//------------------------------// // CH 2: We're Gonna Have Ants!!! // Story: Twinkle Star // by NocturneD85 //------------------------------// Twinkle Star By NocturneD Dear Mom and Dad, I'm writing to you to say that Twinkle Star had arrived safely to Ponyville and is taking up residence with me. At first I thought this was going to be easy experience to start with a clean slate and get to know her better. Well, after her arrival I learned a few things about her. I assume she is forgetful at times because she did not mention that she was to give me another letter until we got to my place. I could not blame her, Rarity, her sister Sweetie Belle and Rainbow Dash and I showed her a bit of Ponyville just to show there was neat stuff to do. Twinkle Star was very clingy when we were trotting through the streets. She did to take a shine to my friend Rarity once she mentioned dress making was like an art and she seemed to put immediate trust into Rainbow Dash. To me, we started off pretty slow and unfortunately its still going slow. I will admit, I was too excited when I first got your letter asking me to take care of her for a couple of weeks because I never spent time with her because of my studies at the castle. Not even when she was born I rarely got to see her but I had to admit, all I ever wanted was a little sister of my own to follow me around. Of all the times I followed Andromeda and Nora around I wanted to be like them. Hopefully, Twinkle will feel like that after the two weeks. We did run into a problem once we got to my place. While I was reading off your other letter that you asked Twinkle to give to me, I got the notice for the medicine and her schedule when to take them. It's just her phobia of large groups of ponies in one place. You remember my friend; Pinkie Pie? The one that likes to throw parties for all sorts of reasons? She planned a surprise welcome party for Twinkle Star and... things turned sour. While there was an impressive display of streamers, balloons and ponies wanting to greet her... Twinkle Star just laid down on the floor in a ball, shaking and crying for you. I did what I thought was best, to hold her to let her know she was in a safe place. Thank goodness nurse Red Heart was one of Pinkie's guests. Twinkle kicked and shouted she wanted out and to go home, I think that was the phobia talking. If it were not for nurse Red Heart, I would not have had an idea how to handle the situation any better. Red Heart told me some steps to use incase Twinkle had another panic attack, if they were to go anymore extreme then a trip to the hospital might have been necessary. Pretty much the party ended early to my request. The guests went home, some apologized while they left and wished they would have met Twinkle Star under better circumstances. Only my friends stayed to make sure Twinkle calmed down and settled in. She was still a bit fussy and clung onto me muttering for you. I thought about this long and hard after I put her to bed. Holding her hoof until she finally went to sleep. I have to admit something, I was a little scared too at the thought of taking care of Twinkle once you mentioned all these things about her. But as she clung to me I noticed that was probably the first ever hug we ever had. I'm sorry that you had to read a letter like this. But you put your trust in me and I will make sure Twinkle will have a good time here, I got the best support Twinkle can ever get incase anything ever goes wrong. -Your daughter, Twilight Sparkle The lavender unicorn processed the exact words in her head. It all seemed good in her mind but what happened earlier that afternoon was totally unexpected. Well, unexpected on her behalf. Still her conscience banged and banged inside of her. She bit her lower lip in frustration, she blamed herself for this. Sure Twinkle could have spoken up earlier but she was shy. And that's what shy ponies do, they wait for an opportunity. She had no way of knowing that there would be a pink pony that would be up in her face blowing on kazoo and firing off party canons that could have ruptured her hearing. Thank goodness she left that out of the letter, thank goodness Twinkle Star could still hear after that. Then again, thank goodness any other pony could hear after Twinkle's ear-piercing cry as she kicked and screamed. The faces the guests varied between shocked and confused, others worried. Twilight Sparkle read her letter over and over. Debated with herself even if she should send it. She weighed her options. Tell her parents; only to have them race down to Ponyville to cuddle their youngest. Or not, risk Twinkle's issue further and try to fix them up by herself. "Then again..." Twilight looked down at her letter, "They did trust me... and I got support incase anything happens." The lavender unicorn folded the letter and placed it in an envelope with the address already written out on the center. It was already late anyway with one good look at the clock, "10:54. Guess I'll seal it and stamp it in the morning." She said to herself quietly. A quick look over her shoulder revealed two beds next to each other. Her own and a guest bed, Spike's basket was at the food of hers with an already sleeping baby dragon occupying it. A pinkish aura illuminated from