A Lost Friend

A Lost Friend

Chapter 6

“Hello, and welcome to Grassy Meadows. Would you prefer an inside table, or an outside one?” The hostmare pony greeted. She was a unicorn with a pale yellow coat and bright crimson mane and tail.

“An outside table please,” Viridian asked. “And do you allow smoking outside?” He asked.

“Yes sir we do, right this way.” The hostmare grabbed two menus and two sets of silverware wrapped in napkins with her magic and led the two pegasi outside. She led them to a small two-pony table next to a few potted plants. “Alright, here you are.” She placed a menu and set of silverware on either side of the table. “Thank you for deciding to dine with us today. Your server will be with you in just a minute.” The hostmare then walked away.

Viridian Night dug through his bags until he found the boxes containing his pipe and lighter and the jar containing tobacco. He started filling the bowl when Rainbow Dash, who couldn’t stand the silence anymore, decided to break the ice.

“So Viridian, what have been up to lately? You’re in the military right? What do you do with them?” Rainbow Dash asked trying to start up a conversation.

“I work for the research division of the Royal Air Force,” Viridian Night said. He pulled out his lighter and lit his pipe. He took a few puffs and said. “I help study Princess Luna’s night sky. What about you? What do you do?”

“I’m in charge of the weather team in Ponyville,” Rainbow Dash said, puffing her chest out. “I also practice my flying all the time so I can join the Wonderbolts.”

Viridian smirked at that, “Still haven’t given up your dream huh? Good for you, keep at it.” Rainbow Dash scratched the back of her head as he said that.

“Rainbow Dash? Is that you?”

“You’re back!”

Rainbow Dash looked over Viridian Night’s shoulder to identify who was calling her. “Hey Spike, hey Rarity, what’s up guys?” She called back as she waved.

The white unicorn and purple-green dragon walked over to where the two pegasi were sitting. “We’re both well, but how are you darling? You look positively dreadful.” The unicorn said with a worried expression.

“I’m alright; I should be good as new in a couple weeks.” Rainbow replied.

“Well what a relief dear.” Rarity responded and she turned her attention to Viridian Night. “Now who is this fine stallion? My name is Rarity; it’s a pleasure to meet you.” She said and gave a small curtsey.

Viridian Night pulled out his pipe and held it in one of his fore-hooves and replied, “Name’s Viridian Night, nice to meet you.”

“And I’m Spike! Ponyville’s resident dragon,” said the dragon and he held out one of his claws.

“Sup little buddy,” Viridian Night said and he put his pipe back in his mouth and extended his hoof to shake Spike’s claw. He took a few more puffs of his pipe but the tobacco wasn’t burning anymore.

“Here let me get that for you,” said Spike. He grabbed a chair and pulled it over next to Viridian Night and hopped up onto it. He then started exhaling at a slow constant rate, creating a small flame.

Viridian Night leaned forward and relit his pipe in Spike’s small flame. “Awesome! Thanks dude, that’s pretty nifty.” Viridian Night said.

“Aw shucks, it was nothin’ just a bit of dragon fire,” Spike replied while waving a claw.

“Hey, you two wanna join Rainbow and I for lunch? We haven’t ordered yet,” asked Viridian Night. “We can grab one of the other tables and put it next to ours.”

“That would be great! I’ll get the table.” Spike said and went over to the nearest table. He ducked under and tried to drag it by the middle post.

After a couple tugs on the heavy table it was encased by a pale blue aura and lifted above his head, along with the chairs, and was placed next to the pegasai’s table. “Don’t worry sweetie, I’ll take care of it.” Rarity said when she floated everything over. She then took a seat next to the blue pegasus while Spike, slightly put off by his failed attempt to impress the others, took the place next to Viridian Night.

“So what do you do Rarity? Spike?” Viridian Night asked as he started puffing on his relit pipe.

