DISCLAIMER: This story was written without any input from GeoesicDragon.
This week's broadcast of A New Show begins with the still-shot image of fred2266, sitting, almost glued to his seat. He stares at his lap in both frustration and in deep thought over the events of the last episode.
He could do nothing but hope, as he sighs heavily.
All of a sudden, fred's eyes slowly gaze up at the ceiling, as he pours his heart out....in the version of song.
"Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line
It’s nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something?
I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something?
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something?
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something?
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something?
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something?"
- "One Thing" by Finger Eleven.
Fred finished, as he grimaced. He fell to his knees, and bellowed out a powerful scream.
"Welcome everybody, to A New Show," fred spoke, but without his usual passion. "I'm fred2266. I know I've been saying this the past few episodes, but this IS going to be the type of episode we are not used to.....mainly, because we have no audience. Simply because, there's no reason for an audience. Everyone is too distraught over what happened last week, as we went off the air.....
So, tonight, the duration of this broadcast, is simply for the merit...of paying tribute. No, folks, Toby Mason isn't dead....at least, not that I have heard. But, he is among the missing. I'd just like to start out by saying, I did NOT ask for this, NOR did I want this.....take what you want, but last week, was supposed to be a normal interview. I know I built it up as "Toby's Punishment", but truthfully, I had no intentions of any wrongdoing. I like to over-do things, so that's all that was two episodes ago. I'm glad Toby came on the show, and I was going to tell the world, including him this last episode....but that never happened, did it?
No churro is worth him getting kidnapped over, I can assure you that.
I wish, I hope, I PRAY, that he returns home. I hope Fluttershy gets to embrace him again, and every day for the rest of her life.
I'm too young to know what it's like to lose a child, but I'm not a rock. I have feelings. I am ashamed to say, even so, that I feel that this is my fault.....I should've made this place safer.....hire more security, place some snipers on the rafters....but no...I was careless and thoughtless in my execution, and because of that....Toby is gone.
I can only hope the fellow readers of A New Home, Toby's family, and Toby himself forgive me.
Before we begin the show, however....I just have ONE question to ask," fred sits up straight. "Why, Geo?.....Why? Why the hell would you partake in the kidnapping of Toby Mason? "Revenge"? How in the WORLD does that justify "Revenge"?! You're going to wind up getting yourself KILLED!"
Fred rubs at his temples. "Geo....I NEVER expected this from you, and I can only wonder if YOU even know how you're going to get yourself out of this one. Well, here is how our show is going to line up for tonight, folks. Though we may not have an audience, I took the privilege of interviewing some of the most loyal Toby Mason lovers, as well as some of his very best pony friends....and maybe an enemy, or two...."
Meanwhile.....
As Geo's Freejack taxi continued to chug on down the road, Lightning Dust, with Toby still in her hooves, looks back behind her seat. She doesn't like what she sees, which is a butter yellow blur with a pink swirl to accompany it.
"Faster, Geo!" Lightning Dust commands.
"Are ya blootered, mare?!" Geo responds. "We're already on the verge of crashing as it is!"
"You wuss...." Lightning growls, but is caught off guard by the tugging of her black hoody. She looks down curiously to see Toby staring up at her with saddened eyes.
"Lightning Dust?" Toby asks. "Where are you taking me?"
Lightning Dust looks behind her again, and sees that Fluttershy has gotten even closer. She begins to sweat, not wanting her master plan to go to waste.
"I'm not really sure, kid," she replies. "Don't worry, though. It'll be beneficial to us all."
"What the bloody hell do ya mean?" Geo asks. "How is this revenge, Dust? We've stolen a CHILD! That's against the law!"
"Keep driving and you'll find out!" Dust barked. "Like I said, I'm out for MORE than just revenge...."
"Unbelievable," Geo mutters. "I need some Irn Bru....STAT."
Without any warning, Lightning Dust is tackled in mid-air by Fluttershy. They land on the front of the taxi, in plain sight of Geo's peripheral vision. The taxi has no hood, so this is situation is worse than you'd think.
