//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Unexpected Invites // Story: New Inhabitants // by Sneaks //------------------------------// Chase wakes up and gets off the couch he slept on during the night. Since there were only two beds and disagreements came up he offered to sleep on the couch. Sarah, of course, was sleeping soundly on one of the beds, cuddling her journal. Not surprising. She was relentless, and would've have continued on and on until she got her way. Bridget took the other bed while Miles took the floor. Chase goes out to check the mail and waiting in there is a letter from Twilight reminding us of an upcoming event in Canterlot, the gala. He is first compelled to throw it in the trash but then notices that there are four tickets in there for all four of them. He then goes inside and finds the rest are waking up from their joyous slumber. “Good morning everyon-everypony!” Chase says as he shows what was in the mail. Sarah groans when she sees that the letter is about The Gala and Chase notices this. “Hey, I am not too fond of these types of events either, but for some reason Twilight sent us four tickets to go and I do not plan on being rude,” he says to Sarah making her quiet down a bit. He reads the letter and it says that Rarity will make us all clothing for the gala. He then proceeds to dodge Sarah trying to slap him about a dress. “Can’t you cooperate Sarah? It is one night and it might be fun,” Bridget says actually rather excitedly. Miles is pretty neutral about it and after persuasion to Sarah they proceed to Rarity’s boutique. "I'm not going out in public if my dress is too girly and lacks dragons." Sarah snorts, still not exactly excited about the gala. Bridget snorts and rolls her eyes and Chase face-hoofs. Miles uncharacteristically blurts, "Sarah, what is it with you and dragons?!" He then gets slapped by Sarah. “You know hooves hurt worse than hands don’t you?!” Miles says holding his hoof up as Chase knocks on the door to the boutique. He then realizes that it is a public business and they just go into it. "Nice job, Chase..." Sarah mumbles under her breath as they wait for Rarity to speed along to the front counter. Rarity appears and they show her the letter that apparently gets them a free dress/suit/whatever. "Woohoo." Sarah says non-enthusiastically as Rarity starts measuring for the clothing. “Why, you sound just like Rainbow darling,” Rarity says. Sarah just sighed and rolled her eyes, grumbling things under her breath. “Hmph. Well then,” Rarity says a bit annoyed as she finishes and measures the rest of them. She says to return that afternoon and they should all be ready. Sarah quickly exits the boutique before any ideas of mane styling or makeup applying could be brought up. “You didn’t have to be so rude Sarah, she doesn’t have to help us you know,” Miles says to Sarah as they all just walk around town. Sarah looked at Miles, "Well I wasn't trying to be rude! You see, none of these ponies understand me, and they probably never will..." Sarah takes a deep breath and falls behind the rest of the group. “Well let’s see, we are creatures from a universe completely opposite of this one with governments and anatomy much different from these ponies. They won’t understand any of us and almost can’t understand us because of this. Therefore, that is true but general,” Chase says factually. They see Sugar Cube Corner and then realize they are hungry so they start heading to there. Sarah snorted and muttered quietly, "That's not what I meant..." she spoke as her friends entered the shop, "Hey, guys, I...I'll be there in a minute..." she said, turning her head towards the forest. Chase had pointed out his concern for her over her cutie mark. Ponies and dragons never really got along. He was concerned she would become a social outcast if they found she was associated with them. But that wasn't all she was thinking about. She wasn't all 'happy happy joy joy' like the others. She also missed her home. How was she going to tolerate this? Her friends didn't seem too concerned about getting home. They probably considered this place their home now. “Would you like to hear the specials?” The waiter asked the 4 friends. “Sure,” Chase said looking at the menu with a questioning look. “For a mere 50 bits it is an all-you-can-eat meal of hay fries with drinks!” Pinkie Pie says. They didn’t understand when they started making something other than sweets and realized that they must be in a somewhat-future version of Equestria. It didn’t seem to faze them though. “That sounds good to me, what about all of you?” Chase asked the rest of his friends. “Fine with me.......but......what ARE ‘hay’ fries?” Bridget said questioningly. “Pretty sure they are just their form of French Fries,” Miles said as he agreed to get it as well. “Sure, let’s get the food that we have no prior knowledge about,” Sarah said sarcastically. “Uhh......okay so the hay fries all-you-can eat special with what to drink?” Pinkie Pie asks. “...soft cider?” Chase said which made Sarah eye him. “Since when are you interested in alcohol?” Sarah said to him. “What else do they have on this bloody planet? Besides, by equine standards we can have this stuff anyway!” Chase said to her making her sigh as there was no point in arguing now. “You know, I’ll take what my Pal Chase is getting Pinkie Pie,” Miles said. “Get me something a little bit stronger than what they are getting,” Bridget said smirking. “Fine, soft cider so I don’t have to hear it. I’m not the one paying though,” Sarah spat. Pinkie Pie was unfazed by the rudeness and went to give the order. It didn’t take long, as SCC was fairly empty. “Hay fries, soft ciders for the two guys, one for the girl, and hard cider for you,” she says to Bridget. “Hurray!” Bridget said looking at it excitedly. “Who wants to bet money that she is going to get drunk in about 5 minutes?” Chase asked and Miles joins in the bet while Sarah simply facepalms. >(-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<) “Weeeeeooooooooooooo!!” Bridget yells drunkenly as Chase carries her alongside the others to the house. “I knew hard cider was a bad idea,” Sarah says in a matter-of-fact tone. “How could I have guessed she would flip a table and start terrorizing the ponies there?” Chase asked. “Probably because WE AREN’T EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK THAT STUFF!” Sarah screams at me. “Whatever, it was still fun and filling. Can one of you carry Bridget? I need to go pick-up our clothes for the Gala,” Chase says and Sarah takes the job with the help of Miles. Chase walks through town to the boutique to pick up the clothes, but when he arrives he finds the boutique in a mess. Needles, thread, cloth...EVERYWHERE! Rarity is running around, frantic and frustrated. Chase goes inside the boutique grabbing the attention of the frustrated mare. “Ugh....I mean, uhh welcome to the....boutique!” Rarity says to Chase quickly remembering why he was there anyway. “Is everything alright Miss Rarity? You don’t seem quite like yourself right now,” Chase asks which makes Rarity pretty much be honest. “Nothing is quite going like I want it for some reason, it’s normally easy you know so I don’t see why I can’t.......I don’t know if you know anything about dress-making, given your cutie mark, but could you help me out?” Rarity asks. “Well you’re correct, but sure I’ll try to help the best I can,” Chase says. After a good 2 hours they finish the remainders of the clothing. “I must thank you, please just take these on the house for the major delay. You probably worked the amount that I would require anyway,” Rarity says. Chase says his thanks and then goes to return to the house. The problem is, when he arrives he hears a bunch of noise coming from inside. “What’re y’al-,” Chase stopped as he stood in the doorway of a destroyed house and a now passed-out Bridget. “That could’ve gone better,” Miles says as he comes out from behind an overturned couch. “Oh, you think?!” Sarah says angrily. Chase just stands in the doorway, laughing his head off. “Why are you laughing?” Sarah asks angrily. “Because this is funniest bloody thing I’ve ever seen,” Chase says, then proceeds to help fix the overturned house.