My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 1
Chapter 15: 15. Episode 15
Previous Chapter Next ChapterOn an open field in Ponyville Twilight Sparkle practices a spell that can turn any object into clothes with Zach Lanson watching. Spike wears a leaf necklece, a rock on his head, and holding a twig like a cane. A flash of light turns the leaves into a nice black tuxedo. Then the twig turns into a matching cane and Spike turns his attention to something else.
"Eyes over here, Spike!" Twilight urged.
"Uh, sorry." Spike apologized and returned his focus to her.
"For this to work, it's crucial we keep our concentration totally on the-" Twilight tried to explain. Spike then lost his focus again after hearing a voice in the distance. Just as Twilight turned the rock into a top hat she lost her concentration and it turned back landing on Spike's head and making him fall to the ground painfully with the other objects returning to normal.
"Spike! This magic needs our full attention to make it happen. There's no other way!" Twilight reminded frustratedly.
"I can't help it. Look!" Spike pointed at the distance right at Pinkie Pie who was wearing a rainbow umbrella hat looking up in the sky in worry hiding behind and under many things even a rock.
"Ugh, never mind her. She's just being Pinkie Pie." Twilight assured.
"Super-extra Pinkie Pie today." Spike corrected.
"I agree. I wonder what's up with her today?" Zach wondered. Suddenly Pinkie's tail starts twitching rapidly.
"Hmm... Twitchy twitcha twitcha twitch." Pinkie muttered.
"Pinkie Pie? What in the wide-wide-world of Equestria are you up to?" Twilight asked in confusion.
"Oh! It's my tail! It's my tail! It's a-twitch a-twitchin'! And you know what that means!" Pinkie answered unspecifically.
"Actually, Pinkie, I haven't the slightest idea." Twilight corrected.
"The twichin' means my Pinkie Sense is telling me that stuff's gonna start falling! You should better duck for cover." Pinkie warned.
"Oh, Pinkie, it's not gonna rain. Why there's barely even a cloud in the-" Twilight was about to explain.
"I sense a lifeform falling." Zach said in Twilight's mid sentence. Suddenley a frog lands right on Twilight's face and made a croak.
"He just said, 'nice catch' in Frog." Pinkie explained.
"Great, she also speaks an impossible language." Zach murmured to himself knowing that more of Pinkie's randomness is coming.
-Main music plays-
"Oh, I'm so, so sorry. You okay, Twilight Sparkle? I just couldn't stand to see the pond getting so over-populated, what with the frogs all hopping into each other and all, so I decided to fly as many as I can on over to Froggy Bottom Bog." Fluttershy was above carrying a cart load of frogs behind her and a basket with more of them.
"Of course you did." Twilight muttered while the frog crawls all over her face.
"How are you doing that?" Zach asked out.
"Doing what?" Fluttershy asked confusingly.
"That cart thing. How are you able to broke the laws of physics?"
"What do you mean?"
"...Nevermind. Forget what I said." Zach said unable to understand how Fluttershy is able to hold the cart upwards without the laws of gravity pulling it down.
"Anyway, I have to get going. Bye-bye!" Fluttershy muffled with the basket in her mouth and left.
"Um... Twilight? You gotta little somethin' on your face there." Pinkie pointed out the frog on her face.
"Oh, really? Did your Pinkie Sense tell you that, too?" Twilight asked sarcastically.
"Nah! I could just see it." Pinkie answered and skipped away while humming. Then the frog hopped off of Twilight's face with her head vibrating.
"C'mon, guys, let's continue our practice session where there's a little less commotion." Twilight urged and Spike hops on her back with Zach following.
"Wow! That was amazing! Pinkie Pie predicted something would fall, and it did!" Spike pointed out excitedly.
"Oh, come on. She said that something would fall, and a frog just happened to fall right around the same time. A coincidence, nothing else to it." Twilight explained.
"I don't know. She acted like something like that happened before. I think-" Zach was about to give his opinion.
"My tail! My tail! Twitch-a-twitch! Twitch-a-twitch! Somethin' else is gonna fall!" Pinkie came back and warned showing her twitching tail.
"Oh, Pinkie, please. Nothing else is gonna FA-aaah!" Zach and Twilight screamed after falling down a ditch.
"Oh no, Zach and Twilight fell! Is it... safe to go help them?" Spike asked worriedly.
