Twilight Gets a Puppy.
Season 2
By TDR
Hairball Fluttershy
[Ponyville, start of Fall]
Twilight Sparkle sat at the table rubbing her temples with her hooves. Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy sat around the table with one empty chair for Rainbow Dash. The blue pegasus had a open invite to these gatherings, but thus far had yet to show up.
“Okay.... so they made.... a water spout....” Twilight began.
“Tornado.” Rarity corrected.
“It was over water, it's a water spout.” Twilight protested.
“One can hardly call the frog pond a large enough body of water to make it a water spout. It was simply a tornado formed over a pond.” Rarity returned.
“Do you have any idea how deep that pond is?” Twilight rolled her eyes.” Deep enough that it has it's own giant squid. It's also fed from a underground waterway that no one can figure out the source of.”
“Oh the water flows from the north. The under ground ocean there flows all the way up to the Frozen North where it's melt off from a glacier.” Fluttershy offered.
The others stared at her for a moment.
“Overfiend came from the north. Squids are very smart. And he says it's very cold at that end of his territory.” Fluttershy offered.
“Tha squids name is Overfiend?” Applejack questioned.
“Oh yes, He's not the only one who lives down there, his sister, La Blue, lives further south under the badlands. His parents came to the area from the Eastern sea. He said it seems like a vast underground cave system that flooded after a glacier melted centuries ago.” Fluttershy offered.
“While this is fascinating and I really should be taking notes..... perhaps later, back on topic, the water spout...” Twilight stated.
“Tornado.” Rarity corrected.
“Oh fer tha love of... call it a twister and be done with it that covers everything.” Applejack snapped.
“Right the twister..... why?” Twilight accepted.
“Why what?” Fluttershy asked.
“Why did they need a wa.... twister, to take the water to Cloudsdale?” Twilight demanded after a glare at Rarity.
“Oh, to fill the weather reservoirs to be ready for the coming snow season.” Fluttershy offered.
“What about evaporation, the water cycle... why this... ridiculousness?”Twilight waved a hoof.
“The what?” Fluttershy asked.
“Water cycle. Water evaporates into the air condenses at lower temperatures, returns to the ground as precipitation......” Twilight explained.”There's more to it than that when you take into account condensation wind sheer and the like but that's the basic water cycle.”
“News to me.” Pinkie Pie offered.
“Wouldn't everything always be dry if'n that water all floated away?” Applejack commented.
“It may explain the humidity during the summer at time.” Rarity considered.” That plays havoc on my mane.”
“Can't say I've ever heard of this before Twilight. I mean I've never worked with the weather bureau, but they always draw up a water every year.” Fluttershy added.
“It's a scientifically proven thing...” Twilight grumbled. “ I mean it's how things work in the Everfree, and how it still rains and snows in other nations that don't have pegasi controlling the weather.” Twilight explained and frowned. “ I need to talk to Cheerilee about her curriculum.”
“Wouldn't it be like raining up if the water was sucked into the air like that?' Pinkie Pie asked.
“No because the particles of water are too small to be noticed, Rarity was close when she said humidity.” Twilight flattened her ears. “ I mean you've all seen evaporation, it's why when you have a cup of water and leave it in the sun for a while the water goes away. What did you think happened?”
“Some one else drunk from tha glass.” Applejack stated flatly.
“Most likely Opal or Sweetiebelle, despite the fact the first has perfectly good water in her bowl, and the later is perfectly capable of getting her own drink....... well not orange juice..... “Rarity frowned.” But the less said about that the better.”
“I always just thought the sun was thirsty being as hot as it is all the time.” Pinkie Pie chimed.
“Umm magic?” Fluttershy shrugged as Twilight planted her face into the table with a thud.
“Moving on, so what's tha deal with Spitfire. Why'd she sit off to tha sidelines tha whole time?” Applejack questioned. “Don't sit right that yah only had a bit of wing power short an a Wonderbolts just sitting by watching.”
“I was kinda curious about that too. So I asked Fireball afterward.“ Fluttershy stated.” She says her sister was ready to help, but was holding back due to Rainbow Dash seeming so determined. The moment she was asked she was ready to help just so she could get back to Scootaloo. Poor things going to miss the first few days of school. Seems she was one of the first to catch the feather-flu. Honestly I didn't know Spitfire was Scootaloo's mother.”
The others nod having learned of Scootaloo's parentage from their younger siblings a while back. Pinkie Pie nodded along because she knew every pony any way.
“Well with that out of the way there's another thing I want to bring up since every ponys here.” Twilight offered her horn glowing as she took a newspaper from the main library desk dropping it on the table before them.“ Does any pony know what's going on with this?”
Looking at the paper the group of them all shift around to stare down at the Manhatten publication reading the front page.
“Is that?” Applejack questioned.
“Mare-Do-Well. Yeah.” Twilight acknowledged.
“So which one of us is running round Manehatten?” Applejack queried.
Every pony looked over at Pinkie Pie.
“What?You think I've been able to do anything but work with how close Mrs. Cake is to giving birth? She looks like a blimp....” Pinkie waved her hooves in the air. “She's also driving Mr. Cake crazy with requests.. all sorts of weird foods. I mean, oatmeal? Are you crazy?”
“I'm not sure how i could do it any way , I don't have the costume any more.” Fluttershy offered.
“That's right.. Rahs took them all before he left in a huff.” Rarity frowned. “ But that really is not his figure. It is decidedly a mare... though perhaps she could lose a little weight....”
“Rahs has um? Where is he any way? Thought he came back couple days ago.” Applejack questioned.
