Unforeseen Consequences - The chaos carnival (pt12)

>Applebloom raises an eyebrow, looking at you with some annoyance ”Isn’t that a little too much fer somethin’ like this? We already know who ya are”
>”Well, he really doesn’t who we are except for Sweetie Belle, it’s not like he goes to our school or something, you know?…” Scootaloo replies to her friend, eager to finally get over this homework
>”Oh yeah, right…” Applebloom chuckles in embarrassment and smiles awkwardly at the little pegasus “uhmmm in that case…” the earth filly turns to you and gives you a friendly smile “Mah name is Applebloom, nice to meet ya!”
>”I’m Sweetie Belle…but you already knew that…” The little unicorn gives you a wink “But I don’t want you to forget my name”
>”And I’m Scootaloo, so hey…wait a minute…” Scootaloo walks to you and gives your flank a quick glance before looking to Sweetie Belle “…Yo, Sweetie Belle, didn’t you tell us that your coltfriend here was a blank flank like us?”
>”I-I DIDN’T SAY THAT HE WAS MY COLTFRIEND!” Sweetie Belle yells her blush now covered the entirety of her face
>”You totally did! You didn’t stop telling us how cute he was and how charming and bleh!...” Scootaloo makes a disgusted face “I get sick just by remembering how you keep going about Anon…”
>”I-I DIDN’T…” Sweetie Belle looks to you with some desperation in her eyes “ANON, I DIDN’T SAY THAT YOU WERE MY COLTFRIEND!”
>Applebloom can’t help but to laugh “That’s funny, because Ah remember somethin’ different”
>Oooooh, so that’s why Sweetie Belle was so…well…sweet with you. Too bad that you had to put a stop to this immediately, you already had a girl, and you weren’t planning on changing her.
“I’m flattered Sweetie Belle, I really am but…I’m already taken”
>As cute as she was, you had to put a stop to any hope that she might have about you. After all, you don’t want to make your girl sad
>”WHAT?!” Sweetie Belle stands up from her chair and slams her hooves on the table, making some papers fall from it “BUT YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU DIDN’T HAVE A SPECIAL SOMEPONY!”
>You nod
“Yes, when we met I was indeed single, but do you remember Cherrywood? She’s the bat filly that I told you and everyone else at Fluttershy’s house”
>”Who?!” Sweetie Belle narrows her eyes before gasping “B-But you said that she was only your friend!”
>You shake your head
“I didn’t say “only” a friend, I clearly said that Cherrywood is my BEST friend, but I guess things happens and…well…She and I are as you said, special some ponies. Please Miss Belle, do not get angry, I’m flattered by your feelings, but I’m afraid that I can’t say that I share them, so please, let’s be friends alright?”
>”Well…” Sweetie Belle huffs “Of course we can be friends, because I never said that I liked you or something like that!” She crosses her arms and looks away…
>You sigh and shake your head, you certainly didn’t want this reaction, but it was probably for the best to immediately stop Sweetie Belle from getting any ideas about you.
>”Oooookaaaay….” Scootaloo and Applebloom were clearly weirded out by their friend behavior, but just like you, they didn’t want to go into this deeper, or at least not when you were present.
>”So Anon, now ya got me curious…” Applebloom was still at her seat, but she was clearly looking at your flank “What did ya got yer cutie mark in?”
>”No wait!” Before you can say anything, Scootaloo steps in between you and the other two fillies “What about the homework?! We have been trying to solve this for like forever!”
>You let out a chuckle
“I think that you want to ask when I’m going to help you with your little problem. I can see your frustration, so let’s finish your work and so we can talk about whatever you want. I don’t think that it will take that long, not when you have me. I’ll just need to see everything that you need to do and we will be over in no time”
>”Here…” Sweetie Belle gets up from her chair, you could tell her by how she looked at you that she was depressed, but nonetheless, she handles you her notepad with a little smile “What we have to do start here…”
>Using her magic, Sweetie Belle flips some pages, pointing out a couple of math problems “And it ends right about…” Oh holy mother of god, she skipped like 20 pages “Here…”
>Well… that was a whole lot of homework…okay… nothing that you couldn’t manage. You gently take the notepad from Sweetie Belle…
>Goddamn she still blushed, even when you told her that you were taken…. whatever, at least she limited to just nod and take seat, same with Scootaloo.