"It's okay, my tail stopped twitching." Pinkie took off her hat and skipped away again singing.
"Ha ha! That was amazing!" Spike repeated happily.
"Oh, please." Twilight uttered annoyingly.
"Uh, Zach, Twilight? Why are you hanging out in a ditch?" Applejack came over and asked.
"Because, Pinkie Pie predicted it!" Spike answered.
"Honestly, Spike, she did not. Two coincidences in a row like this may be unlikely, but it's still easier to believe than twitchy tails that predict the future." Twilight assured with Zach coming out of the ditch.
"[gasp] Twitchy tail? Pinkie Sense?" Applejack gasped in fear and hid under a vegetable selling cart holding on to her hat while looking up.
"Don't worry, it's safe. Prediction already came true." Spike assured.
"Oh, wait. Don't tell me you believe in this stuff, too?" Twilight asked in disbelief.
"I know it doesn't make much sense, but those of us who have been in Ponyville a while, have learned over time that, if Pinkie's-a-twichin', you better listen." Applejack explained.
"My ears are flopping! My ears are flopping!" Pinkie unexpectedly came back showing her ears flopping.
"Nyuh! What does that mean?!" Spike asked in worry.
"I'll start a bath for you." Pinkie randomly said to Twilight.
"Huh? [chuckles] A bath? This thing keeps on getting more ridiculous by the minute!" Twilight mocked.
"Uh, Twilight? I think you should step away from-" Zach was about to warn until a stray pony with a cart comes running by and splashes a mud puddle on Twilight getting her dirty. She growls in frustration. Later Twilight blows some bubbles out of her face in Pinkie's bath tub getting clean from the incident earlier.
"Sooo, basically, it works like this: I get different, little, niggling feelings and they mean different things. Like when my back is itchy, it means it's my lucky day. And, when my knee gets pinchy, that means something scary's about to happen." Pinkie explained after putting a bottle of soap on the ground.
"Is your knee pinchy now?" Twilight asked worriedly.
"No, but my shoulder's achy. That means there's an alligator in the tub." Pinkie explained and poked her head in the bath tub and comes out with a green baby aligator in her teeth. Twilight screams in horror jumping and landing on the edge of the tub.
"How come your knee didn't get pinchy?! That isn't just scary, it's downright dangerous!" Twilight screamed.
"No it's not, silly! This is my pet alligator, Gummy. He's got no teeth. See? Haha!" Pinkie assured letting gummy attck her but had no effect as he really had nothing but gum in his mouth.
"Okay, okay... I get it." Twilight said annoyingly. As she was done the two made their way outside and met up with Zach while he waited for them.
"So, when did these random body spasms happen?" Zach asked curiously as they walk.
"Oh, it started when I was just a teensy-weensy filly. I discovered that these occur in simple orders. It took awhile to figure out, but it's been learned." Pinkie explained gleefully.
"Well, I still don't believe all this... "special power" stuff. It's just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo." Twilight said.
"What's not to believe? You do magic, what's the difference?" Pinkie asked leaving Twilight with an agaped mouth and an insulted look.
"Huge! For one thing." Twilight sees a box with soap products near a soap selling cart and moves them over so she can stand on it and cleared her throat.
"magic is something you study and practice. It only happens when you decide to do it, and it's meant to make something specific that you choose to happen, happen. With you, uh, it makes no sense at all!" Twilight explained.
"That's so not true Twilight! Sometimes it's a bunch of random things happening to my body at random times that supposedly predict the future. I call 'em 'combos'." Pinkie corrected.
"Combos?" Twilight asked.
"Sure! You know, like, ear flop, then knee twitch, then eye flutter. That means the sky is about to be graced with a beautiful rainbow!"
"Yeah, sure. Zach, help me out here." Twilight begged.
"Well, to be honest Twilight, I'm not so sure I can explain it myself. But I do sense some force around her, like she has some extra 6th sense to feel the future." Zach admitted as they approach the library.
"Uh oh, I feel a combo coming on. Ear flop, eye flutter, knee twitch!" Pinkie said showing the body parts spasm. Before Zach and Twilight could react the door suddenly opens and slams right into Zach missing Twilight just by inches. Spike comes backing out holding on to some books.
"Zach, are you okay? Spike!" Twilight scolded.
