Lazlo sat on the couch in his house. One week. One week has passed since he got a second chance. He didn't do much since then. The mares agreed that they all need a few days after the whole Discord incident. Most of this time he used to think about what he learned. He even had a nightmare about him arriving here and magic tearing his body. One of the few dreams he remembered. He thought about asking Twilight for more information but she too was busy, Princess Celestia asked her to make sure everything went back to normal in Ponyville, just as she did with Canterlot, then went to other towns, to help her sister and niece. It seemed that everything went back to normal. Lazlo was surprised that it happened quite fast but apparently, ponies were really good at moving on with things, or at least most of them. He was a little jealous of them for it.

How stupid he was, thinking that he did accept his fate after so little time. It took him months to accept his parents' divorce and even more time to move on and while he was still a child back then, this situation is a whole new level. And yet, he felt the need to do so and fast. He hated this feeling. The depression, the frequent musings about how good it would be if he could go back, the thought of being alone itself. And his greatest fear. He had to avoid any thought about that coming into his mind. It wasn't a simple fear, and probably not something he could face no matter how brave he would be. This one needed distraction to be under control, but in the last week, there wasn't any. Well, except for yesterday, when Pinkie visited him to invite him to a picnic the next day, so today in the late afternoon.

A knock on the door interrupted his thinking. Opening the door he found Perfect Mane and little Amber standing in there. The little filly immediately run up to him and began tapping his foot with her small hooves.

"Lah. Lah. Lah." she tried to speak, which surprised him a little.

"Hello." the mare greeted the human.

"Hello. What are you doing here?" Lacy asked her while kneeling down, taking Amber in her hands and lifting her, which resulted in some giggles and more 'Lah' from her.

"Well, first of all, my little filly finally said her first word," she told him excitedly. "It was 'mama' of course and then 'dada' and then came the third one..." she leaned to her daughter who was busy tapping Lacy's shoulder as he was holding her. "Come on my dear, how do you call your human friend?"

"Lah. Lah." Amber tried to speak. "Lah. Lah." she started getting frustrated. "Cha. Cha. Cha." she even grunted a little before finally managing to get it right. "Laca."

Lazlo smiled at the little filly. No matter his current state, even in the deepest holes of depression, a cute, little animal could lift his mood, and he's probably not alone in this. The little filly was still saying the name she could manage to get out of herself while pointing one of her hooves at the man. He can't help it and starts petting her, which just resulted in more giggling. It seemed, he got a new nickname.

"So, Lazlo..." the mare spoke again. "The other thing, we came for is to let you know that we're moving to another town in a few days." This was something unexpected. Lazlo looked at her, complete surprise on his face. "In the last few months too many crazy and dangerous things happened here and we decided that it would be better if we move away." the mare explained. "Neither my husband nor I want to raise our daughter in such an environment. Nightmare Moon, the parasprites, Discord, just to name a few and all had this town in its center. I just wanted to bring Amber here to say goodbye and thank you for all the foalsitting and other help and of course, to hear her speak."

"It's understandable, I guess." was all Lacy could say. He wasn't that surprised by them moving away, it seemed a reasonable decision, especially for someone with a little kid. What was new to him is to actually come to his house and tell him in person. Not like, people in his world couldn't send him a text at any time from anywhere to inform him about whatever they wanted. "And where do you move?" he asked.

"To Haytown," she answered and Lazlo had to fight really hard not to roll his eyes after hearing another ridiculously named town. Not like there weren't any in his world. He remembered a town in his country with a name translated to 'Panties'. And one which meant 'Bacon'. "Anyway, we need to go, we still have lots of packing to do. Sorry to cut this visit short, if you don't mind, I'm sure my little Amber wants to say goodbye when we finally leave," she spoke. Lazlo just nodded.

