//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Celestia Celebration Preparation // Story: This Unusual Little World // by PathOfTheAwesomePie //------------------------------// Morning came into place, and thanks to Twilight and Spike for being kind enough to make a small corner of their upstairs room a place for me to sleep for the night. Though it was cramped, it would have to do for the mean time. Rarity had came to visit the tree-house library as soon as Twilight, Spike and me were up. Rarity and Twilight started a conversation excluding me and Spike for a while, then I looked at Spike for a moment. "Hmm...I wonder..." "Hey Spike?" I said trying to get the purple dragon's attention from Rarity's. "Huh, yeah Alex?" Spike replied wondering why I called him. "I would've asked this sooner but... since you and Twilight live under the same roof, or in this case, tree, doesn't that mean you two are ... together?" I said with curiosity. "W-What?" Spike said with a blushed face. "I'm just her number one assistant, that's all!" Spike said trying to clear a thought from his head. Twilight and Rarity finished talking and caught wind of me and Spike's talk. "Indeed, darling, these two are no where near being "together" at all." Rarity replied with ease on the topic. I looked at Spike, then at Twilight and Rarity. "Oh, haha, my bad there..." I said with a sarcastic laugh. "I want us to finish up preparations for Princess Celestia's upcoming surprise party, I want everything to go accordingly on schedule!" Twilight said pulling out a long list of things to do. "Huh, who's Princess Celestia?" I asked. Twilight stopped checking the list and looked at me with glee. "Only the kindest, most wonderful, and faithful and smart and " Twilight was stopped by Rarity's hoof near her mouth. "She's Equestria's gorgeous princess!" Rarity said in short. "Really,what's she like!?" I said wanting to know more about Celestia. "She has the gifts of us unicorn, pegasus and earth ponies alike!" Twilight said, full of excitement on the subject. "Wow, there's someone in this world like that, sounds like a cool...um..." I paused for a moment. "Wait, if she's all all three, what exactly is she..?" I asked, confused. "She's an alicorn, Alex!" Spike happily answered. The moment Spike answered my question, his cheeks started to puff up. "What's wrong Spike, you're not gonna...HURL are you!?" I said stepping back from the tiny dragon. Spike burped out mysterious, sparkling fumes which formed a spiral of a sort. "Huh..." I said. "Oh, its a letter from Princess Celestia!" Twilight said in excitement. "Wait, what letter?" I asked after I saw a scroll appeared from the remaining fumes. "Oh, nevermind..." I said laughing. "Twilight, have you checked with Pinkie Pie over the preparations of the princess's occasion?" Rarity said while carefully levitating a mirror, tending her mane. "After she's done setting , I'll be displaying my RAVISHING decor during the party!" she added. "RARITY, I don't mind helping you with your decorations!" Spike said enthusiastically running towards Rarity. Twilight used her magic to capture Spike's tail and put him beside her as she was still looking through her check list. "Sorry Spike, I'm going to have to need you for further planning ... it says in the note the princess sent that she's coming earlier from Canterlot." Twilight stated. Spike mumbled to himself. "The little guy's trying so hard for "Miss Fashionista", haha" "I'll also need Fluttershy and Applejack to get ready for when she comes, they're handling the side preparations!" Twilight said with one hoof up. "Wow looks like you ponies have a lot on your plate just to get your party for your princess ready." I said placing my hand over my chin in thought. Just then, Twilight gave a displeased look after she finished reading the letter. "Twilight, dear, is there something wrong?" Rarity asked. "...Princess Celestia wants me to personally introduce her into Ponyville this afternoon."Twilight replied. "What seems to be the problem with that?" I asked. "...I was SUPPOSED to help with all the side preparations within the AFTERNOON!" Twilight said as one of her eyes twitched. "Uh...oh..."Spike said, uneased. Twilight began to warp everywhere around the library in panic "The schedule will be off, the preparations won't be done, the party might be a disaster...!" Twilight said, still panicing. Rarity casually slipped out from the library to go start on her decorations as soon as possible, as for Spike and