Mannequin's revenge

One morning, a flea market was organized in a street in Ponyville. A pegasus named Cyniquote lived on that street. He looked out and saw a lot of salesponies and random items. He said:"Boy, if I liked sleeping, I'd be so ticked off... Wait, why is my own imagination annoying me?" Suddenly, a bat pony mare named Air Travel flew in front of his window. She said:"Good morining, Cyniquote!" and kissed him. He thought:"Even with fangs, it still feels good." and replied:"Good morning, cutie, what are you doing here? It's 10 o'clock, shouldn't you be in Canterlot and sleeping? We didn't organize a date."
"Heh, I though you would be happier to see me. I'm here for the flea market, you can join me if you want to."
"Okay, there could be some good stuff there."
The two ponies walked through the flea market and talked to one of the salesponies. Cyniquote said:" A cat carrier? But I don't even have a cat."
The salespony said:"You look like a pony who would get a cat one day. Plan ahead a little."
Air Travel said:"I'm sure she wouldn't sell a cat carrier without any knowledge about cats, buy one."
"I'm not buying a cat carrier!"
The salespony said:"Do you have a friend that owns a cat?"
"No."
"Do you have a friend that is going to own a cat?"
"No."
"Do you have a friend that considers getting a cat?"
"Shut up."

The two ponies walked away and Cyniquote said:"Well, I've been at the flea market for only 5 minutes and I already want a rest from it, let's go."
"Can we come back later?"
"I said "rest", not "leave"."
"Oh yeah, heh."
They were taking a walk through another part of Ponyville when Air Travel said:"You know, I've explored Ponyville several time already during the night watch. I wanna know how YOU see Ponyville. Describe it a little."
"You sure wanna know a lot about me. Okay, let's begin."
Cyniquote walked through the streets and pointed at various places:"Here's where I argued with Vinyl Scratch, here's where I argued with Big Macintosh and here's where I argued with agent Swee-, I mean, Bon Bon. I should probably stop doing that... I mean, who remembers mundane things like that."
"Don't you feel bad about arguing so much?"
"Guilt is for those who are wrong... but you're right, I should probably argue less."
Air Travel noticed a barrel at the side of the street and looked in to see what's in:"Is that a small whirpool inside?"
Cyniquote quickly pulled her away:"Stay away from that!"
"Is it really that creepy?"
Cyniquote though:"I thought it was gone. Turns out it just moved." and said:"Do you know about Discord?"
"Technically, he spent a 1000 years in Canterlot. Of course I know about him."
"He made a replica of Ponyville in that barrel so he could use his magic on it without upseting anypony. It's kinda like a playground."
"I gotta see that.", she said and flew into the barrel. When she got through the whirpool, she noticed it was bigger on the inside. She saw Ponyville, but it had cotton candy clouds, several floating buildings, ground painted with various colors and a whole community of objects brought to life.
"Wow, what a view...", she thought as Cyniquote flew in after her:"What part of "stay away from that" don't you understand?!"
"You made it sound so interesting. Besides, I'm a royal guard, I'm trained to handle danger."
"Oh yeah? Can you handle a giant house monster, a creepy magical mannequin with super strength and the threat of losing your best friend!?"
Air Travel looked at him with a scared look for a few seconds, making Cyniqute say:"Okay, maybe that's a little too much. Not everything here is hostile, but there are some big threats here. I just don't want you hurt. Curiosity killed the cat, you know."
"Fine, I'm not gonna be an idiot, let's get out of here. Curiosity isn't bad, though."
"Great, let's go. And stop eating out of that flying fridge."
"But it contains chocolate muffins."

An enchanted mannequin walked the street of replica Ponyville and did his job of turning all the fruit he saw grey and bitter. He was about to enchant apples on a stand, but his hoof missed the apples when he looked up and noticed the ponies leaving replica Ponyville. He though:"It's the pegasus with banana breath! I gotta turn him grey, he's gotta be at least part banana!"
He accidentaly turned the stand grey instead and all the apples the stand was holding got scattered.
"Huh, how come I never tried my magic on something other that fruit and ponies?"
He kept walking and got inside a store. He picked up a knife from one of the shelfs and though:"But first, I wanna fix this dent on my head."
He cut a hole on his face, put his hoof in and pushed the dent from the inside. He said:"That won't bother me anymore... Wait a minute, I can talk now? Sweet, I carved myself a mouth. Oh wait, I carved myself, OW!"
He decided to preform an experiment. He stabbed a shelf with the knife and cut a line in it. After that he used his magic on the knife and went over the line on the shelf. Instad of making a depper cut, the knife fixed the shelf.
"Incredible! I'm sure there's a way I can use this power to escape this town and turn the pegasus grey! I just gotta think for a while..."

Cyniquote and Air Travel decided to go back to the flea market. The mare from before approached Cyniquote and said:"Do you think one of your friends SHOULD own a cat?"
"Listen, I'm gonna be kind and warn you in advance. Try to sell me the cat carrier one more time, and I'll make you eat it. Got it?"
"Okay...", the mare said and walked away.
Air Travel looked at Cyniquote angrily and said:"That wasn't kindness."
"It was kindness mixed with anger."
"I'm not sure that's possible."
"Even if it isn't, it's not like I'm a jerk. I do nice things too."
Cyniquote though:"But how do I prove it? It's not really kindness if I do it just to prove I'm right."
He put his knee in front and scratched his chin. Suddenly a pie fell on his front leg and a pegasus soon flew down.
"You saved the pie I dropped, thanks! Here, take a slice."
Cyniquote took one and handed it to Air Travel:"Here you go, I don't really like sweet food."
When the pie owner flew away, Air Travel said:"I guess you were right (gulp)."
"I don't think it counts if it's an accident or just because it's convinient for me."
"C'mon, learn to take a compliment."

