//------------------------------// // Skateboarding and Apologies // Story: He left a Nerd. Returned an Nerdy Assassin. // by The Soviet Turtle //------------------------------// The next morning, Ricky’s eyes began to twitch as Celestia’s sun shined into his face; he tried to block it out using his hand. He grumbled slightly as he sat up and stretched, he then left his bedroom and went down stairs, made himself some cereal and began to eat. Once he was finished, he got changed into blue shirts and camouflage shorts, he then put on some socks and his sneakers, before heading into the bathroom. He brushed his teeth and shaved, ran up to his room grabbed his skateboard and then headed for the door. As he left his house, he put his skateboard down on the ground, hoped on and pushes off with his right leg and began to speed through Ponyville. He quickly dodged everypony and human that he could of collided with causing an accident which he couldn’t afford right now, not now since he would begin patrol tonight. As he left the main part of town he headed down a dirt road, he was going at a steady pace when an Orange Pegasus filly with a purple mane, wearing a blue helmet with a white line in the middle on a scooter. Along with two more fillies, a white unicorn with a purple and pink mane and a yellow earth pony with a red mane with a red ribbon in it, riding in a red wagon attached to the scooter wearing helmets. Ricky quickly slowed down, letting the three Fillies get ahead of him; he eventually picked up his speed to see what exactly they were doing. He was able to catch up to them in time to see a ramp, and in mere moments the Fillies and scooter went up, up, and…about as high as a cloud. They started flailing as they had lost their scooter and wagon and were free-falling to the ground below them; the Pegasus flapped her wings as hard as she could, but to no avail, Ricky knew he had to react quickly. He dodged the ramp and speed up as fast as he could, he was gaining ground but he still wasn’t in the location where the fillies would land. “Come on Ricky! Move!” He said to himself as he kept on kicking dust to get to the fillies faster. He kept on kicking the dust up and held his arm open, like he was about to catch a football, soon three groups of flailing hoofs were caught in Ricky’s grasp. The Fillies stopped screaming and Failing and Ricky came to a complete stop on his skateboard, he carefully put them down, kicked his skateboard into his hand, and got on one knee. “Are you three alright?” He asked, but he never got a response, instead he got jumped on by three grinning Fillies. “Thanks a bunch mister!” The white Filly said. “That was awesome! Not Rainbow Dash awesome but still pretty Awesome!” the orange Pegasus said. “Ah thought we were goner’s fer sure, but you really save our hinds back there!” the Yellow Earth pony shouted. “It was no trouble, although I would appreciate it if I could stand up now.” Ricky said, the Fillies smile nervously as they got off the human. He soon got up and brushed himself off. “Can one of you mind telling me what you were doing jumping to the height of a cloud?” he asked, causing the Fillies to blush a little. “Well, we were trying to get our cutie marks.” Said the white unicorn. “So we tried to see if ramp jumping was our cutie marks.” The Orange Pegasus continued. “But it looks like it ain’t, I guess we’ll need to come up with another idea” the Earth pony finished. “Alright well since your last idea almost had you fall to the ground, maybe you should think of one that won’t endanger your lives” Ricky said “But you should also never give up, it may take a while for your cutie marks to appear, but you still have a lot more potential in you. So never quit dreaming.” Ricky said, this speech lifted the three filly’s spirits. “Wait, we never told you who we are.” The white unicorn said. I’m Applebloom” “I’m Scootaloo” “I’m Sweetie belle” “And were…” they paused for effect before screaming “THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!” Ricky’s head started spinning from how loud the scream was; he shakes his head and started to see properly. “Man that was loud.” Ricky said “I’m Ricky by the way.” He said before he got on his skateboard. “I gotta go sorry, I’ll see you later.” He then kicked off and headed back towards the town. “Bye!” the CMC yelled before heading off to find Scootaloo’s scooter. Meanwhile Ricky was speeding through the town again until he reached his house and came to a complete stop. He kicked his skateboard up and catches it. Once he went inside and had a quick shower, he heard a knock at the door, which was weird for him since he had no friends in town; once he opened the door he saw who had knocked at his door. On his doorstep, was an Orange mare, with a blonde mane and tail, each with a red band at the end making them ponytails, white freckles on her cheeks, three red apples on her flanks, and a brown Stetson. He remembered her as one of the mares that teased him, but she would rather tag along rather than join in. that had a lovely southern accent, strong back legs (hoofs?), and beautiful emerald eyes, also his childhood crush. “Howdy Ricky.” She said in a saddened tone. “Hello Applejack.” He replied in a blunt tone. “Ah know ya probably don’t wanna see me but ah need to talk to y’all.” She asked. Ricky looked at her face and sighed. “Alright, come on in.” he said as he directed her to come inside, she did and walked (trotted?) into the main room, Ricky closed the door and joined her. Tension seemed to be so thick you could cut it with a knife. “What is it you want to talk about?” Ricky asked. “ Ricky, as ya know, Rarity, Pinkie and mahself weren’t very kind to yah, and ah know ya know whose votes helped win the vote 12 years ago, but ah just wanna say, ah’m sorry for any pain or teasing ah caused ya. Ah don’t expect yah to forgive me, but let me try to make it up to y’all.” Applejack said, hoping the simple apology would at