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// 007 Innocence's Proposal 
// Story: The Life Returns 
// by Dress72 
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007
So arriving as a pony with Daddy, eating cake, flying, giant caves, weird dreams (But no weirder than what has happened to me), a place called Canterlot, and a prison. The prison is where Daddy and I are currently with seen other ponies, one of them is a princess, and Daddy is the only one in a cell.
“Hello Princess Celestia, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.” A blue pegasus with a rainbow mane wished to Daddy’s cell. I can only guess that this was Rainbow Dash. Looking at the group, I could guess two others right away, Pinkie Pie, because she is pink, and Celestia, as she had a crown on her head.
My dad talked to the blue pegasus briefly, and I could tell that he was a little uncomfortable with her around. He then called over Pinkie Pie, who, like my guess, was the pink pony, and told her something. Why my dad was uncomfortable, or as to why he told Pinkie something, I would not be able to guess. Soon, however, Daddy introduced me to them, “Everypony, I would like you all to meet my son, Red Wing. His birthday was yesterday.”
I took this as an opportunity to be polite, and reacted as such, “It’s nice to meet all of you, my name is Red Wing.”
The yellow and pink pegasus tackled me, and started nuzzling me. The force, despite being not that strong, knocked me over due to me being complete unprepared. “Oh, you are so adorable!” she had said. 
My dad then brought something to her attention, “Um, Fluttershy? You know what this looks like, right?” Fluttershy looked at her immediate surroundings, and realized that she was currently on top of me, and I was still on the bed. She blushed deeply before climbing off, and backing up.
“Oh, um… I-I-I’m terribly sorry, I, um… Oh dear, I didn’t mean to… I’m sorry.” My dad said my name, and I got the hint, and apologized.
My dad then asked what he was charged with, and why he was charged, only to get the answer that I guess he was expecting. He then said that the six ponies from Ponyville here, could help clear the accusations, however, they didn’t comply, and Celestia ended up not releasing Daddy.
“You guys are just big bullies!” I yelled at them.
“Jake!” Daddy yelled at me, and with my actual name instead of my pony name, which scared me a bit. “While that statement is true, I don’t want you to get in trouble or hurt for speaking things like that,” he continued. Daddy then gave me three instructions. To go home, to tell the people of Ponyville that he was not going to be able to continue lessons, and to enroll in school. I ran off after he finished his instructions.
As I passed through the top end of the staircase that led to the prison, I bumped into a guard. I looked up and saw that the guard I had bumped into, was the same one that took Daddy to the cell, Shining Armor. “I’m sorry Mr. Shining Armor, sir,” I said apologetically. I then tried to get around him, but he blocked my route.
“It’s ok, Red Wing was it?” he asked, and I nodded confirmation, “However, I am under orders to put anyone that comes up before Celestia, into holding. I’m sorry, but this applies to even you.” 
I was about to try to get past him, so I could continue Daddy’s instructions, but then remembered that he had told me about an hour ago, not to resist authority. “Okay Mr. Shining Armor.” I don’t think that he was expecting me to give in so quickly, because I could see the slight shock on his face.
“Come then,” He started to walk, and I followed him. We ended up going to a large house with a shield and two swords painted above the door. Inside, I found that it was decorated fairly lightly, one side had only a suit of armor, a fireplace, and a staircase. The other side had a book case, a night stand, a table, a couch, and two swords mounted above the bookcase. On that side of the room, I also saw a window behind the couch, but all you could see from it, was the wall of the building next to this one. “Make yourself comfortable. You must be hungry, so let me make us something to eat, then I will take you to see Princess Celestia.” 
Shining Armor then went up a small flight of stairs, and I went to sit on the couch. Well, more like lay rather than sit, but the point I’m trying to get across is that I rested on the couch. I watched the stairs after Shining Armor for maybe four minutes when the front door opened once again, and I looked at it. A pink pegasus with a horn, or is it a unicorn with wings? Either way, a pink whatever walked in, and spoke, not taking notice of me. “Shining Armor!” I could definitely tell that ‘it’ was a ‘she’ from her voice, “I heard that you are here currently, so I decided to pay you a surprise visit!”
Shining Armor walked back into the room, floating two plates, and two glasses of water before him, each with a sandwich on it, but one of them already had a bite out of it. “Cadance! It’s nice to see you. How are you?”
“I’m well. It seems that my surprise visit wasn’t such a surprise.” She teased, then nuzzled Shining Armor. She quickly broke the embrace and grabbed the unbitten sandwich with magic, and took a bite out of it. I looked at the sandwich that was just bitten, and realized that I was fairly hungry.
“Um, actually, it is a surprise, I had no idea that you were coming. And actually, that sandwich wasn’t for you.”
“Don’t tell me that you made yourself two sandwiches, Shining Armor.”
“No! One of them was for me!” I loudly protested, shocking the newcomer, and having both of them turn to me.
