December 21 [Animal Kingdom]
December 21
Gusty got up before me again. She was already standing at the balcony window when I opened my eyes, so I got out of bed and joined her at the window.
It was just starting to get light out and the early sunlight was painting the walls of the Magic Kingdom castle in orange and pink and it was really pretty. And when I opened the balcony door to stretch out my wings a little bit, the air was fresh and new and that woke me right up.
I hadn't even noticed that Miss Russi was in the shower until she opened the door and came out, and that was Gusty's opportunity to take a shower and get dressed before all of us ponies were out of bed, so she took a pile of clean clothes that she'd set out and went into the bathroom.
Miss Russi ordered coffee and then woke up Miss Parker, and I woke up Aquamarine and then the two of us together woke Cayenne up after the coffee had arrived. And she took a cup right off the tray without even getting out of bed and drank most of it, then she kind of slid off the edge of the bed and landed on the floor.
Me and Aquamarine could both see her wince when she put her weight on her loose shoe and then she pulled her hoof up a little bit so it wasn't carrying any weight and that might have been okay for standing around but she was never going to be able to enjoy the park like that, especially 'cause she might break her hoof if her shoe tore the rest of the way out. Miss Parker had written down the telephone number of the farrier so she called him and he couldn't come out right away but he said he'd be out in an hour or so and could at least get the old one off and bandage her hoof and then she could have a proper shoe put back on when she got home, or he could do all four.
Cayenne thought she'd rather have one off than four new ones for walking around all day, and Gusty came out when we were still talking about it and her ears fell when she realized that we might have to wait for Cayenne. But then Cayenne said that we should go to the park and she'd meet us there, and we all gave her a big hug 'cause that was really nice of her. I bet it's scary to visit a farrier that you don't know, 'cause you don't know what they're going to do to your hooves, and I'm glad I don't wear shoes.
Me and Aquamarine had packed all our things, 'cause we were going to be leaving right from the park to get to the train station, but Gusty and Cayenne were going to stay until tomorrow because that was when their airplane left.
Mister Barrow said that if there were things that the unicorns wanted to pack up and have us take back we could so they wouldn't have to try and get it on an airplane but Gusty was too frazzled to manage and so she pushed some things that she'd bought as gifts over in a pile for us to take, but that was all. Cayenne did a little bit better and gave us a whole suitcase to take back, and we loaded that into the Suburban.
Once we were all ready, we went to the Contempo Cafe for a quick breakfast again, and then Cayenne went back up to our room with Mister Wayne and Miss Russi, who had been with Gusty when she'd been shod a couple of times so they knew what to watch out for. And Mister Salvatore was a little bit grumpy that he had to give them the keys to the Jeep, but we wouldn’t all fit in it unless everyone but him had a pony on their lap.
After we'd had our magic bands read, we had to wait for a train to go by, and it was different than the one in the Magic Kingdom—the locomotive had a flat front with bumpers on it and portholes in the front of the cab, and the sides were completely open. All the cars had wood-slat sides, and there was lots of luggage up on the roof, and I was kind of curious where it had come from if people had that much luggage with them.
We didn’t want to do anything too fun before Cayenne got to the park, so we went to the Boneyard and played around some. There was a sign saying it was for children ten and under but there were lots of adults in there, so we thought that it would be okay for us. And it was neat because there were fake dinosaur bones and little slides which you could go down but I didn’t because they were small and went through rocks. And they had some dinosaur footprints in the sidewalk around it.
Our helpers had stayed outside but Mister Barrow came in and told us that Cayenne was on her way, and she showed up a little bit later. She was wearing a pair of Mickey Mouse socks on her hind legs and had hoof boots on, ‘cause she said that she didn’t want to go around the park with just a diaper and duct-tape bandage on that hoof. And I didn’t believe that she was really wearing a diaper on her hoof and she said that the vet used them because they were a little more padded and easier to use than just bandage wrap and it was kind of embarrassing but her hoof felt a lot better already.
Then we went to the Kilimanjaro Tour, and we got to ride around in a big truck and look at the animals and they were all real instead of the pretend ones we'd seen on the boat. There were different kinds of antelopes with weird horns and weird names like bontebok, oryx, addax, kudu, and waterbuck, and a giraffe that we had to stop for, 'cause it was on the road. And there were some Earth zebras that were grazing around a little ways back from the road.
