A well done drawing of Honored Service by marking
On My Honor
Spa-tastic
By Honored Service
Preread by Tbone5363 (he is the sexiest thing you will ever meet)
Edited by TheDarkAngel
A well done drawing of Honored Service by marking
This is what a not as old and combat tested version of Honored's M16 would look like. Thanks VeeEight
"Fuck!" I yelled out, grabbing my right thumb and gripping it tightly in my gauntleted hand. The pain was dying down to a dull throbbing. I stuck the wounded appendage in my mouth and like a toddler, began to suck on my thumb that I had hit with the hammer. Being as strong as an earth pony definitely had its perks, like hitting a three inch nail into wood in one easy swing, but then again, if I missed...
Which is why I was sucking my thumb. I glared at the hammer that was responsible for my pain. "That is just great. This would be so much easier if I could have a nail gun. Then maybe setting up the framework wouldn't be such a pain!" I looked at all the old fashion tools I had bought to aid me in building my house. The basement was mainly completed, minus a floor.
The packed dirt would have to go eventually. Right now I was just trying to build a rough frame. The lumber I had bought was strong oak I had cut down from the edge of the Everfree forest. Having a home built from Everfree wood was sure to be bad ass.
I picked up the offending hammer and walked back to the frame of the right corner of the first floor. I stopped and noticed that the current corner beam was a few inches taller than it needed to be. My tape measure confirmed this. I let out a long sigh and searched for my saw. "Where is it? I just used it an hour ago." I was about to release a long string of cures when the sound of hooves silenced me.
"Howdy Johnson. Looks like you sure are making some progress. “Applejack called out to me as she and the rest of the girls approach me. I give them a polite nod and a wave before turning back to the search of my missing saw.
"What you doing?" Pinkie Pie asked standing right behind me as I searched for the handsaw.
I continued to dig around the large toolbox and the surrounding area, trying to not get frustrated with the pink pony. "I’m looking for my saw." I was beginning to get irked that I couldn't find the damn thing.
"You can’t see your saw?" Pinkie giggled at me. I turned around and clenched my fists.
"Seesaw ha-ha clever." I said flatly. Pinkie gave me a frown and reached under a piece of lumber next to her hoof and pulled out the hand saw, passing it up to me.
Great. Now she’s sad. I hung my head and took the saw. "Sorry Pinkie, I’m just a little frustrated right now."
“Well how about we lend ya a hoof?" Applejack asked, approaching me. “I've built my fair share of barns.”
Having Applejack and the others help would get this done a lot faster… and I was never one to say no to free help. “Sure. The designs for my home are over there.” I jerked my still hurting thumb over to a table with the designs and floor plans on it. The ponies wandered over and began looking over them. I took the hand saw and began to try and cut sideways across the lumber. The damn thing kept sliding down. “Grrr.” I tried again and the damn saw kept moving as I tried to get it to bite into the tuff wood.
I finally got a bite when an explosion of laughter made me rip the saw backwards, slicing a diagonal chunk out of the top of the wood. I gritted my teeth and slammed a foot against the post, snapping it in half, and rocketing the broken half across the property. I turned around to find the girls are laughing at the design table. “What’s so funny?” I asked through clenched teeth.
Twilight turned around, trying to hide her laughter behind her wing, “Johnson, did you do these in crayons?”
“Yea.” I said crossly. I put my hands on my hips and stared at them, “sorry I didn't have and blueprint paper and charcoal pencils.” I walked over to my rough drawings. Now I was a soldier, not a fancy artist.
The fat lines of a crayon showed the basic shape of the house and then a broken down shell of the wooden frame. Granted I didn’t find a brown crayon so I used green instead.
“Oh my. Please allow me to help.” Rarity said while whipping out a pencil and a new sheet of paper. She began drawing out my picture, except good. Actually it was better than good. Her lines came out perfectly straight and then she even began to design the outside of the house.
