Author's Note

I needed to conclude this day because I wanted to make sure I started the next day with a fresh chapter. That's the come I was writing until I ended this day. And since you all been waiting patiently I'm granting you two chapters instead of one. Please read and enjoy.

Run, Tommy, Run

In Ponyville

Heavy breathing, aching legs, heart racing, adrenaline pumping, mind on survival, and one man's will to live, ran through the small town of Ponyville. I jumped fences, dodge carts, pushed past or hopped over ponies heading to Twilights Library.

I looked behind seeing the red bronco charging fast. He was a horse after all and he was gaining yards. I had to juke him by cutting corners around houses or buildings and with any straight shots I would surely be caught in no time.

I looked around at the same time trying to search for this library, "Big tree, big tree where are ya," I panted, "...I should of asked Discord for a map."

Big Mac yelled about 50-60 yards behind and closing in, "Get back here!"

I needed to do something and fast. I cut around a shop and was in the town's market square and saw a nearby wagon on the side of a building with a vegetable garden in the front. I quickly jumped in to hide and also rested because my legs felt pretty wore out. As I caught my breath I notice the wagon was only 1/4 full of carrots and I was able to lay down so nopony could see me unless they looked directly into the wagon.

I just hope the red stallion didn't see me jump in. I took a peek to see if my pursuers were still hot on my tail. I did see the duo, mainly Big Mac, frantically looking in shops and inside other carts with the eyes of a sniper looking through the crowds.

As AJ followed her brother with worry in her eyes other stallions would stop and admire the young orange mare who was wearing her skimpy two piece. Big Mac would step in front of his sister glaring them down, practically growling at any stallion that would make eye contact with his little sister. I could see the embarrassment Applejack felt running into town like that. However, she was more worried about what her brother would do to me than what ponies thought of her. She did cover herself with a blanket an older mare gave her and sat at a table watching her brother continue the search.

Big mac was coming my way and I knew I couldn't jump out and run, he'd see me and I'd be done. I had only one thing I could do and that was to protect myself. I dug in my pocket for my switchblade. Pulling it out I flicked it open and held it close to my chest.

"It's either me or him, right," I thought to myself. I stooped real low and pointed the blade forward ready to pounce on the unexpecting stallion when he looks inside the cart. "Are you actually going to do this?" I asked myself. I took a deep breath, "Think of Applejack at least, that's her brother." I started to panic, "Think of her, think of Fluttershy, I'm her lover." I don't know what to do, but my life was on the line. Hoovesteps drew closer and I started to breath rapidly and my hand started shaking as I held onto the blade. I closed my eyes thinking about how it would be for Fluttershy if she found out I was killed.

Next thing I know I hear a loud shout from behind, "Got cha." Everything went slow as I turned around quickly not expecting the stallion to have come around to the back of the wagon. I was about to lunge forward but my eyes quickly adjusted and before me wasn't big and red but rather little and blue. This pony was not the stallion I thought it was. "Haha got cha pretty good huh," she laughed hovering near the foot of the wagon.

I ignored the multi-colored maned mare and looked back to where Big Mac should have been. He was looking halfway into the shop before backing up some. "Oh shit," I said grabbing the laughing mare's hoof pulling her into the wagon with me. Couldn't let her blow my cover, if I had any left.

Caught by surprise Rainbow fell to my side and I held her to where she was laying down next to me. "Hey what ar-," Dash tried to say before I covered her mouth with my left hand. I had the blade in my right hand tucked aside so the athletic pony wouldn't see it.

I heard a feminine voice say, "Oh excuse me." Then a little rattling from the front of the wagon and we began to roll away. "Umh this is a...little...heavier," she said hauling us and her carrots away.

Dash wanted to get up but I kept her down. I peeked over the side and saw Big Mac checking the corner where the wagon had been parked, then he trotted to his sister, said something, and they headed deeper into town. I laid back down and sighed, "Hugh that was close." I closed my eyes and relaxed putting the switchblade back in my pocket. The chase was over.

