Time to go
Chapter 6
Meanwhile...
It was time to hurl, and so Pinkie got out of bed.
Last nights party wasn't exactly what she had in mind. Of course she didn't remember anything past when she spiked the punch and took a few swigs, and she guessed that was when all the fun stuff happened.
Pinkie stopped praying to the porcelain god and flushed. Then she washed out her mouth and brushed her teeth before walking downstairs and taking in the aftermath of what must have been one of her greatest parties, she was sure. Pinkie always enjoyed looking at the aftermath of the party, it told great tales of the night before even if you couldn't remember.
Yet when she got downstairs there was no aftermath. Everything was completely spotless!
"Noooooooooooooooooo!" Pinkie yelled running forward and sliding onto her knees.
"What do you mean no?" Asked a voice from outside. "It's past opening time, are you saying you won't be openin' today?"
Pinkie had been too hungover to remember that she had a store to run. What would the cakes think if Pinkie had missed all that morning business! She nervously glanced at the clock and noticed that it was only 15 minutes past opening time. Okay, so maybe she wasn't that irresponsible.
"Just a minute!" Pinkie yelled. She guessed it was a good thing that her store was clean or it would've taken her a good couple hours to clean up an aftermath, no doubt about it.
Pinkie looked around and did a quick double check before she opened the store, maybe something from her party was left over. Not a single thing. Pinkie felt relieved and disappointed at the same time.
Pinkie opened the door. "Okie dokie lokie, come on in and lets get some sweets!" Pinkie ushered the customer into her store and ran behind the counter, "What can I get you...uh I've never seen you before, are you new in town?"
"Name's Blue, and yeah I'm not exactly from these parts no." Said the colt who was now standing in Pinkie's store.
"Wanna be my friend? I love making new friends, what's your name? Where do you live? New friends get a free dozen cupcakes!" Pinkie was bouncing off the walls as usual.
"Hey thanks Pinkie, that's mighty nice of you, per the usual." Blue said.
"How did you know my name if you aren't from around here. Are you a spy!?" Pinkie gasped looking at Blue with one big eye.
"I ain't no spy darlin', you're just a mite popular round Equestria. I thought that while I was on my way I might as well stop into this renowned establishment for a treat and a smile or two.” Blue said grinning at his favorite pony.
“Well you've come to the right place for both! Here's your free cupcakes Blue!” Pinkie said shoving a box into his arms. “Anything else I can get you?”
“I would uh... I would love it if maybe... Oh never mind.” Blue stuttered, starting to blush.
“Hey, whatever it is, we're friends” Pinkie said quietly, “You can tell friends anything, and if it's a secret I won't tell anyone I...”
“Pinkie promise” Blue interrupted, faking sticking a cupcake into his eye.
Pinkie giggled “That's right,” She said mimicking the same motion. “Now what is it you wanted to tell me?”
At this Blue puffed up his chest, stood tall and said. “Would you like to have lunch with me this afternoon?”
“I would love to!” Pinkie exploded. “Where should we go? Oh! I know this place right in this square, they make delicious daffodil sandwiches. We should go there!”
“You uh... You wouldn't happen to have a lunch break would you?” Blue said, taking another deep breath before he could continue.
“I get a couple hours for lunch at one, you should stop by then and we can get some tasty lunch!” Pinkie was already hungry and those daffodil sandwiches sounded delicious already.
“Will do miss,” Blue said as the largest grin came across his face. He had waited a couple years for this opportunity, ever since he came to Equestria he had wanted to meet Pinkie, but with the starting of his wheat farm he hadn't really had the time. “Don't you worry about paying,” Blue said as Pinkie started counting bits for her lunch “It wouldn't be right for me to invite you to lunch and then make you spend your money.”
“Thanks so much blue! You're a great friend already!” Pinkie squealed and hugged blue.
Blue started to blush again.
“Uh yeah... No problem miss. I'll be back here at one, thanks for the cupcakes Pinkie!” Blue said as he started out the door.
“That's what friends are for!” Pinkie yelled as he left.
“Well that went well” Blue said quietly to himself. He had already met Twilight, now it was time to meet AJ. He wondered if she wasn't busy. Only one way to find out. So he started making his way to sweet apple acres.
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Rainbow Dash, had not fared much better than pinkie pie, in fact, she had puked before she went to bed, puked in the middle in the night, and then she had to puke right when she woke up.
