My mind was blank for the few seconds I laid there on the ground. I could hear the two above me trying to wake me up. I had very near blacked out again, but I could just barely overcome the dizziness and keep myself with them.

"Alex! Alex, y'alright?" I heard Applejack rush over to me, trying to shake me awake. It was close to incoherent, as my ears were ringing, but I still understood.

I took in some heavy breaths, then mumbled very softly, "Yep...I'm..." They could barely make it out. I slowly put my hands under me and tried to get myself sitting up.

"Hey, not so fast. Here, let me help." Twilight nudged me up. My eyes were still closed. I felt very tired, though now was not the time to sleep yet again.

I breathed a few more times, "Yeah, I'm...I think I'm...okay..." I mumbled some more. I couldn't think very straight, except for one thing I couldn't place.

My head drooped over my lap lazily. With my eyes nearly shut, I could see myself start bringing my hands slowly towards one another. Twilight noticed this and backed up a bit, wondering what I may do. Without thinking, they finally neared, and connected.

With a glow and a sharp ring, I could feel energy rush up through my arms and through my whole body, giving me a chilling wake. I felt the dizziness fade off, and my strength quickly start returning to me. I took in a huge breath, and exhaled slowly as my eyes shot wide open and my head popped back up.

"Wow! Ha!" I burst out as I near flew up on to my feet. My reaction startled both Twilight and Applejack.

"Yikes! Alex, are you alright? You just collapsed." Twilight said.

I had calmed down quickly. I was not hyper, just more so back to normal. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just...don't know what that was."

"You put your hands together, and those things happened. Before you said that made you feel pulses go through your body. What do you think that is?" She asked.

"Maybe, like a recovery type thing? I don't know how it works when I do it, and I don't really think anything either. It just...you know...happens."

"That was mighty impressive, what ya did with that fist thing." Applejack finally said walking back up from behind Twilight.

"Yeah. I hadn't thought of using that spell in such a way." Twilight said.

"Well, you can just pull the apples right out of the trees." I didn't really know if I could focus on so many things all at once like she could. One thing was getting to be very easy, but twenty, or two-hundred things, that was another.

"Do it again." Twilight said suddenly after thinking for a second.

"What?" I asked, not sure of what she meant.

"Do the fist again. If you didn't pass out, maybe it's getting better."

"Umm...alright. It's your fault if something goes wrong." I told her. She smirked, with a 'no it isn't' kind of tone.

I walked up to the next tree and did the same thing. This time after the fist had fully formed, I didn't hold back, and punched the tree harder than I did the last time. This time when it hit, it didn't explode around the tree. I managed to hold it together, only for it to fade after I finally released it once the apples fell into the baskets. My arm dropped lazily to my side, and I fell to my knees again. This time though, before I started falling forward, I connected my hands. The shot of energy rocked through me quickly. However, this time it felt weaker, like it was struggling to get through. Damn, I guess I can't overuse that. I thought while getting up slowly.

"Ah think I'll get back to this on mah own. Don't need ya to hurt yourself. Y'all can get started on yer practicing." Applejack said. I felt the same way.

"Oh, uhh, here." Twilight said. She looked down the line of trees and closed her eyes. With a glow of her horn, all of the apples down the next three rows lifted up and came loose from the trees. They then floated gracefully over to several baskets that were on the ground.

"Thanks Twi. That should be a good start for now." Applejack smiled at her.

"Sorry I couldn't help more. I guess I'm just not ready to do some of this stuff yet." I told Applejack. She just shrugged.

"Not a problem. I understand." She said sincerely. I smiled, but felt a little disappointed. I'd have to help her again some other time.

"Welp, let's get to it." Twilight said happily.

After a quick teleport back to the South field, and a settle in near some trees, Twilight turned back to me.

"Okay! I guess this is the...uhh...second lesson right?" Twilight was enthusiastic.

"Yep." I said simply, but with a near level of enthusiasm, only not to be more by my disappointment in before. I'd let her start. She was the teacher, after all.

"This will be a good place to concentrate; it's nice and peaceful." She was right too. It was a beautiful day; there was not a cloud in the sky, and there was a nice breeze that went through the bright and colorful trees. It was one thing to know that on the show this world was more bright and colorful, but to actually be here, that was another thing. "Now, I thought about it, and I think you're right. The spell used to understand things is called Discere. We'll start with that." I raised an eyebrow at the name. There was some sort of italian pronunciation she put to it. I really wanted to learn it, but still thought it would be too much.

"Are you sure that's the best idea?" I asked.

"Don't worry. It doesn't take all that much energy. It's only complicated." She reassured best she could. It was a double-edged sword though; whether or not it requires a lot of energy, it was still going to be annoying.

