Xbox Live Party with Pinkie

by LIGHTNINLANDEN

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By: LIGHTNING FLARE

She knew the moment noise started what was happening. The three long annoying beeps emitting from the TV was unbearable but not because of the sound it made... it was because of what it signified.

"They actually did it.... they set him free..."

She got up from her bean bag chair and trotted over to the window.

Ponyville was in complete disarray. Ponies ran frantically in the streets and boarded up windows trying to stop the inevitable. Some readied themselves for the fight of there lives. Ovens at full power pumping out fresh baked apple pies. These ponies knew it was a hopeless effort, but they did it anyways.

Her world as she knew it was ending... and there was only one pon.... person who could stop it! She walked over to her TV and turned it on. The little noise and blip made it known to her that everything worked and she was online. Now it was just a waiting game. "I hope you get on soon." she whispered tensely. "Otherwise there may not be an Equestria to answer back!"

I woke up in a blurry daze. Everything was hazy and it felt like my head was spinning.

After a good half an hour I finally decided it was time to get up for school. I put on a pair of jeans with a little rip on the left shin and a bright yellow t-shirt to match that of the glowing sun outside.

It was shaping up to be a great day. Sunny and blue skies as far as the eye can see! Then I went into the game room and turned on the little machine.

As soon as I logged in I got a little notification stating that a familiar player wanted me to join the party. I joined and was immediately greeted by a cheerful voice.

"Hi! You have no IDEA how happy I am to finally hear from you!" she said with glee.

"Well I guess you're just as excited as I am!" To be honest I actually was surprised. I guess all the time I spent listening to her stories kind of built me some resistance to the whole passing out thing.

"This is gonna be great! Ok first you need to have a little chat with this Obama guy! Do you know who he is?"

"Pinkie... why on earth would I need to talk to the president of the United States?" I asked completely baffled by the casualness she possessed.

"Well... it's about my world... you remember the big meany head I told you about who turned all of my friends, myself included, against each other?"

"I think so. Discord right? What's he got to do with the president?"

"Well you see, my world is in a bit of trouble. Discord has gotten to the griffins and made them fight their way through to our Capitol, Canterlot, and release him..."

"Well that's terrible and all but what's that got to do with the president!?"

"Discord has gathered an army... the changelings and the griffins are both with him and he's planning to take back the throne and plunge Equestria into another thousand years of chaos! We ponies won't last very long on our own, and since he discorded the griffins leaders, they fight for him. His forces out number ours three to one. They have enough apple pies to wipe Canterlot off the map and if we don't.... why are you laughing?"

"L-l-laughing? I-I'm not, pfft, laughing." okay I'll admit it, I was laughing... a lot. But I mean come on! Apple pies? It was priceless!

"Ugh! You have to listen to me! He'll plunge Equestria into chaos again if you don't!" she screamed with urgency.

Sensing the tension in her voice I ceased my laughing. "So what do you want the president to do about it?"

"We, oh and by we I mean you, are going to ask for his help in defeating Discord! From what Twilight told me apparently he's super powerful and commands a whole nation! Just like the princess!" she said.

"Pinkie he leads the nation, not commands it. I don't think this is as easy as you think it is."

"How so?" she asked.

"Well first of all he's pretty much untouchable unless he makes himself so. Second, and probably most importantly, I'm just a sixteen year old! I don't think he's going to lend me an army to help a bunch of pink ponies."

With this realization I heard what sounded like a balloon deflating over the microphone and quiet sobs. She started in a quiet tone.

"I know... what's your name?" she asked quietly.

"My name is Landen." I stated.

"Landen... have you ever had something to fight for? Something you hold near and dear, and have to defend it?"

I took this to heart. I've never had to fight for anything in my life. Human beings as a whole have had a lot to fight for; I guess I never really thought about what she was fighting for, the same some of us here do not. I've never had to lay down everything and give it my all. Suddenly I felt a great sympathy for this pony. I had to remember that she wasn't just some animal. She was a human in a pony body. I knew what she would do if the roles were switched and I also knew what I had to do.

"Pinkie... I am about to embark on an epic quest, a quest to save your home and friends and family. But if we're going to do this I'm going to need your full compliance, understand? I can't do this alone. I'm certainly going to have some battles along the way. We're going to need some way to stay in touch at all times. Can you find a way to do something like that?"

She perked up at my sudden involvement. "Sir, yes sir!" she said confidently.

"Alright let me go pack my bags.... I'm going across the nation."

After my bags were packed I wrote a detailed note on exactly what happened and what I was going to do for my family. I honestly couldn’t have possibly hoped for it to actually work but hey, it was worth a shot. I could only hope they got it and took it seriously.

I went back to the game room after triple checking my list and was quite surprised by what I saw. Pinkie Pie was sitting on my couch playing games. I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed her sitting there while I was packing so I'll be honest she scared the crap out of me!

