Chapter 8: Let's get this party rolling!

I wish I really was in Equestria now, schools a bummer! Oh well, such is life. On with the show! Or chapter...

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Ponyville: Just where we left off last chapter

I couldn't believe how lucky I was to see none other than Cheese Sandwich riding in over the horizon. He was just the pony I needed, but who was that I saw with him? I couldn't quite put my hoof on it but he looked very familiar. I decided I'd run over to meet him.

"Oh sweet Celestia! Am I glad to see you!" I called out. I received a confused look.

"Who are you?" Cheese asked.

"I'm just a stallion who needs help with a party and I... heard so much about the parties you throw." I lied. What was I supposed to say? 'I watched you on a cartoon from my home world?'

"Let me guess, you're 'stallion in Ponyville who will never forgive himself if he doesn't have a great birthday party for his mare-friend?'." He queried.

"Well... That about sums it up... How did you know those other details?" I said.

"It's my perfectly patented bonafide and ponified cheese sense!" He said proudly.

"I need one of those..." I muttered. It would really come in handy, Especially for events I need to remember...

"Oh, so you're the reason I got drug out here?" A voice asked, I suddenly realized who the other stallion was, obviously I couldn't pretend I knew who he was.

"Yes I guess I am." I said.

"So, well, it was nice to meet you. But I'm going to be on my merry way, good day Cheese, and good day whoever you are." Quibble said sourly.

"Nonsense buddy! You gotta stick around!" Cheese then started rambling on about the importance of this party like some sort of super duper party pony. Oh wait, he is.

"Okay, there's no hope for you. You, walk with me." Quibble said to me, so we did.

"Listen Loofah mane, I really can't stay here, I have a business opportunity somewhere very far away from here, and frankly, I've heard about this place. And It seems to be full of 1 dimensional personalized weirdos." He said. I guess he doesn't know that a friend of his lives here. And also, Loofah mane? I thought it looked nice...

"Come on, it's not that bad." I said. "Believe it or not, I'm still a little out of my element here too, but it's a real nice place. But if you want to leave, you have to tell Cheese, this has nothing to do with me."

"Oh no, no no no no no, it does. Your relationship issues drug him out here, who in return drug me out here." He replied snidely, damn you butterfly effect.

"Hey guys! Whatcha talking about?" Cheese jumped in out of the blue.

"Yes loofah mane, what were we talking about?" This Quibble guy is turning out to be a bit of an ass.

"Well uhh, we... We... We were just talking about the perfect place to throw this party." I grinned, check-mate.

"Oh great! Where is it?" Cheese asked. I wasn't lying when I said that, okay technically I was, but I already knew the place.

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Chuck's Root Beer Tavern

I took Cheese who had drug Quibble with him down to the old shack I had fixed up with the help of Discord, the sign wasn't up yet but that was the title I had decided on.

"I hear bar parties are very classy." Quibble muttered.

"It's great!" Cheese exclaimed.

"I'm glad someone agrees, come on, I'll take you inside." I led them in.

"Yep... Decent space... I assume the jukebox works?" Cheese asked, I could tell he was planning something.

"Luckily." I said. "About the only thing that still worked well about this place when I took over, just had to replace the glass."

"Great, every party needs music." Cheese said.

"Now Cheese." I started. "This party is very important, first of all, this mare is quite special to me, and secondly, because this mare already has quite an extensive knowledge on parties." I continued.

"Who is she?" He asked.

"I assume you're familiar with the mare Pinkie Pie?" I said with kind of a debonair tone, I wasn't coming on to him, just trying it out.

His eyes widened. "Sweet Celestia! You're absolutely positively right, this has got to be big! Huge!" he exclaimed.

"I'm glad you understand the importance, now, you're the expert, what have you got?" I asked.

"I've got an idea..." He said.

"I'm going for a walk." Quibble said quite annoyed, what else is new?

