Chapter 38 The Easter Special.
Happy merry Easter everypony!
-Van
After a good nights rest in Canterlot Castle Luna, Elliott, and I decided that it was time to visit Ponyville for some R and R. After a basic breakfast consisting of biscuits, eggs, and grits I checked my IPhone clock. It read 9:59, April 8th 2012. Then I was overtaken with a sudden joy that could not be described. I turn to Elliott, who is still drinking his orange juice, and yell "Dude it's Easter!"
He looks at me like I'm stupid, checks he clock, spits out his orange juice, and yells "Bro it is Mother flipping Easter!"
I yell "Hell yeah Brohoof."
We then proceed to brohoof while Luna looks at us confused. She asks "What is this Easter you speak of?"
Elliott goes "No way they don't have Easter?"
I smack him on the head and reply "Why would they? They aren't Christians."
He looks at me and says "Oh right good point."
I say "Well that doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate it."
He replies "Well I'm not sitting through a two hour church service."
I reply "I'm right there with you bro."
Luna comes back into the conversation and asks " Now would you care to elaborate on what Easter is?"
I say "Yeah I'll tell you on the way to Ponyville."
She looks at me and says "Aright let me get my stuff."
Elliott looks at me and says "Woman."
I simply nod back at him as we board or carriage to Ponyville.
*Meanwhile Back In Ponyville*
Viewpoint Jacob
"Fuck yeah it's Easter!" Cory yelled throughout the house As the sun began to rise.
"It's to early for this shit." I thought as I lugged myself out of bed to silence Cory's pre-Easter screaming.
I trotted down the stairs to see that Cory was looking though catalogs of local stores. He looked at me and said "Where is the Easter stuff?"
I said "Cory these ponies aren't Christian. They don't have Easter."
He looked at me with fire in his eyes and said "Well their going to get Easter because who the hell doesn't like candy?"
Graham walls down the stairs and says "I don't really like candy."
Grant walks down and says "Silence fool everypony loves candy!"
Cory says "My point exactly."
I say "Well Easter isn't just about candy. It's about how our lord and savior Jesus Christ rose form the dead and assessed to heaven after he was crucified by."
I was cut of by a chorus of "Shut the Fuck up!"
Cory began to chant "Candy Candy Candy Candy."
Grant then yelled "Grab your bits! We're getting all the candy! Charge!"
I couldn't stop them even if I tried. When everypony had left the house it was only Graham and I left. He looked over at me and said "I'll call Van."
*Back on the Carriage*
Viewpoint Van
"Hello? I said as I picked up the phone.
He said "Dude it's Graham. Your friends Cory, Michael, and Grant have decided to raid every store for candy in celebration of Easter."
I reply "Are they paying?"
Graham replied "Yeah I think so."
I said "Then what's the big deal then? If they pay for a shitton of candy I say that they can eat it."
He said "No you don't understand those three uncontained with a sugar rush could be deadly to the other ponies around them."
I replied "My god we have to contain them quickly!"
Luna and Elliott looked at me with concern and asked "What's wrong?"
I said "Cory, Grant, and Michael are going on a sugar rampage by buying all the candy in Ponyville."
I turn to Elliott who had somehow gone pale. He said "Something like that happened last year except at Halloween, but it resulted a broken golf cart, a missing tooth, and garbage cans. This Is. The. Worst. Possible. Thing."
Luna looked over at us and said "Don't worry we can track them down and lock them in their rooms until tomorrow."
I replied "Yeah I'm sure once they are contained they will be fine."
Elliott asked "How are we going to get them once were a the house?"
I asked "Didn't they use stun rounds against Trixie?"
He replied "Yeah. Also she's still in the closet, and We put a spell on Octavia so she couldn't leave the house until we got answers."
I said "Well we better take care of that first. Wait Trixie is still in the Godamn closet?!? That was two whole days ago! Get her out! What if she used the bathroom?"
We all look at each other then put our hoofs on our noses. Elliott was last. He yelled "Damnit why do I always have to pick up everypony's shit?"
I said "Because your you and that's your job."
A couple of minutes later we arrive at the house. When I first walked in it looked like a wreck. Tables turned over, drinks everywhere, and a half eaten sandwich on the couch. I said "Have you guys even cleaned yet?"
Elliott shock his head at me and I sighed. I asked "Ok where is Octavia?"
Elliott pointed to our only remaining guest room. I walked up the stairs, and knocked on the door. She said "Let me out of this fucking house!"
I said "Cool it Octy it's me Van."
She cracked the door and said "Please come in."
I walked in the room to see that it was actually clean and asked "Ok first thing is first why did you try to assault Jacob?"
She said with a very sad look on her face "Because he was dating Vinyl, and I wasn't."
I asked "Didn't she say that she wanted something serious between you two?"
She said "Yes, but I didn't feel that way about her at the time."
I said "Then it's not Jacob's fault."
