How and Why?

by LazyPone

Chapter 13: The Lesser Known and New Houses

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I was helping Rares with making twenty dresses when Sweetie decided to fffffffffFUCK things up in the main room. And just by fucking TOUCHING the spoll that had the ribbon Rares needed. Gotta admit though, it was fucking hilarious to see everything fall and smash to the ground. But then I remembered that it was RARITY'S stuff. And there is the eye twitch, my eyes flash an orange red (the color of annoyance if you didn't know). '

"Rrrrrrr...." A low growl came from me and Sweetie said something about standing somewhere else. Rarity starts to put things back in order. I hold up a hand to stop her. "I got this." I snap my fingers and everything teleports back to their rightful spots. Man I could've used that when I was on earth, I kinda had a little bit of OCD when it came to organization of personal belongings.

"Oh thank you darling, that save so much more time." I look over to her, and her mane has gotten saggy. Heh...

"No problem Rares, i've always hated messes like that." She nods in agreement.

"Now I just hope there won't be any more interruptions." I mentally facepalm.

"I wouldn't hold my breath." There's a knock at the front door. YES! Beat the universe to it!

"Who could the be NOW!?" I sniff the air.

"Caaaat." I say with a snarl. I hate cats, have I mention that I hate cats? Cause I FUCKING hate them. The temperamental ones anyway. I don't mind any pet as long as it's docile unless provoked. But cats are a little bit of an exception. I hate cats in general, but stick me with one that likes attention and I won't mind it. But Oooppaaal...

"What was that darling?" The door opens to reveal Flutters carrying Opal in a basket.

"Hi Rarity... Oh! Um... I must of come at a bad time, do you mind of I come back later?"

"Oh! I completely forgot that you were grooming Opal! Please come in, how do you do it anyway? I can't get anywhere near Opal without a swipe of a claw." Just then Opal hops out and swipes Rarity just as she says that. Opal takes one look and growls angrily. I respond with a growl of my own. Brave fucking cat, she just tried to jump on my face and scratch the hell out a me.

"You REALLY shouldn't mess with me, i'm not happy right." My eyes glow red as I speak. And it seems I still haven't convinced her. "Don't believe me? Let me prove it to you." I held her in one hand, pointed my other hand to her, and turned it to five knives. one for each finger. And I slowly inch them closer to Opal. Now THAT got the point across. A face of pure fear claims her face and she's shaking pretty bad. I would care if I didn't hate this particular cat.

"Streak! What are you doing!?" Oh yeah, those two are there.

"Did I make myself clear?" Opal nods rapidly. "Good, now get the fuck out a here and don't fuck with me ever again." A drop her and she speeds off to another room. I look over to Rares and Flutters see them in shock. "Don't worry, I wasn't gonna do anything. I just don't want to deal with that cat, not a fan of pissy cats. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go take a walk." And I do just that....

I'm walking round Ponyville's marketplace. Ponies milling about the place, I'm walking around in human form, the towns ponies have gotten used to me a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago. After striking a conversation with a few ponies I decide to head... somewhere else.

"Look out!" I hear somepony say, just before said pony crashes into me from behind. It takes a lot to make me move apparently because I felt the impact, and it. Was. HARD. But it didn't nudge me one bit Anyway.

"Ugh..." I turn around to see that Ditzy has crashed into me. Yes, I call her Ditzy Hooves instead of Derpy.

"Are you alright?"

"I don't think so, my wings hurt." She looks up at me. "*gasp* Ohmigosh, I didn't mean to hit you! Please don't hurt me!" She puts her forelegs up like a shield.

"Uuuhh... Why would I do that? It was an accident." She peaks one eye through her legs. "You said your wings hurt?" She nods. "Let me take a look." Ditzy drops her legs, eyes widening. "Don't worry, i'm just gonna see if I can heal them."

"O-okay." She nervously stands up and turns to her side. And good god, one wing is limp while another bends midway in the wrong way. That looks painful.

"You mind if I touch them?"

"N-no..."

"Okay, i'm going to be as gentle as possible." I tentatively touch the bent wing on the bottom half and let my magic see what wrong. She sucks in air quickly and hisses. I concentrate my magic to numb the pain and she lets out a sigh of relief. "See? Told ya, now lets see here..." I close my eyes to see the image my magic has formed of the bone structure in my head. And it looks like a bird wing judging from the structure except for the being broken in half part. *Alright, lets do this.* I channel my magic to heal the broken area. Slowly but surely the wing is back to normal. When I let go of it, it flaps a few times and tucks itself to her side.

"Other side please." Ditzy turns around slowly, I guess it hurts her other wing to move like that. "Now to fix this one." I gingerly touch it at the joint. Ditzy hisses in pain again, automatically my magic numbs the pain again. She sighs again. I close my eyes to see a horrific sight. Every bone in this wing is broken or fractured in any way possible. But nothing fell apart yet. *She's really lucky she didn't try to move this wing. Probably would've disintegrated if it did.* I channel my magic to mend all the fractures and heal the broken bones. After a few seconds I let go of her wing, it flaps a few time and tucks into Ditzy's side. She faces me and hugs me.

