What's up! I'm glad you all are enjoying the story so far! Honestly, I thought that a lot of you would get bored with the story by now and give up on reading it. Also, I'm sorry that this chapter didn't come right after the last two. You see, I wanted to get the first chapter of this episode out soon so I would feel the need to finish up this episode. Almost like by starting the episode officially, I would mentally dedicate myself to finish it.

But all that aside, it's finally done now! So I hope you all enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I don't own any MLP stuff, or any of the music that is mentioned.

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I kept watching the bush, not sure what to think about it. It could've been anything and judging by the stories about this forest, it might as well have been anything.

The thing that did come out of the bushes though, made me calm down. It was a friendly face, the local witch doctor Zecora. Of course, I'm not going to say that to her face... In fact, how am I going to say anything when I talk like her, but with a current vocabulary?

"Ah it is you Blitz. Is your robotness going on the fritz?" Zecora asked me. I didn't really mind that she called my artificial parts robotness.

"Bionics is the right term. The word 'robot' lingers me like a bad germ." I corrected her. She rose an eyebrow at me, trying to see if I was insulting her about the way she talked or something.

"Why do you make a rhyme? Do you try to insult me with that annoying chime?" She asked me with a disapproving look.

"No, not at all, you see it all happened around the town hall." I started to explain. She got even more upset and slightly angry about why I was rhyming to her again, and I really didn't blame her for that. "You see it was some poisonous joke, that was given to us by way of smoke." I gave her the summary.

She immediately calmed down, knowing that I was only rhyming because of the poisonous joke. "I do apologize, as it seemed you were insulting me in my eyes." She said. "But how can this be? Your poetic side isn't begging to be set free." Zecora noted, thinking back to the only other time she met me. I never was against the idea of rhyming, rap, or poetry. In fact, to me it always liked listening to stuff like that.

"It's because I weasel my way out. Which is why I now rhyme without a doubt." I told her. As I've said, I weasel my way out of anything that puts me in a tight spot, and stuff like that required to say the exact right thing.

"Ah I see the poisonous tricks..." She looked around and kept quiet for a few seconds, as if looking for something. "What I don't see are the other six." See said.

"Yes, at Ponyville they are at. That is, except for the on under my hat." I said as I took off my hard hat, revealing tiny Applejack.

"Zecora! Oh, are we glad to see a smilin face!" Applejack greeted a little to late.

"And yours as well Applejack. Come, I can help you both at my shack." Zecora told us as she went off back towards her home, me following with Applejack on my head.

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The whole trip over, we explained to her everything that's happened. Applejack talked for the most part though because I did not like rhyming all day long. So I just talked in Big Mac mode, only saying one word answers. Luckily, I was still able to do that without any problems.

When we got there, she immediately got to work on potions for both of us. Even more luck for me, Applejack told Zecora how I short-circuit in water, and Zecora took that in account for me. I really had no idea what my short-circuiting problem was, because if it was a potion then it should've been something you just drink right? Right?

"So while the potions are getting done, what do we do to get those twins on the run?" I asked.

"Well from what you told me, it should be pretty easy to see." Zecora said to us.

"I don't follow, and it doesn't seem that easy to swallow." I said, talking about the fact that I didn't know how I was supposed to stop this.

"You need to beat those two, right away so they won't have a clue." Zecora explained.

"I have to catch them off guard?" I asked. I then sighed as I facehoofed. "Boy will that be hard."

"Ah come on Blitz, y'all can beat those varmints!" She told me, stomping her hoof to the table. She was currently standing on it so we could see her easily.

And how I have yet asked. I'm sure the solution won't just become unmasked." I rhymed to her.

"Why use them bitonic thingies ya have! Even those slippery eels can't go up 'gainst that!" Applejack told me.

"I'm not caught up, please explain while I put your cures in a cup." Zecora told me as she started pouring a cure of some kind in a homemade looking mug.

"Well I can absorb lightning and thunder, and what all I can do with it even I wonder..." I said to everypony in the room, including myself. I sat back in thought, wondering just what else I could do with it.

