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Before either the short story or the real one starts, I want to explain something that's going to be showing up in the finale from here on out. You see, I'm not good at writing up lyrics, tempo, etc. from songs and incorporating them into the story. So I've come up with a solution.

YouTube.

Here's how it'll work. Within the finale, you'll see some random gibberish on it's own line. Here's an example:

watch?v=RSe8D2wfGKI

Every piece of gibberish will start with the word 'watch' That's part of the code too. You see, on every YouTube video you see, there's that small code that comes with every YouTube video ever. So simply open a tab, go to YouTube's main menu, and type the code in. Like this:

YouTube.-com-/-watch?v=RSe8D2wfGKI

(Ignore dashes)

Sadly, here's the bad news. FanFiction doesn't let you copy and paste stuff from stories. Meaning that you'd have to type the code in so it might be a little hard to do. I'll try to put the title to the videos up as well, so you might be able to just type in the name and it should work.

Just to help, I'll put the title to the video right under the code. So hopefully it'll be a little easier to find.

Watching/listening to these YouTube video's isn't really important, so if you don't want to waste your time, you're not gonna miss anything important. The name of the song/video/etc. and the reactions will still be in the story. It just helps makes the story a little more interesting.

That's all I had to say. See you at the outro every pony!

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The Gang's First Big Heist (3/5)

14 year old Big Mike's POV

2 Days Later

Texas

"Are you guys sure that this is the street?" I asked as I drove us down this really empty road. There weren't any other houses anywhere else, and the GPS said that we were driving on the ground and not the road.

"Don't worry Big Mike, we're almost there." Joe told me as he and Morgue stayed in the back of the van. Except for my seat and the other seat that was at the front, we took the seats out. So it was a small space in the back where they were looking at a map. We also had bought a bunch of stuff to help us rob the house. "Luckily we won't have too much of a problem with the heist since Edward's not here. Not only that, but you won't have to do too much. You just need to distract his wife."

"Okay, Big Mike will distract the wife." I said, making sure not to forget that. The mean Archie-All-A-Just was gone and I had to distract his wife..."Wait. How does Big Mike distract his wife?" I asked, looking at them through the rearview mirror.

"It'll be a piece of cake amigo!" Morgue told me with a happy smile. Already making me feel like I can do this. "You know that grey jumpsuit you're wearing right now?"

I looked down at my clothes real quick and saw that I was dressed up like a repairman. "Yeah?"

"Well for some reason, that we have Joe to thank for," Morgue said, snickering at what he did. Joe was on his laptop a few hours ago. "That señorita's sitting up in that giant villa without any electricity. Just ten minutes later, Joe caught her trying to call some repairmen. He intercepted the call and told her that we'd send a repairman right away!"

Good thing I knew what intercepted meant from football. "Okay, Big Mike thinks he gets it now! I try to fix everything and you take the shoulder-thingy that the bad man stole!"

"Exactamente Big Mike!" Morgue praised. "And the best part is that you don't have to do anything! Just tell her to take you to the 'Circuit Breaker', I repeat 'Circuit Breaker!' Say it back to me Big Mike." He told me, wanting to know if I could remember the word.

"Circuit breaker, got it! Don't worry Morgue, The Big Mike won't let you guys down!" I said confidently as I kept driving forward. Fixing the free sports cap that Joe fixed up for me. It was gray, had 'Big Circuits' on the front of it, and it was even my size! "Woah! This hat's so cool!" I said, putting it on.

"Well I hope the woman likes it too, because this is our place." Joe said as he pointed forward. I could see the turn that went to the driveway, but I couldn't see the big house behind all the trees. Still, I just turned into it and stopped in front of the gate that was in the way of driving up to the house. But looking around, I saw a small button that was sticking out of a small voice box thing.

Knowing how these things work since we had one, I pressed the button and waited for a voice to come on. And after a few seconds, a really angry loud voice came out of it.

"This better be the electrician or so help me-" "Uh...Y-yeah, I'm the repair man from..." After checking my hat, I kept going. "Big Circuits. There was something about, no power?..." Wait a second. If there's no power, then how am I talking to-

"Well it's about time! You are so lucky the intercom and gate are remote activated! Hurry up, it's pitch black in here!" She told me right before the gate opened up for me to drive through.

Not wanting to waste any time, I drove through the gate and stopped just a few feet away from the gate. Giving Joe and Morgue the chance to jump out of the back. Morgue had a rope over his shoulder, while Joe had a backpack and his laptop with him. Now I just hope I can do my job.

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Morgue's POV

After closing the back doors, Big Mike drove off to do his job. Even though there wasn't too much to deal with here, we were still under a time limit. That crazy lady sounded about ready to flip out at Big Mike, and that was before even meeting him face to face. That, added to the fact that Big Mike wouldn't be able to fool her for too long, and the only problem was that we had a time limit for this.

They gave us the plans to the mansion, and gave us a good five grand to buy all the stuff we needed. We spent that on a disguise for Big Mike, traveling expenses since Texas was nowhere near the state we were living in, one or two things to help me break in, and the rest on tech for Joe to use. Joe used the tech to cause a blackout at the mansion and intercept the lady's call by looking up the phone plan that they dug up for us and waiting for some frequency or something. You know, nerd stuff.

After that, he was just going to come as back-up. The lookout and possibly the hacker while I snuck in and lock picked the case that shoulder pad was in. I didn't need much for all of that. Just a rope to help Joe get to the window after I climbed up, and my trusty saw saw blade that I had made into a pocket knife.

We were friends with this knife shop owner who made custom blades, and he made our knives at a discount. We could probably ask him to make other original pocket knives if we needed them, but those things were only for special occasions.

"Alright, there's our entrance." Joe told me as he pointed ahead of us. We had been making our way through the mini-forest that surrounded the mansion.

