My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 13: Toby and Sophia Get Schooled

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Today was not starting off the way young ten-year-old Toby Morrison had planned. When he woke up this morning he and Sophia planned on helping the Apple family with their apple bucking, get a nice cupcake from the Cake's at Sugercube Corner and have a nice long afternoon nap.

Instead he and Sophia were carrying two buckets each, slung across their shoulders, which were so weighty that they were close to dropping to their knees. They were also balancing on two giant rubber balls, all on one foot each. Sweat dripped from Toby's face whilst Twilight and Spike watched on. Toby looked he was about to lose his balance but Sophia has no problem balancing on her ball.

"Twi, when you came to my door today you said you had something 'awesome' planned for me," Toby spoke whilst gritting his teeth "This… is NOT… awesome!"

"Oh, don't such a whiner," Twilight Sparkle told him "This will help you control your balance and hopefully help you better concentrate your magic, so you'll be able to access the next level of your 'growing spell'."

"Next level?" Toby inquired.

"Yeah, Twilight found out in one of her books that the growing spell you use for your arms has multiple levels," Spike replied.

"That's right, you achieved the second level when you grew to the same height as your doppelganger when he grew to the size of a giant," Twilight Sparkle explained "Now you need to further concentrate your magic in order to get to level three,"

"But… don't know what happens if I use my powers for a longer period of time?" Toby questioned.

"Of course!" Twilight Sparkle responded "Your magic will begin to harm your body both inside and outside, not to mention most of your energy will be drained causing you to be very, very tired,"

"Exactly!" Toby stated "Why do you think I take a nap every now and then, it's not because I'm as lazy as Rainbow Dash that's for certain,"

"I heard that!"

Everypony turned around and saw Rainbow Dash sitting in on top of a small and comfortable looking cloud with her front legs folded and her eyes narrowed.

Toby looked a bit nervous "Uh… did I mention where I'm from… 'lazy' is a term of endearment?" he asked.

"Yeah, nice try," Rainbow Dash said sarcastically "What are you doing anyways?"

"Twilight's helping me and Sophia 'concentrate' our magic," Toby replied.

"Huh?" The Pegasus asked.

"It's a concentrating exercise Rainbow," Twilight Sparkle explained "All Toby and Sophia have to do is stay perfectly still on those balls for the next hour whilst carrying those buckets of water,"

Rainbow Dash flew around Toby for a bit to get a closer look, which made Toby a little dizzy and wobbly.

"So… you're not gonna move for the next hour?" The rainbow maned pony inquired. Toby shook his head in response, and with that, the pegasus got an idea. She then began to use her wings to tickle every ticklish spot on Toby's body.

"Coochie, coochie, coo," she teased. Sweat began to pour and pour from Toby's face as he struggled to keep himself from laughing or moving. He eventually begins to lose balance on the ball but eventually regained it.

"Rainbow! Knock it off!" Twilight Sparkled told her friend in an annoyed tone.

"Relax Twilight, I'm just having a little fun," Rainbow Dash stated "Where's the harm?"

Just then a large shadow swooped over them and let out a prehistoric-like roar as it flew towards the town.

"That," Sophia gestured to that 'harm' in the distance.

Toby sighed relieved "Thank goodness for that… for once, gotta go!"

And with that, Sophia flew and Toby zoomed off towards the town, the buckets they was previously carrying fell the ground and landed on the heads of Twilight and Rainbow, effectively making them both wet. Spike fell on the ground laughing while the two ponies scowled, annoyed.

"Sorry!" Toby and Sophia called out.

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Toby ran and ran through the forest and even over some of the creatures that dwelled there while Sophia, in her Sibyl form, flew on her hoverboard flower over the trees, until they finally got out of the dense forest and was able to get a clear view of the flying creature.

It was a tall, large, prehistoric-emu like creature with a long, sharp toothed beak and claws as well as four red eyes.

"Whoa! Big aren't cha?" Toby remarked "Oh well, the bigger the are…"

Toby super leaped high into the high till he landed on the back of the flying creature. It cawed and cawed angrily as it tried to shake Toby off.

"Not gonna happen!" Toby told the giant bird as he grabbed a handful of its feathers with both hands and pulled them to the right, causing the bird to swerve away from the town unwillingly.

"Yeah! Ride 'em bird brain!" Toby cried "Yee-haw!"

"Woo-hoo!" Sophia cheered.

Toby continued to pull it's feathers to the left and then to the right constantly as he tried to keep it from hurting anypony around. This continued till he sees something up ahead that puts a bit of a smile on his face, although the emu didn't notice due to the fact that it's head was facing Toby and snapping at him, trying to scare him off.

"Sorry, Tweety, but…" Toby started to say as he stood up "This is where I get off,"

Toby calmly hopped off the giant bird and landed back on the ground with a loud thud. The giant emu looked confused as to why he left and saw him wave at it with a calm smile. Before it can register it, the giant emu flew beak first into the rocky mountain wall and slid right down.

Toby whistled to himself "Whoo, that was a good line," he said to himself "Funny, usually I don't think of those kind of quips until later,"

Toby shrugged and began to whistle a happy tune that sounded very much like the 'Oompa Loompa song' while making his and Sophia's way back towards town. Unknown to their, Toby's little 'thud' had just awoken something, something very, very bad. It opened one of its red eyes and screeched.

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Toby and Sophia continued to walk towards town when all of a sudden they heard something approaching him, but they couldn't quite make out what it was or where it was coming from exactly.

