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Bully for Griffon

"Hiccup…hiccup…hiccup…" This is just his luck. Just what did he do to deserve this? He was helping Spike carry parchments back to the library; and not even before he walked down the stairs of the pavilion the sound of thunder pounded in his ears! He wasn't tone-deaf for long but now he can't get rid of those hiccups! He can't even carry the papers without them jumping out of his backpack! Now he has to leave Spike to carry those by himself while he goes to get rid of the hiccups. And since he doesn't want to drink out of some dirty fountain, he decided to go to the next-to-near free source of water he could find: the river bordering Ponyville.

Almost to the river, he spotted Mach Faiz coming across the river pulling a large cart. He was hoping not to be noticed but he wasn't that lucky, "Hey, Omni! I was looking for you!" Omnifarious ignored him and just drank from the river. Unfortunately Faiz just stopped beside him, "I got big plans in store for Ponyville and I need help to pull it off!"

Omni pulled his head back up, "Find someone else. Whatever it is you're planning I don't want any part."

"I just thought we'd have a little male-bonding time!" Faiz said, "We haven't been close since we first met."

"I've been taught not hang around trouble makers." Omni scowled and walked back to town.

But Faiz kept persisting and walked after him, "It's just a small favor! Since when does anything I do hurt anyone?"

"Two weeks ago you caused a stampede that almost flattened Ponyville. Besides, whatever you got there can't be any better than that."

"Look, it's just a few pranks and gags! There's no harm in making ponies laugh, is there?"

Omni stopped, "I tried pulling a prank one time."

Omnifarious sniggered as dialed a random number. A few seconds passed before the phone answered.

"Hello?"

"Hi. Is your refrigerator running?"

"Yes. Is your door unlocked."

"Uh, yes. But why do you—" the refrigerator kicked the door open and smacked Omnifarious unconscious, before running out the door with his wallet.

"It did not go well."

"Omni, these pranks won't hurt anyone, trust me! It's not like you have anything better to do, is there?"

Omni thought about that for a moment. It really is boring at the library; nothing to do but read a bunch of old books. What does Twilight see in those, anyway? "…Just a few harmless pranks?"

"100% harmless; believe me." Faiz grinned.

Omnifarious soon followed Faiz around town for what the Pegasus called 'male-bonding'. Their first stop was at Rarity's shop (hmph, rhyme). While Faiz snuck around the store's top floor he waited around the bushes wondering why they're there in the first place. When he heard footsteps coming in a different direction, he hid and peeked out from under a bush. He watched as Rainbow and Pinkie came to the door with a basket of flowers. After ringing the doorbell, they darted into a nearby bush, the same bush Omni was hiding, and crashed into him.

"Omni! What are you doing here?" Rainbow groaned as he got off him.

"Rainbow? What are you…Achoo! What are you…Achoo! Rainbow—achoo! Achoo! Why can't I stop—achoo—sneezing?!" Omnifarious felt something on his snout and wiped it off, finding a pink powder on it. "What's this?!"

"Oh…" Rainbow picked up a can with some of the same powder spilled out; he smiled sheepishly, "Sorry."

Omni looked closer at the can's sign, "What are you doing with—" suddenly Pinkie shoved her hoof over his mouth.

"Shushit! She's coming out!" the pink pony whispered.

Pinkie and Rainbow peeked out and spotted Rarity coming out with a towel and bathrobe. She sniffs into the bouquet and came up with a pink smidge on her snout, causing her to sneeze uncontrollably. Judging how the tow later bush-dwellers were running off giggling, they put sneezing powder in the flowers. Omni wiped off whatevers left of that stuff to stop himself from sneezing. A moment later Faiz came hovering over him.

"Okay, it's finally set! C'mon!" Omni followed the giddy red Pegasus over to the back of Rarity's shop.

Omni looked around while Faiz hovered under a second-floor window, snickering, "I'll bite. Just what did you—" suddenly he heard the sound of a blaring bullhorn followed by shrilling shriek.

"HA! Got it!" Faiz dropped down with an ENG video camera in his hooves, "C'mon! Let's get out of here before she catches us!" luckily Omni could take a hint and bolted with Faiz and his wagon, Rarity screaming the pegasus' name out her open bathroom window.

