My Little Pony: The Brothers of Discord

by mr.myxsiple

The Hay Burger Hangout

CHAPTER 49
THE HAY BURGER HANGOUT

Rainbow was groaning and scratching her head as she poured a carton of milk into a bowl of Wonderflakes brand cereal. After putting the carton back in her fridge, she came across her tortoise Tank staring at her from atop a cloud counter, an empty plate before him. Sighing, Rainbow headed back to her fridge and tossed a few lettuce leaves and a tomato slice on his plate. Returning, she patted him on the head before sitting down at the table. Wobbling a little, she lifted her spoon and fell face-first into her cereal bowl.

"*Gasp!*" Rainbow quickly yanked her head out of the bowl gasping for air. She shook her head sending drops of milk, and bits of cereal and cloud-shaped marshmallows flying off. She grabbed a nearby towel and dried her face; she put it on her table, fluffed it like a pillow and laid her head across it.

"Ugh...Last time I stay up all night reading Daring Do..." she muttered thinking about her copy of Daring Do and the Seven Swords lying on her bed. "How the hay does Twi' do this...Ah what the heck, a few minutes won't hurt...zzzzzzz..."

*knock*knock*knock*

Rainbow growled and rolled her eyes at the sudden intrusion. As the knocking continued, she forced herself off her chair and made her way to the door. "I heard ya the first time; be there in a sec!"

It took a bit longer than a sec, but the sleepy Rainbow made it to her front door and opened. Grimacing a the sudden brightness outside, she found a familiar grey pegasus smiling at her. "Hi Rainbow Dash."

"Hey Derpy. You got mail for me?" she asked with a yawn.

"Uh huh. Here you go." Derpy replied giving her a few envelopes. "Oh, you got a few more. Just gimme a sec."

As Derpy rummaged through her mail bag, Rainbow went over the envelopes. Junk mail, junk mail, bill, junk mail. Ugh...Her attention turned once again to the mail pony.

Are you familiar with the name...Derpy Hooves

They got totally drunk and went to her house.

She crawled on top of him and ran her hooves across his wings.

I bet he was moaning in absolute ecstasy.

I bet you could hear him egging her on, demanding more and more.

"Here you go." Derpy said pulling out of more bills. Rainbow frowned and took them from her deciding to deal with those later. Her job done, Derpy prepared to take off towards the next house on her route.

The words came out before Rainbow could stop them. "H-Hey Derpy," She stopped mid jump and turned around. She saw Dash looking uncertain about something which actually looked pretty strange.

"Yeah Rainbow Dash?" she asked with a goofy smile. Rainbow couldn't help but noticed how innocent she looked. She never really knew anything about Derpy except that she was a single mom who means well, delivers mail and loves muffins. Surely there was no way what she heard was true.

Then again, she does have a kid...And I've never really seen who the dad is...

She shook her head of such thoughts leading Derpy to tilt her head in confusion. "Look Derpy...Is this whole thing about you and Scar getting together true?"

"Huh?" The question took her by surprise. "H-How did you know about-"

Rainbow's eyes widened and then narrowed. Realizing what she just said, Derpy covered her mouth before she could say anything else. Rainbow however heard all she needed to hear. "So you two...you two really..."

Derpy stepped back and looked away uncomfortably. "Um...well..." She didn't know what to say; she could lie, but that sounded...wrong. Then again, telling the truth was almost as bad and would just screw up Scar's chances of earning Rainbow's forgiveness.

Her discomfort, as well as her reluctance to speak, unfortunately was all the answer Rainbow needed. She sighed and waved her free hoof dismissively. "Y'know what? Forget it; if you and Scar wanna hook up, then that's your business. Thanks for the mail again Derpy; see ya around I guess."

As she turned away clutching her mail, Derpy suddenly called out to her. "Wait Rainbow!" To her relief, she didn't move. "Scar told me...he knows he did something really bad to you." She rubbed her foreleg nervously. "And uh...he's really really sorry about it..."

Rainbow sighed. "I know he is. Just...give me some time OK?" Derpy bit her bottom lip. "Look, I really gotta get ready for work. I'll see ya around Derpy."

