Chapter 35: You Shouldn't See This
***Button***
"Where is mom going?" I asked as me and Chance kept running after her. When we left the house earlier Chance was trying his best to make me stay for some reason. I had to go with him though because he seemed to think something was wrong with mom and dad.
"I don't know. I still think you should go home, Button," Chance said while giving me a slight frown. Why does he always want me to stay back while he deals with everything? I can help! Doesn't he think that I can do something other than play video games.
"Why should I go home? Don't you trust me?" Chance stopped when I asked that. He slowly turned to me with a slight frown.
"Because I'm trying to protect you, Button. You shouldn't have to deal with this stuff. Now come on, Loving is about to go into that building" Chance said while pointing to a rather large building with some bright lights near the side. I never saw this place before, but we have been running for awhile so maybe we went outside of town.
"What is this place?" I asked which caused chance to quickly cover up my mouth.
"Listen to me, Button. You are not going in there and you are going home." I tried to argue with him, but I couldn't speak because of his hoof covering my mouth. "I'm going to bring your mom back, but I can't let you follow me in there," He finally removed his hoof from my mouth which I used to finally get a word in.
"Why not? What is this place?"
"Someplace you shouldn't be. Now go home so I can hopefully stop something bad from happening," What could he mean by something bad happening? Were my parents in any danger? I can't just walk away if that's the case, but Chance wont just let me go in for some reason so I had to trick him.
I slowly nodded my head and turned to head back into town. Before I got very far however Chance called out to me,
"I'm sorry, Button. I promise that this is for the better!" How can I believe that if he wont even tell me what kind of place this is? I kept on walking until Chance turned around to head into the building. This was when I started to walk back to him so I could stay close by in case he needed any help. He was getting near the door, But for some reason he hid behind the trashcan that was near it.
"What is he doing?" I asked myself before noticing Chance move out of his hiding spot to go through the front door. I was confused on what he was doing until I saw a very tough looking pony guarding the entrance. He was an earth pony that was wearing a black shirt and some sunglasses. Why would he wear those at night?
This was when I realized that Chance had done all that to sneak past this pony. Why would he need to do that unless...MY DAD IS IN A GANG! That explains why he would show up so late at night. It also explains why Chance wouldn't want me to go in to the building with him.
I can't just let Chance go in there alone when these ponies could hurt him so I decided to follow in Chance's hoofsteps.I slowly walked over towards the door and hid behind the trashcan Chance had used when I got close enough. Peaking around the side I saw the pony gazing off into the distance at something which I used to my advantage and snuck by him.
"HEY! you aren't aloud in there," The bouncer pony said just as I was entering the building. I had to think fast so that I could keep up with Chance.
"I...um...my ball rolled in here and I was getting it back," There we go. He shouldn't have any problem with that-
"I didn't see any ball," Crap.
"Please sir. I jut want to get my ball back," The stallion rolled his eyes before walking up to me and saying.
"Just tell me what it looks like and I'll get it."
"It's red and round," He facehooved before opening the door and walking into the building. I took this opportunity to follow him inside so I could get to Chance.
The inside of the building was weird. It smelled horrible and it was incredibly dark with grown ups everywhere. There was really loud music that sort of reminded me of Vinyl Scratch's. I quickly ducked under a table when I realized I was standing in the open of a gangs hide out.
This was when I noticed something else; all the adults in here were looking towards a stage with a stallion in socks dancing on it. This place is weird.
***Chance***
A fucking unstrip club! They went to a fucking unstrip club! I swear to god if I get anywhere near Open I am roasting him alive for this bullshit! I had to sneak past several ponies already and when I got to the back stage one 'propositioned' me. That dude wont be having children anytime soon.
I swear the hypocrisy that Open is committing here is going to ruin his fucking family if I don't do something. As I walked around in the back rooms I could hear yelling coming from one of them. Looks like I'm a little late in stopping this bit. I got closer to the door that I heard the yelling coming from and put my ear up to it.
