Later that day, Comet was looking out the window at the expected heavy storm that somehow started heavily pouring a lot of rain over the town of Ponyville. Twilight was trying to seal up the windows so the storm wouldn’t cause any damage to their treehouse library. Although, four days before, Twilight and her friends had to deal with a dragon that was asleep on a nearby mountain, blowing a trailing cloud of smoke all across Equestria. And even though she was afraid at first, Fluttershy was the only one who made the dragon leave.
Comet was also babysat by Mr. and Mrs. Cake while his mother and her friends were gone, and after he told them both about him being forced to cook for his aunt, uncle and cousin, they felt sorry for him, but until he showed them how good at it he was, before they thought him how to bake some pastries, by helping him bake a delicious vanilla cake covered with vanilla icing and decorated with a few toppings so he could welcome his mother and her friends back, which they accepted when they returned.
Twilight finished up sealing the windows and walked towards Comet.
“Okay. All of the windows are sealed,” Twilight said. “Let’s hope that nopony is stranded outside in the storm.” Twilight then looked out the window. “Looks like it’s about to start. Let’s get you over to the kitchen.”
Comet then went wide eyed as he saw something familiar. He then asked, “Is that Applejack and Rarity out there?”
“What?!” Twilight asked, looking out the window. She was shocked to see two of her friends out in the rain. She then rand downstairs, and opened the door, and called out, “Applejack! Rarity! Applejack! Rarity!”
The two ponies looked towards Twilight.
“Come inside, girls, quick.”
Applejack and Rarity then ran towards the library. Rarity ran in, but Applejack stopped and thought about something.
“Whoa, nelly. Is inside a tree really the best place to be in a lightning storm?” Applejack asked.
“It is if you have a magical lightning rod protecting your home like I do,” Twilight said. “Come on in!”
“Hah! We are most grateful for your invitation,” Rarity said.
“Thank ya kindly for yer hospitality,” Applejack said, coming in. But Rarity stopped her on the door mat.
“Uh, do be a polite house guest and go wash up please, won’t you?” Rarity asked.
Applejack grumbled and then said, “If I gotta spend one more second with that fussbudget Rarity today, I can’t be held responsible for what I’m gonna do.” She then headed outside.
Comet was confused by that and asked, “What’s Applejack doing?”
“She’s washing up, darling,” Rarity said. “We wouldn’t want to get muddy hoof prints all over your home.”
“Some storm, huh? The Pegasus ponies sure have outdone themselves this time. I hope you and Applejack don’t have any trouble getting home,” Twilight said.
“It may indeed be a problem,” Rarity said.
“Well, you’re welcome to stay if need be. Spike is away in Canterlot on royal business. It’s only Comet and I that are home tonight,” Twilight said.
“I... I think I should go up to go to take a bath,” Comet said. “Do you mind, Mom?”
“No, go ahead,” Twilight said.
“Okay,” Comet said. He then headed upstairs and into the bathroom.
As he was upstairs, Twilight suddenly gasped with excitement, as an idea popped into her head. “You and Applejack should totally sleep over! We’ll have a slumber party! I’ve always wanted one of those.”
“Oh! Uh, goodness. Uh, I do believe I have another engagement scheduled for this evening that completely slipped my mind until just now,” Rarity said with a nervous laugh. “Ah, silly me, I can't possibly stay here all night -- with Applejack.”
Twilight trotted over to her bookshelf and levitated a book up with her magic, and showed it to Rarity as she read the title, “Slumber 101: All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Slumber Parties But Were Afraid to Ask.”
“My own personal copy. It’s a fantastic reference guide. You should see the table of contents. I’ve been waiting for a chance to use it, and today is the day! This is gonna be so great!” Twilight said excitedly with a huge grin on her face.
“Yes, uh, great,” Rarity said, nervously laughing, while feeling disgusted about Applejack washing her hooves with the hose, but it suddenly got sprayed on her face.
In the bathroom, Comet then turned both the faucets of the bathtub for warmer water, and filled it up with a bottle of bubble bath fluid, and then got in. At least it was warm enough for him to enjoy. Comet then looked down at his body and gave a sad sigh. “Out of everything that I’ve been through, this body is sometimes the weirdest thing I have to go through. My rebirth, my body with the same gender as I originally was or am, this weird set of colors, a horn on my head, even some recent problems with being like this I’ve already gotten over with. This is weirder than the time I woke up from a nightmare wearing a mud mask and curlers by my cousin’s girlfriend.” He then shivered at the thought of it, and resumed to washing his entire body.
