Bumbling through my education, Wedding Chapter, and final main chapter of the story. · 10:49pm Feb 21st, 2017
How's everybody doing?! So, I'm working on the last chapter, and so far everything is going pretty good. Good enough that I wanted to give everyone a chance to see a little preview of what's going on. Expect this chapter to be huge, and I mean huge.
Bumbling through my Education
Chapter 20: A Wedding, Reveal, and Acceptable Terms
Organizing a huge wedding was something that should have been a piece of cake. After all, Princess Celestia specifically asked her to help organize the wedding, and she asked the most capable pony she knew to help plan a royal wedding, that was happening in a week. Pinkie Pie had declared that she had the plans already done, and Twilight was looking at Celestia’s favorite type of cake, her favorite dishes, Bumble’s favorite food, Luna’s favorite food, and so now she was helping to build off of what Pinkie already knew, and was adding more in for each of Bumble’s herdmates.
Somehow Pinkie Pie was able to get the Germaneigh, find out what kind of cake and food Aryanne liked, and return within only a day or so. Twilight had long since stopped asking the questions of how, or why, and simply accepted that this was part of Pinkie being Pinkie. She wasn’t lost on the fact that they would need help, and so asking her friends for their help came to light. Unlike Shining Armor and Cadence’s wedding there wasn’t any suspect of an incursion. Instead everything seemed fine. Or it did until Twilight learned that currently Bumble was being held under house arrest.
And that was where she was at the moment. In the Palace, looking at her former student, and trying desperately to figure out what went wrong.
“What happened?”
He looked away from her, “I really don’t want to talk about it.”
She neared him, slowly, “Bumble, please. They’ve told me that you hurt a pony.”
He glanced at her, “He slapped my wife.”
She flinched at that. Bumble was raised like a Pegasus. Derpy was an amazing mare, but she didn’t know the first things about teaching Bumble how to keep his magic in check. How to keep his emotions from taking over and possibly doing some real harm. Twilight had started teaching him control, but she knew that without those early safeguards that all little unicorns are supposed to be taught, well, it was fortunate that Bumble had only managed to break the former noble’s right arm and two ribs.
If he would have been at full strength there was a chance he could have done worse. On top of that Luna used the most archaic interpetation of the law in order to disband most of the nobility. Currently Celestia was trying to smooth things over, and placate some of them, but others… Twilight would be the first to acknowledge that some of the nobility was corrupt, and did some very shady dealings. She knew that the Health Care system in place was the biggest corruption ever created, and she knew that Gleaming Bit’s grandfather had put it into place with the original intention of actually helping ponies. Once that poor stallion died Gleaming’s father, and Gleaming himself, turned what was meant to help into a massive business that was there to separate ponies from their bits, and at the same time make the House of Twinkle Shine, Gleaming’s ancestor, wealthier.
Of course Blueblood helped, in his own special way, but releasing all of the information on every corrupt dealing, that any of the nobility that had been stripped of their power. It was out there for everypony to know, and even if they returned to power, they would be stripped again. Silently, she was thankful that her mother and father were more progressive toward change. The last thing she wanted was for the House of Clover to be disbanded and her parents tossed out of their ancestral home.
Sighing, she looked at Bumble. The nobility that was stripped of power now were held in treason, but they were able to use the same laws their ancestors created to mark Bumble’s own actions, warranted as they may have been, to ensure that the Prince Consort was painted in an ill light.
“You have to set things right between Gleaming bit, his family, and yourself.”
He looked at her, “He hit my wife. He slapped her.”
She sighed, “I know, I get that, but Bumble, if you don’t fix this… Everything you’ve worked for will be gone. This is part of being royalty. We have to make concessions that nopony wants to make. I don’t like it, not in the slightest, but I have to do it all of the time. So does Big Mac and Rainbow now.
