Chapter 11:
Swarm of the century

It has been a couple of days since the Poison Joke incident, and all of Ponyville has accepted the Zebra as part of their community even though she still preferred to stay in the Everfree Forest. None of them realized that today was going to be a very bad day. ‘I can help her with this.’ A squirrel thought as he watched his caretaker gather flowers of various colors or shapes, so he grabbed the closest one and brought it to her.

“Thank you little squirrel, but remember these flowers are for Princess Celestia. Only the prettiest ones will do.” Fluttershy informed the small, woodland creature after he got her attention.

“I’ll look for something better.” The squirrel said to her in his native tongue when a small breeze destroyed his dandelion causing him to flee, and find. Kindness sang a pleasant tune, but was startled when a rock moved on it’s own causing her to hide behind a barrel of apples.

“Hello, little guy. I’ve never seen anything like you before.” FS said as a strange blue pixie came out from behind the rock, and then flew to an apple. “Oh! Are you hungry?” She asked after seeing the creature sniff a stray apple, so she crushed it into apple sauce for it. “Here you go.” She offered the smashed insides to the creature.

‘So, these red things are food.’ The creature thought and headed for the bigger supply of apples. Once there all of them were gone in just a couple of seconds.

“I guess you were hungry.” She said after seeing the empty barrel, and then looked at the creature which was nestled in her mane. “You’re the cutest thing ever. I can’t wait to show you to my friends.” She said and headed back into town not knowing of the plague she was about to unleash.

“Oh! Hurry up, Spike. This place isn’t going to clean itself.” Twilight said to her little brother.

“It also didn’t mess itself up.” The dragon muttered under his breath as he picked up three books.

“Princess Celestia will be here tomorrow.” The student of the princess in question informed after hearing what he just said.

“I thought this was just an unofficial, casual visit.” Spike stated back since he did not see the problem of taking it easy for once.

“There’s nothing casual about a visit from royalty. I want this place to be spotless, and you’ve barely made a dent in the clutter.” Magic informed the scaly one before her.
“Maybe you should start reading them one at a time.” The purple/green one said back to her while trying to carry a stack of six up a ladder, but failed and fell.

“Everything’s got to be perfect. No time for fooling around.” The sister figure said while dusting the books on top of her friend.

“You know: this would be a lot easier if the two of us wasn’t getting under each others feet.” The dragon explained to her, and prayed the young pony would get what he was saying, and offer to help more, but she did not.

“Great idea. You - clean while I see how everyone else's preparations are coming.” TS said as she handed him the feather duster, and headed out the door.

“Or maybe I should.” He tried to speak to her, but let out a groan of aggravation since she didn’t listen, and close the door behind her. Much to her satisfaction the small town looked great, and very good in welcoming her teacher…until she got to the first banner.

‘There, got it up.’ Heracross thought as he and a pony pulled up the banner which the inspector began to read it, but something seemed off.

“What happened to the rest of her name?” Twilight questioned the pony to the right of her.

“We couldn’t fit it all in.” The carrot marked pony answered back, and prayed that she would understand.

“You can’t hang up a banner that say: Welcome Princess Celest. Take it down and try again.” TS responded before galloping off to check the rest of the prep work.

‘Well, we better get to it.’ The insect thought as he went to work of doing what she said while the other did not like that at all.

“That looks perfect. Keep up the good work.” Twilight said to a pony and Squirtle as they watered some flowers surrounding a tree. The inspector decided to check on the sweet treats next. “Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Cake. How’s the banquet coming?” She asked through the top half of the split door.

“Uh, it would be coming a bit better if…” The female baker began to explain herself to the inspector, but simply pointed to desserts and all of them were bitten into. She saw, and knew the culprit, after a two layer cake with chocolate/pink/white frosting, cherries on top, and a fake crown in the center of the top was devoured.

“Pinkie! What are you doing? Those sweets are supposed to be for the princess.” The student said shouted at her fellow element while trying to keep her anger in check.

