Unyielding Powers

"Yo waiter," I called out, "I'd like to order now."
"You are so on." said the competitive Rainbow Dash.
We had moved our competition to another table next to where Twilight and Pinkie were seated. The sun shone through the window next to us and set the mood just right. The cyan mare was smiling confidently as if she already won. I sat across from her wearing a smirk of my own.

"Yes, sir?" the stallion asked politely, "What can I get for you today?"
"We'll take seven hayburgers, five salads, three plates of hayfries, and two large glasses of water." I said not taking my eyes off the mare opposite of me. "The two at the other table are with us so put all of it on one bill."

The stallion looked stunned but took the order anyway. He then moved over to Pinkie and Twi to write down their order.
The food came out rather quickly and we looked to Pinkie who was our judge. "Ready!" she started, "Set!" there was a pause an eerie silence as we prepared. Dash fluttered her wings a bit and I cracked my neck to both sides. *CRACK* went my neck as I turned it to the right. *CRACK* *CRACK* It went again as I turned it to the left.

Pinkie looked at Rainbow Dash, then to me, and then back to Dash. She rose her right foreleg into the air and waited a moment. The moment seemed to drag on as me and Rainbow stared each other down. Until finally Pinkie shouted "GO!"

Dash quickly grabbed a hoof full of fries and devoured them as I scarfed down two of the burgers and took a gulp of water. The cyan coated pegasus then wolfed down three salads at once and then grabbed one of the burgers. I forced all the fries that were on one plate down my throat and gagged a little as I did. I sucked down some more water and proceeded to devour the rest of the two salads. Rainbow Dash ate two more burgers as I forced down another plate of fries with the help of my water to wash them down. Dash scarfed down the rest of her hayfries and I devoured the last two hayburgers. We both downed the rest of our glasses of water and let out a simultaneous sigh of refreshment.

Twilight sat at her seat baffled by what she just saw happen. Pinkie walked over and began her judging. "Rainbow Dash has eaten three of the seven hayburgers while Element ate four. Element ate two salads and Rainbow ate three. Dash had eaten one plate of hayfries and Mage scarfed down two. Element Mage wins the eat off." Pinkie Pie said raising my right forehoof into the air. Twilight started to clap her hooves together at my accomplishment. Rainbow looked at me in disbelief but then stuck out a hoof for me to shake which I gladly took.

"Nice work," she congratulated, "No ones ever been able to eat faster than me or more than me before."
"Well I do try my best during a challenge. But you did good as well." I said trying not to sound boastful. I started to stack the plates on the table using my magic and made a neat little pile of the used food platters. We both went back to the table Twi and Pinkie were at and waited for them to finish eating. It didn't take long as Twilight finished a daisy sandwich and Pinkie scarfed down a bowl of different flavored ice-cream.

The waiter came back with the bill and I looked it over. "Huh, not too bad." I said nonchalantly as Twilight looked at the bill over my shoulder.
"Not too bad!? That's 87 bits! What do you mean not too bad!?" she screamed into my right ear.
"I mean it's not as bad as dining in Canterlot." I explained, "Geez don't be such a worry wart. I'm buying remember?"
"Still I should pay for my part of the bill." she tried to reason.
"Nonsense. I said I would pay for our lunch and I'm going to pay for our lunch. Besides it's not so bad. I got this."

I grabbed the bill in my magic and went to the front. I opened my saddlebag and pulled out the amount I owed. After the transaction I trotted back to our table and place a 25% tip. Afterwards I proceeded to leave with my new friends in tow.
"Okay, now you've got me curious." Twilight said, "How did you manage to pay for all of our food and leave a large tip like that?"
"I took on a lot of odd jobs back in the city. And with the ability to duplicate myself it was rather easy performing them all at once. That's how I had all that money." I stated matter-of-factly.

Twilight stopped in her tracks. "You can duplicate yourself at will?! I've never heard of a unicorn who has that ability."
"It's not that big of a deal. I've been doing that since..." I stopped to think, "uh, let's see... no it was before that, and that. Let's just say I've known how to duplicate for awhile now."
"Awhile! The only other unicorn to ever figure out how to split into two ended up dead because his clone thought he was the original! Even Pinkie Pie did that but her clones were so into having fun none of them thought differently from it. It took hours to figure out which Pinkie was which!"

"Well it seems Miss Pie found the Mirapond to me. Those types of clones only want to fulfill the desire of what the original wanted to do." I then looked down at the black faux leather strapped watch I'd been wearing. "Oh shit, I gotta go. Perhaps we could continue this conversation later. There is something important I must attend to." With that I teleported in a flash of silvery light and left. My new friends utterly confused.
"Okay, now that he's gone let's talk about how cute he was." stated Pinkie Pie, causing the other two to blush from embarrassment.

"Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow Dash started, "Not in the middle of town. Let's go into Sugar Cube Corner to discuss that."
"Great idea Dashy. You coming Twilight?" Pinkie questioned.
"No thanks." she said all too quickly, blushing even more at the question. "I have something to go take care of actually. See you girls later." With that Twilight galloped off in a seemingly random direction.
"She soooo has a crush on Element Mage." the pink pony stated getting a nod of agreement from her rainbow haired friend.