“Oh I own and operate my own fashion boutique here.” Rarity replied, “Actually I have been working on a new line of stallion semi-casual attire. Actually, I could use somepony to model for me.” She said batting her eyelashes.

“Er…” Viridian Night replied with an obviously uncomfortable look.

Before he could say anything else Spike jumped in, “I work at the Ponyville library with Twilight Sparkle. I’m her number one assistant!” he said proudly puffing his chest out.

“Hello, my name is Cider Rocks and I’ll be your waiter. Well I see we have two more guests today, welcome. What are we drinking today?” An orange earth pony with a black main and tail, both cropped short, and a black goatee said as he approached.

“I’ll have an iced tea please,” Viridian Night ordered.

“Raspberry lemonade for me,” said Rainbow Dash.

“A tropical berry punch for me if you’d be so kind,” Rarity ordered.

“Do you have ruby milkshakes?” Spike asked.

“Absolutely,” The waiter replied.

“I’ll take one of those then please,” Spike said.

“Alright, just give me one second,” the earth pony said and he trotted off. He came back a minute later with a tray on his back. He placed it on the table and passed out the drinks. “Alright I’ll be back in a few minutes to take your orders. Enjoy your drinks.” He said with a smile and trotted off. After he left the four diners heard a strange sound.

“Whoa, whaaaaaaaaah!” Suddenly something large crashed into a table nearby where they were all sitting. They were all so shocked by the sudden impact that nopony moved, and instead elected to just stare at the dust cloud that formed from impact. After the dust settled they saw a grey pegasus with blonde hair pick herself up and dust herself off.

“Hey Derpy, you alright?” Rainbow Dash asked being the first to react.

“Yeah I’m fine,” the grey pegasus replied. “I’ve got some mail for you guys so when I saw you I decided to give it to you in pony, but I guess I came in a little steep.” She said scratching the back of her head with a slightly embarrassed smile. With that the mailmare pulled out four closed envelopes and gave one to Spike, Rarity and Rainbow Dash. She held onto the fourth one and asked, “Hey do any of you know a Viridian Night? I’ve got a letter for him too but I’ve never heard of that pony before.”

“I’m Viridian Night,” the green pegasus said, completely perplexed at how he could have mail already when he’d only just got here.

“Oh, well here you go then.” The blonde pegsus smiled and passed him his letter. “Nice to meet you; I’m the local mailmare here. My name is Derpy Hooves,” She said smiling. “Well I’d love to stay and chat but I’ve got lots of other mail to deliver, but I’m sure I’ll see you all at the party. Bye!” She said and flew off, narrowly missing the umbrellas attached to their tables.

“Well… that was interesting,” Viridian said still a little shocked by the sudden crash then departure of the mailmare.

“Yeah that’s Derpy, really nice and all but a bit of a klutz.” Rainbow Dash explained.

“The poor dear could never fly straight after she ran head-long into a tree while helping to set up a storm several years ago. That’s also why her eyes tend to cross sometimes.” Rarity said.

Viridian nodded in understanding and turned back to his letter. He opened it up and pulled out a blank white card. He flipped it over a couple times and opened it up. “Gah!” He yelled and his wings sprang out in surprise, as an explosion of confetti shot out at him. He then started to read the letter out loud, confusion and disbelief filling his voice. “You’re invited to the ‘Welcome Home Rainbow Dash/Welcome to Ponyville Viridian Night Party’? Prepared and arranged by Pinkie Pie, being held tonight at five at… How the hay did she get my address?!” He exclaimed. “Nopony is supposed to know I’m even here! For that matter, how is she even holding a party in my house? I haven’t even been there yet. And how did she organize it so fast?”

“Generally when something involves Pinkie Pie it’s better not to ask.” Rarity said nonchalantly as she and the other two examined their own cards.

“I never asked for a party, nor do I want one. And breaking into my house and setting up all that stuff without asking me first! That is a complete breach of my privacy!” Viridian Night said furiously.

