//------------------------------// // Out with the Girls // Story: Canterlot High Casanova // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// Spike and the girls had just entered town and walked around seeing so many other civilians going about their day doing whatever. Everywhere they walked Spike spotted several of his classmates and other students at CHS. “Wow, it's almost like I'm at school without even being there.” Spike told the girls. “Yeah, in a tight community like this it's easy to see someone you know every day no matter where you go.” Twilight replied. “And this whole community's got a lot to offer.” Applejack added. “Like food. How about we grab a bite?” Pinkie offered. “Sounds good. I'm famished.” Spike admitted, as the rest of the girls agreed. “And I know just the place. Follow me!” Pinkie declared, as she led the charge with her friends running after her. Soon the group was at a 50s-themed diner, white sitting in a booth enjoying lunch. Spike dipped a nacho into some cheese and ate it, “Not a bad place.” he looked around at the décor also styled from the 1950s. There was a disco floor section, a jukebox, old pictures and records hanging on the walls, and every booth had an antique radio from that time period. “That's the Sweet Snack's Cafe for you, Spike.” Pinkie said, as she ate a nacho covered in cheese. “And you work here?” the boy asked. “Part time. And it's great. I've only worked here for a couple of months now, but I always can tell what many of my regulars need, even when they don't know it yet.” “Well, this place is definitely awesome,” Spike admitted, “I may think about coming around here more often.” “You should,” Pinkie said, “I wouldn't mind having a new regular.” Pinkie said slyly while leaning close to Spike. Spike blushed, as the girls looked envious of Pinkie getting too close to him. Rarity spoke up, “If I may make a suggestion, how about after we lunch we take a detour to the mall? I'd like to see what new designs are on display.” “Saw that comin'.” Applejack replied. “So predictable.” Rainbow agreed with a laugh. “I don't mind it,” Spike replied, “I'd like to know what sort of stores the mall here has to offer.” “Well, it has a lot to offer from clothing, music, videogames, sporting goods, books. Especially books.” Twilight explained, while sighing heavenly on the concept of books. “Nerd alert!” Rainbow announced, followed by her and Pinkie laughing, while Spike stifled a laugh himself. Twilight on the other hand gave them a dry look. “Very funny.” “So finish, and let's boo-boo.” Spike said. “Boo-boo?” Fluttershy asked, “What's that?” “Something my and my old friends used to say,” Spike explained, “We remember in our old theater classroom on the wall there was a poster that said 'Exit, pursued by a bear' from that Shakespearean play. What was it again?” “The Winter's Tale.” Rarity answered. “Yeah, that's the one. And whenever me and my boys needed to make a quick getaway for whatever reason, we'd say 'Exit, pursued by a bear!' then we changed it to ' Exit, pursued by Yogi Bear!', followed up by, 'Let's Yogi and Boo-Boo', finally we just settled for 'Let's boo-boo!'.” “Not bad.” Sunset confessed. “I know right?” Spike asked with a smile. Afterward, Spike and the girls made their way to the mall, and upon entering Spike looked around awestruck. It was indeed true what Twilight said about the mall having stores that focused on anything from fashion, to sports, to literature, and entertainment. “Whoa! This place has everything.” Spike looked all around. “Just about.” Applejack confirmed. “Come on, girls. Let's not dilly dally.” Rarity said, as she scooted everyone along. First stop was of course one of Rarity's favorite clothing stores Fashion Fling. Inside, Rarity was checking out so many outfits on display giving critiques on whether or not it was something she wanted or needed, while most of the girls were just sitting around with some like Applejack and Rainbow looking bored. Spike on the other hand watched Rarity look at the various types of outfit and imagined her wearing them. As she held up a lovely purple backless dress, Spike blushed as he imagined her wearing it, while finger motioning Spike to come closer. “Spike!” came Rarity's voice, as the boy snapped out of his daydream to see the real Rarity standing before him. “Uh, yes, Rarity?” “Be honest, darling. How would I look in this thing?” Rarity showed Spike the same dress he imagined her wearing. “Honestly, I think you'd definitely do it justice.” “You really think so?” Rarity blushed. “Of course.” Rarity smiled as she felt flustered, until Rainbow groaned, “Come on, Rarity, will you just get what you need so we can get out of this place?” Rarity scowled at Rainbow having interrupted a moment with her and Spike. But she sighed and did what she needed by purchasing what she needed, and they left the store. The next shop the group ventured into was the book shop, and Twilight wandered through it like it was Wonka's Chocolate Factory. She wandered into the science section and checked through various books on scientific studies and astrology, as her friends watched. “Oh, I've been waiting for this new volume on Astrology's Greatest Discoveries.” Twilight said in joy. “Oh, stars, awesome,” Rainbow Dash said dryly, “I can't believe we have to check here when I could be...” she paused, before looking at a display stand, “No way! The new Daring Do book is finally released?!” she ran to the display stand and looked at it, “I've been waiting forever for this!” she suddenly noticed her friends giving her cheeky looks, “I mean... About time.” Spike walked over to her, “So, you like Daring Do too, huh?” “Like is an understatement,” Rainbow replied, “I love this series. Whenever I read it, I imagine it's me in place of Daring Do.” Spike looked at Rainbow and the image of Daring Do on the book cover, “You know you do kinda look like her.” Rainbow did a double take, “You think so?” “Yeah, only cuter.” Upon hearing those words Rainbow started to blush, and thought to herself, 'Cuter than Daring Do?' Suddenly Rainbow imagined