My Little Pony: Sparkling Harmony: Future Incursion

by Captain_Cosmos


Episode 31: Camping Surprises and Accidental Confessions

“We are out and camping! We are out and camping!” Sang Light and Dark and the kids.

Sparkler, her kids, her great grandkids, and Night Shade, who Winter had invited because he was a cousin. (Sparkler kicked herself for not connecting those dots.) had arrived at the campsite and were setting up tents. Or rather, The kids were dancing and running around the campsite.

Sparkler chuckled and shook her head as she worked with Hurricane to set up his tent. “This was a nice idea. Us Medleys together in the open night for camping.”

“Hey, gotta take advantage of the time we have.” Hurricane said. “So, still thinking about Fleur?” He asked.

Sparkler sighed. “It’s most of what I CAN think about. She had 7 months to reach out to me and she never did. I can forgive 22 years because she might not have known where I was and she couldn’t go looking for me. But when I came out with my wings and I made the rounds on the news there’s no excuse.” She said. “As for my “parents”, if they did adopt me and never thought to tell me I’m really gonna be ticked.” She said. “Do you have any idea how much pain I went through in school? If they knew my biological family was still alive, they have some SERIOUS explaining to do.”

“Maybe they didn’t know?” Hurricane asked. “Maybe they didn’t think it would matter if you knew because they loved you anyway and whoever put you up for adoption wanted you to have a better life than what they could provide?” He suggested.

“If they don’t know, fine, whatever, they shoulda still told me but I can look past that. But if they KNEW all along I had a sister, hay, I won’t even be that mad if they had no idea where Fleur even was and didn’t want me to run away trying to find her. But if they knew, and knew where Fleur was…I’m not sure what I’m going to do.” Sparkler said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if going no contact with them was an option.” Hurricane commented.

“That might actually be a viable option.” Sparkler responded. “I can’t believe I just said that about my parents.”

“Well they might have kept something from you for years. Of course you’re gonna be angry.” Hurricane said.

“Oh you have no idea.” Sparkler responded.

Over at the fire pit, Night Shade was busy trying to start a campfire. He was rubbing wood together furiously while Light, Dark, and Spike watched him. “Dude, we can just use my fire.” Spike commented.

“We don’t need that.” Night Shade said. “We just need to keep working at it.” He said as he continued to run the wood together. And NOT succeeding.

After a few moments, Light just rolled his eyes. “Ok this has gone on for long enough.” Casually, he lifted one of his forehooves, a cat claw extended from it, and with one slash, the wood caught fire and a good campfire was burning.

While Light retracted the claw and nodded, satisfied with himself, everypony else that was watching stared at him. Light raised an eyebrow. “What?” He asked.

“You just started a fire with a claw, that you brought out!” Spike exclaimed.

Dark meanwhile lifted his own hoof, and just as Light did, he extended a claw of his own.

It dawned on Light and Dark what just happened, and true to being kids that were still growing, they screamed in surprise.

Sparkler whipped her head around when she heard the screaming and dashed over to them. “Light? Dark? What happ-holy Faust you two have claws?!” She exclaimed when she saw the harp bones.

Dark retracted his claw and Light and Dark stared at each other and Sparkler. “Ok…ok, we have claws for some reason.” Light said.

“Is this a batpony thing or a Redheart syndrome thing?” Dark asked, hyperventilating. “W-what’s going on?!” He asked panicky.

Sparkler leaned forward and hugged Dark, Light too because he was scared as well. “Hey, hey, it’s ok. I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for this.” She said. She turned to Night Shade. “Night?” She asked him.

“If it’s a batpony thing I’ve never heard of it.” He said. “If it’s Redheart syndrome, the doctor did say it could leave nasty surprises if I recall correctly what you told me.” He added.

Sparkler nodded. “You two have control?” She asked Light and Dark.

“I extended my claw and retracted it with a thought. I think we have control.” Light responded.

“Ok. Ok, so for the moment it looks like there’s no need to worry. But all the same, I’ll bring you two in for a doctor’s appointment when we get back. Just to make sure nothing bad’s gonna happen.” She said.

