Author comment: Good news for people who want this to keep going: this is not a preconceived arc. I am just gonna keep on making the number-one guy do dumb stuff for as long as I can stay original. Also, this chapter title is the name of the bugle call typically used to awaken soldiers. The title is French for "wake up". It's also the first chapter in the first level of Halo. I am a fanboy of many tastes.
Reveille
The light was off in Twilight Sparkle's bedroom when two figures stepped inside.Twilight and Spike grunted as they set the human down on Twilight's bed. Twilight wrinkled her nose as she noticed the drool pouring from the creature's mouth onto her pillow. She and Spike backed away, both wearing faces of curiosity and fear. They stared for what could have been as long as a thousand-year lunar banishment. It was probably more like ten minutes, however. Regardless of the duration, they both awoke from the trance as hoofsteps signaled the entrance of another pony.
Twilight turned to Spike. "That must be Fluttershy. Dear Celestia, please let that pegasus know something about this thing." Twilight returned her gaze to her bed just in time to see the pool of drool begin to waterfall down the side of her
sheets, onto the floor. The purple unicorn whimpered. "Please, Spike, get her up here."
Spike nodded and left the bedroom to greet Fluttershy. The young reptile reached only halfway down the stairs before the yellow pony spotted him. Fluttershy greeted Spike with a small smile.
"I'm sorry I couldn't come with you when you came, Spike, but I had to-"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, no time," Spike grabbed Fluttershy by the hoof and started to pull her up the stairs, "This creature
is really weird, and we need your help."
Fluttershy's eyes lit up like the tree in Maneson Square Garden on Hearth's Warming Eve. "Oh, a little creature for me
to attend to? I'm so excited, I could-" She froze as she entered the bedroom. She started to quiver. Twilight turned and
frowned as her friend shrank.
"Fluttershy, please don't freak out now; I have no idea what this thing is, and I really need your help." Fluttershy stood up and moved beside her friend, even as she continued to shiver. "So, you've never seen one before? I don't know what to do! My books didn't say anything either, and-" Twilight froze as she felt a hand grasp her horn.
"Oh my, I've never seen a horse so excited, but I am quite the handsome number-one guy!"
With a shriek and a shudder, Twilight broke free of the grasp and backed towards the wall, where her meek friend was already huddled into a ball, hooves covering her face.
"Bwahaha! He thinks you're a colt, Twi! He thinks that's your-" Spike froze and fell over laughing. "He thinks it's on your head!!!" The young dragon sat on the floor, guffawing and slamming a fist against the ground. Twilight glared at her assistant as he rolled laughing at her expense. Fluttershy blushed fire-engine red, and she hid a grin.
"That's a horn. Moron. That pony is clearly a female. And another thing, I-"
Twilight's gaze searched the room for the origin of the gruff voice. "W-who was that?"
"Oh. Oh, God. You can hear me?"
Fluttershy replied. "A-a-are you a ghost? I- I mean, I'd understand if you didn't want to, you know, talk about it."
Spike stopped laughing. "Ghost pony!?" The dragon zipped into his caretaker's hooves.
"Oh, I'm not a ghost. I... I don't know what I am, actually. All I know is I've been cursed to watch this stupid little demon wreak insane havoc for as far back as I can remember."
"He could be a ghost for ghostmas!" the human stirred, but stopped, and promptly inserted Twilight's entire
pillow into his maw. He added a few gurgling noises, just so Twilight knew how much he enjoyed her linens. As the
drool covered the pillow, Twilight silently thanked her mentor for Spike's fire-breath; it would make sanitizing much easier
later.
"Don't take the pillow out of his mouth; it's shutting the bastard up. Such sweet silence. I'm sorry, I just don't get
relief from his nonsense. You ponies are the first beings other than this idiot to hear me. Oh, I can warn you now! I can
prevent so much needless destruction. I'd also like to tell you not to feel too bad about him thinking you're a male. It
indicates he'll never be able to reproduce, what with his obvious lack of sexual knowledge." The voice had a tinge of happiness to it now. Blockhead seemed to notice the lack of attention, and struggled to remove the sleep-aid from his unhinged jaw.
The lunacy of the human's antics calmed the Equestrians, and they sat up to listen to the voice. Even Fluttershy
giggled at Blockhead, whilst Spike, anticipating Twilight's concerns, took a quill and made a note to buy new linens. Twilight
stood.
