//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Time for some fun // Story: Vinyl and Octavia's roommate // by Element Reading //------------------------------// Prime's mother stayed for a couple of days, and in that time Prime had to deal with so many gripes from his mother, that he clean the whole house. Along with the dishes, and most of all, the cleaning of his room, it was covered in cobwebs and various materials spread around the room. All clean, but once she left prime had over a multitude of mares to dirty up his room again. Once all of that was done, Vinyl, Octavia, and Prime checked their bank accounts and realized that there was quite a bit there. Vinyl and Octavia's records made a lot of money. And Prime's new invention of the office telephone, so how do they use the extra cash? A big Wonderbolt show of course, what else? Prime was on the new telephone with his mother, "Mom... Mom.. No Mom.. Yes I'll bring you a shirt..... No I'm not partying..... But why?... Oh that's why... I said I got it!.... Yes Mom, sorry Mom.... Look I gotta go, my train will leave in a bit... Love you to, bye." He hung the phone up and saw Octavia standing in the doorway. "Forget what you heard hear today or I'll make your mother come over." She smiled and replied, "I won't tell, but I'll remember that, forever." She turned around and walked down. He sighed and looked around the room. "Wow, I need to clean." He got out of his wood chair and got out of the room, he went downstairs and saw Vinyl and Octavia ready to leave. Their saddlebags were on and they both had smiles. "Octy, I thought you hates sports, or stuff like this?" "Most of the time I do, but I'm still a pony, I have wants outside of the snooty chelloist I usually am." Vinyl snickered earning a sneer from Octavia. They walked out of the house and towards the train station, nothing really happened, just a bump into Derpy. Derpy and Prime had a very... Awkward conversation, but he did schedule another 'visit' to her house. Once they reached the train station they saw that it was unusually baron, there weren't any ponies on the platform. Prime walked to the ticket master and asked. "Where's everypony? Usually it's very crowded around here." "Actually it's just a slow day, most ponies are already at Canterlot for the show." "That's where we're going, it's gonna be awesome." "Wow, wish I could see it, but I booked their next show so yay." "Nice one, good day." "Good day." Prime walked away and waited with Octavia and Vinyl for the train. It didn't take long, maybe 10 minutes, but it felt like 20. The conductor collected their tickets and they got on. They walked near the back of the train, where there weren't any ponies. Prime laid in the whole seat, while Octavia and Vinyl took one for themselves. They felt the train jerk and start to move, Prime asked, "So, how long have you two known each other?" "Since we were foals, how else would a chelloist and a DJ live together who aren't in a relationship." "So you two aren't together, just friends?" She replied, "Of course, I love stallions, Vinyl, I'm unsure." Vinyl sat back with her hoofs behind her head nodding with a smile. "Right, ether way we aren't with each other." Prime finished jotting that down, "Thanks, this'll help." "Help what?" "I have a contact who was curious." Octavia was a bit confused, "Who?" "All I can say is he's another world's version of me." Octavia didn't know what to say, Vinyl was surprised, but she played it off like she didn't care. They rode the train for two hours, light chit chat, nothing too big. But when they pulled up to the station Prime looked out to see a whole bunch of ponies, most of them tourists, but still, crowds that big make him nervous. Octavia asked. "Prime? What's wrong?" "Crowds, never liked a group big enough to pound me to a bunch of sticks, most of the time, my fear came true." "Well, it's silly to think that now." They exited the train, only to hear a guard shout. "Timberwolf!" "Oh great." Was All Prime could say before 20 guards jumped on him. After half an hour of talking to the guards, and a few cracked sticks, Prime, Octavia, and Vinyl were finally making their way to the stadium. Prime said, "Told you." Octavia got annoyed and took the lead, Vinyl was smiling, Prime asked. "Um, are we late?" "No, we got half an hour to get in, we'll make it." "Good, good." They walked around the corner and saw a huge stadium with a large crowd of ponies in front of it, he saw banners of each Wonderbolt on the front, "Hey, I know her." He pointed to Rainbow Dash, "First time she saw me, my head was caved in. But we talked and well, you can guess." "You did it with a... Wow, I didn't give you enough credit Prime." "Thanks, now let's get in." They got to the front entrance, a white unicorn wearing a suit and dark sunglasses asked. "Tickets?" Vinyl floated their tickets to the guard, he looked over them for awhile, he handed them back to them and said, "You'll be in the special section, just go to the pit on the bottom, each of your seats will have numbers that match your ticket, enjoy