Chapter 2: Punishment Staircase
“What… the hell…”
I pulled myself out from under the covers, rubbing my eyeballs to try and get the morning haze out of my vision… Along with the bouncing pink pony jumping up and down in front of me, talking a mile a minute. I sighed, putting my head into my cupped hands, and finally paid attention to the latest bit of her rant.
“…and then, when the cheese was all gone, Mr. Fluffstrut was all ‘Whaaaaat?!’ and I was like, ‘We must have more gingerbread!’ So then I-“
“Oh dear lord… I didn’t think it was real…and now you… you…of ALL people-”
“Pooooooniessssssss~”
“…Whatever.”
Rubbing my face, I tried to get my brain back in functioning order. This was a serious problem. What was I supposed to do with her?! I couldn’t have a smiling hyperactive pink pony bounce around me for the rest of my entire life! Even though I hated the show, I had seen and heard enough about the infamous Pinkie Pie to know that being with her too long was definitely a BAD THING. I wondered what it would be like for a moment with both of us as old elderly folk.
I shuddered at the thought.
The bundle of energy was now rifling through all of my stuff, sticking her hooves and nose into all of my drawers and cabinets. I sighed, getting up from my bed and shuffled, back bent, towards the bathroom.
After doing my morning duties, I re-entered my room to find Pinkie Pie with a pair of my boxers on top of her head, her hooves trying to position the leg holes so she could see out of them.
“URGH! This face mask is really really weird! How’re you supposed to even see out of it?! Smells kinda funky too…”
I rolled my eyes, walking over towards her and swiping it off of her head. Throwing it back into its drawer, I began to get my clothes out for the day. Although there was now a little pony in my room, daily duties still called and classes still needed to be taken. So what if there was a pony who had to be with me for the rest of my life? All I had to do was simply keep her in this room, right?
If life was that simple, I would have made a cure for cancer, been rich, and retired by now.
After grabbing all of my clothes, Pinkie Pie poked me with a hoof. I looked over at her to see an envelope tied around her neck with a blue ribbon. I cocked an eyebrow at the pony, expecting her to say something. We just stared at each other though, our gazes intense and her blue eyes incredibly… huge. My normal brown eyes were nothing compared to hers in size, but they often got dried up, making me-
“You blinked! Hahahaha that was fun! I love staring contests, cuz everyone is SO intense and all you’re doing is just staring at the other person like its life or death or something and I- mmm mmmmmm mmmm mm mmm!“
My hand muffled her mouth as she continued talking, the other hand grabbing the envelope around her neck and taking it off. On the front of it was my name in a scripty writing, barely readable for a person who never took cursive classes. From the envelope, I took out a small stack of papers and began flipping through them.
Most of them were legal forms from the Equestrian Justice System stating my sentence and its process which I didn’t care so much about. Been there, done that. I did care, however, about the last two pages. One was labeled “Pinkie’s Rules” and “Punishment P Rules”.
Now THOSE seem a lot more important…
“Now THOSE seem a lot more important, especially the Pinkie’s Rules! I think they may have to do something about me, but I’m not quite sure…”
I yelped in surprise, noticing the party pony staring over my head at the papers, using the desk behind me as a foot stool. HOW THE HELL?! Stepping away, the pony gave out a cheerful “Sqwee!” and grabbed onto my back.
“Yay! Piggy back rides! I LOVE piggy back rides! They’re so fun, especially when they start to jump up and down and yell at you just like you are right now!”
“GET OFFA ME!”
“What’s the magic woooooorrrrrrrrrd?”
“NOW!”
The demon spawn of a pony giggled delightedly and shook her head. “That’s not it silly! It starts with a puhhhhh and ends with a leeeeeeze! I’ll give you a hint too; it’s not police! Scootaloo tried that on me once and I was like-“
“Please… just… get off! I’m going to be late for class!”
“Class?!” Pinkie Pie jumped off of me, much to my relief, and I rushed over towards the bathroom to get changed before the psycho pony decided to grab another ride. I had to rush now, being hampered by the pony’s presence, and was getting more and more agitated by the moment.
