Unin-vine-ted
Twilight stood by the desk, her horn levitating around several tools and mumbling sounds as she concentrated on the large metal machine in front of her. Spike, after making himself a sandwich, looked over to Twilight, knowing from the sight that her brain was grinding into gears.
“What’cha doing?” Spike asked to her back.
“Experimenting,” she simply said as she continued working.
Curious to see, Spike peeked over her shoulder to see her work. He asked with a questioning tone, “Is that a… seismometer?”
“Not just any seismometer now,” Twilight said cheerfully as it seems she finished tinkering with it and presented it to Spike.
He observed the new wires, bulbs and meters being attached to the machine when he asked confused, “What do you mean by that?”
“Watch,” Twilight demonstrated by lighting the magic from her horn. She then brought it closer to the wire with a crystal orb on top. When she touched it, the crystal started glowing intensely by its contact. Then the machine began working on its own with the orbs glowing steadily.
“Wow, that was so cool!” Spike exclaimed before he paused and asked her in confusion, “What did you do exactly?”
She rolled her eyes at his incomprehension before explaining, “I just transfer a sample of my magic into that crystal. It was mined over the Snowy Mountains and scientists found that it can hold magic the same way metal conducts the electricity. Not only that but even if they are not as powerful like the elements, it can be familiar with other magical components. So I barbed it into the seismometer to see that instead of measuring seismic waves, it would measure any magical occurrences thirty feet from here!”
“Wow, Twilight,” Spike awed, “You're sure that it would work?”
“Well, I’m not entirely sure since I have nothing to test with, but we’ll just see it if something does come,” Twilight said, very proud of her experiment and highly optimistic about the future outcomes, “If it does works, I might even use it to find Discord.”
“You think it can?”
“It might be a fifty/fifty chance---I did say that it can track any magical incidences but there’s a possibility it can track down magical imbalances. If I tweak it a little bit and use some of my alicorn magic instead of my unicorn part, it can make tracking him down a lot easier!”
She stopped and stared into space with her face twitching with an apprehensive expression. Spike noticed it, “What’s wrong, Twi?”
“I didn’t think of this before. If I do find Discord and bring him to Celestia-- What about the others?”
“The others?” he asked confused.
“Applejack, Fluttershy, the others-- My friends.”
Spike was almost surprised on how Twilight mentioned them in any name that wasn’t a position or a personal noun like college or peers.
She sighed, “Everything’s changed since I moved here and they started to invite to almost anything. I don’t mind them at first, I know they’re trying to be nice, but now it’s…. I know this sounds stupid and this only been a few weeks, and we do have some connection because of the elements, but… I didn’t think what I’ll do after this is over.
“I always thought of going back to Canterlot. But I also don’t want to leave them without any notice. What if they forget me after I’m gone? What if they were just trying to be nice because of our element? What if…. What if they don’t want me as a friend?”
Spike thought of all this before he concluded, “Well… Maybe it might be something you can talk about?”
Twilight peered over to him with subtle uncertainty as he continued, “It’s true that you’re all tied to your element and that you tend to get yourself busy trying to save the world and stuff; but it doesn’t mean that it conflicts to anything. You should talk to them about this and see if there’s an answer so that you can still see them after we’re finished here. Besides--maybe it’s just a thought--- but why not have them come with you on your missions? It would be also a way to spend time with them, like those past bearers from that diary.”
“You mean The Journal of the Past Bearers?”
“Yeah, exactly like that! I mean, it would things a lot easier and less lonely for you. I think it’s good for you to have friends especially since you’d shut others out for who knows how long. So, if you really want this to work out, you should talk to them.”
“You sure that it will?”
“I guess the past bearers know about that too, and became good friends because of that.”
Twilight reflected on what Spike said and she reflected on it. She might be busy trying to make Equestria a better place, but it didn’t mean that she didn’t have to do it alone. Maybe if Celestia granted to, she would bring them along to try to save their home together. But it didn’t mean she’ll do it without hesitation. Those ponies do have their lives and responsibilities on their own and she wasn’t exactly sure if they’ll be willing to become friends with her, as she did live here more than a week.
Still there are some things to think about, and she needed to know if they are okay with that.
