Interlude 2
In the heart of Canterlot, nestled within the majestic walls of the royal palace, lay the exquisite Royal Gardens. Here, beneath the azure sky and bathed in the soft glow of the sun, lush greenery flourished in abundance, creating a serene oasis of natural beauty amidst the bustling city.
The gardens were a symphony of color and fragrance, with vibrant blooms of every hue carpeting the landscape in a riot of color. Roses, tulips, and lilies danced in the gentle breeze, their delicate petals unfurling in a delicate display of nature's artistry. Towering trees arched overhead, their leafy branches swaying in harmony with the whispering wind, casting dappled shadows upon the verdant earth below.
Stone pathways wound their way through the garden, meandering past bubbling fountains and tranquil ponds teeming with koi fish. The air was alive with the melodious song of birds, their sweet melodies mingling with the gentle rustle of leaves and the soothing murmur of flowing water.
At the heart of the garden, a grand pavilion stood proudly, its elegant columns and intricate carvings a testament to the craftsmanship of Canterlot's finest artisans. Here, amidst the splendor of nature, Princess Celestia and her esteemed guests gathered for a leisurely afternoon tea. And the guests by this time were nopony else than special to her.
Seated around a polished wooden table adorned with delicate china and sparkling silverware, Princess Celestia, Princess Cadance, and Shining Armor savored the tranquil atmosphere of the garden as they indulged in cups of fragrant tea and dainty pastries. Their laughter mingled with the gentle hum of conversation as they exchanged stories and shared fond memories of times gone by.
Princess Celestia, resplendent in her flowing robes of gold and ivory, radiated warmth and grace as she presided over the gathering with regal dignity. Her gentle smile lit up her face as she listened attentively to her companions, her wise eyes sparkling with quiet amusement.
Beside her, Princess Cadance exuded an aura of elegance and poise, her graceful movements and radiant smile a reflection of her inherent beauty and kindness. She laughed merrily at Shining Armor's jests, her laughter like tinkling bells in the gentle breeze.
Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal Guard, cut a striking figure in his polished armor and regal attire. His strong, noble features were softened by the warmth of his smile as he regaled his companions with tales of his latest exploits in service to the crown.
And nearby, Princess Luna, the serene mistress of the night, watched over the gathering with a fond smile as she cradled her beloved niece, Flurry Heart, in her arms. The baby princess cooed and giggled, her bright eyes wide with wonder as she reached out to touch the colorful butterflies that flitted through the air around her.
Together, they basked in the tranquility of the Royal Gardens, their hearts filled with love and laughter as they savored the simple joys of friendship and camaraderie amidst the splendor of nature's embrace. And as the sun dipped below the horizon, casting a golden glow upon the horizon, they knew that moments like these were to be cherished forever in the hallowed halls of memory.
...until a question was made at that moment.
“I’m surprised to see you all come here to visit us. I thought you both were waiting for Twilight to visit you all for a nice time before Hearts and Hooves’ Day.” Princess Celestia commented which made both husband and wife, monarchs of Crystal empire blink from such a question…
“She is?” Both Shining Armor and Princess Cadance asked in unison as they heard the giggling coming towards their little filly who was seeing the princess of the night making faces at her.
“Well, from the letter I received, she seemed eager to visit you both before coming to visit her parents here in Canterlot.” Princess Celestia noticed the nervous sweat coming from both ponies and then realized what possibly happened, she then blinked before uttering their word. “Oh…”
“She is probably in the train at this moment, she is going to be peeved at the time she finds out that we aren’t at the castle.” Shining pointed at his wife, and she laughed nervously.
“Maybe she will forgive us?” Cadance tried to be optimistic, but Shining glared…
“Oh, she will forgive us… but she will never let us live this down.” The prince of Crystal Empire and the chief of royal guard sighed, knowing his baby sister would never let him forget about the fact they left her travel all the way to Crystal Empire just for her to be turned back…
“Well, that seems to be a big issue when it comes to Twilight, but I’m sure that things will be fine in the end.” Princess Celestia assured as she knew her protege as a new leader of Ponyvile would be fine, since knowing the responsibilities of being a Princess, she would also be able to accept the times of inconvenience happening around.
As the couple looked unsure of how to reply to that… suddenly the sound of trots could be heard from nearby.
“Your Highness, “One of the royal guards came towards the group who seemed to be surprised by his appearance.
“Squire Flapjack, what’s the matter?” Instead of the Princess of the Sun being the pony who asked the guard… the former chief of the royal guards asked, as he saw the look of surprise and sweat from one of the squires he trained before.
“Everything is fine sir… it’s just the daughter of Princess Celestia came to make a visit.” Flapjack answered the worries of the royalty by replying to one piece of news nobody would ever expect, and one which made the Princess of the Sun have a smile wider than most ponies would ever see.
"Sunset came for a visit? By all means Squire Flapjack, allow her to pass." Celestia felt it had been months since her last visit to Equestria, since most of the time she was focusing on her studies and even her internship in the human world, the princess has been a proud mother for seeing how her little filly has become so independent... but sometimes she wished to have more time to talk and pass the time with her little sunny girl after the time they peace with each other.
"As you wish your higness." The royal guard gave a slight bow before trotting back towards the entrances of the castle, leaving the eager princess of the sun, an amused princess of the moon, and a wary princess of love at the same time.
"Oh, great... Sunset is here." Cadance commented as she gave a forced smile while her husband tapped on her back.
"Honey, we talked about this... she said she was sorry about the mud incident." Shining Armor knows that his lovely wife sometimes had a very strict childhood with the orange filly, both girls had a rivalry in the past due to jealousy, and that was a very hostile time between them... until the breaking point when Sunset left Equestria, while a few weeks later Cadance became an alicorn after making a spell of love...
Their relationship grew better when Sunset returned to Equestria after failing the attempt on the human world, since with the help of Twilight, she became the bridge to amend the ties that were torn apart over the years... But last year's Heart's warming gift, really made Cadance lose her cool and try to spell blast her own cousin. From a traditional game in the human world called a white elephant... he had no idea why they have a white elephant and what it has to do with Hearth's warming.
