//------------------------------// // The Wonders of the World // Story: The Life and Times of Flash Sentry // by LuRose98 //------------------------------// A few months later, Fuego and Fiona had settled into their new lives as parents. Flash had become a very curious colt, always exploring around the house and outside when Fiona would take him to go out to do some errands. He had tried to fly out to explore more but Fiona had a firm grip so he couldn't escape. But one day made the little guy very curious. So curious that well, let me explain. One day, Fiona was going to Cloudsdale for the weekend to see family. Fuego would be left with Flash on his own for the first time. "You sure you can handle Flash on your own Sweetheart?" Fiona asked "Don't worry I'll be fine." Fuego reassured his wife "Remember I use to be left with my siblings all the time." "Hmm. Good point." Fiona said as she putted on her jacket "Ok. I'll only be gone til Monday. I'll be available to call on my cellular but not after midnight. And don't forget..." "His feeding schedule, napping schedule, and to make sure he doesn't escape his stroller. I know what to do. Just relax." Fuego said "Please go. Go and visit your family and I promise everything will be in order when you get back." As he pushed his wife out the door. "Oh but please let me say goodbye to Flash before I go." Fiona said "He's sleeping dear. And you've already said goodbye to him 30 times." Fuego responded " Have a good time and we'll see you on Monday. I love you Fifi." Fuego kissed his wife "I love you too dear. But may I.." Fiona was cut off as he closed the door. Fiona sighed and said to herself: "Well I guess I'll be going. I'm sure Fuego'll have it under control. Then she got on her waiting taxi and left for the train station. "Well that takes care of that. Now to spend some quality time with my son." Fuego said relieved At that moment, Flash started to cry from his crib. "And that starts now. Coming Flash." Fuego entered Flash's room and picked up his son, which got Flash to stop crying. "Well Flash, it looks like it's just you and me." Fuego said digging his head into Flash's mane "Time for some guy time." Suddenly, a horrible smell came from Flash's nappy. Fuego plugged his nose with his free hoof. "Glad you're getting into the spirit. A few hours later. Fuego was watching a hoofball game while Flash was playing in his playpen. He looked up to see the hoofball game and cooed which grabbed Fuego's attention. "Oh you want to watch some sports huh little guy?" Fuego asked as he picked up Flash and putted him on his lap. "Well this sport is called Hoofball. In Hoofball, there are two teams consisting of 53 players. There's the quarterback, the linebacker, center, left and right tackle, running back, fullback, wide receiver, tight end, left and right guard, defensive tackle, defensive end, safety, and cornerback. Did you get all that son?" Flash just looked at his father with a confused face. This made Fuego chuckled. "You'll understand when you're older." Then the phone rang. "Hello?" Fuego asked when he picked it up. "Oh hey Charlie. Yeah I'm watching Hoofball. San Franciscolt Forty Neighers vs. Detrot Lions? Yeah that's the game. I know can you believe how bad they're doing? " Then the quarterback for the Lions missed a touchdown pass. "Oh come on! Smooth move ButterHooves. Did you see that Charlie?" While Fuego was talking to Charlie on the phone and watching the game, he didn't know that the door was open and Flash was noticing what his dad failed to notice. "Hmm that's weird. The door's open." Flash thought "Let's go outside." And so Flash crawled to the door which once again, Fuego failed to notice. Once Flash was out, his blue eyes got big with wonder. The sky was a clear blue. The sun was shining in a bright yellow. "Wow!" Flash said in his baby talk continuing to crawl around. "This is what I've missed for 11 months? Why does Mom always have to have a grip with me? Doesn't she know I'm missing this? Hmm I wonder.." Flash then started to flap his wings which successfully got him off the ground. "Whee! This is fun." Flash said flying through the sky "I can get use to this." "We'll be right back after this." The sports announcer on the TV said as the program faded to commercial "Damn commercial. Well Charlie I got to go. I'll see you back at the station." Fuego said hanging up Fuego had been talking to Charlie about the game for an hour now. He was so wrapped up with talking and the game, that he had failed to notice his son's absence. "Well this game is getting very interesting huh Flash?" Fuego asked Flash But when he turned to ask him, He wasn't there! "Flash?" Fuego was now frantic "Flash where did you go?!" Fuego searched all over the living room trying to find his son with no success. "Oh Sweet Celestia please come out Flash! Your mother's going to kill me if I don't find you. Where are you?" Suddenly, Fuego noticed the door was opened and when he got outside, his fears were confirmed. He saw Flash zipping through the sky with great