“Now designing a house is just like designing a dress or a suit,” Rarity explained as she drew the lines expertly as we all watched, “everything must flow together to make it aesthetically pleasing to any passing eye. Your originally design…well it was very brutish.”
“Hey!” I said, picking up my design. Okay looking at it now it did look like a trailer with another trailer placed off center on top of that one. “Well maybe a little brutish.”
Rarity gave a triumphant smile and continued drawing, “this one uses less big rooms on the corners of the house, and instead puts the main rooms, the big ones, in the center of the home so you can have these smaller rooms along the corners. More appealing, wouldn't you say?” She held the new design up to everyone to see in her magic.
“Okay. That’s a lot better.” I said taking in the new design. It was a two story house, with a brick bottom floor and a wooden top floor. The main rooms, kitchen, living room, dining room, and den were all focused on the center of the bottom floor with a bathroom and two bedrooms on the edges of the house. The top floor consisted of two more bedrooms and a room I simply labeled, Johnson’s dangerous stuff. They were big rooms.
“Now one question,” Rarity pointed to something on my old design, “what darling is that?” Her hoof was tapping on an extended overhanging that poked out from the side of the house.
“Oh that. That’s a sunshade awning for a car.”
Twilight perked up and looked at me, “is that the thing you told me about. The one with horse power and oil.” Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight.
“Horsepower?”
“No not horse horse, but machine horse… Johnson…?” Twilight gestured to me.
“Oh right. Dash, horsepower is just a measurement humans used to describe how powerful these machines were. I talked to Twilight about it. And I just want an awning because it would make me feel more at home.”
“Understood darling.” Rarity finished the sketch. “We all like being reminded of home.”
“Yea. Yea we all do.” I sighed and looked at my crude drawing, which to me, was a perfect recreation of the home from my childhood on Earth.
I left my slowly coming together home early the next morning. With the help of my friends, we had managed to get the frame completely assembled. Having magical unicorns, pegasus, and an earth pony who had built barns before was a huge help. And then throw Pinkie Pie into the mix who at time would be able to seemingly spawn one side of the frame by herself out of nothingness was just crazy.
I wandered down the worn path towards the Everfree forest. This path wasn't here when I moved in, but was worn out by myself over the last week. I traveled into the forest with only the Element of Protection sword slung across my back. Most of the creatures hadn't bothered to attack me. Which was fine with me. I wasn't supposed to be violent anymore.
Pushing a limb out of my path, I walked into the large clearing that was hidden from anypony flying above by a thick canopy. I carefully stepped around a large carving in the forest floor. I smiled as I reached under a big rock and removed the silver and gold scroll. I opened it up and began checking the work from yesterday. I was taking my time. A lot of time on recreating the rune from the spell scroll and putting it down on the ground. I was getting it right this time.
Twilight had been talking to Spike about the tremors when she mentioned that the rune was one of the most important things about master level spells like this one. “I know I told them I would get help for this. But something’s just need to be done alone.” I talked to myself more often than before now. “Very carefully now.” I used the stick to add another circle around one of the points of the six pointed star. A perfect circle. I laid the scroll down and then began the slow tedious task of carving the individual shapes and designs into the edge of the circle. Stars, lines, triangles crossed with three lines. Loops, figure eights, and a paw print. All of the designs seemed random and strange, but I followed the design on the scroll to the even the smallest... pentagram?
I looked at the last symbol to be added to this circle. I shrugged my shoulders and added it. Whatever, it was on the scroll so on the rune it went.
I looked around and nodded. This was coming along well. I prepared myself for the next step, sealing the newly finished part of the rune. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small scrap of paper. Written on it was a spell that made things permanent. The book had described it as being used on paintings to make it so that they wouldn't fade in the sun or get smudged by anything. I added a little bit of a change to it that made it seal the rune into the ground so it couldn't be scraped away by a branch or wind blowing through the forest.
After all this time, I’ll be damned if some rogue wind ruins my rune. Twilight had taught me enough about magic, and the books I was learning from was helping me more than just my Equestrian reading skills. I aimed my gauntlet at the most recent finished part of the rune I hadn't sealed yet and summoned my red magic. The familiar chiming filled the air as a ball of red energy formed in my palm.
