When Babs Seed finds herself moved into a new home, she is utterly bored. Until, she finds a secret door to another world.
Babs Seed, and her parents, Twilight and Big Mac, have moved from thier cozy home in Manehattan to live in the middle of nowhere is a rinky dink apartment. Babs is utterly bored and her parents are busy, so she just does nothing; until, she finds a door that is bricked up by day, but by night is a portal to a world just like her own, but better! (And everypony has button eyes!) But, when things start to go wrong, Babs has to fight for her life.
A small white button eyed unicorn doll came trough the window. It had a curly pink and purple mane made of yarn. A sickly green aurora took it and began to take it apart. First the hair, which was a painstaking process. Then the horn Which was thankfully removable. And lastly the eyes and stuffing. It was turned inside out and dyed a burnt orange. The doll was then filled with sand and given a strait red mane and tail. Big black button eyes completed the smiling face and the doll was sent through the window once more.
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The carriage pulled into the driveway of the pink palace apartments, disturbing a blue unicorn who was practicing her magic. A few choice words were shouted as the unicorn stormed back into her section of the house. Soon there was another carriage, a bigger one full of possessions that belonged to the new family. Two ponies began to unload everything into the house, passing by a white unicorn with a royal purple mane and a pink one with a darker pink mane. After everything was unloaded and the ponies were lousily tipped, the moving carriage pulled away.
A small burnt orange blank flank filly emerged from the house looking thoughtful. She passed the barren garden and dead grass to an almost dead bush. A V-shaped twig was pulled from it and stripped of its leaves. After untangling her red mane from the branches of the bush, the filly held the stick towards the ground and began walking, not knowing she was being watched. A little later a rock was disturbed, catching the filly's attention.
"Hello?" The filly asked in her Manehattan accent "Who's there?"
When she got no reply, she tossed a rock. When she saw a bright green flame she began to run. She ran until she was sure she was safe. She stepped in the middle of a mushroom ring. There she saw a purple and green baby dragon.
"you scared me to death you mangy thing!"
the dragon did not reply.
"I'm just lookin' for an old well. Know it?"
Still no reply.
"not talkin, huh?"
nothing. The filly stood in the middle of a circle of mushrooms.
"Magic dowser, magic dowser, show me the well!" She said to nopony in particular.
There was the sound of hooves as another pony charged towards her.
"AH!" The filly screamed "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
She attempted to hit the intruder with the "dowsing rod" only to have it taken away by a orange aurora . The greenish unicorn looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking.
"Ooh. So let me guess, your from Appleoosa or Saddlearabia. Someplace dried out and barren, right?" The foal smiled with amusement. "I've heard of water witching before but it doesn't make sense. You don't have a cutie mark and this is an ordinary branch!"
The filly glared at him. She smacked his horn and took the rod back, rolling her eyes.
"Its a dowsing rod!" She said, annoyed. "An' I don't like being stalked! Not by pshyco ponies or their dragons!"
"Well, he's not really my dragon, he's kinda feral. You know, wild? Of course, I do feed his every night, and sometimes he stops by my window and brings me little dead things" The foal said while petting the dragon.
"Look, I'm from Manehattan. And if I'm a 'water witch' then where's the secret well?!" The filly stomped her hoof.
"If you stomp too hard, you'll fall in it!" he said.
The filly backed away as the pony dug at the dirt to reveal a wooden cover. He nocked on it. it gave a hollow sound.
"See?" He said as he propped the lid with a stick to get rid of the excess dirt. "They say it's so deep that if you fell to the bottom and looked up, you'd see luna's night in the middle of celestia's day."
"huh" The filly replied, a little skeptical.
"Surprised she let you move in, my grandma? She owns the pink palace and won't rent it to ponies with foals." He said
"What do you mean?" The filly asked
"Uh, i'm not supposed to talk about it..." The pony stuck out his hoof. "I'm Snips"
"Snips?" The filly questioned.
