I woke up and got dressed and all that. I also brought a notepad, a pencil, and my crown before heading over to Twilight’s castle. When I got there, I first went to the kitchen, since it was still early in the morning. I found Twilight in there eating, as well as Spike and Starlight eating.

“Hello.” I said.

“Johnny!” Twilight said excitedly. She then got up and hugged me.

“Congratulations with Puppet!”

“Thanks. I see Discord was here at some point within the past few hours.”

“Yeah.” Starlight said. “You’re still wearing the crown?”

“Yeah.”

“But why? Weren’t you only king for a day?”

It took a few seconds, but it clicked. I chuckled and said, “Good one. If you guys don’t, I need Spike to send this letter to King Thorax.”

“Oh, how come?”

“Well, he asked if I could perform at the hive. All of us are on board, but there’s a few questions I need answered, and we just need to come up with a date.”

There was a knock at the castle’s doors.

“I’ll go get it.” As I was running to get the doors, I was singing “King For A Day” because it fits perfectly with me wearing the crown. I opened the doors, and it was the rest of the Mane Six. They literally jumped on top of me, and said, “Congratulations!”

“Thanks. Discord visited you all?”

“Yep!” they said.

“I’m assuming you guys want to hear what happened last night?”

They nodded.

“Alright, give me a minute or two, I want to let Puppet know I’ll be here.”

After I told Puppet I would be at Twilight’s castle, I grabbed my Trumpet and went back to the castle. When I went through the portal, I started playing the trumpet part for “King For A Day”. I found them in the library, sitting on couches and stools. There was an empty stool, which I assumed was for me. I sat down and said, “Alright, so it started at Cadence’s castle. What happened is that Cadence came to talk to me about things. She first talked about how good the show was, and then she asked me how it went with Delilah. Of course, I said it went bad, and gave some examples, and then I said, ‘I hope Puppet doesn’t reject me, or at least as bad as Delilah did.’ Then I went to sleep. I had a nightmare, but woke up before Luna could talk to me. It was around 12 AM when I woke up, so I got so music, I think it was ‘The Rock Show’ by Blink 182, and then Luna actually ended up coming to me in real life, not in a dream, and we talked about the nightmare. I was still a little a little worried about him rejecting me as bad as Delilah did, so like Luna said, the only way to find out was to confess my love to him. I did and luckily, he didn’t say anything like what Delilah said.”

“What did you guys do at the laundromat?” Twilight asked.

“Well, first, we played this game called ‘Photo Hunt’. It’s a game where it shows you two pictures that look identical, but they aren’t and you have to find the differences. Then, we played around in the carts they had that were there. Then, I saw the sun setting, so I said that we should watch it. As we watched it set, I told him that I loved him, he kissed me and said that he loved me as well. Then we just talked about some things, then we were about to leave, Discord was there. He gave me a letter from Thorax, and left saying he wouldn’t tell anyone out of our friend group, which I hope he keeps up to his word, because Puppet wasn’t happy about him telling anyone at all.” After I said that, Spike burped out a letter, opened it, and said, “It’s for you, Johnny.” I took it and read it.

Dear Johnny,

Congratulations on your luck with Marionette. Luna told us about what happened with you and Delilah. We’re sorry she said those things to you. We hope Puppet treats you better than how Delilah would. We all wish both of you good luck with your relationship!

From your friends, Celestia, Luna, and Cadence.

P.S. This is Luna. I told you you had nothing to worry about!

I chuckled reading the last bit. “Who is it from?” Rainbow Dash asked. “It’s from Celestia, Luna, and Cadence. They were congratulating me and wish me good luck on our relationship.” Then, Spike burped out another letter. He opened it and said, “It’s for you again, Johnny.” I took the letter and read it.

Dear Johnny,

First, yes, it is fine if you bring your friends. Second, I would prefer to have happy and upbeat songs, but you can play a few sad songs if you would like. The only thing I ask is that you play no songs with curse words in them, or at least don’t say them. Third, Chrysalis can come along, but please come one day early so I can get to meet her. Fourth, yes, you can install a teleporter into the hive. Please respond back as soon as possible when you have the date ready.

