Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Plecostomus Twilight Sparkle,
Epilogue
[Golden Oaks library, the next day]
Twilight stared at the box on the table.
The box sat on the table.
Applejack looked warily between the two.
“Tell me you secrets....” Twilight hissed, narrowing her eyes.
The box continued to sit on the table.
After freeing the captured gods, Harmony had presented the others this box as a gift for the six of them. It then opted to relocate itself some where less well known. It seemed the tree preferred solitude and more than one sapient creature finding it every hundred years was too much, five gods finding it at the same time was way to much. So before Twilight could recover the tree vanished in a flash of light leaving the cavern empty with no hint of where it might have gone.
This pissed Twilight off as she had SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many questions, the biggest of which was why her cutie-mark was on the tree.
Now there was this box. A vaguely diamond shaped chest with six keyholes that was gifted to the former Element Bearers, meaning that the six of them had the keys, or would find them, or some other noble test of worthiness or whatever the damn tree wanted.
Twilight had tried a number of spells and other things before she let Pinkie Pie try all the keys she had laying around. Four hours later and seven hundred and forty nine keys, showed no progress.
Rahs and Spike refused to allow her to spend the household budget on power tools to try and break it open.
Rahs and Applejack both didn't feel any magic from it, which was weird because Twilight was certain that the box was multidimensional since at least one facet on it moved depending on how it was placed.
“Twi. Ummm, yah got a moment?” Applejack asked nervously.
“Hmm sure. What's up? I still haven't figured this out, plus with the whole rock thing I really need to get back to work on that Familiar spell.” Twilight sighed poking the box with a hoof before turning her head to look over at Applejack.
“Yeah...well it's about yer brother...” Applejack muttered.
“ Which one?”
“Rahs..”
“Crap.. What did he do this time?”
“Nothing .. ah think..... look, no, he ain't in trouble..”
“Yet. So what about him?” Twilight offered, turning to look back at the box.
“Ah....... shoot ain't no easy way tah say this. Ah'm thinking tah maybe ask him out or something....” Applejack muttered.
“Bout time.” Twilight muttered.
“What?” Applejack asked.
“I thought you didn't like him like that, that it was all the witch-wolf ?” Twilight explained.
“Yeah well ah figured that would die down after a bit, but seeing Trixie all over him jus made me mad. So ah did some thinking and ah figured it's more than just what ever happened tah me. Though ah think having something else in my head pointing it out sorta brought it intah focus or something.” Applejack sighed.
“He's not likely going to use poison joke to be a pony for you....” Twilight stated, her attention on Applejack despite her gaze being on the box.
“In case yah don't recall, ah was one of tha few not going gaga over him as a pony. And given ah sometimes don't even notice when ah change forms now, ah doubt it matters too much.”
“You realize you'll have to be going against Jynx who has the goddess of love and Rarity backing her, Saturnia who has Chrysalis and oddly Shining Armor, backing her, and Trixie who has Spike and Princess Luna supporting her?”
“Yeah, ah know. Which is why ah'm asking you fer yer help. Ain't no one know more about him than you. Younger an older siblings gonna miss things bout tha middle child. But he's tha same age as you and thus a middle child as well.” Applejack logic'd.
Twilight smiled. “True, Cadence may have foal sat, and Chrysalis might have studied him from Celestia's notes, and Even Luna might know what he is and have a better connection with his race than any one else, but I've been studying him for years. The only one who might know even close to what I do is Celestia. And she's not got any bits in this bet.”
“Wait what was that last thing? Applejack blinked.
“Nothing, I will help you, lets get you hooked up with my brother. Clearly there is no accounting for taste.”
[Canterlot]
Celestia sighed, this was quite aggravating. Twilight did quite well considering, though ninety percent of Celestia's court cases this morning had been to complain about Twilight's methods. And one was from the Royal Library demanding she return their chair.
Celestia had no issues with how Twilight conducted things, Raven had already filled out a report and Celestia was rather proud on how Twilight dealt with everything. She was a little rash, true, but she had not been taught how to be a princess and had no desire to do so. Still reminding the petitioners that if anything happened to Celestia or her sister, Twilight would be in charge again probably cut down on some of the more stressful requests simply due to the fact no one wanted Celestia to take so much as a sick day now.
Court had broke for lunch a little while ago and Celestia was surprised to find Sunset was waiting for her in the small meeting room attached to the throne room where Celestia often took her meals between cases.
