This day did not go as well as I planned. It didn’t help that I yelled so loudly that Celestia herself could hear me. Like I said before, loud arguments anger me.
Twilight and I were seated at a restaurant. Twilight looked like a mother who discovered that her son has been lying about his grades.
“Listen to me,” Twilight said. “I understand you were trying to get everypony to stop arguing, but screaming into the heavens is not okay!”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I just don’t like it when ponies argue so loudly.”
“Nopony does,” Twilight said. “But others have…’better’ ways to deal with it. Yours was not one of them. I’m going to overlook this incident, but if it happens again, young man, I’m sending your rear back to Canterlot! Understand?”
“Yes, Twilight...”
Twilight sighed. She then looked at the menu.
This was not the reputation I wanted to get. Maybe I should’ve just let this day play out like in the episode.
“Have you made your decision?” the waiter asked.
“I think...I’ll take the daffodil and daisy sandwich,” replied Twilight.
“And I’ll have the hay fries. Extra crispy,” I said.
As we waited for our food, I decided to talk to Twilight.
"We could've just told the girls that you and I were going to the gala," I said. "They would've understood."
"Yes, but then I would feel guilty about leaving them out," Twilight replied. "It's not everyday that sompony gets invited to a gala."
"Why don't we just tear the tickets apart? That way nopony can go."
"We can't do that, Spike! Those tickets could be expensive, and we got them for free from the Princess herself. If we tore them up, Celestia would think that we had no interest in going. Which we do, by the way."
A few moments later, our food arrived. Twilight ate her sandwich while I ate my hay fries. They were really good. Almost anything can be good when it’s deep-fried.
Twilight had just one more bite to eat when the waiter asked, “Em, madam? Are you going to finish your food in the rain?”
Twilight replied, “It’s not rain...” We then noticed that it was raining everywhere except at our table. “What’s going on?”
Rainbow Dash appeared from one of the openings in the clouds. “Hi there, best friend forever I've ever ever had. Enjoying the sunny weather?”
“Did you seriously made it rain everywhere sans this spot just so you could get the ticket?” I asked.
“Me? No no no, of course not,” Rainbow replied.
“Rainbow, I am not comfortable accepting unwanted favors,” Twilight said, “so I'd appreciate it if you close up that rain cloud right now.”
“Augh, fine.” Rainbow zipped up the cloud. But I wished she hadn’t, because a few seconds later, we got soaked.
“Twilight, Spike, it’s raining,” said Rarity.
“Thanks, element of obviousness,” I replied.
“Come with me before you catch a cold.”
Rarity took Twilight and I to the Canterlot Boutique. I dried myself off with a towel, while Twilight dried herself by shaking like a dog. This ended up getting Rarity wet, much to her chagrin.
“Oops, sorry,” said Twilight.
“Oh no, it's quite alright,” said Rarity. “After all, we are the best of friends, are we not? And you know what the best of friends do? Makeovers!”
Rarity quickly changed Twilight and I into different outfits. Twilight found hers okay, but I had mixed feelings with mine. I looked like some kid forced to have his picture taken.
“Uh...hey!” I removed my outfit. “I just remembered...I forgot something at the library! See you there!”
I quickly dashed toward the library. When I opened the door, I saw Fluttershy and her animals cleaning Twilight’s library.
“Fluttershy? Not you, too.” I slapped my forehead.
“Why hello, Spike,” Fluttershy greeted. “I hope you don't mind, but we're all doing a little spring cleaning for you and Twilight.”
“It’s summer, Fluttershy.”
“Oh, well, better late than never, right? It was Angel's idea.” Angel was tossing salad.
“I know you’re doing this for the ticket, Fluttershy. I thought you weren’t interested in going anymore.”
“Uh...well...but...it is a gala...”
Then I saw Twilight showing up.
“Did Rarity and Applejack try to do favors for you, too?” I asked.
“Yep,” she replied.
“That makes four of them.” I pointed to Fluttershy, who was blushing.
