Encounters of the Pinkie kind.
Chapter 1: Encounters of the Pinkie kind
The young white Pegasus looked at his slip of paper again and shook out his blue mane. 12139 N. Saddle Street. Yep, this was the place. A medium sized house with two stories stood before him. Skye sighed; he didn’t want him and his friend to move away, but the towns around them had become, unsafe. He checked the mailbox to make absolutely sure that he had the right address. The mailbox had the name of his friend and his address. “Rush”, yep that’s him. He walked up to the door and, as he was about to knock he heard his friends voice from one of the second story windows.
“Hey bro, you finally moved! The door is unlocked, come on in and I’ll be down in a second.” Rush shouted from upstairs. Skye tried the door and found that it was unlocked. He walked in and, as promised, he heard his friend walking down the stairs. Skye kicked the door closed with his left back hoof and greeted his friend. The gritty gold colored unicorn trotted over to him, his red mane flowing. The strange thing is that nopony knew why, but Rush’s mane was different. For some reason it always changed color with his mood. He also had mental breakdowns if he was stressed, but growing up together, Skye always knew how to handle it.
“Skye, glad you moved up here to Ponyville with me!” he said.
“Yeah, this is a nice town. You meet anypony yet?” Skye replied.
“I’ve only met a few, but only because I’ve been so busy moving and all.” Rush said with a sadder tone. And along with the sad tone his mane slowly faded to blue. “Oh well though, I can introduce you to somepony, and you can meet my sister.” Rush said, perking up at his idea.
They started leaving the house for the market when they were stopped at their gate by two mares. One had a cream colored coat with a pink and blue mane and held a basket, while the other had a mint green coat with a lighter green and white mane. The cream colored mare had a cutie mark that looked like a few pieces of candy and the mint green unicorn had a golden lyre for hers. The mint green mare spoke first.
“Hi I’m Lyra and this is my friend Bon Bon. We noticed you both moved in and we wanted to bring you a welcome basket!” Bon Bon lowered the basket gently down in front of Skye who blushed slightly. These mares are kinda cute, he thought to himself.
“By the way” Bon Bon continued. “You haven’t seen a pink earth pony with a fuzzy sort of mane around yet, have you?” she asked.
“Do you mean my sister, Pinkie Pie?”Answered Rush from my side.
“So you two have met her,” Lyra concluded with a hint of disappointment.
“No no, I know Pinkie Pie, but my friend Skye hasn’t met her yet,” Rush said.
“Well Lyra, we beat Pinkie Pie to one of the new ponies!” Bon Bon told her friend. As if on cue, a pink pony matching their exact description bounced up to their house and stood next to Lyra and Bon Bon.
“Aww man, you guys beat me here. Usually, I’m first on the scene to meet the new pony in Ponyville. Anyways, Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie and if you haven’t made any friends yet, I know everypony in town! Oh, hi big brother! How’s it going? Is this your friend you told me about?” Pinkie Pie spoke so fast and long it’s as if she wasn’t restricted by the burden of lungs.
“Hi Pinkie Pie, it’s great to meet you,” said Skye.
“Pinkie! How’s it been? I’m so happy to see you! Yeah, Skye this is my sister, Pinkie Pie,” said Rush “We have something special for you so, maybe meet us at Sugarcube Corner around seven tonight?”
“Sounds like a plan. I’ll meet you guys there,” Skye replied.
Pinkie started to say something. “Great, super duper fun, I promise there’ll be games and ca-”Rush had his hoof over Pinkies mouth in an instant, as if he was hiding something
“Now sis, we don’t want to spoil anything now, do we?” Pinkie got this puzzled look on her face that slowly turned to understanding, and she nodded twice before Rush removed his hoof.
“Well, I’d better head back home and finish moving things into my house. I’ll see you at seven okay Rush? Hey Lyra, Bon Bon, are you guys going to be there too?” asked Skye.
“We can’t tell you!” Said Lyra.
“It’s a secret,” Said Bon Bon from beside her friend.
“Alright, I guess I’ll see you guys later then. Bye Rush,” Skye said to his friends as he walked home.
Chapter 2: Getting ready, for fun!
The entire time Skye was getting ready for the secret at Sugarcube Corner, he couldn’t get his mind off of the mint green unicorn, Lyra. He did wonder what the big secret was though, I mean, Pinkie did mention games and she was about to say something else. Some kind of big secret, but what could it be? Rush was definitely in on it.
