Welcome to the final part of episode 3! I know I said that each episode would have only three parts, but I have a really good reason! You see, for me to finish this story I have to put it in four parts. That, and I kinda think I should since I pretty much acted lazy when I made the last episode with only two parts. So this will balance it out once and for all!
Anyway, with all that said, let's start up the end of the episode!
Disclaimer: I do not own MLP or any famous song, phrase, or brand name lamps.
As I exited Everfree Forest, I saw that all of Ponyville was gathered at the edge of town, where Flim and Flam were on a stage talking to them all. The machine was right next to them, sitting idly.
I landed on the ground and got ready. With them getting a taste of being co-mayors, it would be hard tricking them into another challenge. Luckily with the rhyming problem gone, I was already figuring out a way to make them take the bait.
I got close enough to hear them, but hid a little bit so I could hear what they were talking about.
"Also, we have taken the liberty of creating a work schedule for every pony in Ponyville. So from now on, all residents of Ponyville are to work from sunrise to sundown with a two-hour break everyday." Flim explained to them all. Every pony groaned at that.
"You can't just tell us what to do!" Rainbow Dash said, standing up for every pony in the crowd. She didn't fly up because she didn't want to crash into anything else today.
"Well if you along with any pony else feels that way, then your more than welcome to move out of Ponyville. Effective immediately." Flam said to them. Any pony in the crowd that was about to stand up to them, stayed silent. They didn't want to leave Ponyville, even though the two of them were in charge.
"Like we thought." Flim said.
"Just wait, Blitz will be back and will beat you two and your machine!" Twilight spoke up next.
Though to Flim and Flam, it sounded more like an empty threat. "Ha! You think that the young lad is just going to come out of nowhere with some kind of entrance and a parade behind him?" Flam called out her threat, acting as if I was his arch-enemy or something. They both laughed at that.
But what he said, I just couldn't pass up. Without a second thought, I thought up some cool entrance music, the music being One Piece instrumental- Overtaken, and started walking over. Before I completely got out of my hiding spot, I reached into my pocket and pulled out a toothpick, putting it in my mouth. It was just for show really, but it made me look tough. At least I thought so.
They all looked over and saw me coming. For added affect, I just looked at the ground, emotionless, as I walked towards the stage. It made me look mysterious, again in my mind it did.
As I approached the crowd, they split straight down the middle like the Red Sea, letting me pass through. They all stayed silent as I went through the crowd, as did the twins.
When I got to the stage, I used my wings to just fly over to the side of them. The one thing I learned in theatre class that stuck was, never face away from the audience.
When I landed to the side of them, I clicked my metal ear, stopping the music. Looking up I smirked at their shocked faces. "Sorry, I didn't enough time to gather up a parade." I said with slight amusement.
The crowd laughed at my joke and the look on Flim and Flam's faces. As soon as they shook off their shocked looks, they frowned at me.
"Sorry lad, but this is our stage. Only recognized mayors, and acknowledged individuals are allowed on this stage." Flam told me with a stern tone, which reminded me of my father's. That made me mad, so I called him out on that.
"Then what are you two on the stage Mustache? Your not fully recognized mayors." I pointed out to them.
"I'm afraid your wrong kid. You see, we became the new mayors when your team lost." Flim poined out. He didn't say lad, not wanting to get aggravated by any insult I could come up with.
Sadly for him, I had to get both of their nerves ticked off if my plan was to work. "As I remember Nostache, you said I could try again when my sides ready to face you again. And were more than ready now." I knew that insulting the two of them was stretching it, but I needed them to lose their cool, while I kept mine.
Good news, my plan was working out perfectly. They were both steaming just by the names I gave them. Bad news, it worked a little to well.
"You think you can just come out of no where, make fun of us, and expect us to give you another chance?" Flam asked, mad.
"Well in all fairness, you did give me permission to make an entrance and come up to the stage." I pointed out. With what they said to call out Twilight's 'empty threat', they technically did let me come up.
