Sunshower

“MRRRAAAWAA!” Derpy let out a battle cry when she ninja kicked the fake Doctor Hooves in the face, blowing him to magical smithereens.

“We’ve got a date with Discord.” Vinyl said, stomping on the fake Octavia’s ashes. “Nopony impersonates mah mare.”

“Well, I’m no pony.” That same voice from earlier had returned. Discord’s voice. He flew towards the ponies in a snake-like motion.

“It seems you don’t care about your friends anymore.” Discord said, picking up the magical ashes and letting them fall through his claws.

“You can end the malformed façade.” Trixie said, confidently. “We’re not stupid.”

“Coulda fooled me.” Discord pointed at Derpy, who was eating her tail, and laughed hysterically.

“I’d like to make a deal with you ponies.”

Nopony budged.

“I challenge you all to a series of quick, and separate competitions against me. If I lose any of them, I’ll leave Equestria forever, never to show my face again!”

“A what if you win?” Roseluck blurted out, causing everypony else to lean toward her a bit, as if they were drawn in by the question itself.

“If I win, I get to, oh I dunno, EAT YOUR SOULS.” Discord then laughed again.

“Um, excuse me, Mr. Discord,” Cloudchaser raised her hoof, “how does someone eat a soul?”

“I’ll be glad to show you.” Discord stretched his arm out toward a house and found a yellowish colored unicorn mare.

“Put me down!” she screamed, “I have three fouls!”

“Three souls?!” Discord said as he cracked the poor mare’s neck, making a sound similar to opening a soda can. He then raised her up in the air if he were raising a soda can and a white smoke flew out of the mare’s mouth into Discord’s, making a faint screaming sound. Discord then wiped his mouth with his paw.  “She lied to me. How depressing.”

Everypony cringed when Discord cast the body away as if it were trash.

“Does that answer your question, young pony? Good. Well, this ‘Challenge Royal’ will consist of 6 challenges. A rap battle, a god ole’ fashioned hoof fight, a race, a chess match, a DJ Battle, and a magic fight.”

“Those challenges seemed haphazardly thought up.” Trixie complained.

“It’s all good, Trix.” Vinyl said, stepping up the plate, putting her hoof around Trixie.  “We accept your challenges!”

“I hope you know what you’re doing.” Trixie whispered.

“Relax. A rap battle against Zecora? She SPEAKS in rap, man. If that somehow doesn’t turn out well, you’ve got me for the DJ Battle. HA! I’m all over that, no problem, and if SOMEHOW I goof up, you got the magic fight.”

“I guess its fail-safe.” Trixie looked up at Discord who was waiting patiently for full agreement. “Alright, we’re in.”

“Wonderful! Shall we begin with the rap battle?”

“If you’d like. Zecora!” Trixie pointed at the Zebra who gave the dead mare who’s soul was reaped a special blessing.

“Yes? This mare is about to receive my bless.”

“You’re rapping against Discord.”

Zecora looked at Discord and sighed. She walked up to him, and gulped.

“You go first, Zecora.” Discord said, chuckling a bit.

“I forfeit.” Zecora lowered her head.

“WHAT?!” Everypony yelled harmoniously.

“You heard me, I quit. Rap is an acronym, you see, it stands for rhythm and poetry. The poetry I have down to a T, but rhythm just isn’t in me.” Zecora looked up at Discord to see him smirk.

“Discord, for now, you have won. This battle is lost, but the challenge isn’t done.”  Zecora then walked away toward the dead mare’s body and continued the prayer.

“Go Zecora….” Cloudchaser cheered silently.

“Woo hoo.” Roseluck followed.

“This is priceless.” Discord laughed again.

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“We’re back!” Cheerilee climbed up the ladder to the roof first wearing a brown baseball cap. “What happened to your head, Twilight?”

“It’s nothing. How was… wherever you were?”

Rainbow Dash flew up next.

“Aw it was sweet! We got to sleep this mansion. The guy didn’t wake up, so everything was cool.”

Applejack climbed up next.

“Yep. We went to this place that sells everything. Brass Mills Center Mall. Ah thought it was pretty fun sneaking about in a place with so many anthra-whosie-wutsits while wearin’ that funky disguise Rarity fashioned.”

