You glare in anger at the calendar as you try to resist the urge to shred it into tiny pieces and burn said pieces into ash before stomping on the ashes. Taking a deep breath, you leave the shack and head towards the apple fields. You pass by Granny Smith who waves a hello to you from her rocking chair, but you just ignore her with an angry grunt as you continue to walk into the orchard with your thoughts occupied,
I swear to Luna, if anyling even TRIES to attack me today *snap* they'll feel the wrath of a-*thud*
Your thoughts are interrupted when you run right into an apple tree, but in your upset state...
Bugzee begin to walk around the orchard angry bucking the trees as he try to calm himself when Nightshade catch him groaning.
You let out a growl of fury and start venting your rage at the tree.
"BUCK *smash* THIS *smash* BUCKING *smash* HOLIDAY! *smash* WHY *smash* MUST *smash* THIS *smash* BUCKING *smash* HOLIDAY *smash* EXIST! *smash* WHY *smash* CAN'T *smash* IT *smash* JUST *smash* BUCKING *smash* ROT *smash* IN *smash* TARTARUS!!!! FALCON PUNCH!" *crack fly-off*
You take heavy breaths as you watch your stress relief fly off into the horizon. You sweat drop slightly as you think,
Whoops... Applejack won't be happy that I just sent one of her trees into the next county... but this bucking holiday just makes me so mad!
You start to growl as wisps of the Nightmare Cloak float off your body. You're about to move onto your next punching ba-er tree, but you hear a tiny voice behind you say...
"Daddy, is something wrong?"
You turn to see your daughter, Nightshade (wearing her wing-hiding purple vest) with a concerned look on her face as you respond,
"It's nothing sweetie, just the fact that I BUCKING HATE HEART AND HOOVES DAY!!!"
Nightshade uncovers her ears and asks,
"But why? Isn't that Auntie Cadance's holiday of free candy? At least that what Miss Cheerilee told us the other day in class like how Solar Flanks has the Summer Sun Celebration, and Princess Luna has Nightmare Night."
You pause in thought before shaking your head and growling,
"Even if it's the holiday of Auntie Cadence, I still bucking hate it..." as you kick another tree.
"Why?" Nightshade asks.
You're about to tell her to just go play, but seeing how concerned she is for her daddy you sigh and say,
"Okay Nightshade, I'll tell you... It was many years ago, before the Canterlot Invasion and before Chrysalis was even queen..."
FLASHBACK
We see a younger version of you walking through one of the main corridors of the hive. You had a huge smile on your face as you were carrying some love-infused flowers in your mouth. As you neared your destination (for some reason, your exact memories are blurry with missing spots so you're recalling what you can), you couldn't help but think,
I can't believe that SHE asked me out! I mean my clumsiness, bad grades, and all those stupid rumors about me being a half-breed should've caused her to hate me, but nope! She actually asked me out! This is gonna be the best day ev-
Your young thoughts are crushed however when you see the female of your dreams (only a rough outline with no clear features) kicking some of your fellow drones out of her room while shouting,
"That's enough! Why would you stupid peasants even dare to think that I would choose a mate from ANY of you?! The very thought is outright repugnant! The only use for your kind is to obey MY every order! Now get out before I decide to have my guards squash every single one of you!!!"
You could only stare in sadness at what you just saw, the bouquet falling out of your mouth as you say,
"I... I shouldn't be surprised. After all why would someling like her date a stupid drone like me. I should get outta here before I make things worse for her..."
And with that you turn around with tears falling out of your eyes. as you run back to where you came from, not hearing the gasp of shock coming from behind you...
BACK TO NOW
"And it's because of that I hate this bucking holiday..."
"Zzzzzzz"
Only when you're done flash backing do you notice that Nightshade fell asleep.
"Great..." you mutter before smiling sadly at her sleeping form as you continue,
"Well... At least you won't have to hear the full story..."
You pick up the sleeping filly and carry her back to your Shack as you glare off into the distance and say,
"Cause some memories are best left forgotten..."
AT THE SHACK
"What... the buck is this?"
Your eye twitches in annoyance as you stare at the pile of letters outside the shack's door. You gently lay Nightshade down on the grass as you go over and investigate the letters. Picking one...
