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// Chapter 6: Ed is the Manager 
// Story: Good Burger: Ed's Misadventures in Equestria 
// by sonicfan05 
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It was a new day at the Hay Burger and it was once again around lunch time. There were a lot more customers in the restaurant today then there were yesterday despite word spread about Ed's performance  or the attempted robbery at the Hay Burger around town. As for Ed himself, he actually improved himself about taking the customers orders all thanks to his new friends.

"Hey! Is this some kind of joke!?"

...by a sheer margin.

Ed brought his attention to a grumpy looking donkey with a thin yet long orange mane.

"What's wrong Mr. Donkey?" Ed asked.

Cranky snorted angerly. "I'll tell you what's wrong! I ordered one hay burger with nothing on it!"

Ed blinked "But that's what I gave you."

"No, you gave me a bun! Just a bun!"

To demonstrate his point, Cranky lifted up his "burger" and opened the buns, reveling nothing in between the buns.

"Look! There's no hay burger in here!" Cranky complained as he waved the buns around.

"But you said you wanted 'nothing on it!'" Ed pointed out.

"Yeah but I expected a hay patty!" Cranky shouted.

Ed shook his head. "Dude, a hay patty is something, you said nothing!"

Ed then turned to his new co-worker. "Hey Flash! Is a hay patty something or nothing?"

Flash, who wore the same uniform as Ed, snapped out of his miserable funk and turned to Ed with his confused expression.

"Um...something?"

Ed turned back to the donkey and raised his right arm in victory. "I win!"

Cranky growled. "Oh right that does it, I'm going to report your name to Princess Twilight!"

Ed lowered his arm. "But Twilight already knows my name."

"Then I'll see you in Tartarus!" Cranky yelled as he slammed the buns on the counter and stomped towards the exit.

Ed smiled and waved at the donkey's back. "Okay, see you there!"

The only response Ed received from the donkey was the doors slammed shut behind him. Ed stopped waving and turned back to Flash.

"Nice guy," Ed mused. "I don't know why he had to throw the bread everywhere. I mean jeeze!"

Flash let out an annoyed sigh as he thought back to how he ended up in this predicament in the first place.





"You can't be serious!" Flash shouted, not believing what the princess just proposed to him.

Twilight smiled smugly. "Oh I'm serious Mr. Sentry. My friends and I are too busy tomorrow to check on Ed. Since you now have a lot of free time on your hooves, you'll be the perfect candidate to keep him in line."

Flash Sentry's eyes bugged out. "B-but Prin-"

Flash was cut off when Twilight narrowed her eyes at him. "I- I mean Twilight," he quickly corrected. "I was just doing my job! He was causing havoc if I haven't shown up! That monster could be dangerous!"

He yelped when Twilight growled and then brought her face close to him. "First of all, that monster is my friend! Don't you ever call him that in front of me again! Second, he was trying to shop for food for us. The reason why there was havoc was because YOU tried to arrest him by jumping to conclusions in the first place! And third, you just said that you 'want another chance.' Well, I'm giving you one! If you do the job well, I may consider giving your old job back!"

As Twilight leaned back to her seat, Flash tried to plead his case again, despite his nervous state. "T-there's no way I'll spent my days babysitting that mon-" Twilight narrowed her eyes again. "Human!" Flash corrected. "That guy is nuttier than a fruitcake!"

"It's either that or you face my brother and my sister in law that you failed as a guard and find another job!" Twilight stated bluntly before letting out her smirk. "So what's it gonna be?"





Not wanting to damage his pride any further (and fear of facing the prince back to Crystal Empire) Flash accepted Twilight's 'proposal' much to his reluctance. When Ed heard about the news this morning, Ed was so excited about having a new working buddy, he literally dragged poor Flash out of his bed to the restaurant and then appointed Flash as a new member for Good Burger (even though the place is called the Hay Burger). Flash's real job is to keep an eye on Ed, but after five minutes working with Ed, Flash already couldn't stand him.

