//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 - The Walmart Trip: Save money, Can't live better, Lunar Night // Story: A Day in the Life of Lunar Night // by Flash_Magnus //------------------------------// Chapter 2 - The Walmart Trip: Save money, Can't live better, Lunar Night ---------- There's a few reasons why anyone would be nervous whether it's: meeting someone for the first time, going to your first interview or even singing in front of a crowd and as for me... I'm getting the staredown of a life time walking through to Walmart parking lot to get inside. Then again, being a bat pony that was supposed to be fictional walking among humans has me on edge. Mainly because I see no smiles on their faces, it's mainly what you would expect: surprise and muttering to themselves. "You know, William. I might be a guard now and all, but if one of these humans tries anything stupid then I will be forced to do something stupid back and I hope Luna will forgive me if I do." William stopped in front of me, dropping to his knees, and putting his arm on my shoulder reassuringly. "Listen, I know this will be quite the challenge of exposing yourself to others so people can know that ponies from a show exist. Plus, you should know that not everyone will be happy to see you, you know that, right?" "Right..." "This is the first stop of a few so I know we're bound to find many fans along the way, so lets just try to enjoy our time here and get the pony stuff we need and more food for us... which I should look for non-meat options for you... I suppose?" "Get me something with meat in it." "Wait, really?" I shrugged with my wings. (Don't ask me how I did it, it just happened.) "I went and sniffed the KFC in the fridge earlier and I didn't even gag so yeah, meat for the bat pony please. I do bite you know." "You really wouldn't bite me would you?" "Maybe I would?" I licked my fangs and winked but thought better of it afterwards. "On second thought, I have no idea if I would like drinking blood... so probably not." "Now I'm almost tempted to see how that actually feels like. Anyway, lets just go in already and get this done." "Good enough for me. I almost forgot that there is something I want to do as soon as we go in there." Walking the rest of the way, I decided to ignore the looks the others were giving and none got close to me, and as for walking inside, I decided to do the idea that I came up with right then and there. Placing my left hoof of to my chest plate, and closing my eyes while sporting a smug smile, I said. "Never fear, humans of Kearny. Probably ninety percent of you here hate Friendship Is Magic which also means me as well, but! As long as I'm here shopping among you I, Lunar Night of the night guard will make sure no crazy shit happens! And I wouldn't mind leaving a hoof print on a wannabe robber's face." Opening my eyes again I noticed that speech was met with mostly stares and glares from the others before they went back to what they were doing. Damn how I hate Kearny. "Glad to see you picked a pony name, I like it. Although I wasn't expecting that short speech." I turned to William and smiled proudly. "Yep! Luna did say I needed a pony name now so 'Victor' is dead to me and I'm Lunar Night from now on. The name also works since it involves the two things I like: night time and astronomy. As for the speech... well, it just came to me on our way here so I thought I should act on it. I have a very random mind after all." One of my ears twitched. "Hey, you hear that?" "Oh my gosh oh my gosh!! A real pony!" And that was when I was nearly bowled over by a worker that started hugging the hell out of me. Struggling for breath, I managed to say, "Lady please! You'll dent the armor!" The Walmart worker quickly backed up, sitting down across from me keeping eye level. "I'm sorry! It's just that I'm a big fan of Friendship Is Magic and seeing you just made my fangirl moment skyrocket. This is so unbelievable and yet you're the proof right in front of me." "So I'm going to assume that you might be the only fan in this place?" "Seeing as though none of the other workers and shoppers reacted like I did, I'd assume so." "Good enough for me. Well, I guess I better get to shopping then since I'm a very busy pony." "Wait, before you go. When you're ready to checkout, come to checkout lane seven, I'll be working there and I'll be more than happy to give you a fifty percent discount since you are so adorable!" "Glad to know that bat ponies can be adorable, thanks ... uh... your name?" "Oh, I'm Kate." "Okay Kate, and I'm pretty sure you heard my speech so you know my name is Lunar Night and if you are giving me that discount can my coltfriend here get the same?" I said, pointing to William who only waved sheepishly. "Aww that's even more cute! Of course, just come to my checkout lane when you're ready." And she walked away. "Well at least there's one human who is fan of me and we both get a discount out of this!" William smirked. "Wanna bet it doesn't really happen at Toys R' Us? Given what the place deals with, I want to assume it would happen there. But if it doesn't then that's cool too." "Only time will tell right? Anyway, lets get what we came for, since I should be quicker, I'll meet you in the food section." "Sounds good to me. Just try to not get into anything stupid?" And with that, he walked off to grab a shopping cart. "Knowing my luck so far in this place it will happen." Walking over to the area with the shopping baskets, I used my hooves to move the handles up before grabbing it in my mouth. Ah, nothing like countless germs in your mouth from something that so many humans touched. Walking to the aisle that had the pony toys was fine enough aside from the fact that my hooves were making the loudest