//------------------------------// // Reasons // Story: My Little Caboose: Blue is Magic! // by DarkWing //------------------------------// "You're... a ghost?" Rainbow Dash asked skeptically. "No, that's just the easy way of explaining it." Church replied. "So what did you do then?" "Do you really want to know or are you just thinking out loud?" "A little bit from column a, a little bit from column b." "Then I'll just leave it as I solved the problem." Church said more harshly than he meant to. "Not much use going into any further detail." "Okay then. I didn't mean to offend you or anything so..." Rainbow Dash said. "Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound that way." Church said slowly. "Don't worry, Church is always angry." Tucker said. "Like when he is happy he is slightly less angry than usual. And when he is mildly annoyed he becomes this sort of mopey angry." "Fuck you. I'm not always angry." Church grunted. "See?" Tucker chuckled. "Mopey angry, right on cue." Church glared at Tucker for a few seconds before Twilight walked in front of him. "Let's teleport back to Sugar Cube Corner and pick up Spike." Twilight said. "We'll walk the rest of the way back to the library and we can relax." "Mind doing that for me too?" Church asked quickly. "I don't know if you've noticed, but my aim isn't the greatest and I would appreciate not ending up halfway through a wall." Twilight nodded and closed her eyes. Her horn glowed briefly and they reappeared in front of Sugar Cube Corner. "Thanks for getting me out of there." Church muttered. "Tucker was starting to get on my nerves." "I'm beginning to see why you two have a strained relationship." Twilight said. "Good to know I'm not just imagining it." Church chuckled. Twilight knocked on the door and Pinkie opened it with a big smile. "Heya Twilight!" "Hey Pinkie, we're here to pick up Spike then we'll be out of your hair." "You would have to be in my hair to get out of it first silly." Pinkie giggled. "Come on in." Twilight nodded and went in to the room being followed by Church. Church looked across the room and saw Caboose laying on the ground with a trail of crumbs around him. Church smiled loosely but quickly shook it off. "Where is Spike?" Twilight asked. "He was here a few seconds ago." Pinkie said with mild confusion. Before Twilight could call his name, they saw a small purple arm shoot out from under Caboose and wave violently. Church ran up to Caboose and pulled Spike out from under Caboose. "Thank... you..." Spike gasped. "How the hell did you get under him?" Church asked. "Well there was one cookie left and both of us wanted it so we kind of tried to take it from each other." "You know he is way bigger than you, right?" Church said, raising an eyebrow "Yeah but the cookie looked so good." Spike said, rubbing his belly. "I'll take your word for it." Church broke into a smile. "Can we go back home now?" Spike yawned. "I'm feeling really tired." Twilight nodded and walked up to Spike who quickly jumped on her back. "Thanks for looking after him Pinkie." "No problemo Twi!" Pinkie said. "I should probably get Boosey up too." "Keep him out of trouble." Church said. "Caboose could never cause trouble, just look at him." Pinkie said innocently. Church looked over at Caboose who gurgled happily as more crumbs fell off of his chest. "You're right, there is no way he could cause trouble." Church said sarcastically. "We should get going, we need to give Spike some rest." "But it's the middle of the day." Spike said quietly. "Alrighty." Pinkie said. "Come on Boosey, wake up." "But the ground is so comfy." Caboose yawned. Once Twilight, Church and Spike made their way back to the library, Twilight brought Spike to her room where he quickly dozed off. She came back downstairs to see Church sitting at the table, rubbing the back of his neck. "Spike must have been really tired, he fell asleep right when I put him to bed." Twilight said quietly. "He had a lot of sugar back there so he's probably just having a sugar crash." Church said quietly as he continued rubbing his neck. "Probably." Twilight said quietly. "Church I just want to say thank you for doing what you did." "Don't mention it." Church grunted dismissively. "No, I do need to mention it. I can't even begin to comprehend how much it must hurt you to have done that." "You know, even though that I haven't known you for long, I already see you as more of a friend than anybody else I've met. I'm not going to let her kill the only person that I can actually talk to without having to explain every damn thing as slowly as I can, because that would leave me with Caboose and Tucker again and that would fucking suck." "Well I'm glad you feel that way." Twilight said. "So, uh, do you mind telling me what you were going to the others places for?" Church asked. "Oh right, I nearly forgot." Twilight said. "My brother is getting married soon and I was wondering if you would want to come. It might even be a good thing to do given all that's happened in the past little while. It’ll allow us to unwind a little bit." Church shrugged slowly. "Weddings aren't exactly my thing." "Come on, what isn't there to love about weddings?" Twilight asked. "There's music, good friends, great food, fu-" "Tex and I were supposed to get married." Church interrupted quietly. "Sorry I didn't mean to bring her up." Twilight said with a frown. "I know." Church sighed. "I just wish I knew why forgetting her isn't an option." "Well you are the aspect of... the Alpha was it, that used to be his memory." Twilight said with a small laugh. "I can imagine it being difficult to forget things when that is who you are." "Yeah." Church replied simply. "Who is he getting married to?" "Kind of a silly question when you barely know anypony in this world." Twilight chuckled lightly. "That's true." Church chuckled with her. "Her name is Princess Mi Adore Cadenza." Twilight said. "Have you met her before?" "No, this is the first time I've heard of her." "Aren't you a little mad that you never even got to meet his fiance before he decided to marry her?" "A bit." Twilight admitted. "But it's going to be a royal wedding." "That sort of sounds like it would be a big deal." "It is." Twilight agreed. "It has been quite a while since there has been a royal wedding and I'm glad to be a part of it." "I know your brother is the one getting married, but what do you mean by a part of it?" Church asked. "Me and the other girls are going to be bridesmaids. That's what I went to go talk to them about. So are you interested in coming?" "Sounds good. Beats sitting around all day." "Great." Twilight said happily. "I assume the girls will ask the others as well." Church paused and shivered violently. "What is it Church?" Twilight asked. "I don't know, I just have a bad feeling about it." Church said.