I awoke from the knock from my door. Huh, my third day in Equestria finally begin, you know, I should get a Calendar, scratch that, I need a Calendar! How in the world can I know what day it is? Oh well, I guess it is time to get up anyway.
I got off the bed and put on my clothes and also grabbed my Megaphone Hacking Gun, just to be safe. I headed over and open the door, revealing Twilight and Spike.
"Hey Ren, sorry if I woke up too early." Twilight said with a sheepish smile.
"Nah, I'm good Twilight, so what's up?" I asked.
"Well I was heading over to Applejack's farm to help, and I was thinking if you could come and help me out as well?" She asked. Hmm, I guess why not, besides I could use some practice with the Hacking Gun.
"Sure, let's go." I said as we headed out to Applejack's farm. That party yesterday was so amazing, we had cake, drank some apple cider, but I partly refused at first because you know, it wasn't good for you back in my world, but here, all they do is just use apples to make it so good and sweet. Then, the dancing, okay, I'll admit, I'm not much of a good dancer, but what the heck? I gave it a go, besides nobody mind if my dance was terrible anyway.
Anyway, we finally arrived to the barn, where we met up with Applejack.
"Well howdy Twilight, I see you brought Spike and Ren to help out, eh?" Applejack asked.
"Yep, that's right." Twilight nodded her head.
"Anytime Applejack, so now let's get to work, then?" I said as we began to harvest many apples, but there were so many of them, how does she do it?
I came up to one of the apple trees and looked at it for while. This is going to be difficult to get some out of that tree, but suddenly, I heard a whacking sound as I turned to see Applejack, who was kicking the tree, causing many apples to fall down. I also noticed Twilight using her magic to bring many apples down, lucky them.
Hmm, maybe I could try to do something with my Hacking Gun. I set my Hacking Gun to 'Knock-back' and pointed it at the tree.
"Okay, Knockback!" I shouted as a beam of wind came out of the Hacking Gun and hit the tree, causing a dozen of apples to fall down, much to my joy.
"Awesome!" I exclaimed until a couple of apples hit my head. "OW!" I shouted in pain. I heard some snickering coming from the mares from the performance I did, much to my chagrin. I also noticed Spike sitting lazily on Twilight's back, lucky dragon.
"Good job Ren, but next time, try to do it off a distance." Applejack said as she continued to kick more apple trees.
We continued to harvest apples, and thanks to the harvesting, I was starting to get more better on using the Hacking Gun. I only got it for a couple of days, and now I feel like I already had experience with it.
Once we were done, we group up together and began walking back to the barn.
"Thank you kindly Twilight and Ren, for helping me out. I bet Big Macintosh I could get all these golden delicious in the barn by lunchtime." Applejack thanked with a hop, while Spike was on Twilight's back tossing out Apples with a "Nope" for each one. "If I win, he's going to walk down stir up street in one of grandma's girdles!" I couldn't hold in my laughter upon hearing that bet.
"Okay...that would be something I would like to see!" I exclaimed happily. Just imagine, a big pony like him wearing a old lady outfit, now that would be the most funniest thing I've ever seen! Oh boy, where's a camera when you need one?
"I know, right?" Applejack asked as she laughed alongside me.
"No problem at all, Applejack. I'm glad the goal is lunchtime. All this hard work is making me hungry!" Twilight replied as her belly started to growl, much to her embarrassment. Come to think of it, I never had anything for breakfast. I guess why not to eat some apples for breakfast.
"I know, right?" Spike interrupted, as he tossed another apple which bounced off of Twilight's head, much to her annoyance.
"Oh really, Spike? You've been lounging on my back all morning while WE worked!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Exactly!" Spike responded. "You guys were taking SO long that I missed snack time!"
"No offense Spike, but Twilight is right. It would've been nice if you could help us besides worrying about food." I said which caused my stomach to growl. I laughed nervously upon this, well this was embarrassing. "Well I guess we better get some food. Besides, we already finish harvesting the apples anyway."
Spike continued sorting through the apples in the baskets, tossing out ones that he didn't like for some reason, I don't know. "AHA!" I glanced at him and saw that he pulled out a bright red shiny apple from the basket.
Twilight and I licked our lips upon seeing it. "Oh, Spike! That looks delicious!" Twilight said locking her eyes on it. Unfortunately, Spike immediately swallow the whole thing in his mouth and ate it.
"Spike!" Twilight scolded him.
"What?" Spike asked, oblivious to know the glares we gave him.
