The Slow Mo Stallions

Chapters

Chapter 2 hallucinations ?
Chapter 3 We only want to help
Chapter 4 A visit from the princess
Chapter 5 You need to fit in
Chapter 6 A long walk
Chapter 7 The race to walk
Chapter 8 Normal Chips please
Chapter 9 Nightmares
Chapter 10 Slow Mo Time
Chapter 11 Wet Bread
Chapter 12 Trust
Chapter 14 Awkward Crashing
Chapter 15 How do you magic?
Chapter 16 Menu Trouble
Chapter 17 Where is he?
Chapter 18 Front Flip For Style!
Chapter 19 A little bit of Magic
Chapter 20 Footie
Chapter 21 The Tower
Chapter 22 Getting Dressed
Chapter 23 Help me change
Chapter 24 Bevs
Chapter 25 Dan The Man
Chapter 26 Gavy Party
Chapter 28 MARK NUTT!
Chapter 29 Super Charge
Chapter 30 Damage Assesment
Chapter 31 Tree Trouble
Chapter 32 The Xbox explained... ish
Chapter 33 Wanna Play Footie?
Chapter 34 Drama n stuff
Chapter 35 Another Day
Chapter 36 Drugged Out
Chapter 37 One Crazy Episode
Chapter 38 Bees
Chapter 39 Puns
Chapter 40 Lou
Chapter 41 Dragged In
Chapter 42 Surprise!
Chapter 1 stick to popping bubbles
Chapter 13 Training Begins
Chapter 27 Chuck Me An Apple

Chapter 2 hallucinations ?

Apple Jack ran as fast as her legs could carry her. She ignored everypony and everything she ran past, she had her mind set on her goal. Fuelled by adrenaline, she was able to keep her fast pace and soon enough, found herself at the train station.

Luckily, there was a train to Canterlot ready to set off so she quickly bought a ticket and jumped into the train. This was a good opportunity to both rest and think, after all, there was lots for her to think about...

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Not long after AJ left, the other ponies started to wake up. Rainbow Dash was the first to open her weary eyes and look around. She didn't notice Gavin and Dan at first, all she noticed was how tired and weak she was. As she slowly looked around the room she noticed everypony else, all on the floor like she was and some even had cuts or bruises.

Then she saw Twilight. She was lying next to her reading stand ; a few deep cuts on her body. Her mane was scruffy and burnt and her horn was black and charred. Rainbow decided that she had to help Twilight, she was in a bad way. Dash struggled to her hooves and carefully limped across the room, looking at the burn marks on the floor and walls.

When she made it to Twilight she knelt down beside her friend and analysed her condition. There was Largs hash on her shoulder and some small cuts, splinters and scrapes on her legs near her hooves. Dash tried to roll her over so she would face upwards, but Twilight was quite heavy and Dash felt very weak.

It was probably just a result of the failed spell, everypony else looked pretty tired too. Then, as Rainbow looked up from Trying to roll Twilight she noticed two hairless creatures in the middle of the room, still lying on the floor, still unconscious. Rainbow Dash froze in place. What if they were dangerous? Violent? Deadly?!

She started looking around the room quickly in panic, scanning for any signs that they were going to hurt anypony. She began counting her friends to make sure they were all there. Pinkie, Fluttershy, Twilight, Rarity, Apple Jack... APPLEJACK? Rainbow leaped into the air and darted over to where AJ was and started crying, thinking her friend had died.

Slowly Rarity woke up an looked around she saw back soot marks all over the walls and floor. She lifted her head slowly, feeling a sharp pain in her neck as she did so. As she looked around she noticed Rainbow Dash huddled up, crying a random place.

"Rainbow Dash, what's wrong dear?" she asked with a croaky voice. Rainbow instantly turned to look at her, revealing her eyes which were bloodshot and wet.
"It's AJ. She's gone!" Rarity gasped and bowed her head as her eyes began to fill with tears. She looked up to dsh once more and almost immediately stopped crying and glared at her.

"Rainbow, look at the door, then look at that piece of paper to your left." ordered Rarity. Rainbow Dash did so then looked back to Rarity sheepishly. There was a trail of sooty hoof prints going through the open door and a AJ's letter to her left.
"Oh, sorry for worrying you Rarity"
"No problem, you aren't very observant are you now?" she smirked.

They both chuckled and Rainbow grabbed the note.
"It says, I'm going to get princess Celestia, keep them here - Apple Jack". read Dash. She then gulped loudly. Rarity looked confused.
"Whatever could she be talking about?" Rarity asked.
Rainbow Dash just pointed towards Gavin and Dan slowly.

Rarity jumped out of her skin at the sight of them and shuffled backwards into her friend. They shared a worried glance for a second , then Rainbow's face lit up.
"We should get Fluttershy to talk to them! They are animals... right?"
" Good idea Dash! I'll go and wake her up, you wake Pinkie, but be quiet." replied Rarity, getting a nod from Rainbow.

They got to work creeping around and it didn't take as long as they'd expected to wake up their friends.
Once everypony was up they gathered in the corner by the door.
"Here's the plan. Fluttershy, you go and talk to the things, me, Rarity and Pinkie will wait here and cover your back. Ok?" Whispered Rainbow.
"Oh... goodness, do I have to talk to them?" asked Fluttershy, barely making a sound.
"Yes dear, it's your talent so you should try to talk to them, they don't look dangerous, they look rather stupid actually." relied Rartity.
"Oh... Ok. I'll do it for you!"

Fluttershy out on a brave face and stood up tall. She tip-hooved over to Gavin and Dan and knelt down next to them. She instinctively looked over their bodies, saw their burns and cuts and tried to help them she put pressure on the cuts and rubbed their backs gently.
"There there, wakey wakey" she spoke soothingly and gently to them in an attempt to wake them up without startling them.
"Uuihhhsnnmm" moaned Gavin as he began to come around.
"Gavin, it's too early go away!" whined Dan in reply. The ponies by the door flinched and tensed up but Fluttershy just continued to rub their backs gently.
"They can talk?" whispered Rainbow
"It seems so..." replied Rarity.
"Come on now friends, please wake up" she said softly. Gavin then opened his eyes wearily before snapping them open and leaping to his feet. He starred at Fluttershy square in the eyes and stepped backwards slowly. He squeaked sacredly as he backed into the wall.
"Dan! DAN!" he shouted.

Gavin's yells immediately woke Dan up. He looked around, panicked at first, but then calmly. He casually stood up and walked over to Gavin, who was terrified, and patted his shoulder.
"Calm down Gav" he said coolly.
"How can you not be scared, there are bright talking horses here!" Gavin replied in a loud whisper.
"Oh Gav, it's just the fumes messing with our heads!" Replied Dan calmly.
"Oh right! That explains it!"

The ponies looked up at them, confused looks on their faces. Fluttershy smiled at them warmly and hugged Gavin's leg making him go white as a sheet.
"I'm so glad you woke up, I think you need some help with those cuts and burns, follow me please." Fluttershy said calmly. Gavin turned to Dan slowly.
"Dan, if it's the drugs, why can I feel it touching me?" Squeaked Gavin.

Chapter 3 We only want to help

When the train neared the station Apple Jack jumped out of her seat and trotted towards the door. She stood waiting nervously, biting her lip and tapping her hoof. Finally, the train came to a complete stop and the door slid open painfully slowly.

As soon as she could she bolted through the door and set off galloping in the direction of the palace. Her hooves were beginning to hurt from the constant pounding on the cobblestone streets and her legs were beginning to ache.

She made her way up the windy roads until she eventually reached the palace. She stood outside the gate to catch her breath before trotting up to the guard.
"Can Ah please see the princess? It's an emergency!" she mumbled between breaths. The guard, recognising her as an element of harmony, nodded and let her into the palace.

AJ thanked him with a quick not and a smile before trotting through the gate. All she had to do now was find Princess Celestia ...

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Gavin screamed and backed away from Fluttershy, causing him to sack his head on a beam.
"Christ!" he yelled "Dan! Dan where are we?!" Dan's eyes widened as he reached out towards Fluttershy to see if Gavin was telling the truth. He didn't think that he was, how would this even be possible...

As soon as Dan's finger tips made contact with Fluttershy's soft fur. He also jumped back and bashed his head on the beam too. He looked to Gavin with a look of terror on his face.
"G gg Gav... What's going on?" stuttered Dan. They both looked to eachother, then to the ponies, before they broke out in a fit of yelling shouting.

"Oh goodness, please calm down." Gavin and Dan actually heard her and looked to her, it was no use to anyone if they were freaking out. "Thank you. Would you please follow me so I can help you." She asked softly.
"But where are we?" asked Gavin.
"We can answer all of your questions later, I'd like to treat your cuts and bruises please and make you all better." Gavin and Dan felt their hearts melt as eh stared into their eyes and smiled warmly.
"Ok, I do feel pretty battered." admitted Dan.
"Yeah, me too." added Gavin.
"Thank you friends. Please come to my cottage, I'll fix you up there!" she said happily.

Fluttershy then lead Gavin, Dan and Pinkie to her cottage. Rarity and Rainbow Dash stayed to help Twilight and tell her what had happened.

Rarity went into Twilight's kitchen and got a bottle of water. She trotted back in and found that Rainbow had finally managed to roll twilight over and was shaking her gently to wake her up.

"Twilight? Twilight wake up!" she whispered softly. Rarity knelt down with Raimbow and routed a little bit of water onto her hoof and shook it over Twilight, splattering her with water droplets.
"Rarity what are you doing?" asked Rainbow.
"Wetness on the skin is a good way to wake someone up" replied Rarity with a smile. Rainbow shrugged, grabbed the bottle and poured it over Twilight's head. She jumped up in surprise.
"Rainbow!"
"What you said wetness on the skin helps?"
"Gently yes! You're not meant to soak them so suddenly!" yelled Rarity. Rainbow smiled sheepishly.
"Whoops!" Rarity giggled and looked down to Twilight who didn't look too happy.
"What happened here?" Twilight asked as she looked the the burnt wood of her library.
"It's a long story but the princess should be here soon. We'll tell you and her when she comes but for now you need to rest." Rarity replied with a smile.
"Ok, I am really tired"
"Good, we'll clean up won't we Rarity" added Rainbow.
"Ugh... Fine." Rarity grumbled. So they set to work cleaning up.

Meanwhile Gavin and Dan were trudging on behind Fluttershy and Pinkie. They were so confused. Gavin did recognise them from Ray, Michael and some of the other bronies who worked with him at Rooster Teeth but he never thought he'd meet them in a million years, never mind them even being real!

"So, where are we?" asked Dan.
"We're in Ponyville, Equestria, the greatest, most bestest, bestest place EVER!" shouted Pinkie making Dan regret asking. Eventually, they arrived at the cottage and Fluttershy walked inside.

"Wait out here please, have a seat on he grass and rest if you want." said Fluttershy. Gavin and Dan did as she'd asked and waited for them to return. They both relaxed in the sum for a few seconds before Dan spoke up.
"What are we doing?" he asked.
"I don't know Dan, we just have to work out how to get back."
Dan nodded and they sat in silence, thinking, for a little while longer.

Chapter 4 A visit from the princess

Apple Jack trotted through the maze-like corridors of the place for quite a while, but she eventually ended up at the throne room doors. She pushed them oped gently and walked in nervously.
"Hello Apple Jack, how can I help you?" asked the princess warmly. AJ took of her hat, held it to her chest and bowed her head.
"Princess, we need yer help, Twilight was tryin' a new spell and it failed. Then Ah woke up and saw these two massive hairless creatures in the middle of the room, left a note for the others and set off to find you as fast as possible!" She muttered, still a little out of breath. The princess raised an eyebrow at AJ briefly.
"Excuse me?"
"Ah saw two odd lookin' creatures lay on the ground and came to get your help, what if they're dangerous?" AJ replied.

The princess still didn't really understand what had happened but decided she should take Apple Jack's word for it. It's not like it was a lie, she was the element of honesty.
"Ok, let's take the chariot"

Princess Celestia and AJ got into the gold chariot and set off, pulled by two of the princess' royal guard Pegasus.

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Not much time had passed before Fluttershy and Pinkie emerged from the cottage door, each holding a tray with plasters, bandages and burn cream on top of it.
"Here you go, this should help a lot." said Fluttershy.
"Yep! We want our new friends to have a great first day in Ponyville!" added Pinkie. The two men chuckled.
"Ok, thanks you two." replied Dan gratefully.

Fluttershy started to put plasters on Gavin's cuts whilst Pinkie did the same for Dan.
"So, what are your names?" asked Gavin.
"Oh, I'm Fluttershy"
"And I'm Pinkie Pie!" Gavin chuckled, he'd heard Ray saying that Fluttershy sucks many times up in Austin.
"What about you?" enquired Flyttershy.
"I'm Gavin"
"I'm Dan"

Fluttershy and Pinkie shared a glance.
"What odd names, if you don't mind me saying so..." whispered Fluttershy.
"They're normal where we come from" laughed Dan.
"Where do you come from then?" asked Pinkie. "I've never met anypony called Gavin or Dan and I've met a lot of ponies!"
"But we're not ponies" said Gavin with a smile.
"Oh yeah! Still where do you come from, it can't be around here, you have funny voices!" giggled Pinkie.
"Pinkie that's not very nice..."
"Don't worry about it, we get that quite a bit" interrupted Gavin
"We come from place called Oxfordshire in England." added Dan. The two ponies stared at him blankly. "It might be in another universe? Another dimension? I don't know, it's not like this though and that's for sure!"

The ponies seemed happy with this answer and continued treating their wounds, but in their heads a million questions were floating around trying to get out. They'd just have to wait for Apple Jack, Princess Celestia and the others to get here so Gavin and Dan could tell them more.

"Argh!" yelled Gavin, "that stings, ow ow ow!" Dan laughed as Gavin wriggled around, trying to wipe off the cream that Fluttershy had just rubbed into one of his burns.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry, I should've warned you but this is the best way for you to heal" said Fluttershy apologetically.
"No problem" mumbled Gavin, gritting his teeth.
"Gav, you'd think you'd have a higher pain tolerance after all of your failed flips" Dan chuckled.

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Apple Jack and Princess Celestia were nearly at the library. They'd talked a little bit on the way, but most of the time they stayed quiet.
"Do you know if they're still there?" asked the princess.
"Ah'm sorry, no. They could've left. Ah don't even know if mah friends are still there princess." replied a very worried AJ.

Eventually, the chariot landed safely outside the library and AJ was first to jump off and run through the door. The three ponies inside looked at her and smiled.
"AJ! You're back!" yelled Twilight happily. She tried to get up to hug Twilight but fell back down due to her weak body.

As princess Celestia walked through the door she gasped, she though that the 'creatures that AJ described had done this to the treehouse and done that t Twilight.
"Where are these creatures I must banish them at once, tell me where to go!" she demanded.

Rainbow Dash ran up to the princess waving her arms.
"Woah woah woah! Why would you want to do that?!" she asked.
"Look what they've done!" she returned whilst pointing to Twilight.
"Oh, no no, they didn't do that, that was the spell, they suffered too." dash replied.

The princess sighed with relief and smiled.
"Phew, I'm glad they haven't caused any harm but what are they and where are they?"
"They are tall things with short manes, no tails and no fur. Oh also they can talk." Rarity replied. Celestia nodded. "They went with Fluttershy to her cottage so she can treat their injuries princess" she added.

Princess Celestia smiled slyly.
"Let's go then, I need to... change them."

Chapter 5 You need to fit in

It didn't take long for Princess Celestia and the others to trot over to Fluttershy's place and when they did they all shuddered. Gavin and Dan were sat up on the grass, Fluttershy and Pinkie sorting out the wounds on their legs.

Gav and Dan looked towards them, but their eyes were drawn to the princess, her mane was mesmerizing to them. Princess Celestia cleared her throat loudly, snapping them out of it.
"Oh sorry, nice hair... Uh mane." muttered Dan with a smile. Gav looked to Apple Jack. He'd seen a picture of her on Ray's desk.

"Uh, hello!" greeted Gavin happily. The princess smiled and laughed.
"So, who and what are you?"
"I'm Gavin, he's Dan and we're humans from England, which is on planet Earth." Celestia raised a brow.
"Humans? Hmm... Please, tell me more about yourselves."

Gav and Dan shared a glance wondering what to tell her.
"Well, we are very close friends and made a YouTube channel called the Slow Mo Guys. On that we faff about and film cool things in slow motion, that usually end up looking top!" explained Gavin.
"Slow motion?"
"Yep, we have a high speed, Phantom Flex camera that Gav got us which allows us to shoot with really a high number of frames per second. So the result is, a high quality video of something, really slowly."
"What?" everypony said in unison making Gav and Dan laugh.
"Why is it high speed...? If its slow motion?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"You wouldn't understand." replied Gavin. Rainbow shrugged it off and continued trying to figure it out in her head.
Twilight was becoming more than a little impatient, “Excuse me, but I have some questions!” The Englishmen look at down at Twilight, waiting for her to continue. “Thank you. Now, how did you get here; how will we get you back; what’s a ‘YouTube’; and what’s with your accents?” She punctuated each question with a stomp of her hoof.
Dan took a breath, “Dunno, dunno, how can you not know, and what do you think you sound like to us?”
Twilight shrugged and glared at Dan, "Thanks. That helps a lot." she grumbled sarcastically. Dan shrugged in return while Gavin face palmed and looked to Twi.
"Let's see if I can clear this up, we were mixing liquids and set them on fire, then just as we were about to be burnt alive, there was a flash. Next thing we know, we woke up in a library tree, with burns and cuts." Gavin explained. "I have no idea how we could get back and You Tube is a website, there's no point explaining it to you, it doesn't really matter right now." he added. Twilight smiled at him thankfully, he seemed a little smarter than Dan (little did she know).

"Thank you, when you did that experiment with fire it must've somehow connected with my magic and teleported you here," said Twilight "we could repeat it to try and send you back but that could take a while..."

"I think it best; until we find a way to send you back to ‘England’ that I make you... Fit in a bit more hmm?" Princess Celestia proclaimed with a wicked smile.
"What are you doing princess?" asked Twilight worriedly.
"What is best for us all right now." She replied with a warm smile.

Celestia turned to Gavin and Dan, her horn beginning to glow gently, then very brightly. Gav and Dan were surrounded by her magic and levitated into the air.
"Dan! Dan! What's happening.” he yelled as he squirmed around trying to set himself free.
"I don't know! Do you feel... Strange?" he asked nervously.

They both managed to gulp before Celestia really started her spell. They were lifted higher into the air and covered by the magic which was too bright to look at.

The ponies shielded their eyes as Celestia focused even more. This was a very tricky spell to do and she'd never needed to use it seriously before. She closed her eyes tightly and concentrated on the spell, repeating it in her head loud and clear.

Gavin and Dan had their eyes closed too; they curled up into the fetal position and waited for it to be over. It didn't hurt much; they couldn't really feel their bodies. It was odd; almost as if their bones were moving and changing...

Suddenly the magic dissipated in a bright flash, causing Gavin and Dan to fall to the floor. Twilight slowly opened her eyes but where there once were two humans, there were now two stallions, on the ground and unconscious.

Princess Celestia smiled to herself, her spell having worked perfectly. Now that Gavin and Dan were ponies they didn't have to worry about arousing suspicion, or being discriminated against or scary.
"I'll take them to the hospital to recover, they may need some pain killers." she chuckled.

Everypony just stared at her, gaping. They knew she was a powerful alicorn but... wow.

"Princess... Is that Gavin and Dan?" asked Rainbow Dash, her voice barely above a whisper. The princess nodded at her, causing a few of them to gasp.
"Wha’ did ya do that fer?" asked AJ.
"To make sure they... blend in better, as I said before." she replied with a warm smile. AJ raised her eyebrow at her and took a step towards Gavin and Dan who were lying in uncomfortable looking positions.
"Are they... Okay?" She asked whilst poking Dan with the tip of her hoof gently.
"Yes, they just need some time to wake back up, preferably in the hospital where they can rest comfortably."

AJ nodded, picked up Dan and chucked him over her back. She wobbled about a bit due to the sudden weight of the stallion, but steadied herself in no time.
"Will somepony else get Gavin, Ah can't carry em' both! We need to get em' to the hospital soon as we can. Ah don’t want em' wakin' up and runnin' round Ponyville on their own. Ah don't trust em'". She said.
"I’ll do it! It’d be bad if they started messing stuff up, we don't really know what they're like yet." agreed Rainbow as she trotted forwards. She picked up Gavin and hauled him up over her back so he drooped across her.

The princess smiled at AJ and Dash before turning to Twilight.
"Twilight, make sure that they get to the hospital safely. You must ensure that they don't get up to anything. As Apple Jack said, we can't trust them yet. Please stay with them and send me a letter when they wake up. Goodbye for now my faithful student." she said before teleporting herself to the chariot.

Twilight gulped and looked at her friends.
"We need to get this right, for the princess. You two follow me to the hospital, Pinkie and Fluttershy go ahead to make sure that they have a bed, Rarity, will you go and get them some blankets please?" she ordered. Everypony nodded at her and set off to do their tasks.

As Twilight turned around and started walking towards the hospital, she couldn't help but feel like something bad was going to happen...

Chapter 6 A long walk

Fluttershy and Pinkie were almost at the hospital. Fluttershy flew above Pinkie Pie, not far above the ground.
"Are we nearly there yet?" asked Pinkie for the seventh time.
"Oh, Pinkie, you asked me that a few seconds ago. Uhm... we're not too far off now." replied Fluttershy quietly.

They turned a corner, allowing them to see the hospital which was at the end of the road.
"We are nearly there! Yay yay yay yay!" yelled Pinkie happily as her galloping turned into hopping. Fluttershy smiled and giggled quietly at her half crazy friend.

Once they reached the hospital they trotted through the doors, side by side. The receptionist behind the counter gave them a warm smile as she saw them.
"Hello! Can I help you?" she asked kindly. Fluttershy opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out.
"Uhm... Oh.... Hi..."
"Yes! Hello! Do you have two beds available?" interrupted Pinkie, Saving Fluttershy from the horrors of talking to strangers.

The receptionist mare looked through the patient book briefly before looking back up to the two ponies in front of her.
"Yes we do have two beds, but can I ask why?"
"Oh that's easy, two big scary aliens landed in Twilight's house, and then they stood up and they were HUGE! So we took them to Fluttershy's house and helped them and then the princess came..."
"The princess?" said the mare. "Really?"

Fluttershy knew she was witnessing a train wreck, so she worked up the courage to speak.
"Uhm... I can tell you. Two of our friends passed out. They'll be here shortly; we just wanted to make sure that there was room for them here. Thank you ever so much for your help." Fluttershy explained.

The nurse nodded and thanked her as the two ponies headed for the doors.
"Bye! Goodbye! Have a great day!" yelled Pinkie Pie as she waved to everypony she could see. Fluttershy giggled and took to the skies once more, with Pinkie hopping along, singing below her.
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"Jeez these guys are heavy!" grunted Rainbow Dash as she staggered another few steps.
"Ah know, what do they eat?!" added AJ. "Ah suppose if you can't handle it Ah could..."
"Nope! Uh, I mean I was just kidding. This is almost too easy!" Interrupted Rainbow as she tried to hide the pain she was in.

Twilight sighed. She didn't want to be in this situation. She'd just wanted her friends to share a great experience with her. Now she was guiding her friends, who were in pain, trying to carry two stallions, to the hospital. This was not her idea of a good day.
"We're about half way now everypony, you can do it!" Twilight said with a smile, hiding her annoyance.

Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash only nodded and slowly staggered on.
"Where in Equestria is Rarity with dem blankets?" Apple Jack moaned. "She's slower than a pig stuck in quick sand!"
"You're so impatient AJ." Rainbow chuckled. AJ grumbled to herself and took another few steps.

Rarity eventually caught up with them with two silk blankets draped elegantly over her back.
"Hello everypony, my you are quite a sight aren't you?" she giggled whilst placing a blanket over Gavin.
"Nice of yer to join us!" muttered AJ sourly.
"Now, now Apple Jack, you didn't expect me to gallop did you? It would've destroyed my hooficure"
"Oh yeah, I fergot you were such a drama queen..."

"Everypony please stop arguing!" shouted Twilight. "We can't let this tear us apart." Everypony nodded slowly, realizing how their friendship was suffering. "Thank you".

Just then, Pinkie and Fluttershy met up with the group and told them that the hospital did have two beds available for Gavin and Dan.

The rest of the journey was happy and fun. The mane six hadn't just chatted in a while and it was great. They laughed and talked and time flew by for them. They almost forgot about recent events and it felt like the good old times again.

When they arrived at the hospital, Twilight was first through the door followed by Apple Jack and Rainbow.
"Hello, these are our friends who passed out. Can you show us to their beds please?" asked Twilight.
"Certainly." replied the mare as she trotted out from behind the counter.

She led the way to the beds and called for some nurses to help Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash with the load.
"Thank Celestia fer that!" AJ cheered as she stretched her back.
"I know I'm never doing that again." added Dash and she joined AJ to stretch.

Twilight smiled happily and looked over to Gavin and Dan, who looked brain dead. Gavin had his tongue lolled out of the side of his mouth and his eyes half open. Dan had his mouth wide open, dribbling, and one eye open and one shut. This was going to be a long wait...

Author's Note

Sorry that there wasn't a chapter yesterday, I was out all day, thanks for reading everyone :D

Chapter 7 The race to walk

The mane 6 sat at the side of Gavin and Dan's for what seemed like forever. They'd talked at first and that was okay, but a patient complained about the noise. They were just sitting there. Doing nothing. Bored out of their minds. Spike had joined them not long after they got there, prepared to send the letter to Celestia.

Eventually Gavin's head moved slightly. The girls sat up straight and stared at him, hoping this was the end of their boredom. After a while the chances of him moving again were pretty slim and one by one they slumped back down in their seats.

A few hours later, the mane 6 was asleep in their chairs. It was late now, but they knew they couldn't leave until Gavin and Dan had come to terms with being ponies.
Dan's eyes flickered open and he slowly sat up. His vision was blurry and it was dark so he could hardly see a thing.
"This is odd" he though to him self, "I don't remember going to bed. In fact, this doesn't even feel like my bed. He lifted up his foreleg to scratch his head and became very shocked and surprised when it wasn't fingers that he felt touch him, but one, solid, hard thing.

His eyes widened as he looked at his hoof and leg. There was no skin, no fingers, and no hand; just light chestnut brown fur. He looked around in panic and saw the six sleeping mares in a semi circle around him and another bed. His vision began to clear up, allowing him to recognize the mane six as the ponies he'd seen before. Who was is the other bed though? “GAVIN!”

He leapt from his bed and onto Gavin's causing the stallion to jump up and shout.
"CHRIST!" he shouted causing the other ponies to wake up suddenly.
"Gavin, Gavin?" yelled Dan.
"What Dan?" he replied before he realized that Dan was a stallion.

Gavin tried to rub his eyes, resulting in him seeing the caramel colour fur coating his foreleg. He looked up to Dan and then he pieced it all together. He remembered Celestia lifting them in the air with magic just before they blacked out. Their eyes saddened as they looked at each other. Why did this have to happen to them?
"WHERE ARE MY FINGERS?" screamed Gavin as load as he could.

Suddenly, the lights flickered on as Pinkie pushed the switch. They kept their eyes locked on each other.
"Gavin is that really you?" asked Dan. Gavin nodded slowly.
"How will we get home?" he added.
"I don't know Dan. But we need to figure it out as soon as possible." Gavin replied.

They both turned to face the mane six, a mix of desperation and panic on their faces.
"Good morning sleepy heads!" exclaimed Pinkie happily as she jumped onto the bed and pulled them into a warm hug.
"Pinkie! Get yer flank down 'ere before Ah get it 'ere fer ya!" shouted AJ. Pinkie smiled sheepishly and backed down, back into line with the others.
"Sorry" she said quietly. AJ shot her a smile to perk her up and then looked back to the stallions.

Gav and Dan just sat there next to each other, only wanting to get back to England.
"We need to get back. Now." said Gavin sternly. He then tried to stand up and fell on his face, not being used to his new body. Dan instinctively stood up and held out his hoof to help his friend, but he just fell on top of him.

"Bloody hell Dan, you're really heavy!" yelled Gavin as Dan plopped on top of him.
"Sorry Gav" said Dan sheepishly whilst hoisting himself onto his hind legs using the bed for support. Gavin soon did the same so they had some way of standing up.
"If yer gonna stand like that, yer gonna have some problems." chuckled AJ.

Gavin sighed and slowly lowered one of his forelegs onto the ground. Once he was stable he put his other hoof down and just stood up for a while.
"I don't know if I can walk guys." he said with a frown. The mane 6 started laughing wildly at the sight of a grown stallion, who couldn't move.
"At lease this isn't as bad as headlight fluid..." he added.

Dan had also managed to lower himself onto all four hooves and stood next to Gavin with a blank look on his face.
"Please can you help us?" he asked.
This seemed snapped the girls out of their laughing fit, bringing them back down to the problem: How to get them back to their world.

Twilight trotted up to them and took a hoof from each of them.
"What are you doing?" asked Gav.
"Teaching you to walk. You'll probably need to, if we're going to find a way to get you out of here and then back home." Twilight replied confidently. She was ok; now she had a plan.

First they'd teach Gavin and Dan how to walk, and then find them a place to stay, next get everyone together to think of a way to get them out, and then do it. Simple as pie.

She smiled warmly and stepped backwards, pulling the two stallions forward.
"Stop! I'm gonna fall!" yelled Dan, leaning back and putting his free hoof forward.
"There you go! Just keep stepping, put some pressure on me if you need to steady yourselves."

Gavin and Dan looked at each other briefly before shrugging and deciding to do as Twilight suggested.
They went very slowly, and wobbled around for the first few steps but eventually got the hang of walking.
"Now try for yourselves." said Twilight with a smile as she slowly placed Dan and Gavin's hooves on the ground.

Dan was first to take a shaky step towards the girls, shortly followed by Dan.
"I did it!" yelled Dan.
"Me too!" added Gavin.

Soon enough everypony had joined in. They were cheering Gavin and Dan on, treating it as a race. The pair just let go and had some fun with the girls. They allowed themselves to forget where they were and who they were with.

As they continued the race, Twilight trotted over to Spike, "Spike, take a letter"
"No problem Twilight" he replied.
"Dear Princess Celestia, Dan and Gavin have woken up. They seemed shocked at first, but are now calm and are learning how to walk. We'll come and see you up in Canterlot tomorrow to discuss what to do with them and how to get them home. Being the elements of harmony we must help them, and they seem pretty nice anyway. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

Spike then rolled up the letter, blew his magical green flame over it and watched as it disappeared. Twilight looked back over to her friends laughing and having fun with the new stallions and smiled to herself. Maybe this wasn't such a bad thing after all...

Chapter 8 Normal Chips please

After quite some time, Gavin and Dan had mastered walking on four hooves; they could now move around quite confidently and easily and even run.
"This is top." said Gavin as he trotted around triumphantly with Dan.

Twilight giggled and walked back over to the group.
"It's pretty late; I think we should all go home and get some rest. I've told the princess that we'd all visit her tomorrow." she explained.
"That's cool, but what time should we meet at the station?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Ah think that about ten should do nicely. That way we could all get some much needed shut eye." replied Apple Jack. Everypony nodded, happy with the time.

