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The Quest For The Past

by The Hybrid Changeling

Chapter 6: Boast Busters

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"Come on Cloud!" Spike cheered. "You can do it!" We were in the library. Spike was helping me practice some new spells.

"Okay, let's do this." I aimed my horn at the broken bottle on the floor and poured magic into my horn, willing it into a spell. The broken pieces of glass slowly crept towards each other. Suddenly they flew towards each other, forming a bottle once more!

"Ha ha! You did it!" We brohoofed. "You finally learned a repairing spell!" I grinned.

"Thanks for the support Spike! Here, have a stache!" I cast a quick growing spell and gave him a glorious black mustache. Spike grinned.

"Thanks, Cloud!" He ran over to a mirror. "Hello, Rarity. What's that? Aw, it's nothin', just my awesome mustache!"

"What are you two doing down there?" Asked Twilight as she came downstairs. "It's five in the morning, why haven't you gone to bed yet?"

"Pinkie Pie gave us some of her new cupcakes to try."

"So?"

"They were experimental," I explained. "She was trying to make a cake with enough sugar to give a Pony loads of energy but without making them hyper. They went a little bit wrong and now we aren't gonna be able to sleep for the next couple of days."

"Well keep the noise down, you woke me up. Wait... Spike, why do you have a mustache?"

"Cloud gave it to me with a growing spell!" Answered Spike. "Isn't it awesome?!"

"You can't keep it."

"Why not?!"

"Because I'm your legal guardian and I say so."

"What?!"

"Say goodbye to the mustache Spike."

"No! Twilight! Wait!" Twilight cast some magic and his mustache was gone. "Aw..."

"What the heck, Twilight?" I asked. "Why can't he have a stache?"

"Because I said so."

"But- Oh! Okay. Don't worry, Twilight, your secret's safe with me!" I said slyfully, winking at her.

"What? What are you talking about?"

"I didn't realize you were that kind of mare! No wonder you don't want him to not have a stache. Realta knows what you would have done to him!"

"I don't get what you-" Suddenly, she realized what I was implying. Her cheeks reddened. "N-no! That's not why!"

"Don't worry, Twilight. We all have our secrets."

"I- Uh- I-I'm going back upstairs now. I'm going back to bed!"

"Okay, Twilight. Remember to lock your door so nopony interrupts your 'sleeping'."

"N-No! I'm not going to-! Argh! Just forget it! Goodbye!" She went back upstairs and I heard her door slam. Spike turned to me, confused.

"What were you talking about, Cloud?"

"You'll find out when you're older!"


Spike and I were walking through town. We didn't particularly need anything, we were just going around for the heck of it.

"I can't believe how much magic you have!" Exclaimed Spike. "Unicorns usually only have a little talent that matches their special talent."

"Well my cutie mark says that my talent is a... circle thing," I said as I looked at my butt. It looks like the circle thing that appeared below me when I was fighting Nightmare. Celestia claimed it was ancient magic, so does that mean my talent is using it or something? If it's that, then why can't I ever summon it back? "It's probably related to magic in some way, so my talent would be doing magic, which makes me being good with magic make sense. So it's probably that."

"I don't think there's another unicorn in all of Equestria with your kind of ability, Cloud!" I grinned.

"That'd be awesome, but there's probably somepony else with ludicrous magic. If there isn't, then being a backup defense thingy is gonna be a cakewalk."

"Gangway!" Yelled a young male voice, "Coming through!" Two young unicorns, one orange and one blue, ran towards us. They ploughed into Spike, carrying him along with them.

"Snips, Snails!" Spike shouted to them, "What's going on?" They stopped suddenly, sending Spike crashing into the ground.

"What?" Asked the orange one, "Haven't you heard? There's a new unicorn in town!"

"Yeah!" The blue one added, "They say that she's got more magical powers than any other unicorn ever!" It took a lot of effort to hold back my laughter. Well, looks like this weeks entertainment is here!

"No way, that honor goes to Cloud!"

"W-were is this unicorn that y-you claim to be s-so great and p-powerful?" I said, stuttering from holding back my laughter.

"She's in the town square!" Exclaimed the orange one, "Come on!"

"Yeah!" The blue one added, "Come on!" This is bucking hilarious! "Whooo!"

"Come on, Spike," I said, "I'm gonna bust a nut holding back all of this laughter!"


