Fluttersaiyan

                                                                      Chapter 5: Job Application

I awoke at the sound of a rooster crowing. I opened my eyes tired and lazily. I looked over to my left, and saw Fluttershy cuddling next to me. She had her forelegs wrapped around me, and her head on my chest. And she was smiling. She felt so warm and soft, and I didn’t want to disturb her. She was so cute and adorable. I moved my left arm underneath her and around her. I held her close to me, and returned the cuddling. I whispered in her ear.

“Good morning Fluttershy. You’re cuddling me, you know that?” I said.

She woke up, slowly opening her eyes.

“Good morning Dako.” She said. She then looked down and saw that she was cuddling me, and started blushing. “Sorry, it got cold last night.” She said.

“It’s alright, I don’t mind.” I said smiling. “But you have to let me go now, I have to get up.” I said. Even though I didn’t want to get up, I had to if I wanted an early start at finding a job.

“Okay Dako.” She said. Then she let go of me. I got up and put on my normal clothes, starting with my orange collared shirt, then my blue jeans, then my socks, and finally my boots. I headed downstairs, Fluttershy following me, and headed into the kitchen.

“Dako, would you like me to make you something for breakfast?” She asked.

“Sure, if you really want to. Do you have any eggs?” I asked her.

I remembered that in this world all ponies were herbivores, or plant eaters, and don’t eat meat. Which kinda sucked for me, ‘cause that’s all I ever ate. But eggs are protein, so if I ate enough eggs, then I should be just fine. Fluttershy trotted out to her chicken coop and brought in five eggs. Not enough for my saiyan appetite, but enough that I could cope with. She cooked them hard boiled, and after breakfast, I was ready to go.

“Alright Fluttershy, I’ll be back later today, hopefully with a job of some sort. If you need anything just come and look for me. Okay?” I told her.

“Okay, I understand.” She replied.

I left at around 9:00 and flew over to Twilight’s place first, to see what she had. I landed at the front door and knocked. Twilight answered the door, instead of Spike, she must’ve been expecting me.

“Hello there Dako, it’s good to see you, what brings you by?” she asked.

“Well, I was wondering if you had any jobs here for me at the library. I could shelve books, or help ponies check books out, or something.” I told her.

“Well I can let you try.” She said smiling. She invited me in and got me started.

“Are you familiar with the Dewey decimal system?” she asked me.

“Well, I know it categorizes books, but I don’t know which is which.” I explained.

“Just put these books on that shelf, okay?” she said.

“Sure, I can do that.” I said with a smile. I grabbed a stack of books, about five in the stack, and walked to the shelf. A tall shelf. I flew up to the empty spot and began shelving the books. When I was done I flew back down.

“There, easy.” I said.

“Okay, now take the rest of these, and put them up there as well.” She said, revealing a stack about 100 books tall.

“Uh, kay.” I said as I stared at the height of the stack. After 15 minutes of high speed shelving I had them all put away. I looked around at all the books here. I noticed a section labeled “Culture” and saw a big book that was semi hidden between a shelf and the wall. I pulled it out and dusted it off and looked at the title. It said, “The Pony Sutra” I quickly put it back where I found it. I think I may know why it was put back there. The book wouldn’t fit though, so I began forcing it, noticing the shelf was wobbling. Twilight walked into the room to check on me just then.

“So, how’s it going so fa- look out!” she yelled as she saw the shelf coming down.

“Crap!” I shouted as I flew up to catch the shelf. I stopped the shelf, but as soon as it did all of the books on it slid right out, and any book above me fell right on me. I fell and was caught under the pile of books. I clawed my way out, and flew out and to the side of the pile, there must’ve been 300 books in the one pile. I saw Twilight looking at me with an angry look.

“Um, oops, I’m sorry, I can help cle-“ she then cut me off.

“No! I got it, you’ve done enough for today, you can go now.” She said, obviously angry with me. I left and decided to try and see Rainbow Dash.

I flew up and above the cloud layer. I looked all around until I saw her house. It doesn’t quite seem fair how she has a mansion, but since it’s made of clouds, which are a free material for sky housing, she can make her house as big as she wants, since she can move and manipulate them. I flew straight over to her house, but found I couldn’t walk on the clouds like she could. That didn’t stop me from trying to knock on her door, which I later found was impossible too. So I just flew in through the door. I called her name, and immediately she flew down stairs. She was extremely excited to see me.

“Dako! What are you doing here!? Are you looking for race!?” she started asking me excitedly.

“Whoa now! I’m just here to see if you have a position open on the weather team!” I told her.

“Oh. Well of course I have a position for you! Anything for you!” she said excited again.

We left and headed back towards Ponyville. At some point during our trip Rainbow Dash got the idea to race me.

“So Dako, wanna race?” she asked me.

“Sure, but I have a question for you.” I told her. “I don’t need wings to fly, right?”

“Yeah, so?” she told me.

“So? Think you can keep up?” I said smiling at her. Then I blasted off ahead of her.

