The Program

I wonder if she’s gonna strangle me? I think to myself, as the other pink filly with her messy mane embraces me in her forehooves…

Wait, are we gonna be friends now?

I feel her warm hooves going over my body, and I blink in confusion, while keeping my hooves firmly planted on the ground…

I guess I should return the hug?

“Are you alright, Diamond?” I hear the gray pony at my side ask.

My eyes widen, “I’m fine, Silver Spoon! Everything is fine! Yes, we’re all fine! Of course!”

Binky tightens her embrace of me!

I uh, what?

“It’s okay, Diamond… You’re not a bad pony… You just don’t understand… “

“What?”

She releases me and stares at my eyes from a foot away, “I’m saying, it’s okay Diamond!”

“What are you talking about? I tried to pick on you, and you uh, well, you beat me up!”

<*****>

I stare into the blue eyes of the confused pink foal, “Well, right! But since I apparently can’t beat you up again, I uh, I guess that means we gotta be friends?”

She frowns, “As if! We could always just not talk to each other, you know?”

I hear mom from behind me cause me to cringe, “Binky! You will make friends with these fillies and you will have a wholesome relationship, is that clear?”

I open my eyes again to see the pink filly staring at me with enormous blue eyes, and my own gaz enlarges, “No uh, I’m pretty I gotta be your friend now?”

We both hear the gray filly on the side say, “Well, I’ll just be a third wheel, so you two get along now, and be friends!” before I notice Silver Spoon trotting away in my periphery…

I smirk at the other foal, “Yup! Total coward!”

The other pink filly soon smiles and snickers, “Right?”

This gets me grin widely.

“Uh, hey look! You uh, you lost your mom, right?”

I squint at the other filly, “Yes?”

Her eyes widen shyly as a frown forms on her muzzle, “You know, my mother Spoiled Rich is awful!”

I frown, unsure of what she’s getting at? “So?”

She sighs, “So uh, I guess since I’m always alone at the mansion, and since well, since your mom is gone, I guess that means we aren’t really so different?”

I widen my eyes at this strange statement! “We are NOTHING alike, Diamond Tiara!”

“How would you know?”

This statement takes me aback, and I give a wide-eyed start, “Wait, what?”

She nods, “Well, what I mean is, have we ever really met before?”

“Well, there was that time I beat you up?”

She squints annoyed, “That’s not what I meant!”

Suddenly, mom speaks to all three of us, “You three will go out for milkshakes in Ponyville now! Starlight Glimmer will pay for you!”

The magenta unicorn widens her eyes at all of us, “What? Why do I have to pay for it?”

<*****>

I stare at my former nemesis and smile, “Because this is an important part of my reformation, and you do wish for me to become reformed, yes?”

The blue pony on her left looks at her, “That is a good point, Starlight! Besides, you make WAY more than anypony here, and could easily afford it!”

She squints her eyes at us fillies, “That’s not the point!”

Diamond stares up at her wide-eyed, with a pathetic expression, “Oh, please Miss Starlight? I’m sure Binky and me deserve a milkshake, right?” and smiles widely.

I also notice the silver filly enlarging her own eyes behind her temple-less spectacles, “And me too, yes?”

Starlight frowns in defeat, and finally rolls her eyes, “FINE! I’ll take ALL of you out for milkshakes!”

“And your marefriend too, right?”

Starlight turns left towards Trixie and grimaces, “Fine! You too!”

Trixie turns to us foals excitedly, “Hear that fillies? We’re all getting milkshakes and Starlight is REALLY NICE!”

Silver Spoon looks at Starlight, “Yay! I love Aunt Starlight!”

Diamond stares at her and chimes in, “Yeah, Aunt Starlight is the best!”

Starlight Glimmer then gives a wide-eyed frown, “Wait, Aunt Starlight? What?”

I see my smart foal stare up her, “How would I know Miss Glimmer? Uh, I like chocolate!” and smile nervously at her…

Starlight enlarges her eyes all the way as her shoulders fall in defeat, “FINE! I guess your Aunt Starlight is gonna buy you all milkshakes!”

“And her marefriend too!”

Starlight turns left towards Trixie, “You got money!”

She frowns pitiably, “Not as much as you!”

Starlight sighs, “Fine!” before turning to address everypony, “I guess in the interest of preserving Equestria and reforming Chrysalis, I can buy everypony milkshakes!”

I turn to my foal, “You DID give the larvae their love for the morning, didn’t you Binky?”

Her eyes widen as she stares up at me, “Well um, I kinda forgot!”

I gaze at the other two foals, “That’s actually alright Binky! I have something special in mind… “ before raising my gaze, “Tell me, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon! Do you two mind being slimy?”

Diamond’s eyes widen, “Wait, what? EW! GROSS! NO WAY!” before she cringes with her tongue out her snout.

The gray foal next to her asks, “Why? What did you have in mind?”

<*****>

“Okay! You can come on in now!” I hear the pink unicorn yell from the other room…

I blink and stare at the blue membrane that served as a door, before gulping and trotting forward to move through…

And when I make it to the other side, I saw it… A crazy green-eyed pink unicorn foal, with a psychotic grin on her face, as several white worm-like larvae crawled around on her body and trailing slime all over her! Her disheveled purple mane vibrated as she stared insanely at me, “These are my sibling!”

