess you know you can't run from me of all ponies."
"I uhhh...-" she sigh, she knew she couldn't lie and can out run her, and even if she could Rainbow would always ask again and again until she got a answer. "-yes I do somewhat like Cosmic."
"I knew it" Rainbow said, doing a little victory dance.
"Well what about you do you like, Loyalty?"
"I uhh...-" she was about to fly away, but Applejack's lasso caught her before she even tried. "- I guessed I like him a bit" Rainbow knew she couldn't lie to Applejack, not to mention she was also tied down.
"I knew it" Applejack said untying her friend.
"Come on let's stop goofing and get apple bucking."
"And let's keep this our secret."
"Done."
Back to Loyalty and Cosmic. They are ready finish off their baskets and were heading back to the barn. "Hey, Cosmic can I ask you something?"
"Is it that you like Rainbow Dash?"
"What no I uhh-."
"Don't worry I won't tell" Cosmic said with a devilish grin.
"You better or I'm going to tell everypony you like Applejack."
"What no I don't" Cosmic said with a blush.
"You can't lied to me, you might be strong, but your as open as a book."
"Fine, so what did you want to talk about."
"I don't know it's just something to get off my chest."
"Good, I agree it's good to get it off my chest as well."
"Do you think they might like us?"
"I thought we were done talking about it."
"But it's make you think."
"Keep thinking out loud and they soon hear it."
"Fine I shut up but-"
"but what?"
"Do you think Jet likes Twilight."
"I doubted it, he never was into mares anyways."
"Yeah remember the time the most popular mare asked him out."
"How could I forget, she was so pissed she hired ponies to beat on all three of us."
"Yeah she just wanted to embarrassed, Jet but instead she went after us, but it's a good thing your with us."
"Yeah you guys wouldn't have survive with me."
"More like, Jet because they were after him the most."
"Yeah."
They laugh for a while and soon got back to work.
In the library, Jet was struggling on fixing the scooter. He felt a little ashamed that he couldn't even fix a simple custom made scooter. He was running out of ideas to think of.
"Jet is there anything I can do?" Scootaloo asked.
"You can always tell me who made you scooter that could always could be helpful."
"Who him his name Is Kyle he lives near Sugarcube Corner."
After hearing this he was about to break the scooter even more then before, but he hold back. "Come on we're leaving."
"Where we heading?"
"To, Kyle to get this fix he is still alive is he?"
"Oh yeah I guess he would be a good choice to go to."
They walked to Kyle placed, Jet knot on the door, but was surprise to find to hear a voice instead of opening the door. "Help I'm lock in" the voice inside cried.
"Woah calm down, just tell me what's wrong."
"My door's jam and I can't get out."
"Isn't there any other doors you could get out with?"
"No, this is the only exit."
"What about the windows?"
"Their enchanted so my step-daughter won't be able to break them."
"Ok then, step away from the door I break it down."
"But how do you do that we pegasus aren't that strong" Scootaloo said.
"Hey I know that voice, Scootaloo is that you."
"Yeah I'm Scootaloo."
"I'm guessing your, Kyle then."
"Yeah I'm him."
"Good you lucky were looking for you, now stand back."
"OK I'M BACK!" Kyle shouted.
Jet took off one of his metal feather and slice the door down with it. "There we go."
"Thank you so much, I was just running out of food."
"It's no problem."
"So what can I do for you two?"
"Can you fix my scooter?"
"Of course I would fix it" he said grabbing the scooter. "Here you go" he said after he finish with the scooter.
"Wow thanks" Scootaloo said, giving him a hug.
Jet was a bit jealous he could fix the scooter so easily, but it didn't matter to him, he did what he wanted to do so he head off to the library. "I'll be going now see yeah" he said dashing away.
"For having metal wings, he moves pretty fast don't you say so?"
"Yeah."
When Jet got to the library, he saw Twilight closing the library. "You do know this is the public library" Jet said to her. He notice she wasn't with help baby dragon.
"Oh ops I sometimes forget that, because it is my house after all."
"Yeah well you should be careful someponies would like to read something new."
"Well how about we head inside and I'll show you some books" Twilight said opening the door. "I know I said this before, but it's finally great to a pony into books and learning."
"I only do it because I couldn't fly, but I guess I could have worked out instead of reading, I found it more better."
"Not to mention to you brew the best potion nopony could have ever made."
"I'm pretty sure Starswirl the bearded could have made a potion easy or a spell since he was into spells more."
"He is great, but I got do finish Starswirl's masterpiece."
"He had a masterpiece?"
"How do you not know of this masterpiece?" Twilight said in shock.
"There's not that many books on unicorn, it's mostly tricks and tips for pegasus."
"Oh, uh ops I didn't know that."
"I was lucky a merchant was selling some history books, that's how I found out, so how did you figure out this spell?"
"He didn't understand the power of friendship, it might have swap my friends cutie marks, but the answer was to be true to yourself and others."
"That sounds about what would Loyalty would say, be yourself no matter what other say or do. He loyal to himself and others."
"I curious what's his real name is?"
"I curious do, but I also don't want to know."
"Why not?"
"It's like one of those things you want to know, but turns out it's something different."
"Oh like checking out fifty shades of hay."
"You actually read that?"
"A bunch of times actually."
"Why?"
"I wanted to know why it became a thing."
"Did you?"
"Yeah take a seat by the couch because I did a lot of research it is long."
"OK" Jet said, trying to find a spot where his wings won't cut the couch.
"Jet why don't you take off the wings?"
"I don't want to be I look weird as I already do and besides I'll cut myself if I do."
"Here let me do it" she said, lighting up her horn and removing his wings. Twilight didn't find the look to be weird by kind of cute. "See much easier."
Jet went on the couch pretty quickly. "I forgot how heavy my wings are."
Twilight giggle at his rather cute pose and soon sat on the couch telling her story. After she was done it was really late. "Jet how about you stay the night...-" she saw that he was snuggle up close to her asleep. "-I guess you could with me tonight" she whisper to him.
It's was getting darker by the minute any Sweet Apples Acres' trees look pretty empty expected for the leaves. The four ponies were having some zap apple goods. There were celebrating that they were able to harvest the rest of zap apples. Applejack tried something different and serve zap apple cider. Rainbow loved the new idea but knew this probably the only time she got to try it, but she could always rub it in Pinkie face. They didn't invited because they didn't plan to finish so early, the party was unexpected. After the small party ended it was pitch black.
"Hey *hic* how about you stay in the house tonight *hic*" Applejack said.
"Sure *hic*" everypony said.
"Good follow me *hic*" everypony follow Applejack and soon was snoozing, the only thing was taht they were sleeping in pairs. Applejack and Cosmic, Rainbow with Loyalty. They didn't mind for now.