//------------------------------// // Chaos (321) // Story: AlwaysDressesInStyle's Ponyville CiderFest '23 Interactive App Stories // by AlwaysDressesInStyle //------------------------------// ENDING A (CHAOS): Iron Will flings the fragile Capodimonte muscle cars around like they’re toys. Porcelain shatters as the mini muscle cars bounce off the walls. He grabs the Mustang and Superbird and smashes them into each other. He picks up the white Cougar. “One of fifty? Ha! Better make that forty-nine!” He spikes the car onto the ground as he continues having a temper tantrum on live television. Amazingly, the Capodimonte Cougar isn’t the only thing to spike. People start tuning into HSN as Iron Will’s rampage starts trending on social media. HSN keeps the cameras rolling, even as no one is willing to venture into the line of fire to try to calm the half-bull in a china shop. It takes a few minutes, but he eventually stops seeing red and starts looking around at all the collateral damage. “Uh, Iron Will apologizes for that show of immaturity. Iron Will isn’t normally like this. Please don’t fire me, Iron Will needs this job.” He grabs a broom and starts sweeping up the studio. The camera feed cuts out and replays the entire show up until that point on a loop for the next three hours. “Iron Will.” The minotaur drops the broom as his boss enters what’s left of the studio. “I can explain!” “There’s no need to apologize. It turns out that the kind of people who like muscle cars aren’t the kind of people who watch home shopping channels. But they are the kind of people who’ll tune in to watch a minotaur breaking things on live TV. Sales were dismal up until you lost control. Then ratings spiked, and so did sales. There’s absolutely a market here, and we’re going to tap it. We’ve already greenlighted having hockey figurines made up, and then we’ll have you sell those in a few months. From there we’ll go to football, boxing, auto racing, wrestling…”