However there was still the problem of Gavin and Dan.
"Uh, where are we going to stay?"
"Fer now ya'll could stay in mah barn." Suggested AJ, “it’s not all that comfortable, but it's safe 'n warm." Gav and Dan nodded.
"Sounds like a plan!" said Dan happily.

Gavin however was looking up in though with a slight tinge of sadness in his eyes.
"Don't worry you two, the princess will find a way to get you back for sure" added Fluttershy with a warm smile. Gavin returned the smile and looked to AJ to lead the way.
"See ya'll tomorrow, we'll be goin' now". She said as she trotted through the doors followed by Gav and Dan.

Everypony else said their goodbyes and set off home, wondering what to expect from the day to come.

Apple Jack led the two stallions down the dirt path towards sweet apple acres. They went at a fair speed to say that two of them were unable to move a few hours ago. Most of the way they kept quiet, all three of them deep in thought.

Gavin was the first to speak up.
"So, does anyone else live there?"
"Yep, mah brother Big Mac, mah sister Apple Bloom and finally Granny Smith." she replied.
"ok." he said.
"Are they nice?" asked Dan.
"Of course! The Apple Family ain't got one nasty member. We are lookin' after you two odd balls." she chuckled, giving the two stallions a cheeky glance.

It didn't take too long for the trio to reach sweet apple acres. They trotted through the gate allowing Gavin and Dan to take in the sights of the rolling hills and apple trees. Lots and lots of apple trees.

"Wow, that's a bloody lot of trees!" shouted Gavin.
"And we need every single one of ‘em; It is nearly cider season after all. Ya'll can help us on the farm to earn your keep." she chuckled.
"Cider? Did you say cider?" asked Dan. "As in alcoholic cider?"
"Yeah, wha?" she replied.

Gavin and Dan looked at each other, wide eyes and big smiles.
"Get in lads!" yelled Gavin whilst bending one of his forelegs towards himself. AJ shrugged off their strange behavior and carried on towards the house.

When they reached it, Apple Jack opened the door and walked into the kitchen.
"Howdy ya'll!" she said to her family, who were sat around the kitchen table.
"Howdy Apple Jack! Ah missed ya all day, where were ya?" asked Apple Bloom.
"Well... Er... Ah was pickin' up these two from the station." she lied as she gestured to the two stallions.

They stood nervously in the doorway and waved slowly at the rest of the Apple Family.
"Ah'd like everypony to meet Gavin and Dan, some old friends of Twilight's from Canterlot."
"Hi" muttered Gavin.
"Hello" added Dan.
"Well it's nice to meet ya'll, but if ya don't mind me askin', why are you here?" asked Granny Smith while shaking their hooves.

Gavin and Dan stared at her sacredly, not knowing what to say.
"Ah know!" yelled Apple Jack suspiciously. "They're gonna be stayin' in the barn, if that's ok with you that is, cuz they don't have nowhere else to stay." she mumbled. Granny Smith narrowed her eyes and glared at her for a while, a few beads of sweat on her forehead.

"That's ok." said Granny Smith, almost instantly changing moods. "Do ya need feedin'?" she asked Gavin and Dan.
"Phor! Yeah, I'm starving!" replied Dan.
"Me too, bangers and mash would be nice." added Gavin with a smile.
"They sound funny." said Apple Bloom.
"Never mind her, but bangers and what now?" said Granny Smith.

Gavin and Dan looked to each other for a second, confusedly. Suddenly Gavin's eyes grew wide and he looked back to the family.
"I meant. Chips." he replied quickly.
"Potato chips, fer dinner?"
"Uh... No, chips, as in “chips” chips." he replied.
"Yeah chips." added Dan
"Chips?"
"Yeah chips"
"Why chips?"
"Because chips!"
"Are ya sure ya'll mean chips?"
"Yes! Chips!"
"Are you confused son?"
"HOW ABOUT A PIE?!" shouted Apple Jack, fed up with that conversation.
"I like pie" whispered Dan quietly.
"It's settled then, Granny Smith, make a pie please. You two idiots, explain yer selves to Apple Bloom and Big Mac, and no, not that part, just about yer selves ok?"
"Yes" replied Gavin.
This is gonna be one long night though AJ..

Chapter 9 Nightmares

After the pie and the light conversation that came with it, Apple Jack took Gavin and Dan to the barn. She opened up the large door and trotted inside.
"Well here it is. This is where you'll be hunkerin' down." she said.
"It's nice... For a barn" said Dan as he followed Apple Jack inside.
"Thanks? Anyway, make sure ya'll get some sleep. Ah'll wake ya up in the mornin'."

The two stallions made their way over to the large bundles of hay and settled down in them.
"This stuff is kind of itchy." grunted Gavin as he tried to get comfy.
"Ah'm sorry but it's all we've got fer now. You're gonna have t' make do." she replied. "G'night"
"Night, night." whispered Dan.
"Sleep tight." added Gavin.
AJ chuckled and shut the door, leaving them in total darkness.

Gavin and Dan sat in silence for a while, the occasional bird chirping breaking the still air.
"Gavin?" said Dan.
"Yeah"
"Do you ever think this has happened before?" he asked.
"Don't know. Maybe" replied Gavin.
"Do you think we're going to get back?"
"I hope so. I miss normal."
"Me too." With that they put their heads down on the hay and drifted off into the world of sleep.
.....................

The sunlight seeped through cracks in the barn walls, landing softly on Gavin's back. The warmth was so relaxing and calm. He dreamt of being on Earth with his friends. Recording slow mo with Dan and let's plays with his friends at Achievement hunter. He almost believed that he was there. It felt so real.

As a beam of light found a new crack in the wood, it fell onto Gavin's eye lids. He fluttered his eyes and slowly opened them, bringing him back to the harsh reality of being a pony. He cursed to himself quietly, wishing that the dream was reality. He stood up and walked over to a hole in the wall. The sun was only just peeking over the trees; it had to be too early to go just yet.

Deciding that he could get another hour of sleep, he headed back to his pile of hay and flopped down heavily. He sighed and laid his head down gently.
"Please be the same dream." he muttered as he fell asleep once more.
.................

Gavin hobbled along the path, walking stick in hoof, a flop of grey hair on his head. His hip hurt, his back ached and his skin was old and wrinkled.
"I hate it here..." he grumbled to himself. “Now I don't even have Dan” he added as a single tear rolled down his cheek.

He sat on a bench and watched the fillies and colts playing in the park. How could they be so happy? He thought. What did I ever do to deserve this?

His vision faded and he found himself on Earth, at a grave yard in Austin. He looked down on a funeral, as he floated in the sky.
"Here lies, Geoff Ramsey..." said the man stood up in front of the crowd. Gavin's eyes shot wide open.
"No! No! No! Geoff isn't dead... He can't be!" he screamed, but no one else heard.

The vicar continued.
"He lived a good life. The only thing that troubled him was the disappearance of his good friend... Gavin Free. Now their souls are together again".

Gavin began screaming wildly.
"I'm here! Look at me! I didn't leave him!" a few tears fell from his eyes as he tried to make sense of what was happening.
......................

"I'm here!" yelled Gavin as he shot up from his bed of hay, panting heavily. Dan was sat next to him, one of his fore legs patting Gavin on the back.
"It's ok Gavin, I'm here." whispered Dan kindly.

Gavin looked at Dan though watery, bloodshot eyes.
"Nightmare?" asked Dan.
"Yeah, I just want to go home. What If we never do and everyone dies without us?" he whimpered.
"You can't think like that! We will bat back" Dan assured, "that princess seems smart, she'll know what to.

Dan rubbed Gavin's back which comforted him and stopped him feeling alone.
"What if she can't?" asked Gavin.
"We'll find a way to get back, I promise."

Apple Jack as stood in the doorway, looking through the small opening. She hadn't thought of how much this had affected them inside. She realized how scared and lonely they were in this world. Something told her that she could trust then now. She saw that they were gentle and sensitive below their rather stupid shell.

She trotted inside and sat down in front of Gavin and Dan, both of them with bags under their eyes and messed up manes and tails.
"Now ya'll get up and cheer up. Ah personally promise to ya, that ya will get back home. Now if ya want that, yer better stand up and come with me. You need something in your stomachs 'fore we go to Canterlot."

Her kindness cheered both of them up and she helped them up into four hooves.
"Thanks. I feel better now" said Gavin with a smile.
"Yeah, if you have nightmares you can just tell them to stop." laughed Dan.
"Oh shut up you." chuckled Gavin.

They trotted over to the farm house and sat around the table.
"Howdy ya'll! How was yer sleep?" asked Granny Smith.
"Top, thanks for asking" replied Gavin.
"That's good, Ah'm makin' apple fritters fer breakfast." she said happily.

The smell of sweet apples danced around their nostrils.
"It smells great" uttered Dan whilst sniffing the air deeply.
"Well thank ya kindly." she said. She set the table and put a few apple fritters on every pony's plates.

They ate for a while with a nice chat going on too.
"What are yer cutie marks?" asked Apple Bloom. Everypony looked at them and they just stared back at them blankly.
"Uh... What's a..." mumbled Dan
"Never mind that, we need to go! We're gon' be late and we can't have that..." interrupted AJ hastily.
"Ok but... What is..."
"Come on!"
"Seriously what's a..."
"Now fellas!"

Apple Jack grabbed them by the hooves and pulled them through the door.
"A cutie mark is a mark on somepony's flank that shows their true talent." explained AJ. Gavin and Dan twisted their necks around to look at the small symbols on their flanks.
"Hey, mine's a creeper!" exclaimed Gavin.
"Mine's a camera and a stop watch" added Dan, "not bad".
"What n' tarnation is a creeper Gavin?" asked Apple Jack.
"A mob from Minecraft that explodes when you get close to it." explained Gavin "Hey maybe it's not such a good cute flank mark." he added.

"No it suits you for three reasons: One, you’re a creeper in the let's plays; Two, you're destructive; Three, you're sneaky." said Dan with a snicker.
"Hey! ... Well actually, yeah I suppose so" agreed Gavin.
"Ah'm so confused..." AJ mumbled.
"Never mind, let's go!" exclaimed Gavin as he and Dan set off galloping down the path.

"Oh what the hay." yelled Apple Jack with a smile as she began running after them. For two random odd stallions, they're actually pretty good she thought...

Chapter 10 Slow Mo Time

When they reached the station, the rest of the mane six were already there, waiting.
"Howdy everypony, are we late?" asked the farm pony as she trotted up to her friends.
"No darling, you’re right on time, we were a tad early" replied Rarity, whilst greeting Apple Jack with a hug.

Apple Jack sighed with relief and smiled.
"Thank Celestia, Ah hate ta be late." she said, breaking the hug.
"Hey AJ that rhymed! You're a poet and you didn't know it... That rhymed too! I'm a poet and I didn't know it...Hey guys, I'm a poet!" chirped Pinkie Pie, making everypony giggle.

As the train appeared through the tunnel, the group of ponies waited for it to come to a stop. When it did, Twilight gave eight tickets to the stallion stood by the door, and lead everypony inside.
"Boy, this is a nice train." said Gavin happily.
"Yeah, where we come from trains go underground in tubes, are full of chavs, and constantly smell of piss." added Dan with a smile.
"Uhm, what is a "chav" and what is a "piss"?" asked Fluttershy quietly.
"Oh, er... It doesn't matter" replied Dan kindly.

They chatted amongst themselves for the rest of the journey, the mane six were very surprised that they got on so well with Gavin and Dan and that they were genuinely nice stallions.

Eventually the train arrived in Canterlot, forcing an end to the conversation. They stepped out onto the cobble stones of Canterlot station one by one, Gavin and Dan gasping as they looked at the incredible view of the gentle hills surrounding Ponyville.
"That's a beast view!" exclaimed Dan as he continued to take in the sights.
"Oh there's way cooler stuff than that, especially in the Princess' palace. I'd even go to say that it's awesome" said Rainbow Dash.
"Come on everypony, this way. I don't want to keep the Princess waiting." said Twilight with a weak smile.

They all turned to Twilight and followed her along the winding roads of Canterlot, up to the grand palace. There was a nice atmosphere among the group, they were getting along well and starting to have fun it seemed. Gavin and Dan had realized that there was no point in being depressed or scared or worried, if anything it would only lessen their chances of getting back to England.

They finally arrived at the gates to the palace and they guard opened them up, recognizing Twilight.
"Good morning Twilight, who are these two?" he asked, pointing to Gavin and Dan.
"Friends of mine from Ponyville." she lied.

The guard stroked his chin and stared them down, "Ok, but are you just friends? I don't want to have to tell Captain Armour..."
"Yes. We are friends now let us through." She grunted through gritted teeth, not wanting to keep the Princess waiting and lose her punctual reputation, or worse, get sent back to magic kindergarten.
"Fine" he replied quickly as he opened the gate wider so that they could fit through.

Once inside they all followed Twilight (who knew the way to the Princess by heart) down the corridors to the throne room. She nodded at the guards and trotted in proudly.

Princess Celestia smiled warmly and came down from her high throne.
"Ah Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student, I see that your new friends are awake." she greeted along with a hug.
"Yes Princess, we came here to discuss how we could get them back, and what to do with them until then." replied Twilight, breaking from the hug.

The princess trotted over to Gavin and Dan, admiring her work.
"They came out as very handsome looking stallions." she giggled whilst patting Gavin's scruffy mane.
"Heh, thanks" he chuckled in response.

Apple Jack then walked up to the tall princess and bowed her head.
"So Princess, do ya have any way to get 'em back?" she asked, wanting to do all she could to help Gavin and Dan. Celestia looked to Apple Jack and hung her head.
"I'm afraid not my little ponies" she replied sadly.

Everypony gasped and looked to the pair of stallions, who looked up to the princess desperately.
"Oh my! This is just absolutely awful!" yelled Rarity with one of her legs across her fore head.
"I thought about it all night, but there is no safe way to get you back that I can think of at the moment" she added.

Gavin and Dan were devastated, how could they spend the rest of their lives here? Memories of his dream filled Gavin's head and he flopped to the ground and sighed heavily, seemingly giving up on life. Dan looked down to his friend and remembered the promise he'd made. There's one thing that he would never do, and that's to break promises.

He looked at the princes, eyes like daggers, and marched up to her.
"What?!" he shouted. "You expect us to just live out our lives here?!" he yelled. He could feel the anger welling up inside him. "WELL YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING, BITCH." he screamed as his horn glowed with a bright, chocolate brown colour.

He scrunched up his eyes and sent a large beam of magic at the princess. He opened his eyes and saw himself and Celestia, encased inside a bubble. Everything on the inside seemed normal, and everything on the outside moved in slow motion.
"Oh my!" uttered the princess as she examined the time bubble. "Dan, this is incredible! You've been a unicorn for a day and you did this!" she added breathlessly, his outburst completely ignored.

Dan was panting heavily and still looking around. The mane six were trying to run towards him, whilst Gavin was cheering for him... very, very slowly. "I'm sorry Princess; I got a little bit angry. What have I done though?" he asked, shocked at his own ability.
"You've perfectly performed an extremely complex spell." she answered. "It seems you have a gift for magic." she added with a smile.

Dan shook his head.
"Nah, this must just be how my slow motion work has come into this world." he replied which a shrug as he sent another beam of magic out, to end the spell. When the beam of magic hit the bubble, it slowly peeled away and popped.

As soon as the bubble was gone, everypony but Gavin ran straight into Dan, as they were running to him before.
"Ah, crickey!" yelled Dan as the mares piled up around him.
"Woooooo! Gooooooooo Dan!" shouted Gavin happily, watching the pile-up from his position, sat on the floor.

Dan chuckled and helped the mane six up to their hooves, before looking up to the princess.
"What now?" He asked.
"You can stay here until we find a way to get you back; and we will find one eventually, I assure you." she answered with a smile.
"Ok, thanks princess." he replied, returning the smile.
"Uh, what just happened?" asked Twilight angrily.
"That doesn't matter now my faithful student. Dan and Gavin will stay with you in Ponyville until I find a way to send them back safely." She replied with a smile.

She looked over the ponies, most of them patting dust from their coats. Gavin, however, was sat on the ground, looking lost and hopeless once more. For this she felt extremely guilty.
"And to make it up to Gavin and Dan, you're all getting tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala!" she announced. Everypony whooped and cheered, Gavin even joined in, picking up that it was a party.
"This'll be top!" he said happily to Dan, a smile spread across his muzzle.
"Let's go out for lunch in Canterlot everypony, my treat." suggested Rarity, getting happy nods of approval in response. I just hope that Gavin and Dan have good manners she thought...

Chapter 11 Wet Bread

Rarity felt very sorry for Dan and Gavin. She'd hate to be dumped, without choice, in a whole different word, not to mention the fact they their bodies had been changed. She shuddered at the very thought. Now they'd been told that there was currently no way to get them back; that they were trapped here. She felt that she had to do something to lighten the mood, and that's how she found herself sat inside a café with her five best friends and the two stallions.
They sat around a large round table, in a fairly posh and well known café in the centre of Canterlot. Apple Jack was seated next to Gavin, with Pinkie was next to her, then Twilight, then Rainbow Dash, then Rarity and finally, Fluttershy next to Dan.
"Thanks Rarity." said Gavin sweetly with a smile.
"You are quite welcome darling, now, what's your favorite thing to eat?" she asked. Before Gavin could answer, Dan answered for him.
"WET BREAD!" he shouted with a devious grin on his muzzle, "He loves wet bread, don't you Gavin?" Gavin gagged and heaved with a hoof over his mouth.
"Dan!" he spluttered out in between the awful sounds he was making.
"He loves the way it drips... even though it's a solid! He loves to squish it in his hands and hear it squelch as it bursts through his fingers..." Dan added, making sound effects to go along too.
"...where... are... the... toilets?" he barely managed to form the words as his stomach pulsed violently.
"Over there dear, why?" Rarity gestured towards a door in the corner of the café.
"...thanks." squealed Gavin as he jumped out of his chair and ran over to the door.
Dan wriggled around in his chair, laughing loudly. He wiped a tear from his eye and composed himself.
"Get's him every time." he chuckled, still not fully stopped laughing. Rarity blushed and sank down in her seat as she realized that everypony in the café was looking at them, judging them.
"Oh my..." she whispered as she covered her face from the prying eyes of the ponies of Canterlot.
"What are you looking at everypony!?" Pinkie screeched, noticing how embarrassed Rarity was. The ponies looked away from them and carried on with their lunches.
A very grumpy Gavin then staggered back over to the table, and sat down with his fore legs crossed.
"What's up with ya Gav?" asked AJ, patting him on the back gently.
"Wet bread." he muttered giving Dan a hard glare, making him laugh more.
"Uh... Gavin how did Dan mentioning wet bread make you throw up?" asked Fluttershy softly.
"Can we please change the subject?" he replied with a weak smile to stop her from worrying.
"Yeah, let's talk about, I don't know... headlight fluid?" giggled Dan. Gavin laughed weakly and cheered up, glad that the wet bread conversation was over.
A waitress then came over and handed out some menus. Gavin and Dan skimmed through the menus, noticing the lack of meat.
"Gavin, why is there no meat?" whispered Dan from behind his menu.
"They're ponies for god's sakes, do you expect them to eat meat?" he replied in a loud whisper.
"Oh right, well, what are you going to have?" asked Dan. Gavin looked back to his menu and read some of the meals in the favorites section.
"Uh... a dandelion sandwich and hay fries I think." he answered with a shrug. Dan nodded.
"Yeah me too." he agreed.

The waitress then came back, levitating a note pad and quill beside her with her magic.
"What can I get you?" she asked.
"I'll have a small buttercup salad please." replied Rarity.
"I'll have the same." added Twilight.
"And me." added Fluttershy.
"And for you?" said the waitress, now looking to Rainbow Dash.
"Uh... get me something cool." she replied with a shrug.
"Ah'll have an apple salad with apple slices please." answered Apple Jack.

She slowly looked to Pinkie, every waitress dreaded taking her order, but someone had to.
"Hello! Can I have a chocolate cupcake, a vanilla muffin, a banana soufflé, a toffee cake, a strawberry tart, a bucket of ice cream... WITH SPRINKLES! and a..."
"Pinkie darling, I think that's enough." interrupted Rarity from under the table, face hoofing.
"Ok Rarity, did you get that?" she asked the waitress who was furiously scribbling on her pad.
"Yes, thank you." the waitress replied quietly and distantly.
"Great!" exclaimed Pinkie with a huge smile.
"Finally, what do you two fine stallions want?" She asked with a wink, making them cringe.
"We we'll both have the dandelion sandwich with hay fries please." he replied meekly.
"No problem, it won't be long." she said as she walked away.

They had a nice chat whilst they waited for the food, Rarity slowly re-appeared from under the table as she started to let go of the 'incident'. After a while the meals arrived, Pinkie's taking several waiters and most of the room on the table.
"Jesus Pinkie, are you sure you can eat all that?" asked Gavin.
"Don't underestimate me Gavy Wavy!" She yelled. "I need a lot of energy to jump so much..." she trailed off whilst stuffing a cake into her mouth.

Dan looked at the sandwich on his plate and prodded it with the tip of his hoof before sniffing it. He then picked it up with his hooves and examined it. After deciding that it looked edible, he took a very small bite of the corner. It didn't taste of much, it was quite dry and bitter too but it was fairly pleasant, nice enough to eat anyway.
"What d'ya think Dan?" asked Twilight as she picked up a few salad leaves from her bowl.
"It's alright, quite nice actually." He replied before taking another, larger bite.
"What about you Gavin?" she asked.
"It's pretty good to say that it's some weeds in bread." he replied with a smile.

They all ate their meals with some light conversation until the last of them had finished with the food. Rarity then paid the bill and left a tip. They headed outside of the café and stood outside, on the sunny street. The mane six however, decided that they needed to talk, alone.
"Would ya'll stay here please, we need to talk about mare stuff." said Apple Jack with a kind smile.
"No problem." replied Gavin happily, glad to have a chance to catch up with Dan.
"Thank ya kindly." she said before trotting away with the other mares.

The elements stood in a circle, just out of earshot from the stallions.
"We need to talk." said Twilight...

Author's Note

Thanks for reading, sorry for the late chapter If any one wants to see a picture that I drew of the Slow Mo Stallions, use this link
:) .http://browse.deviantart.com/art/The-Slow-Mo-Stallions-363745302

Chapter 12 Trust

Twilight paused briefly whilst the others nodded in agreement. They'd needed to talk alone ever since Dan and Gavin were transformed; they'd never had the chance though.
"What do you think of Dan and Gav?" asked Twilight.
"I don't know, they seem cool, but I don't think I fully trust them yet." replied Rainbow Dash with a shrug.
"Well Ah trust em'." argued Apple Jack.
Everypony turned to look at Apple Jack, a determined look on her face.
"Ah know they may seem suspicious, but they're sufferin' just from being here. They never wanted to come here, we should at lease give them our trust while they are." she added with a smile.
"I agree! They’re our friends!" Pinkie said whilst bouncing.
"Ok, but after what Dan did to princess Celestia, I don't know if I can just yet. We should probably keep an eye on them, just to be safe." concluded Twilight.
They broke from their huddle and trotted back over to the waiting stallions.
"What did you talk about?" asked Gavin with a smile.
"Oh, just mare stuff." replied Rainbow Dash.
"Cool. So what are we going to do now?" he asked.
"You heard the Princess, you're going to live in Ponyville in AJ's barn until she finds a way to get you back." she answered calmly. "Besides, as a fellow pegasus, you need to learn how to fly." She added with a smug grin on her muzzle.
Gavin gulped and looked at his wings. He un-folded them and flapped them quickly, sending a few feathers drifting off. They looked so small; surely they couldn't carry his weight in the air.
"Are you sure they'll... work?" he asked sheepishly.
"Of course, pegasi come with wings that fit them, and yours fit you." she said, patting him roughly on the back, unsettling his wings.
"Come on Gav, I'm sure all the experience with front flips you have will help you" Dan snickered.
"My flips are awesome!" he argued with a chuckle.
"Yeah, if you're meant to land on your back!" Dan giggled.
"Well at least I can read menus." grumbled Gavin, making Dan stop laughing instantly and start sulking.
The mane six, confused once again, set off down to the train station with Gavin and Dan. They trotted down the cobble stone roads; the sound of their hooves hitting the ground still shocked the two stallions, used to the soft patting sound of their feet.
"Do you want to learn some magic Dan?" asked Rarity politely.
"Uh... Okay?" he answered unsure as to what exactly he'd be learning.
"Excellent, some simple levitation spells could come in handy for you." she added with a warm smile.
Twilight gestured for Rarity to come closer to her and away from Gavin and Dan.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" she asked in a low whisper.
"Of course, as Gavin will learn to fly Dan should learn how to use his magic." replied Rarity.
"What if-"
"What if nothing, how would you like to be banned from using your magic? Hmm?"
Twilight lowered her head and looked up to Rarity sadly.
"Exactly dear, you do need to lighten up Twilight. They are good stallions and they're relying on us." she nudged Twilight playfully.
When they arrived at the station they boarded the train once again and settled down in the cart.
"So what do you do for fun here?" asked Dan.
"Uh... I don't know. Something usually comes along for us to do." replied Fluttershy. Everypony else nodded or shrugged in agreement.
"We could go to the spa?" giggled Rarity, making everypony laugh.
"I don't think that's for us." chuckled Gavin happily.
They continued to chat and discuss ideas until they arrived back at Ponyville. They then disembarked the train and stood in a group just outside the station.
"Bye guys I should probably get back home. I'll fly by and pick you up for flight training tomorrow." and with a wink, Rainbow Dash flew off.
"And I'm sure Twilight and I can meet you tomorrow to teach you some magic Dan. Goodbye!" added Rarity as she trotted off with Twilight.
"Me and Fluttershy can arrange your ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party too!” exclaimed Pinkie, throwing her fore leg around Fluttershy's neck. "Goodbye!" she yelled as she bounced away.
"Uhm... Yes... Goodbye." muttered Fluttershy with a sweet smile as she also, trotted away.
"Ah guess that leaves us three." said Apple Jack, turning around and heading back to Sweet Apple acres.
Fifteen minutes later, the trio had arrived in front of the Apple family barn. "Ya'll should get some sleep; ya got a big day ahead of ya." Apple Jack said as she opened the door to the barn, letting them in.
"Yeah, thanks Apple Jack." replied Gavin, hugging her.
"Good night." added Dan joining the hug.
“Shucks, Ah’m just bein’ neighborly.” She broke from the hug and left, leaving the stallions to settle in for the night.
“...hey Dan?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you think we’ll get back?”
“...of course we will.”
“...”
“...”
“Michael and Ray are never going to believe us.”
“Then we’ll bring ‘em proof. Now go to sleep Gavin.”
“Goodnight Dan.”

Author's Note

I'm really sorry for the late chapter guys, hopefully it's worth it but I'll definately get another one out today for you to make up fro missing a day :)

Chapter 14 Awkward Crashing

Gavin smiled at Rainbow Dash, although he couldn't exactly fly yet she kept telling him that he had the potential.
"Should I try that one again?" he asked not wanting to waste any time. Rainbow Dash scratched her head with a hoof, thinking about what she should do next. If he tried that again he could lose even more feathers, damage his wings or injure himself...
"No! Uh... I mean I think you should get the hang of flapping a bit more before you try that again." she explained with a smile. She flew down and stood in front of Gavin, her wings spread out as an example.
"I just want you to copy what I do." she said happily, receiving an enthusiastic nod from Gavin. She moved her left wing down, and held it against her side, Gavin did the same. She then did the same with her right, he followed suit. Then she lifted her left wing straight up, and he again copied her. Finally she repeated for the right wing.

She smiled, at least he had individual control of his wings; his difficulty was moving them in sync; staying coordinated was also a problem for him.
"Okay, now repeat that with both wings, making sure that you move both wings together. Okay?"
"Okay." he replied with a happy smile.
He brought his wings down, the left slightly ahead, and then he brought them back up together.
"Try again Gav, the left was slightly ahead." she urged.

Gavin nodded and tried again, with his right wing ahead this time. Rainbow Dash face hoofed, making Gavin frown slightly. Then, wanting to impress his teacher, without warning he trotted back and set off galloping forwards. When he reached the line he leapt into the air, this time not aiming for the first cloud but a higher cloud further back. He straightened his body and powerfully flapped his wings keeping him up. He then flapped again, his wings working together perfectly. He had his eyes set on his goal as he continued to fly, his flaps now steady and frequent.

Eventually, he reached the cloud and landed gracefully onto it. He looked down at Rainbow Dash who had a smile spread across her muzzle.
"Ha ha! That's it Gav! That was great, just keep practising and you’ll be flying like me, well not as awesomely, but you can try." she exclaimed happily.
"Top! Should I try for another cloud now?" he asked, wanting to perfect flying.
"Okay, go for it." she replied with a smile.

He crouched down and lunged forwards and upwards, spreading his wings as he did so. He then began flapping properly, moving his wings together and very frequently.
"I'm doing it!" he yelled as he turned back towards Rainbow Dash who at first was smiling, but had her smile slowly fade away into a look of worry.
"Gavin stop!" she shouted, noticing him moving as he looked at her.
"What?" he mumbled as he directed his focus back to the task at hand.

Without noticing, he'd slowed his flap rate and begun to move diagonally downwards. Panicking, he tried to flap harder and faster, but the stress of the situation got to his head and his wings were once again out of time. He made an odd yelping/squealing sound as he dropped like a lead weight moving his wings violently, trying to fly. He realized that his best bet was to spread his wings as wide as possible and aim for a mountain to run down... However he was only ten feet from the ground, directly above a very scared pony.

As he collided with the pony, his weight and force of impact knocked them off their hooves and onto the ground. Gavin's body was on top of theirs, pushing them back along the ground. The friction eventually stopped them and Gavin looked down to see who he'd landed on. She was a butter yellow mare with a now thoroughly messed up, pink mane that covered one of her ears. She fluttered her eyes open and began blushing uncontrollably. Gavin, still hazy from the crash, lay there on top of her for a few seconds.

"Eeeeep!" she squealed, snapping Gavin out of his haze and back to reality. He jumped off her and pulled her up.
"Fluttershy?" he asked with a weak smile, knowing that she was very, very shy, and that he'd just crash landed onto her and ended up in a rather... unfortunate position. "Oh my God! I'm so sorry!" he mumbled, pulling her to her hooves and brushing some dirt off her coat.
"It's.... uhm... okay." she said quietly, "It was just an accident." she added with a smile.

Rainbow Dash suddenly darted over to them and fell onto the floor in a fit of laughter.
"Holy hay!" she cried, rolling on the floor. "I never thought I'd ever see anything that funny ever!" she giggled. Gavin grabbed her hoof to help her up, but she shoved him off while muttering something about not touching her hooves.
"Hi Rainbow Dash." said Fluttershy meekly with a weak smile.

"Oh hey Fluttershy, are you okay?" she asked a touch of concern colouring her voice.
"I'm fine, I just came by to see how you were getting on, obviously not very well..." she trailed off with a cheeky smile.
"Actually Gavin was doing really well, until he lost focus and crashed into you." she hoofed him playfully in the ribs.
"Oh that's good." Fluttershy said.
"How about we go get some lemonade?" asked Rainbow Dash, "I don't think that we should go straight back to practising anyway, and Gavin needs to sort out his feathers." she added patting Gavin's wing lightly.
"That sounds good." replied Gavin.
"Okay, sure." added Fluttershy with a smile.

