Sunny Knight: a Pony's Tale

by TheothersideofSunny968

Good Times

"Well guys, at least we can look back on this one day and laugh..." Sunny tried to sound enthusiastically.

"One day ain't today, dude" Thunder Lane sad flatly, unamused.

"Eh'nope" Big Mac added in, tone just as flat, if not flatter, then Thunder Lane's.

At the moment, Sunny, Thunder Lane, and Big Mac were all walking down the road leading into Ponyville at around midnight, their faces plastered with markup and their body's shoved awkwardly into dresses and doused in multiple perfumes. After the guys had cleared things up as to what exactly they were doing, aka, pranking Twilight, Applejack and their friends, the girls called a huddle which left the boys feeling like they should sneak away. But before they could, they were paralyzed by a spell Twilight and Rarity cast.

"Well you pranked us good, boys" Twilight's voice still echoed in Sunny's ears. "But now it's time for us to have some pranking fun of our own!"

"B-but we were just trying to help you girls relax, you know?" Thunder Lane was beginning to get nervous as to what the girls had in store for them.

"We know!" Pinkie Pie said as she bounced up and down with excitement.

"And we all really appreciate it" Fluttershy added in her calm mellow voice.

"Buuuuut you aren't off the hook just yet" Rainbow Dash said smugly.

"Ya'll had yer fun" Applejack said with a sly grin.

"But now it's our turn to have fun" Twilight said as she and the other girls moved into a circle around Rarity who had grabbed a rather large box of hers.

"I got a bad feeling about this..." Sunny whispered to his pals.

"Eh'yep" Big Mac replied as the girls trend back and faced them.

"Well girls, let's get to it!" Twilight smiled as she and the rest of the girls revealed hoof fills of makeup, bottles of perfume, and a few dresses.

For about a good hour or two (though it felt like hours upon hours of torture), and taking several dozen pictures, the girls said they were getting tired and teleported the three stallions outside the castle, locking the doors behind them. Now completely exhausted and slightly humiliated, the tree stallions dragged their hooves through town heading back to the apple farm. It was too early for anypony in town to be awake, so there was little to no chance of anypony seeing them in their... Situation.

Once they reached the arch at the edge of the apple farm, Thunder Lane stretched and yawned. "Well guys, this has been fun. But I'm going to head back to my place and try and take a shower. Or ten. And just sleep all day."

"Sounds nice" Big Mac chuckled, smiling at their winged friend.

"Just think of it his way" Sunny began to say with a half smile. "One day, we can all look back on this and laugh."

"Yeah, one day. A hundred years or so from now." Thunder said as he started to hover, taking off the dress he was stuffed into and stretching out his wings. "Well, see you guys later!"

Big Mac and Sunny stood there and watched as their pegasus friend flew off as fast as he could back to his home on a cloud. Once he was out of sight, the two farm ponies continued their walk down the road that would lead them to the farm house. Most of their walk was silent, with the two stallions just enjoying the peaceful night. When they reached the halfway point, Sunny looked over at Big Mac, who in turn, looked over at him. They both couldn't help but start to crack up at how ridiculous each other looked.

"They kinda got us good, didn't they?" Sunny said trough his laughing.

"Eh'yep!" Big Mack agreed when he was able to speak through his chuckling.

They continued to walk back to the farm while laughing, but it died down some as they arrived at the edge of the clearing around the house. Sunny paused and looked to Big Mac.

"Hey, why don't you go ahead and use the shower first?" Sunny said as he began to take the dress off and levitated it into the cloths line.

"Ya sure 'bout that?" Big Mac asked as he removed the dress he was in and handed it off to Sunny.

"I'm sure" Sunny said as he levitated Big Mac's dress onto the line next to where he hung his. "It was my idea to do this in the first place. I'll start by hosing myself off out here. Just let me know when you're done so I'm not stuck out here smelling like 'daffodil dream' all night, ok?"

Big Mac chuckled at the comment then nodded as he walked up and Ito the farm house, trying to be as quiet as he could be so as not to wake Granny or Apple Bloom. Sunny waited until the big red farm pony was inside until he released a held breath.

