17th Spell: [Video/Action for Ponies] (Forward dated to Saturday morning)

[friendyousohard]

[The gear clicks on in the middle of a room in the Pokemon Center. Someone's clearly using it, since the sheets are rumpled and the monitoring gear seems to have seen recent use, but no one's in the bed at the moment.

There's a splashing sound nearby, muffled by a door. The gear is moving very, very slowly towards that door.]

Mmmmmmffff... huh?

[Someone appears to have just woken up behind said door, as well.]

A-AJ...?

Um... h-hey there, Sugarcube. You sure had one crazy sleep, didn't ya?

I did...? Where am I? What's going on...?

[The gear is about halfway to the door at this point.]

You passed out on us right 'bout the time we got into Celadon. We were all real worried about you.

Passed out...? The comas!

[Twilight's voice suddenly gets much stronger and there's the sound of a sudden splash, as though she's just moving around in a pool of water.]

I had one! I went back home! Well... sort of. You know what I mean, right?

I... think so?

I saw so much... My brother, and Cadence, the Crystal Empire, even Discord, there's so much to... Um, AJ?

Discord? What in tarnation's he doin' back? We sealed him up for good!

I'll explain that in a moment, but first... what were you doing just before I woke up?

... Givin' you a bath.

[The gear has almost reached the door, when suddenly a large yellow foot slams down in front of it. It wobbles and falls to the ground, showing an Alakazam glaring down at a Slowpoke, which was carrying the gear.]

And what do you think you're doing?

[The gear floats up into Starswirl's hand...]

Apologies to any who saw this and wanted to speak to my trainer. She is currently occupied, but will be with you shortly.

[And clicks off.]

A few moments later...

[The gear clicks on to show a wet haired and slightly bedraggled Twilight.]

Ah, hello everyone. It seems I've encountered one of those week-long sleeps that we go into on occasion, and gotten some new memories of home. Honestly, it feels a bit strange to be back here... but I'll adjust soon enough. If anything important has happened in the past week, I'd appreciate it if somepo- someone could let me know.

... Also, if anyone has any ideas as to how to curb the tendencies of some Pokemon to abscond with peoples' gear and pull, or try to pull, obnoxious pranks on their trainers and others, I'd love to hear them.

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[bestofthebest]

(Cue waiting impatiently until Applejack's finished bathing Twilight. And she offers a wide grin upon seeing Twilight up and around.)

Ha, about time you woke up Twilight!

[friendyousohard]

And that makes three. Hello, Rainbow. How'd the other two beat you?

[A little teasing grin about that.]

[bestofthebest]

Heh, you know me: when I get started on something, I don't stop!

(If the 'something' involves either training or sleeping, that is.)

Besides, I knew Applejack and Fluttershy had it under control.

[friendyousohard]

Fair enough. Anything big happen during the week I was out?

[bestofthebest]

...Ha, I found out I shouldn't try to leap over snowball towers before I'm ready. What happened while you were out anyway?

[friendyousohard]

Snowball towers...? Well, I went through the Wedding, the Crystal Empire, and a few more adventures after that, the last one of which I still can't really believe happened.

[bestofthebest]

...Was it bigger than Pinkie and all her duplicates? And her triplicates? And her quadruplicates?

(That's pretty much the last adventure Rainbow can currently recall up to being brought back to Johto.)

[friendyousohard]

Discord reformed.

[So... yes. Much bigger. And far more difficult to believe.]

[bestofthebest]

(See that expression on Dash's face?

Total. Disbelief.)

...You're kidding!? How the hay did that happen?

[friendyousohard]

Well... as odd as it is to say given what he did, it turns out, he just needed a friend. Fluttershy took him in after we released him on Princess Celestia's order, and she managed to get him to actually care about her and her opinion of him, and when he realized that she'd never consider him a friend if he kept doing horrible things... well, he realized he had no choice but to stop.

[bestofthebest]

Hahaha, that sounds like Fluttershy alright! Still...Discord reformed? Never thought that would happen.

[friendyousohard]

You're not the only one. Until it happened, he was kind of my benchmark for pure, unrepentant evil.

... Guess I'll have to replace him with the Changeling Queen and Sombra.

[bestofthebest]

Haha, yeah! Now I can't get him back for tricking me by giving me my wings back in the labyrinth.

So, what other awesome adventures happened back in Ponyville?

[friendyousohard]

Well let's see... the last thing you remember was the Pinkies, right? After that, there was Apple Bloom's cousin Babs Seed coming to Ponyville, which I didn't know much about until after it had all happened, you'd have to ask AJ for more on that. Oh, and then about a week later, Trixie came back to Ponyville!

[bestofthebest]

...Trixie came back? That wannabe who thought she was better than you? How'd you beat her flank this time around? Details!

[friendyousohard]

Well, she'd found the Alicorn Amulet, an ancient relic of great and terrible power that strengthened her magic to absurd levels. She managed to overcome me with it and forced me out of Ponyville, after which she took over the town. She was being corrupted by the Amulet to become not only stronger, but also genuinely evil, and there didn't seem to be much we could do to stop her.

But I made my way to Zecora's, and she showed me some new tricks I could use to take her on. I eventually tricked her into thinking I'd found a powerful amulet of my own, and she took off the Amulet and stole mine. But mine was a fake. Just one of Zecora's doorstops.

[bestofthebest]

...Hahahahahahaha~!

One of Zecora's doorstops? Genius!

[friendyousohard]

And once the Amulet was out of her hooves, taking her down was no problem at all. She was pretty shocked at how far she'd gone under its influence, and actually rather apologetic for the mess she'd caused.

[bestofthebest]

Discord reforming, Trixie apologizing...lots of weird stuff's happened back home, hasn't it?

[friendyousohard]

No kidding. I'm almost worried to find out what happens next.

[bestofthebest]

Are you kidding? I can't wait to find out what happens next! If you went through weird stuff like that, what I go through must be awesome!

[friendyousohard]

Oh, you already went to the Wonderbolts Academy. I don't think things can get much more exciting than that for you.

[Yes, she deliberately held this info back just for Rainbow's reaction.]

[bestofthebest]

...! The Wonderbolts Academy?! Really? You mean I made it in?

(She's totally squeeing with excitement, jumping up and doen a few times at the news.)

[friendyousohard]

I thought you'd be pleased. Yep, you made it in, even got praise from Spitfire herself.

[She's stroking Rainbow's ego and she knows it, but she can't help it. She's so adorable jumping around and squeeing like this.]

[bestofthebest]

(Cue huge gasp.) From Spitfire? That is. So. AWESOME~!

(Yeah, she'll be like this a little longer, adding repeated chants of 'OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG~!' after her squeeing.)