Blaise has experience dealing with energy loaded kids, he never let a kid miss their bed-time, breakfast, lunch, or dinner. if you needed a pony to watch the kids, Blaise was the stallion, but he faces his biggest challenge, the cutie mark crusaders.
Blaise thinks he's the best filly and colt sitter in all of Equestria, yet now he has been asked a favor from Applejack. Applejack needed to make an emergency trip to Canterlot for harvest supplies, granny and big mac were gone, so she called Blaise because Applebloom was having her friends over for a sleepover and Applejack promised it would happen.
"i swear to the high heavens, if that darn stallion left me er' i'm gonna show him the bottoms of my hooves!"
"Well Applejack, you could at least buy me dinner." Blaise said, causing the earth pony to jump at his sudden appearance.
"Thank gosh almighty, you're er'!" She said, handing him a list and hugging him.
"Er'ything they need is on that there list, i sure do appreciate ya doing this Blaise." She said, she began to pull out some bits to pay him with, but he raised a hoof.
"Please Applejack, we're friends, you don't gotta pay me." She hugged him again.
"You're a darn right good friend Blaise." He smiled as he hugged back.
"Well, instead of paying me, you could let me take you out on a date." Applejack blushed just a tiny bit, the thought of the stallion liking her tickled her pink, but now wasn't the time for romance.
"Just make sure they don't eat too much candy, oh, and get those goofballs in bed by 10:00!" She shouted as she trotted down the road. Blaise walked in the house and was greeted by a bucket of confetti to the face.
"Got ya!" Applebloom yelled as she dropped the bucket and joined her fellow cutie mark crusaders in a line in front of blaise.
"Ah, its you little rascals, Applebloom good to see ya again, but....... i don't think i've met your friends yet." Blaise said, extending his wings to shake the shredded paper off.
"Well i'm scootaloo, future daredevil extraordinaire!" The young pegasus said, extending her stubby wings and doing a half-hearted backflip.
"And i'm sweetie Belle, with a voice like an angel." She said, tossing some of her hair back, she didn't have a lot of hair to start, but what she did have, she showed off.
"Well, i'm Blaise." He said, Scootaloo's eyes widened and she smiled.
"Wait, are you "the blaise"? The one who save five pegasi from a rogue thunderstorm?!" She asked. Blaise pulled out his goggles in the shape of a flame.
"Yes i am, and it was more like three, honestly that story got hyped up." He told them the story from his point of view. the lightning, thunder, rain, it was all hitting him pretty hard but he never quit.
"Wow! Have you ever served in the equestrian army?" Applebloom asked him. It was a popular rumor that Blaise had been a captain in the army.
"Yes i did, even got a song from the service." He responded, Sweetie Belle clopped her front hooves together.
"Oooooh, Blaise, you must sing it for us!" She said, blaise thought to himself for a second and got a guitar that was lying in the corner.
He started to play it at an upbeat country tune, and then he sang:
Well i took my men on down the river yonder,
We caught the evil changelings and when i started to say fire,
Old red walked to me and said "We can catch em off guard,
if we held our fire, let them gain a couple a yards"
So we held our fire until we saw their right flank,
Then we started to fire and broke right through their ranks,
And the changelings learned a painful lesson that day,
Nopony can break the 136th air brigade!
They stomped and cheered.
"Tell us a war story Blaise!" They all spoke in agreement, wanting to hear tales of bravery and honor.
"Ok, i got one for ya, i've never told anypony this, so you're the first ones to hear this." They smiled at hearing this, glad that he was trusting them with a story nopony else except maybe his commanding officer knew.
"So one morning at morning call, everypony was there, except my friend private greenhorn. We all went looking for him and ya know what he was doing?" They shook their heads and Blaise smiled.
"Well Greenhorn was a full grown stallion, and we caught him sleeping in the barracks sleeping, hugging a little teddy bear to him." They laughed a bit.
After hearing that story, the cutie mark crusaders played their own little game of tag, Blaise willingly joined in, even though he was a previous soldier, Blaise loved playing games with kids, he was a caring pony, although when equestria needed him, he was a willing soldier. Applebloom jumped up from behind cover and poked Blaise with a stick.
"Ha! I snuck up on you, yer out!" She yelled happily, she was really too loud to sneak up on the previous soldier, but Blaise let them win, he feigned surprise.