That her daughter looked some what pensive made her worry a bit.
“Did you need something Sunset?” Celestia asked moving to take a seat at the table.
“Not really, but maybe...” Sunset sighed. “ Look dad..... mom..... fuck it I'm going with mom I'm already going to have a head ache and half dealing with how I'm related to the Apples.”
“Well Granny's your half sister......”
“And her names Granny, and I'm Applejack's age, I'm probably just going to call everyone cousin and leave it at that.” Sunset grumbled.
“Alright. So I take that wasn't what you wanted to talk about then?” Celestia offered waving off the servant with a short statement of whatever the chef had on hoof. Lunch tended to be light for her any way, usually only one cake, maybe two.
“Well it's complicated. i might have found some one I'm interested in.” Sunset muttered.
Celestia paused sipping her tea. A thousand scenarios raced through her mind on who she might have met in the month she'd be back. There were also the mix of thoughts if she should be supportive like a mother or go borrow Granny's shotgun like a father.
Celestia had been quite careful to keep her away from any of the griffons that still came around. She doubted it would be one of the guards, maybe one of the Night Guard, Sunset did have a thing for the exotic and dangerous looking ones.
Not that Celestia could fault her, the Nocturne Nox- Cal were probably the only stallions that could mount her without a step stool. Hmm, might be good to look into that if Twilight ever figured out the familiar spell.
Sunset took the pause from Celestia to mean a large number of things, most of them were what she was worried about.
“I'm surprised you're asking me about this sort of thing and not Luna. Or Cadence, it is sort of her thing.” Celestia finally spoke.
“Yeah okay keep in mind it was Cadence during one of her visits that taught me sex ed cause I asked her about it.” Sunset shuddered.
“If it makes you feel better I banned her from trying to teach that to anyone in any public venue. And then after Twilight and Rahs received a lesson in private, I banned her from doing that too.” Celestia sighed.” Seriously if she has a foal with Shining, I have the entire Sparkle family and a legion of Guards ready to be teleported up there to stop any 'talk' she has.”
“Actually that does make me feel a little safer. But no I can't talk to Luna either due to …. reasons, but I figure you would be the best bet here anyway.” Sunset let out in a bit of a rush.
“Ahh well. I will help how I can. So who is this mysterious individual? When did you meet him? I'm assuming it's a him as you haven't had any interest in mares before.” Celestia smiled happy to be getting more into the parental role here.
“Well it started when I came back to steal the crown..........”
[Cadence's Love Lab, Canterlot]
“Wait so what did happen to his pants?” Chrysalis asked, she and Cadence had come down from Canterlot to find out what had happened to the sun and moon for a while there. Once here Luna pulled them both into Cadence's old Love Lab to talk.
“We don't know, we simply know that Trixie and Applejack seemed greatly amused by it.” Luna offered.
“Damn it. That would put you and Twilight in the lead.” Cadence frowned working over a cork board with some pins.” Trixie has now had several kisses with Rahs, and she's seen him naked. Applejack has seen him naked and no one knows what happened in the woods when she first changed. Jynx has one kiss, but Saturnia has nothing to show for her efforts yet.”
“HA HA Trixie shall be Rahs' paramour.” Luna grinned.
“My daughter has Twilight's permission.” Chrysalis offered leaning back in her chair with a smirk. “ She might not have had a kiss yet, but she's taking it slower.”
“Yes, well so does Applejack.” Cadence sighed.” But given Twilight supports Applejack, that Saturnia got permission from her is a fairly big deal.”
Any further statements were cut off as the big steel door to the main entrance of the Love Lab was blown off it's hinges. The great steel door was blasted across the room clipping the table and striking Chrysalis dead on, before impacting the far wall at high speed splattering the changeling queen against the wall like a bug under a flyswatter.
Luna and Cadence blinked looking at the mess against the far wall then back to the door as Celestia strolled in like she hadn't done anything wrong. She trotted up to the table and slapped her hoof on top of it, the bag of bits she held clanking on the table.
“Put me down for Sunset getting Rahs.” Celestia grinned.
Cadence blinked at Celestia, then looked at her carefully laid out shipping board. She then kicked it over with a scream.
[ Deep in the Everfree forest.]
A single black vine studded with blue spikes lay twitching on the ground. A large bulbous knot at one end of it exhaled a bit of gas as the plant tried to wiggle.