“I know. That’s why I’m tasting them. Some-pony needs to make sure that everything is tasty enough to touch the royal tongue. And I, Pinkie Pie, declare that these treats are fit for a king or a queen or a princess.” PP explained herself before moving onto another cake. TS saw this and was about to chew her out, but was stopped by the quiet one.

“Twilight, Pinkie, you won’t believe.” Fluttershy started to speak as she raced through the open door, but grinded to a halt as she feared she got in the middle of something. “Oh, I’m sorry. Uh, am I interrupting?” She asked calmly to the others.

“No, not at all. Come on in, and make yourself at home.” PP said before changing her tongue to be like the creature Ash spoke of: Lickitung, slid it under the cake before her, and swallowed it in one gulp.

‘Seriously? Again?’ The purple one thought as she glared at the glutton beside her. The quiet one was unsure at first to show off her discovery, but it was so cute that she had to show someone.

“What’s going on, Fluttershy?” The glutton questioned since she was expecting the animal lover to have taught the birds a new song for this day, but was greeted by something else.

“You won’t believe what I found at the edge of the Everfree Forest. Come on out, little guy. It’s okay.” Kindness said to her mane causing a blue ball with green eyes to come out, but so did a yellow one and a brown one. “Three?” FS said in a confused tone.

“They’re amazing. What are they?” Twilight questioned after trotting a bit closer to her friend so she could see those three a bit better.

“I’m not sure. I’m also not sure where these other two came from.” The animal caretaker informed her, and there was a small piece of her was worried about not knowing where the other two came from.

“I’ll take one off your hooves. I’ve never seen anything so…adorable.” TS said and snuggled the yellow one to her face with her front legs. “Besides it would be nice to have a companion for Spike, so that he won’t bother me so much while I’m studying.” Twilight explained after having a moment of weakness and blushed about it.

“Pinkie, do you want the other one?” Kindness questioned to Laughter in a friendly tone.

“Ugh! A parasprite? Are you kidding?” PP said after sticking her tongue out in disgust of that idea, and then walked off.

“Ugh?” FS questioned to her friend.

“A para-what?” TS questioned since she had never heard of such a word.

“How could you not like----.” Fluttershy tried to reason, but was cut off.

“Now, I’ve got to go find a trombone.” Pinkie Pie explained to them when she reached the doorway. The two were confused so she repeated herself, “A trombone. You know…” She imitated one, and headed off.

“Typical Pinkie.” The purple one muttered after her friend left after an annoyed sigh. She then looked at her new friend and then headed out to her next spot.

“Stand still, Rainbow Dash.” Rarity explained as she tried to put a classical outfit on her impatient friend.

“I can’t! I need to fly! This is way to boring for me.” RD said as she tried to fly off, but couldn’t, so she stayed on the pedestal to explain herself.

“Do you want to look good for Princess Celestia, or not?” The fashion expert questioned to the speedster in a firm tone. After hearing the name of one of the royal sisters Loyalty reluctantly sat down.

“Wow, Rarity, those outfits are gorgeous.” TS explained after entering the next stop on her inspection tour.

“Thank you, Twilight. Nice to know someone appreciates my talents.” R replied back and meant it since she knew that the sixth meant it.

“Ugh! So bored!” The blue one groaned as she tried to stay awake, but was failing until she, and Rarity heard a noise coming from Twilight’s mane. “What’s that sound, Twilight?” She asked after looking at her friend from the air while the other inspected it from the front.

‘No food here, but at least there are more suckers.’ A pink creature from the mane thought before diving into the gold one from earlier, and a blue one.

“Wow! What are they?” The flyer questioned as she believed them to be one of the cutest things ever.

“The better question is: where did they come from? I only had one a minute ago.” TS explained and a part of her began to worry, but the rest of her mind dismissed that fear.

“Uh, I’ll take one.” Rainbow Dash said as she scooped up the gold one, and cuddled it.

“Me too. Oh, they’re perfect!” Rarity said as she was having a hard time to decide which of the two other colors to take for herself.

“Does any-pony know where I can find an accordion?” Pinkie shouted out from the doorway to her fellow elements. “Gals, hello, this is important! Maybe Ash can help a pony out, so thanks for nothing.” The party animal said before galloping off. As she journeyed off Ash’s speedy Grass type saw what was going on and decided to report in.

