And I thought we were normal. How wrong I was.

Before I start; sorry about the late update.

I do not own, nor do I claim to own, any of the music that I have linked in this chapter, all of it is the work and product of those who produced it.

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   We enter the cafeteria through its only entrance, and I begin to take notes of the room. Around 37 small tables dot the room with groups of about 4-5 ponies at each respective table. A small podium is set up on the opposite side of the room and a dark yellow mare with a brown mane, who seems to be the director of the meeting, is composing herself in front of it. We take a seat at one of the tables closer to the podium and I take a seat across from Twilight and pull out Silent's journal and I turn to the chapter for perception spells. I look over to Twilight who is doing a terrible job of ignoring the book and has her left eye constantly flipping back to it. I find a seemingly useful spell and begin to read.

Spell 7: Direction Inversion

This is a very simple seal type of spell that I accidentally made when I was 19. I was testing a flame spell while I was drunk off my ass and ended up with this. Think of a dot on the pony you want to affect and then simply visualize a compass with the directional letters inverted and without a needle.  This won't turn their forwards into backwards but it will inverse their left and right will become inverted. So just round a corner and you'll be ok. Here's a tip; this is really useful when stealing alcohol.

I'll save this for later. I don't want Applejack getting angry or Twilight getting excited again.

"Welcome everypony to our informational meeting. I am, as most of you know, GuidingLight, the school's counselor. This meeting is mostly just a chance for any new students, of which there's actually only one, to meet a few ponies and to ensure that you all know about school's beginning being scheduled for Monday at 8:15 a.m.. I will now turn the night over to you for the next 2&1/2 hours." She says walking away and joining a group of ponies at another table.

"So now what?" I say looking back to the mares at my table and putting my book back in its own pocket.

After I say this they simultaneously begin to say, "5,4,3,2,1." Then the lights in the room go out. What the hell?

   I bring up the seal for the light cancellation spell with its AOE circle along with the seal for the escape teleportation seal and wait for the inevitable. The second after the lights come back on with a fury, all of the ponies in the room jump from their tables and a pink blur fills my vision. As soon as this happens I fill in both spells as fast as I can and find myself outside the only doors that go in and out of the cafeteria. I can hear 5 familiar voices cursing my name and the rest screaming. I drop the cancellation spell and I begin to turn around towards the room but a rush of ponies immediately flows from it, all of them wearing a mask of disgust. I begin to run down the hallway as they chase me without fail. I turn around and turn my head around and think of 5 dots on the mares at the head of the chase. I then activate the inversion spell and round another corner. The next thing I hear is them whining at the slight pain of impacting a wall, but at least 3/4 of the original group keep up the chase. As I near a bathroom a dark gray pegasus comes out and begins to run alongside me, seemingly confused as to what's is happening.

"What the hay happened to you?" He says giving me a pompous grin.

"Oh the usual, got jumped by a horde of ponies at the meeting, casted some epic magic shit, got them pissed and now they're chasing me. My name's StillSonata. You?" I say holding out a hand and returning his grin and we take a left turn.

"Thunderback Raintail, no relation." He says slapping my hand.

"No relation to whom?" I say as we take a right turn.

"Not a clue, my mom just told me to say it. So what's the plan?" He says brushing off his dark green mane that is only a few hairs short of meeting my manes length.

"How fast can you fly?"

"About twice as fast as when I'm running. Why?"

"Good, you'll be able to keep up with me. I need you to guide me outside, you then fly alongside me and I'll use my speed spell. We'll run into the center of town and if we get separated before then we meet up there. From there we need to sneak as well as we can to the southern edge if the town, once again if we're separated while doing this we meet up at the end of the road. From there I need you to stay behind me and I'll guide you to where we'll be safe. You got all of that?" I say as we take another left.

"Fuck yeah. I was bored tonight anyway and I could use a bro like you." He says holing out a fist.

"Thanks. Now I need you to tell me who we need to worry about." I say bumping his fist with my own.

"We'll need to worry about Rainbow Dash since she is the into one who could outrun us, Pinkie Pie will be angry and she's unpredictable in her assault, Rarity is cunning and could figure out our plan, Applejack could easily take either one of us down, Fluttershy will most likely be angry that you hurt her friends and her stare is completely terrifying and Twilight might try to plug in to the towns magic inhibition field generator and make magic much more hard on you. You know how those tongs work right?" He says as we take another right turn.