Spike and I arrived at the town square to find a portable stage surrounded by a crowd of ponies. We pushed our way to the front to stand next to our friends and Rainbitch. A voice started saying dramatic stuff to the crowd.

"Come one, come all! Come and witness the amazing magic, of the great and powerful; Trixie!" C-can't... Hold... Much... Longer... A unicorn teleported onto the stage, wearing a purple wizard hat and a matching cloak. That was just too much. I fell over laughing, not caring about the confused looks of the rest of the crowd, nor the glare from 'the great and powerful' Trixie. "Why are you laughing?! Have you gone mad realizing how pathetic you are compared to the great and powerful Trixie?!" That just made me laugh harder. "Stop laughing!" Tears were streaming down my face. "Oh! I get it! You're jealous of the great and powerful Trixie!" Finally, my laughing subsided.

"You tell yourself that." I managed to blurt out while gasping for breath. Damn, laughing is tiring...

"Watch in awe as the great and powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes!" A few small fireworks went off.

"My, my, my!" Rarity exclaimed, "What boasting! Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic does not make one better than the rest of us!"

"Especially when you've got me around being better than the rest of us!" Said Rainbitch.

"Go away before you hurt somepony with your dangerously low IQ." I said bluntly.

"Screw you, stick-head!"

"Please don't. I don't want an STD."

"Buck you, you son of a-!" I teleported her away before she could finish her sentence.

"Well, well, well," Said Trixie, "it seems we have some neighsayers in the audience. Who is so ignorant as to challenge the magical ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie? Do they not know that they're in the presence of the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria?"

"Just who does she think she is?" Asked Rarity.

"Yeah!" Spike shouted, "Since we all know that Cloud here is way more skilled than her!"

"You mean this pathetic excuse for a unicorn?" Asked the badly dressed show-off, "Trixie has magic strong enough to vanquish the dreaded ursa major!"

"Aw, that's cute," I mocked as the crowd gasped, "I beat the crap out of Nightmare Moon!"

"What? You expect me to just believe that nonsense? Hah! Where's your proof?"

"I have my five friends here along with Princess Luna herself as witnesses. Even Celestia saw my handiwork after I'd finished with her! If you want your evidence, you can ask either of the Princesses."

"Howd'ya like them apples?" Added Applejack.

"Fine!" Said Trixie, snottily. "Find a way to contact Princess Celestia and then I'll believe you!"

"Sure." I turned to Spike, "Spike, take a letter;

Dear Princess Celestia,

I need you to come down to Ponyville and tell an annoying unicorn that I did in fact stop Nightmare to see the look on her face when she realizes she's made an ass of herself claiming to be the most powerful unicorn while saying offensive things to everypony as she thinks she's above everypony else. It would be hilarious.

Your faithful coma patient;
Cloud Calculation.

Okay Spike, send it."

"Uh... Really?" He asked, "Don't you think Princess Celestia would be against doing something like that at somepony else's expense?"

"Nah, she'll love it!"

"Okay then..." He brothe a small stream of fire onto the letter, causing it to disappear. Shortly after, he burped up a reply from Celestia. He cleared his throat before reading it aloud:

"Dear Cloud Calculation,

Just give me ten minutes to finish some things and I'll be right there!

Yours sincerely,
Princess Celestia."

"Well you heard it folks!" I called to the crowd, "Celestia will be here in ten minutes!" This is a good day!


About ten minutes later, Celestia arrived in a golden Canterlot carriage. The audience bowed to her as she walked onstage. Trixie (and a lot of the audience) looked flabbergasted that I hadn't been lying.

"Cloud Calculation was the pony that defeated Nightmare Moon," Celestia announced to the audience. "This feat is surely greater than whatever Trixie Lulamoon has claimed to have done."

"But Trixie stopped an ursa major from destroying Hoofington!" Shouted either Snips or Snails. Celestia was quiet for a moment.

"Hoofington has never been attacked by and ursa major." The crowd gasped dramatically and started muttering among themselves. I felt Celestia send me a psychic message: Thanks for calling me down here, this is the most fun I've had all month! I sent her one back: I know right?! The only way this could be better is if she came back here one day demanding a magic duel or something!


Celestia left a little while afterwards and Trixie snuck out of Ponyville when nopony was paying attention to her, I didn't bother bringing this up as I had realized something amazing:

I had gone a week without needing a hospital appointment.

Author's Notes:

:trollestia:

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