"Spike, couldn't you share that apple with us?!" I asked, starting to get more hungry. Aw well, we have plenty of apples, so I guess I eat some and be happy about it. Suddenly, Spike started to feel sick for some reason. "Spike you okay?" I asked in worry.
"Don't worry Ren, I'm fine-" Suddenly, Spike immediately burped something out of his mouth, which was a scroll! Okay, what the heck? How the heck did that appear?
Twilight gasped upon noticing it. "It's a letter from Princess Celestia!"
"How can you tell?" I asked.
"Well she always write letters to me and puts an insignia on her letters." Twilight showed me the insignia, it was a golden mark on it, and if you took a closer look, it has a sun marking on it.
"Oh okay, but why would Princess Celestia messages come out of Spike?" I asked curiously.
"Well, she thought it would be a good idea to send me messages like that." Twilight said smiling sheepishly. Sending messages through a dragon? I...don't think that's the weirdest thing I've seen since I first arrived in Equestria.
"Yeah right..." Spike muttered.
"So, what's it say?" Applejack asked.
Spike grabbed the letter and cleared his throat. He opened the letter and read what was inside. "Here ye, Here ye! Your grand royal highness, Princess Celestia, of Equestria is pleased to announce the Grand Galloping Gala to be held in the magnificent capital of Canterlot on the 21st day of...yadda yadda yadda..." Oh man, did he seriously skip some of the part? I need to know what month we're in or even the day! I seriously need a calendar. "Cordially extends an invitation to Twilight Sparkle plus one guest!"
Both Applejack and Twilight gasped upon hearing this. "The Grand Galloping Gala!" They exclaimed in unison as they began to jump around and dance, repeating the same words over and over again.
"Um...what's the Grand Galloping Gala?" I asked, which caused them to gasp and looked at me in shock.
"You don't know what the Grand Galloping Gala is?!" Twilight asked.
"No..that's why I ask. Twilight, did you forget that I'm not from around here?" Twilight blushed upon realizing this.
"Oh...right..ha ha. Anyway, it's only THE annual royal ball held in Canterlot!" Twilight exclaimed in happiness.
"So what you're saying is...a fancy theme party, right?" I asked, which they nodded. Well, count me out, I'm not that type of person who is good in fancy parties, I don't even how to act fancy besides my politeness and optimism towards others. "I...see..." I muttered, not feeling interest in it. Spike looked annoyed and he opened his mouth to make a disgusted look, well, at least there somepony else who thinks the same thing as me. Suddenly, Spike burped out two golden tickets.
"Look! Two Tickets!" He announced.
"Wow! Great! I've never been to the Gala, have you Spike?" Twilight asked in excitement.
"No! And I plan to keep it that way! I don't want any of the girly frilly froo-froo nonsense." Spike replied crossing his arms in a huff.
"Yeah me too, I'm...not good in fancy parties." I said with a awkward smile.
"Aw, come on Spike, Ren! A dance would be nice!" Twilight complained.
"Nice?" Applejack interrupted. "It's a heap good more than just nice. I'd love to go. Land sakes, if I had an apple stand set up, ponies would be chowing our tasty vittles till the cows came home."
"Really, why's that?" I asked.
"Do you have any idea how much business I could drum up for Sweet Apple Acres?" I shook my head from Applejack's question. "Why, with all that money, we could do a heap of fixing up around here. We could replace that saggy old roof, and Big Macintosh could replace that saggy old plow, and Granny Smith could replace that saggy old hip. Why, I'd give my left hind leg to go to that gala."
"Okay...." I said awkwardly, well that's...one reason for you to go to the Gala.
"Oh...well in that case..since both Spike and Ren won't go..would you like to-"
"Are we talking about the Grand Galloping Gala?!" Twilight was cut-off as Rainbow Dash fell on top of me.
"OW!" I exclaimed.
"Whoops, sorry." Rainbow said sheepishly as she got off of me. Well, didn't see that one coming.
"Rainbow Dash! You told me you were too busy to help me harvest apples! What were you busy doing? Spying?" Applejack demanded in a suspicious manner.
"No!" Rainbow Dash immediately responded but acted all nervous. "I was..busy napping." Of course you were Dash. "And I just happened to hear that you have an extra ticket?" Rainbow Dash looked at the golden tickets, oh boy, this can't be good.
"Yeah but..."
"Yes!" Rainbow Dash said interrupting Twilight once again. "This is so awesome! The Wonderbolts perform at the Grand Galloping Gala every year! I can see it now...."