Omni dropped onto his side, catching his breath while Faiz was messing around outside the library. When he knocked the door, he zipped behind the sign and waited. Twilight opened the door and step out, only to step on a tripwire set for a bucket to fall over her, covering her in… in… there was nothing to describe what was spilled on her because there was absolutely nothing there, Twilight's back end and a face floating around.

"This is priceless!" Faiz cackled behind the camera, "Quick! We better split!" Omni didn't have to be told twice as he pulled the wagon out of here, preferably from the back of the tree to avoid being seen. But that didn't help much with Faiz laughing along the way.

After racing around town limits, they finally slowed down when they walked down the path on the way to Applejack's farm.

"Are you sure there's no problem with what you're doing?" Omni wondered to Faiz.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the pranks. Don't you think this is a little too much?"

"Omni, there's nothing I'm doing that's hurting anyone. Sure, Rarity's ears might be ringing for a while and Twilight may need to dye her fur over; but these are completely harmless gags, Omni! It's not like we're committing a crime or anything!" Omnifarious remained quiet, but skeptic, "Beside, no ponies were hurt in the making of this next prank: there's cans of paint in the back. We'll sneak into the farm, and paint the apples in many colors! Blue, yellow, green, even plaid and polka-dot! We'll be doing Sweet Apple Acres a favor! Picture it: Sweet Apple's Over The Rainbow Apples! Available for a limited time only!" Faiz then snickered.

"I think someone else might already have that idea…" Omnifarious said and pointed towards the orchid. What Faiz saw made him gasp. The apples on the trees were already painted like easter eggs!

"What?! Who could've done this?!" Faiz took off flew over the farm, until he spotted Rainbow and Pinkie Pie scurrying off from the farm. "I can't believe it! They stole my idea!" he then saw Applejack on the farm grounds and a lightbulb lit over his head. A minute later Faiz landed near Omni and hastly trotted off. "Job'sdonelet'sgo."

"What? Wait, Faiz! What'd you do this time?!"

"Mach Faiz! You get back here!" the way Applejack yelled was obvious. The first thing his mind told him was to follow Faiz before he does anything else stupid.

Omnifarious finally caught up to him at a stream bend outside of town. Faiz was there hiding behind a few trees. "Faiz, don't you think this has gotten a little out of hand—"

"Shushit! Keep you voice down…" Faiz whispered and pointed to the other side of the stream, where Fluttershy has been seen tending to a few animals playing in the water. "Here's the thing. Remember that foghorn I planted in Rarity's bathroom disguised as a bottle of hairspray, and left it there because I was making a clean getaway?" Omni didn't respond; just scowled, "Well, I rigged this rubber duck with an extra foghorn. It's gonna float to the other side of the stream and—"

"Faiz, are you trying to blow that foghorn-rigged duck in Fluttershy's face?"

"Well…yeah!"

"NO! Faiz, don't you know how sensitive Fluttershy is?" Omni hissed, "I mean, her name alone should've gave it away!"

"Omni, please! I'm sure the name 'Fluttershy' is just a stage name, like Carrot Top!"

"Wait, you mean Golden Harvest, or Carrot Top the prop comic?"

"Both! Either! Whatever!" Faiz sighed, "Look, how many times do I have to say it: it's a harmless prank!"

Omni swatted the duck away from the Pegasus, "Faiz, I'm not going to let you do it!"

Starting to become irritated, Faiz stood up and stared down the earth pony, "If I knew you'd be a buzzkill I wouldn't have invited you in the first place! This is supposed to be two guys having some wholesome, male-bonding fun!"

"I came with you against my better judgment because I thought you'd know better, that I thought you'd put others' feelings ahead of your own amusement! Mach Faiz, this has to stop!"

"Oh yeah?! Well who's gonna stop me? You?!"

"STOP RIGHT THERE!" Both Omni and Faiz flinched and found and small angry crowd of Rarity, half of Twilight, and Applejack biting to get rid of a really bad itch. And they were all lead by New Moon. "I can't believe it! I should've known you'd pull this on us again!"

"This is what I'm talking about," Omni muttered to Faiz, "…Wait, I was with you all day. Where'd you have time to prank New Moon?"

Faiz looked away, "Well…"

The furious New Moon stomped towards Faiz and Omni, "You think these pranks of yours are funny? Huh? You think they're funny? Well let me show you a joke of my own! Tell me: Why did Mach Faiz cross the road?!"

