Judge, Jury, and Bath Time
All was quiet at the Pie family farm, that was until Spike was placed in the bath. Dragons were actually really clean creatures, this was mainly because they were able to swim in lava. So when Rarity had tried to give Spike a bath, it was not going well. To him, it was cold and boring, and he hated the feel of someone scrubbing his scales. Rarity was trying to scrub his scales. "Spikey Wikey, please hold still for a moment, I need to get you all clean." Said Rarity as she was struggling to wash Spike. That was until Spike splashed Rarity with some of the water, now her mane was wet and covered her face.
All of the others were with Rarity, as all of the adults were in the back making sure nothing happened, but right now, they couldn't help but giggle.
Rarity used her magic to move her mane out of her face, she looked at Spike, he was giggling as well. "I hope you know, this means war." Said Rarity as she squinted at Spike.
Spike squinted back. "Bwing it." Said Spike. Rarity used her magic to levitate the luffa, a rubber alligator, and a bottle of soap, she was going to use the alligator to distract Spike, while she tried to clean Spike's scales. That was the plan until the alligator started to move.
Rarity screaked as she dropped all of the stuff, sending the alligator into the tub. Pinkie gasped. "Achy shoulder." Said Pinkie, she rain over to the tub and pulled out the alligator. "So that's where you've been." Said Pinkie as she looked at the alligator. "I was looking all over for you."
All the adults and fillies, minus the Pies all got as far away as possible. "Pinkie, why is there an alligator in the tub?" Asked Pear.
Pinkie giggled. "Well, he's my pet alligator, Gummy, he loves bath time, so he usually just stays in the tub, but he's prone to moving around at random." Said Pinkie, suddenly Gummy tried to bite Pinkies leg and mane, but it only made Pinkie giggle even more. "Awe, I missed you too Gummy." Said Pinkie. She then placed Gummy back in the tub with Spike. "Gummy, this is Spike, he's my son, and Spike this is Gummy." Said Pinkie.
Spike looked at the alligator, but the alligator just looked at Spike with a blank expression, then Gummy licked his eye, causing Spike to giggle. Spike swam up to the alligator and hugged Gummy. Then Gummy licked Spike's cheek while still having that million mile stare. Pinkie smiled seeing that her son and her pet were already good friends, and seeing that Spike was distracted with Gummy, Pinkie washed Spike using the soap and luffa, and the weird part was it only took 3 seconds to have Spike cleaned, dried, and his scales polished. "And there you go." Said Pinkie as she closed the jar of scale polish she somehow gotten.
Rarity was shocked. "What? How? Why? When?" Asked Rarity, but she was silenced by Pear who was shaking her head.
"Rarity, I have a feeling that it is better if we don't question it." Said Pear.
All the girls nodded. "Yep, its Pinkie Pie, don't question it." Said AJ. Suddenly every creature in the whole world felt a shiver run up their spines. AJ looked at everyone. "Did everyone else feel that?"
Everyone nodded. Pinkie shrugged as she placed Spike onto her back, she walked over to her parents. "Sorry about that Dad, Spike was really dirty. So what did you want to talk about?" Asked Pinkie.
In Canterlot, a group of royal guards were escorting Corporal Swift Flight to the princess. "What is the meaning of this, I want to know why I am being brought in front of the princess." Said Swift Flight. But the guards just remained silent.
Once they reached the throne room, the guards stationed at the door, opened them and allowed the escort to enter the room. "Move." Said one of the guards pushing Swift Flight through the door.
Now that Swift Flight was in the throne room, the guards closed the door. Swift Flight looked at the princess, he saw her anger and her disappointment. The guards that were escorting Swift Flight, brought him to the base of the throne. Now that Swift Flight was here it was time to begin. "Guards leave us." Said the Princess.
"Yes your Highness." Said the guards as they exited the room quickly. Now that she was alone with Swift Flight, she showed her full anger. Celestia placed a sound proofing spell around the room. She walked down to the ground and approached Swift Flight, he was nervous and twitching.
"Corporal Flight, do you know why I asked to see you?" Asked Celestia.
Flight shook his head. "No I don't your highness, has something happened while I was on my mission to return that dragon from yesterday?"
Celestia nodded as she used her magic to anchor Flight's hooves to the ground. "Sadly yes." Suddenly the Transport report popped right in front of him. "It seems Spike somehow managed to cloned himself, escape your hold, and some how ended up in the exact opposite direction of the Dragon Lands."
Swift went pale as he gulped. "But that's impossible, I made my way to the boarder and placed him at the first cave I found, and I know It was occupied as there was smoke coming out of it and the sound of snoring." Said Swift lying through his teeth.
Celestia sighed. "I was hoping that you were going to tell me the truth." Said Celestia as she got Swift Flights record. She looked at the report. "2 counts of dereliction of duty, 4 counts of insubordination, 1 count of out right reckless endangerment. 5 years in the guard, would normally gain the rank of Sergeant or even lieutenant with a spotless record. But you, Swift Flight are a special case, and even after all of the incidents recorded, you were still able to dodge a dishonorable discharge. That was until now." Said Celestia. "AS OF THIS MOMENT, YOU ARE OUT OF THE ROYAL GUARD, AND WILL BE BRANDED AS SUCH." Declared Celestia in her Royal Canterlot Voice. "That ends the military trial, now lets start your civilian trial." Said Celestia. "For acts against the kingdom of Equestria, you are charged with one account of child endangerment, seeing as you probably left Spike in the Everfree Forest, one count of attempt at murder of a child, and lastly one count of attempt at terrorism."
