Twi
A furious knocking at the shop door (which started the exact second the shop was set to open) drew Arca's attention from stocking the shelves and towards the front door of Alchemiracles. He rolled his eyes at Razzle, who was subbing in for Juniper and counting the morning bits in the register behind the counter, and trotted over to the entrance, opening the small porthole in the middle of the door. He glared out and found a pair of purple eyes staring back at him.
"You ponies and your punctuality. I'm still stocking the shelves, who are you and what do you want?" He watched as the pony took a polite step backwards to avoid being so close, and he got a better look at her. Purple fur, wings, a horn, and a six pointed star as her cutie mark. "Oh, wait, I saw you in the newspaper a few times, and I can mostly remember names from newspapers. You're… uh… wait, don't tell me. Twi… Twibright Waffle! That was it!"
The purple alicorn stared back at Arca for a moment, unsure if he was a master jokester like Pinkie Pie or if what Celestia had said about his name memory was really true. She decided to go with the latter for her own sanity. "I hate to correct you, but it's Twilight Sparkle. You're Arcane Catalyst, right? I saw a news report and-"
"Ok, sorry for getting your name wrong, Turpentine Spackle! Are you here to buy a potion?"
"No, I wanted to ask you a few questions about your alicornhood, and-"
For the second time, she was cut off. "Then come back later and let me finish stocking my shelves!" A potion hovered out of the porthole in Arca's magic, pouring onto the welcome mat. The fibers reacted, and the writing changed from 'Come on in!' To 'Come on, leave already!' He shut the porthole and finished stocking the shelves for the morning customers, then went back to the door and reopened the porthole. This took about twenty minutes.
Arca groaned as he glanced outside. "Are you still there? Why?!"
Twilight giggled, covering her mouth with a wing. "I'm waiting for the mat to change back. Clearly you used a temporary potion to change the writing, so I figured I'd wait until it wore off before coming in. You'd have to be crazy to waste a welcome mat every time you wanted somepony gone!"
"That, uhm…" Arca seemed to think for a second. "I can't believe I didn't think of that! I've had to throw out 50 unwelcome mats in the past four years, you just saved me a lot of bits! Here, have a free potion!" Twilight didn't have time to react as a vial of orange liquid met her lips. She reflexively swallowed, and by the time she was done drinking the surprise concoction the door was shut once more. Giving a dejected sigh, she trotted away, rescheduling her day so she could interview the 'new' alicorn later.
Meanwhile, Arca was busy replacing the welcome mat with a spare. "She was pretty smart with that whole temporary text change idea. I hope she comes back soon to buy something."
Razzle shook herself out of her latest daydream about being swept off her hooves by the perfect (in her eyes) stallion in front of her and responded. "She seemed a bit irritated being shut down like that. What potion did you give her, by the way?"
"I dunno. Hey, have you seen the experimental mane growth potion I was working on earlier? It was kinda orange-ish, I swear I put it on this table."
Razzle put two and two together and closed the shades before going back to counting the bits. "Wasn't that the potion you just gave to the princess?"
"Oh. Well, I'm sure Twinleaf Smeargle is happy with it. Hey, do you hear screaming?"
"Nope. You're just imagining things, Arcie-warkie. Oh, fudge! I was distracted by the view and lost count, now I gotta start counting again." She grumbled, shoved all the bits to one side, and started anew.
"What view? All the windows are closed. Wait… do you mean…?" Arca's eyes went wide as Razzle winked at him. "...I'm going back to my lab. Alone." He moved toward the lab, thought for a second, and backed into the room so Razzle couldn't sneak a glance. "Bye."
"Love you too, Arcie."
"MUST YOU SAY THAT EVERY TIME, RAZZLE?!" And with that, Arca slammed the door shut.
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Waiting for when they meet for real.
Couldn't he just have used another permanent potion to fix the mat back?
Sorry Twitchy Spaghetti, but I'm afraid you'd probably have more luck analyzing the Pinkie Sense again than messing around with this loon.
So think twilight will do the smart thing and ask her teacher about arcane?
..... right this is tweeker spastic we are talking about, it will be juniper that corrects her.
Poor Twilight. Hope she can find a way to shrink.
Oh dear, looks like Twilight will get to add some new items to the list
Ok, in a past chapter Arca said he remembered the names of all his customers be they paying, bartering, or otherwise. Why didn’t Twilight count?
HA!
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Giveaways don't count.
If only she had paid for the potion...
I’m shocked Celestia didn’t give Twilight a list of instructions on dealing with Arca.
Shame, I bet that even with Arca's Arcaness he and Twiggles would go together swimmingly
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She did, it should be arriving via dragonfire right about... now.
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I doubt this is the last we’ll be seeing of Twilight.
(sets up a lawn chair & snacks plus soda) this will be fun to watch.
I would bet that Twi is about to use a certain 5 letter F word, if not for two things.
1.She's not that type of pony.
2.(The more likely reason)She doesn't know it.
And with that, we have the first unofficial encounter between Arca and Twi-Floof Sprinkles. At least Juniper’s not in town right now... then again, she might be having her own issues to deal with.
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...You know what really occurred to me? Twilight is ALSO an alchemist, granted not one as big as Arca, but she still is! She was teaching alchemy to Applebloom during the "Twilight Time" episode.
Oh no... A... A horrible thought, such as that a little filly and a colt trapped in an alicorns body could destroy the vast universal expansion....
Heh.
I totally wanna see what effects the potion caused.
9662981 Twill Sprite Grackle?
I have an idea for one last chapter involving Emerald. Pm me if you want to hear it.
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No, wait! Have him call her Twinkletwinkle Littlestar.
Well that's one way to do a meet up...
Just binged read it and I loved every word of it. From the lists to the charectors it was amazing.10/10
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Aw, thank you!
Another double Pokémon reference?
I'm imagining a 50ft ball of Twilight floof >.>