The "Twilight" Zone

by Thatonepony9495

Chapter 9

I grab the handle to the door and pull it open. “Okay, besides the two that wanna hang out with us, who does Spike and Derpy wanna go with?”
“Hold on, someone’s missing.” Hunter looks around. “Where’s Fluttershy?”
I look around also and my eyes stop on the car. The poor thing looks like she’s glued to the roof. I run over to the car and talk to her.
“Fluttershy, you can come down now.” I say, trying to pry her hoof out from under the roof rail thing. Her mane is all frazzled from the wind.
She picks up her head, her teeth chattering. “Never...again.”
I look over the group and give them a thumbs-up, signalling that she’s all right. “Oh all right, I just wanted to see what would happen. Come on, I have to get to class.”
She jumps off the roof and lightly lands on the ground. I walk with her back to the doors and we all head inside.
Apparently, class hasn’t started yet and I can tell because everyone is walking around, going to their locks, picking on lower class men, going to other classes. You know, usual school stuff.
“Umm, Mark?” Hunter nudges me. “We don’t have to separate the ponies because we all go to the same class, remember?”
“Oh yea, I guess I derped a little.” I slap my forehead.
Derpy looks over, “What was that?”
“Oh. Heh, umm... nothing.” I put on my bad poker face.
We all head to our class, keeping the ponies from hitting anyone walking around. It’s quite comical really, but the three pegasi have it the easiest because they can fly over everything. Well, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are doing well. Derpy is going all over the place.
She starts heading right towards someone, and I’m thinking in my head, if she hits him, something’s gonna go down right here, right now. So I just watch in horror.
When she touches him, the guy doesn’t seem to react. She just goes right through him as if nothing was there to being with. When the ponies see this, they stop dodging everyone and walk normally behind us, letting people walk right through them.
Hunter see it too. “Well that’s convenient. If we weren’t holding the trinkets, we wouldn’t even know they actually existed because they can’t do anything to let us know about them.”
“And then they couldn’t be helped.” Ben says, dodging around a group of people standing in the middle of the hallway.
We get to our classroom. Since we still have a half hour until class starts, no one is in the room. “Well, that’s a relief, guys. Now, we can tell the ponies what we do here.”
Since the room is a computer lab, we take our seats in front of a few computers. The ponies stare at the computers like they’re aliens or something
Hunter leans back in his chair. “In case you’re wondering girls, which it looks like you are, these things are called computers. They’re wonderful creations. They can do math, writing, play games. Anything you can think of, they can do.”
So then the ponies start shouting random things.
“Make dresses?”
“There’s a program that can make templates of them. It’s much easier than drawing.”
“Draw?”
“Sure thing, it’s called Photoshop, and it measures everything out for you.”
“Make invitations to parties?”
“Better than you would think, but you can still make good ones yourself, Pinkie.”
The only one that doesn’t seem interested is Applejack. I’m starting to feel like, out of all of us, she would be the one that would fit in the least.
The bell rings and people start coming into the classroom and sitting at their computers. The ponies just stare at theme, but Pinkie Pie decides to go by the door and just bounce in one place as each person comes in. It’s all we could to make it look like we were not noticing and stifling our laughs.
When the final person comes in, the bell rings, and the teacher tells us to continue working on our stuff.
“Hey Ben, do you have the music that I want done for the game?” I open up my game maker program and pull up the game I’m working on.
Ben opens up FL Studio. “Not yet, I have to mess around with the bass some more.”
“Well at least you’re working on it.”
The ponies are sitting under the table. Twilight pokes her head out and looks at Hunter. “We’re bored. Can you give us something to do?”
Since Hunter doesn’t have anything to do until I give him the beta test of my game, he thinks of an idea. “Why don’t you guys write a story or something? I can write it down for you since you can’t really hold a pen.”
“What’s that?”
I lean back in my chair this time. “A pen is like a quill, but there’s no ink bottle because the ink is already in the container, see?” I take a pen out of my backpack and place it on the ground.
Apparently, people have been looking at us because the teacher comes over and stands behind us. “Is something wrong boys? Who are you talking to?”
“Uh...nothing’s wrong Mr. Piers. Hunter just uh...dropped his pen.” I nudge him with my elbow. “He has nothing to do right now so he was gonna write a story or something.”
“Oh really now?” The teacher crosses his arms. “Here Hunter, I’ll give you something productive to do. Take this CD down to the robotics shop. The Robotics team needed a new logo so they asked me to make one. It’s on that disc and I’m too busy to take it there myself.”
Apparently not busy enough to eavesdrop on people.” Ben says under his breath.
“What was that Mr. Claythorne?”
“Um...nothing...”
“Uh huh. I have something for you also.” He goes back to his desk.
I see Hunter get up to leave. He motions for a few of the ponies to follow him. Twi, Dash, and Pinkie head out the door with him. Some of the class were looking at him weird so I shook my head like he was beckoning me instead, just to make it look normal.
Mr. Piers comes back with a card. “Here is a security card. I need you to grab a couple speakers from the teacher resource room. Mine have been going in and out lately and it’s frustrating.”
