The Jedi Prince II: Trials of the Force

Early morning

Twilight and Cody were getting ready for another busy day.

“Quill,” said Twilight.

“Check,” Spike replied.

“Parchment,” said Twilight.

“Check,” said Spike.

“Extra ink,” said Twilight as she hovered the bottle above Spike.

“Check”

“Extra extra ink,” Twilight called out as she hovered another bottle above Spike.

“Check”

“Is that everything on the checklist?” said Twilight as she and Cody set the items on their desk. There before them was plenty of parchment (or paper), three jars of ink, and four quills. Spike continued to check off the items, but feels a bit concerned as Twilight and Cody walked by.

“Great,” said Twilight, “Now that we’ve completed the checklist of things we need to create checklist, we can make our checklist of the things we have to get done by the end of the day. Ready?”

“Ready!” said Spike with a quill raised in the air and ready to go. R5 beeps in agreement.

“Item 1: Create checklist of the things I have to accomplish by the end of the day,” said Twilight with a toothy grin. Spike just sighed as Twilight and Cody just looked at him curiously, not really understanding what the big deal was.

It wasn’t much longer before Cody, Twilight, and Spike were making their way through Ponyville. Spike was dragging a long checklist behind him as they went along.

“How are we doing, Spike?” Twilight asked as Spike examined the long list before him.

“Let’s see...we’ve already dropped off your cape at the cleaners, returned the blackboard you borrowed from Cheerilee, ordered new parchment and quills from that stationery shop...” Spike replied as he read the long checklist.

“You make really long lists sometimes, Twily,” Cody remarked.

“Hmm...Seems like we just placed an order for those a few days ago,” said Twilight curiously.

“Can’t imagine why we go through so many of them,” Spike remarked, clearly not hiding his sarcasm.

“Sounds like we’re ahead of schedule,” said Twilight, “what’s next?” Spike checked the list again.

“Cupcakes!” he announced excitedly. It wasn’t much longer before they headed inside of Sugarcube Corner. There before them was a baby blue colored box that had several cupcakes inside of it.

“Whoa...” said Spike as his mouth watered at the sight of all the tasty treats. Then Cody and Twilight noticed something in particular.

“Uh, we only ordered twelve,” Twilight pointed out.

“There’s thirteen of them,” Cody added.

“Oh, I know, dears,” Mrs. Cake replied a she walked out with a tray of treats, “But I had an extra. So I thought I’d make it a baker’s dozen.” She then made her way back into the kitchen with two sets of baked goods all packed up.

“Uhhh-no!” Spike yelped as he was continuing to stare at the cupcakes before Twilight pulled him away.

“Oh, that was very thoughtful of you,” said Twilight, “It’s just that some of the icing from the extra cupcake is getting all over the one next to it. See?” Twilight pointed at the two cupcakes as Mrs. Cake looked as well.

“Ohh...sure...” said Mrs. Cake slowly. Thought one could argue she only said that because of the old saying: the customer is always right. Before Mrs. Cake could say anything further, Twilight grabbed an icing spatula from the back wall.

“Not to worry, I’ll just move some of this to...hmm...” Twilight answered as she tried to move the icing about herself, “...I think I may have scooped too much...oops! Now those two have more. Let’s just try this again...” As Twilight tried to “fix” the icing herself, Mrs. Cake just watched Twilight with an uneasy expression as frosting began to splatter about. Even Cody and Spike were making worried faces as Twilight continued to shift the icing about, eventually getting a huge SPLAT of frosting to the baby dragon’s face. Things felt a slightly awkward when Twilight’s face made twitch as a sign of a pony who was clearly being way too paranoid.

“It’s getting worse,” Spike thought worriedly.

“...Hmm...no, that won’t do,” Twilight said aloud as she continued “fixing” the icing, “Let me just...hmm...put some here, and...no, that’s not right. A little more on this one...a little bit...and wait...I’ll just...ooh, a little bit more here, and here, and...perfect!” When Twilight had finished, all the cupcakes had, in her eyes, the right amount of icing, which was just a small little dab in the center. The rest of the icing had flown off, some on Mrs. Cake while Spike was now completely covered in it from head to toe.

