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// chapter three 
// Story: Bubbles: Derpy's Return 
// by RoxyMoronNERDy 
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Chapter three
Dinky sat at the dinner table with Mommy as they ate hay fries with muffins for dessert. Dinky smiled at Mommy, who was looking at her and smiling. At least, Dinky thought she was looking at her. She could never really tell for sure because her eyes were so crooked. But Dinky just assumed she was looking at her. Even though Mommy’s eyes are funny, Dinky still loved her mommy. Just then, there was a knock on the door and Mommy flew over, bumping her glass of water just slightly. Dinky used her magic to straighten it out, and followed after Mommy’s trail just right, so she wouldn’t know Dinky was there. Dinky hid behind the umbrella-holder that was next to the door. She listened.
Mommy opened the door and Dinky saw two really tall ponies that were wearing gold armor and had unicorn horns just like her! She moved the umbrella’s slightly to get a better look. Then the grey pony opened his mouth and spoke in a big-pony voice like the Mayor Mare did during Winter Wrap-Up.
“Derpy D. Hooves, you are hereby under arrest for the incapability of caring for a child. You are going to be taken to Canterlot in one hour. In that time, you must find another caretaker for your child, Dinky D. Hooves.” The one colt looked at mommy angrily while the other saw Dinky through the umbrellas. She sighed and looked at mommy sadly.
“Say goodbye.” He and the other colt walked away and sat outside the treehouse. Mommy was looking really funny. Not the haha funny, but the funny that made Dinky’s stomach hurt. Dinky came out from behind the umbrella’s and looked at Mommy.
“Mommy?...” She whimpered. Mommy sighed and turned to Dinky. Her eyes were straight now. Dinky walked slowly to her and felt like crying. “Mommy…?!” Dinky forced herself not to cry. She wanted to show that she was a big pony, and big ponies don’t cry.
“Dinky,” Mommy said in her funny voice. “Mommy has to go away for a little while, and I might not be back in time for Nightmare Night.” Dinky looked at her mommy really worriedly. Where was Mommy going? She heard the guards talk about Canterlot, but only briefly…
“W-What about Hearths Warming?” She started sniffling, but forced herself not to cry. Mommy looked at Dinky really sadly and shook her head. She grabbed Dinky and hugged her really tight, but not tight enough to stop her heart from breaking. She whispered really sadly to Dinky.
“It’s okay to cry, Dinky Doo.” Mommy’s words touched Dinky’s face like a soft feather. She felt a single tear roll down her cheek. It tickled, but not in a funny way. She cried and cried and cried until Mommy pulled away. “You need to go pack a saddle bag and go with Twilight Sparkle.”
Dinky looked at Mommy like she looks at Diamond Tiara when she says something mean. Did Mommy actually want her to leave? Unbelieveable!
“But… We were going to go to the Hearths Warming Eve pageant! We were gonna watch Ms. Sparkle and her friends do the play!”
“I know, Dinky but Mommy’s in a lot of trouble because she had you. Ponies don’t like mares and colts like me because we’re different and they think we can’t do things on our own.”
“Ponies like what?” Dinky asked, confused.
“Disabled.” Mommy said the words like they tasted badly in her mouth. Dinky felt her stomach turn and suddenly realized she had stopped crying. She wiped away her tears with her hoof and stood up tall. She was a big pony. The only pony she’s ever cried in front of was her mommy, and she barely remembers when she cries unless it’s something important like a birthday or if somepony died.
“Go pack a saddle-bag, Dinky.” She said once more. Dinky sniffled and nodded. She galloped up the stairs to her room and looked around. It was fairly big with a bed in the corner and a book shelf full of books about magic, history, and even some fictional stuff. Including one book she got from Ms. Sparkle on her birthday called “Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone.” It was Dinky’s favorite book, and she never got the chance to go get the other ones in the series. She got her yellow saddle bag with the bubbles on the clip and put the book in it. She looked around the room and saw a grey pony-looking doll. She smiled and grabbed it. She called the doll Miss Derpy, because Mommy said she had a doll just like that and named it Miss Sweety because that’s what her daddy called her mommy. Dinky never met Mommy’s mommy. But when she told Ms. Cherilee about her, Ms. Cherilee said that kind of pony is called a “grandmother”.
Dinky sighed and place the doll in her bag. She then looked around the room once more. She looked at her desk that was at the foot of her bed and the lamp that sat on it. She looked at the doll house in the other corner and the posters of Sapphire Shores and her closet that had a few party dresses in there. She then saw the picture of her and Mommy. She trotted over and looked at it. It was her and Mommy in Manehatten standing in front of the big red bridge. Neither her nor Mommy knew what it was called, but they thought it was cool so they took a picture of it. It was the only picture she had of her mommy. She placed it inside her saddle-bag without a second thought. But then she got a sick feeling. What if Mommy didn’t have a picture of her to remember her by? Dinky didn’t want her mom to forget what she looked like! Sometimes Mommy forgot things, and she thought how bad it would be if Mommy forgot about her. Then she heard the tall ponies’ voices.
“You have ten minutes!” They said in their scary-voices. Dinky started muttering a prayer to Celestia.
Dear holy Celestia, 
It’s me, Dinky. I don’t know if you’ll get this because my magic isn’t too good, but I’ll use it to send to you anyway; Please let Mommy get me back by Hearth’s Warming Eve. I didn’t get to see Ms. Sparkle and her friends do the play last year, but I got to be in the one here in Ponyville. Please let Mommy get me back, because I love her very much, and she’s a really nice mommy. I don’t want her to go away forever, so please, please, please let her come back!
Your royal subject,
Dinky.

Dinky used her magic to send the prayer to Celestia, and grabbed her lucky piggy bank, where every time she made a wish or wanted something, she put in a bit.
She put her bag on, took one last look in her room, and very sadly walked down the stairs to say goodbye to Mommy.