Twilight woke up, calm and completely ready for the day because of her well rest. She turned onto her side and looked off of her bed at spike in his little bed. She smiled and got out of her bed. She felt that today was going to be good day, then reality kicked in, “I ALMOST FORGOT TO TELL THE PRINCESS!” Twilight yelled, causing Spike to jump out of bed and cling to the ceiling, and caused Masky to be really confused.
“Twilight you scared me! Big time!” Spike stuttered while still clinging to the ceiling, showing no sign of getting down any time soon. However what he said fell upon non-existent ears, for Twilight was already halfway to her writing room. Masky was in his crib, laying down with extreme confusion in his head. He had no idea what was happening, why it was happening, or why his pajamas looked like they weren’t meant for him. All other thoughts left his head once he thought about his pajamas. He instantly started to play with his sleeves since they didn’t have openings for his hands, and his feet since they weren’t shaped for feet. He liked them though, they looked like his mom, which meant he looked like his mom. He laughed and made happy babble while he pretended that he was his mom. Although his mom was currently many rooms down and was writing a letter to Celestia.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I have to speak to you about something very important very urgently.
Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle
As soon as she was done with her short but direct letter, she went straight back to her room, where spike was now on the ground, but he was shaking. As soon as she she saw him she said quickly,
“Ineedforyoutodeliverthisletter!” However she had said it too fast for him to understand.
“Ah!” Spike exclaimed as he jumped up, but only a small jump. “What?” He asked, for he was too startled to understand and she spoke far too quickly.
“I need you to deliver this letter to celestia!” She said, urgency clearly evident in her voice. He could tell she wasn’t going to calm down until he did, so he sighed,
“Fine, I’ll deliver the letter.” He said, slightly bothered. He took the letter and with a puff of green flames, he magically delivered it to Celestia. “There, happy?” He asked, a bit annoyed at twilight since she had not only woken him up, but scared him, and made him deliver a letter this early in the morning, and for him sending and receiving letters wasn’t the most joyful experience, especially in the morning.
“Thank you Spike, now I just have to wait fo-” She said, but before she could finish the sentence, spike cut her off by belching green flames and summoning a letter from those flames. “Oh! That must be her response! I wonder why she didn’t just show up in person though?” She asked herself aloud. Then she picked up the letter with magic and read it.
Dear Twilight,
I am awfully sorry but I am currently on a trip to Manehatten to deal with their complaints about not getting much of my attention lately. So instead of me Luna shall be paying you a visit, I hope she will be able to help you.
Sincerely, Princess Celestia
“Oh, Luna will be coming, well that’s ok! I like seeing Luna! I don’t get to see her very often.” Twilight said. Then as if on cue, there was a knock on her door. “That must be her now!” She said happily, then she teleported to the door and opened it. “Hello Princess Luna!” Twilight said happily. However Luna was looking concerned rather than happy.
“Sister told me you required urgent assistance, what is it that is so important?” She asked, a little worry could be heard in the way she spoke.
“Oh, yes, it’s in the other room.” Twilight said, then she turned around and walked to the room that Masky was in, and Luna followed, getting ready for a possible attack. Twilight opened the door and went in, holding the door open for Luna, when Luna entered, she saw the crib that masky was in, but she couldn’t see masky yet. She was extremely confused.
“Is it an evil being that can disguise itself as a crib and eat babies?” Luna asked, she no longer looked worried, only confused.
“No, it’s, um, how-, mmh, it’s um, it’s my, baby.” She stuttered out, having obvious trouble trying to find out what to say and how. Luna was absolutely shocked and used her wings to boost her to the crib, her jaw was hanging open and she was looking directly at the baby Masky, who had stopped playing with his pajamas and was looking right back at Luna, his mask had been knocked off as well, so she saw his full, scarred face. He was looking back at Luna with a large smile, he was fascinated by her mane and coat colour. He laughed and laughed at her, she was so much fun to watch! Luna on the other hoof, was not as pleased.
“H-how did you give birth to this? What is it? Who is the father? How did we not know about this before hoof? You aren’t even married!” Luna said, her royal accent really kicking in, and she turned to Twilight in complete shock, who was blushing out of nervousness and a bit of fear, she rubbed the back of her head with her hoof.
