Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Tetra, Tetra 1, 2, 3
[ Ponyville, spring, one week after the sirens attacked.]
“So is she still mad?” Spike asked.
“She's grumpy, but that's an improvement.” Applebloom offered flipping through one of Spikes gaming magazines as the crusaders and Spike sat at the kitchen table at Sweet Apple Acres.
“Ah ain't grumpy.” Applejack growled looking at the pair talking.
“Yep, she's grumpy.” Sweetiebelle agreed getting a glare from Applejack as well.
“At least you got to leave town and didn't get magically angry enough to burn down your own house.” Scootaloo huffed.
“Yeah, it weren't pretty for anyone. Jus glad every pony was understanding when ah blew up tha bank.” Applebloom sighed. ”And tha farmers market.”
“At least your damage was contained, I set fire to half the town and the field outside of it.” Spike sighed.”Not even sure why.”
“I broke Diamond Tiara's nose.” Sweetiebelle offered with a grin and everyone glared at her. The unicorn filly had done what every one else would have loved to do.
She was also damn smug about it.
“Yeah well none oh that woulda happened had ah been here. I spent three days in Appleoosa before another train was headed back. Seems ah dun have tha power tah commandeer anything.“ Applejack huffed. “Instead ah got tricked by that poofy haired shark and tha whole town suffered fer it. Ah managed tah stop their song from taking over twice before and ah didn't recognize um this time.”
“You can't do everything Applejack. No one was killed and we can rebuild everything that was damaged.” Spike offered.
“Yeah and if you had been here and if they hadn't cast that spell, I never would have been able to break Diamond Tiara's nose and get away with it.” Sweetiebelle chimed.
The others glared at the smug little unicorn.
“BOOM ,CRASH, FLIPPED, AND KERSPLAT!”
“Thank you Pinkie, I do not need sound effects.”Twilight grumbled from her position at the base of a tree out in the nearly cleared field she had fought the sirens in.
“Oh that wasn't me.” Pinkie Pie smiled from where she was sitting next to Rahs watching Rainbow Dash try and teach Twilight to fly finally .
Twilight pulled her head out of the dirt and glared at her brother who simply grinned.
“I am regretting agreeing finally to those flying lessons for your birthday Dash.” Twilight sighed.
“Oh come on what else were you gonna do, mope in the library some more about Sombra getting the key to the city?” Dash chuckled.” I mean he's still a jerk, but he's clearly a lot better than he was. Cut the dude a little slack, maybe he's alright now, and if not, well it's not like you can't blast him later.”
“Bah.” Twilight huffed.
“Right whatever, off the ground, into the air, by the end of the day I want you flying at least as good as Fluttershy, and you haven't even reached Ditzy's level yet.” Rainbow Dash ordered.
“Wuff?” Rahs asked as his sister smashed into a cloud, then fell out of it screaming to crash into the stream.
“Oh Cheese?” Pinkie Pie pondered. “Yeah, he was rather fun. Turns out I'm responsible for why he became a party pony, go figure. But he did leave me his rubber chicken before he left.”
Pinkie Pie held up said rubber chicken. Rahs blinked, his ears perking up as he could have sworn the chicken flickered with rainbow colored light and the scent of magic he detected at the tryouts assailed him for a brief second before it was gone, he quickly grabbed the chicken from Pinkie Pie looking it over in a bit of a panic.
“Don't worry, this deus ex machina hasn't deus ex machinaed yet.” Pinkie Pie smiled taking the chicken back from the confused moon dog.” There's still two more.”
“Woof?” Rahs blinked, reluctant to ask.
“Oh, I can't tell you. Cause that's a secret.” Pinkie Pie grinned her eyes closing as she adopted a rather creepy smile.
“ You get five minutes. I know you're not tired.” Rainbow Dash glared down at Twilight.
“I am quite tired. Tired of hitting the ground, the trees and everything else.” Twilight huffed.
“Hey, at least you're getting off the ground now.” Rainbow Dash smirked.
“Don't you have an entrance examine coming up, can't I just coach you for that?” Twilight rolled her eyes sitting up out of her latest impact crater.
“No you don't. I am not giving up the ability to put ' I taught a goddess how to fly ' on my resume.” Rainbow Dash chuckled.” Besides Prince already helped me study for that.”
“Really? Surprised you could get any training done around him. Unless it was 'special' training.” Twilight wiggled her eyebrows.
“There's the pegasus side coming out.” Dash laughed.” But nah turns out in order to stay safe in the sky, I've got to hear and see everything down to the littlest details. And I tend to retain that information for a long while, it's why some of my stunts work so well.”
“Okay, that sounds useful” Twilight offered.
“It is, but it's also got some side effects, and it's why I'm a little miffed at Prince right now.” Dash huffed.
