My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever

by Postwarmonkey50

Chapter 3: The trouble with Gift Giving

Meanwhile, at the Rainbow Falls, Fluttershy, Genus, Warm Breeze and Comfy Breeze, with Applejack, Bucky and Apple Slice in tow, walked down the pathway, where there were many stands that sells just about everything. Everything you would need to buy a perfect present, with ponies form all over Equestria.

‘Wow mom,’ said Warm Breeze as he looked around ‘This place is amazing.’

‘I thought you might like it.’ said Fluttershy ‘I come to the Rainbow Falls Hearth’s Warming Craft Fair every year. They have perfect presents for anypony.’

‘So we can see.’ said Apple Slice whilst he felt excited.

‘Good thing we didn’t take Manehattan.’ said Genus.

‘I know right,’ said Bucky ‘Last year we nearly got trampled alive as if we were in the middle of a walking stampede.’

‘Hopefully we can get a proper present for everypony back home.’ said Apple Slice.

‘Hopefully, any dragon, too.’ said Applejack as she nudged against the shy pony, whilst she knew she was referring to Spike. ‘Wanna split up? Meet back here in an hour?’

‘Sure.’ said Fluttershy, who then looked at her kids. ‘Now Warm Breeze, I want you to take good care of your sister and try to look for a gift that your pony will know will like.’

‘Can do mom.’ said Warm Breeze.

‘That goes for you too Apple Slice.’ said Applejack.

‘Okay ma.’ said Apple Slice.

‘Mind if we help complete your little gift quest?’ asked Genus.

‘He’s right,’ said Bucky ‘If the first gift doesn’t work out the way you expect them to, then we’ll also buy a gift. Kind of like a backup gift.’

Applejack chuckled as she said ‘Ah don’t see why not.’

‘See you then.’ said both of the husbands as they gave their wives and kids a kiss and were off.

Applejack, Apple Slice, Warm Breeze and Comfy Breeze were also off in different directions, whilst Fluttershy went to the nearest stand. She stood near a stand that sold Daring Do books. She thought that this is what Rainbow Dash would want. She was about to buy it, until…

‘Oh no,’ said a random pony (Don’t be fooled, I know you don’t like spoilers. It’s none other than Flam in one of their most pathetic disguises) whilst pointing at the nearest stand ‘There’s only a few left.’

Sure enough, more ponies began to arrive, which had peaked their interest when they saw the one pony go on. And in one of the stands, was none other than Flam in disguise.

‘Fillies and Gentlecolts,’ said Flim out loud ‘We want you all to have the best holiday your bits can buy. But there are only a limited number left.’

And as usual, ponies blindly bought their lies and ended up purchasing their products.

Fluttershy stood next to Flam and asked ‘Limited number to what?’

‘Why, you don’t know about Holly the Hearth Warmer?’ asked Flam, causing most ponies to gasp. However, nopony noticed Trusty as he stood near Fluttershy. He too one sniff and Flam, and he already began to make a low growling sound, for he recognizes their scent anywhere.

Flim spotted Fluttershy and said ‘You seem like somepony looking for a gift for a very special friend.’

‘I am.’ said Fluttershy as she walked over to him, with Trusty placing his paw on his head, for even a dog knows not to be fooled.

‘A friend who wouldn’t want to miss out on the must-have gift everypony is talking about?’ said Flim as he continued to lure Fluttershy in.

‘She certainly wouldn’t wanna miss out on that.’ said Fluttershy as she thought about it.

‘A truly awesome friend who deserves something twenty percent cooler than any other gift out there?’

‘That sounds just like her.’ said Fluttershy as she leaned near Flim.

‘Well, look no further,’ said Flim whilst he pulled out the rip off doll and said ‘This is it.’

‘Ooh, ooh,’ said Fluttershy as she got excited ‘How much does it cost?’

‘How much do you have?’ said Flim in his cheeky, sneaky and totally horrible actor smile.

(Yeah you heard me Flim and Flam, you honestly think I’d be dumb enough to buy your stupid products, after you tried to trick the Apple Family to sell their farm to you and committed acts of treason when you helped distract the ponies whilst Sombra got freed and turned the Princesses to stone?)

The Yaks were also hard at work for their annual holiday celebration by putting everything breakable on a pile, whilst one Yak kept yucking up the piling.

‘Yojan!!’ shouted Prince Rutherford, the leader of the Yaks, who was busy overseeing the operation. ‘Is that good angle for optimal smashing?!’

Some of the Yaks began to chuckle, whilst the said yak lowered his head and walked away, knowing he had to start all over again. After Rutherford snorted at that, a certain Pink pony jumped on his back and covered his eyes.

