Chapter 18: The Best Night Ever

“Oh Celestia, my head.” Zephyr has a massive, hangover caused headache. A good way to describe the pain, is if you remove his head, then hit it repeatedly with a sledgehammer, then play a game of soccer/hoofball with it and finally let a hydra ‘play’ with it for 15 minutes. That is what it feels like.

He opens his eyes, rubbing his forehead, and is shocked after seeing the chaos around him. First of all, he is in a bed, next to the sleeping Pinkie Pie.

‘Please don’t tell me I did what I think I did with Pinkie. Rainbow would murder me, if she is merciful.’

He also sees another sleeping mare, who is on the floor. She is a pegasus, who is wearing a blue and pale-yellow stunt suit which covers most of her yellow coat. She also has a very fiery mane and tail, the colors of her mane/tail, consists of orange and a lighter orange. It is of medium length and is slightly ruffled. It looks good on her. Zephyr then realizes who this mare is.

“Holy buck, Spitfire, the Captain of the Wonderbolts is sleeping in the same room as me?!” Zephyr excitedly says to himself. Luckily, he didn’t wake either of the mares up.

Zephyr couldn’t see anything else unusual in the room, but that is quite strange, because the room is absolutely spotless. There is no evidence of what could have happened last night, and that raises another question.

‘Where the hay am I?’

The only thing that is different about the room, is a scroll stuck on the door. On the front, there are two words, ‘For Zephy’.

He opens then note and starts reading…

Dear Zephyr,

If you are wondering where you are, you are in a local Ponyville Hotel. I saw the carnage of what happened last night and I could tell that you had a great night. Also, make sure that you talk to me when you have the chance to. I may be able to tell you anything that you don’t know. Also, I told Rainbow about how you would be having the day off for various reasons, she seemed fine about it.

Also, be prepared for what you see when you go into the bathroom. You’ll be surprised. Make sure you drink plenty of water and maybe take a pain-killer to stop that headache of yours. And be prepared to vomit in the toilet, I’m sure that Twilight will kill you if you vomit anywhere else. (Ha, now I’ve got you thinking about your head-ache and nausea. Are you feelin’ it Zephy?)

Dusk.

P.S. Payback is a mule, isn’t it?

P.S.S. The toilet is to the right of the bedroom you’re in.

‘Oh thanks a lot Dusk, now I need to puke…’

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After a quick ‘trip’ to the toilet, he steps out of the room and sees the living area, which is also completely spotless, which is strange. If he was so drunk, that he forgot everything that happened last night, than why is there no mess inside the house.  He isn’t even this careful when he is sober. He looks up at the clock, 1:15PM.

‘Thank Celestia that Dusk already told Dash about last night, I would have been in big trouble is she didn’t know.’

He walks into the bathroom, so he can get some pain-killers and is shocked by what, or more likely, who he sees. He sees a shaking Twilight on the ground, who is surrounded by a legion of cleaning supplies. She is conscious, but complete unaware of her surroundings. Her normally neat mane and tail, are unkempt and she is curled into a ball. She is stroking her mane stressfully and is muttering something.

“…it was so unorganized, so much work, will never get done, need to send letter to the Princess soon, have to do it, can’t make…”

Zephyr has had enough of seeing Twilight like this, so he starts shaking her.

“Twilight, snap out of it what’s wrong? That shaking is painful for my head.”

She gets out of her hypnotic state and death-stares at Zephyr, “Never again.” You know how some ponies are cute when they’re angry? Well Twilight doesn’t fall into that category.

“What happened to you Twilight?”

“I had to clean up the hotel room, so you wouldn’t have had to pay the hotel owners for the damages.” She answers bluntly.

“That’s it? It couldn’t have been that bad.” Zephyr calmly responds.

“There was graffiti all over the walls, every single window was removed and a wall was destroyed. “ Thanks a lot Zephyr Verve for the kind support.” She answers harshly.

‘Well that explains the clean rooms.’

