Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Howl of the Cutie,
part 3
[After School]
Spike pondered as Applebloom and her friend Twist walked ahead of him. This had been an interesting first day
“Seriously can't she come up with somethin else tah pick on instead of our not having a cutie mark?” Applebloom grumbled.
“Low hanging fruit.” Spike offered, Twist looked confused though Applebloom nodded.
“Means easy target.” Applebloom sighed.”Doesn't mean ah like it.”
“She always goes phor what we're sensitive about.” Twist added.
“Yeah I saw with that note. Not very imaginative is she?” Spike shrugged.
“She gets worse.” Applebloom sighed.
Spike shrugged wondering about how he could deal with this. He didn't want anything to say to any pony. If Twilight heard about it she would have a fit if she found there was a bully in school. If Rahs found out they would probably find Diamond Tiara buried in a dumpster somewhere. He was curious why Cheerilee didn't do anything at first, though with who Diamond Tiara's father was it was understandable the teacher might be leery about making the foal mad. Nothing might happen, or Filthy Rich might make her life more difficult. Spike had never met him so he didn't know if he was a Prince type noble, or a Jet Set type noble.
In any case he felt bad for Applebloom and Twist who seemed to be the primary target of the annoying filly simply for not having cutie marks yet. Despite the lesson Spike didn't really see the big deal. Sure it was neat that a cutie mark could tell you what you were good at, but at the same time you could tell that yourself just by what you liked doing or were practiced at. He was actually rather glad Dragons didn't get cutie marks, being tied to a single destiny sounded dull. Though Twilight seemed to make it work for herself, and he wasn't sure what Rarity's mark had to do with dresses. Heck even Cheerilee's mark could be looked at a bunch of different ways. It was clear to any one not obsessing over their marks that the mark didn't make the pony.
Of course Applebloom and Twist were in the former category of obsessing, more Applebloom than Twist, but still. He doubted telling them not to worry about it would do anything. The filly was usually pretty level headed unless it came to cutie marks.
“I don't even know why we had to sit through that boring lesson about getting a cutie mark. I mean waiting for your cutie mark is so last week.” Diamond Tiara stated rather loudly as she and her friend Silver Spoon zeroed in on Twist, Spike, and Applebloom as they walked away from the school house.” I mean you got yours I’ve got mine...everypony has them... oh wait... almost all of us have them already.”
Spike rolled his eyes as Twist looked annoyed and Applebloom looked even more depressed at the pink filly’s words.
“Seriously why are you even bragging about having a comb as a cutie mark?” Spike questioned, just deciding to let his mouth go and see what happened. At the very least it would bring the bullies attention to him and off his new friends.
“It's not a comb it's crown!” Diamond Tiara snapped.
“ Yeah I can see that it's not a comb. Maybe a bunch of bouncing super balls, but not a comb.”
“Crown!”
“I don't see a crown. Crowns are round and spiky or look like the things on checkers. The Royal crowns are only three points one tall and a couple shorter. I ate one of them when I was younger so I know.” Spike shrugged.” At best that's a fancy headband. What does it even mean any way. Are you a jeweler?”
“IT'S A CROWN!!” Diamond Tiara screamed out.” And it means that I’m destined to be royalty!”
“Yeah I don't think Princess Celestia or Princess Luna are gonna need any more royals around. Princess Luna wants to whittle down the houses last I heard. Probably better to just be a jeweler, like your mark says.” Spike offered.
“Oh what would you know about the Princesses!” Diamond Tiara snorted.” You're just a Dragon...”
“Princess Cadence was my foal sitter, Princess Celestia was one of my tutors back in Canterlot, and Princess Luna still owes me ten bits for a bet she lost.” Spike responded.
“A bet?” Applebloom asked.
“Yeah she came by after that thing with the bugs to talk to Rahs though he was out hunting and Twilight was asleep at her desk. I bet her that I could stack twenty books on Twilight's head before she woke up. Joke was on her, my record is forty two.”
“That is completely absurd!” Diamond Tiara.
“ Are you calling me a liar?” Spike asked raising an eyebrow.
“Well, you're not big enough to be a harp.” Pinkie Pie stated suddenly popping up behind the group.
“GAH!!!!” the collected foals cried out at the mares sudden appearance and Spike fell over onto his tail trying to whip around, though Pinkie Pie didn't seem to notice.
“ Hi hi hi!!” Pinkie Pie continued, looming over Diamond Tiara. “Just the filly I was looking for.”
“ Umm okay...” Diamond Tiara blinked...” Why?”
