"And this concludes , my thesis on the energy given off by gamma radiation", said Doctor Whooves,
pointing at the board behind him.
In front of him where 10 sleeping scientists, all in different sleeping positions and some collapsed on the floor.
The Doctor sighed, "I over did it again, didn't I?".
" I thought it was pretty good!", said one mare in the back of the room.
The Doctors ears perked up,"Miss. Sparkle? It is quite great to see.. " He looked around in a sea of sleeping comatose ponies, "a conscious face".
Twilight's face reddened slightly,"I always stay awake in your speeches", she stammered.
She didn't know what it was about the Doctor but she seemed to freeze up and just.. malfunction. It was something about that messy hair and the ties, that just made her cheeks turn a ketchup color. Something is wrong with me, she thought. I'll have to run experiments She stole a look at Doctor Whooves' dark blue eyes. Maybe later.
"Well, since you have had the bravery to sit through, heaven forbid, my ENTIRE speech!", he smirked at the sleeping scientists. " You deserve the highest of all awards. Despite the fact that, I have no award to give."
He checked their pulses.
"Oh dear, I hope I didn't -", He grinned, " bore them to death". He started laughing.
Twilight double-blinked. The Doctor was nice enough, but if not a tad... mad.
" What say you, to a tour of the Tower?", asked The Doctor.
"I would love to see the rest of the Oscorp Tower! It is pretty large", remarked Twilight while collecting her books and putting them into her bags.
"Well, then why are you still sitting down?" asked the Doctor," Allons-y Miss. Sparkle!"
Twilight confirmed in her mind, Definitely, mad.
And cute. Her face reddened again.
She got up shakily, hoping not to tip over from the weight of the books. She didn't have the best hoof-eye coordination. Or balance. She flunked gym back in the Elementary Days. She shuddered inwardly. Cursed clumsiness.
"Shall we begin?", smiled Doctor Whooves, " I daresay that you might really enjoy this tour! Hopefully, you stay awake. "
He did a little prance and started forward, with one last glance at the sleeping ponies.
Twilight decided it was partly the Trottingham accent.
I see what Rarity was talking about Trottingham accents, she thought.
They walked along the Tower's sky view were one could see the growing town of Ponyville.
" There are lots of new buildings being added to Ponyville, am I right Miss. Sparkle?", said Doctor Whooves, as they walked along the Tower's busy hallways, full of scientists busily experimenting and taking notes.
"Yep! Ever since the invention of towers and the television, the town is growing bigger every day, there are so many tall buildings in the Upper Side of Ponyville.", remarked Twilight, " I can hardly keep track of all the ponies that come through here."
" Isn't one of your friends in charge of meeting new ponies?"
"Oh! You mean Pinkie Pie?" said Twilight, " You know, before I came here, I thought I've seen it all. But then I met Pinkie Pie". She chuckled.
"Don't tell me that she held a party for ALL the new ponies?" said The Doctor incredulously.
" It was probably the scariest month of my life, shuddered Twilight, "There was a party.... every day". There was a pause
" It was a huge relief when she finally met them all." She grasped her stomach and made a face " One can only have so much sarsaparilla".
Doctor Whooves winked, " It's too full of sass, am I right?"
Twilight giggled. How does he know about that?
Doctor Whooves said, " That particular pony is so.. so"
"Random?"
"Exactly!", Doctor Whooves stopped at a glowing blue door. He held out his hoof into a space in the wall.
There was a quick scan and the doors opened to reveal a wide room full of gadgets and glowing blue doors.
"This here, is the Bio Cable Room. It has the strength to hold up the heaviest objects in Equestria" The Doctor sighed happily, "Isn't amazing what science and spiders can do?"
" Yeah.. Science is amazi - wait, did you say spiders?". Twilight looked around apprehensively, as if the creepy monsters were going to ooze over the walls.
"Indeed! They are genetically enhanced spiders made for Dr. Connor's Project. These amazing little creatures are very misunderstood and hated. I suppose I understand. It is most likely the legs." Doctor Whooves made a face, " Eight is far too many legs".
" Dr. Connor?", asked Twilight
" He is working mainly on cross-species genetics,- you know that one that states that one animal's DNA might benefit another?"
" Oh, really?", remarked Twilight. Interesting .
" He firmly believes that it is possible. I don't think much of it, but," He smiled, " he pays my rent so what else can I say?"
" Cross species genetics, huh?" Twilight was interested in this quizzical topic.
" He'll tell you more about it, perhaps later this week when he visits," answered Doctor Whooves. " He might come tomorrow. Maybe you can come?"
" Sounds great!", exclaimed Twilight. More Doctor Whooves time! She held in a SQEEE.
Doctor Whooves' watch made a beep sound. He checked it and sighed.
" It seems that Derpy has arrived.", He looked up urgently at Twilight
"I have to get there before she finds the muffin maker in the Staff Room". He bit his lip. " Would it be ok to leave you here for a while?"
" Oh, of course! You just go and secure the muffin's safety!", smiled Twilight, really hoping he thought that was funny.
The Doctor smiled, then turned and hoofed it to the Staff Room, on a mission.
Twilight looked around in the lab. She saw the stretching of the Bio-Cables and the tiny packets they were put into. Hmm, The Doctor said something about spiders. I wonder where they are held. She turned a corner.
"Sweet Celestia"
She saw a large room that was lit by a blue light, which caught the webs in an eerie atmosphere. She stepped in gingerly. She gasped. It was a large room, filled with webs , and translucent spiders. Millions of them. All traveling upward and spinning in the room, gracefully. They rose in big arches. Making the room seem like a giant spider- web. But they seemed so time less and majestic. It was almost beautiful.
I could just reach up and touch them.
She paused.
Did I just think about touching spiders?
"I think I'm going crazy." She muttered as she turned around to examine a especially large one with red and blue spots.
"You know, they aren't soo bad. This one is kind cute!." Her hoof brushed a large cord. It made a dull thud.
OH NO
There was a loud whirring noise and the webs starting to spin. Twilight looked around, her heart pounding.
She whimpered. Death by spiders was not ideal. NOT IDEAL AT ALL.
Suddenly a large clump of spiders fell from the ceiling and the walls-
Right. On. Her.
She gasped and started shaking like a wet dog. Anything to get these monsters off of her. She couldn't see through a blanket of spiders. She shook hard enough to send them flying. Holding back a scream, she made a mad sprint to the door and out of the crazy spider death trap.
Never again, she decided, will I be swayed by cute, blue eyes , to go back in there. Even if it is Doctor Whooves .
Her heart was threatening to jump out of her chest. She already beat her fastest Scared-Silly Sprinting Record by eight seconds.
She was breathing so hard, she failed to notice that a large spider was still on her.
