Just Another Day; Good Work Delta
Chapter 64: Chapter 29
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Drew, Helena
Sunday, 6:00 AM
Today I woke up early to go for a morning run, and Helena decided to cock block me and follow me. She tried to strike up a conversation, but I just ignored her, to the point where she got pissed at me. I was chuckling, and she asked me why, but I still wasn't talking.
"So, are you going to tell me what happened to our old team?"
"How did you get here anyways?"
"How did you end up being related to Celestia?"
"Are you even listening to me?"
My god, this Brit just won't stop talking, I put in my Ipod and started to listen to some awesome music. I don't know, but music seemed to calm me down, even in the middle of a fight. I would just be sitting there, listening to music, all while bullets whiz past my head. If you want to know what music I was listening to, it was this one. (Music)
An hour later I got home, Rainbow was on the couch watching TV, and the guys were all downstairs, probably in the shooting range. I took a shower and everything, and I heard a knock on the door, I opened up to see Derpy.
"Oh, hey Derpy. What can I do for you?" She then put a package in my arms, I didn't know who it was from and what was inside of it.
"See you later your highness!" Oh god why? I opened up the cardboard box and saw a newspaper, the main articale read, 'New Royal Family Member?' Great, now I'm on the newspaper, but there was something else in the box, it was a dispenser, a pocket sized dispenser. It had a swith on it, and it had little pictures of equipment on it. There was also a note, it says it was from Princess Luna.
Dear Cousin Andrew,
I'm giving this to you because it looked like you needed it. Even though you seem to have a vast amount of equipment already, I wanted you to use this to store it in. Plus the fact that I missed your birthday last year, so I wanted to wish you a happy belated birthday.
Princess Luna
Aww, how sweet! Really, I don't like carrying my unlimited amount of equipment everywhere. Now I can just put it in this seemingly small pocket sized container! Ooh, it says it has a place to keep my alcohol! I instantly put it to use. I pressed the button for a flashbang grenade, and it instantly appeared in my hand ready to pull the pin and throw. I then pushed the alcohol button, and a flask appeared in my hand in replacement for the flashbang.
"Sweet! I think this is going to come in handy." Rainbow then came out of nowhere and tackled me, and Pinkie was not far behind.
"Rainbow? Pinkie? What the hell?" I got them off of me and I brushed myself off.
"Drew! There's a fight in the park! Big Mac is fighting an armed thug! You need to get over there! quickly!" Holy shit, if Big Mac gets hurt I won't forgive myself, plus it isn't fair if someone's armed and he isn't. I rushed over to the park and saw the fight going on. I then tried to break up the fight, and calm everypony down as much as I could.
"Hey, hey, HEY! What is going on here? Big Mac, why are you fighting?" He sat down on his haunches, I took a knee and got on eye level, but I wasn't in his personal space.
"Well, somepony's been stealin' off of mah farm. When I went to work this mornin' ah found him, stealing basket loads of mah apples." I nodded, and I looked over to the thug.
"Now Mister, give back those apples, and I promise I'll let you go free." He freaked out and tried to shank me, he grazed me in the arm.
"Big mistake..." I punched him in the face, and I disarmed him. He was knocked out on the ground, and I helped Big Mac with the baskets of stolen apples.
"Now take those to the market, I'll see myself to the doctor, ngghh." I grabbed my forearm, I was kind of bleeding bad. Pinkie though had other plans in mind.
"Here Drew, use this!" She put chocolate frosting on my cut wound, and boy did it hurt. I think it either made it worse, or made it better, but the sugar in the chocolate probably made it worse.
"Pinkie! That hurts!"
"Yeah, but look at your cut!" She pointed at my cut, it wasn't bleeding anymore, hell, the cut wasn't there anymore!
"What Gypsy magickery is this?"
"It's MY Gypsy magickery!" She licked the frosting off of my arm, gross. I guess since there was nothing to do today, I'm going to hang with Pinkie, help her out at Sugarcube Corner, maybe do some pranking, help her with Mr. and Mrs. Cake's foals.
"So Pinkie, anything new happening lately?" I asked, she nodded.
"Okay, Rainbow's Birthday is in a few days, and I want you to get her something special."
"Any suggestions?"
"Yeah! Okay, so what you need to do is make an epic fireworks show for her. I'm sure it will be easy with your knowledge of explosives." She looked around cautiously, and whispered.
"Pinkie Promise you won't tell anypony about this?"
"I Pinkie Promise, and how do you know about fireworks? I thought only Unicorns had that ability?" She shook her head.
"Poor, old, messed up Drew. I'm Pinkie Pie, I know about everything!" I facepalmed. I went upstairs and let Pinkie run the shop below, she told me that the babies probably needed to be eating.