“Boss, we may have a problem.” Sceptile stated after entering the home where Ash was doing dome meditation - try to get a feel for his aura a bit better since he had the time.

“What is it?” Ash asked after walking over to the tree gecko.

“Not sure if it’s dire, but Twilight had these strange, smiling bugs with her.” The Leaf Blade expert explained and after seeing the confused look on the hero’s face he added, “I could hear that she only had one at first.” This got his attention.

“Sounds interesting.” The human responded before hearing a knock at the door. “Who could that be?” Ash questioned before going to the door after opening it the trainer saw the pink one on his doorstep.

“Hey, Ash, do you have an accordion?” She asked in a nearly high speed tone.

“In the third bedroom. Totodile wanted to give it a shot. I think he thought it was a new form of a bouncy ball.” Ketchum said before looking down and saw that the pony he was talking to had already raced into his home, and was racing out with the instrument in hoof.

“Thanks, Ash, bye.” Laughter shouted out as she fled. AK shrugged it off, grabbed some grub, and then went back to tapping into his aura. Around dusk at the library Twilight was marveling at how good of a job her little brother did to their home.

“Oh, the decorations, the banquet, I hope everything comes together for tomorrow.” The student said as she looked out the window before looking down at Spike and his friend. “What is there to worry about?” She thought aloud before going to bed. “Spike! Wake up! What happened?” TS shouted after falling out of her bed, and headed over to the dragon’s bed.

“What’s going on?” The dragon questioned after prying two of them away from his closed eyes.

“Where did they come from?” The purple one questioned as she looked at the room full of Parasprites.

“I don’t know. The little guy got hungry in the night, so I gave him a snack. I have no idea where these others came from.” Spike explained what he knew, and that was when they the two saw the lot of them messing things up in the library.

‘There’s got to be food around here.’ They all thought while making a mess.

“Oh no! They’re messing up all my hard work.” The dragon said as he just stood there and watched.

“The princess will be here in a few hours.” The pony informed before galloping away to try to clean up what they were messing up. “Spike, help me round up these little guys.” She ordered after feather dusting a few away from the book shelves.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” He questioned back as he tried to hold an overflowing basket in his claws, but tripped over his own tail, and all of them fell on top of him. TS dusted them away to make sure her scaly chum was okay. “I know. I know. Stop fooling around.” The dragon said to her after seeing that she was giving him a miffed look.

“Got to warn Ash.” Noctowl, who had been watching TS house for a while, whispered to himself before flying back home. Unknown to any of them was that another flyer was about to have the same problem as the spell caster.

‘Good morning, little one.’ RD thought as she cracked open one of her eyes and saw her tiny friend stick out of her cloud bed, but then another popped out. ‘That’s not right.’ The rain maker thought before seeing that she had a lot of them in her room.

‘Hmm? Sounds like Rainbow is up?’ The first bird thought and decided to say hello to her, but when he got there the bird was greeted by a strange sight. ‘That’s just weird.’ Pidgeot thought as he watched as several multi-colored insects glomped onto his friend in several embarrassing ways.

“Get off of me!” RD shouted as she was doing everything she could for them to stop. When they did not take the hint she flew off which the other did as well since he knew the Pallet Town protector would want to know about this. The surplus of Parasprites were helping one of the six.

“Not only are you adorable, but you are also quit useful.” Rarity said as she gently rubbed one holding a cloth’s chin. “Are you okay?” She asked when the one she just touched started hacking, and then spat something in her eye.

‘Good. Another brother.’ The spitter thought as he looked at the spot on the pony’s eye.

“Ew!” She exclaimed while cleaning her eye, and that was when she saw it become another Parasprite. “Gross! Gross! Gross! No creature that behaves so revoltingly is allowed in my boutique.” She shouted out at them, and then watched as it happened again. Believing this to be a mystical problem the unicorn bundled them in her bags and headed off, but was stopped by her pink themed friend.

