This chapter is prepped and ready, sorry for the long wait all. With studies and art needed to do this summer, so I've been getting a lot of distractions. This chapter is finished though~! So please enjoy! =D
It was a glorious view from above. Dash flew through the sky, punching holes through clouds, and doing a couple sonic rainbooms. She felt like this was going to be the best day ever and nothing can ruin it. She laughed, letting out some small giggles as she changed her altitude to fly down lower to Ponyville, doing a couple of barrel rolls as she stretched front legs out to form her body into a T.
Feeling satisfied with her routine, the blue Pegasus came down to a nice soft landing down in front of Twilight's library. Stretching out her wings before she tucked them in close. She didn't know why she came here; maybe it was to get another novel of Daring Doo. That didn't matter; she approached the front entrance to the tree and tapped her hoof against the wood door. It wasn't a hard knock, but after making contact the door crept open slowly with a gentle creek.
Rainbow Dash blinked her lashes together a couple times at the sign and motion of the brown entrance opening, glancing inside and saw nothing but darkness. "Twilight?" she spoke out wondering if there was any pony there, but there wasn't a reply. Clearing her throat, she nudged the door ajar more only see an empty dark interior of the library. For some reason in the center of the room was a lone, taped shut, cardboard box. It could be seen in the darkness, and the only object to be spotted.
Feeling concerned, she spoke out other names, "Spike? Owlicious?" she took her role of loyalty to her friends seriously, she had to know if anyone was home and safe. Something in the library didn't feel right, "Peewee?" including Spike's pet to the list of names to call out.
Entering the dark room with what bravery she had, she slowly walked passed the door and headed to the box that lay suspiciously in the center of the room. As soon as brought her last back hoof into the tree, the door mysteriously slammed shut behind her, causing her to jump to the noise and her wings fanning out. A second later, a mysterious light shined down from above like a spotlight, pointing at the brown cardboard box.
Dash stood there and stared at the box, unsure of what to do. Her heartbeats were getting faster, almost like as if her heart was going to explode out of her chest. She gulped, and then moved closer to the box. She was becoming slowly drawn to it, but was starting to feel the rush of adrenalin and fear as well. Getting even closer, she flinched at the sight of the box and it suddenly rustled and shakes. The Pegasus didn't know what exactly would cause a small box to make odd movements. She gulped again, reaching out cautiously with her hoof to the small package.
Before she could even touch it, the top of the box exploded open, taking Rainbow Dash by surprise. She stumbled backwards and tripped over one of her hind hooves, collapsing on top of her wings and hitting the back of her head against the solid ground with a simple 'bonk'. She clinched her eyelids shut tightly at the pain she felt, bringing both of her front hooves to hug the back of her head.
The Floor beneath her shook violently, opening her eyes to find two extremely large paws planted on the floor. The white paws were massive, bigger then a regular size wagon. With her orbs, she followed the fur up the long legs to a pair of red glowing eyes. The eyes weren't the only things that terrified her; it was the razor sharp, jagged teeth.
The teeth open a little as a slobbering tongue slipped out and lick at it's own fangs. Some small strands of saliva fell during the lick, making a small splash when it hit the ground. The weather Pegasus wanted to get away, but her body felt paralyzed, too scared to even move.
The mouth gave out a laugh, "You're friends tasted very delicious." The eyes and teeth began to get bigger and bigger, like as if whoever this demon was, was getting closer, "But I'm still starving, and YOU will be my next meal on the menu."
"Noooooooo!" Rainbow Dash screamed, her hooves kicking off her covers and flailed in the air. Her body tossed and turned as she finally rolled herself out of her soft cloud bed and onto her fluffy cloud floor. She hit the ground with an 'Omph!', her hoof still waving around in the air in panic. She then knocked against her stack of Daring Doo books, causing the pile of novels collapse on top of her.
