Planet of the Ponies.
Chapter 11: The Lord Of The Tickets
Previous Chapter Next ChapterEver since me and the guys had chose to stay in Ponyville, we were getting a bit used to living here. It took some time of course, but we eventually decided to just embrace the fact that we were going to spend the rest of our lives in a world ruled by talking ponies. And in case you're all wondering, no, I did not ever try to kill Pinkie Pie again. It still pissed me off that that annoying, pink, blabbermouth would just trick me into letting her hug me and sing another one of those corny musical numbers, but we've been living here for about a week and I was able to find it in me to let the whole thing go.
Now as for the house in general, it was a pretty decent place to live. I had dibs on the green room (since green is my favorite color), Jonathan got dibs on the purple room (since purple happens to be Twilight's color)--and I bet that you already know why Andrew would call dibs on the orange room. So as you can see, this house seems to have everything we could ever ask for...except TV, videogames, and internet. If there's one thing that any boy--or any human being for that matter--can't live without, it's the three things that I just mentioned. I of course explained to Twilight and her friends how we humans needed these things in order to survive from boredom, next thing you know she takes to this inventor pony called Dr. Hooves, and believe it or not, he was actually able to make a TV, a PS3 and PS4, and our very own Wi-Fi system! I don't even know how he was even able to get the supplies to make these, but he did. My guess would probably be that he has secret ties with MacGyver. Oh, and in case you're all wondering how we're even able to power these things up, it's simple. Twilight had placed one of those electrical post near our house and she charged it with her unicorn magic. Now we can finally watch TV, play videogames, and surf the internet. And the best part of this is that there won't be any electric bills--because it's all free!
So as you can possibly imagine, we're actually starting to feel glad that we got ourselves sucked into that wormhole. Because back on Earth we would have to get jobs and pay taxes; but we don't have to do any of that stuff here. We're literally the first highschool graduates to ever make a living in life without having to go through any of that hard work of getting jobs and paying taxes.
Everything seemed to have been going along just fine at this point...that is until today when me and the guys had finally became bored after doing nothing but watch TV, play videogames, and surf the internet. We were literally just lying on the couch, while trying to think of something to do.
"God, I'm so bored," I groaned.
"You can say that again," said Jonathan.
"I thought that living in a world ruled by talking ponies would be more exciting," said Andrew.
"I know, right?" Jonathan said in agreement. "Who would've thought that life here would be as dull and boring as life on Earth?"
"All I know is that I would give anything for something unexpected to happen," I stated, "and I mean it; I would literally just go out and get involved with the first unexpecting thing that happens."
"Even if it involves Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, or Princess Celestia?" asked Jonathan.
"No," I told him, "just because I'm bored doesn't mean I'm insane."
"So you say," Jonathan muttered under his breath.
Right after I'd made that statement, we suddenly began to feel the ground shaking and hear loud noises. "What the Hell's going on out there?" asked Andrew.
"I'll go check it out," I volunteered. So I got my ass off the couch and I went to see what all the commotion was. When I opened the door, I saw Twilight and Spike running from what appears to be a huge mob of ponies. I said to the guys, "It's just Twilight and Spike running from a mob."
Jonathan suddenly rose from the couch and was like, "An angry mob?"
"Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that they're angry," I tried to explain, "but they do appear to be happy. Is there such a thing as a happy mob?"
Without even answering my question, Jonathan rushed to the door and shouted, "Twilight, in here, quick!"
She and Spike then went running into our house, but then the huge crowd of happy ponies were about to come in as well! But before any of them could even step foot into this house, or hoof in their case, I cried out, "You shall not pass!" and then I slammed the door--since I didn't have a staff to hit the ground with. When I closed the door I quickly locked it--so that way the mob doesn't come bursting through. I then turned and saw Twilight and Spike breathing heavily.
Jonathan went to Twilight and said, "You all right?"
Then she said, "Yes, I'm fine."
"So why was everybody chasing you?" asked Jonathan.
"Well, it all started this morning; I was helping Applejack getting off a tree, then out of nowhere I received two tickets from Princess Celestia."
"Tickets to what?"
"Tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala."
Andrew was like, "The Grand Galloping what-now?"
Then Twilight told him, "It's only the biggest and greatest event in Equestrian history."
I then said, "That still doesn't explain why all those ponies were chasing you."
Spike was kind enough to explain everythingto us. "Well first of all, when Twilight's friends found out about the tickets, they were doing all sorts of crazy things just to get on her good side. And they're doing these things because there's only two tickets and Twilight needed to choose which one will get it."
"Ah, like in that episode of Rocko's Modern Life," said Andrew. Spike and Twilight then stared at him confusingly until he said, "Never mind."
I then said to Twilight, "So who did you choose?"
Then she said, "That's just it, I haven't chosed anypony yet! I'm afraid that if I choose one of my friends over the other, they might hate me!"
"But what about that huge mob of ponies? They can't all be your friends."
