//------------------------------// // Quick Encounters of the Crazed kind // Story: Bass Clefs and Sapphires // by Crispn //------------------------------// I was glad that I had grabbed something to eat. I had been really hungry and it had been the first time in a week that I had a solid meal. This had been turning out decently well, and it looked like the Corner would be getting a lot more of my business in the weeks to come. This sandwich was exceptional and apparently being friends with Dash would get me a discount. As I walked up to the Larstone Apartments, I noticed that there were a few extra cars that had not been there before. One looked like an apple truck. Weird, but whatever, this was a college town, most cars had come from their homes. Mine certainly had. My uncle, a very strange guy that just always had me call him Uncle Disc. On the day of my graduation, he pulled me aside and gave me my car. Not the best of cars and not new, but it was mine. Even though he wasn't really my uncle, he felt more of a dad than my father had ever been, although I have only known him for 3 years. Even nice enough to set me up with a free ride at the school he taught. He taught all sorts of physics and other applications of fluid dynamics. I had always been thankful to the old goat, with his grey beard and weird eyes. He was one of the most powerful uni casters that I have ever seen. He seemed to be able to bend the fabric of reality and physics all together. 4 flights of stairs later I stood in front of my new apartment. “Well shit” as I fumbled through my pockets. I realized that even though I had my car keys, I had forgotten to grab the key to the front door. I sighed to myself and knocked on the door. I heard some slight movement around and then nothing. “Dash? Can you come open the door? I forgot to grab a key and I can't get inside.” I knocked again. “Please?” I was met with silence again. "Well I guess I’m going to have to eat this tasty sandwich from that shop, the Corner was it?.” As quick as the words left my mouth, the door whipped open and Dash stood there with a determined look on her face. “ GIVE ME the sandwich, and no one gets hurt.” She was smiling and looking slightly devilish. I put my hand in the bag and pulled out the sandwich, to quickly have it grabbed out of my hand by the small girl in front of me. She dove into the food even faster. “MMMMMM sooooo good, how did you know I love smoked ham and chicken on wheat with lettuce, tomato and onions.” She looked at me inquisitively, but then she realized what must have happened. “Bonbon helped you out didn't she. Good girl, she should be here with Lyra tonight as well. Come on, a couple of them are here setting up and the rest should be up shortly. Oi, Pinkie, AJ, come here and meet Crisp.” she commanded as she took another large bite of sandwich. Inside the apartment there was a taller girl with blonde hair, jeans, a plaid shirt and a stetson. Safe to say she’s probably the one that came in the apple truck. She walked over to me and shook my hand forcefully. “Name’s Apple Jack or AJ for short,” she spoke with a pretty thick southern drawl. “Known Dash here since before school when she moved into town with her family. This little whippersnapper here” as she gestured out to the balcony to a teenager, about the age of Spike, “is Apple Bloom. She’s here visiting the school, she’s gonna be a real fancy architect or engineer of some sorts. Apple Bloom, come here and say hello.” The little teen walked over, her deep red hair tied back into her ponytail with a small ribbon in the shape of a bow. “Hiya there, names Apple Bloom, seems you're gonna be Rainbow Dash’s new roomie.” “Uuuh yea, that seems to be the case. I'm just glad I won't be living in my car anymore. I'm Crisp by the way.” “Its good to see Dash with someone that doesn't seem so difficult to live with-” SLAM! AJ was down on the ground with a what seemed to be a pink blob on top of her. Apple Bloom had barely jumped out of the way of this pink torpedo. “Oh my god, is this the new guy Dashie?! I like him. Oooooooo and look he is so cute and from what Vinyl says he knows how to party. She also said that you do a lot of work with music, what should we play tonight? Are you as excited about your party as I am? I love to throw parties for my new friends!” The girl spoke a mile a minute and with such enthusiasm that it was almost impossible to take it all in at once. AJ, on the other hand, did not look at all amused about being the landing zone for the missile of a girl. “Pinkie, I will kill you if you do not get off my back right now.” So this was Pinkie Pie. The one I had been warned about and it seemed with good reason. She spoke a mile a minute and she bounced around. It was the same girl that was at the shop earlier, and she really did bound everywhere instead of walking. She was wearing a short pink skirt and ripped pastel blue tights. She work a pink tank top with a hoodie that had been cut off at the shoulders. I could see on her right shoulder three pastel blue balloons. Wondering what kind of talents she had with a mark like that, it made sense that she was the party planner for tonight.. Everything about her from her curly pink hair, her wide as a mile smile and her attitude seemed to just scream energy and fun. She got off of AJ. “Sorry, AJ, but its just so exciting when I get to meet new friends and the parties are always the best and I even got everyone to come. Even Twilight is going to take the night off so she can be here. OH and Apple Bloom, Someone told me that there would be a surprise for you as well. but you have to wait until later.” “I cannot understand why it is so hard for you to get Twilight to go anywhere, I mean, y’all live together and whatnot.” I took the chance that AJ had given me to go into my room and finish my meal. I put the bag with Vinyl’s food on the desk as I took off my coat and shirt. Even though I don't like showing off my wings, it was always good to stretch them out every once in awhile and had it been a while. The biggest problem with my wings were that the strain of being confined all the time was starting to hurt them and cause a lot of pain. Stupid bindings, I thought I was used to them. I took a second to make sure the door was locked and then fluttered over to the closet. I grabbed a shirt and a new pair of jeans. I stripped off my dirty jeans and threw them on the bed and put on the clean clothes. All the while I heard the door open and close again and I heard a large squeal from what could only be Apple Bloom, although it sounded as if there was another voice along with her. Then a couple voices I recognized as Twilight and Bonbon arrived as well, along with a third I somewhat recalled. Spike must have shown up too and took the screaming outside to the balcony, mercifully. About a minute later, two more joined alongside the menagerie of voices out in the living room. I decided that I had stayed in here long enough. Scarfing down the last of my sandwich, I steeled myself and ventured out into the living room.