"Oh! Hey! All set and ready to go?" she asked with a confident smile.

I didn't even bother asking how she got here. "You're not coming with me are you?" I asked.

"Oh no! I'm just here to give you this." she reached behind herself and somehow managed to pull out a little pink earpiece from nowhere. It had three little gems on it, two a very light blue and one yellow one. The yellow one served as what looked like a power button.

"What in God's name... is that?" I asked horrified at what was in front of me.

"This is how we're going to keep in touch!" she said.

"Oh no. Oh no no no. I'm NOT wearing that thing! It's pink!" I said mouth agape.

"I know! Rarity designed it! Isn't it great!? It's even got my cutie mark on it!"

And sure enough there were the three little balloons that were usually adorned on her flanks. I didn’t notice them at first but suddenly the three gems mad a lot more sense.

"If your world wasn't in need of saving... I would smash this with a hammer..." with that she handed me the ear piece and I put it into my ear. I heard a little beep making it known that it was on.

"Ok what's the plan Stan? How am I gonna get to the president?" I asked.

"Stan who's Stan? I'm Pinkie silly!" I faceplamed at that but then proceeded to laugh at the cuteness of her unknowing of the expression.

"Pinkie how am I gonna get to the president?" I questioned once more.

"Well your first stop is going to be the Mall of America according to Applejack's map." she said then handed me the map. I tucked it away in one of the side pockets.

"Alright then. To the Mall of America, AWAY!" I yelled than ran down stairs.

On my way out the door I grabbed the keys to the truck. It was a damn nice vehicle. My Dad’s baby. He loved it more than me! It was a Ford F-150 off road edition, and I was about to take it across America.

God I hoped Pinkie wasn't lying. That would be bad.

I started up the truck and it made a nice low hum. I then started towards I-5 to be on my way to Minnesota.

Dear family and friends,

I have left on a grand quest to save a planet from one thousand years of chaos. I took the truck. Dad I'm... I'm so sorry. Please know that it's going to be worth it in the end. Mom, I love you and don't call the cops. It's not worth it; this is something I have to do. Not for me, but for the ponies of Equestria!

Your loving son,
Landen

"Janet! Our son stole my truck saying he’s got to go to Minnesota to save a world of ponies. I thought he didn't do drugs?"

As I was entering the interstate I heard a soft ring emit from Pinkie's ear piece. I pressed the little button and a very intelligent sounding voice came through the speaker.

"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle. I will be assisting you in your navigational efforts across your nations! Do you have any questions before we begin?" she asked.

“How do you know the layout of my country, I thought the only one of your kind who get through this fourth wall was Pinkie?” I asked. From what Pinkie told me I knew that Twilight Sparkle was quite the book worm but I didn’t think that they had books about humans in Equestria.

“Let’s just say I did my research.” She said slyly. After the events of the next few days unfolded she had told me exactly how she did so. A small pink four legged creature was seen exiting a gas station with a balaclava over its face. That’s all I needed to hear to get the point.

“Anything else before we begin?” She asked in a teacher like tone.

"Well yeah I guess... what's it like... Equestria I mean, is it worth all of this?"

With a sad sigh she finally replied. "Landen is it? Equestria is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. It's vast and untouched by modern technology, it's powerful an subtle and has the best sun sets in the galaxies. It's worth my final breath if it comes to that."

I realized then just what exactly I had gotten myself into. There was no stopping me from speaking to the president. Whatever these ponies need, I would provide. Failure was not an option.

"Twilight? Tell me a bit about yourself. I've heard a little bit about you but just from Pinkie. I want to know about you." I asked honestly curious. I wanted to know all about each of the ponies. I wanted to know their stories so I myself could get a good feel of what I was fighting for.

"Well I was born and raised in Canterlot with my older brother. I was kind of a book worm when I was a filly. I didn't talk to anypony other than Shinning Armor. He was my best friend! We had the best of times together. Along with Cadence too, my old foalsitter. We grew distant for a whole but recently got the chance to catch up at their wedding! It was fantastic... ehhh except for the whole changeling army almost conquering Canterlot. But besides that it was just wonderful!"

"What's Canterlot like? Is it as big and beautiful as Pinkie says it is." I was honestly intrigued by all of this. I wanted to know as much as I could about Equestria.

We went on for quite some time before it was time for me to stop and get gas. I had brought my car fund with me. Three thousand dollars was probably enough to get me across America pretty quickly.

As I pulled into the gas station and saying goodbye to Twilight after a long discussion on Equestrian economics, I decided I needed some food to keep myself going and went into the mini-mart for some much needed junk food.

As I was looking at the selection I couldn't help but notice all the weird looks I was getting from the customers. Then I remembered what was in my ear. It wasn't until one guy approached me about it that I started to worry about it.

