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// Curious Wubs 
// Story: Wub me or Hate me 
// by Vesperia 
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It's been three weeks and I was doing a bit of tinkering down in Twilight's basement on my new, almost ready, wubboard that was sitting on a messy work table. The original is up in a display on a shelf to the left of the basement's door. My new board looked sleek, and cool. And honestly, I was very proud of the work Twilight and I put into this. She handled setting up the battery spell for each of the gems inside the board and a small, but complex, passive magic collector for it. I handled physically building it and prepping it for my wub magic.

It's taken two weeks of constant work on our part, the equipment finally arrived and was resting behind me. We had enough left over from the budget to buy plenty of what things we needed to make more wub related equipment. I have a secret project I'm planning out and I'm even working on a little handheld device that will send the brown wub in the direction it's pointed at. Unforetunately I still haven't figured out how to keep it from hitting me as well, which led to various... messy situations. My ears were still ringing from the screech Rarity gave when she learned what happened, I came by her shop to borrow extra strong cleaning supplies for the clothes and she just had to ask. 

Naturally I haven't just been sitting on my ass every day while working on new inventions. I took Sun's little combat advice to heart, can't say I'm a master though. But I can say that this is the most exercise I have ever done in my life. The dedication to my physical health mostly stems from the fact that if I'm gonna stay with Twilight then I'm gonna have to be able to keep up if I ever get caught up in any situations that may occur. Most situations being episodes, like the wedding of Shining Armor and Cadence coming up in the near future. I've already dealt with Lesson Zero, and coming from experience Twilight's crazy face looks much less funny in person.

These few weeks have been packed with various things that needed to get done. The new inventions, physical improvements, and my favorite, magic. The boost I got from Max has been helpful. I still haven't mastered a ton of spells though, gag inducing as it is magic requires actual studying in order to get things done. Which is why my spell repertoire is sadly lacking. It mostly consists of telekinesis, and... yeah that about sums it up.

Turns out I'm not a very studious girl. Go figure.

Speaking of spells and magic, I recalled the day after I drank Max's liquid magic.


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"Mmm..." I groaned, shifting into a more comfortable position. I felt nice and cozy, the blanket was warm and the pillow was soft. The bed clearly did not want me to leave.

"VINYL!!!" Twilight's voice bellowed.

"Ahh!" My eyes shot open and I scrambled out of bed, my arms and legs flying in every direction as I tried and failed to orient myself. The sudden shock of alertness caused me to fall out of bed, I landed on my back with a grunt. "Ugh, did my bed get taller?"

I put a hand to my head and looked around, my eyesight a tad blurry as I rubbed my eyes. When everything finally registered in my brain my eyes shot back open with clear vision. I looked around the room for real this time. It was an absolute clusterfuck. My bed was now hanging in the air, no visible means of why. Book and bird hybrids were flying around the room, smashing into stuff and being a nuisance. The wall outside had a hole in it and the wall with the door was given a new shade of polka dots. Twilight and Spike were huddled in the middle of the room, Twilight casted a shield spell over them, and Spike was wrestling a particularly nasty scroll. The scroll was winning.

"Stop channeling magic Vinyl! You'll wreck Ponyville at the rate your magic surge is going!" Twilight yelled at me, she was forced to though since a strong tornadoish wind decided to swirl around. Paper and other various household items twirled around, I even saw a cow figurine float by.

I brought the hand holding my head down and saw the telltale sign of magic surrounding it, a teal aura. I quickly ducked as a book flew by my head and yelled back, "How?! I don't know anything about channeling magic the normal way!"

Twilight luckily didn't have to worry about dodging, her little haxing shield handled things just fine. "Just concentrate on your hand! You should be able to feel some sort of energy flowing through it! Simply will it to stop and it will! Trust me, it's what we unicorns do when we need to channel magic!"

"Just will it? Ugh, doesn't sound like it will work but whatevs, it's the only thing I can do right now."

I went into a more prone position to avoid any projectiles and held my hand out in front of me. I closed my eyes and tried my best to concentrate on my hand. To my surprise I felt a little tug on my being, I followed that tug until I came across some sort of pool of power. I somehow knew it was my magic pool, and I could feel it flow across my hand. With all my might I forced the magic to stop flowing, it slowly went down from a torrent leaking out to a trickle and then nothing.

I opened my eyes and looked around. Everything seemed normal, if only in a mess. I looked at my hand and then brought it down and looked over at Twilight and Spike. Twilight looked relieved and Spike was completely wrapped up in the scroll he was wrestling, he was clearly pinned and not happy about it.

