Mischief Makers

Twilight Sparkle couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day to get out of the library and into the streets of Ponyville. The weather team had just finished clearing the last of the clouds, allowing Celestias sun to shine through and warm all it could touch. The soothing chorus of morning birds drifted down from the trees, and the smell of the blooming wildflowers made an overpowering aroma from which no creature couldn’t resist to sample. All of this combined left the residents of Ponyville with looks of pure happiness and cheer cemented onto their faces.

What better condition could a pony hope for to perform some early morning errands? For that was the exact reasons the lavender unicorn had left her library. The lavender saddlebag she had brought with her was neatly filled with ink bottles quills and rolls of parchment in one side. The other contained enough fresh produces to get her through the next week.

Walking alongside the unicorn was her young dragon assistant Spike. he currently had his face deep into the long checklist held between his claws, going over it for the second time to make sure they hadn’t forgotten a single item.

“Looks like we’ve finished everything Twilight.” he said after his search. “And we beat our old time.”

Excited by this Twilight looked to the Ponyville Tower for confirmation. The time showed 9:15, which was ten minutes faster than their previous run.

“Well it looks like we have some time to kill Spike,” Twilight said. “Feel like doing anything?”

Spike brought a claw to his chin and pondered while they continued to walk across the market square, which was fairly empty on this particular day. Twilight found this a tad odd, but it at least meant they got their work done sooner. Just as they were to leave something brightly colored bounces from out from hiding behind one of the stalls and landed in front of them.

“Hey Pinkie Pie.” Twilight said without any hint of surprise or shock in her voice. The pink pony walked towards the two with an excited grin on her face.

“Hey Twilight, hey Spike. Whatcha doin?”

“Not much.” Spike replied nonchalantly.

“Well that’s no good.” Pinke said. “Do you have any ideas?”

“At the moment Pinkie, nothing.” Twilight said. Once she had finished Pinkie sat down in front of the two and pondered for a moment.

“Oh, I have an idea, What if you come walk around town with me. We can say hi to everypony. And then when we’re finished we can go back to Sugarcube Corner!”

Twilight was about to nod in agreement when something cold impacted the joints where her neck and skull met. She brought a hoof up and collected the chilling substance. Bringing her hoof back Twilight was surprised to find she had been struck by a snowball. Pinkie and Spike both looked at her bedazzled face and tried to suppress their laughs. Suddenly another snowball fell down and landed on Pinkies face. This caused Spike to lose it and he burst out laughing before a third one impacted right into his mouth.

Now officially confused Twilight turned around and searched the area. Immediately she noticed two things. The first was a plain old table with two chairs carefully placed behind it. In its center was a bright red Closed sign. The other was a low flying cloud directly above it. On top of the cloud were two pegasi mares holding golf clubs in their hooves.

“You’re aim was way off on that one.” one of them said. “Perhaps you should tighten your grip?” She leaned on her club as her companion gave her a playful look.

“And when did you become a golf queen?” she replied with a giggled.

“Ahem.” Twilight said, getting the two mare’s attention.

“Looks like our break’s over.” The first one said. Both she and her companion raised their hooves as if they were sinking and fell straight through the cloud, landing perfectly on two chairs behind the table. Quick as a flash they took the sign down and made themselves look presentable to these new ponies. Now that Twilight could get a better look at the two she saw that they were both a brilliant shade of green with manes and tails the color of pine needles. Their facial features were also eerily similar to the point of identicality. It didn’t take a genius to realize that these two were twins.

“How may we help you miss?” the first one spoke. She had brilliant eyes as blue as the ocean. Her mane came down around her head and was jagged, like a spiny lizard frill. Her tail was short and also jagged, giving it an almost serrated look. Her cutie mark was a chess king riding in a chariot.

“Well, your snowballs sort of hit me and my friends.” Twilight said calmly. Both Pinkie and Spike walked up beside her and began wiping the snow from their faces.

“Oh, very sorry for that.” the blue eyes one then turned to her twin with a serious, yet still silly look. “I told you your aim was off.”

Her twin smiled a playful smile and looked at Twilight with fiery red eyes. Her mane was tattered and highly unkempt, most of it coming over her eyes like ridges. Her tail was long and equally as unkempt as her mane. Her cutie mark was a black die being tossed from a silver goblet.