"Whose there?" Sophia called out, "Hello?"

He looked at and looked around for the source of the strange sound still suddenly a loud but voice was heard.

"Come on guys, our cutie marks ain't gonna find themselves!" yelled the voice.

"Huh?" Toby wondered.

A voice that sounded similar to Applejack's was heard

"You got right, Scootaloo! Come on Sweetie Belle!"

A young and cute sounding voice spoke up also "Ok! Coming!"

"Wait… that Southern voice sounds a lot like…" Toby started, but before he could finish a little orange coated Pegasus filly with a dark pink mane, grayish-purple eyes and no cutie mark riding a little motorized scooter came riding straight towards him. They both screamed in panic, but before either of them could do anything they had crashed into each other.

When the dust cleared Toby and Sophia were lying flat on their backs, when they stood up, Toby had black skid marks on his shirt and face which looked a bit dazed while Sophia's hair was a bit messy and she was also dazed. When they finally regained their senses, they noticed the orange filly, along with two other filly's nearby. One with a bow in her mane and the other with a coat as white as Rarity's along with mane that was colored a grayish-rose and a grayish-purple. She had sap green eyes, a horn but also no cutie mark. Annoyed, Toby got up and walked over to them. Sophia also got up and walked over to three fillies.

"What's the big idea?" Toby demanded, "Can't you see we're walking here?"

He and Sophia looked down and saw that they were all laying on the ground, just as dazed as he was. Toby knelt down to the trio and checked to see if they were hurt.

"Hey, are you guys ok?" Sophia asked concerned.

The filly with the bow in her mane, who he recognized as Applebloom got up first and rubbed her head.

"Uh… I think so," she said.

"Ooh! My head hurts…" Sweetie Belle groans.

Scootaloo was the last to get up off the ground and glared at Toby "Ugh...watch where you're!...You're..." she looked gob smacked when she fully looked at Toby. The others look at him also and were just as shocked.

"Um… Hello?" Toby spoke with confusion.

"You're really tall…" Sweetie Belle breathed.

"Yes, yes we are," Toby nodded slowly.

Scootaloo quickly snapped out of it and looked back up him, her eyes gleaming with amazement "WOW! So you're the human things everypony's been talking about! The ones who are always saving the town and stuff! You look way cooler than I thought!"

"Thanks… I think," Toby said, unsure of what she said was an insult or a compliment.

"And you are?" Sophia asked.

"Name's Scootaloo, and I'm the president of the Rainbow Dash Fan Club!" Scootaloo said proudly.

Toby's face fell "Of course she has a fan club…" he said dryly, "Why wouldn't she?"

Sophia looked at the white one next to Applebloom "Wait… your Rarity's sister, aren't you? Twilight told me about you,"

Sweetie Belle nodded, "Uh-huh! I'm Sweetie Belle! It's very nice to meet you sir,"

Sophia shook her hoof with a smile, "Nice to meet you too, I'm Sophia Lawrence,"

The ten-year-old boy then looked at Apple Bloom who was smiling a large smile at him.

"And I believe we've already met, haven't we?" Toby asked with a smirk.

"Sure have!" Apple Bloom stated "You're the stranger who saved my life from that big ogre feller,"

"Yeah… good times, dangerous, but good times," Toby mused. "So… what's this about 'Cutie Marks'? Is it nickname of your boyfriend 'Mark' or something?"

"EW!" the fillies exclaimed in unison.

"No, silly. A cutie mark is what ponies earn when find our special talent!" Apple Bloom explained.

"That's… strange," Toby stated "Although it does explain a few things about the girls and what they do…"

"You know our sisters!?" Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle exclaimed excitedly.

"You know Rainbow Dash!? Scootaloo added just as excited.

Toby nodded "Yeah, their our best friends, don't exactly have a name for our group though... I assume you guys do?"

The little girls nodded and screamed at the top of their little lungs saying "WE'RE THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS! YAY!"

Their 'little' cheer made Toby and Sophia hold their throbbing ears with pained looks on their faces.

"Oh, our EARS!" they exclaimed.

"Sorry…" Apple Bloom said apologetically, then it hit her, "Hey! Maybe we could get our cutie marks in yelling!"

"We already tried that, remember?" Scootaloo reminded her.

Applebloom's head lowered "Oh…"

Toby thought for a minute "Not sure… I guess Sophia and I are good at fighting, fixing things, etc. I guess we're what you a call a… jack-of-all-trades AKA master of none,"

"What's that mean?" Scootaloo questioned.

"It means Toby and I are good a bunch of stuff but great in any particular one," Sophia explained "Go figure. Anyways, I gotta get going, I need a nap after going through Twi's little training session and fighting that giant bird… don't ask by the way!"

"Twilight's training you?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Yeah, she's like our own magic tutor." Toby confirmed. "Course she can sometimes be a real slave driver…"

"Aren't we all big ponies?" Scootaloo inquired folding her front hooves.

"Eh, don't worry about it, Twi and the others are adults, that's how they communicate." Toby told them. "Let this be lesson to you girls; never grow up.

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Later that day, Toby and Sophia had just laid themselves against the truck of a large oak tree and put their hands behind their heads as they laid in a relaxing position. Toby sighs while a gentle breeze blows locks of hair back and forth as well as carry several petals through the air. SOphia smiled a peacefully smile.

