Chapter 1: the trip (fixed)
It all started in a hot summer day, I was getting out of college with rarity " goodness darling, it was difficult to stay awake on Mrs. Harshwhinny class," Rarity said still sleepily.
"I know, but at least she is not explaining how to carry a flag in the next Equestria Games!" I said hearing Rarity let a small giggle out," After joining my friends on the way out Tails asked.
"What are you guy going to do in this summer? Cause I don't have nothing planned." I also didn't have nothing to do and the rest of the gang also didn't have something planned.
"Oh idea pick me pick me," Pinkie said sounding energetic like she always do, nopony ever agreed with her ideas at first but this time there was no point refusing to hear.
"Yes Pinkie pie what's your idea?" I said trying my best to hide an annoyed look, "I hope that this idea doesn't involve drugs or late night party cause you know what happened last time didn't you?"
"Hmm, no I didn't, what happened?"
"We almost got arrested because of your beer party, the police almost discovered you had crystal meth in Sugarcube Corner basement!" I said almost angrily toward Pinkie.
"OH that, sorry about that, but this idea doesn't involve parties and drugs, I was actually thinking that we should take a trip, why don't a bunch of us go on vacation? I mean, we haven't been out of town in MONTHS, and it gives us the chance to get away from boredom," Pinkie idea made everyone smile of excitement, "I knew you guys you love," I had to admit Pinkie had the best idea ever.
"Yeah, that you be great, but I don't know if my mum and dad would let me go on a trip with just friends. They've got that whole, young-teenagers-going-on-a-trip-will-get-themselves-into-trouble mantra going on!" Twilight answer made everyone sad.
"Come on Twilight it will be fun," Rainbow Dash said, trying to cheer her up.
"Okay, I will try to convince my parents," After saying that, everyone, including me gave a Yay, even Fluttershy who was famous for cheering with a small Yay shouted.
"Okay, where we are going? Fiji, Thailand, Hawaii?" Pinkie pie asked, I immediately realized that she wanted to go on an overseas trip.
"I know, how about this? We go to Thailand spend two days in Bangkok and then we go to Fiji?" I asked and the others agreed except Applejack who was giving me a curious look
" now just wait bout a minute how are yer gonna pay for all that?" Asked Applejack with a mix of both anger and curiosity on her face.
"Remember that time, when filthy rich gave that briefcase to Big Mac? Well it contained 2.000.000 dollars."
"WHAT!?" Everyone, including Applejack screamed with a mixture of surprise an disbelief. I only gave a nod and a meek little "Mmhmm".
"Ok, let's do it!"
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After a challenge trying to convince my parents to let us go on an overseas vacation, Twilight called me "Hey AK did every pony else managed to convince their parents?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah, they all managed to make their parents let them go on this overseas trip!" I answered sounding happy.
"Mom and dad said that I should take some pony to take care of us, how about Shinning? He just got back from being deployed from the Canterlot Royal Guard so a vacation would do him a world of good and Cadence wanted to join too!" I figured it wasn't a bad idea since my parents wouldn't trust me to look after the gang.
After Twilight, confirmed Shinning and Cadence could come, I booked eleven tickets in the The Twin Towers Hotel in Bangkok. We stay there overnight and on the first day there we plan on eating out at a nice restaurant, then the following day going to Bangkok Social Club!, and on the third day we go to Fiji. I emailed the hotel with all the necessary information and told them to reserve some spots at the restaurant
Three days later and everyone is gathered at the airport, bags packed and ready to head out. "So, I've told you about our itinerary?" Twilight asked in her typical paranoiac tone!".
"Yes, Twilight" I told Twilight already feeling, annoyed! She already told us like ten times.
"Yeah, yeah egghead, you've told us a million times. We fly to Bangkok, get off the plane and head to the hotel and relax until the evening. Then we go to dinner too, as you so eloquently put it, "Soak up the ambiance". Then the following day we go to the night club!"