20 minutes later, Comet got out of the tub, and headed on downstairs after drying off. When he looked at Twilight and Rarity, they had mud masks on their faces.
“Hey, Comet,” Twilight said. “Wanna try a mud mask?”
“You should try it, darling,” Rarity said. “It makes your face smooth as silk.”
Comet stood there in shock, but then he headed back upstairs, went into the bedroom he shared with Twilight and Spike and closed the door.
Applejack suddenly came back in with her hooves sparkling clean, but slightly covered in water before they quickly dried off, but gasped at a confusing sight, “What in tarnation…?” Rarity applied more green mud onto Twilight’s face.
“Now, wait just a goll-darn minute. Ya make me wash the mud off my hooves, but it’s okay for y’all to have mud all over yer faces?”
“Silly! This is called a mud mask. It's to refresh and rejuvenate your complexion,” Rarity explained.
“We’re giving each other makeovers!” Twilight said in singsong, before she giggled with a squeal of excitement in between. “We have to do it, it says so in the book.”
Applejack then looked at the cover of the book, “Slumber 101: Everything You...” She then went wide eyed and made up a fib, “Oh hey, heh, would’ja look at the time. I gotta skidaddle on home quick. I’m powerful late for, uh, fer somethin’. Uh, g’night.” As she went out the door, a bolt of lightning crashed, and she screamed and came back in, “Or maybe I’ll sit here for a spell.”
Twilight clapped her hooves together, “Hurray slumber party!”
Applejack felt uncomfortable about having Rarity because of what happened earlier, before she felt Rarity placing a mud mask on her face, “Blahch.” Rarity then put two cucumber slices on her eyes, “What in the world is this for?”
Rarity sighed, “To reduce the puffiness around one’s eyes, of course.”
“Puffiness-schmuffiness!” Applejack commented as she licked the slices off her tongue and swallowed them after chewing on them. “That’s good eatin’!”
Twilight was still excited, “Hee-hee! Isn’t this exciting? We’ll do everything by the book, and that will make my slumber party officially fun.”
Rarity then sacked Applejack, “Did you hear that, Applejack? You certainly would not want to do anything that would ruin Twilight’s very first slumber party, would you?”
“Of course not, ‘n you wouldn’t either, I reckon?” Applejack asked.
“So do we have an agreement?” Rarity asked.
“You betcha,” Applejack replied, as she spit on her hoof for a hoof-shake.
Rarity was suddenly offended, “Oh! Gross! You know, there’s messy and there’s just plain rude.”
“You know, there’s fussy, ‘n there’s just plain gettin’ on my nerves,” Applejack said.
“Fortunately, I can get along with anypony, no matter how difficult she may be,” Rarity said.
“Oh yeah? Well, I'm the “get-alongin-est” pony you’re ever gonna meet,” Applejack said.
“That’s not even a word,” Rarity said.
Twilight suddenly hugged them both by their necks, “This is going to be the bestest slumber party ever! Yay!”
While sternly staring at each other, Applejack and Rarity both sarcastically replied, “Yay.”
Comet tried not to go downstairs, doing girly stuff with Twilight, Rarity and Applejack, who he’ll know that Applejack would hate, but because he is also a colt, who was once a human boy. Comet had gotten into Spike’s secret stash of comic books, which he knew Spike hid them in a secret compartment he had under his bed, and started reading some of them. Just then, the sound of thunder was heard and the room became completely dark, until he ran into his mom’s bedsheets and hid underneath them, and kept holding his Kugo husky plushie.
He kept whimpering and shaking while hiding, until screams of horror came, before he screamed as well, and ran out the door.
“MOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!”
Twilight suddenly saw him up there and came up to him, “Comet? Is everything okay?”
“MOM! I HEARD SCREAMING!” Comet replied.
Twilight then smiled and giggled, before pulling him over for a hug, “It’s okay, Comet. We’re just having our slumber party.”
“Oh, sorry,” Comet said, nuzzling his cheek on Twilight’s soft and warm chest.
Twilight then rubbed her hoof onto the colt’s head, “No, no, it’s okay. Sorry if we scared you or anything, but there’s nothing else to be afraid of. I promise.”
Comet nodded, and then smiled softly at her face, and her beautiful purple eyes.
