He listens to Posey as she speaks, hearing more of the pony he knows starting to come through. He quickly rushes over to her when she faints, making sure she hasn't been injured. Lightning smiles as Fluttershy's familiar cutie mark and wings appear. He crouches down to her after she ducked under a desk, and smiles comfortingly. "It's ok Fluttershy. We have been sent to help you. Somehow, you were all changed in both body and mind, and we could really use your help to try and get the others back to normal. So far we've got Twilight and Pinkie Pie."
[size=-2]"Oh my,"[/size] Fluttershy replies, slowly crawling out from under the desk, [size=-2]"I hope we can do it."[/size] ---- Firefly seems intrigued by hearing of Dark Shine's friend. [size=-2]"So...what's she like? I'll bet she's a good flier."[/size] ---- Pinkie Pie saluted to Pink Fizz. "Makes perfect sense to me!" She began zipping around the classroom until she had arranged a pile of desks that looked amazingly like a Civil War Era fortress. Popping out from the top, she announced, "Alright! Let's see Constella get through this!" ---- At seeing this, Twilight facehoofed. "I don't think that'll work, Pinkie..."
Dark Shine smiled. "Yeah, she is. Amazing in fact, the best flyer of Equestria. Like I said, shes loyal, she even saved her friend from falling to doom while performing a sonic Rainboom!"
Firefly's eyes widened. "Oh, wow... That sounds...awesome!" Her wings fluttered a bit. "Do you think I could ever be that good?"
Dark Shine smiled. "Thats up to you. I mean, you remind me a LOT of her so I'm sure you will. Be loyal to yourself, and perservere."
Entropy gave a strained smile at Pinkie's antics, but said nothing. After looking around the room, he saw that Fluttershy was back to her old self, and was (true to character) hiding under a desk. And it was probably the safest place to be, too, with all the paper projectiles flying all over the place... He just hoped they were on the right track. Even if they could wake up all the "sleeping" ponies, what then...?
Giving Fluttershy a reassuring smile, he helps her out from under the desk. "Is there anything you remember after Constella showed up at the Summer Sun Festival?" he inquires, wondering if Fluttershy might have noticed something that could help them.
Fizz's eyes went wide and she gave a grin of accomplishment. She pushed her "cannonballs" into place within the fortress and popped out of the top with Pinkie. "Wet's see her suhstain dis! Show yerself, enemy of da ponies here!"
Jhera took one look at Fizz and facehoofed. "We got Pinkie Pie back, Pink. Could you perhaps do something a bit more productive? I know for a fact that a few wads of paper won't stop a deistic being."
Fizz twisted around and looked at Jhera up-side down as she squinted, her hair flopping out of the way of her golden eyes. Her horn crackled a few times as she responded to him with a very thoughtful: "I knew foe a fact dat dis stage o' mah wife iz ovuh. I know foe a fact dat a wot of dis is impossibuh. Pfft..." She sputtered at Jhera. "Whose dweam is dis, annaway? Stop wookin' a fact. I izza pwo at dweamin' awe day!"
It took Entropy a few seconds to unravel Fizz's words. They made a surprising amount of sense, but still, he was used to looking at facts. Then again, look where that had gotten them... He sighed. He looked at Twilight, then back at Fizz. "All right, Fizz. What should we do?"
Ah! She turned and looked at Entropy with a crazy eye and grinned! "Finawee! Someone unduhstand. Hah!" Then she paused, and her other eye twitched. Suddenly she smacked herself in the face with both hooves, and shook it off. Her horn crackled a little and she blinked until she could see straight. "Izz my dweam, izz yer dweam, so dweam it! Dun sit an' twy tuh unnustan' facts when dere are none 'ere! Da onwee fact izz dat we dweamin'! Wike you, Entwopee!" She hopped down from the fort and trotted over to him, getting close. She dove deep into her wild freeloader imagination as she stared hard into his eyes. "Dweam of Twilight. Notta dat one, but wit' a horn. Dun jus' dweam it, beweave it, since we in da dweam alweedy. Dweam it, an' unduhstan' it." Then she smiled and trotted back towards the fort. "Taa-taaa~!"
