The Over-Powered Adventures of Gray and Silver

“Pfft... Can’t believe I got saddled with you.” Silver grunted on his way out the front doors of the hospital.

“You’re hardly being weighed down by me, if I recall we drew in that competition, meaning we’re of equal skill. Nopony’s weighing down anypony, so quit your whining.” Gray snapped back.

“Yeah? Well which one of us here knows how to do something theoretically impossible, huh? So shut it and follow me to the--”

“Hello there competitors!” a rather loud stallion interrupted. He was a unicorn with a tan coat, a brown mane, wearing a blue sweater vest, and had a thick brown handlebar mustache that nearly covered up his cheesy smile. “I’m Mike, one of the announcers for the EUCT! Due to how... unconscious you both were after the match, you were unable to receive your prize money!”

“Shaddup and hoof it over then!” Silver shouted in an annoyed tone.

“Sorry for my partner’s rudeness. I expect you’re here to present us with the prize money because of our... Unavailability at the tournament?

“Well, yes, that’s right.” Mike muttered in a bewildered manner before presenting two fairly large bags of bits. “Here you go then.” he said as he gave both Gray and Silver their prize money. Silver immediately began counting out his money.

“Ugh, 50,000 bits. I coulda gotten the whole mil!” he whacked Gray with one of his wings. “Anyway, follow me. We still got a ways to go before we reach the track.”

“I told you before, you should have beat me properly, so save the violence for our next fight you idiot.” Gray told Silver whilst rubbing the back of his head.

“Yeah yeah, shuddup and follow.” Silver kept trotting along down some path only he seemed to know. He led Gray far, far away from the hospital. Nearly to the center of Canterlot. There, they found a large domed building. “Ah, here it is. C’mon, let’s head inside.”

“Alright, lead on.” Gray agreed. They entered the building to find a very large area filled with various set of weights, machines, equipment, boxing rings, a track, and a pool in a sectioned off area in the back. The place was filled with stallions, and a few mares, trying to make themselves buffer, or simply get in shape. Silver headed to the largest ring right in the center of the building, but he was caught by a gryffin on the way.

“Hey, Silver!”

“Hey, watch this for me, will ya?” he tossed the rather surprised gryffin his bag of bits before passing her without a care and jumping into the ring. “C’mon Gray!”

“Who was that?” Gray asked.

“Some chick... Heh, I punned. Some chick that followed me around ever since I won the preliminary fight in Baltimare. Just ignore her, she usually just sits there and watches me train.”

“Huh, you shrugged her off pretty easily. Do you do that to all your fans?”

“Look, Silver just don’t give a shit. I’m in it for the blood and money, not the fans. Anyway, let’s get going.”

“Okay then, seems like a weird thing to be in the fighting business for though in my eyes. The money I can get but, do you really enjoy hurting ponies that much?”

“You kidding? There’s nothing better than proving you’re the best, which you’re keeping me from doing right now. So let’s hurry up and teach you how to fly.”

“No objections from me, so let’s get started.”

Silver sat on the ground and closed his eyes. “Alright, for a n00b like you, we need complete focus. Sit down and don’t think. Shouldn’t be too hard.”

“Shouldn’t be too hard? You’re asking me to not think at all! How do you expect me to do that?!” Gray asked whilst sitting down in front of Silver.

“...” Silver continued to do absolutely nothing, barely even breathing.

“So you’re just gonna give me the silent treatment?”

“I’m sorry, what? I wasn’t thinking.”

“...Are you trying to mock me?” Gray asked while glaring at Silver.

“For once, no. Back to the realm of no-think!”

“Ugh, so much for helping me fly. Instead you’ve just given me an impossible task.” Gray said to the non-thinking Silver.

Gray sighed, and resigned himself to his fate. Closing his eyes he found that not thinking was every bit as difficult as he expected, and more. Gray was used to staying still, and had even tried meditating, but not thinking was just impossible. How his counterpart opposite him could do it, if he wasn’t just lying, was beyond him.

After sitting there for what felt like hours Gray finally decided to give up on his fruitless efforts and ask Silver for help.

“Silver.” Gray called, but received no response,

“Silver!” Gray called once more, louder this time. But the outcome was still the same.

”You useless prick, listen to me!” Gray called out again, much more aggressively than his previous attempts. But Silver still remained in his trance like state.

“Zzzzzzzzz....” Silver snored suddenly.

“You’re joking... right?” Gray asked incredulously.

“Zzzzzzzzz...”

“He was sleeping all this time? Ugh!” Gray grunted, exasperated with the situation he slumped back and lay on the floor,

“What in Tartarus does he expect me to do? Does he think it’s so easy to stop thinking that he can take a nap break? Maybe I should wake him up...” Gray though aloud as he sat back up to face the sleeping Silver in front of him once more.

“Hmm, shouting obviously didn’t work.” Gray reached out with a hoof as he said this and proceeded to nudge Silver’s shoulder.

Silver leapt to his hooves and swords materialized out of thin air. “WHO DARES DEFILE THE CHEESE GOD’S THRONE?!” he roared.

Gray merely stared at the now alert Silver and burst into raucous laughter at his question.

“Did you just wake me? Oh, you found out how to not think?”

“Of course not! You expect me to find out how to do that with no help?!”

“Yeah. All you gotta do is not think. You need help for that?” Silver rolled his eyes and noticed how dark it was outside. “Oh hey! Dinner time! Let’s go eat somewhere. I hope nopony touched those bags o’ bits we brought.”

“OH SHIT! We just left them lying there! What if someone took them?!”

“Well, I had that girl from earlier watch mine. If somepony took yours we’ll just hunt ‘em down and kick some ass. Easy.”

“Is fighting all you can think about?”

