Kickplot

Kickplot

By

Sparknanator

***

Nova grumbled, slightly annoyed. Of course he had been asked to clean the basement. He hated cleaning it due to the cobwebs, and where there’s cobwebs spiders can’t be far behind, but he tried shoving that thought out of his mind as he kept lifting box after box, noting what labels they had on them.

“Hey kiddo.” Rang a voice. Nova nearly jumped out of his skin when his uncle snuck up behind him. “I thought I’d give you a helping hoof.” Blue chuckled

“Thanks, Uncle Blue.” Nova smiled, levitating another box to sort through and find out its contents and decide if it was stuff that could be donated. He looked at the writing. “Huh.” He mumbled looking. noticing what it read on it. He had never seen it before. He of course opened it, and the first thing he saw was a wet suit. “Who did this belong to?” He asked to nopony in particular

Blue trotted over and took a small peak. “Oh hey, that was Dad's old scuba diving gear.” He chuckled as the memories began to flood back. “He would take me and your father on these little trips to the lake and force us to wear those things. Really gave some serious rashes from how itchy they were.”

Nova kept looking at the suit as if it could hold some other purpose. When he looked in the box again he saw a baton. “...The hell was grandpa into?”

***

After finishing with the basement, Nova had snuck the suit and the baton up to his room... Well, after washing the baton. ‘This could be my chance,’ He thought, ‘to become a superhero.’ He chuckled. It was a crazy idea. “What am I thinking? I’d get my plot kicked, or even killed.” He shuddered at the thought of being killed, but what if he could make a difference in Manehattan, and maybe all of the world, by doing it? It was a long shot, but then he remembered those words his uncle wrote him.

‘This world needs good kids like you to fix it…”

‘Well, if I did it, I would need a mask and a name.’ He thought again. ‘Maybe I could steal-I mean, borrow Mom’s sewing supplies.’ He smirked and trotted out of his room. By Celestia, he was going to do it… Of course, he would just help by walking pets or finding lost pets. As he walked into his parents room, he went into Evening’s bedside table and grabbed her sewing supplies. He was sure he could find the fabrics in the house that would match the scuba suit.

So, that’s what he did. He began his search for the fabric. He wasn’t sure why he was doing this, let alone what he hoped to accomplish by possibly getting the crap beaten out of him. Maybe he wanted to try it to feel like he had some sort of power? Or maybe he really did want to help others. Or maybe hormones. Could be any of them.

***

After hours of trial and error, and poking himself, Nova had made a mask. It seemed to match the scuba suit well, but Nova felt like he was missing something… but what? Even he was unsure on what it was, but all he knew is he was going to do something. He quickly rolled the clothing up and took it to his closet to keep them hidden for now, when he saw something that caught his eye. It was a pair of rain boots.

Nova had no clue why he had them, but when he compared the rain boots to the suit he found them to be a perfect match. He knew it was complete, and he knew what his first mission was. It was to take a long nap in the hopes that nopony needed him so to be safe. Can’t going saving people while tired. He shut and locked his door.

The bed’s old mattress squeaked as the young stallion jumped on it. He knew he should have gotten a new mattress years ago, but he liked the one he had. It had a certain personality to it… Plus, that’d mean he would have to help move it, and Nova was too lazy for that even with the help of magic, it would still be exhausting. Yeah, this colt was destined to be a great hero.

***

Evening smiled. The sky blue mare had been treated to lunch by her brother in law, Blue Breeze. Sure, she occasionally wanted to kill him for some of the things he did be it to her, Shadow, or Nova, but for some reason he had wanted to treat her to lunch and take her out for an afternoon on the town. Afterall, he was still family.

All of it on his bit. “So, why are you really here?” Evening asked, knowing he wouldn’t have come down before his leave. “You have to be up to something.” She smirked.

“Just wanting to visit you all.” Blue lied. Sure, he wanted to do that too, but he had to investigate some drug lord that had been reported to be in Manehattan. Unfortunately, so far he found nothing. “Besides, I really wanted to scare the crap out of Nova.” He laughed. “Sure is funny to see that boy jump from an itty bitty spider.” He felt himself receive a jab in the gut from Evening. At least that part was true. He did enjoy seeing his nephew jump and grab onto the first object or pony for dear life. He didn’t do it maliciously, though. Just a bit of fun.

“Well, be that as it may...” She hugged the tall blue stallion, “It’s always good to see you and you are always welcome in our home.” She let him out of the hug and they began walking again. Evening was happy because she got some shopping she needed to get done finished. Plus, she had found a book for Nova on different spells he could practice.

She attempted to put as little pressure on him as she could, but she also wanted to make sure he used his full potential and could find out what spells he was capable of. When she would be questioned as to why, she would use the same old ‘Because I’m your mother and I want what’s best for you’ excuse that she’d picked up over the years.

“Evening!” Blue shouted as she walked into a light pole “Look out!” There was a loud banging followed by a ringing as the mare ran face first into the pole while caught up in her thoughts.

Blue rushed over to her while Evening rubbed her muzzle, cursing under her breath. “You ok? That looked like it hurt a bit.” Blue enjoyed a good joke, but if his family or friends wound up hurt, he would always be sure to make sure that they were alright before anything else.

“I’m fine.” She stopped rubbing her muzzle. “Lets just get back home.” Blue noded in agreement, hoping that’d she be alright.