How did my life reached so low? Flash thought bitterly with a sigh. I'm an elite royal guard from the Crystal Empire, not a low-life fast food employee! Worse part is I'm stuck with this idiot!

Flash felt a hand roughly placed on his shoulder. He looked up to see Ed with his goofy smile on his face.

"Thanks for coming to volunteer with me," Ed said gratefully. "Work will be much more fun now that you're here! I can teach you everything you need to know about working at Good Burger. Doesn't that sound great?"

"I think I would rather spend my time peeling a thousand potatoes at my old academy," Flash deadpanned.

"Hey, if you want to make french fries then that's fine too!" Ed chuckled.

Flash grunted in frustration. "That's not what I meant!"

As the two co-workers were talking, three fillies walked through the door and entered the building. One filly is yellow earth pony with a long cherry red mane and tail with a pink bow and orange eyes. The second filly is a white unicorn with shades of purple and pink mane and tail with a white horn on her head and light green eyes. The last filly is a light orange pegasus with dark magenta mane and tail, small wings on her back and light purple eyes. They each have the same three shades of purple shields as their cutie marks, but the image in the middle of their shields are different. One has an apple with a heart inside of it, the other has a star with a musical note inside of that, and the third is a wing with a lighting bolt inside of it.

These three fillies are famously known as the 'Cutie Mark Crusaders.' They originally formed a club to find their own cutie marks, but after helping out a known school bully, now friend, they realized they should help other ponies with a cutie mark problem and they got their mark as a result. They just finished solving another pony's cutie mark problem and they decided to come in to the Hay Burger for lunch but paused when they spotted the infamous human from another world, standing behind the counter.

"Look girls, is that 'hew-man' that our sisters were talking about," said Sweetie Belle.

Apple Bloom raised her eyebrow. "Huh, he looked a lot stranger than the descriptions of wat mah sister told me."

"I don't care how strange he looks," said Scootaloo as she took out a coupon from her saddlebag. "I just want to order our lunches with my coupon for today."

Apple Bloom stared at Ed for a moment before she turned to her pegasus friend with a unsure look. "Ah don't know Scoots, mah sister told me that he was terrible of takin' orders."

Scootaloo frowned. "So? Some fast-food staffs makes mistakes with orders all the time! I won't make a big deal if he made a small mistake."

"Scoots, it's more than a small mistake," said Apple Bloom before pointing at Ed. "Applejack told me that this guy was either too literal or somehow fulfilled yer order in the most bizarre way. She also told me that he makes more mistakes than every single fast-food employee on Equestria combined!"

Scootaloo scoffed. "Oh come on! She was probably over-exaggerated."

"She tried to order a veggi-chili burger the other day, only for her to get covered in chili from a hose!" Apple Bloom argued.

"And my sister ended up getting a burger shake instead of a milkshake," Sweetie Belle added with a squeak. "And she still have endless nightmares about his most 'unfashionable, atrocious, and abomination of a uniform' from the nineties!"

Two of the fillies starred at the unicorn strangely, causing the unicorn to frown. "What? It's her words, not mine!"

Scottaloo backed away slightly from Sweetie Belle "Ooooookay? Look, I'm still going to order our lunches. How bad can this guy be?"

Scootaloo trotted towards the counter with her two other friends in tow. By the time they reached their destination, Ed noticed them and gave them a smile.

"Hi! Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?"

Flash studied the fillies from the sidelines. Those fillies, they look so familiar, but I can't seem to recall who they are.

Scootaloo stood on her rear hooves and leaned on the counter. "Hi, we would like to order three good burgers with a coupon of 'one half off one good burger on your birthday?'"

Ed's eyes widen and let out a gasp. "Whoa, WHOA! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!"

"DID SOMEPONY SAY BIRTHDAY!?"

Pinkie Pie popped out from behind the counter, surprising everypony except for Ed.

"PINKIE!?" Flash exclaimed. "Where did you-- NEVERMIND! I thought you're watching the twins today!"

"I am!" Pinkie giggled and pointed across from them. "They're right over there eating their lunches at their table! Aren't they so cute~!"

