The Life Of D-Pad: Brave New Worlds

“Good morning, dear.”

D-Pad awoke to the sight of Octavia laying in bed with him.

“Good morning, my love.” He cooed as he kissed her.

He pulled off the covers. There in the morning rays, he looked over his love. A gray earth pony with a purple treble clef cutie mark. That gorgeous dark gray flowing mane and tail and those enchanting purple eyes. He wanted to lay in bed with her forever. But he knew he had work to do.

His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of thumping dubstep music coming from downstairs. “Vinyl’s cleaning dishes again, I hear.” Octavia chuckled.

“I suppose I should get ready.” He chuckled with her.

He walked over to a mirror. He looked himself over. A yellow, bat-winged pegasus. A brown, untidy mane and tail with eyes as green as emeralds. They weren’t slits like other bat-winged pegasi, although to him, that didn’t matter at all. He looked at his flank and saw his video game controller cutie mark.

“You look handsome, dear.” Octavia complemented him.

D-Pad blushed. “Thanks…you don‘t look to bad yourself…”

Octavia giggled as she got off the bed. She walked over to him and kissed him full on the mouth. “Have a good day.” She spoke as she broke the kiss, smiling.

D-Pad walked downstairs, the thumping from the wubs getting louder. “OH YEAH! THIS IS MY JAM!!” Vinyl shouted over the blaring dubstep, bobbing her head to it. D-Pad watched as the white mare with blue hair, red eyes, and a bridged eight note cutie mark started dancing wildly.

“GOOD MORNING VINYL!!” D-Pad shouted over the wubbery.

“YO! YOU GETTING READY FOR WORK!?” She shouted back.

“YEAH! DO YOU KNOW WHERE MY STUFF IS?!” He shouted in question.

“BY THE DOOR!!” She shouted in reply.

D-Pad walked over to the door. Beside it was a sandwich board with the words “Pegasi for hire” on it. He then picked up a bell beside it. There was a knock at the door, to which D-Pad opened it.

“GOOD MORNING LANCE!!”

“Augh!” Lance shouted in surprise. The gray bat-winged stallion with a black crew-cut mane, gold slit eyes, and a red lance as his cutie mark raised an eyebrow at him. “What are ya tryin to do, make me go deaf?!”

“Sorry, Vinyl’s cleaning dishes again.” He embarrassedly stated, rubbing the back of his head.

Lance laughed. “I’m just bucking with you, I could hear the music a couple blocks away.”

“Well, wubs ARE the best way to clean dishes…anyway, you ready to go?” D-Pad asked.

“Yep. Lets get going! We got ponies to help!” Lance exclaimed with determination.

The two jetted of into the sky.

“PEGASI FOR HIRE!!” Lance shouted.

The two stallions sat in the middle of the Ponyville marketplace, ringing their bells and shouting to potential clients. The market was buzzing with activity. The sound of bits falling to countertops and ponies talking about their days and whatnot filled the market.

PEGASI FOR HIRE!!” D-Pad shouted.

“So D-Pad…you finally finished moving in with Octavia?” Lance inquired as he rung his bell.

“Yep. Moved into the basement, but that don’t mean I’ve been using the bed down there.” D-Pad replied with a smirk.

“Hah! With the way you and Octavia are, I’m not surprised.” Lance laughed.

“I told you, I love that mare with all of my heart.” D-Pad chuckled.

“So…have you two lovebirds tried to copulate yet?” Lance asked, nudging D-Pad.

D-Pad looked at Lance in shock.

“Dude! We’re really gonna talk about this!? In the middle of the market!?” D-Pad replied, wide-eyed.

“Yep. So didja?” Lance asked again.

D-Pad sighed. “No, we have not “Done it” yet.”

“But you two have been together for what, eight months?” Lance commented.

“Just because we have been together for quite a while doesn’t mean we have to mate.” D-Pad grumbled.

“I just thought you’d be the kinda stallion that goes deep into her flower as soon as possible.” Lance chuckles.

“DUDE!” D-Pad shouted.

“I’m bucking with you, ya dunce.” Lance laughed.

“It’s still embarrassing…why do you do that?” D-Pad asked, his cheeks reddening.

“Well…I’m kinda jealous…” Lance admitted.

“You did tell me you were interested in Vinyl right? Go ask her on a date.” D-Pad stated.

“But what if she says no?” Lance asked apprehensively.

“You’ll never know if you don’t try.” D-Pad replied.

“I’m just worried…I’ve never had a girlfriend before.” Lance sighed.

“You’ll do fine…” He reassured Lance.

“Excuse me?”

The two turned to a white unicorn mare. She had a long blonde mane and bright blue eyes. She had a purple star as her cutie mark.

“Are you the pegasi for hire I’ve heard about?” She asked with a cocked head.

“Yes ma’am.” D-Pad replied cheerfully. “My name is D-Pad, and this is Lance.” Lance gave a friendly wave.

“Great! My name is Starlight. I need some help delivering a package.” She said with a chipper tone. She gave them a large box.

“Hey, uh…not for nothing, I mean we need the work…but isn’t this more of a job for a mail pony? I know there’s a post office down the street.” Lance commented.

“I know, but he works at the post office, and it’s a super secret present. I just don’t want to risk it.” She explained. She pulled out a sack full of bits. “Please, I’ll pay you double.”

