Prolouge: Rainbow Dash's New Dress
It's been a week since an incident where Rarity, (a white-coated unicorn obsessed with fashion and anything posh) who became possessed by some dark magic by an evil book found by Spike in a (young purple scaled dragon who was obsessed with getting the attention of his crush Rarity within the depths of the old castle of the princesses. It took the help of the entire town and a lot of Twilight Sparkle's magic; who by the way is a newly created alicorn and also the princess of friendship) to fix up the entire town, carving out the town hall that was encased in gemstone, and digging up all the gold that Rarity transformed the streets of Ponyville into. There were other minor effects as well, including Rainbow Dash ( a young daredevil pegasus who's a cloudbuster for Ponyville but dreams of being a Wonderbolt) having some random dress suddenly appear on her body while cloudbusting during Rarity's magical rampage. Luckily for the daredevil tomboy being in a dress seemed to be all that occurred, but she had no idea that there were lingering enchantments within the fabric.
The day began for a blue-coated pegasus mare named Rainbow Dash snoring away snuggled deep under the covers in her bed she was feeling so warm and cozy. The mare looked quite peaceful with her bedhead rainbow-colored mane thrown all over her face. She had her wings spread out, then was suddenly jostled awake by the sound of her wonderbolt alarm clock with Spitfire shouting "wake up lazy!" The pegasus groaned, wanting to stay in bed feeling so comfy, but Spitfire's voice kept getting louder. "Wake up! Seriously!? How many times do I have to say it!"
Rainbow Dash groggily hovered her hoof over the snooze button, but Spitfire's voice shouted: "you better not hit snooze bub!"
"Ugh, fine!" Rainbow slammed onto her alarm clock and began stretching her legs and also yawning as she got up for the day. She grumbled angrily with a scowl on her face hating the fact she has to get up so early just to bust clouds. But the mare didn't have a choice until she became a Wonderbolt busting clouds was the one thing that pays the bills. The tired daredevil slowly got out of bed, lumbering to the bathroom to get ready for work. Still, for some unknown reason, she headed to her closet. She opened it revealing an assortment of flight suits,(mostly Wonderbolt themed ones with a dark blue and yellow lightning bolts embroidered on the fabric they had different logos and stripe) the gala dress that Rarity made for her for the galloping gala last year and that odd red dress that appeared on her body a week ago. The dress in question was made of a beautiful reddish-violet silk with gold thread stripes around the skirt area, with a gold trim around her midriff, and some gold emblems threaded on the sleeves.
Rainbow Dash scratched her head, confused about why she kept this thing? She clearly wasn't into fashion, but she saw that the dress looked quite lovely with its elegant silk and may actually cost a good amount of bits. The mare was conflicted wondering whether to keep it or just toss it out. She thought about it for a bit, seeing that it wasn't a bad looking dress, it wasn't too frufru and frilly or revealing and sexy...though the dress's color did match her magenta-colored eyes.
The mare looked around the room, making sure no pony was watching, feeling embarrassed. Even though dresses weren't really her thing, Rainbow felt as if she should at least have one or two just in case. The daredevil tomboy would be lying to herself that she didn't have fun getting all dressed up for the galloping gala a year ago. The mare then slowly placed the red dress over her body slowly pushing her head through the neck hole and placing her front legs through the sleeves. Not long afterwards she strutted over to the bathroom to look at herself in the mirror with a bold smirk on her face. Heck if she wanted another opportunity at getting in close with the Wonderbolts she would need some dresses and go to another fancy ball giving her another chance to show off her moves. Despite agreeing with Spike later that it would've been better if she and her friends stayed together during the galloping gala then going off on their own. But Fluttershy (a shy yellow pegasus who is also Rainbow's best friend but can have an occasional outburst of repressed rage) set off an entire stampede of wild animals to burst into Canterlot palace and made her lose any shot of impressing the Wonderbolts.
Rainbow Dash continued posing in the mirror, looking at how she looked in her new dress, swishing it around her body while giving a smirk. The pegasus then suddenly, for almost no reason, stuck her butt out and began shaking it a little. This, however, surprised the mare as she never wanted to do that and snapped out in surprise. "Hey!? Wait, what's going on! What's up with my body?"
Rainbow suddenly started to go through her bathroom cabinets for some inexplicable reason, and the mare came to the horrific realization that she wasn't in control of her own body. The pegasus tried to fight back telling her brain to leave the bathroom but she stayed going through the mostly empty shelves.
