The Two Lost Elements

When me and Trevor had gone to sleep in the Viper, we were totally exhausted from yesterdays awesome event. I awoke groggily at first, but after blinking hard, I ragained a little bit of my sight. I looked over to my right to see Trevor in the fetal position from playing some scary game on his laptop.

"Yo dude, you alright man?" I asked looking at him, trying not to laugh out loud. He looked over at me, putting a brave face on acting as if nothing happened.

"Pshh, yeah man. Why wouldn't I be? I am the best scary game player in the world!" He boasted. I looked away and chuckled from my weird yet awesome friend.

A thought passed my mind. We were late.

"Oh shit man! Were fucking late for work! It is 10:00!" I yelled as loud as i could, which rang out in both mine and Trevors ears like someone had blown into a saxophone right into our ears. Trevor got the same response on his face. We both had wondered what the consequences for being late were. Well, technically, I was not late, but Trevor was. I only had to work five hours a day, whereas Trevor has to get to work at around eight o'clock.

Trevor closed his laptop and gently placed it in his bag and placed it down. After getting situated, i started the car, thank god it has a low sound engine, dont want to wake up anyone that may be sleeping in, and drove off to Twi's. After taking a few minutes of driving around the perimeter of the town, we finally arrived.

I turned the Viper off and walked up to the library door and knocked a few times and said 'Spike'. We got a response of three knocks with the response through the door 'Brandon'. We assumed it was Spike. Me and Trevor looked at each other, realizing that we just made a reference to The Big Bang Theory. What an awesome show about awesomeness. After enough of that, Spike opened the door with a smug grin on his face.

"Hey guys, what are you doi-...Oh! Trevor! You are so late dude, Twilight is so mad at you right now!"Spike yelled

"Yeah, I know. Now can I come in? I don't want to get any less money from being any more late" Trevor asked. Spike let him by with a simple nod with his head. Spike then turned to me.

"So, shouldn't you be at work as well?" He asked.

"Technically, yes, but I can go to work whenever i want really. I only have to work five hours a day. Not that bad, but it gets the job done." I replied "Hey Spike, you got the time? I asked. He looked over at the clock on the wall and returned seconds later.

"Yeah, um, it is 1 o'clock. Why?"

"1 o'clock!? I have to be at work now! Work ends at six!" I yelled as i stormed out the library and started to fly towards cloudsdale as fast as my wings could pump.

In a matter of minutes, i made it to the control room where Rainbow Dash was briefing the other weather workers. But, I was still late by about ten minutes. Rainbow Dash looked over in my direction and introduced me. I waved to all the ponies and took a seat. The good thing is, no one has gotten any assignments yet so that means i can still get the easy things on the list.

"Okay," Rainbow began "listen up. Today we have a big schedule on our hands, but nothing can stop us." A series of 'yeah's' was yelled among the workers."But, I feel that we should have a specific pony that should do it all" At this, everyone's ears perked up, listening in to hear the sorry ass that has to do a whole days worth of work. "Now, does everypony know what the penalty for being late is? Oh shit "That pony gets the whole list of work to do for the whole day!" She said, while grinning at me. "Now. can anypony guess who gets this awesome task?" She asked. Everyone pointed their hooves straight at me as a blush formed on my face.

"Shit"

"Yep. Everyone but Brandon is dismissed." Come the fuck on. WHY ME?!

"You have got to be kiddin me, Rainbow." I pleaded, but that was not enough for her. I guess she likes making me angry.

"Nope, I guess i just love seeing you get angry." Yep, I knew it. "Well, I guess you should get started. Don't want to be out working in the cold now do ya?" She stated with a grin on her cute face. I stared at her with pleading eyes, hoping that she will forgive me and make all the others work and not me! But, that was never going to happen. Rainbow Dash got up from her chair in the center of the room and walked out. She stuck her head back in and gave me a quick wink before trotting off into who-the-hell-knows-where.

So, might as well get started. Got nothing better to do and i really need the money so me and Trevor don't have to sleep in my Viper again. It was kind of uncomfortable but hopefully we can make amends to it soon to make it more spacious... Or deadly. I got up from my cloud-chair and walked out of the room. I walked through a pair of double doors and was welcomed with the fresh smell of the Equestrian air.

Not to waste time, I immediately got to work on punching and kicking the clouds that obscured Ponyville. Surprisingly enough, this was actually quite easy to take down the clouds. I was sure I would have this done in no time. The first few clouds were easy to punch or kick with only little effort. After most of them were done, there were a few spots of heavy cloud that had to be cleared still.

I flew up to them and bucked at them furiously, however, that one would not budge. Unfortunately, I had to do this. Twas my job, anyway. I resumed Kicking the hell out of the remaining cloud untill it softened up a little bit, and delivered the final blow. After that, i was completely exhausted from all the days work. I had gone back to the Control Room to inform Rainbow on my awesome success at my first day.

"Hey Rainbow, guess what?" I said as I walked through the double doors into the control room with a grin on my face. She looked up at me with a smile on hers as well,

"What is it, slacker?" She asked seriously

"Slacker? I just cleared the Ponyville airspace in like 2 hours! How is that slacking?" I Said kind of loudly.

"Well, you kind of forgot to clear some of the clouds. And by some of them, I mean more like half of them." Rainbow said while trying to hold in laughter. "Guess who is working all night?" She stared at me.

"You are shitting me, aren't you? Is this some kind of trick? Tell you what, I will do it, but you owe me, BIG time! You gotta do something nice for me for once." I said, hoping that being nice to me would make her call the other ponies back so i did not have to do almost all of Equestria.

"Yeah, OK. Just clear all those clouds, hotshot. Then we'll talk." She stated. She left me with no other choice than to go complete my horrible task. Man this sucks.