“You’re may be right. I should talk to them about this. Not sure it might work but we’ll see,” she said before she thought, “You know, I haven’t read that journal long before I moved here.”
“Oh, I already checked to see it was here,” Spike said pointing his thumbs over his shoulders to the books downstairs, “it’s over at section J for History. The only problem is that it’s not a public domain version like the one back at Canterlot.”
Twilight smiled at her partner’s expertise, “I’m sure it’s sufficient enough. How am I lucky to have a special dragon like you?
“Easy—you hatched me and overgrew me at your application exam to Celestia’s school for Gifted Unicorns.
“Hey!” She took offense to the remark, “I was young then; I can hardly control my magic!”
“But you wouldn’t have me otherwise,” Spike said with a playful smirk to which she rolled her eyes and giggled.
A loud beep interrupted the moment and Twilight saw that the noise was coming from the seismometer. She went to inspect it and already there were wild scribbles writing on the paper roll while the meter track waved frantically.
“What the…?” she whispered.
Then a huge vibration shook the ground violently! Twilight tried grabbing holding on her desk and the machine while Spike was lost in the middle of room, shaking along the vibration. When it stops, she protected herself from the falling book and he fell into the plate where his sandwich lays.
“Aww,” Spike groaned sadly, “There goes my snack.”
“Twilight!”
A voice was heard from downstairs and Twilight recognized it’s owners, “Rainbow?”
The multi-colored Pegasus zoomed into the room and stopped in front of Twilight. “Quick! You need to get out here now!” Rainbow said frantically.
“Why? What’s going on?”
“Uh, have you seen the Everfree lately?” Rainbow pointed her hoof to the window, “There are vines growing everywhere!”
“What?!”
Twilight looked past the window and saw that from afar; Everfree Forest was definitely overgrown with mysterious vines.
Meanwhile, Discord watched over at the CMC as they used his bubble again to try to get a cutie mark on paleontologists. The girls surprisingly had found a few bones that Discord conjured up underground---There were even bones that didn’t even look like a pony. He then turned his attention to Fluttershy, who is lying by his side curling up on a book she’d borrowed from Twilight.
It was amazing to think that a monster like him would come this far as to becoming friends with a bunch of young, energetic fillies and a mare who showed him there was more to the world that meets the eye---despite the fact that she didn’t even experience it before as he did.
It was almost hard to think anything bad to happen from this.
Then the ground started shaking and everypony stopped and froze as the vibration stopped.
“What in the world was that?” Babs Seed exclaimed.
“Is it another earthquake?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“I don’t think so; that lasted a lot shorter than the past ones.” Apple Bloom stated.
Then more noises came pass them and Fluttershy turned to see a stampede of animals running next to the walls of the dimension and away from it. The others turned to see the scene before them.
“Something’s after them,” Fluttershy stated, started to worry about the animals.
“How can you tell?” Scootaloo asked.
“They’re all scared. Something must be chasing them.”
Then Discord’s super hearing caught a faint sound from afar. He stared at the distance until he saw some strands of black vines with blue thrones moving towards them.
His eyes widened as he recognized them, and his body turned tense.
“Run.”
The girls blinked at him as they’d never heard him with a serious tone before, “What?”
“Run,” Discord stood up and ushered the girls up, “Come on. Go, hurry. Leave everything; just go.”
“What’s going on?” Fluttershy asked worriedly.
“ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING?! JUST GO!”
As soon as he screamed that out loud, a huge body on vines crashed through the dimension’s walls like it was nothing and the others gawk in horror at the sight.
“RUN!” Discord screamed.
Their mind clicked in unison as they galloped through the other end of the dimension and into the forest, all the while the vines continued growing and rushing after them.
They ran as fast they could as the vines chased after them and the animals beside them. At the corner of his eyes, Discord saw the vines were almost close to grabbing Fluttershy’s tail. He quickly used his tail to grab her out of way and put her into his one arm as he began to run on all fours. He then did the same to the young fillies as they couldn’t keep up either, putting them onto his back.
Among the frightened crowd of animals, Fluttershy saw a familiar face.
“Discord! There’s Zecora!” Fluttershy gasped, pointing to the zebra, “We need to get her.”
He simply nodded as he swooped past the crowd until he was near enough to grab the zebra and hurled her into his back with the others.