I threw some water in my short brown hair to fix the cow licks and quickly brushed my teeth. After throwing on dark blue jeans and a green t-shirt, along with my grey shoes, I grabbed my lucky dark blue cap as the last part of my apparel. All set to go now, I just needed one last thing…
Well, I suppose two, though one of them was wearing a top hat, monocle, and moustache, sipping tea from a small table. Where the hell she got everything was a complete mystery to me. Taking another delicate sip, she raised an eyebrow at me and extended her hooves into the air.
“I say, old chap! This room is filthy, positively filthy! And really dear boy, you should read those rules! The Princess told me they are very very important for you to-“
“Yeah yeah whatever. I’ll read them after class!” Without waiting for an answer, I grabbed my backpack and launched myself out of the room.
Before I had made it 20 feet though, my feet slipped from underneath me as something invisible knocked me down from my chest. I felt like I had been a dog on a leash and suddenly the master had decided to pull a good yank on me. Trying to clear my head I got up, shaking it slightly before trying to move forward again. It didn’t work, making me panic somewhat. It was as if a bungee cord had been attached to my door and I was pulling for dear life to try and go further, but the cord would snap me back at any moment.
“Whatcha dooooooin?”
“I’m- WHOA!”
Slipping forward this time, I stopped my fall with my hands before I broke my nose on the smooth linoleum floor. Grumbling, I turned my body around enough to be nose to nose with Pinkie Pie, giving her an intense glare.
The pony, now lacking her fancy clothing, only smiled and took one of the papers out of my hands, laying it on the floor between us. Clearing her throat, she put on her monocle back on and read from the paper.
“Punishment P Rule 1; The subject of said Punishment shall be magically handcuffed to volunteer Pinkameana Diane Pie. Said Pinkameana shall be the magical anchor and the subject of said Punishment cannot go more than a twenty foot radius of said ‘Pinkie Pie’.”
She shook her head and huffed a bit. “Whew… that was not only hard to say, but also to type out!”
I cocked an eyebrow. “Wait, what do you mean by-“
“Don’t you have class?”
“AH CRAP!”
Groaning in frustration, I picked myself up along with the rules. Stuffing the papers and folder in my bag, I started racing towards class. Oh this is just WONDERFUL! Now I have to drag her around EVERYWHERE! As long as she doesn’t do anything stupid, I should be-
“OH MY GOLLY GEE WILLIKERS! ARE THOSE CUPCAKES OUTSIDE?!”
A pink blur whizzed by me, making me blink for a second in confusion. Then a disturbing and horrifying thought suddenly crossed my mind as I looked at the staircase where she was running down.
“Aw SHI-“
The first push sent me down the stairs, right into the wall. As I lay smack dab against it, I soon found out that the push sent me just far enough to be in range of the Pinkie… But not for too long. Another magic shove tossed me to the next wall, then the next, and the next.
Every.
Single.
Floor.
Down.
Why… why did I have to choose the dorm on the fifth floor?
Finally, we got to the bottom floor and a flood of immense joy filled me, knowing that we were done with wall smashing myself. The one thing I forgot though, was that I should have began to run. Without warning, I was tossed back on the ground, the linoleum hitting me pretty hard. With a sharp tug, I began to slide across it, Pinkie directly in front of me. The few people I passed by stared at me in curiosity, one guy even saying, “Dude! How the hell you doing that?!”
“PINKIE PIE!”
Then, I was out the door along with the pony. Or rather, rocketed out.
I had never liked the feeling of flight before. It always made me queasy just thinking about it. After all, what if something should fail? All you would be is a small splat on whatever you landed on and that fate didn’t appeal much to me at all. So when I was free flying in the air, I immediately curled up into a ball, terrified of my fate that was to come from falling from such a height.
A height of 3 feet onto soft grass, gently bumping into a pink pony.
“Ooooooooooooo I absolutely POSITUTELY love your cupcakes Ms. Bennings! I couldn’t wait to try them and I even brought my newest bestest friend along too!” Pinkie Pie looked behind her at me, then at the person across the table from her. “I think I might have broke him already though…”
“Urghhhhh… Pinkie… Pie… you… bi-“
“Mike? Is that you?”
