My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Of Ponies and Humans

Chapter 12

Reunion

47 Days after Zero Hour

After receiving the letter from Cadence; Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Halo, Zilver, Shadow, Derpy, Requiem, Aura, Ash, Jax, Bahamut, Spike, and Sora left for the Gryphon Kingdom to find the Reversal Spell for the human-turned Ponies. What they don’t know is that this journey is going to be a lot tougher then it sounds.

They arrived in the kingdom with no trouble but are informed of a curfew in place due to the impending threat of a slave trade going on. They are to meet with the king tonight and find out where the reversal spell to this predicament is.

The sun rose on the new day, illuminating the beach house and everyone sleeping within. Most woke up when the sun’s rays hit them but some kept on sawing logs, specifically Jax and Zilver.

“Who knew Zil snored?” A.J. yawned, rubbing her eyes.

“I knew.” Halo groaned, eyes blood red. He grabbed a pillow and tossed it at Zil. It hit him right in the head.

He snorted as he woke up. “all hands abandon ship.” he snorted. He fell back down and fell asleep again.

“oy gevalt.” Halo groaned.

“Don’t worry. I know how to wake them up.” Aura said. “Req.” Req nodded and pulled out a small portable stereo out of her bag. He placed it between Zil and Jax and turned it up to full volume. “you might wanna cover your ears.” he told everyone else. Everyone but Req, Sora, Ash, and Bahamut did. They heard this so many times, they got used to it. Jax, on the other hand…

Aura softly pressed the play button.

Heavy Metal music blared out. Jax and Zil shot up from their beds and into the ceiling. They fell back down, along with a lot of dust and fragments.

Up in the master bedroom, a couple of figures stirred under the covers.

“AURA!!!” Jax yelled with a bad case of bed head. Rarity and Dash tried to hold back laughing. Aura just playfully shrugged. Jax got angry and her face got red. She started to whistle like a tea kettle. Aura playfully waved and bolted for the deck. Jax blazed after him, leaving a trail of fire.

“this happen every time?” Whooves asked.

“more then you can count.” Bahamut said, watching them jump over the railing and onto the beach.

“FIREBALL!” Jax yelled. A fireball came from the air and hit the ground behind the fleeing Aura. “Fireball! fireballfireballfireball!” Jax rapidly repeated.

Needless to say, everyone started to get nervous. “We better go break it up before she kills him.” Bahamut said. He unfurled his wings and flew on out. Everyone soon followed.

The commotion outside woke up the newlywed couple in the master bedroom.

“I think they’re here.” Shining Armor groaned, head still on the pillow.

“don’t they know it’s too early for a party?” Cadence groaned as she got up and rubbed her eyes.

“blame Pinkie. She’s the party nut.”

“FIREBALL!!!” Jax yelled. The following explosion sent everything in the room up a few feet. Aura exclaimed in pain a few seconds later.

“and those must be the humans Twi wrote about.” Armor groaned.

“well, gotta give ‘em credit for being energetic this early in the morning.” Cadence joked with a smile.

Aura laid in the sand, brunt to a crisp and twitching his leg. A enraged Jax stood over him, steam coming off of her and snarling.

Everyone stood a safe distance from the crazy chick. “everyone back it. I think it’s her time of the month.” Sora whispered as she slowly backed away. Pinkie, Bahamut, and Zilver followed suit.

Someone landed behind them but no one took notice. “well, guess humans are as destructive as the stories say.” a familiar gruff voice said.

Dash went wide-eyed. “that voice…” she and the rest of the Mane6 quickly turned around to see a very familiar griffin behind them. “Gilda?”

the humans and the OC’s turned around to see the meany-head. “who’s the senorita?” Shadow asked Pinkie.

“a real big meany-head. Made Fluttershy cry.” Pinkie explained.

“and that’s a unspoken rule among us; you never make her cry.” Rarity whispered. Halo and Bahamut looked at each other and just shrugged.

