Convenient

"Why are we stopping?" Twilight asked as I pulled into the gas station's parking lot.

"Redbull!" Rainbow shouted while she bolted out of the door before I could even finish parking. She used her wings to fly around the car.

"Why is she so exited?" Twilight asked with confusion. Spike was almost normal again, I could sense that he could hear us but not see us entirely yet. "What's Redbull?"

"Energy drink." I answered as I exited the car. Twilight looked over to Spike.

"I'll be fine here." He told her, she smiled and pressed on the door, but it did not open. She spent a few moments trying to pull the little lever that held her inside the vehicle. She was starting to get frustrated and attempted to open the door with her horn with no success. I saw that she was planning on kicking the door open so I rushed over and opened it for her. "Thanks." She smiled sheeply. Rainbow Dash just laughed above us.

"No problem." I responded with a chuckle. "Why didn't you just use magic?"

She thought about it for a minuet and then slapped her forehead. We continued on towards the main building of the gas station. "Why is there never anyone else here?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Because of how sketchy looking it is." I replied as I stepped over a large pot hole that would destroy a tire. I opened the door for the two ponies to go in first. The cashier was busy talking on the phone behind the counter. We walked to the back where they kept the energy drinks in the freezer doors. I opened it and handed Twilight two cans for her and Spike to use her levitation powers on. I grabbed Dash's and mine and we proceed to the counter. I beat Twilight there and recognized the cashier when he turned around and was done using his phone.

"Dude!" He greeted me with a high-five. "How you been, Jack?"

"Hey buddy." I set the two cans on the counter. "I'v been good, you didn't have work on Monday?"

"No, for once, I got the day off." He grinned. "Who was on when you came-" He stopped his sentence short when he saw two more cans come down on the counter, then Twilight and Rainbow came into view. "Dude, what's going on?"

"Friend of yours?" Twilight eyed the cashier, who looked about as sketchy as the gas station itself.

"I come here a lot." I replied. I looked back to him. "You're tripping some serious balls." I exclaimed, while I set the payment down in front of him. He didn't take his eyes off my two companions as we walked out the door. "He most likely was anyway." I added while handing the drink to Dash, she was gliding beside us as we walked to the car again.

"Why did you make him think that?" Twilight asked.

"Because I don't feel like explaining things. Again." I grumbled. "Plus, I know that guy. If we stopped and told him everything then we would be late for school."

Rainbow Dash had already opened the can and stated to chug it. "What is this made out of anyway?" Twilight wondered.

"It's got the ingredients on the back." I pointed to the back of the floating can. She read them carefully, I'm not sure if she knew what all the different chemicals were, but she shrugged and opened the can and took a sip of it.

She almost gagged. "This stuff tastes horrible!" She cried. "Why do you drink this?"

Rainbow Dash had finished the can and was now just flying laps around my car. Spike was inside of it watching her with a very confused expression. As far as I could tell he recovered from before. "Tastes good to us!" She shouted while finishing her twentieth lap.

"What tastes good?" Spike asked while he observed Rainbow Dash fly around sporadically. He apparently was going to have an easier time opening doors and other things in the human world that requires fingers. Twilight tossed him a can via her telekinesis. He took notice that she had a disgusted look on her face. "Is it good?"

"They like it." She shook her head as she got back into the car. "I do feel more alert then I normally do, though." She admitted. "Not enough to keep drinking something that tastes like cancer."

"So ponies have cancer too?" I gulped down my drink. "There goes my happy buzz." I mopped with the thought of any cute pony going through something sad like chemo. Spike pulled the tab on the beverage and took a swig. "How is it?" I asked while I plopped down into the driver's seat.

He swished it around his mouth a bit then swallowed. "It's pretty good." He reported while taking another drink from it. "I like it." Twilight shuttered with the thought of the taste again.

"It's an acquired taste. The more you drink it, the better it tastes." I told them. I started the car again and began to start driving.

"What about Rainbow D-" Twilight was cut short by Rainbow crashing down onto the hood of my car.

"Go! Go! Go!" She shouted while facing forward like she was the captain of a water vessel. On crack.

***

"So you don't feel anything right now?" Rainbow asked Spike while we walked down the hallway to my first class. Spike was on Twilight's back, Rainbow Dash was hovering beside them.