“Oh! It’s on now!” I heard her yell from behind me.

I looked behind me and saw her gaining on me, leaving behind a rainbow streak in the sky. For having to use wings to fly, she was incredibly fast. Well, she did do a sonic-rainboom before, twice. She flew right past me, probably at 200 miles an hour, and I could tell she wasn’t trying.

“Think you can keep up!?” she yelled back at me.

This time I really poured it on. I went full throttle, full power, all out. I barely started to keep up with her, but then she started flying faster. Since we were now flying at full speed, we arrived in Ponyville sooner than we expected. We slowed down and hovered over the center of town. I had to catch my breath, while she floated not even tired.

“So, flying without wings not as good as you thought?” she asked me, smiling victorious.

“Well, I, have to, use my, energy!” I said out of breath. “You can just, flap your, wings, and all!” I said again breathing hard.

“Ha! You’re not tired, are you?” she asked me almost laughing.

“Me, no, of course not! I fought a dragon before.” I told her. “Although, to be honest. I kinda held back.”

“Oh really? Is that true?” she asked me. “Well it turns out, for a job on the weather team, you have to apply at the weather center back at Cloudsdale.” She said smiling. “I’ll race you back!” she said, and took off.

“Are you kidding me?” I said, a little annoyed, before taking off myself. I went full power again, and this time, I went kaioken. I suddenly took off in a burst of sudden speed and acceleration. She may have had a five second head start, but in one second I had already passed her up.

“Beat that, wings!” I yelled back at her. Now, she was trying. I may have been going around 250, but she caught up, and passed me. It wasn’t so important to me, but I wanted to win anyway. I used kaioken times two, and really took off, faster than I ever have. I think I probably hit 400 miles an hour. I flew past her again, and luckily I saw Cloudsdale, and stopped hard as I got near a few pegasi. They all gasped at my appearance, come to think of it, they weren’t at the party, so they didn’t know me. Just then Rainbow Dash came up behind me.

“Aw man! No fair, you used that glow thing you used last night!” she said disappointed. “Oh, hey guys, this is my pal Dako. He’s new here.” She said to the frightened pegasi. “He’s looking for a job, wanna teach him how to manipulate clouds?” she asked the other pegasi. If I was a friend of Rainbow Dash’s, they would help me any way she asked. I was led over to the training area. In front of me was a cloud, the size of a sofa.

“Ok, try and move it.” Rainbow Dash said to me.

“Uh, okay.” I tried, and of course my hands went right through it. “Uh, okay, well there you have it. I can’t.” I said.

“Since you’re not a pegasus it won’t be easy. But since you can fly, all you have to do is focus.” She told me.

“Okay, right. Just like energy control.” I said. We were all hovering about a mile up in the sky. It was me, a cloud, Rainbow Dash, and seven other pegasi, floating around me in a large circle. I reached out, and tried to push again. This time it worked, I moved it about a foot.

“Alright! It worked! Hey, when you hit them they’ll rain, right?” I asked excitedly.

“Wait, I don’t think you’re ready for tha-.” Rainbow Dash tried to stop me but it was too late. I pulled back my right fist, and punched the cloud as hard as I could. It darkened immediately, rumbled with thunder, then began dropping hailstones the size of baseballs. A few hailstones hit a couple pegasi flying by below in the head.

“Oops, sorry, guess I hit too hard?” I said sheepishly. They weren’t happy.

“I think you should leave, Dako.” Rainbow Dash whispered to me. I took off and flew towards sweet apple acres. Things hadn’t gone well at Cloudsdale, but maybe things would be better working with Applejack. After ten minutes of flying I reached sweet apple acres. I saw Applejack outside bucking apples from trees. I landed and yelled out to her.

“Hey Applejack! Got work for me!?” I asked her.

“Howdy Dako, come on over!” she yelled back.

I walked over to the tree she had just bucked the apples out of. One trees worth of apples filled an entire basket. I’ve tried apples before, but something about them just isn’t appealing. The texture, I think, and the peel especially. But I love apple juice, and apple pie, those are alright with me.

“So, what can you start me off with?” I asked. “Picking up, or catching apples? Or do I get to knock ‘em out of the tree right away?” I asked eager to begin working.

“Well, I want to plant a couple of new apple trees, but the ground needs preppin’. Can you pull a plow? Since you ain’t a pony you ain’t exactly built to pull plow, but you are a might bit strong.” She said to me.

“Sure, I’ll give it a try.” I said. I walked over to a plow sitting in a bare patch of land. I grabbed the harness and began pulling. It wouldn’t move, I wasn’t heavy enough, and my boots were slipping in the grass. So I got up off of the ground to see if I could drag it by flying. And I did, a little too fast. The grooves were crooked and uneven.

“Okay, I guess that works.” She said. “Well, you can’t exactly buck, but let’s see if you can get those apples out of the tree.” She pointed at one lone tree.