"Exactly, they weren't! It's just that when Pinkie Pie told everypony about the tickets, they immediately went berserk!"
I pondered about this for awhile, and then I thought up of an experiment. I said to Spike, "Let me see the tickets, Spike."
Spike was then like, "Oh no, not you too!"
"No, no, it's just for a moment," I assured him. "I promise I'll give them back to you." He seemed a bit reluctant at first, but he eventually decided to give me the tickets. As I looked upon the tickets, they seemed to have just been plain, ordinary tickets. They were golden and very shiny. Maybe these ponies just like the way they look, I thought to myself. I then said to Twilight, "Now you're saying that everybody wasn't crazy until they knew about the tickets?"
"Yes," said Twilight, "they were all completely normal until they laid eyes on those tickets."
"Well then, look." I then tossed the tickets into a waste basket. Spike rushed in to get 'em but I stopped him. "You desire these tickets so much that you're willing to dive into a pile a garbage?"
"No," said Spike, "but why throw them away?"
"Because they all together evil," I told him. "They will corrupt and destroy anyone who lays eyes upon them. Until they pass into the world of shadows, and fall under the power of Sauron; the dark lord of Mordor."
I could hear Jonathan saying, "Oh God, please tell me he's not making a Lord of the Rings reference."
Twilight ignored his griping and said, "What're you saying, exactly?"
I took the tickets out of the waste basket, handed them to Spike, and I said, "What I'm saying is that something needs to be done with these tickets before anymore ponies become insane."
We all started to ponder about this for awhile. Spike then shared his suggestion, "I know, Why don't we just give them to you?" he was refering to me.
I was like, "That won't be such a good idea, Spike."
"Why not? You don't care about these tickets; you're practically immune to them. So here just take them."
As he was offering me the tickets, I cried, "Don't tempt me, Spike! I dare not take them, Spike; not even to keep them safe. Please understand Spike that I would want to hide these tickets for the desire to do good. But through me they would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine."
Jonathan then let out a Buzz Killington sigh as Twilight said, "OK, so what else are we suppose to do?"
"It's clear that we only have one option," I said. "These tickets must be destroyed."
Andrew then said, "OK, then let's just rip them to little pieces and toss 'em in the waste basket."
"That would be easier said than done," I said. "Sure we could just rip them into little tiny pieces, but then someone could just easily put 'em back together with tape or glue. In other words, we'll need to see to it that these tickets are destroyed permanently."
"And how are we going to do that?" asked Twilight.
"Simple," I told her, "we need to cast these tickets into the fiery depths of Mount Doom from whence they came!"
Jonathan was then like, "Really, you're just gonna reenact the whole entire movie?"
That statement was also ignored. Spike then said, "What are we suppose to do exactly?"
Then Andrew told him, "He's suggesting that we toss them into a volcano."
"Why a volcano?" asked Spike.
And I told him, "Because whenever something touches lava, it burns. And as we all know nothing that has been burnt can ever be fixed."
"That sounds like a good idea," said Twilight, "but there's one problem though."
"And what's that?"
"We don't know where any volcanoes are."
"Then I guess we better go find one." And so begins an awesome journey to destroy some tickets.
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A few minutes later, we were all ready for this completely unexpexted journey. As we were about to leave, I peeked out the door to see if anymore of those crazy ponies were still around. When the coast seemed clear, me, Jonathan, Andrew, Twilight, and Spike, crept out of the door and started our quest to find a volcano. So yeah, we were basically the Fellowship of the Tickets. As we were walking out in the open, Spike said, "Are you sure this'll work?"
And I told him, "If it worked for Frodo, it can work for us."
Jonathan was muttering, "That was just a movie."
And Andrew added, "And a book."
That's when we all heard someone shout, "There she is!" and next thing you know that mob of crazy ponies were coming right towards us! We ran away of course, but unfortunately we ended up in a dead end. As the mob had us completely cornered, I said to Jonathan, "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf."
Then Jonathan cried, "Will you stop quoting Lord of the Rings already?! It's getting really annoying!"
It would seem that there was no hope for us; that is until a big pink flash came out of nowhere and we somehow found ourselves in Twilight's house. Andrew was like, "What the Hell just happen?!"
Then Twilight said, "Oh nothing, I just teleported us to my house."
"You teleported us?" asked Jonathan.
"Of course I did," said Twilight, "I'm not the Element of Magic for nothing."
"So what do we do now?" I asked.
"The best thing that we can do for now is to just wait until everypony forgets about the tickets."
"Uh, Twilight?" said Spike.
"Yes, Spike?" that's when she realized that her friends were in the house as well. Twilight was like, "How long have you all been standing there?"
"We've been here since you and Spike ran away from everypony, silly!" cried Pinkie Pie.
