I woke up the next day, refreshed and rested as always. It was a Tuesday as well, so I had to be a up a little earlier than usual...well okay around 10:00am but still, I don't have to be awake for ridiculous hours at least. Getting myself ready and after a late breakfast, I left the home to visit Cloudsdale.

It looked to be yet another good day, it's as if the weather is always sunny, not that I'm complaining. I flew up and made my way to the clouded city and as an alicorn, I had no problem landing on clouds. Now if I was a unicorn or earth pony...I would be screwed right there. Landing down, I headed on over to the weather management team department and entered inside.

"Afternoon, Bond." said the receptionist.

"Hey there." I said back, continuing walking past down the hallway.

Approaching the cafeteria, I entered into the kitchen. I put on my chef hat and overalls before greeting myself to my support worker who never wishes to say his name, but that's fine with me.

"Well hi Bond, you ready for another Tuesday morning of baking?" he asked.

"You bet, so what's the menu this week?"

"Well, it's a tomato soup for starters since the ponies here couldn't get enough of your wonderful sauces last month. We then have macaroni cheese with herbs as the main course and for dessert, the good old fashioned Wonderbolts Style Pancakes with lemon." he boasted.

"Sounds like it's gonna be an easy Tuesday for us both." I squeed.

"Yeah, but let's not tell the Wonderbolts that, shall we?"

"Not to worry, I can keep a secret." I winked, "By the way, have you seen Rainbow Dash today?"

"Oh yeah, I last saw her flying around the clouds with some sort of griffon. After your duty, you could go and see what that's about."

"I'll see if I can." I replied before resuming my work.

Soon, it was lunchtime and good thing too as the work was just about done.

"Well Bond, another Tuesday gone by and we have plenty of well-prepared food here to feed our wonderbolts, a job well done as always." my support worker said.

"Thanks, same time, next week." I said as I took off my chef hat and overalls.

"Indeed, you take care, Bond." he answered as I opened the kitchen door and exited the cafeteria.

I smiled at the receptionist before I left the academy to go and find Rainbow Dash. But as I was flying among the clouds looking for her, I felt a huge speeding breeze pass me and I nearly fell to the ground, only to get my wings under control.

"What was that?!" I yelled with a surprise expression as I put my hooves on the ground.

"Oh hey Bond, sorry about that. You just flew into a quick race." Dash replied as she landed down on the ground with somepony else.

"Okay, and who's this?" I asked, noticing a big griffon my support worker said about earlier.

"Hey, what's up?" she greeted.

"SWEET!" I exclaimed.

"This is my griffon friend, Gilda." Dash explained, "She half eagle, half lion-"

"And all awesome!" Gilda finished as they did a bro-claw/hoof or whatever you could call it.

Dash continued explaining, "Gilda's my best friend from my days at Junior Speedster's Flight Camp." she then looked at Gilda, "Hey, remember the flight chant?"

"Sure, they made us recite it every morning. I'll never get that lame thing out of my head." Gilda shook her head.

"Sooooooo?" Dash asked her.

Gilda sighed, "Only for you, Dash."

They then flew up and started doing their chant, I could tell that Dash seemed happy to do it, but Gilda, not so much. I found the chant so laughable, it wasn't worth repeating in my head and I was nearly close to bursting out in laughter, but I kept my inner humour under control.

Then, I heard a burst of laughter from behind me, it was Pinkie Pie, alright.

"Oh that was awesome and it gave me a great idea for a prank." she then smashed her face in the ground and she now had some weird looking facial accessories from shades to a party whistle. "Gilda, you game?" she asked Gilda.

"Well, I groove on a good prank as much as the next griffon, but Dash, you promised me we'd get a flying session this afternoon." she answered as she flew upwards. "Oh and you can come along for the ride, mister umm."

"Bond Racer and yes, I can be cool in the skies, too." I answered.

"Yeah, uh well, Pinkie Pie, you don't mind, do you? I haven't seen Gilda for a while, we'll catch up with you later." Dash said to Pinkie.

"Oh umm, sure, no problem. Have fun you guys. Catch you three later." Pinkie replied although she didn't seem too happy about it.