Gilda turned her attention to Dash, not recognizing her. “Do I know you?”

“uh, duh. It’s me. Rainbow Dash.”

Gilda flew on over and looked her over, weirding Dash out. “well what do ya know? It is Rainbow Dash. Guess the story that Princess Cadence was telling is true.”

“what do you want, Gilda?” Dash sighed.

“Well, I heard you and your friends were coming to town. Just didn’t except a whole lot of ya.” Gilda said, staring at Requiem and her crew.

“We’re non-natives, genius.”

“un-huh. Well, whatever. Just came by to see if that story was true. Guess it is.” Gilda unfurled her wings. She took a quick look back. “Catch you on the flipside, Dash.” she said. She flapped once and took off into the air.

“Anybody else’s lesbian detector go off?” Jax joked.

“no, but my bitch-dar did.” Requiem angrily added.

Jax rolled her eyes. “come on. Let’s move this before it starts to stink.” she said as she walked over to Aura’s burnt body.

“hehe. No such dice from me.” Dash chuckled as she unfurled her wings. “I got some catching up to do with the ol’ gang.” she gave a slight 2-finger salute. “later.” Dash took to the air and headed for the city.

“could’ve said no instead of making up some lame excuse.” Jax muttered. She grabbed Aura’s arms and dragged him back to the house.

Dash barrel-rolled out of a cloud and over the city gates.

“hehe. Perfect way to infiltrate.” she snickered.

In contrast to yesterdays midnight tour of the city with the streets completely empty, there were filled to the brim with Ponies and Gryphon’s today, going about their business as if they never heard of the slave trade.

“wonder if they still hang out in the old hideaway.” Dash muttered as she flew on.

“Torrent.” Jax passingly cast. A ball of water appeared Aura and burst, splashing down on him and washing away Jax’s earlier fireball burns. Aura coughed as he spit up water.

“oh, Jax.” Twi exclaimed as the water spread all over the floor. “we’re gonna have to clean this up.”

A tired Cadence and Armor came down from above, though no one noticed… until Armor slipped and fell down the stairs, get their attention. “Ow! Ow! Ow! Head! Elbow! Shoulder!” Armor landed face-first in the water.

Twilight winced at the crash landing. “sorry, BBBFF.”

Req raised a eyebrow in confusion. “BBBFF?” she asked A.J.

“big brother best friend forever.”

“ah.”

Armor pulled his head up and spit out water like a fountain. “great. Here for 10 minutes and already you turn the place into a water park.”

“that would be her fault.” Twi said, pointing to Jax. “like I said. Sorry.”

“Hey there, Twili. there’s something different abut you. You change your hair?” Twi groaned as she rolled her eyes at the bad joke.

“who are they?” Cadence asked, most of her body wrapped in a robe.

“These would be the humans that arrived on Equestria a month ago.” Whooves explained. “I take it you already heard the stories?”

Armor stood up and shook himself dry. “that we have. They already left quite a reputation with that giant monster and the Changelings.”

“well… it’s not like we planned it.” Bahamut muttered. “just sorta happened.”

A very loud and a very long growl came from Halo’s stomach. He embarrassingly blushed as he nervously chuckled. “Think we can talk about this over breakfast?”

Dash looked all over town, hoping to find her old hideout. Considering it still existed. “come on. Where is it?” she whined. She bit her arm in worry. After a couple of hours of searching, she finally found it; a belltower that’s the biggest one in it’s block. “Yes!” she happily exclaimed as she flew down to it.

Dash opened up a small niche in the tower’s clock face. She slipped in, softly closed it, and jumped on down. She looked around her out hideout and smiled. It was exactly the way she remembered it, right down to the last detail.

She took in a deep breath and smiled. “oh, how I missed this place. The musty fumes, the light filtering in…” she tripped over something and fell over. She looked back to see a can on the ground. “Zatch’s littering.”