‘Guess who?!’ said Pinkie Pie in her usual playful tone.

‘Yojan?’ guessed Rutherford.

‘No, silly.’

Rutherford continued to guess ‘Linville? Dorman? No, no wait, Grim Horn!’

(Sorry, stupid spelling machine won’t accept the originals, so I had to take what they gave me.)

‘Nope-itty, nope, nein and nyet.’ said Pinkie before she jumped off of Rutherford’s back and presented herself ‘It’s me!!’

‘Awww,’ said Rutherford with a smile on his face ‘Prince Rutherford knew it Pinky Pony all along. Yaks best at guessing.’

As Rutherford placed his helmet back on, he noticed she wasn’t alone. ‘Aah,’ said Rutherford whilst he was surprised to see them ‘Husband and young ones of Pink Pony.’

As both Peacon and Lemon Pie jumped up and gave Rutherford a hug, Frosty chuckled as he shook the Yak Prince’s hand and said ‘Great to see you again Prince Rutherford.’

Frosty looked at the piling and said ‘I see your people are already preparing the festivities.’

‘Indeed,’ said Rutherford ‘Yak look forward to smashing. But not ready yet, still leans.’

Frosty tilted his head and said ‘Yeah, I see it.’

Rutherford cleared his throat after he placed the kids down and said ‘So, what can yak prince do for Pink Pony and family?’

‘Well you see,’ said Pinkie Pie as she started ‘Yaks are best at everything! That’s why we’re here. Sorry to interrupt Snilldar Fest, but I need your help. Can you tell me where to find…’

Pinkie then imitated the yaks as she said out loud ‘BEST! GIFT! EVER?!’

As the Yaks looked at Pinkie’s direction, Rutherford quickly pulled her into his beard in order to keep her quiet and not alert the other Yaks.

‘Not here,’ whispered Prince Rutherford as she spoke to Pinkie and the others ‘Follow this way!’

Rutherford quickly zipped back into his home, with Pinkie, Peacon and Lemon Pie doing the same. Frosty was so distracted by the Yaks gathering breakable stuff, he barely noticed all of them going inside, causing Peacon and Lemon to pull their father in with great speed. As the Yaks were continuing to smash some random stuff outside, Rutherford quickly closed his tent, then looked at the others seriously whilst lifting up his hair bangs.

‘Prince Rutherford,’ whispered Rutherford ‘About to tell honorary Yak friend and friend’s family something very. Top. Secret.’

Pinkie pulled up a chair and jumped in the air, only for her to stop in midair, pulled her husband Frosty and placed him on the chair whilst she sat down on his lap whilst she, along with their kids, had their legs crossed and their heads rested on their hands with big smiles.

‘Honorary Yak friend listening.’ said Pinkie Pie as she and her kids paid attention, with Frosty couldn’t help but smile and wrapped his arms around her waist.

‘Yaks best at all things, except one.’ whispered Rutherford before he looked around, then whispered to Pinkie ‘Yaks not best at giving gifts.’

Pinkie was so shocked, she caused the chair to lean and stand up straight with her arms in the air, whilst her husband fell over and the kids were doing the same their mother did, with Pinkie shouting ‘What?!!’

Rutherford closed her mouth and looked around, then released her mouth as Rutherford said ‘I know. It’s hard to believe.’

Frosty then grumbled ‘Why does this always happen to me?’ before he got up and dusted himself.

‘How am I gonna figure out how to give Twilight the best gift ever?’ said Pinkie.

‘And for Moonlight.’ said Peacon Pie.

‘What’ll we do now?’ said Lemon Pie as she felt the same way.

‘Oh, no worry honorary Yak family,’ said Rutherford as he calmed them down ‘Prince Rutherford keep secret map in perfectly organized files.’

He went over to his organized files. Whilst he was searching, there was a bunch of clattering whilst he began to search for the so called map, he tossed a rock, a banana peel, a stool and some kind of goop. As Pinkie and the kids looked with interest, Frosty muttered ‘If he calls this organize and Twilight would see this, she’s have a meltdown. And don’t get me started on Rarity.’

As Rutherford walked back to them, he presented them a map and showed them where they needed to go whilst he said ‘Best gift givers up northern pass, where sky shimmers and glows. There, secret gift giver grove. Only yak princes and pink honorary yak know.’

Pinkie suddenly zipped her lips for real, whilst still wearing her smile and said ‘My lips, are sealed.’

She then picked up the map, ran outside with her kids, as they shouted all together ‘Time for my top-secret quest to the gift givers!!’

As they ran, Frosty was about to join, but then Rutherford stopped him and whispered ‘Think pink pony suspects anything?’

