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Chapter 3: New Friends, New Opportunities
I woke up feeling very tired from yesterday’s activity with the Mane 6. It was great to get to know the gang more than just their names. At least I won’t make myself look like an idiot when talking to them. I realized Electric and I had slept on the on the floor whereas Blaze got to sleep on the bed.
“Lucky bastard.” I mumbled to myself. Electric snorted. I then kicked him in the shins.
“Owwww fuck!” He yelled in agony.
“Wake up, ya knobhead. We probably got a big day ahead of us,”
“Okay chill, sheesh. Can’t I just stay in for a few more minutes?” He replied. I looked at him with an annoyed face.
“Can you two shut up, I’m trying to sleep here!” Blaze said suddenly while shoving his face into the pillow.
I looked at him with an even more annoyed face and decided to use my magic to pick him up and throw him onto the floor.
“Ow man. What the hell?!” Blaze exclaimed.
“You got enough sleep, ya arse,” I said to Blaze.
“Since when did you learn to do that?” Electric laughed.
“Twilight taught me a few tricks last night,”
I stood up and went straight downstairs to probably help Twilight with something but to see no one at the main room. I went on to inspect the kitchen area and to see both Spike and Twilight making breakfast.
“Good morning, Shock. Are the others up yet?” Twilight asked me while she made oatmeal.
“Umm, yeah. They’re still in the room. They’ll come down soon enough I guess.” I replied.
“Good thing because I’m making breakfast right now.” Twilight stated.
“I’ll help you then.” I offered my help to Twilight.
[Electric Dazzle's POV]
I lied on my back again wondering what Twilight has in store for us today. Sure hope it’s something cool like going on some adventure or something but that might won’t happen. Knowing Twilight, she’ll probably send us on a book delivery trip again. I looked at the window opening wide.
“It probably wouldn’t hurt if I go out and try out my wings for a few minutes.”
I stood up and took a running start towards the window and jumped out. I flapped my wings hard and started to rise to the skies.
“WOAH, THIS IS AMAZING!” I shouted while having the best time of my life in the skies.
I looked down and started to shudder and instantly looked up.
“Nope. Never doing that again.” I must be like a hundred meters above ground.
I saw Cloudsdale in the sky and flew there. Rainbow Dash must be living here somewhere. I soon saw Rainbow Dash laying on a cloud.
“Hey Rainbow Dash,” I waved at her.
“I’m not giving any autographs, go away,” Rainbow Dash waved me off.
“But you’re not even that famous.” I put it bluntly.
Rainbow Dash glared at me and realized who I was. “Oh, it’s you.” her expression softened.
“So, what brings you here?” She said.
“Thought I’d check this place out, nothing much.” I shrugged. A crazy idea came up to my mind.
“Say this Rainbow Dash, are you up to a race?” I smirked.
“With who?” Her ears perked up.
“With me.” I said.
“You…” She burst out laughing. Now I feel like a dumbass. What a way to demoralize.
“Hey, I’m serious!” I raised my tone.
“Wait… I haven’t finished laughing my flank off!” She continued laughing. I rolled my eyes.
“Okay, okay.” She agreed as she wiped her tears of joy off her cheeks.
“You wanna race huh? Alrighty then. 2 laps around the track.” She said.
“Loser makes dinner for the Mane 6 and my friends.” I placed my bet on that.
“Deal.” Rainbow Dash said sternly.
We flew to the race track and then we took our positions.
“Three, two, one… GO!” Rainbow Dash shouted.
We dashed through the air as fast as we could, or so I thought. I looked at her and she was hardly doing her best. Damn she’s fast. I barely kept up with her. I tried gaining speed by flapping my wings harder, I got a little bit closer to her but she then left me in the dust. Finally, we reached the finish line.
“Hey, not bad! with enough practice you could become a challenge for me. But first, some nice dinner.” she said as she smirked.
Huh. She admired me. Nice. Although I gotta make freaking dinner. Fuck me.
“Thanks *pant* Dash,” I said.
I’m not very athletic. I slowly flew back to Twilight’s place with extreme sweat and panting.
[Shock Wave’s POV]
“Hmm, Electric’s taking a tad bit too long now, isn’t he?” I mumbled to myself.
“What was that?” Twilight asked me.
“Oh, nothing. I’m just gonna go check on the others.” I replied to her.
He probably knocked himself out or something. As I went up the stairs, I could hear some loud footsteps in the room. I wonder what they’re doing in there. As I opened the door, all I saw was a knocked out Blaze and Electric sweating a little bit.
“Have you been exercising or something? You’re sweating balls,” I asked Electric.
“Nah, I just feel a little bit hot. It’s nothing.” Electric assured me.
“Yeah, sure. Breakfast is done like 15 minutes ago. Go wake up Blaze and get your asses down there.” I said to both of them. Blaze probably didn’t even hear me.
