Twilight stated that while the kids could see Gizmo, it would be best that they meet him at the castle.
So sure enough, after some nice Heart’s Warming games were played and stories were told or watched, the fillies and colts, along with their teacher, were lead by Spike and the Crusaders, as they entered the castle to head to the library, where Gizmo was reading one of the books Twilight had left him on the table.
Twilight and Starlight had gone out to help the others with some Heart’s Warming shopping, as Shining Armor, Princess Cadence, Flurry Heart and Sunburst were coming over for the holidays.
While they were out, the school fillies, their teacher and Spike went through the castle; it was perfectly decorated for Heart’s Warming
As Gizmo was enjoying the book, he heard some voices coming into the library, feeling a little shy, he hid behind one of he book piles.
As the group came up to the table, Spike turned to them as he said, “Alright, everypony, just remember to be nice, quiet and friendly to him, it’s his first time meeting so be gentle.”
After a series of nods form the students, he turned back to the pile as he called his pet out, “Come on out, Gizmo,” he said, “it’s okay, just some new friends to say hi to.”
Soon, Gizmo slowly stepped out, a shy smile on his face, as he waved hello.
“Aww.” Most of the school fillies said as they saw him, surprised at how cute Gizmo was.
“Is that the ‘Mogwai’ thing you and Sweetie Belle talked about?” Tender Taps asked, as he came along because Apple Bloom invited him to see Gizmo.
“You bet,” Apple Bloom replied, before turning to Diamond Tiara, “what do you think of him?”
“I have to admit,” Diamond Tiara said to her friend, “he looks so amazing, and so cute to add!”
She then gave Gizmo a small wave, and the Mogwai did one back in return.
Featherweight looked to the Mogwai as he said, “Hey little guy, try blinking your eyes.”
As the little Pegasus blinked his, Gizmo blinked his eyes in return too.
“This is so amazing,” Button Mash exclaimed, as he looked at the creature, “he almost looks like one of the pocket creatures from one of my games!”
“Where do you think we can get one of those?” Peppermint Twist asked Spike.
“I don’t know,” Spike replied, “this is the only one I’ve seen.”
“And Ah don’t think the shop that Starlight and the others went to have anymore where Gizmo came from, Twist.” Apple Bloom said to one of her old friends.
“Well, I wish that there were more of them, they’re just so cute!” Diamond Tiara said to Apple Bloom, who nodded a little in agreement, along with the others.
Then a knock came from the door, getting everyponies attention, and there, carrying with her mailbag, was Derpy Hooves.
“Hi, little fillies!” she said, “Sorry about coming in, I was just here to collect Dinky when I heard that there’s a cute little guy here.”
“He’s right there, mommy.” Dinky said, as she pointed to Gizmo.
Derpy carefully walked up to where everypony was, and was amazed to see him.
Spike then placed a Heart’s Warming hat on him (yes, we all know that Heart’s Warming is like Christmas, so I thought that they both have the same hats), making the Mogwai look even sweeter to look at.
“He looks so precious.” Derpy said with a smile.
“And that’s not all,” Sweetie Belle said, “he can sing too!”
“Really, Sweetie Belle?” Cheerilee asked.
“You bet,” Spike replied, as he looked to Gizmo, “C’mon, Giz, don’t be shy.”
With that, Gizmo did his sweet little song, soothing everypony in the room as the enjoyed the song of the Mogwai (as what Sweetie Belle, Fluttershy and Spike decided to call it).
“Is it okay for Dinky to hold him?” Derpy asked.
“If that’s alright with Spike.” Cheerilee said, as she and Derpy looked to the young dragon.
“Sure, I don’t see why not, he’s really liking you all.” Spike said with a smile.
With that Derpy moved forward to reach for Gizmo… only to bump into the table as it shook, causing a vase (that was on a small stand on the table) to fall forward… spilling water on Gizmo!!
As the water splashed on him from the back, Gizmo let out a squeal as he fell on his front, his hat falling off him!
“Gizmo!” cried Spike, as Sweetie Belle helped by putting the vase down on the floor.