"I don't want to fight you, Fluttershy!" Dust speaks. "I just need to borrow your son for a few minutes!" She looks up pleadingly at Fluttershy.
Fluttershy, however, will not be beguiled. She grabs Lightning Dust's head with her two front hooves, and begins to repeatedly bash it on the taxi.
Toby grimaces with each thump of his captive's skull, as Geo begins to swerve from side to side.
"I can't see! Move out of the way, ya bastirts!" Geo complains as his eyes bulge in anger.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!" Fluttershy rages, taking a moment away from pimp-slapping Lightning Dust's face. "YOU'RE NEXT TO DIE!!!!!!!"
Geo gulped, as he was now frowning, but he still wished he could see the road.
Off to the side, Cody and Lyra are stepping out onto the sidewalk outside what has to be the smallest Walmart to ever mart Wall's.
"Mmmmm!" Lyra moaned as she slurped on her wedding ring. "Apricot! My favorite!"
"Ummmm...sweetie?" Cody asked, pointing to the Freejack taxi that was driving off sloppily in front of them. "Isn't that...?"
"Toby?!" Lyra gasped. "It is! He's been kidnapped!"
"We have to save him!" Cody heroically proclaimed.
Lyra nodded, and looked around what a mean of transportation. She found it in the form of a Walmart Cart....person....virgin.....employee....GUY.
Cody and Lyra ran over to the dude, and Cody proceeded to knock him out by means of punching him in his fibula. Because that's how that works.
Cody grabbed a cart with his hands, and Lyra began to salivate.
"Get in," Cody said, preparing to thrust this to hell and back.
Lyra, without hesitation, hopped into the cheaply made steel-structure.
Cody's feet began to become inspired, as he took off out of the parking lot and onto the road, joining the chase. Way behind them still were Homie 1, Homie 2, Sunset Shimmer, Jason, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and rounding out the misfits...Kofi eh-whathisname.
Up ahead, Geo was still lucky that he hadn't crashed the Freejack taxi yet, while Fluttershy was busy choking Lightning Dust.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH MY SON!?!??!" Fluttershy demanded.
"I....need...him....to....help....me....." Lightning Dust was able to get out in separated segments.
"With WHAT?" Fluttershy growled.
Lightning Dust desperately looked to Geo for help, as she was slowly slipping into unconsciousness with each second more.
Geo sighed, and quickly leaped onto the top of the taxi, shoved Fluttershy into the driver's seat, and buckled her in whilst driving with his feet.
"Let me go!" Fluttershy struggled, trying to squirm her way out.
"Sorry, Fluttershy....." Geo warmly spoke with a frown, as he very hesitantly pressed the eject button.
The seat unhinged itself from the Freejack taxi, as Fluttershy was heaved into the air, screaming.
"MAMA!!!!!" Toby cried, as Lightning Dust gingerly flew back down next to him, straining her neck and wheezing.
"Th-....thanks....Geo..." she is able to get out.
Since there is no front seat now, Geo must drive the Freejack taxi standing up.
"I don't know WHAT you're getting at with all of this, but if you've gone through all this trouble, I'm going to trust that it is worth it..." Geo replied, relieved that he is finally able to forget about the road rage that was about to commence.
Meanwhile, high up in the air, Twilight is still flying. She rolls her eyes as she spots Lyra and Cody using a shopping cart to their advantage down below, but what brings her eyes back into the sky is a blood curdling scream.
"Huh-" But before Twilight can even fathom what is coming towards her, Fluttershy engages in immense friction with her. The force quickly causes the princess and the pegasus to dip down.
They barely miss the heads of Cody and Lyra, but only because they duck out of instinct.
Down the road some more, the inhabitants of the Green Sabre are preparing for the worst.
"DRIVE BY!" Homie 1 warns, and both he and Homie 2 duck. Sunset Shimmer and Jason hug each other in what will be their final moments in this lifetime.