“Cause I was supposed to let you know that everything’s set up for your super duper cutie cena party . It's gonna be awesome!” Pinkie Pie bounced about, pausing only to look at Diamond Tiara's cutie mark. “ What is your cutie mark any way ? Looks like one of those pictures in the scinecey books showing half of a elliptical orbit graph.”
“It's a crown!” Diamond Tiara shouted.
“Okie Doki Loki if you say so. See you Saturday DT!” Pinkie chimed up and pronked off leaving the fillies and Spike more than a little confused.
“Does any one get used to that?” Spike asked pointing at Pinkie as Applebloom and Twist shook their heads.
“Any way before I was so rudely interrupted.” Diamond Tiara started again.
“You were trying to defend how yer cutie mark isn't a super ball?” Spike asked.
“Yes... I mean no... IT'S A CROWN!!!” Diamond Tiara shouted again before snorting and storming off.
“What she means is that despite not having your cutie marks you are still invited to her cutie cena.” Silver Spoon added before running off with her friend.
“Cool a party.” Spike smirked.
“Seriously yer gonna go?” Applebloom asked in shock.
“Why not, free food is free food.” Spike shrugged heading off for home himself. “I'll see you guys tomorrow then.”
Applebloom tilted her head trying to understand how free food won out over getting picked on.
“Boys...” Twist sighed.
[ a day later]
“ Soo let me get this straight.” Spike stated from where he lounged flipping through a comic book. “ Applejack banned you from selling apples in the market...”
“Pretty much....she said ah made a grown stallion cry...”
“Twist got her cutie mark.” Spike continued.
“Yeah it's a candy cane heart thing. Shoulda figured she'd git something in candy making. She loves doing that.” Applebloom sighed rocking herself on the bean bag chair in the foals section of the library. Spike sat at the small table on a chair having ruptured one of the bags with his spines he was now banned from sitting on them though he was kicked back with his feet on the small table.
“So your next big idea was to have Rainbow Dash train a cutie mark into you?” Spike questioned.
“Yeah , ah musta done a hundred things in an hour.....” Applebloom muttered. “ Ah'm still bruised.”
“Then you were convinced by Pinkie Pie to make cupcakes?” Spike asked.
“Yep she had a song an everything.”
“How did that go?”
“Well... least ah didn't burn tha place down......” Applebloom bemoaned.
“Then you had Twilight try to magic you a cutie mark?” Spike blinked looking at his friend.
“Yeah..... she couldn't do it.”
“So then you came here why?”
“Tah see if there was a book that might have somethin... but then ah figured Twilight woulda read it by now so ah got no clue what to do now.” Applebloom whined.
“Simple, we go to the party, eat free food and go home.” Spike stated standing up. “It's time to head over there you know.”
“What nao?!” Applebloom yelped.
“Yep “Spike stated, wondering if he was going to have to drag his friend along.
[Many hours later ]
Twilight sat at the kitchen table with Rahs standing next to her, both of them were looking over at the soot covered, tree sap soaked mess that was their younger brother.
“So let me get this straight....” Twilight stated. “You went to the party with Applebloom.”
“Yes, you were there.”Spike commented.
“I was trying not to freak out at a party. With Pinkie as my friend I am trying to get used to it.” Twilight sighed.
“You did pretty well.” Spike claimed.
“Woof.” Rahs asked.
“Right Applebloom spent the whole party trying to escape once Diamond Tiara got there.” Spike shrugged.” I also found out that Silver Spoon's heir to a tea leaf empire. Her cutie mark has to do with some fancy tea ceremony. It's kinda neat that her family supplies most of Celestia's teas.”
“While that is interesting, you're getting off topic.” Twilight stopped him.
“Right, anyway Diamond Tiara decided to try and tease Applebloom for being a blank flank after she got caught trying to escape. After which two other fillies without cutie marks showed up and and argued in Applebloom's favor before all three of them ran out to try and get their cutie marks.
Rahs' ears perked up as Spike sighed.
“Yes, Applebloom drug me along too. No, I don't know how they made the duck pond explode. Yes, I am certain we did not go near any trees, and no I am not sure where Bon Bon's left eyebrow went.”
“Answered that one a few times already huh?” Twilight smirked. “Why were they at the duck pond any way?”
“Paddle boat cutie marks.” Spike offered. “Can i go clean up now?”
“Sure.” Twilight offered ,” Just try to be more careful when you're hanging out with those three next time.”
Spike wobbled in the chair a bit not able to get up. Rahs reached over and tilted the chair forward to that Spike could get his feet under himself before he waddled off to take a shower, the seat still stuck to his rear.
“ How bad was it?”
“Bark.”
