Lightning and Firefist (Script)

  *Golden Oaks Library*

  Twilight Sparkle: Oh! Hurry up, Spike! This place isn't gonna clean itself.

  Spike: (Cleaning) It also didn't mess itself up.

  Twilight Sparkle: Princess Celestia will be here tomorrow!

  Spike: I thought this was just an unofficial casual visit.

  Twilight Sparkle: There's nothing casual about a visit from royalty. I want this place to be spotless, and you've barely made a dent in the clutter.

  Lightning Strike: You seem busy, Twilight. Stealth and I can just go.

  Twilight Sparkle: No, guys! I need your help to prepare for Princess Celestia's visit!

  Stealth Firefist: So? The Princess has seen me and doesn't mind me if I'm spotless. Just clean.

  Spike: You know, this would be an awful lot easier if there weren't four of us here getting under each other's feet.

  Twilight Sparkle: Great idea! You clean, We'll go see how everyone else's preparations are coming.

  Lightning Strike: Right behind you Twilight.

  Spike: Or maybe I should... ( the group leaves Spike by himself, and he groans)

  (Group checks in all decorations come toward the Cakes' shop)

  Lightning Strike: How are the treats coming Mr. and Mrs. Cake?

  Mrs. Cake: Uh...it would be coming a little better if...

  Pinkie Pie: (eats sweat treats) Mmm... (slurp)

  Twilight Sparkle: Pinkie! What are you doing? Those sweets are supposed to be for the princess.

  Pinkie Pie: I know. That's why I'm tasting them. Somepony needs to make sure that everything is tasty enough to touch the royal tongue, and I, Pinkie Pie, declare that these treats are fit for a king, or a queen, or a princess.

  Lightning Strike: You do realize you have to make the sweets all over again right?

  Pinkie Pie: Yeah! That means more taste testing! (Lightning, Twilight, and Stealth roll their eyes)

  Fluttershy: (Comes into the shop) Twilight, Lightning, Stealth, Pinkie...oh, I'm sorry. Uh, am I interrupting?

  Pinkie Pie: No, not at all. Come on in and make yourself at home. (slurp) What's going on, Fluttershy?

  Fluttershy: You won't believe what I found at the edge of the Everfree Forest. Come on out, little guy. It's okay.

  Parasprite: (purr) (chirp)

  Fluttershy: (gasp) Three?

  Twilight Sparkle: They're amazing. What are they?

  Stealth Firefist: Parasprites?! Ugh! Seriously?! Out of all the animals, why did you have to bring this one? I would have been totally fine with a manticore!

  Fluttershy: So that's what they are. I don't know where the other came from.

  Twilight Sparkle: I'll take one off your hooves. I've never seen anything so... adorable.

  Lightning Strike: You do realize we're right here right?

  Twilight Sparkle: (Blushes) Oops. Besides, it'll be nice to have a companion for Spike so he won't bother me so much while I'm studying.

  Fluttershy: Pinkie, do you want the other one?

  Pinkie Pie:  Pinkie Pie: UGH! A parasprite? Are you kidding?

  Fluttershy: How could you not like...

  Pinkie Pie: Ugh. Now I gotta go find a trombone.

  Stealth Firefist: Right behind you Pinkie.

  Twilight Sparkle: A what?

  Pinkie Pie: A trombone, you know: (trombone imitation)

  (Stealth and Pinkie leave)

  Twilight Sparkle: Ahhh, typical Pinkie and Stealth.

  *Clothing Boutique*

  Rarity: Stand still, Rainbow Dash.

  Rainbow Dash: Ugh, I caaan't, I need to flyyy! This is waaay too boring for me.

  Rarity: Do you want to look nice for Princess Celestia or not?

  Twilight Sparkle: Wow. Rarity, those outfits are gorgeous.

  Rarity: Mmhmm. Thank you, Twilight. Nice to know someone appreciates my talents.

  Rainbow Dash: Ugh, sooo boooring.

  Parasprites: (chirp)

  Rarity: Huh?

  Rainbow Dash: What's that sound, Twilight and Lightning?

  Parasprite: (several chirps)

  Rainbow Dash: Wow, what are they?

  Lightning Strike: Parasprites.