She gasped as she finally woken, breathing deeply and fast, her heart feeling like it was going to erupt out of her stomach. She glanced around, finding herself in her bedroom, "Whoa…" she began to speak to herself, leaning back up to rub the back of her head, "That was a very… very horrible dream…"
Giving out a sigh of relief, rising onto her four hooves and flapped her wings to lift off the ground a little. She spotted Tank on the cloud floor, looking up at her. To prevent him from literally falling through the cloud, Dash asked Twilight to cast a permanent spell on the tortes to have the similar ability to walk on clouds like other Pegasus ponies so that he doesn't always have use his little gyro to the back of his shell.
Flying down closer she picked him up and hugged his shell, "Morning there Tank, did I worry you?" she spoke to her pet. The tortes giving a very slow, comforting shake, "That's good… it's must easy for you to be braver then me with that shell protecting you all the time." She felt somewhat jealous of her pet, thinking how easily he could box himself inside his shell when he needs to protect himself from any kind of danger. "Boxed in…" she spoke, a light bulb going off inside her head, "That's it! A Box!"
"Yeah, just put those boxes up in the attic." Silver spoke to the movers who were carrying boxes that his mother and sister sent to him from home. All they sent was his bed and boxes with most of his life packed in them. At the same time he helped direct the movers, he was also busy at getting the post office more organized and cleaned.
A couple days ago he wrote a letter and passed it on to a mail courier Pegasus who made a stop at the office to pick-up and take mail on their route, which went through to Dream Valley. He pawed over the letter and any other mail that he was able to sort out for the pony to take with. In the letter he informed his mother and Letterbox that he had success finding work and a place to live. He mentioned about his current health status and was recovering. Including in the letter, he wrote about Twilight, The unicorn he had to take the package to all the way from PME office of his hometown to here in Ponyville. What he really wanted to know was about the letters that Fred Ex left him with. The envelopes he found were to the previous holder, but the name of the sender really surprised him. It was from Mail Call.
"Silversprint!" his ears perked and turned to the direction of the voice. Sitting on tall stools at a table, three fillies sat there with neatly formed piles of letters and boxes before them, "We finished our piles." Scootaloo spoke out to him, raising her hoof into the air.
"Yes, thank you three for helping." He replied back to them, "That's all you three need to do, so why don't you go and run along now." The crusaders nodded and took their leave.
To explain, after the events of what happened the other day with the beavers, the three little crusaders felt bad for causing trouble in destroying a dam and making a small tidal wave. They felt really sorry for Silver though, seeing him run his heart out, and injure his leg even more. The three believed they owed him one, deciding to have him choose whatever chores he needed done around his new workplace.
Silver didn't feel like it would be a great idea to get help for the uncategorized disaster from the same young ponies that knocked over a beaver dam. But he did need the help getting this office in better shape and the mess sorted, getting any late mail out and delivered. He didn't want to take the younger one's time and only offered them to sort a small portion of the mail to handle.
There was some things he had to do before he would even touch the messy piles of letters, like making sure that the deed to the post office was transferred over from the previous owner to the wolf. Twilight helped him with that part with Mayor Mare, but she wasn't going to stop helping him there. The unicorn felt like she was going to have her head explode from the sight of the unsorted stacks, and declared that this mess Fred Ex left behind for him to resolve was unacceptable. Taking matters into her own hooves, she chose to come in on this day to help him organize; she even brought two of her friends to help.
Rarity, which surprised Silver to discover the two unicorns were already close friends, offered to help with the organization and interior design of both the post office and his attic home. She was upstairs right now guiding the movers where to put the boxes, but from time to time he could hear the movers laughing as they were coming down the steps to his home. He chose to ignore this, believing that maybe it wasn't something serious.
Applejack was also there, but wasn't inside the building, she was outside. She came with Twilight to see what she could do to offer her help to the wolf as thanks for trying to save her and Scootaloo. When she arrived, she mentioned that she spotted some weeds in front of the building and believed that there must have been more surrounding the post office. So she gave herself the job to go around and pick the infesting and annoying plants.
"Seems like we've got a lot accomplished around here." Twilight said, "But something upstairs is kind of making me curious of what Rarity might be doing up there."
