Chapter 5: She has the Golden Ticket . . .

I woke up very early the next morning, just before dawn. Decided to watch the sunrise and get some training in on this pony body. I headed outside into the cool air and slight mist in the air. The air here is so clean I still can't believe what I lived in back on Earth, with all the pollutions and toxic fumes we were pouring into the atmosphere. I start to do a quick jog down the road until I came to an open field with a nice hill. I headed to the top of it to begin the next part of the training. The moment I got to the top, I could see the sunrise about to start to I watched it as it rise into the sky. Such a beautiful view to the mountains and landscape. I really want to capture the moment, but it will have to wait till I am human again so I can use my phone to take the pic.

I went back to training and started with stretches to see how this body can handle it. From there, I practice standing on my hind legs for a while to strengthen them and to be prepared to fight in this position. I start to do some simple martial arts movement to train the pony muscles of this style. This is going to take some serious training to get to the level I am in human form I thought. This training went for an hour before I got tired from standing on my hind legs.

I headed back to Fluttershy to see if she was awake. Upon arriving at the cottage, I could smell something delicious cooking. I headed to the kitchen to see Fluttershy cooking something good. "Morning Fluttershy. What smells delicious?"

"Eep!" Fluttershy yelled as I startled her. "Oh Blaze, I did not hear you come in. I saw you left when I woke up. But I couldn't figure how I woke up in my bed. Did you carry me to my bed last night?"

"I did, I could not take your bed as you took the couch. I just wasn't right. Hope you don't mind."

"Not at all. I just hoped you slept well on the couch. If you don't mind, can you tell me where you went this morning?"

"It is never a problem Fluttershy. I went out to watch the sunrise and to get some training in on this pony body. I realize now I need to adjust my training regiment to what this pony body can do. So what are you cooking up?"

"Oh, just some pancakes with a side of fruit. Would you like a plate, if that is ok with you?"

"I would love one. I'm sure anything you cook will taste very good." She hands me a plate and I sat at the table to eat it. She joins me soon with a plate of her own. Again, the food here tastes so fresh that I want more to have. Once done I said, "I was correct. You do cook some delicious food. Seeing you cooked, allow me to clean up. Then we can go and take care of your animals."

"Oh. I couldn't allow you to clean up. You are a guest in my cottage. Allow me."

"Sorry Fluttershy, but I insist on doing the cleanup to show my gratitude." I pick up the plates and cooking equipment and made quick, detail work in the cleanup. Once the dishes have been put away, Fluttershy and I headed outside and started to feed the animals. She had to show me what to feed them and how so they wouldn't be scared of you. I was finding it relaxing watching the animals eat in the beautiful scenery.

"Would you mind accompany me to the market? I need to pick up some more feed for my animals." Fluttershy asked.

"I would love to." We go inside and put on some saddle bags to carry the feed back in. As we left the cottage, Angel decided to tag along and ride on the back of Fluttershy. We arrived in town and headed to the market. I followed Fluttershy as she knew where to go. We made it the vendor that sells the animal feed and made the purchases. I carried more of the feed so she did not have to.

As we are walking through the town square, I see Twilight chatting with Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie. Spike was there also and holding something shiny in his claws. Angel suddenly ran towards him, snagged them, and brought the items to Fluttershy to see. I can see that they are two gold tickets to some event. I then realize these are the tickets to the Grad Galloping Gala. Oh boy. Twilight is going to have a fun day today. We joined the girls in their conversation on who should get the second ticket. "May I interject for a moment and ask what this event you are arguing about?"

They all then told me about how big the event is and what each one dreams of doing there. "I see. Well hate to be rude, but you should give Twilight her space so she can think of who she wants to give the second ticket to. I personally don't want to go as I can't stand fancy parties."

"This is my decision, and I'm gonna make it on my own, and I certainly can't think straight with all this noise." Twilight said. They all nodded and wandered off in separate directions.

I returned with Fluttershy to her cottage and dropped off the feed. "I'm going to check on Twilight. She looked frustrated on who to choose." I said.

"I do hate to see my friend so worried up about it. Maybe there is something I can do to cheer her up."

"Don't do anything too big or she will think you are only doing to get the ticket. "I headed off to go and find Twilight. I found her sitting at a table outside a cafe with Spike. She defiantly looked frustrated. I walked over to join them. "Hey Twi, you Ok?"

