Author's Note

The Gun Pointed At The Head Of The Universe...

PART 2: XV - Wolverines!

"Gone? Just like that?"

"Like it was a mistake."

Noah laid on a three-seated couch with a hand behind his head and another on his chest. On a loveseat northwest to himself was Adagio Dazzle. She wore a casual black t-shirt and skinny jeans with plain socks and her same spiked headband. She sat with her hands holding a teacup and her legs crossed.

As for where they reclined, Noah had decided to use his God-like powers to construct a house for Adagio and her sister due to her change in attitude and her newfound humanity and compassion. Of course, it was simply a start.

"Pinkie Pie described it as though a vacuum cleaner was shoved down her throat and started sucking away all of her magic. Then it was gone like, well, a mistake."

Adagio asked before taking a sip, "Well, who was closest to her?" Noah laid his left-hand flat, "Well Twilight was, but it wasn't our Twilight. Well, it was our Twilight, but not the Twilight we'd known. It was the Twilight from Equis."

"There was an earlier mishap as well. When Sunset decided to go get Twilight, the princess, we found out that the portal had been closed. When Sunset noted she felt something drain it away from the other side, she found Equis Twilight with a strange compass-like device."

"Before she could explain, she fleed. And before that, magic was drained from Rarity when she was showing off her immense amount of clothing for the Games. And a while after, Twilight entered staring at her device."

Adagio raised an eyebrow, "So you're essentially saying that Twilight from Equis is stealing magic with an odd device she has?" Noah thought for a moment, "... Yeah, that's about it. I just can't seem to understand why? And I also don't understand why we haven't done anything yet."

"Well think about it, if someone that was basically your friend but wasn't actually your friend started stealing magic. Would you really just jump the gun on them after all that time? Despite them not being the same, you could tell that it was more of a memory loss than an entirely different person."

Noah shrugged, "I don't know really. But I'm more interested in why. She just shows up to our school and starts draining magic from my friends like it's nobody's business. Could she be evil?"

"I don't think she's evil, I think that Twilight is most likely attempting to study or understand the magic. If she already has a device, that must mean she's come in contact with it or has witnessed it. But, she could become evil."

Noah sat up, "The hell are you talking about?" Adagio uncrossed her legs and set her teacup on the coffee table before her. She then brought her hands together and spoke.

"Allow me to give you a lesson in Equestrian Pony Biology." Noah tilted his head and Adagio began. "At this point, I'm gonna assume Sunset or Twilight has explained the four types of ponies so allow me to explain. As my sisters and I have observed Earth for a millennium, we've picked up on multiple things, including power."

"Power?"

"I believe you're aware of Hitler's rise to power, and what it did to him. He was originally just a child who enjoyed painting, but that all changed when my sisters and I decided to mess with him, unfortunately. I'm assuming you know the rest, so let me put it simply."

"Every human has a limit of power that they hold. When that limit is broken, they can become monsters, just like Hitler did. He was given too much power for his own good, and it changed him making him do atrocious things to mankind. Along with this gain of power, he lost a substantial amount of both compassion and humanity."

"Power in your world is similar to magic in Equestria. Every pony is born to contain a certain amount of magic. It's what makes them who they are. Unicorns are born to withhold huge amounts of magic in their horns, and Alicorns are double that."

"Pegasi contain an amount of magic that allows them to fly. It also allows them to move incredibly fast, creating phenomenons known as sonic rainbooms in which they break the sound barrier. Earth Ponies' magic gives them a certain amount of magic to allow them incredible strength."

"But each and every one of those ponies have a limit. A limit that if broken, can mean dreadful things. Some are closer to it than others and it may change their personality while some are farther than it and it can take a toll on their personality."

"But when that limit is broken, just like humans have a limit based on the amount of power they may have, they snap. The ponies will become absolute terrors with no regard for any life at all along with becoming utterly devoid of any and all humanity and compassion. Similarly to Hitler, only their goal is much different."

"Once they've broken their limit, they'll become addicted to gaining even more magic, big or small. They'll take it from other ponies by murdering them, even going so far as massacring an entire kingdom. But even then, they won't be satisfied."

