Two Background Ponies Revisit Season Five

Slice of Life

Ponyville hadn't been this deserted in a long time. The only signs of life now were coming from the gazebo, where, to the tune of brilliant flashes of light in the windows, a mixture of dubstep and cello music was belting out while a large sea serpent kept moving around windows sticking his head inside. As the night descended, it remained the only lit beacon in town...

...Save for Sugarcube Corner. Five friends were seated at a table there, each one in a rather bored and down mood, as a sixth one bounced out happily and put a tray of cookies down.

"Oh, thank you, Pinkie." Fluttershy quietly spoke up. She took up one cookie and bit into it, only to grimace. "Oh...oh my..."

"Sorry about that!" Pinkie cheered. "Looks like they used everything we had on hand to make the wedding set we were supposed to be getting for tomorrow, so I just kind of made cookies out of whatever we had left."

"Aw shucks, that's how Granny used ta' do it..." Applejack answered as she downed one.

"...You know, Twilight," Rainbow Dash grimaced. "You could have just opened the lock with magic or something..."

Twilight winced. "...If we suddenly broke into a wedding where my brother and sister-in-law were that happened to have a Changeling as one of the guests, how do you think that would have worked out?"

"...Good point. But this is boring. We spent all day wrangling a Bugbear, and no one even noticed!"

The alicorn leveled a gaze at her. "...How many times a year do we save Equestria and get a celebration thrown in our honor?"

Rainbow Dash merely muttered. "How you holding out, Rarity?"

The white unicorn was twitching in her seat. "I...spend weeks...planning in minute detail how perfect this dress will be... Embracing elements from their first meeting in Canterlot...all the way to their reuniting...to provide a gown fit for royalty... And they...go...with...that?! That hand-me-down?!"

"...Probably better you didn't go."

"Some 'apples to the core' mah family turned out ta' be..." Applejack griped. "Not even waitin' fer me ta' come in..."

"I missed a chance to see that lovely sea dragon again..." Fluttershy sighed. "And a Changeling..."

Everyone looked up in surprise at that. Fluttershy winced a bit.

"...I know they look like malevolent xenomorphs for the most part, but they have just the cutest eyes... Like little blue swimming pools."

"And I didn't get to plan the wedding!" Pinkie moaned. "In fact, the mailpony forgot to send me an invitation too! Can you believe it? Cranky sends an invitation to everypony else in town and somehow I don't get mine? What are the odds?"

The rest of the girls immediately looked away, finding things that were more interesting and muttering slightly.

"Heck, even those two guys who complain about Ponyville all the time are there and we aren't..." Rainbow Dash sighed. "They're probably in the reception area right now, seated to one side, eating cookies just like we are, and the green one is probably complaining about how weddings in Equestria are really just the minister saying a speech and then declaring you married rather than a real ceremony...which he shouldn't because the shorter they are, the better..."

"Girls, girls...enough." Twilight suddenly spoke up. "Look at the six of us. We're practically royalty. We have a palace that takes up half of the city. It wouldn't hurt if just for once we sat some other celebration out and let someone else have the limelight. I'm sure exactly one week from now something else will come up and we'll once again be the focus of everyone in the universe for 22 minutes."

Rarity looked up a bit. "...That was...oddly specific, Twilight."

"Well, your sister is the one who pointed out the time window."

The unicorn blinked. "...Pardon me, what?"

Rolling her eyes, Twilight's horn lit up and flashed out a ruby neuralizing light to the rest of the girls. They all blinked for a moment afterward, and then forgot the conversation ever happened.

"Besides," The alicorn smiled. "We get more time to spend with each other now. Just the six of us, hanging out, enjoying each other's company as friends and what a wonderful world we live..."

She trailed off as a tall, twisted, black-skinned nightmare creature walked up to them and sat at an adjoining table. Chrysalis grumbled as she began to rummage at a set of saddlebags and pulled out a cute little creature brimming with love to snack on.

The Mane Six went wide eyed. Twilight opened her mouth to speak.

"NOT TODAY." She cut off with a hoof pointed at them. "I'm not in the mood after that offspring of mine stole my invitation... Now I'm settling for having a date with the only other pony left who had less chance of reappearing than me..."

The girls blinked, then gasped as Slendermane appeared to slink out from behind a nearby fencepost and sit across from her.

Uh...

Er...

Um...

Ooo! White space!

Uh...girls? Where the heck are we?

Why are we...um...commenting on...uh...what's that... 'Season Five'? What season?

I always thought there were only four seasons...

Uh...

Mmm...

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I...don't think they're going to let us leave unless we say something, dear.

Oh...well...uh... Thank you, everypony, for watching this season-

What 'season'?!

And, uh...hope to see you all again real soon! Um...you fans are the greatest! Uh, hopefully the next 100 episodes is as great as the first! ...Somepony give me a hoof here...

Yay for white space!

Er...eat more apples...?

...Go Indianapolis Colts!

Um, what's 'Indianapolis'?

Whatever the heck we were cheering for last February for some reason...