"Short for Snipsy Snap. Not MY idea of course but we don't get to choose our names.What did you get saddled with?" Snips asked
"I wasn't 'saddled' with anything. It's Babs." the filly replied.
"Babes what?" Snips asked, playing with the dragon.
"Not 'Babes' It's 'Babs' Babs Seed!" Babs explained. She had to explain this a lot.
" Huh, that's different. If you had an ordinary name, I would have ordinary expectations about you. But your name is just plain strange..." Snips replied.
" Not as strange as Snipsy Snap!" Babs shot back.
"Snipsy! Snipsy snap!" Came a distant voice.
"Grandma...." Snips whispered to himself worriedly. "well, I gotta go. see you later Babes. oh, and you might want to wear hoof-gloves next time."
"Why?" Babs said, clearly annoyed by him calling her 'Babes'
"Because that, 'dowsing rod' of yours, it's Poison Oak" He said as he ran off
Babs quickly dropped the stick as she watched him go. She looked to the well. It had a small hole in the cover which she looked through. She saw nothing but darkness. Still curious, she dropped a rock down the hole and listened. She never heard it hit the water.
"I almost fell down a well yesterday mom." Said a bored Babs While she set seeds in a window sill.
"Uh-huh" Replied her mother, Twilight Sparkle who was currently typing something on a laptop.
"I could have died" said Babs
"That's nice" Said a distracted Twilight.
"So....can I go out?" Babs asked, turning to her mother. "I think it's perfect weather for gardening!"
"No Babs. Rain makes mud. Mud makes a mess." Twilight replied.
"Mom, I want stuff GROWING when my friends come to visit! Isn't that why we moved here?" Babs inquired
"Something like that" Sighed Twilight. "But then, we had the accident." She said, pointing to her neck cast.
"Its not my fault you teleported in front of the herd of buffalo!" Babs retorted.
"I never said it was." Twilight responded still typing on the laptop.
"I cant believe it" said Babs " You're paid to write about plants. And yet you hate dirt!"
"Babs." An annoyed twilight said. "I don't have time for you right now. And you still have unpacking to do. LOTS of unpacking!"
"That sounds exciting!" A sarcastic Babs replied to her mother.
"Oh, some kid left this on the porch for you" Said twilight, levitating a wrapped up newspaper to Babs.
Babs removed one layer of paper, revealing a note.
Hey, Babes. Found this in grandma's trunk. Look familiar? -Snips
Babs groaned and removed the rest of the paper. What she saw shocked her. It was a little doll that looked exactly like her. It had the same hair and the same burnt orange coat. There was no cutie mark. The eyes were buttons.
"Huh...." Babs said to herself. "...A little me?"
"What's his name, anyways?" Twilight asked, still typing.
"Snips" Babs spat out his name like it tasted bad. "And I'm way too old for dolls."
Babs walked into another room which was intended to be her fathers study. it was currently packed with boxes. There was a red stallion with bags under his eyes, typing on an old computer.
"Hi dad, how's the writing going?" Babs asked.
Big Macintosh ignored her.
"Dad!" Babs said again, annoyed.
Big Macintosh sighed.
"Hello Babs and..." He looked into the reflection of the computer screen. "...Babs, doll?"
"Hey dad, you know where the garden tools are?" Babs questioned.
"Its uh, its pouring out there, isn't it?" Her dad replied lazily, still typing.
"Its just raining" Babs retorted.
"Mmmmh. What'd the boss say?" He asked.
"Don't even think about going out Babs seed!" She responded in an overly exaggerated angry voice while shaking her doll.
"Well then you won't need the tools" Her father replied a little smugly.
Babs groaned. Her hoof hit the door and it squeaked. She smiled and took the nob with both hooves, swinging the door back and fourth making annoying squeaks. this earned an annoyed groan from her father.
"You know, this house is over a hundred and fifty years old." He said
"So?" Babs responded.
"So, explore it!" Big Macintosh said, giving her a pen and notebook. "count all the doors and windows, list everything that blue. just, let me work!" He said going back to the computer.
