//------------------------------// // Searching for Jobs and Going to School // Story: Bronze, Thunder, and Rain // by epicdonus1123 BOT //------------------------------// Chapter 5 The next morning, I awoke to a sound of chatting. I looked around to see that a crowd of ponies were surrounding us. The Mayor, Colgate, Carrot Top, Rainbow Dash, Derpy, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy, and a bunch of other ponies were watching us snore off without any issues! Rain and Thunder woke up then; they gave the same expression as me, shocked. Twilight Sparkle and The Mayor walked up to us. I'm assuming that Twilight's going to have to do what she does best. The funny thing is that we haven't, officially, met seventy-five percent of these ponies. "Excuse me," Here we go. "kind sirs and ma'am, but are you doing there?" The Mayor asked. "Sleeping, why do ya want t' know?" Thunder snapped back. "It's because that normal ponies sleep outside." Twilight jumped in. The fact that she said we weren't normal isn't something Twilight would say; she must be cranky. "Okay, we're not normal. So what?" "So, it'd mean that your in some sort of trouble, I presume." Why was Twilight talking so differently, first rudely now elegantly? "Yeah, we are." Rain faintly said. "What kind of trouble are you in?" The Mayor questioned us. "Financial." I spoke. "Money issues? I believe that we can help you with that." The Mayor replied. She turned around and told the crowd to go back to their lives. She, then, told us to stand up and to follow her, so we did. She lead us to the rent house, and we immediately stepped back. "What's wrong? It's just a house." she stated. "But it's fer rent, and we said that we have financial problems." Thunder responded. "Don't worry about that, because I'm letting you have it for free-" "Really?" Rain quietly asked. "Yes, you guys don't have to worry about the first month's bill. However, you do have to pay the rest of them." "Deal." I suddenly agreed to her offer. She gave me the contract to the house, and a pen. I put the pen in my mouth, and wrote down my signature. She gave a welcoming smile, and we walked in. It was a moderate sized home; Rain immediately ran towards the bathroom, whereas Thunder and I walked into the living room. We sat down on the couches. We could hear some rumbling from the hallway, probably Rain fixing up her hair. Wait a minute, what time is it? "Hey Thunder, " he looked at me, "what time is it?" "Ugh...how am I supposed to know?" "I just thought ya knew, because Rain has t' go t' school." I replied. "Yer right, hey Mayor!" Thunder ran out of the house. Boringly, I started to think about our advantages and disadvantages of being ponies. Advantages: I could use, one hundred percent, magic, Rain can, one hundred percent, fly, and Thunder could do fifty-fifty. I heard that average pegacorns could barely fly, probably fly for about fifty feet in one liftoff, and they could only perform certain magic, whatever is related to their cutie mark. Oh yeah, the disadvantages: I don't know how to use my horn, Rain-her wings, or Thunder- his horn or wings. How unique, a unicorn, a pegasus, and a pegacorn who don't know how to use their abilities. Though, Rain won't be so lonely, for I also heard that the schoolgirl, Scootaloo, doesn't know how to fly. I don't want to ask Twilight Sparkle, Colgate, Rarity, or any other unicorn how to use magic. Suddenly, Thunder ran through the door. "Woah Thunder, calm down!" "I can't 'cause school hours are startin' right now!" he exclaimed. "Oh cuff, Rain!" "What!?" "Go t' school, now!" She saw the seriousness in my eyes, and ran out the door. When she was gone, I looked at Thunder. "I gotta go." "Donde?" Before we left, my big sister was teaching us Spanish; we speak some words to practice it. "A job! We gotta go, and get jobs!" He nodded, and we were off. We opened the door, stepped out, and closed it. "Great, now where 're we goin' t' work at?" Thunder asked. "I don' know about ya, but I'm goin' t' work at Sugarcube." I replied. "Well, I'm goin' t' work with Rainbow!" "But ya don' know how t' work yer wings!" As you can tell, my voice was getting more country. "Oh yeah? Watch me!" He stood back, opened his wings, and started running. Aerodynamically, his wings started to catch air. He started to rise up, and in a few short seconds, he was flying like a professional. "When did ya learn yer wings?" "While ya were asleep 'n th' hospital." Interesting, he didn't tell me the whole story behind it. "Can ya use yer horn?" "Ya." I could see his face cringe as he started up his horn, indicating that it might not work. Eventually, his face was puckered to the slightest, and his horn erupted. Though his horn was in tact, he came crashing down to the ground. "Dude, are ya okay!?" I pondered in a melancholic tone. "Y..yeah. I'm alright." "Are ya sure!? Ya looked pretty beat up back there!" "I'm fine!" "M'kay." I picked his up, and threw him onto his hooves. He dusted himself off; he walked away. I decided to leave him be, since I caused him his pain. I started to go to Sugarcube Corner. Amazingly, it wasn't that far away from our house; it was a simple hike there. I stood outside the building, waiting in hesitation. "Here I go, m' first job." I mumbled to myself as I walked into the building. Instantly, a outrageous pink pony charged up to me. "Hi there, who and how are you!? I am Pinkie Pie!" Was she expecting me? "Hi, Bronze, good, and nice t' meet ya." "You talk like Applejack; are you related to her!?" "No." "Aww, that's to bad! It would've been cool if you were her cousin or something like that." "Yeah, that've been fun." "Yeah! It would have been fun!" "Hey Pinkie-" "Yesseroo!" "I'd like t' apply fer a job." "Where?" "Here, got any openin's?" "I don't know, silly! Let me ask the Cakes!" She ran up the stairs in the back. I, impatiently, started to tap on random things. I'd always make music out of random things in my environment, for it was a good way to pass the way. I, then, heard some rumbling on the ceiling. Pinkie, miraculously, ran down the stairs in a blink of the eye. "Hi, hi, hi!" "Um, hi?" "I've got good news for you!" "Shoot." "The Cakes accepted you!" "Really, that quick?" "Yepperoni!" "What did ya tell 'em?" "I told them that you were applying! They looked at Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake, for some reason, and said that they accept." "Awfully quick decision 'f ya ask me." "Yup!" "M'kay, when d' I start workin'?" "Right now!" "Right now, as in right now, right now?" "Yes!" "Interesting. Ya want me t' start workin' right now?" "That's what I said, silly!" "M'kay. Show me th' ropes!"