Starlight sighed as the duo walked down the hall. "Alright, you got your mane piece. Now all we need is a nice quiet place, so we just find a room and..." She turned to Thorax at the sound of his throat clearing. "...There's something else we need to do first isn't there?'

"Just one tiny, itsy bitsy thing." He said nervously. "Nothing to get worked up about...We just need to mix the mane into a special potion."

Starlight stared at him in silence for a moment. "And how does one do that?" she asked with a tinge of irritation in her voice.

"All we need to do is mix this piece of Celestia's mane into a cold potion with a bronze fork."

"That is one of the, if not the, most specific mixing instructions for a potion I've ever heard." Starlight snapped back angrily "Where the actual fuck do we get a bronze fork!?"

"Oh, I have one in my travel bag," Thorax responded happily.

"You...you just have a Bronze fork?" Starlight asked. "I'm...I give, fuck it let's go to the potion room and do this shit. Go grab your fork." Thorax gave a salute and hightailed it to his room. "Dear Celestia, what the fuck is today?" Starlight asked as she waited for Thorax to return with the fork.

"Nice try though!" Luna added as she walked out of the room with Spike sleeping on her back. "But I will be damned if anypony can knock me out for more than 3 minutes!"

"It was worth a try," Celestia responded before the door closed.

Spike muttered something and Luna patted him softly with her wings. "Don't worry, Auntie Luna will get us both washed up before anypony can see us." Luna had a Mustache and the words ‘I am the Night’ written on her forehead along with a half-drawn image of a monkey on her left hoof. Spike now had a series of tiny octopuses covering his face and his head spines. Luna turned down the hall and made her way to the bathroom when she noticed Starlight standing in the hall grumbling angrily about forks. "Ah!" She sang out happily, making Starlight jump. "I am glad to see at least one pony managed to escape my sister's potion," she said as she walked over to Starlight, who started at her for a moment.

"Holy shit." Starlight tried and failed to not laugh at Luna when Thorax walked out of the room with the Fork, Celestia's mane wrapped in its tongs.

"Ok, let's get moving to the...oh...hello, princess." Thorax said in shock. "I thought Celestia got to-oh, nevermind I can see the sharpie on your face now. She did get to you."

"Indeed my sister did." Luna confirmed. "But I managed to escape and have also saved Spike. We may have gotten sharpied, but at least we got away from the glue and the feathers."

Spike grumbled and Thorax took several steps back. "I'm so hammered right now." Spike sleepily muttered at them.

"Well, whatever you two are doing, have fun." Luna said with a wave of her hoof. "I'm off to wash off mine and Spike's respective sharpie marks." Luna walked down the hall, talking happily to the barely awake Spike.

"Alright let's get this shit over with." Starlight decided "Let's go get you a cold potion and be done with...You know what, I told myself I'd ignore it and move on but screw it. WHY DO YOU JUST HAVE A BRONZE FORK!?" She shouted. "WHY?"

"Oh that's a long and funny story, you see about 4 months ago..." And with that Thorax proceeded to tell the most boring story Starlight had ever heard in her life.

Author's Note

Ta-da, an update you can all thank VanguardLuard for this story not being dead.