"Ah… another I love about this world; it is way more peaceful then Brooklyn," Toby muttered to himself. The thought of old home as well as his father pried their way into his mind, making him somewhat depressed, "Dad…"

Sophia was also depressed, "Mom... guys..."

As they continued to feel homesick and depressed they heard giggling nearby as well as the sound of wheels rolling by.

"What's that?" Sophia wondered out loud.

"My guess: trouble," Toby answered.

The two of them got up and ran off in the direction of the sounds they were hearing.

When they finally got to the source of the sounds, they found, much to their shock and bewilderment, the Cutie Mark Crusaders all dressed up in cadet-like outfits and helmets and inside a real and very large cannon.

Sophia and Toby walked over to them, shock was still all over their faces.

"Um, I don't know… what this is…but I know it's a mistake," Toby told them.

"Oh lighten up, if we pull this off we'll get our cutie marks for sure!" Scootaloo stated "And if it doesn't go as plan but we still survive, we'll still get some kind of cutie mark, it's called logic, Toby. Look it up,"

Toby shook his head, "Nope, that's called desperation. Look that up,"

"Come on Mister Toby and Miss Sophia, it's perfectly safe!" Apple Bloom assured him.

"Yeah… I think," Sweetie Belle said, a little unsure and scared at the same time.

"Uh-huh," Toby said unconvinced, "Well just climb out of there and let me take a look inside, just to make sure, ok?"

"Fine," The little girls said in unison before climbing out of the cannon. Toby jumped up, grabbed on to the nozzle of the cannon and stuck his head in before climbing inside.

"Now let's see… how much air pressure are you guys using anyways?" Toby asked from inside the cannon.

Apple Bloom shrugged, "Beats me,"

Scootaloo groaned, bored "Just hurry up, like it or not we're gonna fire ourselves out of a cannon and we're gonna do it today!"

Scootaloo then accidentally leaned back onto a button near the bottom of the cannon. Her pupils shrunk when she realized what she did.

"I just hit the 'launch' button, didn't I?" she asked, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle nodded slowly with nervous looks on their faces.

"Wait… launch WHAT?" Toby exclaimed.

"Uh-oh," Sophia remarked nervously.

The long cannon fired and Toby was sent flying at supersonic speed into the air. He screamed as he flew all the way around the planet. The ten-year-old soon wound up back where he started and skidded to a stop near Sophia and the CMC. A metal plate followed by some tea cups with straws zoomed into his hands as well.

"Hey, I was flying over Baltimare, and it was tea time," Toby said, "So I brought you guys some,"

"Thank you," Apple Bloom said thankfully.

"Yes, thanks a lot!" Sweetie Belle added. Both she and Applebloom began slipping from the glasses of tea. Even Sophia joined them.

"Pass," Scootaloo said.

"Well, anyways I advice you follow the air pressure on that thing if you're really gonna fire yourselves out of it," Toby told them, "But I wouldn't recommend it,"

Toby then coughed out a bunch of feathers.

"You ok?" Sweetie Belle questioned.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just ran into a flock of geese while I was flying," Toby replied "Slowed me down a bit and I think I got some of their feather in my lungs,"

Toby coughed out more feathers.

"So what are we suppose to do now?" Apple Bloom wondered depressed

"I don't know…" Scootaloo muttered, then she was struck with inspiration "Hey! I got an idea!"

"Does it involve me getting flown in space this time?" Toby questioned with an annoyed tone, "Because if so I'll pass,"

"No. I was thinking we should bring Toby and Sophia with us to school to show off to Miss Cheerilee and the rest of the class!" Scootaloo stated. "Then they can tell us all about this different world they're from!"

"Yeah!" Apple Boom and Sweetie Belle exclaimed in agreement and excitement.

"That's a great idea," Sophia agreed.

"No! No 'yeah'. We're no show-and-tell project!" Toby protested.

"Please?" The Cutie Mark Crusaders begged, each giving him puppy eyed stare. Toby struggled hard to try and say 'no' but seemed unable to due to their cute little stares.

"Come on, Toby. How can you say 'no' to those faces?" Sophia asked him.

"Oh, alright!" he said exasperated.

"Yay!" The little girls cheered while Sophia clapped her hands.

Toby waved his finger sarcastically "Yay…"

"Come on, we'll show you where the schoolhouse is!" Apple Bloom told him.

"Great, lead the way," Toby said with no emotion, while the girls ran off ahead of him "Unbelievable… this is one thing I thought I was safe from in this world, going to boring old school… oh well, might as well get this over with…"

Toby started to follow the girls close behind "Man, where's a giant monster when you need one?"

As Toby continued to follow him, something with a long and harry leg watched him closely from the bushes, like a Lion does before it takes down a baby gazelle. It growled and disappeared into the shadows.

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While the three fillies giggled as they ran down the path towards their Toby walked slowly behind them with a somewhat unhappy look on his face. Apple Bloom noticed this.

"Hey, is something wrong Toe?" Apple Bloom questioned. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo also turn to him as well, curious as to what he was thinking.

Toby sighed "It's nothing, it's just… haven't really been to school in weeks and I've have been trying to avoid going to anyplace that remotely resembles a school here," he explained "Frankly, I was hoping this place didn't have a school and everypony was home schooled,"

"Home schooled?" Sweetie Belle asked confused.

"It's when you learn all the school stuff at home and your parents teach it to you," Toby explained.

"So you don't have to go to school?" Scootaloo inquired excitedly.

