Equestriancraft

by Lionpaw315

First published 7th of January, 2014

Welcome to Equestria...where pegasi control the weather, the sun and the moon are moved by the celestial sisters....and where the Sky Army leader and some of his friends are now officially stuck.

The Sky Army leaders have a talent for getting into trouble,but now they've really done it. An accident leaves them stuck in a world of pastel colored equines, and they find that the only way out is through an ancient ponytale that no one can even confirm is true. Reluctantly, they agree to stay and see what will happen, and new friendships are born. But soon, a terrible accident occurs, and the group finds themselves in the heart of the blame. Taking a path that no one could have predicted, they discover a traitor, solve an ancient conflict, and go on a journey that will take them all across Equestria-and maybe even the beyond.

Equestrian Introduction

Author's Notes:

My first story....is a crossover! I'm not a very good writer, but hopefully I'll improve :P
(I suck at this)
Edit: I'm rewriting most of the chapters just because most of them, while rereading them, kinda felt like I wrote them at 10:30 p.m. at night.
Which I did, but that's beside the point.

It was a peaceful day in Minecraftia.
The sun shone across the land, a bright yellow ball of blazing glory. Everything that the rays touched seemed automatically brightened by the warmth carried inside them. A gentle breeze blew through the air, making the heat of the sun tolerable. The sky was a bright blue color, and there was not a single cloud in the sky. It was the type of day that filled you to the brim with energy, urging you to run outside and play.
Especially for one person.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Sky was sitting on his bed, wailing his head off. He seemed in no apparent danger, however, and was most likely just screaming his head insanely off for fun.
"Hey, who're you calling insane?"
Well, there is no rational reason you would be screaming your head off unless you weren't sane.
"You're the expert on not sane."
You know what? Let's just get back to the story.
"Agreed."
Sky rolled his eyes. It wasn't his fault that bright, sunny days like this tended to get him all winded up. Usually, he had friends to play with on days like this, but today wasn't the case. Ty had a mod showcase to do, Ant was exploring, Jordan was filming some episodes of....whatever he was filming (it was kinda hard to tell in Jordan's case), Jason was just....being Jason, he guessed, and the rest of his friends were all at the different bases throughout the land, making sure that no squids tried to attack them.
Not that it would be much of a deal if they did. Those squids were so stupid they couldn't find their way out of a paper bag.
Sky sighed. Screaming so much had started hurting his throat. He got off of his bed and looked around for other sources of entertainment. He made a mental note to clean up his room and shook his head. That's when a picture caught his eye. He turned to get a better look at it.
A picture of him when he first got chosen as leader of his army.
He just wished he had known what he was getting himself into when he got chosen.
There were plenty of good things about it. The respect, the admiration, the loyalty, the fact that you were a guest of honor even at other people's birthday parties....
But there were plenty of...Actually, can I call them bad? he wondered, tapping his index finger on his chin. It's annoying, pressuring, and tough sometimes, but not reallybad. I'll just call them...not-so-good.
That sounded good.
But there were plenty of not-so-good things about being a leader of an army as well.
First off, the expectations. Everybody expected you to be amazing and perfect and awesome and great at everything and smart and funny and various things like that. Not that he wasn't already all of those things, of course, but all of the time? It wasn't that easy.
Then, there was the issue of dealing with the recruits. None of them were actually bad, but some of them could be more annoying than others. It was all he could do not to scream, "THERE'S MORE TO ME THAN BUTTER, PEOPLE!!"
There was a reason he lived by himself out in a cabin in the woods. It wasn't technically being antisocial, but he had enough of BIG GIGANTIC SWARMING MASSIVE crowds of people during war time. His friends? No problem. All of the recruits in one place? Problem.
And don't even get him started on the food, water, and other resources that they needed. Constantly. All of the time. Especially during war.
It didn't help that organizing about eight million recruits was roughly about as easy as getting one hundred butterflies to fly in a straight line. If not harder. (Did he technically count as a pacifist due to his hate of war?)
Yes, his life was awesome, wasn't it?
Suddenly, a scream tore through the peaceful atmosphere.
Sky jumped, startled at hearing such a distressing noise in a day of such tranquility. He yelped and flailed his limbs around before landing on his back on the floor. Something jabbed him sharply in the spine, which turned out to be a random piece of stone lying on the floor. He groaned and rubbed his back before getting up.
Another mental note to clean your room, Adam.
He had gotten up, brushed himself off, and stumbled blindly around his room before Sky finally realized that he should investigate what the heck caused that scream in the first place.
Sky started counting off things that could have caused the scream. It definitely was not an unlucky piece of prey, he thought, crossing that out in his mind, because that scream sounded very darn human, if he wasn't mistaking. Maybe it was just a newbie that had gotten unlucky in a fight with something, Sky thought, shaking his head. Worth noting if someone put up a missing poster, but otherwise, not very important.
But still...
He sighed. It was his duty to make sure everyone who lived in the territory of Sky Army was safe....
"No matter wind, rain, snow or shine, the duty to protect you is all mine," he mumbled under his breath. "Whether old or new, it's the Sky Army's duty to protect you. As long as they're not running around like terrified chickens," he added, gripping his amulet tightly and grabbing a gold sword off of the wall. He decided to leave his sunglasses behind, as they were probably not going to be needed.
Sky really wished he had known beforehand the big mess he was going to get himself into.

The scream replayed in his head over and over again.
Sky found it kind of annoying.
All he could hear was the screaming. It helped him with his case, but not really with his sanity.
It's kind of high pitched, and sounding like a girl, Sky thought, not really narrowing down anyone.
He got to the edge of the forest, and blinding rays of light instantly attacked his eyes. Sky yelped and jumped back, not used to the brightness outside of the forest.
"CRAP!!" he swore, rubbing his eyes. "This is what I wear sunglasses for," he muttered, regretting leaving them behind. He squinted to get a better look at things.
There was something lying on the ground, unconscious. Sky walked over to get a closer look and felt his heart skip a beat when he saw who it was.
Good Notch, what mod was Ty doing?! Sky thought,kneeling down and vigorously shaking his friend.
Ty let out a groan, but didn't get up.
So the doofus is alive, Sky sighed, relief washing over him. But question after question kept hitting him, over and over. Still, he's still unconscious, which is a problem. Speaking of which, how did he get knocked out in the first place? Did it have something to do with the mod he reviewed? Or was he just being a stupid idiot?......Yeah, it was probably the second one. He could hurt himself while reviewing the floral mod, the stupid dummy, Sky concluded, dragging Ty up into a comfortable position (or at least, comfortable to carry him in) and started dragging him around.
Let's get him to the base. Maybe someone there will know what to do, he decided, heading off in the direction the base was in.

Pain.
That was the first thing Ty felt when he woke up to blinding lights, a soft bed, and a splitting headache.
It felt like something had punched his face with a stick or a log or something like that.
Have you ever been shoved in the face by a log? It doesn't feel too good, Ty thought, groaning as he slowly sat up. He rubbed his eyes. Where the heck am I? The last thing I remember is a flash of blue and rainbow....um...
"TY!!" Ty had the wind knocked out of him by a flying cannonball that was chaotic and disastrous if left unchecked (but you can call it Skydoesminecraft)
"OHMYGOSHIWASSOWORRIEDABOUTYOUWHICHMODWEREYOUDOINGWHYWEREYOUUNCONSCIOUS?!" Sky burst out all in one breath, not pausing to take a breath in between his words. Ty blinked.
"Um......eleventeen," he responded, not sure of what to say, causing Sky to cough out a laugh.
"Yep, he's definitely still Ty. No trauma, brain damage, or anything like that. Only the real Ty would be this much of a doofus," he heard someone snort. Ty turned around. It was Jason.
"Be nicer," he heard someone else scold. Ty saw Jordan look at Jason with obvious disdain.
"Oh, come on Jordan. Lighten up!" said another someone else. Ant punched Jordan lightly in the arm, causing Jordan to punch him back. Pretty soon, the two were in a sissy fight, punching each other back and forth, rolling around on the floor and hurling insults at each other.
Ty winced and rubbed his head. Loud noises didn't exactly help his headache...
Why do I even have a headache in the first place? he wondered, rubbing his head. Um...spell? Squids? No reason? Some kind of weird cosmic disaster that is the beginning of the end of everything we know and love and has something to do with an ancient legend on the creation of the universe?
Ty decided that it was the third choice.
Suddenly, a jolt of pain went through his head, unlike the previous headaches he had, which were only small, ringing pains. He bit his tongue as not to cry out with the pain, and tasted metal in his mouth.
Blech.
Once the stabbing pain had passed, Ty exhaled, not even realizing that he had been holding his breath in the first place. He gently pressed his hand to his forehead, and felt something sticky and wet. He wiped away the blood before anyone else had noticed, thankful that all of his friends were on the floor, rolling around and fighting.
Ty stiffened. His hand felt something bumpy as it was rubbing his forehead....
It was a horn.
A wave of panic surged through Ty as he realized something.
I'm turning into a unicorn!

Rainbowdash was confused.

Wasn't the spell that Twilight had cast on her supposed to enhance her talent so that she could go super duper fast?

Then why did it end up sending me here?! Rainbow thought, flying around and examining her surroundings, deciding that she was definitely not in Equestria unless the Everfree Forest had changed its layout. Again.

But the Everfree Forest was never made out of blocks.

So Rainbow had to conclude that she was not in Equestria.

Magic was definitely unpredictable and wild, right?

And the weird thing she had seen...was not okay.

It was not. Okay.

It was a pale color, kind of like Rarity and Applejack had gotten mashed together. Walking on two legs, and with no hair except a brown patch on its head. Or at least, what appeared to be its head.

Rainbow saw it and freaked. Out.

"AUGHKPTHHSTNPOGH!!!" She heard a scream escape her mouth, and flew preparing to kick it in the face.

If there was one thing she was, it was fast. The thing barely had time to react before she slammed it in the face with her hoof. It crumpled, and hit the ground with a thud.

Rainbow let out a sigh of relief, but felt a tiny twinge of guilt. Maybe it wasn't hostile. Maybe it was peaceful. Maybe it was just going to say hi. Maybe I just overreacted or something. I always do that, she thought, flying around in circles to clear her head of some thoughts. But maybe it was hostile, and I did something good. Maybe it was going to kill me. Maybe...

Suddenly, she felt a strange tingling noise. It raced across her body, and she saw her hoof begin to fade.

Before she had time to panic, she heard a zap and found herself back in Equestria.

Story Progression

Ty was terrified.
He was:
1. In the infirmary because he had been knocked out by a rainbow-blue Pegasus.
2. Feeling stupid because he had been knocked out by a rainbow-blue Pegasus.
3. Slowly turning into a unicorn after being knocked out by that rainbow-blue Pegasus.
No, it was just not his day.
Even though Sky was pestering him to, Ty wasn't telling him which mod he had opened up. "Please?" Sky begged. "We need to find a clue as to how you got like that. What if it was the squids-"
"Trust me, it wasn't the squids," snapped Ty. He didn't mean to be that grouchy, but he was feeling embarrassed, and didn't want Sky or anyone finding out which mod he had reviewed. He didn't even watch My Little Pony, let alone know what the-what was it again? The Ailments of Harmonica? Whatever-were.
Sky continued begging and pleading Ty to tell him which mod he had opened up, but eventually gave up. He just sat down and slouched, putting on the expression he always did whenever he did some hard thinking. Ty sighed in relief. Peace, quiet, and time to think were what he really needed right then. He looked around the room, his thoughts going a hundred miles a minute.
"Um...everybody?" Ant asked suddenly, getting up. He looked at the people in the room, studying them before sighing, "Look, I know that Ty is hurt and injured and in deadly danger and all-" That last bit sounded sarcastic-"But he seems to be all better now. And I have two mod showcases to do, three survival games, and a livestream on top of that, so..."
"You're...leaving?" asked Jordan, looking somewhat disappointed. "Couldn't you just stay for like...five more minutes?" Jordan frowned when Ant shook his head. "But I'll play one of my Hunger Games with you later." Ant walked out, waving goodbye to all of them. Sky, Jason and Jordan waved goodbye, Jordan half-heartedly.
Ty was raising his hand to wave goodbye to Ant when suddenly, there was a piercing pain in his right hand. It felt like a million tiny needles jabbing into into his skin everywhere. He couldn't stop his yelp of pain from escaping his mouth.
Everyone looked at him. Even Ant walked back into the room to see what was going on.
Suddenly, Sky pointed at him and gasped. "OH MY GOSH!! TY!! YOU'RE TURNING INTO A...A UNICORN?!"
It turned so silent that you could hear a pin drop. Then, Jason gasped, "No way! You ARE!!"
Panic.
Screaming.
Actually, not so much as screaming as there was panic. Jason and Sky started hyperventilating, Ant was just facepalming, and Jordan was just staring with a look of shock.
Ty ducked under the covers. No way was he letting anyone else see him.

"RAINBOWDASH!!"

Twilight stormed off to where her friend was standing, preparing to slap her in the face. "I TOLD YOU TO JUST STAY WHERE YOU WERE WHEN I USED THAT SPELL ON YOU!"

Twilight had only turned her back for one moment. ONE MOMENT! HOW DO YOU GO MISSING FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES IN ONE MOMENT?! HOW?! IT SCREWS UP LOGIC! NOT EVEN RAINBOWDASH WAS THAT FAST! HOW? HOW?!

Rainbow was just standing there with a blank look of shock on her face. "How-wha? Why did i suddenly go there and come back he- OW!!"

Twilight had punched Rainbow in the face, effectively cutting off whatever Rainbow was going to say.

Rainbow shook herself, glaring at Twilight. "WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT FOR?!" Rainbow yelled, face turning red.

Twilight returned her glare, and then yelled back, "I TOLD YOU TO JUST STAY WHERE YOU WERE WHEN I USED THAT SPELL ON YOU! WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN?!"

Rainbow seemed like she was in thought for a second, and then said, "I DID stay where I was. It was YOU who miscast the spell!"

"What?! How could I have botched up a spell like that so badly? How could I have mixed up a talent enhancer with a teleportation spell? Say, where did you go, anyway?"

Rainbow frowned. "It's hard to say...somewhere where trees defy gravity, the clouds move on they're own, and everything is a block."

Twilight laughed. "No, seriously, tell me wheeerre...." her voice trailed off when she saw that Rainbow wasn't laughing. "Wait, no way. you weren't kidding?!" Twilight gasped. Rainbow shook her head. Twilight frowned. "No, as in you weren't kidding, or no, as in no, you were kidding?"

Rainbow frowned back. "Now you've gotten me all confused. What?"

Twilight repeated what she had just said. Rainbow shook her head. "No, I wasn't kidding. Why would I be kidding?"

Twilight faked a cough and pulled out a list of pranks that Rainbow had pulled on her. The scroll hadn't even finished unraveling before Twilight started reading. "Put dirt in my daffodil sandwich, replaced my shampoo with mane-remover, switched my toothpaste with hair gel, put-"

"Ha ha," Rainbow snapped. "Not fun-" She was interrupted by a bright pink ball energy slamming into her, knocking her off her feet.

Pinkie jumped up and down ,shrieking,"OHMYGOSHTWILIGHTIWASLOOKINGEVERYWHEREFORYOUTHERESAPORTALTHATJUSTRANDOMLYOPENEDUPNEARTHEEVERFREEFORESTANDNOONEKNOWSWHATITISWHICHISWHYICALLEDYOUCAUSEYOUKNOWEVERYTHIIING." And with that, Pinkie raced off again, leaving a trail of smoke in her wake.