Babs sighed and walked out the door, little Babs on her back. She nearly tripped over a bmp in the rug. She stepped on it and it went behind her. She stepped on it again and it went in front of her. She stepped on it with all four hooves and it split in two. She decided to leave the room.
She moved on to another room with many windows. She wiped away some of the condensation so she and her doll can see. 'Twelve leaky windows' she wrote, as a water drop fell onto the page.
Up in the bathroom, Babs opened the curtain because she saw the outline of a window or two.
"UGH!" She exclaimed as she tried to kill several gross bugs on the wall with her hooves. This resulted in her hooves getting dirty. Babs turned on the water in the tub, only for the rusty water to come out the showerhead into her mane.
After shaking out her mane, Babs went back downstairs, jumping on the two bumps in the rug, straitening it out. She went into a room and along with the words 'twelve disgusting bugs' she added 'one rusty water heater'. She turned on the light as she left the room which resulted in the lights flickering on and off.
"Nope..." Exclaimed Big Mac as the computer started to malfunction. "Nope nope nope nope nope!" He said as the screen went black. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!!!!!!" He screamed.
Babs heard this and went back into the water heater room. she saw a piece of paper that said in all caps, 'DO NOT PUSH!!!' She quickly turned the light back on, shut the door and casually walked away with little Babs.
She went into the living room and set down little Babs on the table. Babs went to work unpacking and displaying the small snow globe collection her mom kept on the shelf above the fireplace. She noticed a picture of a blue colt with ice cream spilled down his chest.
"One boring blue boy" Babs said out loud as she wrote. "In a painfully boring painting." She quickly did a count of the windows. "Four, incredibly boring windows and no....more...doors"
Babs went to grab her doll from the table only to see she was gone.
"Alright little me, where are you hiding?" Babs asked.
She looked under the table and around the room until she found the doll hiding behind a box. she slid the box aside revealing a small door that was covered by the wallpaper.
"Hey mom, where does this door go?" She shouted.
"I'm really, really busy!" Came the answer from twilight.
"I think it's locked!" Babs called back.
She didn't get an answer.
"PLEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!" Babs screamed.
"Ugh." Twilight said as she went into the living room. She looked at the door behind the wallpaper, then at her daughter. "Will you stop pestering me if I do this for you?"
Babs gave her best puppy dog face.
"Fine!" Twilight said as she went back into the kitchen. She opened a drawer that was full of keys. She picked out a strange one that had a button on top. She went back into the room and used the key to rip the wallpaper and unlock the door. She opened it to reveal.....
"Bricks?!" Babs exclaimed. "But how can that....?"
Twilight sighed. "They must have closed this off when they divided up the house." She explained.
"Your kidding." Babs stated. "And why's the door so small?"
"We made a deal, ZIP IT!" Twilight said angrily as she stormed back into the kitchen, throwing the key back in the drawer.
Babs took one last look at the bricked up passageway, and shut the door with a disappointing slam.
"Oh, my twitchy-witchy girl!" Sang Big Macintosh at dinner that night. "I think you are so nice! I give you bowls of porridge and I give you bowls of ice...cream!" He put a heaping spoonful of an unidentifiable green substance of Bab's plate.
"Ugh..." Babs pushed the plate away. "Why don't you ever cook mom?" She asked Twilight.
"Babs, we've been over this before" Twilight explained. "Your dad cooks, I clean and YOU stay out of the way."
This gained a sigh from Babs.
"I swear, i'll go food shopping as soon at we finish the catalogue." Twilight said. She pushed Babs' plate back to her. "Try some of the chard, you need a vegetable."
"It looks more like slime to me." She replied.
"Well it's slime, or bedtime fusspot." Said Big Mac holding up a spoonful of the so called slime. "Now what's it gonna be?"
Babs looked to her doll. "....Think their trying to poison me?" She asked it.
She made the doll nod and went upstairs to bed.