Soon after, Discord saw an opening at the end of the forest and sprinted towards it. As he finally reached the exit, they all fall to the ground and they saw that the vines stopped chasing them but continued to grow.
The animals were still in a frenzy and they’d turn to their friend, Fluttershy, for help, for which the size and sound of the busy crowd almost made her overwhelmed.
“Listen; calm down!” Fluttershy tried to assure them within the noise the animals are making, “Don’t worry, you’re all safe now. It’s not gonna hurt you now.”
When they asked what is that thing that had caused after them, Fluttershy was left speechless, “…I don’t know.”
“Apple Bloom!”
The group turned to see Applejack running to them from a distance while Discord quickly transformed into his pony form. Luckily for him, Applejack didn’t saw him changed.
“Applejack!” Apple Bloom called out to her big sister and she was immediately greeted with a hug.
“Oh, sis! You scared me half to death!” Applejack exclaimed, fussing over her like a worrisome mother, “You could’ve gotten trapped in… whatever that is!”
“Plunderseed.”
The others looked over to Zecora with Applejack uttered in confusion, “What?”
“These are no ordinary vines,” Zecora stated, “They possessed a magic too old to define. But if I’m correct from what I read, those vines are known as Plunderseed.”
“I’ve never seen these kinds of vines before---Not even the ones in the Forest Protection Force had seen anything like this.”
“That’s because they are extremely rare. It might be the case that it was planted there. For how much time had pass, I can’t be exact.”
“Do you know anyway to stop them?”
“That I do not know; but I think now we must go,” she insisted as she pointed that the vines were growing closer near them. With that warning, the group ran towards town with the animals following them out of panic.
All the ponies were rushing to get away from the vines and find shelter to hide in. Twilight tried as much as she can to defend Ponyville from this mysterious vines by fighting back and rescue a few pony who gotten caught in the vine’s grasp. There were even some unicorns who tried to fight back the vines but didn’t leave a mark on them. In fact, the vines had somehow affected the magic on their horns that it causes it to go out of control. The same goes for the pegusi whom tried blasting away dark clouds with thorns until its thunderbolts started to attack them.
Rainbow Dash was throwing punches towards one cloud before a bolt shocked her, “Ow!”
“Rainbow! Are you alright?” Twilight called over to the Pegasus.
“It’s no use!” Rainbow exclaimed, “We can’t control them! I don’t know how long this will last.”
“Twilight! Rainbow!”
Both ponies looked down below to see Rarity and Pinkie Pie calling to them from the town hall. They glided down to the ground towards them.
“Oh my goodness, Twilight!” Rarity greeted worriedly as they slowly try to land, “Thank goodness you’re alright.”
As Rainbow was a few feet from the ground, she was suddenly zapped by another lightning bolt and she was sent hurling the rest of the way down.
“For the most part,” Pinkie Pie stated before she started stomping on one small vine rooting from the ground. She said her next sentence pausing then resuming after each jump, “These… vines… sure are… a hoot… to handle… and I know…. Jumping…. Is fun…but I… don’t think… I can… fight… them off… any… more.”
She stopped jumping onto the vines, panting out of exhaustion and sat down the stairs, “I need some air…”
“Do you know where Applejack is?” Twilight asked.
“Not that I know of, darling,” Rarity replied worriedly, “And I’m apparently in the same pickle as you. I can’t find Sweetie Belle anywhere! She went back to the forest to check on Fluttershy….” She then dramatically gasps as she feared the worst, “What if she got trapped in those vivacious vines? WHAT IF SHE HAS BEEN TAKEN ALIVE?!”
“Don’t worry, Rarity. We’ll find her. I’m sure she’d gotten out of there with Fluttershy in time.”
“Here they are!” Rainbow pointed to the group of ponies rushing towards their way along with the stampede of animals that gave the ponies a strange reaction. Rarity didn’t mind it as she rushes towards her little sister.
“Sweetie Belle!” She gasped while giving her a death-like gripping hug with tears in her eyes, “Oh, Sweetie! You had me sooo worried!”
“Rare…” Sweetie gasped as much as she can from the hug, “Choking. Not Breathing.”
