Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful what you wish for

Chapter 6 – ‘Marshmallow Mayhem’

“I couldn’t help it.  It just sort of popped in there,” Discord said.

“What just popped in there?” I asked looking at the huge, white, bulging mare coming toward Ponyville.

“I tried to think of something that would never, ever hurt us,” Discord replied.

“Discord what did you do?” I asked.

“LOOK!” Fluttershy screamed.

“Oh buck me,” Lyra said as the marshmallow behemoth crushed the furtherest building out from Ponyville.

“Okay, Discord, seriously get rid of that thing.  It’s not a prank because that thing is going to kill everypony,” I said.

Discord tried to snap his claws, but for some reason his power failed him.  The huge mare looked down at us and a twisted smile crossed her lips.

“Bow before Gozer the Gozerian! Tremble before her might!  Lowly subcreatures all of you shall perish!” she bellowed from her gigantic maw.

“Every able bodied unicorn we need you to help us stop this thing!” Mayor Mare shouted from a megaphone.

Lyra looked over at me and I nodded.  I wasn’t sure what I could do, but I ran with her.  She focused on the giant marshmallow mare and fired a blast of fire out at it along with dozens of other unicorns.  The effect was short lived as the now flaming marshmallow mare stomped its foot down crushing houses and setting fire to everything else.

I grabbed Lyra, not even thinking, and started to run back toward town.  She held on to me tightly as we traveled further in.  That’s when I heard an all too familiar chant.  It was slightly different, but the chant was nearly the same.

“Cutie Mark Crusaders Ghostbusters yay!” three adolescence mares shouted.

Before I could tell what was happening a huge wagon with several old looking computers, a set of parallel iron bars, and Sweetie Bell sitting on top of the thing with her horn glowing pulled up.  I watched as Applebloom locked the wheels, and then nodded to Scootaloo.

The iron bars began to glow an unearthly white for a moment before a powerful beam shot out between them.  The beam hit the huge marshmallow mare causing a large section of it to catch fire.

“Full power!” Scootaloo shouted.

I watched as Sweetie Belle’s horn glowed even brighter.  The iron glowed again and this time the blast was even larger, but all it did was completely engulf the marshmallow mare in flames.

“Blast the theater!  She’s connected to it!” Discord shouted.

They turned the wagon toward it and the Marshmallow mare tried to run to them, to stop them, but before she could reach them they fired their weapon again.  The theater exploded in a brilliant flash of light and a cloud of fire covered the Marshmallow Mare.

“NO!!!!” Gozer screamed as she began to liquefy.

A moment later hot marshmallow cream began to cover everything.  I ran back with Lyra, screaming at Fluttershy, Discord, and the cutie mark crusaders to follow us.  We bolted into the Doo Drop in, slammed the door shut and ran up to my room.  We looked down to see the entire street covered in marshmallow cream.

Dozens of ponies caught it in, moving around and finding that they were incredibly sticky.

“Well, that was a fun prank!” Discord said.

“Sweetie Belle! A voice cried from outside.

I watched Sweetie Belle as realization seemed to dawn on her.

“BUTTON!” she screaked  She flung open the window.

Lyra looked down and I watched as she levitated a marshmallow covered adolescence up to the room.  He looked terrible.

“Oh Button I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” Sweetie Belle said as she tried to clean him off.

I looked at this, went to the bathroom, and started a hot shower.  I then walked back into the room and led the poor colt to the tub.

“Hop in,” I said.

He did and moments later Sweetie Belle was behind me. I watched as she took to scrubbing him and I left the two of them alone.

“Sweetie’s coltfriend is a real crybaby,” Scootaloo said to everyone.

I looked toward the bathroom, and I had to agree a little bit.  Sure, there had only been one episode of Button’s Adventures, something I had watched religiously, but it pretty much showed Button as a crybaby.  I suppose it was just something else the fandom had been right about.

“Where did you girls come up with the idea of being ghostbusters?” I asked.

“Oh, we had seen that movie a whole bunch of times.  I tried to see if I could get a message to Rainbow Dash and see if she wanted to watch it with me, but I guess they couldn’t get the letter to her,” Scootaloo said.

I studied the little Pegasus and noticed how down she sounded about that.  The show had stated that she really looked up to Rainbow Dash, and for her to be cut off from her hero for so long had to be taking its toll on her.  I knelt down beside her and gave her a smile.

“Well, I think that what you did today is officially cooler than a sonic rainboom,” I said.

“Really?!” she asked sounding excited.

“Really.  That was really impressive.  I mean you defeated a god out there.  That’s something to brag about,” I said.

“Ya think that the princess is gonna want ta know ‘bout it?” Applebloom asked.

“I’m sure she would like to know about it,” Fluttershy said.

“Oooo…  Why don’t we ask her?!” Discord said.

I heard him snap his claws and both Luna and Celestia appeared outside of the window.  The both of them fell into the thickening Marshmallow cream.  Celestia pulled a hoof up, looked at it, and then looked around.  I watched her and for the first time ever I heard the Royal Canterlot voice in real life, coming from Celestia.

“DISCORD!” She shouted.

He opened the window and leaned out.

“Celly, how are you doing today?” He asked.

