My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 5: Party Planners and Crashers

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As the sun shone brightly in the clear blue sky, Toby napped peacefully on a bench near the forest. That is, however, until Pinkie Pie suddenly appears above him.

"Hi, Toby!" she said rather loudly and excitedly which immediately woke Toby up.

He screamed, startled. He then fell off the bench and landed on his back. When he opened his eyes, he saw Pinkie Pie looking down at him, grinning. He frowned, highly annoyed.

"Are you awake now?" Pinkie Pie asked eagerly.

"I am now." Toby grumbled. He stands up.

"Now what is it, Pinkie?" Toby asked.

"Oh nothing, I just wanted to see what you were up to." Pinkie Pie replied innocently.

"Well if it wasn't obvious… I was napping." Toby told her.

"Ooh! I love napping! It's so peaceful and nice and you have such nice dreams too!" Pinkie Pie said "One time I had a dream where a pig grew GIANT wings and…"

"Don't care, I just spent the entire afternoon fighting off giant locusts and flying monkeys so I am very, very tired!" Toby stated, "So whatever 'fun' you were planning for me, can it wait till I'm not so exhausted?"

Toby walked away. Pinkie Pie paused for a moment before smiling.

"Ok!" Pinkie Pie said before hopping away.

"Gah, man now I know why everypony considers her annoying." Toby said to himself "But at least everything's quiet…"

At that moment, Toby heard a sound. He looked up and saw something in the sky that was big, large and falling toward him. He screamed and jumped back before it crashed into the ground.

The smoke cleared and revealed the object to be a crab like rhino with a dark purple color scheme. It had six legs, spikes on its forearms and legs, a long horn and red eyes.

It roared at Toby, who stared at it with an emotionless face. "I totally asked for that, didn't I?" he wondered in a deadpan tone.

The creature charged toward him but Toby managed to leap over it.

"You're not the only big bruiser around these here parts ugly!" Toby proclaimed to the creature. He enlarged his fists, leaped into the air and tried to pound it. But the impact only hurt him instead of the monster.

"OW!" Toby cried "Why does this world hate me!?"

The creature quickly turned and charged toward Toby again. Toby quickly hurriedly started running with the creature hot on his tail.

Toby soon arrived at a large and spooky looking gorge. He stopped and stared at the gorge in amazement.

"Holy Guacamole! Ghastly Gorge! Dun, dun, dun!" Toby said dramatically.

Toby's voice echoed through the gorge and an eagle cry was heard in the distance.

"Rainbow told me about this place," he said to himself, the monster's roar was heard behind him "And from what I've been told it's the perfect place to beat this thing,"

Toby continued running once the crab like rhino entered the gorge. With each step it took, the gorge shook.

Toby soon reached a wall and pressed his back against it as soon as he did the monster pinned him to it with its horn. He enlarged his left fist and pounds the wall, shaking it and causing rubble to fall.

"The bigger they are the harder they…" Toby started to say before he realized the rubble was starting to fall towards him as well "Oh, come on!"

Before Toby knew it, the rubble had completely covered him and the monster. A few minutes later Toby poked his head out of the rubble and crawled out.

"Aha! Well, I may be small but I'm wiry!" Toby said to himself. He began to walk away from the rubble when suddenly the rocks started to shake and the monster burst from the pile

"Yeah… I should have expected that," he said flatly.

The crab like monster quickly began chasing Toby up and down the gorge until Toby started to run up a step ledge with the monster right behind him before Toby flips backwards over the monster. The monster tried to do the same but it landed on its back and was unable to get up. Toby landed back on his feet behind it.

"Nice try big guy but next time… go on a diet," Toby told the creature before walking out of the gorge

However, before he could get very far, Pinkie Pie suddenly popped up out of nowhere, startling him.

"Hi Toby!" she chirped.

"Ahhhh!" Toby screamed, falling to the ground.

"Are you done relaxing now?" Pinkie Pie asked eagerly.

"No," Toby said bluntly. He began to walk away but Pinkie somehow appeared in front of him.

"How about now?" she asked again.

"No," he repeated.

After a minute she asked again

"Now?"

"No!"

This continued for about an hour until they finally reached Ponyville and Toby was getting very much annoyed. His teeth were clenched together so hard they could shatter at any second and his face had just turned red.