RD moved my hand from her mouth so she could finally say something, "So what was all that about? Why are so jumpy and why are you in this wagon?" she said quietly not trying to cause attention from the mare pulling the wagon.

I didn't want to answer any questions I just needed to lay low and get to Twilight's. I opened my eyes partially looking at her confused but yet somewhat happy expression. I don't think she saw the Apple siblings so I guess I can make something up. I couldn't think of anything legit, not that I can't, I just don't feel like it right now. Without even giving any forethought I said quietly, "Ah you scared me that's why I'm jumpy and...um...I guess that's why I pulled you in and...uh your voice still echoed in my head so I covered your mouth so...I could recover from the sudden scare...and ah I was afraid you might scream surprising me again...and ur...ya a real prankster Dash you got me good...and um...yeah." I closed my eyes again. That should work, best I can come up anyway. Our conversation was quiet from here on out.

I was wrong she didn't buy it, "Yeah right," she said rolling her eyes, "...So why are you in here then?"

"I ah...I.," I said thinking of something, then said the first thing that came to mind, "...fainted in the wagon because I ran...um." That's as far as I got.

The pegasus arched an eyebrow, "Fainted while crouching, okay I'm calling total BS on this," she said.

I sighed and placed my hand on my head, "Rainbow Dash can we not."

Rainbow shrugged it off and said, "Fine don't tell me then."

We stood quiet for a minute before I felt the mare next to me push up against me. I saw that she had a light blush of pink on her blue cheeks. Oh yeah the weird feeling thing.

"I was going to see if you wanted to hang out," the blue pegasus said, "...but it doesn't look like you're up for anything."

"Not really, not today," I said.

"Oh that's alright," the mare said a little bummed, "...this is cool, too. Just the two of us...not knowing where we're going in some random pony's wagon with carrots sticking in our backs." We both giggled.

"Some chariot this is, right," I said looking into her magenta eyes.

Dash gazed back at me and smiled. The wagon stopped and we both froze for a short moment. "Looks like our rides over," the blue mare said peeking over the wagons walls to see that the mare was unsaddling herself. Dash ducked her head and we looked at each other, "So what do we do?" she asked.

The other mare walked around the back and unlatched the door. We stared at the thick orange maned pony and the olive green eyes stared at us. The pale goldenrod colored mare opened her mouth and said loudly, "What are you two doing in my carrot wagon?"

The moment she said that I tell Rainbow, "Book it." The professional flyer took to the skies quickly leaving a stream of rainbow and I turned tail, hopped over the front of the wagon and took off running along the house and hid behind it. I looked behind me to find that Carrot Top wasn't following and she was standing in her wagon inspecting the contents with in.

Rainbow swooped down next to me, "That was a close one Tommy," the pegasus said. I took another relaxing minute before being asked with hope, "So ya think we could hang out tomorrow?"

"Um maybe, we'll see," I had said before facing her and saw how close her face, with a wide smile, was close to mine. "I'd hang out with you today but I really need to get to Twilight's," she frowned and crossed her arms slightly looking up and away when I said that.

"Twilight, why her?" she asked, "I'm the one that's awesome," The full of herself mare muttered.

"So could you tell me where she lives from here?" I asked noticing her bit of jealousy towards me wanting me to see Twi than to hang with her.

Rainbow flew above the rooftops and looked around. She pointed her hoof in the direction of the library and gave me direction to where it was. "Just head straight down that way and cut a couple corners you won't miss it," she instructed hovering down to me.

"Thanks RD gotta run I'll catch you later," and with that I ran towards the library.

"Yeah...see you around," the blue mare said to herself before flying off disappointed to where ever she was going.

Twilight's Library

I headed into direction of the treehouse being careful and vigilant not to be spotted by AJ's older brother. I cut a couple corners to get to the area that Rainbow pointed to until I saw a big oak tree with windows and a porch on top off to the side. I knew this had to be Twilight's treehome.

