Power Ponies: Crisis on Infinite Equestria
Post Crisis: The Aftermath
Previous ChapterAt Ponyville, it was just as Cadance had said: Everything returned to normal, nopony were fighting any longer over Power Ponies, except for Pipsqueak and Noteworthy because they originally were arguing about it anyways way before. Shortly after Cadence's gigantic heart spell thing, once the two were reminded that the whole town were arguing about the Power Ponies, they went back to bickering.
At the FR castle, things have calmed down as well, with the friends apologizing to each other about how much they are getting heated up about a simple comic book.
"I'm terribly sorry for getting upset with my friends, and especially you Applejack, you meant well trying to stop me from going overboard." Twilight smiled at her and hugged her all over until the orange earth pony can breath no more.
"Y-ya welcome Ah guess, but there ain't need to choke the heck out of me!" She firmly resisted to Twilight's vicious friendship hug, and pushed her backwards.
"D-do I have to apologize too? I'm sooo confused, please forgive me!" Fluttershy ducked and as she asked Twilight a request for a freakin' apology.
"Fluttershy, don't be scared, we're all good now! In fact you're the only pony here who wasn't arguing, which was a pretty good job of you for self control!" Twilight then thought of more to say, and then it hit her, "But since you didn't do anything to break us from arguing, so technically speaking you should apologize."
The Fluttershy's eyes grew with sadness and was forced to apologize, geez that was stupid of her to even ask.
"I'd say, that was the most I can ever get from you Rainbow! It was quite fascinating!" Rarity walked back into the castle, along with Rainbow Dash with Rarity's new brand called the Gazzling Spazza, which was not the least favorite dress Rainbow wore previously in punishment, because the Gazzling Spazza can only be made from Rainbow's hair. The pegasus now trotted in elegantly, showing off her own material literally, and leapt in the air then did a figure eight, gliding onto the center of the table, then her dress shined with rainbow glitters, her wings shot out from her side and emitted light. The thought of having her as a model actually impressed everypony, Rarity's idea was brilliant when other ponies can only drool at Rainbow's beauty, until,
"HELL YEA! I'M WAY TOO AWESOME! Nopony is sexier than me!" She shot up and spun and dived straight down back to the floor. Everypony else shook their heads and rolled their eyes, Rainbow just had to kill the moment.
"Ooh! Ooh! Twilight! Twilight! Do I have to apologize? Because if I don't apologize then I'm afraid you guys will suspect me as a horrible friend, then I would be abandoned, then I would be lonely, speaking of that, Gummy is always lonely when I'm not around, despite he's right there in my mane." Her green alligator popped out, stuck out his tongue and bit onto Pinkie's mane. "See? Then the thing is if I apologize at the wrong time, which is possibly right now, you guys might suspect me as crazy and still ditch me from the position of your friend, I must act quick now, now and now and now and NOW! Twilight should I apolog-"
"WELL, since you did nothing to help us and blurted out random stuffs just to join in the argument. I strongly recommend you to apologize..." Twilight was about to go all out, the fuse in her horn is about to fade and create a new sort of Sparkle. "And if you don't freakin' be quiet now, I will seriously kill you and take you off my friends list." She hovered a blank sheet of paper over and pretended to uncheck Pinkie off her made up Friends That I Will Never Unfriend list. Pinkie Pie jumped up in shock, and quickly knelt down and banged her head on the floor rapidly,
"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Pinkie's tears were going out, and they flooded the area around them. Twilight rolled her eyes but smiled,
"Good, and now, who else needs to apologize?!" Twilight glared towards the animals, then at Fluttershy who apologized already. They all shrieked and fled out of the castle.
"Well that does it..."
"Twi', why are you demanding us to apologize again?" Applejack walked over to her side and turned to her face.
"Because, so we can avoid something like this again and not have to cause chaos all over the castle." The Princess of Friendship responded abnormally.
Or Ponyville and Canterlot in this case... Applejack gulped and found an excuse to leave the castle,
"Ah, uhhh, have some zap harvest to do-"
"Today's not even the day. How come you never brought it up before that zap apples are under process?" Twilight leaned towards the orange mare as she tried to back away towards the castle door.
