Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 3
By TDR
The Crescent Empire,
part 1
[Ponyville, summer, 1 month after the wedding.]
“Sparkles.... meet the Sparkles, they're a textbook mental famillllly. From the, town of Ponyville , they all live in a great big treeeee...”
“Pinkie what are you singing?” Twilight asked looking up from her daisy sandwich. The group of friends had gone out for lunch and were seated out on the patio of the restaurant. They had just been served when Pinkie Pie started humming.
“I'm working on a new theme song the old one doesn't quite fit anymore” Pinkie Pie shrugged popping a loaf of corn bread into her mouth. “It's a work in progress.”
“Err, right, okay” Twilight shrugged, going back to her meal. "So what were you saying about a new buyer Rarity?”
“Oh right,” Rarity offered, dabbing her mouth with a napkin as she looked up from her souffle. “It seems word of my work on the royal wedding dress, dresses, not sure which one of the three I made garnered it? Anyway, word has gotten around and I'm flooded with orders. One mare in particular has offered to buy over a hundred dresses for herself and her entourage. She has already paid for half of them and has taken a good portion of my old stock. She also says she's not in too much of a rush to get the rest of her order, but she wants them in a variety of styles with the only caveat being that they need to be functional as well. She's also said if she's pleased with them she would see what she could do about helping me set up a proper store in Canterlot.”
“Sounds like yer gonna be busy fer a while. Might bit of planning tah do mai self too. Got a big family reunion coming up in tha spring ah gotta plan for. First year Granny's letting me run it myself.” Applejack pointed out.
“Oh, that sounds wonderful Applejack” Fluttershy offered. “I don't really have anything planned myself, but I could do for a nice quiet rest for a while. Especially after the wedding, and the changelings, and then the real wedding.”
“Speak for yourself shy, that was great. For me, the Wonderbolts Academy has sign ups for this fall, and I plan to get in this year.” Rainbow Dash smirked.
“Seriously at least the wedding stuffs over with. They finally got hitched after yer brother recovered.” Applejack pointed out.
“While it was a lovely ceremony, did it have to be so... small?” Rarity sighed.
“Given that Cadence tried to beat Celestia with her own wings by the end of it? It was probably for the best.” Twilight sighed.
[ Two weeks prior, Cadence and Shining Armor's second wedding, Princess Luna presiding.]
“Auntie why is there ANOTHER banner with that image?” Cadence grumbled looking up at the 'rural princess' front page picture posted on another banner at the reception.
“Oh, I've got a few hundred copies of it.” Celestia grinned.
“We agreed never to bring that up!” Cadence snapped.
“You agreed, I did no such thing.” Celestia's grin widened.
“Ah don't think ah'll ever understand alicorns.” Applejack shook her head taking another sip of her cider.
“I'm starting to wonder if part of becoming a god is going nuts.” Twilight mused.
“Might be the other way around.” Pinkie Pie suggested. “Maybe they were nuts and that's why they became gods.”
“Then how come you're not a god?” Rainbow Dash smirked. “You're the craziest pony I know.”
“ How do you know I'm not?” Pinkie Pie grinned wiggling her eyebrows at Rainbow Dash.
“That would explain a lot.” Rarity pondered. “But any way what are your plans now Twilight. You and your brothers have been here two years.”
“Ooh a two year anniversary party!” Pinkie Pie chimed up.
“You know I'm not even going to try and stop you.” Twilight smiled. “Just no strong smelling chocolate or strawberry stuff. Rahs still has issues. As for what we are going to do, I don't plan to do anything but just try and relax. Spike has school before long and Rahs is still trying to audition for parts in various plays. Beyond that nothing comes to mind.”
“Speaking of issues, yours seem better.” Rarity pointed out.
“I agree, you don't seem to have as big a deal with crowds, or panic attacks any more.” Fluttershy smiled looking up from her soup. “ You might have anger issues now though instead.”
“I think those probably developed in dealing with all the stuff that goes on around here.” Rainbow Dash pointed out. “Let's face it Ponyville is rarely boring.”
“Would be nice if it calmed down a little.” Fluttershy muttered.
