The Vengeance Trilogy: Needed

POV: Twilight Sparkle

Chapter 3

“Spelled”

“Umm, my name is Sticks. You said something about teleportation?”

Twilight looked at the odd stallion standing before her. He was taller than she, with a light brown coat and a dark brown mane. His eyes were green… She shook herself.

“Y-yes I did,” she spoke. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, and you shouldn’t be here!” Twilight groaned inwardly as soon as she spoke. Why am I so flustered today? Must be all the magic. Sticks raised one eyebrow. Well, I already messed this up. May as well go on.

“My friends and I found a magical item when we were in an ancient castle yesterday,” she blurted. She took a deep breath and continued. “We brought it back here to the library so I could study it. After a long examination, I determined that the aura emanating from the capsule was an Omnisearch Teleportation Retreiver spell, or OTR for short. The spell was linked to several nearby nodes and ley-lines that provide it with tremendous magical power. The whole spell web was linked to the button on the top of the box. I told everypony not to touch it, but not everypony is a good listener.” She glared at Pinkie Pie who just kept bouncing.

“What? You meant that button? Oooh, that makes a lot more sense. I thought you meant to not touch the button next to the door, but that’s a doorbell! I thought it’d be silly to not press the doorbell and was going to say something, but Ditzy Doo had an extra muffin and shared it with me, so I was very distracted.” The pink party pony hadn’t taken a breath through that whole disjointed statement and now was bouncing faster than ever.

Sticks looked warily at the bouncing mare and asked Twilight, “Is something wrong with her? She seems a bit-”

“Crazy?” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “Bonkers? Nuts? Loco in the coco? That’s because she is. New ponies always react to her like that.”

Did she just say-

Pinky suddenly stopped jumping. Her insane grin returned to her face as she gasped. So much air went into her lungs that Twilight was surprised that she hadn’t floated all the way to the ceiling.

“Oh my gosh, there are six new ponies in town AND I HAVEN’T PLANNED A PARTY YET!” Pinkie shrieked and bolted out the door of the library. All the ponies in the force bubble stopped fighting/laughing/crying to watch the pink blur make her exit.

Twilight sighed. “You had to say it Rainbow…”

“What? She would have figured it out eventually,” the pegasus shrugged.

The trapped ponies resumed their ridiculous actions.

Sticks moved uncomfortably on his hooves. “But how did we get here? You said something about a castle, a box, and a bunch of stuff about... something I didn't understand. And magic? So your friend pushed a button and we appeared here?”

Twilight cleared her throat. “Yes, once Pinkie pressed the button, the OTR spell activated, triggering a massive magical drain from local node reservoirs. From what I could ascertain, the capsule was created to cast a single inter-” Twilight was just hitting her stride when the library door opened again. Two ponies entered the semi-destroyed library.

“Twiligh’, we came as fas’ as we could! We ‘eard a big explosion while we were at t’farm and saw smoke in town! Wha’ in tarnations happened?” Applejack’s hat was askew, and she seemed slightly out of breath.

“Yes, darling, you really must warn a pony before you go around blowing up libraries and such. Some of us are rather delicate, and you gave us quite a fright!” Rarity tossed her perfect mane back as she viewed the library’s floor. “And really, you MUST invite me next time you decide redecorate. This new décor is simply horrid!”

“Yeah Twiligh’, wha’ happened? Why is everything all… rubbley?” Applejacks eyes moved along the floor until she saw the six ponies trapped in the transparent purple force shield. “Aww, Twiligh’, wha’ dja do this time? Why’d you trap those poor ponies in there?”

Rarity followed Applejacks gaze and saw the ponies in the bubble as well. Her jaw fell downward. “Why Twilight, did you honestly think you could trap these beautiful stallions in here and keep them all to yourself and Rainbow Dash? Really that is quite cruel of you. There truly aren’t enough stallions to go around.” She batted her eyelids at the ponies inside the magic dome.

The green pony Did she already say her name? turned to Rarity with foam at the corners of her mouth. “DO. I. LOOK. LIKE. A. STALLION. TO. YOU?!?!” she screamed. “If I have to be a horse, at least use the proper term! I am a mare! A mare I tell you! MAAAARE!”

By this time, Rarity was hiding behind Applejack, quivering in fear. “Twilight, I think you are quite right to lock them up. Please do not let that one out.” She grinned sheepishly at Twilight. “Wherever did these ruffians come from anyways?”

Sticks looked at Rarity, obviously exasperated. “That’s what we’re trying to find out. So, magic button gets pressed, we appear here, and we’re now horses? I don’t get it. It sounds like the plot of a bad novel or something.”

Twilight felt her cheeks redden slightly at the mention of novels coming from the other pony’s mouth. She always did like stallions who read... Stop it! Seriously, what is wrong with you?

“Wait, did you just say that the spell made you horses? What do you mean by that?”

Sticks cocked his head as he looked at her. “After we came here, we became horses. Before that we were humans. What would cause that?”

Twilight stared at Sticks for a moment. Humans. Why have I never come across that term before?

“What’s a human?” Rainbow Dash inquired. “Maybe we should ask Fluttershy. She seems to know about every kind of weird animals ever. It’s kinda freaky, actually.” Rarity nodded her head in agreement.

“Um, humans aren’t animals.” Sticks seemed rather affronted by this. He then looked over his shoulder at his companions and their varying stages of insanity. “Well, we usually aren’t.”

Twilight gazed at the other ponies. “Well, I may not have any idea where you came from or why, but an emotional shift spell is something I CAN deal with.” With that, the unicorn turned to the enchanted ponies. As she concentrated on manipulating the ley-lines around her, her horn began to glow a bright purple. She could feel the shift spell surrounding all the ponies except Sticks. It is odd he wasn’t affected… hmm… As she focused her energy on the webs, she could feel them unraveling. For an eternity that lasted a second, she fought with the spell, her power attacking the ancient magic. Then the webs were simply gone.

Twilight fell to the ground, flanks heaving. Fighting a node spell while holding a shield spell up was just too much to handle. The shield collapsed, and all the ponies stopped their hysteria.

All except for the Red horse who continued laughing. “Hey Gwen, I just realized why you’re being so violent. It’s because you’re horny! Bwahahaha!”

Sticks hung his head, Gwen groaned, and Twilight rolled her eyes. It’s gonna be a long day…