"W-well, Ah forgot to tell y'all! It's just that Ah w-was being busy these days and never got the chance!" Applejack never lied, but to Twilight, it seems suspicious because she is stuttering and fumbling her words nervously, with sweat flooding her face. To the rest of her friends, Applejack is telling the truth, but her truth is just too doubtful to believe, plus the Princess is now glaring at her, ready to attack and threaten the life out of her. So she had no choice but to wave a quick goodbye and trip out the door. Then she got back up and ran back to Sweet Apple Acres as quick as possible.
"Twilight, darling! I'm awfully sorry that we ruined your birthday party today! I never expected this would happen." Rarity walked over to the lavender alicorn and put her left hoof onto Twilight's cheek. Rarity was not afraid or embarrassed to apologize because she's always ready to take responsibility no matter how tender the situation was or how little of her fault it was.
"Unlike that Applejack who just will not consider her friendship and is stubborn like a mule!" She hissed under her breath, but was heard by a mule outside who stormed in. It was Cranky Doodle.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU FOUL MOUTH PONY?!" The gray donkey bawled, his forehead is lava red and his pores are fuming. Pinkie Pie noticed her friend and jumped over to greet him,
"Hey Cranky! What is up! What made you com-"
"Not now Pinkie!" Cranky retorted and somehow threw the incoming bouncing mare out of the castle, leaving the other three ponies remaining speechless.
"Cranky! Do you want to take a look at my new fashion design called the Gazzling Spazza? I'm certain it will amuse you!" The fashionista mare levitated Rainbow Dash in front of Cranky. The gray donkey gawked at the beautiful and awesome dress wore onto Rainbow. The scales are glittering and shimmering with innumerable colors that acted as if a bright colored portal is ready to suck the pleased donkey in. The diverted lines and streaks are alined perpendicularly as it created multiples of mini and vivid images that no mind can come up with. Buttons and collars are also rainbow painted and will impress anypony (donkey in this case) when they even come close of touching it.
"My Matilda! That is marvelous!" Cranky's eyes shined and mouth opened wide, "Excuse my rudeness earlier before, Miss Rarity, I want to know where and how did you even come up with this masterpiece?" He began escorting the unicorn out of the castle, while she pulled Rainbow Dash in the air with her magic, who crossed her hooves and frowned. Twilight finally felt the need to fall onto the ground and relax, tired and exhausted with all the pointless arguing with her friends (or Applejack). She thought she can give herself some private time to think over her mistakes and how she can fix it until some dragon returned.
"Twilight, I'm sorry for starting all this ruckus, I should've known better than being a empty headed assistant and unaware of who you are. If I only didn't bring this Power Ponies thing up to you, you wouldn't have to go through all this chaos." Spike stood next to his best friend, head hung low, claws lifelessly aside his torso. His eyes aren't watery but he was ready to break down and ruin himself, he wanted to take full responsibility on this incident. Twilight however stood up and nuzzled him,
"Oh Spike! It wasn't your fault, it was nopony's fault! None would have thought this would turn out to be a skirmish between the six of us." She then switched tone, "But Spike, I think there is a lesson you have learned after all this, and it's really important that you have made yourself experiencing it."
"What is it?" The purple drake looked up to the alicorn as she responded,
"Don't take everything so seriously at heart, even if it does seem like it's your responsibility. You have to make things easier for you even if it's overwhelming and stressful. Similar to my amount of paperwork ever since I became a princess, it's long, monotonous, ticking, pressuring. I even had to go into Big Mac's brain to learn a thing or two from him about handling stress."
Spike stood there dumbfoundedly for a short while, and finally jumped onto Twilight, hugging her hoof five inches off the ground. Twilight giggled and shook her head, and hugged her number one assistant back.
"Twilight! Thank you for reminding me of today's moral, I will take it to heart!" Spike vowed and put his left claw onto his chest while standing straight and head high.
"See? That's my number one assistant I'm proud of-"
"OH COME ON! You completely misunderstood the point of today's lesson!" A yellow claw of an eagle appeared out of the blue and snapped out a bat then whacked Twilight on the head with the same bat on a larger lion paw. Soon pieces of bat wing and pegasus wing combined on a long and wavy gray body, which finally formed a horse head. Antlers of a deer and a goat came running across the crystal floor and hopped onto the horse head. Goat and lizard leg grew out at the bottom of the body. Finally came the un-matching eyeballs and bushy eyebrows (they're better than Bush anyways), then a goat beard was brushed out, and finally a snake tongue hissed out of the creature's mouth.
