//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 - Alexander // Story: My Little Humans: New York is Magic // by Laurenfaustsloyalfan //------------------------------// Dozens of pony scribes were galloping across the halls, carrying scrolls with their magic, along with carrying scrolls in their in saddlebags. Many came by Princess Celestia's chamber and dropped off what they were carrying and went galloping back to get more. Celestia was floating five at a time, reading them all, letting them fall and then levitating another five with her horn. A pegasus landed onto the window, and saluted to the princess, with no answer he decided to report his findings. "Princess Celestia, we've received no word of Twilight Sparkle or her friends' locations. We have searched in Ponyville, Canterlot, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Trottingham, all over the major and smaller cities, we've even done a search through the Everfree Forest, but there is still no sign of them. What do we do now, Princess?" Celestia stopped for a while, to think about her guard had told her, she turned to her guard and said: "Very well, take a break until further orders." She smiled and the guard nodded, and then took off. Celestia's smile vanished after that, and went back to reading scrolls after scrolls. "That spell has to be somewhere in here. Please be safe, Twilight" Celestia whispered to herself, even though she was alone. ----------------------------------------------- When the bright sun hit Pinkie's face as she got out of the building, it hurt to just open her eyes. She covered her face with both hands and continued walking until she was able to open them again. Her pink shirt was dirty, her hair was a bigger mess than it usually was, and her jeans we filthy as well. She stopped and asked herself where the building full of toys was, she just shrugged and continued walking in the same direction. "I miss my friends, I wish they were here to share all this fun with me." She sighed as she continued walking, not knowing where she was headed. She stopped by a fountain and clicked it and water came out, she tasted it, seeing as how it tasted okay, she started drinking from it. She cleaned her mouth and continued walking when she stopped by a man who took a look at her and smiled, she didn't remember him, but from his smile he remembered her. "You're that lady, from the club last night, the one that got thrown out, right?" He said cheerfully. "Yep, that's me, the meanies there didn't like me, and I don't know why!" She said with a small frown on her face. The man just smiled. "Well I thought you were awesome, dancing and singing, hey maybe you'd like to be the star of another club, one I own, I bet they'd love you!" The man said and held out his hand. Pinkie beamed at him and nodded and took his hand as they started walking together. "We're gonna have to get you some new clothes though, we can't have you dancing, looking like such a mess, can we? My name's Alexander, by the way." He said as he led her to his house. "I'm Pinkie Pie, and I guess it would look bad to the audience if I looked like such a mess! Let's get some cleaner clothes!" She said giggling uncontrollably. "Alright then, do you have any colors in mind for what you want to wear for the club tonight?" He said, he was gonna say something else but he got interrupted by her one word. "Pink!" ---------------------------------------------- Owen had spent the day with the girls looking for Pinkie They asked around, some had said they saw her walking one way, others saw her walking another. Though it wasn't much of a lead, it was better than nothing. He gave a sigh when he found himself at the very beginning, they had walked in a full circle. He was about to punch the door when Fluttershy spoke up. "Um.. Maybe we should check out more clubs at night, and oh... today we could check out parks and shops? I mean... if that's okay with you..." Her voice was soft and nice. Owen seemed to feel a little better with that. He nodded and went with the girls, except Rarity who was still sleeping. They were asking around shops of different sweets, many of them claimed to have seen a pink haired girl walking around. They followed where the owners had been telling them, but never any sign of Pinkie. They found a few pieces of candy on the floor and they assumed they belong to Pinkie. "How are we ever gonna find her? This city is huge, and we'll just get lost if we split up. We could lose her forever here.." Twilight looked down, and the other girls did the same at her words. Owen looked at them with sadness, then he looked back at the city and saw a flier for a lost dog. If there was a light bulb above his head, it would have turned on. "Girls, I have an idea on how we could find Pinkie. If we can't find her ourselves, why not use the city? Let's put up some fliers around the city, and if someone had seen her they can just give me a call and we can go get her, and we will have fixed this mess." The girls all looked at each other and started smiling