Silver and Twilight heard the hoof steps and creeks upstairs, and then the sounds came from the steps as the movers were coming back down the stairs, chuckling and laughing. "That room is going to look REALLY nice." Said one of the ponies, a Pegasus, "It could use a pinch of glitter."
As they were leaving out the front door, the last pony mover spotted Silver and could help but snicker, "Enjoy your new home." Saying trying to contain his laughter until he was out of the office level of the building, "Hope you like pink."
Silver couldn't help but cock an eyebrow and tilt his head at what he said, watching them walk out the front entrance with the door closing behind them. He turned his head to the stairs they came down from, "Hey Rarity?" he called out as he ascended the steps to his room. As he reached the top step, he poked his head into the room like a meerkat emerging from its hole.
He was shocked at the sight only in his mind, keeping his face emotionless to keep any pony from reading what he might be thinking. The floor was mopped very well and with the plywood removed from the windows, it allowed to shine light into the room to illuminate the attic. The wooden planked floor was cleaned so well that it was reflecting the light back up to the ceiling where there were no more cobwebs.
But that wasn't what he was shocked about. It was the tilted ceiling, the short walls, curtains that were set up at the windows, and even the firewood stove… they were all pink. The sound of the atmosphere matched the humming that the white unicorn in the far side of the attic was singing. At the same time she used her magic to levitate a feather duster on the windowsill.
"Oh no…." was all he could speak out with a normal tone, seeing that his room wasn't dirty anymore, but was starting to look more… girly…
Rarity picked up his voice and turned around, "Ah, Silver," she spoke, "How do you like your room? I couldn't leave it alone once I saw it, so I thought I would go ahead give it all a nice good paint over. And in order for your room to match with you, I decided to give you something that would match the room."
"Rarity… I think that this…" before being given the chance to finish, Rarity approached him and with her unicorn magic she levitated, removed the red bandana around his neck, and replaced it with something.
"There," she said, "a simple 'mignon noeud papillon~"."
He didn't understand those last words she spoke. Glancing down at what she put around his neck, he stared with disbelief as he now wore a pink bow tie. He looked back up at Rarity, "You and I need to have a talk."
Applejack finally finished with the remaining weeds she found behind the building, adding them to a pile in a wooden bucket. "That sh'd be all of them." She spoke to herself.
"Psst! AJ!"
The orange pony turned around as a response to hearing soft words using her initials to call her. She spotted Rainbow Dash leaning out from around the corner, using her hoof to signal her to come over to her. The farmer was unsure why her friend was being so secretive, approaching the blue Pegasus. "Howdy there Dash, Ah haven't-"
"Shh!" she hushed, stick her hoof up to cover Applejack's mouth, "Or he'll find us." she whispered.
Moving her head back away, Applejack didn't have a hay feather clue what she was talking in regardes to. "What's this all about Dash?" she asked, using a soft tone as well, "Haven't seen ya' all week. Where have ya' been?"
"No time to explain." she says, "I set up a metal container large enough to contain the beast. As soon he steps out of that post office, you use your apple bucking skills to kick him in and I'll seal and lock him in. Then for the wolf it's goodbye Ponyville, and hello Manehattan zoo."
"Whut in tarnation are ya' talkin' about?" Applejack questioned.
"Getting rid of the wolf of course!" She explained, "I know that thing is in there and we need to get it out of here before it devours us all!"
The farmer stared at her Pegasus friend, having what she said process in her mind. She couldn't help but let out a few small giggles before laughing, "Rainbow Dash, yo're such a joker. Silver wouldn't harm a parasprite."
Dash began to fluster, grinding her own teeth together at what she was hearing, "I can prove that he's going to eat us!"
"With whut evidence?" Applejack questioned.
She was just about to answer that question, but quickly realized that she absolutely had no substantial proof to use against the wolf. She then lowered her head, feeling somewhat defeated, "I got… nothing…" a couple seconds a silence came form her until she raised her hoof and stomped it to the ground, "But I'm not giving up! That oversize mutt is going down one way or another! With or without proof!"