And that seemingly insignificant spider is the beginning of all of Twilight's troubles.
" I think- gasp- I'm -gasp - safe.", panted Twilight. She kept shaking her head back and forth, as if trying to shake the bad memory off.
" Twilight? Are you there?", Doctor Whooves called out.
" Over here!", Twilight trying to remain calm. Serenity now, Twi.SERENITY NOW**
" Oh there you are!" He trotted over. " I'd begun to think the spiders got you." He laughed.
Twilight managed a weak chuckle. Oh, you have no idea , Doctor.
" Well,I think you'd be happy to know that a muffin catastrophe was avoided." He smiled
Ready for the rest of the tour?"
"Actually, I -", She was cut short by a sharp pain in her neck. Remember that spider from before? It found it's mark. It was like a needle prick. A warm tingle spread throughout her back.
" I -- have an appointment-- to,.. aaa.., go, to.", She suddenly felt woozy and disoriented. Her vision swam and suddenly there were two doctors in front of her.
"That's a shame", He looked genuinely sad, " You are still coming tomorrow at noon, right?"
She saw some red. She gulped " I hope so" and dizzily started walking away
She didn't enjoy the trip back too much. Her vison was unfocused. It took all she had to not fall out the windows. Her head felt like Scootaloo had played a drum solo on it. Twilight kept shaking her head, like a crazy dog and muttering to herself. unaware of the changes being made at that very moment.
Miraculously, she made it to the first floor and out the door. The street was blindingly bright. It was like someone set all of her five senses on fire. They were all set to high alert to light, sound, taste and touch. She gasped and tried to shield her eyes.
" I - have to get out of here!",she yelled. She was drowning in a sea of noises. So. many. noises!
She hopped clumsily on a group taxi bus. It was like a taxi wagon but built for more passengers.
Her body was changing, as if it was in war with itself. The foreign DNA was slowly making it's way throughout her body, infecting every cell . It attacked her very core. She was changing and it hurt so bad. Every molecule was being taken over and transformed. She was being made for something other than reading books and magic. Made for something more.
The warm tingle was spread all over, like a bubbly hot broth, and she could see everything in a vivid light that gave her sharp head pains and spikes of pain in every part of her body.
She could feel every fiber in the carpet below her, it felt like sandpaper below her. She could taste the smells of the ponies on the bus, the sharpness of perfume and sweat. It didn't seem possible, to taste smell, but she was beyond reason at the moment.
More important things were taking place.Trippingly, yet with agility, she laid, shivering, on a scratchy,velvet seat and fell into a hot, DNA-changing, hoof-twitching, almost coma-like sleep.
And it was anything but relaxing.
Her troubles were far from over.
Oh, No no.
They just began.
Her body was convulsing slightly. She couldn't even muster up the strength to say a word or think a complete thought. Her body was failing on her, and Twilight was scared. She shivered.
You know, it's pretty hot outside. And you're shivering? a voice in the back of her mind said. Twilight had no response.
How can you respond to.. yourself?
All of a sudden her spine went erect and stiff. She was lying flat as a board on the seat, gasping slightly, not moving at all. The pain was subsiding, but it was not completely gone.She tried flexing her back, but the muscles tightened even harder. She tried moving any part of her body. But it was like her body shut down on her. She was a sitting duck.
But you're laying down? Wouldn't that make you a laying duck? Her senses were obviously still on hyper mode, since she was hearing voices.
Slightly sarcastic voices.
It was reaching Pinkie-hyper mode. What is happening to me!? she wondered when her mind had stopped throbbing uncontrollably. It started acting up ever since she left the lab. She couldn't lift a hoof or even use the most basic of magic. This would become a real problem when she reaches her stop.
She could hear every breath and every word being said on the taxi wagon. Her ears were like radars.
I think.. the worst is over, she thought. The worst .. of what? What was this occurring in her body? Her body was unbalanced like a.. her mind was searching for a comparison. Like a triple beam balance! she thought of science. Science was real and factual. She needed that, in this moment of insanity. Science made sense, which nothing right now did. Science is-
Only you would think of science.
I love science!
Oh yeah. I know.
She felt exposed , like a nerve and like a coiled spring, ready and tight. She was laying in a awkward position, which made her want to move to a better position. But she couldn't move. This day wasn't going well for Twilight.
You saw Doctor Whooves, right?
She couldn't help blushing and her heart didn't cease to skip a beat, like it always did when she thought of.. him.
It didn't help that she could feel everything. It was like she was laying on needles. Every piece of fabric was sticking to her back. Her eyes were sealed shut, refusing to open.
Velvet seats are the worst. Why are they so scratchy and sticky??
You just complain! And complain. And complain.
What was that voice? It was coming from the back of her head, like a whisper in her ear.
Suddenly, her ears perked up. She caught the words being uttered across the wagon like they were being shouted at her face.
It's a male, she confirmed. She heard another voice. Make it two males.
" I'm bored!", whinnied one voice.
" Cool story, tell it again.", answered the other voice.
" Shut up!", There was a pause. "Hey.. I got an idea!"
" You finally gettin a job?", snickered the other pony.
" Nah, man, look at that mare!"
" What bout her? Other than she looks like she's having a heart attack or somethin'.."
" Nah, nah watch this!", The pony got up and started trotting softly across the wagon. Twilight guessed that he was trying to sneak around. It wouldn't make sense for him to be stomping on the floor.
Twilight's pulse quickened. Are they talking about me?
You see any other mares? answered the voice in her mind.
My eyes are closed! How am I supposed to know?
I thought you are on "hyper- senses mode " or something.
I don't even know that means!
Twilight struggled frantically, but her back was tensed to spring, refusing to budge. She tried to wiggle, but her body wasn't responding to anything. She was as still as a Pinkie Pie watching paint dry.
The pony got closer, snickering softly.
I don't want to get murdered! The possibilities raced through her head.
Or raped! Twilight was panicking.
Who'd wanna rape you?
...Are you saying I'm am not rape material?
The pony bent over slowly...
She whimpered, softly.
.. and placed a water bottle gently on her forehead.
Twilight was relieved, if not slightly disappointed.
All that secrecy and stomping for nothing?
You wanna get raped?
The pony snickered and stepped back.
Twilight was ready to think nothing more of it, certainly not if that condescending voice is responding.
A drop of water from the side of the bottle started falling.. slowly down the bottle..
To land softly on Twilight's forehead.
It was like someone turned on a switch. Twilight's eyes flew open. She flung forward with blinding speed, sending the water bottle flying in the air. She propelled herself upward with all the energy she was holding in her body. With amazing agility, she landed in a crouched position on the aluminum roof.
This all happened in less than a second.
It took a while, until Twilight fully opened her eyes. She stared at the bolts on the ceiling.