She closed her eyes, scrunched up her brow and let out a snort.

“Why is Ponyville covered in this mess?” she asked.

“Oh, is it?” he asked.

“Sister, this is Marshmallow,” Luna chirped as she licked a hoof.

“Marshmallow?” Celestia asked.

She licked her hoof and her eyes widened.

“Why is everything covered in marshmallow?” she asked sounding confused.

“Perhaps if you both would like to join us in my new friends room here we can explain,” Discord said.

A moment later both Luna and Celestia appeared inside of the room.  There was a small coating of marshmallow sticking to their hooves, but it didn’t appear to be anywhere else.

“Now, what is going on?” Celestia asked.

“Well, there may have been a small prank pulled,” Discord said innocently,

“If it helps any you have three subjects that defeated an ancient and evil god or rather goddess I suppose,” I said.

“And who are you?” Celestia asked.

Okay, the voice was the same, and the fact that she didn’t look like her cartoon counterpart didn’t bother me.  I was talking to Celestia.  I knew that she had the power to do damned near anything she wanted to me, and maybe Discord could, or would, save me, maybe not.  I swallowed any nervousness I had and smiled.

“I’m Don Riker,” I said with a slight bow.

“Mr. Riker, would you please explain what you mean?” she asked.

“Well, I’m sure it was just meant as a harmless prank, but an interdimensional god like being was pulled into this world.  She had taken the form of a huge Marshmallow Mare and started to crush everything in Ponyville.  The local unicorns tried to stop it with their magic, but all it managed to do was catch it on fire.  These young mares, along with their friend in the bathroom, built a device that was able to stop it,” I said.

“Is what he is saying true my little ponies?” she asked.

Applebloom nodded, and Scootaloo smiled brightly.

“Uhhuh!  We built a proton accelerator just like in the movie!” Scootaloo said.

“How did you manage to build one of those?” Luna asked.

“Well, actually it was Applebloom that figured out how to put it together,” she said.

“We kinda borrowed some of the equipment and stuff from Twilight’s house,” Applebloom said.

“Oh?” Luna asked.

“Don’t get mad at Spike!  I totally told him that we would bring it right back!” Scootaloo said.

“And he let you borrow it?” Celestia asked.

I watched as they talked about it and realized that Scootaloo seemed really concerned about the possibility of Spike getting into trouble.  For a moment I wondered if the Scootaloo and Spike shippers might have been onto something.  It would actually make some sense if they were.  I felt Lyra next to me and I smiled at her.  She grinned at me, stood on her hind legs, and wrapped her forelegs around my neck before pulling into a deep kiss.

“Well, then it appears that everything seems to be well in hoof.  Except for the marshmallow covering ponyville,” Celestia said.

“It’s too bad that we can’t use it to feed everypony,” I said.

The entire group looked at me.  Celestia’s mouth turned up into a grin.

“That is actually a very good idea.  There is enough of it here to feed every single orphan in Trottingham,” she said.

“If you’re going to do that then let me help,” Discord said.

Before they could react he snapped his claws again and outside it began raining gram crackers and chocolate bars.  Once it was finished he smiled at himself.

“S’mores,” I said.

The Princesses nodded, and Luna blinked out of the room.  Celestia turned around and glared at Discord.

“Next time, try not to do this,” she said.

“I promise I’ll be good, well most of the of time,” he said the last part under his breath.

She blinked out and we walked toward the window.  Lyra stood next to me and we watched as the princesses helped clean off all of the ponies and together they began creating s’mores out of the ingrediants there.

“Want to help them?” I asked.

“Sure, but I don’t want to get this dress dirty,” she said.

She walked toward the closet and looked at me.

“Mind to help me?” she asked.

I walked over, helped her out of the dress, the stockings, which looked amazing on her, and then out of her panties.  She let out a small breath and then looked at me.

“I should change too.  I’ll go ahead and step in here,” I said.

I was sure that the others weren’t quite sure why, but I figured that Fluttershy was most likely thankful that I decided to spare the world a view of my nakedness.  I pulled off the newer set of clothes that Discord had created for me, and instead grabbed a shirt and pair of shorts that were in my suitcases. I was thankful that they were in the closet and pulled them on.  I felt something touching me and turned around to see Lyra’s horn glowing.

She smiled sheepishly and then we both stepped out.  All three Cutie Mark Crusaders and Button Mash stood out there.

“Nothing again!” Scootaloo said.

“Me neither,” Applebloom said.

Sweetie Belle didn’t say a word.

“Sweetie, did you get a ghostbusting cutie mark?” they both asked.

She shook her head.

“Did you get one?” Scootaloo asked.

She shook her head.

“I didn’t either,” she said.

“I’m sorry Sweetie Belle,” Button said.

I noticed that Button had what looked like a game controller on his rump.  I should have guessed that would have been his cutie mark.

“So, do you guys want to go down and help clean this up?” I asked.

They looked at each other and then nodded.

“Cutie Mark Crusaders S’more makers go yay!” they shouted before they ran out of the room.

Lyra, Fluttershy, Discord, and I walked down together to see all of Ponyville working together to get the mess made into s’mores.  Someone stopped after a few moments and shook their head.

“Pinkie Pie really needs to be here for this,” somepony said.