The Spark
After Fifi's disastrous delivery, Sunny had to rely on an emergency local order to get her supplies refilled for the next few shifts, before finally closing up for the day and heading back towards the lighthouse. She was coming up the path to the front doors when they burst open, and Zipp came out, followed quickly by Pipp.
"Zipp, I seriously don't understand you!" Pipp told her incredulously.
"Sis, just drop it!" Zipp snapped. "I'm not interested. There's no way I would ever be qualified for something like that."
With that, Zipp spread her wings, and took off, headed east over the hills outside of town, while Sunny came up to Pipp.
"So I take it she knows already?" Sunny asked.
Pipp nodded.
"Thinks the no-flight rule is ridiculous, and will likely be giving Hitch an earful sooner than later. But at the same time, she doesn't think she's fit to teach other pegasi how to fly," Pipp answered.
"She's probably the most fit!" Sunny countered.
"I know, right? How can she say she isn't qualified? I mean, even I've managed to make time to give up-and-coming livestreamers some pointers on the basics to help them share their passions with the rest of the city."
From the stunned, wide-eyed expression that formed on Sunny's face, Pipp knew she had struck some kind of nerve.
"What? What did I say?" Pipp asked.
"You aren't quite ready for dinner, are you?" Sunny asked.
"Not really, why?" Pipp replied.
"Come with me," Sunny told her, quickly turning around and heading down the hill at a steady gallop, and Pipp followed a moment later. The sun continued dipping below the horizon as the earth and pegasus mares made their way down the main street, right up to the dark CanterLogic building, which would normally be one of the brightest areas of town during this time of day.
The pair of ponies came up to the front doors, and Sunny reached into her saddlebags and came out with the one and only working keycard to the building, brushing it against the reader beside the door. The indicator light went from red to green, and the lock clicked open, letting her pull open the front door.
The entire factory was under emergency lighting only, so the entire front concourse was only dimly lit. Pipp stayed close to her friend as they passed the front offices and came to the production floor. The wide open space made it a lot darker than the offices up front, but it was still clear to see their surroundings; cardboard boxes littered the entire floor, some filled, some not.
Sunny knew what had happened; the factory staff were in the middle of getting rid of all of Phyllis' propaganda materials when Toots had made the call to shut it all down and hand the property over to her.
"Sunny, what are we doing here?" Pipp asked.
Sunny finally came to a stop in the middle of the wide open floor.
"Alright," she began, turning to Pipp. "Picture this if you can; all of this junk cleared away. The earth ponies and unicorns are loving their new smartphones, and your streams are just getting more and more popular, with quite a few ponies wanting to give it a try themselves. So, let's give them a place to do it. Right here! A livestreaming studio! Where ponies can give tutorials and lessons and content on any manner of subjects!"
Now it was Pipp with the wide-eyed, stunned look, as a building's worth of light bulbs came on in her head.
"Sunny... That. Is. Genius! Where do we start?"
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Absolutely ADORED the dialogue, characterizations and future chapter set-up in here. REALLY loved Sunny's getting the inspiration concerning what to do with Canterlogic from Pipp's frustrated remark on taking the time to teach other ponies the basics of the smart phones while Zipp still refused to teach the other Pegasi how to fly (though we know Zipp will change her mind eventually, even only if for one shot [possibly two shots counting teaching Sunny how to handle the Pegasus end of her training wheels Alicorn abilities]).
Definitely looking forward to more of this.
Okay so far interesting so apparently zipp felt like she's not qualified even though she is the only one who actually knows how flying works but after that sunny thought up thanks to pipps idea to use the building for it looks like they're going to use it as a live streaming Studio which that's an interesting thing I wonder how this will go guess we'll find out next time
I.. ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS NEW CHAPTER!
Can't wait to see if they're going to turn the abandoned Canterlogic building into a huge smartphone store!
Also, I hope they'll think of something to get Zipp to change her mind about opening a flight school.
So that's how Sunny gets the idea for Canterlove Studios
(livestreaming studio, public access station, tomato, tomahto).
Believe it or not, I can understand Zipp not believing she's qualified, or at least using it as an excuse. Sure, she's had the most experience trying to fly before flight magic returned, and is probably the most competent. But it's one thing to know how to do something, and it's another to teach/train/coach others to do something. Teaching is a skill in and of itself, and even a savant can have trouble imparting what they know to others. Add the fact that some students/trainees may not take up certain skills as easily as others, and the would-be teacher would need to be able to reach them and be patient with them.
Beyond that, Zipp doesn't exactly like attention, and it's hard getting her to do anything she doesn't want (going mostly off of the Yes Day episode of TYT). Just because she's the closest thing to an expert flier the pegasi have (for now) doesn't mean she'll be a good flight instructor, and I can imagine her believing that and wanting to weasel out of it as a result.
Good. No one deserves them.
This chapter was solid work as always! Really love the way that things are progressing here. Pipp giving Sunny the idea of what to do with the Canterlogic building was a very clever idea, I was quite impressed by that! As always, I look forward to seeing where this story goes next!
The moment I saw this episode, I immediately shouted, “That’s my goal with my International Digidestined Project!” I’ve been working towards this very ambitious goal for years now, just in a more concentrated and organized, yet organic way. Kind of like what MatPat said the other day in his farewell video
Sharing and trading of talents, learning new trades, helping others in discovering one’s own talent(s), starting new trades, and whatever else