"Geeze Dash," AJ replied a little nervously, believing that her friend might too focused on something she shouldn't really be worrying about. "Ah don't reckon you sh'd be actin' so negative towards him. Why don't you two hoof it out fo' lunch sometime an' get t'know him better. Hay, why not start right now, he's inside with Twilight an' Rarity."
The Pegasus's eyes widen after hearing the two name, her wings fanning up as if she was ready to bolt in and rescue who was mentioned, "Twilight and Rarity are in there with it!?" At that moment, there was a loud, ear-piercing scream from inside the post office. It was very familiar to the two, both recognizing that it belong to their fashion pony friend. "Rarity!" Dash cried as she bolted, leaving Applejack behind in the dust to cough in.
She zoomed around the building to the front entrance, crashing against the door with force, dashing in through into the main lobby area of the office without stopping. Dead ahead were the drop down steps to the attic. Dash blew through the lobby, making a bee line to the stairs, not noticing a confused Twilight and the pile of organized letters that went airborne from the gust she made with her wings after flying by.
The Pegasus flew right up the steps and up to the attic with a screeching halt. Her heart rate was beating wildly out of control as she came across a scene that would scare any pony watching a suspense film. She found her unicorn friend lying motionless on the floor, with a large red puddle beneath her and some spots of it in her white coat. "Rari-" before being able to finish the name, she spotted the wolf. Sitting next to the her unicorn friend's reclined body was the wolf, wearing a pink bow around his neck and had red spots covering the front of his neck and larger splatters around his cheek.
This was a horrible moment for Dash, she felt scared and didn't know what to do. Her bravery reached her limit and thought that if she didn't leave soon, she may share the same fate as her friend. She let out a yelled and dived down back through the hole in the floor, going back to the post office level. She zipped by Twilight again, the unicorn trying to recollect the letters that spread around the lobby, only to have the same things happen earlier as more of envelopes were blown up into the air.
Through out the whole building, Rainbow Dash yelled at the top of her lungs like as if she was going to crash. She didn't even bother to stop and open the door in her path. Crashing right through and knocking it of its hinges, she forgot that she set up the metal container she placed in front of the building not too long ago. Unable to change course or stop, she crashed into the steel hard box with a loud bell like 'dong', making the back end of the crate dent outwards.
A couple minutes earlier, back with in the attic…
Rarity sighed after hearing Silver words of his lecture, understanding that what she did for his room was something she done without permission or being asked to. She knew that it was her fault, but Silver wasn't acting harsh at her about it. Also she realized that her choice for the color pink wasn't fitting for a big silver and green talking wolf. "Alright Silva'," she began, speaking the canine's name like as if she was calling out a pet, "As soon as the paint settles and dries, we may paint over it with a color you desire."
"I will paint over with a color I desire." Silver felt like correcting part of the phrase he just heard, letting her know that he will hand the painting himself.
"Understood…" the white unicorn spoke with an uneasy tone, "One thing that does make me curious is what color do you plan to paint the walls."
Silver hummed and narrowed his eyes as his gaze shifted to the floor, then glanced to a random point in the room. "I was kind of thinking of red."
Rarity's eyes widened with shock, turning her head to examine each wall of the attic, imagining what the room would look like in a ruby like color. She then examined Silver, seeing how can the color fit with him. all she could think about how red walls would clash badly with his natural fur. "That… that…" she tried to find the right words to explain until she struck her hoof to the floor, "Red certainly will not do!"
"Why not?" Silver shrugged, looking down at the same time and found a clean brush lying on top of a pile of paint cans. Near the bottom of the stack was a can with no label, but with a simple red square on the wrapping going around the paint can, "We can sample just a bit of it on a small part of a wall." leaning down, he picked brush up by the handle with his mouth. Resting his rear on the ground in a sitting position, he reached his two front paws out and slid the metal can over in front of him and tried to pry the lid open with the nails of his paws.