"There is no way were letting you just challenge us like this!" Flim said. I tried to quickly come up with a way to talk them into it. Thankfully, more or less, Flim did that himself. "But... If you really think that you can beat our machine, then by all means you can try! But on two conditions!You have to face us alone, and the stakes are doubled!" He compromised. The whole crowd gasped at that, and I stayed silent.
Sadly, I had no choice. If I was to get a chance at all, then I would have to rely solely on my bionics. Still, I had enough faith in my abilities, and I agreed. "Fine, double or nothing it is. The stakes are higher this time. You win, you two are officially mayors, no questions asked. And..." I thought of something else to sweeten the deal. "And I also leave Ponyville forever."
The crowd gasped again at my proposal, but the twins smiled at the idea. "Actually... You can stay when we win. But instead you have to be our personal assistant." The crowd gasped once again. I swear, it was like they were begging for air at this point.
I cringed at the idea. Being their assistant? That didn't sound fun at all... But, I still had to get them to take the bait.
"...Fine..." I swallowed my pride. Unless I was so sure of this, I would never agree to that in my life. I'm against any kind of slavery, so I hated myself for accepting. "But if I win," I started. "then not only do you two leave Ponyville alone, but..." I needed something that was really just for my own laughs. I looked at Flam. "Then you have to stop making machines like this."
"Fine!" Flam blurted out, angry as ever. He was furious at the whole thing. The fact that I was calling them out as if they were nothing, plus all the mustache insults. His brother tried to calm him down, but since he was also getting annoyed at me, it didn't really help anything. "Good luck trying to beat us alone! Your going to need it LAD!" He said boastfully.
This was what I was trying to accomplish the whole time. With them all worked up, they would be more than happy to start immediately now, no questions asked.
"Now who said that I needed help?" At that cue, they got even more mad that I was boasting right back at them.
"HA! We could build two times faster then you with just two of the five arms from our machine!" Flam continued. Flim tried to stop him, but it wasn't working so well.
"No no. Your more then welcome to use them all. I'll still beat you, hooves down." I said with a confident smirk.
"We could beat you with our machine any time, any place!" Flam continued to boast. Flim just gave up at this point, going with whatever his brother was bound to agree to.
"How about right here, right now." I said to them. I turned to the blueprint manager, Jumpy J. "Yo Jumpy." He gave me his full attention. "Can I have blueprint H-14?"
"Uh... Sure, if you say so Blitz." Jumpy was still fine enough to do so, and pulled a blueprint from his bag. Even though the Con. Crew was disbanded for now, he still had it on. He tossed the blueprint to me, and I caught it.
Flam snatched it from me with his magic and held it so him and Flim could read it. "Agreed. This will make a great home for when we become official mayors."
The house was simple enough. Two stories, decently sized, nothing to extreme. I had already studied the blueprints, planning to do the same thing as them after I had built it.
"Great. We build over there." I said, gesturing to a spot that was just a small walk from where we were. It was a flat area, big enough to build two of the houses. It was on a hill just outside of Ponyville too, so it was a perfect spot for a house.
"Yes! Get ready to lose Lad!" Flam continued. Flim saw that I still had a confident smirk on my face, and was just calm. He couldn't help but think that something was up, but he ignored it for now.
"I say the same thing to you Mustache." I said. I then made my way off the stage, while they went over to their machine.
As soon as I got off the stage, my friends ran over to me. They either looked shocked or mad at what just happened.
"Blitz! This ain't part of your plan!" Applejack reminded me.
The plan was to make them mad to the point where they would agree to everything I had to say. Then me and Applejack would take them on and beat them. Sadly, I went to far and Applejack was furious at that.
"I know, but I went to far on making them mad. But don't worry, I still got this." I assured them all.
"Blitz. We know that you think your bionics will be more than enough, but you can't push it. Those two always find a sneaky way to pull some kind of trick." Twilight told me.
I ignored her warning though as I reached for my tool belt. I then pulled out a few vials that were filled with the cure for poisonous joke. "Sorry, I forgot to give these to all of you. There the cure for the poison." I handed out the vials.