"What's going on here! Somepony help!" The mare cried out but she was alone in her house but she hopefully thought maybe a pegasi was flying by and could hear her. But the mare's strange search came to an end when she pulled out a giant purple wooden box with Rarity's three diamonds printed on the front, referring to the unicorn's cutie mark embroidered on it. It was something Rarity gave her a while back for a Hearthwarming's gift, but Rainbow clearly never touched it as it had a thick layer of dust on top. The mare glared at the giant wooden box knowing full well what was going to happen next and shouted in anger. "Ugh, I Should've just thrown this out!"
But she couldn't help her hoof opening the latch, and the entire box opened up revealing an array of makeup sets, different colors, and styles, along with a full set of hooficure set, maneblower, a set of curlers, and some luxurious-looking shampoo and conditioner. The mare then first took out the shampoo and conditioner and went about taking a hoof and lathering it thick globs of conditioner and shampoo that went about smearing the mane products into her hair. Rainbow Dash walked over to the shower with her face growing red. "Wait!? I'm not getting into the shower, right! I just had one last night!"
She then slowly turned the nozzles until the water was hot and steamy, then slowly placed her head inside and soaked it and began flushing it out. After turning the nozzles and shaking her mane a little, the mare was becoming quite frustrated and snapped, "That's enough! Seriously dress!? I don't need to get all girly up for cloudbusting. I'm just gonna ruin you, plus you'll make me look stupid!"
But the dress seemed to have a mind of its own and didn't care for Rainbow Dash's whining as she walked back to him then went about combing her mane out with a brush and combing all her tangles out. The pegasus cried out with each tug of her mane as it was quite tangled. She never really cared for it that much, so it took a good long time before her mane was smoothed out. The pegasus then took out the blow dryer and blew hot air over her mane until it fizzed up around her head. But she then slowly set curlers in her mane while the pegasus was secretly hoping this would all be over, but she then turned her attention to the makeup kit.
"No, stop! My makeup will get all runny if I go cloudbusting anything but this!" Rainbow cried out with irritation in her tone seeing she was trying to argue with a dress. The mare was extremely embarrassed getting all dolled up especially in front of ponies she works with. But the poor pegasus couldn't do anything as she looked over the kit and saw dozens of different brushes and different styles of makeup. The mare tried to struggle fighting her hoof but she slowly took a small brush and slipped it into a makeup square full of sparkly blue eyeshadow and started to take her other hoof and gently smear it over her eyelids and around the fur under her eyes. Rainbow whimpered and kicked feeling so angry but also nervous of messing up the makeup and making her look like a clown. She started taking a pencil-like object and slowly applied the dark eyeliner, applying it slowly around her eyes darkening them and making them bolder while gently onto her eyelashes darkening them as well. Rainbow scowled in front of her mirror seeing her eyes looking so bold and feminine it was making her blood boil. The mare was slowly looking more like some fashion model, but it wasn't over as she took out a tube of lipstick. The mare then puckered her lips and slowly smeared the glossy red lipstick over her lips. She made a few embarrassing puckering noises against her will then slowly placed the lipstick down as she whispered to herself, "please tell me it's ov-" Before Rainbow could finish, she took a pink puff pad and lightly tapped both cheeks applying a light blush making her cough.
"Ugh, stop! Seriously when this is over, I'm going to go get some wine and cheese!" The pegasus roared beyond furious, having no control of her body and blinked as she meant to say, "set it on fire" not "wine and cheese!" Rainbow shook her head, thinking it was merely a slip of the tongue and replied more slowly this time. "What I meant was a light salad and some chocolate? Maybe have a guy over to hang out with?"
Rainbow started to sweat, realizing the dress was making her say things! She then tried placing her hooves over her mouth but instead took a hoof and took out the curlers one by one and watched as the once her cool simply straightly combed styled mane was now curly and bounced down the side of her head pouring down like a waterfall almost like Rarity's. She wanted to slam a hoof in the mirror and shatter this reflection of herself feeling so objectified by this stupid dress. But instead, Rainbow blew a kiss at the mirror before as strutting out the door and flew out into the sky.
Flying above Ponyville Thunderlane, a dark grey coated pegasus male with a silver mohawk mane, was slowly flapping his wings and was quite groggy that morning with bags under his gold eyes and taking a hoof to his mouth yawning loudly. He had to help his younger brother Rumble on a project last night for school. But the stallion still had to be up early reporting for cloudbusting duty, so he probably got four hours of sleep at most. He looked about the skies of Ponyville wondering where Rainbow Dash she usually was a bit late being a not so happy morning pony. But he eventually did see her flying over in some weird fancy violet dress. The stallion put a hoof to his mouth, chuckling, seeing her in such a fancy outfit. "Uh, Rainbow? What the buck are you wearing?"
