Part 3
Twilight Explains The Plot
Twilight was pacing. Again. Anypony who didn’t know Twilight well would wonder how a unicorn who spent so much time indoors stayed so fit. Spike would be able to tell them that she gets a lit of exercise pacing around the library all day and all night. The disgruntled dragon dragged his bedraggled body down the stairs, glaring at his employer and totally not owner as she circled the room.
“Twilight, your pacing woke me up. Why are you at this so early?”
“Oh, hi Spike, It’s not early, its eight o’clock already.” twilight replied, not breaking stride for an instant.
“okay, let me rephrase that. Why are you at this so early?”
“because Vinyl and Pinkie are seeing each other.”
Spike blinked a couple of times. “Huh? When did this happen?”
“While you were asleep.”
“Dang it, I always miss the good stuff.”
Twilight finally stopped pacing and thrust her face into spike’s “It’s NOT good! This is very bad!”
“Umm, why?”
“Because Vinyl is Octavia’s marefriend!”
“No, she WAS Octavia’s marefriend, they broke up remember?”
“Spike! Those two are always breaking up!”
“Then maybe they shouldn’t have been together in the first place.”
Twilight’s eye twitched. “You don’t get it! This Isn’t about...”
CRASH!
Twilight and spike both hit the floor as a multicolored blur shot into the room and crashed into the bookshelves on the other side, sending all the books tumbling down onto the cowering pony and dragon.
“Oops. Sorry.” The blur, who was, of course, Rainbow Dash, apologized.
“Rainbow!” Twilight grumbled, dislodging herself from the impromptu book fort. “Don’t you ever use the door?”
“What’s the fun in that?”
“Ugh.” Spike grunted. His face fell as he assessed the situation. “great, another mess that I have to clean up.”
“Don’t worry Spike, I’m sure Rainbow Dash will be more than willing to help out.” The unicorn replied
“What? Why me?” Dash protested.
“You made the mess, you clean it up.”
“All I wanted was the next Daring Do book...”
“Then you should have used the door like everypony else”
The multi-hued Pegasus groaned. “This is so uncool.”
Twilight resumed her pacing, pushing books out of the way with her magic, as the others began putting books back on the shelves. After a while, Rainbow picked up a particularly thick volume and looked at it perplexedly. “Does ‘The Life and Recipes of Chef Gourmet Cuisine’ go under biographies or cookbooks?”
“It goes in ‘biographical cookbooks’” Twilight Replied.
“That’s a Section?” the cyan mare scratched her head.
Spike shrugged “Yup, Twilight couldn’t decide which section to put it in either, so she gave it it’s own section."
“Of course she did.”
“Will you just put them away please? And stop talking, I’m trying to think.” Twilight Grumped.
“About what?” Inquired the prismatic pegusus.
“Pinkie.”
“Don’t do that! You’ll hurt yourself!”
Spike tried not to laugh.
“Am I the only pony who thinks that this whole situaton with Vinyl is bad?”
“yes” spike replied. Rainbow, however, just looked confused.
“Why would it be?”
“because-”
knock knock knock
“Oh what NOW?” Twilight groaned, turning toward the door.
“Oh. I’m sorry.” a small voice called from the other side. “I’ll just come back later.”
“Fluttershy! Wait!” Twilight called hurriedly, rushing to the door. she threw it open to reveal the backside of a retreating yellow mare. “please come in, I didn’t mean to snap at you.”
Fluttershy turned around and whimpered. “Are you sure? I don’t want to be a bother...”
“Positive.”twilight reassured her.
“Um... Okay...”
“Twilight was just talking about Pinkie and Vinyl.”
“Oh yes. I heard about that. Isn’t it wonderful?”
Twilight Facehoofed “Et tu Fluttershy?”
Rainbow tilted her head to the side. “Say what now?”
“Never mind. The point is that Vinyl and Pinkie don’t belong together!”
“Why not?” the Pegasi and dragon all asked in tandem.
“Because together they could destroy Equestria!”
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Silver was seated on the couch in the apartment he was sharing with Octavia, Dressed up as usual in his full custom suit.
“do you ever take that suit off?” Octavia said, coming out of her bedroom.
“only when I bathe and sleep, call it a security blanket.” he replied.
Octavia chuckled “If you say so.” she then moved around to position herself on the couch next to him. “I’ve made my decision.” She said.
Silver turned to look at the gray mare. “what decision?”
“Yesterday you asked me to go back to Canterlot with you.”
Silver felt a lump forming in his throat. “Oh. What have you decided?”
“My answer is yes. I will Return with you. I have already started to pack.”
Silver leapt up from the couch “Really! you mean it?”
“Yes, of course I do. I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t mean it.”
“Hooray!”Silver leaped up and clapped his front hooves together. “do you think we can leave tomorrow morning?”
Octavia nodded. “That sounds perfect.”
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The Silence in the library was absolute. No pony moved, no pony said a word, no pony even breathed for a good fifteen seconds, more or less. finally, Rainbow Dash could not hold it in any longer.
“BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!”Rainbow Dash laughed so hard she fell over.
Twilight flushed. “This Isn’t a joke!”
“Oh come onnn Twilight, get real! How could Pinkie and Vinyl possibly destroy Equestria?” The Floored Flyer replied between bouts of laughter.