Babs looked around her room. It wasn't done yet. There were little origami dragonflies hanging from her bed like a canopy. The plaster was cracked and everything looked shabby. She looked at a picture. It was a picture of a filly and a colt standing in front of a billboard that said 'Goodbye Babs'.
"Don't forget about me guys...." Babs said as she got under the covers. "Goodnight....little me...."
And with that Babs fell asleep. But as she was sleeping the door in the living room opened all on its own, and small fabric mice came out of it.
Late that night Babs was awoken by the sound of mice squeaking near her door. She shot out of bed to chase them. Babs ended up in front of the door. When she opened it she saw.....
A tunnel. It was a long fabric tunnel leading to another door, just like this one. Babs cautiously climbed through the tunnel to the other door and when she opened it she was in....her living room....
"Huh?" She exclaimed looking around.
The only different thing was that the blue colt in the painting had his ice cream all in his cone.
Babs sniffed the air. "Hm...something smells.....good..." She said as she walked towards the kitchen.
There she saw her twilight with her back to her.
"Mom? what are you doing here so late at night?" Babs asked as Twilight turned around.
"You're just in time for supper dear." She said.
"Your not my mother...." Babs said, pointing to the imposter
Twilight looked different. first off, she didn't have her neck cast and....
"My mother doesn't have bu-bu-bu....." Babs stammered
"Bu-bu-bu-buttons?" Twilight giggled as she tapped the round black buttons that were in the place her eyes should be.
"Do you like them? I'm your other mother." Other Twilight explained. " Now go tell your other father that dinner is ready."
Other Twilight put on an oven mit and Babs just kept staring.
"Well go on, he's in his study" The other mother said to her.
Babs kept staring as she went into the next room. There she found the Other Big Macintosh sitting at a piano hitting random notes.
"Dad?" she asked.
"Hellooo Babs" He said as he turned to her. He also had round black button eyes. "Wanna hear my new song?" He asked enthusiastically.
"My father cant play piano..." Babs replied.
"No need to" Other Big Mac replied as two hoof-gloved popped out of the piano on metal rods. "This piano plays me!"
He was turned towards the piano as the gloved slid on his hooves. They played a cheery tune and he began to sing.
Makin' up as song about Babs this time!
She's a Peach she's a doll she's a pal of mine!
She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes
On that girl of mine.
When she goes around exploring
Mom and I will never ever make it boring
Our eyes will be on that Babs of mine!
"Uh, sorry to interrupt but she says it's time for dinner" Babs said.
"Ooh, who's hungry raise your hoof!" Other Big Macintosh said as the gloves made his arms raise.
Other Twilight used her magic to place a tofu chicken on the table since ponies were vegetarians. They bent their heads to prey.
"We give our thanks and as to bless our mothers golden, chicken breast" Other Big Macintosh gestured to Twilight and she rolled her eyes at them.
Babs looked awkwardly to her food. She took a bite of chicken.
"Mmm, this chicken is good" She said.
"Hungry aren't you?" Other Twilight smiled.
"You have any gravy?" Babs asked as she spooned some mashed potatoes onto her plate.
"Well here comes the gravy train. Choo choo!" Twilight giggled as a toy train poured some gravy on Babs' potatoes.
"Another roll?" Other Twilight asked as a giant plate spun to match each food choice as she said it. "Sweet peas? Corn on the cob?"
"I'm real thirsty" Babs replied to her.
"Of course!" Said Other Twilight as the chandelier lowered itself from the ceiling, showing glasses with little taps on them.
"Any requests?" Other Twilight asked kindly.
"Mango milkshake?" Babs wondered as the correct drink stopped in front of her. SHe put some in her glass and drank it all.
Other Twilight took Babs' plate away and replaced it with a cake. It suddenly sprouted many candles and the words 'Welcome Home!' appeared on it in loopy cursive.
"Home?" Babs asked curiously.
"We've been waiting for you, Babs." Other Twilight explained as she took Other Big Mac's hoof.