>You rub your temples as you start inspecting the notepad. This was piss easy, but it was a lot, so what you had to do was…
“Okay, originally what I was going to do was to solve each problem and explain it, so you could understand everything in case that your teacher decided to ask questions, and because… you know… learning fractions is actually super important. But since your teacher decided to make you do a small thesis on fractions…”
>”What?” Scootaloo jumps from her seat, you can see how flustered and nervous she was “Oh come on, don’t tell me that you are not going to help us!”
>”Scootaloo, please… Anon is too nice… and smart… and handsome… to do that…” Sweetie Belle looks to you with hope in her eyes “You are going to help us, right? I-I didn’t want to get angry about you having a special somepony…I-I just got surprised! That’s it! Please Anon…”
>You shake your head
“I never said that I wasn’t going to help you, what I meant was that I’m surprised by how much work your teacher gave you, any reason as to why? Not even Sunny Hill gives us this amount of homework.”
>Applebloom can’t hide her frustration as she flails her hooves in the air  ”Ya see, Miss Cheerilee said somethin’ about us being better doin’ homework than going outside and risking our flats with the carnival, so she decided to give us more work than what I have durin’ rainbow jam season!” The poor filly groans and slams her head on the table once more
>Well, that was…baffling, but that Cheerilee didn’t count on you being able to breeze through her stupid fractions like the riot police through Mardi Gras… man, that was a fun weekend
>You start to look every single mathematical problem, okay you can do this since all of them involved fractions.
>Nothing of that retarded glyph system that was used for magical research, or those weird ass apple and heart symbols that were used instead of just writing X and Y as variables and A, B and C as constants.
>Like for fuck sake, why were ponies so goddamn bad at grasping the notion that simple is better when it comes to science.
>Every single time, every single FUCKING time they always come up with some over convoluted bullshit that made your blood boil, it was like they never fucking heard of Occam’s razor or developed such a simple concept like that, which was ironic because that literally spoke about simplicity in science!
>What kind of fucking brainless moron thought that drawing a fucking heart would be easier than just a goddamn X!
>But at least they fucking know the concept of Pi! Too bad that instead of just drawing three lines, ponies literally represents it with a fucking Pie!
>The worst part was that they were self-aware of these retarded systems and yet did absolutely nothing about them.
>Even Moon Dancer didn’t gave a fuck that she was dealing with the most moronic system in the entire multi-verse and she was like super mega intelligent.
>”Umm Anon… are you alright?” Sweetie Belle got so worried about you going suddenly so silent that she got up from her chair to shake you a little
“Wha-? I mean… Of course I’m fine…I was just… bothered that your teacher decided to give you all of this meaningless work just so you couldn’t go outside to enjoy the chaos carnival… heh… yeah… anyways, as I said these are nothing for me, I can do them mentally, just…give me a moment…”
>You take some extra breathes before finally moving on. You pick up a pencil that was lying on the ground and quickly begin to solve the homework that these fillies had so much trouble with.
>Needless to say, it didn’t take you that long, not even when you double check your results, after all, this wasn’t the Schrödinger equation or Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty, these were plain problems based on fractions.
>After you are done with that, you move to the chalkboard where you write down three problems of their homework, so you can explain them to these little fillies.
>Neither Scootaloo nor Applebloom paid much attention to you, focusing more on copying the already solved homework…but hey, at least Sweetie Belle was listening intently to everything that you said.
>One out of three isn’t bad… at the very least; it’s a far better ratio than what you had with the classes that you gave at the MIT.
>Once the three ponies finishes to copy the homework and to listen to your little class, Applebloom jumps out of her chair and raises her hooves to the sky ”Oh thank you sweet Celestia! Ah’m finally free from this nightmare!”
>”I thought this was never going to end…” Scootaloo just leans her head backwards and sighs in relief
>”Well... I don’t know about you girls, but I just want to thank…” Sweetie Belle turns to you with a smile and sighs “Anon… thank you… you really are a prince in a shining armor…”
>Applebloom chuckles and gives her friend a small tug ”Well, Ah don’t know about the shinin’ armor but he IS a prince”
>”Hey, yeah, now that we are finally free. Why don’t you tell us more about yourself, eh Mr. Prince?” Scootaloo gives you a little smirk and wiggles her eyebrows
>You roll your eyes and groan
“Please, don’t call me by my title, just Anon is fine…”
>”But why?” Applebloom stands up and stretches a little “Aren’t ya happy that ya are the son of the Princesses?”
>”Yeah! That sounds like a super awesome thing to be!” Scootaloo stands up too
“Eeeeh, is not that I’m not happy with my moms, far from it, they are kind and lovable and intelligent and forgiving and awesome it’s just that…well, I don’t want to just be known as the son of Princess Luna or Princess Celestia, I want to shine on my own…”
>”Well ya got me more confused now, Ah don’t understand how being a prince would stop you from doin’ that, ya got yer cutie mark just fine, right?”