With that, she went back in her house and closed her door on the mail pony. Disappointed with herself Derpy's mouth scrunched up as if she'd tasted something bitter. Maybe she should've explained things better, say how Scar was practically bawling his eyes out as he poured out his broken heart to her. Maybe Rainbow would've been more likely to forgive him. Maybe she could've made him happy again.

Accepting that she couldn't do anything else at the moment, she spread her wings and left; she had a mail route to finish.

---

Well, here I am again. That same day, Scar once again found himself perched on the Ponyville's spire-topped town hall looking for his rainbow-maned idol. With no sign of her, he took off and soared over Ponyville wondering whether she was at work or relaxing like last time.

Scar was actually hoping more for he former. Maybe if she were at work, she'd be less likely to dismiss him. Or maybe she'd take it as him bothering her duties and dismiss him just as quickly. Then again, finding her while she was relaxing would also count as taking up time that would preferably be spent kicking back and relaxing. It seemed like no matter what she was doing, he was being a burden to her.

Still, he refused to throw in the towel. To his luck, he spotted a hint of a rainbow trail which could only come from his idol disappearing into the distance. Grinning, he went after the trail which led to a clump of clouds high in the sky. He poked his head through the cloud and found to his surprise several other pegasi flying around with clouds in tow.

"C'mon guys! These clouds won't move themselves y'know!" Scar found Rainbow calling out to the other pegasi. As they flew off, she went behind a nearby cloud and pushed in the same direction the others were heading. Seizing this chance, Scar quickly flew up to her heart hammering.

"Uh...Hey there Rainbow." he greeted her grinning sheepishly. She stopped pushing the cloud and turned to him with an eyebrow raised. "You...you want some help with that?"

Rainbow pouted which made his smile vanish. "No thanks. I can handle this thing on my own."

"Oh OK..." Scar looked around sweating a little. "Are there any other clouds I can help bring?"

"Not really. We got all we need." She tapped her hoof impatiently against the cloud.

"Well, you need any help with anything?"

"Nah; we got it covered."

"How about-"

"No thanks."

"But I didn't even-"

"I got it handled

"Maybe I could-"

"Rainbow!"

That male voice got their attention; some distance away, a dark-colored pegasus stallion looking at Rainbow crossly. "What's the hold up? We got clouds to deliver." he complained.

"Yeah; I'm on it Thunderlane!" As he sped off, Rainbow turned to Scar with a slight scowl on her face. He gulped and slowly flew backwards before it grew into an even bigger one.

"OK then...Sorry about bothering you Rainbow..." He reached the cloud and kept going. "I'll uh...see you around I guess...B-Bye..."

With an annoyed sigh, Rainbow got back behind her cloud and started pushing it far away from him. As she disappeared into the distance, Scar sighed and descended. He came across a low-lying cloud and perched himself on top of it; there he let out another sigh of defeat and buried his face in the softness of his perch.

"Ugh..." This was not going the way he planned it. Surely by now, Rainbow would've been given enough time to mull things over and become more open with him. He wasn't expecting her to still be that mad; if anything, she looked even more upset than before. This didn't make any sense.

He honestly had no idea what to do next. He was tempted to go after her and help her out with work, but he knew that he'd just be an annoyance. Maybe if he showed with some kind of peace offering, she'd be more open with him. Then again, this brought up the question of what to give. Flowers and chocolates initially came to mind, but those felt too romantic. She liked flying, so maybe something along those lines would work...

Scar's thoughts were interrupted when something soft landed on top of his head. He grabbed it with his hoof and raised his head to inspect it; in his hoof was a small white envelope that looked like mail. Flipping it over, he saw that it had a tree pictured on its stamp and read: "Sea Swirl. 301 Rose St., Ponyville".

"Where'd this come from?" he wondered scratching his head with his free hoof. A flutter of movement at the corner of his eye caught his attention; there fluttering in the wind was another envelope. He flew towards it and caught it as well. As he read the address on it, he spotted yet another one fluttering away in the distance.