"For me?" Said Babs.
"Eeyup, wasn't the same without you, kiddo." Other Big Mac said.
"I didn't know I has an Other Mother" Babs replied.
"Of course you do! Everypony does!" Other Twilight explained to a confused Babs.
"Really?" Babs looked at the cake again.
"Uh-huh. And after you're done eating, I thought we'd play a game" Other Twilight said happily
"You mean like....hide and seek?" Babs said.
"Perfect!" Other Twilight responded "Hide and seek, in the rain"
"What rain?" Lightning suddenly struck outside.
"What about the mud?!" Babs asked in disbelief.
"We love mud here!" Other Big Mac Said
"Mud facials, mud baths, mud pies!" Other Twilight exclaimed. "It's great for poison oak."
"How's you know I..." Babs trailed off. This was getting freaky. "I mean...I'd love to play, but I better get back to my other mother"
"But I'M your other mother!" Other Twilight said.
"I mean my OTHER other mother.....mom number one?" She backed away and ran into Other Big Mac. "I should really get back to bed...."
"Of course, sweetheart. It's all made up " Other Twilight said gently as she pushed Babs up stairs.
"Come along, sleepyhead" Other Big Mac smiled.
As they entered Babs' room she gasped. The dragon flies had come alive and were flying around her room.
"Hello Babs!" They said at the same time. "Hello, hello, hello, hello!"
"What's shaking, baby?" Said a stuffed toy.
"Hello...." Babs replied.
A small tortoise came out from behind her bed. It had a plastic skull and clothespin legs. It ran around her in a circle.
"Hey!" Came a voice "How's it going lopper?"
"Where's your swampers and chook?" Said another.
It was her friend talking to her through the picture.
"Crapes, Almighty! How're my best trolls?! I cant wait till summer! You're both coming right?"
"We're already here Babs!" Said the filly
"Gone to or-gone?" Said the colt jokingly, tossing a snowball at the fily.
The Other Twilight sat on Babs' bed with a jar full of mud.
"Oh" Babs said as Other Twilight Put it on her hooves. "The mud...."
Babs yawned and lay back in her bed, hugging the picture to her chest. Other Twilight kissed the top of her head.
"See you soon" Other Twilight and Other Big Mac said at the same time as Babs fell asleep.
Babs woke up in her old shabby room. Sighing, she went to scratch her poison oak only to realize it was gone.
She rushed downstairs to the door and opened it. She was met with bricks.
At breakfast that morning Babs was telling her parents about her "dream."
"It was incredibly real mom" Babs said to Twilight. "Only you weren't you, you were my Other Mother."
"Buttons for eyes, huh?" Twilight replied. "Babs, you only 'dreamed' you ate all that tofu chicken? Take your multivitamin, at least."
"You were in the dream too dad." Babs turned to Big Macintosh "You had wild pajamas and orange monkey slippers!"
"Oh-ho-orange? My monkey slippers are blue!" Big Mac replied. Then he looked serious. "Psst, can you get me some of that magic mud you were talking about? Because I have a terrible case of writers rash! On my-"
"AH-EM!" Twilight interrupted as Big Mac reached for his bum. "If the real Big Macintosh wants his pages edited he better wrap them up ASAP."
Big Mac left the room as Twilight turned to Babs.
"Babs, why don't you visit downstairs?" Babs dropped her fork. "I bet those actresses would love to hear you dream."
"Miss Pink and Fashionable?!" Said a disbelieving Babs. "But you said their dingbats!"
"Mm-hmm" Replied Twilight with a smirk as she walked off.
Babs rolled her eyes and went outside. She grabbed some garden clippers on the way out. Babs nearly tripped over a pile of mail. She looked at the name.
"Trixie...Trixie....Trixie...." Babs sniffed the air, and then the packages. They had a horrible smell. "Agh! Poo-wee!" She exclaimed.