“Well, yes, but I don’t want ponies to think that I got my cutie mark in harmony just because I’m a prince, or that I did something just because I’m the prince”
>”Harmony?!” The three fillies exclaims at the same time, making you groan
“Yes…please…don’t make a big fuzz about that…”
>”But Anon….” Sweetie Belle interrupts you “You ARE the prince, and you have a cutie mark in harmony… that’s who you are, I don’t understand why you would want to run away from that… You should be proud of you”
>”Yeah! Like come on dude, it’s not like ponies will forget who you are just because your title, that doesn’t happen with your moms, right?”
“Yeah, but…”
>”If anythin’ that make it even more impressive fer everypony when they do somethin’ great because they are the princesses”
>You tilt your head backwards and raise an eyebrow at Applebloom
“I’m afraid I don’t follow…”
>”Anon…” Sweetie Belle gently taps your shoulder “What we want to say it’s that there’s nothing wrong with ponies calling you a prince, if anything that makes you more of an inspiration for everypony…”
“R-really?”
>”Eeyup!” Applebloom walks to you, standing by Sweetie Belle’s side “Just think about it, ya are smart, and can talk fancy with no problem, and Ah reckon that yer cute too…but ehhh” Applebloom’s eyes shift from one side to the other “But eh that’s not the point, what Ah want to say is…”
>Scootaloo rolls her eyes and joins the other two fillies “What these two want to say it’s that you are a prince, and it’s fine to be that, you are supposed to be a leader or something and if you deny that, then you suck, got it?”
>You raise your hoof in protest but…. They…they have a point…these three girls have a point…same with Aegia… same with Rarity… same with your moms… they all have a point….maybe
“I’ll think about that…. And I mean it, really, I will keep in mind your advice because….because I can see that you are right…thanks…”
 >Scootaloo snickers, placing her hooves on the back of her head “You better! But anywhoooo I’m glad that we can know more of you other than you being super smart and that you have a marefriend”
>Marefriend... Oh crap, you forgot about talking to Cherrywood!
>You take off your saddlebag, digging desperately in search for your radio and…AHA! Here it is!
>Applebloom tilts her head in confusion, in fact, the three fillies do ”Umm, Anon… what are ya doin’? And what is that thing?”
“Hang on a second Applebloom, I forgot about reporting to Cherrywood, this won’t take long…”
>”Oh yeah…your marefriend…yeepee” Sweetie Belle huffs and crosses her front legs, looking at your radio with disdain “How are you going to talk to her using that anyways?”
>You ignore Sweetie Belle tone and instead just give the three fillies a cocky grin
“Well my lovely ladies, this is a radio, it’s a device that me and Discord sto- I mean, designed together. It lets you speak with another pony through long distances; I did the actual designing of course…”
>You point to yourself, and give the fillies a little wink, making Applebloom to roll her eyes, Scootaloo to scowl and Sweetie Belle to blush.
“While Discord powered it with his magic, if it wasn’t for him two things would occur, the first one would be of course that the radio would have no power source and the second is that his magic allows it to have a much bigger reach than what my the original design was able to, now allow me to show you the power of technology!”
>Using your magic you turn on the radio and extend the antenna. You set up Cherrywood’s frequency and…
“Cherrywood…come in Cherrywood…it’s me…your Anonny”
>*Tsssssssssss*
>The three fillies were now surrounding you, completely amazed that the thing could even be turned on in the first place
“Cherrywood? Are you there?”
>*Tsssssssssss*
>Maybe she isn’t there? Maybe she’s busy? Regardless of these completely logical situations you were starting to get nervous about the radio silence
>Applebloom turns to you with a bored expression ”Seems like yer little toy doesn’t work…”
>”Yeah, kind of a bummer though…” Scootaloo rubs the back of her neck, disappointed about the lackluster result.
>”Hmph! I’m sure that Anon is a genius and that his invention does work! Maybe his marefriend just doesn’t appreciate this fantastic gift like she should!” Sweetie Belle scowls at her two friends, completely sure about your capabilities of developing your stolen radio
>”What?! Who are those ponies?! They sound like fillies! Over” Finally, you get a message over the radio, and it was indeed Cherrywood’s voice…and she didn’t sound happy
“Cherrywood! Finally! What happened, why you weren’t responding?”
>You hear Cherrywood sigh over the radio ”Anon! Don’t be dumb! You told me that you are supposed to say “over” when you finish what you were supposed to say! Over!”
