//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Fang // Story: Tom & Jerry: Journey to Equestria // by ShaggyBoi23 //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie had been dealing with the mess for two hours. Jerry, of course, tried to help her in any way he could, since he and Tom had caused the mess. But that's the official version, but the unofficial version, which Jerry came up within five seconds, was that Tom himself had started the massacre and wanted to disturb the filly, but Gummy the crocodile, as the mouse found out, had saved the mistress in time. Pinkie wasn't mad at Jerry, but she was unhappy that this mess had happened under her nose. Fortunately Mr. and Mrs. Cakey and the children had gone to Canterlot, or else Pinkie Pie would have had to try very hard to make the apology alone suffice. In the end, an order was restored: tables restored, furniture stitched or re-stitched as far as possible, sweets re-stitched, utensils put in their places, and holes in the walls and floor were patched. Now Pinkie Pie could rest. Jerry was tired, too, for he had not been idle. Phew!" Pinkie wiped the sweat from her head. - Well, that was very reassuring. Pinkie looked at her watch and it showed three o'clock in the afternoon. The pink pony concluded that she had done a pretty good job, and even embellished it somewhere. And then she saw Jerry tugging at her tail, which was hungry. "Oh, how silly of me," Pinkie remembered. "I didn't even feed you like I said I would. Come on, I'll get you some cheese." Jerry really wanted cheese, so he ran patiently after the party pony, and after a few seconds, he climbed onto the table himself. Pinkie pulled a plate of cheese out of the fridge, and the mouse almost had his eyes on his forehead. Even in other worlds, there were such delights as this delicious cheese. Pinkie cut off a piece of yellow sweetness and with her teeth gave it to the mouse, he took the gift and began a wonderful cheese meal. When he'd had enough to eat, Jerry thanked Pinkie for the treat and headed for the exit. "Where are you going?" Pinkie asked. "Are you going after Tom? I'm coming with you! You'll get lost somewhere else." Pinkie crouched down so that Jerry could sit on her, and he decided to take advantage of the opportunity. During the whole walk, Jerry became very friendly with this pink pony, and she happily introduced him to Equestria and its contents. In fact, she's fun and kind, and that's something the mouse appreciated. A few minutes later, Pinkie and Jerry on his back were approaching the center of town and on the way, they met the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They were roller-skating, and they were doing very well. "Hi Pinkie Pie!" The filles cheered. "Hi, girls! Do you know who it is with me?" "Jerry!" Apple Bloom saw a familiar mouse. "Hi!" The mouse waved his paw. "Where's Tom?"Sweetie asked Belle. He's the one we're going to look for." Pinkie answered. "He's been making a mess in Sugarcube Corner, but I just want to make him realize it's no good to hurt the little ones." "Aren't you two friends?" Scootaloo asked. Jerry shook his head. "So I was wrong..." said Sweetie Belle. "But that's okay!" Pinkie exclaimed. "They can be friends! Especially now they can be friends. You can't, can you?" Jerry shook his head slowly, looking straight into the mare's eyes, and she responded with a frown that made him change his mind. "That's fine." Pinkie said. "And what are you girls doing?" "We were told by our sisters to be careful because a cat and a mouse were roaming all over Ponyville and doing horrible things, but that was Applejack's description." Apple Bloom responded. "We know what they say about Tom and Jerry, but we don't tell them on purpose." "Why is that?" Pinkie asked perplexedly. "They're your sisters." "Because it's not Tom and Jerry's fault!" Apple Bloom replied. "They were just hungry, so they took six apples and cider. They weren't going to wait for hunger to starve them out." Jerry had vague feelings about the whole thing, but practically, it wasn't him who provoked the mares into this war. Jerry was defensive, Tom himself, and Applejack left dazed from her head and Rainbow Dash's wings were bruised. It seemed to the mouse, though, as if he was involved in this anyway, and so he indulged in some reflection. But they were interrupted by the darker part of his soul, the "Imp." It looked like Jerry, but with a pointed tail, sharp fangs, devilish appearance, and a trident in its paw. "Well, what are you thinking about, please