"DISCORD?!" Twilight yelled furiously at the draconequus, annoyed everytime he comes to ruin her momentum, "What in Equestria are you talking about?"
"Well I was waiting for the right time to, you know: Pound the alarm when you and your little scaly friend to learn the lesson of today's problematic... Problem you know." Discord teleported behind Spike and summoned a pair of scissors to cut the green scales on the dragon, Spike pushed him back and angrily glared at him, the draconequus shrugged as if nothing had happened. He teleported back to Twilight and shook his index claw.
"Tst tst tst! But no, you have failed my test Twilight. You did not know what to do under this circumstance I created, and it was your sister-in-law who managed to cease all this disharmony in Ponyville and Canterlot."
"Wait WHAT?! YOU WERE THE ONE WHO STARTED ALL THIS?!" Twilight flew up and nose to nose pointed with the former ruler of Equestria, who only teleported the Princess of Friendship back to her original spot.
"Well, can't say that this argument between you and Applejack would've happened by normal condition, so I decided to make things a little bit more, interesting. Plus, like I stated before, I did this so that you and Spike can learn the lesson."
“What was the lesson then?" Twilight and Spike asked at the same time, not realizing that they did.
"Well, consider this: Issue #69 was a complicated issue, so it just had to apply to this dire situation-"
"Ohhhh! I get it now! Issue #69 is complicated! Ha- No not funny at all, spill the beans already!" Twilight interrupted hastingly.
"Now now, lets keep a level head and continue with my lecturing analysis. While you got yourself into an argument that should've never been an argument, you failed to recognize that." Twilight's pupils shrank, and she fell over like a stone. Then Discord flew around Spike and pointed his claw at him,
"And as for you, my little Spikey friend: Your problem isn't being stressed and overwhelmed like what Twilight had said earlier, but you have done nothing to take responsibility of your believed guilt."
"What do you mean by that?" Spike looked up and followed his sight on the floating Discord surrounding him.
"While the Six were recklessly arguing... except for my Fluttershy! She's wonderful!" He almost let out a squeak, but nevertheless controlled himself and continued, "You were sitting there watching the consequence go by and blaming yourself for starting all this. Instead, you could've just went to stop the whole bickering by reminding them what was the whole purpose of arguing over this anyways? Although Fluttershy first of all I don't blame her for her personality for situations like that, but it was mostly because it wasn't her responsibility at all. She was not feeling guilty as much as you were."
"Wow, so it wasn't what Twilight had said, it was because I was not responsible enough to clean my own mess!"
DING DING DING! Discord ringed a bell and then made his head fall onto the floor into pieces, the rest of his body snapped a broom and a portal. He swept the pieces of his head into the portal and it was remade into his original head back onto his body.
"Exactly correct! You have passed my test!" Discord clapped and summoned balloons and a Discord bobblehead to give to Spike in reward.
"And as for you, Twilight. You should've known better as the Princess of Friendship to recognize your own weaknesses at hoof." He teleported near Twilight and bent his head near her. "You always get yourself in messes over minor details that don't even matter, and in the end, not only have you tangled yourself all over, but you accomplished nothing!" Discord shook his index claw again shaking his head at the same time, then followed by Spike who did the same exact thing.
"Ugh! Fine!" Twilight got back up and started pushing Discord out of her castle. "Thank you Discord okay?! For teaching me about my personal problems and not minding your own business!" Before the draconequus can say anything in response, she slammed the castle door hard.
"Wow! So this is why Applejack didn't put the Daring Do autobiography into her present box, because of this!" He took out Power Ponies: Issue #69 Part Two, Twilight smiled at the fact that Applejack was thoughtful of Spike too for he never had his own birthday party before.
Unfortunately, it wasn't what everyone had expected.
"ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"You know what Mane-iac? I'm done with doing you." Marevelous unwrapped her lasso and stood up, "This is getting really awkward."
The two ponies by now have rolled all the way to Uptown in 215 street, by the river that divides Manehattan and The Broncos. The water is shimmering and the sun is up. Wait, how long have they been doing this?
"What?! No come on! I want more!" Mane-iac childishly waggled and begged, "The fun's just getting started!"
"No it's not, in fact, it's ending right now." The red suited heroine pulled Mane-iac up and walked away.
