Just as Thunderlane had offered Rumble along with Cam and Drive had agreed to join the older stallion for breakfast, but it wasn't just the four of them that would be going out to eat. You see, Thunderlane never found a special somepony instead he found three special someponies in the form of Derpy Hooves, Cloud Chaser and her twin sister Flitter.
"So...these are Cam and Drive and --"
Just as Thunderlane had offered Rumble along with Cam and Drive had agreed to join the older stallion for breakfast, but it wasn't just the four of them that would be going out to eat. You see, Thunderlane never found a special somepony instead he found three special someponies in the form of Derpy Hooves, Cloud Chaser and her twin sister Flitter.
"So ...these are Cam and Drive and --"
"Ooh, how'd you meet? Was it at the prom? What happened to Archer?" Flitter interrupted the teenaged colt with a volley of questions, the same questions that he would have answered anyway.
"Well, there I was standing at the front pavilion area where I told Archer we'd meet up to enter together and wouldn't you know it, she shows up, but get this, this is the kicker..."
[Rumble's Flashback]
Archer and I promised that we'd meet up under the large canvas pavilion before entering the dance. Not going there together should have been a dead give away to me that something wasn't kosher, but I ignored my gut feelings in favor of hopes that my "long time" fillyfriend would be there and we'd have an awesome time with each other.
Only, things didn't go smoothly instead they crashed and burned as Archer shows up hoof in hoof with Lickety Split, I mean what the f**k.
"Heeey, Rumble thanks for payin' for my ticket and this dress, I'm sure it'll look good on Lickety's bedroom floor." The skank mare had to nerve to f**kin' wink at me and --
"Hey Rumb could you cut back on the language, there are families here." Cloud Chaser scolded the stallion.
"Anyway, like I was saying."
There stood Lickety who I always thought had too much syrup in his sundae. "I'm stealin' yer girl and oh ice cream pun, ice cream pun, ice cream pun."
To say I was pissed would've been an understatement. I should've been an adult just left without makin' a scene but because I was angry and because I'm the future lightweight champion of Equestria! I took out all my frustrations out on the nearest hedge sculpture and beat until it was paper. It took a few guards to pull me off the plant. I totally kicked its ass by the way.
After a "timeout" session that lasted about twenty minutes. They technically put me in a quiet room filled with light almost elevator music to calm me down, after I stopped fuming, I was free to go back to the dance.
This is where the next part gets a little sketchy. i was still really bummed out from earlier, I met a few griffins at the dance who were trying to spike the punch, but just as they were about to drop the booze in the juice a chaperone walked by and they threw the flask under that table.
Feeling the perfect mixture of bitter, angry and depressed, I picked up the flask, started to drink and began to support the back wall. It wasn't soon after that, that I met these two fillies.
[End Flashback]
The light grey colt nuzzled each of his mares respectively.
Just as Rumble was about to speak he was interrupted once again, this time by his companions.
"Emotion: content. We obtained our Rumble pack after our father applied these two substandard colts to us for our prom date objective."
"Emotion: Annoyed. They wouldn't stop falling over themselves and recalling inadequate magicians with delusions of grandeur."
"Emotion: Pleased. After speaking with him for a period of time and going through a series of compatibility questions, we deemed that Rumble is the service patch we needed for the event to be a success."Cam wrapped her hooves around her shared stallion. "Not to mention, he was pretty good at cramming his RJ45 cable into our Ethernet ports."
Rumble responded to that the only way he could, he choked on the water he had been drinking, because for some reason, the service was extremely slow as it tends to be at large franchise restaurants in the early morning and after twenty or so minutes no pony ever came to take their orders, but I digress.
This whole situation brought out several responses from the ponies at the table. Rumble who was embarrassed turned a deep shade of red. Thunderlane had a look of admiration for the little brother he had raised. Cam and Drive were confused because they had never really learned about discretion. Derpy didn't get the innuendo. Last there was Flitter and Cloud Chaser who both found the entire situation hilarious.