and so they started walking back to his apartment to get started on the fliers to find Pinkie. When they arrived their eyes went wide as they looked at the couch, and Rarity wasn't there. -------------------------------------------------------- Pinkie was trying on different outfits while talking to Alexander about different parties and songs she could sing and balloons and streamers. Alexander had told her that it wasn't going to be that type of party. She stopped and looked at him with a confused face. "Well then what type of party would be silly?" She giggled and put on a pair of pink shorts with with a Fuchsia shirt with the drawings of her cutie mark under a fluffy pink jacket, She had a pink top hat and a pink umbrella. She did a circle and smiled. "What do you think, Alexander?" She showed off her new getup and did another circle. Alexander started clapping and looked her up and down as he was satisfied with how she looked now. "Very well done Ms. Pie, but what about that frizzy hair of yours? Should we not get that fixed?" He lifted her top hat and saw that hair was a complete mess, going in every direction. She giggled and put the hat on again. "I've tried a lot Alexander but it just goes in a mess again! Hair is weird like that." She giggled again and saw a jar of candy by a shelf, her eyes lit up as she went for it. She opened the jar and started eating it. "You like candy a lot, don't you?" She nodded and he chuckled and opened a cabinet that had more jars of candy, her jaw dropped and Alexander noticed a sparkle in her eyes as she grabbed more jars and eating candy from all of them. It was the most delicious candy she had ever had in her life, more delicious than Ponyville's candy. She put handful after handful in her mouth, chewing and giggling. He looked with amazement how this pink haired girl could gobble down so much candy so fast, he wondered if she was even chewing it. He looked at his watch, there's still time, he though to himself. He poked Pinkie, which got her attention. "Ms. Pinkie, would you like to go on a little stroll with me? To see the city." She nodded and got up, and proceeded to follow him. ---------------------------------------------------- Rarity was originally looking for her friend Pinkie, but she then found herself going from to shop looking at different dresses. She would talk to various owners about her own designs, and they would go on and on about what's wrong and what's right and what makes it shine and what matches perfectly. Some would get mad at her and throw her, others would embrace her and ask her for new ideas. She was in paradise and she was giggling because she had gotten a few dresses for free. She could not wait to try them on as she went walking back she saw a dress that was simply beautiful of an amazing fur, sparkling diamonds, black silk. She had to have it, no matter what. She walked in the store and looked at it in awe, Rarity had never seen such an amazing dress. The owner walked up to her. "So you like the dress, oui?" The owner smiled at her, and she beamed at him and nodded. "It is absolutely fabulous! I must have it, it would make a great addiction to my collection." She looked at the dress again, closer this time, and then made a stern face. "Of course I would make some changes first." The own was taken aback by those words and looked at the dress, finding nothing wrong. He glared at the purple haired lady. "And what is it that le mademoiselle finds wrong? This is perfection!" He humphed and crossed his arms. Rarity ignored it. "Well first of all the black silk doesn't match at all with the fur, and the diamonds aren't placed in the correct places either, this is simply a mess, I could do a better job with my eyes closed." She scoffed at the dress. The owner was furious at this woman's words, his work had never been insulted in such ways. It was appalling and he would not stand for it. "And you think you can do better than moi?" He was almost yelling. Rarity looked at him and smiled. "I think I could do much better, just give me the necessary items I need, and I'll make you a real dress!" She said with pride in her voice. The man looked at her and nodded and led her into his workshop. She saw different silks and cloths, furs of many kinds, and diamonds, rubies, sapphires. All she needed was here, she took a deep breath and grabbed the things she needed and set them beside her and started working the sewing machine. She was new to it, as she was accustomed to using her magic, but she quickly adapted and started working on the new dress. The owner stood there looking with a smirk on his face. ------------------------------------------------------- "Horseapples, first we lose Pinkie, now we gone and lost Rarity too?! Today just ain't my day" Applejack let out a heavy sigh as she sat down on the couch and looked up at the ceiling. Twilight and Fluttershy both sat together, Twilight was trying to comfort Fluttershy who was in tears from not knowing where Pinkie or Rarity were. Owen sighed and got each of the girls a