"What? What did I- Oops, sorry." Spike realized his accident after seeing Zach flat on the door and sliding down groaning in pain.
"Pinkie, you said that combo meant 'beautiful rainbow'." Twilight reminded.
"Oh no-no-no-no-no. You're thinking of an ear flop, then knee twitch, then eye flutter. This was an ear flop, then eye flutter, then knee twitch. That usually means 'look out for opening doors.' You okay, Zach?" Pinkie asked.
"I'm fine." Zach moaned.
"I don't believe this." Twilight muttered in frustration.
"You don't believe because you don't understand." Pinkie explained.
"She has a good point. Do you have any ideas that can help understand more about Pinkie's condition, Twilight?" Zach asked and Twilight pondered for a moment with her hoof resting on her chin. Then an idea popped in her head.
"This is your idea?" Zach asked in confusion. The three were down in the basement where Twilight does her scientific studies. Pinkie was hooked up in a contraption with a half-bowl like helmet on her head with blinking lights on it with wires leading to another machine that looks like it reads waves of some sort probably from the brain.
"Yes, trust me." Twilight assured as she hooks up another wire on the helmet and uses her magic on a pair of cuffs on a machine Pinkie rests her hooves on.
"Twilight, is that a bit too much?" Zach asked in worry.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine. Just taking precautions. Okay. Now when you get another twitch, we'll have all kinds of scientific information. " Twilight explained to Pinkie.
"Okey-dokey-lokey!" Pinkie understood and waited. The machine whistles as it records wave patterns but not in any unnatural behaviour.
"Any twitches yet?" Twilight asked.
"Nopey-dopey!" Pinkie shook her head playfully. Twilight looks at the pattern again but still sees nothing.
"Now? Anything?" Twilight asked again.
"Wait! Hold on! Uhh, no." Pinkie misunderstood.
"Are you kidding me?! After a whole day of non-stop twitching, now that I've got you all hooked up, you're not getting a single one?" Twilight complained.
"I don't control it, they just come and go."
"That makes no sense!"
"Sometimes you just have to believe in things, even when you can't figure 'em out."
"I will not believe in anything I cannot explain."
"Maybe it's because there's not much activity going on around us. Perhaps it's the actions of other things around us." Zach suggested.
"Wait, hold on, I'm feeling something..." Pinkie mentioned.
"Oh my gosh, what? What is it?!" Twilight asked excitedly hoping to finally get some answers. Then Pinkie's stomach growled unexpectedly.
"It's my tummy! That usually means I'm hungry! Let's eat!" Pinkie said which made Twilight growled frustratedly.
"You know what? Just forget it! I don't need to know if this is real or not. I don't need to understand it! I don't even care!" Twilight stated after snapping the chords off and made her way up the stairs leaving Pinkie still in her cuffs.
"Okey-dokey-lokey." Pinkie understood and managed to slip out of the cuffs without any struggle and followed Zach and Twilight up. Suddenly she gasped as she nears the door. She starts twitching the same way from earlier from the door incident and fell backwards. Without any warning the door slams open this time hitting Twilight.
"Zach, Pinkie? Have you seen Twilight?" Spike asked.
"Uh-huh." Pinkie answered as a yes as she hops out of the door. As the door shuts Twilight was sticked flat to the door just like how Zach ended up with a very irritated look.
"Twilight, are you okay?" Zach asked worriedly.
"Twilight? What are ya doing back there?" Spike asked curiously.
"Why do you think?" Zach asked rhetorically with a scowl.
"Rrrrgh... Did you two plan this?" Twilight asked irritably.
"Plan what?" Spike asked confusingly as Zach helped Twilight off the door.
"This is ridiculous. This can't be happening. This makes no sense. I have to figure this out." Twilight said with determination.
"But I thought you said-" Zach was about to point out what Twilight said earlier about giving up.
"I know what I said! I just can't help it! It doesn't make any sense for a reason, and I intend to find out."
"Listen, I'm sorry, but I don't think you should do this. I don't want you to get hurt even more."
"But I-"
"Nuh-uh. I'm not letting you go until you promise me you won't try to study Pinkie."
"Oh alright."
