Chapter 46: Locked Out

After Dusk had finished ‘introducing’ himself, they group had begun to converse again. Twilight had brought up the subject of Rarity again. When Dusk heard about what Rarity did after the attack, he sighed. He could understand why she did it, but it didn’t make him any less disappointed with her.

“I think that we should leave soon, because I think that we should try to get her out of the Boutique.”

He sees that both Twilight and Fluttershy seem slightly apprehensive about the task. “I don’t think we’d be able to do this Dusk, we tried everything we could to get her out last time, and none of them worked.” States Twilight.

“Oh trust me, I can be a very persuasive stallion sometimes...”

“But I don’t think you’ll be able to convince her to come out anytime soon, she’s really stubborn.” Says Twilight.

“And I’m not?”

Twilight sighs in annoyance, and admits defeat. “You’re going to go, no matter what I say, aren’t you.”

“Yep.”

“Well I might as well go then...” She looks at Zephyr, “...if you don’t mind me leaving you here.”

Zephyr does the equivalent of a shrug, while still lying down. “I don’t mind.”

“Well, then I’ll go with you, Dusk.” Confirms Twilight.

“And um... I’m coming too...” Says Fluttershy

‘Easiest persuasion attempt ever.’

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They had waited for an hour, when the rain is due to stop, before they left. The group of three were currently standing in front of the Carousel Boutique, which looks a lot more different than usual. All of the window were boarded up from the inside, with large strips of plywood, and she had locked the doors of the Boutique. ‘So the residents of Ponyville do have locks, but rarely use them.’

Twilight and Fluttershy are looking at each other with worried glances, while Dusk is thinking of ways that they could try to get Rarity out. He had completely disregarded any thoughts of breaking his way inside, so he was trying to think of ways that could bring her out of the shop. He knew that he could yell loud enough to get her to hear him, even from behind the wooden planks.

He begins to yell, “HELLO! COULD YOU COME OUT OF THE BOUTIQUE, RARITY?!”

There is a deafening silence in the area around Dusk, as Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity and probably half of the town heard something even louder than the ‘Royal Canterlot Voice’ which everypony heard at the most recent Nightmare Night. Dusk saw the the windows of the Boutique were shaking slightly after his loud speech. (Which shall now be known as Dusk’s Royal Speech. [DRS])

After one minute, the owner of the Boutique responded through one of the blocked windows of the shop. “No, I’m not going outside. What if the diamond dogs come back. What if they want to abduct me again. What if they want us to work in those filthy mines again.” Dusk could barely hear what she is saying, her voice doesn’t have the same loudness, as Dusk’s Royal Speech.

“THE DIAMOND DOGS WON’T BE COMING BACK, THEY’RE GONE NOW!”

“But how do you know? You don’t know if they’ll come back Dusk.”

He looks away from the shop, and swears something long and vulgar to himself quietly. Unfortunately, his quiet, isn’t exactly quiet in everypony’s elses ears, and the other two mares heard everything that he said. Twilight is looking at Dusk, with disgust while Fluttershy is intrigued with Dusk’s vast knowledge of profanities. (It had something to with Princess Celestia, diamond dogs, and many choice words in between.)

He turns to the mares, unaware that they heard everything he just said, and plainly says, “Well, I’m outta ideas, she’s way too paranoid for me to help her. How about you two?”

They shook their head, confirming Dusk’s fear. He began to quickly brainstorm ideas in his head, to try and get Rarity out of her shop. He is barely 20 seconds in when a gets an [IDEA!].

‘Hmm... maybe that won’t be such a good idea, last resort maybe?’

He pushes his newest idea right into the deepest recesses of his mind while he thinks of new tactics. As he thinks, he slowly gets a small influx of [IDEAS!!!] into his head. He starts throwing out his ideas to the two mares, as he seeks approval to use them.

“I have an idea, what if we bring in one of her fashion icons, to tell her to get out?”

Twilight immediately answers, “We can’t do that Dusk, it would be too hard, and it would take too much time.”

“Well, what about either Princess Celestia or Princess Luna instead. Aren’t you Celestia’s student?”