"Now? Now? Now?" Pinkie Pie asked repeatedly until finally…

"PINKIE!" Toby screamed, getting everypony's attention.

After a brief pause Pinkie spoke "Yes?" she asked with a wide grin.

Toby turned to her annoyed and rubbed his temples "If I say yes will you please stop asking me?"

Pinkie Pie nodded rapidly "Uh-huh!"

"Then yes," the red head replied.

Pinkie then got very excited and started bouncing around him "Oh, goodie, goodie, goodie, goodie!"

Before she could say more Toby put his hand on her mouth to prevent her from speaking.

"Please don't do that," Toby told her sternly.

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie Pie replied, chipper as ever.

Toby groaned. He then noticed all the pony's staring at him due to his large outburst.

"Move along, nothing to see here!" he told them. He started to walk through the crowd with Pinkie Pie bouncing right behind him.

"So, Pinkie… what exactly do you do around town?" Toby asked curiously.

"Ooh! I help Mr and Mrs. Cake with their baking! Oh all that food is so scrumptious and sweet it's sometimes hard to resist even having an ittie, bittie, taste." Pinkie Pie explained really fast.

"Oh yeah, the cake's. You mentioned that once… right before I was attacked by a giant… Slamworm. I don't really know if that's what its name was but I'm just going to guess." Toby said.

"Ooh, maybe you can call it Wormy! Or Slimy! Or even Fred!" Pinkie Pie suggested.

"Fred?" Toby asked with a straight face. Pinkie nodded in response

"Wow, I'll bet that everypony would all start screaming when they hear a creature named 'Fred' is coming their way." he said sarcastically.

"You really think so?" Pinkie Pie asked innocently.

"Never mind," the red head stated flatly "So, what else do you do?"

"Ooh! I set up super, humongous, totally fun parties for everypony in Ponyville!" Pinkie Pie replied enthusiastically.

"Really?" Toby asked interested.

Pinkie Pie nodded rapidly. "Remember that totally fun welcome party I set up for you the day we first met? We were all 'surprise' and you were all 'Ahhhh!' and then…"

"Oh yeah, I remember that, that really was a pretty cool party," Toby told her "Until Jobo showed up at least,"

"Thanks!" she smiled.

"So… why do you need my help again?" Toby asked.

"Oh, right! I need help putting together Rarity's super secret surprise birthday party for tomorrow!" Pinkie Pie replied.

"It's her birthday tomorrow?" Toby remarked. "Wow, I wonder how old she's turning? Nah, my dad said it's impolite to ask a lady her age. Anyway's, you need my help for this?"

Pinkie Pie nodded "Uh-huh! I need you to help me set everything up, and help make sure Rarity doesn't find out!"

"That I can do," Toby said.

"And remember..." Pinkie Pie said leaning closely to him before whispering. "Don't. Tell. Rarity. It's a secret,"

Toby gave her a thumbs up "Got it…"

Pinkie Pie smiled again "Okey, dokey, lokey, let's get a move on!"

Pinkie managed to get Toby on top of her and zoomed off into the distance. Toby struggled to hold on.

Unknown to them Lord Tirek emerges from the shadows, sneering.

"A party eh?" he mused before chuckling "Perfect!"

He held up his hand and black smoke started to form.

"If I can't destroy him, I'll destroy the bonds he's made with his little friends instead!" Lord Tirek declared. The smoke then took on a solid form. It was another of Lord Tirek's creatures.

"Do your job." The centaur told the creature. The shadowy creature jumped out of his hand and scurried after Toby and Pinkie.

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Later, Toby and Pinkie entered a large and wide plain room with a few empty tables. Toby himself was carrying all the party supplies, which wobbled every time he took a step.

"Please tell me we're in the party room now?" Toby said impatiently "I may be strong enough to carry all this but I still need eyes to see where the heck it is I'm going too!"

"Oh, don't worry, were here!" Pinkie Pie told him cheerfully.

"Finally! Now where should I put this?" Toby asked.

Pinkie shrugged. "Oh just put it anywhere, silly."

Toby abruptly dropped all the supplies on the ground.

"No, not there!" Pinkie Pie said before moving the pile an inch "There, all better!" She smiled.

Toby face palmed in exasperation and struggled to restrain his arms "Resisting… urge… to smack…" he said beneath his breath.