“Is he alright?” Dinky asked.
“I think so…” Scootaloo said with worry and concern.
“What was in the vase?” Featherweight asked.
“Nothing, it was just water…” Spike started to say, until his eyes widened in shock as he remembered what not to do, “Water! We’re not supposed to get him wet!”
As the crusaders were shocked about this, Gizmo kept squealing, almost as if he was in pain, so hard that most of the ponies began trying to cover their ears.
“Why’s he making that noise?!” Snips asked, his hoofs in his ears.
“Make it stop!!” Snails cried out, as his ears felt soar from the loud squealing.
As soon as Gizmo’s squealing tuned down a little into hurtful grunts, something suddenly went pop from Gizmo, and landed on the table.
Next to where Gizmo was, shocking the group, a little ball a fluff was placed on the table!
“Whoa…” most of the fillies said.
“Eww… what is that?” Diamond Tiara asked as she cringed.
“I don’t know.” Apple Bloom replied.
As they took a closer look, they thought it was crazy, but they thought they saw the bit of fluff… breathing.
“Is it alive?” Dinky asked.
“I… I don’t know…” Spike then replied, as the fluff slowly grew a little, while wriggling and breathing a little.
As most of the group stood back, the fluff became a fluff ball as it got bigger.
POP!
Another bit of fluff landed next to the first, growing one.
POP!
POP!
Two more appeared.
POP!
Then another.
POP!
Then a sixth landed next to the batch, as the little fluff balls wriggled, breathed and grew like the first one.
The group was too shocked for words for the moment, until the most shocking thing happened.
The fluff balls slowly began to unfold, revealing themselves… as Mogwai!
Spike, the crusaders, Diamond Tiara and the rest had either wide eyes, opened mouths or both as they saw what was happening in front of them.
Each of the Mogwai were slowly finished unfolding themselves, even began to chirp and yawn, the latter almost like they were waking up.
These Mogwai were a little like Gizmo, however, most of them came in different colors, such as brown, white, black and/or blackish grey, and that there were a few little features on them that stood them out.
While four of the Mogwai had the same color of brown and white (the color patterns being a little different and/or the same), while the three had a different or same shape, the fourth (which was also the first to be born from Gizmo) had one little feature it’s head, a white tuft of white fur, looking like a Mohawk.
One Mogwai had different color fur, being white, black and grey-brown, with short and small ears, big lips and a more-or-less ape-like face, looking like it was grumpy or something.
And the sixth Mogwai (being the last to be born) also had a different fur color, as it was white, light-brown and black, and the features on it was a set of buckteeth, and it’s ears looked like they were a little droopy.
After the Mogwai were born, looking around, and making squeaky sounds and chirps, the group had a good look at them, still amazed at what they saw.
“1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6 new ones?!” Pipsqueak said in surprise, as he counted out the newborn batch.
“So sweet!” Snips and Snails said in sync, as they were amazed at what they saw.
“I know it’s not the time to ask but…” Twist said as she turned to Spike and Apple Bloom, “now do you think I could have one?”
“Ah don’t know, Twist…” Apple Bloom replied, unsure after what had happened.
“Aww, look,” Silver Spoon spoke up as she looked to the Mogwai with the stripe… who also seemed to have a sneering grin on it’s face, as she came close to tickle it under it’s chin, “that one’s got a cute little stripe on it’s head! Hi cutie.”
But as she got closer, as she brought the tip of her hoof to it to give it a tickle, the Mogwai let out a small, quick growl… before nearly nipping Silver Spoon’s hooftip off with it’s small but sharp teeth!
As a panicked Silver Spoon jumped back at alarm at what almost happened, the other Mogwai let out little giggles at this (the bucktoothed one let out, what sounded like, a somewhat stupid-sounding laugh while the grumpy like one let out smug ‘Heh’).
“Isn’t this incredible?” Scootaloo asked.
“Yeah,” Sweetie Belle replied, “and they’re just so adorable!”
“I suppose so…” Silver Spoon said, still a little startled after what one of them nearly did.
