//------------------------------// // Cloudy, with a chance of friendship. // Story: Cowponies // by East Coast //------------------------------// Applebloom,sweetybelle,and scootaloo sat in the middle of sweet apple acres. Literally, in the middle. They had measured. "Applebloom..." "Yeah scootaloo?" "I'm bored..." "I know..." "Ooh ooh! I have an idea!" "If you're about to make a chicken joke-" "Let's play chicken! oops, I mean scootaloo~!" "That's it!" And with that, the little orange chicken did give chase to the snarky, witty little marshmallow. "Aww c'mon girls! don't do thaaat~! C'moooon now we're never gonna get our cutie marks this way!" "How do you know that?" "Because! We've already done it! A bajillion and a half times!" "Yeah but not in the middle! Not the middle middle! We measured!" "And that was boooooring!" "Yeah! And who wants a cutie mark in measuring things anyway?" The little white filly had a point. Not a one of the legendary crusaders wanted to be a mathematician. "Hey! I know! Let's go find Rainbow Dash! She always has a good story!" "..." "..." Sweetybelle stopped chasing her friend and applebloom sat up to give her Purple maned flightless pegasus friend a true stare. "What?" "You, do know it's Sunday right?" "An Rainbow don't work on the weekend right?" "Wait...Rainbow Dash doesn't work weekends?!" "Seein as yer the president of her fan club we thought you knew." "No! I thought-" "Wait...How could you think Rainbow Dash worked the weekends? She's always whining about work." "Rainbow doesn't whine! She...Procrastinates! And when all you have to do is clear skies, and you do that in ten seconds so why bother waiting any longer than that?" "Because then you could get more work done?" "Oh? What about Rarity! She alllllways waits until the last possible moment!" "What?! You did NOT just compare my sister to Rainbow Dash!" "You're right, I said she was WORSE than Rainbow Dash!" "Why you-!" And the dynamic, non-earth pony duo proceeded to chance the other in circles as applebloom rolled on her back and looked up at a tree "things used to be exitin around here...it ain't fair..." ----- Fillydelphia-five minutes after sixs' nap Six trotted into the city, he had been here once before some time ago. Things back then were different. Smaller. Now, every time he looked up he saw a pegasus fly by, carrying mail to some unknown location as earth ponies dragged carts full of miscellaneous parts and pipes to and from large factories. This really was the heart of the industrial equestria. Even blimps hung in the sky, aloft and waiting boarding. "Aeyup...Look's like that's mah ride..." Six smiled to himself, how would applejack react to him landing in the middle of sweet apple acres...well...I guess...that would depend on if she even remembered him...Or...If she even liked him...Well...like him THAT way anyway... "like Ma'am always says. Yah ain't nevah know till yah find out." It was at that moment he saw the kind of ponies that boarded on the balloon. "...Aw no..." Fine,pampered,clean,rich ponies...not a single true country pony amongst them. The bits they poured into the ushers collection box was much more than he had in his pocket. "oky doky loky. New plan. Just gotta find the taxi station...Bet applejack don't even care fer flyin ponies, to...well...I don know! Six stop talkin to yerself! It's o.k!...Ok...yer done...Just...Taxi...Yeh..." He trotted onwards, following signs that were about as confusing as an epileptic rabbit high on sugar and he got a fair bit of strange looks from the hoity toity ponies, most likely cause he was undoubtedly blue collar and he wasn't working... Or maybe it was because he was just so faust-damned handsome... "Excuse me young sir. Are you lost? I'm not quite sure where you're supposed to be, but I could point you to your foreman no doubt." Six turned to the young mare, she was younger than him and yet still had a sort of...maturity, noooo definitely not...It was the stuck up arrogance of every other pony in a suit he had ever met. "scuse me?" "Oh how how cute. You have an accent. Well then you're most likely employed in the west district. Maybe..." "Lady. Back up. I ain't nevah hit a mare, and I ain't nevah gonna. But by celestia you are temptin me somethin fierce! Point me in tha direction of the txi stop an I'll be gone outta yer precious air space." "Well I never!" "Course ya haven't." Six decided not to give the mare another chance to press his buttons and cantered off to find the taxi depot. ----- Taxi depot-a minute of so after Surprises' premonition "Ohhhh where could my new friend be? Hmm...Old friend, old friend, old friend, yelly friend, jelly friend, jingle friend, no new friends! How am I going to get...Where was I going? Hehe I don't even remember~ isn't that funny? Hehehehahahehehohhehe~~!" Ponies looked up to see the hovering,giggling,pegasus as she floated through the crowd as if she weren't upside down and flying backwards. ---- outside the taxi depot, as surprise started giggling Six troted into the station, looking