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// Episode 75: Broadcasted Satisfaction 
// Story: My Little Pony: Sparkling Harmony: Season Two 
// by Captain_Cosmos 
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In the morning of another bright winter day, in the now almost empty house that Sparkler had called home since moving to Ponyville, Sparkler was in her room, packing a duffel bag for the four-five day trip to Canterlot for Sparky’s and Misty’s trial. I almost don’t want them to plead guilty just so we can watch the CPD absolutely destroy their defense. She giggled at that thought. As far as she was aware they had absolutely no grounds from which to argue, and anything they could call out as a defense would surely be disproven on the spot.

As she was packing, she suddenly heard calling out from downstairs. “Hey Sparkler! Come down quick! Celestia’s addressing Equestria over the radio!” Called out Spike.

Sparkler smiled and rushed downstairs. She found her six kids, Spike, Twilight, Maddy, and their friends gathered in the living room. There was a radio on a table in the middle of the room and it came alive.

“And our top story. Princess Celestia makes her highly anticipated address to Equestria in response to what is now being referred to as the Yule Ball Disaster.”

“I can’t wait to hear Celestia declare that jerk public enemy number one!” Rainbow commented.

“Shush!” Everypony around her said as they heard Celestia’s address.

“My Little Ponies. By now I am certain most of you have heard about what happened at this year’s Yule Ball, and the deplorable behavior displayed by Silver-Mane. For those still unaware, during the Yule Ball, Silver-Mane was arrested after throwing Sparkling Medley out without just cause. This has followed a string of events in which the majority of the Nobility under Silver-Mane’s leadership has continually denounced Sparkler for choosing how to live her life. I wish for my ponies to be able to live their lives as they see fit, regardless of status. To this end, Silver-Mane has been relieved of his position and has been stripped of his power and influence for this appalling behavior. Furthermore, I am declaring Silver-Mane public enemy number one and am calling for his immediate arrest on sight due to him escaping custody last week. I do hope that this will serve as a warning to any others who wish to force their will on another pony merely because they are an Alicorn. Thank you.”

“Ponies are continuing to decry the Nobles for their behavior and voice their support for Sparkling Medley a week after the incident—“

That was when the radio was turned off, and the living room erupted in cheers. Rarity gave off a satisfied smirk. “About time those self-centered Nobles got a stern talking to.” She commented.

“Public Enemy Number One. Silver-Mane done screwed up this time.” Applejack said.

“This definitely calls for a party!” Pinkie said excitedly. “A party to say—“

“Choose your next words carefully, Pinkie.” Fluttershy cut Pinkie off, gesturing to the foals.

“—go to jail Nobles.” Pinkie finished, quickly changing her original statement.

“Party!” Melody and her siblings exclaimed excitedly, bouncing up and down.

Twilight chuckled. “We can have a party. But later, right now I’m afraid there’s no time.” She said.

“Awww!” The kids all said, disappointed there wasn’t going to be a party then.

Sparkler chuckled and summoned her duffle bag. “Everything ready to go?” She asked.

“Bags are in the wagon outside, including Maddy’s food and crate.” Spike responded.

Sparkler smiled. “Alright then we’re ready to go.”

Rarity beamed as she lit her horn and summoned six small coats. “Fortunately I was able to get these done on time!” She said as she hoofed one to each of the Sparkle-Medley Herd. “They even include zippers on the sides for if you want to show your wings or not.” She explained.

Crystal raised an eyebrow at that. “Uh, why would we want to hide our wings?” She asked.

“Where we’re going. It’s probably best if you hid your wings sweetie.” Twilight explained. “It would be better for everypony.”

“Aww. I want everypony to see my pretty wings.” She complained.

“We can just zip your wings in when we get on the train if you’d like.” Sparkler offered. “That way everypony can see your wings on the way to the train station.”

Crystal nodded as Twilight helped her up on her coat. “Deal!” She said happily, her wings extending out of the wing holes.

Sparkler smiled as she and Twilight helped the rest of their kids into their coats. All of them were dyed in complimentary colors to their fur coats. Lumber got a green coat, Melody still had a blue coat, but this time had her OWN cutie mark sewn to the back of it, Trail got a purple coat, Lighting got a red coat, Sky got an orange coat, and Crystal got a yellow coat. The one thing that was constant across all the coats was the patched on the shoulders. One shoulder had Sparkler’s cutie mark, the other had Twilight’s cutie mark.

Everypony got a look at the sextuplets wearing their new coats and Fluttershy smiled. “Aww! How cute!” She exclaimed.

Sparkler immediately summoned a camera. “Come on kids, stand next to your sibling with the coat matching your fur! Let’s get a picture!” She said, aiming the camera at them.

Melody and her siblings giggled before doing as asked. The resulting picture was definitely a keeper. Once the picture had printed and was safely secured, it was time for everypony to leave. Out the door, Twilight’s and Sparkler’s friends smiled. “We’ll be there tomorrow.” Starlight said.

“Yeah! And then we’ll watch as those meanie butts are sentenced!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Twilight giggled. “Alright everypony. See you then.”

“Bye!” Everypony exchanged their goodbyes for now and Sparkler, Twilight, the kids, Maddy, Spike, and Flash all headed for the train station.

“Hey mom?” Sky asked. “How come we’re going to Canterlot anyway?”

“Yeah. You never told us.” Trail added.

Sparkler and Twilight bit their lips. The truth was they were hoping to keep Melody’s siblings out of the loop as long as possible. They didn’t need to know the truth about what their sister went through when it didn’t really matter now. “We’re going to visit grandma and grandpa.” Sparkler responded. “You mother, Melody and I have some business with the princesses, so we thought all of you would like to come along to see Grandma Velvet and Grandpa Nightlight.” She explained.

“What do you have to do with the princess?” Lumber asked.

“Oh…don’t worry about it. It’s nothing bad.” Twilight responded. Trying not to give off telltale signs that she was lying as they continued on.

To be continued…