"Isn't the Wonderbolts that famous Air Relay Team in Equestria?" I asked remembering something about them.
"You know it!" Rainbow Dash said giving me a hard pat on the back. "If I can show them my moves, I'm sure to be a Wonderbolt in a flash! Twilight, you have got to take me!"
"Wait a minute, you want to go there just because you want to show off your moves to the Wonderbolts?" I asked in disbelief. Rainbow nodded her head happily as I gave out a blank stare. "You have got to be kidding me..." I muttered in disbelief.
"Now hold your horses, Rainbow!" Applejack shoved me away and leered at Rainbow Dash. "Twilight already asked me to come with her to the Gala first."
"Well actually-"
"So?! You don't own it, Applejack!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed once again interrupting Twilight. They both glared at each other into each other's face. "I'll hoof-wrestle you for it!"
"You're on!" Both of them ran over to a stump and began 'hoof-wrestling' each other for the ticket. I got up and rubbed off some dirt out of me. I shook my head at them for their complete stubborness, they act just like kids.
I walked to Twilight and Spike, who were watching Applejack and Rainbow fight over the ticket. "So should we leave them like this?" I asked.
"Yeah...let's go.." Twilight said as we left them to solve their own business, you know, something tells me that the others won't solve this golden ticket issue in a friendly manner.
"Ooh, what am I going to do? Who should I choose?" Twilight asked as she looked at her ticket. She was still indecisive on who to go with. Anyway, we were walking around town to eat something for lunch since a little somepony completely forgot we were even here and was busy hoof-wrestling with her own friend.
"It'll take some time Twilight, you just need to make the right choice." I shrugged. Suddenly, we accidentally bumped into somepony, causing Twilight to drop the tickets.
"Are those...?" Oh no, please don't tell me who I think it is. I open my eyes to see a familiar pink pony gasping loudly as she read the description of the golden tickets. "Tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala!?" Oh boy, this can't be good.
"Let me guess, you want to go too?" I asked.
"Yes!" She said as she pulled my hand and dragged me to...where the heck am I? I was some weird place a little kid would come up, as confetti and streamers started to rain down on some party. "It's the most amazing incredible tremendous super-fun wonderfully humongous parties in all of Equestria!" I've always always always wanted to go!"
"Wait a minute, where am I? What the heck's happening?!" I exclaimed in shock as some music began to play as Pinkie Pie began to sing, dragging me further into the imaginative world.
Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me
Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me
Hip hip
Hooray!
It's the best place for me
For Pinkie!
"Uhh, Pinkie!? I have no idea where you took me, and I want to come back to reality now!" Unfortunately, my please were ignored as the mare continued describing everything she expected to see at the Grand Galloping Gala! Seriously, what's happening?!
"With decorations like streamers and fairy-lights and pinwheels and piñatas and pincushions!" Pinkie smacked a piñata with a stick, sending candy flying everywhere as she dragged me over to more of what she wanted to see. "And goodies like sugar cubes and sugar canes and sundaes and sun beams and sarsaparilla! And I get to play my favorite-est of favorite games like Pin the Tail on the Pony!"
Pinkie poked the tail for the game on the board on a wall, only for me to yelp at a sharp prick on my butt. I turned around, finding a fake tail sticking on my butt, causing me to be more shock than ever.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME!?" I screamed out as my brain has already exploded several times seeing this. Now am I questioning the logic in this world.
Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me
Oh the Grand Galloping Gala is the best place for me
'Cause it's the most galarrific superly-terrific gala ever
In the whole galaxy
Wheeee!
Suddenly, me and Pinkie were brought back to reality, where I was stuck in a fetal position, my pupils shrink as I began to rock myself in fear.
"Ren? Are you okay?" Spike asked, as he, Twilight and Pinkie looked over me in worried and confusion.
"Is there any way you guys can knock me out from what I just experience just now?" I asked as I began to suck my thumb, I want my mommy, for reals this time!
"Aww, I guess I accidentally brought Ren into my head, oops." Pinkie said sheepishly, which made Twilight and Spike confused on what she meant.
"There is something completely wrong with you!" I exclaimed, not that Pinkie mind. "How did you do that?! Where was I?! Why was there a fake pony tail on my butt?!"
"Yep, I made him crazy alright. One second everypony!" Pinkie said as she took out a large hammer out of her mane, I looked closer and saw some letters on it that says "Forget Everything that Made You Go Bonkers because of Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Breaking", wait, what the heck?! Is she pulling more crazy stuff at me?! "This will hurt only a second."
