Chapter 17: Lesson Zero

Earth, New York City

Gregory Brooklyn was sitting in Jay's sweet shop with the two police officers Derek and Jaden drinking cups of coffee from Jay. The sweet shop owner comes out of the back room; holding his and Gregory's cups of tea...coffee was too bitter for Greg, never liked it.

Jay is an African-American in his 50s, signs of grey hair and wrinkles show it. He slowly sat down, placing Greg's cup on the table "I'm glad you're back Greg, been a long time since we chatted."

Greg took the cup, only sipping it "yes, sorry Jay...work just drags me down."

Jay nods slightly "Its okay Greg, we've got more important issues to talk about."

Gregory puts the cup down, sitting up straight "yes, by now you already know that Joseph is missing, he hasn't been attending school and not coming here to work."

Jay sighs sadly at the facts, Joe was like a nephew to him and to find out Joseph is gone wasn't easy for him "Yeah, when Joe didn't come here or call me for the first few days, I thought he maybe wasn't feeling good or was busy with school. But after a week I got real worried so I called your house...your daughter Clare didn't where he was...hell...she even said 'who?' ".

Gregory starts ruffling his hair with both hands frustratingly, breathing heavily "damn...this is my entire fault...I-I should have been here..." Greg sniffs, covering his face with his hands.

"C'mon now Greg, this ain't your fault, don't you ever think that. Joe is a smart kid, nothing bad will happen to him" said Jay, reassuring Greg of his son's self reliance.

Greg looks up at Jay, he and the sweet shop owner were friends since college along with Frank. Gregory knew that Jay would always be there if Joe needed it when Greg wasn't around "thank you Jay, you were always there for Joe when I wasn't. I will never give up looking for my son until I find him."

Jay gently pats Greg's shoulder in pride "good man…any thoughts about your wife and daughter?"

Gregory sighs in frustration at the very though of Clare and Cindy popping up "I'm thinking about it…"

Officer Jaden clears his throat, drawing Jay and Greg's attention to him "sorry for interrupting sirs, but we'll need any information you can give us to help find Joseph Brooklyn."

Officer Derek walks to Jaden's side "please excuse us for a minute" Derek then starts whispering into Jaden's ear "Jaden, got work from NYPD, they want us to return for a new task."

Jaden gasps with shock; he turns to Derek with some anger in his eyes "new task? What the hell? We can't just leave."

"Sorry Jaden but those were HQ's orders. They'll continue to investigate."

Jaden shakes his head "damn…"

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Equestria, Ponyville

Joe was happily washing the dishes from his breakfast with Twilight and Spike, thankfully he didn't burn it this time "*sighs* I can't continue to think about my problems, they are gone now. I can live happily…so why do I feel uneasy at times?" Joseph spoke out to nopony in particular.

Suddenly Joe hears Twilight and Spike talking from upstairs.

Twilight and Spike were arranging things from the unicorn's check list; she levitates various items to her desk "Quill?"

Spike makes a tick on Twilight's checklist "uh huh, check".

"Parchment?" said Twilight, levitating a parchment.

"Yeah, check" says Spike, ticking another box.

"Extra Ink?" Twilight said, levitating an inkpot.

Spike nods, ticking another box "check."

Twilight then levitates more items then Spike expected "Extra Extra ink?"

Spike checks off the box hesitantly, watching the ink going to Twilight's desk "Uh…um…check?"

Joseph heard everything while washing the dishes, the human felt confused when Twilight mentioned extra ink 'What is going on up there?' he thought.

Twilight Sparkle puts down the last item then looking over with a satisfied smile "Is that everything on the checklist Spike?"

Spike looks over the list, double checks just in case then smiling back at Twilight "Yep!"

"Great. Now that we've completed the checklist of things we need to create a checklist, we can make my checklist of the things I have to get done by the end of the day. Ready?" Twilight said while pacing back and forth calmly.

