Trouble, with a capital T
You didn't go back to your car immediately, but instead took a tour of the city of Canterlot with the six mares in tow. It was all fun and great, until your group hit Fashion Boulevard, where you got dragged into every fashion shop that Rarity wanted to go, even going as far as to try to get you into a suit. How she got hold of a suit that would fit you, you have no idea, so you just chug it on the growing pile of "It's magic" and tried to resist against Rarity trying to put a pink shirt on you.
'But it would look good on you darling,' Rarity whined as she tugged at the shirt you were wearing with her magic, 'why, I would say it would look divine.'
'I don't care if it looked good on Princess Celestia!' You said angrily, trying to do everything to keep the mare from puling off your shirt, 'I'm not wearing a pink shirt!'
Rarity gave up her attempt and sighed, 'Fine, but one of these days you'll need a suit and when you do,' Rarity gave a smirk, 'it'll be pink.'
'Sure,' you said smirking back, 'like that will ever happen.'
That ended the argument of the both of you and the tour continued without a hitch.
As the tour ended and the group got back to the castle, where you saw your car standing outside the gate with guards standing around it, 'Looks like the Princess kept her word.' you said a bit surprised.
'And you thought she wouldn't?' Twilight said with a chocked expression.
'Well, she was holding on to the idea of keeping the car here,' You said shrugging, 'so yeah.'
Twilights mouth fell open as she kept looking at you.
You waved your hand in front of her face, but when no response came, you look back at the other girls. When they just gave a shrug, you made your way to your car, only to be blocked by a pair of guards, 'Halt.' the guard on the left said, 'What's your name and purpose here?'
You raised an eyebrow, 'I'm Anonymous, and I'm here to pick up my car.' you said and pointed to the machine behind them.
'Can you prove your claim?' The guard said again.
You gave the guard a bemused look as you took the keys to the car out of your pocket and pressed the unlock button, making the car click open and light up, startling all the guards, a few of them even doing a one eighty and looking at the car with a baffled expression 'Is that proof enough?' you asked, waving the keys in front of his face.
'Y-yes,' The guard said as he composed himself, 'y-you can take your machine.' and moved out of the way so you could pass.
'Thanks.' You said and looked back at the mares, 'Well, I guess I see you back in Ponyville and for the last time Rainbow,' Looking at the pegasus that had opened her mouth to say something, 'you're not riding back with me.'
The back trip went pretty smooth and unhindered, probably because you weren't driving like a maniac now. Sure, you had a couple of ponies looking wide eyed at you as you passed by, but other than that, it went fine. Until you arrived in Ponyville and a light lit up on the dashboard, 'Oh great, I'm almost out of gas.' you muttered to your self, 'Maybe I should ask Twilight for help when she's back.' with that thought, you guided your car toward Friendship Castle and waited there as you sat down on the hood.
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You didn't have to wait for too long before you saw Twilight, Pinkie and Applejack coming your way, the others probably went home when they left the train station.
'Anon?' Twilight said as she came closer, 'What are you doing here?'
'I was hoping you could help me Twilight,' you said, pointing a thumb to the car, 'he needs to be fuelled up. Can you tell me where I can get some gas?'
'Gas?' Twilight asked quizzically, 'As in "highly flammable vapor" gas?'
'No, the liquid kind, as in gasoline.'
'Liquid gas?' Twilight exclaimed, 'I don't think we've got what you need. But if you give me a sample, I can look if I can make some.'
Not wanting to change the car in an garden ordainment, you nodded and walked to the back of the car. Opening the fuel cover, you turn to the three mares, 'Does any of you have a long piece of hose I can use?'
'I do!' Pinkie said happily and dashed to the nearest hollow tree, 'I keep hoses all over Ponyville,' she puts her hoof in the tree and pulled out a piece of hose long enough for what you're planning to do with it, 'in case of hose emergence.'
