Author's note: I am going to be trying post an episode a day. If I can't fit him into the episode, I will just do some haunts.

Chapter 7: Invasion

Twilight can be so amusing to watch sometimes.

Tomorrow, Princess Celestia going to be visiting Ponyville and Twilight is in a state of panic. She was currently trying to make everything perfect inside of the library, which means she was telling Spike what to do.

"Oh! Hurry up, Spike! This place isn't gonna clean itself," Yep tell Spike to clean up your mess

Spike counters,"It also didn't mess itself up,"

Ignoring Spike, "Princess Celestia will be here tomorrow!"

"I thought this was just an unofficial casual visit," Yeah, so what is with all the worry?

"There's nothing casual about a visit from royalty. I want this place to be spotless, and you've barely made a dent in the clutter," Yeah, he is having a hard time cleaning up your mess, use some of your magic to help out.

"Maybe you should, ugh, start reading them one at a time-wooah hoaw! Aw," A pile of books collapse.

"Everything's got to be perfect. No time for fooling around," I'm starting to wonder if she does this really for the Princess, or for her own OCD.

"You know, this would be an awful lot easier if there weren't two of us here getting under each other's feet," Yeah, Twilight is more of an obstacle than help.

"Great idea. You clean, I'll go see how everyone else's preparations are coming," Lazy unicorn

"Or maybe I should..." Spike tries to interject, but Twilight already left.

Normally I would follow Twilight, but I felt some pity for Spike trying to clean up all of this mess. So I decided to stay, and let the library have a third visit from Chrome. I start removing some books from the stacks around the room, and begin to put them on the shelves. By the time I put up the 7th, I saw that Spike stopped working, and stared opened mouth at the floating books.

I decided to still have a little fun with the guy, so I picked up Twilight's feather duster, and handed it to Spike, and he took it, just staring at it. And now here comes the fun part.

I went behind Spike, and in a harsh whisper, I said "Clean!" And Spike nearly jumped out of his scales, and quickly started to get to cleaning. I love scaring people sometimes.

After a few hours of cleaning in the library, Spike ended up getting tired, and fell asleep. So I just picked up the guy, and laid him in this little bed. It was a sort time latter that Twilight showed up with a bug in her mane.

I guess they don't have as big a problem with bugs as humans due.

Twilight sighs, "The decorations, the banquet, I really hope everything comes together in time for tomorrow,"

Spike just snores away, not responding in anyway. But that little bug makes some kind of weird noise.

"Oh," Twilight yawns, "what's there to worry about?"

As she fell asleep I ended up leaving the library so I could see the decorations. Honestly, it looks like the locals have done a really good job. It looked like they were going to have some kind of festival.

While floating around, I noticed Pinkie running around. I float down to see what all of the rush was about. As I floated above her, I could hear her talking to herself.

"Got to find a trombone, accordion, harmonica, banjo, tambourine, and cymbals, must find them before the bugs take over." Bugs? Did she mean that little thing Twilight had?

While Pinkie maybe a little insane, she still did what she did for a reason. And if what she said is true, we need to deal with these bugs. I guess she is going to go in the order she stated, so I will start from the end.

As the sun begins to rise, I have only managed to get the tambourine, and the banjo. I think Pinkie had already found some of the others, which ones we are missing, I think are the cymbals, and the harmonica.

I was floating by the library trying to find one of those two things, I heard Twilight screaming. I went into the library, and the first thing I saw was a swarm of those little bugs. Twilight had managed to capture most of them into her saddle-bags, but there were still a few stragglers.

These things seem to multiply like crazy. Pinkie was right, these bug are dangerous. I floated back outside, and decided to try and the two missing instruments. I floated over to Rarity's place to see if I could find anything there.

When I went inside, I saw another swarm of bugs. Oh great, how many of these things are there?

"Oh! Are you okay? Aaah! Eewww. Aaah! Gross gross gross! No creature that behaves so revoltingly is allowed in my boutique!" I'm guessing that is Rarity. If she things they are gross, then why did she have them around?

Pinkie soon entered "Look Rarity, Applejack loaned me a harmonica. Isn't that great?"

Well that is another one down, now all we need to do is find the cymbals, and I need to show Pinkie my stash of instruments.

Pinkie gasps at the sight of all the bugs, "And not a moment too soon."

"Ugh, Pinkie, I'm a little busy right now," said Rarity.

"And I'm not? You know how many more instruments I've gotta find? A lot, that's how many. Now if we split the list between us, we might just make it in time," Actually not too much left.

"Please, Pinkie, I don't have time for some silly scavenger hunt. I've got a real problem,"

"You've got a real problem alright. And a banjo is the only answer!" Pinkie leaves to go find some of my instruments.

Since she is now looking for my instrument, I suppose it is time to show here where they are. I left the shop, and followed Pinkie, and started to guide her.

"Pinkie" I said.

"Huh, who is there?" asked Pinkie

"A friend here to help"

"Oh, a friend, but wait I haven't thrown you a party yet, are you new around her, I don't think I have ever seen you. But you are invisible, so of course I couldn't see you. How do you do that?" Pinkie said in her excited voice.

"Time for answers latter, for now follow me so I can you" I grabbed one of her hoofs, and led her to a barrel that I have been putting my instrument in. "Here Pinkie, I hope this helps."

She looks in the barrel, and pulls out the instruments, "Yay! This makes it so much easier now! Thank you Mister Ghost"

"No problem Pinkie, and call me Chrome"

"Already, thanks for the help Chromie, I got to find the rest of the instruments, bye," She said as she zoomed off.

