Celestia’s Tiny Student
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Chapter 20
Camping Trip
Soarin' and Twilight looked proudly at the miniature saddle that they had finished, well-made and tightly constructed though it had only taken a morning to complete. Twilight was hesitant at first, remembering her grievous injury at the point of a needle during her fillyhood, but time and experience had dulled the sharp memory, and she had eagerly taken up sewing the majority of the stitches necessary. A small enchantment spell topped off the project, ensuring that the ropes would be harder than steel while still maintaining their flexibility.
The two had taken it on a test flight that very afternoon, watching from above as the various Wonderbolts paid their respects to their captain before departing for their vacation, whether in Las Pegasus or simply with their families. Twilight had glanced over at Spitfire as she addressed a few of her teammates, but in the end had opted to continue the flight rather than stop to go talk with her that day.
Over the following days, while she wasn’t engrossed in her books, Twilight had spent a majority of her time with Soarin’, whether reading, chatting about various topics, or testing the saddle in the training area.
However, whenever Twilight was near Spitfire, her enthusiasm was noticeably subdued. She asked only a few questions about pegasus magic, sometimes taking a feather or two to study, all the while speaking as little as possible, refusing to use her magic or levitate herself, and turning down Spitfire’s offers to spend time with her. Twilight had quickly excused herself every time, insisting that she needed some time alone to work on her spell and that she did not want to be a bother to the captain.
Spitfire, however, was getting very bothered.
“Is everything packed?” Spitfire asked as Soarin' put a saddlebag on her back.
The stallion simply gave her a nervous nod before turning back to tightening the straps on the pack.
“Good. Now double-check the saddle you and Twilight made. I want no accidents here,” Spitfire commanded before she turned back to the little mare sitting in front of her on the floor.
“I appreciate the gesture,” Twilight said hesitantly, giving her an awkward smile, “but you really don’t have to—”
“Oh no, little missy, no excuses. All you’ve done is study and avoid me like the plague, but not today. I am taking you on this camping trip whether you want to or not,” Spitfire said, giving Twilight a determined stare as she punctuated her last word with a stomp of her hoof, causing the little mare to flinch.
Twilight continued to maintain her false smile, even as she vividly remembered the confrontation on her first day. “I-if you insist, I will be glad to accompany you.”
Spitfire frowned, annoyed by Twilight’s odd attitude. She’s acted nothing like when I first met her. It’s like all of her enthusiasm just up and left for some reason. No matter. I will get to the bottom of this.
“Hop up,” Spitfire said commandingly, turning her side to Twilight and spreading one of her wings like a ramp in front of the tiny mare. Twilight nodded and had barely walked onto her wing before Spitfire flicked it, throwing Twilight precisely onto the tiny saddle. “Another lesson about pegasus anatomy: with practice, we can use our wings just as well as our hooves.”
Twilight nodded, still feeling rather uneasy. “Y-yes... R-really neat.”
After adjusting herself comfortably into her saddle and making sure that all the ropes were tight, Twilight turned her attention towards Soarin’. “Are you sure you don’t want to join us? It won’t be the same without you.”
Soarin' scratched the back of his neck with a hoof. “Sorry Twilight. I have... umm... stuff to do. Yeah... and they won’t get themselves done,” he said nervously.
Spitfire listened to the talk between Twilight and Soarin' as they both bid friendly goodbyes to one another. She has no trouble talking with Soarin', but she gets all nervous around me. Not only that, whenever I try to ask Soarin’ about the cause of this, he always changes the topic... what are they hiding?
“Have you two lovebirds finished your farewells already?” Spitfire asked with a smirk, causing both Twilight and Soarin' to blush.
“It’s not like that! We’re just friends!” Soarin' sputtered as Twilight hid her head under her hooves.
Spitfire rolled her eyes. “Whatever... Okay, little miss unicorn, hold on tight because whatever speed Soarin' or Princess Celestia flew at, it’s nothing compared to mine,” she said, launching into the air without giving Twilight a chance to reply.
Despite being held safely in her saddle, Twilight grabbed Spitfire’s fur tightly as the powerful force of the wind howled around her. The giant buildings of the academy passed by in the blink of an eye. With some effort, Twilight managed to slowly turn her head, but could no longer see Soarin', the Wonderbolts headquarters now a tiny spot on the horizon. In half a minute more, they had left the outskirts of Canterlot, which became smaller and smaller as they passed over the landscape, trees and roads blurring together as the princess’s castle finally disappeared over the horizon. Twilight felt both terrified and excited as the pegasus she rode on blazed towards their campsite.
***
Twilight sat in awkward silence as Spitfire slowed down, the snow-capped ridges of the Crystal Mountains coming into view. With Spitfire cruising at an average speed, there was now nothing to distract the tiny unicorn from thinking about who she was riding on. Come on, Twilight, you have to ask her sooner or later. Twilight frowned, trying to find the best way to frame the question to a pony who may very likely turn out to hate her.
“What’s on your mind?” Spitfire asked purposefully, catching her off-guard.
“N-nothing...” Twilight replied hesitantly.
Spitfire sighed. “Time’s up, Twilight. I don’t buy it. For the past few days, you’ve been acting very odd, and I’m tired of it. I’m not going to ignore it any longer, so spill the beans.”
Beads of sweat began to form on Twilight’s forehead. “I... ummm... I’m not acting odd,” she said innocently. “Whatever gave you that idea?”
Spitfire rolled her eyes. “Oh, I dunno. Maybe because a very excited and energetic unicorn who levitated herself over the entire training area on her first day has suddenly turned into Little Miss Emo for the rest of the week?”
Twilight sighed. No turning back now. She wants answers and so do I. It’s now or never. “Fine, you win, but before I answer your question, can you answer mine?”
“Sure, go ahead.”
“And you promise that you won’t be angry?” Twilight asked hesitantly, taking a nervous look at the dangerously distant snow-covered ground, far enough that the tiny mare might as well have been sitting on the moon. There is no way I would survive a fall like that, even with my protection spell, and trying to use a self-levitation spell to slow me down would be suicide if Spitfire decided to act on any discontent she might have with me, Twilight thought, subconsciously checking for a safe exit as the wind thundered in her ears.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I won’t get angry. Now ask your question already,” Spitfire replied impatiently.
Twilight gulped, still fighting to remain calm. “D-do you... hate me?”
Spitfire’s annoyance quickly turned into confusion, Twilight’s question striking her like a hammer. For a minute, Spitfire tried to sputter out an answer, only to reconsider her wording before she could say anything. Her silence made Twilight more and more nervous each passing second, already expecting to be forcefully thrown to the ground.
“H-hate you? Why would you even think that? Who gave you that crazy idea in the first place?” Spitfire asked, still trying to get over her shock.
“W-well... My roommates explained to me…” Rather forcefully, Twilight thought, gulping. “That the Wonderbolts don’t like nobles and unicorns like me, and that you h-h-hate me,” Twilight answered. her voice becoming quieter as she continued.
Spitfire brought her hoof to her face, groaning. Foolish, foolish, foolish. Those featherbrains. Well, that explains her cold attitude towards me. She turned back, looking out the corner of her eye at Twilight’s terrified expression. “I bet they weren’t subtle explaining it, were they?”
Twilight nodded hesitantly, averting her eyes from Spitfire’s gaze. The pegasus turned back around before taking a deep breath. “I think it’d be best if I were honest here. I bet they already told you that we try to act nicely while talking to the nobles, even though we despise them.” She looked back to catch Twilight’s nod before she continued, “They praise us in the open, but talk trash behind our backs, not to mention that Blueblood’s gotten on of our nerves more than once. You being his friend probably got you on the bad sides of many Wonderbolts.”
Twilight looked down in silence as Spitfire continued, “The majority of nobles are unicorns, especially in Canterlot, so while my experience with unicorns has been bad...” Spitfire paused, turning to look intently at the unicorn mare, “I can’t say that I hate you.”
Twilight lifted her head to frown at Spitfire. “Oh really? You told me that you enjoyed my impromptu show at the party Prince Blueblood organized for me, yet from what those three Wonderbolts said, you were the first to call me the princess’s pet and toy!” She crossed her forelegs, looking back sharply. “Tell me the truth.”
Spitfire blinked, before sighing in defeat. “Fine. I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t. After Blueblood made his speech and all the nobles started kissing your hooves, I just assumed you planned it all. I assumed you were just an attention seeker and show-off. A spoiled brat. But I didn’t lie when I said that you levitating those nobles in the air was entertaining.”
Twilight stomped her hoof into Spitfire’s neck in anger. “I am not a brat! And I didn’t plan anything! I just got in the middle of it and played along! Don’t think you’re the only one with bad experiences with nobles.”
Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “How so?”
“Well, it actually started when I ended up teleporting under the princess’s balcony and fell straight down to Canterlot...”
***
Spitfire listened to the tale with interest. “Wow, for such a tiny unicorn, that sounds like quite the adventure. So how did you get back to the castle after you lost those nobles?”
Twilight frowned, still glaring at Spitfire. “Maybe I’ll tell you later, but not today. You know that party where Blueblood decided to make me a celebrity? I had no idea it even existed until I accidentally ran into him. I don’t even think lumping Blueblood in with the rest of the nobles is entirely accurate either, since he very specifically defended me from being called a ‘pet’ against the nobility at that party. He may act condescending, and he may have orchestrated my entire ‘rise to fame’ among the nobility without my consent, but I assure you that he’s thinking about more than being a pompous, show-off noble,” she said before taking a quick, deep breath. “Don’t ever start saying things about me or him before you’ve even met either of us.”
