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A Gizmonk in Ponyville - Chapter 28

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Uninvited guests

As things at Goggles’ Birthday party finally began to settle down, everyone attending began to feel more relaxed as they took huddled up together in the snow. Sensing that the end of the party was drawing ever near, Applejack took to the stage.

“Now before we all wrap this party up and mosey on home, ah’d like to say a few words,” she said through the microphone, grabbing everyone’s attention. “Now we ain’t just here to celebrate the birthday of two of our friends, we ain’t just here to enjoy Granny Smith’s hard Cider, we are also here to celebrate the 5 Month-Anniversary of the arrival of Ponyville’s very own Gizmonk inventor! Get up here Goggles!”

At those words the crowd cheered as Googles smiled and obeyed Applejack’s request, walking up onto the stage with her with a blush on his face.

“Has it really been 5 months already?” he said sheepishly.

“5 months ago you brought this town one more highly unique individual and ah’d be crazy to say that our town would never be the same again if you were gone,” Applejack continued, as she picked up her class of cider. “So ah raise my glass to ya Goggles, may you always be this happy till the day you die!”

Upon hearing that the crowd once again applauded and simultaneously raised their own glasses.

“CHEERS!” They screamed in unison.

As both Goggles listened to the happy cries of the ponies around him, he began to feel a few more tears starting to build up, he had truly never been so happy, however before he could shed those tears he once again urged Trixie up on the stage with him and spoke.

“Thank you,” he said. “You are all simply too kind, this is without a doubt the greatest day me and Trixie had ever had, because it shows us that we now have the best friends that any pony, or any Gizmonk for that matter, could ever ask for. On that note, I just have one more thing to say…”

Suddenly Goggles nodded towards Vinyl Scratch, who instantly took his hint and started up one last piece of music for Goggles to sing to:

GOGGLES:
Fillies and Gentlecolts,
Now to all of the ponies who have assembled here,
I would merely like to mention, if I may,
That our so positive attitude,
Is one of lasting gratitude,
For what you all have done for us today,
And therefore we would simply like to say…

Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me,
I may sound Double-Dutch,
But my delight is such,
I feel as if a losing war's been won for me,

And if I had a flag I'd hang my flag out
To add a sort of final victory touch
But since I left my flag at home
I'll simply have to say
Thank you very, very, very much!
Thank you very, very, very much!


As Goggles sang to his heart’s content, every pony in the audience cheered, he was emanating so much happiness that Trixie felt inclined to join in with the song.

TRIXIE:
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me,
It sounds a bit bizarre,
But things the way they are,
I feel as if another life's begun for me,

And if I had a cannon I would fire it,
To add a sort of celebration touch,
But since I left my cannon at home,
I'll simply have to say,
Thank you very, very, very much!
Thank you very, very, very much!


As soon as Trixie sung her verse every pony cheered even louder, this was the first time in a long while that the former Showpony had received such admiration, it was almost like performing again only this time is was much better, because this time her performance was genuine.

“That’s okay Trixie, you can borrow MY canon!” Pinkie Pie screamed as she fired confetti from her party canon.

As the colourful shreds of paper floated over the stage Trixie smile in content as she continued the next verse of the song.

TRIXIE:
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me,
It isn't every day,
Good fortune comes my way,
I never thought the future would be fun for me,

And if I had a bugle I would blow it,
To add a sort of how's-your-father touch,
But since I left my bugle at home,
I'll simply have to say,
Thank you very, very, very much!
Thank you very, very, very much!


As the conclusion of the song drew ever closer and the crowd cheered louder than ever, Goggles and Trixie felt like nothing could ever go wrong at this point, however little did they realise that as they sang, the quick paws of a hoard of unseen creatures hidden in the shadows edged their way closer into the town, and not even Luna’s moon was able to shine through the winter’s cloud cover to reveal even the slightest basic shape amongst the darkness.

GOGGLES:
Thank you very, very much!
Thank you very, very much!
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me,
The future looks all right,
In fact it looks so bright,
I feel Celestia’s polishing the sun for me,

GOGGLES + TRIXIE:
And if I had a drum I'd have to bang it!
To add a sort of rumty-tumty touch,
But since I left my drum at home, I’ll simply have to say…
Thank you very, very, very, very much
Thank you very, very, very, very much!!!


As that final word was sang the night echoed with the wild applause of the grateful ponies listening to the happy pair on stage. However as soon as the cheers ended, another sound echoed amongst the winter’s night, the sound of a high-pitched, terribly raspy howl.

“What the heck was that?” Rainbow Dash asked, raising an eyebrow and receiving a shrug from Fluttershy in response.