"Alright, I'll try." Despite anything, more magic to me was always good. I couldn't wait to learn more.

Twilight had spent half an hour explaining ideas which I hadn't comprehended before. I had only just barely understood most of what she was saying, but still couldn't piece it together into what was supposed to be the thought process for the spell to work. There were so many things that went into this one. The 'base' of it included four different specific ideas, all of which were concepts I doubt anyone in my world had even contemplated thinking about.

"Is there an easier way to do this? I'm not going to be able to remember half of what you talked about by the time I actually try." I said.

She rolled her eyes. Throughout most of the lecture she could tell that she was not really getting through. "Fine. Here, study this." She said. Her horn glowed and a book lifted out of the bag she had with her. It sat itself in my lap and flipped rapidly to the page explaining the spell.

I nodded, then started reading at the beginning.

"Okay, just keep studying. You'll hopefully get it in a bit." She said as I continued on.

Wait...what... The small thought I had went away quickly as she pulled the trick on me again. Everything else flooded away as the words on the page became the only thing to me. What it said was what Twilight had mostly already talked about, but with a little more detail. While the spell felt generally the same at first, I suddenly found myself pausing after every paragraph. I thought about what it said, and unlike before, I understood. It felt like somehow it was being explained to me in such a way that maybe another version of me that knew it would explain it, only in the best way that I could get. I went through three more pages on the subject, and the spell stopped.

I let out a sigh after now realizing what Twilight had done. I looked up at her with a smug face.

"Why didn't you just do that first?" I asked. I knew now everything it talked about. It all made perfect sense to me. The only problem though, was that it was still a lot to remember. That is something, Twilight knows, can't be done as easily.

"Because that took an hour." She said.

"What?!" I was baffled, looking down at my watch. It was true though. I let my head fall back in annoyance "Ugh, seriously?"

"I was hoping we could avoid doing it this way. This spell causes ponies to...lose track of time...even more than...Focus does."

"Hey, whoa, are you alright?" I asked, unnerved by her sudden trailing off and pauses.

"What?...I'm just...a little tired...is all. Using that spell for that long...is quite a bit. Even for me."

"Oh. You probably could have told me. We didn't have to do it that way."

"No, it's not...a problem. You keep studying...I'll...rest..." She suddenly laid down and fell asleep.

I let out a sigh, then looked back at the book. Now what was only needed to be done was remembering the steps, now that I understood them. Being that there were so many of them, it would probably take a while.

I spent the next good twenty minutes going through it in my mind. Maybe the best thing at this point was to try it out on something? Practice makes perfect, right? What should I try it on? What is something that is easy to understand? An apple? Maybe, depending on how much I want to know. I wondered at that point how far the abilities of the spell could stretch. Could I use it on things in my memory? Something someone had explained to me? What could really be done with such a useful spell?

I grabbed an apple out of the tree and brought it down out in front of me, where I looked at it for a good minute. I was almost nervous that I was about to try this.

Alright, alright. First things first, Focus, but really make sure I'm doing so on everything I'm doing here, er, learning here.

I quickly set up the image in my mind, and cast. It was getting easier to set up that spell, and I figured out that it was much more flexible than I thought after using it a few times.

Okay good. I thought, as most other thoughts and observances left me. Now, just set up the base, and think about what I want to learn. However, that was more easily planned than done. It took me about ten minutes to get the consistent idea of all the things that went into this. At long last though, when I felt I had it prepared well enough, I cast.

I was caught off guard by a huge miasma of images and random knowledge that came from this simple little fruit through the spell. I could see flashes of random atomic structures, skeletons of core, images of seeds, and many other things, all within a second. The shock caused me to drop the apple and get knocked out of it. "Holy shit!" I said out loud, though didn't wake Twilight. I hadn't focused hard enough on how much I wanted to learn. I regained myself. Dammit, all that work for nothing.

It wasn't entirely nothing though. Despite the fact that it was a random flash of information for less than a second, the spell somewhat worked in the way it was supposed to, and I had gained at least a few different random bits.

I picked up the apple and spent another ten minutes setting up again. This attempt led to a near same level flow. I wasn't as surprised this time, but I still couldn't really hold it for long before it dropped off, though more subtly this time. I tried several more times. I was slowly getting better, but still needed to both more thoroughly memorize the steps and learn to control it better.

A few hours had passed. Twilight was still asleep under the tree, and I was still trying to "understand" a damn apple. By that time though, surprisingly, the spell had caused me to learn what I had previously thought to probably be an impossible amount of information. How could I know any more about this simple fruit? Things like structure, temperature, consistency, and other very down and precise things were now in my brain, an I understood all of it. I had realized at that point that this was more than just understanding things. This could really be used to learn as much as wanted about almost anything.