Last time on 'Let's Go Get The Mane Cast To Go to A Party But Then Everyone is Busy Or Something' Quest:
>Went to Applejack's.
>She was busy, helped Big Mac inside and said she couldn’t come to the party.
>Went to Fluttershy's.
>She wouldn’t answer the door and was lying in bed. Couldn’t come to the party.
>Went to Rarity's.
>She mad.
>Went to Twilight's.
>Spike answered, said they were really busy.
>Went to Rainbow Dash's.
>She all set for the party, though doesn’t seem to like you much.
>Pinkie said she and Dash would go gather up more party guests while you go back to Sugar Cube Corner and make sure everything is all set.
You are standing on the crest of a hill just outside Ponyville. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie have just ran off into town to find more ponies for the party.
The simple thing to do seems to be to go back to Sugar Cube Corner and get things started, like Pinkie said. After wandering around town for the last several hours, you're starting to become more accustomed to the streets and are better at finding your way. You make good time.
What a day. Just a few hours ago you woke up in the forest without a memory in your head, in a place you knew nothing about. A jelly cube and several ponies later, you're putting on party. What a world.
It's still a little light out but the sun is rapidly reaching the horizon as you return to Sugar Cube Corner. The door is still open, but you make sure to announce your arrival, thinking about how bad your first impression with the Cakes was.
"Hello?" You knock on the door you enter. "It's me again. Rusty. Don't get scared."
"Oh! Rusty... right," The blue pony you saw so momentarily today is there, with a pair of small baby ponies in front of her playing on the floor. As you enter, the two little ponies look up at you with fascination. "We weren’t expecting you back... so soon, that is! Where's Pinkie?"
You explain that Pinkie and Dash are out getting more party guests. You came to make sure everything is going well here.
"Right, the party! Everything is going well here. Most of the treats should be ready by now." She looks around the room for a moment. "Uhh, could you set things out for the guests while I mind the little ones? Everything is in the kitchen."
You go into the kitchen and take stock of the food situation. There’s a few cakes and cookies and cupcakes and lots of other little tasty looking pastries. It reminds all reminds you of the small cookie residing in your pocket, the last treat that survived you and Pinkie when you were offered a bin of snacks as an apology from Mr. Cake. It all looks and smells so good.
It all seem like a simple matter of taking the food from the back to the front.......
You gingerly pick up a cake and take its weight. Ok. Easy......easy. You got the weight, just...need to....get....through the doors......easy....eaFUCK
Tripping over your own feet, the cake goes FLYING from your hands, into the the room and landing almost perfectly on Mrs. Cake and her babies. There’s a distinct SPLAT and a scream of shock and excitement from the three ponies.
You hit the ground face first.
"Oh no!" You say, getting to your feet frantically, falling down again and getting up a second time. "Oh no, I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry! I thought I had it but I'm not good with cakes and this is all very new to me and I'm soooo sorry I didn't mean-"
"No no, its OK!" Mrs. Cake says, scooping up her babies, the two of them giggling and licking up frosting. "Accidents will happen. You uhhhh... you stay here and clean up. I need to go up stairs and clean up. You just stay here."
She's backing away from you,, even going up the stairs backwards. "Right. Here. OK?"
You're left alone in the front of house with a huge pile of white and chocolate cake on the floor. You feel just awful and look for something to help you clean up. You find a dust pan but nothing to sweep with, so you just use you hand.
It was more work then it looked like, but eventually you get things clean, licking a little of the temping treat from your fingers. It was really good.
You decide not to add any more fuel to the fire and just sit down quietly. Not touching anything. Not hurting anyone. You hear water running upstairs, no doubt Ms. Cake running a bath for her and the baby ponies. You hope she's not to upset about all this.
After another 15 minutes or so, Pinkie bursts into the store with a few more ponies behind her.
"Alright! Lets par... Rusty?" Pinkie hops over to you sitting on the floor, curious. "What's wrong?"
"I made a mess. Got Mrs. Cake and her babies covered in cake. Didn’t want to make another mess, so I'm just sitting here."
Pinkie looks at you long and hard for what feels like a solid minute to you. Slowly, her nose wrinkles, eyes scrunch, a smile appears and she's giggling. Soon she's on her back, laughing, her hoofs waggling in the air.
"Ahahahahaa!" Pinkie recovers, getting to her hooves and wiping her head eyes. "Aha ha... aha, oh Rusty, that’s hilarious. I wish I was here to see it!"