Just as Perfect Mane finished talking, a pegasus royal guard landed near them. He looked like any other guard with a white coat, blue mane, tail, and golden armor, but instead of a star in the middle of his chest, this one had an envelope and a bag on his back. By that symbol, Lazlo guessed that he was some kind of messenger pony in the Royal Guard. Upon his landing, Perfect Mane looked at him curiously, the little filly in Lacy's hands did turn her attention to the newcomer for a few seconds, but quickly went back to pestering the human with her neverending tapping and saying his name.

"Lazlo Kis." the guard said the human's name. He didn't need to ask, as Lacy was the only human. The guard then pulled an envelope from his bag. "Her Majesty, Princess Celestia sends this letter to you."

Lazlo gave back Amber to her mother, the filly didn't like it but luckily didn't start crying, then the man took the letter from him and looked at it. It was a simple, white envelope that was closed by a unique seal. He had to look closely at it to see the small but very detailed picture on it. It was the equestrian flag printed into the golden seal, well the part with the two alicorns and the sun and moon between them. On the other side of the envelope was his name written with the fanciest letters he had ever seen.

"A letter from the princess herself?" the mare asked but her surprise quickly turned into understanding. "Well, I guess, it's something to do with you being the only human," she stated her idea. Unbeknownst to her, every time someone mentioned being the only human was like twisting the knife that was put into his heart when he first learned that he will be stuck here. "We'll leave you to read that letter. We will see you before we leave. Bye." she said goodbye and even the little filly waved from her mother's back.

He went back to his living room and opened the letter while grumbling about how it always is that nothing happens for days and suddenly many things take place in one day and the feeling of not having enough time for each of them comes up.

Two things were inside the envelope. One was a fancy-looking card, the other is a simple piece of paper. He decided to read the paper first.

Dear Lazlo Kis,

I hope that you are getting better, I believe it must be still really hard for you but I know that you will manage to make a great life here, and please trust me when I'm saying this: In Equestria, every wound will eventually heal fully.
In this envelope, you will find another letter, which is an invitation to the Grand Summit of Species and Countries or GSSC in short. It is a big meeting between several countries and also each species that lives in a country can send a delegate so for example, from Equestria, us the princesses go, but also a donkey and a griff delegate as well and I think the buffalos will be joining to this one too. The other invited countries and delegates are on the invitation card. As you have probably guessed, as a human, your species has the right to send a delegate as well which in this case can be only you. While it is not mandatory to attend this summit, I would like you to come with us to it. The main reason would be that the leaders of other countries are interested in meeting with you and were sending me several letters or even diplomats on this matter but I could prevent it so far by telling them, that you needed time to adjust to living here and they were very understanding but their patience is not endless. There is also another reason I wish for your attendance which might not be to your liking and it is something I would prefer to discuss in person but it is not that urgent as the summit will happen in early spring so you have a few months to decide. If you have any questions, then feel free to contact me, my sister, or my niece independently of the one, I wish to have with you. I will consult about the available times with you later, for know, if you want more information about this meeting, I am sure that my most faithful student can help you out.

Kind regards,
Princess Celestia

He put down the letter on the table and picked up the card. It had more decoration on it than an invitation card to a high-class wedding. The golden frame on the edges made it look like some kind of miniature painting from hundreds of years ago. At the top of it 'Grand Summit of Species and Countries' was written using some kind of curly font. Under it was a standard invitation text and at the bottom of the card was listed all of those who were invited. He found his name under the
Equestria column but didn't bother to read all the invited party.

He put the card beside the letter. He had conflicted feelings about this whole thing. On one hand, he realized that no one reached out to him from other nations, and it wasn't for the fact that his existence was some kind of secret. It looked like Celestia did a lot for him to not get overwhelmed. She probably shared some information about him to calm them down somewhat but it did make sense that it won't be enough. He cursed himself for not thinking about it earlier, though it wasn't like it was an everyday thing for humanity, though if a pony or any other extraterrestrial creature would randomly appear on Earth probably every country would want to gather as much information about it as possible. On the other hand, he fought so hard to avoid politics, when his mother wanted him to follow her in his choice of career. Of course, in this situation, it's hard to ignore and evade it but he tried to minimize it and was happy to see that the princess was kind enough to do the same. However, it seemed that some things were impossible after all. He knew that he will agree and attend no matter how much he didn't want but that didn't stop him from being frustrated about it and it didn't help that Celestia said something about what probably a favor is and not being to his liking.