"Órale, how does he own a mansion this big?!" I asked in a hushed voice, looking at the giant yard. This guy was twenty nine, and he was already living the life of ten people!

"Well, he's been an archeologist for about three years and has worked a lot of hours according to his work reports...Something tells me that his overtime wasn't just to suck up to the boss." Joe remarked as we walked over to our position. The balcony door was on the third floor, but luckily the cracks in the outer cobblestone layer, the fancy patterns along the sides of the house, and the vines that had grown up the walls made this climb easier than those mock rock climbs you see at fairs or whatever.

"This is just too easy!" I cheered as I ran towards the wall. Jumping the hedges that were along the bottom like a hurdle and climbing up the start of the wall with my new stealth rubber soled shoes. The kind of shoes that parkour artists used. After getting up to the height of the first story window, I used the cracks between the cobblestone to just start climbing.

"Not if you keep yelling like that, you moron!" Joe whispered in an irritated-like tone. "Just hurry up before you draw attention to yourself." He said a bit more with a more relaxed voice.

"Oh come on señor, lighten up." I said, talking a little quieter to make him stop worrying. "I know you're not used to being in the field, but you gotta know to keep your cool."

"Oh please, I've planned nearly every route you run in our smaller heists. Being out in the field isn't that hard." He told me with a frown as he looked away and adjusted his glasses. "Just, please hurry. No telling when Mrs. Costalos might look out the window and see me as a sitting duck. Her cell phone still works, after all. That is, unless she wasted the battery trying to yell at whoever she could get a hold of."

"Yeah, well, that's why I offered to teach you about climbing stuff like this." I told him with a casual voice as I started to reach the small one-person balcony that we would be going through. All Joe could really climb were ropes, trees, drain pipes, simple stuff like that. He couldn't scale a wall or anything like that though, so it was up to me to give him a way up.

"As I said, I don't think learning parkour would make any benefit. I'm the planner and mastermind. Not the brawn. And not the field man." He reminded me. I'd say that he was full of himself about saying how he was a child prodigy genius, but...Well, he was one! You can't argue something like that when he can literally point out what you're thinking before you even say it.

"Alright, I'm up." I said out loud as I climbed over the small railing of the balcony before tying one end of the rope to the rail and letting the rest drop to the ground. Where Joe then started to climb.

"Now for the lock." I said as I pulled out that pocket knife I told you all about a few minutes ago. And using that, and the ever popular bobby pin, I tinkered with the lock before hearing the audible click. "Ah, there we are. Now," I turned around and saw Joe start to get near the top already. He may not have been an advanced climber, but her was fast when it came to doing what he knew. "Let's get that shoulder pad." I told him as I took his hand and helped pull him up.

I opened the door and stepped inside with Joe following suit. And as we looked around the room, we saw plenty of small display cases and glass frames with timeless, expensive artifacts in them.

If this was any other day where something as important as the place where The Gang was formed, I'd be drooling at all the money I could make off all this stuff. All this stuff was stolen property of museums and research places that this one piece of mierda had taken from them and kept in his own home.

He was the key definition of 'Snob' in my eyes. And snobs were the main target for us, The Honorable Thieves. And this snob, Edward Costalos, was just about to get a reality check.

And it looked like the deposit was a golden left shoulder pad with an onyx stone.

Disclaimer: I do not own MLP. All I own is the idea, Blitz, Joe, Morgue, Big Mike, and the idea of this story. Thank you.

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ACT I

Enter the Mane Humans!

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Introducing: The Honorable Thieves!

Joe's POV

(Five Minutes after last chapter)

"Well...That escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast."

As I sat on the couch in my house, quoting a well known Will Ferrell movie and taking a sip from my father's flask that I always had, I looked around and quickly studied the four of my eight guests' faces as they all stared me down.

Two of which were facing me with glares. Zeke had already hated me and sadly, I don't think hypnotizing all of his new friends helped ease the tension. Applejack happened to be the other one glaring at me. While the others were each telling their side of the story, Applejack had only heard the bad side. Not counting Pinkie's experience anyway.

Twilight was instead giving me a disappointed look. She didn't have it in her to be that angry at me since she partially blamed herself for everyone else getting hypnotized. And Fluttershy merely gave me a nervous glance every so often while she looked away. She and Zeke were probably going to be really sore from fighting, but neither of them were actually hurt too much.

"Really?" Applejack asked as she kept her glare dead-locked on me. "Outta everythin' y'all did ta us, that's all ya got ta say?!" At this point, she looked even angrier than Zeke did. Which was saying something, because I was genuinely afraid that he'd try to get revenge on me for everything I did to him. What with his apparent wings growing out of his back, and unpredictable bionics. I thought Equestria was slightly less advenecd in technology than Earth was.

Still, I tried staying as calm as any sane human faced against three sentient ponies and a cyborg could be. If I showed any sign of intimidation or wariness, it would only get worse for me. Mostly because it was extremely hard to measure up what I was up against. I was facing seven new living beings of entirely new species; that had the abilities of flight, unrecorded strength, fire-breathing, and most noteworthy, magic.

The show itself what I had seen with my own eyes seemed to match up so far. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's flight pattern were similar, if not a bit more advanced. It seemed wings had different styles to them with Rainbow and Zeke having one style, and Fluttershy with another.

As for the case on magic, I couldn't quite tell yet. The aura was the same, and telekinesis was an obvious ability a Unicorn would seem to have. It looks like if their mind wasn't crystal clear and focused, they'd have to match the motion of what they were doing with the movement of the horn. If they were focused on that object or had clear focus and concentration, it wouldn't require much movement at all.

Sooner or later, I needed to find a journal and start recording everything that I would learn in time. Hopefully sometime before we began planning for the task ahead.