Peering up from my spot on the ground, two faces greeted me with concern. One was the pink devil from Equentia or wherever while the other was a dirty blonde haired angel from my college, Kelvin Elms. The latter one cocked her head to the side as she leaned over the table and she questioned, “Are you okay?”
I placed my hand on the table next to Pinkie Pie, climbing my way up the black and orange decorated table spread. I smiled, a goofy grin planted on my face as I wiped down a few dirt marks off of my once clean shirt. Looking down at myself and using my phone as a mirror to check my face, I was fairly surprised that I had no bruises or scuff marks anywhere. Not even a scratch!
“Whoa that’s freaky…” I mumbled, touching my skin hesitantly, as if I was wearing some false suit of skin armor.
“Uh, what is? The fact that you slid through the air for a good ten feet or that there’s a pink pony trying to eat my cupcakes, hehehe…”
We both looked at Pinkie Pie, the side of her face on the table with her tongue lolled out, nearly wrapped around a cupcake. After receiving a few intense stares, she silently slipped her tongue back into her mouth to sit on the ground, a broad smile on her face.
I sighed a bit, putting my head in my hand, when a thought struck me. Looking up, I cocked my eyebrow in confusion at the thin figured girl. “Wait wait wait wait Emily… YOU can see her?”
Emily looked as shocked as I was and backed away from the table. “Wait a minute… YOU can see her?” Looking a bit dazed, she put a hand to her forehead as she sat down, her eyes drifting off. “And I thought… I thought… she wasn’t… real…”
Although just as confused as her, an alarm on my phone both snapped us back to attention, along with the crowd shuffling into buildings now. I knew what the alarm meant but I had to get some resolve some things before I left Emily all dazed and confused. Looking down at the table from left to right, I noticed she was volunteering for the college’s monthly bake sale. It was more of a club than a volunteer work force, but it still helped the school earn a little bit of money each month.
Pfttt… yeah, like they already don’t get enough of that from us!
“So, Emily. You can see her, right?”
The pink pony bounced up in the air unnaturally high a few times. “I’m Pinkie Pie!”
Emily nodded dully as she watched the pink pony go up and down repeatedly. “Uh… y-yeah… I can see… and hear… Pinkie Pie…”
I nodded my head and grabbed a pencil out of my pocket, immediately taking a flyer promoting the bake sale. Scribbling down legible words on it, I handed my note over to her with a pleading look.
At first she just stared at it, but then she took it with a shaky hand, giving me a questioning eye. “Soooooo…”
I inhaled deep, filling my lungs. “So right now, from what I am gathering, we are the only people that I know of that can see Pinkie Pie and-“ We both looked over at Pinkie, who was literally sitting on top of somebody’s head, making silly faces at the person they happened to be talking to. She giggled like mad and fell off of the guy, landing on the ground in a laughing fit.
“-there’s my example, since there is no reaction from either the guy OR the girl and I don’t think we both are insane, especially since other people saw me slide across the floor and I believe insane people don’t have the same insane visions!” I drew in another sharp breath.
“But I REALLY need to go now so I can get to class and not miss it so I’m gonna have to leave you my room number, dorm, and time I get out of class so that we can both figure out what the hell is going on but I understand if you don’t want to get yourself involved with this since I barely even know anything about it myself but I really need to go now so bye!”
You are SO the smoothest of the smooth Ben… Get Pinkie Pie and get to class already!
Giving a quick wave goodbye, I smiled briefly at her as I bolted over to Pinkie Pie, scooping her up from the ground with one swift movement. Cradled in my arms she looked up at me at my determined face, bolting for the door of the Memorial Building as fast as I could.
All the while though, Pinkie was smiling up at me, her eyes squinted like she knew something about me all of a sudden. Right before I got into the room for my class, I had to know what she was thinking about.
“Pinkie, why the hell are you smiling so much?”
“Because, silly filly… I just got you a daaaaaa~aaaaaaate!”
Dum…
…Dum…
…Dum…
Click!
The pink pony simply smiled at me, the grin growing wider and wider as she caught me having my epiphany. I rolled my eyes and glowered at her as I entered the classroom.
“Oh screw off…”
A/N:
Well hello all you wonderful people out there~ Guess what time it is? Eeyup! Its Authors Notes time!
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