"We need more information!" Twilight also admitted to herself that she would love to write a book about this,
but her main goal really was to protect Ponyville from the monster she'd found. Well, maybe it was fifty-fifty. Truly,
the image of her book on a shelf in the Canterlot library was enticing. Still, for this moment, she needed to get answers. "What's his name? What is his species? Are
there more like him?" The words shot out of the unicorn's mouth as fast as her brain could formulate questions.
"You can call him Blockhead. That's what I've called him ever since he glued his poor pre-school teacher to that
police chopper. That poor woman. Anyway, he's a human. Most humans are highly intelligent, but Blockhead is just
defective. You should probably-" the voice vanished. A quick look around the room told Twilight exactly why it had.
"Blockhead went out the window! We need to find him!"
Spike rubbed his eyes, amazed that the human could have moved out so quickly without notice. "Wait, Twi, how'd
you know he went out the window?" the dragon inquired.
"Well, Spike," Twilight answered, "we're right next to the door."
Fluttershy pointed to the floor. "The broken glass is also a good clue."
Twilight's eye twitched. "How did he break my bucking window without making a sound?! "
Twilight slowly crumpled to her floor. "We must be having the worst day of anyone in Ponyville*..."
Fluttershy squeaked. Twilight lay silent. Spike brought out the dustpan and broom, and cleaned the glass from
the floor.
* Pinkie Pie note: Twilight is like super-duper-looper wrong about that. I'm having the worst day
of anyone in Ponyville! Rainbow Dash is here, and she's teaching Pound Cake to hoof box! Right now they're both
watching Rocky: The Italian Stallion on NeighFlix, and she gave him all my ritalin! Poundie's eyes are so
focused! It's like he can see all of time! My eyes haven't twitched this much since my party with that bag of
flour! The only good thing is that Pumpkin is playing with Gummy**, so she's been out of my mane all day...
** Gummy note: Dear Celestia, Pumpkin is teething .
I apologize for the formatting issues in this chapter; I will fix them as soon as I figure out what happened. It looked fine in the preview.
I know that this chapter is super expository, but I think that I paced the humor enough to make it come out nice.
Does anyone know how well the googledocs upload works?
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My most pressing concern is whether or not I nailed the characters', well, characters. Blockhead was the most difficult, because it is OOC for him to make sense, yet he still needs to move the plot. I mean, if he carries a stable train of thought for more than three sentences, then he's not Blockhead.
Do you think I made the characters seem like themselves?
*Of course I will take your other tips as well, but I don't want to do much more until I can make the characters right.
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You did a great job making Blockhead be a blockhead. The other characters are more complex though, so I'll wait until I read the rest of the tory before I come to that conclusion. Blockhead's not that hard to write for--just say the first stupid thing to come to mind! For Blockhead and characters like him (like Pinkie Pie) it's perfectly OK to break the flow of the narration, since it's apart of their character to do so. It's a bit like having a Motor Mouth character have a paragraph that's nothing but a run-on sentence with constantly changing topics.
In short, the reason I didn't mention characterization is due to the fact that your writing already had it. And another thing, please don't focus on one item over the others. Writers need to be flexible enough to keep their readers entertained, and those five items (Characterization, Variation, Information, Flow, and Content) are the Big Five from which every other smaller aspect comes from.
I'm telling you this because I think you're a decent writer. You just need to blossom into a great writer.
That pet owl twilight has is so gonna be a hoot hoot. "but where on earth is my little......HOOT HOOT. The time has just begun my little friend. WE'RE LATE". also the weavile. Good work so far, you're staying true to blockheadness.
Lol.
Excellent job, you made block head very good.
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I honestly didn't even think of that, but your comment just broke my writer's block.
302957 There are so many things he could. How did you posdibly get writers block? He can do anything, he doesn't brake the forth wall because for him there isn't one. Oh and at the mention of ghostmas, It eould of been funny if he started singing the ghostmas song
Pinkie and Blockhead MUST interact.
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She isn't planned until chapter 4, but I could try to move stuff around and reshape the outline. Chapter three is close to completion, though...
Wat do I do?!
@Derpy Mooves
Don't change the story based on what I'm saying! All will be revealed when the time is right, I have faith in you. ;)
bwahahahahahaha
oh blockhead