Chapter 7: Double Trouble
Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony, only my crazy ideas to add.
Note: Sorry it took so long to update. My computer got a virus that wiped its memory clean. (Why do all the bad things seem to happen to me?) Also, soon I will post two new stories that I would like you to check out. Give me any ideas for the plot and how you feel about them.
Man did I have a huge decision to make. I had to choose between my two favorite ponies that each liked me... or should I say love? Celestia damn it, this is confusing! Why did Princess Cadence have to curse me like this? Couldn't she just have Luna lock me in the dungeon for a thousand years?
Anyway, that morning I received a letter stating I was running low on money. Why'd I have to buy that hot air balloon for Pinkie, it cost way too much for any budget. Especially since most things here cost only two bits. I mean, it cost two hundred bits!
To compensate for my loss I decided I would get myself a job. (At least it would take my mind off of Derpy and Dash.) I tried for Applejack, but sadly with an entire family of ponies to help out there was no job opening at Sweet Apple Acres. "Luna damn it!" I cried.
Next I tried my luck at Sugar-cube Corner, but the cakes had enough problems just keeping Pinkie Pie in order to hire anyone else. Library: Spike held his weight in chores, Twilight found no need for me. Poor guy, I'm going to help him one of these days. Cloudsdale: I tried the liquid rainbow (which burned with spiciness I must say) and was immediately fired. Oh well, at least I was paid for the day, five bits anyway. Rarity's boutique: Apparently black doesn't go with everything, who knew? What can I say, I love this tux look I gained in this world.
I only had one friend left to ask. I put on my best smile and flew straight for her cottage outside Ponyville. *Knock Knock* When the door swung open, there stood my favorite shy pegasus. "Hey, Fluttershy."
*Squeak* "Hi. W-w-w-what brings y-y-you to these neck of the woods?" she asked. Here face timid, scared, and wanting to run away.
"You take care of all the animals around your house, correct? How about I help you out. I'll take care of about ninety percent of the chores for a small, minimum wage. Heck, I'll do all the work. That way you won't have to lift one of your precious little hooves."
With my voice I put all the urge I could put. I put in charisma and charm and all my will into my voice. I needed a job, and this was the last friend I could easily get a job with. Good recommendation and everything.
"Uh, sure. I guess. I don't want you to do too much though. That would be so rude of me. I'll only take you up on the first offer. I want to do some work," she said in her quiet, shy voice. With excitement I wrapped her in a hug, which put a huge blush on her face. Shit, why do I end up doing this? A crush from every mare I know, seriously?
The next morning I did what I was supposed to. I fed the fish in the brook with worms, fed fresh seeds to the hens, hauled hay into the forest for who-knows-what to eat (that took about eight trips, each with four bails from my hooves), and finally feeding the rabbits, EVERY SINGLE ONE. There were maybe hundreds or thousands of families alone, each with at least six rabbits. The bundle of carrots weight as much as a bus back on earth, no, a full bus of kids going to fat camp.
By the time I was done I was crawling back to the cottage, my body drenched in sweat. I finally made it back and Fluttershy was finishing things up. I saw her feeding the birds first with some worms then the otters with... were those some of the fish I just fed? What the hell!
Afterward I was presented my reward for my hard work, a total of twenty bits. That will last me a little over three days on food. "By the way Fluttershy," I mentioned. "I saw you feed the fish that I had fed earlier to those otters. Why did you have me feed them if you were going to use them as food? Heck, you love animals, why were you using fish and worms as food anyway?"
Fluttershy seemed to ponder this, as if it never occurred to her that she was killing animals. That it was just another chore that needed to be taken care of. "Um..." she started off, not sure of what to say, "You're fired. Never come here again looking for a job." Before I could even protest that this wasn't fair, she flew off to look after her rabbits.
Well, that's it. I'm screwed. I'm going to be poor living in a box and no mare will fall for me anymore.
With a huge sigh I started flying in the opposite direction, my pride falling with every flap of my wings. Suddenly the sun was blocked from my sight, my lungs were burning from lack of oxygen. I had just flown into an enormous cloud of smoke.
That's it, the perfect place to wait this out, I thought, flying for the closest mountain.
Twilight's POV
This is bad, really bad. The princess had just sent me a new letter telling me that a dragon had just fallen asleep outside the town.
In response I galloped as fast as I could to the town square. That's where, luckily, every-pony seemed to be. "Attention every-pony," I called, "I have received a letter from Princess Celestia!"
"Ah, shut up Twilight," I heard. "We don't need to hear about every single thing that happens to you."
"You know what?" I called back, my voice full of anger. "Shut the fuck up Berry Punch. You're-."
