Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 2
By TDR
A Claw-terlot Wedding,
Part 1, Part 1
[Friendship Express ]
“Are you alright Spike?” Rarity asked looking over at the little dragon and the chirping phoenix chick bouncing along his head spines.
“Ehh mostly. Little worried about Twilight and Rahs. Twilight's been really angry lately and Rahs being sick is really weird. He doesn't get sick, heck I get sick more than him and there's barely anything that affects dragons.”
“Poorly timed too given his job on the list was to prepare the bachelor party.” Rarity frowned.
“Meh, he'd probably just get Poindexter or Gaffer to run it, they supposedly did pretty well with 8-Bit's bachelor party.” Spike shrugged. “Or maybe he'd go all into it full tilt, we'll never know with him this sick.”
“Hmmm perhaps it is better this way.” Rarity summarizes.
“Right, I mean can you imagine the kinda party he'd throw? They'd probably lose Shining on a roof some where, steal a tiger, get a tooth or two knocked out and get involved with a salt cartel somehow.”Pinkie Pie chimed up.
Spike and Rarity looked at Pinkie a moment before wisely dropping the conversation.
[ Canterlot ]
“Alright.... this raises some questions.” Twilight frowned as she and the others exited the train.
Surrounding the train station and stationed everywhere that they could see, were Guards. All of them fully armored, armed to the teeth and looking ready for a fight. Twilight took note tat they were all Solar Guard and Heart Guard, the Night Guard were likely asleep at the moment. Still this looked like the entire Equestrian Guard was here. On the tallest tower Twilight spotted Princess Celestia who was looking through a telescope and speaking with a few pegasi guard who took off to deliver her orders.
Then there was the massive shield surrounding the entire city,Twilight recognized her brothers hoof work immediately. They hadn't seen it from Ponyville as a massive amount of cloud cover had been used to hide the top of the mountain, leaving Canterlot with clear skys but blocking the view of any thing approaching from seeing the massive barrier.
“Relax darling, it's a royal wedding. A grand event like this is sure to bring out the strangest ponies, they are just being extra prepared.” Rarity offered.
Spike blinked and frowned.”This is a bit excessive for just some strange ponies Rarity. It looks more like they're preparing for an invasion. That cloud covers a common pegasi tactic. While Princess Celestia could direct the pegasi to open holes so she could look out, no one could see in and if they attacked would be stopped by the barrier and easily be repelled.”
“Invasion?” Fluttershy meeped.
The small group looked at each other for a moment.
“Who's holding the money?” Pinkie Pie asked.
“I'll do it this time dear. Also I'm putting down ten on a jilted mare friend of Shining's.”Rarity stated.
“I'll match that and put in fer an ex-colt friend of Princess Cadence.” Applejack offered.
“Mare friend o hers.”Big Mac stated getting a glare from Applejack.
“I say it's another one of Princess Celestia's.” Spike offered.
“I'm good for one of Princess Luna's this time.” Fluttershy chimed up.
“You want in Twilight? Rahs?” Pinkie chimed up.”Also put me down for the return of Dark Snooty
Twilight sighed a moment looking for her older brother before spotting him.
“Ten for a Yakistan delegation having declared war again.” Rainbow Dash stated getting an odd look from everyone. “ What? I'm dating an ambassador, I hear things.....”
Rahs simply groaned weakly and followed Twilight towards Shining.
It wasn't hard to get to Shining Armor, he was directing a number of Guards at the base of the tower Princess Celestia was on. A massive Nocturne, Nox-Cal stood nearby, towering over the other Guard, judging by her armor and the markings on her collar, this was Guard Captain Lion Heart the twelveth, Shining's rank equivalent in the Night Guard.
The large pony noted Rahs and Twilight before Shining did and got the other Captains attention. A few of the regular guards looked worried at the approach of an irate looking unicorn and a diamond dog, but with the Captains and several other older guards recognizing them they were not stopped.
