Adventures in Foalsitting 1
Sketchy Ideas
There was quite a commotion coming from Twilight's house one morning. Apparently, now, don't quote me on this...but as it turns out, Twilight was arguing with a certain human. It was getting pretty heated honestly. Lots of shouting and even some magic blasts were heard coming from inside the library, sometimes you might hear a crash of something breaking, or a book being tossed. Finally, there was a bright purple flash that illuminated all the windows and then when it finally faded, silence.
It was silent for a long time. 10 minutes at least. Though, it felt like hours. Finally, Twilight's concerned voice was heard from inside the library.
"Oh my Celestia...are....are you okay?"
*10 minutes earlier*
I threw a book at Twilight, obviously very angry with her. Twilight ducked and screamed some sort of weird pony profanity at me.
"Look I said I was sorry you stupid purple numbskull!"
"THEN WHY ARE YOU STILL THROWING BOOKS AT ME?!"
"YOU STARTED IT!"
"UGH! You are so frustrating!"
"You're not so fun yourself, sweetheart!"
"I TOLD YOU NOT...."
I saw Twi's eyes turn a blinding white. Her horn glowed.
"TO CALL ME...."
I backed up a bit, obviously pushed her too far.
"Whoa Twi! HOLD ON!"
"SWEETHEAAART!"
I felt Twi's magic smash into my chest, knocking me clear off my feet and into a bookshelf, toppling books on top of me, and I blacked out for a while.
Ten minutes at least passed by with no one saying a word. I slowly opened my eyes. I couldn't feel my hands or feet. The books were honestly a lot heavier than they usually were...strange...
I heard Twilight's voice, though muffled, I could tell she was concerned...
"Oh my Celestia....are....are you okay?"
I groaned heavily, then managed to utter something.
"Y-Yeah....I...I think so. You mostly hurt my pride, not my body."
Oh my Celestia, I think I just killed Austin....I didn't mean to hit him so hard with magic! I didn't even mean to use that spell, whatever it was! Is he breathing? I can't tell under all those books...
"Oh my Celestia....are....are you okay?"
Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay!
I see the books shift a bit, and I can hear his pained grunts from underneath the books.
"Y-Yeah....I...I think so. You mostly hurt my pride, not my body."
Oh thank Celestia....I swear I killed him there for a second...He never moved for ten minutes, so I got worried. I'd better get all those books off him...
Twilight's magic aura flooded over the pile of books and slowly pushed lifted them off of me...I laid there, still aching from hitting the shelf. Then I opened my eyes again and looked at Twilight. She looked...very concerned...I thought I had told her I was okay. Was I injured to the point where I didn't know I was injured?
"Twi? Twi, what's wrong? Is my head backward? Is my arm snapped in two? What's wrong?!"
Twilight swallowed and continued to stare for a while, then she finally said something.
"Um...no. Yo-you're fine....m-mostly. It's just....um.....Here....."
She hovered a looking glass in front of me, and I stared into my reflection in shock and horror. She had turned me into a foal. Thankfully, I was a colt. But I was still a foal....looked a lot like my OC, Sketch.
I normally would've snapped and panicked. But I decided not to and just took deep breaths. Finally, I said to her, as calmly as possible,
"Okay....Okay. I am now a colt. That's....not what I'd like to be, but hey, I'm alive. Now....Twi....I think we can set aside the argument for now and work on a spell that'll turn me back into a human, please?"
Twi gave a slightly panicked nod and smiled.
"Okay, I'll get on it. But I can't take care of a foal here....Not while I research the spell....I need a foalsitter...."
"Look, I don't need a fancy foalsitter to take care of me, I'm still 16 years old!.....mentally."
"Maybe so, but you don't look it..."
That's when we heard a soft knocking on Twilight's door. Twilight answered and saw Fluttershy standing there.
"Um...h-hi Twilight. I was just stopping by to visit...um...if that's okay with you."
"Sure Fluttershy, come on in."
Twilight stepped aside and let the timid pegasus in, then she spotted me and her soft aqua eyes went wide.
"Who's that?"
"Um....uh....This....is.....um....." She looked around for an idea for a name. She spotted her quills and a pencil.
"Um....SKETCH! This is Sketch. I...well...It's Austin, but I turned him into a foal for...uhm..."
I chimed in quickly to cover for Twi. "AN EXPERIMENT IN TRANSFORMATION SPELLS!"
Twilight nodded and smiled. "Y-Yeah! What he said. So...for the time that he's a foal, he'll be called Sketch."
Fluttershy nodded. "I see."
"But I can't really keep him around here with all these....dangerous bookshelves and all. He may get hurt. So....we were wondering...Do you know any foalsitters that are available for him?"
Fluttershy's eyes lit up like a christmas tree and she suddenly flew over and scooped me up into her forelegs, holding me close.
"I'll do it!"
