//------------------------------// // The Big Janitor Mess Up // Story: Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie: The Three Musketeers // by HarvyDraws //------------------------------// The story continues in a village where Narrant with a guitar and wearing a costume, arrives and speaks "You see, before our heroes dreams can come true, they must learn the true meaning of the musketeer creed. 'All for one and one for all!' And I just so happens that I got a song about this!" Narrant begins to play his guitar. As he begins to sing, the Royal musketeers, gallops along as they sing. [Musketeers] All for one, hey! All for one and one for all! Musketeers sing! [Narrant] All for one and one for all! [Musketeers] If you dare to, Cross our path prepare to fall Cause we’ll fight you All for one and one for all. The musketeers arrives in the castle courtyard, where the other musketeers were in training. As the stallions train, they, along with the ones who arrived, salute to their captain who is watching from a balcony nearby. [Musketeers] And all for one and one for all, And all for one and all... The captain of the musketeers salutes back, giving a smirk. He is a draconequus with a dark coat mane with a amber yellowish gray head, dark reddish brown body, and moderate red tail. His name is Discord. [Musketeers] So if you think you’d care To kick some derriere, You know that as a musketeer You’d be so fearsome.. If you believe you’re manly, Come and join our family. Soon we’ll make sure You’re a musketeer! As they continue training, the three main ponies Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie smiles while watching through a window of the basement. Twilight and her friends are working as janitors in the palace and they are more excited then ever. "Wow, look at that, girls" Twilight said eagerly. "That's going to be us out there someday, I just know it." "I can't wait either! This is so exciting!" Pinkie giggles happily and bounce for excitement. "Me too, this is going to be so awesome" Rainbow said with a sigh of excitement. As the three friends continues to watch, the musketeers were finishing their song up. [Musketeers] All for one, hey! Ponies of honor hear my call. Musketeers sing… [Narrant] All for one and one for all! [Musketeers] All for one, hey! All for one and one for all! All for one, hey! The musketeers finish up as they crowd up to form the symbol of the Royal Musketeer themselves. [Musketeers] And all for one and one for all! And all for one and one for all! And all for one and all... Narrant appears, finishing the song up eagerly. [Narrant] All for one and... One for all! Meanwhile back at the basement Twilight and her friends got back to work in cleaning the room and fixing the water pumps. Twilight was polishing the boots while Pinkie mops the floor and Rainbow fixing the water pumps. The purple unicorn shines the boot enough to see her own reflection and smiles at it "Oh yes, janitors today...musketeers tomorrow." "Hey Twilight, don't forget this" Spike is heard. The trio turns to see the baby dragon coming up with a familiar hat in his hands. Twilight spots a familiar hat which a royal musketeer gave to her years ago. The purple pony grins as she takes it, saying, "Hey, my musketeer hat, thanks, Spike." "Oh, it was nothing" Spike said with a blushful look. "Do you remember when the musketeers gave me this hat? They even signed a autograph in it too" Twilight shows some signatures inside her hat. Those three musketeers were kind enough to sign it for her, saying to her to 'follow your dreams' no matter what. Of course, without warning, Twilight yelps as Pinkie unknowingly hits her on the head with a mop, causing the purple unicorn to lose her shoe polish which fell right into a bucket of water that her pink pony friend was using. "Hey, Pinkie, watch it!" Twilight exclaims to Pinkie in annoyance. "Oopsie, sorry, Twilight" Pinkie said with a giggle. She goes back to mopping the floor...but the mare unknowingly dunks her mop right into the water which is now mixed with the shoe polish. Pinkie soaks the stuff onto the floor, saying happily, "This is going to be great, I can't wait to be a musketeer myself! I got a lots of good ideas! Some ponies say I'm clever...and funny!" Pinkie looks surprised as she saw polish stains on the floor that she was cleaning. The pink mare works her best to clean the mess up but it only ends up becoming worse. "Uh-oh" Pinkie said. "So how about you, Rainbow Dash" Twilight ask Rainbow with a smile. "Well Twilight, they need someone brave and awesome. Kinda like me." Rainbow remarks with a smile as she kept to work on her own task at hoof here. "Right, they really need some bravery." said Twilight. "Isn't that what I said?" Rainbow replied. Suddenly the pipes gave out a low groan due to the pressure. This causes Rainbow to yelp in alarm and jumps into a toolbox to hide. The blue pegasus peeks out with a wrench on her head, giving out a sheepish chuckle. Well, so much for bravery. "And you, Twilight? What about you?" Spike asks Twilight while trying her best to clean up the mess that Pinkie made. "Well, they will need some ponies whose looks like the way I do!" Twilight exclaims proudly. Now, it's during this time that Discord came into the bathroom, preparing to take his shower. He smiles eagerly, the draconequus has done a rough day of training those heroes of Equestria and now Discord gets a chance to clean himself off. "Oh yes, I definitely need this" Discord said as he turns the water on, letting hot water pour from the shower. As he put a shower cap on, the villain groans, "I've been looking forward to this all day." Back downstairs, Pinkie took out stacks of papers, looking at the stains. She said thoughtfully, "Hmmm, perhaps I could sand it out. Yeah! That could help!" Of course, as Pinkie got to work, who is helping Twilight out. She took the paper and gave it to Twilight; neither of them realizes what it truly was. The purple unicorn hums as she begins scrubbing the boot really hard with the sand