Everyone nodded in agreement
The baggage check in was a bit of a fiasco, Rarity had a smaller suitcase full of her makeup and beauty products! The logic was they wouldn't allow half the stuff on the plane unless it was in a plastic bag. " Hey twilight did you see in the scan of Rarity's make-up case? Look, there's a hair dryer with a trigger on it!" I said with a whisper and a nudge to her side.
She let out a stifled laugh. "Oh my god AppleKent you can't say stuff like that in the airport! You'll get us in trouble. We might even be searched!"
The flight itself was pretty boring. Everyone just slept most of the time on their seats. There were Fluttershy and Tails, no surprises there, then RD and Sonic, Cadence and Shining were sitting behind Applejack lonesome self. Oh well, at least she got a window seat. There was a ding from the intercom "Please fold your trays, fasten your seat-belts, and stow anything you have out. We will begin our descent in five minutes." That was enough to wake everyone from their slumbers.
We got off the plane and made our way into the terminal and to baggage collection. Once everyone had their bags, we hailed three taxi's to take us to the hotel where everyone slept for an additional few hours, then I made the rounds to wake them from their stupors. "Hey speedy lovebirds, wake up! Dinner is in an hour and a half!"
"Oh, okay AK thanks," Rainbow dash said while she and sonic got up.
At dinner, we all sat down at the table with food and drink menus in one of the corners of the restaurant. " I'll have the Steak and a Bloody Mary, please" Fluttershy eeped at that name and then asked what that was. "It's a cocktail made with Vodka, Tomato juice, Lemon juice, Salt, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco and Pepper."
"But why it's called a Bloody Mary?" Rarity said
Shining only winked and told her to have one to find out why. And Dash had her typical cider, The rest of the evening went swell. We finished out main courses, ordered dessert, stayed until after closing and had some more drinks. Rarity indeed found out why it is called a Bloody Mary; food flavoring, sauce and juice mixed with alcoholic beverage sure is not the best drink you ever had no more drinks for her, she finished off the evening without drinking anything, except water of course while the rest of us had beers, vodkas and martinis.
Everyone had a decent sleep in the next morning, I got up at 10:30am which is later than normal. I did my rounds at 11 waking everyone up and telling them to make sure they're packed and to meet out the front by half past one. Everyone is down at the front by one o'clock, we went on a tour thought Bangkok and after that, we headed to the Night Club of Bangkok. We decided to take a seat on one of the seats and shining started to tell about what he did in the army before summer started while Tails decided to smoke a spliff, wait where did he even got that? Oh well, he probably bought it from some street drug dealer.
* Cue I Fink U Freeky instrumental theme *
"So, turns out, it was a cow that had stepped on a fucking land mine."
"So, so where was Colby then?" Rainbow Dash asked curious
"That's the funniest part, he got AWOL for a hook up and the girl was so spirited that he fucking passed out. Shinning.
"No way" Cadence replied.
"War, man. It really makes you think."
"Yeah, about how high Tails is right now!" RD replied teasing Tails.
"These are the fun stories Tails, you'll wouldn't believe the real ones."
"I'll be back" I said getting up from my seat.
"Hey, are you grabbing a beer? Grab me a beer!"
"Hey, bitch. I'm not buying!" I said annoyed.
"Grab-- Baby give him some money, give him a little-- alright, I'll give him some money. Sup, here it is"
"Yeah, give me some money!" Cadence said while grabbing some bath notes and handing to me.
"Alright, alright! Who wants money! I have tons of money! There you go! Any pony else want money?" Shinning said while I headed for the bar.
"Fuck beer. What's the drink here in Bangkok?" I said while putting the beer bottle I was holding on the bar counter.
"The Mai Tai!" The unicorn stallion said while I almost laughed.
"Forget it. Let's do sambuca shots!" I said lifting my index finger.
"...ten, eleven... twelve!" after counting the group Cadence appeared
"Girlfriend troubles?" Cadence asked while she rested her elbows on the bar counter.
