Garfield and the Equestria Girls 3: Friendship Games Parts 1 & 2
Chapter 23: Spike can Talk!
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After Sunset and Garfield hang out at the inactive portal at the school statue, they leave except for Roxy, Rosabella, Fluttershy and Arlene, and Sci-Twi and the purple dog were spying on them. They decided to meet with Fluttershy and Arlene once the coast is clear.
Fluttershy and Arlene then had time to pet Fluttershy's kind animals, but they then see Sci-Twi and the purple dog.
"Dang it! We've been spotted!", the purple dog then said.
"Oh. Hi, new dog.", Roxy and Rosabella said as they meet with the purple dog once again.
"Do you two want to give her a treat?", Fluttershy asks Sci-Twi and the dog, about her cat.
The dog then hesitates and says, "Well...sure."
"Guess I'm not the only one to smuggle her pet into school.", Sci-Twi said.
Arlene told her, "But the policy has changed since me and my friends came here."
"Yeah. For me, not just one.", Fluttershy continued, opening her backpack to reveal her pet bunny Angel, her pet bird and gerbil as well.
"Oh, wow. All I have is Spike and this new dog.", Sci-Twi said, pulling out her pet dog Spike.
"It really is uncanny. Does he talk?", the animal girl said, with Roxy and Rosabella agreeing.
The purple dog then said, "Um, not that we know of. But I can, and that pink cat of yours does too."
"Congratulations on winning, by the way, though it didn't seem like anyone on your team was very excited about it.", Fluttershy congratulated.
Sci-Twi answered, "No one at my school gets excited about anything they didn't do themselves."
"That sounds awful.", Arlene, Roxy and Rosabella said.
"Yeah. I get it.", the dog sighs, faking his behaviour.
Trying to think of something, Fluttershy, Roxy, Rosabella and Arlene grab the former's pet rabbit Angel.
"Here. Hold this.", Fluttershy said to Sci-Twi and the dog.
"Um...why?", asks the dog as Sci-Twi was nervous as she holds it.
Fluttershy answered, "Holding a bunny always makes me feel better."
"Yeah! Us too.", Roxy and Rosabella agree.
Sci-Twi then says, "Well, that's ridiculous, but...", as Angel starts cuddling her like a pet and it's owner. "It actually kind of works.", she then says, as she also let the purple dog cuddle her too.
"Wait. We're on the other team and you just lost!", the purple dog realized, before laughing abruptly, and clears his throat in shock, almost getting his cover blown again. "Anyway, why are you being so nice to us?"
"You two looked like you needed it.", Arlene and Fluttershy both said, as the latter starts glowing yellow, gaining her pony ears, wings, and hair extensive tail, floating in mid air. Arlene also floats with Fluttershy, wearing her Pink Lantern costume from the first installment, who also her costume glows pink.
"Whoa! Another one!", Sci-Twi and the purple dog both said, the latter saying the last two words. Again, the amulet and gauntlet get a fourth detection, the amulet opening and the gauntlet doing the same with the inventions popping out of the screen in 3D. It then starts to absorb Fluttershy's magic and Pink Lantern's powers!
"Oh, no!", Roxy and Rosabella said as they witness this.
Even worse, there were more inter-dimensional portals than the last time they absorbed Pinkie and Odie's energy!
"What's happening?", the purple dog asks, as he sees the inter-dimensional portals.
Just then, an animal from Equestria pops out from one of the portals, causing Spike to start chasing the critter while barking through a series of portals similar to the video game of the same name, but eventually the critter disappears through one of the portals, and one appeared which Spike got in the way of Fluttershy and Arlene's absorbing magic stream!
"SPIKE!", yelled the purple dog and Sci-Twi, as the latter closes the amulet and the purple dog's gauntlet stopped absorbing. Then, another stolen item from the purple dog, the Magic Wand, floats, implodes and creates a yellow jewel, lowering to the third ring finger in one of the four slots in the finger section of the gauntlet.
