"Handle with care? I wonder why I would need to....AHHHHH!"

by PrincessLunas Assistant

Chapter-3: Those....are.....tacos.

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Author's note: There is a part where you may need the assistance of Google Translate! Unless you speak Fluent French, I suggest you create and extra tab and open up Google Translate (Or whatever).

Later, in the evening, when the sun was just beginning to set. Nick came to a conundrum. Robotic ponies need to eat? BUT he can't cook anything. He had looked through the manuals and found something. Maybe in MOTHERLY MODE, Celestia would cook a nice dinner for Peter,Trixie, Pinkie, and of course Nick.

Nick now sitting on the couch in his living room watching American Dad on FOX. He never pictured watching American Dad with Trixie and Celestia. Peter was in Nick's room, playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 with Pinkie Pie. The three in the living room heard the screams of joy and of virtual death coming from the room. Nick, to counter the noise, turned up the living TV. At this time the thought that a MOTHERLY MODE Celestia could cook dinner ran through his skull like a marathon runner. He was considering the pros and cons of having Celestia in MOTHERLY MODE. He now has 'Stop, Cake time' memorized so there was no problem in getting her back to normal. While she was in MOTHERLY MODE he figured he should act as if she is his mother to prevent any conflict that could interrupt the cooking process of food.

Nick decided, the pros out did the cons, and he looked across the couch and said.

"F***,f***,f***." He said in a blank uninterested tone.

"Son!" Celestia scolded "I thought I said no cursing!"

Nick looked at the angry face of Celestia and put on a little act.

"I-I'm sorry mommy, maybe you could cook dinner and I could....uh um....clean the bathroom as punishment." He sputtered in a child-like, apologetic tone. He soon realized he accidentally said the bathroom and cursed himself silently.

"Ah! Yes! Your punishment is to clean the bathroom!" Celestia exclaimed sounding victorious.

Nick pouted slightly, if he wanted dinner he had to clean the bathroom.

Great. he thought.

He trudged off to the bathroom down the hall.

These, are very realistic robots. He thought as he passed his room seeing Pinkie and Peter killing other players online. He heard Trixie laugh from the living room as a joke skit was shown on American Dad. He entered the bathroom, looked around a bit. It was kind of small. A few feet of white tile separated the toilet from the bath rub and shower, and there were mere centimeters between the sink and toilet. He stared at himself in the mirror. His hair was sloppy and still had a sort of bed head appearance. He wore a gray shirt with an outline of Celestia that was colored in with many countries flags, the words "Brony! Forever!" just above the outline in white. He also wore a pair of blue jeans and a leather belt. He kept his phone and wallet. Which contained $49.62 and half a chicken nugget, that was about a week old. His phone began to ring. The 'Me gusta' song began to echo in the bathroom. He quickly and swiftly drew his phone from his right pocket.

Just by the ring tone he knew it was, his friend Alexandra Turner. He had assigned the ring tone to her on his phone. He answered his phone and put it to his ear.

"Nick here." He greeted.

"Nick, thank the cheese puff you answered your phone!" Alexandra joked over the phone. Nick could hear what sounded like and lawnmower engine. "Hope your not busy, I'm bringing a new friend over to your house on my scooter!"

Nick tried to think of what friend she could be bringing.

"Who is it? Is it anyone I know?" Nick asked.

The engine noises got slightly louder.

"Umm...you might know her. I dunno. I'm pulling up to your house right now...be inside in just a sec." Alexandra said hanging up on her end. Nick jogged out of the bathroom. He heard movement in the kitchen. He turned at the marble counter and entered the kitchen. He saw Celestia making.....tacos? Nick noticed she was using her horn to make tacos.

He instantly thought of a question.

"How are you doing that?" He asked.

Celestia finished adding lettuce to a nearly finished taco then looked up at Nick.

"Doing what?" She asked.

Nick looked as she again used magic to lift a taco shell onto a plate. She began adding first the cooked taco meat.

"Using magic!" He exclaimed.

"Inside voice!" She scolded "And your not a unicorn or alicorn,so I can't quite explain it to you."

Nick heard the front door open. Then he heard "Inside! Before someone see's you!".

He also heard Trixie greet the door opener person.

"Hello, you may bow before me and call me the Great and Powerful Trixie!". She greeted "Now, who are you?"

Alexandra sputtered at the sight of Trixie. Nick quickly jogged out of the kitchen into the living room.

Nick felt as if his jaw was about to drop to the floor. In his living room now stood: Princess Luna!

"Greetings,Trixie and boy." Luna greeted a royal manner.

Nick stared for a second then waved slightly, wide eyed.

"That's Nick" Alexandra explained "He's cooler than a companion cube." she joked.

Luna gave a chuckle. Alexandra did sort of have her own, very odd terminology for various things. She generally used this terminology in the company of friends and family only.

"Hey...Alex?" Nick said starting feel less surprised "Why do you Princess Luna with you?"

Before Alexandra could respond Celestia called out "Luna? Oh Luna, hi sister. I am just making dinner, would you like a Friendship?"

