Keeping Busy
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Keeping Busy
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A few days had passed, and things were going well enough in Ponyville, well, except the impending doom they all felt. Rarity was finishing with her last customer of the day, so she could eat, and get to bed. She hadn’t been sleeping too well lately.
Spike had left about a half an hour ago to start making her dinner, and she could smell cooking vegetables wafting into the main area of the store, and it was making her mouth water to the point that she was having trouble dealing with the final shopper.
“So, I was thinking I would wear the two of these,” The plump, yellow earth pony said, showing Rarity two things that didn’t match whatsoever.
“Oh yes, mhmm,” Rarity replied instantly, looking over her shoulder toward the kitchen and sighing, “Would you like me to ring these up for you?”
“You really think these look nice?” The mare asked, proud that Rarity agreed with her, “Ponies always tell me that I have a rotten fashion sense!”
Rarity gave her a quick look over and coughed embarrassingly, seeing that this mare was trying to mix something very shiny and sleek, with something very poofy.
“Oh, no dear,” Rarity said, levitating the matching bottom to the sleek top, “I believe this is the one you’ll be interested in.”
“Oh? You think so?” She asked, trotting off toward the changing room, and closing the door behind her.
Rarity sighed and sat herself on the floor, wishing that she could have whatever it was that Spike was cooking her right now. But, it seemed that a customer would always show up one minute before closing, and stick around for forty five minutes.
“Hey, Rarity!” Spike said, trotting out into the room, smiling at her, “Did you finish with that last customer? It sure sucks when they barge in this late, huh?”
“Spike, hush!” Rarity said quickly, pointing to the changing room ad frowning at him.
Spike went wide-eyed and quickly thought up a way to fix his big mouth, “I was just joking when I said that thing a second ago… about ponies coming in late…”
“Oh, it’s wonderful!” She said, opening the door, obviously having missed Spikes comment, “But a bit out of my price range, I’m afraid, do you mind if I keep looking?”
Rarity bit her lip, and looked at Spike with huge eyes. She didn’t want to deal with this anymore.
“It’s on the house,” Spike sighed, gesturing the mare toward the door, “But that’s only on the table for the next… Ten seconds!”
The mare opened her mouth to speak, looked between the two of them, but immediately turned and trotted out the door.
Locking the door with a spell as soon as it closed.
“Spike… I appreciate the help, but that dress cost several hundred bits…” Rarity said, wondering if that was truly the solution to their problem.
“Charge it to the castle,” Spike laughed, levitating the card Celestia had given them three years ago out from behind the counter, “Celestia told us to abuse it last time you mentioned the card, didn’t she?”
“I feel so horrible doing that, though,” Rarity muttered, knowing that there was literally zero downside to using the card once every six months.
“Just dock my pay then,” Spike winked, as Rarity looked up to him smirking.
“You don’t make any money,” She giggled, “You passed on that, remember?”
Levitating her up from her sitting position on the floor, he stood her right in front of him.
Leaning forward, he pressed his snout to hers and laughed, “Maybe we can call it even then?”
Pulling away from him, she sighed and smiled, “Well, I suppose that’s fair. Let’s eat, shall we? What’s on the menu?”
“Well, I made some soup,” Spike said, scratching the back of his head, hoping that would make her happy, “Some onions, carrots, celery, and a ton of noodles, if that’s okay…”
Rarity’s stomach growled in response to his description.
“Good to hear,” Spike smiled, “Let’s eat up, then get to bed. Tomorrow’s going to be busy, we both know it.”
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The night for Twilight was just as busy as Spike and Rarity.
She sorted through the returned books in the library slowly. Since she had been in the Crystal Empire, about five million books had been dropped off!
Well, maybe that was exaggerating it by a few million, but it was loads of work.
Returning books was always the bane of her existence here in Ponyville. It was slow, tedious, and made her feel like crying. If only she had Spike, so she could just unload the job on him…
“Hey, Twilight!” Alpha said, stepping out of his new room without any form on, “I was thinking I’d go walk around a little bit in town, maybe go scope out a few job opportunities!”
“I already told you!” Twilight huffed, her mood lousy from this horrid book returning, “You don’t need a job!”
“Well, I’d hate to, you know… Freeload…” Alpha said, trailing off at the huge stack of books she had to put away, feeling genuinely bad for her, “Do you need some help?”
Twilight looked up from a book with narrowed eyes, as she slowly opened them in realization of what he could do for her. Slow growing an evil smile, Twilight started rubbing her hooves together, while giving Alpha the craziest set of ‘crazy-eyes’ he had ever seen.
“What are you scheming?” He asked taking a step back from her.
“Hey… You said you wanted a job, right?” Twilight asked, her smile growing ever larger.
“Yeah…” Alpha nodded slowly, wondering if she had thought up some kind of horrible cleaning job for him to do, and make her life a million times easier.
Levitating the massive pile of books from beside her, she dropped them next to him and instantly snapped from ‘crazy-Twilight,’ to ‘Puppy dog-Twilight.’
“Could you put these away?” She asked, pretty sure that he would do anything for her anyway.
“Sure!” He nodded quickly, very happy to have an opportunity to please her, “Just these ones?”
One of Twilight’s eyes twitched as she shook her head and pointed to a massive bookcase by the door, which easily held three times the pile next to him.
“Those to!” She said happily.
