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// Chapter 9  
// Story: The Power of the Heart and Mind 
// by BurninSoul 
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I wake up after our nap later than expected. Looking out the window to see it is the middle of the night. I turn back over and look at Sam sleeping there and think ‘what have we gotten ourselves into?’ Of course I came up with a blank and decided to sleep on it till morning.

MORNING

I wake up with Sam nudging me in the chest. Sitting up I can smell something wafting up to the bed. I stare where it came from and instantly my mouth waters. There is really one word to describe it, “BACON!” I shout with glee and fly off the bed and over to the table where our food sits in the morning, I sit down and instantly wolf it down savouring every bite. Sam who is still on the bed giggles at me for being so silly.

“You should have seen the face of the pony that brought that. I swear she nearly threw up all over it.” I stare in horror at what could have happened.

“Good thing it didn’t. Bacon is the world!” Finishing the golden food I get up and rouse the others. ‘No idea how they stayed asleep through that?’ The others get up grumply with one Bane taking a nip at me. “Guy’s get up, we have a big day today. We are going down to ponyville so grab everything so we can go.” After that everyone got up and had breakfast on what was provided. With that done we all grab some bags and head outside to find Princess’ Luna and Celestia waiting for us.

“Good morning Rob.” Luna calls to me happily.

“Mornin’” I reply simply, not being one to make a big thing from saying morning. “Coming to see us off?”

“Yes we are and to give you some advice.” Celestia says.

“And what would that be?”

“Well, You’re a new species here so ‘my little ponies’ will be wary of you. Throw in your pokemon they may become irrational. So when you land I suggest putting your pokemon away.”

“I’m not going to do that, If they get frightened then let them. I will not put them away even if they may look scary.” I adamantly reply.

“Well we better hope you know what you are doing.” Luna says. By this time a carriage has pulled to take us down to ponyville.

“Actually……” I say to Celestia. “How did you get the bacon for my breakfast?” I ask before I can’t.

“Bacon?.....” I takes only a moment to understand. “Oh that, I have that down in the store rooms for when the griffins and other predator ambassadors come around and how I know you eat meat? Twilight told me.” I smile at this. 

“Thank you. Well if it isn’t too hard, can you send a few boxes down to my place….. wait a moment, Where is my place? I was never told.” 

“You will be shown upon landing and yes I can have a few boxes sent down.” Celestia says with a wide smile.

“Thank you.” With it all said and a quick squeeze into the carriage we were off toward ponyville and home till I can leave. It was a quick flight of looking out over the land below, spying on the flyers above and ahead and having a good old chat between ourselves.

“What do you think it’ll be like down there?” Bane inquires through Sam.

“I honestly don’t know at all really. But what I am sure of though is that from this day on our lives are going to get interesting.”

“More than usual?”

“Maybe….. oh there it is!” Looking back out the window.

“We will be landing in a few moments, sit down and prepare for departure.” Came the droning voice of the guard flying the carriage.

“Ok, good. Everyone ready?” Getting a round of nods. “Great!” In the next moment we feel the carriage make a steady dive toward the ground, I take a peek outside and notice all the ponies are gathering around the main square. I look back into the carriage and notice everyone starting to get nervous, I put on a brave smile which makes them feel slightly better. We land with a thump and end up hitting our heads on the roof, we slow to a stop and sit for a moment to get our bearings.  I look back out and gulp slightly with terrible nerves. “Ok, here goes.” I get up and open the door and climb out and stand by the door as the others climb out getting a round of gasps in their wake at seeing my small team. I ignore that and just stand there awkwardly trying to think of what to do next.

“Hello?” I say awkwardly like an idiot. “Weren't we expected? motioning to my companions. The next thing I knew was having my vision filled with pink and a loud excited voice in my ear. 

“OHMYGOSHYOURFINALLYHEREIWASHOPINGYOU’DTURNUPTHISCHAPTER!I ALREADY HAVE THE PARTY SETUP!” Only hearing loud noise I threw the mystery pony off to see it is the one I saw a few days ago, what was her name? that’s right Pinkie Pie.

“PINKIE, The hell is wrong with you? and how did you get on my face?” 