Amongst everyone else, that was the same question that came to mind, however Goggles had a different reaction. Upon hearing that howl his pupils shrunk to the size of ants and he gained a terrified look upon his face, which didn’t go unnoticed by Trixie who was still standing next to him, from what she saw on the Gizmonk’s face, she could tell that the sound everyone heard was obviously something he heard before, a sound that terrified him to his very core.

“Something wrong Goggles?” she asked with concern in her voice.

After a few brief seconds of awkward silence Goggles finally reacted, it was as though he had turned into Rainbow Dash given how fast he dove into his pile of Birthday Presents and pulled out the pair of night-vision binoculars he got from Silver Spoon. He then began climbing up the nearest tree and started gazing into the distance, much to the confusion of every pony witnessing his sudden burst of energy. After a few minutes of gazing through the binoculars, Goggles almost seemed to calm down after seeing nothing in particular that he really cared about, however that was when he spotted them. Upon seeing the very creatures that created that howl, quickly marching their way straight through Ponyville, Goggles jaw dropped and he let out a loud, terrified scream.

“AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!” he shrieked. “IT’S THE FOX PATROL!!!”  

At those words Goggles then jumped out of the tree into the snow below, after that he began swiftly pushing his way through the crowd and towards the masses of trees that served as the Apple Family orchard, at this point his was running so fast that no pony could even get a word in to ask why he was so terrified.

“Goggles!” Applejack called out to him as he made it towards the edge of orchard. “What the hay is going on with ya!?!”

But it was too late, for in a matter of moments the Gizmonk had disappeared into the thick masses of trees, leaving a crowd of confused ponies standing in the snow.

“So does any pony know what a Fox Patrol is?” Fluttershy asked, nervously trying to break the awkward silence.

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That was a question soon to be answered as Applejack, along with most of the party guests made their way back into town to investigate what Goggles had seen through the binoculars, what they were met with underneath the dim light of the street lamps was something they definitely weren’t expecting. Upon reaching the centre of town, the crowd of ponies came face to face with the so-called Fox Patrol, as the name implied it was an entire pack of foxes, ones that stood on two legs and wore bright coloured vests, in many ways they appeared similar to the Diamond Dogs. Upon seeing these strange creatures, the crowd of ponies began to murmur amongst themselves, were THESE what made Goggles so terrified? If so then why exactly? They barely reached up the any pony’s eye level and yet Goggles was able to stand up to Rover who stood at least a fair size taller than Rarity was. Suddenly the leader of the foxes step forward, unlike his comrades, who were all red and orange in colour, the leader’s fur was a pale shade of blue that almost looked grey, making him resemble a wolf more than a fox, he also a wore deep violet vest as well as a pair of sharp sunglasses, which was odd since it was both winter and night-time, it was best to assume that this creature’s night vision must be very strong is he was able to wear such an accessory.

“Yo, what’s up Ponyville!?!” he called out to the crowd of ponies ahead of him in a smooth, charismatic voice. “Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Captain Tod, though my friends call me bro.”

Upon first hearing his voice Applejack could tell that this fox was somewhat of a punk, the very sound of his voice made him sound more like the leader of a gang than a so-claimed captain, she could only assume that the title must have been a misnomer.

“Please excuse our rude interruption to your peaceful night,” Captain Tod continued. “But the fact is that me and my bros here are in the middle of a jam that requires the cooperation of every pony here, and we would very much appreciate it is you all can help us out.”

“And what, pray tell is the situation?” Rarity asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Ah, straight to the point, I like that in a lady,” Tod responded with a sly grin as he leaned in closer to the Unicorn, instantly making her feel uncomfortable. “POSTERS!”

At those words, one of the red foxes emerged from the pack with a large stack of papers in his paws and handed them to his Captain.

“Let’s see…” Tod said, looking through them. “Jolly Roger, Captain Hoofbeard, Jack Sil… These are the pirate bounties, fool!”

Tod then through the unwanted posters into the other foxes face in a fit of irritated anger.

“Sorry boss,” the fox whimpered, before handing him a fresh stack of papers.

“Honestly it’s like working with a bunch of brain-dead gnats,” Tod grumbled under his breath before looking through the new stack of posters, suddenly finding what he was looking for. “Ah here we go, now have any of you equines seen this chump?”

Tod then showed the crowd the particular poster he was looking at, what the ponies saw upon it shocked them entirely, there as clear as day beneath the dim light of the street lamps, was the image of the Gizmonk Ponyville had come to know and love, an image upon a poster which read:

WANTED:
GOGGLES THE GIZMONK
DEAD OR ALIVE
FOR THE CRIMES OF THEFT AND TREASON AGAINST THE CROWN OF KAPPAN
BY ORDER OF QUEEN ICICLE
REWARD: NEGOTIABLE


No pony could believe what they were seeing, Goggles was a criminal!?! All this time he had been a fugitive hiding from the law of Kappan. Upon seeing this both Trixie and Applejack looked at each other with their jaws gaped, they just couldn’t believe that such a nice creature would be thief and a traitor. In fact the more they thought about it, the more it seemed to make less sense, Goggles had been in Ponyville for 5 months and not once had he done anything to make him seem untrustworthy, in fact everything he had done was for the benefit of everyone else but himself. After all if it weren’t for him Silver Spoon would have never became a Cutie Mark Crusader, the Diamond Dogs would never have been on good terms with the ponies, and Applejack would have never have felt more close to Spike, whatever the case something didn’t feel right.

