"Ugh, I did not sleep well this time. What time is it?" I glanced over at the clock across from me.
"9:55 AM...that's nice...wait...OH SHIT! I'M GONNA BE LATE!" I jumped up off of the couch and ran to the door. I almost got there before Rainbow called my name.
"Shadow? You okay down there?"
"Yeah! I'm just late for work, I get off at 6:00, I'll meet you at Twilight's then! Later!"
"Wait! I forgot to tell you that-"
"Sorry, no time!"And with that I rushed out of the door and flew as fast as possible to town. Shit, I need to hurry! I arrived at the Silver Thunder Bar, and rushed inside to meet with Thunder. I arrived at his door, hoping I wasn't late. I walked in, and at once he noticed me.
"Shadow, you're early."
"What? You said 10:00 AM." I said while gasping for breath.
"I did, but right now it's 9:00 AM." He said showing me a clock.
…...fuck. I guess that's what Rainbow was trying to tell me. That's so weak.
"Sigh*, I can start a little early then, if that's okay."
He gave a little chuckle. "Yeah, go ahead, there's a broom over there. Just sweep up around here, and come to me when you finish."
"Sure thing." I trotted over to the broom and picked it up by wrapping my hooves around it, because I still didn't know how to pick stuff up with the flat end of my hoofs yet. I decided to increase the time I can fly by doing my job while hovering. I still couldn't believe my bad luck with arriving early. I did my best to shake it off, but it still bugged me. I mean seriously, what were the chances? I bet Rainbow did it as a prank. I swept up around the place, and before I knew it, it was lunch time. I walked back to Thunder's office.
"Hey Shadow, go ahead and take off for lunch, you get 45 minutes."
"Alright, I'll be back soon then." I said as I walked out the door.
Maybe Rainbow would want to go out for lunch? I flew around town looking for her, and found her napping on a cloud. I decided to have some fun. I lay down next to her, where our faces were only inches away. I gave her a little touch on her nose and she opened her eyes.
I grinned "Asleep on the job, eh?"
She jumped back. "Don't do that! You scared me!"
"That was the point." I said, maintaining a smirk.
"I'll get you back, you can count on that. So what's up?"
"I just got my lunch break, and I was wondering if you wanted to go to lunch with me."
She gave a smile. "Yeah, I'd like that."
"Okay then, you pick where we go, I don't know any restaurants around here."
"I know just the place, follow me."
I did as she said, and followed. She turned around to ask me something.
"So what did your boss say when you arrived an hour early?"
"Yeah, about that, you could have said something!"
She rolled her eyes."I tried to tell you that my clock was an hour ahead, but you rushed out before I could say something!"
"I think you did that on purpose to prank me."
She raised an eyebrow. "If I wanted to prank you, it would have been better than setting my clock back an hour."
Damn, she got me.
"Anyways," she continued "here we are."
I looked up at the restaurant. It looked like a cafe of some kind. We were met by a waiter wearing a fancy suit, with one of those weird curly mustaches. I chuckled a little to myself.
He gave me a little glare. "Something the matter sir?"
"It's nothing, I was just thinking how there are so few ponies with great mustaches such as your's nowadays. It is a true shame." He brightened up and smiled at that.
"I couldn't agree more! It's as if culture is fading right before our eyes! Thank you for the compliment sir!"
He led us to a secluded table in the corner of the candle-lit building. Me and Rainbow took our seats, and the waiter gave us our menus.
"Now what can I get you two to drink today?" he asked
"I'll just have water thanks." Rainbow said
"I'll have water as well." Seeing as how I had no idea what kind of drinks were served here. For all I knew, they served their own piss...okay maybe not that bad...why the hell did I think of that anyways?
"Alright, I will give you two a moment to look over the menu, and I will be back shortly with your beverages." the waiter said as he walked off.
"So what are you getting?" I asked
"I'm thinking about getting the daisy and lettuce sandwich, how about you?"
Daisy? I guess that makes sense, maybe my taste buds have changed since being transformed into a pony. I've only eaten apples since I've gotten here, I guess I could give it a shot.
"I'll probably get the same thing." I responded, just then, the waiter came back with our water, and took out a notepad.
"Now what can I get you two to eat?" he asked
"We'll both have the daisy and lettuce sandwich." I answered
"Very good, could I take your menus for you?"
I passed him the menus. "Thank you, and your food will be out shortly."
He walked away, and me and Rainbow continued to talk until the waiter came back with our food.
"Here you two are, is there anything else I can do for you?"
"No thanks, I think we're good." I responded
He nodded and trotted off. I stared at my sandwich questioningly before finally take a bite. This is incredible! I destroyed the rest of the sandwich in seconds while Rainbow chuckled to herself. I looked up.