Did somepony drop these? he though catching the third envelope. He looked around for any remaining envelopes and spotted something bigger flying some distance above him. It looked like a pony carrying a large brown bag around them.

"Hey!" Scar flew towards the pony taking care not to drop the mail. "Uh, excuse me. I think you dropped something."

Halfway there, the pony turned around showing a grey face with a yellow, lopsided eye. Scar almost stopped in his tracks as he got a glimpse of her smiling face. "Derpy?"

"Oh. Hi Scar." she greeted in a friendly manner. She noticed the envelopes in his hoof. "Is that your mail?"

"What, this?" he asked holding them up. "No; I found these floating around. I saw you and thought they were yours."

"They can't be mine; I just finished my mail route." Derpy replied opening her mail bag. "I remembered that I delivered all my-huh?"

Derpy held her mailbag up giving Scar a view of her good eye peeking through a hole at the bottom. "Uh oh!" Derpy cried out poking her hoof through it before frantically searching through the empty bag."M-My mail! H-How did-What-where did they-"

She then spotted the letters in Scar's hoof. "My letters! Y-you found them!" She snatched them out of his hoof and hugged them close to her chest like a mother would their lost child. "Oh my gosh; I was just about to head back to the post office. My boss would've been really mad if I really lost these. Thanks Scar."

Her grateful, caring smile brought one to his face almost making him forget that Rainbow had once again blown off his apology. "C'mon Derpy; anypony would've done the same." he said a little embarrassed. "So uh...Been a while huh? How've you been Derpy?"

"Oh I'm OK." she answered with a shrug. "Job's doing well I guess. Carrot's doing OK too. Dinky's having some trouble with her magic though; she's really upset about it."

"Oh...That sucks." Scar couldn't help but feel bad for the poor unicorn filly.

Derpy sighed also feeling bad for her daughter. "So how're you doing Scar?" she asked perking up a little.

"Oh uh..." He fidgeted a little. "Actually I came here to see if Rainbow wanted any help with work." His body sagged as he remembered her rejection. "All I did was get her in trouble."

"Aww..." Derpy patted his shoulder comfortingly. "It's OK Scar; I still think she'll come around soon." Scar sighed looked up, a small smile on him.

"Thanks Derpy..." She gave him a reassuring smile. Scar smiled back, but internally, he couldn't help but feel a bit awkward being around her. They did get totally wasted, and for Celestia's sake, he almost slept with her!

But seeing her now, she didn't appear to be too bothered by it. He was so close to doing something completely reckless and irresponsible to her, and yet she greeted him with a smile and even comforted him when he was troubled. Despite what happened, he was still her friend, and quite frankly, he could really use one at the moment.

"Hey, you got free time?" he asked.

"Actually, yeah. After my morning route, all I gotta do is head back to the post office, and I'm free for the rest of the day." she answered.

"Cool. Tell you what," He pointed at the letters. "Why don't I deliver those while you head back to your office. Then we can meet up and hang out."

"That sound great!" Derpy cried out. She opened her mouth again, but the only thing Scar heard was a loud grumbling coming from her stomach. Derpy covered her mouth as her cheeks reddened; Scar put a hoof over his mouth and stifled a laugh.

"Good idea Derpy. Wanna grab lunch?" he asked sniggering. Derpy removed her hooves from her still blushing face and nodded. "Alright, I'll take those." He took the envelopes from her. "While you head back to your boss. I'll wait for you at uh..." He read the address on one of the envelopes. "301 Rose Street. See you there."

"See you later Scar." she said waving at him as he disappeared into the distance. Beaming, Derpy flew off feeling like her day had just suddenly gotten better.

---

Scar had never heard of the Hay Burger, but when Derpy suggested it, he thought he'd give the burger joint a shot. The place looked decent enough, and judging by the joyful chewing and sipping customers inside, the food was just as good. Luckily, they were able to get in line before the lunch rush could set in.

As the stallion in front of them left with his order, Derpy and Scar approached the counter where the cashier greeted them. "Hi. Welcome to the Hay Burger, home of the Hay Burger. Can I get your order?"