"Yeah, because your home is the school," Sophia stated.

"Man, I wish I was home schooled," Scootaloo said.

"Yeah, but it's only for kids who well… are either very attached to their parents/vice versa or they… don't play well with others," Toby explained to her, "Kind of like my cousins on my Mom's side, the Pittman's, of course… there's thirty of them so it's just going to a regular school. Of course of the Prom was pretty creepy though…"

Before anypony could say anything else, Apple Bloom say the school up ahead.

"Look, there it is!" Applebloom cried.

Toby and Sophia looked to where she had indicated and saw a building with walls that were painted a deep pink hue with a brick colored roof, with white designs carefully crafted on the walls. There were three sets of windows with eight panels on each side of the building, and two sets of windows in the front on each side of the door with four were the top halves of light pink hearts painted above each window, and at the top of the building was a bell like that found at the top of chapel. In the front of the building was a sign with a book as the centerpiece with two young ponies just above it.

Toby smiled as he could see what appeared to be an area to play outside. As they got closer Toby look a deep breath "You can do this Toe… it's just school… you and Sophia are only there to talk and ask questions…" he said quietly to himself.

The fillies smile when they see their school teacher, Ms. Cheerilee standing at the front entrance of the school greeting the young fillies and colts.

"Hi, Ms. Cheerilee!" They said happily.

Ms. Cheerilee had a deep dark pink tint to her fur, shamrock-like green eyes, a pale pink to very light pink colored mane and tail, and on her flank she had three daisies. "Well, hello girls, how are you doing on this fine morning?" she asked cheerfully, she then noticed Toby and Sophia, "And who might these be?"

"These are Toby and Sophia," Apple Bloom said "They're humans, you know the ones everypony's been talking about,"

"Ah, yes, I have heard about you two," Cheerilee said "Well, welcome to my school Toby Morrison and Sophia Lawrence."

"Thanks, it's nice to meet you," Toby smiled as he and Sophia shook her hoof.

"So, what brings the 'Two Heroes of Ponyville' here?" Cheerilee asked.

"Oh, the girls wanted to show us off to their classmates and tell a little bit about where we're from and stuff," Sophia replied. "If that's ok, anyways,"

"Well, I see no reason why not," Cheerilee said "Come on in,"

Cheerilee lead Toby, Sophia, and the CMC inside the school house. Unknown to them, the creature that was awoken in the Everfree Forest was watching them.

As Toby walked into the schoolhouse into the classroom he looked around in wonder. There were nine small wooden desks with three in each row with a heart carved out on the front and both sides of them, there were bookshelves on either side of the room, and a globe sat on one shelf. The windows in the back had blinds of green. Around the top of the walls was a sky blue painted pony and silver horseshoe design that laid against a dark green canvas that went all the way around the room. He also saw several young fillies and colts seated in their desks giving him stares and whispering to each other.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders all took their seats as well while Toby stood near Cheerilee in front of the light greenish chalkboard as she faced the class.

"Good morning, my little ponies," Cheerilee told the class.

"Good morning, Miss Cheerilee," The class all said in unison.

"Now class, today we have two special guests joining us," Cheerilee said "Some of you may already know him but I'd like you all to welcome the visitors from the other world and the protectors of our town: Toby Morrison and Sophia Lawrence."

Toby and Sophia step forward, the former looking a bit uncomfortable due to seeing all the wide eyed looks on the young ponies faces.

"Uh… hi?" Toby waved.

"Hello." Sophia waves

"Hi, Toby," The class said once again in unison.

"Anyways… it's nice to meet you all, now the reason I decided to come today is because your very own Cutie Mark Crusaders…" Toby started, the CMC smiled proudly "Wanted me to tell you all a little bit about the world that I'm from, anypony want to ask first?"

A pair of hooves raised in the air, asking the human for questions, Sophia pointed at a filly wearing glasses, "Yes?".

The filly wearing glasses put her hoof down "Uh… this other world your from, what's it like there?" she asked.

Toby smiled a small smile, "Almost the same as this one pretty much." he stated "Name's for things are a little bit different, and the places aren't the same, not to mention we can't control the elements of our world as well as you guys but still… the personalities of the townspeople around here remind me a lot of people I once knew back home,"

A blue unicorn colt raised his hoof, Toby chose him "Are all humans as nice as you?"

Sophia shrugged, "Some are I guess. There are plenty of good people on Earth but there's also a lot of bad people too. But hey, there's a darkness inside of all us, so you know," she said wistfully.

Another filly raised her hoof in the air "What exactly is the history of your world?"

Toby looked a bit surprised by the question, thought for a moment and was then struck with an idea "Yes, we do have a history and it's a long one, but allow me to explain to all in short, education and entertaining way," he said, the human turned to Cheerilee "If that's ok with you,"

Cheerilee nodded "Why go ahead,"

Toby and Sophia gave her a nod then their hands start to glow with a cyan blue aura and green aura, respectively, as they snapped their fingers. Several instruments then floated up from out of a chest and appear around them.

"Good thing Twi taught us that instrument spell," Toby said to himself quietly,

He and Sophia turned to the class "And now fillies and gentlecolts, allow me to educate you with the history of my world with a little song called 'The History of Everything,"

Toby snapped his fingers again and the floating instruments began to play a catchy tune and Toby and Sophia began to sing he held up large cards with pictures of the various topics he was talking about. It was called 'The History of Everything'.