Twilight groaned. “Fluttershy, this was all very nice of you and Angel, but I'm not accepting any extra favors until I've made my final decision.” She opened the door. “So, I'm going to have to ask you to leave—”
But Twilight was quickly taken by a group of ponies, who threw Twilight up in the air. Then Pinkie sung about how much she loved Twilight. Twilight shouted for Pinkie to stop as I quickly ran towards the group. Twilight fell to the ground with a thud.
“You alright, Twilight?” I asked.
“At least the other ponies tried to be subtle...” Twilight replied.
“Pinkie’s not like other ponies, believe me.”
“So who are you going to give the ticket to, Twilight?” Pinkie asked.
Then the crowd started asking about the ticket.
Dang it, Pinkie. I was trying to avoid this.
“Oh, you didn't know? Twilight has an extra ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala!” shouted Pinkie.
That got the ponies’ attention. Everypony started asking Twilight for favors. I think I overheard somepony say they’ll do Twilight’s taxes. I knew what was going to happen next. And since there was no way of preventing it...
“RUN LIKE THE WIND, TWILIGHT!!” I shouted at the top of my lungs.
Twilight took off like a bullet, with a stampede of horses following behind her.
“Pinkie, go home!” I demanded.
“Okie dokie loki,” she replied as she pronked away.
I ran inside the library and ordered Fluttershy and her animals to leave. They all obeyed. I slammed the door behind them.
“Okay...3...2...1...and...cue Twilight!”
Twilight flashed out of nowhere. Her eyeballs spun like tops.
“Woah! A teleportation spell,” I said. “I didn’t know you could do that.”
“I didn't even know it was gonna happen,” she said. “Now quick, lock the doors!”
I quickly ran about locking every door while Twilight blew out each lantern and turned off each light. But I knew what’s next. The lights came back on, and the girls were standing on the windowsill.
“How did you all get in here?!” I asked.
Twilight screamed. “I can't decide, I just can't decide! I know it’s important for all of you to visit the gala and I just can't stand disappointing any of you, and giving me gifts and doing me favors won't make any difference, because you're all my friends and I wanna make you all happy and I can't, I just can't!” She fell to the floor.
Then the girls, including Rainbow Dash, apologized to Twilight about their behavior earlier today and decided that none of them should get the ticket.
“I guess that means it’s just you and me, Twilight,” I said.
Twilight shook her head. “Spike, take a note, please.”
I grabbed a quill and a piece of paper.
Twilight cleared her throat. “Dear Princess Celestia, I've learned that one of the joys of friendship is sharing your blessings, but when there's not enough blessings to go around, having more than your friends can make you feel pretty awful. So, though I appreciate the invitation, I will be returning both tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala.”
“What?!” the rest of us yelled.
“If my friends can't all go, I don't wanna go either.”
I shrugged. I placed the tickets into the scroll and sent them to the Princess. The girls then shared a group hug.
“Aww...” I started to say, but my stomach got queasy again.
“Well wallop my withers, Spike,” said Applejack. “Isn't that just like a boy? Can't handle the least bit of sentiment, yellin’ like a sailor,...”
“It’s not that...” I said, clutching my stomach. I then burped so much, that I was blown back.
“A letter from the princess? That was fast,” said Twilight.
I read the letter. “‘My faithful student Twilight, Why didn't you just say so in the first place?’" Then I saw what popped out. “Six tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala!”
The ponies cheered as they each took their respective tickets. They then left the library to get some dinner.
3...2...1…
I burped out another scroll. “‘And one for you, Spike.’” I took the ticket from the scroll. “Thanks, Celestia.”
That was the ticket part taken care of, but I still needed to work on how to make sure the girls do get the best night ever. But since the gala was a long way away, I decided I should work on other stuff.
Good luck with that. Especially with Blueblood.
Also, a little reminder. WATCH OUT FOR WINTER WRAP-UP!
He could have avoided the whole episode by NOT reading the message out loud, or at least reading it until they got back to the library.
All dealt with, save for the little bit that everyone thought it acceptable to steal from Spike. Even Twilight was considering taking away Spike's ticket to give to someone else, which is plain terrible.