When we passed by the elephants, Calaso, our tour guide, told us that they liked to eat red clay for the minerals and Aquamarine said that it was pretty tasty. And we all snickered at her but then I was thinking about how Rebekka liked to taste her art supplies and maybe there was something to that.
They had black rhinos and white rhinos, and real hippos bathing in a pond and we also saw a little nest with big eggs in it and Calaso said that they were ostrich eggs. Cayenne said that she'd thought they were pegasus eggs and I said that if pegasuses laid eggs we'd put them in clouds to incubate, not leave them on the ground where somepony might steal them.
And we saw flamingos which are pinkish and storks and whistling ducks who didn't whistle for us. And there was another pool with crocodiles which are like alligators but they have pointier noses. And a ways back we saw a lion who was looking at us and I got kind of nervous because I didn't see any fences between him and the truck and I hoped it could go faster than he could run.
After we'd finished our truck tour, we went to the Kali River Rapids and we had a round boat and had to wear seat belts so we wouldn’t fall out and drown. And Gusty was a little upset when she got splashed with water at the entrance and we all said that proper adventurers got wet all the time. Daring Do had fallen in plenty of rivers. And the sun was out so she'd dry off pretty quick anyway.
It went around by log jams and then down some rapids and between a cliff and me and Aquamarine were on the front so we got pretty wet but I didn't mind. And then we went through a little cave and under some elephant statues spraying water and we waved at a bunch of people who were watching us from a bridge. Gusty said that they had buttons that they could push to get us wet which was probably why they were watching, and Cayenne said that they were just jealous of us because we were having fun.
We hadn't seen any wild animals, which was a little bit disappointing, but it was still lots of fun.
Then we walked through the Maharaja Jungle and got to see a giant lizard who was sunning himself and giant bats that were all hanging upside-down from ropes 'cause they were mostly trying to sleep. One of them had decided that he wanted to eat breakfast while all of his friends were sleeping, and he was sticking his face into a bucket and getting food out of it.
And we saw some tigers and a couple of them were just dozing but there was one that was patrolling around the wall and she kept looking up at us like she was waiting for the glass to suddenly break and for us to fall in. And we were a little bit nervous around her but she couldn't get us and I could fly away if she tried.
We also saw some deer and antelopes that could maybe outrun a tiger if they had to, 'cause the sign said that some of them could go fifty miles an hour which was almost as fast as Winston could go.
Being outside had gotten us dried off, so we went to the theatre to watch the Festival of the Lion King, because Gusty said that it was a really good play and we'd all like it.
There were four different sections that we could sit in and each of them had a different name. There weren't any equines but giraffe was kind of close, so we sat there. And there were four people who came out and introduced themselves and told us that we were supposed to greet the performers like animals and we were supposed to bleat like sheep 'cause that was what giraffes sounded like so we did but I think we should have whinnied instead.
Cayenne pointed to a dancer who was striped like a zebra and had a hat with a bushy mane and when she circled around to our side we waved at her just to be friendly. And then they had a bunch of acrobats dancing around and swinging from trapezes that they bounced up to from a trampoline.
They filled the theatre with fake clouds and a man started spinning around fire on the stage while everyone sang, and then two more acrobats came out and one of them was wearing a pretty blue costume and she was supposed to be a bird so she flew around on a rope and she was really good at it. If I hadn't been able to see the rope I might have thought that she was really flying.
People who wanted to could come out and circle around the stage and it was supposed to be just for children but we weren't any taller than them and the dancer dressed as a zebra gestured for us to follow her, so we did and I flew just a little bit 'cause there weren't gonna be any airplanes inside and I only had my hooves a foot or so off the floor.
And then after it was over we got to meet the cast outside and Gusty was really excited about meeting Timon but the ones I was really looking forward to seeing were the dancer in the zebra costume and the bird-lady.
The dancer was really excited to see us and she crouched down and gave each of us a hug and I asked if she knew Zenith and she said that she did and they hung out sometimes at night but she didn't wear her costume then. And she said that equines had to stick together and we all agreed that that was true, even if she was really a human.
I had to wait a little bit to meet the bird-lady, 'cause there were a bunch of other people who also wanted to shake her hand, and I told her that she flew the best of any human I'd ever seen and she was really flattered by that. And I got a picture with her and I spread my wings out, 'cause hers were out, too, and then I decided that I'd give her a feather for luck. Unfortunately, I didn't have any loose ones, so I had to nip a secondary off which meant she didn't have much of a calamus with it.
