Family is Magic

Chapter 1

A dark gray and well-built unicorn stallion walked quickly through the streets of Canterlot. He had been training in Princess Celestia’s new law enforcement program for the past two weeks. After being called away on urgent business, Princess Celestia had entrusted the duties of leading the program to Princess Twilight Sparkle. She had agreed only because she couldn’t refuse her beloved mentor.

Twilight had told all the trainees to meet her in the Canterlot garden, where she would break them up into teams of 6 for team building exercises. There were 24 ponies in the program, so there would be 4 teams, naturally.

The gray unicorn wondered who he would be teamed up with as he made his way to the rendezvous. He had met a couple of the trainees, but so far, he only really knew which ones he wouldn’t want to work with. These include his two roommates—Spencer Reid, an Earth pony, and Derek Morgan, a Pegasus pony. Apparently, Princess Celestia broke up all the rooms like this, with one of each kind of pony, and he did not like it. He played the memory of meeting the two of them in his head…

He opened the door with his magic while also levitating his belongings he packed to have with him during the training program. He was greeted by the sight of a Pegasus flying around and spreading his stuff out.

“Oh, are you my roommate?!” the Pegasus asked, quickly flying over to him. Much too fast for indoors, in the unicorn’s opinion.

“Yes…” The unicorn answered slowly.

“Sweet! I’m Derek Morgan.” The Pegasus said, landing and holding his hoof out. “And you are?”

“Aaron Hotchner.” The unicorn answered in a monotone voice. “Nice to meet you.” He shook Morgan’s hoof.

“Hotchner, eh? I think that’s gonna be too complicated to say in the field.” Morgan said, putting a hoof to his chin in thought. “I am gonna call you Hotch!”

Hotch huffed. “Whatever, I guess.” He said as he started putting his stuff down. Soon, the door opened to reveal a tall, but lanky, Earth pony walking in.

Morgan greeted him the same way he had greeted Hotch. “I’m Derek Morgan, and that’s Hotch over there.!”
“My name is actually Aaron Hotchner—“ Hotch’s voice was ignored as Morgan continued.

“What’s your name?” Morgan said, looking the quiet Earth pony up and down. “And no offense, but you don’t really look like you’re suited for this job.”

“I am Spencer Reid.” The Earth pony replied, adjusting his glasses. “And I’m not really good at physical exercises, but I have an IQ of 187, can read 20,000 words a minute, and I have an eidetic memory.”

Hotch couldn’t help but gape in awe at Reid’s self-description. Morgan had the same expression of shock on his face.

“Alright then, Pretty Boy…” Morgan finally found his voice. “You have definitely proved your worth.”

“’Pretty Boy’?” Reid repeated in reply as he settled himself and his belongings in the room.

Hotch finally found himself standing in the crowd of trainees at the garden. Sooner than later, Derek Morgan came crashing down next to him—though he landed on his hooves.

“Hey, Hotch!” Morgan greeted in a friendly tone. “Maybe Twilight will put us on the same team!”

Oh, I hope not. Hotch internally moaned. “Maybe. And isn’t it Princess Twilight?” he replied.

“Yeah, but she was a normal pony before like us, too. She became a princess later on.” Morgan defended himself.

At that same moment, Spencer Reid quickly trotted up next to them. “Ah, am I late?!” he asked them worriedly.

Morgan chuckled. “Nah, Reid, you came just in time.” He replied with a smirk.

“Oh, okay, thank goodness.” Reid huffed.

Emily Prentiss was not impressed with this training so far. Her roommates were pretty weird and it looked like a lot of the other ponies were pretty much the same. She stood in the back of the crowd as she waited for the team building to begin. She sighed.

Spotting Prentiss’ dark green pelt, Penelope Garcia quickly ran over to her. “Hey!” she said, almost crashing into Prentiss. “There you are! I’ve been looking for someone I knew to stand next to for this thing. Hey, maybe we will be on the same team, since we’re in the same room!” she said breathlessly.

“Maybe.” Prentiss mumbled, but honestly she hoped not. Garcia was her Earth pony roommate and Prentiss would swear on her life that at times, Garcia seems like a direct descendant of the bearer of the Laughter element herself—Pinkie Pie. Garcia was nice and caring, but a little too cheery and optimistic for Prentiss’ darker tastes. And her love of bright colors and sense of fashion could make Prentiss run for the hills sometimes.

Their other roommate, Jennifer Jareau, gently landed beside them. She was almost the complete opposite of Garcia—calm, collected, and quiet. Garcia decided they should call her “JJ”, and Prentiss complied just so Garcia wouldn’t bug her about it all night. JJ didn’t seem to mind and took a liking to the nickname immediately.

“Hey, Jayje.” Garcia greeted warmly, having already discovered different variations of her nickname to use.

“Hi, Penelope.” JJ replied in her soft voice. “Am I late?” she asked, turning to also include Prentiss in their conversation.

“No, you’re just on time.” Prentiss replied with as warm of a smile as she could muster.

JJ nodded, and then silence came over the crowd as Princess Twilight Sparkle walked out in front of the group.

“Hello, my little ponies.” Twilight greeted warmly. She had been using some of Celestia’s phrases like this for a while now. “As you all know, I called you all here today to break you up into teams. As my best friends and I formed a strong team of six all those years ago, I believe that six is just the right number for all of you to work in teams of.”

She began reading off her list of teams and their members. Hotch, Morgan, Reid, JJ, Prentiss, and Garcia all waited with great anticipation, until finally, Twilight finished reading off the members of the third team, with a certain group of six left.

Author's Note

And there's chapter 1! Yeah I don't really know where I'm going with this story. Maybe my brain is making me not study for finals through writing this? I'm not exactly sure. But I guess we'll find out eventually.