“Guys!” Twilight ran to the group, “Are you alright?”
“Oh, Twilight, it was so scary,” Fluttershy said, “Those vines came in so fast!”
“And we were this close to be smothered by them like spaghetti,” Gusty stated as he stomped onto a small vine that just grew out of the ground.
“Zecora knows that they are,” Applejack injected, hoping to give Twilight the information she needs.
“You do?” Twilight asked the zebra.
“Those Plunderseeds are known to make things out of control,” Zecora replied to the princess, “Such strange magic can affect so many that the known cure are scarcely any.”
“There’s no way to stop those Plunderseeds?”
“That I am afraid to say so but—“
“There is actually,” Gusty interrupted, surprising everyone in the group.
“There is?” Twilight asked surprised.
“Then why the hay didn’t you tell us that before?!” Applejack shouted.
“Hey, we were caught in the moment! Anyway, I read it before from somewhere and I know for a fact that the only way stop a Plunderseed vine is to use the magic from the elements.” What he said was almost partially a lie; he had known about the vines for a long time since he’s the one who planted them years ago. But he never thought it would grow quickly as he thought. He didn’t want to say it to upset everypony and to give his identity away, but what he did say about the elements destroying is actually true.
Twilight gasped, “The elements of harmony! That’s it!” The joy quickly died as she thought of one small fact, “But we can’t use the element of kindness; it isn’t claimed to its bearer!”
“That doesn’t matter; as long it is the elements’ power that’s fighting those things on your own will, then you should do fine.”
Twilight then can’t help but look at him suspiciously, “How I do know this isn’t a prank again?”
Gusty blinked, “What do you mean ‘again’?”
“Zecora told me about the chaos flowers--- it doesn’t exist.”
He caught his mistake and nervously chuckled, “Oops. Heheh, that book must’ve been outdated then—“
“Don’t worry about that,” Twilight interrupted, “I’m going to ask you again—how would I know that this is not a trick?”
A vine suddenly strike at them and they all dodged away from it. With that, Gusty exclaimed in hope to get sense in her head, “Well, do you have any brilliant ideas? Because it seems to me that it’s the only option you got!”
Twilight was stunned without any ideas in her head and judging Gusty’s serious tone in his voice, it really does seem to be their only option. She might’ve hated his guts and she doesn’t trust him; but she decided to give him a benefit of the doubt for this one time.
“Okay, the elements are back in the library,” Twilight declared to the ponies, “I’ll go back to get them. In the meantime, you guys try to fight back the vines and keep it away from the ponies as much as you can.
“Will do, Twilight,” Applejack replied in agreement.
“Yeah, you can count on us!” Pinkie Pie insisted.
Twilight then turned to the CMC, “Apple Bloom, I need you and the girls to help the ponies find shelter. We don’t want you to get close to the vines and if it’s possible you can get into some place safe too.”
“Whatever you say, Twi,” Apple Bloom replied.
“Fluttershy, can you watch over them? And maybe get the animals out of the way so the ponies doesn’t frighten them more?”
“I’ll try,” Fluttershy replied, “And be careful.”
Twilight nodded to them before she declared to the others, “Okay, guys; let’s move!”
With that, Twilight flew up to the skies while the rest fought whatever they can to hold back the vines until the princess is back with the Elements.
Fluttershy turned to the animals who look to her with great concern, “Listen to me! I need to get you to a safe place so that the vines won’t get you. But you also need to not frighten any pony.”
“Tell them to go to Sweet Apple Acres; They can stay there for the time being,” Apple Bloom suggested.
“She said to go to Sweet Apple Acres,” Fluttershy repeated to the animals, “You’ll be safe there until I come to get you.”
The animals quickly oblige as they stampede to another direction where they can see the orchard far away.
“Nice job, Flutters,” Scootaloo compliment, to which Fluttershy gave a bashful smile.
“Okay, now that’s done—Let’s help the ponies!” Babs Seed stated.
The girls nodded in agreement and then gallop into town where they saw a panicking crowd of ponies.
Applejack, Pinkie and other earth ponies stomped and kicked the vines in retaliate while Rainbow and other pegusi try to round the clouds back without getting shocked. Rarity, Gusty and the unicorns used whatever control of magic they had to create the barrier. Though strangely it seems a little easier for Gusty since the vines didn’t affect his kind of magic at all. But what is he to question on that when it doesn’t make sense?
