Chapters A New Friend Met, An Old Friend Missing
All in a Day's Job - Chapter 1
It was a warm summer morning when Derpy exited her front doorstep ready to start her day.
'Start with the A's and then the L's and then... oh wait...' trying to plan out her schedule, she flew up into the sky, holding a half-eaten blueberry muffin in her mouth.
'Huh, first time this person gets a letter, too bad the reciver name is wiped-out' she thought to herself as she flew towards the reciver adress. She arrived at a large and mysterious looking house, one that she had never been close to.
'First i open the little door, then put the little flag down! right?' having a hard time trying to remember how to do her everyday job, she decided to tell the resident he has mail in person, talking never hurts.
"Excuse me? you have mail sir!" she yelled, expecting an oh thanks or maybe a small tip, but nopony responded. 'Maybe he didn't hear me' she figured it was best to go in, it is her job to make sure that everypony gets their mail after-all.
knock-knock-knock "Anypony home?" she asked. After about ten seconds of silence she noticed the door wasn't locked at all. Still trying to complete her job, she went inside. The house was dark, the curtains and windows were closed shut, and the only sound that the place emitted was the door cracking. 'Spooky' she thought, looking for a window or a light switch to get better lighting. "Hello? I've got mail! anypony here?" she yelled, trying to find her way around the darker area.
"I'm upstai-" a loud cough was heard, and Derpy flew towards it.
"In here!" yelled the unknown voice agian as Derpy searched for the right room. She enterd the only light source she found, and gasped at what she saw, a sick old-looking blue unicorn, with an electric guitar for a cutie mark and a mane of yellow shades, sitting up on the bed that was in the room
"Oh Celestia, are you ok old-man?" she asked the old unicorn, "and what happend to your voice?".
"I'm slightly ill my dear, but I'm fine. Now I wonder who would send me a lett-" he was interrupted by his own cough. The blonde pegasus took out his letter and read the name of the sender out loud. "Who the hay is Ms. Terrious?" he questioned.
"I dunno, maybe an anon sender" she replied.
"An ano-say what now?" he asked still perplexed by the unknown sender.
"You know, an anon sender, like when you want to share your thoughts somewhere but don't want other ponies to know that it's you who shared them, works the same way for letters" she explained, proud of her memory not failing her. The letter glew with a baby-blue aura and the old unicorn levitated it by him as he exited the room. Derpy followed him down to the living room. The blue unicorn turned on the lights and sat the curtains apart, making the place more welcoming.
The blue unicorn came close to the couch and sat down. The couch squeaked when Derpy sat down, nearly failing to hold both of them. As the unicorn read the letter, she looked around the room, given the fact that she was able to see it now. 'A lamp, a picture of the beach, a closet, a turntable, a vase, a... wait' a confused expression came up on her face. "Why do you have a turntable old-man?" gasp, "are you a DJ?" she asked wide-(and cross)-eyed.
"Oh no my dear, that's my granddaughter's, you must've heard of her, Vinyl Scratch" he replied.
"Omigosh, your Vinyl's grandfather? That's so cool!" she stated, still wide-eyed.
"Speaking of which, i think she's the pony who sent this letter to me, kind of-" he coughed agian, "reminds me of her horn-writing".
"But wait, why would she send you a letter if she can come talk to you? She lives right next to Twilight's doesn't she? And why under a mysterious name?" questioned Derpy agian.
"I don't know, but maybe she knew i would recognize her and, like you said, didn't want anypony else to know it's her letter" he answerd, "it says: 'I can't stay in Ponyville anymore, I'm going away to live elsewhere, in a place where my wubs are appreciated. Follow me as you will, I"ll even give you a clue, but be careful, I'm not going to make it easy on you'; I'm still trying to make sense of this" claimed the old unicorn.
"What are wubs?" questioned Derpy a third time.
"Something that you do on a turntable from my understanding, but i have a better question, why would she run away? i thought she was a well-known and loved DJ" he said.
"Oh yeah, everypony loves her music" answerd Derpy.
"Well then why would she run away?" he asked.
"I dunno" said Derpy and shrugged, "hey, what's this?" she asked and pulled out another sheet of paper from inside the envelope. She opened up the paper and the old unicorn came closer to get a better view.
"Looks like some sort-of map to me" said the old unicorn. On the paper was a drawing of the south-west end of Equestria, complete with Ponyville, the Everfree forest, and the vast fields that inhabit it. Though it wasn't just any old map, it had a weird tag on it that was suddenly... moving?
"Vie-nel-scraa-tch, Vinyl Scratch?" read Derpy out-loud, gasp "does this map know where Vinyl is every moment? that's amazing!" said Derpy awe-struck. "But wait, why is she next to 'Hydra's Lair'?" she asked.