"She told you?" I asked her felling a lil guilty
"You know, Clark rarity is a keeper."
"I HAVE SHOTS!" I shouted clapping my hands so the others could hear me
"Now that, right there is what i'm talking about!", "let's have those shots, hey baby" Shinning said while I started handing the tiki small cups.
"Ok to what? To what? To what?" Cadence said sounding more like pinkie than herself.
"Uh to my cousin Star Gazing for getting his pilot's license! Where the hell is that motherfucker?" Shinning question also made me wonder, the only ones in the group that weren't present was Sonic and Star Gazing, who we met at the club entrance after drinking the shot I answered. "I'll get them!"
While I walked down the stairs to the dance floor "great club" I said before hearing with my super hearing, two stallions chatting
"A couple of Americans are starting shit in the bathroom." the first stallion said
"Stupid Americans! Tourists!" the second stallion answered
"I wonder if they talking about Star Gazing and Sonic" I said while head for the bathroom
"DJ Pon-3 Vinyl" I said greeting Vinyl scratch
"Apple! Hey, you're staying for my set, right?" Vinyl asked me
"Mos def. Hey, you seen Shinning's cousin?"
"With a baseball cap?" Vinyl asked while motioned her both index and middle finger to her right side of the head.
"Yeah"
"Yeah, went into the washroom with your friend. He should watch out, girls here overcharged." She said before heading to the dance floor.
"Shit. Thanks girl. I'll catch you later." I said heading to the bathroom
"You pay for girl!" a stallion said with a local accent
"Hey you kiss her, you pay." Another stallion said and I discover they were arguing with Sonic
"Her hands were on my ass. So the way I see it, she should pay me." Sonic replied angrily towards the stallion with a white tank top
"You don't pay, we fuck you up!" The white tank top stallion said threatening Sonic
"I'm not giving you shit pal."
"Dude, can you chill out, for a sec? Look, I have money here?" Star Gazing said, reaching his pocket before Sonic stopped him
"Star, shut the fuck up and go get me a beer. You're acting like a pussy," "what?"
"Hey bro, chill. Let's go back in," "hey. No more fights. You promised" I said trying to calm Sonic.
"As you wish."
"Con some pony else, guys." I said
"Hey, big dude must pay!" The white tank top stallion reminded
"Fuck you. Asshole" Sonic said, heading back to the stallion while I quickly stopped him before he started a fight
"You think you better than us?" Finally the white t-shirt stallion speaked
"Yeah. I do."
"This our turf, not yours. Watch your back, Farang" the white tank top stallion said threatening us
"We'll see about that."
"What was that for man?" I said worried what Sonic has been up to this time
"A hooker kissed me and put her hands on my butt and I didn't like it. Then these two guys came after me, said I needed to pay for her!"
"Ok, let's just head back in, how about a Lil dance?" Star Gazing asked
"Great idea. After all were here to have fun!"
After heading back upstairs and explaining everything to the other, we headed to the dance floor and started dancing. After making some moves and watching Sonic break dance one of the stallion who Sonic was arguing before came bumping into him sonic them angrily punched his face and before I helped Sonic, the other came pushing me before he tried to punch me, I easily blocked the punch and punched his gut and give him a uppercut that knocked him out cold, Vinyl then appeared
"Apple, back door" she said
"THIS WAY! LET'S GO!" I shouted as we all sprinted towards the elevator
"Call it, call it, call it!"
"Yes I know, I know!"
"Come on, come on, come on, hold the door!" Star Gazing said while the other except I rushed to the elevator
"Yo Apple, get in, get in!" Shinning said as I started to sprint to the elevator as I got in, everyone started to cheer up.
"Did you need to kick him that hard?" Sonic asked while fist bumped Shinning and I fist bumped tails
"I did, I had to, I had to."
"That was wicked."
"I got munchies man." Tails said
"All I need is an ankle tattoo and this trip is complete.
"Are you looking for, you're looking for a yantra tattoo?" Vinyl asked
"Yeah" Cadence answered
"I know this great guy near the Siam BTS station."