"I know, I know... it's just it took 2 weeks to clean up all that mess... But also I should have blamed myself since she explained it was a whole month of mud bath experience and I should have done that carefully and shouldn't have opened with magic over her warning. But still, I think a spa coupon would have done better." The princess of love pouted, which made the King of Crystal Empire chuckle at her action. And made him smile fondly at her.
"Ah, but you have to confess your fur became smooth, and even Flurry Heart played with the mud for days. She even slept well for 10 days straight, like we needed it." The white stallion commented as he could see the pouting of his lovely wife. Which made the princess of love couldn't help but accept his point.
"That's true... well, at least she apologized." Cadance accepted, as she then saw the mare coming in their direction. "Hi, Sunset."
"Sunset, how great to see you again." The poor mare didn't even have time to wave at the pink alicorn when the bacon-haired mare felt captured by the telekinesis spell and was pulled between the forelegs of the white alicorn who was so happy to see the mare once again. "Oh look at you, already this big, how the humans treated you? Are you doing fine in your studies? And how are the girls around? Did the Twilight of your world have thoughts about visiting Canterlot this time?"
"Whoa, whoa mom... calm down... I was just out for a few months, but yeah, the studies are fine, but also some of my friends are still freaking out from walking by Ponyvile after the last time, but maybe I can manage a personal visit, but it depends on their humor." Sunset commented as she gave a slight wave to Cadance who chuckled from seeing the brat mare at the clutches of the momma bear alicorn. Sunset was about to comment on something when she just saw the filly being around the princess of night forelegs.
"Aww, look at Flurry Heart, just a few months and she looked even bigger, so how many buildings did she destroy while I was out?" Sunset used a teleport spell which made the matriarch of the family pout about not having her filly in her arms again.
"Thankfully not a building in comparison to the last year, so how have you been Sunset?" Shining Armor chuckled as he could see the little filly giving raspberry to her father, Sunset giggled as they gave a hoof bump to each other.
"Well, another year of class. But that's how life is." Sunset smiled as it seemed they forgave her from the White's elephant fiasco.
"So, please, tell us the reason for your visit." Princess Luna walked by as she carried the little filly who was happy to see the mare once again.
"Oh, that... right." Sunset suddenly realized why she passed a whole 2-hour train trip to bring herself to the city of Canterlot. By giving a scroll to Princess Celestia who had her eyebrow raised from the explanation. "I heard from Twilight, that Spike had visited all the family in the last weeks, so he planned to have the entire month for himself in the castle while Twilight had to visit everypony around. So I offered myself to babysit him and pass the time like brother and sister."
"That's a lovely idea," Cadance commented as she still didn't get why Spike refused to stay on the period of the Hearts and Hooves day at Crystal Empire. Having a lot of ponies who would love to see their hero in their city, and even if she had some luck, she could find some potential mare, or mares in case Spike was feeling lonely in the empire. "So did you bring Spike with you?"
"Actually no, at the time I appeared on the castle, it seems Spike wasn't there... so I found this scroll dressed to Mom." Sunset Shimmer commented as she shrugged, and from the look on their faces, she could understand that something good wasn't, but she scoffed. "I mean, it's fine, I didn't know you have a reality show around Equestria."
"Reality show?" Shining Armor commented as he tilted his head, never hearing what words the pony who went into the human world had just said...
"Wait..." Sunset blinked until she realized something was wrong. "Oh yeah, you guys don't have television."
"Right, you are." Princess Celestia nodded her head firmly, as her face shadowed in contained anger, knowing that her daughter explained so much about the technological differences from the human world, she could understand some words, but she also never heard about what this reality show was supposed to to be... however, there was one right thing. And the letter was clear.
|| Tia, if you are reading this, then you must know that my friend and your lovely baby dragon Spike is may not around the castle anymore, I got him an invitation for something he wouldn't be bored with, and it's going to be amazing. He is in a reality show, and Fluttershy will enjoy a good time watching him, so cancel all my meetings, and do not try to contact Spike, the magic will not work, and I have a great bet with him. So he will be back probably in a month.
Always your good and handsome friend. D... ||
The princess of the moon walked to see the content of the letter but immediately the letter just burned in a fire... Which made everypony take a step back...
"Discord... If you don't get here in the next five seconds, you are going to wish to be banished to the sun after I finish with you." The monarch of the Canterlot said like a whisper, but suddenly everyone felt a shrive in their spines when the motherly face of the princess became serious like that. "5,4,3..."
And like a snap of magic, it didn't take long to process what happened... But everyone who was in the royal garden just poofed in the middle of the air, and then they got out from a dark purple portal which was in the middle of the living room... The ponies blinked at what just happened, and seeing the house for the first time, they could understand the meaning of a chaotic home. There was a group of smiling objects singing around, the lava in the walls slowly falling on the floor, and even some glowing origami flying around... Random stairs, it was pretty chaotic.
"What the?" Shining Armor looked around, and even found a piñata pony who was sneezing candy, which Flurry Heart immediately flew directly and hugged it... which the piñata was struggling from the sudden attack of snugles from the princess of Cristal empire.
"Where are we?" Cadance commented as she tilted her head and while she found her filly enjoying a new friend, she teleported her filly in her forelegs, which the piñata nodded in gratitude before jumping on the window.
"You are in my house." Then a familiar voice which made the stoic face of Princess Celestia remain firm replied their answer... The draconequus appeared as he was using a whip to attack something. "YAH, YAH... Sorry, I'm having difficulty with dealing with the whipped cream."
"Discord..." Celestia and Luna said in unison which made the Lord of Chaos roll his eyes.
"Don't you mares see that I'm kinda busy? I have a mare in my bedroom, and I want to spoil her to have her best Heart Hooves' day while we watch television." Discord said as he snapped his fingers, and the wild whipped cream became a little fish which he immediately pulled inside of an aquarium full of hot chocolate.
"Err... while I respect your choice of a date Discord, which I find a very good way to start a Heart and Hooves' day, Discord... But I think our main question is about the disappearance of Spike, and looking at Aunty, she wants an explanation from you." Cadance tried to go straight to the point, which made Discord sigh and even pinch between his nose.