You thought of asking her about that last bit, but you thought better of it and took the hose from her, 'Thanks Pinkie.' she smiled and you turn to Twilight, 'Now all I need is an vial or sorts to put it in.' but before she could answer , did Pinkie show up with a vial and you looked at her with a raised eyebrow, 'Is that for vial emergencies?'
'Of course not silly,' Pinkie said with a giggle, 'I just so happen to carry one with me.'
You shook your head and slided one end of the hose into the gas tank until it didn't go further and had a good piece of it still hanging out.
You then started to suck at the end of the hose to extract some of the liquid and as it hit your mouth, you place the end into the vial and let it fill up all the way wile you spit to try and get the awful taste out of your mouth.
The mares all looked in awe as it did that and snapped back to reality when you presented the filled vial to Twilight, 'Here you go,' you said, still having a after taste, 'be careful with it, it's highly flammable and I don't have that much more of this left in the car, so you'll have to be very efficient with it.'
Twilight nodded and took the vial with her magic, 'I'll keep that in mind.'
'Thanks for doing this Twilight.' You said with a smile.
'No problem,' Twilight said smiling back, 'just see it as me fulfilling my lost bet with you and we're good.'
'Sure.' You said, just happy she's willing to give it a try, but the moment was interrupted by a rumbling sound.
Looking to where it came from, you noticed it was your own stomach that growled.
Smiling sheepishly, you turn to the mares in front of you, who were looking at you wide eyed, and rubbed the back of your head, 'I guess I'm a bit hungry.'
'A bit?' The mares exclaimed.
'Oké, allot.' You said honestly, 'So, is there any place where I can eat something?'
'Oh, oh, I know!' Pinkie said happily, 'Sugarcube Corner,' she then took your hand in her hoof, how ponies can do that you don't know, and started to drag you away, 'here, I'll show you were it is.'
Looking back at the two other mares, you saw an emotion on their faces you could only subscribe as sympathy when looking at you.
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As you were dragged along, you saw that Pinkie was taking you to a building that looked like a gingerbread house and once inside, you were shoved into a seat at a table and you saw Pinkie spurting off toward the back of the establishment.
You looked around the room, seeing that there were a few ponies here, who looked at you with a curious gaze, before they returned to what they are doing.
You looked at the room some more, seeing that the columns were decorated to look like candy canes, and on the wooden beams that went along the sealing hanged all kinds of little candy shapes.
You were brought back to your table when something hit it with a bit of force.
You look down at the table and saw a small mountain of all kinds of treats that still wobbled a bit on the plate from the impact.
You took your eyes away from the plate and look at Pinkie that was standing there with a big smile on her face, 'Here you go.' She said and took place in front of you, looking at you with hopeful eyes.
Your eyes shifted to the plate again and you took one of the treats of the pile, a pink glazed cupcake with sprinkles, and took a bite out of it.
Your eyes widen at the soft sweet taste of the cupcake and looked from it to the pony sitting in front of you with an even bigger smile than before on her face and big glittering eyes, 'Did you make this Pinkie?' the mare nodded enthusiastically, 'It tastes really good.'
'Really?'
You nodded and took another bite from the delicious treat, humming slightly as you saver the taste.
'I'm so happy you like it,' Pinkie said and jumped of her seat, 'I'm going to get more for you.' and was off before you could say anything.
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Two plates. You had almost two plates of Pinkie's treats filling your stomach and you were only halfway through the second one, feeling yourself about to burst, you turn to Pinkie who was sitting back on her seat still looking at you with a big smile, 'Sorry Pinkie, but I can't fit another bite, I'm stuffed.'
'Oh.' She said a bit sad, but perked back up again, 'Well, I can't let this go to waist.' she pointed to the plate with a hoof, then wrapped her tongue around the treats and pooled it in her mouth as quickly as you could blink.
You wanted to ask he how she did that, but was interrupted someone yelling outside, 'Some pony, any pony, help me please.'