Author's Note

New chapter bright and early :)

Chapter 15 How do you magic?

Meanwhile across town, Twilight, Rarity and Dan were all heading over to the library, after picking him up from the barn.
"So what kind of things can you do with magic?" asked Dan, curious.
"Lots of things dear, you can levitate, teleport, freeze or heat things, time control in your case, and like Princesses Celestia and Luna, control the sun and the moon." replied Rarity, happy to help.
"Wait, wait, wait, so the Princesses control the sun and moon?" he asked.
"Why yes, of course! How is it done where you’re from?"
"Well, our planet, Earth, orbits the Sun, and the Moon orbits the Earth. The only thing keeping them there is gravity." he answered casually.
"This just gets stranger by the minute, your world must be very different from here." said Twilight.

Dan nodded, it was nothing like here.
"Next thing you'll be telling us that the clouds move and form on their own!" giggled Twilight.
"Oh, or that the animals take care of themselves!" laughed Rarity.
"Uh... yeah?" the two laughing unicorns snapped their heads round to look at Dan. "Yeah, the clouds move on their own and the animals take care of themselves." he added, getting very confused.
"Gosh, it must be like one big Everfree Forest." shuddered Twilight.

By then they'd arrived at the library, and trotted in together. Twilight had set up a few objects on a table that Dan could use to practice on and some notes for him to read too.
"Dan, I intend to teach you like princess Celestia taught me." said Twilight proudly, taking him over to the table.
"Now, first things first: levitation. That's one of the simplest spells." added Rarity with a warm smile.

Dan looked at the objects on the table: An apple, a bowl of hot soup, a block of ice in a bowl, and a flower.
"How do you magic?" he asked with a sheepish smile.
"Well, I could talk you through it." suggested Twilight.
"That sounds good." agreed Dan, smiling happily now.
"Ok, stare at the apple really hard. Concentrate and clear your mind of anything other than the apple."

Dan lowered his head to the apple's level and scrunched his eyes up to concentrate. He hardly even blinked. Once Twilight saw that he had completed her last instruction, she continued.
"Now in your head, imagine the apple floating, or levitating. Then all you need to do it project that through your horn." She added. Dan continued staring at the apple, imagining that it was floating, but it wasn't moving, his horn wasn't glowing either.

Rarity decided to see if she could make it simpler.
"Some unicorns just need to get a feel for their horn Dan. Try tensing your horn, or just anything to feel anything in it, while still concentrating on the apple floating." she explained. Dan gave a slight nod and did so. His horn began to glow a dim chocolate brown colour that grew brighter as time went by. "Dan your doing marvellously, simply marvellously!" exclaimed Rarity for support.

His smile widened as the apple began to glow faintly too, also growing brighter as his focus grew more and more. Sure enough, the apple started to move upwards slowly, until it was completely in the air. Dan lifted his head up, still focused on the apple and turned to the mares.
"I'm doing it!" he yelled happily, barely managing to keep the apple in the air.
"Well done Dan! You did great." encouraged the purple unicorn, surprised that he caught on so fast; it only took about ten minutes.

Dan became a little more adventurous then and started to move the apple in small circles.
"Whoa, this is pips when you get the hang of it!" exclaimed Dan moving the apple around the room. He swirled it around, moved it up and down and all around the perimeter of the room, Twilight and Rarity applauding him.
"Hmmm... I wonder if I..." he mumbled to himself as he changed his vision from a floating apple to an exploding one.

The apple stayed dead still in the centre of the room as Dan increased his focus on the explosion. With one zap of his horn, the apple was obliterated. Pieces off apple shrapnel flew all over the room, coating almost every surface. A few pieces hit Dan directly in the face, making him stumble backwards and trip over a pile of books.
"It wasn't me!" yelled Dan, scrambling up to four hooves. He looked at the two mares, completely coated with apples and chuckled sheepishly.

Rarity was close to tears, looking at the bits of apple in her mane. It was sticky, slimy and hung from her head like a wet fish.
"Dan, I don't know it I can forgive you for this." she said, dramatically turning away from him. Twilight giggled.
"Don't worry everypony, I put a protection spell on the room, it coats everything, protecting it from mess." she explained happily. Her horn glowed brightly and slowly the apple peeled away from the walls, books and ponies, collecting into an apple sized ball.
"Dan, would you be so kind as to levitate this into the bin?" asked Twilight with a smile, "Just don't make it explode again!" she warned.
"No problem!" he said, grabbing the ball with his own magic and putting if into the bin.

Rarity was busy examining her coat and mane.
"Am I clean? Am I clean? Am I clean?" she asked, trying to look at her tail and flank.
"Yes, you look fabulous!" yelled Dan, standing up on his hind legs and flopping his hooves over, getting giggles and laughs from the girls.
"I think that's enough magic practice for one day, lets go and see how Gavin's getting on." suggested Twilight.
"Yeah, I don't want to miss this!" agreed Dan, trotting through the door.

Chapter 16 Menu Trouble

Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Gavin trotted over to Fluttershy's house, Rainbow carrying the lemonade on her back.
"So, how'd you like flying?" asked Dash
"Uhm, it was good for the three seconds that I was actually flying." replied Gavin with a laugh.
"Well, I'm sure you'll get better, practice makes perfect." added Fluttershy, encouraging him not to give up.

They continued walking until they reached the small cottage and sat outside in the sun. Rainbow Dash set the lemonade down on a rock so everypony could drink. Gavin looked up to the sky, not a cloud to be seen. He hadn’t seen weather like this in a while.
"How is the weather here so nice?" he asked.
"Us weather ponies take our jobs seriously y'know. I can clear the sky in ten seconds flat." proclaimed Rainbow Dash as she polished a hoof on her chest.
"The weather in England is awful, grey skies almost all year round." added Gavin sadly.
"Oh goodness, I simply couldn't imagine that." Fluttershy added, slightly saddened at the idea of nothing but grey.

They sat in silence for a while, the sound of the birds chirping and the gentle breeze in the leaves relaxing them; the warm sun falling onto them and contributing to the pleasant afternoon.
"So Gav, what’s your cutie mark?" asked Rainbow Dash, catching a glimpse of the strange green face on his flank.
"It's a creeper." he replied slyly.
"What’s a creeper?" she asked glaring at him.
"Oh, it's a mob from a video game called Minecraft. It explodes when you get too close to it and they're really annoying." he answered.
"It fits you perfectly." Rainbow Dash said, batting her eyelids teasingly.
= = =

The three unicorns had arrived at Rainbow Dash's cloud house.
"Where are they?" asked Dan, wanting to know where Gavin was, and how badly he had injured himself.
"I don't know, they must have left." replied Rarity. Twilight trotted around to where the clouds were set up and looked around.
"I think one of them crashed!" Twilight called back, looking at the ditch Gavin and Fluttershy had left in the ground.
"Aw man, I missed it!" Dan was pouting.
"Never mind that, I do hope they're okay." said Rarity, worried.
"Maybe someon- somepony else knows where they are? Maybe Fluttershy or Pinkie." suggested Dan.

Suddenly something pinker than any living thing had any right to be popped up in between them.
“Christ!" he yelled, falling away from Pinkie.
"Did somepony call me?" If sugar had a voice, it was hers.
"No Pinkie, Dan just said your name."
"Exactly!" shouted Pinkie.
"We were just wondering where Gavin and Rainbow Dash are" stated Rarity with a friendly smile.
"Ok, they're at Fluttershy's place drinking lemonade!" said the party pony.
"How did she-"
"It's just Pinkie, Dan, you'll get used to it." interrupted Twilight.
“If you say so...”
"Goodbye!" yelled Pinkie as she bounced off as randomly as she appeared.

As they walked along the path Dan felt his stomach grumble.
"God damn, I forgot to have breakfast." he admitted, patting his tummy.
"We could all go grab some lunch with the pegasi" suggested Twilight.
"That sounds delightful" said Rarity happily, "So long as you don't mention wet bread in front if Gavin." she added, scowling at Dan.
"Yeah, I won't, don't worry." he chuckled thinking back to Gavin's dash to the toilets.

It wasn't long until they reached the cottage and saw the three pegasi at on the ground, laughing and drinking lemonade.
"Hey Gav!" yelled Dan as he galloped over and plopped himself onto the ground.
"Hey Dan." replied Gavin with a smile. Rainbow Dash gave him a harsh glare.
"Oh, hey Rainbow Dash, hey Fluttershy" he added.

"Hello everypony, would you three like to come to lunch with us?" asked Rarity as she trotted over to the others.
"Sure, a fine flyer like Gavin could use some food to replenish his energy." chuckled Rainbow Dash sarcastically.
"Yes, I'd love to go to lunch with you too." agreed Fluttershy quietly.
"It's settled then! We could go to the Flower Bed Bar." suggested Twilight.
"We'd love to Twilight, but its way to far away!" countered Rainbow Dash.
"That's not a problem." said Twilight smugly as her horn began to glow.

In a flash they were all outside the bar, the mares on their hooves and the stallions in a heap on the ground, dizzy and confused.
"What just happened?" asked Gavin, rubbing his head.
"Just a simple teleportation spell." replied Twilight proudly as she and the other mares trotted past the stallions on the ground, and into the bar. They pulled themselves off of the ground and dusted themselves off.
"I wish they'd tell us before doing that." grumbled Gavin, running his hoof through his mane.
"Tell me about it." said Dan as they trotted into the bar.

Inside the bar they sat around a small table and all looked at the menus handed to them. After a while the waiter arrived and asked to take their orders, looking at Dan first.
"What can I get you?" asked the stallion with a friendly smile. Dan had been looking at the menu for a while and had... a bit of trouble deciding.
"Ermmm... Can I have the hayfries veggie burger egg salad chocolate cake lemonade sundae please." he replied with a smile. The waiter's face dropped and he stared at Dan with the most confused face you could imagine while Gavin burst into uncontrolled laughter.

"Pardon?" he said, barely audible.
"Oh okay, the apple pie water brownie please." answered Dan, not knowing what he was doing wrong.
"So you want an apple pie, water and a brownie?" the waiter checked.
"Is that not one thing? Can I have that as a desert?" asked Dan.
"He'll have a mixed leaf salad and so will I." interrupted Gavin, still laughing.
"Okay... what about you lovely mares?" asked the waiter, glad his ordeal with Dan was over.

Chapter 17 Where is he?

Burnie stepped out of his car and strolled up to Geoff's front door. He waited there a second until Geoff opened the door.
"Hey Burnie." he greeted with a smile.
"Hey man, you ready to go?" Burnie asked. Geoff nodded and stepped outside. He turned around and locked the door as Burnie made his way over to the car and got in.
"I can't wait to have him back, the office is a lot more boring without him" sighed Geoff, excited to pick up their guest.
"Me too, and I think our viewers would agree." added Burnie, reaching across and grabbing a sandwich he'd left next to the gear sick.

They drove on to the airport with light charter and laughs, both excited to get Gavin back.
"I hear he and Dan were doing some pretty crazy stuff for the Slow Mo Guys." said Burnie as they turned into terminal two.
"Yeah, I just hope he hasn't injured himself." mumbled Geoff in response. As they pulled into the pick up car park they saw swarms of people filling out of the doors, most of them from London, on the flight with Gavin.
"Where did you say we'd meet him?" asked Burnie.
"In the parking lot, so I guess we just wait." replied Geoff with a shrug.

They waited for half an hour until they started to get a little but worried.
"Where the fuck is he?" yelled Burnie getting impatient.
"Let's go inside and see of he's in there." replied Geoff, staying optimistic. They walked inside and looked around, hoping to see their British friend.
"Any sign of him?" shouted Geoff as he looked around the cafés and bars.
"No luck, this is getting ridiculous now." replied Burnie.
"What if he didn't even make the flight?" asked Geoff.
"It's beginning to look that way," replied Burnie, "let’s check if he did, this way." he added as he stormed off towards the gates.

When they arrived at the gate that Gavin was meant to arrive from, they luckily found a flight attendant sorting out some files at the gate.
"Hello, we were supposed to pick up our friend, was anyone missing on this flight?" asked Burnie, a tinge of anger in his voice.
"Yes, one passenger by the name of Gavin Free was missing." she replied with a smile.
"God damn it!" yelled Geoff, throwing his head back.
"Fuck." stated Burnie face palming.
"I'm afraid he didn't even check in." added the lady.
"What are we gonna do?" asked Burnie, calming down.
"The only thing we can do, I'll call him. I just hope he picks up." said Geoff as he lifted his phone to his ear.
= = =

Back in Equestria, the six ponies were sat around their table at the bar, waiting for their food.
"Oh I can't wait for the Gala!" exclaimed Rarity, breaking the awkward silence.
"Yeah, what is that anyway?" asked Gavin.
"It's the Grand Galloping Gala up in Canterlot, it's basically the Princesses’ party." replied Twilight.
"Sounds good." responded Dan with a shrug.
"Oh yes, speaking of the Gala, I would be honoured to make you all dresses, and suits, to wear!" she offered.

Dan and Gavin shared a glance.
"Wait, we have to wear clothes?!" asked Dan, surprised.
"Why of course dear, you can't show yourself at the Gala without looking fabulous!" replied Rarity.
"Oh." muttered Dan, thinking about how uncomfortable it would be to wear clothes.
"Yeah, you can make my dress Rarity, just make it cool" ensured Rainbow Dash.
"They'll be perfect!" squealed Rarity happily, already getting ideas for designs.

When the food arrived the waiter gave the food out and left; Dan happy that he ended up with something good to eat.
"Are we gonna practice again after this?" asked Gavin, eager to learn how to fly properly.
"Sure." replied Rainbow Dash coolly, "I'll take you to the top and you can try and fly down."
"Top." mumbled Gavin, a mouth full of salad.
"And Dan, do you want to carry on with your magic training?" asked Twilight.
"Yep!" replied Dan happily.
"Although I'm afraid I can’t be there, I'll be working on our outfits." added Rarity sadly

After they'd finished eating they walked out of the bar and Twilight teleported them to Rainbow Dash's house. Dan and Gavin were, once again, on the ground.
"Why is it so hard to stay on your feet when that happens?" grumbled Gavin, struggling to his hooves.
"You'll get used to it, and I think you mean hooves." replied Rainbow Dash as she grabbed his tail in her mouth and dragged him to the clouds.
"Bye guys!" she mumbled through his tail.

Gavin struggled to walk backwards to keep up with Rainbow Dash until she eventually let go of his tail.
"What was that for?!" he yelled wrapping his tail around himself.
"Quit your whining, and get on this cloud" replied Rainbow Dash, back flipping into the air and landing upon said cloud. Gavin stepped back, ran and leaped upwards before landing on the cloud far less gracefully than Rainbow Dash had.
"You're gettin' good at that." teased Rainbow Dash.
"Yeah, I'm a pro." boasted Gavin playfully.
"Okay, hold on!" yelled Rainbow as she flew under the cloud and started pushing it upwards.

Gavin spread out his legs and tried to grab the edges of the cloud with his hooves.
"What are you doing!?" he shouted, shocked by the sudden fast movement.
"Just lifting you up," she replied coolly, "you're gonna fly for real this time." she added before deciding they were high enough and flying back into the cloud with Gavin.

Gavin gulped and peered over the edge of the cloud.
"I'm gonna die." he muttered, backing away from the edge.
"Don't be silly! I know you can do this. Just keep focused and you'll be fine." she encouraged, lunging off the cloud and catching herself in the air with her wings.
"Okay..." said Gavin as he stood up tall and opened his wings. "Let's give this a shot."

Gavin took one step and leaped off the edge of the cloud, feeling weightless and amazing for a split second. He then focused and flared his wings as wide as possible. He stared straight ahead and flapped frequently and constantly.
"Good job Gav!" yelled Rainbow Dash, flying just behind him in case he fell.
"Thanks Dashie!" he shouted nervously, not letting up on his steady rhythm.

After a while he became a lot more confident. He flew up a bit and didn't have to concentrate on his wings so much; it felt much more natural to him. He slowly turned around to face Rainbow Dash and smiled.
"I can really fly!" he exclaimed happily.
"We'll done Gav, you're great!" replied Rainbow Dash hugging him gently so he could still flap his wings. "Hold onto my hooves." she said softly touching his front hooves with hers. Once they had she smiled wickedly and pulled him into a large back flip. At first he was scared but the feeling of flaring in the air and flipping around weightlessly was amazing.

Chapter 18 Front Flip For Style!

Gavin and Rainbow Dash settled on a cloud to rest. It was a beautiful view, they were above the clouds in the warm sun.
"Boy these clouds are comfy!" yelled Gavin as he snuggled into the cloud.
"Yeah, I'm so glad I'm a Pegasus." replied Rainbow Dash, looking at the view.
"It must be pretty crap being an earth pony." added Gavin, sitting up.

Suddenly he had an idea. What was one of his favorite things to do that had just been put onto a T-shirt? Front flip for style.
"Wait here Dash, I got something to show you." said Gavin smugly as he flew off the cloud. He stopped when he was not too far away and smiled at Rainbow Dash. He leaned back and flew straight up.
"FRONT FLIP FOR STYLE!" he screamed as he flipped over in the air. Rainbow Dash cheered and clapped her hooves as he did it.

When he stopped however, he was dizzy and lost his focus, unable to stay upright. He yelped loudly as he dropped from the sky, screaming.
"Gavin!" yelled Rainbow Dash as she dived after him.
"HELP!" screamed Gavin as Rainbow Dash neared him. She managed to grab his hooves and tried to pull him up but he was too heavy.
"Spread your wings you idiot!" she yelled, still desperately trying to slow him down. He replied with a weird chortling sound and flailing his legs. The stallion beneath them had a split second to look up and shield his chocolate pie before the rainbow, blue and light brown bomb hit.

As the dust cleared the three ponies could be seen... in a rather unfortunate position. Pinkie then popped out of a bush next to them and sung,
"It's not gay if it’s in a three way, If there's as mare in the middle it's okay!" before disappearing into the bush again. After hearing her, the three ponies jumped up and stared at each other awkwardly. The stallion they'd hit was ash grey, had a black mane with a yellow streak running through it, and a very angry expression on his face.

They looked down and saw thick, murky, brown liquid splattered over their legs and bodies. Gavin heaved and covered his hoof with his mouth.
"Did someone... Shit... Themselves" he muttered between groans.
"No, you landed on my pie, you ass." grumbled the stallion, his feathers literally ruffled with the encounter.
"Oh... hey Long Shot.” greeted Rainbow Dash sheepishly.
"Hi Dash.” he pointed a hoof at Gavin, “Who’s he?"
"That's Gavin, he and his friend Dan are staying in AJ's barn for a while. They're from Canterlot." replied Rainbow Dash patting Gavin on the back.
"Uh-huh." he muttered.

"I'm gonna go rest my stomach and wash this off." croaked Gavin before trotting over to the stream behind Rainbow's house. As he did he tripped over his hooves and fell over before smiling and standing back up.
"Alright, I’ll bite, what’s wrong with him." said Long Shot suspiciously.
"Uh... nothing’s wrong with him." You didn’t have be Apple Jack to see through her lie.
"Tell me Rainbow Dash." pressured long Shot.
"There's nothi-"
"Tell me!" he interrupted in a loud whisper.
"I swear Long Shot, they're just normal stallions from Canterlot!" replied Rainbow Dash, getting a little annoyed.
"...fine." he grumbled as Gavin trotted back over, coat and mane dripping wet.

He stood in front of them, wet fringe covering his eyes. He stuck out his hoof to shake Long Shots, but the grey stallion didn’t even move his hoof.
"You might wanna shake Gav." said Rainbow awkwardly.
"Really? You do that?" he asked shocked; causing Long Shot to raise his eyebrow.
"Cultural differences..." squeaked Rainbow as Gavin shook, splattering water all over them."You idiot." she added grumpily.

"So, you going to the Gala, Shot?" asked Rainbow Dash moving the conversation from Gavin.
"Yeah, you?" he replied.
"Yeah Gav and Dan are coming with us too." she answered.
"It's gonna be top!" exclaimed Gavin happily.
"Yeah I’m looking forward to it." said Long Shot, deciding to over look Gavin's eccentricities.
"Sorry about your chocolate pie by the way, I'll make sure to pay you back" said Gavin.
"No you don't need to..."
"Nah don't worry about it, how much was it? A fiver should do it right?" he insisted.
"A fiver... What? No it was seven." replied Long Shot, confused.
"Seven quid, got it." added Gavin happily.
"Quid? No seven bits." murmured the confused stallion.

With that Long Shot said goodbye and went his separate way.
"Something's not right about that guy," he muttered just out of earshot, "and I will find out"
"He seemed nice" chuckled Gavin, oblivious to the suspicion.
"Yeah he is... I just don't think he likes you much." giggled Rainbow Dash, grabbing Gavin's hooves and pulling him back into the sky.

Chapter 19 A little bit of Magic

Meanwhile at Twilight's library, the two unicorns were back inside and ready to practice again. He had pretty much mastered levitation spells.... And explosion spells, and was ready to move on to some simple temperature spells.
"Alright Dan, the next object on the table is the bowl of soup." stated Twilight, walking over to the table.
"What type of soup is it?" asked Dan goofily.
"That doesn't matter Dan." sighed Twilight. "The next spell you're going to learn is to cool things down." she said, looking at the stallion.
"Ok." he replied, walking up to the soup.

He crouched down so his eyes were level with the table top.
"Why do I need to cool the soup down... if it's not even hot?" he asked dipping his hoof into the soup. Twilight face-hoofed and used her magic to heat up the soup, making Dan pull his hoof out hastily and stick it in his mouth.
"At urt" he mumbled through his hoof.
"Pardon?" snickered the lavender book pony.
"I said that hurt." he repeated, after taking his hoof out of his mouth again.

Dan once again focused on the soup intently before looking to Twilight, wanting to know what to do.
"Alright Dan, this is just like the levitation spell. Imagine the soup in your minds eye, then imagine it cold" she explained simply. "Finally, project that through your horn."
"Okay, simple enough." replied the chestnut unicorn with a nod. He did exactly as she told him to. He imagined the soup and focused in on it really hard, then imagined liquid nitrogen soup; so cold that it condenses and clouds flow from it.

Sure enough, as he pictured the soup changing his horn and the bowl began to glow the soft chocolate brown colour of his magic, and in a flash the soup was -196 degrees Celsius and condensing in the bowl, filling the room with gas, carrots, onions and leeks.
"Dan! What in Celestia's name have you done?!" yelled Twilight, panicking at the sight of the over-flowing bowl.
"I made it cold like you said." he chuckled with a grin.
"Fix it!" she shouted, waving her hoof towards it.
"Fine." sighed Dan as he pictured the soupy mess, changing it into boiling soup.

His magic engulfed the bowl and it once again transformed, this time into a boiling bowl, spitting drops of soup from the top. Twilight's face grew red and she had to freeze the soup herself. She marched over to Dan and sighed.
"Can’t you just do it normally please?" she pleaded, fed up with the messing about.
"Alright, sorry I'll stop faffing about, though technically I only did what you said..." he trailed of, laughing slightly.
"Thanks." giggled the book pony.

Twilight used her magic to pick the block of ice up from the table and put it in her freezer.
"See as though you've mastered temperature spells, we can move onto the last spell I'm going to teach you. The spell of harm." explained Twilight. Dan smiled and his eyes widened.
"That's badass!" exclaimed Dan happily.
"Well it's only for self defense." she stressed, not wanting him to cause any trouble around Ponyville. "Before I tell you how to do it, try yourself okay? Try and make this plant die." she suggested, pointing at a small sunflower in a flowerpot on the table.
"Fine by me!" replied Dan as he stared at the plant on the table.

He did his usual routine. Stare at it, think of it, change it in his mind then project that through his horn. Only this time nothing happened. His horn glowed and so did the plant, but nothing happened to it.
"Hmmm..." muttered Dan as he stood up straight and looked to Twilight.
"You need a spell for this!" she said, letting him know why it wasn't working.
"Oh... Right, a spell" replied Dan, still not knowing what to do.

Twilight levitated a note in front of his face with the words of the spell written on it.
"Just repeat these words in your head whilst thinking of the plant, all the more complicated spells have some words you need to say or think." she explained, receiving a nod.
"Okay... Here goes." he said the words in his head and soon enough both his horn and the plant were engaged in his magic. In a flash the spell worked and the plant wilted and was close to death.

Dan looked at Twilight happily and cheered.
"Yay! I'm the best!" he yelled.
"You need to promise me that you will only use this if you really need to, this is a last resort." she stressed.
"Ok, ok, calm down. What do you think I am a monster?" chuckled Dan, patting Twilight softly, urging her to calm down.
"Yeah, sorry. This just all seems so... weird y'know?" she sighed.
"Tell me about it." replied Dan, hoisting himself up so he could sit on the table.

Twilight joined him on the table and sighed.
"What if you never get back?" she asked sadly.
"Now don't you go saying that as well!" he said. "Don't you have faith in that princess?" he asked, knowing what she would say.
"Yeah," she replied quietly, eyes fixed on the floor, "but this... This is something else."
"I'm sure it'll be fine Twilight, at least we have some friends while we’re here." he said making her smile.
"And that will get us through." she added looking up with a smile. Dan then hopped of the table and headed towards the door.
"Can we please go and see how Gav's doing though?" he pleaded, complete with puppy dog eyes.
"Sure." agreed Twilight, and so they trotted through the door.
= = =
At carousel boutique, a white unicorn was slaving away over a sewing machine, smile on her face. She hummed a light tune to herself as she worked. She was of course making dresses and suits for the Grand Galloping Gala and she was half way through. She finished stitching the final seam for the current dress and used her magic to hold it up in front of her to examine it.
"Perfect!" she whispered to herself. "That's four down, four to go, all I need to do now are mine, Pinkie's Gavin's and Dan's." she said to herself, deep in thought, head swimming with designs.

She trotted over to the ponyquins and examined them. Every single tiny detail was perfect. She levitated the new piece over to herself and carefully stitched it onto Fluttershy's dress to complete it. She skipped around her shop both excited for the Gala and excited to see her friends' reactions to her hard work. She scanned her eyes across the outfits and the last two bare ponyquins made her think. "I need their measurements..." she realized.
“Oh dear.”

Chapter 20 Footie

Rarity was trotting down the street, quite frustrated. She needed to get those measurements, the Gala was tomorrow and she couldn't afford to have any more set backs.
"Alright Rarity. Keep it together." she said to herself to stop her from panicking. She was heading to get Dan first, then Gavin. She still hadn't even made a start on her own dress and time was running out.

When she reached the library she pushed open the door to find the library empty.
"Twilight? Anyone?" she shouted.
"Rarity is that you?" asked a croaky voice from upstairs. Rarity trotted up the stairs and followed the voice into the bedroom.
"Oh, my poor Spikey Wikey!" she yelled, seeing the tiny dragon tucked up in bed with an ice pack on his head.
"Hey Rarity." he croaked with a weak smile.
"What's wrong?" she asked sympathetically.
"I'm just sick that's all." he sighed.
"Oh, you poor thing."
"What did you come here for anyways?" he asked quietly.
"Oh yes, do you know where Twilight and Dan are?" she asked softly.
"Yeah, they went to see Gavin and Rainbow about a minute ago." he replied.
"Thank you!" she yelled whilst running down the stairs, remembering her deadline. She went at a fast trot over to Rainbow's house hoping to catch Twilight and Dan up before they arrived.

Eventually she did catch sight of them and sped up a bit to reach them.
"Twilight! Dan!" she yelled from not far behind them, making them turn around.
"A'right Rarity?" asked Dan with a smile.
"Yes I'm fine, I just need your measurements to make your suit for the gala." she replied.
"Oh." he muttered quietly.
"Will you come to my boutique after we get Gavin?" she asked, becoming slightly worried and annoyed.
"That sounds good." he replied happily.
"Yeah, we could do with something to do anyway." added Twilight.

When they made it to the cloud house they saw Rainbow Dash and Gavin flying around up above the house. Dan was a little disappointed; he didn't expect Gavin to ever learn how to fly. Then again Gavin never expected Dan to learn how to use his magic.
"Yo Gav!" shouted Dan.
"Wait a sec B!" Gavin yelled in response slowly flying down, he hadn’t really mastered landing yet.
"Hey, so you can fly," said Dan, "that's pretty cool"
"Yeah, how'd your magic thing go?" asked Gavin.
"Awesome, I'm good." replied Dan.
"Really?" Gavin directed towards Twilight.
"Yeah, he's mastered three spells already." she replied happily.

Rainbow Dash then did a large front flip and landed directly in front of Gavin in a striking pose.
"Yeah, I'm awesome, I know already." boasted Rainbow Dash, rearing up.
"Not as awesome as this!" yelled Gavin as he flew several feet into the air.
"FRONT FL-" he began shouting before Rainbow Dash flew up and stopped him.
"No." she asserted, making him pout. "You can practice that when nopony else is around." she added.
"Fine." sighed the stallion before landing gently.

Rarity then stepped forward.
"Hello Gavin, will you please come with me and Dan to be measured for your suits?" she requested politely.
"No problem." answered Gavin. Rarity then set off towards her boutique, followed by Dan and Gavin as she'd told the mares not to come.
"Why didn't you want the others to come?" asked Dan.
"Oh that would ruin the surprise!" She exclaimed, "They can't see their dresses before they're finished."
"Seems legit." responded Gavin with a shrug.

Not too long after they reached the building. Rarity held the door open and let the stallions in. Once inside, she instructed them to stand on a low platform each so it was easier for her to measure. She used a spell to hold them in place and set to work. She put the measuring tape up to their different body parts and used her magic to write the numbers down on her notepad. She worked quite quickly but she had lots of work to do.
"Are you done yet?" moaned Dan, his hooves hurting.
"Almost dear." she replied.
She lied.
Almost an hour and a half later she finally let them go from her spell and as soon as she did they collapsed on the floor.
"My, it is quite late" she mumbled. She gently helped them up and looked out of the window to see Apple Jack walking up to the door.

The farm pony reached the door and walked in, gasping when she saw the two ponies on the floor.
"Good grief, what in tarnation happened here?!" she asked loudly.
"I was measuring them from their suits and they may have collapsed when I broke the spell keeping them in place." Rarity replied sheepishly. "I didn't know they'd been asleep, I did wonder why they were so quiet though..." she added. Apple Jack crouched down in between the two stallions and shook them gently, one with either hoof.

Gavin was first to open his eyes and sit up, shortly followed by Dan.
"Argggghhh" mumbled Dan as he rubbed his eyes.
"What happened" yawned Gavin.
"Ya'll fell asleep while Rarity was measurin' ya" chuckled the orange earth pony. "Ah came to pick ya’ll up fer dinner." she added.
"Good I'm hungry." muttered Dan, standing up.
"Me too, cheers Rarity." added Dan.
"Cheers?" she replied, confused
"G'night Rarity." said AJ as she walked oh of the door, following the two tired stallions.

They were all friendlier with each other now, making everything much less awkward.
"So, how'd yer trainin' go?" asked Apple Jack.
"Amazing." they both replied together.
"Oh really?" she questioned, expecting it to be a disaster.
"Yeah I can fly with a run up!" answered Gavin excitedly.
"And I can do three spells!" added Dan.
"Ah don't believe ya." teased Apple Jack playfully.
"Oh yeah?" yelled Gavin as he galloped ahead and took off into the sky.
"Ah guess that's pretty good."
"Check this out" said Dan. AJ turned to look at him as he levitated a small rock in front if him.

