Young Days

*For the first and second comics, see Twilight Sparkle and the Big City and Sea Beach Line Incident.*

**Young Days** is the third comic made by Deviantart user newyorkx3. The comic explains how Tommy, Junior and Princess Luna expresses the old days of his childhood.

## Synopsis

Tommy, his pony son Junior and Princess Luna explains the old days of Tommy's old childhood.

## Plot

The comic opens with Princess Luna flying down from Canterlot to Tommy's house with a brown saddle bag on her back carrying a photo album inside. Once she got to Tommy's house, Princess Luna got to the front door, she knocks the door and it opens, only to find Junior inviting her to come inside. Much to Tommy's delight, he is about to serve Princess Luna and Junior lunch.

As Luna took out the photo album out of her bag, she shows Junior photos of his father and herself. Only to be aware that Junior's father often got cranky, Luna adds that she recently returned from banishment and her magic isn't restored completely. At the same time, Tommy left the kitchen with plates of fried rice (common dish in Southeast Asia) and serves his son and Luna with the food itself. When Junior asks his dad why he does not smile in the pictures, Tommy says that it's all he takes, but Luna tells Junior to ignore that. The only exception was a picture with Tommy and Pinkie Pie, causing Luna to think that Tommy is always hesitant and grumpy, but no. Luna also tells Junior the story about how she and Tommy met, much to Junior's joy.

The story begins with 10 years ago when Tommy turned 19, leaving the big city into the countryside with his 1967 Cadillac Deville Sedan (the same car carried over from the comic Twilight Sparkle and the Big City) to start a quiet life. As he arrives at a house just outside of Ponyville, he gets a letter from Princess Celestia, deeming that Celestia knows his grandfather. Tommy accepts the job, he proceeds to Canterlot and arrives at the castle. One of the pony guards realizes that Princess Celestia sent him and one of the human automobiles. As Celestia and Luna came out, Celestia shows her sister the human being with a Cadillac. Given the fact that Luna hasn't met a human being before, Celestia bans Tommy not to smoke as it's bad for his health and may damage his lungs. As she introduces Tommy to Luna, Celestia and Tommy chat that his grandfather is OK, but Tommy explains that his uncle died, leaving him devastated. Given the fact that Luna hasn't sit in a car before, Tommy starts his Cadillac, scaring Luna off. She enters the Deville's rear seats and the duo left for Manehattan, taking 2 hours.

On the way to Manehattan, Tommy tells Luna that normal human being habits consists of listening to music, watch TV and stuff like that. He turns on the radio and jams to the songs Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper), Manic Monday (The Bangles), Like A Prayer (Madonna), The Best (Tina Turner), If I Could Turn Back Time (Cher), Take On Me (a-ha), Always Something There to Remind Me (Naked Eyes) and Fields of Gold (Sting). However, a disbelieved Junior realizes that the songs shown are exceeding 30 years old, better than today's songs. The story continues with both Tommy and Luna arriving Manehattan after 2 hours of driving, much to Luna's confusion as she has never seen Manehattan becoming so big, but Tommy explains that times have changed. As he stops at a traffic light, the junction is badly jammed due to a bus blocking the intersection, leaving behind an angry Tommy swearing, causing him to park next to the road and go by foot. While walking by foot, Luna advises Tommy not to yell at everyone and everypony, but all the humans and ponies around Tommy do not give respect and always makes him angry all the time. He unintentionally bumped into an Earth pony mare with pink mane and white coat, causing him to swear once more, leaving an uncomfortable Luna seeing Tommy swearing with other ponies.

In order to stop the argument, Luna quickly disappears into the bus, causing Tommy to chase after her. Once he burst into the bus, he finds that Luna disappeared, causing Tommy to chase after Luna once more and gets exhausted, so he sits on the doorstep nearby. Luna appears next to Tommy, scaring him in the process. Her action has left behind an angry Tommy accusing Luna acting like a jerk around the public. To make things possible, Luna sees Tommy doing workouts by chasing after her in order to lose anger and make him healthy. But much to his disagreement, Tommy says that running is as stupid as hell which is why Luna runs off for no reason. In the meantime, Luna allows a unicorn mare to enter the taxicab's rear seats, much to her pleasure. Upon reaching the subway, Luna is distracted seeing a signboard with a long distance line (carried over from the comic Twilight Sparkle and the Big City) until Tommy gives her a token to enter. As the train pulls over, the duo enters the subway train and a humiliated Tommy becomes a severe bully victim many years ago. He is severely beaten up by a swarm of irresponsible and selfish ponies which causes him not to learn at school too much and leave permanently. To make matters worse, Tommy defends a woman who also becomes a bully victim, which causes Tommy to end up in school court by Chancellor Neighsay and expelled from education. At the same time, Princess Celestia enters the courtroom before Tommy is found guilty.

After Tommy is found innocent, he is taken out of court which changes Equestria, Princess Celestia stood up on the podium and appears ahead of the public in order to quit the hatred between ponies and human beings. Fade to many, many years later, human development and inventions such as construction, automotive industry, TV and phone network has existed in Equestria over the past 200 years, leaving a confused Luna that Celestia went all of this alone. After leaving the subway, the duo have lunch, went to an art gallery and Luna even played a game at an arcade until she destroys it completely, causing Tommy to pay the damage. On the way back, Tommy calls his parents using a phone booth and have dinner afterwards. In the meantime, Luna thinks that a human couple was arrested 45 years ago for vandalism and assault by throwing tomatoes at Celestia during the Summer Sun Celebration at Central Park. After leaving the house, Tommy and Luna pulls over to the park because she suffered depression and not return to Canterlot due to all the hatred and suffering of human beings, leaving a sympathetic Tommy. Luna suffered a nightmare for being Nightmare Moon and buried in the moon, but much to Tommy's disbelief.

In order to solve the problem, Tommy takes Luna to the ferry docks, she opens her eyes and Tommy calls Manehattan ***THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS*** due to excessive modern tech, making all humans and ponies stay up all night and went to nearby parties, watching movies, talents shows and stuff like that. A confused Princess Luna is not dreaming after all and the duo head back to Canterlot. After taking Luna back, Tommy often visits her once a week such as going on vacation, eating hot dogs, snapping pictures and even attend a talk show as well. Set to 5 years later, Tommy took Junior as his son. At the same time, Luna even gets tickets to attend a live performance by Canadian singer Bryan Adams live in Ponyville, so the trio scampered to the concert before the sun goes down. Upon arrival, all the ponies and humans cheers for him and the comic ends with Adams and the band singing the song Summer of 69.

## Trivia

* The comic contains old songs from the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
* Just like Twilight Sparkle and the Big City, this comic also combines modern and conventional transportation.
* It's common to see today's human beings swearing each other when bad things happen.
* Swearing using bad words is strictly forbidden in the United Arab Emirates due to the presence of Islamic people. Whoever swears in public when dealing with road rage can be thrown to prison or dragged back to its original country.
* This is the only comic where Chancellor Neighsay makes his short appearance.
* A pony form of Canadian singer Bryan Adams makes his short appearance at the end of the comic book.

## Songs

* Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
* The Bangles - Manic Monday
* Madonna - Like A Prayer
* Tina Turner - The Best
* Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
* a-ha - Take On Me
* Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
* Sting - Fields of Gold
* Bryan Adams - Summer of '69

## Links

* Young Days on Canterlot Comics
* Young Days on Deviantart
* Young Days on Derpibooru