"C'mon kiddos, time to get you fed." I picked them up, but I don't think they liked me at all. I gave them their bottles and I laid them down in their crib, Pinkie noticed how weird my tone was when I'm around certain beings. For example, when I'm around my friends, I'm in a happy mood, around enemies, I get angry, around other ponies, neutral. For babies it's completely different, it's more of a fatherly thing, even though I'm not a father, and I don't plan to be for the next year or so.
"Wow Drew, you're like a natural born dad." She whispered, I had a little smile on my face, ponies as babies may be kinda annoying, but at other times, they're pretty adorable.
"Okay, now that they're fed, burped, and now asleep. Let's go do something. The thing is, what are we going to do?" I put my hand on my chin, Pinkie emulated me and put her hoof on her chin.
"We could always help Twilight gather stuff for her." Why not? I haven't been in the Everfree for a while, plus I always wanted to meet this zebra named Zecora the ponies in town always talked about.
"Why not? Let's go!" I started humming a song and Pinkie trotted along beside me.
"Over the river and through the woods to Twilight's House we go! I don't know the rest of the words so I'm gonna make stuff up as we go." I stopped singing, and Pinkie was laughing hysterically. We made it to Twilight's house, and it was like she was expecting us.
"Drew, I need you to get these herbs from Zecora, she's not that far from the entrance of the Everfree." She pushed me out the door, while Pinkie was with Twilight, doing who knows what. I walked into the Everfree, not knowing what could be in store for me this time. This time there was no trouble for me, I went to Zecora's Hut with no troubles at all.
"Ahh, I've been expecting you, you must be the one they call Drew?" I nodded, she seemed like a nice Zebra, I don't know why the townsponies didn't like her at first.
"Yes, I'm here to fetch these things for Twilight?"
"Yes, come, there is lots to be done." She gestured me to follow her, into her outside wild garden. I guess since she lives out here everything is her garden, so it didn't matter. She put the herbs into a sack and I was on my way.
"It's been a pleasure meeting you Zecora!" I shouted back at her.
"Indeed my friend, I hope your problems will come to an end!" How did she know I have social problems? Is she like a psychic or something? As a matter of fact I do have a lot of things on my mind, Rainbow wants a foal, Princess Celestia invites the Crew and I over more often for afternoon tea chat sessions, Pinkie being Pinkie, and Jhon and Twilight are taking it a step further in their relationship!
"I think there might be a mighty Shit Storm in the future." I mumbled to myself, I started to question myself about Rainbow wanting a foal of her own. Am I even capable of doing that? I would think so if I'm part Alicorn, but I think I would have to be an Alicorn just to be sure nothing bad happens. I think I'm getting to detailed with this topic, so I'll stop thinking about it.
"There you are! Can I have the bag of herbs please?" I gave Twilight the small sack. and she put it in a cauldron. "What are you making with those herbs?"
"I'm making my favorite tea, and I'm also trying to replicate your health tablets that you call, 'Tic-Tacs." I pressed the Tic-Tac button on my dispenser, and gave one to her, she opened the capsule and a white powder with a hint of green in it came out.
"Green and White herbs, very potent stuff. How did you get these?"
"I found them in Tatchi, China. Why?"
"Because this stuff is only found in Resident Ponyville 6."
"Your point being?"
"It doesn't make any sense!"
"Twilight, don't you remember I can go into alternate dimensions?"
"Drew, you're messed up." She took a sip of tea, I took a bite of a cookie.
"I know I am, it's natural." I chuckled. I don't know what's up with Twilight lately, she's been rather... serious.
"Y'know Twilight, I don't think you get out much. You need to come with me." I picked her up, she struggled to get out of it, but to no avail. I don't know where I'm going, just wandering through Ponyville, with Twilight riding on my back. She asked me where I was going, but I shrugged as a response.
"So Twilight, Rainbow wants a foal, what do I do?"
"You can turn into an Alicorn, or just adopt one."
"Can I just like go into the basement and do heavy thinking?"
"Or you can do that, or just turn into an Alicorn..."
"That's right! I CAN turn into an Alicorn, I completely forgot!"
"That's what I've been saying." She stated blankly, I chuckled and put her down.
"Thank you for everything Twi!" I ran back to my house.
"No, thank you Drew. I needed a little talk to get me out of my funk. I'll see you later!" She shouted back at me, because I was a good 50 feet away from her already. I just remembered I have to make fireworks for Rainbow's Birthday party, I guess I'm going to be busy for the next few days, that gives me lots of time to reflect on solutions to my problems.
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