And with the end of the song the instruments stopped playing and Toby and Sophia bowed before the class.

Cheerilee's class, even herself didn't speak a word, just thinking about everything that Toby and Sophia had said had surprised and intrigued them all to the core. Cheerilee looked greatly impressed with Toby, who looked at the stunned class with an amused grin.

He chuckled "Boy, you should see the looks on your faces," Toby remarked.

Sophia waved his hand in front of them "Hello, anypony in there?"

Toby snapped his fingers to snap them out their trances, and when they did the Cutie Mark Crusaders were the first to start clapping their hooves together, followed by the rest of the class.

Toby and Sophia blushed and bowed a little, accepting their applause "Thank you, thank you, you're all too kind," said Toby.

Cheerilee watched her little ponies applauding the two humans, she couldn't help joining along as well by stamping her hooves rapidly on the floor "Thank you very much for that wonderful performance, Toby and Sophia,"

"It's our pleasure," Sophia nodded, "So, anypony have any questions?"

Pretty soon everypony in the class had their hooves raised and were trying to get Toby's attention so he could answer their question and satisfy their curiosity. There were most questions like 'What were Neanderthals?', 'Who is Einstein?' and 'Where is Pangaea?' and Toby and Sophia did their best to answer those questions as best as they could. As they did so, the strange creature that followed them watched from the windows, glaring it's red eyes.

But then at the corner of their eyes, Sophia and Toby noticed something: two fillies looking bored out of their minds and not even paying any attention to them or even raising their hooves which confused Toby and SOphia a bit.

The first filly's coat was a light pink, with a mane and tail a moderate violet with white streaks, sky blue eyes, and she wore a two toned violet colored tiara on her head. On her flank she had the symbol of a tiara. She was the schoolhouse bully known as Diamond Tiara.

The other one had a gray coat, with a pale gray mane and tail with white streaks, and light violet eyes. She wore big rimmed light blue glasses, a pearl necklace around her neck, and on her flank she had a symbol of a silver spoon with a little pink heart on the handle. She was Diamond Tiara's best friend Silver Spoon.

Toby also noticed Diamond Tiara giving him and Sophia a disapproving look and frowned.

Later that day, during Lunch time, Toby had just exited the school house. Seeing the young fillies and colts playing together, laughing together and talking together made him smile a bit. The CMC then approached him excitedly.

"Man, that was an awesome song, Toby and Sophia!" Scootaloo exclaimed "Your world sounds awesome!"

Toby nodded thankfully, "Thank you,"

"Toby?" Sweetie Belle asked, she looked a bit scared "Do you really think what you described in your story will really happen? Like… is will the universe really collapse?"

The other fillies look at him expectedly and worried, Toby quickly thought of the best way to answer them.

"Well… most likely, but not for a long time," Toby assured them "So long in fact, that if it does happen, we'll all be dead hundreds of years, not a comforting thought, yes, but there it is but I know that after the collapse, a new universe will be formed, "

"Well that's good to know… I think," Apple Bloom said slowly.

Just then they heard voices talking behind them.

"Ha! Pretty lame song, huh Silver Spoon?"

"Totally! A total snooze fest is what I'd call it,"

Toby, Sophia, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders turned around and saw Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon talking to each other and giving them snobbish looks.

Toby pointed at them, "Who are they?" he asked.

"Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon," Apple Bloom responded unhappily.

"They're a bunch of bullies who always pick on us because we don't have our cutie marks yet," Scootaloo said frustrated as he folded her forearms.

"We try to avoid 'em," Sweetie Belle said.

"Why?" Sophia asked, "Avoiding them doesn't help, not one bit,"

"We know, but we're not looking to pick a fight with anypony," Apple Bloom told him

"Yeah, maybe you guys aren't but I am," Toby stated before turning around to go confront the two fillies.

"Toby, wait a minute!" Apple Bloom protested.

Toby stopped in his tracks, but the look on his face clearly said that he wasn't gonna stay there for long.

"Don't give them the satisfaction, ok?" Apple Bloom said, "They're just a bunch of bullies,"

Toby cracked his knuckles "Well what if I want the satisfaction?" he questioned "Besides... bullies need to be dealt with,"

"Your… not gonna hurt them… are you?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Only if they give me a reason to," Toby told her before making his way to the two bullies, as he did so he whispered something to himself "Oh, I hope they give me a reason too…"

Toby continued to go and confront Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Meanwhile as he walked further and further away from Sophia and the CMC, a pair of red and glowing eyes were seen inside on the bushes behind them. It emitted a low growl.

Toby continued to stomp toward the fillies Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who were still talking until he showed up.

"Hey," he said in a non-friendly tone.

They turn to him uninterested "Oh look, it's one of the humans," Diamond Tiara remarked.

"What do you want?" Silver Spoon asked.

"I wanted to have a word with you two," Toby told them.

Diamond Tiara raised a brow "About what?"

"What was it with you two looking so bored through Sophia and my presentation?" Toby asked "Did we say something uninteresting?"

"Oh it wasn't just something, Mister Morrison, it was everything," Diamond Tiara stated.

"What?" Toby asked.

"Yeah, all that talk about Science and Math just proves that your nothing but a boring little nerd," Silver Spoon added.

"And you're a couple of little filly bullies who pick on pretty everypony without one of your precious marks," Toby countered.

