Diamond looks at her ensemble in the mirror happily. It wasn't that the outfit itself was particularly unique, but the accessory around her neck.

Flicking the bell with her hand, it chimes a sing note, eliciting a giggle and another flick.

Applebloom leans in the doorway, staring at Diamond's antics "In hindsight... maybe choosin' wearin' th' bell as punishment wasn't my smartest idea... seein' as how yall've played with it for five minutes now..."

Diamond squeaks and whips her head behind her "I... how long have you been watching?!"

Applebloom grins "Th' whole time."

Blushing, Diamond buries her hands in her pockets "S-sorry I'm so weird..."

Applebloom shakes her head "Nah, you ain't weird, jus' funny... and adorable when ya wanna be."

Diamond smiles, her blush fading "So... what do you want to do today?"

"Honestly? Find Scoots and Sweetie to make sure they ain't dead."

"I'm... almost certain they aren't dead."

"Uh-huh... let's go."

Applebloom pushes the metal door of the warehouse open and immediately wishes she hadn't.

"I am queen of the warehouse!" Scootaloo yells, piloting a huge machine.

Babs groans, her own machine unable to move "Damn gyros had ta give out!"

Diamond pushes past Applebloom and squeals "Mechs! Building mechs! This is so... uh... nevermind..."

Applebloom rolls her eyes "Go ahead"

Squealing, Diamond runs over to Scootaloo's mech.

Sweetie Belle shuffles over to Applebloom in fuzzy pink slippers, askew glasses, disheveled hair and a discolored tee "Hullo Applebloom..."

"Landsakes! What happened to you?"

Sweetie blinks and puts a mug to her lips but finds it empty "Right... out of coffee... used coffee maker for soldering iron..." she blinks, blackened fingers scratching her head "Sorry, what was the question?"

"What happened to you?"

"Work... I've been working on schematics, liquid circuit boards, blue prints... keeping Babs and Scootaloo from killing each other... keeping Rainbow from messing with your sister whom she's held prisoner for a while... feeding Tank... how long have we been here?"

"Uhh... day and a half?"

Sweetie nods and reaches into one of her pockets and produces a syringe "I... keep myself awake with these... Caffeine, synthetic heroin, concentrated B-12... and electrolytes... non addictive but... until Tank comes back with lunch they're the only things keeping me conscious..."

Applebloom knocks the needle out of her friend's hands "Where's Silver?"

Sweetie blinks and looks at her hand "... I needed that shot..."

Shaking her head, Applebloom sighs "Where is Silver Spoon?"

"She's gone to a better place... lucky her..." Sweetie Belle replies, yawning.

"She's dead?!"

Sweetie shakes her head "No... just escorting Tank"

As if on cue, Silver Spoon walks in with a caravan of coolers behind her "I'm back stupid people and Sweetie!"

Sweetie waves tiredly, walking towards her "Do you have it?"

Silver nods and reaches into one of the coolers "The fact that every single barista asked me how you were doing and sending me off with all of the coffees and then some at half price because I had you say you were my friend is more amazing than the fact that you've been building a giant flying harness for giant Tank. Seriously, it was a Starbucks, they're known for their snarkyness."

Sweetie takes the offered coffee slowly, draining it in one pull before gasping, her eyes shooting open "Whoo hoo!!"

Diamond walks back over with a wrench "I had to club Rainbow for trying to grope me. She thinks that a scarecrow is your sister by the way."

Applebloom shrugs "Sounds about right. How're Scoots an' Babs?"

"Passed out and nursing a twisted wrist respectively."

Silver groans "I leave for two hours and I come back to stupid. What is my life..."

Sweetie opens the coolers and pulls out her bag "Finally I can shower!"

Diamond shrugs and opens another one "Okay, what's in- Applebloom, look at this."

Sitting next to her, Applebloom pulls out a sleeping Persian cat "Opal?"

The cat yawns and regard the two girls with the indifference inherent in all felines.

