Chapter 4: The Party
Baldric looked around and saw that the entire area seemed to be set up just so someone of his height would have no problems. The area surrounding the town hall had been covered in a huge open air tent. Massive wooden poles held the tarp up high enough so Baldric could get under without any trouble. The tarp provided just enough shade so that being outside wasn’t uncomfortable at all. He looked around and saw that a whole bunch of foods he had never seen before were laid out upon the tables. Among the tables, one that stood out the most had a large crystal clear bowel on it. Inside the bowl was a strange pink fluid and a metal ladle, with cups around the bowel.
As Baldric continued to look around he put Scootaloo down and started walking around feeling a bit uncomfortable not really knowing anyone. At that moment a flash of pink appeared in front of his face.
“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie! You must be that strange new pony that everyone’s been talking about, can’t say I’ve seen a furless pony walk around on two legs before! But then why would any pony shave his fur off? But then I heard you saved the cutie mark crusaders from certain doom! So you can’t be all that of a baddy waddy daddy right? I mean if you were a baddy waddy daddy you wouldn’t of bothered to savey wavy avy them.” Pinkie continued to look Baldric in the eye and ramble upside down at him
At that moment Baldric realized this Pinkie Pie had been holding on to the back of his head and stretched herself out to appear upside down in front of him.
He interrupts her ramble “Why you certainly are a lively one. To answer your questions, no I’m not a baddy waddy daddy, and no I’m not a pony. I’m what you would call a human.”
Baldric attempts the grab the pink pony off his head only to have her disappear and appear in front of him. “Well you're aren't quite fast aren’t you?”
“Fast? I’m not fast, if you wanna see fast you need to see Rainbow Dash. She can make a Sonic Rainboom!”
“What’s a Sonic Rainboom” Baldric asked puzzled
Pinkie Pie gasps “You’ve never seen, let alone heard of the Sonic Rainboom?! A Sonic Rainboom is when a Pony goes so fast they break the sound and the color barrier causing a big boom of colors of all sorts…well it’s kind of hard to explain it would be better to just show you.”
Pinkie pie takes a Deep breath “DASHY! THE NEW PONY DOESN’T KNOW WHAT A SONIC RAINBOOM IS!”
In a flash of 7 colors a pony with a cyan fur coat and a mane of 7 colors appears “What?! Some pony doesn’t know of my awesomeness yet?”
Baldric surprised at her speed and brightly vivid colored hair stammers “ uh well uh, you see Ms. Rainbow, umm, where I come from such a thing doesn’t seem possible.”
“Not Possible!? I’ll Show you what isn’t possible!” Rainbow Dash blasts off into the distance and heads straight up.
“Where did she go? What’s she gonna do?” Baldric looks into the distance a little puzzled
“Just wait for it! You won’t even wanna blink!” Pinkie sits watching as her friend starts to descend.
Baldric watches as the little cyan pony descends faster and faster, the colorful trail behind getting longer until…BOOM! A large circle with the same colors as the pony's mane make a vivid color display, that wave of color extends out and an even more vivid rainbow appears behind the nearly invisible cyan pony.
“And there you have it, that’s a sonic rainboom.” Pinkie looks over at the wide eyed, mouth dropped Baldric.
“That was Incredible! I've never seen anything like it!” as Baldric finishes his sentence the cyan pony with the rainbow colored mane comes back.
“Well, still think it’s not possible?” she gives him a prideful grin while puffing out her chest.
“No, ha-ha, that was simply amazing and might I say beautiful as well. I’ve never seen anything quite as spectacular as that.” Baldric throws her a big grin. “I am grateful to see such a thing of beauty”
“Ha, don’t sweat it man, there’s plenty more radical tricks I’ve got stashed away. Just in case the Wonderbolts show up, you know, to impress them.” To think that her most radical trick was called beautiful, the cyan pony was beaming with pride along with a little embarrassment. “By the way my names Rainbow Dash, what’s your name?”