"Is… Okay, I'll bite," Faiz shrugged, "Why?"

"Because Ponyville Hall just issued a town-wide ban on obnoxious pranking!" New Moon grunted and kicked the wagon, sending it crashing into a nearby tree. But he wasn't finished when he went and tearing it up from the transport to the cargo. Soon the wagon was nothing but a big heap of trash, "GOOD LUCK PULLING YOUR PRANKS NOW!" he screamed as he smashed the camera against the tree and stomped off.

"Well, that's 6 hours of my life I'm not getting back." Omni muttered as he walked off.

"I don't think so!" he was then pulled back to face the half-Twilight, "Omnifarious, do you have any idea of the damage you caused? How could you help do something like this?!"

"Look, I really didn't think this could turn out bad," Omni defended, "Faiz said these were harmless pranks."

"Harmless? Look over there!" Twilight's face hovered towards Applejack, who's been biting herself trying to relieve the itch, "Applejack can't stop scratching because you and your 'friend' poured three whole boxes worth of itching powder ontop of her!"

"I had no idea what he was doing! I was just put on look out! If I had known he'd do this I would've stopped him! I wouldn't hurt anyone like that!"

"But you let Faiz do it. And that makes you just as responsible for this!" Twilight's face sighed, "If you were like Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash earlier this wouldn't be a problem. But this… If what you want is a laugh, you need to be better than this." Twilight's back half walked away with Rarity, dragging a still-itching Applejack with them.

Omni was left standing pettily near the stream. He knew these jokes were no good but he didn't realized they were this bad. How did Pinkie and Rainbow get away with stuff like this? All this running around made him tired. He figured he should just go home and forget this ever happened. What he didn't know was the gag duck was left floating to the other side, Fluttershy poking at it.

Omnifarious trotted through town not knowing what exactly to do. No one bothered to talk to him while indoors on account of what happened yesterday. And anyone who bothered to take to him was instantly shut up by New Moon. Omni knew what Faiz did isn't right, but did they have to alienate him like that? If he wants to make it up to them, how's he supposed to do it? Also, how do Pinkie and Rainbow get away with things like this? Their pranks just get shrugged off while Omni and Faiz almost got their heads bit off.

Just then he saw Big McIntosh trot past him pulling a cart full of apples. There's a guy to talk to; at least he wasn't involve yesterday. Omni trotted next to him, "Hey, uh, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Nope…" McIntosh replied kept pulling, with a scowl seen on him.

"So… Applejack told you what happened yesterday?"

"Eeyup."

"Well, I wanna know how I can make it up to her. I know what happened gone a little to far…"

The big red pony stopped abruptly, still not looking at the blue one, "Do you really?"

"I'm just 'bout done with today's load. What about you, Applejack? …Applejack? …Applejack!"

The orange farm-pony didn't respond, only whined until she tossed her had down and fell onto hhe side with it. She then kicked against the ground and spun herself on her head, trying to get rid of that bad itch. That's the forth time she did that that day, "For pity sakes, mare; don't make me have to put a plastic cone over your head!"

"Oh. I didn't think it'd be that bad."

"I got my hooves fuller than usual right now thank to what you two did. You want to make it up to me, then how about you help me out at the farm."

"That could work…"

So Omnifarious ended up working as a farm hand all day. After half a day of work, he plopped down against a tree. The rest of the work done here is not as easy as just picking apples. It's the same as the farm work he did back home, but they weren't compared to this. He's just glad McIntosh is through with him, at least until tomorrow. He guess he'd better head on home.

Before he could leave from the gate he heard a crashing sound in the trees. It sounded like a big deal so he rushed over to the source of the crash, just in time to see Pinkie Pie hovering up from a tree riding something between a helicopter and a bicycle. Omni tried to shrug it off and walk on home. But on his long walk he's still bugged by what happened yesterday. It just doesn't make sense how Rainbow and her could get away with the same thing he and Faiz did. A prank is still a prank, isn't it? Maybe there's a difference on what to do to others. He could ask Rainbow for advice, or maybe Pinkie…

CRASH!

Omnifarious suddenly felt he was hit by a meteor! His body's splayed out on the road under a heap of aluminum debris!

