//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Two Nerds and a Pony // Story: To Be A Brony // by Hidden_Blade_Attack //------------------------------// "What the hell is that?" Kylah asked with a 'lol' expression on her face. Eric slowly stood up twiddling his thumbs. Mike was still standing in front of Pinkie in an attempt to protect her. "Well?" Kylah asked. Eric couldn't speak, he could only remain in his currant state. She rolled her eyes and went up to Mike who stayed in his position. "Just go-hey!" He said as she pushed him out of the way with little effort. "What is this?" Kylah asked as she went face to face with Pinkie who was thinking of what to do. "Um, hi I'm Pinkie Pie." She said putting a smile on her face and extending a hoof. "What the!?" Kylah yelled backing away. Mike then took matters into his own hands by hitting her over the head with a book. "Hey, you dork!" She said turning to him. But before she could do anything he hit her over the head again which knocked her out cold. The three stayed silent for a minute, with surprised expressions on their faces. "Dude! What did you do?" Eric yelled. "I hit her with 'The Hobbit'...oo, gold edition." He said examining the book. "She's going to kill me!" Eric yelled in distress. "I had to do something. Kylah was going to tell everyone about Pinkie." He said. Eric was still lost for words. "Will she be alright?" Pinkie asked looking down at her. Kylah was knocked onto the ground in an odd way. "Yeah. Put her in the closet." Eric said finally. Mike followed his order swiftly. The three sat there for a while thinking of what they did and what is to come. Until Eric broke the hanging silence. "And no Pinkie, you can't go to the party." He said out of the blue. This made Mike and Pinkie to say 'Aaaw'. "Mike." Eric said disappointed. "Eric." Mike replied. "Why can't she come? We could go dressed up and she can be just someone in a costume." "Yeah." Pinkie agreed. "Really, who would believe that?" Eric asked. "It's close to Halloween, that'll be our excuse." Pinkie wasn't sure what Halloween was but figured it involved costumes. "She could be your 'sister'." Mike offered. "My sister would never go, completely unbelievable. You know how grade's are above us, they hate 9's." Eric reminded. "There has to be some way?" Pinkie begged with puppy eyes. Eric and Mike fell into Pinkie's trap and thought of a way to get her into the party relatively unnoticed. "What if we said it was your little sister Mike." Eric offered. "I don't have one." "They don't know that." "I couldn't bring a little girl to a high school party, these aren't juice box parties." "What's a juice box party, sounds good." Pinkie said smiling as she seemed to be getting quite comfortable with Eric and Mike. "A juice box party is a lower class party, basically for elementary kids. The party we're going to is more... mature." Mike thought of the last word. Eric knew what he was talking about. He had explained it before. Mature meant alcohol and sex, and music not meant for the young. "I'm perfectly mature." Pinkie argued but Eric ignored. "Your 'younger sister' can be in grade 8. Okay?" Eric explained. "Fine." Mike said happy that Pinkie can go. "What are we going to be?" Mike asked. "Can I be a sailor?" Pinkie asked. "No, you are your own costume." Eric replied. "How about this: I'm a zombie and you're a vampire." Mike said. Eric wanted to be the zombie but agreed. "Okay, let's go get the costumes. Pinkie you stay here, we don't need you caught." Mike ordered. "Okie dokie-*" She was caught off by her stomach growling. "Any breakfast?" Eric and Mike already ate and his dad never let's him have seconds. "Let me see..." Eric has a food stash so when he's in a hard core gaming match he can have some, but he's gotten kind of low. "I have: gummy bears, pepsi, beef jerky..." Eric said looking through the shelf. "Beef jerky?" Pinkie asked. He turned to explain but saw Mike shaking his head desperately, he then remembered ponies are herbivores. "Never mind, have some gummy bears." He said as he tossed some to her. She smiled in gee as she began eating them. "She'll find out eventually." Eric whispered to Mike. "Not so soon." He whispered back. "Anyways, we'll take our leave. If you have to go number 1, go in that bucket." Eric said gesturing to a bucket in the corner (he has used it before during a hard core d-match). "We'll be back soon-" "Wait!" "What?" "What about... number 2?" She asked with some embarrassment. "Forever hold your peace." Eric said. "Wait." She interrupted them leaving again. "What?" Eric said annoyed but Mike elbowed him. "What if I get bored?" "Read this." Mike said tossing her 'The Hobbit' which she caught in her mouth (to Eric's dislike). "Okay, you can leave now." She said as the two friends finally left. They snook out of the house with minimal attention. They were now walking down the street heading to the dollarama, they weren't rich so they could only get minimal. "Dude! I thought of something else that'll make us look bad!" Mike said. "What?" "We don't have a girl, at least one of us needs one." "Pinkie doesn't count?" Eric said clumsily. "Are you considering clop?" He asked with a clever smile. Eric's face flushed and he went silent. He knew very well what that was. Mike just snickered. "I'll handle it." He said as he took out his phone and began texting. Eric forgot his phone. After a few quiet minuets of Mike texting he finally spoke. "Sorry, I got nothing." He stopped abruptly. Eric stopped as well. "Look there's Rachel!" Eric knew where Mike was going with this. "This is your chance, ask her out to the party!" Mike ordered as Rachel came more into view. She was texting and hadn't noticed them yet, but she was walking right to them. "M-mike, m-maybe P-pin-" Eric stammered before Mike interrupted. "No, let's do it." Eric gulped and froze up, he can barely talk to girls let alone his crush. "Hey Rachel." Mike said as she got close enough. She looked up and smiled. She had blonde hair and blue eyes with a nice smile and was very pretty which gave poor Eric no voice. "Hey Mike, hey Eric. You two going to Alice's party?" She said still partially texting. "Yup." Mike answered and Eric nodded with a small smile. He wishes he had his glasses to hide behind. "Cool." She said receiving a message. "We;re dressing up, you know, Halloween." Mike added once again a nod from Eric. "Nice...oh crap." Rachel said putting her phone away. "What?" "Sorry, it's just that I was trying to go with Ryan but he ditched me, jerk." She muttered the last part under her breath. Mike's eyes lit up at the realisation of how Eric could do this. Eric got mad at Ryan's way of treating Rachel which gave him courage. "I could-*ahem*-accompany y-you to the-the dance." Eric stumbled his words. Rachel smiled. "That would be great. I'd love to go with you Eric. Your going there right at 6 right?" She asked. He nodded with a relieved smile. Mike was amazed. "Great, I'll go then, too. What are you being?" She asked. "A vam-*" "A zombie, a zombie." Mike said for him. "Alight, I'l try to get a little zombie thing going to." She said. Eric was crazy happy but still nervous but a lot of it had dissolved. "Good. That would be cool." He said trying to act more cool. "Awesome, then it's a date." She said as she walked off leaving Mike and Eric back to their journey. They looked at each other jaws dropped. "Dude!" Mike yelled in excitement. "I know!" Eric yelled. Rachel heard them and smiled, she found Eric a cute nerd. "This is so awesome!" Mike yelled again. "I know, I get to be the zombie!"