~~~~~House on The Hill (White Out's P.O.V.)~~~~~
White Out woke up to an empty room again, and an noiseless house. White got up from his bed and walked to the doorway of his room. He would've walked into the hall, had the rest of the group not been standing in the way. "Morning guys," he yawned. Thunderstorm shot Fang a dirty look, "You said that White was sleeping in, why did you woke me early?" he growled, to which Fang snickered. "I thought you wanted to see if there was any pony worth racing in this town?" Fang said with a smirk. Thunder just crossed his front hooves and looked the opposite direction of Fang, grumbling.
That short little banter is just how long it took for White to fully awaken, as well as remember what was going on that day. 'I can't wait for the party, they'll be so surprised,' he thought with a smile. He looked at A.I., "You coming this time?" White asked him. A.I. rolled his eyes, "You know I never do," he said in his monotone voice, walking back to his workshop. "And don't even think about doing it again," he said over his shoulder as he walked inside and shutting the door. White Out just shrugged and looked at everpony else. "All ready to go?" he asked heading into the hallway and down the stairs.
All four of them nodded, and they left the house. As the started walking down the hill, Fang walked up beside him. "You hide it?" White asked him with a smile on his face. "Yep, it's in a place he would never guess we would put it," Fang said trying his best not to laugh, which caused it to come out as a snicker. White was searching the nearby streets for a familiar pink mane. 'She promised she would meet us here. No, she Pinkie promised she would meet us here,' he thought. "Where did you hide it this time?" White asked with a smirk on his face. "I put it back in the toolbox," Fang said laughing, in which White Out joined along.
Then, out of no where, there's a dash of pink and they see Pinkie Pie standing before them with a wagon type thing behind her. "Ohhhh, more new ponies!" she squeals in happiness. Than she pushes a button on the side of the wagon, and suddenly horns, flags and what looks like an oven raises out of the lowered lid. Then the music started playing. 'Oh boy,' White thought, he didn't if it was in joy or displeasure, but he would soon find out. Pinkie started singing:
"Welcome welcome welcome,
A fine welcome to you."
She began while bouncing in front of us, 'Voice of an angel' White thought, than immediately began scolding his thoughts for thinking up something so cheesy. Than she placed a hat on Fang's head, and had a horn in her hooves.
"Welcome welcome welcome
I say how do you do?"
She than blew the horn in Thunder's ear. Next thing he knows, she has a drum, 'Wow, just like me!' White thought excitedly.
"Welcome welcome welcome
I say hip hip hooray"
Pinkie started bouncing on two legs now, the drums seemingly vanished.
"Welcome welcome welcome
To Ponyville today!"
"Wait for it!" she finished. Then the oven opened and shot forth confetti. 'So there is no cake?' White thought, a little too soon. Suddenly yellow stuff shot out of the piston like things on the sides of the oven, and all five stallions, plus Pinkie Pie, got covered. "Oh, silly me. I must have put the confetti in the oven, and cake in the confetti cannon... Again," she said, sounding slightly nervous for some odd reason. White licked his face clean with one swipe of his tongue, "Mmmm, still tastes good though," he responded, with a laugh and a broad smile. He turned his head to look at the rest of the group to see them all trying to hold in their laughs and giggles, but they couldn't hide that they were hiding it, causing White to laugh. "Hahaha, you should see your-" he began, but then realized he was rolling on the ground."Awwww, I rolled on my cake covered back. Now I can't eat it," he said giving a pointed look at Bull's Eye, who had taken off his hat to shake as much cake off it as he could.
Bull just rolled his eyes, but kept his smile. "You gonna introduce us or what?" Thunder said, suddenly floating right beside White, who quickly stood up again. "Oh, right," White said turning back towards Pinkie, who was somehow cake-free now. "This is Thunderstorm..." he began pointing at said pegusas. "'Sup" Thunder said, flying back to his brother's side. "This is Snakescales, my younger brother. He never talks much these days," Thunder said floating over said pony. If Pinkie was startled by the robotic wings, she showed no signs of it. "I'm Bull's Eye. I'm White Out's older brother," Bull said, putting his semi clean hat back on. "And I am Hookfang, or just Fang by my friends, I'm the older brother to-" Fang began, he had levitated the cake off him and was about to let it drop into a pile beside him, when there was a flash of grey light and A.I. stood right underneith the floating cake, looking angry. "HOOKFANG!" A.I. growled, for once there was emotion in his voice, which, as everypony in the group knew, was very uncommon.