Rainbow Dash sighed. He still overreacts whenever somepony does something for him without asking him first. I’d’ve thought he’d’ve gotten over this by now. Rainbow Dash thought to herself. “Hey there’s more writing underneath where you stopped.” She said out loud.

“Huh?” Viridian Night said.

Rainbow Dash started reading her card out loud. “The reason I’m throwing this party is because a few days ago Rainbow Dash was practicing a super cool new trick and accidentally hurt herself and she was sent careening far away from Ponyville into Trottington. She was then rescued by Viridian Night who took care of her and brought her back to Ponyville safe and sound.”

“That doesn’t mean you can break into my house and throw a party.” Viridian Night thought to himself.

“So I want to thank him for taking care of her but Rainbow Dash is still injured because of how badly she was hurt so I want to make her feel better by throwing her this party.”

“That’s all well and good, but you could have it somewhere else.”

“Also, for a couple weeks, she won’t be able to fly so she can’t get back to her house or be able to practice her flying because her wing is still hurt really bad, and she also has lots of electrical burns and a concussion several cracked ribs so she can’t move really well at all.”

“So you could just have it somewhere on the ground.”

“So, because of all these injuries I’m throwing the party at Viridian’s house since Dashie’s already staying there and I don’t want to inconvenience her because of her injuries. I just want her to feel better and know that her friends are here for her and-”

“Alright fine, we can have the party at my house!” Viridian Night exploded. Everyone at the table recoiled at his outburst. “What time does it start again?”

“Uh, it’s about five minutes to five,” Spike said still pressing himself into the back of his chair.

“Then we should get going,” Viridian Night said. He stood up and placed a small bag of bits on the table and started walking towards the gate that lead back out to the main road.

“What was that about?” Rarity asked as she turned to Rainbow Dash.

“Oh, he’s always hated it when somepony did something for him, and he’s also really hated it when somepony invaded his privacy.” Rainbow Dash said. “I’d thought he would have chilled out over the years but evidently not.” She got up and started following Viridian Night. Spike and Rarity got up and followed after her.

Spike jogged, leaving the two mares behind him, until he was even with Viridian Night and said, “You know, if you need help finding the place I could help you out. I know this town like the back of my claw.” He stuck his arm out as if examining his aforementioned appendage.

Viridian Night was still aggravated to no end by Pinkie’s antics, but he couldn’t help but smirk around his pipe at the dragon’s exuberance.

“Alright, thanks buddy. We’re looking for sixty four Apple Tree Lane,” Viridian recited the address from memory.

“That’s on the edge of town closest to Sweet Apple Acres and Rainbow’s cloud house.” Spike replied visualizing the layout of Ponyville in his mind. “Right this way,” he said and took a left down Mane Street.

*****

Once the group made it to Viridian Night’s house it was a quarter past five. As they got closer to the house the green pegasus’ demeanor changed from one of anger and irritation, to that of reluctance. Viridian Night was looking less and less forward to the party for him and Rainbow Dash that he slowly but steadily retreated to the back of the group as they walked.

“We’re here!” Spike said as he reached the door. He looked behind him and saw Rainbow Dash and Rarity at his heels. Once he looked past them he saw Viridian Night about ten paces back with the look of ‘I really don’t want to be here right now’ plastered all over his face. “Uh, are you coming dude?” Spike asked.

“Uh…” Viridian Night stuttered as he shifted his weight from one hoof to the other. “Parties make me… uncomfortable, too many ponies. I don’t like big crowds.” He muttered.

Spike and Rarity gave him small looks of mixed sympathy and disappointment. Rainbow Dash, however, had an expression of utter confusion. “That’s weird,” she thought. “It’s true he never liked surprise parties, but he always got into the swing of things and enjoyed himself at regular parties and always enjoyed hanging around other ponies.”

Rainbow Dash walked over so that she was standing right in front of him. “Hey, what’s up?” she cocked her head questioningly. “You used to party down all the time.”