"Okay, who was the funny pony who brought the scroll to Princess Celestia before Twilight Sparkle went on her trip to Cristal Empire?" Discord said loudly, as the group stared confused at him until the Lord of Chaos just stared at the sheepishly Sunset Shimmer... "Oh, so you must be Sunset, Spike told me about you in a few O&O sessions, shouldn't you be on vacation with your friends?"
"Well, I came to pass the month with Spike since I was supposed to babysit him," Sunset said as she then glared at him. "But he disappeared..."
"Whoa, hold on... I didn't know you would come for a visit, and neither him, he planned to pass the whole month inside of the castle doing nothing but reading a few books and comic books, and planning for guys' night in a few weeks..." Discord defended himself as he even pointed to his halo over his head. "Me as a good friend said, oh come on Spike, you must have something new to explore, Hearts and Hooves' day is coming, we need to find you a mare. Anything, and he was dismissing me, ME. Can you believe it?"
"So then you snapped him to another dimension." Princess Celestia contained herself, as she understood how Discord wanted to help her baby dragon, and while one part was accepting the good intentions, she was still waiting for the right moment to blast his face off his body...
"No, I offered him a bet. A friend of mine who is human from another dimension is doing a reality show, about a summer camp, 22 campers, one winner, dealing with challenges, and votes for the expendable group. An experience of Spike exploring his limits, making new friends, and from the things I'm watching, shipping in the air." Discord said as he snapped his fingers, showing a T-shirt of the Spike's silhouette and the flag of Screaming Gophers.
"Shipping?" And just by saying that, Candance's eyes Sparkled with interest, in a family member and the possibility of interest in her area. "Tell me more."
Princess Luna stared at her sister, who was with her resolute face... and she could see her big sister was hesitating, so for the best of the peace around the house, she decided to ask.
"So, there isn't any bad intention, it was just a bet between you two... Spike goes to a competition, finds new friends, and mares to help his relationship."Luna said as she could see Princess Celestia finally calming down.
"It's a human world, so possibly he will have a better experience in the human world. And before you say their reaction to Spike being a dragon or a dog, I made a bet so I made sure everything was covered, he became human, and everything he says related to Equestria will be exchanged to the human culture to make his disguise perfect." Discord answered before Sunset could say about the condition of her brother... And seeing Discord already covered up, she was just interested in one thing.
"So, what would be the prize?" Sunset then gave a question which Discord just shrugged off...
"100 thousand dollars."
"HOLYSHIT," Sunset exclaimed which made everypony stare at her in surprise, and Cadance glared daggers at her cousin to cuss in front of her baby... which thankfully there were muffle headphones around her little ears. "Sorry."
"You're welcome," Discord said as the princess of Love gave a smile in gratitude.
"And how much this is in bits?" Shining Armor to hear such exclamation, the among of money would be interesting, so he asked by the conversion.
"250 thousand bits." And by the conversation, Shining Armor felt his mouth drop, but immediately whistled in appreciation.
"Okay, it seems a lot of bits, so, and the bet between you two?"
"We signed a contract to never tell the bet, so you cannot force me..." Discord said as he could feel the entire room getting warmer. "Oh come on Tia, this is a bet between friends, now stop glaring at me and help me with the snacks."
"And why should I help you?" Celestia said coldly until she felt the Chaos magic hold her horn...
"Because I know how many pounds of cake you can eat, and I know that you are going to pest me until you watch all the episodes on the show Spike is... I wanted to make that a private date show time, but it seems that you getting on my nerves, the only way I do that, is by A... letting you watch with us, B... creating a television for you all to watch... which this sound very tempting offer."
"We accept it," Cadance replied before the monarch of the sun even could reply. "Also, could you teleport Twilight to the Canterlot Castle as well? It's because she may be very upset about finding out that we are not in our castle."
"Sure, but I would have liked to see her face when she would have been dragged to Cristal Empire and then returned to her castle, just to find out Spike isn't there... It would have been an amazing prank." Discord said as he lamented, and from seeing Celestia was still restricting herself, he pouted. "Oh come on Tia, Spike is having fun, you should relax and see your son enjoying himself."
The princess of the sun gritted her teeth, but with a deep sigh... she relaxed her mind.
"Fine, you are right, I'm still mad at you. But at least I'm going to see how my son will go... This will take a whole month?" Princess Celestia asked as she felt sad to not see her baby dragon for so long.
"Well, the time stream is complicated, it was supposed to be 8 weeks, but our time is relative, so many things happen around there and you may be watching 3 episodes already, maybe Spike will be here for a slight break before another season, who knows?" Discord shrugged, and as the time the ponies would ask about, there was a voice from upstairs...
"Hmm... Discord, the commercial break is over," Sunset Shimmer recognized it was the voice of her friend's counterpart, and from seeing the impatience face of the Lord of the Chaos, they were almost in time to get kicked out.
"Well, I answered everything I could, now you have the technology, and Twilight is already there. Good luck trying to explain that to her. Now ta ta." Discord was in such a hurry that he snapped the fingers trice, and in the next second, the group of ponies and filly woke up in their royal chambers.
Instead of they being in the royal garden, or in the throne room, they found themselves above the royal mattress which was supporting the weight of 6 ponies and a filly above the bed.
"Ugh... next time sister, you shouldn't make him in a hurry." Princess Luna grumbled as she felt the weight of her sister above her back. "And can you take your sunbutt out of me?"
"Who are you calling sunbutt? And I didn't choose his offer of teleporting us with a television, I wanted to watch with them and make sure to buck him later. But it was Cadance who jumped on his offer." The princess of the sun replied as he glared back at her own sister, who suddenly made sure to look at the princess of love who was stretching herself.
"Hey, it's his plans of Hearts and Hooves's day, it's a sacrate day for ponies who should romance, and we shouldn't intrude," Cadance commented as she was always in favor of those who were in love, and making a mess in their plans of a date was something that she was always against... And she even glared at both his aunts. "And you being in a hurry made him annoyed, so I wanted to make sure that we get what we want and leave him alone."