Fang was so surprised, he lost concentration on the cake and it fell, right on top of his younger brother. A.I. blinked, and it wasn't long after that the rest of the group was on their backs laughing hysterically, introductions forgotten, at least for a little bit. "It's not that funny," A.I. said, standing up straight, without any emotions, again. "Sure it isn't" Thunder said sarcastically as the group started calming down. That's when White noticed that Pinkie Pie had joined them in the laugh-at-A.I.-be-covered-in-falling-cake fun. "The pony that just appeared is Artifical Intelligence, or A.I. for short. He is the younger brother of Fang," White explained as Pinkie was calming down. White then turned to the rest of the group, "This is Pinkie Pie," White said as Pinkie bounced back to her feet, literally.
A.I. raised an eyebrow, while only looking at White. "White, I need to speak to you over there for a moment," A.I. said in his usual monotone voice, motioning farther up the hill, closer to their house. "Uh, sure I guess," White responded with a confused look on his face as he followed the still cake covered A.I. up the hill. After they were far enough away so no pony could eavesdrop, A.I. turned to White Out. "You have a crush on her," A.I. stated. White Out looked at his front hooves, which he began to shuffle nervously, 'Took you long enough to notice,' he thought, nodding. A.I. sighed and shook his head. "Go back to the house and don't rejoin us until you get over it," A.I. commanded, heading back down the hill. "You can't tell me to wait in the house before we even had our party!" White said in surprise, only he was the one that knew it was fake surprise. A.I. just sighed, "Fine, you can go to the party, but after that, you are staying inside the house," he said. Then a white blur flew past him and landed in front of Pinkie, smiling.
White noticed A.I.'s defeated expression from the corner of his eye, but he payed it no attention, 'Maybe the crush won't go away, but maybe that's not such a bad thing' White thought. "So, what were you and A.I. talking about Whitie?" Pinkie asked, but before he could reply, he heard a sigh and a pony trying, and failing, to hold in their laughter. He turned his head over his shoulder to see his brother shaking his head, and Thunder with his hooves over his mouth. White turned back to Pinkie, "It's a private matter," he responded, seeing A.I. lift an eyebrow at the statement, but nod his head in approval, out of the corner of his eye again. "Let's give them the tour and have them meet your friends," White said, an idea popping into his head. Pinkie looked confused, "But I need to start setting up the party," she said. "And we will, after my brother and friends meet your friends," White responded, hoping she wouldn't leave just yet. "Well... Okay!" Pinkie said happily, then bouncing down the road to Sweet Apple Acres. "We'll visit Applejack first, since you live so close," she said, not even checking if the group was following, which they were with White Out trotting right beside Pinkie Pie.
~~~~~~~Sweet Apple Acres (Bull's Eye's P.O.V.)~~~~~~~
Bull watched his brother talk to Pinkie Pie every now and again, he would've stopped it, but since A.I. seemed fine with it, then he should be too. But one of the group's rules kept going through his head, but he could see that White was following it. For now anyways. Soon they walked through a gate onto what looked like a farm. 'Finally, a place with manual labor. Now A.I. doesn't have to be the only one that gets an income of money,' Bull thought in excitement. "Wait here," Pinkie said suddenly to the group and dashed off into what looked like a forest of apple trees. The group waited there, then Pinkie Pie came back.
With the most beautiful mare Bull had ever seen in his life. She was an orange earth pony with a blonde mane and tail, both tied up, she also wore the same type of hat that Bull was wearing. She was carrying apples on her back, and her cutie mark was of three red apples. 'Now I understand how White Out feels,' he thought, then realization hit him. Before either of the mares could speak, he turns to White, "You did this on purpose didn't you?" Bull asked. The mares gave each other a confused look but stayed quiet. "Yep," White replied with a huge, proud smile on his face. Bull shook his head and sighed, 'What am I going to do with him?' he thought. "What did he do on purpose?" Pinkie asked, looking first at White, than at Bull. White just chuckled, "I'll tell you later," he said, which caused Bull's head to snap back to White. "You better not," he warned, glaring at his younger brother. "But I will," White sang, but he slid to the side a little.