Since when do chairs have bolts?
Check again.
It took a second for her to fully realize what just happened; where she was, no longer on the seat.
But on the roof.
She stared at her hooves, which where stuck as if they were glued to the ceiling.She gasped and her hooves unstuck. She fell back to the floor, and landed perfectly crouched on all four hooves. Her mind was sluggish against what had just happened.
She stood motionless for second.
Did I.. just..?
Scare the hell out of someponies? Yes.
She was cut off by the murmur of ponies behind her.
They were staring at her like she sprouted a second head. This wasn't the first time she's received that look but this time it was for a reason Twilight was not too sure about.
They gave her a wide berth, all crowded together to avoid contact with the crazy mare.
A group of earth ponies stood behind a blue scrawny, pegasus pony, and a big, green earth pony, who stood next to a red mare, her saddlebags drenched by the water.
Why are they are staring at me?
Aww, gee I don't know... It's a real mystery.. Perhaps it was the fact that you stuck on the roof! mocked the voice
"My brand new bag is wet!", the mare cried looking at the ruined bag.
Did she not see you stick to the ceiling?
Twilight got up blindly fast from the floor, blinking uncontrollably,
" I'm.. so sorry, miss I didn't mean to do that-", she placed a apologetic hoof on her bags, " I-
She stopped when she realized that her hoof was not coming off the bags. She tugged as hard as she could , but it refused to let go. She tried to back up, colliding with the metal pole in the center. Her front hoof stuck to it like a magnet. She looked down and tugged but it was simply and undeniably..
Stuck.
She looked around at the angry pony mob that was gathering.
*gulp*
" Hey! Are you trying to steal something or what?!", a green, buff pony yelled.
HUH?
Twilight realized that her hoof was not in a good place to be.
She looked at him, anxiously, " I'm trying.. but my hoof is..."
He started forward, all ready to shove her off.
Whatcha gonna do?
Twilight backed up fast and with a ripping sound, the bag was ripped off the mare's body, stuck on Twilight's hoof. Twilight's mind went blank for a split-second.
Twilight stared at it incredulously , then smiled weakly at the angered colt.
" Heh, heh,...Oops?".
" ARE YOU SERIOUS!? THAT BAG COST 18 BITS!! OH, YOU'RE GONNA GET IT!", the pony head toward her, ready to push her down.
" Am I?", taunted Twilight.
She gasped. She did not want to say that at all. It was like she was being told to say it. It slipped out unconsciously and she knew it was impossible to retract that.
He started running towards her, aiming to push her to the floor.
I don't think so, buddy.
In one movement, she dodged his tackle, and for a moment, his eyes searched around for Twilight. She reared up with one hoof on the pole and kicked him fully on the face, with a strength that made apple trees everywhere shudder in fear.
He fell to the floor, groaning and clutching his face, his self-esteem lay crushed, like his jaw.
Twilight gasped. She didn't mean to do that. Or any of this.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?! She was terrified, riding on an adrenaline high.
Her head was still processing the stuck-on-the ceiling fact. It was not ready for the beating-up-ponies fact.
The rest of the stallion's friends, couldn't believe their eyes. That nerdy looking filly, with a bag full of books, took down their strongest friend with one kick. They snorted and pawed at the ground, getting ready to take Twilight down.
" Wait, no - don't I-!"
This is gonna be good.
One pony ran straight for Twilight. She flew up , with one hoof on the pole, swung around the pole and hit him with enough force to crush a brick. He went flying into the background and lay, clutching his stomach.
She landed back on her rear legs.
She gasped and couldn't stop blinking. What am I doing?
" I'm sorry!", she cried , "I- I didn't meant to- she was cut off by the swinging hoof of the scrawny pegasus.
She ducked, grabbed his hoof, twisted, and threw him over her shoulder into the hard floor.
HAMMER TIME!! The voice was enjoying this too much.
Where'd this voice come from?!
The last pony saw his friends, bloodied and bruised. He knew that direct attack wouldn't work. He looked around and saw one of Twilight's big book sticking out of her bags on the floor.
She saw him and pleaded, " Please! Not my book. Not my book.. Not my-"
The pony grabbed it and swung it toward her with all his might.
She punched clean through the book, sending him to the floor with a sickening crunch.
That was my Vintage Collector's Edition!! She pouted, while the ponies lay on the floor gasping for breath.
She looked around at the scene timidly. She couldn't explain this to anypony, no one would believe she accidentally beat the crap out of them. She tentatively lifted her right hoof and with a grinding noise, the pole was ripped from the floor. She turned around and as she swung, the pole hit two recovering ponies in the face, knocking them out cold.
The pole came off her hoof as quickly as it had stuck.
Twilight looked frightened at the crazy abilities she suddenly possessed. And she was scared.
Are you kidding? That was awesome!
There was still the mystery of that slightly mean voice.
Her eyes darted at the remaining stallion and his mare. She saw she had the mare's bag in hoof. She tentatively threw the bag back. The mare backed away scared.
Oh, come on.
Twilight felt bad for the mare. She had to give the bag back. It wasn't her fault she was sucked into this madness.
The driver announced that they arrived in Lower Ponyville. Twilight grabbed her books fast and bolted from that wagon.
The remaining mare watched as she ran away, " Did you see that ?"
The colt gasped, "She's like Buck Norris!", he stared at the fallen ponies.
She asked," Did you catch her cutie mark?"
The colt shook his head
She shook her her exasperated " The only time you don't stare at at mare's flank..."
The colt blushed indignantly, " Hey!.. I was.. watching her crazy moves!" He reddened.
The mare sighed, " Right... "moves". She was actually kinda nice.." She started rifling through her bag.
" Hey! That bitch stole my watch!"
Twilight jumped out, ready to run. She felt something in her hoof.
What's this?
It was a gold watch. Twilight was puzzled until she remembered that she was supposed to be running away. She threw the watch in her bag and started running.
Twilight sprinted through the crowd, weaving with surprising agility. What is HAPPENING?!?
She was going to have one of her trademark breakdowns.
" Got- to - get - home!", she ran faster than ever for the home stretch, running past every pony with amazing balance for going 40 miles per hour.
If you don't slow down, you're gonna hit the wall.
"Don't tell me what to -UMPH!" She ran straight into the wall of the library with a loud thump.
What did I say, smartass?
The impact brought Spike's attention. He opened the door,
" I swear, Rainbow Dash, if you break another window, I'm gonna"- He saw Twilight plastered on the wall.
" What are you doing, Twilight? Spike knew his friend was crazy but she always had a reason. At least, sometimes.
She stood back, jittery, " I was uh.." she thought of something she would say, " Checking the wall's strength in the case of a direct pony attack."
