Day 10, Part 2
Outside, clinging to the tower just below the window, Clover the Clever watched the two ponies wrestle. In her heart, Clover was cheering loudly for Uncle Swirly, it was about time the purple one was put in her place. Clover’s face spread in a vicious grin as Uncle Swirly ended up on top, pinning the purple pony beneath him. A moment passed, Clover furrowed her brow, why wasn’t he punching her in the face?
Clover’s eyes went wide with a sudden horrible thought; What if they weren’t actually fighting? But rather, playing a game? Fury filled the little filly. It would be just like the purple one. Always trying to make Uncle Swirly pay attention to her. Clover snarled, just who does this hussy think she is? Trying to be all cuddly with HER Uncle.
Deciding she needed to get a better view, she climbed up next to the window and leaned her head into it. What she saw almost made her lose her grip on the stones, which would have resulted in her plummeting all the way down to the ground, a distance of at least fifty solar.
The purple one HAD WINGS! Clover couldn't believe it. The strumpet had somehow managed to turn herself into an alicorn. That wasn’t supposed to be possible, Celestia had said so herself! She wouldn't lie, not to her most secret and special agent, right? Clover growled deep in her throat. She and Celestia would have words later. For now, Clover really wanted to know how the purple one had done it. For if somepony deserved to be an alicorn, it was Clover the Clever.
Inside the tower, Uncle Swirly held up a blood filled syringe. “I can’t wait to study it in detail!” he said eagerly. “To think, alicorn magic finally within my reach.”
The purple one seemed confused at this, “What do you mean ‘finally’? Couldn't you just get some from Princess Celestia or Princess Luna?”
“They always refused, and kept going on about how it was ‘forbidden’ and more ‘dangerous’ than I could possibly know,” the older unicorn said with a huff. “Complete jibber jabber if you ask me. They are most likely just afraid of the needle, like you.”
Clover’s golden eyes locked on the small syringe. The secret was in there, she had heard enough to be certain of that. Too bad she probably wouldn't be able to get her hooves on it, Uncle Swirly had grown quite adept at protecting his more valuable possessions from her. No, she would most likely have to get her own sample. Clover’s eyes glittered as they slid over to the alicorn.
Suddenly she was enveloped by a blue glow and forcibly janked from the wall. Clover let out a squeal and paddled desperately in the air. Realizing she was simply hovering over the windowsill, she stopped.
“Just what kind of demon are you?” Uncle Swirly asked before peering past her, down at the ground. “You actually managed to climb all the way up here? No wonder you have been able to get into my tower.”
Clover flung her forehooves wide and gave him her very best smile, “Congratulations! You caught me! You win one free hug!”
He looked at her deadpan, “Give me one good reason why I shouldn't toss you out the window right now.”
She hesitated, before giving a sheepish smile, “Because you love me?”
Clover felt herself accelerated hard backwards, and then she was flying through the warm afternoon air, screaming her lungs out.
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Twilight gaped at the window where Starswirl had just magically launched a small filly to her certain death.
Starswirl, noticing her reaction, rolled his eyes. “She will be fine.”
“She will?” Twilight asked, sounding doubtful.
“Yes, she will. I once told her mother that if I caught Clover in my tower again, I would toss her out the nearest window. Guess what she did? She taught the little monster a spell for soft landings!”
Well, at least she knows to have soft landings...
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LOL nice update
Yeah I see Clover getting in there and stealing the wrong vial... And getting pure pie.
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Sure I am in for perks -- follows.
>Twilight blood sample
>3 chapters of shenanigans
And that's how chimera, Discord, and manticore were made!
Nice. You should had expanded the wrestling scene tho. It had more potential.
I shall cash that in now, thnx!
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Wow, Starswirl. You're quite hardcore. And I'm not sure which one of you is worse, you or Clover's mother... xD
4683162 *hugs*
I have to say, I was iffy about this story at first when I saw how crazy short each chapter was, but you are doing a good job of cramming a lot of fun into each tiny short.
4683275 true.
Is that a Game of Thrones reference or am I just a bad man?
4683271 That sums up my feelings about this story pretty well too.
4683237 I don't know whether Clover's mom is an awesome parent or a horrible one. Starswirl is just a guy who wants to be left alone.
4683437 She might be both. Somehow. I guess that depends on your point of view xD
Will you have Twilight prophesy Nightmare Moon's return? It would seem fitting.
Well that singlehandedly destroyed the image of Clover the Clever in my head. She'd still grow up clever, I guess, but not in the way I thought she would.
A fun story sir!
Strumpet... Gods, I love the English language.
Strange, they both have the common goal of annoying the crap out of Starswirl. It seems to me that they ought to be allies, not enemies....
Clover the Clever... A clever b_ _ _ h apparently, and if I'm reading between the lines correctly, the clover part of her name means she's lucky.
Clever, and lucky in her clever plans... You're doomed for failure Starswirl.
...Did no one else notice Clover saying she was an agent working for Celestia? That is a pretty big thing. I mean, now she is going to tell Celestia that there is another alicorn. That ought to make for an interesting conversation.
She'll take pinkie's blood sample and make Discord by mistake.
Man, Clover is so hilariously awful, and I wouldn't change a thing about her.
4679049 *Goes further back in time to clone himself in the Mirror Pool and have the clone fight you as a distraction*
Clover reminds me of batman
Ah, how I long for the good old days... when you could just toss small children out of windows when they annoyed you.
Good times.
I am starting to think that Clover is going to do something really really dumb and end up turning into Chrysalis ...
4685204 *Geas back to the mirror pool incedent with a tank and blows the $#!+ out of both you and the clone*
4685204 *Goes Forward(ish) in time and kills your mother while she's pregnant with you*
4688977 *Alondro wonders why you cast a geas upon the mirror pool. Your grammatical error results in temporal bisection, resulting in a separate reality where Alondro still lives!*
4689010 *Alondro is far older than you realize! He still lives! And he goes FURTHER back in time and implants his genetic sequence into THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE!! No matter what, ALONDRO ALWAYS LIVES!! MUWAH HA HA HA HA!!*
4689998 *Goes back in time and eradicates the human race before it evolves*
We are now fish people.
4690026 *goes further back in time and destroys eukaryotic life!*
We are now all bacterial colonies.
4690073 *Goes back to before god had to throw the devil into hell and convinces god that if the devil screws the pooch, he should make him the first human*
We are all... Angels? WHAT HAS SCIENCE DOOOONE!?!
4690091 So this means "You're just an angel in disguise"?
I'm so friggin' old to know this...
I predate sand.
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Are you... Hitting on me?
4690177 You mean like Frieze was hitting on Goku?
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Just what a zoophobic human would say. Though, I must admit that when "handle it" becomes "hoofle it" not even I could argue the point.
Well this is interesting.
U almost ready 2 continue?
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It will be out shortly, I just need to add a really sweet cliffhanger, and proofread it.
...I'm going to go ahead and guess that Clover is the ancestor of either Trixie or Sunset Shimmer. Possibly both
Clover the climber? I've sometimes wondered just how strong the magical gripping force of an MLP pony's hoof might be. Seeing that the mane six walked up a steep mountainside in dragonshy, it must be pretty strong. Maybe a few ponies can actually walk up a vertical surface?