She told me that she was going to have it put on her costume, 'cause it was almost the same color, and she carefully tucked it into her costume to keep it safe. Then she gave me a big hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Me and Aquamarine had to leave after that to get on our train, so we hugged and nuzzled and told Cayenne to not lose any more of her shoes and Gusty wanted to get a picture of all of us together before we left, so we lined up with our helpers in the back and one of the stilt-walkers took our picture, then we walked out to the parking lot and got in the Suburban. It was really hot inside 'cause it was black and it had just been building up heat and they should have left the windows down some and that would have helped let the heat out. It cooled down pretty quickly when he started it up, though.
The seats stayed hot the longest, and I wondered why they didn't have some kind of butt-cooler that they could put in cars for hot summer days.
Mister Salvatore had agreed to drive us to Orlando 'cause he liked driving so much, and if Mister Barrow or Miss Parker had driven, then the Suburban would be stranded at the train station.
We were hungry 'cause we hadn't had time to eat lunch at Animal Kingdom, and since we weren't sure if there was going to be lunch on the train since it was after lunchtime already, we got some food from a taco truck that was in the parking lot.
Our train was a little bit late and we looked around the station and there was a poster that said Amtrak Silver Service and Mister Salvatore took a picture of me standing next to the poster. I had to stand on Aquamarine’s back to get high enough but she didn’t mind.
Mister Salvatore stayed around until the train came so he could help load our bags. We couldn’t get a big room on the bottom ‘cause the train was only one story high, so we had a little roomette like when I went to South Carolina. And Mister Barrow and Miss Parker had one just like it that was next to ours if we needed them.
We were both really tired and worn out from all the fun that we'd had and the train rocking put us to sleep, and if we'd been smarter we would have had the conductor fold our seats down into a bed but I don't think that either of us were expecting it. I know I wasn't, 'cause I woke up with my head kind of jammed up against the window and my ear pinned and it was a little bit sore. And I was completely disoriented and at first I didn't know where we were and looking out the window didn't give me any clues.
I could have gone and found the conductor and asked, or knocked on the door to the other room, but maybe Mister Barrow and Miss Parker were also sleeping, so I just got out my journal and started writing all the things I'd done in Florida, which was a lot.
I must have written ten pages by the time Aquamarine woke back up, and she kind of jerked her head up and looked out the window and then asked me where we were and I said that we'd left Jacksonville a little while ago and I didn't know where we were now.
We sat and looked out the window for a little bit. Aquamarine said she thought that we were still in Florida, 'cause it looked sort of the same as it had around Orlando, and she said that almost all the cars had Florida license plates on them which was pretty smart of her to notice.
Both of us were hungry, and we couldn't decide if we should see if her helpers wanted to eat dinner with us or just go ourselves. If they were sleeping, we didn't want to disturb them, but it might be rude to let them sleep through dinner. So we went to their room and knocked softly on the door and Miss Parker answered and she said that they'd gone to dinner a while ago but she'd come with us if we wanted her company. And we thought it would be nice to have her but kind of rude to be eating while she wasn't, so we said we'd go to the dining car on our own.
‘Cause it was kinda late for dinner, we didn't have to wait for a table. And our waiter was fun to watch—he was really graceful and when he cleaned off the table across from ours he took off the tablecloth first by yanking it really quick and the dishes stayed where they were, rather than slide off and crash all over the floor.
We both got salads and shared a plate of vegetarian shell pasta and then we decided that we'd get dessert, too, 'cause there was a New York Cheesecake on the menu that sounded really tasty and it was.
We'd just finished eating when the train slowed down to stop in Savannah, which is in Georgia. It’s near the ocean, too, ‘cause I could faintly smell that over the train smell and the city smells.
The train was going to stay there for a little bit, so we got up and trotted up and down the platform to stretch out our legs some. And at the end of the platform there was a little food cart selling slices of pies made out of Georgia pecans and Georgia peaches and we got a slice of pecan pie to share and it was really good. I felt kinda guilty for having two desserts, though.
Mister Barrow saw us and came down the platform and he saw the pie-cart and got tempted, too, so he bought himself a piece of pie and another one to give to Miss Parker who was still on the train. And then he walked up and down the platform with us until the conductor announced that it was time to get back on the train.