"Okay, I trust you." Zach thanked and let Twilight go free. Little did he know Twilight still wanted to find out about Pinkie's spasms and left to find her in hiding. Meanwhile at Froggy Bottom Bog Fluttershy tends the frogs takes them down unaware of the dangers that might lurk there. Back at Ponyville Pinkie hops around giggling to herself and smelling the nearby flowers unaware that Twilight is following her hidden in a bush. She peeks out a pair of binnoculars with an expedition like hat and watches Pinkie's every movement and writes it down on a notepad.
"Twilight?" Zach and Spike said in unison appearing unexpectedly and startled Twilight making her jump. She then quickly grabs the two and pulled them behind the bush.
"Honestly, guys, don't you know better than to sneak up on ponies?" Twilight asked sharply.
"Oh, sorry, but, um, well, isn't that what you're doing?" Spike pointed out.
"[gasp] No!" Twilight said defensively and tackled Spike to the ground from him looking over the bush.
"Oh, Twilight, you promised." Zach groaned.
"Sorry Zach, but it's too much. I have to prove that these silly shenanigans don't connect to Pinkie's so called 'Pinkie sense'. Besides, I crossed my hooves."
"How... can you 'cross'... your hooves?"
"I crossed my hooves. See?" Twilight demonstrated wrapping her right fore hoof in front of the other.
"But that's- Oh nevermind. look, I strongly consider you put this asside and just enjoy the day." Zach ordered.
"Sorry, but I really have to find this out. Besides, I'm kind of doing scientific research, and you know how much I love science." Twilight added.
"Oh, fine. But I'm tagging along to make sure you don't get hurt. So, what research are you exactly doing?" Zach asked and hid behind the bush.
"I'm observing Pinkie Pie, scientific name: Pinkius Piecus, in its natural habitat." Twilight explained.
"Pinkius-whoicus?" Spike asked confusingly leaving Zach also confused by the made up name.
"There's something fishy going on with the whole twitchy prediction thing, and I'm getting to the bottom of it. So, shh. Come on, Pinkius Piecus is on the move." Twilight pointed out as Pinkie hops away and the two ponies stick out their hooves and followed quietly with Spike lifted in the air walking his legs in thin air. They followed Pinkie to the school yards where she playfully rolls on the grass. Pinkie then gets up and scratches her nose.
"Hm... Itchy nose..." Twilight whispered as Spike writes it down on the notepad. Just then Pinkie hid under a giant upright horseshoe and looked up in fear as if something was about to fall.
"A-ha, that makes no sense. See? She's hiding like something's about to fall out of the sky, but a twitchy tail means that something's about to fall from the sky, not an itchy nose." Twilight pointed out proudly.
"Actually, I think I sense multiple lifeforms heading this way." Zach mentioned. Suddenly a swarm of bees appeared in the sky and notices the three in the bush and charged it. Zach and Spike notices this and looks in fear.
"This proves, perhaps conclusively, that-" Twilight was about to explain until Spike screams and runs away in fear.
"Spike! Where are you going? I'm trying to teach you the value of scientific-" Twilight was about to explain.
"Twilight, get down!" Zach shouted and uses his magic to force Twilight out of the way but didn't have enough time to avoid the stinging bees. Zach gets stung multiple times as shouts in pain.
"That's enough! Go home!" Zach ordered with his mind controlling powers. The bees obeyed and flew off as Zach's white eyes return to brown. Zach makes an 'ow or an 'ouch' on every step he takes with multiple sting bumps on him. He then summoned his unicorn horn and cast a healing spell on him removing all the bumps and making him feel better.
"Ow, that stung." Zach muttered.
"Zach, are you okay." Twilight asked.
"I am now. Look, Pinkie is on the move. Let's go." Zach urged and the three resumed following Pinkie to Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight continues to observe her from a unseen distance with her binnoculars behind stacks of hay near the barn. She sees her smelling a flower.
"What's she doing now?" Spike asked.
"Smelling a flower." Twilight answered.
"Holy guacamole! I wonder what that means?" Spike wondered in surprise as he writes down the event.
"Probably that the flower smells good. Wait. I'm getting something. Ear flop, eye flutter, knee twitch." Twilight states the following actions.
"Hold on... you told me that's the combo that says 'watch out for opening doors'!" Spike reminded after looking at the barn doors and ran over behind another stack of hay nearby.
"Oh, ho. You really, really believe this stuff, don't you? Here, let me show you there's nothing to be afraid of." Twilight said confidently as she rests her right front elbow on the barn door with a smug smile.