Wondering about it wouldn’t help. The best he could do was meet Rush and head up to Sugarcube Corner for the secret. Skye brushed out his blue mane for the tenth time and made sure he looked nice, and when he was satisfied he checked everything around his house and left to meet Rush at his place. On the way there, Skye thought he heard faint screaming. It grew louder and louder until he heard a feminine voice shout, “Heads up!”
Skye looked behind him and gasped. A grey, wall-eyed, Pegasus with a blonde colored mane was gliding really fast in his direction. Skye let his wings lift him up before he tried, and failed, at catching the run-away Pegasus. They tumbled to the ground and the grey mare ended up practically sitting on Skye.
“Sorry.” she said “I must’ve hit a cloud, or something and I lost it. I’m Ditzy Doo, but someponies around here call me Derpy!”
“Nice to meet you, Derpy, I’m Skye. Are you alright?” He asked. “You came in a bit fast there.” He picked up her mail bag and handed it over to her.
“Yeah I’m okay, thanks. She said, while taking her mail bag. “Listen, I got to go deliver this mail, but it was nice crashing with you.”
“Ha ha ha, that’s a good one, Derpy. I’ve got to get going, but I’ll have to catch up with you later!” Skye shouted while trotting away.
Derpy sat there wondering what he meant by “good one”. Oh well, she had mail to deliver and time was running out.
Skye made it to Rush’s house strangely on time. He knocked on the door and waited for a few minutes for his friend to answer and head out. He knocked again, but this time he heard a piece of glass shatter inside. Skye tried the door, worried his friend was getting robbed, and found it was unlocked. He ran inside to find his friend having a panic attack. It worried him for a moment, then he calmed. Panic attacks were common for Rush, another thing no one knew too much about. With the panic attack came the changing of the mane. It turned yellow and white, and with him almost always running around, it almost looked like his mane was on fire. He tackled his friend to the ground while he shouted words and phrases. The only ones Skye was able to make out were “Secret”, “Can’t be ruined”, and “Skye can’t know yet!” He slapped his friend across the face with his right hoof and shook him a few times “Gold Rush, snap out of it!” he shouted. His friend didn’t like it when he used his full name, but Skye had to, to get him to stop flailing.
His friend sat up slightly and wondered why his friend was sitting on him. Skye had a certain look that he couldn’t resist making after Rush had been in a panic attack. Usually, that was how Rush was able to figure it out.
“Panic attack?” Rush asked.
“Panic attack.” Skye answered.
“You didn’t get hurt did you? You look bruised.” Skye had barely noticed, but his bruises from his encounter with the wall-eyed mail mare were already starting to show.
“It’s a long story, I’ll explain later.” Skye re-assured. “Now I believe you wanted to head over to Sugarcube Corner.”
“We can go, as soon as you get off of my chest,” Rush said with a bit of an attitude.
Chapter 3: The Surprise
Rush was walking alongside Skye on their way to Sugarcube Corner. They wondered why at seven o’ clock there was barely anypony around. After all it wasn’t that late out, and yet the streets looked totally deserted.
“Hey, Skye, I’m glad your cutie mark is the same as ever,” Rush said to start up conversation with his friend. Skye looked at his cutie mark. It was a heart, surrounded by a cloud with wings. It represented his love of freedom and flight.
“I’m glad yours is the same as well,” Skye said to said to his friend. Rush’s bass clef showed off his love of mixing music and “Dropping the Bass!” as his friend had put it. They both had an ongoing joke when they were colts, and they always got into arguments about what they would do and how they had so many interests, that when they grew up, their cutie marks would always change. In their class the next day, they learned that their cutie mark was permanent, but they still kept the joke going.
They had finally made it to a large, gingerbread, looking structure, which Skye assumed was Sugarcube Corner. They walked up to the door and knocked, and surprisingly it was open. They pushed the door open and walked into a completely pitch dark room. Then, out of nowhere, lights came on and lots of ponies were screaming “Surprise!” Even Rush said it.
Skye stopped for a second, on the verge of a heart attack. He wasn’t expecting this many ponies to be here, and he sure as hay wasn’t expecting a surprise like that. All around him, mares and stallions of all colors and heights were smiling at laughing at the shock expressed on Skye’s face. Pinkie Pie bounced over and Rush and Pinkie hugged. They’d only seen each other a few hours ago but they act like it was years since they’d seen each other.
“Pinkie, we scared him good! I bet he wasn’t expecting that!” Rush said to his sister excitedly.
