//------------------------------// // Prologue: Simple Day // Story: Band of Bronies // by The Watcher 509 //------------------------------// "Ah, what a beautiful day," said John "the sun shining bright, not a cloud on sight... Sitting outside; molding clay, and on the last day of May." he rhymed as he continued molding a lavender colored blob into what he thinks is a 'face' on a table outside a café. As he continued molding, he reached for the cup of orange juice placed right next to his laptop. He drank its contents, making sure not to finish it all and observed his creation. He though about what to name his poorly made creation. "Hmm..." he mumbled as he kept on thinking of a name "Ah-hah! I'll call you B!" he said triumphantly as he lifted the... 'face' upwards as he felt total bliss. He laid the clay on the table and turned on his laptop. The desktop screen depicted a cream-coated pegasus with a pink mane and tail sitting on a hill and looking at the stars. He smiled as he saw this, "You always make my day brighter Fluttershy." he whispered to himself as he grinned at the shy pegasus. "Hey John!" shouted a high-pitched voice behind him, startling him in the process. He turned around and saw a woman in a simple red shirt and jeans standing beside him, smiling. "Pam!" He greeted, realizing that it was the first time in three months he had met her again "Long time, no see. What's with the sudden disappearance?" he asked as he proceeded with finishing his orange juice. "Oh, I had to visit my family for a festival in Rio de Janeiro," said Pam as she took a seat next to him. "speaking of which, how have you been while I was gone?" she asked while walking towards the seat across the small table and sitting on it. "Oh you know, normal stuff." he answered innocently, no intention to emphasize on the subject. "Define normal? In your terms that is." she teased as she looked at his laptop screen. "You changed your desktop pic? Nice." "Yeah, it was a bit hard finding the perfect Fluttershy pic but I finally found it!" he stated proudly. "Huzzah!" she shouted and fist-pumped the air. "So, wanna go on an MLP:FiM marathon?" he asked as he packed his laptop and picked up his lavender clay creation. "I'd be a good warm-up for the 4th season." "What about a Doctor Who marathon?" she asked "I know you still haven't started watching the series yet." she teased "Plus, I have all the episodes downloaded in my trusty USB.", she happily said as she patted her backpack which contained some of her things, including her USB drive at the front pocket. "Hmm, tough choice," He looked up thoughtfully "yeah, okay. Are we gonna watch it tonight?" "Yes!" she answered enthusiastically and pointed at a waiter coincidentally standing at a table near them "You," she said "would you kindly get me a coffee, black please." she requested and grinned. "Umm... Okay. Are you gonna pay for that?" he asked as he got a quick shook of her grinning head to answer his question. As he pulled out his wallet to pay the woman's drink, he asked, "So, where did you leave your money this time? At home? Somewhere in your friend's house? Lost in the subw-" "Actually, you were right on the first guess, I did leave it at my house. No need to be pricky about it." She smiled gingerly at him, causing him to don a look of concern. "Oh, sorry about that. Just had a pretty bad week is all." "It's fine, not all of us can see the bright side of a problem." she said innocently. He looked at her in fake, yet convincing anger. "Are you saying I'm negative?" "I didn't say anything about you being negative." she said, not convinced by his look. "Oh really?" "Ya really" "Oh really?" "Ya really" "Oh really?" he said one last time, looking at her with a goofy grin. In a marble castle, in a whole different dimension "MAR RLY!" a pink-haired male in a black cloak shouted at his cream-haired accomplice in the same clothing. "Wait, why did I say that?" "Marluxia... What the hell?" asked his accomplice She looked down and saw that her coffee was already there, as well as the waiter from earlier, and looked at John with innocent eyes. He sighed and paid the waiter, as she gladly took a sip of caffeine bliss. "So, what do you wanna talk about to pass the time?" she asked, taking another sip of her coffee. "Man, this is a good cup of joe." "Hehehe, Joe..." He smiled at her and giggled at his inside joke about his favorite pony. She looked at him as if he had gone mad, which she was expecting sometime in the future. It took her a while, but she finally got the joke and chuckled with him. "Okay, back to topic... How abou- Hey look, It's Tom!" She waved a hand towards a guy walking by the other side of the street. He heard someone call his name and looked at them. He grinned and started walking towards the two. As he got closer, one would notice a Derpy Hooves badge pinned on his shirt. He sat next to John and they continued their conversation. "... then he said, "Mein fuhrer, zat vas heil-arious."" The two boys laughed at Pam's joke. After the joke session, Tom pulled out a book and started reading it. While John continued making a new creation with fuchsia-colored clay. "So, have you seen the others lately?" Asked Pam as she started tapping the table due to boredom. "Well, Froline is beside you." Tom stated as he flipped to the next page of the book he's reading. Pam looked to her right and to her surprise, she saw a girl in a white long-sleeved sweater. "While Roane and Rem are sitting and talking on that table table behind you." He pointed at the table where a man dressed in a suit and a woman dressed in a red and white-striped track jacket and shirt. "... Well, looks like the group's coincidentally back together" she said jokingly. "Actually I texted them to come, we can all watch the Doctor Who marathon." John corrected. "When did you text them?" she asked. Her head slightly tilted to the right. "When you were making a joke about Saddam Hussein. Seriously, you should lay off the 9gag and history jokes for a while, it's starting to make you look like someone that uses too much internet." "There is no such thing as 'too much internet'." She twisted an imaginary mustache, looking at him with a mischievous grin. "Gotta agree with her on this one." Tom said. His eyes glued to his book. "As they always say: the more, the merrier!" "What time are we going to start watching?" asked Rem, slight giddiness in his voice. He turned his chair towards John's table and looked at them with a questioning glance. "I was thinking about six or seven pm. Since an episode of each series is like forty minutes long." They all agreed at going to John's place after six and start watching at precisely seven. Pam looked at her bag and pulled out a small box with some markings in it. She opened the box and revealed it's contents to be cards. "So, who wants to play poker?" "Come on Twilight! " a cyan-coated mare said, tapping one of her fore hooves impatiently. "Just wait Rainbow, I just need to apply this one drop..." a lavender mare, by the name of Twilight Sparkle, said as she steadied a medicine dropper with a considerable amount of liquid inside it on a flask, she squeezed the upper portion of the dropper and two drops of liquid fell into the flask; now glowing purple. Twilight levitated a small glass next to the flask and poured the concoction until it half-filled the cup. She levitated it towards Rainbow as the cyan-colored mare. "Okay, now drink it slowly." She levitated a clip-board and a quill to her side. "Remember after the effects wear off, you'll be instantly transported back here, since I casted a return spell on you earlier. Who knows what this Speed-o-fier solution would do." "I know what it'll do, it'll make me look more awesome! Not that I was already pretty awesome before, but you know, can't say I'm not excited for this." Rainbow slowly drank the concoction, it's sourness making her cringe a bit. Her body suddenly felt a massive gush of adrenaline, her sub-conscious controlling her actions as she immediately flew out of the side library, making a gaping hole behind her rainbow trail.