"I still cannot believe you were late today, Trevor" She said to me, obviously still pissed off about this morning.

"Well, thats what you got for hanging with Brandon with his Viper. Damn kid goes flyin' once he gets going" I said, talking no noone on particular.

"Well, thats why you were late today. Now, can you please pass me the beaker?" She asked, pointing to a collection of them

"Umm, you mind being a teensy bit more particular? There are about a thousand here" I over exaggerated.

"Oh, umm sorry, "She said while showing a slight blush, "The one marked with a purple cross" She said. I looked over again, only to find that there were two marked with a purple cross. Damn it Twi, you gotta be specific.

"Jeez, there are two with purple crosses on them! BE SPECIFIC!" I yelled, making Twilight take a step back a little bit. I said i was sorry for the outburst and gave her the correct one. Honestly, I had no idea what she was doing, but we were taking a look at Brandon and I's laptops. Twilight was highly intrigued with them, and knowing that i could not get around explaining about nothing, I am not really good with computers, it was not going to be my best presentation.

"Alright, this thing right here," I said as i pointed at the PC, "Yeah, that, is known as a PC. I had invented it yes, and there are only two throughout all of Equestria!" But, im sure Lyra has one hidden in her basement somewhere. " I have one, and Brandon has the other. There inventions of mine were made to have fun and enjoy. The main features of this laptop, is that it plays scary games. Do you know what a game is, Twi?" I asked. She shook her head no, which meant I had to explain that too. "OK, any of various games played using a microcomputer with a keyboard and often joysticks to manipulate changes or respond to the action or questions on the screen. There are many types of games, but the one I exell in, is the Horror genre. Yes, that's right, horror. Made to scare the living you know what out of ponies." I looked over to Twilight, who actually looked a little scared, but, her level of fear was about to increase as I started up Amnesia: The Dark Decent.

I cannot believe this! I actually got Brandon to do all the cloud work in Las Pegasus and Manehatten! How gullible is he? Well, now that i think if it, he did seem like he knew i was up to something, but, he did it anyways. Hey, atleast we don't have to work for the rest of the week from all the clouds he has cleared so far. It should only be a matter of time before he comes back, oh I cannot wait to see the look on his face when I tell him he never really had to do it in the first place!

I was about to finish up Las Pegasus when i had realized something. I cant believe I had just thought of this, but, Dash, was the Manager at Ponyville Weather Team! Ponyville! That means o did not have to come all the way out here and bust my ass off! Oh this had better be good when i come back . Better get a fuckin' extra billion bits from this stupid ass job. Remember when Shadow got kicked out of Quills and Sofas? Well, that seemed like a good place to work now because I cannot take all of the physical labor! I am not exactly the most fit person..er..pony around! I have my needs! Well, I hope that from the money Trevor and i get, we should be able to buy a house or rent a hotel room. Hopefully the first option.

I flew back to Ponyville in about a half-hour and trotted right into the control room because my wings were pumping as fast as my heart from all the exhaustion from today. Maybe that was actually a benefit? I dont know or care at the moment, I just care about getting my bits, picking up Trevor and buy a home. I cant take anymore of this...work. I need to play some video games you know. I have a no-life life too. When i turned the corner in the room, i saw Rainbow in her chair, all snuggled up in a cozy looking blanket, mocking me with those evil little eyes.

I spoke up," I want my bits now. Don't think i am that stupid, Dash. This will not happen again!" I yelled. Rainbow looked on the verge of laughing her bowels out, but she managed to keep it in.

"Hey, look on the bright side, you don't have to work for the rest of the week with all the clouds you cleared! Isn't that good news?" Upon hearing that, i got a sense of ease that slipped into my body. "Yeah, but i want extra bits for extra work." I countered. She gave in and gave me an extra 1,000 bits, holy shit, including todays work that was about 80 bits. Well, that should be enough for a few weeks rent. "Alright, I am off to go take a nap until one o'clock tomorrow, see you, Rainbow" I winked at her, and she winked back.

"Really? You want to buy it?! That is so awesome! Here just let me move the important crap from my computer over to Brandon's and we can discuss business." I said. Apparently, Twilight really likes the Computer, so she is going to buy mine from me for a good price. Hopefully it can be good enough to help out in either buying a house or getting a room in some rundown hotel.

"Oh thank you thank you thank you! I am so happy! Here, I will give you all the bits from my last grant for this! The grant was roughly two-thousand bits, which should be just enough for this! Am I right?" She asked, looking for a truthful answer. Hell, I would be happy with that, since it was one of the best computers on the market. I had just gotten it for about three large for my birthday. Since it was used, I would be actually happy with that.

"Yeah, I guess that will work out" I said while yawning. "Can we hurry this up? I think that i have talked way too much today? (I think i wrote too much today)"

"Oh of coarse I can." She said as she dug through a mound of papers on her desk until she found the right one. She came over and handed it to me.

"Thanks , for everything, Twilight." I said as I leaned in to kiss, she did too, but that was interuppted by Brandon rapidly honking the horn in the Viper. "Shit, Twilight, I gotta go. You probably won't see me tomorrow if I don't get in that car right now with Brandon" I said a little sad, but she understood and let me go, taking the grant with me and leaving my laptop behind.

X-X-X

"Come on man! Get in, we gotta find someplace to crash for the night." I said as he jumped in the passenger seat of the Viper. "So, how much did you earn today, dude?" I asked, hoping that we would have enough for a house. He looked at me with an expression that i knew of when he was really happy.

"Dude, I got fucking 2,000 bits man! Twilight bought my laptop! I still have yours though. How much did you get?"

"I got about 1,080 bits! Dude, that should be enough to cover our ass for a while! Let's go get our selves a fancy-dandy house!" I said as Trevor and I rolled off to the town hall.

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