“Alrighty Yang, we are done.”

“Was it really necessary to make it this big and elaborate, Applejack?” I looked down at the slick pit that we had dug out and lined over a couple of days of work near the Carne Den.

“Ah’ve seen ants climb out of bowls by walking over each other. Like Ah said before, anything built up, they could break or climb out of. You can’t very well climb on top of each other when the ground is this slick. Once this golem thing’s been beaten, Twilight can levitate them out.”

“If you say so. How are we going to get everypony in there anyways?”

“Ah. . . Don’t actually know. We didn’t figure that part out.” Applejack looked past me for a moment. “Hey, Twilight?”

“Yes, Applejack?” Twilight said as she walked up. “The pit looks good.”

“How are we going to get the ponies with the peytrals in there?”

“That. . . Is a very good question. Hmm.” Twilight put a forehoof to her chin in thought.

“What if you just levitate them in there?” I suggested.

“I could, yes, I could do that. I can get those who are fully under control. Yang, you go get ready to fight. Applejack, do what you can to get those who more recently got their peytrals into the pit. You should be able to just talk them into it. I’ll get Rainbow and Pinkie to help as well. As for me, I’m going to see if I can’t figure out anything else with the peytrals.”

“Got it.”

“Right” Applejack said before she and Twilight went their separate ways. As they left, I just stood there, enjoying the clear day and good temperatures, both specifically set just for the fight.

A synchronized set of hoofsteps hitting the ground pulled me out of my daydreaming and skygazing state. I looked around and saw a lot of glassy eyed ponies slowly advancing on me. I saw a few on the opposite side of the pit walk around it. There was only one avenue of escape for me: into the Carne Den.

I ran inside and went upstairs to my room, the synchronized hoofbeats loud and clear through the walls. I knew they ultimately weren’t an actual threat, but with the kind of coordination and control exerted over their motions, there was a possibility of them actually stopping me. I also didn’t want to hurt them either.

I frantically looked through the drawers in my desk for an important item. “Buckle, buckle, buckle, ah, there you are.” I picked up the belt buckle I’d gotten from Ita, opened it up, went to the combat outfit, selected it, and activated the outfit switch. Once it was done, I tossed the buckle onto my bed and felt more energized, which was actually a bit counterproductive with the fear from the advancing herd’s steps getting amplified as well. “Okay, gotta get back out.”

I caught a glimpse of the shed out back and I remembered Bumblebee was in there. I also remembered the few times I’d tried to ride her during some of my off days, often ending either toppled over when not moving, or flubbing a turn or stop and skidding along the ground. Either way, it wasn’t a pleasant experience.

The marching hooves pulled me out of my mind again and I made a decision on the spot. “I’m driving.” I opened the window, leapt out, landed right in front of the shed’s door, dashed inside, opened the large doors, and got on Bumblebee. Starting her up was as simple as pressing a slightly recessed button near the handlebars, and the engine quickly revved up. As the engine came alive, I too started feeling more alive. “Out of the way, Caution. It’s do or die time.”

I hit the gas, let the back tire spin in place for a couple seconds, then took off at high speed. The herd clearly had heard the bike, and while some of them simply stared at me, others began moving to cut me off from escaping. However, they weren’t fast enough, and I passed them with ease, already going faster than if I was on foot.

After going around the herd, I went out towards the center of town, still riding both Bumblebee and a bit of an adrenaline rush. Despite what had happened and what was happening, I was smiling. “This is great!” The happiness from finally riding Bumblebee successfully was kicking in as well, along with the fact that my aura was actually acting like a pair of goggles against the wind, which felt great going through my hair. “Oh this is the best!”

I was soon joined by a slightly concerned Rainbow Dash. “Yang, what’s going on?”

“Huh? Oh, right, serious time.” I pushed my happiness aside for a moment and slightly turned to face Rainbow. “We got outmaneuvered, and they’re walking around the pit. Also, I may have been distracted by the good weather. Can you keep them off me?”

“You’re doing a good job of that alre- ramp up ahead! Take it!”

“Ramp?” I turned my attention forward and saw a makeshift ramp, nothing more than a thick piece of plywood leaning on a pallet of large bricks, and realized I couldn’t swerve out of the way in time. With no other choice, I took the ramp.

For a few seconds, it felt like everything was in slow motion. For a few seconds, I felt almost like I was one with Bumblebee and all her moving parts. For a few seconds, I experienced THE TRANQUILITY. In an instant within those few seconds, something clicked, and all was right.