"Hi Blaze. I'm not ok. I just can't decide who I should give the other ticket to. They all have good reason to go and I don't want to disappoint them." Twilight said.

"Have you thought of asking Princess Celestia in getting more tickets for all your friends?"

"I can't ask that! Don't you know how hard it is to get these tickets? It is a very exclusive and big event that anypony who is anypony will be attending. I just can't ask the Princess for more tickets."

"To answer the first part, no I don't because I just came to your world. I do think she would give you the tickets as you are her student, one of the barriers of the Elements of Harmony, and especially your friend." She smiled at me knowing that I am correct. "Now then, let's order something as I am starving."

I look over the menu and see lots of choices that contain flowers or hay. Even though I am in a pony body, I can't convince myself to eat those. I decided to just go with a basic salad, Twilight went with her daffodil and daisy sandwich, and Spike went with hay fries that are extra crispy. Even Spike can't stand eating flowers.

The food arrived and before we could chow down, all the nearby ponies were running into the buildings. Oh great. I recall this scene. The waiter asked us from the door if we wanted to eat our food in the rain.

"It's not raining." Twilight said. She then looks around and see everywhere else nearby was raining, except the spot we were at.

"I will give you one guess that could have done this."

She thought for a moment. Then said loud enough for the culprit to hear it, "Rainbow Dash!"

"Hi there best friend forever I've ever ever had. Enjoying the sunny weather?" Rainbow Dash said to Twilight. As they go back and forth about doing favors, I quickly chow down my food before Rainbow closed up the opening. It then started to rain on us causing the un-ate food to get soggy. Twilight is looking more frustrated than ever before. Rarity then showed up with an umbrella saddle on her keeping her dry. She invited all of us to dry off, but I know she has other motives. I decided to intervene here.

"Hey Rarity, would you mind getting my measurements so I can see the outfit you want to design for me?" I asked. This caused her to lose focus on Twilight.

"Oh it will be my pleasure! Oh I have so many design ideas that I don't know where to start. I think first, I should get your measurements so I can make them fit you correctly. Please stand here and hold still."

As I was getting measured, I mouthed to Twilight to meet her at her library. She nodded and left with Spike. It seemed I was standing still for an hour when I was for 15 min. "Ok darling. It will only take me a few hours to put the first of many I have designed for you. You can either wait here or come back."

"I think I will wait here. Also, please no gems. I prefer comfortable clothing and sometimes stealthy."

"I would imagine so as you talked so much about, what you called it? Ninjutsu?"

"That's correct. So while you go designing and creating, I am going to do some meditate training." She nods and heads off to her workshop in the back. I go and sit on the nearby couch to start meditating.

Entering my mind, I decide to practice the ki moves first. I see myself in my human form. This will make it easier to practice as I would only be doing it this in my human form. I imagined an open area with huge rocks. Recalling the DBZ fighters, I thought of their movements and how they trained. I will do the weight training later. Need to learn the basic blasts and maybe I can do flight also. I focused my energy to my right hand. A red orb started to form just above my hand. I concentrated more energy into it and it grew bigger and glowed brighter. I launched the orb to a rock a good distance away. It made contact with the rock and destroyed it completely. Whoa. Guess I have to control this a bit better or I could destroy everything. I scaled my power down and launched multiple blasts at the other rocks causing small chunks to be destroyed.

The next was to work on ki flying. This was going to be hard to do, but I think based upon chakra control. I just have to do it with ki instead. Focusing on ki control, I start to force it below me. I could feel the wind around me blow in all directions. I increase the force and I was soon off the ground. I was a foot off the ground when suddenly I hear a loud scream in the distance. I lost my concentration and left the meditated state. I soon felt myself land on the couch. I looked to see where the scream came from and saw Rarity with a frighten look on her face. "What's going on?" I asked.

"I just got done with your outfit and came in to show when, I saw you floating about the couch! What in Equestria were you doing?"

Guess my flight control went over to the real world while meditating. Glad I did not fire any energy blast here also. "I was meditating on some skills and I guess they happen out here also while I was in my mind."

"Are you saying you discovered a way for non-Pegasus to fly?"