"Thunderlane, I'm so happy to see you!" She eeped as she struck a pose and stuck her hips. The male pegasi eyes went wide and exclaimed, "wow, Rainbow, you really went out? What's the special occasion?"
"The...the..there isn't any! I ju...ju...just wanted to dress up for no reason." Rainbow squeaked with a clear look of nervousness as she fluttered over and slowly came over to the blushing stallion unsure of what to do as the mare gave Thunderlane a kiss on the cheek. The stallion's cheeks flushed red, not being both unsure and a bit astonished on why Rainbow suddenly kissed him, and he paused being a bit nervous and bashful, not fully wanting to be presumptuous about Rainbow's romantic feelings and asked, "what was that for?"
"Nothing! I just can't resist being around you!" Rainbow cried out with sweat pouring down her face feeling so hot and heavy from just kissing her co-worker! She then suddenly turned around and stuck her butt in Thunderlane's face proactively and shook it before suddenly flying off. Thunderlane was speechless, rubbing his cheek, not knowing whether this was good or something he should be worried about.
All the while, Thunderlane stood there flapping with a blush on his face, still questioning in his mind why Rainbow Dash was acting so weird. The pegasus in question flew off and started to strut around, smacking clouds with her butt or throwing a pose after bucking one with a hoof. It didn't take long after a while flying around provocatively. Many pegasi noticed her odd behavior and began flying over with confusion, asking if the Rainbow was ok. Even though she tried to respond, she seemed to fly off to smack another cloud and struck a pose and responded with a sexy, "I'm ok darlings! Just showing a new side of mine! I think I want to be a model!"
It didn't take long for pegasi with cameras to fly over and started to flash as he gasped, flying over and stirring over and striking more poses and throwing kisses at the cameras, making the stallions flying around go speechless and making them start lusting for the daredevil pegasus. One photographer male pegasus continued clicking away on his camera and asked out loud. "Hey Rainbow, I didn't know you wanted to be a model!? Why the sudden change in career options? From what I heard, you always wanted to be a Wonderbolt?"
Rainbow pondered a bit on what to do; she knows the dress won't let her straight up rebuttal the response, but she can phrase her question in a way that could somehow get help. The mare then took a deep breath as she formed an idea in her mind and with a coy smile appearing on her face and responded with a seductive tone. "I'm not darling, I just wanted to show off this cute dress Rarity gave me last week? By the way, could you get Twilight? I would love for her to see it?
The photographer's eyes narrowed and responded in a grumble, "I guess she would be happy to see you like this. Though you didn't answer any of my questions…"
"Yeah, why else will I be wearing this lovely dress?" Rainbow responded, still smiling, but in her thoughts, she was getting peeved nopony was helping her.
"I'm not sure if Twilight can help, but I'll go," Thunderlane replied with a blush on his face.
Rainbow's heart fluttered, seeing Thunderlane finally say something that she needed and flew over and gave the stallion a hug as she exclaimed, "Oh, thank you! I-"
"But...I...I need to ask you...do you want to be m-" Thunderlane stammered nervously, hoping Rainbow Dash would be his Fillyfriend. Instead, Rainbow knew what the stallion was going to say next and had to think of something quickly to shut him up in front of all the paparazzi. She then went in and kissed him on the cheek, making the stallion's face turn a beat red as his wings sprung up. The mare then flew backwards with a smile. "Hey, we can talk later, darling please just go fetch Twilight.
Thunderlane nodded with a dopey grin feeling completely enthralled by Rainbow's strange kiss and flew off as fast as he could thinking she's his special somepony. However the daredevil in her mind rolled her eyes as she continued to pose in front of the cameras flashing her moves like a model. The pegasus was getting quite frustrated but endured this craziness as she thought to herself. "He better get Twilight, and after this curse is gone, I don't know if I should hug or buck him later?!"
Rainbow Dash stood posing in front of ponies now playing on a cloud seeming to be showing off her legs or doing yoga stances now. These poses were becoming more promiscuous and sexually appealing,especially to the stallions seeming unable to get enough pictures of her and asking her streams of questions regarding why she's becoming a model. Rainbow kept brushing the questions off, saying things like, "oh, I just feel like being a model today?"
"Oh, you guys think I'm a model? Is my butt too small though? Can you check?" Stupid things like that to shut them. Luckily for the embarrassed daredevil, Thunderlane was coming back with Twilight, the purple coated alicorn with only seeing Rainbow acting so odd already had an idea of what's going on. She remembered from Spike's report Rarity materialized a violet dress on Rainbow Dash, and obviously, it's enchanted. Twilight quickly flew over to come help pull her friend out of the cascade of photographers and fly off for some time. The princess waited to get a reasonable distance between them and the reporters as she wanted to get out of there before the paparazzi made things harder for them to move and she didn't want them to overhear stuff she still hadn't told the public regarding the Rarity incident. She had to pause breathing heavily still being tuckered out from not really being used to flying and flying through the entire length of Ponyville as she wheezed. "There we..can...talk...here."