'He is out of range for me to tackle him. Dang it,' Bull thought, turning his head back towards the mares. "Howdy, mah name's Applejack, owner of this here farm," the orange earth pony said with a southern accent. 'Great, now I won't be able to stop thinking about her,' he thought with an annoyed look on his face. 'Cause, unlike the rest of the group, Bull's Eye didn't have the ability of hiding how he truly feels, or hiding his thoughts, or keeping secrets, except for the life or death secrets, those he always kept hidden. Then he remembered his hind legs, 'Please don't ask, please don't ask...' Bull begged in his thoughts. Seemed like Celestia had it out for him again. Applejack noticed the metal hind legs strapped to him, and the metal wings strapped onto Snakescales, Bull knew she noticed, because she froze in place and seemed to be concerned.
"Wha' happen'd to your legs, sugarcube?" she asked. Bull's head immediately snapped to A.I. who just shook his head. Then Bull looked back at Applejack, "I don't want to talk about it right now," he said, beginning to look down, sadness becoming a clear expression on his face as he recalls what had caused the problem. He was thankful that Applejack didn't press the issue. Bull shook his head to clear away the memories. "Anyway, I'm Bull's Eye, White Out's older brother," Bull said, "But you can call me Bull." He heard a groan, and knew it came from Thunder.
~~~~~~~~~Ponyville (Thunderstorm's P.O.V.)~~~~~~~~~~~~
After some good natured teasing and introductions, Bull asked for a job at the farm. The only one surprised was A.I., and they only knew that because he raised an eyebrow. And he only got the job when A.I. convinced Applejack that the robotic hind legs will cause no damage to the trees, as long as Bull doesn't wish to harm them. When Applejack asked how he knew that, he told her the most common knowledge of all common knowledge to the group, A.I. was the one that made the robotic limbs. Anyway, Thunderstorm stayed right above his younger brother on their way to a pony's fashion store. It had a name, but since it slipped his mind, it must not have gotten his interest.
But he had noticed the cloud that was following them even before it got close enough to actually see it. White Out looked back at Thunder, as if knowing what he was going to do. Thunder lifted a hoof in front of his closed mouth as a sign to keep silent, to which White turned his head back so he could continue to unknowingly stare at Pinkie Pie. Thunder flipped himself over, so he was flying upside down, then started to slowly seep into the cloud above him, his grey coat working with him. Soon he was fully inside the cloud, which he then poked his head out the top, causing a beautiful cyan blue pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail, with a rainbow lightning bolt cutie mark, to jump off it in surprise.
'Wait, did I just define her as beautiful?' Thunder thought, 'Great, now I know what Bull was talking about.' Thunder moved so he was standing on the cloud. Some of it was clinging to his coat and mane, so he shook it off. When Thunder noticed no more cloud was on him, he stopped and looked at the rainbow maned pegasus with a smirk. Then he looked under the cloud to see if his brother and friends where still within cloud radius. When he noticed they were, he jumped on the cloud, causing it to thunder and show some lightning, causing his friends and brother to jump and yell in fright. Well, Snake jumped and opened his mouth as if to yell in fright, but no sound came out of course.
Thunder and the rainbow maned pegasus both started laughing. Thunder's laughter started to calm down, as the rest of it died he turned back to the cyan mare floating above him. "Thanks for the cloud," he said with a playful smile. "My name is Thunderstorm by the way, but my friends call me Thunder for short," he finished, flying off the cloud. Everypony else had stopped and were watching them, but White Out and Pinkie were the only ponies who had smiles on their faces, both with completely different reasons for their smiles. "Nice to meet ya Thunder. I'm Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in Equestria," the mare responded, taking a heroic pose. "Nice to meet you too Rainbow Dash," Thunder said.
"So you like pranks, too?" he asked as Dash layed down on the cloud below him, causing him to move so he could stay face to face. "Yep. Other than racing, it's one of my favorite things to do," she replied, placing her front hooves behind her head and closing her eyes. Thunder turned his face to White Out. "Why you little..." Thunder mumbled, Dash opened one of her eyes, and White hide behind Pinkie, snickering. "What?" Dash asked opening her other eye. "Nothing, I'll explain it later," Thunder said, thinking. 'Rainbow Dash... Rainbow Dash... I know I've heard that name before...' he thought, than he remembered. "You're the pegasus that did the legendary Sonic Rainboom!" he announced pointing a hoof at Dash. She smiled smugly and closed her eyes again. "Yeah that was me," she said.