of clopping noises every time it hit the floor. Maybe someone would mistake it for high heels. As for the shoppers, they were giving me looks until some hisses and flashing fangs made them go back to what they were doing. Not that I would bite them or anything. I don't know none of these humans and I don't need to contract anything from getting a little too bite happy. I can just use my hooves if they tried anything. Finally reaching the aisle and setting the basket down, I took stock of the pony merchandise they had: some pony tins, plushies, cards and various other toys. Walmart never had a crazy amount of pony merchandise to begin with. "Hmm ... the tins and cards will do since none of the other stuff really interest me." I said to myself until I noticed a new problem for myself, that being, I can't reach up to where I want the stuff I actually want to buy since it's out of hooves reach and there was no one else around to ask for help. "Dammit... oh how I wish I could fly right now..." I muttered. "Well, no problem for me then since I just got the most brilliant idea that can't fail! What can go wrong?" Walking forward and grabbing a few boxes of Twilight's Kingdom Set (since I didn't really care for it), I arranged them in a way to look like stairs. Remembering this time to skip walking up and down the stairs, I hopped onto my unstable 'stairs' which caused it to wobble for a moment until it stopped. Letting out a sigh of relief and being at level with the merchandise, I started grabbing all the different sets of CCG card decks they had and dropped them into the basket. After that was done I moved onto the tins most of which involved Rainbow Dash and dropping those into the basket. "Okay just one more and then I can go meet up with William again." Reaching a hoof out to grab it was when Walmart decided to hate me more when my hind hooves slipped out from under me causing the Twilight's Kingdom Sets to go crashing into the opposite aisle and myself crashing into the pony one with so much force that it tipped over causing a domino effect of knocking over many aisles until it stopped, throwing dust everywhere. After the dust settled and picking myself up, rubbing a sore spot, I took in the mess I caused. "Ah geeze, why did I have to say that phrase? This is going to take forever to clean up!" "Attention! Attention all pony haters!! Please be advised that there is a bat pony in the My Little Pony aisle and has caused destruction to the other aisles. Luckily no one was in that area when it happen. But I still want you to teach that pony a lesson! I will repeat this one more time..." My eyes shrank to pinpricks and my ears dropped. "Fuck, now I really regret saying that. Gotta get away from here fast." Grabbing the basket again in my mouth, I only made it a few feet until... "Hold it right there, pony!" "Ah fuck." Setting the basket back down, and turning around, I was greeted to the sight of ten guys, nine of them being shoppers and one worker. Grinning nervously, I said, "Listen guys, I could help out and fixed this. You wouldn't want to hurt little ol' me? You can get in trouble for that you know and probably be sent to the moon to die quickly." All the guys looked at one another and some shrugged until the worker spoke, "We'll take our chances. See, we hate the show and now that there is a pony here somehow... we can have our fun in teaching you a lesson." I sighed and shook my head, "I tried to be nice to you dumbasses, but now you leave me with no other choice." "And what choice is that?" Since I knew I couldn't take on ten guys at once, I thought of the next best thing. "I'm. Gonna. RUN!!!" Grabbing the basket again, I ran out of there while at the same time some very familiar music started playing that I can remember from the episodes 'The Ticket Master' and 'A Bird in the hoof' as the other guys started giving chase. Quickly running into the party supplies section, I noticed a pair of Fuzzy Puzz Glasses. Putting them on as best and as fast as I could so it wouldn't fall, I stood still as a statue looking 'normal' as five of the guys came running down the same area I was in before stopping in front of me. "Say, have you seen a pony run through here? Purple armor? Dark grayish coat?" "Uh ... I have actually, I saw him run away in the direction of the jewelry section." "That little sneak! Alright men lets move on! We have a bat pony to catch!" A chorus of 'Yeah!' answered that as they all ran away." Taking the glasses off, I stood there dumbfounded that the more than obvious see-through disguise actually worked. "Wow, glad to know that the haters here are truly dumbasses to fall for that. Pinkie Pie would be proud in me. Still, I should be careful though since they did split up." Picking up the basket again, I continued on. Running over to the clothing area. I hid inside in one of those circular metal racks that displays clothes. Moving clothes aside to make a small opening, I looked around and noticed no one in the area. "With the food section only a few aisles away, it should be smooth sailing. I just want to get out of here already. Thankfully I don't think they followed me—" I felt something grab my tail which caused me to squeak in surprise. Turning back around I noticed that the worker or who I assume is the leader of the group giving me such an evil smirk that I thought his face would stay that way. "You thought you could hide from us, but think again! Those hooves of yours were so loud that it was easy for me to keep following you. Now be a good little bat pony and c'mere!" "Ugh fine. But first, can I say something?" "What is it?" Eat hoof human! BAM! GAHHHH!! The man stumbled back letting go of my tail to clutch his bleeding nose screaming out a bunch of curses and bloody murder. "Damn