The Unexpected Saviour

-Jackson-

A voice wormed its way into my mind. “I am the one to tell you of the prophecy. The prophecy that the ponies spoke of is this ‘One that is brought unwillingly, stays willingly, chooses love over friendship, and changes all views will be Equestria’s savior.’ That is the prophecy.”

“Wait a minute!” I cry out. “You have the wrong person. I haven’t- . . . aaand it’s gone.”

That . . . thing . . . had apparently disappeared right after it had told me the prophecy.

I woke up surrounded by ponies, again. Rainbow looked shocked and confused.

“What happened while you were passed out, Jackson?” Twilight asked.

“A voice got into my mind and told me the prophecy. Why?”

“First,” she replied, “you said the prophecy while you were passed out. It wasn’t your voice that spoke. Second, which pony did you choose?”

I blushed deeply, looked at the floor and mumbled something to myself.

“What did ya say, Jackson?” Applejack asked tenderly.

“I chose Rainbow.” I mumbled, barely audible to anyone.

Fluttershy asked, “Did you say Rainbow, Jackson?” She almost looked sad. Come to think of it, all the main 6, except Rainbow, looked a little downhearted. Rainbow stood there with a slightly stunned grin on her face.

My heart nearly broke when I mumbled, “Yes, I did.”

I slowly stood up and walked through the ponies to go outside. I walked into the narrow alley next to the Cakes’ shop, slumped against the wall and nearly broke down crying. Seeing all of my favorite ponies so sad, it killed me inside. I had been sitting there for about five minutes. I recollected myself and stood up when I heard somepony coming. It was dark so I couldn’t see whoever it was.

“. . . Who’s there?” I asked shakily, still not yet recovered from my heart nearly splitting in two from all their downhearted faces.

“It’s me, Rainbow. Do you really feel that way about me?” she asked tenderly and cautiously.

I hung my head in some feeling similar to shame. “Yes,” I replied in a depressed tone.

She was standing right next to me now. “Are you ok?”

“What do you think?” I replied, a little frustration showing in my voice. “I feel like I betrayed them. Yeah, they have hope now, but they probably expected it in some other package, a nicer package. I feel like shit.”

Rainbow reached up and hugged me. I froze. This was the most affection anybody had shown me for months.

“It’s ok.” She said. “You did hurt them a little but I know them. They’ll move on, eventually.”

My mind slowly woke up and I moved my arms to hug her back as a self-comfort reflex. She gasped and smiled a bit.

She was on her hind legs, so she was a good foot or two taller than me. I nuzzled her soft blue coat and sighed a little.

‘God, she smells delicious.’ I think.

She giggles from my nose rubbing against her neck.

-Rainbow-

‘I’d have never guessed he liked me like that,’ I thought. ‘But I'm glad that he does. I love him too.’

“I love you, Jackson” I said, stroking his hair with the tip of my hoof.

“I love you too, Rainbow Dash” he replied happily.

“We should probably head to Cloudsdale before it gets any darker,” I say.

“There’s a problem with that.  . . We didn’t get the spell put on me. . .” he replied sheepishly.

“Then we’ll find a hotel to stay in” I retort with a smile.

After wandering around Ponyville for a few a while, we found a hotel, got a room for 5 bits for the night, and fell asleep in each other’s arms.

-Jackson-

The next day, I woke up in a nervous sweat. All of the main six were stealing me away from each other, in a dream.

Looking back on the dream, I swear that:

1. Rainbow fought the other ponies over me and died! I cried my eyes out in that part of the dream.

2. Fluttershy was the Dom in a weird BDSM fantasy of hers. Tried to forget that part of the dream very quickly . . .

3. Rarity tried to make out with me. Not exactly as forward as I had expected, but she is a high class pony, so . . .

4. Applejack tried to rape me, and she nearly succeeded. Thankfully she was stopped by Twilight in the nick of time. My happiness from being saved from being raped was short lived, though, because

5. Twilight dragging me to a secluded clearing and trying to merge her mind and body with mine. That was stopped by Pinkie Pie.

6. Pinkie Pie had a party. It was a sex party and she invited me as her partner. I promptly said no.

I looked to my side for confirmation that the dream wasn’t real, that Rainbow hadn’t been taken from me.

Whoo boy, that was scary. I had thought it had actually happened for a second. I hate it when dreams feel so real. I sat up and looked around. I saw nothing of interest. Then I realized something I had forgotten to do yesterday.

‘Man why didn’t I eat yesterday? This is worse than playing videogames for a week straight and only stopping to sleep’

I didn’t want to disturb Rainbow’s rest so I slipped out of the covers and left the room. Once I was outside, I headed to the main office.

When I was inside the main office I asked the check-in pony. He was a dark blue unicorn with a red mane.

“Is there anywhere I can get a hold of some food?” I ask.

He replied, “Certainly, sir. Follow me.” So I did. He led me to a small room serving some sort of creation, with cream and apples.

“Just take a hoof-full of it. It is delectable”

I was skeptical. And I was also wondering how high class this hotel really was. I pick up a handful, stuck it in my mouth and groan in delight. “Mmmmmmmh, delicious!”

“Yes, quite so, sir.”

“I have a question?” I asked

“Yes, sir?”

“Is this a high class hotel?”

He sighed and looked down in shame and said, “The only reason we are even a one-star hotel is because of this dish we serve. Other than that, we are a horrible hotel. All my employees break the rules I put down.”

“Would you mind if I helped you out? You are the manager, right?”

“Yes. I am also the only one with enough responsibility, other than the cook, to actually work here and be on time.”