Spoiler: Roll Magic for Entropy and Pink Fizz Entropy: 10 + 3 + 1 (spell) = 14 Pink Fizz: 6 + 4 = 10 Despite Entropy's best efforts, Twilight appears completely unaffected. However, to his surprise, the scenery itself wavers a bit before returning to "normal". Everypony in the room notices the wavering scenery. Twilight takes special notice and begins waving her hooves. "No! Entropy, don't! We can't wake up until everypony is back to normal!" Firefly chews on Dark Shine's words for a moment. "Hmm..." She flutters her wings until she hovers a few feet off of the ground. Swaying back and forth, she says, "Dark Shine...? Could you show me how to fly like you and Rainbow Dash?" Meanwhile, Glory and Sparkler seem to be involved in some sort of argument: "It's mine! You left it here for me, so I'm taking it!" Sparkler shouts. "Nuh uh!" Glory responds. "That quill has been in my family for generations! Give it back!"
Fizz groaned and meandered over to Glory and Sparkler. With an outrageous "BOOOOOM!" she threw a stack of papers at them! She snapped her hoof our at Glory. "Wha's w'ong wit' ya? Izza bold face wie when ya say skool material izz yers! Ya know we know dat ya know izza wie, so why ya doin' dat? Show a wittle honesty!" She swung her hoof through the air at the other ponies in the room. "Especawee since we awe in dis togefuh! Honesty izza impohtant part of fwiends, makin' fwiends, and buildin' a stwong bond o' twust!" She put both hooves on the desk and leaned in towards Glory. "Ya don' wanna be wit'out fwiend, white?" Then she rolled her head at Sparkler, lifting her mane out of the way to give her a glare. "You! Why ya wan' somethin' wike dis?" She twitched her eyes at the quill in indication. "Ya gotz one at yer desk! 'Sides, izz old an' freyed an' stuff. So bad, ya should give 'er yers!" She clambered onto the desk and stood on her hind hooves like she was giving a speech. "Since sharin' izz carin' an' genuhwosity izz part o' wha' earn fwiends. 'Sides, can't be takin' e'ryt'ing. Steel yerself fer when da twuewy ware an' beautifuhl come awong. Den, if ya been genuhwos enuff, ya'll have some fwiends ta share it wit'." She took a deep breath and puffed up, putting one hoof on her chest and wobbling to keep balance. "So dere! Fohtwess Commanduh Fizz haz spoken!"
Sparkler's eye twitched. "Eh...what?" Glory was a bit more miffed. "What?! This is too mine! It was passed down through generations! From my granny who died in a mysterious train wreck, to my father who served in the war and won seventeen medals of Honor, to me!"
She threw her hair back and gave Glory a crazed look as she snapped a hoof out. "LIES!" Hopping down with a growl, she grabbed the quill in her teeth and dashed off to her fort. "Pinkuh, seah da pohtcuwis!"
Jhera facehoofed and trotted over to where Pink Fizz was fortifying. "You may need some help with these guys, let me in." He turned around to peer at Glory and Sparkler behind her. No idea which one's which, but I have a feeling one of those can be triggered by honesty. Some kind of war-intimidation could trigger that...
Dark Shine looked to Firefly. He smiled. "Flap those wings. Believe in yourself. Persevere." He then flew out of his desk, flapping his wings gently as he hovered by Firefly. "Now its your turn."
Entropy saw what Fizz was doing, even if he didn't know if Fizz knew herself. It's impossible to tell whether she's doing something because she's smart, or because she's crazy, he thought. In any case... He turned to Twilight. "Twilight, quick! What's something Rarity is really, really passionate about?" He stole a sideways glance at Sparkler.
Twilight thought for a moment. "Hmm...well, Rarity is passionate about a number of things. She always supports her friends, she's very attentive to detail and appearance... Maybe we should focus on those qualities about her."