I was suddenly interrupted by a sneaking Pinkie. "Shh, Twilight, we can't say that word. We're supposed to say buck instead."
Suddenly Dash walked over to me. "Wait, that doesn't sound right. Doesn't that make Applejack's job sound dirty?"
"I don't care," I responded. "I'm sorry but please let me finish." The two just shrugged their shoulders and trotted away.
"Anyway, you may have noticed that there is smoke in the sky." The idiots then looked to the sky, noticing the smoke for the first time ever and making me facehoof. "Well, I'm here to inform you that the smoke is not the result of a fire, but instead a dragon." The ponies ran in a frenzy, scared of the information that was just brought to their attention. Well, that could've gone better.
Later, the rest of the mane six, Spike, and I met back up in the library. Where I continued the discussion of the dragon sleeping and blocking out the sun and blah blah blah.
We argued a little on how things should be treated before things really turned crazy. Things were as if Rainbow Dash had drank liquid crazy with ice cubes of insane.
"We need to talk to the dragon. Make it diplomatic and peaceful. If we do something wrong then something wrong must be done to us. Just as Gandhi would say, an eye for an eye makes the whole world go round," I said, showing off my brains as usual.
"No it doesn't," I heard some-pony say behind. When I turned around it turned out to be Rainbow Dash.
"What?"
"That rule doesn't make sense. If that was true, then there'd be one pony with only one eye. How's the last blind pony gonna take the eye of the last pony left. The pony with one eye can just turn and run behind a bush. No blind pony would be able to find him."
Every-pony went wide-eyed at what Rainbow Dash just said. When I thought about it, it actually made sense... if I took it literally anyway.
"Okay, every-pony leave Rainbow alone for a while. Agreed?"
Every-pony else nodded and set off for their own homes to prepare for what was yet to come. This trip to the dragon was going to be a dangerous one.
Rainbow Dash's POV
After Twilight was done blabbing her nerdy peace treaty idea and insulting my ideas on the world I set off for my cloud home above Ponyville, where liquid rainbow flowed like water. I grabbed all the kick butt supplies I could get and rubbed some liquid rainbow on as war paint.
Sadly, this brought back bad memories.
Flashback
I was a young, beautiful filly, just born two days before and already flying. My mane and coat as white as snow.
My family and I were staying in our cloud house outside Cloudsdale. Liquid rainbow flowing out the sides, just like my current home.
My parents (with the same color scheme as me) were on the patio behind me while I was flying around and having the time of my life. Mom and dad didn't seem to pay attention to their little girl, who was getting awfully close to the edge of the rainbow pool. They were too busy trying to decide their perfect girls name, stuck between Blizzard Dash and Powder Snow.
Myself, in a giggling fit from having my first flight, had my eyes closed in excitement.
Suddenly a dark presence seemed to take over me. My body, seeming to turn chaotic, lost control of flight and fell down, deep into the sticky substance of the liquid rainbow.
My lungs filled with these spicy colors. My throat burned of intense heat. My skin felt hot, as if someone was putting a blowtorch to it. My mane felt like it was being burned off and regrowing as a new all at the same time.
It felt like hours but only a few moments later I felt a pair of strong hooves grab hold of me. When I was out of the rainbow I was sputtering for air, my parents faces in shock.
"I think I know her name," mom said.
"I think so too."
"Rainbow Dash," the two of them said in unision. My dad then held up a mirror, showing me my new colors.
My coat was sky blue, as blue as a clear summer's day. My mane had become every color in the spectrum, a rainbow of hair.
End of Flashback
I broke down in tears at the memory. It felt as though the chaos from that day was flowing through me again.
Pinkie's POV
Oh, I just know this is going to be fun. Going to see a real dragon! I heard that they love jokes... or did I just make that up right now? Oh well, who doesn't like jokes?
I packed the funniest things I could find. My balloon animals, party blower, present suit, and swim flippers. Oh, I mustn't forget my big red glasses!
Oh, these remind me of how I got my cutie mark! But that's a story for another day. When Applebloom looks for her Cutie Mark! Oops, I'm not supposed to know that... um.
Suddenly my tails started twitching. "Oh, that can't be good."
Rarity's POV
"Ouch! My goodness, that was painful." I was in the middle of packing my finest items. A silk scarf and of course my most fashionable shades. When all of a sudden the gems I kept on the top shelf suddenly fell on top of me! I was lucky to survive that crises.
Oh, if only I could keep control of these things. Sadly I can be such a clutz sometimes. I'm so glad Sweetie Belle isn't this bad.
"Ouch!" I heard. When I turned around, there was Sweetie Belle covered in my pony manicans.
Nevermind.