I released the magic into the rune and held it there, letting the magic do, well, its magic. I could feel the magic leaving my body and slowly draining my supply of magic. I do miss that about Nightmare. When he was joined with me, I had much more magic. The Element of Protection gave an extremely large amount, but I didn't know how to spend it efficiently. My magic learning books hadn't covered that yet. I finished the spell, and watched as the rune glowed a brilliant red before dimming back to nothing but a design carved into the dirt.
“Well that’s enough for today.” I nodded and hid the scroll beneath the rock and folded the paper up and stuck it back into my pocket.
I pounded another nail into the board on the front of the frame. I was adding the wood to the bottom floor before I added the bricks to the outside of it. The wood layer would add some insulation before adding the bricks. I wiped a hand across my brow and reached into my tool belt to grab another nail. But I found none. “Shoot.”
I looked at the box of nails resting on a table across the yard from my spot on the house. I was still holding the board up so I couldn't just let it drop. “Oh yeah, magic. Duh.” I aimed my gauntlet at the box of nails and levitated them to me. “Shit.”
Mid-way across the yard, the box holding the nails fell to the ground and the nails held in my red aurora began to combine together. “Not now. I don’t need any weapons! Stupid damn Element.” I grumbled as my special talent went to work on a simple pile of nails. The chiming stopped and I hovered a newly crafted weapon over to my spot alongside the house.
“Thanks Element, I’ll put this one with the others.” I was holding, carefully, in my hand a ball of nails, all the points facing out. It was roughly the size of a baseball and resembled the head of a morning star. I tossed the nail ball into a pile with the other ones.
“Sometimes I think my special talent is to just piss myself off.” I grunted and looked at the pile of stupid nail balls. All that wasted material. Damn it. I let the board I was holding fall to the ground and I picked one of the balls up. I leaned back and hurled the stupid thing across my yard.
It stuck into a tree a good fifty meters away. I grunted again and turned around.
BOOM
The explosion shook the ground and I spun around in shock. “WHAT THE HELL!?” I stared at where the tree used to be. Now the top half of the tree was collapsed on the ground and on fire. I slapped a hand to my face and groaned.
“Damn. I liked that tree too. Fuck you magic.”
A few hours had passed since the apparently explosive nail ball incident and I had finished nailing the wood up on one side of the bottom floor. I was sweaty and tired. And the constant hammering was putting some deep calluses on my hand. God I needed a nail gun and jigsaw cutter. I would kill for my tool shed from earth…
I looked over towards the Everfree forest. Soon enough.
“Oh Honored, your house looks like it’s coming together marvelously!” I turned and waved to Rarity who was traveling up the small path to my house. Fluttershy was following right behind the white mare.
“Afternoon ladies.” I smiled and put down my hammer. “Yea, it sure is. The new design is much better.”
“Oh please, you flatter me.” Rarity giggled and looked me up and now. “Now about you.”
“What about me?” I wiped a hand across my face, leaving a trail of dirt, grime and sweat.
“Well let’s be honest here,” Rarity looked to Fluttershy and then back to me, “you look absolutely horrid. Now I know you’ve been working all day, but you simply must clean up!” Rarity said while, lightly, stamping a hoof to the ground. “I must insist that you come to the spa with Fluttershy and myself to get cleaned up right away!”
I tapped a finger to my chin, “well when you put it that way…no.” I crossed my arms.
“What?” Rarity looked shocked at me.
“I don’t ‘do’ spas.” I said smiling. “To girly and frou-frouy.”
“But…but you’re dirty!” Rarity stammered at me. Fluttershy began stepping back from the fussy unicorn.
I fell to the ground and began to roll around in the dirt. “HAHA dirt! Dirt!” I stood up, a new fine layer of dust and dirt sticking to my sweaty clothes. “Dirty now?” I gave Rarity a huge grin.