"Wait what-" Before I could finish, I immediately blacked out. Five seconds later, I started to wake up and saw Twilight and Spike with widen eyes and Pinkie..grinning for some reason. Wait, what just happen?
"Uh...Why am I on the ground and sucking my thumb?" I asked noticing my thumb in my mouth.
"Oh nothing, I was just singing a song about what would I do at the gala." Pinkie responded as she had the tickets resting on her nose.
Unfortunately, the tickets were taken off of Pinkie's nose as they were encased in a blue aura. We followed the blue aura, only to find Rarity was the one who took them.
"Grand Galloping Gala Tickets?!" She exclaimed, squealing in delight. "I design outfits for the Gala, but never have I ever attended!" Oh no...
"Oh no..." Twilight groaned as yet another of our friends wanted to go with their own reasons.
"Oh, how I would love to go to the Gala! Oh Canterlot! The society and culture...and that's where I am destined to meet...'him'..."
"Him?" I asked. "Who are you talking about Rarity?"
"Why Princess Celestia's nephew, Prince Blueblood." Rarity swooned as she started to go to her fantasy. I looked at her with widen eyes upon hearing about this, since when did Princess Celestia have a nephew?!
"Oh, a handsome princes, and an eligible unicorn stallion. I would arrive at the ball, wearing my best made gown specifically designed for the Gala, and our eyes would meet. We would fall in love, courting me like the gentlecolt he is, and then, when the time is right, he would ask me for my hoof in marriage, and of course I would answer 'Yes'! The stallion of my dreams as my husband, a royal wedding, and I will be his princess!"
So she wants to go to the Gala to meet a prince and date him to live happily ever after? That's seem farfetch'd but whatevs.
"But...what if he isn't that type of guy-I mean, stallion you think and talk about?" I asked.
"Oh nonsense Ren, I just know he's so charming and handsome, and...dreamy...." Rarity was once again in fantasy land as she continued to daydream of meeting the prince.
"Right..." I said as I took away the tickets from her and was giving them back to Twilight, but then suddenly, a white rabbit grabbed them from my hands.
"What the?! Hey!" I exclaimed as I chased after the rabbit. The rabbit continued to hop over and over until he skidded to a halt in front of Fluttershy.
"Oh...H-hello, Ren." She greeted me nervously.
"Oh hey Fluttershy, sorry but your pet rabbit just stole Twilight tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala." I said as I realized what I just said. Oh god dang it!
"The Grand Galloping Gala?!" Fluttershy asked, sounding a little excited with her quiet voice. "Oh, Angel, that's perfect."
"His name...is Angel?" I asked in a blank expression. You have got to be kidding me right now, it's name should be Devil after it did just now. I glared at the rabbit, who led his tongue out at me, which I did the same. I prefer a dog or a cat any day.
"So, why do you want to the Gala so badly?" I asked. I bet it has something animal related to this.
"Umm...well, it's not actually the gala itself that interests me....I'm actually more interested in the gardens at the castle." Yep, I called it. "There's a lot of interesting flowers there, and even cute little animals, some of them not even anywhere in Equestria. I want to go there and see every single critter and be their friend." Wait, animals that aren't from Equestria? I thought that Equestria was the only place in this whole planet? Huh, I guess I was wrong.
"I...see...." I said as I grabbed the tickets from Angel's mouth, as I let out my tongue and pull my eye at him. Ha, that'll show you to never mess with me!
"Hey!" Oh boy, I turned around to see Rainbow Dash flying in, landing in front of me and glared at me and the tickets I had in my hands. "So...you think you can just take those tickets for your own, huh Ren?!"
"And something tells me that you lost the hoof-wrestling to Applejack, right?" The blue Pegasus growled in anger, yep, I was right, she's just too stubborn to admit it.
"Whatever! That's none of your business Loodan! Now give me those tickets!" Rainbow then lunged at me and pushed me to the ground and swiped the tickets, only for the others to try and get them first.
"Hey, Twilight gave me her other ticket first, Rainbow Dash!" Applejack exclaimed.
"No, me!" Pinkie said as she popped up underneath me, and bumping my chin with her hard skull.
Soon, the five mares began to argue with each other, all for just one golden ticket. I feel as though this reminds me of that one time when I watch that move, Willy and the Chocolate Factory, when that young poor boy found the last golden ticket and soon, pretty much everybody started to try to fight over the ticket by either giving him money, or free stuff, and this scene right here, is almost exactly like it!