Twilight, out of panic, tries to use her magic to envelope her and Fluttershy in a bubble that would not cause any harm to nopony, or nohuman, or nogangsterdawg. Unfortunately, her and Fluttershy crash into the Green Sabre, cracking the window to hell, and causing it to skid backwards down the road, with Fluttershy and Twilight still stuck to the car like two magnets with wings.
Lyra and Cody look behind them, and gasp.
"Oh crap!" Cody cries in horror. "We have to help them!"
"No time, Cody!" Lyra replies. "If we save them, who will save Toby?"
Cody sighed, and looked up the road in determination. "You're right...." he began to run with the cart again.
Down the road some more, the bobsled, flagged by Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity is about to meet the same fate as the Green Sabre, as said Green Sabre is fastly huddling towards them.
Rarity has already fainted, as Applejack has taken off her hat and put it to her chest with her eyes closed, and her head lowered. Pinkie Pie frantically blasts confetti shots with her party cannon at her car, but that does not delay the inevitable, as mere seconds later, the back of the Green Sabre meets the front of the Bobsled, as now EVERYTHING soars the way it should not be.
4 miles back....
The Green Sabre and the Bobsled skid to a stop at the hooves of Kofi, who surveys the damage.
Thankfully, everybody involved in this over the top crash is a cartoon character, and cartoon characters can't die. Yes, even Jason is a cartoon character. If you thought otherwise you're full of peanut oil extract.
"Jamareca, I am dah...." all of a sudden, Kofi loses her Jamarecan accent. "Ahh...screw it! This gimmick SUCKS!" Rainbow Dash returns as she flops on the ground in front of all the carnage.
A New Show is brought to you by.....
Interview....
Hunter reaper....
"Hunter....thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts with the world," fred says. "Now, how do you feel about what occurred at the end of the last episode of A New Show?"
"Squishy hasn't stopped crying," Hunter answers. "I also feel REALLY bad about it. I mean, it wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't there....but I SAW Toby Mason, one of my FAVORITE characters, get KIDNAPPED....RIGHT in front of my own EYES. That is not only traumatizing, but also unspeakable."
"So, you're saying it shouldn't have happened?" Fred asks.
Hunter nods. "Absolutely. He's just a kid. An INNOCENT kid, even more-so.....he was only here to be ON this stage, sitting ON this sectional, answering his OWN questions, for his OWN interview....it was such a badly timed move."
"What do you have to say to Lightning Dust?" Fred asks. "Are her actions justifiable?"
"I have more to say to Geo than to Lightning Dust....you'd HAVE to expect something like THIS from her, that BITCH. But Geo? Never. He reads A New Home like me, like everybody else....he got thrown out, but was that REALLY the way to react? Neither his, nor Lightning Dust's actions are justifiable, simply because they could have gone things in a MUCH different way."
Fred shakes Hunter's hand. "Thank you for your time, Hunter."
The Cutie Mark Crusaders....
"Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, as kids, just like Toby, how has his disappearance affected you?" Fred asks.
Scootaloo has to put a hoof on Sweetie Belle's shoulder as she sniffles, staring at the floor.
"It's been awful rough on all'a us," Apple Bloom answers.
"Not only that," Sweetie Belle sniffles. "But our family's been gone, too....I miss Rarity...."
Apple Bloom nods. "And ah miss Applejack...."
"AND I MISS RAINBOW DASH AND ALL HER LICORILICIOUS MANE!" Scootaloo cries in agony, burying her face into Sweetie Belle's lap. Sweetie Belle pets her mane with a frown on her face, knowing the pain she is feeling.
"We've been wantin' ta spend tahme with Tobeh, but before we got the chance, he got kidnepped...." Apple Bloom sighs heavily.
"And we don't know what's going to happen to our friends and family," Scootaloo adds, recollecting herself as she removes her face from Sweetie Belle's sensitive place. "If Geo and Lightning Dust are willing to steal Toby, who KNOWS what they're willing to do to make sure he stays with them."
