My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 24: The Mayor's Special Delivery

It was just a regular day for Toby and the residents of Ponyville. At the moment the seventeen-year old human was enjoying some well needed down time in his giant tree house when he heard a knocking noise at his door.

"Just a sec!" he called out. He then made his way to the door and as soon as he opened it he is immediately grabbed and pulled out the door by somepony. Only that being wasn't a pony at all, it was a large Minotaur that resembled the one Fluttershy met and trained with, Ironwill, was his name. Only this minotaur had had a brown coat instead of a gray one.

"Hello!" The minotaur growled.

"And… you are?" Toby asked.

" I am Thunderhorn! You beat up my father and left him for dead!" The minotaur stated. "Prepare… to die!"

"What are you talking about?" Toby questioned, not getting it.

"I am talking about vengeance!" Thunderhorn growled. "Good old fashioned vengeance!"

He then spun Toby around and around before tossing him straight towards the town. He screamed as he flew across the sky. Two fillies below notice him and stare in awe.

"Ooh! Cool! A shooting star! In the daytime!" One of them remarked.

"Quick! Make a wish!" The other one said.

Toby continued to scream at the top of his lungs until he finally managed to stop himself in mid-air using his magic. Everypony around watched as he then dropped to the ground and landed on his face. They all gathered around him to make sure he was ok. Then a familiar pink pony popped up.

"Hi, Toby! Whatcha doing?" Pinkie Pie asked, innocently. "You know, besides laying on the ground and groaning in sheer pain."

Toby groaned in response then noticed the minotaur that attacked him earlier leaping straight down towards him and everypony else.

"Everypony, move!" Toby yelled as she magically pushed them all to a safer place while Thunderhorn landed right in front of him with a loud 'thud!'. He made a large crater when he landed.

"Ooh! A minotaur! He kind of looks like Ironwill!" Pinkie remarked. "Don't you agree Toby?"

"Uh… a little busy right now Pinks." The teen said as he backed away from the very angry looking minotaur who looked like he was about to kill him.

"Ok, have fun!" Pinkie chirped as she hopped away.

"Fun… right." Toby muttered. The giant minotaur roared and prepared to strike him but Tobu managed to block his attack and knock him back with a good kick to the chest. Toby then rushed over an instant later to rain punches on the over-muscled villain. As they fought they moved across the town.

"Come on, big man! Show me what you got! Show me what you got!" Toby challenged.

Thunderhorn did so by seizing Toby's fist. Bones crack as he increases the pressure.

Toby looked surprised. "Well ok then…" he said. Then before he knew it Toby was throw across the town where he crashed into a store that sold quills and sofas, having taking a haymaker from Thunderhorn.

"Ha-ha! I will have my vengeance!" Thunderhorn growled.

"Not today!"

Thunderhorn looked ahead of him surprised and before he knew it Toby was zooming towards him. He head-butted Thunderhorn in the chest, knocking the air out of him then magically threw him into a another store and then another.

"Now why don't cha give up already? I don't have any beef with you anyway! Although I'm getting there…" Toby admitted.

Thunderhorn then emerged from one of the stores and held out a mace. He smiled evilly.

"Oh come on!" Toby complained. "Who sells those things!?"

One of the stallions in the ground meekly held up one his hooves and smiled nervously.

"I'll deal with you later." Toby promised him, before turning to the minotaur. "And as for you. I. Did. Not. Beat. Up. Your. Dad! But if you'd like… I could beat up you instead!"

He then charged up his magic and created two magical arm constructs that stretched out towards Thunderhorn, grabbed him and pulled him upward.

"Hey! What are you doing!?" he yelled.

"Taking you for a ride, hope you enjoy it." Toby told the minotaur.

Toby then threw the minotaur upward and high into the sky. He twirled around and around as he flew up. Then gravity quickly got a hold of him and began to bring back down to the ground. Toby leap upward, grabbed the minotaur by the legs and started twirling himself and his opponent in the air began before throttling him right through the roof of the town hall. He made a loud crashing noise as he broke through the wood and eventually hit the ground level.

Everypony around winces while smoke came out of the recently smashed windows. Toby landed back onto the ground safely, grunts in pain as the after effects of the magic constructs took effect and grimaced at his handy work, which he suspected was a bit overdone.

"The Mayor is not gonna be happy…" he muttered to him.

"MISTER MORRISON!"

Toby flinched and turned around to see a very upset looking Mayor Mare approaching him. Boy, if looks could kill. Everypony else saw that she was angry and began to back away, not wanting to get in the middle of it.

"Miss Mayor! Hi! Look this wasn't my fault!" Toby protested. "This minotaur showed up out of nowhere! And he said I beat up his father and…"

The Mayor just stood in front of him with burning eyes that made Toby sweat and chuckle nervously.

"Let's stay positive… I mean it's only the roof." Toby pointed out.

After he said that, the roof he just mentioned began to creak and crack before a large crack appeared right down the middle of the town hall before suddenly the whole place collapsed on itself. After the dust cleared all that was left of the town hall was a bunch of broken pieces made up of wood and glass.

Toby and the Mayor's jaws dropped at the sight, as did everypony else's, before the Mayor resumed glaring at Toby angrily while he could only chuckle nervously. The Mayor just growled, absolutely frustrated, not only by what happened to her town but also what just happened to her town hall.

"Oh… I'm a dead man." Toby muttered once more. Just then Pinkie popped up.