They weren't in bath form like they were used to, but Zecora said it would work all the same.
"Blitz, are you even listening?!" Twilight asked as she poured the cure over her horn. A few seconds later, her horn was as good as new.
"Yeah, but are you?" I asked calmly. "I told you all, I got this. Do you have the cupcakes ready?"
As soon as Pinkie used her cure, she pulled out a bag of cupcakes from what seemed like no where. "Yeah, and they taste really yummy! I would've never thought of using electricity as an ingredient! Thanks for the new recipe Blitz, it tastes just like chocolate cake with ten coffees on top, sprinkled with extra sugary cookies! Did you know that every pony says that coffee and cookies makes me really hyper?! But I never knew that! Oh, and I guess that's why you love chocolate so much, because it tastes like thunder clouds!..." Pinkie Pie kept going on and on after she gave me the bag of cupcakes.
I looked to the others, who were watching her bounce around after they took their cures. "I'm guessing she tried a cupcake?" I asked rhetorically. Her mane was even more frizzied than usual, if that was even possible, her eyes were dilated, and she was jumping around like crazy.
"She only took one bite!" Rainbow Dash said, shocked at what the cupcake did.
"Well, I guess that proves that the cupcakes are ready." I said as I looked at the bag. I took one out and looked at it. It looked like a grey cupcake that was literally sparking with lightning. They were the coolest looking cupcakes ever. After looking at it, I tried it, taking a bite of them. Just one bite felt like I absorbed a whole cloud. Luckily, I was able to take it. Unlike a certain bouncing pink pony.
"Hey Pinkie Pie?" I asked calmly. She appeared right in front of me, wondering what I wanted. I touched her forehead and I absorbed the electricity that she ate. She immediately calmed down... Well, her version of calming down.
"Wow, that cupcake was so good!" Pinkie said with a giggle. "I gotta have another!"
As she reached for the bag, all six of us got in the way. "No!" We all said simultaneously and desperately. If she ate a whole cupcake, who knows what would happen!
When she finally took no for an answer, all focus was back on me. "By the way. Where did that breath-taking music come from?" Rarity asked me.
"Uh..." I had to admit, I didn't really understand it myself. All I could think of was that my iPhone somehow got built into my ear on the way to Equestria. Maybe it was because I had my headphones still in or something. "Let's just say I have a built-in music player in my ear and leave it at that." I told them. It left them confused, but they could tell I really had no clue either.
"Come ta think of it, what other bitonics do ya have Blitz?" Applejack asked. I wasn't sure if her calling it 'bitonics' was her accent, or her just not knowing what the word was so I left it be.
"Well... I don't know really. But I think I'm still ready enough to take on the barber twin's machine." I said confidently.
I looked over and saw that all the materials were ready. I picked up the bag of cupcakes and started heading over. "Well, here goes nothing." I said as I went over, flicking my toothpick away as I went over. It was now or never.
When everything was ready, I stood next to a giant pile of wood. All of which was just enough to build the house. On their side, stood their giant stupidly named machine. The Excellent Qualified Self-Running Builderizer 2000. Why they named it that, I didn't care. All I did care about was beating them.
"Now!" Me and the twins looked to the former, and rightful, mayor of Ponyville. She was going to judge who finished building first while the head of the Con. Crew, which was even higher up then Fore Hammer, was going to judge the quality. "Both teams know the rules! This isn't about just who finishes first, but how good the build is!"
I nodded, eating another cupcake. But I seemed perfectly fine and calm. The twins saw me paying no mind, and thought it was just some random cupcake.
"Now! On your mark!" The twins got next to their machine, ready to start it up.
"Get set!" They started pressing a few buttons, which started up the machine. They then waved a hoof over a lever, which I'm guessing was the start lever. Meanwhile, I was just enjoying my cupcake.
"GO!" The mayor told us. Flam pushed down the lever and two arms came out, getting to work right away.
Every pony looked at my side, and saw that I was still just finishing my cupcake.
"Blitz! Go!" Rainbow Dash reminded me.
