“Okay, now that that’s over with…” Black Mage started, getting back to his feet.
“Hiya!” Fighter shouted out, behind him, now back to normal, back on his feet, with his arms raised high in the air, and a smile on his face.
“Oh, Goddammit!” Black Mage shouted to the heavens, still facing away from the idiot.
Twilight was now seriously confused. She then walked up beside Fighter to speak to him. She eyed him up and down, inquisitively, for a few seconds, before finally blurting out, “How are you still alive?!”
Fighter just stared back at her, with a blank look on his face. After about five seconds, (or one panel if you prefer? No? Okay then, five seconds it is.) he spoke up again. He simply said. “What do you mean?”
Twilight’s left eye was starting to twitch again. “What do I mean?” She almost screamed at him, almost being made angry by his sheer stupidity. “He just burned your lungs.” She stated matter-of-factly. “We all saw it. You had smoke coming out of your mouth and everything.” She then stomped down on the ground, hard. “How are you even breathing right now? This makes no sense.”
Somewhere far away, Discord sneezed.
“Oh, that’s okay.” Fighter replied, with a carefree attitude. “My brain doesn’t need much oxygen.”
Twilight just clenched her teeth and sighed in annoyance. “Yeah, I noticed.”
Fighter then smiled even brighter. “Yup. I’m a Drownball Champion.”
This made Twilight do a double take, and she snapped her eyes to attention. “Wh-what?” She stuttered. “How does that even…?” She tried her hardest to contemplate what he just said, trying to find some way, any logical way, by any of the infinite dimension’s physics, that that made sense, but no matter how she came at it, she just couldn’t think of anything. “Who would just choose to drown like that?” She rambled. “And where does the ball come in?” She started questioning.
“Okay,” Black Mage spoke up. “We’re getting off topic, and believe me, you don’t want to get into this.” He stated flatly.
Twilight was about to respond, but she stopped herself at the last moment. Who would have thought that Black Mage, of all people, would stop her, of all ponies, from going off on a tangent? (Hey reader, I asked you a question.)
“Good call.” Twilight said. “From now on, I’m going to remember what I learned from Pinkie’s ‘Pinkie Sense’, and I’m not going to question any of the impossible things that you two do, and just go with it.”
“Atta girl.” Black Mage responded casually.
She then sighed and placed her hoof to her head and massaged her temple. Her head seriously hurt now.
“Just… just get inside the castle before I change my mind about helping you, or I may have to temporarily forget about my Element of Harmony.”
And with that, they started entering the castle.
Finally.