Spitfire’s mouth hung open. “I... all this time I thought… I’m sorry, Twilight. I had no idea. I just…” she paused, lowering her head in shame. “I guess I was wrong thinking you and Blueblood were like all those other nobles. It was wrong of me to be so narrow-minded and it’s made me no better than they are for judging you so poorly. Can you forgive me?”
Twilight looked away with a sigh. “It’s fine... I’m just glad that you understand. But please, don’t call me a toy or a pet. I’ve gotten enough of that already,” Twilight said wearily.
“I swear that, as the best Wonderbolt and the fastest flyer in Equestria, not to judge a book by its cover,” Spitfire said, and to her relief, Twilight’s lips curled up in a small smile.
“So, is there anything else that’s bothering you?” Spitfire asked.
Twilight rubbed the back of her neck with a hoof. “Well, there is one more thing,” she said, her face once again serious. “That day we met. Did you act nice to me because I was Princess Celestia’s personal student? Was that just an act?”
Spitfire remained silent for a long moment before she finally looked at Twilight guiltily. “I’m afraid that was just an act.”
Twilight once again looked away from the pegasus with a sigh. Spitfire took a deep, determined breath, before she began once more. “I’ll be honest with you. When Princess Celestia asked me to teach and take care of you, I fully expected you to be a self-centered, attention-seeking unicorn. I thought that for the next month you would be nothing but a pain in my flank. I acted friendly even though I wanted nothing more than to get away from you as quickly as possible. When you said you were working on a spell to turn a unicorn or earth pony into a pegasus, even if just temporarily, I thought you were insane.”
Twilight continued to keep her head down, grimacing as she considered simply tuning Spitfire out.
“But,” Spitfire said, causing Twilight to look up at her hopefully.
“You showed a lot of guts when you used the Dizzitron. At your small size, that thing could have thrown you into the floor or a wall and flattened you like a pancake. You really impressed me with your courage,” Spitfire explained, her tone warm and pleasant. “Do you remember what I said to you? ‘I never expected to be impressed by an unicorn’...”
“’But you’re not half bad...’” Twilight continued quietly. “It wasn’t a lie?”
“That was the honest truth. So far I’d only hung out with pegasi, and nobles don’t tend to leave good impressions, so congratulations, you may be the first unicorn I ever liked,” Spitfire said confidently, smiling.
“Sooo... is there a chance that we may become friends?” Twilight asked hesitantly.
Spitfire let out a laugh. “If you stop acting like such an emo filly all the time and start showing me the same resolve you showed in the training area when we first met, I may consider it.”
With the tension between the Wonderbolts Captain and the tiny unicorn resolved, they spent the rest of the time chatting amiably. When they had finally arrived at their destination, snow was just beginning to fall from the sky, blanketing the trees below with another layer of white.
Twilight swept her gaze up across the huge, snow covered mountain dominating the horizon. “Wooooooooow,” she said, her eyes wide as small, white puffs escaped her mouth with every breath.
“Breathtaking, isn't it?” Spitfire said, her flapping wings keeping her aloft as she pointed her hoof towards the mountain. This mountain is so much bigger than the one Canterlot was built on. I can’t even imagine how it must look to her.
“It’s...it’s... huuuugeeee,” Twilight said, her attention focused solely on the precipitous peak. “Can I climb it?”
Spitfire was caught completely off-guard, immediately bursting into laughter. “Hahaha! That’s gold! You... a mare barely larger than a mouse climbing on what’s probably the tallest mountain on the continent in the middle of the frozen north without any equipment—wait, you were kidding, right?” she suddenly asked, remembering the events with the Dizzitron.
Twilight smiled awkwardly. “If you put it that way, it sounds a bit difficult. So far, the highest object I’ve tried to climb was the princess’s tower, and I did it in the middle of the night when nopony was looking. It took me several minutes to reach the balcony.”
“Well, from the way you told me about how you begged the princess to let you stay tiny, you’re sure attracted to adventures and challenges, and I think that’s what I like about you. It separates you from those useless, lazy, flank-kissing nobles,” Spitfire said cheerfully, though Twilight grimaced at her vocabulary. “If you want, I can let you climb this mountain for hour or two under my supervision, but for now, I’d rather show you why I brought you here in the first place.”
“And what might that be?” Twilight asked, her eyes still admiring the size of the mountain in front of her.
“To make a long story short, this is my secret training ground. I come here whenever I want to relax or practice some kick-flank moves.”
Twilight blushed, the warmth blooming rapidly across her cold face. “I... I’m honored that you brought me here.”
“No need for formalities. I brought you here to give you the ride of a lifetime and test that saddle of yours. If it can handle me, it can handle any pegasus in Equestria. Ready?” Spitfire asked confidently, as her wings flapped faster and faster.
Twilight, eager to endear herself to Spitfire, spoke the most daring words she could think of. “Bring it on!"
She grabbed Spitfire’s fur with her hooves and held on with all strength she could muster, lowering herself closer to the pegasus and hoping that her saddle could withstand what was about to come. In mere seconds, Spitfire rapidly increased her speed, steadily approaching the speed of sound as she dove downwards.
Twilight felt fear rising up inside her as Spitfire flew on a collision course with the earth, and her horn lit in panic to project a barrier around herself and the pegasus, but Spitfire turned up before she could finish casting it. Twilight watched in awe as their steep fall was converted into a sharp climb. If Spitfire started from the bottom part of the mountain and flew at what I assume is speed of sound, it mean that we’ll pass one kilometer every 3.6 seconds. I may not be able to estimate the height of the mountain, but I can calculate the distance I would need to climb up to the top... If I could walk in a straight line that is.
Spitfire gained more and more altitude as Twilight counted the passing seconds, steeling herself against the howling snow that assaulted her on their way up. “Twenty… Twenty-one… Twenty-two...” Twilight counted. Though she could hardly keep her eyes open through the freezing wind, she resisted the urge to close them, eagerly taking in the sights around her.
Spitfire finally arrived at the top, and with a few more flaps of her wings, she slowed down and landed on the mountain. She looked back at her passenger who, as expected, was decidedly not cowering in fear. “Enjoyed the ride? I hope I wasn’t too harsh for a newbie like you.”
“T-t-thirty... o-one,” Twilight said, breathing rapidly as her head spun.
“Thirty one? What do you mean?” Spitfire asked curiously as she watched her passenger slowly recover. “Oh right…” she murmured. “I forgot that unicorns and earth ponies aren’t used to hostile atmosphere at this height.”
Twilight did her best to fight against the biting cold and the sparse amount of air. “You f-flew for t-t-thirty o-one s-seconds... at n-nearly th-the s-speed of sound. That means... That y-you c-climbed a-almost eight t-thousand meters from t-the g-ground,” she said, shivering from the cold. “T-the t-t-temperature lowers b-by 0.6 d-degrees every one h-hundred m-m-meters... C-consider-r-ring we are in the f-far n-n-north where the av-average temp-p-perature is under z-z-zero, it m-m-means...”
Spitfire gave a curt nod. “You got it, kiddo. The temperature at the top of this mountain is around minus seventy, and even with a pegasus’s natural resistance to cold, it’s a little nippy up here, even for a veteran like me.” She paused and looked at the shivering unicorn in pity. “I guess you’ve never been anywhere this cold. Pity, and here I was hoping we could enjoy the wonderful view, but it’d be best if—”
Spitfire was stopped by a magenta aura closing her mouth.“Nonono, i-it’s f-fine,” Twilight said, gathering up her determination as she shook off the snow that had piled on her body. “I’ve b-b-been hit by an ice spell more than once d-during my magical c-c-combat simulations, s-so I think I can endure... J-just give me a moment.”
Trying to act tough in front of the Wonderbolts Captain, Twilight cast off the magic ropes that held her tightly to her saddle and jumped from Spitfire’s back, landing in the cold snow that covered the top of the mountain. To Twilight’s displeasure, the snow was far deeper than expected, and she gave a sharp yelp as she fell into its crunchy embrace. With a small heat spell, she melted her way out before using a levitation spell to pat down a path towards the edge of the mountain, fighting the extreme conditions in order to admire the wonderful view with Spitfire as she sat next to her giant foreleg.
***
After a few minutes of silence, Spitfire convinced the half-frozen Twilight that this was enough and placed her delicately onto her back, Twilight reluctantly tightening the ropes of her saddle once again. Without wasting any time, Spitfire dove down the mountain until the temperature became a bit more bearable as Twilight sought heat from her own spells and in Spitfire’s fur.
“I think I know what will heat you up,” Spitfire said as she circled around the mountain, showing off her tricks as Twilight excitedly held on for the ride.
A sudden, soft boom echoed from the side of the mountain, and Spitfire’s right wing was suddenly through lanced by several sharp rocks. The captain shrieked in pain as Twilight stared shocked at the ragged mess of feathers, a few rapidly flying off into the wind behind them.
Spitfire swiftly lost control of her flying, careening down at the mountain uncontrollably. Twilight desperately set up a barrier around Spitfire as the pegasus smashed into the cliff face, but the hastily erected shield quickly began to falter with every hit until it finally shattered like glass against the rocky slope. Twilight tried to set up another barrier, but her spell was disrupted by another impact of Spitfire against the stone surface, crushing her between the rock and the pegasus as they bounced across the rough surface.
Spitfire threw out a quick hoof, grabbing onto a small outcropping and abruptly stopping their fall. Twilight grimaced from the hard impacts earlier, fighting down the pain from the scratches on her head and the bleeding scrape along her back. “Owowow… S-Spitfire, are you alright?”
