Celestia sat huddled over her desk amidst the warm darkness of her castle bedroom, with a pair of candles by her side providing the only light. There was a sense of urgency to her motions as she scribbled away on a note with a quill clenched between her rigid teeth and an intent gaze that never left her frantic writing for a moment.
Well, she was applying ink to the paper, but 'writing' was probably not a good description of her activity. 'Slowly turning her own coat into Princess Luna’s color by way of splatters' probably was more fitting. Her entire muzzle was ink-black with little rivulets of ink still dripping onto the table as she wrote, and several empty inkwells lay scattered nearby, with their contents having been poured into a water glass so that the Princess of the Sun could dunk her tightly-clenched and somewhat frazzled quill in without tipping it over. Again.
With a faint creaking of the door, Princess Luna proceeded slowly into the bedroom, casting a bright hornlight around herself as she paused for a moment to watch Celestia write in such an awkward fashion, then strode slowly up to her side.
"So..." said Luna, casting a long, evaluating look over Celestia's head, and in particular, her un-lit horn and limp pink mane. "Power's out again?"
"Fuse blew," said Celestia, somewhat muffled due to the quill in her teeth. "Didn't want to take a couple hours to go looking for a spare in the desk drawer downstairs. This is too important."
Luna giggled. "Fear not, sister of mine. I hath been careful to always carry a spare." With a glow of indigo magic, Luna removed a small metallic object from her mane and floated it over to the base of Celestia's horn. It only took a few moments to install, and the golden light of Celestia's magic filled the room once more, allowing her to spit out the dripping pen.
"Thanks, sis!" Celestia gave Luna a quick inky nuzzle across the neck and pulled another fresh quill out of a box with her restored magic.
"Think nothing of it." Luna scooped up a wad of tissues in her magic and started mopping at her damp neck before the ink could dry. "Although I have to ask. What's your hurry?"
"I just remembered I never told Twilight about alicorn fuses, and I wanted to get a letter to her before—"
A coil of dragonfire smoke curled up in front of Celestia's horn and resolved into a wadded-up mess of sodden parchment, dripping with ink and embossed with a great number of exclamation marks. It plopped to the desk, slowly adding its own ink slick to the splatters and blobs of ink Celestia had already spilled, but quite clearly scribbled at the top of the crumpled sheet were three familiar words, although in an unfamiliar fashion.
Dear PrinccFsss Ce1azTja!!!!!
There was a long moment as both alicorns stared at the dripping piece of parchment, then a brief frustrated sigh as Princess Celestia turned to her sister. “Luna, do you think you could—”
"I'll leave you to your task," said Luna, sweeping gracefully out of the room. “Good luck!”
I *said* I'd do something if this story got a thousand likes.
(I didn't say it would be very good...)
Pfffftt hahahahaha alicorn fuses, I love it!!
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When you give your readers a cookie, we ask for a glass of milk...
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Princefsss Ce1aztja is new waifu
7714595 Heh pretty cool actually...
Although I almost wonder what power company they have to deal with...
I tried to like this again.
It didn't work very well...
Oh that was hilarious.
I imagine Spike walked in on Twilight trying to write mid-freakout and just stood there and watched for a while.
Celestia visits Twilight, removes blown fuse, inserts bit coin, replaces fuse, all is well
I'd fave this story if it wasn't for the fact that I had already faved it last chapter. So, already covered I suppose.
Huh.
I saw that blog.
XD
*Tries to up-vote again and cant*
I want to vote again that sequel was GOOD!!!!
Beautiful.
This story. 10/10
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Sorry not really
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DEAR LORD MAN!!!
7716124 I've always had a bit of a liking of the real story but ever since I've seen this clip on Robot Chicken I've never been able to keep from snickering at the morbid retelling, ESPECIALLY at that "And that's why I had to kill Daddy. He was giving a mouse a cookie! TeeHee! Sleep well sweetie." Seriously, there is just some seriously wrong stuff going on in people's heads to be able to come up with stuff like this.
Two thousand likes? Well, my suggestions would either be talking about new models/upgrading, or a newly passed law that demands all Equestrian households switch to low-energy bulbs.
7714626 Celestia: "Alicorn Gas & Electric (AGE)"
Twilight: "I should've guessed "
Speaking of which...will Celestia inform Twilight about how they refill the underground gas reserves when they run out?
7719133 AN INFINITE SUPPLY OF BEANS!!!!!!!! "Tis a manual process by which we eat nothing but beans for two weeks, simultaneously casting gas blocking spells so we don't get any premature leaks!" -luna
"It'll go twice as fast as the last time we had to do it, we've got you and cadence now!" -celestia.
7720696 Discord: "And don't forget the beer!"
O.k....this is just silly. NARF!
Well you could have there was no wind cause the fan went out.
Oh god...
It's a series now...
We need something with multimeters.
I have reviewed this HERE.
7767097 You're absolutely right! But first we need to stock up on food for them.
...Well, if an anteater eats ants, what does an ammeter eat?
Personally, I think Twilight will invent the first thermal sequencing auto-resetting alicorn circuit-breaker.
7770258 I see whatcha did there.
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7720696 I'm sure the Equine Resources department is going to have some issues there. It's not what their name means, but that's also what's happening.
Also, do they all sit around a campfire like that once scene in Blazing Saddles?
I wasn't particularly enthralled with the first chapter, but when I read this addition, I laughed so hard I had to move this from my "interesting" to "favorites" bookshelf
Poor Twilight. Should've just let Spike take the letter. I hope they make fuses in her size.
(Also, apparently I need to keep an eye for updates in my Complete folder.)
7775444 Blazing Saddles...good one.
Help!
I don't get it.
Smart.
I've never seen a "random" tag be so very missing in my entire life.
Oh. This is suddenly dominating the popular box. Again?
Reminds me of the Q civil war. The guns weren't really guns but it was close enough so a mortal could figure out how to used it.
Alicorn fuses! Ha, that's a better idea than replacing the whole dang horn or wings!
rofl
I thought power as in the sun!
My 👍 was #2047.
11823162 You cruel, cruel people.
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