Pinkie leaned toward Toby, practically stretching her neck, to hear Toby "What was that?" she asked curiously.

"Nothing!" Toby said quickly.

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie Pie chirped.

Toby rolled his eyes "Any who… now what?"

"Now we set up the party!" Pinkie Pie replied enthusiastically.

"But there's so much stuff, isn't there a faster way of putting it up?" Toby asked "Twilight once told me you have something called a 'party cannon' with you that could set up a party in seconds,"

"Yeah, but it's kind of a teensy bit broken," Pinkie Pie replied.

"How'd it break?" Toby questioned.

"Oh, you know, fired myself out of the cannon too many times," Pinkie Pie shrugged.

Toby couldn't believe it "You fired yourself out of a cannon?"

Pinkie Pie nodded "Uh-huh! And it was super awesomely fun! You should really try it sometime!"

"Pass," Toby stated.

"Anyway, if the party cannon WASN'T broken, we wouldn't be able to spend so much time to together setting up the party!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed "I mean can you imagine being only spend time with me for only one minute!?"

"Heaven forbid THAT should ever happen," Toby said sarcastically, though Pinkie didn't seem to notice, then she started jittering "Pinkie? Pinkie, what's wrong?"

"Ooh! My Pinkie sense! Rarity's coming!" Pinkie Pie cried "I have to get her away from the party room before she sees it, because then the surprise would be ruined! RUINED!"

"Calm down Pinkie, she's not going to see it," Toby gently told her "Now you get her away from here while I set things up,"

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie Pie said "Be right back!"

Pinkie zoomed out of the room. Toby sighed deeply.

"Man, she is so annoying! But… you can't help liking her," Toby said with a chuckle.

Later, Toby had just set the last item on the table filled with all sorts of snacks and drinks. There is also a pony shaped piñata on the ceiling, tons of decorations and a game called 'Pin the tail on the pony' hung on the wall.

"There!" Toby remarked after placing the item down "Well, it looks like I'm just about done AND under five minutes, not too shabby if I do say so myself,"

A scurrying sound then caught his attention. He turned around but saw nopony there. He shrugged it off and continued working until he hears the scurrying sound again.

"Pinkie?" Toby asked aloud, he started to get nervous when he heard no answer.

He carefully wandered around the room looking for the source of the scurrying. Sweat dripped from his face.

"Careful Toe." he told himself. "This is the part where the doomed guy runs into the guy with a hook for a hand…"

A loud thump was heard from behind a table that made Toby spin around. He waited patiently for the creature to show itself but to his surprise the creature was actually much smaller than he expected.

The creature resembled a bug. It stared at him with its large black and green eyes. It had four stick-like legs and a small a beak along with antenna.

It screeched at Toby with a high-pitched voice, although it wasn't very threatening.

Toby blinked twice then burst out laughing. He held his gut as he continued to laugh. The creature kicked a box at Toby with one of its small legs, knocking him over. He quickly bounced back onto his feet.

"So you want to fight dirty huh?" Toby said, he clapped his hands and both his arms increased in size and length "Then let's party!"

Toby tried smashing the creature with his fist, but it quickly dodged it and spat a green slime like substance at Toby's face.

"Ew! The girl's are right; slime is gross!" Toby remarked. He wiped the slime off his face and watched the bug start to scurry away. "Hey you, come back here!"

Toby started to chase the bug all around the room, trying and failing to smash it with his giant fists. As he did so, he accidentally began to destroy every decoration in the room.

"Hold still you little creep!" Toby cried.

The bug stopped near the door, blew Toby a raspberry and dug a hole in the floor before making its escape. Toby tried to smash it but he was too late.

"Darn it, I hate it when that happens!" Toby grumbled as his hands and arms returned to normal. It was then that he finally noticed the damage he had caused. "Oh man! Look at his place! If Pinkie sees this…"

Toby then heard Pinkie's humming coming closer. He yelped and rushed out the door and just as he thought Pinkie was on her way. He quickly slammed the doors shut before she could see and pressed his body against the door.

"Oh, hey Toby!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Oh, hi, Pinkie!" Toby said smiling nervously "Did you uh… get rid of Rarity?"