"I gotta say," she rubbed her head, " It's pretty strong".
" Sure, Twilight". Spike started walking inside the library. Twilight followed in jerky manner, taking in the brightness of the wood. It was stabbing her eyes. And it sounded like some pony was grinding nails on the floor. She looked around for the source of the noise and saw Spike dragging his feet across the floor.
Oh dear Celestia, stop MOVING! She was wincing and cuffing her ears.
Spike noticed Twilight was acting weirder than usual, which was a cause of alarm. She was looking at everything like she was seeing it for the first time. She winced every time Spike took a step and touched her ears.
" Um, Twilight, are you okay?"
"Huh? What?", She was blinking rapidly and twitching all over. Her nerves were jumping,mangled and crazy. Everything started magnifying, so that she could even see the dust particles in the air.
" Are you.. okay." Spike backed up slightly, because Twilight looked close to another one of her breakdowns. Her hair was sticking out, the hoof was twitching, and one eye was smaller than the other. It wasn't pretty last time. Spike was always scared of Twilight's somewhat fragile mind. Only takes a little to make her go crazy.
She was staring at him with that creepy, I'm -gonna-murder-you face.
" Of course Spike I'm fin- WATCHAA!. Twilight reached out her hoof quickly and was holding on to something in the air, eyes drilling into it.
Spike was startled to say the least. He couldn't believe that she was holding a... " Is that a... a fly?" He was stunned.
Twilight eyes stared at it intently. She hated that fly with every once of her being. It's constant noise was killing her. She wanted to get rid of it, eat it or..
Did I just .. want to eat .. a FLY?! She was close to putting it in her mouth. Her eyes twitched.
With an enormous amount of self control, she let it go. It flew around her, buzzing, Twilight's eyes never leaving it. Spike watched with amazement at Twilight's inner battle and her new ability to catch flies.
" How did you-" Spike was stopped by a hard hoof in his mouth. Twilight was shushing him loudly. One eye was half-closed.
"Just.. shush. You are. SO. LOUD." Twilight's ears were close to bleeding. She needed quiet. Quiet and Space. Quiet, space and .. food. She was so hungry. I need food, *NOW*!
She walked past Spike rapidly, with quick movements, into the small kitchen. She grabbed every food item she saw and started walking out, bundles of frozen food in hoof, stacked comically high. Spike was following with his jaw on the floor. She backed away up the stairs, slowly and agile, " I. Just. Need. Quiet." She ducked into her room and closed the door. She locked it and threw all the food on the floor.
She opened all the containers quickly and eat every morsel of it, viciously. Not a crumb was spared. It didn't matter if it was frozen, it was being eaten. She ate like she hasn't touched food in years. After her rapid and messy feast, she paced the floor anxiously, occasionally unsticking her hooves from the floor.
" What -*twitch*- happened, since I left the Tower?" She was trying to make sense of this crazy situation.
" That wagon incident, the fighting, the quickness," she thought about it hard, turning over every situation.
" Is there a possibility of..*twitch*.. a mutation of some kind?" She crossed that out because it has to enter directly into her bloodstream.
" No infections or illness of some sort," She was thinking it over, while licking the macaroni and cheese off her mouth.
.
" Other than everything being really loud and clear, I feel... healthy." She thought back briefly on the spiders.
" They would have to bite me or something. I would have felt it." She couldn't help thinking she was wrong. She was missing something, she was sure of it.
Are you sure about that ?
"And what is this voice?!?", Twilight has heard it ever since she left the building.
I'm your conscience. Go burn things.
" Consciences are supposed to be good!"
I'm on break?
She was still trying to grasp how she suddenly had two voices in her already stuffed head.
" But when did you show up? Have you been in there all this time?"
I came with the spider.
Twilight 's mouth suddenly went dry. She suddenly felt something on the back of her neck. She lifted a trembling hoof, and reached down her neck . She felt around and felt a bump. Her mind was putting the pieces slowly together...
Her heart stopped. She felt a strong, string protruding from it. She grit her teeth and pulled on the string. With a small gasp, she pulled the string out. She shakily pulled the string out of her mane. Her eyes looked to the end of the string, hoping not to see what she dreaded. She glanced down and saw..
A dead, red, spider.
Twilight's heart was close to stopping completely. Her vison danced and visions of horrific deaths and other night mares, became alive in her mind. The vertigo worsened. She started to cough. Slowly at first, then with rapid, choking hacks. The spasms were sent though her skull. Her eyes throbbed and sent hot tears down her cheeks.
WHAT"S GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME?
She dropped the spider and proceeded to fall over on her bed. But her newly found instincts would kick in every time and she would land perfectly on the other side of the bed. Consciousness wobbled. The room tilted like a ship.
I CAN'T EVEN FALL OVER DRAMATICALLY ANYMORE! She was panicking and a small part of her brain realized that she was collapsed on the floor.
Oh you're just overreacting
Twilight's pupils shrunk and she screamed madly. "YOU!" She started clawing at her mane, attempting to rip the voice out. It was driving her crazy.Her head was still spinning and her mouth tasted like metal. Red spots appeared in her vison.
That's not doing anything, you know?
Twilight stopped and she began to weep silently. All this craziness was finally getting to her core, and she just had to let loose some tears. She tried one last time to fall in bed and she lay her weary head on what may have possibly been the scratchiest pillow ever. Who knows how long she had? What if she died tomorrow? There was no papers written on the subject, nothing she could reference.
The fear of the unknown, Twilight's biggest fear, was taking over her heart and washing over her, in waves of pain. For once in her life, this was something she couldn't study
What about that Pinkie Sense?
She glared at the wall with throbbing eyes.
I didn't need that
But there was, crazily, one part of her, relieved. All this madness was explained. It wasn't Twilight's fault, really. IT was all that spider's fault. She wasn't going crazy!
Are you sure about that?
Twilight frowned. This voice was one of the many side effects of this spider bite. How was she going to cope with a second head? Her breathing started going all over the map. She was in her own personal hell, and it was killing her from the insides. It felt like twisted spaghetti.
She struggled upright and tried to calm the jumping heart.
The second attack struck.
The cerebral boom brought her to her knees and she felt everything at once: pressure, pain and a cold sweat that covered her body.
She got up, shaking in the knees and did a quick mental check. She braced for a third mental assault. Nothing. All her parts seemed in order. Her head was pounding, on the verge of splitting her skull.
If it'll make you feel better, I scored easy bits with that watch!
In her moment of temporary insanity, she forgot what seemed like a minor detail. The watch! She got up quickly, with a slight limp, and she raced over to her fallen bags. She reached inside and felt around, for her hoof to close around a hard circle. She hesitantly pulled it out and saw a beautiful golden watch, carefully gilded and probably worth more than...100 bits, she estimated. She timidly called out in her mind.