‘No clue,’ said Frosty as he whispered back ‘But we told her it’s a Pinkie Promise, so she won’t ask questions. And thanks for telling about that place a few weeks ago.’

‘No problem,’ said Rutherford ‘Yaks know that husband of Pink Pony want to make her happy. She lucky to have you.’

‘More like the other way around.’ he responded with a smile.

Suddenly, both Peacon and Lemon Pie popped up and said at the same time and shouted ‘Come on daddy, we have to go!!’

As they pulled him away, Frosty shouted ‘See you later Rutherford, and happy holidays!!’

Rutherford then turned around and said ‘Honorary Pink Pony will be happy to see what husband had planned for her.’

At the post office, many of the ponies were standing in line, waiting to deliver their presents to their relatives, however, the line was somehow taking longer than expected, with all of them bored waiting. And right inside, it was no better, for right inside was none other than Silver, Rarity and Crystal Gem, and they were just as bored.

‘Ugh,’ said Crystal ‘What is taking so long?’

‘Now darling, calm down.’ said Rarity ‘I know you don’t like waiting, but we must.’

‘Your mother is right sweetie, you just have to be patient,’ said Silver, until he grumbled ‘Though I made a promise not to go into the post office again because a certain pony with the cross eyes ended up causing an elephant stampede a while back.’

Rarity shuddered at that, for it was a day that nopony wants to remember.

However, they noticed the line was moving, and it was now their turn.

‘Finally.’ said Crystal as she and her parents walked to the counter.

As they stood at the counter, Rarity ringed the bell a couple of times whilst the pony was bending over to fetch something. But after the third ring, the pony behind the counter stood up, revealing to be none other than Derpy.

‘Oh, hi Rarity,’ said Derpy with her usual smile and her positive attitude ‘How can I help you?’

‘I expected a package today,’ said Rarity with her smile as she tried to keep calm ‘And I was wondering where that might be.’

‘As well as an order I placed a while back.’ said Crystal Gem.

‘Wait,’ said Silver as he looked at Crystal ‘You ordered a package?’

‘Of course father,’ said Crystal as he showed Bolt Junior’s name ‘I planned ahead as well, and Luckily I ordered something just in case.’

‘Oh, okay. Uh, let’s check.’ said Derpy as she placed her hand on some papers nearby and picked them up and looked them over. She then looked up and asked ‘Names?’

Rarity, Silver and Crystal were a little surprised by this.

‘You gotta be kidding me.’ said Silver.

‘Uh, Rarity?’ said Rarity.

‘And uh…Crystal Gem?’ said Crystal.

Derpy began to look through the papers, dropped some of them, and ended up looking for some papers whilst she was bending over.

‘Oh!’ said Derpy as she finally found her papers and lifted it up and said ‘Here we go.’

Rarity smiled at this, until…

Derpy squinted her eyes and read on the paper whilst she said ‘Your package was delivered to Sweet Apple Acres.’

‘What?!’ exclaimed Rarity and Crystal Gem.

Silver then slapped his forehead as he said ‘Oh, for the love of…’

‘It was supposed to be delivered to the Carousel Boutique!!’ said Rarity.

Derpy then looked at the papers again before she looked at them again whilst she said ‘Um…okay…but…now, the package was for Applejack, and she is at Sweet Apple Acres.’

Rarity then let out a low growl, whilst Silver banged his head onto the counter, and Crystal, who decided to take matters into her own hands, decided to walk around the counter, and asked another mail pony for help, which he happily did and gave Crystal her package, causing the two of them to wave one another goodbye.

‘Yes, it’s for Applejack,’ said Rarity as she tried to explain, whilst Silver tried his best to not strangle the pony ‘But I will be delivering it.’

‘Uh…’ said Derpy as she was now confused, until she spoke ‘That’s my job.’

Both Rarity and Silver slapped their foreheads at the same time. As Silver used breather calming techniques, Rarity said ‘It’s, a gift. For Applejack. From me.’

Derpy gasped, and realized something ‘What if she opens it? It shouldn’t go to Sweet Apple Acres.’

As Derpy investigate the letter, both Rarity and Silver had deadpanned expressions, with Silver grumbling ‘Now I know how Big Mac felt when he tried to send his gift to Sugar Belle.’

‘Oh, wait,’ said Derpy, gaining the couple’s attention, with Derpy using her wing to him a magnifying glass to take a closer look at the document ‘It went to Sweet Acorn Orchard instead.’

Derpy giggled a bit whilst she placed the magnifying glass down as she said ‘Oh, well that’s a relief?’

‘What?!!’ shouted Silver through his teeth.