"-A SON! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!" Loving's voice rang from the other side of the door,
"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT'S STOPPED YOU! I BET YOU'RE SLEEPING WITH THAT DAMN GUARD!" Open yelled back. My blood started to boil over him saying that. Arrow had more honor than what this bastard is implying. I didn't realized I was leaning even more into the door until I fell over which caused the door to open. Looking up I saw Open, Loving, and a stallion with knee socks on.
"I told you to stay home, Chance!" Loving said while giving me an angry glare before turning back towards Open. "I thought getting Chance would bring us together, but it's only made you act worse!"
"THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN CHANCE SHOWED UP WAS YOUR NEW FUCK TOY!" Open yelled back at her. The stallion with the socks was just sitting there in complete silence while the two argued. I was right with him since it seems that this was going to happen no matter what.
"I'VE BEEN FAITHFUL! YOU"RE THE ONE COMING TO THIS WHORE!" Loving yelled back while pointing to the stallion who got angry at that.
"IT'S NOT LIKE I CAN PICK MY CUSTOMERS LADY! I WANT BOTH OF YOU OUT!" He yelled towards the two when I heard a small voice behind me.
"mom dad, what's going on?" I slowly turned to see Button standing there with tears starting to form in his eyes. I thought I told him to go home so he wouldn't have to deal with this.
"Button, I-"
"You're mother and I are having an adult conversation." Open said before Loving could say what she wanted.
"What are you-"
"Go home Button," Open said cutting Button off. Button hung his head and turned to me.
"Let's go home, Chance. I don't want to be here anymore," He said before slowly walking out the door into the back rooms. Before I walked out with him I turned back towards the Open,
"If I ever see you again I'm going to roast you alive." After that I turned my back on him and ran back up to Button who was nearing the entrance. "I'm sorry you had to see that, Button."
Button didn't say anything and just kept on walking until we exited the building where that bouncer was still standing.
"Hey! There wasn't a...ball..." He trailed off when he looked at Button. I was curios why until I felt something wet hit my chest as Button hugged me. He was crying.
"It's all my fault!" He cried out. I just hugged him back before saying,
"No, it's not. I'm going to fix this, Button. I promise."
Awwww....
Poor Button. Maybe he will learn to listen to Chance next time though...
So Open's jealous of Arrow and thinks Arrow and Loving are having an affair which may or may not be rekindling an old relationship. Loving just wants the family back together and strong, but has admittedly been close to Arrow, though I'm pretty sure there is nothing untowards doing on. Sheesh, this is turning into one of those Soap Operas. Family issues, weird magic things in the background, minor politics...
Keep it up!
6487715 He tried to tell him. (God I hate putting characters in these situations)
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6487761 I shall rename the story the colts and the sleepless!
So I was right it was an unstrip club thing. Now I feel kinda bad because I was hopin twas not true.
6487795 You added that bit. Though Button seeing all this happening was destined.
Goddamn, Open is quite an asshole. I really hope that there's more of an explanation as to what started Open's crumbling marriage with Loving and that Open gets what's coming to him.
6487850 We already know what caused it. I just haven't made it obvious yet.
6487802 I added what bit?
This was a great chapter; I knew the break would do you good. You managed to play the reactions emotions very well between the characters, and it flowed very nicely. Button was really great in this one, he has taken his first steps in taking instigative upon himself, as shy as it was, but that is to be expected for a beginner. He even went as far as to disregard Chance warning to go back, and as well manage to get inside the strip club on his own without any help. It is good to see Button getting some more characterization now and that we see the world in his view point. I think that the most enduring quality of Button is his childlike belief that things between ponies are simple but sadly now he will start to see the different dynamics behind the behaviors of ponies and that they might have alterihore motifs to the action of other ponies. It might also be a possibility that Button will put it in his head that the only chance to save the perfect image that he has in his head of his family is to save his brother; of course the world doesn't work that way, but that belief will help Button to simmente his resolve to save his brother and force Chance to accept his help in his quest, show him that he is not a foal anymore, and that he can make his own decisions by himself. But before that, Button must have the last shards of his beliefs that the grownup can solved everything them and that will happened, when he will have to break his promise to Chance to tell his parents that he and Chance saw Combo in the Everfree Forest and that there is still hope to save the happy family that he loves. Chance of course will deny it, for obvious reasons, and his parents will think that he is making things up and will dismiss him as more foal antics and will try to console him that everything will be fine, but different. After that, Button foalhood will be shattered ones and for all, and something else will emerge from this.
