The Code of The Secret Society of Bronies/Pegasisters in Ponyville, The SSBPP

Star Dazzle

I'm the one holding on to the Diary right now so I guess I'll write some more. I kinda like holding it. I could be some kinda... cool secret book bearing pony who takes notes all the time.

Note: Write things down in a safe place so you don't forget something important you think you'll need to remember later.

I'm Star Dazzle. You know that, but it seems more proper that way. I should get my introduction in right about now so anypony reading this will have a good idea who's doing all this. I like to impress people with awesome shows and visual displays. I'm a showpony and love to hear people joke and cheer. I've always wished life could be filled with more organic funny moments and feel more like TV. That's why I came to Equestria. So everything could be happier, cooler and funnier. Doesn't it feel good when someone says something really exploitable and you just happen to come up the PERFECT thing to say back? That's what I'm talking about. Those little things that might seem like a rehearsed sketch, but are completely natural and great. I even like pranks a lot, where the moment is planned out. That's fun too, as long as it's safe and in the best spirit.

Sometimes I even wish that life could be like a musical. Where a major situation begins and music comes on and it just goes on impromptu, you know? That's what's so cool about life here. That stuff is very common and socially acceptable and I like it. Still. It isn't okay to force that idea onto other people on Earth, where the norm is to do your job and be boring most of the time. You'd come off as smarmy and fake to all those lawyers and secretaries who act smarmy and fake. I know, sometimes you need to relax, but I like it here better. Not as many double standards.

My cutie mark is some colorful fireworks. They represent those special moments in life that just come and go quickly. I was a book keeper on Earth, but I also sung and played piano a bit on the side. I think when I move in to Ponyville, I'll be some kind of event planner or spokespony. Or maybe just to get started, I'll do what I do best which is to do ponies' homework. Physically, I'm a banana yellow unicorn mare with a pure violet mane and dark pink eyes.

So yeah, I think I'll move on from me for now.

What happened at that final meeting was a thing where ponies would step up onto the stage and do the same thing I did which is to talk about themselves and what their plan was for their "vacation". But also what routes we were taking there. It felt more like a graduation ceremony than a meeting. It was actually really boring... But there was this one pony we named Spooky Shadows who can apparently manipulate shadows with his magic. The cutie mark is also a silhouette. It doesn't really do anything tangible, but yeah, it sure is spooky I guess. How he ever got into My Little Pony I'll never know, but hey, he was kinda cool. He says he's going to be a shadow puppeteer and maybe a medium to take the place of Madame Pinkie Pie to make a living. As a book keeper, I'm a little worried for his future, though. He's a bit of a lurker and I don't know how many customers he'll get. He might just have to get out more. This is Equestria for pete's sake.

Then there were ponies like the yellowy brown stallion, Hoover Sweeps and the normal brown coated, dark purple mare, Drippy Drinkwater. These two liked to hang out with Fall Sky because they're all good at maintenance and cleaning and plan a career in Ponyville with their skills. All four of us like to meet for our so called boring jobs. I wanted to brighten that up a bit. (Which is why I bothered to mention them.) Hoover Sweeps has a broom cutie mark sweeping papers and is a unicorn apparently. That surprised me a little. I'll talk about that in a second. Hoover Sweeps says he, "-got canned because the company wanted to 'trim the fat'."

He had no problem with his old job as a janitor, living back stage. But his quiet lifestyle stole his chances, and when he got the email, he took the opportunity. Even if it might have been a waste of time.

Hoover and Fall Sky really hit it off together in their own way. They exchanged rude, but clever insults to each other, and at first I thought they were fighting. But when they bursted out laughing I realized what was going on. This was just their friendship. Drippy isn't much like those colts. She's really shy and sulky, but every time they're around she seems to feel better. Drippy is one of the sex changed guys that came through here. A while back we said that certain traits about your new form couldn't be chosen. Weeeell... That's not 100% true. It just seems to go with what's most comfortable with you. Some guys would just prefer to be mares. Or whatever else most suits them, I guess. This little theory might explain why nopony was really disappointed when they came through. We didn't get too many earth ponies, and like I said just now, I don't know why Hoover Sweeps became a unicorn. Maybe there's something we don't know about him. He is a bit passive aggressive, slick and even mean. But I know he's a great Stallion, he's just got too much pride for his own good heart.

As for Drippy Drinkwater, she's a pegasus with minty green eyes. Her cutie mark is like a twizzler of water and lightning strung up together. Drippy knows pipes and water systems inside out. As a human, he (Remember, he.) worked behind a desk for a while just to make a living. But when he found that he was really good at fixing the copier and keeping up the water coolers, he decided to go to school for trades and wanted to learn plumbing and electric power. But as studious as he was, things weren't going well at all, and he'd had his heart broken one too many times and never passed. And ever since then he spiraled into an unspeakable depression. I think My Little Pony may have saved him, and like the rest, he took the chance to come and stay.