*spurt*
You see a picture of Aloe in her nosebleed-inducing costume kissing your cheek from Nightmare Night. You notice some writing on the back and read it,
We close early today. Come over and help me... unwrap <3
*SPURT*
You drop the picture to the floor in shock before you then start to tear open Nightshade's envelopes. Inside are various cards that read,
Show me your moves!
--Rumble
Be mine?
--Truffle Shuffle
Will you be the Zelda to my Link?
--Button Mash
That's all you need to read.
You pull the Power Glove out of the Inventory and put it on as you throw all of Nightshade's mail into a pile, point your glove at it, and yell,
"Would you kindly BURN! BURN! BURN! BURN!!!"
Soon the cards are nothing but ash and you're smiling maniacally when you hear,
"Daddy?"
You look over to see that Nightshade is awake and looking at you in confusion as she asks,
"Why is there a pile of ash right next to our shack's door and why are you smiling like a lunatic?"
You look around in panic as you don't want your daughter knowing you just burned all of her Hearts and Hooves day cards so you quickly say,
"Uh... aren't you supposed to be in school?"
Nightshade stares at you for a second before she bolts off and you swear you can hear the distant shouting of,
"I'M BUCKING LATE FOR SCHOOL AGAIN!!!"
You sigh at your daughter's outburst, but you can't help but chuckle as you think,
Oh well, like they say; 'like father like daughter'.
Sighing, you head back into the shack and lay down in your cot and say in a groan,
"The sooner this day is over the better. I'm not setting a single hoof outsid-." *ding*
Suddenly you get a brilliant idea as you grab a marker and some paper and...
Bugze decides to hide away the day and puts up a sign saying Hearts and Hooves day is Banned in this Shack. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Soon you have a sign duct-taped to your shack's door that reads,
Hearts and Hooves Day is Banned in this Shack. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
You nod your head at your hoofywork and head back into your shack. As you lay back down, you can't help but remember the other reasons you hate Hearts and Hooves day...
You decide that you don't want to go into town today, and just stay in your room and reminisce about why you hate Heart and Hooves Day so much, only increasing your hate for it while doing so.
For changelings, Hearts and Hooves is nicknamed "Free Buffet Day" due to all the free consumable love floating around.
You aslo remember what Grandbuggy told you about how he loves this holiday cause there's so much more he can eat from mares than just their love. You obliviously respond their chocolates and flowers and Grandbuggy decides to give you a very... detailed talk...
ONE "THE BIRDS AND THE BEEGEES" TALK LATER
Past you: "Nope nope nope nope..."
Current you: "...Nope nop nope nope..."
ANOTHER FLASHBACK!
”$&#*, I love this holiday!!!” your grandbuggy says as a hatchling you responds,
"What's so special about it? It's just free love."
That's what you always thought after all for changelings, Hearts and Hooves is nicknamed "Free Buffet Day" due to all the free consumable love floating around.
"&^%, there's so much more to mares you can eat than just their love if you know what I mean..." your Grandbuggy responds with a sly wink.
"Yeah, there's the flowers and candy ponies give out too." you respond obviously.
Grandbuggy gives you a resigned look before saying,
"Looks like it's time I had a very detailed talk with you..."
ONE "THE BIRDS AND THE BEEGEES" TALK LATER
“…and that’s why it’s the best position to use duct tape.” Grandbuggy finishes before a traumatized young you says in a trance,
"Nope nope nope nope nope..."
END FLASHBACK NUMBER 2!
"Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope no-*smack*"
You smack yourself to snap yourself out of your 'nope' trance. After rebooting from that slap, your mind starts to reminiscence about the main reason you hate this holiday so bucking much. As the memory plays out, your hate for it fuels your anger and it only increases as you glare off at the wall, but before you can falcon punch a hole into the wall, you hear a loud crash from above you. You look up in confusion and see...
After the rainbow fillyfooler crashes through your window, Applejack drags her out, they both get blasted by a bass cannon, and then Vinyl gets smacked in the head by a pair of fans throws by Aloe, you run full speed for Ponyville.
"THIS IS WHY I NEED TRAPS!"
The Rainbow Fillyfooler flying above a hole in your ceiling! You look at her in shocked anger as you yell,
"Rainbow! What in the name of Luna are you doing!?"
Rainbow flies down at you with a blush on her cheeks as she says,
"Well you see. I was flying over the field to practicing my awesome Wonderbolt skills, when I saw your shack. So I thought 'you know what, I haven't visited my good old pal B.S. in a while' so here I am..."
