Evasive got up bright and early the next day, stretching his wings and flapping them lightly, before he quickly set out to Ponyville, he was excited to see his friends again, and couldn't wait to pay them a visit. As he flew, a sense of freedom swerved into his insides, and he felt, in a sense, alive.
He hummed a little tune to himself and felt even more invigorated from the feeling. Floating around the clouds was something he always loved, flying through the skies like a tiger, flying at supersonic speeds, it was all so liberating. When he finally reached Ponyville he was in an even better mood than before and touched down to find the Doc. He said hello to anyone passing by and they responded in kind, or vice versa, another part he loved about this town, just how remarkably friendly everyone was. It was almost too much, just how nice everything seemed here.
He kept striding down and came across a nice road to head down, all around him he saw busy ponies going about their daily lives, doing whatever it was that kept them occupied with their time. He felt a connection, like being here made him part of a larger family, just minding his own business. He headed over to the Doctor's house, he had to double back after taking a wrong turn, but he eventually walked over to the right house, he rang the doorbell and waited, however after waiting awhile he realized no one was home. So he walked back into town. Upon finding a place to sit down he was joined by none other than Agile Skies.
"Vase! I knew you'd be here, C'mon, let's go practice, Starburst is free all tonight." Agile told his friend.
"Oh really?" Evasive asked curiously.
"Yeah, he can come, and that means you need to come too. This is a big deal, the tournament starts this week. We need to practice as much as possible." He told him excitedly.
"Sounds good to me." Evasive responded neutrally.
"Plus this will be a good opportunity to get some down time, I hate work. Plus, you get to work on your spin."
"Huh? Oh yeah, cool." Evasive was distracted by a mare walking by.
"Hey! Focus!" Agile yelled.
"What? What did I do?" Evasive quickly defended.
"I need you to be there, this is important. I have a bet going with Blue Star that we'd at least make the second round."
"Really? Why?" Evasive asked, curious.
"Because I needed to, he was ticking me off, and bragging, and… I hate that."
"You have to learn to unwind Agile." Evasive responded softly, "This kind of reckless behavior is exactly what is going to get you in trouble."
"I know but, he deserved it! And I wanna beat him, and, well…" Agile looked at his friend
"Okay, I'll be there, alright? I was planning to anyways." Evasive promised quickly.
"Great, see ya tonight!" Agile zoomed off to the sky.
Later that night Evasive showed up at the Ponyville bowling alley, where several ponies were bowling away, and others were eating, it was a safe haven for Vase since he was able to spend some time with ponies he liked. He saw Agile out of the corner of his eye and walked over.
"Hey Vase! We just got a lane."
"Cool, where's Star?" Evasive asked, looking around for him.
"Right here." A light green furred, gold maned stallion walked up behind them and sat down next to Evasive.
"Can't wait for the tournament guys, I've been looking forward to this for awhile." Starburst said while opening some cider.
Hey Star, did you get me some cider like I asked?" Agile asked bluntly.
"I only got some for me, you can go get some." Starburst said nonchalantly.
"Star, I asked you to get one for me. We're a team, we don't do things by ourselves." Agile said with a slightly deadpan tone.
"Sorry." Starburst shrugged.
"Hey, Agile, so he forgot, no big deal. I'll go get some." Evasive offered.
"Yeah well I expect Star to listen next time when I tell him to get me a cider." Agile pressed.
"What do you want from me? Look, there's only four ponies in line right now." Starburst said.
"Yeah well there'd be no ponies in line if you had just got it like I told you to!" Agile pressed harder.
"Hey look, I'm not your slave okay? I'm your bowling teammate! I don't ask you to buy me a cider okay?" Starburst shouted back.
Evasive facehoofed hard when an earth pony named Thorn walked over and started taunting them.
"Hey guys, are you ready to get killed on the lanes? Cause if this is what I'm up against I might as well start drinking my victory cider now." He chuckled.
"Go away Thorn." Agile said quickly.
"Let me tell you something Skies, if this is how you guys warm up for a game, I might just leave after the 7th frame. Cause that's all I'll need.
"Yeah? Well… Call me when you get a strike Mr- ummm… uh, Mr… gutter… Evasive retorted.
All three looked at Evasive for a while as if he were clinically insane. Evasive shrank back in his seat and took an interest in a magazine next to him.
"Call me when you can come up with a real comeback." Thorn then headed off.
"That creep really grows on you huh?" Agile said.
Starburst gave Evasive a weird look.
"What was that?" he asked wildly.
"I don't know." Evasive responded with a trace of defeat in his tone.
"What were we talking about?" Agile asked Starburst.
"Probably wasn't important." Starburst responded in kind.
Evasive picked up the magazine and began reading it.
The next day Evasive got up bright and early, he flew out into the cold air and headed for work. When he got there at work, he spotted Agile talking with a pegasus named Red Wing. He headed over to work and soon enough Agile saw him.
"There you are Vase! You made it, help me out with this big one." Agile said.
"Sure, sounds good." Evasive said back.
Vase and Agile flew over to the cloud, Agile started going off like he always did.
"So the boss says I might have a future in snowflakes. Can you believe that?" Agile said.
"The boss says a lot of things." Evasive responded.
"Hey that reminds me." Agile kept going. "Why does it have to be gray clouds at this time of year?"
"There's a system in place Agile." Evasive elaborated. "If we shake it up too much than we get written off."
"Yeah but, I mean, shouldn't there be a clear merit as to why the system does things? I mean if it doesn't make sense why do it? Why not just have the weather be the way we feel like it?" Agile asked his friend.
"I have no idea." Evasive pondered. "I think it's because we'd get fired and I'd have to find a job working at some chain retail store that sells toasters and hats."
"Yeah, but, isn't that the trap?" Agile kept on. "We can't question the system because if we do, we get written off or even fired, and if we don't we're subject to a way of doing things we don't understand and no one knows if it makes any sense in the long run."
"Well, I mean, it might make sense, the boss might know why we do things a certain way." Evasive responded.
"Yeah, but he never explains it to us, it's not like we're checked for moral integrity doing this." Agile pressed.
"We're just moving clouds Agile." Evasive said.
"And I'm glad that's all we're doing." Agile responded. "If this were something important like government work for Celestia..."
What are you two doing? Get back to work!" Stern Light yelled.
"Sorry boss!" They said in unison, and both took to moving gray clouds
"He's hiding something." Agile responded after his boss was out of earshot.
"Agile, I think you're overthinking this." Evasive said, uninterested.
"Have it your way Vase, but I don't buy any of this." Agile said confidently.
Evasive sighed and found another cloud to move.