"Oh don't talk your one of us, cause you're not!" Diamond Tiara told him "No matter how hard you wish it you'll never be a part of this world,"

"Yeah, to everypony in town… you and your blondie friend are just freaks," Diamond Tiara "Sure, they may need you right now, what with all the monsters attacking and everything, but sooner or later… their gonna cast you two out, carrot top, although, Miss Lawrence looks ravishing in that dress of hers so I'm thinking of her joining us rather than be with you and those stupid no-cutie-marks,"

That last insult struck an angry cord in Toby as he held his rapidly shaking fist up "What was that? You brats?" he growled, he gripped Diamond Tiara's head "Say it again… once more… I'll send you flying,"

He looked at them closely with an angry eye "You hear me? Your little bodies will go straight out into space!" he warned them.

Diamond Tiara waved a hoof in front of him "Uh-uh-uh, I reconsider using a violent method to deal with us," she told him.

Toby scoffed "You think I'm gonna listen to you?"

"Go ahead and hit us if you want," Silver Spoon dared him "It's not like we care what Miss Cheerilee does to you,"

Toby then realized they were right and noticed Miss Cheerilee talking to two other ponies nearby, she couldn't see what he was doing now but if he did anything to them she would.

"We hear you've been trying to regain the town's trust in you after your double attacked, if everypony hears that you hurt two innocent fillies, who knows what they'll do?" Diamond Tiara smirked evilly.

Toby released them from his grip and frowned "You two are evil little girls,"

"Thank you," The two fillies smiled proudly.

Toby was then struck by inspiration "And… you are both about to find yourselves in a very sticky situation, " he told them.

They looked confused as Toby started to loom over them.

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Meanwhile, The Cutie Mark Crusaders and Sophia were waiting patiently for Toby to return and were getting a little bit worried.

"Oh, I sure hope Toby knows what he's doing y'all," Apple Bloom stated.

"I just hope he doesn't hurt them too badly," Sweetie Belle added.

"What are you talking about?" Scootaloo asked "So he roughs them up a little, it's not like they don't have it coming!"

"Yeah, but remember what almost happened with my cousin Babs?" Apple Bloom reminded them "If you try to seek revenge on a bully, then you become the bully,"

Scootaloo sighed "Yeah… I guess you're right,"

"We'd better go find him and make sure he doesn't do anything too bad to them," Sweetie Belle said.

"You know, I tolerate offensive words everyday, but hearing them say 'stupid' and 'blank flanks' on you is really mean and insulting." Sophia replied.

They began to proceed ahead, when suddenly they heard the growling of the beast from the Everfree forest.

"Did… you hear that?" Scootaloo asked a bit nervous.

Applebloom and Scootaloo nodded "Uh-huh" they said.

The trio stood frozen in their tracks as the beast slowly but surely began to approach them, drooling dripping out of its clawed mouth.

At the same time, back in the school house, Toby was laying on his back in a relaxing position and chewing gum before turning his head slightly.

"Ok, you two, say it," Toby said "Go on, say it,"

Below him, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon had been placed on the underside of one of the desks, suspended their due to the large amount of gum stuck to their coats.

"Fine!" Diamond Tiara exclaimed annoyed.

It took a little while before both the young fillies muttered "We have big mouths,"

Toby put his hand to his ear "I'm sorry, what was that?"

"We have big mouths!" The two fillies screamed.

"That's it," The red head said satisfied. Toby then started to chuckle to himself.

"This isn't funny!" Silver Spoon proclaimed.

"No, you're right," Toby stated before taking the gum he was chewing out of his mouth "But this is,"

Toby leans down and sticks his piece of gum to Diamond Tiara's muzzle, much to her disgust.

Toby continued to chuckle till he heard screams outside.

"What-the-what?" he asked as he sat up. "Gotta go!"

Toby hopped off the desk and started to run out of the schoolhouse.

"Hey! What about us!?" Diamond Tiara demanded.

Toby stopped and turned to them "Uh… trust me, you'll be safer there. Sorry!"

He sprinted out of the school, much to their frustration.

It didn't take long for Toby and Sophia to emerge from the schoolhouse, he turned and saw the beast from the Everfree Forest looming over the CMC.

It resembled a giant four-legged spider with a body of a silverfish, four pincers with one claw on each and a silver colored exoskeleton, the lower half of its legs and back of its head was covered with light brown hair. It's eyes are red and have black slits. It screeched at the terrified Crusaders.

"Holy Guacamole, that's a big spider!" Toby proclaimed.

"Forget admiring it! Stop it!" Scootaloo demanded in an annoyed and panicked tone.

"On it!" Toby stated.

"Okay!" Sophia said.

They ran forward, jumped up and somersaulted straight for the giant spider. But the spider creature seemed ready for him and somehow coated itself in a red energy like web. Sophia managed to dodge it by flying upward but by the time Toby struck it, he received a jolt of intense energy that shocked him before sending him flying. He landed face first in the ground.

"Toby!" The three fillies scream.

The giant spider leapt up and landed near Toby before looming over and screeching at him.

"Clobber it, Toe!" Scootaloo told him.

Toby groaned "Easier said than done, Scoots,"

He got up and managed to block the spider's giant leg from stabbing him and Sophia. He began using his arms to continuously block the giant spider's leg attacks but was soon struck upside the head and flew straight into a wooden wagon, breaking it and knocking it over.

"NO!" The CMC cried.

The spider then looked towards them and spat out a webbing like substance that tied them all together in a ball.