“Ok. First, call all your employees in. I don’t care what it takes, get them here. Second, I need a megaphone, or something that amplifies my voice. If you can’t find anything, I’ll make do with what I have”

“Yes, sir, right on it.” He hurried off with what I could tell as repressed joy.

A few minutes later he returned with about 10 surly-looking unicorns and earth ponies. He hands me a megaphone and says, “Please do your best.”

‘I always wanted to be a drill instructor. I am gonna drill these guys so hard, they’ll break into pieces, giving me a chance to rebuild them properly.’ I thought with amusement.

I turned the megaphone up halfway and shout in my drill instructor voice.

“DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE HERE!!?” the megaphone amplifies my shout. Thank Celestia no one was in this area of the hotel other than me, the manager, the cook, and the other employees.

They just mumble “no” and I yell into the megaphone again, “WHAT!? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!! LOUDER!!”

They force out “NO” loudly.

“I DIDN’T THINK SO. FROM NOW ON, YOU WILL REFER TO EITHER ME OR YOUR MANAGER AS ‘SIR’! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!!?”

“Sir, yes, sir” they yell back.

“That’s better. WHY I'M HERE IS TO IMPROVE THIS HOTEL. IT’S TIME FOR ‘WHO DOES WHAT JOB’. YOU FIRST!”

I walk up to a small, red earth pony with hair so dark red, it looks like blood. “WHATS YOUR JOB, PIPSQUEAK!?”

“Sir, cleaning the hotel, SIR!”

I got right up in his face and yelled, “HAVE YOU BEEN DOING YOUR JOB?”

“N-no, sir”

“And why is that?”

“I have been lazy, sir”

“LAZINESS IS UNACCEPTABLE!! WHO ELSE HAS BEEN LAZY ON THE JOB? STOMP YOUR RIGHT HOOF IF YOU HAVE BEEN LAZY AT ALL ON THE PREMESIS OF THIS FINE ESTABLISHMENT!”

I heard 9 stomps of a right hoof, the red pony in front of me included.

I yell into the mega again, “WHO DIDN’T STOMP THEIR RIGHT HOOF!!?”

A small, feminine voice replied shakily, “M-me sir”

The other ponies stepped back, and I saw a small pony with a black coat and a white mane.

“SO YOU ARE SAYING YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LAZY ON THIS PREMESIS SINCE YOU WERE HIRED?”

“Y-yes, sir” she replied.

“WELL HOT GOD-DAMN. WE HAVE OURSELVES A WORKER! WHAT’S YOUR JOB AT THIS HOTEL?”

“I clean the rooms my boss assigned to me, sir. I work every day. I don’t stop until the rooms are all clean, sir.”

“And, what do you do after the rooms are all cleaned?”

“I-I please m-mylself” she said.

Some of the other ponies sniggered.

“DO THAT AGAIN AND YOU ARE FIRED, YOU MAGGOTS!” I roar at them.

That shut them up. I turned back to the pony in front of me. “And why do you do that?” I asked her.

Apparently she had not expected to answer that question. “Be-because it feels g-good sir.”

“WELL OF COURSE IT DOES! IT WOULDN’T BE CALLED PLEASING IF IT WASN’T! ANYTHING SEX-RELATED IS UNACCEPTABLE AT THIS HOTEL. ANY OTHER PONIES WHO ARE BREAKING THE RULES?”

A stunning baby-blue-maned and-coated unicorn replied, “I have, sir.”

I looked in her direction and shouted, “AND WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?”

“I-I have been smoking on the premises”

I turned to the boss and asked, my voice already sounding a little hoarse, “Is smoking allowed?”.

“No, sir, it is strictly forbidden” he replied.

“WELL OK THEN. I don’t mind a smoke every once in a while,” I lie. “But smoking is for your own time. DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?

“Yes, sir” she answers.

“OK! HAVE WE COVERED EVERYTHING OR DOES ONE OF YOU MAGGOTS HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY!? NO? EXCELLENT! LETS RECAP! NO SMOKING, NO PLEASING, AND NO LAZINESS. IF YOU WORK HARD AND FOLLOW ALL THE RULES YOUR BOSS TELLS YOU TO, YOU COULD TURN THIS SHITHOLE INTO A FIVE-STAR HOTEL! IF I NEED TO, I’LL COME BACK AND THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!! DIS-MISSED!”

I hand the megaphone to the manager pony, who is absolutely speechless, and walk off to my and Rainbow’s room. When I get there, she is still asleep.

“Wow. Goof.” I chuckle.

She stirs and mumbles, “Where did you go, baby?”

“I think I just turned this hotel around. It was awesome! I was a drill instructor for at least twenty minutes. I had a megaphone and everything. Yelling, shouting, oh man it was a rush” I reply hoarsely. The manager walks in and deposits a huge bowl of the apple-cream stuff on the table.

“Whassat for?” I ask. “And how did I do?”

“you were amazing! Once you left, they shot off to do their jobs. They also said to give you thanks for straightening them out. So I have this from them, for your assistance” he says, then leaves.

‘Oh man, this day just gets better and better.’ I think.

Rainbow taps the empty spot where I should be laying with her hoof and I happily oblige. We then proceed to cuddle. I nuzzle into the baby-blue fur of her chest. She runs the tip of her hoof through my hair. We just enjoy the time we’re sharing together.

I randomly decide to lean up and give her a little kiss on the tip of her nose. She shifts a little upwards and it turns into a real kiss on the lips before I could really notice it.