The Flypaper Mishap

Early the next morning, both Jet Set and Upper Crust woke up to start their day. "Well, my love," said Jet Set, "Good morning." "Morning, dear," replied Upper Crust, "Have you slept well?"

"Yes," answered Jet Set, "Ready to start our new day together?" "Of course I want to," replied Upper Crust, thinking that her husband had asked a stupid question. "Sorry," replied Jet Set, "That I asked a stupid question." "Never mind," said Upper Crust, "Let's go."

So the two ponies got ready to start their day together.

"So, what's on the schedule for today?" Jet Set asked. "That's not a stupid question," Upper Crust replied, "Let's see. We're going to meet Filthy Rich in the afternoon and discuss his plans for a new five star hotel in Las Pegasus."

"All right," said Jet Set, "Let's get to it." However, on their way to a restaurant for breakfast, Upper Crust stepped on something. "Darling," she said, disgusted, "I think I stepped on something."

"Oh dear," replied Jet Set, "Let me see." "I'd rather not," replied Upper Crust, but her husband looked at Upper Crust' left front hoof anyway.

"A piece of paper?" Jet Set said.

When Upper Crust lifted her left front hoof, the paper stuck to it. "It's stuck, she said. "Flypaper?" thought Jet Set. "Oh," replied Upper Crust, relieved that its nothing gross, "But what is flypaper doing here?"

"I'm not sure," replied Jet Set.

Then the two ponies noticed two young unicorns. They were Snips and Snails. "Oh you two again," said Jet Set. Snails turned around. "What?" he replied. "You two," said Upper Crust, "What are you doing?"

"We're catching flies," answered Snips. "With flypaper?" Upper Crust asked, shaking her hoof with the flypaper. "Yep," replied Snips, "We're planning on catching hundreds of flies today."

"Oh, that," Snails replied, "What Snips said." "Well!" said Upper Crust, "All right. Carry on with your, uh, whatever you're doing." So the two ponies did and Jet Set and Upper Crust continued on.

Soon it was afternoon and Jet Set and Upper Crust are waiting for Filthy Rich to show up. They waited and waited, but Filthy Rich didn't show up. "Where do you think he is?" asked Upper Crust.

"I'm not sure," answered Jet Set. Just then, a message pony showed up, covered in flypaper. "What happened to you?" asked Upper Crust.

"Who knows?' the message pony answered, "But I have a message from Filthy Rich. It says "Sorry that I cannot make it today. My wife, Spoiled Rich, demanded that I should fund a new monument for something else; I don't know what it is yet. I'll figure it out soon enough. Anyway, can we meet up tomorrow instead? Or maybe two days? Jet Set and Upper Crust. It would be most appreciated. From Filthy Rich.' There."

"Oh," replied Jet Set, "I guess we could do something else instead." "Yes," answered Upper Crust.

So that's what they tried to do, but not before running into a gust of wind that blew a mess of flypaper onto the two ponies.

"Oh my!" groaned Upper Crust. "Those two little ponies are responsible for this!" groaned Jet Set. "I know!" replied Upper Crust. They looked a head to see a Pegasus pony who had made the wind happen.

"Sorry," the Pegasus pony said and flew off. "Never mind," said Upper Crust, "Let's just go home." "If you say so, my love," replied Jet Set and that's what the two ponies did.

Meanwhile, Snips and Snails continued placing flypaper everywhere. "I think we're nearly done," said Snips. "Yeah," replied Snails, "What?" "We're going to catch lots of flies," said Snips excitedly.

"Ok," said Snails, "What are flies?" "Never mind," said Snips. "Is that a fly?" asked Snails. "What?" asked Snips just as a large gorilla walked up to the two unicorns. It did not look happy at all after getting covered in 20 flypapers.

"Hey, look, a monkey," said Snips. "Hello, fly," Snails said in a slow voice. The gorilla just growled at the two.

At the same time, Jet Set and Upper Crust were on their way home when they both heard a loud pounding noise. "What was that?" asked Upper Crust.

"Who knows?" Jet Set replied. As the two continued walking home, they saw an almost familiar sight. "Oh, look," said Upper Crust, "A moving rock."

"Yes," replied Jet Set, "I see." It was Snips and Snails, walking past the two with a large rock on top of them. The angry gorilla had slammed a huge rock onto the two unicorns.

"Should I say something that says, 'serves you right'?" asked Upper Crust. "Not necessarily, my love," replied Jet Set, "Let's go." So Jet Set and Upper Crust finally made it back home and got all of the flypaper off of them.

At the same time, Twilight Sparkle, Spike and Fluttershy, who were visiting Princess Celestia in Canterlot at the time, decided to help clean up all of the flypaper that Snips and Snails left.

"Well," said Twilight Sparkle, "This is one way to be a litter bug, trying to catch flies like this." "I don't think this is necessarily," said Spike, "There is a better way to catch flies. So don't leave flypaper everywhere."

"Or better yet," Fluttershy said, seeing the angry gorilla, "Never do anything to get a gorilla angry at you, or you will regret it." Fluttershy decided to fly off and help the gorilla get all of the flypaper off of it.

Soon, Jet Set and Upper Crust had all of the flypaper removed off of each other. "Never mind," said Upper Crust, "Let's just relax for now." "I agree," said Jet Set. That's what they did.

Later on, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy and Spike had all of the flypaper removed. "Done," said Twilight Sparkle, "Whew!"

At the same time, Snips and Snails were still carrying the large rock that the gorilla had slammed onto them when Lyra Heartstrings approached them.

"Snips! Snails!" she burst out using her magic to remove the large rock that had compressed the two unicorns. "I told you two not to go wandering off without telling me!" scolded Lyra Heartstrings.

"Hey, Snails," said Snips, "You're not tall at all!" "What?" replied Snails. "Now come with me, you delinquents!" Lyra Heartstrings said, using her magic to carry the two ponies with her back to her place.

"What were you two thinking?!" Lyra Heartstrings said out loud. "Catching flies?" asked Snails. "What?!" cried Lyra Heartstrings, "Maybe I'd better lay a trap to catch you two! Never mind! Let's go!"

Meanwhile, Jet Set was thinking about something else. "Maybe I should have done something better for Dreamscope. We, I mean."