tell me?" The Imp asked. "You make intrigues to that cat every day, so go on blaming it on him! It's not your fault, is it?:" At that moment, however, Jerry's "Conscience" also appeared, who was dressed in a white tunic, with wings on her back and a halo on her head, and a lyre in her paw. "No, Jerry!" Conscience intervened. "Just because you had nothing to do with it doesn't mean you have to blame someone else! You and that cat are in the same boat now, and you should be sailing it together!" "Who are you listening to? The stupid clown in the dress?" The Imp asked, pointing his trident at his neighbor. " Just look at you, you brute!" answered Conscience. "You're trying to teach that boy bad things"! "What are you talking about? You can teach him good things. You and I work the same, and we get paid the same! I get the pain of souls, and you get the singing of souls." "Don't try to make a fool of me, you brat!" Conscience threatened her adversary. "We don't get paid at all! My task is to ensure that the mouse does not regret the bad things, and even more so, does not commit them, and you want him at every step to trip the cat, set a mousetrap, threw a metal iron..." "And as you can see, I'm good at it! Bes interrupted the rival." "Jerry, be reasonable! It's not your fault, but you mustn't blame everything on Tom. Of course, these ponies are not happy to see you, but they will understand you if you do not go along with this rascal!" Conscience pointed at the Imp. "Yeah, we're already getting personal. All right, fine. Jerry, take my advice: don't listen to this weak-willed fairy! And what would happen if you understood and forgave him? Do you think he'll pat you on the head? I don't think so. He'll kick you once and you'll be a good pancake. Well, see for yourself!" Then the Imp and Conscience disappeared in a cloud of red and blue smoke. Jerry now realized that it wasn't his fault that the ponies were attacking them like that now, just that Tom could be said to have forced the mouse to play defensively. He decided that as soon as he met Rainbow Dash, he would apologize to her for the poke in the eye. And then he would try to deal with the cat, too. "Well, Jerry? Shall we go?" Pinkie asked. He nodded in agreement, and after saying goodbye to the mares, the pony and mouse headed for Twilight Sparkle's library. Since at least she didn't know about the feud between the ponies and these animals, at least that's what they thought. Meanwhile, Twilight was chasing Tom, who was covering himself everywhere he could. She used magic to launch things, like an umbrella, which the cat caught with his mouth, swallowed, and his belly got wider because the umbrella opened. Twilight marveled at the physiology of this cat, and Tom marveled at the magic the unicorn used against it. It was also a revelation to Twilight that magic didn't work on the cat. That is, she tried to telekinesis him by the tail, but the magic didn't cling to him. She was also able to get her hands on the cat's body, but the projectile reflected smoothly off the cat's body and flew back at her. Twilight ended up looking like a black pony. Spike, on the other hand, watched the chaos with interest, chewing on his jewels and laughing insanely as he watched this battle. Twilight silenced Spike several times with a blow to the head with a book, then went back to chasing after Tom. He ran off to the kitchen, and now he fell into immediate contemplation of how to get away from that pony. But the only way out of the house was actually the exit itself, and the windows were closed. The cat tried to open them but to no avail. The unicorn was approaching the kitchen, and then Tom remembered a good old trick... He found a lot of soap on the shelf, and he wanted to see how it would work on the pony. The cat poured out a bucket of water, but this pile of soap right by the doorway, and pressed himself against the wall. Twilight ran into the kitchen, but her hooves fell right on top of the bars of soap and Mare flew forward at high speed, barely keeping her balance. Then a collision with the sink awaited her. Tom laughed, in his usual style: he laughed loudly and slammed his palm against his knee. Twilight tried to get out of the trap but inadvertently opened the hot water. With a wild howl, the pony jumped out of the sink, destroying the plumbing in the process. It didn't have to hurt. Twilight was now in a rage; she wanted to torture the gray cat very badly. Just as painful as she was now in chasing him. Tearing off a piece of pipe from an already "dead" plumbing fixture, the pony quickly went on the attack. Tom smelled something burning, hid his head under his neck to keep the pipe out, and then made a run for it, completely unaware of where he was going. Twilight was even more surprised by this cat's physiology: he hid his head under his neck! This is incredible, even from a logical point of view. Although the purple unicorn didn't care right now, because she really wanted to show the cat his place. It ran blindly around the kitchen, and then Twilight remembered a law of physics. After getting out of the water, the unicorn cast a lightning spell from her horn, and now the cat was being pierced by a huge amount of current going through it. Except Twilight was very inattentive, as the plumbing, again, was broken, the water kept creeping up on the pony and when she got close, she was experiencing the current moving through her body on herself. Spike finally stopped watching this pony and cat race, so he grabbed a wooden plank and pulled the pony out of the electric roundup. The mare was all convulsed and Tom crumbled like ashes, leaving behind his eyes... The cat scooped himself up with a dustpan and broom and was about to run away, but when he saw Twilight lying there without feeling, he immediately went over to her. He couldn't tell if she was alive or not, and Spike looked on silently. Tom tilted his head closer to Twilight's heart when suddenly... "I'M GOING TO OBLITERATE YOU RECKLESS CAT!" Twlight screamed as she was in fury. "WHY... CAN'T... YOU... JUST... SIT... STILL!!!" Suddenly Twilight got into a fight with Tom. In a pile of dust and gray clouds, the filly beat the cat. Once with a brick to the head, a second time with a metal bat, a third time with a book, and a fourth time with a soft toy that made a loud squeaking sound. Tom tried to get away from the filly, but she wouldn't let him go so easily. Spike knew Twilight was pretending, he just played along this time. The cat got cocky, and during the fight, he clawed at the mare's croup and bit it. From the pain, it flew up into the ceiling and head-butted it. Tom ran to the door again, but the angry unicorn closed the door with a closet. And beaming in front of Tom, she threatened him with a hoof. Her mane was disheveled, her pupils constricted, and a truly frightening smile on her face. "Oh... oh no, kitty..." said Twilight stammering and with a trembling voice. "You can't run away from me... And you'll have to answer for your bitten croup... Hee-hee!" Spike knew it was bad, so he preferred to flee to the second floor. And Tom was getting ready for something very unkind. Twilight attacked Tom with a quick jerk, and the beating continued. Tom's screams and cries were impossible not to hear, and the rumble of various furniture, books, and shelves reverberated throughout the house. The library was now a war zone... Twenty minutes passed... Pinkie and Jerry were already approaching Twilight's library, and soon they heard a suspicious rumble and someone's cries of pain. Jerry wouldn't mistake them for anyone else's. Mousey jumped off his pony and ran toward the door, Pinkie followed him. The door was barricaded on the other side and then they had to go the other way. Jerry pointed to the upstairs window. "Okey-dokey-Lokey, Jerry!" Pinkie agreed to the mouse's suggestion. Tom was all battered, bruised, and abrasions and tied to the table and tried to get out, but in vain. And Twilight wandered around the table, wondering how she could torture the cat. And she came up with an idea... She took a pair of tweezers and hooked the cat's whiskers with them. With a quick flick, she pulled the whisker out, giving the cat a sea of discomfort. Then the unicorn thought to squeak a little in front of the cat's ears. To do this she took out a chalkboard and began to squeak loudly on the chalkboard. Tom couldn't bear to listen to that disgusting squeak, so he began praying to the cat God to condescend to the poor mortal. Twilight prepared another torture for the cat: the mare took out a powerful sledgehammer and hit the cat very hard in the groin area, causing it to cry out in a very thin voice and stretch its tongue to a very unprecedented length. This was Twilight's revenge for the croupy bite. Spike didn't dare go out to the first floor, but when he saw Pinkie and some mice, he reacted immediately. "Pinkie, save Tom! Twilight's going to torture him!" Spike pleaded. "Don't be afraid Spike! Pinkie and Jerry are on their way to rescue the kitties!" Pinkie exclaimed. The party pony and the mouse went