It took Twilight and Rainbow a moment to register what Pinkie had said. By then, Pinkie was was long gone on her way back to the portal.

"WAAAAAIT!!" Rainbow and Twilight yelped in chorus, racing off as fast as they could to follow Pinkie. "FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF SMOKE!!" Twilight called to Rainbow, who was madly flapping her wings in the air to catch up with Pinkie.

Portal? Does that have anything to do with where Dash was sent? Twilight wondered as she ran as fast as her legs could carry her to keep up with Dash. Oh well.

I guess we'll find out later.

Author's Notes:

So, there's a bunch of random spaces near the end. That's to fill in the space where Pinkie's dialogue should be.

Into Equestria

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"
"HOW IS THIS MY FAULT?!"
YOU FOUND HIM IN THE FOREST; YOU SHOULD KNOW SOMETHING!"
"WELL, I DON'T! STOP YELLING AT ME!!"
"WHY ARE WE YELLING IN THE FIRST PLACE?!"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe BECAUSE ONE OF OUR FRIENDS IS TURNING INTO A FREAKING UNICORN?!"
"OH YEAH!"
"Guys, lets just calm down. Being crazy and irrational won't solve anything."
Ah, yes. Ant. Always the voice of reason, Ant thought as he tried to break up the argument. Being the oldest and most mature, he felt it was his duty to break up fights before they occurred, or else things could get really hectic.
Jason and Sky stared at Ant as if he had grown two heads. "What do you mean, we can't solve problems by being crazy and irrational?" Sky gasped. "Yeah, it's always worked before," Jason added, giving Ant a what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-you look.
Ant facepalmed and shook his head. There was no point in trying to explain to those two what logic was. They fought and argued with each other, but they were so alike that it was usually impossible for them to get along. Ant sighed and glanced at Ty.
Ty was now fully a unicorn, looking perfectly miserable, and moping. Jordan was right beside him, trying to calm him down while the other people in the room fought. It seemed to be working, as Ty seemed less perplexed and was finally well enough to walk around and get used to his new pony body.
"Guys, look," whispered Ant to Jason and Sky. "Ty's getting used to his new body!"
That caught their attention quickly. They looked over and giggled at the sight of Ty trying to walk with four hooves instead of two feet.
Crash! That was the sound of Ty tripping over his hooves. This process continued for about another five minutes until Ty eventually gave up. He just laid on the ground, scowling and making faces. His horn started glowing a weird white color, and images of the faces he made were projected onto the ceiling. Ant and the rest of them couldn't take it anymore. They doubled over in laughter, Sky laughing so hard he fell onto the floor.
Ty looked at them laughing and grinned. He made faces more and more ridiculous, until finally, they were are just a jumbled mess of four laughing boys and a pony, rolling around on the floor.
When he finally caught his breath, Jordan gasped out, "You know, maybe you turning into a unicorn isn't so bad after all!" Ty nodded, and projected one last face onto the ceiling before his horn shut off.
Something clicked in Ant's head. "You know, I wonder what else he can do know," he thought out loud. Ty raised an eyebrow. A devilish grin spread across his face.
Ten seconds later, Sky was running around screaming with a squid on his head.
Suddenly, Bodil burst into the room. "Sky!" He gasped in his Bulgarian accent. "A strange new portal has just opened up in the forest and no one knows what it is and-" Bodil stopped suddenly.He squinted at Ty. "Hang on, is that Ty?"
"No, it's my new pet horse named Snowy." Ant replied, shooting Ty a look that said, "PLAY ALONG."
Ty looked like he was going to protest, then thought better of it. He sighed, and muttered, "Neigh."
Bodil looked exasperated. "Snowy? Seriously, Ant? Just how stupid do you think I am?"
Ant thought about for a second, and said, "Very."
"Ha ha. Very funny." snapped Bodil. "Don't tell me how Ty's a unicorn, because I don't want to know. But as I was saying, a new portal opened up near the forest, and I came to get Sky. Speaking of which, why is he running around with a squid on his head?"

"...So the recruits were just doing their daily patrolling around the border, and then they heard this strange humming noise..."
Bodil was explaining to the five friends about the portal. Ty was lagging behind, tripping over his hooves and other things on the the road, but still doing his best to keep up. Ant looked back to make sure that he wasn't too far behind.
Well, he was a little more that "too-far-behind", but whatever. They could still see him, and Ty was really in trouble, he would have given a shout by then.
"...and now, here we are!" Bodil called, stopping suddenly and holding out his arms. Ant bumped into him. "Careful!" Bodil said. "You might fall into the portal, and who knows whats on the other side." To add some drama, Bodil gulped. Ant rolled his eyes. "Can't I just see it?" he asked, exasperated. Without waiting for a reply, he pushed Bodil aside and gasped. "Woah."
The portal was amazing. It swirled with all of the colors of the rainbow and glowed brightly. When Ant squinted, he could just barely make out the shape of a few gemstones...one, two three, four, five six...Six of them, all carved into peculiar shapes.
"Wow!" Sky said, stepping next to him and echoing Ant and everyone else's thoughts. They all leaned closer to get a better look. All except Bodil. He just stepped aside and started playing his his tie.
They all stood admiring the portal when suddenly, "I WANNA SEE IT TOO!"
Ant turned around and saw Ty running as fast as he could toward them. He was panting hard, and wasn't looking where he was going.
One of Ty's hooves caught on a rock and he slammed into the group of friends, pushing them into the portal. There was a whole lot of screaming. Then the portal started to close.
Bodil wasn't sure what to do. Tell everyone what was going on, or jump in the portal himself? Think, Bodil. Use the perfectly logical answer and go get some help, or be impulsive and jump into the portal and follow them?
Bodil screamed, "CANNONBALL!" and dove into the portal just as it closed.

Author's Notes:

Sorry no pony POV in this one, but it would be kinda pointless since it would only be about a paragraph long since the next chapter is introducing them to the mane six.

Introductions

It should have been a normal day.
Jordan was supposed to have recorded some of his survival series and some of Garry's Mod, and that should have been all of the excitement he would have had that day.
Nope.
Instead, one of his friend's friend was turned into a unicorn and they had all fallen into a magical portal into a strange world.
"Ugh..." Jordan moaned. He blinked a few times to clear up his vision. Then, suddenly, his eyes snapped open. "Woah. Where the heck am I?"
He was lying on his stomach on a tree branch with no clue how he had gotten there. The weirdest thing? THERE WERE NO BLOCKS. He looked around and saw that everything was -somehow- circular. He looked around to try and identify more clues about where he was when he was suddenly distracted by a jabbing pain. One of his legs kind of hurt, as if he had smashed it into it. He tried moving it, and winced as a stab of pain shot through it. Yep, it had smashed into something on the way through the portal.
He tried rolling over to get a better look at his leg, but somehow ended up falling out of the tree.
"WAUUUUUUGH!!!" he screamed, waving his hooves wildly in the air-
Wait a second.
HOOVES?!
Jordan barely had time to realize what he had just seen before slamming into the ground, knocking all the wind out of him. "Oof!" he gasped, trying to catch his breath. Then, the shock passed, and the pain registered. He gritted his teeth as he slowly got to his feet-er, hooves- and sighed. Jordan turned around in a circle paced while he thought even though every time his left hind hoof touched the ground, a jabbing pain shot through his body.How did I get here? Why am I a pony? Where is everybody else? And, come to think of it, where the heck am I?
So many questions, yet Jordan knew most of them would go unanswered for a long time. He sat down and rubbed his face. At least his sunglasses came with him....for some reason. He also had a pouch dangling from his neck filled with who-knows-what.
Suddenly, there was a rustling noise in a bush behind him. Jordan turned his head to look at it, and then a yellow pegasus with a pink mane stepped out.
"Um..." she mumbled, poking at the dirt with her hooves. She looked up at him. "Hi...um, my name is, um, Fluttershy, and, I, um, heard you screaming, and, um, thought, um, maybe I could, um, help you? That is, um, if you want any....."

The last thing that Applejack expected to fall out of a tree when she bucked it was a yellow alicorn wearing sunglasses, a grey T-shirt, and a strange looking amulet.

Guess what?

"AAAHHHHH!!!" The yellow alicorn screamed as it fell out of the tree.

"What in tarnation-" AJ gasped right before the alicorn crashed into her, knocking them both off their feet. They were a screaming pony tumbleweed as they rolled around Sweet Apple Acres.

When they finally broke apart, the alicorn looked around. He then examined himself. His eyes widened, then they closed, and then he facehoofed.

AJ frowned. "What in tarnation were ya doin' in ma apple tree?" she snarled, taking a step forward. The alicorn took his hoof off his face and looked up. "Um...dying?" he tried. Against her will, AJ burst into laughter. "Ya sure seemed mighty surprised to see me," she commented, deciding to let this indecent as he was an alicorn, and he was very entertaining.

The alicorn looked around. "Where the heck am I?" he asked. Then he looked at AJ again. "Come to think of it, who the heck are you?"

Now it was AJ's turn to be confused. "You're at Sweet Apple Acres, ma name is Applejack, the most loyal and dependable of ponies 'round here, and what the hay is a 'heck'?"

The alicorn opened his mouth, then closed it. He shook his head, muttering to himself. Then he introduced himself. "Hi, my name is Adam, but my friends call me Sky. I'm from another world, and could you please explain to me how this crazy world works?"

Applejack wasn't able to register what Adam had said before the sky started to scream.

The portal had suddenly closed when she had gotten there. Rainbow didn't expect any other shenanigans from that day on, but while she was clearing the clouds, something very weird happened.

There was a cloud that just would not clear. She had been about to ram it one more time, and if that didn't work, then she was just going to push it to the edge of the Everfree Forest and hope nopony noticed it.

3...2...1...

And then the cloud had sprouted wings and began to scream.

She was flying too fast to reorient herself, so she crashed into the crazy cloud and found herself face-to-face with a pegasus with a black T-shirt and amulet on. He had a bow and sheath of arrows strapped to his back, and dangling on his neck by a cord...Holy sweet Celestia! Who let him get ahold of a knife?! Rainbow thought, screaming. The pegasus saw her screaming and started screaming even louder.

Rainbow kicked and bucked as hard as she could to try and free herself. When she and the other pegasus finally untangled, he gasped out, "WHY. AM. I A. PONY." He flapped his wings even harder, causing him to float up and down in the sky. He examined himself, looked around, and did a backflip. "You know, actually, this isn't too bad!"

"Um, excuse me Rainbow, but who are ya talkin' to? He doesn't seem too familiar, and why is he...HOLY SWEET CELESTIA! IS HE HOLDIN' A KNIFE?!" interrupted Applejack, widening her eyes when she realized what the peasus had around his neck. At the same time, a yellow-grey blur shot through the sky and crashed into the pegasus. "ANT!!" The alicorn screamed, hugging his neck. "OH MY GOSH!! YOU'RE HERE TOO! I WAS WORRIED THAT I WAS THE ONLY ONE HERE!! IF YOU'RE HERE, DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE OTHERS ARE HERE?! OH MY GOSH YESYESYESYESYES!!"

Ant made a strangled gurgling noise and looked at Rainbow with an expression that said, "Help." She laughed.

"Sorry to interrupt this touchin' reunion, but can somepony explain what the hay is goin' on?" Applejack asked, raising an eyebrow. Yellow alicorn let go of Ant, who sighed in relief, and said, "Oh yeah! I'll explain to you. Wanna sit down? It's a long story."

Reunion

"Wait, wait, wait, WHAT?!"
"You're a unicorn, silly! How many times do I have to tell you? Seven? All right: You're a unicorn, silly! You're a unicorn, silly! You're a unicorn, silly! You're a uni-"
"No, it's not the fact that I can't hear, it's the fact that it's so hard to believe. How did I get turned into a unicorn in the first place?"
"I think I know the answer!"
"REALLY?! What is it?"
"I have no idea!"
Bodil facehoofed. Stupid hyperactive freaking confusing annoying aggravating bothersome irritating... He stopped thinking for a moment, either because he had run out of words to think of, or that he didn't like to use his brain. He sighed. "Seriously?"
Pinkie Pie grinned and said, "Yup. I totally love the fact that you're new in town and that we should throw a BIG HUMONGOUS SUPER SPECTACULAR EXCITING PARTY-TASTIC welcome-to-Ponyville party for you, but if what you say is true, then there are other new ponies out there as well, and the party just wouldn't be complete without them! I mean come on this is a welcome to Ponyville party and it wouldn't be good if there was someone new to Ponyville and they didn't come to this party because then they wouldn't feel like they were welcome and then they won't have fun and what's the point of having a party without any fun?!"
Bodil blinked. He could almost hear the sirens in his brain going, "System overload, system overload. Beep beep beep beep beep..." But he was impressed by the way that Pinkie could catch every detail so well.
He rolled his eyes. Personally, though, he'd probably feel more welcomed if this pony wasn't here to greet him.
He looked up and saw the hole in the ceiling that he had made. When he had first realized that he was falling, he expected the fluffy cakes and sweets to catch him, softening his fall.
Nope.
He had not been expecting to smash through wood and concrete and land on top of a pink pony with a springy mane. She had gasped as he slammed into her, and then zipped off and ran around the room in a circle, screaming, while Bodil fell onto the floor and watched dizzily as the pink pony ran around the room so quickly that she could have created a sonic boom if she tried.
She had finally stopped right in front of him with a freakishly large grin on her face and said, "WELcome to Ponyville! My name is Pinkie Pie! Oh, gosh, how did you fall through the roof? I always thought that it was made of cake and cookies, too, but then I tried to eat it and it turns out it's just wood and concrete! Say, how does concrete harden, anyway? All you do is add water to it, but then it turns rock solid! Too bad that real cakes don't do that! It would save us he trouble of having to bake them! But then they'd be too hard to eat, and who likes a cake that can't be eaten? I mean, come on, cakes that aren't meant to be eaten are like-" she paused for a moment and gasped for breath.
Bodil thought this a good time to cut her off. "WHAT. ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" he had asked, walking around in a circle and finding that, surprisingly, nothing hurt. He had then looked at her. "WHY ARE YOU A TALKING PONY?! WHERE ARE MY FRIENDS?!"
Then, Pinkie had tilted her head sideways in confusion. "What are you talking about?" she asked, eyes widening. "You seem like a perfectly normal unicorn to me."

