Tales of a Germane

Chapter three

After I went into the barracks I walked into my new office and looked at my new room. It was more colorful than my old office and the bed in my room was way more comfortable than the one in Germaney. I putted on my uniform ( A green coat with 2 golden lines on each shoulder and a red beret ) and intented to go to the base commander to speak about the general drill and the equipment. Apparently, fate had other plans for me. When I opend the door, I looked into a grinning pink face. I jumped back with a small scream.
"Uuuahh, where do YOU come from again? I mean this is restricted area! How did you get here?"
"Does this reall matter Franzy-Danzy? I just wanted to inform you about your welcome party, because I thought you might forget it. But as I can see you already disguised yourself. Well, though, I didn't plan to make a costume party, but I can change this without a problem. So, do you come?"
It took myself a few seconds to clear my mind.
"Hello, Franzy? Is everyth..."
"Yes, I'm alright and first of all: DON'T CALL ME FRANZY-DANZY! Second: This is not a costume, this is my gosh darn uniform!
And third: I'll not go to this stupid party."
"Ok, Mr. super serious, but I think the readers will be really disappointed if you don't go there. And think about the author! He did plan it this way so what if you force him to change evrything? This would be a lot of work and..."
At this point I turned the listening part of my brain off again and thought. First: This pony was totally crazy. And second: I indeed didn't went to a party for a long time, and seriously, how bad can the situation is this base be? I think I could need some distraction. Again, I waited until her mouth stopped moving and then started to talk.
"Ok, I thought about it Pinkie. If you leave alone in the future, I'll go to your party."
"That's great, come on Franzy!"
"Don't call me this name again, Pinkie, and don't even think about creating an other one for me! Did you hear me? No more nicknames."
"Oky doky lokey"
At one day, I swear, I would kill her.

Apparently, the party turned out to be quite nice. There were a lot of guests, and everypony was curious about Germaney, my job, my town and so on. The food also was very good. You can say a lot of things about Pinkie, but her cupcakes are probably the best I've ever eaten in my life (At all I wonder why all of the ponies there don't have diabetes, I mean they probably eat as much sweets as other food). Later in the evening, Pinkie introduced me to her friends (or better to say, to her best friends, because apparently she made friends with everpony in the town).
Twilight Sparkle, she was kind of a bookworm and permanently asked me quetions about Germaney, wich was a little annoying. But at all she was nice and, most important, more serious than Pinkie (Well, probably everybody was).
Rarity, she was also quite nice and had a very good sense for fashion ("Oh darling, this is probably the most impressive uniform I've evern seen... She also added quite a lot of designer-language-stuff, but I did not understand anything of it, so I did listen to it very carefully). She also was quite reserved, wich I also appreciated.
Fluttershy, I didn't got a good impression of her, maybe because it took me about half an hour to start a small conversation where I also coudn't understand every second word. At all it didn't seem that she spoke much (really big plus).
Applejack, she was also ok even though her accent made talking not so easy in the beginning.
And last, Rainbow Dash. It looked like she was born in the wrong body (If you know what I mean) and she was quite childish (at least I would call somepony childish whose main vocabulary consists the words awesome and cool). But for some reason, I found her rather sympatic.

Later , I and Rainbow had a talk.
"Hi again Franz."
"Oh, hi, ehmm, Rainbow?"
"Yes, that's true."(Akward silence)"So, you are from Germaney?"
"I think so."
"How is it over there? I heard you got tanks there. Man, these things are SO awesome!"
"Well, we got some indeed and I've to admit they are rather, how would you say it, cool."
(Silence again)
"I heard you are drill instructor, tell me, what do you do at all?"
"Well, my job is to train recruits to turn them from guys like you and me into soldiers."
"So you are some kind of trainer?"
"Yes, you got it."
"That's cool, because I'm looking for a trainer to improve my flight skills. You know, I already am quite good, but I need a little more training to become able to join the Wonderbolts, you know."
"Excuse me, but the what?"
"The Wonderbolts, of course! Did you never hear of them?"
"No, not really"
What followed was an explaniation, wich definitely overused the words cool and awesome. But I understood that the Wonderbolts were some kind of elite-flyer-group and that Rainbow really wanted to join them.
"So, I wanted to ask you if you could help me, you know, as trainer."
On one side, I wanted to accept because I somehow liked her. But the last thing I could need know was a tomboy, using me to accoplish her dreams. Everything I wanted was to bring this whole thing behind me as fast as possible and to go back to Mareburg.
"Well, I have to see, at least I got some work to do here and I fear I probably will not have much time for you."
"Ok" She sighed and looked a little sad as she walked away. Ok, I knew I was not the friendliest guy at all, but was this too hard? I couldn't think about it much, because I heard a voice calling
"Hey Franz, you said to me that you would talk with me about the Germane political system later and according to the normal definition of later, wich in fact is about ten minutes, you can talk about it with me now..." Ok, this Twilight became really annoying. And according to MY definiton of later, I had to get somewhere else.

At all, the party was quite good. It was so good that I forgot about the time while I tried to avoid Twilight (wich was not very hard) and Pinkie (wich turned out to be practically impossible). So when I got back to the base at 3 p.m., the commander was expecting me for some reason.
"Hello mister Siegmann, my adjutant told me you arrived earlier, where have you been?"(Fuck)
"Well, hello first mister...."
"Rough Spear (hahahaha), but I prefer R.S.(why ever)"
"Well then, R.S., I was busy with important things, ehhmmm, equipment and stuff, you know."
"Until 3 p.m.?"
"Well, yes it ,ehh, turned out to be more comlicated than I epected, you know. Anyway, I suggest we make the muster tomorrow morning right after the breakfast, so I can get an impression of the troops."
"Just as you want, but you better get some sleep now."
"That's not such a big deal, I'm used to less. Good night."
"Good night"

I soon slept in, but before that I just thought about everything. I would get this soon behind me, and than it would be back to Mareburg. I mean, seriously, how much work can this be?