"Wait, aren't you going to arrest me?" Mane-iac bewilderedly asked, not knowing what the hell is going on with the heroine's dirty mind.
"I've had enough fun with you." Marevelous epicly turned back to Mane-iac, her former playmate, before turning back to her front and trotting stylishly and tripping over a stone. The sun now showed it's all as it hovered above the horizon and the trees in Van Coltland park, the dusk has officially slipped away into the nebulous, stars went back to sleep. Mane-iac smiled at her former partner, who has given her a time of soothing leisure, and went back snickering evily with her next plan to conquer the world.
"Oh. Why didn't I just arrest her...?" Marevelous got back up and noticed that the villain was nowhere in sight, she facehoofed herself and shrugged, all she got to do was call her friends and stop Mane-iac once again and arresting her for good... Right? Stay tuned for Power Ponies Issue #70!
"I told you to get the latest copy of Issue #69 but you weren't even listening to me!" A unicorn slammed his thick and hard hoof down on the conference crystal table, almost cracking it.
"Sir Armor! I'm sorry, and I don't like it either! But this is the full issue!" Tea Cup leaned back and extended his two hooves out to confirm his innocence.
"You know what? Fine! I'm just going to read it and see!"
"Thank you for your thoughtful consideration, kind Sir, if you have anymore issues plea-"
"What did you just SAY?!" Shining Armor is now officially stomping onto the table, his eyeballs completely bloody red. He launched himself towards Tea Cup's face, the brown bearded and mustached face was not even two centimeters away from the angry white stallion on the verge to murder someone. "You want. TO TAKE ALL OF MY FREAKIN' POWER PONIES ISSUE COLLECTION AWAY FROM ME?! AFTER I YEARS AND YEARS OF WORKING MY PLOT OFF TO GET THESE! YOU WANT TO TAKE THEM AWAY?!"
"N-no, kind Sir! Please forgive my choice of wording! I didn't mean to-"
"TAKE HIM OUT! FIRE HIM! STRIP HIM OF HIS CONSUL TITLE!" Shining Armor commanded furiously as turned his back against Tea Cup, who is now reaching his left hoof to beg for help and mercy,
"And literally too." Shining Armor rubbed his hooves back and forth while smiling freakishly. His Guards sighed took the poor coffee brown stallion out of the court house and stripped his badge, his title and his honor completely.
Sigh... his clothes, his (wig) mane and tail, until he's completely naked.
"N-NO! Please! You can't possibly have done this! SHINING ARMORRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!"
Resisted heavily to his former consul's cries, Shining Armor began reading Issue #69 and skimming over it. Until his wife stepped into the court house to check on him, who was in shock not because he is reading Power Ponies, but why he is standing on the middle of the court table.
"Honey," She sighed, "What are you so up about? I can hear you from the train station."
"Oh nothing, just that somepony is 'condemned' for their disloyalty of their country." Shining Armor responded without even taking a look at Cadence, who rolled her eyes and asked another question,
"Are you for Equestria's sake serious? That's like the 69th time you fired a pony NOT for your country, but for your own whim! And why are they all consuls too?"
"Oh I did? Well that's their problem for ticking me off everytime when I get a new issue of the Power Ponies."
"Why are you even so into this anyways? You're becoming overly obsessed." She hated to say it, so she grumbled it out, "like Twilight..."
"Really? My sister reads them too?" Shining now is jumping up and down like a dog who has been wandering on the streets for days looking for food, to Cadence he sometimes is.
"Well, not really, but that was why I was called over by Aunt Celestia and Luna to solve a predicament because everypony somehow were all arguing about it nonstop and even waging wars on each other."
Before Shining Armor can respond, a shadowy figure produced magic and blasted some Royal Guards into the court house. She trotted in slowly through the dust and smoke, but the steam produced by her nose was more visible than any. Cadence saw this figure to be familiar, and she told her husband to back off, for this is personal.
"Cadence!" The Princess of the Moon shouted towards the Princess of Love, who was also ready for a fight, for it's at the threat of her subjects and her lover.
"Oh hey Luna! We were just talking about yo-" And he was slapped hardly on the face by Cadence,
"Ow! What the heck did you do that for?!" He then noticed Cadence's threatening glare of this-is-a-thing-between-mares-so-stay-out-of-it-before-anything-happens-to-you-next. Shining Armor gulped and backed off cowardly, some captain of the Royal Guard was he.