“Why don’t you join us? We’ll do something related to the things foals your gender like to do, you know, play a board game or something,” Twilight suggested.
Comet then followed Twilight downstairs, and said, “Thanks for inviting me, but are you sure I won’t be a bother?”
“No, of course not,” Twilight said, shaking her head. “Rarity and Applejack won’t mind at all. Now, c’mon. Let’s get you downstairs and into a blanket.”
Comet then followed Twilight downstairs. As they got down, Comet saw Rarity and Applejack looking at the light on his horn. Before he could go sit down, Rarity said “Oh my. Comet, I’m impressed that you have already learned how to make your light.” Comet nodded as he smiled at Twilight.
Applejack looked at his horn, then at Rarity and said “I don’t really see what the big deal is. I mean, it’s just a light.”
Rarity got offended and angry as she said “Just… a light?! Just a light?! Applejack, making your light as a unicorn is indeed a big deal! And if Comet here has only been practicing for a couple of weeks, that means he’s in fact gifted, just like his mother.”
Applejack looked annoyed at Rarity, but as she looked at Comet, she looked ashamed as she then said “I’m mighty sorry Comet, I- I didn’t know.”
“It’s okay AJ. We all have to learn, I guess,” Comet said as he tried to make her feel better and as she gave the colt a smile, believing it worked.
Twilight then interrupted as she asked “Now, who wants s’mores?” She looked at Comet, who admittedly knew he actually wanted one as well, so Twilight asked “Comet? Do you want s’mores?”
Comet nodded, and then felt Twilight’s hoof rubbing his mane.
Later, while Applejack was roasting marshmallows by the fireplace, Rarity was describing to Twilight and Comet how to make s’mores, the perfect way, “Then you place one marshmallow on the top of the chocolate and be sure it’s centered… …that’s critical… …and then carefully put another perfectly square graham cracker on the top. And done. Ta-da!” Rarity laughed.
“Ooo!” Twilight and Comet said.
Applejack was impatient, “Nah, ya just eat ‘em.” She then scarfed one down, making gross chewing sounds towards Rarity. “Mmm-mmm!” Applejack then belched.
Rarity sighed, “You could at least say excuse me.”
“Aw, I was just about to, but you interrupted me,” Applejack said. “Pardon.”
Comet was already making his s’more with a toasted marshmallow from one of Applejack’s roast sticks, and then ate it. It was a little dark, but he still found it good.
“I see you’re enjoying your first s’more,” Twilight smiled.
“His first s’more since bein’ here, or first s’more his whole life?” Applejack asked.
“First s’more his whole life,” Twilight said. “He said he always wanted to try one.” She then looked down at Comet. “And how was it?”
“Life changing,” Comet said, with a mouthful.
“Don’t talk with your mouth full,” Twilight said, smiling. She then grabbed a napkin with her magic, and started dabbing Comet’s mouth. Twilight then kissed the side of Comet head, and started making her own s’more. She then gave Comet two cookies since he deserved one more snack before bed.
Twilight then looked into her book’s checklist, “S’mores, check. Now the next item of fun we have to do is Truth or Dare.”
“Hey, we have a game like that in my world!” Comet exclaimed.
“Really? Well, that’s a new one,” Twilight said. “Probably should let the princess know soon enough.”
“I dare Applejack to do something carefully and neatly for a change,” Rarity said.
“Oh yeah? Well I dare Rarity ta lighten up and stop obsessin’ over every last little detail, for a change,” Applejack said.
“I think the truth of the matter is that somepony could stand to pay a little more attention to details,” Rarity said.
“And I think the truth is somepony oughta quit with her fussin’ so the rest of us can get things done,” Applejack said.
“Um, I don’t think this is how the game’s supposed to work,” Twilight said. “You actually have to give an honest answer to any question or do whatever anypony dares you to do.”
“Just like how my kind usually does it,” Comet said. “But I’m uncomfortable with the dare part. It’s kinda… scary.”
“No, no, it’s okay, Comet. It’s okay. You don’t have to play,” Twilight said.
Applejack then looked at Rarity and said, “I dares you to step outside and let your precious, tidy mane get ruined again.”
Rarity gasped, “You wouldn’t dare!”
“You have to. It’s the rule,” Twilight said.
“Hah!” Applejack laughed.
“Fine!” Rarity replied, as she angrily walked outside in the rain, and cried as her mane and fur were now wet and cold as she came back inside, as Applejack snickered and laughed. “Can somepony give me a towel?” Rarity asked.
