I had entered Rarity’s Boutique, exchanged a few sex jokes, and ended up getting a business partner. And no, the business is not related to sex by the way, it was for paragliding. I gave her a diagram of how the parachute for paragliding is put together, I gave her money to make three of them, totaled around 632 bits by the way, and with any luck, I can get some earth ponies or unicorns, who want to feel control over flying and not be limited to where the wind takes you, like with a hot air balloon.
But before I advertised my new business, I had a spa to go to and try to get the sticker comfortably removed, without taking a ton of hair with it. As I entered, I saw Fluttershy sitting on the bench in the waiting room. “Good afternoon Fluttershy, how are you?”
“Oh, um, I’m fine. I’m sorry, but, do I know you?” she asked very quietly.
“Fluttershy, you don’t recognize me? But I held a party, and, and you visited me in the hospital, and told you stuff. Sure I had a different fur color of white, but, but…” I let my voice trail off…
“Oh my, Mr. White Wind. I’m sorry, how are you?”
I decided that I wouldn’t correct her on the name. “I am well, what brings you to the spa? You don’t seem like a pony who would go to a spa.”
“Oh, well, I meet with Rarity each week, and, um…” her voice trailed off.
“I was just talking with Rarity. I hope that I wasn’t delaying her from meeting with you.”
“I, um, I don’t mind, really.”
“Nonsense. I hate tying someone up and keeping them from pre-arranged appointments.”
“What are you doing here? That is, if you don’t mind me asking.”
“Of course I don’t. I’m here because Rarity told me that this place could help me get this sticker off relatively painlessly. I’m guessing that it would be somewhere along the lines of a sauna or something, that would help with that.” I walked up to the counter, and asked about it. “Excuse me, do you have a sauna here?” The clerk at the desk nodded. “Great, what are the longest time periods able to use one for, and how much does it cost?”
“Longest time you can rent one for is an hour, and it costs 30 bits.” The clerk responded.
I pondered a while and did some calculations. ‘I had about 800 bits start of today, about 582 were found during the cleaning of my house, and I had around 200-250 bits before the party. I just spent 632 on the parachutes, leaving me with somewhere around 170-200 bits. I need about 120 of those for the three week wait before the parachutes are done, and another 20 for advertising. Leaving me 30-60 bits. I could probably make it on 90 bits and use the other 30 to contribute with the sauna, allowing me to safely buy two hours of time, and possibly three. You know what, I’m going to do the three hours.’ “I think that I would like to get three, hour long, time slots, for use of the sauna. Is that all right?”
“I’m sorry sir, but it is against our policy to allow you to do that. We can only schedule you for once use per six hours, otherwise it could hurt you rather than help you relax.”
At that moment, Rarity came in, wearing her hat, and apologized to Fluttershy for being late. She then called to the clerk, the one I was about to make a reservation with the sauna, and said, “The usual.” The clerk smiled largely and ran off.
“Great, guess I will see if I can get a bathtub or my own sauna, to work in a cloud house.” I walked out, grumbling about the mechanics of getting it to work. I figured it out, sure, but building a 4 person sauna would cost me around 120 bits, excluding the materials to actually run it. I decided that the sticker wasn’t worth it, so I just let it be until it, and the rest of my fur, shed naturally. Or I could just shave it all. I decided to shave it, but after I got my house to a spot that I could still reach it.
I set out to advertise the classes and rentals of the Parachutes. Living in a city where the inhabitants were mostly earth ponies, I figured that getting some ponies to sign up, would be easy. After getting some paper, quills, and ink, I drew up some flyers, and started to post them around when Rainbow flew down.
“Hey, what are you doing?” she asked.
“Advertising a way for earth ponies and unicorns to fly. Also trying to figure out how I should go about shaving myself. So you know, the usual stuff.”
“What?”
“Hm?”
“You just said… You know what, never mind.”
“Want to help post flyers? I still have about half the town to cover.”
“Sure, I have nothing better to do.” I handed her half the stack and told her what half to cover. Rainbow read the poster aloud before moving. “‘Do you wish to fly without having to use wings? Do you wish to travel across great distances through the air? Learn how to do this, and be one of the few who can. Meet at the Ponyville’s Maple Park on Tuesday the 31st.’ The 31st? That’s 25 days from now.”
“I know. It gives me plenty of time to gather the necessary items, and the residents of Ponyville enough time to prepare for this event. Not only that, but I will have time to test out each item. Hell, who know, I might even fly to Canterlot on a test-fly, won’t that be a laugh and a half. Landing on top of the royal palace in a thing never seen before. The guards would freak! That would be a really fun thrill. Anyways, posters.” With that, we parted and finished posting the flyers, and met back up in the square.