I watch Twilight warp randomly around the library. "Wow she's even crazier than her being tardied that last time" Spike said while he laughed a little. "To be tardied, what do you mean by that Spike?" I asked. Spike held up a picture from a book that showed Twilight, well what SEEMED to look like her, but with a bad hair day and a creepy smile. "Holy unicorn at a Scream-O's concert!?" I said outloud. Twilight appeared next to me. "W-What's wrong Alex!?" she asked hesitantly, totally unaware of the picture Spike had shown. "Um... heh, n-nothing, Twilight." I replied desperately holding in my laughter of the picture. After a while had passed, Twilight, Spike, and I were preparing for Celestia's party until it was evening. Since Twilight didn't wanted any pony to see me, we found a secluded spot away from town to help blow up all the balloons necessary for the party. "Hmm, I had almost forgot...did Pinkie finish with the getting the desserts?" Twilight said, mumbling to herself. "I could go check it on Pinkie if you want, Twilight!" I shouted trying to untangle the balloons from my leg. "Um... a little help here..." I said embarrassed. "Oh, I gotcha Alex " just when Spike tried to come help me out, there was a loud thunder boom. "W-whoa!" Spike fell on top of me and we became dazed for a short while. "W-what was that sound, it doesn't look like it's about to rain,does it?" Spike said, still freaked out by the sound. I looked up into the sky to find small peek of multi coloring in a cloud. "Does she seriously expect that to work on me or anybody...erm...pony?" "Heh, I think I have hunch on who spooked you..." I said preparing one of the pies from the table where the rest of the balloons were tied to. "CATCH, RAINBOW DASH!" I shouted throwing pie to her. "Hahaha, you should've seen the look on your face Spi--" Dash was interrupted by the pie I threw to her face. "Sweet throw,Alex!" Spike said laughing. Rainbow Dash looked at me and Spike and laughed along with us. "Well you three seem to be having fun!" said Twilight. "So mind going to go check on Pinkie for me, Alex?" asked clapping her hooves as a sign of saying please. "Of course!" I said as I was still laughing. Rainbow Dash licked away all the remaining pie bits from her face and saw Twilight and Spike help me from the ground. "Hey Al, what do need from Pinkie Pie anyways?" said rainbow Dash. "Well not sure, but if it's for Celestia's party it's gotta be important!" I replied walking towards the town. Dash hovered over to me on the cloud she was on right in front of me. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, you sure it's okay to be walking around Ponyville like that!?" Rainbow said pointing her hooves on my shoulder. "Oh, right, forgot I have to be hidden from pony society..." I said, slightly uncomfortable with the situation. "Just great, how am I going to go get to Pinkie now?" "Hmm..." I kept thinking and thinking until I had an idea. I looked at Dash on her cloud. "Cloud...above city...going without getting caught..." I said staring at her. "Yea, you need to find a way to get to Pinkie Pie..." She said gazing back at me confused. "..." I was silent. "Rainbow Dash, can't you TAKE A HINT!?" "...Oooooooooooh, you want me to fly you over Ponyville to not get spotted, right?" Dash said with a sarcastic-like smile. "Ha ha, seems great minds think alike!" I said as we high-fived each other, hand to hoof. "But Alex won't be able to fly on the cloud, remember he's human, not not like all pegasi." Twilight stated "No worries, I gave THIS cloud here I'm on a little more fluff to hold Alex up for a while till we get there, I'm sure it'll work!" Rainbow Dash said in a relaxed pose upon the cloud. "You're....*gulp* sure...?" Twilight trotted towards me to tell where I needed to go. "Pinkie should be in Sugar Cube Corner, since everypony is helping out in preparing for Celestia's party, there won't be that many ponies in that part of town who'll see you,good luck!" Twilight said with a slight wave of the hoof. Rainbow Dash allowed me on board her cloud. "WHOA!" I shouted. "What's up, Al!?" Dash asked in an instant. "This cloud is...SO FLUFFY!!!" I said in awe. "Hehe, yea I find them sorta comfy myself!" Dash said as she bonked my head sort of like a small slap on the back,only lighter, for my random statement. "We should hurry this up, GO TIME!" Dash said as she began speeding through the skies with me aboard. The wind blowing through as we took flight in the sky made it hard to talk normal, so