"Actually...Yes," I took one more sip from the flask before capping it and returning it to my jacket pocket. "That is all I have to say on the matter. And by the way Ms. Applejack, it's not 'everythin' y'all did' it's 'everythin' ya did.' It's singular since I was the only one who hypnotized all of you."

Yes, I corrected other people's grammar. And for anyone that I may happen to correct, they better hope they don't know what a 'Grammar Nazi' is. Because if they do, then they will feel the wrath of the German Mentalist that is Joseph Frei. Still, I respected other accents and never criticized anyone for that. It's what they're born and raised with after all. So instead of insulting them for it, I just changed my corrections accordingly in hopes to show I respected their accents.

Sadly, not everyone sees it that way when I correct them. Because to this day, I'm never again allowed to set foot at the local park. That rent-a-cop could not wait to get his revenge on me.

"Yeah, whatever. You know what I mean!" Applejack pointed out.

"Joe, you nearly drove us all insane!" Zeke returned the focus further, taking a step towards me. None of them have made an attempt to even come near me, and I wanted it to remain that way. "You don't have anything else to say?!"

I let the question linger as I quickly studied their faces. By this point, even Fluttershy was trying to hide her own glare behind her shy appearance. Not only that, but Twilight tried keeping a straight face. She had been thinking everything over and was still infuriated at me for all that I've done in the past twenty minutes of meeting them.

And while I might have had my ever inviting expression on my face that was the void of any kind of emotion, I knew that I was walking on a very thin wire. I had to realize that their help was necessary-No, required, if The Honorable Thieves were to save their leader from being wrongfully put in Juvie.

That goal in mind, I weighed my options. I needed them to give me at least some cooperation and be willing to listen to any of my plans. And given the trouble I'm in now, I realized I had two choices. Either give a heart-felt apology or give the reason for my actions. And since I didn't want a lie to get stuck in my teeth, I choose the explanation.

"I gave you all a fair warning." I told them with a shrug before picking up the TV remote to listen to some music.

Speaking of their answer, it seemed very obvious to me, and it would probably be very obvious to anyone else in my position, as to how they would all react to my reason. They started to yell at me angrily. And as most high schoolers or politicians know, once a group of people -a.k.a. a classroom, a.k.a. a council- start yelling over one another, they only get louder and louder as they try to be louder than the rest. Getting to the point where everyone that just want them to shut up, that being all non-sociable people, will eventually need to set their hearing aids to the same frequency as their grandparents.

That is, unless the arguments are interrupted by a higher power or an extremely loud noise. Both of which will describe my TV's old DVD player and stereo system. Because as they kept yelling at me, I casually muted the stereo and set the TV to the DVD setting. Once we had gotten a Blu-Ray player, we stopped using the DVD player. Making us forgot about a disc that was inside of it.

The disc was something I burned together. We all liked a certain anime, and because of that I burned the first twenty-five episodes onto one disc. Well, minus the intros and the four minutes at the beginning of each episode that told you what happened last episode. After cutting that out of each episode, you'd be surprised just how many episodes you can fit onto one disc.

So I got the disc playing as I watched behind the group of angry guests subtly. Witnessing the Episode Select come up with small pictures and titles of each episode. When I built each disc with a small Episode Select, I gave each disc some music as well. And turning the volume up to max while keeping it muted, I prepared for the impact of the noise by shielding my ears.

The song, which shut up the three angry ponies and cyborg, was an already loud rap song that told the backstory of the anime. That is, with the first twenty-eight seconds of the song-less introduction cut out so it was only the music. But regardless of the origin, it was definitely loud enough to get the job done and keep them quiet. As well as make any bird flying around fly away in fear...

...Oh, and did I mention that on top of the songs loud volume, I maxed out the sound on our stereo system?

watch?v=RSe8D2wfGKI

One Piece 4kids Rap

YO!

GIGO-GIGO~

DREAM IT!~

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" All of them then started to shriek, save for Zeke who saw what I was doing at the last minute, as they dropped to the floor as if to take cover from the biggest bomb on Earth. I had muted immediately after they stopped yelling, but they were still shell-shocked. So much so, I think I might've even started to laugh. But instead, I just stuck to my subtle, devious smirk.

"W-What in Equestria was that?!" Twilight's response.

"Tha Hay's goin' on now?!" Applejack's response.

"..." Fluttershy's response. Mostly because she was passed out, but I doubt that she would've said anything anyway.

Still, my favorite response had yet to come. Because it wasn't from these four, but instead from Rainbow Dash, who was still outside with Pinkie Pie. At least, until they burst in through the back door that led out to the pool and patio. Not literally, thank Heavens for that.

They then proceeded to run through the dining room where the back door was located and into the kitchen, over our sleeping dog, Dan, and finally into the living room where we were to see what happened and most likely demand what kind of torture I was committing this time.

As to why the two of them were out there alone, it was because Rainbow Dash was hoping to get all the beauty supplies off of her face as fast as possible. And seeing as how it's been exactly ten minute and fourteen seconds of drowning her own face in the pool, it was safe to assume that she was very desperate to get it all off.

As for the other two still unaccounted, Rarity had gone from being the nicest of them all towards me, to wanting to rip me to shreds with her own hooves. And after Twilight and Zeke held her back, hesitantly seeing as how both of them were ready to get me themselves, she demanded that I did something about it. "Or else," she had threatened.

Not wanting to see what an angry unicorn, more specifically an angry unicorn diva, would give me as an option, I offered my hospitality towards her and allowed her to use my bathroom to wash the mud and dirt off. A bathroom that I could guarantee was much better than the other bathroom we have or the pool.

The worse of the two bathrooms was shared amongst the three of us... Allow me to clarify, it was shared amongst three teenage boys. So that already made it more deadly than Chernobyl.