"Wait, wait, waitwaitwaitwaitwait. So, we're in a world called 'Equestria?"
"Yeah, and this particular location is called, 'Ponyville.'"
"Ponyvil-Wait, that means there are more talking pastel ponies walking around here?!"
"Well, when you put it that way, it does sound kind of weird...."
Sky frowned. He glanced at Jason, whom they had run into in front of Golden Oaks library in the middle of a heated argument with Twilight Sparkle over astronomy, then at Ant, who was using his hoof to draw something in the dirt.
Ant wasn't paying attention. None at all, whatsoever. Why should I have to pay attention to something I already- he caught himself again. Ant sighed, and diverted his attention to Twilight, who was beginning a lecture on the Elements of Harmony.
"The Elements of Harmony are six supernatural artifacts representing subjective aspects of harmony. They are arguably the most powerful force in Equestria. Though the extent of their power is largely unspecified, the elements were taken from the Tree of Harmony, however, doing so had the potential to release the Everfree Forest and destroy Equestria. Each artifact represents an element of friendship and can presumably only work if wielded by one who possesses the corresponding trait, and only if all are used together. They have been wielded on rare occasions, particularly during events marked by danger and anarchy as a last resort to restore and enforce the balance of peace and order. However, the effects of their use are generally temporary and non-lethal, usually a form of banishment or imprisonment."
Ant blinked. Wow. Egghead.
Sky stared. Jason stared. Applejack and Rainbowdash stared. Ant yawned.
Twilight looked at him, annoyed. "Well, to sum it all up..." she began, but was interrupted by a wailing noise from Rainbowdash.
"Oh, come on, Twi! They heard it once, no need to do it again," She groaned, bringing a hoof to her forehead and collapsing on the ground dramatically. Twilight rolled her eyes, and Applejack glared at Rainbow.
"So, um, any other stuff?" Sky asked, using his horn and conjuring up a paper and pencil.
"Hopefully not," Jason muttered, pulling out an astronomy chart from...frankly, nowhere, as far as Ant could tell. Did he really carry an astronomy chart everywhere he went?
Twilight saw Jason pull out the chart. She sighed.
Jason cleared his throat. "The constellation Ursa Major contains the group of stars commonly called the Big Dipper. The handle of the Dipper is the Great Bear's tail and the Dipper's cup is the Bear's flank. The Big Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism, which is a distinctive group of stars. Another famous asterism is the Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor."
Ant nudged Sky and whispered in his ear, "Nerds." Sky snickered.
Twilight cleared her throat and began to lecture back, but suddenly they were interrupted by a bright pink cannonball slamming into Ant.
As hot pink hooves wrapped around his neck, Ant had one thought, The second time in ten minutes?! Seriously?!
"OHMYGOSHTWILIGHTWHYDIDN'TYOUTELLMEABOUTALLOFTHESENEWPONIESINTOWNWEGOTTATHROWAPARTYFORTHEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
More strangled gurgling. More looks of, "Help." And more anguish at the fact that he was being crushed in a hug by two ponies that were normally never strong but when it came to hugs. He didn't even like hugs!
"Pinkie, get off Ant. He looks kind of scared of you," said someone from behind Pinkie. He was a unicorn with sunglasses, a bowtie, and an extra spiky mane.
He also had a Bulgarian accent...
"Wait. I said, 'Pinkie, Pinkie, get off Ant. He looks kind of scared of you.' I said, 'Pinkie, get off Ant. He looks kind of scared of you'!!! OHMYGOSH!! ANT!! SKY!! JAS-" Poof. Bodil's sudden moment of realization was cut short by a flash of gray and yellow hyper-activeness slamming into him.
"BODIL!! YOU'RE HERE!! DOES THAT MEAN THAT TY AND JORDAN ARE HERE TOO???!?!?!?!?" Sky screamed right in Bodil's ear.
Ant felt sympathy for Bodil. Hyperactivity plus Sky plus screaming-right-in-your-ear equals temporary deafness.
Sadly, he knew that from experience.
"Um, maybe?" tried another voice. Ant spun around. It was a unicorn.
A very familiar looking unicorn.
"OHMYGOSH,TY!!!!" screamed Sky, launching himself off of a dazed (and possibly traumatized) Bodil toward Ty, who promptly stepped aside and let him crash into another unicorn behind him.
"OH NO!! MY MANE!!" shrieked the unicorn, bucking Sky off of her and using her horn to restyle her mane, which was apparently more important than the fact that Sky was now sitting on the ground, looking very sad and sniffing pathetically.
Why must Sky be such a good actor?
The white unicorn sighed in relief. "It's okay," she murmured and swung her head into the air, letting her mane catch all of the sun's rays, turning it into a radiant violet color. Ty rolled his eyes.
"Um, I think I have Jordan. At least, if you um, you know, want to see him," mumbled a shy, timid pony, poking Ant to get his attention. He turned.
A pegasus almost as tall as he was bit her lip nervously as she waited for a response. Never mind her, Ant thought, looking past her shoulder. Where's Jordan?
An earth pony limping behind her as fast as his three legs could carry him answered his question.
Against his will, his face broke out in a large grin. "Jordan!"
Jordan looked up. He smiled. "Wassup, Ant?"
"The sky," he replied, sharing a laugh and pushing Jordan lightly. Jordan flinched, but tried to look perfectly normal.
His slip up was noticed by Ant, though. "What's wrong?" he asked, examining Jordan, and walking around to examine him further. He winced when he was the problem.
Jordan's left hind leg was...well, he wouldn't get into details about it, but Ant was glad he hadn't eaten anything in a while.
Jordan caught Ant's eye. He followed it to what Ant was staring at, and cringed slightly. "Yeah...I think I might have hit my leg on something when I fell out of the portal." His voice trailed off when he saw the concerned look that Ant was then giving him.
"Hang on. I don't want to interrupt this sentimental reunion, but what's this 'bout a portal?" Applejack asked, shoving Rainbowdash aside and shooting an accusing glance at Ant, Jordan, and the rest of the minecraftians-turned-ponies. "I think you have some explainin' to do."

History Lesson

They took the news surprisingly well.
Well, all but Pinkie Pie.
She bounced around screaming, "OMYGOSHYOUREFROMANOTHERWORLDLETSHAVEAOURFRIENDSFELLINTOAPORTALAN
DCAMETOOURWORLD-PAAAAAAAAARTY!!!!!!" She ran around and smashed her face into a bookcase.
Rainbowdash had to tackle her over before she calmed down. They crashed into the ground and knocked over a few books.
Twilight, meanwhile, was flipping through books as fast as she could, skimming them quickly to see references on the world they had come from.
"Minecraftia, you say?" She asked, glancing up from the book titled Parallel Worlds and looking at Jason.
"Yeah," he replied, flipping through another book and pushing it away when he found nothing.
"Minecraftia?" Pinkie asked, suddenly interested in what they were talking about. A book slid off her forehead, and she bucked it up with her left fore-hoof onto the table. "Page 35."
Jason and the rest of his friends, stunned, at her. "How...?" Ant asked, his eyes widening.
Pinkie grinned a ridiculously large grin and said, "It fell on my face when Rainbow tackled me."
Jason suddenly had a moment of genius. "Find me a book on the history of Equestria," he ordered, then kicked her into a bookshelf, causing fifteen books to fall on her. The other ponies gasped, but Pinkie got up, unfazed. She tossed down a random book at his hooves and said, "Page 1."
Jason gaped at her. "Weird, or what...." He muttered reaching for the book. He had asked her to find that book because he also actually kinda wanted to read it. Why not study up on the world he was gonna stay in?
"Huh," Twilight exclaimed, causing all of the ponies to turn towards her. "Minecraftia has a legend that's pretty similar to one of ours," she explained, clearing her throat for a long lecture. Everypony groaned.
"This book says that when the universe was created, there was only chaos. No harmony. It was just darkness, darkness, darkness.
Then, from the darkness, evil was born. Evil split into four entities.
One of the entities was Lord Mortim. He had a heart as black as shadow, and as cold as ice. He created Minecraftia, but Minecraftia under his rule was a savage wasteland. Nothing lived or grew. There was no happiness. There was no love. There was no friendship.
Then, out of who-knows-what, Notch and his younger brother Herobrine were born. No one knows how, but there they were. They saw how savage the world was under Mortim's rule,and decided to do something about it.
They overthrew Mortime using two twin amulets that they had created. They banished Mortim to the End, and all of his evil to the Nether. (Some people say that he became the Enderdragon after some while.) But what they didn't they didn't know was that a shard of evil had found its way into Herobrine's heart.
Notch and Herobrine created all of the mobs. Notch created all of the passive mobs, and Herobrine created what are now known as the hostile mobs. They both added to the mob known as the Player.
For a while, Minecraftia was happy. The Player was their pride and joy, and they made another member of its species so that it could...er...reproduce. Notch and Herobrine watched over the Players and helped guide them in their times of need.
But soon, Herobrine grew restless. He noticed that the players made mistakes, which he couldn't stand. He confided in Notch about this problem, but Notch replied that if the players didn't make mistakes, there would be no way for them to grow and learn.
Herobrine, not satisfied with this answer, decided to take matters into his own hands. The shard of evil that had made it into his heart had grown, and corrupted his mind. He vowed to destroy all of Minecraftia and remake it to his liking. Knowing that Notch would never approve of his plan, he chose to kill his brother.
Herobrine nearly succeeded. Had it not been for the fact that he had completely forgotten about the twin amulets that he and his brother wielded in the first battle, he would have killed Notch.
Instead, Notch had been forced to wield those amulets against his dear brother and banish him permanently to the Nether.
Notch locked up the amulets forever to erase his mind of those painful memories. Only one with the blood of him or his brother could access them, and that was never going to happen.
Herobrine, meanwhile, in the Nether had unleashed his wrath through the mobs he had created, and was using them to fulfill his desire.
Peace had returned to Minecraftia, though it was never going to be the same again."
Silence.
"Wooaah," Jordan breathed, the first one to interrupt the silence that had fallen in the library. "That story was...."
"Awesome!" Yelled Rainbowdash.
"Terrifying," corrected Bodil.
"Wait, there's more," Twilight continued reading. "It says that Mortim had been watching these events take place, and was very pleased by them. He fed on hatred and despair; as long as there was that in the world he would slowly be regaining his strength and would one day unleash his wrath on the universe. Only four united could stop him. The first had to be a wielder of one of the amulets. The second had to be a bearer of the elements. The third had to have fought a shadow of himself. The fourth had to have done an act of true love.
The first sign of Mortim's return is one parallel worlds cross."
Everyone gasped. Even Pinkie Pie, but Jason figured that she had no idea why. Everyone else did, though.
"Oh my word!" Rarity gasped, giving voice to the disbelief that was written on everyone's faces. "What it this legend is true? It said that 'parallel worlds cross; you guys are from another world! What if...?!"
Everyone held that moment of suspense before Ant burst out laughing, followed by Sky, Ty, Bodil, Jason himself, and Jordan.
"Oh man, you actually had us believing that for a moment there," Ty howled, laughing so hard he had collapsed onto the floor.
"Yeah, everyone knows that Notch and Herobrine aren't real; their just a story made up to scare little kids," added Bodil, wiping tears from his eyes. Jordan and Jason nodded in agreement, and Sky shook his head so hard he fell over.
Suddenly, a purple dragon burst into the room, gasping. "Twilight," he panted, looking at the Alicorn Princess. He pointed outside. "Strange creatures...invading Ponyville. No one's ever seen them before; no one knows what they are. They're coming from the Everfree Forest. Hurry!" The dragon added when the group of friends rushed out to check what was going on.
The Minecraftians were less sure of themselves than they had been a few moments ago.

Author's Notes:

This was a whole lot of typing on the ipad. 0,0'
And a cookie to you if you figure out what I'm going for.

Flashback

Ant was running into every cloud in the sky.
He officially hated it.
Especially since everyone on the ground was trotting at a slow pace so that they wouldn't leave him behind.
Rainbowdash had warned him not to run into them, but how was he supposed to avoid them? He didn't know how to fly very well, or at least, had forgotten how to. Heck, it was a miracle he had even been staying up in the sky so long.
Jason, meanwhile, was gliding through the sky with ease, extending his wings and doing loop-de-loops and barrel rolls. He caught Ant's eye and made a "flerp-a-derp" face. Ant glared at him with a look that said, "I am going to destroy you when we get back home."
When we get back home.
Ant shivered. How would they get back home? If the legend was true, then....well....
Don't think about it.
So of course he thought about it.
He glanced down at Sky, who was panting and tripping but determined all the same. Ant was pretty sure he was the only one who knew what Sky was.
He thought of the time they had first met....

"HELP!!" Someone, help!"
Something crashed through the forest. A young boy, no older than eight, was blindly charging through the forest, brown hair flying in his face. He was being chased by something-or some things.
The boy panted. If he could just get out of the forest, he would be safe....
He gasped. He had come to a dead end.
He was trapped.
He turned around. Five large squidmen had surrounded him, One of them, the largest, leaned toward him, sneering.
"What's wrong with you, boy?" It asked, its voice coming out in a low growl. The boy whimpered and cowered against a tree.
The squidman continued, "Don't you know that this is squid territory?" it hissed, pressing its knife against his throat.
The kid gulped. "I'm...I'm sorry! I forgot, just please, let me go, I'll never do it again, just please-"
"SILENCE!" the squidman bellowed, kicking the boy. He gasped as it connected with his stomach. The squidman looked toward his companions. "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's teach this kid a lesson that he'll never forget."
The squidmen slowly crept towards the kid. He wailed in pain as they kicked him over and over again.
"Some special person you are," taunted the squidman. "I don't see why your father is so interested in you. You don't seem worthy to be in some prophecy. Then again, He-"
Zing. An arrow flew at the squidman's head. It missed by a fraction of hair, slightly grazing the head of it.
A boy in a tree glared down at the squidmen, holding a bow and arrow in his hand. He couldn't have been more than nine, but he jumped out of the tree in front of the kid that was being attacked. The kid had already passed out from pain.
Ant glared at the squids. "Leave him alone," he growled, holding his bow and arrow threateningly. "Unless you want my arrows in you noggin...?"
The squidmen stepped back, glaring at him. "Oh, look at this, Ant defending his little friend?" The squidmen laughed, but Ant could detect some nervousness in his voice.
"One: He's not my friend. It's five on one; this fight isn't fair. And two: Isn't attacking people who accidentally cross over to your territory illegal? Do you really want me to tell?"
The squids slowly walked away. Ant narrowed his eyes. "Don't think this is over," the squidman threatened. "When our king hears about this, he'll have his entire army after you."
Ant smirked, stepping back and lowering his bow and arrow. "Come at me, bro," he called at the squidmen, who hurried away.
"Ugh..." came a feeble groan from behind him. Ant spun around. The boy that had been attacked by the squidmen had woken up. His eyes widened. "Where am I?!"
"Don't worry," Ant said, kneeling down in front of him. "I took care of the squids. What's your name?" he added, helping the kid up.
The kid winced as he got to his feet. Everything still hurt, and it felt like all of the bones in his body had turned into mush, but he could still walk. He looked at Ant. "My..." he hesitated. The last people that had asked for his name.....
Ant nodded. "Go on," he continued.
The boy frowned. He decided he would go with a nickname until he was sure that he could trust the kid that had saved him. "It's Sky."
Ant nodded. A fitting name, going with the color of his eyes.
"Come on," Ant said, letting the boy lean on him. "I'm going to help you out of this forest, okay? Then, you can return home."
Much to his surprise, Sky shook his head. "No," Sky said. "I'm never going back. That place sucks." He glanced at Ant. "Can I live with you?"
Ant shrugged. He didn't see why not.
"My friend lives in a tree not too far from here," Ant said. Sky nodded, flinching with every step he took. "He could probably help you. His name is Jordan."

POOF! Ant was jolted out of this memory by body slamming into another cloud.
Rainbow sighed. "Honestly, Ant, didn't I tell you to avoid them? You ran straight into that one; I don't think you were paying attention." She added, "Wake up!"
Ant moaned and covered his ears. He never wanted to hear another lecture from Rainbowdash ever again.
Suddenly, Apple's voice rang out: "We're here-what in Tarnation?!"

Logic=goodbye

In all her years of study, Twilight had never seen those creatures before.

They came out of the Everfree Forest in hordes, the short, fat green one blowing up, the tall, black one only attacking if you looked it square in the eye, the zombie and skeleton ponies, and the big spider ponies with eight legs.

Those things on their own would have been weird enough, especially since Twilight didn't know any necromancy spells, nor any limb duplication spells, but there were also some wet, grayish blueish blocks with cords sticking out of them-

Actually, those cords were starting to look like tentacles.......

