Hearth Stone Breakers, Part Three
Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
By TDR
Hearth Stone Breakers,
Part Three
[Ponyville, Hearths Warming. Newly constructed Neighlantis embassy]
“No.” Aria stated flatly.
“But it's CHRISMAHANUKWANZAKAH!!!” Sonata pleaded.
“Wrong world dear.” Discord pointed out.
Sonata stopped a moment and considered.
“Then it's Hearth-a-Nest-a-Yule-a-Nino-a-LastFruit-a-MidSnow!!”Sonata listed before adding. “-A-.”
“What?” Aqua questioned.
“Pony, Griffon, Elk, Seapony, Nox-Cal, Buffalo.” Sonata explained.
“She is decidedly your daughter.” Aqua sighed as Discord beamed proudly.
“Look. Sparkles not here, and since we're paroled to her I'm not going any where.” Aria sighed.
“But I wanna see the decorations...” Sonata pouted.
“Look, you can go if you want, if any one asks, I'll cover for you.” Aria sighed.” To be fair I don't even think any one would care much, The Mayor was more annoyed at Twilight pushing her community service time off one some one else than anything. “
“But we've always celebrated together.” Sonata whined.
“Yeah well, it's changed this year whether we like it or not. Still there's nothing stopping you from coming back after seeing the kelp lights and stuffing your face full of poffins. Not like I can really swim at the moment any way.” Aria shifted her fore leg that was still in a sling. “ Seriously go have fun and don't worry about me.”
Sonata stared at Aria.
“Aria. Is there a reason your father keeps trying to offer you a radio?” Aqua questioned.
Aria blinked and looked back at Discord who was grinning like a fool and holding a fancy looking radio.
“ What...... oh that. Ugh of course you remember that. A basic radio isn't going to burn water. It's not even efficient you have to put more power in than you get out.” Aria grumbled.
“But, but, you said....” Discord pouted.
“I said maybe.. for Christmas.” Aria corrected.
“It is Christmas!” Discord huffed.
“No it isn't, it's... whatever Sonata said.”
“Hearth-a-Nest-a-Yule-a-Nino-a-LastFruit-a-MidSnow!!” Sonata provided.
“Right thanks. See,” Aria sighed. ”Not Christmas.”
“But....” Discord whined.
“No.”
“Fine.” Discord pouted.
“I'm not sure what I am happier about. The fact you tricked your father some how, or that you are not doing what he wanted.” Aqua offered.
[ Pie rock farm]
There was a flash of light and a soft popping sound.
“Alright I've got a bag of bacon potatoes.” Twilight offered hefting the bags as she approached her small group after the teleport.
“Gimi gimi!” Sunset squeed.
“Calm down. Chicken Alfredo..” Twilight offered handing over the bag to Applebloom raising her eyebrow at the order.
“Don't yah judge me.” Applebloom huffed.
“Right So anything happen while I was gone?” Twilight asked opening her own food to begin scarfing it down. She was still mad they didn't have any ketchup.
“Dunno about the others, but Spike's in a food coma after Maud kept asking him what certain rocks tasted like.” Sunset offered.
“And did you keep an eye on Mac and Marble?” Twilight questioned.
“Yeah, that was weird.” Applebloom pointed out.
“Mm-hmm.”
“Eeyup.”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Eeyup.”
“Then it got weirder when Rahs got involved.” Applebloom added.
“Mm-hmm.”
“Eeyup.”
“Bark.”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Eeyup.”
“Bark”
“ Of course if their goal was tah drive Limestone mad, it worked”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Eeyup.”
“Bark.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Eeyup.”
“Bark”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
“I'm kinda surprised at you Twilight.” Sunset offered gulping down half her food like she was starving.” Another mare is with Big Mac and you're not freaking out.”
“It's fine. I trust Mac. I only get upset if the mare after him is the super insistent or flirtatious sort.” Twilight offered.
“No you don't, you see any mare git near um and yah blow up like a psychotic pyro” Applebloom accused.” Yah need tah calm down.”
“Seriously, you do. There's only room in Ponyville for one psychotic pyro, and that's me.” Sunset offered ignoring the other two looking at her with a hint of worry.
“So how'd yah meet Iggy here any way?” Granny Smith asked.
“We were chosen by the Pairing Stone and betrothed within a fortnight.” Cloudy offered.
“The choosing stone decreed, "Thou shalt love one another." And lo, it was so.” Igneous stated.
“Hoo-wee, I gots to look into this oldfangled choosin' stone thing. You reckon it knows any apple-farmin' hunks?” Granny Smith cackled.
“Indeed so.” Igneous agreed.
“Mmm “ Cloudy added.
“Must be somethin to it too given yah got four daughters outta what tha stone told yah.” Granny nodded.
Igneous and Cloudy spared a short worried glance to each other.
“Indeed.” Cloudy stated.