So we got back aboard and went back to our room. This train didn't have a Viewliner on it or even a domed car which was disappointing because we really liked the view from the top of the train. They'd tried to make up for it by putting two windows in our sleeping room, which was nice, and you could see out from the top one when you were in your bunk which you couldn't do in the Superliner, 'cause their windows were lower.
I missed having windows on both sides of the train, too. Unless we went out and blocked the aisle, we could only see what was happening on our side.
Georgia was really pretty, and we saw lots of trees and fields and it was all green. And the sun was going down when the train stopped in South Carolina, but we stayed at the window and watched outside ‘cause the sky was clear and when we turned off the lights in our room and got used to the dark, we could see hundreds of stars, and sometimes when we went around curves, we could see the front of the train, too, and that was really neat.
We were still awake when the train stopped in Charleston, and I told Aquamarine about the day I’d gotten to see Boeing Dreamliners that were being built. And I would have liked to get out there for a little bit but the train didn’t stay in the station for very long before it started up again.
When we were ready for bed, Aquamarine didn't want to bother our conductor, in case he was trying to sleep, so she figured out how to put the bed down herself. It wasn't too complicated but the latches weren't made for ponies, either, so she had to improvise a little bit.
We looked around our room but there weren't any sheets or blankets, 'cause the conductor had them all. We didn't mind too much, though, since we both had our winter coats, so we were pretty cozy without them
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I fail to see the problem.
7971060 Indeed. I wouldn't refuse a pony having to sit on my lap.
7971060
Well, the problem would be that he didn't have a pony on his lap.
Having a pony on your lap is only a problem if using stick shift.
Happy Zebras get everywhere, its that potion I tells yah.
Silver, if you feel bad about having 2 deserts then you are not totally assimilated into being an American.
Thinking about the timing. Assume first contact is Summer or Autumn 2006. Figure time to learn the language from scratch, Bush's slow reaction to a crisis, agreeing where & when to hold the meetings, then the financial crisis & the 2008 election, it could very well be the first treaty wasn't signed until 2009 (or later) & that is why the movie featured Obama & not Bush.
I'd also bet "How much should we trust them?" was an issue & came up in at least 1 of the debates. Obama's line "We should face the future with confidence. There is a line between caution and cowardice." (Based on his Middle East dealings, I'd bet he said something along those lines)
AU, when Obama got his Nobel Prize, he earned it. The Nattering Nabobs of Negativity (as a long forgotten American called them) would say 2 things against it.
1 The fact that he lucked out doesn't mean it wasn't criminally reckless to trust Equestria (IMO, got some merit. "Trust but verify" as another American said). If they got pictures of the Royal Guard with pikes, I can just imagine some of the things comedians would say about this
2 Bush did most of the work, Obama should share. (Ain't the way it works)
Also, did Princess Celestia get to be Time's Man of the Year? Making her the 1st nonhuman to earn the title. Maybe sharing the cover with Obama. I remember the Adm. mentioned previous students but I'd imagine the Student Exchange Program isn't more than 3-4 years old & maybe only 2 years old
Rebekka is going to have brain damage with her habit. Good shades of red is very hard to make without it being toxic. Other colors have toxic metals too.
I despise Disney for ruining Star Wars, but I can't bring myself to hate Princess Kiara.
Best Disney Princess who deserves to be counted among the "canon" Disney Princesses.
Well, now I know how Silver spent my birthday last year.
Ponies in socks.
Not sure if Silver eating tacos before getting in a very confined space is a good idea.
Mister Salvatore's penchant for getting punny pictures of Silver strikes again!
7971060
7971086
I'd like to second, third, fourth, and fifth the motion of ponies for everyone's laps.
Only 10 more days to go
Plus whatever wrap up stuff is needed...
I've got several hope for the end of this story, first and foremost is that it launches straight into a sequel, although I think that's unlikely. If it has to end here I hope that Aric and Meghan stay together, and maybe even visit Silver in Equestria. Also, Peggy and Leon should definitely be a thing.
7971636
Hear, hear!
7971123
Silver doesn't have a problem with her stick shift.
Sorry, Couldn't help myself. I'll go sit in the corner now.
7971888
I can just see it. After announcing their engagement, Aric and Meghan get asked by acquaintances how they got together.
"Well, we were both f
ing the same pony, and she wanted a threesome."
This part of the fic is kind of vaguely interesting, but I find it a bit odd that its happening now, or that it's never brought up that Gusty is about to be separated--she is a student, right?--from her girlfriend, if she hasn't been already.