So there you have it. Those are some of the ponies I met along the way. (I rhymed. Ha!) Don't worry though, I'm not finished yet. I still haven't talked about the trip out to Ponyville. We leave tommorow morning when everything's buried.

*...*

It was about time to leave. Most of us had Ponyville in mind, but some preferred Canterlot; within spitting distance of Ponyville. So we could meet quickly when we had to. Each group was given a saddle bag and a map to use to show them the long way down and how to avoid the Everfree Forest. It was cool to look at and to see how this region of Equestria was actually laid out. We outlined four different routes to Ponyville and two to Canterlot. I wasn't able to go with Fall Sky and the others because there could only be one committee member in a group so at least that five of them wouldn't be lost or late. I lead a group with nopony I knew very well. Four other mares whose names I can't remember. (I should probably find out again. :twilightoops:)

The first leg of the trip was to get down Foal Mountain. There's a big forest down there at the foot. (Should I have said "hoof" there, maybe?) It's safe to travel through, but it's dense. So we didn't go that way.

I called out to one of the green mares, "I know you're excited, but try not to tumble down the slope!"

She continued anyway, "Wow. I'm still not over the backgrounds and everything. From a distance that rock looks so simple, but up close it gets more detailed!" I am freaking out here!"

I raised an eyebrow, "Isn't that how that works anyway?"

She stopped, and a glazed expression came over her face while she stuttered, "Well, uh, daungh- Fugh- Shut up." She laughed quietly but hysterically.

Well to be honest, I'm still not over all this. But these ponies are driving me nuts. Sometimes. A little direction helps them escape their little zones. To make an unnecessarily long story a bit shorter, we traveled down the very west end of the mountain. There was even a beaten trail. It must be the most common route up here. Hopefully our old B.O.O. was out of the way enough. We didn't run into any ponies on the mountain side. When we got to the train tracks leading west to Ponyville, that was a different story. There was the train, but there was also plenty of road to walk on. We passed some western style ponies and some general common looking ones too. I'm pretty sure I caught a glimpse of Cherry Jubilee boarding a train we didn't have bits or tickets for. That kinda made me feel bad. It also made me wonder why she was out here. I guess she gets out a lot.

We had to follow beside the tracks because there was a major river and we needed to cross the bridge over. Then we had to go through one of the many tunnels in Canterlot Mountain to access the North East road into Ponyville. We were only a few kilometers away at that point. Ponyville has two main roads by the way. One from the North East and one from the South West that comes in from Apple Loosa eventually.

...

Well we're here. It was a great and awful time getting here on hoof. I spent all day with those ponies and we don't plan to hang out again any time soon. Not that we hate each other, but we were just off in our own spaces all the time. Coming here again brings back the terrifying rush of knowing nearly every house and pony who lives here and not being able to say anything or act on it. It's so beautiful, though. It makes me want to cry. Just seeing all the familiar settings in person. It's just so unbelievable. You don't know how freaky it is when Sea Swirl and Lightning Bolt just brush right pass you. '(Just keep walking...) I thought with an awkward blank expression.

We were in Ponyville on legit business today so we could have a bit of a look around. We explored some more and we noticed Carousel Boutique to our right. But that's not all. This is when we saw Rarity herself carrying home groceries in her saddle bag.

She stopped at the door and made eye contact with us. Then she looked around. Then raised her eyebrow with an odd look at us.

Then I realized what we were doing. We were all just standing there in a straight line with our mouths hunging open in awe like she had just robbed a bank. I snapped to, and I nudged the pony next to me.

"Stop that! It's..." my tone eased up a little, "rude to stare..."

Rarity turned back and her eyes widened as she sighed. She continued inside. And that was it.

Then I remembered our first objective here. "We've got to find the others. Checkmark ought to be here now. He said he'd be at the Town Hall, remember?"

He was going to talk to the mayor about the jobs and  housing status in Ponyville. It probably wasn't easy to break it to her that 115 (15 in Canterlot) potential residents from Manehatten were seriously considering moving in. That would increase the population of Ponyville by at least a fifth. It's no ignorable little crisis.

When we stepped up to the front desk at town hall, we were told to wait and that Checkmark would see us shortly. Well great. At least his group was also waiting for him in the lobby. We asked what was going on. They said he was in there for about half an hour and that we came pretty close by. Let's fast forward a bit again.

...