“Here you go.” Comet said, levitating a towel from nearby.
“Thank you, dear,” Rarity said as she dried herself off a little. Her mane still had its wet look, but Rarity knew it would take time for it to return to its original style.
“You did pretty good, Rarity,” Comet said. “And you won the dare, so you get to go next.”
“Okay then,” Rarity said. “I dare Applejack to play dress up.”
“Dress up? In what?” Applejack asked.
Rarity then confessed, “In a frou-frou, glittery, lacey outfit.”
Applejack gasped, and then did the dare, and came back wearing the same frou-frou, glittery, lacey outfit, “Happy?”
“Very,” Rarity smirked.
“Um, do I ever get a turn?” Twilight asked, until she looked at her colt. “Comet, why don’t you go upstairs and read or color? I’ll be up soon when it’s bedtime,” Twilight said.
“Okay,” Comet said, as he went back upstairs to read or color.
The truth or dare contest lasted for quite a while. With Comet upstairs, Applejack and Rarity kept attacking each other with dares at every opportunity they could come up with, until they then threw pillows at each other, while Twilight couldn’t figure out what their problem was.
Short time later, knocks came from the bedroom door upstairs, until Twilight came in as she said, “Hey Comet, it’s time for bed.”
“Oh, okay,” Comet said, as he walked towards her, and then the bathroom to get ready for bed.
After Comet got closer to Twilight, she asked “Do you want to sleep with me tonight? I’ll even read you a bedtime story.”
Comet looked up at her, and said with a smile, “Yes, Mommy.”
After Comet had gotten ready, Twilight had got another bed out for both Rarity and Applejack to sleep together before Comet got on the bed and underneath the covers. Comet hoped that he would fall asleep quickly. After Twilight got into bed, the colt next to her snuggled into her while she read him the bedtime story she promised, and as Comet used her heartbeat to fall asleep too, he then fell asleep, as Twilght kissed his forehead and fell asleep as well.
Throughout the stormy night, Comet was sleeping while snuggled underneath his mother’s hug and the bedsheets of her bed as he laid his head on the soft and fluffy pillow but his cheek also pressed up against Twilight’s chest, and also had his Kugo husky plushie with him.
Meanwhile, Rarity and Applejack still had their problems wile sleeping in their guest bed.
“Keep your muddy hooves on your side of the bed,” Rarity said.
“My hooves ain’t muddy,” Applejack said.
“They were. There might still be a little on them,” Raring said.
“There ain’t. See?” Applejack said, showing her hooves, as Rarity complained again, “Eww!” Rarity then took the blanket, leaving Applejack uncovered.
Comet suddenly woke up, as he heard them arguing, so he nuzzled closer to Twilight so they could stop and covered his ears.
“Now who’s bein’ inconsiderate?” Applejack said, as did the same, before Rarity got up.
“I have to make the bed again so the blanket will be right. Get up,” Rarity said, as she nudged Applejack off the bed by pushing her to the floor.
“Hey!” Applejack hollered.
Rarity then fixed the bed, until she caught Applejack trying to open it back up, “Ah ah ah! You’ll ruin it. You have to do it like this.” She then carefully scooted into the bed without ruining the blanket, “Mm, uh, ooh, u-u-u-uh, uh, ah.”
Applejack wasn’t gonna buy it, “Yeah, that’s not gonna happen.”
Comet suddenly woke up again after hearing Applejack hollering, “Geronimo!”
Applejack hit the bed, causing Rarity to fall out and exclaiming “Hey!”
Applejack, being comfortable, let out a “Ahh…”
Rarity suddenly said, “You did that on purpose.”
Applejack responded, still feeling annoyed, “Um, yeah.”
Rarity, becoming more annoyed, said, “Get up so I can fix it again.”
Applejack ecstatically said “Can’t hear you, I’m asleep.”
As AJ began to imitate snoring, Rarity, now totally frustrated, ripped the blanket away from Applejack with a “Hmph!”
“I ain’t budgin’.” Applejack said.
Rarity with something in her mouth said “You will if you want any blanket!”
Comet was still trying to cover his ears with his pillows, but due to his pony ears having a stronger sense of hearing, the pillows didn’t help very much at all.
Applejack then grabbed the blanket with her teeth, “Give it back!”
“I will not!” Rarity said, with the blanket in her teeth, as she and Applejack did a little tug of war with it while arguing.