"Yeah." Scar scanned the menu. "We'll have uh...two hay burgers, some large hay fries, a blue berry milkshake for me and...what was it again Derpy?"

"A grape soda"

The cashier took it all down and left for a moment. He returned not too long after carrying a tray with two juicy hay burgers, a plate of horseshoe-shaped hay fries with some ketchup on the side and two cups with straws. "That'll be 35 bits please."

There was a small clunk as both of them placed their money pouches on the counter at the same time. Bewildered, they turned to each other. "C'mon, I got this Derpy." Scar told her.

"No lemme do this. You paid for everything last time we hung out." she refused.

"I know, but last time, you had a bit of trouble paying..."

"Hey! I can pay for myself."

"Fine; let's just split it."

"It's 35 bit; you can't split that."

"Fine. Uh...That salad's 15 bits. Wanna make it an even 50?"

"Sure."

"Good. Toss is one salad please."

The cashier placed their salad on the tray and brought up their bill to 50 bits. Scar and Derpy paid 25 bits each and left with their food. Picking a tray in the middle of the restaurant, they took their seats. Scar held up his hay burger and gave it a sniff, flooding his nostrils with the aroma of freshly baked bread, crisp lettuce and juicy hay, making him realize just how hungry he was.

He took a bite and let out a groan of satisfaction. "Mmmm...This's good Derpy." he said after swallowing.

"You should try stuffing it with fries." Derpy replied, the top bun of her burger off. She sprinkled some salt and a few of her fries on the patty before putting it back together and taking a bite. A mouth full of burger, she grinned at him and wiped off a bit of hay stuck to her face. Scar merely let out a small chuckle and took a sip of his drink.

"Too bad they don't sell muffins though." Scar remarked, and they shared a laugh.

"Y'know, Dinky and I come here some times." Derpy continued. "Sometimes, I surprise her and pick her up from school, and then we'd go here and eat out."

"Well that's nice." Scar commented. "You're actually a pretty cool mom."

Derpy blushed at the compliment and sipped some of her soda. "C'mon...Carrot helps sometimes, and I got a friend who babysits her sometimes...I can't do it all alone."

Scar bit his lip in thought. She shouldn't be raising a filly all alone; Dinky was a unicorn, and she needed to learn magic, but her mom was incapable of teaching that herself. No wonder she's still having trouble with her magic. Shouldn't her dad be the one doing this stuff?

He wanted to press further, but he wasn't sure if it was a sore topic for her or not. "Well I think you did good. I mean, look at me; I never really had a mom growing up."

Derpy froze in the middle of biting into her hay burger. "R-Really? You...You grew up without a mom?" He shook his head. "I'm sorry."

"Huh? No; it's OK really." Scar told her before she could get too upset. "When I was really young, like way before I got my Cutie Mark, I did have both my parents. Then uh...this incident happened and well...they both died."

Scar found himself staring at his cup as he finished. Derpy, mouth agape, slowly lowered her burger. "Oh my gosh...That's horrible..."

He sighed and shook his head. "I'm OK Derpy." His words failed to remove her frown. "I am; really! After all that, I ended up with my dad and my five brothers. They're the one I grew up with."

"Your dad raised six kids all on his own?" Derpy said in awe. "I...wow..."

Scar laughed and shrugged. "Yeah; heck, sometimes, I wonder how he does it."

"It's gotta be love right?"

"That's right. He does love all of us like we were his own sons. Even..." He remembered his misguided brothers. "Even when we're being stupid or impossible, he doesn't give up..."

After a few moments, he felt a hoof hold his arm and gave it a squeeze. Scar look up just to see a grey hoof pull back, it's owner giving him a smile and a nod. With a start, he realized that she was the only pony outside of his family he told about his family. Smiling back at her, he took another bite out of his hay burger.

"Let's change topic; so you're a mail pony right? How'd that happen?"

---

Halfway through their meal, Scar found himself absent-mindedly staring through the window at the clear blue sky taking occasional sips of his shake. Derpy noticed him and swallowed her hay fries. "You OK Scar?" she asked.

"Huh? Y-yeah. I'm having fun really." he replied still trying to put earlier's incident out of mind.