"Ah... ah thought Opal died 3 years ago."

"I never really liked her, always getting white hair over my clothes and scratching me... I don't even think she even liked Rarity."

Opal yawns again and wiggles out of Applebloom's grasp before running towards Tank who slumbered in his shell atop Sweetie's worktable.

Babs walks over rubbing her wrist "Oww... Heya cuz, 'ow's life treatin' ya?"

"Pretty good, how about you?"

"Pretty good, got ta use a freakin' mech, buildin' a giant fortress on a tortoise's back, half drunk on cider, an' haven't popped any stitches." Babs replies

Diamond grins "So how goes the building? I don't see it anywhere..."

Babs pulls a pair of glasses out of her pocket "Try dese..."

Diamond puts them on and gasps "It's invisible?! How?! I can believe time travel and everything else, but I draw the line at invisibility!"

Babs grins "Pretty sweet right? We been testin' since sunrise, we're tryin' ta see 'ow long it works on a full battery. Makes Tank invisible too."

Applebloom pulls the glasses of Diamond and whistles "Dang... now that's th' kinda stuff that scares me. Th' things Sweetie can do..."

Sweetie skips back over, looking like her usual self "Hey guys! I see that you saw the apparatus."

"Seein' it is th' problem! It's invisible!"

Sweetie giggles "I know, I can't believe that I was able to create a machine that bends light around whatever is in immediate contact! If I could shrink it to maybe a tenth of its size we would have invisibility backpacks!"

Diamond blinks "'Bends light around'? If that were the case we'd be unable to see anything behind it! We're seeing through it, not around it!"

Sweetie opens her mouth, closes it, then opens it again "I... you're right... if we were bending light around it we wouldn't see anything... then how... wait! It's not bending it, it's filtering it! We see through it because the light is being projected by the cloak itself! We see through it because our eyes aren't registering the apparatus itself!"

Applebloom tunes out and nods in understanding every few seconds.

Diamond jumps excitedly and runs towards the center of the warehouse but stops abruptly.

Silver waves her hand in front of Applebloom's face "You in there 'Bloom?"

Applebloom blinks "Sorry, zoned out... why is Diamond on th' floor?"

"She ran into the invisible harness."

Applebloom sighs "Somethin' just ain't right with my friends..."

Silver rolls her eyes "Tell me about it. But they are our friends and that makes putting up with their stupid worth it."

Nodding, Applebloom walks over to Diamond "You okay?"

"I ran into an invisible object... so yes and no." Diamond replies, rubbing her forehead.

"What have we learned?"

"... Absolutely nothing."

Applebloom sighs "Don't run into invisible objects... wait, how can you avoid what ya can't see? That makes no sense..."

Diamond sighs and rolls onto her feet feeling around "I wonder if we painted it... would we see the paint?"

Sweetie appears from a door in the side of the harness "Nope, I paint-proofed it, nothing sticks, not even my sister's pudding."

Applebloom nods "That stuff is sticky..."

Someone slams the door open "THE BOOZE BITCH IS BACK MY LOYAL CUNT SLAVES!"

Everyone groans "Rainbow's back..."

Sweetie grins and pulls a remote out of her bag "Watch, this is my stun-gun. Stuns a dragon at 3 paces..."

Diamond snorts "Unless it works underneath scales I doubt that claim."

Applebloom grins "Nerd."

Diamond grins and flicks the bell "I'm your nerd."

Sweetie points the device at Rainbow "Clicky!"

A thin beam of light nails Rainbow in the forehead and she falls facedown, her hair sticking up.

Babs walks over to Rainbow and pokes her with a wrench before shrugging and taking her wallet.

"Put it back Babs!" Applebloom yells.

Babs blushes and drops the wallet, whistling innocently.

"An' what's inside it!"

Babs sighs and drops several cards and dollars on Rainbow's head "You suck!"

Diamond holds up a rod covered with buttons "So... this can turn water into wine?"