"I just hope everypony and Toby can come back safe and sound..." Sweetie Belle states.
"Scootaloo, what was your opinion on Lightning Dust BEFORE all of this happened?" Fred asks. "Did she seem like a good enough role model, the same as Rainbow Dash is to you?"
"I've never met her," Scootaloo admits. "But Rainbow Dash told me the story of what she did at the Wonderbolts Academy, and I saw her accuse her human self of a whole bunch of false things...so....no. I can't say she's a role model, unless you count a BAD role model for an answer. She's NOWHERE near as good as Rainbow Dash."
"Well, girls, thank you three for your time," Fred shakes the hooves of the three young fillies. "This is obviously harder on you than others, as Toby IS family to you. I just have to say, I hope you are reunited with not only him, but your other folks, as well."
Jlargent....
"Hey, J," fred says. "This interview is going to be DIFFERENT from the other two I've done thus far....the Cutie Mark Crusaders are like FAMILY to Toby, but it appears that for you, the roles are being switched..."
"That's right," J replies. "GeodesicDragon is my brother," he says that with more disappointment than a usual brother would.
"Very interesting," fred replies. "Now, what was your relationship like BEFORE he did what he did?"
"Pretty good, I'd say," J admitted. "I'd read his clop, he'd read my clop. It was great," he said with a nostalgic smile.
"Did you ever expec this out of him, then?" Fred asks.
"Never," J simply said. "He has always been an angelic and beautiful Scottish haus. And he loves kids, too."
Fred's eyes bulged. "Really?"
"Oh yeah," J praised. "He had a woman for every hour of every day. VERY popular my brother is. Probably has more kids than an Haitian orphanage."
"A little ironic what happened then...isn't it?" Fred pointed out.
"Now you listen here," J suddenly raised his voice, getting out of his seat. "My brother may be MANY things, but he. Is NOT. A bad guy!"
"How do you explain the missing child, then?" Fred fired back.
"Lightning Dust used her vivacious ways to goad him into her desires!" J expects.
"You CANNOT be serious...." fred replies, shaking his head.
"I most certainly am!" J rebuttaled. "He was a kind and giving soul until SHE got her witched hooves on him!"
"I think I've heard enough here," fred replies, demanding the feed be excommunicated.
Mr. Discord....
"Mr. Discord," fred changes the system by shaking his interviewees hand BEFORE the interview, and not AFTER. BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT MORE. "Thank you for taking the time out of your....chaotic day to speak with me."
"Oh, no a problem at all, boy-o!" Mr. Discord replies. "I just wish it were under less dubious circumstances," he frowns.
"So do I," fred agrees. "We can only help things will be back to normal soon. Now, what kind of a student is Toby Mason?"
"Oh-ho! One of the most CHARMING and pleasant students I've ever had the privilege of teaching! Every time he walks into my classroom, I just feel his beautiful soul RADIATING through the room. He's not a class clown, but he's the ONLY one in my current class whom laughs at my jokes. He does his work, he turns it in on time, and he is EXTREMELY active. He was shy the first day, and he still relatively IS, but he's getting MUCH better, and I couldn't be prouder."
"How do you feel about the actions of Lightning Dust? The pony version, I mean," fred asks. "Did you have her in class?"
Mr. Discord nods. "I sure did. I am shocked and appalled that this world's Lightning Dust would stoop to such treachery. The Lightning Dust I know was an absolute DOLL in class, and she still seems to be the same free-spirited and tough-as-nails young lady that she has ALWAYS been."
"How as class been without Toby?"
"Not the same, I can say," Mr. Discord admits. "Unfortunately, the other students didn't even seem to notice he was gone..." he scoffs. "Except Noi. Poor girl. Toby and her were just starting to become good friends. That's why I hope he can be rescued as SOON as possible. I miss him, and so do Sunset Shimmer and the girls."
"Thank you for your time, sir." Fred gives a subtle nod.
midnightshadow1....
"Midnight," fred began. "You will be the final interviewee that will represent the A New Home readers."