"How can something so harmless and so good spirited, hide such a dark secret...." Sunny said as he hung his head, dragging his hooves over to the hose on the side of the house. "First I devise a plan to steal from somepony who i consider a very good, if not a best friend. Then I use my other friends to help me pull it all off, without them even knowing it. I wreck the living quarters of that 'best friend'. And to top it all off, I end up lying to a very trusting and naive baby dragon, who is one of my friend's oldest friends! Maybe even like a kid brother to her!"

Sunny finished filling a tub with water from the hose and dunked his was in there, swashing his head around in there for a moment, trying to get the sickeningly sweet smell of perfume out of his nose. As he pulled his head out of the water, breathing heavily, he found his gaze was locked at the rippling pool of water. Sunny began to get his breathing under control, when the rippling water in the pool began to subside as well. Once the water was still, it reflected the image of a stallion in the water, with running make up that looked like a pony down in his luck. The image bothered Sunny enough to make him bubble up with anger and lead him to flipping around and bucking the tub. The tub fell over, spilling the water everywhere.

"No!" Sunny said through his teeth. "I have everything I ever wanted! I have friends! A home! Ponies who consider me family! What more could I ever want?!"

The yellow stallion was breathing heavily still as he glared at the puddle of water, eyes narrowing in in the water as if it had done something wrong. As he approached the puddle his mind went back to the thought of the books. Why had he stolen them in the first place?

"If I didn't, they would all find out..." Sunny said as he approached the puddle and looked again at his reflection. This time, the reflection was clouded by dark, almost black, water made by the dirt that was kicked up. Sunny watched as a dark swirling image was reflected off the water, with his marked up face in the middle of it. It almost looked like... Like...

"Ugh, you ok?" Big Mac's voice broke Sunny away from his dark and brewing thoughts.

Sunny snapped out of his dark mood and was shocked by the sudden appearance of the other farm stallion. "Oh! Ugh, y-yeah! I'm fine! I just, er, saw a... A spider! Yes! A big, nasty spider in the water! Kinda freaked me out!"

"Ok..." Was all Big Mac said as he walked over to Sunny and picked up the tub. "Shower's all yers."

"T-thanks..." Sunny said and began to walk as fast as he could into the farm house.

"Hey, Sunny..." Big Mac's words froze The yellow unicorn in place. Sunny's heart beat felt like it was going out of control, like we was working over time to try and wrap up winter all by himself.

"Yes, Big Mac?" Sunny did his best to keep his voice under control, but it slightly squeaked a little. Clearing his throat, Sunny spoke again. "ugh, yes? Big Mac?"

"Ah don't speak much, but ah have two good ears. Ifn' ya ever need ta talk, ah'm here fer ya" the big red stallion said as he flipped the tub up and pushed it back to its usual spot.

Sunny paused, his worries leaving him. At least, his worries that Big Mac might have overheard him him. The worries from his secrets and the extent he went in order to keep them, those worried lingered. With a sigh, Sunny put on a smile and turned to Big Mac. "Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to just shower then crash. See you in the morning."

Before Big Mac could say anything else, Sunny rushed into the house as quietly as he could, traveled up the stairs, and went right for the bathroom. Once inside, Sunny didn't waste any time. He hopped right in the shower, turned it on, and began to lather himself up with a fair amount of soap. It didn't take him long to dunce off the remaining make up, or dissipate the large amounts of perfume that he had been soaked with, but Sunny felt like he needed to sit there and let the hot water run off of him for a while. He didn't know why, be he felt like there was something that still lingered, no matter how hard he scrubbed or how much soap he applied.

Sunny didn't want to waste all of the Apple's hot water, so after about 20 minutes or so, he hopped out of the shower and began to dry himself off. After drying himself off thoroughly, Sunny tip toed as quietly as he could over to his room and quickly shut the door. After hopping into bed and curling up in his blanket, he began to fall fast asleep. And although he wasn't proud of what he did, he disputed a lot of effort into the whole pranking plan. And it's taken a toll on him. With any luck, he won't have any dream tonight. It's hard enough dealing with keeping his origins a secret from ponies during the day. But if Princess Luna were to recognize him? His cover would be completely blown... Then what would happen to him?...Sunny rather not think about it. He likes his home. He likes the ponies he's around. And he wants nothing more then for life to just stay the same.