Babs saw a sign pointing up a flight of stairs. 'Trixie. There.' She decided to follow. When she got to the top she knocked on the door with the packages as far away from her nose as possible.
"Hello?.....I think our mail got mixed up!" She leaned into the door and pressed her ear to it. "Should I leave it outside or- WAH!" She exclaimed as the door opened in. she caught the packages expertly and looked inside the room.
It had a lamp with a sheet draped over it, some strange looking cannons, a chicken and a pot on a stove boiling over.
"Huh...." Babs said a bit uneasy.
"SECRET!" Said a voice behind her
Babs turned just in time to see an upside-down, levitating blue unicorn mare in a wizards hat and cloak close the door.
"Famous jumping mouse circus not ready!" Said the unicorn taking a bite of a peanut butter cracker. "Little girl."
"Circus?" Babs was a bit freaked out. "Oh, uh, I, uh, brought this for you." She showed her the packages.
The unicorn smiled and grabbed the packages with her magic. She smelled them.
"Mmmm" She said something in a foreign language.
"Huh?" Babs questioned a bit confused.
"New cheese samples" The unicorn released herself from her magic and jumped in front of Babs right-side-up. "Very clever, using this mix-up to peek at mooshkas."
"....Mooshkas?" Babs was still confused.
The unicorn sighed in frustration and pointed behind her with a hoof. "The mice!" She jumped onto the railing of the terrace and balanced on her tow hoofed once again, upside-down.
"Oh....well, I'm Babs Seed." Babs said.
"And I," Said the unicorn. "Am the great, and powerful, Trixie!" She rolled the r in 'Trixie' "But you. Call me Trixie. Because Great and Powerful, I already know that I am" Trixie crossed her hind legs together and pushed off the terrace with her forelegs.
"Wha-?" Babs looked over the edge, expecting to see Trixie splattered on the sidewalk, but she didn't.
Trixie appeared behind her.
"You see, Babes, my new songs go, 'Oompa, Oompa'" Trixie said in a powerful voice.
"But the jumping mice play only 'Toodle, Toot', like that, It's nice, but, not so much Great and Powerful. So now, I switch to stronger cheese and soon, watch out!"
She turned to leave and made a package of peanut butter crackers appear by Babs' hooves.
"Here, have crackers, their good for you." She turned to Babs. "Do svidania, Babes" She said as she disappeared into her section of the house.
"Bab-sah!" Babs spat out as she tossed the crackers over the terrace. She went down stairs and grabbed the garden shears.
"Oompa, oompa, toodle toot, toodle toot..." She hummed.
"Hey! Babes!" Shouted Trixie from above her. "Wait!" She shouted as she jumped off the terrace heading right for Babs.
"NO!" Babs held the shears open above her head.
Trixie teleported right next to her.
"The mice, asked me to give you message!" Trixie said in a hushed voice.
"The...jumping mice?" Asked Babs.
"They are saying" Trixie looked from side to side and whispered. "Do not go through little door." Babs gasped. "Do you know such a thing?" Trixie asked shrugging.
"The one behind the wallpaper? But it's all.....bricked up...." Babs replied.
"Huh" Trixie teleported to the stairs. "So sorry, it's nothing. Sometimes mice get a little, mixed up. They even call you "Babs" instead of "Babes"! Not Babes at all! Maybe I work them...too hard...." She said as she went into the house.
"Hm" Babs closed the shears and went to the carriage. She clipped a string and got a suitcase off of the top. She opened it. Inside was a police hat, which she put on.
Babs then went towards a small flight of stair leading down into the ground. She knocked on the brass Knocker. It had a happy pony on it and a sad pony on it. She looked at the doormat which read "No Whistling In The House."
Babs got impatient and looked through the doors window. It squeaked ever so slightly. She jumped back as three little black schnauzers jumped out of nowhere, barking. An elderly pink earth pony came to the door.
"Oh, cease your infernal yapping!" She said in a singsong voice. "Oh, how nice to see you Babes, would you like to come in? We're playing cards." The pony moved away so Babs could come in.