Derpy however was still unconvinced. "Scar..." she pressed. "Are you still feeling bad about Rainbow?"

"W-Well...A bit yeah..." he admitted with a sigh. "I don't even know why she look even more mad today."

As he took a drink, Derpy fidgeted nervously. "I-I think I know why. We kinda talked earlier, and uh...she knows Scar. A-About us getting drunk and spending the night together..."

At the, Scar's eyes popped open and nearly grew as wide as the burger he was eating. Seeing his cheeks well up and fill with his drink, Derpy ducked under their table just as Scar spewed milkshake in front of him. "SHE WHAT?!"

Every eye in the restaurant was suddenly on his. Mumbling out an apology, he wiped his dripping mouth with the back of his hoof while one of the employees approached the mess with a mop. "R-Really?" Scar asked panicked and filled with dread.

Derpy poked her head out from under the table and nodded. "B-But-but-nothing happened right? You did tell her we didn't have sex right?"

She sat back on her seat sweating, her good eye darting around the restaurant. "Um...Well...I-I tried to say something, but she just said it's none of her business what we do together."

Scar felt his spirits plummet which was a surprise since he thought they couldn't get any lower. Letting out a defeated groan, Scar leaned back a bit before falling face first against the table. "Oh...Oh crap...How did...How did she know?...Ugh..."

"I-I'm sorry Scar." Derpy apologized resting her forelegs on her table and bowing her head. "I wish I could..." But she didn't know what else to say. "I just made things worse didn't I?...Even after I made that promise..."

"You mean that Pinkie Promise..."

Both pegasi looked up at the voice only seeing their own surprise on their other's face. "Was that you?" they asked at the same time. "No. Then where did that-"

Their table suddenly rumbled and shook. Scar and Derpy hurriedly took their hooves off it just suddenly flash of pink burst from under the table filled their vision.

"NOPONY BREAKS A PINKIE PROMISE!"

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Scar seat leaned back, and he swung his legs about to regain balance. With a loud thud, he fell back completely, silencing his cries of panic. Groaning and slightly disoriented, he raised his head and saw a pink shape come into focus.

"P...Pinkie?"

"Uh huh. The one and only! Didja miss me guys?" she said winking you.

"Wha-ha-b-but-what-who-" Scar sputtered as he slowly picked himself.

Across from him, Derpy was much quicker to get over her shock. "P-Pinkie...what're you doing here?"

"How did you get under there!?" Scar finally screamed bolting upright and slamming his hooves against the table, his face and mane wild.

"Oh." Pinkie sat down on a chair that appeared to have popped out of nowhere. "Derpy here's broken a Pinkie Promise." She paused to give the mare a glare before turning back to Scar with a smile. "So I came to make sure you guys're still together. "Oooh, can I have some fries please?"

Scar blinked unsatisfied with her response. "Uh sure...go ahead..." Their pink guest cheered and stuffed several hooffulls of fries into her mouth.

"Wait Pinkie, how did you know about me breaking my Pinkie Promise?" Derpy asked.

She swallowed and wiped her mouth. "Oh, there's a Pinkie Sense for that." she answered nonchalantly helping herself to some more fries.

"O...K..." Scar and Derpy shared a confused look.

"Besides, you're all gloomy Scar." Pinkie told him surprising him by grabbing the sides of his head and rotating it downwards a full 180 degrees. "And when you're gloomy, you totally need somepony to turn that frown upside down." She twisted his head back to its original position. Scar yelped and yanked his head back and started checking his neck expecting to find things like broken bones and torn muscles.

"Scar's upset 'cause Rainbow's still mad at him." Derpy explained. "I Pinkie Promised him that things were gonna get better, but it looks like things just got worse." She looked away rubbing her foreleg with the other. "I'm sorry I broke it,but I'm trying to help; I really am! Please don't be mad at me."

She drew back a little as piercing blue eyes stared into her soul, their owner's tongue sticking out of her mouth. "Well...OK!" She cried out suddenly sporting a grin. "If everything turns out OK, then it's OK with me!"

"So...you're not mad anymore?"