"What?" I asked
"Oh nothing, daisy face." she said, holding in laughter
I felt on my face, and felt a daisy on there. I gave a small blush and ate it.
"Oh yeah? Well you've got something on your face too."
"Huh? Where?"
"Right here." I said, giving her a peck on her cheek. She smiled and blushed.
We finished eating, and I signaled the waiter for the bill.
"Can we get the bill please?" I asked
"Oh no, I simply cannot accept your money sir, you are one of few who truly appreciate a good mustache."
"Oh, thanks a lot." That settled it, I was growing a mustache, wait how the hell did he even grow a mustache? He's a friggin pony! Is it fake? Meh, I guess I'll find out after I don't shave.
Me and Rainbow walked outside and gave each other a goodbye hug before flying away. I flew back to the bar and got back to work. I was just cleaning for about another twenty minutes, before a familiar neon green pony walked through the door and took a seat at the bar.
"Give me your strongest drink." he said to Silver
Silver nodded and prepared a drink for the pony, which he downed.
"Another." he said
Silver made him another drink which the strange pony instantly downed again. The strange pony paid him plus a small tip and started to walk out before something caught our ears.
"Get away from me you creep!" a white coated mare with a rose for a cutie mark shouted to a much larger buck with a black coat and a snake with a cutie mark. Well that's just creepy.
"Shut up!" he yelled, slapping her.
That's it, I'm stepping in, wait, what's the strange pony doing? He calmly walked over to the mare, and helped her up.
"Are you okay?' he asked
"Y-yes, thank you." she said, wiping a tear from her eye
"Right, go ahead and get out of here, I'll handle this creep."
She nodded and ran out the door. The buck with a snake for a cutie mark looked down at the strange pony.
"What do you think you're doing shrimp? You better apologize and walk away now!"
"Yeah, that's not happening, know why? Because-" and just like that, he gave the huge buck a sucker punch! It seemed like it worked for a moment, but he quickly recovered and gave the strange pony what looked like a pretty damn painful applebuck, making the strange pony fly past me. Okay, NOW I'm helping. I flew full speed and charged into the buck, we tumbled around for a little bit until he shoved me off.
I landed next to the strange pony.
"I didn't ask for your help." he said
"You didn't need to, if anyon-anypony hits a mare, they aren't getting away with it."
His eyes glanced down for a moment. Wait, was this guy checking me out?
"You have no cutie mark." he said. Well, at least he wasn't checking me out, I hope.
"Yeah, we can talk later, because here comes snake flank!" I yelled as snake flank charged at us. We side-stepped out of the way, and we each gave him a solid punch to the face, stunning him. I grabbed him tightly and let strange pony give him another good hit to knock him out. As soon as he fell down, Thunder walked out of his office with an eerie calm about him. He looked around, and his eyes fell on the three of us.
"Shadow, care to explain what just happened?"
"I was just taking out the trash sir, thing is, I needed help with this particular piece."
He gave a short glance at snake flank and turned away. "Right, I'll be in my office if you need me."
Thunder has to be the coolest boss ever.
Me and strange pony just looked at each other and sat down. Okay, I need a name, calling him just 'strange pony' was weird.
"So, what's you're name?" I asked
"Mint Barry." He said, after thinking for a moment.
"HAHAHAHAHA! That's fucking hilarious!" I yelled while rolling on the ground
"Oh shut up, I bet your name isn't any better." he said
"It's a hell of a lot cooler than your's bro, it's Shadow Flash."
"Wow, you have a jet black mane, and you're a pegasus, who would have thought. I only knew one other person with the last name Flash, and he was probably just as stupid as you."
"Wait, did you just say person?" I said, the gears in my head started shaking off the cobwebs and turning.
"Uh, you must be mistaken, I said pony." he stammered
"No, you said person, and how is it you spell your last name?"
"B-A-R-R-Y. Why?"
Ho-ly shit.
"Wait, Barry? Barry Johnson?"
His eyes widened. "How do you know that name, who are you?"
"Dude it's me! Landon!"
"Landon?" he paused for a moment, then hit me as hard as he could. "You dumb son of a bitch! You fucking just HAD to not listen to me! And look where it fucking got you! You died you dumb ass!"
I rose up, rubbing my jaw where the punch landed. "No shit? I kinda figured that out after getting smashed in my own car. What are YOU doing here for that matter? It's only been like two days since the accident.
His eyes widened in shock. "Dude, it hasn't been two days, it's been ten years."
"Okay, I may get wasted from time to time, but never have I been on a ten year drinking binge." I said
"Time must somehow work differently for these two worlds..." he mused
"Wait, what happened after I died? And why are you here after only ten years?"