"You see? I promise you there's nothing to fear from that-" Twilight said as she trotted away with her head proudly in the air without paying attention as a cellar door opens in the middle of the ground in her path.
"Twilight, look out!" Zach shouted as he quickly summoned his wings and swiftly flew over and stopped Twilight from falling but accidentally hit the top of the doorway and started tumbling down the stairs shouting in pain every step he hits and eventually hit the bottom with a bone cracking sound. He broke his right wing and fell into unconciousness.
"Zach! Are you okay? Speak to me!" Twilight shouted out as she and Spike looked down in horror.
"Zach! You came to visit my new apple cellar, how nice. Zach? You okay? Uh, Zach?" Applejack's voice was heard from the bottom as she inspects Zach worriedly. After bandaging Zach's waist and came to his senses they followed Pinkie to a park hiding behind a park bench.
"Zach, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for you to get hurt." Twilight apologized sadly.
"It's okay. At least it isn't anything serious." Zach pointed out the bright side.
"Why can't you use that healing spell you did earlier?" Spike asked curiously.
"I can only heal minor injuries, not broken limbs. Anyway, go ahead and see what Pinkie is doing." Zach urged.
"Okay, take this down: twitchy tail." Twilight stated as she observes Pinkie's actions through her binnouculars.
"Twitchy tail? [gasp] TWITCHY-TAIL!" Spike screamed in horror.
"Hush, Spike! We can't let Pinkie know we're here, remember?" Twilight reminded quietly.
"Someone's gonna fall, something's gonna fall! Run for your lives. Ah-ha-ha!" Spike shouted as he ran away.
"Ugh, Spike honestly, you're overreact-" Twilight was interrupted as Zach looked up and quickly moved Twilight with him from the spot she was at after a flower pot smashes to the ground into pieces. Again this time avoiding an anvil. Once again after a cart full of hay stacks crashes. Finally jumping to the ground from a falling piano. As they got up they looked at the rubble and then at each other and realized they are still holding each other. Zach quickly pulled away with a blush.
"Thanks." Twilight sighed in relief.
"No problem. Where is this coming from, anyway?" Zach wondered. The two looked up to see five pegasi moving workers as the boss glares at two certain pegasi who were supposed to load up the trailer and gave sheepish smiles. Pinkie later on was playing with her toungue and sees Applejack approaching with a bucket of apples on her back.
"Hey, Applejack. Whatchya doin'?" Pinkie asked happily.
"Takin' more apples to my new apple cellar. How 'bout you Pinkie? Whatchu doin'?" Applejack asked back.
"Oh, letting Zach and Twilight secretly follow me all day, without me knowing." Pinkie admitted.
"You mean you knew all along?! Why didn't you tell us?" Twilight approached along with Zach with an angry expression on her face.
"[giggles] Silly, that would've spoiled the secret!" Pinkie pointed out gleefully as Twilight started twitching in rage.
"Tail... still twitching?" Spike asked in fear from behind Twilight.
"All done, clear skies from here on in, as far as I can tell- Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu!" Pinkie stuttered as she bagan bouncing rapidly.
"Oh no! What does that one mean?" Spike asked fearfully.
"Dunno, never gotten any like it before, but whatever that shudder's about, it's a doozy. Something you never expect to happen is gonna happen! Hu-bu-bu-bu-bu hu-bu-bu-bu! And its gonna happen... At Froggy Bottom Bog!" Pinkie announced.
"[gasp] That's where Fluttershy's headed!" Applejack stated.
"Oh no! Is it about her?" Spike asked.
"Uh, I'm not sure." Pinkie admitted.
"We better go and make sure she's okay." Applejack said.
"Calm down everypony. All we know right now is that Pinkie Pie just got a case of the shivers. That's all." Twilight concluded but sees the four gone and was getting very irritated. Twilight then unexpectedly picked Spike up from behind as they run startling him.
"Hey! I thought you didn't believe in this stuff?" Spike reminded.
"I don't. I just want to be there to see the look on Pinkie's face when we find out nothing's wrong." Twilight said with a smug smile.
"Okey-dokey!" Pinkie stated confidently as they enter the Everfree Forest. At the bog Fluttershy opens the cart and releases the frogs into the bubbling lakes. Something then appeared from behind her like a scaly neck moving in the water in the water. The five rescuers rush as fast as they could as they approach the bogs. Pinkie then began to shiver again.