her horn and used it to switch off her desk lamp with a simple click. Only source of light was Luna's moon that peaked through the window that dazzled onto the center of the room. Highlighting the round brown rug; in which Rarity deemed ugly on many occasions. Twilight excused her friend's drama about style, that's who she was and accepted it but really, that rug was actually comfortable to sit on while reading a good book. Hopefully she could let Twinkle snuggle up next to her while reading her something. Speaking of Twinkle Star. The older unicorn let her curiosity glide her over to the smaller unicorn. All tucked in, her little lavender head rested on the cold pillow decorated with little stars for show. Something that the little unicorn brought with her from home. Dark blue sheets covered her little tyke body, her chest rose up and down with each small breath she made almost sounding like a coo. Twilight could not help but smile down at the younger unicorn. Just earlier she was screaming bloody murder while kicking away any pony that tried to come near her. Now just a sleeping angel. She was just so fascinated how they looked similar on the outside almost, inside was another story. Twilight could just sit and marvel at her sister for a long time, but she needed her sleep as well. She climbed into her own bed and slid her own bed sheet over her own form. And rested her head, then closed her eyes. Hopefully the next day will go over better. "Are you sure?" "I'm serious I heard she's from a mental hospital." "That sounds made up." "Yeah why would a filly like her be crazy is she was sent to live with her sister?" "That's just it. Maybe her parents can't take her anymore?" "That's cold." "I heard she might be the librarian's sister." "Uh... She is." "Oh really?" "Did you just see Snails eat glue?" That's been pretty much the entire backdrop for the day as the Cutie Mark Crusaders listened in to hear what the other kid's opinion on the new pony. Most of them were wild claims and surely made up stories. To kids, first impressions always set themselves in stone in a kid's mind. Also affects the social status and social ladder. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo just listened while they sat behind a bush while earlier trying to play a game of old maid. For an old-fashioned town like Ponyville news tends to spread fast among the social ponies then to the gossip ponies, then to the ponies who just like spreading rumors. Sweetie Belle felt terrible with each new rumor that came around the playground, she was there first thing when she met Twinkle Star. "So... what kind of pony was Twinkle Star before she... you know?" Scootaloo held up about six playing cards with her hooves then aimed her sights on Sweetie Belle. "Well she was shy." Sweetie Belle raised an eyebrow while trying to pick one of Scootaloo's cards. "But once Rarity mentioned her dresses she started talking a bit more. Then Rainbow Dash did some fancy flying and Twinkle got a bit more excited. But she was pretty clingy to Twilight once we started walking." The white unicorn pointed to the card she wanted from her friend. "Makes sense for a new pony." Scootaloo slid the card in her friend's direction. "Yeah. She seems like a nice pony." Sweetie Belle frowned as she flipped her card up and found the old maid. "She mentioned she liked art and said she brought a sketchpad. Still have yet to see it." "She must be good if she carries one around wit' her." Applebloom cracked a smile while Sweetie Belle held up her cards for the farm filly to pick one. She picked a card on the far left then received it, flipped it over to find a number three. Applebloom the found another three in her cards then discarded the pair, then held her cards up to Scootaloo to pick. The orange filly raised her fore leg to tap the card she wanted, "She's on medication isn't she?" Applebloom slid her chosen card in her direction, Scootaloo turned it over to show a black eight. Sweetie Belle shifted her shoulders, "Twilight read something out loud saying if her medicine ever got lost to call right away and get another batch." Scootaloo discarded two cards into the center pile then lifted her cards for Sweetie Belle to pick. In response, "Huh, guess it something really important that she can't go without." "Whas it supposed ta do?" Applebloom asked while waiting for her turn. Sweetie Belle raised her cards to her friend, "I don't know, I think I heard something about head aches." Applebloom was about the pick the hidden old maid due to Sweetie Belle not being able to keep a straight face, so the farm filly picked another. She found another pair of what she needed and threw the pair towards the center pile. "We shud still make her feel welcomed." Applebloom smiled, "Who knows mayba' she's really nice." "I dunno, what if she's like Twilight?" Scootaloo raised an eyebrow then went back to trying to pick a card. "Why dat a problem?" Applebloom frowned. "Well... Twilight is kinda..." Scootaloo shook her hoof, "You know... boring at times?" "You know... she can be but I'm sure she can spice it up for Twinkle." Sweetie Belle giggled, "Shining Armor didn't seem boring." "Still have a crush on him Sweetie Belle?" Scootaloo chuckled. The white unicorn suddenly flashed