The Admiral couldn't tell his crew the news he recieved, if he did there would be mutiny. Most of these men had families to go back to and they would probably do anything in their power to return to them if they heard what their newest mission was. He sighed. What did he do to get himself and his crew into this?
Sugarcube Corner shook from the roof to it's foundation for the upteenth time. Anypony would've thought there was something wrong if weren't for the fact Pinkie Pie recently sped into the bakery. The building rocking explosions originated from Pinkie's signature party cannon. Why the party pony was excessively using her patented device was a mystery to everypony.
I gotta make up for two days with out a 'Welcome to Ponyville Party' for my new friend! Thank Celestia I created this party cannon. Where would this party be without it?
Pinkie fired the cannon again, shaking the building.
Thank goodness the Cakes are out of town on a vacation. I don't think they'd let me use this when the twins are here.
She heard the chariot landing. Pinkie turned out the lights expecting her friends at any moment to open the door.
The chariot had landed not too far away from what Samus' friends called 'Sugarcube Corner'. The building itself looked as it were made of gingerbread crusted with icing. After learning first hand Pinkie could bend the rules of physics the bounty hunter had to accept that anything was possible. Walking up to the door Samus opened it to only be greeted by an explosion and unrelenting force blasting her on her back a few feet away. Her helmet activated and the HUD displayed shield damage.
What the hell was that?!
Her friends rushed to help her up.
"Are you ok?," asked a worried Fluttershy.
"Yeah, I've been hit with worse," replied Samus ensuring her friend not to worry. "What was that by the way?"
"From the noise we heard it's probably that party cannon of hers," replied a slightly annoyed Rarity remembering how the device almost ruined her reputation in Canterlot.
"Party cannon?," the curious bounty hunter inquired.
"A crazy invention of mine that blasts a party in the direction it's fired," replied the ever enthusiastic Pinkie Pie.
Her sudden appearance startled Samus into a standing postition.
"I'm sorry for blasting you with it. I must've forgotten I had the cannon rigged to fire when I jumped up to surprise you."
"No problem, being a bounty hunter you gotta take heavy hits every now and then," answered Samus.
"So you wanna come in and PARTY?!," asked an excited Pinkie.
"Hell yeah!," replied the bounty hunter with great enthusiasm.
"That's the spirit! Now hold on a sec I gotta get more ponies!"
With the same great speed she used to defy gravity she sped off to gather ponies. No sooner did the ponies blink, their pink friend returned with all of Ponyville shoved in front of her.
"Party's on everypony!," exclaimed Pinkie.
The party was nothing like Samus ever experienced. Then again she never really had any parties, well except for the few on K-2L but those have long been forgotten. Distracted by the astonishing array of decorations, the bounty hunter didn't see the three filies ambush her.
"So yer tha new pony Pinkie's was makin' such a fuss about?," asked the yellow, red maned filly.
"It doesn't look like any pony I've ever seen," commented a the white unicorn with the pink and purple mane.
"Well duh!," blurted an orange pegasus who's electric violet mane was styled like Rainbow Dash's. "Since when do ponies walk on two legs?"
"What if it's a pony that's really good on it's hind legs?," the unicorn filly asked,
"What kinda pony would practice walkin' around on it's hind legs?," retorted the yellow filly.
"What is it then?"
"I can tell you what it isn't," answered the pegasus filly. "It's not a pony. Just look at where it's hooves are!"
The fillies stared at Samus' boots.
"So, it has feet like a duck," stated the unicorn.
"But it's not a duck," said the pegasus annoyed.
"Then what is it?," asked the normal filly in wonder.
Samus watched, amused by the fillies' attempts to guessing what she was.
"Maybe we should ask it what it is," suggested the orange pegasus
"Good idea Scootaloo!," the other fillies agreed simutaneously
"So um... mister or miss... can you tell us what you are?," inquired the unicorn filly.
Samus was about to answer when Rarity burst in the conversation.
"Sweetie Belle! Where are your manners?," Rarity asked angrily.
"But I used mister and miss to address the stranger sis!," replied Sweetie, slightly annoyed.
"I will give you some credit for that but you should always introduce yourself to new people."
"Alright, alright." Turning to face the bounty hunter Sweetie Belle introduced herself. "Hello, my name is Sweetie Belle!" She said it with a forced smile.
The two other fillies were laughing at their friend being chastised. Rarity shot them a look of pure venom. The fillies saw this and began to introduce themselves as well.
"Howdy, mah name is Applebloom and this is Scootaloo," Applebloom said nervously, chancing a quick glance at Rarity who looked sastified at their introduction.
"Be polite girls and don't annoy her she's a feared bounty hunter," Rarity chuckled and walked off to mingle some more.
"Bounty hunter?!," asked the fillies confused.
Rarity, was that really necessary?
"Someone who plays hide and seek for money," Samus answered nervously. She didn't want the young fillies virgin ears to hear what a bounty hunter actually does.
"Paid to play a game!?," said Sweetie Belle, excited and perplexed.
"Yeah, uhh... but you're always it."
"Even when some one sends a bounty hunter after you?," asked a curious Scootaloo.
"Well... no, then you have to hide and hiding isn't as fun as finding. Wouldn't you rather be able to move from place to place with out fear of being found?," inquired the bounty hunter.
"Ah guess yer right. Now how do ya become a bounty hunter in the first place?," asked Applebloom hoping it would be easy.
Samus tried to steer the filies away from the occupation.
"Wouldn't you rather be something else? Honestly it's a lot of paper work just applying to get registered, then theres all the annoying forms you have to get once you aquire a contract, did I mention the huge cut into your reward known as income tax?"
"What about not registering or doing the paper work? Wouldn't that save us all that trouble?," asked the pegasus filly who was annoyed at the amount of effort needed to be a professional hide and seek player.
"How could you fillies even think of doing such a thing?!," asked Samus in fake astonishment in hopes that she could deter them a bit more. "You don't want to be the ones who hide do you?"
"What if we only gave it one go? You know, just to get our cutie marks?," inquired the unicorn filly.
Cutie marks? I should probably ask Twilight what those are later.
"Still wouldn't recommend it," answered Samus firmly.
The fillies let off a unified "aaawwww" in disappointment.
"Don't worry girls there's something out there for each of you," the bounty hunter said encouragingly. "It might just be so obvious that you overlooked it."
"That's impossible we've trahed almost everything ah pony could possibly do! What else could there be?," whined Applebloom.
"Trust, me you haven't..."
Author's Note/Excuses/Apologies
Yep another filler chapter. At least it wasn't to sappy this time. As always I'm accepting constructive criticism and positive feed back. Also if you see any strange out of place letters or errors it's probably due to the fact I wrote and edited a bit from my IPod, which isn't the best for writing fan fics but it gets the job done.