Meanwhile, the mannequin floated out of the barrel using a sack full of grey-cursed paperweights:"Pegasus, you're gonna become grey and you're going to like it!"
He ran through Ponyvile pushing anyone or anyting that got in the way, all to find Cyniquote. He eventually got to the flea market and made everybody run away due to his creepy appearance and rowdiness. He noticed Cyniquote and Air Travel, and they noticed him back. Cyniquote said:"Ugh, I though I was done with you, mannequin."
Air Travel said:"So that's what that living mannequin looks like."
The mannequin said:"My name is Bitter Fruit Maker, and I have unfinished business with you."
"You can talk? How did you..."
Cyniqute suddenly noticed why and cringed.
The mannequin picked up a pillow from one of the stands and used his magic on it. It turned hard and grew spikes. He threw them at the two ponies, who jumped out of the way. Air travel said:"I sure wish I had my armor on."
Cyniquote said:"Keep your distance! If he touches you, your whole personality can turn a 180 degrees!"
"Got it."

The mannequin used his magic on a coat, which started to create a blizzard out of it's inside. Cyniquote and Air Travel flew in a circle around him to avoid it. Cyniquote said:"I can fly up and form a thundercloud. Can you keep him busy?"
"I wouldn't be a royal guard if I couldn't."
Air Travel flew towards the mannequin, jumped on his head and got distance again. The mannequin took a vacuum, enchanted it and blasted dust at the bat pony.
"Aaah! It's in my eyes!", she yelled as she covered them. The mannequin approached her and pushed her to fall on her back, but she used her tail to trip him. She got distance again, but the mannequin used his magic on a bottle of oil and squirted grey oil on Air Travel, making her stuck to the ground. He said:"Finally! Just because I'm made of hard plastic, doesn't mean I can't feel pain."
Suddenly, he heard:"Good news for me!", behind him. He turned around and saw Cyniquote flying over and holding a thundercloud.He tried to blast the mannequin, but he was running away, pushing away ponies and property. Cyniquote flew lower and lower to get a bigger target, but the mannequin jumped and passed his hoof through the cloud. When Cyniquote tried to blast him again, the lightning went upwards, blasted Cyniquote instead and dropped him on the ground. The mannequin said:"At last, I can turn you grey and finish the job."
"What? You rampaged through Ponyville, caused who know how many bits of property damage and hurt my girlfriend, just so you could turn me grey? What's wrong with you?"
"You have banana breath. My job is to turn fruit grey and you're probably part fruit. Do the math."
"Okay. The result is: you're an idiot."
"Maybe your grey version will be more polite."
The mannequin tried to step on Cyniquote, but he slowly flew up. He struggled to stay up, thinking:"I really wish I wasn't blasted by lightning half a minute ago."
The mannequin said:"You can't stay up forever! I won't stop until I finish the job!"
Cyniquote looked at the destroyed property and scared ponies. He said:"You can turn me grey..."
"And keep you that way."
"And keep me that way if we go back to the barrel and don't come out. It's the only solution I can think of.", Cyniquote said and got teary eyed. Out of exhaustion, he fell on the ground.
Air Travel heard that and said:"I can't let that happen!" Using all of her strength, she broke free of the grey oil and went after the mannequin. She jumped on him and grabbed him by the neck. The mannequin was trying to shake her off when Cyniquote said:"No, he'll hurt you too!"
"He nearly took you from me. Too late for that warning."

The mannequin managed to shake her off, but she looked at his leg and though:"I wonder if it can be detached."
She grabbed one of his back legs, pulled and succeded. The mannequin said:"What the...?"
One of the observing ponies said:"I think I'm gonna be sick."
Air Travel said:"New deal. You go back to the barrel and leave Cyniquote alone. Then you can have your leg back."
The mannequin looked at the hole where his leg used to be and said:"Ugh, fine."
He took his leg back and tried to put it back:"Ugh, how do I do this? Get in already!"
Cyniquote said:"Not our problem. Now run before she arrests you!"
The manneqin ran away, tripping several times in the process.
The ponies gathered around the two ponies to check if they're okay.
Air Travel said:"I told you curiosity wasn't bad."
Cyniquote laughed sarcastically for 2 seconds, but then he remembered that Air Travel saved him:"Are you okay?"
"Got a few bruises, but I'm fine. How are you?"
"Same, but with burns."

One of the ponies in the group said:"You two saved the day together! Cyniquote and Air Travel forever!"
Cyniquote said:"Hey, aren't you that guy who yelled at me to say yes when Air Travel asked me on a date?"
"What can I say, I'm passionate about couples."
"Hahahahaha...", Cynquote laughed for a few moments, which made Air Travel say:"It wasn't THAT funny."
"I know, but I nearly gave up my whole personality and normal life. I needed something to cheer me up."
"Gee, way to kill the mood."