“Sorry for that miss, like she said I’m a bad golfer.”

“It’s alright, and call me Twilight Sparkle. And these are my friends Spike and Pinkie Pie.”

The moment Pinkie laid her eyes on the twins she let out a long gasp and shot into the air. She remained airborne for a second before darting off. Both twins blinked in confusion at this odd behaviour before letting out a fit of giggles so hard that they rocked their the chairs.

“Sorry, she does that with all new ponies she meets.” Twilight reassured.

“Don’t worry Twilight,” the blue eyed one spoke once they had calmed down. “We’ve seen crazier.” She then extended a hoof which Twilight accepted friendly. “My name’s Games Master, but you can call me Games or GM for short.”

“And my name is Festivities.” her red eyed twin piped in. “Say, do either of you you like games?”

“What kind of games.” Spike asked with an inquiring eye. Festivities leaned back in her chair while Games Masters eyes seemed to explode with delight at the young dragons question.

“Any and all games you can think of, young one.”

“And even those you cannot.” her twin finished with a snaking smile.

“Wow, can we play one Twilight?” The little dragon looked to her with pleading eyes.

“Sorry Spike, but we need to catch up to Pinkie.” she then looked to the twins again. “You two should come by Sugarcube Corner later today.”

“We’ll see if we have the time.” Games said with a smile as the two sought out their pink friend. Once they were gone the two sat back and looked at each other with plans already forming in their minds.

~~

The sun had just begun its descent over the horizon when the emerald twins decided to leave their booth. It had been a boring day for them, with nopony coming by other than Twilight and her friends. As they prepared to leave, they both suddenly remembered the unicorn’s offer. And who were they to turn down such a gracious invitation? Silently the two of them agreed to take her up on it and headed off towards the bakery. They could have made the trip in minutes if they’d flown, but that’d be no fun. Instead they walked side by side down the calm streets and took in all the sites they could.

After about fifteen minutes they made it to the gingerbread house that was Sugarcube Corner and calmly knocked on the door in perfect unison. As their hooves made contact with the wood the door creaked open invitingly. Peering through the door they could both see that no lights were on and the place seemed deserted. Curiously the two stuck their heads inside and crept into the dark shop.

“Surprise!”

Immediately the room was bathed in light, illuminating around twenty ponies, all with large smiles on their faces. The walls were covered with streamers and balloons of all shapes and colors. In the middle of the room there were tables of drink and snacks. A record player rested on another table, just begging to be turned on. Finally a huge banner hung from the ceiling that read Welcome.

As the twins were still processing everything Pinkie Pie appeared between the two mares and placed bright green party hats on their heads.

“So, what do you think?” Pinkie asked with a gleeful smile. “Isn’t this the absolute best party you’ve ever seen?”

The twins looked around the room, inspecting every single detail from the placement and coloring of the streamers to the smiles on the individual ponies. After a second they turned back to each other, nodded, and fell back in a fit of giggles.

“I think they like it.” Twilight said, walking towards the two. They both looked up to her with playful eyes, but soon began focused on the four ponies behind her; an orange earth pony wearing a cowboy hat, a white unicorn with a stylized mane, a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane, and a timid yellow pegasus.

“Games Master, Festivities, these are my friends. Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.” Twilight said, gesturing to each pony as she did. Both of the twins eyes widened with surprise.

“Is something wrong?” Fluttershy asked the starstruck pegasi. Neither one showed any sign that they’d heard her at all and continued to stare at the group. Rainbow Dash walked over to the wo and waved a hoof in front of their faces. Again they were met with no response.

“Ok, this is starting to get a little creepy.” Rainbow said after another moment of staring.

“You’re the Elements of Harmony!” Games Master finally managed to say after a moment, causing Dash jumped back in surprise. Though she quickly tried brushing it off as if it were nothing.

“Yeah, and what of it?” Applejack asked curiously.

“We had no idea we’d moved into the same town as the ponies who defeated Nightmare moon and Discord!” Festivities cried, her eyes looked like they were flaring with inner fire. “Oh sis, we just have to do something amazing for these ponies.”