That was you?
It was there for the taking and I took it. Life is to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong.
Her mind was slow to process the amount of wrong in that sentence.
Strong?
MURDER?
But.. you can't control me! She was almost asking and hoping that this voice didn't. She wanted more than any thing for her sneaking fears to be false. She was quickly losing control and it was coming crashing down on her.
PSH You are almost too easy to control. Trust me, girl, with me, you'll make a fortune.
The vertigo returned, with reinforcements and know she knew why. Her head was, literally, being split in two. Her vison was a mixture of red and black. She was close to passing out and at the same time, writhing in pain. Her right side of her body, was shutting down on her. Twilight dizzily grabbed the sides of her head and yelled.
" NO! You are not going to control me! I am the master here! I have the body!". She was desperately fighting over what Twilight was so sure was hers. She was fighting for.. herself. She was almost trying to reassure herself. But things were seeming bleak and drowsy.
Well, whatcha gonna do about it? You can't stay a little timid filly, Twilight. You need to be changed.
The voice intoned with almost a hypnotic rhythm.
In horror, Twilight watched, powerless, as her own hoof, was lifting up and started to come down on her face hard. Twilight tried to duck, but it was impossible, when half of your body was obeying a completely different voice. She was caught in an awkward struggle, unable to run away from the striking hoof. She was soon pinned against a wall, in an attempt to run away from the invading voice. She knew that she couldn't keep this up for much longer. Twilight searched frantically in her mind for any defense. Physical damage would just hurt her, as the voice was now easily demonstrating. She thought on mental warfare. It was her last defense. Sticks and stone can't break bones, but words.. Words! Suddenly, it came to her. She grinned wickedly. The hoof stopped attacking.
You have given me no option Twilight knew that in this situation, quickness was her ally.
What do you mean? The voice laughed coyly. You have no strength, no quickness. I am what makes you great. This voice was bordering on nasty.
I have smarts! Which is more what you can say. Twilight always knew that would help.
No need to outrun anything you can't outwit, was her mantra.
Words are the most powerful weapon there is. Twilight was taught that long ago and she believed it.
That's something weak ponies say.
You made me do this, Spidei.. On the spot, Twilight had randomly picked a name to put to the voice. A pet name that Twilight knew would surely cause anger. Pet names seem to do that.
With anger in her voice, What do you mean by Spid-
Twilight inhaled loudly and recited super quickly and with no pause,
"THEREEEEEE'S...
antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, ruthenium, uranium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
, WHOA! DUDE! STOP THAT! IT HURTS!!!
Oh I'm just getting started
Twilight bobbed her head to the rhythm, mouth flying rapidly. Spidei was trying to use the hoof or anything to shut her mouth, to no avail. She kept going.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium. And- "
PLEASE! OK! YOU GOT IT. I'LL STOP!! JUST PLEASE STOP!!!! IT BURNSSSSS! OH THE EQUINEITY!! The voice was crying in out in what sounded like excruciating pain.
All that reciting and rapid speaking made her head drum solo start again.Twilight was gasping for breath,her eyes rolling, but it was a victory well earned. She smiled for the first in what seemed like a long time.
You are mine to command, got it? No talk of killing or stealing. You are going to help me with what I need. But no stealing
Twilight made sure every thought was with a strong force. She needed one thing to be in control at the moment, when her world was uncertain like a hyper Pinkie Pie.
Fine! You got it! Just don't ever do that. AGAIN. All that talk of..science... was horrible.
Twilight smiled pleasantly, while her mind rattled and she was unable to see straight. "Well, then, get me into bed."
Now you can dream, about the Doctor. the voice snickered
Twilight frowned and blushed at the unwanted mental images.
"Unwanted" she says
She inhaled loudly, " THEREEEE'S-"
NOoooooo! NO! Ok, ok. I got it. No more reciting, please.
Twilight smiled. This could possibly be fun
I doubt it
She smiled, but the constant nagging fear of the unknown was creeping in the back of her cluttered mind. She hoped this wasn't her last day. She paced momentarily, beside her bed. Thinking of the possibilities and death, she was unsure of what to do.
Sleep or Experiment?
Sighing, she fell into bed and instantly into a better sleep.
She awoke to a loud bang outside the door.Her eyes sprung open. Instinctively, she flew to the top of the ceiling and stuck fast. Once again, Twilight found herself confused and upside down.
What the- She looked down and groaned.
Seriously, Spidei?
Hey hey! That was purely an instinct-crazy-mode thing.
Twilight pondered on her rude awaking when she heard Spike outside pounding fiercely on the door.
"I'm breaking though the door, if you don't let me in, Twilight!". Yelled Spike from outside the door.
Twilight looked around for an easy way out and found none. She was not able to move any of her hooves. She tentatively called out.
" Ha! Um, kinda in the middle of something right now!". As she hung the the ceiling, trying to keep her mane out of her eyes. She could see that the sun had set and Luna's moon shone brightly, blessing the paved roads outside with a heavenly glow.
"Middle of what?", called Spike.
The ceiling.
Can you get me off? Twilight knew that the blood was rushing to her head. She was already dealing with headaches and occasional Derpy eyes. She didn't need fainting spells.
It's all in the wrists, as they say
Who says that?Twilight was starting to panic
You know, those ponies,.... who say things.
Twilight face showed a slightly sarcastic look.
So just twist my wrists?
So they say
Spike was pounding on the door and yelled exasperated. " You're driving me up a wall, Twi!".
In spite of herself, Twilight giggled. You too, Spike?
I see what you did there.
Twilight tentatively twisted her front hooves and with a small pop, her front hooves unstuck from the ceiling. She was dangling from her rear hooves, directly above her bed.
She stared down from the tall height she was suspended on. Her bed was about, say, 10 feet below. Her vison rocked back and forth, her back hooves securely stayed put. Surprisingly, her phobia of heights wasn't kicking in.
What a strange phenomenon. She mused. Crazily, she was actually.. enjoying this. Slightly.
She quickly twisted her back hooves and she rapidly dove headfirst into her bed. Which was not the softest kind. Twilight braced herself for the impact. She waited too long and instead of rolling, she landed hard, and faceplanted on her bed. She was having trouble remembering where she was.
Out of the cloud of confusion, a voice called out.
Beautiful dive, but I will have to deduct points for that landing, though
Boo you. Twilight thought it was impressive dive, especially at that angle.
Don't flatter yourself
At the exact moment she landed on the bed, Spike broke though the door and came in charging into the room. He looked momentarily disoriented but he found his surroundings and came running over.
Spike panted. " There- you are!". He was trying to look stern, which was hard when you are three feet from the floor, wearing an apron.