‘Why is that a relief?!’ said Rarity in disbelief.

‘Because,’ said Derpy whilst she booped on Rarity’s nose ‘Applejack not in Sweet Acorn Orchard.’

As Rarity rubbed her nose, with Silver a little jealous, Derpy said ‘Do you want me to get the package and deliver it to her?’

‘No!!’ shouted both Rarity and Silver, gaining the rest of the ponies’ attention.

Realizing that they nearly caused a scene, Silver and Rarity cleared their throats whilst Rarity remained calm whilst she said ‘Uh, may I, have the address for Sweet Acorn Orchard. I think I’ll just collect the package myself.’

‘Are you sure?’ said Derpy ‘Because I would be happy to…’

‘Yes we’re sure.’ said Silver as he snatched the address for Sweet Acorn Orchard.

‘You have helped so much already.’ said Rarity whilst she, Silver and Crystal Gem left before things got out of hand.

The moment the next pony arrived, Derpy said ‘Break time.’, causing her to sink behind the counter, much to the next pony in line’s disappointment.

As they were outside, Silver began to slowly lose it.

‘Out of all the incompetence, this is just…’ said Silver whilst he raised his arms in the air.

‘Now calm down Silver…’ said Rarity before Silver cut her off and looked at her.

‘I told you trying to order the package was a bad idea.’ said Silver.

‘What?’ exclaimed Rarity ‘How was I supposed to know Derpy was going to get the deliveries mixed up.’

‘Hey, I told you,’ said Silver as he reminded her ‘That when you want something ordered, I’d be more than happy to get it for you. Why else do you think I don’t trust the postal system every time whenever I…’

Suddenly, a couple of snowballs were thrown at them, surprising the couple. When they looked at the one responsible, it was none other than their daughter, who was not impressed.

‘Really?’ said Crystal ‘You’re gonna start fighting about this now? On Hearth’s Warming Eve of all holidays? Here’s what you’re going to do, you two are going to kiss and makeup, and then we’ll go get the package to sort things out.’

Crystal then held a Mistletoe up in the air between her parents, making them notice. Silver then sighed, trying to calm down.

‘I’m sorry honey.’ said Silver as he rubbed the back of his head ‘I didn’t meant to snap. I…I just want things to be perfect.’

Rarity also felt bad, let out a sigh and said ‘I’m sorry too. I know how much this means to you.’

‘Celebrating the holidays or any other day with you is the most magical thing I ever went through.’ said Silver as he held her close ‘Ever since I arrived, you took me in when I had nowhere else to go. You loved me like no one else did. And in the end, I learned to love all because of you. I just…don’t want to lose you like I lost…’

‘I know darling.’ said Rarity as the two of them hugged one another.

‘Plus uh, I got a little jealous when Derpy booped you on the nose.’ said Silver whilst he admitted something sheepishly.

Rarity raised an eyebrow at that.

‘Because,’ said Silver ‘Whenever I hug you, I’d like to do this.’

He rubbed his nose against hers, which made her giggle. ‘And I like to do this.’

Silver gently placed her lips on hers, which Rarity embraced whilst holding one another close. Crystal couldn’t help but admire something her parents would do. If Bolt Junior were around, he would just blab out loud that he hates mushy stuff.

They soon released their lips from one another, as Rarity said ‘Why thank you darling, I needed that.’

‘Anything for my beautiful beloved who’s eyes shine like sapphires.’ said Silver as he also said ‘Which by the way is my favorite gemstone.’

‘Aw, that’s so sweet.’ said Crystal Gem ‘Now that everything is cleared up, shall we get going to Sweet Acorn Orchard?’

‘Oh of course Crystal.’ said Rarity.

‘Lead the way.’ said Silver.

As Crystal quickly went ahead to the train station, both Silver and Rarity continued to walk together whilst holding one another.

As they walked through the suburbs of Ponyville, Starlight and Chance continued to walk down the path to try and find the perfect house for Trixie.

‘Oh, where do you think she would want to stay?’ said Starlight whilst she looked around.

‘Well it’s going to be hard trying to find for her a house to live,’ said Chance ‘Considering that not everypony had managed to move away because they loved the place too much.’

‘Oh, I just hope that Trixie will like the house we got her.’ said Starlight as she was clearly worried.

‘I know honey, and I’m really worried too.’ said Chance ‘I mean, with Trixie’s baby on the way, they’ll need a proper place to raise their child. And I’m sorry to say this, and no disrespect to Trixie’s wagon, but a wagon that small and cramped is no place to raise a child.’

‘I can agree on that.’ said Starlight, remembering how cramped it was when she and Trixie traveled together to Saddle Arabia.