Fluttershy and the CMC tried whatever they can to usher ponies into houses available for shelter, but it proved to be difficult as the ponies continued to panic and creating havoc.
At one point, Fluttershy heard a scream and she gasped as she saw the fillies suddenly disappeared in the crowd. She rushed to find them and cried out desperately, “Apple Bloom? Sweetie Belle? Babs? Girls?!”
Meanwhile at one part of the town, Spoiled Rich was ushering the members of the Elite Club inside her home while Diamond Tiara stayed by the door to see the panic happening outside.
“Okay, I think that’s everyone,” Spoiled Rich said, “Come inside, Diamond.”
“But what about the other ponies?” Diamond asked.
“They can fend for themselves; I’m sure there’s plenty of other room for them. Come on, let’s hurry before those vines get into our house.”
Spoiled Rich was about to shut the door until Diamond heard a familiar sound in the distance.She looked out the door to see Sweetie Belle getting caught by one lone vine strand while the rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders straining to pull her free.
Diamond was horrified by this and she felt the need to rush in and save them. But she only took one step out the door before her mother stopped her.
“Diamond!” Spoiled Rich yelled, “What do you think you’re doing? Come back inside.”
“But I know them, Mother!” Diamond cried, “They’ll get hurt if we don’t help!”
“Did you not just hear me, Diamond Tiara? Those blanks flanks and their safety are not of my concern. Now get inside!”
Diamond looked between both her mother and the CMC, conflicted of what she should do. She didn’t want to disappoint her mother but she didn’t want to leave them in the dust, not especially after she was forgiven by them so much in the past.
Spoiled got more frustrated as her daughter stood there unresponsive, “I said…. GET INSIDE!!”
Her mother’s scream colliding with the scream from her troubled friend snapped Diamond into making her decision.
“NOT UNTIL I SAVE MY FRIENDS!”
She dashed past the door despite her mother’s protest and ran towards where the CMC was. When she got close enough, she tackled against the vine, hurting it so much that it let go of Sweetie Belle and scurried away.
The girls watched Diamond in awe as she turned to help Sweetie up.
“Are you alright?” Diamond asked worried.
“Yes, I’m fine,” Sweetie said in awe.
“Diamond,” Apple Bloom said in awe, “You came back….”
They were startled by the screams of her mother before Diamond could reply to them, “Well… it wasn’t easy.”
“Girls!”
The group turned to see Fluttershy running towards them worried sick.
“Oh, girls, you’re alright! I thought I’d lost you--” Fluttershy caught noticed of Diamond who she hadn’t seen for a long time, “Diamond. You’re… back.”
Diamond nervously chuckled, “It’s, uh…. Good to see you too.”
“Um, I don’t think now the time for a reunion now,” Scootaloo pointed to the vines, putting their mind on important matters.
“We need to get you girls somewhere safe,” Fluttershy insisted as she doesn’t want to lose them in the crowd and getting hurt again.
“We can try to get in my house,” Sweetie Belle recommended, “I’m sure that my mom and dad can let us in.”
“Then we need to get there quick!” Fluttershy said as she ushered the girls to the direction to the house, with Sweetie leading the way.
Twilight flew as fast as she could to get back to the group with the chest with the elements inside. Luckily, it didn’t take long for her to spot them near the wall of vines near the Everfree Forest.
She landed with a big thud, alerting the others of her arrival.
“She’s back with the elements!” Rainbow declared while flying down to the ground near her.
“And about time too!” Pinkie cried in exhaustion, “I was about to get pooped.”
“Come on,” Twilight said as she opened the chest, “put your elements on!”
The five bearers put on their respective elements, which has been inserted into four necklaces while Twilight’s was a crown, while Gusty and the other unicorns stayed behind to keep the barrier up.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Nabis just landed into Ponyville. He tried to keep out of sight as he started his search for Gypsum, but soon realized that he’s been caught at the wrong time.
He activated the magic from his horn and used a detection spell that would track changelings in disguise. It didn’t take him long though as he saw Gypsum-- whom was indeed disguised--- fighting off the vines at its wall.