From, King Thorax.

“Alright, so King Thorax wants Puppet, Discord, and I to perform at the hive. Would you guys like to come?” There was a mix of “Yeah”’s and “Sures”’s. “Alright, do you guys know where-” I stopped in the middle of my sentence, turned around, and said, “Hey Discord. So, Thorax is letting us decide the date for when we play. Could you come to my house around 12 so we can decide on a date and come up with a set list?”

He was baffled that I knew he was there, then grumbled something, and said, “Sure.”

“Alright, I’ll see you guys later. I have to tell Puppet the news, and tell Chrysi that Puppet and I are dating. See you later!” I started singing “King For A Day” while running down the hallway.

“Alright, so I’m thinking the earlier we do it, the better. How about the third? We’ll be here for Nightmare Night, we’ll leave on the first, get there the second so Thorax can meet Chrysi, and we’ll perform on the third.”

“That sounds like a good plan.” Discord said. “But what songs should we sing?”

“Well, Thorax said we can sing a few sad songs, so I’m not thinking more than three. I’m thinking we do ‘Adam’s Song’, since it bleeds into ‘All The Small Things’, ‘I Miss You’, and then ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’.”

“Are you sure you want to sing that, I don’t want you to burst out crying on stage.”

“I’m sure. If we’re going to play live in front of thousands of ponies and creatures someday, we’ll have to start somewhere. Plus, I’ll warn the audience that if they see me crying, it’s because the song is personal.”

“Alright, we have the sad songs, but what about upbeat?”

“I definitely want to do ‘King For A Day’ again, that was really fun to do.”

“Why did you have all that stuff on?” Discord asked.

“Well, there’s this one video of when they did it live, Billie had this pink thing around his neck, so I just used a scarf to replace that, got some sunglasses, a tie, and then obviously, the crown. I want to do the part where I gave out the things during the choruses. So, do we agree on ‘King For A Day’?”

They nodded, and I wrote it down as well as “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, “I Miss You”, “Adam’s Song”, and “All The Small Things”.

“Should we do ‘The Rock Show‘ again?” I asked.

“Yeah, we can do that.” Puppet replied.

“Oh, how about ‘21 Guns‘? We haven’t down that yet.”

“Are we going to do the live version with the piano?” Discord asked.

“Yeah let’s do that. We can put our hands in the air and wave them in the live version as well.” I replied. “What about ‘Panic Song‘? Oh, I know what we could do. We’ll have that as our beginning song, and we’ll walk on stage, as our parts come in. So, first it’ll be Puppet, then Discord and I.”

“I like your thinking.” Puppet said looking at me.

“So, I’ll put it down?”

“Sure, we can do it.” Discord said. I put it down, and said, “How should we end the show?” We sat there thinking for a second before Discord said, “How about with ‘Good Riddance’? You just pull out the acoustic, and play it.”

“Alright. Speaking of acoustic, since it has an acoustic guitar in it, how about we play ‘Warning’?”

“How about instead ‘Warning’, we did ‘Waiting’?” Puppet asked.

“Alright. So far we have ‘Panic Song’, ‘Adam’s Song’, ‘All The Small Things’, ‘King For A Day’, ‘I Miss You’, ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’, ‘21 Guns’, ‘Waiting’, ‘The Rock Show’, and ‘Good Riddance’. I think we should add one more, and I know which one. ‘East Jesus Nowhere’.” I said.

“Alright. When it gets to the part after the solo, Johnny can put his hands up and start clapping.” Puppet said.

We talked for a little more trying to think of an order to play the songs and this is what we came up with (we added a few more songs):
Panic Song
King For A Day
Brain Stew
Christie Road
East Jesus Nowhere
Waiting
The Rock Show
I Miss You
Wake Me Up When September Ends
21 Guns
Adam’s Song
All The Small Things
Good Riddance

Author's Note

Hello there! I am typing this to let you know that the title of the chapter isn't official. It might end up changing it later.