"Wait Terrorism? I would never do such a thing."
Celestia sighed. "I understand the confusion, but its true, the reason I asked you to take Spike to the dragons, was in hope of stopping a possible attack to retrieve him, but since you deliberately disobeyed my orders, and since I am the highest authority and disobeying a direct order from me is grounds for immediate dismissal from the guard, the moment you changed course, you ended your time as a guard, and became a threat to the kingdom. That also meaning, you were a private citizen when you abandoned Spike to die. Thankfully he was saved by a group of ponies, who will be my next stop after your sentencing." Said Celestia.
Swift Flight gulped. "Sentencing?"
Celestia nodded. "Yes, taking into account all the charges against you, I have deemed a fitting punishment. You shall be sent to Tartarus, where you will spend the next 60 years, atoning for your actions, your family..." Said Celestia as she looked at the file. "Will not be given any compensation for your time in the guard and will be put up for adoption. Sadly you will not be able to see your rabbit, Angel again." Celestia then returned the file. "Swift Flight, why did you do it?" Asked Celestia.
Swift sighed. "I was scared."
Celestia walked over to Swift and leaned next to his ear. "WELL SO WAS HE." Yelled Celestia as she teleported Swift Flight to Tartarus. She sighed. "Ok, I need to go retrieve Spike, and personally take him back to the Dragon Lands." Said Celestia as she teleported to Ponyville to start her search for the dragon.
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Not really planning to mean that but sure if you like that idea roll with it.
*Big Applause* Bravo Bravo, encore encore!!!!!😀👍
As for Celestia taking Spike back to the Dragonlands, I'm afraid she's gonna run into some opposition to that!😉
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Thank you I try my best, but i was surprised that no one thought to mention Tartarus during the vote.
Good riddance.
Why do I get a feeling hes gonna crop up later as the one letting teirk out and getting Cerberus of there post also hes getting of lightly since most places acts of terrorism are grounds for death.
Good thing equestria is a place that puts more faith on redemption then others do (also sorry to everyone that read this before I clarified it)
PS. you missed out a continuity moment by not having celestia and swift both shiver for some reason and asking the gurds outside if they felt that
There’s probably not two trials since it seems like double jeopardy but then I’m not in the military so what do I know.
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Dude it’s Equestria, and this story is rated teen, no death.
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I know sorry I should have clarified that equestria is a place that prioritises redemption over harsher methods
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It’s cool.
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Oki still lol when you put a line in saying everyone in the universe it dont make sense to not reference it in a different place at the same time
Welp Celestia is going to have to convince spike to leave his new family not to mention his five new mothers, five aunts, two uncles, ten grandparents, and a granny smith all of whom are extremely protective of him. Not to mention his five mother are the NEW BEARERS OF THE ELEMENT OF HARMONY.
Sorry Sunbut but this is a losing battle.
That seems like an accurate military trial. For Nazi Germany. I imagine if any of his actual commanding officers were made aware of his actions, he might have gotten a similar sentence, but instead of getting yelled at by a soccer mom, he would have had to wait and wait in cold isolation as a verdict was reached.
Little does she know that it's already to late.
Hey is the next chapter when twilight finds spike and takes him in? Or something like celestia does take spike but realise that twilight needs him more as a friend and brother/son.
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No twilight doesn’t even know about Spike
Well, I have to admit that I DID really liked this chapter. The exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up were all well done in all the right places. I especially liked the "bath time" scene with Spike (particularly the introduction to Gummy and probably the in-universe origin of the "It's Pinkie Pie. Don't question it." phrase. And, yeah, Swift is DARN lucky Celly was merciful enough to only sentence him to 60 years. And, yeah, not only will Celly NOT be able to retrieve Spike and bring him back to the Dragon Lands, but I have a hunch this will lead to Fluttershy ALSO adopting Angel.
At any rate, I will VERY DEFINITELY be looking forward to more of this.
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I don't think Twilight is going to be involved with Spike anytime soon.
i wonder who would win celestia or 5 mothers
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5 mothers, 10 grandparents, 7 uncles and aunts, and a legal document stating that they are his guardians
Why was Angel the captain's bunny, I thought he was with Fluttershy.
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True but I said he would be up for adoption while he was in Tartarus. And plus it has only been two days since she landed on the ground.
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What will the next chapter be about
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Working on that, but right now it’s Celestia using the report to head to the Apple farm, and Asking granny a favor, using the fact that they know each other from her flashback. There or there’s about
Will Spike be taken away in this story?
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Find out next chapter
Swift really screwed up
The only problem with the trial is that there would have been only one. Since he wouldn't be Dishonorably Discharged(though he would be stripped of his rank) until after he served his sentence. And while it would be grounds for immediate discharge, he would still need to be processed. So only military crimes, which might actually carry harsher punishments. That being said it's all moot since this is your story Celestia can do it however you want.
Thank you for sharing this delightful story.
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So Celestial hoofpicked a single guard, one with such a record, for the mission of carrying on an egg to the Dragon Lands...and he dumped it as soon as he could. Shocking
OK to be honors swift flight He messed up big time and trust me I was really mad about that but Some of the punishment is reasonable but some of them was a little extreme but then again I don't know It's a mix for me but If I'm gonna be honest it's a fitting punishment
"Rarity, I have a feeling that it is better if we don't question it." Said Pear.
I learned that a long time ago as well