“Oh…” Alpha murmured, not regretting his offer a little but, “Well, as long as that’s all—“
“Well, and those, and those, those, those, and those,” Twilight instructed, pointing to several other shelves around the room, “Have fun! I need a nap!”
Alpha bit his lip as Twilight trotted up to her room, and closed the door behind her.
She was using him! That minx!
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Alex and Dash sat in the new Canterlot- or Ponyville Guard headquarters, filing out the paperwork for the alicorn to join her platoon.
“Isn’t this a conflict of interest?” Alex asked, as Dash finished her paperwork, drafting him into the Ponyville Guard, “I mean, you want me to be a soldier, under you!”
“Well, if you’re lucky,” Dash winked, giggling at the obvious joke, “But you need to be doing something while I’m at work! And I can’t trust you alone, since you wrecked the house!”
Alex grimaced. She was never going to let him live down destroying all of her stuff like that.
“Is everypony okay with this?” Alex asked, giving up on arguing with her, “Like, the other guards?”
“I’m the boss! They have to listen to me!” Dash laughed, sliding a paper over to Alex to sign, “Just sign this, and we’ll be ready to go!”
“Do I need any special training?” Alex asked, looking over his employment contract quickly, “Like, specialized hoof to hoof combat stuff?”
“Nope,” Dash shook her head, “Magic’ll do you just fine!”
“What about a uniform?” Alex asked, signing on the line she needed and looking up, “Do I have to wear normal soldier garb?”
“Again, nope,” Dash answered, digging into her desk and pulling out an all too familiar piece of armor, “You’ll wear your old armor set, from the changelings.”
Alex would have complained, but actually loved the way it looked. He was happy at that development.
Levitating the hefty metal pads on to his shoulders and lower back, Alex cast the usual spell on them, causing them to open up and spread across his body, clinking into place over his chest and each of his legs, until his entire body was covered, save his head, which was still missing the helmet he bashed off back at the castle.
“Welcome to the Ponyville Guard, Alex,” Dash said, extending a hoof to him.
“Uh… Thanks?” Alex laughed nervously, “Am I gonna have to work hard here?”
“Na,” Dash laughed, “You have a lot of pull with the boss, don’t worry.”
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Yay, the Iron Pony suit makes a return
the calm before the storm!
Something tells me, he's not gonna get it easy,
but keep up the awesome work, you had me up two nights in a row cause I wanted to catch up, seriously, awesome story!
3995226 WOOO Iron Pony!
I'm happier than you can believe, seeing as this story is about your very own alicorn OC. It takes guts to post a story that is so obviously going to get hate from others. I applaud you, good sir, (Or madam, as I have yet to check) and your bravery in posting such an amazing feat.
Huzzah! ~Golden
Twilight really needs to do some work on that mass exclusion safety part of her teleportation spell, so its more discerning of the items being ported, s that ported books magically sort themselves. Then all she has to do is zap them.
Of coure, removng the mass exclusion safety part can give rise to some rather unfortunate side effects, such as loss of local geography.
I hope Alex armor is either dumb, or super smart, because so many smart designs require all the bits, and loss of any bit, such as a centralised controller, makes it more useless than dumb armor.
Maybe Dash needs to put him through a lot of training excersizes to catch up.
3999137
That's just bad grammar on my part. No special anythings.
Sorry about that.
That armor was great if someone made a picture
Nice, very nice.
~ Super-Brony12
Since when can Spike levit8 ponies?
~Vriska Serket
3999942
Since he's a unicorn now in this story.
4004918 He is? I must have missed that.
When you have to w8 for upd8tes it's a lot harder to keep the departures from canon str8. What chapter/side story did that happen in?
~Vriska Serket
4004918 He is? I must have missed that.
When you have to w8 for upd8tes it's a lot harder to keep the departures from canon str8. What chapter/side story did that happen in?
I know this is a duplic8 comment, 8ut is it a duplic8 notific8tion? I've had some pro8lems with notific8tions and replying to comments from the ToC rather than the actual chapter in the past, so I'm just m8king sure.
~Vriska Serket
4005017
Chapter 25: Hearts Desire.
It's at the end there. The next chapter elaborates on that, which is quickly followed by Chasing the Rainbow.
But it happens in the main story
4005161 Ok8y, th8nks for that. I'll have to read that chapter again.
~Vriska Serket
4006377 I think your 8 key is broken.
Now I have finally caught up you gave me a many sleepless night from this awesome story. Have Fun And Keep Writing.
I just wanna see 2 maybe 3 more chapters of normalcy and not some fucking epic crap just blowing up in our faces.
4047704
Wellllllllll...
That is something that hasn't happened yet.
Although i would want to be my STH (Sonic the Hedgehog) OC
*pant* *pant* 97 chapters...4 other stories...1 week...my god, that was the longest fanfic stretch I've ever read.
I'll post current thoughts later but wow, what a ride so far!
4048812 With magic, and amen to that. Who wouldn't want to bet against Rainbow and beat her at her own game?
4047794 You're gonna finish the story, with no Cutie Marks for them? *poker face X face-palm combo*
3999201 "be a tough few weeks" <- That is correct grammar usage....
Looks like Twilight found a new lap dog to do her library work for her.
Poor alpha.
4052704 you too ?!
Damn, wish all jobs were that easy *mutters something about gary-stu's under breath*