Shortly after landing, I made a hard turn and hit the brakes, coming to a stop that did not involve me falling off for once. I let Bumblebee idle, not worried about her running out of fuel in the slightest.

“So, how are you feeling?” Rainbow casually asked, hovering beside me. “I bet you’re feeling pretty good right now.”

“Oh yeah!” I was feeling very much alive. “That was fun!”

“You have got to get this bike into a game.”

“Mm, I’ll think about it.” I suddenly felt a slight tremor in the ground. “What was that?”

“What was what?”

I felt another tremor. “Get on the ground.”

Rainbow got on the ground just as another tremor hit. A few more came before more sounds were heard. Birds cawing as they flew away. Tree branches snapping and breaking. A heavy groan as a whole tree broke. The tremors, getting ever so slightly closer. “I’ll take a look from the air.”

While Rainbow was up in the sky, I kept looking around, trying to find out for myself which way the golem was coming from. Despite my best efforts, I couldn’t figure it out.

Fortunately, Rainbow did. “Ugly guy’s coming from the forest past Sweet Apple Acres. I’ll go find Twilight and Applejack and update them.”

“What about Pinkie?”

“We don’t know where she is. All I found in her room was Gummy with a party hat and note saying she was busy getting ready for something later today, so we don’t have her right now.”

“I’m sure we can do this without her. After all, I got Bumblebee from a scarier looking robot by myself in worse conditions. I’m sure I can break a golem like that easily enough.”

“Good luck, Yang.” Rainbow sped off, leaving me with Bumblebee.

“Sweet Apple Acres, huh?” I looked out in the direction of the farm. “I hope I don’t do too much damage there.” After taking a moment to load the normal explosive shells into the Ember Celica, I revved Bumblebee back up and took off, kicking up a cloud of dirt in the process.

I took my time getting there, driving at a slower, more casual pace. Along the way, I noticed how quiet Ponyville was, aside from Bumblebee’s engine. Nobody was out and nothing was moving. There weren’t even any animal noises in the area.

Partway to Sweet Apple Acres, I felt the tremors pick up in intensity, even through the bike. I stopped at a house, the last one before Sweet Apple Acres, and got off Bumblebee, keeping myself and the bike on the side facing away from the farm.

A cautious peek around the corner and to the orchard showed the blue eyed golem wandering through, its legs appearing to work just fine despite the apparent damage to them. Oddly enough, it was going out of its way to avoid the apple trees and other crops in the fields. I didn’t think about it for long as I started thinking of a plan of attack.

When it was clear that a good plan wasn’t going to appear, I settled for the next best one I had: just driving up to and punching the thing. Right after I got back on Bumblebee, Twilight appeared in front of me, looking very serious. “Yang, I have good news and bad news.” I tapped the throttle with a finger as I waited for the news, anxious to get out to the golem. “Okay, the good news is that Celestia and Luna are on their way here.”

“Teleporting?”

“Flying. They want to see the situation before they come in, and it gives them the height advantage too, though they could just teleport above, but it could pick up a magical signature from that. . . Anyways, the bad news is that I managed to find an armor program in the peytrals, though I only got a glimpse before it was hidden again.”

“For the wearer?”

“No, so it has to be for the golem instead. How though, I’m not sure.” There was a moment of silence, broken only by the heavy steps of the golem on the farm shaking the ground. “You’re ready to punch it, aren’t you?”

“Yeah.”

“Got a plan?”

“Nope.”

“Have you ever had a plan before a fight?”

I started to feel a bit impatient. “Will you just let me go already?”

“Alright, alright.” Twilight teleported away, and a moment later, I was driving out from beside the house and towards the apple orchard.

Catching the golem’s attention was pretty easy, considering the noise made by Bumblebee’s engine as I drove across the farmland. Driving around randomly for a bit confirmed that it was, indeed, coming after me for some reason. As I lead it away and towards a more open area, I tried to figure out why it would come after me.

After parking Bumblebee under a tree with a treehouse in it, I went on foot towards a clearing I’d seen, deserted of crops and trees. If I had to fight on the farm, it was going to be away from the important stuff.

I didn’t have to wait long for the golem to show up, despite how slow it was. One change I saw was in its eye color, now green instead of blue. It made me wonder what it could mean. The best explanation I could think of was some kind of battery charge indicator, though why that kind of information would be so easily visible was a question I couldn’t begin to figure out.

