Sweetie Snail:
Chapter 2- Show and Tell:
Everypony had come back in from recess, and they were all eager to show their things for show and tell…even Sweetie Belle.
“So who’s this new friend you’re talkin bout showin us? I can’t wait to meet him, he sounds really cool from what ya told me and Scoots.” Said Applebloom in an eager tone of her voice.
“Oh he’s so cool! He was even nice enough to wake me up this morning. If it weren’t for him, I would have been late to school.” Replied Sweetie Belle.
“Oh wow, I wish I had somepony like that to wake me up.” Scootaloo added.
The chatter in the classroom died back down as they saw Cheerilee walk back into the room.
“Okay class, I think you all know what time it is now, so I will call each one of you up in an order I see fit. Let’s see here…” Cheerilee’s green eyes began to scan the classroom to get it started with a good intro to kick things off with.
“Featherweight, what about you? Seems like you and your older brother Snowflake worked on a little something from what you told me?”
Featherweight merely nodded, and made his way up to the front of the classroom.
“This better not be another one of those protein shake recipes your brother gave us last time.” Diamond Tiara said, putting up one of her hooves to lean on with her cheek.
Making the time go by, Sweetie Belle out of view from her friends, carefully brought out Snaily hidden within her desk.
“I just hope you can do something amazing for once, rather than just sit there and crawl around.” She whispered to it.
“Did you say something Sweetie Belle?” Scootaloo asked her friend curiously.
“Um…uh…wonderful weather we’re having?” she shrugged back to Scootaloo with an awkward looking smile.
“Sweetie Belle? It’s your turn now.” Cheerilee spoke up from the classroom’s mild applause from Button Mash’s new videogame he just got in the mail yesterday.
Quick as a flash she hides it in her mane, and makes her way up to the front of the classroom. Standing in front of the chalkboard, the class notices her remove something from her mane, still managing to keep it out of sight from Cheerilee.
“Oh man, what did I get myself into today?” Sweetie Belle thought to herself nervously, as she turned back around to the class with an awkward smile.
“Well? What are you waiting for Sweetie Belle? Go right ahead.” Cheerilee added.
“Um…well…this is, uh…”
“Don’t tell me your friend is invisible?” Diamond Tiara spoke up, causing a few of the classmates to snicker.
“That’s enough from you class…go on Sweetie Belle…I’d love to see what you have what for us.” Cheerilee assured her again.
“Okay then, if you insist…” Cheerilee then brings out the snail to show to the class, causing the colts to look at it in interest. The fillies however obviously “bleh” at the sight.
“G-ross Sweetie Belle, a snail?!” said Diamond Tiara, looking at the snail disgusted.
“Yeah, a snail?!” Silver Spoon added along with her.
“Um…is this er, your new friend Sweetie Belle, he-he?” Cheerilee smiled awkwardly, thinking it was strange for somepony like her to have such an odd friend.
“You know what, go ahead everypony, laugh! Laugh that I have a cool friend and you don’t! His name is Snaily though, and he’s the coolest…” Sweetie Belle then looks back at her friends for their reactions after that “coolest” term slipped out from her tongue.
“I mean he’s an awesome friend. He even woke me up this morning, if it weren’t for him, I would’ve been late to school today.” Sweetie Belle added, the classroom however seemed to now appear a bit interested in this simple snail after they heard it woke her up to get her to school.
“What? It…got you to school on time?” said Rumble in the back of the classroom.
“You bet, he even fixed me breakfast while my sister Rarity was still asleep.” She replied with a bit of a smile, thinking she was now starting to get the class intrigued by such a simple form of life.
“Um, Sweetie Belle…it’s just a snail though? How did it manage to fix your breakfast? It’s impossible for snails to do that.” said Cheerilee.
“Oh, but no this one Ms. Cheerilee…this one can do things you can’t even imagine…watch!”
Sweetie Belle then sets the snail down on the classroom floor to do something for her.
“Snaily, do a backflip!”
The snail ignored her completely, and proceeded to keep slithering along the floor in front of it.
“Booooring!” said Diamond Tiara.
“Diamond Tiara, I’m not going to repeat myself to the class.” Cheerilee hearing her, gave her a look of authority.
“Yes Ms. Cheerilee…my bad.”
“Thank you…Sweetie Belle, please continue with your, uh…friend.”