"Oh, Twilight, I'm just so happy to see you!" Rainbow cried out with tears in her eyes feeling so happy to see her best friend who can finally break this curse! She threw her hooves over the princess and squeezed as Twilight gave her friend a pat on the back, feeling Rainbow's hug being too tight and squeaked. "Ok you can let go now."
Rainbow stepped back and broke the embrace as she took the time to adjust her mane and dress. Twilight's face turned pink, seeing her friend all dressed up, and with that makeup, it made her look so cute but also gave her a bold, confident look as she whispered unconsciously. "I hope you don't get mad, but you do look twenty percent cuter."
"Oh, stop! Can you just help me please!" The pegasus cried out as she waved a hoof being irritated about everything but not really being able to accurately convey her feelings.
"Ok, ok," Twilight shook her head. not fully knowing why she would make such a comment and turned her head to a bunch of photographers now flying over still flashing their cameras and asking for comments. The alicorn flapped her wings being furious that there's more and roared, "Alright, come on then! Rarity should know how to fix you!"
She took her friend by the neck area of her dress and dragged her across the sky. As Rainbow Dash was getting excited, finally hoping this curse can be broken soon as she squealed, "yes, I can't wait to show Rarity how well this dress looks on more!"
Twilight; however, was getting angrier on how much work she had to do fixing up the town and now having to deal with her friend who was seemingly losing in her mind. This was making her want to go and smack Rarity a few times and Spike too. But she kept her cool as she flew too Carousel Boutique along with Rainbow Dash fluttering beside her. The two eventually landed at the Boutique, the princess of friendship stomped over to the door with steam coming out of her ears and started to pound on the door. "Rarity, get your butt out and help Rainbow!"
The white-coated unicorn mare with a luscious purple mane and tail stood there with a nervous bush on her face as she slowly opened the door. The unicorn flashed her blue eyes, gauging her friends, seeing Twilight quite angry and seeing Rainbow Dash acting so premsiculisly blushing waving a hoof while flashing her eyelashes. The fashionista squeaked out in surprise, realizing the situation almost immediately as Twilight did. "I don't know! I thought we fixed the town!"
"Well, clearly, you didn't fix everything. I already asked the princesses about the enchanted book Spike found and they said you can fix these curses!
"Seriously, how would I know!?" Rarity whined pulling her mane being so agitated at all of this. She knew that all the things that happened last week wasn't her fault, but she felt so angry at herself for it all as well. The mare so far didn't see anything too crazy that affected the mentality of other ponies until now, either.
As Twilight was trying to ask if Rarity could remember anything, the fashionista mostly just cried out she didn't. Rainbow Dash turned to see the stage area where Rarity would have models show off her newest designs. The pegasus slowly strutted across the floor and squeaked out in terror as she realized her body was moving by itself again. "Ugh! I can't stop, I need to show my stuff!" Rainbow cried out hoping Rarity or Twilight would hear her. But as the daredevil looked behind her, she saw that her friends were still fighting and this pissed her off seeing they forgot that she was being possessed by some dress. The mare stomped a hoof and began shouting, "hey stop fighting and watch me strut my stuff!"
The two unicorns looked around with worried looks seeing their friend get onstage crossed her hooves and gave a cute smile. Before the unicorns could go talk to Rainbow Dash, a crowd of paparazzi came barging into Carousel Boutique. They surrounded her with cameras flashing, and more ponies began asking questions as she strutted around with sweat pouring down her face feeling. She felt so embarrassed as she strutted about making sure to shake her hips.
"Look, I feel as if we should just let the dress have it's fun? I'm sure the magic should subside anytime now?" Rarity replied as she turned to face Twilight with a sheepish grin.
"Seriously! We can't leave Rainbow like this! We have to do something!" Twilight cried out, looking over the paparazzi, making things worse for Rainbow. This really got the princess even more furious and began shining her horn, wanting to teleport them all into the Everfree Forest for embarrassing her friend.
Rarity saw her friend's horn glowing and wanted to calm her down and whispered in her friend's ear. "'I don't know what to do? But pushing these ponies out by force may not be the best course of action...maybe we can try to distract them instead…"
Twilight turned to Rarity with a scowl knowing she was right but still angry as she snapped back. "So what do we do?"