I walked over and punched the tree as hard as I could. I accidentally took some bark off, and only one leaf fell. So this time I spun and kicked as hard as I could. This time a couple apples fell. I smiled a little at this small accomplishment, and then I got the idea to do the kaioken on it. I erupted into my red aura, then I spun again and kicked with all of my strength, but maybe I shouldn’t have. I split the tree and lodged my foot in the middle.

“Bloomberg the second!” Applejack yelled out in concern.

“Uh, oops, my bad, h-hold on, I think I can get out.” I said as I yanked my leg back trying to free my foot, but the tree began to uproot, and I could hear the roots snapping. Applejack could no longer stand, and sat down in shock.

“Uh, crap, wait I got it!” I yelled out. Without thinking I stuck my hand out and fired an energy blast at it. The tree exploded into splinters of bark and wood and leaves. All of the apples flew everywhere. When the dust cleared I only saw a jagged looking tree stump left. I powered down and landed 15 feet away from the tree. Applejack didn’t look good at all.

“I’m sorry Applejack, I didn’t mean to-.” She held up a hoof to stop me.

“No no. I-it’s just a, t-tree, j-just a tre-.” She fell over and fainted.

I just slowly turned and flew off. I headed to Rarity’s at the Carousel Boutique. Maybe she would let me work there, if I didn’t tell her about the others. I knocked on her door. She opened up and greeted me.

“Dako, darling! What brings you here?” she asked me.

“Well, I’m looking for a job, do you have anything for me to do?” I asked her.

“Well, I do have a few outfits I had in mind for you. Would you like to try them on?” she asked me.

“Oh, well, I was kind of looking for something to do.” I told her.

“Well, I do suppose you could help decorate.” She suggested.

“Uh, painting? Wallpaper? If its work, I can do it.” I said to her.

“Well, I was going to have my workroom painted, would you like to do that for me?” she asked.

  “Sure, let me in there!” I said, eager not to mess this up.

She led me to the paint cans and brushes. She wanted the entire room painted, which would seem hard, considering the size of the room. But hey, I could fly. There was a can already open, so I got my brush, and began painting. Rarity said that if I needed anything I could just ask. I finished the first can, and I was already halfway done with the ceiling, so I flew down to open another can. I tried to pry the lid off, but it was stuck. So I held the can between my legs, and tried to pry the lid off even harder. I didn’t know how hard I was squeezing, and as soon as I got the lid off, the can exploded sending blue paint everywhere. It got all over the place, on her dress models, her work table, and her rolls of cloth. Then she walked in.

“Dako, dear. How is everything, did I hear something spill?” she said just before entering the room. Her eyes shot wide open and she gasped at the sight.

“Rarity! I am, so, sorry! I will clean this up, all of it! I will, I-.” I started, but she cut me off.

“Dako, that’s quite alright. You may leave now, I no longer require your help.” She said, holding back anger.

“O-okay, I, I’m going, sorry.” I said as I left the room. I walked out and stood in front of the boutique for a few minutes. It was probably 4:00 now. I had been all over Ponyville, all day looking for a job, and all my attempts had been failures. Pinkie Pie was my last option, and I had to make sure I didn’t mess anything up. Of course, like everything else, that was a disaster as well. I felt I should save you all the time and just tell you what happened. Even though I saved the bakery from being roasted last night by the dragon, I almost burned it down in an attempt at baking. I had never been so ashamed and embarrassed. After that happened, I flew straight back to Fluttershy’s, and by that time it was around 6:00-6:30.

“Hello Dako, how did your job hunt go?” She asked smiling.

“Um, well, I don’t really have a job. I tried and failed at everything.” I said kinda upset.

“Oh, that’s ok. You can always help me with my animals, would you like that?” She said to me still smiling.

“No, I might accidentally kill something. Besides, I wanted a job that would pay me, so I could pay you back for taking care of me, and with all the food I eat.” I explained.

“That’s okay Dako, honestly, I don’t mind taking care of you.” She said, still smiling.

“Thanks Fluttershy. But still, I would like to make some money, so I can get my own stuff at the very least.” I told her.

“I understand. Don’t worry Dako, you’ll get a job, I just know you will.” She reassured me.

Then she walked over to me and hopped up on her hind legs, put her forehooves over my shoulders and hugged me in a way. I put my arms around her and hugged her in return.

“Thanks Fluttershy, I needed that.” I told her as I started to smile.

She was right, tomorrow would be better. I would make sure of it. Today was just serious bad luck, and tomorrow I knew things would go right. Tomorrow I would continue my job hunt, and possibly for a place to stay. Me and Fluttershy walked upstairs and got ready for bed. We got into bed and began to fall asleep. Then Fluttershy asked me a question.

“Dako? Would you mind if I, um, cuddled with you again?” she asked shy and quiet.

“No.” I said smiling. “I wouldn’t mind at all.” I then put my arms around her and held her in a hug. She buried her head into my chest and began falling asleep. She was so adorable, soft, and warm. I could no longer resist sleep, and I too fell asleep.

“Good night Fluttershy.” I whispered just before falling asleep. “I love you.”