Baldric fumbles to his feet, still in shock over the sonic rainboom. “Oh, my names Baldric Gareth, You can just call me Baldric though. All of you can just call me Baldric no need to be formal I don’t mind.”
“Enough chit chat! It’s Time to PAAARRRTTAA!” The Pink pony had pulled out some odd looking machines and twisted some knobs that released the loudest noise he had ever heard.
“What is this noise?!” Baldric exclaims to Rainbow Dash.
“It’s called music, duh, just listen to it for a while. I’ll get Pinkie Pie to turn it down a bit, she always makes it too loud at the start.” She bolts over to the strange contraptions Pinkie Pie had pulled out and gets the so called music lowered.
After the volume goes down a bit the noise starts to become entrancing and inviting. Baldric starts to bob his head and tap his feet.
“You see? You like the music too no reason to be shy. Speaking of shy I wonder where Fluttershy went.” Rainbow looks around “I’m gonna go find her. I’ll be back.” Rainbow dash trots off in search of the one she calls Fluttershy.
Baldric looks around for a moment and walks over to Pinkie Pie “excuse me, but what kind of food is on the tables over there? I’ve never seen food with so many bright colors, is it really edible? “
“You’ve never seen a cake before?! Not even a cupcake or a cookie?! A doughnut?! WHAT ABOUT SUGER?!”
Pinkie pie has a look of utter horror on her face as Baldric explains that the sweetest thing he’s ever had was a fruit.
“What kind of cruel terrible world did you live in?!” Pinkie pie rushes over to the table and grabbing a hoof full of cake shoves it into Baldrics Face.
“Eat it! You must!” shouts the pink pony with a look of utter shock.
Baldric begins to chew and the taste of sweet overwhelmed him. “Oh my god it tastes like I’m eating 1,000 apples all at once! This is simply divine!” He begins to grab more of the sweets off of the nearest table and chows down.
Pinkie rushes by with a small glass of the pink fluid Baldric had seen before. “Quick wash it down with this!”
“What’s this pink stuff?” Baldric pauses for a moment looking at the strange pink fluid.
“No time to explain just drink it!” Pinkie Pie puts a hoof on the bottom of Baldrics jaw forcing his mouth open and dumps the pink liquid down into his mouth. “Drink! Drink for all that is sweet!”
Baldric's taste buds light up again to the sweet flavor of the pink drink. “Oh My! What is this?! It tastes like a thousand strawberries and apples!”
“It’s my super special punch that I made, just for your party!” Pinkie Pie seems satisfied now that Baldric had a taste of pretty much everything on the tables.
“Ugh, I don’t feel too well I think I ate too fast. I’m a take a short break. Thanks for showing me the wonders of cake and punch Pinkie Pie.” Baldric waves as he walks a short ways away to a nearby stool.
“Okey dokie Lokey!” Pinkie Pie giggles to herself “he is such an amateur at eating cake.”
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After chilling on a few stools for a while Baldric felt much better and decides to mingle again. I wonder if this Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy are here. Actually, where was that party I was told about. As far as he could tell, this was a simple gathering of friends. Baldric thought to himself for a moment before he saw some familiar faces with 2 others he hadn’t seen before, naturally he went over to greet them.
“Hello Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash” Baldric puts on a bit of an awkward smile and kneels down to be a little closer and make it easier to listen to them despite the music. He looks over at the two new ponies, one of them had purple fur with a dark purple mane and a streak of pink in it, also a horn on her head, a unicorn. The other was yellow with wings on her back, a Pegasus, and she had a long flowing pink mane that covered part of her face.
“Well hey sugercube you can just call me AJ for short." Applejack points over to the two new ponies. “This filly here’s called Twilight Sparkle and the one shying away is Fluttershy.” Pinkie Pie gets behind Fluttershy and pushes her forward.
“Don’t be shy Fluttershy! He’s a nice Stallion!” Pinkie Pie gives Fluttershy a big grin and ushers her toward baldric.
“Um… hi my name is…” she gets into a low voice that is scarcely heard over the music “fluttershy…” her voice increases in volume again after she says her name “ but you know…well umm…” she obviously becomes flustered and looks to the ground.
