A/N: I wasn't able to explain it last time, but I'm planning two kind of chapters in the future: New chapters focusing on Derpy, Carrot Top and Everlasting and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" type chapters. Either way, it's going to be interesting...
Chapter 2: The Ticket Master
Twilight sighed, she had gotten two ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were now fighting over the second ticket… it couldn't get worse…
That was when Derpy dropped from the sky.
"Sorry about that." Said Derpy, "Tripped again."
Rainbow Dash turned to her fellow Pegasus, "How is that even possible?" she asked.
"So I was right, it's impossible to trip while flying." Said Twilight.
"So what's going on?" asked Derpy.
"Well nothing." Said Twilight.
"Twilight had tickets to Grand Galloping Gala." Said Spike.
Twilight looked at him.
"Really?" asked Derpy, "Can you take me! Please!"
"Why do you want to go?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Because I heard there's muffins there! Lots and lot of muffins." Said Derpy.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash exchanged looks.
Both their reasons were far better than Derpy's.
Applejack wanted to sell her goods there, while Rainbow Dash wanted to show her stuff in front of the Wonder Bolts.
Okay, Rainbow Dash's was selfish…
But Applejack wanted to help her family.
But this was just plain weird.
"Please let me think about it over lunch." Said Twilight.
Of course things would only get worse from here on out…
Twilight headed in town… she ran into Pinkie. Who found the tickets and went into a big musical number about it.
"What's going on?" asked Carrot Top.
"Twilight's taking me to the Grand Galloping Gala." Said Pinkie.
"Wow…" said Carrot, "Taking Pinkie… that's just… wow… I hope you love your sanity…"
"I haven't decided who I'm going to take." Said Twilight.
"Then can you take me?" asked Carrot Top, "A good chunk of my harvest goes to it and I want to I want to see how people are enjoying the carrots I grow. I also love it when people enjoy the carrots I grow… and to see what sort of dishes are made with my carrots. It's going to be so wonderful."
"What's going on?" asked Rarity.
"Twilight has rickets to the Gala and needs to take someone." Said Carrot Top.
"Oh take me, please." Said Rarity.
She began to tell her reasons… which was to meet Princess Celesta's nephew, fall in love and get married.
Spike was doing the gag me motion.
"Oh please, your reasons Rarity, are too much like a fairy tail." Said Everlasting joining the conversation, "granted I don't know what you're talking about…"
"She had tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala." Said Spike.
Twilight gave her assistant a look.
"Please take me Twilight!" said Everlasting.
"Why?" sighed Twilight.
"It's time I tell you what a flame war is…" said Everlasting.
Twilight stared at her.
"You see, when nerdy authors and comic book artists w go to conventions… one of two things happen at a panel, there will be haters. When there are enough haters what's known as a flame war starts up and these thing can at time be very violent…" said Everlasting, "Then there's the Shipping Flame Wars… I mean I've been attacked a few times because Crystal was implied to get together with Star Gazer instead of Tree Leaf… Or even because I didn't pair them up together."
Twilight still hadn't read Alicorn's Heart (she finally read Soul of a Dragon), but she did know one thing.
"But Tree Leaf and Star Gazer are males." Said Twilight.
"Oh Twilight… you're so naive when it comes to Shipping." Said Everlasting patting Twilight on the head, "Anyways the point of the matter is that if I go to the Grand Galloping Gala I'll be able to meet fans without flame wars breaking out, sure it's going to stuck people… and they tend to give their own interpretation… but still… I'll finally be able to talk to fans in a calm resettable manner."
Twilight stared at Everlasting.
"Oh come on you have to exaggerating." Said Twilight.
"She isn't" said Carrot Top, "Trust me, it's insane…"
That was when Angel, a white rabbit that well could be considered Fluttershy's pet, grabbed the tickets, and brought them over to Fluttershy.
Fluttershy wanted to go not for the party but rather for the gardens which had all sorts of animals.
"That sounds nice." Said Twilight.
"No it doesn't…" said Rainbow Dash suddenly showing up.
Before Twilight could asked her whether or not she was following this happened.
"Muffin Kick!" yelled Derpy suddenly kicking her, "That ticket is mine!"
"Did you just kick me?" asked Rainbow Dash getting up from the kick.
"Maybe… I wasn't paying attention…" said Derpy.