“Anthropini?” Twilight questioned. “I found that they’re called people.”

Fluttershy floated up next. “We went to the pet store. The animals were so cute…”

Twilight looked at the hatch expecting for either Rarity or Pinkie Pie to pop up, but they didn’t.

“Where’s Rarity and Pinkie?”

Just then, everypony heard a huffing and puffing sound amongst the sound of the school buses arriving getting louder and louder.

“Oh, dear Luna.” It was Rarity, and she just appeared at the edge of the roof.

“Pinkie and I forgot where the ladder was, -huff- so we –puff- came outside climb the rungs on the windows. –huff- who knew -puff- that there would be so many.”

“Well the roof is like, three stories high.” Rainbow Dash said, helping Rarity up.

“And it’s so HOT out.” Rarity wined.

The hatch then opened, startling everypony, and Pinkie Pie popped up from it.

“PINKIE!” Rarity screamed. “HOW THE HELL DID YOU-“

“Funny story, actually.” Pinkie started. “I saw you climbing the school, and I thought: that looks exhausting! So then when the buses came, which by the way, these kids don’t have a spring vacation. Bummer. Anywho, I walked behind this guy with fuzzy hair like mine and jumped into his backpack. He was talking to his friend. I hid myself in there really good, so nopony saw me. He walked into the cafeteria and got a chocolate muffin. I grabbed one too, but I think he paid for his. Opps. Anyway the bell ran and he went up to the third floor and there I saw the ladder, so I jumped out and here I am!”

Everypony stared at her.

“Pinkie,” Twilight was about to begin one of her lectures on how impossible Pinkie is. “You can’t just jump into a book bag because you can’t fit into one, for one thing and the person would have felt it if his/her book bag got any heavier and how were you not seen? You’re bright pink!”

“Okie dokie loki. I’ll remember not to do that next time.”

Twilight face-hooved.

“So girls,” Twilight started. “I read about these snowy mountains in the north where there are no people and it’s fun to play in.”

“That’s great, we got some winter clothes for ourselves!” Cheerilee raised the shopping bags in the air.

“Um… How did you guys purchase those?”

“Purchase?” Applejack asked.

Twilight face-hooved again.

Twilight had been practicing her teleporting skills. They were a lot better than before. She could now teleport many ponies at once. Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, and Pinkie were dressed in winter attire. Rarity and Cheerilee were enjoying tea, for they decided they’d stay where it was warm. Fluttershy was in a tree playing with the birds.

“Everypony ready?” Twilight challenged.

“Eeyup.” Applejack responded, adjusting her red winter cap.

In about four seconds, they vanished.

Rarity took a sip of her tea and opened a parasol with her magic.

The four other mares had ended up amidst some trees. The snow nice and mushy, however the abrupt change in temperature shocked them.

“So now what Twilight?” Pinkie asked, eager to jump around in the snow.

“Go nuts. Just meet back here before the sun goes down.”

“What are those humungous stars next to the sun?” Applejack asked.

“Those? That’s mars, that’s Saturn, that’s Jupiter, and those are four of Jupiter’s moons. Today is a great day for astronomers.”

Pinkie and Rainbow Dash looked up at the planets for a bit. Then they looked at each other and ran off.

Applejack trotted with Twilight who began to venture through the trees. The trees were covered in snow and seemed jagged. They were far apart from each other, too. They continued walking until they saw a steep slope traveling at least a mile down. Applejack had torn a flat piece of wood off one of the trees.

“Thinkin wut I’m thinkin’ Twi.” Applejack’s voice was quiet, but not whispering, and her face looked like a rape was about to happen.

Twilight’s eyes widened.

“Well I don’t care wut your thinkin’. I’m gonna do it. It’s gonna happen. Not even a talking apple could stop me now.”

“Then do it,” Twilight challenged, also using a quieter voice, “you won’t.”

“Is that so?”

“Do it, no balls.”

“Wut?”

“I dunno, I heard one on the students at Kaynor say it.”

“Whatever. I’m goin’ for it.”

“Can I come?”

“You were gonna come from the get-go. You had no choice in this one, sugar cube.”