“Now way, there needs to be more excitement, we go weeks without something cool happening.” Rainbow Dash smirked.
“Yer tempting fate there Dash. Reign it in.” Applejack rolled her eyes.
“What because I want something to happen? Please.” Dash snorted. “My saying something isn't gonna do anything. That's like saying, 'What's the worst that could happen?' or, 'Nothing can go wrong'. Nothing's gonna happen. It's just silly supersitiooooof!!!”
Rainbow Dash might have continued her rant if a large scroll hadn't impacted her face with the force of a boulder, knocking her out of her chair and to the floor. The scroll flipped around a few times in the air before landing perfectly on the table.... in the middle of Twilight's sandwich.
“BORK!!!” Rahs screamed out as he and Spike stormed towards the table.
“Yer brothers throwing arm's pretty good.” Applejack nodded.
“Don't blame me. I didn't say anything, it was Rainbow Dash!” Twilight protested as Rahs and Spike both glared at her.
“Ow.” Rainbow Dash muttered from the floor as Twilight opened the scroll.
“Do you know how hard it is to get the crusaders together for a O&O game during the summer, even with a new guy joining?” Spike grumbled. “I finally managed it, FINALY, and then this. We just had our seasonal major disaster, why is there another one already?”
“It's season three.” Pinkie Pie pointed out.
“What?” Spike questioned.
“Twilight. Gather the Elements of Harmony, pack for cold weather, and make arrangements to be gone for a few days to a week. A chariot will be down to collect you and your friends shortly. Make haste and I will tell you more when you arrive.” Twilight frowned. “Signed Princess Celestia.”
“Well that's ominous. Think it's changelings again?” Applejack pondered.
“Well I guess we'll know soon enough.”Twilight sighed. “ At least I can finish lunch this time.”
Starting off bright and early with the references, I see.
Let's go Season 3 is officially off the ground.
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ikr I know its a theme song but I don't know which one
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This one
I see the reference.
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Your statement made me cry with how old it made me feel.
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yes thanks I thought it was the Jetsons at first
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See now i'm crying.....
You can say it again by the end of the year.
Probably one of the reason you are qualified for the position?
Crazier than my sister?
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I saw the first line and instead of reading it, I sang it. In tune too.
I call dibs on pinker somehow entering the God realm and beating somone up for putting fluttershy in danger again
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Let be crying buddies
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I'd like to know how long did you take to make this song? I mean, what inspiration did take you to match Ponyville with Bedrock?
at least this celestia isn’t stupid enough to try and pass this off as a solo test for twilight to do alone
The one that could hide cannons obviously
Maybe
A good point
Not gonna happen
True
Pinkie being the secret god of parties makes sense.
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About three seconds when i wan't even thinking of writing. i just started humming the flintstones theme [ as done by homer simpson] and it clicked.
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...wait? Are we doing Rule63 here? My memory informs me that Somnambula is a she, not he ...does she?
Theme song made me smile.
“I'm working on a new theme song the old one doesn't quite fit anymore” Pinkie Pie shrugged popping a loaf of corn bread into her mouth. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
“Err, right, okay” Twilight shrugged, going back to her meal. "So what were you saying about a new buyer Rarity?”Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence.
“Oh right.” Rarity offered, dabbing her mouth with a napkin as she looked up from her souffle. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
She has already paid for half of them and has taken a good portion of my old stock. She also says she's not in too much of a rush to get the rest of her order, but she wants them in a variety of styles with the only caveat being that they need to be functional as well.
“Sounds like yer gonna be busy fer a while. Might bit of planning tah do mai self too. Got a big family reunion coming up in tha spring ah gotta plan for. First year Granny's letting me run it myself” Applejack pointed out. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
“Oh, that sounds wonderful Applejack” Fluttershy offered. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
“Speak for yourself shy, that was great. For me, the Wonderbolts Academy has sign ups for this fall, and I plan to get in this year” Rainbow Dash smirked. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
“Seriously at least the wedding stuffs over with. They finally got hitched after yer brother recovered” Applejack pointed out. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
“Oh, I've got a few hundred copies of it” Celestia grinned. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence
“You agreed, I did no such thing” Celestia's grin widened. Drop the period if you are continuing the sentence. You get the idea. It keeps going and I don't have time to point out all of same type of error
That said, Rahs has a good arm. What classes and hero/user names are being used in the O&O game?
