//------------------------------// // A party, a new crush, and the car // Story: Retirement In Equestria // by Movingtarget Productions //------------------------------// Date: Monday, June 30, 2031 Time: 9:32 Status: I need food. TO TOWN BOIIIIIIIIIIII!! Thomas was moping about the house and happened to faceplant in his pantry door. He decided to open it up and saw that he needed food and supplies. He looked in Golden’s room to check on him, he then typed up a note telling him NOT to screw with a few items, printed it, then taped it to the inside of his door with red duct tape. Then he made some French-Press coffee. After the coffee, he sat around till noon then went out, went fishing for his trailer, got his truck, attached the trailer, then headed into town. meanwhile……………………………………………. Twilight was talking to her brother in her palace about the recent events when Pinkie Pie charges in like a Charger from Left 4 Dead 2, “TWILIGHT! I REMEMBERED SOMETHING!!!” she screamed. Twilight could have sworn she heard a window shatter. “What is it Pinkie?” Twilight asked in a deadpan tone. “Why don’t we throw Thomas a ‘Welcome to Equestria/Ponyville and Happy Equestrian Retirement’ party!” the pink mare said. “For once, that sounds like a great idea” Pinkie went to start listing what had to be done. And it was a long one. After the pink ball of 4th wall nuke finished the list, Twilight’s organized side booted up and she got to work on organizing the party while Shining Armor stood there absolutely confused. Pinkie went back to Sugarcube Corner and began making food. LOTS of food. Sometime later, the entire town heard about the human, and his home is right across the road from Applejack. Some ponies were nervous while a few meh, but Lyra went into her ‘human craze mode’ and was bouncing all over the place. Back with Thomas, he was weaving the truck around barrels and carts. The last thing on his list was to need to pay a repair bill. After the narrow streets, it was time to play ‘Let’s Pray to God I Don’t Kill a Pone’. He managed to get to the market and started buying food to restock his pantry. Then he walked to the Paint and Hardware stores and bought a bunch of building materials to build a small guest house. Afterward, he loaded the materials into the trailer then he saw ponies gathering at the town hall.  what's goin' on there? he wondered. He tried asking somepony but they didn't know. He decided to finish his shopping and by that time, it was around 5 o’clock so he went to the town hall. "SURPRISE!" was all Thomas got when he opened the door. He jumped back and fell in a hole and threw his back out. Fluttershy -bless her little soul- immediately saw his look of pain and hauled him out of the hole and set him in a chair and grabbed his first aid kit from the truck after figuring out how to open up the front and back passenger side doors because it’s one of those where the back door handle requires the front door to be opened to access it. After a bit of patching the poor human up, he got up and got a real good look at the party that was put together. “Who’s ide- never mind, I think I know who.” He said before yelling towards Pinkie, “Thanks Pinkie!” She just smiled. Later on, Thomas was sitting at a table trying to get his BPM back down because of Lyra Heartstrings. Flashback… Thomas had gone to the car to turn the truck off and trade his First Aid kit for his laptop. As he opened the driver’s side door, Lyra sprung out of the driver’s seat and he ran right back inside. End of flashback After a bit, there was a knock on the door and Rarity opened it, and there stood a very sexy anthro butterfly. She and Rarity exchanged greetings and they went to the table Thomas was at. Thomas had brought out a secondary laptop and he and Button Mash were playing Minecraft so they weren’t paying attention. Rarity brought her over and tapped Thomas on the shoulder. “What’s up Rarity?” Thomas asked and paused his game. “I have someone to introduce to you darling.” Rarity said while motioning to her friend behind her “Holy shit,” He said awestruck at the beauty in front of him, “Who is this beauty?” She stepped forward and was blushing a bit, “I’m Lumina Crystalina. You must be Thomas Matthew, Rarity has told me quite a bit about you.” It was Thomas’s turn to blush, “C’mon Rarity. How much did you tell her?” “Everything.” Rarity smiled. Thomas facepalmed in embarrassment which caused several ponies to laugh a bit. “Now you know how I feel.” Button Mash said with a smirk. “Shut up.” Thomas said jokingly. Both boys shared a laugh. Afterward, the party winded down and everyone had left. Thomas decided to stick around to clean up. Same with his friends. “I’m gonna run home, drop my things off, grab my shop-vac, and come back in the Forester. Be back in 5 minutes.” Thomas said while placing his laptop in his backpack. He had given Button Mash his secondary laptop but Thomas needed to hold on to it to factory reset it and set up a Microsoft and Google account, same with his mom for parental controls. He drove back to the house, eying his Vic while pulling into the garage. He shut the truck off and stepped out which caused his other car to flinch a bit. Thomas sighed and figured that he should comfort his possessed ride. “So. I kinda owe you an apology for taking off like that, I was scared shitless and running was my first thought.” He said while putting a hand on the car’s hood. “I bet I would have done the same,” came a feminine voice, “I’m sorry for backing out so suddenly.” “No harm done. I think I’ll call you by the last name of your model.” Thomas said smiling. “I like that.” the car now referred to as Victoria replied cheerfully. Thomas then went inside and grabbed his shop-vac. He then put it inside of Victoria and got in the driver’s seat. Victoria backed out of the garage and the 2 headed back into town. Upon arriving, Thomas got out and went inside. “I’m back, and I have a bit of a surprise.” Thomas said and lead the 10 out to Victoria who was idling, not giving a care in the world. So Thomas snuck over to her and poked her rear bumper. The result was Victoria spinning 180 and Thomas getting 2 AKs pointed at his head. “Ok. Not gonna attempt THAT again.” He said very carefully backing up. “Dammit Thomas. Could have blown your head off for shit’s sake.” Victoria said as her newfound firearms retracted back into their hidey holes on either side above the wheel wells. The group of friends had mixed reactions at the sight of the sleek car TALKING. Twilight was going berserk about discoveries involving Victoria, Rainbow, Rarity, and AJ were slack-jawed, Flutters and Spring were hiding after seeing the swift action of the car, Lumina was wide-eyed along with Elbony, Lucky, and Winterbow -who all showed up right before Vic’s stunt-, Pinkie did… know what, I don’t wanna fucking know. Victoria had a staring contest with the group.  Not really a staring contest because Vic doesn't have eyes. After a moment, Victoria made the first move, “So… hi, I’m Victoria…” She said awkwardly. “Thomas, how is this car talking?” Elbony asked. “No clue El, no fucking clue” Thomas replied very deadpan. After an hour of getting used to a talking vehicle and cleaning up after the party, Victoria and Thomas drove home. After pulling into her garage spot, she noticed that her owner had fallen asleep. She just shut off her engine and went to sleep, preparing for what is yet to come.