Chapter 12: Taking the Weekend Off: Friday Night Food Fight

The Marestream was coming down to land in Bridlewood. It then landed in front of Izzy's old house, or as she calls it, La Villa Izzy. Aaron, the Young 6, Izzy and Misty got out of the Marestream and headed for the house.

"Welcome to La Villa Izzy!" Izzy said.

"I'm guessing we're all staying here tonight?" Aaron asked.

"That's right, Aaron," Izzy said. "Well, not all of us. Misty will be sleeping over at the Crystal Tea Room in her foalhood room."

"Right, since Alphabittle is her dad," Gallus said. He then walked past one of Izzy's art pieces. It was the musical device with bottles with the bottles being hit by kitchenware. Gallus turned the crank and it started playing the MLP Theme song.

Then Aaron, the Young 6, Izzy and Misty entered the cottage. Aaron and the Young 6 looked around.

"Whoa!" Ocellus said. "This place is just about as nice as Fluttershy's."

"It is," Sandbar said. "So, what are we doing here?"

"First, we'll drop off the stuff for sleeping over here," Izzy said. "Then, we get right into the fun things."

"What is it?" Smolder asked. "Whatever it is, I'm up for it."

Later, food was being flung through the air. Aaron and the Young 6 were avoiding the food as they were running down the path, trying to get out of the line of fire.

"I was not up for this!" Smolder cried out. Then the seven of them jumped down to the ground.

"A food fight?!" Aaron asked. "You have got to be kidding me!"

Then they all got up and continued running out of the line of fire. But then, they were ambushed by a bunch of unicorns with rotting food in their magic.

"Give it up, you seven," a green unicorn stallion wearing a yellow baseball cap said. "There's no escape."

"This ain't good," Gallus said. Then the unicorns threw their food towards the Young 6. Aaron, Smolder, Gallus, Sandbar, Silverstream and Ocellus jumped out of the way in time, but Yona got splattered with all the food.

"Gah!" Yona cried out. "Yak down! Yak down!" She then fell over.

"Yona!" Sandbar cried out. He then went back towards Yona. Yona was covered in rotten food. He then tried shielding her from the rotting food, but he got buried in rotten food himself. "Ugh, gross! My mane is gonna be smelling for weeks!"

"This is getting out of hand!" Aaron said.

Just then, Izzy came down from above, shouting, "Get down!" Then she landed on them and they all went down. Food kept splattering around the group as they were ducking behind them. Izzy then sighed and said, "Don't you just love Friday Night Food Fights?"

"Friday Night Food Fights?" Aaron asked. "You unicorns do this every Friday Night?!"

"Well, not every Friday Night," Izzy said. "Only when it doesn't rain. But still, it's the best Unicorn Tradition."

"This is a Unicorn Tradition?!" Aaron asked.

"Can't we just watch from a safer place?!" Ocellus asked.

"The Tea House!" Izzy said. "It's a safe zone! Get there fast!" She then spoke in a tough girl voice. "I'll cover you!" Aaron and the rest of the Young 6 all headed for the Crystal Tea Room.

They came to the front of the Crystal Tea Room. They were running towards it fast. The five of them ran into the Crystal Tea Room where Alphabittle was cleaning the counter. Aaron closed the door as all five of them entered.

"It's wild out there!" Gallus said.

Alphabittle chuckled and asked, "First time Friday Night Food Fight?"

"Hey, we've been here for almost a week!" Smolder said. "How are we supposed to know this?" She then got a realization. "Wait. Aaron, wouldn't your aunt get worried about you if she had called us and haven't you and I haven't answered?"

"We'll eventually make it back to when we originally went through the portal," Aaron said. "It'll be like... we never left."

"Well, I hope you all find a way back home," Alphabittle said. "Although, you all came to Bridlewood at a good time."

"I'm not sure it was," Gallus said.

"Who even started this tradition?" Silverstream asked.

"Oh, that credit goes to Misty," Alphabittle said.

"Misty?!" Aaron, Smolder, Gallus, Silverstream and Ocellus all asked shocked.

"Please tell me she was a baby when this happened?" Aaron asked with a deadpanned expression.

"Oh, yeah," Alphabittle said. He then looked outside. "Oh, looks like she's in the game." The others looked outside and saw Misty dodging rotting food and throwing food back at them. She was wearing a red headband and she had two marks on her cheeks from raspberry pie.