"PAY ATTENTION TO ME, FOOLISH MORTALS!!!!" The blocks screamed continuously, loudly, and very annoyingly. Some of them flipped over, exposing teeth, and a very derpy face. "IMA SQUID!!!!" Some of the "squids" chanted over and over again.

"Oh, no....." Sky sighed, right behind her. He had an enraged look on his face, and was eying the squids murderously. "I actually thought we were gonna get some peace for once....."

"Sky, do ya know what these creatures are?" Applejack asked, looking mildly disgusted at the squids' wet sliminess.

"Squids," Sky and the rest of his friends answered in unison. Ant grabbed his knife in his mouth and stabbed a squid with it. Ty looked like he wanted to do the same thing, and he would have, if he had a knife. Sky, Ant, and Ty charged the hostile mobs, followed by Applejack and Rainbow. Sky screamed, "DIE SQUIDS!!!!" Ant yelled, "TAKE THIS, CREEPER!!" Ty screeched, "LETS DO DIS!!!!" Applejack and Rainbow just rolled their eyes.

"Squids?" Fluttershy squeaked, shaking her head. "These aren't squids. Squids don't have eight tentacles, they have ten, and they can't talk." She looked at Jordan pleadingly. "Don't kill them...."

Just then, a squid at her hooves screamed, "BOW DOWN TO ME, FOOLISH MORTAL!!!!!!"

Fluttershy wrinkled her nose. "Well, they aren't nearly as rude, either," Fluttershy muttered.

"Fluttershy, I know you like animals and all, but these? We have to get rid of them. They're overpopulating and that can't be good for the environment," Jordan tried to break it to her gently. "Besides, they're also smarter than they look. They could eventually pose a threat. Plus, they're as annoying as heck," he added under his breath as he trotted off and punched a squid.

"We aren't getting anywhere," complained Sky as he punched his millionth squid with his hoof and tossed it aside.
While the squids and hostile mobs gave him a sense of home, Sky really wished that something else would come out of the portal. Why not wolves, or ocelots, or, heck, even villagers?
There was a hissing noise behind him, and he flinched just as Ant cannoned into the creepony and dug his knife into it. Its eyes widened and it fell over, despawning.
Sky hated the look on its face. It was like it was trying to...talk to him or something. All hostile mobs did that. It was weird. It made him feel guilty when he stuck a sword through them.
Which is why they had volunteered Ant, Rainbow, and AJ to fight the hostile mobs. Applejack and Rainbow were the only ones strong enough to fight them, and when Ant was volunteered, he assumed a scary look on his face and said, "Let's rumble."
He had the advantage of being the only one with a weapon anyway, so it was pretty clear that he was going to fight the mobs.
"The squids just keep coming and coming. At this rate, they're gonna flood Ponyville, and maybe all of Equestria," Twilight pointed out as she zapped squids with her horn and incinerated them.
Ty turned to look at her, a squid stuck on his unicorn horn. Apparently, instead of using his hooves, he had been using his horn, but instead of using magic, he had been stabbing the squids.
Yuck.
"Can't you just like, beam them all into oblivion, or something? I mean, I've seen you doing strong magic before when you fought that Ursa Minor. Can't you just, I dunno, do the same thing?" Rainbow asked, zapping a....
"WAITDONTDOIT!!!" Ant screamed, shooting up there and becoming the unintended victim of the blast. The creeper that Rainbow was going to zap just watched. Sky could swear that it was laughing, although kind of disappointed, as if it wanted to turn into a charged creeper.
Ant picked himself off of the ground and glared at the laughing Rainbowdash. He drew his knife. She stopped laughing. He stormed back to where the others were.
Twilight looked annoyed, completely oblivious to what had just happened. "That isn't how it works," she replied, continuing to blast squids. Ant rolled his eyes and slammed the head off of a skeleton. Sky frowned.
"We need to find out where all of the mobs are coming from. Then, we can shut off the waves and just, you know, relax," Applejack grumbled, bucking a spider in the face. Sky watched her bucking the mobs.
One creeper, two creeper, one spider, one skeleton....wait, was that another spider?
Jason nodded. "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea."
Ant gritted his teeth. "What would you know about good ideas?" he muttered under his breath, body slamming a skeleton and breaking all of its bones.
Sky gulped. Ant was downright scary when he was mad.
Suddenly, there was an explosion, and a pink cannonball flew through the air. She landed face first in the dirt, screaming. Twilight had to use magic to try and pull Pinkie's head out of the ground. Pinkie came loose with a popping noise, gasping.
She then jumped up and down, her startled demeanor completely changing to one of excitement and enthusiasm.
"Oh my gosh while I was flying through the air I saw something really weird it and it looked kinda like a nether portal and it looked like squids and skeletons and zombies and spiders and creepers and endermen were coming out of it and I wasn't very sure if they were but it think they were but hey," Pinkie waved her hoof dismissively. "That can't be what we're looking for, right?"
Sky and the rest of his friends just stared. Ah, logic. I see we must part ways once more.
"Well, then what in Tarantion are we waitin' for?" Applejack asked, using her lasso (wait, where did that come from?) and grabbing Pinkie with it. She dashed off into the forest. "Hurry up, ya slowpokes!"
"Waaait!!!" Twilight yelped as she dashed off into the forest, followed by the rest of the crew. Ant and Rainbow stayed in the air, looking out for danger (well, Ant was mostly looking out for clouds. Sky guessed that he didn't like clouds. He wondered why.), while the ponies on the ground dashed as fast as their hooves could carry them over to the strange portal.
Sky really hoped that it wouldn't go as bad as their last experience with a portal.

Do You Want to Build a Snowmare?

Pinkie squealed as Applejack yanked her into the Everfree Forest.

"Ah! Wait! No! Help!" she screamed. Um....let's all hunt for a portal leading to another world in the Everfree Forest while things are trying to kill us and blow us up with our friends from the same world that the things that are trying to kill us are from party? she tried. She decided she liked it.

"Let's all hunt for a portal leading to another world in the Everfree Forest while things are trying to kill us and blow us up with our friends from the same world that the things that are trying to kill us are from party!!!!!!" she screamed, wriggling out of Applejack's grasp and bouncing around through the forest, startling the creatures that lived inside it. She sang and ran around in circles, repeating her statement over and over. Suddenly, she stopped as a question hit her. A feeling of understanding flowed through her.
She knew that this was the answer to life.

"Guys," Pinkie said, turning around to face everyone. They suddenly stopped, alarmed by her sudden change in tone. They glanced at each other, worried about what she was going to say. Pinkie drew in a sharp breath......

"DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMARE?" she screamed happily, running around, bouncing, her mane flying through the air.

Twilight and the rest of the element bearers just looked at each other in confusion, their bewilderment showing clearly on their faces.

Sky and his friends? They were just facehoofing. "How could she have seen the movie?" Jason kept asking his friends in a hushed tone, glancing worriedly at Pinkie. Ant shrugged. Jordan rolled his eyes.

"You don't know anything," complained Sky in in a whiny but amused tone to show that he wasn't serious.

"I do to! Just..." Ant began, but was quickly cut off by Bodil.

"Just random, useless crap that we will never, ever, ever need again in all of our days of life, death, and the beyond," Bodil said, shoving Ant in the shoulder, which earned him a quick punch in the head.
Pinkie was pretty sure that the fighting would have gone on for hours if Twilight hadn't stopped it.

"Let's just focus back on our original goal, okay?" she interrupted, glancing at the group of friends to make sure that the fight didn't start again. Pinkie watched, genuinely fascinated as the ignored her and continued fighting.

Oh wow, why are they fighting? I would never fight with my friends! Fighting isn't fun, and that's all want to have with my friends! But maybe fighting is fun to them, in which case I shouldn't criticize them, but seriously, who finds fighting fun? Not me! And I find almost everything fun! But not everything. My friends think I find too many things fun, but they don't find enough things fun. I mean, seriously, what isn't as fun as watching a flock of stampeding geese? All of that honking and quacking, and feathers flying everywhere...it's the funniest thing ever! Well, next to the time me and Rainbow pranked Spike. The look on his face! But I'm glad that we never saw that meany-mouth griffon ever again. She was such a grumpus lumpus! She was the biggest lump to ever grump! Oohhhh.....grumpus-lumpus, grumpus-lumpus, grumps-lumpus, grumpus lumpus... Hey, that's really fun to say! You know what else is fun to say? CHIMI-CHERY CHANGA!! CHIMI-CHERRY CHANGA!! CHIMI-CHERRY CHANGA!! CHIMI-CHERRY CHANGA!!!!! And me and Rarity got to pump a train-thingy all the way back to Ponyville! It was so fun, but for some reason Rarity didn't seem to like it. I wonder why.

"Snap out of it!" Someone snapped, interrupting Pinkie's happy thinking of chimi-cherry changas and fun things to say. Twilight glared at her, looking super-duper-katrooper annoyed with her! Woah! She was so mad that you could see flames coming out of her ears! Well, not really, but a pony could dream, right?

Well, Pinkie certainly hit the nail on the head.
It was just like she had described: a nether portal-looking thingy with a buuuuuunch of mobs coming out of it, swarming the Ever-free Forest one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one...
Stop it, Bodil, he thought to himself, shaking his head to clear the thoughts that were running around in his brain like chickens on a sugar buzz (don't ask). Concentrate on some of the important questions.
Bodil watched and watched. Squids flowed out like water in a leaky barrel. Creepers hissed, looking at the spiders, who waved around their silk and looked around for something. The skeletons and zombies stayed in the shade, and just watched.
Well, actually, in order to have some important questions, you need to have some questions in the first place. Oh hey, I wonder how this portal got in the Everfree Forest in the first place? Did something spawn it? If so, who spawned it? Say, how do you spawn something in the first place? I mean, I know you can use spawn eggs and all, but how do the things form in the spawn eggs? I remember the time we used a spawn egg to spawn a wolf...he was so cute! And Adam named him Bob summmusumudkfjcjcdjfkjvjffjdkdkffjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjjfjggjfjdjcjdjdkdxkccjdkckckckckccjdjdsaow of ri....that was the cruelest name ever. But hey, Jordan took him in at least...say, what does he do with all of those animals? Does he eat them in puppy liver and bunny rabbit soufflé? Oh my gosh, eeewww, Bodil, time to think of something else....Oh hey, lookie, a butterfly!.....Did I just get possessed by Pinkie Pie or something?
Apparently so, because Pinkie was staring him straight in the eye, grinning ridiculously.
That pony, Bodil thought, shaking his head, is one heckuva something.
"Wow," Jason said, looking at the portal. "Pinkie, you are really freaking good at this."
Pinkie grinned. "I know, right?" she sang, bouncing around and saying, "Chimi-cherry-changa, chimi-cherry-changa..."
Well, okay then.
"What are we waiting for?" exclaimed Rainbowdash, flapping her wings madly and spinning around in a circle. "LET'S GET RID OF THAT THING!!" She shot into the air and charged towards the portal.
"WAITDON'TDOIT!!" Ant yelled, and shot into the air after her.
For once, his aerial clumsiness helped him. Ant slammed right into Rainbowdash, knocking her out of the air and sending them both spinning back to the ground.
"HEY! WHAT THE HAY!" cried Rainbowdash, shaking Ant off of her and slamming into the portal.
Like, right into.
There was a strange barrier surrounding the portal, only exposing itself when Rainbow slammed into it. Energy crackled in the air, and Bodil briefly smelled ozone. Then, Rainbow was thrown back towards the rest of the group off friends and skidded on the ground.
"Ow," Rainbow gasped and slowly got to her hooves. "Not cool."
"I was trying to warn you," Ant said, his voice dripping with exasperation. "I was trying to say that there was a barrier, but fluff head didn't listen."
Before the quarrel could escalate to a full blown fight, Rarity interrupted. "Darling, how did you know there was a barrier in the first place?" she questioned, poking Ant in the flank.
Ant glanced at her. "There's a small shimmering in the air where the barrier is. See?" he said, pointing towards it.
"Oh." Rarity adjusted herself so she looked proud and tall, and replied in a snide voice, "I knew that."
"Obviously," snickered Ty, nudging Sky, who looked confused but still managed to utter, "Um...ha ha?"
Facehoof. And Bodil wasn't sure if it was at Sky or Rarity.
"Well, we aren't going to get anywhere by sitting here and arguing with each other. The fact remains hat the portal still stands and we can't breach it. Maybe I should ask Princess Celestia about what to do..." Twilight mused, tapping her hoof thoughtfully on her chin.
"Princess Celestia?" echoed Jordan, looking confused.
"Princess Celestia. I'm going to write her a letter on what to do about the portal, and if we can go to Canterlot about it....Oh, you too," she added, pointing to Bodil and his friends. "You guys are the only ones that know how to fight them..." Twilight muttered to herself as she trotted slowly back to Ponyville.
"Um, Princess Celestia? Hello? Has anyone heard me?" repeated Jordan, looking annoyed.
"Come on," Twilight said, doubling back. "I'll explain on the way."

Your Royal Snootyness

She said yes.
Those were Twilight's exact words as she came exploding into the room, as happy and excited as Pinkie Pie.
Actually, no. No one could be as happy and excited as Pinkie Pie.
Ty had learned that in his very short experience so far in Equestria.
As Twilight and her friends chattered excitedly like songbirds about "the first trip to Canterlot in, like, FOREVER!!!" Ty mentally reviewed his time in Equestria.
First, meeting Rarity. That was stupid. It reminded him of his traumatic experiences with his fangirls back in Minecraftia.
Next, the reunion. He had been squeezed to death one too many times already by Sky. No need to repeat it, especially since Sky was a leech to blood when it came to him and his friends.
Then, the squids. If there was one thing good that had come out of being in Equestria, it was that he hoped that he wouldn't have to deal with squids.
No such luck.
And finally, the trip to Canterlot.
The train ride was peaceful and uneventful, which was perfectly fine with Ty. The last few hours had been hectic ones at that, and he was glad that he finally had a time to relax and kick up his feet-er...hooves.
If they actually find a way to breach the portal, Ty thought, laying down in a comfortable position and curling up on his bed, then maybe we can use it as a way to get back home.
Ty didn't understand the wave of sadness that seemed to punch him in the chest. Hold on, Ty. Why are you sad? You haven't even spent a whole day here, and you're already missing them? What is it that Equestria can give that home can't? He glanced at Twilight for a second, then each of her friends.
Well...
Ty couldn't answer that question. Equestria just seemed to have this atmosphere that made you want to feel happy all of the time and enjoy life as it was. Minecraftia, with its constant threats and dangers, just couldn't seem to offer that type of tranquility.
Plus, the people there are way more grumpy. Wait, now I'm starting to sound like Pinkie Pie! Gah! What's happening to me?!

Rarity had always loved Canterlot, ever since she was a tiny filly to the very moment in time that she was in right now.

Sophistication, organization, and tidiness. Those were the three things that Rarity looked for in every place she went for, and so far, Canterlot had been the only one to be able to offer them.

Maybe she was being too judgmental and harsh. After all, Ponyville had brought forth her amazing friends, and it could offer any of the things that she was looking for. While it was small, dirty, and dingy, it was certainly a place that Rarity would like to call home.

Besides, the Canterlot ponies were really stuck up anyway.