Spitfire groaned, quickly taking inventory of her injuries. “I should be asking you the same question, but yeah, besides my wing, everything seems fine,” she said laboriously. The pegasus attempted to shut out the pain from her limp, bleeding wing, only for the pain to strike in full force as an enchanted arrow nailed her in the wounded wing, making her lose her grip on the steep slope and begin falling once more.
Not wasting any time, Twilight used her magic to free herself from the saddle before jumping off of Spitfire’s back, landing on the stone surface on a piece of barrier, and skidding down the slope after her friend. As she slid down the slope, Twilight saw the Wonderbolt grab another stone, only to be hit in the same wing by yet another arrow. She looked around frantically for their assailant before she noticed a flying half-lion, half-eagle hybrid—a griffon—aiming for Spitfire’s unharmed wing with a long, curved bow.
“Oh no you don’t!” Twilight screamed, her horn charged with magic. Before another arrow could strike the falling pegasus, a magenta aura shifted Spitfire away from the arrow’s course.
Her relief from helping her new friend was cut unfortunately short as she felt a growing strain on her hooves. Oh no, this is bad. She’s too heavy. I can barely hold her. Twilight felt the barrier under her hooves weaken as she slid down the hillside at an even greater speed, kicking up a long dust trail behind them. My hooves are going to kill me when this all is over.
Twilight did her best to ignore the increased pressure pressing her down on the steep slope as she focused on levitating her friend out of the harm’s way as more arrows followed, clattering and breaking on the hard rock face.
Spitfire, after a long fight with her foggy mind, finally recovered from the pain in her wing and was able to analyze the situation, quickly noticing the hostile griffin aiming another shot and the magenta aura keeping her barely out of reach of the steep slope. She briefly scanned the terrain in front of her, taking note of the various hoofholds and outcroppings before bucking out with all four hooves at the rock face, propelling herself towards the closest one as an arrow shattered behind her.
Keeping her wings held stiffly out, she skipped along the jutting rock, dodging the hail of projectiles while slowing herself down. She soon approached the base of the mountain and, noticing that Twilight was no longer in contact with the rock face, jumped to catch the unicorn in midair as she glided the rest of the way down, landing heavily in the snowdrifts.
Spitfire hurriedly shook off the snow that had landed on her, just as a slow, solitary applause echoed through the air. She turned towards the source of the sound, finding two ponies seated calmly before her. They wore identical black overcoats, their faces hidden behind happy and sad theatre masks with the only visible part of their bodies being their white horns. Two griffons landed next to them, both armed with bows and glowing arrows, though one landed slightly more clumsily than the other.
“Quite impressive, but I expected nothing less from the famous Captain of the Wonderbolts and Princess Celestia’s protege,” the happy one said, the sad one still clapping his hooves against the ground.
Spitfire narrowed her eyes at their assailants as she placed Twilight carefully on the ground, stepping protectively in front of her as the tiny unicorn hid behind one of the captain’s forelegs, puffing on her still-hot hooves and the areas where parts of her fur were scraped off. She immediately started to heal her sore hooves as Spitfire began to speak. “What is the meaning of this? If you know who we are, you should know that the only thing you’ll get for attacking us is a lifetime in the dungeon. What do you want from us?”
“You really want to know? You really expect me to just tell you our plan like some novice villain? Well, too bad, because I think I forgot. Silly me...” the sad unicorn said, chuckling.
“But boss, how could you forget?” one of the griffins butt in. “You were spying on the mouse pony, trying to capture her for a ransom, but you kept complaining that her guards would never leave her side!”
“Shut up, feather brain,” the unicorn growled in reply.
“And we were annoyed by that yellow pegasus crossing our hunting grounds.”
“I said shut up!” the masked unicorn shouted, much to Spitfire’s amusement.
“And then we met by accident and you told us we could get tons of bits if we capture them both, so we teamed up and prepared a trap to—” The griffon was swiftly interrupted by his partner, who grabbed the back of his head and dunked it deep into the snowy ground.
Spitfire burst out laughing despite the pain she felt in her damaged wing. “Don’t stop now! It was just getting interesting! Oh, could you also tell us the names of those masked unicorns? Please?”
The two masked bandits facehooved as the other griffin gave his employers an ‘I-told-you-so’ look. The sad unicorn gave a snort as he turned back to glare at Spitfire. “Enough of that. I’m sure that the princess will pay us handsomely in exchange for your lives, and with your broken wing, you’re not a threat to us at all, Captain,” he said as he lit his horn, his partner following suit. Before Spitfire could say a word, she and Twilight were wrapped in levitation auras, lifted up above their captors’ heads against their will.
Spitfire struggled fruitlessly to free herself, but without the help of her wings, she could not escape its magical grasp. She smirked when Twilight, who was being levitated next to her, disappeared in a flash of teleportation spell, but her sense of hope quickly evaporated the moment her little charge reappeared in the same spot. Anti-teleportation wards, figures. These hornheads are well prepared and equipped, Spitfire thought, once again staring at the masked unicorns. “Release us or the Wonderbolts and the Royal Guards will hunt you to the ends of Equestria!”
The two unicorns simply laughed in response. “I don’t fear your threats. The guards wouldn’t even know where to start! They know neither our faces, our cutie marks, nor our true fur color with a few choice enchantments,” the happy unicorn boasted, gesturing to their large concealing outfits. “As for the Wonderbolts…” He paused to give them a devilish smirk. “Too bad they’re all on vacation. But enough talk. Tie them up!”
The two griffins began to fly up towards them, ropes in their talons, as a very tiny magic restraining ring was being slowly levitated towards Twilight. Spitfire looked to her charge, blinking a few times in confusion as she noticed a rather big magical aura surrounding Twilight’s tiny horn. I hope that spell’s going to get us out of this mess. Lucky those unicorns can’t see it from this distance against the sky, Spitfire thought with renewed hope as Twilight moved her head to aim, shooting a tiny, but powerful, beam of energy directly towards her target.
“My horn!” the happy unicorn shrieked as lightning coursed along its length. Spitfire immediately felt the field holding her up dissipate and, without wasting any time, drop-kicked the closer of the griffons into the other, causing the two of them to careen to the ground in a heap as the Wonderbolt landed with a crisp crunch of snow. Before she could brush herself off, one of the griffins lunged to grab her, but she jumped over him and galloped towards the unicorns.
Caught off guard, the sad unicorn who held Twilight shifted his focus to Spitfire, but was promptly kicked in the horn before he could immobilize her. His injured partner in crime tried to jump on Spitfire, but received a solid hoof to the face instead. Both unicorns found themselves defenseless against the Wonderbolt despite her broken wing, her agility and training more than capable of preventing them from focusing on their magic.
Spitfire’s victory against the unicorns was short-lived as she felt claws slashing across her back. She turned, now facing the two griffins, both of whom were ready to attack. If my wing wasn’t broken, I would kick their sorry flanks with ease, she thought, grimacing. I need to rely on my knowledge of the area to escape them. She smoothly evaded one griffin’s talons before breaking into a sprint towards Twilight, who was charging another spell. Spitfire heard the fluff of wings opening as the two griffins took to the air, but she was focused intently on her charge.
“Close your eyes!” Twilight screamed, gritting her teeth as her horn grew brighter and brighter.
Spitfire did as she was told just as a bright flash of light burst from Twilight’s horn, blinding all in the vicinity and causing the two griffins to shriek as they collided into the trees. With that opportune moment, Spitfire grabbed Twilight with her working wing before dashing off as fast as she could. Though her light weight and fleet hooves kept her tracks faint in the newly fallen snow, she quickly had her tail sweep the snow behind her as she ran, hiding her trail. Confident that she had gained some distance between her and her pursuers, Spitfire gave a triumphant smirk as she made a sudden sharp turn, diving straight into a snowbank at the base of the mountain.
The griffins slowly regained their vision as the two unicorns ran towards them. “Don’t stand here like a bunch of buffoons! They’re getting away! Find them!” Both griffins nodded to one another as they snatched up their bows and took flight.
Spitfire pushed her way out from the pile of snow into complete darkness, lowering her charge delicately to the ground. ”Could you give us a bit of light here, Twilight?”
Twilight nodded, despite knowing that Spitfire couldn’t see her, and cast an illumination spell, brightening up a large cave. She looked back at the entrance, which was totally covered as snow moved in to fill the hole left by Spitfire. "Wow, what is this place? How did you knew we could hide here?"
“I often take shelter here whenever a strong blizzard makes flying back to Canterlot impossible, or when I want to take a break to eat something. The entrance is pretty much always covered in snow, so no pony or griffin should know about it,” Spitfire explained as she led the way deeper into the tunnel.
“A-are you sure?” Twilight asked hesitantly, doing her best to create a strong enough light to give Spitfire sufficient visibility.
“Yeah, we can settle here for a moment until things calm down—Ouch!” Spitfire suddenly dropped to her knees as she cried in pain, gritting her teeth as Twilight looked upon her wounded wing worriedly.
“Your wing... It must hurt a lot!”
“Yeah, it does, but what's odd is that I’ve never crashed into anything sharp while practicing on this part of the mountain. I bet those damn unicorns set up a magical trap or something—” Spitfire stopped, noticing Twilight’s despondent expression under her glowing horn. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you.”
Twilight ignored Spitfire as she walked closer to the damaged wing with renewed determination. “I think I may be able to help,” she stated before casting a spell that created a tiny floating orb of light, giving her a bit of visibility without having to maintain the illumination spell all the time.