"Wow, honey, I think they got it." Shining Armor said as he could see his baby Flurry Heart's eyes still spinning from the sudden teleport... And with the group of ponies waking up from the bed, suddenly he felt something punching his belly. "Ouch, who is... oh..."
"TAKE ME OUT OF HERE." There was a muffled voice from his little sister who was just on the train, but in the next second, she found herself teleported into a bed... and suddenly ponies dropped above her body...
"Ops sorry, Twily." Shining Armor said sheepishly, as he saw his little sister was now in the royal chambers, which meant they weren't in that much trouble.
"What just happened?" Twilight narrowed her eyes, as she wanted so much to find the culprit of that idea, and... Then just found a mare who was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. "Wait, Sunset?"
"Ugh... not now Twilight, I'm about to see Flash's working out regime..." The orange mare had no idea of what happened, but she found herself sleeping after such a spell and she got unconscious.
"Sunset, wake up." Twilight and Princess Celestia called the mare who just snapped from that state.
"Wha what... oh, there is the television," Sunset said as she was already looking for the remote control, and thankfully she found the one right next to the screen. Which was perfect to...
"CAN SOMEPONY EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Twilight Sparkle shouted as she was still trying to find a way to understand the sudden teleport from everypony...
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"Okay, so let's summarize, Discord made a bet with Spike, and now Spike is in the human world in another dimension, where he has a chance to win a contest on television with a prize of 250 thousand bits because he found out Big Mac was with Sugar Belle and the night's guy was messed up? And because Spike already visited everypony, he had the entire summer vacation for himself at the castle?" Twilight when she summarized, actually pointed out some internal info the ponies around the bedroom raised their eyebrows.
"Yeah, pretty much, but I didn't think the Apple Family was also a factor when it comes to the bet." Princess Celestia praised her student, as she never thought she could have a view related to something she didn't imagine the reasons why Spike would do it.
"Well, I tried to warn him about the chance Discord would come for a visit, but I didn't expect Spike would be interested in the bet, but I gotta say 250 thousand bits was very high money," Twilight commented as she felt intrigued by the reasons on why Spike accepted, and while the number of bits was high, Spike could receive it with both his allowances and the salary he has in the School of Friendship. "But maybe there is another reason why Spike is accepting."
"I'm surprised to see you accepting this so easily." Shining Armor commented as he thought he never saw his sister becoming so mature.
"No, I'm not... I'm freaking out inside, I'm just not showing it." Twilight commented as both Shining Armor and Cadance rolled their eyes.
"Well, I'm glad that everypony seemed accepting this, now I wanted to come here to see Spike and pass the time with him, but now that he is on the television. I'm curious about how far he will go." Sunset commented as he took the remote control and started to press the button, which showed a list of episodes. "3 Episodes until now. Huh... Not so happy Campers pt1... It's the first episode. "
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Princess Celestia commented as she gulped into seeing the picture of humans sitting around a campfire.
"Let's not jump to conclusions yet sister, from the look on their faces, it seems some are having fun. Maybe this show isn't bad at all... And I'm sure Spike is going to be doing great." Luna assured her sister, which made her also look at the photograph and have one question in mind "Err... why do some of them have the same color of fur...?"
"It's called skin, and I think in my dimension humans do have the same color of our fur... but it seems this is a bit complicated... let's just not focus on it." Sunset learned a lot from having to deal with Pinkie Pie, with something you don't know, it's just let them be and continue their lives.
"That seems wise, my daughter. Let's just try to find your brother." Celestia agreed with Sunset until she tried to find around the photo of the opening, the group sitting around, until she saw two guys with green hair, one of them with also purple part of the hair, and the other with black... And from the look on their faces and their expressions... she already can distinguish which one is her baby. "That one. Found him."
"Where?" Twilight asked until Princess Celestia walked and pointed her hoof to the boy wearing purple and green, and even having purple and green hair. "Oh, there he is."
"Well, I think we are wasting too much time. Let's just start the first episode already." Sunset commented, as she decided to lay in her hooves and press the button of play, which started the first episode of the show.
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“So that’s him.” Princess Celestia glanced at the human who appeared so used to walking around two feet, which was something unusual for her to watch. “I’m curious about how he and Discord became so much friends, and how he managed to accept Spike to participate in the first place.
“Sis, let’s just watch, you are kinda interrupting the show if we keep talking…” Princess Luna could see that at the moment the princess of the sun talked, Sunset pressed the pause button.
“Oh, I apologize.” Princess Celestia commented as she mused to see how everything would happen.
“I can pause in one respective point of the episode while we comment for a while,” Sunset suggested, but she also couldn’t help but groan. “But if we do that every time this will take forever.”
“Sunset made a good point. Let’s just pause when it comes to critical moments.” Twilight offered, as the other ponies seemed to be fine with that...
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The princesses and Shining Armor glanced at each other, not understanding the meaning of never coming back, and the image of the summer camp being old and wrecked didn’t seem to appeal to them at all.
They have to confess, that they found the theme song catching, and both Princess Celestia and Princess Cadance could imagine Flurry Heart, Sunset, and Spike singing they wanted to be famous. Especially now they found a compromising video on how a group of teenagers in so clumsy a way trying to survive a such terrible summer camp.
Flurry Heart even was giggling from the theme song, while Twilight and Sunset looked unsure if they were going to like what they were watching, that show seemed to be disgusting, but it was a reality show… And Sunset watched dozens of them in the human world, she just hoped Spike would be fine.
That’s what everyone wished for.
When Beth first appeared there was just one simple reaction...
“Pfff HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.” Shining Armor laughed as he could see from between the lines how angry the host became… “It seems to call him short it’s a low blow to him… HAHAHAHA.”
Cadance rolled her eyes at the dad joke Shining had said, but she couldn’t help to find it funny to see the host weirded like that.
When DJ appeared, the group showed some sympathy towards the giant Jamaican who was just tricked by the host of the show.
When Gwen appeared. She made a very good first impression on the group.