She then gave you a smile and you swore you heard this sound when she did. Ignoring the strange (yet adorable) sound you look at Rainbow with a deadpan look as you say,
"Rainbow, you've visited me over 9000 times already just this week."
Ranbow's smile drops slightly before she says,
"Oh right... well... Twilight made some egghead potion that'll allow you to lay on clouds so I was wondering... maybe... for this day... you can come to the clouds with me and-"
Before Rainbow could finish her sentence (which would definitely caused some nosebleeding), you hear a smashing sound from behind you. You turn around in shock (not seeing Rainbow's glare) as you see...
Applejack... with your door smashed to pieces in front of her. Before you can say anything she shoves you to the side with one arm as she glares at Rainbow. After a few seconds of glaring she says angrily,
"Sorry sugercube, but you already stole his first kiss from me. I'm not about to let you have him to yourself today. He's mine."
Rainbows glares right back as she says,
"Sorry AJ, but this stallion is all mine. I kissed him and he likes me more than you."
Applejack's glare hardens as she says,
"No can do Rainbow, I saw him first so he's all mine."
“No, he’s mine!”
“MINE!!!”
Soon the two mares enter a shouting match between each other which leads to them both yelling,
"FINE! LET'S LET HIM DECIDE!"
They both turn towards you... only to see smoke in your shape where you once stood. Rainbow and Applejack blink in confusion as they ask,
"Mr. Tennant?"
Suddenly they hear a far off cry of,
"THIS IS WHY I NEED TRAPS!"
As you run away from the mares, you can hear them shouting,
"GET BACK HERE!"
You visibly pale as you increase your speed as you yell,
"I DON'T WANT TO DIE! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! CURSE YOU DEJA VU! AND CURSE THIS BUCKING HOLIDAY!!!"
IN TOWN
After you finally made it into town (and confident you lost the mares), you begin to calm down and walk around the area. You see couples everywhere and it sends a sick feeling to your stomach when you suddenly get a full blast of...
With all the love in the air, you feel as if your senses are fogged. You don’t need to eat love anymore, but you can still sense it, and there is a lot today.
You feel very annoyed because this day, above all else, has one of the worst memories (that you can recall at the moment) you’ve ever had. It’s kind of putting you in a grouchy move where you just huff and puff and snap at ponies wishing you a good day.
Love energy. Even though you can't consume love anymore, you can still sense that there's so much love in the air that you begin to feel suffocated. Even if you were able to consume love, this holiday just has so many bad memories that you end up in a grouchy mood as you wander through town and snap at anypony wishing you a happy holiday,
"Happy Hearts and Hoo-"
"Shut up."
"I love you more than oxygen."
"And I love you so mu-"
"Get a room!!!"
"Happy Hearts and Hoo-"
"BUCK OFF AND DIE!!!"
You continue scrooging around town until you hear...
Even though you can't consume love anymore, you decide to still eat all the "free food" (the "free food" in this case being flowers and chocolates thrown away by heart-broken ponies. Kinda cold, but hay; free is free.)
Oh... in my hate for this holiday I forgot to eat... you obliviously think, But where the buck am I gonna eat in peace without running into any stupid couple-
Suddenly you see an upset-looking unicorn mare holding a box of chocolates and a bouquet of flowers. She looks back at a couple with tears in her eyes before throwing the flowers and candy into a trash can before running off in tears towards an ice cream shop filled with heartbroken ponies shoveling buckets of ice cream into their mouths. You then notice that the trash can has a picture of a broken heart and is filled with rejected flower bouquets and unopened boxes of candy.
"Welcome to my world..." you mutter as you take a bouquet of flowers out of the can and take a bite,
"Mmm... Tuli- *poink spit* OW! Roses!"
You angrily smash the flowers against a wall before you grab armfuls of the rejected boxes of candy and sit down before you start tearing them open one after another and angrily shove hoof-fulls of chocolate into your mouth. As you anger-munch on the heartbreak candy, your thoughts drift to back to Fillydelphia, or more specifically...
Bugze wonders why he hasn't heard from those Changelings from FIllydelphia again, but loses that train of thought as he sees a familiar orange Pegasus (wearing a jacket and shirt instead of armor) walk (or arrive on the train) into Ponyville.
