Sunshower

“And here comes Rose with the left jab!”  Trixie poofed herself an announcer’s table and gave commentary on the ‘Roseluck vs. Discord’ hoof brawl. The second challenge was a one on one bout, and Vinyl elected Rose to be the fighter. She was doing pretty good. Dodging hits were crucial, because Discord’s right hook was devastating. He had a tiger’s paw for an arm.

“We sure do have a battle tonight, folks!” Vinyl Scratch gave supporting commentary.

Roseluck delivered a swift kick to Discord’s legs, tripping him. He giggled as he got up. Either he was immune to pain, or he was a masochist. Rose decided if she wanted to hurt him, she’d have to work on his face. She galloped at high speed toward the nearest building and climbed it with great skill.

“Such finesse!” Trixie cheered. “She can almost do it as well as The Great and Powerful Trixie!”

Rose got to the roof and paced demonstrating great agile ability.

“Rose’s alacritous actions may end this now.” Zecora awed. “She just might finish it with a thunderous ‘POW’.” Zecora watched Roseluck leap in the air and prepared a seismic dropkick to Discord’s snout.

Rose flew through the air and grinned until she saw Discord’s tail slam her in the face. Rose flew back and smashed into another building.

“Oh!!! That’s gotta hurt!” Trixie cringed.

Derpy’s derp eyes fixed themselves where Rose had landed. There was a lot of dust, so no-pony could see if she was okay. Plus it was still dark out, despite the moon.

Everyone leaned in to see any response from the dust. Discord grinned when there wasn’t one.

“Could this be it?” Trixie because anxious.

“Is she down for the count?” Vinyl also became a bit scared.

Suddenly, a shadow leapt into the air from the dust, holding a long vine from the house. It was Rose, and she wasn’t going down yet. Discord stood akimbo and watched as he was strangled with the vine. He didn’t even phase. His face changed colors as if he was the suffocating, but he kept a consistent poker face.

Rose pulled and pulled on the vine when Discord turned his head and looked at her. He opened his mouth wide and burning hot flames spewed from his mouth. He was a flamethrower.

If you looked at the other ponies, you’d think they were watching fireworks. The fire was so bright; Trixie took Vinyl’s glasses so she could see what was going on.

“It looks like Discord just breathed FIRE on Rose. This could be the end!”

When the fire disappeared, everypony saw Roseluck in Discord’s hand, blowing the fire out on her tail. Discord began to walk toward the town hall building casually, as if he were at a promenade.

“What’s he doing?” Vinyl said, snatching her glasses back from Trixie.

Trixie squinted her eyes as Discord climbed the town hall building.

“Celestia, no.” Cloudchaser finally spoke up, putting her hooves over her eyes.

Discord climbed all the way to the top of the building and kissed Roseluck on the snout. She whimpered a bit then she looked down. Then she shook her head violently, Discord nodded, and Rose shook her head harder.

Discord turned Rose around and constricted her waist with his arms.

“OH CELESTIA, NO!” Cloudchaser began to scream.

“ROSE, GET OUT OF HIS CLUTCHES,” Zecora warned, “DISCORD INTENDS ON PUTTING YOU IN CRUTCHES!”

Rose writhed to no avail. Discord leapt backward in the air like a pool diver and suplexed Roseluck. Discord got up and dusted himself off. He walked away from Roseluck and took a drink from the lake.

Everypony else ran to Rose’s aid. She wasn’t responding, so Trixie attempted CPR. When she still wasn’t responding, Zecora attempted CPR. Then Vinyl, not knowing CPR, tried it anyway. Cloudchaser was weirded out from all the mouth-to-mouth going on at once.

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Celestia was in the castle’s library, drinking tea and reading a book on how to beat somepony to death with just about anything. She had quite a smug look on her face. She decided she had read enough for the day and walked out of the library, catching one of her solders on her way out.