Nick and Alexandra were surprised by this statement. Nick turned back to the kitchen. Alexandra slowly walked across the Living room to the kitchen.

"A what?" Nick asked Celestia.

Celestia looked up from her food making.

"A Friendship, that's these things in the hard shells." She explained.

"Those....are....tacos" Alexandra spoke slowly the the Princess.

Celestia looked at her.

"You must be mistaken, I've never heard of a taco. And I've been making these my who life, when I have the time of course. Their so delicious. They're called Friendships because they're multiple ingredients cooperating to make one tasty, hard, treat. It's a tasty metaphor for a good friendship." Celestia explained levitating one of the tacos before the two of them.

Nick was first to speak "That's a taco."

"It's a Friendship Nick!" Trixie called from the living room.

Alexandra looked to Nick and spoke in French.

"Sont toutes ces choses folles?" She asked.

Nick at first struggled for the right words. He, unlike Alexandra, hadn't had French class for almost half a year.

"Ils sont des poneys." He explained.

Celestia joined in "Et je suis une princesse faisant vous amitiƩs. Non tacos." she spoke fluently "En outre, le poney seulement ici que c'est fou, c'est Pie Pinkie. Elle est au bout du couloir.".

Alexandra eventually got around to asking how Nick had gotten Ponies all over his house. He explained everything. The fat delivery man, the skinny one, and then each of the three boxes, even the manual. Then he went on to the MOLESTIA MODE accidental activation and the quick save Pinkie had made for Trixie.

Now it was Alexandra's turn to explain the Princess Luna. She told Nick that the Fat and Skinny men had delivered a large box to her home. When she popped it open with a crow bar from her garage she had found Princess Luna. Who appeared had appeared, happy and over excited to see someone. She went on to say that Luna and her had been playing Portal 2 all day while eating various snack foods and chatting randomly on many topics. Alexandra's parents were also away, her dad a business trip, her mom because Alexandra's grandmother was ill and need someone to take care of her. Just as she finished explaining this, Trixie laughed at a joke made on Two and Half men and Celestia levitated several plates with 1 taco each, from the kitchen. She set 2 down on the coffee table before, Luna and Trixie on one side of the couch, and another 2 in front of Alexandra and Nick. Nick grabbed his taco and began munching on it immediately.

"Hey this is really good!" Nick exclaimed. He actually wasn't lieing the taco had the perfect combo of flavor.

Alexandra was next to comment as she swallowed a bite "That is good! What's your secret Celestia?"

Celestia looked at her with a smile.

"If I told you...it wouldn't be a secret." she smirked.

They ate quickly. Not because they were in a hurry but because the tacos were so good. Later in the night, Alexandra had fallen asleep on the couch while watching several episodes of Two and a half men with Trixie. Trixie had also fallen asleep, shortly after Alexandra on the other end of the 4 seat couch. Celestia had retired to the master bedroom upstairs at about 9:30PM. Nick threw and extra blanket he had from his room on Alexandra, and another from Peter's room on Trixie. It was now closing in to 11:00PM. Nick had finally got Peter to go to sleep. Now all he had to do was get Pinkie to sleep. Pinkie had become addicted to the Xbox. She had been on it since dinner. Playing Grand Theft Auto 4.

When Nick entered his room, he immediately collapsed on his. He rolled onto his side and saw Pinkie sitting on her haunches, her fore hooves controlling the controller. She was on the mission '...The Holland Play'. She was firing a pistol at Playboy X when Nick finally asked.

"How do you play that with hooves? Those controllers were designed for human fingers."

Pinkie didn't pause the game. She, in game as Niko Bellic, shot Playboy X in the back of the head as Playboy attempted to run for his life, then paused the game. She spun around on her rear end like a break dancer. Then said with a smile.

"I haz system!" she spoke with an odd genuine excitement, intentionally adding a 'z' to has instead of the 's'.

"You has system." Nick repeated chuckling

"Yeah!" Pinkie said un-pausing the game. "Oooh! Sweet I get Playboy's home!"

Nick watched for a minute. Pinkie had Niko dressed in a black suit with red tie and white sneakers. Nick then grabbed the last extra blanket from his closet to Pinkie's left tossed it over beside her, along with one pillow from his bed. Then reached for the TV controller and turned the volume down just low enough for Pinkie to still hear the voices and gunshots.

"Keep it down, and go to sleep soon Pinkie. My phone has an alarm set for 5 in the morning. That's really early if your not used to it like I am. So I recommend you go to bed like....very soon." He said.

"Okay I will go to bed in a few minutes!" She said as she fired and AK a taxi getting it to stop.

Nick rolled over and put his back to the gunshots and taxi drivers screaming, and fell asleep happily.

Author's note: As the story progresses I'll try and make the chapters longer, but the beginning parts are gonna be a tad short. I am just trying to get the basis set up for the later parts of the story. Also my brother Philip is going to start proof reading for me. He's also a fan of my work and usually see's the chapters of any of my stories minutes after they're posted.

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