She took a quick survey of the damage. I need to remember to thank the princess for teaching me this spell after I tried to preen her wings in the darkness. I had no idea I would need it so soon. With her horn free and the orb lighting the area, Twilight carefully levitated each of the sharp objects out of the pegasus’s wing, one by one.
Spitfire bit her lip, wincing as each of the sharp fragments was pulled out, hardly able to keep her eyes open. “I'll need to get this wing to a doctor pronto before the wound gets any worse.”
Twilight gave her a wide smile. “Not with me around,” she said cheerfully as she cast a scanning spell to check the status of the bones inside the penetrated wing. “It’s not as bad as I thought. Those rocks did some damage, but the arrows only penetrated the wing in three small points. I think I can heal it.”
Spitfire raised an eyebrow at the little mare. “And when did you attend medical school, Doctor Twilight Sparkle?”
Twilight frowned at this remark, charging more magic into her horn as she lowered herself as close to the hole in the wing as possible. “I may not be a doctor, but I bet I have the knowledge and magic to help you better than any doctor in Equestria.”
Spitfire rolled her eyes. “Yeah, right, sorry if I don't believe you,” she said disbelievingly.
Twilight looked up at Spitfire with a pleading look. “I want to get out of this mess as much as you do, and with your wing healed, we can escape from those bandits. I know what I’m doing, so please... Just trust me.”
Spitfire gave a defeated sigh as she deflated. “Fine, fine, newbie. If you want to give it a try, go ahead. It’s not like we have anything better to do. Just try not damage it more than it already is.”
Twilight nodded as she once again focused, gathering her magic on a pierced point in the wing. Lowering her horn very close to the wound, she cast her spell, weaving her magic into the injury. Slowly and carefully, part by part, Twilight regenerated the broken bone before moving on to the next puncture wound to repeat the process.
Spitfire kept her teeth grit in a pained grimace, knowing that even a small yelp would alert the bandits to their location. “Whatever you’re doing, finish it quickly. It really hurts,” she said, her voice strained.
Twilight ignored Spitfire, continuing to focus on the magical surgery as she moved to the multiple points of the wing cut or slashed by the dagger-like stones. The little mare carefully healed the wing bone by bone, feather by feather with exacting precision, breathing heavily as the process drained her magic.
After a few more minutes, Twilight collapsed from exhaustion, her eyes closed and sweat soaking her entire body. “I... did… it...” she said, taking deep breaths between each word before promptly losing consciousness.
Spitfire slowly opened her eyes, relaxing her tense muscles as she began to realize that most of the pain was gone. She looked at Twilight, who was now sleeping on her damaged wing, the orb of light still bobbing gently just above her head. “It… doesn’t hurt,” Spitfire said in astonishment as she moved her wing closer to examine it.
She could no longer see any holes in her wing, and her wounds were already half healed. “Amazing. I thought only a surgeon could heal a wing so quickly and so precisely. It does lack some feathers, but it should be good enough to fly.” Spitfire smiled at the tiny unicorn, curled up like a ball of wool on her wing. “The Princess was right, you are anything but an ordinary unicorn... Sleep well. You deserve it. I’ll handle the rest.”
Spitfire put Twilight on the ground before delicately flapping her wings, and in a moment she was flying to the entrance of the cave. It still hurts a bit, but at least I can fly again. Let’s see how tough they are in a fight against a pegasus without broken wings?” She gave herself a sly smile before diving headfirst into the snow.
“I can’t find them anywhere,” the smaller of the two griffins said nervously. “They just vanished.”
“Fools. Your target is a pegasus with a broken wing and a purple unicorn the size of a rat. How you could let them escape is beyond my comprehension!” the unicorn wearing the sad mask snarled caustically.
“Oh yeah? I didn’t see you being much of help. That rat of a unicorn had your partner shrieking like a hatchling after she zapped him, and a few moments later, that pegasus with a broken wing was beating the crap out of you, so how about you find them yourself with that hocus pocus magic of yours?” the other griffin said angrily, giving him a challenging stare.
The unicorn in the happy mask gave a huff. “As much as I detest being called a hatchling, I think he’s got the right idea. Those vermin are probably hiding behind a rock or under the snow or something. A long range scanning spell should show us if there are any hideouts in the area.”
“I don’t think that’ll be necessary,” a voice echoed, causing both the unicorns and the griffins to start looking around for its source.
“Don’t just stand there! Get her!” the unicorn wearing the happy mask ordered, prompting the two griffins forward, though the larger one shot a hostile glare back at the two ponies.
Once the griffins were checking behind some nearby boulders for the source of the voice, something passed in front of the happy-masked pony, sending his partner crashing into the nearby cliff face, knocked out cold. “She’s here!”
The griffins quickly flew back at his alarmed call, only for a sharp blow from above to send both of them crashing into the unicorn in question.
“Had enough?” the scratchy voice taunted. “I can do this all day.”
“Get off of me, you featherbrains,” grunted the annoyed unicorn as he threw the griffons away with his magic. “Show yourself, coward!” he shouted before casting a scanning spell around himself. An initial sweep immediately picked up a moving object, a ridiculously fast moving object, diving straight for him. Before he could react, Spitfire had swept him off his hooves, climbing up into the air.
The terrified unicorn watched with wide eyes as the distance between him and the ground increased with each second. “H-how?” he sputtered. “Your wing was broken! There’s no way you could have recovered from my trap that quickly!”
Spitfire let out a victorious laugh. “I knew it! So it was your fault! Now give me one reason why I shouldn’t just drop you and let you break some of your bones as payback. Oh, and if you think that those griffins can catch you, think again. No griffin can defeat a Wonderbolt in aerial combat.”
“I... I give up! I surrender! Just please, don’t drop me! I’ll do whatever you want!” the masked criminal pled fearfully.
Spitfire rolled her eyes at the display. “Oh, and you will tell me everything I want to know, but for now...” she said with a sly smile as she threw the unicorn to a small ledge nearby and dove down towards the griffins, evading the multitude of arrows shot at her.
“Let’s see how well griffins can handle a blizzard!” Spitfire said as she flew in a tight circle around the griffins, almost immediately kicking up a tornado that swirled with a pure, opaque white, the tempestuous winds funnelling freezing snow and brown feathers over the entire area.
The unicorn wearing the sad theatre mask slowly got back on his hooves. “W-what was that?” he murmured. “Who just hit me?”
He started to look around blearily, trying to clear up his nasty headache. “Boss? Griffins! Where are you?”
“Right here.”
The unicorn jumped up in surprise, turning around sharply to find himself confronted with a Wonderbolt—a very angry Wonderbolt—who was currently standing on the pile composed of two unconscious griffins with an unmasked unicorn draped across the top. His eyes flickered around fearfully as he desperately began to charge his horn.
“Bad idea, rookie. I just took out your boss and these two slackers single-hoofedly. Do you think you stand a chance?” Spitfire challenged. “Well, do ya? Punk?”
Sweat rolled down the unicorn’s face under his mask, a few moments passing before the aura around his horn disappeared. “That’s what I thought,” Spitfire stated sternly. “Now I think it’s time for you to answer some of my questions, and I assure you that being cooperative is in your best interests. Well, unless you want me to leave you alone in this frozen wasteland?”
Twilight slowly opened her eyes, stretching as she tried to stand on her hooves, only for the sudden dull pain to remind her about the mountain-surfing they had endured not long ago. Trotting carefully and almost overtaken by the weakness caused by her empty magic reserves, Twilight slowly lit her horn to illuminate the surrounding area.
“Spitfire! Where are you?” Twilight shouted as she walked back to the camouflaged entrance, Did... did she leave me here? No, she wouldn’t, Twilight thought, feeling abandoned and wondering if Spitfire would leave her for being a burden.
Once she had finally reached the entrance, she jumped into snow without hesitation as she tried to dig herself out of the cave, the cold snow acting as a balm to her aching hooves. Unable to make much progress, Twilight tried to cast a fire spell to melt a path through the snow, but found the task far too draining in her weakened state.
Still, she dug deeper and deeper until she hit something. “Well, hello there, Twilight! Awake already?”
Twilight jumped at the sight of Spitfire’s head emerging from the snow, and a moment later, she was swept up in a pair of hooves before she could say a word and pulled outside of the cave. “S-S-Spitfire... You... c-came back. For me?”
Spitfire rolled her eyes. “Of course I came back for you. You didn’t think I’d abandon a friend, did you?”
Twilight blushed in embarrassment. “Well… It kinda crossed my mind—” She suddenly paused. “Wait a moment. Did you say ‘friend’?”
“Yeah! What better way to start a friendship than by kicking the flanks of some foolish bandits side by side?” Spitfire asked, her voice cheerful and ecstatic.
“Wait... what about those foalnappers? Where are they?” Twilight asked as she looked around in panic, only to notice the griffins and unicorns tied up with their own ropes and the magic restraining rings in place on the horns of the unicorns.
“After you fixed my wing and took a nap, I gave them the beating of a lifetime. That’ll teach them not mess with an angry Wonderbolt. I found the ropes and magic restraining rings in their saddlebags to tie them up afterwards,” Spitfire explained, before looking thoughtfully at the two unicorns, who were futilely attempting to get their ropes off. “I’m guessing those two are specialized in capturing unicorn nobles for ransom. They’ve been carrying a huge magic arsenal in those saddlebags this whole time.”
Spitfire reached into a nearby bag and pulled out a small jar of white powder. She popped off the cap and sprinkled a bit on the noses of the caught crooks, who immediately stopped struggling and slumped over.