Rushing into action, he flamed up a disguise and ran towards Gypsum. He quickly took her by surprise by pulling her away from the vines and crowd of ponies and into a deserted alleyway.
“Hey! what are you doing, creep?!” the disguised Gypsum screamed, trying to wrestle out of his grasp.
“Shhh, wait, wait, Gypsum,” he lets her go and transformed back to his original form, “It’s me.”
Gypsum’s eyes widen as she changed into her form. “Nabis? What are you doing out there?” she whispered annoyed.
“The queen knows you’re gone and she’d sent a search party,” he grabbed her hoof as before he prepared to take flight, “We need to go now.”
Gypsum swiped her hoof off of his in protest, “Not until I find Nameless.”
“What?! No, Gypsum, listen to me!” Nabis cried desperately to the stubborn college, “They’re going to kill us if they find us here!”
“You really don’t think I know that? It didn’t stop Queen Regalis before.”
“Yes, but that was at a war! This is different!”
“I am not changing my mind, Nabis. It’s either Nameless or our future!”
Gypsum ran away from Nabis, transforming back to her disguise while he did the same and followed her, “Gypsum, stop!”
Just right after she knew the fillies were safe in Sweetie Belle’s home, Fluttershy ran back to where the group was just when they had their elements on.
“Everypony, get back!” Applejack yelled to the ponies that were holding the vines back with brute force or magic like Gusty.
“Okay, girls,” Twilight shouted out, facing the ever-growing enemy in front of them, “Get ready.”
She concentrated and activated the magic on her horn which powered the gem on her crown then the necklaces on the other bearers. They slowly levitated from the ground as they’d shone so bright that the ponies stopped to stare and gape at them.
Fluttershy was caught staring at them before she realized that her chest was glowing again. But this time for her, it felt different since it was glowing just as brightly as the bearers. Suddenly, she felt a throbbing sensation inside that started to hurt her.
When the bearer finally released powerful beams at the vines, it was starting to disappear from the impact and ponies continued to marvel that this impending victory.
Gusty felt a massive tremor on his back and he realized exactly what it was. He turned to the back of the crowd and saw Fluttershy’s chest was glowing but brighter than it was before. This had also caught the attention of the Princess when she saw something glistening at the corner of her eye. She noticed at close inspection that Fluttershy was…..Glowing?
When the throbbing in her chest became too much, Fluttershy galloped away from the crowd.
Gusty followed her out of alarm while Twilight, though she wanted to help, realized that she was losing focus on the elements and turned back her attention to the vines.
Gypsum kept on running the empty streets and alleys trying to find her target until she abruptly halted. Nabis, who eventually caught up with her, was confused why she stopped and looked at her direction with shock.
There she was, Nameless standing right in front of them. And her chest was glowing brightly.
“Nameless! There she is!” Nabis whispered, “She really is here after all!”
“And about time, too,” Gypsum whispered with a wicked smile etching on her face, “She’s getting powerful.”
Nabis caught the sight of her smile, “Gypsum?”
“We need to kill her quickly.”
“Gypsum, NO!”
It was already too late for him to stop her as she quickly pounced out of the alley and towards Fluttershy all while transforming out of her disguise.
Fluttershy was caught by surprise as she felt something pouncing on her and is now pinned down to the ground. Her eye shrunk in fear as she realized who is standing on top of her.
“There you are, Nameless,” Gypsum said in a sinister tone, “We have been looking for you everywhere.”
Fluttershy struggled to get out of the changeling’s hold of her, but failed miserably. Gypsum held her down hard and tightly so that this condemned soul couldn’t ran away from her again.
“Don’t you realize how much of us we have to risk because of you? Well, you don’t have to worry now that I’m here to finish the job.”
She activated the magic from her horn and Fluttershy shut her eyes tight, waiting for the intimate blast to end her.
Then a flash of light appeared before them, sending Gypsum off Fluttershy and to the ground. The changeling gasped as she saw a mismatched creature standing in front of the pony, down on all fours with a furious scowl. Nabis and Fluttershy did the same thing and watched in shock.
“So…” Discord growled in a low tone, “You were one of the bugs who almost had her pushing up daisies?”