"Well, after the accident, it devastated your father-"
I snorted "Like he gave a shit."
"He really did care Landon, he just never got a chance to say anything."
"Bullshit, he had eighteen years to fucking do it. Just finish your story."
"Sigh*, anyways, after the funeral-"
"Wait, one more thing, did you play a boring song? Because if you did, I'm gonna have to punch you."
"No Landon, because believe it or not, I believed you when you said you would haunt me, because you're the only person that would rise out of hell to haunt me for something that stupid."
"So what did you play then?"
"We played Anthem of the Angels by Breaking Benjamin, happy?" (Look it up if you're curious, it doesn't really matter if you do or don't)
"That's good enough I suppose."
"ANYWAYS, I was officially out of a job. I was kicked out of my apartment because I couldn't afford rent anymore. Your dad offered to help me out since me and you had known each other since we were kids. I had to decline because I just couldn't take his charity. I ended up as an entertainer in a club not unlike this one playing a guitar, since I was always pretty good at that. It was going well, until someone stormed the place with a gun and shot me in the fucking face. Next thing I know, I'm in fucking Purgatory while 'God' gives me a chance to come here, so I took it. As soon as I wake up, I'm in the Ponyville Library with a serious need for a drink. So here I am."
"Well, since you are here, you're going to need a place to stay, and a job. I can probably get you a job here if you want. As for the place to stay, I know you can't live with me and Rainbow because of the cloud-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, you and Rainbow Dash are..."
"Nothing like that, we're just going out as of now, so calm down. Anyways, the only other place I can think of would be Twilight's. I know she didn't have any spare room when I first got here, but maybe she can find a spot for you."
"Sounds good, I guess I'll head back there now. I'll talk to you later then. And it's good seeing you again Landon, even if you are a pony."
"Alright, I'll meet up with you at Twilight's after work, which is actually only a few more minutes, and I'll talk to my boss about getting you a job."
"Okay, see you then." Barry said as he trotted out.
"Ughhhhhh" came a groan beneath me. I looked down, oh, I forgot about this douche, I guess I should drag him out.
I finished dragging him out, and headed over to Thunder's office to turn in.
"Hey Thunder, my friend back there could use a job, and he does know how to play guitar..."
"Say no more Shadow, he's hired."
"Just like that?" I asked, slightly surprised.
"Just like that." he responded
"Okay, well I guess I'll see you tomorrow then, see ya."
"Goodbye Shadow."
I walked out and headed towards the library. I actually managed to catch up to Barry.
"Hey man! Wait up!" I yelled as I flew next to him.
"Oh hey Landon."
"About that, call me Shadow when we're around other ponies, I don't think they'll exactly understand if we tell them we're actually a different species, and also died."
"Good point." Barry said as we arrived at the library.
We opened the door and walked into pitch blackness.
"SURPRIIIIIIIISE" A bunch of ponies yelled as the lights cut on.
"GOD DAMN FUCK!" me and Barry yelled in unison.
"Fuuuuck, not again!" I said as I recovered. I glanced at Barry, and I think he had it worse. I suppose it's harder the first time.
"You okay Mint?" I asked Barry
"Yeah, I think my heart just started beating again."
"I know how you feel, I'll leave you to get acquainted with everypony while I talk with Rainbow." I said as I trotted away.
"Sorry Shadow, we didn't think you would fall for this again." Rainbow said
"Well I did, at this rate you ponies are going to give me heart troubles."
"Don't be a baby Shadow."
"Easy for you to say."
The party continued on for about three hours before everypony started to leave, leaving just me, Barry, and the Mane 6.
"Hey Twilight, do you think you could find a spot for Mint here to stay?" I asked
"I guess I could find a place for him." she responded
"Thank you Twilight." Barry said
"You're welcome. Now it's getting pretty late, so we should all turn in now."
We all agreed and went our separate ways. Before I left, I told Barry about his new job. He was actually pretty excited about that. When me and Rainbow arrived back at her place, we gave each other a good night kiss, and she went to bed. I walked over to my spot on the world's most comfy couch, and got comfy. 'Got to see my best friend, not a bad day at all' I said to myself before drifting off.
Okay, this chapter took me a long time to do, I would write a page, then decide I didn't like it, and start over. I try to make this story as good as possible for you guys, I guess this is what you guys like, since I hardly have any reviews to go on. Anyways, if it may seem like I'm dragging this out, and not getting to the wonderbolts fast enough, that's because I don't actually have any end in sight to this story. I can go a lot of directions with this story, and with all of the things I have in mind, it will take a while to get there.
Quote of the day: "I'm going to burn your house down you slimy dick!"-My friend to me after I prank him by secretly putting a very spicy pepper is his food.