"Omnifarious! Omigosh, are you alright?! I'm so sorry! Here let me help!" Pinkie dumped him onto a stretcher card and pulled him away, wailing some siren.

After making it to the library, she got Spike to patch up Omni while she explained to New Moon and Twilight abut what happened earlier, up to the part when Pinkie crashed into him; not that New Moon bothered to hear it.

"So Pinkie Pie, are you sure that this friend of Rainbow Dash is really so mean?" Twilight asked, not looking away from the book she's reading while sitting in a small wooden tub covered in suds.

Um, yeah!" she went pacing, "She keeps stealing Rainbow Dash away, she pops my balloons, and she told me to buzz off. I've never met a griffon this mean. Well, actually, I've never met a griffon at all, but I bet if I had, she wouldn't have been as mean and grumpy as Gilda."

"I knew a griffon." Omni cut in, grabbing their attention.

"You know a griffon?" New Moon cynically asked.

"Well, yeah. There was this one griffon that picked on me while I was still in school. He got away with everything he did to me. Stole my bike, my lunch money, even my homework! Then one day I got a lucky break…"

Younger Omni went running into the classroom and grabbed his bookbag. Suddenly he felt the ground under him thumping. It's always a bad omen so Omni knew what's coming. So he dashed out of the room.

"OMNIFARIOUS!"

Younger Omni braked in the middle of the hall, eyes wide in anticipated horror, "G-g-g… Gelman?"

A large, hulking griffon stomped around the horror in front of the small pony. "Where'd you think you're going, Omni?"

"I'm…I'm…I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE!" Omni burst out the school screaming with Gelman breaking the door down after him. The rest of the onlooking students cheered for him as he tried to avoid the griffon.

"Run, Omni! Run!"

"Serpentine, Omni! Serpentine!"

Omni's parent's drove by and Omni took the chance to jump inside before Gelman could grab him, "Get back here, %#& $%!"

"So long, Gelman!" Omni laughed from the cart, "I'm moving away to # % knows where! Haha! I'm free! FREE!"

Gelman screeched after watching his prey get away.

"If Gilda's anything like Gelman, then I guess griffons aren't exactly the friendly type," Omni waited for a reply but everyone stood silent staring, "Well?"

"Omni there's a huge difference between those two," New Moon scowled, "The only thing Gilda is guilty of is being Rainbow Dash's childhood friend. And Pinkie Pie is just feeling threatened because she's jealous of Gilda!"

"Jealous?!" Pinkie gasped, feeling accused.

"Green with envy. Well, in your case, pink with envy." Spike joked.

"While this other griffon, this so-called bully…" New Moon continued, "No one bullys ponies just for the sake of being a bully. Obviously you provoked him somehow and maybe that's why he was picking on you."

"I have to agree with New Moon. Listen Pinkie, I don't want to upset you, but just because Rainbow Dash has another friend doesn't make Gilda a grump. And Omnifarious, stereotyping someone at the drop of a hat, just because of something that happen to only you? That's even more childish."

"Not to mention hypocritical, on account of what you did." New Moon added.

"Right. I think it's both you and Pinkie who needs to improve their attitude."

"Improve my attitude? But I... D... B… It's Gilda that... D... Are you seri..." tired of stuttering, Pinkie screamed in frustration and stomped out the door.

"You too, Omnifarious!" New Moon scowled.

"What?! Why me?!"

"Don't argue! It's apparent you didn't realize what you did wrong! Until you finally admit it, I don't need you causing trouble in my Library! Now go!"

"Fine!" Omni groaned.

"New Moon, don't you think you're a little too hard on him?" Twilight asked in concerned.

"Twilight, trust me, I know what I'm doing." New Moon said, not taking his eyes off the blue stallion until the door was shut behind him.

Omni lost Pinkie real fast. He didn't know a person could move like that. This 'jealousy' idea didn't really sit well with her, he could tell. He's never seen Pinkie this upset in the 4-weeks-and-counting he's been here. The blue pony soon found her slouching over a table outside the Sugarcube Corner shop.

"Pinkie Pie," Omnifarious walked up to the pouting pony sipping out of a sundae cup, "Are you alright?"

"Hi, Omnipotent." She muttered.

"…My name's Omnifarious." He corrected.