“Chaos energy.” Twilight Replied Curtly.
“What’s that?” Spike Inquired.
“I’m Glad you asked that, number one assistant. Chaos energy is the force that Discord uses in order to bend the universe to his will, Some ponies, as well as certain animals, also posses an affinity for this energy, which manifests itself as Extreme hyperactivity, otherwise unexplainable abilities, and/or defiance of the laws of physics. Bumblebees for example, how can an insect of that size fly on wings that small? the answer is chaos energy.”
“and Pinkie and Vinyl are both Connected to this... um... Chaos energy?” Fluttershy chimed.
“Exactly!” Twilight proclaimed smugly. “Their combined Chaos energy could cause a chaotic cataclysm that will wipe out all reason in Equestria, creating disharmony and madness that would make Discord look like nothing.”
“It’s a nice theory Twilight.” Rainbow said, picking herself up off the floor. “and by ‘nice’ I mean ‘not very nice at all’, but what evidence do you have?”
“Yesterday’s party.”
“What about it?”
“Why do you think it was such a disaster?”
“Because Derpy caught the Ice sculpture on fire.”
“Rainbow, I’ve told you not to call her that, It’s rude.”
“She Doesn’t care.”
Twilight sighed “Fine, the point is, how is it possible that Ditzy Do managed to set an Ice sculpture on fire?”
Dash shrugged “Chaos energy?”
“YES!” Twilight Exclaimed. “For a moment, Pinkie and Vinyl’s chaos wavelengths resonated, causing the Ice sculpture to burst into flame, poor Ditzy happened to be close to it at the time, and thought it was something she had done.”
Rainbow took a moment to think. “Are you sure you haven’t been watching too much My Little Enterprise?”
“Rainbow Dash. Do you remember the last time you didn’t listen to me?”
“oh yeah, the wedding...”
“Um...I Believe You, Twilight.” Fluttershy offered.
“So do I.” spike said. “But what are we going to do about it?”
Twilight smiled “Fluttershy, go find Applejack and Rarity and bring them back here, Rainbow Dash, go and run interference between Pinkie and Vinyl while the rest of us come up with a plan.”
“On It!” Dash Saluted before flying out the window.
Spike looked at Twilight expectantly.
“Spike... go make breakfast.”
“Awww.”
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“Yeah.” Dash Agreed. “Really crazy.”
“Ooh! Ooh! Guess what! I have a date with Vinyl this afternoon!” The party pony cheered.
“Oh really? I was hoping that we could hang out.” Rainbow dipped her head in mock sadness.
“Oh. I’m Sorry Dashie, maybe tomorrow.”
“Okay.”Dash Said with an exaggerated sigh. “what time will Vinyl be here for you?”
“Well I’m working a double shift today because I skipped yesterday, so I Don’t get off until six, so that’s when She’s picking me up.”
“Can I tag along?”
Pinkie Gave Dash an uncharacteristically hard look. “Dashie. It’s a date.”
“Oh yeah.”
“Sorry Dashie.”
“Not as sorry as I am.” Dash muttered.
“What was that?”
“Oh nothing. Have fun on your date.”
“Thanks Dashie!”
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“I Would Like to thank you all for coming at such short notice.” Twilight said to her assembled friends.
“No Prob’m Sugarcube.” Applejack replied.
“I am always ready to help out a friend.” said Rarity.
“I made sandwiches.” Spike announced, holding up a tray.
Fluttershy just nodded.
“as Fluttershy explained, Equestria is in terrible danger from the chaos energy that is being generated by Pinkie Pie and Vinyl Scratch.”
“Oh, Is that what she was sayin’?”
“It was a bit difficult to make out.”
“I’m sorry.” Fluttershy squeaked.
the Four ponies were seated in a circle around the table in the center of the main room of the library. the statue that usually occupied the table had been removed in favor of the tray of sandwiches that spike had just delivered.
Twilight Cleared her throat. “as I was saying, we have to stop this chaotic cataclysm, which I shall refer to from now on as the Chaoclysm, from taking place, In order to do that, we must first find a way to split up Pinkie and Vinyl, and then get Vinyl and Octavia back together, any questions?” she moved her gaza eround the table, finally settling on... “Fluttershy, You don’t have to raise your hoof.”
“oh. I’m sorry. I was just wondering... why do we need to get Vinyl and Octavia together again?”
“That is an excellent question. the fact is that Chaos energy wants to fill any space it is given, this is why it explodes when two ponies who are full of chaos energy come together, however, some ponies, like Octavia, are Immune to the affects of wild Chaos energy, and can cancel it out with thier presence. This is why Vinyl has shown fewer signs of chaos energy than pinkie, her relationship with Octavia suppresses it. without Octavia, It’s possible that Vinyl may begin to exhibit more Pinkie-like behaviors, and Celestia knows we don’t need two of them.”
“Sorry Twilight, but this is important! Pinkie and Vinyl are going on a date tonight!”
Twilight felt her blood freeze. “when?”
“six”
Twilight looked out the window at the clock tower. ten. “okay, this should work, we have eight hours to come up with a plan to wreck Pinkie and Vinyl’s date. for the good of Equestria.”