I love this body if a kick from a hind hoof can do that. Consider yourself lucky that I didn't kick you in your pride and joy. Don't fuck with me! I might be a pony now that used to be human but dammit! I'm still a shopper!" Grabbing the basket again and leaving the worker alone, I finally made it to the area in question and found William giving me the raised eyebrow look while at the same time the music ended to go back to regular music. "What in the world happened to you?" "Oh just that I said a phrase that never should be said, caused a huge mess, the announcement, ten guys wanted to teach me a lesson, then the Yakety Sax music started followed by a chase, fooled five of them with some fuzzy puzz glasses, bucked one in the face and I'm finally here!" "Okay, that would explain why the Yakety Sax music started playing then." William chuckled. "Ready to checkout now?" "Did you get a few meat related things for me?" "Of course. Got you pepperoni pizza, supreme pizza and various hot pockets including the limited edition ones and other foods that I'm sure you'll like." "Aww yeah!" I pumped a hoof in the air. "Now we can go." "You idiots! You let that bat pony get away! How can you possibly let a pair of glasses fool you?! He's still here so get. Him!!" "Um ... lets really hurry up." I grinned nervously. ------- Sliding to a halt in checkout lane seven, William hurriedly started putting everything on the conveyor belt. Meanwhile Kate was staring at both of us with a curious look while scanning the items. "Are you alright, Lunar? I heard the announcement and the Yakety Sax music and crashing noises." Rearing up onto my hind legs and placing my forehooves on the counter, I spoke, "Oh yeah, I'm fine. Getting chased around by ten guys and bucking one in the face does wonders for my body and at least I got to actually run in this body and not even awkwardly. Heh, just me getting used to my new body even if I can't fly yet." "You must tell me how you ended up as a pony! Had you shown up here alone, I would of mistaken you for an actual equestrian pony. But since you have your coltfriend with you, I know you were a human-turned-pony. And don't give me that look! Since I'm a fan I do read fanfics also." "Well... that's great to know actually! And how I ended up like this now, that was because last night I actually wished upon a shooting star and the princesses granted that to me. As cheesy as that sounds it's true and they plan on visiting us later in the day." "Oh you are so lucky! And if that's how it happened then I know what I'm doing tonight! I always daydreamed of being a unicorn. Now it can become a reality!" "Sure go ahead, I can also let them know about it, plus they're watching us right now... somehow..." "They are? Really?" "Yes. In the letter I received from them today mentioned that they are, just not how they're actually doing it. As far as I can tell, they've been doing this for a long time like watching you in your sleep, to having sex, to even taking a number three on the toilet screaming bloody murder from having delicious Taco Bell, to even—" SLAP! "Ow!" I rubbed the back of my head with a hoof staring at William giving me a flat look. "What was that for?!" "I'm pretty sure Celestia and Luna would not watch us taking shits." "Alright fine, maybe they give us privacy when it comes to that." Turning back to Kate, I continued, "I'll just find out later how it is that they could be seeing us. Would you still work here after being a unicorn?" "Yes, very much so. I love working here regardless of the idiots. I gotta earn a living and I can also teach them a lesson if they tried anything." Kate winked and giggled. "If I have the option to go to equestria then I'll make sure to take that offer. "When you do turn into a unicorn, I just know that more pony traffic will come this way." "Bingo! Now your total for today after the discount is $175.55." "Got it! Alright William, swipe away!" Watching him swipe the card and putting in the pin left me wondering. I can still do that to I believe, I mean, ponies on the show hold stuff from time to time that it is possible, but I also know that my hooves are too big to touch the buttons. Dammit... I really should read that anatomy book when I can. You can only know so much about something only to find out that there's more to learn about said thing. After everything is bagged and placed into the shopping cart, William and I left Walmart finally, waving back at Kate and wishing her good luck on her new eventual life and promising that we will visit her again. Reaching the car and after putting everything in the trunk, William sat back in the drivers seat while I sat in the passenger seat while he closed the door. Also seat belt free! Damn annoying things. At least I can sit like a dog since that's the normal way and I can move more if my tail starts to hurt. William leaned over and nuzzled me before speaking, "I'm sorry I slapped you, Lunar. But, you have to admit it was an interesting trip." I sighed. "It's fine. As for the trip overall? After what I went through, I'll still come even if it's mostly for Kate and having fun doing some random guard duty around the place. It'll get me out of the house more and I'm sure you'll love to join me." "Well of course. When that time comes anyway." William said while starting the car and driving off. "Lets continue our shopping spree at the next place: Toys R' Us. I bet you the complete opposite will happen there." "Giving what the place invovles. I sure hope so." Leaning out the window and watching the scenery pass by, I decided to think of what scenarios might happen when we get there. "Alright Toys R' Us and the people who work there and shop there. Lets just see how you will react when Lunar Night stops on by."