"Oh, big time dead man," she added before a glare from Toby made her drop down out of sight. The human then turned his attention back to the Mayor of Ponyville. "Miss Mayor, please, this wasn't my fault! It was that stupid Minotaur's!"

"Every time… it's you! It's always YOU!" The Mayor exclaimed.

"Oh come on, that's not true." Toby insisted.

"Oh really?" Mayor Mare asked him, raising a brow. "Need I remind of all the other times?"

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Both Toby and the Mayor's mind's flashed back to about four years ago, just a couple of days before Toby's last battle with Tirek.

It was just another day in Ponyville, when suddenly the peaceful silence was broken the minute thirteen-year old Toby came running though, screaming at the top of his lungs as he was being chased by one of the monsters he used to face, also known as a Crabdozer.

Thirteen-year old Toby ran and ran as the giant crab like rhino began to gain on him and snap it's jaws behind him. Then Toby ducked down onto his back and waited until the Crabdozer was underneath him. Once that happened and when he saw that it was about to eat a little crying filly in front of it, he stood up and lifted the beast above his head with relative ease.

After a few second he tossed the Crabdozer far off into the town. Everypony watched as it flew over their heads before there was a loud crashing noise. They looked, Toby included, and saw that the Crabdozer had fallen on its back and couldn't get up, however it had also smashed right into Town Hall, partially destroying it. Young Toby grimaced at his handy work,

"MISTER MORRISON!"

Young Toby flinched and turned around to see a very upset looking Mayor Mare approaching him, just like she did in the present only angrier, which made thirteen-year old Toby scared and nervous.

"Uh…" he began before backing away slowly and then making a break for it. "See ya!"

Little Toby continued to run to his house while the Town Hall laid in ruins. The Mayor sighed sadly.

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Another occurrence happened around the same time and also flashed in the Mayor's mind. She, Princess Celestia and a equine who appeared to be the leader of Sadle-Arabia were walking along a path with the Sadle-Arabia leader in a large carriage being pulled by two guards ponies. The two figures of authority were seemingly on a route to escort the leader of Sadle-Arabia back home when they all stopped after hearing a loud noise.

They gasped as they saw a creature that seemed to resemble carnotaurus or a tyrannosaurus, coming over the hill and roaring at them all.

The dinosaur like creature appeared to tower over all of them, it had a segmented purple and gray body and a red head with a horn on the forehead. It also had four legs and six small arms with two clawed fingers on them.

As it roared at them, Celestia and her Royal Guard prepared to fight it when they all heard a loud whistling nearby. The dinosaur creature turned and saw thirteen-year old Toby standing behind it.

"Huh, only one giant monster causing trouble today? Piece of cake!" Younger Toby remarked. "Stand back Mayor Mare and Princess C, Toby Morrison is on the case!"

Toby then assumed his giant astral form and met the giant dinosaur creature in size before wrestling with it. The dinosaur creature then sprayed a webbing like substance from its forehead and knocked Toby back a bit before he head butts it back. As he fought he did his best to keep it away from the Princess, Mayor and the leader of Sadle-Arabia.

Little Toby in his astral mode looked for something he could use to hit it with and took the carriage of the Sadle-Arabia leader and smacked the monster with it, though not before gently the leader out and putting him with everypony else. He continued to smack the beast on the with the carriage over and over again until finally it dropped to the ground unconscious. Giant Toby then dropped the carriage and the astral form soon faded.

"Whoo! That was close!" Thirteen-year old Toby remarked. He then to the Princess and Sadle-Arabia leader. "You guys ok?"

"MISTER MORRISON!"

Young Toby flinched once more and saw the Mayor approaching him angrily again, no doubt upset that Toby destroyed the leader of Sadle-Arabia's only ride home. Toby became nervous when he saw that she was about to start yelling

"Uh…" he began before backing away slowly and then making a break for it. "See ya!"

Little Toby once again continued to run to his house while the Sadle-Arabia leader's carriage was left a complete and total wreck. The Mayor sighed sadly.

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The Mayor's mind then flashed back to when Toby was still sixteen which was more or less a couple of months ago. At the moment Toby was currently riding fifty foot long dark green snake, which has large yellow eyes and pointed fangs, he rode it across town like it was a horse on Earth.

"Yee-haw! Ride 'em snaky! Yee-hoo!" he cheered.

Everypony nearby watched as he rode it all the way towards Town Hall where he leapt upward and gave it a axe kick to the head, knocking it down.

Toby then landed back down, clapped his hands as his eyes glowed brightly before releasing a large gust of icy wind that froze the giant snake solid, but it also encased the town hall in a giant block of ice. It shimmered in the bright sunlight above it.

Toby then spotted Rainbow Dash, Bulk Biceps, Cloud Chaser and Derpy flying just above him and the snake.

"Take this thing back to the Everfree Forest, I'll meet you there." Toby told them.

"Why? What's gonna take you so long?" Rainbow questioned.

"MISTER MORRISON!"

Toby and everypony else flinched and turned to see the Mayor approaching with an angry face.

"That's why." Toby replied. "Just go, go!"

"Right Boss." Cloud Chaser nodded.

"Okey dokey!" Derpy saluted.

"Yeah!" Bulk Biceps yelled before he and everypony else grabbed the giant frozen snake, lifted it up into the air and started to take it back to the Everfree Forest while the Mayor approached Toby.

"Oh… look at what you did to my Hall!" Mayor Mare said, distressed.

"Sorry! Sorry!" Toby apologized, before blowing on the ice. "Come on, melt!"

He then spotted a cup of hot tea on a empty table. "Here I got it!" The boy said.