“Yes ma’am! I even saved the best for last…everypony leave the classroom!”
“Sweetie Belle, what are you talking abo-”
“I just want to try and see if that breakfast prepared for me was really Snaily or not. If he can make breakfast…” Sweetie Belle then walks to a potted plant and knocks it over.
“Sweetie Belle, stop this madness right this instant!” Cheerilee raised her voice at her.
“I’m actually kinda interested myself.”
“Me too Ms. Cheerilee!”
“Me three!”
Voice after voice in the classroom spoke up, mainly the colts though.
“Alright alright, calm down class, calm down.” Cheerilee sighed, as she gestured over to the exit of the building. She felt like Sweetie Belle had lost her marbles, as did Scootaloo and Applebloom too.
“This better be true you know, I’d hate for you to get in trouble after all.” Diamond Tiara walked by flipping her mane and snickering like she owned the place.
Sweetie Belle looks back at the snail sitting there in front of the chalkboard, as she makes her way out of the school building with the rest of the class.
“Come on Snaily, you made breakfast for me for goodness sakes. Rarity was asleep, there’s no way she made that and managed to sneak by me or something like that? I didn’t see her anyways.” She thought to herself, as the door shuts.
“Okay now Sweetie Belle, I’m going to have a talk with your sister dragging us out here like this. You have truly lost your mind young lady.” Said Cheerilee.
“Yeah…hate ta say it, but Ms. Cheerilee’s right ya know Sweetie Belle?” Applebloom adds.
“Yeah…same here.” Scootaloo added also.
“No everypony, I’m serious! Snaily really-”
She and the rest of the class was then startled by the sound of loud noises coming from within the building. It sounded like a variety of noises, like a giant cleaning machine or something was in there.
“Um, um…okay class, just stay together okay?” Cheerilee rose her voice assuring the class everything would be okay.
“AAAAAHHHH!!!! WE’RE GONNA DIIIIIE!” Button Mash yelled over the huge amounts of noise coming in within, as he tried to make a run for it, but stopped by Cheerilee grabbing ahold of him.
The noise then stopped, and most of the class was still a bit frightened by the sudden loud noises coming within the school building.
“Um…is it okay ta head back inside?” Applebloom asked.
“I suppose…but stay close children.”
Cheerilee was the first one to make her way back into class, and she was brought speechless at the sight presented in front of her.
“By Celestia…just…how did this…oh my…”
The rest of the class hearing what Cheerilee said then set off their curiosity, as they proceeded to then follow right behind her. They too were then stopped at the amazing site.
“Um…am I dead?” Button Mash spoke from the crowd.
The site was truly a physics-defying site to behold. Cheerilee hadn’t seen the classroom look this clean since her very first day of teaching here.
The CMC’s jaws dropped to the floor, for they couldn’t believe it either. Cheerilee’s desk along with the rest of the student desks were cleaned and shined to perfection. The windows sparkled, and appeared to even rival that of the beautiful windows seen within the royal castle in Canterlot. The wooden floor appeared to be mildly waxed and cleaned too. Out of all of this though, the broken potted plant was nowhere to be found but the garbage can. The chalkboard looked like it was brand new, not even a minuscule marking of chalk remained on it.
“Erm…Sweetie…Belle…” Cheerilee asked almost on the verge of speechless. Her eyes as big as dinner plates, her hoof pointed towards the site in a limp fashion, as her eyes were glued to the beautiful classroom.
“Yes Ms. Cheerilee?”
“You…er…have an, amazing…friend.”
Sweetie Belle walked further into the room, as the rest of them followed.
“Snaily! You did this didn’t you?!”
The snail obviously looking like he had remained in the same place ever since it was placed onto the floor.
“I…I think I need to go home now.” Cheerilee said, as she took her seat as her desk, still not believing what just happened.
“I think I am dead after all.” Button Mash added.
“Okay, class…um…bring out your history books to…page two-eleven…please.” Cheerilee spoke up, still trying to take everything in at the moment.
“I knew you could do it Snaily.” Said Sweetie Belle, as she put it back in her desk.
“S-some s-snail…” Scootaloo muttered out.
“Y-ya don’t say?” Applebloom replied, her face showing denial, and pure shock and awe at the site in front of her. Though she certainly wasn’t the only one feeling this way, but rather the entire class wouldn’t believe the site they saw.