Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 6
By TDR
To Wyrm and Back Again,
part 1
[Mid Summer, Ponyville, One week after the Sparkles and Princess were pulled out of the pie mound, clean up still ongoing.]
To say the town of Ponyville was tense would be an understatement, the Guards were on high alert, the townsfolk keeping to cover when they could and staying home despite there being no real curfew. The Flower Trio hadn't been seen in three days, which annoyed Captain Comet Trail as his second, Lode Stone, hadn't been seen in three days either.
The Sparkles were preparing plans for what might happen based off who they had already dealt with, and any of Celestia's other exs that might be out there.
Chrysalis had volunteered to help with this. Thorax and Kevin were assigned to keep an eye on her, though Kevin was in a corner with his mare friend Maud and both were just silently listening in.
As such a lot of creatures were sitting around the Crystal table waiting, at least those that didn't have a real job, or this WAS their real job.
“Well she did date a griffon at one point, but I'm pretty sure he died a long while back.” Chrysalis considered tapping a hoof to her chin. “And we all know about Grannysmith's mom, so that covers any attack from the Apples. Unless Applebloom gets annoyed again. Seriously kid you know how to pick them. Didn't any one ever warn you away from red heads?”
“No one told me what to do when a red head decided I was hers however.” Spike sighed with a smirk as he kicked back in his chair after a quick look around to make sure Applebloom wasn't there.
“Wuff.” Rahs pointed out, the moon dog had been a bit surprised that Aria had joined them at his session and rather than having taken a seat at the table, had taken a seat in his lap. Usually it was Sunset or Trixie doing that.
“Right. Okay, Bleu did, and her advice was to just roll with it and enjoy it.” Spike admitted.
“Still surprised you're here and not up in the Empire guarding your foal.” Tempest pointed out from another seat near where Starlight sat trying not to be noticed.
“Every so often I need to leave those two on foal duty to remind them they have no idea what the heck they are doing.” Chrysalis smirked, then she frowned. ”Might need to check on them though in case that's the disaster.”
“Going by the network we have set up..” Aria offered waving a Crystal Tablet with her hand as she lay across Rahs' lap in her human form wearing a rather tight pair of what she called jeans and a tank top that showed off her abs. “There's no breaking news or obvious issues in the Empire, Canterlot, Manehatten, Chicagcolt, Wilmingtrot, or Las Pegasus. Nor anything on any of the small towns along the route of the towers that any one is talking about. We made sure to give each of the leaders of all the places connected to a tablet so they could call for aid if need be.”
“That's not a large area.” Starlight added.
“Still wondering why I'm the main link for Ponyville.” Seshat added.
“Cause you're the tallest thing here and we're working on that. Saturnia is dealing with all the legalities of putting the towers in certain areas, and we have a program that runs a network pulse every couple of seconds to ensure everything's working properly.” Aria offered wiggling in Rahs' lap. The moon dog gripping the arm of his chair a little tighter as a result. “The goal is eventual global coverage. We think we'll have that in three years, or at least in the places that want it, and all of the pirate hunting airships. We're already making plans to figure out a way to outfit the Princess Bride as a test ship.”
“Why are you here if you have to do all that still?” Spike asked.
“I'm the head engineer. I get called in to plan and trouble shoot, or yell at people who screw something up.” Aria offered waving the tablet again. ”Technically I'm troubleshooting right now.”
“I need that sort of job.”Chrysalis offered. “Where is everyone else anyway? I figured the other Element Bearers or at least Discord would be here to screw with things.”
“Dad and Sonata are in Atlantis.” Aria offered.” Which is why I didn't include it on the list of places that had no issues.”
“Every pony else has jobs.” Twilight offered.” With everyone on high alert like this, there's numerous checklists for Ponyville to ensure everything's prepared for anything.”
Everyone at the table stared at Twilight.
Twilight huffed. ”I didn't make them. Those check lists were already in place.”
“And she's still salty about it.”
Aria looked up from her tablet at Rahs with an eyebrow raised before looking back at her tablet.
“So what we all just remain at ready until something happens?” Starlight asked.
“Pretty much. At least for the rest of the summer. Once school starts back up we should be good.” Spike offered.
“Should be?” Starlight asked.
“This is Ponyville.” Thorax added.
“Fair enough.” Chrysalis huffed. “So what now we just wait?”
“Well we could play a game.” Spike pointed out.” I've got plenty of them I never get a chance to use.”
“Whatcha got?” Kevin asked.
“For a group this size I figure teams Pictionary or win lose or draw is probably the best.” Spike offered.” Let's see, Chrysalis and … Starlight, are team captains. We'll do round robin team picking.”
After a bit of shuffling and some annoyance at having to move the teams were set.
Starlight wound up with Thorax, Maud, Aria, and Rahs, mostly due to Aria's protests about having to move. Starlight really didn't want to be near Rahs, and really wished she could have gotten Tempest instead or Trixie was here.
Chrysalis got Twilight, Kevin, Tempest, and Spike.
Seshat got to ref.
About twenty minutes later, Rahs and Chrysalis had started a drama off with each other. Kevin and Maud had run off to a spare bedroom. Aria was griping about the drama off. Twilight was still arguing with Spike about how her drawing looked nothing like Orcus' third law. Tempest was drunk, Thorax was knocked out and Starlight was sitting there wishing they had gone to fly kites instead.
Half of Ponyville was also on fire and there were riots as some pony's had a bad reaction to seeing Twilight's 2-d drawings in four dimensions that had some how escaped the paper and were wandering the town.
Seshat had decided to take a nap and ignore everything.
And Saturnia was pissed her mother had eaten all her cereal again.