Who were those changelings? The female one looked familiar, but there was too much chaos going on for me to get a clear look. She even knew my drone number, so she must've been someling from my unit. And if that's the case, she must be up to something. You'd think changelings would lay low after that wedding disaster, but getting caught in public helping the most wanted criminal doesn't seem like the brightest thing to do. And how the buck did she know the Hooded Offender was a changeling? Does my ex-Queen know about me? I mean why would sh-Oh buck no! Why in Luna's name is HE here?!
You see an orange pegasus stallion with a spiked blue mane in a white shirt with his cutie mark on it and a black jacket with red and white stripes walking away from the train station while carrying a guitar case. You glare at the orange pegasus as you think,
Must be on vacation. That or he's here to ask Sparkle-butt ou-
Your thoughts are suddenly interrupted as hundreds of whiny bloodthirsty voices shout out in your head,
KILL THE WAIFU-STEALER! HE WAS A TOTAL JERK TO TWILIGHT IN RAINBOW ROCKS EVEN IF HE WAS UNDER SOME EVIL PEOPLES SPELL! HE MADE HER CRY! TWILIGHT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DATING MY OC! KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL! Ki-*smack*
You smack yourself to end the annoyance that is those voices as you think,
What the buck? I thought these voices stopped after the gala. What's a Waifu anyway? Whatever, I'll ignore them for no-
You reach for another box when you grab nothing but ground and look to see you've devoured all the rejected boxes of candy.
"Buck..." you mutter as you get up and trot off. In your bad mood, you don't watch where you're going *crash* and you run into someling. You rub your head in pain as you look up and see...
This exchange,
You ask Big Red,
"Big Red, punch me in the face as hard as you can."
"Ey-What?"
"You're right, not enough... Just violently smash my head against that hard-looking rock as violently as you can."
"Why...?" Big Macintosh asks in concerned confusion,
"Cause with any luck I'll get knocked out and wake up when this Luna-forsaken holiday is over."
Big Red. You smile at the huge stallion as he offers his hoof to get you back up. You accept it as you take his hoof and get back up. As you thank the stallion and are about continue scrooging around town, you get a brilliant idea that can end this holiday (for you at least) faster. You give Big Red a smile (even though he can't see your face behind your scarf and face mask) as you ask,
"Hey Big Red, can you do me a favor?"
“Eyup.” Big Red says as he nods his head in affirmative. You smile as you ask,
"Good. I want you punch me in the face as hard as you can."
"Eyu-What?" Big Macintosh stops in shocked confusion.
You shake your head as you put on your thinking pose as you say,
"You're right, not enough... In that case just violently smash my head repeatedly against that hard-looking wall as violently as you can."
"Why...?" Big Macintosh asks in concerned confusion,
"Cause with any luck I'll get knocked out and wake up when this Luna-forsaken holiday is over."
Big Red gives you a confused and asks,
"Why d'ya want the holiday to end?"
You sigh as you look around before whispering,
"Hey Red, think ya can keep a secret?"
Big Red looks around too before leaning in with a nod. You sigh as you say,
"Okay, you see..."
"Well you see the thing is Hearts and Hooves day isn't a very fond time for me.”
He raises an eyebrow at that.
“I had a very traumatic and embarrassing event happen to me...”
“Mare?” he asks.
“Ya... you could say that... there was this mare, right, she was like, way out of my league. I mean way way WAY out of my league. Like she’s a Model and I’m a snail- you get the picture?”
“Eyup” he answers.
“Well she invited ME to the Hearts and Hooves Day Dance. Me! I knew I should've questioned why...”
You don't notice your voice getting louder as a small crowd forms around you as you continue,
“Anyway, she took me to the dance, and I was high on life, I had the prettiest bug-er, mare at my side, and I couldn't wait to taunt my bullies about it... only when we walked in the door, they kept smiling...”
You put your head down in sadness,
“That should have been my second wake up call... but I ignored it. We danced, we laughed... everything was alright. And then they called out the King and Queen of the dance, and we were it...”
You pause a bit as you suck in some breath.
“Go on...” commands an enraptured crowd member and you obliviously continue (thinking it was Big Red),
“Well we got up on stage, I was given a banner, I was prepared to kiss her... but then she jumped back away from me, and the next thing I knew I was soaked head to hoof in red paint and slime...”