Fluttershy's POV
Well, we all gathered back together at the library. I expected that Tommy would be here, but sadly no. I can't quite apologize for my earlier behavior just yet. Twilight was giving some big speech over how we were going to take care of this, but I wasn't listening. I had too much on my mind.
First there was how I needed to apologize to Tommy. Then there was the more recent problem.
My extreme fear of dragons.
They're big, and nasty, and breathe fire, and... oh so many other terrible things.
Spike may be kind and so sweet, but he's just a baby dragon. He was born in captivity and knows the difference between right and wrong. This was a wild dragon, one that didn't know what was the right thing to do. He could easily... oh my... dare I say it... kill us in one swipe.
When I looked back up, finally ready to pay attention, everypony was walking away. I galloped to catch up and pretend like I was following the whole time. Suddenly I bumped into Rarity.
"Oops, sorry Rarity."
"Oh, it's quite fine my dear. It's not your fault that she showed up out of nowhere."
"She?" when I looked to the front of the crowd I could see a grey pegasus with bubbles for a cutie mark and a blonde mane.
Twilight was in the middle of a conversation with her. "I'm sorry Derpy, but Tommy isn't with us right now. I expect he will realize what's going on and come help though. Would you like to join us."
Even though Derpy had a lazy eye, both of them seemed to dart to Rainbow Dash before returning how they were before. "Um... no thanks. I'll be fine. I'll wait here."
"Nonsense darling," Rarity said, "you mustn't wait around. Come, with us." Suddenly Rarity's horn began to glow and Derpy was forcibly dragged with the group. "A man should neveer leave a girl waiting."
With that, Miss Derpy Hooves stopped struggling and made her way with us to the mountain. My worst nightmare was about to come true.
We first had to go up a really steep ledge. I couldn't see how the others could climb up it. I mean sure, Rainbow Dash was flying, but still.
I wanted to stay behind. My wings even kept me from flying. Applejack was going to take me around another way, but instead they carried me up anyway. We started to walk around on the trail, my heart pounding out of fear. Meanwhile, Derpy seemed to be concerned on something else.
"Um... Derpy, is something wrong?" I asked.
Derpy stared at me me for a second, with her good eye anyway, before answering. "Well, you see Fluttersky-"
"It's Fluttershy, actually."
"Muttershy?"
"Fluttershy."
"Buttered sky?"
"Fluttershy."
"High five?"
"Fluttershy."
"... Bob?"
"B- that doesn't even sound like my name, but fine yes, call me Bob. I am Bob. Bob is now my new name. Happy? Now is there something wrong, Derpy?"
Derpy looked like she didn't want to mention it. "It's about Tommy. I'm sure you already know."
At the sound of his name, my heart jumped due to the sound of someone with a similar problem. Someone who has a problem involving Tommy. "Oh, do you need to apologize to him for something as well?"
Derpy's expression then turned to confusion. "Ap...ol...o...gize~? What do you- you mean he hasn't told you about our problem? He's dead,"
Now it was my turn to be confused. "Problem? What kind of problem could you and Tommy have? Why is he dead? Did something happen to him?"
"Not yet." I heard her mumble. I figured it was better to just leave her alone.
We made it next to a crack in the path of the mountain. Everypony else seemed to make it across with ease. Derpy saw Rainbow Dash easily make it across the crack and seemed to try to jump further... only to mess up on her aim and hit the side of the mountain face first.
Then it came to me.
Needless to say, I looked down, saw how far down it was, and acted my usual self. (Or as Tommy would put it, freaked the fuck out.) Oh, I've really have to stop thinking about him. I feel even more guilty than before. There's also something else, I can't seem to describe it.
Meanwhile, in my secret location
A sudden shock came to my body, a sense that something bad was about to happen. Something that would change my situation just a tad. As if I just gained one more girl that would kill for me.
"Oh that can't be good," I said.
"Keep quiet!" my roommate yelled.
"Sorry."
Note to self: Never get a roommate EVER again. Geez.
Back in Fluttershy's POV
With a little encouragement from the girls, a scary rumbling, and an annoying song of Pinkie's, I finally got myself to jump the gap.
"More like walk, it was only a foot wide," Pinkie Pie said.
"How did you know what I was narrating?"
"A little something I like to break called 'The Fourth Wall.'"
"The what?"
Suddenly everything seemed to rush by and we were at the top of the mountain. "The Fourth Wall, it controls the boundary between reality and fantasy." Again, everything flew by and we were back with the group.
"That explains so much of the things you do. Can you bring all of us to the top?"
Suddenly Pinkie's eyes grew as if worried. "Oh no! We mustn't do that more than once or twice an episode. If we do that, then a hole could break between our world and-"
"The fantasy world?"
