Six Broken Hearts

Chapter 5: Getting jobs

It has been a few weeks since then. I woke up one morning. I hear music. I look at the clock. It's 4:00 A.M., why the hell do I hear music? I closed my eyes once I got back in bed. I then heard singing. Loud singing. My eyes twitched. I groaned and got up. Is that techno? What the hell? I just shrugged it off and did my morning routine. Get up, get breakfast, get dressed, and get out. I sighed happily when the song died down, but heard a siren. Then, I saw someone give Pinkie a sugarcube, then another, and another. When he stopped, I covered my ears, knowing what will happen next. She busted back into a song and kept teleporting everywhere. I just shook my head, and went into Sugarcube Corner.

"Hey Mr. Cake, I think Pinkie had a sugar rush," I moaned.

"No, she usually does that," I raised an eyebrow.

"Every morning?" I asked.

"Yes, it's fun once you get used to it," He answers simply.

"Alright I guess, I'll have an original donut," I said.

"Glazed or unglazed?" He asked.

"Unglazed," I answered. He looks a little surprised. "What?"

"Sorry, not many ponies order unglazed donuts," he said. I smirked.

"Mr. Cake, I am a man of miracles," I answered.

"Alright, five bits please," I gave him the money and he gave me the donut. "Want milk?" I shook my head.

"I don't have the money for it," I said. He gave me a cup of milk. I smiled. "Thanks Mr. Cake."

"Don't mention it Sam, I did have to repay you for fixing our sink the other day," I smiled even bigger.

"Alright, I'm still going to pay for it later on," I say. He shook his head.

"It's on the house Sam," I thanked him and left. As I was walking, Rainbow hovered beside me, wait, she was walking?

"Hey Sam," she yawned. "How's it going?"

"It's good, just woken up by Pinkie," I said as I yawned as well. Joe ran past us, towards Sweet Apple Acres. "Where are you going?" I asked.

"Sorry Sam, no time to talk, I got to go work," he said. I had a puzzled look.

"Work? Work for who?" I asked.

"Applejack!" He yelled since he was at a distance. I yawned, then realized about what I was going to do today.

"Oh yeah, I was going to look for a job today," I said.

"Oh, I know something you could do, but it's for pegasi," said Rainbow Dash. I have an idea.

"I have an idea, why don't we ask Twilight to give me a spell that enables me to do whatever it is you said I could do?" Rainbow Dash thought about it.

"Well, okay, sounds good to me," she says. We knock on Twilight's door, once we got to the castle.

"Yes? Oh, hey Sam, hey Rainbow, what do you need?" I explained the situation. "Well, sorry, it only works for a day."

"Please, atleast let me be able to see if I could get the job or not?" I asked.

"Fine, but if you get the job, I'll have to ask a friend of mine to make a machine for you to be able to do it," she said.

"Thanks Twilight."

"No problem."

Later

I am walking on clouds. This is breaking my logic here.

"Alright, so the weather factory is right around here," said Rainbow Dash. I walk in and I instantly liked this place. Technology, technology everywhere! "Let me introduce you to the boss," she spins. "Hello, oh hey Sam!" She acted to be surprised.

"You're the manager of this place?" I asked.

"Yep, pretty cool right?" She said. I nod.

"Yeah it is!" I said. She leads me to the manager's room.

"Alright, so how do you think you can handle this job? It takes some eggheads to do a lot of work around here," She says.

"Well, back in my world, I was considered a great egghead, not as much as Tom though," I said.

"Hmm, well, let's see if you can do it, consider it a test," we walk into a room with broken machines.

"Without the blueprints, put these machines together, and make them work," I look at her with the most dead-pan look I could muster.

"I don't know how a lot of machines work here Rainbow, at least give me a manual," I said. She does so and I get to work. Once I was done, which took a good twenty minutes, everything was working good.

"Not bad, I think I have a place for you," I have a surprised look.

"What? Already?" I asked.

"Yeah, you seem to know what you're doing, so you can work here, you are now the engineer," she says. I smiled and shook her hoof.

"Twilight doesn't know that you are the manager, does she?" I ask.

"Nope," she answers simply. We laughed. "Alright, first order of business, go help the others sort something out, they keep bugging me about something, and I have too many things to do, like napping," she says. I look at her.

"How exactly did you get the job anyways?" I ask.

"Long story," she says. I walk out, and into the work room. I have a great sense of direction. I walk in, and I noticed something wrong with one machine, it's doing nothing. I walk to it.

"Oh hey, you're one of the new aliens that came to town right?" One pony asks. He has dark fur, with a blue mane and tail. He has a thunder cloud for a cutie mark.

"Alien isn't the right word, but yes, yes I am," i said. He looks at the machine.