Thunder's eyes widened. 'This is awesome...but White Out is still going to get it when we get home,' he thought landing on the cloud beside Dash.
~~~~~~~~~~Fluttershy's Cottage (Snakescales's P.O.V.)~~~~~~~~~~
Thunderstorm had introduced them all and explained that Bull's Eye was working at Sweet Apple Acres at that moment. Thunder had also left to watch Rainbow Dash do stunts, hoping to see her do a Sonic Rainboom. But Snakescales doubted that Rainbow would be able to do it, since the last time she did it was when she was in flight school, but he didn't want to dampen his brother's hopes. So he stayed quiet, not like he would talk anyway. Snake was roused out of his thoughts as they crossed an earthen like bridge over a stream. He looked up to see a cottage covered in what looked like grass, and had many bird houses.
White Out looked over his shoulder at Snake, a playful smirk on his face. 'Oh, no,' Snake thought as soon as he saw it. He looked back at the cottage and instead of wonder, he filled with dread. Pinkie Pie stopped in front of the door and was about to knock, when Snake heard singing. His hooves began to move on their own, heading around the cottage, following the singing. When he made it behind the cottage, he saw the mare that was singing. She was a pale yellow pegasus with a long pale pink mane and tail, and her cutie mark was three butterflies. 'Even looks like an angel,' Snake thought dreamily. "Hiya Fluttershy!" White Out suddenly shouted, coming from the same direction that Snakescales had come from. The yellow pegasus did an adorable squeal and hide in some nearby bushes.
'Understandable,' Snake thought, remembering when he had first met his friends. "O-oh, White Out, y-you startled me," Fluttershy whispered poking her head out from the bush. "Oh, sorry about that, I probably should have learned by now, living with Snakescales and all," White said standing beside Snake. Snakescales looked down at the ground digging nervously into the ground, implying that he was Snakescales. "Oh, n-nice to m-meet you S-snakescales," Fluttershy whispered, suddenly hiding behind her mane, but Snake had started lifting his head before she did that successfully did that, so he noticed her blushing a little. Snake than began blushing, so he looked down at the ground again, having no long hair to hide behind.
"Your plan is going to fail, you know that right?" A.I. said standing on the other side of Snake. "What plan?" White said innocently. Snake knew A.I. had rolled his eyes at that. Snake cleared his throat to get their attention off each other so they could discuss it later. He heard A.I. sigh, "You're right Snake, we'll deal with this later," A.I. said walking back to Fang. Suddenly there was a gasp, and Fluttershy was standing on the side of Snake that A.I. was just at, with her forelegs on his back. He then remembered his robotic wings. "Oh, you poor thing," she said, her hooves tracing where the wings rested on his back.
Snake heard Fang snicker, so he shot him a glare. So Fang just responded with a smile and introduced himself and A.I., but Snake did not pay attention as he looked at Fluttershy as she inspected the straps keeping the wings in place. 'She is WWAAAYYYY out of my league,' Snake thought, admiring his view of her. But then she asked a question, dragging him out of his thoughts. Fluttershy must've known he wasn't listening, cause she was kind enough to repeat the question. "W-would you m-mind i-if I took o-off your w-wings? I mean, I won't if you don't want me to..." she asked again in her quiet voice. As soon as he realized what she was asking, fear filled his face and he vigorously shook his head.
"Oh, okay," she responded, but she didn't remove her forelegs from his back. Not that he wanted her to anyway. Fang snickered, A.I. rolled his eyes and White smiled proudly. Then Fluttershy must've remembered she had yet to get off his back. "Eep" she squealed and, blushing furiously, got off his back. Snakescales was blushing the same amount as Fluttershy. "Alright, Pinkie, lead the way to Rarity's," White said turning around, Fang and Pinkie following. "See you later 'Shy," Pinkie called over her shoulder. But A.I. looked at Snake, who looked back at him, his face clearly showing he wanted to stay for a while longer. A.I. just sighed and nodded, he then turned around and started following Fang.
Snake looked back at Fluttershy with a small smile. "W-would you l-like to s-stay and h-help take care of the a-animals? I m-mean...If you want to..." she asked, and Snake nodded, thinking 'White Out is going to pay if we all end up falling head over hooves for them.'