It's taCO Tuesday not taCA
Twilight sighed in despair as she stared at the flag above her throne. Turns out one bored immortal being was bad now she had three. Three that teamed up to fight their boredom. She knew what the game was and she was not happy. The game was simple; there was a flag on her throne. If Discord, Celestia and Luna could grab it before the moon went down. They would win and they all got to rule for the next twenty-four hours. If Twilight managed to stave them off she would win… she would win...well she wasn’t sure what she would win but she guessed it was serving her every whim for two weeks, like last time. She would always let them win because she would get a day off and the creatures around her found it fun. That is until last week. Then they crossed a line when Discord, in an attempt to get the flag, turned her into a quesadilla. She had enough and decided this time. This time she would fight back, it was time for revenge.
She went over her checklist one last time to make sure she was battle-ready.
“Alarms are on?” Twilight asked spike.
“Check!” Spike said checking off the first item on the list.
“All creatures got my notice?” Twilight said looking over towards her growing dragon friend.
“Check!” He said.
“You brought my secret weapons?” She asked as she teleported the flag from her throne to her chest.
“Check!” He said looking over to Applejack and Rainbow Dash. The two most competitive ponies Equestria ever knew. Joined together for this purpose.
“I think we are ready Spike.” She said smiling eagerly, she heard the alarm go off, “It is time.” She said placing a hologram spell onto the throne and running away from the throne room. She had a plan, she would make them fight for a pretend flag while the real one was with her.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash sat in front of the throne determined to win. They smiled at one another “Ready sugar cube?” Apple Jack asked Rainbow Dash.
“Born Ready.” She said, pumped to be fighting bad guys once again. Well, they weren’t technically bad. Equestria was so peaceful these days and there wasn’t much to do besides the boring stuff.
The distinctive sound of Discord’s teleportation rang through the throne room. There stood The Boredom Fighters, a name they gave themselves. It consisted of Celestia, Luna, and Discord. “Are you ready to fail once again Tw-” he began saying as he looked over Applejack and Rainbow Dash. “You are not Twilight!”
“Nope! No creature said she HAD to fight. Or that she HAD to take part in this. We will be taking her place this time and we're gonna crush you!” Rainbow Dash said crossing her hooves “unless you're chicken.”
“We are not chickens!” Luna exclaimed. “We will take you on, and take thy down!”
“Bring it!” Applejack and Rainbow Dash said in unison as a puff of smoke surrounded them. Suddenly there were two Apple Jacks and three Rainbow Dashs in the throne room.
The real Applejack and Rainbow Dash smiled, they had planned for this too. “Oh shoot!” said the real Applejack “however will we know who is who?”
Rainbow Dash smiled “guess we gotta make out with each one of them to see. What a sin.”
Two Rainbow Dashes and an Applejack start to sweat as nervous looks came across their faces. That was definitely an unexpected way to find out who was real and who was fake. Could someone even tell that way?
Applejack looked over at Rainbow, confidence radiated from her while the other Rainbows and Applejack looked a bit jittery and nervous. Applejack knew who was who. She took out her lasso and roped the fakes together in a group. “Yeehaw,” she said tieing them up.
The Boredom Fighters turned themselves back into Celestia, Discord, and Luna. “How did you know?” Celestia asked them.
“You’re really bad at being us you were too nervous and we’re never that nervous. Also, we planned for it, just in case” Rainbow said sitting down next to Applejack, “so what's your next move now?”
The Boredom Fighters seethed with anger, this isn’t how this was supposed to go. They always won. “This is because I turned Twilight into a quesadilla, I said I was sorry after!” Discord said as he sneakily started cutting the rope with his claw.
“And she forgave you...sort of. This is her revenge!” Rainbow Dash said pointing a hoof at herself and then at Applejack, “we are The Revenge Crew bent on crushing the snot out of The Boredom Fighters.”
Discord had cut the rope by then, he then snapped his finger and brought all three of them over to the corner of the throne room. “What are we going to do,” Discord asked.
Silence came over all three of them, Luna was the one to break it with a hoof-face “we have magic, they don’t. Were we always morons?” Her obvious statement made the rest of her companions' limbs meet their faces.
Discord turned around and snapped his fingers turning just Applejack into a lamp. All three of them approached Rainbow Dash. “I think you forgot we all have powerful magic,” Discord said with a smile.
Rainbow Dash gulped, she was hoping they wouldn't resort to that. “Uhhh,” She began before she was interrupted.
“We could go over there and get the flag. It would be so easy, I have a better idea.” Celestia said a malice smile drawing onto her face, “admit we're twenty percent cooler than you.”
Rainbow Dash's eyes widened, “never! I’m always twenty percent cooler than everything. I will not!”
“Discord, if you please,” Celestia said.
Discord snapped his fingers and turned Applejack into cereal, “got the idea from a different story.”
Celestia ignored his comment for the most part, “we will keep turning Applejack into different things until you admit it!”
Rainbow looked over to the cereal box, sorry Applejack, she thought to herself. “Never!”
Discord snapped his fingers and turned Applejack into an apple pie, then into apple butter, apple chips, apple cider, apple cobbler, apple crisp, apple dumpling, apple fritter, and apple juice. No matter what apple thing he turned Applejack into Rainbow Dash never relented. “Drastic times call for drastic measures,” he said, turning Applejack into an apple tree filled with apples, beside that tree lay two buckets, “buck the tree, Lulu.”