Toby took the cup of hot tea, flew up using his wings and poured it on the frozen City Hall in a desperate attempt to thaw out the place. However this caused he ice (along with the building) to break directly in half. The Mayor let out a long groan of frustration which made Toby scared and run away.

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After that the flashbacks ended and in the present the Mayor resumed giving the seventeen-year old Toby a disapproving and angry glare.

"Well… when you put it that way…" he admitted.

The Mayor then began to walk away. "Come with me," she ordered him.

"Uh… ok." Toby said, nervously, not wanting to make the Mayor more angry then he had already. As they began to make their way away from the crowd of townsfolk, several eyes watched them from the shadows and slowly began to follow them.

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Later both Toby and the Mayor were seated outside a restaurant where the waiter was serving them both a plate of hay fries and the Mayor still did not look happy with Toby.

"Mister Morrison, I am very disappointed to you, you know that?" she asked.

"Yes, and I'm totally sorry and I know your mad and all but…" Toby began.

"Mad? No I was mad when you destroyed my Town Hall the first time… and then the second time and I was also mad when you destroyed the leader to Sadle Arabia's carriage and again I was mad when you froze the hall and broke it in half." Mayor Mare said. "But now I am furious."

"Hey, it's not completely my fault, the monsters had something to do with it to, ya know." Toby defended.

"That may be true but you often cause more damage to the town the monsters do and rarely show any attempt at making sure that doesn't happen or even trying to prevent it as best as you can." The Mayor stated.

"Look I'm really sorry…" Toby apologized. "But what do you want me to do? I've already spent half my time here paying off the damages. Isn't there any way for me to make it up entirely and make us square again?"

"There is one thing." The Mayor admitted.

"What is it?' The boy questioned.

"If you can do some deliveries for me all over town and beyond that should be enough to cover your debt to me and the town completely." Mayor Mare. "It should make sense, considering your business is odd jobs, correct?"

"Yeah, no problem, I'll just super speed and teleport to each place and…" he began before the Mayor cut him off.

"No! No magic, no speed, no powers whatsoever this time." The Mayor ordered him.

"What!?" Toby exclaimed.

"This is going to be about work, hard work." The Mayor empathized. "Not fun…"

"Sheesh…" Toby muttered to himself quietly.

"You are going to learn responsibility and the value of hard work if it kills you. Starting now." The gray maned pony stated. "Now I want you to promise me that no matter what you will not use your powers for the rest of the day while you are delivering, is that understood?"

Toby sighed. "Ok… I promise."

"Pinkie Pie promise?" The Mayor inquired, a bit intensely. Toby sighed even deeper, hearing that.

"Fine. Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Toby said, as he did all of the motions with a deadpan look. The Pinkie Pie popped out of nowhere.

"And you'd better keep it, got mister?" Pinkie Pie asked Toby, also with a intense look in her eye.

"Got it…" Toby nodded slowly.

Pinkie Pie continued to glare at him until her tune suddenly changed. "Okey, dokey, lokey!" she chirped before prancing away and singing 'la, la, la, la'.

"She scares me sometimes…" Toby confessed to the Mayor.

"Yes, she scares me as well." Mayor Mare admitted. "Now do you understand the importance of your task?"

"Yes." Toby responded. "Still don't like it though…"

"Well you should have thought of that before you came near the town hall. Now then, let us get you to work." The Mayor said as she began walking away. "Come with me."

Toby got out of his seat as well. "I'd be happy to," he said, indifferently as he began to follow her, though not before leaving a tip on the table they were previously seated at. Once they left, the shadowy figures that were following them start to snicker and rush off.

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Elsewhere, near the entrance to the Everfree Forest, three figures scurried over to it. The light from the sun revealed them to be the infamous Diamond Dogs, whom Toby locked away quite a while ago. They made sure nopony was following them then scurry inside the forest.

The three mutts then proceeded further and further into the darkness of the forest until three flying creature dropped down in front of them.

"Well? What do you dorks have to report?" The lead one demanded.

Rover then stood up. "Hey! Watch your mouth you over grown lizard!" he snapped.

The 'over grown lizard' revealed himself to be Garble, who grabbed Rover by the collar and looked at him angrily.

"Hey! Remember who's in charge here Diamond dolt!" he growled. His two dragon friends behind him also growled angrily, making the Diamond dogs whimper a bit. "And don't forget, I'm the guy who got us out of that prison after that pipsqueak Toby sent us there last time so you owe me one and I just as easily send you back, got it?"

"Uh… yeah, I got it!" Rover nodded.

"You sure?" Gable questioned.

"I-I'm sure!" Rover confirmed.

The red dragon then released him. "Good. Now what's up?" he asked.

"We've been spying on the boy Toby like you said, and we have learned that he is now vulnerable!" Spot explained.

"Vulnerable?' Garble echoed.

"Vulnerable how?" The dragon with the slacker accident asked.

"He make promise not to use his powers while delivery gifts for the mayor." Fido said.

"A Pinkie Pie promise, now without his powers he is weak. This is our chance!" Rover declared.

"What do you think?" The big dragon asked the red dragon.

Garble thought for a moment. "Hmm, if we're gonna do this, we're gonna have to be smart this time," he said. "Don't want his namby-pamby pony friends helping him, plus… we'll need an edge."

"Ooh! I know a great edge!" Rover realized.

"What's that?" Rover asked.

"A special fire gem! One that give it's user unlimited power!" Rover told him.