cup of coffee. It was very silent while they each took sips from their cups. "What do we do now, Twi? We got two girls who are in Celestia-knows-where and we ain't got a single lead as to where the heck they are?" Twilight cursed under her breath for having left Rarity alone. Owen took a moment to ponder over the thing when he noticed a piece of paper under Applejack's rump. "Hey applejack, what's that you're sitting on?" Applejack stood up and found a note left by Rarity, she handed it to Twilight who read it aloud. "Girls, and Owen, since I don't know where you are, I've decided to look for Pinkie myself, if I don't find her and it gets dark, I will return to this apartment and wait for you. Sincerely, Rarity." Twilight breathed a sigh of relief at this news. "Well, if Rarity's coming here later, we should work on the fliers, don't you think?" The girls nodded and they got the necessary materials for it. Owen was going to find Pinkie, no matter what, he also had a desire for more of her cupcakes. ------------------------------------------------ "It's... it's beautiful. This is the most amazing dress I've ever seen." Rarity was doing her newly discovered nails as the shopkeeper was looking in awe at the dress she made. She smirked every time she looked at him and would simply go back to her nails. "That? That's nothing. However, if you were willing to pay me, I could really work on a dress for this store specifically." She made her cute eyes. The shopkeeper nodded furiously and she giggled and began thinking and looking around for the right materials. The shopkeeper went out to put the new dress up for viewing. Rarity walked around the store, looking for specific items, silks, jewels, furs. She would pick up a few here and there, only to drop them for another one. She went to the back and gave a hard look at all she picked up and left, and then an idea sparked in her mind. She grabbed what she needed and started sewing like never before. "Well, your wonderful dress is out there for everyone to see. If there's anything you need, Ms.... I never got your name..." He smiled nervously at her, she stopped and looked at him. "Ms. Rarity to you, and I will notify you, darling, but do please let me work. I have a fantastic idea, that will surely be a great addition to your collection!" With that she continued sewing, the shopkeeper could barely contain his excitement as he watched her sew. She would grab different silks, and put them together, put diamonds in different parts. The shopkeeper looked with awe at her work, his eyes were glued. ------------------------------------------------------------ "Okay girls, Applejack and I are going to go to put up these fliers, you should stay here making some more while we go put them up, okay?" Twilight and Fluttershy nodded as Owen and Applejack made their way out. Applejack and Owen would stay together for most of it, but they'd separate only to put up fliers. "Wonder where Pinkie an' Rarity are 'bout now..." She let out a heavy sigh as she walked with Owen. He looked at her with concern and hugged her. "We'll find them Applejack, I promise." She let out a small smile and hugged him back, and they went back to putting up fliers. Before she could react, someone stole her hat. Applejack chased after him, and Owen had to keep up. "Come back here, you varmint!" She ran faster than the thief did, and he noticed it. She was closing in fast on him and she tackled him. Owen caught up without breath. She took her hat again and grabbed the thief, by his jacket. He soiled himself. "Now you listen' here you thievin' lil' varmint! You don't ever take my hat again, got that?!" The thief nodded furiously and she let go and he went off running. She put on her hat again, just like it should be and let out a sigh. "That, was so awesome!" Owen clapped at Applejack and she gave him a confused look. "Beg your pardon, sugarcube, but what are you talkin' about?" She said as they walked back. "I mean that speed of your running, it was like, amazing, I could barely keep up. And then I saw you go even faster and I was like 'Wow' you are amazing, Applejack." She blushed a bit at his words, but smiled. "Well thanks sugarcube. Now come on, let's put up these here fliers, and get back to Twi and Fluttershy." He nodded and they went walking back together. ------------------------------------------ "Ms. Pie, it's getting late, I do hope you are ready." Alexander walked by Pinkie who was giggling and playing with some streamers. She stopped and looked at him with a big smile. "I'm ready as I'll ever be. I love parties, they're so much fun, with cake, and balloons, and good music, and Ooh, now I'm all excited." She was positively bouncing around Alexander, talking about other parties. He chuckled and stopped her. "I assure you, you're excitement will only make the party so much better!" Her eyes shined as she imagined how her own excitement was helping a party to be only better. Alexander led her out of the room and onto the street. She was trying not to bounce from the excitement. She was led into the back part of a building. "Now, you remember your songs, don't you?" Pinkie shook her head. He looked at her with a confused face. "I don't remember them, but I'll just make it up as I go, same as I always do!" She giggled and a man with a huge rush on his face came in. "It's time, let's do this! You're on uhh... 