There was an awkward silence as I stared Cadance down for stealing my sandwich, and she stared back at me, still shocked by my presence. Cadance soon recovered, “I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there, nor was I expecting you here. I’ll make you another sandwich to replace this one, how does that sound?”
“But it won’t be the one that Shining Armor made for me!” I have been told before that my mind can sometimes briefly become like that of an adult, from my six year old one, when under certain circumstances. This was one of those times, and I was going to use it to its fullest to guilt trip Cadance. And the fact that I am six, allows me to get away with the childish behavior that I was about to use.
“I’m sorry, if you want, you can still have this one,” she offered.
“But you already took a bite out of it!” I protested.
“I’m sorry,” she said. And from what I could guess, she was feeling guiltier than before. “If you want, I can get Shining Armor to make you another one.”
“No! Because if he makes another one, then he would be making it to cover for your mistake rather than him making it just for me!” Sometimes I hate my brief clarity (calling it clarity because I’m just focusing intensely on one goal). Cadance got wise to my ploy when I mentioned the ‘covering for’ bit. I should have just said ‘then he would be making it for you’. Oh well.
Cadance broke the guilty stare, and looked at me knowingly. She then looked at Shining Armor and said in a quiet voice to him, “I didn’t know that you took up a foalsitting job. You must really need the bit to stand to deal with him." She thought that she had said it quietly enough that I couldn’t hear, but he didn’t.
“Hey! I can hear you, you know. And he’s not foalsitting me, I’m here because Princess Celestia told him to take anyone leaving the dungeons before her, into holding.” She had looked at me when I spoke, but now once again turned to Shining Armor, who just grinned defensively.
“Okay, two questions. First, why was he in the dungeons, and how could you follow that order with a…” she turned to me as she didn’t know my age.
“I’m six, my birthday was yesterday. I was in the prison because my Daddy is in jail because Princess Celestia is being a bully to him.” I said defiantly.
“I’ll make another sandwich,” Shining Armor said, slightly uncomfortable with the situation, and left.
“Oh Shining Armor, what am I going to do with you?” Cadance asked to no pony.
“Do you love him?” I asked because I had picked up on that vibe when she thought that she was alone with Shining Armor.
She looked at me, thought a bit, and then decided to answer, “Yes, yes I do.” Whether or she had thought to tell me the truth, or thought to confirm emotions, I don’t know.
“Then why don’t you marry him?” I asked innocently. Cadence had been taking a sip from one of the glasses of water that Shining Armor had brought, both of which had been previously untouched. When I asked that question, she did a most impressive spit take.
Cadance thought again when Shining Armor walked back in. Funny thing, Cadance. When thinking for extended times, she tends to do idle actions, like drinking water. “Shining Armor! Guess what!” I didn’t leave time for him to answer. “Cadance said that she wanted to marry you!” That was twice now that I have seen an impressive spit take today, and both within five minutes of each other.
“Really!” Shining Armor asked, excitedly.
I felt another of my ‘Clarity’ moments come on, and answered for Cadence before anything could be said by her, “Really! She was telling me all about how she loved you, and about what a great guy you are, and how she would love to spend the rest of her life with you.” Ah, revenge can be so fun sometimes. I mean, who takes a six year old’s sandwich? It’s just not cool man.
“Cadance, is this true?” Shining Armor asked her directly, ruining my fun.
There was a moment’s pause before she answered, “Part of it. I did tell this little foal, whose name I haven’t learned yet,”
I interrupted her, “My name is Red Wing.” I remembered to use my “Pony Name” instead of my actual name.
“Okay, I did tell Red Wing here that I love you, but the rest of that stuff, accurate as it might be, I never told him.” Cadance clarified on the situation, and I think Shining Armor missed the “Accurate as it might be” part.
“Wait, so you don’t love me?” he asked.
Cadance was about to say something when I poked her in the side, and rushed to Shining’s side and whispered in his ear, “You missed what she said. She said that even though she didn’t tell me that stuff, it was accurate, you big dummy. If you were going to propose, I think that she just dropped a colossal hint that she will say yes. So do it now, before you lose the opportunity.” I rushed back to the couch and sat silently, smiling, and saw that the pink pegasus unicorn was curious as to what I just said, and why I needed to poke her.
She didn’t have to wait long as Shining Armor knelt down, looked Cadance in the eyes, and said, “Cadance, I would love it if we could spend the rest of our lives together. Will you marry me?” Shining’s horn was aglow through half the speech, and on the last sentence, a small box, that had originated from somewhere on the bookcase, rushed past Cadance, and opened, revealing a ring.
“Oh Shining Armor, of course I will marry you,” she said, rushing to him and nuzzling him for a while.
I have been told, and I’m quite aware of it too, that I can be very mischievous when I’m either, not with Daddy, or not following any instructions that he gave me. This time, it got a pony to propose to another pony.