"Ew! Spider spit!" Scootaloo grimaced.

"Actually, I think it's webbing," Apple Bloom told her.

"Oh, like it really matters!" Scootaloo exclaimed annoyed.

"Well, actually…" Sweetie Belle started to say before the giant, four-legged tarantula jumped and landed near them before picking them up with its fangs. They all screamed as the giant spider leapt off with them.

A little while after Toby and Sophia had rested recovered from his battle with the giant spider, they, along with Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity, were running over the plains near the forest looking for the spider along with the girls.

"Now are you sure as sugar this is the direction that big old spider took off in?" Applejack questioned Toby.

"That's what Miss Cheerilee said," Sophia nodded.

"Alright, then let's stop standing and start looking," Rainbow Dash declared.

"You know I still feel kind of responsible for this…" Toby said glumly.

"Oh come now, Tobias, this was not your fault," Rarity assured him.

"Yes, it is!" Toby insisted "This only happened because I was too busy acting like a bully, if I hadn't let those two snobs get to me I would have been able to protect those three…"

"Aw, don't beat yourself up, Toe," Applejack told him "It could have happened to any of us,"

"Yeah, even I'm not perfect," Rainbow Dash stated, everypony gave her a weird look, "Yeah, I said it, don't judge me!"

"Thanks you guys," Toby said "But I can't get rid of this guilt till I find those girls,"

"I don't think that'll be too big a problem," Rainbow Dash said, staring ahead at something.

Everypony looked in the direction Rainbow was looking at and saw torn up wagons, patches of grass pulled out of the ground and two trees near the forest cut slightly and each knocked over onto the tree next to it.

"Well, that's a easy trail to follow!" Applejack remarked.

Toby narrowed his eyes "There's no such thing as 'easy',"

"Why what are you implying, Tobias?" Rarity asked.

"It did that on purpose," Toby replied "Just like that giant lizard did when it took Fluttershy,"

"So does it want?" Rainbow Dash wondered.

"It wants us," Toby and Sophia said firmly and simultaneously.

Later on, the four of them were entering the forest together and following the path of destruction left by the giant spider.

"Ok, is everypony clear on the plan?" Toby asked his friends.

"Yeah, but it's a really stupid plan if you ask me!" Rainbow Dash stated with a frown.

"It's simple, Sophia and I'll keep the giant spider occupied while you three rescue your sisters," Toby explained.

"But… but we can't just let you two fight that monstrosity by yourselves!" Rarity proclaimed.

"Yeah, and not to mention, it kicked your butts last time," Applejack reminded him.

"We know, but it's the only way," Toby told them "And hey, if possible, maybe you can back me up after you save them, either way that giant bug is going down!"

As soon as he said that the giant spider dropped down behind him, drooling and growling hungrily. Toby's pupils shrank.

"It's right behind me, isn't it?" he asked the girls, who all nodded in response. Toby slowly turned around and the spider creature roared in his face. Blowing his hair back.

"Oh, how rude…" Sophia remarked.

Nearby, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were all hanging in a web ball attached to a large and sticky spider web.

"Applejack! Rarity! Rainbow Dash! Toby! HELP!" The three fillies cried.

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity cried.

"I'm coming, Apple Bloom!" Applejack told her little sister in a determined tone as she and Rarity ran for them.

"Hang on Scoots! I'm on my way!" Rainbow Dash told her surrogate sister before flying straight towards her.

But before any of them could get close enough, the giant spider blocked their path and screeched.

"Hey!"

The spider turned and was instantly tackled by Toby and blasted by Sophia. They struggled to keep the creature still and prevent it from attacking them or the others.

"Go! Get the girls!" Toby told the three ponies. They nodded and proceed to rescue the CMC.

Toby and Sophia held onto the spider's two long legs hard and pushed them back as far as they could, but they released their grip when the spider spat webbing in Toby's face and flicked Sophia a few paces back. They all quickly stood up and faced each other.

Toby enlarged his fists and charged towards the giant spider while Sophia created a yellow beam of pure energy and shot it at the spider. But the creature created a red energy web in front of it and blocked Toby's and Sophia's attacks. Toby continued to pound away at the force field, but it would not budge. Sophia tried to fire spheres of flowers and leaves but it didn't work either.

Eventually the giant spider knocked them back with one of its forelegs, sending them flying into a tree which they bounced off of and was knocked into another by the spider before landing the ground.

When the girls finally freed their sisters from the webbing they noticed Toby getting the snot kicked out him and were immediately worried.

"TOBY! SOPHIA!" They cried.

Toby groaned as he got to his feet again "Don't worry ladies, we can handle this!"

"Mister Toby! Miss Sophia! You gotta run!" Apple Bloom cried.

"Yeah, it's too strong for you!" Sweetie Belle added.

"And if you fight it any longer it's gonna kill you!" Scootaloo pointed out.

"You three hush up," Toby told them while panting "If you three… would just have… a little faith in me… I promise… I won't lose!"

The giant spider tried to stab him lowering one of its pointed legs down on him but Sophia managed to grab it's leg and toss it into a tree, the third time in a row, before Toby jumped up and gave it an elbow slam. The cutie mark crusaders were impressed.

"Ooh!" The trio said in awe.

"Ya see girls, that's why we never upset Toby and/or Sophia," Applejack told them. Rainbow and Rarity nodded in agreement.