“I like her already.” Princess Luna commented as she saw the group staring at her. “She has attitude, and tried to rip the contract, also I liked her mane.”
“It’s called hair Aunty, but you are right, she has grit and I like her style as well.” Sunset had to confess, that goth had attitude, but it seems the host was 5 steps ahead of her.
The group liked to see Geoff since he seemed a very good chill boy who wanted to have a great time at the show and they couldn’t help but smile to see some campers happy to be in the show.
Lindsay was a surprise to everypony since her beautiful appearance and her unique way of being clueless made fun of Chris, and everypony already liked her.
“Hahahaha, I don’t know if she is doing this on purpose to mess him up, or she is just clueless like Ditzy Doo?” Sunset Shimmer commented that she finds it hilarious to see others getting their patience tested, people who aren’t like her at least. She likes Flash’s best friend, but somehow her cluelessness is the bane of her existence.
They liked the campers already... until they met Heather.
The group looked at each other, and from seeing her reaction, they found some traces of similarity of some annoying nobles who were a pain in their flanks… Some spoiled rotten nobles made them wish for vacations… the brown nose attitude that would make them sigh and sometimes slam their foreheads on the table…
“Even on there, they have ponies like her.” Princess Celestia sighed in dismay, knowing that possibly Spike would have difficulty dealing with this kind of pony or person like Sunset corrected her.
And interrupting their thoughts, then came Duncan.
The group looked strangely at the music, but Princess Luna and surprisingly Flurry Heart were bumping their heads to the sound of the music.
“I have to say, his style is unique.” Princess Luna at the time she was younger, had ideas into how to develop her style of monarchy, and the idea of maybe using spikes and skulls would have been appealing to her… It seems to be a dimensional thing.
“Thank Faust you didn’t make a style like that for yourself.” And like a very good old sister, Princess Celestia took out from her strange mind, about messing up with her lovely face and good mane like the night.
“He is from a juvenile?” Sunset Shimmer asked as she flinched with the idea.
“Juvewhat?” Cadance asked which made Sunset torn between telling the truth or not…
“It’s a facility where they lead minors trying to pay for their actions in front of the law,” Twilight explained which made all the adults have their eyes wide open.
“THEY PLACED MY BABY DRAGON WITH A CRIMINAL WHO SHOULD BE IN THE DUNGEONS?” Celestia shouted in both disbelief and outrage, which made Sunset flinch and try to diminish the anger.
“It’s not like that Mom, sometimes depending on the people, it may be for silly things, like vandalism, which just simple things from breaking the law could lead some people on there as well…” Sunset explained which slowly made her mother calm down…
Then came Tyler, causing some of them to snicker towards him splashing on the campers especially Heather who looked very angry.
"Ah, Karma, the correction of the universe." Sunset raised a thumbs up, she didn't know why, but she knew the queen bee deserved it.
"He seems very clumsy." Twilight pointed out, as she said Sunset had by who was the best friend of Flash Sentry. "Does Ditzy Doo was like that in your world as well?"
"Yep, she is always clumsy and clueless... I fear the day those two would actually be a couple and have children."
"SUNSET," Cadance shouted in anger which made the mare look sheepishly at her cousin. "You cannot judge love, ponies, and people love for the sake of who they love, and you never know if their children will be athletic and beautiful, everyone has flaws but also has some qualities. Now behave."
"Okay, sheesh, sorry." Sunset apologized until the next camper appeared.
The group looked at the weird nerd, who seemed to be staring blankly at them, and not saying anything... they felt uneasy until Harold cheered since he said he would show his awesome skills to everyone.
"Oh, we have a cocky little boy, let's see how far he can go?" Sunset commented as she felt interested if the nerd was going to sink or swim at the game. Usually, boastful people would just bark and don't bite.
"Saw some soldiers being boastful in all my years of my career, from dozens just 2 managed to back up from their talk." Shining Armor isn't a big fan of boastful guards, but when someone bragged because he or she trained to the limit and showed they have the actual experience and skills? They deserved respect.
And then came Trent, which Sunset had her eyes wide open.
"Wow, this boy is beautiful," Sunset confessed which made the group stare in surprise at how Sunset reacted. "Hey, I lived in the human world for years, and I got used to their stats of beauty. Not shame me."
"Okay, okay," Cadance smirked at her cousin... she was going to tease her a lot later.
Then came the conversation about the other reality shows, and how the people wanted to have their heads dropped, and that raised some concerns about the intelligence and good sense of some humans in the universe in general.
Cadence then just found the little interaction between Trent and Gwen, which made her eyes sparkle with interest, and without anypony noticing, she glowered her horn and brought to her hooves, a pencil and a clipboard. She had some work to do.
As time passed, the group watched the next camper, a surfer which made Sunset whistle in surprise.
"Oh, a surfer, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack would love to see one in the show," Sunset commented as she saw some weeks before coming to Equestria, the duo of friends trying to win against each other in a surfing competition.
"Surfer?" The ponies stared at her in surprise, which made Sunset taps her mouth with a hoof before giving an explanation.
"Do you see that big thing on her arms?" Sunset pointed as the group nodded their heads to her. "It's called a surfer board, it's used to be above the water on beaches, and they use it to take their waves like a sport."
"They can take waves? Like, walk above the water?" Princess Luna asked as she never thought to see something like that happen, or maybe she wasn't paying attention enough... She found some ponies who used money as a source of transportation in some dreams, but using water to walk above it? It's too alien to her.
"Err... I don't know how to find a better way to explain that, maybe we can watch her doing it in the show." Sunset said, until everypony flinched from how distracted Bridgette was as she was using her surfer board to almost hit everyone on the shores.
At the time Noah appeared Twilight groaned as she found the type Noah talked about, it reminded her of before she visited Ponyvile, where way before she always focused most part of her fillyhood on reading books.
Princess Celestia chuckled since she could see how her little protege grew up so quickly, and yet she found amused to see Twilight hoofpalming into seeing someone making fun of the person who was jailed, and now regretting his words.