'Pinkie Pie'.Right, come on, you're on!" He ran back. "Well time to dance and sing and have fun!" She tipped her hat and walked onto the stage. Everyone started cheering and the DJ, which looked very familiar to Pinkie Pie was playing some techno. Pinkie started tapping her foot, she had a big smile. She started dancing as did a lot of people. She threw off her hat into the crowd and spun around. She was ready to sing and have fun. --------------------------------------------------------- "And done, one of my best dresses made for you, sir." He looked at it with such amazement his eyes were going to fall out. He laughed and he looked over it time and time again. "Mademoiselle, you should work for me, your dresses are parfait and topnotch. Your work is simply that of the best!" She shrieked in excitement and he did as well. She saw how it was getting late and thought back to her friends. "I'm sorry, my good friend, but I really do have to go, my friends are waiting for me." She said as she walked towards to the door when the bell rang. "We have a custo--" He stopped as he saw the woman walk in. Rarity looked at her as well. She went and looked through dresses. "Who is that woman?" Rarity asked the shopkeeper. He looked at her bewildered, then back at her, and then back to Rarity. "You don't know who that is? That is Lady Gaga!" He said in a whispering voice. The woman turned around and kept casually looking at different dresses. She then saw the dress in the shopkeeper's hands and approached him. "Do you mind if I try this dress on?" She said in a soft voice and smiled. He nodded over and over again. "But of course madame, let me show you to our dressing rooms!" He led her into the room. Rarity shrugged it off and walked out the store and back to the apartment. She got to the door and it wouldn't open. She knocked softly, when it was opened, Twilight and Fluttershy gasped and hugged her tight. "Rarity where have you been? We've been worried sick about you?" Fluttershy nodded. Applejack and Owen came in afterwards and saw Rarity and they hugged her as well. "Yes well, I met a very nice young man and I decided to make him some clothes for his shop. He simply had a terrible dress on sale and I fixed that too." She smiled and everyone just laughed and hugged. "Yes however nice it is, we still have to find Pinkie Pie. Wherever could she be?" They all sighed. "Okay, I say we check out clubs tonight, like Fluttershy said." They all nodded in agreement and went out to check clubs for the missing pink lady. ------------------------------------------------- Pinkie finished with a high pitched note and bowed by the end of the song. Everyone cheered her on and was clapping, she threw out cupcakes and candy and everyone would catch them and eat while the party continued. She'd dance with a bunch of people, sometimes she would make a short song during the music. She was the life of the party and she loved it. She never wanted to leave, everybody was having so much fun. She caught Alexander talking with some people and she went over to him. "Alexander this party is great! We should throw a lot more parties like this! Maybe we can have balloons and streamers and more cake and candy!" She went off rambling while Alexander and the others laughed. Alexander told the others to leave while he scoot over and told Pinkie to sit next to him. "If you keep this up, we'll have a lot more parties, bigger parties, with more people to have fun in them, how does that sound?" He smiled. Her eyes lit up and she nodded and hugged him. He chuckled. "Now listen, I have to go for now, but you enjoy this party. There's food, music, people, you should be fine." He kissed her hand and left. She had a big smile on and left to keep dancing and partying. She started singing again on the stage and everyone danced and would sing along on the chorus, Pinkie never wanted to leave and never wanted to stop. ---------------------------------------------------- "Eeeeenope, I've ain't seen a pink-haired girl around these parts." Said a big man with dark blond hair and green eyes. Owen nodded at him and signaled the girls to leave, but when he looked at them, he didn't see Fluttershy. "Where's Fluttershy?" He asked and the girls all turned around to see her missing. Owen face palmed. They all went to search for her, they found her at a bar drinking and laughing with someone else. Owen approached her and it was Trevor she was laughing with. She stopped and looked at Owen and giggled. "See Trevor? This is my friend Owen, he's been taking me everywhere around this city, he's such a nice guy. I love him" She leaned in and kissed Owen. His eyes went wide and Trevor started laughing. "Oh, Owen, how do you do