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Ponyville

"I can't believe that pony sometimes!" Quibble muttered to himself. "It's always whatever that hyperactive cotton head wants, he never asks, 'Gee Quibble, what do you want to do today?' Oh no! It's just-" Quibble was suddenly awestruck by something he saw in the sky. A rainbow blur went by, he had to blink a few times to make sure his eyes were still working. Suddenly the cause of that image in the sky landed not too far from him.

"So close that time!" Rainbow Dash said to herself. "Gonna have to try that Sonic Rainboom again!"

"Sweet Celestia... Rainbow Dash?" Quibble asked. Rainbow Dash immediately turned around.

"Quibble? What are you doing here!?" She asked.

"It's... A long story." He groaned. "Nice that I ran into you though, still stuck on the newer books?" He joked.

"Still devoted to puzzle solving over action?" She joked back.

"Touche, so I take it you must live out here?" Quibble asked.

"How long did it take you to figure that one out?" Rainbow Dash quipped.

"Alright, alright." Quibble said. "It's great running into you, so far everyone I've talked to today has been a complete cotton head."

"Like who?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, my travel partner/captor Cheese Sandwich, and the loofah mane he came here to help.. Chuck or something." Quibble said.

"Cheese Sandwich?" Rainbow asked. "What's he doing back- Ohhhhh." Rainbow Dash realized what day was approaching.

"Heard of him I take it?" Quibble asked.

"Doy, where is he? I wanna say hi." Rainbow said.

"Down the street, I was just there." Quibble moaned.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Let's just say he and I have been having our differences." Quibble said.

"You having differences with somepony? What else is new? Come on!" Rainbow said.

"I'm just going to keep on my walk." Quibble said.

"Fine party pooper, see ya later!" Rainbow said.

"Well, I guess there's a bit of a silver lining on this never ending storm cloud called the past 2 days..." Quibble said walking off.

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Castle of Friendship

"I'm glad you and Chuck are doing well Pinkie." Twilight said as they strolled down a hall in the castle.

"Thanks Twilight! I'm really excited about the whole thing but also really nervous too! You know what I mean like kind of a-"

"Yes Pinkie, Nervouscited, I know." Twilight laughed slightly. "So are you excited for your birthday?" Twilight asked.

"Of course Twilight! Silly!" She said bouncing up and down.

"Does Chuck have any special plans?" Twilight asked. The tone in her voice meant something else though.

"He hasn't said a thing! I bet it's a great big surprise party!" She replied.

"Okay, maybe I should rephrase, does he know?" Twilight asked.

"Of course he- ...maybe... Ooh.." Pinkie said in response.

"Yeah, listen, maybe try and mention it to him and you two can celebrate together, but after all, it has only been a little more than a week since you started dating, don't expect too much." Twilight said.

"Okay Twilight." She said.

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Chuck's Root Beer Tavern

"Look, Rainbow Dash, I just need this, ALL of this.." I motioned at Cheese Sandwich. "A secret, M'kay?" I pleaded.

"Of course." She said. Suddenly, Quibble came running through the doors.

"You gotta hide me!" He said, out of breath and neurotic, almost like he was being chased by an angry draconequus or something.

"Where is he!?" An angry voice yelled from outside the bar. Oh boy. Discord burst through the door. Does insurance cover an act of a demi-god?

"What did you do?" Rainbow Dash interrogated.

"Go on, what did you do?" Discord said with fury in his voice.

"Fine, So, I may have accidentally said 'you look like something that walked out of the decoration section of a nightmare night store.' Happy?" Quibble groaned.

"No actually, quite the opposite." He was furious. "I can handle using my powers for good, I can handle tedious musical numbers, But I do not appreciate being insulted." Discord seemed to be getting ready to turn this horse into school glue. Was that joke out of taste?

"Okay now listen!" I spoke up. "If you're going to do anything that could inure anypony take it far away from here!" I yelled. "Otherwise, Quibble! If you don't have anything nice to say, keep your fricken yap shut! Discord, please don't kill anypony, that'll cause unwanted attention and any second we'll have civilian casualties and we'll have the U.N crawling all over the place!" My rant was followed by a couple of disgruntled murmurs.