“Yes, you will!” Applejack said.
“Won’t!”
“Will!”
“Won’t!”
“Will!”
“Won’t!”
“Will!”
With their mouths full of the blanket, they still fought until Twilight got up, covered Comet’s ears and loudly said, “Enough!”
That made Applejack, Rarity and Comet look over towards Twilight. Comet was still tired and really wanted some sleep, while trying to nod it off.
Using her magic, Twilight levitated a book over, opened it and annoyingly said, “It says right here that the number one thing you’re supposed to do at a slumber party is have fun, and thanks to you two I can’t check that off!” Twilight shouted, keeping Comet from falling asleep, who snuggled into her and laid on her thigh and as she noticed that her colt was awake as well, she scolded them further. “And now, Comet can’t sleep since you woke him up!”
“I... need... sleep...” Comet said, trying to fall asleep while nuzzling against Twilight’s belly and laying on her lap.
“Ah’ve been tryin’ my darnedest to get along,” Applejack said.
“No, it is I who have been trying my best,” Rarity said. It then went to another argument between the two.
“No, it was me.”
“No, it was I.”
“Me!”
“I!”
“I hope you’re happy, both of you,” Twilight said, angrily. “Not only that Comet can’t already get some sleep, you’ve ruined my first slumber party. The makeover, the s’mores, Truth or Dare, the pillow fight… No wonder Comet was so afraid of wanting to join, the two of you repeatedly arguing over and over again! I mean, is there anything else that could possibly go wrong?!”
Comet gasped and shouted, “Never say that! Because most of the time, something always does!”
Just then, lightning struck a tree outside, making it swerve from the wind and loosening from where lightning struck it.
“Sorry I asked,” Twilight said, cowering under her bed covers.
Just then, the lights went on. Comet then covered his face, and tried to cover up the light.
Twilight then got out of the bed, as she said, “Comet, stay on the bed.”
Comet nodded in acknowledgement, before he then asked “Wait, if we have a magical lightning rod, could something have been hit outside?”
They galloped to the window and gasped before Twilight said, “It’s the tree next to us that was hit and it’s about to fall on the house next to that.”
Applejack looked at Rarity and scolded “You see. That’s why we needed to take down all those loose branches in town, not spiffy-’em up!”
“But I…” Rarity tried to defend herself.
Being interrupted by Applejack, she said, “Out of my way, missy!” She opened the window and then brought her lasso out, one end in mouth and swung the other end of the thunderstruck tree, like a pro.
Rarity tried to warn Applejack, “Wait! Stop! Don’t!”
Applejack then responded with rope in mouth, refusing to listen to Rarity, “No waitin’! No stoppin’! Doin’!” Before she tossed the other end of the lasso out off the window to catch the tree that was hit. Being successful, Applejack then gloated, “And that, my friends, is what we call “gettin” her done.” Before she took the rope, but as she pulled it, Rarity and Twilight yelled, Comet jumped away from the window by instinct, but got underneath the pillow and bedsheets safely, before something big and heavy hit the colt on the back and was then pushed to the floor with great speed while still covered with the blanket and hidden underneath the pillow.
“Aww, come on!” Comet shouted. “I just want to sleep!”
“Sorry, Comet,” Applejack said, with her rope in her mouth.
Comet then tried covering his face in his pillows and bed covers, and holding onto his husky plushie. Comet tried to overcome the noise and the light, but while cowering underneath the blankets, he suddenly heard Rarity as she whimpered and scolded, “I tried to tell you it would come crashing down in here!”
“Well you should have tried harder!” Applejack responded, as before saying, “I’m mighty sorry, Twilight.”
“It’s... Well, it’s not okay. There’s a giant tree branch in the middle of my bedroom, and the book doesn’t say anything about having a giant tree branch at your slumber party. Or at least I haven’t found that entry yet,” Twilight said, as she looked through the book.
Applejack saw Rarity cleaning up some of Twilight’s things, “What in tarnation are y’all doin’ over there?”
“Cleaning up this mess somepony made. Who was that again? Oh, right, that’s you,” Rarity said.
Applejack then tried to come up with an idea, until she went over to Twilight by poking her head through the tree, “We gotta do somethin’!” Applejack shouted.
Twilight looked through the book, “Baking... BFFs... Brothers... There's nothing in here about branches.”
