You know, I wasn’t even supposed to be a magic student. My Cutie Mark is an hourglass! My parents and I accepted that as helping father with his clock-repair shop, but when he let me help him work, I always sprung the coils too tight, making the clock tick way too fast; or I would forget a gear; one time I even jammed a clock up, causing it to burst in my face! My father decided I wasn’t suited for clockwork.
Now look at me, asleep in a soldier’s home, waiting for my pleasant dream about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to finish.
Who’d a thunk it?
“Minnie. Wake up, Minnie.” Flash nudged my side, rousing me from my slumber.
“Wha… what time is it?” I asked, only briefly breaching the waters of sleep.
“It’s almost five in the morning. If we stay much later we’ll be late for roll call.” The stallion stood up, walking over to his closet and pulling out a fresh uniform.
“Five is too early. I’m going back to sleep,” I said, rolling over to where Flash was laying moments ago, reveling in the warmth lingering there.
“C’mon. You’ve gotta get up! Do you want to clean the bathrooms…” he paused for effect, leaning in close to my ear, “with your toothbrush?”
My eyes shot open at this, causing me to panic for a moment. I then rolled out from under the sheets, which merely accomplished me getting tangled in the cloth and falling to the floor in a big heap.
“A little help, please?” I asked, looking to him from the ground.
“Of course.” He began to unwrap me, tossing edges of the blanket away with his wings.
With my sleep-addled mind, I then realized exactly where I’d woken up.
In a bed not my own… with another pony… that was not my gender.
“Oh my Celestia, did we-” he cut me off right there.
“No.” I sighed in relief. “I’m not the kind of stallion to take advantage of a mare because she’s drunk.”
“Wait, I got drunk?” This wouldn’t be the first time; it’s just, in past experiences, I was a fairly… irate drunk.
“Yeah. You were pretty mellow throughout the night, though. When I proposed we sleep it off, you took it the wrong way and…” he hesitated, the blush strangely obvious on his orange fur. “Well, you couldn’t get into bed fast enough. Once I explained to you I didn’t mean it like that, you dove into my chest and was out like a light.”
I blushed a bit; but, overall, I was happy that I didn’t try to force myself on him. That wouldn’t have ended well.
“Anyway, we should really get ready to go. If we’re late for roll call we’ll be put on bathroom duty; and Noquarter will probably give me the mare’s room and you the stallion’s, just to screw with us,” Flash said dejectedly.
“Really? That’s not against regulation, or something?” I asked, standing from my prone position on the ground.
“Well, we’re not supposed to go into the other gender’s bathroom, but, if we’re ordered to do something by a higher ranking officer, we have to do it or receive punishment,” he explained quickly, not making eye contact; though that was mostly from him being on the other side of the bathroom door, probably getting dressed.
Something I’ve found quite curious: we ponies usually walk around naked, unless one is of higher standards, such as being nobility; yet, it’s a taboo to watch another pony of the other gender get dressed or undressed, unless it’s in a romantic setting. It’s simply food for thought.
“Yeah, don’t want that.” I walked out of the bedroom, looking for Flash’s guest bathroom.
I found it a door down from his room. As I entered the small, enclosed space the full brunt of what had happened slammed into me like a freight train.
I’d just slept with a stallion.
Yeah, yeah, it wasn’t like that, but it was still sleeping with him!
‘He wasn’t that bad looking either, and he seemed nice enough. Maybe it wouldn’t be…’ I cut myself off there, not wanting to know where that line of thought was going. Even if he was cute, he was still a fellow soldier, and I’m sure there’s something about infatuation!
‘But, then again, if there was, he probably wouldn’t have come onto me like he did last night.’
“You almost done in there? I know mares take a long time to get ready for anything, but you’ve been in there for a while.”
“What?” I asked, not understanding what he meant, before I looked at the clock.
I’d been in the bathroom for a good half hour.
“Buck!” I then began preparing myself, like I should have been doing for the past hour.
Five minutes into my rush through cleaning myself I remembered something I should have minutes before. I could stop time, I was never in a rush! Taking a moment to face-hoof, I then activated my spell, locking everything besides myself in place.
Getting ready was no longer a problem.
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FLASH SENTRY
Last night had been a dream. I met a mare that was drop-dead gorgeous, somehow got her into my apartment, had some alcohol, and slept with her. I’d almost call that my most successful date I’d ever had! Well, other than the fact that it wasn’t recognized as a date by Minuette, it was.
Now she was getting ready to go back to the camp in my bathroom. ‘How did I get so-’
“Ready!” came a shout from right next to me, making me jump a good pony-length in the air.
“DON’T DO THAT!!” I yelled, now hanging from the ceiling fixture.
