Shining Armor Can't Buy Movie Tickets
"It's so nice to have you visit the castle Cadence. After that debacle with Ponyville and all those sheep, it's hard to find a day to myself." Twilight said cheerfully, her horn glowed as she raised a porcelain teacup to her mouth and drank.
"Thank you Twilight, I'm just so glad to get away from Shining. Don't get me wrong I love him to bits and pieces, but these last few weeks, he has been so exited abou-"
"CADENCE!" The door behind Cadence opened and Shining galloped in with a big grin on his face, the noise echoed throughout the war room as Cadence dropped her tea cup. It shattered on the floor as Spike also rushed in behind his older brother.
"Cadence! Spike and I just saw the best thing while we were watching the hoof ball game! Star Wars! Oh my gosh Cadence! Star Wars!"
"That." Cadence shrugged.
"Star Wars?" Twilight asked. "Spike don't you have all those dolls from Star Wars?" she inquired.
"Actually, they are articulated action figures." he retorted
"They're toys, Spike." Twilight said flatly.
Cadence got up and walked over to her husband, "Sweetheart," she put a hood around him and brought him into a hug. "I know you're excited about this movie that you have been raving about non-stop, but you have to give this a break."
"Twiley, can we use your computer? We need to buy tickets, right now!" his smile was as big as Spike's.
"Sure." Only dusty outlines of themselves were left behind as Shining and Spike ran off. "And none of those cat and chicken porn websites Spike, I don't want another computer virus!"
"Cat and chicken porn?" Cadence looked more confused than ever.
"It's a long story, you do not want to know."
*****
Shining sat down on Twilight's office chair and flared his horn, sure enough the computer mouse moved and the screen came to life from sleep mode. Spike stood next to him, quietly dancing in place. Shining moved the cursor on the screen over to the big "e" icon and clicked on it. the window loaded and he was ready to type.
"Okay Spike, what's the website address for Ponyville Theater?" Shining asked.
"It's Ponyville Theater dot com."
"Oh... haha, right." Shining quietly laughed to himself, his horn flared bright once more as he enveloped the keyboard in his magic, after typing 'PO', Shining paused and saw the first suggested website from history. "Uh, Spike?"
"Hmm?"
"What's 'Vinyl And Octavias Debut'?" he flashed a sly grin.
"Uh, nothing." Spike reached over and quickly pressed the 'N' key, and sure enough 'tight pink ponut with chocolate syrup' was the next suggested page in the search history. "Oh, for pete's sake." the young drake reached over again and pressed the 'Y' key. "Shining?"
"Yeah buddy?"
"You never saw that, don't rat me out to Twi."
"Haha! Sure dude, your secret is safe with me." Shining bumped his hoof against Spike's claw as they shared their bro-ment. "Alright, Ponyville theater dot come."
"Is it done?" Spike leaned over.
"It's just a spinning circle, the page won't load." Shining tapped his hoof on the computer mouse but nothing happened, using his magic he pressed down the page refresh key. "Spike, it's not working."
"What?"
Before Shining could speak another word '404 error' appeared on the screen. "What?! No no no no no! This can't be happening!" he frantically pressed the refresh key on the keyboard and every single time it presented the very same '404 error'.
"TWILIGHT! YOU'RE COMPUTER WON'T WORK!"
"Don't say that, she'll make me pay for it again." Spike hushed him.
"Again? What di- right... don't ask." Shining replied.
Soon enough, several minutes went by, each second was a second lost as Shining tried to refresh the web page like a mad pony. Spike also panicked as black smoke started to drift out of his nostrils.
"What do we do?" Spike asked.
"I don't know what we can do, I think the computer might be broke, it was probably all your cat and chicken porn." Now, Shining was frustrated, for the first time in a long time, he didn't know how to fix the situation he got himself into. It was Cheerilee in high school all over again, except instead of a lustful fuchsia mare, it was Star Wars movie tickets.
Suddenly, after what felt like the millionth refresh, the page finally loaded.
"Yes!" Shining exclaimed. He clicked the button labeled 'pre-order' madly, hoping to finally secure some tickets. The web page went white and another loaded in it's place. 'Sorry, all pre-order tickets have sold out.' Shining slipped off the office chair, dropped to his knees and raised his front hooves into the air.
"Nooooooooooooooo!"
"There's no tickets left? What and we gonna do Shining?"
"I don't think there is anything we can do buddy." he sighed. "We might be able to buy some on hoofbay, should we check?"
"It couldn't hurt to check, I suppose." Spike said. Quickly, Shining sat back on the office chair and sparked his horn. Within seconds 'hoofbay dot com' was typed and Shining hit the return key, in the search bar he typed 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens Tickets'. As the search loaded, auctions were already listed, with some even reaching upto and over a hundred bits.
"Well crap." Shining said bluntly. As if on cue, his loving sister and pregnant wife both walked into the study.
"Having fun boys?" Cadence chimed.
"No, no we are not having fun." Shining sounded defeated.
"We missed out on buying ticket to the new Star Wars movie." Spike added.
"When does the movie come out Spike?" Twilight asked.
"Hearths Warming Day." he twiddled his fingers.
" That's months away, why can't you just buy them on the day?" she asked.
Silence filled the room as Shining and Spike looked at each other, simultaneously the drake and pony laughed louder than any of them knew they could. Spike almost collapsed from laughter and used his arm to lean on Shining for support. "On the day? Twiley, don't let all that Alicorn power go to your skull." he wiped his tears off his cheek with a hoof.
"Anyone lucky enough to get tickets on the day should be given a medal, I'll award it myself." Shining laughed out loud once more. "Twilight, Cadence, Luke. You guys wouldn't understand what this means to us geeks." he placed a hoof on his wife's shoulder.
"Who's Luke?" Cadence asked.
"Sweetheart, why our sons name ofcourse." he said as he rubbed her belly. "Hey there little Lukey Skywalker, ready to have fun with daddy, and be a force weilding Jedi?" he said.
"Shining, I will not agree to naming our child Luke Skywalker." she huffed and turned away, her tail flicked up and hit him right on the nose.
"Was it something I said?" Shining had a dumb look on his face.
"I like the name Sky." Twilight grinned.
"Thanks Twiley, that's why I'm you're BBBFF." Shining said as he pulled her into a hug.
Author's Note
Just for a laugh!