"Not a clue."

"Well, when you think of your seal it'll be filled with her magic. You have to use your own to overpower hers by pushing it out of the seal then activating the spell. Take a right." He says pointing at the end of the hallway.

"Well then lets hope they don't stick together or we might be fucked." I say as we take a right and I see the doors I came through to enter the school.

"You ready bro? He says pulling it a pair of badass looking sunglasses. And I thought I was cliché.

"Hell yeah. Let's just hope the shits soul mate isn't the fan." I say nearing the door.

   The second I push the door open Thunderback spreads his wings and I activate the quickstep spell the second he becomes airborne. We keep up with each other perfectly with our speeds matching. I turn around and I see a rainbow maned pegasus, whom I was hoping not to see again. We need to split up.

"Yo, Thunderback. I need you to fly up near cloud level. I'm going to take care of Rainbow back there. You just worry about getting to the center of town. If you're there before I am just hide up in the sky and wait." I say turning back forwards.

"You sure you can take her?" He says genuinely worried.

"It'll take more than a rainbow to stop my storm." I say bringing potentially the worst metaphor ever into existence.

"I don't need to tell you how stupid that sounded, but alright I'll meet you there." He says laughing and flying up wards towards the clouds.

   I turn around and see that Dash is already 15 meters from me and has stopped. I take up a leisure stance and stop my spell.

"A new challenger--wishing to test my prowess--but can she contend?" I say in a mocking haiku.

"Don't use that egghead stuff on me. I'm going to make you pay for hurting Pinkie's feelings, and none of that fancy dark shit you keep pulling." She says taking up a stance.

"Of this, I am sad--I hoped to avoid conflict--but I reject loss." I say genuinely sad that I have to fight and also depleting my haiku comeback reserves.

   Without speaking again she lunges at me with her fist and I casually swerve to the left to avoid it, but she then uses her wings to bring a kick up into my stomach, knocking me away. I get up and ace a few dots on some pebbles around me before slinging them at her with telekinesis. The majority of these hit her softly in her wings since I'm merely trying to immobilize her. She then comes at me in another flurry of punches and I guard from them by blocking them with my left forearm. I bring my right fist up wards into her stomach which causes her to lay off her attack momentarily. I take advantage of this opening and I run forward to drive another fist into her stomach. Before I can connect she swerves to the right and brings her left elbow down onto my horn which cuts her lightly as she scrapes over the naturally sharp point. I distance myself from her and assume a stance to give me more dodging capabilities. I never thought I'd actually be thanking those thugs for trying to rob me every other day.

"Damn your horn is sharp. Twilight's is dull but yours is sharp as shit." She says rubbing the very small incision.

"I'm not sure how to respond to that; so whatever." I say keeping a sharp eye on her wings for any movement.

   I suddenly see a small ball of fire come past my face and I immediately begin bunny hopping around until I'm facing my attacker. I'm looking at a darker colored Pinkie Pie, whose hair has become completely strait, with an arsenal of fireworks on a belt around her body with strike pads strapped to the sleeves of her shirt and has another two bottle rockets at the ready. My god. I'm fucked at this rate. I dust myself off and then begin assessing my situation.

"Hey Pinkie. It's about time you showed up." Dash says taking a place by the pink pyromaniac who is meeting my stare with her own.

"I know Dashie. I just went home and got my fireworks. I'm gonna make this bitch burn for missing his party." She says inciting true fear out of me. I need to figure something out and get out of here.

   Noticing the larger fireworks on her belt, I quickly place two dots on the biggest two rockets and pull them from her belt. Before she can respond I take them both and strike them against her side pads and then I use the inversion spell to keep them confused while I use my magic to tie each respective firework to it's own leg on each mare. Dropping the inversion, I activate the quick step and run like an unholy frozen hell mongrel towards town. I hear something go off and turn around to see a torrent of multicolored lights exploding into the air. Oh yeah, Pinkie's entire belt had those on it. I hope they're alright, but in case they're not; I'm sorry.

   I run into the town, making sure to not run into any obvious traps, and I can see Thunderback doing a pretty good job of hiding himself in the clouds. As I walk into the center her glides down to me and greets me with a brofist.

"Aw shit. I saw those fireworks from here. We should be ok to sneak out of here now. Everypony will want to see what happened there." He says happily.

