When Discord Ends His Reign

"Come on Twister!"

Time Twister's ears perked. She turned her head to see a scruffy brown pegasus yelling her name. He brushed the soft, ruffled red tuft he called a mane down onto head once more. His small wings flittered in the breeze before folding back onto his back.

"Oh, sorry, be right there!" Twister grimaced. She hated going out at recess, she knew she was different. She was 4 years younger than the others. Her advanced IQ had her placed ahead of her class, and even now she knew most of the material. No teacher or doctor ever knew why her IQ was so high. It just was. She glanced down at her bare flank and sighed. She was sure her book smarts would be her talent, but no matter how hard she tried, the small area remained blank.

Time Twister perked back to life, "Twister! Come on! I can't play by myself!" Sky waved his small hoof to motion her over.

"Oh! Sorry, be right there!" She spied over the sea of giggling foals to see her destination. This time... I can do it this time... She flapped her small wings in the wind, imagining the way the air would feel on her back. This time, I WILL fly! She jetted forward, her wings fluttering in the wind. Her red and gray striped mane flew back, as her ice blue eyes stung in the cold wind. She leapt to the air, barely scrapping the ground below with her yellow hoof. I'm, I'm doing it! I'm flying! Twister opened her eyes, to see the ground quickly approaching. Oh, no... Not again... She pulled her head up and forward, desperately trying to pull up or soften the landing. She preformed a full air flip as her extended right wing slammed against the grassy field.

"Twister! Are you okay?" Sky landed in front of her, starring her strait in the face. He held out his hoof to lift her up. As she stumbled to her hooves, Sky High saw the severity of her crash. "Twister, I think you need to see the nurse, I don't think wings are supposed to look like that..." Twister looked down at her wing. It was indeed mangled and out of place, the yellow feathers were bent and ruffled, packed with dirt. She tried to move her wing, but only a grimace escaped her face. He looked closer into her pale blue eyes, reduced to pin-pricks due to shock. "Twister, your eyes." Twister looked up from her mangled wing to see two of her best friend.

"Oh, sorry..." She focused on him, and her eyes aligned once again.

"Are, are you okay? I don't think that's normal..." Sky looked at her again, a look of concern covered his face.

"Yah, it's-it's fine. It's genetic is all. Happens when I don't focus..." Twister rubbed her forehead, a sharp pain ran through her body. "Or when I hit my head, I guess..." She brushed down her mane, tangled and dirty from the crash. "Come on, let's go play, I'll be fine."

"No, Twister, you're not okay. We need to go, please. I know you hate to admit you failed to fly again, but you need some help. And I bet, one day, you'll be the best flier ever, and you'll look back on this and laugh. Come on, let's go." Sky grabbed her hoof and helped her down the path toward the office.

As they slowly walked down the path, a purple flash jetted to their front. As the flash disappeared, a purple unicorn stepped forward and chuckled.

"Oh, the blank flank nerd pegasus who can't fly. I don't even know why you try. There's just too many things to say about you!" Twister's eyes filled with tears as she hobbled behind Sky.

"Just stop Star! It's not funny! She's had enough for today!" Sky's wings flared to shield the heavily crying Time Twister from the purple and pink unicorn filly.

"What are you? Her coltfriend or something?" Twister shrunk down closer to the pavement, blushing heavily, her mangled wing touching the hard ground. A small yelp escaped her mouth. "Oh, I see. The little nerd failed to fly. Again." She chuckled once more as Twister's eyes filled with tears again.

"You know what Star? Forget it, I'm done with this. Come on Twister, let's go." Sky folded his wings back down, and turned to Time Twister, who was at the moment very interested in some gold powder floating in the wind. "What is that?" Sky stared and the small gold ribbon twisting and folding around Twister in the wind. It spun once more before deciding to circle her mangled wing.

"I have no clue. It just showed up out of nowhere." Twister said as she continued to follow the ribbon with her pale blue eyes. The powder seemed to grow in size as it engulfed Time Twister's wing. The powder dissipated into the wind as it released her yellow wing. Once it was visible again it was fully clear what had happened. Her wing was fully healed, the dirt and grass that had been stuck between the ruffled feathers were no where to be seen, and her wing was fully groomed, perfect in every aspect.

"Wh-what?" Star stuttered as she stared at the yellow filly.

"Twister! Your flank!" When Time Twister looked down at her flank, a large hourglass with a small gold ribbon adorned the once bare space.

"My cutie mark!" Her eyes widened and her wings fluttered and she jumped around and tackled Sky. "Yah! Best. Day. EVER!"

"Guess we don't need the nurse now, right?" Sky High smiled at his best friend.

"Yep! Let's go play!" Twister jumped off of her friend and hopped toward the large wall ball court.

"Yah! I'll let you serve today!" Sky flapped his wings and jetted toward Twister, leaving a very flustered purple unicorn alone.

"What. Just. Happened?" The flustered unicorn sat down briefly before walking back to her friends, leaving what she just witnessed to drift away in her memory.