“Hmm, oh yea...” said Mrs. Cake wearily, “...much better...”

“Okay,” said Twilight as she put the top on the box and used her magic to carry it away, “time to tackle the next item on our...oops!” Twilight then noticed Spike covered in the frosting. “Looks like we’re going to have to add “give a baby dragon a bath” to our list.” Spike then extended his tongue and with a spin twirl, slurped up the icing and licked himself clean.

“Very efficient!” said Twilight as they left Sugarcube Corner and she carried Spike piggyback, “And a little bit gross.”

“Not if you aren’t sweating,” Cody pointed out.

“Eh,” Spike responded with a shoulder shrug.

Once they had returned to the Library, they headed upstairs as Spike was looking over the checklist once more.

“Looks like that’s everything!” Spike told her.

“Almost everything,” Twilight told him as Spike noticed something at the bottom of the now rolled up checklist.

“Triple-check checklist to make sure we didn’t miss anything when we double checked the checklist!” Spike read aloud, “Uh...check!” Spike went to make the check when he flinched painfully as he dropped the quill, showing that his claw was now glowing a red.

“Ugh...I’ve been holding that quill so long, I’ve got a claw cramp!” said Spike before wrapping up his hurting hand/claw up in some bandages as Twilight was looking at her cupcakes, “Well good thing we don’t have anything to report to Princess Celestia this week...I don’t think I could write another word!” Twilight then froze as if her heart had skipped a beat.

“We haven’t send a letter to Princess Celestia this week?!” Twilight exclaimed in a panic.

“Why? Is that bad?” Spike asked casually.

“Bad? BAD? Of course it’s bad!” Twilight snapped, getting into Spike’s face so quickly that his arms went into the air, sending the bandage on his claw to go flying off behind him, “I’m...that is…we...are supposed to send Princess Celestia a letter every week, telling her about a lesson we’ve learned about friendship! Not every other week, not every ten days, every...single...week!” Twilight didn’t hesitate to poke the dragon’s chest and got right into his face again as she explained the situation.

“Huh?” said Spike puzzled. But Twilight was already tossing about various books near her desk.

“Ohh...Where’s my calendar, where my calendar?” Twilight asked frantically as she searched about.

“Where it...always is?” Spike remarked as he walked over a drawer on the other side of the room and pulled it out. Twilight then grabbed the calendar with her magic and pulled it toward her desk, causing Spike to smack into the side of it.

“When did we send the last one?” Twilight asked as she flipped through the pages.

“Last...Tuesday?” Spike answered as he lay on the ground on his back.

“And today is...” said Twilight as she finally found the current date in her calendar book.

“Tuesday?” Spike answered again as Twilight’s head shot up from the calendar in full panic, her face twitching from shock, making a face similar to Pinkie when the pink pony was suffering from depression.

“Argh! Nononononononono!” Twilight exclaimed as she rushed up another set of stairs to look outside as the sun took a single step across the sky from east to west, “If I don’t send a letter by sundown, I’ll be...TARDY!” Twilight looked rather panicked.

“What’s that now?” Spike asked as Twilight plopped onto her bed.

“Tar-dy, Spike!” Twilight repeated with a groan, “Late, I’ll be late! How could I let this happen? I’m usually so organized. I’ve never been late with an assignment.” Twilight then grabbed her blanket and wrapped herself inside it like a cocoon, her body trembling a bit.

“Oh please!” said Spike as he stood nearby before pulling off the blanket and heading downstairs, “You are the most studious students ever! I’m sure the Princess will forgive you if you two miss one deadline!” Twilight just looked down from above as she sat on her bed.

“I’m afraid to take that chance, Spike,” Twilight replied before teleporting to Spike and getting in his face again, “This is the ruler of all of Equestria we’re talking about. The pony who holds our fate in her hands! What if she doesn’t forgive me?”

“My mom is a very forgiving pony,” Cody said.

“Yeah...I don’t think she-”

“What if instead she starts thinking I’m not taking my studies on friendship seriously?” Twilight interrupted, getting more and more anxious as she paces about the room.

