Professional's Standards

by KAMAKAZE


Not a crazed gunman

I was running, well, sort of running. It was running, but it felt different. Anyway, I was running through a marketplace when I started bumping into ponies, finally ending up dizzy, then finally tripping over something big.

I started to wonder what I tripped over when some pink pony with a pink frizzy mane looked over me. I rolled over to look at her when she started talking.

"HiI'mPinkiePieandIhaveneverseenyouinPonyvillebeforesothatmustmeanyou'renewheresoIshouldthrowapartytowelcomeyoutothisgreattown!!!" She quickly said. I was amazed she didn't even have to stop to breath once. Anyway, after a while, I began to understand what she was trying to say, so I simply got up and walked off.

"Oh, and I want to the party to be a surprise, so forget all about it so it will be a surprise!" She shouted after me, as if she felt like I NEEDED to have a welcome party. I thought about how weird that pony's life was.

"Oh, I will forget about it all right!" I replied sarcastically.

I don't think she picked up on the sarcasm, though.

"Thanks for being a kind friend!" She replied as I turned around a corner.

FRIEND??? Seriously, FRIEND??? I was the kind of guy who hated people who had friends. I was the lonely type. The one that has no friends, and never will.

Unfortunately, that would change. But those events will unfold later in this story.

So I ran, and oh how weird it felt when I ran. So I decided to just take one second to look at myself.


And I was completely stunned by what I saw. I can't put how confused I was into words.


I saw that, like the ponies, I had hooves. I hadn't really stopped to think about the size of all the ponies, so the next thing I saw was a surprise to me. I had changed size. Completely. I thought about it more and came to the conclusion that somehow I had turned into a pony. I don't know how.

Then I remembered that all the ponies had some drawing on their flank, so I looked over to my flank. And there it was. My flank had my crosshair logo on it. I then found a mirror and looked in it. I was a tan pony, with my signature hat on and my brown jacket on and my red shirt on. And also my signature glasses, too. And a horn. I figured I was a Unicorn. Eventually, I decided I needed to go meet more ponies, since I wasn't going to leave everybody confused whenever I did something heroic. I thought that would be hard.

Luckily, all I had to do was show up at the party later on.


You see, when the pink pony said party, she meant it. Also, she meant that it was big, too. Because nearly every pony in the whole town seemed to have shown up. I was amazed when, minutes after I found out I was a MALE unicorn (Which was shocking to me, because every unicorn I had seen so far were mares), I walked past her and saw she was inviting some pony she didn't even know to the party. Which is why I think "Pinkie Pie" is the craziest person, or pony, or whatever I have ever met.


So, that night I decided to plan out my amazing entrance to the party. But when I was done....

Something trapped me in a large bag and carried me somewhere. I can tell you it was a bumpy ride.

It's a good thing that happened, because I was trying to not let Pinkie Pie down by remembering all about the party and ruining the surprise. The sudden shock of it all made me forget all about the party, so when I was dropped off inside what I thought was an abandoned house, I nearly jumped out of my clothes when I climbed out and the lights turned on and every pony in the room shouted "SURPRISE!!!!!!!". It was very surprising. Last thing I can remember from that party is me eating cake and telling jokes to a yellow pegasus pony with a pink mane and tail called Fluttershy. Then I think I blacked out, and then I awoke in a sleeping bag in some massive pile of confetti, then being fired out of a so called "Party Cannon" which I eventually went on to use it as a sort of transport that could get me to where I was needed in 10 seconds flat.

And while all of this was happening, something made of stone was beginning to crumble.