The others turned toward the table where Pinkie was pointing at, to see the two foals, the Cake Twins, sitting on their high chairs. One was building a house made of french fries while the other was eating some apple sauce while waving back at them with a happy gurgle.

"Anyway..." she began seriously, getting everypony's attention before she broke into her huge Pinkie grin. "DID SOMEPONY SAY SOMETHING ABOUT BIRTHDAY!?"

"YEAH, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!" Ed announced excitedly.

"YIPPEE! LET'S CELEBRATE!" Pinkie cheered with confetti exploded behind her. Both Ed and Pinkie took out their party hats and put them on their heads. After Ed took out and blows into his party horn, they both began to sing.

"For I'm/He's a jolly good dude!~
For I'm/He's a jolly good dude!~
For I'm/He's a jolly good duuuuuuuuuude!~
With nobody/nopony can deny!~

With nobody/nopony can deny~
With nobody/nopony can-"

"No NO NO!" Scottaloo screamed, making the party duo stopped singing. "It's not YOUR birthday!"

"It's not?" Both Pinkie and Ed chorused.

Scottaloo shook her head. "No! It's MY birthday. You know? The day I was born?"

Pinkie blinked for a moment before she smiled in realization. "Oh yeah! Happy birthday Scootaloo! I'll set up a party for you later!"

Ed stared at Scootaloo in amazement. "Whoa...dude you are born today!? You're the biggest baby I've ever seen!"

Everypony but Pinkie stared at Ed in disbelief. After about a minute of silence, it was Flash who first shook off his state. "Ed! I don't think that's what she's-"

"Who's a cute little baby?" Cooed Ed as he started to squeeze one of Scootaloo's cheeks. "Atty-Boo~! Atty-Boo~!"

Scootaloo angrily slapped Ed's hands away from her. "STOP THAT!"

Apple Bloom lean towards Sweetie Belle's ear with her hoof blocking her mouth. "Ah don't know about you, but Ah think he's nutter than mah Granny's lifetime supply of peanuts."

Sweetie Belle nodded in agreement.

Scootaloo growled. "Look, just forget about my birthday--"

Pinkie gasped in horror, as if Scootaloo had said something crazy. "How can you sat that!? We can't forget about your birthday! Everypony should celebrate their own birthday!"

"Yeah dude," Ed spoke up. "How can say 'no' to cake? Or the presents, or a creepy clown named Steve or--"

"ENOUGH ABOUT THE BIRTHDAY!" Scootaloo snapped. After seeing both Ed and Pinkie in stunned silence, she calmed herself. "Look...I just want to use this coupon for one half-off burger."

Ed nodded. "Okay, one Good Burger, half off!" said Ed, taking the coupon from Scootaloo.

As Ed heads towards the burger rack, Flash approached the fillies with his apologetic look. "I'm sorry about this girls, he's...not a normal person."

"That's an understatement," Scootaloo mumbled in irritation.

While they were quietly discussing how weird Ed is, Ed took one burger from the rack. He then went back to the counter where everypony is waiting. However, they failed to noticed him docking under the counter and took out a scissors. Ed used the scissors to cut the hay burger in half. Once he's finished cutting the burger, he handed over the half burger to Scootaloo.

"There you go! One Good Burger, half off!" Ed announced.

Scootaloo stared at her burger in disbelief before she looked up to Ed in anger. "What the hay! Why did ya give me a half a burger!?"

"You asked for a Good Burger, half off," Ed answered.

"He got you there Scotts," said Sweetie Belle, only to received a glare from the pegasus.

"Do you two want yours half off too?" Ed offered.

"No, in fact we're leaving," Apple Bloom said hastily as she backed away from him.

"Yeah, we rather have a whole burger!" Sweetie Belle said quickly, backing away as well.

"Well if you want your burger with a hole in it, I can make it happen." Ed offered.

Scootaloo threw her burger to the ground. "You're crazy! Wait 'til I tell Rainbow Dash about this!"