"Now you're talking my language!" Garble smiled evilly. "You and me will go find his fire gem, the rest of you; deal with that red-headed pest… once and for all."

"Right boss!" Fido nodded.

"Cool boss." Spot added, as he and Garble's friends then took off to go find Toby while their bosses walked off in the opposite direction to go find the mysterious power giving fire gem.

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Later, Toby was standing before the Mayor holding the handle of a large wooden cart, inside it were several different types of packages of all shapes and sizes. The Mayor walked over to Toby with a clipboard in her mouth and handed it to him.

"These are some of the stops I'd like to make along the way while delivering and once you have delivered them, make sure the person buying it signs this exactly, understood?" The Mayor asked him.

"Yeah, I got it." Toby nodded.

"Oh, do you?" Mayor Mare questioned with a raised brow.

"I do! I am!" Toby insisted with a salute.

The Mayor looked at him for a minute before turning and walking off. Toby looked back towards the large amount of packages he had to deliver and sighed.

"Man… it's gonna take me forever to deliver all of these…" Toby gripped, before Pinkie then popped up out of the bushes

"And remember; you can't use your powers!" she reminded.

"I know!" Toby said, a bit annoyed.

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie chirped before lowering herself back into the bushes.

Toby thought for a bit and then got an idea. "But… I never promised her that I couldn't get a little help," he realized.

A couple of minutes later, back in town Spike was walking through town with a cheery grin and humming a happy song until suddenly someone scoops him up in a butterfly net.

"Whoa!" he cried as he was pulled away into an alley. He then saw that it was Toby holding the net.

"Hey, need your help," he said.

"Uh… does it involve catching butterflies?" Spike guessed.

"No." Toby responded. "It's making deliveries, for the Mayor by the way."

"But… Twilight needs me to help her with her magic research, I think she's close to figuring out why her magic has been on the fritz." Spike said.

"That's good but unlike her…" Toby began to say before pulling the cart of out the darkness and revealing all the packages that were inside it. "My problem is gonna take a while."

"Oh…" Spike said, as he viewed all the packages.

"Yeah… 'Oh...'." Toby echoed.

Spike sighed. "Ok… I'll help."

"Great! Knew I could count on you man." Toby smiled.

"Thanks but uh… you think you can let me out of the net now?" Spike asked.

"Oh, sure thing guy." Toby said as he flipped the net over and caused Spike to drop to the ground. "Ooh, sorry…"

"No, don't apologize… not yet anyway…" Spike muttered under his breath.

"What was that?" Toby asked, curiously.

"Nothing." Spike said, quickly. "Let's get delivering already."

"Right! Follow me scaly buddy." Toby instructed Spike as he began to lead away to and to their first destination. As they do so however, they failed to notice the two diamond dogs and Garble's dragon pals following them close behind.

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Their first stop was Sugercube corner where they gave Mr. and Mrs. Cake some extra baking ingredients and some toys for Pumpkin and Pound Cake. Also, from out of a cake Pinkie Pie popped out and gave Toby a watchful eye the whole time he and Spike were there, creeping them out a little bit.

Their next stop was the Sofa and Quill's shop where the owner was not really that happy to see Spike again, or Toby for that matter, after the bad time Spike gave him before and Toby recently destroying his store which was currently being fixed as they gave the owner some brand new quills and sofas.

The third stop was Rarity's boutique, after they gave her all sorts of new dress making material Rarity quickly went to work at patching up all the small holes in Toby's clothes while Spike just stood there and stared at nearly every part of Rarity much to Toby's displeasure. As that happened he almost noticed the Diamond Dogs near the window but missed them.

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Next, the duo soon arrived at Fluttershy's cottage where they appeared to be carrying large amounts of bird seeds, presumably for her many birds. Both of them look exhausted.

"Are we almost done yet?" Spike asked, tiredly.

"Almost. Just a few more places to go and we're home free." Toby assured him.

"If we make until then…" Spike pointed out.

"Well there's that." The human admitted.

"Come on Toby, why don't you just use your magic?" Spike asked. "With your power we could be done in just a few seconds."

"No! Remember I Pinkie promised and if I break it Pinkie Pie will kill me!" Toby stated. "And I can tell you this; it will not be done with mercy!"

"Guess you go me on that one." Spike admitted.

"Yeah, exactly." Toby said. "So that's why we're doing this old school style."

"Man… it's like the winter-wrap up situation all over again…" Spike grumbled.

"The day you got crushed with a giant snowball?" Toby asked. Spike raised a brow at him. "AJ and I talk but does not mean were dating so don't even think about saying anything."

Spike just smiled. "I didn't say anything…"

As they approached the cottage they then noticed two very small wings, belonging to an extremely muscular body, poking out of the bushes. Toby seemed to recognize them, as did Spike.

"Wait… is that…" Toby began before Spike finished for him.

"Bulk Biceps?"

The aforementioned muscular stallion then popped his head out the bushes with a panicked look on his face and shushed them. He then gestured to Fluttershy's home.

"Fluttershy? Why are you hiding from her?" Tobu inquired, a bit confused.

Spike then seemed to get what he meant. "Uh… I don't think he's hiding from here exactly…"

"Then what is he doing?"

Spike gestured Toby to bend down, which he did before he whispered something into Toby's ear.

"Oh! Now I get it." Toby realized. "You like her don't you?"

Bulk nodded. "Yeah…" he said.

"Well don't worry big guy, she won't even know your there." Toby assured him, before he spotted Fluttershy nearing the door. "Unless you don't get down now! Hide!"