‘Do you have any idea of what kind of place Trixie would like to live in?’ asked Chance.

‘Well,’ said Starlight as she thought about it ‘Whenever she comes back home she has a tendency to park her wagon next to a lake.’

‘A lake?’

‘Mhmm,’ said Starlight ‘She says that she finds it relaxing, and that she likes to feed the baby ducks whenever they walk by.’

‘The ducks like Trixie I assume?’ said Chance.

‘Well, considering what she nearly did to Ponyville I don’t blame them.’ said Starlight ‘But the ducks somehow look up to her whenever she would come and feed them every day.’

‘Wow,’ said Chance ‘I’m sure Fluttershy would be proud to hear that.’

When all of a sudden, Chance spotted something, causing him to stop Starlight by grabbing onto her shoulders and pointed ‘Hey, look.’

When Starlight looked at the direction he was pointing, she was surprised. For right in front of them is a two story house, with a small barn on the side, big enough for a certain wagon. And right next to them was a lake, where the baby ducks would constantly go whenever they would go swimming. And up front of the house, there was a sign that said “For Sale.”

Starlight gasped at the sight and said ‘That’s perfect.’

‘Trixie is surely going to love that place.’ said Chance.

They walked over to the house in order to do some proper investigating, until they saw a pony remove the sign and added a “Sold” sign.

‘Sold?!!’ said Starlight in shock.

‘Oh boy, that’s not good.’ said Chance, agreeing with his wife.

Both Mystic and Trixie walked together side by side, looking around in order to find a place where they could set up a perfect place to start a club just for Starlight.

‘Oh,’ said Trixie as she was feeling a tad frustrated ‘How is it that there are so many buildings in Ponyville, but there isn’t a single vacant building to help start a club.’

‘We can always ask the Mayor,’ said Mystic ‘I’m sure that she’ll be more than happy to help us out to find what building is still vacant.’

‘Oh, that would be a wise move.’ said Trixie.

As they walked down the town, they headed straight for the mayor’s office. When they were halfway there, Trixie suddenly felt a kick.

‘Oh,’ said Trixie as she held onto her unborn child. ‘That is peculiar.’

‘What is?’ asked Mystic.

‘I just felt the baby kick.’ said Trixie.

‘Oh, then we’d better make extra sure that our child will be safe.’ said Mystic as he placed his hand on Trixie’s stomach.

Trixie could notice that he had a worried look on his face. ‘Something wrong?’

‘It’s just…’ said Mystic. Who took a deep breath and said ‘You know how hard it was for me to adapt to this world ever since I died, and how I had little emotion on my face. I’m just worried…am I good enough to be a father?’

Trixie then stopped, whilst holding her husband’s shoulders, allowing them to look at one another.

‘Oh Mystic,’ said Trixie as she held her husband close ‘I know you had quite the struggle. Trixie may not have been in the same position you have, but believe me, I understand what it feels to try to adapt to something new and struggled to move on with my life. If somepony like the two of us can find a way to have a good life…’

Trixie held onto Mystic’s hand whilst they placed them on her stomach ‘Then we can be good parents too.’

Mystic smiled at that, for it was exactly what he wanted to hear, allowing them to hug one another. After the hug, they continued to walk towards town hall, whilst they unknowingly passed Spike as he was still looking around to try and find the perfect gift for Rarity. Thankfully, he was able to get Emily a present, so now he can focus on trying to find Rarity a present.

‘Shopping for Rarity,’ said Spike as he looked around ‘No Problem. She likes lots of stuff. I just need something special.’

Spike then began to pass a few certain ponies, which Spike began to notice.

‘Brand-new-top-of-the-line sewing equipment?’ asked one Pony Vendor.

‘A Priceless rhinestone necklace?’ asked the second Pony Vendor.

‘A sculpture of Rarity made from smaller sculptures of Rarity?’ asked another pony.

Spike began to imagine the gifts coming and going as he tried to picture what to give Rarity. ‘Ooh, wow. Awesome. Shopping for Rarity. Slight problem, she likes lots of stuff.’

He suddenly stopped as he said out loud ‘Nothing is special enough!!’

This gained a lot of attention from the other ponies before Spike collapsed onto the ground and they resumed where they left off. At the same time, unknown to our dragon friend, a certain rainbow haired Pegasus and her family were flying towards a building with Discord in tow.

Both Bolt and Junior saw Spike on the ground as they passed by, then looked at each other.

‘Spike wanted to get Rarity?’ asked Junior.

‘Yep.’ said Bolt.

‘Some of them didn’t have her name?’

‘None at all.’

‘Finally got the name?’

‘After he suckered it from Fluttershy.’