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But then Twilight would have been hogging him, which I imagine is rather unbearably annoying. Then again, you do make a good point.
.... you were doin' so well too. D:
Ahhh, yer other chapters didn't affect anythin. Worst POSSIBLE Theeenggg. Oh nuuu.
:P
While I am surprised at Twi threatening to send Spike to canterlot with the number of extra things he has done he needs to be aware that the threat is real. He would have a different time if that happened.
I would've been so tempted to write back "good to see I'm at least an afterthought... I'll tell you what, after you're done shaking everyone's hoof next to Twi, after you nephew gets aquainted with an apple cake, and after the party gets aquainted with a couple dozen scared animals, come over to Pony Joe's with the 7 of us. Your first doughnut's on me."
Though that does remind me. What are you gonna do during the sleepover episode? Celestia's not an idiot... Mostly, at least
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Good point about the sleep over (that’s the episode where Twilight is alone at the library because Spike has to go help Celestia with some “royal business“, right? -It’s been a long time since I watched season 1-), that is going to put “spike” in a very interesting spot
Or you could've taken the ticket, or written to Celestia ahead of time, like Spike did in Lesson Zero.
Don't you mean the "Carousel Boutique"?
Thanks Obama.
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You know "Royal Business" is just a comics convention, right?
Unless I am confusing it somewhere.
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But Spike was willing to offer his ticket almost right from the start.
(He's that much of a gentle-drake!)
So is he trying to woo Rarity or not? Blatant sarcasm might work for some but I don’t think it would do any favors with her.
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Well... he is in a baby dragon body.
Im actually liking this, it's pretty good
Ask. For. More. Tickets.
*deep evil laughter* she cant or her letters to the PrincessES get delayed
Is Twilight pen pal with Luna do to a smart suggestion helping David-Spike ?
Or saving Equestria? Or Celestias only familie *wink-wink*
I like snarky David-Spike
Shake THAT BOOTY
Get in there David-Spike! Time to shine! Literally and metaforacly by GIVING your ticket to the lovely
Marshmallow butt ponyCrush of yours.By the way... How the booty view in eye height
Character development for Flutters? Im so proud of the Authors progression
Awww David-Spike cares
Ponyville? Ponys? ... . . . . . . .
Clever David-Spike
No additional quote from David-Spike?
Hows Luna by the way...
Nice, whole chapter were scrolling paragraphs and barely found anything to read. That's just an episode as it happened in the show with slightly modified dialogues in a few places. Didn't even asked Twilight to cast a shield at the cafe to prevent being soaked in the rain. And that beside obvious proposition to ask for more tickets early. Nope, let's wait for episode to go exactly as in the show.
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He tried to talk them out it because they were disappointed with the whole story in the end.
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She already proved with the owl she takes him for granted. She never talked to him about the new assistant and every mistake she acted like he was a monster despite him working like crazy to get her attention. She cares about him but she doesn't act like an adult.
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Nah he just once again stole the spotlight from Twilight Snarkle over there.
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This time it seem he put effort into the chapter by leaving it alone, yet so mutch space for improvments...
Nice try, we get them another time
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I think most of that was the writer just... not being very good and their obsession with sticking to the rails meant that they just ignored that small deviation.
Speaking of which, I came back to give this another try and I'm already regretting it. Literally nothing is being done to derail canon; at this point this could just as easily have been a time looping Spike since the SI's personality is non-existent (might as well be a cardboard cutout). And even then so little has changed that I might as well be watching the actual show.
A few slight derails off the canon now, it'll turn into a plethora of show-changing events and interventions coming soon.
But we still never figured out how Applejack made her ticket float above her.
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I heard Applejack was related to the pink one.
Isn't Spike eating meat? Even omnivores need meat.
I doubt it be healthy to force Apikes body into non meat dietary paths.
Food supplements only reach so far... hm... Fish ould be the most easy and moral acceptable.
Pinkie Pie is strangely normal in this story
Can Spike dragonmail living beings? Emergency teleportation alternative
Moondancer has a ticket or...?