“Sleeping powder,” she said, recapping the jar and tying herself to the captured criminals before turning her attention to her little friend. “Hop up, Twilight. It’s going to be a long way home.”
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Spitfire flew at a fairly average speed, the pegasus magic that reduced her weight not much use when carrying two sleeping unicorns and a pair of griffins. Her wing was still aching slightly, but was working well enough for her to keep flying. Twilight was lying in her saddle, exhausted from the day’s events.
“Hey Twilight, can I ask you a question?” Spitfire asked, getting the attention of the tired pony.
“S-sure...” she replied, gathering some of her strength to take a sitting position in her saddle.
“How did you heal my wing? I mean, it was cool and all, but it’d be kind of difficult even for a trained doctor.”
Twilight thought for a moment before answering. “Well, you see, I used an advanced healing spell. I ended up hurt so often that I become subject to healing magic on a daily basis, so I had plenty of opportunities to learn healing spells myself. And not that long ago, I read a bunch of books on the topic and even asked the doctor who took care of me to teach me.”
“It still doesn’t answer my question. There aren’t any spells that could heal such an injury in such a short amount of time, so how did you pull it off?”
Twilight smiled proudly. “There are two ways you can use healing magic on other ponies. One of them is simple: you just cast the spell and send a wave of healing magic into the target and hope that the body’s natural healing abilities can fix the damage caused,” she lectured.
“Let me guess. You did it the hard way?” Spitfire asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Correct. The other way relies on the caster’s knowledge of his target’s anatomy. Basically, you direct the magic yourself and guide it to repair the damage yourself. You would need to know where the damage is and how to heal it, so it requires a lot of concentration and perception.”
Spitfire’s expression quickly turned into fearful. “W-wait a moment, that sounds like you performed surgery on my wing with your magic. No, it was more than surgery. Isn’t that type of healing dangerous?”
Twilight nodded in agreement. “Yes it is, and that’s why only the most skilled doctors attempt to use it. Luckily for you, I had two factors to my advantage, the first one being the knowledge I accumulated from books, as well as from Soarin's private lessons about pegasus anatomy. He’s smarter than he looks.”
“And what about the other factor? It’s not luck, is it?”
Twilight shook her head. “Of course not! Who would rely on luck in such important operation? My other advantage is my size.”
Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “Your size? How can your tiny size be of any advantage to you? Doesn’t it limit your power?”
“Yes, it’s true, it does limit my magic power, but it also lets me see even the smallest wound clearly and heal it with microscopic precision, something that every surgeon could only dream of. And from what Princess Celestia says, even with my size disadvantage, I have almost as much magical power as an average unicorn. Not to mention the protection spell my body absorbed doubles my innate power, so yes, I am probably the only unicorn strong enough to cast such a healing spell at such a small size,” Twilight lectured smoothly, before taking a deep breath.
“So as I understand it... because you read a bunch of books about pegasus anatomy and because you’re tiny, you could perform a complicated healing operation with careful precision, which thanks to your incredible power, you were strong enough to pull off and heal a wing far bigger than you?”
Twilight scratched her neck with her hoof. “Yep, that pretty much sums it up.”
Spitfire burst out in a laugh. “Listen Twilight. When the month Princess Celestia gave you to study pegasus magic is over and the Wonderbolts come back from their vacation, we could really use a talented healer like you. Despite our safely measures, our hard training gets us injured a lot and it can force us out of the show, sometimes for weeks.”
“You... you want to hire me? But I’m still the princess’s student, I have to finish my studies before I can search for a job!” Twilight replied hesitantly, almost in panic.
“Listen Twilight, you can’t learn the wonders of pegasus magic in just one month, and working as a healer would give you a lot of opportunities to learn from us. Outside of the knowledge you’ll get, you’ll get paid... hmn... how about a hundred bits a day?”
“A h-h-hundred!” Twilight asked, her mouth agape. The opportunity to earn her first bits was more than a bit overwhelming. She hadn’t needed to have any bits to pay for anything before, since everything was provided to her by her mentor and written off into the mysterious ‘study expenses’, but the chance to have bits to her name...
“Not enough? How about a hundred twenty?”
“One hundred twenty? T-that’s very generous, but—”
“Still not enough? You sure value your talent, then how about—”
“No no... It’s not about payment, it’s... the other Wonderbolts hate me, and I can’t take the job in good conscience without Princess Celestia’s permission.”
Spitfire good mood vanished at the swift reminder. I’d completely forgotten about them. Damnit, I knew that the tension between the nobles and Wonderbolts had been boiling up for years, but to pick on the princess’s student? She sighed. “Don’t worry about my teammates. They may hate you because of a few circumstances—perhaps your friendship with Blueblood—but I’ll keep them in line.” Spitfire paused and looked back at her passenger with an encouraging smile. “Once they get to know you, they’ll accept you like family for sure, especially the first time they crash into something harder than their heads. As for the princess, just ask her. I am sure she won’t refuse.”
Twilight thought deeply for a moment, “Well, if the princess is alright with the idea, I’ll gladly accept the offer.” She quickly returned the smile, waving her tired hoof. “To be honest, I’m glad that we’re friends now, and that we were able to deal with the ponies and griffins that tried to catch us,” she said, pointing a hoof towards the hauled prisoners. “I’m sure we’ll finally have a good time together these next few weeks.”
Spitfire nodded her head before turning back, her attention focused on the snowless trees on the horizon. “Yeah, and those black sheeps of the Wonderbolts will be properly punished for what they’ve done to you.”
Twilight blinked in confusion. “Punished? But why?”
“Why?” Spitfire asked, looking with a disbelieving expression at her passenger. “Why? Not only because you’ve been avoiding me like the plague after whatever they did, but also because they’ve broken a bunch of protocols. Besides the psychological effects, I’m guessing that they’ve probably laid a hoof against an easy target like you, but to do it against the princess’s student? I should kick them on the sp—”
“No!” Twilight shouted, cutting off Spitfire, “Please don’t. I forgive them, so please, don’t punish them.”
“Don’t punish them? I didn’t exactly hear you protest when I just now accused them of assault, and yet you still want to forgive them just like that?” Spitfire asked, looking at Twilight suspiciously. When her charge nodded, she turned back around with a sigh. “If only it were that simple.”
“W-what do you mean? They only hurt me because I lost my temper and pushed one of them with my magic, so please—”
“You know what that sounds like? That sound like they provoked you,” Spitfire said, frowning. “Sorry Twilight. Even if you are willing to forgive them, I cannot. It is my responsibility as Captain to keep discipline, if I don’t make an example out of them, these kinds of assaults will become much more frequent, especially with their prevailing attitudes at the moment.”
Twilight’s little ears fell back against her head in defeat as she pouted. “Is there… is there anything I can do to change your mind? In the end, they’re going to blame their punishment on me.”
Spitfire opened her mouth to answer but instead paused as an idea struck her. “Well, as captain, it’s my responsibility to punish them, but considering their actions, I think the princess should be the one to decide it instead. After all, it was her student who was picked on.”
Twilight gave her a faint smile, hopeful that she could convince her mentor to go easy on her tormentors. “I think that’ll work better, and besides, I could always preen their wings so they’ll get used to me faster.”
Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “You know how to preen wings too?”
“Well, it’s a funny story. I read a book about preening and was really interested in how pegasi did it, so when my mentor went to sleep, I...” Twilight started, beginning the story of how she had spent the entire night making Princess Celestia’s wings as look wonderful and presentable as possible, although she was careful to not to mention her training injuries.
As Spitfire listened to Twilight’s story, she came to the conclusion that if hired, Twilight would be worth every bit she payed her, and once again, she was more confident than ever that Twilight was anything but an ordinary unicorn.
I have to admit that is one way to prove she isn't a stuffy unicorn noble, and should be very amusing to see just what happens when those roommates return.
Uhm... is the title "Camptrip trip" correct? If so, what is it referencing/what language play is that? It appears I do not recognise it.
Aside from that, awesome! Funny, I usually am capable of easily spotting mistakes but your story just... sucks me in to such degree that I just don't see any... that or there are none. Which, sadly, is untrue even for the best writers with the best editors. There are always slip-ups... nevermind that...
Yes, give us more words for the finale... we can wait and it does need a lot of screen time!
Keep up the good work!
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Possibly the word "Cantrip?"
Those poor ponynappers - didn't even get names.
EDIT: Still think the best way for the Nightmare Moon confrontation to go down is 'if being small makes me weaker, being big will make me stronger!'
... Okay, I just think it would be hilarious for the two of them to stand there, grunting and sweating like Dragonball Z characters, getting bigger and bigger in a desperate attempt to one-up each other. The day is saved when Nightmare Moon realizes her backside is now literally bigger than Canterlot, and breaks down in tears.
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Yes, that makes sense. Thank you! Derp is strong with me today...
Then again, I at least have an excuse of not being an English native. A weak one but still better than nothing.
Ooh kidnappings on twilights are always fun
Can't believe no one else had mentioned a yellow Pegasus being mentioned
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Glad to entertain you while you waited. I and my editor did our best to upload wonderbolts related chapters for the Christmas, though I failed to upload this one yesterday.
I am really curious how did my Woderbolts visit 3 chapter story ark played, hopefully I will get some feedback, after all, this chapter required a lot of efforts to write. ( And Twilight got two new friends, and there is so much I can do with it, just imagine Rainbow Dash reaction when she find out that Twilight befriended Spitfire ).
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I know that most of you would like to see them in pain or gettign punished with a toilet cleaning duty for week, but it is Twilight we are talking about. I bet she will just wait until they crash into something hard and then heal them ( even offering to preen their wings ), Twilight is not vengeful, she would rather endure the pain and befriend the bullies.