"I wouldn't mind that accolade if you were interviewing me on a much more joyous topic," midnight proclaims with a grunt.
"Hopefully some other time....." fred agrees. "For now, though, what are your thoughts on this? How are you feeling?"
"I feel like crap, but I can't imagine what Toby HIMSELF is feeling like," midnight answers. "I just can't believe he's been through this much hell, and he's not even 10 years old....hell, when I was his age, I was eating Uncrustables and playing Spyro. It just doesn't seem right, does it?"
"It's HIGHLY unfair," adds fred. "What does Nikolai think of this?"
"He's pissed, and he wants to get some Geo and Lightning Dust pancakes in his stomach...." midnight grins wickedly.
"I'm going to end this interview before we get taken off the air...thanks for your time, midnight," fred shakes his hand.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon....
Once again, everything Silver Spoon says will be muted.
"Hello Diamond Tiara," fred greets happily. "You still don't exist to me, creature," he glares at Silver Spoon, who says something that will never be heard.
Diamond Tiara rolls her eyes. "She, like, doesn't want to answer your stupid questions ANYWAY....she'll just text it to me later."
"I don't even think I have to ask," fred pauses. "BUT, how do you feel about Toby's kidnapping? Aren't you just a LITTLE bit sad for him?"
"HA!" Diamond snorts. "I say, IT'S ABOUT TIME. Now, every time I see Sunset Shimmer in the halls, I will lick up her tears! I bet they taste DELICIOUS......"
"What if he comes back, though?" Fred points out.
"Ugh....don't EVEN say that!" Diamond pleads with a shiver. "That's the LAST thing I need. I'm finally free to rule over Canterlot High as I please with that twig out of the way. To have him walk those cold halls again, would make my very BONES COLD."
"So....you're giving props to the kidnappers?"
"Why not? I wish I would've done it FIRST, but, they beat me to it! As far as I'm concerned, they BOTH deserve MONUMENTS in the middle of Canterlot Square! I'LL even donate the funds MYSELF. I'm still prettier than them, though, so they CAN'T brag about THAT."
"I'm guessing you don't care if the fans of A New Home are....well, ticked off at your comments?"
Diamond scoffs. "I could care LESS what those NECK-BEARDS think about me. They should be WORSHIPPING me, not JUDGING me. Maybe THEN I wouldn't think they're as stupid as I believe them to be."
Fred sighs, knowing the crap-storm he will be getting for airing this interview will be through the roof. "Well, Diamond....your controversial, your antagonizing, your crude....but, I just CAN'T be mad at you....you're SO CUTE."
Diamond giggles evilly. "Good to know you're still loyal to me...."
"NOW LICK MY FACE LIKE YOUR COUCH FORM WOULD," fred blurts out over-the-toply, biting his lower lip in concentration.
"Uhhhh....what?"
A New Show is brought to you by....
Meanwhile...
Some crappy motel room....
"I can't believe they would actually let a pony crash in one of these motel rooms," Lightning Dust says, as she ushers Geo and Toby in, and shuts the door.
"Well, the consultant WAS a Brony," Geo brought up.
"Yeah, but she called me "worst pony"...." Lightning Dust begins to huff, but eventually regains her composure before she goes back into that lobby to go COUNTER-STRIKE on that she-man.
"U-um...." Toby speaks up, more confused than scared about his current predicament, really. "Geo...Lightning Dust?"
"Aww crap!" Geo flames, as he rummages through the mini-fridge. "There's no Irn Bru in here? Well, ain't that just jabber?" He sits on the bed with his arms crossed and his eyebrows furrowed.
Lightning Dust chuckles, but looks down at Toby. "Yeah, kid?"
"I....I just don't get it," Toby finally says. "You kidnap me, but you don't hurt me or anything? I just....I don't get it....why?"
There is a long, drawn-out pause, before finally, Lightning Dust smiles, picks Toby up in the air, and begins to smother him with kisses.