And then when it comes to Leshawna, the group seemed to be surprised at how cheerful her spirit and determination to win the girl, and they were already seeing that she was a good girl who would go far in the game...
Until Harold opened his mouth...
Everypony blinked until Shining Armor facehoofed the nerd boy who just picked a fight with a woman who seemed way stronger than him.
"Boy, you never should say something like that to a mare. You want to win, not die you moron." Shining Armor says some suicidals or some of his recruits who never had a good sense of danger when it comes to talking to a mare, needless to say, some of them felt a terrible buck in their crotches, which makes every male wince in pain.
"That boy isn't going to survive much long on the show." Sunset Shimmer smiled, "If he is against Spike, this is going to be an easy win for Spike."
And after that fiasco, appeared two girls instead of one... Shining Armor gave a glance to Twilight, who smirked at him, and he huffed her mane which made her pout.
Katie and Sadie were just like him and Twilight when they were kids. BBBFF and LSBFF. It was like a good dynamic duo, and nothing could go wrong with them.
And then at the time Cody appeared, Sunset groaned, the same way Princess Cadance cringed, to make the princess of love cringe, someone must have made a terrible first impression on her... And that boy who had not just managed to appear but already managed to try to look appealing to the group of girls?
"Do the humans follow the herd culture?" Princess Luna commented as she could see the look on the boy's face, and he seemed to be eager to have all kinds of mares, but the only thing she could give at him, was pity, unless he annoyed her, so then she would magic blast him.
"No... humans focus only on monogamy, which is just one couple... But I saw some boys like him at school, and they are very annoying." Sunset sighed as she could see that Cody is going to be a pain in the ass for all the girls.
"I wish I could be there to give some good sense on him, maybe he never had help before, and if I slap him in the face and tell him what he is doing wrong, maybe he will have a chance to at least have a marefriend," Cadance commented as they could see Leshawna already making him stop talking even before trying to talk to her... "Ohh, I'm liking Leshawna more and more."
Then appeared a well strong girl, Eva, which made Shining Armor's eyes wide open from how strong that woman looked, and then when she dropped her bag, It made Cody flinched in pain and asked if was dumbells, the monarch of Crystal Empire flexed his legs feeling a bit inferior in comparison of strength when Eva said it was indeed working out dumbells, that mare or woman was indeed very strong, and he may need to go back to his training regime. But he laughed when Duncan suggested to DJ about him and her having a relationship.
"Nah, I cannot see them together." Cadance crossed an X into what could mean the slight chance of what would those two be in the future.
"What are you doing Cady?" Shining asked, before looking into her eyes. "Oh no..."
"Not now Shiny, I'm working here," Cadance whispered as she remained glancing at each camper, as she was giving slight notes about who she could ship with...
And then a loud cheer came which made Princess Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Twilight, and even Sunset, Shining Armor and Flurry Heart look at the person who said that... A chubby camper, blond, who shows all the positivity and desire to participate in the show, Owen... And from the way he was so cheerful, everyone smiled at the fat boy who was so happy to be there...
"Okay, it's nice to see someone so optimistic around, I hope he and Spike would be on the same team. " Twilight commented, and Celestia nodded her head in approval, seeing a boy hugging the others so happily.
And then came Courtney, showing her polite greetings... Which Princess Luna tilted her head.
"She looked restrained like she didn't show her true self yet." The princess of the moon commented, as Cadance nodded her head, at her... Sunset scoffed.
"Probably it's the first episode, and she doesn't want to cause a terrible impression, but in comparison to Heather and Cody, I think she couldn't be any worse than them two." Sunset gave her point, as she saw Owen hugging Courtney happily. Then she just blinked until she opened her eyes to find Justin finally appearing at the show, and her eyes became hypnotized by the beautiful face and look of the teenager who appeared in the show. "Woof, WOOF, WOOF."
"Did you just bark like a dog?" Twilight glanced at Sunset who just found herself with her eyes sparking and being enamorated at the boy in the tan skin.
"If Spike is a dog in my human world, I can bark like one if I see someone as hot as him." Sunset admired, and everypony glanced at her in the same way all the girls and even Owen looked enamored to Justin who was just fine into being the eye candy of the show.
Even Owen makes a fool of himself in front of the boy.
And on the next moment, Sunset snapped from her thoughts, and Twilight looked surprised to see the cheerful and yet eccentric ginger Izzy doing what she does best... By seeing Izzy's face hit on the shore, and everypony flinching in pain. Shining Armor opened and closed his mouth, while Flurry Heart giggled from the silly fall the girl just had... Both Princess Celestia and Luna felt pity for the pain she must be feeling after hitting the shore with her jaw.
"Oh, they have their own Pinkie Pie?" Both Sunset and Twilight asked in unison, which made them shrug.
"Well at least if Spike misses home, he can talk with her, I think she will be interesting like Pinkie is for everypony." Twilight shrugged, since Pinkie has been a great friend, even from her crazy shienegans, but she and Spike already got used to her, so he isn't far from home.
"Well it's just Izzy, just go with it." Both Twilight and Sunset said in unison, as they saw Izzy talking crazily fast like Pinkie, and they nodded their heads in unison.
Cadance looked at the ginger girl, and gave a slight glance at her clipboard... she just gave him before marking her for something.
Well, there are almost everyone, just missing one member. Which Chris came to announce... Princess Celestia was excited, and Sunset and Twilight were also feeling energic to see their brother in the show, Shining Armor was smiling with pride, since he knew that at the time he appeared, he would be known around the human world, and he already had a lot of success, even as being the hero of Crystal Empire.
"Come on and get them Spike." Shining whispered as the new boat appeared. And from the time he appeared, Sunset looked at how the human version of Spike would be, and she couldn't help but admit, he looked handsome, and she recognized the clothing style... It was almost the style of clothing from Carrosel Boutique, something Rarity would give to her brother.
Princess Celestia saw the mannerism of Spike and was already tearing up, hoping Spike would be well in the show, and from the way Chris talked about how Discord managed to get him in the show, she was feeling dreadful. Until she felt a hoof in her back.