“Wow Twilight, I’m sorry for all the cleaning that you had to do. How do you even repair a destroyed wall in the first place?”

“A lot of magic. I’ll just brush my mane and tail and I’ll leave.” She tries to use her magic to pick up the brush, but fails. She tries again with much more effort and lifts the brush up for a second or two, before it drops again. She falls onto her haunches with a sad look on her face, which Zephyr spots.

“What’s wrong Twilight?”

She falls onto the floor and starts crying heavily, “I’m… I’m… so useless. I can’t even lift up a stupid brush. I jus-“ She is interrupted when Zephyr puts his hoof in front of her face to silence her.

“Twilight, you are not useless. You cleaned up what probably a war-zone all by yourself. You helped us when you didn’t even need to. You somehow-“

Zephyr is stopped when Twilight hugs him and starts crying on the back of his neck. He feels tears slowly falling down his back as he returns her hug. “It’s OK Twilight, just let it all out.”

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About ten minutes later, Zephyr feels Twilight releasing her hug. She looks a lot better than she did before, despite her messy mane and slightly bloodshot eyes. Zephyr sees a light blush on her face.

“Thank you Zephyr. I really needed that.”

“It’s no problem Twi, I’m sorry that you had to do all of that.”

“That is alright, I think that Dusk had something to do with it as well. I wouldn’t want to see you get in trouble from the hotel. Also you mind if you could brush my mane and tail, I can’t do it myself.”

“You sure? I’m not that good with this sort of thing.” States Zephyr.

“Yeah I’m sure.”

Zephyr grabs the nearby brush and starts to carefully brush Twilight’s mane. He is thankful that her mane is straight, and not styled like Rarity’s. Zephyr doesn’t see from his view, that Twilight has a huge blush on her face.

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Zephyr finishes Twilight’s mane and tail in about five minutes. It is back to its normal, straightened style. He grabs a few pain-killers from the bathroom cabinet and a glass of water. He swallows the pills using the water and then asks Twilight something.

“Twi, do you mind if you could stay here for a few minutes, I’m trying to piece together what happened last night, and I may need your help in the matter.”

“Alright then Zephyr.”

Zephyr walks back into the hotel bedroom and begins to shake Pinkie in an attempt to wake her up.

“Wake up Pinkie, I need you to-“

“Hi!”

“WHAA! *slam* Buck.”

Pinkie’s quick and energetic greeting shocked him and he fell onto something suspiciously soft.

“Hey, watch were you land.” Says the third mare.

Zephyr turns around and sees that he landed on top of Spitfire. She looks hungover, and Zephyr says the first thing that enters his mind.

“The toilet is that way,” He points his hoof to the aforementioned door, “And there are painkillers in the bathroom.”

The Wonderbolt utters a single “Thanks.” As she runs into the toilet. Twilight is relieved that she doesn’t have to clean any more mess in the hotel.

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“Pinkie, do you remember what happened last night?” Asks Zephyr. He intends to find out if he did what he is hoping he didn’t do to Pinkie.

“Of course I do Zephy, I only had twenty drinks.” Zephyr’s left eye twitches.

‘How the hay?!’

Zephyr continues, “So Pinkie, did we or did we not do the dirty deed last night.”

“I think so.”

Zephyr is mortified and Twilight looks disappointed at him, while Spitfire is still taking some painkillers in the bathroom.

Pinkie continues, “If it is what I think you meant, than yes, we did make the hotel dirtier. How could you remove all of Zephy’s graffiti artwork Twilight?” Pinkie shoots an accusing glare at the unicorn.

Zephyr facehoofs, “*sigh* No Pinkie, I meant to say, did you and I do any… undercover work in bed last night?”

“Of course we did Zephy.” She happily answers.

‘Oh no, Rainbow will kill-‘

“Spitty joined us as well.”

“Oh please tell me that we didn’t do it.” Says Spitfire who walks into the room.