Rarity whispered as she waved a hoof with Rainbow now clearly angry and embarrassed but seemed unable to resist the dress's magic. Twilight nodded and looked around, "right? But what could be a good distraction for these reporters?"
"I'm here, Rainbow Dash! I finally found you!" Thunderlane cried out as he burst through the doors of the boutique, shocking everypony.
Thunderlane looked up with sweat pouring down his face. It was clear the lack of sleep and flying all over trying to find Rainbow Dash. The stallion was quite exhausted, but he wasn't going to collapse until he asked his co-worker if she really wanted to be his special somepony. The stallion reared his head up with his eyes closed, both embarrassed, scared but unable to contain his question any longer and shouted, "Rainbow!? You said we would talk after I found Twilight. But I can't hold this back..d...do you want me to be my special somepony?"
Rainbow blinked as she stood on stage as it seemed even her enchanted dress didn't know how she should respond. While the paparazzi started to swarm Thunderlane asking questions if he's dating the famous hero and Wonderbolt in training Rainbow Dash?
Twilight saw an opportunity to get these reporters off Rainbow's back. She held her hooves to her face and shouted out loud. "Hey, Thunderlane! Go tell them about how much you fell in love Rainbow Dash exactlly how you told me the other day!? I'm sure they would love it!"
Thunderlane turned his head towards Twilight at this sudden outburst and tried to respond, "hey I ne-"
But it was too late the paparazzi seemed to forget about Rainbow Dash as they swarmed Thunderlane as he held out a hoof being dragged off by a current paparazzi crying out. "Help me! Rainbow please! Answer me!"
After everypony left Rarity quickly slammed the doors of her shop closed and locked them as Twilight turned to see Rainbow Dash now going over the dresses in Rarity's store as she picked them out reluctantly and stacking them over her back as she shouted, "I don't have enough bits to pay for all these! Rarity, please help me get a line of credit for all these dresses!
Twilight gave a deep sigh and slumped down and took a long deep breath seeing that despite finaling getting rid of the reporters, they still had no idea how to get Rainbow Dash back to normal. Sadly what Rarity said earlier was ringing true and sighed. "I guess we don't have a choice, we need to wait it out until the effects dissipate...but there might be other cursed objects we may have forgotten .We need to find them before there are more victims."
"Oh come now, I'm sure there's nothing else!? What else could possibly have we missed?" Rarity asked with a look of nervousness on her face as she was only hoping there weren't any other curses that they missed. She then turned to Rainbow Dash strutting over to the cash register. "Oh, I'll just hang out with a Rainbow here until the curse wears off."
Rarity blushed as she strutted over with a nervous blush and cooed, "Oh darling, that's a lot of dresses! How about we just put these aside and go upstairs. I bet you have a nice massage and some lunch."
"Yeah, that sounds great darling, but I really don't know if I should thank you? Or I should slap you!" Rainbow chirped, flashing her eyelids. She seemed cheerful but she really was angry at Rarity and was only slightly calmed down due to her at least helping the situation.
The unicorn then took Rainbow Dash upstairs as Twilight pondered on what Rarity said and tapped a hoof to her chin as she talked to herself. "From what I learned, only Spike has any revelation of what happened; Rarity really did forget everything? But the princesses Luna and Celestia both told her that the only one that could reverse these curses was the one who was possessed by the book or so they thought… they locked it away a long time ago, saving a village from a bunch of ponies possessed by the book. There was so much chaos and destruction that the results led to an entire failed operation in the first settlement near the Everfree Forest. The thing is from what the princesses explained the ones that cast the enchantments can reverse its more powerful effects. But it was so long ago both Celestia and Luna don't remember exactly how they reversed the book's magic. There isn't a lot of information on where it came from, so they locked it away, hoping nopony would ever find it. Spike, however, was there watching what was going on the entire time and hopefully could shine more light on the subject."
Chapter One: To Be a Clown or Not to be?
Ring! An alarm clang woke up a grumpy stallion up one early morning at his expected time. He groaned and slammed a hoof on his alarm clock. The stallion in question tried to go back to sleep, throwing the covers over his head, promptly ignoring the call to start the day. However, knowing better, the alarm clock rang for a second time Ring! This time, he roared, taking a hoof and slamming it on the alarm clock again. This time, he was quite disgruntled, slowly getting up reluctantly and the stallion had an angry face at seeing the sun rising through his window by Princess Celestia and yet he still didn't want to get up from his comfortable bed as he grumbled, ""can I get a few more minutes, please?!" He pitifully bargained with the disc in the sky.