7972248
that broke me. Wanted a threesome indeed.
Oh, right... Has Silver Glow met any of those fans who sincerely claim to be non-human in some way?
By the way, this story or a series of sequels to it must continue. In fact...
<I've heard something like that before...)
The writing must last FOREVER!!
Getting shoes nailed to your toenails is kinda horrifying. Almost like going to the dentist.
I'd be grumpy about that too.
see her wince
look at
said
off the tablecloth
Is that form of hoof treatment Cayenne undergoes something you actually know a vet doing? Because that sounds hilarious.
Just a head up Florida only requires a rear license tag
How late were they staying up that night? Unless they went to bed after the moon rose around midnight, they'd have some difficulty making it out through all the ground in the way. (Note: I don't remember if there were any similar issues much earlier in the story, but at least the December 14 entry is fine.)
7971060
Me, too.
7971086
No sensible person would.
7971090
Okay, yeah, that's a bit of a problem.
7971123
Depends on the pony, and what you grab. If you know what I mean.
7971136
Nope, she's not assimilated. But, she has had a little bit of bacon before, so that's something.
I didn't think about the timing all that much, except that it was 'between five and ten years ago.'
Oh yeah; 'why are they here' and 'what do they want' would be two questions I'd be asking a lot, especially since it was the ponies who found Earth and not the other way around. And we'd know damn well that if things went sour, we couldn't take the fight to them, at least not without some more R&D on the spaceflight/portal side of things. So we'd be completely at their mercy, although of course we wouldn't want to admit that to their faces.
Well, just because the guards carry pikes and wear traditional armor doesn't mean that the ponies don't have some modern strike force. If an alien's first view of Earth military tech was the Swiss Guard, he might think that all we had was primitive weapons, when in reality we have much, much more.
Their first landing might not have even been in America, which is another reason that a peace treaty/meeting with the US president could have been delayed.
She probably did, once the treaties got signed. And I bet there would have been some griping about that, too.
Yeah, the student exchange program isn't all that old; I think no more than five years old. It probably started off more limited, too.
7971347
She doesn't eat much of her supplies. Just a little bit.
Good thing she's not a chemist. Or a hatter. Or a doctor.
7971574
Which one is she? I haven't seen the two latest Star Wars movies.
7971636
At Animal Kingdom and then on a train?
Ponies in socks rock.
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They have their own room, so it's okay.
He can't help himself. You know he's going to be doing the same thing with the next pony he's helping.
7971888
Three chapters, it turns out.
No immediate sequel, I'm afraid. Later on, there will probably be additional stories in the SG-verse.
Aric and Meghan would likely stay together until Meghan finally successfully emigrates to Equestria; as for Peggy and Leon . . . maybe.
7972081
She knows all about driving a truck while sitting on someone's lap. And using the stick shift, too.
7972248
Possibly one of the oddest ways that two people have hooked up, that's for sure.
7973062
Gusty's the one who's actually the most prepared to deal with it, in some ways--she's an actress, and to her, no show lasts forever. Which I realize sounds kind of callous, but she's been knowing that this time would come and she's already made her peace with it. And I think that there's a good chance that Gusty will manage to get back to Earth in fairly short order as an actress; she's already managed to get famous in the theatre world, and she wouldn't lack for work wherever she wanted it--she knows some industry insiders, after all. So if she and Nicky do want to have their relationship continue, at least after a brief time apart, that's very much a possibility for them.
7973750
Well, it's true.
7974181
No, she never did.
7981010
Yeah, it kind of is. The things that ponies have to put up with . . . and their dentists use files.
Life isn't fair when you're the only one who doesn't have a lap-pony.
7990758
Yes, as a matter of fact. I looked up treatment for a loose/thrown shoe, and they suggested using a diaper as a bandage, for the cushioning effect, and then taping the whole works on. The socks aren't part of the treatment, but Cayenne wanted to wear them so she wouldn't look silly with diaper taped to her hoof.
7999901
Correction made; thank you!
8008205
I was generally keeping track of when the moon rose and what phase it was in (and what kind of cloud cover there was) but I think that I missed this one. They probably would have been in bed and asleep before moonrise.
8035095
I'm a bit surprised it doesn't come up at all, though. Like Silver doesn't even inquire about Gusty's girlfriend, and Gust has nothing to say about it.