"Yeah, but I doubt it will distract Twilight and the others. We need to move while we can. Keep quiet and lets go." I say trying to cast a small light spell only to find my magic repelled. "Damnit, Twilight must have set up the inhibition field in town. This is bad we really need to get going now."

"You're a weird guy. You know that?" He says rhetorically.

"Yeah, come on." I say walking into a alleyway as he follows me in.

   We continue to walk along for a while heading towards the south road uninterrupted by any ponies, save for the group of three gossiping mares talking about the explosion and so we continue to work our way to the south road though the night's blanket.

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   We arrive at the southern road smoothly and decide to simply jog along it since the inhibitor field stretches slightly outside the towns' circumference. We keep up a good pace and decide to talk since neither one of us knew very much about the other.

"You're new in town aren't you?" Thunderback says slowing down slightly.

"Yeah. What gave it away?" I say matching his slower speed.

"Well, when I was explaining the dangers of this I mentioned Pinkie would be particularly angry and you didn't deny it. With that in mind, you most likely ran out on and ruined your welcome party."

"Does everypony get a welcome party?"

"Yeah, she's basically made it a tradition by this point." He says chuckling seemingly at the idea that a single pink mare could do such a thing.

"Something tells me she has too much time on her hands."

"With Pinkie Pie there are no securities besides shit and fans."

"Yeah those are the only ones, and you just met another set of 'em!" I hear the voice of a familiar mare say before Thunderback and I are thrown off into the dirt and then land next to each other. Damnit, I didn't want to try this spell on the fly but I better give it a try while I have a chance, I think connecting my hand with a boulder to my left.

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Thunderback's POV

Ahhh shit. Applejack got the jump on us, we'll be ok if we can get back up and try to lose her. Before I can run though, a butter yellow pegasus emerges from behind Applejack with a death stare directly aimed at Still and I. No. Not this. We can't win against that stare. It's a hell send. I look over to where Still landed to see him in a state not unlike my own with fear drowning his face.

"Eh, good job sugarcube. They won't be goin' nowhere anytime soon. Just keep em' there while I know them out." She says forming a fist and walk up to Still.

"Oh sure, um, ok." Fluttershy says focusing her stare more keenly on Still.

"Sorry about this." Applejack says before driving her fist into Still's face. "OH FUCK! WHAT THE HAY?!" I hear Applejack yell as her fist impacts a rock where Still previously was as a scarlet smoke floods out of it momentarily. What the hell? Where'd he go?

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Still's POV

Good. It worked. My spell to transform the rock into a mirror image of myself worked. While it could only take one hit before the magic veil ruptured, it worked perfectly for letting me get away, however, my body still hurts from that magical drain. Since was able to cast the spell and teleport to escape from their field of view to a position behind them, I can know slowly scare the two of them until I can get in behind Applejack and knock her out; if I do that Fluttershy's weak tolerance for scares should make her drop too.

From my vantage in the bushes, I activate the voice localizing spell and form the link between Applejack and myself. I then begin to silently talk through it to scare her, "Hey...Applejack... I'm right here.... Can't you find me?... Or maybe I'll find Fluttershy first."

"Show yourself you little filly, I am not afraid of some sneaky unicorn. You're not gonna get to me or Fluttershy." She yells furiously and turning towards Fluttershy.

"Umm, Applejack w-who are you talking to? What do you mean get us?" Fluttershy says with her fear eminent in her speech.

"It's that blasted unicorn. He's jus' messin' with us. Yeah, he's trying to trick us, scare us. He's-"

"Right behind you." I say before giving Applejack a knock to the head, causing her to fall to the ground unconscious as Fluttershy follows in suit after a small 'eep!'.

"Holy shit man. What was that?" Thunderback says standing back up relieved to be out of danger again.

"I noticed we were out of the inhibition field awhile ago and decided if we ran into anypony; I'd use my substitution spell mixed with my escape teleportation spell so I could slip away unnoticed and take them down. There wasn't too much to it in the realm of skill. For the most part shit just fell into my lap." I say with a shy smile while rolling the two unconscious body's off the road to help keep anypony from trailing us.

"Well either way, it was awesome. Now come on, we gotta get to where you were gaining before anypony else finds us." He says jogging off.

"Alright. By the by, why did you help me out anyway?"