Spike nervously nods at all the information he had to absorb "ready."

Twilight closes her eyes and begins "okay, so, Item 1: Create a checklist of the things I have to accomplish by the end of the day. Simple!"

Spike comically collapses onto the floor by her sentence "you gotta be kidding!"

Twilight looks back at Spike, gasping at his fallen over body on the floor "S-Spike? What's wrong?"

Joe comes up and sees Spike on the floor "uh…Spike, why are you on the floor?" he asks confused.

Spike groans "you don't wanna know bro…"

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Twilight, Spike and Joe are walking in the square, the unicorn explained what was going on back at the library while they walk for a bit "…and so we were just preparing to check and see if everything is alright in Ponyville and getting ready for a picnic with the girls."

Joe lets out a long Ooooh "I see now…still, you did really need all that stuff?"

Twilight nods furiously "of course I do Joe! It's always better to be more prepared than less prepared!"

Joseph nervously rubs his neck "t-true…even still."

Twilight giggles at this "Joe, there's nothing wrong...I can assure you!"

Joe narrows his eyes away from Twilight and whispers to Spike "there's something wrong..."

Spike looks up to Joe and grins widely "Twilight is Twilight!"

Twilight's ear twitches; she slowly turns her head around and glares at the boys. Joe and Spike turn pale, nervously staring back "What was that?" asked Twilight.

Joe and Spike holds their hands up, trying to wave it off "n-nothing Twilight!"

Twilight smirks and walks up to them "are you sure? I thought I heard something that 'there's something wrong' and 'Twilight is Twilight?' ".

Spike shakes his head "nope! We swear!"

Twilight chuckles softly at them "oh you two, I was only joking, and besides...I really have got everything, I'm sure I have...wait a minute!" Twilight gasps in shock, eyeing the baby dragon "Spike! When was the last time I wrote to princess Celestia?!"

Spike scratches his head in thought "uh...last Tuesday I think?"

Twilights gasps loudly in horror "last Tuesday!? I haven't sent her a letter this week and today is Tuesday! If I don't send her a letter before sundown...I-I'll be tardy!"

Spike raises a brow confused "Tardy? What does that mean?"

"Tardy is another way of saying slow or late, for example, don't be tardy" Joe answered Spike.

Twilight paces around in a panicked state, muttering words out loud "Exactly! I can't believe this! How could I have done such a thing!? I'm usually well organised and never have I been late for an assignment!"

Spike face palms at Twilight's overreaction to the situation...over a letter "Oh please! Twilight, I'm very sure that princess Celestia won't mind you skipping over a letter, you're her most and of all studious student ever!"

Joe nods approvingly "Spike is right Twilight; Princess Celestia won't mind you skipping a deadline, right?"

Twilight groans in frustration at them "I can't take that chance boys, princess Celestia is the ruler of Equestria! She is the one who holds Equestria's fate with her hooves! What if she doesn't forgive me?"

"Twilight, stop, you guys were the one who said I should have calmed down from her arrival weeks ago because she wasn't the type who got angered so easily and she wasn't mean. Even you said that to me Twilight. And I'm sure as Spike that she'll forgive you" said Joe.

Twilight keeps pacing around "What if she thinks I'm not taking my studies in friendship seriously anymore?"

Spike continues watching her pace around un-easily "But why would she-"

Twilight ignores Spike and interrupts him by continuing her speech "what if, just what if princess Celestia takes me back to Canterlot and put me back in school and prove that I've been studying friendship seriously? I-I might not pass!"

Joe tilts his head at her, not believing what his best friend is saying "Not pass? Oh Twilight-"

"Do you know what they do to students who don't pass?" Twilight literally got on her hind legs, placing her forelegs on Joe's chest, pushing him back into a nearby house wall "do you?"

Joseph began sweating nervously and started to stutter "w-well...I-in my country, in high school w-we have the choice of g-going to college and get a higher grade o-or go to night school."