8035193
Yeah, maybe that's something that they should have talked about. Although they could have all been so shell-shocked that they didn't really want to, at first. Maybe that's not what you want to be discussing right in the middle of the move, so to speak; maybe that's for later, when you can get your thoughts in order.
I dunno. It usually took me a couple of days to get over the shock when a friend or relative died, y'know? And while I realize this isn't the same thing, it kinda is.
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True, but... I don't know, it feels very weird. Silver Glow isn't even thinking about it, like.
"I wondered if Gusty had ended things with her girlfriend, she seemed so cheerful [musing on her impending separation from Alec and Megan"
8049025
Hmm, yeah, that's a good point.
Don't worry, Silver. A typical male lion is pretty lazy. He'd only eat you after that lioness you don't see sneaking up on you in the grass on the other side of the vehicle catches you...
8077491
I'd assume at Disney World they also have a way to keep the wild animals from eating the guests (except for the alligators, of course). Nobody wants to end their tour of the Jungle Kingdom as a lion's dinner.
At least Silver Glow can fly away if things get bad.
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8077491
Come to think of it; other than fake rock formations and cleverly hidden moats, not much separates you from them on the safari tour.
8085159
I think it's all about the moats. As long as they're wider than a lion can jump, they'll keep it away.
Interestingly, at Potter Park Zoo (in Lansing), they had a mountain goat enclosure, and the sign says how far those goats can jump, and the moat really doesn't look wide enough from stopping them if they want to get out.
Did you just make the same mistake I kept making in "Prince of Zebras"?
8363248
Yes, I did manage to mess up Zenith's name in the second chapter.
The agents, and Silver and her friends, missed an amazing opportunity for the ponies to join the zebras grazing the field, and weird out the next tour group. It would have been the most amazing photo opportunity!
"Here's equus caballus sapiens in their natural habitat." *click*
"Hey, mister Salvatore, what're you doing over there with the camera?"
*click* "Nothing. Just you have fun there now!" *click*
8544033
They'd probably get kicked out of Disney if they tried that. I suspect you're supposed to stay in the vehicle at all times, and not go galavanting with the wild animals. Although it would have been hilarious.
Mister Salvatore should have gone with her to a petting zoo.
Floopy floppy putty pony puddle.
I'm not really seeing what the problem is with that arrangement.
8035047
I think Kiara is Simba's daughter from the Lion King sequels.
8648230
Seems reasonable. I'm not totally up to speed on that franchise (by which I mean I watched The Lion King once, when it first came out in the theater, and I haven't seen it or any sequels since then.
8008205
Alright, at long last this is fixed.
8649481
It's a situation that Disney would much rather no one think about, since it makes no sense. Yes Kiara is Simba's daughter, until the new-ish animated series where he's got a son instead, while the other main character of the sequel, Kovu, was another cub who was explicitly not Scar's son, and yet he was the only male lion around for a few years, and they never explain where he came from then. (Plus the fact that the only male lions we see are Mufasa and Scar brings up questions on who Nala's father was. Go go Disney promoting incest!)
Try telling that to Fluttershy.
Who would be pushing more for her to be part of the attraction, Silver or the kids?
Also a lot of other little, hidden touches the use to simply make the lions not want to go there. Those rocks they are on? Have a bunch of tiny pipes drilled through them and emit hot/cool air as needed to make the rock area the most comfortable place for the lions to chill.
Especially since they could just open a portal in the Arctic, or Sahara, or some other desolate, empty spot, send in Luna, and have her fuck up the world's tides and scare everyone with a Lunar Drop. Just be nice and hug the ponies and everything will go fine.
Be glad..... holy fuck did they screw up everything, even basic storytelling and filmmaking. The whole thing was pretty much written by reading through all the fan guesses and lists of what fans wanted to see in the next movie, and then going out of your way to either do the exact opposite, or something totlay out of left field no one expected, just for the sake of 'shock value' and being 'unexpected' no matter how little sense it made.
Good thing ponies can run on pure happiness,it's what's keeping Gusty active.
I feel Cayenne, getting up early sucks.
Very helpful Disney crew, getting pony taken care of.
Makes sense, better to deal with just one funny feeling hoof then breaking in four new shoes.
D'awwwww cute worried pone all sad about missing Disney time, and yet, also shows how much of a good pony she is, since she didn't even consider ditching Cayenne, but was gong to stick by her.
Yeah, dealing with a new ferrier has got to be odd, getting some dude to nail a chunk of metal to you.. not something you'd really have to deal with as a human. Closest would probably be a tattoo artist.