“Why would she-” Spike tried to speak again.

“What if she makes me come back to Canterlot and puts me back in school and makes me prove I’ve been taking them seriously by giving me a test?!” Twilight continued, cutting Spike off again, “What if I don’t pass?!” Spike just glared and shook his head at her.

“You’ve always passed tests my mom gave you, Twilight,” Cody said.

“Well, why wouldn’t you pass-”

“She’s my teacher,” Twilight exclaimed, getting in his face and then hopped forward, “Do you what teachers do to students who don’t pass? They send them back a grade! But she won’t just sent me back a grade. She’ll send me back to...magic kindergarten.” Spike just facepalmed himself as Twilight began to vision herself in the middle of kindergarten classroom and all the young fillies were laughing at her. Twilight was just sitting on the floor with an expression of dread and fear on her face, her body trembling once more.

“Twilight? Twilight!” Spike called out to her, shaking her to snap Twilight’s out of it.

“Huh?” Twilight remarked as her mind is now back in reality.

“You’re overreacting, Twilight,” Cody said, “If we just write to my mom that we don’t have a friendship report today, I’m sure she’ll understand.”

“That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard!” Spike told her sternly, “You’re not going to be sent back to magic kindergarten.”

“You’re right,” said Twilight as she stood up, “I have no reason to worry. Because I’m going to solve a friend’s problem and get that letter to Princess Celestia before sundown!” Spike just sighed to himself as he slumped forward.

“So...got any problems, troubles, conundrums or any sort of issues, major or minor, that I, as a good friend, could help you solve?” Twilight asked with a big smile.

“Huh. Hmm. Huunh. Huh...I got nothin’,” said Spike after some deep pondering, leaving Twilight a bit dejected...for a moment before she sighed.

“Then it looks like I’m going to have to find somepony who does,” said Twilight before taking her leave.

“I hope you know what you’re doing,” Cody replied, following her.

Spike just sighed to himself. “This won’t end well,” he muttered.

Just outside the Library, Twilight was feeling confident, while Cody felt unsure.

“You’ve got this, Twilight. You still have plenty of time to get that letter to Princess Celestia! Has to be somepony who needs the help of a good friend!” she said to herself.

“Now hold on there. Since when did Mom say we had to deliver a letter each week?” Cody asked.

“Uh...that’s what we’ve been doing this whole time...” Twilight said slowly.

“According to her instructions, Mom said we must report to her our findings on the magic of friendship here in Ponyville. She never said we must report to her our findings on the magic of friendship here in Ponyville every week.” Cody pointed out.

“Well we did make a nice little routine of sending her a letter every week since we’ve got here,” Twilight replied quickly, “Don’t you think she’s gonna be a little concerned if we skip a week?”

“The weekly deadline doesn’t exist. Sure we’ve made a habit of sending them weekly, but friendship problems aren’t issues that appear on routine like that,” Cody said.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” somepony screamed.

“Rarity!” said Twilight, getting stars in her eyes.

“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKK!” Rarity screamed some more as Twilight kicked open the front door.

“Don’t worry, Rarity!” said Twilight, “We’re here!” Rarity was just on a display stage sobbing.

“Why me-e-e-e-e-ee...” Rarity moaned dramatically and then gasped, “WHYYYY?! Why? Why-y?! And of all the worst things that could happen, this is THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!” Rarity continued to cry while Twilight was actually smiling excitedly. This was exactly what she had been looking for.

“What’s happened?” Twilight asked, trying to show concern, “Are you alright?”

Rarity gasped again. “I’ve lost my diamond-encrusted purple ribbon!” Rarity told her with pouty lips, “I have searched high, and I have searched low. Low and high! High and low! But I can’t find it anywhere! Anywhere-e-e-e-ere! How can I possibly finish my latest creation if I can’t find it?!” Rarity then summoned her chaise sofa and continued to sob. Twilight seemed more overjoyed about the problem than she should have been, even rubbing her hands with anticipation.