Applejack kept grunting as she tried to move the branch with her earth pony strength, but suddenly saw Rarity and spoke, “Rarity, for pony’s sake, stop sweatin’ the small stuff and help me get rid of this thing!”
Rarity somehow ignored the country mare and went back to restocking the shelf.
“I said hussle over here and help me!” Applejack said, but Rarity continued. Suddenly, Applejack spoke up once more, “Look, I’m sorry, all right?”
Rarity suddenly stopped, “What was that?”
Applejack then spoke up, “I said I’m sorry! I shoulda listened to you when you noticed where this here branch would end up. Yer annoyin’ attention to detail would’a saved us from this whole mess. But right now, ya need to stop bein’ so dang fussy pickin’ up all the little things and help me move the one big thing in here that actually matters! Please!”
Rarity was unsure walking through a wet puddle, “Uh. Uh, but I”ll get all icky.”
“Consarnit!” Applejack shouted annoyingly, before she went wide-eyed, then changed her tone and said. “What the... eh... you... I mean, yes, ickiness is often a side effect of hard work. But y’all need to get over it, on account I just can’t fix this mess I made myself. I need your help.”
Rarity then thought for a moment, and made a confident smile, “Oh. Let’s do this.”
Rarity then grunted, as she made small figurines made of leaves and branches, but she caught Applejack trying to buck the log out the window, until the country mare grabbed the log by the branch with her teeth and carefully dropped it out the window, and then closed the window.
Rarity smiled, but frowned as she got mud all over herself, “U-ugh. Oh, I look awful.”
Applejack then placed cucumber slices on Rarity’s eyelids, “Better?”
Rarity then felt relieved, “Hmph, thanks.” She then hugged Applejack.
Twilight then saw the figurines Rarity made from the big branch, “Oh, pretty! Where did these come from? They’re not in the book either.” Eventually, Twilight looked down at Comet, but she heard him wincing in pain while uncovering him.
but as she picked up and hugged Comet, he let out a cry of pain, so she quickly laid him on the floor and lightly poked Comet’s back as she asked “Does this hurt? How about this?”
As it hurt, Comet let out a high pitched scream from his lungs, and then cried out, “Ow! That hurts!”
“Shhhhhh… Don’t worry, sweetheart. I’m going to take care of it, but first… you’ll need a second bath. Rarity, do you want to go first?” Twilight asked.
“Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let’s get Comet cleaned up first,” Twilight thanked her, before she levitated Comet to the bathroom and carefully cleaned him.
After the careful bath, Twilight carefully dried him off before she brought him back to the living room and wrapped some bandages around his backside as carefully as she could, but in the end she said “Alright… Tomorrow we’re going to the hospital. Just to be sure.”
Comet nodded as Twilight laid him beside her, and Rarity and Applejack came over. “Are you feeling any better?” Rarity asked.
“I’m mighty sorry, Comet, if I had been more careful, you wouldn’t have gotten hurt, I’m sorry, can you ever forgive me?” Applejack apologized.
“It’s okay, but I think this slumber party Mom had turned out to be a success, huh?” Comet replied.
“Totally,” Twilight replied.
Twilight then carefully levitated him and the blankets and pillow up and placed them, along with Comet back down on the bed, gave him his plushie back as he hugged it, pulled the sheets over him and herself, then tucked him in, kissed him on the forehead and said, “Goodnight, sweetheart.”
Comet yawned as he responded, “Night, Mom.” Twilight then hummed a soft melody as she stroked his mane, and then fell asleep again, along with Rarity and Applejack, who finished cleaning up the mess from the storm.
The next morning, Comet eventually woke up, but he felt something on his face and pulling his mane. He didn’t pay attention to it when the rain was still going outside, but it was softening up. He then headed on downstairs to see Twilight, Rarity and Applejack having fun together and eating breakfast, which were pancakes, as usual.
“Morning,” Comet said.
The three girls then looked up at Comet. Twilight and Applejack were surprised at the sight of Comet, which he had no idea what was going on. Rarity smiled at Comet’s appearance.
Twilight looked over at Rarity and asked, “Rarity, did you put a mud mask and hair curlers on Comet last night?”
“Wait, what?!” Comet asked, before Rarity levitated a mirror over to him, as he saw a mud mask on his face and 3 hair curlers on his mane. “Oh, come on! I didn’t want this!”
Rarity then walked in, saying, “I just thought you would enjoy a colt-stylish makeover after the storm last night, and probably some recovery on your injury. You really should enjoy this. The mud mask softens your skin, but instead of giving your mane beautiful curls, I was actually going to brush your mane so it can look fresh afterwards.”