‘Moment he had the name he had no idea what to give her?’

‘Nope.’

‘And now he’s down on the ground because he’s stressed out of his mind and has no idea what to give her?’

‘Pretty much.’

‘That dragon needs some serious help.’

‘As well as some needed lectures and counseling.’

Rainbow Dash peeked through the window, trying to figure something out. As soon as she spotted something, she smiled, until Discord said ‘Oh, goodness no.’

Rainbow groaned at that, for she really didn’t like being told what to do when it came to finding presents. She was about to open a door, until Discord said ‘Even worse.’, gaining her attention as Discord’s face appeared from a sign from none other than the Ponyville Spa.

Having enough, Rainbow flew up and said ‘Oh, come on. Fluttershy would love a Spa day.’

‘Really?’ said Discord as he stepped out of the sign whilst he said ‘Love the stress of deciding which treatment to get? Love worrying that she’s not relaxing enough? Or relaxing too much? And what about all those sweet animals she’s left alone? So much to worry about, all because of you.’

‘You know he kinda does have a point there.’ said Bolt.

Rainbow then got in her husband’s face as she said ‘First of all, who’s side are you on. And second of all, really?’

‘First of all, I’m just making a point,’ said Bolt ‘Second of all, it really is stressful trying to figure out which treatment to get, why else did you think I spent a month in advance trying to figure out what kind of Spa day to take on our anniversary?’

Rainbow was a little surprised by this ‘Wait, what?’

‘Well of course,’ said Bolt ‘Why else did you think I wanted you to enjoy it so much. The treatments, the massages, the relaxing beverages…’

He then leaned closer to her and whispered to her ‘Our happy ending session?’

Rainbow’s face immediately blushed red as she backed up, whilst she rubbed the back of her head and said ‘Okay, good point.’

‘And it was also the day that dad found out mom was really ticklish by her hooves, that’s why she didn’t want to have a hoofacure on her last Spa visit.’ said Bolt Jr.

Not wanting to comment on that, Rainbow went ‘Anyway,’ before she flew up to Discord and said ‘She’s Fluttershy, everything makes her worry.’

‘You’re telling me,’ said Bolt Jr. ‘You’d think after all these years after she got married she would’ve gotten over it by now. But then again it took her a while to embrace Nightmare Night for Warm Breeze’s sake.’

‘Oh, now you lot sound like somepony who knows her.’ said Discord with his usual sneaky smile.

‘Well, if you’re such an expert on Fluttershy,’ said Rainbow Dash as she got into Discord’s face ‘What did you get her?’

‘Oh,’ said Discord ‘And you honestly expect me to tell you what I got Fluttershy so that you can one-up me? Well, I have half a mind to stop helping you entirely.’

‘Good,’ said Rainbow as she got into Discord’s face before landing and walked away as she said ‘Please stop helping me, I’m begging you.’

Bolt, not liking to see his wife like this, went over and said ‘Aw, does my beautiful Rainbow want some kiss & Snuggles?’

‘If you come near me…’ warned Rainbow.

Too late, Bolt ended up hugging her, kissed her a few times by the neck and snuggled under her chin, causing Rainbow’s face to go red from the embarrassment.

‘Oh,’ said Rainbow as she didn’t want to giving up on being tough, but the way her husband does that, she couldn’t help but smile as she hugged him ‘How is it I could never stay mad at you?’

‘Oh, why Nebula was so right,’ said Discord ‘You are so perfect for each other.’

Bolt Junior decided to give talking to Discord a try ‘But Discord, what kind of gift does Fluttershy like? I mean, you know how shy she is and that she’s not comfortable with a few things, but surely there must me a way to get her a good gift.’

Discord them thought about something, and had an idea.

‘Well,’ said Discord, giving it some thought as he said ‘I suppose I could tell you what my backup present was.’

‘Great. Still helping.’ said Rainbow Dash sarcastically, but was distracted by her husband’s snuggle power.

Bolt Jr. whispered one more thing in Discord’s ear, something that he could work with as he said ‘It would’ve made a lovely addition to her animal sanctuary. But you’d have to be the fastest pony in Equestria to even have a chance of…’

As if right on cue, Rainbow Dash immediately perked up on that and flew straight to Discord, whilst Bolt fell over onto the snow, much to his disappointment.

‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.’ said Rainbow Dash as she was now interested. ‘You’re talking, to the fastest pony in Equestria. If there’s some fast animal out there Fluttershy would love. I’m the one who can get it.’

‘Oh, I just don’t know.’ said Discord playfully.

‘I’m calling it, dibs!!’ said Rainbow Dash, not wanting to change her mind.

