//------------------------------// // Meeting a muffins // Story: I get a break // by xCloudx //------------------------------// I pick up aj she surprisingly light “don't drop me cloud.” I smile “wouldn’t dream of it now where do I go?” she points hoof at the path “jus follow this path.” I nod and I take off with the orange mare in my arms. Jackie clings to me tighter as I go higher “Cloud do we have to go tis high?” I nod laughing “don't tell me your scared?” she nods. Feel bad time I fly a bit lower to ground to comfort AJ I kinda forgot that she probably never gone flying before. “So you ever been flying before?” she nods “only in pinkies blimp. “were not far jus up the road a bit more.” I look up and see the town it’s so colorful. I think I may have just got epilepsy from it but eh whatever. I approach the town and land outside of it. “Alright I have to be sneaky now I want to surprise pinkie.” Just then I could hear somepony yell FOREVER. Pinkie then appeared out of a bush beside me. “Someone say my-“I looked at her grinning “CLOUD!” I was tackled by the pink blur. “Hey pinks!” she is still hugging me as tightly as possible I could hear applejack laughing. “Cloud what are you doing here last time I saw you. You were beating that big meanie weanie troll with your hands!” I smile recalling the event of smashing the trolls face in with my fist. “Author sent me on a vacation!” Pinkie pie had the biggest grin ever “OhmygoshthatmeanswecanhangoutFOREVER!” I smile and nod my head. “We need to have a party for you!” pinkie says hyperly “AWW YEAAAHH WE DO PINKS!” we then high well five hoof I guess. I scoop up pinks and put her on my head and we both throw on sun glasses and look at applejack “YO JACKIE DEAL WITH IT!” I cross my arms while pinks cross her front legs. “wow cloud yur about as random as pinkie” I scoff “I can never be as random as her. Pinkie then appeared in front of me “That’s right! Now common you can come meet twilight!” I laugh and follow the sugar rushed pink mare into the town. As soon as I entered town I felt all eyes on me. I could hear hushed whispers like “what is it” “what is that beast?” “What is that thing on its side” I was ready to snap when pinkie yelled “WERE HERE!” before I could stop walking I walked straight into a wall. “Ow” I hold my nose and I snap it back into place some things I have to do manually. I looked up to see a home fused in a tree. “so this is where she lives?” applejack nodded “and it’s also the library.” I instantly thought. Have dead trees surround a living tree makes sense. I got to my feet and saw pinks knocking on the door. I staggered over to her and the door opened. A small purple dragon stood in front of us. “SPYRO!!” I snatch up the dragon in a hug then I realized. Spyro is not in Equestria. And now I have a pissed off baby dragon in my arms. I look at the dragon and he is to stunned to talk. I set him down and back away slowly. Pinks is rolling on the ground laughing. “Pinkie what just happened?” asked the confused dragon. Pinkie couldn’t answer so I did “sorry about that thought you were somebody else” I smile sheepishly. The dragon looks at me. He darts into the home and slams the door and I could hear locks and shouting from the inside. I look at applejack “Who is spyro?” I look at pinkie “should we tell her?” pinkie shook her head. Okay now to get into this library I had an idea. “Pinks get yourself in there and then pull us through your mane.” “Okie dokie lokie!” she then disappears and I can feel something grab my hair and then im inside the library with stunned applejack next to me. “Pinkie ho-““She’s pinkie pie there is no explanation needed!” Applejack sighed and nodded. I looked at the steps to see a lavender unicorn coming down the steps “it’s really you isn’t it? “Wait what? “Uhhh what are you talking about?” she shakes her head “They said you didn’t exist but from what happened here I knew one day you would come here.” The hell. “Really so you know who I am?” she nods “Guardian.” Damn she’s smart “Ah but do you know my guardian name?” she shakes her head I smile “Well im cloud and how do you know so much about me?” she smiles “I read a lot.” I laugh. “alrighty then so what’s your name?” she looks in me in the eyes “Twilight sparkle.” I nod “alright sparkight now tell me how did you know I was coming here?” “my book it said that you were coming here.” Hell I need to read more “Well Im here but do you know why?” she shakes her head. I look at pinks she is silent which is amazing. “Well im here for vacation the author gave me a break finally.” She looks at me “author?” I nod “it’s pretty hard to explain so just leave it at that and can you tell your dragon to come out gotta apologize for hugging him. She looked at me “you hugged spike?” I nod “thought he was someone else.” “SPIKE GET OUT HERE!” twilight shouted. Spike staggered down the steps slowly approaching twilight. “Twilight what is that thing!” I grabbed my chest “hurtful!” pinkie laughed “Cloud this is spike my assistant.” “WAIT HOLD UP! You have a dragon as an assistant!?!” she nods “Wow.” I face palm hard. “Pinkie can you go get the rest of the girls I want them to meet the gau. I mean cloud.” “You got it!” she then bounces into the ceiling and disappears “How…” spike started. I smiled “I taught her that one!” spike and Twi gives me a weird look. “You just met pinkie though” I shake my head “nope I met her a long time ago when I was at my friend’s house while I was avoiding getting smashed by his dog.” Why do they keep doing that “yea I know a lot to take in but trust me it makes more sense over time. I begin walking towards one of the shelves and take out one of the books. “Slender mane...HAH I GET IT! Thought I destroyed him thought. Guess there is two.” And that’s when I realized I was talking aloud with the Twi AJ and spike staring at me. Twilight spoke up “You fought slender mane?!” I nod “well his human form anyway it wasn’t a fun fight all the tentacles I felt like I was fighting the kraken again.” Their jaws hit the floor “YOU FOUGHT THE