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It was meant to be "Camping Trip" or "Camping Adventure", I am still unsure which one is better. But yea, I fixed the tittle.
Also, thanks, we are doing our best ( though editor I have is very talented in polishing the story, but he does not get enough fame, majority of improvements are Kydois work.
Also, I hope that once my story is finished, I will be allowed to publish it on Equestria Daily. I hear that it is very hard to impress people who decide do fanfic is worth posting there, but I saw many less popular stories accepted, so it would be unfair is this story would not be given a chance.
As for the finale, it will be big, and most of characters in my story will get screen time in it, something familiar to Snowball War but with more characters involved.
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Yea, fixed, by the way, what is better.
"Camping Trip" or "Camping Adventure"
I try to avoid giving names for characters what I wont reuse, but Kingtiger666 adviced me to name them sad and happy base on their theathre masks, and he was behind the idea how to recognize the 3 wonderbolts bullies.
How the confrontation will take place will be kept as mystery until the sequel is uploaded, all I can say is that it will be surprise-full.
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What?
Could you explain what you tried to say ?
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Actually was thinking more of what Spitfire was going to do to them than Twilight.
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I do believe that there are two famous yellow Pegasi. One is an Element of Harmony. The other is the Captain of the Wonderbolts.
Then of course, there's also one more I believe. Goes by Do.
Huh, I guess this means that A.K. Yearling may get a Cameo too, mm?
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Do you remember scene with Celestia and Philomena, Twilight asked princess over and over to punish her instead of the phoenix. I am afraid Spitfire may have trouble to punish those three if Twiny will defend them.
And besides, she is going to become their medic or white mage, and in every RPG games, you know that no one ... with white mage ( because if they get hurt, they wont stand again ).
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Spitfire and Fluttershy are yellow pegasi, sure, but Daring Doo is orange in my opinion.
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Thanks
I know, everyone just cannot wait for this encounter, but like I said many times, even if I already finished 40 chapters in the sequel, I can upload them as fast as my top editors polish them, and there is still one big finale before this story ends.
Whatever do you mean?
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The only moment Twiny hold up against full sized Tia was when they played game of tag, and it end up with Twilight being a bit squeezed under Celestia's hoof in a golden horseshoe, so yea.
The duel Twilight had against Tia was when Celestia used shrinking spell on herself, not only Celestia didn't used protection spell on herself, she also shrunk herself to Twilight size.
So yea, while Twilight is 1/100 her original mass and protection spell double her strength, magic and endurance, Celestia reduced her mass to 1/350, you could say that if Twilight was normal size pony and she faced full sized Celestia, she would be 7 times weaker then in duel where Celestia was tiny and didn't used protection spell on herself, you must understand that being an alicorn and moving sun and the moon on the sky give her incredible amount of power and endurance, the only reason why Celestia lose was her poor condition, but she work hard to fix it.
Twilight: Please, do not punish them, I am fine now, and I do rather heal their wounds and preen their wings to become their friends rather then having them punished.
Anyway, chapter 20 is on so you can read it, it is action packet so I would like to see your opinion about it.
Woo Hoo! You Rock!
Beautiful chapter! I look forward to reading the rest of this story
I have mixed feelings... I want to see more of Twilights fillyhood but I want to see her go to Ponyville just as much (especially the part where Twilight tells RD about training with the Wonderbolts ... its gonna be AWESOME! ).
You want to know how about I felt about this arc?
How to put this into words....................................
There isn't a single one that does it justice so have all of them:
SuperExcellentAwesomeAmazingTerrificSmashingPerfectGoodBrilliantFunnyInspiredEtcetera.
Looking forward to that finale and sequel, keep the good stuff coming
You really are something else aren't you? These last three chapters made me fall in love with this story all over again. And here was losing interest in fan fiction, on large part thanks to couple of great games I got recently. Thank you for reigniting my love for reading. You have certainly made Twiny proud. Just look at her smile
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Lol.
"First off, he does not know that they have assaulted her phsysically outside of hurtful words. Second, he is outnumbered by three to one, trying to hurt them won't be wise, and he knows it."
Ooh, that comment was like watching the Day Of The Doctor trailer all over again, let's do this because it's already out...
GERONIMO!!!!
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"First off, he doesn't know that they've assaulted her physically, outside of telling her a few hurtful words. Secondly, he is outnumbered three to one. Trying to hurt them wouldn't be wise, and he knows it."
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
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Lol, here you go @CommanderX5, this is what you use this the previous comment!
Mk, new chapter, heard it's full of action, so...
GERONIMO!!! I've been saying that way too much...
This might be good!
Story time for Spitfire, woot woot!
I so happingtons! [Happy by a ton]
o-o Canterlot City is casically 1/5th of that mountain and it must be huge, so the mountain she wants to climb could be double that, and she wants to climb it? She. Has. Guts...
Woah, that's awesome...
Alright, queue action-packed, heavy wub music. Open up cinematic theatre with HD, roll in the large speakers, and... 3... 2... 1... PLAY!
Speed of sound is Mach1, she can really do Mach1?
Oh god..... They are so dead...
Enchanted arrow? WHO THE HELL HAS ENCHANTED ARROWS BESIDES TWILIGHT?!
How can they be that good at archery, they have large claws not delicate fingers... They must have some form of magic but how...
Nope, just the griffon. It'll only be intense pain in your hooves...
Oh... this might not be good... Cloaked ponies with masks, same horn, definatly something bad...
Again, bad
Ooh, not a newbie villain... But this one is expireinced, sorry if I have spelled that wrong...
Ooh, unintelligent griffon, goodie.
Oh... I hope they don't have a spell that blocks Twiny's magic...
They're smart, not good...
How, could he possibly, know about the vacation...
No, no, NO! NOT THE MAGIC RESTRAINT!!!
Woo, combat action!
Smart spell, I would have just attached a laser beam to my head...
Smart one, me like...
So badass 8D
Hundred? The usual payment if jobs in my 13k city is about 400 a month, taking 100 multiplied by the average days in a month, that would equal 3,000 a month. JEEZ THAT'S EXPENSIVE!
o-o Ok, that's just unbelievable...
O-O
Woo, Spittie and Twilie are fwens now, happingtons now. [Yay, Spitfire and Twiny are friends now, happy how.]
Moar.....
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Well, in the end it will be up to Twilight and Spitfire what will happen to them. Did you read chapter 20, in last part of the chapter, Twilight will tell her plan how to get on the Wonderbolts good side (Twilight is not vengeful, she do rather befriend her tormentors and endure the bullying rather then seek revenge ).
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Why do I have feelings that besides Daring Doo and Spitfire, Rainbow Dash will have another pony to be number one fan of.
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Thanks, we will do our best.
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Your very welcome, thought while other chapters usually brought around 10 up-votes, those 3 chapters got me only 3 so I had bad feelings about this, anyway now with all character developments out of the way, Twilight finally have enough skills, spells and friends for the finale, the question is, should I upload last 2 chapters and epilogue one by one, or all at once.
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I think that word Geronimo suit this chapter well.
And an adventurous one.
Yea, the tiniest mare in the world want to climb the highest mountain in the world, I cannot deny that.
As for size, I think it is 5 times bigger than mountain Canterlot is build on, and it is freezing on the top.
To your information, they are not to far from location where Crystal Empire once was, so Spitfire secret training ground won't be such secret when season 3 stars.
Yeap
It is twice slower than Jet F-16 at full speed, but it is still impressive speed, so far only Dash 'Sonic Rainboom' beat it (sonic rainboom probably is 2-4 mach, I am unsure ).
Nah, they are tougher than that, but it will be very painful experience ( Twiny being crushed between a pegasus and a stone surface, it must hurt a lot ).
Well, ponies body is enhanced by magic, making it very hard, so most weapons must be enhanced by unicorns in order to counter it ( arrows, swords, spears and even bullets would break or shatter in contact with ponies without enhancements making it harder and more sharp, especially earth ponies ).
Keep in mind that in the show, Twilight laser shot from horn could make a hole in a wall and yet Changelings survived it, so yea, it is a fire power almost on the same level what RPG luncher ( and you cannot top RPG luncher with a mere arrow ).
Maybe, or maybe their bows and arrows are just customized for their claws/talons ( I bet that besides unicorns, guns made for ponies would be customized to work with hooves, and Pinkie have no problem to use her party canon ).
Probably, though considering that Twilight was surfing down on a rocky surface while pressure of levitation spell made her like *4 more heavy, it will indeed be an intense pain in her hooves.
Twilight: Do not worry, surfing down the mountain with extra weight is not that bad, I endured worse
Actually, those unicorns hidden their fur colour and cutie mark ( they even changed their horns colour like royal guard's armor ), but idea with cloak is good.
Masked Unicorn: Cloaked, good idea, I mind use it in future... if I even get out of this jail.
But seriously, so far only Celestia managed to cast invisibility spell on herself, enchanting unicorns to cloak you is not an easy deal.
It is hard to get a smart and competent minions those days, more smart Griffins would not agree to such deal in the first place.
Magic restraining rings and anti teleporation wards, standard equipment for anyone who want to capture an unicorn ( not many unicorns can teleport, but better safe than sorry ).
Masked unicorn: If you were in this field of criminal job as long as I was, you would know how important it is to set up anti teleportation ward when dealing with magically talented students, no matter how small they may be. ( I wonder do anyone ever tried to capture Sunset Shimmer and got kicked flanks for this ).