You feel a little better by Pinkie's mirth and that a few of the ponies she brought with her are giggling with each other. "Is there any food left?"
"Oh, yeah!" You say, a smiling creeping on your own face. "The kitchen's full. I just didn’t want to drop any more."
"Okie dokie!" Pinkie bounds over to the double doors leading to the kitchen. "You just make yourself at home with the others and I'll bring the chow!"
You get to your feet and decide to rub elbows... heads... do ponies have elbows? Whatever, you decide to mingle.
Pinkie brought with her three guests. One is a mint green looking unicorn, a white-ish pony with purple and magenta hair and bright purple/pink pony, with a picture of berries on its flank. They seem to be chatting with each other happily. As you walk over the the little ground they hush up.
Oh god. As far as you know this is your first party ever. You have no idea what to talk about.
"H-hi." You say, putting on a nice smile. "I'm Rusty."
"Oh hello... Rusty." The mint green pony says, smiling as nervously as you. "I'm Lyra. And these are by friends, Bonbon and Berry."
Oh god oh god oh god what do you talk about oh god where's Pinkie oh god.
You do you're very best to keep your cool and oh god are you sweating? You hope they don’t notice. Would ponies notice that sort of thing? You hope not.
"So... uh, what do you all do for a living?"
"Oh, well I'm a musician." Lyra explains.
"That’s really interesting. What instrument do you play?"
All of the ponies look at you with a funny expression for a moment, look at Lyra, back at you and all start laughing. You're not really sure why they're laughing, but you seem to have broken the ice and laugh too.
Soon enough, you and the other are having a nice conversation. Pinkie soon appears and starts laying out treats for everyone. You all have a nice time and snack a bit. It's a little weird for you, talking down to these ponies and you're back is getting a little tense. But you're having fun and making friends.
Talking with your new friends you learn a bit about Ponyville. They're a nice little town of ponies in this country called Equestria. but lately things have been bad. Monsters from the Everfree Forrest have been plaguing them like nothing else these last few weeks and its just been an ordeal for everyone. No one has been injured so far, thanks to Pinkie and her friends, but everyone is so scared.
You were about to say something when Dash bangs inside, followed by another winged pony, this one gray and blonde. "Pinkie, I'm back."
"Yay!" Pinkie says, laying down the last of the food. "Now we can REALLY get started!"
Soon enough, Pinkie kicks things into full swing. Fun music starts playing from somewhere and multicolored lights pop on somehow, but everyone else seems to be having a good time so you don’t question it. After a while, even Dash seems to lighten up and have a good time.
"Oh oh!" Pinkie shouts after a while. "I have the best idea! Let's play a game!"
The other ponies all cheer in agreement. Pinkie hops up to you.
"How about it Rusty?" She says, bouncing up you your full height. "Know any fun hooin games?"
"Uhhh..." You think frantically.
“Oh boy," Dash comments loudly, her hoof in her face. "Here we go."
"Uhhh..." You still have amnesia and don’t even your own name... but, something. Party games. Think think. "Pin... the tail on the donkey?"
The music suddenly cuts off and everyone is looking at you.
"On the... donkey?" Pinkie says, holding her head to her side. "Is that like pin the tail on the pony?"
"Uhh, I... think so?"
"Great! Good idea Rusty!" Pinkie, in a blur, sets up a picture of a pony on a wall. "You can go first!"
"Wait hold o-" You says but are suddenly blinded and something soft is jammed in your hand. You're set spinning and don’t know up for down. You feel a little sick.
"Just try and stick the tail in the pony!" You hear Pinkie shout from... somewhere!
You tumble around blindly, bumping into a table. Everyone is laughing and it starts to make you laugh to. You come up to where you think the picture might be and jam the thing in your hand into it. The laughter erupts to a new pitch.
You take off the blindfold and see your handy work. You stuck a phoney pony tail with a pin in it in, not only not on the picture but not even the same wall! You're on the opposite side of the room! Everyone is having a good laugh at your expense.
"Wow, snrk, Rusty!" Pinkie says, nudging your side. "You're GREAT at this ahaha!"
You can feel your cheeks going red and smile.
"Could you uh, could you get the tail down? You stuck it half way to the roof! Ahahaha!"
"Oh, sorry, hehe," You put the nailed tail out of the wall and hand it back to Pinkie.
"OK, my turn!" Pinkie says. You help her with the blindfold and some other ponies help spin her around. Pinkie barely does any better then you did!"
