My Little Pony: Friendship's End
Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash stand, glaring daggers at each other, in the middle of the front room of the Golden Oaks Library. Spike darts in between them in short bursts, attempting to sweep up a large pile of broken glass and purple-and-black plastic.
"Guys..." Pinkie Pie says tentatively from the corner of the room, her hair flat and her eyes watering. "Please stop..."
"You stay out of this, Pinkie!" Rainbow Dash shouts. "You wouldn't know what's going on!"
"Yeah!" Twilight agrees angrily. "You wanted to quit halfway through, remember?"
"I only wanted to stop because you guys were getting mad at each other..."
"Don't even try reasoning with them." Rarity says, venom in her voice. "They're far too immature to-"
"Shut up, thief!" Twilight screams.
"Well, maybe I wouldn't have had to steal from you two if Rainbow Dash hadn't been such a backstabber!"
"Oh yeah? Well maybe I wouldn't have had to backstab you guys if Twilight could actually read a map!"
"I'm sorry for not knowing where I was going the first time we've been there EVER!"
"You were just running around in circles half the time!"
"That didn't stop me from getting around!"
"You were lucky! That's all! Everything that happened to you was just dumb luck and random chance, while I had to get by on pure, unadulterated skill!"
"Oh, yes." Rarity retorts. "Because changing everything at the last minute sure does require a lot of skill."
"You're one to talk!" Twilight yells. "All you ever did was trace the same route, stopping every now and then to leech off of our hard work!"
"Well excuse me, princess, but I was simply using what I was given to gain an advantage."
"An unfair advantage!"
"Shut up, you ignoramus!" Rainbow Dash yells.
"Oh, wow! Which one of my dictionaries did you pull that one from? You're obviously too dumb to think of it on your own!" Twilight says scathingly.
"Now, now, Twilight." Rarity interrupts. "There's no need to start getting-"
"Rarity, if you even so much as think the word 'petty' I will ram my hoof so far into your gut you won't be able to eat for a week!" Rainbow Dash yells.
"Hey! Don't threaten people like that, you... you polychromatic quisling!" Twilight screams.
"Don't call me things I don't know the meaning of!" Rainbow Dash replies.
"I can't believe you two would-"
"You're such a rude, inconsiderate-"
"Oh yeah, well you're a gigantic-"
The screaming continues, getting louder and higher-pitched as it goes. Applejack slowly walks over to a quietly weeping Fluttershy and puts a hoof on her shoulder.
"Wh-Why did I think this would be a g-good idea?" Fluttershy says, sobbing uncontrollably.
"It was, sugar cube." Applejack says. "We sure had fun, didn't we, Pinkie?"
"I guess it was, while it was still our turn. And I think Spike had fun too." Pinkie says, walking over to them and sighing deeply. "I shouldn't have volunteered to go again. They just targeted me from the get-go."
From a chair near the stairs leading to Twilight's bedroom, Discord continues laughing uproariously.
"Oh, this is simply delicious!" he says, wiping a tear from his larger eye.
"I hate you!"
"I hate you more!"
"I hate both of you!"
"We both hate you!"
"I never want to see either of you around here ever again!"
"Me neither!"
"Same here!"
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"Get out!"
"No, you get out!"
"This is my house, and you will get out of here before I blast you two to Canterlot and back!"
"Fine!" Rainbow Dash flies through one of the windows, shattering it and streaking off into the clear blue sky. Rarity fires up her horn, and, in a flash of white light, disappears. Twilight herself folds her wings up and storms up the stairs, slamming the door to her room. There is a long silence, interrupted only by the sound of Spike's broom on the wooden floor. Applejack turns and glares at Discord, who raises his mismatched arms defensively.
"What's with the dirty looks?"
"Y'all knew this'd happen, didn't ya?"
"Well, there's always a small chance of something like this happening, but I never thought it'd happen to this extent."
Applejack sighs in resignation and turns to Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie.
"Cmon, Pinkie. Let's get her home."
"All right." Pinkie Pie says, helping her friend support Fluttershy as they slowly leave the library.
"Don't worry." Spike says. "I know Twilight, and she'll calm down after a while; just give her time. Everything's gonna be all right in the end, you'll see."
"Thanks, Spike." Pinkie Pie says, her hair poofing back up again. Applejack turns to the still-giggling draconequus.
"It might help make up fer what you've done if ya helped Spike clean things up."
"Oh, all right." Discord says, waving his hand lazily. The broken glass and plastic come back together to form a small television, a Nintendo Gamecube, and four controllers. With a snap of the fingers, they disappear, and Discord walks out of the library after the three ponies, still chuckling.
"Oh, man. I haven't had that much fun with a game of Mario Party since Tirek and I used to hang out..."
