School Field Trips Suck

I sat in my chair on the verge of passing out due to the boring lecture on why ponies regenerate using spells instead of letting wounds heal naturally, or how ponies would heal normally and how healing spells work. I laid my head on my table and closed my eyes trying to get my headache to pass.

"Pencil, could you answer how muscle mass regenerates after receiving trauma of some sort," Cheerilee asked me. I lifted my head off my table and tried to think of the answer.

"When you receive muscle damage of some sort, you heal," I told Ms. Cheerilee, knowing the answer to be wrong.

"Yes, but how, Diamond Tiara, do you know," Cheerilee called on her, after catching her talking to Silver Spoon.

"I, uh, your immune system does something to it," she told her while stumbling on some of her words. Cheerilee was on trying to hold back a laugh at Diamond Tiara. After a little bit the lunch bell rang and the class headed off to lunch. I stood up and walked over to the school house entrance and waited for my friends to come up to me.

"Hey, Pencil come here," Apple Bloom yelled over to me. I walked over to my friends and looked at Scootaloo's new scooter. The wheels were a bright blue and the handle bars were a dark green.

"What do you think of my new scooter, isn't it cool," she asked. I just stared at the scooter.

"Yeah , it's cool, I guess, what did you guys bring for lunch today, I brought a salad," I said while pulling out my salad. I began eating the salad while watching the others get out there lunches. Apple bloom had brought an apple. Sweetie Belle had brought a salad as well, and Scootaloo brought a cookie in the same shape and color as Rainbow Dash. "I swear your addiction to Rainbow Dash is creepy, in fact, I'm surprised your scooter isn't Rainbow themed."

"Hey, blank flanks, how is your lunch going," I stood up to walk away from the soon coming interaction between the CMC and the school bullies. "Where do you think you're going, blank flank?"

"Diamond Tiara leave him alone, he didn't do anything to you," Apple Bloom told her while getting between me and her. I walked away from the interaction and went and sat on the swings in the playground. I quickly ate my salad and went back to the school house. I sat in my seat right after the bell had ringed for the final period of the day.

"Okay, listen up everypony, we're going on a field trip to the medical research lab up in Canterlot," Cheerilee told the class. The class was a mix of approvals, groans, and snores. I was part of the groans as I hated field trips, especially ones that took me out of the city. "I've already asked your parents if it was okay, and they all agreed, so we are leaving first thing tomorrow."

After the small announcement we got back to doing what we had been before we went to lunch. I tried my best to draw a tree but ended up drawing a scribbled line that had the shape of a warped piece of wood. I laid my head back onto my desk and tried to fall asleep. I ended up just sitting there with my head slowly starting to hurt from the weight of my head.

I was relieved and annoyed by the ringing of the bell, signifying we had to leave and go home. I was relieved because I didn't have to sit through another boring lecture from Ms. Cheerilee, and I was annoyed because now I was closer to having to go on the field trip. The entire school house tried to leave, only to be stopped by Cheerilee.

"Oh, one thing, try to find a group of at least 6 ponies per group, so we end up with 2 groups," Cheerilee told the class, receiving once again more groans, cheers, and snores. She finally let us leave, returning to her desk to grade last week's test.

"Hey, Pencil, do you think that we could be in a group," Apple Bloom asked. Apple Bloom always had a slight crush on me, everypony could tell from the way she acted around me. "Along with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle."

"Sure, but who would be the fifth and sixth ponies," I asked her. She put a hoof to her chin after doing a slight victory dance that I had caught the end of.

"Snips and Snails," she told me after a good while of thinking. She ran off to find Snips and Snails, who were the only foals in my class that actually made me grind my teeth. I walked home, only stopping to walk to the lake behind Ponyville that not may know about. I picked a rather flat stone and threw it at the water surface, and watched as it hit the surface about five times. I left the lake and walked the rest of the way to my house. I looked up at the tall, two-story building and grimaced at the chipping paint and broken windows.

"Ponyville orphanage, a place where foals come to stay for eternity," I told myself making me chuckle a little, as I walked into the orphanage. I wandered up to my room, which was straight across from Scootaloo's room. I opened my door, hearing Scoot's door open, I looked out to Scootaloo standing a pair of pajamas. "Good night, Scootaloo."

"Good night, Pencil," I closed my door and threw myself onto the bed, and passed out on contact with the rather soft material.

I awoke with Scootaloo jumping on my bed screaming at me to wake up. I kicked her off my bed and heard a gathering of giggles and snorts. I got up and followed the now hysterical Scootaloo to the kitchen for breakfast. We had cheese and hay sandwiches. I didn't eat anything due to my allergic reaction to hay. We had left the orphanage and headed to the school house. I was sulking behind as to slow my eventual reunion with the school house. After an hour walk, we spotted the school house in the distance, with the two groups getting into different carriages. Luckily our group was getting on last, so we had time to get with our group and converse.

"Hey Pencil and Scootaloo, you guys missed the directions as to where we're going today but we'll catch you up on the ride over," Sweetie Belle told us as we tried to regain our breath. "First, we're going to be split in the lobby of the lab, then we get to different high-class scientist to lead us around the giant seven-floor underground lab. Then group two ,us, will start at floor six, the floor where they hold the regenerative animals, such as lizards and octopi."

"What's on the seventh floor," Scootaloo asked.

"We don't know the scientists that did come here wouldn't answer our question about it, but it's probably just a storage or testing facility," Apple Bloom told us. We finally loaded up into the school carriage and we took off, headed for the sub-level laboratory.