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SockPuppet


I like writing about the worst day of a character's life; it lets us see the mettle inside. (Pronouns: RB/20 )

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Pipp finds lost pets. Haven takes a spa day. Zipp commits science. (Wings are a rounding error.)

(Set a year or two before the G5 movie.)

Audio reading!!!


Thanks to Damaged, Samey90, and others on Discord for brainstorming.

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A stream of emojis flooded the chat as Pippsqueaks reacted to the threat of something upsetting.

The emojis really communicate just how sad this is.

Well, Zipp is in treble...

Ah, siblings. Can't live with 'em, and can't find a convenient bone marrow donor without 'em.

Every time I read one of these, I hear echoes of Sockno in my head—but my heart says SockYES!

Bravo.

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Heehee. Thanks!

I understand this is a comedy story, but I find it hard to believe that someone with Zipp’s intellect and living in the technologically advanced society of Zephyr Heights would be fully unaware of what a catapult is. :twilightoops: Also considering the fact that there was enough detail in the book that Zipp could construct the objectively correct apparatus, she would have seen that cats are obviously not a prerequisite.

The comedy was well written, but it required too much suspension of disbelief for me to get into it.

This is absolutely glorious of how things escalate! Just a nice normal beginning and then BAM! Goodness this holds so many good laughs! Hope ya didn't mind, but I couldn't help but make a reading of this fancy fic of yours!

Audio Linky!: https://youtu.be/AGNhs0kWU4M

On the one hand, God damn it, Sock.

On the other, we need more mad scientist Zipp, especially pre-Sunny. It's all the fun of human Twilight with none of her external moral compasses!

:rainbowhuh: "You mean friends?"
:twilightsheepish: "I know what I said."

A textbook example of a high-Intelligence character with Wisdom as their dump stat.

A very funny story, but for me it intersected rather unfortunately with the fact that, ah, I happen to really like cats.

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LOL. Better than I could have said it myself!


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Ha! Zipp would make a great anti-villain, not gonna lie.

"Please, if you see Thunderhead, let me know! He was last spotted off Sunset Avenue, not far from Vine. He likes chasing mice, taking naps, and..." Pipp's eyes widened "...and, ahem, yeah, not reading that last one."

Bit of a tomcat, eh? :trixieshiftleft:

"This is Sir Tibbles! He's missing from Central ZH, and PippFan3760 misses him so much! He likes chasing rats, naps in the sun, and—" she shot a glare at somepony off camera. "I told you to censor these!"

Lot of tomcats, apparently. :twilightoops:

"This device's name is quite unambiguous," Zipp said. "I have to use cats."

Zipp...I can hear Twilight sighing in disappointment from a whole generation away.

Pausing as she prepared to re-hook the firing mechanism, Zipp sighed. "What the heck is a treb? ...and where can I find them?"

...the sighs are getting stronger, Zipp. :facehoof:

Everybody's going on about mad scientist Zipp (which is totally fair), but personally I liked the idea of Pipp being the one proactive enough to do the investigating, and now I'm picturing this being a thing with her, her going and getting into misadventures like this while trying to be a private detective for her Pippsqueaks. Seems to me that'd be a lot of fun in of itself. :raritystarry:

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Sadly, I've gotcha beat--my folks had to put down a family cat just yesterday, so the loss of Mr. Puffpuff does hit a little close to home at the moment. :twilightoops:

That said though, I still enjoyed the story, so it still pulls through where it needed to, clearly. :twilightsmile:

"This device's name is quite unambiguous," Zipp said. "I have to use cats."

Son of a...

"What the heck is a treb? ...and where can I find them?"

Those are those fluffy things that keep following Hitch around, innit?

Zipp said, "It's a cat-apult." She pointed to a book on the shelf to one side that her horrified sister had missed.

A small cloud of pine needles rose in the distance.

"Mr. Puffpuff!"

"Look, check the book yourself. A cat-apult has to use cats." Zipp pointed her wing again before cranking on a winch to bring the throwing arm back into battery, the counterweight rising again.

"Zipp!" Pipp's voice was shrill as she read the book. "This isn't a cat-apult. It's a treb-uchet."

Pausing as she prepared to re-hook the firing mechanism, Zipp sighed. "What the heck is a treb? ...and where can I find them?"

:rainbowlaugh:

Sockdamnit. I laughed. Take your upvote.

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but personally I liked the idea of Pipp being the one proactive enough to do the investigating, and now I'm picturing this being a thing with her, her going and getting into misadventures like this while trying to be a private detective for her Pippsqueaks.

Agreed! She didn't get enough development in the movie, and I wanted to show her being passionate about something here.

Zipp starts stealing tennis balls for a ballista next.

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The idea was floated, but didn't make the cut.

Dude...

Okay. Pipp and carcinoma. Medium dark...

Zipp Storm. She got a raspberry-colored Unicorn in her ancestry used to work for an idiot trying to take over the world...???

CATapult...??? :fluttercry:

You did a naughty! :flutterrage: :flutterrage:

Pipp wouldn't go down to the station...

Bad cell reception...:facehoof:

Thanks for the story!

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I've listened to your reading of this like 3 times!:twilightsmile:

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That's a funny idea!:rainbowlaugh:

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JESUS CHRIST!:twilightoops::fluttershbad:
The most intense ball type to acquire in large numbers!:twilightoops:

11572348 🎶 gotta catch 'em all 🎵

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You're really living up to your username!:rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh::rainbowwild::rainbowlaugh:

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