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// 17. 
// Story: 8-Bit Pony 
// by Dawn Flower 
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“Alright then, moving on… finally,” Twilight muttered that last word quietly to herself.

“Lucky guess.” Rainbow Dash muttered under her breath, just behind Black Mage.

“Anyway…” Twilight started again, sounding a bit annoyed. She had had just about enough of these silly interruptions. Here were two creatures that she had never seen or heard of before, right in front of her, even directly asking for her help, and she still wasn’t learning anything new about them. Placing a hoof to her forehead to steady her thoughts, she continued on. “You too came to this world from your own world, but don’t have any way of getting there on your own, is that right?”

“Yup, that’s about right,” Black Mage confirmed for her. “You can thank my friend’s idiocy for that.” He said, gesturing towards Fighter, behind him.

“I like swords.” Fighter suddenly said out of nowhere.

“I like cake.” Pinkie Pie also said out of nowhere, popping up beside Fighter.

Fighter then turned around to face Pinkie Pie upon hearing this.

"Y’know, one of the best things about swords, other than the fact that they’re shiny, is that there’s so many different kinds of them. There’s flamberges, cutlasses, rapiers, gladiuses, katanas, longswords, falchions, scimitars…”

“And there are so many different types of cake, like chocolate cake, vanilla cake, marble cake, red velvet cake, lemon cake, carrot cake, fruit cake, pound cake, pumpkin cake, cupcakes…” Pinkie went on, as she quickly hopped up and down on the spot as she spoke, like she was on a huge sugar high (which she most likely is).

Black Mage simply stared at the mind numbing conversation going on right next to him, along with everypony else, his eyes suddenly going wide. “Oh, dear, sweet, hopefully-merciful, evil Gods; there’s two of them.” The remaining ponies then all looked at him strangely when they heard him say that.

“Well, that’s it. I’m done.” He said as he threw both of his hands in the air. “I’m gonna choke on my endless, seething rage now.” He then turned around to face Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Rarity. “On the off chance that you creatures are even the slightest bit merciful, please do absolutely nothing to help me.

“Ghkk!”

Black Mage then collapsed on the ground.

Twilight blinked. “What just happened?” She then walked over to where BM fell.

“Kinda sounded like he said ‘Gak’.” Pinkie Pie suddenly said out of nowhere again. She then clenched her front hoof and looked serious. “He knows.”

Twilight, as usual, just ignored Pinkie’s randomness, and turned to address the others. “Again, what just happened?”

Looking over at Twilight briefly, Rainbow Dash then knelt down besides Black Mage to inspect his body. “I think his tongue just went down his throat.”

“Yeah, that happens sometimes.” Fighter chimed in.