“Look, Rarity, Applejack leant me her harmonica. Isn’t that great?” Pinkie said and questioned while playing a little tune. “And not a moment too soon.” She added when one of the Parasprite tried to take a peek through its portable home, but was denied by the owner of the bag.

“Pinkie, I’m a little busy right now.” Generosity informed with a bit of strained voice.

“And I’m not/! Do you have any idea how many more instruments I gotta find - a lot, that’s how many. Now if we split the pick-up between us we might just make it in time.” PP informed after wrapping one of her upper hooves around her friend’s neck.

“Please, Pinkie, I don’t have time for some silly scavenger hunt. I got a real problem.” Rarity informed back before walking off after getting out of her friend’s grip.

“You’ve got a real problem all right, and a banjo is the only answer.” PP said before galloping away. As all that was going on a giant turtle heard all of it as he was trying to take a nap, and decided to do something about it.

‘Got to warn him.’ Torterra thought before racing as fast as he could back to his home. As he went to get his partner Twilight was racing off, with two bags full, to see if one of the others could help.

“I see we’re having the same problem.” Generosity said to Magic when the purple pony stopped in front of her.

“Ditto!” RD shouted as she was still trying to get them off of her face.

“Fluttershy knows everything about animals. I‘m sure she can tell us how to stop them from multiplying.” TS said after their blue winged friend flew off, and then they followed her in the direction of Kindness’ home. As they raced there the Trainer got the news.

“Time for a new two in one hero maneuver.” Ash said as he looked over at the tree gecko, and at Pidgeot. “Sceptile, Leaf Blade me up to Pidgeot, and when I get up there Pidgeot use Whirlwind as hard as you can.” He instructed before jumping as high as he could.

‘If that’s the way you want it.’ The blade expert thought before doing as he was told, and the bird soon did what he was told. With all of that the trainer was heading for the woods beside R and TS.

‘Good thing I still know how to swing.’ Ash thought as he tapped into his ape-like prowess, and was able to keep in step with them. Eventually the four got over to their destination.

“Or not.” Twilight stated when she saw several, several Parasprites fly out of the door before she even had a chance to open it. Much to their horror there were more inside as many that came out.

“Do something, Fluttershy. Can’t you control them?” Ash insisted and questioned to the cream/pink one that seemed to be having problems.

“I’ve tried everything I know: begging, pleading, beseeching, and asking politely.” FS explained to the four at her door before fleeing from a frying pan. As Twilight was having a horrible daydream of the Parasprites taking her mentor away Quilava, who was taking a nap by FS’s home walked up to them.

“I can handle this, Ash.” The Fire class said as he walked into the home, lit up his back, and was ready to attack.

“Quilava, hold up. No telling if your flame will help or hurt matters.” Ash informed and the creature knew that his partner meant: flame multiples them faster or kills them instantly, and Ketchum never likes the second option.

“We can’t get them under control when the princess arrives it will be a total disaster.” Twilight informed the five around her after her daydream stopped.

“Ew! If you ask me it’s already a total disaster!” R informed after one of them regener-barfed before her.

“Here’s all those apples you wanted, Fluttershy, but I still can’t figure out why you need so many.” AJ said as she carried a wagon full of apples to the simple cottage. “Hey!” She shouted at the multi-colored cloud that just ate all of the apples in the wagon.

“What do we do?” Kindness questioned to the others since this really wasn’t one of her real strengths.

“I got it! No pony can herd like Applejack.” TS said while pointing to the pony in question.

“Yeah! We can drive them back into the forest.” Rainbow stated since she liked this plan.

“I’ll wrasstle them up, but I’ll need all your help to do it.” AJ stated back to them. “Twilight, you and Rarity wait over there.” She instructed and pointed to the spot where she wanted the unicorns. “I’ll herd the critters straight at ya like a funnel.” She informed before the two galloped away. “Rainbow Dash, you and Fluttershy stay on top of em. Don’t let none of them fly away.” She instructed to the two fliers.

“Aye. Aye.” The blue one said before she and her friend took to the air. With nothing else to do Ash and Quilava followed after Applejack, and soon they all had them all in a very big ball form.