Apple Jack was surprised. She thought that it would've been harder to learn things like magic or flying.
"Hey Gav, catch!" shouted the chestnut unicorn, using his magic to lob the rock at Gavin and hit him on the back.
"Bastard!" screamed the pegasus as he lost control and fell. He managed to land safely at the last possible minute though. Gavin and Dan laughed it off, but that confused Apple Jack, how could your best friend throw a rock at you? It didn't seem right. She figured it was something that humans did, dismissed the thought and galloped ahead.

She stopped in front of a group of apple trees and turned to look at the stallions.
"Ya think what you can do is impressive? Take a look at this" she urged. The mare then bucked an apple tree gently so just two apples fell. She caught the apples on her hind hooves and kicked them up. She then caught them on her hat and tossed her head so they became airborne once more. Gavin and Dan watched on, they were impressed to say the least. She jumped up onto her hind legs and kicked the apples in a very precise angle. The angle of Gavin and Dan to be exact. They didn't have a chance to move before the apples hit them square in the face and splattered everywhere.

The apples were soft because she'd bruised them so it didn't hurt. She expected then to be a little but mad but just laugh it off like they did with the rock but their reaction was quite different: The two stallions whooped and cheered loudly, clapping their hooves.
"Awesome!" yelled Dan.
"That was mental!" added Gavin.
"What?" muttered Apple Jack, not knowing why they were cheering.
"God you'd be great at footie!" replied Dan excitedly, fond memories filling his head.
"Yeah, you could score a goal a mile off with that accuracy and power." added Dan. Apple Jack chuckled and headed towards the barn.
"Can ya'll explain what ‘footie’ is over dinner, Ah'm mighty hungry." she laughed, and with that they all headed inside.

Author's Note

Wow 20 chapters! Thanks for reading everyone :D

Chapter 21 The Tower

When they reached the farm house, they trotted inside to find the rest of the apple family gathered around the table.
"'Ello everyone!" greeted Gavin happily as entered the kitchen.
"Hiya Gavin!" replied Applebloom, excited.
"Sup" added Dam cooly.
"Hi Dan!" Greeted Applebloom. The three who had just entered joined the huddle around the table, to be greeted by a heavenly smell.
"Wow, that smells great Granny, whut is it?" asked Applejack.
"Granny Smith made an apple pie supreme!" replied the filly.
"It smells top" said Gavin, sniffing the air.

Granny Smith picked up a knife and held it over the pie. The pastry was cooked to perfection, but was the filling?
"Stand back everypony. It's time to slice!" announced Granny Smith, happily. Even Gavin and Dan were excited to see inside the crust. It looked delicious. As the knife sliced into the pastry it broke gently and crumbled slightly. Granny Smith pulled the knife down further into the pie, until it hit the bottom. She cut into it again to create a slice and wedged the knife underneath it.
"Moment of truth" she muttered, lifting the knife.

The slice of pie was perfect, the apples looked sweet and juicy, the fruity syrup encasing them was perfect consistency and the pastry stayed firm.
"Yeeha!" yelled the old pony. "Dig in!"
She sliced the pie up quickly and shared it out. It was amazing.
"This is the best apple pie ever!" exclaimed Gavin with his mouth full.
"Of all time." added Dan, making Gavin chuckle a bit.

They all finished the pie, said their good nights and headed to bed. Applejack once again lead the two stallions to the barn and wished them a good night before trotting off to her own bed. They lay on their hay in silence, the night was time to reflect on things. They'd lose themselves in the day, and it would only set in at night.

Dan turned to look at Gavin, a lost expression on his face.
"Gav, what are we doing?" he asked.
"Living." his friend replied. "We may as well enjoy it while we're here, however weird it is."
"Yeah. Night" said the unicorn, happier now.
"Night".
.............................

Geoff held his phone to his ear, hoping upon hope that Gavin would answer.
"Crap" he muttered. "He didn't pick up."
"What is he playing at?!" yelled Burnie. "Where is he?!"
"why don't you try his mom, I'll try Dan" suggested Geoff.
"Why?" asked Burnie, reluctant to call Gavin's mother.
"Maybe they know where he is. Why, you got any better suggestions?"
"..."
"Exactly, now get callin'"

The two men waited anxiously for an answer. Geoff was first to put his phone down and shake his head. But is however spoke.
"Hello Mrs. Free" he greeted thankfully.
"Hello Burnie, I didn't expect you to call!" replied the woman.
"Do you know where Gavin is, he's supposed to be here but he didn't catch his flight." asked Burnie nervously.
"I'm spread I have no idea, I haven't seen Dan in a while either." she replied sadly.
"Ok. Thanks, bye" muttered Burnie.
"Goodbye" she replied before hanging up.

He shook his head at Geoff and sighed sadly.
"What now?" he mumbled.
"He'll probably catch the next flight, which is tomorrow, we'll come back then" replied Geoff.
"Yeah, you're right. We'll come back tomorrow" agreed Burnie, before they both headed back to the car.
..........................

Rarity wiped her eyes and yawned. She'd worked all night to get the outfits finished and they looked perfect. Well almost perfect. She liked to include a personal touch to every pony's clothing but she hardly knew Gavin and Dan.
"I must make them perfect" she murmured to herself before trotting out of her boutique and towards sweet apple acres at a brisk pace.
When she arrived it was still early in the morning and everypony there was still asleep. She walked over to the barn and pushed the door opened slightly so she could peek inside. Dan was sat up rubbing his eyes and Gavin as sleeping on his pile of hay.

She walked inside slowly, making Dan look up at her. His eyes were bloodshot and tired, his face drained.
"Oh my Dan, you look awful!" she said quietly.
"Thanks" he chuckled, pulling himself onto four hooves. "Mornin'"
"Good morning" she replied. Gavin then moved his arm and yawned loudly, before sitting up.
"Mmmmggh" he groaned, stretching his body out.

Rarity giggled and helped him to his hooves.
"I need a personal touch for your suits, is there anything important or symbolic to you that I can use?" she asked. They both looked up I thought before Dan made his suggestion.
"You can just use my arse mark" he said calmly.
"Yes your cutie mark will do nicely actually. Can I get a peek?" she asked.

Dan blushed and turned around so she could look at his flank, Gavin giggling.
"Haha, she's lookin' at your flank Dan!" he wheezed.
"Yes, thank you" muttered Rarity, quite embarrassed. "What about you Gavin?"
"Hmm, I don't know" he said, tapping his chin. "Oh! I got it the tower of pimps!" he yelled happily.
"Yeah cause I'm sure she has four blocks of gold and one obsidian." chucked Dan sarcastically.
"Actually I do" stared Rarity with a smirk.

"So, what is the tower of pimps?" she asked curiously.
"My proudest creation" replied Gavin with a happy sigh.
"Too bad you've only won it once." laughed Dan.
"One Gavin's trophy room of victory will be filled" Gavin whispered to himself quietly so noone heard him.
"So... What does it look like?" asked Rarity.
"It's one obsidian block or square with four gold ones on top" he replied happily.
"Ok , thank you!" said Rarity excitedly, getting a brilliant idea. "I'll call you over with the mares when they're all finished" she mumbled before trotting quickly out of the door to write her idea down.

Chapter 22 Getting Dressed

She'd finally finished her work, and in plenty of time. The clothes were perfect in every way and now the stallions' suits had personalized touches. Rarity smiled and walked out side of her boutique.
"Pinkie!" she yelled excitedly. Within a second the pink party pony fell from the sky and landed in front of Rarity.
"Hi, did you call me?" she asked.
"Yes, would you please gather the rest of the girls and the stallions here, the outfits are ready!" she replied with a smile.
"Okay!" yelled Pinkie as she disappeared in a puff of confetti as quickly as she'd arrived.

Rarity went back inside her boutique and set out the ponyquins behind a curtain ready to be revealed.
"I do hope they like them." muttered the white unicorn to herself as she made sure the display was symmetrical.
Not too long after there was a knock at he door. The fashionista darted to the door to see her friends' warm faces and welcoming smiles.

"Hello Rarity." greeted Twilight as she trotted through the door.
"Hello everypony, do come in" added Rarity as she held the door open. Gavin and Dan were last to enter the room.
"Sup Rares." greeted Dan.
"Sup." added Gavin as they joined the semi circle of ponies. Rarity trotted in front of them and grabbed the edge of the curtain with her magic.
"Are you ready everypony?" she squeaked.
"Yes!" was the group response with the exception of Gavin and Dan.
"Here we go!"

She pulled the curtain down to reveal six beautiful dresses and two amazing suits, one with a stopwatch hanging from the pocket and one with a shiny, Tower of Pimps broach. The mane six smiled weakly at the dresses, they were not what they wanted. The stallions however, smiled widely at Rarity.
"Wow!" exclaimed Dan happily
"It's amazing!" added Gavin happily.

Rarity smiled lightly at their complements, but she was unable to ignore her friends' faces.
"What's wrong?" she asked quietly, her face dropping.
"Uhhh, it's just not what I expected..." replied Twilight slowly.
"So you don't like them?" asked Rarity, close to tears.
"No, no, no, I like it, I just don't love it." replied Twilight sheepishly.
"Yeah." added Applejack quietly.

Gavin and Dan looked at each other and frowned. All the dresses Rarity had made were amazing; she'd taken time to do a nice thing and she was being stepped on.
"You ungrateful bitches!" said Dan, shocked.
"You absolute cows." added Gavin, scowling at them. Rarity lifted her head and looked at Gavin and Dan, who came to stand next to her.

With Gavin on her left and Dan on her right sticking up for her, Rarity realized they were just as much ponies as anypony else. She trusted them.
"What?!" asked Rainbow Dash angrily stepping right up into Gavin’s face.
"Rarity spent her own time and money making you these great dresses and you're calling them crap!" replied Gavin, making Rainbow step back.
"But we can't help not liking them." argued Fluttershy quietly.

Dan shook his head and glared at the five mares in front of him.
"No, but you can appreciate what she's done and congratulate and thank your friend!" He answered.
"And to be honest they are all top notch and I don't see why you don't like them." added Gavin.

Applejack was the first to step forward and look at her outfit closely. At first it didn't look good to her at all, but the attention to detail was impeccable and the fabric was lovely.
"Ah suppose mine is actually quite nice..." muttered Applejack with a small smile. Rarity looked to her and returned the smile. Pinkie bounced over to hers next and grinned.
"I love it!" she yelled, jumping for joy.

As the rest of he mares inspected theirs, Rarity looked up at Gavin, then over to Dan and smiled sweetly. The stallions returned the smiles and trotted over to their suits to get a closer look. Gavin spent a few minutes just staring at his Tower of Pimps while Dan was fiddling with the stopwatch.
"Oh my, we best get changed!" announced Rarity, catching a glimpse of the clock.

She assigned everypony a dressing room and then went to the ponyquins to get the clothing off. She carefully removed each outfit and handed it to the corresponding pony. Eventually she grabbed her own and departed to get herself ready for the Gala.

Gavin looked at his suit on the hanger and stared at it. Rarity had taken the broach off so she could fasten it on properly and so it wouldn't prick him. The main thing running through his head was how to get it on. He lifted the suit onto his head and shook to get the neck hole over his ears. He used his wings to scrape the fabric down, past his eyes, feathers flying all over the shop.

He kept scraping until the suit had just made it over his head. The next step was to get the front hooves in. Oh dear he thought. He lifted one hoof up and pawed at the fabric, trying to locate the arm hole. Being unsuccessful, he tried using his wings again but they were no help around the front. Once again he lifted his hoof up and found the hole this time, but he got his food stuck. With only three hooves and little experience of even having hooves, he lifted his other fore leg in an attempt to free it.

He scraped at the fabric until he could stand no more. His weight was too far forward for him to balance and he fell onto his knees.
"Ow..." he grumble as his bones rattled against the hard floor. Both of his fore legs were stuck inside the suit, his pants were still hung up and his flank was raised in the air as his hind legs were still stretched out.
Dan was having just as much trouble; he however was lying on his back with his fore legs stuck. He wiggled around reluctantly, not wanting to rip the cloth.
"Crap..." he muttered as he continued to struggle.

The mares on the other hand, were all dressed and busy complimenting each other in the main room.
"Oh Applejack, you look simply darling!" said Rarity happily.
"And you look mighty fine yerself." replied the farm pony happily. The mares pranced around, striking poses, all excited and giddy. They'd all come to love how they looked in their dresses thanks to Gavin and Dan.
Suddenly they heard a loud thud and Dan shouting curses.
"Christ!" came from the other changing room.

"Oh dear, I forgot about them." muttered Rarity awkwardly. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack walked over to the door of Gavin's room while Rarity, Twilight, and Fluttershy went over to Dan's.
"Uhh... Are you ok Gavin?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Nope!" replied Gavin.
Dan’s answer was similar so the mares decided to look inside...

Chapter 23 Help me change

They gasped as they pushed open the deep and saw Gavin his wings twisted, his head and neck on the floor with his body flopped over himself up against a wall.
"Help..." he whimpered as he looked up at the three mares. Rainbow Dash burst into laughter and fell onto the floor laughing. Applejack chuckled a bit and Pinkie Pie just stood there with a goofy grin, not really knowing what to do.
"Aww come on, stop laughing this hurts!" he whined. "But... It's... So... Darn... Funny!" replied Rainbow Dash, rolling on the floor, struggling to speak.

Gavin kicked his legs to try and flop himself over but he hardly moved.
"Please..." he moaned, his neck becoming stiff.
"Alright, ya silly stallion." said Applejack shaking her head before moving over to help him to his hooves. "How'd you even manage that?" asked Pinkie, "I've been trying to perfect that move for years!" she added.
"What?" was all Gavin managed before Applejack pushed his body over so he fell onto the ground, forelegs still stuck in the suit.

Rainbow Dash finally calmed down and stood up again to help Gavin. Pinkie on the other hoof was trying to mimic Gavin’s earlier position.
"Now you lift his forelegs up so he rests on mah back, then pull the suit off his hooves." ordered Applejack, still struggling to avoid a bit.
"Okay." replied the rainbow Pegasus, before doing as her friend instructed. She propped the stallion up onto Applejack's back and once he was stable, gently pulled his suit from his hooves.
"Oh thanks..." Gavin sighed happily as he stretched his forelegs out.

"Yer welcome." said Applejack, a kindly smile on her muzzle. Gavin stood up to stretched out his wings and hind legs and looked up at Rainbow Dash and Applejack.
"Wow, you guys look great." he complimented with a smile making them blush. They shared a glance and thanked Gavin in sync.
"No problem, anyway... Do you think you could help me get changed?" he mumbled, staring at the ground.
"I never thought I'd hear a full grown stallion say that." giggled Rainbow Dash as she picked the clothes up from the floor and patted it with her wings. Gavin’s scowl was priceless.

Applejack then took it and set it out on the floored that the leg holes were spread out and open.
"Now ya just step in and lift up." Applejack said calmly. Gain nodded and placed his hooves into the holes. He then lifted his fore legs into the air, picking up the suit, and the sleeves fell down and covered his legs.
"Hey it worked!" he yelled happily.
Rainbow Dash then kicked him in the flank causing him to kick his legs up as a natural reaction.

"Whoa!" he shouted as she quickly grabbed his pants and pulled them onto his hind legs. He plopped back onto the ground, suited up and ready for the Gala.
"Hey thanks." said Gavin.
"No problem." replied Rainbow Dash as she polished a hoof on her chest.

Rarity walked through the door and smiled widely when she saw Gavin in his tuxedo.
"Oh you look darling!" she exclaimed before levitating her comb into the room and roughly brushing his fringe, careful to retain his ‘style’.
"Hey... Ow!" he grumbled as the comb ran through his tangled mane.
"All done!" she announced before running out of the room.

Rarity quickly returned with the Tower of Pimps badge and carefully pinned it onto the left lapel of his jacket. She took a few steps back to check that he looked good.
"Perfect." she whispered to herself. She reached in and dragged everypony outside to greet Dan, Fluttershy and Twilight who were waiting for them in the main boutique.
"Hey Dan, lookin'... smart?" complemented Gavin seeing Dan dressed in his tux.
"And you." returned Dan before they were rushed through the door by Rarity.
"Come on ponies, we mustn't be late!" enforced Rarity as she shoved them through the door.
"Chill Rarity, we've got ages!" countered Rainbow Dash. Rarity scowled at her and continued to shuffle them forwards to the train station.

"Oh I'm so excited! It's gonna be the best party EVER!" yelled Pinkie Pie, almost blowing their ears.
"I think my ear drum just killed itself." whispered Dan, getting a quiet laugh from Gavin.
They trotted down the streets with style. Rarity led the way, strutting with her head held high in her new dress. Gavin and Dan trotted behind her, chatting and having a good time. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash followed them, followed by Pinkie and Applejack and finally Twilight. They turned heads as they walked through the town, ponies gasping at them and staring in awe, Gavin's Tower of Pimps badge catching the eye of the public.

When they arrived at the train station the ticket stallion knew where they were going immediately.
"Hello Rarity." he greeted half heartedly.
"Good evening." she returned with a flashy smile.
"So the train to Canterlot then?" he asked, already knowing the answer.
"Why yes, how can you tell?" she giggled, striking a pose.
"Yes Rarity, here are your tickets" he sighed, handing her six tickets.
Rarity thanked him and looked through them.

"Excuse me, but there are only six tickets here." she said with a flutter of her eyelashes.
"Aren't there six of you?" he questioned.
"No, we're traveling with Gavin and Dan." she replied. He looked at the stallions and they waved at him casually.
"Oh sorry, here you go." he said, handing her two more tickets.

She led the group onto the train where everypony took a seat.
"So..." mumbled Gavin, fiddling with his hooves.
"So..." added Dan lowly.
"Ah'm gon' sell so many apples!" yelled Applejack, trying to start a conversation.
"And I'm gonna meet the Wonder Bolts!" added Rainbow Dash.
"I'm going to talk with the princess..."
"I'll find the stallion of my dreams...
"I'll be at the best party ever..."
"Uhm...and I'll meet some new animal friends..."
"So you got some pretty high expectations for this thing huh?" asked Dan after they'd explained their hopes.
"Oh yes, all your dreams come true at the Gala!" replied Rarity.
"It's gonna be so cool." added Rainbow Dash.

Eventually the train arrived in Canterlot, allowing them to get off. Rarity led the way to the palace, in their arrow head formation. Heads turned to look at them as they strutted down the street, each one of them looking forwards with determined eyes.
"Gav?" Dan whispered quietly.
"Yeah?" replied Gavin, also in a whisper.
"What are we doing this for?"
"I dunno, I guess we look cool." replied Gavin. They shared a glance with raised eyebrows and looked back towards the palace, Dan winking at some mares as he turned his head.

When they arrived they all faced each other, smiling from ear to ear.
"Good bye!" All the mares said at once before trotting off in separate directions. Gavin and Dan looked around. They knew nopony, had no idea what to do, and had lost their friends.
"Well shit." grumbled Dan as he turned back to his friend.
"Hey look!" yelled Gavin, pointing towards an ash grey pegasus stallion.

When Long Shot saw Gavin, his eyes shot open and he tried to walk away slowly.
"Gavin what the hell?" remarked Dan, turning to look, "Who's that?"
"That's Long Shot!" replied Gavin, "Hey Long Shot!" he yelled, waving at the stallion. He snapped his head back around and tried to walk back slowly.
"I don't think he likes you." chuckled Dan, trotting over to him.
"Hello..." greeted Long Shot reluctantly.
"Hi." replied Dan with a warm smile, making Long Shot relax a bit.
"Hello!" added Gavin excitedly.
"Hi Gavin." mumbled the grey stallion.
"So..." muttered Dan.
"Are there any bevs around here?" asked Gavin.
"Bevs?" asked Long Shot, confused.
"Yeah, you know drinks, booze, alcohol." explained Gavin.
"Oh, uh... sadly no, but we could go get some punch." suggested Long Shot.
"Sounds good." replied Dan.
"Top!" added Gavin with a smile.

Author's Note

Sorry for the lateness of this everyone, I hope the length makes up for it :)

Chapter 24 Bevs

Long Shot lead the stallions into the main hall and showed them around.
"Wow this place is big!" exclaimed Dan as he looked around at the marble statues and pillars.
"It has to be, a lot ponies attend every year." explained Long Shot, trotting over to the food table. Mini sandwiches, scotch eggs and other little delights were spread over the table, with three large bowls of punch placed with them.

Dan walked over to the punch and used his magic to shakily pour a glass out, spilling some onto the table. He took a sip and smiled.
"Thank god you don't need menus at this place." he mumbled to himself happily. Gavin and Long Shot did the same, taking a small sip to sample the drink.
"It's nice, but pretty weak." said Gavin with small frown.
"You think so?" questioned Long Shot, thinking that the punch was pretty strong.
"Yeah, it's not very alcoholic." added Dan.

Long Shot had no idea what they were talking about. How could this be weak?! What kind of alcohol had they had in the past?
"I think it's okay..." he mumbled, deep in thought, his suspicions of the two strange stallions growing.
"Is there anything else?" asked Gavin hopefully. Long Shot knew of some much stronger alcohol kept in the palace kitchen, he could probably get permission to go in there, but he didn't want to get these two anything stronger.
"Well..." he stuttered.

"Yeah!?" Gavin and Dam shouted in unison, looking forward to having some bevs.
"These might be some in the kitchen... but I don't want anything to do with it." asserted the grey pegasus.
"Fine then." chuckled Gavin, walking off to find the kitchen.
"Bye!" added Dan following Gavin towards a door.
"That was unexpected." mumbled Long Shot confusedly. "I should probably keep an eye on them." he sighed before flying after Dan.

Gavin spotted a small door at the end of the hall and looked to Dan.
"I think that's it!" he giggled, pointing with a hoof.
"What you waiting for!" urged Dan. They entered the kitchen and saw that it was much larger than expected.
"We're never gonna find it." pouted Dan sadly.
"Yeah we will, help me look." assured Gavin happily.

Long Shot watched from the entrance as they searched.
"Oh Luna what've I done." he face-hoofed. "They're gonna wreck the kitchen 'til they find it aren't they?" he questioned. He trotted in and got two large, amber filled bottles out from a cupboard.
"Wow! Long Shot you found it!" yelled Gavin happily.
"Beast mate!" added Dan, walking over to him.

"Please don't drink too much, I'm leaving now anyway. I only did this for you so you wouldn't trash the kitchen. Rat me out and I’ll show you why I’ve got a thunderstorm for a cutie mark." warned Long Shot.
"Don't worry, we won't say anything." said Dan coolly, trying to pull the cork from the bottle.
"Also, you should probably take it out of here, the chefs are coming." added the pegasus before hovering away casually.

Gavin and Dan glared at each other before grabbing a bottle each and running for the door.
"Leg it!" yelled Gavin as they cleared the door frame. They galloped through the hall and out of the main door, heading for the gardens where they could drink in peace.

When they finally stopped by a bench in the royal gardens, they plopped down onto the ground, breathing heavily.
"God! We hauled arse then" panted Dan with a smile. They caught their breath and popped the cork from the bottles.
"Cheers!" they yelled happily, chinking their bottles together gently.

They put the bottles to their mouths and drank... a lot. They drank almost half of their bottles in one go.
"Woooooooo!" screamed Gavin happily.
"Pfftt, light weight." grunted Dan, taking another swig.
"This is pretty good actually." stuttered the pegasus, after taking another drink.
"Yeah." agreed Dan.
"I just wish we had our friends..."
"Heh, yeah..."

Suddenly they heard someone very loud and angry scream from over the bush behind them."COME OUT!!!"
Gavin and Dan nearly jumped out of their skin. "They're onto us!" whispered Gavin, panicking.
"I think we should do as they said though, they sound pretty pissed." concluded Dan. Gavin “flew” over the bush whilst Dan struggled to walk through it.

They were both however surprised by what they saw.
"Fluttershy?!" they said in unison, seeing the yellow mare lying on the ground crying. She looked up, her eyes wet and bloodshot.
"What's wrong?" asked Gavin softly.
"The animals.... they hate me!" she cried, stuffing her face back into her forelegs.

Gavin put his hoof on her back to comfort her.
"Now that's not true at all." he whispered gently.
"Yeah, all the animals love you." added Dan with a smile.
"These ones don't." she mumbled.
"They just don't know you yet." explained Gavin.
"Yeah, animals take ages to get to trust someone." added Dan.
"Really?" she asked looking up at the two stallions.
"A hundred percent." assured Gavin.
"Haha, percent..." chuckled Dan, drawing out the word in a weird way.

Fluttershy stood up, walked over to the lake and looked down. She could see a few fish under the water swimming about. She smiled and trotted to a bush and picked a few berries with her teeth. She cradled them in her wing and then gently dropped them into the lake. The fish ate the berries and swam to the surface to look at her.
"Hi my little fishy friends." she said quietly and softly.

The fish popped their heads out of the water and smiled at her. Gavin saw the fish in the corner of his eye and zoomed over to the lake side.
"Wait for it...." he muttered. The fish then jumped out of the water together.
"FISH!!!" he shouted happily, waking his arms in the air. The fish jumped again and again, each time Gavin shouting FISH!!!

Fluttershy giggled and stood up, a few birds flying down and resting on her back.
"Thank you so much you two. You helped so much!" thanked Fluttershy, hugging the stallions.
"No problem." said Gavin, happy to help someone.
"That's what friends are for right?" added Dan. "We best be getting off now, we have a meeting arranged with... something."
"Yeah!" giggled Gavin, "Bye Flutters!"
"Goodbye!" she yelled happily, waving to them as they galloped away.

Once they'd cleared the bush they sat down with their booze and relaxed.
"That was odd." said Gavin before taking another large gulp from his bottle.
"Yeah..." agreed Dan, also drinking. They sat in silence for a while, taking more and more alcohol into their bodies. They were close to the complete drunkenness. They looked at each other for a second and smiled.
"Bottoms up!" yelled Dan before they chugged the rest of the drink and lost themselves.

"I want... to find Apple... whack." stammered Gavin slowly.
"Let’s.... go then!" replied Dan slurring every word. They both set off to Applejack's apple stand, falling all over the place and struggling to walk straight.

Chapter 25 Dan The Man

"Ello AJ." slurred Gavin, as he stumbled up to the cart.
"What 'n tarnation are you doing?" she asked sternly, seeing Gavin and Dan staggering up to her.
"We... Had the bevs." replied Dan, smiling happily.
"Bevs?" she questioned "Ah didn't think the punch was that strong..."

Gavin and Dan looked at each other and smiled sneakily.
"She thinks we had the punch!" giggled Gavin.
"She does!" laughed Dan. Applejack trotted over to them and put her hoof on Gavin's shoulder in an attempt to calm him down.
"AHHH!" he screamed jumping backwards, "It's got me!" he yelled. Dan laughed loudly as Gavin fumbled around, crawling away from the orange mare.

"Stop that right now!" Applejack yelled at Gavin, still trying to calm him.
"Ahhhhh!!!! It can talk!" he screamed as Applejack walked up to him, "It's looking at me, Dan!"
"Gavin, run!" shouted Dan, as he started to run away.
"No!" yelled Applejack, but it was too late. Gavin and Dan had already put some distance between them and she knew that they were just going to cause trouble.
"Celestia help me..." she muttered to herself as she set off galloping after Gavin.

"Leave me alone horsey!" Gavin shouted as Applejack chased him around the grounds.
"Ya'll better get back here now, mister!" she yelled in response, getting closer and closer to him. Gavin then got a brilliant idea, she couldn't fly. He spread his wings and with a few powerful flaps he was (sort of) flying above her.

"Muhahhahaha!" he shouted childishly, knowing he was out of her reach.
"Oh you asked fer it now!" grunted the mare. Luckily there was an apple tree next to her, so she bucked it harshly causing a few apples to fall. Just as one was about to hit the ground, she flicked it up with one of her fore hooves. She waited until it was in the perfect position before belting it as hard as she could with her hind legs. The apple hurtled towards Gavin and hit him square in the muzzle before he had chance to move.

He dropped like a stone and landed with a loud thud. His eyes were closed and his muzzle was... wonky. She trotted over to the injured stallion and tutted.
"Ah shouldn’t have done that." she mumbled, kneeling down next to him.

She picked him up and placed him onto her back gently.
"Ah need to get him to a bed on the double." she mumbled to herself. She trotted over to her stall and closed it, not that she was getting much business anyway. She started walking towards the hall; the Princess would probably have somewhere he could rest.

= = =

Dan was still running. He ran in a completely random direction, which turned out to be towards the fountain.
"Is she gone?" he asked, turning around to look for Applejack. "Phew!" he sighed, relieved that she wasn't there.

There was nopony else around the fountain. Dan was alone. He slumped down onto the ground and rested his head back against the stone. He rubbed his head, feeling a huge headache coming on.
"Argh..." he grunted, shaking his head, "pony headaches are way worse than normal ones"

He looked around to take his mind off of it, there were statues everywhere. Some were normal ponies, some were really tall and cool looking, but there was one that caught his eye.
"Hmmm..." he mumbled as he stood up to get a closer look.

It was an odd creature, a dragon mixed with lots of other animals like a goat, a deer and an eagle.
"That's so ugly." Dan chuckled to himself as he poked it with his hoof. As soon as he did, the statue seemed to flash red, the ground shook and a random bolt of lightning shot from the sky. The pegasus stumbled backwards in shock, tripping into the fountain as a result.

He was submerged for a few seconds, not fully realizing what had just happened. He lifted his head above the water hastily, his mane throwing water behind him. He splashed round struggling to get out of the water for a while. Eventually he hoisted himself out and fell onto the ground in a heap.
"Bloody hell!" he gasped, running his hoof through his mane.

He stood up and shook himself, sending water flying everywhere. That had thoroughly sobered him up; the water was cold and refreshing. He shook once more to get himself as dry as possible before setting off trotting towards the main hall.

As he was making his way there he heard a familiar voice talking to someone. He couldn't help but listen in. He tip-hoofed to the corner of the tall hedge and peeked around. It was Rarity talking to a white unicorn stallion with a blonde mane and tail. They were just walking along a path in the moonlight.
"Awww." said Dan happily.

Rarity looked so happy with him; he looked a bit douchey though.
"Oh I do love walking in the moonlight." sighed Rarity happily.
"Yes, quite." replied the stallion with a small smile.
"You look quite handsome tonight I must say." giggled Rarity.
"I do don't I." agreed the unicorn making Rarity frown slightly.

All of a sudden they stopped. Dan saw that there was a puddle in front of them on the floor.
"Oh my, I'd hate to get my hooficure wet and dirty..." hinted the mare, looking to the stallion.
"You would?" he remarked sarcastically, "Your hooficure is average at best, mine is fabulous! I simply can't stand for this nonsense." he grumbled, lifting his head and pointing at the puddle.

After about ten seconds Rarity spoke.
"Aren't you going to do anything about it?" she asked sweetly batting her eyelids.
"Me? Ha, no, but you will." he grunted with a smug smile. Rarity looked up desperately. He was her dream stallion. She had to do this for him. A lone tear trickled down her cheek as she took off her cloak and held it in her mouth. She looked up to him once more out of sheer hope that he was joking.

He just stared upwards with the 'I only care about myself' expression he always had. Just as she was about the lower her cloak onto the puddle, Dan marched around the bush.
"Dan?" questioned Rarity, "Whatever are you doing here?"
"Helping you out with this prick." he replied sternly, determination on his face.