Twilight leans closer, a little more then Joe had expected "Good for you Joe! But here they will send me back a grade! No, she won't do that...s-she'll send me back to...magic kindergarten" Twilight said with a tremble, her eyes grew big, imagining fillies laughing at her.

Joseph and Spike watch her stare into space; Joe began to gently shake her as well as trying to snap her out of daydreaming along with Spike "Twilight? Twilight Sparkle!"

Twilight's eyes went back to size, she slowly sets her forelegs down, Joe frowns softly at her "Twilight...you must be joking, you'd never go back to kindergarten, you're the smartest out of both of us" he reassured.

Spike nodded but quickly looked at Joe when he said 'smarter out of both of us' "uh...I agree with Joe...mostly...Twilight, ya got nothing to worry about! Trust us!" said Spike.

The unicorn smiles warmly at them, happy that her two friends are at her side "thanks you guys, you're right! I don't have to worry because I will solve a friend's problem before sunset!" Twilight beamed.

Joe and Spike's shoulders suddenly dropped "say what?" they both replied to her.

"Sooo..." Twilight slowly inched forward with a grin "do you two have any problems, worries, major or even minor? Anything?"

Joe shakes head "the only problem I have is that you're taking this too far."

Twilight moans "then I'll find somepony who DOES have a problem."

Spike lowers down his head "...this isn't gonna end well Joe."

Joe gives out a long sigh "Twilight can be stubborn at times...ah, who am I kidding, and sometimes I can be too..."

Twilight stares at them for a few seconds "well? Are you guys going to help me or not?"

Joseph looks down and sighs again "sorry Twilight, not this time...you're taking this too seriously, you can't force yourself to look for a problem. Let's just go back home, get the things we need and be ready for the picnic."

Twilight starts trotting away from them "alright fine! I'll do this myself!"

Joe reaches his hand out, and called her name out to wait but Twilight continued to trot off, looking for problems. Joe looks down in guilt "should we have gone with her Spike?" he asks.

Spike rubs the back his head, looking up at Joe with a smile "don't worry; after all Twilight is Twilight...I'm sure she'll get over this, even she won't go overboard with one problem to princess Celestia. Let's go back and get the things we need and meet up with the girls."

Joseph nods slowly but gets a feeling something is wrong but shakes it off the best he can "okay...lets go, before that, are you thristy? Want some pink soda from the stand?"

Spike laughs at Joe "p-pink soda? Ha! C'mon bro! Boys can't have pink stuff!"

Joe ignores Spike and goes to the stand, grabbing two pink soda bottles and paying the mare. He takes off both caps on the bottles and hands one to Spike. The baby dragon sees the glass bottle and smiles widely "Dude! Rasperry flavour! Thanks!" Spike takes the bottle, taking a swig and breathes out satisfied.

The human chuckles and also drinks the soda, tasting the sweet yet zingy cool flavour "I thought boys can't drink pink stuff?" Joe teased.

Spike realises the trick and blushes lightly "awww...you tricked me!"

Joe laughed loudly "I did not!"

The two of them laugh along the way to the library, laughing like two actual brothers, Spike finishes the drink and looks up to Joe, seeing the humans face smiling softly while drinking the last bit of the soda "Joe..."

Joseph glances down at Spike "yes Spike?"

"Thank you again...for being with me, sticking up for me, being like a brother to me..."

Joe slowly stops in his tracks, he slowly kneels down and hugs Spike tightly while lifting him up "and you Spike, likewise for me..."

Joseph then smiles at Spike "and someone has to keep his little brother out of trouble."

Spike gasps at Joe's statement "k-keeping out of trouble? Why you! You want a claw to the knee?"

Joe laughs whole heartedly along with Spike "no! Anywhere but the knees!"

Joseph and Spike reaches the library, the human goes to open the door hears an explosion, he quickly snaps his head around and sees a sight that only he saw in pictures and clips "I-is that...a-a mushroom cloud!? And a rainbow coloured one!? Oh god! Is there nukes in Equestria!?"