The Madlad put out another chapter!
IT"S SEASON 3! Everyone grab your popcorn and drinks! It's gonna be a bumpy one!
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Shall I get the waback?
It's entirely possible that there are an Equestrian 'Flintstones' family with a 'rock farm' near the Pies' farm Pinkie grew up on. Flintstone works quite well for a pony name (then again, most of the last names in that show would).
I wonder how Rarity would feel to know that the mare ordering so many dresses is a certain disguised changeling goddess...that said though it also looks like Chryssie is subtly working on building at least friendship with certain ones of the Elements. Also...I half expect there to be a confrontation next time Jynx or Trixie run into Saturnia. Rahs is subconsciously aware of the difference in Saturnia and knows she doesn't smell like prey, but then neither does Trix. Trixie and Jynx, however, are aware of Saturnia. So looking forward to that.
I also half expect that Peabody and his pack are going to show up again up at the Crystal Empire, upset over not finding the treasure that a 'god' promised to them and instead getting nearly killed by a vengeful pony. Hopefully Tia is going to properly equip them with some defensive magical items before sending them north this time, since likely neither Sister can go north.
9656077 Yeah....I did too.
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Same here...damn catchy too
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..I remember Mork and Mindy and still have my original release Atari 2600 (still in excellent-to-near-mint condition with 40-something games in similar condition I might add) sitting in a drawer for when I'm feeling nostalgic. How do ya think *I* feel, lol?
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Really? Me too!
Well, actually there's three 2600 decks but only two work and the box of games has never been counted, but it's a lot. Now I want to see if I can find my old Vectrex console too... might have sold it at a yard sale back in '99 tho. Can't remember. Hmm.
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Yay! Greetings fellow old person!
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Hmm, it's been a while since I heard it but I believe it is the theme from The Flintstones
Odd because I kept thinking of the ReBoot intro lol
And uber meta Pinkie is great, and... yeah what would a theme song for this series be? Nice little bit to start off.
AJ, it comes with living for that damn long, after awhile, you have to start getting very creative to find new ways of keeping yourself amused enough to stay sane.
Do not question The Pink One, she has transcended all mortal limits! I'm not even pulling a 'joking or not' at this point, The Pink One is just beyond classification.
Yeah, This Twilight is a bit less neurotic then before, and a lot more spot on for show Twilight, just much more cynical.
And for once, it's not Twilight tempting Marephy, though, if you do that, explicitly to temp something going wrong, then wouldn't nothing going wrong be what should happen, cause in that case something going wrong is what you want to happen?
Well, better then "I have a test for you" and shows more thought. Yeah yeah 'fix fic'y' and what not but... there are some things I'll admit are just too damn stupid or poorly thought out to keep as is without making your story needlessly stupid for the sake of stupid. (Most of those things being either a) from M. Williams, b) Meghan writing a scene with Celestia in it, or C) The entire plot of EQG seriously, that thing had more holes then plot.) The whole set up for the ep falls inot B Meghan wanting to get the plot where she wants it ASAP and inability to handle Tia at all.
Though! In her defense for things, while poorly handled, I do maintain, we have no evidence that she knew Sombra had returned when she sent Twilight up there.
In the midst of rereading:
*squints* I'm watching you Pinkie...
Here's hoping your Celestia avoids the stupid of Canon!Celestia on this one.
Though knowing your Celestia she could fall into a whole new path of stupid...
Chrysalis seem to be able to give Cadance a Kingdom soon
Murphy be like: Miss Rainbowdash you will regreat this challange
Huh... Would'nt the Crystal Empire by right be Lunas?
Twilight learned to enjoy silver linings.
Murphys must be sad everyone blames him for everything bad happening and forgetting he is the cause of everything good and bad in the mortals life.
Luna and Celestia ruling Equestria.
Cadance and Chrysalis the Crystal Empire.
The Sparkles rule Ponyville.
Hm... Someone else got a idea what the CMC rule?
I can believe that