Chapter 21: finding work
It was a calm day in equestria as everypony was enjoying there day. The main eleven were at a cafe enjoying there free time as they talked amongst each other, jack told everyone about what happened the other day and everyone thought that it was very cute.
Dillon didn't tell them about him taking the cutie mark crusaders to earth because he felt that it would seem very depressing if he did. As the main eleven were still talking with each other one of the waiters came up to them.
"are you all ready to order?".
"yup I think so? You guys all ready to order our food?" max asked the group.
They all nodded at him as he then turned around to face the waiter "yea were ready", the female waitress pulled out a pen and a piece of paper as she then looked at him waiting for his order.
"I will have the flower salad" max said "and a bowl of fruit for the guys. And hay sandwiches for the girls".
"ok coming right up" she then walked away from the table as they went back to talking, dillon then tapped his fingers on the table he was in deep thought. Fluttershy looked at him, "dillon. Are you ok?" she said to him as she placed her hoof on his arm. He then got out of his train of thought as he looked at her.
"oh sorry fluttershy I was just thinking".
"oh...umm...m-may I ask what you were thinking about? I-i mean if that's alright with you". He then pulled her close to his side making her eep a bit, she then looked up at him with her big green eyes that made him melt. "oh it's nothing really. I was just thinking about getting a job here. That is if anyone will hire me" he said as he laid his head on the table, everyone then looked at him.
Max then spoke up "well...if you want. You and I could go job searching. Since the guys already have jobs", this got his attention seeing that max was right since Corey, sam, and jack all had jobs. Dillon nodded at him as the waiter came back with there food and laid it on the table.
Everyone then dug into there food in enjoyment as max and dillon thought about were they were going to find a place to work.
After they were all done with there meal they all went there separate ways except for max and dillon who were both holding up a newspaper as they were looking at the job section. "hmm how about this one dude?" max said as he pointed at the top section on the newspaper, "mail service huh" dillon said as he looked at it.
"well I hate to break it to you man. But you forget that we can't fly. Plus your not really skilled with magic yet. So this is the one job that would require that" he finished as he crossed it out with a pen. "oh yeah. I forgot about that" he said as he rubbed his head, they kept looking at the paper until dillon pointed at another ad in the paper.
"hey how about this" max looked at where his finger was pointing at, he moved his finger to see that it was an ad on baking. This made max ponder about this as he then looked at his pal "that's not a bad idea dillon" he said to him, "yea I know. And I think you might enjoy it max" this made max look at him with a puzzled expression.
"wait me? But what are you gonna do?" he asked him.
"I'm going up to canderlot to see if I can find a job there" he said with hope in his voice.
Hearing this made him laugh as he hit the table.
"what's so funny?".
Max calmed down as he looked at him.
"dude! Everyone knows that you can't stand rich people because they think there better than everyone else" he said, this was true about what he said. Dillon couldn't stand people that thought that they were better than everyone else and always made other people feel bad about themselves.
He shrugged at him as he then got up and grabbed another newspaper and walked a few feet away from max looking at canderlot castle. "yea I know bro. But hey this is a new world so I might as well give it a try" he said "just who the hay do you think I am" he finished as he pointed at his chest as he walked away from the table, "don't worry max. I know that you can get a job. Just don't give up ok".
He waved at him as he kept walking out of his line of sight. Max looked at canderlot castle and then at the newspaper and gulped "I hope that your right dillon".
SUGERCUBE CORNNER
Max walked up to the shop and looked up and down analyzing it carefully, he then looked at his arms and saw that he had goosebumps. He was nervous as this would be the first working, he breathed slowly as he opened the door.
As he walked in he saw pinky pie and jack at the front counter talking to each other until they heard the door, "yay a customer" pinky pie shouted as she and jack turned to see that it was max.
"hey man. What's going on?" jack asked him.
Max smiled at his friends "hey guys. I'm doing fine".
"how is the job search going?".
"well that's what I wanted to ask you about".
Pinky then started jumping up and down "yay! Max is gonna work for us!" she said in a joyful tone as she kept bouncing. Jack then placed his hand on her head and rubbed it as she was still bouncing "yea it seems so pinky. Wait were is dillon?".
Max then smiled "he's gone up to canderlot to find a job".
Jack then laughed hearing that.
"hahahaha! Oh man now that is something that I would like to see"
They laughed a bit as max cleared his throat "ahem. Now that all jokes are aside I was wondering if I could see if I could help out around here. And see if I could be a baker like you guys", they both looked at each other before turning back to max and nodding at him. He then ran up and hugged them both in joy "oh man thanks you guys".
"no problem max. Just follow us".
The three then walked into the kitchen and leaned up on the table as jack then pointed at the cook book in front of them. "let's see if you can make something out of this cook book to see if baking is the right job for you" jack said to him as he backed away from the table next to pinky pie, max came up to the table and looked at the book.
He was skimming through the pages seeing what he could make for his first try. He keep going through the pages until he stopped and snapped his fingers, pinky pie and jack walked up to his side as they looked at what he stooped at: cupcakes.
Pinky pie smiled "oh boy. Your gonna make cupcakes" she said as she started thinking about them. Max only rubbed her mane "yup. I'm gonna make cupcakes", he then looked at the ingredients and things that he need for the cupcakes as jack and pinky pie walked out of the kitchen to let him do his work.
A few hours had past as jack and pinky pie were walking back and forth outside of the kitchen, "you think we should go in and see if he if he's ok?", "yea. It's been about three hours. We should go in to see if he needs any help" he said.
They both walked into the kitchen only to see a huge mess of batter, and icing all on the walls. They then saw max covered in smoke as he laid his head on the table next to a batch of cupcakes that were covered in frosting and sprinkles, seeing this made pinky pie rush over to them and start eating them with lighting speed.