We then flew off to the clouds, I looked back and saw Pinkie feeling a little down. I couldn't do anything though, unless I wanted to carry her and have her on my back, but her randomness would drive even me insane. I looked forward and tried to catch up with Dash and Gilda, but they seemed to have disappeared, so I kept looking.

I was beginning to feel tired, so I gave up finding them and flew back to Ponyville, then just my luck I saw Dash and Gilda a bit away from me and in my other view, I saw Pinkie hiding underneath an umbrella on the table.

"Hey Pinkie, are you okay?" I asked her as I moved towards her.

"Shhh, I'm watching over them both." Pinkie whispered.

"But why?"

"Just trust me."

"Oooh kaaay." was all I could say.

We listened in to what Dash and Gilda were saying.

"I gotta take a few weather jobs about here, shouldn't take long. Just hang around in town here and I'll come find you." Dash said.

"That's cool, I guess. I'm gonna go chow down." Gilda boasted.

"Later" Dash said as she flew off.

We kept an eye on Gilda as she walked through town. Gilda snuck behind one of the food stalls and lifted her tail out in front of an elderly pony who screamed.

"A rattler! A Rattler! Quick, everypony run for the hills, everypony save yourselves!" she yelled as she ran away slowly.

Gilda then popped up from behind the stall.

"This stuff isn't fresh, dude." she said to the food seller, inpolitely.

"Poor Granny Smith, she didn't know it was a prank." Pinkie said.

"Gilda didn't even pay attention that it was a mare she said dude to." I added.

I had a feeling that she was beginning to show her true colours, when she sneakily grabbed an apple from a crate on another food stall, with no pony suspecting it. I had to agree with Pinkie, she was turning into something I thought she wasn't at first.

We then saw Fluttershy walking backwards to where Gilda was walking towards.

"Alright little ones, this way." she said to the ducks.

"Oh no, if she bumps into Gilda, it will get ugly really fast." I said to Pinkie.

But it was too late, Fluttershy bumped into Gilda and I knew this was not going to fun at all.

"Hey!" Gilda yelled.

"Please, excuse me." Fluttershy asked as she turned around.

"I'm waking here!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was just trying to..."Fluttershy got interrupted as she backed away from Gilda slowly.

"Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry, why do you watch where you're going, doofus!" she yelled and this was beginning to scare the ducks away.

I couldn't stand by and watch this bullying anymore, I leapt out from behind the table and stood in front of Fluttershy, looking at Gilda.

"Gilda, what's the big idea?" I asked.

"Ooooh, so you're one of the sissy ponies?" she asked.

But before I could answer, she let out a huge roar. I wasn't intimidated, but I heard Fluttershy squeal quietly and she was shivering as I looked behind me. Before turning my attention back to Gilda.

"A griffon roar, is that it? I've heard buffalo roars that were more intimidating than that." I bragged.

"Ugh! Whatever!" Gilda snapped, "All you lame ponies are driving my buggy, I gotta bail!" she then flew off.

"Woah, I just can't believe it, how could Dash's old friend be such a mean prankster, a thief AND a bully?" I asked.

"Well, I can take it, but NO ONE treats Fluttershy like that, NO ONE!" Pinkie snapped.

"Why don't you take Fluttershy to Twilight and tell her about it, then set up a plan to even the score?" I suggested.

"Oooh, we can have it at Sugercube corner, the Cakes are away today."

"Great, when you've taken Fluttershy, we'll meet back there and we'll go over the plan."

Pinkie nodded as she picked up Fluttershy and they walked to Twilight's home. I went up in the sky to look for Dash, it was by luck that I saw her in a few seconds.

"Hey again Bond, we were looking for you earlier and-" Dash said before she noticed my sad expression. "-is something wrong?"

I told Dash about what I had seen, before adding that Pinkie saw the whole thing too and that Fluttershy almost got bullied in the process.

"I can't believe my old friend would treat my new friends like that." Dash said who looked disappointed about Gilda's behaviours towards me and the other ponies.

I nodded, "I was surprised too, but Pinkie has a plan to try and get Gilda back for the mean pranks she did."

"Well, I need to see it for myself, but let's get to Sugarcube Corner."

"That's what I was about to suggest, but let's go."

We flew to our destination and Pinkie was already there. After going through the plan, Pinkie set up party decorations and went out to send invites, informing the guests that it's all part of a big prank that Dash had set up. Moments later, the plan was in place, now we had to wait for the guests to arrive and then Gilda would show up.