She got up and dusted herself off just be jumped on from above and pinned on the ground. She quickly rolled over to have a clawed foot come down on her neck, pinning her.

“Who in the 7 hells are you?” the Gryphon asked. “some kind of deformed thief?”

Dash recognized him instantly. “Zatch? Zatch, it’s me. Rainbow Dash.”

Zatch snorted in laughter as a couple of other flyers; a fellow Pegasus and some bat-pony thing, landed behind him. “Yeah right.” the female bat-pony said. “if you are Dash, what’s the secret password?”

“really?” a disbelieving Dash asked. “After all these years, you’re still doing the password thing?” Zatch tightened his grip, causing Dash to choke. “All right. All right. Just let me go.”

Zatch loosened his grip and helped ‘Dash’ up. The other 2 fliers looked at each other and chuckled. No way this intruder could know the password.

Dash tried to remember what the password. “un… oh, man. What was it?” she muttered. “em…. OH!” she cleared her throat. “no matter which way the wind will blow, no matter how far the distance, we Daring-Flyers will always stick together though thick and thin.”

The 3 looked at each other for a moment, which gave Dash time to worry. “Uh-oh. Did I recite it wrong?” she thought.

She didn’t have to worry long as the overly-excited Pegasus suddenly hugged her. “Oh, DASH! It is you! It’s been too long!” he happily exclaimed.

“un… nice to see you too, Lightning. Now, you mind letting me go?” CRACK! “I think you’re breaking my ribs.”

“Oh. Sorry.” Lightning quickly put her down.

“long time no see, Dash.” the bat-pony said.

“nice to see you too, Gothic. Gosh, it must’ve been… what, 16 years since we last saw each other.”

“yeah. The group just hasn’t been the same since you moved to Equestria.” Lightning said.

“yeah. I don’t remember Gilda being such a grump.” Dash muttered. everyone nodded in agreement.

“So, Dash, what’s with the new look?” Lightning asked as he perched himself on a makeshift couch. “you trying out a new species look?”

“oh. This. Well… it’s a long story. And pretty complicated. Think my friends can explain it better.” she said as she unfurled her wings.

“Friends?’ Zatch asked.

“yeah. I think they’ll be interested meeting you.” Dash took one flap and instantly took to the air. “follow me.” she said as she flew up though the entrance. The 3 followed suit, mostly curious to see what friends she was talking about.

As they were guests on their planet, Requiem and her friends were making breakfast while Twilight and her friends had just finished explaining the situation to Cadence and Armor. The water had been cleared out by Cadence’s magic. Twi could’ve done it but her magic has been fritzy every since she changed into a human.

“hmm… that’s quite a story.” Armor muttered.

“but it’s all true.” Rarity said. “because of Trixie, every pony that was in the country has turned into humans.”

“but why just Equestria?” Cadence asked. “by the sounds of it, it should’ve covered the entire world.”

“Simple…” Ash said. He flipped a pancake their way. It landed flawlessly on Cadence’s plate. “Trixie isn’t all that powerful with her magic. Best she can do is bright flashes and fireworks.”

“well, I wouldn’t say that.” Halo interjected. “I mean…”

“Ash is right.” a peeved Pinkie interrupted. “this was all Trixie’s fault. She’s the reason every pony is like him.”

“can’t believe I’m saying this but I agree with Pinkie.” Applejack added, much to Halo’s and Zilver’s dismay. “If she hadn’t come back to Ponyville, none of this would’ve happened.”

“now, calm down girls.” Twi pleaded.

“Why? This was also your fault. The Punta fell in love with YOU, which is what brought this on!” a very peeved Shadow exclaimed.

A defeated Twilight looked away from them. The humans looked at each other with worry, same with Cadence and Armor.

“placing blame isn’t going to change what happened.” Armor said. “all that matters now is finding that Reversal Spell and changing you back, right?”

“I guess.” A.J., Pinkie, and Shadow distantly said.