"You looked like you were in some deep shit and I thought you looked like a badass. My last bro left town so I've needed a new one anyway." Huh. Shit really did just fall into my lap.

"Alright. What's your cutie mark for anyway?" I say brushing myself off again.

"I got mine for high speed flying; it's of two tribal style black wings. What about you?" He says looking at me.

"I won't lie to you. My cutie mark is for sneaking, stealing and assassinating." I say as we walk into the everfree.

"Whoa, nice bro. Wait. You live out here?" He says as we walk along my makeshift path.

"Yeah, it's not far off though. So you don't care about my cutie mark?"

"Nah. If you'd planed on doing something to me you could've done it while we were running. I trust you."

"Uh, well thanks."

"Nah, thank you. Tonight's been great fun and tomorrow is gonna be even more so." He says as we walk up to the entrance.

"Here it is." I say pulling my watch out to check the time, 10:46.

"That's it? That box thing is it?" He says hitting the side of it lightly.

"It's bigger on the inside. Trust me." I say; opening the moving the overgrowth from the door and opening it.

"Ah, it's underground. Nice." He says and I begin to climb down the ladder.

"It serves its purpose." I say stepping off the ladder.

"Still though, nopony should find us here." He says just jumping down the hole.

"Oh hello Still and Thunderback. You two should know not to keep a lady waiting." I hear the voice of a familiar white mare say. Oh shit...

"Oh shit..." Thunderback says as I meet Rarity's gaze from where she sits on the undocked davenport.

"I should've guessed it. So, are you going to try to take us back too?" I say rubbing the back of my head.

"Well actually, I wasn't planning on forcing you to go back." Huh?

"What do you mean?" I say looking at her inquisitively.

"I have no plans of making you go back, but you most likely will go back." She says gaining a smirk and standing up.

"How are going to convince us to go back when we just made it to safety?" Thunderback says propping one of his knees on the side docked couch.

"Well, I don't know about you, but something tells me I could get Still to go back relatively easily." She says batting her eyelashes at me. I see where this is going. "Still will you please go back to the party with me and not run away again. Please, after all it is a lady's request." This is what I get for being a gentlemanCOLT.

"Oh come on, it's not like he's gonna fall for that. Right Still?" He says giving me a cocky grin.

"Sorry Thunderback, but as a gentlecolt I cannot deny such a lady's request. I will humor your request, by my honor as a gentlecolt, Ms. Rarity." I say fixing my bow tie and giving a bow as Thunderback simply looks at me in shock.

"Thank you Still." Rarity says giving me a smile and a wink. I know how this must look to Thunderback, but a lady's request should be honored as long as the intention does not have ill-purpose.

"I have no comment. By the way, how did you know where Still lived Rarity?" Thunderback says rolling his green eyes.

"Oh, he mentioned he lived in the everfree near the border in a blue box. Since not many ponies knew this I figured he would come here. I simply went down the south road to the everfree and I noticed a small make shift path a little ways into the forest." She says simply.

"Ok, but why didn't you tell any of the others?" Thunderback replies bringing his knee off the sofa.

"Twilight was far too furious at you using such magic complacently to be reasonable, Pinkie was too depressed, Rainbow Dash was already half way to the roof, Applejack and Fluttershy had already left out the back to wait for you along the road some place and I had already figured all I would need to do is ask because it seemed like Still was too much of a gentlecolt to deny a lady's request." She says flaunting her mane slightly.

"And you were right." I say centering my necklace under my bow tie.

"So you'll be going then?" She says smiling and clasping her hands together. I've said it before and I will gladly repeat it. Confound these mares.

"Yes I'll go. What about you Thunderback, will you be going?" I say turning to him.

"Nah, sorry but I've got an image to keep up and hanging out with somepony like you would kill it. I'm gonna head back home, I'll see you around I guess. I'll be denying all claims of tonight and you two do the same." He says flying back up the hole and apparently leaving.

"What did he mean, 'he had an image to keep up'?" I say turning back to Rarity.

"Oh yeah I forgot to mention, that one you just met, he's the local drug dealer." She says looking at me bluntly. WHAT?! What did he and Uefi NOT have in common?

"Huh, I'm glad he not going with us then."

"As am I. So, we were going?"

"Ah yes. Right this way Rarity." I say gesturing to the ladder.