He didn't want to think about this right now. But he also needed some kind of distraction before he'd sink back to his more depressive thoughts. He glanced at the invitation card once more, checking on the date, then putting it back in the envelope. Then he got up and get the calendar book that he got from Twilight on his birthday, only to realize that it ended with winter as the ponies counted that as the end of a year which made sense as spring had a meaning of renewal, rebirth, the beginning of new life, stuff like that so why not a new year? He grumbled at this for a moment before flipping back to today's date and his eyes widened at realization.

Twilight Sparkle was in panic mode now. A week passed and she hadn't learned anything new about friendship and she today was the due day for her next lesson to send to Princess Celestia. How could she forget about it? She's always so organized so what went wrong? Admittedly the whole Discord incident and the aftermath did give her many things to think about. But to completely forgot about something as important as this one? She made a mental note to include friendship lessons in her future schedule planning sections.

But right now what only mattered is to find a friendship problem, solve it, learn from it, and write a letter about it to the princess. However, so far she wasn't successful. She went to her friends but none had any kind of issue that could make a good lesson.

Rarity was working and while it seemed at first that she has a serious problem with all the crying and saying that 'it's the worst possible thing'. It turned out she was overdramatizing a very minor problem. Then she went to Applejack in hopes that a farm as big as hers must have something for her. And at first, it seemed that it had. She saw Rainbow Dash destroying a barn. She guessed that they had an argument, which was likely as they were often competing against each other and it sometimes ended in small fights. This time, however, Rainbow was destroying that barn because Applejack asked her to do it. So no friendship problem to solve there. Then she remembered that Fluttershy has so many animals and also fears that helping her with any of them would make a perfect friendship lesson for her to learn. But luck wasn't on her side today as she saw her giving a hardcore massage to a bear by almost breaking his neck and ripping off his head.

Panic really started to get her now. Time was running out and there was no way she would be late for an assignment. She was always on time, a perfect record. She would do anything to keep it that way. But what could she do? She could go around town and ask random ponies but it would take more time to find somepony, who has a problem, learn about the issue, find a solution, and make the report, than she had considering that because she didn't know that much about other ponies, as much she knew about her closest friends, learning every necessary information about the problem would take too much time.

"There you are, Twilight!" the voice of Spike was heard as he approached the stressed mare but she only spend a second acknowledging his presence before going back to her thoughts about the cause of her current stress. "I've been looking for you everywhere! You forgot to take the cupcakes with you to the picnic with the girls and Lacy."

She continued to ignore him until she heard the name of her human friend. Of course! How could she forget about that?

While giving Lazlo a second chance meant that they will all try their best to act around each other as they did before Discord's return, they all knew it was hard, and sometimes they couldn't avoid bringing that up. So far they have all chosen to keep their distance from each other for now but Pinkie decided to break it when he invited him too to the picnic.

Completely ignoring the picnic she immediately runs to the house of the human. When she was at the door, she allowed a few seconds to herself to catch her breath before knocking. Nothing. A few seconds later she knocked again. Nothing. She knocked more loudly the third time but then the picnic came back to her mind and thought that he might be already there. As she was about to turn and go to the park, she heard footsteps inside the house.

"Hello." Lazlo greeted her as he opened the door. He looked like he was far away in his head and wasn't really paying attention, to who visited him, this was proven when after a few seconds, his eyes widened a little as if he just realized that the pony in front of him was Twilight. "What brings you by?"