"Oh, absolutely! She has no idea what were planning for her," Pinkie Pie replied "Oh, she's going to be so excited!"

"Yeah… I too am bursting with excitement…" Toby said slowly.

"So, how's the decorating going?" Pinkie Pie asked super curiously.

"Oh… good… very good…" Toby lied.

"So… can I see it?" Pinkie Pie asked excitedly.

Toby whimpered while thinking of a lie then… "Uh, not now… because… well… I decided on revising it a bit, which means it'll be an even bigger surprise for Rarity but you can't see it yet because… I want it to be a surprise for you as well!" Toby explained.

"Oh! I gotcha!" Pinkie Pie nodded "Secret! Shhh!"

"Yes, secret. So promise me that you won't go in, until it's time for you to bring Rarity here, when I send for you both. I'll get everypony in there by then." Toby told her "Promise?"

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed while doing a series of strange gestures

Toby raised an eyebrow "Ok… is that a yes?"

"Of course, silly! I made a Pinkie Promise, so don't worry your little red head about the surprise, I won't take a peak and neither will Rarity!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Good, now… you go and… do whatever while I get it ready," Toby smiled nervously.

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie Pie said before bouncing off.

Toby sighed a deep sigh and sank against the door "That was too close…"

"What was?"

Toby screamed, startled but calmed down when he saw that it was just Spike.

"Dude! Don't sneak up on me like that!" Toby exclaimed.

"Sorry! I guess I should really clear my throat before I speak," Spike said.

"Ya think?" Toby said sarcastically.

"So… why are you so… jumpy?" Spike asked "That's not like you,"

"Ok, I'll only tell you if you promise not to tell Pinkie or ANYPONY ELSE," Toby told him.

Spike nodded "Promise!"

"PinkiePromise?" Toby asked "Yeah, that's right, I said it,"

"Ok, I Pinkie Promise," Spike said annoyed "Now can you start talking already?"

"Ok, well, I was setting up Rarity's party when suddenly this little Weevil or whatever it was appeared and attacked me!" Toby explained "I chased it all over the room but it got away,"

Spike nodded "Uh huh, and then what happened?"

"Well… why don't you look inside and see for yourself…" Toby said shamefully.

Confused Spike took a peek inside. His jaw dropped when he saw how destroyed it looked. He quickly closed it.

"Oh man…" Spike remarked.

"I know," Toby added.

"Did that Weevil do that?" Spike asked.

"No… it was me…" Toby admitted.

"What?" the little dragon said shocked.

"Yeah… I guess I've really got to learn how to control my strength…" Toby stated.

"Ya think?" Spike quipped.

"Not helping," Toby said sternly.

"So… what are you gonna do?" Spike asked.

Toby sighed "I don't know…" the human said "But what I do know is that if Pinkie sees this I'm dead!"

"Come on Toby, this is Pinkie were talking about," Spike reminded him "She's not going to kill you!"

"Maybe… but if she sees this she will cry till the end of time and if word gets out that I ruined this party, nopony in Ponyville will evertrust me." Toby pointed out. "On top of that, I just really don't want to let Pinkie down, I mean she may be annoying but the last thing I want to do is hurt her like this…"

Spike groaned "Man, you're probably right…"

"The way I see it… we have to fix up that room before anypony sees it AND find that little weevil before it causes anymore damage," Toby stated.

"So… how do we do that?" Spike questioned.

"No idea." Toby shrugged. "Well… I guess one of us will have to catch the weevil while the other fixes the place up."

"And how do we decide that?" Spike asked again.

After a brief pause they both started to play rock/paper/scissors to decide.

"Rock/paper/scissors!" They cried.

Toby picked rock while Spike picked scissors.

"Darn it!" Spike grunted "Now I gotta clean up the party room,"

"I won fair and square… sucker!" Toby smirked.

"Well, I guess I should be grateful… after all catching monsters is your specialty," Spike pointed out.

"You bet it is," The red head told him "Now, we got to get this done in thirty minutes or less because that's how much time I estimate we have,"

"Got it!" Spike nodded.

"Ok… go!" Toby said before rushing off at superhuman speed. Spike turned his attention to the door of the destroyed room, took a deep breath and walked in.

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Meanwhile, the Weevil continued to scurry through Ponyville, avoiding and hiding from other ponies and trying to make its way out of the village. Before it could, Toby appeared in front of it.