The other bathroom, was another story. Because while it did have a door that led to the hallway, my bathroom, a.k.a. the master bathroom, was for my use only. Add to the fact that the bathtub was a luxury one with jets, it was probably the best bathtub made. A fact that I think Rarity was agreeing with because in a matter of two minutes her dramatic cries had gone silent.

As for Spike, he staying outside the bathroom and was staying guard to make sure that she would stay relaxed. He probably was mad at me too, but as long as Rarity wasn't upset, he was going to stay quiet.

And now that roll call is out of the way, we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming. My Little Pony: Friendship is Not technology. Episode #01: Television.

"What in the name of Celestia happened?!" Rainbow Dash asked with a demanding yet worried voice, looking at all of them to make sure they were okay before resting a glare at me.

Told you she was going to ask.

"Relax Ms. Dash." I said calmly as I sat up from the couch and the others started recovering from their shock from the song. "It's merely a Television show called One Piece." Those who recovered first, as well as Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, all turned in the direction of the TV. It was still muted, but they saw the pictures and titles of the twenty-five episodes. "By the way, congrats on getting all of that make-up off. That is, all of it except for the eye shadow."

"Yeah. No thanks to you!" Rainbow Dash said bitterly. "This stuff's gonna take days to rub out! If any pony sees me wearing this, than not only is my daredevil license is as good as gone, but no pony's going to let me live it down!"

"Oh come on Rainbow, it ain't so bad!" Applejack tried to say calmly, but she didn't really know how what to say right now.

"Yeah, AJ's right." Zeke agreed. "I mean, even daredevils use that stuff, right?" He tried to reason.

Truth be told, I didn't see much of a problem with her wearing eye shadow. Sure, the idea of eye shadow went against every fiber of her tomboy personality, which my unofficial professional opinion made me discover that it most likely came from a disagreement from family matters, but it actually didn't look bad in any regard. As a matter of fact, it almost looked professionally applied and as far as I could tell, matched her coat color.

"Yes, it probably will." I agreed with a nod, ignoring Applejack and Zeke's attempts to calm her down. Earning more intense glares in my direction. Still, knowing that I'd need all of their cooperation in order for our task to be accomplished, I put my cruelty off to the side and chose to remain neutral in order to calm her down.

"But look at it this way Ms. Dash." I told her, clearing my throat to make myself seem like I actually cared about what I was about to say. "Aside from your friends and some random 'egghead' of a jerk that is a human," She immediately stopped glaring as I mentioned her go-to name for smarter people like me or Twilight, and just stood silently. "There's no one to judge what you look like. In your case, there's no pony around to see you with eye shadow, so this is little more than a harmless prank if you think about it."

"He's right ya know!" Pinkie yelled out happily, possibly figuring out what I was trying to do. Quite impressive, Pinkie Pie. "Thanks Joe!" She complimented out of the blue...Wait, hold on, what?

"Dashie, you should've seen what prank he pulled on me! I kept on telling myself that I was a little fishie! A fish that knew how to sing the national anthem and twirl fire batons! I even thought that I had a few fishy friends like Milo, Oscar, and even Nemo! And we went on adventures telling the viewers at home how to survive the wilderness as English Grills!"

Twilight slowly turned towards me with a very confused look. Thinking that I had created that...Explanation, for Pinkie Pie's subconscious. Only, seeing my eyes narrowed in confusion, she understood that it was Pinkie Pie's doing and spoke up herself. "Uh...B-Besides Rainbow Dash, it doesn't look bad at all." She told Rainbow in hopes to cheer her up. "If anything, it looks really good! How did you know how to apply all of it?!"

That's when I saw it. Rainbow Dash looking very worried and very desperate, very quick. She started looking towards all of us, beginning with Fluttershy first. And as I saw her face, I noticed that she had a look of hope in her desperate and worried state. Looking as if Fluttershy had some way to help save her from this apparently embarrassing fact about her and make-up. Maybe they have a friendship that had gone deeper than any of the others or lasted longer than any of the others.

However, it was hard for me to tell for sure. I had only seen six episodes of the show itself. The beginning two-parter, the Discord two-parter, and the Cadence/Shining two-parter. After those six, I felt that any other episode viewing would be an invasion of privacy towards them. Sadly this also meant that I did not know anything I couldn't have figured out just by meeting them today.

Rainbow Dash then saw as Fluttershy was still trying to wake up from the jump scare I gave her. So that meant Fluttershy had no idea what was going on and therefor could not help Rainbow Dash out. Leading up to Rainbow Dash looking even more terrified as she immediately shifted her gaze to Zeke next. To her apparent relief, however, he and Applejack were trying to help the before mentioned Fluttershy.

As I saw this next reaction, I came to two possible conclusions as to why that was. Both of which were social issues. The first conclusion was that Zeke may use this embarrassing little bit of history in the future against Rainbow Dash. Or that he might tease her about it here and there just to mess with her.

The other was that she thought him differently than the others in the room. I didn't know how she acted towards the others though, so I couldn't compare her responses. Still, it wasn't a definite answer since it was a hard conclusion to reach. Emotions like love and such make the mind much harder to figure out. Making the phrase "Love makes you do crazy things." something to take to heart...No pun intended.

You know how long it took for me to figure both of those reactions out? Four seconds. And that was while she was looking towards those two, not afterwards.

But that wasn't the real concern. The concern was her standpoint on telling us the secret in the first place. She obviously kept 'knowing how to apply make-up' a secret to even her best friends. But since her best friends were asking for an answer, they were unintentionally creating peer pressure for Rainbow Dash.

Whenever you meet a psychologist, or know someone who has, have you ever noticed how you're more open to them than you are your actual family or friends? Well, you'd be surprised how many secrets a psychologist hears and gives an honest answer to. Now I'd never use these secrets in the wrong way, but it's just so interesting to hear all these stories and be entrusted by everyone to give your opinions. A trust I took very seriously.