Sweetie shakes her head "No, it does more than that! It alters the composition of any molecules in the vicinity of the target and binds them together into something different."

Diamond grins "So it's an alchemy wand?!"

Sweetie thinks about this then nods "Basically."

Diamond's eyes sparkle and she runs off, giggling.

Applebloom sighs "Ah know that look in her eyes..."

Sweetie shrugs and pulls out a small marble "These are going to be the ammunition we use. They're compressed rubber balls that when fired grow to the size of an apple. So with that in mind, we can safely knock enemies unconscious. Babs wanted to put some of her incendiary rounds instead but that could really hurt some one. Also, we're having trouble with the harness' engines. I thought about using helicopter or airplane engines but that wouldn't work in theory. I also accidentally invented a magnetic charger."

Applebloom scratches her head "Like for electromagnets?"

"No, it magnetizes objects. watch." Sweetie pulls out a small laser gun and fires it at Rainbow's prone form.

Applebloom stares at Rainbow "It ain't doin' anything."

"Wait for it..."

The wrench that Babs had shudders and flies towards Rainbow, hitting her in the side with a loud "Whump!"

Applebloom whistles "Cool... is it permanent?"

Sweetie shakes her head "No, on non-metallic objects like living things it lasts only about an hour. On metal, it lasts about a whole day unless I blast it again. But it does usually short out any delicate magnetic parts in machinery. So it makes a pretty unique take on an EMP."

Applebloom nods "Ah have no idea what that means."

"Basically it means that anything living she blasts is a magnet for an hour, anything metal for about a whole day, and another blast undoes the first. And it breaks machinery" Scootaloo says, rubbing her head.

Sweetie nods "Basically. I have a few more devices to add but they're not done yet."

Diamond and Silver walk over with cotton candy in their hands "Best. Invention. Ever."

Sweetie nods and takes one of the clouds of sugar "You used a bag of sugar for this?"

Diamond nods "Cotton candy is basically sugar spun by heat. So I figured it would work."

Applebloom takes a cloud of it and bites into it "Tastes like th' ones from th' fair..."

Rainbow walks over with the wrench stuck to her hip and a few shards of metal sticking to her face "Guys? I think I'm that magnet guy from the comic books..."

Diamond her eyes "I guess that means you have a magnetic personality if it wasn't so repulsive."

Rainbow snorts "Sure, make potshots at the mistress of magnetism!"

Sweetie blasts Rainbow, and the wrench falls onto her foot "AUGH! MY FOOT! I use that foot!"

Diamond snorts "She took the 'Magnet' out of 'Magneto'... do you think you could give me mutant powers?!"

Sweetie giggles "Maybe~"

Applebloom holds up her hands "No. Last time someone took that bait, Snips and Snails became Sugar and Spice... not that it wasn't funny, but it was surreal."

Sweetie snorts "They wanted to know what it was like to be a lady. How was I supposed to know they meant it figuratively?"

Rainbow stops hopping and picks up Tank "Hey, how much longer until Tank can carry us on his back and wreak havoc on Ponyville?"

Sweetie frowns "I'm not sure if I like the sound of that. I was just building this in case of emergencies; not to wreak havoc on innocent people."

Rainbow groans "Come on... this is our chance to leave a mark in history! What's so wrong with wanting to wreak a little havoc?"

"Th' havoc part?"

Scootaloo walks over with a helmet on "I'm ready for the living ammunition cannon!"

"We didn't build a human cannon!" Sweetie groans, rubbing her forehead.

Rainbow moans "We can't launch ourselves?! How else are we supposed to infiltrate places?!"

"Where would you even do that?"

"... The spa. I like the spa. They have necked ladies there." Rainbow replies

Diamond rolls her eyes "Why not just pay to go inside?"

Scootaloo scratches the back of her neck "We can't... we're banned."

"Do... do ah want to know how you two got banned from there?"