Bulk then panicked and ducked into the bushes once more. Toby saw that his little wings were still sticking out and used his magic to lower Bulk further down towards the ground just as Fluttershy opened the door. He held his still magically glowing palm behind his back and smiled a fake and innocent smile.

"Oh, good afternoon Toby and Spike!" Fluttershy said. "It's so good to see you, boys."

"Likewise Fluttershy!" Spike smiled.

"Yeah… likewise." Toby said, having a hard time maintaining his fake smile. "Oh and uh… we got you your bird seeds."

The two boys then held out the large bag of bird seeds towards Fluttershy.

"Oh, thank you! This means so much to me, thank you!" Fluttershy said, gratefully as she took each of the bags and dragged them into her cottage. Then signed Toby's clipboard. "Thank you again for your help, now my little ones will have a nice meal to eat tonight."

"No problem!" Spike nodded.

"Yep, glad to help." Toby added.

"So… if you don't mind me asking this is… why or you making deliveries for the Mayor?" The shy pony asked.

"It's a long story…" Toby stated, with a slight groan.

"Did you wreck the town hall again?" Fluttershy guessed.

"It wasn't my fault! Anyway, gotta go, bye." Toby said as he and Spike began to leave.

"Wait!" she called out.

Toby and Spike turned to her. "Yes?" The human asked.

"Um… who were you talking to outside? I heard voices and… yelling a bit." Fluttershy confessed. Toby, Spike and Bulk's eyes all widened with shock and fear. "And Toby? Why is your hand behind your back?"

"Uh… no reason… no reason at all…" Toby said, in a high pitched voice, indicating that he was lying through his teeth.

Spike rolled his eyes and took over for him. "Oh, well were just talking to uh…" he began before spotting a bird that had just perched itself close by. "That bird right there!"

Fluttershy turned to the bird. "Mr. Cheepers?" she asked.

"Yes! Mr. Cheepers! That's who we were talking to the whole time!" Spike said, quickly. "Right Toby."

"Uh-huh… yeah… that's right…" Toby nodded, nervously.

"Oh how nice of you! Mr. Cheepers is very talkative bird, many ponies like a lot." Fluttershy stated.

"Uh-huh… yeah… that's right…" Toby repeated.

"Well uh… we must be off now, got a lot of deliveries to make for the Mayor!" Spike said as he and Toby began to back away and leave. He then whispered to Bulk. "Good luck Bulk."

Bulk gave them both a nod and a silent 'Yeah!' before ducking back down again.

"Ok, bye!" Fluttershy waved as the boys both turned and left.

Once they got far enough away both of them breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking.

"Boy that was close…" Toby expressed.

"I'll say. And you really need to work on your lying skills, your almost as bad as Applejack!" Spike remarked.

"Hey, I'm a terrible liar, sue me!" Toby stated.

"Well at least there's a only a few more packages to deliver and then I can get back to working for Twilight!" Spike said, happily.

Toby stared at him blankly. "Ok, you really need to get a hobby," he told him.

"I know." Spike admitted as they proceeded ahead and as they walked the dragons and diamond dogs continued to scurry after them like giant rats once more.

It didn't take long for Toby and Spike to deliver almost all of the gifts the Mayor ordered them to deliver and after doing so, both boys were looking very pleased with themselves.

"Well, only one more left." Toby stated.

"Yep, just this bag full of Irene's baby goldfish." Spike added, as he held up a bag full of water and little baby goldfish inside it.

"I still can't believe Irene had kids." Toby remarked. "Crazy…"

"Well she did have a lot of fun with that other fish when Fluttershy dragged us to that butterfly migration." Spike pointed out.

"Glad one of us had fun on that trip." Toby muttered.

"Well… let's just deliver the fish already." Spike stated.

"Agreed, so long as nothing else happens we should be fine, the plan hasn't changed." Toby added.

Unknown to them, the two giant dogs and over grown lizards were hiding behind two objects directly behind them. Spot eyed the gold fish in Spike's claws.

"Hey! Let's get the goldfish!" he said.

"Uh… why?" The slacker dragon questioned.

"To lure boy and dragon to the boss and garble!" Fido stated.

"Oh yeah! Good idea!" The big dragon said. "Let's get the goldfish!"

"Sweet." The big dragon added as he and his evil companions sneaked back into the shadows to enact their plan.

As the two heroes continued to proceed down the pathway to their next destination, Toby suddenly stopped in the middle of it and gained a serious look on his face, which Spike noticed.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Spike… whatever you do, don't look behind you." Tobu instructed him. "And get to ready to duck."

Spike looked left and then right, nopony was around. "But… there's no pony here," he pointed out.

Toby just folded his arms. "Three… two… one."

After he said this and bent down and forcefully bent Spike down just before a large rock flew over their heads and hit the wall of a nearby house before breaking apart.

"Whoa!" Spike exclaimed before he and Toby turned to see the Diamond Dogs and Garble's dragon friends stepping out of the shadows, growling angrily.

"The Diamond Dogs and two loser dragons." Toby observed. He then spoke with a very dry tone. "Nice aim guys. Well… unless you were aiming at that wall over there… if so, bravo!"

Toby then started slapping sarcastically and Spike quickly joined in.

"Dude! How'd you know we were there!?" The surfer dude like dragon questioned.

"Well… least's just say you guys really need to work on your stealth skills, I heard you all coming half away across the road." Toby exclaimed.

"I'm gonna make you not move no more!" Fido growled, angrily.