“That won’t be necessary.” D-Pad chuckled. “We’ll take it to your friend for 10 bits.”

“Thank you so much!” She exclaimed happily. She gave them 10 bits. “He lives next to Sugarcube Corner. A bright red cottage, you can’t miss it.”

“What’s in the box, if I may ask?” Lance inquired to Starlight.

“It’s a secret.” She giggled and winked at him. “Thanks again!”

She trotted off. D-Pad was about to place his bits into his jar when her realized it wasn’t there.

“Buck…I knew I forgot something. I forgot our bits jar.” He grumbled, face hoofing himself.

“Hey, no worries…Octavia’s house is on the way to Sugarcube Corner. We’ll just stop and grab the jar, then just head to the friends house.” Lance reassured D-Pad.

D-Pad nodded and the two walked down the street. D-Pad waved and nodded hello, stopping once to say hello to a pony selling pears and buying a pear for both him and Lance. Lance thanked D-Pad and happily bit into his pear.

“I’ll save mine for later.” D-Pad said as they continued on.

“So…how are you and Octavia doing?” Lance asked.

“Great.” D-Pad replied. “I mean we have our ups and downs…we had another fight a few weeks ago, but we both apologized and made up.”

“What was it this time?” Lance inqured.

“Nothing big, it was just…”

“It was about her father again wasn’t it?”

D-Pad sighed. It had been four months since he had killed Octavia’s father after her father had become…something unholy born from genetic splicing. D-Pad remembered having to go tell Octavia’s mother about it, to which she cried a river of tears in front of him. Octavia never really healed after the incident. She still had trouble coping with the fact that he was cloning ponies and performing evil, ungodly experiments on them, just so he could try to become stronger than Celestia herself.

“…Yeah…” D-Pad said in a depressed tone.

“Hey…it’s all over with…what’s done is done…we can’t change it.” Lance reassured him.

“It still hurts…I sometimes sit up nights with Octavia as she cries into my shoulder.” D-Pad sighs.

Lance patted his back. “D-Pad, you ain’t a Time-lord or whatever they call it now, so you ain‘t gonna be able to solve this problem. You blokes need to move on. All dwelling in the past will do is make you both feel miserable.”

D-Pad sighed.

They walked up to a small, two-story white house. It had new window shutters and some new shingles that were put on by D-Pad and Lance. They could hear dubstep being played inside.

“Home sweet home…” D-Pad chuckled.

They walked in. “D-Pad?! What are you doing home so early?” Octavia asked, looking concerned.

“Nothing big, just forgot to grab our bits jar.” D-Pad replied, grabbing the jar. The dubstep ended as Vinyl walked over to them.

“Sup D-Pad. What’s in the box?” Vinyl asked.

“I don’t know. The mare that gave us this said it was a secret present for someone.” D-Pad responded.

“Aww, that is so sweet.” Octavia cooed.

“Well, the real mystery is why it’s so light. I kinda want to see what’s in it.” Lance commented.

“Well, you have to curb your curiosity. We got to get it to the red cottage near Sugarcube Corner.” D-Pad stated.

“You mean that abandoned cottage?” Vinyl asked.

“…What?” Both D-Pad and Lance inquired in unison.

“Yeah.” Vinyl responded. “That place has been abandoned for a few months. I think the place used to be a holding place for some illegal goods. Nowadays, nopony goes near it.”

“…I think we better take a look in that box…” Lance stated as he started to open the box.

D-Pad tried to stop him, but Lance had already opened the box. The four looked inside. There was a cloth placed over a large bump in the box. D-Pad pulled off the cloth, revealing the Elements of Harmony, which had been wrapped together in plastic wrap.

“Oh my Celestia!!” Octavia shouted.

“Dude…” Vinyl gasped.

“Nope! Nope! Nope!!” D-Pad exclaimed.

Lance just sat there, his mouth agape. The other ponies continued to stammer in disbelief.

“What do we do?!” Octavia shouted.

“Everypony calm down.” Lance stated calmly. “We didn’t know what was in the box, so they can't blame us for stealing them, if they were.”

“Yeah! They……they were most likely…lost and she wanted to bring them back herself…yeah that’s it…” Octavia reasoned, which sounded more like she was trying to convince herself.

The elements began to glow and vibrate. They then shot upward, tearing through the roof of Octavia and Vinyl’s house. They began spinning around in a large circle as a white light began forming in the center of the elements.

“Hoofston…we have a problem.” Lance gasped as he pointed upward.

“OPEN THIS DOOR!” A stern voice shouted from behind the door as it was beng bashed upon.

“Nopony’s home!!” Lance shouted back.

The white light sucked in the Elements of Harmony before jettisoning downwards towards the house.

“This is the royal guard!! I said open this door!!” The stern voice shouted again.

“Do you have an appointment!?” Lanced shouted back.

The white light encompassed the house. Everything in the house began to levitate. D-Pad and the others floated around as they began to lose consciousness.

“Octavia…No matter what happens…I will love you always…” D-Pad wearily spoke.

“I…will love you always…too…” Octavia replied before passing out.

As the rest of the inhabitants passed out, the house ripped from the ground and began floating upward. The house then began to spin as the light began emanating even brighter. Soon, the light emitted the same light as the very sun. And like that…

…the light and the house disappeared.