Prologue
Smarty Family
Prologue
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Twilight sighed as she finished putting the last of her supplies away, a giddy smile on her face.
Things had been going well for a while now. Tirek had been defeated, they’d stopped Starlight Glimmer and her castle now was feeling like a home.
It seemed things were finely going to be just fine.
A sudden pounding on the front doors caused Twilight to look up, surprised. She wasn’t expecting any visitors today and Spike was off gem hunting with Rarity. Not to mention, for the knocking to be that loud from where she was, whomever was knocking had to be hitting the door with a lot of force.
Nopony would be using a heap of force just to knock unless... Oh no. Unless there was trouble. And, as a princess of Equestria and as a decent pony, she was obligated to go and see what was wrong.
Trotting downstairs, she reached her doors in no time and opened them with her magic, causing an orange farm pony she knew very well to tumble through, having been in the motion of bringing her hooves down on the door again when it opened.
“Applejack?” Twilight gaped for a moment, before hurrying over and helping her friend up.
“Thanks, sugarcube,” she said once she was on her hooves again.
“Sure,” Twilight smiled, before it faded as she remembered why she’d opened the door for the farm mare in the first place. “Applejack, what’s wrong? Why were you banging on my doors so insistently?”
Applejack paused for a moment, before her face feel and she grabbed the Alicorn by her shoulders and vigorously shaking her. “Twilight, it’s terrible. Ah need yer help!”
“Su-u-ure,” the lavender mare said as she was shaken about.
Applejack stopped, giving Twilight time to recover from the world spinning and shook her head to fully clear it. “What can I do to help?”
She blinked. Applejack was already barreling down the road, back towards Sweet Apple Acres.
Frowning, Twilight ran after her friend, catching up in a matter of minutes. “Applejack, what’s going on?” she asked as they bolted through Ponvyille, ponies jumping left and right and even into the air just avoid the two mares bulldozing their way through town.
“It’s Big Mac!” Applejack said as she leaped over Carrot Top and her daughter, Dinky Doo. “He’s in the worst state Ah’ve ever seen ’im in. He wasn’t even this bad after what happened t’ our parents.”
Twilight’s eyes widened. If Big Macintosh was in a state worse than one is when they lost their parents, this really was bad.
“Just what’s happened?” she demanded as they shot through Town Square, the Alicorn using her wings to avoid hitting the fountain by going over it.
“He’s in the worst shape, ever, Twi,” Applejack said, her eyes straight ahead, focused on the farm in the distance. “He’s not eating, he barely sleeps anymore. He ain’t able t’ work on the farm atall.”
Twilight gulped. If Big Mac wasn’t even up to working, something she knew he did to get his mind off things whenever they were troubling him, this was worse than she’d previously previously thought.
“All he does all day is lay in bed, cryin’ clutchin’ ont’ that doll.”
Applejack’s words caused Twilight to freeze, her hooves burying into the ground as she came skidding to a stop. “Doll?”
Applejack stopped too, just a few metres from the farm gate. “Twi?”
“When did this start?” Twilight demanded, her expression one of firmness and horror at the same time.
Applejack thought for a moment, before sighing. “Right after the day Granny told me that a filly callin’ herself Smarty Pants came by saying Mac was ’er daddy. Ain’t that the name o’ yer old doll? Can ya imagine...?” her joking tone trailed off from the expression on the Alicorn’s face. “Twilight?”
Twilight, for her part, was trapped in a horrified mental lock-down as the pieces fell into place in her mind. The day Applejack was talking about had been the day she’d accidentally animated her old Smarty Pants doll. It had called her Mommy and Big Mac daddy.
She had asked Mac to watch over her until the spell wore off, which would’ve been around midnight. If Mac had become as much of a wreck as AJ was saying after that, and he was worse off than when their parents had died, that meant...
“Oh, Celestia,” she shut her eyes. “How could I be so stupid?!”
“Come again?” the orange mare looked worriedly at her friend.
Twilight shook her head frantically. “No. No, no, no-no-no! I... I have to fix this, but... I could never cast a spell strong enough to make it last, even now. It’s not meant to last.” She sat on her haunches, burying her face in her hooves. “What am I gonna do?”
“Uh, Twi?” the farm mare was feeling very confused now.