Twilight wasn’t as great about it. She got up and walked outside to the deck.

“think we may have upset her.” Shadow whispered to Pink and A.J.

“you think!?” a stern Halo asked. He got up and walked after her. Cadence watched as Halo left.

“…and there’s Spike. Nice guy. Pretty cute for a Dragon, and then Derpy. One word: Klutz.” Dash told her old friends about her new friends as they flew on back to the beach house.

Her old friends were surprised by how many she has. “wow, Dash. That’s some imagination.” Zatch chuckled. “come on. Friends with royalty?”

“that is completely true.” Dash exclaimed. “why would I make this up?”

“oh, I don’t know. Maybe because you’re good at making stuff up. Remember when you said you could perform a Sonic Rainboom?” Gothic chuckled.

“Which I did! 3 Times!”

“Hahaha. That’s what we love about you, Dash. You always know how to make us laugh.” Lightning laughed.

“okay. Fine. Don’t believe me? Maybe you’ll believe my friends.” Dash flipped over. “last one there is a rotten dragon egg.” she quickly exclaimed as she flew faster, getting ahead of them. The other 3 flew after her.

Twilight leaned forward on the edge of the deck, looking down at the ground and appalled by what her friends said earlier. It wasn’t completely Trixie’s fault.

“Penny for your thoughts?” Halo asked as he walked up from behind.

“my friends hate Trixie. They were the first to forgive her when I was… well, you know.” Halo partially shrugged in agreement. “now… they hate her for turning us into humans.”

“and you?”

“I don’t know. Part of me does hate her for doing this but… part of me also feels guilty for making her do this. It was her feelings for ME that made her do it. She just wanted to be with me. I can’t help but feel guilty.” Twilight deeply sighed as she lowered her head.

“well… I hate her too.” Halo suddenly said, surprising Twi. “of course, since she’s my sister, I can’t hate her that much. I’m still gonna bean her when we get home.” Twi lightly chuckled with a smile. Halo chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.

“quick question.” Twi asked. “did you ever find out who Trixie’s real parents were? Like did you run into them or investigate or something?”

“no. but it’s not like I tried. It seems her parents wanted nothing to do with her so… they just abandoned her.” Twi couldn’t help but feel sad. “she’s had a rough life. 2 sets of parents hating her. Her lifelong dream of entertaining ponies was destroyed. And the love of her life doesn’t love her back.”

“I do love her, but how I love my brother. How I love Cadence. How I love my friends. Just not how…”

“how you feel about me?” Twi was surprised that he knew. She looked away to the floor. “Zilver told me that you told Trixie at that dinner that you love me.”

“h-h-h-h-h-he did?” she nervously asked. She quickly looked away in embarrassment. “Zilver, you dolt!” she silently exclaimed.

“Twi? You okay?”

She turned around with a big fake smile. “Yeah. I’m fine. I’m just gonna kill Zilver in his sleep. But not before I bean you.”

Halo exclaimed as he fell. “w-what? Why?”

“Cause I overheard you and Zilver talking that night. How you were hoping you wouldn’t have a relationship with anyone.”

“oh.” Halo chuckled nervously. “you heard that, huh?”

“every syllable.” Twi walked over to help him up but slipped and fell. “Ow!”

Halo quickly jumped up. “you okay?”

“no, I’m not okay. I fell on my butt. Gotta admit, it’s one heck of a shock-absorber.”

Halo rolled his eyes and chuckled. He reached down to help her up. She accepted the help and was pulled up. He must’ve pulled to hard as he pulled her right into him.

“Sorry.” he said.

“no no. it’s…” both stared into each others eyes, completely losing themselves in each others company. “it’s perfectly… all right…” Twi whispered.

Both started to lean closer to each other. Closer, and closer and closer, and just as their lips were about to touch…

“oh my. Hope I’m not interrupting anything.” Cadence said, standing at the door with a embarrassing smile on her face.