Trying to be the slightly responsible pony there, Thunderlane tried to defuse the situation by asking a question that had been on everyponies mind for a while now. "Where in the name of Celestia is our server?"
Speak of the devil as a much worn out looking waitress appeared before their table. "Sorry about the wait, most of my staff called in today. I'm College Career and I'll be your server today. Are you all ready to order?"
"I want a western omelet with a side of hash browns."
"Toast or pancakes?"
"Pancakes."
The server then motioned to Derpy to place her order. "What about you miss?"
"I want two multigrain muffins with some hay bacon."
"And You, Sir?"
"I want...hmm...I'll take a Breakfast Hodgepodge."
"Toast, bagel or pancakes?"
"White toast, dry."
"How do you want your eggs?"
"Scrabbled."
"When you bring it out, can you bring a bottle of hot sauce?" Rumble asked earning a slight nod for the pony in front of their table.
"What can I get you today?" College said focusing on Cloud Chaser.
"I'll have the low calorie heart healthy multigrain banana nut waffles."
Just before the bioorganic twins were about to respond to the waitress, Flitter brought her attention to them. "Ooh, before I shoulda asked, can you girls eat pony food? Or does it have to be something specific like RoboColt with the foal food?"
"Emotion: passive. Standard nourishment fuels our fusion reactor, that and we really enjoy the taste of glucose infused products."
"Emotion: Giddy. I really enjoy the really thin pancakes with fruit filling."
"Crepes."
"Emotion: false anger. Really thin pancakes."
"Huh?"
"That was a joke. Reference to Haytona Evenings: The Story of Hillbilly Racer."
"Oooh, I get it, Ha ha ha." Flitter tried to salvage the comedy with some forced laughter.
Cam raised her brow at this display. "Emotion: sincerity and concern. Please, the joke was no longer functional once I explained it. The failure is on me as my vocal limitations prevent emotion or humorous connotation."
That's where things began to get really awkward and if there was one pony carbon or silicon based that couldn't handle awkward silences it was Thunderlane. Therefore, he did the only thing he could do to defuse the situation. "Okay, um who wants Prench toast!? For the love of everything holy get us some Prench toast!!!" The dark grey stallion grabbed the nearby waitress and he pleaded for her to bring them some batter dipped cinnamon infused bread, while his lead mare in the form of one Cloudchaser trying to stop him, while College Career galloped off to fill their orders.
As his brother began to make a fool of himself in a public setting once again, Rumble turned to his favorite sister-in-law: Derpy. "How have been things at the post office?"
"Okay for the most part, except the other day when this one pony, I think it was Screwball, yeah, I'm sure it was Screwball, so anyway she tried to return some bubble wrap, only she didn't have the bubble wrap with her. I mean who does that?"
"So what happened after that?"
"She got upset at first til I told her there was a sale on shiny things at Barnyard Bargains and like that..." Derpy gestured a quick swishing motion with her hooves. "...she was gone."
Rumble only responded with a light chuckle.
"Funny thing, it happens more often than you'd think. I don't know if it's something in the water or..." Derpy glanced over to Thunderlane who thanks to Cloud Chaser eventually started to calm down from his more recent episode and take his meds. "...some ponies are just cray-cray."
"Sorry 'bout that. I'm calm, I'm good, and I'm fine." Thunderlane slouched into the chair looking a bit more relaxed as Cloud Chaser rubbed his back in a reassuring manner.
The rest of breakfast went off without a hitch. As the group continued to make small talk and eat. After they paid their bill and left a sizable tip for College Career mostly because of what Thunderlane had done, the group dispersed with Thunderlane, Cloud Chaser, Derpy and Flitter heading to Pottery and Linens to pick up some new comforters whereas Rumble went off with his girlfriends.
The ash colored pegasus still felt a tinge of embarrassment about the whole situation. "Listen girls, I wanna apologize for breakfast."
"Emotion: amusement. We rather enjoyed ourselves, but if you feel you need to pay penance then you can do so by walking us home."
"I was gonna do that anyway." He said with a smirk as he draped a wing over each mare and trotted through Ponyville towards the laboratory that Cam and Drive called home.