The Friendship Games

Twilight followed the group to the statue and saw most of them head back to the school. She hid behind a pillar to make sure she was not seen. She peeked on the other side seeing Fluttershy open her bag as a cat poked its head out and she nuzzled it. She snuck to her and accidently rustled in the bush, giving herself away. She looked as Fluttershy didn’t really mind her.

“Do you wanna give her a treat?” Twilight looked down, seeing if something was wrong with her device but decided to talk to Fluttershy instead.

“Guess I'm not the only one to smuggle her pet into school.”

“Not just one.” she opened her bag as a bunny, bird, hamster, and the cat came out surprising Twilight.

“Oh, wow. All I have is Spike.” she opened her bag as Spike poked his head out and Fluttershy pick him up.

“It really is uncanny. Does he talk?”

“Um, not that I know of.”

“Congratulations on winning, by the way. Though, it didn't seem like anyone on your team was very excited about it.”

“No one at my school gets excited about anything they didn't do themselves.”

“That sounds awful.” Twilight looked away as Fluttershy looked around, seeing if she could make her feel better. She then picked up the bunny and walked to her. “Here. Hold this.”

“Um, why?” although confused, she grabbed the bunny and held it.

“Holding a bunny always makes me feel better.”

“Well, that's ridiculous. But... ” the bunny then started to nuzzle at Twilight as she couldn’t help but feel happy, “Ooh. It actually kind of works.” she then realized something and stopped petting the bunny, “I'm on the other team and you just lost. Why are you being so nice to me?”

“You looked like you needed it.” Fluttershy then started ponying up as she levitated with the same process happening with Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity.

“Whoa!” her device then activated as it opened up and started draining Fluttershy from her magic. However, it shorted out and created a few portals around them with a Jackalope jumping out of one. It landed near Spike as he growled and started chasing after it while barking. He was travelling through the portals trying to catch the animal while the device was still draining Fluttershy’s magic.

“Spike!” as soon as the name left Twilight’s mouth, Spike exited through a portal into the magic stream from Fluttershy to the device. “Spike!” Twilight ran to them and closed the device as Fluttershy handed Spike to Twilight. She grabbed him and hugged him close. “Spike, are you okay?”

“Um, I think so.” they both looked at each other for a second before screaming as Twilight dropped her dog and ran off screaming, “Twilight, wait!” Spike started chasing after her with both of them leaving Fluttershy behind.

“Bye.” she stood up and tried to walk when she fell to her knees, still feeling a bit weak after the device drained her magic. Clem walked toward the sound and saw Fluttershy trying to stand up.

“Fluttershy!” he ran to her side helping her up, “You okay?”

“Yeah.”

“What happened? I came back out here to grab my phone when I heard someone fall here. But I saw Twilight running from Spike and… Wait, it was her wasn’t it?”

“How did you know?”

“I’ll explain later, let’s go tell the others.” before they left, they gathered the animals that was in Fluttershy’s backpack and put them back in. After they were done, they started making their way to the school with Clem helping her get to the door.