"Hydra's Lair!? Oh no! What is she doing there?" shouted the old unicon in panic.
"I don't know!" panicked Derpy as-well.
"We have to get her out of there! Come on!" the blue unicorn colt got up. He started trotting and ordered Derpy to follow.
"But...I still have mail to deliver..." said Derpy, attempting to be loyal to her job, but to no avail; by the time she finished talking, he was already rushing outside. Derpy knew that somepony had to get Vinyl out of there, so she left her saddle-mailbags behind and flew to him. She slammed the door in a hurry to catch up.
"Hey wait for me!" yelled Derpy trying to reach him by flying.
"No time, my dear! we have to get to her!" he shouted back.
"But I don't even know your name!" she exclaimed.
"Call me Izzy!".
All in a Day's Job - Chapter 2
Author's note: I will suprise you in this chapter, look forward to a special kind of adventure fic >:3
The warmth of the sun was still crawling down the streets of Ponyville, the ponies of the town just woke up recently and a massive blur of blue and grey was rushing down the main street?
"That way!" shouted Derpy and pointed her free hoof towards Sweet Apple Acres. Her other hoof was holding the magical moving map.
"Alright! let's go!" said Izzy and continued his sprint in the direction Derpy has pointed. Soon they had gone over the entirenty of Ponyville and into Sweet Apple Acers, getting close to their desired destination.
They saw the apple family going though their usual duties. Working at a farm is never easy. Derpy waved to Applejack as they passed by her and Big Macintosh. All Applejack saw was blur passing by her. "...ey Appeja..." was all she heard. 'What in the hay was that?" she thought with a face full of wat .
Eventually, after crossing Carrot Top's house, they got to a mountian, or more like a cliff. "Should be right around here!" yelled Derpy according to the map. They started scounting the area, Derpy giving directions, and Izzy searching with his hawk eyes. After a short while they found a huge gaping hole in the side of the mountain.
"Alright, are you ready...uh...what's your name agian?" asked Izzy at the entrance.
"Oh, I'm Ditzy, but most ponies call me Derpy, you can call me Derpy too! Becuase your my friend now! I think... Are we friends?" she asked.
Izzy giggled at her uncertainty. "Yes, Derpy , we are friends" he said. Derpy giggled too, partially because of excitment, and partially because of her new-found friend.
"Alright! Now let's get Vinyl out of there!" he said and glazed at the dark area in front of her, ready to go inside. They entered and the place was extremly dark, even though it was still early. The sun came from behind the cave rather than from the front of it, which caused the darkness. Izzy worked his magic and an ocean blue light lit up the cave, exposing some very intersting elements. The place was alot bigger from the inside, the mountain was almost completely hollow, stalactites came down from above and stalacmites came up from below. A cool breeze flew through and shadderd the sun's warmth from outside. The place smelled like rotten fish, and was seemingly endless. They both couldn't say a word as they explored the vast room with their eyes and their mouthes open in awe.
gulp "Are you s-sure she's here?" asked Derpy, not-so sure of herself anymore.
"I'd say about 75% yes" he aswered and gluped as well. "Okay, let's go, watch your step" he continued and trotted forward. Derpy kept examining every inch of the place, either with her eyes or her hooves. Izzy did much of the same.
After wandering about for a few minutes they found a split-section. One way of it was heading towards the right, and the other straight forward.
Derpy pulled out the map for a better sense of direction; But given that it didn't show the inside of the cave, they had to base themselves on an estimation. "Hmmmm, I think we should... split up!" claimed Derpy and ordered Izzy towards the right.
"What!? no! that's a terrible idea! haven't you ever seen a horror movie in you life?" he asked with a semi-look full of doubt.
"No, i haven't, those things give me th-"RAWWWWWWWWWWWWR they both flinched at the horrifying sound.
"What the buck was that!?" asked Izzy with a terror-filled face. "Oh, right..." He took a glance at the map and remembered they were inside a hydra's lair, And that there's more than likely a hydra inside it. After the blood came back to his face, he shook his head and tried to take control agian. "Let's just... stick together okay?" he said. Derpy mumurmed in agreement as she lost her abillity to speak temporarily. Eventually, Derpy came to her senses and Izzy helped her up. Heading towards the straight end, they came closer to not lose track of each-other.
"Aren't you even a little bit scared?" asked Derpy suddenly.
"Me? Heck no! I'm the bravest stallion around! Heck, I used to be a top-notch boxer. I was even in a tournament one time, And i swept 2nd place in it. It was in radio stations all over Equestria, I even remember the names of the broadcasters, Bill and John. So, no Derpy, I'm not afraid, and honestly, even if I was, I wouldn't turn back for a second, not when Vinyl's in trouble" he replied.