red across her cheeks, "Oh..." Scootaloo and Applebloom looked at each other, and said at the same time, "She isn't." Suddenly a whistle blew. "Alright kids time to wrap it up for the day!" A male voice came from a distance. "Make sure to bring back whatever you took from the toy bin and locker!" "Well girls another fun day at the Youth Center." Scootaloo smirked, "Wished the other kids didn't hog all the other stuff before we got here." "Why is it so hard ta get a ball?" Applebloom collected all the cards and slid them back into the card packet. "Dumb dodge ball game going on with the boys." Sweetie Belle grunted. The three fillies walked toward the Ponyville Youth Center. A building meant for kids and teens to hang out after school or on vacation. Many parents and older siblings like to push their fillies into this project in hopes of bettering their children in social skills and learning hoofs on. Many fun things go on depending on which pony volunteers to teach the kids anything, like arts and crafts, music, computer knowledge, the fun stuff. Each of the children lined up and turned in the toy or piece of equipment they borrowed to a thin white unicorn male with yellow eyes and dark hair that went down to his neck. He wore an apron that tied from his lower neck to his stomach just in case of any emergencies happened with the children, carried band-aids mostly. "Thank you Sunny Days. You almost nailed that triple axle." The male unicorn put on friendly smile. "Thank you Pipsqueak. Next time go easy on the sword play. Some of the other colts are not as good as you." The little colt from Trottingham raised a plastic sword for the unicorn to place in a locker behind himself. Behind Pip was another colt with a plastic sword. Next up was Dinky Doo, the little grey unicorn approached the taller unicorn sadly, "Sorry I broke the chalk for the pavement." "Ah it's alright. It's just chalk." The white unicorn smirked as he engulfed the pieces of chalk in a red magical aura then placing them in the locker. Next came Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon turning in the jump ropes. The white unicorns, "Thanks you two." "It's like no trouble Mr. Kirin." Diamond Tiara stiffened a quite mischievous giggle. "You think maybe next time you two can share the jump ropes with the other kids? I don't think you need it for the entire recess session do you?" The unicorn asked while he raised an eyebrow. He knew these two fillies were infamous from the other children, thinking they were higher on the food chain and social ladder. Mr. Kirin would often had to come in and wedge himself in between arguments between them and other fillies just to keep peace on the playground. "We're like going for a record... or something." Silver Spoon chuckled as she dropped the jump rope in front of Mr. Kirin as her friend did the same. "Now girls. Pick those up, we talked about handing things over nicely didn't we?" Mr. Kirin asked. The girls only grunted. They had no intention of picking up the jump ropes but Mr. Kirin would always remind them constantly to play nice with the others, figured it would shut the bozo up. "Here you go." Diamond Tiara frowned, Silver Spoon did the same. "Thank you girls." Mr. Kirin said, now satisfied with the snobby girls. Next up were the boys who took the balls. "Okay boys time to put away those balls." And as boys were always mischievous they took advantage of the situation, ganged up on the older unicorn and threw the balls at him. "OH COME ON!" Mr. Kirin dodged one ball that whizzed past his head. Then he dodged another then another, "Seriously guys do we have to do this every time?" Well a blast to the face with a rubber kick ball answered the question. The group of boys continued throwing until they had nothing to throw, probably around ten, eleven or twelve of them just laughed and walked away. Mr. Kirin was now buried under a mountain of rubber. Just then a small white male unicorn around the age as every other colt and filly there. He had short blue hair and yellow gloomy eyes as he approached the mountain of balls. A purple aura emitted from his little horn as he started to put a few of the balls away where they belonged. Just then Mr. Kirin stuck his head out of the mountain with a gasp of air. The smaller white unicorn looked up quizzically. "Again?" Mr. Kirin sighed, "Again..." An appreciative smile graced his lips, "Thanks Synn." The smaller unicorn smiled, "Anytime big brother." The Cutie Mark Crusaders did not take long to show up after the ball throwing fiasco. Applebloom was the first to speak, "Thanks for lettin us play with the cards Mr. Kirin." "Anytime girls." Mr. Kirin again smiled as he let his red magical aura engulf the playing cards then slid them into his apron. "Next time I'll try to save you a ball." "It's fine, we really weren't that in the playing mood today anyway." Scootaloo smirked. "Plus we were talking about the new girl." Sweetie Belle brought up. Mr. Kirin finally able to free himself from the mountain of balls. He used his magic to scoop them up and put them in the locker with the help of his little brother, he pulled out a key then inserted it in the lock. With a quick turn he heard a click telling that it locked. "Oh right, the librarian's little