"Wow, that was nearly a complete sentence!" Toby remarked, with false glee. "By the way, nice to see you all too."

"Enough jibber, jabber! Hand over the goldfish!" The fat dragon demanded.

"Or what?" Toby shot back.

"Or you really will not move no more!" Spot stated.

Toby scoffed. "Not gonna happen!" he declared as he got into a fighting pose.

"Oh please! You don't scare us anymore dude!" The slacker like dragon stated. "We know about your little 'Pinkie Pie Promise', you can't use your powers for the rest of the day!"

Toby's face fell as they laughed. "Oh crud…" he muttered.

"What?" Spike asked, a bit confused.

"It means that I'm gonna have to find a way to beat these guys without my powers, which by the way will be quite… difficult." Toby explained.

"Aw, COME ON!" Spike exclaimed. "Not even when your life's in mortal danger?"

"Don't forget if I break my promise, Pinkie will bury me alive and dance on my grave." Toby reminded Spike. "And probably sing, too."

"Uh… yeah…" Spike admitted, after some thought. "So what's your strategy? Fight? Run? Call for help?"

"I never run. Can't call for help either at the moment plus everypony is out doing their own thing so…" Toby started to say before he leapt into the air and did a flying side kick on Fido. The slacker dragon attempted to grab him but Toby did a spin kick and knocked him back only for the big dragon to grab him from behind and hoist him up.

"Gotcha!" he smirked, evilly.

"No!" Spike cried. "Please! Don't hurt him!"

"Oh, he won't." Toby smiled as he grabbed the dragon's arm and flipped him over onto the ground.

Spot tried to grab him also but Toby managed to sidestep him, grabbed his arm, pulled it behind his back painfully and slammed him into a wall after hoisting him up.

"Now's your chance to say you're sorry, pipsqueak." Toby told him.

"Never!" Spot growled.

Toby then noticed a dragon about to blow fire at him from behind but Spike managed to head butt him away. He gave him a thumbs up before Fido knocked him away.

"Spike!" Toby cried before he tossed Spot aside. Toby then jumped into the air while spinning around on his vertical axis. With that he was able to kick Fido straight into a wall using the force from both of his heels. He then helped Spike up.

"You ok?" he asked.

"Yeah… thanks." Spike said, gratefully. "Nice moves by the way."

"Thanks. I may have promised not to use my powers but I didn't promise not use my moves!" Toby smirked. "Besides… I was kicking butt long before I got these powers. Well… after I came back the first time that is."

Toby then looked around. "Hey, where'd those Diamond dolts go?" he wondered.

Spike gasped. "Hey look!" he cried, pointing ahead. Toby turned and saw the slacker dragon holding the bag of goldfish. "They got the fish!"

The four of them all laughed evilly and began to run off down the street.

"Hey! Give me back my goldfish!" Toby called out as he began chasing after them, Spike followed him close behind.

"Uh… are we really chasing bad guys for goldfish?" he asked, a bit dumbstruck.

"Desperate times Spike, desperate times." Toby stated. "Now keep running!"

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Meanwhile in Ponyville, the residents were going about their everyday routines and mingling with various other ponies. All were caught off guard when they heard a dragon roar off in the distance.

Everypony turned and screamed when they the Diamond Dogs and teenage dragons rushing by and knocking things and ponies over as they made their way towards their destination.

Toby and Spike moved quickly through through town, doing their best to make sure they didn't run into anypony as they can

"Excuse me! Coming through!" Toby called out.

"Beg your pardon, sorry!" Spike added.

The four bad guys continued to travel through the town until they entered the Everfree Forest.

"Get back here!" Toby cried as he and Spike chased them into the forest.

Meanwhile, Rover and Garble were approaching a large and rocky place in the Everfree Forest. It was full of sharp rocks and gems imbedded in some of them but the one they were walking towards was round and crimson red and glowing somewhat. It was imbedded in a large, flat, stone wall.

"There! That is the fire ruby!" Rover declared. "And with it, you can have ultimate power!"

Garble snickered a bit. "Sweet," he said. "So what are you waiting for? Grab it!"

Rover twitched and moved towards the gem. He used his dirty yet sharp nails to claw away at the rock surrounding the gem until it was loose.

"There! I loosened it." Rover stated.

"Not bad… for a mutt." Garble said as he walked over to the gem and pried it out of the wall with just a little bit of effort. Both he and Rover licked their lips at the sight of it. "Well that was easy!"

"Boss! Boss!"

"Dude!"

They both turn to see most of their goons running straight for them with panicked looks on their faces and a bag of goldfish in their hands.

"They're coming!" Spot cried.

Garble and Rover then spotted the duo behind them. Toby managed to pick up a rock while they were chasing them and tossed it hard. The rock hit one of them at the back of the head and made them all fall onto each other until they rolled toward their panicked bosses like a bowling ball and sent each other and their leaders flying like bowling pins. Spike and Toby saw this and smile.

"Nice arm!" Spike commented, giving a thumbs up.

"It's all the wrist buddy, all in the wrist." Toby stated, then the glowing fire ruby dropped into his hand. "Huh? What's this thing?"

Spike's eyes lit up. "It's a Fire Ruby, it's kind of like the one I gave Rarity… and it's totally ripe!" he said. "Except… it's glowing."

"Hey, peewee!"

Toby and Spike turned and saw Garble behind them, he was the only one among the six bad guys still standing and he did not look happy at all.

"Gah! Garble!" Spike yelped.

"What do you want?" Toby demanded.

