//------------------------------// // "The now college age CMC visit university student Babs and her collection of quirky roommates while trying to get their sisters to accept them as independent young ladies." // Story: Drabble Kaboom! // by Alex Warlorn //------------------------------// "The now college age CMC visit university student Babs and her collection of quirky roommates while trying to get their sisters to accept them as independent young ladies." Request from kaykeyser "Now girls remember, we only got time for a ten minute visit, and that means we can't waste any time our usual antics," Apple Boom told her friends and as they approached Bab's dorm room. "Apple Bloom, we're not grade schoolers anymore! We're collage age!" Sweetie Belle reminded her. "Hard to tell sometimes," Apple Bloom muttered. "Hey! No way was I missing out on that rare first edition Daring Do Meets Mare-Do-Well vs The Beast From Beyond Part Two comic! ... And that brawl at the comic book store was totally not my fault! That's what my lawyer says and I'm sticking to it!" Scootaloo said. Apple Bloom said, "Well let's just check in, say hi to Babs, ask how she's doing, and hopefully our big sisters won't think we've been kidnapped by Chrysalis... again." "Or possessed by kitsune," Scootaloo added. "Or swept up in a cosmic war that we returned home from a couple days later even though it was years for us and everpony thought we were making it up until the alien came and told us we'd forgotten our service medals?" Sweetie offered. "Look! I get it! We've had lots of crazy stuff happen ta us! But no more than all the crazy stuff that's happened to our sisters!" Apple Bloom said, "Now let's not waste more time!" Apple Bloom knocked on the door to Babs' dorm house. The door instantly swung open. "CUZ! YA CAME!" Cheered Babs as she pulled her cousin and friends before they could get a word in edgewise. "HEY EVERYBODY! COME ON OUT! MY COUSIN IS HERE! COME AND SAY HELLO!" And out they came. From the kitchen door, the bathroom door, the linen closet, the upstairs doors visible from the railed balcony, ponies, diamond dogs, fishmen, griffins, dragons, you name it. A zoo's worth of creatures descended upon the CMC. Babs gestured a purple fishman, "This here is Phillip." "I am fish-man university student," Phillip said dully. "Yes you are. This is Washing Shoe!" Next was a brown unicorn mare with a wild pink spiky hairdo with a mix of mathematical symbols for a cutie mark that made the CMC's heads hurt. "Fascinating! Tri-cutie marks?! I have GOT to examine you!" "This is Greg." "Sure, fine, whatever," said the black-cat/crow griffin. "This is Charcoal." "Yo!" Waved the black and gold dragon, his body a wall of muscle. "This is Blinding Gleam!" "A pleasure I'm sure," said a dazzling white pegasus whose feathers shined like diamonds, the CMC having to look away. Her cutie mark a pair of blackened eyes inside a super nova. "This here's Lulu." "Pay me five dollars to give you my autograph, it'll worth hundreds in a few years," said a poodle Diamond Dog, wearing a few too many ribbons. "This here's Zom." "Doom upon the hippogriffs for stealing our culture," said a deep purple merepony in a wheel chair, his eyes burning like hot coals. "And this here is-" "Babs we only have time for a ten minute visit! We don't have time to go through everypony in the dorm!" Apple Bloom tried to say, but Babs was on a roll. But the CMC weren't paying attention anymore as Babs introduced one egocentric weirdo after another, whom Babs had logically met over years and now expected the CMC to absorb and appreciate in the span of a couple sentences. Apple Bloom sighed, her hopes of just having some quiet time alone with the forth crusader sinking like a rock. That was when Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all appeared outside in a flash of light. "SO IS THIS IS WHERE YOU WENT OFF TO!" Rarity shouted dramatically. "You can't just go somewhere without tellin' yer big sister!" "Look at these weirdos! I bet they're all aliens who couldn't get us cool and awesome ponies just right and went for radical instead! Let's get'em!" "I welcome my end with quiet comfort," said Greg spreading out his wings and puffing out his chest. "YOU CAN'T PROVE I'M AN ALIEN!" Washing Shoe swore, sweeting bullets. "WAIT! ARE YOU THE RARITY BELLE?! I'VE WANTED TO MEET YOU FOR SO LONG!" Lulu instantly got in Rarity's face. "Hey I was gonna talk to 'er first!" Blind Gleam pushed Lulu aside. "Hey, are you -THE- Rainbow Dash? ... I've always wanted to see how I'd match up in a wrestle with ya!" "What am I? Chopped liver?" AJ asked. "Greg also feels dismissed and forgotten about during chaotic and socially charged events," said the fishman. "Ya get yer grammar lessons from a book written by Yaks?" "How you know?" Zom just sat here staring daggers at the big sisters. Greg realized none were going to end him and went back to his homework. "Uh, hi bigger cuz?" Babs was about to say before getting pulled away by the CMC. "Finally, we've still got a few minutes... and Ah wanna spend it with just the four us catchin' up and enjoyin' some cider together," Apple Bloom said relieved. "Uh... sorry, I just... wanted to share everyone I've met and-" "Babs, this is a short visit, we don't have time to be introduced to everypony ya know." "Let's just have it between us," Sweetie said. "All those wackos were giving me a headache," Scootaloo said. "Uh, no offense." "They take some getting used to... just wait till I introduced you to the-" "No Babs. No. Let just share time between us." "... Okay cuz, okay." ~Fin