I swallowed another bite, leaving just one more bite left. "In a second. First, I gotta finish this cupcake."
They all just stared at me like I was the dumbest pony in Equestria. What was even more odd was that it was Pinkie Pie out of all six of them who tried to get my head in the game.
"Blitz! There is a time for cupcakes, and there is a time for action! I know that these cupcakes are REALLY delicious, but this is no time to just sit here and eat cupcakes! Now get in there and show those horrible apple cider making twins what your made of!" She yelled, giving me a 'pep talk'.
Luckily, as she did that, I finished the last of my cupcake and swallowed. "Yeah, I guess I should huh? Okay, well wish me luck." I turned around and walked a few steps towards the wood. And by the fifth step I took, I activated my bionics. In that one moment, I went just a little slower than the Sonic Rainboom itself.
The twins noticed too, and watched as I easily caught up to how their machine was doing. That's when they got serious. They pressed a few more buttons on their machine and all five hands came out and started working.
Twilight looked at both houses being built and came to a conclusion. "At this rate, it's neck and neck!" She noted.
I may have been going faster, but I was still just one pony. They had fives hands that were half as fast as me, but five was still more than one.
"We can't have that pony beat us Flim!" Flam said, still angry at me and eager to win.
"Calm down brother! Remember what happened last time? We bit off more than we could chew!" Flim reminded.
"I don't care! I'm not letting him beat us!" Flam yelled, wanting nothing but to beat me. He went ahead and acted on his own, pressing buttons on the machine that made it go even faster than before.
Every pony in the crowd stayed silent as the twin's machine was going twice as fast as Blitz now. Though, it was going really fast, and the machine itself was smoking and shaking violently.
"Ha! Let's see the lad beat us now!" FLam said with an extremely confident smirk. Flim on the other hand, just sat by as he saw what his brother was trying to do.
I saw this too, but stayed quiet as I focused on my build. I saw where all this was headed, and knew it wasn't good. Flam was so concentrated on winning, that he didn't even care what the outcome was going to be.
About five minutes later, the machine finished building... It?
What their machine built looked nothing like the blueprints. Wood was slanted and hanging off the sides. Shingles were loose and about ready to hit whatever was underneath it. And all the windows were either cracked or broken. It looked like a redneck's shack right after a tornado hit. And before a tornado, a small bomb.
Meanwhile, as every pony was looking at their building, I was finishing up mine, putting on the last of the roof and a few other finishing touches.
"Ha! See every pony?! We finished first!" Flam announced.
Flim, the mayor, and the contractor all looked at him for a few seconds, wondering what he was thinking.
"Brother? You do realize that finishing first wasn't the point of this. Right?" Flim asked.
"Huh?" Flam asked, looking at his brother.
"He's right. And in no way at all is this house safe." The contractor said. To prove his point, he lightly kicked one side of the house with a single hind leg. That whole wall than caved in, collapsing inside. The rest of the house just wobbled, trying to keep from falling down itself.
"Finally, finished." I said, admiring my own building. Every pony turned and saw my house, sitting there in pure perfection. Not one nail out-of-place. Babies stopped crying at the sight of it! Some ponies from the crowd even 'ooo'wed at the sight of it! Heck, it made volcanoes silent at just the simple sight of it!... Okay maybe not all of that happened, but it was still pretty good!
"Hmm..." The contractor looked at my house and started checking it.
"So... We didn't win?" Flam asked his brother stupidly.
I went over to them, feeling that I had to say something apologetic. "Yo, dude?" Flam turned to me. I was never good at apologizing, so here went nothing. "Look, sorry I egged you on like that."
"What makes you think that you 'egged me on'?" Flam asked, trying to keep from seeing the obvious.
Though to prove my point, all I had to do was point to their 'house'. Flam saw it and sighed, admitting defeat.
"Yeah, it was wrong of me to call you Mustache and all, but it was all to prove a point." I continued. He rose an eyebrow at that, but I just kept going. "I learned the hard way that keeping calm is the better thing to do. And that competition isn't always something you should resort to."
