Brave New World, Discord's Revenge

Several weeks later

***

Tom stretched as he got out of his bed, he noticed that his girlfriend wasn't sleeping next to him. Frowning, he got up, put on his navy blue slippers, given to him as a gift from Rarity, and made his way downstairs. He saw Ebony preparing breakfast for everyone.

"Morning, babe. Is anyone else up?"

"Uh-huh, Jake's in Owen's base reading, I don't suppose you could go and grab him, could you? Breakfast's almost ready."

"Sure thing." He pecked her on the cheek and marched down the stairs.

The Professor walked down the stairs reading a book. He was wearing a soft, black dressing gown with matching slippers. He stopped and held out his hoof, signally for him to not be disturbed. Eventually, he tore out the last page and walked over to Ebony. He threw the book into the fireplace. It caught alight and burnt quickly.

Ebony smiled at him, as she was used to this kind of thing. She gave him a hug and began talking:

"Morning, Owen. So? What'll you be doing today?"

"Huh, not much, me and Twilight will be going on a date. It's all very exciting."

"Wow, what a coincidence, me and Tom are going out on a date too!"

"Speaking of which..." The Professor muttered. "Where is he?"

"Oh, just downstairs telling Jake to stop reading so that he can come and have breakfast."

Owen turned pale and dived behind the sofa. He peeped out of the top, when he did so, he was wearing a metal sieve and was holding a chair leg.

"What's the matter?" Ebony asked, as this behaviour was strange, even for him.

"Never. Stop. Jake. From. Reading." He said, slowly.

"Why?" Ebony questioned.

Before Owen could reply the kitchen floor exploded and Tom came flying up out of it, screaming. He landed with a thud on the sofa and looked at Owen. Owen smiled, casually.

"Don't worry Tom, it could have been worse."

A piece of wood hit Tom in the back of the head, knocking him out cold.

"See? It's worse."

Jake emerged from the basement door, he stopped and tore out the final page in his book. He then proceeded to eat that page before throwing the book at the sofa. Tom sat up and was hit by it, sending him unconscious once more. Sam walked down the stairs then stopped when he saw that the floor had caved in. Slowly, he walked back up, leaving the mess to everyone else.

Jake turned to Owen.

"What's for breakfast?" He asked.

***

Aimee and Sam came down, after the Professor had fixed the floor with his magical abilities, to have breakfast with everyone else. Jake shook his cereal box and poured out the contents into a bowl.

"Any good gift?" Owen asked while reading the Equestria Times. He was looking at an article about a mysterious pony who had been stealing rare items from the Canterlot Museum.

"Ah, just the usual..." Jake held up a small handgun. He shrugged and threw it into the incinerator that had been recently installed.

"So." Owen turned to others. "What shall you all be doing on a fine day such as this?"

"It's raining." Sam pointed out.

"If your girlfriend is doing her job properly, then maybe this wouldn't be happening." Owen mused.

Sam growled at him but soon laughed it off when Aimee put a pancake on his head.

"Very funny, Aimee..." The Professor said. He proceeded to get up, but due to his lack of vision, tripped over his chair and landed on his snout. He looked at the fallen pancake with sadness.

"A lot of good pancakes died today." Jake murmured.

"Anyway, what are you doing today Samuel?" Owen asked, a trickle of syrup dripped off the end of his nose. Everyone laughed.

"I'll be going out with my *ahem* marefriend."

"Jake?"

"I've got unfinished business to take care of at the old, abandoned warehouse in Canterlot."

Owen's eyebrow raised and he stared at Jake.

"Gambling?"

"No. Well. Perhaps. Maybe. Kinda. Almost certainly. Yes. Definitely. Yeah."

Owen shook his head and turned to Ebony and Tom.

"Et tu?"

Ebony put her hoof around Tom's neck. They looked at each other.

"We're off on a date to Canterlot..." Tom stated.

Owen finally turned to Aimee.

"und du?" Aimee frowned.

"And you?" He repeated in a language they could understand.

"Oh... I.. I'm not doing anything special..."

Sam looked at her.

"What? You don't have a coltfriend?"

"Well, truthfully I find dating horses kinda disturbing."