"Oh hey every pony. This is Vinyl. She's the DJ here and an all-around excellent girl." I said introducing Vinyl to the others
"Hey Vinyl"
"Uh, AK says you guys are doing the Asian thing." Vinyl said
"Yeah, Bangkok was our last stop." Shinning responded
"Good choice, always good to go with a bang."
"Most definitely"
"So, uh you got anything else specific planned." Vinyl asked
"Ah, tomorrow were heading to Fiji." I answered
"Well, you guys have money, right?" "Yeah? You got enough to charter a boat?" "Cause I know this island where you could do anything. It's called Rook Islands. There's a reasonable sized port there that often docks supply ships for the natives that live on the island. You can enjoy yourself at a couple of the bars there for a while before the ship departs to bring you back here in time for your plane."
"Natives? What kind of natives?" Asked Rarity.
"The crystal ponies of course." Vinyl responded
"Wow! Alright, well, what about something extreme?" I asked
"Skydiving?" As Vinyl suggested everyone started to cheer loudly
"The airport here offers skydiving. I can ask the concierge arrange for you to parachute down to the island. There's a few boat ports around there, so he can have a boat waiting to pick the lot of you up when you land on one of the beaches. From there the boat will bring, you back to the mainland where your bags will already be loaded onto the waiting plane ready to take you to Fiji so you can continue the rest of your vacation. How does that sound?"
"Uh, jump blind? That's risky, guys." " it is, it's risky!" Shinning said preoccupied
"Come on babe"
"Why are you acting like a such pussy?" Sonic said trying to convince Shinning
"See, Rarity, it's perfect! Now we have to do it. We're in."
After getting out of the club and waving farewell to Vinyl and heading back to the hotel while Star Gazing explained why he was in Bangkok, like us he was also on vacation and it was spending three days there and was also going to Fiji, I already heard about the irony of fate but this is ridiculous, when we got to the hotel the other go to sleep in their rooms
In the next morning I woke up and realized we didn't have the bags ready to go to the airport and it was a great mess as everyone run here and there trying to grab all their stuff to put in their bags. After this home alone scene we headed to the hotel entrance and the concierge told us a limousine was waiting for us "What in the world a limousine would be waiting for us?" I asked to myself.
"Oh, you here. You can thank your friend Vinyl for the limousine, while the skydiving you can thank me" the concierge said, getting out of the limousine along with a brown Pegasus stallion wearing a chauffeur uniform probably checking the inside of the limousine to check if everything was okay.
"Thanks" everyone thanked the concierge
"Alright then, I'll take care of your bags. Please, enjoy the drinks inside the ride."
"A limo, free champagne, and crystal ponies?! I think I'm going to faint!" Rarity said almost falling on my arms
"Careful there, Sweetheart." I said. "Don't over excite yourself, you still have to fall from thousands of feet up in the sky remember?"
"Oh yeah, that..." I could hear rarity heartbeat increase she probably wouldn't like to skydive
The limo was luxurious as one would expect and Rarity was loving every single bit of it. When we got to the airport, we got out, went over to the instructor who told us who we were going to be paired with. Me, Shining, Sonic,Tails, and Rainbow Dash all had been skydiving before, so they chose their tandem partners. Guess who they picked? Shining offered to take Twilight with him instead of Cadence which shocked both Cadence and everyone Shinning said that he don't want his sister to get hurt so one of the instructors offered to take up Cadence and join us on the boat ride back to the mainland. I figured it to be fair since she was going to be the only one without being paired with some pony.
We all suited up and got into the cabin of the plane. Shining, me, Sonic, Tails, and Dash wore the parachutes and were told to clip in their partners few minutes before we were due to jump. When the time came close, Shining buckled Twilight into his harness as did Rarity with me. The four bundles of us positioned ourselves at the doors and waited for the green light to flash. When it did, we leapt out of the doors and tumbled around for several seconds. I saw the others tumbling around too, wondering what would be going through their minds, but Rarity's especially, she so freaked out right now! Eventually we all got a hold of one another by the hands, letting our legs and tails trail upward behind us in the huge draft of the wind. Our partners told us they'd tap us on the shoulders to let us know when we'd be close enough to the ground to pull the rip-cord, and I tapped Rarity.
