Misplacement

Chapter 1: Party Night

Its party girl pinkies favorite day of the week aside of her six other favorite days of the week and on this day specifically she was doing favorite thing number one, hosting a party for her and her best friends. She did this about once every month or month and a half, attendance to these parties was deemed mandatory and any who failed to attend would be party-napped.

Her friends took it as a joke up until about 2 years ago when rainbow blew off the party to go to bed early for her shift at work and a concert the next day, pinkie used her spare key to wales into her house at about eight and woke rainbow up with the sound of a handcuffs clicking and a friendly greeting. After a few words were exchanged she forcibly haled rainbow out and into her car in nothing but her bra and thong panties which read awesome in all caps. After that nobody missed a pinkie party, even if it had to come to them.

There is rarity whom become a small time designer mostly making prom gowns and wedding dresses, she quit caring about the big splash of the fashion world after she helped a girl and her mother’s dreams come true when nobody else could, she settled for small town charm and even refers to the fashion world these days as an ill-logical rat race of flash in the pan art.

There’s rainbow dash who works at a mechanic/moto equipment store while also teaching kids to moto dirt bikes at a local track. She to this day arrives thirty minutes early to all of pinkies parties. She decided not to press charges that night given just how embarrassing it was to admit that she was overpowered by pinkie and she’d actually had fun being party-napped.

Fluttershy was working at a department store making minimum wage, her boyfriend who wasn’t attending the party due to work himself helped when he could with bills and openly encouraged her to either ask for a much deserved raise after her years working their or to quit and get a job somewhere more respecting of her work ethic, she suggest she’s making enough and would only cause problems in asking or quitting.

Half asleep on her feet sunset stood there as to fight off falling asleep sipping punch with a shot of whisky mixed in, she worked two jobs and spent much of her little time sitting around the house or trying to find a relatable person to share her free time outside of her friends. Given the demanding nature of her jobs she actually has little time to search for that certain someone, especially since she didn’t trust dating sites.

Applejack spends her time at home working on her families orchard while living in a small one person apartment a couple of miles away in the same building as her friend night shade who helped her to get her place set up, he sat with her as everyone laughed and chatted. The party rule applied to him as he been friends with everyone since high school.

Everyone was here and everyone was feeling a bit chipper from the comfort of good friends as well as the special punch pinkie was serving up. Fluttershy sat in a chair beside the coffee table across from rainbow; she was in the floor in front of applejack and night shade on the couch. She picked up a cup off the coffee table covered in drinking glasses, party confetti, food, and drink stains

Pinkie walks around with pitchers of punch and alcohol as the others mingle. She played the part of the pitcher fairy going around filling up and topping off drinks as she didn’t trust anyone else with the job after a situation involving sunset and applejacks homemade apple sider. Rarity stands by the island counter sitting between the kitchen and living room talking with sunset.

“So sunset, how’s your search for that someone new?” she asked causally

“On hiatus” she said swallowing a gulp of alcohol punch mix “I’m too busy with work right now” she sighs as she takes another sip.

“I know what you mean; I’m backed up with orders giving me little to no time for relationships.”

Applejack stood by the couch leaning on it talking to night shade and rainbow lying on her side in the floor beside the coffee table. Pinkie popped up behind them with the pitchers as rainbow lifted her glass.

“Hey pinks, give me some of that delicious punch.” She hiccupped.

Pinkie hugged the pitchers looking at her friends fevered face

“uhhh, you’ve had enough.” Applejack shot bluntly

Rainbow shoots up hiccupping “say-HUPs you-HUP”

“Did she drive?” night asked concerning

“Hold on” the country girl replied handing him her cup “hey RD, do ya’ work by any chance tomorra’?”

“Nope!” the half-drunk woman answered.

“Figures, I should have known something was up when she showed up in a cab.” She scowled “you came with the intention of getting drunk

off your ass didn’t ya’?”

“Drunk off my ass?” she repeats looking around “why did I lose it?” she turned back to aj and night shade on the couch “hey if you find it don’t HUP go falling in love with it or anything oka-HUPy.”

“Okay, who takes care of dash tonight?” pinkie asked of the room of people “I can’t, I gotta clean up after the party.”

“NOT IT!” rainbow and sunset yelled raising their hands almost in unison

“Sorry darling, can’t tonight” rarity exclaimed raising her index finger

Applejack huffs harshly “Aw shucks, I’ll do it.”

Night shade shot his head to applejack “wait, what about the movie you wanted to see.”

Applejack shrugged “Eh, it’ll be there tomorrow. Besides, gettin’ her home safe is a little more important.”