“Never fear, Rarity,” said Twilight, “As you friend, I’ll do my best to help you fi-”

“Oh, there it is,” said Rarity, calming down instantly as she found her ribbon nearby, picked it up, and got back to work. Twilight and Cody seemed a bit stunned.

“So...you just lost your ribbon?” said Twilight slowly.

“Mm-hm!” Rarity answered as she examined the ribbon with her magic.

“But now you’ve found it?” Twilight added in the same tone.

“Yeah-huh,” said Rarity as she used some scissors to cut the ribbon into pieces.

“And nothing else is bothering you?” Twilight asked next, “Nothing that I, a good friend, could help you with?” Twilight couldn’t help but give her starry-eyed smile.

“Hmm...there is one thing,” said Rarity, giving Twilight some large eyes and pouty lips.

“Yes?” Twilight asked eagerly. even leaning forward to the point that her hind legs were in the air.

“I think I left my measuring tape under the fabric over there,” said Rarity, “Could you get that for me?” Twilight just sighed to herself.

“Measuring tape?” Twilight said half-heartedly, “Sure.” Rarity took notice of Twilight’s tone.

“This was too easy,” Cody remarked.

“Twilight? Cody? Is there something bother-Twilight?” By the time Rarity turned around, Twilight had already left.

The sun took another step across the sky as Cody and Twilight were once again walking through the town.

“No need to panic,” Twilight told herself, “Rarity is just one pony. I’m sure one of our other friends will need me.”

It was then Rainbow, wearing some safety goggles, was seen making various grunts and kai noises as she karate kicked the wooden wall of a barn, then smashed through the other side. Some broken wood shards stuck to her blue fur, but she quickly shook them off before air diving at the barn once again. Applejack, stationed in an underground bunker wearing a red helmet, crouched down and covered her head as the impact shook her up a bit. Rainbow then karate chopped some more wood planks and beams, even tearing a plank of wood off with her hands and tossing it away. Cody and Twilight happened the walking down a path when the wood plank landed before her, startling them.

“What in the world...?” Twilight exclaimed as she and Cody saw Rainbow charging and smashing the barn, “Rainbow must be angry with Applejack! She must hate her guts! How wonderful!”

Twilight gets her starry smile before taking off toward Rainbow. The blue pony was about to make another charge when...

“Rainbow Dash! Stop!” Twilight called out, causing the blue pony to come to a halt. Rainbow then found out that her tail was being held in the air by Twilight’s magic. The purple pony approached her before Rainbow could respond.

“Listen, Rainbow,” said Twilight, “I know you’re upset with Applejack, but don’t worry. Whatever it is that has come between you two, I’m sure that I, as a good friend, can help you resolve your problems.” That was then Twilight let go of Rainbow’s tail, making the blue Pegasus hit the ground with a THUD.

“Uh, what are you talking about?” Rainbow asked puzzled.

“Oh Rainbow Dash, you don’t have to hide your feelings from me!” said Twilight as she rubbed the blue pony’s shoulder, “I can tell you two must’ve had a terrible fight.”

Rainbow was still puzzled before she found herself sitting in a therapy sofa. Twilight had found herself a pair of glasses to wear and had tied her mane into a bun and used her magic to hold a clipboard. Cody blushed at seeing her like this as he thought she looked cute in it.

“Now, why don’t you tell me all about your issues with Applejack,” said Twilight gently, patting Rainbow on the head.

“I don’t have any issues with Applejack,” Rainbow said plainly.

“You don’t?” Twilight asked puzzled.

“Then why are you destroying her property?” Cody added, equally puzzled.

“Because she asked me to,” Rainbow answered as she sat up, “Right Applejack?”

“Yes, ma’am,” Applejack agreed as she lifted her helmet off her head, “Sal and I wanted to put up a new barn, but this one’s gotta come down first. Hehe. Now get back to it, R.D.” Applejack put her helmet back on and ducked back into the ditch.

“You got it, boss!” Rainbow called out and started to ascend into the sky.

“I’d take cover if I were you,” said Applejack. Cody and Twilight just looked puzzled as the orange pony ducked down. The couple then noticed that as Rainbow flew high into the sky she began to air dive right at the barn, giving a loud battle cry.