"New dog! What did you do?!", Roxy and Rosabella exclaimed.
"I didn't do anything!", the purple dog lied, as she turns to Sci-Twi and Spike.
Sci-Twi then cared for her dog and said, "Spike, are you okay?"
"Um, I think so.", said Spike, unexpectedly. The purple dog then clears his throat and whispers to Sci-Twi's ear, telling her at the fact that her pet dog Spike NOW talks.
Seconds later, both Sci-Twi and Spike scream, the former saying, "Spike can talk too!", before letting go of her pet with Spike and the purple dog following.
"Twilight! Wait!", the two dogs, the purple dog and Spike, said.
Fluttershy then sighs in a bit of exhaustion, saying, "Bye."
"That was weird. There's actually something strange with that new dog!", Roxy figured out.
Sci-Twi and the purple dog then enter the school, as they ran from Spike, at the fact the other dog can talk too. "Twilight! New dog, come on! Wait for me!", Spike said. Trying to run faster, Sci-Twi and the purple dog reach a dead end in one of the corners of the hallway, cornered by Spike. "Why did you two run away like that?", the other dog asks his owner and the purple dog, who are trying to go around leaning against the lockers.
Sci-Twi stops freaking out and she says, "Oh, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the glowing girls or the hole in space or my dog that now talks!"
"Yeah. But it has to do with my gauntlet as well as the amulet, the inter-dimensional portals, to be corrected and I can't believe Spike now talks, but I, Garfield and his pathetic, I- I mean, athletic allies.", the purple dog corrected.
"Yeah, weird, right?", Spike agreed with the two.
Sci-Twi and the purple dog pause and the former asks her dog, "Are you okay? How do you feel? What happened? Where did you go?", before Spike licks Sci-Twi and the purple dog's nose.
"Bleurgh!", the purple dog says in disgust, as Sci-Twi and the purple dog clean their noses.
"Hey, one question at a time. This is pretty new to me too.", Spike said, before Sci-Twi and the purple dog apologized. "All I know is I chased that pointy rabbit through the glowy thing and then I was somewhere else. The next thing I knew, I was back in that nice girl's arms and I could talk. I don't really understand why I couldn't before. I mean, it's so easy."
"Maybe because you weren't affected by the magic before.", the purple dog gave his theory.
A familiar voice calls Twilight's name. It was Cinch.
"Quick! Hide in here!", the purple dog said, as he pushes him into a locker and keeping his cool with Sci-Twi.
"Who are you talking to?", Cinch asks Sci-Twi as she approaches her and the purple dog.
"Um...myself. It's a nervous habit. I was with the new dog that has a immunity to allergies. Were you looking for us?", Sci-Twi answered, with the purple dog nodding while panting.
Cinch said to Sci-Twi, Indeed I was. Quite a coincidence that the CHS students and the visitors moving on to the next event are the same nice people who were so interested in you. Don't you think?"
"We're not sure."
"Perhaps you two should get to know them after all."
"But we thought you didn't want us to."
"Let's just say I'm covering my bases.", said the principal. "Who knows? Perhaps they will reveal to you the secret to Canterlot High's newfound success."
The purple dog and Sci-Twi didn't like the sound of that. The latter then says, "We don't know. Spying feels kind of wrong.", the dog smiling at the principal, who glares questioningly and seriously.
"Well, it's your decision, Twilight. It's not as if your application hangs in the balance. On second thought...yes, it does.", Cinch said as she leaves.
The purple dog then growls and Sci-Twi was also saddened. Spike then gets out of the locker and said, "Man. She's awful. What are you two going to do?"
The two sigh and Sci-Twi said, "I don't know, Spike. I don't know.", as she slumps down, comforted by the two dogs.
The purple dog then says in his mind,
"Maybe I should get more of this power to complete the gauntlet in order to find out what happens. Later..."