"Well, I'm in big trouble." she began, and Lazlo was now completely listening to her. "You see, I have to send a letter to Princess Celestia every week about what I've learned about friendship but this week I didn't learn anything and now I have to find something by the end of the day so I won't be tardy," she explained.

"Okay..." Lazlo acknowledged what she said and waited for her to continue.

"I visited the girls but none of them had any friendship problems but then I remembered that you have some friendships to fix and I'm here to help you so I can learn an important lesson and send a report to the princess about it." she summarized her wish. "So, who should we start with? I know that Fluttershy and Pinkie probably still see you as a friend, I'm not sure about Rarity, we can try with her but I know for a fact that both Applejack and Rainbow are mad at you, I think we will have more luck with Rainbow as she was more friendly with you before." Twilight rambled, while Lacy had trouble following what she was saying.

"Twilight, I don't thi-"

"The picnic!" she shouted, interrupting the man. "The girls must be already there! Come on! The sooner we get there, the sooner I can send that friendship lesson to Princess Celestia and I won't be sent back to magic kindergarten!"

"Magic kindergarten?" Lazlo asked but was ignored again as Twilight lit up her horn.

"Fucking hell!" Lazlo yelled as Twilight's magical aura surrounded him and then he was in the air, floating after the unicorn as she was trotting towards the park. Being in the air like this was a weird feeling. He imagined this was what being in zero gravity feels like, though it seemed more surreal as everything around him obeyed this basic law of physics. He tried to escape this prison but to no avail as the magical aura followed his movements. "Twilight! Let go of me!" he yelled after her but it looked like today was 'ignore the human' day for this mare as she was mumbling to herself but Lacy couldn't understand her, mostly due to the tingling sound her magic made. After some more trying and failing, he gave up and decided to wait patiently for this journey to end.

Soon they arrived at the picnic and as they suspected, the others were already there, just finishing setting up everything. They noticed them approaching but looked confused, probably at the method of Lazlo's transportation. Well, Rainbow and Pinkie started laughing after a few seconds, which only finished when they were finally there and Twilight let go of the human, dropping him.

Lazlo let out an 'ow' when his butt made contact with the ground first which was followed by his whole body. He grumbled as he got up.

"What's going on?" Applejack asked the obvious question.

"Girls! I'm in big trouble!" Twilight started, her voice full of panic. The others immediately gave her their full attention. "It's terrible. It's awful! And I need to solve it very soon." she continued, while the girls became more and more restless, waiting for her to finally say the problem itself. "My letter to Princess Celestia is almost overdue, and I haven't learned anything about friendship! And I-" she was probably trying to tell them her plan, which involved at least one of them and Lazlo making amends, or something like that, however, she was interrupted, when the girls let out a relieved sigh.

"Oh, thank goodness. I thought something really awful had happened." Fluttershy was the first to speak up and it surprised both Twilight and Lazlo, who was murmuring some not nice things about the lavender mare and her methods but hearing this snapped him out of this.

"It IS awful!" Twilight reasoned. "I need to send a letter to the princess before sundown or I will be tardy!"

"No offense, sugarcube, but it looks like somepony's getting themselves all worked up over nothing." Applejack spoke as well.

"This is not nothing. This is everything. I need to learn something about friendship today and I need your help! Lacy's here and I thought-" she was again interrupted, which would've amused Lazlo as karma got her if he wouldn't have still been in a somewhat shocked state by the reaction of the mares.

"Oh, Twilight, you're such a crack-up!" Pinkie was the one cutting into her words while giggling and the others joined as well.

This caused Twilight to tear up a little and before they could react, she teleported away. The girls didn't seem to notice the distress, their friend was in, and though Lazlo was still a little mad about Twilight for how she took away him from what he was doing at home and didn't even give him time to grab that few bottles of drinks he planned to bring to this picnic. But as he heard them saying these things, he momentarily forgot all of his troubles.