The train arrived a few hours after Ty had fallen asleep.
Unfortunately, his body disagreed. It wasn't a few hours. It couldn't have been! it protested as he got up, rubbing his eyes. It was only a few minutes or so! IT WAS ONLY A FEW MINUTES OR SO!!
Shut up, brain, Ty ordered himself.
"Isn't this so exciting?" Twilight asked as soon as they were off of the train and walking towards the Canterlot Castle, blabbering on and on about "protocol" and "respect" and "safety of the Equestrian citizens." Ty found himself nodding off once or twice trying to listen to Twilight's yammering. Instead, he directed his attention to the conversation Jason and Jordan were having.
"No, no no! If you put a repeater here, then add a current there, it'll make everything a lot more simple!"
Nothing interesting there, either. What about the conversation Sky and Applejack are having?
"....But you still owe me for killing one of my apple trees."
Geez! Doesn't anypony talk about anything interesting?!
"...And Canterlot has the best candy shop you've ever seen! All of those candies and sweets and sugar treats and chocolates, it's enough to make me want to bounce off the walls!"
Pinkie, you already do that, even without candy. If the candy shop is truly as awesome as you say it is, they've doomed us all.
"So, what's Canterlot like so far?" asked Ant, interrupting Ty's thoughts. "Everything is too flashy for my taste, and the ponies are too stuck up! I mean, just look at them!" Ant huffed a breath of annoyance. "It's not what I expected."
Ty looked around, noticing the ponies for the first time. To his surprise-but-not-so-much-surprise-as-this-was-the-capitol-of-the-land-after-all-so-really-it-was-overall-not-very-much-surprise-surprise, Ant was right. Almost every pony was dressed in a bright, fancy, flashy outfit and talked in a funny voice. Some them were pointing at the strangers and murmuring about them; Ty caught some words such as,"Garish," and "Dreadful."
Ty made a face at them, and they all gasped in shock.
He was glad Twilight wasn't like that. She had grown up in Canterlot, but not grown up with its sense of fashion.
Ty noticed that Ant was waiting for a response. "Um, yeah," he replied, feeling somewhat uneasy for some reason. He had a feeling that something would go wrong due to this team's crazy awesome talent for chaos and trouble.
"We're here!" announced Twilight suddenly, stopping and causing Ty, Ant, Sky, Jason, Jordan, Bodil, and Pinkie to crash into her. They all yelped as they collapsed in a big pile of ponies, rolling against the castle door and ultimately pushing it open with a loud crash!
Every head inside of the castle turned towards the twelve ponies. From under the pile, Twilight gulped. This was not how she had expected to make her entrance.
"Twilight!" greeted a warm and regal voice, power and authority radiating in every word. A massive white alicorn walked up to the pig pile of ponies and lowered her horn. There was a flashing white light, and her magic untangled the giant mass of ponies.
Whew, Ty thought, exhaling with relief. That pile smelled awful.
"We has received thy letter. They are thy friends, yes?" asked an indigo alicorn smaller than the white alicorn, looking somewhat amused. She reached over and ruffled Ty's hair. He flinched and shrank away, rubbing his hair flat. Ty made a pouty face and sat down in a slouching position. The indigo alicorn laughed.
"Let me introduce us," Ant said, glancing to the rest of his friends to make sure that they were okay with it. Sky shrugged. Bodil made a "go ahead," face. Jason and Jordan looked like they couldn't have cared any less, and Ty nodded. It was natural, as Ant was the oldest of them all.
"Ahem, okay." Ant cleared his throat. "So, the yellow alicorn is Sky. The spiky-haired unicorn is Bodil. The earth pony is Jordan. Ty is the unicorn sitting in the corner over there. ET over there is Jason, and my name is Ant."
"Hello. My name is Princess Celestia, and my sister here is Luna," Celestia said, smiling. Luna, however, did not look as jubilant. She had frowned as soon as she had noticed Ant, looking somewhat confused.
"Ant?" she echoed, looking like she was thinking hard. "Thy name sounds....familiar, somehow. We can't seem to recall where, but..." Luna squinted. "Sister, remember?"
Celestia looked at Ant, and, for the tiniest fraction of a millisecond, she seemed surprised. Recognition flooded across her face, and she looked somewhat worried.
However, before Ty could confirm what he saw, Celestia reverted back to her original composure, and replied to her sister,"No. I do not remember him. You must have him confused, sister, because I don't remember." She smiled.
Ant's face had been slowly changing during this time, from surprise, to confusion, and finally, to relief.
A theory was starting to bubble in the back of Ty's mind, but before he could explore it any further, Celestia declared, "Come on. Let's let you rest before continuing. Your train trip must have been exhausting."
And, just like that, they all went to bed.

Cookies and a Shadow

They hadn't come to do research.
They had come to find out how to breach the portal so that they could get back home.
But no one ever cares. When you're talking about us, Ant thought, we tend to get off topic. A lot.
The Canterlot library was huge. From just looking at it, you would probably get vertigo if you stared at the top shelves for too long.
Ant was willing to bet his diamond sword and his golden apples that not even Twilight Sparkle, bookworm extraordinaire,had read all of the books in there.
"And of all of the ponies to rule the freaking place, why did it have to be Celestia and Luna?!" Ant grumbled under his breath, wondering if he was really that cursed with bad luck or if the universe just hated him enough to do that to him.
Thank you, cosmos.
Celestia and Luna...well, they had certainly grown since he had last seen them. They were even bigger than he was, and Celestia was much more authoritative than when they had last met. Luna still had the same immature, demanding, and sarcastic atmosphere, but seemed to have matured at least a little. At least, she was no longer avoiding her sister. Ant guessed that was progress.
At least I was lucky enough to the point where they don't recognize me, Ant thought. I'd have a ton of explaining to do if they did.
Those thoughts kept running around in his head as he flipped through book after book, page after page. The smell of musty paper was thick in the air, and Ant kept glancing at the others to see what they were doing. Jordan was sitting there reading. Not much of a surprise there. The guy could study for hours on one thing and not even look up. Pinkie and Bodil were sitting together, having a quiet debate on which type of fun was funniest: Pranks or Trolling. Personally, I think they're the same thing. Twilight and Ty were sitting together, reading....Wait, what? Ant did a double take. WOAH. THIS. IS. WEIRD. TY IS ACTUALLY READING. SOMETHING. Ant gawked at them, his mouth hanging open, until he saw that Ty's book was upside down and facehoofed. Well, it takes a lot of talent to read upside down, I guess.
Applejack and Rainbowdash were hoof-wrestling instead of reading. It looked like a tied match, and it was getting nowhere.
Jason and Sky were sitting together talking about something, and they both simultaneously cracked up. Ant glared at them. He didn't understand where his sudden rage had come from. He shook his head, and looked around the room again.
Celestia and Luna were being responsible rulers and reading something that might help.
Rarity and Fluttershy were actually reading something too. They were actually being helpful.
Does it make me a bad friend that I find that surprising? Wait. I hardly even know these ponies! Why am I calling them my friends?
The last time he had made friends with some ponies...it hadn't gone too well.
"Excuse me, Your Royal Highness," said somepony, interrupting Ant's thoughts. Everyone spun around to see a black/dark gray unicorn with purple eyes bowing, using his horn to levitate some cups, sandwiches, and cookies on a plate. He looked up and said, "You have been studying for a long time. I was wondering if you would like a snack."
"It would be most appreciated, Umbra," replied Luna, smiling and using her horn to levitate a cookie into her mouth. She bit into it with a crunching sound. Ant hardly heard it; he was more interested in why the room's temperature seemed to have suddenly dropped a few degrees.
"Umbra?" echoed Twilight, looking confused. "Who's he?"
"Umbra is our city's protector, leader of the Legion of the Shadow Hunters," Luna responded, swallowing her cookie and reaching for another one. When she bit into the new cookie, her eyes widening. She made a face and spit it out. "Blech. Thou understands that we do not enjoy White Chocolate Macadamia?" Luna demanded, rising up on her hooves. "We prefer the subtle taste of Chocolate Chip!"
"You might not enjoy it, Luna, but I do," Celestia said, looking amused.
"What's the Legion of the Shadow Hunters?" asked Pinkie Pie, bouncing up on her hooves. "Do they look for shadows? Do they hunt shadows? Because if they do, then they're in luck! There are shadows e-very-where!" she sang, clicking her hooves together in midair and falling on her side. "Oof!"
"The Legion of the Shadow Hunters are a group of ponies who work together to solve crimes," explained Celestia. "For some reason, the number of crimes in Equestria has drastically increased, and the royal guard simply does not have time to answer all of the calls. That's when Umbra-" Celestia waved her hoof at him- "came in. He volunteered to start a group to solve crimes and hunt down the ponies who were guilty of them. They have bases it in all of the big cities such as Manehatten, Vanhoover, Cloudsdale, the Crystal Empire, Fillydelphia, Baltimare, and, of course, Canterlot." She smiled. "Ponyville might not have heard of him as it is quite crime free. It certainly is peaceful, that's for sure," she added.
"Oh, wow!" gushed Twilight, eyes sparking and gleaming at the fact that she was face-to-face with such an important member of a group that was so famous. "It is such an honor to meet you, Lord Umbra!"
"No, no no no no, the honor is all mine!" Umbra laughed. "After all, I'm face-to-face with the Princess of Magic!"
Ant didn't like Umbra's voice. It was deep and hissed like a rattlesnake with its tail cut off. Shadow hunters, Ant thought. Fitting, as Umbra looks like he's made of shadow.
It was true. The stallion's black mane flowed like it was in the wind, even though there was no breeze. His dark grey coat made it seem like he was a walking shape of black. And his horn...why was it black, instead of the color of his coat? There were so many questions that Ant had about this mysterious stranger.
"Well, I'll just leave you to your studying!" Umbra said, smiling. Ant shuddered. There was a way that Umbra was looking at him and his friends, as if they would make a good snack.
Umbra bowed, and walked back out of the room, the door closing behind him. Suddenly, aside from the occasional crunching of cookies, the room adopted the same calm atmosphere as it had before Umbra had come, and it was like there had been no interruptions at all.

Antagonism

They had been studying nonstop for about 14 hours.
Sky officially hated it.
The Canterlot library was waaaaay too big for its own good.
About five minutes ago, their painstaking effort in grinding away at the books had finally paid off.
"Congratulations, everypony!" cheered Twilight, looking jubilant and glancing at a giant pile of books. "We're one-twentieth the way through all of these books!"
Sky's jaw hit the ground, and Ant fell out of his chair. ONLY ONE-TWENTIETH?! he groaned inwardly, leaning back on his chair. Holy crap, how big is this library?
It wasn't fair! The library was too big! Either that, or it was because only about five ponies were actually studying.
Sky felt it was the latter.
"Um, anyone want to take a break or something?" Sky asked, looking around when Jason interrupted him. "Has anyone actually found anything?" he asked, looking around.
Everyone-er, pony- shook their head.
Jason looked at Pinkie Pie.
Five seconds later, Pinkie was flying through the air into a bookshelf. "AAAAAAHHHHH-OOF!!"
"The prophecy, and portals to Minecraftia," Jason said, looking at the twin princesses. Celestia looked amused. Luna was munching on a cookie.
Pinkie jumped up and pushed a book towards them. "Page eleventeen."
"Got i-" Jason began before common sense kicked in. "Wait a minute. Eleventeen?"
Pinkie shrugged. "Sorry if you can't find it. Only ponies like me can find that page!" She giggled. "Don't worry, I just had to make a tiiiiny dent in the laws of logic!"
Jason facehoofed. Ant punched Sky in the arm, grinned, and made a face.
"So, who's up for that break?" Sky repeated, ignoring Ant.
"I think that a break would be nice," agreed Jason, flashing a smug look at Ant, who bristled in return.
"I guess so," sighed Twilight, fitting about five books into her saddlebag. She looked up at a clock. "We have been studying for a long while."
"Let's explore Canterlot!" squealed Pinkie, grabbing Bodil's hoof, who blushed bright red. He made a face at them that said, "Not my idea."
"I CAN FINALLY TAKE YOU TO THE CANDY SHOP!!" screamed Pinkie, bouncing up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-and up again repetitively and dragging Bodil with her.
"Um," Bodil said, looking unsure. "Maybe we could do something else insteaaa..." his voice trailing behind him as Pinkie shot off, leaving a trail of smoke in her wake.
Sky blinked. "Wow. Pinkie is..."
"Energetic?" finished Ty, nodding. "Eeyup."
"Well, she might be...er...energetic, but she had a good idea," Jordan said, not looking up from the book he was reading. "We should explore Canterlot. You know, get familiar in the place we're staying in for the while?"
"Of course thou can," Luna said, smiling. "Thy friend of Twilight's is an ally in our book." She bit into another cookie.
"Okay. We should split up and divide into groups, and meet each other here at five o'clock," Sky said, clearing his throat.
"Wow, Sky, when did you become such the egghead?" Rainbow laughed, rolling over in the air.
"It comes with being a leader," Sky said, flinching a little bit at the thought of organizing all of those people. Luckily, nine people didn't seem too hard to divide up into a few groups for a few hours or so. "Anyway, I think that the groups should go as followed: Ty and..." Ty had a hopeful expression on his face that he tried to squash and then came back. "...Applejack."
Both ponies looked less than thrilled at this.
"Rarity and Fluttershy," Sky said, ignoring the venomous looks directed at him by the two ponies. Rarity and Fluttershy both grinned, and walked away, chatting like a pair of songbirds.
"Twilight, you and Jordan can be together. Since you're both bookworms," added Sky under his breath.
Jordan and Twilight promptly walked over to a table and started reading again.
Facehoof.
"Celestia...you can be with Luna," Sky said, gesturing to Celestia and Luna. They both smiled. Luna struck up a conversation with Celestia over which bakery to visit first.
"Um, hello?" interrupted Rainbow, waving her hoof. "You still have to organize me, ET, and Cloudbuster!"
Cloudbuster? "I know. I think that we should divide us this way," Sky began, examining the group and making mental notes in his mind. "Ant, you can be with...."
Ant stared, miming, pointing to him and then Sky over and over again.
"...Jason," finished Sky, glancing up to see what the reactions would be to the way the groups had been divided.
"WHAT?!" blurted out Jason, his face falling. "Why do I have to be with that...that moron?!" Jason yelled, unable to keep his anger contained.
"I second that," added Ant, looking furious as well. "And I am not a moron. Sky, you can't be serious. Can't I be with you instead?" asked Ant and Jason at the same time, looking surprised for a second and then locking eyes with each other, looking dangerously murderous.
"No. You guys are staying together as a group. You guys need to learn how to work together, which is the reason I put you in a group in the first place," Sky finished firmly, waving his tail around in the air. "Now, go off and make hatred with each other somewhere else. Rainbow, can you give me flying lessons?" asked Sky, turning towards Rainbow.
Rainbow, who was currently chanting, "Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight," quietly. She jumped at the mention of her name, and tried to look normal, but completely failed.
Sky was not impressed. "So, what about those flying lessons?" he asked, dragging her out by her wing and glaring at her. She gulped.
"Um, sure!" she laughed nervously, assuming a cheesy grin and flying out. " You seem like a better flier than Cloudbuster, so...Come on, there are tons of techniques that you could learn that would help you! I know one called...."
Sky walked of the library, looking behind him to make sure that Jason and Ant hadn't torn out each other's throats yet.
Good. They hadn't but looked like they were close to.
Sky sighed, shaking his head and closing the door behind him, making a mental list on what to do if they ended murdering each other.