“Well yes, but no, we can’t do that. I’m sure that she has too much on her plate at the moment, to persuade Rarity to get out of her home.”

‘Damn, that was probably my best strategy, beside the... other plan.’

Dusk continues to brainstorm, “What about a gift? We could try to coax her out of the house with a gift for her.”

Fluttershy begins to speak up, “Um... I’m sorry Dusk, but we tried that last time... and it didn’t really work.”

Twilight then gets an excellent idea. “What if we sent Spike over here to get her?”

Dusk is confused what is important about Spike, in a situation like this. “What would that be good for?”

“Well, I know for a fact that he would do anything for her, because he lik-”

“FOREVER!!!” Say somepony from above. Dusk looks up, and sees that Pinkie Pie is staring down at Twilight, with menacing eyes. She appeared to be popping out from a... cloud. (But she’s an earth pony, what the hay...) Twilight looks up at the pink pony, who was slowly moving back inside the clouds.

“...um, maybe we shouldn’t do that. Safety reasons.”

‘No need to say more Twilight. Especially with Pinkie watching.’

“Well, I’m out of ideas.” Concedes Dusk.

“Me too.” Agrees Twilight.

“...” Fluttershy doesn’t say anything.

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The three try to think of an idea which would bring her out of her home, but alas, after 10 minutes, they couldn’t think of anything that would work.

Twilight starts speaking, “Maybe we could come back here tomorrow, when we have some ideas.”

‘Time to use my last resort. Buck my life.’

“Wait a second Twilight, I have the perfect plan to get Rarity out of the house. I reckon that it is guaranteed to work.” He says in a slightly worried fashion.

“Really? What are you going to do?” Asks Twilight.

“Insult her line of work. It was nice knowing you girls.” He gives a mock salute, as he walks closer to the boarded-up Boutique. Fluttershy and Twilight are both confused by what he meant just before.

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“RARITY, IF I COULD GET YOUR ATTENTION AGAIN!”

“*sigh* What is it Dusk?”

“I THINK THAT THE NEXT FASHION TREND SHOULD BE ALL-OUT LYCRA!” He says in a know-all way.

“...WHAT?!”

“YOU HEARD ME, LYCRA; SUITS OF THE STUFF. WORN BY EVERYPONY IN CANTERLOT, FILLYDELPHIA, MANEHATTEN, STALLIONGRAD AND GOOD OL’ PONYVILLE!” [Music]

He hears a shriek of terror, disgust and immense hatred from inside the Boutique. “YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS!”

“OH BUT I AM, I’M THE ONE WHO IS CHANGING EVERYTHING IN FASHION!”

Dusk hears angry yelling from Rarity, but he couldn’t make out any of the words she is saying. ‘Dusk, why you so crazy.’

“I ALSO TOLD THEM TO SWITCH TO THICK WORKBOOTS FOR THE NEXT SEASON OF FOOTWEAR. I CONVINCED HOITY TOITY TO DO THAT!” ‘Thank you newspaper article, for showing me about his fashion... something or other.’

He could hear heavy shockwaves emanating from the unicorn’s shop.

“AND NEW MANE STYLES TOO, MOHAWKS FOR THE STALLIONS, SHORT AND STRAIGHT FOR THE MARES!”

He could hear multiple locks unlocking, at the front door. ‘I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm...’

“MAYBE I SHOULD ALSO INTRODUCE TRACKSUITS FOR EVERYPONY AS WELL. IMAGINE... Oh crap...”

Rarity has finally opened the front door, and looks at Dusk with immense desire to kill him, for the sake of fashion. He saw that she is using her horn to lift something. Upon closer inspection, he sees about 2000 sewing pins, and 20 sharpened gemstones of various sizes. They were all aimed at Dusk.

“You’re mine now.” She menacingly says to him.

‘Many regrets.’

“Oh no... oh dear, somepony help me!” He runs away from the ‘demon’ mare, as she unleashes her first volley of needles, where Dusk stood moments ago. She starts to make chase... Next Chapter: Chapter 47: Pins and Needles Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 11 Minutes