When it reached the edge of the clearing, I cleared my thoughts out, ran towards it, launched myself up and forward with an explosion boosted jump, and landed a solid punch on the golem’s face before landing on the ground. Some of the confidence I had vanished when I turned around and saw that the punch and explosion had dealt no damage at all. Then, it spoke in a deep, gravelly, mechanical voice. “Threat ‘Yang Xiao Long’ elevated from tier four to tier three. No other threats detected.” The eyes changed color from green to yellow.

The golem’s joints let out a burst of steam and it started moving faster. In a moment, it was on me, giant forehoof raised to stomp me into the ground. I put my arms up in defense just in time to block the hoof, though I was barely holding up against it, even using all my available strength to keep from buckling under the pressure.

“Gotta get out, gotta get out” I thought as I felt the ground under my feet start to give. If there was any kind of silver lining, it was the activation of my semblance, making it ever so slightly easier to hold up.

When my lower legs were halfway buried, I decided to strike. I threw a punch upwards to the hoof on me, and the resulting explosion seemed to stagger the golem. I threw another punch as the hoof came back down, and the golem moved away. While it readjusted itself, I got myself out of the holes my feet had made. “Definitely gonna have to wash these when I get home.”

“Changing tactics” the golem said as its yellow eyes flickered. “Engaging ranged options.” The golem’s chest split open into three sections, revealing a battery of missiles and three minigun barrels.

I barely had time to think “Oh crap” before I had to start running. I could hear the bullets whizzing just behind me and feel the shockwaves from the missiles, both of which pushed me to run faster. The bullets didn’t last long, but the missiles were homed in on and around me, kicking up plumes of dirt and knocking my aura down bit by bit.

During a brief break in the barrage, I saw the golem turning to face me. The missiles were reloading almost as quickly as they were firing, making me wonder just how much ammunition it had. One thing I was sure of was that staying in front of it was a bad idea, considering the three miniguns nestled in with the missiles. I’d seen videos of lesser guns shredding tough targets, and I did not want to test my aura against all that firepower.

“Where’s the backup when you need it?!” I kept running from the missiles, which was getting tougher as I found myself going over small craters and duvets, causing me to stumble on more than one occasion.

After a particularly bad stumble that I just barely managed to recover from, I finally came up with an idea. “Okay, straight isn’t good, but it can’t turn all that fast either. I can get closer that way.” I altered my path slightly, going inwards a bit, onto less exploded ground. The missiles were still on me, but I was glad to have smoother ground to run on.

My spiral inwards eventually brought me close enough to the golem that it stopped firing missiles, and I jumped up onto its back, landing between the jammed up wings. I quickly ran forward, made a small jump up, grabbed its left ear, and started punching the back of the golem’s head. I only got a few punches in before it reared up and started to fall backwards.

Before I could be crushed or buried, I scrambled around to the bottom of the head. As soon as impact was made, the golem was already moving to get back up. I leapt off and caught sight of the missiles and miniguns, still open and exposed. There was no hesitation as I fired a few explosive rounds off into there.

“Damage to ranged offense measures severe. Diagnosing.” While the golem was doing that, it also moved to stomp me again. I leapt out of the way of the hooves, taking care not to go under the golem lest it decided I would be a good cushion to lay down on. “Diagnosis: miniguns incapacitated. Missiles at 80% functionality. Raising threat ‘Yang Xiao Long’ to tier two. No other threats detected.”

I saw its eyes change from yellow to orange and it started firing missiles at me again, clearly considering its own safety below my elimination. With the missiles and stomping, I decided to leg it out of there, running straight for the tree with the clubhouse. “How many missiles does that thing have?”

After skidding sideways to a stop, I jumped onto Bumblebee, turned her back on, and kicked off just as the tree and the house it held got blown up, raining splinters, leaves, and bits of sap everywhere. Some of it got on me as well, but I didn’t give it much attention, focused as I was on simply outrunning the missiles.

After a couple minutes of driving around the area, and the addition of quite a few more missiles, I came up with an idea. I said a quick prayer of “Lady luck, don’t fail me now” before changing course for the golem. The missiles followed me as I zipped under the golem from the side, some exploding against the thing’s legs, the rest still following me.

I was just about to make another pass under the golem when something that looked like a giant spear made of pale moonlight pierced through its body and right into my path. In my panic at the sudden obstacle, I both turned sharply to the side and hit the brakes, sweeping a foreleg out from under the golem and causing it to fall in front of the missiles. The impact shook me off of Bumblebee as she slid across the ground.