“How could I possibly have to barf this much!” Rainbow yelled at the bowl of clouds before her that served as her toilet. “That party must have been the craziest one yet.”
Rainbow got to her kitchen and sipped some water as she tried to quell her aching head. She remembered Pinkie putting some extra stuff into the punchbowl and then being dared to chug the whole thing. Which she remembered doing. Immediately after however things seemed to get fuzzy. It was booze again, Pinkie was up to her old tricks. Not that Rainbow didn't enjoy a drink or two every once in a while, or being the occasional drunk, but she liked to know when she was being intoxicated.
Rainbow decided that a nice fly over ponyville would clear her head, and chugged the water before she went to the front of her floating cloud house and took off.
She was partially right, the wind in her mane and the constant flapping seemed to ease her head, but the sun was really bright and it hurt her eyes.
After going back to get some shades, Rainbow took off again and glided lazily, or rather drunken through the sky. She started off the day by flying over Rarity's carousel boutique. Then she tried to do a spiral in the air. She started feeling woozy immediately.
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Rarity had woken up with only a slight headache and no memories of the party after the music arrived. “Another one of Pinkie's usual parties I'm sure.” Rarity said before walking into her kitchen. Sweetie bell had once again tried her hand at cooking and it had actually gone rather well. 2 glasses of Apple juice were on the table, the plates and silverware were placed with accuracy and the french toast was only slightly burnt.
“Oh hi sis!” Sweetie Belle said beaming “I made breakfast and it turned out great don't ya think?”
“Wow Sweetie Belle your cooking skills have really improved, I think I might just have some bread and jam to go with this breakfast.” Rarity said opening the cupboards and getting out the raspberry jam.
“uh, don't you think you'll be too full if you eat more bread with it?” Sweetie Belle said behind her mask of a smile.
“Don't be silly of course I won't... Sweetie belle where's all the bread?” Rarity asked, sensing that Sweetie Belle was hiding something.
“I uh, fed some birds this morning after I made the french bread, and I guess I used up all the bread! Sorry!” Sweetie Belle said putting on a giant smile.
“Right well I guess I'll just put the jam away.” Rarity said but as she looked at the bottle she realized that it had some mold in it. “Oh, this jam is no good. This was my favorite kind too.” Rarity moaned as she went over to throw it in the trash.
“Rarity wait!” Sweetie belle yelled hoping to stop her sister before she opened the garbage.
Unfortunately Rarity had already opened the lid and was going to toss the jam, before she say the crazy amount of egg shells and burnt french toast that filled the trash.
“You know if you wanted to practice you could've just told me and I would have stocked up...” Rarity said, slightly put off that her sister had not only wasted all the bread they owned in one fowl swoop, but surely all the eggs as well.
“Sorry sis, but you might as well come have this breakfast before it gets cold! Wouldn't want my hard work to go waste would you?” Sweetie Belle said before she took the last bite of her toast and downed the rest of her apple juice.
“Well sis I hope you enjoy it, I gotta go meet up with Scootaloo and Apple Bloom. We're getting our story writing cutie marks today!” Sweetie Belle said excitedly, and then zoomed out the door, and was gone from sight almost immediately.
“Well it actually doesn't look too bad.” Rarity said as she sat down and wielded her fork. She cut off a nice chunk of bread and stuck it into her mouth. She tasted the usual things. Bread, egg, nutmeg, syrup. Then rarity felt something in her mouth.
“Wait a minute.” Rarity thought “Did she put peppercorns in the egg!”
There were no words as she bit down to investigate.
Needless to say the breakfast was dumped and the apple juice was chugged.
“That child needs to learn about the proper use of certain ingredients.” Rarity said throwing on her scarf from the night before. It seemed, crusty, as if it had been covered in dirt, washed lightly and then hung out to dry. She decided that she should just wash her clothes from the night before seeing as how she had worn them to a party she remembered nothing about and thought she should take a bath first.
After taking a nice warm bath and perfecting her mane yet again, she threw on a new scarf and went outside. She had to buy some more supplies, and she might as well take a nice morning walk.
That's what she thought, at least, before the weather turned sour.
Rainbow Dash couldn't hold it, she was going to puke again and so she did the best thing she could and faced downward before she did so.
Rainbow Dash's seemingly impossible amount of chunk nuggets plastered the walkway to Rarity's shop, just missing Rarity as she walked out the door.