"Cold? Need a jacket or something?" Twilight asked smugly.
"No thanks, I'm fine." Pinkie assured as she continues to shiver again.
"So... Whadda'ya think happened to Fluttershy?" Spike asked.
"I hope nothin'." Applejack admitted.
"I know, but, whadda'ya think happened?"
"I'm tryin' not to think about it."
"Me too. But I'm thinkin' about it, anyway. Like, what if, she exploded?"
"Just exploded? For no reason?"
"Yeah, like boom!"
"Whoa!" Pinkie gasped from behind.
"I know." Spike said worriedly.
"What if... What if she exploded, and then... and then exploded again?"
"Can you do that? Can you explode twice?"
"Of course not." Applejack assured annoyingly.
"But, what if, she exploded, and exploded again, and then-" Spike was interupted by Twilight's hoof on his tail.
"Will you two stop? She's fine, I'm sure of it." Twilight said.
"I hope you're right, for Fluttershy's sake. Look! There's Froggy Bottom Bog!" Applejack pointed at the bubbly dirty swamps.
"Okay, let's start searching. I think I sense her here." Zach ordered and the others began looking around.
"Fluttershy?" Applejack called out.
"Fluttershy?" Pinkie called again. They began looking around, behind, over, and under the trees and around anything they can find. Pinkie looks under a dirty wonder lillie until a stray frog lands on it startling her. Spike then lands on her head nearly drowning her head and jumps toward none other than Fluttershy unharmed.
"Fluttershy! You're okay!" Spike hugged in joy.
"Of course." Fluttershy assured in confusion.
"Phew, what a relief." Applejack sighed.
"I'm so glad everything's alright." Pinkie joined.
"Sorry, I know it's not nice to gloat but... AHA! I told you there was nothing to worry about and I was right. Pinkie Pie said whatever she was shuddering about was a [cough] doozy, and [cough] and the only [cough] doozy here is how right I am." Twilight began to gloat as a green fogs settles in.
"I again sense another lifeform in the air. And this one is huge. And it's very close by." Zach said in fear then looked at something horrifying as he, Applejack, and Pinkie began backing back in fear next to Fluttershy.
"Um... Twilight?" Applejack gulped fearfully.
"Pinkie's made a lot of predictions today but- [cough] ugh, what is that smell? But what we've shown here is that there's no point in believing [cough] in anything you can't see for yourself." Twilight stated as four scaly long necks began rising from the water.
"W-well t-then s-see what's b-b-behind you, Twilight!" Spike stuttered in horror as he points behind Twilight. Twilight turned around to see a four headed snake like beast known as a Hydra looks down at their prey from about 30 feet in the air.
"I see it... But I don't believe it!" Twilight said in shock just as the four headed monster began roaring.
"I think we founded our doozy!" Zach stated.
"Is that a hydra?" Pinkie asked in horror.
"Who cares? RUN!" Applejack shouted and the group began running away from the creature but Pinkie was in a state of shock to even try and run.
"Pinkie! Come on!" Twilight called out and one of the heads striked to Pinkie but Zach grabbed her by the tail and ran off just in time as the Hydra's head slams into the ground. Pinkie regained her composure and began running. Fluttershy sees a hopping frog next her fending for itself as well.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Fluttershy apologized to it.
"Don't worry about him, worry about us!" Zach shouted as the hydra makes another loud roar and begins to follow them with their armless body. Three of the heads strike for the group but each misses after each hit the bottom of the shallow lake, hitting a tree, and even hitting a rock. One of the heads began laughing at the other heads in amusement as the others glared at it. Soon the group came across a dead end.
"Now what?" Zach said.
"Everypony up that hill!" Twilight urged and the group followed up the hill.
"Heeelp!" Spike cried in desperation as the group looked back to see Spike drowning in the bog unable to swim.
"Hang on, buddy! I'm comin'!" Zach shouted as he rushes to rescue Spike. Just as he grabs Spike and mounts him onto his back he summoned his unicorn horn and cast a spell of some sort as a beam of magic aims for the bottom of the bog.
"You missed!" Spike pointed out.