“We did! We were playing Go Fish under the blankets last night. We needed to use so many glowsticks, just to see what cards we had.”

Zephyr annoyingly sighs, and decides to be direct about the matter.

“Pinkie, did you or Spitfire have sex with me last night?”

Twilight gasps with horror, Spitfire looks at Zephyr with disgust, and Pinkie just slaps him across the face. “Of course we didn’t Zephyr, what sort of mares do you take us for?!” Pinkie aggressively answers. “I have my Dashie, and I wouldn’t cheat on her like that?!”

“Oh, um… sorry girls, I just really needed to know, also, why were you sleeping next to me in the bed?”

“Well duh, because there was room.”

“I won’t even look into that. So Pinkie, I need to know what you remembered from last night.”

“Okie dokie lokie.”

‘Thank Celestia that she already forgotten about what I said a second or two ago.’

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Point of View:  Pinkie Pie

Time: An hour after the Drinking Contest / 11:00PM Yesterday

Both Dusk and Pinkie left the club, 30 minutes ago, each for different reasons. Dusk had left so he could be with Fluttershy at her house, and Pinkie Pie has temporarily gone back to the Sugarcube Corner so she could make some special cupcakes for the two, to celebrate their newfound friendship. Spitfire and Zephyr were happy with staying in the club.

She had decided to add a special ingredient for this particular batch of cupcakes. The only other time she had used this, is with Rainbow Dash a couple of days ago. She put the unbaked cupcakes in the oven and she was excitedly waiting for the finished product, even more excited than with any other batch…

-10 Minutes Later-

The cupcakes were finished! She took them out and put them on a plate, and she noticed that the baked goods had all of the colors of the rainbow on it. She shrugged it off as a side-effect of her secret ingredient.

She puts the plate on her back, not bothering to get a saddlebag. She started to hop towards the hotel where Zephyr told her that they would be staying. The cupcakes never fell to the ground for some reason.

When she arrived at the hotel, she requested to go to the hotel room where Zephyr and Spitfire would be, but the stallion receptionist refused her entry.

“I’m sorry ma’am but it’s a privacy thing. We can’t just let random guests barge into other people’s hotel rooms whenever they want.” He calmly explained to the pink mare.

“Oh yeah?” Challenged Pinkie. “NOTE PAD! COME OUT HERE!”

She heard a gruff stallion’s voice in the distance, “For the last time Pinkie, its Notting Padisson. So, are you here to borrow a hotel room?”

Note Pad is a fairly normal size stallion with an aqua colored coat. He has a short, spiked green mane and he is wearing a black vest, which he never leaves home without. His cutie mark is a scroll with a quill near it.

“Nah, need to get into somepony else’s room.”

“Yeah sure, what room?”

“106.”

“Can be done, want to the let the usual five be exempt as well?” Asked the stallion.

“Yeah, but add one more onto the list, a stallion named Dusk.”

“Can do.”

-2 minutes later-

Pinkie steps into the room where Zephyr and Spitfire were staying and is astounded by what she saw. There was a mess, all over the floor, mainly consisting of blank scrolls, paint and breakfast cereals. The two drunken ponies were painting ‘art’ on the walls with spray paint.

“Wow you guys, looks like you’ve had fun.” Pinkie commented.

“Eeeeeeeyep, he-he.” Zephyr drunkenly imitated. “Isn’t it great?”

“YEAH, IT’S AWESOME! I brought some special cupcakes for you guys. Dashie says that they are to die for.”

“Yay, give me and ‘Zephy the Grand Master Artist’ one.”

“Okie dokie lokie, here you go.”

She gave the two a cupcake each, and Zephyr took the first bite. His face turned into a look of confusion, then to a look of immense happiness.

“Oh mah Gawdesses, SOO GOOOOD! What is in it Pinkie, You gotta tell me.” Requested Zephyr.

“Sweetened Rainbow Powder, straight from Cloudsdale.”