Halo and Twi saw what they were doing and backed away from each other. “no, Cadence. Your… timing was impeccable.” Twi painfully said as she and Halo put some distance between each other.

“no no no. I didn’t stop anything. No no. you 2 go back to doing whatever you were gonna do.” Cadence insisted.

“……. so, when are we gonna meet with the king?” Halo asked, drawing the subject away from what almost happened.

Cadence face-hoofed. “me and my big mouth. Gotta learn to keep it shut.” she muttered to herself. “well… we’re gonna meet with him tonight, about 2 hours till the curfew kicks in again.”

“yeah. I was surprised to hear that a Griffin Princess wanted to see us. We don’t even know a Gryphon Princess.” Twi mentioned.

Cadence just shrugged. “That’s just what she said. She was insistent that you all come. Guess she just wanted to see what humans looked like.”

“maybe.” Halo muttered.

“oh. That’s right. In the letter, you also said you had a surprise to show us. What surprise?” Twi asked. Cadence blushed a bit and chuckled.

Dash and her friends landed in front of the door. “now, don’t be surprised if they ask who you are, okay? I barely talked about my past.”

“oh, don’t worry. We’ll be adamantly surprised.” Gothic disbelievingly said. Dash rolled her eyes and touched the doorknob when…

“YOU’RE PREGNANT!?!” Twilight yelled in surprise.

A overly-excited Twilight could barely contain her joy when she heard that she‘s gonna be a aunt, Cadence‘s baby bump providing proof.

“Who’s pregnant?” Everyone from inside asked. Dash and her friends poked their heads from behind the corner to see them.

“YAHOO!” Twi cheered. “I’m gonna be a auntie! I’m gonna be a auntie! I’m gonna be a auntie! I‘m gonna….” she cheerfully chanted as she bounced around a la Pinkie Pie.

“Aw. Congrats, Cadence.” Dash said as she flew on over.

“thanks, Rainbow Dash.”

“holy crap. Dash does know Royalty.” Zatch, Lightning, and Gothic said in surprise.

“well, congrats Armor.” A.J. said. “how long till the foal is due?”

“about 4 months.”

“… be a auntie! I’m gonna be a …” *Record needle scratch* Twi stopped in mid-bounce. “wait. 4 months till?” she slowly turned around, keeping her pose. “that means she’s 7 months pregnant? And the wedding was 4 months ago?”

TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK… DING!

“oh ho ho. Armor, you dog.” Aura chuckled.

“just couldn’t keep the urges to yourself, could ya?” Zilver added. Armor embarrassingly blushed as he scratched his cheek. Cadence blushed as well.

“does it matter?” Pinkie excitedly exclaimed. “That means it’s time for a party! Oh, this is gonna be so exciting. I never threw a baby shower before!”

Ash held her hand over Pinkie, stopping her from bouncing before she could begin. “We don’t have time for that, remember?” he said, holding up her human hand.

“oh right. Well, we can still do it after!” She happily exclaimed.

Dash chuckled before being pulled away from her friends. “okay. We believe you. You’re friends with royalty.” Zatch quickly said.

“told ya. Come on. You should meet everyone.” Dash said, gesturing to the door.

“Why? We’re peasants. No way they would want to see us.” Gothic said.

Dash scoffed at it. “Trust me. If they can let Pinkie near them…” Dash flew behind them and started pushing them in. “…they can tolerate you.”

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdrTqz8pSyQ

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep soundtrack: Strange Whispers

A lone cloaked figure, clearly a human, hovered above the ground, watching the events unfold from a distance.

“they are so blind to this worlds true fate.” he sinisterly said. He looked out the lake with a sinister smile. “and his feelings for her will make this difficult.”

He snapped his fingers, making a plume of black fire appear in his hands. “I need him to be clear of any ties to this pathetic world.”

He silently chuckled before disappeared in a flash of dark fire.

End song.