"No, I didn't!" Zach assured as he began running away just as one of the hydra heads went for a bite at the two missing in just inches. As the group resumed running up the hill the hydra was about to continue their chase as well but steps on the spot where Zach cast his spell. They see that they were stuck in quicksand as they struggle to get their feet out.
"That should hold it for awhile!" Zach said as they run.
"I think we're gonna make it." Twilight said in relief.
"But Pinkie's still shuddering!" Spike pointed out as Pinkie keeps bouncing repeatedly but suddenly stops.
"Oh, lookie there, it stopped. O-h-h-h, t-h-e-r-e i-t i-s a-g-a-i-n." Pinkie said vibratingly as she shudders again while Spike pushes her up. They then come across another dead end near a cliff with six lone standing steps in the middle of the cliff leading to the other side. They then heard a rumble and gasped to see the Hydra managed to free themselves out of the quicksand trap and made their way up.
"Ugh, he'll be up here in no time! Quick, one at a time, cross!" Twilight urged. Spike was about to make his jump but stops to see the height of the fall and quickly pulls away.
"Uh, do you know any spells for turning a hydra into a mouse?" Spike asked.
"No." Twilight answered.
"How about a squirrel?"
"No!"
"How 'bout-"
"No small rodents of any kind!" Twilight said.
"That's too bad. Any ideas?" Spike turned to Zach.
"The only option right now, is to cross. Now MOVE!" Zach ordered and Fluttershy remembered the steps Pinkie gave her back back at the dragon incident.
"A hop, skip, and a... jump!" Fluttershy shouted as she makes her leaps across the way landing on each step.
"Or you can fly, but whatever!" Zach reminded. Twilight then tosses Spike to the first step where he can do the rest. Pinkie began shuddering uncontrollably and was about to make her way off the cliff but Applejack saves her by pulling her tail just before she can fall. At the distance the Hydra was getting closer to the group.
"He's getting too close. I'll distract him. You three go, now!" Zach ordered the other ponies while in a defending stance.
"But Zach, you'll-" Twilight was about to oppose Zach's order.
"NOW!" Zach repeated and the group understood as they made their way for the other side.
"Okay, think Zach. How can I beat a four headed creature? What would Dash do in this situation?" Zach said to himself and an idea popped in his head. He charges at the beast as it makes a counter-attack of it's own. He surprises it as he runs right under it with three of the heads following. One of them realizes the error and finds itself under the body as it trips on itself. Zach rushes for the cliff to make his escape. As the beast regains it's composure it realizes Zach was making a run for it and continues to chase him. One of the heads makes a strike for it but Zach sees this and dodges it landing on it's neck after it crashes to the side of the cliff. Unfortunately in the process the crash made four of the steps collapsing. Zach and the group at the other side gasped at this. The hydra head that attacked whimpers as it's head hurts from the impact and roars in rage.
"Z-z-z-Zach! You have to jump!" Pinkie shouted as she shudders.
"No, fly!" Twilight suggested.
"I can't, my wing is still broken! I can't make it!" Zach pointed out.
"You'll be fine!" Pinkie promised.
"How do you know? What makes you so sure I'll make it?" Zach asked. The Hydra heads began roaring and apporached Zach in anger.
"Its your only ho-o-ope! You have to take a leap of faith!" Pinkie said after shuddering again. Zach looked down at the height and knew if he misses he could die. So after some quick precious pondering Zach took a couple steps back and sprinted as fast as he could. The hydra makes another strike just the moment Zach was about to jump and slams into a huge chunk of rock breaking it off the cliff. Zach saw the opportunity and jumped only to miss by inches.
"Ooooh CRUUUU-AAAA-UUUD!" Zach screams as he falls. As he was about to impact the water he lands on a oversized bubble and pops sending him back into the air. He bounces off the two last steps with shouts of pain and lands on the other side safe and unharmed. He gives a bit of a goofy smile in relief that he's okay. The group cheered and gives a big hug to him while the hydra gives out an annoyed look.
"I knew you could do it, Zach!" Pinkie cheered.
"Well, it was thanks to your confidence in me that I did it." Zach admitted.
"I don't know how it happened; coincidence, dumb luck, or what, but you said there'd be a doozy here at Froggy Bottom Bog, and I'd say we just had ourselves one heck of a doozy. I mean that hydra-" Twilight was about to admit until Pinkie began shuddering again.
"Pinkie?" Twilight said worriedly.