I was the first to pull the cord and a few seconds later I saw the others pull theirs. "Your crazy A!" Shouted Shinning
"I'm learned from the best teacher" I replied
We all floated down gently, albeit chilly breeze running over my face. I drifted closer and closer to the beach. We touched down on the beach a few hundred meters from the wharf the boat is at. All the rest of the girls plus the other instructor, Sonic, Tails and Shining were all sprawled out on the sand, breathing heavily from such exhilaration. I staggered over to Rarity to help her up. "Wa-ha! That was fun!" We all took off out straps and harnesses, and the instructor stayed behind to pack up the gear and load it onto the boat while we followed the track from the wharf into the jungle to a kinda small village that was lively with music, food, dancing, and drinks.
"I see you guys made it to the island" a familiar voice called us it was Vinyl
"Vinyl you also here" I said "oh by the way thanks to the limousine ride!"
"No problem you guys gonna love this place"
"Yeah" I added. "Paradise! Come guys, let's have a wander around the beaches for a while then head back here for a few drinks before we're due to leave."
"How long do we have before the boat leaves?" asked Tails who were comforting a almost breathless Fluttershy of course she would be breathless, you jump from above the sea level from a plane without an oxygen mask. "Well, it's almost three in the afternoon, and the boat leaves at 6pm and is due back to the mainland by 8pm, so that leaves us with about three hours."
"Alright!" said Tails, clapping his hands together
"Hey AK remember that tablet you that you won on a raffle at College?"
"Yeah, " I said. "I keep in my pocket." After saying that I reached my back pocket to pull the tablet out
"Great! Why don't we film this summer vacation? So we never forget the trip we made to Rook islands!" Tails suggestion was brilliant.
"That's a great idea, ok, I will start recording now." I turned in the tablet and started recording
"Hey ever pony look island not on the map!" Twilight said while I zoomed the recording on her "let's hit it fancy mac blurry"
"And there's our boat." I said recording now the boat
After walking around the beach Vinyl found a abandoned wrecked boat. "Guys, on a boat" Vinyl said making a gangster pose.
"Ha, ha where did you found it Scott!" Twilight said sarcastically
We walked around the mountains for a while before we found a plain green field with Coconut Palms I handed the camera to Tails whiled jogged to kick the tree and grab a coconut
"I can't believe she's not coming to my pilot ceremony next month"
"Dude,you know that your cousin is now a princess and she always doing important things for Equestria, right?"
"No coconut for you" I said to Shinning
"Awww, come on man" Shinning said slightly annoyed I then handed the coconut throwing it like a basketball ball
After having fun around it, we decided to head back to the village cause it was almost 6. On our way there we found an empty sales stall that had an AK-47 on it, I grabbed it "hey Vinyl you recording this?" I asked while I grabbed the AK-47 a made a badass-like pose."Are those real?" "Ho, ho my stallion AppleKent brings the heat" Shining's eyes went wide with surprise, and he went over to it.
"Woah, what this doing here?" At that moment, a crystal pony came out of the clearing
"Go, get out of here, leave! Not yours, you touch you buy!"
"Ok, we got it we are leaving!" I said, backing off the crazy unicorn stallion
After arriving back to the Village we ordered some shots and I recorded something I never forget Rarity took two shots in a row
"Ok, ok darling, that's the last one" Rarity said almost sounding drunk I decided to stop recording
About an hour later we were all loosened up and about to order dinner when three, menacing figures stormed into the bar. Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at them as they patronizingly strode into the bar like they owned the joint. You could see the looks on all the crystal ponies faces they feared them. "Who were these dude, what were they?