“Just the pond and one paddle boat. Well that's a better record than Snips and Snails had with him, the tree sap is new though.” Twilight shrugged. “Rarity's sister, Applejack's sister and Fireball's niece. Interesting group.”
“Bork?”
“Nah I’m not worried about it. Spike'll be fine. One accident isn't bad, ”Twilight sighed.”Besides they're only three little fillies, how much damage could they conceivably do?
uh... that last line there... i think they're singing ,murphy' song
Oh Twilight. You'll find out.
Dunn Dunn Duuh 〰
Famous last words Twilight
lol
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she said da words. Ponyvillle iz doomed oAo *screams and runs*
Hiya Murphy!
Saying Monster Hunter World takes up a lot of time is like saying water is wet. Granted I've only put in 80 hours so far and that would be higher if I didn't have this pesky thing known as a job.
I have a feeling Spike is going to need a lot of baths in the future.
Rule #1: Do not tempt fate.
Rule #2: DO NOT TEMPT FATE!
you have no idea twilight what those 3 can do
Oh gods Twilight WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO AND ASK THAT?!?!
(Not that it would make any difference, but still.)
So, "Fireball's niece" for Scootaloo? are you using the now cannon thing of her living with her lesbian aunt?
Hello Murphy my old friend, I have come to talk with you again
Pretty sure it's called something with a "~" over an "n" and vaguely Mexican-sounding, though I can't for the life of me remember how to actually spell it.
Yes it does world is so fun love this story to
... stupid pc release dates...
Thus begin the legend of the disaster spawns of Ponyville, also known as the CMCs.
Something about Duck Ponds exploding? Sounds like a cross-source fanfiction reference if I ever heard one.
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Cute-ceañera is the phrase you are looking for. It is a play on the term quinceañera or a time when Latin Americans celebrate a girls fifteenth birthday.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS DOG TRAINIERS! YAY!
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"MURPHY!"
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What do you mean Monster Hunter takes up alot of time? It only takes up a casual 400 hours
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No i'm still using my head
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canon for her. It's one of the few things from SiS i'm not changing. I absolutely HATE the scootaloo is an orphan trope.
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Nah it was just the first thing to pop into my head.
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"Bork!"
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A day... i've got over a hundred.......
Uh well spoiled rich was thw one with the purse strings in the school board. Filthy rich is funny enough the good parent even if he did nothing about the bully thing. He may be a good businessman. But he needs more parental skills
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Huzza , someone who agrees with me on the Scootaloo thing
Who’s Fireball?
>Invite classmate to your party just so you can pick on them and make them cry
Huh. Looks to me like they have enough ammunition right there to use against DT. Just promot her to explain her actions until she's dug herself a hole she can't climb out of. Theres not much she can do if she publicly admits she hates ponies who've never done anything to her, and that she both enjoys and deems it permissable to go out of her way to hurt them emotionally.
And his name is JOHN CENA! *doo do do doooo*
I don't know. How much could they possibly do? Maybe destroy the entire town if they had the chance
I don't know. How much could they possibly do? Maybe destroy the entire town if they had the chance
Oh, Twilight, you poor naive pony. You will soon learn exactly how much damage those fillies can cause.
Celestia have mercy on your soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTRJQfV90k
8742377 I copy pasted the word into google to see what it meant and I got the "did you mean 'insert word here' " message. It seems you were off by just a few letters, according to google anyway.
Time well spent though.
I really like the addition of Rachs to the Twi and Spike dynamic, buuuuuut....
After the first chapters the story is far too similar to the show. I find myself skipping tons of text just to get to the new parts. Bummer that, could have been another hit if it did not follow so closely to cannon material.
Oh you have no idea what you just called upon yourself Twi. Hehehe
He has a point...
*Takes a deep calming breath before turning around and running as FAR away as he can get before Merphy's Horseshoe hits Ponyville at superluminal speeds.*
8739609 It's at this moment, Twilight fucked up equestria forever.
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Oh you poor thing Twilight. If only you knew.
Who’s Fireball?
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This shall be answered.. well later.... actually not too much later. Also if you read SiS you won't know the name, but you'll know the parents. I'm sticking to that ship/ family period.
Hmm...should that be "He didn't want to say anything to anypony?" and anything's evil clone tried to kill the original?
...She's not wrong
"I'll just go on one hunt to get that one item i need" i said, then, there i am four hours later wondering where the time went, and thinking "just one more hunt, it will be fine"
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More like 6 hunts without the part i need
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Dude, same. I was supposed to go for a quick material run, and a few hours later I was still trying to find and kill an Anjanath. I went looking for a Pukei and instead decided it would be a great idea to fight an Anjanath. I got insta-killed while trying to get away, and it pissed me off to the point I made it my mission to kill it.