Silly pony all high on Disney and not even able to focus on anything but getting back out to the park. Just toss random stuff at other ponies 'here take this.' Be hilarious if she accidentally gave them the suitcases with he clothes instead.
That suitcase is full of the booze she's managed to grab while here and they give her a hard time for bringing on the plane, isn't it?
Helpers will stick around to take care of pony, even if not their pony. Plus, it's Disney, even if the dude isn't on their payroll, the thought of what The Mouse would do to him if he fucked with one of their guests has got to be way more intimidating then even having a pair of FBI agents in the room would be.
Laps full of ponies is a problem how?
Silly curious pone, the luggage as all decorative because people think that's how a safari van should look.
Friend pones no have TOO much fun til all friends can enjoy it.
Ponies count as kids, just ignore the signs saying otherwise.
Mickey Socks..... on.... pony...... EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I don't blame her for not wanting to show off a diaper and duct tape bandage. Even if using the diaper does make sense. Also,the vet said? More fun stuff ponies are making the world deal with, vets having more experience treating them then regular doctors. That has got to be so odd for the vet.
YAY Real animals to see! no more fakes!
So, Aquamarine just randomly eats types of dirt?
Birdy-Pones are not quite THAT birdy to lay eggs. And not stupid enough to leave them on the ground.
Inconsiderate ducks, not whistling for the ponies.
Scare the ponies more, nothing between the hungry animal and them. Granted, between them a lion should be no issue to deal with.
Yup, deal with getting a bit wet, it's all part of the fun.
You are ponies at Disney world, of course everyone is jealous of you.
Smart bat, get the noms before the rest wake up.
Tiger see nummy nums up there. Come pet the big Kitty ponies. And yet, if it was Fluttershy, she'd already be in the pen and the Tiger would really be acting like a big kitty for her.
Heh, ponies want to sit in the pony section! Why isn't there a pony section!?
You have ponies in the audience, let them make pony noises.
More flying humans impressing the flying pony!
See, ponies count as kids, even get told to come join the other kids.
Ponies are very accepting of humans being pony, it's more a state of mind, much like Discworld Dwarves.
Complemented on her flying by actual flying pony, that has to be that performers best day ever.
And now with best costume ever, authentic pegasus magic feather equipped.
Because it is a lot harder to draw heat out of something then it is to add heat to something Silver. Butt Cooler would need a whole lot of extra machinery, plus some sort of heat sink.
All must serve the Silver! See,sign says so!
Pony tower FTW!
Yeah, quite a lot to write, these chapters have been huge, and so so so damn amazing! Best part of the story just, so much fun!
Smart pone learning best way to tell where you are, is look at the license plates.
Of course they'd come with ponies if pony wants, all are to serve the needs of the Pony!
Show off, he just wanted to impress the cute chicks.
New York Cheesecake...
Naughty pony, TWO desserts, how indulgent.
D'awwwww worried pony no want to bother human for things pony can figure out themselves.
Though independent ponies will make due just with each other for snuggle blankets.
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Not that Disney is alone in that, I suppose.
They’d have to duct tape her down to keep her in the safari truck. Of course, she’d be perfectly fine just gallivanting with all the wild animals.
Ooh, that’s a tough one. I don’t think anybody would be mad if she got petted, I’ll say that for sure.
You know, I hadn’t really thought about it, but I bet there’s a lot of animal psychology that goes into designing zoos and whatnot. Sure, big fences and bars and moats and whatnot can be effective, but so too can be making a place that the animal just doesn’t want to go, or an obstacle that it doesn’t want to cross. One of my friends has horses, and they could easily jump over the fence, or just plow it down, but they don’t.
“We call this the tsunami tide.”
Since I’m not so much of a geek when it comes to the franchise, I wonder if I’d notice? I’ve seen episodes 4-6, most of 2, and that’s pretty much it. Bits and pieces here and there when it was on TV or as a YouTube clip in something, but not enough to really have a deep grasp on the nuances of the franchise.
It totally is. That’s something that theatre people can do, and I speak from experience.
As much as Silver Glow disparages her for it, she’s the kind of pony who gets up late but also stays up late. When Silver Glow goes to bed, Cayenne is typically only getting started with her night.
You know that’s what they’d do.
Yeah, that’s got to be so weird. I just got new work boots, and the first day I only wore them for a half-day before switching into my old ones. And I’ll probably switch off a couple of times next week, too, as I break them in. You can’t really do that when your shoes are nailed on.