"He is going to be fine Tia, trust in him," The princess of the moon assured, which the big sister, the pony who raised her own baby dragon since the time he hatched from an egg, and with the help of the Sparkle family... she finally felt that her baby dragon was ready into going into his own personal adventure.
"You are right... COME ON SPIKE, SHOW THEM HOW EQUESTRIA WAS MADE." The princess shouted in pride as she wanted to see her own baby win the whole show.
"YEAH, GO GET HIM BRO," Sunset shouted as the other ponies decided to cheer as well.
"YOU ALREADY ARE BRAVE AND GLORIOUS, SHOW THEY HOW AWESOME YOU ARE." Shining Armor said as Flurry Heart was even sparking a magic blast to show her cheering to her uncle who was in the show.
"BE CAREFUL SPIKE, BUT WIN THIS SHOW," Twilight shouted as even knowing he couldn't hear them, it was exhilarating to give their support.
"THOUS ARE GOING TO WIN NEPHEW, DESTROY THEM, AND MAKE THEM TO THE GROUND. HUZZA," Princess Luna even used her Royal Canterlot voice, as she was a powerful voice to cheer for her own nephew.
"SPIKE THE BRAVE THE GLORIOUS, FOR THE WIN," Cadance said as the group was happy to see Spike already was causing a great impression, even the boy who seemed to be a criminal was the first one who greeted him sincerely. So she knew Spike was going far on the show.
And then came the photo picture...
"Isn't that too much weight for the dock? Because that doesn't seem very s..." Twilight was unsure of how safe the dock was until her prediction was correct and the dock fell down, making all the campers go down in the water... "Never mind."
"Pfff. HAHAHAHAHAHA." Shining Armor laughed until he felt a slap behind his head. "Hey."
"It's not funny." Sunset scolded...
"You are smirking." Shining Armor deadpanned, which made Sunset look away.
"I am and I hate it," Sunset replied which made the other ponies roll their eyes.
After the picture, the group watched Chris explaining the rules, and where they were going to sleep... Thankfully for them, they are not co-ed, which was fair for new teenagers, and they aren't ready to be together yet. They shouldn't be forced to sleep in the same room.
And then the teams were separated... Between Screaming Gophers, and Killer Bass.
Gwen, Trent, Heather, Cody, Beth, Lindsay, Katie, Owen, Leshawna, Spike, and Noah. Being on Screaming Gopher, made the group stare at each other.
"On one hoof it's a good thing because Spike is on the same team as Owen, but on the other hand... Heather is also there." Twilight commented as she glanced at her brother who also could see how things were going to be difficult for Spike.
"Ah, Spike can handle it. He passed a whole week having to deal with one of Blueblood's "suitors" before" Shining Armor commented, as he, Cadance, and even Blueblood had to give that to Spike. "He really had the patience of a saint on that week."
"Yep, and Blueblood made sure to take him on the Power Ponies event... That mare was really brown nose, and yet Spike took it like a champion until Blueblood managed to make the mare give up on him." Cadance agreed Spike had to deal with a lot of nobles, so he had very strong patience. So he can manage to survive the show.
"Well, the good side it's Gwen, Trent, Leshawna, and Owen on the same team. I can see Spike having a great time with them." Princess Luna looked happy with how some members seemed to be okay and from how they greeted Spike, they seemed to be ready for the win.
Twilight noticed Spike commenting about Fluttershy, which brought the attention of Gwen, who to her own surprise is in favor of the natural environment, Spike talked about Fluttershy's animals, especially Harry the bear, which Gwen showed a good start to a very good friendship...
Cadance then gave a glance... and then a smirk appeared on her face, she used her pencil once more...
And then the other team teamed to be chosen to become the Killer Bass... and Shining Armor and Twilight flinched into seeing Katie and Sadie ranting and wanting to be on the same team. Their impression of both BFF girls suddenly became lower with time.
And then Chris appeared and showed the place where they are going to make the confession... This was interesting since the group could watch the campers venting and knowing more about them.
Gwen was the first to tell that she showed the cabin stinks, and then appeared Spike, who just said it could have been worse, what made Twilight and Celestia proud of him was the fact Spike hoped for Chris saying he would be making friends... Like when Twilight first started her journey, she was tasked to make friends... Both mother and adoptive sister wished good luck and success for Spike...
Then it came Lindsay who was trying to find the person, and showing her plot to the camera, which Shining Armor blushed as he placed the hoof in front of Flurry Heart, who just giggled.
Then appeared a bird which left the group confused...
And finally, Owen, who brought everyone's attention... just for the next second he farted which made all the mares who had high hopes for him, change their thoughts drastically. While Shining Armor and Sunset Shimmer laughed at the immature joke Owen just pulled to everyone.
And then it showed the cabins of every camper, bunker beds, camp-themed cabins... Everything seemed fine until Cody decided to talk with Gwen when he wasn't supposed to be in the girl's cabin...
Being launched away from the cabin and making him eat dirty, was enough to make everypony facehoof from his stupidity.
"Dude, just stop, for the sake of your dignity," Sunset said as she couldn't believe someone so stupid. Someone so despaired.
Until then, nothing much happened, just Lindsay freaking out they have to share the bathroom, Owen just saying he was glad he wasn't going to stay with the girls...
"Is Owen a ..." Shining Armor asked the princess of love who shook her head.
"He is a bilover." Cadance said as she recognized the signs, depending if was a mare or stallion, or boy and girl, he seemed to show well affection to each of them.
"Fair enough." Shining nodded his head, as the group suddenly jumped from the shout coming from the girl's cabin, and seeing Lindsay shouting from a little insect, made Shining Armor stare in disbelief... But then saw an axe being thrown away almost hitting the screen.
"KILL THE FIEND, THE FIEND." Princess Luna shouted as she recalled a terrible time of war she had to fight such a demon in the past... a devil brown monster who managed to make her once burn the entire castle just for the sake of killing it.
"LUNA, DON'T HIT THE SCREEN." Princess Celestia contained her sister as the group watched both shows, and Princess Luna freaked out from a cockroach until Duncan came with an axe and cut the monster in half.