Scootaloo, along with her two of her friends quickly headed to the door. As they stomped though the door, they heard Ed yelled, "Happy Birthday Big Baby!" Scootaloo growled angrily before she slammed the door behind her.

Flash began to panic when he finally realized who those three fillies were. Oh crap, those three are younger sisters to the other elements of harmony! If they told their sisters about this, then their big sisters will report to Princess Twilight! And if they report to Princess Twilight, then she'll know that I didn't do a good job of keeping Ed in line. And if she knows that I didn't do a good job...THEN I'M SCREWED! I have to fix this!

Flash turned to Ed. "Ed, stay here! You be the manager until I get back!" Flash then turned to Pinkie. "Pinkie, I know you're babysitting the twins, but will you please also watch him for five minutes?"

Pinkie nodded with a smile. "Sure thing Flashy! And I Pinkie Promise that I won't tell Twilight about this incident so you won't get fired from your job."

Flash eyes widen. "How did you-- nevermind, thanks! Gotta go!" 

Flash leapt over the counter and then ran out the door to find the three Crusaders. "GIRLS WAIT!"

"Cool! I'm the manager!" Ed cheered with a smile, but then he frowned. "Um...what do I do?"

Pinkie giggled. "You're in charge of Good Burger silly! You get to do whatever you want!"

"Cool!" said Ed with a smile again. "Hey, since I'm the manager and you're watching me, would you like to work with me?"

"I love too!" Pinkie cried excitedly. "In fact..." Pinkie quickly ducked behind the counter for a moment and then popped back up, now wearing the same uniform as Ed. "I already have this uniform for this occasion!"

"Awesome!" Ed cheered.

Just then, the front door opened and two ponies entered the restaurant. One is a gray earth pony mare with black mane and tail and purple eyes. She also wore a pink bow tie with a white collar and have a violet treble clef as her cutie mark. The other pony is a white unicorn mare with many shades of blue mane and tail. She was wearing purple shades over her eyes and her cutie mark is a mirror image of two bridged eighth notes. Both of these ponies walked towards the counter where Ed and Pinkie Pie was. Once the newcomers were close enough, Ed and Pinkie turned towards them with a smile.

"Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can WE take your order?" Both Ed and Pinkie said in union.

The gray mare briefly glanced at the menu above her. "Yes. We would both like to order a Good Spicy Oats Wrap."

"Ooooh! Okay, one Spicy Oats Rap coming right up!" said Ed and then turned to Pinkie. "Hit it Pinks!"

Pinkie smiled and then placed two of her hooves over her mouth and began to beatbox. Ed was bobbing up and down with the beat as he was waving his right hand as if he was scrubbing a record. Then Ed began to sing along with the beat.

"Oh my name is Ed and I'm here to say~
I love Spicy Oats in a major waaaaaay!~" 

The gray mare had a stupefied look on her face while her white unicorn companion was bobbing her head in interest.

"All the Spicy Oats say, what? What?~
O what? Da what?~
What, what?~
O what? Da-"

"STOP STOP STOP STOP!" The gray mare screamed, having enough of their rapping.

Once Ed and Pinkie stopped their 'performance,' the gray mare gave them her hard look.

"What the bloody heck is that!?" she demanded.

"Well you asked for a Spicy Oats Rap" Ed answered.

Pinkie nodded with a smile. "Yuperuni! That'll be eight bucks!"

"You two are crazy!" The gray pony scowled. She then turned and trotted towards the door with her head held high. "Let's get out of here Vinyl!"

The white mare stared at them for a moment before she turned and walked after her companion.

"Hey! We are NOT crazy!" Ed called out as the two visitors walked through the door. He then turned to Pinkie with her back facing him. "Isn't that right Pinks?"

Pinkie quickly spun around and revealed that she got both of the green grapes up her nose. "Look! I'm grape nose mare!" she announced with a giggle.

"That's impossible!" Ed stated as he turned away from Pinkie.

"Why?" Pinkie asked, tilting her head in confusion. 

"Because..." Ed turned back around with two green grapes up his nose. "I'M grape nose boy!" Ed said with his goofy smile, making Pinkie laugh like crazy. The two then began to dance.