Owen spat his Earl Grey tea out and sniggered slightly. He folded up the Equestria Times and put it on the table. He picked up his muffin and took a small bite of it.

"Oh, Poor you..." He gave her a small smile.

After all six of the friends finished their breakfast and Jake had washed up the dirty dishes, as punishment for destroying the floor, they had all decided to go about yet another adventurous day. Then again, Owen had told them not to have too many adventures. It can cause chaos and other disconcerning things to occur.

"If you wish to know any other side-effects to adventuring please refer to enclosed instruction booklet." Owen had said.

Jake was using a pneumatic drill to shatter the dishes into tiny fragments. He then added them to the box of cereal. He had a closer look at the box.

It read: "Celestio's, They'll send you to the moon!"

"Was this made by idiots or something? What kind of a pun is that? Seriously, get a better writer."

"Jake? Who are you talking to?" Owen entered the kitchen.

"Oh, just the nice people beyond the screen."

Owen looked at him with a blank expression on his face. He slowly picked up a rolling pin and slammed it down on the back of Jake's head.

Aimee walked in and stared at Jake and Owen. Her eyes were wide and her expression was puzzled.

"He was trying to break the fourth wall. Who knows what he could have done?"

"Owen, he looks dead..."

"Nah. Just sleepin', besides he's groaning, see?"

Owen stamped on his head. Jake moaned.

***

Owen and Twilight were walking through the clean suburbs of Canterlot. They had just come across a few shops that Twilight had wanted to go into, bookshops no less. Owen had enjoyed those brief visits, especially after he had accidentally set fire to the clerk's beard. That certainly brightened up the evening.

Soon, they had found a small restaurant to settle down in. Owen ordered a Lime and Soda, his favourite drink aside a raspberry and soda.

"Indeed, I'm quite excited about this." Owen sat on a stool sipping his drink.

"Me too. It's been a while since I went out like this."

"Since someone you knew almost killed someone?"

"Oddly enough, The Grand Galloping Gala was relatively close to that scenario, yes."

The two laughed and ordered some food to nibble.

***

Aimee was walking around Ponyville, alone. She sighed as she walked.

"Why couldn't she get a coltfriend? It was so unfair. Even Owen had got himself someone. If he could do it, I'm sure I can."

She looked skyward and saw a screaming figure flying towards her. She dived out of the way before it came into view. The blur hit the ground in front of her and Aimee yelped. Aimee, out of curiosity stared at the thing that had crashed.

It turned out to be a pegasus, with a sandy yellow coat and a forest green mane. His hair was short but well groomed, his tail was also.

The stallion shook his head and looked up, when he saw Aimee, he stopped temporarily. His eyes seemed to snap out of focus. Suddenly, he regained his mind.

"Oh! I'm so sorry. Are you alright? I didn't see you there."

Aimee helped him to his feet.

"It's okay. It's fine... Why were you going so fast anyway?"

The stallion puffed out his chest and stated proudly,

"I'm training to be a Wonderbolt!"

"Wow, that's pretty ambitious, but it's nice to dream, I guess."

"What are you doing?" The stallion asked.

"Well.Not much, all my friends have either coltfriends or fillyfriends to date this evening. I'm kinda stuck here, on my own."

The stallion trotted up beside her and gave her a kind smile.

"Hey, uh... I could hang out with you if you want..."

"Sweet, I can fly, I could help you with your training..." She pointed to the crater where he crashed and raised an eyebrow.

"Uh... Yeah, Maybe I'm a little out of practise." He shrugged.

"What's your name?" Aimee asked.

Suddenly, all the confidence resurfaced.

"Name's Hurricane! Fastest flyer in Los Pegasus!"

Aimee remembered Owen telling her about the geography of Equestria, most towns are linked by train and Los Pegasus was fairly far away from here. To the south-west I think. She didn't really listen to him when he rambled. Although, he was fun to listen to if you wanted a story.

"What a nice name. Well my name's Aimee, nothing special. Just Aimee."

The two looked at each other and laughed. They both spread out their wings, steadying themselves for take-off.

"Ready?" Hurricane teased.

"Always." Aimee retorted.

The two soared into the air, speeding past anything an earth aircraft could produce.

And from that day forward, Aimee had a new friend.