>You are Anon, and it's laundry day. >Your clothes were most of the load, as usual. >Made sense, these horses never wore anything unless it was in the bedroom. >The sound of metal buttons hitting the drum rang in your ears as your dark clothes fell inside the machine. >Conveniently enough, they had electrical appliances. Among other things. >Topping off the detergent, you let the lid shut with a metallic thud and spun the dial to a deep cycle >Unfortunately for you, Echo involved you in a freak accident involving several kilograms of fruit, a high wall, and the forces of gravity earlier today >She says she tried to save you from the wicker basket full of fruit, but you're positive she did it on purpose >Stupid bat horse. >If it's a bat pony, it's not to be trusted. >They'll pull anything on you to get a laugh. >Your pants buttons are still clanging against the washer drum >And suddenly, you hear a fizzle and the light goes out above you, leaving the room dark, but just bright enough to see >The washer continues, so the power isn't out >The fluorescent light must've gone out. >You leave the laundry room to turn the light on in the next room, spilling light into the laundry room once again >inside the cabinet above the laundry machines is a replacement tube for the light >Fumbling with the packaging, you extract the glass tube that produces light similar to that of Celestia's sun >Looking above, the fixture is just a cavity set into the ceiling with electrical contacts designed to hold a tube like this one. >the cover is a cheap, flexible plastic sheet about 60cm long and 15cm across >Echo calls from the other room, "Hey Anon! can you come over here?" "Hold on, I'm changing the laundry room light" >The sound of hooves trekking on tile in the kitchen reaches your ears, and soon enough >A batpony mare, who stands about as high as your chest, is standing there watching you fiddle with the plastic sheet stuck in the recessed light >"I didn't know you smoke, Anon" "I don't" >"But you look like you need a light!" >You audibly groan and the sudden weight of disappointment floods your limbs, causing them to fall and bring the plastic sheet with it, making a loud wopple wopple sound as the sheet reverberates through the air >Followed by a startled EEEE from your resident chiropteran equine >Echo stands there wide-eyed and ears fixated on you, a foreleg lifted in a cautious stance >Maybe you could make some fun out of this. >You motion your arms holding the sheet >Wopple wopple wopple >She takes another step back, eyes darting between you and the sheet as though you were holding a bloody knife >Your eyes narrow on her and she takes a second step back, poised to run off. >Wopple. >A beat of sweat forms on her brow. >"pls no" "pls yes" >A small step toward the startled mare sent her running, you follow suit with the sheet of vile plastic >WOPPLE WOPPLE WOPPLE WOPPLE WOPPLE! >You both dart through the house as she runs to her room and slams the door shut on you >"S-Stoppit!!" She says, EEEE-ing afterward that trails down to a light sob >You knock on the door and say "Let me in!" >Silence. "Not by the hair on your chinny chin chin?" >You start fiddling with the doorknob using your Swiss army knife's screwdriver. "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff!" >After unscrewing the screws, the doorknob falls to the floor with a clang. "AND I'LL BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN!" "Here's NONNY!" You shout as the door flies open, revealing a bat pony mare huddled in the corner, screeing at the top of her lungs >WOPPLE WOPPLE WOPPLE! fills the room as you wave the sheet of plastic like Trump supporters wave picket signs >She jumps on top of her dresser to get away from you, arching her back and EEEEing at you for you to go away with that sheet of plastic >Trinkets and debris fly everywhere, making the room a total disaster >Echo flies off the dresser to the other side of the room, watching it fall and bump anon in her direction, knocking him on the ground >Which in turn knocks over a training staff onto a board, flipping it >flinging Echo's socks into the air, soaked by a spilled bottle of... >SHMACK. >The sock lands on Anon's face, and he quickly stops stirring. >Choloroforum. >Granted, her room was now destroyed and she was humiliated by a loud wopply sheet of plastic >But now anon was unconcious and she could use a snack.