In the aftermath, a rift will be created between Button and Chance; Button will resent Chance for not sticking up for him when he needed him to and Chance will resent Button for nearly blowing his cover and give him a one way ticket to a mind wipe treatment but will feel roton for falling to help. Chance will have to act quickly before Button’s minds s is set; he might not succeed in his first attempt but he will have to explain his entire situation to Button, he should have told him everything sooner, but he wanted to protect him from his own problems (he really didn’t had a reason to say everything up ‘til now) and he will have to stop treating Button like a Foal and trying to protect Button innocence, and start trusting him more. In this situation neither one is in the right in this. This will be a great set-up for both of them to work together in this story, and make a strong bond between them. I am foreseeing a lot of crying in the following chapters
Also, seeing that Chance seem to recognize all the sighs of what was happening with Open Seas and what was going to ensue next, I wander if he had lived troughs the same experience with his parents and saw them dispute and then divorce each other all because they blamed each other over Ryan disappearance ? I wander if chance in his own clumsy way wanted to prevent Button from living the same thing as he did?
So, the sex club had both mare and stallion whores. I wander if Open Seas in in actuality a homosexual or bisexual or maybe is it that Loving force him to go in a room that they both thought was empty? I also wander if Open fear about his wife cheating on him is because he thinks that with Combos disappearance he see himself as failing in his role as a stallion and husband, that he thinks that Loving would believe that Arrow, a Guardspony, would fulfill that role of a husband better than he can; In short he thinks he is impotent (powerless) and he projects this feeling on to Loving, without even realizing it. This might make sense; sense Seas might probably still feel guilty about what happened to Combo but when Arrow came he felt that he was going to lose what was left of his family and his pride. Loving on her part probably thinks that Button would help her husband to get over the loss of their child but it was not expected that Chance would be accompanied by a guardspony like Arrow. The problem is probably that the family can’t communicate with each other anymore and that trust has been replaced by fear and mistrust.
I should also not forget that it takes two to tango in those situations; I could also that Loving, out of grief of losing her son might have spared words to his husband that he had failed in his role as a father.
I really can’t imagine that Change anywhere near the level of maturity to deal with it something so complicated as this, and that the Button family would need to go on a couple’s therapy help them heal with their wounds. I could imagine that Insight could actually help on this one, and that we could see him as another view then just an antagonist this time around. I am not sure if he can do family group therapy, seeing that he seem to deal with foals and traumatize ponies, but I think it could bring about interesting funny awkward situations with Chance, Loving, Seas, Button, Gibson, Insight and maybe Arrow in those sessions. I would also imagine that there will be a few slipups for Chance and Button there.
As for Chance’s part, he will have his hooves full with dealing with all that is happening around him, with the Fire creature, Cold Brezee, the Princess and Insight. I wander if he is going to go crazy before all this is over?
6487955 What I mean is that by talking about the unstrip clubs I decided to add it. so by technicality you added it. Thank you for helping make this story better.
*Whistle in the distance followed by nuclear explosion* OPEN SEAS IS GAY?!or just bi? either way he's seeing a male...unstripper on the side! did NOT see that coming! u sir blew my mind!
6488005 It's good to see these comments again. You also hit several points that I tried to lace into the story (Though I am clearly bad at it). Button is going to be in a very dark place in the coming chapters and he might not think straight, and Chance is going to have to help him. The family isn't going to be doing much better for awhile, and all the relationships are going to be strained for awhile.