Oh, Spike
Twilight sat up straight and gave a false smile of everything is alright. " Oh Hey, Spikespike!" Twilight subconsciously repeated the last words.
Huh?
Spike reflected her confusion. " Um.. I'm fine.. TwilightTwilight?" He came close to her bed and handed her a soup with a spoon. " I made your favorite soup, because you are sick" he looked around at the empty cartons of food and at the way Twilight's eyes was crossing . " Or at least.. I hope so."
" Oh, no, I'm finefine." Twilight couldn't stop that last word from coming out.
What the hay, Spidei? Twilight wondered. It was just messed up.
First of all, what the buck does Spidei mean?
Second of all, I think the reason for your "parrot" problem is because every thing that is being messed up, is being changed
Twilight pondered this. Oh! So you mean everything that hurts right now, is being changed?
Precisely
Fascinating! Twilight was a scientist by birth and was always on the hunt for new data, no matter what the subject.
" TWILIGHT!" A loud voice brought her back to the dragon in front of her.
" What the what?". Twilight didn't realize that during this mental conversation, she was staring blankly at the wall, mouth agape.
" What was I saying?". Twilight was trying to keep the conversation going
Spike wore his not amused face. " You were saying you were fine."
" Oh yeah! I'm fine!" Twilight was glad that the repeating phase was over. It was embarrassing.
Thank goodness
Spike brought the soup up close. " Fluttershy said this soup would help anypony!"
Twilight took the soup, and grabbed the spoon. Twilight, too late, remembered her sticky hoof problem. She tried to drop the spoon, but that thing was stuck.
Not this again! Twilight groaned inwardly.
Spike noticed Twilight's frustration. " Problem?"
Twilight spoke agitatedly. " This stupid spoon is stuck."
Spike rolled his eyes. " Just use your magic."
Magic? Her mind blanked out.
You're a unicorn, remember?
The strange part was that she never even thought about using her magic, which was usually her go-to thing. It was placed at the back of her mind. She almost forgot she had a horn.
This is serious She loved her magic. And to forget she had it was.. troubling.
Twilight gave an awkward smile." Oh yeah..". She quickly twisted her hooves.
The spoon fell off with a pop and landed in the soup, sending veggies all over her face.
Spike snickered.
Twilight was not amused.
" Ha. ha. ha.". She was using her magic to pick the spoon and ate small spoonfuls of soup.
Spike was starting to clean up the cartons. " Fluttershy said that you would feel fine after the soup."
She makes the best soups.
How do you know who Fluttershy is? It didn't make sense that Spidei would know.
Being so long in your mind, I have adapted to you. I have absorbed your knowledge. And vice versa
I'm part you?! Twilight was trying to believe this theory.
And I'm part egghead! It's a tradeoff of sorts.
As much as Twilight did not like the voice, this was an idea that intrigued her.
A loud snap brought Twilight back to reality.
"Seriously! Are you sure you're fine? You just space out and start mumbling, like a crazy pony!".
Spike was worried for Twilight's health. She was already mentally unstable. She didn't need an excuse to be crazy.
Twilight brushed it off. " Of course Spike,I just need rest. Which I will get, right?". She was aiming the question to Spike's late night TV habits.
Spike answered, " But you can't rest at a club!"
Twilight did a double take. " Who said anything about a club?"
Spike looked guilty. " I forgot to tell you. Rainbow Dash came by to remind you about that night on the town you guys have planned for a while."
Twilight' mind blanked. She spluttered. " Wha-? NO! I can't! I'm sick!"
Spike scratched his head, " I thought you said you were fine?"
" It's an on and off thing!" Twilight yelled.
She couldn't go out. Not in her condition! This was.. horrible!
Spike stood straight and he yelled sternly, " You are going to that club, Twilight Sparkle NO matter what! And you're gonna have fun too!"
He strutted out the door and slammed it.
Twilight was fuming. She can't leave this house. Who knows what will happen? The unknown was taunting her and she was falling into its gaping void. She started banging her head on the bedpost.
What kind of life do you lead where going to a party is a punishment?
Twilight snapped, " When you have, who knows what, running through your veins!" She resumed banging her head on the bedpost.
Look, I can help ease some pain. But you can't stay in here forever. And you will have to face your friends at some point anyway
Twilight's head snapped up and she retorted, " What do you know?"
Everything you do
"ARGH!" Twilight can't argue with Spidei. She was like her twin.
Not sure if that's a compliment or what. I mean, what's the worst that can happen?
I go crazy and start attacking my friends!
Your right. That is pretty bad.
But the voice had a point: she had to go out at some point, unfortunately.
Twilight sighed submissively and swung her legs over the bed." Let's get up and look decent before they come."
Click
Suddenly points of light exploded behind her eyeballs. Invisible ants raced around her skin. Her muscles burned. Then she felt her head strike the hardwood.
When the light-show was over, she got up woozily and paced uncertainly. Her knees buckled.
Then. What? Nothing?
What was THAT?
Not too sure
" Whoa."
A cloying smell almost overwhelmed her. She looked around blankly in confusion. She peeked her head into the bathroom. Nothing there but the scent of lavender and rose.
Strange. I coulda sworn I smelled something-
She shuffled downstairs, quickly and quietly. Spike was dusting some shelves, absentmindedly. As she passed the kitchen another smell assaulted her. A sickly funk rose from the center table. She shuddered covering her nose.
Oh what the-
Had something died? It has to be potent enough for me to notice across the room
Gritting her teeth, she slid behind the table and searched the ground. On the floor lay a brown piece of lettuce. She scooped it up, sniffed. The smell made her eyes water. Her gut clenched.
That is bucking horrible
She gasped. She said a bad word. Or at least, thought one. She never said bad words. Never!
Welcome to the real world.
Aside from the cussing, something didn't make sense. A single piece of lettuce making such a stink?
Click
Sparks exploded in her brain.
" Whoa!" Her nose shut down and she was standing confused in the kitchen.
What the what?
I'm not sure. It 's probably a part of the hyper sense thing
She rose the veggie to her nose. Nothing.
Perplexed she reclimbed the stairs and sat in front of the balcony overlooking the city in the new light of the moon.
She closed her eyes, letting her mind drift.
Click
Blast of light.
Bursts of Pain.
The air whooshed from her lungs.
She was on the floor again. She heard a faint lawnmower sound. It was buzzing and tapping.
She looked around trying to pinpoint the source. Her eyeballs tingled as she stared down the balcony. Suddenly, as earlier, everything was displayed in extraordinary clarity. She sat rock still and was able to spot the mane of a mare on the street, 50 feet below. The tapping grew more frenzied.
What ?
She looked to the posts and saw a housefly patrolling the wood. Dark lines crisscrossed it's wings and a million red bumps covered its eyes.