it? You meet the coolest chicks, bro. First the pink girl, now this babe, what's your secret, man? Is it cologne? Manners? Drugs? How do you do it?" Owen glared at him and broke the kiss from Fluttershy, she fell down and laughed. "Oh boy, this isn't good. Um, okay, girls, we need to get her out of here." Applejack and Twilight went to pick her up and Trevor saw the other ladies. "Dude, Owen, come on, you gotta share some of these fine ladies with me bro." Applejack turned to face Trevor and punched him square in the face. He fell to the floor and stumbled, he was bleeding. "What the hell was that for?" He touched the blood from his nose and winced in pain. Applejack stood over him, glaring at him. Owen was being hugged by Fluttershy, and Twilight and Rarity were both looking shocked at Applejack. "If I hear one more word out of you, you'll get more than just a fist, got that?!" Trevor looked to the sides and ran out of the bar. Applejack turned to see her friends in shock. "What? He was annoyin' me so I got rid o'him." Owen gave Fluttershy to Twilight and Rarity who were pulling her away, and he walked to Applejack. "I have to say, that was cool. I've been wanting to punch him so many times, but never got around to it, I looked past it I guess." He said as they walked back to the apartment. "It's alright sugarcube, we don't always have the courage to do what we need to, but Ah always do what I need to." She smiled. They all made it back to the apartment and put Fluttershy to bed. Owen sighed and looked at Rainbow Dash who was sitting on a couch. "So you're Rainbow Dash, right?" Rainbow looked at him, and sigh heavily. "Sorry I'm not in a better mood, I'm just really worried about Pinkie. I need to know she's okay I..." She looked down, and Owen hugged her. "We'll find her, I promise. In fact, you and me, let's keep searching, let them sleep. How about it?" Rainbow looked up, smiled and nodded as they got up and left the apartment. ------------------------------------------------- Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were all sitting on a hill. They were all sad, worried sick where the girls were. They hadn't seen them for weeks, Spike had told them time and time again that it was one of Twilight's spells and that they were fine, but they were still worried. "What are we gonna do? We haven't seen them for weeks." Sweetie Belle said with her head down. The three of them sighed in unison when Spike came over out of breath. "I've been looking for the three of you. Princess Celestia sent me a message that she's been looking for a spell to bring Twilight and the others back, so you can rest easy knowing she's got it, She'll bring them before you know it." Spike smiled and the three of them showed a small smile but then frowned again and looked down. Spike sighed. "Come on you three, you can't stay down like this until they come back, you have to hope for them." Applebloom looked up as did the other two and they all looked at each and nodded. "Spike's right, we can't just be sittin' here like a couple o' apples. We should try to surprise them when they come back with our cutie marks!" The other two smiled and they went off running. Spike smiled and started running back to Ponyville for Twilight's library. ------------------------------------------ Pinkie walked out with Alexander, she was humming a random tune as they walked together back to Alexander's house. He had a pink bed prepared for her and she was bouncing on it, still full of energy. He chuckled at her acting like a little kid. "Where do you get so much energy Ms. Pie? There is no end to your jumping or dancing or singing, you never get tired. How do you do it?" He sat next to Pinkie's bed, she stopped bouncing and sat too. "I don't really know, I guess it's from all the parties and excitement, I never want to stop so I never do!" She giggled and laid down and sighed happily. Alexander smiled and stood up and walked out of the room. "Good night Ms. Pie there's another party happening tomorrow night, much more people are going." Pinkie screamed in excitement. Now she'll never sleep, keeping that in mind. He chuckled and sat down on a couch, took out his phone and began to make a call. ---------------------------------------------- Owen's phone started ringing and he picked it up. "Yes? A party tomorrow night? I don't know if I can make it, I'm kind of busy." He looked down at Rainbow Dash who was sleeping soundly on his lap. They were at a park, looking at the water reflecting the night sky and moon. They were searching for Pinkie but when they looked in the park, Rainbow Dash couldn't take her eyes off the night reflection in the water, she just sat there and looked at it. Owen had sat there next to her and looked at it with her. "Listen, if I'm free I'll be there, if not, then I'm sorry Alexander." He hung up and looked down at rainbow dash, her words were stuck in his mind. He understood why Rainbow Dash was sad in the apartment. "I love Pinkie Pie, and I'm just worried sick about her." Owen had to find Pinkie.