Luna strode over to the tree determined to forever be twenty percent cooler than Rainbow Dash. She took to position in front of the tree. “Thow know what to say, Dash.”
Discord, Luna and Celestia waited as they expected to get the answer they wished. Rainbow Dash looked over to the window and she noticed the sun setting. Twilight had done it, she set the sun early. Soon it would be the end of the day even though it had only been a couple of hours since The Boredom fighters got here. At night, they lost, and soon it would be night. The plan had worked better than expected. “Your twenty percent….LAMER!” She laughed pointing her hoof to the sky.
“What, that's impossible it's too early to set the sun!” Celestia yelled in a panic.
“Twilight gave every creature the day off so she could set the sun early. All we had to do is distract you long enough so every creature got to their homes. Then Twilight would set the sun and you would lose. It’s not against any of the rules of the game,” Rainbow Dash said a shit-eating grin covered her face.
Discord teleported over to the throne and tried to grab the flag only for his claw to go straight through it. “WHAT? What is wrong with the flag?”
“Let me try,” Celestia said, flying over to grab the flag only for her magic to go right through it. “It...it’s fake.”
Discord turned to Rainbow Dash who was laughing on the floor. “Where is the flag,” he asked, hovering over her face.
“I don’t know, Twilight hid it,” Rainbow said laughing a maniacal laugh and if Applejack could I’m sure she would as well.
Celestia, Luna and Discord tour off at the speed of light to the library. It had to be there, where else would she put it? They rampaged through the library tearing books off of shelves, looking through them, looking under tables and chairs. It had to be there somewhere.
At the edge of the garden behind some trees sat Twilight and Sombra sipping some tea. Sombra had put Amore back together, Raidient Hope had left to hone her craft, but he had nothing to do. That's when Twilight asked if he wanted to help her. Sombra made a great advisor, money handler, and research buddy. Sometimes Twilight would forget that he was ever even evil. She felt a shiver go up her spine. “They are in my library.”
“It is odd that you can feel that,” Sombra stated, “reminds me of Pinkie sense.” He sat his teacup onto the ground. “Twilight I have to say this is the best, most mischievous plan I have ever seen come from you. I have seen you do a lot but...this...this is just next level. I’m proud.”
Twilight blushed, “thank you Sombra. They deserved it.”
“For the quesadilla thing or because they won’t stop bothering you?” Sombra asked.
“Both,” Twilight said honestly, “a little bit of both, they are really getting on my nerves.”
Sombra looked up at her, “immortality is hard, one day you will understand.” He noticed the sky was now dark, “looks like they lost, let's rub it in their damn faces.”
Twilight teleported them both to the throne room, “Hello.” Celestia and Luna looked angry but Discord looked more confused than anything else. Twilight sat down and took off her hoof armor and pulled out a flag she had stuffed to the bottom of it. “I believe this means you lost.” She could see the anger in Celestia and Lunas' face rise but Discord….Discord surprised her.
“AHHHHHHHH!” He squealed. “You tricked us. You gave us a distraction and a fake flag. So mischievous, so unexpected, could be more chaotic. But look at you go, so villainess. I'M SO PROUD!” He hugged her tightly.
“DISCORD!” Celestia yelled.
“I uhh I mean boo, boo you. How dare you.” He faked disappointment but he didn’t want to.
Sombra heard Discord proclaim his proudness of Twilight and Sombra could no longer contain himself. “I'M PROUD TOO!” He said excitedly tapping his front hooves onto the floor.
“So unexpected!” Discord yelled.
“You were so mischievous!” Sombra added as he trotted over to hug her as well.
Twilight was squished between two former very scary villains, both of which we're proud of her achievement today. She wasn’t sure how that made her feel but she would think about it more later. “That means you now serve my every whim for the next two weeks.”
“Lay it on us,” Discord said happily, still hugging her along with Sombra.
Twilight teleported out of their limbs and with another flash of light all her friends were teleported to the castle. They all had suitcases with them. “My whim is to go on vacation with my friends for two weeks. The three of you can stay here and do everything we normally do. Girls.” With that statement, each element of harmony put paper packets in front of The Boredom Fighters. “In there you’ll find a list of what we do day in and day out as well as specific instructions. Sombra will help.”
“What?!” Sombra exclaimed this was not part of the plan.
“If you do it I’ll have Pinkie personally bake you whatever you want for a month,” She said, “oh and you’ll get to be their boss.”
Sombra smiled “ok I will help. Have fun on your vacation Twilight.” He said, trying to hide a mischievous grin.
They all watched as she teleported away with her friends, “so who is up for some revenge when they get back?” He asked as he strategically handed out the jobs. Celestia only got Twilight's since it was most of the work. Luna got Rainbow Dash and Applejack while Discord got Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. “I think, divided like this, we have a chance of planning a little something on the side. I’ll take Rarity's work, do my work and head the plan for revenge.” The four of them smiled mischievously. "Enjoy your vacation, Twilight," Sombra said.
Author's Note
I got the applejack cereal box idea from Disney Fanatics' story Bride of Discord. I hope you enjoyed my story.