"They'll go to the edges of the planet to get as much magic as they can, slaughtering everything containing magic that they come across and eradicating everything in their path. A walking apocalypse."

"They can't be reasoned with and they'll use whatever they can to succeed. Once they finish a planet, God knows what they'll do next. Thankfully, this has only occurred once, and it didn't get too out of hand. It did result in the destruction of a village, but not entire kingdoms."

"Do you understand what I'm saying?" Noah stuttered, "U-Uh... k-kinda... c-can you run t-that all back to m-me? J-Just a little...?" Adagio took the teapot that sat in the middle of the coffee table and began pouring into her teacup.

"If Twilight is collecting magic from the Elements of Harmony, and she's not in any type of alicorn relation at the moment..." The teacup began to overflow as Adagio continued to pour into it. Spilling all over the coffee table and soaking several papers on it.

"She could break her limit as Equis is still apart of Equestria and obliterate the Earth. If she opens that thing expecting to study it, she's going to be in for one hell of a surprise... and she'll soon disregard it."

"But that's not all. There are two sets of Elements, remember? Once Twilight's done with Equis' Elements, she'll move on to Equestria's Elements, overpower them, and take their magic."

"One set of the Elements is enough to take out the most powerful alicorn, Princess Celestia. If she not only defeats her but takes her magic, along with Princess Luna's, she'll be four times as powerful as the Elements of Harmony. And we can't forget the inconceivable amounts of other magic on Equis as a planet. And if Celestia herself had enough magic to move an entire star..."

"Twilight could destroy the entire Milky Way Galaxy!"

Noah ran two hands through his hair, "Oh great. That's just fan-fatherfuckin'-tastic. Now I have to juggle Sunset, me going home, and a crisis on a galactic scale!"

Noah sat up from the couch, approached Adagio, gripped her by her collar, and pulled her close, "How the fuck am I supposed to stop this!?" Adagio put a finger to her chin and thought hard.

"Well, what if you play through the Games' first half, drop the second half if the chance arises, and watch Twilight to make sure she doesn't get any more magic. Once the Games' done, approach her and force her to explain. Once that's done, have her give back the magic, and problem solved. Galactic annihilation averted."

Noah buried his face in Adagio's shirt, completely overwhelmed. He mumbled into her shirt, muffled. "I was just supposed to leave on Saturday, not be the last thing standing before a galaxy-wide apocalypse. I was a hero once, that's it. This is too damn much for me..."

Adagio wanted to push Noah away so very much, but she knew that's not what he needed. She placed a hand on his head and begun to stroke his short hair. "Noah, If I've learned anything from living in your head and seeing all that you do, it's that life's not easy."

"You gotta be ready when life throws a problem your way, and you've gotta chose. Am I gonna hit back, or am I gonna pussy out and drop the bat? I learned that from you. It's why I and even Aria have been getting much better at understanding life."

Adagio pulled Noah's face from out of her shirt and stared him down, "So are you gonna hit back, or are you gonna pussy out and take the galaxy with you?

"Take Sunset with you?"

NINE HOURS EARLIER

"Good morning students! I'm sure you're all thrilled to start the first half of the Friendship Games. Our competitors will face-off in every aspect of the CHS curriculum combinating in the Elimination Equation Finale!"

"Welcome to the Academic Decathlon! You'll be scored on chemistry, math, and everything in between. But remember, only the seven students from each team with the most points will move on to the second half. Good luck!"

As Dean Cadence finished, each and every student began towards the first event, the chemistry contest, with Crystal Prep to the left side, and CHS to the right.

As they walked down the hall, students from the rooms nearby cheering, Noah had his eyes locked dead-on Twilight. With Sunset beside him noticing, she nudged him, "What's with the look?"

"I'm not sure why Twilight's here, but it's not gonna end well." Sunset raised an eyebrow, "What are you talking about?" Noah sighed, "Remember how I was talking about meeting up with an orange siren?"

"Yeah, you were talking about Adagio, right?"

"Right, so long story short, I killed her and now she's stuck in my head until I die. With months passing by, she's regained her humanity and has become a better person. I was talking to her and, well, another long story short, Twilight may be the one to bring about an end to our galaxy."

"What?!"