“No, right now I’m thinking about food. Let’s go already.”

“Fine, fine. Let’s grab our bits and get something to eat. I hope you have somewhere in mind.” Gray said as he followed Silver to the place where they left their bits. The gryffin had dutifully watched over them, just as she had promised.

“Oh! H-hey Silver! I watched your money, just like you asked!” she gushed excitedly with a tone that was reminiscent of a child that wanted a sticker for a job well done.

“Good job, birdy.” Silver patted her on the head with his right wing. He dug into his bag and pulled out a hoofful of bits. “Here, for your trouble.” he gave them to her, then left quickly before she could say anything else.

“Thanks for looking after them.” Gray said gratefully to the gryffin, and then followed Silver out of the building.

“Alright, I feel like... Hay burgers tonight. You want some hay burgers?” Silver questioned without even turning to look at Gray.

“Yeah, I’m fine with whatever, I forgot how much I actually needed to eat.” Gray said as he realised how hungry he actually was, in fact, neither of them had eaten since the tournament finals, and that was over a day ago.

“Cool, let’s find a burger joint then.”

Gray followed Silver in silence for the journey. Eventually, they found a quaint little place that promised quality burgers.

Gray took the lead and entered first. He simply ordered a plain hay burger and fries, and took a seat whilst waiting for Silver to order.

Silver slammed his hooves on the counter and ordered ten burgers and four orders of carrot fries. He stood at the counter and waited for them to finish piling up his food. Eventually, he got his food and moved the mountain on top of his tray over to the table with Gray.

“That all you got, Gray? You’re stomach is as big as your nose dude.”

“I have no idea what you’re on about, you’re the one with the abnormal amount of food on your tray. How can anypony eat that much anyway?”

“I dunno. I think it has to do with the magic I use. I can’t just randomly spawn energy to keep it going, y’know.” without another word, he began burying his face in the bounty of food before him... without removing the wrappers from the burgers.

“Um, excuse me, did one of you two say you were Gray by any chance?” asked a timid looking unicorn mare in the seat behind Gray.

“Yes, in fact. That would be me.” answered Gray, who was currently ignoring the fact that Silver was gorging on the wrappers of the burgers, instead of just the contents of those wrappers.

“Oh Celestia, it’s such an honor to meet you. I was there at the EUCT watching you, I can’t believe you fought to a draw in that last match, I was sure you’d win. You were so amazing in the matches before.” gushed the fan. Gray’s food remained untouched, a stark contrast to his counterpart who was already halfway through his sixth burger and had just started his second order of carrot fries. A small blush adorned Gray’s face from the compliments he was receiving.

“Thanks I guess, you don’t seem like the type of pony to watch fighting tournaments, if you don’t mind me saying.” Gray said, quickly trying to shift the direction of the conversation from him.

“Oh, well you’re not the first pony to say that actually. I guess I am usually quite shy so people expect me to not like fights and things.” replied the unicorn.

“Well I’m glad to hear my fight entertained you. I’m sorry to cut this conversation short, but it appears my friend here is nearing the end of his meal, and I’ve barely touched mine. He isn’t the type to wait around either. It’s been nice talking with you though, have a good evening.”

“It’s been nice talking to you too Gray, you have a nice evening too.” The unicorn said before getting up and leaving.

Gray turned to eat his meal, and as he was eating he noticed that Silver was now on his second to last burger, and last order of carrot fries. Gray eat his meal in silence, or, as close to silence as he could get with Silver eating on the same table as him.

When Silver had finished demolishing his mammoth meal, and Gray was nearly finished with his, Gray spoke up.

“So, how exactly am I meant to think of nothing Silver?” Gray asked in quite a serious tone.

Silver put down his food for a moment. “Is that all you wanted to know? Just... how many times have you been knocked out?”

“Sorry, I don’t keep count. But it’s been quite a few times.”

“Alright, well you know that moment when you get hit in the head really hard? When the world goes white, and then goes red if you’re still standing?”

“Yeah, I had an experience like that in our fight. Right at the end when I passed out.”

“Well, that moment where it’s white, that’s true nothing. Your mind was rendered incapable of thought for a moment. Just remember that next time.”

“OK, will do. Now how’s that supposed to help? I can’t just will myself to go to the verge of unconsciousness just like that.”

“Well, I either hit you in the head a lot, or you figure it out. I’m gonna go get some more grub.” Silver left the table and trotted back over to the counter.

Gray sat there for a moment considering Silver’s words, until said pony came back with another helping of 5 more hay burgers and 3 more orders of carrot fries. Before Silver starting eating the banquet prepared for him though he asked Gray.

“So, got an answer yet?”

“Yeah, you’re just gonna have to hit me in the head until I can get a feel for it tomorrow.” Gray concluded.

Silver gave him a broad grin. “You have no idea how much I’d hoped you’d choose that.”

Gray didn’t say anything, and instead got up to order another hay burger and fries to eat while waiting for Silver to finish eating his meal.

Silver gulped down the last of his burgers and sighed contentedly. “Alright, we should head to our hotels now. I assume you got one, right?”

“Uhh, not exactly... I kinda only had money for food when I came here for the tournament... Could you show me to your hotel by any chance?”

Silver let out a huge sigh. “You just can’t do anything on your own, can you? Fine, follow me, helpless.” Silver said as he got up to leave the burger shop, Gray close behind him. Silver led him a few blocks away from the burger joint until they got to an enormously tall building. “Alright, go get a room. I’m heading to mine.”

“OK, meet down here tomorrow.”

“Don’t tell me what to do.” Silver trotted into the building and vanished, leaving Gray to pay for his room at reception and get his room key himself. Once they were both in their respective rooms it didn’t take long before both of them were sound asleep.