"You can clap now." Said the genie.

Then the carpet clapped after the song, but Thorax still had a confused look.

"No, no, no, no. Please, please. Please, please. You can thank me outside. In the sun. When you wish us out." He told them.

"So, how does it work?" Thorax asked again.

Then the genie gave him an irritated look.

"You're kidding, right?" He asked.

But Thorax didn't reply.

"The whole song was the instructions!" Said the genie as he flew next to him, his height decreased and now he is the same height as Thorax.

"Obviously, you can't dance and listen at the same time." He said. Then he gave him the instructions again "So, here's the basics. Step one, rub the lamp. Step two, say what you want. Step three, there is no step three. See, it's that easy." He said.

"You get three wishes, they must begin with rubbing the lamp and saying "I wish." Got it?" He asked.

"I think so." Said Thorax as he nodded.

"Couple other rules. You can't wish for more wishes. Three is enough." He told him, then he talked about the other rules. "Now, I can't make anypony love anypony." He said as his colour turned a bit pink.

"Or bring anypony back from the dead." He said in a deep voice. "Feel free to interrupt me anytime you don't understand. I'm kidding, don't ever interrupt me, no matter what. No, I usually don't have to go through all of this, because by the time the guy gets to me, he pretty much knows what he wants, and it generally has to do with tons of bits and power!" Said the genie in a deep voice and throwing bits at Thorax.

Then he turned back to normal.

"Do me a favour, do not drink from that cup. I promise you there is not enough bits and power in Equestria for you to be satisfied. Good? So, what's your first wish?" He asked.

Thorax thought about it for a while.

"Well, I have to think about it. I mean, if there are only three." He said "Why are there only three anyway?" He asked him.

"I don't know, who cares?" He said.

"You don't know?" Thorax asked raising an eyebrow "I thought you were all-knowing." He said.

"That's cause you don't listen." Said the genie as he teleported next to him.

"I never said I was all knowing. I said I was all-powerful." Said the genie as a painting appeared next to him. "The most powerful being in the universe. Look, whatever I don't know, I know I can learn it. Outside in the sun. Why are you playing hard to wish?" He asked with a confused look.

"I know you can't tell, but I am very pale. This is dark green. My natural pigmentation is dark green. Bring us some sun."

"Okay, Genie. I wish for you to get us out of this cave."

"Boom! Booyah! He has made his first wish! Thank you for choosing carpets, camels and caravans. Please don't forget to tip your genie on the way out." Said the genie as he began to teleport them out.

"Hold yourself, kid!"

After 2 seconds, they were teleported out of the cave.

"Man, look at this world. It's so big! Inside the lamp, everything is, like, brass, brass, brass! You're like "Oh! Is that some copper?" Sorta the problem with the genie life, phenomenal cosmic powers, but itty-bitty living space." He said.

Thorax looked around the desert and turned to him.

"So, is this magic, or are you magic?" He asked raising the lamp.

"Kind of a package deal." He said as he clapped his hooves together and they were now under a giant umbrella stand sitting on comfortable chairs.

"Can you warn me before you do that?" Thorax asked, a bit jumped from the sudden magic. And Abu was also a bit jumped.

"You'll get used to it." Said the genie as he summond a drink in front of him and drank it.

"Right. So, do I have to make all my wishes here? I mean, if I take you back to Canterlot, won't the ponies?"

"No, no, no! I can look totally normal. Boof." Said the genie as he turned into a dark green changeling.

Thorax looked at him "Right, totally normal. And do we need the top knot?" He asked.

"That's my little cherry on top!" He complained.

"Okay, okay." Said Thorax. Then the genie teleported himself on the chair.

"So, what are you gonna wish?" He asked him.

"I haven't thought about that." He told him.

The genie ate a grape and looked at him.

"You really are not that guy."

Then he summond an apple in front of him and grabbed it.

"So, what would you wish for?" Thorax asked him.

The genie threw away the apple and looked at him again.

"Nopony ever asked me that before. It's an easy one though. I'd wish to be free." The genie replied to him as he tapped on the golden chains on his left hoof.

"To not have to say, "Poof! Can I help you?" Said the genie as he turned into a waiter. Then he decreased his size and flew near Thorax's face "Poof! What would you like?" Then he flew on a chess board.

"Poof! Welcome to the lamp." Then he returned back to a changeling and back onto the seat "Freedom. I wish to be. To be a changeling like you." He shrugged.

"Why don't You just set yourself free?" Thorax asked him raising an eyebrow.

The genie laughed and clapped his hooves.

"Carpet! Did you hear what this stallion said? Why don't I set myself free?" He asked the carpet, and it laughed.

"Only way a genie gets to be free is if the owner of the lamp uses one of his wishes to set him free and the last time that happened was, like, the fourth of Never-ary.

Then Thorax stood up and looked at him.

"I'll do it. I've got three, right?"

"Actually, you have two left. You used one to get out of the cave. Remember?"

"Did I? Or did you?" Thorax asked him. "I thought I had to be rubbing the lamp." He told him.

"Okay. Little street colt. Let's rewind the tape." Said the genie as he clapped his hooves.

Then he reminded to the part where Thorax was talking to him in the cave. And then the tape showed the monkey rubbing the lamp.

"Ooh! Little monkey with the lamp trick! Never seen that one before." He said. Then he reminded back to the present.

"I'll keep my eye on you." The genie told the monkey and Abu nodded.

"At least now, I can use my third wish to set you free." Thorax told him.

The genie leaned forward on his seat and looked at him.

"Here's the thing about wishes. The more you have, the more you want."

Thorax shook his head when he heard him saying that.

"That's not me." He assured him.

The genie nodded a little from hearing that.

"We'll see about that."

"But there is something." Said Thorax.