"Bloobity bloobity bloobity bloobity! Bloobity bloobity bloobity bloobity!~"

Pinkie stopped dancing when she heard a whine from a foal. She glimpsed at the table where the twins are and both Pound and Pumpkin Cake were getting fussy from their seats.

"Uh oh! It looks like the twins need their Auntie Pinkie!" said Pinkie before facing Ed. "Eddie, do you mind if I can check on them?"

Ed stopped his dancing and turned to his friend. "Oh of course Pinkie! Go see the little dude and dudette!"

Pinkie smiled. "Thanks Eddie, I'll be right back!" Pinkie hopped over the counter and headed to the table where the twins are at.

While Pinkie tried to make silly faces at baby Cakes with her grapes up her nose, another pony walked into the restaurant. This mare is a white pegasus with small wings, long light blonde mane and tail and magenta eyes. Her cutie mark are two small pink dumbbells. She made her way to the counter just as Ed finished taking (and eating) the grapes out of his nose.

"Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?" said Ed with a smile.

"Oh no order from me," the white mare said as she took out a huge gold bit. "Can I have a change for a bit?"

Ed blinked. "Change?"

The mare nodded.

"Um...okay," said Ed. Ed begins to slowly unbuttoned his uniform while singing 'I'm a Dude.' Just as he was about to fully take off his shirt, he stopped when he heard the mare screamed.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" she shrieked with a blush on her cheeks.

"Changing," Ed answered.

"What for?"

"A bit," Ed answered with a chuckle as he snatched a bit from the mare's hoof and then pocketed it.

"You can't do that!" the mare snapped angrily.

"Why not?" Ed asked.

"Because I'm asking for the coins!"

"Oh. Okay!"

Ed took out the bit from his pocket and gave it back to the mare. "Here ya go!"

The mare growled. "You just gave me back the same bit you took from me!"

Ed threw his hands up. "Hey don't look at me dude, you're the one who gave it to me and then ask it back! Make up your mind dude!"

The mare slammed her hoof on the counter. "That's it, I want to speak to your manager!"

Ed nodded. "Okay." 

The two of them were just standing around for a minute, staring at each other. The mare was starting to lose her patience.

"...well?"

Ed blinked. "Well what?"

"Where's the manager?" The mare demanded.

"I'm the manager!" Ed answered.

"You!?" The mare exclaimed in disbelief.

Ed nodded. "Yep."

"...you can't be serious!"

"No, I'm Ed."

The mare sighed heavily in frustration. "Okay, if you're the manager, I want to complain to you about you!"

"Well...what did I do?"

"You didn't give me change with this bit!"

"Uh...when?"

"Today! Just now!"

"And when did this happen?"

"I told you! It happened just now!"

"Well, do you have any witnesses?"

"YES! YOU!"

"Who?"

"...I really don't like you at all!"

Ed sighed. "Look dude, I'm gonna have to let you go. This just isn't working out."

The mare blinked. "What?"

"You're fired."

"Fired!?" The mare screeched in rage. "You can't fire me!?"

"Sure I can! I'm the manager!" Ed responded.

"But I don't even work here!"

"I know. I just fired you."

"YOU'RE CRAZY!"

"Well, at least I have a job."

The mare glowered at Ed. "You know what, I'll let my big brother deal with you!"

"Hey okay, fine!" Ed countered.

The mare did about-face and then stomped her way towards the door. Before she left the building, the mare faced towards Ed, stuck out her tongue at him and then slammed the door behind her.

Ed shook his head. "Well...how rude."

Ed took out a cloth from his pocket and began to wipe the counter. As he's cleaning the counter, the door opened again and two more ponies walked into the building with the blue unicorn mare with white mane and tail and a wand with a moon as her cutie mark in the lead. The other unicorn, known as Starlight Glimmer, followed behind her. 

"What a day!" said Trixie, Starlight's best friend. "All of our hard training for my next performance really paid off!"