"Not really, no." Spike answered with a smirk. "I guess dragons are just that much more filled with greatness."

"That's cute." Rainbow replied sarcastically as I walked and they trotted into the room. Little less then half the class were already in their seats. Rainbow and I casually walked in and sat in the same place we were on Monday. Spike and Twilight were having a silent staring match with the class. Jeremy was also there already too, he just looked at me with a blank expression.

After a minuet passed, Brady whipped his head around and faced me. "Seriously, where the hell are you getting them from?" He demanded. "I could understand that she was out of your power, but now you're just fuckin' with us!"

"Ah, yes." I stood up to address the class with class. "Events have transpired which has resulted in her presence becoming permanent." Then I sat back down and carried on with my business.

"That didn't even answer the question! And I thought that you said before that she was only here temporarily. So she's never leaving?" My teacher asked confirmation. "Then why do you have to bring her here?"

I tried to think of a response but came up with nothing. "Brady just said fuck! I demand that he be smite down with fury!"

She thought about it, glared over to him. He cowered a little. Then she saw the baby dragons riding the unicorn and glanced back at me. "He gets a pass today."

"I just want to learn about how humans live in this world." Twilight decided to contribute to the agrument. "It's so much different from ours. I'm an academic, I need to learn about this new place."

"Fine." She agreed reluctantly after a moment of thought. "Go sit down before I change my mind." Twilight happily trotted over and sat across from out row.

***

About ten minuets later we were back in normal, boring class. I was making a makeshift football out of paper and Rainbow was falling asleep on the desk. I looked over to Twilight, who was enthralled with the knowledge she was gaining from the teacher. Spike, however, looked as bored as us. "Spike." I got his attention. He looked over at me. I held up the paper football and motioned my hands for him to make a goal. He used his stubby fingers to make a goal post. Right as the teacher turned towards the board, I flicked it through the air to Spike. It barely made it though the tiny opening. It landed on his lap, while I made the same shape with my hands, he understood the game quickly. As we flicked it back and forth, Rainbow snapped back awake, intrigued by our game. She waited until the perfect moment to wipe it out of the air.

"Rejected!" She shouted in achievement. The teacher turned around and glared at us, but before she could open her mouth to scold us, Twilight's horn glowed. A purple haze enveloped Rainbow. Her mouth seemed to seal shut. She used her hooves to try to find her mouth, and just scowled at Twilight when she couldn't. The haze passed on over to me next. At first, I felt nothing but a warmth from the magic. Then the sleeves of my hoodie came alive and wrapped themselves around my body like a straight jacket. The paper football burst into flames and quickly turned to ash. The haze skipped Spike and dissipated. Although, she just looked at Spike with a disturbingly aggressive expression. Spike shivered and laid his head on his desk with obedience.

The teacher observed her work and grinned. "What's your name?" She asked the purple mare.

"Twilight." She smiled.

"Nice to meet you, you're free to stay as long as you want." She glanced at me. "Why can't your other friends be more like her?" She resumed her lesson. The rest of the class just laughed quietly at our punishments, not questioning the fact that she just performed magic.

Jeremy turned around and smirked. "She asked to come, so shut your damn mouth." I muttered, trying to escape from my hoodie trap.

"Just drop her off in the library." Jeremy suggested. "Her head would explode." I pondered this for a while, before getting a tap from a muted Dash. She looked at me with an annoyed expression and nodded to the idea of ditching Twilight in the library.

***

"And here is where we keep all the books." Jeremy presented the library to the unicorn. "We have classes to go to are you alright with us le-" Before he could finish his sentence he noticed that she was already gone, lost in all the literature. He saw the librarian observing her in awe. "Hey, she's going to be here for a while. She won't be any sort of problem. To you." She just nodded, still speechless from the pony reading her books. She was mumbling something to herself as we left.

"Is it cool if I still come with you guys?" Spike requested. "I don't want to be stuck here too."

"Hell yeah." I approved, with the motion back into my arms.

"Aw, do we have the crappy health class again?" Rainbow moaned, remembering the class from Monday. "That was sooo boooring! I don't even know what cigarettes are, I don't want to talk about them again for another hour and a half."

"Nah." I replied while we exited the library. "We have gym today." Her eyes lit up.

