McGrath woke up from his peaceful slumber as the sunlight hits his face. He open his eyes for the briefest of moment but closed them directly, not yet ready to wake up just yet. He didn't remember much from last night, but what he remembered, it was magical. He heard whispers coming from the side of the room.
"Do you think we should wake them up? Its already 13:00." the voice of Twilight whispered, "No, let them sleep. I'm so posting this on my wall later." the voice of Phoenix whispered.
McGrath didn't know what they were talking about, all he know was that the pillow he was currently hugging was very soft. It also smelled like perfume...
"Wait perfume?" McGrath thought to himself, as he opend one of his eyes. All he could see was indigo. "Oh, crap..."
Meanwhile, at the training grounds of Canterlot Castle. For the last two hours, Celestia is trying to teach Skywalker to manipulate the sun light in his cells more efficiently.
"Picture it. Reach out with your power and lift that rock" Celestia instructed, as Skywalker started to concentrate. He reaches out, the rock it self vibrates, but that is all it does.
"Come on, you can do it." Celestia said kindly, but Skywalker in his frustration, blasted the rock to dust with a stream of lightning. Celestia watched as he let out all his frustrations, the blast exhausted him, dropping him to his knees.
"Are calm now?" Celestia asked as he walked up to him. Skywalker didn't answer but simply nodded. "I don't get it. We have been practicing for a month now and still no result. It's almost like..." Celestia said as she realized something, "Skywalker, would you mind if I take a look inside your mind?" she ask, Skywalker giving her a suspicious look.
"Why?" he said as he stood back up. "I think I know why your not making any progress. All I want is a quick look to verify if my theory is right, I won't look at your memories, I promise." Celestia explained. Skywalker thought about it before slowly replying "Alright...", Celestia gave him a warm smile "Alright, stay calm and open your mind." touched the tip of her horn on his forehead.
Celestia felt as if she took a dive in a cold lake, indicating that she successfully entered his mind. She sank down, as if she was surrounded by water, before landing on a glass pillar. She took a quick scan of her surroundings, noticing a large stone door. She takes a walk towards it, but noticing small arch's of black lightning sealing the door shut. "It is as I thought." Celestia said to herself before she pulled back herself back.
"And? What did you find?" Skywalker asked, as Celestia massaged her temples, "It is as I thought." Celestia started, "Your brain has placed a mental block on your power." she motioned him to the stairs.
They both took a seat as Skywalker asked "Mental block? What is that? How did it get there?". Celestia carefully chose her words before answering "You know about how humans, earth ponies, unicorns and pegasi only use ten percent of their muscles?" Celestia asked, Skywalker gave her a nod before continuing "Unicorn's have something like that for their magic, to make sure they're magic core doesn't overload. When something very traumatic happens to an unicorn, their magic core loses its limiter, so as a fail safe, the brain puts up a mental block to keep the magic core from overclocking." she concluded as Skywalker thought about her words.
"But... I'm not a unicorn, so what makes you think I have a mental block?" Skywalker asked, tilting his head a little. "I know your not an unicorn, but somehow it made sense. And what I saw in you Aria Of The Soul was exactly how the books describe the mental blocks." Celestia explained, as he gave her a questioning look. "Aria Of The Soul?" he asked her. "That's how we call the center of the mind in Equestria." she explained again, before Skywalker asked "How do we get rid of it?" Celestia gave him a sorrowful look "I... I have no idea. But I can look into it for you." she suggested.
Skywalker gave her a nod "Give me a book list, I'll ask Twilight on the subject too. If anybody should know about this its her." he said as Celestia gave him a mischievous smile.
"What?" Skywalker said as Celestia scooted closer to him, "Yes, Twilight should be able to help. I noticed you have become very close with her, so are you and her?" Celestia asked, chuckling at Skywalker's embarrassment, "W-What? No! She's great and all that, but were just friends!" he said, shaking his hands.
A half hour later, Skywalker stood back on Ponyville Train Station. For the first time, Rainbow was not there to greet him. After asking Twilight for help on his mental block, he headed home and decided took sit on the roof for some contemplating.
"What could possibly have put those mental block in my head?" Skywalker thought, "AH! Stupid power limiting brain!", felt back on his back.
After calming down, he started to enjoy the serenity of quiet.
"It's times like this that I just like to lay here and enjoy the peaceful serenity of a beautiful..." Skywalker couldn't finish before a voice shouted,
"SKYWALKER!!!", looking up, he notice Pinkie looking over him.
"What?..." Skywalker asked deadpan.
It took Pinkie ten minutes to explain what is bothering her, apparently a childhood friend from Rainbow came to visit. And in Pinkie's word, pardon my language, a bitch.