Like the rest of the occupants, you left Sugarcube Corner to see what was going on.
Once out side, you saw a mare running toward the open square in front of the bakery, 'Please, I need help.'
Feeling the need to help, you run toward her, 'What's wrong ma'am?'
The mare was startled by you for a few seconds, but she shook her head and brought her attention back to you, 'Please help me kind creature,' she said with pleading eyes, 'my daughter went after her ball that rolled into the Everfree Forest after I told her to leave it and hasn't come out.' tears started to well up in her eyes, 'I fear that she got lost in there,' Her tears flowed freely as she clammed her eyes shut, 'or even worse, that she has been taken by the Timberwolfs.'
Hearing the word "wolf" made you want to help more,' Where did she enter the forest?'
She pointed to a group of treetops in the distance, 'It's over there.'
'Don't worry ma'am,' You said determined, 'I'll find your daughter.' and ran toward your car, thinking that it would go faster then running.
You grabbed your keys while running and pressed the button to unlock the car, then got in and started the engine as fast as you could, taking off toward the tree line that the mare had pointed out, navigating though the street and needed to honk the horn a couple of times to get the ponies to move out of the way.
Reaching the forests edge, you see an opening between the trees to squeeze your car through and drove into the forest.
Your had to slow down drastically do to the denseness of the forest, but was still faster than running as you weaved through the trees and avoid fallen logs.
You knew full well that your car wasn't made for this and that it probably would get damaged, but there was a life on the line here and that was worth more to you then the damage to the car.
Not long after you entered, does the smell of rotten meat and plants fill the cabin of the car, making you scrunch up your face at the sudden stench. But before you could question where it came from, you drove onto an open space in the woods and couldn't believe what you saw.
On the left side was a young and scared filly that had pressed herself against a rock formation and was using a ball that was barely bigger than herself as a shield against the five large creatures that had surrounded her.
The creatures looked like oversized wolfs, only made out of wood, and were looking in your direction as they probably heard the sound of the car getting closer.
Seeing the trembling filly and the menacing wolfs, you could only think of one way to deal with the wooden creatures and that was,
Ramming into them.
You press the gas peddle all the way, making the engine roar loudly, and aimed the car at the first wolf that was closest to you as the car spurts toward it.
The impact with the wolf had send a jolt though the car, making you jerk back and forth a bit, and making the wolf shatter into a pile of wooden sticks, much to your amazement.
The other wolfs saw what happened to there friend and tried to act on the sudden development, but you were already onto the second one and it got the same fate as the first one.
Getting close to the end of the open space, you lift your foot off the gas peddle, then jerked the steering wheel to the right whilst pressing the brake and clutch, making the car do a sliding one eighty and coming to a stop.
You looked at the three remaining wolfs that were left, looking amongst each other with confusion. So you press the gas peddle in a few times, making the engine send out loud roars echoing through the open space, Come on, you stupid wooden mutts, you thought squinting your eyes, do the smart thing and leave.
They looked at you and growled before they leaped into the forest, leaving you and the filly alone.
You let out a sigh of relief as you shut down the engine and relaxed a bit before you opened the door and made your way to the filly who still was hiding behind her ball, looking at you with wide frightened eyes, but seems to be in one piece.
As you walk passed the front end of the car, you took a look of the damage and winced.
There were some sizeable dents in the hood and the bumper had come loose, not to mention that the hole front end of the car was splattered with some green goo.
You sighed and shook your head as you walked toward the filly, thinking that it would be a pain to fix the damage.
You walked up to the little pony and kneeled down on one knee, 'Hey there,' you said with a soft and calming voice, giving her a warm smile, 'are you alright?'
The filly stuck her head out from behind the ball, 'Mommy told me not to talk to strangers.'
You chuckle a bit, 'What about strangers that just saved you?'
The filly furrowed her brow in the most adorable way possible as she thought about an answer, then looked back at you, 'That still makes you a stranger.'