“You are…URGH!” Rarity turned around and stormed off down the road, leaving me standing there looking at Fluttershy.
“She’s not really mad, is she?” I asked Fluttershy.
“No.” Fluttershy turned and began heading off towards Rarity, “but now you’ve given her a challenge.”
“A what?” I asked, trying to hold a laugh back.
“When something’s dirty, what does Rarity do?”
My pupils dilated to pin pricks, “she cleans it.” I swallowed and looked at Fluttershy who gave me a kind smile and hovered away after the unicorn.
“Awwww fuckkkkk.” I whined before going back to working on the next side of the house.
I bent over to pick up another piece of lumber when I heard something whistle over my head.
SPLAT
I jerked upright and looked to see a sponge slowly sliding down the newly finished wall of my house. I steadily turned around to see Rarity smirking at me from across my yard. She was wearing an apron and had two buckets hanging on either side of her and strapped across her back was a saddle bag filled with sponges. She was levitating two more sponges, and rapidly dunking them into the buckets, getting them wet and sudsy.
“Shit.” I dropped the board and sprinted around the side of the house as she let the two sponged fly.
SPLAT SPLAT
The sponges exploded into sudsy wet marks on the wall I was just standing in front of.
“Stand still Johnson. I want to clean you!” Rarity yelled out to me, before sprinting after me, launching sponges at me as I ran around my property.
“You’ll never clean me lady!” I screamed back at the insane unicorn. Thank god she didn’t have help or this would be hard.
I heard the clap of a loud explosion and turned around and saw Twilight standing beside Rarity holding a fire hose.
“Oh give me a break.” I cursed and ran faster as a stream of water ripped through the ground next to me.
I ducked around a tree and ran towards the edge of Ponyville. I could lose these two crazy ponies in the market. I needed to find a good hiding spot. Another stream of water splashed behind me, showing that Twilight and her magic fire hose of spotlessness was getting close. “No no no no!” I yelled as I skidded around a corner and ran head first into the side of an apple cart.
“Hi ya Honored!” Applebloom leapt onto my chest. “Whatcha’ running from?” I gently lifted the adorable filly from my chest and pointed down the street to the charging unicorn holding soapy sponges and the alicorn wielding a never ending fire hose.
I sprinted off towards the other side of Ponyville.
Big Macintosh watched as Rarity and Twilight Sparkle chased the human off and around a corner screaming about cleaning him. “What I wouldn’t give to be him right now.”
“You say something Big Mac?” Applebloom looked up to her older brother.
Big Macintosh shifted the wheat around in his mouth, “Nope.”
I quickly looked left and right. A dead end. I was cornered. Left to the fates to decide my outcome.
“Oh Honored.” The sing song voice of Rarity cut through the air. My eyes grew wider as I continued to search for a way out of this dead end alley. “I just want to clean you.” I looked up. The wall blocking me in was at least twenty feet tall. I desperately began jumping up, trying to reach the ledge, but some unknown force was holding me down. My legs were encased in a purple glow.
“No.” I croaked out. Twilight gave a sad smile and aimed the hose at me. “Please.” I dropped to my knees and slammed my fists into the ground and red magic wall exploded in front of me, creating a solid barrier as the water from Twilight’s hose impacted the magical creation. I looked up to the alicorn and unicorn, sticking my tongue out at them as my barrier shielded me from their cleaning.
Suddenly icy cold water splashed down on to my head, shocking me and causing me to drop my barrier. I looked up to see Fluttershy holding an empty bucket upside down and mouthing, ‘I’m sorry’, but then Twilight’s magic grabbed me and pressed me up against the wall as I was assaulted with water and sponges.
“And now that you are somewhat clean,” Rarity said as we walked through the town, “we can take you to the spa.”
“No.” I said, leaving another wet boot print on the ground. My clothes were soaked and so were my boots. I was slightly grumpy, but only because my clothes were momentarily ruined. “Spas are for girls.”