"What." I paused, breathing a little heavy as I sat up. I must've used a lot of magic. "What, was that?"

Twilight rubbed her chin with a hoof while Spike tried untangling himself. She closed her eyes for a second then nodded, "Like I said, I think it was a magic surge. But those only occur during foal hood, when the unicorn's magic is much more unfocused. Which is weird because you can't use magic like a unicorn correct?"

When I heard Twilight's explanation I remembered what happened last night. "Oh, well you remember Max from last night correct?" At Twilight's nod I continued, "Well when I mentioned my lack of being able to use the magic inside me she helped me out. She gave me some of her magic, which was able to unlock the magic inside me. Maybe that's the cause?"

Twilight looked deep in thought, "Well it does sound like the best explanation so far. But I never heard of somepony just giving magic to another, much less that magic being able to unlock other things inside somepony else."

I shrugged, "Maybe since she's from a different universe things work differently there?"

Twilight sigh, "Maybe... Well we can figure that out later." Twilight turned around and walked to the door to the hallway, Spike right behind her. She stopped and turned to me, "Oh... and clean up this mess before joining us for breakfast. I want every book put properly back in its shelf, alphabetical too!"

I gaped at her, "What?! Twilight you monster!"

She merely giggled at my misfortune and happily trotted downstairs with Spike.


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"I still need to get her back for that. Not my fault..." I grumbled in my head.

I put down a screwdriver and decided I needed a bit of a break. I moved the chair back and it screeched, I gave myself a nice, long stretch and levitated my bag over to me. I swung it over a shoulder and walked up the stairs to the living room. There wasn't anyone around, not surprising really since I've never actually seen someone come here to check something out. Not breaking my stride I went straight for the kitchen.

I set my bag down next to the chair I'm about to occupy and opened the fridge. Pouring myself a glass of orange juice and taking an apple from the fruit bowl I sat in the kitchen chair. Taking a bite out of the apple I noticed the newspaper was still on the table. Seems nobody threw it away, shrugging I decided to see what has been going on recently.

I picked the paper up with my unoccupied hand and spread the newspaper on the table. I didn't see anything interesting on the page I randomly opened to so I flipped a few pages to get to the front. The better stories were usually on the front right? Turns out I was correct, there have been a ton of robberies in various electronic stores throughout Manehatten this past week. Bits weren't stolen, only stereos and the like were. Didn't seem to harm the businesses any less though.

I furrowed my brow in thought and took another bite of my apple. "Why would anyone steal stereos?" I muttered softly.

"You say something Vinyl?" Twilight asked as she turned a corner into the kitchen. She levitated a glass and the orange juice over to her and sat down next to me.

"Nah, just talking to myself. I'm just wondering about this story here." I pointed at the story article as Twilight leaned over.

Twilight read the article over and said, "I must admit... I'm curious as well. Seems strange to simply steal those kind of items, bits would be easier if they were just after money. But I don't know the ins and outs of a criminals mind so..." She simply shrugged and took a gulp of her juice before continuing, "But I do feel sorry for those poor business ponies. They didn't deserve that."

I felt myself nodding and took another bite from the apple. But I could not shake the feeling that something was amiss, I remembered the Daft Pony lookalikes that attacked the train Twilight, the gang, and I were taking. If it weren't for Sun I don't know what would've happened to us, but there was this feeling in my gut that these two events were related somehow.

Twilight was oblivious to my inner thoughts, "Well, in any case the guard should be able to catch the criminals. With how many large electronics stolen and from how many places stolen from there are few places to hide so much stolen equipment like that. Transporting it would be a huge pain too." Twilight finished off her juice and gave a satisfied sigh. "Well I'm going to visit Rarity, hopefully my costume for Nightmare Night is ready!"

Twilight clopped her hooves together excitedly and I couldn't help but chuckle. I was also looking forward to Nightmare Night, didn't have a clue on what I'd wear but I still had three weeks. I shook my head and said to Twilight, "You know it's like three weeks away right? You didn't have to get it done so early."

Twilight tutted at me, "Nono Vinyl. It's best to get things like this done early, that way there is less of a chance for things to not go your way! Besides... I can't help but want to wear the hat early!" She squeed in excitement and galloped off to Rarity's. I shook my head at Twilight's adorkableness.

I looked back down at the paper in front of me and sighed. I tore the page with the article and folded it up before sticking it in my bag. I crumbled the rest up and tossed it in the trash. I sat back down in the seat to polish off the rest of my apple and juice before heading back downstairs to try and finish the new wubboard up.

I crossed my legs, stared at the ceiling and muttered, "This is going to bug me for a while... but I gotta know. My gut won't let me brush this off..."