Teary eyed and wimpering, Pinkie Pie walks as far as she could out of town. She then stops and stares down the road leading out of Ponyville. There is a hooded merchant walking along with a wagon full of gears, steel plates and wiring. As he walked closer, the wind blew stronger and the trees swayed. Pinkie Pie was getting a sense of uncomfort from the hooded colt. Walking closer, the metal clanged together on the cart. It was soon enough that the merchant was right in front of Pinkie Pie, staring her in the face underneath his brown cloth hood. "Who are you?" says Pinkie Pie. The merchant stood there for a moment then opened his mouth and said "Oh thats not important. Whats important is what I can do for you." says the merchant. "What can you do for me?" says Pinkie Pie with slight suspicion. "I am a drifter from far away and I make inventions to benefit Equestria" says the merchant tossing a gear up in the air and catching it. "I also overheard you and your dilemma." he says while smirking. "You did?" says Pinkie Pie now shocked. "Oh yes I did, I heard quiet enough. I hear you see yourself as useless compared to the pegasi and unicorns have you?" says the merchant laughing. "Well lucky for you, I have an invention that could you even better than the Pegasi!" he says as he unrolls a blueprint.
Pinkie Pie stares at the blueprint and is amazed as she finds it is a pair of mechanical wings. "And the best part is they work fully functional! You could soar through the skies at faster speeds than even the fastest flyer!" says the merchant rolling the blueprint back up and putting it back into the wagon. Pinkie Pie thinks for a moment about how much she would be at everything with a pair of wings. She starts to daydream and imagines herself speeding through the clouds. "With wings I would be able to go wherever I want much faster than walking!" thinks Pinkie. She then snaps out of her daydream and quickly spurts out "How much?" The colt chuckles at her question and replies "Why free of course! You are the first pony I am making them for!" says the merchant. "But there is a catch..." he says while walking over to Pinkie's side. He then wraps his arm over her back and says "I will provide you a pair of mechanical wings but you must do something for me. Once I give you the wings, you must spread the word of my business around town. I need money if I'm going to be out here by myself" he says as he walks back to his cart. Pinkie Pie then rubs her chin and says "Ok its a deal!"
He then smiles and says to the pink pony "Well it looks like I got work to do! I'll be done with your wings in 3 days". Off to work, the merchant walks off into Ponyville in search of a place to work. Happy and satisfied, Pinkie Pie hops back into town.
As the merchant arrives in Ponyville, the town is bustiling with ponies. The wind has calmed down now and the sky opens up with a giant rainbow. As the ponies are in awe of the rainbow, the merchant sneaks through town and finds an old, abandoned factory down the road from Sugarcube Corner. He walks in to find that every machine is still intact. The merchant then looks around at the factory imagining all the possibilities saying "Well time to get to work!" as he unloads his wagon and tools.