The crowd gasps at this.
“I... I looked out and everyling was laughing at me. The Jocks, the nerds, the teachers, and everyone in between... they all laughed at me... I turned to look at her... and she was laughing” you begin to tear up.
Big Red rests his hoof on your shoulder in comfort as you sniffle,
“Thanks…anyway, I ran. I ran all the way home and didn't look back. My grandbu-pony home schooled me after that.”
“Those jerks!”
“How could they!”
“You should’ve gotten revenge!” shouts a few members, and you register them as Big Red speaking to you. You would have been in shock at blurting out a painful memory in public, but the misery of the memory keeps you on track,
“I wanted to... heck, I was so angry and hurt that I just wanted to burn the whole place down with them inside and revel as they screamed from the cleansing flames consuming their wretched bodies as the beautiful flames cleansed them all in agonizing cleansing glor...” you stop yourself and cough as you realize you're slipping into 'psycho arsonist' mode,
“Well, I wanted to hurt them... but I didn't... and that’s why I bucking hate Heart’s and Hooves day.”
You look up to Big Red, “Thanks for listening man, sometimes it’s good to just talk Stallion to Stallion.”
“Eyup” he says as he pats your back.
You then hear crying as you come out of your story telling zone and see the crowd gathered around you.
“The Buck?” you say taken aback. "...They've been here the whole time haven’t they?”
“Eyup.”
Yes... *Sniff* They have... Selena adds.
Buuuuc- Wait, are you crying? you mentally ask her.
NO! I just hate this holiday for my own reason and I have... allergies...
In my mind?
Shut up! Now find our daughter quickly before a young suitor elopes with her.
You know she’s making excuses, but it works.
*snap*
“AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! BUCK THIS HOLIDAY AND BUCK EVERY MOTHERBUCKER WHO BUCKING CELEBRATES IT!!!” you shout as you run off, ponies shaking their heads in pity.
As you charge off, you don't hear a very angry Selena say in your mind,
If I ever meet the whorse that did that to you, then even you won't be able to hold me back as I make her pay... dearly.
With that said Selena goes back to... wherever she goes in your mind after she's done talking to you while thinking of plans to brutally punish that unclear mare from your fuzzy memories. But you don't notice this as you continue looking for your daughter...
POV CHANGE: NIGHTSHADE
After some after-school punishment (repeatedly writing "I will not be late for or swear in class" on a chalkboard), Nightshade goes into town and finally finds the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Before she can say anything, Apple Bloom asks,
“So Nightshade, you want to help us get Ms. Cheerilee and Big Mac together?”
“Say what now?” you ask, taken aback.
“We're trying to set her brother up with Cheerilee because she’s alone on Hearts and Hooves Day.” Sweetie answers.
“Oh... OK, but don’t adults like, do that themselves?” Nightshade ask.
“Well ya, but come on, they’ll both be alone, so why not get them together?” asks AB.
“Well I just think that Big Red could do SO much better, Cheerilee is mean.” Nightshade pouts.
“Well it’s only because you get bad grades."
"And swear in class."
"And all those pranks ya pull ain't helping." The CMC point out,
“Hey! I... OK, you do have a point.” Nightshade resigns,
“Ya, we all like her, and she deserves someone like my brother, so that’s what we’re gonna give her.”
“But why Big Red?” you ask “Was he just the first stallion you saw?”
“No, we sang a whole song about it,” says Scootaloo, “Button was too young, Mr. Waddles was too old and in the middle of a funeral, your Doctor friend splashed us with mud...”
“Not to mention the creep in the jelly...” Sweetie says with a shudder.
“Huh?” Nightshade asks.
“Nothing... but yeah, we ended our song on Big Macintosh, so now he’s our choice.”
“Darn Tootin, nopony else is better,” Apple Bloom adds.
“You just want her to get with your brother so that you get better grades in class don’t you?” Nightshade accuses.
“Hu-Wha-Whhhaaattt? Nah... don’t be silly hehehe” Apple Bloom stutters as she looks around shiftily.
“Uh-huh. But alright, I’ll help you, as long as she helps my grades too.”
“Deal” Apple Bloom says as the two fillies shake hooves.
“Bloom’s ulterior motives aside, we still want her to be happy, so we’re going to have them meet at the gazebo. Nopony should be unhappy today.” says Sweetie.