“Haven’t been to a party in years,” Viridian Night muttered.

Rainbow Dash could easily tell there was more to it than that. However, she didn’t want to pry and risk him closing down even more. Instead she decided to try the face she attempted on the doctor when she wanted to borrow the Daring Do book. “Please Viridian, for me?” she asked.

Viridian Night, who was avoiding looking at Rainbow Dash, risked a glance at her, and nearly choked on the puff of smoke he was drawing on the pipe. Rainbow Dash was giving him the sad pleading look with the big eyes and quivering lower lip, or at least attempting to. The resulting look made him burst out laughing, but with a mouthful of smoke it turned into a hacking cough. This gave him a perfect excuse to continue coughing to cover up his laughter at her comical appearance.

After a couple seconds Rainbow Dash dropped the attempted look of cute pleading and replaced it with one of concern. “Are you alright?” she asked.

“*Cough* hee *cough*, yeah, just *hack*, gimmie a sec, *snort* *ack* *hack*. After a few minutes his laughter, thereby coughing, calmed down. He wiped a tear from his eye and said, “Okay, I’m good.” He sighed. “Let’s get this over with.” His look of resignation hooked itself back across his muzzle, but he walked forward, now with determination in his stride, until he reached the door.

He stood there for a second just staring at the doorknob until finally Rainbow Dash’s patience ran out. She marched up and stood next to him at the door, put her hoof on its knob and said, “come on already let’s go!” She turned the knob and pushed open the door.

The two pegasai were greeted with an explosion of confetti and dance music. Rainbow Dash, used to Pinkie’s parties, didn’t react to the explosive welcoming. Viridian Night, though, was completely taken off guard and his wings shot out as he reared up on his hind legs and he went into a fighting stance with his fore-hooves ready to strike. He didn’t get the chance to, however, because two pink fore-legs, that were much longer than they should’ve been, reached out, wrapped around his and Rainbow Dash’s necks and pulled them through the doorway.

“The ponies of the hour have just arrived, now we can really get this party jumpin’!” Pinkie Pie cried when she pulled the pegasai through the door and displayed them for the entire of the occupants of the room to see. As the mass of ponies cheered Viridian Night took a quick glance around the main room of his new home.

The interior was lined with more of the dark stained wood that he liked. Several lights were built flush into the ceiling and provided plenty of light. In the center of the room was a large three-sided square counter made of the same dark wood as the rest of the room, one side was filled with an assortment of snacks; there was an opening in the back and shelves hanging from the ceiling a few feet above the countertops. There were also several evenly spaced stools built into the floor around the bar. There was also a staircase on the left side of the room leading up, and a door on the back wall and a door on the right wall. Was an old bar really better suited to support my equipment? Huh? He thought to himself. He also saw a few couches, chairs, and low tables set up around the spacious room. It took him a second to realize, “wait that’s my furniture! And if that’s my furniture, where’s everything else?”

He turned to pink fluffy-haired mare. “Pinkie I see some of my furniture here but nothing else. Where’s the rest of my stuff!?” he asked trying his best to keep his voice level but not succeeding entirely.

By this time Spike and Rarity followed him and Rainbow Dash through the door and Pinkie Pie shouted, “Yay, everypony’s here! Let’s get this party started!” She then zipped over to the bar and pushed a button on what must have been a stereo system in one of the overhanging shelves and music started playing.

Everypony just turned and looked at her with deadpan expressions. “Eheheh, sorry guys, wrong disk.” She said with an apologetic smile and click another button and the song changed. Almost instantly everypony caught the beat and started dancing. Spike immediately sprinted off to join everypony else on the dance floor, cheering along the way.

“Come on Viridian let’s dance!” Rainbow Dash said, excitement filling her voice.

“Just gimmie one sec, I need to ask Pinkie what she did with the rest of my stuff.”

“Oh okay then,” Rainbow Dash replied her smile faltering but only slightly.