‘If you insist.’ said Discord before he snapped his finger to make himself disappear.

Rainbow Dash, Junior and Bolt, after he got up and walked over to them, looked around as if there was no sign of Discord. However, within a split second, Discord’s arm appeared and grabbed Rainbow Dash’s head. Bolt and Junior immediately picked up on that and grabbed her arms, allowing Discord to pull all of them wherever he might end up.

Twilight was hard at work, trying to figure out what to give Pinkie Pie, with her daughter Moonlight going over things as well. Their books and papers were all a mess as they looked at the chalk board, whilst at the same time, Beau had just brought in enough doughnuts and hot chocolate with marshmallows in order to help with their thinking.

Twilight looked at the chalk board with Moonlight as she drew on it whilst she was saying ‘The ideal gift for Pinkie Pie needs to be A-Unique, B-Specific to her personality, and C-Food based.’

‘Huh,’ said Emily as she looked at the board ‘Kind of like both Peacon and Lemon Pie.’

Moonlight thought of something and pulled on her mother’s shirt a bit.

‘Mommy?’ asked Moonlight, gaining Twilight’s attention as she said ‘Do you think that I can share that kind of gift with the twins too. I mean, both Peacon and Lemon have a ton of things in common with their mother. So I was hoping that I could…’

‘Aw, of course Moonlight,’ said Twilight as she held onto her shoulders ‘I wouldn’t dream of leaving you out of this.’

Moonlight hugged her mother with a smile and said ‘Thanks mommy.’

Twilight hugged her back. But after she released the hug, she began to be on think mode as she said ‘What, is a unique food?’

Beau sat down near them as he had some hot chocolate of his own and blew on it a few times before he drank it, whilst Twilight and Moonlight were reminiscing on what to get Pinkie.

‘Cupcakes?’ said Moonlight?

‘Nah.’ said Twilight.

‘Cookies?’

‘Nope.’

‘Pies?’

‘Pastries.’

Beau then mumbled out loud ‘Why not pudding?’

Overhearing that, Twilight gasped loudly as she said with the weirdest face you’ve ever seen as she said ‘Wait!! Pudding!!’

Caught off guard, and was so funny, Beau ended up spitting his hot chocolate out of his nose. For in all his years since the day he met Twilight and married her, he had never seen her do a face like that before. Moonlight, seeing that her dad made a mess, quickly went over to help clean up, whilst Twilight flew up towards one of her shelves and levitated a book out of it. After quickly going through the pages, she found what she was looking for.

‘After defeating the Windigos,’ said Twilight whilst she read it out loud and flew back down to her husband and daughter and landed in front of them ‘The Earth Pony, Pegasi and Unicorn Nations prepared the first Hearth’s Warming meal together. Chancellor Puddinghead made a pudding so delicious, legends were written about it.’

Realizing what Twilight was looking for, she looked at her family and said ‘This. Is. It. Unique. Totally Pinkie. The most incredible desert ever.’

‘That’s perfect.’ said Moonlight ‘They go coco bananas for pudding.’

After Twilight marked the chalk board, she looked through the book. Beau could see the look on Twilight’s face that she was about to panic and tried to shake the book. Realizing where this was going, he stood up whilst Twilight said ‘Where’s the Recipe?!’

Beau ended up grasping her flank, making her yelp out loud and her dropping the book. Twilight groaned whilst she blushed and looked at her husband ‘Do you always have to do that?’

‘If it were to calm you down, then yes.’ said Beau.

He guided her to a chair and said ‘Sit. Down.’

He placed her on the chair hard, taking her by surprise whilst he said ‘Why don’t you relax and have some hot chocolate and doughnuts whilst I look for the recipe for you.’

‘But…’ said Twilight as she wanted to change the subject.

‘Twilight.’ said Beau as he grabbed her face, making her look at him in the eyes without blinking. ‘Listen. I know how much this means to you, but like Bolt once told you, you can’t always do everything alone. Otherwise you’d be no different than Applejack.’

Twilight flexed her eyebrow at that, with Moonlight saying ‘I think he’s referring that time when you wanted to help aunt Applejack on the farm but she was too stubborn to accept help from others that time when Big Mac got injured and she tried to harvest the apples by herself.’

Twilight cringed at that, for they did have a point. The way she’s acting, she’s acting like Applejack. She took a deep breath and spoke to him calmly ‘Are you sure?’

‘Hey,’ said Beau as he reassured her ‘If I can help you get over your fear of Quesadillas and Ladybugs and our daughter help cure Rainbow Dash’s dislike of pies, I can help you find the recipe.’

Twilight sighed, but let out a smile as she said ‘Alright. I’ll try.’

