Eskimobill1919: Also go and pick up that arrow, it’s probably best to not leave such a thing lying around.

Well, the very last thing you want to do in this situation is leave behind a possibly dangerous, possibly magical artifact to be swept up in a sea of ponies and chocolate rain, both of which are increasing in volume steadily, yet slowly. New Divide taps his hoof back to the ground, and again, the ground in front of you folds up like paper in the span of a second. This must be New Divide's only trick, or at least, it's the only one you know of.

Stepping on the other side of the fold and releasing the hold on it, you fortunately find the arrow, safe and sound. "Phew," you say in relief, miming wiping off sweat by brushing your forehead with a hoof, before trotting over and gripping it back in your teeth. An idea does reach you, though. You put it back down, and allow New Divide to grip in it's teeth instead. Sure, it looks really strange, especially if truly no one else can see New Divide. A floating object next to a pegasus? Still, compared to the folding ground and the chocolate rain, the ponies around probably don't care at all. Speaking of,

Gold Experience: Investigate the source of the chocolate rain, see what the heck is going on and maybe see if you can find some answers to what is going on.

There is still that weird and mysterious chocolate rain to investigate. No pegasi in town seemed to talk about a prank as idiosyncratic as this. In fact, looking around town, everyone's either confused or already inside, where it's dry. Thinking back, you remember the clouds coming in from the East before circling around all of Ponyville. But as soon as you turn that direction to head out, you see a a giant purple wave fly out from Sweet Apple Acres to what seems like no effect. And then seconds after that, you see strange, long-legged animals come up to eat the clouds, bursting out from a sea of...popcorn?

Okay, there's too much weird around here to go chasing down cotton candy clouds and chocolate rain. You need to figure out what's happening before you can go making heads or tails of actually stopping the source. Thusly,

wizard0209: my vote is along the lines of Gold Experiences vote but with the addition of looking for Twilight; my in universe explanation for this is that he already was going to go talk to her about the arrow, so asking about this wouldn't be out the question, but personally I just want them to be swept up into the shenanigans the mane six are about to be apart of

eskimobill1919: I say we head for the library to see if it has information on what is going on or if it has any information on stands.

You decide the best thing to do is to go the library and the bookish Twilight Sparkle. Even if all you manage to find answers on is your new spirit companion, it'd be indoors, away from the other strange oddities circling through the town. That and maybe you can catch a nap or something.

Even with the chocolate rain pouring onto you, you decide to take the long way around, flying to the Golden Oaks. Sure, New Divide makes travel fast and easy, but that's boring. Take a step, wa-hey! You're there! You felt the need to stretch your wings more. Thus, you can see when Twilight and her five friends, the ones who helped her stop Nightmare Moon earlier in the year, enter into the library. When close enough, you hear them scrambling around.

By the time you get there and land, right in front of the front door, the rain is mostly fading as the clouds are literally being eaten from above you. Smiling, you raise a hoof to knock, only for the door to open anyway. Twilight and the girls are in a single file line, her in front of both them and you, and all of them have saddlebags. "Oh!" she exclaims, clearly surprised to see you. "Sorry, I didn't realize someone was coming in."

You realize your hoof is still in the air, mostly because you feel like you're about to tip over, and so you wave it off. "Nah," you respond, "It's cool. Crazy weather, anyone could get flustered." Twilight gives a kind of awkward noise of affirmation, clearly agreeing with that sentiment while still waiting for you to speak more. "I actually wanted to see you. I need answers on some...magical weirdness."

"Well," she answers immediately, though sounding like she's in a hurry with quickfired syllables. "I'd love to help you, but I don't know either, but Princess Celestia called us all to Canterlot, so hopefully I can find out there, and I mean, once I do, I can get back to you on that, so sorry!"