"Uh-oh" a dead end, "let's head back" he said and turned around. Derpy followed. They immediately noticed a glowing object, but not a sparkling object, a thing that lit up itself, but didn't lit up the room. A few silent moments passed as they were mesmeriezed by the glow. "Hey, what's that?" asked Derpy with a hush. In-front of them was a dark and ferocious looking pair of eyes, looking at them with a malicious stare.
"I don't know" claimed Izzy and came closer to it. He moved his horn closer to light it up and suddenly, the pair of eyes closed. A rumbling noise was heard from across the room. Derpy gasped in a panic. 'OmigoshOmigoshOmigosh' she came closer to Izzy's side. Izzy let out a small cry and empowered his horn to light up the entire room. Hissssssss growled the creature. "Stand back Derpy!" he ordered, she showed no protest, and took a few steps back. Then, out of nowhere, the creature jumped blindly onto Izzy. "Ah! Get away from me!" he shouted as he struggeld and wrestled with the creature.
To-do-do-do-to-do-do-do-to-do-DO! "Helllllllllo everypony and welcome to our main event this evening! wrestling! We are coming to you live from the ring. Today we have an old-time fighter with magic at his dispense agianst a wild snake." annouced the commentator. "Yeah this snake has no chance Bill, the Ize-miester is just too much for him. Add magic to that and you got yourself a royal defeat" said the co-host. "Remeber the age Johnny, he's been at it for a while, truely, it's an even match" replied Bill.
Ding-Ding "And they're off! the snake opens head-first with a wild tackle, he wraps himself around the old-timer trying to choke his magic, but Izzy fights back! Looks like he's going to have to find a different startagy and Izzy gets free from the grip! The snake gets fended off and tossed to the ropes, he's looking for a way to jump in but Izzy starts with another move! he runs straight forward and steps on the snakes head. Now remember folks, this move has been banned all-over Equestria, but who's gonna judge this match huh? Oh no! The snake gets free and leaps agian to Izzy's neck and he bites! looks like this match is over. But wait! what's this? a newcomer approaches the stage! looks like a cross-eyed fan wants to get some action! She flys up and dives straight into the snake and it's down!" Ding-Ding "I've been Billno". "And I've been Johnathan". "And we'll see you next week for PrizeWinner!" To-do-TO!
She made sure the snake was as dead as a rock and went over to Izzy. "Are you ok?" she asked.
"Yes-" he coughed, "I casted a poison-proof spell on both of us just before we enterd, I'd figured we might run into some cuts that might get infected" he answerd.
Derpy helped him up. "Are you sure you're okay Izzy?" she asked to make sure, "I really don't want you to get hurt" a worried look came up on her face.
"Yes, now stop asking and focus!" he replied. It was obious that he had no intentions on leaving before they find his granddaughter.
"Okay then" she took a deep breath and started trotting back to the split-section, followed by Izzy. 'That was just a snake, but how are we gonna take on a hydra?' she thought. They got back to the split-section; Luckily, without any random encounters. This time, they went to the right end. (well duh...)
By this time, Derpy was less keen to explore, so she hasn't examined everything like before. Much of the same can be said for Izzy.
Finally they found the sleeping beauty at the end of the long hallway. It had all the features Derpy and Izzy were afraid of, 4 heads, rough scaly skin, long spiked tail, and giant diemensions. "That thing is huge!" whispered Derpy.
"I know! Keep quiet!" he whispered back. Derpy glanced at the map one more time and pointed towards a certian direction, being absoloutly silent. They started trotting quietly to Derpy's instructed direction.
They were very close to their destin-crack
...
"Uh-oh"
All in a Day's Job - Chapter 3
Author's Note: This chapter is purley back-story, it is skippable, but not unimportant. I just didn't want to make this into a seperate fic.
What a beautiful day it was when Vinyl woke up. Saturday was her favorite day to wake up on, sience Octavia would make pancakes that day. In fact, she was already in the middle of making them by the time Vinyl woke up, and the scent from the cooking reached her room. Sniff-sniff. Mmmmmm murmured Vinyl when her muzzle came up on the scent. She ecstatically got out of bed and rushed out of her room.
Following the fantastic aroma downstairs all the way to the kitchen, she felt as if she was hovering in the air, carried by the scent, slowly being dragged there. Truely, Saturdays were special to her. Which made what happened all the worse.
"Good morning" greeted Octavia with a warm smile. Octavia wasn't supposed to be making the pancakes this early, but she wanted to put Vinyl in a good mood, considering what she was about to tell her.
Sniff-sniff-sssssnif "Awww yeah! Pancake Saturday!" shouted Vinyl. Octavia giggled at her excitement as she took two plates out of the dishwasher and brought them to the table.