Stand

Candy, candy, and more candy.
That was all Pinkie wanted to talk about.
Bodil tried squeezing a word in about checking out the new statues that had been built around the castle.
Nope. Pinkie mentioned how she wanted the statues to be made of candy, and things went downhill from there.
Bodil tried mentioning how he would really like to get a book on ways to troll people.
Rejected.
Pinkie even found a way to get squids onto the topic of candy, but it was squid-flavored candy, and Bodil wasn't sure if his stomach would agree with the idea of candy that tasted like squids.
So he had steered the conversation back to jellybeans, something that his stomache favored.
I wonder how Twilight and her friends put up with this. They've known her for longer than I have- heck, I've only known her for about, what, one day?- and I'm already starting to lose my marbles.
Then again, I'm preeeeetty sure I lost them a long time ago.
"...and we are here!" Pinkie sang in a voice that was filled to the brim with happiness. Bodil bumped into her, but Pinkie didn't seem to notice, as she leaped up into the air and sped around the room, stuffing her bag with colorful sugary sweets of all different sorts. From caramel apples to chocolate Easter bunnies, the hyperactive happy hilariously hearty horse seemed to do nothing but browse the shelves for sweets of all kind, from cookies to lollipops to jellybeans and more.
Bodil watched as Pinkie scaled the shelves for every type of candy possible. Jeez, I know the candy is good, but...dang.
"...and here is what I'm buying!" Pinkie dumped out her entire collection of loot on the counter, which was pretty much the entire store.
The salespony at the counter looked somewhat traumatized. Bodil didn't blame him. Having your entire store cleaned out by a single pony was pretty insane.
"Um...that will be..." the salespony used his horn and wrote stuff down on a sheet of paper. "...around eight thousand bits."
Bodil's jaws dropped. That's....a lot.
Pinkie, however, seemed unfazed. "Oki Doki Loki!" she sang, speeding out in a bright pink flash. About ten seconds later, she was back with a giant bag stuffed full of bits. "Eight thousand bits!"
Bodil's mouth somehow got even wider. "How-how..?" he spluttered, watching as Pinkie hauled her loot out of the store and threw it over her back. The bag looked like it should way about five-million-gazillion pounds, yet Pinkie was carrying it like it weighed nothing at all.
Pinkie giggled. "I just had to make a tiiiiiiiiny dent in logic," she grinned, looking at Bodil. "IcouldhavebeenfasterthoughhadInotcrashedintothatwierdflyingthingy-Want some?" she added, tossing him a bright blue piece of candy.
Bodil caught it with his horn, feeling somewhat nervous, because knowing Pinkie, it would be something squid flavored. As they walked around Canterlot, Bodil felt the stares of the high-class ponies uncomfortably on his back. He could just hear them talking about him....
Oh yes, that's the doofus who came in the weird pink pony.

Five hours of torture.
That was what Jason expected to have with his experience with Ant.
Especially since they hadn't been talking to each other. Ant and Jason sat there, throwing rocks into a nearby river that flowed through the town.
The stupid thing was that they were having a silent argument over who could chuck their rock in the deepest, the farthest, and the highest.
Clunk! Pa-thunk! Slup! Those noises was all Jason could hear as they chucked rocks into the air, one by one by one by one.
It was boring.
With a capital B.
"This is boring," Ant sighed, echoing Jason's thoughts as he kicked a rock into the river. The rock rolled along the bank, then fell in with a small splash, not even one-sixtieth of the way into the river.
Jason smiled halfheartedly. "I win."
Ant rolled his eyes. "Ha ha."
Jason sighed, laying his head on his hooves. He rolled over, looking up at the sun and the clouds. The sky was a patch of pale blue space, completely empty and completely silent.
"So...is there anything that you want to talk about?" asked Ant, bending over him so that his muzzle was mere inches away from Jason's face.
"Yes: One: Get away from me. Two: Nothing. Three: Get away from me."
Ant frowned. "Well, that wasn't very nice," he said nastily, spreading his wings and taking off.
Jason got up. "You know what Sky said!" he called after Ant. "No one splits up from the group. He's going to lecture you so hard when we get back!"
"DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE?!" Ant snapped, the dislike in his voice clear even when they were that far away. "Getting lectured by Sky is still better than spending the afternoon with you."
Good Notch, he really hates me, Jason thought, staring at Ant until he was just a tiny dot in the sky.
"Well, then fine," Jason huffed a breath of annoyance. "I can have plenty of fun all by myself."
"So, rock, whats going on in your life?" asked Jason, looking at a pebble a mere minute after his declaration of how he was going to spend his afternoon.
The pebble did not respond.
"Yeah, my life sucks too-" Jason was cut off by a loud screaming that was gradually getting louder, louder, until it was practically in his ear.
Ant, the pony cannonball, slammed into Jason, sweeping them both off of their feet, and rolling them both into the river.
"I thought-that you-were going to-spend your- afternoon- doing something-else," Jason gasped, as soon as he and Ant had untangled and gotten out of the river.
Ant snorted. "I was going to, but apparently the cosmos had other things planned for me." He frowned. "While I was flying away, I was hit in the face by a pink bullet. It crashed into me and sped off somewhere else."
Jason laughed. "Sounds more like Pinkie Pie than a cosmic event of fate," he said, grinning.
Ant laughed back. "Actually, now that I think about it, it probably was," he said, rubbing his chin with his hoof. "Hmm...."

Flying should not have been that hard.
Flying should have been flapping your wings once or twice and then speeding off like a bullet. Flying should have been fun.
Flying should not have been crashing into a window and having to get your wings bandaged because windows were actually a lost sharper than they looked.
Rainbow had complemented Sky on his flying, saying that "at least it was better than Cloudbuster", but Sky felt like she was just being nice.
At least Ant wasn't grounded because of tiny pieces of glass in his wings. Sky would have to go to the hospital to get them all removed, and for the meanwhile, he had nothing to do but sit there. And talk to Rainbowdash. which was worse than sitting there.
Sky would rather play stand than listen to Rainbow talk about how amazing she was.

Ty and Applejack actually had more in common than they thought.
They had spent their afternoon coming up with insults for each other.
Fun, huh?
"Squid-brain!"
"Blind-eye!"
"Applesauce!"
"Headphones!"
"Orange Sherbert!"
"Red-eyes!"
"Cowboy!"
"....I'm all out."
"Me too."
"...Now whadda we do?"
"I have no clue."
"Great."
"Yes. Let us play stand."
"..Stand. Are you sure you're feelin' right in the head, sugar cube?"
"...Yes."
"...I'll take that as a no."

Who needs you?

"...so, in other words, the break was a terrible idea."
"Yeah, that pretty much sums it up."
"But hey, Jason and Ant made it out without strangling each other!"
"Yeah, but we had some pretty close calls, ya know?"
"Actually, we wouldn't considering that we weren't there. But it was expected to be close," Jordan said, snorting. Only Jason and Ant would compete to see who hated each other more.
Jordan got back to reading his book. His break had been reading, yes, but instead of reading books on the history of Equestria, he read some of the fictional books. Which were pretty good, considering they had been written by technicolored horses.
The pegasus gasped in horror as the creature swooped towards him, deadly as the shadows and heart black as night. It bared its teeth in a loud screech that makes the hair on the back of your neck raise, it's long sharp claws poised to kill.
"This...I can't believe this thing used to be my friend!" the pegasus thought, leaping out out of the way, the monster's sharp claws missing his face by a fraction of an inch. The evil aura that surrounded the monster was unmistakeable, pure darkness radiating from its heart. The monster turned back towards the pony, its purple eyes locked on its target. Its pupils dilated, and it sprang at the pegasus.
Suddenly, the sound of hoof steps on stone were heard, and a bright white unicorn burst into the room, followed by a small indigo pegasus.
"Leave our friend alone!" screamed the indigo pegasus, tackling the monster and drawing out a sharp knife that gleamed in the dim light illuminating the room, cast by the stark white unicorn who's presence seemed to fill up the room. The unicorn didn't even say anything as she drew out a golden battle axe, preparing to charge the monster.
The pegasus stood in awe of the two sisters, feeling eternally grateful. No one had ever done anything like this for him before. His entire life, he had been mocked, jeered at, and cast down upon. The fact that these two ponies were willing to risk their lives for him filled him with happiness all the way to the bone.
Of course, the happiness bestowed on him through this revelation caused him to utter the most intelligent answer ever known to ponydom: "Gee...thanks."
"You needeth not thank us," the white unicorn replied, blocking a hit from the creature. "Friends never abandon each other in thy times of urgency."
The pegasus blinked. "Friends always look out for each other..." he murmured, feeling a spark ignite inside of him as a feeling of realization washed over him.
"Jordan? Hello? Earth to the earth pony?"
Jordan blinked. "Huh? What?"
Bodil sighed, rolling his eyes. "Bookworm," he muttered, walking away and joining the rest of group, which had gathered to see Jason and Ant try to strangle each other to death.
Luna seemed especially enthusiastic about it.
Jordan rolled his eyes. What is so exciting about fighting that can't be found in books? I mean, sure, I guess the experience isn't as real and all, but honestly, I'd rather have a book.
He skipped a few chapters ahead, deciding to start on a new story rather than finish his old one. He would come back to it later.
"Do it, do it now."
The white wolf heard the echo of words all too familiar to him. A memory seared deep into his mind through the branding iron of grief resurfaced, and brought with it tears, still fresh as if his friend had died only just yesterday.

"A pool of blood at my paws, the scent of death heavy in the air....

No.
His death was not my fault. This death will not be, either. His death will be the fault of the demon who possessed him. Not mine.
In the end, no one wins, though. This will be the end of the war, but it shall come a great price."
Jordan promptly closed the book.

Jeez, he thought, shuddering. That was...unsettling. Almost like....I don't know. It just doesn't feel right.
Jordan turned his attention to the argument that Ant and Jason were having.
"I need you like a pain in the gut!"
"And i need you like a kick in the butt! You truly disgrace the army you come from!"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Well, guess what? Because I need you like a hole in the head!"
"I need you like a bug in my bed! You constantly fight with the one that feeds you, so who needs you again?"
"Who needs you, you ugly bulgy creature? You're in that spacesuit all day, an airhead all the way! No one knows what you look like, and I think you should show. You could be a squid in disguise for all that we know!"
"Who needs you, you cloud busting weirdo? Your a scraggly bag of skin and you're as ugly as sin! You're mane's your finest feature, you stupid little creature. You're stupid and a bore, dragging your belly on the floor!"
"Okay, you win with the insults, but I win for most catchy."
"Hey! You do not."
"Who's going to stop me?"
"I am!" Jason immediately sprang at Ant, who was prepared for the attack. The two rolled around on the floor, screaming and yelling, while the rest of the ponies were doubled over in laughter.
Well, almost all of them.
"Amen, brother," Ty and Twilight said, each patting Jordan's shoulder reassuringly. "We know."

Dreamwalking

It had been exactly two days, seven hours, thirteen minutes, and nineteen seconds since they had arrived in Equestria.
But who was doing the counting?
Ty sighed, rolling over on his bed. It had been a long and exhausting day, full of reading, reading, a stupidly boring break,and more reading.
The only entertaining part had been watching Ant and Jason fight each other, and even then, it was kind of insane.
It was weird watching Ant lose control like that. Normally, he seemed like such a rational, calm, mature guy. But he guessed that everyone had their limits.
Speaking of which, I wonder what Jason did to make Ant ticked off at him like that, Ty thought, shoving his head under his pillow. It was probably something I didn't know about. Which I don't know about a lot of things, considering that I'm...
He let the his thoughts trail off as he took his head out of from under the pillow. He looked outside, and saw Princess Luna on a balcony, using a telescope to keep watch through the night.
Hmm....Ty thought, getting up from his bed. Maybe I should join her. I mean, it's not like I can fall asleep anyway.
Thinking about this, Ty decided to join Luna in her nightwatching. It had to be more entertaining than just laying there for hours on end and thinking about reasons why Ant and Jason could hate each other so much.
As he snuck outside into the hallway, Ty saw a flickering light coming from inside of Jordan's room.
Huh. Typical. The bookworm is probably doing some late night reading.
The rest of the rooms, however, were pitch black and quiet. Ty shivered, feeling like something was crawling across his back.
Canterlot Castle was scary at night. There was almost no light, other than the candles faintly illuminating the hallways, casting eerie shadows on everything. There were pony suits of armor in the hallways, making everything even more unsettling than it already was.
And of course, Ty didn't know the layout of the castle, so he had a high chance of getting himself lost.
As he rounded a corner, Ty saw one of the pegasus guards walking by. Not sure of what the punishment would be if he was caught snooping around the hallways alone, Ty quickly jumped behind a suit of armor. For once, his small size helped him, as the guard didn't even notice him, passing him by completely.
Ty let out a sigh of relief. He then continued on in his trek to find Princess Luna.
When he finally got to the balcony that she was standing on, nopony was there. The telescope sat there, abandoned and unused.
Ty didn't have time to wonder where the heck Princess Luna could have gone.
"STATE THY PURPOSE, YOU CUR, OR WE SHALL SHOW YOU THE TRUE POWER OF THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT-Oh, it's just thou, Ty," Luna shouted, shooting towards him but stopping when she saw who it was.
Not before she woke up half the castle, though.
"LUNA! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO GO CHARGING IN WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS ON WATCH?!" bellowed Celestia from her room, her mane and tail in curlers and-
Wait. Princess Celestia wore curlers?
Luna seemed completely oblivious to that fact. Either that, or she had gotten used to it. "DEAL WITH IT, SISTER!!" she bellowed back, looking highly amused. "PERHAPS WE SHALL LEARN IN ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS OR SO!!!"
You gotta love Luna,the sisterly troll.

"Ah, so thou cannot sleep as well?" Luna asked Ty, watching everything through the telescope. Fortunately, nothing was happening, so she took her eyes off of it for a few moments.
Ty nodded. "I don't know why...maybe it's because I always took the night shift back in Minecraftia, but after the war, I thought my body had readjusted. Is Equestrian time different from Minecraftian time or something?" he asked, more to himself than Luna.
Luna shrugged. "We do not know. We have never been to the world thou calls home. And even if we did, we would not remember it. We spent one-fifth of our lives on the moon."
"Oh...yeah...right," Ty said, just remembering the legend of Nightmare Moon. He decided not to ask his question, as it involved sleeping through her night and that was the whole reason she had become possessed in the first place.
"I know what you were going to ask," Luna sighed, avoiding eye contact with Ty and flushing red. Ty noticed something strange, but decided not to point it out. "We are not as naive as you judge us to be, Ty Collins." There, she did it aga- wait, how does she know my name?!
Luna smiled. "My dreamwalking ability is not limited to just Equestria, you know," she answered. "It extends as far as I want it to go. Did you ever wonder why, right before something terrible was going to happen, one of the members in your army would have a dream about it?"
"Hang on, now that you mention it, it does seem like that....wait, that was you?!"
"No, but there are many dreamwalkers in your world. There is at least one in every world, and they are born with the ability to manipulate dreams."
"Oh, cool! That seems like a nifty talent."
"It is. The talent to manipulate dreams is a rare and powerful one at that, because when you manipulate a dream, you are not merely manipulating somepony's subconscious. The place our minds go when we sleep is not just in our minds. It is a whole other world. Therefore, being able to manipulate somepony's dreams also means being able to manipulate the chaotic dreamworld," Luna explained.
Ty blinked. "Wow, that seems....cool," he said. "Sure gives you a lot of power over somepony."
Luna puffed out her chest with pride and seemed stand up taller. "Yes, well, it certainly is a useful talent to have, especially in a war. Would you agree?" she asked, her face widening in a smile.
Ty nodded, imagining the things he could do if he had that talent: Give the enemies nightmares, and peaceful, relaxing dreams to your allies. It could also send messages long distances.
"You can."
Ty jumped. "Huh? What?"
Luna smiled down at him. "You could. A unicorn, if he or she has strong enough magic, can temporarily walk in somepony's dream. However, true dream walkers can be anypony, pegasus, unicorn, or earth pony alike. The thing that sets them apart is their tactical thinking, their tendency to stay away from large crowds of ponies, and the way that they're most active during the night. You seem like that type of pony to me."
Ty frowned uncertainly, wondering if he could. Maybe not. Actually, maybe so. Actually, no. Definitely not. But still, maybe. But it's not a very high chance.
But you fit all of the things that Luna mentioned! A small voice in his head argued.
His common sense replied, Don't you think that you would have known about your talent before Luna explained all of this to you if you really did have it?
Luna seemed greatly amused by the way the voices in Ty's head were constantly arguing. Maybe it was just buried too deep for me to unleash it. But you should have known about it when you went through that phase to see if you were magic so that you could enchant your dad's dinner to eat him. But I didn't read about this ability, so maybe I wouldn't have been able to unleash it.
Ty looked up at Luna. "What are other signs of a dreamwalker-" he began, but was cut off by Luna.
"Too late! It's almost dawn; we'll have to continue this some other time!" she sang gleefully, waving her hoof at the sky, which was fading from royal blue to a bright pink. Celestia was getting up, looking outside her window and then walking back inside.
She was preparing to raise the sun.
"But I did enjoy our nighttime conversation. Come back tomorrow, okay?" she called after Ty as he walked away.
Ty looked back. Luna was nowhere to be seen. Most likely, she had teleported back to her room to sleep through the day.
Ty half-smiled as he did the same.