“So are ponies…” Twilight pointed out, giving me another shit eating grin.
“Yeah, but… look that’s… UGH!” I threw my hands into the air in frustration. “Okay fine whatever! Maybe I just don’t want to go because I don’t want some strangers putting their hooves all over me!”
“But the massage is simply divine.” Rarity chimed in. “Besides, who’s your favorite pony?” She looked up from and batted her eyelashes.
I looked away from her and kept walking. “That’s not fair. That was before I got here. That whole thing was based on the show I told ya’ll about.”
“And who was your favorite?” She asked again.
“You. And AJ” I sighed and slapped my gauntlet against my face.
“I thought so.” She smiled and thought quietly to herself for a moment. “And what would the old you say to this request?” Rarity thought she had me.
“NO!” I yelled and bounced up and down happily. “Spas are for girls!” I jumped up and froze in midair as I came face to face with the sad face of Fluttershy.
“So you won’t join us?” She asked in her small timid voice. Her eyes began to grow larger. I tried to look away, but it was too late. The stare was on.
“I…” My thought process stopped as I felt my soul being peeled away as Fluttershy stared into my very being. “Must…Say…No…Yes…No…Fine I’ll go.” I buckled to the ground panting heavily. I rose to my knees slowly and walked towards my partially built house. “I’ll change and met you there.” My voice came out defeated and crushed as I walked away.
“Wow Fluttershy,” Rarity looked up to her friend, “that was very impressive.”
“Thanks.” Fluttershy smiled and blushed a little. “He really needs a spa day.”
“So true.” Rarity smiled seeing as she now had two friends to enjoy the spa with.
I trudged along towards the spa with new dry clothes on and a towel tucked under one arm. I wasn’t sure what I had to bring with me. This whole ‘spa’ thing was new to me. I looked at the exterior of the building and shuddered. The sign showed a pony getting cleaned and the disgusting pink of the roof just screamed torture.
“Ughhhhhhhh.” I groaned as I leaned against the door and pushed it open, granting me entrance to the inside of the spa. My nose was immediately assaulted with the smell of hundreds of shampoos, soaps, and other fruity fragrances. I stepped into the waiting room and looked around. There were a few chairs lining the walls and a table in the middle with a few magazines on it. I walked up to the appointment window where a light blue earth pony with a pink mane was staring at me. “Hi. I’m here with Rarity and Fluttershy.”
“Zey will be here momentarily. Pleaze take a zeat. My zizter Aloe will be with you zhortly.”
I gave her a polite nod and sat down. At least with the time to kill, I could touch up on my equestrian reading skills. I picked up a beauty magazine and thumbed through the pages, taking my time and reading through the articles. It’s good to see that short manes are in style. And Fleur Dis Lee is in a mane dying scandal. I lounged back in my chair wishing that some rampaging monster would storm through the town, saving me from this spa hell.
The door suddenly burst open and I stood up thinking my wish was coming true.
“We have arrived darling!” Rarity said with a flourish of her hoof. Fluttershy followed close behind her as they walked up to the desk where Lotus quickly ran around the counter and gave each of them a fluffy yellow bathrobe. I walked up behind them and waited patiently, but Lotus stared at the bathrobe in her hoof before opening it and holding it up against my body. It was made for a pony and only covered my chest and stopped right below my waist line. It was like a mini skirt dress thing.
“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me.” I rolled my eyes and gestured to the towel tucked under my arm. “I can just use this. Is there somewhere I can change?” I asked Lotus. She smiled and pointed a hoof to a changing room next to the bathroom. I undressed and wrapped my towel around my waist and tucking the corner in. I walked out of the changing room and deposited my clothes at the counter. “Okay Rarity, let’s get this over with.
Fluttershy and Rarity, along with both spa twins just stared at me. “What?” I asked putting my hands on my hips. I looked down to where they were staring and noticed they were staring at the scars covering my body. Jagged lines ran across my arms and shoulders and crisscrossed in horrible and ugly patterns all over my chest and sides. Each one representing a time in which I was harmed saving ponies. Well save for the one on the third rib on my right side. That one was from stupidity on Earth involving tequila, a road flare, and one roller skate.
