Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Plecostomus Twilight Sparkle,
Part 2
[Canterlot Castle, throne room]
“This is all you found?” Twilight sighed looking over the report that Guards Forensics officer, Huge Guy, gave her. Despite his name the dark gray and white splotched earth pony was smaller than her. He was recently promoted after solving a serial crusher case.
“I'm afraid so Princess. We have a few diamond dogs on the force that tried to follow the tunnel though they ran into some sort black thorn covered roots. That prevented them from following the tunnels. We're not willing to destroy them until we find out if they may be something important or some sort of fallout from the Mage's high energy team.”
“Alright keep me or one of my brothers updated when you find out what they are.” Twilight sighed.
“Of course Princess.” The guard bowed and turned heading back out the door.
“You didn't seem to have a issue with him calling you Princess.” Raven snarked, having fought for a good hour to get her to accept it.
“Meh.” Twilight shrugged. “No point. Is everything set up?”
“Indeed, Twilight...”Raven sighed, Twilight had fought for just as long for Raven to stop calling her Princess as Raven did for her allowing others to do so.” The crowds are not happy about it, but we can send them in one pony or small group at a time.”
“Good. They'll have to deal, I took a glance out side as every pony was gathering and started to freak out a little at that. I still can't deal with large crowds.” Twilight frowned.
“Understood, will there be anything else?” Raven asked .
Twilight sighed then looked at the two thrones in the middle of the great hall and frowned.
“Yes. Send some one to grab one of the lobby chairs from the Royal Library and bring it here.” Twilight ordered.
“The lobby chairs? You mean the couches? How is sitting on a couch going to show you're in charge like a throne would?” Raven flattened her ears.
“They're actually recliners not couches. And it shows I'm in charge because I have a comfy seat and they have to stand.”Twilight explained.” Plus those things smell like books and are the best things ever to stretch out on to read in. I need to see if I can convince the library to get new ones so I can snag the old ones for Golden Oaks.”
“That's not on today's docket.” Raven sighs.
“Spoil sport.”
[Canterlot Castle private quarters.]
“You sure about this little dude?” The guard questioned looking down at Spike.”She's rather temperamental in the morning.”
“Pfft, you don't know my sister. I can deal with it.”Spike sighed. “Still you might wanna close the door and stay back.”
“Braver soul than I am.” The other guard at the door offered a salute as Spike waddled into Sunset's quarters.
The drake had no real fear of a defensive fire spell, after all, when you walked though a wall of solar fire made by the goddess of the sun herself, what said goddess' daughter could do was a little less intimidating.
“Hey... Sunset , wake up!” Spike said.
Still he went though the usual escalation rituals that he went though with his siblings. Speaking to her to wake her up, shaking her a little, poking her with the end of a broom handle, yelling,shaking her a lot, tickling her nose, no luck.
It was his patented number 17 method, also known as the 'Twilight/Rahs it's an emergency get your tail up' method, that finally worked.
To the untrained outside observer this might come off as a confusing way to go about things. But Spike had the complex method distilled down to 3 easy steps.
Step 1. Get a bucket
Step 2. Fill bucket with cold water.
Step 3. Dump bucket of cold water on to stubbornly sleeping target.
Results were usually instantaneous and Sunset was no exception.
Spike had gone in expecting his sisters version of Lina's Fiery Burst, not the Sunset version. While the flames themselves didn't bother him at all, they did burn his wooden bucket to ash and send him sailing across the room to impact the wall by the door, he then found he was stuck there hanging from his spines.
It said a lot about the little dragons life that he was barely phased by being reduced to wall art.
Sunset on the other hoof …
“I'M GONNA RIP YOUR HEAD OFF AND MAKE YOU SUCK YOUR OWN DICK WITH IT!!”the mare screamed as she flailed about in the flash dried sheets fire radiating off of her. It seems her room was well warded against fire as aside from his bucket nothing seemed even slightly singed. Spike sorta felt sorry for any one she might decide to sleep with however.