“I’ll be right back,” he said and he walked off towards the pink party pony.

Once Viridian Night was out of ear shot Rarity leaned in and said, “Hmm gets a little too worked up about little things, but very well-mannered and caring, especially around you. Also a military stallion if that brash but elegant knife he has on his leg is any indication. I approve Rainbow Dash, very good catch indeed.”

“Wha-huh? What are talking about Rarity?” the rainbow maned pegasus asked quizzically.

“Oh come now dearie you can’t tell me you’re not interested in him.” The white unicorn said with a knowing smile.

“What!? No no no, me and him are just friends! We-” Rainbow Dash replied nervously but Rarity cut her off.

“Please, Rainbow, darling. Even if you don’t realize it yourself I can tell. The way you’ve been staring at him all day, how you became disappointed just now when he turned down your offer of a dance even though he said he’d be back in just a moment. And your reaction when he invited Spike and I over to your table earlier today.”

“What do you mean my reaction at lunch earlier?”

“Oh Rainbow I could see your desire to have some alone time with him plain as day, but it would have been very rude to decline his offer of lunch, and I don’t think I could have come up with a good excuse to convince Spike for us to leave on the spot like that.” The fashionista said with an apologetic look.

Rainbow Dash tried several times to object, her mouth opening and closing a few times, but the words wouldn’t come to her. Before Rarity could continue her obviously crazy accusations they heard somepony call their names. “Hey Rarity! Rainbow, it’s good ta see ya back. Y’all look like a mummy there sugar cube, you alright?” An orange earth pony wearing a brown Stetson walked up to the two mares followed by a lavender unicorn and a yellow pegasus.

Rainbow Dash turned and smiled at her other three friends as they walked over. “Hey Apple Jack, Twilight, Fluttershy, how are you girls doing?”

*****

Viridian Night walked up to the pink party pony behind the bar. “Hey Pinkie Pie, I need to talk to you,” he said with a slight edge in his voice.

The poofy haired earth pony dipped below the bar and popped back up instantly wearing a red bartender’s hat and vest with a white undershirt and a black bow tie. She was holding a glass tumbler in one hoof and polishing it with a white rag with the other. “Sure thing V-Night, I fully stocked up for yours and Dashie’s party. What can I do ya for?”

The green pegasus was taken off guard by the random pony’s antics for what felt like the hundredth time that day. Before he fully recovered he felt like he needed something to help him get through the night before he continued. “Uh, scotch and soda on the rocks please.” He asked as he sat down on a stool

“Coming right up!” She placed the glass she was polishing on the table. Then she opened a cupboard under the bar and pulled a small clear plastic scoop with crushed ice. She flicked the ice in the air, tossed the scoop back into the cupboard and closed it with her hind hoof. She slid the glass along the bar and caught all the ice she tossed up inside it. Next she pulled out a large plastic bottle of club soda and poured until the glass was half full. She put it back then pulled out a bottle of scotch. Viridian Night saw the name Jura across the label before she started flipping it around. She started off with a couple twirls around her fore-hooves then rolled the bottle over one fore-leg, across her back to the other hoof, then poured the scotch into the glass until it was filled to just below the rim. She then flipped the bottle up into the air and balanced it on her nose then slid it back into its place in one of the hanging shelves.

After the masterful performance Viridian Night was stunned for a few seconds. All he could think to do was clap as the crazy bartender slid the drink across the counter towards him. He took a sip of the drink and was impressed by the perfect balance of it. “Is there anything else I can do for you?” Pinkie asked after taking a small bow at Viridian Night’s applause.

The pegasus snapped out of his state of shock and remembered why he came over here in the first place. “So Pinkie,” he started his voice much more even now. “Were you the one who set up all my furnature?”

“Yep! When I came over here to set up the party a bunch of movers came with all your stuff and I told them where to put everything. But don’t worry, we didn’t open any of your boxes, we put them all in the back room. By the way what’s the huge thing under the tarp back there?” She said all in one breathe.