Skye looked all around the room and even recognized a few ponies. There was Pinkie Pie, Lyra and Bon Bon, and even Derpy! He also saw some pony that looked familiar. A white mare with purple shades and a light and dark blue mane stood at a table with headphones on. Skye tried searching his memories for any memory of the familiar mare. It hit him instantly; it was Vinyl Scratch, the famous DJ. Rush had a few of her CD’s around their last house. One, he remembered, was of her lying on her turn table; shades hanging a few inches lower than normal, showing off her crimson eyes, and her holding a different Vinyl Scratch album cover.
“Rush, you got Vinyl Scratch to play here?!” Skye asked in amazement. Rush just stared stupidly at his friend.
“Vinyl Scratch is playing here?! Where?” Rush asked. His friend pointed out the white mare over to the side of the room behind her turn table.
“Sis, you got The Vinyl Scratch to play here, tonight? I LOVE YOU PINKIE!” Rush shouted while hugging his sister. The music was loud but that didn’t stop everypony from having a good time. Skye was so busy finding familiar faces he completely missed the big, white, banner that said “Welcome to Ponyville”.
Before Skye could say hi to anypony, Pinkie had dragged him to get cake and meet her friends. They sat in a circle, talking until Pinkie brought him over, in the form of her pushing him from behind. There were five other ponies in the circle, and Skye was eager to meet as many new friends as possible, since he had just moved in a few days ago.
“Howdy there, pardner, name’s Applejack and Ah’m happy as hay to meet ya” said an orange mare with blonde hair. She had her mane tied up with a tie and she wore a dusty Stetson on her head. On her flank, she had 3 small apples as her cutie mark and they suited her well.
“Hi, I’m Fluttershy” said a yellow mare with a pink mane. “I’m happy to meet you, but if you don’t want to meet me, that’s fine.” She had a few butterflies on her flank and she hid half her face behind her mane. She was barely audible because she spoke in a whisper, but the music playing in the background wasn’t helping either.
A white mare with a purple mane spoke next and in a very fancy sort of tone. “Hello, darling, I’m Rarity, and it’s a pleasure to meet you. I own the Carousel Boutique here in Ponyville, so if you ever need an outfit, and I’m sure you will, you mare killer you, come find me.” She had three diamonds as her cutie mark and her hair looked like it was very carefully taken care of.
“Hey there, hot shot, the names Rainbow Dash, and don’t you forget it.” This mare had a real cocky tone in her voice and it slightly annoyed Skye. She had a light blue coat and a rainbow colored mane. “Anyways, nice to meet you. As a fellow Pegasus, maybe we can get together sometime for a fly-over tour of Ponyville.” Her cutie mark was interesting, because it looked like a cloud shooting a rainbow colored lightning bolt.
“Sounds like I’ll have to take you up on that, Rainbow Dash.” Skye returned with a slightly cocky edge to his voice, which seemed to annoy Rainbow Dash just a bit.
A lavender mare with dark blue hair, followed by a streak of purple, and a streak of pink, spoke next. “Hello there, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and I’m pleased to meet you. I run the library in Ponyville, so if you need some reading material, I’m your mare.” Her cutie mark was a six pointed star, eclipsing a four pointed star, being surrounded by sparkles, the universal symbol of magic.
“It’s very nice meeting you all,” said Skye sincerely. “I hope I can really get to know you all a bit better when there’s not blasting music from all around.”
“Well, sugarcube, we’ll let ya get back tah yer friends and we’ll catch up another time, how’s that sound?” Applejack asked over the booming music.
“Sounds good, I’ll catch up with you all later,” said Skye. None of the mares must’ve heard him over the loud music. Skye walked around talking to somepony every now and then. He was really looking for Rush somewhere. He found his friend still practically standing at the door, staring at Vinyl Scratch.
“Dude, you haven’t moved since I pointed out Vinyl Scratch?” Skye asked, already knowing the answer.
“Yeah man, I can’t talk to her, I’m too nervous,” He responded.
“Dude, you can do it. Go talk to her, you both like mixing music. I’m sure she’ll like you.”
Rush’s mane changed from a calm magenta, and started turning yellow and white again. His eyes grew wide and he started hyperventilating. Skye saw what was happening and slapped him with his front right hoof.
“Snap out of it Gold Rush, pony up and go talk to her!” Skye shouted. Rush’s mane slowly faded back to a light red, but not quite a pink. His eyes returned to normal and he shook his head a bit. The look came over Skye again and Rush just nodded.
Rush’s mane changed very quickly to a yellow and black, and Skye knew from experience this was a surge-of-confidence color change. “Okay, I’m gonna go over there, and talk to her, see ya Skye,” Rush said before trotting off.