"'No!" the fashion designer cried, "Using red on these walls must be… must be a crime against interior decoration and design!" narrowing her eyes and making her horn glow and so did the tin can in Silver's possession, forcing the cylinder out from his grasp. The unexpected magical force accidentally popped off just when the wolf hooked his nail around the rim of the lid, gliding towards Rarity quickly. Coming to a rough halt, the sticky liquid contents rocked and spilled out into the air, heading towards the unicorn.
She couldn't do anything except watch as small, very small drips of red paint flew at her, landing over her nose and cheek, over her clean white main. After feeling the specks, she released out a small gasp and her magic suddenly disappeared, dropping the can to the floor.
The tin cylinder landed with the flat bottom hitting parallel to the floor, causing the force to travel upwards through it to make the can bounce a little, but also made a larger splash with the cherry-red paint. Landing everywhere on the floor and on the wolf and pony, most of the paint landing on Silver landed on his mouth, and even more colliding on Rarity.
After the can landed on its side, spilling the rest of the content onto the floor, creating a puddle underneath the purple mane mare. "Aww… late letters…" Silver spoke after seeing the mess on the floor and then tried to examine himself, bringing up the back of his paw to wipe off what got on his face off, except smudging the paint more into his fur, "It's going to take a while to get this paint out of my fur…"
"Aba…aba duba…" the wolf's attention was then turned towards Rarity, "The paint… red… mane…" she spoke with each shivering word, trying to piece what to say together. Her eyes were wide, going into a panic and didn't know what to do with a color that conflicted with her natural white coat and purple mane. "I… I…" she could handle it anymore, she released a loud, ear pitching scream while her eyes tried to roll up to the back of her head… then fainted…
Silver's ears ringed after the shriek. He winced, clinching his eyes shut tightly and shaking his head. Once he opened his eyelids, he noticed that the unicorn passed out right on top of the puddle that was formed beneath her seconds ago. "Well… this is a fine mess I wasn't expecting…"
There was a loud bang that could be heard downstairs on the floor below. The sound echoed up from the attic entrance, causing him to turn to the entrance, getting the feeling that some pony was coming…
After one scared pegasus and crash later…
"What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything."
"Then whut's up wih th' screamin' an' bein' covered in paint yo' two?"
"I wouldn't be looking like this and cause any commotion if Silver didn't spill the paint."
"Excuse me, but as I recall I wasn't the one who used magic and yanked a full can of paint from some my paws."
Dash heard the commotion, her head ached, and a strong amount of sunlight traveled through her eyelids. She slowly came around, trembling her pair of cerise eyes open as she came to, seeing weakly at the three shadowing figures above her. The voices she heard belonged to her friends, but one was new to her.
It slowly came clear to her, the first one she saw standing by her side was her purple unicorn friend, "Twilight…" she spoke to her first friend. A second later her rodeo friend came into view, "Applejack…" And when she thought her friend Rarity was next, it was another she wasn't expecting. "Wolf!" the Pegasus screamed.
The three around her jumped at the cry, backing away as the Pegasus began to panic. Rolling over, Dash began to crawl away like a frantic insect trying to flee from a larger predator. She ended up crawling into the damaged container, followed by a simple metallic 'bong'. "Ow!" she reacted to the pain being added to her aching head.
Silver, Twilight, and Applejack stood there blinking a couple times after watching the pony run to a hiding place. "So this is your friend Rainbow Dash?" Silver asked, pointing a paw at the rainbow pattern tail of the Pegasus that trailed out from the box.
"It is." The librarian walked forward, casting her magic on the tail, pulling on the hairs to drag her out. The Pegasus was brought out from the crate against her will, trying to dig her hoofs in the ground, "What's gotten into you Rainbow Dash?" Twilight questioned.
Fighting against the magic, she was able to break free. With one swing of her wings, she pushed herself up and off the ground, getting high enough in the air where she thought it was safer to be, "That thing!" she yelled, whipping around to face the others. "I can't believe it! Can't you see that he's dangerous!" she aimed a hoof at the large wolf who sat there glaring back up at her.