I was a couple yards away when the front door open and a pink behind was backing out. I came to a jog. "It was Pinkie, what was she doing her?" I asked myself.

"I really don't think you should do any of those things, Twilight," Pinkie said sounding pretty worried. She said one last thing before closing the door, "Stay here I...I'll be back." When she turned around and saw me the pink party mare pressed her back against the door blocking my entrance. "You don't want to go in there," she warned.

"Pinkie I need to talk to Twilight," I said reaching for the doorknob.

Pinkie said pushing my hand away with her hoof, "No you can't."

Gently pushing her to the side I say, "I have something important to ask and I need to get an answer."

The pink mare held onto my arm, "You have to trust me, Tommy, you don't want to go in there," she begged for me not to go in.

What's wrong with Twilight that it's freaking Pinkie out. I looked through the window and saw the alicorn on her back with her wings sprung out on her couch. Pinkie stood next to me and said, "See, that's why I didn't want you to come in.

Twilight was talking to the little purple green scaled baby dragon now, "Oh Spike I can't wait to learn all about him," She said half dreamily and half with glee and excitement, "...I can't wait to try experiments with him, too, it'll be so fun."

I thought to myself, "Wait, did she know I was coming, if so how."

Spike backed off his motherly like friend and headed for the door and said along the way, "Okay Twilight, you're freaking me out. I'm getting the heck out of here." Spike opened the door and saw me and Pinkie standing by the window. He wasn't to shock to see me; he just had a confused look on his face. "I'm guessing' your that human Twilight keeps talking about," he said crossing his arms cocking an eyebrow. "She really has the hots for you, dude...," he said walking away, "...good luck with that."

Me and Pinkie looked through the window again. "I want you to teach me all about you Tommy," the princess said softly reaching down to her nethers, "Oh Tommy I want to learn the ways your kind reproduce," she said lustfully.

"You got to be kidding me," I thought to myself.

The purple mare began to pleasure herself with her hoof with a deep blush on her cheeks. "Hah to see oha how it differs hah oh from our oha mating ah hah," the moaning mare said closing her eyes as the sensations shocked through her body.

I face-windowed saying to Pinkie, "Aww what's with you mares? What so attractive about me that makes you think of doing...that?"

"Beats me," she shrugged, "...but I don't feel that way towards you. I only want to be your friend and nothing more."

I look down at the little pink mare and asked her, "Thank you for being the only one sane, but how were you able to ignore it?"

Pinkie thought for a second, "I'm not sure, but when "she" came out I wasn't able to control that weird feeling."

I thought for a minute, "Could it be possible that your strange feeling or I should just say odd attraction channeled through Pinkamena and not you?"

"Um...I guess so," she said placing a hoof on her chin.

I started to think, "So it has to be an odd attractiveness that the mares are feeling for me. So Pinkamena felt that but Pinkie didn't, so it only affected one of her personalities and thank goodness it was her bad side and not the good side of Pinkie." I backed away from the window. "I still didn't understand what's up with that, though."

"Let's get out of here then Pinkie," I said knowing that I was still out in the open and I didn't want to be spotted.

In Ponyville

Pinkie just remembered something, "I almost forgot, you need to get ready, come with me," she said trotting away.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

Pinkie smiled, "Didn't you get my note?"

I followed behind, "Ah no." As we passed the treehome a strange colored snake hissed at me. I moved out of its way, I wasn't sure if it was going to bite me or what.

"I talked to Rarity and she said yes she'd love to go on a date with you," Pinkie informed, "...and you're supposed to be getting ready at the bakery."

"Wait, that's today," I said surprised.

The pink mare looked back at me, "Yeah, she was super-cited when I mentioned it.

I thought for a sec, "Yeah excited for a date or excited for something more."

"So what did you say?" I asked.

Pinkie told me her little conversation. (Pinkie's POV)

I had stopped by and said, "So what cha doin'?"