“Good luck Rush, you got this!” Skye shouted back.
Skye wandered over to where he saw Bon Bon sitting on a couch and decided to join her.
“Hey Bon Bon, where’s Lyra?” the white Pegasus asked. The cream colored mare turned to her new friend and spoke over the loud music.
“Lyra went to go get some punch; she’ll be back in a second. Look, there she is now.”
The mint green unicorn of Skye’s dreams walked over, with a thin trail of punch running down from her mouth. She rubbed the remaining punch off of her chin and greeted Skye. She sat down next to him, and it looked a bit, peculiar. She sat as though she wanted to lay down with the back of the seat as her headrest. Skye was about to ask Lyra why she was sitting like that but Bon Bon stopped him.
“She doesn’t like being asked about it, it makes her feel like other ponies look down on her, which is ridiculous,” Bon Bon explained.
“Oh ok, I won’t mention it,” he said to Bon Bon. “Hey Lyra, how’s it going?” Skye asked. Lyra looked over at Skye and smiled.
“Well, pretty good I suppose. I had a bit of a long day though, and I couldn’t wait for this party!” Lyra said.
Skye had forgotten about Rush while he was sitting there talking to Lyra. He looked over to find him, slowly trotting over to Vinyl Scratch’s turn table. Vinyl Scratch turned towards him and they started talking to each other. Skye couldn’t hear anything over the loud music but they seemed to be hitting it off. Rush must’ve complimented the white coated DJ, because her cheeks turned a bit red, and she was giggling and looking away. It took a second but Vinyl lowered her shades for a second and showed off her red eyes to Rush. He went over to whisper something into her ear and after a few seconds of thought, she smiled, stepped back and let Rush do his thing. The music instantly stopped, and everypony was confused as to what was happening. They looked in the direction of the two DJs and a few seconds later, a disc was swapped out with one of Rush’s own. Another party song came on, and Skye could tell everypony liked it. Even Vinyl Scratch was bobbing her head to the music and smiling.
Skye was happy that Rush and Vinyl had hit it off so well. His night wasn’t that bad either; he’d met tons of new friends, had delicious cake, and got thrown a welcome party when he moved up here.
The night and party continued on, but eventually everypony left. Rush, Skye, Vinyl Scratch, Lyra, Bon Bon, and Pinkie were the only ones left. Pinkie Pie retired early, which Skye hadn’t thought possible with all the energy that pink pony had.
“I should probably get heading home, I’ve got to cook lots of dishes for a friends catering tomorrow,” said Bon Bon, with a tired expression plastered on her face. She walked out after saying goodbye to everypony who was left. “Bye, Skye. Welcome to Ponyville, I hope you like it here,” she said as she left.
Rush, Vinyl Scratch, Skye and, Lyra were left at sugarcube corner and, not wanting to be a burden at the bakery any longer, headed towards Rush’s house. They all talked of great party festivities and they had a good laugh about the time when the music cut out. Eventually, they made it to Rush’s house, where he invited them in for the night, since it was a bit late to walk home alone. Skye and Lyra Sat down on Rush’s couch while Vinyl Scratch took a look at his sound system. She grabbed a pair of headphones and looked over at Rush.
“Hey, you mind if I check this out?” she asked.
“Go ahead, you might actually like track three,” he replied. The DJ pony put the headphone on her head and turned up track three. She started bobbing her head and grooving to the beat. Rush could tell she liked it, a lot. After she checked out a few more songs, Rush noticed his friends Lyra and Skye at the other end of the living room.
Skye looked over at Rush and Vinyl Scratch who were talking while they looked in his direction. Rush whispered something that made Vinyl Scratch look back in Skye’s direction, giggle, and then nod her head. They both turned and headed up the stairs, but Rush stopped, turned back and winked at his friend. Rush obviously wanted Skye to be alone with Lyra. I guess he did notice me blushing, Skye thought to himself.
“So, how long have you been in Ponyville, Skye?” Lyra asked as she walked over.
“Well, I’ve only been here about a week, but I haven’t met anypony because I was too busy moving.”
They continued the nice conversation until he noticed something on his shoulder. Lyra had fallen asleep on Skye’s shoulder in the middle of her sentence. Skye’s face turned bright red and he thanked Celestia that Lyra wasn’t awake to see him do it. He had a crush on Lyra after all, so this couldn’t turn out so bad. Skye decided to call it a night and lay down next to Lyra. Yeah this was a good day, he thought to himself.