She swore her jaw hit the floor.
I can hear a fly. I can see the specks of dirt on its wings.
Crazy, huh?
Click
Her vison felt like a retractable telescope, able to scope out and zoom in.
WHAT?! She was beyond confused. She was astounded. Words failed her amazement.
All at once she gave up. She embraced all the weirdness and madness. She accepted what was happening to her, stopped fighting it. For once, she felt free, and she was done being so worried. Her worries were tearing her apart. She should have one thing not fighting her and it would be her worries. She was fully okay with the one way road of madness. What was the point? No use trying to control things that were out of her reach. She was starting to be fine with not knowing, but just doing.
She sighed and started think clearly.
Maybe I can conduct an ongoing experiment. I can test all my abilities to see what exactly is changing. She looked around at the peaceful city, busily bustling, yet it was silent and calm. She felt a sudden love for this city and its inhabitants.
Getting poetic, eh?
Twilight shrugged. " The moon does that to me."
Since this was an experiment, she decided to test herself a little.
It is for science after all
She approached the beam with halting steps and looked below at the hard ground that waited her, if she was wrong.
What are you doing?
She was silent. She put her front hooves on the posts and hoisted herself onto the beam. She felt the breeze around her and the night air breezed though. She stood shakily on her back hooves and she looked out into the night. And she wasn't scared.
Falling isn't going to solve anything, Twilight!
Twilight snickered.
I'm not jumping. I'm conducting experiments.
She standing on her back legs, perfectly balanced. She decided to be daring and she lifted on hoof off. She was standing on one hoof and her arms were in a tree pose. She breathed in that night air. She felt at peace with the worlds and completely balanced.
Test One: Balance. Changed and vastly improved.
I can probably pass gym now.
Ok. Ok you proven your theories. Now get off the balcony. You're making me nervous.
Twilight took one step down. Her ears perked up and heard a frantic beating of wings.
What could that be? She turned around to come face to face with a speeding Rainbow Dash, coming in at top speed.
Click
Twilight ducked fast and threw her back to the floor. Time seemed to slow and she could see every individual hair on Dash's stomach. Her nose was brushing against it and Rainbow Dash missed her by an inch.
WOW She could slow time?
No, your mind is too fast for normal time
Still cool!
Time was restored. Rainbow Dash flew by her and crashed into the door behind her.
Twilight got up fast and ran over to Rainbow Dash. She was stuck in the closet door.
She came up behind her and said, " You need some help there, Dashie?"
Dash wiggled and sighed. " Fine! Just hurry up."
Twilight pulled on her tail and out popped Rainbow Dash, mane in a whirl. She got up and grinned. " Who's ready to party?"
Twilight grinned less enthusiastically. " I'm guessing you?"
Rainbow Dash started toward the door. " Come on! The night won't last forever!"
She followed her down the stairs. Rainbow Dash flew down the stairs. Wanting to keep up her pace, Twilight started to climb the walls.
Whoa there! Don't do it!
Twilight stopped in the process of climbing. She sheepishly smiled. " Oops."
Rainbow Dash called out from the bottom.
" What's the holdup? C'mon!"
Twilight made it to the end of the stairs and she was making her way to the door when it burst open and from it, an excited Pinkie Pie. She hopped throughout the room, to where they were standing. She grinned and hopped up and down. " Hey there Twilight! Are YOU READYYYYY!? "
Twilight sidestepped the party pony's attack . " I guess so. We should get going before it gets too-"
A white hoof entered her mouth. " Stop the presses! We must know everything!"
She spat out the hoof. " Everything of what?"
Applejack appeared next to an excited Rarity. " She means the date."
" What date?", asked Twilight.
Pinkie Pie appeared and jumped up and down excitedly. " The one with Doctor Whooves!"
Twilight's cheeks grew bright red and she faltered. " That wasn't a date!", she protested.
All five faces stayed, unrelenting, in the same happy expressions.
Twilight reddened and she struggled to remain firm " It was a lecture and a tour! Seriously!"
Rainbow Dash bumped Twilight and winked. " Tour of what exactly?"
Twilight's face felt hot and her ears flared back. She yelled. " IT WAS A LECTURE!!!!!"
Pinkie smiled widely and in a singsong voice, " You say tomato! I say potato! It was a date!"
Rarity ran beside her and in a dramatic voice, she said, " We must prepare dear! When's the wedding?"
Twilight groaned, annoyed. She walked past the crowd. " Are we leaving or what?"
Applejack trotted past her. "Whatever you say. We better get there before It get's too full."
Rainbow Dash flew up and did a loop in the air. " This place has awesome music! DJ PON-3 is the best!!" She started scratching an invisible disc.
Twilight groaned. The music usually blasted her eardrums. In her condition, it would be deafening. She knew one pony was just as unwilling to go was she was. She trotted beside Fluttershy. She was in her usual shy position. Clubs scared her and she mostly stayed in the corner. That is, until you get the cider out.
Fluttershy muttered. " Was it really a date, Twilight?"
Twilight shook her head rapidly. " NO! You have to believe me, Fluttershy!"
She nodded. " I do, I do!".
She looked apprehensive at the buildings and into the dark alleys, full of who knows what.
She whimpered softly. " I don't want to go!"
Twilight knew that in this city, one wrong step, you landed into a scary world of crime and danger. It wasn't the same Ponyville she used to know. She looked ahead, concentrated on the road ahead and not colliding with the crowd around her. She put a comforting hoof around the trembling Fluttershy's shoulder. Fluttershy smiled appreciatively.
Twilight broke away and caught up to her friends discussing the night's plans. Rainbow Dash was in the middle of one retelling of her escapades.
Twilight interjected. " It you plan on drinking, please note that I am not the one scraping Rainbow Dash off the walls."
Rainbow snickered and came down beside her. "Then I don't have to remind a certain unicorn what happens when she drinks, right?"
Twilight reddened and yelled defensively. " That was once!"
Applejack came by and joined in the laughter. "Ya have to find her first. It took years till Ah found her stuck in a tree." She snickered. " Somethin about learnin photosynthesis or -"
Twilight stomped by, trying to leave those horrible memories behind. It was one drink, ONE! And they would never let her forget it.
I'm never living that down, am I?
I doubt it. It was pretty funny. What'd you call the pole again?
Twilight burned up and trotted faster. Et tu Spidei?
They had finally reached one of the cities most popular clubs. Rainbow flew in, pumping her hooves excitedly. She was followed by Applejack, who walked in close behind Rainbow Dash. Rarity walked in with an air of sophistication and lady-like poise. She was then followed by Pinkie, who was wearing her favorite party getup. When she entered, the crowd cheered and the music rose. She was famously known for her parties and wherever she went, the blowout of the year followed. Fluttershy and Twilight stayed behind hesitantly. Muttering to herself, she put her best hoof forward and proceeded in when-
Click
Pain split her frontal lobe. She dropped to her knees.
