Revenge of the Brony

The party went on as the mane six have agreed. Dusk Shine, as carefully as he can, levitated several stacks of books up the stairs to his room. Each of the mane six takes a book to skim to see if they can find any information regarding Dark Horse or anything prior.

Meanwhile at Sweet Apple Acres there are three young colts that chose a different way to celebrate all night until the ceremony at City Hall. Apple Butch is outside playing shadow tag with his two friends; Scooter (Scoots) and Silver Bell (SB). As the boys enjoy their game, without supervision for once, Apple Butch stops suddenly when he glimpses the moon.

Noticing this SB yells out, “Hey, what are you stopping for Butch?!”

“Look at the moon SB! It’s all flickery.” Replies Apple Butch.

“Huh? How is that possible?”

“Look! The purple glow is coming from that shape in the moon!” Scoots Exclaims.

“I wonder what that means.”

“Maybe we could ask Mr. Dusk Shine he seems smart.” Replies Apple Butch.

“What are we waiting for, saddle up boys!” Scoots yells to the other boys.

The other two pile into a wagon that is tied to Scoots’ scooter. In a Rainbow Blitz like fashion the group turns into a multi-colored blur that moves through town. The boys arrived safely (by some modern day miracle) and each knocks on the library door as loudly as they can.

It was somewhere around this time of night that the mane six had taken a break. Dusk Shine opens the door to reveal Bubble Berry balancing on a big blue rubber ball reciting the alphabet for everyponies entertainment. Apple Jack impressing some girls by doing rope tricks and had managed to grab three girls to his side. Scale for whatever reason is dancing with a lampshade over her head.

The younger colts say all at once, “Mr. Dusk Shine come look outside!”

With a queer look Dusk Shine replies, “What is the matter boys?”

The younger three point to the moon. Dusk Shine pokes his head out over them to notice the purple glow and how it is distinctly shining off the moon. Upon a finer inspection Dusk Shine noticed the impression of a black unicorn on the moon.

“Apple Jack, Bubble Berry, could you come over here for a second?!” Dusk Shine called to the friends nearest to him. When they got to the doorway Dusk Shine asks, “What do you make of this?”

“That looks like a whole mess o’trouble. How do we get everypony over to City Hall without them seeing it?” Replies Apple Jack.

Bubble Berry has a devious look in his eye, “What we need is glow sticks, lots and lots of glow sticks.” He says while clapping one hoof over the other.

“How’s that s’pose’da help?”

“Think about it Apple Jack” replies Dusk Shine, “The glow of the sticks will offset the moon. The town’s ponies won’t even notice. This may be our best option. The King made it my job to help you make everypony happy for the ceremony.”

Bubble Berry beamed with enthusiasm and says, “I’ll go tell everypony that the parade to City Hall will be a glow stick party. Woo Hoo!”

Dusk Shine could not help, but smile as the pink colt happily informs the partiers. “Good luck to you Apple Jack and to you too my little bronies.”

“You can count on us Mr. Dusk Shine.” Apple Jack turns to the younger colts, “Come on younguns’ we got a job to do.” Apple Jack and the children rushed out the door to find a shop where they can “borrow” the glow sticks that they need.

Dusk Shine trots up the stairs to inform the remaining boys of the new developments that have occurred. Upon hearing the plan Elusive and Butter Scotch looked at each other and nodded.

Elusive closes the book he was reading and rises. “We trust you Dusk Shine. If you will allow me, I will go on ahead to get City Hall set up.”

Butter Scotch very hesitantly walks up to Dusk Shine and in almost a whisper says, “Um…I need to prepare also. You see…my birds.”

Dusk Shine pats Butter Scotch on the back and says, “You go do what you need to do, both of you. Don’t worry everything will be ok as long as we trust one another.” Butter Scotch looks at Dusk Shine with trusting eyes and trots off with Elusive.

After Elusive and Butter Scotch leave Rainbow Blitz steps up to tell Dusk Shine, “I can’t stand having nothing to do, man. Give me something that doesn’t have to do with me staying in here with books. I want something that will get me to stretch my wings.”

That gave Dusk Shine an idea, “I know the perfect job for you Rainbow Blitz. It is of the utmost importance that I know how far this glow stretches. I need to know if it is only centered on Pony Central or if there are other areas that it is covering.”

As though setting up for a race Rainbow Blitz braced for takeoff and then zipped out of the library window. The rainbow colored streak remained visible for a few seconds then disappeared. Dusk Shine got comfortable and floated a few books over, opened each and began skimming the contents of them all.

Both Scale and Bubble Berry come back upstairs to help Dusk Shine. Scale goes over to a stack of books and tries to lift them all. The book on the bottom gets loose and Scale falls on her butt. The whole stack of books falls on top of Bubble Berry who could not get out of the way in time.

Dusk Shine gets up from his station to help his friend. After moving most of the books off of Bubble Berry, Dusk Shine picks up the one that was open over Bubble’s face. The title is Compiled Letters and Communications Between Princess Celestia of Equestria and Twilight Sparkle.