Of Demonic Firepower

"Teh! Ponies..."

Dante shook his head as he walked away from the colorful cartoon town, seemingly called 'Ponyville.' As he walked, the pink pony from earlier continued to follow him. Several times the pony tried to start a conversation, and multiple times had it cut in front of him and cut him off, yet Dante just kept pushing it away and kept going. It was starting to piss him off, however, and he found himself tightening his grip on Rebellion.

Eventually, Dante yelled at the pink pony and slammed down on the cartoon dirt with the demon blade. "What the hell do you want from me!?"

"Whoo! That was close! Maybe if you had been just a bit faster with that --"

"Stop talking, before you make me."

The pink pony stood still, then raised its left hoof to pull an imaginary zipper across its lips. Sighing, Dante put Rebellion back on his shoulder. "What's so important, you need to keep nagging me about it?" However, the pony didn't say anything this time, but she shook her head. "Well!? What is it!?" Now, she pointed to her lips, signifying she couldn't talk because of the zipper shut tight.

Frustrated, Dante knelt over and pulled the imaginary zipper back across the pink pony's mouth. Instantly, it burst out, "Oh, it's nothing special; it's just ~~because I've never seen you before, ever ever before, I figured you've obviously never been to Ponyville before, so I thought that if you were new, then you must be lonely, and if you were lonely, then you must not have very many friends at all, so I wanted to inv~~--"

Dante managed to shut her face with his palm before his ears exploded. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!!! Pony, take a chill pill or somethin', will ya?" Slowly, Dante withdrew his hand from the pink pony's mouth, and for the moment she stood quiet. "Now, habla en ingles, per favor, and let's try this again..."

She looked in confusion for a short moment, due to the words foreign to her, but eventually took a deep inhale, then restated; "I said - or at least, I was gonna say - that I wanna throw a 'Welcome' party for you! Seeing as you're new to Ponyville, you don't mind... Do you?"

"A party?" Dante looked at the pink pony with exclamation in his eyes. He thought for a moment, then said; "Hmph. Why not? I don't really have anything better to do. I'm always good for a decent party, anyways."

"AL-RIGHTY, THEN!!!" she bounced up and down rather quickly. "The preparations will be set up in a matter of minutes!" After finishing that sentence, the pony dashed back toward the town, and shouted back to Dante, "See ya there!!"

Dante had his hand extended only for a moment, before he returned it to his side and sighed. "Hell of a goofy pony. Jeez, still can't believe I'm catching myself so calm like this. Wouldn't anybody else be flipping out by now?" He shrugged. "Ehh, she offered me a party. And let's face it; even if it is a pony, who am I to resist a party?" He put his hands in his pockets and started walking back to Ponyville.

Deep inside, Dante was actually kind of curious about these ponies. He wondered whether they were demons or if he was just in some really fucked up dream or whatever. If this was just another part of Temen-Ni-Gru, and the ponies were just more demons, then they were behaving oddly strange compared to others. He figured this 'party' will prove his suspicions about them for now.

"Girl didn't even tell me her name. I'll make mental note of that."

a couple minutes before...

"So, you just wanna go back home, Ivory?" Ebony said, still a little dizzy from nearly passing out from earlier.

"Yeah," the silver pony with black eyes replied, "but going straight home sounds kinda boring. Let's visit some more of this 'Ponyville' before we go. You know, become more acquainted with some of the people -- Erm, ponies."

"Oh, all right!" Ebony shook off the dizziness, then placed a hoof on his forehead to help him focus. "Well, where you wanna go first?"

"I would like to stop by Twilight Sparkle's home and, you know, pay her a visit, tell her thanks again..."

"Cool. Sounds good, let's do it."

Without further discussion, Ebony and Ivory took their own little tour of Ponyville, unofficially starting with Sugar Cube Corners, which they just left; officially starting at Golden Oaks Library, pretty much just around the corner, where a certain purple unicorn lived.

Eventually on their trip, the pink pony caught their attention once again, "Hey guys! Wanna join my next 'Welcome' party!?"

Disgusted, Ivory grunted. "Don't you think we would've had enough party for one day!?"

Pinkie Pie lowered her ears. "Does that mean you don't wanna come?"

"Well," Ebony stepped out of Ivory's protective grasp, "if it's a 'Welcome' party, Ivory -- Who do you think it could be?"

Pinkie jut in. "I didn't catch its name, but it was pretty mean and didn't seem like it was in a good mood."

"Wait!" Ivory started smiling. "Did you say it was an... 'it?' Does that mean that 'it' isn't a pony?"

"I dunno what it is, but I've never seen quite anything like it."

"Ivory," Ebony looked at Ivory with a suspicious glare in his silver eyes, "are you thinking... what I think you're thinking?"

"Well, that depends on what I think you think I'm thinking. Whadaya think I think you think I'm thinking?"

"I think you think I'm thinking you're thinking maybe this new 'something' may be..."

Ivory smiled wider.

Satisfied, Ebony turned to Pinkie. "We're there."

But Pinkie looked confused. "There where?"

Ebony raised his hoof. "At the party."

It took her a moment before she started giggling. "No, you sillies. You're in the streets of Ponyville. That's not where the party is being held; it's always held in Sugar Cube Corners."

Ebony raised an eyebrow, as if to say, 'what?' But Ivory began to talk for the demon stallion. "He meant, we WILL be there."

"O-o-o-oh, okay," Pinkie rolled her eyes. "Well, if you decide to come, it's over on Sugar Cube Corners." She then dashed away from the duo back from whence she came, and she shouted back to them, "See ya there!!"

Ebony had his forehoof extended for a short period of time before he set it down on the cobblestone once again. "That is one goofball of a pony."

"You said it," Ivory nodded. "Should we go?"

"Yeah, let's go."

Without further discussion, Ebony and Ivory walked in sync over to Sugar Cube Corners.