"What do you mean gym?" Rainbow asked, excitedly.

"P.E., Physical Education, gym, other synonyms for a class that we just screw around in." Jeremy explained as we walked into the gym, itself. There were many different things all over the large room, cones and barrels were everywhere. "Looks like it's some sort of agility course today." Jeremy analysed.

"So what's happening now?" Spike asked as he followed us to the bleachers.

"There's two classes in here at the same time." I explained. "It doesn't seem like it, but this is actually two courses. Two classes, two teams, one person on each track for each team. Losers have to run more."

Spike grunted. "Can I call neutral? I don't feel like running when you guys lose." Spike examined the other side of the bleachers, to the other team.

"We're not going to lose." Rainbow said confidently.

***

"Alight, who are are you all picking to represent you?" Our gym coach asked. No one volunteered.

"Can I do it?" Rainbow whispered over to me. My eyes widened.

"Dash will do it!" I raised her hoof for her.

The coach shrugged. "I don't see why not."

"We're just going to let her lose it for us?" A guy known as Carl said from behind us.

"You want to do it?" Jeremy suggested.

"I'd rather do it then let her lose it for all of us!" He stomped down the bleachers.

"That sucks, you were a little vagina and didn't step up." Rainbow smirked. Jeremy was snickering at her insult. "So now i'm doing it."

I was laughing too. "I don't have to defend her, she can defend herself with her new vocab."

"Can she defend against a fist with her vocab?" Carl cocked a fist back.

"Can you?" I warned, hinting that he would have a fight if he went through with that motion. He reluctantly lowered his fist. "Hey, let's solve this little dispute  with a little competition." I proposed. "It's about speed, right? So a little race to the other side of the gym will decide who does the course for us."

"Fine." Carl agreed. Rainbow and I shared a smirk. They both lined up facing the other side and were parallel to each other.

"Ready, set, GO- you lose." Carl stumbled when he heard that and turned around.

"What?" He asked, annoyed.

"You lose." Jeremy pointed to the other side of the gym, where Rainbow was waving to us. We waved back with beaming smiles, just to piss Carl off. "Sit your ass back on the bleachers!"

He complied with his defeat. "Start warming up, guys." He told the rest of our class, who was chuckling at his loss. "We're going to have to do laps soon."

"I think you're just mad that your parents named you Carl." Spike laughed. "I would be too."

Rainbow Dash trotted back over and joined us again. "So what do I do now?" Carl cackled.

"Right here." I pointed to two cones behind her. "Just stay on the track and go as fast as you can and you'll do fine."

She stood in between the cones next to the other team's representative, who was staring at his opponent. Rainbow just smirked back. Our gym coach blew his whistle and they both took off. She easily took the lead and was gaining distance quickly. She wasn't even trying half as much as she could have. She weaved in and out of the barrels without losing any momentum at all. During sharp turns she used her wings to quickly change directions. While we were watching her competitor lose his patience and start to become frustrated with the cones tripping him, our coached walked over to the bleachers by me without breaking his line of sight to her maneuvering through the course. "Hey, Jack. How long is that friend of yours going to be here?"

"She's not leaving." I replied, cautious of the way he was watching her.

"Do you know how old she is?" He asked, still observing her.

"I think around seventeen, maybe." I was staring up at him now. "Why?"

"Do you think that she would be interested in joining the track team?" My coach wondered. "We could really use her on the team, she's so damn... fast."

"She would definitely join. She loves to compete." I replied, then a thought hit me. "But I thought that only students could be on the team?"

"Why do you think I was asking how old she was?" I shivered with my initial thought of why. "What about her education? She wouldn't be any help if she was failing everything if she does decide to come on the team."

"I'm not sure if she would like the idea of school." I hedged at the notion of her actually sitting down and having to listen to the teacher. "Coming to the school and doing nothing is one thing, but having to participate might be where she declines." Rainbow Dash was walking over, she had been done for a while and watched the other guy just reach the halfway mark. He's actually going pretty damn fast, he would have won against us... "Here, you can ask her yourself."

"Five bucks on her saying no." Jeremy proposed.

"Deal." Spike shook his hand. "She's a bit of a skank when she's in a competition, she'll do anything to win."