The party continues on all the way into the late hours, chatting, drinking, dancing, and cake are all participated in as the ladies and gentleman share stories, jokes, and a good laugh as an increasingly drunken rainbow dash challenges pinkie to a boob size contest. She isn’t an easy times kind of person, but she always let herself cut lose a bit around her friends. Rarity before any decisions on the game could be made clarified a rule stating bras were to stay on at all times given that she’d drawn game master in the party draw and wanted the party to remain as respectable as possible.

“Really rainbow, were not in college. Show some adult dignity and restraint.” Rarity scoffs

Rainbow teases the removing of her shirt, holding it up with her thumbs “oh –HUP come on rarity, you know I only act like thi-HUPs when

I’m HUP sauced.” She says trying to keep her balance “besides, this game wouldn’t exist wi-HUPth out you. Remember?” she said with a slurry drunk smile.

“Yes I remember” she replies with a regretful tone “however, it was only after a combination of heartbreak, physical disillusionment, and alcohol that I made such an undignified challenge.”

Night shade looked befuddled to the history of such a game and rarity’s involvement as they went to an all-girls college prompting him to ask what had happened.

Pinkie answered giggling through the story “rarity had a boyfriend in college who dumped her for a girl with a stacked rack” she stated while moving her hands back and forth from her chest. “After we all finally found out I threw her a cheer-up party where she got super drunk and made everyone participate in the first BSC.”

Rarity turned up her noise “well I was only acting such a way because the wound was so fresh, seriously he dumped me for a stereotypical dumb girl with a chest full of petroleum jelly or whatever they put in those bags of self-esteem reduction.” She looks to sunset that stops laughing and tries to pretend she hadn’t been.

“Umm, I think that may be enough alcohol for tonight” fluttershy suggested just loud enough for those closes to her to hear.

Pinkie sits the pitcher in the sink and turns to fluttershy not noticing rainbow rummaging in the fridge “yea, I’d say that’s a good call.” She clears her throat “Okay, I’m officially calling cut off punch is still up for grabs but the alcohol is dunzo.” Pinkie hears something hit the counter and turns to see rainbow dipping her cup into the alcohol filled pitcher, she whips around grabbing the sink sprayer firing it at rainbow dash “No! Bad rainbow, you’ve definitely had enough.”

Rainbow flairs around as pinkie continue to spray her momentarily. Fluttershy walks into the kitchen with a hand towel and helps rainbow off the floor.

“Okay, that’s enough for tonight, besides its past 11:30. It might be time for us to go home and get some sleep.” she said helping rainbow dry off.

The others all look at fluttershy and then each other before muttering agreements to her statement.

As the others all gathered their things applejack walks a stumbling rainbow to her truck. Fluttershy stopped at the door giving pinkie a hug. “aright, thanks for hosting another great party pinkie. Are you sure you don’t need any more help with clean-up?”

“Nah!” she says waving a hand dismiss-ably “besides, sunsets the one who drew party clean up assistant. You help enough socking up the water in the kitchen get going. Drive safe.”

Fluttershy walked quietly to her car as a harsh gust of wind blew by causing her give a light shriek from the suddenness and strength as it blew her forward a bit. The gust caught rarity’s jacket almost sending her to the ground and applejack and rainbow against fluttershys old beat up 99’impala.

“Well that was a strong gu-” rarity is suddenly interrupted by the violent sounds rainbow dash vomiting all over fluttershys passenger door and her cloths as well. “Really rainbow, you could have aimed for the ground?” rarity scolded

“Ugh, sorry shy.” Rainbow said slurred and pathetic covered in alcohol and cake bit vomit looking up at her with a face between crying and falling asleep.

Fluttershy smiled in her usual timid fashion “oh, it’s okay. Most of it will fly off on the drive home. I’ll just wash off the rest in the morning”

Applejack gives fluttershy a couple bottles of water from her truck which she uses to rinse the chunky, smelly vomit off her car. Applejack put rainbow dash into her truck getting into the passenger seat so Night shade could drive as she’s had just less than one to many drinks. Rarity opened her car door and closed it as she seated herself. Fluttershy watched the two vehicles drive off. She walks around her car and gets into the driver seat pulling her seatbelt around before starting it up and taking off herself.

Fluttershy makes her way down town as the time ticks by and a soothing melody plays on the radio. She splashes through a puddle near a bakery as she comes to a stop light just as it turns red, the car jerking as she comes to a stop. She looks over to the radio and slowly turns up the volume as a song ends and the host speaks up.

“Hello my midnight owls and possible vampires” the host could be heard laughing at his own joke “this is your favorite midnight host on your favorite midnight channel. We’ll get back to the music shortly but first the weather, we have reports of possible rainfall sometime between 2 a.m. and six so sure to be indoors before then. Also as words of caution, all travelers of route I-612 are to be careful, the guard rail has been recently been removed as so that I can be replaced. Slow travel and or avoidance is advised, if you must travel up the curved road in the meantime, speeds beyond 20 mph are ill-advised.”