Starlight scoffed. "Training? What training? All you did was turning everything you see into a teacup...and then chased away by guards after turning some guy's face into a teacup."

Trixie frowned. "Hey, he said nothing but insults to Trixie!"

"...was it before or after he called you a 'cheap knock off' of Princess Twilight?'"

"Do you have to bring that up!?" Trixie snapped before calming herself down. "Look...Trixie is very stressful and she needs her shake."

As Trixie makes her way to the counter, Starlight eyes widen when she realized where she is and that her friend is heading towards a certain someone that could only lead to trouble. "Um...Trixie, I think we should go somewhere else."

Trixie stopped walking and turned towards Starlight with her raised eyebrow. "How come?"

Starlight hesitated as her eyes darted between her friend and to a certain employee who just ducked behind the counter. "Well...we have a new...visitor from another world and he does fast food for a living-"

"Well Trixie doesn't see anything wrong with-"

"And does a terrible job," Starlight finished.

Trixie blinked at her friend for a moment before she rolled her eyes and made her way close to the counter. "Oh please, I'm sure this pony is not that-"

Trixie words died in her throat when Ed popped out of the counter with a new rag. When he noticed Trixie standing in front of him, he placed the rag down and faced Trixie with his goofy smile.

"Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?"

As Trixie stared at Ed in shock, Starlight coughed nervously. "Did I mentioned that he's a human?"

Ed turned to Starlight the moment he heard her speaking. "Oh hi Starlight!" Ed greeted with his huge grin.

Trixie snapped out of her shocked state and turned to her friend. "Wait...you know him?"

"Unfortunately," Starlight said with a sigh. "His name is Ed."

"Oh...hello Ed," said Trixie awkwardly, not sure what else to say to him.

"Hello!" said Ed with a wave. "What's your name?"

Trixie smiled smugly. "Well I'm glad you asked. You are witnessing the presence of the Great and Powerful Trrrrrixie!" she boasted while standing on her rear hooves and raised her forehooves up in a dramatic pose. Starlight rolled her eyes while Ed titled his head in confusion.

"...who's Trixie?"

Trixie frowned. "I'm Trixie!"

"I'm Ed!"

"I'm aware!"

"You said you were Trixie!"

Trixie just stood there with her right eye twitched in annoyance. Not wanting things to get out of hoof, Starlight tried to defuse the situation.

"Um...why don't you ask Ed what you want to order?" Starlight suggested to her friend.

After calming herself, Trixie raised her head up with a grunt. "Fine! Just give Trixie a Good Shake!"

Ed smiled. "Oh you want a good shake? I'll give you a good shake!"

Ed leaned towards Trixie to grab both of her shoulders and then started shaking her, much to Trixie's confusion and Starlight's horror.

"SHAKE-A, SHAKE-A, SHAKE-A, SHAKE-A, SHAKE-A!~"

"STOP THAT!" Trixie roared, freeing herself out from the crazy human. "Trixie meant for you to give me a beverage, not for you to shake my insides!"

Ed blinked "...a be-ver-what?"

Trixie huffed. "Nevermind! Just give me an orange soda instead!"

"Oh okay," said Ed as he grabbed a yellow soda cup.

Ed then took out a soda gun and proceed to fill the cup with soda. Once the cup is full, Ed handed the cup to Trixie.

"Here you go!" Ed announced, as Trixie took the cup with her magic.

Starlight sighed in relief, glad that Ed did something right for once. Her relief vanished when she noticed her best friend scowled inside of the cup.

"Are you deaf?" Trixie snapped, levitating the cup close to Ed so he can see the inside . "I said orange soda! Look, there's nothing that's orange in this cup!"

"Oh okay, hang on," said Ed as he grabbed the cup.

Ed ducked down behind the counter and grabbed a paint can. He shook the can for a moment and then he pressed the nozzle, spraying the cup with orange paint. After he almost completely covered the cup in orange paint, Ed brings the cup to the two stunned ponies.

"There you go! Now it's all orangey!" Ed chuckled.

Trixie face suddenly turned red and growled in rage. "Why you- you'll pay for this!"

