//------------------------------// // An answer to a problem. // Story: Screaming Eag...Pegasi! // by mineturtle //------------------------------// It was another boring day in Ponyville. The sun was glaring thanks to the Princess and the clouds were in all the right places. Ditsy Doo was delivering the mail as usual and stopped at Twilight's house. "Why can't something happen already it's so boring today." Spoke Ditsy as she sat under Twilight's home for some shade. Lately the days have been going very slowly and Ditsy couldn't handle it. Ditzy was not a very adventurous mare but she enjoyed action as much as the next pony, so she was always happy when something happened. "Hey Derpy are you ok, you're not breaking anything are you?" Said a purple know-it-all-pony as she was leaving her home. "You're not going to burn my house down are you?" Giggled twilight. "My name is Ditsy and no I'm not going to burn down your house, I was just resti.." "Derpy stop mumbling nopony can understand what you're trying to say. Anyways I'm going up the hill to go look at the stars. I'm sure astronomy is to advanced for you Derpy so why am I telling you." Twilight was one of the ponies Ditsy disliked very much. She always acted as if she was the smartest in ponyville, sure she was Princess Celestia's star student but she didn't have to act like she does. Twilight, like every other pony called Ditsy Derpy, when she moved into Ponyville she met Ditsy by accident. It was a sunny day and Ditsy was admiring the local fauna she was told by her friend Carrot Top that there was a new pony in town, Ditsy being kind to everypony decided to give the new pony a muffing with a candle, as Ditsy was walking closer to the ponys house she noticed that there was a lonely raincloud on her home, so being as kind as she was decided to get rid of the cloud so she flew up and began to destroy the cloud. What she didn't know was that her candle has caught on fire and fell on the top of the tree. When the tree was ingulfed by flames Ditsy was horrified she then grabbed as much clouds she could find and made it precipitate on the house. When Twilight returned to her home she was greeted by a smoking home and a smute covered gray pegusis. She was angry but was quickly told by Rainbowdash that who she was looking at was the town's disappointment, Twilight quickly forgave Ditsy for her illness that she didn't have and was given a lollipop. Ditsy admired the stars, she has always found them fascinating. When Ditsy heard Twilight talk about the stars she quickly got up from her rump, gave Twilight her pleasure wand delivered from Manehatten and went straight to Dinky's school. Thankfully Twilight's home was the last delivery she needed so when she got to her daughters school they were already getting dismissed. Ditsy picked up her daughter, said her thank you's to the teacher and went straight home. "Mommy what are you doing and what are you going to do with your old telescope?" Asked the confused little filly. She has never seen her mom act like this before. "Dinky have I ever taken you to go see a meteore shower before?" Dinky was delighted to hear that her mother was going to take her out to go see the stars, but something was wrong Dinky was forgetting something that her teacher, Miss cheerali, told her she just shrugged it off and went with her mother outside. Ditsy and Dinky placed their astronomy quilt on the grass and waited for the day to reside and the night to arise. as the sun was lowering Ditsy hugged her daughter tightly and began to tell her how much she loved her. Dinky knew that her mother worked hard to keep her happy, she didn't need no special toys or any treats all she needed was her mother. The night arose thanks to the Princess of the night as was soon covered by glorious streams of light. Ditsy handed her telescope to Dinky and told her to make a wish. Ditsy too looked into the night sky she has never seen so much meteors at one time she was happy untill Dinky asked her a questian that she was dreading her whole life. "Mom can I ask you a question?" spoke Dinky as she stopped looking through the telescope. "Sure thing my little muffin." "Mom who's my dad?" Ditsy spat out her drink because couldn't believe what she just heard, she was never ready for that kind of question to come out. Why was Dinky thinking about that in the first place? "Why would you want to know that?" said Ditsy as she tried to fake a smile and was noticibly shaking. "Well as you know mom the school is going to talk about the family tree and I know all about your side of the family but I know nothing about my fathers side. So who is my dad? Was he super cool like you, was he a super hero is that why he isn't with us?" "Well uh well..... uhm... he was in the....." Ditsy couldn't think of anything at the moment she was to scared to say anything she didn't want her daughter to know that she is a bastard being born to only a mother to be known as a fatherless child. Thats when it hit her Ditsy knew that Dinky has just learned about wars so she thaught maybe if Dinky thaught her father was a war hero she wouldn't ask anymore questions. The plan was full proof, there was no way the plan could back fire. "Dinky your father was apart of a special corps in Princess Celestia's army. He was the best of the best he got medals everyday and he loved you very much." Disty couldn't holed back her smile. Dinky was buying the lie she didn't know her mother was lying to her, heck the less she knew about the truth the better. "Really! Thats so awsome! When will he come home then? If he's in the army they have to let him go sooner or later. Right mom right." the plan may have gone to well Dinky was now jumpy around saying her dad was a hero and that she will see him soon. Ditsy not realizing that she just made her daughter think her dad was coming on nodded and said yes unknowingly to every one of Dinky's questions. "So will dad come home soon." "Yes yes and he will hug you and..... wait a minute" Ditsy realized she told her daughter that her father was coming before Ditsy could fix her mistake Dinky yelled out her wish that her mother told her to make. "I WISH MY DAD WAS HERE RIGHT NOW!!" screamed out the happy little filly. "what have I done?" said Ditsy as she lowered her head, she then lifted her head after hearing what sounded like a screaming pony. She looked up to notice that one of the meteors was coming right at her and Dinky. "Dinky watch out!" yelled Ditsy as she jumped to her daughter pushing her away from the unknown falling object. Fire and dirt was thrown everywhere. When it all died down Ditsy got up to see what fell and made the huge crater what she saw baffled her what she saw. What she was a dark grey earth pony in a red trench coat wearing a helmet that covered his eyes. "Um mister are you ok? Are you hurt do you need help?" Ditsy was confused at first but was then worried, she didn't want nopony to be hurt and if he was the one who made the crater then he sure as hell would be in a world of hurt. "uhhhhhhhh" groaned the grey colt as he tried to move but failed. After a few more minutes of moaning and groaning the colt began to climb out of the whole. Ditsy walked closer not out of worry but of curiosity. She didn't know if anypony would have survive a fall like that let alone an earth pony. "Are you hurt do you need any help" she asked again but now in a more confident tone. "Yes I require some medical attention immediately!" said the colt as he stood up and then collapsed on the floor right in front of Ditsy. "Who are you?" Pondered Ditsy, but before she could come to conclusion Dinky jumped on top of the collapsed pony. "Dinky what are you doing get of of him!?" yelled Ditsy to her daughter who was smiling and crying at the same time. "He's here he's here. My wish came true mommy daddy came isn't that great?" Ditsy upon hearing the word Daddy was now more confused then ever. "Um Dinky whwhwhy are you saying that how do you know he's is your dad?" "Well when he was walking up I saw that he had abunch of medals and his helmat looked like the ones soldiers wear in the army come on mom if you wanted me to be surprised by making dad come then you did a great job" Ditsy just didn't know how to handle the situation she was at a stand still, in one hoof she could tell her the truth eventually crushing her daughters dreams in meating her real father or she could play along with Dinky and say this was her father. She went with the latter and told her that her father was visiting for a short time.