“I get it. I have scars, shall we continue. I’m uncomfortable being eye banged.” Each pony blushed furiously and we walked down the corridor towards our first stop, the mud bath.
“So really?”
“What’s ever the matter darling?” Rarity asked as she placed a cucumber slice over her eye. “Just slide in and relax.” She placed the second cucumber on her face.
“You went through all the trouble of cleaning me, getting me here, and all that nonsense, just to get me to lay in mud?” I stared at bubbling bath of mud. Fluttershy walked next to me and climbed up into her own mud bath.
“Well I wanted you to start of clean here Honored. No sense in getting the imported mud dirty.”
I slammed my head into the side of the tub. Once, twice, and three times for good measure. I then decided to ignore Rarity’s last statement and removed my towel as I lowered myself into the mud. It was hot, but not so hot that it was uncomfortable. I sat down and stared at the wall in front of me. “So what? I just sit here?”
“Yez. Juzt let the mud work.” Aloe said as she held a plat of cucumbers out to me. I let out a long sigh and grabbed to cucumbers and placed them over my eyes.
“I hate this for the record.”
“And I hate that tacky armor you always ran around in. Not the duster, but that awful, what did you call it, digital camouflage, and I never said anything.” I turned my head towards Rarity and scoffed.
I slowly sank deeper into the mud and really felt it began to absorb all my problems. Everything seemed to melt away as I laid in that mud. The heat combined with the texture really felt…good. I let out a long sigh and just let everything wash away.
“Next is the mineral bath.” I was awoken by a prodding hoof that eased me out of the mud bath. I grabbed my towel from next to the bath and wrapped it around my midsection. I placed the cucumbers on a plate as we left the mud bath room and walked into the next room. There was one large pool with faint wisps of steam rising from it. I looked around. There was no other pool. I stopped as Fluttershy and Rarity removed their towels and lowered themselves down into the hot water. They each let out a sigh as they sank lower below the surface.
“Well aren’t you coming in darling?” Rarity said while dropping lower into the water. She leaned against the side of the pool and watched me.
“Yeah. I would, but I forgot my bathing suit.”
“Honored really, you don’t need a bathing suit.” Rarity said, gesturing for me to climb down into the pool.
“Yes I do.” I waved a hand at myself. “Remember… I’m a human. Clothes all the time.”
Fluttershy squeaked and blushed while Rarity gave me a slightly annoyed look. “Oh come now Honored. We are unclothed nearly all the time. Just take the towel off and get in. it’s so relaxing in here.”
“That’s nice.” I said, not moving an inch.
Rarity slapped a hoof to her face, splashing water all around her. “Lotus,” she called out, “can you please bring something for the stubborn human.”
The spa pony disappeared down a hallway and then returned just as quickly holding a pair of shorts out to me. They were rather big, and had a hole cut in them for a tail, but I slipped into them and just had to hole them up with one hand. I eased my way into the mineral bath and washed the bits of mud from the mud bath off me and began to relax into the hot water.
“There isn’t that nice?” I opened my eyes to see Rarity and Fluttershy sitting across from me in the pool.
“Yeah. I guess.” I had to admit, the water was really relaxing. Aw hell, it was amazing. It felt like all my problems were melting away. “It is pretty nice. For something so girly.” Both ponies laughed as we continued to enjoy the wonderful spa treatment.
“So how’d you get that one?” Twenty minutes or so had passed and Fluttershy was pointing with her hoof at a long jagged scar running across my stomach.
“Queen Chrysalis at the end of the second Changeling attack.”
“And that one?”
“That was from the Timber Wolf incident my first week here.” I rubbed a hand over the rough teeth marks on my arm. That felt like forever ago, but it was only a year and six or seven months ago.
“Do they hurt?” Fluttershy asked quietly.