"Seen that face before." Said the genie as he teleported next to him.

"Who is she? Who's the mare?"

Thorax sighed and said "She's a princess."

"Aren't they all?" Asked the genie. "Treat your mare like a queen, "I always say."

Thorax chuckled "No. No, she's an actual princess." He told him.

"Well, I already told you, I can't make anypony love anypony, so-"

"No, no. We had a connection."

"Did they?" The genie asked the monkey. And Abu smiled at him.

"Okay. She is smart, and kind, and so beautiful. But she has to marry a-" Thorax decided not to say prince.

He looked back at him and asked "Can you make me a prince?"

Then the genie teleported back to the chair and Thorax looked at him again.

"There's a lot of gray area in "make me a prince." He said "I could just make you a prince." He said clapping his hooves and a stallion was teleported in the distance.

"Oh. No."

"Right. You'd be snuggled up with that dude for the rest of your life." He said pointing at the stallion.

"Y'all seen my place?" Asked the stallion in the distance.

"Be specific with your words." He told him "The deal is in the detail."

"Got it." Said Thorax.

"Which I really don't understand, because if she already likes you, why change?" He asked with confusion on his face.

"I told you, she has to marry a prince."

"I just wanna go home, man!" Said the stallion in the distance again.

"Okay, I can do that." Said the genie as he got up, and Thorax had an excited look. "An official wish this time, for those of us who are counting which now, I am one."

Thorax cleared his throat.

"Genie, I wish-"

"Lamp." As he pointed at it.

Thorax looked at the lamp and grabbed it.

"Sorry. Alright. Genie."

"Don't hurt him, Genie!"

"I wish to become a prince." He said rubbing the lamp and closing his eyes.

"Back up, kid. I need some room to work. I'm about to fabulize you." He said as he turned the umbrella stand into a slingshot.

"Genie?" Thorax asked, then they launched near the kingdom.

"Little head-spinner. Better though, right?" The genie asked him.

"I think I'm getting used to it." Said Thorax, them the genie flew up into the air and began thinking on how to make Thorax a prince.

"Okay, a prince, a prince." He said thinking. Then he flew back to him "Obviously, your look and your satchel are not gonna work. I'm feeling a periwinkle." He said.

"What's periwinkle." Thorax asked in confusion.

Then he turned around with glasses on his nose bridge, a pencil on his ear, and he held scissors on his hooves.

"No! Chartreuse." Said the genie as he began making and putting a costume on him.

After 1 second Thorax was wearing a pink costume.

"The lines are all wrong." Said the genie.

"What is this?" Thorax asked looking at the costume he was wearing.

"The colour clashes with your skin tone, the silhouette is confused."

"This is a big hat!" Thorax complained looking at the hat he is wearing.

"No, that is not a big hat." He told him "Come on, Genie! Gotta kick the door down!" As he unfolded a gold carpet.

"We gotta go bold and gold!" Said the genie as he wrapped the gold carpet around his and now he was wearing a gold suit.

"No!" Said the genie.

"We've gone too far." Said Thorax unamused at what he is wearing.

"Genie, you're slipping! It's gotta be neutral for the desert." Said the genie as a notebook teleported next to him "Ivory, beige, bone, Albion."

"It's a little heavy." Said Thorax.

The genie gasped and made another costume for him.

"White." Said the genie as he made a put a white costume on him.

"And the crowd goes wild! The genie! The genie's on fire!" Said the genie zooming off into the distance, and his green smoked body was on fire.

"The genie's on fire, folks!" He said through a megaphone.

"Don't hurt him, Genie! Don't scald him! Somepony cool me down!" The genie panicked. Then a thunderstorm was summond near him and he flew under it.

"Somepony put me out! I'm too much!" Then the fire on him was put out. He gave a sigh of relief and teleported a mirror next to him.

"So, what do you think?" He asked.

Thorax looked at himself in the mirror and nodded in satisfaction.

"I like it." He said.

"Of course you like it, kid! I made it!" He said as he flew near him.

"I think that's me."

"Strictly speaking, it is me. I mean, I did most of the work. And you were just standing there. But I hear you."

"But won't ponies recognize me?" Thorax asked.

"Nopony'll recognize you. That's how genie magic works. Ponies see what they're told to see." He told him.

"Right. Who am I?" Thorax asked him.

"Who?" The genie chuckled.

"Prince Thori?" He suggested.

"From?" Thorax asked again.

"From Manehatten." He said.

"Mane-ha-wha?" Thorax asked looking at him.

"Your not listening. 'Manehatten'" The genie pronounced the word again.

"Is that a real place?"

"Yeah! Like, everypony knows about it. It has a brochure." He said as he showed Thorax the brochure, he tried to grab it but the genie pulled it away.

"Little hot in the summer, temperature in the fall. But no, I'll let you read it en route."

"How are we gonna get there?" Thorax asked looking at him.

"I guess you can't ride a chimp." The genie suggested and Abu gave him an irritated look.

"Don't you just love a cute little monkey? Hold it there, Abu." Said the genie as he cast a spell on him, then he turned into a donkey.

"Donkey." Said the genie.

"Too small." Said Thorax.

Then the genie turned Abu into a camel. But Thorax still didn't like it.

"No. Too obvious."

"We need something robust!" Said the genie as he cast another spell on him one more time and he turned into an elephant. And Abu had a terrified look.

"Relax, Abu. It's just for a minute." Said the genie.

"Whoa." Said Thorax looking at Abu, then he looked back at the mirror. "Prince Thori of Manehatten."

"And now, for your entourage!"

"What?"

Then the sand started to come towards them.

"What's happening?" Thorax asked looking at the sands that were surrounding them.

"Genie?"

Author's Note

Another chapter finished! Hope you guys enjoyed it!