Tex walked back into the library and sat by the table on which the Necronomicon lay.
"So who was it?" Church asked, taking a seat at the table with her.
"Just Grif." Tex murmured.
"Did you finally kill him yet?"
"Not yet. I think I'm going to wait that one out a bit, just in case this whole nice thing doesn't work out."
"It's always good to have a back up plan." The Necronomicon agreed.
"So what did he come here to say?"
"He apologized, surprisingly enough. Too bad he went and fucked it up, as usual." Tex sighed.
Church narrowed his eyes at her, detecting a tone of sadness in her voice.
"You heard it too?" The Necronomicon asked quietly.
"Yeah."
"Heard what?" Tex said snappishly as Twilight entered the room with Spike from the kitchen.
"Just the way you said that last sentence, that's all." Church muttered.
"What are you guys talking about?" Spike asked as he tossed a large sapphire into his mouth.
"Grif said something to Tex and it's making her act funny."
"Really?" Spike asked curiously, gulping down the crunched up gem. "What did he say?"
"Nothing."
"Uh-huh. It would take a hell of a lot of nothing for you to be affected by words." Church said seriously.
"I guess." Tex sighed again. "It's just something he brought up."
"Come on, you know he would say anything to piss you off."
"Maybe." Tex nodded with a small smirk, but it quickly disappeared when she resumed her train of thought. "But I was built on failure, and there's no way I can avoid that."
"And? You've known this for a long time."
"And now I feel that if I do make some friends, I'll just end up making them angry or something in the end, and it would all be for nothing. It just makes me feel... I don't know..."
"Helpless?" Twilight finished.
"Yeah, a little bit." Tex nodded.
"If you stop trying now, you'll just admit to yourself that you can't change. And I don't know you that well, but I know you aren't a fan of admitting defeat."
"Damn right." Tex grinned sadly. "I guess you're right. Might as well try, even if I am most likely going to fail. Hell, a few horses in town already seem to be sort of liking me, and that's already a step up from what I expected."
"Same here." Church commented. Tex quickly hit him on the back of the head, causing him to grunt in pain. "God dammit!"
"So what are you going to do now?" Twilight asked. "Keep trying to make the ponies you met your friends, or try and expand your circle of possible friends?"
"To be honest, I think I'm going to try and get a job." Tex shrugged, looking out the window.
"That's a good idea. Not only will it provide you with your own income, but maybe you could get some friends at that work, and maybe even meet some of the customers."
"Do you really think you can get a job here?" Church asked icily after he finished rubbing his head. "You're not really someone I'd see a cook hire. Well, maybe a butcher, but from what I've seen they don't eat a whole lot of meat here."
"If Grif and Tucker can get jobs, so can I." Tex growled.
"Grif has a job?" Church asked confusedly. "You're kidding, right?"
"No. Well he said it isn't a job, but that yellow chick gives him money for helping out. But if those two rejects can get one-"
"You kind of forgot to mention Simmons."
"That guy at least has a head on his shoulders, so I'm not all that shocked by that." Tex grunted, and thought for a few moments. "Though making dresses didn't really seem like the sort of thing he'd do. Seems more like the thing that pink fairy-"
"I make more than dresses." Simmons retorted as he opened the door to the library.
"Oh, hello Simmons, what are you doing here?" Twilight asked.
"Rarity wanted me to pick up a book for her on old fashions, do you have any books like that?"
"Yes, just give me a few moments to find it." Twilight said, rushing to the bookshelf.
"So you're trying to get a job?" Simmons asked, raising his brow at Tex. "I thought you'd be too busy killing Grif to do that sort of thing."
"Yeah, we decided to go our separate ways for now."
"Must have taken a lot of willpower to do that." Simmons noted dryly.
"You have no idea."
"Here it is, Equestrian Fashion Circa Pre Celestial Reign." Twilight said, giving Simmons the book with her magic. "Any idea what she's using it for?"
"Thanks." Simmons said as he grabbed the book with his own magic. "But yeah, she had a couple orders come in for some renaissance thing or something along those lines. She was given notice a few months in advance, so she's using this time to study up on it and make sure she has it under her belt."
"I still find it a bit weird seeing you pass things to each other like that." Tex muttered uneasily. "I can't really wrap my head around the whole supernatural thing."
"Yeah, so was I." Simmons nodded, tossing the book up into the air, releasing his magic grip on it, just to catch it as it began falling again. "Even now I still find it odd how I can do it, but hey, it's raised my productivity levels through the roof! Now I can sort several-"
"Boring stuff, got it." Tex smirked.
"Yeah, maybe to you." Simmons snorted, walking towards the door. "Thanks again, Twilight, this helps a lot."
"No problem. Tell her I'd love to see the dresses when they're done and if there are any other books she needs, they'll most likely be here."
"Will do." Simmons said, nodding to Spike, who nodded in return. "See you later Church. Tex."
Once Simmons had closed the door, Tex turned to Church and had a strange look about her.
"What is it this time?" Church asked, knowing something was on her mind.
"Nothing, just felt that his goodbye wasn't very sincere."