Ed shook his head. "Nah-uh. You ordered it. You have to pay for it."

"...THAT'S IT!"

Trixie was about to lunge at Ed, but Starlight stopped her by trapping Trixie with her magic. "Get a hold of yourself Trix!"

"Let me go Star!" Trixie screamed, struggling within Starlight's magical shield. "I'm gonna turn his head into a teacup!"

"That's precisely why I'm not letting you go!" Starlight fired back.

During the commotion, the front doors opened an in walked in Flash along with the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"Okay girls, as promised, we will give you three the good burgers meals free of-" Flash stopped talking when he saw Starlight holding an aggressive Trixie, while Ed chuckled in amusement. "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" Flash demanded loudly.

Everyone stopped what their doing including the customers. Trixie who was still stuck inside of Starlight's magical shield, pointed at Ed.

"Trixie will tell you what's wrong! This infuriating...human shook Trixie's body and then sprayed my drinking cup with orange paint instead of giving Trixie her orange soda!"

"I tried to tell her that coming here wasn't a good idea!" Starlight added.

Flash shook his head in disbelief. "I left for five minutes and Ed already caused trouble!?" Flash then looked around. "Where the hay is Pinkie?"

Just as Flash spoke her name, Pinkie quickly came up to them. "I am so super-duper sorry Flashy! I had to check up on the twins! I guess I was gone longer than I thought."

Flash groaned as he buried his head into his hooves. "Twilight's gonna kill me!"

"No she wouldn't," Pinkie assured with a smile. "She'll most likely fire you for real and then sent you home, facing Shinning Armor. Who will then demote you as a soldier, further soiling your reputation and lose all respect from other soldiers."

"...thanks a lot Pinkie, I feel so much better now," Flash said sarcastically.

"You're welcome!" Pinkie chirped.

Apple Bloom frowned. "Hey, Ah thought you said what the human did to us was all an act! ...unless this is also an act too?"

Starlight raised his eyebrow. "Act?"

Flash felt nervous when all eyes are on him. "Oh well...you see..."

Just then, the door opened again, revealing the same white unicorn and an irritated gray earth pony from before with the white unicorn in the lead this time.

"You can't be serious Vinyl!" The gray mare cried, while trying to keep up with the unicorn. "They're bloody crazy!"

The white unicorn with purple shades, known as Vinyl galloped towards the gang and stopped right in front of them. Once the gray mare caught up, the white unicorn addressed to Ed. "Excuse me, Ed right?"

Ed nodded with a smile. "That's me! Heh heh."

"Listen, we were just here a few minutes ago and I can't get your 'Spicy Oats' rap out of my head!" Vinyl then smirked. "You sir have potential talent for music!"

Ed blinked. "I am?"

"HE IS!?" Everypony but Pinkie cried out in disbelief.

"Totally!" Vinyl whooped. "Plus, you're that human guy eveypony was talking about! It'll be great to have you as a special guest for our show!"

Everypony gasped.

"OH. MY. GOODNESS! Ed, you're going to be on Good Morning Ponyville!" Pinkie gushed excitedly.

"Oh it's morning?" Ed asked. "I should probably get some breakfast!"

"No Ed, she means her radio show!" Starlight corrected as she released a stunned Trixie out of her shield.

"Oooohhhhh!" said Ed, nodding in understanding. Then he titled his head in confusion. "Who?"

Vinyl chuckled. "Oh right, I forgot to introduce ourselves." She placed her hoof on her chest. "The name's Vinyl Scratch, aka DJ Pon-3. I'm usually the DJ for every event, but I'm also the host of my radio show." Vinyl then wrapped her hoof around the gray mare. "And this lovely mare next to me is Octavia Melody. She's the elite cellist for both Canterlot and Ponyville; as well as my co-host for the show." Vinyl then blushed. "And she's also my...*ahem*...marefriend."

Despite that she appreciate the flattery from her marefriend, Octavia gave Ed her flat look.

"Charmed," Octavia deadpanned.