“I’ve never seen such cuties!” Derpy exclaimed, “They almost like how Dinky was when she was born!”
“Mooom…” Dinky said, rolling her eyes a little.
“I must say, Spike,” Cheerilee said as she turned to the little dragon, quite amazed about the new batch of born Mogwai, “your pet is quite extraordinary.”
“Thanks, I guess…” Spike said, though while he was looking at the new Mogwai, he was more concerened about Gizmo, as he noticed as the minute the new Mogwai were born, he noticed that Gizmo wasn’t quite excited, amazed or happy seeing the new batch as the others were, as he had a sad, worried look on his face, as he then let out a miserable sigh.
“What’s the matter, Gizmo…?” Spike said to Gizmo, as he looked on to his little pet.
‘Wonder what’s got him so depressed?’ he thought to himself.
Much later…
Twilight, Starlight and their friends had heard that Shining Armor, Cadnece, Flurry Heart and Sunburst had arrived on an early train during their Heart’s Warming shopping.
Having picked them up once they arrived, they all headed over to Twilight’s castle.
“I must say that I wish I could borrow your little Mogwai friend, Twilight,” Trixie said, as she was with the others during the Heart’s Warming shopping, “he could make a perfect role for a rabbit out of the hat trick.”
“Maybe,” Twilight said as she rolled her eyes a little, “but since that your performances would feature bright fireworks, I doubt that Gizmo would enjoy being part of the show.”
As they were nearing the entrance, they saw Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich approaching the castle too.
“Hey there,” Rainbow Dash said, getting the couple’s attention, “you must be Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich, right?”
“Please, I prefer just Rich, thank you.” Filthy Rich said with a smile.
“So, what are you doing here?” Twilight asked.
“Well, since you’ve asked,” Spoiled Rich exclaimed, “we’ve come to collect Diamond Tiara, and we’ve got word that she and her… friends (I suppose)… are having fun at your castle.”
“Oh, yeah,” Twilight said, as she remembered, “I allowed Spike and the crusaders to show Gizmo to the other school fillies, I bet that they getting along so well.”
As they all entered the castle, they saw Spike coming around the corner, and to spot Twilight and the others as he said, “Scootaloo, I’m glad you’re back with more to-Twilight?!”
“Hey, Spike,” Twilight said, “you look a little surprised to see us, has anything happened while we were out?”
“Uh… oh, no! Nothing happened!” Spike fibbed, a little nervously, “Everything is a-okay here!”
Just then, Scootaloo came in on her scooter, with a red wagon of toys behind it, “Hey Spike,” she cried out as she passed the others, “here are the toys, gotta go fast and give them the games to play!”
“Spike,” Twilight said, acting suspicious, “what’s going on?”
Letting out a sigh, Spike confessed, “Okay, I’m sorry. As you all know, the others and me are doing our best. There’s a problem with the Mogwai.”
“Oh, don’t worry, it’s alright,” Sunburst said, “I’m sure that whatever’s wrong with him, Gizmo will get better in no time.”
“Well, that’s the thing… you see…” Spike said, as he then held onto his breath before revealing, closing his eyes, “it multiplies with water.”
As he said that, he opened his eyes, revealing Twilight, Starlight, Sunburst and the others with stunned looks (especially as Sunburst’s glasses slid a bit to the tip of his snout), the Cystaller then asking, as he brought the glasses back up), “Come again?”
It was quite a site to be seen for the others.
As they looked, they saw, on one if the tables, six new Mogwai, who were seemingly enjoying themselves.
The one with the stripe was playing a mini arcade console; the bucktoothed Mogwai was cutely hitting the grumpy-looking one with a Heart’s Warming tree decoration (which looked like a Heart’s Warming cracker), much to the latter’s possible annoyance, one Mogwai was seemingly playing with another one, trying to play piggyback, as the other was trying to scurry around looking for something to play with, and the sixth was enjoying playing around with the streams, decorations, small toys and wrapping paper.
“See what I mean?” Spike said as he showed the group.
Everypony were in shock to see these new Mogwai as they couldn’t believe their eyes.
