It was the next day in Primotaur land. We were in the dining room at Nerdy's place eating breakfast. Twilight and I were munching on some good old toast while Nerdy had cereal.

"So I did a lot of thinking last night and had some ideas about how you could find Twilight's crown," said Nerdy, mouth full of HorseBalls™.

"What is it?" I asked.

"I might be able to alter a Geiger counter to pick up magic radiation. The crown should leave small traces on whoever touches it, right?"

"Yeah. It wouldn't last long just from being touched, a few days at most, but it would definitely be enough to detect with a concentrated sensor."

"If you used your Support Circle to increase your magic, I could keep testing until I got it right." Nerdy sighed. "Unfortunately, that would take hours with you needing to rest because something's using up your magic and we don't have enough time for it even if I skipped school."

"With traces of magic that small you would need to scan everypo-body individually," added Twilight. "Judging from the estimation I have about the number of students attending your school, it would take two days at most to find the thief."

"However we spin this, we don't have enough time to find the thief," I finished. Nerdy suddenly cried out. "What's wrong?!" He stood up.

"I-I-I've got it!" He exclaimed. "This is just like the police station scene in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!" What the buck?

"Just like what?" He ran out of the room without answering. What in Tartartus was he talking about? I stood up and followed as Twilight did the same. We entered the next room to see Nerdy digging through an old-looking box. "What are you doing?" He pulled something out of- Wait, is that-?!

"Yes!" He shouted before turning to us. "After we find the thief, we can go to your world and build this magic Geiger counter, then go back in time to yesterday and plant it here!" My mind figuratively exploded.

"Oh my bucking Realta, that's brilliant!" I yelled in a stupor of realisation. It suddenly wore down a lot when I remembered something. "Wait, but that only solves one problem: We still don't have an easy way to scan each student." Twilight gave me a confused look.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"Why would the students let us scan them?" Nerdy's grin faltered.

"Oh," he said, "that's a good-" He stopped talking and looked shocked for a second before grinning once more. "Yes! I have a way! Wait here!" He ran out of the room, quickly returning with a whiteboard and a marker. He started writing at the top of it.

Wow, his hoofwriting is nearly as bad as mine. Handwriting. Whatever.

"Canterlot High runs on a bullying system. A few years ago, there were a few bullies that had some cronies who would obey them. Teachers were way too forgiving to stop any of the bullies, so they never really let up. Luckily, most of them wouldn't get physical unless someone was determined to hang on to their money. Then Sunshit Shitter shitted all over the already shitty system. After that, things got much worse." He wrote more on the whiteboard.

"When Shitshit Shitty showed up, she took control over the three top bullies and made them so much worse; Gilda, a big, strong thug who would've normally make empty threats to get lunch money, started beating the shit out of anyone that looked at her funny," No kidding... "Lightning Dust, one of the top athletes who normally would've tried anything to cheat in any kind of sport and beat anyone that spoke against her, started blackmailing members of opposing sports teams to get them to sabotage themselves and of course beat anyone that disagreed with her even slightly, and finally Suri Polomare, a psychological bully who would've normally made people feel like shit to drop their performance in their classes so that she looks better, started going all out and driving people into depression."

"Damn," I replied, "that is pretty bad. So what's the plan?"

"All three of them have a load of followers from fear, respect or both. If you can beat all three of them at their own game, you can replace Shitface as the top dog. When you have the army up your sleevey," Twilight and I groaned, "we can search them individually and use them to get everyone else in the school to be tested." He wrote on the whiteboard one last time.

"Wait a minute," interjected Twilight, "isn't that cruel?"

"Twilight, it's ruin a few teenagers' day or let the world end," I argued. "I think it'll be okay in the long run." Twilight sighed.

"I guess you're right..."

"Great!" Exclaimed Nerdy. "So-" He glanced towards a clock on the wall next to us. "Oh shit! I'm late for school!" He ran through the house, heading for that front door. "Hurry up, you two!" I ran after him, presuming Twilight would follow.

It's certainly an interesting plan. It seems easy enough, too. It should mostly require fighting, which I'm still pretty good at even though I'm in this body. I wonder how/when this is gonna buck up?

Author's Notes:

Leaving the job of retrieving the Element of Harmony to the character who can't tough Elements of Harmony was such a good idea. Good job, Twilight.