"That's what I said; Omphalism."

"Never mind…" Omni sat down on the opposite chair, "Hey, I never met this griffon of yours, but I believe what you were trying to say. Is there anything I can do to help?"

Pinkie turned away, "Help with what? Twilight's right. Maybe Gilda isn't a big meanie grumpy mean-meanie-pants. Maybe I'm just a big jealous judgmental jealous-jealousy-pants." However the sound of laughter made her jump out her seat when Omni could see Rainbow landing into town with a lion-eagle hybrid.

"That must be Gilda, right?" he watched on until Gilda went behind a produce cart, where her tail suddenly stuck out in front of someone's face over the corn.

" A rattler, a rattler!" Granny Smith screamed in misunderstood terror, "Run for the hills! Everybody forsake yourselves!"

Gilda looked up and watched as the old mare fled as quickly as her bony joints could take her, which isn't very quick. Pinkie and Omni, at the table, saw the whole thing.

"Aw, poor Granny Smith, she didn't know it was a joke." Pinkie groaned.

"I guess Gilda's never taught to respect your elders." Omni said.

"…No, no, let's not misjudge her. It was kind of a funny prank, I guess."

"Try telling that to New Moon."

"Hey, Omni!" the blue pony jumped at the call of a certain red Pegasus. "I wanna talk to ya'!"

"Oh no. No. Not again!" Omni muttered, already realizing what he wanted.

Faiz wasted no time asking as soon as he reached the table, "Hey Omni, I need a favor!"

"No! You know what. No!" Omni burst out, "I don't want anything more to do with you and your so-called pranks! I got in a lot of trouble because of you! Well, that's it! I'm done!"

"Wait, you don't understand! I thought about what I did and, believe me, I learned a valuable lesson!"

"What lesson's that?"

"That with great power comes great responsibility! I found the perfect target for the King of all Pranks!"

"Faiz! I can't believe you're still set on doing this after what happened yesterday! Do you have any sense of morality?!"

"Hey!" Omni and Faiz attention was placed back to the action when they saw Gilda standing erect over a frightened Fluttershy, "I'm walking here!"

"Oh, um, I'm sorry," Fluttershy backed away, "I-I-I was just trying to..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Gilda mocked, mimicking Fluttershy's timid tone; she stomped towards her, nearly stepping over a bunch of baby ducks, "Why don't you just watch where you're going, doofus?"

"B-b-b-but I... I..." The griffon sucked in a double lungful of air and let out a deafening roar right in the meek mare's face. It became awfully quiet until Fluttershy flew off sobbing, "Ugh, please, all these lame ponies are driving me buggy. I gotta bail." She then flies off.

"No need for morality when there's none on the receiving end," Faiz said, "What I got planned is perfect for someone like to knock her down a few pegs. Now tell me you don't wanna be part of this."

"…Lets prank the #$ % out of her."

Phase-1 of Faiz's so-called plan involves setting up a large party. And what better place to set it up in that Sugar Cube Corner. Apparently it's the best place for Party Central, especially when Pinkie's the master of ceremonies. As soon as the shop's door opened, ponies came bustling in drones. Word gets around fast in a small town like this. As for Pinkie Pie, Faiz had to pull her in by a red wagon. She was stuck in an erect pose beaming a triumphant smile; just like she was standing an hour back while he and Faiz were setting up.

"We should keep score on how many times she does this." Faiz muttered as he heaved her onto the floor, where Pinkie started moving again and zipped away.

"Okay, you know what to do, right?" Faiz asked Omni.

"Let's get this over with," Omni sighed. When he spotted the griffon among the crowd (she wasn't so hard to spot), he moved through it and tapped on her furry brown hind quarters. That caught her attention.

"Can I help you?" she rather demanded with an annoyed scowl.

"Hi, uh, my name is Omnifarious, and I wanna welcome you to Ponyville." He held out her hoof for Gilda to shake. What followed is a full-body electrical shock that sent the griffon tottering to the ground. Even when Omni's the one with the joybuzzer, he's just as surprised as she was.

"Do joybuzzers even do that?" Omni wondered looking at the small button on his hoof.

Faiz cackled as he came up, "This triple-strength joybuzzer does! C'mon, let's get her ready for the next one!" Omni followed Faiz back to the party.