"Oh thank you! I don't know what I could do if I was out of work!"

"Why is that?" She lets go of me and brushes a hoof to the ground.

"I'm having some... financial issues..." My eyebrows raise in surprise.

"Really!?" She nods her head. Looking at the ground. "I will not let this go by if I can anything about it!" She looks at me.

"how are you going to help me?" I lean down close and whisper into her ear. "REALLY!? You'd do that for us!?"

"SH! And what do you mean by 'us'?"

"Sorry. And I have a daughter. Her name is Dinky."

*FUCKING CALLED IT!* "Well then, lets get a move on shall we?" I poof to pony form. I look over to Ditzy to see her shocked face, and her eyes actually aligned. Weird...

"How...?" I smirk.

"Magic, now hold on!" I blink ourselves to Canterlot Treasury. *I hope that didn't make her Sick.* I look over to her again, and she's more shocked than anything. "Heh, come on, lets help you out. You have a bank account right?" She shakes her head to escape the trance I put her in and nods. A warm, small smile on her face. "Good, how many bits do you want?" Ditzy puts a hoof to her chin. It looks fucking cute to see that with wall eyes.

"I don't know, how does twenty thousand sound?" I shake my head.

"Forty thousand." Her eyes widen impossibly at my statement. I wave a hoof in front of her face. "Hello? Anypony in there." Her eyes lock on me and she tears up.

"Y-your g-going to g-give me that much?"

"Yeah, why not?" Tears run down her eyes and she hugs me. I you're wondering 'Why the fuck give her that many bits!?', two things. One: I have no idea how much one bit is compared to dollars. And B: I once gave a homeless man three hundred, I can be generous when I feel like it, and right I'm getting that good feeling.

"Th- *sniff* Thank you. I don't know how I can repay you." I hug her back.

"Don't, all the repayment I need is seeing that smile on your face." Her smile widens and she hugs me tighter. After a while she lets go. "Now, lets get you some bits." Me and Ditzy canter over to one of the ponies over the counter. When she sees me her face brightens up.

"Good evening Mr. Steak! And...?"

"Derpy, Derpy Hooves." Dammit, I was hoping her real name was Ditzy Doo. Oh well.

"Good evening Ms. Hooves. And what do you plan to do this fine evening sir?" Wow, she knows how to be polite. A lot.

"Well Ms. Drop," Her name tag says Gum Drop. "I plan to give this mare forty thousand bits."

"Excellent sir."

"And it'll be a personal transaction."

"Very good sir. Follow me please."

"What?"

"Just wait." The teller takes up to a back room which is also the main vault of the bank. The mare speaks to two guards at the door.

"Wait here please." And we do, while she and the guards canter into the vault. I should mention that the vault door is like a comically huge vault door. After a while the trio come back out, followed by two large crates filled with the forty thousand bits I requested.

"Here we are sir. The forty thousand bits you requested." She smiles a bit proudly. I guess she helped the guards move the bits. She's a unicorn.

"Thank you Ms. Drop. And to you two as well." They snort in appreciation. "Now, if you'll excuse us." I blink me, Derpy, and the bits back to Ponyville. But in some place where no pony will see the crates. "Alright Derpy, now it's your turn. Is there a bank around here?" She nods.

"Yeah, there is. I'll take you there." She begins to trot off, but remembers something. "I forgot to ask, how did you do that and how are you going to move all those bits?" I smirk.

"Magic." I poof back to human form, and pick up each crate with an arm for each crate. I extended my arms to get a good grip on each crate. If I were to guess, I think these crates of gold would have to be twenty thousand pounds per crate. Anyway, Derpy's awe struck again, but it doesn't last long. As she shakes her head.

"Did that...?" I nod.

"Yes I did, now, weren't we gonna do somethin'?"

"Huh...? Oh yeah! Follow me!" She then takes me to where the Ponyville Bank is. When we get there she leads me inside. Even though I had to blink inside because of the crates. I let Derpy canter up to a teller, wait, the bank is almost fucking empty, if it weren't for the tellers. Which by the way were surprised at my appearance, but not for long.

"Hello Golden Streak! What are you doing here on this fine day?"

"I'm going to give this mare here forty thousand bits." All the tellers jaws drop to the floor. I guess forty thousand bits is like forty thousand dollars, if not more. One mare teller is the first to recover.

"Will that be all mam?" I look to Derpy and she nods.

"Yes, that'll be all. I still can't thank you enough for this, this is more than enough to pay my debts and pay off my taxes."

“[color=#88888]No problem Derpy. I’m just happy to see that smile on your face.” She smiles that ever-so-warm smile. “Now, how where do I take these bits? I assume that you’ll need help moving them” All the tellers are earth ponies. “Uh… Yes, we will, if you will follow me please” I pick up the two crates of bits, I think i’m in creative, there’s no fucking way i’m carrying this much gold in survival. I’ll check later. Anyway, the mare takes me to the back of the building, revealing another large vault door. With two guards standing… guard of the massive door, they’re unicorns. At the sight of me carrying this much gold their jaws drop. But they recover quickly.