"Still Babs Miss Pink." Babs said, taking off her hat.
"Rarity! Put the kettle on!" Said Miss Pink as she winked at Babs. She headed into the kitchen.
Babs saw a picture for a play. It had young, slightly bustier versions Miss Pink and Miss Fashionable on it, dressed into some suggestive clothing.
"Goodness pinkie I think...I think your being followed!" A white unicorn mare said as she put on some red glasses.
"Its the new neighbor Rarity, Babes!" Miss Pink replied.
As Babs walked through the house she saw more and more pictures of young Pink and Fashionable in more suggestive clothing that almost made her gag.
"She'll be having the oolong tea." Miss Pink told the other pony who must be Miss Fashionable
"No, no I'm sure she would prefer jasmine." She replied.
"No, oolong." Miss Pink argued sounding annoyed.
"Ah, jasmine it is then!" Miss Fashionable said going back into the kitchen to prepare the tea as Miss Pink facehoofed.
Babs went to sit on the couch but it was dominated by three schnauzers.
"Come on boys!" miss pink said as the dogs moved.
Babs sat down. When she looked up she was shocked to see nine more schnauzers on a shelf. All in angel outfits.
"A-are those dogs.....real?" She asked.
"Our sweet departed angels." Miss Pink replied putting a hoof to her heart. "Couldn't bear to part with them....So we had them stuffed."
Miss Pink went down a list of dog names most of them having 'Jock' in them. As She did this, Miss Fashionable came levitating a tray that had Babs' tea and a bowl of taffy.
"Oh go on, have one" Miss Fashionable told Babs "It's hoof-pulled taffy from Brighton. Best in the world." She said haughtily.
Babs tried to grab one with her hoof put it got stuck, the taffy was so old. She tried to free her hoof but to no avail. So Babs put her remaining hooves on the bowl and pushed with all her might. The taffy came off....and got stuck to the ceiling.
Miss Pink came over and sat down with her. "I'll read them, if you'd like." She said a bit mysteriously.
"R-read what?" Babs said, confused.
"Oh, your tea leaves dear." Miss Pink replied, putting a gypsy hat on her head. "They'll tell me your future. Drink up then, go on, go on. No, not all of it, not all of it. That's right, now hoof it over."
Miss Pink swirled the leaves in the cup, then got a worried look on her face.
"Oooooh. Oh Babes. Babes, babes, babes....You are in terrible danger...."
Babs gasped
"Oh, give me that cup Pinkie!" Miss Fashionable said, taking the hat by accident and looking into it. "Your eyes are going."
"My eyes?!" Pinkie exclaimed, taking the hat back. "You're blind as a bat!"
"Uh, huh. Not to worry, child. It's good news!" Miss Fashionable said, putting her red glasses back on. "It's good news. There's a...Tall handsome beast, in your future."
"A WHAT?!" Babs exclaimed.
"Now, Rarity, Rarity, you're holding it wrong." Miss Pink steadied the cup. "See? Danger!"
"What do you see?" Asked a worried Babs.
"I see a very peculiar horn..." Miss Pink said worriedly.
"I see a giraffe" Miss Fashionable argued.
"Giraffes don't just fall from the sky Rarity!" Miss Pink replied. Just then her tail vibrated and the taffy came crashing down.
"Well....what should I do?" Babs asked. She was asking a lot of questions, but they didn't mind.
"Never wear green in your dressing room." Declared Miss Pink, Bumping Miss Fashionable a bit.
"Acquire a very TALL stepladder." Miss Fashionable continued, Bumping Miss Pink with her chest.
"And be very, very carfu-OH!" Miss Pink cried as she was knocked over. Miss Fashionable only messed with her mane.
" Now, was there something you came to tell us?" Miss Pink asked when she was back up. Both of the elder ponies leaned in.
"No, I guess not." Babs said, picking up her hat. "Thanks for the tea, though." She said as she walked out.