around it became aware to him these too were meant for rich ponies. It surprised him how much transportation was ready for the rich and how few were ready for the poor, of course he was only going off looks. It wasn't like he had asked but his pride wouldn't let him be shut down and if he made a scene, which he would, he may be arrested. Then things would become really difficult. "So...I'm walking...How did I expect I'de be walkin..." "Ahehehehahahahoohooheheheha~! Ooooh look out~!" With a loud and crashing thud the white pegasus with a golden mane and the grey unicorn with an orange mane collided, knocking them both to the ground "Oh I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-HHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUU~!!!!!" "Taint nothin...Just watch it next-...Why are you jumpin?" "EEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!" "Hey...ya'll ok? Didn't...Didn't hit yerself to hard did ya?" "OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH~!!!!" "Ok...Now you're kinda creepin me out..." "YOU'RE THE NEW FRIEND! Icantellyou'remynewfriendbecauseiknoweveryponyinFillydelphiaandI'veneverseenyouintownoroutsideofitbeforeandthatmeansyou'renewtoFillydelphia! Ohhhh and that means you need a party! OhI'dthrowyouapartybutIjustgotfiredandIcan'treallysparethebitsbutohhhhifIcould! Itwouldbesoooocoool!" "SLOW DOWN!!! Gad dang! You Fillydelphia ponies can sure talk!" "OhamItalkingtomuchortofast? Igetthatallotfromnewponieswhodon'tquiteknowmeyetanditmakessomereeeeeeaaaaallllyyyymadbutsomethinkit'squirky." "Do yah have corn in yer ears?" "nooooooooo silly! Of course not!" "Now...I don't know if yah actually stopped yammerin...Or yer just waitin fer a longer sentence..." "Was I really yammering? Like, Blahblahblahblah? Or blahblahbleeblewblah? Ooooh! Or maybe yammeryammeryammeryammeryammer!" "You...Are crazy." "Noooo I'm..." She was gone...in a puff of white smoke she was gone...then she popped out of Sixs' mane,sawed her way into his hat and jumped out with it still on her head. "ssssuuUURRrrPRISE~!" Six clutched his head, sifting for how exactly she had managed to get into his mane in the first place "Ohhhh don't worry about that. It's just a writing device used by the author to make connections to the post production version of me! Ohhh I love her! She's soooo random! It's like the 4th wall isn't even there!" "...Ok...So...First, yer givin me back mah hat...then...I'm gonna turn an leave...An I'm gonna try an ferget this ever happened. And I'm gonna pry to celestia you're just...in need of bucktape...lots of bucktape..." Six snatched his hat,in the time it took for his hoof to pass from the front of her face and onto his head something had changed. The White mare was crying,her eyes at least twice their normal size brimming with tears as she rubbed her hooves together. "I-I'm sorry...I-I just...I just wanted to be your friend...I...Don't...Well...Bye..." As she turned and flew slowly away,weeping sixs' heart tore. He hadn't meant to make her cry, what kind of stallion makes a mare cry? She was just being friendly in her own weird, invasive, talkative way. He slowly trotted up to her and stuck his hat on her head, being dragged by her slowly by the undercord which he held on to with his horn... Not magically... "Awww don't...Don't go. I'm just on edge, I ain't familier with this city an I just discovered I gotta walk to see this girl I like an she's all the way in ponyville an- The whitemare made an about face, a smile spread accross her cheeks "A giiiiiiiiirl?! A very special somepony kind of girl?!" Six blushed an apple red and dipped his head to hide it, knowing that hiding it from this mare was just out right futile. "Ohhhh it IS a specialsomepony! Noooo problem Mr.Hat! I can sooooo foresee a pony being mad about walking! I HATE walking. But I mean, what am I gonna do right? It's like mama surprise said, 'Surprise get your head out of the clouds...No literally sweetie the weather team needs to set off some lightning!' Hehe, good times..." "...I don't know how-" "Heeeeeyyyy! My mane is bouncing! That means I'm gonna come with you!" Her mane was indeed bouncing of its own volition, bobbing up and down to a beat that Six was sure only Surprise could hear. "What? I aint lookin fer comp'ny." "Ohh yes you are! No reason to find your special, your VERY special somepony if you're not lonely! I'll follow you there! I need to go someplace anyway so I figure it's where you need to go too." "...I'de talk you out of this...But...You'd just follow me anyway wouldn't you." "..." she looked up at her bouncing mane a moment,then back at six "Yes." "I'm-" "Says that your name's six string." "What?! How did you-?!" "Says on you're guitar." "Oh...Yeah, well it does..." "Hehehehahahoohooohehe...We're gonna be better friends than derpy and the doctor!" "Who?" "Exactly." "I...I don think I undastand..." "Don't understand what?" "...Nevah mind..." "What mind?" A loud ringing in the distance and the tit-tit-tatting on the roof of the depot made six sigh...it was raining...