I left the room and went back to the kitchen to go and have a little chat with Twilight. I could probably learn a few more magic spells from her. After talking with Twilight for a few minutes, Electric and Blaze finally came to the kitchen to have breakfast whilst Blaze looking still half asleep. We all had our breakfast and were ready for work.
“Oh, Twilight. Can you invite the Mane 6 to come by later today. I got an announcement.” Electric suddenly said.
“Sure thing, Electric. But you might want to think about the work you’re going to do today first.” Twilight replied. I just smiled a little bit.
~later on that day.
[Electric Dazzle's POV]
All the other Mane 6 arrived at The Golden Oak Library from a sudden invitation by Twilight.
“So what do you want with us today, darling?” asked Rarity as she and the others went in.
“I don’t really know actually. It was from Electric’s request.” Twilight replied.
“El Chapone here lost a bet so he’s going to be making dinner for all of us,” Rainbow Dash suddenly announced.
“Really? What kind of bet?” Shock asked.
“We had a little race earlier.” I added.
“Why did you even bother, you know you were never going to win.” Shock mocked me while grinning.
“Hey, atleast I did good,” I said.
I went into the kitchen to prepare something for the party. I had something good in mind whilst suddenly Shock came in and said:
“So, what are you gonna make? If you need any help, I got your back.” He offered his help.
“It’s okay. I got this” I assured him that I have everything under control.
15 minutes of making shit
Welp, I made a fruit salad. And I’m damn proud of it. Couldn’t come up with anything else.
“Dinner is served, come and dig in.” I announced.
Everyone took a plate and sat down in the living room.
“So, you two. Tell us more about yourselves.” Twilight requested.
“Oh. Well we came from the outskirts of Equestria.” I told them, wishing they’d buy it.
“Really? What’s it like there?” Twilight beamed with more questions.
“It’s pretty cold there. It was too much for us to handle so we decided to move here.” Shock answered.
“Wait a minute, where is Blaze?” Shock continued.
“Blaze has been sleeping all day, the hell?” I said and went upstairs.
I opened the door and threw him off the bed.
“Shit man what the hell. Screw you bro.” Blaze blurted.
“Stop sleeping so fucking much!”
“Profanity!” Shock said from downstairs.
“Calm your tits.” He eloquently said.
“Whatever, just come downstairs. There’s dinner.” I notified him.
I headed back downstairs. Everypony had their eyebrows raised at me.
“Blaze is just a heavy sleeper. It has always been like this.” I explained to everypony whilst Shock was just enjoying dinner.
“Enjoying yourself huh? what if i told you one of the key ingredients was alcohol.” I chortled.
“I am already dead inside. What makes you think I can’t enjoy alcohol.” Shock replied.
I shrugged. “Meh, fair enough.”
“By the way Twi, Celestia told me to tell you about her visit like, tomorrow I think?” I said to her.
“Wait, WHAT?!” She panicked.
“Woah, chill Twilight. It’s just the princess coming to visit. No biggie.” Shock tried to calm the lavender mare.
“You do not understand! I need to get the place in tip top shape! I need to make a good impression to the princess!” Twilight said as she started to clean the place up.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
“It’s okay Twilight, Electric and I will keep this place in tip top shape. Since the day is almost ending, you should just relax for awhile.” Shock reassured her.
“Yeah, you can count on us.” I promised Twilight that we will clean this place up by tomorrow.
“But…” Twilight tried to gain ground.
“No buts. We promise to keep this place clean.” I kept her aback.
“Fine.” She narrowed her eyes and sighed in defeat.
~The Next Day
I got up early this time with Shock to help Twilight with cleaning the library. The place was a total mess after last night’s dinner. This time I was the first one to get up this morning. Somepony give me a cookie. And Luna’s plot.
“The fuck you yapping about there,” Shock suddenly said.
“Oh shit did I say that out loud?” I thought.
“You think? Good thing Twilight ain’t here to listen to that,” Shock replied while making a smug face.
I shook my head and returned to cleaning the library. “Go wake up Blaze or something.”
“No point. It's not like he’s going to wake up,” Shock replied.
“Heh, flip the damn bed then.” I suggested while grinning.
“Dude, he’s like a dead person when he sleeps. Ain’t anything gonna wake him up.”
“Okay, fine then.” I got disappointed.
“Oh, you’re up this early?” Twilight came out from her room while rubbing her eyes.
“Yeah, like we promised, I cleaned up the place.” I said.
“WE, cleaned up the place.” Shock intruded
“Oh you didn’t do shit.” I exclaimed.
“Piss off. I helped too.” Shock said.
“Guys, enough with the crude language.” Twilight stepped in.
“Oh, sorry Twilight.”
“Yeah, me too.”
“Just don’t use those words around ponies.” Twilight lectured us like some elementary school kids.
“Jawohl, mein fraulein!” I saluted.