“Are we gonna sit here whispering or are we gonna get this thing going?”

“Don’t you rush me, crazy bitch.”

“You’re scared?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”

“There’s a big ramp like thing over there.” Applejack pointed down the mountain at an area where the alabastrine snow formed a large bump. “If we hit it, were gonna fly.”

“So?”

“Fly rhymes with die, Twi.”

“No balls.”

“Now ah still don’t know what that means.”

“It’s how the people get somepony to do something they don’t want to. If they don’t they have no balls, or courage.”

“Okay. I’ll go…IF YOU are in front.”

“Okay.”

“Aright then, shake on it.”

“Okay.”

Applejack was about to spit on her hoof, but Twilight warned her that her spit could freeze instantly. After that, Twilight sat on the tree bark. Applejack hesitated.

“No balls.”

Applejack then sat on the bark and held onto Twilight tightly.

“Well?” Applejack said, clenching her eyes tight.

“You have to scoot the bark forward, Applejack.”

“Oh.”

Applejack scooted up a bit.

“More.”

Applejack scooted up a bit further.

“Scootscootscoot!”

“You callin’ chickens, Twi?”

This made them both laugh hysterically, and loudly. They laughed loud enough to cause an avalanche. Twilight and AJ turned back to see a mass of white death plummet down the hill towards them. Applejack bucked the ground behind her, causing the makeshift sled shoot down the slope. They flew down the mountain at an unbelievable speed. Twilight felt like Rainbow Dash must feel when she flies. They continued to zoom down the slope for 3 minutes. Applejack noticed that the avalanche was catching up.

“Twilight!!!”

“What?!”

“We gotta aim for that there ramp!”

“I thought ‘fly’ rhymed with ‘die’!”

“But ‘no balls’ rhymes with ‘good calls’!”

“Clever!”

Twilight veered the sled toward a huge mound of snow that made a ramp that seemed to head toward the sun.

“Duck your head! We’ll go faster!” Twilight yelled back.

The avalanche almost had the ponies in their grasp when they shot up into the air like rockets. They flew into the sky and Twilight could swear she saw the planet curve. This scared the living crap out of her. Could this be the highest point in the world? No, that was Mount Everest. Was this Mount Everest? How did they end up so high? How did they not have trouble breathing? Nothing made sense.

Applejack didn’t understand why Twilight was freaking out. They were high up, but wasn’t that what Twilight planed?

“What’s wrong Twi?” Applejack’s voice was calm; they weren’t at the peak of their arc yet, so things were calmer.

“We’re dead.”

“Why? This was only about a mile down, right?”

“Yeah. A mile down to the clouds.”

“Beg your pardon?”

“We’re above the clouds.”

“Oh.”

They just reached the peak of their arc. Twilight saw the planet curve on both ends. She prayed to Celestia.

“Dear princess Celestia…”

Then they fell.

Twilight did the math equation in her head.

Gravity. 9.8 m/s^2 or 32 ft/s^2  (times 5 seconds for air resistance.) 160 ft/s^2.

If Twilight wanted to find out how long it would take her to die, she’s have to take the square root of double the distance she’s falling divided by the gravity. Not even mentioning terminal velocity, she was too frightened to do the ACTUAL math.

G= 975.36 km or 975,360 m/s^2

The square root of 2x20000/975.36=…

After doing all the math in her head, she concluded it would take more than half an hour to hit the ground with this wind resistance. Or so. She couldn’t really think with all the wind in her face.

After a while, Twilight saw the ground, but then she saw something that looked like a rainbow. Applejack was still screaming in Twilight’s ear. All this just made Twilight worry a bit more.

“I gotcha!”

Twilight looked to her right and saw Rainbow Dash. She tackled them and flew them safely to the ground. Just like that Twilight actually seemed disappointed.

“What’s wrong Twilight? I saved you!”

“Well, I was going to teleport someplace safe before we hit the ground. I wanted to get Applejack back for putting bugs in my cereal.”

“Heh heh…” Applejack laughed, still very shaken from the whole falling like a billion feet.

“But it’s okay! Hey, where’s Pinkie?”

“Her tongue is stuck to an icicle.”