“Hit the dirt!” Cody shouted.

Twilight yelped as they ducked into the ditch. A few seconds later...

BOOOOOOOOOM! RAINBOW ‘SPLOSION!

Large amounts of rubble and dirt landed right on top of Cody and the ponies. Applejack just quickly popped out of a pile of rubble with huge smile on her face and jumped out of the ditch. Twilight and Cody just popped out with a sigh before heading on their way. The rubble had messed up her mane and tail, as well as Cody’s hair slightly, but Twilight was too focused on her own mission to care.

The clock continued to tick (metaphorically) as the sun made another step across the sky as Twilight and Cody made their way toward Fluttershy’s cottage.

“I can’t believe I wasted all that time,” said Twilight with a sigh, “I should have just come here first. Fluttershy always has some fear she’s trying to get over. As a good friend, I’ll be able to help her.”

Cody and Twilight walked around the house to see Fluttershy standing before a bear. The bear roared as Fluttershy ran under his legs to get away, the bear looked under for a second before Fluttershy grunted as she give the bear a hard karate kick, knocking the bear into his back and pulling his hind leg from behind making the bear groan in pain and pound his fists on the ground.

“Fluttershy?” said Twilight in deep shock.

Fluttershy then did a stomp attack on the bears back. The bear just began cry for mercy. Twilight’s jaw literally dropped as Fluttershy twisted the bear’s neck aggressively and then flipped the bear into his back for the victory. Cody and Twilight just couldn’t believe what they had seen.

“How can this be happening?” said Twilight, still in disbelief, “Of all the days she had to stop being such a scardy pony, she had to pick today?! What am I going to do?!” Twilight just walked sadly away, with Cody alongside her. If they had stayed a few seconds longer, they would have seen that the bear had enjoyed the tussle.

“You really should have come to me sooner,” said Fluttershy as she gently rubbed his back, “you were carrying so much tension in that shoulder.” The bear just growled contently with its tongue was hanging out of its mouth.

With opportunities to help her friends non-existent, Twilight was now laying down on a park bench with her tail tucked between her legs as she brushed it with one of her hands. Cody felt great concern for his girlfriend.

“It’s fine, It’ll all be fine. The day isn’t over yet,” Twilight told herself before she sat up and looked at the sun in the sky, “But it will be over soon!” The sun inched closer to the western horizon and more clock ticking could heard. Twilight groaned as she sat on the bench.

“It’ll all be over!” said Twilight as she looked at herself in a puddle of water and tears began to fall from her eyes, “My time in Ponyville! My advanced studies!” Twilight then tried to recompose herself.

“Nono,” Twilight told her reflection as she rubbed her hands, “You’re a good student. You can do this.” She gave herself a fist pump to emphasize her point.

“Ooh! But what if I can’t?” said Twilight’s reflection with a fearful and worried look on her face.

“You can!” Twilight told her reflection, which was on the verge of tears, “You just need to keep it together. Keep. It. Together!” Twilight sternly stared at her reflection as she leaned her face at the water when Spike came along carrying a package with R5 beside him.

“Are you talking to...yourself?” Spike asked uneasily. He slowly walked up and waved his hand over her face since Cody and Twilight were too in the moment to reply, “Twilight?” Twilight just blinked before she sat up. She soon noticed some little fillies just laughing at the distance, making her left ear impulsively twitch. The foals suddenly turned into dark shadows that started laughing at her, making her stare blankly at them until Spike burst Twilight’s little bubble.

“Snap out of it!” Spike yelled sternly.

“Huh?” Twilight just sat on the ground on her back, her mane and tail looking even more frazzled.

“Are you two okay?” Spike asked with concern. Twilight just shook her head a bit, still looking at the three fillies, who were just jumping rope and playing together.

“Not quite, Spike. I can’t seem to calm Twilight down from her overreacting,” Cody replied.