Rarity stepped in front of the other stallion, smiling sheepishly.
"Dan, this is Prince Blueblood, say hello would you?"
"Hello bluetard." he grunted, gently moving Rarity out of the way.
"My my, who is this common plebeian." he laughed.
"Dan."
"That's the strangest name I've ever heard. Almost as strange as Riches or whatever your name is," he chuckled to Rarity. "Dan what?" he asked.

"It's Dan the Man, bitch." Dan stated before punching him hard in the face.
"Ahh!" Blueblood screamed, blood pouring from his nostrils as he backed away from the unicorn.
"Get outta here!" yelled Dan loudly as Blueblood galloped away "Hey look, your blood isn't blue after all!"
"Leave me alone you mongrel!" cried the unicorn from the distance.

Rarity didn't know whether to be thankful or angry. He'd had good intentions, but she didn't want him to ruin her chances with the stallion of her dreams.
"Dan?!" was all she could shout.

Chapter 26 Gavy Party

Rarity looked at Dan with a look of utter disbelief. She felt so conflicted. He only wanted to help her; maybe Blueblood wasn't quite the stallion of her dreams after all.
"Dan?!" she repeated. Dan looked at her with a goofy smile, her heart melted. She couldn't be mad at him.
"Uhm... Thank you." she mumbled.
"Rarity, you don't have to thank me. It's the least I could do. Douche bags like that annoy the crap outta me." he replied happily.

Rarity smiled up at him, only just realizing how bad it would've been with Blueblood.
"He was quite horrible." she agreed.
"Quite?" chuckled Dan with a smile. Rarity giggled and looked into his brown eyes, all she saw was kindness.
"Let's go back." suggested Dan, turning around. He looked over his shoulder at Rarity who nodded and smiled.

They both trotted back together and chatted like they'd been friends for years. She was glad to have a friend who was just a normal stallion.
"Thank you again Dan." she said.
"No problem Rares." he replied happily.

= = =

Gavin opened his eyes to find himself lying on a sofa.
"Wha-" he muttered to himself, lifting his head and looking around. "What happened?” He sat up and felt his head spinning.

The room was quite small and cozy, each wall with a sofa against it. There was a large blanked draped over his body, keeping him warm whilst he slept. He looked out of the window and saw mares and stallions walking past chatting. The Gala was still going on.

His head felt a bit better, so he stood up and trotted over to the small coffee table in the centre if the room. There was a glass of water on it with a note held underneath.
"You got drunk Gav. I'm sorry about your muzzle but it was all I could do to stop you. Drink this then come outside when you're ready. AJ." he read out loud.

He drank the water, gave it a swish, and gulped it down. Feeling refreshed and much better than before, he walked towards the door and opened it quietly. He saw a long corridor with a door at one end. He walked towards it slowly; he was unsure if he was supposed to be there.

He crept through the hallway and out of the door, into the cool night air. The large hall was open, and Gavin saw Pinkie bounce inside wearing her new dress. He decided to see what she was up to so he cantered over to the hall. He went inside and saw Pinkie in the middle of the hall dancing... terribly.

He chuckled a bit, seeing her bust a move. Then, he looked at the other ponies' faces. They looked disgusted and some were laughing at her.
"She's a common disgrace!" one stallion yelled, making everypony laugh, except for Pinkie.

She slowly stopped dancing and looked around at everypony laughing at her. She tried to join in, laughing at herself was easy for Pinkie, but this time she felt like an outcast, a freak. She lowered her head and stared to walk to the side before Gavin trotted in.

Still semi-drunk, Gavin bounced over to the pink party pony and threw his fore leg around her shoulders.
"A'right Pinkie?" he asked happily.
"No..." she mumbled sadly.
"Well, I think I can fix that!" he exclaimed. He grabbed her hooves and swung her around, grabbing everypony's attention.
"Come on Pinkie, dance!" he yelled, letting go of her hooves causing her to spin around.

She looked at him sadly, but he just smiled at her and nodded. After looking at him and seeing him smiling for her, she couldn't help but smile herself. She stood up tall and lifted her head.
"COME ON EVERYPONY, I WANNA SEE YOU SMILE!" she yelled loudly, leaping in to the air and exploding her legs outwards like a firework.

She landed on the floor and started dancing wildly with Gavin. Although it looked stupid the ponies in the crowd rather enjoyed the show now that there were two of them. As a few more ponies joined in Gavin slipped away to the band.
"Hey, can you play something better?" he asked.
"We would, but we aren't getting paid for that." replied a grey mare playing a cello.

Gavin frowned and looked around. He stopped and smiled wildly when he saw a radio in the corner of the room.
"Woohoo!" he yelled as he galloped over to it. He knew the frequencies for the channels back on earth, but in Equestria he expected them to be different.
"Come on." he muttered, turning the knobs carefully.

Suddenly Pinkie popped up next to him.
"Here, I'll make it like one of your radios!" she yelled happily.
"Top!" replied the stallion. She then grabbed his head and bashed it into the radio, further damaging his already wonky muzzle.
"Fuck a duck!" he shouted, mutedly.
"You’re welcome!" replied Pinkie before going back to the dance floor.

Gavin rubbed his head and tuned the radio to 102 fm - Capital radio. He listened to the song playing and turned it up as loud as it would go. Gangnam Style blasted out of the radio making everypony cheer at the new lively music. He then trotted back over to the dance floor and joined the mass of dancing ponies that he'd set off.

He danced over to Pinkie and smiled at her.
"How's this?" he shouted.
"This is the best party EVER!" she replied. "Thanks so much Gavy Wavy!" she added happily.
"No problem, you really know how to throw a party Pinkie!" he replied with a smile. "I need the bathroom now though, gotta go!" he shouted over the music.
"Ok, bye!!" she yelled in response as he trotted away.

= = =

Dan and Rarity reached the grand hall and stopped outside the door.
"Thank you ever so much Dan." she was positively beaming.
"No problem." he replied with a smile.
"I must go now, I have to check on my make up and mane." she explained before kissing him on the cheek and trotting away.
"Bye!" he yelled as she got further away.

He hadn't seen Long Shot since he got them the beer and he hasn't seen Gavin since Applejack was chasing them. He had, on the other hand, seen Twilight sitting with Princess Celestia at the entrance to the Gala.

Seeing as though he had nothing else to do, he trotted over there to see what Twilight was up to. When he got there, she was still seated with the princess, but looked very miserable indeed. He walked up to her and patted her on the shoulder.
"Hey Twilight." he greeted happily.
"Hi Dan." she sighed.
"What's up?" he asked thoughtfully, wanting to know why she looked so depressed.

She lowered her head and turned around to face him.
"All I wanted to do was talk to her." she replied, glancing at the princess who was busy greeting ponies. "I look up to her so much, she's my inspiration, my mentor!" she explined. "But all she's done all night is greet everypony as they enter the Gala."
"That must be tough." he agreed sadly.

Noticing that Dan was up for listening she continued.
"It's so boring sitting here, I never really get a chance to talk to her."
"Why don't I sit here and greet everypony, and you and the princess talk?" he suggested, but Twilight shook her head.
"They want to meet the princess silly, but thanks anyway.”
"One minute." Dan said before trotting around a corner, just out of earshot.

He sat down and thought.
"I have to find a way to help her," he muttered to himself, "but how?" he questioned...

Chapter 28 MARK NUTT!

Rainbow Dash was trotting along behind some of the wonder bolts. She'd been talking to them a bit as they made their way over to the main hall to see what was going on.

Before they'd set off to go there, they'd ignored her. Other ponies would always drag them off into different conversations, leaving her very annoyed. When they asked her to join them she was delighted and accepted instantaneously.

Spitfire lead the group, followed by Fleetfoot, Soarin and Rainbow Dash, the other Wonderbolts decided to stay in the VIP area, keeping the crowds of ponies with them.
"So, how you doin’ Rainbow Dash?" asked Spitfire, looking back to the rainbow maned pegasus.
"Good, how are you?" replied Rainbow Dash with a smile.

Spitfire shrugged and smiled at Rainbow Dash.
"Great, I just hope some'n good's happening in the hall." replied the captain of the Wonderbolts.
"Thanks again for saving my pie Dash." thanked Soarin with a smile.
"No problem Soarin, wouldn't want a good pie to go to waste." said Rainbow Dash, appearing cool on the outside, but buzzing on the inside.
"I know what you mean." agreed Soarin with a wink, making Rainbow Dash blush.

When they reached the hall, they all gasped, eyes wide and mouths open at the sight. The room was filled with ponies running around, throwing apples at each other.
"What the buck?" remarked Fleetfoot, raising a brow.
"This is crazy." added Spitfire.

Long Shot cantered up to them, panting.
"I hit him in the dick!" he yelled before galloping away. Gavin and Dan then galloped up to them, both looking angry.
"Have you seen Long Shot, the little bugger!" growled Dan.
"Yeah he ran that way, why?" replied Rainbow Dash. The stallions nodded and galloped off after Long shot, ignoring answering her question.

Applejack was next to emerge from the crowd, trotting happily, her mane and tail bouncing.
"Howdy ya'll." she greeted, tipping her hat.
"Hello?" replied Soarin, very confused.
"AJ, what's going on in here?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"To help me sell apples, Gav n' Dan kindly offered to get ponies to 'chuck' apples at 'em fer bits." replied Applejack with a smile.

The confused pegasi “ahhed”, finally having an answer to the madness.
"Anypony else think this looks super fun?" chuckled Soarin.
"Yeah, watch this." replied the cyan mare, flying up into the air. "HEY EVERYPONY!" she yelled, making the crowd of ponies stop and look at her "YOU WANT A TARGET? TRY AND HIT ME!" she shouted before darting around the room.

Accepting the new target, apples were thrown high into the air in an attempt to hit the speedy mare. They had no chance. She flipped and spun through the air at incredible speeds, her signature rainbow behind her. The three Wonderbolts looked at her, amazed that she wasn't one of them already. They shared a brief glance, all thinking the same thing, before looking back up to Rainbow Dash.

She dove and back up again, apples flying all around her. Applejack picked up an apple and took a bite.
"How bout this Dashie!" she chuckled to herself. Applejack threw the apple perfectly in front of the rainbow coloured blur. Rainbow Dash just looped around the apple and sped off again.
"Darn it!" grunted the orange farm pony, picking up another apple to throw.

The three Wonderbolts were still staring at Rainbow Dash, even throwing a few apples themselves.
"So... Anyone really wanna join her?" asked Fleetfoot.
"Yeah!" agreed the other two. They nodded before zooming off into the air to fly with Rainbow Dash.

They flew together perfectly. They performed some of their tricks and routines and Rainbow Dash joined in. She's memorized their routines when she watched them. It was amazing. The ponies below them whooped and cheered at the dazzling display, still throwing the odd apple at them.

Spitfire pulled up to Rainbow Dash as she flew.
"Hey kid!" she yelled.
"Yeah?" replied Rainbow Dash, briefly looking to her side.
"Could you do that sonic rain-boom thingy to finish this off?" requested the captain of the Wonderbolts with a smile.
"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!" yelled Rainbow Dash excitedly. "Wait, I don't think there's enough room." she sighed.
"We'll take the crowd outside, you get ready." replied Spitfire confidently.

Rainbow Dash nodded and flew through the door and straight up. She needed as much height as possible to pull off a sonic rain-boom. This one was for the Wonderbolts though; she was going to pull it off.

The Wonderbolts flew around herding the ponies in the hall through the door. It didn't take long for the excitable crowd to follow their lead and come outside into the moonlight to watch the grand finale.

They could faintly see Rainbow Dash above them, getting higher by the second. Once she'd reached her target height she looked down. There were no clouds out so she had a perfect view of below. The ponies cheered her name again and again, waiting for their minds to be blown.
"Go Rainbow!" yelled Dan.
"You can do it Dashie! Boggle my brain!" added Gavin.

She nodded her head and dove down through the air, her cheeks wobbling because of the speed. She could feel the air below her pounding her face harder and harder. She kept as streamlined as possible; she sucked her stomach in and kept her wings flat to her back. Eventually she felt herself hit critical velocity as she neared the ground.
Here it comes. she thought, bracing herself.

A surge of rainbow energy radiated from her. A loud boom shook the ground as the light passed over everything in sight. Rainbow Dash pulled up from the dive, a huge, thick, vibrant Rainbow following her. She led it across the sky, gracing the starlight with colour. She passed over the moon, lighting the Rainbow and making it sparkle. The ponies below were silent. This was probably the only time they'd ever see anything so beautiful. The Wonderbolts shared another glance before looking back to the rainbow.

As she sped up and darted past the crowd, they cheered wildly, screaming in happiness. The Wonderbolts joined her in the sky to do one last routine, leaving storm clouds behind them.

When they finished they landed on the ground gently, possibly the four best flyers in Equestria. The crowd cheered once again, the rest of the Mane Six (and Gavin and Dan) running up to hug and congratulate the amazing pegasus.

Soarin patter her back playfully.
"Great job Rainbow Dash!" he said. "That was incredible!"
"Yeah," she sighed happily, "yeah it was". The tired pegasus trotted back into the crowd of ponies, needing a rest.

After a while the hype died down and Long Shot was walking along the side of the hall, minding his own business. He heard a rustle in the bushes behind him and stopped to check it out. Nothing. He shrugged and continued his walk. Then he heard some giggling from the bushes and poked his head inside to check it out.
"Hmm..." he mumbled. He carried on walking, deciding it was just his imagination.

Suddenly, Gavin jumped from the bush in front of him, Dan from the one behind. Dan had his fore hoof held up to his chest in preparation. Gavin was holding a giant bow, with no arrows. Instead of the usual ammo, he had a large pie held back on the elastic.
"I have one thing to say Long Shot." smirked Gavin. The tan pegasus lifted his head forty-five degrees and cleared his throat. "MARK NUTT!"

Gavin released the elastic, sending the pie flying into his face, coating him with cream and mushy fruit. Long Shot staggered back from the impact of the pie, just as Dan wanted him to. Dan then battered his... Sensitive place with his hoof, kicking as hard as he could. Long Shot fell to the ground cradling himself, and swearing vengeance. Gavin and Dan looked at each other, wide smiles on their faces before darting off, away from the injured pegasus.

Chapter 29 Super Charge

Long Shot lay on the floor, he didn't want to move anymore. He moaned occasionally, but he was mostly silent. The crafty stallion was planning a way he could get Gavin and Dan back, but it was harder than he thought.

It goes without saying that he couldn't do something that had already been done. That meant no pies, no kicking and no throwing things. After deciding he'd been on the floor for too long, he carefully stood up. He was very sore and walked forward very slowly. His face and mane were splattered with pie, making it hard for him to see and walk.

The Gala was coming to an end so he slowly made his way home. As he walked he looked up to the sky, a few fluffy clouds floating in the air. That's when it hit him. He smiled smugly, having the perfect plan. He just needed to wait for the right moment.

= = =

The group of eight ponies woke up in the palace, each in a bunk bed of their own. Rarity was first to wake up and look around, not remembering the end of the night.
"What happened?" she mumbled to herself, rubbing her forehead.

She stood up, realizing where they were and headed to the en-suite bathroom to wash. Dan woke up next, a headache pounding his brain.
"Ow..." he grunted sitting up and stretching his fore legs out. Dan was on the top bunk of a bed, so he peeked over to see who was beneath him.

It was Gavin below him, sleeping soundly. He snored gently; his tummy rising and falling with his breaths. He looked so peaceful and cute when he slept, so did all ponies it seemed. Dan saw the bathroom light on, rays of light seeping around the edge of the door. He hopped down onto the floor and trotted over to the door, tapping it gently.

Rarity nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard the knock.
"Don't come in!" she shrieked.
"Oh sorry Rarity." apologized Dan.
"Oh, it's ok dear, just as long as you don't enter." said the white unicorn, calming down.
"I just wanted to know who was in there." explained Dan, walking away from the door and over to Gavin.

Dan sat down next to his friend and smiled happily. He then tugged Gavin's mane gently, wanting him to wake up.
"Gavin," whispered Dan, "Gav get up".
"Nah..." sighed the sleepy stallion, snuggling into his pillow.
"Gavin, come on pal." added Dan.
"B, please let me sleep..." mumbled Gavin.
"You left me no choice." said Dan with a smirk. Gavin's eyes shot open immediately.
"Dan no!" he yelled, but Dan had already begun furiously tickling Gavin.

Gavin wriggled around, trying to free himself from the torture.
"Ahhhhh stoopppp!" he yelled between pained giggles. Dan eventually stopped allowing Gavin to sit up and hold his sides.
"Nice of you to wake us up..." groaned Rainbow Dash, throwing a pillow at Dan's head. The other grumpy mares followed suit, sitting up, throwing a pillow and plopping back down onto the bed.

Dan smiled sheepishly and looked at his friend; he looked even more annoyed than the mares.
"Why would you do that?!" he asked grumpily.
"Because you wouldn't wake up." replied Dan.
"I was up! No need to tickle me." pouted the pegasus sadly. Rarity then trotted out of the bathroom, a towed wrapped around her body, one wrapped around her mane and one around her tail.

She waltzed over to her bed and sat down to sort out her makeup.
"Good morning Gavin, good morning Dan." she greeted brightly.
"Nope," grumbled Gavin, "no it's not".
"Whatever's that matter?" asked Rarity.
"Dan tickled me." Gavin grunted, before standing up and trotting to the bathroom to have a shower. Dan sighed and lay down on Gavin's bed, waiting for the bathroom to be free.

Gavin meanwhile, was in the bathroom, very confused. He'd stepped into the shower and stopped in his tracks. How was he meant to turn the water on? The shower had two knobs on the front of it, one for hot water and one for cold. He lifted one of his fore legs into the air, placing a hoof onto the 'hot' knob.

It proved pointless because it just slid right off again.
"Hmmm." he pondered, trying to think of a way to work the shower. Naturally, he tried using his wings. He just ended up brushing his feathers against it, causing yet more of them to fall off. He decided to try the hoof again, but this time to put pressure onto his hoof.

He did so, and managed to turn the knob very slightly before his hoof slipped off again, a tiny trickle of hot water spewing from the shower head. He really had no clue.

Eventually he gave up and decided he couldn't do it alone. He walked up to the door and peeked his head outside, Rainbow Dash looking straight to him.
"Hey Gavin, you done yet?" she asked with a smile.
"Uhm... No actually, I don't know how to turn the shower on." he replied with a shrug.
"Oh, let me help you" giggled the cyan pegasus, floating from her bunk and onto the ground in front of Gavin.

She trotted into the room and stood in the shower to turn it on for Gavin.
"You like it hot?" she asked.
"Yeah." he sighed happily.
"Okay." she nodded, raising a hoof in the air. She placed her hoof on the centre of the tap and pushed onto it. The centre of the knob pressed in like a button, allowing her to easily turn her hoof and turn on the water.

She darted out from under the water, only getting her tail wet.
"Darn." she muttered, shaking her tail at Gavin.
"Whatta ya doin!?" asked Gavin as drops of water from Rainbow's tail splattered all over him. She giggled at him and stopped to wipe her tail on a towel.

Gavin smiled at Rainbow Dash, she actually reminded him of Barbara quite a bit, minus the bad puns. She was really fun to hang out with anyway.
"See ya Rainbow." he said happily as she headed for the door.
"Bye." replied Rainbow Dash, closing the door behind her.

Dan was lying on the bed, bored out of his mind. Luckily, a guard entered the room to talk to them.
"Good morning everypony, the Princess is calling you to breakfast if and when you're ready." he explained with a smile.
"Oh great!" exclaimed Dan, "I'm starvin' marvin'!"
"I think I'll join you," added Twilight, “I should probably speak to the princess anyway.”
"Uhm... I'll go too if that's okay..." added Fluttershy.
"And meeeee!" yelled Pinkie happily.
"And me." agreed Applejack.

Rainbow Dash and Rarity however shook their heads.
"Imma wait for Gav." said Rainbow Dash with a shrug.
"Yes, I'm just going to make sure that I look fabulous before seeing the princess!" chirped Rarity.

Twilight nodded her head at Rainbow Dash and Rarity before leaving the room with the guard, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Applejack. Rainbow Dash sighed happily and flew up to her bed. She lay down, here forelegs behind her head. Rarity was still seated on her bed, putting her eye shadow on, very slowly and accurately.

Gavin, on the other hand, was about to get in the shower. He'd been listening to the guard through the door, so he knew he needed to be quick in the shower. He stepped in cautiously, not knowing how slippery the floor would be.

Once one hoof was inside, he pulled his whole body into the water, warm droplets encasing him. It was the perfect temperature to relax him, and the rising steam soothed him. He tipped his head back in relaxation, exhaling deeply.

He knew however, that he couldn't just relax in there forever; he had to actually wash himself. There was a little plastic pouch attached to the side of the tiled wall, filled with bottles and soaps. He looked over the side of the pouch and found it hard to decide what to use. There was body was, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, soap, hoof moisturizer and exfoliator. He was quite thoroughly confused.

He chose the only thing he ever really used back on Earth, shower gel. He couldn't be bothered with all that other stuff.
"Ok, let’s see how this goes..." he mumbled to himself, reaching into the pouch and pulling out the bottle of bright blue shower gel.
"I hope this doesn't smell too girly." he grunted, squeezing the bottle against the wall with one hoof, so that the gel landed on the other.

He brought the hoof up to his face and inspected it. It smelt good and looked just like normal shower gel. He decided to rub it into his front first, getting his fore legs and neck area. It was hard to balance on three legs, but he somehow managed to do that. He then rubbed his mane with his hooves carefully balancing, using the walls for support.

Finally he needed to wash his back and tail.
"How in hell am I gonna do this?" he questioned, turning his head to look at his rump. "Haha I have a nice arse don't I?" he chuckled, shaking his flank. Then his brought one of his fore hooves back and started to coat his back in soapy foam.

It was going well, until he lost his footing on his other fore hoof. His chin smashed into the ground with a loud thud, making him yelp in pain. Rainbow Dash leapt to the door and knocked on it furiously.
"Gavin?! Are you ok?!" she asked worriedly.
"Yeah." he grunted, pulling himself up
"Good." sighed the cyan pegasus.
"I've done worse." chuckled Gavin, making Rainbow Dash giggle slightly.
"Well come out now, I need a shower anyway." she said happily.
"Sure." agreed Gavin, stepping out of the shower.

He rubbed himself against a towel for a while and shook his mane to dry himself fully. When he was satisfied the he was dry, he opened the door and trotted out into the room.
"I'm sparking clean!" he announced happily.
"Great," said Rainbow Dash sarcastically, "If you need me you know where I'll be." she added before trotting into the bathroom.

= = =

Long Shot was flying through the skies above Ponyville, scouring the air for thunder clouds. He needed to find some to help with his... plans. He did always keep two tiny ones tucked in his wings, but not only were they very small, but only for emergencies. He continued to fly around frantically. With all the good weather they were scheduled to have, there weren't storm clouds for miles.

As he looked around he saw a bright flash on the horizon, his yellow eyes lit up at the sight.
"Yes!" he cheered happily, "I'm gonna get 'em so good!" He flew off in the direction of the lightning at top speed, eager to put his plan into effect.

When he arrived, to his delight, he saw a very big thunder cloud, dark, grey and angry. He had no fear of being electrocuted as his cutie mark showed his special talent was working with lightning. He hugged the cloud and ripped a large piece from it. It was just darker in colour than he was, and it was spitting yellow sparks at him. He immediately took it back to Ponyville where he lay on it. Now he just needed to wait.

= = =

Dan was seated at a large table with the Princesses, Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie. There were all sorts of foods scattered over the table, like cereal, toast, and fruits. Dan and Pinkie had a plate stacked full of delicious delights, the other mares on the other hand, had a rational and sensible amount if food in front of them.

The Princesses sat at the end of the table on high thrones, both smiling down at the group.
"So, how is everypony doing this morning?" asked Princess Celestia with a warm smile.
"Good." replied Dan through a mouthful of food.
"Great princess!" said Twilight, "thanks for that chat last night, I had a great time".
"As did I, Twilight Sparkle, no need to thank me." responded the Princess softly.

The door opened and Rainbow Dash, Gavin and Rarity entered the room, Rainbow's mane still a bit wet.
"Mornin' everybody." greeted Gavin with a smile.
"Morning Gavy Wavy!" returned Pinkie happily.
"How art thou this morning?" asked Princess Luna warmly.
"Top, you?" replied Gavin casually.
"Uhm... We are well." answered Luna, not used to anypony being so casual with her.

Applejack tipped her hat to Gavin, Rainbow Dash and Rarity as they sat down.
"Dig in everypony, we got a lots of food t' eat." chuckled Applejack, eating an apple.
"Yes there is, I don't think we'll mange to eat it all." giggled Rarity, placing a small strawberry tart onto her plate.

After they'd all eaten, the Princesses wished them well and gave them tickets for the train back to Ponyville.
"Thanks Princess." said Twilight happily, hugging princess Celestia.
"Cheers Princess." added Gavin, hugging Luna, thinking that hugging princesses was the norm. Luna accepted the hug, awkwardly patting the stallion's back.

Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow and tapped Gavin to signal two things. One: We're going now, and two: Get the hell of that princess. Gavin nodded and broke the hug to join the rest of his group for the walk to the train station.

It was around 10:00am when they set off, the streets were empty and Celestia's sun was just over the horizon. They walked down the bendy roads in almost silence, the odd little chat popping up. They were just all enjoying the crisp morning air, and the sound of no pony's hooves but theirs on the cobblestone streets.

= = =

When they arrived in Ponyville after the train journey, they all trotted away from the station, laughing together at a stupid hypothetical question Gavin had asked them all.
"Why would ya even want to know if we'd wipe hundred times to get two thousand bits?" chuckled Applejack, wiping a tear from her eye.
"It's just interesting." he shrugged.
"How'd you even think if that?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"I thought of it in my shower; I should never be left alone with my brain." he replied making the group erupt in laughter once more.

As they were walking along laughing, Long Shot spotted them from his thunder cloud. Gavin and Dan were at the back of the group, side by side, with the Mane Six in front. He laughed evilly and silently flew over to them. He positioned himself directly above the two stallions and flew up about two meters from the cloud.

He then forced himself downwards, smashing into the cloud. Two bright jets of lightning shot from the cloud, hitting Gavin and Dan directly. The lightning lasted longer than normal lightning; Long Shot had been charging it up. The two stallions jiggled about violently, a high voltage current pulsing though their bodies.

When the lightning stopped the Mane Six were turned around, horrified faces plastered onto them. Dan keeled over and fell flat onto the ground, his tongue hanging from his mouth (still breathing mind you). Gavin on the other hand, was now green and had a blue energy field surrounding him. His cutie mark looked that way too.

Long Shot leaped from the cloud laughing madly, until he saw Gavin.
"Gavin... What's going on?" asked Twilight cautiously. Gavin knew, as Dan shakily opened his eyes to see his friend, he knew what was going to happen, but nopony else knew. Gavin looked around frantically. Dan tried to crawl away from his friend and the others just looked confused.

Rainbow Dash heard Gavin mumble something to himself before gulping.
"What’s going on Gav?" she asked nervously.
"S-ss- super charged creeper..." gulped the stallion. Instantaneously, his body and cutie mark began to flash white, and a hissing sound was heard. It built up over the seconds before with one sentence from Gavin it went to hell.
"Fuck you Long Shot."

The supercharged pony-creeper then expanded and exploded, blasting everypony away from him screaming. A huge crater was left where he had exploded, Gavin somehow still stood there with a 'goddamnit' face in the centre of the blast zone.
"You had to use lightning on a creeper, didn't you Long Shot?" grunted Gavin angrily.

Author's Note

Wow! this chapter is long :) I would've made it into 2, but, in honour of the end of banger week I gave you guys an explosion. Everyone loves explosions. Thanks for reading!

Chapter 30 Damage Assesment

Gavin looked around at his area of destruction, a huge crater blasted into the ground. Six mares and two stallions were dotted around the outside of it, all lying on the ground. Gavin shook his head lightly. That explosion was not easy on him, but it was kinda cool that he could do that.
"Heh, I can explode." he chuckled to himself, limply flying over the crater.

He landed next to Dan, he looked one of the worst affected by the explosion. Dan was the only pony who knew what was going to happen to Gavin, having played Minecraft before. The poor, already injured, stallion had tried to drag himself away from Gavin in an attempt to escape the super charged creeper pony.

Gavin knelt down next to his friend, placing a hoof on his chest. He could feel his lungs rising and falling with breaths, and his heart beating gently through his soft furry coat.
"Dan?" asked Gavin softly. "Dan?" he repeated in an attempt to wake his friend. Dan mumbled something quietly and turned his head. Gavin smiled, knowing he was alright, and trotted over to somepony else.

He reached a pegasus sprawled out on the floor, covered in dust and dirt. Her mane was charred and messy, sprouting from her bruised head. Her head and face were riddled with cuts and deep gashes, deep red blood seeping from them. It was Rainbow Dash. It hurt him to see her so... damaged.
"R-r- Rainbow Dash?" he whispered to her, a single tear rolling down his cheek. She didn't respond to him. He began to fear the worst.

He placed a hoof on her chest as he'd done to Dan. She was breathing but it felt struggled and forced. He tilted her head back to clear her airways and ran his hoof through her mane gently.
"Rainbow Dash?" he asked once more, a bit louder this time. At first there was no response, so he held one of her hooves. Then one of her eyelids fluttered open, her usually, bright magenta eyes looking dull and dead.

Her face softened when she saw Gavin looking down on her, holding her hoof.
"It's alright Rainbow." he whispered, hugging her briefly. "I have to go help somepony else now, try not to move." he explained softly. She nodded weakly and smiled in response, queuing him to stand up and trot over to Applejack.

Applejack looked in much better shape, her head wasn’t bruised and her body was in a better position, like she hadn't been thrown around that much.
"AJ?" he asked softly. The orange farm pony lifted her head, one eye open and a smirk on her face.
"Howdy Mr. Exploder!" she chuckled calmly. Gavin sighed in relief; there was somepony other than him awake and responsive.

"Good day." greeted Gavin.
"What happened then?" she asked.
"Long Shot struck me and Dan with lightning, making me super charged. Everyone knows that a super charged creeper is nothing but bad news." he tutted.
"Heh, whatever ya say." smirked Applejack, standing up on four hooves.

She looked around herself and her smile disappeared instantly. There were her friends lying on the ground unconscious and injured. Her face turned to one of horror when she saw the small pool of blood surrounding Long Shot’s head and the twisted and broken limbs on some of the ponies she cared about most.
“A-a-are they… alright?” she asked quietly, barely able to form words.
“I don’t know,” replied Gavin solemnly, “Rainbow Dash and Dan are, uhm… fine but I don’t know about anypony else.”
“Ok. Ah’ll take it from here Gavin. If any of mah friends are seriously hurt, you’ll have me t’ answer to.” she said, straight faced, eyes digging into Gavin. He nodded nervously and smiled sheepishly.
“Won’t somepony else come to help?” asked the stallion.
“No Gav. We were takin’ a short cut t’ avoid the midday rush, Fluttershy hates gettin’ caught up in the crowds.” explained Applejack.

Applejack started to walk over to Long Shot.
"Ah'm gonna look after Long Shot, you go take care of somepony else." she instructed with a small smile to comfort him. Gavin nodded and headed over to another body. The coat of this pony was grey and coated with dust; her purple mane was covered with dirt, hiding the bright colour from his eyes.