“All right, ya`ll. Here goes nothin.” AJ said and with that the seven of them rolled them back to the forest. With a little teamwork they were able to keep the ball from falling apart, and everything was going good until Laughter appeared out of no where.

“Pinke?” TS questioned since she didn’t even see her friend approach them.

“Twilight, we don’t have much time.” PP explained to the studious one.

“Your telling me. The princess could arrive at any moment.” TS said back while glancing skyward to make sure there was no sign of her which there wasn’t.

“Exactly, and that’s why I need you guys to drop what your doing and help me get some mariachis.” PP retorted back to her friend while twisting her head upside down.

“Mariachis? Pinkie, we have bigger things to worry about than missing mariachis.” The student said back as she still wasn’t getting that the pink one knew how to deal with this.

“Your right! Getting a tuba has to be our number one goal. Follow me.” Laughter said and rushed off, but after seeing no one did she double backed. “I said: follow me.” The others still stayed focused on the ball.

“Pinkie Pie, you are so random.” The bold, blue flyer stated in an annoyed tone.

“You are all so stubborn.” The partier in pink said back, and hurried off to do her own thing.

“Forget her, fellas. Focus. Head em up, and move `em out.” AJ said as she continued to steer the ball into the forest. Eventually they were able to succeed in their mission, and the Pegusi high hoofed each other for a job well done even though it did sting the timid one’s hooves.

“Let’s get going and clean up the mess before the princess arrives.” TS said after all the celebrating was done.

‘Why is she so gung-ho of getting instruments?’ Ash thought as he followed them.
“Okay, everyone knows what to do, right? We’ve got to work extra hard to make up for lost time.” Twilight said as she gave everyone there a job to do. The owner of the house got to the door, and opened it which unleashed a lot more Parasprites.

“Where did all of those come from?” Ash questioned as he saw them all fly past them, and he didn’t understand how another wave could be here already or at all.

“Well, I may have kept just one.” FS said in an embarrassed tone as an orange one appeared on her back. “I couldn’t help myself. They’re just so cute.” She said to them and watched as the orange one flew away.

“We don’t have time to keep rounding up these things. What do we do now?” The student questioned at the insect like hairballs around them.

“We call in the weather control.” RD, who flew back home to get her work goggles, said after landing, and then took to the air. “Time to take out the adorable trash.” She said after seeing that her friends were trying to keep them nearby, and after a battle roar the weather manipulator created a tornado.

‘Okay, that’s pretty cool.’ Ash thought as he found his footing and watched as the cyclone sucked them all in causing it to slowly become multi-colored.

Way to go, Rainbow Dash!” Twilight shouted out after seeing that this plan was working.

“Looks like our problems are solved.” AJ exclaimed happily to her spell making friend. The situation became dire when a voice called out to them.

“They will be with these cymbals.” PP said as she happily crashed them together before adding, “Hey, give me those back.” When the cyclone took them from her. RD had difficulty flying with the metal dishes in her cyclone and she was soon forced them to lose plan B.

“Rainbow!” Ash shouted out as he saw the controller of the cyclone fly out of it. The human was able to grab her, and take the tree hit for her while the others watched the small creatures rain down upon Ponyville.

“Pinkie Pie, what have you done?” The organized one of the group questioned the wild card of the group.

“I’ve lost a brand new pair of cymbals that’s what I’ve done.” The party planner shouted back and tried to think of where she can get a new pair.

“Would you forget about your silly instruments for one second. You’re ruining our efforts to save Ponyville.” TS shouted out to her friend in an angered tone.

“Me?! Ruin?! I’m not the ruiner. I’m the ruinee, or is it ruiness? Ruinette?” Pinkie shouted out, but then got sidetracked to figure out which ruin title she was. The others saw this as their chance to leave her in the dust.

“Come on, guys. There’s no reason with that one. She’s a few apples short of a bushel.” AJ said as she was the first to leave followed by the others with Ash and Quilava bringing up the rear.

“Hey! I’m trying to tell you all that the ruining is on the other hoof. If you all slow down and listen to me!” PP shouted and then went off to get the supplies herself. This is what got Ash’s attention which caused him to stop.

