Never The Final Word (Vol. 1)

by horizon

PoweredByTea's "All A Dream" (Skywriter's "Martial Bliss")

Author's Note:

[Slice of Life]

This chapter is written by PoweredByTea. It is a continuation of Skywriter's Martial Bliss (1514 words, [Comedy] [Random]).

MARTIAL BLISS SPOILERS: This continuation tries to plausibly square with canon what's otherwise a goofy premise — that Shining Armor learned to throw his wife at Sombra from an old drill instructor because Wife Throwing is literally an Equestrian warfare skill. The story's a thin excuse for magnificently bad puns like the "Wifleman's Creed".

Shining Amour jerked bolt upright in his bed, his heart racing and his lungs sucking in as much air as they could take. Beside him, Cadence shifted under the blankets.

"Shining?" she asked softly into the pillow, obviously still half asleep. Even now, with no make-up on and drooling slightly onto the bedding, she was beautiful. She was also intelligent, kind and had a such zest for life that she made Shining feel more alive just by being in her presence. He was, he remarked to himself once again, an incredibly lucky colt. He wasn't quite sure what he had done to deserve her, but by the Sun and Stars he hoped whatever it was he was doing, he could keep doing it.

However, in the wake of the dream, a new thought wormed its way into his head, one that he knew would be impossible to shake. It was the kind of thought that, once considered, would return unbidden weeks or months later, probably quite randomly and at the oddest moments.

Was his beautiful, intelligent, kind wife also a suitably deadly projectile weapon?

"It's nothing dear," he said as he settled back into a comfortable sleeping position, "I just had a strange dream. Go back to sleep."

"Hummmmm," said Cadence unintelligibly, oblivious of everything. Beside her, Shining closed his eyes, yet after a few minutes he found he was unable to find sleep.

He did the only thing he could do.

He rolled over to get a better look at his wife and began to consider the question that had been thrust upon him.

Comments

[Skywriter]

Ah, yes, I remember this comment fondly.

[Georg]

"What's that, dear? Oh, I was just considering your aerodynamics. By the way, why is the bathroom scale stomped into wreckage?"

[Spectrumancer]

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"Honey, you look amazingly aerodynamic today."

This is now a compliment I am committed to using at least once in my life.

[PresentPerfect]

What?

Why?

[Fome]

Shame they couldn't work in a throne/thrown pun.