"Thank you." She says as she begins to climb the ladder. I quickly turn away so I don't get falsely accused of trying to look up her skirt.

"Aww, and here I thought you thought I was gorgeous." She says laughing as she seems to of noticed why I turned away.

"Don't get me wrong Rarity, you're beautiful, but I'm a gentlecolt not a pervert." I say unmoving. Wait. Since when did I find ponies attractive? Then again, these ones aren't too far off from women on earth. I mean, they do have jigglies and stuff, they're just furrier.

"Well thank you. You can climb up now." She says in her usually dainty tone.

"Alright then." I say as I begin to climb the ladder.

   As I climb out I turn to see Rarity leaning against the box with what seems to be this places equivalent of a iPhone out as she seems to be texting.

"Whom were you talking to?" I say as she puts her phone away and I lock the door.

"Oh I was just telling Pinkie that the after party is still going to happen."

"After party? What do you mean?" I say as we begin to walk along.

"Yeah, because of your running away the time for us to mingle was exceeded so everypony had to 'officially' leave."

"I'm gonna guess there is still some ponies hiding in there and Pinkie as a way in." I say chuckling lightly as we exit the forest.

"Pretty much. It's been near a hour since everypony ran out so it's been long enough for them to think that nopony is coming back. We're still going to isolate it to the gym to be safe from any prying eyes and we always keep a few ponies as spotters for anypony moving too close." She says flaunting her mane once again.

"Something tells me this isn't the first time you've done this, nor has it always gone perfectly."

"With every plan anything can go wrong. You proved that tonight when we planned to surprise you." She says in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Yeah I guess. How many ponies will be at the party anyway?"

"Besides the obvious ones, about 4, 1 of them being my sister, another Applejack's and I don't know much about the other, regardless they're just little fillies. They'll go ballistic about you being from some far off place, but for the most part keep to themselves." She says with a hint of dread and annoyance.

"Oh that's fine then, I like foals well enough." That is a lie. I hate most children. "Doesn't sound like a party though. Who is the forth?"

"That would be one Ms.VinylScratch, ponyville's self-proclaimed, and for the most part publicly proclaimed, queen of wubs. If there is a party at school you can expect her to be there taking care of the music. Her sister, Octavia, however, is a cellist, so she usually takes care of any more formal event around the school. How the two of them are twins will elude my existence forever." She says before laughing lightly. Hmm, dubstep or cello? On one hand I can't not dance to good dubstep and on the other I play the violin. Such a tedious conundrum.

"I'm going to guess her sister retired for the night after the events I caused."

"I'm not sure yet. Vinyl just said she'd try to convince her."

"Heh, there might be an actual party in this, if I'm not the only one who can dance to dubstep we could try a dance contest to fill the time or if Octavia comes I think a musical contest could be arranged for us." I say becoming none to enthused by my voice but a good bit in my head.

"You play an instrument?"

"The 'sonata' part of my name isn't for nothing. Stealth is like a musical art that when perfected can soothe any harsh pain of the world to a dull thin pain of meager importance, and I play the violin." I say trying to be deep and shit.

"O-oh, well ok then. I'll tell Vinyl about your being able to play then. It should be able to get Octavia to come; she also has a few violins if I'm correct." She says taking her phone out and sending off a quick text message.

"There's somepony for everything in this town, isn't there?" I say half sarcastically.

"Yeah, just about."

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   As we enter the school's gymnasium, I can Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie and I also see a stark white unicorn with light and dark blue alternating streaks in her mane and tail; who is setting up some DJ equipment and is wearing a simple black tank top, black pants and a pair of purple shades with a cool relaxed smile on her face and a gray earth pony in a black dress and pink bow tie, who is setting up a cello near the white pony. VinylScratch and Octavia, those two are twins?

"Hell--No Dash, I'm friendl-" FUCK!

   I immediately find myself pinned to floor by Rainbow Dash with Applejack following close behind, with each one taking a side.

"Rarity did you forget to smooth this over with them?" I say calmly walking into the room as the fake erupts into scarlet smoke and then leaves a branch I had found outside. I'm glad I'm an avid reader.

"What the-- That trick again?" Applejack says, rushing to me and pushing me to the ground as follows in suit.

"No. Rarity told is what happened this is just payback for what you did to us before." Dash says punching me in the face.