Gypsum was too shocked and terrified to speak. When Discord saw this, he growled sarcastically, “What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?”
Gypsum snapped out of her tear and blasted a beam towards him, to which he hit it away from him by the swipe of his paw. He then launched at the changeling and he held her against a wall, almost choking her with his arm across her neck.
“One more shot and I swear it will be you pushing up daisies!” Discord snarled at the changeling’s face.
Nabis, who has been hiding the alley, ran out and blast a shot at Discord’s side. He cried in pain and without realizing it, he let go his hold on Gypsum. She landed coughing and gasping for air as Nabis helped her stand up.
“Quick, we need to go! NOW!” Nabis exclaimed, running to take off to the air with Gypsum holding onto his hoof. When Discord saw this, he chased after them until they finally took off faster than lighting.
He watched them fly off in the distance until he turned to see Fluttershy. Her chest stopped glowing, but she was distraught and was starting to break down in tears.
With all the anger gone, he rushed to her side, “Fluttershy, are you alright?”
“Yes, I-- I’m fine,” Fluttershy sobbed. Then she immediately wrapping her arms around him, “Oh, Discord, I was so scared! I didn't know what happened! I felt this throbbing in my chest as it glowed again---I've never felt this before. It started to hurt and then Gypsum came and she almost…Discord, what is happening to me?!”
She continued crying in his arms and he comforted her as much as he can, trying to ignore of the guilt he had inside---the guilt of not telling her the truth without losing her.
“Fluttershy?”
Discord heard Twilight’s voice calling out in the distance. Panicked, he immediately snapped his finger to transform back to his pony form.
Twilight turned to the corner and saw Gusty comforting the tear-stricken Fluttershy. She, along with the other bearers, galloped towards them with concern.
“Fluttershy!” Twilight said kneeling before the pair, “Are you okay? I thought I saw you running away in pain!” She didn’t even thought about mentioning her chest glowing but she figured she saved it for another time.
“Yes—I-I’m fine,” Fluttershy replied, wiping her tears away, “I--- I didn’t know what came over me. “
“What happened?”
Fluttershy tried to answer her words carefully, as she promised not to reveal Discord in front of the princess and not about the changelings to cause a panic in town, “I… I guess that all of the stress was getting into me and I… got scared. Like I said, I don’t know what came over me.”
Gusty mentally sighed in relief as he saw that Twilight took the lie. It took him until now to notice her hoof was holding onto his.
“Well, I’m glad that you’re safe,” Twilight said with relief, “And you should know that— “
“We won!” Pinkie interrupted excitedly, “The vines are all gone!”
“And all of the clouds,” Rainbow stated.
“And our magic is better now,” Rarity pointed to her horn which started working normal again.
Twilight was left without words as her friends already listed it out for her, but she let go and said simply with a giggle, “Yeah, what they’d said.”
“Well, now that that’s over,” Applejack declared out loud, “we need to check on everypony to make sure they’re okay and the damages if there’s any.”
Everypony agreed while Pinkie started to take off, “And while you are doing that, I’m going to organize and set up our party for tonight!”
They then looked at her confused. Rainbow was the only one who asked her, “What party?”
“The we-survived-a-crisis-used-the-elements-and-thank-goodness-we’re-alive party,” Pinkie stated as if it were an all-known fact, “Starts at sundown—everypony is invited. Spread the word around. Bye!”
With that, she dashed off in a flash while the others rolled their eyes lightheartedly and decided to just go with it.
“Okay, we better get started,” Applejack announced giving everyone in the group a start. She turned to Fluttershy, “Can you check on the girls if they’re okay? And maybe get those critters back in the Everfree?”
“I will,” Fluttershy relied as she stands up. She took notice of her hoof holding Gusty’s and she let go with a light blush.
“Um, A-are you coming?” Fluttershy asked.
Gusty took a moment to realize what she said, “Oh, yes! Yes, y-you know,” he nervously chuckled, “Just in case anything happens.”
Fluttershy showed a weak smile as she turned to the direction to Sweetie’s house. Gusty followed and the whole trip let him process what happened and all the fear he felt at that moment.
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Now that Twilight has seen Fluttershy's glow, it's only a matter of time before all is revealed and the bearers become complete.
Oohh can't wait for more