Again, you wave her off. "It's no biggie. I'm sure there's a book on it." You move out of the way to let her past, ignoring her rambling about how there's always a book on something useful. Now that the most flustered one in the group is leaving, the other five mares in Golden Oaks finally notice something's up with you specifically. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack stare at the floating, golden arrow with a myriad of faces ranging from confusion to some sort of impressed nod. Pinkie Pie, leaving the door last, looks above the arrow to the spirit's face and waves at it before bouncing off.

...Wait.

Pinkie waved at it?

Somehow, though, you get the impression that, with it being Pinkie Pie, of course she'd note something off going on. It's kind of in her code-book. So, you enter the library, saying hi to that baby dragon Spike as he dusts, and start looking over the spines of the books.

After checking three separate books, you turn up nothing. Aside from fairy tales about normal, vanilla, boring, average ghosts, there's nothing about a magical specter that follows a person's will and can do crazy magical things with it's hooves. Well, maybe there's more books that do have some kind of answer, but you feel as though sitting here any longer is going to make you stir-crazy. So, you get off your haunches, stretch your muscles, place all the books back ("in proper order!" as Spike reminds you), and head back outside. Luckily, the chocolate rain is gone by this point.

Ze1a7in: I say: test the capabilities of this "spirit" somewhere on the outskirts of town, and in doing so, "warp reality" enough to attract the notice of a certain mismatched Spirit.

Now that Ponyville's quiet again, you get the courage to go to the outskirts of town to practice using New Divide more. Placing the Arrow on the grass, in a spot where you won't lose it, you test your curiosity and call New Divide out.

After a few minutes of practicing, you learn some things about it.

For one, you can actually fold yourself, just as harmlessly as you fold terrain. You learned this when you decided to see what would happen if your spirit punched you in the face. Probably wasn't a good idea, but it was rectified.

Secondly, you learned that when damaged, the spirit reflects it's damage onto you. You learned this when you got irritated from you getting folded, punched New Divide in the face, and then your head whipped to the right as your felt yourself get punched. That's probably going to bruise, most likely.

And thirdly, you learned of a limit to it's power. Right now, you can't seem to have multiple folds open at once. You get the feeling that you will one day be able to have two or three at a time, but when you tried folding up in two different directions, the first fold snapped back to normal space just as the second one began folding. Like you lost your grip on a rubber band as you stretched it.

Feeling satisfied that you learned a bit about New Divide, you have it pick the arrow back up, and you turn back to the direction of town. Only to hear a deep, yet playful, voice from behind you. "Well, well, well," says the voice, "what do we have here?" You whip back to find a...you can't describe it, but you know the word, tip of your tongue-AHAH! Draconequus. Guess one of Twilight's books did come in handy after all. "Ooh! A Stand! I knew I felt the power of the Arrow around here. Just assumed that was that bag of chips I brought in. Hmm."

You stand there confused for multiple reasons, but the big one practically singing falsetto in your brain was "What did he call the spirit? A Stand? What?", but it's a thought he doesn't let you vocalize. "Oh, and you're already causing chaos. While I'm causing chaos! Ooh, you're a Stallion after my own heart!" he says, pulling a cartoon heart from out of nowhere. A cartoon heart that is beating like a real heart.

You can't even tell if you're supposed to be disturbed at this point.

"Well," he continues, "You've got questions, I've implied I've got answers that I may or may not give, and there's about half an hour before Princess Celestia realizes "oh, derping hell!" upon opening the box to realize the Shemelements of Shmarmony are missing. So...wassup?"

What do you want to do?
Stand for Equestria, Part 1

Author's Notes:

Part 1? Yes. This is going to be our Phantom Blood, folks. Or, it's Phantom Blood with Stands and horses. So I guess that makes it Steel Ball Run?

Anyway, hopefully everyone has the format down from here. :D Oh, and no To Be Continued or Roundabout. We're basically partway through the episode, so this is the eyecatch where the skin turns all pink or something and the logo for the "show" appears in the corner. Meaning next chapter will be coming back from commercial break, essentially.