the show." They walked past the guard, Vinyl walked through a gate security gate that put a spell on her horn, cancelling her magic. They walked passed the circle of shops and got out to the lowest ring, they saw a small circle that was marked 'special'. "This was a good idea Prime, splurging on these tickets." "Thanks, now we get to be special, not like the fillies on the short cart." "Prime!" shouted Octavia. "Sorry, it was wrong, but it's a nice spot, and we are special, I have brain damag-age-age-age." "Prime, now that was wrong." Prime was snickering, and Vinyl was laughing her lungs out, "Don't encourage him Vinyl." "No really, I have an abusive disorder that makes me beat myself to the point I bleed, and suffer through anxiety attacks more often than I'd like, so I can say that joke." Octavia didn't reply, she just walked away. They walked to the section, each seat had a number and a name, Octavia got Soarin, Prime got Spitfire, and Vinyl got Thunderlane. (I'm lazy, and I don't know a bunch of flight things for the show, so it'll be lacking) They heard an announcer shout, "And it's time, put your hoofs together for the Wonderbolts!" The Wonderbolts flew out of a door in the middle of the stadium, they flew up in a standard Wonderbolt formation with Spitfire in the middle, followed by Fleetfoot and Soarin, and finally Rainbow and Thunderlane. "Ya! Whoo!" Shouted Prime. The show lasted a good half hour, and every minute was magical. After they were finished each Wonderbolt flew down in front of the seats in the special section. Spitfire said. "Hello, I'm captain Spitfire, now with your ticket you also have 2 hours to chat with me, ask any questions you want, and maybe more. She winked at him. Octavia and vinyl followed their Wonderbolts to their meeting rooms, and Prime followed Spitfire. Prime and Spitfire passed a few doors, but at the middle of the hallway, they were in front of a solid metal black door, Spitfire opened it and he followed suit. The room was still in Canterlot style, quarts with elegant design, there was a decently sized couch in the back of the room, two chairs facing each other on the end of the room, and a bed right in the middle. Spitfire sat on the couch and patted the cushion, gesturing to come over. He sat next to her, she asked, "So, what'd do you wanna know?" "Well, what is it like being able to fly through the air faster than anything else?" "It feels, amazing, like nothing else, honestly, I've been asked that question so many times, and I still don't have an answer. So, what do you do?" He thought for a moment, "Well, I'm a violinist, and an inventor, I made the telephone, check it out next time you're in Manehattan, I feel like it'll get popular, I hope." "Wow, so you're one of those special minds?" "Kind of, I made a portal to contact other forms of myself and well, I found one, I'm actually going to be on his channel, whatever that is. But he let me see a telephone out and well, reverse engineering." Her eyes were wide, "Whew, and I thought I had good things." "Well, he asks for my help with a lot of his homework, and since he's an introvert, kind of like me, he doesn't really have... Any kind of social skills, took him to 16 to stop cracking up at the word, wood." (You're gonna pay for that!), "Whoa, what the?!" They looked around the room, trying to find the voice, but nothing, just dead silence. "Well, that was weird." "Totally." There was another awkward silence, until Spitfire asked. "You know, there's a reason I took to to this room, it's usually reserved for us to crash, after a show and an interview, we get pretty tired." "Um, cool, but the question still stands, why?" "Well, I have a thing for exotic creatures, you know, dragons, griffons, yaks," She placed her hoof on his shoulder, "Timberwolfs." He started to blush, "Well?" He replied, "Well.... What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" Time for some privacy, let's to to 2 hours later." Prime, Octavia, and Vinyl were walking out of the stadium and towards the train station, they were all smiling, but Prime's was so wide it looked like it hurt, Octavia asked. "I guess you had her then?" "Ya, and her address, she said next time she's in Ponyville, she'll come over." "Well, Soarin was very talkative, I had a nice time, Vinyl?" She pointed to her flank and nodded her head, "You didn't?" She nodded. Prime said, "High five Vinyl!" They high fived. "I guess we've all had a good time here, now lets get home, I need an ice pack." "I don't wanna ask." Replied Octavia. On the ride home, the train was packed, there was barely any room on there, but once they got in the house, Prime flopped on his bed and mumbled, "I'm never forgetting that," He heard a knock on the door, then Octavia opened it and talked for a bit with whoever it was, until she shouted. "Prime! It's for you!" He replied. "Send whoever up, I'm pretty tired!" He chanted, "Not my mother, not my mother, not my mother, not my mo-." He heard the door open and saw Spitfire, he asked, "So, round four?" "You know it." Replied Spitfire closing the door.