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#Post#: 2900--------------------------------------------------
Dressing For The Part
By: Foxtrot Date: June 9, 2014, 10:07 pm
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A typical sunny day in Canterlot casts a serene setting for the
ponies that wander about its streets going about their daily
business. The smell of fresh coffee and baked goods surround two
ponies as they sit back and engage in casual conversation. One,
a brown unicorn donning a green jacket, glances over to his
katana and guitar as it rests on his backpack laying against his
seat. The other, a dark gray earth pony with multi-toned hair,
simply sips her vanilla latte as her python is nonchalantly
draped over her shoulders. The unicorn looks down, his glass of
iced coffee is already empty; he directs his attention over to
the mare ahead of him, "So, how are you liking Canterlot?"
The mare takes another sip of her drink before answering, "Big,
fancy, full of life. It reminds me of home a bit, albeit a bit
more..." She pauses, as she tries to think of the correct phrase
to use.
"Stuck up?" the unicorn chuckles, stirring a giggle out of the
pony in front of him.
"That's uh... one way of saying it." the mare answers. "There
are some nice ponies here though. Although I'm surprised you're
still staying here. I was in Ponyville not too long ago, you
would love it there."
The unicorn nods, "Yea, I actually stayed there for a few days.
It was a nice place; not too crowded, not too... stuffy either."
The earth pony puts down her latte, a trickle of fizz inches
down the cup as well as some condensation on the glass. "Why
didn't you stay Fox?" she asks, a brow slightly raised in
curiosity.
The stallion remains silent for a moment, his hoof reaches over
to his glass and he begins to tilt it, looking down at the empty
base already knowing to expect nothing inside, "I wanted to Niv.
I almost did. But... things happened, circumstances changed
and..." Foxtrot pauses, letting the glass go and wobble for a
moment before coming to a standstill, "Well, here I am." His
gaze still remains on the glass, the previous grin he had has
now faded away.
Nivalia nods, already knowledgeable of the kind of business her
younger brother was involved in, and the kind of trouble that he
normally gets into. Her expression shows more concern as she
leans forward, Caprica still remaining in place. "Fox, why don't
you go back to the Royal Guard? It's gotta be better than,
well..." Once again Nivalia finds herself looking for the right
words, knowing well that she's treading on a sensitive issue.
Foxtrot looks up and directly at his sibling, his tone rather
stern, "Wandering the streets? Playing part time street
performer while waiting for a contract to appear?" Nivalia
breaks eye contact, her ear flicking a bit. The unicorn lets out
a small sigh, continuing with a much calmer tone. "I'm sorry.
I've already tried Niv; I filled out the paperwork but they
still said no. My time as a guard is done." Foxtrot looks back
at his glass, "I can't really blame them..." He becomes silent,
the pony's gaze becoming more distant.
Nivalia leans back on her seat, not liking the direction of the
conversation. Her ears do perk up when she gets an idea though,
the mare manages to keep a relaxed facade over her growing
excitement. "Hey, do you remember when we were kids..." A smile
begins to form on her face, "And we would pull pranks all the
time?"
A small trickle of a grin appears on Foxtrot's face as he
remembers their past shenanigans, "Yea I do. Why?"
"Let's do one today, right now!" Nivalia answers, "Not on
anypony we don't know. Last thing we need is to get in trouble;
I doubt our adorableness would let us get away this time."
Foxtrot raises a hoof, "Whoa there! Speak for yourself." He lies
back, crossing his hooves with a smug look, "I'm still adorable
as hay if you ask me."
"It's funny that I wasn't asking." Nivalia retorts. She shakes
her head to stay on track, "How about a challenge? The first to
get five random ponies to hoof bump them wins. But, there's a
catch."
"Isn't there always?" Foxtrot asks, his sly demeanor fading with
a roll of his eyes. "What is it?"
Now with the upper hoof, Nivalia gets up, "Get your things, we
have to go shopping for a few things first." Grabbing her
knapsack, the mare starts a brisk trot down the street, Caprica
herself beginning to look around as the python herself is a bit
caught off guard.
Foxtrot immediately gets up, almost knocking his chair over as
he slings over his backpack, guitar, and sword. Once his things
are secured, he follows his sister to what he knows he'll be
regretting later on.
#Post#: 2912--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Nivalia Date: June 13, 2014, 8:48 pm
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Nivalia continues through the cobblestone roads at a brisk trot
as Caprica looks at the passing ponies which give the snake a
confused or interested glance. Foxtrot finally catches up and
keeps pace with the mare, "So can you re-explain what we'll be
doing exactly?"
"Simple." Nivalia replies, not looking over to him but instead
at the stores that they begin to pass by. "You and I will get
each other a ridiculous costume consisting of five pieces. We
then stand in place and ask anypony who passes by for a hoof
bump; if they do it then you don't have to do anything, if you
get denied though you must put one one piece of the costume.