“I don’t believe it!” Filthy Rich finally spoke, quite amazed, while his wife had a raised eyebrow look, but still surprised.
“All that from water?!” Starlight said as she gestured to the new batch, while looking to Spike, “They got wet?”
“That’s right, just from plain water.” Spike said, as he looked to the little ones.
Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, on the other hoof, were very much giddy with excitement, for Fluttershy seeing so many new cute Mogwai, and for Pinkie having new furry friends to play with beside Gizmo.
“I can’t believe they’re so cute all together!” Fluttershy said, “I’m so excited I could just scream with joy!”
With that, she took a deep breath before letting out a scream… a very quite one, before smiling back to the Mogwai.
“I know,” Pinkie said, agreeing with Fluttershy, “we should have done this sooner! Quick! Let’s see if we can get them wet again and get some more cutie Mogwai!”
“I don’t know, Pinkie, it’s not such a good idea.” Spike said, as he explained with a sigh, “Maybe, not right now, this is just… just not a good time at the moment.”
Spike then looked to Gizmo, as he was playing his song through a toy trumpet-like kazoo, with the Mane Six’s pets by his side (as they were brought along with their owners during their busy day).
“What’s up, Spike?” Starlight asked the little dragon.
“I don’t know, Starlight,” Spike said, as he looked back to both Gizmo and the new batch, “it’s just… the new guys aren’t a lot like Gizmo…”
“The one with the stripe seems to be the leader.” He said as he pointed out the Mogwai with the stripe on it’s head.
“You know,” Fluttershy said, “I think that’s a pretty good name for the little guy: Stripe. Stripe the Mogwai.”
“That is so adorable!” Sweetie Belle exclaimed, as she heard the name choice.
“Ooh! Great idea!” Pinkie said as she looked to the other Mogwai.
“I think we should call that one Lenny,” she said as she pointed to the bucktoothed Mogwai, “that will be George,” she said about the grumpy-looking Mogwai, “This one, we’ll name Haskins,” she said as she pointed to the Mogwai that looked a little chubby, “And those two can be Clorr and Branch!” she said as gestured to the last two.
The others looked at her a bit, as Rainbow Dash asked, “You certain about those names, Pinkie?”
“Well, duh,” Pinkie said with a smile, “after all, besides Stripe, those first four names for them are canon after all!”
The others were a little baffled by what she said, until Filthy Rich spoke up.
“You know what?” he asked.
“What’s that, Mr. Rich?” Twilight said as she turned to him.
“I think this could be the perfect gift to have for Heart’s Warming!” Filthy said, with an idea look on his face, “I bet every filly would want one of these. They might even replace the dog as the family pet!”
Winona looked up in surprise about what Filthy Rich said, until Applejack calmed her down.
“Heh, don’t you worry, Winona, me and Apple Bloom would never replace you.” She said, as this calmed the dog down a little, though still looked concerned.
“Something bugging you, Spiky-Wikey?” Rarity asked the little dragon.
Spike let out a sigh as he explained, “It’s just that… while I know you guys are excited to see these new guys, Gizmo is the only one who isn’t quite happy to see them, and as I said, they don’t seem to like him either.”
“Oh, don’t worry,” Fluttershy said, “I’m sure that they’ll get along well with him, after all, they did grew from him.”
She then walked over to Gizmo, and then looked to the other Mogwai as she called them out.
“Hey, new ones,” she said, getting their attention, “would you like to hear Gizmo play?”
With that, she gave Gizmo a small nod, telling him that he should play, though still unsure, Gizmo did just that.
Gizmo’s playing got the other Mogwai’s interests a bit… until Stripe grunted a gurgle… and then spat at Gizmo!
While spit didn’t hit Gizmo, it landed on the floor and bits of it went on Gizmo’s trumpet, as Gizmo, the pets and Fluttershy were appalled at what the Mogwai did, as Stripe let out a mischievous little giggle, the other Mogwai following after.
“Stripe!” Fluttershy said, “That was not nice! Say sorry to Gizmo.”