"Um, Fluttershy, you have to remember, you're house is full of critters....I don't know if-"
"Don't worry, Twilight. They're all very nice and gentle. Besides, all the bigger ones who could do any harm to him usually live outside or in the Everfree Forest."
"I dunno Fluttershy..."
"Um, do I get a say in this?" I finally chime in.
Twilight thought of something.
"Hm...Okay, I'll tell you what, Fluttershy..."
Twilight instructed Fluttershy to sit on her flank with her hind legs out. She was confused, but did it anyway. Twilight walked over with her quill and then sat near Fluttershy, then turned to her.
"If you can stand 5 minutes of me tickling your hooves with my quill, I'll let you foalsit Sketch. Deal?"
Fluttershy nodded and smiled.
Twilight started to gently flick the fluffy end of the quill against Fluttershy's hooves, and Fluttershy immediately put her forehooves to her mouth and started to hold in her giggles.
Twi smiled and continued to tickle her. "Remember, no laughing or else you don't get to foalsit Sketch!"
I sat there, watching the two mares silently, ears flat against my head. I guess Fluttershy is a better foalsitter than any....I mean, I can't fly, so Dashie couldn't. I've already seen Pinkie with the Cake's foals, so I don't think that would work out...and frankly, Rarity treats her little sister like a servant mostly. I guess Applejack wouldn't be a bad foalsitter, but then again, she'd probably give me chores or something, and I'm no good at farmwork.
Fluttershy kept stifling her snickers and giggles, using her hooves to cover the very scrunched and goofy looking smile spread across her muzzle. I gently rubbed my horn with a hoof curiously. It felt kinda fuzzy. I went back to sitting there watching the two mares, until finally....
"Annnnnnnd....TIME!" Twilight said. "Wow, you actually did it!"
Fluttershy then burst into a flurry of giggles and laughter. My ears went even lower. You know, I said before I didn't need a foalsitter....I feel like a Fluttershy among the mane 6....
Fluttershy finally stood up and walked over to me, scooping me up and then setting me into her saddle bags.
"Just sit still and you'll be fine. See you tonight, Twilight!" She walked out the door with me gently bouncing at her side. I sighed rather heavily and just decided I might as well enjoy the ride while it lasted....Though I totally didn't agree with this.
So Fluttershy carried me all the way to her cottage, which honestly was a much farther distance than I had anticipated. She set down the saddlebags and I stepped out, then looked around. It smelled an awful lot like a stable, honestly...but then again....
She smiled warmly at me and then went to find something. I decided it was best not to ask questions, so I went over and sat my fuzzy flank on her couch, and she came back over with a board game.
"You like Chutes and Ladders?"
"Um...Not really." I said, ears flat against my head.
"Scrabble?"
"No..."
"Pictionary?"
"Uh-uh..."
"Well....what do you want to do?"
I tapped my chin thoughtfully, then shrugged. I was stumped on an activity. Fluttershy thought for a minute. I wasn't anything like the CMC, so she couldn't really just play the 'Quiet Game' with me. And she didn't have any games that colts would like. Finally, she spotted a brush and turned to me.
"You wanna brush my mane?"
I shrugged and took the brush in my magic, and she sat in front of me as I ran the brush through her off-pink mane. It was actually kinda fun. We had a long conversation about ourselves and what it's like on our respective worlds. She told me about the time that she and the others took down Nightmare Moon, and what it was like being greyed out by Discord. She told me about the Royal Gala and about every Pinkie Party she was ever at.
I told her about my life back on Earth...Told her the games I play, the things I do, the stories I write. She seemed actually really interested. No one ever bothered to listen to my life story...Then again, no one asked me. I told her about the time I passed out in a puddle of soda and then woke up with my face stuck to the table. The time I won my Grade 2 Karaoke contest, every school play I've ever been in...It was actually really fun. And by the time that we were finished and both Fluttershy's mane and tail were entirely brushed until there wasn't a single knot or split end left, 3 hours had already gone by.
Fluttershy looked at her clock and saw that it was time to go feed her critters.
"Oh my! Where'd the time go? Wanna come Sketch?"
"Sure!" I hopped onto her back and she carried me out to the backyard, where a large group of all sorts of animals where waiting. Fluttershy smiled and got out a few bags of feed, then, with my help, fed all the animals there. We went back inside and sat on the couch. That's when Angel hopped over and gently rapped at Fluttershy's hooves with his foot. He pointed to the clock and Fluttershy's eyes went wide.
"Oh no! That's right! I was supposed to help Rainbow Dash clear the clouds this afternoon! Ooh, but I can't leave you here alone....What would Twilight say? *gasp* Wait! Twilight! Come on Sketch!"
Before I could react, Fluttershy scooped me up into her saddlebags and then put them on, galloping back to Ponyville. After arriving there, Fluttershy knocked on Twilight's door. She answered it and looked confused.