I noticed Twilight was started to have some troubles too, apparently. She has a difficult time on who to pick and was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. No, this has to stop, I don't want to see my new friends to fight each other for just a measly golden ticket.
"ENOUGH!" I shouted as I shot my Hacking Gun towards them, which caused them to be froze in shock because I set it onto 'Paralyze'. They began to get shocked and frozen from the affects until it was done. Once so, everypony looked at me with angry glares.
I let out a sigh and looked at them with a stern expression. "I have had it with you all! You all are fighting over this ticket like you're kids or something, well I had enough of this! I understand you guys have reasons to go to the Gala, well at least some have really good reasons other than selfish ones!" Rainbow growled at me for mentioning that.
"The point is that Twilight had the tickets first! So she decides who gets the other ticket, so stop fighting each other or else!" I exclaimed in anger, silencing the five mares completely, well except for Rainbow Dash.
"Yeah, or else what?" Need you even ask? I held up my Hacking Gun and pointed it towards her, causing her to widen her eyes in shock upon realizing what I can do. "Oh....right...." Rainbow said as she completely shut her mouth once and for all.
I put my Hacking Gun behind me and softened my expression. "Good, now remember, we're Twilight's first actual friends since she came to Ponyville. So please don't stress her out." I said as I stuffed the tickets in my hoodie pocket. I gestured Twilight and Spike to follow me to go and eat at a food joint, because I can't think on an empty stomach.
After that discussion was settled, me, Twilight, and Spike headed to a nearby restaurant, looking over the menu.
"Finally, do you guys hear that?..." I asked.
"Hear what, Ren?" Spike asked raising a brow.
"Yep, that's right, nothing....silence." I whispered towards them. Spike snickered upon realizing that, I just hope those girls just calm down and talk about this in a friendly way.
Anyway, I looked at the menu and became confused by all the food names. "Uhh, is there any normal food? Because I see way too many...flower meals." I asked.
"Well, that's what ponies eat, Ren." Spike said, taking a sip of his soda. Oh that's right, they're ponies, of course they have to eat something non-meat, I didn't real think of that.
"Actually, I never did knew about your kinds find diet, Ren." Twilight pointed out.
"Oh yeah, we ate some kind of stuff like vegetables, fruits, junk food, meat, and-"
"Whoa whoa whoa, hold up, did you say...meat?!" Spike asked widening his eyes at me. Why would he-
Oh..dang it.
"Wait...you're saying, that you and your kind eat meat?!" Twilight exclaimed as everypony from the restaurant looked at us in confusion.
"Yeah, I'm so sorry, I didn't really mean to bring it up that like! I didn't know you guys didn't eat-"
"I get it Ren! Just keep your voice down!" Twilight said putting her hoof on my mouth. She turned to the other ponies and laughed nervously. Everypony looked at us for a while and just shrugged and went back to mind their own business. Phew, that was a close call.
"I'm sorry." I said sadly.
"It's okay Ren, though I'm surprise that you eat meat!" Twilight exclaimed quietly.
"Yeah I know...that's how we live, but don't worry, there are some animals we can't eat as they're known as endangered animals since their population is decreasing, so we only eat animals that population will last for a very long time." I explained.
"I see...interesting." Twilight said both surprised and amazed to know this. "Well I'm sorry Ren, but you can't eat meat around Equestria, who knows what everypony would do if they found out." Actually, I never real thought of that, this will be a little secret of mine to keep from the others, including our new friends.
"Well...I guess I'm just gonna eat what they have in store here in Equestria, then." I said letting out a sigh.
"Just don't bring it to anypony, including our friends, okay?" Twilight asked. I nodded my head and we ordered our food, and we waited for our waiter to bring our food. While we wait, I looked over Twilight, who seemed a little bothered, probably because of her decision over who would go with her to the Gala.
"You okay, Twilight?" I asked feeling worried about her.
"...I-I'm fine." She said. She barely touched her beverage, messing around with the straw in her glass. "...I just don't know who to choose. I mean, if I go, and I choose one of them, then four of them will be disappointed. But if I give up my ticket to someone else, that still leaves three of them!" Twilight slammed her head on the table, I quickly moved her drink away before she spilled it all over herself. "It's an impossible mathematical problem that can't ever be resolved."