Spike looks at the mushroom cloud and laughs "A nuke? What? Joe! That's just Rainbow Dash helping Applejack destroy some old buildings that aren't in use. I heard them talk about it yesterday."

Joe slowly breathes in and out, looking pale but then laughs nervously "um...yeah...I knew that"

Spike grins at Joe "liar."

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Joseph and Spike are now walking down the path which should lead them to the picnic area, Joe is carry a basket in his hand and Spike sits on his should while holding a cake. Spike couldn't help but tease Joe after the 'Atomic Rainboom' the human labelled "the look on your face was totally worth taking a picture!"

Joe sighs sadly "oh Spike, I was actually thinking we were under attack with some kind of weapon."

"Why would you even think of that Joe? A weapon that's like the Atomic Rainboom but it's meant to destroy? It's unheard off!" said Spike.

Joseph turns his head away "in my world...such weapons exist to destroy nations, for self defence...and other purposes."

Spike immediately kept quiet from that, Spike may be young and foreign to Joe's planet but he knew Joe wouldn't make things up about his own planet and people. So it was best not to say anything else for the moment.

However the awkward silence stopped when they heard a voice, Joe continues down the path and hears Twilight speaking to herself it seemed "Spike, do you hear Twilight..."

"Talking to herself, yeah I do, let's go see" the gem dragon replied.

Joseph keeps walking along the path, hoping he would eventually see Twilight somewhere, and they did, seeing her laying on a bench, muttering to herself "-you have to keep it together. Keep it together!"

Joe stares at her in shock, never has he seen Twilight looking so depressed and helpless over sending a letter about solving a problem to princess Celestia. 'Twilight...why are you being like this? Over a letter to the princess?'

"Twilight! Snap out of it!" Spike shouted while snapping his fingers.

Twilight yelps a little, looking at Joe and Spike cautiously, seeing the boy's concerned looks "h-huh?"

Joseph gently places the basket down by his side, he kneels and gently touches Twilight's head, feeling her temperature "are you still worried about finding a problem?"

Twilight shifts her eyes, seeing fillies laughing while playing rope, she then realises that Joe is touching her head gently, she blushes at his warm touch "Twilight, you're now worrying us over this letter...please, come with us to the picnic and relax and join our-" Joe said but got interrupted by Twilight suddenly jumping up with a smile.

"Picnic? Great idea! I'll go see my friends!" said Twilight, trotting off seemingly happy to the picnic.

Spike watches her and smiles "see, knew she'd come to her senses."

Joe watches Twilight as well, still feeling worried about her "I don't know...let's see how she is at the picnic."

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The trio finally arrive at the picnic area, they are all greeted by the 5 mares, however they see Rarity looking stressed over something "the plates...oh dear please tell me that I have the plates!" when Rarity finishes looking for the plates, she lets out a sharp gasp, suddenly she levitates one of her stylish benches and lays on it "I...I did. Oh how dreadful! I cannot believe I have forgotten of all things! The plates! How could this have happened!? This. IS. THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!" Rarity wailed and began crying.

Everypony stared silently after Rarity's over dramatic scene, Rarity noticed the silence and looked up to see everypony with a look of disbelief "Um...what? You did not expect me to lay on the grass did you?"

Joseph slowly looks at Spike "is this one of the many things you love about her?"

Spike blushes deep red "oh be quiet...may have been over the top but...yeah."

Appljack then walks up to Twilight looking concerned "y'all okay sugercube?"

Twilight twitches, feeling her hair curl "No! I'm not okay!" she bursted out loud, making the girls have shocked expressions.

"Oh it's just terrible" Twilight started.

"Yes?" the 5 mares said together.

"Simply awful!" Twilight said again.

"Yes?" the mares said again, this time leaning a little closer.