"Woah Applebloom, i didn't even know you were there!" She smiled at the stallion's surprise and we heard two loud voices in another room.
"I got you out!"
"Nuh uh, i got you first!"
"Uhh Blaise, we better go check that out." Applebloom said, Blaise nodded and walked into the other room, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle had tagged each other, but nopony knew who was out.
"Girls, it's just a game, here." He patted them both on the back.
"I untag you both." This usually worked, but Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle immediately tagged each other again and started another argument.
"Girls! You need to calm down, lets not play tag, let's play........." He thought for a moment then Scootaloo piped up.
"Truth or dare!" Before Blaise could protest, they all agreed and decided they'd ask Blaise first.
"Truth or dare Blaise!" Applebloom asked him, Blaise decided to play along.
"Truth." He said after thinking a bit, Applebloom thought for a bit and turned to him.
"Do you like my sister? Like, as in more than a friend." She asked, Blaise's eyes widened and a small blush was evident on his face, making the three fillies laugh, the big ex- soldier stallion was blushing.
"Ha, looks like Blaise is in love with Applejack!" Scootaloo said, falling back.
"N-no, i assure you, there's nothing between us i just use science to help her with the farm." He said, Sweetie belle was smoothing out her hair.
"More like chemistry." She said, the other girls let out a few "oooohs" and "Good ones!" as the gave her a high-hoof. The blush darkened on his face and he looked at Applebloom.
"Truth or dare?" He asked the small Earth pony.
"Truth!" She said, looking up at the stallion.
"Ok, what do you think your cutie mark is gonna be?" He asked her, her face scrunched up in concentration.
"I dunno, maybe a bloomin apple?" She said, then they realized they had never seen his cutie mark.
"Hey Blaise, what's your cutie mark?" Applebloom asked.
"A pair of flaming wings." They looked at him in amazement and their eyes widened.
"Cool, how'd ya get in?" Scootaloo asked him.
"While i was in the army, there was a big fire, i needed to fly in and out of the barracks to save the others, i was just a young colt at the time and was still training." They smiled and looked at each other.
"That's so cool!" Sweetie belle said, setting her hair brush down.
Blaise tucked each of the fillies in as they laid down and fell asleep on the mat they had set up. Blaise began cleaning when he looked at the time and smile, 10:00 sharp, just like he had promised Applejack. This day had sure been a new experience for the stallion, he had never met fillies like this. most fillies he watched after for their parents were just a bunch of gossipers, but these three shared a special connection, and Blaise knew, even though Celestia was a supposed goddess, he knew that the future of Equestria rested with these kids, not just the crusaders, but the others too.
"Whew, now that i'm done cleaning, i should get some rest." He laid down on the floor, he then heard the voice of the Earth pony he was crazy for.
"Ya know Blaise, ya coulda set yerself somethin up to sleep on." Applejack said, looking over at the three fillies.
"Why you got em sleeping like angels, how'd ya ever manage that?" She asked him, he got up and lead her outside.
"Applejack, those are some of the best kids i have ever seen, and they made me realize something too." He said, gazing into her eyes.
"Really, what might that be?" She asked. The stallion walked over to her, still gazing into her eyes, and he kissed her softly, as he pulled away, he could see the dark blush on Applejack's face, her eyes were wide.
"W-what was that for blaise?" She asked him, still wondering if that had really happened.
"That was for you Applejack, i'm crazy about you, and it's ok if you don't feel the same wa-" He couldn't finish his sentence as Applejack kissed him deeply.
"Eeyup, saw this one comin." Big Mac said, they turned to him, both blushing madly.
"Blaise, cmon over here, i'd like to have a word or two with ya." Big Mac said, Blaise trotted over.
"Applejack really likes ya Blaise, but if yer just playin with her feelings, ill make sure ya can't ever hurt somepony else, a'ight?" This threat was new, especially from big mac, but Blaise nodded.
"I'd never hurt her." He responded.
"Eeyup, i trust you, but if you make me wrong on this......... you'll regret it." Blaise nodded and trotted back to Applejack, they started to walk along the fence.
"By the way, how in tarnation did my little sis and her friends help you realize these feeling?" She asked.
"They asked me if i liked you, once i started to think about you, i couldn't stop........." He said, she kisses his cheek.