And she said in her fancy talk, "If you must know I'm finishing on a dress I designed. I've been working on it all day."

So I asked her, "Oh that's nice, so Rarity what do you think of Tommy?"

Then Rarity got all dreamy and said, "Why I think he's most charming and a gentleman, such a handsome magnificent creature that would make a girl faint on the very sight of him."

And I was like, "Really I only want to hug and be his friend on the very sight of him." (And she did just that, Pinkie hugged me and smiled)

Then Rarity looked at me funny and she said, "Anyhow what brings the talk of Tommy to your mind?"

So I asked, "I was just wondering, what do you think of going out on a date with him?"

"A date? With me? Oh well I...," Rarity placed a hoof on her chest, "...I would love to go on a date with Tommy, however I cannot stop my work as a special pony is coming in to town tomorrow and I need to present this dress to her that night."

I was a little sad but I became happy again when she said, "On the other hoof I will not refuse his offer and I will make time for him this evening." Rarity straightened out her mane, "Let me get myself ready and have him be here around 7pm."

"Okie dokie then and don't worry Rarity I will have everything set up here," I said happily.

"You're going to have it here at the boutique?" Rarity asked.

I smiled and nodded my head, "Ah huh and I'll make the dinner, too."

"Well Pinkie if you insist, then here at the boutique we shall have our date," Rarity said happily.

And then I went to prepare everything.

Pinkie finished telling me her conversation with Rarity. (Back to Tommy's POV)

"Alrighty then, but don't I need to get my dress clothes because I can't go in these overalls," I said still watching my back.

"I have everything ready for you at the bakery, your clothes and formal shoes, your hair stuff, everything" the pink mare said.

"Fluttershy didn't see you did she?" I asked wondering how she got my stuff.

"Nope, I popped in and I popped out," Pinkie said jumping to one side then back to the other side.

I thought to myself, "Good 'cause I don't want her to find out that I'm going out on a date with her friend. Man it feels wrong doing stuff behind Shy's back."

"So what were you doing at Twi's?" I asked the bouncing mare.

The party planner answered, "I stopped to see if I could set something up between you and Twilight and you know how she wanted to learn about the human race."

I nodded my head, "Yeah."

"Well I thought that while you were talking to Twi, you could see if she wanted to kiss you just out of curiosity," Pinkie explained, "...you know how Twilight likes to try new stuff."

I thought to myself, "That sounds like it'll work."

Pinkie said something else so I paid attention to her again, "But when I told her that, her eyes went all swirly and she began to talk about some really um...things about her and you and I had to stop her from saying those things but I couldn't and she kept saying and saying those things."

"I don't even want to know what those "things" were," I said to myself.

"When did she start saying those things?" I asked the mare at my side.

Pinkie thought for a second, "Um I think a half an hour ago."

That was when I was just heading towards the treehome. Well hopefully she'll be alright. I also hoped that Big Mac and Applejack gave up the search that way I can get through town without worrying about being caught.

Sugarcube Corner

We finally approached the bakery and Pinkie let me in. It was just me and her, the Cakes were out. The place was all cleaned up and spotless. Pinkie took me upstairs and we both stared at the bed remembering the memory of that night. It was awkward for only a minute.

"Um...I put your stuff in the bathroom so you can get ready," the pink mare said.

"Oh ah I'm going to use your shower if that's alright?" I asked heading to the restroom.

"Of course," she said and she left the room.

After a good clean shower and a nice set of dress clothes on, I went downstairs. I had black khakis and a striped dark purple button up dress shirt on with a black vest and bow tie. Hair combed and gelled back and ready to go.

Pinkie was waiting by the front counter, "Oh you look so much, much better Rarity's gonna love you," she said when she saw me.

"You said that Rarity said 7pm so we better get going," I said checking the time, 6:38pm.

"Oh right let's go," Pinkie said heading out the door.

And so we went heading to Rarity's. Now let's hope it stays formal.