"WELL DONE DUNCAN, FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND MERCILESS KILL OVER THE MONSTER, I SHALL PARDON THOU FROM ALL THUS CRIMES ON THE HUMAN WORLD. HUZZA," Princess Luna cheered as the group stared at both the princess in disbelief, and at the delinquent who seemed to come to the rescue of the campers. She was happy for the victory of such an evil fiend.
Cadance watched closely as then the jock who didn't do anything just came to call for Lindsay telling he would be doing the same, and she could see the good sparkle of crush in the air... And with that Cadance already gave another mark on her clipboard... Discord was right, she had enjoyed very much the show until now.
And then Spike had some interaction with the boys around the show, most of the group didn't understand what television had to do with Noah's family having 8 kids, but they were very impressed by how fertile the matriarch of his family was. Sunset understood the joke and was the only one laughing.
From their perspective, Trent, Owen, and Noah seemed pretty interesting boys, and Spike could pass a great time, and then when appeared Cody with grass in his mouth and said he liked strong girls...
"Applejack would eat him alive." Both Twilight and Sunset talked about their counterpart's element of honesty, which she would literally make him eat dirt... When Cody is going to learn?
Then a loud voice called on the Main Lodge, Shining Armor felt a hint of nostalgia, as he reminded himself of the time as a little soldier on the royal guard training. The Chef Hatchet, whom Shining Armor immediately could see the patent of the cooker, a Chief, which made Shining Armor nod his head in respect, a former military to another, it seems the campers are going to learn how food was important. Royal Guard style.
The mares stared and glanced nervously at the Chef who seemed to be a brutus, and cruel chef, while Shining Armor felt nostalgia at the academy.
"Ah, the good times. I like him already." Shining Armor was happy to see someone who could represent him in the show, and he was unaware of the stares he was receiving from everypony behind him, even his filly who was staring at him weirdly.
Owen made a joke.
"Bad mistake Owen." Shining smiled, as he could see Chef putting him in his place. And seeing Gwen then seeing the food creating legs and moving, she started to complain. Which Shining Armor rolled his eyes. "Nothing like a good hammer wouldn't do. HEY, HE JUST DID IT. Man, this Chef is awesome."
"Err... Cadance, I think your husband is crazy." Sunset whispered at the princess of love, who just saw Shining Armor reliving the time of the Royal Guard training.
"Well, it's the consequences I have to take since I said I do." Cadance shrugged, it came to the whole package, the good things but also the bad things, and the weird things...
Spike showed respect by being direct and even eating the food which many stared at him crazily.
"It's not that bad... in comparison to the times my sister Twilight Sparkle went to the kitchen without me supervising her and she tried to make Lunch and Breakfast by herself... It was a disaster." Spike commented which made the group stare at him crazily. "This food is at least edible, while my sis food made me knocked for 3 hours."
"HEY," Twilight shouted as Shining Armor whistled innocently, while Princess Celestia, seemed to be distracting into reading a scroll, and even Flurry Heart was just upside down munching a blanket... Making Twilight pout from sadness.
And then to make things worse, Heather opened her mouth which made Twilight glare at the screen.
"MY PARENT'S YOU RUDE HUMAN." Twilight wanted to blast Heather with her magic, but since she was in another dimension, she wished she could make her a piece of her mind...
"Calm down Twilight, Spike is already explaining all the names we have, and from his perspective, we in Canterlot name ourselves like that. At least they like his name, I'm so great with naming my children." Celestia was so proud of herself that she had given two of the best names she could give to her children, Sunset Shimmer and Spike the dragon, the full name of their family showed a hint of royalty and they should be respected.
And then Chris came and Geoff made the terrible mistake of ordering pizza... Almost a knife would cut his head off, which was a scary move for the girls, but a nod of respect from the only stallion in the group.
"Intimidation never fails." Shining Armor said proudly, as he could imagine he was going to have a great time seeing the show.
And then Chris announced their first challenge...
"Well, at least it's the first challenge, how hard it can be?" Twilight somehow managed to jinx the campers, while Sunset stared at her in disbelief.
"YOU JINXED THEM..." Sunset said until DJ said the same thing... "A double Jinx? Oh boy..."
Soon enough, all 22 campers found themselves in their swimsuits, standing near the edge of the island's 100-foot-high cliff.
Everypony stared at the screen in disbelief, seeing DJ cussing before the episode was over... And from seeing that height they were going to jump that cliff...
"Please, this must be a joke." Sunset hated jinx, but this double jinx was something she never would have expected to see... Cadance was also horrified to see what probably would be the challenge.
"OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH BUCK, OH BUCK, OH BUCK. SPIKE CALM DOWN I'M GOING TO GET YOU OUT OF THERE." Twilight freaked out as she tried to use her horn, but then she felt a slight pain and teleported herself back to where she was, but with a toilet seat on her face. "It seems I made a slight calculus mistake, and I passed an hour in my bathroom... But I'm here... WHY, WHY DID SPIKE ACCEPTED INTO DOING THAT?"
"Sister... are thou okay?" Princess Luna asked, as the entire chaos was happening around, Shining Armor flinching and Cadance sweating in fear... The only pony who seemed in the frozen state, was the princess of the sun herself...
Until two words came from her throat... with something like a primal roar which made the everypony from Canterlot jump and run away in fear.
"DISCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD, CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" And that day the sun scorched the double of the temperature, making Canterlot register one of the most scorching days around all Equestria.
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Please please please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 the part 3
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the interlude three will be a few chapters later ,and it will not be a reaction. It's a jump after their conclusions after the episodes. It's on the author's note.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. XD
YOU JINXED THEM..." Sunset said until spike said the same thing... "A double Jinx? Oh boy..."
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Okay
Just loved Spike's family reactions here to this show, it was hilarious!
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I'm glad you liked it. It was fun to write them, but reviewing the whole episode was indeed dragging. XD
I'm question when date next chapter
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Maybe during season 3 when Heather's got some character growth, then she might be able to get into the harem. Plus, I want to see Spike fight Alejandro.
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I'm No