Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 6
By TDR
The Thu'ums they are a Changeling
[Crystal Empire. ]
Saturnia let out a small sigh looking over the cribs of her sister and half brother. Or was that the other way around? Meh whatever. Rahs' nephew and niece were in the cribs too, though it was a pretty safe bet that Bri hadn't been informed the pair were going to be yanked out of the Oneiri again.
She needed to send a message to the Moon Dog bitch or she'd pop up here and possibly wake them up. Which was not needed after she just got the four of them to sleep.
The pink changeling princess looked over to Sunburst who had his own son passed out over his back as the three of them snuk out of the room, the colt was a bit older than the royal foals, but was still a toddler.
Both Moon Dancer and Sunburst carried a water bottle in their kit now to spray Cadence if she started getting any shipping ideas for the foals.
“I'll send a message to Bri.” Sunburst whispered. “She's probably worried and or annoyed again.”
Saturnia nodded as the pair of them left the room and headed their separate ways, leaving a pair of Guards and a nanny to keep an ear out for when the foals woke up.
Saturnia groaned, she hadn't expected to come up here and get dumped on foal sitting duty, but these sort of things happened at times. Father....Cadence was attending some concert with Shining, and a couple of ambassadors, while her mother was checking out something odd with a few of the Changelings that had been born here in recent years.
The average changeling was black with green or blue highlights, hair and wings. Occasionally there would be other colors born, she herself was a prime example of that, as her hair and wings were the same pink as her father, Cadence.
Recently however the Changelings born in the empire were all different colors, and strangely enough sometimes their carapaces were not black either. There was a colt grub born who was a deep navy blue white white hair and wings. There was another that was an almost neon green. There were still a few born as normal changeling coloration, but they were becoming some what rare, but only in the Empire. The bright Changelings were already being called Crystal Changelings and seemed to be emitting emotions rather than eating them. One of them looked like he had small,moose horns growing as well rather than the single gnarled horn.
They didn't have any voids either, which led some to wonder if they were changelings at all. Which was something that bothered her mother, god of the changelings for good reason.
This was hardly the only oddity in the Empire as despite there only being Crystal earth ponies, a few new foals had been Pegasi and one had been a unicorn, not full blood however, but it lead to some interesting thoughts that the other two types of Crystal pony might be recoverable from extinction.
Given how the Crystaling worked around here it wasn't really unexpected for some change, though it seemed to worry Chrysalis a good bit given her grumblings about poison joke and explosions.
Saturnia had no idea what her mother was on about, but she had learned to ignore most of the oddities the God of Change had.
She was joined on this trip by Kevin and Thorax, Bees having been banned from the Empire for 'Halping' last time he was here.
Saturnia didn't have the security clearance to know what Bees had done, which was saying a lot given she was a Princess here.
Kevin however had brought along his mare friend, which was a surprise and half. The impassive looking mare was a overflowing well of emotions that Saturnia had never experienced before. If Kevin had met her before the wedding fiasco the Changeling race could have survived just on her output.
The other thing of note was Thorax. The pretty much background Changeling had met the regent of the Dragonlands at a Applewood derby and the pair had hung out anytime they were in the same town.
Honestly Saturnia didn't think he had it in him to go for some one that important, but hopefully it would work out. Dragons were hard to read emotionally.
Which was much more annoying that Trixie was the Dragon Lord and part dragon now. Well more dragon than she was before anyway.
Saturnia frowned at that. Despite Sunset and her plan to team up to claim Rahs far too many roadblocks had happened. Trixie's ascension, the damn fish, the bitches teaming up, and now this prank war. It was a bit too dangerous to be around him if you didn't plan right.
Still all of them had learned when to step back. In fact the date she and Rahs had two days ago was probably the last safe moment as the Sparkles were counter pranking today after the mareiachi band thing.
[ Canterlot]
Princess Celestia frowned as the next case was brought up in Day Court. The entire throne room was standing room only, and that was intentional as there were no chairs in the throne room at the moment.
Every time a chair, or throne, or bench, or pew, was brought into the room it was teleported some where else. Celestia wasn't sure where.
Of course that wasn't the prank, it was just the part that forced her to stand and keep her Cutie-mark visible. Not that throwing a dress or blanket over her cutie-mark helped and even illusion spells broke.
Princess Celestia just sighed, sparing a glance back to her cutie-mark.
Instead of the sun that was supposed to be there the image changed every seven point two seconds.
Damn Sparkles couldn't even give her an even number for it.
The first image was simply Twilight's cutie-mark appearing on her flank. Amusing but hardly annoying.
When the image changed however there was a loud PING and it felt like some one poked her cutie-mark and Celestia was compelled to shout out 'Let's fly to the castle!' for some reason.
The second image was a cartoon looking dragon head giving a peace sign with it's claws and a large graffiti styled' Spike was here' under the image.
The third image was heralded by a fanfare of trumpets and plastered her flank with an ad for The Ball Theater in Ponyville. The music played for the entire seven point two seconds and cut off sharply before any one could get invested in the tune, though that little bit of catchy music was running on loop in her head as an ear-worm regardless.
And when the image changed back to Twilight's cutie-mark, the change was sounded out by a 2 second long, loud farting sound.
Princess Celestia drew in a deep breath as she watched the nobles and other petitioners react with shock, amusement, and confusion, though the constant repeating had a number of them rushing through what they wanted in the few seconds where there wasn't any noise coming from her flank.
Oh those three were gonna get it.