"Try not to stress too much about it Twilight." I said patting her head. "You need to relax a little more. I know you'll find the answer to this problem, after all, every puzzle has an answer." I said proudly.
"Yeah, he's right Twilight, you'll make the right choice." Spike added. Our food was brought out, I'm having a hay burger, Spike having hay fries, and Twilight ordering a plain daffodil and daisy sandwich.
Twilight thought for a while and smiled softly at me. "Yeah, I guess you're right, thanks Ren, and nice advice you gave me." Twilight said smiling happily at me, but should I tell her that I got that saying from a video game?
As we were about to eat our food, some ponies started to head inside for some strange reason. Wonder what's up with them?
"Excuse me." The waited said, getting our attention. "Are you sure you all want to eat your food in the rain?"
"Rain?" Me, Twilight, and Spike said in unison as we looked around and saw that the entire area was getting soaking wet, but from where we're sitting, it was just sunny and clear.
"That's weird, does this normally happen?" I asked.
"No..but who-"
"Hey you guys!" We looked up and saw a familiar blue Pegasus mare giving us a toothy grin, I also noticed a hole in the clouds devoid of any rain. "Don't wanna have lunch on such a crummy day, right?!"
"Rainbow Dash...are you trying to act nice around Twilight to make her choose you to go to the Gala?" I asked getting suspicious of her.
"What?! Pfft! No, I'm just making sure my two bestest friends in all of Equestria are completely dry!" I let out a sigh and gave her an annoyed look. "So, about that ticket..."
I grab my Hacking Gun and set it to 'Knock-Back' and pointed it towards her. "Knock-Back." I shot it, causing a gust of wind to blow the cloud away, and due to how strong it was, Rainbow Dash couldn't go through it and caused her to fall back to the ground.
"Well, looks like my lunch got spoil today." I said shaking my head at her.
"Twilight! There you are! I need to ask you something, mare to mare!" Huh? Twilight were suddenly snatched into a blue aura and was snatched away by Rarity.
"You have got to be kidding me, right now..." I muttered in disbelief. I got up and ran after them, why couldn't any of them listen to me?
I immediately looked around Ponyville in search of Twilight and Rarity. Hmm, if I was a fashionista mare, where would I be? I looked around until I notice a giant building that almost looks like a merry-go-round. Hmm, wait a minute, Rarity told me that she own a store call the Carousel Boutique, so if I'm right...yep, that has to be the place.
I rushed towards the place and charged through the doors, seeing Twilight being put on a dress by Twilight by Rarity.
"Rarity!" Rarity stopped and looked at me in surprise. "Rarity, are you really going to be that desperate to get her to take you to the Gala?!" I exclaimed as I took Twilight away from her as soon as she took off the outfit.
"Ren, what luck! I have a dashing outfit for you to wear that will go perfectly with your style! It took me all night but I finally got it right with your size!" Rarity said as she blinked innocently at me, like she was trying to win me over, well it ain't happening. "You could be my escort, until I meet Prince Blueblood, that is."
"No, that ain't happening!" I said poking her snout. "Stop being too nice to Twilight to make her choose you!" I exclaimed as I ran out of the boutique with Twilight.
"I think we lost them." I said as ran away five miles from Rarity. I know that mare is generous, but she's acting too generous.
"Thanks for saving me back there, Ren." Twilight thanked me.
"Anytime Twilight-Whoa!" Me and Twilight were immediately dragged away, I looked at my legs and saw a lasso wrapped around our feet. Oh god, please don't tell me its-
"Hey, good thing I caught you!" Applejack laughed at that ridiculous pun. Behind her was a cart filled to the brim with apple products, the tantalizing scent making Twilight's mouth water, well she wasn't the only one, I was too. I haven't any lunch since Rarity snatched Twilight away, forcing me to go find her. "I got some food I was hauling, and I thought you all might want some."
As much of our stomach's loud rumbling demanded food, Twilight snapped. "NO!If this is some kind of bribe, you're not making this easier for me! I don't know who I want to give the ticket to! I CAN"T DECIDE!"
She ran off, leaving me and Applejack stunned at what she said. I glared back at Applejack for what she did as she smiled nervously at me. "Uhh, was that a maybe?" She asked.
"Are you serious right now, Applejack?! Bribing her with food?! What's wrong with you?!" I exclaimed in anger as I ran after for Twilight, she probably headed back home.
As I ran to the library, I eventually caught up with Spike, he probably heading to the library too. "Ren, what happened to Twilight?! I saw her running by and she was crying!"