I couldn't help but chuckle from Pinkie's behavior. It is hard not to like her. From the looks of it, she was heading out towards Fluttershy's place. I floated that was as well, and I was greeted by an odd site, a tornado of those multi-colored bugs.

I don't think that is going to end well. I saw Pinkie near the tornado with the some cymbals. But the tornado took them from her, and nearly hit something inside the storm. The tornado dissipated, and Rainbow dash could be seen. I guess she created the tornado.

I moved closer to the group, to hear what they were saying.

"I've lost a brand new pair of cymbals, that's what I've done," Pinkie said. Great just when we finally found one, we lost it.

"Will you forget about your silly instruments for one second? You're ruining our efforts to save Ponyville," Twilight said.

"Me? Ruin? I'm not the ruiner, I'm the ruin-ee! Or is it ruiness? Ruinette?" Pinkie started to ramble.

""Come on girls, there's no reasoning with that one. She's a few apples short of a bushel," Applejack states. Applejack is quite rude sometimes.

"Hey! I'm trying to tell you all that the ruining is on the other hoof. If you just slow down and listen to me!" Pinkie shouts, "Well at least Chromie believes me," she says to herself, and goes off to collect any missing instruments.

I knew I could trust Pinkie to get this job done, but now I had to worry about the other girls. They were not thinking smart anymore.

So I floated into Ponyville to witness Twilight using some form of magic on the bugs. The bugs all seem to stop for a moment, and then they stated to get the town itself.

Wow Twilight, you may of destroyed all of Ponyville.

As this went on, the bugs continued to eat away what was left of Ponyville, and some of the other ponies went to go defend their homes from this swarm of eaters. That ended in disaster as well.

Twilight ended up going insane, "Oh no, here she comes." Ponies screaming in the background. "Okay, here's the plan. Rainbow Dash, you distract them,"

Rainbow is being chased by a swarm of bugs, "YAAAA!"

"Good. Everyone else, we need to build an exact copy of Ponyville right over there. We've got less than a minute," Twilight is crazier than Pinkie, "Zecora was right, we're doomed. Oh no, the princess's procession is here. It's all over!"

Suddenly polka music fills the air. Pinkie is marching through the town as a one pony band.

"Pinkie? We're in the middle of a crisis here. This is no time for your... nonsense?" Twilight starts, but soon notices the bugs following Pinkie, "Look."

Twilight, along with the other main ponies follow Pinkie as she leds the bugs back into the Everfree Forest. While Pinkie is doing this, Princess Celestia arrives; honestly I didn't not expect her to be a giant white horse, and what is with that mane?

Then the Princess starts to speak, "Twilight Sparkle, my prized pupil."

Twilight bow to her, "Hello, princess."

"So lovely to see you again, as well as your friends," Celestia then notices the bugs being led by Pinkie going to the forest.

"So... how was the trip? Hit much traffic?" asked Twilight, trying to downplay what happend

"Ah, what is this? Oh ho ho, these creatures are adorable," No, they are locus. Kill them now.

"They're not that adorable," states Rainbow

"I'm terribly honored that you and the good citizens of Ponyville have organized a parade in honor of my visit," A parade? Is she that dense, or is she joking?

"Parade? Oh. Yes, the parade," Twilight seems please with her thinking.

"Unfortunately, that visit is going to have to wait for another time. I'm afraid an emergency has come up in Fillydelphia. Apparently there's been some sort of infestation," Oh, she knew all along. Did she do that on purpose? Wait, Fillydelphia? ...Not even going to start on that

"An... infestation?" Twilight seemed to understand her meaning.

"Yes, a swarm of incredibly bothersome creatures has invaded the poor town. I'm sorry Twilight, to have to put you all through so much trouble,"

"Trouble? What trouble?" The bugs, the destruction of property, possible food shortages, tell me when to stop.

"Before I have to go, would you care to give me your latest report on the magic of friendship in person?"

"My... report?"

"Haven't you learned anything about friendship?"

"Actually, I have. I've learned that sometimes the solution to your problems can come from where you least expect it. It's a good idea to stop and listen to your friends' opinions and perspectives..." a loud cymbals crash in the background, "Even when they don't always seem to make sense."

"I'm so proud of you, Twilight Sparkle, and I'm very impressed with your friends as well. It sounds like you're all learning so much from each other,"

"Thank you, princess," Then the Princess got back on her carriage, and left. Well that was all a waste of time

"Hey, what happened to the princess?" Pinkie, oblivious to all that just happened

"Emergency in Fillydelphia."

"Some sort of infestation," added Rainbow.

"Oh no! Have they got parasprites too? Well, have tuba, will travel,"

"I think the princess can handle it," Twilight says. Does that mean she could have stopped all of this?

"So you knew what those critters were all along, huh Pinkie Pie?" asked Applejack

"Well, DUH! Why do you think I was so frantic to get my hooves on all these instruments? I tried to tell you,"

"We know, Pinkie Pie, and we're sorry we didn't listen," Twilight says.

The others give their apologies as well.

"You're a great friend, even if we don't always understand you,"

"Thanks guys, you're all great friends too, even when I don't understand me," said Pinkie

"You saved my reputation with Princess Celestia, and more importantly, you saved Ponyville," said Twilight, and then we look at Ponyville,"...Or not."

Pinkie plays a sad trombone, and then laughs at all this. "This was a really fun day, I hope I can play with Chromie again," then she just bounces off. Leaving some stunned ponies.

"Did she say…?"Asked Twilight.

"Yes…"Applejack said.

"Good for him, he is making new friends," said Fluttershy.