What you call "Ponies" I call "Tuesday"

It was a frantic chase back to Ponyville. All I could hear is my heart pounding, my hooves clopping, the wind rushing past my ears, and occasionally Pinkie shouting back at me to stop following her. I ignored every one of her warnings, and if I knew what was gonna happen next, I probably would’ve stopped.

The running continued for a good 15-20 minutes until we got to the edge of Ponyville. Once we crossed the bridge, there were a pair of familiar pegasi walking towards us.

On their way out of town…

“Hahaha, that’s hilarious, into a tree you say?” Harry said, staggering a bit from laughing so hard. Rainbow Dash had just told him about literally running into his friend. She had just gotten to the part where I had been kicked down the hill, and started rolling her eyes. This was the third time he had interrupted her and it was getting old.

“Yeah, pretty funny, anyways, after Flutter-“ Rainbow Dash was interrupted by a voice off in the distance. When she looked up, she saw a pink blur coming at them, followed by a green blur. It didn’t take long for the cyan pegasus to put together that the pink blur was Pinkie, and she was being chased by something. Although, who or what remained a mystery.

“AHHHDASHIEDASHIEDASHIECODEGREENCODEGREEN,” Pinkie shouted almost incoherently. Rainbow Dash was able to make it out, and gave a slight nod. She counted to 3, which gave Pinkie Pie enough time to pass her and her current companion, and she stuck her hoof out to the side.

As I trailed behind the speeding pink mare, I suddenly found my legs swept out from under me, and my body falling forward. I believe at this point, my mind focused on one thought… Am… I going to do a face plant? The answer to the question was yes, as my body sped up to real time, crashing me face first into the ground, and skidding to a stop from my mad sprint.

I believe we have met my one word last chapter or so. Ouch. I groaned, trying to get up without making any sudden moves. It didn’t take long before Dash and Harry came over, asking if I was alright.

“Hey, you alright there champ,” Dash asked putting a hoof on my shoulder.

“Mmph phhmmmlllmmm phhhmmmrrrmmm…” was my response.

“What was that,” Dash asked, moving a bit closer to hear me better. I lifted my head up a bit and spat out the bit of dirt that wormed its way in my mouth.

“Why… do you… hate… me,” I mumbled out, a bit more audible for the others trying to make sure I was fine. Dash tilted her head and gave a light chuckle.

“I don’t hate you, you’re just stuck at the wrong place at the wrong time,” she said, giving me a faced smile and put a hoof down to my level to help me up. I rolled my eyes, and wrapped my hoof around hers, and she helped me up almost effortlessly. I shook myself off a bit more thoroughly and brought my extended hoof up from hers to my mane and quickly brushed it off.

“Well, doesn’t seem to be anything serious,” I said before feeling something drape across my back and wild laughter coming from behind me.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA, I can’t believe it, even after last time, you still land a face plant like a pro,” Harry said, before letting out even more uproarious laughter. I rolled my eyes and tried my best to look serious, but no matter how hurt or upset I am, I can’t help but laugh when he starts laughing.

“Hehe, well when you got it, you always have it, like boiling a bicycle, it lingers,” I said, before letting out a quiet laugh of my own. Dash tilted her head in confusion at the sight of the 2 stallions laughing randomly. It was… weird for her. Especially since she’s only seen a couple stallions at any one time, mostly the pegasi in the weather patrol. But again, even they didn’t talk for very long.

When our laughter began to die down, she posed a question.

“Hey, umm guys, what are you two laughing about,” she inquired, tilting her head to the other side. We wiped the tears from our eyes, and began telling her the rather brief story of how the legacy of the face plant came to be. We acted out every bit, our walk down to the part, the various stunts off the swing, and my rather humorous latch on and drop down to the ground, face first. It definitely didn’t help that I left a face shaped imprint on the ground.

Once she was told and shown what had happen, she had begun to laugh a bit herself.

“Hahaha, well, it seems you can take more abuse than I give you credit for,” Rainbow Dash humored, playfully punching my fore leg.

“Oh more than you know,” Harry chimed in, trying to push me towards the cyan pegasus. I rolled my eyes and locked my legs in, stopping his attempt of trying to pair me up with the athletic speed demon.

“Hehe… ahem, would you excuse us for just one moment, I have something I’d like to discuss with my friend here,” I said, flashing Harry a serious look.

“Oh sure, don’t mind me, I’ll just be over here,” Dash said, before trotting off towards the hill. Once I was sure that she couldn’t hear us, I turned to Harry, and my smile instantly dropped from my face.

“Harry, no, for lots of reasons, no,” I said, shaking my head lightly.

Harry dropped his expression and looked me dead in the eyes. “Why not, she obviously likes you man, you need to quit wussing out and step up,” he said, puffing his chest out to make his point.

“She isn’t my type for one, and two, up until yesterday we weren’t even the same species,” I said, glancing around. There wasn’t anyone else around, but I wasn’t going to chance moving this conversation anywhere else. “Besides, we also don’t know anything about their culture or their mannerisms,”

“I know they use ‘pony’ a lot, and why wouldn’t she go for a guy like you, she’s an athletic type, you’re a sensible intellectual type, the perfect counter balance,” He said, giving me a light nudge.

“No, trust me, she’s not just athletic, she’s a jock,” I said rolling my eyes. “She would sooner make fun of me than think me attractive, you’d have a better shot,” I said, now giving him a nudge. He snapped his head back up and lightly blushed.

“Wait, what, no no, I can’t, I couldn’t possibly-“ Harry stammered out, flustered. Oh my goodness, he IS embarrassed!