[That night]
“Can't believe ya didn't save me any food.” Granny Smith grumbled.” Ah'm still to pretty tah be wasting away from starvation.”
“We've gotta do somethin', y'all! Pinkie Pie's family never had a real Hearth's Warmin'!” Applejack muttered to the group with her.
“What really?” Granny Smith asked.” She tell yah that?”
“Nah but she described her whole thing and it's jus kinda weird. They hide the presents rather than give um out, and some years they don't even find tha gifts.” Applejack explained.
“Woof?” Rahs asked.
“I don't think it's a finance sort of thing, rock farming has always been very lucrative given how many things need specific crystals. Sure I bet the market dipped in the last few years thanks to the return of the Crystal Empire, but the demand for them is still higher than the supply.” Twilight explained.
“Even if it was that , it's not something easily brought up as it might be a sore spot.” Sunset shrugged.” We can ask Fluttershy later though if we need to.”
“These are prolly just their traditions.” Applebloom shrugged. “ They're weird, but that's cause we've used tah ours.”
“I know they have their traditions and we have ours, but I just want them to see how much better theirs could be.” Applejack offered. “Ah mean ah don't expect them to change up theirs, but maybe we ken bring some of what we do intah what they do. Particularly if we're family.”
The others looked at each other.
“Well that would mean we would have had to open the presents yesterday like we do.” Twilight offered.” We started doing that for Spike to try and spread his birthday as far from Hearths Warming as we could.”
“Urp.” Spike offered from where he had been rolled into the corner, the dragon having stuffed himself into a food coma on all the rocks and gems.
“Look ah ain't saying we should go all out, but at least a little bit tah show um how we do things as Apples.” Applejack offered.
“Ah suppose we ken try that out.” Granny agreed. ”Save's us from hauling all our extra luggage back ontah tha train.”
[Canterlot, Winter, Not long before Hearths Warming]
Celestia sighed sitting back in her throne.
“Alright every pony. Be ready.” Celestia muttered after Raven told her of the next petitioner.
The Guards around the room tensed and backed away from the throne to press against the walls.
Raven swallowed and darted off to the side diving behind a hastily built bunker.
A moment later the doors were kicked open and a pink alicorn stormed into the chambers.
“Oh Aunnnnntie...” Empress Cadence sing songed.
“And here we go.” Celestia sighed. “ Hello Cadence.”
“I need a word with you....”
“You're pregnant and so is Chrysalis and you want me to not do anything to her .” Celestia offered.
Cadence stumbled in her advance towards the throne, her whole rant derailed.
“How? What?” Cadence stammered.
“You're the third one today to come in. Shining Armor was first, then Twilight Velvet.”Celestia offered with a small smirk.
“What?! I told them to leave this to me.” Cadence huffed.
“Yes well, Twilight Velvet said the same thing.” Celestia shrugged. ”Would you like to at least offer up your threat?”
“Not much of a point now. I was just gonna use the fact I'm the goddess of love to take away your love of tea and cake.” Cadence huffed.
“Mmmm, credible threat.” Celestia nodded.
“Don't patronize me.” Cadence snapped and turned to storm out of the throne room slamming the doors behind her.
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Just needs Dash on chair, and Spike on drums?
and Count Basy on Triangle?
He he i foresee rahas showing up at nightlights threat with some popcorn and someone going oh beep run for the bunker
Because its gonna be big and dramatic with someone mopping up the floor
Uh oh... Do the Pie's have another child they haven't mentioned? Or is one of their current ones adopted?
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Remember back when people thought Octavia was Pinkie's sister?
And Celestia shows off how Genre Savvy she is.
Also, poor Spike. It's present and future Spike's problem now.
I am looking forward to Chrissy pestering the
FUCK
out of Celestia!
Was sorta hoping for a "King Of The Hill" bit with this. Ah well...
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Which leaves for last...
Chrysalis asking nicely.
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Now thats a complete mindfuck lol her being nice
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nah, more likely they pretended they were chosen by the stone, and they already had a foal on the way.
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Or it has SOMETHING to do with the suspect way of hwo they know about Moon Dogs
Caught up again...poor celestia...she can't catch a break
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Old wisdom 'every now and then declare peace...it confuses the heck out of your enemies'
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Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #76.
Luna: You can do that? That would help deflat her flank a little bit. (and probably she would come to like Espresso too)
Celestia: I am not fat!
Luna: Have you noticed your throne is much wider than mine? You need to exercise more.
Not bad. Personally I think Cadance needs to do it now, remove Celestia’s love for cake. Show Celestia this isn’t a bluff and that way Cadance can do some bluffs later.
Oh having her around with Sunset is going to be fun.... the two can have entire conversations based on memes and pop culture nopony understands.
Okay, that is cute. Though, to be pedantic, we do know the Griffon midsummer celebration, it's the Blue Moon Festival, not anything dealing with nests. Also, the Nox-Cal one being 'last fruit' is kind of awesome and I love it!