"I don't think her friends are helping her make her decision more easier. She's getting more and more stressed by their 'generous'." I explained as we finally arrived to the Golden Oak Library.
But as soon as I open the door, I saw Fluttershy and a bunch of animals skittering around the place, cleaning the entire library. My eye twitched upon realizing what was Fluttershy trying to do and while she was singing a tune, a very catchy tune.
"Not you too, Fluttershy." I said in a blank expression.
"Oh, hello, Ren. Spike." Fluttershy said, noticing us coming from the doorway. "I saw Twilight come in the library, and I thought I could help her do some spring cleaning."
"...It's summer." Spike said, trying not to be angry at the timid mare. Wait, it's summer? Huh, well at least I know which season we're in.
"Oh...W-well, better late than never, right?" Fluttershy gave us a nervous grin, only making me groan.
"Spike, go and check on Twilight, please." The dragon nodded, making his way upstairs to the living area of the tree-bary. "Fluttershy, I'm going to have to ask you to leave, along with all your animal friends. Please. Twilight does not need this right now." I hated to see Fluttershy sad like that, but she left, along with her little friends.
The last to leave was the demon bunny, Angel, leaving a bowl of salad as he wore a chef's hat and apron, yeah, that maybe cute, but now's not the time.
"You told her to do this to get the ticket, didn't you?" I guessed. Angel stuck his tongue out at me, then hopped away after his owner, I closed the door behind me and let out a sigh. "Can today get any worse?"
The door suddenly swung open as confetti shot out at me from outside. "SURPRISE!"
"Oh no..." Pinkie suddenly appeared out of nowhere, as usual and grabbed me and flung me into a large group of mares as a song began to play as I was lifted into the air by the mob as if we're celebrating my birthday or something.
Rennie is my bestest friend
Whoopie, whoopie!
"Pinkie," I said as I was tossed in the air.
He's the coolest, strongest, all around best pony, pony!
"Pinkie." I began to sound a little annoyed as I was flipped around from another toss up.
I bet if I throw a super-duper fun party, party!
"Pinkie!" I was starting to get angry at this mare, I swear to god.
He'll give Twilight's extra ticket to the Gala to meeeeee!
"PINKIE PIE!!!!!" While I was tossed up in the air one last time, the group of mares backed away as I landed on my feet, glaring at the random pink pony with a twitching eye. "At least the others were subtle, but you have to sing a song about the stupid ticket!?"
"What ticket?" One of the mares asked, prompting me to shut my moth before it's too late.
"Oh, Rennie here is just holding onto Twilight's tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala." That mare will be the death of me.
Soon, the mares began to crowd me like I was some superstar, but all they just wanted was the ticket.
"...Well, there's only one thing to do....RUN AWAY!" I said as grabbed my Hacking Gun and shot 'Paralyze' at them, causing them to be frozen in shock, literally.
This was my chance as I ran away from the crazy mob and ran away as fast as I can. Soon, the effects were starting to wear off as all the mares started to chase after me.
"GET BACK HERE!" The angry mob screamed out.
"WWWAAHHHHH!" I screamed as I tried to avoid them at all cost. I managed to give them the slep around the corner of a building, pressing myself against the wall as they blindly passed by him. Phew, I think they're gone.
As I tiptoed my way back to the library, one of the mares spotted me, getting their attentions.
"THERE HE IS!" They exclaimed in unison.
"NO WAIT STOP! CAN'T WE JUST TALK THIS THROUGH?!" I exclaimed as I kept running away around town from them. I eventually spotted the Golden Oaks Library and opened the door, closed it once I got inside, and locked it.
"Phew...that was a close one." I said to myself.
"Hey Rennie! Where were you?" I was immediately face-to-face with Pinkie, who only grin at me.
I glared at her for what she done and said "You know darn well where I was! Is your brain the sized of chewed up bubble gum or something?! I was almost chased to death by those mares because of your shenanigans! Thanks a lot for getting me chased by a mob of mares that wanted to try to go out with me for Twilight's tickets, Pinkie Pie!"
"You're welcome!" I twitched my right eye and face-palmed at Pinkie's obliviousness to his sarcasm.
I started to hear some hoofsteps coming down the stairs, as I saw Twilight slowly coming down with the letter in her aura. Spike came down as well as the other girls were also here as well. Wait, where were they the entire time?! What, where they watching me get chased by those crazy mares?! Geez, thanks for the help you guys.
"Ren? Are you okay?" She asked in a worried tone.