The vine had almost reached the far side of the forest and as such was almost out of the range of the blast that had destroyed all of the other vines.
Almost.
The broken end of the vine sizzled as the last of the magic of Harmony started eating along it's length turning it to ash. The magic had weakened from distance, but the plunder vine had not quite made it out of range.
The light had almost made it to the gas pod when a slash of darkness cut through the air severing the fading tendril from the rest of the gas pod.
The spell dissolved the rest of the cut vine leaving the pod and about two foot of vine left wiggling on the ground.
A dark figure approached the pod stomping on the wiggling tendril and slashing open the gas pod.
The vine shuddered it's last, though the dark shadowy figure smiled, and picked out a hoof full of black seeds from the pod.
“Well, well, plunder vine, who knew it was this potent. Seems I need to plant a little garden...” The darkness chuckled.
And now Celestia will throw her hat in the ring
But ended up getting your hooves on a scepter first
My god, is three not enough, you just need to add two more.
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I've been saying for a while. There are six.
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Trixie, Sunset, Applejack, Jynx, and Saturnia. Who is the sixth?
*Whimper!*
I can understand that
LOL! What a threat to have hanging over their collective heads!LOL!!
the sea is getting crowded with ships
If Sombra is the sixth one I don't know what I will do
Hopefully the Keyseed is more of a TARDIS than a Puzzlebox, and am puzzled as to why Twilight didnt already have the dimentional workings on the board given the behaviour of the thing, especially without detectable magic? Or would that be more Sunsets Technical side of things?
Celestia, accidentally, dooring Chrysalis.
Pinkie, what have you been doing?
Le gasp! Maybe that's how she pops out where you least expect it!
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*Whilst holding Rahs' junk* "By the power of Canterlot, I. HAVE. THE POWER~!"
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Given the personalities and behaviors of those involved and that the Storm King was already mentioned, I'm betting (hoping) that Tempest Shadow is the sixth.
Glad I'm not Rahs.
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I can see it, and am scared.
That's probably whatsisface who keeps getting snubbed, if I had to guess. He's now got stuff from someone competent. Possibly.
poor rah,
also Celestia you may want to add in the rest of the mane 6 and the CMC into the mix to stop cadence from give her foal the talk,
...
The betting pool is now too complicated. While my preferred winner is still Trixie, it looks like the contest is going to be for who is the harem leader.
So I'm putting one bottle bottlecap down for a harem ending.
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Is that how they will beat Strom King's invasion?
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Something tells me that dooring was NOT an accident...ouch
Normally I don't care about romance, but now I'm thinking way too hard about how the whole Rahs thing is going to go, well done for getting me invested in something that I normally don't care about at all. I'm fairly sure it's going to end up as a herd relationship, but I feel like it would be too simple if all six of them ended up with him.
anyone
anyway
Extra quotation mark at the end, or possibly a missing one earlier in the paragraph if Cadence was supposed to say that out loud.
feet
There should be a comma after 'vine'.
There should be a comma after 'pod'.
Hmmm. Who could this be, I wonder....
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Celestia showed Chrysalis the door!
(Now to wait for the unexpected payback)
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that or she could get the god council to ban her by trick them all into listen to it....
I was hoping that Sunset would be interested in Sombra. Just think of all the chaos and panic it would have caused!
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It's rarely about the destination, but the journey. Granted a bad road trip can make even a visit to a dumpster fire seem good.
I walk a fine line here.
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But .. they're cousins... First cousins too.
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From what I remember, Princesses Luna and Celestia are half siblings (I'm going to assume for simplicity sake that all of this works just like it does in humans), thus making them half cousins. First cousins have about a 12.5% genetic diversity, second cousins have
3.125% and half cousins are 6.25%. Though none of it is really relevant if they dont have foals.
I don't mean to come off as upset that it doesn't look like they will get together. I only mentioned it because I found it rather amusing to image ponies reactions, especially the nobles, of two 'supposedly' former villains going out.
If I have any if it wrong, my apologies. I'm not very knowledgeable in relationships and my info was gained from spending a few hours searching online.
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nope you got it
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I'll put money on that too.
Also, TDR, when you mentioned the idea of six suitors back in 'Felidae Indeed' back in Season 2, you worded in in a way that left me confused over whether you mean there would be six females, or nine or ten:
I wasn't sure if this meant six total or, six in addition to the existing three (plus Applejack).
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I also at another point, i forget where , had the three of them there , then did a side flash of 3 others sneezing as some one mentioned Rahs' girls.