sister. She feeling any better?" "We really didn't pay her a visit yet." Scootaloo frowned. "She's a nice girl I heard." Mr. Kirin started to undo his apron straps. Then discarded the piece of clothing and folded it with his magic. The three fillies looked at each other with troubling eyes. Sweetie Belle broke the silence between the three, "We're sure too. It's just she probably won't be treated like a regular filly after what happened." Mr. Kirin raised an eyebrow for concern, "She just had a panic attack that's all. Those happen and can happen at anytime and there ways to help calm it down." The three fillies looked at each other again, this time worried. This time Applebloom spoke, "Anytime? Anywhere?" Just then Mr. Kirin shrugged his shoulders, "Who knows maybe that will be the only time she does it. It's like how Featherweight back there needs an inhaler now and then before he comes out to play in the grass and dust with others." The girls did remember Featherweight had to take a prescription inhaler everyday from the school nurse. The three were curious as they would peek into the nurse's office just to see what weird contraption the frail Pegasus was trying to put into his mouth. The kids treated him differently because of it they thought he was weird that he had to do it but thanks to their teacher Mrs. Cheerilee had to explain how it worked. More kids understood, but still Featherweight would always be a target for Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon for whatever lame reason. It was a pretty good lesson that had to be learned, just because a classmate had to take something for them to keep up performance does not make them any different from the rest. The girls bid the Youth Center employee and his little brother a good day and thanked him for the lesson. But something still irked them, they knew Twinkle was a good filly, they were more worried that she might not fit in normally. The three fillies soon walked through the business district. Applebloom spoke up, "Ya'll think we could give Twinkle a quick visit?" Just then Sweetie Belle's stomach rumbled. Almost roared as loud as a lion, "Oh I think I'm going to go home. My mom usually has dinner ready right about now." "Yeah I need to get home too." Scootaloo brought up, "My dad is building a new scooter for me and I want to go over what I want it to look like." "Alright then. Tomorrow then?" Applebloom hoped they would help Twinkle Star get a better hoof in and be part of their team. "Sounds good to me." Scootaloo smiled. Sweetie Belle agreed. "Good. We're gonna make Twinkle Star feel welcomed." Applebloom nodded. "Meet back at here at eleven A.M.?" "Wait I got an eye doctor appointment tomorrow at eleven." Sweetie Belle brought up. "Alright then maybe lunch time?" Applebloom asked. "Rainbow Dash is supposed to take the three of us to the grand opening of Daisy Burger tomorrow for lunch." Scootaloo remembered. "Fine. After lunch then?" Applebloom puffed. "Think I..." Sweetie Belle looked at yellow farm filly, then retracted, "Yeah after lunch is good." Later that night. A noble friend of the mane six arrived at the tree house. With ominous yellow glowing eyes that pierced the darkness and a hood that covered her white and black striped Mohawk. She knocked not once, not twice, but thrice on the library door. The lavender unicorn pulled open the door to look at her guest. And greeted her not with a gasp, but with a smile. "Ah you made it Zecora!" Twilight smiled and stepped aside. "Please come in we were just about the begin the meeting." "With pleasure in walking through Ponyville like a fine comb, I find it very it cumbersome as you welcome me into your home." Zecora stepped inside. "But on my way I was met by some unfriendly poodles, but the good news is that I remembered to bring this dessert called Snicker Doodles." The zebra held up a tray of snacks like she said. The zebra walked further into the library with Twilight in the lead. There in the center of the round room were a circle of chairs facing in, ten to be exact. In one of them sat Rarity, then Fluttershy, then Rainbow Dash, then Cheerilee, then Mrs. Cake and the mayor, next to her was Bon Bon and finally Derpy for some reason. Zecora took a seat next to the pony with the out-of-place pupil. Twilight remained standing, "Welcome every pony to our book club meeting. Recently I given you all a copy of The Jump written by A. ." Once you get Twilight talking about a book, she will not stop. Spike was serving drinks to the girls as he wandered over to each guest and poured them some orange drink with a thank you from each glass poured. "I especially wanted to talk about the very first couple of chapters because some of you seemed lost after reading those." "Uh yeah..." Rainbow Dash raised her foreleg, "Those first few chapters. Were they a dream or something?" "I was just getting to that." Twilight Sparkle smiled, "If you read them carefully the writer tends to drop little hints in his story that will play out in future chapters or other stories. So instead of a dream, the main character projected himself into his own fantasy world which later plays a bigger role going back and forth from there to the real world." "So its pretty much a dream world anyway." Rainbow