“I guess I'll just go back to bed then,” Rarity whispered to herself. “Discord has obviously escaped and I want no part in it until Twilight needs me to vanquish him.” At this she went inside, threw her scarf over her hat rack, and marched upstairs before getting back into bed and thinking that this day should never have started.
“Oh Celestia, I should never try doing tricks when I'm this sick to my stomach” Ranbow Dash flew down to asses the damage. Luckily no part of the dress shop or it's owner had been touched and she was thankful, “at least I won't get that much garbage from her later”
Then she flew back up and got some storm clouds, she guided them over the walkway and started jumping. Withing minutes her insides were cleaned off the walk and she could go back to flying. Her head had cleared a little and she thought that she should go home and just rest it off. It was obvious that she wasn't going to get that much done today feeling sick as she was. Good thing today was going to be sunny because she had no more sick days off.
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Fluttershy woke up, fed her animals, walked outside, and fell into her pond.
As she got out and started drying herself off, her bear friend grabbed her and used his belly like a large towel. Fluttershy was dry in moments.
“Thanks so much,” Fluttershy said giving the bear a nuzzle “That was so kind of you”
The bear growled a warm growl and went back to what he was doing.
“Well aren't I just more clumsy than usual today.” Fluttershy thought
She went started walking towards town and tripped on the hose that her gardener was using to over water her flowers. Again.
“Are you alright miss flutersha'?” The gardener asked
“I am, but I don't think those flowers are.” Fluttershy said rubbing her chin
“Oh ya, sorry” The gardener said turning off the hose “Guess I got too caught up in mah tune to realize I was drownin em again.”
“That's fine, just please don't let it happen again.” Fluttershy said walking to her mailbox.
She opened her mailbox and saw that she had a couple letters and grabbed them in her mouth.
When she went to close the mailbox however part of her mane got stuck in the lid and she squeaked as it pulled on her hair. Fluttershy reopened and closed the mailbox only to find that her letters had landed on her flowers.
So now both her things had been drowned. Fluttershy sighed as she retrieved her mail and tried to wipe it off. She decided she was too clumsy today to do anything, and went back to her cottage. As she put the mail onto a towel which was laid out on her table she heard something outside.
Sounded like thumping. As she went outside she saw that Angel was running up the road. “There's my favorite bunny!” Fluttershy yelled to Angel. Angel was not concerned about whose favorite he was, he was more concerned about the hawk that had decided to chase him.
“Oh no angel I'm coming!” Fluttershy said starting off down the path. Unfortunately her feet caught and she tumbled. Right into the pond.
Angel ran into the cottage and shut the big door behind him. The hawk followed after and was stopped by the door. After rubbing it's beak for a little, the hawk flew off and left Fluttershy, dripping, and wet. Again.
The gardener saw this and chuckled as quietly as he could to himself. Fluttershy dried herself off as best she could, stomped up to the cottage, grabbed a towel, dried herself, and then went back to taking care of the animals inside her cottage. Today was not a good day to go outside.
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As Applejack helped Mac put the final bushels of apples into the barn, she thought she heard somepony walking up the path. Mac must've thought so too because he said “Visitor.”
Applejack swung around to see who their visitor might be and saw a blue colt, holding a long piece of grass in his mouth like Big Mac was known to do. “Don't worry Mac, I'll see what he wants.” Applejack said as she trotted over to talk to this new visitor. Mac went inside and started helping clean up the house a little.
“Howdy there stranger, need something from the apple family?” Applejack asked
“Howdy yourself Applejack, the names Blue, I was just stopping by to visit your reputable apple farm.” Blue said smiling.
“Thank you kindly, but my farm isn't as popular as you think, and we prefer it stayed that why if you know what I mean. How'd you know who I was anyways” Applejack asked, she knew his name, but he was still a stranger to her.
“Oh don't you worry about that miss, you think I would come to visit a farm if I didn't know the family that owned it?” Blue said extending his hoof.
“I suppose not,” AJ said just a little suspicious “What can I do ya fer?”
“I'm a farmer myself growing wheat, and I was wondering if a great farmer like you could give me a couple of tips.” Blue said with that ever present grin on his face. He hadn't had time to meet ANY of the mane 6 when he was transported. Now was his big chance.
Applejack's suspicions left her like ants during a flood. “Oh well why don't you come have some nice snacks, Granny makes a right tasty cobbler and we can get to it right after, I'm just a mite peckish myself.”
“Sure thing” Blue said, this was more than he could have hoped for.
It was time to go, and so they went to snack.