"Luna! I don't know why you are here but if you want to deal with my empire! You will have to go through me first!" Then, she furiously charged towards the Princess of the Night with full might. Same with Luna, as she opened her wings wide to ram into Cadence with full speed. The two belligerents had no time to produce quick magic, but Luna was a step ahead as she quietly charged her Nightmare Dusk spell, while Cadence is also charging hers, only a little later than Luna. The two were so close to each other before hitting the climax until Luna shouted out,
"You ate the LAST CHOCOLATE PRETZEL SISTER HAD! And you shall PAY FOR IT!"
Cadence suddenly stopped and changed her direction to the left a little bit as she tried to comprehend to what her aunt-in-law was saying. She began laughing out to her loudest, Luna couldn't stop her hooves once she crashed into Shining Armor (who was told to stay out of the way, but unfortunately he went to get another issue of the Power Ponies and was met with Luna).
"HAHAHAHAHA! Luna! I never knew you can be so adorable sometimes! You remind me of Twilight when she was only a filly! So playful and immature!"
Luna threw Shining Armor to the side, and shook off the dust and crystal glitter off her, surprised and enraged by what she had said.
"What did you just say?! How dare thou insult-"
"Here you go!" The pink alicorn threw the other half of the chocolate pretzel she didn't eat and fetched it to Luna, who opened her mouth and tasted it.
"Om-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom! Mmm! That was delicious! Thank you!" Luna flew down to nuzzle her sister's niece, but then realized that she was still charging her spell. She panicked and fled around the room,
"Oh no! What should I do?! What am I supposed to do?!"
"Umm, can't you just stop charging it?!" Cadence awkwardly suggested.
"What? C-cancel it?! I-I forgot how to!"
"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Cadence facehoofed her face harder than before, but then she thought of a bizarre idea herself.
"Hey I know! Since I'm also midst of charging a spell, why don't you fire it towards mine and logic will cancel each other out right?"
"Woah woah woah! Since when does that even work?!" Shining Armor strongly protested, "Why can't Luna just fire it outside-"
"I'd say that is an EXCELLENT IDEA!" Luna's eyes lit up like a bulb, Shining Armor sighed and rolled his eyes for being interrupted with such foalishness.
"Okay then! Here goes!" Cadence then focused her speed on charging her spell, Luna did the same. Then, the two princesses now each obtain one hell of a giant spherical glowing ball that can just hurt ponies by blinding them permanently.
"No no no, girls! I don't suppose this is much of a good idea..." Shining Armor suggested timidly before the two alicorns fired their blasts at each other.
Oh whatever, too late anyways.
Meanwhile, Adrenaline Spear and Snowy Springs looked vacantly towards the unknown green hill they are on, there were nothing but grassy hills and clear skies and grassy hills and clear skies and grassy hills...
"Oh shut up! It's nothing but these two!" Adrenaline Spear snapped, sick of the fact that they are stuck here and have no clue which way to go.
“Hey, at least this place is beautiful!" Snowy disagreed, running around the hills, constantly tripping over and sliding down on them, "I would just live here!"
"Well yeah, ever since that random meteor blasted us all the way to here somehow. It does look nice, but how in Equestria are we going to find food and seek shelter? It's all open land here!" Adrenaline then looked back to when a meteor popping out of nowhere after Luna accidentally threw them out the window, and with full might just wiped him and Snowy off the map.
"Right... That is a big problem at hoof right now." Snowy stopped and rubbed his white hooves onto his chin for awhile, thinking of a plan for survival while Adrenaline looks up into the blue skies for an answer, he spotted a flying pony like creature coming their way.
"Umm, hey Snowy. Do you think that's also another pony unfortunately thrown away by chance, like literally?" He pointed his hoof towards the unknown pony, who appears to be a stallion as it closes in onto the two Guards. Snowy wasn't even half as scared when he noticed the stallion flying towards their direction.
"Don't know, it seems to be-"
CRASH!
The golden earth pony got back onto his hooves, didn't realize that he was standing on the two soldiers, almost crushed their bones as he walked off them and into the embracing grass and the endless hills onwards. But then he sighed and asked himself,
"Why did I tell Lemon Hearts that I prefer reading Issue #69 than doing it with her...?"