ease. "Flash Warden Sentry get down from there right now! Your mother's going to kill me if you get hurt." Fuego shouted But Flash kept on flying not hearing his father. "Oh great what am I going to do?" Fuego pondered "Wait, I got it." Fuego then ran inside calling Charlie again "Charlie? It's Fuego and we got an emergency." Fuego then explained the situation "Meet me at the house and please hurry." "Wow he's doing loop de loops. I can't even do that. Are you sure he's only 3 months old?" Charlie asked "Please Charlie focus!" Fuego shouted "We have to get Flash before he gets hurt." "Oh sorry. So are we going to get him down?" Charlie asked "Well that I do not know." Fuego confessed then he had an idea "Wait I got it." An hour later, Flash was sleeping on a tree branch. "Ok Char, you go on this side." Fuego directed pointing to the left side of the tree. "I'll go on the right." He said pointing to the right. "Then after a few seconds, we fly really fast and either one of us will grab Flash. Ready?" The dark blue stallion with with dark blue hair with green in the front nodded So the two stallions started to fly towards the sleeping colt slowly but surely. Unfortunately Flash woke up just as the two started to fly, so he flew upward so when the two stallions began to sped up so they both ended up bumping their heads to each other. After regaining conscious, Fuego became really angry, his ears spited out smoke and his pupils became redder than his coat. "Ok that's it no more Mr. Nice Colt! I'm coming for your baby!" Fuego started flying really fast to catch the trouble making colt. Charlie reluctantly follow him. But Charlie started to notice a large crowd was forming at the Town Square. "Um Fuego?" Charlie said trying to get Fuego's attention when the two stopped "Not now Charlie." "But Fuego..." "Not now Charlie. We have to find Flash." "But Fuego" "WHAT IS IT CHARLIE?! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW BESIDES CATCHING FLASH BEFORE HE GETS HURT?!" Charlie replied by pointing to the large crowd of ponies who were gathered around and looking up the two stallions. "Oh that is important." Fuego said sheepishly then chuckled nervously Suddenly, the two heard a coo and turned around to see Flash on top of SugarCube Corner. "Oh Crap" The two said in unison So for the next hour,Fuego and Charlie sneaked up on Flash hoping to catch them. But Flash was always one step ahead, going from one side of the roof to another. Finally the two just gave up. "Ok Flash you win." Fuego said defeated raising a white flag "You're better than your old man. I guess I can't take care of you on my own." Seeing his father like this made Flash very sad. " Wow I didn't think my flying would make Daddy sad." Flash thought "I thought he would be happy to this. I better give in this time." So Flash flew into his father's hooves. "Huh?" Fuego was confused then saw his son in his hooves and grew a smile as wide as the land. "Flash! Oh thank Celestia you've come to your senses!" "I knew your son was smarter than he looks." Charlie commented Yes and there's no way I'm letting this little guy out of my sights for quite some time Now let's go home." Fuego said as the trio headed back home Fuego kept his word. He had Flash with him wherever he went. Flash became stuck to his dad with glue. Finally on Monday, Fiona returned from her visit to her surprise the entire house was clean and her husband and son were on the coach watching TV. "Oh hi Fiona." Fuego said when he noticed his wife and turned off the TV "Welcome home. How was the trip?" "Fine. Nice to see Mom and Dad. I got to see The Doos who have apparently moved back to Cloudsdale now that their daughters Amethyst and Derpy are grown up. They asked about Flash and they can't wait to see him when we go for Hearth's Warming Eve." Fiona replied as she took off her coat and saddle bag while looking around the house. "By the way, mom made for Flash." Fiona reached into her saddle bag and took out a light blue and gold colored crocheted blanket. Flash started to gurggle at the sight of the blanket and reached out to touch it. Fiona took her son from Fuego and wrapped him in his new blanket. Immediately, the little orange pegasus closed her eyes and went to sleep. "I guess he likes it. Never thought a colt would love crochet so much." Fuego chuckled "Well I'm just glad to be home and with my two wonderful boys." Fiona said "By the way, did anything happened while I was gone?" "No! Nothing,absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happened while you were gone!" Fuego replied frantically "Ok then. I'm just going to put Flash down in his crib and then I'll tell you more about my trip." Fiona said But when Fiona left Flash's room, she came across the paper from yesterday which headlines read: "TWO STALLIONS AND A BABY: TWO GROWN STALLIONS CHASED WELL STILLED FLYING BABY ALL OVER TOWN" which had a picture of Fuego and Charlie flying after Flash.Then she recognized who the ponies in the photo were. "FUEGO!" But when she turned around, Fuego was already out.