"I don't know about Earth and Unicorn ponies, but this ability is something from my world and my training. I was only taught the basic about it before even trying it. This was actually my first time. At least now I know I can do this in pony form too. So what is new outfit you made?"

"Well, when I first saw your outfit, I thought it was repulsive. But after hearing about yourself and abilities, I can see how the outfit does have a purpose. So my first outfit for your pony form is just like yours, except it's black with red trim."

She levitates the outfit and it looks exactly like my gi. The only thing was it was made for a pony body. "Thank you so much Rarity! I can't believe how exactly you got the design down from just seeing it on me. You really do have an eye for fashion and design. I will defiantly come and see you when I need some clothing to be made."

"It's not a problem dear. I look forward to your future business. Now allow me to help put this on you so you can really admire it."

"That might be a good thing as I don't know how to put clothes on in pony form." She giggled at the comment and helps put the clothes on with her magic. Once done, I went over the full 3 view mirror to see all angles. Again I am still amazed how she did an amazing job and now I can feel she got the fabric down too. "Again Rarity, you did an outstanding job in recreating my gi outfit. You sure I can't do anything to pay you back?"

"Of course not darling. You are my friend and I love to make things for my friends with no payment in mind."

"Thank you again. Now if you excuse me, I am going to do some physical training to see how this gi will handle it." She nods and I take my leave of her establishment.

Once outside, I decided to check on Twi to see if she is doing better. Once I round the corner so I can see the library, I see a group of ponies tossing another pony in front of it. Dammit Pinkie. You always overdo things. Now the whole town will know about the ticket. I start to run to the crowd so I can save Twi from the mad chase scene. Almost there, I see her with Spike holding her tail run off in another direction with everypony else chasing her. Great, now I have to chase them too to save them. I increase the chakra to my hoofs so I can make quick jumps and gain some speed. I soon catch up and run along her. "TWI! YOU AND SPIKE HOP ON AND I WILL GET YOU OUT OF HERE! REMEMBER TO HOLD ON!"

She and Spike does and I start to jump harder to gain distance and maneuver out of their sight. I round the corner when I had about a 10 second lead. Better now than any to fly. I changed from chakra to ki and forced with all I could to gain flight to hide in the clouds. Two and Spike started to scream seeing how high we were going. I know she was trying to figure out how I was doing this so I will have to explain later. I flew into a thick cloud to hide us. I whisper to them, "Ok, please quiet down so they won't hear us up here. I will explain how I did this once we are safe." They quieted down, but the shock was still on their face of disbelief. I slowly poked my head out to see if the coast was clear. It was and I flew us back to the library. I landed outside the door, they hopped off and started to kiss the ground.

We quickly went inside after that quick happy period. Twi told Spike to close and lock all the windows and barricade the doors. The lights then turned on and I see the other girls were waiting for them to come back to see who is going to get the other ticket. Twi finally confessed to the girls why she hasn't been able to make a decision. The other girls saw how bad this was making Twilight feel so they said they no longer want the ticket for different reasons.

"Spike, take a letter to Princess Celestia." Twilight said. Spike grabs a scroll and quill and starts to write down what she wants to say. The girls gasp when they hear she is returning both tickets. Twi explain she does not want to go to the even without all of her friends. Spike blew his flame onto the scroll and it turned into a smoke heading to Princess Celestia. A few minutes later, Spike belches a letter and reads it out loud. Twi just could believe the comment from her mentor as six tickets appear.

"Guess you all can go to the Gala now. Spike and I can use that time for a guy's night out." I said.

Spike did another belch and another scroll appears. It reads,

To Spike and Blaze,

I forgot to include tickets for you two in the previous scroll. Enjoy your time at the Gala.

Your Sun Ruler,

Princess Celestia.

Two tickets appeared with the scroll. "Looks we have our escorts to the Gala now." Rarity said.

I replied to the comment with my own. "It also looks you will have to make me a tux for my pony and human form if you want me to escort you girls to the Gala." She smiled greatly at the idea as I see in her eyes different designs going through her head. We suddenly hear Twi's stomach rumble rather loud. Yea, lunch canceled due to rainstorms. The girls decide to treat her to dinner for the grief they caused her. She agreed only if Blaze and Spike can join them. They all nod and we made our way to a local diner.