“What?” Twilight questioned.
“It’s just gibberish.” I chuckled.
“Well, whatever you say so.” Twilight went on with her business.
I looked over at Shock to see what he was doing. It seems like he was suspicious of something. I couldn’t really tell. He motioned me to come near him. I was first ignoring him but then he motioned harder. I walked up to him.
“What is it now?” I asked him.
“Shh, not so loud.” He said in a lower tone.
“What is it?”
“I think she is on to us.” Shock suggested.
“Pfft, you must be joking?” I did a foolish smirk.
“No, really. Trust me on this one. Remember when she said about using curse words?”
“Yeah, she said not to use it around other ponies.” I answered.
“No, she said not to use it ‘around ponies’. You getting me?” Shock said in his low tone.
“Uhh…” I looked dumbfounded.
Shock looked disappointed of my cooperation with his suggestment. He then proceeded to facehoof.
“First time I’m seeing you do that.” I chuckled.
“Ahh, fuck it. Just get back to work.” Shock said.
“Alright.” I raised my eyebrows.
After hours of cleaning the library and making sure everything was without a speck of dust. We took a short break and went out for some food. We decided we were going to eat at the cafe again since it was pretty cheap.
“Man, It feels good to be out of the library for once. I don’t even know when was the last time I left.” Shock said as we were walking towards the cafe.
“I know, right? Last time we were outside was like yesterday.” I tried to sound sarcastic.
“YOU, were out yesterday. I stayed home to help Twilight.” Shock replied while rethinking his life choices.
“Oh right. Damn, my memory is plain shitty.” I facehoofed.
We finally arrived at the cafe. But to our luck, it was filled with ponies.
“Man, this place is jam-packed. How are we supposed to eat and get back in time?” Shock asked.
“We fuckin’ bulldoze em.” I smiled evilly.
Nearby ponies looked at us because of my sudden cursing. We just smiled like nothing was wrong.
“You need to stop cursing outside, man. Peeps are gonna be suspicious about us.” Shock said.
“Shit, you’re right.” I realized how much of a dumbass I looked. Then I looked at him.
“Fuck you.” Shock said while grinning. We both laughed.
“Seems like we’re not going to get our food this way. Let’s just leave.” He suggested.
“Aight. Hey we should probably visit Stalliongrad if that exists or Manehattan.” Some cities popped up to mind.
“Yeah, maybe some other time. We got something to do right now and it’s getting food. I am freaking hungry.” Shock stated.
We wandered around for a while looking for a quite empty restaurant but it seems like we’re not gonna get anything out of our walking. Whilst we were still walking and looking for a restaurant, we saw Pinkie jumping around happily. Our last hope is Pinkie since we were kinda late already.
“Hey Pinkie!” Shock greeted Pinkie.
“Oh, hey guys! I am still planning the party. So, just wait a few more days.” Pinkie said happily.
“A party? For what?” I asked.
“What?! Shock, Don’t tell me you didn...” Shock covered Pinkie’s mouth as she was about to say something
“Oh it’s just a… a birthday party. Yeah, a birthday party, for some other pony.” Shock said to me.
“Oh, okay.”
Then Shock and Pinkie turned around and whispered something I did not quite catch.
Pinkie nodded happily at the idea.
“Hey, what are you guys whispering about?” I asked Shock and Pinkie.
“Oh, nothing. Anyways, Pinkie. Do you know where we can get some food? We’re starving right now,”
“Sure! I work at a bakery. We can get some food there! Follow me!”
We followed her to a bakery called Sugarcube Corner. I always wanted to try some of the food here.
“Come on in. I can get you something.” Pinkie said to us. “I can get you anything you want but only this time.”
“Anything?” Shock asked as his face filled with happiness.
“Well let’s get choosing then.” I said.
Moments passed by as we looked at every single baked goods in the store. I am pretty sure we’ll be spending more time looking for the right food than eating it. After a while, Shock just picked simple foods such as muffins and single slices of different types of cake.
“Dang, Pinkie. I can’t say thank you enough for all of the food. I’ll be in your debt.” Shock said to Pinkie as he thanked her.
“It’s nothing. But why didn’t Electric pick anything? He’ll STARVE to death!” Pinkie asked.
“I’m not feeling like it right now. Thanks anyway,” I smiled.
“Speaking of which, you really packed up, Shock.” I raised my eyebrow at him.
“Hey, man. Your loss. This stuff tastes awesome.” Shock replied with a belly full of delicious food.
“You lard ass.” I chuckled at him.
“Piss off,” Shock replied while grinning, “Let’s go home. It’s already late.”
“Yeah sure.”
After walking for awhile, we finally returned to the library. When we were about to open the door, we heard some voices inside. We leaned towards the door and attempted to eavesdropped what was going on inside. I suggested using the window but Shock said it would be a bad idea since they could probably see us spying on what was inside.