He then rolled his head to his bed and saw that it read six A.M and mumbled, "I better get up." he finally relented, the pony named, He looked around the fancy well-kept studio apartment he was renting out with it is well furnished and very conservative with jewel statues, some gold candlesticks, a dark blue carpet, and an elegant light fixtures overhead.
However, once again, the tired stallion rolled back in his bed mumbling. "I can get a few more minutes." He amended, and then He began to fall asleep again, but only a few minutes later. A third ring came from his alarm clock and slammed a hoof on it as expected. The grumpy stallion then slowly got up and dragged himself towards a mirror. Looking into the glass with his gold eyes, and gazed reluctantly at the now-familiar image with his light yellow coat, a glossy blue mane, and tail, his cutie mark was a silver platter was sticking on his rump along with a clean-shaven face. There wasn't a trace of any humor, or excitement on his face with his disgruntled image, with his bed head mane and with bags under his eyes staring back at him; he was quite depressed. "Ugh, I can't wait to go through another dreadful day." He drawled sarcastically with seeming practice.
The stallion grumbled irritably as he slowly walked towards his bathroom and went to his shower and started to scrub himself clean. He felt odd in his new physique was way sturdier than his old one, for lack of a better word. Where he used to continually twitch and gitter with anxious excitement in his early days, he could now stand still unmoving for hours at a time and ready to assist in a heartbeat. He continued to scrub himself diligently, making sure that no dirt of filth was still clinging on his coat And after his shower, the stallion then began to shave his stubble beard professionally and waxed his kept, then brushed his teeth until they were pearly white; not that pony would ever really get the chance to see. Moving on, here poured himself a cup of black tea, with sugar and milk, accompanied with an everyday piece of toast with some butter on it, as conservative exciting as it gets for him. After he ate his meager breakfast, he grumbled and walked over to start getting dressed in a fancy looking tuxedo complete with a white front shirt, black coat with lapels and a bow tie.
Along with a pair of white elegant shoes sparts, he looked at himself in the mirror from ears to hooves placing a name tag on his right side of his coat with Silver Platter printed on it with beautiful calligraphy. The well-groomed and well-dressed stallion, quickly wouldn't look out of place amounts Canterlot's elite noble ponies proud serving staff looked at himself and with disdain and the stallion gave a deep sigh, "time to get this over with." He then slowly walked off, looking down at the ground miserably; once again, not looking forward to another drudgery at his new job and career.
As Silver Platter came out his apartment a bell hopper, who he knew worked at a nearby hotel, much to his dismay, was getting up as well hopping out of his apartment with a cheerful smile on his face, ready to face the day with excitement. The still teenage looking colt had a disgustingly bright orange coat, wearing an equally brilliant and well press red bell hopper uniform and cap with Sunshine Smiles written on his name tag, sporting a giant poofy ginger red mane and he had big yellow puppy love eyes with a big smiling sun holding a suitcase for his cutie mark. The bell hopper bounced right over to the hoof dragging still awakening Silver Platter seeing that he wanted to cheer his neighbor up and make him smile and shouted, "hello my fellow neighbor! How are you this fine morning?" he asked with a guileless smile.
Silver Platter rolled his eyes to see him; it was always too early to put up with the still colt-ish looking stallion; out of all the ponies that he had met recently, he was the most obnoxiously annoying pony he's ever met! The irritated waiter snapped back. "Look I have a lot going on today so can you just leave me alone?" He lamented having to put up with his cheerful this early in the morning like he thought every morning since he moved in this building last month.
It wasn't so much that he was all up on him in excitement every time he saw his still acne riddled face, or at how his unruly mane was inconspicuous as a road pilon, though he would just add that at the long list of grievances of the colt merely just existing, but there was a pang of envy, and dare he reminded himself, of a longing lost.
The Bell Hopper chuckled as he hopped alongside the miserable-looking waiter not wanting to give up until he can make the waiter crack a smile. "Oh, come on! Today is going to be amazing! Another day another bit, I always say."
Silver Platter just rolled his eyes at the idea of looking forward to today he was expecting more of the same with his job, cleaning the silverware, the tables, and the floor as well as serving the same snobbish nobles who are never satisfied and scoffed, "more like half a bit." He grumbled more to himself, then his thoroughly unwanted companions.
Sunshine snickered as he stomped a hoof and chuckled, "That's hilarious! Half a bit!"