Step one: Gather data about your target.
Step two: Observe your target and where he usually go.
Step three: Search for weakpoint and time when target is alone and defenceless,
Step four: Profit.
But yea, they kind of made their homework ( found out about Wonderbolt's absence and Spitfire's camping trip idea.
First off, her targets were flying and agile, second, there was 2 of them, finally, they were far bigger, I doubt offensive spell would do much, but if Celestia teaches Twilight anything, it is that sun and strong flash can blind enemies.
Twilight had contact with healing magic so often, that she became master medic herself.
Wonderbolts are exclusive but well pain organization, ( best of the best are always paid well ).
Also, for Twilight hundred bits a day was waaaay to much so she was very surpriced, but when she wanted to say "But 100 is a lot, I surely do not deserve that much", all Spitfire hear was, "just 100, I am the best expert in magical surgery in Equestria, I surely deserve more than that".
Both Spitfire and Soarin' are Twilight's friends now, but other Wonderbolts not so much I am afraid, anyway now with all development done and all friends in place, it is time for the finale.
It may take a while before my editor will finish polishing the finale, but I am sure there are other fanfics you enjoy reading what you will read in the meanwhile, thanks for comment.
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Well, it's more a very dull yellow than an orange. Maybe a dull tan mixed with yellow. It's hued interestingly but I wouldn't know what to exactly call it..though it does share a little orange I will give that. Hmmm.
It's sort of like the Dulled Halfway Point between Yellow and Orange I think. It's not bright like the actual yellow or Orange of dear Applejack or Fluttershy. It's kind of like with Pinkamena during Party of One, how darker hued she got, but we relate it to being a darker pink or closer to a lighter colored red. Hmmm.
Anyway, I can't wait for the next chapter, and Spitfire now has a reason to smack some sense into her fellow Wonderbolts and basically say- If you can't fight half this good, you're going to be dealing with laps and extra training.
Honestly, Twilight is too good natured to hold back healing any of the Bolts if she ends up as their emergency healer, regardless of any feelings they may have. She may report about bad attitudes, but she is a good pony, no matter what.
Honestly- I think Twilight getting her surges down mean that shes finally accessing enough of her magic that she'd be beyond her Ursa Level Levitation thanks to how fit she actually is. She'll certainly handle herself far more easily when it comes to stopping other ponies who want to hurt others, assuming she can pop the 'Tiny Student' to normal sized and back with some skill. After all, Celestia certainly will teach her the spell?
Just Realized something else-
Bridle Gossip- Appletini. Tiny Twilight. The two would actually be able to have a bit of fun like that.
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Yes she does, but do she will do it?
Twilight seems to prefer to get on the bullies good side by healing them and preening their wings rather then want them punished.
She is to kind for her own good.
Actually, Twilight saw Celestia shrink and unshrinking herself almost everyday for past years that she learned the unshrinking spell long time ago.
The problem is that, familiar as situation with Spitfire ( Twilight was afraid to talk to her until she didn't had a choice ), she may be afraid to return her size to normal.
As for her magic power, she already is above Ursa Minor levitating in terms of raw power, and her physical condition, endurance and fighting skills are greatly above Twilight's from the show. But being small what help her to become so strong and skilled is also her weakness, despite all her training and hard work, she cannot do much with her miniature size ( Spitfire with 2 working wings beat 2 unicorn bandits and 2 griffins effortlessly, but with one wing wounded she was forced to retreat ), similar is to Twilight, with normal size she would be able to face a grown up dragon, but afraid of returning to normal size make her weak and force her to use her power wisely ( she had to aim at horn of unicorn to do any damage, she had to strike the one who held Spitfire, she had to use spell to blind her foes because her fire power would not be in any use, she had to use her small size to help her heal Spitfire's wing because there was not much else she could do ).
Oh, I already wrote chapter about it, my sequel have 40 chapters ( bonus chapters and prologue not included ), but I update with speed my editors polish those chapters.
Anyway keep in mind that Twilight was tiny most of her life, Appletiny was shrunk just recently and without protection spell, so if anything, Twiny will be master and Appletiny will be the student.
All i want to know is how you managed to write a story so good im hiunding my email for the next chapter allert, awesome work!
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Out of that whole comment, one thing:
I do, but they just don't come out as much as this... And no problem for the comment.
Absolutely love this story and this new chapter, nothing much to "review" since I couldn't really find anything wrong with the spelling and such, besides that I love this story and will wait for the rest.
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To be honest, I'm the entire reason this story hasn't released the next forty chapters. Or, at least, until CommanderX5 finally gets fed up with my admittedly intensive editing style and suggestions.
Next chapter is progressing faster than I expected, and I think we can expect an update within the week. I'm having a few points of contention with the author at the moment, but they should be ironed out fairly quickly, I believe. Here's hopin'!
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Hey editor. I have a question for you. In any military organization. Assaulting a minor is a criminal offense, just like it is in non-military life. So what is going to happen to the Wonderbolts who not only assaulted her? That's one thing that really doesn't sit well with me that it comes across as if there are no repercussions for it. Especially since it has left psychological wounds in what is basically in the eyes of the law still a child / non-adult.
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Yeah other than repercussionless assault and battery ( and Spits knows that assault against a minor was used from what she said in this chapter). Especially since Twilight is now a friend, and saved her life. And said attack and threats left Twilight in a state where she is afraid of The Wonderbolts and her safety around them. This was a decent chapter.
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I answered your question by PM, hope it answered all your questions.
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I upload as fast as my editor can work on it, thought we got a small argument about editing balance.
While he want to edit everything, I still feel that he could give up some sentences some slack and focus on part of the story what will benefit the most ( to save some time and make the editing faster ).
It is not that I do not appreciate his work, I just feel that I cannot upload anything until he go over it without sacrificing quality of the chapter, and no matter what I say, he will never give any slack to anything for the sake of speed. ( It is very hard for me because I really want to get to the sequel ASAP, so close and yet so far ).
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Sorry for being annoying, I just wish to get to the sequel ASAP and the waiting is killing me ( and no, I cannot upload chapter until you are done with it because it would make it much worse, and you will never agree to give part of the story some slack for the sake of speed, no matter what I and other editors will do ).
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Thanks for pointing out the mistakes, I fixed them.
My translator say that it is something you sleep under when you sleep on the bed.
You will find out by reading next chapter, but after being treated as pet by Philomena, it is a harsh reminder.
Well, Twilight is no longer a filly, she is a mare already ( 18 years old ), she is just tiny so she may seems like a filly to many.
Anyway, in the bullies defence, even if they were a bit forceful, they didn't cause to much harm in the end outside of getting Twilight to tears ( physical abuse was not a big deal for her after all she endured ). But Lightning Dust in the episode was recruit whose action caused harm to other recruits and even put at life threatening risk of 5 civilians ( national heroes ), so yea, if Lighting Dust was just kicked out from the academy, it would be rather unfair to give any big punishment to few Wonderbolts who were just acting like bullies.
Also, Wonderbolts are just half military, in times of peace they are more of entertaining group what can be called for duty in case of emergency.
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Well, if Twilight wanted to get those 3 Wonderbolts into trouble, she would do it with ease, especially after becoming friend with Spitfire. But she forgiven them and prefer to get on their good side by being helpful and gaining their respect rather then punishing them ( Spitfire always can keep an eye on them and warn other Wonderbolts that she wont go easy on them if they will bully Twilight again ).
Also, Twilight is tiny, but she is an 18 years old mare ( one year younger than in the show ), and considering that Lighting Dust got out easy after he almost killed national heroes, I can assume that dyscipline system in Wonderbolts is kind of lacking ( I mean, if Wonderbolts were under heavier dyscipline, Lighting Dust would be in jail and those 3 Wonderbolts would never dare to unload their frustration towards Blueblood and Nobles on Twilight in the first place ).
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So a Blanket or a Quilt.
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Also she endangered them indirectly. Not through physical attacks, but rather reckless endangerment which was met by a dishonorable, or even less than honorable discharge. That wasn't a physical assault. [Lightning Dust]
And Even being half military, they are still military. And assaulting anyone would get jail time. And their actions were enough to cause psychological damage (so her forgiveness would be more fear / anxiety based than actual forgiveness). So your arguement doesn't really hold up. If you were to go to a person who was several times smaller than you. Slammed them to a solid object. Forcefully held them down with your full body weight. The threatened them. You'd be thrown in jail the second someone heard about it. Heck even doing that to a fellow adult would land you in jail.
So no. They would be at the very least get jail time for assaulting a Civy, or using physical abuse. That is a law. They aren't highschool children where physical abuse would get them suspensions. They are adults and adults attacking people gets those people in jail. It's why most adult bullying is more prankish, emotional, or verbal. Since it's not using physical violence.
If they kept their bullying verbal and emotional. Or would've messed with her stuff rather than touching her then that'd be punishable by loosing rank, or even being forced to do grunt work / loss of vacation time, maybe even a verbal reprimand. But the second they used physcial force it crossed the line into Assault and Battery. Them getting away with no repurcussions, or loss is not right and would never happen in any society.
Especially not one who while an adult mare. Is smaller than a child, and whose body while strong, isn't a freaking full grown stallion, or professional athlete trained in the act of war / combat on a professional level. That's crossing to many lines. And they need to be punished.
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I think Quilt.
But now I am unsure, should I use Quilt or Eiderdown.