paper. Twilight and Pinkie yelps in alarm, the work has causes the heel and bits of cloths to remain on the boot. The purple unicorn glances, seeing that the paper that he was using was the sand kind all along! Oops! "Yikes. I hate to be Discord when he sees this" Spike comments in concern, making Rainbow Dash chuckles a bit. Twilight looks around for some way to fix this mess then she spots another boot nearby. The purple unicorn rips the top of it, placing the heel part where she messes up. Of course, the heel part itself won't stay on. She then looks around and up, there she spotted some glue on a top high shelf nearby "I could use that." Twilight got up, she look up, seeing the glue still on the top shelf. She hops and stands onto the top of a water valve handle and begins to reach for the glue. Of course, Twilight didn't realize that she is causing the handle to fall, increasing the water which heads to the shower pumps that Rainbow was fixing. She heard some noises from the pumps, much to her concern as she asks, "Huh?" Sure enough, water came out of the pump like mad, spraying Rainbow and causing her to scream. Pinkie came over to help Rainbow by holding the pump which begins to fly around. Discord of course was in his shower, humming a tune happily...but stops as he saw the water stopping, much to his surprise. He asks "What in Equestria?" Back in the basement, Rainbow and Pinkie fights the water like mad, the blue pony is using a wrench in hopes to keep the pipes at bay. Unfortunately, the pipes themselves took the tool from Rainbow and hit her, causing the pony to yelp in fright and run with the pipes in hot pursuit. Rainbow, during the chase, slams right into a vacuum which Pinkie was using to clean up the mess that she made. The machine begins to go out of control, causing Pinkie to scream in alarm as she held onto the thing. Rainbow Dash and Spike got yanks along for the ride as the vacuum runs amuck throughout the basement. Twilight was almost grabbing the glue, mumbling, "almost...got it..." Of course, her friends crash into the wooden shelf, causing the glue to fall right off. The purple unicorn jumps up and grabs the glue, standing on the pile with it on her head in triumph. "See, nothing to it?" Twilight asks with a chuckle. "WATCH OUT!" Spike screams in fright. Too late, her friends crash into Twilight, causing the glue to get stuck in Pinkie's mane. The gang begins screams as they rode the vacuum around the room like mad, crashing and hitting the shower pumps. "This is not good!" Rainbow yells out in alarm. This madness is about to cause something to break! Back in his bathroom, Discord was trying to figure out why his shower isn't working. Suddenly he hears a crumbling noise underneath the tub. "Aw horse flanks." Discord gulps a bit. Sure enough, the floor broke, Discord screams as he fell in his bathroom all the way down through the floors. His 'ride' ended in the basement where all the madness started. Upon crashing, the shower's tap broke off, rolling right towards the heroes who are trapped in a mess after the ‘ride’ was over. The group look up to see Discord opening the shower curtains, dazed from the fall. Twilight said, "Oops! Captain Discord!" The janitors, salute Discord who groans and fainted right to the floor. Discord is very ticked off. In fact, after he recovered, the angry captain drags the janitors right to the laundry room, tossing them right into a wall upon arrival. "Ugh! You three has got to be the worst janitors in the history of this castle! I am up to here with your annoying screw-ups! You are all hopeless!" Discord yells out furiously. He sighs while continuing, "I mean, really? I leave you all left for 5 minutes and I came back to a disaster?" "Please, Discord, give us a chance." Twilight said to Discord with a sigh. "We were only practicing our teamwork. That way, the day can finally come when we can be good musketeers." "Musketeers," Discord snorts as he gave out a cruel laugh. The others stare at him in confusion or anger. Once Discord wipes the tear off his face, he adds, "Oh yeah, very rich. Thanks for giving me a good laugh." "I betcha if we work really hard, we could prove ourselves" Twilight said with a hopeful look on her face. "If we do that, you would let us be musketeers then, right?" "Well, I can name three things wrong with that. First off...look at bluey over here!" Discord looks and yells at frightened Rainbow Dash "You're nothing but a little blue coward!" "Second..." Discord turns to Pinkie to explain her flaw. But she is just spaced out with her jaw open. The captain put his ear next to her head as he hears a dial number, "Sorry, but the number you're trying to reach is no longer in serious." "Ugh, Figures. You are a random dumb pony! And as for you..." Discord said as he turns to Twilight. "Twilight, there is also one major thing that is wrong with you" Discord uses his magic to force Twilight into the air and making her yelp. "You're nothing but an egghead and too short!" Twilight's friends gasps in shock while Twilight was tossed down. Hearing those hurtful words from the captain has hurt the purple unicorn's feelings. "Why, I wouldn't make you morons musketeers if you were the last recruits in all of Equestria, got it?!" Discord snaps as he hits Twilight on the head, making her yelp a bit. The villain then grabs Twilight's hat and crumbles it, folding the hat into a wall. "So you won't need this anymore. Here, Twiley-Niley! Have a ball!" Discord laughs cruelly as he tosses the ball to Twilight as if to add more insult to hurting feelings. Twilight looks at it in sadness while putting the hat onto her head. The captain then leaves the room, slamming the door on his way out and causing unclean uniforms to fall onto the group. As the gang got out of the uniforms, Pinkie got a shirt hanging on her head. The ball pops open before landing back onto Twilight's head. She, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Spike sighs in sadness. Perhaps Discord was right. They would never be musketeers.