“Nah.” I waved her off, “I mean they did when I got them, but now they just serve as little memories.”
“Mizz Rarity, your hooficures are next.” Aloe and Lotus appeared by the edge of the pool and were holding out three towels.
We climbed out of the pool and dried off, while wrapping the towels around ourselves. I followed behind the girls and spa ponies as we went along the pale blue hallway towards the next room.
“No.”
“Please?”
“Not no way. Not know how.” I crossed my arms.
“Pretty please?”
“The physical appearance of the ‘please’ won’t help you.”
“But you’ve tried everything else.” Rarity was almost on her knees begging me to get into the lounge chair and get a hooficure.
“Okay one, I don’t have hooves. Two I hate having my feet touched. And three, this the girliest thing ever!” I turned my head to the side, “I will sit and enjoy being with you girls, but I will not, cannot, allow myself to get a,” I shuddered at the very thought, “A manicure.”
Rarity sighed and tears began welling up in her eyes, “very well then Honored. If you have decided then I’m sorry.”
“For what?”
“This.” Rarity quickly turned around, her horn glowing blue. I tried to jump back, but she tapped her horn against my chest and I heard a faint ‘pop’. I collapsed backwards frozen in the awkward stance of trying to jump with my arms stretched out and face distorted into shock and surprise.
“I’m going to kill you.” I grunted out through my frozen mouth at Rarity.
“Sorry darling, but I had a feeling I would need to do something like that. So I had dear Twilight show me a brief paralyze spell. It will wear off in about thirty minutes or so. Now please try to enjoy this.”
Lotus came closer to my feet with a nail file clasped in her mouth.
“Nooooooooooo!” I grunted and tried to move, but the paralyze spell held fast.
“Thank you Aloe, thank you Lotus. We’ll be back again same time next week.” Rarity said waving good bye to the spa ponies as we left the spa. Well Fluttershy and Rarity walked out, I was being pushed along in a wheelbarrow.
“Again I’m ever so sorry darling. I guess Twilight had shown me a more powerful paralyze spell. I’ll have stern talking to her latter.” Rarity giggled as she pushed the wheelbarrow past the town square and the market, where ponies stopped and gawked at the human being pushed along like a foal in a stroller.
“I’m going to get you back.” I groaned out, words coming out easier as the spell was slowly beginning to wear off. Thirty minutes was going on to over two hours. Twilight and Rarity were going to get it.
“Now Johnson, was it really that bad?” Rarity asked.
“No. But this was unnecessary.” I tried to gesture to my frozen body. But seeing as it was frozen still, I merely rolled my eyes.
“So Honored,” Fluttershy asked, walking beside me in the wheelbarrow, “did you learn anything today?”
“I’m going to do something to get Rarity back?”
Fluttershy gave an innocent smile and giggled, “No besides that silly.”
“That just because it sounds like something I don’t want to do. I shouldn't be so closed minded to it and trust my friends and give it a chance.” I could feel the spell completely wearing off, but I kept my arms locked in place, an evil plan hatching in my mind.
“That’s right.” Rarity said nodding. “The spa sounded bad, but you liked it, yes?”
“Oh yeah, I really liked it.” I grinned as we passed close to Sugarcube Corner, where a huge cherry pie was sitting on a windowsill, cooling off. I slowly aimed my gauntlet at the window and charged up a spell. The pie wobbled into the air and then flew across the street right at the white unicorn pushing the wheelbarrow.
“Then maybe you can come –“
SPLAT
Rarity stood there in frozen shock as the red pastry slowly dripped from her face and mane. I removed myself from the wheelbarrow with agonizing slowness till I stood, towering above Rarity. I reached down and picked up a bucket full of suds and a sponge.
“Oh no Rarity, you’re dirty. I guess I’ll have to clean you up.” I dunked the sponge into the sudsy water and lumbered towards her.
“I’ll give you a head start.”
Rarity turned around and bolted down the street with my chasing after her, slinging water and soap everywhere.
“You’re right Rarity! We should do this again next week!”