Ponies consider their friends over everything else, which is a lesson that humans would do well to learn.
Yeah, and especially when you don’t really have a choice. Cayenne would probably rather have Aquamarine do it, since at least she understands hooves and shoeing on a more intimate level. For the ponies, there would certainly be a level of trust there, and they’d certainly rather stick with somepony they know rather than a complete stranger.
Yeah, she’s got her priorities right. Packing is unimportant; Disney is all. And it would be funny if she’d given them the wrong suitcase. Luckily for her, I bet Disney has pony clothes available.
Well, in a case like this, the helpers are pretty much assigned as needed. And the ones who are most familiar with shoeing would be the best choice to stick around. And you’re right, the fear of the Mouse would be more in the hearts of those who are helping Cayenne than the fear of the FBI . . . although, I suspect in general, as we’ve discussed before, most people working at Didney Worl are doing it out of love, and want to make their guests have a good time.
It’s really not a problem at all, is it?
It’s a reasonable question on her part, though.
They all know that there’s lots of fun stuff to do, so do the fun stuff that Cayenne might not enjoy as much or might not feel bad that she missed out on when she isn’t there.
Exactly!
Yeah, it would totally be weird for vets to be getting these calls where the patient can describe the injury to them; that’s not something that they’re used to at all. And a lot of them probably don’t have the proper bedside manner for it. And I did look up ways to temporarily treat a thrown shoe, and diaper and duct tape was a popular one.
Real animals are the best. Pony sniffers are probably going into overtime.
No, not really. She’s just pulling their tails. Although given that she’s a dirt pony, she’s probably had all types of farm dirt in her mouth, whether she wanted to or not. Related; on Friday I got a burn on my tongue from a hot metal shaving.
I really want to write a fic where they do, just because the idea of an actual pegasus nest with eggs in it is adorably funny. And of course they wouldn’t leave them on the ground. That’s how eggs get eaten or stolen.
I know, right?
I wonder if in a world where real monsters do ravish the countryside, ponies would be more aware of the potential danger a predator is than the humans on the ride?
And for most ponies, no issue at all, since they don’t normally wear clothes.
Yes.
He’s probably the fattest bat of all of them.
I just watched a video yesterday of a tiger stalking and pouncing someone on the other side of a glass wall . . . they probably can’t help themselves. And you’re right, Fluttershy could go in there and it wouldn’t take her long at all to be giving the big stripey kitty belly rubs.
There should be a pony section. Disney wasn’t thinking about that when they did the Lion King seating.
I know, right? I bet they can whinny better than almost anybody (Olena Uutai might give them a run for their money, though).
It’s one thing when it’s your natural talent, you’ve got to be pretty impressive to have her remark on it. But when it isn’t, when you’re faking it with wires and pure raw skill, that’s something to take notice of.
#ponyperks
They are! Human is honorary equine, and that’s just a fact.
I know, right? You can’t really get higher praise than that.
Thereby making it the best costume in Disney World at the very least. Perhaps all the world.
They do exist in fancier cars. It’s surprisingly less complicated than you think--a lot of times, it’s just a fan circulating air through tiny holes in the seat.
The sign doesn’t lie.
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Thanks! There’s so much to Disney World, I probably could have done even longer chapters and covered more stuff.
It’s worked for me before, in places where the state boundaries aren’t clearly marked.
Pony helpers are willing to sit and watch ponies eat dinner if that’s required of them.
I have seen a waiter on an Amtrak train do that. It was pretty cool to watch.
I haven’t had a proper cheesecake in a long time.
She’s turning into a proper American.
Ponies don’t realize that the conductor’s job is to put the bed down for them, so they do it themselves.
Of course they will. And they’re good at it, too.
Awwwwwwww.
Telekinetically siphoning a stream of coffee to your mouth so you don't have to get up. Being a unicorn rocks.
Oh, dinosaur bones. That makes sense for Animal Kingdom. I was confused, thinking about a scrap yard for retired aircraft, and that confusion was compounded by the 10 and under sign.
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"Here, kids, go play around a bunch of retired airplanes."
. . . that would actually be a lot of fun, now that I think about it.
Yeah, it's basically a fossil- and dinosaur-themed playground outside Animal Kingdom, IIRC. I've never been to Disney, but I watched a bunch of videos on YouTube and also Closet Brony helped out.