"Hasta La Vista, Ponies," Misty said, smugly. She then threw more rotting food.

"Whoa," Smolder said. "She's good."

"And she's gone Rambo with a hint of Terminator," Aaron said.

"She looks so determined to win," Ocellus said.

"Yeah, every unicorn loves this tradition," Alphabittle said. "Although, when she won Friday Night Food Fight for the first time, she had no interest in participating. That is until I got pummeled by a lot of rotting food."

"She went a total one-eighty on that after seeing you hit by all that food?" Aaron asked. He then chuckled. "I imagine Rarity doing that with just a little splat of food getting on her hooves."

"I can actually see that," Ocellus said. She then shapeshifted into Rarity. "Oh, no no no. A unicorn such as myself would never be caught dead participating in such an uncouth game that causes a huge mess." Gallus then reached over the counter for a tea ingredient. He grabbed a used tea leave and put it on Ocellus's left forehoof. Ocellus, still disguised as Rarity, then got angry. "Oh, it... is... on!"

Then Aaron, Smolder, Gallus and Silverstream laughed. Ocellus joined in after changing back to her normal form. At least in the form she's in now being in the G5 era.

"Wait, unicorns were sophisticated back then?" Alphabittle asked.

"Not all of them," Aaron said.

"There's this one unicorn, Lyra Heartstrings, and she has an unhealthy obsession with humans," Gallus said. "She's been trying to keep Aaron here in Equestria with her almost every time he comes."

"Guess you're lucky being stuck in the future," Alphabittle said.

"For now," Aaron said. "Eventually, we all have to get back to the past."

"Yeah, we all do," Gallus said. "Well, I don't have family, but the rest of us got family back in our time."

"Well, you might as well enjoy yourselves," Alphabittle said. "In fact..." He then looked towards the door. "Why don't you all go enjoy yourselves in this food fight? For fun."

"Seriously?" Aaron asked. "I'm not sure about..."

"What?" Smolder asked. "You only get in trouble for food fights in school. But if it's alright here..." Smolder then smirked. "Let's do this."

"Oh, boy," Aaron said, shaking his head. Smolder then grabbed Aaron's left arm and pulled him out of the Crystal Tea Room. "Whoa, hey!"

"Oh, boy," Gallus said. "This is gonna be interesting."

"Looks fun," Silverstream said.

"Five bits back home Aaron wins the food fight," Gallus said.

"I'm betting on Smolder," Ocellus said. "She's more competitive."

"Count me in on that, too," Silverstream said. "I bet neither of them win."

"Oh, it's on," Gallus said. Then the three of them pulled out their bits. "So, where are we gonna have these held?"

"I got it," Alphabittle said, taking the bits in his magic. "Are these gold coins the currency of your time?"

"Yeah," Ocellus said. "What do you ponies use now?" Alphabittle then pulled out some dollar bills. The center of the front of the dollar bills was a heart with a pony's head. "Dollar bills? Like Aaron's world uses."

"I guess so," Alphabittle said. "Alright, all bets are in."

Aaron and Smolder were both getting involved in the Food Fight. Aaron was dodging the food. Smolder was catching flung food and threw it back at the unicorns who threw it.

"Ha! Gotcha!" Smolder said. She then ducked out of the way of an incoming pie. "You gotta try better than that if you wanna hit me!"

Aaron on the other hand was dodging every piece of food being thrown at him. Aaron ducked, flew, and somersaulted to prevent himself from being hit. Aaron then stopped when a bunch of unicorns were surrounding him. One of them was Peach Fizz.

"You're surrounded, Aaron," Peach Fizz said. "You're done."

Aaron then looked around. He then got an idea. He then started creating a smokescreen, covering himself. The unicorns then launched food into the smoke, but they didn't make contact with him. They hit each other through the smoke.

"Ugh, gross!" Peach Fizz said. Just then, the smoke cleared and Aaron was on his stomach. "A smoke screen and ducking out of the way. Clever. But it won't be enough."

"Gotta go," Aaron said, running past the ponies.

For the next hour, everyone in the Food Fight were getting eliminated one by one. Eventually, there were three competitors left. Aaron, Smolder and Misty.

It then went to the front of the Crystal Tea Room. A lot of ponies were sitting on the sidelines watching who was left. Smolder and Misty were both standing in front of the Crystal Tea Room, both giving each other a competitive face.