She sighed and said "No it's mine. I should apologize right?"
I nodded and said "I you do I'll let you have a free punch."
She smiled at me and said "Deal."
I released the house binding spell on her and we walked down the stairs to Jacob and Luna who were talking about something in the kitchen. I nudge Octavia who walks up to Jacob and says "Jacob I'm sorry for trying to assault you two days ago. I was just jealous of you and Vinyl's relationship. I can only hope that you can forgive me."
He says "Octavia, I forgive you, but please never try that again. You looked like you wanted to beat the shit out of me."
Octavia looks over at me, and I nod. She then backs up and punches him as hard as she can in the face. He yells "What the hell was that for?"
I say "Meh put it on my tab. You owe me one remember?"
He looked at me reluctantly and says "I don't think doing a save your life into the deep in and accidentally catching me count. Prick."
Before we begin to argue some more Luna comes in and saves the day! Gotta love her. She says "Don't we have to go chase down three sugar crazed manics?"
We all nod in agreement. I ask "Octavia do you want to join us on our little adventure? You get to knock down the ponies who locked you in that room for a couple of days."
She says "Of course as I once heard somepony in Canterlot say Paybacks a Bitch."
We all walk down the basement to ready up. We were wearing standard marine armor and had pistols with stun rounds in them. We walk out onto the street to see that they are bustling with activity. I began to scan the buildings looking for any sign of crazed ponies. I hear a blood curling cry that said only on word "Candy!"
We look up to the roof to see that Grant was sitting there with a full cake in hoof and multiple colors of frosting hanging out of his mouth. Octavia yells "That's the asshole that locked me in that room!" she fiddles with her gun a little turns in sideways and gansta blast Grant in the side on the arm. He falls with a loud thump with nopony seems to notice. Luna picks him up off the ground with magic and teleports him. Graham asks "Where'd you sent him to?"
She replied "His room with the doors and windows magically enchanted to withstand any forms of escape. It's what we use in the guard cells in the castle."
I say "One down two go. Where should we check next?"
Elliott asked "What about Sugarcube Corner?"
Then it clicked. I said "That's probably where Grant got that cake and frosting."
Octavia who finally calmed down asked "Luna can you teleport us there?"
She nods and the next thing you know where in the middle of a battlefield. On one side Pinkie and Gummy are holding their own. While Cory and Michael are assaulting the bakery with everything they got. We join Pinkie and Gummy Next to the sweets counter. She yells "They're countering! Fall back to the kitchen!"
We run to the kitchen flip over a table and load up the rounds. Michael bounds through the door and we unload a small burst into him, and he was down and out. Luna teleported him to his room and now all that was left was the leader. Cory. We hear loud bangs in the ceiling. This some shit out of dead space or something like that it was pretty damn scary.
Just then Cory burst out of the ceiling and drops down, and stuffs a cake in Elliott's mouth. Then runs out the door. He mumbles with his mouth full of cake "Go on without me."
Pinkie comes in and says "Don't worry Gummy and I will watch him. Besides I gotta clean up Sugarcube Corner."
We nod then bound out the door determined to find where Cory went. I asked Where else are sweets sold around here?"
Luna replies "What about Applejack's cart?"
I said "That would be a good place to look. I'm pretty sure they do sell sweets there, but we might want to check Bon Bon's sweetshop after."
We nod and head into town still determined to find Cory.
We head to Applejack's stall to see That everything was looking normal. We walked up to her and asked "Hey Applejack have you seem Cory around here?"
She said "Yeah I think I saw him go into Bon Bon's sweetshop muttering somethin bout candy. Creepiest thing I've ever seen."
I nod and say "Thanks AJ." and bound off for the shop which was just over the next street.
We wall over to see that Cory had been trapped in Lyra's magic. We walk over to him to see that he is clutching his stomach. He says "No more candy!"
I replied "Wow Cory what did they feed you?"
Bon Bon replied "Well he tried a new experimental candy. By the looks of it I need to go back to the drawing board."
I said "Well if he didn't eat it your shop might have not had any candy."
I shoot Cory in the foot with the tranquilizer and Luna teleports him home. I say "Well I think we're done here. I think we should get going."
Octavia says "Thank you for showing me a fun time. I'll have to visit soon on better terms."
I reply "Yeah come by anytime."
We wave bye and I ask "Should we get Elliott?"
Luna replies "Nah Pinkie's got him. Let's go home."
Graham says "I'll meet up with you I need to talk to Somepony."
I say "Alright. Meet you back at the house."
He nods and walks away. I ask "You ready?"
Luna replies "Yeah let's go." We then begin to walk in the direction of the house know that we had accomplished a lot today.
Have some Easter facts! Short and sweet.
90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year.
Each day, five million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter.
16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter (that’s enough to completely fill an 89 feet high and 60 feet wide plastic Easter egg – about the height of a nine-story office building!)