“DON'T EVEN QUESTION IT.” I hear yelled from the crowd, well I guess this is one of those things.

“Oh it’s you! Come on, we have a party for you to go too.” Pinkie turns around after suddenly getting off my face and disappears in a cloud of pink dust.

“Well then, I think we’d better be off to find our house for the time being.” My team and I walk awkwardly off to be nearly tackled by Rainbow Dash but was caught by Sam in a psychic move.

“HEY, LET ME GO RIGHT NOW OR I’LL BUCK YOU INTO TOMORROW!” She screams in anger. I walk up to her and smile at her angrily.

“And why should we do that? You were in the process of attacking me, what makes you think we’ll just ‘let you go’?” I inquire with an angry frown.

“BECAUSE YOU STARTED IT BY CUTTING ME!” She yells still trying to get at me.

“Up bup bup, this is where you are wrong. I defended myself for you started the matter by tackling me. Does this sound familiar?” I get an indignant glare for that remark. “Now… If we let you go will you stop with the advance or do we have to throw you around a little?” Seeing that i’m being serious she nods her head. I nod my head to Sam who drops her on the ground none to ceremoniously and walks off. “Good. Now run along.” I say and she slinks away none too happy with someone of the towns ponies snickering at her. It is at this time when the others appear. Firstly Twilight and then Rarity. Followed by Applejack and Fluttershy.

“Hello. I see you’ve made it. Come along so you can see your place as we’ve been informed by Celestia it will be somewhere with lots of space.” Twilight informs me as I follow her through the crowd, the others following in our wake.

“Hello, Rob is it? I like the outfit, where did you get it?” Rarity says as she pulls up next to me as we walk through the town to the east.

“I got them for my pokemon journey seeing as they are durable and immune to most affects that wild pokemon might throw at me.” I answer instantly diverging off toward Twilight and pretty ignoring her talking until we pull up to a large house on the eastern boundary of the town. It had a large front yard and pretty much it was large in general in comparison to the rest of the town. “This is an awesome house. Good thing i’m not paying for it.” I cheekily say getting a glare from them. “How many rooms does it have? And when can I go in?” 

“It has about four to five bedrooms and two bathrooms and when you can move in, Now I suppose. But you’ll have to come out later for the welcoming party that has been planned. Now do please act surprised when you get there it was supposed to be a surprise.”

“Sure, Mom. I’ll get straight to it.” I turn back to my team and give them a massive smile. “LAST ONE IN'S A ROTTEN EGG!” I shout with glee as we rush for the door and run in with the others in hot pursuit and rush inside. The inside was way different to the outside so much so that we stopped in our tracks. It was trashed. So much so that our jaws hit the floor. “Welp, seems as though we’ve been tricked.” I swear I can hear Celestia laughing from here. “Might as well look around and check for anything usable. I search all over the house and find a large bed in the masters bedroom that wasn’t in a too bad condition but had moth eaten blankets and sheets and a working bathrooms, the rest of the house was pretty sparse. 

“Well, I see why this place isn’t used. It’s a dump.” Sam, Bane, Mawile and I jump up on the bed and lay out on it to find it is also somewhat comfortable to sleep on. I look out at the sun to see it is early afternoon. “May as well sleep a few minutes.” I close my eyes and after a few minutes drift off curled up with my pokemon.

Party central

“Where is he?” Pinkie asks sadly. “I thought he’d turn up ages ago.” It was late afternoon and hours after Rob turned up but noponies seen him since he entered his house.

“Maybe he went for a nap and lost track of time. I’d better go get him.” Twilight states and rushes off toward Robs temporary home before Pinkie gets upset. After a good amount of running and a break or two Twilight finally makes it to Robs house and rushes in. “Rob! Are you in here?” I hear a groan or two and rush upstairs to get the silly human up, I stop at the door to the master bedroom and knock getting an annoyed grunt from the other side. I’m about to open the door when it opens suddenly with the humans Mawile standing at attention. He sees me and turns around to the human and whacks him with his jaw/horn thing. 

“GAH, jeez Mawile, don’t do that. I nearly thought you were gonna eat me then…… Oh hi Twilight, what bring you down to my hovel?” Rob asks slightly miffed from the sudden wake.