"Tell me about it, he didn't even say goodbye to me!" The Necronomicon pouted.
"Good news Tex, Simmons likes you more than the Book of Death." Church chuckled, patting her on her back. "You're working your way up already!"
"Shut up." Tex and the Necronomicon said in unison.
"Well Tex, if you really do want a job in Ponyville, perhaps I can help." Twilight coughed.
"How?"
"I can help you look around Ponyville for a job. I'm sure there are lots of places willing to hire you."
"See that optimism?" Tex asked, waving her hoof at Twilight as she looked at Church. She slowly turned to Twilight and gave her a rough smile. "I'd like that."
"Great. Do you want to start now, or-"
"I think I can wait day. Besides, I need a little rest." Tex said as she trotted up the stairs. "Not mangling Grif is tiring work."
"Well stay on your side of the damn bed." Church called out as Tex reached the top of the stairs. "I'm tired of you taking up half the damn blankets."
"Cry me a river."
The door above the steps slammed shut, silencing the group.
"Her attitude certainly fluctuates." The Necronomicon muttered after a few minutes. "Hey, I think I may have a spell to make her more docile."
"Really?" Church asked with mild curiosity.
"Yup. Though I'm not sure how much she'd like being a mindless husk."
"Probably not a lot."
"We won't know if we don't try!"
"That's true." Church agreed with a smirk.
Twilight shot Church and the Necronomicon a glare, telling them off.
"As tempting as that is, I think we should let her try to not be a bitch on her own." Church sighed.
"Good." Twilight said with a smile. "Come on Spike, let's go see if we can't help Rarity with anything."
"Okay!" Spike smiled, jumping onto Twilight's back.
"We'll be back in an hour or so." Twilight said as she left the library.
The Necronomicon looked over to Church and coughed. Church looked over to him and nodded.
"So now that she's gone..."
"Give it a month." Church said after he thought for a moment. "Two max, then we'll go from there."
"Deal."
Mindless husk huh that might work and also First First First I'm First
"Give it a month"
i positively love the necronomicon
Yay New Chapter!
Something-th-nd-rd. Don't care at this point.
I'm loving the Necromincon! Such a funny character. :rainbow laugh:
"No one sides with ol' Necky."
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LAZYPONY NOOOO DON'T SAY FIRSST!!!
I bet she heard that last part.
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Necromincon is best ponydl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Fluttershy_umad.png
Really liking where this is going. Need more! NAOW!!!!! hahaha
funny that the book of all evil is hilarious and not going crazy
Tex didn't beat up Grif what is going on here.
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Change it, you fool! Change it!
I like the death book.
my only rection to this chapter:
so which one kills her for attacking fluttershy? dash? no not enough, twilights already won a fight. so it's gonna be pinkey! HA BADASSERY WON'T PROTECT YOU FROM PHYSICS GOING BATSHIT INSANE!
919954 Spike will go serious dragon mode. It will be glorious
Necronomicon is best book
I side with ol'necky on everything
Sincerely the Doctor
"We won't know if we don't try!"
Oh, Necky.
AWESOME I love your work good job. GO TEX :)
Well you think maybe if she was a mindless (probably not literally) husk her instincts would take over and she'd become even more brutally violent and kill them all?
once again ol' necky doing his job just because people/ponies/...books? are insane and preform evil deeds does not make me/us/them evil
So is it the next AIs turn to be set free?
I can't wait to see what Omega does.
I love siding with Ol' Necky
919876 you mean best book-DAMN i just remember the hunger games
viginti octavo
i really wanna see how delta and theta will do but that's a while off. DELTA IS BEST AI
I can't wait for gamma to come into pony ville hes going to have some explaining to do to big mac
NEED MOAR!!!
I mean if its ok...
The Necronomicon looked over to Church and coughed. Church looked over to him and nodded.
"So now that she's gone..." Good God that was great! The seriousness at the end sold it for me. This shit is gold.
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Pray that darkwing doesn't see that
Lol, tex and church in one bed.
Book and Church are planning something. I can FEEEEEEEL IT.
919829 necy went from the bottom to the top
919954 amazing comment but i think not
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Ok, Church and Necky, you're both pretty fucked up...
They're planning something, idk what though...
Ok picture this: Tex's job, drum roll please... A bouncer for the club that Vinyl plays at!
She can be like "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"
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1280618 "Protect me cone!"
919954 and dont forget the cupcakes incedent.
For some reason, I want to see Tex get beat so bad she finally learns some respect. I don't know, how about a Sonic Rainboom Tackle? The velocity of a pony moving fast enough to break the sound barrier, not even factoring in all of the unbelievable amounts of energy present at the precise moment of initiating a Rainboom, would likely be enough to hospitalize Tex, even though this version can't die.
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Yes, I just used math and physics to compute the force Dash could exert if she tackled somepony with a Sonic Rainboom. It's official, I'm both a hopeless physics nerd and an uberbrony. And I love it.
I can only see Discord besting Tex. When does he join the equation? (And why did that sound like a pun to me?)
You don't want to know what I'd want to happen to her. I don't think even I want to know.