“This stuff’s good Pinks.” Complimented Spitfire.

“Aww, it’s nothing.” Pinkie got an idea, “You mind if I could make some art?”

“Sure Pinkie.”

“YAY! Just let me get the party cannon…”

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Point of View: Zephyr

Present Time / 1:43PM

“…and that is how I blew a hole in the room. Sorry Twi. Anyway-“

Zephyr stops Pinkie, “I don’t really need to listen anymore. I got all I needed from you. So Spits and I somehow met and became friends, and then we trashed the room.” He could see Twilight cringe, “So Pinkie came in a little bit later, but it doesn’t really explain everything. When did Twilight come in? Who told her, and what about Spitfire? What happened with her?”

“I think I’ll be able to answer those last two questions, as I remember a bit of what happened in the club, if that helps.” Answers Spitfire.

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Point of View: Spitfire

Time: Before Dusk + Pinkie left the club / 10:15PM Yesterday

Spitfire was walking through Party United, while slightly drunk. She had heard that it is one of the best places to spend a night at, and they were right. She was enjoying it a lot more here than in any other club. In her hoof, was a rather strong spirit, but she had forgotten the name of it. While walking through the bar, she saw three ponies sitting on a table, two pegasus stallions and a earth pony mare. By the looks of it, the pink mare and the non-injured stallion were having a drinking contest, and the mare was winning by a lot.

When the uninjured stallion tried to take another drink, the injured one interrupted and stopped the match. She then saw the pink mare talk to the dark blue stallion who then took a small sip of the alcohol before putting it back on the table. The two left the table with the four remaining shots, leaving the drunken stallion temporarily alone. Spitfire approached him to see what was up.

“So I see that you lost that little contest of yours.” Stated the Wonderbolt.

“Yeah I did, you know that she had 12 vodkas before and 8 shots now, and she’s just a bit woozy.”

Spitfire was shocked, “Are you kidding? No wonder she beat you. I’ve never heard of anypony ever drinking that much in my life, and I’ve been to a lot of bars.”

“Pinkie’s sort of impossible like that. You’re Spitfire right, the captain of the Wonderbolts.”

“Yeah pretty much.”

“My name’s Zephyr.”

-15 Minutes Later-

Both Spitfire and Zephyr were acting like a drunken couple. Spitfire had the rest of her spirits before, and she underestimated the potency of the drink, so she was feeling it as much as Zephyr.

Pinkie and Dusk were back in the group, after getting a refund for their drinks. While normally not allowed, Pinkie explained to the barman about the contest and how she made Dusk buy too many. (It also helped that she is a special kind of VIP)

“So I see that Zephy got himself a drinking buddy.” Commented Dusk.

“Don’t call me Zephy, and yeah, she’s an awesome buddy. The very best.” Says the drunken stallion.

“Yeah, Zeph and I will be stayin’ at the hotel down the road, room 106.”

“Wow, didn’t expect you to tell us where you were staying tonight.” Dusk admitted.

“Well why would that be a bad thing Dusky?” Pinkie asked, raising an eyebrow.

“I won’t even bother answering.  I’ll be going back to Fluttershy’s, because I want to spend the night with her again.” He started to walk out of the nightclub.

“OK, have fun Dusky, *loud gasp* you know what would be a good idea?” Pinkie looked at Zephyr and Spitfire. “If I made you two a super special surprise to commemorate your newfound friendship.”

“That a great idea Pinkie!” Said Spitfire

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Point of View: Zephyr

Present Time / 1:56PM

“I completely forgot what happened after that. What was I thinking?” Finishes Spitfire.

“Trust me, I’m asking myself that as well.” Assures Zephyr. “At least it sort of answers a little bit of what happened. Basically, from what I know: drinking contest, drinking buddy, invited to hotel, trashed hotel, Pinkie Pie joined in. But what’s up with Twilight, I mean, how did she get pulled into this.”