  Twilight Sparkle: And the question is, where did they come from? I had just one a minute ago.

  Rainbow Dash: Uh, I'll take one.

  Rarity: Me too, oh, they're perfect.

  Lightning Strike: I'm not so sure girls if we should keep them. For starters, Stealth and Pinkie seemed upset that there were parasprites in town, Second, Twilight, isn't it a little off that you had one parasprite ago and now there are three?

  Twilight Sparkle: Maybe the same thing happened: some crawled in my mane and I didn't notice.

  Pinkie Pie: (Comes in with Stealth) Does anypony know where we can find an accordion?

  Rainbow Dash: (baby noises)

  Stealth Firefist: Girls! Hello! This is important. (Sighs) Never mind.

  *The Next Day*

  Stealth Firefist: Those things are menace Lightning! We need get rid of them before we have a problem on our hands and hooves.

  Lightning Strike: We can't just jump to conclusions Stealth. We don't if they're actually- (Scream) Uh-oh that sounded like Fluttershy. (Runs over to cottage) Fluttershy are you okay? We you screaming and-

  Lightning and Stealth: Oh Fireballs! (Sees parasprites are swarming in the cottage)

  Fluttershy: Oh, please. Come back here. Please stay.

  Stealth Firefist: Now do you believe me that they're a giant problem?

  Lightning Strike: Yes. Fluttershy, what happened? I thought you had three yesterday!

  Fluttershy: When I woke up, there was just a bunch of them!

  Stealth Firefist: Don't worry guys! I know what to do at a time like this! Hey, Pinkie! (Runs off)

  Lightning Strike: (Sighs) Not what I had in mind.

  (Twilight, Rainbow, and Rarity rush in the house)

  Twilight Sparkle: Ugh, do something Fluttershy, can't you control them?

  Fluttershy: I've tried everything I know: I've tried begging, and pleading, and beseeching, and asking politely and...

  Rainbow Dash: (Groans)

  (Group runs outside)

  Lightning Strike: This is bad. If they overpopulate the entire town will be renamed Parasprite City! (Girls give unamused looks) See what I did there? I took the name of- Never mind. You don't care.

  Twilight Sparkle: What's worse, is that if the princess sees this, it'll be total disaster!

  Rarity: (Sees parasprite cough out a mud ball, forming into a new parasprite) Ew! If you ask me that's a total disaster!

  Applejack: (Coming towards cottage)  Here are the apples Fluttershy! I don't know why you need them. (Parasprites attack the cart) Hey!

  Fluttershy: What do we do?

  Lightning Strike: You know, if Stealth was here, he'd probably say something like, "Maybe if we find a giant mutant frog to eat all the parasprites, or have Applejack herd and drop a giant metal cage box on them all!"

  Twilight Sparkle: Lightning, That's a great idea!

  Lightning Strike: Finding a giant mutant frog? I don't think those exist.

  Twilight Sparkle: No, I mean having Applejack herd.

  Lightning Strike: Well, we are we going to find a giant metal cage box at this time?

  Rainbow Dash: She means drive them back into the forest.

  Applejack: I'll rastle 'em up, but I need everypony's help to do it. Twilight, you and Rarity wait over there. I'll herd the little critters straight at ya like a funnel. Rainbow Dash, you, Fluttershy, and Lightning, stay on top of 'em, don't let 'em fly away.

  Rainbow Dash: Aye aye!

  Lightning Strike: Got it!

  (Ponies get into positions and herd them)

  Applejack: Alright y'all, here goes nothin'. Look out Rarity, that one's fixin' to get away. Keep a lead on 'em, Rainbow Dash. Hold on girls, we're almost there.

  (Stealth and Pinkie come in the front)

  Twilight Sparkle: Pinkie! Stealth!

  Pinkie Pie: Twilight, we don't have much time.

  Twilight Sparkle: You're telling me. The princess could arrive at any moment.

  Stealth Firefist: Exactly. That's why I need everyone to drop what they're doing and help us find some maracas.

  Twilight Sparkle: Maracas? Guys, we've got much bigger problems than missing maracas.

  Pinkie Pie: (gasp) You're right! Getting a tuba has to be our number one goal. Follow us. (Ponies keep running and flying) I said, follow us!