Flim nodded himself, understanding what I was trying to say. He elbowed Flam, trying to make him say something.
He sighed and admitted defeat once again. "I guess I did take it too far with the bet huh l-" He was about to call me 'lad' until he saw me glare at the word. "I mean, kid."
"Eh, it's a start." I said. I didn't really like that name either, but it was better than lad. It made me feel like Opie from the Andy Griffith Show, and I did not like being compared to him at all.
We all laughed at what I said though. As soon as the laughter ended they spoke up again. "So while we still have you here, can we ask you a question?" Flim asked.
"You just did, but go ahead and ask a few more." I told them. They smirked at my humor.
"So what material is your artificial body parts made of?" "What else are you able to do with your artificial skills?" "Can you explain why your able to use electricity as an alternative power source?" They kept asking questions left and right about my bionics.
Thank Clestia when the contractor and the mayor came out when they did. The twins stopped shooting out questions and focused on them.
"Well, I think every pony sees who the obvious winner here is. Our local resident, Electric Blitz!" The mayor concluded.
Every pony around me started clapping their hooves and cheering. Honestly, I wasn't much for being the center of attention. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind it at all really, but I just didn't like it because I was never a conversationalist.
"Then I guess this makes you the mayor once again then." I said to the mayor. All eyes were then off of me and to her. She talked to crowds for a living so she was able to keep a conversation going with her speech.
"Well, we better get going. Many more towns to go to, and many more things to invent." Flam said.
"Good luck with that," Flam looked at me, wondering what I was going to say. "Flam."
He smiled at the fact that I didn't call him Mustache for once, and shook my hoof. "Thanks kid. May we meet again." With that, he and his brother Flim got on their machine and drive off.
After they left, that's when my friends came over and stopped them. "Blitz, we heard what you said to them." Twilight told me.
"Thank goodness for that," I started. "because that's probably the only philosophical thing I'm ever going to say in my whole life."
We all laughed at that. It was the truth though because I was never good at stuff like this. "Well, were still glad you made amends with Flim and Flam."
"Yeah. There actually nice when there not trying to put ponies out of work with their machines." I told them.
"Oh yeah, how come you never told us about your awesome robot powers?!" Rainbow Dash asked. It was obvious that she, along with the others were amazed at my bionics.
"One, it's called bionics not robot powers. Two... I kinda just found out how to use them all today. I guess that's what my Cutie Mark really stands for." I said. It made more since for that to be what my Cutie Mark stood for. I mean, it did make better sense then having a Cutie Mark because I was a cypony.
As we kept talking, the crowd started to disband and go back to their homes and stuff. It was starting to get late after all.
"Well, I think we all better get to bed. It's been a long day." Twilight concluded. We all agreed.
"I think I'll stay awake for a little while longer. I'm kind of an insomniac." I told them.
"Alrighty then. Night Blitz. Congrats on the new home." Applejack said as she, and the rest of them started to head home.
I looked back at my house and breathed an air of relief. 'MY HOUSE'. Oh, I could get used to saying that. It was kind of ironic really. On Earth, no one my age had no chance of having a job or house like me. On Equestria, any pony my age could have their own house and job.
As I walked into my new house, my smile immediately fell to a frown. My new house, had nothing in it... Well... Guess I'm sleeping on the floor for tonight.
"He... Here's to having my own place." I closed the door behind me and just collapsed to the floor in front of me. So much for a good night's sleep to end the day.
And so concludes the longest chapter I've ever made in this story! I know it was long and I probably dragged it out way more than I should've, but I couldn't find a way to stop it anywhere else but here. Still, I think the chapter went pretty well. But it's not my opinion that matters, it's all of yours. Hope you enjoyed the episode! And don't worry, I won't be letting Blitz have a high and mighty moment every chapter if you think I'm trying to do so. Anyway, see you all next chapter!
QotC: If you could have any type of house in Equestria, what would you have? A cloud house? A literal tree house/cottage, gingerbread house, or normal house? Or some other type of house that you could think of? REVIEW!