The giant spider shook it's head rapidly as it got up and tried to recover from Toby's and Sophia attacks. It roars and screeches madly, so much so that foam start to form at the edge of its clawed mouth.

"Uh… I think it's brain went… bye-bye," Rainbow Dash said the others while making a circular motion with her hoof beside her head.

"Ok…good as time as any to give this new trick a try," Toby muttered to himself "I'm not exactly sure what the side effects will be… but this thing isn't leaving me any choice!"

"Don't worry, Toby. My magic can give you strength." Sophia said as she blew rose-colored pollen to Toby. He can feel it invigorate his whole body.

Toby then closed his eyes and stood perfectly still and calm like.

"What is he doing?" Scootaloo proclaimed "Why is he standing there?"

"Uh… maybe he's contemplating his place in the universe?" Rarity suggested nervously.

"Yeah… I don't think so," Sweetie Belle shook her head, the others also shook their heads in agreement.

"I know what he's going to do." Sophia said.

"Om…" Toby said in a meditative like voice. As he stood there his body began to glow with a bright blue aura, then soon enough he began to float upwards as he began to create a translucent blue astral form in the shape of his body. It grew and grew till it reached sixty-feet while Toby floated right in the center of it. The girls all looked up in awe.

"Wow… so this is the next level of that growing spell Twilight told me about," Applejack remarked.

"And I thought he was tall before!" Sweetie Belle remarked.

"But it looks like he's still asleep," Scootaloo pointed out "His eyes aren't even open,"

Just then Toby's eyes then snap open, glowing an eerily whitish-blue.

"Uh… never mind," Scootaloo said quickly.

The spider roared and charged straight for Toby.

"Oh no! The spider's headed straight for him!" Apple Bloom exclaimed.

Rainbow Dash did not look worried one bit "Oh… it really shouldn't do that," she mused.

The giant spider leaped toward Toby and prepared to sink it's teeth into him. But Toby motioned his astral form to backhand the spider and send it crashing into the ground. Toby then raised his astral form's foot and began to mercilessly stomp on the spider till he made a very large crater in the ground.

When the dust cleared the giant spider was lying in the center of the crater, deader than a possum on the freeway. The astral form then began to shrink until Toby was a few feet off the ground. Applejack and Rainbow Dash quickly ran over and caught him before he hit the ground.

"We gotcha partner!" Applejack told the ten-year old.

"Come on Toe, wake up," Rainbow Dash said.

Toby groaned as he finally came to "Ugh… so did I win?"

The CMC quickly rushed over to him "Win? Toe, you triumphed!" Scootaloo proclaimed.

"Totally! You pounded that thing into the dust!" Apple Bloom added.

"We knew you could do it!" Sweetie Belle told him.

"Thank you three," Toby said gratefully "Sorry I got you three into this, you were right, I shouldn't have let those two get to me, next time I'll be sure to remember when and when not to pick a fight with something,"

"No problem Mister Toby and you too, Miss Sophia!" Applebloom smiled, then she got an idea "Hey! Maybe we be your sidekicks next time!"

"Yeah!" Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle said in agreement.

"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS SIDEKICKS!" The CMC proclaimed loudly, once again hurting everypony's ears, especially Toby's.

"Ok, if you three yell like that one more time my ears are gonna start bleeding," Toby told them.

"Sorry, Mister Toby, sir!" The three fillies saluted, which confused Toby a bit.

Rainbow Dash patted him on the back "Congratulations kid, you and Sophia got your own fan club,"

"Once again… yay," Toby said waving his finger sarcastically.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders then jumped onto Toby and began to hold on to his arms and head while giggling playfully. Toby laughed as well as he began to play with them. The others watched happily and amused. Then something hit Rarity.

"Wait… Tobias?" she asked him.

Toby stopped "Yes?"

"Are you sure you haven't forgotten anything?" Rarity asked "Like releasing two certain fillies from whatever little trap you sprung on them?"

Toby then thought back to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who were still stuck to the bottom of the desk and struggling to get free.

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"Hello? Is anypony there?" Diamond Tiara asked out loud.

"Hello?" Silver Spoon called out.

"HELP!" They cried.

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Toby then turned back to the three mares, who were looking at him expectantly.

Toby paused before speaking "Nope. Haven't forgotten a thing," he stated quickly before resuming playing with the fillies while the others had smiles on their faces.

"You know, your relationship with the Cutie Mark Crusaders is really similar to that of my relationship to Holly." Sophia said to Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash.

"You thought so?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah." Sophia replied, rubbing her arms.

Toby then began to feel all the energy in his body dissipate before falling to the ground on his back. The CMC stood right on him.

"Toby?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Are you ok?" Sweetie Belle added.

"What gives?" Scootaloo questioned.

"I think it would the side effects of my astral projection…" Toby said tiredly.

"Side effects?" The Cutie Mark Crusaders said in unison.

"Yeah… it drained all the energy from my body," Toby stated "In other words… I'm pooped,"

Toby quickly fell asleep, the fillies look at each other, shrug and began to feel the same.

Apple Bloom yawned before falling over "Me too,"

Sweetie Belle did the same "Me three,"

And finally Scootaloo "Me four,"

All four of them laid in the grass snoring away while the others exchange glances and began laughing.

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Author's Note: The song 'The History of Everything' does not belong to me, it belongs to the ones who sang it AKA The Barenaked Ladies. Also, the pollen Sophia blew onto Toby is her new spell: 'Healing Pollen.'