"Where do you think you're going?" Toby asked with a smirk.

The Weevil tried to spit at him again but Toby managed to dodge it.

"Not falling for that again," he said.

Toby enlarged his fist and aimed at fist at the Weevil, but it rolled out of the way before he could hit it.

The Weevil spat out a green ball, stood on it. Then it started to make it roll, which caused it to grow and grow.

"That's new…" Toby muttered.

The townspeople screamed in fear and ran out of the way as the Weevil's boulder sized ball rolled down the road with Toby chasing after it at super speed.

"Oh no you don't you little pain!" Toby stated.

He jumped up and tried to grab the weevil but ended up stuck to the green ball it was rolling on. He rolled around and around on the green ball, hitting the ground every few seconds.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" Toby grunted each time he hit the ground. The weevil then stopped the ball by hitting it with one of its legs which sent Toby flying.

Meanwhile, at Fluttershy's cottage, the bearer of the element of kindness herself was walking toward a chicken coop.

"Alright little chickens time to wake up," Fluttershy gently said to the chickens. She held up a bell with her mouth and prepared to ring it till suddenly Toby appeared and crash landed right into the chicken coop.

The chickens started then ran out while a dazed Toby stepped out of the coop, partially covered in chicken feathers. He spat out some of the feathers that were in his mouth.

"Oh my goodness Toby!" Fluttershy exclaimed "You startled me! AND the chickens!"

The chickens all ran around like crazy, still startled from Toby's crash landing. Fluttershy quickly began trying to calm them down.

"Oh, it's ok, it's ok," Fluttershy said trying to sooth the chickens "There's no need to be frightened, it's just Toby,"

"Yeah, sorry about that Fluttershy." Toby apologized before coughing out a few more feather. "Got into a bit of a situation."

"A situation? Is it dangerous?" Fluttershy asked concerned.

"Maybe…" Toby said slowly, not wanting to explain the big mess he caused to Fluttershy "Say, you wouldn't happen to know a way to get a small and very fast creature to stay put would you?"

"Why? Is there a monster out there?" Fluttershy asked even more worried.

"It's something alright and if I don't catch it who knows what could happen," Toby replied "So tell me, do you know a way to make sure a creature stays still?"

"Well… for me it's 'The Stare'… but it's really powerful and I only use it on troublesome animals," Fluttershy admitted.

"Well this is a troublesome animal!" Toby pointed out "Please, I really need your help on this Fluttershy,"

"Well… "Fluttershy started. Toby stared at her with big Bambi like eyes till she gave in. "Ok, I'll help!"

"Yes!" Toby cheered "Thank you nine-year-old cuteness,"

"So… where is the creature?" Fluttershy inquired.

Toby noticed something "Well, funny you should ask…"

"Why?"

He pointed up ahead "Because it's right behind you,"

Fluttershy's eyes widen. She slowly turned around and saw the Weevil hissing at her.

She screamed and jumped into Toby's arms.

"Ok, where have I seen this before?" Toby asked out loud in a deadpan tone.

Fluttershy recognized it "Ooh! I know that creature!"

Toby raised an eyebrow "You do?"

"Uh-huh," Fluttershy nodded "That's a Ball Weevil, very unpleasant creatures,"

"Yeah, I got that," Toby told her.

"But I thought they were all extinct," Fluttershy inquired.

"Well evidently not," Toby added.

The Ball Weevil then spat another ball of slime at Toby's face. He frowned.

"I hate déjà vu," Toby grumbled.

The Ball Weevil then turned its attention to the chicken coop. It hissed and scurried toward the coop.

"Oh no, the chickens!" Fluttershy cried. She leapt out of Toby's arms and rushed over to the coop. She stood in front of the coop before the Weevil could get in and gave it a very weird, wide eyed look.

Toby gasped "The stare!"

The Ball Weevil seemed to be freaked out by this. Disturbed by being stopped Fluttershy's 'stare' it froze, but continued spitting slime at her face

"Eww!" Fluttershy cried.

"No argument there," Toby nodded.

The Ball Weevil turned then scurried its way back to town.

"Oh man, if it gets back into town who knows what it could do!" Toby exclaimed "And it'll be all my fault…"

"Oh, Toby, you mustn't blame yourself," Fluttershy told him soothingly.