You and your new pony friends all have a good time for what feels like hours. Mrs. Cake came down at one point to check on things, but then quickly went back up stairs.
You're the life of the party. After the game, all the ponies have loosened up to you and start asking you all sorts of human questions.
"What do you eat?"
"Where did you come from?"
"Are there’s other like you?"
"You're really tall!"
You sit down with the ponies gathered around you, trying your best to answer the questions, but you're brain is so full of holes, you think you can only remember the most basic common knowledge things.
"I eat..." The thought occurs to you that you probably shouldn’t mention you eat meat.... wait, do you eat meat? You don’t remember ever doing that but it sounds right. But you think your new pony friends might take that the wrong way. "Food. You know fruits and things like that. Lots of stuff"
You go on to explain your situation to these little ponies. That you can't remember anything before today and that you're not really sure on anything. But you're sure humans come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and colors, like the ponies! And there’s a lot of humans, maybe like millions even! And some are even taller then you! Although you don’t know where any of them are.
Yeah, that sounds right, yeah.
All of the ponies are engrossed your talking, you're all caught by surprised when Mrs. Cake comes back down.
"Alright little ponies, its getting late."
There’s a general "Awwww" shared by you and the other ponies, but everyone helps clean a little; especially the gray one called Derpy. She accidentally knocked over a table of food. Everyone had a laugh and it made you feel better about your own accident.
Soon enough, the store is clean and the ponies are saying their good byes out the door. Dash pops hooves with Pinkie. "Catch you later, Pinkie."
"Bye Dashy!" Pinkie jumps up and wraps her arms (legs? You seriously cant tell with these ponies) around her friend in a hug. Dash rolls her eyes and peels Pinkie off her. "Bye!"
You are now alone with Pinkie and Mrs Cake. The older pony is looking back and forth at you and the door.
"Oh... is... Rusty staying the night?"
"Huh," Pinkie says, looking at you. "I completely forgot! You don’t have any place to stay, do you?"
"Uh, no." You explain. "I didn’t think of it either. I don’t have a place. Could I-"
"I know!" Pinkie cuts you off. "Rusty could stay here tonight!"
"I dunno Pinkie," Mrs. Cake says, looking you up in down cautiously. "We don’t have a lot of room, especially since the babies. And Rusty your so............. tall."
"Oh please please please!" Pinkie pleads, throwing her self to the ground at Mrs. Cake's hooves and looking up at her. "He can stay in my room with me! I promise it won't be any trouble! It'll be just like a sleep over! Pleeeeeeeaaaaase!"
Mrs. Cake still looks a little unsure, but relents. "Alright Pinkie, you win. Rusty, you're welcome to stay the night."
"Yay!" Pinkie flips in to the air and starts trotting up the stairs. "Oh this is going to be so much fun! Come on Rusty, I'll show you my room!"
Saying good night to Mrs. Cake, you make your way back upstairs and follow Pinkie to her room. It's pretty big, considering she lives above a bakery and there a big colorful bed that looks very inviting to you. You suddenly feel very, very tired. Between escaping death, running around town and that party, you're not really surprised.
Pinkie flings herself across the room and lands on the bed, bouncing a couple times, laughing. "Come on it Rusty. Make yourself comfortable!"
"Pinkie," You explain, stretching out and looking for a good place to bed down for the night. You notice Gummy stalking around a corner of the room and decide you'll avoid that area for now. "This was fun and all, but I'm exhausted."
"Yeah, I guess it is getting kind of late." Pinkie settles down some.
"Do you have an extra pillow and blanket I could use?" You eye a little spot of carpet that would work for you.
"Nope! But don’t worry about it!" Pinkie grabs Gummy up off the floor as he walks past the bed and set him in her lap. "You can just bunk with me and Gummy tonight! There’s plenty of room.”
Today, you woke up in a forest without a memory of who you even were. You saved a pony, were brought back to its village, were eaten by a jelly cube and threw a party. Now you're sharing a bed with a pink ball of energy. It's been quite the day.
You're beat and settle in for the night. Gummy wriggles a bit next to you, slowly opening his big mouth and slowly closing it. You guess he was yawning, cause his eyes are closed now.
Pinkie is silently sleeping beside you, dead to the world. The bed feels really comfortable with the combined body heat and you feel yourself begin to drift off yourself on the pillow. Finally you can rest.....
You're knocked back awake a second later as Pinkie starts snoring very loudly right next to you.