  Rainbow Dash: Pinkie Pie, Stealth Firefist, you are so random.

  Stealth Firefist: And you're being so stubborn!

  Applejack: Forget them girls and guy. Focus. Head 'em up and move 'em out.

  *Everfree Forest*

  Rainbow Dash: All right! (High hoove with Fluttershy)

  Fluttershy: Ouch.

  Twilight Sparkle: We did it. Nice work, Applejack.

  Applejack: Couldn't a'done it without y'all.

  Twilight Sparkle: Now, let's get back home and clean this mess up before the princess arrives.

  *Fluttershy's Cottage*

  Lightning Strike: I'm glad that's over. I'm starting to get hungry.

  Twilight Sparkle: Okay, everyone knows what to do, right? We gotta work extra hard to make up for lost time.

  (Army of Parasprites come out again)

  Lightning Strike: What the hay?! I thought we took them back to the Forest!

  Fluttershy: Um, I may have kept one behind. (Ponies send irratated looks at her)

  Lightning Strike: (Facehoof) You've got to be kidding me!

  Fluttershy: What? They're just so cute.

  Twilight Sparkle: We don't have time to keep rounding up these things. What do we do now?

  Rainbow Dash: We call in the weather patrol. (Flies up into the air) Time to take out the adorable trash. (Forms a tornado) YAAAAAA!

  Twilight Sparkle:  Way to go, Rainbow Dash!

  Applejack: Looks like our problems are solved.

  Lightning Strike: Yes! We're gonna make it!

  Pinkie Pie: Especially, when we've got these cymbals! (Cymbals are sucked into the tornado)

  Stealth Firefist: Hey! We need those!

  Rainbow Dash: Whoa. Yaa! Yow! Woah! Wow! I can't hold it! She's breaking up. (Tornado breaks up)

  Lightning Strike: I take back my previous comment.

  Twilight Sparkle: Pinkie Pie, Stealth, what have you done?

  Pinkie Pie: We've lost a brand new pair of cymbals, that's what we've done.

  Stealth Firefist: Ooh! Maybe if we run back to the music store really fast this problem can be fixed!

  Twilight Sparkle: Will you forget about your silly instruments for one second? You're ruining our efforts to save Ponyville.

  Pinkie Pie: Us? Ruin? We're not the ruiner, we're the ruin-ee! Or is it ruiness? Ruinette?

  Applejack: Come on girls, there's no reasoning with them. They're a few apples short of a bushel. (Ponies except Lightning)

  Stealth Firefist: Hey! I am a fully grown- oh wait that's a metaphor.

  Lightning Strike: Ok, guys. What's the plan?

  Pinkie Pie: (Gasps) You want to listen to our plan? YES!!

  Lightning Strike: What other plans do we have? Actually, it seems you two know what you're doing.

  Stealth Firefist: Exactly! We have the instruments right over there. (Pointing toward a pile of instruments)

  Lightning Strike: Huh. I did not notice that. Anyway, come on! We have parasprites to round up, again.

  *Ponyville*

  (The three see the parasprites eating all the food)

  Lightning Strike: Wow! They're eating everything!

  Pinkie Pie: Look, tambourines! If you could all just... (Ponies run past her)

  Stealth Firefist: Girls! We have a plan to...

  (Twilight casts spell to parasprite not eat the apple, but eats the entire bucket and the rest literally eat everything)

  Lightning Strike: Oh, haysticks! They're eating everything! Literally!

  Rainbow Dash: Well, at least they're not eating food anymore.

  Lightning Strike: This is much worse Rainbow Dash.

  Rarity: Oh no! If they get into my store... EVERYPONY THEMSELF!! (Runs into Shop)

  (Parasprites cause chaos)

  Lightning Strike: Well, at least the parasprites aren't getting me. (Parasprites notice Lightning and lick their mouths) Two things, one, I've gotta stop doing that, and two, thunderbolts. (Screams and flies away with Parasprites chasing him, flying next to Rainbow Dash) Okay, this time, it has to be the worse day of my life. Parasprites trying to eat me, that's gotta make number one.

  Rainbow Dash: You're not the only one being chased Lightning.