“Oh come on now,” Tod said, continuing to show Goggles’ wanted poster to the crowd, his voice suddenly becoming sterner. “I’m pretty sure a goofy face like this is not so easy forgotten.”

But much to Tod’s disappointment, and Applejack’s relief, no pony said anything, it would seem that everyone else felt the exact same way about the whole situation due to the fact that at some point Goggles had been a good part of their lives, and no one would ever believe that he would do such a thing. Upon seeing this Trixie, Applejack and Applebloom couldn’t help but smile.

“No one?” Tod said, with a slight growl in his voice, suddenly turning his attention to the three Diamond Dogs amongst the crowd of ponies and edging his way towards them. “Pity, I would have at least thought that our doggie bros would have noticed something.”

The three Diamond Dogs growled at that.

“We keep to ourselves, Fox,” Rover snarled.

“Yeah, we have nothing to say to you,” Spot added.

At those words, Trixie tried to keep a straight face but in reality she just wanted to laugh at that.

“So why don’t you just take your pack of wannabe mongrels and just push off!” Fido finished, poking a clawed finger into Tod’s chest, pushing him pack slightly.

Saying that was a big mistake on Fido’s part, at least in Tod’ opinion, because the second he did Tod growled ferociously and snapped his fingers. Upon hearing the click, three of Tod’s foxes responded to their Captain’s silent command and lunged at the biggest Diamond Dog, seconds later Fido found himself face-down in the snow with a pair of foxes standing on his back and baring their fangs at his two comrades.

“Oh I guess I should have warned y’all,” Tod said with a smug grin across his face. “My bros here don’t like being insulted, they tend to get a little… testy.”

This display of ferocity made every pony jump back in terror, the sheer speed and savagery these foxes had just displayed had now given Applejack, along with every pony else, a strong indication as to why Goggles had run away in terror from these creatures.

“Now then, perhaps now you would all be a little more cooperative,” Tod said coldly, turning his attention back towards the ponies. “Now I’m gonna count to three and if no pony tell us what we need to know, then me and my bros are gonna tear this whole town apart.”

At those words there were many reactions amongst the crowd, many of which were the looks of fear, others were narrowed eyes of anger from the bolder ponies such as Rainbow Dash and Applejack, there was no way that these foxes were going to get away with threatening their town. However given the fact that there was already a vast number of them beginning to slowly circle the crowd, there was no possible way of knowing what was about to happen in the next few seconds.

“One…” Tod said threateningly, reading his fingers for another snap. “Two…”

At this point every pony was on edge, one more second and these foxes were going to spread all over Ponyville unless someone said something, but there was no possible way THAT was going to happen, or so every pony thought. Before Tod could say the final word, someone spoke up from the crowd.

“I have!” said a familiar sounding voice as two figures pushed their way through the crowd. “I’ve seen him! He’s been living here in Ponyville for months!”

The one who had spoken instantly received a hoard of angry glares from many of the ponies in the crowd, but neither glare was more ferocious than those coming from Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and most of all Silver Spoon, this had to have been the lowest Diamond Tiara had sunk as she smugly walked over to Captain Tod with her father, in fact all three of them had the right mind to ran up towards her and give her a slug across the face for selling Goggles out without a second thought. Upon hearing what the young filly said, Tod put on a large toothy grin.

“Well at least there’s SOMEONE here willing to talk,” he said, licking his fangs in a creepy manner. “Go ahead sweetheart.”

At those words Diamond Tiara gulped, feeling extremely uncomfortable with the sly way Tod was looking at her, so instead her father took over for her.

“Well it’s just like my daughter said sir, that Gizmonk’s been here for months,” he said. “Set up a business and everything.”

“And to think that little beast has been nothing but a filthy criminal from the start,” Diamond Tiara added, suddenly regaining a small amount of confidence. “I knew we shouldn’t have let that animal stay here.”

Scootaloo’s eye twitched at that, she was so full of fury that Silver Spoon and Apple Bloom had to hold her back to avoid making a scene.

“Well you weren’t to know little filly,” Tod said, mockingly patting Diamond Tiara on the head. “It’s always the nasty-wasty ones that seem the most harmless, so do you know where the little punk is now?”

Both Filthy Rich and Diamond Tiara grew silent at, no matter what answer they gave now, Tod was most certainly not going to like it, after a few brief moments Filthy Rich spoke up again.