>”Hey! Anon is not dumb!” Sweetie Belle takes the radio from you, yelling furiously at it “He is nice and smart and cute and you don’t respect that! Err…Over!”
>”Wha- Who are you?!” Oh dear, Cherrywood was yelling too
>”My name is Sweetie Belle you big meany!” the unicorn yells back to the radio “And you are a terrible special somepony! Over!”
>”And what would you know about that, huh?!” Cherrywood yells back “I bet that you only want to steal Anon from me! OVER!”
“Hey! That’s not true! Now please, give me the radio. Sweetie Belle, you are wrong, Cherrywood is a fantastic girlfriend and my best friend and Cherrywood, please…there’s no need to get angry, as I’ve said she’s only my friend”
>But your words are unheard as the discussion between the two fillies starts to heat up
>”*HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS* STAY AWAY FROM MY COLTFRIEND YOU SQUEAKY, LOUDMOUTHING, DUMBO’S NUTS! OVEEER!”
>”Squeaky?! Me?! Have you even heard your own voice, you ugly witch from the west?!” By this point Sweetie Belle had taken completely the radio and pushed her friends and you away from her  “YOU SOUND LIKE A PARASPRITE! … Oh yeah… OVER!”
>”What?! Do you even know what a parasprite is, you cheerio head?! You are so dumb that you make a rock golem look smart! OVER!”
>”A what?!” Sweetie Belles scowls “Over!”
>You hear Cherrywood snicker and reply with sarcasm ”What you are, you willy-head! Over!”
>Okay, using magic was out of the question, you didn’t want to be a brute with Sweetie Belle and the freezing spell was out of the question since you weren’t able to control it yet.
>You turn to the two fillies who were awe struck by her friend behavior. You groan and yell at them
“Applebloom! Scootaloo! Come on, help me out with this! On my mark, I’ll take the radio and you take Sweetie Belle!”
>The both fillies nod and prepare for your order
“Okay, three, two, one! Now!”
>Applebloom and Scootaloo jump and hold Sweetie Belle, making her release her magical grip on the radio
>You in turn grab the radio with your magic and make an exit for the clubhouse
>”Anon, where are yer goin’?”
“Don’t worry, I’m not bailing on you if that’s what you think! I’ll calm down Cherrywood, after I’m done with that I will come and help you with Sweetie Belle!”
>Scootaloo was struggling, but she gives you a nod before going back to calm her friend ”Alright, but don’t take much! Sweetie Belle is scarier than a bear when she gets angry!”
>”What did you say?!”
>”Scootaloo, please! Ah don’t want to rebuild the podium again!”
>And with that, you leave those three for a moment to focus on your little bat…sheesh, what in the world was that?
>You take the radio and press the button to speak, but not before taking a big deep breathe
“Cherrywood…are you there?”
>*Tsssssss*
>Again with the radio silence…maybe she left…no, that’s not possible, she was still there
“Cherrywood, please…answer me…”
>*Tsssssss*
>You sigh and drop your head for a moment before trying again
“Cherrywoood, please… you know that I would never go behind your back, Sweetie Belle is only my friend, same with Applebloom and Scootaloo, same with all the fillies of my class, same with-“
>”Yeah, yeah, I get it, you are super popular, so what?!”
>You are taken aback a little by her tone, but you don’t give up, you had the words that you knew would cheer her up
“My point Cherrywood, is that none of them is you, I like you so much because you are brave and intelligent, and you have a heart so big that it doesn’t fit on that fluffy chest of yours. You understand me like no other girl does, and care for me like no one else. So what that you call me dumb? If anything, I’m thankful that you speak your mind and remind me that sometimes I do get over my head.”
>Again, silence…but you knew that she was listening to you
“Cherrywood, you are my best friend, you are my girlfriend… I wouldn’t change that for world… I wouldn’t change YOU for the world… Cherrywood…please, if I made you feel bad, if I made you feel second place…I’m so sorry…I was blind… you are always on my mind, Cherrywood”
>Finally you hear a sigh over the radio, and after that, Cherrywood’s sad voice ”You forgot to say over….”
“Cherrywood…”
>”No, wait… I-I’m sorry too… I-I got jealous… is just that… you are my Annony, you know? I-I don’t know what I would do if I ever lose you… I have no friends other than you and Mr. Discord… and my cousins are always bullying me and…and… I’m sorry Anon… please…” You hear Cherrywood sniffing  “I don’t want to be all alone again … I’m sorry”
>You close your eyes… it hurt… it hurt to know that she was so lonely before knowing you…
“Well, you don’t have to be alone ever again, I swear on that, as for what happened, just… don’t worry, just remember that no matter who I am with, I’m always thinking about you, alright Cherryberry?”