Whoever has their costume on completely, which is the equivalent
to five denials, loses. They then have to keep that outfit on
for an entire hour in the market square."
Foxtrot shrugs, "Alright, you're on. A costume store isn't that
far away either." Without warning the unicorn picks up his pace
to a full jog, leaving Nivalia to play catch up. After a few
minutes of traversing, the two finally end up at their
destination, a small establishment showcasing its diverse
outfits in the window front. Nivalia opens the door and enters
first, silent as she looks on at the variety of crazy outfits,
or rather possibilities, that she can choose. Foxtrot however,
looks around and scans the outfits in a more strategic fashion,
'Huh, what costume would keep ponies from wanting to hoofbump
her?'
#Post#: 2929--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Potato Ponie Date: June 20, 2014, 4:04 am
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Potato Ponie was doing his routine patrols around Ponyville.
Nothing was going on for the moment, though knowing Ponyville
something was bound to show up and try to kill everypony or
steal all the magic in town. Potato was walking down the street
when he saw his faithful sidekick, Nivalia. He was about to trot
over to her and see if she wanted to accompany him on his
patrol, but saw that she was walking around with a different
stallion.
Who was he? Friend? Family? Date? He hoped it wasn't a date.
Might be for the best, all things considered. But still...
Potato shakes any thoughts after that away. Well nothing was
going on right now and there wasn't any particular thing he
needed to get done so, guess what? Time to follow them!
Potato reaches into his cape and, after a minute of searching,
pulls out a grappling hook. He fires the grappling hook at the
ledge of a building and pulls himself up to the roof. He then
follows Niv and her, uhhh, “acquaintance” is a good word for
now, around on the rooftops, jumping across buildings and using
his grappling hook where he needed to. They eventually went
inside a costume shop for some reason Potato couldn't guess,
though the “dirty” side of his starch powered mind had some
rather amusing thoughts.
He was about to jump down from the building and go inside to
follow them around some more, but then the part of the roof PoPo
was standing on crashed in under him. Apparently the architects
had skipped out on some rather important building codes. The
potato themed superhero crashes directly on top of the orange-y,
sorta brown-ish unicorn who PoPo would later find is called
Foxtrot, probably named after the interpretive dance. Or maybe
one of the 67 military nicknames for “bad guys.” Either one.
Anywhooo, Potato lands directly on Fox, knocking the unicorn
over. Thankfully no rubble hits anypony in the shop, not that
anypony but Foxtrot was in the 5 ft. radius of the destroyed
roof part, though several sexy bunny outfits are damaged.
“Oh hi there, I’m Potato Ponie, local potato themed superhero. I
was, ummm, doing a roof inspection then… Ok you know what, I’m a
really bad liar. Truth be told, I was following you around then
the roof crashed in under me.” Potato says while getting up. “Oh
and are you ok?” He then asks after brushing himself off,
holding a hoof out to Fox to help him up.
#Post#: 2931--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Foxtrot Date: June 20, 2014, 7:58 pm
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Foxtrot slightly shakes his head, straightening out the blurry
vision as one hoof is on his head while the other is on his
sword's handle. Once his vision clears he looks over to the
caped pony, his explanation for his motives only prompts the
unicorn to ever so slightly remove his katana from its sheathe.
He looks around first to find Nivalia a safe distance away,
although a slightly surprised look on her and Caprica's face
isn't very reassuring either. Foxtrot looks back to Potato Ponie
and his offered hoof, a grin appearing on his face, "Yea I'm
alright. Now I'd like to know..." he grabs onto the pony's hoof,
and quickly yanks himself up as the sword is pulled out of its
holster. With a flash the edge of the blade hovers just an inch
away from the caped pony's head. Foxtrot's tone remains calm and
neutral, "Who sent you?"
#Post#: 2932--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Nivalia Date: June 20, 2014, 10:49 pm
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"Oh relax Fox." Nivalia interrupts as she walks closer to the
two. "He's not an assassin." Foxtrot opens his mouth to
interjects but is cut off again by the mare, "Or a spy." Once
again the unicorn tries to get a word in but closes his mouth as
Nivalia continues, an expression of slight annoyance on his
face, "Or an agent, or a bounty hunter or the Royal Guard or
anypony else you seem to tick off." A slight pause surrounds
them before the unicorn opens his mouth once before Nivalia asks
with an annoyed tone "Oh what is it?"
"Is he crazy?" Foxtrot asks, weapon still kept close to the
caped crusader.
Nivalia instantly sits down and crosses her arms, her left brow
raised as she gives him a disapproving look, "Really? You of all
ponies are asking that?" She glances a look over to Potato
Ponie, a small smirk appearing on her face as she looks back to
her brother and shrugs, "It's tolerable. Besides he's looking
for me so don't get all loco on him; besides you suck at
fighting anyway."