"Rainbow Dash!" Applejack called up to her, "Stop yer non'sense, get back down here and explain t'us whut's yer on about."
"That thing ATE Rarity!"
"No, I'm alright darling." All turned to the white unicorn, she was standing there cleaning herself the best she could with a damp wet towel. The red paint stains she head in her 'beautiful' white coat wasn't coming off very easily. One side of her body that was exposed to color made it appear that she had a bad sunburn. "I'll be heading home now and take a nice long bath." She said, walking past the group with her mind now focused on a single goal, "And maybe I'll head to the spa later on, ta~ta~ everypony."
Dash glared at Rarity with her jaw dropped, watching at how calmly her friend was leaving the scene in perfect health. There was a clear of the throat by AJ before she spoke, "Ya were say'n?"
What she saw earlier in the attic turned out not what she believed. She tried to speak, like as if she just glanced at Rarity's ghost, but was unable to piece together her words properly, "but tha… Rarit… what…"
Silver tiled his head to the side, curiously looking up at her. Honestly he does admit that this isn't the first time other ponies acted this way when they first met him. "Is it because of those old pony tales?"
Her attention then shifted to the talking wolf, "What?"
"Do you believe them?" Silver asked, "I've met other ponies who weren't comfortable with me at first. Those stories with a big bad wolf usually give the fillies chills down to the tips of their tail."
"Hey!" Dash replied quickly, "It's not because of those tales." she spoke him with a violent tone, hovering down closer to the ground, "Are you kidding? Let me tell you something you mutt! I'm not scared of you at all!"
Silver took in what she said, and couldn't help but liked that last sentence she spoke out. He kept his smirk and narrowed his eyes, leaning his head in the blue Pegasus's direction and spoke a single word, "Woof…" he kept the tone to it to a low and calm state.
The flying pony's eyes widen and suddenly her wings tucked in like Fluttershy's reaction to a dragon's roar. Immediately she feel from the air landing with a loud 'omph!' when her body met the ground. She then let out a gasp, getting back on her hooves and letting out a panic leap into the air, but fell again when her wings refused to spread and fly her away.
Twilight and Applejack couldn't help but watch their friend helpless try to fly over and over again. Realizing her failed attempts, Dash climbed on top of the large box and glanced around quickly to see if there was any nearby ledges for her to escape by rooftop.
"What is she doing?" the wolf leaned over whispering to the nearest pony was watching this, in this case, leaning over to Applejack.
"Don't know, did you do sumthin?" Applejack questioned him.
Silver shook his head, "I've done nothing except ruffed."
"Rainbow Dash! Get down from there!" Twilight barked.
It was getting much later in the day, and the post office had to be cleaned up a second time after having a scene with Dash. Twilight managed to convince the Pegasus to chill out and take her home, but that only left Silver and Applejack to clean up the speedster's mess. When the farmer heard about the paint spill she offered to help to clean it up, but had quite the laugh after seeing how pink his room was.
"Still not funny…" he said looking down at the earth pony rolling around on his floor, unable to stop herself from laughing.
"Are ya kidding?" she asked as soon she was able to breath again, "Yer room is pink!"
The wolf blushed, embarrassed about the fact that his walls were what he considered a girly color, "I'm going to paint over it when it dries… and it's a light red!" he tried to correct her of the actual name of the color.
As soon as she calmed herself, she rose back onto her four hooves and gave a friendly apology, "Sorry," she chuckled, "Ya know Ah'm just teasin ya."
He gave a nod, "I know." He said rolling his eyes. Silver extended his front leg out to wrap around his mop to brush the red splattered floor with his. He took another mop with his canine teeth, turning his head to handle it over to the pony, "Ta-ek won an moop te waint while itz hill wet." The wolf attempting to speak while holding the mops stick with his teeth.
Applejack nodded, taking the mop from him. "So explain somethin to me Silver," she began as she started to mop, "Ah heard From Twi' that some letters that Fred Ex left you explained why he left you this post office, is that true?"