KRAKEN!?!” spike exclaimed. I nod “I have a fear of water monsters so it didn’t help.” Just then the door swung open and pinkie hopped in “I got them I got them!” she exclaimed. Three mares followed behind her. “Now who did you want u-“ the marshmallow was cut off when she saw me. The yellow one fell on the floor and cringed in fear. And the rainbow one OH FUCK! I was rammed by the cyan pony with a rainbow mane. “WHO ARE YOU!” she yelled. Before I could answer she was engulfed by a purple glow “Rainbow get off are guest!” Twi shouted. I got to my feet and saw the Pegasus in the air struggling against the purple glow. “But he’s a monster! ” I snapped “I AM NOT A FUCKING MONSTER!” I shouted with so much force one of the windows cracked. All was silent I couldn’t take it. “sorry.” Pinkie pie jumps up and tackles me in a hug “YOUR NOT A MONSTER!!! I KNEW IT!” wait she thought I was a monster FFUUUU! “thanks pinks” she nods and I stand up still having the ball of pink energy attached to me. “Twilight who is this?” asked the marshmallow “this is the guardian cloud.” The marshmallow looked confused “guardian? What kind of guardian where’s that!” Aw man everybody wants to make the guardian sad. “Rarity!” twilight shouted “it’s fine Twi. And I wear this because it protects me in battle now stop insulting me all of you your making this a very aggravating vacation.” The marshmallow walked over to me “I was not insulting you I was going to say your clothing is very odd but divine except those colors.” I sigh “I didn’t really get a choice my boss chose what I wear and everything I do where changes into these colors.” Is sigh looking at my black jacket black shirt red tie black jeans and red and black converse? “That’s terrible!” I shake my head “not all the time by the way im cloud and you are?” “Rarity and are you the cloud that sweetie belle was telling me about?” I nod my head “well she did tell me you were a bit odd.” Gah! “You’re odd!” I could hear spike yell. I smiled “rarity this is a start of a beautiful friendship!” she laughs “I can only hope.” I look over rarity to see the Pegasus still cringing in fear. “Rarity what’s wrong with her?” she looked over at the mare on the floor “that’s fluttershy she is really as you can tell shy.” I nod. I begin to walk over to her. I kneel down on one knee “hey can you-“I was cut off by a hug from the shy pony. Everypony gasped. “uhhh what are you doing?” she yelps and sinks back down “S-sorry I just thought that if I gave you a hug you wouldn’t be mad anymore.” Wait what just what im I don't even. “Well you can get up I aint going to hurt anypony” she looks at me with her deep greenish blue eyes. “Okay” she gets on her hooves and walks over to Twi. “Okay twilight you can release whatever her name is” she yelled “HEY MY NAMES RAINBOWDASH AND IM THE BEST FLYER IN ALL OF EQUESTRIA” I smile “sure you are now calm down.” She looks at me with pissed off eyes “What do you mean sure I am!” I roll my eyes “SSUUUURREEEE!” She flew into my face “Have you ever broken the sound barrier!?!” I smiled "yes i have." her eyes went wide "How you don't even have wings!" i sigh "actually i do." i show her my wings and her eyes are wide in surprise“and now a question for you? Have you ever flown for your life from a special ops unit while dodging there heat seeking missiles while you had hellfire thrown at you while trying to not choke on food?” she shakes her head “But that doesn’t mean anything!” I nod my head “but if you are the best then you won’t be afraid to race me then?” she pondered for a moment “Your on I will beat you in ten seconds flat!” “Bring it.” Twilight decided to butt in “Well now that you have all met cloud you can leave!” a voice came from outside “not everypony” a elegant white pony with flowing hair and a unicorn horn and wings came in. “princess celestia?!” the ponies said in a unison. “Hello girls and spike. And hello cloud I see that you met the elements of harmony.” I nod at the princess. “So princess Luna told me that you and here were sort of fans of mine?” the ponies gasped “yes cloud I am I remember hearing the stories of you fighting demons and traveling in the TARDIS when I was young.” I laugh “The TARDIS man those were the days.” I sigh “I did never see the doctor again.” I frowned “But I did meet some new people and celestia I need to talk to you about something.” “Yes I know the problem cloud author told me.” I nod my head “celestia thank you for letting me stay in Equestria for a vacation.” She nods and replies with “Well we couldn’t just let one of the biggest heroes stay somewhere violent and harsh so I and the author made an agreement. And I really wanted to meet you.” I smiled “So you are a big a fan?” she nods her head and blushes a little “well I must go now cloud please visit me and my sister anytime you wish in canterlot just stay away from the windows I know the stories you have had with them.” I smile sheepishly remembering the incident with the windows at a home depot. “im lucky harry didn’t kick my ass for it.” she smiles “very now I must go goodbye my little ponies spike and guardian.” As soon as celestia left the rest said their goodbyes as did I and I left with pinkie. “so what do you want to do now pinks?” she smiles “CUPCAKES!” she shouted “AWW YEAAAHHH!” pinks bounced happily as I followed beside her. We stopped in front of a gingerbread house. “Oh my god….ITS BEAUTFIUL!” pinkie laughs “common!” we enter the gingerbread home to see a grey mare standing at the counter. “Pinkie you’re here! Im here to get my muffins.” They grey mare was a little wall eyed but that didn’t matter. “OHMYGOSHIMSOSORRYDITZYIFORGOTMYFRIENDCLOUDCAMEINTOTOWNYOUMUSTICTHINKIMHORRIBLE!” damn she’s emotional “no you’re not pinkie and who’s your friend?” she looked at me smiling “im cloud and you are?” she replied with “im ditzy doo the mail mare.” As soon as she finished the door rang I turned around to see a pony with a tan coat and a brown mane. “Common ditzy the ta-“he looked at me “CLOUD!?!” oh my god “DOC WHAT THE HELL YOU’RE A PONY!”