“Twiliy, Rahs. Finally. I was starting to get worried, I haven't heard from you since that.... event..... we went to.” Shining trailed off as Lionheart laughed and ushered them off, taking over running things.
Twilight's ears perked a little as her brother sounded a bit nasally, he also looked as if he hadn't slept in some time. Her anger faded a bit as she looked on with concern. “Are you alright?”
“I'm fine … just a bit of a head cold, maybe allergies, runny nose, sinus pressure and the like, nothing that's gonna stop me from walking down the aisle.” Shining smirked and nodded at Rahs. “Look's like I'm not the only one. Guess it's going around.”
Twilight frowned at that.
“Woof.” Rahs managed pointing a claw menacingly at his brother.
“Right, what he said! What's the big idea not telling us the date of the wedding, and then dumping all this work on us at once?”Twilight growled.
“What do you mean all at once, Cady said she asked every one to do this months ago? And I know I sent a letter to each of you. We hadn't heard back in a while so Cady hired some others to take care of the wedding.” Shining blinked. “Granted she also recently moved it up two months, out of summer and into spring because evidently the date has some meaning for her.”
“We never got any letter.” Twilight frowned. “And what sort of meaning would suddenly come up like that that you move a wedding?”
“Beats me, she's been a bit standoffish lately, but I'm pretty sure she's just freaking out over the wedding. I had Celestia send a reminder directly to Spike because I hadn't heard from any of you in a while.”
Twilight flattened her ears, she could definitely see the Princess of Love freaking out over her own wedding. Plus Ponyville had been having a good bit of mail trouble since that Bees guy started at the post office, but she had never heard any complaints of him losing any letters he sorted.
“Wuff?” Rahs finally asked after snorting what was likely the greenest boogers she had ever had the displeasure to see into a handkerchief .
“Eeew. Right, despite that he has a point. What the heck is going on with all this. Shouldn't you be getting ready for the wedding?” Twilight asked.
“You would think that, but......” Shining looked over at his Night Guard counterpart and sighed. “Look I'm only telling you this because you're one of the Element Bearers....” he looked to Rahs “And technically a prince though that's still weird to me, even though I've taken advantage of it.” Shining smirked. “ But a threat has been made against Canterlot.”
“A threat?” Twilight blinked.
“Right we don't know who did it or where it came from, but the Princesses are taking it very seriously. We've got a full force of guards stationed here and we're investigating everything. It's been hectic as all get out here for the last few weeks. Heck I've been so busy I've forgotten I was supposed to be getting married a few times.”
“Who would... who even could, threaten Canterlot?”Twilight considered.
“Beats me, knowing our luck probably one of the Princesses ex's.” Shining sighed.“ Princess Luna has taken a sizable contingent of her Guard and has gone to check Tartarus to see if any thing there has escaped. That might take a while given the size of that place.”
“The girls just started betting on that.” Twilight grumbled.
“Really? Put me down for the Storm King. He's been amassing an army for a few years now, and he's never been a fan of Equestria.” Shining considered.
“Seriously?” Twilight grumbled as Rahs snickered.
“Hmm?” Shining paused looking up at the shield. “Hold on.”
Twilight and Rahs watched as their older brother's horn glowed brightly, a beam of fuchsia colored energy shot from his horn lighting up the area before it strikes the dome, the shield emitting out a loud hum as the new power rejuvenated it.
As the light faded from his horn Shining winced and reached a hoof up to clutch his head.
At the same time Rahs whimpered and sat down doing much the same.
Twilight looked between her brothers with a calculated thought.
“Okay, I think I see a pattern. How long have you been keeping the shield active?” Twilight asked.
“About a week now.” Shining sighed knowing the lecture that was coming, he already heard it from mom. “Yes, I'm the only one empowering it because I'm the most versatile shield caster in the Guard. I've got it set to specific conditions and who and what it allows through. I knew you and your friends were coming as well as the crew and other passengers on the train, thus you got through. Any one I don't allow is bounced off the shield.”