“I’ll tell you if you think it will help…”

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Point of view: Twilight Sparkle

Time: 1:30AM

Twilight was woken up by a frantic knocking on the door. She groggily gets out of the bed and asked herself, “Who would want to see me at this hour?!”

She slowly stumbled her way down the stairs, and the knocking was becoming even more frequent. She opens the wooden door, to then be ambushed by Dusk and an onslaught of words.

“Oh thank Celestia you came, well I thinkthatPinkieZephyrandSpitfire-“

“Stop talking so fast Dusk, slow down.” Grumbles Twilight, rubbing her eyes.

“OK… Well I need your help with something, Pinkie, Zephyr and Spitfire will be in a lot of trouble unless you and I help fix this mess. They might all have to pay tens of thousands of bits to cover the damage.” Panicked Dusk.

This woke Twilight up. “What did they do?”

“Let’s just say that there is a massive hole in a hotel wall.”

-5 minutes later-

The two reached the hotel where Pinkie, Zephyr and Spitfire were staying. Luckily, Dusk knew where they would be because Spitfire told Pinkie and himself, before they left the club. Twilight thought it was weird that there was still a receptionist at the hotel, at 1:35AM.

“I need to be inside room 106 again.” Said Dusk.

“Sure you can Dusk, but I need to know the name of that mare, to see if I can let her in.”

“Wait a second, I think that it is rude that you need to know-“Twilight aggressively responded before she was interrupted by Dusk.

“Her name’s Twilight Sparkle.”

“Yep, her name is on Pinkie’s list. You two can go in.”

-A minute later-

Twilight was curious about something, “Why did he allow us to get in her room, and why did he need to know my name?”

“I’m not too sure myself; you could probably ask Pinkie if you wanted to know.” The two are in front of room 106, and Dusk began to talk again. “Now we are going to clean up this mess.” He turns the doorknob and begins to open the door.

“How hard could… it… be.” Twilight saw the room in question, and was both shocked and horrified when she realized what she had gotten herself into. The first things that caught her eyes was the gaping hole in the room and the immense amount of graffiti on the walls. Besides that, she saw other excessively messy and stupid things:

Quick Author’s Note: It will be a list rather than a long paragraph, to make things easier.

-Various knifes lodged into the walls, which was designed to sort of look like the outline of a sideward earth pony.

-An excessive amount of crushed breakfast cereal on the ground.

-Hoof shaped mud prints on the ceiling.

-A small campfire which somehow didn’t light anything else on fire.

-Kitchen utensils, EVERYWHERE!

-A pancake the size of a filly.

-A marble sculpture of a diamond dog.

-A giant boulder. (Which Twilight recognized as ‘Tom’.)

-Fluff from a shredded lounge.

-A Shredded lounge.

-Other unmentioned things.

And this was just the living room/kitchen. There was also the bathroom, toilet and bedroom, where Zephyr, Pinkie and Spitfire were sleeping. Dusk and Twilight both agreed that waking any of them up would make things a lot more difficult, because of the possibility of them still being drunk. (Or in one case, Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.)

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Point of View: Zephyr

Present Time / 2:10PM

“For some reason, I couldn’t remember what happened from there. All I can remember is when Zephyr ‘woke’ me up.” Twilight blushes but looks saddened, while looking at the ground. “Maybe, I got a bit so stressed out while cleaning, that I forgot what happened.”

Zephyr looks at Twilight, “Well, you and I could go see Dusk to try to find the missing piece of the puzzle.”

Twilight blushes a bit harder, “I… I think that might be a good idea Zephyr.”

Zephyr could see Pinkie whispering to Spitfire about something, and the Wonderbolt gave Pinkie a small nod. He decides that he wouldn’t look into it.

“Twilight, I think that we should find Dusk now.”

“Y-Yeah, let’s go.” The unicorn nervously responds.

The two left the hotel room, while Pinkie and Spitfire stay for a bit longer.

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Zephyr and Twilight were both walking towards Fluttershy’s house, which is confusing Twilight.

