//------------------------------// // "LET THESE PONIES PARTY!" // Story: "Wait!" // by AxelGunn //------------------------------// "LET THESE PONIES PARTY!" By MrAnderson92 Rarity stood there, holding my suit. Or rather...what was LEFT of my suit. Oh...my...goddess...what in Equestria happened to my suit?? "R-rarity...What happened??" I asked anxiously. "I assure you dearie, I have no idea what has happened to your suit!" Rarity exclaimed with a slight tinge of emotion I could only discern as nervousness. My suit, which was being levitated before all of us courtesy of Rarity's magic, was utterly destroyed. What was once a suit (using the term loosely of course) was now just some strips of oddly fashioned fabric. It's as if my suit was tossed in a blender...that was set to annihilate... Twilight put her hoof on my shoulder, a sympathetic look on her face, "Rarity, are...are the pockets still intact?" "I'm terribly sorry Twilight...but I have no idea where the pockets would even be now..." Rarity said with a sad little sigh. "Why the hay are you apologizing to Twi?" Rainbow Dash asked, stomping towards Rarity, "It's HIS suit that you ruined! If you're going to apologize to anypony you should apologize to...uh..HIM!" She stammered angrily. "Hey now Rainbow, don't ya'll be gettin' up in Rarity's biz over somethin' she ain't responsible for!" Applejack stated, walking over to stand protectively in front of Rarity, "She said she didn't have nothin' to do with this here suit's destruction and as her friends we oughta believe her!" "Well then what are your ideas as to what happened to the suit AJ?" Rainbow Dash retorted, "Obviously SOMETHING happened in the small bit of time that he left the suit here with Rarity!" "Girls!" I yelled, scaring Twilight away from me, "This is getting us nowhere! I don't give a flying filly about the suit! If there's nothing to be found then there's nothing to be found alright? I'll have to find out who I am in a different way!" "He's right," Twilight said, looking at everyone in succession, "all this arguing isn't getting us anywhere to finding out who he is. And no matter what he has to go through, I for one will be with him through its entirety." She finished, turning to face me with a reassuring smile on her face. "As will ah sugahcube." Applejack said, walking over to stand with Twilight, grinning at me as she did so. "And of course I shall be joining you." Rarity stated, gracefully walking over to stand on the other side of Twilight. I looked over at Rainbow Dash, as I had expected her to speak up way before this, "And you Rainbow?" "Please, you think I'm just gonna let you go off and have a bunch of fun without me?" She said with a wink as she walked up next to me, "As if doing anything when I'm not involved could ever be considered fun right cutie?" She murmured into my ear as she nuzzled into my neck. Well isn't she just getting comfortable? Wow she smells nice...she smells like...wow I can't describe this...she smells like adventure...and confidence...and..wait. What am I saying? Those aren't scents.. "Umm...thanks everypony," I said, blushing as I shied away from Rainbow, "I really appreciate all of this. Does anypony have any ideas about what to do now?" There was a pause as everypony thought about this, giving my blush ample time to dissipate. Let's see...what to do... "OH! Ah have an idea!" Applejack said, "We should go to the first spot you woke up and couldn't remember anything!" "Applejack that's a great idea!" Twilight said, "Where did you wake up?" She asked me. "The last thing I can remember was waking up in a tree a little ways out of Ponyville!" I said excitedly, "I'm pretty sure I could find it again!" "Then what're we waiting for ponies??" Rainbow Dash yelled, "Let's go wild!" Yeah I bet she'd want to go wild. Damn that mare has some nice fla- Whoa. She's rubbing off on me. Gotta focus "Alright then everypony, let's go!" I said with a grin, leading the way out of the Carousel Boutique. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After a short trot, we five ponies eventually arrived at the tree I fell out of, under the branches of which there was a light yellow pegasus pony with a soft pink mane and matching tail trying to coax out a little squirrel who, from what I heard, "had a scare from a mean ol' falcon." "Oh hey Fluttershy!" Twilight said smiling, "How are you?" "Oh...hey Twilight...hey everyone" this soft-spoken pegasus shyly said, "who's...." *squeak* Did she just squeak? "Hello, uh...Fluttershy, right?" I said, walking forward but she kept shying away from me. Wow, FlutterSHY is right...she won't even make eye contact with me! "I, uh, don't know who I am...I have amnesia and I can't remember anything about myself.." "Oh...my...that's awful..." Fluttershy whispered, voice barely louder than a squeak, "I'm...I'm so sorry to hear that..." "It's terrible," Twilight said sadly, glancing over at me, "We actually came here to see if we can find any clues around this tree that might help him." "Yeah," I said, "when I first woke up with amnesia I was in this very tree. Have you seen anything?" "Um...no I haven't..." She said, "Wait, you said you woke up IN the tree?" She asked with some more authority in her voice, "Then YOU must've been the 'mean ol' falcon' that scared this poor little squirrely!" She stated with a firm stare in my direction Uh...uh...did I do something wrong?? I can't remember!! "Um...maybe? I don't remember Fluttershy..." "Ah right...you have amnesia...I'm sorry..." She said, switching back to her timid self. Whoa...that was kinda scary... I grinned, "Hey now, don't worry about it!" "Oh, ok...I'm really very sorry..." Fluttershy said again. "Just fuhgeddabout it Shyfly." I said, smiling confidently at her. Wait...where the hell did that come from? Fluttershy blushed a deep shade of crimson, squeaked multiple times, and flew away fairly quickly. What was all that about? She's so...timid... "Whoa now, why does she get a nickname and not me?" Rainbow Dash said with a look of mock anger upon her face, "I've known you alot longer than she has, and alot better than anypony here I would think." She said in a strange voice. Did her voice just get husky? I gotta keep my distance... "Now Rainbow keep yer flanks away from the poor guy till he knows his name at least!" Applejack said, coming to my rescue and diverting Dash's interest from the growing blush in my cheeks to a defensive point with Applejack. As Rainbow and Applejack argued over "whose ponies' flanks I wanted to get my hooves on," and Rarity tried to calm the argument, Twilight and I walked over to the tree and began looking for anything that might've been mine. "Why DID you call Fluttershy that?" Twilight asked in a low voice, "It IS kind of odd that you would make up a nickname for her so fast..." What is that tone in her voice? Is she...sad? Jealous maybe? But why would she care...unless...no...it can't be... "I really don't know Twi..." I trailed off, unknowingly calling Twilight by her nickname. "Aww that's sweet but you don't need to call me by my nickname," Twilight said, with a small but happy smile on her face. "What? Oh, uh, yeah, ummmm..." I stammered, unable to comprehend what had just happened between us. Well whatever the hay I did, it obviously scored me some points with Twilight... "Look over there! It's a journal!" We ran over to where the journal lay behind the tree, and using her magic Twilight picked it up, levitated it in front of us, and opened it. What I saw was complete gibberish. A bunch of drawings with mathematics adorned almost all the pages. The rest were blank. "It's a flight journal." I heard Rainbow Dash say behind me, "And if these drawings are accurate of the tricks they refer to, then it is certainly an intense one." "Flip to the front Twilight," I heard myself say, mouth suddenly dry, "I think this is mine." "Ok!" Twilight exclaimed, excitement overtaking her as she hurredly flipped to the front of the journal. Right there, on the inside of the cover, were the words "This journal is the property of......" FLASH! Pictures. Images of ponies crowding me, chanting my name. FLASH! A light cream-colored earth pony walking up to me with a huge smile on her face, greeting me by name. FLASH! That very same journal falling through the sky as I try to catch it. When the images stopped, I lifted my head and looked around. I found myself back in the bed that was in the library. I still don't know why there's a bed in the library...wait. I know who I am. I KNOW WHO I AM! "Oh so it is your journal?? That's great!" Twilight exclaimed while she walked into the room. Oh crap I must've said that out loud "Yeah! Twilight Sparkle, I know who I am" I said with a satisfied smile on my face. "That's wonderful!" Twilight said with a huge smile, "Follow me so you can introduce yourself to everypony correctly!" "That's a great idea Twi," I said, laughing at the slight blush that appeared at the use of her nickname, "where is everypony?" "Oh they're out getting some food, come on I'll take you to them." Twilight murmured in my ear as she tried pushing me out the door, "I can think of at least one pony who wants to enjoy a meal with you." I shivered as her warm, breath wafted down the back of my neck, "Yeah, so can I," I chuckled. Twilight looked at me with her eyes wide, a strange look in them, "Really? You know?" Is she...scared? Or is she nervous? "Well yeah, I mean, did you see Rainbow Dash? It was like she was trying to get me in her flanks and didn't care who knew!" I laughed loudly, trying to sort out my own feelings about these mares. "Oh! Oh yes, Rainbow can be quite blunt in trying to get what she wants," Twilight said with a relieved smile on her face, "especially if what she wants is presenting a challenge to her." She finished looking pointedly at me. Uh...what did she mean by that? Was I challenging Rainbow? I don't think so...maybe she was just overcome by my rugged good looks! "I...think I understand..." I said slowly. "Good!" Twilight said happily, "Now let's go!" The next thing I saw was her horn glowing a bright magenta color, then everything went black. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I opened my eyes to find myself in a very brightly colored room, that was filled with balloons, streamers, sweets, pastries, and ponies. Wow...there are a lot of ponies here...where am I? "Um...hi everypony..." I said as I got to my hooves, "wh-what's going on?" "THIS IS YOUR PARTY!" Something very pink said as it jumped in my face, "Your welcome to Ponyville party of course! Welcome to Ponyville!" "Heh, sorry I had to do that to you," Twilight said walking up to me, "but Pinkie Pie here wanted you to be surprised when you got here and that was the first thing I had thought of." She said smiling shyly. "Wow...wow! All of this is for me?" I said, looking around at everything and everypony, "Th-this is incredible! Thank you so much Pinkie Pie! I love it!" I finished with what might've been the biggest smile I've ever had in my life (but how the heck would I know?) "I'm glad you like it so much! Because it's time for you to introduce yourself to everypony! Now get your flank onstage and introduce yourself!" "On....onstage?" I stammered, "I'm not sure that's a very good idea..." "Oh well!" Pinkie said, "Too late now!" And with that she bounced off the stage that she and Twilight sneakily led me up onto as they were talking to me. "Don't worry, you're going to do fine," Twilight said as she gave me a quick nuzzle, "enjoy yourself and have fun! It is your party after all." She said as she walked away. So I turned to look out into the audience, practically having a heart attack as I saw all those ponies looking up at me with big smiles on their faces as they enjoyed this huge party, that was just for me. I walked up to the microphone that Pinkie had arranged to be put on the stage for me and took a deep breath to calm my nerves. "He-hello everypony!" I said, trying not to make too much eye contact with any one pony, finally locking my eyes with Twilight's and smiling as I felt my nerves instantly calm themselves, "I'd just like to thank all of you for coming here to greet me to Ponyville, with a special thanks to Pinkie Pie over there," I said as I pointed over to Pinkie with my hoof, "and if it wasn't for all of her friends," I continued, casting my hoof over all of them, "I wouldn't be able to introduce myself to you now. It was thanks to them that I was able to beat back a small part of my amnesia to learn my name. Residents of Ponyville, my name is Cloud Runner, it is a pleasure to meet all of you and a great honor to be inducted into your town in such a fashion. Thank you all." I finished, letting the waves of applause wash over me as my already huge smile stretched to impossible lengths. Suddenly, some odd feeling took over my body, and before I knew what I was doing, I turned to the dj, a pony I didn't meet personally yet, and shouted, "YO DJ PON3! LET THESE PONIES PARTY!"