As for Chance's sanity at the end of this. He's dealing with a lot of problems and only those with extreme willpower ever come back sane. Take that as you will
6488133 My plans have fallen into place.
Well, what can I tell Open? I am going to yell one thing.
*folding my hands like a megaphone*
HA! GAAAAAAY!
6488202 HA! GAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!
Also nice avatar. The spy is a perfect gentleman.
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You are not bad at this One of the Crowd. You just are inexperience in thinking in multiple view points, and maybe trouble keeping track of some elements of your story. A side from the hospital moment( you really did mess up back there), but you manged to salvage it to make it an even better story than it could haven before. So it is trough dealing as well with your mistakes that you managed to shine your story so well. Beside, other lesser writers would have given up way before that, because they either piled up too many mistakes, or they where too careful and that they where afraid to take chances with there story and become stagnate and never evolve beyond the original premise of the story, and they couldn't think of more material because it could fall apart like a stack of cards. So it it tanks to your blunders, and taking risks on it, that you have managed to stay afloat for so long.
You have gained a lot of experience sens the beginning, learn from your mistakes (most of the time it is the best way to learn), and managed to make a very long list of what work and what doesn't work.
This got dark... and weird, I don't know what to think.
Ha gaaaaaaaaay!
6488230 It's only for the chapter. Besides mind wipe is pretty dark when you think about it.
6488287 Yes he is.
6488216 You just know what to say to make a guy feel like he can do anything, you know that? Thanks for the inspiration, and for helping to make this story go from being the usual into something unique.
6488230 you should rather ask yourself have you ever truly think trough out your life, or is it maybe that all you have just responded to conditioned responses that you where thought to react trough out your entire life, design to serve the need of society to serve its own needs, as well as all the preprogrammed behaviors embedded in your DNA?
Do we ever truly think? or are well some for form of programmed automatons?
You think about that...
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6488331 One of the Crowd you were not the the one that I was aiming to create an existential crisis to his hole life.
Any way philosophies classes are a great way to develop the way you're thinking ans learn to see things in multiple points of views. You would be amazed, when you realize it, at how much of your thinking is unconsciously condition into your by the medias around you: TV, games, news, radio, and such. I is upon realizing it that you start asking yourself how your really are and what am I seeing, after you strip out all the rhetorics that are unconsciously enforce in to you every day.
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I don't remember who said that but there you go.
To add to the point in my opinion the fact that someone can come up with a story like this respond to his fans and live life is proof for me that we can indeed think. If we couldn't think how are you even able to raise the question?
6488112 Sweet, I'm a moose. I like to pronounce it french tho and say muse.
6488551 I have no idea why you added that, but yay!
6488537 I don't live life. I am a gamer so I live multiple lives by technicality.
6488537 you are thinking about René Descartes (1596-1650) and the waying of «I think there for I am» means that you are not the figment of somebody imagination and that your thoughts are grounded into reality and that they are in fact your own. It can't help you on that front It has nothing to do with predetermination like I brought forward in my comments. You would be better to armed with Karl Marx to start being be aware that we are the product of our society that we live in and that our way of thinking and choises you make are influenced and predetermined social and historical context that of the culture that we live in. And you would need Jean-Paul Sartre's Nihilisme to help realizes that our choices and destiny is ultimately in our own hands as well as life is ultimately meaningless, that we give meaning to our lives ourselves.
6488565 .......................I honestly don't know how I can continue this, or if I even want too? I'm a gamer too by the way.
6488655 we are semi immortal. And by that I mean we can't die in a game! Also you do wish to continue and if you don't think so look at this picture.
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6488639 Did you just answer your own question to me?
Personally I'm a Christian so I do believe our lives have a purpose from the beginning, but we can adjust it as we live life to suit us (sorry if that's worded badly). That's just my view of course.