“Twilight, I’m really worried,” said Spike since Twilight still wasn’t listening to him and was blinking, rubbing her eyes, blinked again, and just sat facing away from him with a slight wobble to her stance, “I mean this letter thing is really getting to you. Here. You’ve been so anxious all day that you completely forgot about the picnic. Why don’t you try to relax and go hang out with-”

“The picnic,” Twilight exclaimed, nearly doing a one-eighty of her head and startled Spike as she grabbed the box with her magic, “I should go see my friends!” Twilight then took off to meet the other ponies.

“Twilight, wait up!” Cody called out, trying to keep up.

“I’m glad you’ve come to your senses,” said Spike with some relief, but inwardly was a little worried.

“Can you believe her, R5?” he asked turning to the astromech droid. R5 just gave puzzled beeps and whistles.

In another part of the park, Pinkie happily bounced over with her own little picnic basket. As she set the basket down and removed the checkered cloth, some balloons popped out and carried the basket high into the sky. Fluttershy and Bucky just watched the balloons disappear as Pinkie gave them a puzzled look. Meanwhile, Sal and Applejack were laying out their picnic cloth for their lunch and Rainbow, wearing some sunglasses, was busy putting on some sunscreen. Sunset had come to visit and was looking forward to seeing Cody and Twilight again, the thought of Cody made her blush. Rarity was busy shuffling through her own basket.

“Please tell me I did not forget the plates,” said Rarity and gasped when she realized she had, “I did. I totally forgot them. Of all the worst things that could happen, this is THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!” Fluttershy just made an unamused face as Rarity summoned her chaise sofa and threw herself on it to cry.

“Oh why, why, why...” Rarity sobbed until she noticed everyone is either just staring or glaring at her, “...Uh...What? You didn’t expect me to lay on the grass, did you?” The others just gave her more stares and skeptical looks. Rainbow lowered her shades and looks up to see...Cody and Twilight?!

Twilight just gave them a maniacal smile, her mane and tail looking even more frazzled. Everyone just looked at her uneasily as they stood side by side.

“Good to see you, Sunset,” Cody greeted.

“You alright, hun?” Applejack asked as she took a step forward.

“No! I am not alright,” said Twilight loudly with large eyes. The five ponies and two boys all chatter about with each other in worry and shock.

“It’s just terrible,” Twilight told them with her head down.

“Yes?” the other ponies and boys said at once, leaning forward.

“Simply awful,” said Twilight worried.

“Yes!?” the other ponies and boys asked, leaning forward again.

“It’s the most horrific trouble I’ve ever been in and I really, really, really need your help!” Twilight pleaded.

“YES!?” the other ponies and boys repeated, now feeling very worried and concerned.

“My...Our...letter to Princess Celestia is almost overdue,” Twilight told them, pressing both her hands to her head and looking at them with worried eyes, “And we haven’t learned anything about friendship!” Sal, Bucky, and the mares just breathed a huge sigh of relief and smile to each other.

“I tried to reason with Twilight and calm her down, but she wouldn’t listen,” Cody added.

“Oh thank goodness. I thought something really awful had happened.” Fluttershy replied.

Twilight was taken aback, making a groan that sounded like she was being strangled. She immediately teleported to Rainbow, who turned away in annoyance.

“Something awful has happened!” Twilight exclaimed before teleporting to Rarity, making the marshmallow pony do a spit take, “If I don’t turn in the letter on time, I’ll be tardy!” Twilight then teleported towards Applejack as she knelt on her knees.

“TARDY!” Twilight cried out in desperation. Cody just looked rather worried as the other girls, Sal, and Bucky just started to laugh at her. They felt rather angry as her cheeks turned slightly red.

“Twilight, you’re not gonna be tardy. You’re a great student, like me,” Sunset said reassuringly.

“No offense, sugarcubes, but it looks like somepony’s gettin’ themselves all worked up for nothin’!” said Applejack as she gently pushed Twilight away.

“This is not nothing,” Twilight snapped before she swatted Applejack’s hands away from her, “This is everything.” Twilight then scurried across the picnic blanket, moving from Rainbow to Fluttershy.

“I need you guys to help me find somepony with a problem I can fix before sundown!” Twilight cried out as she stopped moving about then glared sternly at Pinkie, “My whole life depends on it!”

“Oh, Twilight, you’re such a crack-up!” Pinkie giggled before she started to laugh.