Twilight teleported back to the library. Anger was rising inside of her. Her friends laughed at her issues like it wouldn't be a big deal. It was a big deal. Her whole life depended on it. If she can't produce a friendship letter to the princess in time, then she would punish her for her tardiness. The princess could order her to go back to Canterlot and then she won't be seeing them as often as now, if at all. Was she not an important friend to them? Did they see her as a friend in the first place?

She hushed away those thoughts. She was their friend. No doubt about it. They went through many things together. Sure, they have different viewpoints and sometimes they argue but this is what made their friendship so strong. They didn't understand the importance of her studies and her role as a student.

She would've gone back to explain to them but there was no time. Panic started to overtake her as she looked out of the window and saw the sun close to the horizon. But what could she do? She had maybe one hour but probably less. How can she find and solve a friendship problem in time, when she already looked for hours? Then an idea came to her.

If I can't find a friendship problem in time, then I'm going to have to make one.

Now she only needed one thing. She trotted into her bedroom, to a chest which contained some personal items of hers. One of those was a doll from her fillyhood. Smarty Pants. With the idea in her head, the needed item with her, only one thing remained. Finding some candidates.

With that, her horn lit up and she disappeared from the library.

"What the hell was that?" Lazlo asked the girls.

"It looked to me like Twilight was stressing over something too much," Rainbow answered him.

"Yeah, but why did you laugh at her?" he continued his questioning.

"Because she was funny with all those silly things she was saying," Pinkie gave the answer this time with giggles.

"Don't worry, she will calm down and come back soon." Rarity spoke.

"I don't know girls, I think she got pretty upset." Fluttershy joined in.

"You should know that if somepony doing something silly, then ponies can laugh at it. It was a good joke as well from Twilight." Pinkie said.

"Well, I think it's a bad way to treat someone, especially a friend," Lazlo said.

"It's rich, coming from you." Rainbow deadpanned.

"Look who's talking." he retorted. "Pinkie, remember that recipe collection you got from me? It belonged to my good friend, Victor. It was the middle of the week, at night. I was ready to go to bed but someone knocked on my door. It was Victor. He came to ask a favor from me. He brought a few old notebooks, really old ones, some were over forty years old, filled with recipes. He wanted to put them all into a book and give it to his grandmother as a birthday gift, it was her recipes after all just the notebooks were hanging on their last thread. Anyway, the point is that we needed to copy all recipes by tomorrow morning because otherwise the bookmaker won't be done with it by the end of the week and the birthday was happening that weekend. I was pretty pissed at him since work has been pretty taxing that time and I was tired, but apparently, there was no one else he could turn to and he wouldn't be finished alone in time. So I did as any good friend would do. Punched him, cursed him, then made a lot of coffee, which made me hear and feel every heartbeat for the next day, and we worked the whole night on it and finished just in time. So yes, you can be an asshole to your friends sometimes, when they need help but that doesn't mean you shouldn't help them." he finished his short tale.

"You shouldn't lecture us about what a good friend is like." Applejack said.

Lazlo sighed. He had expected the topic to come up, it was a safe bet. It didn't help in his current, confusing mental state. He was depressed and yet trying to distract himself from this feeling. In the last few days, he often went into a lethargic state. And during these times memories would flood him. Memories of a situation, similar to this one, not the circumstances but how he felt during that time. Among those memories, there was one that he dreaded the most and was trying to bury deep down but sometimes it was impossible and it would come up, and if that wasn't enough, he would also construct alternate outcomes from that memory. That's why he needed the distraction and despite the topic, this debate was one. Plus in these times, instinct would take over to defend himself anyway so in a twisted way it came in handy.

"Why can't you understand that I cared more about my human friends and my family than you?" he looked at them seriously. "I told you before, I felt bad about it, still am. We already talked about it and can run the same circles but that won't get us anywhere," he argued.

"You saying that you feel bad about it but didn't really show it to us." Applejack countered.

