A request by Lurks-no-More:
Sunburst has to find Flurry Heart's missing stuffed snail before she wakes up from her nap and throws a tantrum / causes a calamity.
“Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no,” Shining mumbled, turning over every bit of furniture in his search. Across the hall in the nursery, Flurry Heart was starting to whine. It was a slow, building sound, whose gradual rise in volume and pitched warned that a tantrum was imminent.
Also she’d opened a portal to the stygian pit and things with too many legs were trying to come through.
“Where is it!?” Shining shouted.
“Okay, don’t worry,” Sunburst said. “I have a plan. When you go looking for something missing, it’s always in the last place you look, right?”
“Yeah?”
“So, I need you to look in one more place, and then stop looking.” Sunburst explains. “That means the Whammy will be there.”
Shining’s muzzle scrunched up. “Does it work that way?”
“Which one of us is the wizard?”
“Alright, fine. Fine.” Shining took a breath then looked under a couch cushion. “Ah-hah!”
Nothing. He swore under his breath, and then lifted the whole chair off the ground to check under it. “It’s not working!”
“Of course it’s not working. I just told you to stop looking. But now the cushion wasn’t the last place you looked.” Sunburst grabbed Shining by the shoulder. “I need you to get it together. You need to swear to me that no matter what, the next place you look is the last. You’re done searching after you check inside the toy chest.”
“But I can’t do that,” Shining set his teeth. “What if I can’t stop her from crying and Cadence thinks I’m a bad father? Or if we’re all devoured by horrors from beyond the veil?”
Sunburst slapped him hard across the face. “You’re a soldier. Push through your fear and swear to me!”
“Right. Right.” Shining drew a breath. “I swear, after this, I am done looking.”
He opened the toychest, and there it was.
“Huh,” he said. Then a moment later he added, “You know, in retrospect, we probably should have checked the toychest first. Alright. Time to go save the world!”
He turned back to the hallway door to run to the nursery, but Cadence was already standing in it. Flurry was floating beside her, sleeping quietly, and the portal had vanished.
“She didn’t need her toy. She needed to be burped,” Cadence said. Then, with a narrow look at her husband, she added, “And you’re both idiots.”
More Cadance being a mom. This pleases me.
Can't wait till Flurry Heart grows up a bit and starts her goth phase.
That's well and true enough, let's be honest.
Very good
This turned out even better than I hoped. Thank you!
Alright, might need to go through these three kind of quickly, really should be getting to bed, ah, well, in a negative amount of time from now, but these don't look too long. :D
Everything is Better with Automata:
"who stood one step beside her"
Was that supposed to be "behind"? Hm. Though I'm guessing it's actually both, rather than one step back from Twilight's tail? Not sure at the moment how best to word that, though. Eh, current version probably works well enough, maybe?
Well. :D
The True Heir to the Throne:
"double-entry bookkeeping"
And despite trying to read through these quickly, that sent me off on a brief research tangent to try to understand double-entry bookkeeping.
(I was... kind of maybe successful, a bit, I think. I suspect that if it and I came at each other the right way, it might not be too difficult, but there may be a disconnect between the math and physics framework I'm used to and the accounting framework and technical terms the explanations I found in the quick search used. Though I also suspect that that may be naive, and that while maybe the terminology could be clarified, the complexity required to keep track of a large business's accounts does not scale linearly from me balancing my checkbook.)
"a child-proof enclosure"
"a childproof enclosure"?
Well. :D Again. :D
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I think it's undrugged Luna, actually.
Practical Methods:
"volume and pitched warned"
"volume and pitch warned"?
"then stop looking.” Sunburst explains. “That"
"then stop looking,” Sunburst explained. “That"?
And well the third. :D
Goofy fun all around. The Sparkle siblings really are masters of missing the forest for the trees. And Sunburst would fit right in in Unseen University... which isn't that surprising, given that he's pony Rincewind.
I already have a prompt on the original blog post if putting up more than one isn't kosher feel free to ignore one of them.
Luna, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Stygian, Tempest Shadow, all redeemed and given a second chance, all unicorns or one third unicorn. Cozy Glow, thrown in Tartarus, a pegasus. To this/these antagonist/s (Conspiracy theorist? Reporter? Political party? Make up your own) clear evidence that Twilight Sparkle is a "tribalist unicorn supremacist."
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Okay I'll do it.