While a thunderstorm brews outside the Zephyr Heights palace walls, a teenage Zipp Storm reads her sister a bedtime story.

Featured on-site 10/6/2022 - 10/8/2022
Featured on EQD 10/24/2022
Live reading by StraightToThePointStudios

* Proofread by LevelDasher
* Cover art by ScribblePotato
* Inspired by scenes from TYT & MYM
* Takes place several years before the start of G5

Set in a time when all three pony kinds became friends without magic returning, Pipp is happily engaged to a famous unicorn pop singer named Presto Tetrachord. Ponies all over Equestria come together to watch the royal wedding. But seconds before the ceremony, Pipp, and Zipp find out via social media that Presto is having an affair. In her distress, Pipp sees earth pony, Sheriff Hitch holding a sign reading "Marry Me" and impulsively decides to marry him. Hitch is put on the spot with ponies watching in person or online, and so he goes onstage and marries Pipp.

Based on the 2022 rom com Marry Me.

The cover is my own artwork: Pitch Flirting by HAKDurbin on DeviantArt

Inspired by the fanart A Nap
By artist Renciel

With magic restored and unicorns and pegasi welcomed to Maretime Bay, Hitch decides that he should hire some more deputies to help around the town. However, his choice is something rather different. With a mountain of paperwork on his desk, he decides to have some company while he works.

Pipp requires assistance with preening before tonight's show, and mom insists that her sister helps. Unfortunately for Zipp, her sister's wings are usually highly sensitive.

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When Pipp is awoken in the middle of the night by some racket downstairs, she finds her sister is also awake. Something is clearly troubling Zipp, but Pipp is shocked to find out what it is.

Can she help her big sister overcome these doubts about herself?

(Takes place between Chapters 2 and 3 of MYM)

Opaline had stolen the cutie marks from half of Equestria and was rapidly conquering the rest. Even the fake alicorn Sunny Starscout and her minions were faltering before her. One more push would bring Opaline to her final victory.

Then she surrendered.

And even Opaline doesn’t know why.

She's sick. (It's amazing how often that happens.) Pipp can't control when she gets sick! (Or so she claims.) But yes, this time, the royal family sort of has a prior commitment. So Pipp really should show up this time, just to smile at the populace. Or rather, the smile can show up. It just needs somepony who can carry it in.

So when you look at it that way, this is all Zipp is being asked to do: wear a dark plastic shell over her own head for hours, in the middle of a power broker gathering, while her sister's face smiles out from the digital front panel.

Pipp really doesn't see any problems with this.

Yet.

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Only a few days have passed since magic's restoration and when it comes to the little things, Pipp is still trying to adjust. Minor details like 'all of Zephyr Heights still knows I couldn't really fly' and 'I went outside and the dirt got me.' The royal family's reputation still needs a touch of repair, and that's why her mother is considering whether to send the siblings away for a while. Just until the gossip cools down.

Zipp wants to go investigate the new. Pipp would like to have her status quo back, thank you very much. So they can really fly now? Why does that mean things have to change?

...and maybe she can also make... lightning? Electricity? As in 'that stuff which keeps my phone, and therefore me, alive'?

The new might have possibilities. Which includes an increased chance of exile.

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Zipp packs up her now-obsolete flight lab.

Out in the Bridlewood Forest lies a castle older than legends themselves.