>”Kekeke~ Cherryberry? Anoooon, that’s super cheesy! over”
>You roll your eyes and chuckle
“And Annony isn’t cheesy? over”
>”Hnng…N-No! It’s cute! And it shows how much I…I….”
>”W-whatever! You also had me worried sick about you! over”
>That took you by surprise, she couldn’t possibly know about Starlight, at least not so soon
“But why? You knew where I was going, and if it was for not calling you all day, again, I’m sorry, it’s just that Discord and the carnival has kept me busy…over”
>”What?! No, Anon! Don’t get dumb on me now! Don’t you know about what’s going on outside of the weird bubble that Mr. Discord made?! …oh yeah, over”
>You feel a chill that ran down your spine, you pull the radio closer to you and speak with a serious tone
“No, the chaos cloud that Discord set up around Ponyville effectively isolates the town from the outside world, so I need you tell me everything that is going on outside. Cherrywood, tell me exactly what’s happening that makes you so worried…over”
>”I-Is not only me…Blazing Dusk and Smoke Shadow, err, a couple of my mom’s most trusted guards came to my granny’s house like ten minutes ago saying that we better not leave the house…over “
“What?! But why?!”
>You hear a sigh over the radio and Cherrywood’s voice who was now completely serious ”Anon, the sky is pink…like the weirdest pink that I’ve ever seen! A-And there are guards everywhere, wait let me see something…”
>There was a brief radio silence that felt like an eternity, you feel cold sweat running down your forehead…why? What made you so anxious?
>”Yup, I can still see those huge groups of guards that are flying towards Mr. Discord’s carnival… Anon? Is everything okay?”
“I-I don’t know… I mean, sure! I’m sure that this is something that Discord planned”
>”A-Are you sure? A-Anon, I-I’m starting to get scared… I don’t think that this is something that Mr. Discord pla- *bzzzzzzt* *tsssssssst* *bzzzzzzt*”
“Cherrywood?”
>But no answer came from the radio…only static… you start to freak out, you grab the radio tighter and start yelling
“Cherrywood! Cherrywood! Answer me, please!”
>*Bzzzt* *Tssss* D’Awwww so you have a little girlfriend!” T-That voice...I-It can’t be
“C-Catherine! I-Is that you?! Answer me! Catherine!”
>You hear laughter over the radio, a cruel, cold laughter “Catherine? Ugh! I’ve always hated that name…Nope, we shall think of something better for me, don’t worry my adorable little dork, the fun is just beginning…Tee-hee!” *Bzzzzzzzt* *Tssssssst*
>A raging static noise comes from the radio so hard that you are forced to turn it off. And as soon as you do it…
>*Brrrrooooom*
>An earth shattering earthquake shakes the entirety of the world, it wasn’t long, but it was enough to make you hear the scrams of fear and confusion that came over Ponyville…
“Catherine?”
>The three fillies come out as fast as lighting from her clubhouse, asking in shock and fear what just happened, and right before you can answer
>*Brrrroooooom*
>The earthquake begins again, this time more violent and furious than before. You hear a cracking noise coming from above, making you and the three fillies to look up to the sky…
“Oh…no…”
>The stained glasses began to crack and fall apart, disintegrating into gold and rainbow and silver dust before they could even hit the ground, the earthquake didn’t die this time, quite the contrary, you feel that it was getting stronger and stronger by the second.
>The stained glasses kept cracking and falling over, revealing a purple nebulous cloud that surrounded the entirety of the town, even the now orange sky that was over Sweet Apple Acres was covered by the purple nebula.
>You hear Sweetie Belle yell in fear as she rushes to you and hug you like if her life depended on that, once her friends looked at what caused the unicorn so much fear they do the same…
>You can’t display your fear at what you were looking at… not when these three fillies were so scared at the gigantic snake-like shadow that was swimming around the purple cloud, destroying what little remained of the stained glasses.
>And to make things worse, an imposing, yet familiar female voice thunders across the world “AHAHAHAHAH! I’M FREE! OOOOO DADDY-O! WHERE AAAAAREEEE YOUUUUUU?! YOU SERIOUSLY DIDN’T THINK THAT YOUR LAAAAME HOUSE COULD KEEP ME AT BAY, DID YOU?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! ALRIGHT DORKS, TIME TO HAVE SOME FUN!”