"Sit down, I'm just finishing the last one" requested Octavia, and Vinyl followed. Octavia fried the last pancake and moved the pile over to the table. Vinyl floated both the maple and the chocolate syrups onto her side of the table.
"I can't wait to eat these pancakes!" declared Vinyl and levitated half the stack to her plate. Octavia took the other half and they both dug straight in. Vinyl didn't really have much of table manners, but she had the decency to compliment the chef. Mmmmmm murmured Vinyl, "dewicious! Jusht wike awewayth!" she said. Octavia giggled agian.
"Thanks" said Octavia. And then, a stroke of silence came upon her face. Suddenly, her head dropped, and she let out a quick sigh, as if she was getting ready to make a speech. Vinyl noticed and looked at her suspiciously. She slowed down her chewing and raised a brow.
"Ith thomthing wong?" asked Vinyl with a mouth full of pancake. Octavia sighed agian.
"Listen, Vinyl, i need to talk to you" she replied. Vinyl swallowed her mouth's contents. "I'm afraid this is going to be your last pancake Saturday" she said. Vinyl remained silent for a few moments and her face was filled with confusion and misunderstanding.
Vinyl shook her head. "What are you talking about?" she asked with a doubting look. Octavia didn't respond, she got up and left the room. "Wait, answer me!" shouted Vinyl. Once agian, no response. As much as Vinyl wanted to finish eating the rest of the pancakes, she couldn't put that question to rest, so she followed Octavia.
Vinyl entered the living room and Octavia gave her a snobby look. "Look, what is this?" asked Octavia and pointed her hoof at the giant mess of a living room. The room truely was messy, mud on most of the floor, the couch stunk with an attitude, damaged belongings and souvenirs from Vinyl's time with a stallion were all over.
"Yeah, it's a messy room, so what?" claimed Vinyl.
And just like that, Octavia snapped. "That's just it! I am tired of your lack of even the smallest amount of personal hygiene! And you get it all over the bloody house! And I've had just about enough of your stallion shenanigans! Don't you ever get tired? For Celestia's sake you were at it untill three fricking AM last night!" she bursted out with everything she had.
"Octi, where are you going with this?" she asked, being slow on the up-take.
Octavia sighed and facehoofed. "What i'm saying is, that i want you out, I'm going to find a different roommate, a sane roommate! One that has a fricking clue what being a mare means" she explained.
"Wait..." Vinyl gasped. "Oh gosh, i didn't know you were that kind of pony Octi" she said.
"What?" asked Octavia and cocked her head back in confusion.
"You know, a playful mare, a checkers cheater, a muff-muncher, a lesbian!" a silent moment passed as Octavia was dazed from the accusation.
She shook her head to regain expression. "What!? How did you even come up with that!? I am not a lesbian!" claimed Octavia.
"Oh come on Octi, it's okay, really, I'm totally down with lesbians, well not down -down but you know" she said. A sudden expression of anger covered Octavia's face and she let out a grunt, she left the room, apolled by the accusations that Vinyl has made. "Will you stop making exits? Nopony's watching" said Vinyl. Vinyl peeked out of the living room to see that Octavia was heading upstairs. She decided to follow her there, because after all, the debate wasn't over. Vinyl made her way to the upper floor and heard shuffling noises from her room. Not wubs, actual shuffles.
"What are you doing?" asked Vinyl when she came into the room, she saw Octavia putting her clothes into a saddlebag.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm packing your stuff" answerd Octavia.
"Well then stop!" she shouted.
"No" said Octavia and came closer to Vinyl's face with a mad stare to show that she was serious, "I know that it will take you all day, so I'm getting you out of here as soon as possible". She then continued to pack Vinyl's belongings.
"Fine then! If you don't want me around, I'll leave. No need to be rude" said Vinyl. It didn't take long to pack. Soon enough, she had her stuff ready to go. They both went down the stairs and over to the door. By this time they both came to terms with the situation, Octavia more so than Vinyl.
"Wait, Octi, there's one more thing i need to do" she said at the door. Without waiting for premission, Vinyl ran back up to the stairs. "Hey...wait!" shouted Octavia, and Vinyl ignored as she made her way upstairs and into her room. She levitated a sheet of paper and a map out of her drawer. It took a few minutes, but she managed to complete her task. '...Alright, sender name aaaaaand, i'm done' she thought. She put the papers into an envelope and made her way downstairs. She sighed when she saw Octavia. She passed her and went outside, but not to the street, to the matt that welcomed her home. Or... used to.
"Goodbye Vinyl, and good luck out there" bed Octavia ferwell.
"Goodbye Octi, I hope you find a better mare than me" bed Vinyl as well, and went off to her way.