"Everyone, I'd like you all to meet Gilda, a long-time, dear friend of Rainbow Dash," Pinkie announced to the crowd, "Let's honor her and welcome her to Ponyville." Gilda can be seen forcing a smile while the others cheered on her.

"Het, Gilda! Gilda! Try these first!" Faiz zipped in front of a table behind Gilda, with a bowl of candy in his hooves.

"Vanilla lemon drops. Don't mind if I do." A moment after popping one into her mouth, she made a sour face before flames sprout out of his beak. Just what's in those things?

"Punch is right over there!" Faiz laughed as he pointed to a few cups near a punch bowl. Gilda grabbed a grenade-shaped cup and dumped the drink into her mouth, only to spit out what little tobasco sauce that wasn't chugged down her throat. She moved to the toilet cup and spat out vinegar, and a trash can cup with mouthwash. There's a can of soda she grabbed was the one with punch, but it's also the one with holes to drain it on Gilda's crest. Faiz kept laughing off the comedy show with most people in the room. Gilda dunked his head into the punch bowl to get the myriad of bad tastes in her mouth.

That's Omni's cue to come in and present Gilda with a present in his mouth, which Gilda snatched away and opened, which gave her a bunch of toy snakes popping in her face, leaving her dazed and disheveled.

"This is gonna be one hell of a party." Faiz snickered.

Later into the party…

"Faiz, when is this 'master plan' supposed to happen," Omni muttered, "So far it's jut one typical prank and/or gag after another. Isn't there anything original you got planned?"

"Omni, be patient. This is the kind of prank you can't rush. Trust me; before this party's over, Gilda's gonna go down in history as the first griffon to be pranked inside-out and outside-back-in by the Prankster King!"

"That's if history's a back-page article in yesterday's paper, #%$hole!" Rainbow shouted from the other side of the shop. That guy must have real good hearing.

"Yeah well, wait until the main attraction! Then we'll see!"

"We'll see you still being an #%$hole!"

"Caketime, everypony!" Pinkie called, carrying a large, towering cake into the shop room.

"Hey, can I blow out the candles?" Spike asked eagerly.

" Why don't we let Gilda blow out the candles, Spike," Twilight stated, "She is the guest of honor after all."

"Exactly," Gilda pushed over spike and moved over to the cake. She took a deep breath and blew out the candles. Omni could see the perplexed look on her face when the candles relit themselves. She blew them out again only to get the same result. He doesn't know how many times it take for her to keep blowing until she could see the writing on the wall, but eventually she's downright winded in front of the still-lit candles.

"Re-lighting birthday candles, I love that prank," Spike laughed with the crowd, "What a classic."

"Now, I wonder who could've done that." Pinkie giggled.

"Yeah, I wonder." Gilda snarked.

"Who care?!" Faiz scooped up a hoofful of cake and shoved it in his mouth, "This is some damn-good cake!"

"Faiz!" New Moon slapped Faiz over the head, causing him to spit out bits of cake. "What is wrong with you?!"

"What's wrong with eating cake?!"

"What's wrong with using a plate and fork!"

"Hooves are nature's plates and forks!"

"Who wants to play Pin the Tail on the Pony!" Pinkie announced.

"Oh, my favorite game," Rarity giddied, the paper tail near her feet, "Can I go first? Can I have the purple tail?"

" Well, I am the guest of honor," Gilda snatched the tail away, "and I'll have the purple tail."

"Yeah, Gilda should definitely go first," Pinkie said, "Let's get you blindfolded."

"Hey what- ugh- what are you doing?" Gilda protested as Spike pulled a blindfold over her eyes before she's sent spinning like a tornado.

"We're spinning you around and around and then you can pin the tail on the pony," Pinkie lead the griffon to the poster, "Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail."

"Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail," Gilda mocked Pinkie's advice, "Yeah, right. This is another prank, isn't it? I'm going this way." She turned the other way.

"Wait! The poster is this way! Gilda, you walking in the wrong-"

Gilda really should've listened, because right after stepping through the batwing doors into the kitchen, she was shot back out and was sent crashing back to the wall, where a sombrero hat dropped on her head with the purple tail hanging across her beak like a mustache.

"Uh, Gilda? You pinned the tail on the wrong end." Pinkie naively stated.