“Princess Celestia, we have apprehended a large amount of the maids. We had also successfully put harm on Luna. “

“Very good to hear. Be on your way. Complete the task.” Celestia took a sip of tea nonchalantly.

There were about of dozen of them surrounding Luna and her troop. The marble hallways looked as if they we being undone from the white stallions charging at them. They were defenseless and Luna should have thought this through. Now death was a tidal wave crashing through the reality of Luna’s mind. Of course Luna will be revived, but the servants will receive a cruel punishment and that will not settle well with Luna. She then did what was required.

It all happened at once. Luna’s horn glowed so vibrantly, she had to warn her army to shield their eyes. The moonlight became brighter out side the windows that lined the sides of the corridor. The guards continued galloping down the halls. Everypony suddenly felt lighter weight wise. The room’s brightness got instantaneously darker.

“Get behind me.” Luna put a force field around herself and her army.

The hallway was not basically pitch black. You could see orange light barely coming through all the windows. Then it happened.

The windows all shattered and water rushed in at a rate impossible to calculate. The castle shook with all the water being forced into the halls. Water then filled the hall and calmed. Luna and her army were in the force field that now felt like an aquarium.  They saw the guards float by and laughed.

Luna had brought the moon down to Equestria and raised the tides. As she placed the moon back, the waters drained. She dropped her force field. The force of the water killed the guards, if not they drowned. Luna saw more guards coming through the hallway.

Luna squinted her eyes and used a summoning spell to conjure a crank powered Gatling gun.

“Here, fire this.” Luna instructed one of the maids.

She grabbed the crank and the handle and mowed down all the guards coming in. Luna smiled and searched for her sister.

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A large flash appeared at Kaynor. It was nighttime and Rarity, Fluttershy, and Cheerilee had been through tempest weather while their friends were gone. It rained extremely hard for two minutes, then the sun had already dried most of it up. They were in the school kitchen grilling some corn. The school kitchen was large and had two sections. One for the school restaurant, and one for the cafeteria. Nearly all the appliances were silver. The doors to the kitchen opened. It was Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie and Applejack.

“That was summn’ else.” Applejack stated as she threw down her winter clothing.

“Pretty awesome when we rode the polar bears into the sunset.” Rainbow dash concluded.

“We had a pretty nice time too.” Fluttershy said.

“Apparently we’re famous here, darling.” Rarity said, putting 4 more cobs of corn on the indoor grill.

“Don’t tell me on of you got caught-“

“No, no, we’re on a children’s T.V. show.”  Cheerilee cleared up the conclusion as walked over to the walk in freezer, propping it open with a box.

“Huh?” Applejack and everypony else was confused.

“In this world,” Fluttershy began slowly, “we are a part of a children’s T.V. show.”

“That’s…” Twilight searched for words, “pretty cool actually.” She smiled and heard a door slam. She saw the Cheerilee had been locked in the freezer.

“I told you to prop it with a box.” Fluttershy said, opening the door for her friend.

“I did, I did.” Cheerilee blushed.

“The more fabulous side of this discovery of ours was that some grown men actually watch the show that we’re on.” Rarity continued, checking on the corn. “They’re called Bronies.”

“Oh! I’ve heard that term tossed amongst a few boys here.” Twilight sparkled.

Rarity kept an eye on the last four corn cobs “Yes, yes. They get a lot of hate, and there are only a few of them.”

“So!” Rainbow, changing the topic, “what’s for dinner?”

“Corn,” Rarity started, finally deciding the cobs were cooked, “stuffed peppers in the oven, home fries, and chess cake for dessert.

“We’re gonna go sit down in the cafeteria.” Cheerilee plopped the food on a circular serving tray and trotted out to the cafeteria, Fluttershy following her cautiously.

“Pinkie,” Rarity began with a concerned look on her face staring at Pinkie, “you haven’t said a word. That’s not normal of you.”

Pinkie looked around the room searching for a method to answer Rarity until finally looking at Twilight while swishing her tongue around in her mouth.