Silver Platter eye twitched a little as he started to get annoyed with his asinine dribbling and snapped back. "I wasn't trying to be funny, now can you please leave me alone." In equal part pleading and groaning
Sunshine was persistent in annoying Silver Platter as the two continued to walk off down the streets of Canterlot with him always laughing referencing Silver Platter's silly comment. The waiter was feeling particularly moody today. However, he continued onward with head drooping downwards and was grumbling irritably. Many ponies gave him an odd look while some even moved on the other side of the road. Silver Platter didn't care as Sunshine continued to pester him with nonsense questions he was muttering about from his mind. However, a few school foals came bounded over towards them all shouting, "Sunshine!"
They all ran straight into the bell hopper's hooves, making him fall onto his rump as he ruffled their manes and laughed, "Hey! I'm so happy to see you!"
Sunshine Smiles continued to play and nuzzle the foals as Silver Platter looked down at what was happening with disdain and growled, "I can't believe you can stand those little brats." He couldn't help but be even further annoyed with more youths near him clamoring for attention.
Completely ignoring the foals all gasped as did Sunshine Smiles who responded, "oh come on Silver Platter go and tell them that joke…"
A school colt just scoffed. "Silver Platter can't make jokes, let alone crack a smile." jeering at him...
The stallion gave the colt a cold glare. "You better keep that mouth shut before I shut it for you."
He eeped and stepped back as Sunshine Smiles scoffed, "well he has a point Silver Platter come on and tell us that joke."
The stallion gave a deep sigh and grumbled, "fine! Sunshine Smiles mentioned another day another Bit, while I responded with more like half a bit."
The foals around him all just snickered and Sunshine Smiles was the only one rolling on the ground laughing. "Oh, that was great! I'm going to tell that to everypony I meet!"
Sunshine then jumped and exclaimed, "now you foals go run along!"
They did just that waving goodbye as they ran down the road. Silver Platter shook his head as he can't stand being around foals. "How can you be around those annoying brats is beyond me."
Sunshine Smiles landed a hoof on the annoyed waiter's shoulder. "Oh, stop that! You are just being grumpy and need to cheer up! Now I need to get going to work! see you later, my favorite neighbor!"
The overenthusiastic bell hopper bounced off as Silver Platter shook his head and grumbled, "where does that guy get all that energy!?" reluctantly making his way to work.
Silver Platter continued on his way down the street trying to avoid contact with any more ponies, by sticking his muzzle up in the air snobbishly and giving a disdainful look at anypony who came near him. The stallion eventually came upon the restaurant he works at. It was a simple-looking building with "The Delightful Brunch" the sign was quite fancy, as was the inside through the large windows with the giant golden chandeliers overhead, tables with crisp white tablecloths draped over them, there were other waiters and waitresses all going about cleaning and prepping things for the day. Everything seemed nice and clean, but it was empty as they don't open for another few hours, and he still had a lot to do before then...
He slowly went through the doors as the head chef he was a big chubby stallion with a grey coat, silver eyes, a black flowing mane with a white apron tied around its belly. The giant of a stallion who everyone called Iron Kettle gave him a cold glare and snapped at him. "Hey, Clown! I need you to start wiping down all these tables and mop the floor. We have Fancy Pants and a lot of high nobles coming for a giant brunch!"
Silver Platter rolled his eyes. He hated his boss as he constantly nagged about everything and made his job harder than it needed to be and sighed, "yeah alright, anything else I should know."
"Yeah! Please don't mess anything up; I know you were once a stupid birthday clown before so please don't screw anything up. When they come, serve the food and only speak when spoken to understand?"
Silver Platter gave a disgruntled nod and was doing everything in his power to keep his emotions in check being reminded of his past and responded, "Sure, that's fine."
He went about going about cleaning off the tables, thinking about his old life. He used to be a clown named Button Nose. He used to perform as children's birthday parties and at one particular party, he was turned into a fancy waiter. Afterward, he was unable to make jokes or be funny and was quickly fired from his old job. Despite his new personality and his more serious demeanor, he daydreamed going back to being a clown.
"Hey! I don't pay you standing around get to work!"
Silver Platter shouted back at his boss. "Alright!" He growled. The waiter continued to wipe a table and his mind drifted again to thinking about how he was once a clown and how miserable his life was now. He had to shake his head and grumbled under his breath."I need to concentrate that's all in the past now. I'm Silver Platter a simple waiter in Canterlot. I'll probably never be happy again."
A few hours go by, and the restaurant finally opened with Fancy Pants, and dozens of his friends started strolling in all of them laughing.
The head chef came out with a nervous smile. "Welcome to A Delightful Brunch! Please make yourselves at home!"
Fancy Pants gave the chef a delightful smile as he was trying to get him out of the way to continue his conversation. "I thank you for your hospitality now friends go on and let's continue this conversation once we settled with some good food in our bellies."
They went about and sat in the restaurant. The chef turned around and shouted, "Hey, Silver Platter! get your rump over here!"