“I can’t do it,” Twilight muttered, shaking her head. “To pull of that kind of magic would be impossible. The only way it could work is if it didn’t make sense. I’d need—” She stopped, her eyes widening, before she drooped her head, her eyes closed. “I don’t have a choice in this. He’s the only one who can help.”
Before Applejack could ask what Twilight was going on about, the Alicorn’s horn shone brightly. There was a flash of light and Discord appeared, sitting at a table, drinking some tea.
He blinked, before raising an eyebrow. “Really, Twilight? I know we’re truly friends now, but what did I say last time about giving me some warning before summoning me like that?”
Twilight looked at him with pleading eyes. “Discord, I’m begging you. I need your help.”
Both Applejack and the dragonequus were stunned, open-mouthed at the desperation in Twilight’s voice, as well as the tears that had started forming.
Discord got a hold of himself (literally, he grabbed his tail to yank himself into a standing position) and nodded, smiling kindly to the purple mare. “Of course, Twilight. What do you need?”
Twilight lit her horn and, in a flash of light, they all appeared in Big Macintosh’s room.
The sight they saw broke all three of their hearts. The room was a wreck, papers and things scattered all over. The red stallion was lying on his bed, not even taking notice of the two ponies and one dragonequus who had suddenly appeared in his room. He instead continued to hold the stuffed animal tightly to his chest, his body, which Twilight noted was alarmingly thin compared to Mac's usual mass, though still reasonable for any ordinary stallion, racked with sobs as his tears soaked the bed.
Discord looked to Twilight, and eyebrow raised. “What’s gotten into him?”
Twilight looked sadly at the sobbing stallion, then closed her eyes. “Can you help me make an animation spell permanent?”
Discord looked confused for a moment, before he looked at saw how tightly Mac was holding onto the doll. Closing his own eyes, he nodded.
“Okay, then,” Twilight said quietly, lighting her horn. There was a flash of light, followed immediately by the sound of Discord snapping his talon’s.
For a moment, all that was heard were the sounds of the stallion’s continued sobs. They were broken however, by the sound of new sobs, higher pitched and quieter.
Big Mac gasped, lifting his head up and looking down. Held within his forelegs, clinging to his chest, was a small grey filly with a ragged mane, tears streaming down her face as she sobbed into his fur.
Mac looked up, his shock doubling when he saw the three guests in his room.
Twilight looked to Discord with tired eyes and nodded, smiling wearily. “Thank you.”
He smiled back, nodded and disappeared with a pop.
Mac looked from Twilight to AJ, the latter of whom was staring dumbfounded at the filly held in Mac’s embrace.
“It’s permanent this time,” Twilight said, her voice sounding as tired as her eyes looked. “She’s yours now, Mac. Be a good father to her.”
Mac stared for several more moments at the Alicorn, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief, before they softened and he brought his head back down and cradled the filly in his care.
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YES!!!
I admit, I like the basis of this story. It just feels a bit rushed in places. If it were fleshed out more, the end result would be better. This seems more like a proof of concept that would be used as a basis for writing a story.
oh god, just found the prequel a few days ago and now here is a sequel *-*
I already like the start even that it feels a bit rushed and could be longer and more detailed.
I really hope for a nice and cute story from here on ^^
How many new stories are you going to upload? In the past week alone you published like five.
I look forward to what happens from here.
Does feel a little rushed and I would have like to see this stretched out a little but overall still good.
This story was beautiful, if feeling a bit rushed. Twilight's emotions ride too high too quickly, and she tired out fairly fast. Still, it was a beautiful read, with a satisfying end.
6325424 How do you know what i wrote in a PM to another author? Hm?
6326452 He told me. how else would I know?
So this is a multi-part as a sequel to the one-shot correct?
6326452 Why are you deleting comments now?
6326452 D'awwwww!....
Guess who's gonna have to teach Smarty Pants about getting her cutie mark and showing her around school?!? Her aunt!
6328264 wait. you didn't delete your comment? I thought you did. That's weird. I didn't delete any comments
6327322 yes.
...You told the entire story in the synopsis.
too deus ex machina :B
More chapters please
You must continue this, that filly on the cover art is too damn cute for you to not continue this
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6379842 If it were the ending, yes. For a premise... not so much.
More!!!
Oh, man, this is good! When will there be a sequel?
That was sweet even if threre's no more.
6326025
you'd tire out pretty quickly too if you had to give full life, bodily functions, a nervous system and organs and sentience to an inanimate doll