The only thing Jeremy heard was skank. "God, you're so much more awesome in person then you are in the show!"

"Yeah, I saw that. That thing made me look like a homo most of the time!" Spike muttered and high-fived Jeremy, his face lit up with the life-long achievement he just fulfilled; High-fiving a dragon.

"What's going on?" Rainbow asked.

"How would you like to join the track team?" Coach asked her with a smile. "It would be a shame to let that speed of yours to go to waste."

"You mean I can race... Humans?" She snickered. "That sounds... Incredibly easy." She looked back at the guy who she was racing, he just then finished. She then glanced back to the bleachers, most the people were high-fiving and giving her a thumbs up while Carl just glared.

"Easy for you." Coach emphasized. "You just show up, beat everyone you go up against and then do whatever the hell you want."

"Sounds fun." She murmured. "And the other team would be okay with racing a pegasus?"

"They won't be able to say anything about it." Coach grinned. "Rules don't say 'humans only'."

"But..." I reminded coach of the catch.

He frowned at having to tell her about the negative aspect of it. "They won't be able to say that a student can't race."

"But I'm not a student." She pointed out.

"Not... Yet." He mumbled loud enough for her to hear. Her smile disappeared with the realization of what he was saying.

She thought about the proposal for a minuet. "What exactly would happen then?" She asked. "I like the idea of doing a sport here, but learning? That's kinda lame."

"Isn't it?" Jeremy tried to sway her for the victory of the bet. "Think about it. Having to take all those tests, having to pay attention in class, having to do write things all day, and having to work, AT HOME!" She grimaced with the thought h=of having to participate in school.

Spike saw what he was doing and quickly joined in. "But think about the sport though, Dash." Spike whispered in her ear. "Beating all the slow people against you. No one ever even coming close to you. Everyone chanting your name when you win the game for this whole school... Do it Dash, do it for GLORY!" She looked at me, who just shrugged.

"I'll do it." Rainbow agreed.

"Great!" My coach celebrated. "I can put you in Jack's classes so that he can help you out with your work."

"PAY UP, HUSSY!" Spike shouted at Jeremy. He slapped a five dollar bill in his hand in defeat. Spike just looked at it, confused. "What's this? Monopoly money?"

"It's our money." Jeremy replied. "You guys have Monopoly?"

"Damn straight!" He smile instantly morphed into a glare with the bit-less win. "Take your filth back, what am I suppose to do with it? SPEND IT? Please." He joked.

Jeremy burst out into laughter. "Jack, we need to keep Spike around!" He called down to me. "He so awesome!" He high-fived him again.

"You can get her in all my classes?" I asked.

"Sure. We could do anything to get her to play for us." He reported. "We need some wins... So if you will follow me to the office, you can sign a few papers and start your first day of school tomorrow. The class will be fine with mrs. Bright for a while."

***

DING!

"LUNCH!" Rainbow was ready this time, she was already using her wings to fly over the crowd above us. Jeremy and Spike were talking more so he scooped him up. This was Spike's first time so he had no inclination  on what was going on.

"So what's this now?" The baby dragon asked while being carried by Jeremy.

"Rushing to lunch so we're not lat in line." He replied.

"Oh, sweet. Here, let me help." He looked over to a large group that was about to pass us. A column of flames erupted from his mouth close enough to the group to make them trip, trying to dodge. "Back up!" He laughed, bouncing in Jeremy's arms. Jeremy was looking over his shoulder to the group that made sure to stay behind them now.

"You want to come live with me?" Jeremy joked with a beaming smile for the dragon. "I wish they would have showed this side of you in the show!"

"Same here." He grumbled. "Should we pick up Twilight? Even though it's been like three hours, it's probably been like ten minuets for her."

"Yeah... We should give the librarian a break." Rainbow chuckled. "Don't mention that i'm becoming a student, she might want to too if she finds out she can." We all nodded in agreement.

***

We arrived at the library to see the librarian pushing a cart full of book closer to Twilight, who's familiar purple haze was sending books in all different directions into shelves. "Having fun?" I asked as we walked in.

She placed the mind-full of books on the shelves and took a break to look at us. "I decided after reading all these to help Mrs. Ramos organize the books better." Mrs. Ramos just smiled with appreciation because she didn't have to re-organize them.