No! Not here!
Through her hazy mind, she heard Fluttershy cry out. " Twilight! Are you ok?"
She fought waves of pain and nausea. She heard herself answer groggily. " I just need air. Go without me."
The yellow blob left hesitantly and Twilight inched toward the blank darkness she was in. She lay on her side, panting. Heat radiated from her chest and her nerves were frazzled like jumper cables.
I thought you said no more? Twilight's eyes couldn't focus on any one thing.
I can't do everything!
She rubbed her temples, trying to keep it together. Her breathing slowed and she started to calm down. She was slumped against a wall, next to a pole.
She became aware of her surroundings. Her eyes widened. Oh no. Not the-
She was in the middle of the dreaded alleyways. Right smack dab in the middle. Her mind was reeling. What could she do? She was stuck in most dangerous part of Upper Ponyville. Her breathing picked up and she was seeing spots. She looked around for a way put, to meet walls on all four corners. She was trapped like a rat, or a spider or a-
Calm Twilight! Calm. Twilight had to be calm, or else she would never leave this place alive.
Think reasonably.
Just as long as no pony came by, she was safe. She was getting to her hooves, unsteadily, when she heard the scuffle of hooves and the laughter. She froze in her tracks, not daring to make a sound. They were getting close. Her ears picked up the noise and calculated the noise. 5 males, or more.
She was panicking. That is four too many! What was she going to do? What was she-
The shadows of 4 ponies danced across her face. Her mangled senses where off the charts, but her head was strangely calm.
They came into view and slowly walked toward her.
She walked around, in an attempt to walk past them. She was almost free when-
" Hey there, baby!" a drunken voice called out. More drunken laughter.
Damn!
She whirled around to face 5 street ponies, all males, circling her, snickering.
Twilight tried to keep herself together. Weakness was not tolerated. She tried to keep walking, when a body blocked her. She looked up and the voice slurred. " Where do you think you're going?
All the ponies cracked her joints and snickered. They were getting ready for.. Twilight would rather not think about it. Twilight gulped but she knew she had to keep calm. One pony suddenly stretched a hoof toward her when-
Click
She suddenly felt a wave of calm and control wash over.
Her eyes burned and it was like her limbs were set on fire.
Fire shot through her body.
Bolts of light flashed through her brain
Her mind was tingling she crouched instinctively, coiled to spring. Spidei's voice called out, clearer than before, next to Twilight. Twilight looked around, she could make out a second body, made of golden webs, who was a mirrored image of Twilight, but with more confidence and no fear She walked jauntily and with a casual air of arrogance. She spoke with a fierce power and her limbs glowed with strength. Twilight felt a sensation like falling down a long tunnel. The entity opened her mouth.
I can show you what we can do.Together. Just give me some power.
Twilight saw that there was no peaceful way out of this. She hesitantly agreed and allowed Spidei to take control of her body and voice. The mental hold she had was loosened. With a small shudder, she felt her mind go foggy and it was like she was moved to the second place. The co-pilot seat. The balance shifted in her body. She was no longer in command.
Twilight's eyes flew open. Her irises glowed gold. Twilight was looking at the world in a gold perspective. Twilight watched from the outside, as a stronger voice took control of her. The voice smiled and looked around, grinned, daring for them to say anything. They watched puzzled, with the sudden change of personality.
She walked around the circle, cockily. " So, what's up?"
They looked astounded. That mare, who was cowering in a corner, was now standing totally comfortable surrounded by a group of stallions.
Alone.
In a dark alleyway.
And if not a tad cocky.
They looked to their leader for help. He shrugged this off, and proceeded with their plans. One pony gave a signal and the group pounced on her. Spidei anticipated this move and before they could move, she jumped over the attacking masses. She stuck to the brick wall above the dumpsters. Confused, they looked around for her and spotted her, chilling on the wall. they saw her and growled.
Spidei knew she had to haul ass.They would begin to follow her soon and she needed to be ready. When Spidei saw one of the pegasus take to the air, she began to scale the wall, instinctually crouched, as if she was crawling. This felt totally natural to her and Twilight watched on, from a second perspective, in amazement. Every movement was with a continuous sinuosity. She scaled the wall with relative ease and quickness. Every moment, when they seemed to get close, she was a couple steps above them, grinned, taunting them on. As the first pony poked its head over the ledge of the roof, she was sprinting and leaping over the roofs. The air whirled around her and she was exhilarating, She could laugh, she was laughing!
So much power!
So much.. Freedom!
Spidei was enjoying this and she didn't care that she was perhaps 20 feet from the ground, balancing on an edge.
Let's let them catch up Twilight egged on excitedly. Spidei smiled and whirled around, pacing on the ledge of the roof. The ponies reached her and the first one approached rapidly to punch her. The hoof missed her, giving her a moment to draw her hoof back and punch him so hard, he flew back into the group of ponies, causing some to get knocked out.
Test two: Strength. Noticeably enhanced Noted Twilight .
The next one tried a tackle. She jumped up and did a wide backflip in the air. She sailed over him and she smashed her hooves into his skull on the landing.
Don't kill him! protested Twilight. Spidei sighed. " Where's the fun in that?".
She turned around to face the last two. Their jaws hit the floor and the sudden courage they had, was gone. They backed away, eyes never leaving her face. She was a frightening sight to behold, with her golden eyes flickering menacingly in the night shadows. Her figure contrasted against the full moon. She stood tall, looking powerful and striking. They watched in horror at the mare, with the wind in her mane, opened her mouth.
She grinned wickedly and whispered. " Boo".
The stallions scampered off the roof and ran far away. Before they were gone, one mustered up the courage to yell. " We know your cutie mark! We'll never forget this!"
Twilight stood, looking over the city, in the moonlight, as the lights twinkled below. She could hardly make out the figures below.
The city looks so small and powerless from up here.
The wave of calm and power was ebbing away and her eyes went back slowly to their purple tone. She was breathless and the thrill of the chase was coursing through her veins and filled her heart with uncertainties and amazement.
" Wow."
She looked one last time over the city, in its nightly glory. She looked down, and fully realized how high she was. Instead of fear, she felt..
Nothing. Not even a prickle of fear.
In fact, she felt the opposite: fearless. This was a completely new feeling for Twilight.
She started to walk away from the ledge, toward the alley and sighed.
" The madness isn't over yet, right?"
Hell no! This is about to get interesting!
Twilight looked down at her seemingly normal hooves and then at the wreckage of her powers to their full extent.
She chuckled weakly. " I was afraid of that."