“Wow, that's the third.... no make that the forth most threatening and least age inappropriate threat I've heard in my life.” Spike muttered.
Sunset flailed and fell off the bed with a crash tossing away the sheets while swearing. The reason for the flailing was the sudden blast of humidity from the water evaporating had curled her mane and tail into something that resembled a orange and yellow streaked version of Pinkie Pie's mane.
Spike attempted to hold back his laughter, but failed to hide a snort of amusement from behind his claws.
Of course watching Sunset zero in on the laugh and stomp over towards him, only to run straight into the wall made him lose it fully.
“Son of a bitch.” Sunset growled pushing her fuzzy mane out of her face to glare upward expecting a soon to be deep fried pegasus, or Philomena. Seeing a little dragon stuck to the wall was new.
“What?” Sunset stated eloquently. "Aren't you Spike?!”
“Yep.”
“What the fuck are you... why the fuck are you here?”
“You want the long version or the short version?” Spike asked.
“Short.” Sunset growled.
“Your mom and aunt got foal napped, Twilight's been suckered to be in charge until they get found and she wants to ask you some questions because you're one of the suspects.” Spike explained.
“Great.” Sunset sighed turning to stomp off towards the rooms bathroom.
“Where are you going?” Spike demanded wiggling on the wall.
“To fix my hair. I'm not going out there like this.”
“Well get me down.” Spike flailed.
“Nah you can just hang out a bit.” Sunset smirked.” Maybe you'll learn a different way to wake some one up other than a deluge.”
“You didn't respond to anything else.” Spike huffed as the bathroom door closed.” And adding a force effect on a fire ball is bull crap!!”
“Alright so do the guard captains have the weekly reports or did Celestia move that back to the end?” Twilight asked as she adjusted into the recliner with a small grin. Okay there were some perks to being a princess it seemed, she always loved these couches.
“Errr, no we can start with that if you wish. I'm surprised you know about that.” Raven questioned.
“I suppose you wouldn't know as I don't recall her doing it since you were hired. Every so often Celestia would bring her students to one of her day courts to show us how everything worked.” Twilight sighed.” Personally I think Celestia did it because if a foal poked a hole in some nobles plan that embarrassed them even further than her simply telling them no. That Celestia promised us ice cream if we successfully did so helped. I think I held the record at twenty three plans ripped apart.”
“Well. I suppose that means you do have a head for this.” Raven blinked.
“Not really. I just had good motivation.” Twilight shrugged.
“Perhaps I should see if we have any of that white chocolate and raspberry ice cream left to add to the lunch selection.”Raven added slyly.
“And just like that, a horrible day is improving.”Twilight beamed. "Okay lets hear the reports.”
“I have been here a year with no issue, one would think by now they might stop considering me the culprit for every single thing that goes wrong in this castle.” Sombra growled. “The rulers have been foal napped, Sombra must have done it. Some pony broke into the kitchens and raided the cakes, must have been Sombra. I forgot my spear at home, blame Sombra.”
Rahs glanced down at the pony storming along beside him and shrugged. Sombra wasn't so much talking to him as he was ranting to himself and Rahs saw no reason to interrupt him. He didn't like the guy anyway and the feeling was mutual, but he agreed to keep an eye on him for Luna when it was first brought up about moving him to Ponyville for some semblance of normalcy. So far the only thing he had learned about him personally was that he was grumpy.
And that he had evidently been going at it a while as the two guards with them seemed bored of it.
Still, he had gotten Sombra, like Twilight asked and Spike probably already had Sunset, all that was left was to find...
“FUZZY!!”
A blue furred mass hit him about chest level and flung him sideways into a store room, the door exploding inward as Rahs cried out. There was a tremendous crash as the pair impacted somethings in the storage room. More crashes and splintering was heard along with the destruction of old furniture shattering of glass. Sombra and the guards peered in after them only to be forced to dodge a rather life like griffon statue that was flung out the door along with a ton of other debris. The three ponies watched as in a strange comedic series of events that looked like it could have been scripted for a stage play, the entire room was destroyed in a Rube Goldberg style of domino cascade.