"Anyway, will you and Pinkie come down to our show in a few days?" Vinyl asked hopefully.

Before anypony could say anything, Ed responded without hesitation. "Sure, I would love to!"

"Awesome!" said Vinyl with her huge grin.

She used her magic on her business card from her saddlebag and levitated it over to Ed. "Here is my card," she said as Ed took the card. "Our studio's address should be on there. We'll see you in a few days! C'mon Tavi!"

As Vinyl turned and made her way to the door, Octavia sighed in exasperation. "Unbelievable! What did that mare see in him?"

"My thoughts exactly," Flash muttered irritably as Octavia followed her marefriend out the door with a huff. Once the musician duo were out of sight, Flash turned to Ed and shook his head.

"I can't believe you were invited to their radio show...all because you made a rap song about spicy oats!"

"Me either," said Ed with a chuckle. "Especially that I didn't remember that I did it! Heh heh."

Flash half lid his eyes.

Suddenly, Spike barged through the front doors and ran up to them. "Starlight, Pinkie, Ed! Thank Celestia you're here! This is an emergency!"

"What? What is it Spike?" said Starlight in concern.

"Twilight was having a meeting with the other princesses a moment ago about Ed and then...he showed up!" said Spike, putting a strong emphasis with word 'he'.

Starlight growled. "Ugh, not again! What does he want now?"

"I'll tell you on the way over," Spike reassured. "I already contacted the others. We should go there now!"

"On it!" Pinkie saluted. Then Pinkie ran over to the table to pick up the twins and then zipped out the door at an incredible speed that rivaled Rainbow Dash.

"I will never figure out how she does that," Spike muttered, scratching his head.

"We should get to Twilight at once!" Flash cried, ready to leap over the counter.

"Actually Flash...Twilight wants you to...stay here and only wanted Ed and her friends," said Spike in an uneasy tone.

"What!?" Flash exclaimed.

"Who me?" Ed said, pointing to himself.

"Why would the princess want him!?" Flash questioned angrily.

"Because this whole emergency concerned him," Spike stated bluntly. And Twilight specificity requested not to include you.

"Whelp, you heard the dragon! Let's get to Princess Twilight right away!" said Trixie, making her way to the door.

"HEY! I thought you said Twilight wanted Ed and her friends!" Flash said accusingly.

"I did," Spike stated firmly before he and Starlight headed towards the door.

As Flash sulked by Spike's words, Ed looked at Flash quizzically. "You alright Flash?"

"Why yes Ed, I'm perfectly fine!" Flash said sarcastically in a bitter tone. "Just run along with your friends and I'll stay here, taking over as the manager of this place, cleaning the counter top while being bored out of my mind!"

Ed stared at Flash for a moment before he broke out into his goofy grin. "Okay! See you later!"

Flash scowled as Ed hopped over the counter. "...Idiot."

As Ed was heading out the door, a huge white stallion barged in. He has huge bulky biceps, short blonde mane and tail, tiny wings and red eyes. His cutie mark is a large black dumbbell. The stallion looked furious and his nostrils flared up. He spotted Ed as Ed walk by him.

"WHERE'S THE PUNK WHO FIRED MY SISTER?" he boomed.

Ed stopped and titled his head at the stallion. "Huh?"

"WHERE'S THE MANAGER?" The stallion clarified loudly.

Ed smiled and pointed to where Flash was. "Oh he's right over there!"

The stallion nodded to Ed in thanks before he stomped his way over to Flash while Ed walked out the door.

Flash was finishing up cleaning up the mess on the counter in a grumpy mood when he noticed he was covered by a dark shadow. He slowly looked up to see an angry stallion, looming over him.

Flash gulped. "Uh...hi?"

"ARE YOU THE MANAGER?" The stallion demanded loudly.

"Er...yes. Yes I am. How can I--"

The stallion suddenly punched Flash right in the face, knocking Flash down to the floor. After Flash lost his conscious, the white stallion flexed his arm and let out a bellow.

"YEEEEEAAAAAHHH! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR MESSING WITH MY SISTER!"