“I’m- I didn’t- I’m not the real mother. Someone dropped him off at my door two days ago, I don’t know why he’s not a pony, it must have been the magic that brought him here. This note was with him, but I don’t know anything other than what’s on it.” Twilight said worried, she was worried that Luna would try to take the baby, or examine it, or banish it, or attack it, or…
“I do not know how to handle this situation, nothing like this has ever happened before. This is something for Celestia, I will get her immediately, but she can’t come or else the ponies will get more angry.” Luna seemed to de debating with herself. Twilight was far too worried to notice anything, and Luna was too busy talking to herself to notice that Masky was still laughing at Luna. He tried to get her tail so he could mess with it, but it was too far away. However that didn’t stop him, he kept on trying to get the wooshy tail as he laughed at it. Luna finally noticed that Masky was laughing, and turned around to look at him. She saw his happy, harmless face, and heard his carefree baby laughter. She had decided to take up the task on her own. “I believe that I can handle a simple baby, it can’t be that hard.” She said aloud. Twilight was still worrying. Luna picked Masky up with her magic and when she did he laughed with joy at the wonderful feeling of magic. Luna picked up a small toy with her magic and poked Masky with it. He giggled and tried to grab the toy, but since his hands were covered up he couldn’t, but he still had fun patting at the toy. Luna put the toy down and performed a spell which checked him to see if he had any dark magic in him, it showed nothing, however there was a small something that was in his head. “That’s odd.” Luna said, then she looked closer at the something and saw a small bit of destruction in him. “I wonder what would cause that?” She asked herself, so she looked into it, and saw a baby Masky trying to hit someone who had just pushed twilight, although he couldn’t do much he still tried. She left the small section of destruction and looked at Twilight. “He seems to like you very much, and he really doesn’t like it when people are not nice to you. But to be sure I want to test something out. I’ll need you to hold still for a second.” Luna said to Twilight, turning Masky to face her.
“Oh, um, ok.” Twilight said, then Lun walked up to Twilight and pushed her, not by much, but enough to move Twilight. As soon as Masky saw this he started to tear up and tried to bat at Luna, even though he couldn’t reach her. So she moved him close enough to hit her, and waited a bit. He continued to lightly hit Luna until she gave a little hug to Twilight, then he stopped and was laughing again.
“He seems to really like you and he also seems to forgive ponies easily. He doesn’t seem to be dangerous or have and malicious intents, in fact the only thing I think he knows for sure is whether or not you are safe. I would say that as long as no one tries to be mean to you then he should be fine.” Luna said, while Masky was playing with her mane, he was having a lot of fun batting at her mane, it felt weird and looked fun. Luna gave a little laugh at his careless fun. “In fact, I don’t think he could hurt anypony, he is too easily distracted.” Luna said, then she floated Masky over to Twilight, and he was really happy about this, because he laughed the whole time. He liked this blue pony, they were a lot of fun.
“Oh thank you Luna, I was worried you were going to take him away and run tests and stuff on him!” Twilight said happily while hugging Masky.
“I couldn’t do that, no matter what he is he is alive and has feelings, and it doesn’t seem to be evil aside from protecting you, so there would be no need to.” Luna said, which made Msky look at her now. He laughed and tried to touch her mane even though it was too far away. Luna gave a small smile at his attempts and decided to let him mess with her mane, since he can’t actually mess it up. She used her magic to place him on her back and let him floof her mane. He loved this and laughed happily as he did so. “I’m sure you will be able to raise him well. I’ll tell Celestia about him, and a bit of advice, make sure to keep yourself safe with him around, because otherwise he won’t hesitate to try to protect you.” Luna said to Twilight, then she teleported Masky onto Twilight’s back.
“Thank you so much Luna, I don’t know how I could possibly repay or thank you.” Twilight said while floating Masky back to his crib.
“There’s no need, I’m happy to help.” Luna said, then she popped back to the castle in Canterlot. Masky laughed at her sudden and magical disappearance, and Twilight gave him a hug of joy.
“Let’s go to the kitchen and have breakfast.” Twilight said happily, then she took him downstairs to the kitchen.