"Yeah, and what's this whole 'I came back because it was a lady's request' bullshit? You let her take ya' back but not us. Why?" Applejack says as the rest of the ponies in the room just keep on enjoying the show.

"Well, if you want the truth Applejack; she was the only one who asked me to go back. If you, Fluttershy or Twilight had asked me to, I would've done the same." I say genuinely.

"What about Pinkie and I? Why wouldn't you of listened to us?" Dash says tightening her iron grip.

"I know nothing about Pinkie, except for that she's a potential pyromaniac, and you haven't really shown the qualities of a lady to me that the others have. This isn't to say you're not a lady, you're just not enough of one that I wouldn't challenge that request." I say teleporting from their grip to a position in front of them.

"W-well, if we're still a lady, why did you hit us? Don't gentlecolts have a problem with hitting ladies?" She says trying to find a flaw within my logic.

"A stallion that hits a lady unprovoked is scum, and to live as scum is no different from death. However, you all provoked me first by attacking me."

"Huuh- fine. I guess we did take it a small bit overboard, but you started it!" The polychromatic pegasus states with ferocity on the latter part.

"Fair enough. So what's the agenda?" I say walking over and joining the main group.

"First, Pinkie has some to say." Twilight says levitating a list in front of her,

"Ok then. What is it- OH MY GOD-!" I say as Pink fills my vision

"OHMYGOSH! YOU RAN AWAY AND THEN I WAS SAD AND I TRIED TO FRY YOUR SORRY ASS WITH FIREWORKS! THEN YOU TOOK MY 'OH SHIT IS ABOUT TO BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY' FIREWORKS AND BLEW IT UP THEN YOU JUST WALKED AWAY LIKE A BADASS AND IT WAS AWESOME! THEN TWILIGHT CAME AND FIXED DASH AND I UP BUT WE STILL WANTED TO GO FUCK YOUR SHIT UP, THEN RARITY TEXTED US AND TOLD US IT WAS OK SO WE STOPPED AND CAME BACK FOR THE PARTY!" Pinkie Pie exclaims in a slur of profanity and with a ungodly volume.

"Ok Pinkie, I get it, just stop making my ears wish deaths sweet kiss was pointed at them!" I say jumping backwards and clutching my ears.

"Oh, ok. She says and then does a cartwheel back to her spot.

"Ok. So what's the rest of the schedule?" I say, walking forward to my original spot  with the group.

"Next, we will have a test of musical prowess between Octavia, Vinyl and you, beginning with Octavia." Twilight says respectively.

"Ok then, is she ready to begin?" I say turning towards the gray pony.

"While I'd rather be sleeping, I will defend that I am the better musician indefinitely." She says as she strikes up her cello.

   After her piece is over a fair amount of cheers are let out, but I keep on clapping respectively.

"Thank you." The gray mare says nodding her head and moving to out her cell against a wall.

"Ok your up next Still. Don't disappoint; Octavia put a violin up on Vinyl's stage." Twilight says nodding to the stage.

"Ok then. Let's see if I can still trike up a tune." I say walking over to the stage.

   I walk up onto the makeshift stage and Vinyl gives me a slap in the back as she gets off of it. Seeing as the violin is of good quality and operable, I take it out and begin to set it up. After I teach a comfortable position on the metal folding chair, I begin to play a tune I had heard recently before getting my sorry ass sent to Equestria.

   After I finish, I receive a smaller amount of applause than Octavia did, but I expected that since I only played that thing just to say I could. After I step off, Vinyl takes up the stage and immediately begins to blare out the electronic music that isn't unlike that which was common to me one earth. The volume, however, is only slightly quieter than that of Pinkies yelling. She continues on for what must've been at least fifteen minutes before she finally stops and receives a amount of yells and applause that outgrew Octavia's amount near instantly. And I think I lost.

"Well, I was going to have us formally vote, but considering the circumstances I think we can skip that." Twilight says incinerating the ballot box that was being held within her magic.

"So what now?" I say as Octavia leaves without another word. I'm gonna go with she's angry.

"Hey sorry buddy, but I better go make sure she doesn't lose it. I'll see ya tomorrow and we can flak whenever." Vinyl says before quickly packing her equipment into a closet and running off after Octavia.

"Well, so much for talking to them." I say in a half sad half neutral mood.

