“BLISS! We got another one!” Flash calls from the door, making the Head Trainer’s eyes go wide.
“What?! Seriously, did they put something in the food?!” she demands, more than a little frazzled at the influx of pegasi convinced they’d been hallucinating.
“If they did, it’d have to be all of it, since there’s no single common food item,” Mahogany replies, gesturing to the notepad she’d been scribing any possible hallucinogenic factor on. “And if that were the case, we’d be having hallucinations ourselves. Since the Training Room isn’t devoid of patients right now, and certainly hasn’t been for a week, my personal theory is that it was something in the air vent to Gym Four.”
Bliss sighs heavily, pressing a hoof to the bridge of her nose. “Cinna! Go downstairs and send Witch up here… Velly and Treble can chew me out later… Then go track down Rivet and ask him about anything involving the ventilation,” she commands, and the pink-maned administrative assistant scrambles to do as ordered, dropping her clipboard on Bliss’s desk on her way out the door.
Sighing again, Bliss turns her attention back to the light-red mare currently at her table. “Now, Tide… Tell me exactly what you saw?”
“Well,” Tide starts slowly, sighing as she sits straight as a board. “Dancer, Midnight, and I went into Gym Four to find Sky, who was seen being dragged in there by Sunshower…” She pauses, looking at Bliss as if the next part is the most important thing in the world. “When we got in there, we saw… well… We saw Squad Twelve being disciplined by Captain Moonbow. Not jokingly like she usually does; she was full on shouting, and beat the tar out of her brother for apparently beating on Sky in a spar… Then she shouted at Azure Star and Bear Claw… Really shouted at them like Silver would, and ordered them to go and get me and the rest of my squad.”
Bliss shakes her head as she takes notes, knowing that at least some of Tide’s ‘hallucination’ is true as she’d been the one to restore proper circulation and feeling in the well-known prankster’s limbs before his twin had arrived to drag the whole lot upstairs citing a meeting with Spitfire. While Bliss had been concerned at who had such detailed knowledge of energy blocking and pressure points, she has no small amount of difficulty believing that it was the Troll Captain. Also, Bliss knows that Sky had also been pounded on, and the Head Trainer, conversely, has no problem believing that Sunshower was behind that, despite the fact that before today, the squad’s antics had never actually hurt anyone.
Sighing, Bliss presses a hoof to the bridge of her nose again, already feeling the migraine setting in. If there was some sort of psychoactive drug in the ventilation system causing hallucinations, then the flood of ponies coming into her domain would only increase… And if there wasn’t, and the Squad Twelve Trolls had actually exhibited discipline and actual skill in combat beyond their usual fake-out methods, then the sky would have to be green to account for the upending of Universal Truths…
And Bliss can’t decide which option she’d prefer.