“Quilava, go with her. Help her out with her mission, and use any of our friends as you can.” Ash informed the Fire type who nodded back and rushed after her. ‘I have a feeling that she knows the solution to this more than anyone of the others.’ Ash thought before chasing after the girls.

‘These things are so cute.’ All of the ponies in that small town thought as they watched the strange creatures fall from the sky. One of the citizens caught it causing her and her friend to stare at it with wide eyes.

‘Food!’ The blue Parasprite on the pony’s hoof thought before eating two pieces of cake. This made the one with the lyre as her symbol was about to cry because she had been wanting to try that new cake for a while now.

‘Again.’ One of the gardeners thought as a dust cloud of sorts came in, ate almost everything, and flew away.

“What do we do? They’re eating all the food in town.” FS questioned once they all made it to town and saw the market place was under attack.

“My apples!” The bucker shouted and galloped back to her home to rally her family to defend it.

“We’ve got to do something.” The student said aloud before seeing a Parasprite before her which gave her a notion. “I’ve got it! I’ll cast a spell to make them stop eating all the food.” She informed the others which got the trainer’s attention.

“I don’t think that’s a good…” Ketchum tried to reason with her, but saw that she was already casting it, “Idea.” He finished his comment even though he didn’t really need to.

“Look! Tambourines! If you could all just --Grrrrr!” Pinkie informed them and then ran off since they were not listening to her. TS saw one of them go to an apple, but was relieved that it did not take the fruit; what it did take was the basket.

“Hey, it worked. They’re not eating the food anymore.” Rainbow Dash informed as an apple rolled up to her hooves. Twilight became embarrassed because she was not expecting this to happen. Ash looked at the four and saw RD blaming TS for this, and FS blaming herself, but then he cast his gaze to R.

‘3...2...’ Ash thought since he had a gut feeling that the fashion designer was going to understand the downside to the spell.

“Oh no! If they get inside my store…EVERYPONY FOR HERSELF!!!” Rarity said calmly before shouting the last part and bolted for her home. “My outfits!” She shouted once getting inside and saw that they were all being eaten one by one. She tried to shoo them away, but after realizing that she was outnumbered the Generosity coward on a stool.

“I’ll save you!” Gliscor shouted out as he put on his best menacing pose. He then hopped inside which caused the white/purple one to think he came for her, but watched as she was passed for her piccolo.

‘Seriously.’ Rarity watched as the bat-like creature blew into it, and then hopped away leaving her to scream in terror. As for the other location three out of four of the family members, none of them wanted the youngest to get hurt, and Tauros stood ready.

“No woodland creature is gonna eat the apple family’s crop.” AJ said as she stood ready with bug spray while her big bro stood ready with a fly swatter, and their granny held a pitchfork. The wild bull stood in front of their blockade, and was ready to use his attacks on them.

“Bring it on!” Tauros bellowed as he stood ready for them, but watched as they bypassed all the apples and ate the outside of the barn instead.

“Didn’t see that one coming?” AJ said after the framework fell to the ground. Now knowing that her crops were safe the farm girl headed back into town to see what she could do.

‘Biggest supply of non regular food, next to Rarity…Twilight.’ Ash thought as he raced over to the library to see if she was okay. The two of them got into the building to see something that should be impossible.

“They’re eating the words.” TS shouted and knew that she would need to order a whole bunch of new books after this is over.

“Grab one, and meet me at our herbalist’s place.” Ash instructed before racing off since he had a gut feeling that the zebra may know something. She followed his advice, and followed after him.

‘Meditation is always good.’ The zebra thought as she balanced herself upside down on a bamboo stick. Outside Ash use aura sight to see if she was doing anything important, and was about to knock to get her attention, but his friend had other ideas: barge in.

‘No.’ AK thought before leaping in, and caught the eco-mancer before she could touch ground. Zecora liked the gesture, but decided not to show it.

“Have you gone mad?” She shouted out at Ash who simply sported a nervous smile before putting her on the ground - hooves first.

“Zecora, these little guys are devouring Ponyville, and the princess is on her way. Can you help us, please?” Twilight said as she released the bug she carried with her which went right over to the zebra.