“Apologies, Yang!” Luna called out as she and Celestia dove out of the sky and gracefully landed next to me. “I thought it would hit after you went under!”

The golem stood back up, the spear vanishing from its body. “Threats Celestia and Luna recognized. Elevating threat level to tier one.” The golem’s eyes turned from orange to a ferocious red, and a huge spherical shockwave blasted off of its body, sending the Princesses and me flying into a sturdy tree with enough force to cause a bunch of apples to fall on us.

“Everyone alright?” Celestia asked as she magicked the fallen fruit off of us and into a neat pile.

“Doing fine, but I’ve been better” I said with a groan as I got up.

“This is the hard part” Luna stated when she and Celestia were back on their hooves. I looked at the golem, just standing there with a reddish orange glow coming off the stump of a horn that it had. After a few seconds of it just standing there, I saw a bunch of things off in the distance flying towards us at incredible speed.

I quickly switched out the explosive shells for buckshot and got into a stance to fight the incoming peytrals. The peytrals, however, did not come towards us. Instead, they attached themselves to the golem, expanding to form armor over the whole thing. “Luna, how tough is the armor?” I warily asked, afraid I knew the answer already.

“Nigh indestructible.” I sighed at Luna’s answer. “Silver lining: it has no ranged options like this.”

“Rampage protocols initiated” was all the warning we had before the golem charged forward at us. We scattered in three different directions before it hit the apple tree, breaking it in two.

“Got a plan?!” I asked the sisters as I saw the golem charge at Celestia, who had a shield spell up.

“Focus on the right shoulder!” Luna called out.

While the golem was pounding away at Celestia’s shield, I circled around to the side and started firing at the shoulder. Luna was above me, launching magic bolts at the same spot I was aiming at.

When nothing happened, I let out a short growl of frustration and switched to the slugs, hoping they would be able to break through the armor. Long story short, they didn’t seem to do anything either.

“Luna!” Celestia called out after I stopped with the slugs and switched to the flechettes.

“What?” Luna called back, stopping her barrage.

“I need a minute with Yang!”

“Huh?” I spared a brief confused glance to Celestia before trying the flechettes. They probably didn’t even scratch the armor.

“Make it fast!” Luna demanded before making and launching another moonlight spear.

“Come with me for a moment.” Celestia didn’t give me a chance to object before she picked me up in her magic and dashed off with me, stopping behind a tree. “Okay-”

“Make it fast” I demanded before Celestia could start some kind of story.

“Story later then. I’m going to cast a spell to multiply the force of your next punch.”

“Just one punch? Wait, why not just pick him up and hold him still?”

“Anti-telekinesis enchantments. I checked. If we can break one point in the armor, we can strike through there. It will take a lot of force though.”

I was quickly getting behind the plan, even though I didn’t like how much of a gamble it seemed to be. There was one problem I quickly noticed, and held up my left gauntlet as I switched back to the explosive rounds. “Magic doesn’t work on these.”

“But it does work on you. Right or left arm?”

“Ohh, I see. Right arm.” I held up my right arm and soon felt Celestia’s magic working its way into place. It was kind of tingly. “Got a spot in mind?”

“Wherever.” Celestia picked me up again and tossed me towards the fight before following suit herself.

I turned around just in time to see myself heading for the golem’s face. “I’m gonna deck him in the schnoz.” Target chosen, I raised my fist and threw a full force punch at the golem’s muzzle. Time seemed to slow down a bit as I felt both the action of the Ember Celica firing and the force multiplication spell thingy going into effect through my arm.

As soon as I landed, I leapt back to get a look at the impact site. Celestia walked up next to me as I stood back up. Once the dust was clear, she defeatedly said “Well, that didn’t work.” The muzzle was intact and appeared to be undamaged.

“Try again?”

“No. I’m not going to risk breaking your arm with another multiplier.”

I quickly got what she was getting at. “Right then. Ideas?”

Just as Luna retreated from the fight to join Celestia and me, Twilight teleported in, facing us. “Good news, everypony who had a peytral is okay.”

“Third alicorn detected” the golem said.

“Yeah yeah, that’s great Twilight” I quickly said. “Can you help us though?”

Twilight looked back and saw the golem. “Can you give me a minute?”

“Thirty seconds.” I rushed past Twilight and went straight to attacking the golem’s armored forelegs. I was totally spent on brainpower and was doing the only thing I knew I could do: punch.