"You read all the books here already?" Rainbow asked, shocked.

"It's not that amazing." Spike muttered, still in Jeremy's arms. "She reads an entire book in like thirsty seconds with that magic of hers."

"Time for lunch, are you coming?" Jeremy asked. "We're kind of in a hurry." He said, impatiently shuffling towards the door.

"Sure, I'll join you." She hopped off her chair she was sitting in and followed us out the door. "I'll be back to finish." She said back to the librarian.

***

"Hey, Jack." Jeremy got my attention with whispers in the lunch line. "They have chicken tenders today, aren't you worried about Twilight?"

"You're bad a whispering." Twilight said, right next to him. "I read your entire library. You think that I wouldn't read a single thing about meat in this world? Honestly, I'm more worried about why Spike is sitting on your shoulders."

"He is my weapon..." He trailed off.

"And I don't feel like walking." Spike added.

"So you're alright with humans eating meat?" I confirmed as we shuffled down the line. Rainbow was still hovering above us.

"I read about anthropology and your anatomy, I know how vital it is to your society." She told us. "I'll take a salad, though."

"Sweet. By the way, Jeremy. You're paying for Spike, I'm not paying for everyone." I laughed as I grabbed two trays of chicken and a salad.

"I'll be happy to fuel my flame-throwing buddy." He smiled as he grabbed two trays, also.

***

We got through the line and sat at the table we did on Monday with some of our friends. "Hey, why did you guys get so many orders of chicken-" Twilight was interupted.

"Chickens don't talk in your world, do they?" I asked Rainbow beside me as I passed her tray of chicken.

"NOPE!" She grinned while stuffing the fried chicken strip into her mouth. We then noticed Twilight gaping at us from across the table. "What?"

"I understand them eating meat, but it never crossed my mind that you would eat it!" She maintained her shocked, gaping expression with the sight of Rainbow performing some sort of pony taboo. "Spike! Do you see this?" He couldn't respond with the mouth full of chicken Jeremy bought him. He decided it was best not to make eye contact with her. "Spike?"

"Twilight, it's not that big of a deal." Jeremy attempted to calm her down.

"Yes it is!" She shouted back. "Humans have to, It's in their anatomy! Ponies do not! They are just eating it for the flavor! That's disgusting!"

"What the hell's going on?" Mark whispered over to Brady. "Is this happening right now? Or am I high as fuck?"

"I have no idea..." Brady rubbed his temples. "Not anymore."

"So I ate a little meat, what's so bad about it?" Rainbow shrugged. "I thought about it a lot more then Spike did just now."

"Dragons eat meat, though." He commented after he swallowed his mouthful. "We don't have to. But we want to."

"But they were living things before!" Twilight cried. "You're eating their corpses!"

"Sounds a lot less delicious like that..." Jeremy joked while eating another piece, just in spite of her.

"I wouldn't push her..." I suggested, remembering how she dealt with us this morning. "I like my arms."

"And I like this chicken." Spike announced while biting off another piece. "Twilight, you should try it."

"I am appalled and disgusted with both of you." She muttered as she ate her salad. It got very awkward from there. "You two shouldn't be eating meat."

***

It got less awkward from lunch. We dropped Twilight off at the library again and finished the rest of our classes. We decided that it be smarter just to take them home from there instead of driving all the way back to my house and then do it. Jeremy had already left in his own car, but not before trying to let Twilight let Spike sleep at his house. "See ya!" Spike said as he walked away, returning to their home in Equestria.

"Bye." We waved back.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Twilight remembered. "Zecora heard that you were back and she was asking about her book that you were suppose to deliver. Besides that all I have to say is: please stop eating meat."

"We have to book in my room." I told her.

"I'll try." Rainbow told her. Although, I don't see any real effort in stopping any time soon.

We spawned back at my car, got in and started driving home. "Do we have to give the book back?" Rainbow moaned.

"We probably should." I sighed. "But after we use it one more time."

Her face lit up. "Yes!" She started thinking about it. "I have an idea about how we should go about picking the right one..."

Hey people, sorry about the lack of updates. I got carried away with the other story I wrote. It only has like three chapters and already has more views then this one with 18 chapters. Anyway, I'm excited about this next chapter. I've been thinking about 19 for a while...Thumb up this bitch!