“Pinkie got her tongue stuck on an icicle.”

Rainbow Dash giggled, and so did Pinkie.

“So about these Bronies,” Twilight asked curiously, “what else do you know about them? Have you conducted a study?”

“Well, no, but we know they always sit over there.” Rarity pointed at the table near the center of the cafeteria.

“They have more class than most of the people we’ve seen.”

“How so?”

“Holding doors, doing kind deeds, maintaining a tight friendship, stuff this world is lacking.” Rarity set the dark brown, picnic bench style café table with a smooth, pearl-like tablecloth that flawlessly masked the table as icing masks a cake.

“Ooh! I love cake!” Pinkie randomly blurted out, holding her hurt tongue in. How did she do that?

“Pinkie, who are you talking to?” Twilight asked skeptically.

Rainbow was tired of waiting for food. “Can we eat now?”

“Go ahead…” Fluttershy timidly slid a plate over to Rainbow, who instantly packed it with food.

Applejack also began eating, then something caught her eye, and she giggled. Twilight took notice.

“What’s so funny, Applejack?”

“Oh nothin’. Just a light behind ya flickered is all.”

Twilight turned around to see a perfectly working light that hung from the ceiling. There were tons of those lights about the cafeteria, but Twilight assumed the one she was staring at was the culprit.

“I guess it’s fine now.”

As soon as Twilight turned back to eat her food, the light turned off.

“There ya go, Twi. Look now.”

Twilight turned around again to see a perfectly fine light. She heard Applejack giggle and Fluttershy also laughed a bit.

“Are you pulling one of my legs?” Twilight asked, turning her head and having the light turn off once more.

“No, no, no Twilight, look.” Fluttershy pointed at the light.

Twilight turned all the way around quickly. The light was on.  Applejack’s laughter grew louder and Fluttershy nearly choked. Twilight also heard Cheerilee laugh.

“That light hates you, Twilight.” Cheerilee declared, pouring some water into her cup.

Twilight stared at the light. It remained on.

“Um…it’s still on.” Twilight said, looking at it for about a minute and a half, then returning to her food.

Of course, the light turns back on again. This time, Twilight saw the lack of gleam in Fluttershy’s massive eyes due to her laughing.

“AH HA!” Twilight spun her head around to see a working light.

Amidst all the loud laughter, now from everypony but herself, Twilight got out of her chair and used her magic to fix the light by tightening the bulb.

“There.” Twilight said, finally getting to eat her food, which was still warm.

The light never flickered again. It didn’t have the balls.

After a nice dinner, Twilight had agreed to help Rarity pack up the evidence.

Using their unicorn magic, they brought the trays to the dish room where they will be washed, and swept the floor. On Twilight’s way to the dish room, she saw a silhouette in the hallway. A human silhouette. Twilight tried to teleport herself into the dish room before she was spotted, but she was already caught. It was Nollie and that man from animal control. Twilight hopped never to see those two again.

“Look, I found it!”

“Grab it!!”

Twilight bucked the man hard in the chest, knocking him into Nollie, giving Twilight time to teleport into the kitchen and warn them to run. The man cringed in pain and searched for Twilight, and her absence ignited anger in his eyes.

The bolt out of the cafeteria and down what may be the longest hallway in existence. Twilight had been to the castle, so she’s seen hallways that take half an hour to traverse, but this hallway just seemed endless. The came to a stop by two shops: Machine Tool and Health Tech. Twilight walked into the health tech room and everypony else followed. They flipped the light switch and fixed their eyes on one thing.

The bed. There was more than one, actually. There was a practicing mannequin on one of them, but there were beds.

“Is thith a hospithal?”  Pinkie asked, her tongue still in pain.

“This is were students learn medical terminologies.” Twilight concluded. She shut and locked the door behind her, and walked over to a cabinet that read “First Aid”. She found peroxide in it, and gave it to Pinkie.

