The wrench chronicles (bioshock)

Ten minutes later I was on the roof of the Sugarcube Corner, I was waiting for the prince, or so his name suggests.

I saw him, well I assumed it was him, in the last five minutes I had seen no-one. He was standing around, either he liked alleyways or he was waiting for something, good enough for me, I jumped off the roof.

He looked down and saw the rapidly growing shadow; I landed beside him and instantly grabbed him by the horn. "You are under arrest!"

His horn started to glow, I was thrown back, ouch, time to teach him a lesson. I shocked him and he went over stunned and twitching, I grabbed him by the horn and started dragging, I could pick him up and carry him but why would I? I got some strange looks from some ponies, one walked up and started to talk "what did he do?" a unicorn with a pencil and a pad of paper was walking next to me. Ah a reporter, this could be fun.

"he is wanted in a kidnapping attempt he planned the attack and hired a pony to implement it." the reporter was writing furiously, a small crowd of reporters had appeared, strange I hadn't seen any before now and I thought I would be big news. I told the rest of the reporters what I had told the other one.

When we got to the doors of the police station everyone seemed to disperse, hmm strange I opened the door and entered.

I walked into the police station dragging a twitching prince by the horn "do you know who that is?" the secretary sounded worried.

"Yes I know who he is, do I care? No." she looked at me incredulously.

"The princesses won't be happy." I walked past her and threw the Prince into a jail cell. Aww he looked so out of place, I slammed the door and walked away. I hope everyday will be this fun, the chief approached me she looked impressed.

"so you have been on the job for only about thirty minutes and you have already arrested a hired goon and a prince, admittedly I think the prince is shaky ground but I approve." she had a grin on her face.

"Just a question how many officers do you have?" she looked at me.

"Well last time I counted we had ten women and four men." wow that's a lot of female officers compared to male officers. She must have been able to read my thoughts because she came out with "well there is a 6:1 mare to stallion ratio in Ponyville". Wait what? How is that possible? I have only seen a few males since I got here but still that ratio sounded weird.

"Wow back home we had a ratio of about 1:1" she looked at me as though she was wondering about something.

"That sounds nice, do you have a special some pony?" oh my god is she coming onto me. "Not that I'm interested in you but I'm just wondering" thank god.

"Well no, but it seems that a lot of mares are interested" she nodded her head in agreement.

"Well between you and me, anything with a ... Penis ... Gets them interested not many stallions are single for long." hmm that doesn't surprise me for some reason. "Anyway you can have the rest of the day off, you have worked really hard today."

"oh thank you I will be patrolling like normal tomorrow, I'm off" we said our goodbyes and I left. I walked back towards Rarity's, I had to make sure she was alright, I got there to find most of the gang was there only Pinkie was missing. "You alright Rarity?"

"yes darling I'm ... I'm alright." she didn't sound it but I'll go with it. "What are you going to do about Prince Blueblood?"

"well he is twitching down in jail at the moment." Twi being the onset stove pony that she is asked about the word twitching "well he kinda fought back and well he was a bit ... Shocked when I fought back." she just smacked herself in the face with her hoof, not very hard but it made a resounding slap.

I decided that Rarity needed to calm down, I offered to take her down to Sugarcube corner, she accepted. We were walking towards Sugarcube corner for the second time that day, I noticed the reporters hiding down side alleys and round corners, and I waved to every single last one of them only to see them all run away.

We got to Sugarcube corner and saw Pinkie bounce out towards us "does she always walk like that" I whispered to Twi she nodded her head and I shook mine in despair. I explained what happened to Pinkie, she replied by saying how the prince was a meany and things like that.

Once that was all out of the way Rarity seemed to really brighten up, "who wants to come down the club?" Pinkie must really like that place, everybody agreed to go. As we walked towards the club, wow doing a bit of walking today, we chatted about menial things like favourite music and drinks and food, my brain had started to melt by the time I got there.

"You are not allowed inside" the security guard looked at me menacingly, sigh I forgot about what happened last time. The others started to argue but I hushed them.

"Official police business let me through" he just snorted at this.

"What business would that be?" he wasn't happy I could tell that much.

"As I said earlier sir official police business" he was starting to get really annoyed.

"Ok then what law have we broken?" I never said he had done but now come to think of it ...

"obstructing a police officer, I really suggest you move out of the way the station is quite far away, and I don't want to drag you all the way there" he shuffled out of the way, finally admitting defeat. "Clever little pony" I rubbed the top of his head, he shook it and I walked in.

"how did you know that would work?" Twi was looking at me closely. Why is everybody doing that recently?

"I didn't but I took a chance and it worked, ok girls what do you want to drink?" it turned out they all wanted the same thing, I walked up to the bar and ordered six glasses of vinyl's vodka, and I ordered the strongest thing they had, after paying I realised I was now out of money. I had given Rarity her money, she didn’t want to take it but I made her, and that left me with about 50 bits left and I bought a bottle of the strongest stuff they had.

"Err Jack you do realise that even a glass of that stuff will knock a pony on its flank for a night?" oh Applejack, you are so silly.

"Yep but it don’t affect me very much" she looked shocked and looked at me closely, can we stop with the looking at me closely stuff. I put the tray down with all the drink on it and the girls all grabbed one whether it is with magic or their mouth, I poured myself a glass of my drink it was a light yellow.

We all downed our drinks, for me it was neither a good idea nor a bad idea, but for the others I think it was a bad idea, because ten minutes later their voices were slurred and they were slightly wobbly. "Come on jack let's dance" Pinkie grabbed me by the collar and dragged me onto the dance floor.

"Pinkie stop it!" she was dancing dragging me like a puppet or a manikin, I still have no idea how she does this. I looked up to see the dj look down at me her purple glasses showed a reflection of how we looked.

