Snips and Snails
The two best friends aimlessly walked down the streets of Canterlot in their tattered suits with no idea of how to get home as they didn't a single bit on them. It was only dumb luck that Latte having had collapsed in laughter last night gave them their meals for free.
Snips and Snails didn't let their situation get them down, after all things usually worked out for the two unicorns.
"Not the first time we've had a string of bad luck."
"Nope and look at this way, it can only get better from here." Snails replied with an odd sense of certainty as he gestured with his fore hooves in the air.
Little did the pair know that Karma tends to give as much as it takes and for the rotten string of bad luck they have received these last few years was about to be paid back in full.
It at that very moment that the universe began to right itself and out of the blue as if from some sort of cosmic Rube Goldberg machine two other unicorns' lives were about to change.
Meanwhile at The Circle C convenience store two scraggly looking disheveled con ponies formally known as The Fantastic Flim Flam brothers were grabbing a few things and by grabbing, I mean blatant shoplifting. Anyway, just as they were about to leave the store, Flim got a hair up his ass to buy a scratch off lottery ticket.
"Really, brother?"
"I got a feeling about this, besides when have I ever been wrong?" Fllim could see that his twin was about to object. "Don't answer that."
Levitating a bit from his saddle bag the elder brother bought his ticket and on his way through the parking lot he scratched the card off with his horn and gave it a quick look over.
"Hmmm... three apples to win the jackpot... let's see...." As he examined the card, Flam out of morbid curiosity looked over his brother's shoulder to see the results. Their eyes widened as on that card were three apples annotating that they had just won a metric shit ton of bits.
"Holy mother of Discord we just w--" Their celebration was short lived as at that very moment one of those new motorized carriages sped into the parking lot, side swiped the two of them the resulting draft carried their ticket away into the sky. No, they didn't die, they just got severely injured and would later go on a quest to right the wrongs they have committed throughout the course of their lives, but this isn't about them or a blatant rip off of a moderately successful sitcom.
Back to Snips and Snails' moment of retrospection
"...it can only get better from here."
No sooner had the gastropod marked young stallion uttered those words did a small card nail him square in the face.
"You okay, buddy?" Snips called out in concern for his best friend.
"Yeah, I'm fine... hey look a scratch off."
The stocky blue unicorn picked up the card from the ground and gave it a once over and again to make sure that he wasn't seeing things.
"Uh...ubbba, ubba...ehhh........." Snips' mind was trying desperately to reboot itself as a now very worried Snails' picked up the card and his own mind became stuck on repeat.
They were so distracted by this the current turn of events, that they didn't even notice the precarious situation happening above their heads.
At this moment fate decided to kick it up a notch as a shriek of terror was heard from just above their heads. Snails was soon met with a large weight that had descended upon his back which caused the lanky unicorn to barrel into Snips as they both fell to the ground.
"Umf." The two of them muttered in unison as they tried to get their bearings over what had just occurred not a few seconds ago.
Once the dust from the cobble stones had cleared the two friends were met with the sight of a blue, white and pink maned foal.
A couple of seconds later, a rather tall terrified unicorn mare appeared before the two colts.
"Oh, thank goodness! My baby's okay!" She shouted as she grasped the foal in her magic and nuzzled it. The mother and her filly were soon met by an equally worried looking monocle wearing stallion.
After their rejoicing the couple looked down at the two ponies that had inadvertently saved their child and promptly brought the pair in for an almost bone crushing hug.
"Thank you very much!" The presumably husband and wife shouted in unison as they continued their glomp assault.
"You're...wel..come..."
"Can't.....breath....air..." Snips’ face at this point as had turned a blueberry blue while his companion turned an odd shade of green from the lack of oxygen to their lungs.
Noticing that their saviors needed to live, the rich Canterlot super couple relinquished the two unicorns, dusted them off and let an uneasy sounding laugh in embarrassment. It didn't help their cause when a large crowd had formed to see what all the commotion was about as well as several photographers and one slightly overbearing police officer came into the mix.
During a few investigative questions, it was revealed that the pair: Fleur de Lis and Fancy Pants didn't get a chance to foal proof their new downtown home and said foal using that residual magic that all unicorn foals have, teleported on to the outside ledge.
Once the officer got enough for his report, the paparazzi got their fill of pictures and the crowd consisting mostly of the Canterlot Elite had voiced their disingenuous concerns for the foal and gratitude to the two young stallions, the five unicorns were left to themselves.
"Again, I and my wife thank you both from the bottom of hearts."
"Just happy to help."
"Yeah, uh what Snips said."
"Nonsense, we simply must do everything in our power to repay you."
To be honest ol' Snips and Snails were still bewildered over the events that had transpired within the last forty minutes of their lives. It was like going from starving to having a grand banquet in the blink of an eye. Part of them just assumed that they had just slipped and fallen at the diner and were sharing a joint hallucination, but brushed that thought aside remembering the pain of nailing the sidewalk.
"No really, it's fine."
"You just have to be thanked properly." Fleur implored them, because if there was one thing that she and her husband took seriously besides their marriage and their children, it would be their love for their fellow sentient creature. "Oh, I know! How about you two join our family for a pleasure cruise on our private airship? It truly is magnificent weather for balloon travel."
Their ears perked up at that suggestion as the friends hadn't eaten anything since after the prom and how often do you get invited to join one of the of most beloved families in all of Equestria for a awesome vacation?
After some false whispering in an attempt to play it cool the two teenagers turned their attention to the two ponies in front of them.
"We will accept your offer."
The rest of the day/week was truly everything that Fleur and Fancy had promised them as the airship traveled the air: beautiful scenery, decadent food, wonderful company and a destination to the Bahaymane Islands. It also didn't hurt that the two teens would be old enough to cash in their ticket in a few months.