"You want me to get on my knees and start crying in front of you?" he asked with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "No thanks, I do that more than enough at home." he switched in a bitter tone.

This one got all of their attention. Lazlo, however, instantly regretted saying that last sentence out loud. Not because it was a manipulative asshole move, well not mainly, but now his thoughts went back to the topic he wanted to distract himself from.

"Listen, I'm not sorry for what I've done. I wanted to go home. But apparently, in this unbelievable world, there is only one thing that is impossible, the thing I desire the most." he clarified in an even bitter tone. He then sighed. "Maybe coming here was a bad idea," he murmured to himself but loud enough for the others to hear. "I've been in the middle of something anyway."

"Going to a picnic is never a bad idea," Pinkie disagreed with him. "And why did you start doing something when you knew about it?" she questioned.

"Because I just realized that today is a national holiday. It's strange because it wasn't a year as the date is different here. And now that I think about it, I already skipped one..." He explained to them.

"What kind of national holiday? If you don't mind me asking..." Fluttershy spoke.

Before he could answer her, unusual sounds were heard near them. As they turned, they noticed several ponies, all fighting with each other. There were some familiar faces, like Big Mac, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Lyra, Sweetie Drops, and many others. They seemed to fight for some kind of item, though it was hard to clearly see what it was. It was a very bizarre sight. The others seemed just as lost about what was happening as he was.

Lazlo tried to focus on that item to see what was so important or special to have half of the town fight for it.

"Don't look at it!" shouted a familiar voice. The girls turned and saw Twilight galloping to them with sheer panic on her face.

She began explaining to them what happened but Lacy wasn't listening. He finally saw what exactly the ponies were trying to get from each other. He felt an extreme need to go there and get the item himself. He felt like that was the only thing he wanted in his life. And he didn't resist.

He began running towards the fighting ponies. He felt adrenalin pumping inside of his body. He heard yells behind him but he ignored them. He had to get that thing, nothing else mattered. As he closed on them, the big pony pile started to fall apart into smaller groups of fighting ponies, trying to prove that they wanted the item more than the others. Lazlo quickly noticed that a familiar black pegasus, Thunderlane managed to get the thing and was ready to fly out of the area now that he had what he wanted. The other ponies didn't notice that the subject of their desire was about to leave as they were all occupied with each other.

Lazlo, however, saw the opportunity and with all his power he rammed into the pegasus' side as he was about to take off with his left shoulder. With a grunt of pain, Thunderlane fell back to the ground and dropped the item. Lazlo too felt the force of the impact in his left upper arm but it didn't matter to him. He quickly grabbed what he was wanting and looked at it.

A doll. A grey pony doll with black mane and tail, one purple and one blue button for eyes, and blue pants with white dots on it. It was a simple little thing but right now it was the only thing he wanted and now that he had it, he was about to go home, when something slammed into his left side, hitting his left arm and he fell to the ground, dropping the doll as well and crying in pain. Looking toward his attacker, he saw Thunderlane as he grabbed the doll with his mouth and was ready to take off again. He couldn't let him escape with it. He managed to partially get up and grabbed the end of his short tail, then pulled with all his strength. This made the pegasus yell in surprise which resulted in dropping the doll and losing his balance and falling back. Lacy didn't get up, instead crawled his way to get the doll like a toddler and grabbed it. Thunderlane instantly got up and went after the human, jumping on his back with some force to pin him down but the man started to roll and stretched his arm to hit him. However, their fight came to an abrupt stop when a booming voice yelled Twilight's name then light blinded him and suddenly his thoughts cleared.

"What the fuck?" he murmured and got up while panting heavily as the adrenalin rush died down. At the same time, he felt pain in his left upper arm and looked at it. A blueish-brownish mark was on it that looked like a hoofprint. He touched it gently, put a little pressure on it, and hissed in pain. He then realized that the doll was in his left hand. He looked at it confused. This was what he was ready to kill for a moment ago but right now he just wanted to throw it away. Instead of doing that, he put it into his pocket with made him look ridiculous with a bulge in the left-front side of his pants and a pony doll head emerging from there.