Jack smiled as he walked over to his friend and patted him on the back "bro wake up" jack said.
Max then shot up and looked all over the room.
"ah! Just give me more time!" he shouted as he kept freaking out until he claimed down and rubbed his eyes and looked at jack, "oh...hey jack" he said sheepishly as jack only patted him on the back. "hey there. Looks like you had quite a handful here".
"yeah I did. Who knew that making sweets would be a bitch".
"hehehe. Well it takes time man. But it looks like to me that this one batch made you tired I see".
Max only looked away from his face "yeah. I'm sorry man. I thought this would be my calling".
"hey it's ok no big deal. You just need to find that dream job of yours".
Max then looked at him still upset "I don't know".
Jack looked at pinky pie who was licking the cupcake pan that was full of frosting and sprinkles as he then turned his attention back at him, "oh come on. Don't be like that max. Remember your the leader of our brony group. You mustn't give up. Now think what is the one job that you always wanted?".
Max thought hard about what he said as he then snapped his fingers making some frosting flick off and land on jack's nose. "hehe hey" he said as max looked at him trying not to laugh, "hehe sorry. But there is one job that I always wanted to do for a very long time".
Jack looked at him "and what would that be?".
"well...iv'e always wanted to work at a music store".
Jack then started to smile as he thought of one pony that could do music in ponyville. "ah. If that's the case then you'll wanna go over to vinyl scratches Dj studio house down the street from here". He then walked his pal out of the kitchen's back door and pointed down the street to a two story house with a record disc glowing in neon blue on the side, max then walked a few feet away from his friend and glanced at the house as he then turned back to jack.
Jack then gave him a thumbs up at him "go for your dream" he said to him as he then whipped the frosting off of his nose, max nodded at him as he then ran down the street to vinyl's house.
VINYL SCRATCH'S HOUSE
Max was at vinyl scratches door as he looked up at her door then at the window that said "help wanted". He took a huge breath as he then walked inside, he looked around in the house to see a dj player, piles of notes, some music equipment, and a few record discs on the floor.
As he was looking around the place he then heard somepony come downstairs, he looked over to the steps to see a white pony with a blue mane and tail and a music note cutie mark on her flank. She then walked up to the human and looked at him "hey what's up" she said to him as she then extended her hoof at him, he leaned down and grabbed her hoof and shook it gently as he looked into her red eyes.
"umm hi" max said as he sounded a little nervous in his voice, after they finished there small greeting vinyl then walked up to her desk and used her magic from her horn as she put her sunglasses on her face. "so. What can I do for ya my friend?" vinyl asked him.
Max then rubbed his neck as he then gulped and tried to think of the words that he wanted to say.
"umm well..y-you see. I was looking for a job and I saw that you were in need of someone" he finished. Vinyl then raised her sunglasses with her hoof "oh yea. I totally forgot about that. I've been so busy with my music that I am in need of somepony to help me out" she said, "you know you would fit in for the position. What do ya say? You wanna be my assistant?".
Max's face lit up as he picked up vinyl scratch and hugged her "what do I say. I say you got yourself an assistant!" he said as he had a huge smile on his face, vinyl laughed as he put her back down "hehe. Ok then. Looks like I will see you tomorrow morning" she said "don't be late", max nodded at her as he then turned to the door and ran to the library to tell twilight and spike the good news.
CANDERLOT
"ugh! This is ridiculous! Not one place in canderlot is hiring anyone" dillon said to himself as he was walking around the area, he had been looking high and low in the streets of canderlot finding a job that would be of his interest. But sadly it seems that no pony was hiring anypony, this was starting to piss dillon off.
"man. There has to be at least somepony that will take me in for a job".
As he was walking looking at the ground he didn't notice the pony that was in front of him as he bumped into her, they both fell onto the ground as dillon rubbed his head "gezz that hurt" he then looked over in front of him as he saw a grey pony with a black mane and tail, and a pink bow tie around her neck.
He quickly got to his feet and picked her back up to her hoofs. "oh man. I am so sorry. Are you hurt?" he asked her, the grey pony dusted herself of as she looked over her body to see of any damage was done to her, "I believe I'm alright. Thank you for helping me" she said.
Dillon shrugged "hey. What are friend's for" she then chuckled a bit as she smiled at him " oh were are my manners. My name is octavia. And who are you?". Dillon then pointed at himself "my name is dillon", she then looked at him with an even bigger smile.
"y-your..your him! Your one of humans that helped save princess Luna" she then jumped and hugged him around his waist. "ohhh. I have so many questions to ask you", dillon petted her head "well that's cool to hear that you heard of me and I would be happy to answer your questions. But you see...right now I'm in sort of a problem".
Octavia then let go of his waist as she looked up at him "what is the problem ".
"well you see. I came up here to canderlot so that I may find a job. But it turns out that everypony is not hiring at this time. So I'm kinda out of luck".
Octavia then raised up her hoof.
"as a matter a fact your in luck. I'm actually in need of somepony to help me with my music so that I may play it for the grand galloping Galla next month. If you would like to. I would be more than happy to have you work with me".
This was all dillon had to hear as he then said the one word that he wanted to say, "yes. It's a deal Octavia. When do I start?". She smiled "you start on Saturday at eight". She then started to walk past him as she then turned around "don't be late this weekend. And be sure to promise me something as well", he turned around to face her.
"sure. What's the promise?".
"to tell me stories about your friends and of your world".
She then walked down the street from his view as dillon watched her leave his line of sight, he smiled to himself seeing that he got what he came for as he then walked down the other side of the street and on his way home to fluttershy.