In the end Rahs lay dazed on his back in a pile of rubble with Princess Luna's student, The Great and Powerful Trixie hugging him and nuzzling against his chest.
“This day might turn out more interesting than I thought.” Sombra smirked.
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Congrats TDR. You'll start getting offers to shill for Raid Shadow Legends next XD.
Ugh, Flu are bad but I'll take that over my sinuses acting up since with the flu I just get stuffy and ache. Same with a cold, sinuses on the other hand lay me out to the point I should actually end up going to the hospital most of the time. Fevers
Good plan
Force effect= BACK DRAFT
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Missed it :c
Yes, yes it will
YES round up the usual suspects and go from there. While Sunset and Sombra might enjoy some of the day will they really enjoy being caught up in all the insanity that is likely to be the fallout
I am very interested in his other 16.
You have my sympathies, as I caught the flu the day after Christmas, and only YESTERDAY did I fully recover from the hacking cough it gave me after the fever broke.
Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery!
I had a similar thing trying to get a chair from my college. Unfortunately they got rid of the good ones over the break last year so i never got to try and snag one.
Goddess of books
At least she didn't use the locate city nuke
That ice cream sounds pretty good
Everything connected to Rahs becomes a stage play
I need a pic of this because the mental image is adorable
Oof on the flu... having to deal with the effects of going from cold weather to warm and then back to cold... my throat feels like a garbage disposal: torn up and full of “ick”
One small error I found.
out side -> outside
Have you considered using Grammarly? It's free and it will catch most of the errors I've seen cropping up in the story so far.
Lifelike griffon statue in a closet? Stories in Stone/Night Shift reference?
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Not only a stage play, it's Friday in Canterlot, with their god there. Things are going to get quite artistically messy quite soon.
I laughed at this more than I should have...
Greenley. Onion bagel. Cream cheese.
Aah the reuniting of the stage magic ship gotta love it
The flu? Ouch, had that myself over the New Years, not fun at all. Good luck on recovery, you're past the worst part at least, but it's still going to suck for a few more days, just not nearly as badly.
Twilight, Rahs, Spike, Sunset, Sombra, and Trixie… this is a great cast for the Season 4 opening.
These next few chapters are going to be hilarious.
Don't know if this was intentional or not but I was reading through the first two seasons of this AU the last few days and I believe at one point Spike argued that the fireball spell in O&O SHOULD have a force effect rather than being just fire, so if I am remembering correctly this shows he was eventually convinced by Twilight that it shouldn't.
OR
I am remembering wrong and it was Spike who said that the spell should not have a force effect in which case this is great character continuity.
Either way I like it.
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Spike would argue which ever was in his favor.
The fact that the huge crashes in the store room seemed to be planned makes this hilarious to no end
How about making a spell for locating cities deal cold damage, then crossing in sonic damage, then crossing in force damage, THEN a force effect so it renders gigantic swathes of the land gore-strewn wastelands?
This line is missing a word
Ya know, Rahs, you may find that there are some disadvantages that come with being the god of theater. Just sayin’. And watch out for mantels! You never know what you might find hanging over them:
"I varn you, if you don't lie on the floor… I vill have to stun you."
(And it’s “Rube Goldberg,” BTW.)
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<facepalms> oh, shit...
*sniffs*
I smell a REFERENCE!!!!!
I wonder if rahs being theatre god will agrivate trixiestick
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Or making a kinetic energy weapon out of earth pony farmers passing something down a line. I understand that if you used the Apples, it'd be enough to easily punch through Canterlot Mountain.
God i love this storyverse so much
I wanna see the Twilight's get the Flu. Twilight would be grumpy (-er than normal) while for Rahs and Spike it'd be the most life-threatening thing if they way they whine and moan about it is anything to go on.
It's a guy thing, according to memes, to treat being actually sick as if you're on death's door.