"What happened?" Lazlo turned to see Thunderlane looking around just as confused as he was. "My side hurts." he groaned. He noticed that Lacy was looking at him and remembered what they were doing a few seconds ago. "Were we really fighting for some stupid doll?" he asked just to confirm. Lacy nodded. "Arg... You hit pretty hard," he complained.

"Sorry, though I got a nice tattoo from you too..." he showed him the hoofprint on his arm.

"Oops, I'm sorry too. But why were we wanted that doll so bad?" he asked.

"Dunno... I think it's Twilights, or at least she has something to do with it. I'm going and asking her."

"Okay. I'll look around if Rumble is here, hope he's not, though. I don't want to see him hurt. See ya!" he took off but stayed close to the ground and flew towards the big group of ponies that was also about to leave this area.

Lazlo noticed the mares, who seemed to be in a panic and all began to run off. He decided to follow them. Soon he arrived at the library, he just saw them all rushing into the building. When he was close enough he began hearing what they were talking about.

"It wasn't her fault!" Applejack spoke.

"I'm listening." came the voice of Princess Celestia. Lazlo walked inside the library through the door that was left open and closed it quietly. The girls didn't notice him, only Celestia, who smiled at him for a moment before turning her attention back to the mares.

"Please, your Highness. We all saw that Twilight was upset." Fluttershy said.

"But we thought that the thing she was worried about wasn't worth worrying about." Rainbow continued.

"So when she ran off all worked up, not a single one of us tried to stop her," Applejack added.

"As Twilight's good friends, we should have taken her feelings seriously and been there for her!" Rarity concluded.

"Please don't take her away from us just because we were too insensitive to help her," Fluttershy begged.

"Looks like you all learned a pretty valuable lesson today," Celestia said and they nodded. The princess then looked up to the human. "What about you, Lazlo? Did you learn anything?" she asked as the others turned to him.

"Avoid her when she's panicking," he said in a dry tone, looking at the purple unicorn. Twilight cringed at this but Celestia chuckled. "Nothing, really. Didn't have much chance..."

"I see. Very well. I'll forget Twilight's 'punishment' on one condition." The mares seemed to agree beforehand. "From this day forth, I would like you all to report to me your findings on the magic of friendship when, and only when, you happen to discover them. Oh, and Lazlo, you can partake in this as well. I'm quite curious what kind of friendship lesson would come from you. And about that invitation. Please consider it and we will talk about it at a later date. And now, I must take my leave. I'm expecting some letter." she began walking up the stairs, most likely to go out to the balcony and take off from there but Twilight stopped her.

"Princess Celestia, wait! How did you know I was in trouble?" she asked her mentor.

"Your friend Spike made me aware that you were letting your fears get the best of you. I commend him for taking your feelings seriously. Farewell, my little ponies." she soon took off and flew back to Canterlot.

"Y'all heard the Princess. Spike, take a letter." Spike did as she asked and Applejack began dictating the lesson report.
Dear Princess Celestia,
We're writin' to you because today we all learned a little somethin' about friendship.
Fluttershy continued.
We learned that you should take your friends' worries seriously.
Rainbow Dash followed her.
Even if you don't think that she has anything to worry about.
Then came Rarity.
And that you shouldn't let your worries turn a small problem...
Pinkie took it from her.
...into an enormously huge entire-town-in-total-chaos Princess-has-to-come-and-save-the-day problem.
And Applejack finished it.
Signed, your loyal subjects.

"P.S. Obviously Spike did not have to learn a lesson, because he is the best, most awesome friend a pony could ask for. Unlike everypony else, he took things seriously, and- Eheh... uh... yeah... I'll just, um..." Spike tried to add his own part but as he noticed the unamused looks on the others, he decided it was best to send the letter without a P.S. so he just rolled it up and sent it to the princess.