“Open the door please, this gentlecolt here is just helping make a transfer.” The guards nod and the horns flare. The door is covered in their auras, seconds later the door opens. “Thank you.” As we walk in I nod to the guards in thanks, they nod back.

--------->>>>Five minutes later<<<<---------

Me and Derpy walk out of Ponyville bank. She has a wide smile on her face.

“I still can’t thank you enough for doing that for me. I don’t know any other pony who would do that for me.” She leans next to me as we walk.

“It’s really no problem, I don’t care whether you pay me back or not.” I then remember something from before. “Hey, you remember when we first met?” I look down to see her nod. “Why did you think that I was going to do something bad to you?” She blushes and nervously chuckles.

“Ehehe… I thought that since you are noble that… that you really mean.”

“Why would you think that?”

“Because i’ve always seen other nobles act like that. It’s sort of a stereotype that’s mostly true, and I thought you were another mean noble.”

*Huh, that actually makes sense…* “Well, at least I one of the few that break that stereotype huh?” She nods in agreement. “You’re heading home right?”

“Yeah. want to see it?”

“Sure, why not?” She smiles toothily and a ‘squee’ can be heard somewhere. *I think that’s the first time I hear the infamous squee of pure euphoria. Huh… sounds less annoying than in the show. Good.* I tsck when Derpy flares her wings and launches into the air. Seconds later she comes back with an embarrassed smile.

“Heh… sorry”

“For what?”

“For leaving you behind like that.[/colo]” She turns around to start cantering again.

“Oh, you didn’t.” She stops and looks at me.

“What?” The rockets in my feet blow white smoke, so do my hands, and I hover above the ground. “Wha…? That’s cool!”

“Heh… Thanks. Now, if I remember correctly, you were taking me to your house?” She nods and gets up in the air again. With me following next her. She takes me to the edge of town, a few houses here and there. I see one that looks a little different than the others. It’s a bright grey with golden yellow streaks strewn about the paint. While all the other houses are brightly colored dynamically. Derpy descends to said house with me in two and we land in front of it. It’s a single story, and it looks quite cozy. Must be roomy inside.

“This is it?”

“Mmhmm!” I take another look at it, and I notice that it has a front porch with circle windows. It looks alot like any generic house you would see in a ‘Mary Sue’ neighborhood. But it still looks cool with its paint style.

“Looks cozy.”

“It is! Ever since the town received a large sum of bits, every house and building has been renovated.”

*Awesome* “Well, shall we go in miss Hooves?[/colo]” She giggles at my mock chivalry.

“Yes, we shall.” I chuckle a little.

*Didn’t expect her to play along. Hehe…* We walk up the steps to her door and I open it. “Mares first.” I sweep my hand towards the inside.

“My. Such a gentle colt.” Both of us burst out laughing as we walk inside her home, I notice that the doorway is way too short for me to walk through, so I poof to pony form and canter inside. When my laughter dies down I take a good look around the place. Right now it looks like i’m in the living room. There’s a three seater couch with night stands at each end. A small little circle rug in front of it. All facing A fireplace up against the wall. Then two chairs on each side of the couch face the fireplace as well. All in variations of grey and yellow, same goes for the walls; grey with yellow tears (paint style).

“Huh… Roomy more than expected.” Derpy is just about to say something.

“Mom? Is that you?” I look over to where that voice came from, a hallway. And put comes Dinky, light lavender coat with a silvery yellow coat. With somewhat blue eyes. “And who’s that?” I look over to Derpy.

“Dinky?” She nods, and nod back to her. “In that case. Hi Dinky, my names Golden Streak.” When she hears my name she brightens up.

“Oh! Your that thing that saved Ponyville from an Ursa Minor! But, how are you a pony? i’ve been told you stand on two legs...”

“Because,” I sit on my haunches. *I hope this is sitting down for human* “Magic” A ‘poof’ and a white cloud of smoke envelopes me. The cloud dissipates and reveals me in human form, thankfully sitting criss cross. Dinky gasps and gallops up to me.

“That’s so COOL! How do you do that!?”

“Like said, magic.” To further prove my point, sparks fly out of my hands.

“That’s so awesome.” A few minutes of admiration from Dinky and Derpy speaks up.

“I think it's time for somepony to go to bed.”

Awww! But I-

"No butts, you need to get your sleep."

"And it's not like i'm going away anytime soon. How about I come by sometime and show you some cool tricks?"

"That sounds awesome! See you tomorrow!" She then galloped over to assumably her room.

"She has a LOT of energy, even for a filly."

"Same can be said for the Cutie Mark Crusaders." Both of us snicker at that.

"True, true. Well, I guess i'm gonna head home. When should I come by?" Derpy puts a hoof to her chin.

"How does thursday sound?" What.

"What day is it today?"

"Tuesday. Why?"

"Nothing. See ya Derps!" I let myself out the door while we both wave at each other.

*So they do have weeks here...*


Author's Note

I'm trying to get back on schedule, or should I keep it how it is now?
Keep it how it is.
Wow, where the fuck were you guys?
Sleeping!
We were in a deep sleep, yes.
Meh... Anyway. Comments and Faves are liked all around! And I think the notes are glitched.

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