WAT - The Many Adventures of Team Crafted in Equestria

        "Pay attention to me pay attention to me pay attention to me pay attention to me why aren't you paying attention to me pay attention to me PAY ATTENTION TO ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME YOU IDIOTS," Sky said, poking Jason repeatedly. Jason just sat, scowling, as Sky annoyed the heck out of him.

        The others were standing a little ways away, arguing about something pointless that nobody really cared about. Discord was floating next to Jason, mimicking his expression. "I just wanna go home..." Jason moaned. Discord smirked. "Well, why didn't you say so?" he said. He knew that Quentin had been un-Discorded, and he knew that Quentin had gone after Twilight, but they wouldn't be able to fix everything 100% if one of them was missing...

        A few seconds later, Jason was flying away from the maze. Mitch cowered behind Sky. "S-S-S-Sky?" he stammered meekly. "NO COWARDLY HUMAN NO GO AWAY AND PAY ATTENTION TO ME FROM FIFTEEN THOUSAND FEET AWAY," Sky said. Mitch yelped softly and crept away, going to sit in another corner of the maze. He lay down and buried his face in his hooves, weeping silently.

        "DISCORD!" Discord looked up, one eyebrow raised. "Oh, hello, Enderlox," he said, somewhat surprised. "No. Not Enderlox," Ty said, hovering a little bit above the ground. "Not anymore. My name is Ty." Discord frowned and snapped his fingers. Ty blinked and landed, folding his wings neatly onto his back. He cocked his head slightly, eyes still dark crimson and round-pupiled. "What, why didn't that work...?" Discord murmured to himself, snapping his fingers again. Ty glanced around a bit, then looked back at Discord. Discord kept snapping, until he finally gave up and started looking a little afraid.

        Quentin and Twilight stepped out from behind a wall. Mitch looked up slightly, and his eyes widened when he saw Ty and his dragon features. He squeaked and ducked behind his hooves, shivering. Ty noticed Mitch, looking over Discord's shoulder, and his gaze instantly softened. "Mitch?" he asked gently. Mitch cried out and pressed himself even deeper into the safety of his hooves. Ty walked slowly over to Mitch's side and put a hoof on his shoulder. Ty felt Mitch's muscles tense up as he froze, perfectly still, not daring to breathe. "Mitch, buddy? Biggums?" Ty said. Mitch peered up from his hooves ever so slightly, then flinched and went back to hiding.

        "Mitch, it's me, Ty," Ty said, crouching down to get on eye level with his friend. It pained him to see Mitch cowering from him. He would get Discord for this, he would make the draconiquus pay for what he had done. "T-T-Ty? N-no, T-Ty's not...a dr-dr-dr-dragon..." Mitch whimpered. Ty still had a hoof on Mitch's shoulder. He patted Mitch gently, calming him down like he always had back in Minecraft if Betty had broken or something like that.

        Mitch seemed to relax a little, not as tense as before. He glanced up at Ty again, and held his gaze for longer. "H-how would you kn-know to d-d-do that? O-only my friends would know..." His eyes widened, and color started to seep back into Mitch's gray coat. "Ty?" he said, voice stronger than before. "Yes, Mitch?" Ty asked hopefully. Mitch was now nearly entirely colored. "Is it really you?" he whispered. Ty nodded slightly. Now the last spot of gray had vanished. Mitch bolted onto his hooves, spreading his wings proudly. He reared up on his hind legs, and neighed, going back on all fours. "Whooo, yeah, baby, I am BACK!" he cried. Then he folded his wings and looked at Ty, who was smiling. "Ty? How are you...I thought...what?" Mitch stammered. Ty shook his head, then looked at Quentin and Twi. Twilight was gaping, looking from Ty to Mitch an back again. "I...I...I...you didn't even use MAGIC...how did...HUH?!" she said.