He was a skinny guy kinda like me but he had a lot more muscle on his bones. He walked up to me and said the oddest thing to me. "Hey man! Brohoof!" and held out his knuckles like he wanted to bump fists.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"You're a brony right? I saw the earpiece and just assumed you were. My bad bro!" he started to turn and walk away.

"Wait!" I grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him back. He had a small amount of blonde hair on his head and chiseled facial looks. He looked a bit like a space ranger toy from a movie in my youth.

"Does being a brony mean what I think it means?" I asked quietly, looking around suspiciously.

"If by that you mean bro and pony than... yeah… it does." he said.

"So they've contacted you too then huh? Were you sent to help me? Because man I could use it. I’ve never done anything so important before and having some backup would be awesome." I said tentatively.

"Ummm... dude what are you going on about?" he asked, a confused look dawning his face.

"You know! Discord getting loose and threatening Equestria again? Pinkie didn't tell you? Man with how much that pony talks you’d think she would’ve said at least something along those lines."

"You're telling me you've talked to the ponies?!" he asked excitedly.

"Yes! They need our help! I have to talk to the president and get him to assist them!" that's when I saw them.

Two burly men walked in wearing leather jackets with black t-shirts adorning the term "brony hater" in bright read with a picture of a decapitated pony laying at the base of the words that looked a lot like Pinkies description of a pony named Fluttershy. One of the men was relatively short but had no shortage in the muscle department and the other guy was pretty much the opposite.

Oh fantastic.

"HEY! We don't take kindly to your kind here son." the one with the long beard and bandana wrapped around his forehead said in a low grizzly voice.

“You tell ‘em Festus!” the taller one said.

"Oh yeah man no problem we were actually just leaving." I told him. "Come on dude let's just get out of here!" I told my newly acquired friend.

"Hey! What do you mean ‘your kind'!? why I ought a beat the living snot outta you!" he said waving his arms around yelling "come at me bro!" to the two men while I struggled to hold him back. Finally he got loose and got right in the beard of the biggest guy. All hell broke loose.

Next thing I knew they were rolling around throwing punches and the shorter one was charging at me.

Instinctively I reached for the closest thing to me to throw at him, unluckily for me that just so happened to be a pack of Twinkies. You can probably guess how effective that was.

It wasn't. The guy slammed into me like a Mac Truck sending my hurling into the freezer door. This time when I reached to throw something at the guy it had a bit more mass to it. The wine glass shattered on his forehead and he went down unconscious and cross eyed!

My newest friend had been able to wrestle around the other one and choke him out until he too was unconscious. Two completely different fighting styles. One result.

On our way out the door I slammed a one hundred dollar bill down on the counter and fled to the truck. We both got in and took off.

"Whew. That... wasn't very convenient considering we were in a convenient store!" he said clearly trying to be punny. I didn't laugh. Mainly because the wind was still knocked out of me. "I'm Nick by the way!" he said.

"I'm Landen." I said in return to his gesture.

"So where are we headed to anyway? I don't recall you saying." he asked.

"Currently we are going to find a motel to get some rest." I was exhausted after the day and needed to find solace in dream land.

"Well alrighty then!" he said and turned to look out the window.

"Hey, are you sure you're up to this? I mean we just met. Don't you think it's a bit random? You do know I’m traveling across the nation right?" I asked.

"Hey man a brony’s always got another brony’s back. We wouldn't be able to make it on our own. We need each other like we need food and water. Without the support we give each other we’d be just another fan base. Besides I had to get outta that dust bowl at some point. Why not now?" he said in complete confidence.

I smiled at the way he treated me even though he didn't know me. I felt like I was accepted without any need for a reason besides this whole brony thing. Whatever it was I was definitely going to have to look into it tomorrow morning.

We finally arrived at a motel. It was pretty run down, but it would do for one night. Frankly I was too tired to even have cared.

By the time we got to the room it was two o' clock in the morning and my body was creaming for sleep. Just before I plopped down I took out the ear piece and set it on the night stand next to my bed. Nick was already fast asleep and I was well on my way. I reflected on the events of the day. I realized that this was the first big moment of my life. My parent's dreams for me being something some day were finally coming true! I was becoming a hero, no... THE hero of Equestria! And nothing was going to get in my way!

Comments

[Solarius Shield]

very nice

[344forever]

love it keep it up bro
and while your at it Brohoof?/)

[clap2times]

*clap clap*

Well done, although I find it odd that he's meant to be a gamer and his never heard of bronies... Also, random "brony haters" and Nick who seems to believe everything he hears... I can't help but think that Nick's high

Also, putting a storyline into a story as random as this was a welcome surprise. Looking forward to more dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Pinkie_Pie_lolface.png

[steak boy jeff]

cool story, you should continue!