Stripe looked to Gizmo, but instead of saying sorry, he said with a mischievous grin, “Gizmo Caca!”
“I don’t think that sounded like an apology, Fluttershy,” Spike said to the disappointed Pegasus, as he came up to Gizmo and then looked to Stripe, “and what do you have to say for yourself?”
Stripe looked to the little dragon… and then spat on him to!
“Na Na!” Stripe taunted, before doing a raspberry at Spike.
Seeing this, Gizmo felt even more miserable.
Fluttershy let out a small sigh, before looking to Spike, “I’m… sure that Stripe would be much better after a few lessons, Spike.”
“Maybe make that a lot of lessons…” Spike said to her, as Stripe, pleased at what he did, continued playing on his toy, while the Mogwai continued what they were doing.
“You know,” Shining Armor said, “if it’s alright, Cadence and I might take on off your hoofs, if that’s okay with you, Twily. Flurry Heart would love to have one to play with back at the Crystal Empire.”
Twilight had a small thought about that, then looked back to her brother and sister-in-law, “I suppose that could work.”
Diamond Tiara looked to Stripe and thought.
‘I wonder if I could look after Stripe?’ she thought to herself, ‘Maybe then, he wouldn’t be so unfriendly…’
“You see,” Filthy spoke up to the others, “even the royal family wanting one for a pet, this could be big. Just think about it, Mogwai: the Perfect Pet for Heart’s Warming.”
“I know that I’ll look forward to having one!” Pinkie said with a grin.
“Me too.” Fluttershy said.
“I suppose that it might work, honey.” Spoiled Rich said, as a small smile came up a little on her husband’s idea.
“You bet, sweetie,” Filthy Rich said, as he and the others looked back to the Mogwai, “This could really be the big one.”
The only ones who were not sure, were Spike, Gizmo and the pets, as the latter were not happy seeing Stripe being mean to they new friend.
Spike and Gizmo looked to each other, the little dragon wondering if, maybe, the other Mogwai might settle down soon…
Later on, that night…
It was all quite inside the castle.
As Twilight, Spike, Starlight, Gizmo and their houseguests were asleep, dreaming dreams without care.
Of course, as before, Gizmo was sleeping with Spike, as earlier on before what had happened, Rarity and Fluttershy made a lovely bed for Gizmo to sleep on, but when the new Mogwai came, Gizmo was kicked out of his bed by, you guessed it, Stripe.
Before they went to sleep, Gizmo tried to get his bed back, but Stripe kept pushing him out, taunting “Gizmo Caca!” as he did.
So, Gizmo decided to sleep with his owner again, which Spike gladly agreed, felling sorry for Gizmo loosing his bed.
As the night went on peacefully, Spike’s room was filled with small snores from the Mogwai, both Gizmo and the new batch.
Lenny was sleeping on George (who sounded like he was grumbling while sleeping).
Haskins, Clorr and Branch were snoozing in their respective sleeping boxes.
While Stripe was enjoying the bed that was actually meant for Gizmo… until he opened up an eyelid with a grin.
Shining Armor, Cadence and Flurry Heart were sharing a bedroom, with the baby being in a baby crib, next to her parent’s bed, so that way the parents would be there if the baby needed them.
As they slept, Shining and Cadence heard Flurry Heart crying.
“I think it’s your turn, dear.” Cadence tiredly said.
“Okay.” Shining Armor said with a yawn as he looked to Flurry Heart’s crib… only to find it open and empty!
“What the-where’s Flurry Heart?!” Shining cried, as Cadence looked in shock that their child was gone, yet they still heard her.
With help from Twilight, Starlight and Sunburst (Spike still asleep at the moment), they looked around, until, when looking in the lounge, Twilight opened the door… and saw Flurry Heart, wrapped from the waist with tree lights and dangling from the tree, still crying!
“Flurry Hear?!” she cried out.
This got Spike awake with a jolt, as he heard Twilight and rushed off to see what’s happened (without waking Gizmo)… unaware that the blankets of Stripes bed rustled a little, showing Stripe letting out a silent, mischievous giggle as he went back to sleep…