herself dressed as Daring Do swinging through the vines of a jungle before jumping from one tree branch to another. Suddenly she saw Spike appear in her daydream dressed as an explorer. He jumped from various tree branches along side Rainbow before the two caught a vine each and started swinging around before their vines intertwined with each other bringing them closer together. Both Rainbow and Spike stared dreamily into each others eyes as the warm jungle sun washed over them. They leaned closer puckering up their lips, as her daydream faded to show Rainbow had a silly smile on her face while leaning against a shelf. “Rainbow!” Applejack called, snapping the girl out of her daydreaming. “Wha-what?!” “Twilight got what she wanted. You gonna get that book or what?” the cowgirl asked. “Uh, yeah.” she replied, as she went to purchase the book while glancing at Spike while recalling her daydream about it and blushed slightly. As the group walked through the mall, the girls were contemplating on where to go next, until Spike looked ahead and gasped, “Oh, my gosh! Girls, look at that! A card game shop!” he motioned to a store that had a big pair of dice hanging above the entrance, and in the display windows were several games, and trading card game standees of monsters. “That's Wildcard's Shuffle,” Sunset explained, “It has some of the best card games and board games ever made.” “Let's check it out, can we? Can we? We've been walking all day and I'm exhausted!” Spike said laughing excitedly, as he ran like crazy to the store. “He sure don't run exhausted.” Applejack joked, and the girls giggled. They entered to shop seeing shelves stacked with board and card games for children and teenagers. Spike looked at the Table Top section seeing stuff for a specific RP game, “Wow, check out all these new additions for Ogres and Oubliettes. Oh, I've hit the jackpot here.” The girls smiled to themselves while giggling at Spike's childish behavior, until someone approached, “I see you're a man of fine tastes, my friend.” Spike looked seeing it was a college aged man with blue hair, wore glasses, and his attire was composed of a black and white checkerboard styled vest, red sneakers, blue jeans, a yellow shirt with an eight ball on it, and around his neck was a necklace of three dice. “Thanks, and you are?” “Wildcard. Welcome to my shop.” he welcomed them. “Thanks. I'm Spike. This is Twilight, Sunset, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie.” “Not a bad business you got here.” Rainbow looked around. “Thanks. It's really popular among the Tabletop gamers and card duelists.” Wildcard explained. Spike looked over at one wall displaying packs of monster cards, “Wow, you have more packs of Battle Monster cards than the shop I used to go to collect these.” “I aim to please.” Wildcard answered. Spike began looking at several packs trying to determine which themed sets he should get and which he felt had a better chance of having good cards. The girls watched him decide, as Sunset spoke, “Looks like Spike already found his favorite store here at the mall.” “Not surprising given the décor of his bedroom.” Rainbow reminded her. Wildcard spoke to Spike, “You know, Spike, I do like to host dueling get togethers here at the shop. If you like I can forward you my schedule for it.” “Please.” Spike requested. After leaving the store, Spike was looking through one of his card packs and looked at two specific cards, “Ah, Rainbow of Light and Rainbow of Darkness. They're excellent spell and trap cards. Just what I need to strengthen my deck.” “Sounds like sombody's excited.” Twilight noted. “Of course,” Spike confirmed, “I really appreciate you girls bringing me out today.” “No trouble at all, sugarcube.” Applejack answered. “We really should do this more often.” the boy recommended. “Yes we should.” Pinkie agreed. “Especially since there's still so much in town to show you.” Rarity added. “But that's gonna have to wait for another time.” Twilight noted how late it was getting. “Right. Well, what say we head back?” Spike suggested, and they all agreed. "Come on, let's boo-boo." Rainbow said, as the group laughed before heading off. The girls and Spike walked back to his place before stopping in front of his house, “Thanks, girls. But you didn't have to walk me back home. I could take care of myself.” “We know, Spike.” Twilight replied. “But we just didn't want you walking back alone.” Fluttershy added. “Well, I do appreciate it. So I guess I'll see you all around.” before Spike could walk to his door, Rarity called. “Spike!” Spike looked back and saw Rarity walked up close to him before leaning forward and pecked his cheek making the boy's eyes wide in surprise, “Have a goodnight, darling.” she smiled sweetly before taking off and giving the girls a victory smirk. Some of them looked envious, before Rainbow smirked, and went over to Spike, “Catch you later, buddy.” she pecked Spike's cheek before heading off. Pinkie bounced over and pecked Spike's cheek, “Bye, Spikey!” she skipped off. Applejack walked to Spike and gave him a peck of her own, “See ya later, hon.” and she took her leave. Sunset smiled, as she pecked Spike's cheek, “Today was fun.” she left and Fluttershy walked over to Spike shyly before giving him a smile and pecked his cheek. “Goodnight, Spike.” Fluttershy headed off. Spike who was already flustered from the six girl kissing his cheeks, he saw Twilight was all that's left. She fidgeted before walking up to Spike and nervously leaned forward kissing Spike's cheek. Spike looked seeing Twilight looked more embarrassed than he was feeling sheepish. “Well... Bye!” Twilight said before taking off. Spike watched Twilight head off, while feeling both of his cheeks. He was still processing what had just happened, until he let it sink in, “Wow.” was all he said before heading inside. Meanwhile, as each of the girls headed for their own homes, each of them were blushing from what they each did. Especially Twilight. Still they all had no regrets over what they did and smiled to themselves. Things were definitely gonna be different now.