When Checkmark opened the door and said goodbye to the mayor I jumped up, "Checkers!" and I gave him a big hug. Despite everything in Ponyville, Checkers was the one pony I wanted to see most of all. He made a fake laugh and slithered out of my clutches.

"Hi, Star Dazzle." he began.

"What's the scoop?"

"Well, we got something arranged. I expected it to end up kind of like this. Come with me, I'll elaborate a little."

He took the two groups outside and we walked out to the park with a fountain and some benches. You probably know where we're talking about.

"There isn't much housing here at all. There's no way they could have expected us. There's a mere 19 available and affordable houses in Ponyville tops. That's the bad news. The Good news is that a big new set of apartment buildings has been set up in Canterlot about 2 months ago and has room for another 150. Which is more than enough. We also qualify for welfare. However Ponyville will have some trouble paying it. So whoever will be living here will have to have a paying job by the end of the month so they support themselves. Canterlot is more expensive to live in though. So to cover the rent, they'll have to find jobs too. At which point they also won't qualify for Canterlot's welfare. So... Plans will have to change. But I did tell her that most of us prefer it here for some reason so she has decided to invest more of the local budget on housing. Ponies have more powers to work with so we can expect a few more residential areas in about 2 to 6 months. The mayor has booked me an appointment with the mayor of Canterlot via teleporting scroll, so I have to get there soon."

That was a lot of news. And we had agreed to hold meeting with everypony in the Everfree Forest tonight when we all arrive. He's going to pick up our ponies already in Canterlot (Winter Breeze was in charge of those ponies, I think.) His group was about to leave for the train station with some mysterious tickets when he called back, "Oh yeah, there's one more thing you should know that's coming any sec-."

At that very moment, (I still can't believe it.) Pinkie Pie came prancing into the park. (Uh oh. Oh NO! I know what's coming!)

"HEY YOU, NEW PONIES! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU EVERYWHERE!"

We turned around slowly... Pinkie Pie approached the eight of us.

"Oh my gosh! I finally found you! Are you ready for the coolest thing you've ever seen?!"

A red pegasus raised a hoof, "Uh-" Without even looking, Checkmark stopped him by putting his hoof over his mouth.

"It's so great to hear so many of you want to come to Ponyville! So here it is! Geeat ready for the Welcome Wagon!"

Pinkie Pie manafested the familiar device out of nowhere and pushed the button.

"Welcome, welcome welcome! A fine welcome to you!"

"Welcome, welocme welcome! I say how do you do?"

Her trumpet thundered through all eight of our ears like magic.

"Welcome, welcome, welcome! I say, hip hip, hooray!

"Welcome, welcome, welcome to Ponyville todaaaay!"

We couldn't help ourselves. We knew what was coming. "RUN!" I yelled before she could say, "Wait for it." and we ducked behind the park bench while the ballistic yellow cake exploded like a bombshell nearby.

"Oh my gosh! I'm sorry, did I give too much power to the cake thrusters this time?"

We stumbled back up.

"What was that?" one of the others asked while already knowing fully well the answer.

Pinkie Pie responded, "That's the Welcome to Ponyville theme song! I always do it when I meet somepony new. On Thursdays."

Checkmark intervened, "But I'm the Manehatten ambassador."

Pinkie Pie blinked, "And I'm Pinkie Pie. What's your point?"

We were all a tiny bit perplexed with what just happened. Checkmark dismissed it, "You know what, never mind. We should go and catch our train. We'll introduce ourselves properly as soon as we get the chance."

Then out of nowhere, I couldn't couldn't control myself again. I laughed out loud out of pure spaghetti. Then Pinkie Pie turned her attention to me.

"What's your name?"

My smile quickly disappeared as I found her standing less than two feet away from me.

"Star Dazzle, and you're Pinkie Pie."

Then Pinkie Pie left her entrancing gaze to remember something, "Oh my! I've still got a lot of ponies to welcome! I should go wait by the road for them! Bye!"

She shot off and left a puff of dust behind her. She's scary in person...

...

May 16, Everfree Forest, Star Dazzle

The meeting tonight happened where we planned. We took our head count; everypony was there. Even Checkmark. Most of the ponies were lined up for job interviews for tomorrow. Everything seemed to be going fine. They'd all spoken to the Canterlot landlord and he was glad to get so many tenants all of a sudden. He was a little worried for his business before. Though, those 96 were going to leave for Ponyville eventually. We're still stranded though. We had to camp out by Sweet Apple Acres. We were out of the way, we didn't stay on property or anything. Tomorrow will be when we can start earning our own way. I've got get a small place of my own tomorrow with our new head start. I'm still a little scared for us though.