Short Hand: The Price

Weeks after the dramatic battle with the Deer... And Ponyville was back to normal... Shepherd was walking around, taking a day off. He headed up to Filthy Rich's store to do some shopping... When he saw them. His eyes widened as the Cutie Mark Crusaders happily bouncing out of the store.

Shepherd: "Huh. Hey girls!"

Applebloom: "Oh! Howdy Shepherd! Look what we got!"

Sweetie Belle: "They're on sale today!"

Scootloo: "And look totally awesome!"

Shepherd: "Oh? What do you have-?!"

It was an action figure of himself in battle armor with a cape riding a fearsome-looking Chewie. He was also wielding a sword.

Sweetie Belle: "Isn't it great? It has real kung fu stabbing action!"

Scootaloo: "And it has ten unique phrases!" She pulls a string on the back

Shepherd Action Figure: "Hello, this is Ser Shepherd! And this is my favorite store in Equestria!"

Shepherd: "..." *Takes a deep breath, and picks up an action figure* "Excuse me for a second."

Shepherd stalks into the store, and heads right to Filthy Rich's office. He throws the door open.

Shepherd: "FILTHY RICH." He held up the action figure "EXPLAIN. NOW."

Filthy Rich: smiles nervously "Now Shepherd, I understand you might be unhappy. But in this case, I'm just selling the action figures! I didn't make them! Though I did invest in the company that is making them. Good thing too! They're already in the Fortune 1000 for Equus and their stock just keeps going up-!"

Shepherd: "WHO DO I GO TO BEAT UP INSTEAD OF YOU?!"

Filthy Rich: Gulp

Meanwhile, in Canterlot...

Luna: "Sister, you did inform Shepherd that by becoming a knight of Equestria, his image can be marketed and he gets 10 percent of the profits?"

Celestia: "Of course I did!"

Luna: "Oh good!" Carries her Andrew Shepherd Body Pillow with her "I will see you this evening!"

Celestia: "Pleasant dreams, my sister~!"

Luna: "Oh, they will be..."

Comments

[FanOfMostEverything]

Hello, this is Ser Shepherd! And this is my favorite store in Equestria!

Some things are obligatory.

[Hazey Logic]

Shepherd Action Figure: "Hello, this is Ser Shepherd! And this is my favorite store in Equestria!"

I would totally take that toy into whatever Barnyard Bargains competitor is.

[Herald of Opera]

"Cool, so I get a cut of your profits. Still beating the horseapples out of you for not asking first."

(This goes double for the body pillow, or whatever multiplier is appropriate for going from disciplinary brutality to actual murder)

5330497
I fully agreed even before I noticed that he had the right surname for it.

[Grahf]

I can imagine one of his lines being "Be sure to buy all my accessories or Equestria is doomed"

[RageCake]

I wonder what Shepards reaction would be If the entire mane six had a body pillow of him.

[Spiritus Arcane]

5330542
A shrug of inevitability?

[Ardashir]

5330538
Wouldn't that be better for the dolls, er, action figures of the Mane Six?

[Rokas]

Shepherd storms out of the store, with only a pause to nod at the minotaur guarding the front. "Wrex", he says, by way of greeting.

"Shepherd", the minotaur replies, with a nod of his own.

[Nyerguds]

5330930
Joke would work better with a diamond dog.

Named "Rex", of course.

[Drazhan]

Luna: "Sister, you did inform Shepherd that by becoming a knight of Equestria, his image can be marketed and he gets 10 percent of the profits?"

They'll make a killing with the Shepherd Intimacy Kit. Replica hands and other various things. You know Twilight somehow took castings because it's Twilight.

[sockmonkey]

5330542
Whaddaya mean "if"?