least get him to try to become friends with her. Ricky digested the info he was given and thought it through. Know he had two options here, the first is to accept her apology and try to get to know her since they last met. The other is to not except it and be stubborn about what happened all those years ago. He knew he wasn’t like that so he began to speak. “Alright, Applejack. This is what I’ll do, I accept your apology but I want to get to see how mature you’ve gotten, and if I think your fully sorry, then we can become friends.” He said. “Alright, that seems fair” she replied, she gave a weak smile and held her hoof out; Ricky knew what it meant and hit her hoof with a closed fist. They both looked at each other and smiled, and then a furious knock came from the door. “I wonder who that is.” Ricky said out loud, Applejack shrugged, he opened the door to see a pink earth pony whose mane was deflated and a White unicorn whose head was dropped. "Ricky, can we please talk?' Pinie asked “If you came to apologise, you don’t have to, I was just a bit angry yesterday. So really I should be the one who apologise for saying what I said.” Ricky said with a smile, Pinkie’s mane instantly poofed up and Rarity just gave a sigh of relief before lifting her head up. “Yay! Now I need to plan for your surprise party!” Pinkie said before gasping and disappearing. “I must also apologise to Darling, when I called you ‘Icky Ricky’, a lady does not call on names or hold grudges.” She said. “Alright, and sorry about that ‘taking advantages of other species’ thing.” He replied. “Now I must return to my boutique, I have a few more orders to fill out today. Ta ta!” she said as she left. Leaving only Ricky and Applejack in the house. “Would ya like ta come to Sweet Apple Acres Ricky?” Applejack asked. “Sure, why not?” he said as he opened the door for her and then closing and locking the door behind him. The two then headed through the town and onto the dirt path leading to a farm, along the way, Ricky remembered something and asked Applejack a question. “Hey Applejack, do you know anyone called ‘Applebloom’ ?” “Actually, ah do, she’s mah little sister, why?” She asked Curious of how Ricky already knew her sister. “Well, I was skateboarding outside of town when she and her friends jumped off a ramp and literally went as high as a cloud, so I sped up and I was able to catch them before they fell on the ground.” Applejack’s jaw dropped. “Ya saved the Cutie mark crusaders!?” she asked. “It’s no big deal, I just did what was right.” He said as he shrugged. Applejack chuckled. “Still humble as always.” She said, Ricky then replied. “Hey! I bet you’re just as stubborn as you were back then.” They both laughed until they reached the white gate, which was the entrance of the hundreds of acres of apple trees. Ricky’s jaw dropped at the amount of trees there were, but it shut closed again as he continued to follow Applejack who lead him to the house behind the barn which had a sleeping Elderly green mare in a rocking chair, and a big red stallion that walked out of the door. Applejack. Who’s this?” the stallion asked. “Big Mac, this is Ricky. He’s a new friend of myn” she winked at Ricky will saying he got the message and winked back. “Well nice to meet ya Partner” he said giving Ricky a hand(hoof?)Shake. “Granny, Wake up!” Applejack shouted, causing the old mare to wake up. “Huh?” was all she said before getting on her hoofs. Granny Smith, this is Ricky.” Applejack said pointing to the human on the porch. “Nice to meet you ma’am.” He said, Granny Smith put on a huge smile. “Nice to meet cha Sonny, Ain’t you the one who saved Applebloom and her friends?” she asked “Yes ma’am, but I was just doing what was right, nothing more, nothing less.” He replied. “And humble to, you sure picked a good boyfriend Applejack.” “Granny!” Applejack yelled annoyed. “ah’m just pulling your leg Applejack.” She said as she and Big Mac Laughed, leaving Ricky and Applejack Blush crazily. “Come on Ricky, I need to tell ya something back at your place.” She said annoyed, Ricky happily obliged as both of them left the farm and headed back to the house, but strangely, no one seemed to be in the town, even the markets were abandoned Once they arrived, Ricky noticed the door was slightly open; he slowly opened the door and noticed his house was pitch black. “Hey, where the lights?” Then the lights seemed to magically turn on as he saw the whole town in the room. A collective yell of “SURPRISE!” filled the room, causing Ricky to jump back and fall onto his back, Applejack offered to help lift him up, he accepted and stood up again, Pinkie then came out of nowhere. “Hi! Were you surprised? Were you? Huh? Huh? Huh?” she asked. “Yes, you certainly did” he said with a smile. “Quick, I’ll show you to our other friends.” She said as she dragged him to his couch were Rarity, A lavender unicorn with a pink steak in her lavender mane. A cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane. And a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane. “Girls, this is Ricky.” Pinkie said joining her friends; they waved to him as he took a seat on his couch. “I’m Rainbow Dash. Fastest flier in Equestria and soon to be wonder bolt.” The cyan Pegasus boasted. “Hi…I’m…Fluttershy” the Yellow Pegasus barely whispered out, it was hard for Ricky to hear but he eventually heard her . “Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle; I am Princess Celestia’s Personal Protégé.” The Lavender mare stated. “It’s nice to meet you all” he smiled. I’ve gotta go, see if I can make friends with some more ponies.” He said as he got up and disappeared into the crowd. Meanwhile, Twilght, Dash and Fluttershy look at the rest of the mane 6. “Girls, can you tell us what exactly you did to him?” Twilight asked, the three mares looked at each other before sighing and looking at their friends. “You might wanna sit down girls, it’s going to be a long story. About 20 years ago…”