“Come on now,” said Applejack as Twilight just glared at the others, “Have a seat and stop sweatin’ the small stuff.”

“Relax, you two,” Sal added.

“Ugh...UGH!” Twilight groaned in annoyance twice before taking off and teleporting away.

“Wow, I’ve never seen Twilight so upset before,” Fluttershy told the others.

“Oh, what a drama queen,” said Rarity, earning the marshmallow pony some dirty looks, “Mm, relatively speaking...” Rarity chuckled sheepishly as she looked away. It was then the six girls, Sal, and Bucky noticed that Cody looked rather upset himself.

“Hey, don’t let Twilight get you all tied up in a knot, pal,” Bucky told him.

“You don’t understand. She thinks that if she doesn’t send a letter to my mom by sundown, she’ll be sent back to Canterlot, given a test and not able to pass, then pushed back several grades all the way to magic kindergarten,” Cody replied.

“That’s crazy talk!” Sunset said, “Princess Celestia would never do that, she’s a very forgiving mare.”

“That’s what I’ve been saying,” Cody replied before turning to the others, “Sunset and I have seen Twilight overreact before, but we take her feelings seriously. Good friends should always take each other’s feelings seriously, even if they make a big deal about minor issues and clearly, you didn’t!”

“You should be ashamed of yourselves!” Sunset added.

“Now, I want you all to please apologize to Twilight before she does something insane,” Cody finished.

It wasn’t long before the Thrace brothers and the six ponies accompanied Cody back to the library. Once inside, Cody went up to the bedroom and found Twilight gone insane due to her panic attack.

“Clock is ticking, Twilight. Clock. Is Ticking,” Twilight told herself, making the face of a pony gone mad.

“No offense, Twily, but you don’t look so good,” Cody said.

“Keep it together,” Twilight said, ignoring Cody as she paced about her and Cody’s room and then saw her blue chest, “If I can’t find a friendship problem...I’ll make a friendship problem!”

“Twilight, listen to yourself! What you’re considering is completely insane! Nothing is going to happen if you don’t submit that letter. There was nothing in the instructions that we had to do this weekly. You’re not missing an assignment and you’re not tardy!” Cody replied.

“Why? You have a friendship problem for me?” Twilight asked frantically.

“Sort of, our friends are just downstairs and they have something to say to you,” Cody replied.

Cody and Twilight came downstairs, where their friends were waiting for them.

“We all saw that you were upset, Twilight,” Fluttershy spoke up.

“But we thought that the thing you were worrying about wasn’t worth worrying about,” Rainbow said.

“So when you ran off all worked up, not a single one of us tried to stop you,” Applejack added.

“As your good friends, we should have taken your feelings seriously and been there for you!” Rarity continued.

“Please don’t be mad at us just because we were too insensitive to help you,” Fluttershy pleaded.

“We’re sorry, Twilight,” everyone finished together.

“Can you forgive us?” Sal and Bucky asked in unison.

“We forgive you, everyone,” Cody replied.

“Maybe we should write to Princess Celestia telling her what you all learned,” Sunset suggested.

“Good thinking, Sunset,” Twilight said, turning to Spike, “Spike, take a letter.” Spike nodded in response, then started writing.

“Dear Mom…” Cody began.

“We’re writin’ to you because today we all learned a little somethin’ about friendship.” Applejack said.

“We learned that you should take your friends’ worries seriously.” Fluttershy added.

“Even if you don’t think that she has anything to worry about.” Rainbow continued.

“And that you shouldn’t let your worries turn a small problem...” Rarity said.

“...into an enormously huge problem.” Pinkie interjected.

Signed, your loving son, Cody and your loyal subjects. Cody finished.

“P.S.” Spike began as he went to write his own opinion, “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-”

“Ahem,” Cody interrupted indignantly as Twilight walked up to Spike shaking her head. The baby dragon lifted his head to see everypony giving him dirty looks.

“Eheh...uh...yeah...” Spike stuttered, “I’ll just...um...” Spike marked a large X over what he wrote, making the others laugh. Spike just glared at them, snorting through his nose.