"If she keeps collecting magic from us, and she opens that device, she'll lose her mind and start taking magic from everyone and everything in Equestria. Giving her enough magic to erase the galaxy."

Sunset began to sweat, “W-Well, h-how do we stop her?" Noah faced forward, "You leave that to me. She's not gonna get a lick of anything magical as long as I'm alive."

"Why would you preheat it to four hundred degrees?!"

"You said, "Preheat it Noah. I bet you've done something like this before." I preheated it to four hundred degrees because that's what I preheat most things that I cook!"

"This is a baking contest, not a cooking contest!"

Noah and Pinkie Pie went back and forth, a side of Pinkie Pie never before seen making itself known, while the other eleven members tried desperately to make another cake to take the burnt one's place.

"Look, I don't know why you just thought I knew how to make a cake by instinct." Pinkie Pie grabbed Noah's collar and pulled him close, "Who the heck would set a cake to four hundred degrees! I expected maybe three hundred forty or three hundred sixty, but four hundred?!"

Applejack pushed the two away from each other, "Enough! We can bake another cake, but we can't win if you two keep fightin'! We're competin' against Crystal Prep, not each other!"

Noah instantly tuned Applejack out when he saw Twilight enter the room, presumably from using the bathroom. He'd been studying the device's rings since he could see it light up from underneath her shirt.

Still only six, good. He tuned back into Applejack and realized she'd let them go. "So, can we make this cake, or can we not?" Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes, "Yeah..."

"Oh, uh, yeah yeah, we got this." Nodding, Applejack returned to the kitchen and Noah nudged Pinkie Pie, "How does your head feel?" Pinkie Pie was taken aback at Noah's change of attitude and replied.

"Oh, uh, it still kinda pounds, but not as much as yesterday. Why?" Noah scoffed, "What do you mean why, I give a shit, remember?" Pinkie Pie blushed, "Oh, uh, yeah! Sorry about that. Oh! Can you grab those sprinkles? I have an idea!"

Pinkie Pie returned to the kitchen whilst pointing at a plastic can of sprinkles. He shrugged and grabbed it. But not before double-checking Twilight to make sure she wasn't up to something.

"Fuck!-"

"Crap."

"Crap! I thought I had that one! Goddamn-"

"Goddang."

"Goddang demitasse! What the fuck-"

"What the heck."

"What the heck is demitasse anyway?! Son of a... snitch!"

Noah sat in one of the auditorium seats next to Sunset, highly frustrated. They had moved on to the spelling bee event, and he had failed on his last word.

Sunset sat next to him trying to calm him down for the rest of the first half, it wasn't doing so well. "Noah, the spelling bee is incredibly difficult and unpredictable. You can't blame yourself for messing up."

"But I had it! I needed one more word! One! Of course they hit me with that! The stupidest word to walk this Earth! And they gave it to me! Motherfucker-"

"Mothertrucker."

"Mothertrucker!" Sunset laid her eyes on Twilight and sighed. "Noah, if Twilight somehow gets the magic that she needs, are you going to leave still? I mean, wouldn't you wanna spend time with your best friends before the world ends."

Noah crossed his arms, "If the worst becomes a reality, I might have to. If Twilight leaves Equis, she might go through the entire world searching for magic, and someone's bound to drop a nuclear warhead."

Sunset lightened up a bit, but then had a thought return to her. "Hey look, Flash got all ten words. First helping us with the chemistry event, now acing the spelling bee? You've gotta admit, he's really smart for not looking the part."

Noah's eyes fell flat as he remembered. All the talk about losing the galaxy to a purple nerd had made him forget the fact that Sunset was still into Flash instead of him.

Flash.

Noah knew he was bothersome, but he also knew he wasn't a bad person in general. He'd lied a little bit to Princess Twilight back at the diner for the Battle of the Bands. He didn't know why he lied though. He just thought it annoying that another girl was into him.

Maybe if Noah opened his eyes a bit more, he'd understand why Sunset admired him so. He just hoped he could turn her love around and save the galaxy from mass destruction.

As Noah took his eyes off of Sunset, he found Twilight and he narrowed them. Still six rings, good. Can't forget what's important here. Saving the galaxy is the first priority, laying pipe on Sunset is the second.

Only eight hours to go.