"My fire ruby! It's mine! Hand it over!" Garble shouted.

"Where's my goldfish!?" Toby shot back.

"What?" The red dragon asked, confused.

"My goldfish! If this is your ruby, then you have the bag with my goldfish in it." Toby explained.

"You then this?" Garble inquired, holding up the bag of goldfish just swimming in the water.

"Alright then, how about a trade?" Garble offered. "I give you your fish… you give me back my fire ruby."

"Deal!" Toby said, quickly.

Garble was taken aback by this. "Huh? What do you mean 'deal'?"

"I mean deal, take your ruby, I just want my goldfish so I can deliver them and get the mayor off my back!" Toby stated.

"Why? You realize your holding a gem with ultimate power right?" Garble questioned. "And your just gonna hand it over so easily for some… goldfish? What's so special about these goldfish anyway?"

"Well they are the children of his pet…" Spike pointed out.

Toby looked at the gem. "Ultimate power?" he echoed, surprised. "Ok, new deal; I keep the gem, you give me the fish and I don't wipe the floor with ya!"

Garble growled. "You skinny little freak!" he snapped as he charged towards Toby.

"Ok then… no deal!" Toby declared "Spike, stand back!

He then charged towards Garble as well.

"No Toby wait!" Spike called out, but he was too late.

"Your mine!" Garble announced.

"Well here I am!" Toby said before he and Garble met and locked arms with each other, both were having a hard time over powering the power.

"You're not gonna beat me like you did the others!" Garble told Toby, fiercely.

"Wanna bet?" Toby countered.

"Please! You can't beat me without using your powers and you know it!" Garble growled as he kneed Toby in the stomach, twirled him around via grabbing his wrists and sent him flying into the rocks.

"Toby!" Spike cried.

The human body groaned he picked himself out of the rubble and walked over looking groggy.

"You know… you could have just given me the fish…" Toby pointed out.

"Yeah, but what fun would that be?" Garble inquired as held up the fallen fire ruby, tossed it into his mouth and swallowed it. His body then glowed with a yellow aura that shined brightly, much to Toby and Spike's shock. He laughed manically. "Now whose got the power!?"

Spike's face fell. "You know… I didn't that coming…" he muttered.

"Face it shrimp! Your finished and with this power… nothing in Equestria can stop me!" Garble declared dramatically.

"Yeah… because I'm such a pushover." Toby said, sarcastically.

"Bring it on, meat bag!" Garble challenged.

Toby charged toward Garble again but Garble managed to put up shield in front of himself that blocked most Toby's blows.

"Aw, man! Can't threw it with just my hands… if only I could enhance them… but I can't!" Toby griped.

"Yep, bad day to be you, bro." Garble stated as he flicked Toby and sent him flying into the wall again, which he hit hard and fast. Spike was about to go over to him and help but Garble suddenly loomed over him.

"Where do you think you're going, squirt?" he asked, evilly as he grabbed him by his leg and held him up.

Toby soon regained consciousness after that, got up and began to walk back over, his vision still a bit foggy. "Man… can't overpower him like this… without my powers I'm almost worthless… But I can't give up now." he muttered. "Hey Garble! Why don't you surrender now while you're ahead?"

"Yeah? And how about you surrender?" Garble asked as he held up Spike in front of him. "While your friend still has his head!"

"No!" Toby cried.

"Don't listen to him Toe, he's just a big blowhard!" Spike told him before crying out in pain as Garble squeezed his head.

"Last chance!" Garble told him.

Toby growled completely frustrated until finally he snapped. "Alright Garble, you win! You want my full power? You got it!" he declared as he prepared to cast a spell

"Toby, wait! What about your Pinkie Promise?" Spike questioned, loudly.

"I DON'T CARE!" Toby exclaimed loudly as he clapped his hands and magically enlarged his fists.

"Now that's more like it!" Garble remarked.

Toby then teleported over to him, grabbed back and teleported him to a safer place before leaping over and pounding Garble's shield with his super large fist, while it didn't get through it did shake Garble a bit and made him spew super fire which Toby teleported out of the way of and appeared behind where he attempted to strike him only to be knocked back by Garble's tail.

"Ha! Even with your powers your just as weak as those namby-pamby pony friends of yours!" Garble exclaimed. "And when I'm finished wiping the floor with you two I'll go deal with them."

This struck a major cord in Toby. "Oh… you did not just threaten my friends!" he growled. He flew up with his wings, clapped his hands as his eyes glowed then suddenly a ring appeared around Garble before it created a fiery explosion around him. When the smoke clear, Garble was completely unharmed and smirking evilly.

"Nice try but you're not the only the one with cool new tricks." Garble said as he held out a claw and magical blasted Toby dead on and shocked him, causing him great pain before he dropped to the ground. After a heavy bounce or two, he winds up laying on his face in a cloud of dust.

"Ha! Now it's time to finish this!" Garble declared, as he began to walk toward him.

Toby groaned, as he looked at the approaching magically enhanced Garble, and huffed, "Alright, you asked for it. I… I really didn't wanna have to use this spell…" he admitted. "But I guess it's time for a new plan of attack…"

Garble huffed, "HA! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! NO SPELL CAN STOP ME! I'M INVINCIBLE!" he yelled

"Yeah, we'll see about that," Toby retorted, as he pulled his cap over his face and clapped his hands together. Mist strewn all around his face, as it slowly dissipated. But as it did, he made sure that Spike didn't look at his face, as he spoke to them in a distorted voice, "You might not wanna look at me right now…"

Garble raised an eyebrow as he came face to face with Toby. But then where his face was, black tentacles waved around, opening to reveal his face, as eerie sounds and demonic laughter was heard. As this happened, Garble's entire red scaled body went white as a sheet, and his eyes bulged out like crazy. Finally, he screamed out like a little girl, backing away as fast as he could.

