Part 3: Power-Up Acquired.

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Button’s room ignited as his mother pulled his curtains open, The Amber sunlight of the morning dowsed button’s face with a laser beam of hot yellow illumination. Button not knowing how to react to this sensation awoke in a violent fit, screaming as he buried his head under his Star Wars sheets.

“Buttons! Hurry up or you’ll be late for school!” Button’s Mother yelled in a tone that added just the right amount of ear shattering screech.

“I’m late to much school to” Button deliriously explained as he barrel rolled out of his bed into the door of his closet.

How Button’s mom could be up at this time after drinking  one and a half bottles of AppleJack Daniels but none the less Button’s mind altering night of drugs was over and the real world was crashing down hard on poor little Button Ashley Mash.

After a harsh comb through the mane and a kick in the rump to get to the kitchen button found himself scarfing down a tasty bowl of carrot bits as he tried the get the most out of his nutritious breakfast before the bus arrives in the next 10 minutes.

“MOM! ---‘ere’s eye----JoyBoy!?!” Button gargled while shovelling a mountain of carrot bits into his already full mouth.

“Upstairs in your room like always” His mother said while rinsing the cutting board caked with browning carrot scrapings. “Oh and what was last night about anyway? Were you sick?, because you were saying a lot of dribble about nothing?” she said with a tinge of doubt to her words.

Before she could get a reply Button raced up stairs to grab his JoyBoy, leaving her to deal with an empty bowl and thoughts to figure out.

He ransacked his drawers looking for his gaming device finding only mountains pencils, batteries and his brother’s stolen PlayPonies. He looked high and low in his trashed room knowing that there were only a few minutes on the clock, he looked and looked and looked till he found…An almost completely empty vial.

A teaspoon, no, half a teaspoon, a bit less than half a teaspoon of ‘Green stranger’ left remaining in the small vial. Most ponies would stand there for a while and contemplate there life and if they would choose to use up the last of this magic drink just because it makes them feel good. But Button is not like ‘Most’ ponies, so without even a second thought he put the glass tube in his mouth and sucked the last remnants of Snip’s fabulous green stress-free elixir down his throat.

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3 minutes was all it took for buttons to race down the stairs, out the house, down the dirt road and to the bus stop. As Button saw the bus coming he was starting to wonder if anyone would notice…anything different, not that it was a problem or something, why should something that lets you leave your problems be bad.

When button approached the first step he started to feel some familiar effects, not as strong as last night, but still pretty affective. Things became bright and happy again, The colours around button started to burst out like a over-weight pony belly-flopping into an empty pool, and finally he began to think clearly.

The tropic yellow of the wooden coach shone bright in the morning sun and the…

“You gettin’ on buddy?”  Said The gruff bus driver in an impatient tone.

“….yep…” button casually told him while still starring at the side of the bus.

“You gettin’ on NOW?” the bus driver hissed with agitation.

Button (feeling bored of the colour yellow) hoped onto the bus and sat down the back of the bus and hummed a wintery wrappery toon, however , The Goth ponies had taken claim to the last 3 rows for decades, so obviously  to them this was seen as a full frontal invasion.

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