“Why are we walking to Fluttershy’s if we are trying to find Dusk?” She asks.

“Dusk lives with Fluttershy for two reasons, he doesn’t own a house in Ponyville, and he and Fluttershy are in a relationship.”

The last part of the sentence surprises Twilight. “I didn’t know that Shy is smitten now. She’s needed a good stallion in her life, how long?”

“Three days.”

“So that’s why I didn’t know.”

When they finished talking, they saw that they were near her house. Zephyr approaches the door and knocks.

*knock knock*

Fluttershy hears the knocking and opens the door. “Oh, hello Twilight and Zephyr. What can I do for you?”

Zephyr begins, “We are looking for Dusk, because we need to talk to him about something that happened last night, it’s sort of important.”

“…Sorry, but Dusk is at work right now, I’m sure that he’ll be back here in a few hours.”

“OK Fluttershy, thanks for telling us.” Says Twilight.

“No problem Twilight.”

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The two walk towards  Sweet Apple Acres, where Dusk is working. Unfortunately, they couldn’t find him in the large apple farm, so they decide to ask Applejack, who is nearby.

“Hello Applejack.” Greets Twilight.

“Hey Twi, who’s that stallion over there? Is he your coltfriend or somethin’?”

Zephyr and Twilight could both fell their faces heat up.

“My name’s Zephyr and I’m just a friend of Twilight’s. Also, we need to know where Dusk is, it’s kind of important.”

Applejack looks a bit pissed off, “Ah think that idiot’s working with mah brother, somewhere around there.” She points at the general direction of his location.

Zephyr is curious about her aggression towards Dusk. “Why don’t you like Dusk, Applejack?”

“Long story.”

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About 5 minutes later, Zephyr and Twilight had found Dusk, bucking some apple trees with Big Mac. It takes Dusk multiple kicks to knock down all of the apples, but it only takes one quick buck for Big Mac to knock down all of his apples.

“Hello Dusk.” Greets Zephyr

“Hey Zephy-“

“Stop calling me that.”

“No. So, I see that you are awake now, and that Twilight is finally out of her broken down state.”

“I have Zeph to thank for that.” Twilight lightly blushes and looks away. Dusk notices her redish hue.

“So, I gather that you need me for something.” Inquires Dusk.

“Yeah, you see, I’ve almost figured out what happened yesterday, but something seems a little off. So can you tell me all that you remembered from last night?” Asks Zephyr.

“Easy enough, I remembered everything that I did last night.”

“Wait, how? Why aren’t you affected by the alcohol consumed last night?”

“When I had that shot last night, I had a sip, and hated the taste so I stopped drinking it.” Explains Dusk

“You’re boring Dusk.”

“Yeah I know, so anyway, you wanted to know what happened last night…”

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Point Of View: Dusk

Time:  10:40PM Yesterday

Dusk had left the club about ten minutes ago and was spending time with Fluttershy. While they snuggled in Fluttershy’s bed, Dusk accidentally found out that she was extremely ticklish on the side of her body. He had a sly look on his face, and Fluttershy was curious why.

“Dusk, why do you have that look- *cute as hay squeak*”

Dusk interrupted her and pinned her to the bed, and started talking to her with an exaggerated evil tone, “Bwa-ha-ha, I have you now Fluttershy, now it is time for…” He pauses for emphasis, “Tickle Torture.” He starts the tickle her sides and she starts helplessly laughing as she tries to escape Dusk’s trap.

While unsuccessfully trying to push Dusk off, she brushed her forehoof up the inside of Dusk’s foreleg, which caused him to impulsively pull the particular leg back. Fluttershy saw this, and went for Dusk’s sensitive spots. He lost the upper hoof and became a laughing wreck as he fell victim to her constant tickling. He swore that he heard her say, “Payback Dusky.”