Geo's jaw drops. "WhhhhhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTT?!"
She kisses him on the fore-head and his cheeks repeatedly, before ending her oddly-timed love with a soft and snuggly hug.
She lays Toby on the bed next to Geo, and sits down next to him.
"Confused even more now, huh?" Lightning Dust guesses.
"I....well, I always like getting love, but...you KIDNAPPED me!" Toby points out. "Everything makes even LESS sense now...."
Lightning Dust giggles, and lays one more kiss on the top of Toby's cranium for good measure.
"Toby...I don't know what you've heard about me, but I'll spare you the details......1. It's all true, and 2. I'm a bad pony...."
"Which is why you bloody kidnapped him!" Geo blurts out.
"Not QUITE....." Lightning Dust responds. "I AM a bad pony, but.....I don't THRIVE off of it," she notices Toby is still confused. "What I mean is, I don't LIKE....well, me. I'm not comfortable in my own skin. I don't LIKE to be this dark, cold, and callous pony. It didn't use to be like that. I used to be determined, motivated, and cocky, yeah, but not as disturbed as I am now.
I've made MANY wrong choices in my life, Toby, and I regret them ALL. I nearly KILLED 4 of your 5 aunts, and I was shunned for it. I deserved it, yes, but that doesn't mean it didn't upset me. I wasn't upset at myself, though, I was upset at everypony around me.....it sounds stupid, but I'm also extremely stubborn. After time, though, I stopped blaming others, and realized that I was the problem.
I figured out the only way to save others from...well, me, was to isolate, or shut myself off from the world.
Then, in my own stubborn fashion, I again got mad at everypony around me for never coming to my aid, or just....trying to be a friend to me. I used to have friends, but I lost them all after I had screwed up.
They gave me CHANCE after CHANCE, and I never delivered....so, we parted ways. Still, though, I NEEDED them, and they never came, so I got made at THEM again, and not me, like I should have been.
At times, I felt like I wanted to watch the world BURN.....nopony cared about me? Fine, then they could BURN with the world around them. I wanted to join them in that inferno, too....basically, and pardon my language...my life SUCKED.
I became a rebel, which is a figure that does whatever they want, basically. I kept to myself, and didn't let anypony in my life, because it's not like they gave a crap about me anyway.
It's been two years since the Wonderbolt Academy, and I finally realize what I need to do.....I've accepted that I was wrong, and that I should apologize to those that I have hurt.
The problem is, Toby....I don't know how. To apologize, I have to be the right kind of pony. And, well, I'm NOT. That's why I NEED your help...."
"To...be nicer?" Toby put the pieces together.
"Exactly," Lightning replied. "You're a wonderful kid. Everypony loves you, as they should. You're sweet, and pure, and I feel...different around you. When I first held you in my arms, I felt....happy. For the first time in TWO YEAR, I felt like the old me.
Which makes you the PERFECT candidate, to make me a better pony.....so....I'd like to apologize for stealing you. But I HAD to.....your mother KNOWS who I am, and she would have NEVER let me within your reach, for fear I'd do something to you. But...I won't hurt you....I promise. And I won't hurt ANYPONY anymore, especially if you help me, Toby..."
"How am I supposed to help, exactly?" Toby asked.
"By just.....being around me. You CHANGE ponies, Toby.....you CHANGE people. I know it may seem a little random, and maybe a lot to ask for....but, if it's okay with you.....could I....be like a sister to you?" Lightning Dust's eyes twinkled with sincerity.
Toby response by returning a hug to Lightning Dust, which she warmly and graciously accepted. "Of course, Light-...I mean, Sister Lightning! My mommy always told me to NEVER judge, and always give everybody a second chance. You've done some bad things, but I think you still deserve one. I'll help you in ANY way I can."
Lightning chuckled warmly, as she couldn't help but wipe a stray tear away. "Thanks, BRO," she laughs light-heartedly with Toby. ''See? It's already working....for the past two years, the only time I laughed would be an evil snicker...."