"Fluttershy? Sketch isn't due back until tonight..."
"I know, but I forgot that Rainbow Dash wanted me to help her out with the clouds this afternoon, and I couldn't just leave Sketch alone. So I need you to cast the cloud walking spell on him."
"Why?"
"Because he might be kidnapped or hurt if I leave him on the ground while I clear clouds."
"Well....What's he say?"
I poked my head out of her saddlebags and just nodded.
"Well.....okay, just be careful! I don't want him to get hurt."
Twilight took me out of Fluttershy's saddlebag, then cast a simple cloud walking spell on me. I didn't feel any different...Fluttershy scooped me up and put me back into her saddlebag, then flew off into the sky. I was honestly really really high...I peeked out and instantly regret that decision. We must've been like, 30 thousand feet off the surface! Fluttershy finally stopped and hovered near Rainbow Dash, who was currently perched on a cloud. Dashie smiled when she saw her, but then looked at her saddlebags and gave her a confused look.
"What's with the bags?"
"Oh, um...I'm foalsitting Austin, but he's been turned into a unicorn colt, so I got Twilight to cast a cloud walking spell on him so he would be safe..."
Rainbow Dash took a minute to absorb all that, then peeked into her saddlebags. I poked her nose with my hoof.
"Boop!" I smiled.
Rainbow Dash rubbed her nose and smirked.
"Okay, just keep him somewhere where he won't fall..."
Fluttershy nodded and took me out of her saddlebag, then sat me down on a nearby cloud. It was rather large, so I probably wouldn't fall. Probably....
I watched as the two pegasi kicked, smashed into, blew away, sliced and dispersed the many clouds plauging Ponyville's skies. Finally, Dashie flew over to me and picked me up.
"You wanna give it a go?"
"How? I dun have no wings."
"I'll carry you, and you kick them!"
I nodded and she flew around to some smaller clouds. I kicked them and watched as the they exploded and disappeared. After a while, the 3 of us all sat back down on a larger cloud hovering over a park, and we took some time to relax. The two pegasi laid on their backs, with my sitting between them. Finally, curious, I turned to Rainbow Dash.
"Hey Dashie?"
"Yeah, squirt?"
"Why is it you can't disperse storm clouds like you can regular clouds? I mean, the storm clouds almost seem bouncier than the other types."
Rainbow Dash turned to a nearby storm cloud, then flew it over to us.
"It's because storm clouds have a lot more water in them than regular clouds. You can make white clouds rain, but it normally doesn't last long before the cloud destroys itself."
Dashie hopped onto the top of it, then kicked it, making lighting spark everywhere. Me and Fluttershy just barely avoided a bolt firing past us.
"See? In order to disperse a storm cloud, we have to drain the water first."
Dashie flew the cloud over a nearby lake, then hopped on it repeatedly, making the cloud rain heavily until it turned white. She then took the cloud back and kicked it, dispersing it. She then flew back over and smiled.
"Well what about the clouds that make up your house? Or Cloudsdale? Can they be destroyed?"
"Actually, no, they can't. Those are specially made so that they can't be destroyed or drained of water. Otherwise, vandals could easily break into houses and stores and take what they want....If we could destroy them, Cloudsdale would look more like swiss cheese than a city."
She flew back over and smiled.
"Well, what it like just sleeping on a cloud? You seem to do it a lot."
"It's really comfy! They're soft and springy, and conform better than those weird memory foam mattress thingies."
"You pegasi are so lucky." I crossed my forelegs. "You can fly, and walk on clouds, and make it rain and control the weather..."
Dashie smirked and gave me a gentle tap on my shoulder.
"Oh come on...We're not THAT great. I mean, we can't use magic, or cast spells like you can, squirt."
"Yeah, and you don't have to worry about getting your feathers wet when it rains." Fluttershy said.
Dashie giggled. "Yeah, it's almost impossible to fly with wet feathers!"
Fluttershy and I eventually made our way back down to the surface, and Twilight walked out and smiled.
"Good news Sketch! I finally have the spell ready!"
"Oh goody!"
"Spell? What spell?" Fluttershy looked at us questioningly.
"Uhh..." I muttered.
"The second transformation spell to this experiment!" Twilight said quickly.
"Yeah!"
"Oh....okay." She said.
I walked over and Twilight cast the spell. But it was stronger than she anticipated and she ended up blasting everyone in the library with it.
I looked at myself, and sighed when I saw that I was human once again. Then I turned to thank Twilight, but bit my tounge when I saw that...Twilight wasn't a pony anymore either....
She turned bright red and quickly grabbed two books to cover herself, as did Fluttershy. My eye twitched, then I just turned away.
"Uh....yeah....th-thanks...uh....I'm off to Sugarcube Corner now...to.....stuff.....my do.....have fun...." I walked out of the room, leaving two very embarrassed humans to figure out the antidote to that spell.