“I’d bring them to a doctor in Zephyr Heights.” Flappy Jack, who had come over, suggested. “They’ll likely know more about batponies than Maretime General.” He reasoned.

Sparkler nodded in agreement. “Good thinking Flappy Jack.” She said, resolving to make the trip with them as soon as possible. Hopefully they’ll be able to get us in. She mused.


Meanwhile, back in Maretime Bay, Sunny and Izzy were sitting at a table in the park, writing on a piece of paper. “I hope Pipp likes the song we’re writing.” Izzy said.

“I hope so too.” Sunny said. “I REALLY do not want to have an accidental confession like Sparkler did.”

“Eh, least we won’t be asleep when we talk to Pipp.” Izzy said.

“Talk to me about what?” Asked Pipp, who Sunny saw come up behind Izzy, who was laser focused on the paper.

“Oh, uh, nothing, nothing.” Sunny quickly said. “Nothing important.” She said.

“Except us trying to come up with a song so we can confess our love for Pipp.” Izzy said, clearly not realizing who was standing right behind her.

Sunny meanwhile panicked while Pipp’s jaw dropped. Did Izzy just say what I think she just said? “W-what?” Pipp asked.

“Nothing!” Sunny responded. “Nothing at all!” She said with a massive blush.

Izzy raised an eyebrow at her. “Sunny Bunny? What’s going on with you?” She asked, still completely oblivious to Pipp.

Sunny just pointed behind her. Izzy glanced behind her and saw Pipp. She smiled. “Oh, hi Pipp! Can’t talk right now sadly, Sunny and I are trying to write a song to confess our feelings for you.” Izzy said casually as she glanced back at the paper.

Sunny wanted to shrink and hide away in embarrassment, but instead just buried her head in her forelegs, while Pipp blushed like mad. Oh my Faust they actually return my feelings?!

“Izzy Kitty, do you realize who is standing right behind you?” Sunny asked.

“Pipp?” Izzy asked, confused

“Who is standing right behind you and hearing every word of what you just said?” Sunny asked her marefriend.

“Pipp. Sunny are you—ooooh.” Izzy finally realized what the heck happened and she turned around to see Pipp standing there blushing like mad. Izzy blinked, before stuffing the paper in her mouth. “Uh, we weren’t doing anything!” Izzy said, trying to save the situation.

Sunny groaned. “Izzy, just stop. The cat’s out of the bag.” She said as she lifted her head out of her forelegs. “So much for not having an accidental confession.” She said as she just resigned to how it was going to go. “Pipp I have a crush on you.” She told Pipp the truth.

Pipp blinked. Her brain taking a moment to process what Sunny said. Izzy meanwhile smiled. “Yeah. Something about a hide and seek game gone awry. If you’d like we’d be happy to let you into our relationship in a three way—mmmph!”

Pipp snapped and cut Izzy off mid sentence with a big fat kiss on the lips. After a few seconds, she pulled away from Izzy and proceeded to kiss Sunny the same way. The moment she heard the invite, she finally cut loose the chains holding her back.

Sunny and Izzy were caught off guard by the kiss, and while Izzy couldn’t really return it due to the sudden forwardness, Sunny was quicker and DID return it. After a few seconds, Pipp pulled back, and just unloaded. “I’ve been trying to figure out how to tell the two of you for a while now that I had a crush on the both of you. Sunny because of your heart and willingness to push on no matter what, and Izzy because you’re just so pure and precious and fun and…I guess I couldn’t help myself.” She said.

Izzy smiled and hugged Pipp while Sunny blinked. “So…I guess our feelings for each other are mutual.” She said.

“Sounds like it!” Izzy responded happily. “So. You do want to be in a herd with us?” She asked Pipp.

Pipp smiled and wrapped the both of them up in her wings in a hug. “I thought you’d never ask!” She said, her eyes watering.

Sunny smiled and she and Izzy kissed Pipp on the cheek. Sunny couldn’t believe THIS was how it went but what matter is that they were together now. Somehow, it’s exactly us. She thought.

To be continued…