The stallion sighed trotted over to the chef who handed him a tray filled with cups filled with tea and coffee. Silver Platter gave a deep sigh still being many about his situation as he then walked among the tables and started hoofing out the rich ponies didn't even look over at him and taking their orders and going with their conversations.
The meal dragged on as dishes of fried eggs, veggie bacon, fruit salads, small pancakes, and waffles were served among them. Silver Platter seemed engrossed in doing his job to care until that it he then heard Fancy Pants tell a joke, "so I was out on the town the other day after seeing Celestia raise the sun and a thought occurred. If the sun can be raised because of a cutie mark on your rump then maybe I can raise more bits if I had that on my rump!"
The rest of the nobles laughed and chuckled at the lame joke, and it was apparent a lot of the laughter was forced.
Silver Platter was sweating a little as he thought about the article again thinking he maybe could be a clown again. He wanted to try telling a joke. so he gulped and stammered, "so..um...well wouldn't it be more hilarious if you had a house for a cutie mark and every time you lifted it, one would appear?"
All the nobles just coughed with only one laughing Silver Platter feeling quite awkward of only getting one wit from his lame attempt as a joke, quickly skirred off with a sheepish smile, shameful or embarrassing himself and for just a moment, hoping that he could manage to crack an actual joke again. Only then he spotted some uneaten apples on one of the tables and got an idea, and desperate and ill-advised plan, but anything to find the glory of his old self again. Silver Platter thought maybe if he wasn't good with jokes, but maybe, just maybe, his juggling skills were still there somewhere inside of him. He then went about throwing the apples in the air and squeaked as the apples hitting some nobles in the head and splattering on the ground. He squealed and began to quickly clean things up the chef who was at the bar setting down more trays and shouted, "Silver Platter get your sorry rump over here!"
The waiter quickly walked over, cursing at the ground, knowing he was going to get chewed out.
The chef bent down and whispered, threateningly, "What are you doing! are you trying to embarrass me!?"
Silver Platter shook his head as the stallion placed another tray on his hoof. The chef snapped, "Just go out there and serve food you're not a clown anymore."
This hurt as the stallion slowly walked over and continued to serve the noble ponies feeling quite mad at himself. Why was he taking this? Why couldn't he find the courage to tell this chef that he never wanted this! Why did he have to deal with this! He wanted to be a funny clown who could crack jokes, juggle, and make balloon animals!
The stallion peered up at the noble ponies were now snickering at him, and he knew that they were laughing at him! Something snapped in Silver Platter's mind yes he still had the mindset of a boring waiter forced to serve these fancy ponies, but he wanted to prove he could be funny!
He saw that there was a special meal flaming shish kabobs on one of the platters on the bar with various fruits he took them into his mouth and tossed them in the air and started to juggle them! The noble ponies watched in disbelief seeing that this waiter was actually pulling it off! He was juggling the shish kabobs like a pro. Soon they started to clap and began cheering him on. Fancy Pants stood up, clopping his hooves on the ground "bravo! Bravo!"
Silver Platter still with a serious face was starting to sweat from concentrating, but he was feeling a tiny bit happier than he had in a long while. But it all ended as Silver Platter suddenly tripped and gasped in horror seeing his flaming shish kabobs landing on the tables and having them burst into flame. The fire spread throughout the dining room as the nobles began screaming and running to the exits. The rest of the staff all tried to stop the fire by pouring water on it. Iron Kettle himself got out a fire extinguisher, but the fire was already climbing up the walls and onto the ceiling. Silver Platter stayed behind trying desperately throwing water onto the flames, but as the fire had now consumed the entire building, he had no choice. The waited and out of the restaurant and into the streets. A fire carriage was already on the scene with them using fire hoses to shoot at the flames. Silver Platter stood there, shaking in fear as he watched the building consumed by flames eventually being smoldered by the firefighter's efforts. Soon his boss burst through the front doors with his face now a bright red with steam seething from his nostrils shouting, "Silver Platter you're fired! You're finished! You'll never work at another restaurant as long as you live!"
Everypony turned to the angry and disgruntled Silver Platter who ripped off his tuxedo with bravado sending pieces of black cloth and buttons to fly all over. He slammed it on the ground and gave the tuxedo a few stomps with a hoof grinding his fancy clothes into the ground and exclaimed, "Fine Fire me! I'm done trying to be a stuck up waiter I'm going back to being a clown!"
Silver Platter turned around with a humpf! He then ran off towards his apartment with a bright smile on his face. For the first time in a long time, he was feeling happy and excited as he planned to leave Canterlot tonight!