My response at work? "You're not drinking enough Mt.Dew. *Taking a swig from a 2lt bottle* There's yer' problem." (I did get sick enough to call out from work, once. But because I ran out of Mt.Dew for three days)
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i can see him end up as god of debates/devils advocate
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Except, as stated in the past, Rahs doesn't get sick.
Anyone else get Big Trouble in Little China vibes from that? Story would be shorter if one of them exploded though.
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That seems like overkill lol
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All I could think of was the WHAT meme
Fort Libris will rise again!
Hey, the partner to "Rip your spine out and use it as my dildo!", I've been looking for this
I love how Spike is so nonchalant about the whole 'I could've died' thing.
He's probably just used to it by now.
Also, the whole "rip your head off and make it suck your own (censored)" was rather spit-take-inducing.
Oh yeah. I'm still rooting for her... or was I starting to root for moon-jack? I forget.
Huge Guy and the serial crusher. I know that reference!
Also.
Shouldn't that be most age inappropriate? Least age inappropriate is the same as most age appropriate, and that can't be right.
Okay, so, rather then hentai Time in Ponyville, seems we will be featuring 'The Sparkles Troll the Nobles' This is not a bad thing. Still, she'll get bored soon enough and get around to getting Celestia back to do the damn job.
So, someone who ran around markets crushing produce?
This is what is known as 'a clue'.
Ah, so it's near Canterlot's version of Unseen University? The area around which tends to be referred to as 'unreal estate' due to not quite being in line with things like, the laws of physics.
Yeah, trying to get ponies to stop calling her that will just waste waaay to much time.
Ah, right. Yeah, and being in the center of a mob scene would... not be good.
For the mob I mean.
She knows them well and knows how comfortable they are. Or at the very least, most of them have the cushions pressed into perfect form to contour to her by now. Where as on the throne, she ends up sinking into Celestia's butt print. (Insert cake flanks joke here)
I cannot fault that logic.
Well, you are in charge now. I'm sure the the Equestrian Library Administration would love a five fold increase in founding that would allow them to do just that.
Also, Raven, remember, you are caring for a Book Horse now, not a Sun/Cake Horse, you must find way to keep your Book Horse calm, surround her with familiar scents, no loud noises, and have a few large, old looking books nearby in case she needs something to calm her down, or a place to have a nap.
Yeah, that pretty well sums up Spike. Though again, being flame proof and able to snark off to gods without a second's though helps.
Also, having water on hand is handy for the ensuing fireball.
Ah, she's added some knockback metamagic effects to her fireball spell. And yeah, he's been through a lot.
Okay..... impressive.
Well, given her tastes......... Might not bother certain of her partners that much.
Fine, next time it's the cymbals over the ear way.
I'm with him, can't find anyway to do that which isn't either pure homebrew, or going into 'Locate City Nuke' levels of BS.
I see nothing wrong with this. It's their fault for not having a foal on staff to review their plans.
In one day, not total.
Book Horse is happy, yay!
Well... I could see Celestia talking you into helping her with that one.
Hi Trixie......... Oh Joy.
It's Friday and the Sparkles are in town. One thing today was never going to be was boring.
So yeah, just more palace shenanigans.
Is it a kinetic artwork that repeatedly disembowels another statue?
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More a play on another fic of mine Graveyard shift
Was that, argh what was his name again, the assassin guy from Graveyard Shift?
Think the best way to wake up Sunset would be a fragrant platter of bacon! Insert picture of Sunset sleep walking after a platter of bacon here.
Is’t Celestia Sunsets father, not her mom
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Sunset is confused enough and just decided to call Celestia her mom in general terms
Sombra and Sunset have it really tough
At least Sombra get some fun out of it.
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Fair enough. Would be funny to hear her daddy infront of Nobles for at least a year though...
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Congratulations, but Trolls often follow
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Boring isn't entertaining after all...
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Some of them got listed, slow escalation is probably tugging on the tail etc.
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Unexpected humor is priceless
At least Sombra got something out of this day.
Sunset adding a repelling force to her Fireball was clever, the intruder can burn on the other side of the room in pieces
Trixie love weighs more than Rahs can handle