"What do we do now?" Toby asks.
"Well," Lightning begins. "I'm going to take you back to your momma, she's probably worried sick. I'll apologize to her, too....she....she deserves it."
Toby nods, but gasps when he hears a knock at the door....
He gets up to answer it, and finds Lyra and Cody waiting on the other side. They both grin widely when they notice him!
"Yes!" Lyra thrusts a hoof into the air in celebration. "We got to him first! We WON!"
Cody raises an eyebrow at his bride-to-be. "We also saved him, sweetie..."
Lyra gives a blank stare, but then grins again. "Oh yeah! That, too! YAY!"
"Thank you for saving me, guys," Toby says with a smile. "But, I didn't even need saving to begin with...."
Lyra and Cody share confused glances. "What do you mean, Toby?" Lyra asks. "You got kidnapped!"
"I'll explain everything later, I promise," Lightning Dust says as she walks up besides Toby, kissing the side of his head. "Just take him outside. We need to take him back to his mother. We'll be right out."
Cody and Lyra look even more perplexed now, but they still slowly nod, as they lead Toby outside, as Lightning Dust shuts the door.
She turns around, and is met with Geo. He has his arms crossed, and is pouting.
"You've got a wee bit of explaining to do....." Geo proclaims.
Lightning Dust chuckles nervously. "Yeah, suppose I do....."
Geo is silent, almost as a sign of telling her to "go on."
"Why did you put me through all of this?" Geo suddenly raises his voice. "I.....WE.....TOBY, could've DIED from this little triathlon you put us through! Why did I launch Fluttershy out of a TAXI, just to come ALL this way, so you can cuddle up with Toby?! Where is the REVENGE in this?!"
"Yeeeaaahhh, I was kidding about REVENGE, Geo," Lightning admits. "I just wanted to sound bad-ass."
"Well, right now you just sound, and LOOK, like a JACK-ASS," Geo corrects.
"....I deserved that," Lightning Dust nods. "Seriously, though...what did you THINK was going to come from this? Also, WHY would you take PART in it?" Lightning giggles. "You're more evil than me...."
"If you weren't a pony....I'd punch you," warns Geo.
"Lighten up," Lightning Dust suggests. "Toby's fine, you're fine, and I'm on my way to be less of a jack-ass, like you said!"
"I am NOT fine," Geo replies. "I have NO Irn Bru, everybody thinks I'm a coward and a CRIMINAL, and I STILL am not a co-host on A New Show....I'm GLAD Toby is fine, but DAMMIT! What do I get out of this?"
Lightning Dust walks closer to Geo, and puts a warm wing around his shoulder. "How about a friend?"
Geo looks at the wing, and slumps on the bed. "You want to be friends?"
Lightning Dust nods. "You'd be my first real one in a while....."
"....I stole one of my favorite characters, I pissed off an entire nation of fanfiction readers, I nearly got killed on a few occasions, and I had to rent out this crappy motel for what is probably going to be less than an HOUR.....I feel like crap, and now everyone LOOKS out me as crap....and you think I want to be FRIENDS with you....?"
Lightning Dust frowns, and gets off of the bed, heading for the door.
"Oi....I guess that'd be alright," Geo says, causing Lightning Dust to beam, and fly right into the Scot, knocking him onto the covers HARD.
"You mean it?" Lightning Dust says with hope, complete with a squee.
"Aye, I do....." Geo smirks. "Listen, Lightning Dust....you're a jerk of a pony to put me through all this crap tonight, and to promise me "revenge" at the end of all of it, and then to use it as a platform to become a model citizen....but I can't help but respect somebody, or somepony, who is willing to change."
Lightning Dust wraps Geo in a warm embrace. "ThankyouthankyouthankyouTHANKYOU!"
"Aye.....your crushing my windpipe....." Geo chokes out.
Lightning Dust lets go of the hug with a blush. "Sorry......look, I know I screwed up a LOT tonight. Hell, my whole LIFE has been one big, tyrannical screw-up....but I can make up for ALL of it....and I WILL. If you give me a chance....you wont regret it, Geo....."