"I know, I know." Toby nodded. "Now Fluttershy, is there any way of catching that little pest? Or at the very least make it stay still?"

"Well… I've heard that they are attracted by the sound of a flute," Fluttershy replied.

"What kind?" Toby asked.

"I don't know. Maybe one of Twilight can help you." Fluttershy suggested.

"Got it, ask Twilight, thanks, bye!" Toby said before speeding off.

"…You're welcome…" Fluttershy squeaked quietly.

Toby continued to zoom into town and made his way to Twilight's place when suddenly, Pinkie appeared right in front of him.

"Hi Toby!" she cried.

Toby yelped and skidded to a stop "Pinkie! Wha-what are you doing here…?"

"Oh, nothing, just helping Rarity deliver some fabric to her boutique," Pinkie Pie replied, gesturing to the pretty fabrics on top of her back, she then leaned in closer to Toby and whispered "To keep her busy while you work on the you-know-what,"

"Right, right," Toby nodded "Don't worry, everything's completely under control over there, almost done, I just need a little time, that's all,"

Toby chuckled nervously. Pinkie Pie looked at him closely with narrowed eyes, which quickly changed to a wide eyed smile

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" She chirped "Just tell me when it's done!"

"I will, I will." The red head said "Now if you'll excuse me, I've really got to…"

Toby started to leave but Rarity then appeared carrying with her a ton of dresses "Why, good afternoon, Tobias!"

Toby yelped startled.

"Is there something wrong, darling?" Rarity questioned "You seem… on edge,"

"Who? Me? No way! I'm fine, no, really, I'm fine." Toby lied, and the more he spoke the more his voice got high pitched. "Anyway, I really gotta be somewhere, so uh… see ya!"

Toby zoomed off, leaving both mares confused.

"Hmm, Toby seems to be acting very strange today isn't he?" Rarity asked Pinkie.

"Yeah, he's so funny!" Pinkie Pie giggled.

Toby soon arrived at Twilight's place and super sped into the library.

"Twilight!" he cried.

He then noticed that she was in the middle of organizing her books and his yelling had just made her lose her concentration and drop all the books. They promptly landed right on top of her. She poked her head out, looking annoyed,

"Whoops, sorry about that," Toby apologized "But I need your help with something,"

"Like how to clean up your own mess?" Twilight Sparkle asked with a straight face while gesturing to the mess on the ground.

"Oh, right, one sec," Toby told her before using his super speed to pick up every book and put them back on the shelf "Done! Now can you help me?"

"Hold on, I have to make sure you shelved them correctly," Twilight Sparkle stated.

As Twilight looked at the shelves, Toby tapped his foot rapidly and impatiently as sweat began dripping from his face.

"Not bad!" Twilight Sparkle remarked. "You even managed to figure out where to put the books that belong in the 'Pony History Section', go you."

"Yeah, yeah, hooray for me, now can you PLEASE help me now?" Toby said.

"Sure, what do you need?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"I need a book about the different types of creatures in Equestria, specifically the extinct ones and what kind of sounds they are attracted by," Toby replied.

Twilight looked at him curiously "Any particular reason why?"

"Uh… Nope, I just need it, that's all," Toby stated quickly.

"Ok then…" Twilight Sparkle said. She turned to the shelves then used her magic to levitate a book down and dropped into Toby's hands.

"Awesome, thanks Twi," Toby stated.

"Thanks, I…" Twilight Sparkle started to say.

"Well, gotta go, bye," Toby said before zooming off. The forceful winds he blew accidently knock all the books off the shelves again. Twilight growled in frustration.

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Meanwhile, as he ran Toby speed read through the book looking for the right noise. "Aha! Got it! Now all I need is a flute, but first…"

Toby made a U-turn and zoomed toward where Spike was fixing up the party room. He soon arrived there and poked his head inside.

"How's it coming?" he asked Spike, who was busy putting together the finishing touches.

"Almost finished," Spike replied "What about you? How's your end?"

"Well I know how to bring it to me and that's a start." Toby said. "But I don't think we have long till somepony starts to suspect what we're doing."

"Now what?" Spike asked.

"Keep working on getting everything ready and if Rare and Pinkie show up, stall 'em." Toby told him. "As for me, I've got some Weevil butt to kick!"