Before Twilight could answer the front door opened and the Moon Dog in questioned walked in grumbling. He looked like he had been roughed up as his training coach had not been thrilled he vanished for a couple of weeks and decided to make up for lost time.
Setting paw inside the library however and realizing there were now five mares all staring at him gave him pause. The paper on the table drew his eyes and the looks on the mares faces suddenly spoke volumes. And none of it good.
With nary a bark the Moon Dog reached back behind him, pulled open the door again and stepped back out of the building.
“Rahs get back in here and explain this!!” Twilight shouted
“NOPE!”
troooololololololoololol 🤣
Overfiend and La Blue... well aren't you the naughty writer.
Huh you must've worked the really early shift. Looking forward to Rainbow Dash and the others working it out
Our animal caretaker's network sure is vast.
Rarity, for the love of all goodnesses in the world, you should not finish that sentence of yours.
PREACH IT, SISTER! PREACH IT! That stuff is nasty
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Just add either honey, brown sugar, cinnamon, or a combination of them and it becomes awesome.
Though yeah on it's own it sucks
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Lies!
Poor Luna, everyone thinks she has fat flanks when we all know it's Celestia who's the cake fiend.
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It wasn't just oatmeal.
It was the chocolate covered bell peppers mixed with said oatmeal.
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Not just bell peppers, ghost peppers to give it a little kick.
At least you didn't go the orphan route. And it does explain her love to do extreme stunts. Are you going to included her aunts?
As for Mare-Do-Well, my guess is on Tia. Who else has a that we know of that has a flank that big. We all saw what happened when she tried to dawn her armor; claymore anyone?
Great story as always.
Maybe Rahs give it to a pony trying to make a comic about the Mare-Do-Well and just like Daring Do, everytime the pony rescue someone, it end in a comic.
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If I had to name a giant squid, I'd called them that too. Cal or Cali would just be... weird.
Same, I work retail at the checkouts in one of my local supermarkets.
It was madness over the BF deals.
great chapter
That note, i can relate. We own a grocery retail store in germany, Black Friday is slowly creeping over to germany so for today weve had cupons and some special offers. God dammit, we are only a small store with 3 cash point tables and 1 mobile cash point, only 28 employees, its was mental. Ive had people come to the cash point with 4 overflowing shopping carts. We open at 7am and close at 8pm, but today ive had to be in the store from 5:00am to 9:30pm for preperations and clean up.
Next week at the monthly store owners meeting ill ask our region superviser if the guy who had the idea for those black friday offers is still alive, and if yes if i may kill him.
And thanks for sweetening the day a bit with a short but funny chapter
I’m fairly certain that mare-do-well is Luna, solely based on how much TDR likes to reference his past works. XD
Nice
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Well the giant squids are tentical monsters......
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Nah it's Luna in the last chapter she was annoyed that the costume made her flank look big. Also i hate the orphan Scootaloo trope.
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I do that a lot don't i?
I feel your pain. I JUST got home from my Black Friday Shift myself (10 hours), and I just want to sleep for a week. Unfortunately, I have to work another 9 hours tomorrow.
As for the chapter, brilliant. Loved Twilight pointing out the ridiculousness of the episode, and the bit with Rahs at the end was perfect. As for the Names of the Giant Squids, let me just quote both Bytestorm and Abridged!Anderson - Well, aren't YOU the naughty one.
Wait wait wait... WHAT???
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that was revealed back in Beast night ever... or SiS if you've read earlier stuff. I hate the orphan scootaloo trope.
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Finally I meet someone who has the same opinion on that subject.
Fallout 76 the game of holotapes and notes. Rather a bad blunder for them. Although I blame zinamax the company that own the series
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Why does Chrysalis get two different ones? That seems kind of illogical. And Chrysalis being lust would still let Sombra be envy, which I think would work better for his character. Your order works better, but I think the sins represent them better. Also, Tierk would be a better Greed than Starlight, and vice versa.
Run biatch! She comin for yer fluffy tail!!
Okay, odd bit to cut this ep so short, Twi did have a pretty decent roll. Get why, and why she wouldn't this time, but still odd choice, mostly just upset not seeing more Flutterawesome, because that scene is just so damn good. So, another recap ep of after action talk with some pushing along plot arcs. Not bad but disappointed.
Yes, and while that whole water cycle thing works, you are ponies, ponies tell mother nature to shut up and sit down even more then they tell physics.
And YAY! Someone else who gets it! Spitfire was an observer! And Dash made clear she was trying to get her team to do this. It's really rude to just jump into someone elses work like that.
At some point in their carer,every Fimfiction writer must work in the full context of "oatmeal, are you crazy?"
I love how fast Rhas nopes out of there.
So set up of Luna having some fun, and progressing on the RD plot, will go more on that later.
That's called a blue hole, fyi
Rainbowdash pulling a Darkwing Duck?
A mystery forever. Soon to be forgotten
Huh... So no orphan, neat!
Busted!
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I despise the Orphanloo trope.
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And considering that her canon parents are action-oriented versions of Jane Goodall and Steve Erwin, being the daughter of Wonderbolts is not that far a stretch!
Only Rainbow Dash is oblivious about her heros being Scootaloo parents while Scootaloo is enjoying RD as her hero.
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Some give at least Scootaloo parents a remember worthy death, other have Scootaloo in a neglected state, and the worst that I read is probably Scootaloo running away because of abuse that the Princesses go specifically after Rainbow Dash mentioned it to Twilight who in turn Dragon Mail it to Celestia’s horn.
But the fan art is impressive: