How and Why?

by LazyPone

Chapter 18: Wealth, Showers and Jealousy

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The CMC have 'requested my assistance' for something. I can already guess what, but lets find out together! I went to their hidden, secluded HQ, and asked them what's up. They wanted me to act as a catcher if they fall off the zipline, I knew they would be ok if they did,but how can anyone so no to those faces. Except for me, I can have a heart of stone, but whatever, I still said yes because I care. Anyway. Here I now stand, waiting to catch them when they fall. The funny thing is Scoots is the only one wanting to do it. Sweetie and Bloom were very hesitant. I wonder why...

Scoots jumped off, dragging the other two with her, as they were all connected to each other by wires. At first it looked like they're doing fine. Untiiiil the clips started glowing red, and they were losing speed. I ready my thrusters, smoke coming from my hands and feet. The CMC have lost speed altogether, aaaand the rope snapped. Fast like lightning, I fly up to them before they can even start falling.

*How far away was I from them.* I look to where I was standing, marked by the scorched piece of land. And WOW I was a fair distance. I'd say about fifteen meters away, fuck I can move fast. Anyway.

"Heh... Thanks Streak." The other two are too frozen in shock to speak at the moment.

"No problem." I say as I slowly descend. When i'm on the ground I let the girls down. Sweetie and Bloom are still shivering a bit. "Hey! You wanna see somthin' funny?" They nod. "Watch this." I fly as fast as I can to get as high as can, without leaving the planets gravity. When i'm high enough I make a quick one-eighty and speed to the ground. I can see the girls backing up a bit from the clearing. *Good...* At this point I let myself go limp, falling at terminal velocity. And I hit the ground, HARD. A big dust cloud puffs up from the impact.

"Streak!" I've already gotten up in the middle of the crater. I see the CMC standing at the edge when the dust clears.

"Hey girls." I hoover out of the crater. Scoots bursts out into laughter.

"How are you still alive!?" I tap the side of my head.

"I'm made of metal, more specifically gold, a very dense and hard metal, I can survive much worse situations."

"And you fell from way up there to make us laugh?"

"It worked for Scoots." Bloom and Sweetie look at Scoots, who's still laughing her little flank off. A little bit silence goes around, broken by Scoots laughter. Finally Sweetie and Bloom burst out to laughter too. After... three minutes the laughter dies down.

"You wanna see another trick?" They nod, grins on their faces. "Alright, watch." I grab my left arm with my right, and pull it off. The CMC gape at what I just did. "No, it didn't hurt."

"That's so COOL!"

"How do you do that?"

"Do I have to show you 'The Face' again?" I put my arm back on and make a move to take my face off.

"NO! No... We don't." I take my hand away form my face.

"Ok, how about we head back to Ponyville?"

"Yeah! We can ask the older ponies about how they go their cutie mark!" Scoots hops on to her scooter, while Sweetie and Bloom hop on the wagon attached to it. But before they can speed off I blink us to Aj's place. Scaring the fuck out a Aj.

"GAH!! Streak! You mind of ya stop doin' that!?"

"Yes. Anyway, i'll leave these three with you." I tip the fuck out of there before any questions to me can be asked. I make it to Sugarcube Corner. I walk in the door, a satisfying clinging of the bell alerts Pinkie.

"Hi! Welcome to- Oh! Hi Streaky!" At the sound of my nickname, many ponies turn in my direction and bow.

"Oh please, you don't have to be formal with me." I say in a joyful tone. The ponies smile and go back to whatever they were doing. I walk up to Pinkie who's standing behind the counter. "Hey Pinks."

"Hi Streaky! What's up?"

"I want to try some of your goodies." At that her eyes twinkle.

"*gasp* Really!? But how? You said you don't need to eat!"

"That doesn't mean I can't taste stuff." She grins widely. "I'll take one of your famous cupcakes."

"Okie-Dokie-Lokie! One cupcake coming up!" She quickly ducks behind the counter, which is also a display for treats now that I look at it. Just as quickly she comes back up with a cupcake. It looks like an average cupcake, for human standards anyway. "That'll be three bits!" I hand her the bits.

"Moment of truth, will I be able to eat or not." I say statically. I pop the cupcake in my mouth and chew...

"Well?" My eyes feel like they lost focus, my legs feel weak...

"I... That... I can taste it... I can taste it. I CAN TASTE IT!!! MOTHER OF GOD THAT'S AWESOME!!" I power down to savor the indescribable sensation that took over my taste sensors. I don't know how long I powered down, but when I powered back up, I was on the floor, a crowed of ponies including Pinks. When the light returns to my eyes everypony backs up.

"Pinkie." She perks up. "I don't care how much I have to pay, but I want to order a life time supply of your goods." At those words everypony gasps.

"You got it! One lifetime supply of pastries! Coming up!"

"Call me when you're done. Oh, and how much is it?"

"One million bits!" Everypony gasps again.

"Do you take piles of gold?"

"Sure!"

"Ok." With everypony stepping out of the way, I spawn fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty five stacks of gold. Thank god the stack spawn in crates, and there are only four crates. At the sight everypony in the shop gapes in awe.

"Pinkie dearie, why is it-" Mr. and Mrs. cake come down the stairs, only to stop and stare at me.

"Pinkie, who is that?" Mr. Cake asks Pinks.

"He's Golden Streak!" The cakes go wide eyed. They clamber down the stairs and bow in front of me.

"P-prince Streak! It's pleasure to be in your p-presence!" She stutters.

"Y-yes, a true pleasure."

"Oh please! You don't have to be like that with me! I'm NOT one of those uptight nobles. And please, call me Streak."

"Oh thank goodness! I was afraid that you would be like that."

"Yeah, I was hopping you wouldn't be like the typical noble."

"Thank you."

"so, may I ask why you are here?"

"I-"

"He's here because he just ordered a lifetime supply of goodies!" The Cake's jaws drop.

"Is that why there are four big crates in here?" He point a hoof to said crates.

"Yes, they're filled with the bits needed to pay such an order."

"But that means..." Her eyes go wide as saucers.

"Honey Bunch? What does it mean?" She doesn't respond. So I respond for her.

"It means I just gave you one million bits." I love his reaction. He goes wide eyed and his jaw drops again.

"Wha... How... Wh... uuugh." His eyes roll up and he flops over, passed out. I couldn't help but laugh. After who knows how long I stop laughing, and Mrs. Cake canters to the crates, and open each one.

"You're... you're not lying..." She gallops to me and hugs my legs. "Thank you... Thank you so much for this." I look over to Pinks. She shrugs.

*I think I have an idea as to why...* "Can I ask why?" She got the question, thank the fucking universe.

"We never told anypony, but we owe a lot of debt to different ponies, and this shop was the only way of paying them back. But with all these bit you gave us, we'll be able to pay them back and still have enough left to pay off the place. Thank you." I kneel down and hug her back.

"You welcome Mrs. Cake." Everypony 'aww's at the sight, while Pinkie blows into a handkerchief, openly crying. A few seconds and we let go. Tears streaming down, Mrs. Cake's cheeks.

"Please dearie, call me Cupcake."

"Ok, Cupcake." I say joyfully. Cupcake giggles and wipes the tears with a hoof. Just then Mr. Cake regains consciousness.

"Ugh, what happened?"

"I gave you one million bits, you fainted, Mrs.- I mean Cupcake told me your situation, and that's when you woke up."

"So, you really payed us that much?" I poni to the crates.

"Why don't you look for yourself?" He canters over to the crates and looks in. Everypony can see the yellow light coming from each crate he looks in. When he's done he looks at me with teary eyes.

"Thank you..."

"I'll give you two some time alone, it looks like you need it." I turn around to leave...

Only to be blocked by a crowd of ponies. They're all staring at me with blank faces. It's fucking creepy. Then, one pony starts clopping their hooves to the floor. Followed by everypony. They then make a path for me, and I take it. As I leave the place erupts into thunderous clopping. Their version of clapping. After that whole thing, I decided to head home, it was getting late. And i've been tinkering with my transformation spell. I messed with it to the point where I have the same capabilities of a fucking changeling. Except a more powerful version. Anyway, time for sleep! Yes I can sleep when I use the spell to turn me organic. And no, the magic doesn't kill me for some reason. SLEEP!


--------->>>>Next afternoon<<<<---------

"This gonna be one hell of a meteor shower Twi!" Tonight's the night I finally get to the centennial meteor shower. And we're all gathered at some field. Along with some other ponies. *I wonder if i'll be able to see the next one...* I look over to see Spike acting a little nervous. *Ah... The book.* I 'pst' him over to me. "Want me to fix the book?" His gets all worried. "Don't worry, I won't tell her."

"Thanks Streak, and yes, I need you to fix the book." I nod and blink to the library. I spy the book, the reason being was it fucking stood out from the rest. Anyway, I quickly repair the book, made sure there were words in it, and blinked back to the picnic with a meteor shower, just in time too. The shower started just as I blinked back, and let me tell ya, it looked looked like sparkling pieces of platinum were racing across the sky. And it gave me an idea.

"I wonder if they are made of platinum... I'm gonna go find out."

"What!?" I fly off before I can answer, turns out the meteors were closer than I expected. But still pretty fucking far anyway. I fly along side one and grab it. When I got a closer look, it actually was platinum covered in frozen gases.

*If my magic changed my composition to white gold, then...* I dig my hand into the ice, extending my arm, I then make contact with the core, the texture of my hand changes from silvery white, to a slightly lighter silvery white. It's hard to tell the difference, but I can still see it, when I zoom in a couple thousand times. I can even see the atoms! Wow, I knew I could zoom in a bunch but I never thought to a point where I can see fucking atoms. But the only way I noticed was that the atoms were gaining protons, neutrons, and electrons. If you don't know what those are, you never paid any attention to physics class.

"Ok, that's fucking cool." I then saw that the meteor was getting smaller, I let go and fly back down to where the gang was.

"What happened!?" I shrug.

"Turns out those meteors are made out of platinum, covered in frozen gas. And now i'm made of platinum"

"REALLY!?" I nod. "Amazing!" Rarity's eye are twinkling at this point.

"A platinum nucleus?" I nod again. "Hmm... I thought it was just rock and gas. Interesting..." A loud snore can be heard. We all look to see Spike, curled up, head inside a punch bowl. The girls 'aww' at the sight. "I guess that means it's time for us to go home." Just as she says that, the meteor slowly ends. And we all depart to our respective homes.


--------->>>>Two hours later<<<<---------

I'm forced to power back up to Twi knocking at my side.

"Spike?" She nods. "Let's go. Where's Owlicious?"

"Whoo." He flies up to me, closely looking at me.

"Hi Owlicious." I reach up and scratch his head. When I do he leans into it. Somehow purring.

"Come on! We have to go get Spike!"

"Ok." I blink us to the entrance of the cave. It's kinda hard to blink to places i've never to before, but it's a good thing everything looks cartoony though.

"Ok, i'll go in and get Spike, you two wait here." Twi nods, Owlicious just 'whoo's and lands on Twi's back. I nod and run in. And Spike is being chased by the big green dragon, Spike's cornered. I stomp the ground hard enough to cause a mini shockwave. And to grab the green dragon's attention. When we lock eyes he barrels towards me. He smashes a clawed hand on me. But I hold up both hands and stop his hand from crushing me. "You messed with the wrong kinda guy today." The dragon's eyes widen in shock. I push his hand away from me, and with lightning speed, grab Spike and fly the fuck out of there. Grabbing Twi while ascending above the tree line.

I go just slow enough for Owlicious to follow me, but fast enough to get away from the dragon. We make to the library in no time. I land in front of the front door and put Twi and Spike down. Owlicious landing on my shoulder.

"You already like me?"

"Who."

"Huh... Cool. Wait, is it because you like it when I scratch your head."

"Who."

"Eh... At least you don't hate me. Hop here." I hold out my left arm for him to perch on. With a flap of his wings he does so. I then scratch him on the head. He apperently loves it whe I do. Anyway, Twi already walked inside, so I do so and take a seat on the couch. Kinda awkward to do so with an owl on your arm.

"Why did you run away like that?"

"Because he was jealous and thought Owlicious replaced him as your number one assistant." Twi looks at me, then to Spike.

"Is that true?" Spike nods.

"Yeah, I kinda thought Owlicious replaced me, and I got jealous."

"That explains what you were doing earlier." His cheeks tint a light pink.

*Ok, how the fuck can you blush through scales, seatiosly! How can a fucking lizard blush!? IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!* My left eye twitches when that last thought entered my head. Twi turns to me with a quizzical look. "What?"

"How did you know that Spike was jealous? And that he ran away?" I give my best 'You're a fucking idiot' face. "Right, I keep forgetting that."

"For a bookworm you sure are forgetful as an elephant." Me and Spike laugh at Twi's expense.

"Hey! That's not true!" I suddenly stop laughing and stare at her.

"The worst thing you can do to yourself is lie to yourself, you need to learn to laugh at yourself. Why do you think I never get offended?" I burst out into laughter again. It must've been a Pinkie Pie level of creepiness for Twi. But she eventually giggles at her own expense. "See? That's the spirit!" Me, Twi spend the rest of the night reminiscing about past events. Spike Literally passed out on the stairs.


Author's Note

Chapter 18! Never thought i'd get this far so soon. Eh... Must be due to posting chapters daily. Whatever, Comment! And if you haven't liked already, GO DO IT!!

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