"That is truly extraordinary, but for now let's just stay wary." Zecora told me as she handed me the cure. She then instructed me to use it like mouthwash, but outside. I did so and stood by the window so I could still hear what they had to say.

"But Blitz, with yer tail being all metal, maybe you can use it as a tool. That, and you can use yer bitonics ta help too!" Applejack told me.

I had drunken around half and swished it in my mouth. After a few more moments, I spit it into a bush. Out of sight from the window so they wouldn't see. I felt a tingling in the back of my throat before talking. "Well maybe... But how am I supposed to get to a thunder-cloud and back before they've built half the building already?" I waited a few seconds for their response, but nothing happened. That's when I realized that I didn't rhyme anymore. "Sweet, it worked!"

I walked back in and thanked Zecora as I gave the mug back to her. She nodded happily before working on a slightly larger amount for Applejack.

"Guess we can have our friends help with that one..." Applejack thought out loud. "I don't think those two would care if the clouds were moved around a little..."

"Hmm..." I thought to myself a few moments, then remembered something. "Actually, Mustache and his brother couldn't say no to it at all. It's perfectly within the rules!"

"But I thought they made the rule where-" Applejack started, but quieted down as I shook my head.

"Nope, no rule on indirect help from them. The rules said that only the five volunteers could help with the build, and no substitutions. They never said anything about our friends giving us a few good luck gifts or anything." I said with my friendly devious smile.

"Blitz, you gotta stop tryin ta weasel yer way outta trouble. It's gonna come back ta get ya if yer not to careful." She said to me.

"Well so far it's working so I can't really see the consequences... At least not yet anyway." I said, trying to prevent myself from getting jinxed. "Still, they can help us out with that, but sadly... Lightning never strikes twice in the same place." I remembered. With a lot of science class under my belt, I knew a lot of random facts like that. The only real reason I paid more attention in that class was that the three bullies weren't in that class and it amazed me after some of me became artificial. It just stuck somehow.

"Ya, yer right." Applejack said, frowning at the realization.

Applejack was then called over by Zecora, who prepared Applejack a small tub to soak in the cure. While that happened, I tried to think of something, anything, that would help out. What could all of them do indirectly that would help?

Twilight could give me tips on organization before hand, but organizing was never a strong suit for me and it usually took me longer to work by doing that.

Rainbow Dash could still bring a thunder-cloud, and hit me with it. But even if she got a different cloud I would only get shocked once because of being negatively charged from the first bolt.

Applejack can still help me directly, and by doing that she won't be able to do anything else. The original plan was to have Fore Hammer look over the prints, while Jumpy and AJ bucked the materials up to me and Star, who would be catching the meterials and doing the actual building part. Sadly, we were going to have to revise that. Even if we do get another chance like I'm predicting, Fore Hammer's likely to pass out again from the pressure, and Jumpy and Star are still going to be out of commission for around two days at the most. If we wait that long, who knows what Flim and Flam will have done by then.

Fluttershy, I don't even think would have any way to help at all. Having Fluttershy's animals go on a wild frenzy on the twins machine would be helpful, not to mention hilarious, but she would never agree to that. Plus, that be cheating no matter how I put it.

And Rarity... I can't even think of one thing she could help with except with what paint to use for walls. Which doesn't even matter in this case.

I could ask Spike to send a letter to Celestia or Luna to ask for their help or advice. But, in some way it sounds wrong to do so. They are royalty after all, they probably wouldn't have time to help me out. That, and this is my issue. I got myself into this mess and asking them to help fix my mistake wouldn't be right.

Finally there's Pinkie Pie. But how was a party planning baker, with a temporary swelled up tongue, supposed to help me? What could she do other then maybe distract Flim and Flam with tons of cakes? Or give me a super sugary cupcake to make me work faster? Oh wait no, how about start a pie throwing pie fight? Honestly, what good would any of those things. Do to... Help?

