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// Town kook  
// Story: What the frick!?! "The book" 
// by Cool writer 
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	As we walked back home-
"Hey!" Some pony called out walking over. A weird-blue colored pony trotted over to us, and looked a little angry. "What are you two doing here!?!" He shouted at us. "I mean, why on earth would you end up here?!? It's just too cliche!"
"Do we... know you?" Lyra asked.
"Yeah! I only..." He stopped, and made a "derp face." "... am not supposed to be here. I'll be going now!" He squeaked, rushing off.
"You know who that was?" Jay asked.
"Some kook inventor who lives on the outskirts of town." Bonbon explained. "He's comepleatly-"
"Am not!" His voice called from a long way away. I looked at Lyra.
"He... sounded familiar..." I pondered, tapping my chin. Lyra nodded. 
"I know I've heard that voice before."



I'm I didn't sleep that night. I couldn't get it out of my head, where had I heard his voice before!?! I know it wasn't the show, so that means... I don't know what that means!! There's no way I could have heard that voice before, unless he interacted with the mane-six at one point, but I know "crazy-unicorn-in-a-cloak" never stopped by at a party... so I've got nothin. Any ways, like all insomniacs do, I was thanking g-... Celestia that the sun finally came up, and immediately went to work, doing anything to cure my boredom. I cooked breakfast. I can make a mean plate of scrambled eggs... sometimes... OK look, I'm still learning the process. But anyway, Eggs were the only option. It was the only dish I could make enough of to feed(/food-poison) everypony.
As I was cracking the eggs in the skillet, Lyra walked in, just as sleepy as I was.
"Were you thinking about that guy too?" I asked.
"Yeah." She yawned. "I was thinking, we should talk to him, figure out what he meant."
"He knew us, more importantly me, I've never been here before. I can understand Pinkie knowing because, come on, she's Pinkie. But this guy ain't no Pinkie Pie, and he knows something. I wanna know how." I said, filling myself with resolve and determination.



I knocked on the door. Nothing happened.
"You think he's home?" I asked.
"The better question is, do you think he's awake?" Lyra asked back. A few hoof steps sounded, and the door opened. On the other side was the alleged town kook, in a robe. He rubbed his eyes a bit, then squinted at us.
"You know, I've been really wanting, and waiting for ponies to stop being weirded out by me, but I never thought they'd wake me up early in the morning." He groaned. "My fault for not being specific with my wishes... Come in, make yourselves comfortable." he said, gesturing to the empty room. "If there are two things to learn about the world, they're: 'nothing's impossible,' and 'be specific with wishes'. You want any coffee?" He asked. I nodded, and he went into the kitchen, and came back a surprisingly short amount of time with a tray of 3 coffee cups, and some creamer. "I like my coffee white." He said, levitating the creamy brown drink to his lips. 
"Don't you mean, 'blonde'?" Lyra asked. He shook his head.
"No, I mean so blonde it's white!" He laughed a bit at his own joke.
... When it was clear we weren't going to laugh, he continued. "Enough about me, why are you two here? Just board, or are you looking for you're next adventure?"
"You know about me, and we wanted to see by how much." I said, narrowing my eyes at him.
"What do you mean? I don't know you, not at all..." He said. My eyes narrowed.
"Then what did you mean by that little 'episode' yesterday?" Lyra asked.
"I don't know what your talking about." He said. My eyes narrowed further.
"OK, I don't buy it." Lyra said. "You're a pretty good liar, I mean you're body language is all correct, but your word choice is oh so poor. You must have been caught unprepared." He sighed, and looked down.
"Fine, you got me." He groaned. "I'm actually...." Me and Lyra leaned in. "So not doing that." The pony grinned. "PEACE!" He exclaimed, teleporting away. Lyra groaned.
"Well, you got any four leaf clovers?" She asked. "Because we're either gonna need a lot of luck, or an amazing plan to get this guy."



"So... he teleported away from you?" Twilight asked. Lyra nodded. "He must be some wizard! Did you get a look at his cutie mark?" I shook my head.
"No, he was wearing a cloak the first time, and when we confronted him he had a bathrobe on." I sighed.
"I must admit that I've never actually seen this town kook." Twilight said. Lyra cocked her head to the side.
"Really? I can understand why I've never seen him, but... really? You?" Lyra asked.
"Yeah, I know! It's like he goes out of his way to make sure I never see him. I'll show up to a restaurant, and Pinkie or someone will say that I just missed him. Weird right?" We nodded in response. A familiar voice called from the other room.
"So, this book was OK but I really didn't like the ending." Twilight looked shocked.
"Really? I thought you would have loved it." She called back.
"Who's that?" I asked.
"Oh, him? That's Arc, he stops by for a book to read from time to time." Twilight explained. Then, in stepped the town wacko.
"It was just a little too obvious for me, I could see that twist coming a... mile..." He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw us. I waved at him with a smug grin on my face. He sighed.
"It was nice knowing ya' Twi." He said, walking past us to the door.
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked him, not picking up on who he was.
"I'm moving. Where? I don't know, but this is the last time I'll be here. So good-"
"OH no you don't!" Lyra tackled him. "I want answers, NOW."
"A little extreme, don't you think?" I giggled at Lyra.
"I got no sleep last night, NOTHING'S TOO EXTREME!!!" She shouted, the pony under her flailing about.
"Huh, she makes a good point." I said, as though I had thought it over. I then fell on top of the dog pile, causing him to make a sharp breath out, and flail even more. Then Bonbon came in.
"Princess? I'm looking for Lyra and somepony said they saw-" She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the scene before her. "Lyra." She said flatly from behind her face hoof. "I'm not even going to count, you're going to get up, and let that pony go."
"To be fair, I was a very minor annoyance." "Arc" said from below us. "But your friends removal from my everything would be much appreciated."
"What?" Lyra asked.
"GET HER THE BUCK OFF ME!"