Baldric smiles, thinking how cute she looked. She was acting just like my older sister when she meets new people.
“You can call me Baldric, Fluttershy. It’s nice to meet you. If I may ask, why do you hide a face as cute as yours behind your mane? It seems a shame to keep it hidden.”
“Cute? Wha,” flustered after being called cute by a stranger, she gingerly continues “oh, well um, I’m not sure; my mane is usually… like this…I mean, no one’s ever told me that…before…” She turns her face away and starts to brush her mane out of her face.
“That’s better Fluttershy, there’s no need to be so shy around me” Baldric smiles and says “I’m a nice guy so there’s no reason to be scared of me." Baldrics voice begins to crumble a bit "even though I am big and scary looking…”
“Oh no you’re not scary Baldric, it’s just… I’m better with animals is all… it’s not your fault.” Fluttershy turns to face Baldric and smiles weakly.
“Thanks Fluttershy you're as kind as everyone else I’ve met around here. Excuse me for a moment, but I think I should speak to Twilight Sparkle for a bit.” Baldric nods to Fluttershy and turns to face Twilight.
“Twilight, Zecora said you might know how to get me home, or at least explain a few things.”
Twilight thinks for a moment then responds “ah yes, When I meet with Zecora today she told me about you, a bit confusing but I got the gist of it. You seems you were transported here due to a failed magical spell that was supposed to send you someplace. My guess would be a teleportation spell?”
“Actually, a dark wizard named Malroy cast a banishment spell upon me, but I got sent here instead of the Void he yelled to me about before launching the spell.”
“Banishment?! But, that must mean you were sent through a wormhole of some kind. This place is probably an alternate universe or even a different plane of existence…” Twilight thinks for a moment “I would have to go back to the library to find an exact reference. But I do remember reading about a strange N powerful magical artifact. Apparently it helped a powerful wizard commune with creatures of other planes of existence. That might be a good place to look.”
“You mean I may be able to go home after all?"
“Why would you want to go back darling? After what you told me about how it was with the wars it doesn’t sound like a very fun place”
“Yeah! You didn’t even know what the cake was! What an awful place!”
Baldric shook his head “I must return, I told my little sister that I would return. I can’t break that promise. Besides it’s been a while since I saw my family last. Being here with all of you, I feel a bit homesick now.” Baldric thinks for a moment and says “oh yeah, I wonder how my old friends are doing…”
“Friends and family, Ah can see why you wanna go back now sugercube.”
“Well I’ll still need to look for that book about the artifact, so until then let’s just have fun at your party Baldric. And by the way, the outfit rarity made for you seems to fit quite well.” Twilight giggles to herself, seeing the huge muscular man wearing clothes that were almost skin tight and adorned with bright jewels and frills.
“So until then, Let's PARTY!” Shouts Pinkie Pie.
Baldric looks over to Pinkie pie and asks “What’s a party anyway?”
Pinkie Pie looks at baldric with a look of extreme confusion, then her face transforms into that of shock. “Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of a party! A Celebration?! A Quinceneera?! A Theme Party, Dinner party?! Maybe a weird holiday party?!” Pinkie pie takes a deep breath and continues her list “Food and Drink Party, apparel party, housewarming party, international party!? A Costume Party?! Not even a Tea Party?!”
“Uh well In my village we don’t do these types of things.”
“Then it's time you learned how to live! Learned how to smile! With the help of loads of cake and sweets to make you smile even more!”
“I look forward to what you have to show me then Pinkie.” Baldric smiles at the little pink mare.
“Just you wait I’ll direct you to all the goods we have around here and show you how to play the best party games!” Pinkie Pie jumps up and lands on top of baldric.
Sitting on his shoulders she shouts as loud as possible. “High hoe Baldricky! Away!” Pinkie Pie points her hoof in front of Baldric's face in an attempt to usher him forward.
Baldric lets out a roar of a laugh. “Bawhahaha! Alright Pinkie Pie lets party!”
"Pony Style!" Pinkie adds