“Oh monster of such little size. Is that a Parasprite before my eyes?” The witch doctor said as it rested on the tip of her nose.

“I don’t know - is it?” TS questioned, and braced herself for some good advice.

“Tales of crops and harvests consumed. If these creatures are in Ponyville…you’re doomed.” Zecora said forebodingly and then casually as the one sprite barfed out another copy. This was not what the student wanted to hear, so she decided to flee back to the town.

“Thank you for your time, Zecora. Sorry for startling you.” Ash said as he followed after the purple one and closed the door behind him. Now alone the zebra tried to concentrate on her meditation, but there was still a part of her that thought of that holding moment.

‘Dang it, get off of me.’ TS thought as she tail whipped the Parasprites over her, but missed.

“We have bigger problems then those brightly colored flies.” Ketchum said to her before pointing up at the sky. Magic followed his finger, and saw what he meant.

“Oh no. Here she comes.” The student said as she watched her idol slowly come toward Ponyville. She galloped as fast as she could as Ash ran along side her.

‘Ooooh. New meal.’ Several of them thought and decided to go after the human which he did notice, but the organized one did not.

“Okay, here’s the plan. Rainbow Dash: you and Ash distracts them.” She instructed to the two.

“It’s a done deal.” AK said to his friend before racing off. RD as well and wondered if they thought her mane was some form of candy since they no longer fed on normal food.

“Good. Everyone else we need to make an exact copy of Ponyville right over there. We’ve got less then a minute.” Twilight said and watched as the ponies fled and Ash’s creatures were doing more harm than good with their brawn first style. “Zecora’s right. We’re doomed.” Magic admitted, and just in time to hear a tune coming her way.

‘Really hope no one sees me doing this.’ Sceptile thought as he walked along with several of his brothers and sister.

“Oh no. The princess’ precession is here. It’s all over.” The student of the visitor said aloud, and then saw the source of the music: several of Ash’s Pok`emon and Pinkie Pie guiding them.

‘Good. They’re keeping the tempo.’ Pinkie thought as she watched as Sceptile on accordion, Charizard on harmonica, Heracross on Banjo, Bayleef on maracas, Snorlax on tuba, Totodile on symbols, Quilava on tambourine, and Gliscor on piccolo were following her directions.

“Pinkie, we’re in the middle of a crisis here. This is no time for your…nonsense.” Twilight tried chewing her out only to see that the parasprites had stopped their chewing and was grooving to the music.

‘What the? Don’t they like my clothes anymore?’ Ash thought as he saw the insects on his shirt/jacket were bouncing with the others as they bounced behind the bat’s bouncing tail. He then grouped out with the other five who were just as confused as he was. With nothing better to do the six followed the parade.

“Look!” TS shouted and pointed to the carriage that just hit ground. The six ran past the parade to meet up with the royal one.

“Twilight Sparkle, my prized pupil.” Princess Celestia said as she got off of her ride to meet the six bowing/kneeling before her.

“Hello, Princess.” The student said as she rose from her bowing pose as the others did as well.

“So good to see you again. As well as your friends.” Celestia said with a smile which the others returned the smile. “Although, why is your jacket and shirt is such disarray?” She asked about Ash’s Swiss cheese top half.

“Well, you see, your majesty it’s like this…” Ketchum started to explain himself, but before he could properly explain the parade went past her and distracted the sun raiser.
“So, how was the trip? Hit much traffic?” Twilight asked as a way to further Ash from explaining what happed to his top since the student knew Ash was a truthful sort, and she did not want her idol to know of what happened to the town.

“What is this?” PC questioned before a parasprite landed on her which she used her left wing to get a better look at the creature. “These creatures are adorable.” She exclaimed as she watched the creature fly off to the others.

“They’re not that adorable.” RD muttered under her breath while sticking her tongue out in disgust which the others snickered about.

“I’m terribly honored that you and the good citizens of Ponyville have organized a parade in honor of my visit.” Celestia said to them which confused the student greatly since she didn’t plan on a parade.

