Silence in Equestria

The Sector II: Episode XI

Here comes the princess! (Part 1)

Twilight nervously ran out the library, but when Spike thought he can go to sleep now she came back.

"Come on, Spike!" she shouted.

"Ugh, okay." answered the dragon.

The sky almost completely faded to black. The clock just passed 22:00. Silence was alone now, which was a great opportunity to read the books. But something didn't let her mind stop. The pegasus was into something.

"(If there'd be a way... to analyze the princess. Her weak spots, her strength, everything.)" she thought. Silence took a book she brought and opened it, however the dust inside made her eyes and nose itch and she started to sneeze. A second later something popped up in front of her out of nowhere. It was some kind of menu, a control panel for the system. It was half-transparent with a white border and texts on it. Silence got shocked.

"(Oookay. I don't know how I did that.)" she said in herself. The panel contained all kinds of things like "Settings", "Save to hard drive", "Encryption" and even a red one with the text "Take out".

"(Let's go to theee Help. How do I click on it?)" Silence tried a quick wink at first, which surprisingly worked. The Help panel really helped. It was really descriptive about the... about everything really. But in the middle of her studies of, er, herself, a voice sounded from the street, Twilight's voice to be correct.

"Listen everypony! I've just got a letter from Princess Celestia." The ponies headed to the unicorn for that. Even Silence looked out the window.

"The princess will pay a visit tomorrow, so we have to make sure to give her the right reception. This might be our one and only chance to impress the princess, as she's busy with her work. We can't fail now, or else she might never come back. Remember last time she visited?" A giant gasping wave shocked through the citizens.

Twilight's panicking voice and unintentional exaggeration did her work. The entire Ponyville began to freak out as they only had a night to make everything ready.

However, Twilight stopped them "No need to panic! With well-organized work and enough will we'll surely make it." the unicorn then started to give out the tasks for each pony, who went to finish it afterwards. Twilight's skill in leadership amazed Silence. Long time she didn't see such a quickly yet efficiently working team. Twilight would sure make a nice strategist general, she thought.

But she needed to focus now, as such a great opportunity can't be missed. She was heading back to look for a proper spell in the book, however she decided to make a cup of coffee before. Not for herself, for Twilight of course. Some minutes later she began her own search between the spells.

Meanwhile Twilight was strolling through the town nervously with Spike on her back.

"Great job Rose! The flowers fit there perfectly." she said to a dark red-maned earth pony, who was decorating the town hall. But Rose was tired, she kept yawning before and after thanking the unicorn. Although the yawning was infectious like a bad disease, making Twilight start it too, that didn't stop her to continue. But as she trotted around the situation began to become a bit desperate. The ponies who were to tie the trees together with ribbons fell asleep. Well, only one of them, who her mate tried to wake up. One of them was an earth pony, while the one laying on the ground was a unicorn.

"Bon Bon what happened?" she asked.

After a yawn Bon Bon answered "She felt asleep, I don't know when. I tried to wake her up but..." but instead of finishing it, she just gave Twilight the gapes. The unicorn sprinkled Lyra with a little ice-cold water magically coming out of her horn, who instantly woke up for that. Twilight, as she saw it working also sprinkled Bon Bon with some.

"Keep up the good work." she told them, while galloping away to keep the ponies' eyes open. She showered everyone who fell asleep, she snapped a little from the stress. The unicorn took her way to the Sugarcube Corner where she found Mr. and Mrs. Cake working hard on the cake while leaving Pinkie sleeping in the table. Time for another dose of magic. But as her horn began to glow Spike grabbed it and shouted.

"Watch it, Twilight! You gonna get all the cupcakes wet!"

"Oh, thanks Spike. But where did you come from?" she asked

"I was on your back all along." answered the dragon with deeper tone. "Twilight you doesn't look good..." he continued but Spike's worries turned into echoing meaningless noises. Twilight was like a zombie now, she had wrinkles under her eyes, mouth dropped open, her vision was blurry and she was fighting with the guillotine of her eyelids. Luckily Mrs. Cake came before she fell on the floor and helped her to the wall.

"Spike, bring a cup from the table!" she told the dragon who did so without a word. The cup was filled with coffee, a really strong one, and it wasn't the only cup. They made the unicorn drink the contents who woke up like someone who just got slapped in the face. It really was a strong coffee indeed. As Twilight woke up she also realized the best solution to keep things going: the coffee.

"Wake up Pinkie!" she said while pouring it down the pink pony's throat.

Pinkie jumped up and screamed "Eww, not this, not coffee!" she shook her head to make the uncomfortable taste disappear.

"Pinkie doesn't like coffee, Twilight. That's why we didn't gave her already." Mrs. Cake told the unicorn. Twilight made an awkward chuckle hearing that. She probably didn't see it coming. But now she had a plan at least, and the first thing she had to do is to get back to the library.