“Do what?” she asked, the most innocent look on her face.
“Sneak up and yell in my ear.” I rubbed my ear with a hoof to try and stop the slight ringing I still heard.
“Oh, sorry.” The cute blush on her face was totally worth permanent hearing damage.
“It’s fine, let’s just get going.”
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BASE
As Flash Sentry walked into the stallion’s locker room that morning, he was greeted by applause.
“What’s this all for?” asked the orange Pegasus.
“Dude, you totally got it last night!” came the sound of one of his best friends—or worst torturers, depending on how tease-able Flash’s actions are.
“W- What are you talking about, Gleaming?” Flash burst out, surprised and embarrassed that others knew what was going on.
“You didn’t exactly sneak away from the base last night,” was another guard’s response.
“We just happened to live in the same direction.” Flash began sweating, his eyes darting around the room to find something to stare at. They found nothing.
“Sure, that’s what they all say.”
“You have no proof!”
“You’re right! We don’t! But we know. When a guard gets it, the rest of us just get this feeling. So,” Gleaming Shield bumped his side, “if it isn’t the mare you left the station with, who was it?”
Flash sighed inwardly. His career in the Guard was safe, for now.
“She’s a mare from out of town. None of you would know her,” Flash waved a hoof, attempting to dismiss the question as he made his way to his locker.
“Oh, c’mon! We’ve got a few guys from out of town, you never know! It’s a small world, as they say.”
“Whoever ‘they’ are, they’re wrong. The world is very large, and for all you know, she’s a gryphon, so lay off.”
“Whoa, dude. You don’t need to be so snappy. Geez.”
Nopony bothered him about the night before for the rest of the day.
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MINUETTE
The azure mare entered the mare’s locker room with no trouble at all. There weren’t very many mares on base in the first place, and the ones who were there were fairly professional.
All but one.
“Who’d you buck last night?”
“Leave her be, Surprise. It’s none of our business.”
“Yeah, I know, but I wanna know!”
“I said leave her be.”
“Fine.”
In conclusion, mares are more mature than stallions.
… Okay, this is cool and all, BUT WHERE'S NICK?
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In which time? In one he's passed out in Canterlot, in the other he's dormant in Michael's head.
Eeyup.... I'm confuzeld. congrats you royally bucked up my brain!!!! Still love this story more than most!!!! I look forward for the next chapter! Till then.... PEACEEEE!!!!
I know it may only be a small update, but I'm still glad to see this back and running! Good to have you back, Goldie!
Ah, femenism. The once noble idea that was twisted and perverted into a shell of itself. Now it's just angry lesbian yelling.
I'd say men know how to have fun.
hi gold how long do you think it has bin two, three months? anyway merry Christmas.
After posting a chapter that just says that everyone thinks they got laid, you say women are more mature than men. If you are female, then this is ironic as hell.
If you are male, then I just want to state that women are just as bad as men, they just tend to be more discreet.
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I'm pretty tired of arguing the whole "dark eco" thing, or what ever. Let's just chock it up to "we'll never know because there's no way to tell because Dark Eco is never defined" and leave it at that. We can say the same thing about magic, seeing as we don't know what it's made up of, physically, we can't theorize how it effects the world around it.
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Tell me, what is the radius of this Flash Freeze? A few meters? A few hundred? A thousand? Because when I made the comment about stopping everything around him instead of speeding himself up, I was talking about stopping everything. As in, all of existence, which is technically infinite. Or, at least, that universe. Or, even less so, Just the world he's on! While, yes, Jak would have more power overall, it's unfocused and unfiltered. Let's equate this to heat and temperature (which are not the same, as you might know). Heat is the sum of energy something has, while Temperature is the average amount per molecule. If we were to equate the amount of energy used to stop time to energy and the area affected as the amount of molecules, then we can say that, while Jak has a much higher heat, his temperature is extremely low.
Tell me if that makes sense or not, because I can make another analogy, if you wish.
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Um... thanks? Not sure if compliment.
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Thanks, Shin. Good to be back!
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Meh, not much. Sorry. I'll try to get better material out in the future. Sorry.
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I know, right?! The question is not "who will let me?" but "who will stop me?".
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Merry Christmas, you nerdy little fighter, you! I hope you had a great holiday season, even though I wanna gut you like a fish for arguing about the lore of my story!!
(Just kidding!! )
But seriously, hope you had a happy holiday season.
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Why, feminism is, when done correctly, the peaceful seeking of equal rights to both men and women. When done incorrectly, it is simply women trying to get back at the way they've been treated the past four to six millennium.
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It has been a while, hasn't it. I hope I can post more in less time. And merry Christmas.
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True that. *nods in sage agreement*
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This is why I love my readers so much. I want everyone to like this comment, I know I have!
