Author's Note

Hey guys. Just a small side note here, this is going to be mostly on Danto and his friends because I'm not going to be switching back and forth with them and the Mane 6 so sorry if you were expecting that. I will bring up a few thing that happened to make sure this keeps going where it needs to go.

Chapter 11: The Second Event

Everyone was cheering as Dean Cadance spoke to the microphone to everyone that was there.

“Welcome, everyone to the Friendship Games Tricross Relay! In this event, our qualifying competitors will face off in archery, speed skating, and finally, motocross. So if the competitors are ready…” she then blew a air horn as Fluttershy and her opponent started running through the archer course. “Each competitor must hit a bullseye before their teammates can start the next leg of the relay.” the Crystal Prep student got the arrows and her bow first as she wound back and fired 3 arrows at the target, with one of them hitting the bullseye. Twilight started running when her leg was caught by one of the hay bales. A little bit after this happened, Fluttershy hit the board but not a bullseye. Twilight swung but she barely landed, catching herself on the corner with the tip of her boot. This time, Fluttershy, took a deep breath and fired an arrow, hitting a bullseye. The students cheered as Applejack went next. She then hit a bullseye as everyone cheered loudly. Pinkie and Rarity started going around the roller rink after their light turned green.

“And Canterlot is off to an early lead!”

“Hey, look.” Danto pointed at the archer course as they looked, seeing Applejack going to Twilight and start talking to her.

“Oh no, what is she doing?”

“Team spirit, that’s what.”

“No. Helping gets to trust and trust equals honest all together. What do you think will happen then?”

“Uh oh.”

“Well we can't say anything here, we’ll get in trouble.”

“But if we don’t then-”

“Then that’s means we just missed our opportunity.” they saw Applejack pony up as the device instantly started draining her magic. Aldon ran his hand through his head, feeling more stressed.

“Agh! That leaves Rainbow on the ‘draining magic’ list. Danto, you HAVE to get her away from Twilight.”

“I’ll try to but I can’t do that now. We’ll get disqualified if I do.”

“But if we can’t stop Twilight, then that means we’ll have more magic problems to deal with later.”

“Aw. Why did we have to hit the crossroads?!”

“We’ll just have to hang tight until this event is over. They still have a few laps to go and then it’s the motocross.”

“Hey guys, does plant life usual grow on roller rinks?”

“What kind of question is that?”

“I’m just curious. Also there’s living plant life on the field that might attack both schools.”

“What?!” they saw a large branch appear from a portal, trying to catch Twilight, “That can’t be good.”

“Should we do something now?” it was then Pinkie and the students from Crystal Prep passed through the finish line for the 8th time as the light for the motocross racers turned green and they began to ride through the dirt course.

“Well, they’re already on the motocross so we’ll just have to wait it out.”

“Are you crazy? El just pointed out plant life is ready to attack at anyone.”

“But this is the final stretch of the event, can’t you hold out a few more minutes?” Aldon looked back and forth at the plants, and the racers. He groaned, knowing he’d regret it.

“Okay, I’ll try to. But if Twilight gets Rainbow and you start losing it, we’re holding you back AND getting you away from the scene. Deal?”

“Deal.” they looked back to see a giant plant come through a portal and almost hit Rainbow off of her bike.

“Okay, things are really starting to hit the fan pretty badly.” as soon as El finished the sentence, Sunset slid under the plants bite but fell off of her bike in the process.

“Sunset!”

“Like I said.” Rainbow Dash stopped the bike and turned around. She then drove toward Sunset as the plant was about to dive and try to catch her. Luckily, she grabbed her right before the plant bit into the ground.

“That’s my girl Dash!” When they stopped, Rainbow Dash ponied up with wings as Danto started to become worried. “That's not good.”

“Well, as long as she’s away from Twilight, we’re okay.”

“Yeah, but now they’re dealing with plants that want to have a snack from another world.” a Crystal Prep student fell into a hole made the plant as it pulled itself out. It was about to chomp them when Rainbow Dash punched it and flew away as its attention was focused on her.

“Come on Dash, you got this.”

“They’re so close to the end. Go Sunset!” As soon as the Crystal Prep student got out of the hole, it became a race between them and Sunset. However, a plant was chasing them when Rainbow charged and took down the creature, saving both of the racers. They neared the finish line, both trying to out race the other as Sunset was the first to cross.

“Canterlot wins!” the students of CHS cheered loudly while those at Crystal Prep looked in disbelief. “Attention Students, please make your way to the gym.” Finally, Twilight was able to close her device as the plants started to disappear and the portals closing. The students from both schools did as told as they started to head to the gym. Danto and his friends ran to regroup with the rest of their friends.

“Is everybody alright?”

“Better than alright. We won!” Danto ran to Rainbow and hugged her then kissed her in both excitement and worry.

“I thought you were going to be plant food.”

“They didn’t have anything on me.”

Danto smiled and chuckled lightly, “Right.”

“Yeah we won, but somebody could've been seriously hurt. The magic is going haywire and I have no idea how to fix it!” they turned toward Twilight as she spoke up, hearing the situation.

“Um, excuse me, I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I just wanted to learn about the strange energy coming from your school. I didn't know that it was magic or... how it works.”

“That's okay. Neither do we.” Rainbow said as she walked towards Twilight while Danto realized what she was doing.

“Rainbow, wait!” But it was too late. The device picked up Rainbow’s magic and started to drain hers as Twilight was trying to close it.

“Oh, no! Oh, no no no! Not again!”

Danto was about to charge to grab and destroy the device when Clem and Aldon grabbed him by the arms.

“Don’t do it man, it’s not worth it!”

“Whoever messes with Rainbow messes with me!”

“Come on, let’s get him out of here.” they started pulling him back as Danto was still seeing his girlfriend being drain from magic. It was then he snapped and started shouting.

“YOU!!! WHY DID YOU TRY TO INVESTIGATE MAGIC IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?! IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE RESEARCHED LET ALONE MESSED WITH!!! YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER CAME HERE!!! YOU NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!” he continued shouted as Aldon and Clem get him inside.