"No, the real world."
"Real world? But- and- episode?"
"Not now, Fluttershy. We need to go. Equestria needs us, for, like, the umpteenth time."
So we continued on our way. The group had actually gained ground from where we were before. Within a few moments we were at the front of a huge cave.
"Meep."
Twilight set each of us a job.
Rainbow Dash: Clear the smoke.
Pinkie, Rarity, and Derpy: Distraction. Though the only one needed would be Pinkie.
Applejack: Apple weaponry.
Twilight and I: Wake the dragon.
Twilight started to head into the cave. No way in hell, am I following her.
Twilight's POV
I was on my way into to the cave. "So, Fluttershy, how do you wake a dragon without angering it?"
Silence.
"Fluttershy?"I turned around and no one was there. "Celestia damn it."
I was now forced to trot back out, argue for her to come in, fail at that, and come back in by myself. This was not going to be easy.
When I met up with the dragon, I found that he was about, oh, the size of PONYVILLE! He was red with a yellow underbelly and spines. Suddenly the little confidence I had just disappeared. I whimpered to the side, his giant claws raised right past my head for him to scratch his stomach.
Then I took a look at the treasure he was sleeping on. And a certain spot caught my eye. It appeared that part of the gold was covered in read, was that blood?
When I took one step closer, an ugly, gold face popped out at me.
My POV
I almost busted a gut laughing and pulled the gold mask I was wearing off.
"Oh... my... god!" I said through the gasps of breath I had afterward. "You should've seen the look on your face! Priceless!"
"Tommy," she yelled in surprise, "what are you doing here!?"
With my smirk still on my face, I replied, "I came here to do some deep thinking. May I say that nothing has come to me yet."
"Well, then do you mind helping me with the dragon?"
"Nah, I actually like him."
"I said, 'Quiet!'" the dragon yelled again.
"He... just... doesn't like me sometimes. He can get quite grouchy."
Rainbow Dash stormed into the cave. Ready to do here violent task, then she saw me. "Tommy, what are you doing here?"
"Hey baby, you wanna see something funny?" in response she nodded her head. "Fly up and look at the dragon from above."
She did as she was told and started to laugh. "His... his... his treasure is shaped like a teddy bear!"
Suddenly the dragon's eyes opened, revealing his yellow iris and black dilated pupils. The whites were beginning to grey with lack of sleep. "I SAID, 'QUIET!'"
"S-s-s-sorry, man," I stuttered. "I know I said I would be quiet. It'll never happen again."
"Oh, I'll make sure it doesn't," he said, the amount of smoke from his nostrils beginning to increase.
"Shit."
"Run?" asked Twilight.
"You're the smart one," I said, "I'm pretty sure you're smart enough to know what to do."
We all made our way for the exit. My speed continued to increase, until I could see the sound barrier begin to form around me. Suddenly I hit another burst of speed and I shot out of the cave. When I looked back, everything seemed to be spray-painted red and yellow.
"Cool, my own form of a Sonic Rainboom. I guess spray-painting kinda goes with deception."
Then the dragon came out, his color unchanged due to him already having the same color scheme. "You're dead Thomas!"
"Um... I go by Tommy! But, whatever works for you," I called back.
At the mention of my name one of the painted ponies looked up, her lazy eye giving her away as Derpy. "Tommy? I have a bone to pick with you."
"Aw shit, who let Derpy in with the group?" I asked.
Derpy, not being the best flier, slowly and wobbly flew her way up to me. "I tell you I love you, and I never hear from you since. You said you needed some time to think about it and I gave you this long. Now I want an answer, me or Rainbow? Who is it going to be?"
Hearing the entire conversation, Dash flew up within a second to join it. "Excuse me, you told my stallion that you love him while we're dating?" then she turned her attention to me. "And you didn't tell her 'no' right away?"
I ended up doing an awkward laugh. "Well, the funny thing is... um... hey, dragon, now would be a good time to kill me!"Instead, the dragon knew to stay away and just flew away, his treasure between his claws. "Hey, come back and kill me!"
I started flying after him, rambling to try and get out of girl troubles. When I saw Ponyville, I made a straight beeline for the abandoned theatre I'd been using after every chapter.
After the show
"Hey, looks like I'm in deep shit aren't I?" I asked, looking at the camera. "Now would be a good time to just get to the music. So without further ado, here's-"
"Tommy!" I heard two voices yell in unison. The doors at the front opened to show Dash and Derpy, as furious as ever.
Okay, I need a new stage for after the chapters. This place is no longer secret. "Well, it looks like we don't have time for any music. Sorry, gotta run!"