we had to speak up to hear each other. "WHOOOOOOOOA, SO THIS IS WHAT IT FEEL LIKE TO LIVE FAST IN THE SKY!?" I shouted as we were going over head of Ponyville. "YEAH, THIS IS PRETTY COOL, RIGHT ALEX!?" shouted Rainbow Dash, but there was no response. "ALEX, ALEX, ALEEEEEEEEX?" Rainbow Dash shouted again. "WHAT'S WRONG, DID THE AWESOMENESS LEAVE YOU SPEECHLESS OR " She shouted as she turned back to see what I was doing but...I wasn't even on the cloud anymore. She quickly came to a halt on her cloud. "O-oops... don't tell me I dropped him..." She said scratching her head with her hoof and giving another sarcastic smile. "Wonder where he dropped...." said Dash. ***** Meanwhile, I was free falling, screaming for my life when I suddenly hit something soft on my landing. "W-Whoa...that was too close for comfort!" I said, sighing in relief. "Speaking of comfort..." I looked underneath what I was sitting on. "What luck it was that I dropped on a hayful of...hay!" I said laughing. Just then I heard a giggle come from behind me. "H-Huh, was that some sort of cute echo...." I said looking around. "Tehehe, hope you're okay mister creature guy!" said a joy-filled voice out of nowhere. "Huh, who said that... um can't be Flutter shy or Rarity... so..." then the voice interrupted me. "Oooooooh, you know Fluttershy and Rarity!?" The pink colored pony'y head popped up in front of my face. "Holy cow!" I said, surprised by the ponies sudden appearance. The pink pony giggled at my random reaction. "Aaaaaaaaany friends of theirs are best of bestest friends of mines!" She said with a slight laughter. "I bet this little pink one is Pinkie Pie, she's as energetic as Mia...just a bit more pink." "W-Well hey there... um..." I paused. "It's Pinkie Pie, mister creature guy!" She happily implied. "Oh, well what do you know, I was right, ha ha!" I said, but all of a sudden Pinkie disappeared from in front of me. "W-Where in the name of Ponyville did she go...oh great... now I'm replacing my words with "pony" references!" I said facepalming myself. "Aww, don't hit yourself mister creature guy." said Pinkie. "What the..!" I said looking behind me. "Hey Hey~♪" She said laughing. "Pinkie, what are you doing disappearing like that?" I asked. "Oh that's because I wanted to let you know that you had a balloon on you, ha ha!" She replied pointing her hoof at it. "What are you talking about...oh." I noticed it and starting laughing as I untied it from my leg and let it float away. "You'll need WAY more balloons if you want to fly!" Pinkie said giggling. "Um... please call me Alex,Pinkie." I said laughing a little. "Oh by the way, Pinkie, Twilight told me to come see if you had the --" before I could finish my sentence, Pinkie slammed a pie in both of our faces. "Desserts~♪" Pinkie said licking the pie from around her face and smiling. "I kinda like this pony, AND this cake!" I licked the pie off my face like Pinkie. All of a sudden her tail flared up. "Oh no,not now!" She said gasping and rushing into a nearby building, then came back out with a multi-colored umbrella hat on. "Um..." That was all I could say, staring at Pinkie in an odd way. "Hurry Alex, duck under something right now!" She said hiding under a nearby fruit stand. "Why... would I do tha " all of a sudden, Rainbow Dash fell on top of me. "Ow!" I said in agony, "Whoops, again... not one of my best landings huh?" Dash said with a small laugh. "Ugh...you think!" I said trying to gently remove Rainbow Dash off of me. Dash floated back up to the cloud she must have dropped from and Pinkie's tail stopped twitching. "Phew, my tail stopped twitching, I guess it's safe to come out now~♪" Pinkie said, taking off the umbrella hat and jumping back to me. "Ouch...what happened" I said still trying to get rid of the pain. "I was TRYING to warn you about it, Alex!" She said jumping around me. "Um, not really, all you did was twitch your tail wildly and got a silly umbrella hat..." I said, scratching my head. "That's because of my "Pinkie Senses", don't you know about that, silly?" She asked, playfully. "No... but i DO know what spidey senses are, does that count?" Dash called out to me from her cloud above "Hey Alex!?" she shouted. "Are you you okay, seems I went a bit TOO fast when you were flying with me!" She said, lowering the cloud. "Yea I'm cool, a bit of hay still on the back of my jacket, but... I'm good!" I replied with a thumbs up to Rainbow Dash. "Aaaaaaaaanyways, mister creature guy-- I mean Alex..!" She giggled a little