“Really?” Comet asked, as Rarity nodded.
“You should have asked first!” Comet said, shaking the hair curlers out of his mane and tail. He then filled up a wooden bucket, and dunked himself into it, making the mud mask dissolve and both his mane and tail soaked and straight. He then shook his body, making his mane and tail ruffled, nearly making it back to how it was before. “I still would have said no. You don’t do that without asking.”
Rarity sighed and said, “You’re right, dear. I should have asked.”
She and Twilight walked over to him. While Rarity brushed Comet’s mane, Twilight sat next to Comet and said, “Sorry about that, Comet. Guess Rarity forgot that you were still a boy. She just wanted to help you recover from last night.”
“Why couldn’t I just do it myself instead of having an injured spinal cord? And reappear as a human instead?” Comet asked.
Twilight then pulled Comet in for a hug and said, “Well, according to Princess Celestia, you were a victim of circumstance. I’m sorry that you lost your original form, but I will do everything to help you adjust as the colt you are, since your gender stayed with you.”
Comet sighed and said, “I know I’ve said that I have had a hard time back in my world. But there were a lot of bullies in my world. The boy bullies, which were my cousin’s friends, would gang up on me, throwing me face first into a trash can or just lock me up in the cupboard. The girl bullies, friends of my cousin’s girlfriend, take me into her room, dress me up in a ridiculous girly outfit, apply makeup onto me and push me out into public. Looking at myself in that mask and those curlers reminded me of those moments I got dressed up by the girl bullies.”
“That’s horrible,” Twilight said.
“I apologize for putting on those curlers and that mud mask,” Rarity said. “I... I forgot that you said that you were bullied back in your world.”
“Mistakes were bound to happen,” Twilight said. “I will make sure that that will never happen to you again.” Twilight then nuzzled Comet. “Now, let’s make you some breakfast before we head over to the hospital to check on those bones.” Twilight and Comet then headed downstairs. Rarity gave a sad look towards Comet.
“The poor dear. I never even noticed that happened. Maybe I shouldn’t have done that,” she said, while feeling ashamed of herself.
As Comet tried to move after breakfast, it still hurt as he was forced to let out a small cry before the colt got back to his very comfortable position on the pillow Twilight suggested. Twilight responded, “Oh my, we better get you to the hospital, just to be safe.”
Comet then gave her a smile and then said, “Heh, at least it not your problem anyhow.” Twilight just rolled her eyes at that as she levitated Comet into the air and loosely wrapped a blanket around the small colt before placing him on her back, and then they went out of the library and towards the hospital.
In the hospital, they waited for about an hour before being called in and Twilight placed him up on the bed and explained what happened to Doctor Horse, who said that a x-ray scan would be for the best, just to be sure that nothing’s broken or not.
After the scan, Twilight and Comet waited in the room, until the doctor came back. “You should now be happy to hear that nothing is broken or damaged, but it was a serious hit you got there, son. As I looked at your scan, it’s like you’ve never been hurt in your entire life,” he said.
Comet looked at Twilight in concern, but she was already no help as she only looked concerned at her son before the doctor continued, “So, I’d suggest that you should stay in bed for the rest of today and get something warm on that back, then you should be just fine by tomorrow. But if it’s getting worse, do not hesitate to come back over again and we’ll come up with something while we talk.”
“We won’t. Thank you, doctor,” Twilight replied and then Nurse Redheart got a proper bandage onto Comet, before Twilight rewrapped him in the blanket again and took him back home to their library.
On the way back, Comet asked “So… when is Spike coming back?”
“About half an hour,” Twilight answered and as they came home, before realizing that Applejack and Rarity already left. Twilight then took him to her bedroom instead of his. She then placed him down in the middle, tucked him in, and after she was sure Comet was comfortable, she then told him to get some rest, as she went to go pick up Spike and some things for dinner. Some time after she had left, Comet fell asleep.
Later on, Comet woke up to dinner in bed, which was tomato soup and some bread on the side, and a glass of ice water. After he ate his dinner and had his 2 cookies, Twilight asked, “Do you want to stay there and sleep or do you want me to move you into your own bedroom?”
“I wanna stay.” Comet said, as he snuggled under the sheets. After he got a nod from Twilight and a kiss on the forehead from her, he slowly fell asleep.