"Not bad surviving this long," Misty said.

"That's the thing about us dragons," Smolder said. "We're highly competitive. But Aaron, he's more athletic. Which is how we both won on a game show."

"You two competed on a game show?" Misty asked. "And won?"

"Yeah," Smolder said. "We won the grand prize and spent an Earth Holiday on a tropical island known as Hawaii. We had Gallus tag along because he doesn't have a family."

"Aw, that's too bad," Misty said. "But... at least he has good friends. But sadly..." She then used her magic to levitate some spaghetti. "That won't give me the sympathy to take you down!" She then launched the spaghetti towards Smolder. Smolder then ran towards a tree and did parkour over the spaghetti.

"Not gonna get me," Smolder said, smirking. She then grabbed an old fruitcake and threw it towards Misty. Misty ducked, the fruitcake nearly hitting her horn.

"Whoa!" Misty said when she ducked.

"That was close," Silverstream said from inside. "I hope Misty wins!"

"No way," Ocellus said. "Smolder has the clear advantage."

"Wait... where's Aaron?" Gallus asked. Just then, a bunch of cake came in and buried Smolder and Misty. The two dug out of the cake. Then they looked around and saw a big slingshot with Aaron behind it.

"How... did you do that?" Misty asked.

"Learned that from Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie," Aaron said. "Back when I took a semester at the School of Friendship."

"That... was awesome..." Smolder said, pulling herself out of the cake.

"Yeah, it was," Izzy said, coming up to Aaron. "Friday Night Food Fight Champ!"

"Even I'm impressed," came Alphabittle's voice. He was coming out with Gallus, Ocellus, Silverstream, Sandbar, Yona and a four layer chocolate cake. "Congrats."

"But, who's gonna clean all this food?" Ocellus asked.

"Oh, don't worry about that, Ocellus," Izzy said. "The forest will have it for lunch."

"All the rotten food here was used for mulch," Misty said.

"So it keeps the forest healthy," Sandbar said. "Wait, is that why there's a food garbage can in your world, Aaron?"

"That's right," Aaron said. "Although, my aunt and I weren't able to do it back in Chicago. We lived in a condo."

"Well, how about you all get washed up?" Alphabittle said. "Somepony, get the hose."

Later that night, Aaron and the Young 6 were getting ready for bed in La Villa Izzy. Smolder was coming out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her.

"Okay, all of you," Izzy said. "Get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow, after breakfast, we'll head back to Maretime Bay."

"Hopefully Misty will make it here in time," Aaron said.

"Oh, she will," Izzy said. "Sometimes, she's an early riser."

"Probably because of Opaline," Smolder said.

"That's... probably why," Izzy said. "She did live with Opaline for a long time."

"At least we came to a time where we don't have to worry about Opaline," Gallus said.

"Yeah, we're lucky," Sandbar said. "Otherwise, she would've gone after Aaron and Smolder's fire."

"Oh, she would've gone for all of us," Ocellus said. "Spike said that she wanted all magic for herself."

"Well, we won't worry about that," Aaron said. "Let's get to sleep." Then they all went over to their sleeping areas up on the loft. Aaron and Smolder slept together. Sandbar and Yona did the same. Along with Gallus and Silverstream. Ocellus was asleep on the couch downstairs.

Back in Maretime Bay, at night, Nyx was sitting next to the gurney that Twilight was on. One of the nurses there came in and saw Nyx sitting next to the gurney.

"Miss Alicorn, visiting hours are over," the nurse said. "You need to leave."

"This mare is my mother," Nyx said. "I'll be out in a few minutes." The nurse then left the room. Nyx was looking at Twilight with a sad expression. "Mom... it's me again. I wish... I wish I could see your eyes... and hear your voice. Just as I remembered you when I was a filly." She then closed her eyes and the tip of her horn touched the tip of Twilight's horn. "Please... wake up soon... Mom..." The two horns then stopped touching. Nyx then headed for the door. She took one last look at Twilight before leaving the room.

But what she didn't notice was that Twilight's face cringed a little, meaning she would wake up soon.

Author's Note

Would you believe that? Twilight is close to coming out of her coma. Hopefully, she'll wake up soon. Perhaps she'll help with Aaron and the Young 6 get back to their time. See you all next time.