“There’s a sink over there, Pinkie. Wash your mouth out.”

Pinkie did as instructed and Twilight looked around the room, nodding in approval. “Yup. This is a better place to sleep for tonight.

“Everypony saw that as a queue, and went to sleep on the beds. Applejack and Fluttershy slept when the mannequin was, while Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie slept in a grass green hammock-like transport device probably used in hospitals. Rarity slept in another cozy bed by herself. Twilight and Cheerilee, however, didn’t sleep and found themselves sitting in the desks.

“Do you like your stay here so far, Cheerilee?” Twilight asked, fetching herself one of the student’s medical textbooks.

“It’s pretty dangerous, but I’m enjoying it very much!”

“I can’t believe I let you talk me into this, but this trip has been extraordinary. Really dangerous, though.”

“I’m very sorry, Twilight. It didn’t think it would be like this.”

Twilight set down her book and gave Cheerilee a sincere smile “It’s not a problem.”

Soon, everypony was asleep, and the school closed for the weekend. The next morning was just as fun; they slid around on polished floors, and discovered more shops in the school. Their trip was defiantly worth the danger. Pinkie found that the kitchen actually belonged to a shop called ‘Culinary’ and they learned to cook. Pinkie and Applejack studied the texts books and became better chefs than ever.

The weekend passed, and Twilight wondered how the princess was doing. She assumed there would be a time difference of some sort, so perhaps their trip was only five minutes in their world. The city was sure to get some well-needed rainfall in about a week or so. The town was currently in a dry state. Twilight watched as Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash formed rain clouds and thought about life back in Equestria.

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“We’re getting our butts kicked.” Cloudchaser concluded as she held Roseluck in her hooves.

Zecora agreed and gave Rose some herbal tea to sip on. “You’re right. We need a plan to win this fight.”

Trixie recollected back to the order of the challenges before she spoke. “Next is the race. Cloudchaser, how fast are you?”

“Fast enough.” Cloudchaser lowered her eyelids, indicating an abrupt change in demeanor. There was fast, but then there was pegasus fast. When a pegasus is fast, then, and only then, can it truly be fast.

“You’ll be the racer then.”

Just as Trixie announced that, Cloudchaser cringed. “I don’t really care for races...”

“Shut up. You’re doing it.”

“Okay then. Shesh.”

Derpy cocked her head back, randomly and sang a song, forelegs in the air.

“We’re gonna die! Discord can fly and shoot fire from his eye! We’re gonna die, everypony will cry, as we meet our demises. Mortality despises fatal surprises and death is our prizes when we pay the prices. Our souls will dispel to the dark depths of hell and heaven as well as well look to the Earth from where we fell. What could have happened NOPONY CAN TEEEEEEEEEEEEELL!!!!!”

Derpy was a surprisingly good singer. Everypony was astonished. Derpy lowered her legs and her head and returned to her derp state. Trixie and Vinyl looked at each other and nodded in unison. They had a plan.

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“She did what?!” Celestia spilled her tea on the lavender carpet that complemented the carpet walls.

The solider was painting, giving a battle report to Celestia. “Luna killed a fourth of our men using tides!”

The black tea stain on the carpet reflected Celestia’s plans. They were looking flawless, but now it’s just a mess.

“Any report on the pegasus guards?” Celestia asked, concerned.

“Luna…,” the solider shuddered, “forced us to watch as she gouged their eyes out with her horn…”

“Really?”

“Well…no, but she said she would!”

“Rally up the troops in the library. I’ve got an idea.”

“As you wish!”

The solider galloped at full speed to relay the message to his allies. Celestia thought about Luna gouging out somepony’s eyes with her horn. She cringed as she walked out into the hall, bumping into a bust of her sister on a marble pedestal, startling her. She trotted quickly into her study. She sat down there, feeling safe.

That’s when her comfy purple lounge chair spun around. Luna sat there with the smuggest look on her face. Celestia’s blood ran cold.