“I’m afraid not sir,” he gulped. “Once he caught wind of you he ran off somewhere.”

At those words Tod’s smile faded, it anyone were able to see through his sunglasses, they would have seen his eyes narrowing with anger. He then turned his head towards the rest of his foxes and spoke.

“Smell him out!” he commanded.

Upon those words, every fox then put raised their muzzles and started wondering about the area, sniffing the air around them trying to find a scent. As his comrades began to work, Tod suddenly picked up Diamond Tiara by the scruff of her neck so that she was eye-level with him.

“Now let me make this clear, little filly,” he snarled. “If I find out you lied to me, then me and my bros are gonna skin ya like potato and have you stuffed upon my mantelpiece, got it?”

Diamond Tiara nodded at that with a look of terror across her face, and as much as the CMC liked seeing her in that state, Filthy Rich wasn’t gonna have any of it.

“Now wait just a min…” he began before suddenly being cut off by a quick punch across the face from Tod.

“Anyone else?” Tod challenged, shooting a fierce gaze towards Rainbow Dash and Twilight, who both looked like they were about to lunge at him for threatening a filly.

Suddenly Tod’s attention was taken by the tapping on one of his shoulders from one of the other foxes, forcing him to drop Diamond Tiara into the snow and turn towards his comrade.

“Well?” he asked, expecting to hear some good news.

“The smell is spread too far over the town sir,” the fox gulped. “And it’s impossible to get a fresh scent with all this snow.”

At those words Tod then clenched his fist his anger, he was too close to finding that Gizmonk to simply just let him slip away now.

“Then tear this place apart if you have to!” he barked into the fox’s face, much to the shock of everyone within earshot. “We ain’t leaving without that Gizmonk!”

Upon hearing that every pony gasped in horror as every fox followed their captain’s command and instantly began swarming all over Ponyville, needless to say Twilight looked back towards Tod with fury in her eyes.

“Wait!” she snapped in his face. “You can’t just…”

“Queen’s orders Princess Twilight!” Tod retorted, cutting her off mid-sentence. “That’s right, we did our homework before coming here, recently crowd if I’m not mistaken. But unfortunately for you, our Queen has been on the throne of Kappan for years, and she wants us to hunt that Gizmonk down by any means necessary.”

To further his point, Tod then pulled out another piece of paper and shoved it into Twilight’s face.

“If you don’t like our methods then take it up with her in Baltimare,” he continued with a smirk on his face. “Till then we’ll just do our job.”

What Tod shoved in Twilight’s face was a Certification of Justice, authorised by the very same Queen Icicle that was mentioned on Goggles’ wanted poster, one that was also co-signed by the Law-Keepers of Equestria, in other words a document that made it impossible for any pony to do anything without the risk being arrested themselves. At this point everyone simply felt helpless as they witnessed every fox break into every house in their search for Goggles.

“Search every building! Every tree! Every hole in the ground!” Tod screamed as he joined his comrades in theirs search. “That Gizmonk is here somewhere and we are gonna find him if it’s the last thing we do!”

It was absolute chaos, as every fox tore up the very streets of Ponyville all any pony could do was stand there and watch, and it wasn’t like they could call for help because these foxes were basically the law of their own country and authorised by Equestrian law to boot. Witnessing the entire event unfold, the worst looks of horror came from four fillies whose minds were simply riddled with worry for their mascot.

“What do we do now?” Silver Spoon asked fearfully.

Suddenly all four of them found themselves being pulled into a nearby alleyway by Applejack and Trixie, once out of site and ear shot, both of them whispered to the Cutie Mark Crusaders

“Girls, find him,” Applejack said quietly “We’ll keep them busy as long as we can.”

“Whatever happens, we need to find out Goggles side of the story before those foxes catch him,” Trixie added.

At those words, all four fillies nodded in response, showing that they all understood, on that final note Trixie and Applejack then left the four fillies in the alleyway.

“This is bad girls,” Sweetie Belle whimpered.

“Yeah, but you heard what they said,” Scootaloo added. “We gotta find Goggles before those foxes do.”

Hearing this, Apple Bloom tapped her chin with thought, where could Goggles be at this point? Where would he go if not Sweet Apple Acres, suddenly it her.

“Ah think ah know where he might be,” she said. “Let’s go”

Nodding in response, Silver Spoon, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo then followed Apple Bloom further down the alleyway, hoping to keep out of site from the foxes as they continued searching for the Gizmonk.

“Oh Goggles!” Tod screamed from one of the rooftops with a smug look on his face. “Come out and Play-yay!!!”
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Author's Note:

The featured song is inspired by "Thank you Very Much" from "Scrooge" all credit goes to Cinema Centre Films.

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Oooh.... this just got real.