Lectures

Try getting woken up by two royal arguing sisters of the land in the middle of the night.
Ant could tell you from experience that it was not fun.
He was willing to bet that no one had gotten any sleep that night.
It left you with a sleepy, muddled, feeling when you woke up the next day. You felt like you didn't get any rest, and Ant practically fell right over when he got up.
But somehow, he had managed to get himself out of bed and dragged himself over to Sky's room.
Sky was yawning. He would yawn for a few seconds, rub his eyes, and yawn again.
Ant flopped himself like a fish onto Sky's bed, knocking the bright yellow alicorn off of the bed. Sky crashed into the ground with a yelp.
So soft, thought Ant drowsily, burying his face into the bed sheets. This feels like the Aether......
The Aether was interrupted by a bucket of freezing water being dumped on it.
A soaking wet, cold, grumpy, but definitely fully awake Antvenom dragged himself over to Jason's room.
Jason was lying in his bed, fully asleep.
Ant felt a stab of jealousy.
"WAKE UP, SLEEPYHEAD!!" Ant yelled in Jason's ear.
Jason muttered something inaudible like, "Too sleepy, go away."
Ant scowled. He walked over to Sky's room and grabbed the bucket of water that Sky had dumped on him.Sky followed him, curious as to what Ant was doing.
Ant carefully positioned the bucket so that its contents almost sloshed over the edge, but they didn't, and they wouldn't.
Not unless someone happened to push them....
"WAKE UP, ELSA!!!" shouted Ant in Jason's ear. "DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?! BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP, I'LL SEE IF THEY COLD NEVER BOTHERS YOU!!!"
Sky laughed. "Yes, with Anna and Elsa to Arendelle!"
Hearing these words, Jason slowly got up. He huffed in exasperation, and jumped off his bed.
Sky and Ant cheered.
Their jubilation was cut short when Jason locked himself in the bathroom.
Well, bonus points for creativity, I guess.
"Um..."
Sky and Ant spun around to see Fluttershy, blushing pink and peering into the room.
"So, um, I heard some screaming, and, um,thought that, um, maybe I could,um help? That is, um, if you,um, want any..." her voice trailed off into the room.
"What the hay was all that ruckus 'bout in the firs' place?" Applejack inquired, stepping into the room with an expression one-fourth annoyed, one-fourth amused, and one-half confused.
Suddenly, a bright pink ball of sunshine cannoned into Applejack and Fluttershy, sweeping them clean off of their feet and throwing them down the hall with a yelp.
Pinkie was standing on her hind legs, her forelegs holding a fire extinguisher. Her hair seemed messy-messier than usual- and she was panting, a rabid look her eyes.
"WHERE'S THE SNOWMAN?!" she screamed, waving around the fire extinguisher. "I WARN YOU, THOSE THINGS CANT BE TRUSTED." She looked at Ant and Sky. "I'M WARNING YOU...."
She hissed a final warning before slinking away.
Oh Notch. I think I was scarred for life.... Ant shuddered, fanning out his wings and widening his eyes.
"I heard a scream and a crash somewhere over here. Is there anything wrong?" Jordan asked, eyes widening as he peered into the room as well. He had a book tucked under a leg, obviously one that he had been reading.
"Oh yeah, sure, we're fine," snapped an irate country pony as she got up and glared at Jordan. Applejack was very ticked off, and shoved Jordan aside as she stomped into the room.
AJ stopped in front of the restroom doors, glaring inside. "HEY, JASON!! I'M WARNIN' YA: GET OF THERE BEFORE I BUST YER FACE!!!"
The bathroom door immediately burst open, a very ticked off blue pegasus glaring at Applejack.
Twilight walked into the room, a half exasperated, half amused look on her face.
"What the hay was going on in here?" she questioned, looking at Applejack and Jason having a glare battle to the death, Ant standing there with a freaked out look on his face, and Fluttershy and Jordan just watching.
"If my speculations are correct, then acting like themselves and using their spectacular talent of chaos to cause...well, chaos," snorted Bodil, shoving Jordan and Fluttershy aside as he walked into the room.
"BODIL!!!!" screamed a hyperactive pink ball of craziness as she shot into a room and slammed into Bodil, knocking them both clean off of their feet.
"Ow..." Bodil moaned, rubbing his head as Pinkie bounced around, a large grin on her face. "You really gotta stop doing that."
Pinkie gave no indication that she heard. "OH MY GOSH!! So, I found this really awesome candy shop just like the one we visited yesterday, only it wasfull of all different types of candy, and oh my gosh I also found out about this super awesome party we could go to, because well, parties are my cutie mark-" she showed her flank to him "-and I just think we could make it so much more fun, right?!" she added, stopping abruptly in front of Bodil and shoving her grinning face so close to him that her muzzle was mere inches away from him.
Bodil blinked. "Um....yes?" he tried, relived when Pinkie got away from him.
Ant rolled his eyes. As much as Pinkie's annoying antics irritated him, this was one problem that she and Bodil had to fix for themselves.
"Guys, where's Ty?" Sky asked, looking around the room and not noticing the stark white unicorn right behind him. He must have sneaked in when Bodil and Pinkie were rolling around the floor, Ant thought, catching Ty's eye. Ty made a shushing motion with his hoof and drew in a deep breath.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" Sky randomly started screaming, startling everypony in the room.
Jason and Applejack shot about five feet into the air. Jason spread out his wings, but was dragged back down by Applejack grabbing onto his tail. They hit the ground with a crash!
Pinkie jumped even higher than them, crashing into the roof and landing on top of Bodil, who let out a yell before he was crushed by her.
Ty screamed right in Sky's ear, causing Sky to scream even louder and flap out his wings.
Jordan was nearly suffocated by Fluttershy as she hung onto him, eyes wide with terror.
Ant flared his wings in panic, running around in circles as Rarity fainted.
Everyone stopped when Princess Celestia busted down the door, a "what-the-heck-is-going-on-there-better-have-been-nothing-done-to-my-friends-or-die" look on her face.
Luna joined her, amusement glittering in her eyes.
If you want to calm down a room of chaotic monochromatic ponies, just throw in an enraged alicorn with the power to control the sun. It works.
"WHAT THE HAY IS GOING ON IN HERE?!" Celestia bellowed.
Sky blinked. "Um..."
Ty jumped in. "We were playing," he replied.
Luna snorted. "Apparently our guests are enjoying themselves thoroughly if they a racket that loud and mark it as 'playing'." Luna eyed them all, one by one. "Although, it is highly entertaining to have thee all here," she noted.
Celestia sighed. "Well, please try not to cause such a ruckus next time you wake up." Like her sister, she examined the ponies one by one and said, "How about this time we explore Canterlot we stick together and tour it together. The idea of splitting up didn't really work, did it?"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Alright!" said Twilight cheerfully, magically conjuring up a list with her horn and marking things off on it. "So, we've woken up...and we've also gotten together...so next, we have to-"
That was about as far as she got. Bodil's horn sparked rainbow, a blanket flew up, and smothered whatever else Twilight had to say.
Magic.
Twilight counter-attacked by pulling the blanket with her own magic, eyes gleaming with excitement, the list lying forgotten next to her. "Oh, wow! I've never seen a unicorn with a magical aura that changes color! How did you do that? According to my research, a unicorn's magic aura color is usually some shade of the unicorn's eyes- for instance, my eyes are purple, and my magical aura color is magenta- but I've never heard of- or seen- a unicorn who could change their magic aura color! So tell me, how did you do that? Do your eyes change color or something? I mean, I guess it would make sense if you did, but your eye color would have to change color drastically every second in order for it to affect your magic aura color as well! So tell me, how?!" she inquired, eyes wide and face about two inches from Bodil's.
"Seventy-five," Bodil replied. As far as he was concerned, a magical color changing aura wasn't all that strange in a world full of dragons, magic, and exotic equines, and wasn't really worth getting worked up over.
Twilight frowned. "Seventy-five?" she repeated, confused as Bodil and the rest of her friends groaned. "That doesn't seem like a very logical answer to me. In fact, it doesn't even really make sense! How can you seventy-five? Seventy-five is either a noun or an adjective, depending on the context in which it's used. For example-" Twilight stopped when she realized that no one was listening and everpony was slowly backing out of the room, trying to escape her lecture.
"Hey! Wait for me!" she yelped, dashing to catch up with the thirteen ponies who had failed to escape her.

A Fight

"...Why is everypony staring at us?" Fluttershy asked nervously, glancing at the ponies that were casting disdainful and surprised looks at the group of ponies.
"Six new ponies traveling with the two rulers of the land and the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, what did you expect?" replied Sky, observing the citizens of Canterlot. "Maybe they didn't expect such...'low-class' ponies to be traveling with the princesses."
"I don't think so," jumped in Twilight, turning her head towards Sky. "It mostly seems that they're looking at you, Sky. Maybe it's strange seeing an alicorn that isn't a princess, and a male one at that."
Sky frowned. "Why would they think that's weird?" he asked, glancing around to see if Twilight's suspicions were correct.
Unfortunately, it seemed that they were. The ponies had their eyes glued to him, and when they saw that he had noticed, they quickly turned away.
"Well, the only alicorns in existence are Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Twilight Sparkle-that's me, Princess Cadence...and of course, you," Twilight replied, looking somewhat amused.
"Oh my gosh! Epic Jump Map: Alicorn Princess Sky does Minecraft," Bodil laughed, a devilish gleam in his eye. "I can totally see it happening. We could have fluffy pink unicorns and rainbows and sparkly princess dress up and-"
Before Sky could strangle Bodil to death for even suggesting such a thing (he could already feel his manliness flying away), Ant interjected, frowning.
"Hang on, Twilight. Did you just say, 'Princess Cadence?'" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "As in, pink alicorn who's powers are based solely on love?"
Twilight snorted. "Of course; how many Princess Cadences do you know?" she replied, an inquisitive tone to her voice.
Ant blinked. "You do bring up a good point," he said, looking somewhat annoyed. "However, do you have to so sarcastic about it?"
Sky jumped in. "You're almost always sarcastic, Ant," Sky pointed out, doing his best impression of Ant. "Yes, Jordan, this is totally how we build a steam-powered-chicken chucker. We fall off cliffs."
Ant bristled as Twilight cracked a smile. "He pushed me off! And it wasn't technically even a cliff; it was the top of Jerry's Tree."
Sky rolled his eyes. "Alright, what about, 'That is a great idea, Seth. We should get all of these exploding hoppers together, make them explode at different pitches and form a choir with them. That was totally your intention, right???'"
"Sometimes it is very hard not to stab you," threatened Ant.
"He has a sick sense of humor," Sky explained to Twilight's horrified face.
"THAT'S IT!" Ant screeched, springing at Sky and knocking him over.
"OH NO!" Sky yelled from underneath Ant. "He is unleashing his greatest and most horrifying weapon on me: his face. Cover your eyes,or you shall die from it's ugliness!"
"You are the epitome of hilarious," Ant growled, cuffing Sky on the ear. "Have you looked in the mirror lately?"
Twilight watched the two wrestle with each other on the ground before turning away to join the rest of the group. She rolled her eyes. Stallions were idiots.

"I still would have won," complained Sky, wincing as Twilight dabbed some medicine into his stings. "Ow! That hurts."
"Not a chance," Ant replied, testing out his dislocated wing. "It's not my fault you rolled us into a tree with a wasps' nest."
Sky scowled. "Who was the one that washed us up in the lake? We would've drowned if Twilight and Fluttershy hadn't noticed us!"
"And we would also be covering in stings and scratches from the wasps," countered Ant. "I'd rather be a little waterlogged than sore for days, wouldn't you?"
"A little waterlogged? You were taken to the emergency room!" protested Sky.
"Yes, and you're both very big and scary," interrupted Fluttershy. "Now, please, hold still while I get that black eye."
Sky and Ant simultaneously blinked. Was that sarcasm? Sarcasm from Fluttershy? It didn't seem likely.
"Personally," Twilight snorted, "I thought it was a very moronic idea to altercation right in front of the princesses. Can you even contemplate the indignity and humiliation that it is causing me right now? My friends, having an all-out brawl right in Canterlot, of all places,and before the princesses, no less. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA?!" she lectured.
"English, please," Sky requested. At the same time, Ant replied, "Dunno, Luna seemed to be enjoying it. She was laughing her head off."
Twilight scowled and flattened her ears. "You know what I mean," she snapped.
Sky shrugged. "Eh, are we supposed to care?" he asked, enjoying the outraged expression on Twilight's face. Ant nodded in agreement, the argument they were having five seconds ago completely forgotten.
"YES!!!" exploded Twilight suddenly. "IT'S UNDIGNIFIED TO FIGHT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TWO RULERS OF THE LAND AND IT MAKES A BAD IMPRESSION ON EVERYPONY AND I'M BETTING THAT NO ONE- and I mean, no one- TRUSTS YOU AND WILL EVER TRUST YOU EVER AGAIN AND IT WAS STUPID AND RUDE AND DISRESPECTFUL AND WHY DID YOU DO THAT IN FRONT OF THE PRINCESSES AND THE PONIES OF CANTERLOT AND IT WAS SO STUPID TO JUST RANDOMLY START FIGHTING IN FRONT OF EVERYONE AND- oh, you're making fun of me," she realized, dismayed when she saw Ant and Sky choke with laughter. "Stop that!" she cried. "It's not funny."
"Yeah," snickered Sky, making a face. "You should've seen your face! I swear, you popped a blood vessel; your face was so red!"
Ant snorted. "Do you usually get so worked up like this, or is it only when we're around? If it's the latter, that is very unfortunate; your friends really need something besides a nerdy egghead for entertainment." He rolled over on the bed he was standing on so that he was upside down.
"Stop that," scolded Fluttershy, a tinge of pink creeping up into her face. "Twilight is being a good friend right now looking after you. The rest of the group took off and explored the rest of Canterlot, but she was nice enough to stay with you. And now you're making fun of her? You should feel ashamed of yourself!"
Ant and Sky blinked. Fluttershy, getting worked up over something? Woah. That was officially weird.
They had much to learn about this world, young grasshoppers.