Four hours later and the club was almost empty, the only people who remained were our group and the dj, she came over and started to talk to me "I saw you with Pinkie on the dance floor, she was pretty drunk what was she drinking?"

"Oh something called vinyl's vodka" she just grinned at me, "do you have a basket or a box I could put those six in? It’s too awkward to carry them without one." she cocked her head at me but nodded, a minute later she was carrying a wicker basket.

"Will this do? And how come you’re not affected by my vodka?"

"Oh so your name is vinyl? Anyway I wasn't drinking vodka I was drinking a bottle of this stuff" she saw the bottle and her jaw dropped, she dropped the basket and just gaped at me.

"But how? You drank the whole bottle?"

"yea alcohol doesn't affect me as much, do you want someone to walk you home? I have to drop these lightweights home one more stop won't make a difference" she thought about it then nodded her head.

I started to arrange the ponies into the basket, "you really care for her don't you" she motioned towards the one I had in my hand at the time, I nodded my head, it was true crazy but true, I did have feelings for her. "How are you going to tell her?"

"I don’t know, how can I? She might not accept me." I mean what if she hates me for it?

"Don’t be such a baby, you gotta tell her soon I mean what if she finds out in her own." oh god if she finds out on her own, well she might hate me forever.

"I just can't tell her, we are so different how would it work." she just glared at me. "Ok then shall we go?" she answered by walking ahead, ok then. I picked up the basket; it was slightly heavy but not too bad. "So vinyl what's it like working as a Dj?"

"It’s fun and I love to do it, wow you can actually carry that?"

"Well yeah you ponies aren't exactly heavy ya know." she just shook her head. "Oh and can you get the guards to lay off, it's hard to get into the club" she looked at me questionably "well they say that they don't let my kind in but I just push em out of the way" she was furious but by the end she was laughing.

"I'm going to kill the security tomorrow, how dare they decide what species are allowed in!" I hushed her down I mean it was the middle of the night. "There’s my house" she pointed towards a pretty normal house.

"Wow vinyl no massive extravagant house?" she shook her head, a grey pony was walking the other way, I looked round to see vinyl hiding. "What’s the matter vinyl?" she was blushing, I looked back round the corner at the grey pony "oh and you were telling me to talk about my feelings?"

"So not the time, I'm not ready!" I picked her up and threw her in front of the other pony. "Err hi Octavia, how are you?" I was giggling like a child this was so funny.

"Err hi Vinyl I'm good, do you want a hoof up" Vinyl nodded, Octavia pulled Vinyl up. "So Vinyl do you want to ... Get some coffee some time?" wow, well that worked out. Vinyl said her goodbyes to Octavia, Vinyl walked back to me a face as red as a Rose.

"So not cool Jack! I was so nervous! But thank you I'm going on a date with Octy!"

"glad it worked out, now I gonna take these six back home" Vinyl nodded her head in agreement. "Cya around Vi" she shook her head.

"Bye" I walked back to the library, I decided that they could all stay there tonight, I'm not walking all over town and besides I don't know where RD lives. I opened the door to the library to see Night, Jass and Spike asleep on the sofa. "Aww" how cute.

I put the basket down on the ground, "you let them have some of vinyl's vodka didn't you." err he nodded his head, seems he already knew the answer. He walked over to Rarity and started to stroke her mane, I could joke about that couldn't i?

"Hey Spike you love Rarity or something?" the reaction I got out of him was somewhat unexpected.

"Don’t tell her, don't tell her, please don't tell her, please!" he was begging, why was he begging I was only joking ... Oh haha really those two?

"Wow I was only joking but really?" he was shaking wow he really doesn't want me to tell her, I know what will make him feel better "hey spike, I have a crush on one of them."

"who" I pointed towards the one girl that I liked and he started to laugh, wait what!

"That’s funny, anyway time for bed" he settled down in-between Jass and Night, so cute. I curled up on one of Twi's many cushions and fell asleep.

I woke up to Celestia standing in the middle of the room grinning at the chaos that surrounded, her six ponies in one basket and a human child, a baby dragon and Nightmare moon all asleep and scattered around the room. "Hi Celestia what's up."

She turned round to face me "I saw in the local newspaper, that a certain Prince has been ... Arrested. I would like to know why" oh I wondered when would come round, thought i had more time than this.

"Well he kinda organised a kidnapping against Rarity here." she looked at Rarity and shook her head.

"He is a fool, all because of the Grand Galloping Gala incident, do you think I could pull a few strings?"

"If you are going to let him off his punishment then no, but if you plan to punish him yourself, go ahead." she grinned widely at me.

"You have protected my ponies from harm and you have made a life for yourself here, I will grant you one wish." wait what? A wish? Oh sweet Jesus I could wish for anything.

"I will remember that for when I have something worthwhile to wish for." she started to laugh, it was the best sound I have ever heard, it boomed out and woke everyone up. "Well I better get to work, you coming Celestia?" she nodded her head and began to walk with me.

"So are you enjoying your stay here?" seemed like a silly question.

"Of course I am, this is a great land, and thanks to you I have a family." well it was true she let me stay round Twi's and if she hadn't let me keep Night then I ... Well I don't know.

"that is good to hear I hope that you continue to look after my land and the ponies in it" Celestia was drawing many strange looks, wonder how the prince is holding up, probably not too good.

We reached the police station and walked inside, I went straight to the Prince's jail cell. Wow he was a state; he was rocking backwards and forth clutching his back legs with his front ones. Wow worse than I thought, he really ain't up to jail life.

"I'll just take him back to Canterlot then" Celestia had a grin on her face she grabbed the prince "err goodbye" she waved a hoof in my direction and in a flash of light disappeared taking the prince with her.