Paragons

I whispered to Ray before we entered the door, "Dear God Ray please tell me you didn't tell anyone our names?"

He shook his head and I spoke again, "You DO know we gotta come up with names... Right?" I kinda said it like a joke, but he actually hesitated at the door.

He looked at me with a thoughtful expression, "Your Rain Puddle and I'm Storm Chaser, that's good, isn't it?"

My eyes narrowed and I felt my nostrils flare, "And if I ever hear you call me PUDDLE I'm gonna suffocate you with a cloud."

He drooped his ears, wonder how the hell he figured how to do that, "I'm sorry dude, I've never been good at making names."

I gave him a wise ass crack of a smile, "How about Rain Splash. That at least doesn't make me feel like a colt."

He gave me a look of surprise as I said the 'pony-slang' for boy. I rolled my eyes, "Don't you remember the day you drilled all of those damn names in my head? Colt friend, mare friend, colt, mare, stallion, filly, buck, Pegasus feathers, hay, anyPONY?! Shockingly those things still rattle around in my brain."

He had the nerve to shrug, "Just means I don't have to teach you."

I felt my nostrils blow steam, "You bucking--!"

With that and a small giggle he went in Sugarcube corner. (Just so you guys don't think we are breaking and entering a sign on the outside of the store said "new ponies come this way") we were greeted by a blinding spotlight and a avalanche of "SURPRISE's" I was working out the ringing in my ear as Ray just smiled taking it all in, Pinkie Pie walked over with that same freaking smile that had unsettled the hell outta me, it was the Smiles HD smile... And creepy as FUCK. but I'm guessing she is completely harmless, unless you break her promises.... I shivered,don't do that. He trotted forward and offered a hoof to the over caffeinated Pink mare. As opposed to any standard and NORMAL greeting, because we all know that Pinkie is anything but normal, she bear hugged him and I actually heard the sound of a couple of bones pop. The only comprehensible words were, "AAAAAAAIR!"

She flinched as our overly manly voices hit her ears, she let go and jumped back, "Oops, hehehe! Sorry, say, you two haven't been messing with the fabric of time and space lately... Have you?"

Ray's face screwed up in confusion, and I knew I needed my quick wits to get us out of this one, Pinkie was WAY smarter than she ever let on, I decided to test out how smart.

I looked at her in her eyes and with a small chuckle under my breath stated, "Not yet at least, our kinetic mass is to small to pin prick out of the fabric of time and space, so our total traveling velocity would be just too difficult to track down. On the other hoof, if we had a sub atomic proton smasher we could potentially brew something quite fancy up. But on another subject how are your pies Pinkie?"

I almost felt Rays mouth hit the floor, most of what I spewed was random gibberish, but some of it a actually understood. Which was bad because Pinkie seemed about to tell me something about how a sub atomic proton would be impossible without a atom splicer, or she was about to say her pies were amazing.

It was interrupted by a awkward and rather talkative conversation leading up to the door, it went a little something like this:

"Spike what do you mean its 'pointless'?"

"Well I just don't understand why we need so many party's all the time"

"That's easy Spike, because party's are what Pinkie does best!"

I looked over to see Pinkie looking like she needed a hug. So I did the macho manly thing and gave her a small hug, "Its fine, this... Spike, is just confused on why you need party's, he doesn't know that party's are ALWAYS in style does he?"

She shook her head with a little bit of tears leaking out of her eyes and her hair started to deflate. My eyebrows shot up, along with my ears, "Aha!" I reached behind her and out of nowhere my hoof closed around a bicycle tire pumper, I had NO idea how that happened but it's what I needed so I didn't question it. I proceeded to stick the hose in her hair a begin to pump the other side. To my surprise her hair proofed up a bit more with every pump.

And for the first time, in... Well forever, I saw her completely confused, "how did you--?" I put a hoof up, "Because I don't like to see you upset. Kinda like your Cutie Mark, I try and make everyone happy, but that's a secondary trait. It's not what I'm best at." She tilted her head to one side as Twilight and a VERY embarrassed Dragon walked through the door and the party continued, I noticed what Pinkie

was staring at, "Well?"

I shook out of my day dream, "Huh? Well what?"

She giggled in a way only she could, "What's your cutie mark mean silly?"

My eyes glazed over and a look of sorrow and sadness, with a 'flutter' of hope filled them, "A promise. One I intend to at least find out before I die."

She looked my over once more before gasping and remembering something, "OH MY GOSH! I almost forgot to ask you name! What is it?!"

I laughed, "Its Rain Splash, nice to meet you Pinkie Pie."

She gave a smile and looked around, "Well I gotta go meet your...." I answered the obviously hanging question, "Brother." She nodded, "brother and see to it everyone gets enough food... Hope you have a good time... Rain." With that she trotted off. I leaned against the counter and thought to myself, "Damn, I'm good. Now where is that oh-so-shy mare I've been trying to find?"