The whole restaurant uproar in laughter, which pretty much all she wrote as Gilda made an uproar of her own that nearly split everyone's ears. She then shot into midair, "This is your idea of a good time? I've never met a lamer bunch of dweebs in all my life. And Pinkie Pie, you! You are queen lame-o with your weak little party pranks!"

"Wha? Me?" Pinkie gestured unknowingly, "I'm don't know what you're talking about!"

Gilda landed with a thud, "Fine, go ahead and keep playing dumb! I guess that means you won't mind what I'm gonna do to you!"

Everyone gasped when the griffon pounced on Pinkie and held her against the wall. Just when she's about to hurt her she jump when someone bit her tail. Gilda shot back and spotted Omnifarious backing away. "You leave Pinkie Pie alone! I'm the one who set all those pranks, so put it up with me!" he did not know why he said that.

Gilda growled and stomped towards him, "I don't know what make you think you can pick a fight with me, but I could've let you walk out of here while you even have a backbone. But instead you decided to bite my tail!" Omni suddenly found himself backed into a wall with the griffin towering over him, "So maybe I should fix this biting problem of yours permanently!"

"Not on my watch, you don't!" Faiz pushed Gilda back and got in between them.

"You really can't wait your turn, can you?!" Gilda growled.

"Faiz, what are you doing?!" Omni hissed.

"Hey, don't take all the credit! You're not the one who asked Johnny Knoxville for a favor to borrow his giant hand for the party," Faiz said, then stared down Gilda, "Beside, the only thing this griffon's good at is blowing smoke. She's not so tough."

Suddenly Gilda went and slugged the unfortunate pony next to her… SMACK "#$%DAMN!" which happened to be that white Pegasus from Chapters 1 and 3.

Faiz yelped and jumped over the nearest table, "He did it! It was all him! It's all his idea!"

"Faiz you idiot!" Omni cried right before Gilda slammed him against the wall off his hooves, about to strike him with her free talons, "NO, DON'T!"

Right when Gilda's about to clout him, her claw got held in place by a midnight-blue aura. New Moon stood holding her with his magic. "I suggest you put those claws away before I rip them away."

Gilda glared at him for a moment before snarling in defeat and dropped Omnifarious, letting the black unicorn loosen his grip, "I can't believe I'm wasting time with you losers! Come on Dash, we're bailing on this pathetic scene," Gilda walked to the door but Rainbow didn't move an inch, only stood with a hardened look, "Come on Rainbow Dash. I said, we're leaving."

"You know what, you leave," Rainbow stated, "I'm staying."

Gilda scoffed, "Come on, Dash, you're joshing me. You'd rather stay with these ponies? They're a bunch of haters!" Gilda shot back at Omni, "This one in particular! He set up these lousy pranks, just to make a fool out of me! He's obviously jealous of how awesome I am!"

"I threw this party to improve your attitude," Pinkie replied, "I thought a good party might turn that frown upside down."

"And I'm sure they weren't all meant for you specifically," Rainbow disputed, "It's just dumb luck that you set them all off."

"I wouldn't be sure about that." New Moon muttered in the background.

"And you sure didn't need any help making a fool of yourself. You know, this is not how I thought my old friends would treat my new friends. If being cool is all you care about, maybe you should go find some new cool friends someplace else."

Gilda huffed, "Yeah? Well you, you, you are such a… a flip-flop!"

"Oooh, breaking out the family-friendly cursewords." Faiz teased.

"Cool one minute and lame the next! When you decide not to be lame anymore, gimme a call." The bird of prey walked out the door… with a bumper sticker saying 'CAUTION: I can go from 0 to BITCH in 2.5 seconds'.

"Not cool." Rainbow huffed.

"Wow, talk about a party pooper." Spike avowed, with everyone else muttering in agreement.

"I'm sorry everypony, for bringing Gilda here. I didn't know how rude she was, "Rainbow apologized, and walked up to Pinkie, "And Pinkie Pie, I'm really sorry she ruined that awesome party you put on for her."

Faiz cut in with Omni in tow, "Hey, what about us? We help set up too!"

"So it was you!" New Moon stomped towards the group.

"Uh, I mean, it's all him! Yeah…" Faiz raced off leaving Omni to face New Moon alone. Rainbow and Pinkie backed away.