"I haven't been in so much horrific trouble before, I beg of you guys to help me!" Twilight begged.

The 5 mares went even closer, their hearts beating fast at the thought of something serious "yes!?"

Twilight closes her eyes and yells "My letter for Princess Celestia is almost due before sun set! I haven't learned anything about friendship!"

Her friends all sighed in relief and sat back down "oh my, I thought something really serious had happened."

Twilight snarls and goes up to Fluttershy "This IS really serious Fluttershy! If I don't send her a letter on time...I'll be tardy!"

The girls started to giggle at Twilight's overreaction; Joseph watched and felt sorry for Twilight who was taking this too much but the others weren't really taking her thoughts into consideration. Joe knew he reacted like they did but now he's taking her thoughts into his own point of view, he sees Twilight getting more and more frustrated and before he knew it, she was leaving to find a problem.

Fluttershy tilts her head sideway in confusion "Twilight is overreacting...I-I hope she's okay."

"Guys, I Twilight was being serious about this, we shouldn't laugh at her for this" said Joe, trying to get the word like he should have done awhile ago before they came here.

Rainbow Dash snorted at Joe "Aw she'll get over it! Its not like princess Celestia will lock her up for not sending her a friendship report when Twilight hasn't found one yet."

"But Rainbow Dash, I thought that too and I was wrong...I should have taken her more seriously and think about what SHE is thinking in her situation. I couldn't imagine what it feels like to be her hooves. Twilight is only doing what she think is right, she...doesn't want to let the princess down" Joe replied, sighing deeply and thought about how he should had done something to help by convincing or talking to the others but thought Twilight would forget about it.

Applejack then trots up to Joe with a concerned look "ah guess yer right sugercube, ah never thought of it that way. Did you try to help?"

Joseph felt his heart feel like being hurt by pins and needles "n-no...not as much as I could have done...and I said I would be there for you all and her..." Joe's fist began to tremble, angry at himself.

Pinkie Pie then appears behind Joe, wrapping her forelegs around his neck "Oh don't worry Joe! Twilight needs us to help her! We'll all go right now! C'mon silly filly!" with that, Pinkie Pie flew off into the sky somehow.

Joe shakes his head in disbelief "how does she do that?"

Rainbow Dash then pushes Joe forward to hurry up "no time to think about that, we better move before Twilight tries something crazy!"

Joseph looks around for Spike but couldn't seem to find him anywhere "hey...where's Spike?"

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They all started to search for Twilight around Ponyville, Joseph split up with them and searched on his own "where are you Twilight, please don't do anything silly. And where the heck did Spike go at a time like this? I swear his speed makes him more sneaky."

Joe then hears Twilight's voice; he turns his body around and sighs in relief "oh thank goodness she's alright and...On top if the cutie mark crusaders?"

Joseph did in fact se Twilight on top of the CMC, he couldn't make out to what she was saying but then he saw her holding a homemade doll that has seen its share of use in the years. Twilight then got off the CMC and uses her magic to levitate the doll, suddenly the CMC look at the doll with delight.

Joe starts walking towards them "Twilight! What are you doing?"

Twilight doesn't take her eyes off the CMC adoring the doll and smiles widely "I just found a problem! I used smarty pants!"

Joe cocks his head and raises an eyebrow "it's called smarty pants?"

The CMC suddenly start to fight over who should get smarty pants "I want it!" shouted Scootaloo

"No I want it!" shouted Applebloom.

Joseph gasps in shock "Twilight, what did you do to that doll?"

Twilight waves her hoof sideways in assurance that's its nothing serious "I simply used the 'want it, need it' spell. Works every time! Alright girls, let's break it up. I think we can all see that there is an important lesson to be learned here about-" Twilight tries to break them up but the CMC continue to fight "C'mon, girls, we're all friends here, right? Don't you think you all should share?"

The CMC shouted "no!"

