"Whoa, now this place is even more awesome!" Gusty exclaimed, looking around at all of the bright lights and pretty colors. "Why didn't you bring us here in the first place?"
"Because I was afraid of your destructive behavior that you displayed on the farm." Wind Whistler exclaimed, rolling her eyes at the other two. "The last thing I need is you two tearing up everything in this mall."
The place was like a magical play land to the two other ponies. Stores, colorful signs and billboards, and crowds of humans as far as the eye could see. Bon Jovi blared on the speakers overhead, and teenagers with crazy colored hair sipped sodas from plastic cups they had gotten from the food court. It was as stereotypically early 1990's of a scene as a shopping mall could get.
"Hey, why don't these people react to us?" Fizzy asked looked around, confused as to why no one was paying attention to them. "They just walk by like we're not even here!"
"Pony magic prevents the earth-dwellers from detecting our presence amongst them, unless we directly speak to them, of course." Wind Whistler explained. "Although they know we are present on a subconscious level, their conscious minds tell them we aren't here, but they still move to get out of our way."
"Cool! Then let's go and check this place out!" Gusty exclaimed, galloping towards the escalator. "Hey Fizzy, race ya to the arcade!"
"Ohhh no, you're not gonna beat me this time!" Fizzy exclaimed, galloping after her. "Last one there is a rotten cheeseburger!"
"Cease and desist, you two! I am NOT letting you tear up this shopping center like you did the Williams farm!" Wind Whistler protested, stamping her hoof. "You both are far to reckless to be permitted to-"
But the two had already winked away, leaving the flustered Pegasus standing by herself.
"Ah well, I suppose it's just as well." Windy sighed, trying to put aside her ominous dread at what was going to happen next. "Maybe I should just go to the book store, and see what they have interesting to read..."
The other two mares went insane, racing from store to store, and trying to soak as much of the human culture in as possible. They stopped at Spencer gifts, and played with the laser light disco ball.
"Whoah pretty colors!" Fizzy exclaimed, as the ball strobed lights all over the store. "I makes me want to get up and dance!"
"These glow in the dark posters are really neat!" Gusty added, looking at a mushroom poster that lit up under the store's black light. . "And I love that weird glowy ball that shoots lightning when your horn touches it!"
Next, the two hit the arcade, where they used their unicorn magic to play every game in the place.
"Hey, no fair! That centipede cheated!" Gusty grumbled, using her magic to hit the free-play switch inside the machine again. "Okay, I'll get em' on my twenty-third try
Fizzy kept winning again and again at the skee ball machine, scoring again and again as row after row of tickets poured out. It wasn't very long before she had an entire box of the things.
"Excuse me, mister? But I have all of these tickets to exchange." Fizzy told the overweight comic book geek with a coin pouch that was sitting behind the counter. "Could I please have that cute little hello kitty purse you have back there?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever." The overweight slob grumbled, reaching under the counter giving her the purse without even looking up from his comic. The pony proudly trotted off with her prize, as the morbidly obese waste of space reached into a nearby bag of Cheetos to feed his fat face.
After leaving the arcade, the two ponies trotted their way towards the glass elevator, and went inside after the people boarded. Up and down they rode between the floors, looking out into the mall as they ascended and descended.
"Wheee, this is fun!" Fizzy giggled. "It's even better than the up-and-down ride at the Ponyville fair!"
"Ugh, I think I'm gonna be sick!" Gusty grumbled, putting her hoof over her mouth as the unicorn's face turned green. "I think I'm gonna blow chunks!"
Fizzy and Gusty then trotted past an appliance store, where a news program on a television in the display window caught their eyes.
"Hey, when's this old boring guy gonna shut up and go away?" Gusty grumbled, glaring at the news anchor on the screen. "I wanna see some cartoons!"
"Shhh, be quiet, Gusty! I wanna see what's been going on in the human world since the last time we were here!" Fizzy shushed her, turning back to the screen. But after several minutes, a confused and perplexed look began to cross the mare's face. "What the heck!? Disco's not popular anymore!? Cheers got cancelled? WHAT HAPPENED TO MICHAEL JACKSON'S FACE!?"
"Wow, looks like the human world getting even more messed up now!" Gusty told her friend with a chuckle, as she pulled the other stunned unicorn along after her.
The two mares trotted their way into the department store, where outfit after outfit was tried on. Hats, dresses, lingerie, and and shorts.; sure they hadn't been made to fit a pony, but a little bit of stretching magic from the two unicorns quickly fixed that problem.
"Ohhh, these wrist bracelets are so awesome!" Fizzy exclaimed, slipping a dozen of them onto one of her hooves. "If only they weren't so tight on my hooves!"
"Yeah, I just wish we could try on the shoes!" Gusty agreed. "Those black pumps with the bows look so awesome!"
Soon, both unicorns were standing in front of a mirror, wearing sunglasses, lipstick, and really really really tiny bikinis. Levitating two sing-along microphones they had retrieved from the toy store, the two mares began to sing at the mirror;
"So, tell me what you want, what you really, really want!"
"I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want!"
"I wanna-ah! I wanna-ah! I really really really wanna zig-a-zig ah!"
Finally, Fizzy and Gusty crashed back at the food court, where they grabbed two burgers out of the waste chute, and filled up two sodas in front of a confused employee who saw the drink machine operating by itself. He wasn't the only employee who decided the mall was haunted that day, as the two ponies had rampaged from one end of the shopping center to the other.
"Singing, clothes shopping, makeup testing...." Gusty laughed, taking a sip from her mountain dew. "If only this mall had stallions to watch trotting by, the mall trolling experience would be complete!"
"Yeah, this was totally great!" Fizzy agreed, taking a bite of her burger. "I wonder what Windy's up to, though?"
As if on cue, the Blue Pegasus with the pink mane came trotting up, pleased to see Gusty and Fizzy waiting for her.
"Ah, I am pleased to see both of you here on time." Wind Whistler said in a surprised tone. "I was half-expecting the to of you to get into some sort of mischief."
"Aw, come on, Windy!" Gusty grumbled, rolling her eyes. "What kind of trouble could we POSSIBLY get into?"
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Mysterious haunting at local mall!
Employees claim poltergeist activity out of control!
Security cameras pick up objects moving by themselves, story on page seven!