“Your party was set up an hour ago and you haven’t turned up. If you don’t soon we’ll have to deal with a depressed Pinkie for the next few days.” Twilight states.

“But I hate Parties. I can’t socialise very well. DO I REALLY HAVE TO?” I plead at the end with a puppy dog stare, It was not effective. 

“Too bad, we need you down there stat. Just for today ok, then you can get back to whatever you do.”

“Suuuuure, *sigh* fine, i’ll be right down.” I get out of bed and go to the cupboard and throw off my clothes in a flash and change into fresh gear. I dress up in a pair or dark grey jeans and a same coloured tee tee with a gray coat with red lining over that. With all that done we get up and rush off down stairs and out the door. “Bane.” She gives me a glance. “Can I ride you over to the party, now that you’re big i’ve been wanting to try it.” I get in reply but she does what I ask and leans and I jump onto her back. It is no sooner than i’ve got my bearings that she jumps from the start and sprints down the main street. I grab at her fur and nearly get thrown off. We make it to our destination quickly and easily and I finally hop off but land on my face in the process. Sam and Mawile just teleport over to us and stand by me as I get up and brush myself off. 

“Nice one Bane.” I give a deadpanned stare which she replies with a cheeky growl.

“All in a days work.” Bane flashes me a tooth filled grin and scampers off to play.

“She’ll never grow up.” I smile as I take in the festivities and rush in to find something to eat noticing I haven’t eaten since breakfast. I’m poring over the food when I hear a gasp from behind me. I turn around and see Pinkie standing there, Smiling and staring creepily at me.

“You took your time.” Pinkie states as she stares at me more.

“I took a nap and forgot the time.” I nervously reply and start backing away.

“Well that is fine then.” Instantly relaxing. “But, don’t forget again.” I could tell in the sudden change in tone she meant it so I nodded and walked off. Before long the party was in full swing and everyone was having fun with my pokemon showing off for fun and me joining in but as all things the party began to wind down and soon everyone was leaving. After a few snacks and a play fight with the ponies we said our goodbyes and went home. It was late when we got back and everyone was tired but not as much as Sam and I. Bane and Mawile went upstairs to bed with Mawile giving me the stink eye while Sam and I stayed down stairs.

“Tonight was fun. Don’t you think so?” Sam asks almost dreamily.

“Yeah, I guess it was but….. tonight isn’t done yet. We still have a little time before we can sleep. How about a massage?” I ask almost nervously but without stammering.

“That sounds lovely.” Smiling at the suggestion.

“Good. Just lie down on the couch in the living room and we can begin.” I smile at her as I go into the living room with her trailing behind. I go over to the couch and examine it to find it is a fold down couch. I quickly do so and gesture onto the mattress on top of it. She quickly hops up and lies down face first on the mattress. Next comes the tricky part. I rub her shoulders and while digging into the joints a little causing her to gasp and moan in bliss. I take this as a go ahead and start rubbing over the body starting from the shoulder and moving around the neck. I then slowly but surely go down her back while digging into her spine causing more moans. I start to feel a little warm but try to ignore it. I continue on the spine till i make it to her hips where I stop. She looks over shoulder at me and gives a curious stare. 

“Why did you stop? Aren't you going to do the rest of me?” Sam asks.

“I don’t know. Fine, I’ll do your hips and legs but don’t get any funny ideas if I stray too close to anywhere.” I ask. “Are you ready?” Which she nods too. “Here we go.” I go to messaging her hips and legs getting at all the kinks and muscles in her body and on more than one occasion accidentally brushing against the wrong points causing her to gasp. I instantly pull away and Sam turns over starting to look tired. “You tired now?” She nods at me and I pick her up. SHe struggles slightly but the massage made her tired so she fell asleep in my arms. I look at her there in my arms and hug her to my chest and give her a kiss to the cheek and nose. “You’re a good girl Sam, I just hope you think of me the same as I think of you.” I whisper to myself and carry her upstairs and lay her on the bed. I quickly undress and hop in and bring her to my chest where she hugs me back and I fall asleep.