Fluttershy listened close as she was supposed to drive along that route to get home; she knew that she could go different direction, but it was very late and didn’t want be late or tired for work in the morning and a different way home would add an extra hour or so to her drive when she was already tired. The light turned green catching her eye as it moved and she pressed down on the accelerator.

As she traveled down the streets of the quiet night engulfed town a somber song played causing her to spin the volume dial quickly muting the song so as she wouldn’t be lulled to further sleepiness. She always disliked being in a quiet car, she often falls asleep as a passenger though merely finding it tedious and boring when driving. The buildings strolled by at a moderate pace as she passes them one by one.

With no traffic she takes a look off the road to the nearby shops admiring their glow in the light of the street lights. As they come and go she remained about a time when she’d first started dating Hayberg, they dated on and off due to school, college and one summer when hayberg decided to study abrade, but he always made some kind of effort to show her a good time when they were able to get together. Now work, little life distractions, and the need to co-op against fluttershys bills make their time together somewhat rare though still they stay strong.

Fluttershy turns onto a road lined with houses looking over them all as she hopelessly dreams of one day trading her renters contract for a mortgage and a house with all the freedom and privacy that comes with it. Her housing situation wasn’t great and the property renter wasn’t a pleasant person to deal with. One day in particular stands out as it was one of the few times hayberg visited her house, during this visit there had been an incident which resulted in a large hole being left in the wall.

“Look at this, it looks like somebodies head went through it!” she remembers him yelling “what the hell happened?” he’d asked angrily

“Nothing, it was just an accident. Right fluttershy.” Hayberg asked looking at her from the corner of his eye.

“r-right.” She’d stated, her head down and speaking impishly

The landlord looked between them “I don’t want know” he had uttered before pointing a finger to fluttershy “this” he said pointing to the

hole “you’re payin’ for it. Got that!”

“Yes, sir” she’d agreed without protest.

“Good” he barked before slamming the door, hayberg placing a hand on fluttershys shoulder as the man could be heard walking down the stairs outside.

She put the past in its place as she reached the turn onto I-612; she took the turn and was on route to her house along the curvy darkened road. She turns on her high beams eliminating the road as she slows down to make a turn she would have otherwise missed. The headlights glow on the road and reach down the rail absent edge, the light glides along the tree tops as the rest lay dark. The gloomy dark void of the long ditch and trees creep menacingly at the edge as fluttershy turns full attention to the curved road ahead of her, however her tired state starts to take hold.

“Fifteen…morreee………minutes” she assures herself fighting the strength of her sleep ready eyes.

She jolts to an alert state as her tire creeps over the roads edge jerking the wheel brining her back onto the road. She breathes a sigh relief as she places a hand on her chest feeling her panicked heartbeat. She looks down the steep hill and comes to a sense of peace as she realizes she was safe when something catches her eye.

The lights of a large truck whip around the corner as the horn blows, fluttershy panics’ again not sure who’s on the wrong side as she jerks the wheel with all her strength to the left. As her car passes the truck clips her tail sending the car toward the right and sailing over the edge bouncing into the brush below. As the car speeds down the hill fluttershy desperately attempts to regain control, failing as the car smacks against trees and her right rear view mirror is sent flying as it’s ripped off her car door. Suddenly a tree comes into view and fluttershy slams on the breaks while turning sharply to dodge the oncoming tree.

Time slows down as the car turns sideways hitting something, sending its tires of traction to the ground and the car flips until it smacks into the tree. Fluttershy lifts her head from its resting place on the steering wheel looks at the cracked driver side window into the pitch black of the night. She could only be thankful for one thing in this moment and that was that she’d survived which may have not been the case without her seat belt. Thank you, Nils Bohlin and George Cayley.

Miraculously she isn’t hurt too badly. The most sever injurie seems to be a small gash on her cheek and what may be concussion. Smaller cuts and bruise were scattered across her arms, legs, neck and chest where her shirt had torn from the cars flipping. She looks over at the passenger side only to see a jagged bent in door, as well as the trees truck in place of the window. Her rear view mirror was gone and the wind shield looked like a jigsaw puzzle. She glances back at the passenger side seat seeing her phone. She reaches for it so as to call for help, she jerks her arm back down due to a Sharpe intense pain in her shoulder, lifting her other arm she places it gently on her pained shoulder feeling a shard of glass logged in it.

With ragged breathes fluttershy bit her lower lip as she removed the piece of glass from her shoulder, and lightly flicked out another that had found its self a resting place in her ear. She reaches for her phone only to cut her finger as she pulls out half of the use to be phone. She sits there wondering how long she’ll be there when she starts to feel the familiar drop of her eyelids.