After a brief bout of punching, the golem retaliated. I got hit hard and was sent back into the trunk of a tree. After landing facedown in the ground, I looked up and saw the sisters flying around and firing off more spells, none of which seemed to do anything. Twilight was nowhere in sight either.

Just as I was running back towards the fight, Twilight appeared in front of me, causing me to trip over her and faceplant. “Yang, are you okay?”

“Just peachy, Twilight” I scowled as I got back up and looked at her. She was holding a peytral and Pinkie was with her. I could tell there was a plan.

“Anger detected” Pinkie warily said.

“Take a moment to rest, Yang” Twilight calmly said. “I have a plan.” She turned to the fighting sisters. “Celestia, Luna! I need you to regroup over here!” A moment later, the diarchs were with us. “Good. Now his attention will come over here. . .” Just as Twilight said it, the golem turned its attention towards us. The armor showed no signs of damage, making me wonder just how tough it was.

“Twilight, whatever you’re planning, do it now” I firmly said.

“Calm down, Yang.” Twilight stepped forward with the inactive peytral in her magic. “I have a plan.” She turned her attention to the golem. “Hey, golem!”

The golem, to my surprise, actually listened to Twilight. “State your request.”

“I want you to stop controlling everypony with these peytrals.”

“Request denied.”

“Am I going to have to put peytral 0007734 on somepony then?” On Twilight’s cue, Pinkie stepped forward, her face framed by the peytral.

The golem’s eyes flickered intensely. “Creating new threat level. Tier Zero created and recognized.” The red eyes turned pink and the golem barrelled forward towards us.

“Scatter!” Twilight’s shout was unnecessary, as we already were doing that. The golem was fixated on Pinkie, attacking it with a speed and ferocity I didn’t think was possible. “Luna, can the joints in the legs jam up from excessive speeds?”

“No, they can’t” Luna answered. “Was that your plan?”

“That was plan A. Time for plan B.” Twilight flew up with the peytral and watched the chase going on. “Pinkie, we’re doing the thing!”

“Righty-o!” Pinkie cheerfully responded. While she kept running around, Twilight lowered the peytral behind a tree so the golem couldn’t see it. Seconds later, Pinkie ran through it, and the peytral was on her.

The golem’s legs stopped working correctly, flailing about with no coordination at all. The neck and head, likewise, were also flailing about. The lines that made up its eyes were flashing all kinds of colors randomly.

I had to voice mine and the sisters’ confusion. “Twilight, what’s going on?”

Twilight went into speech mode. “The peytrals have mind reading capabilities, likely so the golem would know how to have the ponies under its control act naturally. Most of the time, that would work just fine, but Pinkie isn’t exactly normal.”

“So the golem is being forced by its design to try and understand Pinkie?”

“Exactly.”

“. . . That is brilliant, scary, and cruel.” I took a moment to just watch the flailing golem, its limbs moving to inequine positions at times. When a limb hit the ground, I felt the impact and saw the divot left in the dirt. “So, do we just wait it out?”

“It’s not going to run out of power anytime soon” Luna pointed out.

“With the speed the joints are working at, and the randomness of the flailing, it’s only a matter of time before-” Twilight was cut off by an ear splitting crack when the golem’s head swung against its back and the chin got hit by a rear hoof. The pose was very unnatural, and only lasted a second before it continued flailing about, sending off chunks of broken armor, a piece of which landed in front of us. “-that happens.”

“So the only thing that can hurt it is itself?” I asked.

“That would be the case.” Another crack interrupted Twilight, one foreleg swinging up and smashing into the middle of the back. “If there are finer mechanical parts inside, you could just break those and start disabling it.”

“Rebooting” the golem said before its eyes went white, movement ceased, and it fell onto its side, knocking off more armor pieces from its body.

Before I could do anything, Luna picked me up with her magic, and in a frenzied rush, brought me to one of the openings on the back. “Luna, what are you-” She put my right hand into a fist and slammed it into the hole, firing off an explosive round before letting go. I tried pulling my hand out, but it was jammed in place.

I put my left hand on the stuck gauntlet in an attempt to remove it, but instead of getting my right hand free, I wound up pulling on the cover of the Ember Celica, causing it to fire another round and give me pause after letting it go back into place. “That’s. . . Unexpected. What if. . .” I put my hand back on the gauntlet and pulled again, firing another round. A smile appeared on my face as I picked up the pace, launching explosion after explosion into the body.