With that said, I had almost an instinct to help Rainbow Dash get out of this situation no matter what. I guess you can say it was a result of my persistence to help anyone in a problem like this.

"Ms. Dash." I said, intervening with a calm yet commanding tone that demanded the attention of everyone else. Especially Rainbow Dash, who was still looking very worried. "If you do not want to say anything, then simply don't. No one here is forcing you to say anything you don't want to. So if you don't want to talk about it, just say that you don't want to talk about it."

"..." At that moment, every single one of them stopped talking or even looking at Rainbow Dash. And it was so awkward, pens would sound like an alarm. Why is it that no one ever realizes how bad they're making someone else feel until another person points it out? Do people really need that kind of wake up call?

As a few more seconds passed, a gulp was heard as Rainbow finally started speaking up. "...Thanks Joe..." She told me, somehow thankful and confused at the same time.

"Don't mention it." I dismissed, looking towards the others as Fluttershy finally sat up as she regained consciousness. "Ah, Ms. Fluttershy. Nice to see that you've joined us in the land of the awoken."

"What...W-What was that?" Fluttershy asked while being shy, drowsy, and frightened all in one single package. It looks like she didn't hear one single thing that whole time.

"Hey guys? What was that noise?" Spike asked as he walked into the living room to meet us. Not hearing much of any response from Rarity, he probably got bored and gave up waiting on her. I guess Spike's 'Love' for Rarity is starting to reach its limits.

"Well, seeing as how you're all so curious, allow me to formally introduce you to one of the biggest inventions of all time, the Television." I then made a sarcastic "behold" gesture towards the decent sized wall mounted TV that was just a little smaller than one of them by length.

"Oooooohhh...It's shiny!" Pinkie Pie mused. Acting as if she didn't see it up until now. "Wait, hold on! What are all the pictures on it?!" She asked, referring to the pictures for the episodes.

"It's what the screen's projecting. Which in this case, happens to be a small disc that...How do I explain this...Imagine a record from a record player, but instead of its usual size it's the size of your hoof." I explained to them further. Knowing they at least had record players from the Cadence/Shining two-parter. "And what you had heard earlier was the music at full blast. Here, let me unmute it."

I then turned down the volume and unmuted the TV as the song played at a random part of the song. That didn't really matter to them though, because they looked amazed nonetheless.

-Monkey D. Luffy!

Gonna be King of the Pirates!~

He's made a rubber!~

How did that happen?!~

YO-HO-HO, he took a bite a Gum-Gum!~

I turned it down further so it was little more than background noise and watched their faces. All of them looked slightly amazed about what they were hearing. I wonder what would happen when they actually see the pictures moving.

The only two people that didn't look all impressed at all were Zeke and Spike. Zeke I understood why he wasn't impressed. He had seen it all before. And remembering how he checked out manga from the library, he was probably even less impressed still. As for Spike, I didn't get it. He should've been amazed just like the others, if not more. So why was he looking at this as if he already knew about it?

"Hold on, what did it just say?" Twilight blurted out in thought with an annoyed an displeased tone and a scowl to match. "Whatever that song just said, it didn't make any sense whatsoever."

"Oh come on Twilight, you gotta admit that it looks kinda cool. Besides, the-what's it called, screen?" She asked, looking towards me to make sure she got that right. And seeing me nod in approval, she went on. "Yeah, look at the screen! All those pictures make it look like it's kind of like the Daring Do books! What part about it doesn't make sense?!"

Daring Do books?...I wonder...

"How does it make sense at all, is the real question!" Twilight argued, looking as if she was about to critique this show just by part of the song alone. "First of all, what kind of name is Monkey D. Luffy?"

"I don't know. What kind of name is Twilight Sparkle?" I retorted sarcastically.

"...Secondly," She started, frowning at my remark where as Pinkie and Rainbow couldn't help but snicker at the joke. It looks like I was starting to get some neutral opinions from some of them. Though, it didn't mean much if a majority of them still didn't trust me. "Pirates never had kings or any other kind of ruler. They weren't a Monarchy or Diarchy. They were a Democracy."

"You actually know what a Democracy is?" I went on my sarcastic rampage. "I was half expecting you to deny Democracy as even a type of government."

"...Stop. Interupting. Me..." Twilight warned me through bared teeth. Glaring at me because of how much I was insulting her. "Lastly-" She immediately snapped her gaze towards me as if to try and catch me in the act. When I saw this, I was rubbing my knuckles against my shirt as if to make myself look like I was keeping to myself. "I don't care what logic any pony or any human uses. No living being can be made of rubber. And no amount of consuming bubblegum is going to change that."

I waited a few seconds as me and Twilight stared the other down. I had a small frown on my face, whereas Twilight had a great disapproving look on hers. She was holding back a snappy comeback and/or insult about the idea of that TV show being stupid. Careful about using that word around me.

So knowing that I had no reason to be offended by her opinion about something I had liked, I decided to be rational about all of this by answering her question calmly. While slipping in some sarcastic quips and intellectual insults of course.

"Ms. Pie." I called out for her attention as I stood up from the couch and straightening my glasses and jacket. The glasses was a habit of mine, but it helped me keep up the cynical appearance by making me look as if I was an evil mastermind with a plan being put into action.

Which I was, but that was besides the point.

"What do ya need Joe?!" Pinkie asked excitedly. Wondering where I was going with my well hidden thoughtful expression.

"If it's not too much to ask, I need your honest answer here. Do you think Twilight has an extension of disbelief? As I said, an honest response if you can." I asked, wanting to ask someone other than Twilight.