"Who were the assholes that touched our guns?" Shouted the hideous stallion in a very strong Hispanic accent it sounded funny but at the same time terrifying. Everyone remained silent. We knew it was us, but the other pony who saw us knew too.
"Was it you straw yellow tourist folk, hmm?" This Mohican haired guy looked like he was in charge of these goons. "Bring him in!" he screamed. Another stallion threw in the pony whom found me in the selling boot. "Is this them?" he asked. The tied up crystal pony only looked down and weakly nodded. "You tourist came along with your friends onto our island, touch our guns, drink out the booze and expect to get away with it?" After hearing him say that Shinning leaped at him punching him. As Shinning punched the dude the others raised their rifles, I stopped them from shooting Shinning using my Muay Thai movements. "EVERYPONY RUN" Shinning shouted as everyone ran for the door, I heard Vinyl trip I rushed back to the bar to help her, but suddenly got hit in the head by something cold, I realized one of the brutes got up and hit the back of my neck with his rifle in my last moments before blacking out I heard Rarity screaming.
"APPLEY-WIKEY" Rarity screamed my pet name
"Don't worry Rarity he's gonna be alright after all he's the Stallion of Steel" Shinning said
After a while I regained my consciousness, I felt my arms glued together, I then realized I was still on the bar and had my arms tied both behind my back I then heard that Hispanic psycho dude talking with the other two
"Alright, bring the fucker out and tie him up" the Hispanic guy said
"wait tie me up I'm already tied up you idiot" I thought to myself
Suddenly they burst open door and I pretended that I was still unconscious. As they carried me inside the bar I bearded the same stallion telling Vinyl to shoot him
"Fucking easy girl just fucking pull the trigger"
"What you want for me man?" Vinyl said scared
"Just go girl shoot me"
"No"
"Now come on shoot me motherfucker, SHOOT ME MOTHERFUCKER" The Stallion shouted.
"Oh fuck, I have never seen a bunch of pussies in my life. Ha hey listen hermana, you asshole alicorn friend and the bitches worth a lot of money. But you! You not even worth a bullet" as he said those words he shoot Vinyl wright in her neck I saw it as her lifeless body fell onto the wooden floor. In a quick motion I pushed the brute in front of me towards the Psycho that killed her as a tried to run towards the exit the other stallion that was going to tie me up on the wood pillar pounced on me making me fell on a nearby table I kicked the stallion right in the face whit my work boots as I got up the stallion I just pushed away from me grabbed from behind and started to hit me on the wall I managed to make him stop but he grabbed me in a headlock
"Fucking move" I saw the Red tank top stallion who's just shot Vinyl a few moments ago pointing a rifle towards me, I turned around and the goon who was holding me in the headlock was the one who got shot I ran inside the jungle towards the boat location hoping my friends made it to it at that point I didn't know where they were they could be alive, dead, captured or worse but I just hopped they were safe
*crack*
*pop*
*whizz*
"What the hay was that? Oh shit shots he must have alerted the others!" I said to myself as I ran thought the path towards the boat I got shot in my right arm "Shit, why the shot hurtled me?" I suddenly felt something metallic on my ring finger from my right hand, I looked and saw it "Blue Kryptonite how did they knew this make me powerless?" At that point I didn't care I just ran towards the boat "the boat" I said while searching for it only to hear a familiar sound "Ah fuck, DAMNIT" I said as I saw the boat leaving and that my friends are probably dead or captured or lost in the jungle. I then heard the guards approaching and started to run, but not for long as I tripped on a log and blacked out, again
"There he is, " came a harsh, raspy voice. "Shit, this boy must have a shitload of stamina to run all this way here!" One of the guards said. Still woozy and half unconscious with my vision swimming, I could feel myself thrown carelessly over the back of one of these colts. Where are they taking me? My vision is clear, and I see Shining sitting across from me, unconscious too, I felt my mouth covered with sticky tape and my hands tied above my head.
Then the same stallion who threatened to kill all if us strides over to me, he then shows me my tablet with the recording I made