I never managed to kill it.
thou hast incited the wrath of the Great and Powerful Murphy! May blue lightning be the worst of your troubles.
Well at lest she only invoked Murphy’s Law with that line. If twilight had said something along the line of “ I cann’t see how that could have been worse” the univers would have been obligated to show her a situation in which it was
8932410 8975268 Val Hazzak. Dead in less than 15 minutes.
Another.. rather frustrating one for me. Though unlike the last few times, this one it's the start that has me rather.... while the latter parts were great. Okay, really it's just one big issue here, and then one about how that issue connects to this story. The whole dump of how schooling works here makes no sense. It adds in so many things that have never been hinted at, implied, mentioned, or in anyway shape or form even had the slightest glimpse of existing, and that go against what we have seen. And all falling into on major flaw, simply taking our IRL school system, and assuming of course Equestria must have the same thing. Which makes no sense.
Not only is it a massively different world, but even then, it's at a much lower spot in history from where we are. The modern take on schooling, multiple years of primary education, four years of secondary, all divided into grades and pretty much mandatory for everyone, is just that 'modern' it only came up in the 20th century really for any kind of wide spread usage. They are still at MOST pre-industrial era, if not further back. One room school house that teaches you the basics then you start working on the family farm, or doing something else to help support yourself/family was the norm.
That's not even getting into how any idea of 'grades' as we know them never being mentioned, or there being any other teacher in town but Cheerilee. And the very idea of every foal in town (or nearly) spending four hours a day going back and forth to Canterlot for a High School that makes no sense to exist in the first place...can't buy it. As to said high school, yeah yeah comic, it made no sense there either and isn't canon. Why, EVER, would ponies create that? What process would cause something like that to become a thing for them? There is no reason, at all, for them to have a one size fits all, standardized schooling like that at that point, because by then, all but a small minority of ponies know EXACTLY what they are going to be doing with their lives, and pursuing that, or more schooling specifically tailored to it. And this take on it is just, so overly and unnecessarily complex on top of all that.
And yeah this is something that's been apet peeve for a while, people just dropping modern IRL school ideas into Equestria,simply becuase that's how it is IRL. Even more WTH is all the stuff about Spike that came right out of nowhere just to try and justify this. Just, the whole set up here, can't buy it.
But the most frustrating part of it all is..... none of it was needed for the actual important part of things and for dealing with the episode stuff. So it just comes off as an excuse to info-dump headcanon more then anything else, and so serves no real needed purpose but adding padding, and unnecessary complication to things, given nothing happened in the narrative outside of getting Spike into school that requires him to be a student. The story already established he's got a closer tie to Applebloom then in the show, that's all that was needed to give him a reason to be hanging out with her during all the events that take place. KISS.
Now as usual, outside of that stuff, yeah this was great, and had plenty of fun gags even in that stuff.
Twi teleporting him with half the library to avoid being late or lacking books, perfect.
Spike being smart enough to prepare his case well, loved it. Also his points about dealing with bullies, very good, he is a freaking Dragon.
The Scrabble gag... funny, and even more epic when on stops to think... how the hell she had enough tiles, and set up word to spell that...
Rahs being made the legal guardian was.... I can find no fault in the logic there.
And no, no Spike, her dad is a really cool dude, and not either type of 'noble', he's a buisnessstallion. Her mom on the other hoof......
Well Spike, usually you letting your mouth go leads to great, snark filled fun, and this was no exception, seriously his while gag with DT was GLORIOUS! Not a direct "You Suck!' take down, or anything too meta or mean, but just, great Spike snark that leaves her utterly unable to respond.
And..... Luna owing him money for a bet...... yeah, I freaking love this story overall.
So, the Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything is "How many books can a young dragon stack on a sleeping unicorns head?"
Spike logic is very sound, free food is free food.
But the timing of things was... way off, there was no gap between the whole 'magic a cutie mark' and the party, just, odd to toss one in like that at that point.
And Ponyville's first taste of the CMC, treasure your last day of peace, and then blame it all on Twilight for taunting Marephy.
So yeah, once we get passed the headcanon dump, this was great, and, it just got dragged down by the first part really having no reason to be there beyond making things overly complicated, versus, him just hanging out with AB after school. But the humor and character work was amazing.
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I may go back and fiddle with the opener head canon but the other teachers had a point. It explain how the class gained foals that were not there before in later episodes. The rest was a bit of filler.
DT got smacked DOWN!
Oh you poor sweet naive child.