Clever girl, You thought, impressed with the logic of the filly, 'My name is Anon, but I don't think we have much time to get to know each other,' you said, giving her a worried look, 'or those wolfs will come back, and I don't think we want to be here when they do.'
The filly nodded her head and walked whilst trying to carry the ball, but only succeeding in going slower than walking.
You heard something stir in a bush somewhere, so you picked up the filly in one hand, earning a surprised yelp from her, whilst grabbing her ball with the other and made your way to the divers side of the car, you gave a quick glance at the front end again as you passed and noticed there seems to be less goo on it then before, but shrugged it of as just being your imagination and got in the car.
Once inside, you placed the filly on the passengers seat, strapped her in with the lower end of the seatbelt and gave her the ball to hold before you got settled yourself.
You look at the filly for a moment, you see that she was looking around the cabin of the car in awe.
You chuckled and started the car, earning a enthusiastic 'wow' from the little passenger and started to drive back toward Ponyville.
But when you were somewhere halfway to town, you saw a little flash coming from the right. You took a quick look, only to see the pony looking around with a wide open smile, so you thought was just your imagination playing tricks on you again and drove on.
Exiting the forest, you were greeted by a large group of ponies that where standing a few feet away from the edge, seeing the mare you had talked to being comforted by two ponies as she look your way with teary eyes and a hopeful expression on her face, so you stopped the car a few feet from the mare and took the filly from the passengers seat before getting out of the car.
'My baby!' The mare cried out as she saw her daughter, tears of happiness rolling along her cheeks as she started to run toward you.
'Mommy!' The filly called out, jumping out of your arms as she ran to her mother, leaping into the mare's hoofs for a big hug.
The mother broke the hug and looked at her daughter with a furrowed brow, 'Your in a lot of trouble young lady.' to which the filly folded her ears to her head as her mom started to look her over, 'Thank goodness you're al-' but she stopped mid sentence, looking wide eyed at her daughter, 'Y-you got your cutie mark.' she exclaimed in slight disbelief.
Before you could ask what a cutie mark was, you saw the filly looking at her backside. Following her gaze, you saw a tattoo on her flank of three cog-wheels connecting to each other.
'I've got my cutie mark!' The filly squealed happily, flailing her legs in every direction.
'Hey Anon!' You hear the voice of Rainbow call out as you were looking at two celebrating ponies, making you look at the source of the voice, seeing the pegasus flying toward you.
Rainbow stopped a feet away from you, hovering on eye level with you with a worried look, 'I heard from Pinkie that a filly got lost in the woods. Is she still there?'
You gave the mare a bemused look and pointed to the two still dancing ponies.
Rainbow looked in the direction you were pointing, 'D-did you save her?' she asked in disbelief.
You gave a nod.
'how?'
'Well, I got in my car, drove it into the forest, saw the girl being surrounded by those wooden wolfs and used my car to ram into them.' You stated flatly, pointing and looking at your car, but then raised an eyebrow as you saw that the green goo has vanished, only leaving the dents and dangling bumper behind.
Rainbows mouth hang open at the site of the car and looked back at you with big eyes, 'That.. is.. so..' she then flew up and pumped her front hoofs in the air, 'Awesome!'
You gave a light chuckle as you looked at Rainbow, but a few tugs on your shirt made you gaze down and saw that it was the filly, 'Thank you for saving me mister Anon,' she said, looking at you with a smile, 'and for helping me to get my cutie mark.'
'No problem.' You said, making a mental note to ask Fluttershy about cutie marks as you bend over and gave her mane a light ruffle, which earned you a slight giggle.
As you stood strait again, you saw the mother coming your way, 'Yes, thank you kind creature,' she said as she stopped in front of you, 'If there is anything I can help you with, please let me know.'
'Uuh,' You started as looked back at your car for a second, giving her a sheepish smile whilst rubbing the back of your neck, 'do you know of a good metal shop where I can fix my car?'