As I waited for her response, I walked over to the right side of the living room, which was an entire wall of shelves, cabinets, and the fireplace. The cabinets were along the bottom of the wall and had all our movies arranged in simple alphabetical order. And with how many there were, we could probably spend an entire summer vacation and still have half of them leftover.

As for the shelves, they were divided amongst the three of us. The shelves on the left were all mine. Half the space were books, a quarter of them were some of my awards that I had gotten through piano and violin recitals, chess club, debate team, most of those clubs and competitions created for nerds and masterminds like me. The last quarter was just random things that I thought looked interesting.

The shelves on the right were Morgue's. Some space was for music, both CDs that had music burned onto them, and music sheets that he liked to play. Some of the space was awards he got for track and field, talent shows, or music competitions. But for most of the space, it was mainly mementos from all of our heists and jobs. He always found one something to keep in memory whether it was raiding a candy machine or robbing the house of a higher-class person who had cheated and stolen to get that money.

But in the end, it was Big Mike's space that was the most impressive. There were no books, no music, nothing but trophies upon trophies with ribbons, plaques, and pictures of Big Mike and whatever sport team he was on at the time. He put everything he had into whatever he did and never disappointed when it came to spirit and teamwork. His shelves were in the middle above the fireplace, so we let him have the fireplace mantle too. But he never put any trophies there. He was always saying how the only thing that belonged there was "Family Stuff." So he put family pictures, and anything that related to all of us on the mantle.

Still, I just went over to my space and started looking for a certain book that I had gotten from a suspicious librarian obsessed with gems while I waited for Pinkie's answer.

"Oh, definitely not!" Pinkie told me happily, not even missing a beat as she kept the same joyful attitude that matched her giant grin. "Twilight doesn't believe in anything, really!

"Wha-Pinkie?! Why would you say something like that?!" Twilight asked, very surprised that Pinkie Pie said that about her.

"Oh come on Twilight, it's not a bad thing really! But it took you a whole day to believe in my Pinkie Sense, and you ended up getting really hurt when that happened!" Pinkie reminded her. Okay, it seems that Pinkie has some sort of improvable ability.

"Ms. Sparkle, is there such a book genre called 'Fantasy' in Equestria?" I asked. Pulling out the book from my shelves as I bent down and opened up a cabinet next. Getting out a small but heavy-at least it was heavy for me anyway-bag filled with three certain objects.

"Fantasy? Why would some pony dedicate an entire book genre to something so stupid as fantasy?! That book would be so jumbled and confused!" Twilight told me, thus proving my theory right. There were no fantasy books in Equestria. It seems that since Equestria's already filled with literal Magical Creatures, there was no reason to expand on the imagination. At least, not as much as imagination as we do.

"Oh you never know Ms. Sparkle," I said as I walked back over to the group. The living room wasn't too big, about as big as the patio if not smaller, but there was still enough room for all of us and probably a few more.

"Fantasy's a genre that many a human find very immersive." That's when I dropped the Daring Do book onto the table in front of them so they could all see. "And by the looks of it, it seems that pony's find the genre interesting as well."

"W-where did you-" Twilight started before levitating the book up to eye level. With Rainbow Dash cutting in to see it herself. "Daring Do In: The Book of Quondonia." They both read out simultaneously.

"Reading the 'About the Author' section, I believe you'll find that a Ms. A.K. Yearling tells of how she read into the genre Fantasy and apparently enjoyed it very much." I explained to all of them. Although, Rainbow and Twilight took it to heart as they quickly turning to the 'About the Author' section. Which had a picture of a human with the background having a picture of a pony. More specifically, a Pegasus pony named Daring Do.

"I...I don't get it!...How's come you have this book?! A.K. Yearling's from Equestria! There is no way you should even know about Daring Do books!" Twilight exclaimed as she let Rainbow Dash snatch the book from her magical grasp.

After flipping a few pages, Rainbow just gasped is surprise. "It is a Daring Do book! But I don't remember this book in the series! And it doesn't have a number thing on the side either!" "Volume." Twilight corrected. "Yeah, that!"

"It confused me as well." I said with a shake of the head. "My recently new school librarian had given me this book to keep. But running this author's name, I found nothing on an 'A.K. Yearling' per say. Still, it wasn't that bad of a book at all. Especially since this story is apparently her first try at a Fantasy genre."

While I observed Twilight and Rainbow Dash looking over the book, I noticed how the others were focused on other things. Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie were all focused on the TV. Listening to the song that was still turned down to background music. What slightly impressed me though, is that they were starting to take a few glances towards the remote that controlled it.

"So how does this TV thing work anyhow? I'd imagine it's somethin' like a projector, but it ain't makin' any pictures move." Applejack mused, studying the pictures that just lay still on the screen.

"That second picture looks scary...Is that the one the song says is a samurai?" Fluttershy asked to no one in particular. "Is he a bad human, or a good one?"

"In the name of the treasure! In the Grand Line!~ GI-GO. GI-GO! Set sail for One Piece!" Pinkie sang out happily. Already taking a liking to the song as she reached for the remote. "You made it louder with this right?! How do you do that again?!" She asked, looking towards me with a wide grin on her face.

"Well, how about I do you one better Ms. Pie?" I asked, walking over and holding out my hand towards her. "If you'd please?" I asked, referring to the remote she was trying to figure out.

"Oh! Oh! Are you gonna make it tell us the story of One Piece?!" She asked excitedly as she passed the remote to me without a second thought. Leaving me to point it towards the TV and do as she wanted.

"Pinkie Pie, I don't think a screen with a few still framed pictures, and not to mention a lack of writing, is able to tell you a Tale of Fanta-What the hay?..." Before Twilight could even finish questioning another human appliance, I selected the first episode and the screen cut to black. And just a few seconds later, it started to play the opening theme entitled "We Are."