“What, yes you can, what was all that a moment ago about stepping up and not wussing out,” I said, now trying to fight back a condescending smile. This might be one of the few times he might be embarrassed, but that isn’t any reason I should be an asshole about it now. Granted I’m going to blast him with it later, but not now.

“N-no, it’s just, well yes, she is cute, but I…” Harry glanced down at the ground and started making circles with one of his hooves. I sighed and put a hoof on one of his fore legs.

“Yes you can Harry, you got more going for you than you realize, just act natural, and don’t try to pawn her off on me,” I said, trying to boost his confidence up. He looked at me, and his expression when from shy and nervous to confident and psyched.

“You’re right, its time I did step up, I’m gonna ask her to be my girlfriend,” Harry said puffing himself out and getting ready to take off to go talk to her.

“Whoah, calm down there ace, we just got here and once more don’t know their customs,” I said planting my hooves on the bases of his wings. “Besides, we don’t have a penny to our names, and we’re slumming it out with Rarity at the moment,” Harry deflated at the words and slumped back down.

“Make up your mind David, go or stay,” Harry said in a rather flat tone, which is unusual for him.

“I’m saying go if you want, but it would be best if we stayed for a bit and got to know more about this place before we did anything rash,” I explained. He perked up a bit and shrugged it off.

“Whatever you say,” he said, before we heard hoofsteps coming from behind us…

Meanwhile, In the Legion of Awesome…

“Huh, wondered why they wanted to talk by themselves,” Rainbow Dash wondered to herself. She was on the other side of the hill, before a thought occurred.

“Oh sweet Celestia, they could be SPIES!!!!” She said, bolting her head upright and quickly looked around to see if anypony else was watching her. Luckily, she was alone, and with a quick breath, she took off, right up to commandeer a cloud. She made sure she was completely hidden before inching the cloud towards where the 2 stallions were last at.

“Try to get the best of me, we’ll see about that, quite convenient new faces come around and win over Fluttershy, but not me, not THIS pony,” she said before coming to a stop. She looked over to the sun. it hang lower in the sky than she last remembered. It must be around 6’o clock she figured. Just then, she remembered where she was and what she was doing.

“Dang, almost forgot, alright then spies, tell me your secrets,” she whispered to herself, peering over the cloud to better hear the conversation below. She listened for a while, and it seemed suspicious, but who were they talking about? Rainbow Dash scratched her head, trying to make sense of the conversation below.

It didn’t take long for her to get bored, and decided to look around for something to do. It seemed like forever in her mind. She almost started to doze off before a familiar voice broke through the silence of boredom…

Back to our comedic duo

“Howdy, I do believe you two have a social gatherin’ to be attendin’ to, if y’all’ll follow me, we’ll get ya there, lickety split,” came a southern accent from behind us. I wheeled around and stepped to my left to give Harry the sight of Applejack. Still wearing her trademarked wide brimmed hat and loose pony tail, she gave a light smirk to the 2 stallions, and glanced up to see Dash’s face poke out from the cloud overhead.

“Hey Applejack, how ya been,” Dash yelled, giving a wave.

“Oh, I’ve been better, slow day in the market, anyways what’re you doin’ here RD,” she asked the pegasus. Rainbow Dash was about to tell her, but then facehoofed to herself as she was technically spying on the 2 new faces of Ponyville. She sweated quickly before coming up with a quick lie to cover for herself.

“I was uhh… sleeping, yeah, they needed to talk about something so I decided to catch some Z’s while they did that, but I guess somepony moved the cloud,” she said, trying to ride it out nonchalantly. It seemed to have worked as Applejack just shrugged it off.

“Well, yer welcome to come too if’n ya want, I’m sure there’s gonna be plenty of snacks at the hodown we’re goin’ to,” Harry and I looked at each other before turning to the cowgirl mare.

“Hodown…” we inquired in unison. It was really a side to behold as it doesn’t happen often. Applejack shrugged it off.

“Hootinany, shindig, party, whatever y’all be wantin’ ta call it,” She explained, a bit frustrated at having to spell it out for them.

“Is it a Pinkie Pie Party,” Dash asked from the clouds.

“You know it, an’ she throws some of the best in all Equestria,” Dash was on the ground and eager to get to the party.

“Aww yeah, nothing beats a Pinkie Pie Party, come on guys, you’ll regret it if you don’t go, for more reasons than one!,” Rainbow Dash hyped up, eagerly beckoning for the 2… dare I say… Bronies… to follow them.

Hehe, you definitely like playing to a fandom, don’t you, Davie?

Why yes, it seems to be one of my more favorable talents…

Really, as compared to what?

Well, you’d rather not know. Anyways, I think we’ll save what happens next for later. After all, what good is the hype if we expend it all now?

But isn’t that foreshadowing?

Have you been talking to Twilight again?

No.

I think you have.

I think you need some cake.

Maybe later.

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Author’s Comment – So sorry for the long wait. So many bad things happened. Some good stuff too, but mostly bad. Rather than go into detail, I will just say that work has almost destroyed my will to do much else . I will try and update the story as often as I can, however I’m not sure how consistent it will be. This wasn’t the best chapter I have written, and I am not confident in how I can get it to play out. Let me know how you like it, and if you think we should have some romance in this story. Obviously hinting at the pairing of Harry and Rainbow Dash. Please try to enjoy, again, if you didn’t like this chapter, I will take it under advisement and either re-write the whole thing, or make it a plot device later on.