Silence angrily smashed the book to the wall there. None of the books contained the spell she wanted, making her goal to get to know Celestia's weakness seem unreachable. But she still had a plan B: If she can't find a spell, she'll make one. She hid the book back under her bed sponge and went downstairs, just at the moment Twilight arrived. Of course, the first thing she noticed was the pegasus.

"Oh, hello Silence." the purple pony said.

"Hi Twilight, I made you some coffee. It's-"

"Perfect job. We just need like twenty more.". Twilight truly went crazy now.

Silence raised an eyebrow, as she got all confused, yet followed the unicorn to the kitchen. Twilight started the coffee machine while explaining her plan.

"So I was thinking, if the refreshing water doesn't work now, I needed to find something different, but when Spike told me what he saw in the Sugarcube Corner I knew the perfect way to keep Ponyville awake. I'll patrol around the town giving coffee to the ones who need, isn't it perfect?"

"Uuh, yeah." said the pegasus awkwardly. She kind of started to worry about Twilight, though. She looked at the clock hanging on the wall from the corner of her eye. It was very late, 1:30 AM now.

The unicorn made a few more cups of coffee, then poured them into some flasks she just got from the shelf meanwhile. When she finished Twilight was to run out fulfill her mission when Silence stopped her for a second "Twilight, one more thing. Where can I find the clairvoyance spells?".

"Shelf D, third row, blue book with the gold text, bye." she answered while dashing out with the flasks without even thinking about why a pegasus would ask such thing. She was in such a big hurry she left the door open and the coffee machine on, which Silence had to turn off as well as closing the door. Twilight and Spike -who were waiting outside all along separated ways to cover a bigger area, leaving the pegasus alone once again.

She took the book her friend just mentioned and looked for the spell, which she found easily. She took the book upstairs and began to ponder on how to modify it to her own needs.

"(Okay, first of all let's just try it out)" she though. Turning her dazzle off, she tried to cast it. A white light emitted from the hole in her left eye as she started. As she casted the spell a small orb shaped projectile flew through the room, making all the objects seen through it look all distorted, before hitting the wooden wall. The whole thing didn't last for a second, yet it was mysterious and beautiful. As soon as the orb hit the wall, Silence saw it. She saw everything of it, the little cracks, the reeds, like if you'd see a piece of wood through a microscope.

"(Awesome, the book says it lasts as long as I don't break it or run out of magical energy. That's just what I needed.)". She broke the spell as her horn stopped glowing, then continued her monologue "(Hmmm... If I remember correctly, my fangs do have a sensor too, in case I'd like to analyze blood or something. If I could link that to my horn...)".

The theory sounded promising, but it was somewhat off. Linking a default mana energy output to another wasn't hard for her as she did that a numerous times. Question was if she can link it to something does not serve that purpose. Turned out the answer is a "Yes", however this had a serious drawback. As Silence shot the spell again, from her mouth this time the orb was much smaller than before. Even though she gained significant amount of data of the wood now, the orb was not large enough to cover up an alicorn. There was only one way to solve this: Black magic.

"(If I infuse the spell with black magic instead of normal one, that might be enough to recover the lost energy.)" she thought.

"(Better not try it now, if it goes the wrong way...)" but instead of finishing she just gave out a deep sigh. For now, she decided to look for something else. Well, someone else. After taking a look at the clock - that just hit the 2:00 A.M she flew outside via the balcony and raked through the streets.

Meanwhile, Twilight's world was falling into pieces outside. She couldn't handle the amount tired ponies. Most of them finished or gave up and went to sleep already. Twilight desperately teleported from one place to another to keep the ponies awake, but she was running out of coffee. After the last drop left her flask, the unicorn's world collapsed.

"Everypony, please... we must finish... there's not much... just a few more..." she cried for help in despair. Her eyes were surrounded by wrinkles and they were all red and bloodshot, her head felt all dizzy, she didn't see anything clearly now and her movements were completely unstable. Few more seconds later she dropped down on the ground. A few more words left her mouth "Please.... a bit more.... please." then her eyes shut.

Didn't take long to Silence to find her. The situation shocked the pegasus.

"Twilight." she said poking the unicorn. "Oh, damn what the hell did you do?"

She grabbed the overstrained little pony, put her on her back and took her home. Twilight was moaning during the way to the library, yet her moans were not understandable. The pegasus took her up to the bedroom in the library, where Spike was already sleeping. This kind of irked Silence but she didn't really care about him now. She put the unicorn in her bed, the bed sheets on her and took a look at the clock, that shown 2:17. She turned back to Twilight and gently pet her coat with her hoof.

"Sleep now dear, you deserve it." she said while looking out the window. The streets were beautifully decorated. So much ribbons, well-placed flowers, signs. Silence was proud to Twilight, yet she still worried about her friend. However what mostly filled up the little pony's heart was nothing else but pure love.