Ty raised an eyebrow, looking at Twilight. "What are you talking about?" he asked. "Last time Discord was here, he Discorded my friends and I had to use a memory spell to bring them back," Twilight explained. Ty shrugged. Twilight wished he would just stop looking at her; his eyes were unnaturally red and it was kind of creeping her out. "So just do that spell and we can move on," Ty said. Discord was just watching them, frozen. Enderlox had just un-Discorded one of the stallions--without magic, even! Twilight looked around at the remaining Discorded stallions: Sky, Bodil, Jerome, Seto, and Kule. Her horn began to glow purple, and she moved her head to indicate to Ty that she wanted to try it on Sky first. Ty nodded and darted forward, a blur. He barreled into Sky and pinned him down. Sky squirmed and tried to wriggle free, but Ty was holding him down firmly. "Lemme go!" Sky said.

Twilight stepped forward and concentrated. The magic aura by her horn intensified, and Sky's eyes widened. There was a burst of purple light, and all of them squeezed their eyes shut because it was so bright.

Ty opened his eyes slowly, and looked down. Sky was still gray as ever, looking up at Ty with a confused and very, very annoyed expression. "Get off me before I kick you off," he said evenly. Ty stepped off of Sky and Sky got up quickly, shaking himself off. Sky shot Ty a glare of pure venom and turned back to the others. Jerome had Bodil pinned down and was trying to shove dirt into his mouth. "EAT THE DIRT, CACTUS," he said. "EAT IT!!!!!" Sky leaped on top of Jerome, pinning him down on top of Bodil. "YOU AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO ME," he shouted. "BOATDILL FORT TREE, EAT THE FRIGGIN' DIRT!" Sky shoved Jerome's hoof into Bodil's mouth, and Bodil stood up, throwing the two others off. He was spitting the dirt out, shaking his head. "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW," he cried, wiping his tongue. "GET IT OFF!"

Jerome was lying on his back laughing, and Sky was just complaining that none of them were paying attention to him. Ty stepped back and hung his head, sitting down sadly. "The spell didn't work," he said. "They're stuck that way, aren't they, Twilight?" Twilight walked over to him and put a hoof on his shoulder. She had to reach up a bit since he was so tall. "I think...I think it didn't work because I don't have any memories," she said. Ty looked at her. "W...what do you mean?" he asked. Twilight noticed that Ty was crying and desperately wished she could do something. "I mean, I don't have any memories of being with your friends. It's a memory spell, Ty, not a cure-all spell. I need memories, good memories, of them, and I don't have any...well, enough, at least. But you do. You have lots of good memories of being with your friends!"

Twilight was getting excited. "And you're a Unicorn. You can cast the spell!" she said. Ty looked pale, if that was even possible with his white coat. He backed away a few steps, shaking his head. "No, no, no, no, no, I can't--I couldn't--" he said. "Why not?" Twilight asked. "You know what I am. I'm not a Unicorn, not really...I'm a human, and I don't know magic that well, and I can't--I can't..." Ty's eyes were filling with tears and his voice was breaking. The sheer hopelessness of the situation was overwhelming him, and he just couldn't take it anymore.

Twilight frowned delicately and patted Ty's shoulder reassuringly. "I just...I just feel so...useless. I feel useless. I can't do anything," Ty said softly. "What do you mean?" Twilight asked. Quentin and Mitch watched silently from a little ways away, looking at the others now and then. Discord watched all of them from high up on a cloud, feeling dread, anger, and...fear?...burn through him. He would let Ty speak, for the sake of the story, then he would take action. And then it clicked: Twilight didn't have her friends with her at the moment, but she could get them. The Elements of Harmony would follow suit, and he'd be banished to his stone prison once more. No, no, that couldn't happen. Discord would hide the Elements again, and he would not give them hints, nor would he hide them so they could be easily found. He silently vanished, going on his personal quest.

Back on the ground, Ty was crying quietly. He sat, hunched over a little, shoulders drawn up to his jawline, shaking slightly with his rasping breaths and sobs. He sniffed, wiping his nose with a hoof, then heaved a shaky breath and spoke. "I...I was only a kid when I saw Sky for the first time..." he began. Twilight sat next to him, head cocked slightly, listening. "He...he was just in my village for a while, because he had heard of a new map Bodil made...he came from my village, you know, and he was very good friends with Sky. Sky was famous, anyway, ever since he was, like, ten. And...I looked up to him. I still do." Ty looked over at Discorded Sky, who was pawing the ground with a hoof and looked like a bull ready to charge, looking at Jerome. "FIGHT ME, SQUID BOY!" Jerome yelled. "SHUT UP, JERKOME," Sky cried.