"How can you not be paying attention to kicking someone?" asked Rainbow Dash, "Wait… never mind don't answer."
"There you are!" yelled Applejack.
"Okay! Were you all following me?" asked Twilight.
"Uh…" responded Rainbow Dash.
"No… I going to Sugar Cube Corner to get a muffin then I saw Rainbow Dash was bothering you and I knew it had to do with Gala." Said Derpy.
"I was Following Rainbow Dash, because I knew she would follow you." Said Applejack, "I didn't' want her giving my ticket."
"YOUR TICKET!" yelled every pony else.
All of them began to argue.
"QUIET!" yelled Twilight.
They all quieted down, expect for Pinkie.
"And then I was like "Oatmeal, are you crazy?"" said Pinkie.
Everyone stared at Pinkie as she realized what was going on.
"Sorry…" she said.
"There's no use in arguing." Said Twilight.
"But…" said Rarity.
"No she has a point…" said Carrot Top, "If we argue, she'll just wind up giving the ticket to Spike."
"But I don't want to go." Said Spike.
"That's the point…" said Carrot Top.
"Thank you Carrot Top." Said Twilight.
Carrot Top gave a smile.
"I haven't made my decision." Said Twilight.
"Oh." Said Carrot Top.
"Let me think about I am famished." Said Twilight.
With that Twilight went to go eat lunch.
If only it was that simple…
Lunch was ruined because of a rain storm (and Rainbow Dash's bribing her with a break in the clouds didn't help) not to mention Rarity giving her a make over to bribe her…
However when she left Rarity's boutique this happened…
"No w if you excuse me, I've been trying all day to get some lunch." Said Twilight.
"Did some pony say lunch?" asked Carrot Top appearing with a cart filled with all sorts of Carrot dishes.
"Oh no…" mumbled Twilight.
"You want a salad?" asked Carrot Top before she can finish her pitch… someone else showed up.
"No she wants Apple Pie." Said Applejack who had a similar cart but with apple sweets.
"Apple Pie is a desert or snack, not a meal." Said Carrot Top.
"Well I met her first." Said Applejack.
"Oh using childish arguing, that will work." Said Carrot Top.
"You know I'm surprised you even have friends with that behavior." Said Applejack.
"What did you say?" asked Carrot Top.
That was when they noticed at Twilight had bolted during their argument.
Where Twilight ran with Spike she sighed.
"I never though getting favors would so aggravating." Said Twilight.
"Oh wow Twilight you look so stressed, want to come to my patio, and drink tea." Said Everlasting suddenly showing up.
"I don't know." Said Twilight.
"On nice days it's where I do my writing come on!" said Everlasting using magic to drag Twilight to her house.
Spike sighed as he followed.
They got to the outside patio of her beautiful house.
"So what kind of tea would you like, I have so many: regular black, jasmine, mint, green, chamomile, earl grey and so many different kinds of fruit flavors, which one." Said Everlasting.
"Um… I guess just regular black." Said Twilight.
"Coming right up." Said Everlasting going inside her house.
There was a crash.
"You okay?" asked Spike.
"I'm all right!" came Everlasting's voice, "I just slipped."
"I'm going to see what's going on." Said Twilight.
That was when Everlasting blocked the door, "Everything is fine in here, just slipped on… something… not quite was it was but just slipped on it…"
"Then can I least help." Said Twilight.
"No… no… I can make the tea on my own." Said Everlasting.
"Does this have to with that that Rarity constantly wants to clean it." Said Spike.
"Fine, I'll admit, I don't want you to see the mess my house is in." said Everlasting.
"It can't be that bad." Said Twilight making her way in.
Twilight's jaw dropped when she saw the mess.
There was a puddle on the floor, there was spaghetti on the ceiling, there was several flies in the room and a stink somewhere. Twilight even saw a pig run by.
"Did I just see a pig?" asked Twilight.
"Oh, that's just Fuffles." Said Everlasting, "She my pet pot bellied pig."
"I see…" said Twilight.
"What about that goat?" asked Spike pointing to a goat eating out the trash.
Everlasting glared at the goat and grabbed a rather clean mop with her magic.
"Go away you goat! Go leave!" yelled Everlasting shooing away the goat with the mop.
When the goat ran out the door, there was an awkward silence.
"You should leave." Said Everlasting.
And Twilight left.