Dash frowned. "How about we wait and talk about the other aspects of the book?" Twilight asked, "There is just some other things I want to talk about chapter by chapter. But first I do want to ask what every pony thought about the book overall." "Stupid." Rainbow Dash plopped her copy onto the coffee table. "Had something good going but then slowly it went downhill." BonBon gave her opinion. "Author dropped the ball a couple of times." Rarity swirled her glass of orange drink with her magic. "Story was just too confusing and how it was worded. The first pony perspective was nice but felt cheap because you did not get the entire story. Only through the main character's point of view and not only that but the main character we're stuck with started off impressive but then just felt boring towards the end." Rarity took a deep breath then a sip of her drink, "There were other characters I would have liked to see more detail on but there just wasn't. Felt like they were just stand ins for the sake of the main character. Sorry to say Twilight, but this one was not to my liking." "Well Rarity you got a few points but the main character to me seemed like a really well-built pony." Twilight countered in a nice way. Her eye twitched a little earlier because of a book she liked was getting torn to pieces by her book club ponies in a negative fashion. "Can I give my take on this book?" Derpy raised her foreleg. "Sure." Twilight nodded. Derpy cleared her throat first then started her analysis, "You probably do not know Twilight I have read this book before and all the other books you let us borrow by the same author. I did some research on the author and found out some pretty interesting things about this book and his other works." The grey Pegasus lifted the book with her hoof to present to the others, "This book in particular is part of an ongoing series, in the author's head only. If any of you remember there were characters from other stories popping up in other books, even the fantasy world did not début in this story." The others raised an eyebrow at what was going on. Their ditzy friend was actually acting intelligent for once, "The author wanted to make an ongoing series but did not plan it very well where he intended to write each book as a new starting point using characters from other books that he thought worked well and mix them in. Such as the Mad Hatter pony and the devil pony from the Beyond story, both were antagonists of earlier books now somehow reduced to anti-heroes." Derpy took another big breath then continued, "The author you can say is stuck as in he does not know where he wants to take his series. That's why everything is discombobulate, the only thing that stays the same was the fantasy world where the creatures with ooze dripping out of their mouths in which characters from other books actually visited. Some characters worked well in the newer stories he put out because now he might have a better grasp of what he wants. This story, the only thing that felt right was the fantasy world... if it was a character itself. So this book right here, is a just a bunch of rambling and build up to another story the author might want to go with. So literally, the books he put out have nothing to do with each other. Or do they?" "But you just said none of the books had anything to do with each other." Cheerilee countered. At this point Zecora for the first time since her visit in Ponyville, she was bored. Her face did not let her show her bored mind, she reached for another pastry until she noticed what seemed to look like a sketch book discarded under the coffee table. The edges just jutted out from shadow of the table, Zecora knew in a form of manners that it would have been rude to pull another form of entertainment out and read while a meeting was going on. The other ponies were distracted by Derpy giving her out of character analysis so why not? The zebra opened the sketch book to the first few pages and found some pretty interesting sketches. Done in pencil of course and some in ink. A lot of them are very well detailed. A lot of them are more finished than others because of the darker outlines, some of them are sceneries of familiar areas along with some ponies. Zecora flipped through a couple more pages and saw some sketches of random ponies. Some she knew, some she did not. The foreign zebra enjoyed flipping through the pages, she seen many variations of art across Equestria but she had to admit, whoever drew these had some emphasis on detail. She flipped to another page that seemed a little off, it was a drawing of another pony but... something was off about this pony. The spot for the eyes were filled in with ink like it was done on purpose, the pony's mouth had a very wide smile that stretched ear to ear. The rest of the pony appeared to have splotches over its body, also filled in with ink. Zecora could have sworn she seen a pony like that before, or something out of legend. Whoever drew this also must know some form of mythology. "Here comes the weird part. They are both, he wanted them to confuse us. Some of you did not pick up on the alternate universe plot I was dropping on. The fantasy world was the only thing that was kept the same for most of the stories the author put