Flaming Star and Flash Sentry were ready to beat each other down, and they started arguing.

“I’m tired of you and your big mouth, and if you are not going to shut it I might have to shut it for you!” Flash Sentry was really outraged; I’d never seen him like this before.

“I’d like to see you try, just don’t end up wiping the floor like last time, OK?”

Flash took the opportunity to grab Flaming Star by his collar.

“I make sure I wipe up the floor with –“

Flash was in mid-sentence when Prof. Skull Mustache took both him and Flaming Star by the ear. They both cried out in pain.

“Well, I think I have a better idea. Why don’t you two sit down, or I’ll make sure both of you wipe up the whole school for the next week!” I know that Flame is hot headed but Flash Sentry haven’t had any classes from Prof. Mustache or else they didn’t know he was the one teacher at Canterlot High that you do not want to mess with. Long story short, both of them quickly backed down and took seats in the class, even if they were supposed to be in some other class. By the time class was dismissed, their ears were still red.

“From now on,” Professor Mustache added, “you all better behave yourself in my class, since if I see such things, I won’t ignore it!”

After the class, Twilight told me that we are having another magic session. We all went to the music room; I was the last to arrive since I stopped off at the cafeteria and got a sandwich and some juice to try and get back to normal after missing several meals yesterday. It’s just as well that they scheduled the session during the second break period. Steely had his board ready and had his marker in his hand.

As we all sat down, Steely brought out a ball shape device, and Twilight started to draw somethings on the board. After we were all settled, Steely started to speak.

“So, in all the experiments we had, and looking at the invention that Twilight made for seeking magic and absorbing it, we came to a conclusion and a better way to store magic. So let me explain how Twilight’s device works and then we get to talk about this one.” He held the mechanic ball up so we could see it.

After that Twilight started to explain: “So, we all have necklaces made from geodes we found in the quarry at Camp Everfree. But it’s not like the geodes give us the powers; we’ve already demonstrated that we have them.”

“Like durin’ the Friendship Games!” Applejack added.

“And when we took on those meanie Sirens!” Pinkie Pie shouted.

“But when we ponied up during the Games, then…” Fluttershy stopped herself and looked at Twilight, who was blushing. “Oh … I’m sorry ….”

“It’s in the past, Fluttershy,” I said. “Twilight’s apologized for what she did with our magic, so let’s move on, OK?”

“Anyway,” Twilight said, trying to get her thoughts back on track, “experimenting with magic like that led us to the conclusion that when we pony up, we give off a lot of magical energy and therefor we can be tracked. But another downside was that it drained a lot of magic, more than it could handle.”

Steely Armor than showed us a blueprint. “But, with this, we won’t have those problems.”

“PARTY BALL!”

“No, Pinkie,” Twilight said. “Steely Armor?”

“I’ve named it The Collector Orb, and it is way safer than that necklace since it only absorbs a little amount of the magic that we have, and it will only activate when we have ponied up. On top of that, it gives us the ability to change the crystals so it won’t be overcharged.”

Just when he finished, Twilight had done the drawing of the Orb on the board. Then she started to speak again.

“So, in other words, it has almost no downside, except that it’s a little big and heavy. But with it we can at least test the theory we have!” That sounded interesting, and the description of the Collector Orb sounded safer.

“And what is that?” Rarity asked.

“Well, last time we discovered that magic depends on the owner and it does not brings the ability by itself. We also learned that if it gets into an object, the object would get enchanted with some magical effects, too. However, as far as we have experienced, we’ve only seen that the magic that enchanted the object has never been in use of someone or something else. Therefore it only had blank effects such as making a void or transporting stuff to a not very far distance. But we believe that, if the magic had found its owner and got shaped and gained the form, it was going to be used and after that be transformed into an object, and that object might obtain the same shape and ability.”

That just blew my mind! I mean, it actually made sense in a way, but we needed to see it for ourselves to be completely sure.

“But, hey,” Rainbow Dash said, “Don’t we need to get some magic in that thingy first?”

Steely Armor smiled, like he was confident about what he was going to say.

“Fun fact: we do have some magic inside it right now!”

To tell you the truth, some of us had gotten lost during his explanation. But as soon as he said that, we all got shocked back and were paying closer attention than before.

“A few days ago, Flame and I did some experiments, and in the middle of all that he ponied up and I managed to activate it just in time to absorb some of his magic. Thought here is a problem.” He put the Orb Away and continued talking again. “We can’t recharge it very often since you all happen to pony up at the same time, which makes the device absorb an amalgamation of all your magic. We just can’t study that easily, and the other problem is only Flame ponied up a couple of times and we actually don’t know what triggers it. So we should pick our object carefully, since it is likely to gain his fire burst ability. Remember, Spike only gain the ability to talk by having a part of Fluttershy’s magic pass through him.”

“I could always talk, you just couldn’t understand me,” Spike said as he walked forward and brought up his paw.

“Point taken,” Flaming Star said as he bent to shake Spike’s paw. “But to be honest, I don’t think any of your powers would mesh very well with a fire starting ability.”

“Ooh ooh!” Pinkie Pie said as she waved her arm as if waiting to be called on in class, “what if you enchant a fire place with it? That way you won’t need fuel to fire it!”

“I’m pretty sure we won’t need something like that, darling.” Rarity said.

“How about an oven?”

The session ended afterwards. It seemed to me they were up to something. But after all of that, I was either sleeping in the class, or nodding off in class. I understood nothing. Literally nothing. Till lunch.

Author's Note

Make sure to check out other chapters too.

Special thanks to my editor Daniel Drazen.