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One Piece Opening 1 We Are English dub

As it started to play, I turned up the volume a little bit for them and set the remote in my pocket. They all crowded around the TV and watched the visuals along with the music playing. "This is the only episode out of all fifteen that play the song, so, enjoy it while you can. I will give a fair warning though, it is aimed towards your age and higher due to language and such. So I hope that won't be much of a-"

"Wait, that human's behind some swords...Why's he smiling?" Fluttershy asked, both scared and confused about why the human, Gold Roger, was smiling when he was about to be offed.

"Golly...Them's a lotta ships..." Applejack said as she took note of them all before Luffy appeared on screen, running towards the edge of the cliff. Followed by him showing off his rubber powers.

"WOAH! Look at the size of that fish! No wait! There's a bird fish! Wow, that's a bigger fish! And a bigger-er zebra fish! It's like a giant Fish Party!" Pinkie yelled out as they saw the fish appear one after another. Followed by the main characters looking off from the front of the ship and their boat riding on a map of the fantasy world.

"Eh. It looks okay." Rainbow Dash said with a shrug to try and look as if it wasn't that impressive. Only for a few seconds to pass and then- "Wait a second, that guy has three swo-That other human just kicked them all in the fa-Haha! Egg to the face! Class-" She finally stopped gushing as she saw Luffy punch the sea monster in the face. "...So. AWESOME!" She yelled out as she gripped her face with her hooves.

"Oh! My...I sure hope that fish is okay..." Fluttershy added, looking worried about the fish Luffy punched. "eep...Who are all of them?" She asked me, referring to a few sudden images of some of the villains that flashed on the screen.

As the whole thing started to conclude with Luffy spinning his straw hat on his finger, Twilight heard a verse the song had said. "Wait a second, all of that action and the song's about friendship?" She asked, taking that into consideration. "Well...I guess the moral's in the right place."

"That one in the hat looked friendly enough. I'm guessin' that one was Luffy?" Applejack asked, looking around as the TV cut to black again to signal that the actual episode was about to start.

"That was so cool!" Rainbow Dash cheered as it was getting ready to start the actual episode. "That was just the song?! What's the actual show like?!" As the episode started to play, they all stayed quiet and watched. All of them except for Zeke and Spike, who were standing by the front door.

"Joe? Can you come out here for a second?" Zeke asked. They both looked angry and very hesitant to trust me, but while Zeke wasn't afraid to look me in the eye with that view on me, Spike just avoided my gaze. Looking pale faced about something I most likely did. The two of them weren't absorbed by the TV show, but instead looked as if they were keeping their distance. This giving me the impression that they were apparently worried about the TV itself...Or something the TV could show.

"Coming." I told them with a nod as I set the bag I had gotten from the cabinet down on the coffee table. I then followed them out the door, to which they closed the door right behind me and walked at a brisk pace towards the truck that they had all arrived in with me following patiently.

"Okay. I think this is far enough." Zeke announced as he and Spike turned around to face me. Spike tried to have a more courageous look on his face, but I could still tell that he was a little scared about something. Not me, but something else.

"Close enough for what?" I asked, stopping a few feet in front on them as I kept my hands folded behind my back as usual with my calm expression on my face. Which sadly didn't last for long as one blink later I was punched square in the gut by Zeke's artificial arm and gasping for the air that just got punched out of me. "GAH!"

I cried out in a breathless gasp as I dropped to my knees when Zeke backed away to the place he was standing at just a second ago. I didn't even see him approach me when he attacked from more than three feet from me! All I saw was him slightly move his left leg forward with the intent to come towards me, but I didn't even have any time to register that he was about to walk towards me. It was as if he moved within the blink of an eye!

"That was for hypnotizing me and my friends." Zeke told me as he folded his arms. I could tell that he was forcing himself not to take anymore action, but for what reason exactly?

"O...Okay..." I wheezed. Not even bothering to act sarcastic or rude by this point. I was incredibly unprepared and out of my league to do something like that. "I deserved that..." As I held my hands over my abdomen to instinctively ease the pain, I looked up towards him as he looked away from me slightly.

"With everything you've put me and my friends through, you're lucky that I was holding back." Zeke told me as he focused on the house. Slightly worried about them seeing what he did. "Still, that's not why we asked you out here. We have a bigger problem."

"..." I stayed silent as I steadied my breathing. With all of us out here away from the six girls, not to mention their reaction upon seeing the TV, I had realized what they were referring to very quickly. The fact that Spike was out here told me he knew the same thing as well. "So when do you intend on telling them about the show?"

"What?! How did you..." As Spike looked at me in shock, he soon remembered my mentalism and sighed in defeat. "W-Well...I don't want them to know. We wanted to keep it a secret. If they found out then..." As he talked almost hopelessly, I figured out the rest of it on my own.

"You're worried about them being mad at you because you think not telling them about it is untrustworthy... Am I wrong?" I asked, using one of the best questions ever created. You see, I loved that question because it was a trap. Whether someone answered it one way or the other didn't matter. I could gain control of the conversation no matter how they answered.

"That's it exactly!" Spike yelled out. "If I tell them, they'll be so mad that I lied to them about it! How did you know?!" He asked, utterly amazed by my trick as he looked to me in awe.

I stood up with pain obviously showing on my face as I dusted myself off from the grass I had been sitting on and focused on the more important answer he needed. "Mr. Spike, I'm nothing but truthful when it comes to helping someone else with a problem like this. So please understand that I'll never try to sugarcoat the answer for you... That being said, you have no chance in Earth or Equestria at hiding the truth from them."

"W-What?" He asked me, looking as if he was a puppy I had just kicked. Which was a good metaphor for what I did, but it had to be done nonetheless. To say that he could hide such a monumental thing from all six of them was an impossible thing to do. "What do you mean I can't hide it from them?!"