Scootaloo grinss "We installed cameras in the sauna, massage rooms, and hot tubs. We also had remote control of the water temperature so we could freeze out a bunch and boil others! When Aloe and Lotus investigated we had the water back to normal! It was hilarious!"

Applebloom rubs her forehead "Sweetie, do ya have an invention that will make Scootaloo less... perverse?"

Sweetie pulls out a helmet covered with wires "I have my untested electrotherapy helmet. I improved it so that it activates inactive parts of the brain. I guess I could use it to de-activate parts of it..."

Silver shakes her head "Electroshock therapy is so... archaic! Did we end up in the 50's again?"

Diamond nods "Yeah... it was like the electric chair except without the sponge..."

"Could it give me x-ray vision?" Scootaloo asks

Sweetie stares at her "No! What do you- NO! How on earth would it give you x-ray vision?!"

Scootaloo shrugs "I figured that if it works on the brain, it would work on eyes and that meant super eye powers."

Diamond rubs her forehead "No... x-ray vision is a result of a biological feature. You'd need to either have the right organs transplanted into your eyes or be born with them."

"An' how do ya know this?"

"... I research the science behind comic books and see if the things in them are possible..."

Silver groans "And you say I'm weird for cataloguing obscure philosophical texts."

Sweetie cocks her head "Didn't you buy 3 Gutenberg bibles?"

Silver nods with pride "Yes. one of the rarest books of all time."

"Do you have the Necronomicon?" Rainbow asks "'Cause if you did, That'd be awesome."

Silver gives her a flat look "No, the Necronomicon was a plot device in a mad man's narratives to describe what was surely a delusional and damaged mind. It doesn't exist."

Rainbow deflates "Darn... I wanted to get a chainsaw hand."

Silver sighs "No... just... no. I'd expect that kind of thing from Babs but... wait, where is Babs?"

A loud explosion sounds from the other side of the warehouse, flooring everyone.

Scootaloo points to Babs who has a smoking tube on her shoulder "Over there... I think."

Sweetie and Diamond run towards her but slam into the still-invisible harness "Ow..."

Applebloom snorts "You two okay?"

Sweetie rubs her nose "I bith my thongue..."

Diamond give a thumbs up and groans "I'm... just going to lay here until the room stops spinning..."

Babs grins, waving "'Ey! Th' harness is RPG proof!"

Sweetie glares at her "I told you the endurance phase of testing was after the mechanical link-up checks!"

Babs shrugs "I was bored, dere were rockets layin' 'round, what did ya expect?"

Scootaloo and Rainbow nod "Sounds logical to us."

Applebloom rubs her head "Flyin' monkeys seem logical to you two."

"But... dey do exist, right?"

Silver shakes her head "No, they don't, and never will. Not only would that be biologically impossible, but it would also be a stupid thing to do in the first place."

"Have you seen Wretched? Or The magi of Mu?" Scootaloo asks, crossing her arms.

Diamond claps her hands "As entertaining as this is, I'm concerned about the fact that Babs launched an explosive rocket at us without knowing if it the harness would protect us. If it hadn't, we would be dead as door nails and you'd have committed accidental homicide on the six of us!"

Babs blushes "Ah... ah hadn't thought dat far ahead... ehehehehe..."

Rainbow shrugs "Eh, wouldn't be the first time I was nearly killed by an explosive projectile. Prolly not gonna be the last either."

"I blow myself up at least three times a day, I have a concussive and heat damage proof force field around myself." Sweetie adds

"I've been launched out of cannons hundreds of times and I'm no worse off." Scootaloo say, scratching her head

"An' we apples don't kill too easy... an' bein' friends with these two has made me that much stronger..." Applebloom says before grinning "An' ah'd jump in th' way to protect y'all."

Diamond shivers "Silver... I think the two of us are the only humans in this group..."

Silver nods "Unfortunately..."

Author's Note

Sorry it took so long, writers block and helping friends and my host's family slowed me dow\n but I have returned! Huzzah!