"I'll deal with you later, Faiz! And you…" New Moon kept approaching Omni backing away, "You still haven't learned your lesson, have you?!"

"Look, I know you wouldn't understand, but I did all this hoping to teach Gilda a lesson. I'm just trying to help-"

"A lesson?! There's no lesson for them to learn when they're on the receiving end!" New Moon shot back, "Don't you know that every action comes with both a positive and negative reaction; and the one who gets pranked always receives the negative reaction!"

"But…but—"

"But what, Omnifarious?"

Omni hung his head low, "Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were doing the same this me and Faiz were doing the other day. It's double-standard, isn't it?! If what you said is true, then why don't I ever see you telling them off!"

"Let me tell you something…" New Moon growled, "The result of pranks you and Faiz make always end up hurting the ponies on the receiving end. At the very least it would cost money to fix what you ruined. Remember Applejack? She can't come to this party because her cone can't fit through the door!"

"That wasn't be that was Fai—"

"You had a part in it just being there, Omnifarious! Don't pretend you merely an innocent in that. As for Pinkie Pie, she wouldn't pull any pranks if they'd hurt the ones she targets. There's nothing irreparable in what she does. She's the Element of Laughter for a reason, after all! She intends to bring laughter not just to herself, but to others, even with a few small pranks. She finds a way for people to laugh with her. There's no harm as long as both sides are laughing. So no, Omnifarious, it's not a double-standard. What you did to Gilda, it's just as cruel as what you did to everyone else. And you add insult to injury by saying you're 'helping out a friend'. If you don't know how to do it right, then you have absolutely no right calling yourself anyponies' friend!"

"Well…well excuse me for trying to help out a friend…" Omni stepped aside and let himself out of the restaurant.

Omnifarious stood in the middle of the floor in the basement fuming off. First it's the castle, then the tickets, then the harvest and now this. Every time he tries doing something for someone, it ends up biting him eventually. How could there be a rulebook on how to do the right thing? What's what he's doing any different from anyone else trying to help? If there's something wrong with him just helping, then what kind of friend is he…?

Omni jumped when a bag dropped right in front of him. Who's in here?! Is it Twilight? New Moon? …No, he's the one who confined Omni here as if he's disciplining some child.

"Hi, Omni!"

"Wha!" Omni jumped back when Pinkie popped up, "Pinkie Pie?! …But what are you doing here?"

"I feel bad that you had to miss out on the afterparty, so I brought you a doggybag! C'mon, look what's inside!" Omni looked back towards the back and dipped his snout in, and then pulled out it looks like a cup with a space in the middle, "A cup with a split personality! Now you don't have to choose which juice to drink every day!" Omni dunked back into the bag and pulled out a small white cap, "Underpants you wear on your head, so you can keep warm during cold nights!" the next thing Omni pulled out s small toy car, "A pencil-sharpening indy car! You can play with it and write letters at the same time!" next came a small white tube, "A toilet-paper dispenser walkie-talkie! Now you'll have some one else in the bathroom to talk to when you feel lonely!" the next one was a bit larger, that's because it was a roll of toilet paper with pictures on it, "Toilet paper comics! You'll never know what'll make you laugh right before you leave the bathroom!" what's left seemed to be stuck on his head. He pulled out wearing some kind of eyeglasses, "And wacky drinking glasses! Saves a fortune on straws!"

"Wow, that's…that's very nice of you," Omni took off the glasses and smiled a bit, "Thank you."

"Oh don't worry about it! There's nothing I love more than seeing other ponies with a smile on their face! Well, it's getting dark and I have to be home!" Pinkie hopped onto the staircase and walked up the stairs before she stopped, "And Omni, New Moon's wrong. There's nothing wrong with helping out a friend."

Omnifarious' spirits began to lift as Pinkie left the basement. Knowing there's someone who's on his side, he slipped under the blanket and eventually fell off to sleep.

Late that night behind Omni's back, the Book of Virtues opened and flipped through a blank page where a new message was written in it:

Dearest Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that it's hard to accept when somepony you like wants to spend time with somepony who's not so nice. Though it's impossible to control who your friends hang out with, it is possible to control your own behavior. Just continue to be a good friend. In the end, the difference between a false friend and one who's true will surely come to light.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

And headlined over the inscription: Faithfulness.