"So Pinkie," Skywalker said after hearing her story, "Are you sure that this friend of Rainbow Dash is really so mean?"
Pinkie nodded her head "Um, yeah, she keeps stealing Rainbow Dash away, she pops my balloons, and she told me to buzz off. She's a grump, and a thief, and a bully. The meanest kind of mean meanie-pants there is!" she said as she waved her front hooves wildly, "I've never met a griffon this mean. Well, actually, I've never met a griffon at all..." she was interrupted by Griffifth's voice. "Hey!"
"GriffON! Not GriffITH!" Skywalker shouted back. "Oh, okay! Sorry!" Griffifth shouted an apologize before Pinkie continued talking.
"But I bet if I had, she wouldn't have been as mean and grumpy as Gilda." she concluded, as Skywalker rolled his eyes. "Fine, I will look into it."
Pinkie smiled and gave him a big hug "Thank you for believing me Sky! I so owe you a Chocolate Cupcake!"
Skywalker sits on the roof of Sugarcube Cornor, spying on Rainbow Dash and Gilda.
"That was sweet." Gilda laughed, as she and Rainbow talked.
Rainbow looked up realizing something "Ugh, I gotta take care of a few weather jobs around here. Shouldn't take long. Just, uh, hang out in town and I'll come find you." she said as she flew off.
"That's cool, I guess." Gilda said indifferently, "I'm gonna go chow down." started to walk to one of the food stalls.
"Okay, Gilda. Let's see what your up to." Skywalker said not letting Gilda out of his sight.
Down below, Fluttershy is guiding a family of ducks cross the road. "Alright little ones, this way, this way." She said as she made a double check, "Mama duck, you're free and clear." walks backwards, and accidentally bumps into Gilda.
"Hey!" Gilda said offended, startling Fluttershy. "Please excuse me." Fluttershy apologized but Gilda cut her off. "I'm walkin' here." she shouted, making Fluttershy shrink in shock "Oh, um, I'm sorry. A-a-I was just trying to..." she stutterd but Gilda interrupted her again.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Gilda mocked her, "Why don't you just watch where you're going, doofus?" glared down at Fluttershy.
"B-b-b-but I... I..." she tried to explain, but Gilda roared at her. Fluttershy broke down and ran away sobbing.
"Ugh, please, all these lame ponies and hairless monkey's are driving me buggy. I gotta bail." Gilda complained as she flew away.
Back on the roof, Skywalker watched the whole thing, his rage growing by the minute. "No one treats Fluttershy like that." he said to himself, "No. One. ...Look out Gilda... Nothing will protect you from me." he jumped off the roof and dashed towards his house.
Gilda is sitting in the park, enjoying the sun, but suddenly her sun is blocked. Opening one eye she sees Skywalker standing over her with a very creepy smile.
Gilda stood up giving him a dirty look "Hedgehog! What the hell do you want?" she asked as Skywalker kept his creepy smile.
"Gilda, baby!" Skywalker exclaimed in an overly happy tone, "How's it hanging? Get it? 'Cause you gonna die!" he broke down in laughter as Gilda gave him a questioning look.
He stopped laughing, giving her his creepy grin again, "I guess you had to be there..." he said calmly annoying Gilda to no end.
"What do you want, hedgehog?" she asked as Skywalker kept smiling at her "You made Fluttershy cry." he started, "So I took your parents kidneys." he said this as if they were discussing the weather.
Gilda was about to lung at him but Skywalker waged his finger at her "Now, how about we play a little game?"
"What sort of game?" Gilda asked, getting a little scared by his constant smile and politeness.
"First one to die loses!" Skywalker exclaimed in an excited voice as Gilda was getting really scared now "W-what?" she asked.
In but an instant, Skywalker's smile disappeared from his face to be replaced by an expression of pure rage "You lose. Tear here apart!" The other guys jumped down from the tree they were standing under.
Skywalker's expression became his pleasant face "Now, let that be a lesson to you, young lady." Skywalker said in his sweetest voice, "Bullying is not very nice. So I don't want to catch you doing it ever again. Got that?", a loud crack is heard indicating that Griffifth was done... feeding.
Late that afternoon, the guys are hanging out in the back yard, laughing about absolutely nothing.
"For someone who was such a bitch and stuff, she tasted great." Griffifth exclaimed, making the other guys laugh. Rainbow landed, getting greets from the guys, "Hey guys, have you seen Gilda?" she asked.
"She left..." Skywalker said as the guys burst out in another round of laughter.
"I don't get it." Rainbow said.