"I sure hope not," Geo replies. "For your sake....and for Toby's....can never have enough role models...."
Lightning Dust nods with determination. "And that's what I'll be to him.....a role-model...." She and Geo get off the bed. Lightning opens up the door for him, and Geo travels outside, while Lightning Dust continues to stare in the room. Not at anything in it exactly, but more like she is an a deep-think.
"Sister Lightning," she repeats. "Huh...I like it."
She shuts the door.
Back inside the studio.....
Fred2266 is looking away from the camera now. He is smirking happily and nodding his head.
"Well, folks...." fred says. "Looks like everything is going to be okay....Lightning Dust just wants to change her ways....she kind of overdid it, in my opinion, but oh well! There are enough jerks in the world, and she's too cute to be one of them! So, with that in mind, this broadcast is now officially ov-"
Fred is interrupted by some quick, and eerie piano keys, and the feed fades to black.
The feed returns, as we are fixated on a pair of black dress shoes. The camera seems to be on the ground, like it was dropped.
Suddenly, the camera is forcefully picked up, as we get a clear shot of the face of.....
Ellington.
His hair is messy and sweaty, but he makes up for it as he is wearing a very impressive gray suit with black stripes all down it. Underneath he has on a royal blue collared shirt. He is breathing heavily, and he begins to speak slowly and carefully.
"I interrupt this important broadcast, to let you all know that you are drowning....you're drowning, in bull-crap....the bull-crap that this show single-handedly SHOVES down your gullet....yet, you continue to take it.....why? It's beneath me to wonder.
You just saw Toby Mason, the MAIN character of A New Home....get KIDNAPPED. Oh my....what an intriguing storyline this should be, huh?
Well, it....just...fell....FLAT. Why? Because it's "happy"? God forbid conflict rear it's ugly head, because HOW would we be able to get ourselves out of it?
This has been a recurring theme since A New Home III has been released....it was over-hyped, and now look at it....it is the LEAST liked out of the three.....why?
Simple....
Fred2266.
He is the CANCER to a series that quite frankly, I used to ADORE....A New Home? Classic. GREAT story....EXTREMELY original....A New Home II? Not as good as the first one, but still a great sequel.
But then, the announcement came.....
A New Home III would be primarily based in....the Equestria Girls universe-or, at least that's what I gathered from the description.....
It's no secret, I HATE Equestria Girls...it was everything I thought it would be, and it SUCKED.
Still, though, I was STILL going to read A New Home III, because I'm LOYAL.....and, it could have still had some potential.....
That potential was killed off, when APoeticHeart announced, he would have a CO-WRITER....
Completely unnecessary. This story was built from the very soil UP, by ONE MAN....why must we douse that soil with acid? There's no reason for it.
Like I figured....the story SUCKS, because the co-author SUCKS....
Fred2266 has been praised....for what? Killing off any remaining prestige that this story once had?
And you'd think, "Well, at least we have APoeticHeart's writing to look forward to!" Well, your hopes would be CRUSHED....soon, APoeticHeart started to THINK like fred, causing him to WRITE like fred, and now......A New Home cannot recover.
I often wish I could ask APoeticHeart...."Why?".....but I can't even look the man in the face anymore....
He's been so BLINDED, by all fred2266 has injected...into his system! That he don't even know the foundation he laid down!
But I can't help that.....
All I can do, is start my OWN foundation......
All I can do....is DESTROY the A New Home Universe....
And make my own universe....."
Ellington looks back into the camera. "AND NONE OF YOU ARE INVITED! BECAUSE YOU KEEP COMING FOR MORE! YOU TAKE THE LOGS FROM THE DEVIL, AND MAKE YOUR OWN FORTESS OF HELL!
And I just can't have that no more.....
I'm gonna burn your oceans....
And drown your forests....."
Ellington chortles creepily, but suddenly stops to flare his nostrils. "RUN."
END FEED.