"Mr. Spike, it's obvious that you already know about the show. But let me ask you, do you have any idea just how big the fan base of this show is? Do you know how far the reaches of this show have gone? The news, famous actors, singers, just about every human in the world has seen, heard of, or made some sort of reference or acknowledgment about that show. The second any Brony hears their voices, sees them using magic, sees them period. Not only will the six of them find out that humans know who they are, but all of the human race will figure out that they're real in a matter of days. There is no chance in hiding this secret from them."

"No...Chance?..." Spike asked, his jaw dropping in defeat as he went over those words. "So no matter what I do...They're going to find out anyway..."

"Yes. But that's a good thing." I told him. Continuing as if he wasn't being affected at all. "There's a number of reactions that can come from this, and the one variable that can determine what reaction it will be is how they're informed of the news."

"...Huh?" Spike asked. Looking up at me with more confusion than sadness by this point. "Uh...Joe? I can barely understand Twilight when she tells me everything with her science words. Can you repeat that again?"

"Certainly. Just as long as you never compare me to that moron, Ms. Sparkle." I told him, revealing a little too much anger in my voice than I originally wanted. For someone...Oops. I mean, some pony, that loved science and the Scientific Method so much, she sure was conservative when it came to researching new topics.

Usually, a very well and professional scientist would at least wait for a demonstration or explanation to be finished before calling bull on it and refusing to acknowledge it. But for Twilight, that's exactly what she does. To be a true scientist, you have to have to have an open mind for the unexplored. That's where I stand, where as Twilight ignores that step. Which is why we can be nothing but against each other.

"They'll only be angry if they find out by themselves. They'll be questionable if they find out from me, my brother, or my friend. And they'll be worried if they're told by the Princesses. So if they're to find out in any of those ways, it probably won't end well for you. But..." I started, leaving the thought on a cliffhanger.

"But...If they find out from me, they'll be...Surprised?" Spike guessed.

"Curious." I corrected. "When you tell him about the show, they'll want to know how it's possible and, if my theory's correct, forgiving since you most likely have a good reason for not telling them."

"They'll forgive me..." Spike said, going over that over and over in his own mind. Slowly accepting what I had told him as he started to nod and become more relaxed from the stress that had been building up. All in a days work for a young psychologist-in-the-making with amazing mentalist skills.. And a slightly increased ego, I'll admit. "Okay...Got it! I'll make sure to tell them! Thanks for the help Joe!"

"Don't thank me yet. We have a bigger task ahead of us." I said, turning towards Zeke. Who seemed a bit more content for now. "I think we're all aware of the mission, right?"

"Actually, no." Zeke spoke up. "All Princess Celestia said was that we needed to help 'save' you guys. But she never said what happened. All she did was give Twilight a spell that turns ponies, and Spike, into humans and say that you and Big Mike could help. Then she gave me the truck and sent us on our way."

"Ponies into humans?" I asked, going over the Princess's first step. "Well, that certainly makes things easier. As for us being able to help, I think I understand." I told him, adjusting my glasses again. "She wants me and Big Mike to help teach them just how to blend in. Shouldn't be much of a problem really. The only thing we'll need for them right now are clothes for them to wear. Can't have them just running around naked after all."

"Oh!" Spike yelled out, suddenly running for the back of the truck. "I just remembered! Princess Celestia put seven bags into the truck! Each of them were the same color as each of them and me! I bet they're all our clothes!"

"Well, that makes this both easier and less awkward." I remarked, waiting for Spike to check the bags.

"Wait...I get the easier part, but how does that make this any less awkward? We still have to teach them how to...You know." Zeke said, not wanting to think about it too much. He had all the reason to want to avoid wanting to help them learn how to use clothes, but that wasn't the part I was talking about.

"I meant that now that we have the clothes, we won't have to get them ourselves. Could you imagine going to Wal-Mart or a garage sale and asking for outfits for six teenage girls around our age? That would be so incredibly miserable, that I'd rather just try to save Morgue myself." I told him, not wanting to go too into thought about that course of action.

"...Ugh." Zeke uttered as he twitched in disgust. "Good point..." After that little exchange of thought, we both just stood off to the side as Spike rustled through the bags in the truck. Taking much longer than it should have to see if Celestia packed them clothes. "...Spike? Please tell me she gave us clothes for all of you." He asked, worried that we actually would have to go buy the clothes ourselves.

"Yeah, she gave us clothes...But there's something else in here too?" Spike said, sounded very worried all of a sudden. "Didn't Lyra say that she would watch Fluttershy's animals and all our pets?" He asked out of the blue.

"Uh, yeah, she said she'd take care of it...Why do you ask?..."

"Because either Rarity decided to start making scarves and dresses that look like them, or," He then quickly reached his claws in towards two suitcases and pulled out a small baby alligator and a raccoon with a backwards hat, golf bag, and mask.

"We might have a few more friends that came with us."

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Looks like we have a few more friends in the group! Wonder how the ponies are going to respond to this...Ah well, I'm sure they'll be cool with it!

...Trololololol...

Anyway, I know that this episode isn't all that funny compared to the others, but it needed to be written. Don't worry though, the next chapter's going to not only be funny, but it'll even have a sports training montage! Not to mention, we'll be introduced to five familiar faces next chapter!

Also, I'm sorry this chapter took forever. I've been getting really overhauled with not only this story and my new YouTube videos, but I even have these annoying End of Course tests coming up this coming week. Yeah, those are going to be fun...

Next chapter will be uploaded as soon as I can! So until then, see you next time every Brony!

QotC: If you had the chance to show the mane six any TV show or movie, what would it be? Why?

P.S. What do you think for the YouTube songs I put in? Was it a little hard to look up, was it a good/bad idea? Please tell me what you thought of them. It really helps a lot!