I'm not as literate as you from the looks of things, (I hope I didn't hurt your feelings) yeah society influences us but we can still make our own choices, that's the way I see it,
I don't know how to end this comment right now so, have an angel
6488662 I'm immune to such tricks
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6488679 actually I was correcting your answer, I don't like it when quotes or expressions are taken out of there context as you had used it(sorry I don't want to offend you on this, I just want to be clear ). And then I gave you a few leads for you to look into if ever you are interested into looking into it, and hopefully it might bring you to your own answers, all be it with deeper meaning to it. These really dead people, philosophers (the real ones), that I am referring you to theses great thinkers, how have pondered the way of how we humans think and how we perceive the world around us. As much as they can be boring to read about them, they do make bring an interesting perspective on how to examine myself, my thoughts, how to examine a situation in multiple perspectives, how to ask my own questions my own questions and how to examine them.
I am happy that you see purposes in your life, I understand that some of us don't actually know that they want is the meaning of their lives.
As for society influencing you thought and decision, it actually deeper, more subtitle and a lot creepier than you might actually think.
No I am not offended in any way, but I prefer to think that I am thorough in my line of thinking, thank you very much.
Just make sure that it is you how is making the choices and not let anyone do the thinking for you, you are better off to things for yourself and not be pressured by others.
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I think you might be interested in seeing this on TED
I recommend seeing their video documentary, I find that they have very interesting, informative and enjoyable.
But remember to keep a critical thinking and take every they with a grain of salt.
Sad to see when this happens in a relationship, though it can be repaired if both sides talk it through and make active attempts to repair it.
Though the scenario brings up some more questions to me, such that open does not seem like the type of guy to fall to paranoia, which makes me think someone implanted the idea that his wife is cheating on him into his head, and people would usually try to investigate to see if their loved ones are really cheating on them. Which makes me think the 3 most likely option are: 1) loving wasn't telling the truth when she said she was faithful to him. 2) Someone has been going around making situations look like open's wife is cheating on him, maybe the one who implanted the idea in his head in the first place. or 3) Murphy's law is getting hell of sadistic with a crap ton of happenstances going on making everyone think everything is true.
6489084 One of the things you said is true. Which one I will not reveal...yet.
6489111 oh you and your damn foreshadowing in the comments.
Also, unstripping clubs, love the concept that that is their fetish
6489117 It wasn't my idea to add it until Dravkwn mentioned them. I had something similar planned, but the unstrip club just seemed to fit the world better.
6489166 wait this brings up a point to me, if putting on clothes makes a pony look sexy, or akin to a striptease act, then what does that make chance look like to the other ponies since he is going around with that vest on?
6489076 Not sure how interested I am in the topic at the moment but I'll take a look at the vids and remember them if an interest does arise.
by the way in your last comment you wrote
that's oddly specific LOL
In all seriousness thanks for talking see ya later.
"I don't know. I still think you should go home, Button," Chance said while giving me a slight frown. Why does he always want mt to stay back while he deals with everything? I can help! Doesn't he think that I can do something other than play video games.
OK. New Chapter
*reads chapter*
oh.
oh dang
that got really heavy
...man
w-well lets see what the comments say
*reads comments*
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that got pretty philosophical
huh
okay
lets see what i can say about anything
wow Chance, that's a... that's a pretty tall order. you sure you can fix all that?
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very insightful, per usual
this
but mostly this
sorry. Don't have much to say at this point, you really hit the nail in the head with this one
to paraphrase you a bit "shits going down"
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wait. Extreme willpower?
of course, how could i not see it. the whole story had been leading up to chance becoming what he was meant to be all along
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just kidding. liked the chapter
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it took me awhile to find the PERFECT pony/Green lantern pic so here are a few others I didn't choose
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the seconded one's my favorite
6489182 It's a little different. Remember how they wont let him have pants? Well that's because those would fall under the same category as socks and other bed room items in the world. Vests, shirts, and jackets don't fall under that category.
6489241 Not again! Thank you for pointing that out for me.
6489912 You were right radio. He shall become a green lantern! Also take your pony lanterns and raise you one meme.
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With Chance's promise to Button it's not going to be easy, but when has Chance ever had an easy task with this family?