It was obviously Rarity, her body position held even more proof. She was almost in a posing position on the ground, three legs straight and one foreleg bent towards her.
"Are you awake?" he asked gently, moving her head a tad.
"Whoever is it?" she mumbled weakly.
"It’s Gavin. Will you please get up Rarity?" he whispered softly.

Rarity fluttered open her eyelids and smiled. Until she looked down at herself. Her coat was murky and disgusting, her mane hung down from her head like a wet fish, plastered with dirt. She jumped to all four hooves and screamed.
"Oh my stars! I've never been so dirty in my life!" she yelled dramatically. She shook herself, sending dust and dirt cascading away from her.

Applejack overheard the conversation from the other side of the crater and giggled to herself.
"Nice t' see yer awake Rarity" she chuckled, thank god Rarity was alright.
"Oh Applejack! You're okay!" said the not so white unicorn. Rarity rushed over to Applejack and hugged her tightly.
"Yeah, you okay Rarity?" asked the farm pony.
"I'm fine dear, although I don't seem to recall what happened." she sighed.

Applejack looked at Gavin, who stared back at her sheepishly.
"Gavin said he’ll explain once we're sure everypony's okay." assured Applejack.
"That sounds reasonable." agreed Rarity. She then looked around to see her friends scattered around a crater. Her face dropped and her mouth opened wide.
“Rarity,” said Applejack softly, “They’ll be alright, Ah promise. Just go help Pinkie for me please”
“O…okay...” muttered Rarity still shocked at the horrific sight. She slowly stumbled towards Pinkie Pie, her legs weak and trembling. She’d never really been one to fear the worst, but this… this was different. She put on a brave face for Pinkie though. She had to be strong.

Pinkie Pie was curled up in a ball, her fluffy pink mane covering her face. Rarity knelt down next to her and brushed her mane away from her face. Pinkie's lip was cut and bleeding, along with a few more scars dotted around her head.
"Oh my..." mumbled Rarity, “Pinkie, are you okay? Can you hear me?" she asked softly.

Pinkie's eyes opened slowly, a weak smile formed on her face.
"Hello Rarity." she croaked.
"Oh Pinkie." sighed Rarity, bending down to hug her friend.
"Don't worry about me Rarity," said Pinkie before clearing her throat, "You need to take care of Twilight, she needs it more." she urged.
"Are you sure you're alright dear?" checked Rarity.
"Yes, just go." replied the earth pony, voice stronger now. Rarity nodded and galloped over to Twilight.

Gavin, having awoken Rarity, headed over to the final pegasus: Fluttershy. She was sprawled out on the ground; one of her forelegs bent the wrong way.
"Crikey." mumbled Gavin. He gently wiped her soft, bubblegum mane out of her face, allowing him to see her. She looked peaceful, like she hadn't been hurt at all. Gavin checked that she was breathing and checked that her heart was beating. She seemed absolutely fine other than her leg.

He lifted her up carefully and took her over to Rainbow Dash. There, he lay her down gently.
"Fluttershy?" he whispered. "Flutters?" he repeated a bit louder. She didn't respond. Gavin sighed and trotted over to Applejack and Long Shot.
"Howdy Gavin, how's Fluttershy?"
"She's fine, other than the broken leg." he replied sadly.
"That ain't too bad," she shrugged, "Long Shot weren't that lucky".

Applejack stepped aside, allowing Gavin to see the dark pegasus. His wing was twisted, one of his legs was broken, his eyes were bruised along with lots of other places and cuts littered his body.
"Christ!" yelled Gavin.
"Ah know, he was closest to ya when ya... exploded."
"Should I fly to the hospital for help?" he asked, worried.
"Ah think that's necessary, but ya'll better be fast." agreed Applejack with a small nod.
"I will." confirmed Gavin before taking to the skies and speeding off towards the hospital.

Author's Note

Hey everyone :) Just in case you wanted to see a picture of Long Shot, here's the link to a drawing I drew :) sorry about the bad quality. link

Chapter 31 Tree Trouble

Note! This chapter is not edited! If there are loads of mistakes I'm really sorry :p I will upload an edited version tomorrow for you guys :)

When Gavin reached the hospital, he was very tired and very out of breath. He was a fairly good flyer by this point, but due to the lack of practice his wings struggled. He landed on the ground outside the hospital, panting and huffing.
"Oh god" he croaked, patting his chest. It didn't help that he'd been going the fastest he could.

He soon caught his breath and trotted through the hospital doors, the white clinical building triggering his memory. He trotted up to the counter and flashed a quick smile to the receptionist.
"Good morning!" she greeted, "hey, have I seen you before?" she asked.
"Yeah, I was one of those dudes who collapsed n' stuff, but right now there are ponies that need your help" he explained.

The mare nodded and scribbled something down on to a piece of paper.
"Would you like me to send an ambulance?" she asked seriously.
"Yes please" he replied with a smile.
"Ok... Now just tell me where to" she requested.
"Well, I don't really know the area to be honest. Could you just get it to follow me?"
"Certainly" she agreed, before trotting into a door behind her.

Gavin turned around as a white chariot pulled by two bulky, white, pegasus stallions. The chariot was decorated with green crosses, and had plenty of room for four ponies.
"Cheers" Gavin thanked.
"No problem!" she returned as he hopped into the air.
..................

When he landed the chariot landed son after, just a few feet behind him.
"Applejack!" he called after landing. The orange mare turned around and looked at the stallion running towards her.
"What's up Gavin?" she asked.
"The ambulance is here, we need to get Long Shot, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Twilght onto it" he replied. Applejack looked down and hoofed the ground.
"We can't get Twilight down though" she muttered.
"Why?"

Applejack trotted over to a nearby tree and looked up. Gavin didn't know why she'd lead him to a tree until he looked up too. There was Twilight. However she was unconscious and hanging from the tree by her horn. Her horn was trapped in between two branches, her body hanging limply from it.
"Holy crap!" shouted Gavin, looking at the unicorn.
"Ah don't know whut t' do" sighed Applejack.
"Can't we just lift her down?" asked Gavin.
"Not without risking her horn" replied Rarity, walking over to the tree.

The two stallions with the chariot trotted over, jaws dropping when they saw her.
"Is that Twilight Sparkle?" asked one of them in a deep voice.
"Yeah" answered Applejack. The stallion nodded slowly and whispered something into the other stallion's ear.
"Somepony will have to levitate her down immediately, it's the only way" he replied.
"Ah that's easy!" said Gavin happily, "Rarity can just do it".
"I'm afraid not, my magic is playing up due to me banging my horn when I fell, it'll be fine in a while but I can't help Twilight" explained the white unicorn sadly.

Gavin sighed sadly, what else was there to do. There were no unicorns for miles... Except for Dan! Gavin's face lit up as he galloped over to the sleeping unicorn.
"Dan! We need you now!" he yelled into Dan's ear. Dan opened one of his eyes and groaned grumpily.
"No"
"Dan seriously..."
"No"
"Dan!"
"No you exploded me!" he yelled, opening both eyes and glared at Gavin.

He expected Gavin to be laughing or smiling or at least look annoyed, but instead he looked worried. His face looked rushed and scared, like he knew something bad was about to happen.
"Gavin... What's actually wrong?" asked Dan, realising the seriousness of the situation.
"Look" mumbled Gavin, pointing his hoof to the purple unicorn hanging from the tree.

Dan's eyes widened, his heart races as he jumped up onto four hooves.
"Oh shit!" he yelled, staring at twilight.
"Yeah, exactly" grunted his pegasus friend, "now you need to get her down now so you better leg it" he added before running over to the tree with Dan. The chestnut unicorn stopped in front of the tree and looked upwards.
"Alright, what am I meant to do?" he asked, eyes still fixed on Twilight.
"Ya need t' levitate er down Dan" replied Applejack with an encouraging smile.

Dan nodded quickly and bowed his head. He pictured Twilight in the tree in his mind, the mental image almost making him stop in itself. He forced himself on, imagining her floating gently down to the ground. His horn began to glow the warm chocolate brown colour of his magic, and so did Twilight. This was incredibly hard. All he'd ever levitated was smaller than his hoof, never mind a full grown mare!

The magic became stronger, the light intensifying gradually until Twilight was completely glowing. Dan opened his eyes now, he'd established the spell, now he needed to focus on moving her safely. Twilight began to move upwards slowly, her horn making it tough for Dan to move her safely. He carefully lifted her enough for her horn to lift out of the branches. She was a lot easier to move from there.

He managed to safely lift her out of the tree and onto the ground where he lay her down gently. Her horn was scratched, but other than that she was absolutely fine.
"Good job" said the ambulance stallion with a warm smile patting Dan on the back gently. As they lifted her onto the chariot Dan sat on the floor, clutching his head.

Gavin trotted over to him and sat down.
"Sup Dan?" he asked softly.
"I got a heck of a headache" replied Dan.
"Oh" muttered Gavin, "you did good B"
"Cheers" chuckled Dan with a smile.

The ambulance stallions then trotted over to Applejack, who stood watching Gavin and Dan from a distance.
"Who else are we taking to the hospital mam? one of them asked. "Those three over there" answered the mare, pointing to Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Long Shot.
"Thanks" he said, before his partner and him walked over to the three ponies.

Gavin got up and trotted up to Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Long Shot, before giving them all a hug.
"I hope you're all alright" he sighed happily. The ambulance stallions loaded them onto the chariot and took their places at the front.
"You can all head to the hospital, just say the names of the patients and you'll be lead to them" explained one of them with a smile.

The five ponies that were there nodded and smiled, before the chariot flew away into the distance.
"We should probly git goin'" said Applejack.
"Yeah" agreed Pinkie.
"Ok, but Gavin, on th' way, you're explain' whut in Celestia's name happened in the first place" she chuckled.
"Alright" he agreed, "well..."

Chapter 32 The Xbox explained... ish

Gavin didn't really know where to start. Well, other than what he'd already said. He'd explained that his cutie mark was a creeper and that they exploded; what else was there to explain? He knew they wouldn't understand anyway. They'd probably never understand.
"Alright, do you get the whole creeper thing?" he asked hopefully.
"Nuh-uh." replied Applejack plainly.

Gavin sighed. He had no idea how to make it clear for them what a creeper was, or what an Xbox was, never mind the whole lightning thing. Therefore, he decided to bend the truth and make it into something they could get their heads around.
"Okay, I'm gonna explain it in a way that's not actually, fully, one hundred percent accurate, but is much, much simpler." he said with a smile.
"OH YAY!" yelled Pinkie jumping into the air, "Is this going to be like a story?" she asked.
"Sort of, but not really" returned Gavin with a chuckle before he continued.

"Back on our world there's a... device, called the Xbox. The Xbox is... a-a portal that can transport us to lots of different worlds." he said. "Some worlds are full of violence and fighting, such as the 'Call of Duty' world, while some are spacey and set in the future like the 'Halo' world, and some are just for living differently, like the 'Minecraft' world." he explained. The ponies nodded happily, taking this all in with relative ease. Hmmm, this seems to be working, he thought.

He smiled at the small group of ponies and continued speaking, while Dan began chuckling to himself at Gavin's interpretation.
"Anyway, in the Minecraft world there are these monsters called creepers. Their faces look like my cutie mark, and they have tall, blocky bodies with four legs at the bottom. The thing is, when you get too close to them, or when you hit them, they explode themselves." he said flatly.

The mares had split reactions. Pinkie Pie and Rarity gasped, while Applejack raised her eyebrow suspiciously
"Are ya sure yer not bendin' the truth too much Gav?" she asked.
"Nope, it's not that far out." said Gavin calmly before continuing. "When a creeper gets struck by lightning they become super charged, some blue energy shit surrounds them, and them have a much bigger explosion." he said. "So, when Long Shot hit me with lightning, I became a supercharged creeper stallion who exploded." he added quickly.

Pinkie and Rarity shared a quick glance before shrugging and smiling, Gavin's 'lie' wasn't bad. (An Xbox isn't that far off from a portal to other worlds if you think about it.)
"So, it's a portal huh?" asked Applejack.
"Well... yeah." muttered Gavin.
"Dan is this true?" she questioned.
"Pretty much, yeah. I mean, that's the best way to explain it." the unicorn chuckled.

Applejack was about to ask more questions, the feeling that this was not even remotely close to the truth not dying down, but they'd reached the hospital already. Gavin smiled at her merrily before trotting into the hospital, his hoof steps snapping her out of her train of thought.
"Alright, let’s go find the others." grunted the farm pony.
"Okie dokie lokie!" agreed Pinkie happily.

The group walked inside and up to the front desk, the same mare Gavin had talked to before greeting them warmly.
"Good morning everypony, I suppose you're here to see your friends?" she said to Gavin kindly.
"Yeah, which way?" he asked.
"Just go that way." she said, gesturing to a hallway.
“Cheers.” he thanked.

Gavin nodded at her and smiled before heading off down the corridor with the others.
"I hope they're alright." said Dan glumly.
"Oh come on, they'll be super fine! My friends are tough, don't you worry Danny fanny!" cheered Pinkie cheerfully, making Gavin giggle like a madman.
"Don't ever call me that ever again. Ever. For all time." mumbled Dan sourly.
"Sure thing?" agreed the party pony, not knowing what she did wrong.

Gavin turned around to look at his friend, Dan's fringe covering the top of his eyes as he looked to the ground.
"Chin up Danny Fanny." he snickered.
"Shut up Gav!" he yelled, hitting Gavin on the flank.
"Ow! Okay, sorry dude." giggled the pegasus.
"Stop fooling around you two, we're nearly there and we need to be good, supportive friends." explained Rarity.
"Yeah, sorry Rarity." apologized the two stallions.

They walked up to a curtain and Applejack pulled it aside. The four beds, with the four injured ponies, were revealed. Twilight was sleeping peacefully, the only visible sign of the explosion being the gouges in her horn. Long Shot was in bad shape; one of his wings was in a sling and he had bandages covering most of his body and head. And he was snoring. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were both awake and, aside from the cast on one and the bandages on the other, they looked relatively unscathed for having been blown up. Their faces lit up when they saw the group pull back the curtains.
"Applejack! Rarity! Pinkie!" croaked Fluttershy, calling the three mares over for a hug.
"Gav! Dan!" mumbled Rainbow Dash, seeing the stallions standing alone.

They trotted over to the cyan pegasus and hugged her friendlily, enjoying the contact. Out of all of the mares, Gavin felt his connection with Rainbow Dash was the strongest. He didn't know if it was because he actually got on better with her, if she reminded him of someone, or because he'd spent the most time with her.

"Oh, I'm so happy you're alright!" exclaimed Rarity, breaking from the hug with Fluttershy.
"Oh, yes, they just put my leg in a cast, so I'll be fine." assured the yellow pegasus.
"How're Twilight n' Long Shot?" asked Applejack.
"Oh, they're good too. The doctors knocked them out because of the pain." replied Fluttershy with a weak smile.

Applejack nodded and trotted over to Rainbow Dash, hugging her too.
"Are you alright Sugarcube?" Applejack asked quietly.
"Yeah," croaked Rainbow Dash with a smile, "at least the explosion was cool." she added with a small laugh.
"Yeah," laughed Applejack, "Ah just don't know if ah feel safe around em anymore"
"Don't worry about that AJ, it was really Long Shot's fault anyway." argued Rainbow Dash with a smile.
"Uh, alright Rainbow." sighed Applejack, returning her friends smile.

As Gavin walked over to Fluttershy to ask if she was okay and apologize, he saw Twilight's hoof twitch slightly out of the corner of his eye. He stopped in his tracks and turned his head around to look at her. Her hoof was twitching frequently, her eyebrows moving slightly too. It seemed that Applejack, Dan and Rarity had noticed too, Pinkie however was busy making nurses wish they'd never been born with her 'awfully amazingly awesome alliteration activity'.

The three ponies looked at Twilight with raised brows before sharing a glance.
"I didn't think she was supposed to be coming around yet." whispered Dan.
"Nor did I." added Rarity quietly. Twilight's eyebrows then slowly stopped, leaving a very angry expression on her face. Her hooves were tensed and her ears were stuck straight up. Applejack stepped back slowly, Rarity followed suit. Gavin and Dan just stared at her confusedly.

Suddenly, Twilight's eyes shot open and she sat up quick as a flash. She glared deep into Gavin's eyes making his stumble backwards and almost trip over his own hooves. Twilight then opened her mouth to speak.
"WHAT THE BUCK IS GOING ON?!"

Chapter 33 Wanna Play Footie?

Twilight was glaring at Gavin, fuming with anger. Her eyes were narrowed and filled with fire as her gaze bore into the pegasus and tore into his very soul. Gavin was staring back at her, eyebrows high and tail between his legs before he finally said something.
"Twilight..." he squeaked, his strong London accent loud and clear.

Twilight looked away from him and breathed deeply, calming herself down after her little outburst.
"Oh, sorry Gavin, sorry everypony," she croaked, " I just need to know what happened, what's going on now and why does my horn hurts really badly?" she asked.

Applejack jumped up on to Twilight's bed and sat next to her. She put her foreleg around Twilight's neck and pulled the distressed unicorn in for a hug.
"There, there Twi," she soothed, "everything’s just fine, don't you worry Sugarcube."

Twilight sighed and hugged Applejack back; felling glad that she still had the comfort of her friends. Applejack let go and stood back up next to Gavin and Dan. Twilight looked around at her friends, surrounding her. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were both sat up as well.
"So, Gavin, what did happen anyway?" she asked calmly with a slight smile.

Before the tan pegasus could open his mouth to respond, Pinkie Pie had jumped in front of him and started explaining for him.
"OH! I got it! There's a device called an Xbox which is a portal which lets you go to different worlds like the Minecraft one and in there there are big scary monsters, like creepers and they explode when you get near them but when they get hit by lightning they get supercharged and make an ever biggerer explosion like BOOM KKKHHHHFFFFSSSS RAWWR!" yelled the excitable pony, her face turning blue.

Pinkie stepped back and took a huge breath; her natural pink colour flooding her face once again. Twilight blinked slowly, getting her thoughts together; she'd become very good at understanding Pinkie over the time she'd known her.
"Okay..." mumbled the unicorn, looking back to Gavin, "I don't believe it." she said plainly.

Gavin raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "What?" he asked.
"I don't believe that it's a portal, and I don't believe that these monsters are real." she replied simply. The two English-stallions looked to each other and sighed, they kind of knew that Twilight would figure it out.
"We'll explain it to you later Twi." mumbled Gavin.
"Yeah, maybe when we’re more alone." added Dan.

Twilight nodded at them and smiled slightly, before plopping her head back onto the pillow and falling to sleep near instantaneously.
"Okay then?" said Gavin quietly. The room fell silent for a few seconds, until Fluttershy spoke up.
"I'm kinda tired too." she said quietly, letting out an adorable yawn.
"Yeah, I think I gotta go to sleep too." admitted Rainbow Dash (as much as she didn't want to).

Rarity nodded along with the others, before trotting over to Twilight and giving her a hug good bye, "Goodbye Twilight, we'll come back tomorrow."
Twilight kept sleeping as Rarity turned around to look at the others. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had already started drifting off. After the day’s events, they could all do with a rest.

Applejack yawned and rubbed her eyes, some of her coat still charred and covered in ash. None of them had had the chance to wash themselves properly after the explosion. The only clean one was Gavin who seemed (unsurprisingly) resistant to the explosion.
"Look, Ah know that it's still early," she said before yawning again, "but ah think we need t' go to bed nice 'n early." she added.
"Yeah, I'm about ready to hit the sack." agreed Dan.
"You all need a wash too." snickered Gavin, trotting past them and towards the door.

The others joined the pegasus in trotting down the sterile halls; all relieved that the stressful day was over. They could now relax. Dan and Applejack caught up to Gavin, Rarity and Pinkie not far behind them.
"God, it's been a mental day." said Gavin, looking at the friends to his side.
"Yeah, absolutely bonkers." agreed Dan with a slight chuckle.
"Ah just can't wait to get 'n the shower and calm down." added the farm pony with a smile.

They trotted on and chatted lightly, the stallions deciding to explain the rules of football to the mare. By the time they looked forward and saw the great spread of trees of Sweet Apple Acres ahead of them, they hadn't even realized that Pinkie and Rarity had left.
"Shucks, Ah didn't realize that we'd been walkin' fer that long." chuckled Applejack, breathing in the sweet smell of apples.
"Yeah," agreed Dan, "hey we should have a footie match in the field!" he suggested excitedly.
"Oh, that'd be top!" agreed Gavin.

Applejack shook her head playfully before picking up the pace.
"Really?" she asked, raising a brow.
"Yeah!" replied the unicorn, "I'm sure you'd be great with that apple kicking skill of yours"
"Ya think?" she asked, blushing slightly, "but there're only three of us"
"We can play every man for himself" suggested Gavin with a smug smile.

Eventually Applejack sighed and gave in, after they'd begged, pleaded, and implored her for a few minutes.
"Alright, but it better be fun like y' said." she sighed. The stallions cheered before hoof bumping behind the farm ponies back.
"But no magic n' no flyin'." she said, not wanting the stallions to have an unfair advantage.
"Absolutely." agreed Gavin politely.

When they reached the barn, the two stallions were giddy and giggling, excited to play their game. Gavin was fed up of the disregard for real football in America and hadn't played the game in a while.
"Alright, I have a ball in the barn." said the farm pony, opening the doors and trotting inside. She emerged a few seconds later, struggling to kick a ball out with her hoof.
"Now we just need a big enough field." mumbled Dan, looking around and seeing nothing but trees.

Applejack had already set off galloping away when she turned around and shouted to them.
"Way ahead of ya!" she yelled happily, "Follow me!" Gavin and Dan galloped after her happily, laughing madly as they chased her. She'd resorted to holding the ball in her mouth; it was still hard, but easier than kicking.

She led the two eager stallions to a large empty field, soft, short grass swaying slightly in the wind. She stopped and turned around to look at Gavin and Dan for a second before dropping the ball to her hooves. She smiled cheekily, Gavin and Dan sporting grins that looked like they'd crack their faces.

Each of the ponies turned around and walked about twenty large paces out. They then made a long ditch in the ground each with their hooves, the soft ground allowing it to be moved easily. They then looked at each other to check that they were in line. Once they were satisfied with the make shift goals, they trotted into the centre, determined (or in the case of Gavin, goofy) expressions on their faces.

"Alright, I think Ray would want me to say this before we start," said Gavin before he cleared his throat, "LLLLLLLLLET'S PLAY!"

Author's Note

Early chapter! YAY!

Chapter 34 Drama n stuff

As soon as Gavin had yelled the famous words, Applejack and Dan kicked out their legs to get the ball, not realizing the Gavin had already taken it. The pitch was an odd shape, it was quite clear that he'd never played on a triangular one before. He kept his distance from the other two, passing the ball from hoof to hoof skillfully.

Applejack ran forward, not having a strategy, leaving an opening for Gavin. He tapped the ball forward with his right fore-hoof and ran after it and kicking again with his left. Dan galloped over to him, making Gavin look around for a path to the goal. As Dan approached, he took a step forward but kicked the ball to the side. Dan lunged to where Gavin stepped, as the sneaky pegasus darted off with the ball.

He kicked the ball into the air and whollopped it with his hind leg, sending it hurdling straight into the net.
"HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES!" yelled Gavin triumphantly, doing a front flip (for style) in celebration.
"Nice one Gav." congratulated Dan grumpily. Applejack trotted over, her face wide with surprise.
"Woah there Gav, you got some fancy hoof skills goin' on." she chuckled happily.
"Cheers AJ." he laughed, "Alright back to the centre".

Gavin trotted over to the ball and effortlessly dribbled it into the middle of the pitch.
"I'd just like you to know, Gavin, that I was going easy because it was AJ's first try." mumbled Dan as he walked in.
"Of course you were!" laughed Gavin sarcastically, “That's why you were so rubbish"
"A'right you two, Ah think Ah got it." said Applejack as she fixed her hat back into place.
"You can have kick off then." suggested the chestnut unicorn, passing her the ball.

The farm pony stopped it with her hoof, before passing it between her forelegs.
"Are ya ready?" she asked playfully.
"Let's go!" yelled Gavin in response. The earth pony nodded and dribbled the ball backwards, taking both stallions by surprise. She tried to take it round the side over to Gavin's goal, but the pegasus was already there ready to tackle.

The stallions knew what they were doing, they held their positions and slowly stepped forward, pressing Applejack back. She on the other hand, was desperately thinking of a way to get around them. As Gavin and Dan got closer, she realized she only had one chance.
"Ah hope this works..." she grunted, hoof pecking the ball into the air, and headed it as hard as she could.

The two defenders lifted their heads to watch the ball whilst Applejack galloped between them. As it hit the ground she swung her leg back, striking it on the bounce. It flew across Dan's goal quickly, and stopped to bounce in the mud.
"That's how it's done fellas." giggled Applejack trotting over to the ball with a spring in her step.
"Ok, one-one-nil." grunted Dan, shaking his head, "Game on".

= = =

Big Mac looked through the window of the farm house, the glass dirty and smudged. It was hard to see through, but what he saw was clear. His little sister was out laughing and playing with two random stallions that she hardly knew out on his field. Big Mac didn't like that. He didn't trust those two. Their strange cutie marks and funny accents. They wanted trouble.

The red stallion scrunched up his face and pushed the windows open angrily with his hoof. He could see what was going on more clearly now, and it made his blood boil. He wanted Applejack to be safe and happy, but not with two suspicious stallions he didn't know. He noticed that she looked bruised, her coat black and scorched.

His eyes narrowed to slits. They had no right to be with his sister, now she looked as if they'd hurt her. He then saw Gavin run up to her and try to kick her, she pulled away but then Dan ran up too. He swung his hoof at her forelegs, but she managed to dodge him. Gavin however ran around the back of her, kicking her back legs in causing her to fall to the ground. Dan then dived on to Gavin, Applejack following suit. Or at least that's what he thought he saw.

In reality they'd just been carrying on with their football match, Gavin kicked the ball from beneath her back hoof as Dan distracted her, catching her by surprise so she fell on her rump. Gavin tried to run off with the ball to score but Dan jumped on his back screaming "PILE ON!" Applejack, of course, joined in. That's not what Big Mac saw. He'd always been protective over his sister; she meant the world to him. He loved her so much and he didn't want anyone to hurt her.

So, her trotted through the door and set off towards the field. Marching angrily; his hoof steps harsh and tense. It wasn't in his nature to be angry, he didn't like it one bit. He had no idea what he was going to do when he got there, but he was focused on it still. He just wanted the best for Applejack, no matter what the costs.

He arrived at the edge of the field, the three ponies rolling around with laughter; two stallions and a mare; one unicorn, one pegasus and his sister.
"Applejack!" he shouted. She snapped her head up to look at her brother, Gavin and Dan doing the same.
"Why howdy Big Mac, whut's up?" she asked happily, wiping a tear from her eye. Big Macintosh stomped over to her, his hooves poking holes into the soft ground.
"You're coming inside with me now Applejack, we need to talk." grunted the stallion as he reached the three.

Applejack stood up and looked up into his eyes, her face looking as innocent and sweet as ever; Gavin and Dan looking as confused as ever.
"Big Mac, is there somethin' wrong?"

Author's Note

Thanks for reading again guys! Just to let you know, if you have any suggestions for the story I'll take them in. I'm open.

Chapter 35 Another Day

Big Mac looked down at his sister; her face soft and kind.
"Applejack, what're ya doin'?" he asked, sounding kind, yet stern.
"We're just playin' some... uh, what's it called again?" she asked the stallions.
"Football." they replied quietly.
"Yeah, football." smiled Applejack. Big Mac stared at the stallions, making them feel uneasy and uncomfortable.

They looked up at him, eyes wide and lips tight. They didn't move other than to share the occasional glance. They didn't seem as menacing as he'd originally thought. He looked back to Applejack who was smiling happily, with one eyebrow raised. The orange mare peeked back at her two friends and smiled, calming them and causing them to smile back.

Big Mac sighed and let a small smile form on his lips. He bent down and hugged Applejack slightly.
"Uh, Big Macintosh? You okay buddy?" chuckled the mare.
"Yeah Applejack, sorry for marchin' over here." he said gently.
"No problem big brother, we should probably go in now anyway," suggested Applejack, "we all need a good wash and a rest." Everypony nodded in response to Applejack and started trudging towards the farm house.

Big Mac walked behind them. He realized that he'd been way too over the top this time. He wanted his sister to be safe, but still happy. He glanced at her and the stallions; she had Gavin in a headlock while they walked. He was making the strangest sounds whilst Dan was barely able to move with his laughter. He let out a quiet chuckle and shook his head. To be honest he didn't even know why he was worried. He'd never seen Applejack that close up with any stallions before, that was probably why.

.............

Dan woke up once again, the light from the bright sun seeping through the cracks in the old wooden barn. He groaned slightly as he lazily lifted his head to look around. One eye was half open allowing him to see his friend, still asleep on the hay. He realized that it must still be too early to wake up, so he let his head drop back down onto his make do bed. He'd started to get used to the hay, his nights were getting better and better. He snuggled his head into the hay; a smile crossing his face.

As Gavin started to wake up he yawned slightly. He was quite good in the mornings, unlike Dan. When he was up, he was up. When he was asleep he was asleep. No middle ground. He sat up and stretched his forelegs with a yawn. Dan, being disturbed by Gavin's yawn, moaned angrily, wanting to get back to sleep.
"Mornin' Dan!" greeted Gavin happily, getting some low grumbles in return.

The pegasus was used to getting up early on the farm, so he slowly stumbled to his hooves and stretched out his wings.
"Get up my unicorn friend." chuckled Gavin, walking over to the sleeping stallion.
"Gavin no." grunted Dan.
"Come on B."
"Gavin no please."
"You know what's coming..."
"Gavin no!" Dan yelled this time. Gavin then jumped into his friend, making him yelp loudly.
"Weeee!" cheered Gavin playfully, as he jumped up.

Dan slowly stood up, glaring at his 'friend' angrily.
"Why you gotta wake me up?!" asked Dan sadly.
"We have to go to the hospital soon, they're meant to let the ladies out today right?" questioned Gavin.
"I think so..." replied Dan, stretching out his limbs. Gavin nodded with a happy smile.
"Tippedy top, let's go!" he chuckled pulling the barn doors wide open.

Dan shielded his eyes from the bright sun as it flooded the barn.
"Gavin! No warning!" yelled the unicorn, falling onto this back. Gavin laughed lightly, trotting over to his friend.
"What're you doing B? Get up!" giggled Gavin, pulling Dan up. He smiled at his friend and started walking forward towards the door.

Applejack left the farmhouse after finishing her breakfast, seeing Gavin beaming at her from across the yard.
"Good mornin' Gav." she greeted with a wide smile.
"Ello AJ!" he returned happily.
"Good morning." mumbled Dan tiredly. Gavin and Dan turned around to face the gate, setting off when Applejack reached them.

It was a lovely sunny morning, but there were lots of clouds on the horizon and weather ponies working tirelessly to move them over.
"Why do they do that?" asked Gavin as they walked along the path, surrounded by apple trees.
"Well, somepony needs to control the weather," she answered, "and it's a great job for a pegasus."
"They get paid?" questioned Gavin.
"Yeah, everypony needs to make bits somehow."