"You stay away from me! Stay away from me!" Garble cried out in utter terror as he attempted to run away but he was so busy trying to get away from Toby that he failed to notice a giant boulder in front him, which he ran into head first and immediately fell to the ground unconscious.

The mist surrounding Toby's face soon dissipated as his eyes glowed brightly once more. Both he and Spike then looked over Garble's unconscious yet still terrified look on his face.

Spike asked, "Wow, Toby. What exactly did Garble see that got him so scared, anyway?"

Toby looked upward, remembering when Luna first taught him this trick. He tried it on himself, and looked in the mirror, despite Luna's feared warning for him. Once he saw his face, he screamed out the same way Garble did, only longer.

Back in the present, Toby half-smirked, as he dryly stated, "You don't wanna know."

"Eh, whatever." Spike shrugged, satisfied. As he walked over and picked up the bag of goldfish that the bad guys had taken from them. "At least we got this back."

"Amen to that dragon boy, amen to that." Toby nodded. He gestured to the way back. "Shall we?"

"After you my human friend." Spike smiled, as he and Toby then began to proceed out of the Everfree Forest.

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Some time later, Toby and Spike were back in Ponyville and after delivering the goldfish, Toby met back with the Mayor, told her everything that had happened, including breaking his promise to save Spike and also fixed up the town hall using his magic and super speed. After he was done he handed the Mayor the empty cart and an extra amount of bits that he managed to gather.

"That's the last of it, all the packages have been safely delivered." Toby concluded. "Plus I managed to get you that tip."

"Thank you Toby, thanks to you the town hall is fixed and you've worked off the damages." The Mayor smiled.

"So we're square?" Toby wondered.

"Completely square." Mayor Mare confirmed. "That is until you break it again…"

Both Toby and the Mayor shared a little laugh.

"By the way… sorry I broke my promise about not using my powers." Toby apologized, sadly. "Spike was in trouble… I had to… help him out."

"Don't worry Mister Morrison, you were just helping your friend, I understand." The gray maned pony assured him as she put a hoof on his arm. "And admittedly I was rather hard on you… you're a good soul Toby and Ponyville is lucky to have you here. I don't really know what we would do without you."

"Thank you, Mayor." Toby said, smiling at her gratefully. "And besides, what are the odds of somepony wrecking this place again, anyway?"

As he said this both he and the Mayor heard something come flying down towards them. They look up and turn to see whoever or whatever it was crash landing into the Town Hall in a big explosion. When they finally managed to see through the smoke they saw Rainbow Dash poking her head out the rumble and groaning as she rubbed her head. Cloudchaser and Bulk Biceps then floated down to check up on her.

"Are you ok?" Cloudchaser asked, concerned.

"Yeah… I think so." Rainbow responded.

"Yeah!" Bulk cheered.

Rainbow then noticed Toby and the Mayor staring at her blankly and with sour looking frowns, as did the others who smiled nervously.

"Oh, uh… hi Toe… Mayor… I uh… was trying a new trick with these guys… didn't really work out…" Rainbow remarked, with a nervous grin and a slight chuckle, even though she knew full well that she was in big trouble.

"Ok now that… you can't blame me for." Toby pointed out.

The Mayor's eyes narrowed at the destruction and the one who caused it. "No… No I cannot."

"So… can I go?" Toby asked, hopefully.

"Your excused." Mayor Mare nodded. Smiling satisfied, Toby walked away while the Mayor approached Rainbow Dash and the others.

"You three however will cleaning this mess up, as well paying off the damages by doing twice as many deliveries as Mister Morrison has done." The Mayor stated, firmly. "Am I clear?"

"Yes, ma'am…" The three flyers said in unison with their heads lowered.

"Good, now then I suggest the three of you get to work." Mayor Mare suggested. They all nodded and proceeded to do just that.

Toby watched from afar. "Can I help?" he called out.

"Nah, this is on this time, not you, besides you've done enough today… delivery boy." Rainbow teased.

"I'm never gonna hear the end of that am I?" Toby questioned, flatly.

"Nope." Rainbow said.

"Well… at least there aren't any more surprises I have to deal with today…" Toby muttered.

"TOBY!"

Toby's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as he turned around the saw Pinkie Pie rushing towards him with a very angry look on her eyes and demonic yellow eyes.

"YOU PINKIE PROMISED!" she bellowed with a slightly distorted and an even more demonic voice.

Toby screamed in fear as he then began running, with Pinkie angrily perusing him. The two of them zoomed all around town in a big circle, making anypony who was watching very dizzy..

"Get back here!" Pinkie shouted.

"What are you gonna do?" Toby questioned.

"Nothing!" the pink pony lied.

"Then why are you chasing me?" The human inquired innocently.

"Well if you stop then you'll find out!" Pinkie yelled.

"I promise I won't break a promise again!" Toby cried.

"Not unless I break you!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"PINKIE!"

Pinkie growled in frustration as he continued to chase Toby all over town while Rainbow Dash and the others continued to work on fixing up the town hall. Unlike the rest of them the Mayor had a strangely satisfied smile on her face, despite the circumstances.

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Author's Note: This episode uses elements from the Ben 10 Omniverse episode "Special Delivery"