It is for Twilight to decide, Spitfire need to listen to her opinion. And besides, Wonderbolts discipline system is rather lacking, but it is not uncommon. There are many military training facilities where experienced soldiers are bullying the recruits ( who in turns bully recruits once they advance in ranks ), and no one do anything about it as higher rank officers may be involved, so those 3 Wonderbolts assumed that Spitfire will stay on their side and keep an eye close on their action ( not really smart move, sure, but this is a move they took ).
Twilight becoming a medic basically make her part of the team, and she would prefer to earn respect of her teammates rather than demand punishment for something she is willing to forgive.
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Quilt. Eiderdown is both too obscure and I don't know anyone who ever uses that in conversation.
I was in the Armed Forces. So I know for a fact that non-physical bullying is something that you can get away with, and happens. At the very lest you'd get a reprimand or forced to do some PT. But I've seen what happens when physical force is used. Those people get punished, and it's seen as Assault and Battery. Especially to a civilian which Twilight is. Is not something that any Armed forces thing would simply say, "Oh well shit happens."
And it's fucked up that you have physical assault with no bad outcome. Not only do them desert Spitfire to Twilight's company when they think Spits hates Twilight. But turn around and do something that in any part of society would either get them jail time, or severe repercussions. Especially since a military group is held to certain standards.
And it's not Twilight's decision. They are party of a military unit. Who even in times of peace are still on reserves, held to military standards, and are part of the REAF [Royal Equestrian Air Force] like the Blue Angels. So regardless of what Twilight says. They would be punished for their actions. And that punishment would serve as an example that there are some lines you don't cross.
Again. If you personally are 18+ (I don't know your age), and you were to attack another person. What would happen to you? And it doens't matter that their punishment system is lax. There would still be repercussions for attacking a city. Alot of peeps have said this in fewer words. Because they know that there are lines you don't cross.
If you didn't want the shit storm of people telling you that they have to be punished, then you'd have not used physical assault in the bullying scene. There were plenty of options for them to harrass and bully Twilight. And at the very least they'd get a reprimand of not being so cruel to the Princess Protege` ( slap on the hooves), or a possible loss of a single rank. That would look good on paper.
But the second Physical Assault is used they crossed the line from bullying to more than that. In any Armed Forces group, or any organization in a society similar to Equestria you simply don't go around attacking people. The second you had them go that far you made it so that there'd need to be great repercussions.
3692861 That is such good news...
[Insert a Pinkie Dreaming Of Frosting image here]
Loved it! This is a great story, and merry christmas! Keep up the great work, and have a happy new year!
You said that you're putting this into EQD. I'll look at prologue until ch3, and I'll tell you what I think of them.
New Year's Day approaches...
This fails to actually explain why her size helps her. What you've said looks like this
TS:Being small makes me a better healer.
SF: How?
TS: Because I'm so powerful that I'm pretty good even at this size.
That is more that she's a good healer in spite of her size.
I think you meant to say something about how her size makes it easier to see what's injured.
Also, why doesn't Celestia just teach Twilight the shrinking spell and let her cast it on herself? That way if there was enough of a crisis for her to need full power she could have it.
I have to agree with others, if those wonderbolts can't be professional they shouldn't be 'bolts. Especially when they are doing their best to sabotage an order from Princess Celestia. Having members of the military who won't take orders from their commander-in-chief is unacceptable.
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You already know about the added scene, but I forgot to add that I used Quilt instead of Eiderdown as you suggested.
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Chapter 21 proved to be a bit to long, so I broke it into two chapters and I will post them when new year will come ( Polish time ).
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Happy new year
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So, what is your opinion about prologue and first chapters ( I know that bonus chapter would use a little work on, but all in all, what do you thing, and also, any advices my editor can use before going over them again ? )
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I am unsure why you have trouble to understand it, I thought that Twilight explained it well enough.
What I tried to get here is Twilight telling the difference between standard healing and magical surgery. Magical surgery require huge precision, and Twilight with her small size can work on even smaller part of Spitfire's wing with ease. On her normal size, Twilight would have more then enough magic to heal the lesser wounds, but she could not be able to touch the serious one as it would require many years of hard training in magical surgery or even a special talent specialized in this field ( even rarity despite all her incredible perception would have hard time to pull this off ).
Twilight saw Celestia shrink and unshrink herself so many times that she learned those spells, the problem is that, even if she can remove effect of shrinking spell from herself, only Celestia is powerful enough to shrink her again. As for why she just not unshrink herself in times of emergency and than ask Princess to shrink her again, it is more of Twilight's inner fear, she got used to her new life so much that she fears of changing it even for a moment.
She would probably unshrink herself only as a last resort, and since she and Spitfire managed to deal with the bandits, there was no need for her to resort it ( think of it like turning into Hulk, Twilight know that she can do it anytime, but the idea terrify her and she would prefer to keep it only as last resort ).
I updated chapter 20 with hope that the ending scene would fix this problem a bit.
Basically those 3 wonderbolts are more of a black sheeps, and a tension between nobles and wonderbolts is bolting for years ( it just happened that 3 wonderbolts out of everyone have trouble to keep their emotion in check ).
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I get that you meant to say that, but Twilight doesn't actually say anything like that. She never mentions her improved control due to her size, she just talks about relative power.
I thought that Celestia's reason for using the shrinking spell on Twilight was because as said in chapter 1,
This sounds like it doesn't matter who casts the spell, as long as it's cast on the same target it will have the same effect.
OK, but if the trend of Twilight never changing back even for a short period of time continues it's going to really strain my suspension of disbelief. Also, it will make this story come across as really fetishy.
I was just trying to being up that attempting to sabotage the Princess's orders is really a serious matter. It's the sort of thing that could get them charged with treason given Twilight's importance to Celestia's plans.
Not to butt in but
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I always thought the same thing. All in all it's a relatively simple spell. The only difficulties isn't power cost but the safegaurds keeping it from being used maliciously. And since Twi isn't the type to go on a shrinking rampage I don't see the problem.
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I don't see how a person who used master level Polymorph Spells on her parents, Two age spells (very complex and high energy level spells) on a Dragon (who are resistant to magic), while levitating three master mages.
Who stated:
So basically being small. Doing a Doctors level of schooling in that subject, being subjected to medics (I believe in an earlier chapter she mentioned being hospitalized often helped her in her studies), ontop of her small size. Allows her to be a surgeon at a small size.
Although if she gets bigger her only problem is learning to control her going from Average unicorn strength to Star Swirl strength.
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Awesomesauce. I can't wait until I see what happens in chapter 21.
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Well, it have many limitations, not only targeted pony need to cooperate or have a power surge to fuel the spell (the more magic fuel it, the smaller the pony become), but casting spell itself require unbelievable high raw power.
Celestia managed to both shrink herself and fuel the spell, but she is a powerful alicorn with thousand years of raising sun and the moon behind her.
I am afraid that even now after all the harsh training, Twilight is still to weak to cast shrinking spell ( Cadence is more powerful so she would be able to, but Twilight still have a long way to go ).
Correct. Small size not only let Twilight to heal even smallest or most complicated wounds with microcosmic precision, but also keep her power in check.
But living in a big world always forced Twilight to push herself to her limit, to use all power available, if she return to normal size, she will have hard time to control so much power without breaking doors or throwing ponies into trees ( her physical strength also may be hard to control since she never had to restrain herself ).
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Base on your opinion, I have done some small modification to chapter 20.
Here is the scene I added, I hope it will solve the problem.
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Chapter 21 is coming right up, originally I wanted to upload one big chapter, but it was a bit to long and it had to be split into two. Chapter 22 I will add soon after once new year in Poland will come.
Also, those chapters are the beginning of the end, it is a big finale leading to the sequel, so please, enjoy it.
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I will contact with you about this by PM.
But right now I can say is that prologue was rather troublesome for me. Bascially some when I first added the thoughts of those teachers, some adviced me to remove it. When I removed it, some said that this story worked better with them. So the problem is that I dunno do it should be removed since some readers said that it is unnecessary while others said that story is better with them.
I can only imagine how jealous Rainbow Dash will be when she meets Twilight now.
RD: I'm the fastest flyer in Equestria, and a future Wonderbolt
TS: Oh the Wonderbolts? I spent loads of time with them and got personal lessons from Spitfire.
RD: You're kidding, right.
TS: Nope, plus I'm their doctor
Rainbow Dash either fangasms, faints, or both.
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"A small fry like you? Psh. Yeah right."
"Hey, don't be mean! I might be small but that doesn't mean I couldn't be!"
"Oh, man, you really had me going there! I like you."
"Humph."
-Later-
Spitfire: "Hey Twilight, how're you?"
"Wait, you know her?"
Spitfire: "Yeah, she's our doctor."
"What."
"Told you."
"That's so awesome!"
Funny, isn't it? They keep ragging on the nobles (nice generalisation, by the way) when they're pretty bad themselves. Including, it appears, Spitfire.
Must've been a kick to have somepony hold a mirror up to your face and show you yourself, eh Spits?
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I get the impression that you do not like Spitfire. But I do not understand what you are trying to say in this comment.
3682918 I'm sorry, but you are amazing. I've taken to, after each chapter, searching for your long, yet very entertaining comments/reactions. It's a strange thing when you idolize somepony you know nothing about.
3681862 #TwineTree I mean, #Tweenie Umm... #Little Twilight who is small
Okay, fine. #Twiny.
3785157 Rd: "Oh my gosh, I love you by association!
3709739 Ugh! She can heal well because she can get up close and see exactly what she's doing.
Its not done yet. Nuuuuuuuuu~~~
3712210 Can I kill the foalnappers!?! Please!!!!
They need to pay for their crimes and I can assure you nopony will want to foalnap Twiny when I'm done with those two!