The guests began to arrive with Pinkie welcoming them, the rest of us were present too. Then, the griffon herself turned up, it was time for to see if the plan worked.

"Gilda!" Pinkie welcomed, "I'm so honoured to throw you one of my signature Pinkie Pie parties and I really, really truly sincerely hope you feel welcome here amongst all us pony-folk."

Pinkie held her hoof out and Gilda began to shake it, until she got shocked and then fell on the floor. Everypony and myself all laughed. Since then, every other prank followed and Gilda fell for all of them. It felt great to see karma biting back on Gilda, but after the pintail on the pony game, Gilda lost her temper, thus concluding the end of the prank plan.

"This is your idea of a good time? I've never met a lame bunch of dweebs in all my life!" Gilda snapped before going over to Dash, "Come on Dash, we're bailing on this pathetic scene!"

Gilda was about to leave, till she saw Dash not moving, "I said come on, Rainbow Dash, WE'RE LEAVING!" she yelled.

Dash could finally see Gilda for what she really was and she was not pleased, this was my queue to step forward.

"You know, Gilda, I was the one who set up those mean pranks at this party." I said to her

"What?!" Gilda spoke in shock.

"So I guess I'm a lamo as well as a sissy?"

I saw that Gilda was beginning to lose her temper.

Dash then added, "They weren't all meant specifically for you, it was just bad luck that you set them all off."

"No way! It was Pinkie Pie, she was the one who tripped me up, to make a fool of me."

"Me? I threw this party to improve your attitude." Pinkie said "I thought a good party might turn that frown upside down."

"And you sure didn't need any help making a fool of yourself." Dash intervened, "You know, this is not how I thought my old friend would treat my new friends. If being cool is all you care about, then maybe you should go find new cool friends someplace else."

"Oh yeah? Well you're such a flip-flop! Cool one minute and lame the next!" Gilda yelled before she turned her back to leave. "When YOU decide not to be lame anymore, give me a call." She then left, slamming the door behind her and flying away.

"Wow, talk about a party pooper" Spike said.

"I'm sorry that I brought Gilda here, everypony. I never knew how rude she was." Dash said before turning to Pinkie, "I'm really sorry she ruined that awesome party you put on for her."

"Hey, if you wanna hang out with party poopers, that's your business." Pinkie smiled.

"I'd rather hang out with you, no hard feelings?" Dash held out her hoof.

"No hard feelings." Pinkie replied.

They shook hooves before getting electric shocks off each other and all the ponies laughed, myself included.

Twilight approached Pinkie, "Hey, Pinkie, sorry I accused you of misjudging Gilda. Looks likes I'm the one who misjudged you."

"It's okay Twilight, even you can't be a super smart smarty smart-pants all the time." Pinkie Pie accepted her apology. "Come on everypony, there's still a whole lot of partying to finish!"

Everypony cheered again.

I was impressed with how they planned and handled the pranks since me, Dash and Pinkie organized it all.

After the party was over, the five of us and Spike stayed behind to clean up the shop.

Twilight smiled and looked over to Spike. "Spike, could you take a note?" she called.

"I'm on it." Spike delightfully followed.

"Dearest Princess Celestia," Twilight spoke. "Today I learned that it's hard to accept when somepony you like wants to spend time with somepony who's not so nice. Though it's impossible to control who your friends hang out with, it is possible to control your own behaviour. Just continue to be a good friend. In the end, the difference between a false friend and one who is true will surely come to light. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

Spike then sent the letter off with an extra ink bottle, probably a small prank set up by Dash and Pinkie again, thankfully, I wasn't involved in that. After we cleaned up, we said our goodbyes and I headed off home, walking through the sunset over Ponyville. As I was about to walk in my home, I spotted a small caravan being pulled by a pony who was underneath a big cloak. I was curious to know who that was, but I thought better of it and just headed inside my home.

I had a quick drink before I headed off for an early bedtime. Before I closed my eyes and started to sleep, I thought back once more to the new lesson that a few of us actually learnt. But I however, learnt one other vital thing that summed up all about what happened today...griffins are jerks! Next Chapter: Boast Busters Estimated time remaining: 28 Hours, 47 Minutes