beezlebub's game and trick shop

Ponyville was very accustomed to strange things. Most of the ponies could boast that they were unable to be surprised, but this did.

A store, clearly three stories tall, had suddenly appeared in the middle of the market district, over night.

Pinkie pie was her usual bubbly self, bouncing along to a tune only she could hear, when she noticed a rather large gathering of ponies centered around a new building. She saw rainbow Dash and yelled, much louder than she should have,

"HI, RAINBOW! WHAT'RE-" she was quickly stopped by a cyan hoof in her mouth. She casually noticed that it tasted like strawberries.

"Pinkie, to early in the morning."

"Okay." pinkie was jumping around rainbow, who was floating about a foot off the ground. "What’s all this?"

"A new store opened and it's pretty interesting." to show her, rainbow lifted her about ten feet in the air.

The store was a blood red color, and had a smiling face on the front, in white. A large sign, in green, said, 'Beelzebub’s game and trick shop!'

As if on cue, the door to shop opened and a navy blue earth pony mare with golden hair walked out. She yelped in surprise when she saw the huge group of ponies surrounding the opening to her shop. Not that they mattered. When pinkie saw her, she screamed in happiness, causing rainbow to drop her into the crowd, who provided little resistance as pinkie pushed, shoved, and 'shoryuken-ed' herself towards the mare. When the carnage was over, the only ponies without at least one quickly healed bruise was pinkie, rainbow, and the blue mare. Pinkie stood before her and stared at her for a few seconds, before saying,

"HI! MYNAMESPINKIE! WHAT’SYOURNAME-?” the pink party pony was once again stopped early by a cyan hoof in her mouth. Pinkie noted that this one tasted like banana.

"Sorry, my names rainbow dash. Pleasure to meet you." rainbow pulled her hoof out of pinkies mouth, wiped it off, sniffed it, mad a grimace, and extended the other hoof instead. The blue mare flinched then tentatively gave a small hoof shake.

Rainbow smiled and said, "Who're you?

"Um, my name's blue bonnet."

"Really?" that's your name?"

"Yes." she showed her cutie mark off to the two mares. Of course, it was a navy blue summer bonnet, with white lace. "See?"

Rainbow looked at it, and nodded. "So this is your shop?"

"N-no, my husband runs it. I just work there." she casually wrapped her hand against her belly, which slightly bulged.

"So where's your husband?"

"He tends to sleep during the day. Summer and me work the day shift. He says that the strangest ponies come around at night."

"Weird."

"Yeah, but he's really nice once you get to know him."

The three ponies, by that point, had started walking down the main market street, and she was looking down the stalls, occasionally buying something.

"So, is he a thestral?"

"No, but he is odd. He likes the night, and get's sunburns easily."

"Does he like parties?!?!?!?"

"Yes, he does. He especially likes games. And jokes. And pranks, and sweets, and laughing and food and drinking and cider and bringing in friends that I’ve never met before and quite frankly some of his friends scare me and-" the mare continued and you could practically see her personality come out. Rainbow noticed a bit of fluttershy, mixed in with little bits of twilight and applejack. She continued ranting until pinkie appeared in front of her.

"Hey!"

"Y-yes?"

She pushed two slips into her hoof, and said, "I hear-by invite you to your own personal pinkie party! And your mysterious husband!"

"Um, okay."

"Great! Meet me at Shugarcube corner at five o'clock! See ya!" and with that, the bubbly pony jumped off to invite the rest of her friends.

Blue bonnet watched as the oddest being she had ever met wandered off, and looked at rainbow dash. She could only say one thing.

"Seriously?"

5:00 on the dot.

Pinkie had everything ready. Her friends, music, games, lots of food, and gummy.

As she expected, a small knock came from the front door. 'Squeeing', she ran up and threw it open.

Three ponies stood there. Two of them she had never seen before, and one of them was blue bonnet.

"Hi pinkie, am i late?"

"Nope! On time!"

The three ponies walked in, and the two she had never met introduced themselves.

A rather large stallion, big enough to put big mac to shame, with a grey coat and a dark red mane, with a cutie mark of two stakes, crossing over a heart, looked the mares over with a look of neutrality. He made a little shrug, as if he was a bit disappointed.

"Ah assume that this handsome stallion is your hubby, Mrs. bonnet?"

The three of them looked at each other, than burst out laughing.

"No, not a chance. This is Vlad, a pony that works for him, definitely not my husband. He’ll be coming in later."

Vlad bowed to the mares and moved over to the food table.

Bonnet motioned over to the other mare, which had a small smile, but was more focused on a strange contraption in her hoofs. She was a light shade of pink, with orange hair. A picture of a white contraption with a green thing on the top, adorned her flank.

"This is summer. No last name."

Summer nodded to the other mares and moved over to the left side of the room.

Pinkie put a hoof to her chin, made a small, 'hmmmm,' and grabbed bonnet and moved her over to her friends.

Twenty minutes later and another knock, slightly smaller than the one before, came from the door. Pinkie rushed forward, and threw open the door. There, stood a changeling. He was decked out in a red suit, red top hat, and a red cane. He had red eyes, and a red mane. He walked in and hung up his hat on the rather convenient hat rack right next to the door. Pinkie noticed that this changeling was noticeably taller, and two sets of wings. He was about to say something, when an orange hoof hit him in the face.

The changeling was sent back into the door, which buckled in half, sending the poor thing all the way outside. He righted himself mid air, and landed on all four legs. Shaking his head, he barely had time to react as rainbow dash smashed into him and sent him sprawling away from sugar cube corner.

"Hah!" rainbow dash grinned as a red blob of energy just barely grazed her. Reeling backwards, she didn't notice the red flash of light that signified a teleportation spell. She did notice when a red diamond cane bashed into her face. Gripping her face she watched, rather awestruck, as the same cane came out of nowhere to whack heron the small of her back, making her wings go taut, sending her out of the sky.  She was helpless to do anything as the changeling came down, and was about to bring the cane down on her head. She also watched as a blue hoof, far faster than she could've, slapped the changeling in the face. She briefly heard a small exchange before she blacked out.

"Beelzebub! What did i tell you about fighting!?"

"She attacked me first! You saw!"

"that doesn't give you the right to-"

Rainbow awoke with a start. Looking around she saw a rather pissed off blue bonnet, and the changeling, nursing a bruise that covered the left side of his face.

"- And that's why you and rainbow did nothing to him, but my punch connected."

"The other five nodded, when fluttershy noticed that rainbow was awake. "Oh! Rainbow! Your awake!"

"No shit" she mumbled as she tried to get up, and promptly fell back again. "What did that thing do to me?"

"You mean Beezie? He essentially paralyzed the joints in your wings. The fall to the ground didn't help. Neither does the fact that that you were laying on your wings for the past 20 minutes." pinkie blasted off. "Also, why do your hooves taste like strawberry and banana, respectively?"

"Why does your breath smell like pussy?"

"Because i was at twilights house, before i ran into you, silly!"

Every pony looked at pinkie and twilight. Twilight shrunk down into her chair, while pinkie's smile had only grown.

After a few seconds, applejack said, "ooookay then. Well, rainbow, i don't think that you were ever properly introduced to Beelzebub." she nodded to the changeling. "And before you ask, he's not a changeling, he's a changeling king."

The rainbow Pegasus looked over to Beelzebub. "Charmed. When does the paralysis wear off?"

"Right about now."

Exactly as he finished that sentence, her wings instantly felt infinitely better, and she jumped up. Shaking her wings out, she pointed her hoof towards Beelzebub. "Why is a changeling here?"

"I opened my store here."

"Why would you open it here?"

"I like the atmosphere."

"Don’t you know that changelings aren't liked here? You could get run out of town!"

"I’ll have packed up and left by then. Tell you what. I’ll let each of you," he pointed at the six ponies, "have something out of my shop, free of charge. Come by tomorrow."

The six of them had mixed reactions to that statement. Rainbow dash was stretching, trying to get some feeling back in her wings. Twilight had one eyebrow lifted, as if to say, "really? Your offering six mares, two of which tried to kill you, free stuff?”  Fluttershy had already fallen asleep, and rarity was pigging out at the buffet table. She didn’t know why. She just was. Applejack and pinkie pie weren't listening, as they had somehow started a drinking contest. Pinkie was winning.