“Sure thing, Mr. Piers.” Ben gets up, grabs the card, and leaves the room. Applejack and Rarity follow him without him even looking in their direction. That leaves me with Derpy and Fluttershy because Spike went with Twilight.
I look under the table. Fluttershy is curled up, trying to sleep. Derpy is nuzzled in the space that’s left. I keep looking, wondering what it would be like if they were actually together. Derpy might need the kind heart of someone like her. Then that makes me wonder what Derpy’s parents were like. I shake the thought out my head and refocus on the computer. That story is for another time...maybe.
I’m messing around with the game a bit, putting in a couple more trees around in bare spots, adding a few obstacles, and progressing the story a bit. It’s really time-consuming, but it’s worth it if I want to win the contest at the end of the school year.
I look at the clock to see what time it is. Almost an hour has passed by, but Hunter and Ben haven’t been back yet. I look under the table and nudge Fluttershy and Derpy awake. I mouth the words “come with me” to them and they get up. I walk over to Mr. Piers and tell him that I have to go to the bathroom. I don’t really have to go, but he lets me go. I quickly walk out the classroom door.
As soon as I get out in the hallway though, I run straight into Hunter.
“Dude, Hunter! Where you been? It should not take you an hour to drop off a CD at the robotics thing.”
“I know that, but something’s wrong. AJ and Rarity lost Ben!”
“How could they do that? The resource room is just down the hall.”
Rarity and AJ show up next to where Pinkie Pie is standing next to Hunter. Rarity looks like her eyes are tearing up.
“We made it to the room, but Ben didn’t grab the speakers. We were looking around inside and we got separated a little bit. But when Applejack was looking for him, we could not find him at all.”
We start walking down the hall towards the resource room. When I told Mr. Piers that I was going to the bathroom, I didn’t know I actually had to go, and bad.
“We can look for him after I go to the bathroom. For some reason, I really have to go now.”
As we walk down to the bathroom, Hunter thinks of a reason. “Maybe it’s because you haven’t gone in, like, two days.”
“That’s so funny I forgot to laugh.” I start walking faster.
“Hey, I’m just saying.” Hunter shrugs his shoulders.
We make it to the bathroom and I leave everyone out front and head for the door. When I reach it, the door opens and Ben walks right into me.
He’s shaking his hands from the excess water that paper towels can never get.
I push his shoulder. “Are you stupid? Why’d you leave AJ and Rarity alone? Who knows what could’ve happened!”
Ben backs away with his hands up. “I’m sorry guys; I just really had to go.”
“It shouldn’t take you an hour to do that.”
“Yea, well, that’s my problem. Anyway, let me go get the speakers really quick.”
I push open the door. “Good. We’ll wait here. I have to go anyway.” I go in and do my business. When I come out, Ben is standing there with 2 medium-sized speakers under his arms. We head back into the classroom and tell Mr. Piers that the jobs were done.
While Ben was hooking up the new speakers, Hunter sat at one of the desks that were scattered around the room and pulled out a piece of paper and another pen. Twilight, Spike, AJ, and Dash are over there with him. Rarity is by Ben’s computer waiting for him to get back, and Fluttershy and Derpy are back at their spots under the table near me.
The time goes by pretty smoothly. Then the bell rings for lunch. We take off toward the cafeteria. I grab extra side dishes such as carrots, a couple apples more than usual, and other things. Hunter and Ben do the same thing and the lunch ladies are giving us weird looks. Ben escorts the ponies to a table and we all sit at it.
The ponies take turns grabbing random things off of our trays. No one seems to notice the food randomly disappearing into thin air.
Lunch continues on pretty smoothly until the bell rings for us to get back to the classroom.
Once back, the ponies are full and tired from the day so far, so they all take a nap under the table. It was really hard for me to not kick them while I’m swinging my feet back and forth.
Hour by hour goes by. Ben finishes his song and starts working on another. I finish another section of my game and I give it to Hunter so he can debug it. Nothing really happens besides that.
I’m relieved when the bell to leave finally rings. We pack up our stuff and Hunter pokes each pony awake. They were scattered all over the place under the table in various positions, so they looked really uncomfortable.
I open the front door and breathe the fresh air. “Ahhh... It feels good to not be in that stuffy room.”
Ben walks up next to me and does the same thing. “I hear ya.”
I beckon for the ponies to come with us and we walk down to the car. Fluttershy didn’t want to be on the roof again so she found some room to fill and ended up being squished in the back of the car.
Just as we’re about to take off, someone comes jogging up to Hunter’s side of the car. He rolls down the window to see his girlfriend trying to catch her breath.
“Hey Kay, What’s going on?”
“Hey...Hunter...were you guys...at the...party on Friday?”
“Uh...sorry, we kinda had other things going on.” I say to her while she’s trying to fix her hair.
“So we’ll see you at the next one then?”
“Probably, as long we don’t have anything else come up.”
“Awesome.” She reaches through the window and hugs Hunter. “See you guys later.”
She gets into her own car while I back out and it takes forever to get out of the parking lot, but when we do, it takes another forever to get through the traffic and back to our house. As I’m driving, no one is saying anything. Even Pinkie is silent, which makes the quietness even more awkward.
I pull up into the driveway, get out of the car, go through the front door and plop down on the couch. I was so tired; I didn’t even realize I was doing it until my head hit the pillow.
“I think we shouldn’t go to school tomorrow.”