“My Dad seemed kind of sad..." Nightshade laments as she remembers his angry ranting about how much he hates this holiday.
“Oh! OH! OH! OH! I just had a great idea!” Exclaims Scootaloo
“What?” they all ask.
“We could get your dad a special somepony as well!”
“Hey ya, that’d be neat, then he wouldn't be sad!”
“And then you could have a new mom!” shouts Sweetie.
“I... I've never had a mommy...” Nightshade muses.
“I know the feeling,” Apple Bloom mumbles in sympathy.
“I guess we could give it a shot, I get a mommy and Daddy gets to be happy, and we all get good grades because of Cheerilee being your sister in law!”
“Heck ya!” you all shout.
“So wait, who do we get my dad set up with?”
“I don’t know, how about Applejack?” asks Sweetie, “she seems to like your dad alot."
“Hay yeah, then you and Bloom will be related!” Scootaloo adds causing Nightshade and Apple Bloom to feel a slight shudder of irony at that statement, but they don't know why.
“I don’t know," Apple Bloom muses "I’m already hitching off mah brother, and having my sister there too might make things... awkward.”
“Good point, How about Rainbow Dash?” adds Scootaloo.
“They did already kiss each other,” says Sweetie.
“Daddy says he was wearing his facemask so it doesn't count. And I thought she was a fillyfooler,” Nightshade counters.
“Well she constantly talks about your dad day and night, so I don’t think so.” Scootaloo adds.
“I don’t know, who else is there?”
“Well, we've both overheard both my sister and Rainbow talking about a group of mares that seem to like your dad, like the DJ Pony, Ms. Aloe, Ms. Octavia...” Apple Bloom says.
“Oh and Fluttershy seems to like him too.” Sweetie Belle interrupts.
“Ugh... that’s way too many mares” Nightshade says exasperated “Whoever is gonna be my new mommy has to be nice, good at getting food, and above all else be tough enough to be able to survive with me and Daddy.”
“Survive what?” the others ask.
“You know, life...” Nightshade starts to say before trailing off as she remembers she can’t tell them too much about the past.
“So what do you want to do?” asks Apple Bloom.
“Well... I know! We invite all those mares into one place for a massive free-for-all to the death! No holds barred! No mercy! And the last mare standing is worthy of being my Mommy! MWAHAHAHAHA!” Nightshade excitedly says before laughing evilly.
The CMC all look at Nightshade in concern before saying,
“That’s... seems excessively violent which would normally be awesome, but it might make Mac and Cheerilee’s date go bad.” Scootaloo comments.
“Well... I don’t know then, I don’t know who daddy likes best.” Nightshade shrugs.
“Oh, why don’t we try one at a time? Your dad has plenty of options. Mac and Cheerilee are absolutely perfect, so we’ll test your dad and see which mare is the best for him” says Sweetie.
“Test? How?”
“Well, we start from the quietest and calmest and if that doesn't work, we’ll work our way up to the loudest and awesomeness.”
“So Fluttershy first?" Apple Bloom asks.
"Yeah, that’d be a good place to start, she’s nice, sings me lullabies when I can't sleep, has a bunch of animals I can play with (even though I still can't find that "Angel" she's always talking about), she even used to have a problem with feeding me enough, but she's learned. Don’t know how she would do in a Battle Royale though...” Nightshade muses.
“Hey, don’t count her out, that Stare of her’s is deadly” Scootaloo points out.
“Alright, sounds like a plan... we’ll make up a story about animals or something to get her out of the house” Sweetie says.
“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MATCHMAKERS YAY!” they all declare.
POV Change: BUGZE (You)
LATER THAT DAY
After running around Ponyville (and knocking through couples like a bowling ball), you finally found Nightshade with the CMC only for them to tell you that Big Red needs help patching the Gazebo. After making sure Nightshade wasn't a special somepony to any colts (although your brain did freeze when Nightshade told you a few fillies gave her "Be mine?" card), you headed over to the Gazebo (after doubling back and asking the CMC where the Gazebo was... three times). You finally reach the Gazebo area and you see...
The gazebo completely unbroken and a picnic set up with Cheerlie and Fluttershy on one side, Big Red on the other, and the CMC right in between. You stare blankly at them as they have yet to notice you as you mutter,
"This can NOT be a good sign..."
What do you do?