-2 Hours Later-

Dusk woke up in the middle of the night, and felt that Fluttershy was hugging him in her sleep, like a plush toy. He couldn’t dwell on the ad’awwableness of the situation, as he had one thing on his mind.

‘Need to get to Zephyr’s and Spitfire’s hotel room.’

Dusk has something very similar to the ‘Pinkie Sense’. If he thinks of something out of the ordinary, which tells him to go somewhere, then it usually means that something bad is going to happen, or has already happened. It also means that he needs to try and stop the situation from becoming a lot worse.

A good example is when Cloud was harassed by bullies on the first day of school. Dusk instinctive told him to go to that particular area, because something bad was about to happen. He stepped in, and soon became friends with Cloud, at the price of a couple of bad bruises. Another example is the Cloud/Blizzard incident, Dusk thought about Blizzard being very suspicious about something, but he didn’t do anything to stop the unfortunate incident and she eventually committed suicide. Dusk had always listened to his unlucky 6th sense ever since.

He carefully got out of Fluttershy’s hug, without waking her up. He snuck out of the house without causing any ruckus and ran to the hotel where they would be staying.

When he arrived, he went straight for the hotel receptionist and said, “I need to get inside room 106.”

“Ahh, Pinkie’s room…”

‘What?! I thought it was Zephyr's room.’

“…I need to know your name first.” He continued

“Erm, Dusk. But I have to-“

“You’re on the list, you can go inside now.”

“Umm, thanks I guess.” Answers the confused Dusk.

As he entered the hotel room, he knew his instincts were correct but he didn’t know what this dump is supposed to mean. He checks the bedroom hoping that no-one would be dead or something, and sees Pinkie, Zephyr and Spitfire peacefully sleeping.

‘What is Pinkie doing inside the hotel room? [*ding* dirty thought] Zephyr you lucky bastard, got yourself a bit of a threesome have you? Rainbow will kill him though, doesn’t matter had sex. [*ding* another dirty thought] But what if she joined in? I’m sure that Pinkie would call it a ‘friendship party’ or something. [*ding* dirty mental picture]’

“…oh goddesses, curse my dirty mind and its dirty mental images.” Dusk felt his right uninjured wing rise, “No, wingboner, stay down.” He prevents his wing from fully rising, and puts it comfortably to his side.

He begins to think normally again, and realizes what he is supposed to do.

‘Oh! I’m supposed to clean up these damages before they have to pay for them. The amount they would have to pay is immense. What would probably happen if I don’t help, is that Pinkie and Zephyr (maybe even Spitfire.) become bankrupt and will have to live on the streets or something like that.’

He looks at the broken wall.

‘I might need Twilight’s help with this.’

-40 Minutes Later- (No need to write Twilight’s part again, is there.)

Dusk had begun to pick up all of the rubbish on the floor, while Twilight started doing the jobs that only she could fix, such as the wall. While charging spell, Dusk could see sweat dripping down her coat, which he just assumed was because the spell in question was very powerful.

After 5 minutes of picking up an ungodly amount of rubbish, Twilight had charged the spell and casted it. Dusk was amazed, the wall was literally repairing itself. He watched as the wall slowly reformed into its original state.

“What did you just do Twilight?!”

“I just *pant* made the wall *pant* go back in time and *cough* it reversed into its *sniff* original state.”

“Is there seriously anything that can’t be achieved with magic?” Dusk picks up a wrapped chocolate bar her found on the floor and throws it to Twilight. “Eat this to get some of your energy back. Also, you may want to wash yourself up, I’ll continue with the jobs that I can do while you rest.”

-2 Hours Later-

Dusk had nearly finished his part, whereas Twilight had completely done all the things that Dusk couldn’t. (e.g. The removal of the marble diamond dog + Tom, erasing graffiti, reverse timing the couch, removing holes in the wall caused by knives)

As Dusk went to check up on Twilight, he was shocked. She was curled up into a ball, shaking and stoking her tail. She was obviously stressed. Dusk tries to snap her out of her state while remaining quiet enough not to wake the drunken three up.