Big Macintosh appears behind them, holding a handle with bucket in his mouth, Twilight quickly trots up to Big Mac with relief "oh thank goodness Big Macintosh! Could you please help take back the doll they are fighting over for?"

Big Mac looks up at the CMC fighting and lets out a simple "Eeyup."

Joseph smiles 'at least Big Mac is here, he can handle this better then I can' he thought.

Big Mac goes up the CMC and simply grabs the doll by his teeth and walks away with it to Twilight and Joe.

"Thank you Big Mac, now can you please give it back to me and-" Twilight stopped midway to see Big Mac walking past them.

Big Mac's eyes suddenly turns into heart shapes and smiles with the doll still in his mouth "Mmnope!" he replied.

Joe watches Big Mac awestruck and slaps his forehead "you must be joking! Twilight can you please take the spell of the doll?"

Twilight shifts slightly "ah..I-I'm trying but...oh no."

The whole of Ponyville including the mayor had come out to see what the whole commotion was all about, when they saw the doll they all started to admire the doll and began chasing after it. This grew more and more chaotic when Big Mac breaks free of some ponies piled on top of him and sent them flying across the place, he stared at the mayor holding Smarty pants and said for a second time "Mmnope!"

Joseph watches them all in horror and could only speak out his thoughts "holy mother of god..."

Twilight covers her head with her hooves "oh what have I done!?"

Applejack then comes running up towards them along with the others and sees all of the ponies arguing for the doll "what in tarnation!? What's goin' on here!?"

Twilight then covers their visions with Joe helping "don't look at the doll!" Joe shouted.

Rarity tries to take a peak but is covered by Twilight "whatever do you mean?"

Twilight nervously looks back and sweats "I-I made my doll Smarty Pants have the 'want it, need it' spell so I could have a friendship problem to report, if I couldn't find a problem, I thought I'd make a problem. But I never wanted this! The day is almost over!"

Joe looks at the sun "not almost Twilight!"

Suddenly an extremely bright light shined upon Ponyville along with a very angry voice "Twilight Sparkle!"

Joseph looks up at the light and over his eyes to see who it was but he already knew who it was, and it was the human's first time hearing her in an angry voice "p-princess Celestia?"

Celestia's horn glows brighter then anything Joe had ever seen before, forcing himself to shut his eyes tight...silence came, a long silence. Joseph opened his eyes and saw everypony back to normal, no more fighting or arguing, they all felt ashamed for fighting over a doll that didn't seemed nice so they all went back to their homes.

Big Macintosh however, looked sideways and picked up Smarty Pants, he made a neigh and runs off with it. Joe saw this and sweat dropped "oh Big Mac..."

Princess Celestia stared down Twilight, so angry Joe couldn't imagine what she's thinking, never had he seen her so angry and Twilight was bound to be in trouble now. "Meet me at the library" princess Celestia said sternly and flew off.

Twilight Sparkle lowers her head down and slowly begins walking back to the library as instructed "Goodbye girls...and Joseph. If you all care to visit me sometime, I'll be in magic kindergarten, back in Canterlot."

Fluttershy looked back at the group with a shocked expression "m-magic kindergarten?"

"In Canterlot?" said Rainbow Dash, looking shocked as much.

Pinkie Pie starts crying, tears that nopony should have so much of are coming out from her eyes "we're never gonna see Twilight again!"

Applejack looks at them all with big worried look "what are we gonna do guys?"

Joe rubs his chins nervously while closing his eyes in thought, after a moment of thinking; Joe started marching off to the library.

"Hey Joe! Where are ya going?" Rainbow Dash called out.

Joe didn't stop marching and called back to her "I'm going to the library! I'm the real criminal here, I should've done something...it was my fault!"

All of the girls gasped and they all started to catch up with Joe, they tried to convince that they should plan this more thoughtfully but Joe had already made his mind up 'I swore I would protect my friends with my life, did I do that? No! All I done was watch and Twilight was going through so much when she needed somepony the most to help! I should have been there or at least bring the others to help he' Joe thought furiously.