“So, got anything planned for today?” Rainbow asked.
“No not really. Again I was thinking of shaving my body completely, but that will happen in a few days. Why? Have anything special planned?”
“No not really, I was going to practice a few stunts though. You know, it doesn’t reflect very well on me when I hire somepony, and they don’t appear for work for 23 days.”
“I’m taking it that I have been fired then?”
“No, you aren’t fired, just informing you that you still have a job and responsibilities.” Rainbow said.
“Good to know. So, I’m guessing that I will need to start fulfill these responsibilities, and as such, can’t shave and pluck out every feather I have?” I inquired.
“Dude, that sounds painful, but yah, kind of, unless you can figure out a way to help with the weather while being unable to fly in the air.”
“I think I can manage. After all, I have a cloud house I can take some cloud from, and the wind seems to like me enough to push me around to where I want to go. I should also ask Rarity to make me something that will hide my wings. Anyways, let’s see those new tricks you have been working on.”
I followed Rainbow to a park, where I watched some tricks she has been working on. That lasted until I started having headaches again. *‘I was bungee jumping, and for some reason, the girl that keeps coming up in my memories, had followed me. I felt annoyed that she was there because she kept remarking on how bungee jumping off a 65 story skyscraper was a bad idea. I turned to her and said, “Look lady, just because you’re the chief of police’s daughter, doesn’t mean I can’t, and won’t, put a restraining order on you.” She retorted, “And bungee jumping off a skyscraper is illegal.” “Only if you don’t have permission to do it” I shot back before going to the crane on top of the building, and moving the end out over the streets. “Fine, I guess that if you have permission, then I will join you.” “Now that would be illegal. See, I have permission to do this, you don’t. Now if you will excuse me, I have some stunts to do.” I walked to the end of the crane, tied the ends of my bungee to the crane and made sure it was secured, before jumping. I had the bungee measured out to that the slack would take at the 40th floor, and that it would bring me to the 10th floor as the furthest it could possibly reach. I reached the 15th floor before bouncing back up, and almost reaching the 60th floor, before falling back down. On my second time back up, I reached the 55th floor, before catching myself with the safety rope, and climbing back onto the crane. Looking over I saw the women still standing on the roof, arms crossed and a scowl on her face. I jumped again, this time, something bad happened. The crane I was jumping from, started to move back over the building! I caught the rope, stopping my downward fall, and barely had time to react before crashing into the side of the building, nearly breaking my legs as I swung into it. I climbed up the side of the building, painfully slowly. When I reached the top, the women was in the same place, same posture, but with a smirk on her face. “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING!” I yelled. She just looked at me and said, “What?” all innocently like she had done nothing wrong. “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN WHAT? YOU MOVED THE CRANE BACK OVER, CRASHING ME INTO THE BUILDING! I COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!” Her smirk just grew, “But you weren’t, now were you?” I calmed down, knowing that she was antagonizing me. “That’s it, I’m not only going to get a restraining order put on you, calling the cops to get you arrested for attempted murder.”’*
‘Man I hate those headaches. And what the fuck was that memory about?’ Apparently, Rainbow had taken notice of the headache I was having, and came down to comfort me.
“Another memory surfacing?” she asked. I only nodded as she comforted me.
“Well, how about we go see what one of our friends are doing.”
“Sure, who should we see?”
“How about Rarity, I have something very simple I need her to make. I will also need to put another sticker on over this one later, I think that Twilight might have told the Princess about me and my changes. Just a hunch though.” We made our way over to Rarity’s. “Also don’t tell anyone about me going to mess with some royal guards” Upon arriving at Rarities, we found Twilight, Spike, Pinky Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and a trio of ponies, of whom, I don’t know. Rainbow and I walked in as the trio was walking out, and Rarity was doing some monolog about being a star.
“Hey ponies and dragon, what’s up? Hey Rarity. I have a request for you that will only take a few minutes at most to make.” I said walking in.
“What is it dear?” she asked
“Can you make me something that will cover my wings completely, look like it is part of me, and is easily removed? Something kind of like a vest, but doesn’t wrap around the legs.”
“What could you possibly need something like that for?” Twilight asked.
“Reasons upon reasons.” I said tactically avoiding the question.
“All righty dear. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes to put that together. Go stand on that dais.” She indicated to the thing that Fluttershy was standing on.
“That is a lovely dress you have on Fluttershy.”
“Oh, um, thank you… Rarity made it.”