"Listen Pants, apologize to Discord, and Discord, apologize to Quibble." Rainbow said.

"I apologize." They muttered. I could tell neither of them meant it, so long as no murder happened in my bar I couldn't care less.

"Now, I'm very sorry about the interruption Cheese, let's get back to business, what's your scope on various types of cakes and sweets?" I asked him as we walked in a different direction.

"Sorry about him Discord, he can be a bit of a pain." Rainbow Dash said.

"You know I'm standing right here right?" Quibble said.

"I couldn't help but notice that, Rainbow Dash." Discord said with no acknowledgment to Quibble. "Anyway, I should be off, I have better things to do than mill about around here." And like that he was off.

"Don't mind him, he can overreact to things." Rainbow said to Quibble. "He once yelled at a butterfly, called it a son of a bitch, told it to get off his lawn." She continued, Quibble cracked up at the idea.

"That doesn't really surprise me." Quibble said.

"For what it's worth, what you said was funny." She said.

"You have no idea how long it's been since anyone has said that. I haven't been around many ponies who share my sense of humor..." Quibble said.

"C'mon, let's get outta here." Rainbow said.

"Sounds goood." Quibble said as they walked off.

"Finally. Some peace and quiet, and now, ironically, let's discuss music." I said to Cheese as we were alone to get back to work at last.

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Ponyville streets, late afternoon

"So anyway, that's why I've got to get out of here, this is really a once in a lifetime opportunity." Quibble said as he and Rainbow were walking.

"I get it." She replied. "Know anypony in Califoalnia?" She asked.

"Well, no. But that's not really a deciding factor, the enormous paycheck is." He said.

"Well yeah I'm sure it is, but I mean, are bits more important than your friend?" She asked. Quibble went silent

"Just some food for thought, I'll see you around!" She flew off.

"Damn it." He said. This decision could've been a lot easier if Cheese had drug him into any other town. But it had to be somepony he had history with, and somepony who knew just how to get to him, he thought.

"Not to mention somepony with a cute flank." He said to himself. Hey, his words.

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Sugarcube Corner, that evening

I was lounging on the couch, quite exhausted after the day I had, I haven't had to plan anything in months. Suddenly Pinkie came in, a little quieter than usual.

"Hey Cupcake." I said, trying out a cutsie nickname.

"Huh?" She asked.

"Never mind." I brushed that off with an awkward chuckle.

"So..." She started.

"Yeah?" I asked gently.

"Just lettin' you know, a certain day is coming up." She said.

"Oh is it?" Acting like I just found out. "I'll be sure to keep that in mind." I smiled at her.

"It's my birthday just so ya know." She said back to the way you'd expect her to with that signature smile.

"I'm no mathematician but I can put 2 and 2 together." I grinned and gave her a peck on the cheek. She flushed red.

"Missed a spot." She giggled and puckered her muzzle, I then gave her a kiss on the muzzle. I yawned afterwards.

"I'm gettin' beat, think I'm gonna get some sleep." I said. "Goodnight Cupcake." I said, she cocked an eyebrow.

"No on Cupcake?" I asked.

"Hey, maybe it'll grow on me." She said. "I know you did." I blushed an even deeper red than my coat.

"Heh.. heh heh... G-g-g-goodnight." I giggled.

"Goodnight you." She said as we kissed once more and went for our separate rooms.

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One more loose end in this chapter. Cheese's wagon

Cheese had fashioned a nice tenting area for him and Quibble at his wagon area, Quibble was now returning from his walk.

"Hiya pal! What kept ya?" Cheese asked.

"Meh, I was just strollin'." Quibble said in a nicer tone than earlier.

"That's great buddy, well, we better get some shuteye, big day tomorrow, and the next day too!" Cheese said getting into his tent.

"Sure is..." Quibble sighed. "What am I gonna do?" He said to himself resigning to his tent.

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The end! Well, not "The" The end, but the end of this chapter! let me know what you thought of it in the reviews and make sure to tune in for the next chapter!