A Brony Life
Chapter 19: The job(s) (episode 1)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterWelcome all! This is the second chapter of episode one! Yeah, it's gonna be confusing for me to do that, but it's the best way for me to get out more chapters. That, and I just like writing an episode in small groups like these. Well, that's all I have to say so... ON WITH THE STORY!
Disclaimer: I don't own MLP or the new pony showing up in this chapter. The new pony belongs to the winner of the competish a few chapters back, and MLP itself belongs to the owners of the show.
As I flew ahead, I spotted one of the other cites and came in for a landing. Thankfully, I caught a lucky break when he saw a sky blue pony with a construction hat on and carrying bags over his back. He tripped over literally nothing and the bags of stuff he was carrying spilled over in front of him.
I shook my head and landed behind him. "Want some help?"
"Woah!" The pony jumped what seemed like five feet in the air and landed back on the ground, tripping again. He got up and turned around, seeing me. "Dude, watch it! You scared me crazy!" He yelled out.
"Sorry. Sorry. Look, the foreman at one of the cites sent me to get you. He said you mixed up the blueprints." I said, showing him the blueprint I brought with me.
He facehoofed and groaned. "I messed up again?! Oh, I told them that I was the wrong pony for the job." He went to the bags and pulled out a blueprint and looked at it carefully. He then sighed and gave it to me. "This is the right one. Which one did I give them?" He asked as he we traded blueprints. "Oh come on! This is group B's blueprint!" He turned to the cite behind us. "Wait... If this is the blueprint for this cite, then that means-"
Before he could finish, there was a loud crash from the cite by us. We looked at the sound and we saw that part of the frame collapsed. Luckily, none of them were hurt. "That their blueprint's wrong too." He finished. "Why did they give me this job?"
"Uh dude? If you want, I could help out with the blueprint problem. I don't have anything else I gotta do." I said, forgetting that my friends were looking for me.
"Really? Oh thank you!" He said, shaking my hoof like a madman.
"Your welcome!" I said, him shaking me from how much he shook my hoof. "Let go!" I finally got out, moving so much I was vibrating.
"Oops! Sorry!" He said, finally letting go. He went over and traded out blueprints, giving them the right one and coming back with the other one.
As soon as I got my footing back, I got the two blueprints and flew up. "Thanks. Bye dude." I said as I took off, flying towards the other cite. It was confusing figuring what blueprints went where, but at least I knew the answer.
3rd Person POV
Sad part was that as Blitz left, Fluttershy walked over slowly, trying not to get in the way of any of the workers. "Excuse me." She tried to get Jupy J's attention.
"AHH!" Jumpy J said, jumping away from Fluttershy instinctivly, making Fluttershy shriek as she jumped away from him. Jumpy J got up and looked back, seeing Fluttershy shivering. "Sorry! I didn't mean to scare you! It's just, you scared me." He said sheepishly.
"Oh. Sorry. It's just, I was hoping you could help me find my friend. He has a lightning bolt tail, and is friendly." She explained.
"Oh, him. Yeah, you just missed him. He flew off that way." Jumpy J said, pointing towards the other construction cite.
"Thank you so much. And sorry I scared you, I didn't mean it." Fluttershy said.
"It's okay. I just get scared easily." He dismissed her apology, blaiming himself for acting jumpy. "Good luck catching up to your friend." he said to her.
"Thank you." Fluttershy said before slowly flying off in the direction Jumpy J pointed out.
"Well, at least I'm done for the day." Jumpy J said happily.
"Jumpy J, get over here!" A forman yelled out.
"Ah!" Jumpy J yelled out, falling on his back from jumping backwards the third time today.
Blitz POV
As I got to the last cite, I saw that none of them were doing anything. Guess they didn't even have a blueprint yet. I landed on the ground and looked around for the closest worker around me.
"Hey, who are you?" I turned around and saw another pegasus behind me. She had a orange coat, red mane and tail, with some cutie mark that had something that reminded me of that tv show that was about a race of warrior cats. She also had a concstruction hat on so it was obvious that she was a construction worker.
"I'm Blitz. Some pony called Jumpy J told me to bring over these blueprints." I told her, taking out the blueprints for this construction cite and handing them to her.
"Finally, I thought these would never get here." She turned around an tossed them to the foreman of this cite, then turned back to me. "By the way, I'm Ginger Star. Wait, how come you brought them over? What happened to Jumpy?" She asked.
"Well, I was at one of the other cites he was at, and he mixed up the blueprints. After I caught up to him, he asked if I could go ahead and bring you guys your blueprints." I explained.
"Well, it's probably a good thin you did. He might've brought us the wrong one. Thanks dude, we owe you one." She said.
"Nah, you don't have to. I just had nothing better to do and offered to help. Anyway, I got to bring these last blueprints to the last cite. See ya." I said, flying off back to the first construction cite to finish bringing the blueprints to the right cites.
3rd Person POV
Sadly, Blitz took off before Spike could stop him. Spike was going towards Ginger, looking at Blitz as he flew away.
"Blitz, wait up!" Spike kept running forward to try and catch him, but it was obvious he was about to fall over in exhaustion.
Luckily for him, Ginger stopped him. "Woah there little dragon. If your gonna even catch Blitz, you might want to catch your breath first." Ginger told Spike.
"Yeah... Your right." He said in between breathes. "Where was Blitz going anyway?"
"He went to the construction cite on the other side of Ponyville. The one closest to Sweet Apple Acres." She informed him.
"Got it... Thanks." As soon as Spike caught up enough breath, he started to run off again, but was picked up by a purplish magic.
"Spike, you can't just go running off to who knows where." Twilight scolded him as she placed Spike on her back.