“Yep, that’s your student. Always making sure you are greeted properly even if it is just a casual visit. Right, Twilight?” Ash said with a smile before glancing over at the sixth one.

“Uh…uh-huh.” She responded, and was grateful that Ash had her back on that part.

“Unfortunately that visit is going to have to wait for another time.” She said to the subjects before her. “I’m afraid an emergency has come up in Fillydelphia. Apparently there has been some form of infestation.” She explained as to why the visit had to wait.

“An infestation?” TS questioned and prayed it wasn’t more parasprites.

“Yes, a swarm of bothersome creatures have invaded the pour town.” The princess went deeper into the explanation. “I’m sorry, Twilight, to have put you through so much trouble.” She added in a sincere tone.

“Trouble? What trouble?” She asked back innocently, and prayed the damage wasn’t so sever that they could see it from here.

“Before I have to go would you care to give me your latest report on the magic of friendship in person.” The princess stated as she boarded her ride.

“My report?” TS questioned since she was so worried about the bugs she forgot all about it.

“Haven’t you learned anything about friendship?” PC questioned back, and wondered if she was right. Magic noticed that Ketchum was stretching his neck muscles until she realized that he was motioning over to the band before them.

“Actually, I have. I’ve learned that the solution to your problems can come from where you least expect it. It’s a good idea to stop, and listen to your friends opinions and perspectives.” TS said as she neared her teacher’s carriage which the others did as well.

‘Oops.’ Totodile thought as he accidentally slammed his instrument too loudly and gave the ones before them a bit of a start.

“Even when they don’t always seem to make sense.” She added after calming down from the scare.

“I’m so proud of you, Twilight Sparkle, and I’m very impressed with your friends as well. It sounds like your learning so much from each other.” PC said back before rolling off, and taking flight, but not before noticing the pieces of skin coming from the torn clothes, and saw the well toned body beneath it.

“Hey, what happened to the Princess?” Pinkie questioned as her make-shift band stopped once the last of them went back to the Everfree Forest.

“Emergency in Fillydelphia.” Magic explained to Laughter.

“Some sort of infestation.” Loyalty added which got Laughter’s attention.

“Oh no! Have they got parasprites too. Well, have tuba we’ll travel. Ready, guys.” PP said as she looked back at the band, but before they could answer one of the others cut her to the quick.

“I think the princess can handle it.” The student said so her friend didn’t have to go through all that trouble.

“So, you knew what those critters were all along, and you knew that she was on the right track from the start.” AJ said to the protector and partier.

“Well, duh, why do you think I was so frantic to get my hooves on all these instruments. I tried to tell you, but at least Ash had my back.” PP said back while looking at one of the tallest in the group.

“You weren’t acting as random as normal, so I had Quilava and some others back you up just in case. Good work by the way, team.” AK said as he looked at everyone there.

“We know, Pinkie Pie, and we’re sorry we didn’t listen.” TS said and let the others apologize before adding, “You’re a great friend even if we don’t always understand you.” The spell caster prayed she would take that in a good way.

“Thanks, guys. Your all great friends too even when I don’t understand me.” The party animal explained back and meant her statement.

“You saved my reputation with Princess Celestia, and more importantly you saved Ponyville.” Twilight said with a smile, but when the team got there the whole place was in shambles. “Or not.” She added which caused Haunter to do a comical tune on the trombone.

“Well, time to get to work.” Ash said as he set off to try to rebuild as best as he could. “Come on, guys.” He instructed causing the band to dump their instruments and help out their partner.

‘This is much better.’ The swordsmon thought as he used his speed to clean up the ground beneath them. Several hours later the group was able to clean up the ground, repair a few carts, and two buildings, but after all that it was already time to turn in.

‘Quitting time already?’ Ash thought after nailing the last nail to a home, but decided to get back to it in the morning. Due to all of their hard work Ash and his team slept soundly, but as the aura warrior slept he thought of his fights with: Blaine and Flannery which still confused him.

Copy Rights:
Ash Ketchum, and the others, are owned by Gamefreak/Nintendo and Cartoon Network.
My Little Pony, and the others, are owned by Hasbro and the Hub.