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Ehhh, you could justify there being the exact number needed by the whole, Goddess of Prophecy thing, even accounting for Zecora drinking one in all that. Makes sense behind the scene, but far less intuitive or understandable on it's own then just being a straight line back in time each go.
So quick bit of wrap up, I'm guessing maybe some streamlining of the process for two alicorns taking an a quick break without telling anypony, and.. well.. all that energy those vines drained from the gods had to go somewhere.....
Wait, are we now adding in the Harmony Box?
Huh.... well then.... this changes some things.... though they do have the Box at least but still...... Poor Fluttershy, she'd so love to spend time talking to the tree.
See, you all need to try something that not even the original versions did, just call in Littlepip, she'll find a way to get those locks open.
Finally about to admit you want to help him 'bury his bone'?
Pffffft, and, let's face it, have any of the other suitors just tried being direct and asking for a date versus some overly flowery declaration of wanting to be together forever/have his babies?
Are you sure you want to get involved in this insanity?
Also where is Jynx!? Poor girl has really not had much of a chance to make her case lately.
There is a reason the Sparkles are not allowed to bet on each other......
Yeeeaaahhhh.. I'm still pulling for Jynx, as much as having all three Sparkles and Apples hooking up would make.... IDK, I just like how Jynx handles it better.
Well, if nothing else she can use this as a "Try to get me off the throne, and she'll be back in charge" threat for the nobles. Also, you can try to take that chair away from Twilight if you want, buying a new one will cost less then the medical bills.
Called it!
And this is before adding in Pinkie Pie to the genetic mix.
She will get that portfolio one day!
"Mostly because I saw what he's packing and.... DAMN! Maybe I should offer to let him find out if anything else tastes like bacon."
let's face it, after all this...... you really do need to get laid Tia.....
She brought in visual aides. Her own, personal ones!
Sadly, Celestia can't do anything about how Cadance sets up the Crystal Empires school system.........
Wait, why is it still here and not moved to the Empire?
Ah, she did move it, but the room remains, alright.
Hi Celestia... so... coming to chew them out..... or putting some money in the betting pool?
You know... this is how holy wars start.....
Okay, when you love life is enough to make the Goddess of Love ready to rage quit... you are either doing something very, very wrong, or very very right.
Okay, so not bieng used to help bring about Groger's return, buuut, hi there Solomon!
Ok callling it now, shadowy guy isn't Solomon or Grogar...it's Starswirl, whom has been evil all along...to the surprise of none.
Hons Solo Mane I presume.
Since Rahs is a god... Many litters would be problematic... As mortal i say "go for a litter per mare" but after become a god...
Hmmm... Honestly, the only person this can realistically be is Grogar. It said a "Hoof" full of seeds, so it's not Tirek, and certainly not any of the Gods... I think. I don't think any of them have hooves anyways, barring the pony gods.
Wait... What about Stygian? Or does the altered history mean he's not the Pony of Shadows in this story? Guess I should keep reading.
Rahs... His life is a drama but his romance will be a sitcomedy
Plunder Vines will have a return it seems.
Harmony can be kinky and sneaky.
Sunset was doomed when Rahs mighty Scepter was grabbed by her. Priceless Celestia moment.
Damn... Dying most be like 'shaving' by now for Chrysalis & Celestia. Regulary unwelcome happenings.
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Priceless Treasure
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Since Rahs is a god he has not longer the excuse to die by Snu-Snu. Dying do to Snu-Snu seems to be unavoidable...
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Why not seven? Why not make it eleven
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The Fleet is ready to set sail ♡
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With your Avatar it is a priceless commend
rofl Rahs and his stupid drama powers is fuckin with cadences shipping charts something fierce
So... if I understand this right.
If Twilight gets with Big Mac, Spike hooks up with Applebloom, and Rahs settles down with Apple jack, nearly the entire Sparkle siblings would be married into the Apple family.
Though, I suppose that would be the same if Rahs goes with Sunset, but then the Sparkles would be more directly related to Celestia.
Oh how this circle of dramatic Chaos spins. Just pick the Harem option and regret your life choices.
You know it's bad when Cadence is ready to call it quits on your convoluted love life!
So many females are after Rahs mighty scepter ~♤
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Mote like see her newcomer make a total re-evaluation necessary.
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More puppy's more fun
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Rahs pack options grow ever bigger and thicker ~♡