  Lightning Strike: Pinkie! Stealth! Play some music! NOW!!

  (Pinkie Pie and Stealth play music)

  Twilight Sparkle: Look!

  (Princess Celestia Arrives and Ponies Bow)

  Princess Celestia: Twilight Sparkle, my prized pupil. And Lightning, my brave new warrior.

  Twilight Sparkle: Hello, princess.

  Lightning Strike: Hi, Princess Celestia.

  Princess Celestia: So lovely to see you again, as well as your friends.

  (crash)

  Twilight Sparkle: So... how was the trip? Hit much traffic?

  Princess Celestia: Ah, what is this? (Looks at parasprite) Oh ho ho, these creatures are adorable.

  Rainbow Dash: They're not that adorable.

  Lightning Strike: (Muttering) Wouldn't be deceived by them.

  Princess Celestia: I'm terribly honored that you and the good citizens of Ponyville have organized a parade in honor of my visit.

  Twilight Sparkle: Parade? Oh. Yes, the parade.

  Lightning Strike: Yeah, that was what exactly that was planned.

  Princess Celestia: Unfortunately, that visit is going to have to wait for another time. I'm afraid an emergency has come up in Fillydelphia. Apparently there's been some sort of infestation.

  Twilight Sparkle: An... infestation?

  Princess Celestia:Yes, a swarm of incredibly bothersome creatures has invaded the poor town. I'm sorry Twilight, to have to put you all through so much trouble.

  Twilight Sparkle: Trouble? What trouble?

  Princess Celestia: Before I have to go, would you care to give me your latest report on the magic of friendship in person?

  Twilight Sparkle: My... report?

  Princess Celestia: Haven't you learned anything about friendship?

  Lightning Strike: Of course she's learned something. Right, Twilight? (Pointing to Pinkie and Stealth)

  Twilight Sparkle: Actually, I have. I've learned that sometimes the solution to your problems can come from where you least expect it. It's a good idea to stop and listen to your friends' opinions and perspectives... (Cymbal Crash) Even when they don't always seem to make sense.

  Princess Celestia: I'm so proud of you, Twilight Sparkle, and I'm very impressed with your friends as well. It sounds like you're all learning so much from each other.

  Twilight Sparkle: Thank you, princess.

  Lightning Strike: Better hurry to infestation in Fillydelphia.

  Princess Celestia: (Chuckles) Right Lightning. (Leaves to go to Fillydelphia)

  Pinkie Pie: (Comes back with Stealth) Hey, What happened to the princess?

  Stealth Firefist: And what did we miss?

  Twilight Sparkle: Emergency in Fillydelphia.

  Rainbow Dash: Some sort of infestation.

  Twilight Sparkle: And you two saved me.

  Lightning Strike: And all of Ponyville.

  Pinkie Pie: Oh no! Have they got parasprites too? Well, have tuba, will travel.

  Twilight Sparkle: I think the princess can handle it.

  Applejack: So you knew what those critters were all along, huh Pinkie Pie and Stealth?

  Pinkie Pie: Well, DUH! Why do you think we were so frantic to get our hooves and hand on all these instruments?

  Stealth Firefist: We tried to tell you.

  Twilight Sparkle: We know, Pinkie Pie, and we're sorry we didn't listen.

(Ponies apologize)

  Lightning Strike: Actually, I kinda listened at the last minute.

  Stealth Firefist: It's true, he did.

  Twilight Sparkle: You're a great friend, even if we don't always understand you.

  Pinkie Pie: Thanks guys, you're all great friends too, even when we don't understand us.

  Stealth Firefist: (Confused face) I don't get it.

  Twilight Sparkle: You saved my reputation with Princess Celestia, and more importantly, you saved Ponyville.

  (Ponies and Stealth see town a mess)

  Lightning Strike: Oh, pony feathers.

Twilight Sparkle: Or not.

  Lightning Strike: (Walks off to his house) I'll go get a broom.

  *Nightfall in Ponyville*

  (Ponies get the town all cleaned up)

  Lightning Strike: (In his house with Stealth) Wow. I never thought I could be so tired of cleaning the entire town.  I'm gonna go to bed and call it night.

  Stealth Firefist: Right behind ya Lightning.