“Gross! What are you doing, Binky?”

She giggles, “I’m feeding the kids by giving them love! Come on Silver Spoon! It’s fun!”

My eyes stay wide on her, “That is the grossest thing ever, Binky!”

“How would you know?”

The edges of my mouth travel downward, “What do you mean?”

She practically jitter while squealing, “Giving love to the larvae is fun! I can’t explain it, but just interacting with them with my hooves, and petting them, and guiding them to water or soft places to rest just makes me feel good!”

“But they’re gross!”

“They’re my brothers and sisters, since uh, you know, I live in the hive! Now come on Silver Spoon! Help me love the kids!”

I stare over to my left towards the far wall, with it’s green amorphis blobs on the side, and then to my right, and then to my right to stare at the blue membrane door, before finally back at her, “Well uh, we can clean up when we get done, right?”

“Sure! I’ll show you! There’s a river outback! Now come on Silver Spoon! Get slimy with me!”

I grimace as I slowly begin to pace forward, “I can’t believe I’m doing this… “

I hear the deranged unicorn giggle as I pace forwards towards slimy death…

<*****>

I stood near the blue unicorn magician, with her pointy purple hat, decorated with those ridiculous gold stars, and turned my eyes to her, as she stared up at me with big purple eyes and gulped, “So uh, you’re the new Chrysalis, right?” and smiles nervously, “How’s that um, you know, working out for you?” before affixing her eyes solidly on me in apprehension.

I smile down at the blue pony, “It’s okay, Trixie! I mean you no harm!”

Her eyes widen and begin to quiver, “I uh, that’s okay! Just um, p-please stay over there for now, okay?”

I frown, “You don’t seem very friendly?”

She starts, “W-well um, th-that’s okay! I’ll uh, you know, um… “ and gulps, “b-be your friend um, if you uh, really want me to? Yes!” and smiles with a quivering muzzle…

I suddenly realized that this pony is terrified of me! If I am to assimilate into their society, this simply will not do! I stare at her, “Would you like a hug, Trixie?” and smile at her…

<*****>

I stared at the bluish-white creature with her various horns on her head, and strange lavender eyes that seemed to gaze into my soul, as she grinned psychotically at me, while my own veins surged with panic, “Uh, NO! No uh, um, p-please don’t hug me!”

She frowns, “Well, perhaps we can work up to that, then? How do you fair, sweet guest? Are you okay?”

I remember what my girlfriend told me about opening up and being honest, when I say to her, “If you REALLY want honesty, um, I’m terrified!”

“Why?”

“W-well, it’s you! You were this evil changeling queen earlier, and now, I see you’re um, you’re different now, but you sound the same and it’s just, well, it gets to me, okay?”

She smiles as her central horn glows with a bluish-white glow, and I soon realize that I’m also glowing and unable to speak!

“Now, you needn’t worry sweet Trixie! I only intend to hug you, okay?”

I stare at the creature with my eyes as wide as I can make them inside this forcefield, and whimper affirmatively…

She smiles as she steps closer to me, “Good! Now, I’m about to hug you… “

I close my eyes in fear, as she grows on her hind legs, and brings her forehooves over me, and soon, I feel it…

Pure love surging through me, and I suddenly feel pure affection coming into me…

She used to take as much love as she could get, but now this…

This is different… This is not the same…

Maybe she has changed?

<*****>

I stare at the pink filly as she smiles up at me, with her strawberry cream milkshake with whipped cream and actual strawberries on the top, “Thanks Aunt Starlight! I love you!”

I stare at her, “Is this how you usually get your mother to do what you want?”

Her eyes blink frantically, and she starts, “Um, w-well, uh, yeah! Kinda!”

I smile, “I think I can start to figure you out, Diamond!”

“So what?” She frowns in agitation.

I giggle, “I’m saying, I can help you, Diamond!”

Her eyes widen, “How?”

I sigh, “Well, you know how you’re helping me after school now, and how your mom doesn’t know the difference?”

“Yeah?”

“Well, what do you say I become your friend and I’ll listen to you talk and hear you, okay?”

“What are you talking about, you crazy purple unicorn?”

I think I should word this another way? “I mean, you won’t be alone anymore, Diamond! Doesn’t that sound nice?”

“Well, there’s Binky?”

“I’m not a coward!” I hear a feminine voice squeal from a distance.

I stare to gaze back down the grassy hillside, as I note a blue unicorn with a pointy purple hat, a small pink unicorn with wiry purple mane, and a smaller gray foal approaching from a distance…

“I’m just saying, you could be braver, Silver Spoon! I’m not even involved and I think you’re a wuss!” My girlfriend says to Silver Spoon.

“You’re a wuss!” The gray foal retorts and I note the pink foal on the left silently snickering.

“I’m a teacher at the School of Friendship!”

“You’re also a wuss!”

I cringe at these three outrageous ponies, as they squabble on their way up the hillside so Aunt Starlight can buy them all milkshakes…

How does Trixie keep getting me into these things?

(To be continued… )