   Turning around I see something I half expected. I see Twilight reading a book, Fluttershy is still in her corner that she ran to when Vinyl started playing, Rainbow Dash is giving me a death glare and Rarity and Applejack are feeding over proper fashion. I feel like I'm forgetting a few things.

"Wasn't there something else scheduled Twilight?" I say managing to get her to look up from her book for only a moment before she goes back to reading.

I can her whispering "5,4,3,2,1.." Oh shit...

   I can see three small fillies through the scarlet smog. They are now sitting in top of Twilights book, which I had made to mirror my image before I teleported, with looks of complete bewilderment. My legs hurt from the drain since making objects of a size smaller than me takes more magic, but I'm getting used it the drain.

"What the-- what happened?" A small orange pegasus with a purple mane says scratching her head while Twilight's eyes begin to twitch either from me using that magic again or from me messing up her book.

"Where'd he go?" A small yellow one with a pink mane that is in a bow says, poking the ground where I was.

"I don't know . Rarity did say he was sneaky, but he just avoided us left that weird fake him there." A silver coated unicorn with a two toned mane says handing Twilight her book which she gladly accepts and then resumes reading. I'm surprised they haven't looked behind themselves. I didn't exactly hide, I'm just standing behind them.

"It's a substitution spell I was given, and don't bother trying to learn it from any book. Any unicorn with the now ledge of it was terminated, I only know about it from a journal of spells willed to me by a relative." I say leaning my head in between them.

   I am then immediately kicked in my jaw by three small hooves near simultaneously, but I just keep smiling with my eyes closed. Just keep smiling. They're just children. They don't know about you yet. Resist the urge to attack.

"So, is that a hello?" I say opening an eye to look at them.

"Oh, are you my sister's friend?" The small unicorn pipes out. I like this one. She thinks the second after she is surprised to try and figure it out. The other two are probably coming up with some weird accusation.

"ARE YOU A SPY?" The orange one blurts out and RainbowDash gives an approving nod. Called it.

"Do you like apples?" The yellow says sniffing my breath. I like this one too. She's asking a logical question like the unicorn did, albeit less logical than the unicorns.

"Yes, No comment and yes." I say standing back up at my full height to see that Twilight, Fluttershy and Pinkie had left during the fray. "So, who are you three?" I calmly say while looking down at them with my pure black irises and pupils, eliciting a shake from the orange one, that is quickly replaced with one of bravado. It's like a little RainbowDash. And a look of awe from the white one. I think I can honestly say that's the first kid I've ever liked, myself included.

"Ah'm Applebloom." The earth pony sates cheerfully.

"I'm Scootaloo." The pegasus says indifferently.

"I'm SweetieBelle, and we are..." The unicorn says and they then take in deep breathes.

"THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!!" They scream in unison making my ears ring again. They're loud when they want to be

"Ow, that hurt a lot. So, I'm gonna guess you're all in some group dedicated to finding their cutie marks." I say noticing Rainbow Dash has left. Scootaloo also seems to have noticed because her face is more downtrodden.

"Yup. We go and do lots of stuff to find our special talents!" Applebloom says happily.

"So what was the last thing you did?" I ask preparing myself for an absurd answer.

"We tried to become fireponies by drenching the school house in gasoline and then trying to put it out." Scootaloo squeaks out cheerfully. Well, I wasn't prepared for that.

"Well, that is great. Just don't do it again. Isn't time to go home though?" I say pulling out my watch and checking the time, 1:24.

"Yes Sweetie, we've got to go." Rarity says walking over to Sweetie with Applejack following her.

"Yeah Applebloom we've gotta go." Applejack says putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Awwww. But we were gonna be cutie mark crusaders sneak thieves!!!" Sweetiebelle whines as the two older mares sigh.

"I'll take you three out some other time, ok? But right now I'm tired. What about you Scootaloo; who's taking you home?" I say respectively to them.

"Fine..." They all say in unison.

"RainbowDash is waiting outside for me." Scootaloo says happily.

"Ok then, I'm gonna head back now then." I say to them. "And one more thing," I say charging my teleportation spell, "boo." I then find myself back a my home and I vomit into the trash can next to me. I knew using all of that magic was gonna catch up to me.

   I go into my room and I lay down on the bed exhausted and ready for sleep to come to me. Something, however, tells me my night isn't going to be that simple.