"Nope; being mad feels super icky." Pinkie shuddered at the word. "Being happy's a whole lot better."

"Y-Yeah. I agree." Scar said surprised that his neck wasn't broken in any way. "Anyway, how did you get here?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

"No. Not really."

"Well, I was in the kitchen as usual baking brownies and cakes and cupcakes and cookies and pastries and pies and crumbles. I was waiting for a batch of chocolate chip cookies when my ears got all hot and my hair got all twisty, and then I realized SOMEPONY BROKE A PINKIE PROMISE!, so I left and found Derpy over here."

Scar's face scrunched up in confusion. "Th-that still doesn't explain it!"

"Wait Pinkie. Didn't you say you left your oven on?" Derpy asked.

"Uh huh, but it's OK. When I left, there was still two minutes left." Pinkie replied.

"You've been talking for more than that." Scar pointed out.

"I have?..." Pinkie suddenly let out a gasp so big she inflated slightly. "Oh my gosh! Sorry guys; gotta go!"

Scar blinked, and by the time he opened his eyes, there wasn't any sign of Pinkie but a trail of dust that led out the restaurant doors and trailed into the distance. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and still found the dust trails there slowly fading away. "Um...Ah..."

"Here, we just say that's just Pinkie being Pinkie." Derpy told him.

"I'm never gonna get used to that." Scar sighed and shook his head. "Anyway, I just wanna say that...I'm not mad at you either Derpy."

Derpy's ears perked up, but they quickly flattened. "But-but Scar I..."

Scar held up his hoof and stopped her. "I know you made that promise, and I know breaking one's a horrible thing to do, but seriously Derpy...Just 'cause things between me and Rainbow are still going bad doesn't mean I don't wanna be your friend anymore."

Hearing that both surprised and touched Derpy. She looked at Scar seeing a gentle smile on his lips and found herself unable to look any more. "S-Scar I..."

"Whatever you're thinking, it's wrong." he told her. "Derpy, you haven't done anything wrong." Seeing her fidget, he sighed. "I know it must've been weird talking to her about all this, but her finding out wasn't your fault."

"Y-yeah...But I..."

"Derpy, if anything, you're making things a lot easier." Scar said surprising her. "D'you know how depressed I was when we first met? Or when I bumped into you a while ago? Those were like, one of the worst times of my life and you...you pulled me back up. If I hadn't met you at the bar, I would've probably passed out drunk right there feeling like crap. If I hadn't seen your mail, I'd probably still be sulking all alone by now. And you probably would've pissed off your boss."

"S...Scar..." she said reddening slightly and turning away from him. "I...I still feel like I'm making things worse..."

Scar reached over and patted her arm, giving it a gentle squeeze like she did. "Derpy, just being your friend is making things better."

At that Derpy finally looked back at him and smiled. All this time, she thought he was miserable for what happened to him and partly for what she did you him, but now, he was happy, and it was because of her. That was all that mattered wasn't it? If her friend was happy, then why shouldn't she be was well? For him, she needed to be strong.

"Thanks Scar." she said prompting him to pull his hoof back. "Y'know...maybe next time we hang out, it should not be after Rainbow turns you down."

"Yeah; you're probably right. "Scar replied scratching his head. "I am gonna keep trying though."

"And I still promise things'll get better. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

Scar chuckled as she performed the actions of the promise, and together, they whispered the word "Forever" ominously and shared a laugh. Remembering that they still had a meal to finish, they picked up their burgers and continued eating chatting happily with one another as if earlier, they hadn't been worried, depressed or stressed about anything at all.

Truly, friendship is magic.

Comments

[Old Diggy]

I read the title and now I keep thinking of the Mane 6 as The Sisters of Harmony.

[SageBrony07]

That was so Nice of Derpy. Now Scar needs to find out that Psych did the telling. Which reminds me. We have to survey Twilight Damage. Psych said something about Solstice. If they ship falls, then we only have Ashshy to root for. Great chapter by the way.

[Moonshine Wing]

"Welcome to the hayburger, home of the hayburger, can I take your order?"

FRIKKIN GOODBURGER!!!!!