Yeah, you guys won't even rank in the top ten for 'weird shit Ponyville has seen.'
I'm trying to figure out what the radio thing was about.
Yes, praise to glory of the Bacon! And get them some actual food!
It's bacon, there is no judgement. Only deliciousness.
Pfffffftm at least one of you gets a feast.
....
Okay this gag was freaking hilarious! Even better if his 'Bark' was just him saying "Uh-huh"
She is not wrong. Twilight will have to swap to Mad Bomber or something else like that.
And also learn to not be so obsessively jealous and clingy.
Huh, interesting. As noted... yeah I'm going with that one.
Damnit AJ! PHRASING! I get what you mean, and even if your heart is in the right place, your head is right up your plot! And yet, yeah it makes sense for her to see things this way, her biggest flaw has always been being stubborn, set in her ways, and hard to change her mind, especially on anything regarding family or traditions.
Was there really a need to change this from canon? Given that was a perfectly reasonable reason for that tradition to start?
And also we saw nothing about his birthday being in winter.
It's times like these, especially after all the Chryssi fights, the guards really have to start wondering why they are needed at all given she is literally immortal, and all they can do is serve as collateral damage. Eh, guess they also can help keep civilians out of the blast radius.
Huh, Cadance, not Nightlight. Okay then, going to go with vieled threats, or has Celestia had time to pass that Conflict stone lodge in her somewhere and can head this all off with "I know, I know, tell her to leave me alone and I'll do likewise."
That's not agreeing with it, just stating the facts.....
...... Yeah, sorry Cady but...... it's got nothing on the wrath of a Sparkle, let alone two of them.
And that still isn't an agreement from Celestia to leave off on the Chryssi killing for a few months..........
"Maybe. But that's just step one."
"What's step two?"
Cadence smiled, "I replace those loves with ones for plain rice cakes and late night espressos."
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Some one found a way to set seawater on fire using radio waves.
I've referenced a few times that Spike's birthday is close to Hearths warming in the fic. it fit better for this than the canon reason.
A credible threat indeed
Given her love of tea and cakes, Celestia probably isn't patronizing Cadence and does genuinely see that as a credible threat.
Even with how much time has passed it would still be new (and maybe a little awkward) for Cadence's and Chrysalis' eldest daughter to see her parents together and having more children.
Does this mean that Saturnia is the crown princess (princess as in the child of the monarch, not princess like Luna and Celestia) of the Crystal Empire?
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yupShes crown princess of Changelings and Crystal Ponies
Just as Sunset is Crown Princess of Ponies and Sombra is crown prince of ponies and nox cal
Ha! Perfect Cadence Scene!
Why settle for one when you can have both
Of course he did
It might have been
Hmm?
I mean out of everyone Cadence have the most powerful threat.
Mood swings already...
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XD Marvel ref doesn't quite fit but I'll accept it.
I had my own hypothesis behind this for the canon verse, don't know how well it fits with your additional adjustments but here goes...
If we look back to the First Hearth's Warming, it seems the Earth Ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi had been in their feud for generations to the point of resource scarcity across the board which prompted the move to what would become Equestria in the first place, and once they arrived, seemingly before even a first harvest their feud started up again, so with that the harsh conditions and resource scarcity continued. Once the actual Hearths Warming occurred, their would still be some time before the now united Pony-kind could get out of their resource deficit, but the Hearths Warming provided two things, peace, and a chance at a future where they could actually prosper. So when the Pies are celebrating Hearth's Warming in the manner the emphasis would seem to focus on just what the original Hearth's warming would have been like, little food, few gifts, but I need to celebrate they had survived all the prior decades of strife and had a hope for a better tomorrow with their kin still among them.
Of course this is just my guess as to the origin of the Pie family tradition, and I could be wrong but I have yet to see a better guess or canon explanation, albeit I haven't searched for other answers either, (not so much out of refusal as much as, so low on the to do list of things in my life that I can't be bothered) so I could be easily wrong.
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Took me a while to find the reference. http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2007/11/fire-from-salt-water-lets-focus-people.html. TL;DR — it’s an interesting demonstration and a possible desalination technique if you’ve power to…
Wait for it…
Burn.
She....
sigh
This is going to bite her in the ass. Rule one of living in this world: Don't Fuck With The Sparkles.
Your the god of humor
Funny that the actual goddess is the least dangerous it seems
Wile a legit treat... Keeping it vage makes it more manicing...
I get it! Because horses and ponies don't like the taste of tomatoes. Nice one
Aren't tomatoes related to deadly nightshade or something like that?
Lol, imagining something so cute saying that is rather amusing.
Oh. Oh dear.
that one is cute
If Cadance take away the love of Cake and Sweets Celestias Moon sized butt might actually return to Canterlot City size!
Fun chapter, sad attempt even if true for Cadance can pill ot off.