Viridian Night took another swig of his drink and set the glass back down. He opened his mouth to answer but that’s when three young fillies’ voices cut through house. The source came from the back room, the door was ajar.

“Cutie Mark Crusader… Crusaders!”

“What was that?” The pegasus asked.

“Oh, that’s just Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Bell, the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Just three little fillies who are super-duper good friends; they spend most of their time going around trying things to get they’re cutie marks.” Pinkie replied.

“Then what do they mean by Cutie Mark Crusader Crusad… Wait they’re voices came from the back room where you said all my boxes were. Oh no,” Viridian Night’s face contorted into worry. He got up and started toward the door, but before he got there three fillies busted through the door. The orange pegasus was wearing his helmet with it tilted back so far the back of it was in the crook of her neck; the yellow earth pony was wearing his breast-plate with her head and hooves barley poking out of the openings; and the white unicorn was wearing the sheathes of his swords along her sides and the sheath of one of his spare daggers strapped to her leg. The dagger was held in her magic while the swords were held, ungainly, in the mouths of the other two crusaders.

“Well now that we have this cool armor what should we do?” asked the unicorn.

“Hmm, Ah’m not sure. What d’you think Scootaloo?” said the earth pony with the red bow around the sword.

“How ‘bout we… raid the buffet table!” she said almost dropping the sword from her mouth.

“YEAH!” the trio cheered and they sprinted off to the side of the bar full of snacks.

Viridian Night immediately ran to head them off, “No no no nononononono don’t run with those, put them down, those are extremely sharp!”

“Uh oh girls, looks like somepony’s trying to impede our conquest. Divide and conquer!” cried the orange pegasus. With that the three fillies split off in separate directions. Viridian Night went after the assumed leader with the helmet as she was the closest.

“Oh, horse apples,” the green pegasus cursed as he ran after the purple tailed pegasus. It wasn’t too hard to catch her, she was quick, but the helmet fell over her eyes and she ran into one of the stools. He quickly snatched up the sword and helmet and placed the latter on his head and the former in his mouth. He then swept the little filly pegasus in one of his wings with protest.

“Aw, we were gonna be careful honest. We were just seeing if our cutie marks involved fighting is all.” She wined.

Viridian Night ignored her and scanned the room for the other two. Everypony else was still dancing and enjoying themselves. “These three must do crazy things like this all the time,” he surmised. He continued scanning until he spotted the white unicorn. She was out by the dance floor looking away from them, trying to hide behind the other ponies on the dance floor. He started to sneak around the outside of dance floor to catch her from behind.

*****

“Hey Rainbow! We’re doing well, but are you alright? You look worse than you did when you were in the hospital after your last crash.” The lavender mare replied.

“Yeah, yeah I’m fine. The doc in the town where I crashed fixed me up,” Rainbow Dash replied waving her friend’s worry off with her hoof.

“Um, Rainbow Dash,” the yellow pegasus piped up tentatively. “I uh, uh… I’m sorry I wasn’t there when it happened! I should’ve been there, I knew what you were doing but I put the animals who could’ve waited an hour or two for me before you when I could’ve gotten back to them later. Then I could have stayed with you and been there to help, and, and...” The kind-hearted mare broke down and continued apologizing between sobs.

“Hey Shy it’s alright, you couldn’t know what was gonna happen. I didn’t even know what exactly could’ve happened.” The rainbow maned pegasus said as she put a comforting hoof around her friend. “Besides everything turned out alright; sure I’m a little banged up, but the doc and Nurse Redheart said I’ll make a full recovery in no time flat.”

“Really? Oh, what a relief.” Fluttershy replied wiping the tears from her eyes. “Oh I almost forgot, I’ve been watching Tank for you while you were gone.” As if on cue the tortoise slowly climbed out of Fluttershy’s pink mane and slowly turned to Rainbow Dash.

“Tank! Oh, I’ve missed you buddy!” Rainbow Dash cheered as she picked up her pet and hugged him affectionately. He returned the greeting with his signature slow smile.

“Rainbow, don’t forget to tell them about that stallion you brought back with you.” Rarity said.

“Uh…”

“Oh ho, ya mean ta say that our cocky little speed demon here found somepony to help keep her head outa the clouds,” the cowpony said with a smirk plastered across her muzzle.

“What? No! He’s just a really good friend of mine that I haven’t seen for years. He just happened to live in the town that I crashed in and now he’s moving here.” Rainbow Dash replied almost too quickly.

“So where is this mysterious stallion? I think we’d all like to meet him,” Applejack inquired.

“Uh, hey Big Sis,” they heard Applebloom’s voice. They all turned to the source and they all jumped back a step in shock, except Fluttershy. She leaped behind everypony else for protection.

In front of them stood Viridian Night; he was wearing all the arms and armor that the three little fillies nabbed, striking quite an imposing figure. Of the ponies in question, two of them, Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell, where each held under one of his wings. Applebloom was currently being held by his teeth by the nape of her neck.

“Appleboom, what in tarnation did y’all do this time?!” Applejack asked her voice full of anger and frustration with her face set to match.

“Well ya see, we found a box full o’ armor and weapons, so we was just trying to see if we could get our warrior cutie marks and we kinda got arrested.” the yellow filly replied with an apologetic smile that belied the fact she knew she was in deep trouble.

Before Applejack could continue with a lecture for the three crusaders Rarity chimed in. “Sweetie Bell you should be ashamed of yourself. You know better than to rummage through somepony else’s things, and to play with sharp objects.” The white unicorn glared at her little sister, and then turned back to Viridian Night. “I’m terribly sorry for my sister and her friend’s actions Viridian. I hope nothing was damaged due to their carelessness.”

Viridian Night gently lowed fillies to the ground, then took off his helmet and slipped it under one of his wings and replied, “It’s no problem; I caught them shortly after they started running around with my stuff so no harm, no fowl.”

“Well that’s a relief, I’m Applejack by the way. Nice ta meet cha.” the orange cowpony greeted.

“My name is Twilight Sparkle, how do you do?” the lavender unicorn said.

The mares then parted so that Fluttershy was in plain view. Once she realized her cover was gone she squeaked and pulled herself up. She hid her face behind her mane while she scratched the floor with her hoof and said, “Hello, my name is Fluttershy,” Just barley loud enough for the armored pegasus to hear.

“You must be the rest of the friends that Rainbow mentioned earlier. I’m Viridian Night, it’s a pleasure to meet you all.” He responded with a small smile.

“Well it is getting kind of late I think we should take the girls home and get them to bed.” Rarity said placing a hoof around Sweetie Bell.

“Awwwwww,” the fillies groaned.

“Yep I reckon Rarity’s right. Let’s go Applebloom, we can walk you home too Scootaloo. It was a pleasure meetin ya Viridian.” Applejack said.

“I’ll come with you guys! Catch ya guys later.” Spike volunteered.

The group left the house and went on their way. “Well what do you want to do now?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Just then a white unicorn with electric blue hair and purple sunglasses took Pinkie’s place at the stereo. She popped out the current disc and pushed in a new one. Immediately the base dropped and everypony was assaulted by a barrage of wubs. Viridian Night instantly went ridged and his eye twitched.

“Uh, maybe we should call it a night guys… Viridian really doesn’t like dubstep.” Rainbow Dash said with a nervous smile.

(TQP here one of Sirius Starshine’s prereaders if any of you have artistic talent I demand to see some art of applebloom in that armor)

(Sirius Starshine here btw it was my prereaders’ fault it took so long to get this next chapter up. Something about needing a sniper for BFBC2, oh also the song choices was their fault too.)

(This is the other prereader, I’d like it to be known that it was TQP’s idea for the first song link.)