"Just please tel me that you made a choice, because I can't take it anymore than you can..." I said letting out a sigh.
"...I have made my decision." Twilight said, only to be interrupted by Rainbow Dash.
"Yes, that ticket is mine!" As she began to celebrate early, I aimed my Hacking Gun at her, growling angry at her. She must've saw how furious I was as she chuckled nervously and hid behind the others, not wanting to get electrocuted or push away by a gust of wind again. "Uhhh...sorry." Yeah, you better be.
"Anyway, as I was saying....I decided to choose...nopony." We all gasped in shock upon hearing this, so does that mean Twilight won't go to the gala? "I decided to take Ren's advice earlier today and after thinking so hard to choose which of you I wanted to take. I couldn't find the right solution, and after Applejack...I panicked and ran. But I managed to calm myself down and read a little to clear my head, and none of us going is the best solution to this problem." Using her magic, Twilight pulled the tickets out of my hoodie pockets and placed them in her scroll, rolling it up to be sent. "And I'm going to give these tickets back. They've been nothing but trouble to me ever since I got them." You can say that again.
"So...nopony's really going? At all?" Rarity asked, receiving nod from the lavender unicorn.
"I don't want to disappoint all my friends. I want to make all of you happy, but I can't do that with the limited blessings I can give." Twilight gave Spike the scroll, nodding at him to send it. The dragon took a deep breath and burned the letter and the tickets, a magical aura sending it to Celestia. "Inside that letter is exactly what I said out loud. And I don't care if I don't go. It's just a boring ball, anyway."
I managed to get up and patted Twilight on the shoulder. "Now, I think all of you girls need to say something to Twilight. Putting pressure on her for many dumb reasons to go to the Gala wasn't right." I said sternly.
"...He's right, sorry Twilight." Applejack apologized, the others apologized as well. They all soon surrounded us both in a group hug, you know, this is nice, I just hope they learn their lesson about this.
Suddenly, Spike started to gagged as he felt a belch coming up. "Oh come on Spike! Don't be insensitive with getting in touch with your soft side!" I said patting him on the back, which caused him to spit out another scroll. "...Oh...no offense, but I think there's gotta be another way for Princess Celestia to send messages."
"You can say that again." Spike agreed as he picked up the scroll. "My faithful student, why didn't you say so in the first place?" Appearing underneath the scroll, Spike pulled out six golden tickets. "Six tickets to the Gala!"
"That means we can all go!" Rainbow Dash said, cheering excitedly as each of the mares got their tickets. "Whoo hoo! Wonderbolts, here I come!"
Before they could truly celebrate, Twilight's stomach growled far louder than before, making her groan in hunger. "How about we buy you dinner, Twilight? We owe it to you for acting out like that for those tickets." Rarity suggested.
"I'd like that, Rarity." As the girls filed out of the library to eat out, they left me and Spike behind. Wait a minute, Princess Celestia send Twilight two tickets, and when Twilight send them back after not deciding who to go with and seeing her friends fight each other and me getting chased by those mobs of mares, Princess Celestia finally given her six tickets, like she planned this all along.
Oh.
"Oh, for a princess, she's quite clever." I muttered realizing what she just did, so this was one of Twilight's friendship lessons, well that's kinda one way to learn about Friendship, but next times, it's best if she doesn't take this far towards me. I noticed Spike feeling a bit disappointed, much to my confusion. "Spike, what's wrong?" I asked.
"It's...nothing, it's just that...well..."
"You wanted to go to the Grand Galloping Gala, huh?" I guessed, much to his surprise.
"W-well..uh...fine, it's true." He admitted it, making a disappointed expression.
"Well I can understand, but you know, it would've been nice to go too." I said sadly. Okay, I admit, the Grand Galloping Gala seems very fun, but it looks we're not going. Spike soon let out another belch, another scroll landing in his claws.
"Huh? Another one?" I asked raising a brow.
Spike open it up, revealing two more golden tickets. "And one for Spike and Ren." Spike and I widen our eyes upon realizing that Princess Celestia is letting us come too. We looked at each other with pure joy and excitement.
"Yes!" We exclaimed in joy as we ran outside and went giddy that we get to go to the gala, but we then stopped upon seeing Twilight and the others noticing our two golden tickets in our hands and smirked at us.
"Oh..uh...well we got two more to go." I said laughing nervously, which caused them to laugh at us. Yeah, smooth move Ren, smooth move.
To Be Continued