Wait a second, that's actually not a bad idea! "I got it!" I yelled out. It startled Applejack, who by now was back to normal and was walking up to me. It made her jump back in shock since I went from pure silence and thought, to yelling and excited in less than a second.

"Blitz, what in tha name of Equestria was that for?!" Applejack said, mad that I scared her out of her coat.

"I just found out how to beat those annoying 80's barbers!" I continued to yell out after my eureka moment, sounding a little like Pinkie with how I just said that. "All we need to do is have Pinkie make cupcakes!" I continued to sound insane.

"Uhh..." Applejack saw it too. She then turned to Zecora. "Hey Zecora? Does drinkin some a that cure have any side effects? Cause Blitz is actin like a smaller version a Pinkie Pie..." Zecora smiled and looked to me, wanting to see what my idea was.

"No, I'm not crazy I swear!" I told her, quickly wanting to tell them the plan. "I just found out how a way to beat Flim and Mustache!" I reapeted to them.

Applejack calmed down a little and listened to my plan. As I started to explain the plan to them, they smiled at my idea.

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"Okay, so every pony got it?" I asked them.

"Loud and clear! I'll go back to Ponyville and tell the others faster than stamped! Good luck Blitz!" Applejack told me as she started to head off to Ponyville. If Flim and Flam saw her coming in through the forest, they might think I was up to something already. But she knew she had to be careful. Especially when we still had the element of surprise on my side.

With Applejack heading off to tell the others, all I had to do was wait and practice a little until they were all ready to start. I turned to Zecora, with a curious face. "Hey Zecora? Is it okay with you if I practice by building you a storage shed?" For some reason I had a small blueprint for one. With it, I could try my hoof at building with bionics and see just how good, or bad, I was.

She smiled at me. "Why should I object when it's the best way to help you perfect?" And with that, she wen back in her house, leaving me to try out my idea.

Wasting no time, I took flight and went straight up to a nearby thunder-cloud. I then absorbed the electricity from it and shot back down to the forest like a bullet. As soon as I got there, I found a decent sized tree and tested out using my tail as a tool. I flew right by the tree several times, only my tail making contact with it. When I flew by it who knows how many times I stopped and looked at the tree, which looked perfectly fine an un-touched. I then went up to the top of the tree where all the leaves are and kicked it with my hind legs, which made it all fall apart.

As soon as it all collapsed, it was awesome. The whole trunk was now nothing but perfectly cut planks of wood, more than enough to build the shed I had planned. I smiled at it all and got started, already seeing some progress.

Just by this test run, I could tell this was going to be an interesting challenge.

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After I finished, I admired the shed I built. It only taking me half an hour to build, and that was without using any electricity to do the actual building! I was able to use my tail and metal hoof to act as any tool I needed. I literally punched nails in place as if my hoof was a hammer, and it worked. I then used my tail as a wedge for any nails that bent, or to take apart pieces of wood I might've messed up with. Still, it was finished and perfect now, and I was more than ready to face off against the barber twins.

A moment later, Zecora came out and saw the shed. She smiled at it and looked at me. "I thank you so much, but now you must hurry and beat those two with your lightning touch." She reminded me.

"Yeah, I better go. Thank you for your help Zecora. I owe you." I told her, but she shook her head at me.

"The shed is payment enough, and now I have more room for my stuff." Zecora said. I was glad that she liked the shed, but now I had to get going.

"Glad you like it. I better go. Goodbye Zecora." I said. I then flew off towards Ponyville.

As I left, Zecora looked at her new shed. "It is a nice shed, though I wish I could've gotten something different instead." Zecora said to herself. She liked the thought of it, but she knew she didn't really need a shed that much.

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And that wraps up part three of this episode! Yeah, I know I said that every episode would only have three each, but I'm making up for episode two. Which was only a two parter. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

Also a quick note. Lately my laptops been acting up. So the 'D'; 'G'; and 'S' keys have either been missing, or there's too many of them in one word. So if you see 'an' when it should be 'and' or something along those lines, that's my bad. I'm sorry, but I hope you can over look that.

QotC: What's better? Bionics, or Mutations?