Twilight frowned again, then Ty looked down at his hooves, still crying. "Even now, I know that he's in there, somewhere. But...anyway..." Ty said, then paused to take another shaky breath and continued. "Anyway, he came to my village. And I couldn't believe it...he was here. SkyDoesMinecraft was at my village, and he was...he was walking by my house! I couldn't believe it...couldn't believe..." Ty trailed off a little. Twilight remembered that was how she'd felt about Princess Celestia when she was just a little filly in Canterlot. She'd thought Celestia was the most wonderful, amazing, spectacular, fantastic pony ever. In the world. Celestia had inspired her to learn magic, hard magic, and had inspired her to do so many things. Without her, Twilight would never have met her friends, and her life would be so different than it was now. She related to Ty, and she pitied him.

"So...I introduced myself to him, and...he...he, he, um..." Ty sniffed again, having started talking once more. "He...sort of...though that I had a lot of potential. I was young, but I was an orphan, and I...well...Sky pretty much adopted me as his brother. He just...I don't know what he saw in me, but whatever it was changed my life," he said. Twilight was still listening. Mitch and Quentin had sat down. They'd never heard this before...

"I...I always felt sort of useless, actually," Ty said slowly. "I always felt like I was in Sky's shadow, but I...don't think he meant for that to be the case...he always treated me like I was made of budder or something." Ty allowed for a soft, sad chuckle, then  continued his tale. "And...I just felt like I had to do something to prove myself to him. To all of my friends, actually. I mean...Seto is magical. He's a sorcerer. Quentin is a freaking fish"--"Amphibian," Quentin corrected--"Jason is from somewhere....I don't even know, he's just from another planet, WHICH IS AMAZING, all of my friends are just so special in their own ways, and I'm just...not. I'm just a guy with headphones who's got a bunch of famous people for friends." Ty hung his head and closed his eyes. "I'm the normal one. I'm not special at all, I'm just plain. I'm pathetic."

Twilight shook her head slowly and took Ty's chin in her hoof, turning his head to look at her. He opened his eyes, his expression one of utter defeat and sorrow. It ripped Twilight's heart in half, then gave it to a puppy as a chew toy, threw it in some gravel and ran it over with a semi-truck. She sighed, and put her hoof down. Ty was still gazing at her sadly. "You're not pathetic, and you're not plain," Twilight said. "You're anything but that. I haven't known you for long, but...I know you're not ordinary. You're special, in every respect. You're funny, you're caring, you're kind (most of the time), you're incredibly loyal and determined, and you're...you're just...you're so, so unique and special. You're not ordinary at all, Ty. Don't forget that, ever," she said. Twilight smiled, and Ty smiled a little, too. "Now are you ready to learn that spell?" Twilight asked.

Ty hesitated, then nodded slowly. "Yeah," he said. "I think I am."

*****

Ty made sure his footing was secure. He bit his lip, then closed his eyes. His long, thin horn began to glow purple, gaining brightness gradually until it was so bright it looked white. Sky and the others had stopped everything and were looking at the light emanating from Ty's horn with wide eyes. "Uh..." Sky said slowly. Then there was a bright flash and a crack! A beam of light shot at Sky. He started to yell, but was cut off as the light hit him. It didn't hurt him at all and didn't even make him move. It just...went into him.

Sky looked down at his chest where the light had hit. He had one eyebrow raised. Ty's heart skidded in his chest. He prayed to Notch; heck, he prayed to Celestia; that it worked. "Sky," Ty whispered. Sky's coat had regained it's bright, sunburst-yellow color. He spread his wings and shook his head, still wide-eyed. "I just had the weirdest dream, I was acting like a squid and...oh," he said, glancing around and blinking a few times. Then he facehoofed and grimaced. "I was acting like a squid, wasn't I?" he asked. "Yup," Ty said. He was grinning like a madman. Sky was back! The spell worked!

Now to cure the others.