“Uh oh, what happened?” Twilight asked.
“Well once he found out how I picked things up he helped me set up a training course, but he had his butler add some things to it. In the end I got suckered into learning ambassadorial etiquette lessons and rules.”
“It's probably cause he wants you to travel with him on some of his missions and that was the easiest and quickest way for you to learn somethings.” Twilight pointed out.
“I guess you're right on that.” Dash huffed.
“Well it certainly isn't because he wanted you to be an actual ambassador yourself.” Twilight pointed out with a smirk.” I don't think Equestria could survive all the wars letting you talk would bring.”
“Oh ha ha, breaks over, into the air with you, FLAP THOSE WINGS!” Dash barked.
[ Carousel Boutique]
Sombra sat at the table, the remains of the large golden key in front of him, over the course of the week he had managed to whittle it down to just the end, though he was stopped from finishing it by the fact Rarity was sitting across from him staring intently.
“Is there something you want?” Sombra asked.
“You know what I want.” Rarity stared.
Sombra sighed and pushed the last bit of the chocolate key over to her.
“Delightful try darling, but no,” Rarity smirked.
“I don't see you giving it back.”Sombra pointed out.
“Darling....” Rarity chided, though she did pull the chocolate closer to her. ”As dramatic a rescue and as bold a statement as that was, I am not property to be 'yours'.”
“I understand that.”
“And yet....?”
“Fine. Look you know that I am not the most emotionally stable pony around here, baring Twilight. You know my situation, and how I am coping with it.” Sombra offered. “I do not know how to deal with.... this.”
“This?” Rarity questioned.
Sombra pressed a hoof to his temple.
“Any sort of romantic feelings or emotions like this. Sombra tried to explain.”Caring or feelings period other than anger.”
“I see.” Rarity pondered Sombra was quite certain he saw a manic gleam in the mares eye.”So in other words this is something you will need to learn.”
“Yeees?” Sombra offered hesitantly knowing the seamstress was going somewhere with this.
“Excuse me a moment darling.” Rarity rose and trotted out of the room. A few more doors opening and closing and Sombra realized it sounded like she had gone into her idea room.
Of course she had taken the chocolate with her.
Still he was certain he could hear mad cackling, and something about a trainable prince.
Now he was much more worried.
After a moment a completely composed Rarity, sans chocolate,came back in and took a seat again.
Sombra raised an eyebrow.
“I think first I have some things for you to read then we should perhaps go on a date first before any other 'claims' happen.” Rarity explained the gleam in her eye, as she imagined it in her head, noticeable even by Sombra who was even now more worried, but unsure if this was normal.
“We have already been on a date.” Sombra pointed out.
“What, when?!”Rarity demanded derailed out of her thoughts.
“Los Pegasus, your customer got us that table and the girls were all trilling about how wonderful a date it would be.” Sombra pointed out.
“Yes and you denied......” Rarity considered. “You didn't deny it did you.”
“Neither did you.” Sombra offered.
Rarity huffed a little before nodding.” Fine a second, proper date.
“You mean the sort you suggest to the diamond dog after the Sparkle?” Sombra asked.
“Ye... NO … no.” Rarity blushed a bright red considering all the things she had suggested to Jynx.
“Hey you two.” Sweetiebelle stated, trotting into the kitchen and heading to the fridge.
“Sweetiebelle?” Rarity questioned, glad for the distraction. “I thought you were playing with the other crusaders.”
“I was, but they got a little annoyed at me for bringing up breaking Diamond Tiara's nose.”Sweetiebelle offered. “ …... Too many times.”
“I would think they would be happy about your punching her.” Sombra questioned. “ I didn't think she was well liked.”
“She's not.” Sweetiebelle offered taking out a box of juice to drink before closing the fridge.
“Well you certainly won't make her your friend by punching her.” Rarity chided.
Sombra and Sweetiebelle both turned to stare at Rarity. Rarity looked confused a moment until Sweetiebelle pointed a hoof at Sombra, who was pointing his own hoof at himself.
“That was completely different.” Rarity huffed.
“Yeah , I don't want to date Diamond Tiara.” Sweetiebelle pointed out as Rarity turned red again.
[Crystal Empire]
Cadence cackled manically.
“Should we send for a doctor?” Chrysalis asked.
“Nah, we just need to give her a cold shower, she's on a shipping high, not the first time, she did the same thing after Prince and Rainbow Dash got together.” Shining Armor pointed out.
“Who is it this time?” Chrysalis asked.
“Spike says Sweetiebelle won the pot.” Shining Armor pointed out.
“Ahhhh.” Chrysalis nodded. “ Pity, I had bits on her hooking up with Thorax.”