"That wasn't it." Pinkie flat out said.
"Huh?" Twilight questioned in confusion.
"What wasn't what?" Spike asked.
"What are you talking about Pink?" Applejack joined.
"The hydra wasn't the doozy." Pinkie said and the hydra gives out a rasberry at the gang taking it's departure.
"I'm still getting the shudders. Oo-o-oh, oo-o-oh. You see? There it is again. Whatever the doozy was at Froggy Bottom Bog, my Pinkie Sense says it still hasn't happened." Pinkie said which made Twilight's eyes twitch uncontrollably.
"Huh? But I- WHAT?! The hydra wasn't the doozy?! How could it not be the doozy?! What could be doozier than that?!" Twilight asked in frustration.
"Dunno, but it just wasn't it." Pinkie said. Twilight then began getting really furiated and growled with her mane and tail bursting into flames with red eyes which was starting to terrify the gang.
"Oh, she's ticked." Zach muttered. As the flames went out on Twilight she still gives an angry exprssion with her body charred.
"Ooh... I give up..." Twilight groaned and falls to the ground.
"Give what up, Twi?" Spike asked.
"The fight. I can't fight it anymore. I don't understand how, why, or what, but Pinkie sense somehow... makes sense. I don't see how it does, but it just does. Just because I don't understand doesn't mean its not true. Plus, if it wasn't for my pointless pursuit to dig out the truth, none of the unfortunate events today wouldn't have happened. I'm so sorry, Zach. If I had just listened to you, none of those things would've happened to you." Twilight apologized shamefully.
"It's okay, I'm just glad you didn't get hurt. At least you learned your lesson." Zach said giving a warm smile.
"Y-y-y-you m-m-mean you b-b-b-believe?" Pinkie said vibratingly while studdering.
"Eyup, I guess I do." Twilight admitted. Suddenly Pinkie began studdering more uncontrollably then stopped finally standing still.
"[gasp] That was it. That's the doozy." Pinkie gasped. Spike looks at her blankly and shakes his head in confusion.
"What? What is?" Twilight asked eagerly.
"You believing. I never expected that to happen. That was the doozy, oh and, oh what a doozy of a doozy it was!" Pinkie said and began skipping off for home while humming a tune leaving the gang with total blank expressions. The next day Spike rushes home for the library while Zach, Twilight, and Pinkie share a good laugh. As Spike enters the group notices his arrival.
"Oh, good, Spike, you're here. Take a letter." Twilight ordered.
"With pleasure, Twilight." Spike obeyed and got a quill and paper to get started. As he was ready to listen and write something from Twilight caught his eye and distracted him.
"Dear Princess Celestia, I'm happy to report that- Spike, what have I been saying about focus?" Twilight urged.
"I know, but I... Well..." Spike stuttered.
"What's wrong Spike, never thought you'd see me with an umbrella hat on?" Twilight asked playfully who was wearing a rainbow umbrella hat with Pinkie.
"Not really, no." Spike admitted.
"Pinkie's tail's a-twitchin'. What else can I do?" Twilight asked pointing at Pinkie's tail and the group laughed and Spike regained his focus and began to write again.
"I am happy to report that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can't explain, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less true. It just means you have to choose to believe in them, and sometimes it takes a friend to show you the way." Twilight said as Spike writes down the letter.
"Honk!" Pinkie said playfully poking Twilight's nose.
"Honk." Spike repeated adding it to the letter.
"Always, your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle." Twilight finished and the mares walk out to enjoy their day together. On the way out Pinkie's tail twitches again.
"There it goes again." Pinkie pointed out.
"I wonder what's gonna drop outta the sky this time?" Twilight asked.
"You never know." Pinkie said. At the balcony window Spike opens it and takes a deep inhale ready to send it.
"Wait, I'm sensing another lifeform in the air. What is it with life falling from the-" Zach was interrupted after seeing none other than Princess Celestia herself falling from the sky and landing on the balcony hard yet gracefully surprising the two.
"Princess?" Zach asked in total surprise.
"Twitchy tail?" Spike asked.
"I guess so." Zach answered as Celestia takes the letter herself and takes off again returning to Canterlot.
"Holy guacamole!" Spike gasped in surprise as the two looked up to see the princess fly away. This shows the most unexpected things can come up at times we least expect it. Just like Zach's life changing day.