fandomhigh | The Elements of Friendship, Thursday, Period 3

The Danger Shop was set up as a barnyard this week for Pinkie's class, though there were fortunately no animals in sight. There was a pile of fabric, a ring of watering cans on the ground and a few tables off to the side covered in old fashioned canning jars, and what looked like cans of paint and brushes by the barn itself, but no animals.

Pinkie was standing off to one side as the students gathered, wearing a rather fetching bonnet. She stood next to a much older green and white pony napping in a rocking chair.

"Welcome back, students!" Pinkie said. The green and white pony snorted and woke up long enough to holler "lima beans!" before resuming her loud snoring. Pinkie started again, in a quieter voice this time.

"Welcome back! This week, I've got an extra special treat for you! We're going to learn how to make zap-apple jam! Zap apples are magical rainbow apples that only grow for four days out of each year back home in Equestria, and ponies come from all over to sample some of the amazing jam made only by my good friend, Granny Smith Apple." Pinkie gestured to the snoring pony beside her. "Luckily for you, she's decided to share her recipe with us! Isn't that amazing?"

As Pinkie waited for the students to tell her it was, indeed, amazing, the howling of distant wolves echoed over the class. Granny woke again, sitting bolt up right this time, and started smacking a cast iron skillet with her hoof.

"The timber wolves are howling! The timber wolves are howling!"

"That's right, Granny Smith," Pinkie said. "And you know what that means!"

Granny probably did -- but she'd fallen back asleep.

"We'll just let her sleep for awhile," Pinkie decided. "We've got lots of preparation to do before the zap-apple harvest!"

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"That would be good, too," Jim decided, blowing on the errant ear. It flopped out of his eye for a moment, and then settled right back down there again. Right-o. "I was actually wondering if you'd be interested in being one of the faculty advisers for a new club that a fellow student and I are trying to get started this semester."

Pinkie looked delighted. "Would I!" she cheered, then paused and tilted her head. "What kind of club is it? Is it a fun club?"

"It should be pretty fun," Jim replied with a smile and a nod. "Britta and I are starting a... a sort of a charity club, I guess. The Philanthropist Anarchist club. Which mostly just means that we go around doing whatever we can to help members of the community."

Flying right in the face of The Man. Aw yeah.

"Oh that sounds neat! I love helping people! And fun! And advising. I could advise you to go help people and have fun!"

"Yeah, I kind of figured that it would be something you'd be interested in," chuckled Jim. "And if there are any causes that you'd like to see us get involved in, we'd be more than happy to do what we can to help out, you know? We could be cleaning up after a community event, or collecting for the food bank, or if any of the people on the island have a hard situation back home and there's some way we can help, we could look into doing something like that, too."

"That sounds just wonderful!" And the perfect thing to brag about when she managed to get home to Equestria to visit. "I would love to help out."

Jim grinned. Victory.

"Cool. So, we're thinking about having our meetings on Tuesdays, if that works for you? And we'll have Professor Madrox helping us out, too, since organizing charities and stuff on a weekly basis is a lot of work."

"Tuesdays," Pinkie said thoughtfully, then nodded. "Only thing I do on Tuesdays is go down to the park and chase the ducks!"

"I'm sure the ducks won't mind too much if you have to reschedule," Jim decided, grinning. "Is there anything else you'd like to know about the club before I get back to... hopping around?"

In a bunny suit with one floppy ear.

Pinkie thought this over carefully.

". . . Are there gonna be snacks at the meetings? Because I bet I could help advise on that, too."

See? Pinkie was already awesome at this.

"Snacks would be great," he decided. "I mean, since helping people and doing some good for others does kind of work up an appetite, and all."

"And helping people deserves a good cupcake reward!"

"Right!" Jim did so enjoy when plans started to come together like this. "So, we'll see you Tuesday, then?"

"Darn tootin!"

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