"Maybe I can just get home with out running into someone." Sighed Twilight.
"Aunty Twilight!" cried a high pitched voice.
That was when Dinky suddenly showed up and hugged her.
"Aunty Twilight. Can you teach me magic?" asked Dinky, she was unicorn like her father (Twilight didn't know the exact details but Derpy's ex-husband was run out of town shortly after Derpy got pregnant).
"Derpy…" said Twilight.
Derpy landed from a cloud she was watching from.
"I can't believe you would use your own daughter like that." Said Twilight.
"What I can't believe is that she would come up with an idea so ingenious." Said Spike.
They turned to Spike.
"It was all my idea." Said Dinky.
"What?" asked Twilight.
"I heard from mommy about the muffin thing, and I decided to try to help her after all she's the best mommy in the world." Said Dinky.
"That's my little muffin." Said Derpy, "She's a little genius, you know. She's younger than Apple Bloom, but is in the same class."
Twilight sighed, "I'm still thinking about it." Said Twilight.
"Okay…" sighed Derpy.
Twilight took Spike and left.
"This can't get possibly worse." She grumbled.
After finding Fluttershy and her animal friends cleaning her house. After getting rid of her, she found that Pinkie Pie was throwing a party…
Then the rest of the town found out about it and started chasing her.
It took hours to lose the town, and teleport back to the library.
Not only that but when she got back she found her 8 friends there waiting for her.
She couldn't help but to cry out.
"I can't decide, I just can't decide. It's important to all of you and I just can't stand to disappoint any of you, and giving me gifts and doing me favors won't make any difference because you're all my friends and I wanna make you all happy and I can't, I just can't!" yelled Twilight.
"Oh great we broke her." Muttered Carrot Top, "You know what, I don't want the ticket any more."
Applejack nodded, "I don't' want the ticket anymore you can give it to some pony else. I won't feel bad."
"Me too." Said Fluttershy, "I feel awful for making you feel awful."
"And me too! It's no fun upsetting your friends" said Pinkie.
"Yeah, sorry for making you feel so uncomfortable." Sighed Everlasting, "I'm sure in a couple years my publisher will push that I go but it's fine not going this year."
"I can always get muffins any time." Said Derpy, "But I can't replace you."
"Twilight, it was unfair of me to try to force you like I did." Said Rarity.
"YES! The ticket is mine!" cheered Rainbow Dash.
Every pony glared at her.
"I haven't perfected my moves so I think I'll wait." Said Rainbow Dash.
"Spike take a note." Said Twilight.
Twilight took a breath knowing what she was about to write was going to surprise them.
"Dear Princess Celestia, I've learned that one of the joys of friendship is sharing your blessings, but when there's not enough blessings to go around, having more than your friends can make you feel pretty awful. So, though I appreciate the invitation, I will be returning both tickets to The Grand Galloping Gala." Said Twilight dictating the note.
"What!" they all yelled.
"If my friends can't all go then I don't want to go either." Said Twilight.
"You don't have to do that you know, you can always drag Spike along." Said Carrot Top.
"But I don't want to go." Said Spike.
"That's the point." Said Carrot Top.
"Didn't you already have similar conversation." Said Derpy.
"I've made up my mind." Said Twilight, "Spike send the letter."
Spike breathed fire on the letter which caused the smoke the drift though the window.
"Now you won't get to enjoy the gala either." Said Fluttershy.
"It's okay, I couldn't enjoy my self with all my best friends there with me." Said Twilight.
That was when Spike looked like he was going to vomit.
"Please tell me that you're really sick and not acting like a little boy." Said Carrot Top.
That was when he spat out a letter.
"A letter from Princess Celesta, that was fast." Said Twilight.
"My faithful student Twilight, Why didn't you just say so in the first place?" Spike read the letter, which came with 9 tickets to the Gala.
"Now we can all go!" said Twilight.
Every pony in the room cheered.
"Let's all treat Twilight to dinner to apologize." Said Rarity.
"I was just planning on sending her apology muffins but that's a better idea." Said Derpy.
And so they were all able to go to the Gala because as they left, Princess Celestia sent Spike a 10th ticket.
Next Time: Applejack has to do her family's harvest all on her own... what's more is that she's helping Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Everlasting with their things... all while sleep deprived. Can Twilight stop her and get her to admit she needs help or will Applejack mess things up? Find out next time!