"Sorry Twilight, but I saw Blitz. That pony over there told me that he flew off towards a construction cite that way." He said, pointing Twilight in the right direction.
"Okay, thanks Spike but next time, please wait up for me." Twilight told him. She turned to Ginger. "Thank you for the help." She said before running off after Blitz.
"No problem!" She yelled out after Twilight before going back to work.
Blitz POV
After a few minutes, I got back to the first cite and found the foreman. "Hey." I called out. He turned around and saw me. "Sorry it took so long, but I finally got the blueprints."
"Great. Thanks kid, we owe ya one." He said, taking the blueprints from me.
"If I had a gold bit for every time some pony told me that." I said, following him over.
"Yep, these are the right ones alright." He then started yelling out orders on what to do to the workers, who wasted no time in doing them. "You know, you did a good job kid. How'd you like to work for the construction crew?"
Wait a second, what? All I did was deliver blueprints and already this guy wanted me to work for him? Is he an idiot or something? He doesn't even know who I am, let alone know if I'm qualified or not. Heck, I don't even know if I want to work for a guy who would just hire random ponies off the street... But... I do kinda need someway to make money. That, and it's probably not a good idea to mooch off of my friends any more. And to add to it I do like building stuff, so it's right up my alley. "Alright, I'll do it. But just one question, why do you want me to work here anyway?" I asked. If he had a good enough reason, maybe he could prove he wasn't some idiot.
"Because. You obviously know a thing or two about it. Your reliable. And to top it all off, your a living multi tool with that tail of yours." He said, pointing to my tail.
I looked at my tail, and then back at him. I was really confused now about how he knew that. "Wait, how did you know my tail is made of metal?" I never told him about it, and unless my friends just told every single pony in Ponyville, no one else should've told him that either.
"I could tell that things made a metal from a mile away kid. It's actually crafted very well, made with some very sturdy metal as far as I can tell. Plus, if you look at it hard enough, it shines from the sunlight up there." He said, pointing out the obvious. I never really noticed that before... maybe I should get some dust or dirt or something to cover that up.
"So if you can move that tail of yours around, then you can use it as a hammer, or crowbar, or some tool like that." He pointed out again. Huh, never thought of that.
"Wow, thanks for the tip. So when do I start?" I ask. Maybe this forman wasn't as stupid as I thought. That, an he gave me some really good pointers about how to use my artificial tail.
"You can start tomorrow. Just come to the construction hall that's near the mayor's office, and we'll give you your tools and everything you'll need." He explaind to me.
"Wait. Isn't there some kind of paper work or something I need to fill out? Or an interview or something?" I asked. There had to be something I had to do along those lines.
"Oh yeah, there is one question. Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" He asked me with a serious look. Was that really it?
"Uh, no." I said simply. It was wierd that that was the only question he had to ask.
"You sure?" He took a step towards me, looking even more serious.
"Yeah, I'm sure." I didn't like that he was in my personal space, but tried to keep my cool.
"Are you absoutly sure? You've never been convicted of a felony?" He asked, jabbing me in the chest with his hoof once every word he said.
It made me mad and I looked him straight in the eye. "Yeah, but if you keep asking me then my answer might have to change." I said with the same serious face as he had.
He took in a deep breath and almost looked like he was furious, but after I just sat there and waited for my answer, he chuckled loudly. "That's the attitude were lookin for!"
Wait, this was just to see how I would react? Okay, this guy is smarter then I thought. Still, it made me crack a sarcastic joke as he was laughing. "What? Sarcastic and rude?" I asked sarcastically.
"No kid, hard working and tough! You made the cut! See you tomorrow kid!" He said as he turned back towards the construction cite.
"Huh, that was easy enough." I said as I turned around. Well, at least now I wasn't some hobo living in a friends barn. Now I was a hard working construction worker... That is living in a friends barn. Oh well, at least now all I gotta do now is focus on getting a better place.
"Blitz, there you are!" I looked over to my right and saw a few of my friends comin towards me. Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Spike, and Rainbow Dash.
"Oh yeah, you guys were looking for me. What did you need?" I said walking towards them.
"Well, we wanted to help you find a job. I mean, since you live in Ponyville now it makes since you should have one. So me and the others have been looking everwhere for you to help you find a job." She explained.
"Oh, well that's great and all but-" Before I could tell her what I've been doing all day, I was interupted by the rest of my friends.
"There ya are Blitz! We've been lookin everywhere for ya!" I turned around and saw Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity coming over to all of us.
"Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, just in time! We were about to help Blitz find his own job." Twilight informed them.
"Listen, thanks for the offer but-" Anoyingly enough, I was interupted Again.
"Oh come now Blitz, you can't simply say no. Were all taking the time to help you." Rarity pleaded.
"I don't think you understand, I-" God I hate being interupted.
"Oh come on Blitz! It's not gonna kill you!" Rainbow Dash said, thinking I was trying to say no simply because I didn't want to.
"Now come on Blitz, we have a lot of places to show you! Oh, you could work at Sugarcube Corner with me, or the delivery Service, or help Rainbow Dash with Weather Patrol..." Pinkie Pie started listing off jobs I could get as fast as she could, going off towards some direction. All the others followed suit, leaving me to do nothing but follow myself.
And that's the second part all written up! It was actually pretty easy to write, compared to the first part. I just hope you all liked it! Also, I'm glad I was able to put in the winner's OC. For the reviewer who won, feel free to tell me if I was off on the personality or anything. I want to make sure I can make Ginger Star as dead on as I can! Well, that's all I gotta say so see you all next chapter! Might take a while since I have Benchmarks at my school all this week, so sorry if the next chapter doesn't even get posted this week.
QotC: If you could have any job you wanted, regardless of what experiance or diploma you had, what would it be?