out." Derpy raised her foreleg to point out, "As you could say. The fantasy world, is the center of the series. The avatar of the fantasy world is stuck in a loop while everything outside of its world keeps changing." At this point, Zecora closed the sketch book and leaned it up beside her chair. Even for her she was a little disturbed by the dark pony sketch. Derpy took one long deep breath after talking a mouth full, "Muffin." She reached for the plate that had at least a dozen different flavored pastries on them and picked up the obvious. The rest of the book club members had their mouths open. Some even asking themselves did Derpy actually explain a complex plot? Twilight cleared her throat this time, "Well... That was an interesting analysis that Derpy contributed." "Mmm... Muffin." Derpy reached for another. "Okay this book series was obviously too complex for every pony to enjoy even if it was filled with paradoxes." Twilight again explained. Just then a small violet unicorn descended the stairs. She kept to herself and went straight for the kitchen without trying to attract any attention. And yet little did that do any good as the cyan flying pony craned her neck as she tried to avoid little eye contact with the rest of the group as possible. "Hey squirt." Dash smirked. Twinkle gasped then quickly regained her composure, "Oh... hey." Just then the rest of the group turned their attention to the little filly as well. Twilight smiled, "Hey Twinkle, need anything?" "Just... Just a snack if that's okay. And want to get my sketch pad I left down here." Twinkle twiddle her hoofs from her fore legs together in a shy matter. Zecora immediately looked down to her side and figured this was the same book the little one was talking about. "Alright sweetie, you want Teddy bear graham crackers?" Twilight smiled while she got out of her chair ready to aid, "I just bought them yesterday." "I can get them!" Twinkle immediately jumped at the chance by scampering to the kitchen. "Well that was a surprise." Cheerilee watched as the filly blasted off, "I thought she was going to be a shy filly." "Well to new ponies that's understandable." Twilight frowned as she sat back down in her chair. "But she has trouble paying attention in school from what my mom tells me." "Ah attention deficit disorder." Cheerilee reached for a snicker doodle Zecora brought earlier. "I had a few of those during my career." "So um... if you don't mind me asking." Fluttershy peeped in her shy voice, "How do those children differ from regular children?" "Just that they have trouble concentrating and can get easily side tracked, distracted." Cheerilee answered. "Just because of that some of them were unfairly labeled because of their grades. Sometimes the kids diagnosed with ADD don't even have it because some doctors figured that was probably it. Ritalin, really makes a pretty bit today with the wonders of modern medicine." "Twilight where are the graham crackers again?" Twinkle called from the kitchen. "In the cabinet!" Twilight called from her seat then turned her attention back to the teacher, "Pretty important pill too, I gave Twinkle one this morning and she seemed pretty quiet then just sat doodling in her sketch pad, I showed her around my library and I figured she got the jest of everything. I almost did not give it to her because she tried to out smart me. Nope. Though she was a bit disappointed when she saw my television set for some reason." "Then... what caused her to scream like that?" Fluttershy asked. "She has a phobia of a large amount of ponies in one room." Twilight answered, "Plus if you remember Twinkle was pretty much surrounded with party noises going off where she was looking around for a way out." "Yeah. Pinkie Pie is still feeling pretty bad about that." Rainbow Dash brought up. "I'm terribly sorry by the way Twilight." Mrs. Cake apologized, "Pinkie really does go all out with her parties and just wanted to give your sister an honest welcome." "It's okay. Pinkie had no way of knowing." Twilight smiled. "I don't see them Twilight! Oh well I'll get myself some juice." Twinkle called from the kitchen. "Oh wait..." Just then the mares heard a glass spill and shatter on the kitchen floor. "Twilight where are the towels?!" "Excuse me girls. Twinkle the towels are in another cabinet!" The lavender unicorn got up from her chair and raced off into the kitchen. And just expected Twilight found her little sister racing around in circles trying to find something to clean the mess up from off the floor. One of her favorite drinking glasses, broken. Meanwhile back in the circle. The mares listened in. Twinkle was asking for where the towels where again, "Where?" "In the cabinet next to you sweetie." Twilight replied. "I don't see them!" Twinkle called back. "Right in front of you." Twilight explained. "There aren't any!" Twinkle commented. "Just use a dish towel then." Twilight ordered. "I can't reach the sink!" Twinkle said. Just then they heard another glass break. "Oh no! Oh no! Twilight the juice is going underneath the fridge! "Oh great we're going to have ants." Twilight grunted. "Any pony want some more snicker doodles?" Zecora asked as she raised the pastry plate to the others, "Much tastier than a what they call a strudel."