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That's what the part about Surprise was for.
And yes, I agree with your "if woman=ironic, if man=women are just as bad, but more discrete." That's what I was kinda going for.
Sort of.
5426079 sending out messages at 4am? Good thing I work 3rd shift or I'd have to write a vary strongly worded letter about setting off my notifications. Stay semi classy.
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Well, it's 3 here, so you're in a different timezone. Sorry for disturbing you!
5426099 tis not like I was doing anything remotely productive anyhow. I like being bothered, let's me know people think of me as someone they can bother and not get shot. It's a good feeling.
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... Should I fear for my life, now?
5426109 that depends on how many Christmas cookies you have.
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*looks in the kitchen* There seems to be an extremely large pile sitting on my kitchen table.
5426115 I'll bring the milk.
Not many things confuse me. So, honestly, nice job! It's a compliment!
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*Shrugs* alright, whatever you say.
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thanks. (time puns)
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heh. I bet.
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exactly, so how can we tell how mike would be effected?
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how fast does Michael move when he uses his powers? Faster than light, at least. How much would he be slowed when Jack uses his? The speed of sound, at the most. Using simple vector addition, we would be able to find that Michael is still moving much too fast for Jack to perceive him.
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so, as you've shown in this message, we know what dark eco does to living things, but how it does it is still unknown. We can't tell how it would affect Michael going at the speeds he does. To figure that out, we'd have to know what form the dark eco radiates through the air.
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makes it authentic.
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I pride myself on keeping a nice slow pace while still being interesting. *cough 22 chapters and only just introduced the main characters cough*
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so, it mutates somethings DNA. Well, there aren't many ways to achieve such a feat. The most common way is radiation, such as sunlight, which uses waves, and, therefore, is useless against Michael. If you're saying that dark eco causes mutations, it would be useless against him.
Okay, I really like this story, and I look forawrd to what comes next.
Woman are more mature than men. I still laugh when I say breast. And I'm 23.
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I have a very... different reaction to that word. To each their own.
5434323 I don't react "that way" to the word. Breasts themselves though...
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Ah, I see we're not that different, then.
5434360 nope. Not so different after all. boobs rock. And bounce.
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Only when you tap 'em right! /)
5434380 correct! or you are sneaky and ask them to go jogging with you.
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Oh, jogging is the best! Especially when they're big!
5434524 Damn right! I love female joggers... And they love me.
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That's hilarious. I don't even know how to come back from that.
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1. I never said light was the most common thing, I said sunlight was; and that's only because it is really the most common way, seeing as most humans spend a lot of time outside, and, therefore, in the sun. Now, I never said that Dark Eco was light, I was saying that Dark Eco acted like light (in waves) which is ineffective on Michael.
No, he can't perceive microscopic things, but he can "see without seeing."
Alright, I've just looked up the Jak and Daxter wiki to see if I can learn more about this "Dark Eco," and what I've found has amazed me. Eco in general is impossible. If it's naturally occurring, there's no way for a substance to form like that. If it's synthesized in a lab, there's no way to do the things it does! It's just all around impossible!! I mean, think about it: if it were possible, then the cure for cancer is just some Light/Green Eco! No it's not!! There is no cure for cancer!! (that we know of, and if there is, it's not to touch some white/green goop) It doesn't work like that!! Let me just say something now: there is no possible way for me to look at Jak, light or dark, and say "hmm... he could beat/would get demolished by Michael" because there's no way for me to know!! If Eco somehow radiates without using waves, then I guess he's beat; but there's no way to radiate without waves! That's the definition of radiate!!
My final report, Mr. Keyblade, is this: I don't know who would win.
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You can't make life by mixing two substances unless those substances contain DNA, which then makes them life and not just substances. Your argument is invalid/impossible.
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Well, Nick's only been in my story for a couple of chapters. Every other chapter is with Michael.
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Sorry I didn't respond. I got a little sick of the fighting and life caught up to me. Let's just leave it at "who knows who'd win?"
Thanks for that, though. It's good to know that I'm not the only nerd on the internet who's willing to have a legitimate argument over something they're passionate about.
Golden Script
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Alright, you wanna go? Let's go outside so I can kick you in the balls and be done with it.
( My response whenever a guy picks a fight. Please don't take offense to this, or anything. )
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Um... never played the game. Best guess? Mickey... cuz that's the only one I know.
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will keep that in mind. Thanks! Would love to see where that takes you.
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coulda fooled me, with you comment and all!
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I would be angry if it weren't so cold.
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I believe this to be true, also, in my own headcanon.
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the intensity rises, but the balance is maintained!
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Thanks, good to know you like it.
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shout out to all the people who are more productive after midnight! /)