Gavin watched the weather ponies closely, flying seemed effortless to them. It still took a lot of thought for him. His train of thought was broken by Dan.
"Are Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Twilight leaving the hospital today then?" he asked with a smile.
"Yep, the doctor said they were fine." replied Applejack happily.
"Great!" cheered Dan.
"We're meetin' the others at the crater." she chuckled.
"What about Long Shot?" asked Gavin.
"Ah dunno," Applejack shrugged, "Ah sure hope he's ok though".
"Me too." agreed Gavin, feeling slightly guilty.

They trotted on to the crater, pretty much silent; all of them allowing the warm sun to wake them up fully and make them feel happy. When they arrived, Pinkie Pie was seated in the centre of the crater making explosion noises.
"Erm, Pinkie?" greeted Applejack with a little giggle. The pink mare's head snapped up and her eyes fixed on the three ponies. Her face lit up and a wide smile spread across her face.
"Good morning everypony!" she greeted excitedly, "The sun is up and I'm feeling fine!"
"Morning Pinkie." Gavin and Dan chuckled together.

Pinkie bounced over to them and sat on a grassy patch. She patted her hoof on the ground around her, motioning for the others to join her sitting down. They complied and lowered their bodies onto the warm earth.
"So... how is everypony doing?" asked Applejack after a short awkward silence.
"Pretty good," replied Dan with a smile, he then looked at Gavin and frowned, "but my hoof still hurts from that glass." he chuckled.
"You shoulda legged it faster then, Dan." laughed Gavin in response as he slugged him in the shoulder.

Chapter 36 Drugged Out

Rarity was trotting down the road happily, she'd actually woken up early for once to visit the spa and now she felt lovely and refreshed. She sighed contently as her stylish mane bounced gently as she moved.
"My, what a lovely day!" she said to herself joyfully. Thanks to her spa trip, her white coat gleamed and her hooves were shiny enough to use as a mirror. Her purple ringlets fell perfectly at the side of her head and shone with elegance.

She soon trotted over the hill and made it to the crater, the three others sat on the ground waiting.
"Good morning Applejack!" she greeted, "Pinkie, Gavin, Dan." she added, nodding her head.
"Mornin' Rares." returned Gavin with a warm smile. The small group stood up and patted the dust from themselves. Pinkie jumped up onto her hooves and hugged Rarity tightly.
"Good morning my favorite fashionista!" she cheered joyfully.
"Thanks Pinkie, now let's be going. I bet they're waiting for us." said Rarity, ducking her head from Pinkie's death grip with practiced expertise.

The others nodded in response and set off walking towards the hospital.
"D'ya think Long Shot's up yet?" Dan asked Gavin as they walked at the back of the group.
"I dunno, but I hope he is." replied Gavin flatly.
"Well, you should hope that. It is your fault after all."
"Actually it's his fault for bloody electrocuting me."
"You deserved a good shockin' ya bell end." chucked Dan. Gavin smiled at his friend happily.
"Let's be off Danny Fanny." squeaked Gavin, hardly able to contain his laughter.

Dan's smile spread as he grabbed Gavin in a headlock, making the other stallion squawk strangely.
"Tease it!" Gavin yelled as he wriggled from the tight grip and ran around to the front of the group, laughing happily. Dan chased him around, also laughing and smiling.
"Dan! Dan!" yelled Gavin as he tried to escape.
"Come 'ere Gav!" Shouted Dan, artfully galloping after the tan pegasus.

The three mares wanted to stop them at first, before sharing a glance and shrugging it off. They joined in the laughter as the two once humans ran around wildly, chuckling and screaming.
"Stallions." giggled Rarity, rolling her eyes, setting the three girls off giggling like mad mares. The mood was light and energetic, and the fact that Gavin and Dan weren't even from Equestria was forgotten completely. They were way more fun than any other stallions, and the mares loved having them around too.

They reached the hospital in good time, Gavin sporting a new bruise on his leg, Dan's mane had become completely messed up and his ribs were hurting from Gavin's wing tickling. They trotted into the hospital, springs in their steps. The mare at the door nodded at them kindly, allowing them to walk to their friends. Fluttershy was standing up on three legs at the foot of her bed, talking to Rainbow Dash, who was standing on her bed flexing her wings. Twilight however was seated next to Long Shot, talking to the barely conscious stallion.

Long Shot looked up as Applejack, Pinkie and Rarity trotted around the corner to them. Gavin and Dan soon followed, the ash grey stallion's eyes snapping to them instead.
"Gravy! Pan!" shouted the injured pegasus, perking up and pointing at the two other stallions.
"Long Shot?" said Gavin, confused.
"Good day Gravy!" shouted Long Shot, clearly pointing at Gavin.
"Uhm, Gavin?" asked Dan, pointing at Gavin.
"No Gravy, Pan!"
"Gavin, Dan?"
"Pan and Gravy are very fishy..." sulked Long Shot, sinking in his seat.

Gavin, Dan and the three mares looked at Twilight, eyebrows raised.
"He's all coo coo on pain killers." sighed the purple unicorn sadly.
"I AIN'T ON NO PWAIN KULLERS!" yelled Long Shot from under his blanket.
"Oh okay." chuckled Dan, trotting over to Long Shot.
"Psst, Pan.... Psssst?" he whispered to Dan.

"What is it buddy?" asked Dan, leaning in so Long Shot could whisper to him.
"Get me outa here pwease." he pleaded, looking up into Dan's eyes.

Applejack let out a small chuckle before stomping her hoof on the ground.
"A'right everypony. Let's be goin'!" she announced, before letting Fluttershy put a fore leg around her shoulder for support.
"Tippedy toppers." said Gavin walking forward.
"Gavin would you be a dear and help Rainbow Dash?" asked Rarity whilst poking his side gently.
"Okay, why?" he asked, turning to face her.
"Because she would mess up my coat, Pinkie Pie is far too unpredictable and Applejack is already helping Fluttershy. Besides, you’re the gentlecolt." she replied calmly.
"Alright." Gavin sighed, walking up to the cyan pegasus and smiling happily.

Rainbow Dash jumped off the bed carefully and plopped her hoof around Gavin's neck before flashing him a goofy smile.
"Come on Gaver Wavers, let's go." she sighed, pulling him forward.
"Okay Dashie." said Gavin happily, walking forward with her. Dan carried Long Shot on his back, Applejack helped Fluttershy with her broken leg and Rarity walked alongside Twilight.
"Ugh, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed, Rarity, the hospital ones are so uncomfortable." grunted Twilight as she walked along the corridor slowly.
"Yes dear, you look like you could do with a good rest." agreed Rarity, nodding her head.

Dan was trudging along slowly; Long Shot was wiggling around on his back and making it hard for Dan.
"Blimey Long Shot stop it!" he yelled, looking back at him.
"NO! Pan I wanna wiggle!" shouted the drugged out pegasus.
"I'm warning you, Long Shot. Stop it, you're hurting my back."
"No, no I'm not." giggled Long Shot as he continued to wiggle, his eyes practically purple from the drugs.

As Long Shot continues to move about uncomfortably on Dan's back, he decided enough was enough. Dan kicked his back legs into the air and bucked the drugged up pegasus into the air. Gavin and Dan both laughed loudly as Long Shot hit the ground with a thump.

"I did warn you Long Shot." laughed Dan.

"What the buck." grunted the ash grey stallion as he crawled to his hooves.

Gavin trotted back to him and patted his shoulder.
"You should not mess with Dan." he laughed warmly. Long Shot grunted as he stumbled backwards and nearly fell over. His eyes were still spinning but they were back to their normal yellow color.
"Urgh, I was going to pay for the damages but I don't think I want to now." he groaned.
"Wait? Have the drugs worn off?" asked Dan, confused. He looked to ask the rest of the mares, but they were pretty far ahead.
"Yes, the drugs wore off." said Long Shot flatly.

Gavin giggled once again and Rainbow Dash joined him this time.
"Hey Long Shot, good to see you're okay!" chucked the mare.
"Hey Dash." he returned with a half smile. Long Shot brushed the dust from his coat and coughed loudly.
"So... What was that about paying for the damages?" asked Dan quickly.
"Well, I was going to pay for the damages to the road and everypony’s medical bills.. It was mostly my fault and, well, I'm pretty loaded to be honest." Long Shot replied coolly.
"Was going to?" questioned Gavin.
"Well, I dunno... I might still pay..." he hinted, looking at Dan.
"Oh right, sorry!" chuckled Dan with a smile.

Chapter 37 One Crazy Episode

Ray and Michael were seated in their chairs at the Achievement Hunter office. They were both feeling on edge; how could they feel right when there was an empty chair in the room?
"Ray?" said Michael, getting the Puerto Rican's attention.
"Yeah?" Ray replied quietly.
"Where do you think Gavin is?" Michael asked quietly. Gavin had been missing for three days now; there was no sign of him anywhere in America, or in England. They knew he was probably safe and sound, but everyone at Rooster Teeth was concerned.

Ray looked over at Michael and tried to smile. Their best friend was gone. He was like a brother to them and the office sounded way too quiet without his screaming and laughing in his joyful tone. Geoff and Caleb even missed him screaming "WHAT IS GAME NIGHT?!"
"I don't know Michael," shrugged Ray with a frown, "but we have to take our minds off him. He'll turn up safe. He survived a stroke and a twisted testicle just fine." he added making them both laugh slightly.
"Yeah, good point Ray." agreed Michael with a weak smile, "You wanna watch some MLP to cheer up? I recorded the latest episode." Michael asked. Ray's smile widened slightly, it had been a while since he'd seen his pony friends.
"Yeah, sounds cool man." Ray answered, looking to the mini Applejack toy stood upon his desk.

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Michael’s apartment was well furnished and nice, quite large too. Since Lindsay was out, the only thing they heard when they walked in was the sound of the AC, straining to overpower the hot Texas sun.
"Just sit wherever, I'll go get some chips." said Michael, walking over to the kitchen. Ray nodded and took off his shoes, before heading to the sofa and jumping onto it.
"You nearly done Michael?" asked Ray, feeling awkward sitting alone staring at a black screen.
"Yeah, coming." he heard Michael answer from the kitchen, his voice echoing through the apartment.

Michael soon walked over to sit with Ray, holding a large bowl full of chips (crisps!).
"Alright let's get this party started!" chuckled Michael as he grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. Ray nibbled on a few potato chips whilst his friend quickly scrolled through his recordings to find My Little Pony. With a push of a button, the TV displayed the show to Michael and Ray, both of them half singing along to the familiar theme tune.
"God I haven't watched this in ages man." said Ray, interrupting the song.
"Me neither," agreed Michael, "now shut the fuck up and watch."

The title sequence ended and faded away, Ray and Michael sharing a smile before it started. When the show did start however, it wasn't what they expected. Of the four ponies on-screen, they only recognized one. Rainbow Dash was standing with her foreleg over an unknown, light brown pegasus stallion, while a chestnut unicorn stallion carried a ash grey pegasus stallion on his back.
"Dude, who're those guys?" asked Michael, looking over towards Ray.
"I dunno." replied Ray, "Although I'm pretty sure I've seen the dark grey one as a background pony before." he added with a shrug.

Michael narrowed his eyes and looked back to his TV. Three of the ponies were walking forwards, and the other stallion was wriggling about on the chestnut stallion's back.

"Blimey Long Shot stop it!" yelled the unicorn as he looked back to the pegasus on his back.

"Long Shot?" questioned Michael.
"Never mind Long Shot, does that voice sound familiar to you?" asked Ray.
"Yeah..." replied the other man.

The chestnut stallion then bucked Long Shot from his back, chuckling whilst he did so. "I did warn you, Long Shot." he laughed.
"What the buck?" grunted Long Shot.

Ray and Michael looked at each other with raised eyebrows.
"Long Shot’s dropping B-bombs?" scoffed Ray.
"No seriously, what the hell is going on here?!" shouted Michael, clearly very confused.

The other, lighter, pegasus stallion then trotted over to Long Shot.
"You should not mess with Dan." Laughed the stallion warmly.

The two men looked at each other, eyes wide.
"Dan! That's it!" yelled Ray.
"HOLY SHIT!" screamed Michael, "That is Dan! And that... Is that..."
"Gavin?!" they both said at once.
"Look at the cutie mark!" yelled Ray.
"A creeper!"
"He even has a wonky muzzle!"
"Let me rewind it; I need to hear that again."

As Michael rewound the show to hear the tan stallion's line again, the two men look at each other in disbelief.
"It can't be though..." muttered Ray.
"Maybe that's where he is?" suggested Michael, "Doing voice acting at Hasbro?"
"But... Why does is look like him?" asked Ray.
"Maybe he won a contest or something..."
"But.., why?!" yelled Ray, mind thoroughly boggled.

They looked back at the TV to see the four ponies talking in a group.
"I can't handle this, we gotta be goin' crazy man." said Ray flatly.
"Yeah. I'm gonna go get drunk. agreed Michael, "You coming?"
"Yeah, I'll have a coke or something" said Ray. Michael turned off the TV and stood up. Ray followed him from the sofa to the door, glancing back at the TV before they left.
"That was fucking weird." grunted Michael.
"Yep"

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Long Shot laughed a bit and trotted forward, "Let’s go to the park, we can talk there." he said with a smile as he pointed a wing in the appropriate direction. The three other ponies shrugged and started to trot forwards, following the slightly limping stallion.
"So, what do you two do for a living?" asked Long Shot, secretly trying to find out more about the odd stallions.
"Uhm..." mumbled Gavin looking at Dan for help.
"Well..." Dan added in support.
"Uhh..." continued Gavin.

Before either of the stallions could answer, they heard somepony shout from their far right.
"HEY!" they heard the female voice yell, "Hey Shottie! Dashie!" she laughed, galloping over to them. She was a light blue pegasus with a wavy brown mane and tail. She had bright green eyes and a small band around each of her lower forelegs.

She trotted the last few metres before hoof bumping Rainbow and a very confused Long Shot.
"Who's this?" asked Gavin with a half smile.
"Oh hey!" she said looking at Gavin and Dan, "I'm Lou, who are you?" she greeted happily.
"My name’s Gavin!" he replied with a happy smile.
"And I am Dan." added his unicorn friend.
"That's cool, nice accents." she complimented with a nod of her head.

“Oh, heya Lou. What’re you doing here?” Long Shot managed after shaking off his initial surprise.
"Oh, I just got back from Trottingham and when I saw you I thought I’d stop and say hi." she answered happily whilst she fluttered her wings.
“Hey, we’re headed to the park, wanna come?” Rainbow offered.
"Nah, it was long flight back, I think I’ll just head home and crash.” She then kissed Long Shot's cheek. “See ya!" yelled Lou as she flew into the air, "Oh, and I wanna meet these two better some time." she added before darting off.

Long Shot looked at the three friends in front of him and smiled sheepishly.
"Don't mind her, she's just a... old friend." he said slowly, narrowing his eyes. “And if you say what you’re going to say, I will bucking kill all four of us right now.”
The trio collectively decided to tease him later and instead continue on to the park.
“So just how rich are you?” Dan asked after trotting over to Long Shot, who promptly facehoofed.

Chapter 38 Bees

They arrived at the park together very shortly, and trotted through the gate onto the lush, green grass.
"So, about 'dem bits?" hinted Dan with a slight giggle.
"I'm gonna tell you once we get a place to sit!" grunted Long Shot, once again.
"Yeah, hold your horses Dan." added Gavin, receiving some funny looks from Long Shot and Rainbow Dash.
"Uh, what's that supposed to mean?" she asked, looking to Gavin.
"Oh!" he gasped, "Oh, nothing, just a figure of speech from... Where we're from." Gavin chuckled sheepishly.

Long Shot mentally filed away that tidbit of information and scoured the park for a nice place to sit, before spotting a nice shady patch of grass by a tree.
"Come on, there’s a place." he said, walking forward. The three others followed him through the small crowd of ponies to the spot Long Shot wanted. They sat down on the grass in the shade, ready to hear Long Shot's story.
"Alright, so as you probably gathered by now, I'm pretty rich." he began.
"Yep." agreed Gavin.
Long Shot narrowed his eyes, "Okay, so you're probably wondering just how much money I've got so-"
"Yep." said Dan, with a nod.
"Stop interrupting me then!"
"Oh, sorry." laughed Dan with a smile.

Long shot rolled his eyes and started again.
"Right, so last I checked, I personally have roughly two hundred twelve million bits.” he said quickly, “I have no idea what the family as a whole is at, but we could probably buy Cloudsdale if we wanted." He added as he scratched his head.
Gavin and Dan's eyes widened.
"Bloody hell!" muttered Dan.
"Christ alive!" added Gavin.
"Well, yeah." Long Shot continued, "My Great, Great Grandfather, Long Shot the First, opened the first department store in Equestria, then Long Shot the Third practically took over the fireworks industry, and my father is business partners with Fancy Pants."
"Wow, cool story dude." chuckled Gavin with a smile.
"Yeah." agreed Dan.

"So... are you going to pay for the damages?" asked Rainbow Dash with a half smile.
"Probably, I mean, I have more money than I know what to do with." he chuckled.
"You could buy us some bevs!" laughed Gavin happily.
"Hahhaha, no." muttered Long Shot. "No way in pony hell am I doing that again. Not after last time."
"Oh cheer up it wasn't that bad!" chuckled Dan.
"Tell that to AJ." giggled Rainbow Dash.

They sat talking in the sun for another hour, enjoying each others company. Despite him slowly gaining trust in Gavin and Dan, Long Shot still knew there was something fishy about them. He needed someone to talk to about his suspicions, make sure he wasn't just going mad and falsely accusing the stallions.
"Well, I gotta go okay, I need to get to work now." he lied with a smile as he hovered above them.
"No you don’t, you’re not on today and you just got out of the hospital." Rainbow Dash assured happily.
"I was gonna put in for overtime, I could use the bits... Bye!" he yelled, darting away from them and towards Ponyville.

Rainbow Dash looked at the others with a raised eyebrow.
"That was weird." she mumbled.
"Yeah..." agreed Dan.
"Real weird." added Gavin.
"Anyway, Fluttershy asked me to go see her at lunch time to help her feed the animals." said Rainbow Dash, with a smile.
"Oh, why can't she do it herself?" asked Gavin, enjoying the park.
"Because she broke her leg stupid!" replied Rainbow Dash, smacking his fringe.
"Hey, don't smack my fringe!" winged Gavin, pushing it back down into place.

The cyan mare stood up and stretched her legs into the air, flapping her wings for support.
"Come on Gavin, don't be mean." said Dan, also stood up now.
"Okay, okay, let's go." agreed the pegasus slowly climbing to his hooves. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and started walking slowly; Dan followed her too, making Gavin hop up and trot to catch up.

"You've been to Fluttershy's already, right?" asked Rainbow Dash as she walked.
"Yeah, back when we were human." replied Gavin, "Wow, that was weird to say." he added, looking around.
"Everything about this is weird, I mean, we're talking ponies." chuckled Dan, looking at his hooves.
"Pfft, and you're not weird?" scoffed Rainbow Dash, "Two legged, furless beasts!"
"Meh, fair play." laughed Gavin.

Over the past few days he'd almost forgotten where he was. It was surreal to be in a different world, to have a different body. He thought that it would've affected him more than it did. Even though they were somewhere fantastic, they were Gavin and Dan; having fun and spending time with friends. He didn't feel in such a hurry now, but he still sure as hell wanted to go home.

Rainbow Dash led them along the dirt path, until a small cottage was in sight. It was cute and cozy looking, with animals littered around it. It wasn't too far off from a large forest too; a very sinister looking forest....
"Here we are!" yelled the pegasus, doing an effortless front flip in the air.
"Rainbow Dash you have style for days." chuckled Gavin as he trotted past her and towards the cottage.

Dan followed Gavin past a confused Rainbow Dash and walked up to the door of the house. He tapped on the door gently and heard struggled hoof steps come to the door.
"Oh, hello Dan, hello Gavin, nice to see you." she said quietly, smiling.
"A'right Flutters?" greeted Dan happily. Fluttershy looked okay, other than her left foreleg which was in a bandage and held up with a sling. It looked pretty painful at first, but she was still able to walk. Plus it wouldn't take too long to heal.
"Are you here with Rainbow Dash to help me?" she asked softly, her voice oozing kindness and gentleness.

Dan nodded his head and with that Fluttershy invited them inside. Rainbow Dash flew in too, and took a seat on the sofa.
"Just wait there, I'll get the bowls of food." instructed Fluttershy, limping into the kitchen followed by a small white bunny.
"So what exactly are we doing?" asked Gavin, joining the pegasus on the sofa.
"We're just gonna help her feed some of the animals." she explained, "Gavin, you and I can get the birds and Dan can sort the chickens or something."
"Aren't chickens birds?" asked Dan.
"I meant flying birds." sighed Rainbow Dash with a slight smile.

Fluttershy then returned to the room with three bowls of animal food. One was filled with seeds, one was filled with corn and one was filled with flowers.
"Uhm, here you go, this one's for you Dan, you can feed the chickens.... Please" she said, handing the bowl full of corn to Dan.
"Cool." said Dan, grabbing the bowl with his magic.

Rainbow Dash then dived across the room and grabbed the bowl full of seeds.
"I'll got this one!" she yelled with a sheepish smile. Fluttershy and Gavin gave her an odd look.
"I... really like the birds" she muttered.
"Oh... that's nice." mumbled the shy yellow pony. "Gavin that leaves you." she said, handing Gavin the bowl full of flowers.
"Top, what animal is this for?" he asked, "Rabbits? Hamsters?"
"No... Bees." she said with a forced smile.

Gavin's face dropped. He looked at Fluttershy with wide eyes.
"BEES?!" he yelled.
"Yeah... I'm afraid so... They should be good but..." she trailed off, walking backwards into the kitchen. Rainbow Dash grabbed Gavin's shoulder and pulled him outside.
"Alright let's go! Bee hive's over there! Good luck!" She shouted, pushing Gavin over to the hive.
"Bees..." he gulped.

Chapter 39 Puns

Gavin looked down at the hive, it was closed but there were at least twenty bees swarming around it. He looked around to Rainbow Dash slowly.
"Uh.... How do I feed the bees without dying?" he asked.
"Don't feed the bees?" jokes Rainbow Dash. Gavin shot her an annoyed glare and she flew closer to him.
"Look, just open the hive and throw the flowers in." she answered with a shrug.
"So I just chuck 'em in?"
"Yep"
"Really?"
"Yes! I gotta go feed the birds... Good luck!" she flew over to the other side of the garden and went behind the large tree.

The tan pegasus gulped once more and slowly moved his hoof towards the lid of the hive. He could see the bees gathering around at the side of the hive, as if they were discussing what to do.
"Oh flippin' heck." sighed Gavin looking at the bees that seemed to be puffed up slightly. He moved his hoof even closer to the lid as a bead of nervous sweat trickled down the side of his face.

He extended his leg a bit more until he finally touched it. The once buzzing hive silenced instantly. He didn't know how to react and flipped the lid open far more quickly than he had intended. He froze for a second and looked down into the mass of bees. There were thousands of specs of black and yellow, all staring at him.
"Bollocks." he said flatly, setting off the chase. The swarm left the hive and flew together as a thick mass, chasing Gavin around.
"BEES!! BEES!!" he screamed as he leapt into the air, the bees following close behind. Rainbow Dash avoided him instantly and stayed as far away from him as she could.

Gavin flew around in loops, desperately trying to lose the swarm while making oddest noises as he twisted and turned in a desperate attempt to lose the enraged swarm. He sounded like he was squawking, yelping and choking all at the same time, resulting in either an 'OHRRCH' or a 'BWAK OOHHOO'. Rainbow Dash giggled slightly, she knew she shouldn't but his terrified expression and comical noises were just too damn funny.

As his wings began to tire, he took the chase onto the ground, dropping from the sky and onto his hooves.
"BEES!!" he screamed once again, still running from the angry swarm. His body ached; his adrenaline running low. The lactic acid in his muscles burned, forcing him so slow down. The first bee soon caught up with him and gave him a painful sting on his butt making him yelp. He jumped up out of shock and fell onto the ground.
"Gavin!" yelled Rainbow Dash, worried, as the swarm of bees surrounded him.

Their tiny stingers stabbed his body repeatedly... Until he'd had enough. It felt like he just let out a puff of air that made the pain stop, but he had actually caused a small explosion. He'd never used his creeper powers for real until then, the super charged explosion not really being of his own volition. He looked up from his defensive position to see small clouds of smoke rising up and a swarm of unconscious bees on the ground surrounding him. He looked back at his body, and only a few stingers remained.
"What the..." he gasped, shakily standing up.
"Wow. Dude that was awesome!" cheered Rainbow Dash, flying to his side.

"What the hell?" he asked looking around frantically, "Where'd all the bees go?"
"I think you knocked them out." Rainbow Dash replied.
"But how?!"
"I dunno!"
"What was Gavin shouting about? Is he- Oh my!" yelled Fluttershy as she looked outside to check on Gavin. She saw the stallion surrounded by bees, all on the ground, twitching slightly.
"Gavin, what happened?" she asked as she quickly limped over to her bees, kneeling down next to them.
"That's what we're trying to work out." Gavin replied.

Dan soon trotted outside to see what was going on.
"Hey Gav what's up?"
"I just bloody got attacked by bees" said Gavin quietly.
"Yeah, I guessed that by you shouting 'BEES!! BEES!!'" chuckled Dan.
"Yeah, but look at the bees now." Gavin huffed, looking down.
"Wow, what happened?" asked Dan.
"I dunno!" he shrugged, fed up of being asked.
"Rainbow what did you see?" Dan asked.
"Well, I saw Gavin 'bee'ing chased by bees ‘bee’cause he wouldn't 'bee'have so he buzzed off, but they 'bee'lieved that he was a threat and ‘bee’gan to chase him. Then, Gavin seemed to 'bee' stupid enough to fall over, 'bee'cause of that they ‘bee’gan stinging him until one second they all just 'bee'came still and fell to the ground ‘bee’cause they were unconscious." Rainbow Dash replied smugly.

Gavin and Dan stared at her with death glares. Bee puns? Really?
"Great puns Dash." sighed Dan sarcastically.
"Yeah, ha ha ha." grunted Gavin flatly whilst Fluttershy giggled.
"Oh come on, they were pretty good." chuckled the cyan pegasus, nudging Gavin.
"No. No they were not." replied Dan, shaking his head slowly.
"Oh come on!" laughed Rainbow Dash.
"You're like Barbara." muttered Gavin.
"Who's Barbara?" she asked.
"Never mind..." sighed Gavin, looking back to the bees.

Author's Note

I know it's slightly short, but I've been kinda busy with an ICT GCSE lately :/ thanks for reading still :)

Chapter 40 Lou

Fluttershy picked up one of her bees gently, holding it in her hoof. The bee then started to slowly wriggle as she held it.
"It seems okay..." muttered Fluttershy quietly, "we should put them back in the hive to recover though." she added scooping up another bee.
"Alright then, let's put 'em back." agreed Gavin carefully picking up one of the insects and holding it away from himself.

Dan and Rainbow Dash also grabbed a bee each; they trudged along behind the other two over to the bee hive.
"Ugh, I hate bees." grunted Dan.
"Well stallion up Dan, we have to help Fluttershy." sighed Rainbow Dash, nudging him.
"Yeah, come on ya pleb." chuckled Gavin, plopping a bee into the hive gently.
"Oh wait! I know!" smiled Dan as he dropped his bee in.

Dan had a wide smile on his face as he quickly trotted back over to the pile of bees.
"I can just use magic!" he cheered. Dan stared at the bees, concentrating, his horn glowing dully. After a few seconds, he'd managed to shakily lift the swarm into the air and move them a little. He carefully lifted them over to the hive, and placed them inside gently. "There! Job done!" Dan cheered, smiling ear to ear.
"Oh, thank you very much Dan." Fluttershy mumbled with a small smile.

Gavin then peeked into the hive, only to immediately pull his head as far away as possible when he saw the bees beginning move.
"Well then." gulped Gavin, clapping his hooves together.
"What d'you guys wanna do?" asked Rainbow Dash, having nothing else planned for the day.
"We could go and see that Lou person?" suggested Dan.
"I-I think I'll leave you to that..." Fluttershy mumbled before darting inside.

Rainbow Dash looked to the other pegasus, his bright green eyes shining in the sun.
"What do you think Gav?" she asked him. Gavin looked up and tapped his chin with his hoof for a few seconds.
"Yeah, I'm okay with meeting Lou." he decided with a shrug. Rainbow Dash laughed slightly and raised her eyebrows.
"Okay then! Let's go!" she chuckled, leading the stallions into central Ponyville.

The rainbow maned mare trotted ahead of the two stallions, who were walking side by side.
"So, how do you know her?" asked Dan.
"Well, she's a weather pony, so I'm her boss." replied Rainbow Dash, briefly turning to look at Dan. The stallions nodded slowly, both daydreaming about home.

As they continued to walk along the dusty paths, Gavin turned to his friend.
"Pfft," he snorted, "just think about how crazy this is."
"Yeah, it's mental," agreed Dan with a nod, "we're ponies"
"Yeah, and we're in a completely different world." added Gavin.
"It's weird how normal this feels now."
"I know, I really just hope that the guys are okay. I wonder if they even know we're gone." Gavin sighed, missing Earth.

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Michael and Ray returned to Michael's apartment, deciding that they needed to discuss what they saw on TV earlier in more detail.
"We both know that we need to talk about this." Michael sighed, rubbing his forehead stressfully.
"Yeah man, that was fuckin' weird." agreed Ray. The two men breathed out deeply.
"I don't know if that was Gavin and Dan somehow... Or if we’re just going crazy." Michael grunted, trying his best to keep calm.

Ray put his face in his hands for a few seconds, neither of the men having any clue where the other Team
Lad member was.
"Alright, the only logical explanation is that Gavin and Dan went to Hasbro, did some recording, and got ponies names after them." Ray mumbled, "The other explanation is, that they're both in Equestria"
"Don't be a retard Ray! It's not fuckin' real!" yelled his friend his temper ‘slowly’ deteriorating.

They sat in silence for about thirty seconds, both thinking as hard as they could for another way to explain what they saw.
"Alright just play it again, we have to make sure." suggested Ray with a sigh. Michael nodded his head and turned on the TV, it was paused on Gavin, Dan and Long Shot.
"Oh my GOD!" shouted Michael, "LOOK AT THEM!"
"Okay, Michael, just play it." grunted Ray.

He pressed play on his remote and the ponies jumped into life once again; their familiar British voices running through the minds of the two men.
"Ok, so it's definitely them." said Ray flatly.
"Yep," muttered Michael, "we need to tell someone, Ray."
"Yeah. Let's show Geoff, see what he thinks." agreed Michael, turning off the TV once again.

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Dan patted Gavin on the back gently to calm his friend.
"Nah, they'll be fine." he chuckled.
Rainbow Dash turned around to look at the stallions, smiling at Dan patting Gavin friendlily.
"Alright, come on guys we're nearly there." she cheered, picking up the pace a little bit.
"Is she nice?" asked Gavin.
"Yeah... She's actually a little like you." Rainbow Dash giggled in response, making Dan groan loudly.

Rainbow Dash eventually stopped outside a small, brown, wooden house. Gavin and Dan looked over it, seeing that it was quite a nice little home.
"Here we are." said the mare, taking a step onto the small porch that was in front of the house. The door suddenly flew open, revealing a light blue mare with piercing green eyes.