“I get that, I don't like it, but I get that. I can't even match what you can do with one of your shields.” Twilight placated catching onto the 'mom was here first' tone. “Rahs has been ill about that long.....
Rahs and Shining stared at their sister as she started to talk. The magical science explanation making both of them start to tune out. It was a sparkle defense mechanism. The whole family had it, though it was more often brought into play against Twilight, Rahs ranting about theater, or Shining and Spike going on about Ogres and Oubliettes. Nightlight had been known to rant on astronomy occasionally too. It simply allowed to tune out who ever in their family was getting too into their focus
They both snapped back awake as she started drawing graphs and charts on the walls and brick behind her with a bit of chalk.
“.... basically that leads to the computerization....”
“STOP! Now, explain that for those of us who didn't memorize a thesaurus?””
Twilight huffed at her brothers, not noting they tuned out , but noticing she had started drawing on the castle walls.”It means that with all the extra magic you're casting, it's weakening his magic regeneration thus allowing him to catch a cold.”Twilight simplified. “Theoretically.”
“Why didn't you just say that?” Shining asked.
“I did.....” Twilight grumbled.
“Sorry about that bro... I didn't think my headaches would be giving any one else trouble.”Shining sighed. “ Still I have to keep it up for a while longer, are you gonna be okay?”
Rahs' response was a rude Griffonesse gesture he had come to employ a lot as of late.
“I'll take that as a yes.” Shining chuckled.
Since we know no one win, where will the bits go to?
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Probably back to the people. Or maybe a carry-over prize pot for next time.
You're about 5 seasons too early there, Shining.
Ok, I see 3 fuck ups in this chapter.
First, Luna going to Tartarus to check if anyone is missing. If your following the timeline EXACTLY, then there IS someone missing.
https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_About_Time
^ Season 2, episode 20, It's About Time. That's when Cerberus escapes and 'rampages' in Ponyville for a bit before Twilight leads him back. That is when Tirek leaves Tartarus. That's also before the Season 2 Final. So if you're having Luna check Tartarus for escapies, she WILL find Tirek Missing. But he isn't found out in Canon, till the end of Season 4 when Celestia dreams about him finally gaining power again.
Secondly, that Shining Casting Spells would effect Rahs in a negative way. It wouldn't. In fact, in theory it would work the OTHER way. If he's eating magic from his siblings, hense why any spell on them copies to him, cause he 'eats' that magic spell too and applied it to himself. Then the siblings should be the one having a Negative Effects with Regenerating their magic. In that they Regenerate LESS magic the more they use it, cause Rahs is passively feeding on their magic constantly, so it recharging is feeding not just their own reserves, but Rahs' feeding frenzy as well.
Thirdly, that if Shining wanted to send a letter, that he would use normal mail. No, he would have gone Directly to Princess Celestia and given the letter to HER to send to Twilight through Spike. This makes the most sense cause He's one of her Guards, and thus knows her and even being a guard captain takes orders directly from her so has contact with her more than any other guard or noble would. On top of that, he's dating, and soon marrying, her Niece, AND his sister was her personal student. Her parents? I can see them using normal mail route. Shining Armor tho? I don't see that happening at all.
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I agree with Twilight here.
Okay, I'm gonna take a guess here. I might be wrong of course but I think that Rhas isn't sick because of a weakened immune system due to Shining casting the shield, it's because of Chrysalis's magic. The fact that Rhas had "the greenest boogers she had ever had the displeasure of seeing" would make sense as all of changeling magic seeems to be green, and it could be his body rejecting a foul type of magic. The link all the siblings share would allow for that, and as Rahs is the only one who eats magic then he would be the one pulling in the most, hence why Twilight and Spike aren't sick.
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the pot till the next bet.
9577005 I'd go for carry-over
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The link probably also means that any mindcontrol Chrysalis has would either be more fragile or need a lot more power poured into it to not be simply drained away by the link. Oh and when the invasion starts, if it's even allowed to progress that far, Twilight's probably gonna go 'ling clubbing or the like.