Later, Toby zoomed into town and then into a store. He quickly came out with a long flute with many holes. He skidded to a stop when he reached the center of town.

"Ok. I've got the flute, now all I have to do is play the right tune and that little weevil will come to me… piece of cake!" Toby said, trying to sound confident. His confidence faded when he remembered something important. "Now if only I knew how to play the flute…"

"I know how to play the flute!"

Toby screamed, startled and saw that Pinkie had just popped up next to him.

"Pinkie! How did… never mind, you know how to play the flute?" he asked.

Pinkie nodded "Uh-huh!"

"Ya, mind telling me how and fast?" Toby asked anxiously.

"Oh, it's easy! Just blow into it then press on the right holes to play a note!" Pinkie Pie explained.

"That simple huh?" Toby remarked.

Pinkie Pie nodded cheerfully "Uh-huh!"

The Weevil narrowed its eyes and prepared to charge toward Toby.

"Ok, here goes…" Toby started.

"Can I sing along with you?" Pinkie Pie interrupted.

The Weevil started to charge toward them, but Toby and Pinkie were too distracted to notice.

"No! What did I tell you about singing? I hate singing!" Toby told her.

"Can I whistle?" she asked.

"No," The human stated.

"Well can I hum?" Pinkie questioned again.

Toby sighed "Alright. And… go,"

Before the weevil could strike, Toby started playing the flute which made the weevil freeze up instantly. As Toby continued to play Pinkie started to hum a happy tune, as they did so the Weevil began to move as if it were under a spell.

Toby stopped playing for a moment "Pinkie! It's working! Get a box! We need to contain it!" he told her.

"Okey, dokey, lokey!" Pinkie Pie chirped before handing Toby a box seemingly out of thin air.

Toby opened his mouth to say something about what she had just done but decided against it and resumed playing. The weevil continued to move, unwillingly, toward the box. When it finally got inside Toby stopped playing and locked the box shut. As he did so Pinkie slid across the ground humming what seemed to be her grand finale. Toby picked up the box.

"You're not coming out of there till you've learned to cool off little guy!" Toby told the Weevil inside the box "And just to make sure you can't come back…"

Toby swung his arm around and around tossed the box into the air. It flew and flew till it vanished from sight. The townsfolk cheered, Toby bowed.

"Thank you! Thank you very much, you're all too kind," Toby told them.

"You did it Toby! You did it, you did it, you did it, you did it!" Pinkie Pie cheered, Toby closed her mouth before she could continue.

"I know Pinkie, I was there," Toby reminded her "Oh and uh thanks a bunch for helping Pinkie plus your humming wasn't half bad,"

"Aw, thanks Toby-woeby! So you wanna hear me sing?" Pinkie Pie asked eagerly.

"Whoa, let's not go crazy," Toby told her "Anyways… one sec,"

Toby zoomed off in a flash and quickly arrived at the party room. He opened the door and poked his head in.

"You done yet?" Toby asked Spike, who was laying on the ground exhausted. Spike gave him a thumbs up as he panted out of breath. Toby looked around and saw that everything was fixed and all the decorations were back in order, just the way he left them.

"Holy guacamole! Nice job buddy!" Toby told the baby dragon "I'll go get Pinkie and Rarity, oh, and when you finally catch your breath gather everypony up and bring them here so we can yell 'surprise!',"

Spike grunted, unable to say anything.

"Awesome! See you then!" Toby said before leaving.

Spike raised his arm "Help…me…" Spike squeaked while panting.

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Later, Toby and Pinkie were leading Rarity, who has her eyes closed, towards the party room.

"Right this way Rare, you're almost there." Toby told him.

"I'd better be, you know it's impolite to keep a lady waiting." Rarity reminded him.

"Don't worry Rarity, you're absolutely going to love what we have to show you!" Pinkie Pie insisted, struggling to hold back an excited giggle.

They soon reach the door to the party room.

"Ok, just step right inside," Toby said as he opened the door.

Rarity walked inside "Can I open my eyes now?" she asked.

"Uh-huh!" Pinkie Pie nodded.

Rarity opened her eyes, and as soon as she did Spike, Twilight and the rest of the girls, plus some of the townsfolk jump out from their hiding places.

"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY RARITY!" They cried.