Author's Notes:

Sorry that this took so long to come out...I really wish my teachers would stop giving me homework >.<

We Finally Get Some Plot Progression

"I really hope that they're okay," said Jordan to Jason as they trudged through the streets of Canterlot. After Sky and Ant had rolled into the river, the group had gone completely silent. There was no conversation at all, and Jordan could not understand why.
Silences made Jordan nervous. They seemed to fill up and spread everywhere, becoming so thick that you could choke on them. Silence had power. It could suck the life out of a room in mere seconds, and kill happiness. Jordan didn't like silence.
Jason snorted, interrupting Jordan's epic silent speech of silence. "Trust me, they will be. Remember the first time Sky picked up a sword?"
Jordan laughed. "Yeah. We're lucky that Seto is such a good doctor, or else everyone would've bled to death." At the mention of his friend, Jordan's ears flattened. He added softly, "Do you think we can get back home?"
"We will," said Jason confidently. "Trust me, if anyone can figure out a way back home, it'll be us. No one is better at problem solving, cheering people up, and running around like insane chickens.."
"Was that last one really needed?" interrupted Ty.
"I wish I had your optimism," sighed Jordan, looking ahead at the two princesses. Celestia was glancing around at every store that they passed, for some reason, and would briefly browse the merchandise before walking away, shaking her head. Luna, on the other ha-hoof, Jordan corrected himself- was yawning, and muttering things about how "big sister Tia always worries too much. You used to be fun!"
"How do you think we'll get back home?" Bodil jumped in. "I mean, it's not like we can just create a magical portal out of thin air, right?" He looked hopefully at the princesses, wanting them to tell him that he was wrong and that they could just teleport the Minecraftians back home.
Celestia and Luna payed him no mind. Celestia was still interested in shopping, and Luna was busy reminding her that she wouldn't think of her differently if she didn't get something nice.
Get something nice...for what? Jordan wondered suddenly, finally remembering to be curious as to why Celestia was browsing shops in the first place.
"That was kinda the point of coming to Canterlot in the first place," pointed out Ty. "I mean, we came to see if we could break that magical barrier around that portal so that we could get back home and that all of Ponyville wouldn't end up drowning in creepers, right?"
Hmm...
"It wasn't just creepers," said Jason. "Don't forget, there were also spiderponies, zomponies, enderponies, and skeleponies."
"Was it necessary to put 'pony' at the end of every word?" asked Bodil, somewhat amused.
Maybe they would tell me if I just asked them.
"Maybe not, but we might as well get used to saying pony after every single word, since that's what this world is full of," Jason replied, somewhat annoyed.
But wouldn't it be rude if I asked them why they were running around every store in sight like an insane chicken?
Bodil shrugged.
"Well, not after every word," said Ty. "I mean, that would mean it would be like, 'Hi-pony! My-pony name-pony is-pony Ty-pony! It would be a screwed up version of pig latin or something."
And besides, what if I just figured it out by myself? I mean, it can't be that hard, right?
"But in pig latin, you also move the first letter of the word," argued Bodil. "So it wouldn't be pig latin, not exactly."
"I did say a screwed up version," snapped Ty. "Come on, you heard me, right? Jordan? Jason?"
So..uh...let's start with the facts: Celestia is running around to general stores, looking for something. Luna is telling her not to be so worried. But she is worried. And...uh...
Jason half shrugged, half nodded.
Ty glared at him.
OH FLIPPIN' SCREW IT, I'M JUST GOING TO ASK HER.
Jordan pushed his way past Bodil, Jason, and Ty rolling around on the floor, and made his way towards the Princesses.
"Oh come on, Tia!" complained a very irritated Luna. "Thou doesn't need to get her something perfect. We are sure a hug would do just fine."
Celestia straightened up and looked her little sister in the eye. "Maybe so, Luna, but she would be expecting something more than just a hug. It only comes once a year, you know."
Luna rolled her eyes. "We know that Twilight is not a needy pony, and that she would not mind a meager gift for her-"
"Hello," interrupted Jordan. "Greetings from the world of the morons. I am a messenger from Lord Idiot, also known as Sky, although it could also be Bodil. Our people are not sure whom is more stupid. But anyway, I heard of an interesting event that you two were just discussing. Would you be so kind as to tell me what it was?" he finished with a goofy grin.
Although Jordan found his approach formal and regal, it earned him quite a few strange looks from Celestia and Luna, but Luna mostly looked like she was trying to contain some laughter.
Celestia looked at Luna. Luna nodded. Celestia sighed. Luna smiled.
This is getting to be somewhat redundant, thought Jordan, watching Celestia make an "are you sure face?" and Luna responding with a "you worry too much, Tia. Yes I am sure, do I look like I'm crazy?" face and Celestia responding with an "are you absolutely sure?" face and Luna replying with a "yes" face and Celestia replying with an "are you absolutely, positively sure?" and Luna replying with "yes" and Celestia responding with an "are you absolutely, positively, perfectly sure?" face and Luna throwing up her hooves in the air with an exasperated groan.
Celestia sighed again. "Fine. Very well; it is soon time for my faithful student Twilight Sparkle's..."
She was cut off by Pinkie Pie shooting past them like a torpedo, screeching. She was so fast, she was flying through the air.
As soon as she hit the ground, she gasped, and then she shot around in circles, screeching.
"Pinkie?" asked Jordan dizzily. "What in the name of Notch's sweaty troll-scented underwear are you doing?!" he demanded as Luna burst out laughing.
"Okay, how in the name of Sombra's laxative talking crystals did you get 'Notch's sweaty, troll-scented underwear'?" she asked, then dissolved into giggles.
"The same way you got 'Sombra's laxative talking crystals'," replied Jordan. He turned towards Pinkie, who was just getting ready for another round of Torpedo-Pie, and stuck his hoof in her mouth.
Pinkie promptly spat it out, and gasped (thankfully, without all the running and screeching), "OHMYGOSH HOW DID I FORGET IT'STWILIGHT'SBIRTHDAYINAWEEK!!!!!"
While Jordan's brain was trying to process what Pinkie had just said, the rest of the group gasped. Together, they were almost as loud as Pinkie, but nopony could ever quite beat her.
"Great, we have to waste money on a gift of all things, too?!" groaned Bodil, throwing his hooves in the air.
"We never had any money in the first place," pointed out Ty.
"Oh my gosh. HOW DID I FORGET?!" gasped Rainbowdash, throwing up her front hooves in the air in a display of shock.
"Nopony blames you; if a bunch of random strangers fell-like, literally fell- into your life claiming to be from another world, and then your hometown was invaded by a bunch of monsters from said world, anypony'd forget one of their best friend's birthday," said Jordan.
"And I need to plan the most Super-Duperiest-Most-Fantabulous-Best-of-All-Parties-Party ever!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie, bouncing up into the air. "I mean, come on, your birthday only comes once a year and when it comes you need to celebrate because it'll be a whole other year before you can celebrate it again, and Twilight is a princess for Celestia's sake, so of course we need to make her party the best one ever!!!!!!"
"I'm standing right here, you know," said Celestia.
"And no mention whatsoever about the fact that she's one of your best friends," commented Bodil.
"Oh yeah! That too!" Pinkie said, doing a derpy grin. "And everypony in Ponyville- No, Ponyville and Canterlot- no, in Equestria is going to come!"
"WAITWAT." said someone from behind everypony. Everypony turned around, and saw Twilight standing there, jaw dropped to the ground and eyes wide as saucers. "You don't actually mean, like, everypony-everypony, do you?"
"Of course I do!" cheered Pinkie, jumping into the air (again) and singing, "This is gonna be the best party ever, this party will be remembered forever, this party is definitely gonna be the best-"
"Even better than mine?" asked Rainbowdash, raising an eyebrow.
"We'd better call Mozzarella Pizza, or whatever his name was," commented yet another someone from behind.
"What's with all these people from behind?" asked Pinkie as everypony else around her yelled, "CHEESE SANDWICH!"
"Okay, okay, geez," whined the same someone that had commented on CheeseStick's name.
"You guys, um, sure you're okay?" asked a timid voice, waking up to the group and looking behind her. "I mean, it's only been a few minutes...."
"Twenty-three, to be precise," said Jason, checking the watch built into his spacesuit.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," sighed Ant, walking up and glancing at Twilight, who had promptly fainted on the ground a few minutes prior. "No need to get all techy, Astro-boy."
"Yup, he's definitely alright," said Jason in retaliation. "Only Ant could come up with such lame insults."
Ant raised an eyebrow. "You're talking to the four-times-in-a-row-champion of the official Survival Games, you know that?"
"Machinima held six official rounds. Where were you during the other two?"
"I got in the top five, at least."
"Wow, you really suck."
"Says you! You couldn't make it into the top twenty if you tried.
"Yeah, well-"
"Will you guys just stop jabbering at each other for five seconds?" snapped Sky, jumping in between them, breaking up their argument quiet effectively.
"He started it," whined Jason and Ant. "No, you did! I did not!"
"Argh!" screamed Twilight, jumping up to her hooves all of a sudden. "One minute ago- I mean literally one minute atom we were talking about my birthday! What the heck happened?"
"This idiot happened," said Ant and Jason, pointing at each other. "No, you're the idiot! I'm not, you are! Jinx! Double Jinx! Triple Jinx!"
"You guys are hopeless," sighed Twilight, massaging the area between her eyebrows before turning to the rest of the ponies, who were watching with expressions of amusement, interest, annoyance, and horror.
"Wait a minute!" interjected Pinkie. "There's no horror- oh, yeah, Fluttershy," she realized, turning to the buttered-colored pegasus, who was cowering behind Applejack, muttering "Friends shouldn't fight. Friends shouldn't fight. Friends..."
"He's not my friend!" protested both Jason and Ant, which set them off to their fighting again.
Everyone in the group groaned.
"....so, uh, what was that about everypony in Equestria, Pinkie?" asked Twilight.

Author's Notes:

I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LATENESS OF THIS CHAPTER.
I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LATENESS OF THIS CHAPTER.
I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LATENESS OF THIS CHAPTER.
I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LATENESS OF THIS CHAPTER.
But yeah, writers block, and family vacations, and general laziness...
AAARGH I AM SO SORRY

Bodil Gets Mad at a Lot of Ponies, But Especially Pinkie

"Why do we have to help out with the party planning?" complained Bodil. "We aren't even from this world!"
Ant frowned. "Because Twilight has been a good friend to us all, and yada yada yada cheesy honorable stuff."
"Great description," commented Jordan.
"Shut up," sighed Ant.
Bodil drowned out the noise of those two arguing by using his magic to hang up some streamers. He concentrated as hard as he could, then levitated them with nothing but the words "lift lift lift" playing in his head.
Surprisingly, it actually worked.
Sky, Ty, and Jason were off shopping for gifts, and went and left the rest behind, much to their contempt and disapproval. Bodil had begged them to bring him along, but they had refused, saying that his talents for building would be better used helping to plan how everything should look. And no, he wanted to leave not because he didn't want to help. He was happy for Twilight and all, and he knew it would be fun to plan the party. No, his problem was much deeper than that.
It was Pinkie Pie.
"Hey, hey, hey! Do you think that the purple balloon should go over the tables or in the very corner?" she exclaimed. "Oh wait! What if Twilight likes pink balloons better than purple? I should have thought of that earlier! But maybe she wants a color in between? Oh, if I don't get the balloons right, the party will be RUINED!"
Bodil frowned. "I don't think that would mess up a party. What would actually mess up a party would be something like another squid invasion, only this time, the squids screaming "HAND OVER THE BIRTHDAY CAKE AND NOBODY GETS HURT!" That would be a catastrophe."
"Easy for you to say, mister! You're doing the streamers!" Pinkie said, frantically trying to tie down the balloons as they started to drift away.
"What makes the streamers less important than the balloons?"
"EVERYTHING!"
"That doesn't really answer my question."
Pinkie just ignored him, running out the door to get some pink balloons.
"Hey, wait! You already have pink ball-"
But she was already gone.
"She's definitely going to waste some money on those. Her loss for not listening."
Ant's head popped out of the doorway.
"Hey Bodil, where should we put the pizza?"
"It doesn't matter where you put the pizza. Besides I'm dealing with more important business right now."
"You mean the streamers?"
"Exactly."
"But aren't balloons more important than streamers?"
"SHUTUP ALREADY!"
"Is there something wrong with balloons?"
Bodil glared at him. "YES, there is something wrong with balloons."
"Ok, then. Oh, by the way, Pinkie Pie's back."
Bodil turned around and sighed. Pinkie had brought home 500 pink balloons and she was hold them all in her mouth.
"How do you do that? Carry all of them at once?"
"Oh, that's easy! I can stretch my mouth reeeaaaallly far out! You wanna see?"
"NO." Bodil said, backing away.
"Fine, suit yourself," Pinkie said, bouncing through the hallway, releasing hundreds of balloons.
Bodil started on the rainbow streamers (requested by Rainbow Dash, of course) and just as he started on the green, he heard another voice.
"HEY BODIL, DO YOU THINK I SHOULD PUT CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC MUSIC IN WITH THE MIX?" Jordan screamed.
"What? Ow, my ears! No, why in the world would you put classical music in?! What do you think this is, a freaking wedding?"
"But if I don't put in classical music in, all the couples at the party will be sad."
"But this is a BIRTHDAY party. Besides, I doubt any couples will be coming."
Jordan raised an eyebrow, glancing between him and Pinkie.
"What are you do- oh no, don't you dare- anyways, NO. CLASSICAL. MUSIC."
"Fine." Jordan looked amused as he went back to his section of the castle.
Bodil rolled his eyes as he continued on hanging up the streamers quickly.
"Hey, what were you talking about?" Pinkie said, hovering in the air, on top of a bunch of balloons.
"Nothing."
"Are you sure it was nothing? 'Cause I think I heard you say something about-"
"NONOTHINGGETOUTOFHEREBYE."
Pinkie shrugged and floated away happily on her balloons.
"HEY BODIL-" Ant started.
"Oh, SHUT UP or something."
"Shut up is not in my vocabulary."
"Do you want a definition?"
"Yes, oh wise one."
"Shut up is something people should say to morons like you."
"I am offended, oh wise one. Also, what flavor should the punch be?"
"You mean the drink, or the thing I'm about to give you?"
Ant quietly scooted away.
"Oh, Bodil-"
"ANT, FOR THE LAST TIME SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF MY-Oh."
Princess Celestia was in front of him with a teasing look on her face.
"Is that how you address one of the great princesses of Equestria?"
"N-no. I was just trying to get my job here done, and that moron-"
"Your job?"
"Hanging up streamers."
"It's not that important, Bodil. Besides, Luna has always told me that the most important part of a party is the balloons."
Bodil faceplanted into the ground.
"Ok, fine. The balloons are more important than the streamers."
"Very good, Bodil. Now you have mastered friendship, or whatever that weird relationship with Pinkie you have is."
And then Princess Celestia was slapped.

Author's Notes:

Haha, not really.
Anyways, this chapter was written by me, MinccinoandEmolga3.
This is because Lionpaw had writers block, and I figured you deserved a chapter, guys.
Also, Lionpaw couldn't get on the internet today, and she was on the phone with me the whole time to make sure I didn't do anything completely crazy.
This chapter, I was the author and SHE was the editor.
;D