“Twilight wake up.” He begins to shake her, “Wake up.” He persists for a minute, but she would get out of her state. He tries to lift her up, but is too weak to do anything. He gives up and picks up a nearby mop.

‘She’ll snap out of it. Right?'

-30 Minutes Later-

Dusk had made that place absolutely spotless, he was amazed at how much Twilight and himself have accomplished. (After using about 30 garbage bags) Before he left, he quickly wrote a note in such a way that it would annoy Zephyr.

He went back to Fluttershy’s, and silently got himself back into the bed, wrapping his forelegs around the mare he liked, no… loved.

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Point Of View: Zephyr

Present Time / 3:05PM

Zephyr could only do one thing after hearing this, he punches Dusk’s foreleg, making it numb.

“Hey?! What was that for?” Questions Dusk

“Making me want to vomit after I read the note.”

Dusk grins evilly, “Then everything went as expected then.”

The group hears Applejack yelling in the distance. “Dusk, get your flank back to work! You’re on thin ice, your leaving if you don’t do your job!”

Dusk yells back, “I’m just quickly helping some of my friends with an issue of theirs, and I think that you would do the same thing as me in the same situation, while you’re working as well, you hypocrite!”

No response.

Dusk quickly turns back to the pair, “Well that shut her up.” He quickly says.

Dusk continues his verbal warfare against the farm-mare. “So if you have any problems with me, which I’m sure you do, tell Big Mac about it, I dare ya!”

No response again.

“I… I didn’t think that Applejack would be so mean.” Says the saddened Twilight.

“Honestly, I barely got my job back, no thanks to that mu-, no thanks to Applejack. I don’t want to berate her too much, since I still have my job, and I’m sure that Twi wouldn’t appreciate me calling one of her best friends the M-word.”

“I think you’re right there Dusk.” Says Zephyr, showing Twilight’s reaction to Dusk.

She was sitting on her haunches, clearly upset with Applejack. Zephyr rushes to her side to comfort her. Dusk just decides to not make the situation worse, and continued bucking the trees.

“Are you OK Twi?” Asks the concerned Zephyr.

“Yeah, I just never expected that any of my friends would ever act like that to somepony else.”

“I don’t think you need to worry about it. I reckon that Dusk has gone through much, much worse.” States Zephyr.

They hear Dusk in the distance, “Worse than you can imagine. This is actually one of the more funner confrontations.” (Yes, I know that funner isn’t a word.)

Zephyr just comforted Twilight for the next ten minutes, making sure that she doesn’t break down again.

“Hey Zephy, I need you over here for a second.” Calls Dusk, who is a small distance away. Zephyr walks over to where the dark blue stallion is working.

“I think that you and Twilight like each other.” He says in a knowing tone.

“Uhh, how did you know?”

“I didn’t really, you called my bluff and admitted it to me, even though it is obvious that Twilight likes you.”

“Smart move, but how’d know about Twi?” Inquires Zephyr

“Come on, she blushes every time you get near her. It may have not been as obvious for you. It was the same story for me and Fluttershy.” Admits Dusk.

“How do you think I should ask her out?”

“You only became friends with her a few hours ago, and now you want to ask her out?” He comments skeptically. “ Perfectly understandable. So, I’m no Rarity, but I know the bare basics about this sort of thing. Maybe, before you leave the farm, you should ask her for dinner or something, and you could also buy a bouquet of flowers for her or something like that.”

“Hmm, seems like good advice. Thanks for that Dusk.”

“No problem Zephy.”

Zephyr’s right eye twitches, “And here I was thinking that you would help me without calling me that stupid nickname.”

“Problem?”

Dusk watches on, as Zephyr walks up to Twilight, with Dusk’s advice fresh in his mind.

Edit: This was such a fun chapter that many months ago. Next Chapter: Chapter 19: Untrustworthy Estimated time remaining: 6 Hours, 35 Minutes