Ch 29. Blue Cow Coffee.
I feel a pushing feeling in my side, as if someone or somepony was prodding me, and prodding me quite hard.
“Ngg… Go away…” I grumble to whatever monster dares to wake me.
“C’mon. Wake up, you sleepy head.” The monstrous voice says. “We’re gonna go soon.”
I slightly open my eyes to look at the evil villain. Apparently the latest fashion for villains is rainbow colored hair and a smug face. “You again.” I say at Rainbow before burying my face in the pillow again.
“Yea, it’s me again. C’mon, we have to go. The train is waiting for us.” I hear from the devil herself as I am pulled from my cozy spot.
As the small amount of words seep through my skull I realize something. She said the word ‘C’mon’. That means I have to go and I don’t want to.
I feel that I’m moved and placed over something. I notice that the thing that I have been laid over is soft and makes for a good substitute for the bed. I lay my head on the makeshift pillow and try to fall asleep again.
I am moved, but decide not to give a buck. When the devil and I are done moving I am thrown on the ground, but the ground is made of clouds. Not really a problem.
I hear a few clinks, but pay no heed. My cloud is fine for me.
I hear a sloshing sound and the comical sound of something tipping; I guess the really is the devil.
I hear something cascading onto me and I feel something cold, something wet all over me.
I went from happy to not happy. I jump up, catching the bucket with my head. I also go from mostly dry to mostly wet. My mood goes sour and I yell incoherently at Rainbow until I stand completely still.
I reach up with my hoof and push off the bucket. “Why in the name of Celestia am I woken in this ungodly manner?” I ask Rainbow (AKA the devil) with a deadpan look.
“Because we need to catch the train and you weren’t waking up.” She says as she picks up the bucket and puts it back where it belongs, its own cozy spot in the cupboard.
“And tell me; why do we have to catch the train?” I ask, shaking my body to make some of the water go off of me.
“Because Rarity has a very large order she has to complete so she isn’t capable of joining us.” Rainbow explains, as if it would be self-explanatory. “So then Pinkie said that we couldn’t go with only four ponies, so she suggested that we should get another one. Then she suggested you and I said fine. So then we are here.”
“So I’m a replacement for Rarity then?”
“Well, no, but…” She stands there, thinking for some words. “Uhm… We thought you were a nice guy to come to Canterlot with us.”
“Well, thanks for the honor. But why are we going to Canterlot anyway?” I ask, already capable of thinking of a reason. Twilight.
“We haven’t heard from Twilight in a long time so we thought to pay her a visit.” She explains as she starts pushing me towards the door. Since I have just woken I am not really in the mood for a little fly, or actually me holding my wings stiff and hoping not to fall and die horribly. “And Pinkie Pie really wanted to use her party cannon again.”
“Can I sleep on the train?” I ask, my eyelids closing as I feel myself getting pushed towards the door.
“Yep, it’s a long ride and since the time that Fluttershy had to be up all night and was sleepy, but couldn’t sleep on the train, we have a cabin with a bed.”
Most of it sounds like garbling to me, but as soon as I hear the word ‘bed’ I jump up. “Where is this train you speak off?” I stride to the door and push it open. I let the wind blow my short mane backwards as I try to take a heroic pose. I am overtaken by the force of the wind and am blown back into the house. I stumble onto the floor, piercing a bit of cloud on top of my horn.
“Do you need some coffee?” Rainbow asks smug as she looks at me from a higher point.
I mumble something that she interprets as a ‘yes’. I close my eyes and I hear Rainbow walking into the kitchen. I hear some clinging of glass and the pouring of a liquid.
After some more clinging I get a cup shoved into my hooves. “”Here, drink.” This command is the only thing that I hear as I throw the liquid into my throat.
When the burning sensation has left my throat the taste kicks in. It tasted a lot like a couple of energy drinks back home, combined with the bitter taste of coffee. I feel a rush of energy and my eyes flutter open. “Damn, this stuff is powerful. What did you put in it?”
“Oh, I put some Blue Cow in it. It helps me wake up too in the morning.” Rainbow says as she shows me the jar of clear liquid. It has a comical blue cow drawn on the front. I smile inwardly as the joke pours through. Another of the many similarities that the worlds share. I now feel like I have a lot more energy. “So, shall we go?” Rainbow says as she hops to the door in anxiety.
“Sure, let’s go!” I say to her as I am shaking from the energy drink kicking in. “Whereisit?!Whereisit?!” I quickly yell out, wanting to know where the train is so I can go back to sleep. But maybe the sleep backed its bags and fled from town the moment Rainbow even thought of the Blue Cow.
Rainbow casually points towards the back of the house. I jump of the porch, stretching my wings. I turn, completely flying on instinct. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I am flying anyway.
I let out a scream as I speed up, flying fast towards the speck in the distance and the thin line leading away from it. I feel my blood pumping as I screech towards the train station. I hope that I don’t hit a tree on the way there.