"My name's Thunderlane," he says, shaking my hand.

"Name's Sam, I am the recently hired engineer, is the machine working?" I ask.

"Yeah, that machine has been causing a lot of problems since two weeks ago, at first it was nothing, but now it's a problem," I look at the machine.

"Have you checked the inside?" I asked.

"Yeah, we looked in, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary," he answers. I got to the inside of the machine and looked around.

"You're right, nothing seems to be wrong," I said. I looked around and noticed something. A wire was missing. It was actually hard to notice. "I found the problem, a wire's missing, it looks like it was accidentally torn off," I said. I looked at him, he had a wide-eyed face.

"Oh no, thanks for telling us the problem Sam," I nod.

"Just doing my job," I say. I turned around and made sure other equipment was working. Everything seemed fine. I found a map on the wall for any new workers. I found where the engineers office is and I went there. I relaxed on my chair, which was nicely cushioned. A manual was on the desk along with a wrench, electric equipment, and a map, which seems to light up.. I read the manual, which was also a rule book. Every time something goes wrong, a dot will light up on the map to point to me where it is. I relaxed on my chair again. A buzzer went off a few minutes later, a dot lit up at the 'Rainbow Production' room. I hurried over. While hurrying over, everyone smiled and waved at me. I felt welcomed. I walked into the room. There was a huge mechanical instrument. I asked what the problem was.

"Well, we think there's a problem with the machine, it just stopped working," said a mare. I looked at the machine. It was huge. There were pipes full of colors, which amazed me, that were attached to this machine. I looked around the machine.

"What does it run on?" I ask.

"It runs on gasoline," She says. It surprised me, but I didn't question her.

"Where is the tank?" I asked. She led me to it, and we both saw the problem. There was a tear on it, big enough to loose maybe just pints per minute. "Okay, that does not look like an accident," the mare looks at me.

"What do you mean?" I pointed at the tear.

"It's too clean, like something sharp cut it," I saw something near the tank. I looked at it closely. It was a bottle. "Hey, um, miss, what's your name?" I ask.

"It's Cloudchaser, why?"

"Cloudchaser, why is there a bottle here?" I ask, she gasped.

"Um, well, see, there was a uh party here over a great production here. Sadly, it's all I remember," I face-palmed. Thunderlane walked in and I walked over to him.

"Hey dude, funny you should be here, I found something that doesn't look like it's supposed to be here," I showed the alcohol bottle.

"Oh no, please don't tell Rainbow Dash! We only meant to drink just one bottle!" He said. I smirked.

"Don't worry dude, I know I'll get in trouble, but I'll keep it a secret," I said, winking. He gave a sigh of relief.

"Thanks dude, I'll pay you back one day," He said, I waved it off.

"Nah, you don't have to," I said. After that, I fixed all other problems after that. I got a chance to meet a lot of the workers. When I got to my office, a buzzer went off. No dots showed, so it must be lunch time. I sighed. My stomach grumbled. I got out my lunch. which was just a small sandwich. Thunderlane and Cloudchaser walked in my office.

"Hey dude, want to go to lunch with us?" Asked Thunderlane. I looked at my sandwich and then to him.

"I'm good," I say. Thunderlane rolls his eyes.

"In that case, I'm gonna pay you back, come on," He grabs me and we leave the place. We get to Sugarcube Corner. When we walk in, I see my friend Max at the counter.

"Hey Max! I didn't know you work here? I didn't see you this morning," I said.

"Yeah, I was hired somewhere near eight-o-clock," I smiled.

"Let me introduce you to Thunderlane and Cloudchaser, they're my co-workers. Guys, this is Max, he's one of my friends."

"Hello Max," said Thunderlane, he shook Max's hand. Cloudchaser did the same.

"So, what do you guys want?" Max asks. We ordered some food, then sat down to eat.

"So, when does lunch break end?" I ask.

"In thirty minutes, don't worry we have time," said Cloudchaser. While we ate, we had a nice chat. We then went back to work. Rainbow Dash came in my office.

"Hey Rainbow, what's up?" I ask. The cyan pegasus was smiling.

"How do you like your job here?" She asks. I nod.

"It's good, I solved a lot of your problems here," I said. Rainbow Dash beams.

"Cool, well, it's getting pretty late, want to go home?" She asks. I shake my head.

"Problems can happen over night, so I'll stay until everyone leaves," I said.

"Alright, see you tomorrow," she said, with that, she leaves in a flash. I lay back. After a while, I pack my stuff up and head home. Wait, how will I get down? Luckily, Thunderlane tapped my shoulder.

"Need a ride?" He asks. I nod. We head down, and I say goodbye till tomorrow.