The Quest For The Past
Chapter 97: Magical Mystery Cure Part 3
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"But how will this help with fixing the spell?"
"It's how I earned it!"
"And therefore; this cannot go wrong!"
"Well... Okay..."
"...And that's why the Everfree was on fire," I/Twilight finished. Celestia was double facehoofing.
"...Are you bucking kidding me...?" She asked slowly. Twilight/Vesper, Vesper/I and I/Twilight were standing in front of Celestia's throne, having just explained why I/Twilight had thought it was a good idea for Twilight/Vesper to reenact how Vesper/I got her/my cutie mark. It turns out I/Twilight had been completely wrong about fixing the spell through re-earning marks.
"Nope. Hey, do you know a good way I can apologise to Luna? I really don't wanna have nightmares for the next year." Celestia slowly lowered her hooves to reveal an angry expression.
"All three of you are idiots." Twilight/Vesper gasped.
"B-But," she/she stuttered, "it wasn't my idea!" Celestia's brow furrowed further.
"And yet you went along with it. What were you even thinking? You clearly still have your cutie marks, how would trying to re-earn them do anything?" Celestia sighed. "I made a mistake in sending you that spell." Twilight's jaw dropped as I started to get more than a little angry. Why is she judging her so harshly?! Seriously, what the buck?!
"I-I just wanted to-!"
"When I have finished fixing the mess the three of you have made, I will take back the spell until you prove that you are ready. If that day ever comes." Twilight looked like she was on the verge of tears. Okay, she's one step away from me losing control... "I am ashamed of you, Twilight Sparkle." My teeth began to grind. "Now leave my throne room so I can deal with your mess." I snapped.
Suddenly, sound and images began flashing before me.
I was walking through the south sector of the rebel encampment, staring at the ground and grinding my teeth as my face bled.
"Why the buck do they keep doing this to me?!" I muttered angrily. "They already know I can't fight them off-!"
"That's the whole reason they attack you in the first place, kid," interrupted Striker. I looked up to see her standing a couple of meters in front of me. "It's called bullying and they're not gonna stop until you grow a pair and fight them off."
"You think I'm not trying?! I do fight them, they're just too strong!"
"If you keep losing, then you've obviously forgotten the most important lesson!" She leapt towards me. "DODGE!" She punched me in the face hard enough to knock me out.
I opened my eyes. Or I/Twili- Oh buck it, I can't be bothered anymore. I was lying on the ground with the other three standing over me.
"Yo, Dad," started Vesper, "y'alright?"
"I'm fine," I replied, standing up, "just had a big flashback." I brushed myself off. "How long was I out?"
"Only about a minute. You fell over and started arguing with yourself about bullies." I said what I heard? Interesting...
"I had visuals and base thoughts this time."
"What did they contain?" Asked Bitch-Horse. I frowned.
"None of your business." She looked surprised.
"What?"
"I said I'm not not telling you. Not until you apologise to Twilight for being such an enormous cu-" The throne room doors slammed open, cutting me off.
"BEHOLD, UNRELIABLE WORM!" Yelled Luna in the royal voice. She had the Alicorn amulet around her neck and was levitating six stone spheres all around her. Wait a minute, are they-?! "I, PRINCESS LUNA, THE GREATEST PRINCESS OF THEM ALL, HAS RESTORED THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!" The room went silent.
"Sister," Celestia slowly began, "what did you just say?"
"THE MORON HAS BEEN RENDERED WORTHLESS! I AM THE VICTOR!"
"Luna! Tell me what you have done!"
"I AM GREAT, AND YOU ALL SUCK!" In a second, Celestia appeared in front of Luna, her mane and tail ablaze (similar to what Vesper often does).
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Luna shrunk back a little.
"My self, sister, calm down! You seem to be greatly overreacting!"
"LUNA, YOU HAVE TEN BUCKING SECONDS TO TELL ME WHETHER OR NOT THE UNIVERSE IS ABOUT TO END!" Luna snorted.
"Of course it is not about to end!"
"WHAT?! DID?! YOU?! DO?!"
"Normally, we would not have enough power to travel through time ourselves! We could send another Pony backwards or forwards for a few minutes, but not ourselves!" She flew into the air dramatically. "But then we remembered the mysterious amulet of great power! We used it to go back before we destroyed the Elements of Harmony and replaced them with replicas! We then hid them inside a hollow tree, returned to the present, recovered the Elements, escaped the dramatic forest fire and flew to here!" The room went silent again.
"Wait, could we have just done that this entire time?" I asked.
"That is correct, Twilight!" Wait, what? Oh, right. She pointed a hoof towards Vesper. "The moron has been a moron for almost a year!"
"Hey!" Shouted Vesper. "Watch who ya call 'moron', ya glorified rock farmer!" Suddenly (again), the throne room doors slammed open a second time, revealing the girls. They ran towards us yelling various versions of hearing that Twilight was in trouble.
Suddenly (again again), the Elements of Harmony exploded, consuming us all in a rainbow-y blast.
I lost consciousness.
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