Foxtrot pauses for a moment before sheathing his katana and
finally shaking the earth pony's still grasped hoof. "Fine, I
guess I can ease off a bit." He looks over to Potato Ponie,
"Sorry about that. In my occupation, 'I was following you
around' tends to be a red flag." The unicorn let's go of the
caped hero and takes a step back to give him some space. His
tone becomes more relaxed as well. "My name's Foxtrot, and I
assume you've met Niv before."
"Yes he has." Nivalia answers before looking to Potato Ponie,
"So it's good to see you drop by. How are things going?"
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Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Potato Ponie Date: June 25, 2014, 3:14 am
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Potato doesn’t even flinch when Fox shoves a katana about an
inch away from his face. “You know, considering you had that in
a sheath you were wearing this whole time I saw that coming. And
this isn't the first time I've had swords shoved in my face.
Actually its like my 112th.” He says in a rather casual tone.
He then comes up with a plan to subdue Fox if needed.
Considering Fox's position an elbow to his leg holding the
katana *should* be enough to disarm him or at least knock him
off balance. Then flip him on his back and a kick to his groin
is enough to make any stallion go down. Though violence is only
a last resort.
“Oh well I was sent here by my home country for reasons that
don’t concern you.” PoPo says in response to Fox’s question.
“Oh well actually I was a spy for a bit. I was also an agent for
multiple organizations and my job is SORTA like bounty hunting
but doesn't make me a morally grey character.” Potato tries to
say in response to Niv saying what he isn’t, though he’s
ignored.
“You know I get that question a lot.” PoPo then tries to
interject at Fox asking if he’s crazy, though he’s ignored
again.
Wait, he’s TOLERABLE? Well thank you Nivalia, he didn't consider
you as a trustworthy friend anyways.
Oh, PoPo didn’t even realize he was still holding Fox’s hoof.
Well Fox sounds like one of those war scarred veterans who say
cheesy things like “What makes a great soldier? Is it his brain,
or his heart?” then goes into rather drawn out monologues about
it. Still, he couldn’t be a bad guy.
“Yeah Niv’s my sidekick since, you know, potato themed
superhero.” Says as he shakes Fox’s hoof back. He then turns to
Niv. “Oh well it’s going good. Fall from a roof and get an
enchanted katana shoved in my face. Its never a good day until
THAT sorta skitabachi happens.”
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Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Nivalia Date: June 25, 2014, 8:02 pm
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"Well of course not." Nivalia replies with a clever smirk, "If
it didn't happen then all that time running around with a cape
and mask would be for nothing." Caprica decides to greet the
familiar arrival by slithering off her owner and onto the caped
crusader, lightly tightening her grip around his foreleg "Hmm,
well at least Caprica likes you enough to give you a hug."
Nivalia's attention is drawn however to the bunny outfits near
the two stallions' hooves, "Hey Fox, how about you wear one of
those?" she says as she points to a particularly fire red one.
#Post#: 2947--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Foxtrot Date: June 25, 2014, 8:14 pm
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Foxtrot turns around and looks at the outfit behind him, "That
one?" He steps over to it and picks it up, "The material looks
good but red's not my color. In fact I don't really know what my
color is. Perhaps a navy blue or emerald gree- oh hey look at
that." The unicorn cuts off as he drops the outfit, "You can
dress as a clown, there are tons of ponies afraid of clowns.
Besides you need a costume if you're going to be crime fighting
with vegetable vengeance over here." He turns to Potato Ponie,
"Ok, maybe you can help me. I need to find an embarrassing
outfit for my sis to wear if she loses a prank. What are your
recommendations?"
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Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Potato Ponie Date: July 4, 2014, 2:44 am
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Potato quickly looks around the store. “Well umm… Hey wait, did
you say sister?” Potato then gives Fox and Niv a quick look
over.
“Hmmm, you two don’t look very much alike...” He then quickly
pauses as he looks at something behind Niv. “Oh, and for
costumes, I have the best idea!” Potato says before rushing off.
The potato themed superhero comes back a minute later with a
giant bee costume. “Niv, this is a matter of the utmost
importance. Put on this bee costume so we can all laugh at you.
If you don’t, I’ll be really disappointed.” He then hands
Nivalia the bee costume.
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Re: Dressing For The Part
By: Nivalia Date: July 4, 2014, 2:11 pm
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Nivalia looks at the costume with a curious look, "A bee?
Hmm..." She shrugs, "Alright, I guess I can wear this. Not now
though, our deal was that if I don't get a hoof bump from
somepony I ask, I put a piece of it on." The mare picks it up,
flipping it around to get a good view of the whole outfit. "What
do you think Fox?" Meanwhile, Caprica stays in the same position
for a moment before slithering up and over Potato Ponie's
shoulders, resting once more out of pure laziness.
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