In the middle of the barrage, the golem came back online, its eyes going from white to red as it stood up, causing me to stop my attack as I tried not to fall off. “Reboot successful. Completing severance processes of peytrals 0007734, 8675309.” Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the peytral on Pinkie crack apart before disintegrating into dust.

I turned my attention back to attacking and managed to squeeze off a couple shots before the golem reared up and started tipping backwards. “Please work.” I quickly braced both feet on the golem’s back and punched out to the left in an attempt to turn the angle of my fall so I wouldn’t get crushed.

The explosive punch didn’t do anything, but moments before I would have been stuck between the golem’s back and the ground, a wave of magic flowed over me, putting my feet on the ground and allowing me to hold the massive machine up. “What’s going on? Twilight?”

Luna answered instead of Twilight, their horns lit up. “You should be able to set the insides on fire now. Hurry!”

“Right, just set a stone thing on fire” I quipped before heeding Luna’s suggestion, retrieving and loading a band of the incendiary shells into the right gauntlet before firing a few rounds in with the new technique.

“Core temperature rising” the golem stated. I felt the temperature around my fist rising, along with what might have been grease or oil dripping onto my hand. A moment later, it felt like the fluid had caught fire. “Systems melting down.”

“Huh.” I quickly turned back to the ponies. “Little help please? My arm’s getting tired.”

“I’ve got it” Celestia calmly said before her magic covered me. The whole world started tilting sideways as she used me like a lever to ease the golem onto its side. Seconds after she and I let out a sigh of relief when it was done, something in the golem exploded with enough force to free me, along with pieces of the stone hide. Before I could get close enough to attack again, three magic bubbles, gold, silver, and lavender, formed around the golem. “You may want to step back, Yang. Our shields are powerful, but we haven’t had to do this for a long time, so-”

“Safety. Got it.” I quickly joined the ponies and quietly waited with them. “So, a meltdown.”

“I’m threading some of my magic through the hole to increase the intensity of the fire inside. Best case scenario, everything inside just melts. Worst case scenario, it blows up inside the shields.”

“So it’s good as dead at this point then.” My attention was briefly drawn to Pinkie holding a small ceremony for the pile of dust that was the peytral she had put on, causing a question to come to mind. “Twilight, what happened to everyone who was wearing a peytral?”

“They’re under a one hour sleep spell” Twilight quickly answered without looking away from the fallen golem. “All of them. Some of them might need some physical therapy though. I’m sure Rarity will, considering she was the first to wear one.”

“I will personally make sure the necessary funds and ponies are in place to help with recovery” Celestia said. “Was the mayor one of the victims?”

“Fortunately, no. She’ll be able to help with the paperwork side.”

“I think it’s about to explode” Luna interjected, drawing our attention back to the golem. True to her word, the body began showing more cracks just before it exploded. The barriers, fortunately, held up, leaving us only hearing the sound of the blast, which was an interesting experience. After the explosion, a flare shaped bit of magic, pointed southeast, phased up through the shields, then exploded. Moments later, I saw the corresponding flare of Celestia’s cutie mark detach from main circle and move a few inches away.

“So, was that four of eight?” I asked after looking at her mark a bit,

“Nine” Celestia answered.

“The prophecy I saw said ten” Luna added. “We can talk about that later. For now, we can rest, since this enforcer is no more.”

I gave a sigh of relief and let myself collapse onto the ground. “I am so hitting the spa first chance I get.”

“The spa sisters had peytrals” Twilight said. “They’re likely in the group that will need therapy as well.”

“. . .Well, that sucks.”

“Ooh, ooh, I have an idea!” Pinkie exclaimed as she bounced over. “Go to a Canterlot spa instead. It’ll be a fun trip! And you can get some exposition from the Princesses while you’re at it, too.”

I looked to Celestia and Luna inquisitively. After a moment of thinking, Luna answered. “I suppose we could do that. Twilight, you should come along too. Pinkie, I don’t think we could stop you if you wanted to join us, so you can come if you want.”

“Yay! I’ll meet you all wherever it is we’re meeting!” Before any discussion could take place on where to gather, Pinkie zipped off, replaced by a Pinkie shaped cloud of dust.

“Let’s just go to my place” I said, exhausted from the fight.

Author's Notes:

Let me tell you, it's not easy writing a fight against a glacier of an enemy who has no ranged options.

And yes, it did make a new threat level just for Pinkie Pie.