Now that it was over, Lazlo pulled out the doll from his pocket and showed it to Twilight.

"Your's?" he asked.

"Yes! Smarty Pants! It was my favorite when I was a filly." Twilight happily took the doll back and teleported it away, probably back to her bedroom.

It seemed that everything turned out alright and it was time for Lazlo to head back to his house. However, Fluttershy stopped him from leaving.

"Wait, Lacy. You didn't tell us about that national holiday. Would you tell us now? If you don't mind, of course..."

"National holiday?" Twilight looked at the man and summoned a notebook and a quill.

Lazlo sighed. He would rather be in his own house by now but this was a holiday that he actually liked to speak and think about so he waited as the others came around him and began to talk about it.

"It's a commemoration of a revolution that happened over sixty years ago. The world was divided by two superpower countries back then and we were under the more tyrannical one, the soviets. We didn't like their rule so at first, the students of universities started a peaceful demonstration. But the fuckers at the government decided to shoot into the crowd, killing several protestors. So after that, the people took weapons and kicked the ass of the local soviet army and also the police and other organization that was under the local puppet government. Then a new government was formed for the change and we tried to get out of the influence of the soviets but when it became clear that we won't get any help from the other side, they came back and basically invaded us again then imprisoned and killed thousands of people who took part of the revolution. This is the short version of the short version. I could tell you much more details at another time if you want but in the last few years, I was mostly focused on remembering the tales my great grandfather told me, who was part of that revolution. When he was alive, he often talked about what he did. When I was ten, he showed me how to make a Molotov cocktail, we made one together in my grandfather's workshop during a family gathering. He told me that if 'those fucking reds' come back, throw a few at them because they deserve it. My mom found out and yelled at the old man for teaching this to a kid. He was crazy sometimes, I admit but he went through some horror in his young years so it's not that surprising really." he finished his quick retelling. Despite wanting to talk more about it, he felt tiredness rising inside of him and the pain from the fight also strengthened a little.

"What's a Molotov cocktail?" Twilight asked.

"Imagine a bottle filled with some flammable liquid and cloth put in the mouth in a way that it reaches the liquid but also has a part that is outside of the bottle. You light the outer part of the cloth on fire and throw it. When it lands, it breaks and the liquid ignites and it can create a big fire. They used it against armored vehicles mostly." he answered.

"Why didn't you get help?" Fluttershy asked.

"Multiple reasons. Some said that it was a lost cause, some were afraid that it would lead to another big war, if I remember, they were also focusing to gain control over another part of the world at that time that was more important strategically." Lacy answered and then decided that it was time to go as he felt that if he stays any longer, he won't make it home as exhaustion came stronger and stronger after him. "Listen, I'm really tired, so I'm going home. The end of this day took more out of me than I expected," he informed them.

"Yeah, right... I'm so sorry about it, Lacy." Twilight apologized.

"Just please, leave me out of your next crazy period." he sighed, then said goodbye to them, as he left, the others followed his steps and all went back home.

Author's Note

I think this is the first time, I don't feel back that it took so long to write this chapter. Mostly because during this time, I could finally go on a vacation but after that had a lot of work to do. It seems now that things are starting to calm down so you probably won't have to wait for this much for the next chapter.

Anyway so season 2 slice of life began, or should I say: partial slice of life? I don't know how to define it, as there are some things that are important parts of the story and some fillers because some might not like those parts but I always liked to read and write those.

Also, I did tune down the crazy Twilight, because to be honest, I didn't like how she behaved in the episode. I think a more calm version of her as she loses her sense of where to draw the line of her doings to achieve her goal would have been more effective, though not as funny.

I hope you liked it regardless, and you're all looking for Nightmare Night after all, who doesn't love to see, or read about Luna (if she's properly written, so I have to give it my best)