"So, did you decide yet?" asked Rainbow Dash. The second she brought that up, she and the other ponies started to ask as well. All this pressure would of course result in Twilight crying out in despair, "I can't decide, I just can't. It's important to all of you and I just can't stand to disappoint any of you, and giving me gifts and doing me favors won't make any difference, because you're all my friends and I wanna make you all happy and I can't, I just can't!"
As Twilight was being lost in her despair, I said to her friends, "My God, what is wrong with you ponies? You're really that determined to get these stupid tickets that you would put all this pressure on your own friend?!"
"Oh please," said Rainbow Dash, "you would've done the same thing."
"OK, you clearly don't know that much about me if you were to think that I would ever do something as diabolical as putting pressure on my own friends over tickets to some stupid fancy ball."
"It is not 'some stupid fancy ball'," cried Rarity, "it is the Grand Galloping Gala!"
"Yeah I'd hate to burst your bubble, Rarity, but unless these golden tickets take you to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, I doubt that they're worth the mental scars that you've all probably gave Twilight."
As Twilight finally began to regain a bit of her nerves, she was able to say, "I wish these tickets had never come to me."
I saw this as another opportunity to make another Lord of the Rings reference, so I patted her on the shoulder and said, "So do all who live to see such times."
But sadly Jonathan had to ruin it by interrupting me, "STOP! STOP! Just stop with the Lord of the Rings references already!"
"But they're so fun and cool to say!" I protested.
"No more Lord of the Rings references!"
"OK, fine." I also added under my breath, "Killjoy."
Jonathan then said to Twilight, "Look, Twilight, if you don't want these tickets so badly, then why don't you just send them back?"
Twilight was then like, "I thought the only way to get rid of them was to destroy them."
"It was not the only way," said Jonathan irritably. "Jeffrie was just reenacting his favorite scenes from Lord of the Rings. Also, if you were to think of it, none of this stress or pressure that you're going through right now would never had happen if Celestia hadn't send you those tickets in the first place."
Spike then said, "So...we should just send them back?"
"Exactly," said Jonathan, "I mean it's a lot smarter than just tossing them in a volcano."
"Speak for yourself, killjoy," I blurted.
Then Jonathan said to me, "Shut up you annoying, son of a...!"
And right when it would seem that we were going to beat the shit out of eachother, Fluttershy got in between us, and believe it or not, she actually raised her voice a bit, "Hey, don't make me seperate you two!"
I was like, "Well he started it!"
Then Fluttershy started to give me and a Jonathan a typical motherly lecture, "Jeffrie, tell Jonathan you're sorry."
"Jonathan, I'm sorry."
"Good. Now Jonathan, what do you say?"
Jonathan let out a combined sigh and groan and said, "Apology accepted."
"See, that wasn't so hard," said Fluttershy.
After me and Jonathan had made our amends, Andrew whispered to me, "You know if I didn't know any better, I'd say that Fluttershy just made you her bitch." And if you could read me like a book, you would know that I'd stomped on Andrew's toes as a warning to never insult me to my face again.
Twilight was then like, "OK, I forgot what we were talking about."
And then I reminded her, "We were talking about whether you should return those tickets to Celestia."
"So should I return them or not?"
"Yes Twilight, you should return. You should literally just send them back to Celestia, and put a note with them that tells her that she should take those tickets and shove 'em up her ass."
Twilight, her friends, and Spike, each had shocked expressions on their faces. Twilight then said, "Well I most certainly won't tell her to do that; but I will send the tickets back to her."
I was then like, "OK, now before you do that, can you teleport us back to our house?"
"Why would you want me to do that?"
"You teleported us to your house, so it should only be fair that you'd teleport us to our house."
Applejack was like, "Can't y'all just walk?"
"We could," I admitted, "but all of that escaping from that mob of ponies has worn us out; in fact, I'm probably tempted to just lie down on the floor right now."
Twilight let out an annoyed sigh and said, "Fine." And then her horn started to glow pink as that pink flash engulfed us again. Then next thing you know, we were back in our house. I let out a whistle and said, "I guess she really can teleport anything."
We were then back where we started from a few minutes earlier; just lying around on the couch, trying to think of something that'll get the boredom out of our systems.
"Any ideas?" Andrew wondered.
That's when I finally came up with an awesome idea. "Hey Jonathan, go get me a Coke."
"Why don't you get it yourself?" he inquired.
"Because one does not simply walk into the kitchen and get a Coke out of the fridge." And what do ya know, that little Lord of the Rings reference had literally drove him crazy. He just jumped off the couch and he started to just run around and incoherently cursed me in Spanish.
"Maldita sea, Jeffrie, ¿por qué siempre tienes que referirte al Señor de los Anillos? ¿Es algún tipo de obsesión tuya por ti? ¿Me molesta constantemente ser tu pasatiempo favorito? ¿Cuál es tu puta oferta?"
The tantrum that Jonathan was pitching could literally put Nicolas Cage's tantrums to shame. And so for the rest of the day, me and Andrew just laid back and watch Jonathan do what he does best--which is acting like a drama king.
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