before she continued. "Why'd you fall out of the sky, my tail never EVER predicted that would happen!" Pinkie said, still hopping around me. "Haha, you're definitely like Mia...in more ways than one." I said ,stopping Pinkie in her tracks. She smiled at me. "So full of joy, I bet nothing brings this pony down!" "Since you have everything Twilight needed for the party, guess that's it!" I said with a grin. "Seems you girls will give this Celestia person...I mean pony queen an awesome party!" I said smiling. "Oooooooh, by the way Dashie, wanna go prank some ponies after there's time from party planning?" Pinkie said in excitement. "Sure, why not, I've been aching to get back at Scootaloo for that pond incident, hehe!" Dash said with a vengeful smile. "Oh, but first me and Alex are going to check on Fluttershy and Applejack!" She said in a haste. "Oh...yea I never met Applejack." "Oh yea, that's right, you've never met AJ yet, don't worry she doesn't bite...much." Dash said laughing. "Okey Dokey Lokey, have fun finishing up~la la la la~♪" Pinkie said happily skipping back the way she came from. Rainbow Dash hoisted me up upon her cloud and started towards Fluttershy's cottage. "Um...mind not speeding crazily like last time?" I asked hesitantly with a distinct laugh. "Aw come on, I should never make the same mistake twice, Alex!" Dash said giving a confident glare as she turned around to see how I was doing. Sadly, I wasn't there on the cloud... again. W-Whoops...I really did...do it again,heheh.: Dash said with a blank expression. "Well at least I DID "drop" him off at Fluttershy's place!" She recovered laughing and continued flying. ***** I had landed on some neatly trimmed bushes, grunting over Dash's sense in "bad landing". "I have a feeling that pegasus just tried making a joke off my fall..." I said pouting. "Well at least I'm at Fluttershy's home, wonder why it's all the way out here outside Ponyville...?" I said, heading for the short crossway above a miniature brook. I then spotted a bunny that looked oddly familiar. "Hmm, oh look a bunny, I wonder what it's doing here..." I said. I waited for a moment before picking it up. "Hold the phone!" I said removing my hands away from the little innocent creature. "You're...ANGEL!" I said pointing at the bunny. It was glaring at me with serious eyes as I was returning the same look. "Round 2, eh?" I said pulling up my sleeves ready to pounce the bunny for revenge. Angel signaled the "come at me" action. "Angel!" said a serious, yet soft voice. "You shouldn't go picking on others because " the voice came from Fluttershy, who's eyes widened in surprise that I was coming to see her. "Oh my, mister Alex, I didn't expect you to be here." She said, trying to separate me and Angel from going into any violence. "Mhm, it's good to see you..and that little fluffy demon... again!" I said smiling at Fluttershy. Angel spat his tongue out at me, mocking me with his ears on Fluttershy's back. "Why I ought a..." I murmured, balling up my fist. "Oh, mister Alex why don't you come in and talk for a while?" Fluttershy said nudging me with her head and hooves towards her home. "Whoa, why so keen on talking in a rush?" I said laughing and trying to not to be force to approach her cottage. "W-Well you see..." Fluttershy's face became a little red. "W-W-Well...I... really wanted to...." She covered her excitement. I looked at Fluttershy. "This had better not be what I think it is...I know I'm handsome,but..." I thought to myself. "What's wrong Fluttershy, you can tell me." I said petting her on the head. "Twilight told me that where you come from, there are pigs that fly." She said trying to contain her blush. "W-Wha " I said as I stopped petting her. "Was that... too soon to mention mister Alex..?" Fluttershy said, slightly blushing now. I stared at Fluttershy, seems she was misunderstood just as Twilight. "Oh..." I said with a small laugh. "Seriously, was that all..." I said facepalming myself. "Fluttershy...that's not something to blush THAT much over...though it is cute when you DO blush." I thought to myself. Fluttershy started to rubbing my head with her hooves. "It's okay, mister Alex" She said contently. "Though...I'd really love to hear about them still." She continued with a blissful smile. "Yeah, I've got plenty of tales about...flying pigs ..." I replied laughing a little. "When I said I wanted something unexpected to happen, I didn't realize THIS would happen...but at the same time,I'm glad that it did" *****