D-Did you make a Hangover reference
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Not fuck ups.
The first, well... spoilers.
The second is that Twilight thinks it's like that, a long while back they tried to see how the link worked , but Twilight couldn't drain her magic fast enough and they didn't know how to do it. We have seen what happened when the link is cut off, Rahs goes blindly hungry for magic. The link is a unknown still that Twilight is still studying so she thinks the drain is the cause.
Thirdly the Princess is not a mail service. 'Cady' said she asked them all directly so Shining didn't send out anything beyond the normal invites he only started to get worried when the date was moved and there had been no response.
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to quote Firebrand: "It's Pinkie; don't question it."
The word is "mechanism" not "mechamisum".
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Well.... at least spell check spelled it right......
Who has money on Changelings? Or better saying, whose ex is Chrysalis? Also, nice foreshadowing on the Storm King.
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All I know is that when I read that, I had to google that word just to be sure that I wasn't saying it wrong my entire life.
As has been mentioned, it looks like the smarter princesses in this version of the setting are going to have a manhunt going on for Tirek for quite a while if he lasts until when the Season 4 finale would normally be.
It also looks like Chrysalis is going to be personally far stronger than she was in canon. Between her being the goddess of the changelings and inadvertently draining a bit from Rahs while she's draining Shining Armor, her personal power level is going to be significantly higher...at the same time, though, to manage to pull off the near-win she did in canon she's either going to have to have a far larger swarm, or a larger swarm that has thoroughly invested most of the Guard units. Otherwise the more capable guards seen so far in this setting, in significantly greater numbers since in the show it looked like just the royal guard without the solar guard or lunar guard (and in the show Cadence didn't seem to have her own forces yet), will end up being a much stiffer challenge that the changelings likely won't be able to overcome before they get shield-tossed out of the city...if that is even how it ends this time.
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the better trained Guard are in the night and heart Guard respectively, the Day guard has the largest number of Guard though and it's comanders are usual retired Monster hunters. A number of them transfered to the night Guard because they didn't and don't trust Luna and they are keeping an eye on her.
You know, if there's just one thing I want Twilight to say to Chrysalis, it would be right after Chrysalis said something like "You can celebrate this victory all you wish. This will be the last time Queen Chrysalis shall be thwarted by the likes of you!" And Twilight says, "I doubt it. For you, the day we defeated you and cast you back into the pit you came from was the most embarrassing day of your life. For us... it was Tuesday."
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i like that
great chapter
Something tells me Chrysallis is gonna get her ass kickified by a pissed off purple unicorn pony.
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you wrong it going to be a flame white piss off unicorn pony and piss off moon/witch dog chew her up......
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Well, her default color is purple, so my statement still stands. She gets pissed off whole she is purple, THEN turns into a rapidash.
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true but I think matter at the time when the queen is beat and chew up and put 50 ft bellow
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True, but the moon dog is currently sick. I think he'll do little more than puke on Chrysallis than anything. On that note, if Chrysallis is doing her mind control thing, then it'll be Discord all over again: Twilight, Spike, and Shining basically useless while Rahs goes Witch Wolf on Chrysallis.
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witch wolf thing was more of discord force feed rah more magic then he handle.
cause remember when discord first did it rah just shut down stop moving, it was not till after discord did it many time that he went full witch wolf,
ie rah over ate discord magic, so how I see it rah end up eat a lot of magic most likely form either take a blow form the queen or when shiny and cady use power of love wave attach thing they do
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Then it'll probably just be Rapi-Twi literally flaming buggy to death.
I put twenty bits on invasion by shape shifting from the bad lands
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No bet. Time travelers aren't allowed in betting pools.
Hangover referance
Classic middle Talon 🖕
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"Twlight 'F- the Living' Sparkle"
Grey pegasus with blonde mane and tail.
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DerpBee?
Watch out, she's learning.
Less magic get them sick? Hm... How about to mutch magic? Than again, puking is a thing...
I wonder if the connection on one of the Sparkle siblings can be used to drain them all.