She looked at the three ponies standing outside and her face relaxed into a warm smile.
"Hello there!" she greeted happily, her voice having a weaker, northern British accent.
"Hello!" greeted Gavin automatically with a large smile.
"Where are you from?" asked Dan, noticing her accent.
"Originally Manechester." she answered calmly.
"Cool." replied Dan with a smile.

Lou stood at the door for a second, looking down at them before finally remembering to let them in. She walked away from the door and allowed the three others to come inside.
"Welcome to my home." she chuckled trotting over to the kitchen. Her house was all dark wood timber, with white and cream furnishings. There were a few pictures hanging on the walls two. However, the most bold of all the things in the house, was a cabinet full of finely polished, perfectly hung, razor sharp knives of all shapes and sizes.

Gavin trotted over to it, and stared at Lou's collection, gathering her attention.
"Like my knives?" she asked coolly, trotting over to him.
"Yeah, why d'ya have 'em?" Gavin asked, mesmerized by the way the light reflected off the blades.
"Oh y'know, for show." replied Lou.
"They look beast." Gavin nodded with agreement and trotted back over to Dan, happy she wasn’t a serial killer.

Rainbow Dash hovered towards Lou with a smile on her face.
"So, wanna go somewhere with us?" she asked, "We’re kinda bored."
Lou jumped into the air happily and waved her fore legs about.
"Yeah! I'd love to!" she cheered hugging the other pegasus mare, "Lemme just go get my bits." Lou said, before darting upstairs.

Author's Note

Sorry for the really late chapter guys :/ ayway, do you all like the cover art?

Chapter 41 Dragged In

NOTE
Uh, hey everyone. I haven't uploaded a chapter in a while... But it's not my fault. I had chapter 41 written ages ago but then had editor trouble evasive the usual guy couldn't do it and stuff -_- I really can't be bothered waiting anymore and don't want to make you guys wait, so here's chapter 42 unedited. Better than nothing right?

Michael and Ray stormed out of the apartment, mentally ripped apart by the troubling episode of MLP. They stayed silent as they swiftly jogged down the stairs, on a mission to get to Geoff as fast as possible. The two men marched through the door of the apartment complex and over to Michael's car. Ray opened the passenger door and plopped himself inside. Michael wasted no time in getting into the car and starting it straight away, taking off the hand break and putting the car in gear.

It was quite late so they figured that Geoff would probably be at home with Millie, Griffon and usually Gavin. Geoff's house wasn't that far away from Michael's apartment building so he aimed to arrive within 7 minutes.
"Wait, there is no way Geoff'll believe us" Ray grunted, looking to Michael.
"He has to once he sees the episode" argued Michael, "once he heard that stallion's voice and sees his cutie mark." Ray shrugged in response still doubting what Geoff would think, and wondering what on earth was going on.

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Princes Celestia trotted down the halls of her palace, in a hurry to get back to her investigation. The arrival of Gavin and Dan had sparked her curiosity about their universe. Now, not only did she need to find a way to allow Gavin and Dan to get back home, but she wanted to learn more about where they're from. She'd started to investigate more ancient magic, long forgotten and forbidden magic. She knew that if Twilight could accidentally pull Gavin and Dan through to their world, that she could do something to send them home.

She trotted into a room filled with books and papers, lit with a few candles, flickering gloomily. She lay down on her blanket and floated another book down from the shelf. She looked at the title, barely visible through dust. It read "ancient tales of beasts and magic", this could hold the answer. She flipped the cover open and looked at the contents page,allowing her to easily find the spells section.

There were lots of spells that looked like they'd help, but one particular spell caught her eye. She stood up, holding the book in front of her with her magic, her great horn glowing brightly.
"Open a window, to the other side, the place where magic is lost, I need to find the answer, I can control the costs" she said slowly. With each word she spoke, her horn shone brighter, more magical sparks fire working away. She was pushed to her limit, all her energy had gone into this spell and she damn near collapsed.

Princess Celestia took a deep breath once the spell was done. She thought it was unsuccessful... Until she looked up. There was a blue body of magic above her head, gently glowing. With her eyebrow raised, she stood up and looked into the window like thing. There were two things, similar to Gavin and Dan before their transformation, sat down together.

From what she could see, one had curly deep red hair, and the other had short dark brown hair atop his head. They were silent, until the brown haired one muttered a single sentence.
"I... I miss Gavin so much" he stuttered, burying his face in his hands. The princess gasped.
"That must be one of Gavin's friends" she breathed, still watching the men.

The other man patted the brown haired one on the back, comforting him.
"It's ok buddy. We just have to tell Geoff that we saw him there" he spoke calmly.
"But we saw him as a pony Michael! This is mad!"
"Ray! What else can we do though!" Michael screamed.

The princess' eyes were wide, her mouth ajar.
"How had they seen him?!" she asked herself, "they'll expose the whole of Equestria... What if they're dangerous... What if they want to attack..." she gasped, horrified at the thought of any of her little ponies getting hurt. The two men in the magic suddenly began to open some doors at their sides and stand up.
"Alright Ray, let's go and tell Geoff about Gavin... In Equestria" Michael chuckled.

They started to walk towards a house. Their steps fast and their eyes set on the door. The princess didn't know what to do. Should she leave them be... and risk the rate of Equestria? Or... Or... She saw Ray's hand tough the door handle and her eyes shot open, her horn busting with energy. She panicked and accidentally did something, but she didn't know what...

.......................

Michael and Ray opened the car doors and started to get out, the atmosphere was sour and they were both pretty nervous.
"Alright Ray, let's go and tell Geoff about Gavin... In Equestria" Michael chuckled. They walked over to the door fairly quickly, Ray reaching for the door handle and pulling it down gently.

Suddenly, a golden flash and some weird glittery gas appeared next to them, Ray and Michael snapped their heads round to look at the source of the light. It shimmered in the moonlight as it gently floated in the breeze.
"Uh Ray...." Michael whispered, just before the glow moved towards them.
"Well, shit" mumbled Ray, closing his eyes tightly.

...................

Gavin, Dan, Lou and Rainbow Dash trotted along the path together. They were having a nice conversation, mostly the two stallions asking Lou questions. They decided to go to the library to see Twilight and see if she wanted to go out for lunch with therm. It's been a while since Rainbow Dash and Twilight had hung out together without the other mares.

They were walking towards the door of the library when they saw Twilight burst though the door, her face horrified.
"Gavin, Dan! There you are!" she yelled, struggling to stop in front of them.
"Twilight? Wot is it?" Gavin asked, looking at her with an eyebrow raised.
"I just got a letter from Princess Celestia, WE NEED TO GO!" she screamed, running over to the four ponies. grabbing Gavin, Dan and Rainbow Dash's hooves.

She dragged them over to a royal chariot, sent by the princess, and pulled them on.
"Hey, where are you going?!" yelled Lou as the two royal guard pegasi leapt into the sky, pulling the charriot up.
"Uh... Bye Lou!" shouted Rainbow Dash as they flew further away from the confused blue pegasus. Lou watched the golden charriot grow smaller and smaller as it flew away.
"What the buck was that all about?" she asked herself, before trotting off to find Long Shot

Chapter 42 Surprise!

NOTE!
Yeah... So... I'm a poop! Took me forever to bring myself to write again, what can I say, I'm terribly lazy! Ahah, but really I'm sorry as knobs, have a chapter guys c: it's unedited again because I don't wanna make you guys wait any longer than you have and stuff, so sorry if it's bad! Once again, reeeeealy sorry c:

WARNING bad language in this chapter :o EHEHEH

Gavin, Dan and Rainbow Dash sat in the chariot with a very nervous and anxious looking Twilight. Her mane was scruffy and stray hairs curled up and away from the usually sleek style. Her eyes were wide and red, her eyebrows furrowed heavily. Not to mention the fact that she was nervously buying her hooves.
"Not good not good!" she mumbled to herself worriedly, pacing the chariot countless times.

Rainbow Dash stood up and put a hoof on Twilight's shoulder,
"Come on Twi, whatever's wrong will be fine soon!" she comforted, genuinely worried about her friend.
"Rainbow Dash!" the lavender unicorn snapped, "how could you say that?! The princess said that something terrible had happened, that it was absolutely urgent that we come to help AND that the fate of Equestrian was in our hooves!" yelled Twilight, working herself up even more.

Rainbow Dash sighed and sat down, knowing that there was nothing she could do to calm Twilight. Gavin and Dan stared at her for a while, before looking to Rainbow.
"Uh... Is she gonna be alright?" asked Gavin, pointing to the nervous breakdown that was Twilight Sparkle.
"Yeah" Rainbow Dash replied, "this happens quite a lot, especially when the princess is involved" sighed the mare.
"So what do you thing is going on?" asked Dan, hoping his friend would have more of a clue then he did. The cyan Pegasus just shrugged, making the two stallions sigh.

As the Canterlot Palace became closer and closer, Twilight ran her hooves through her hair, realising what a mess she looked.
"Alright everypony, gather in" said Twilight, holding her head up high. When the other ponies just looked at her with raised eyebrows, Twilight reached her arms around her three friends and flashed her horn.

The four ponies appeared in front of princess Celestia, her gracious mane flowing. Her face however, was worried and frightened.
"Thank you for coming so swiftly my little ponies" she thanked softly, "please follow me" she instructed. She began to trot down a long, dark hallway, lit with torches.
"Princess Celestia, what's happened?" asked Twilight worriedly.
"You'll see Twilight Sparkle" replied the princess, raising Twilight's nervousness.

.................

When Ray re-opened his eyes, he couldn't have predicted what he'd see in his wildest dreams. He was staring at an alicorn, with a gracious flowing mane and a pure white coat. Her eyes were wide and so was her mouth, shock stapled to her face.
"Oh my goodness..." she muttered. She took a step back, slowly.

Ray turned to his left slowly, he saw his friend Michael matching his shocked expression. He slowly closed his mouth. He knew exactly who was stood n front of him, he just didn't know how.
"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" he hears Michael say slowly, tapping his foot on the ground in front of him. "We'll, the floor's fucking real" he stated.
"P-p-princess... Celestia?" Ray mumbled quietly. The princess heard him and stared into his eyes deeply.

"FUCK!" screamed Michael, jumping into the air.
"Michael!" yelled Ray, seeing the princess step back quickly.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!?" the man shouted grabbing Ray's shoulders.
"Calm down dude!"
"WHAT?! Calm down?"
"Yeah!" Ray answered, before pointing to princess Celestia. Michael looked at her and then back to Ray.
"I know Ray! You don't think I saw her!" Michael yelled.

The princess stepped forward, causing the two men to look towards her her.
"Are you two... Gavin and Dan's friends?" she asked softly, lifting her head high and looking into Ray's eyes. Michael's jaw dropped and he put his hands to his face dramatically.
"Uh... Yes, someone called Gavin.. How do you know Him?" asked Ray, trying his best to stay calm in front of the princess of the sun.
"He was transported to our world not too long ago" the princess replied, smiling slightly.

Michael was obviously not handling he situation so well. He jumped up and down making strained groaning noises, occasionally screaming "fuck".
"C-can we see him?" muttered Ray, hopefully.
"Certainly, I'll call my faithful student-"
"Twilight Sparkle?" interrupted Ray. The princess nodded slowly, thrown off by Ray's interruption.
"Y-yes, I'll go and meet them... Also, pease control your friend" she said before trotting through the door.

The swiftly slammed the door shut and hung her head low.
"What did I do?" she asked herself sadly, whilst locking the door with her magic. She trotted down the hallway and sent two of her royal guards to fetch Twilight, Gavin and Dan, and to be quick about it. She quickly wrote a letter to Twilight and then sat down on her throne in the hall waiting. She just wanted to try and think of what to do whilst she waited. She was also incredibly drained from performing that spell.

............

The princess stopped in front of a door, which Twilight could tell she'd sealed magically.
"W-what's in there princess?" asked the unicorn nervously. The princess turned to her with a comforting smile, easing her up a bit.
"Do not worry, Twilight Sparkle. Gavin, Dan, you must enter first... You, uh, need to see this" the princess instructed un-locking the door.

Princess Celestia held the door open for the two stallions with her magic, allowing them to enter the room. However as soon as they were able to see what was inside the room, they stopped. Eyes wide and mouths open, if slightly turned up at the corners.
"Mi-cool!" yelled Gavin at the too of his lungs, seeing Michael sat on a stool in the middle of the room.

The man snapped his head round and gasped whether saw the two stallions. Ray then peeked his head around his friend.
"Ray!" shouted Gavin, leaping into the room, flapping his wings. He jumped in between the two men and wrapped his fore legs around their necks, the two men not really grasping what was going on.
"Gav..." Dan muttered, seeing the faces of Michael and Ray. Gavin flew off them a bit, the men's eyes fixed on him.
"Oh, bugger, sorry" Gavin chuckled, flying back to stand next to Dan, still not able to contain his excitement.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight then peeked their heads into the room, wondering what had got Gavin so excited.
"Oh, no way!" yelled Rainbow Dash, trotting into the room, joining Gavin and Dan.
"What the fuck..." muttered Ray, Michael unable to get any words out, "Gavin? Dan?" Ray questioned, astonished.
"Yeah Ray!" Gavin exclaimed, hopping into the air, "you happy to see me?!"

Author's Note

SOOOOOOOOORRRRRRYYYYYYYY <333333

Chapter 1 stick to popping bubbles

"Hello Internet! Today, we decided to get lots of different alcohol and paint and bleach and basically lots of different liquids, put them in a bucket together, set it on fire and throw it in the air." Gavin said as Dan smiled happily by his side.
"Hopefully this will be a good video with some awesome slow motion in it, as well as completely destroying the lawn." added Dan cheerfully. They loved their jobs, doing wreckless stuff and filming it in slow motion for money, who wouldn't right?

Gavin and Dan walked over to a selection of bright bottles, some glass, some plastic but all said "HIGHLY FLAMMABLE!" On them somewhere. They each picked up a bottle and looked into the camera.
"Here goes!" said Gavin before they began to pour the liquids into the bucket. Dan had some bright pink bleach, whilst Gavin poured in some posh rosé he'd nicked from his mum. They splashed around in the bucket until the bottles were empty and the fluid settled.

Gav peered over the top of the bucket to look at the mixture before hastily moving back whilst coughing loudly. "Bloody hell!" he yelled wiping his eyes and still coughing from the fumes. "Christ, that has quite a nasty gas coming off it."he mumbled to his partner. Obviously then Dan stuck his head over the bucket to have a very similar reaction to Gavin.

After they both calmed down they looked into the camera together.
"We might need our safety equipment for this one." announced Gavin before running over to the bench and grabbing two small gas masks. He walked back over and passed one to Dan
"Thanks Gav" said Dan with a happy nod before they both pulled the masks over their faces.
"Right time for a couple more bottles, what' you going for?" asked Gavin. Dan moved his hand over the bottles before reaching down and grabbing a can of purple paint.
"I'm going for the paint, it could do with a bit more colour don't you think?" he replied. Gavin then reached down and grabbed some blue WKD.
"Yep, I'll go for blue I think!"

They both opened the containers and emptied the contents into the mixture, making it bubble viciously in the bottom of the bucket.
"Phwor!" Laughed Gavin as he looked into the bucket. It was a disgusting mish mash of different thicknesses and colours in a bucket.
"Could do with a little more..." Said Dan as he grabbed another bottle and emptied it into the bucket, shortly followed by Gavin.

A few bottles later, they'd filled the bucket and the repulsive fumes coming from it were visible to the eye. Gavin walked away from the bucket and threw Dan a match box. He opened the box, pulled out a match and struck it on the side lighting it with a small, yellow flame.
"Here goes nothing, remember DO NOT try this at home , we're professionals." He warned.
"Loosely speaking..." Added Gav receiving a chuckle from Dan.

He lined up his shot and threw the match into the bucket immediately lighting it up. The flame was multi coloured, thanks to the different chemicals within the bucket and the heat was steering. The fumes spread all over the garden and both Gavin and Dan ran away, straight away.
The flame almost looked like a mouldy rainbow as it flickered wildly sending it's smoke and gas everywhere it could. Suddenly the fumes set fire, as the gas was oxygenated and flammable.

It spread rapidly over the garden in every direction. Gav and Dan were huddled up in a corner where the fence met the wall of the house. They briefly flinched as they presumed their deaths were imminent, but a bright flash filled their vision and they
both fainted onto eachother.
................
A while earlier...

Twilight had gathered her best friends together in her library to show them something special. She's spent a long time studying and perfecting her new spell and she was confident she'd amaze and share a fun experience her friends. They gathered round Twilight in a semi-circle and she took a step back.
"This better be good, I could be practicing my skills!" moaned Rainbow Dash who was getting rather impatient. They'd been stood waiting for about 10 minutes whilst Twilight prepared everything for her spell.
"It should be Dash, it I get it right that is..." she trailed off, turned around to face her reading stand and straightened up her notes in front of her. She had one last read through her notes before nodding and turning around.

She bowed her head, spread her stance and slowly thought the spell through in her head again and again. Her horn began to glow a soft purple, then intensified gradually into a bright, blazing white. Magical sparks were flying from her horn and landing all over the room, worrying her friends and causing them to close their eyes and look away from the bright light.

Apple Jack briefly opened her eyes and saw something surprising. Twilight's horn was not the dazzling white it was a few seconds ago, in fact it didn't look like magic at all. It looked like her horn was emoting a flame. Not just any flame, a flame that looked like a... mouldy rainbow.
"Er, Twalight?" she stammered nervously.

Suddenly Twilight looked up and her eyes were pure white. A bright flash engulfed the room causing a few of the ponies (Rarity, Pinkie and Fluttershy) to scream loudly, whilst the other three just tensed up defensively. After a while and the brightness had calmed down, AJ slowly and cautiously opened her eyes. She was absolutely shocked and terrified by what she saw. There were two, tall creatures lay unconscious in the middle of the room, huddled up. They were hairless and had short manes on top of their heads and no tail. AJ backed away slowly, careful not to alarm them. She grabbed a quill and a piece of paper from the shelf near the door and quickly and quietly wrote "I'm going to get princess Celestia, keep them here - Apple Jack". she threw it next to somepony else, sneaked out of the door and galloped full sprees towards the train station, good job she'd packed those emergency bits...

Chapter 13 Training Begins

As the sun appeared above the hills, the rays of light once again gently woke Gavin up. He fluttered his eyelids as his eyes adjusted to the light. He then yawned and stretched out his legs and his wings, knowing that he'd be using them.
"Christ, I hope this doesn't hurt too much." he grumbled to himself, stretching out his neck. He looked to his left and saw that Dan was still asleep so he needed to be quiet; He tip-hoofed over to door and pulled it open gently, just wide enough for him to squeeze through.

He looked around and blinked in the sudden light. It was a warm day and there were no clouds for miles. He breathed in the crisp, fresh air and trotted over to the nearest apple tree. He knew that he'd need some food for energy, but he didn't want to bother anypony. Therefore he decided that his best bet was to get a few apples and eat them until Rainbow Dash came for him.

He'd seen Big Mac bucking the trees when he walked home last night. He looked up at the tree and tapped it gently with his hoof. It wasn't too tall or thick but it did feel very hard and very solid. Gavin turned around, took a step away from the tree, and looked over his shoulder. He lined up his hooves with the centre of the tree to make sure that he hit the middle.

Once he was sure he'd be accurate, he lifted his hind hooves and held them there ready to kick. However he waited to long and lost his balance, falling onto the ground.
"Ow." He muttered as he pulled himself up from the floor. "I don't think you do it like that." he added with a chuckle. He then stood back up facing away from the tree and this time, in one swift buck, he kicked the tree. Six apples fell to the ground around Gavin and he smiled, proud that he'd bucked his first apples.

He trotted over to a sunny spot and sat down, leaning on a tree. He then got one of his apples and took a large bite out if it. It tasted much better than any other apple he's ever tasted before, so he continued to eat and relax in the warm sun.

Eventually Rainbow Dash arrived at the farm and saw Gavin under the tree; A perfect opportunity for a prank.
"This is gonna be so awesome!" she whispered to herself as she flew up into the sky. She darted across the sky, knowing which way to go to find clouds as she was a weather pony. She finally found a small thunder cloud and grabbed it with her hooves, and then she zoomed across the sky, this time back to sweet apple acres.

Gavin was still under the tree when Rainbow slowly and silently positioned the cloud above the tree. She waited until he was just about to take another bite, then she kicked the cloud as hard as she could, sending lighting down towards Gavin and the tree.
"FUCK A DUCK!" he shouted as he saw a bright flash and felt electricity surge through his body.

He heard Rainbow Dash's outrageous laughter and turned up to look at her.
"Your face was priceless!" she shouted in between laughs.
"Christ! You scared the crap out of me" he chuckled.
"Alright Gavy, come with me, we'll practice near my place!" she yelled before landing and galloping off towards her house. Gavin quickly galloped off after her and managed to catch up to her after a while.

When they arrived, he saw that she'd set up some clouds in the airspace around her house, like platforms that he could land on.
"Alright, you're my first ever flight student so, but I should be an awesome teacher." she said with a grin.
"Alright, so uh... How do you fly?" he asked, eager to get started.

She trotted back a bit and gestured for him to do the same, knowing that it was easier for beginners to get a run up.
"Right so, this is what you're gonna do. Run up. Jump when you reach this line. Open your wings and land on this cloud right here." she explained, doing each of the things as she said them.
"Top. Let’s give this a try." he said as he backed up another few steps. Rainbow Dash flew to a higher cloud and nodded for him to go.

He galloped forward as fast as he could, now able to use his four legs to his advantage. When he reached the line he jumped up and opened his wings. The wide surface area of his wings gave him just enough lift for him to glide onto the cloud. He stood on his hind legs and jumped, waving his fore legs in the air in celebration.
"Yay! I did it!" he cheered.
"You only glided, but yeah that's a great start," she explained "it shows that your wings are strong." she added with a smile.

She flew back down onto the cloud with Gavin.
"Now, you're going to try to fly a bit more." she said "Just jump off this cloud, open your wings and try to flap them a few times." she added before demonstrating.
"Ok. Here we go." yelled Gavin as he jumped of the cloud and flapped.

He managed to stay airborne for a few flaps before he floated down onto the ground. His flaps however, were uncoordinated and messy, sending a few fluffy feathers out.
"Well... That was... Good for your first try" she muttered sheepishly.
"I can't flap my wings properly." he mumbled whilst waving his wings around.
"You just need some more practice is all." she said, nudging him playfully. Lots and lots of practice she thought...

Author's Note

The second chapter of the day as promised :)

Chapter 27 Chuck Me An Apple

Dan was sitting around a corner from Twilight and the Princess, trying to think of a way he could help her. He had nothing better to do after all.
"Hmmmm," he mumbled struggling to think, "I could.... Nope, that won't work." This was a lot harder than he thought. "How about.... Oh God no way!" he grunted. "Meh, I'll just wing it." he decided.

He trotted over to Twilight and the Princess with a smile on his face.
"Hi Dan." sighed the lavender unicorn sadly.
"Hey Twilight." he greeted. "So, I was thinking, why doesn't the Princess just stop greeting people?" he asked.
"You don't get it, do you?" she sighed.
"No seriously, if you were actually that important to her, she'd just stop and talk to you; besides, it's a party she should be mingling." he explained.

Twilight face hoofed. He really didn't understand did he?
"Dan she's the princess. No matter how much she wants to stop and talk to me, it's her duty to greet her subjects." Twilight cleared up. "I just wish there was more time..." she sighed. Dan looked up in thought. Time? Time!

"Time! That's it!" yelled Dan happily.
"What?" asked Twilight perking up.
"I'll give you some time!" he exclaimed, stepping back.
"How in Equestria would you do that?" sighed Twilight.
"Like this!" replied Dan, his horn glowing a bright chocolate brown colour.

Seeing the light from the corner of her eye, Princess Celestia turned around to look at Dan. Just as she'd turned around Dan's horn sent a magical burst of light surging out of it. A bubble of magic surrounded Twilight, Dan and Princess Celestia, and everything on the outside was moving slower than normal.

Twilight looked around, inspecting Dan's spell. It was pretty much flawless. It was such a complex spell too. The ponies on the outside of the bubble were trotting around as if they were barely moving; yet the three of them moved as normal.
"You wanted time, I have your time." he chuckled happily.

Twilight's mouth was agape. How could this be? Even she couldn't complete this spell.
"You did it again Dan." gasped the Princess, "You do seem to have a talent for magic."
"Nah, this is just how my Slow Mo Guys stuff came through into Equestria with me, I can barely levitate something without getting a full on migraine." he countered with a shrug.

Twilight ran up to him and hugged him.
"Thank you so much!" she squealed, finally having an opportunity to talk to her mentor.
"No problem Twi." he said coolly, "I’m gonna leave now, if you wanna get into real time just step outta it or something? I don't really know."
"Goodbye Dan." said Celestia gracefully.
"Bye!" added Twilight excitedly.
"See ya." returned Dan, before stepping out of the bubble and returning to real time.

Dan looked back, the bubble seemed to be transparent from the inside, but from the outside it wasn't. Twilight and Celestia looked like they were in living version of a surrealist’s painting. What was even stranger was nopony seemed to even notice before the bubble popped and revealed Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle; both giggling like madmares.

"I wonder where Gav is." Dan murmured to himself whilst shaking his head at the sight. "Better see if anypony knows." he added, before trotting towards the hall to ask Rarity.

= = =

Gavin didn't really need to go to the bathroom. He needed to do something else. Ever since he'd woken up he'd been feeling incredibly guilty. He knew that he'd screwed up with Applejack. Though he didn't fully remember what he'd done, he vaguely recalled saying something not so nice.

He trotted over to her stall and saw her, her face flat down on the top of the stall. Three barrels of apples were behind the cart, and another was used as decoration at the front. You could tell she had really made an effort, but she'd hardly sold a thing.

He walked up to her slowly, trying to see if she was awake or not.
"Hellooo?" he whispered gently. "Applejack? Are you thereee?" he asked, whispering in her ear.
"Hmmmmphsh..." groaned the earth pony, waving a hoof in the air.
"Applejack!" Gavin said happily, hearing that she was conscious.
"Horse apples!" she yelled, popping her head up into its propped place and looking around frantically.

Once she'd calmed down she looked at Gavin. Her face softened and she smiled weakly.
"Howdy Gavin, ya'll feelin' better now?" she asked with a small laugh.
"I'm tippedy top thanks for asking!" he replied happily, "But the question is: How are you?" he asked with a slight frown.
"Ah'm.... Awful" she sighed, whacking her head back down onto the counter.

Gavin frowned; Applejack was usually happily and friendly. Now she looked as if she was about to slit her... Hoof? Gavin patted her back gently and smiled.
"It's okay, you just need a little help to shift all these apples!" he laughed happily.
"How? These ponies don't want mah apples..." Applejack mumbled, head still on the counter.

Gavin smiled smugly, he had a perfect plan, but he'd need Dan.
"Hey AJ, I have an idea." he whispered with an excited giggle. She looked up and raised an eyebrow inquisitively.
"What ya thinkin' Gav?" she asked.
"Apples aren't just good for eating ya know." he said with a smile. Applejack just got more curious, and confused, about the light brown stallions idea.

He grabbed an apple and tossed it up and down in his hoof.
"Gavin, just tell me yer plan already." she sighed, not expecting a good idea.
"Apples are good for throwing." he giggled.
"Huh?" asked Applejack, confused.
"If me and Dan go and hype up the crowd in the hall, I'm sure they'll pay two bits at the least to chuck an apple at us!"

Applejack shrugged. "Go fer it Gavin, these apples'll go rotten soon anyways." she sighed.
"Alright! Let’s go!" he shouted happily, grabbing the cart and pushing it hastily towards the hall.

He raced down the hill, the cart rolling down with him.
"Gav, wait up!" yelled Applejack, galloping behind the stallion. Dan saw Gavin heading towards him on the cart and decided to join in, he was looking for Gavin after all.
"Orrrrrrrrr!" screamed Gavin, digging his hooves into the ground to slow the cart down. The ground sprayed back at the orange pony, as Gavin's hooves made deep gashes in the earth. The cart slowed and slowed, until eventually it came to a stop, just outside the hall.
"Perfect." mumbled Gavin happily.

Applejack stopped running and trotted up to him.
"That was darn lucky, Gav." she said with a smirk.
"Pfft," he remarked, "that was pure skill AJ". They trotted into the hall with the cart and took it to the front.

Pinkie Pie bounced up to them and smiled wildly.
"Hey guys! Hey, hey, hey guys!" she greeted excitedly. "Whatcha dooooooin?" she asked. Gavin chuckled and looked at AJ for a brief moment.
"Just helpin' AJ sell some apples." he giggled. Applejack face hoofed and smiled before walking over to the benches at the side of the hall.
"Let’s hope nopony gets hurt..." she sighed.

The hall was filled with dancing ponies, all letting their manes down and having a good time.
"Hey everypony!" yelled Gavin happily. Everypony turned to look at him, puzzled and curious expressions plastered to their faces.
"Does anypony want to play a game?" he asked, still shouting. The ponies cheered and whooped, all having drunk cups full of punch.

Gavin threw an apple to Pinkie who was at the front of the crowd.
"The game is: Try and chuck apples at me and Dan!" Gavin announced, making Dan look to him in horror.
"What?!?" asked Dan.
"Calm down, they won't be able to hit a thing, and AJ will sell more apples." explained Gavin before getting walloped in the leg by a flying apple.

He looked at his fore leg, then to Pinkie Pie who had a smug smile.
"I'll take ten!" she yelled, racing over to Applejack's cart. Applejack shot up from her seat and over to the cart, passing ten apples to the pink pony in exchange for twenty bits.
"Great doin' business with ya." Applejack chuckled as Pinkie Pie ran over to her spot in front of the stallions.
"Just like dodge ball, eh?" chuckled Gavin.
"I better not break anything." grunted Dan, swiftly dodging an apple from Pinkie.

As soon as Pinkie had thrown that apple a swarm of ponies fled over to Applejack and bought armfuls of apples. She was trading away whilst watching Dan and Gavin artfully dodge apples, occasionally using their abilities. The stallions ran around working together to dodge the apples.
"We're like North and South!" yelled Dan happily.
"Not quite!" wheezed Gavin, having just been hit in the stomach.

Long Shot trotted into the hall, hearing shouting.
"What in Tartarus is going on in here?" he yelled over the noise. Pinkie galloped up to him and smiled.
"Hi Long Shot!" she greeted happily. "We're all playing a game!" she explained.
"What game?" he asked.
"Try and chuck apples at Gavin and Dan!" she replied. "Come play!"

Pinkie then grabbed the stallion's hoof and dragged him to the 'throwing zone'. She gave him an apple and nodded.
"Just throw it!" she yelled.
"At them?" he checked.
"Yep!" she replied, nodding vigorously. Long Shot turned and smiled, then moved his fore leg back behind his head. He chuckled to himself as he lined up his target.

With a swift action, the apple was hurdling though the air, heading towards Gavin. Then, the apple struck him, in the groin. Gavin fell to the ground, clutching his 'John Thomas' and yelling in pain, while Long Shot was rolling on the ground, laughing his flank off.
"Dick shot! Dick shot!" he wheezed. Dan knelt down beside him and whispered in his ear.
"It's on now."

Author's Note

To make up for the lack of a chapter yesterday, this one is longer! :)