The wolf start to mop up the paint as well, nodding to her question, "Yup, turned out that Fred Ex owed my mom a favor." Saying as he collected a good portion of paint and dipped the mop into a bucket of water before bringing the cleaning tool back to the floor.
"A Favor?"
He nodded, "The letters dated back years ago, all starting when Fred sent out letters to other post offices across Equestria, asking for donations to renovate this very building. Turned out my mom had the bits to pay for the whole thing for him to use to get this mail business going."
"That…. must have been a purdy tremendous donation"
"It was. Some of the later letters from weeks ago were about me planning to move out from my family's business. My mom asked Fred Ex if he could set me up with a position here at Ponyville's post office, technically his response was, "Hay, he can have it!""
AJ laughed a little at the thought of the letters, "Ah guess at that point business here was getting difficult." After a couple more sweeps with their mops they were done sooner than they thought, the floor clean and the water in the bucket almost appeared to be a fruity punch red. "There we go, one bucket of phony pony blood." She joked.
The wolf understood what she was referring to, giving a chuckle, "Better then real, right?" He lowered his head down, using his canines to bite lightly on the handle, lifting up the bucket as he lead the way back down the attic steps carefully.
"Sounds like you got lucky with this business. I bet you'll be known as the best mail pony… I mean… mail wolf, through out all of Ponyville!" the apple farmer followed him down to the first level, bringing down the two mops they used. (Sorry... I can't type southern anymore DX)
They both went to the back of the building where there was a small break room, setting down the bucket on the counter next to the sink. Silver shook his head, "I don't think luck had to do with it." He explained turning to her as he poured the bucket slowly down the drain, "I mean… my mom actually plans things quite well… almost too well… actually I wonder if she knew that Fred Ex's business was going to fail and planned this from the beginning…and maybe that's why she wanted me to deliver Twilight's package here in the first place… and knew that I would start looking for a job in the mailing business…"
AJ laughed at what he went on and on about, "Your mother sure does know how to look after a son!" she cheered, placing the brush end of the mops in the sink together, "So are you going to accept the effort she put in to getting you here?"
"Yeah, but…" the wolf looked back at his hind legs, raising them and giving the a little stretch, "But I hate the idea of her sending me on a two day run to get here…"
Applejack couldn't help but give him a little push to his shoulder with her front hoof, "Sounds like it was worth it."
Before Silver could respond to her shove, there was a couple violent knocks on the back door that they were close to. 'Who could that be?' they wondered, the wolf going to inspect the door. He pushed open the top half of the stable door, peering out to see who it was.
"Are you in charge here?" he was immediately questioned. A yellow Pegasus stallion wearing a red crash helmet with a single white bar going down the center, flight goggles, and saddle bags with the PME emblem pinned to its buckle. "Oh, Silver! How have you been?
"Flash?" Silver replied to the pony. "It's been a while, doing the top priority deliveries this month?"
The yellow Pegasus opened his saddlebag, taking out a small box, "Yep, that's why I'm here! I wish I could stick around and chat, but I have to race over to Canterlot and back to Dream Valley. I got an priority package for a resident here in Ponyville." He looked at the package before hoofing it over to the wolf, "Its for a miss Punch."
"Oh no…" Applejack spoke out, over hearing the name, "You mean Berry Punch?" she asked, appearing in the doorway next to the wolf.
The yellow stallion glanced at the mare wearing the cowboy hat before looking over at Silver, "What's this Silver? Got you a mare-friend?" he asked before he began to laugh, Applejack couldn't help laugh at the joke as well.
Silver stood there holding the package in one paw, narrowing his eyes at the Pegasus, "Don't be rude Flash, and don't you have some express mail to deliver?"
The yellow pony turned around, unable to stop laughing. As soon as he settled down, he was about to give his farewell as soon as he took flight, but in midair he turned around, "Oh yeah, I almost forgot! The boss told me that she'll be visiting you soon!"
The message want sent and received as the wolf's mouth dropped. The orange pony next to him noticed his reaction, but didn't know why, "Uhh… Silver?" she asked, waving a hoof over his eyes.
"My mom is coming to visit?"