Finally I can work on this story again! Now that Both Intertwined and Jimmy's Secret are updated, I can write this story!
Les goooooo!
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BeepBeepBeep!
BeepBeepBeep!
Joystick's eyes shot open. She turned her head to look at the alarm clock. 8:00 a.m flashed in bright red symbols. She grumbled, holding a hoof over her eyes as she slowly got out of bed. "Ugh...sunshine go awaaayyy....." she moaned, stumbling as she walked over to the bathroom to brush her teeth and clean her dirty face.
When she was finished, she grabbed her cloak and suitcase, and walked out the door and down the stairs to the entrance of the inn. The front desk mare again took on a cheesy grin, and Joystick rolled her eyes.
"Hello ma'am! How is your morning goin-"
"It was fine until you started talking to me." she deadpanned, before pushing the door open and leaving. 'Hah, who's the baddest mare in the land? That's right...me! Mrrhmmm...told that whorse the what for...' She continued to boast in her head for a while, before reality decided to smack her in the snout.
Joystick stopped in her tracks and looked around, noticing that she had gone nearly a quarter mile in the opposite direction of the train station.
"Oh horseapples..."
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ALL ABOOOOOAAARD FOR MANECHESTER AND TROTTINGHAM!
Joysticl galloped toward the train station, nearly tripping over her own hooves. She managed to just catch the conductor as he was reboarding the train. "WAIT FOR MMMMEEEEEEE!" she screeched, nearly tackling the stallion. She hurriedly shoved her ticket in the conductor's hooves, who punched it and gave it back to her. She gave him an exhausted grin of gratitude, before getting on the train and plopping down on the first empty seat she spotted.
'Next stop is Manechester, huh? Heard that it was a mining town a few decades ago, and it's now a tourist artraction. Maybe I'll sightsee a bit before we pull off again. Bring mom and dad back a souvenir-' Her train of thought stopped abruptly as she remembered that she was going to Babbette's for nearly 3 years and she wouldn't see them for what felt like forever. She sighed sadly. She missed them a bit...
Her thought however immediately went to her sister.
'Wonder what Babbette is like? Is she a nice sister? A mean sister? Is she boring? Or funny and cool? Hopefully she's not super creepy like Rosey Posey's sister...*gasp* Or maybe she isn't even a pony! Wouldn't that be a kick in the flank if it turned out that she was a donkey or a mule or a Sadle Arabian or something!? OH GOSH I'M NERVOUS....'
Joystick continued to freak herself out and speculate on what her sister would be like, until the sun began to set in the sky, and her brain decided to shut itself down to prevent overheating.
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SECOND STOP MANECHESTER! AAALLLL OFF! WE DEPART TOMORROW MORNING AT 9:00 A.M.
Joystick woke up and promptly fell off her seat and into the aisle on her rump.
"OW!"
She got up and dusted herself off, grinning sheepishly at the stallion in the seat across the aisle from her, who cocked his eyebrow. Joystick picked up her suitcase and followed the long stream of ponies out into the station. She took a look at her around at the town she was now in.