down to the first floor, where the unicorn continued to taunt the cat. She was now playing a tune out of his whiskers, combining it with the pinching of his ears. Jerry was a little pleased that payback had come for the cat, but now this pony had to be stopped as she was going a bit too far, and the mouse had a plan. He called Pinkie in for a whisper. "But don't you talk?" Pinkie wondered. To which Jerry shook his head, but he asked her to come over anyway. Pinkie listened to the plan, and winked at the mouse with a smile. Then she walked over to the unicorn and started talking: "Hey, Twilight!” greeted Pinke. "Oh, hello Pinkie Pie!" Twilight greeted her in the same shaky voice with her one eye twiching. "How did you get here?" "Climbed in through the window. And what do you do here?" Pinkie asked cheerfully. "Teaching a cat to think," said Twilight, pulling another whisker out of the cat's head. "You know, I brought some cherry cake, but it's outside. Could you put that big cabinet away?" "Uh... Yeah, I'll do that. And you keep an eye on that cat, okay?" With those words, Twilight went to the door and picked up that cabinet that was blocking the exit. And when she came back, she saw two cups of tea next to the table. "What is it, Pinkie." Twilight asked. "It's just tea." Pinkie replied. "You want some? I brought cookies too!" "Yes, you can." Twilight said, smelling the sweet aroma of the tea. After drinking this wonderful tea and eating sweet cookies, suddenly the purple pony felt weak, lethargic, and tired. She was very sleepy, and on top of that, someone was singing her a lullaby. It was Jerry, who quietly jumped on top of Twilight's head and began to sing a lullaby right into her ear. Such a soft, gentle, and pleasant song made the unicorn yawn and then rattled off to sleep. Tom breathed a sigh of relief and asked to be released. "And the magic word?" Pinkie asked. Tom squinted at the unicorn. And Jerry looked at the unicorn with confusion, too. "Well, let's just say you said please." Twilight slept peacefully on her bed and dreamt of counting every paradise that flew back to the Eternal Forest. Tom thanked the pony and the mouse from the bottom of his heart. And Spike was calm that Twilight was asleep. After all, she had been up all day and night. The time was already five o'clock in the evening. "All's well that ends well," said Pinkie. However, there was a loud bang on the door outside. And when the pink pony, cat, and mouse came downstairs there were four very "kind" ponies waiting for them. Tom and Jerry swallowed, but Pinkie decided to say hello: "Hi, girls! How's it going?" "Pinkie..." Rainbow began. "Would you step aside, please?" "We're having a... separate conversation with these two..." Applejack continued. "Except for me! I'm not interested in these two!" Rarity protested. "But how I want to "fondle" them... "stroke"... "feed"..." Fluttershy finished. After a second of silence, the three swooped down on the cat and the mouse, and an indiscriminate fight ensued. A little while later, Tom and Jerry calmly emerged from the still ongoing battle, and as they shook off the dust, and waved a bye at Pinkie, they quickly raced toward the exit. Suddenly, the fight stopped, and now Rainbow and Applejack were holding each other's chests with one hoof while the other wanted to strike, and Fluttershy was holding three tails with her teeth: her own and her friends. Quickly assembled, they set off in pursuit of the villains. Tom and Jerry headed the other way from the library, and they ran very fast and deftly. After a while, they reached the train station where the trains were leaving. Tom and Jerry didn't have any money, so they decided to do something simpler: get on the roof of the train as it was leaving. A few minutes later, the trio of vigilantes began to run up, but the train was already leaving the station when they approached. The cat and mouse were sitting on the roof of the train, waving to their pursuers, and Tom was wagging his face at them. "Darn that cat and mouse" Applejack scolded. "They're lucky they got away... If my wings hadn't hurt, I would have caught up with them!" Rainbow growled. "We'll catch up with them..." Fluttershy said, sternly. "They're on their way to Canterlot. We'll catch up with them later, when Twilight is still awake. By the way, I knew she was hiding that cat. Now she knows what the troublemakers are, too!" "That's the first time you've ever said that about "cute" animals, Fluttershy." Rainbow remarked. "And far from the last..." Fluttershy admitted.