‘Good girl.’ said Beau as he gave her a quick kiss and went through the books, whilst Twilight took the hot chocolate and drank some.

‘Dad helped you get over your fear of ladybugs?’ asked Moonlight.

‘Mhmm,’ said Twilight ‘Back when Starlight failed to try and help me get over my fear of Ladybugs because of Pinkie Pie, Beau asked Fluttershy for help to find a specific ladybug. Naturally I was scared, but when I saw what I did, making it cry, I felt bad. And it turned out, they weren't so bad. Since then I got over my fear of ladybugs.’

‘That’s true,’ said Emily, who decided to come in to give everyone another round of hot chocolate and said ‘Although, speaking of Quesadillas, I can’t believe you were afraid of a measly sandwich.’

‘It was kind of weird.’ said Moonlight ‘I mean, all he did was shove one in your mouth and you ended up getting over your fear of them.’

‘You can blame Shining Armour for that.’ said Beau whilst he was looking ‘When your mother was little, he ended up scaring her so bad she ended up believing them. You wouldn’t believe the stern talk I gave him. I think I scared him that day too.’

‘You did? When?’ asked Twilight.

‘That time when I wanted to have your parents’ blessings when I wanted to marry you.’ said Beau. After noticing the odd look he was getting from Twilight, he then said ‘He had a problem with me when he found out that you were pregnant before the wedding.’

‘And he promised to be a good brother.’ said Emily.

‘So that’s why I keep getting apology letters from him.’ said Twilight as she thought about it loudly.

‘Speaking of which,’ said Beau ‘How do you think the others are doing with their shopping?’

‘Knowing them, they probably have it in the bag.’ said Emily.

Fluttershy was currently looking around for Applejack, whilst the said farm pony was about to walk up to her, whilst at the same time, Apple Slice walked up to his mother.

‘Hey ma.’ said Apple Slice.

‘Yeah, Slice?’ said Applejack whilst looking at her son.

‘Do you think that Warm Breeze would like an animal guide book set, or a special flute?’ asked Apple Slice.

Applejack thought about it and said ‘Well, he did talk about wanting to learn about new animals and play for them music a few months ago. So why not go with both of them.’

‘Thanks ma.’ said Apple Slice before running off.

Applejack then stood near Fluttershy and wanted her opinion on what to give Spike.

‘I’ve narrowed down my choices for Spike,’ said Applejack as she took out two different gifts from her back and showed it to her as she said ‘To fire-dancing sticks, or a Power Ponies comic. Un-enchanted. I think’

However, the moment Fluttershy took out something, Applejack yelped in shock as she threw them in different directions as she said ‘What is that?’

What Fluttershy had was the ugliest doll Applejack had ever seen, whilst one of its doll eyes nearly fell off. With Fluttershy saying ‘Holly the Hearth’s Warmer doll. Isn’t she sweet?’

Fluttershy pulls on the doll’s strings, allowing it to speak. ‘I love being an expensive toy.’

‘Egh,’ said Applejack, not liking that Fluttershy bought such an ugly gift ‘Why’d you think that was a good gift for Rainbow Dash?’

‘It’s the must-have gift of the season,’ said Fluttershy, with Applejack scowling at that ‘And in short supply.’

However, Applejack spotted plenty of ponies having more and more of those ugly dolls everywhere they went. ‘“Short supply”, huh?’ said Applejack in a disbelieving tone and face, with Fluttershy sheepishly smiling at her.

‘How much did that set you back?’ asked Applejack.

‘All my bits.’ replied Fluttershy. Until she shockingly realized that she’s now broke. ‘All my bits?’

She sheepishly went over to Applejack and said ‘Can I borrow some for the train ride home?’

Applejack handed her some bits in her deadpanned tone. Then she looked at the doll and said ‘Something about this here doll seems fishy. And I ain’t just talkin’ about the plastic. Where’d you get it?’

She felt a paw on her leg, gaining both of the ponies’ attention. They saw Trusty whilst pawing it a couple of times.

‘Oh, what is it Trusty?’ asked Fluttershy.

Trusty then guided both Applejack and Fluttershy towards a tent where the ponies were trying to purchase more of the ugly dolls. However, the two followed Trusty. As they went around the corner, Trusty pointed ahead with his paw and nose, causing them to see a pony walking in the tent with supplies.

As they investigated, Applejack and Fluttershy took a peek inside. To their shock, it was none other than Flim and Flam, doing more of their so called scamming.

‘Flim and Flam.’ said Applejack, infuriating her as she laid eyes on those two, ‘What are those two Hearth’s Warming Hooligans up to now?!’ before she stomped her hoof on the ground.