Joseph barged through the door with the girls following behind him, he sees Twilight and Celestia standing a few inches away and they both look at Joe with surprised looks. Joe then slowly walks up to them both "princess Celestia...Twilight is innocent, she did nothing wrong."

Celestia raises her brow at Joe "I'm listening" she said, still having her strict tone.

Joe then did the most bold thing nopony expected him to do, standing in front of the princess, not taking his eyes off hers "princess Celestia, we all saw Twilight was worried about not sending you a report and we didn't take in that we didn't know it was caring for. I should have done something to help Twilight, I should have been there better or at least bring everypony together so we could understand that we all should learn to care about the things we don't seem to think that are worth worry for. And I have broke my rule, that I would protect my friends from harm and I haven't...Twilight was in so much depression over this...I did nothing...I'm no good as a friend...so please, take me instead..."

Applejack then butted in before another word could be spoken "and we princess, we all should have been there for Twilight and we haven't been."

Rainbow Dash stands besides Joe and gives a determined look "yeah, we should have learnt to care about other things that we don't seem that are worth worry for!"

Pinkie Pie jumps onto Joe's shoulders and rests her head on his "we care about Twilight very much!"

"As her friends, we all should have taken her feelings seriously and should have been there for her!" said Rarity, puffin her chest out.

"Y-yes...w-we'll join Twilight at magic kindergarten if we must" Fluttershy said, standing up for her friend Twilight in need.

Joseph then blinked in confusion 'wait a second...didn't I just say those?' he thought.

Princess Celestia looked at them all with a smile "I think you all have learned a lesson today."

They all nod at Celestia, "alright, I will forget Twilight's punishment under one condition."

"Anything!" they all replied.

"From this day forth, I would like you all to report to me your findings on the magic of friendship, when, and only when, you happen to discover them. Okay?" said Celestia.

Joe, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie all hugged and cheered, Celestia made her towards the window but stops when Twilight gallops over to her "princess Celestia wait! How did you know this had happened?"

Princess Celestia giggled and glanced at Spike who was watching them all, Joe looks at and smiles 'so that's where you disappeared to, sending a letter to Princess Celestia. Good thinking bro' Joe thought, giving Spike thumbs up in approval.

"Now if you excuse me, I'm expecting some mail" said Celestia and she flew back to Canterlot.

Spike awkwardly walked in and Twilight brought him into a hug, cheeks touching and she kissed his cheek "thank you for calling Princess Celestia Spike."

Spike blushes, chuckling softly "n-no problem...mom."

Twilight then stares at Joe and smiles warmly at him "and you Joe thank you for sticking up for me and risking yourself...like you said you would. But please try not to risk yourself too much."

Joseph nervously rubs his neck "I-I'll try not to Twilight."

Then Joe felt himself pulled down by Twilight's foreleg and kisses his cheek for a few seconds, Joseph turns deep red and faints on the floor. The girls gasped and giggle, but some obviously jealous at Twilight for kissing Joe.

The human boy touched his cheek and melted inside, thinking about a future relationship...but who could it be? Only time will tell.

To be continued

Well guys, here it is...after 3 months...I have not excuses to make but I am truly sorry for this disgusting delay, one day I hope I can repay you all for being so patient with me. I hope you liked this chapter because I did not, this has been a challenge for me to make a chapter based on an episode...proved harder then I thought...I might go for a few more original chapters instead a episodic ones but I may for a certain one.

[UPDATE] And to those with mixed reactions and some negative thoughts about this one, I can understand. I did rush this a bit and also doing a chapter based on an episode has resricted my use of originality and I have made many mistakes in my spelling, grammar and punctuation. And I may have not written the characters out correctly or gave them enough space. I am deeply sorry about this, I am still thinking about an original chapter as the next one.

Please Read and Review and again, sorry.

And remember...FOR THE BRONIES!