"Oh my!" Rarity cried happily.

"Wow!" Pinkie Pie said admiring the decorations, she leaned over to Toby "Great job on the decorating Toby. You were right, it is a big and super surprise!"

Toby shrugged "It's what I do. Now let's start partying everypony"

All the ponies in the room cheer and the party began.

Wading through the sea of ponies, Toby managed to get to the snack table. He swiped a slice of cake, and started to eat.

"Hey Toby!" Rainbow Dash waved, flying over to him, "Pinkie throws quite a party, huh?"

"I'll say, I've never seen this many ponies in one place. I know that isn't saying much, but I'm amazed that Pinkie managed to get so many ponies to come." He replied between bites of his cake. "Wow, is this some good cake."

"Yeah, Pinkie Pie is good at what she does." Rainbow sat next to him, a slice of cake of her own in front of her.

"Oh, and what is that?" Toby asked, one eyebrow raised.

"Making everypony smile, silly!" The mentioned mare said as she jumped out from beneath the table.

"Wah!" Toby screamed, before falling right onto his back

Toby managed to pick himself up and looked the pink pony in the eye "Is this going to be a habit with you, Pinkie?"

Said pony nodded "Uh-huh? Why do you like it?"

"Not particularly… but if it makes you happy, I'm cool," Toby admitted "Just don't do it when I'm near ledges,"

"Deal!" Pinkie Pie chirped

"Oh and thanks again for helping me stop that Weevil," Toby said.

"No problem," Pinkie Pie told him then she gasped sharply "I totally forgot! When's your birthday, Toby?"

"Uh…" Toby started to say, then all the others gathered around curious to hear.

"Yeah, tell us sport," Applejack insisted.

"I… can't," Toby admitted.

"But why not?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"Yeah, don't you want to celebrate your birthday too?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I would, but the truth is… I don't have a birthday," Toby stated "At least I don't remember when it is,"

Shock, pity and sadness all filled the room at the same time when everypony heard what Toby had just said. The hero of Ponyville didn't remember his own birthday…

"You've never had a birthday party…?" Pinkie Pie asked slowly, her usually happy voice was now cracking.

"Well, maybe when I was little... But Mom was the one who usually put it all together. But that was so long ago and now she's…" Toby started to say but his voice trailed off. "Anyways, because my Dad was rarely around and I never had any friends I guess I just… forgot all together,"

"You poor thing…" Fluttershy said sympathetically.

"But why didn't you tell us?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, we're your friends sugarcube," Applejack reminded him.

"I guess I was embarrassed and I didn't want to make a big deal about it, especially when it's Rarity's big day," Toby admitted. "I'm real sorry, I'm also sorry about wrecking this place earlier?"

"You what?" Twilight Sparkle asked surprised.

"Yeah… it's a long story but thanks to Spike it got fixed." Toby said, gesturing to Spike, who smiled sheepishly. "And part of the reason why I was so desperate to fix it is because... I didn't want anypony else to feel what I feel every year… now if only my birthday situation could get fixed,"

Rarity took a moment to think then got an idea "Well I believe it can!" Rarity declared. Using her magic she levitated a cupcake with a candle in the middle and placed it in Toby's hand.

"What's this?" Toby asked.

"It's half my birthday, dear," Rarity replied. "It would mean the world to me and everypony here if you'd share it with me, darling."

"So like…every year it'd be my birthday too?" Toby asked with a smile.

"Correct! And if you know the proper steps you can milk it for an entire week!" Rarity stated.

Toby started to chuckle then laughed loudly and full of happiness.

"Boy, I haven't laughed like that in a long time, thanks a lot Pinkie!" Toby told her thankfully.

"My pleasure Toby-woeby!" Pinkie Pie smiled.

"Happy Birthday Toby and Rarity!" Everypony cheered.

"Sweet, now I'm ten! That means I'm a tweenager now," Toby told them. "Two or three years later, comes puberty which in my world is nature's way of saying; growing up sucks but here… not so much,"

Toby, Spike and the Mane Six all laughed and began partying, full of happiness and joy. But unknown to any of them, a very angry Lord Tirek was watching from his floating castle of darkness via viewing globe.

"Celebrate while you can, boy. Because next time there won't be another birthday for you!" Lord Tirek declared as he laughed evilly.