Sweetie woke up in her bed and looked around like she usually did and spotted something strange, stuck to her window is a note, Sweetie grabs the pully system over her bed which Applebloom set up after she sunk into it That was a fun adventure she thinks afixing the harness to her barrel and pulling herself out of the squishy depths of sleepy cloudyness that is her four poster triple layer giga-down filled matresses and swung onto the bouncy cushion she set up so she wouldn't hurt herself. After making herself look right, she teleports the letter in and opens it:

Dear Sweetie,

I just wanted to make sure we were still on for lessons tomorrow.

By the way, your sister should change the locks on her doors, a foal could pick those. Seriously, I saw the cake filly do it on my way over

We live in a strange town Sweetie, a very strange town. And that is why I live here... and because I am banned from Canterlot because of the... Frankenhoof recreation incident... of course Subtle Stitch or as he likes to be called, "Frank" comes home every so often to deposit the bits he earns from being a bounty hunter

Anypoodle (HEE! I wrote poo!) just thought I'd drop by and now I have to return Meghan (That's what the cake filly calls herself. Fun fact, I speak baby) to, and I quote, "Return her to her brother Sturmheralder to play with the pink bouncy squishy not-mom. Not the skinny not-mom, the other not-mom" babies, they talk funn- Hey! I'm writing here! stop doing... oh, ew... to the pink bouncy squishy not-mom!

Your friend,

Lyra heartstrings

(Dang baby drool...)

Sweetie just blinked and folded the note back up, walking up the stairs to wake her sister

She readied the cat-a-pult, checked her calculations, and placed a sleeping Opalescence in the ammunition bowl and yelled "This is not madness! THIS! IS! PONYTA*!" she pressed the release button and launched the now wide awake Opal onto a still sleeping rarity

"AAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!! OPAL! WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING ME?!" Rarity yells, fighting off the feline

"And now to exit stage left" Sweetie runs away, into the kitchen and places bread into the toaster

A few minutes later Rarity comes down with her usual coiffure and make-up on, not a single hair out of place "Morning sis!" she chirps, washing her dishes

"Good morning Sweetie... why does the kitchen smell like baby?" Rarity asks, sitting down

"Pumpkin Cake got in by picking the locks earlier this morning and Lyra was nearby and took her back after leaving a note on my window" Sweetie replies as Rarity takes a long sip of her black coffee

3... 2... 1... we have spitake Sweetie counts as the sound of her sister spitting out the black liquid commences

"You made it to the waste bin, your distance is getting better" Sweetie chuckles, grabbing the mop

"(cough cough) The little filly picked the locks?! I find that hard to- what are you doing?" Rarity asks as Sweetie steps onto her step ladder and pokes a corner of the ceiling with the mop handle "Audio/visual recording ward, it records and plays back whatever it saw and heard so long as you know what time to look for. Kind of like a security system; now I guess we check for about after sunrise and before I came in" the corner emenates a pale green-white aura that covers everything in the room

"Sweetie, when did you do this?" Rarity asks as Sweetie's horn glows green "A few months ago, I read it in a book Mr.Midnight brought from canterlot, he said it was ancient magic" Sweetie's horn glows red as the door opens to reveal pumpkin zooming around followed by Lyra who grabbed her in her magic and wrote a note with one of rarity's drawing pencils, seeming to argue with the captured filly then leaving

The light dims as the recording ends, Rarity looking shocked

"Sis? Are you okay?" Sweetie asks, sitting on her sister's lap

"Y- yes but... I need to lay down... and then have a talk with that strange colt... and today is a crusading day right? Stay out with your friends today... I need to see Pinkie about some special deserts" Rarity trots up to her room muttering about knives

Sweetie shrugs and walk out to meet near the everfree forest

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Sweetie is awoken by somepony poking her side "Mwuh?"

Her eyes adjust to the light and next to her are Applebloom and Scootaloo "Hey, lazy bones, get up" Scootaloo says, scrunching up Sweetie's face with her hooves, much to Applebloom's amusement

"I'm up! Stop that!" Sweetie bats at Scootaloo's hooves, sleep still holding to her

"Hey, Applebloom, do the thing I did to Rainbow yesterday" Scootaloo says, smirking like her idol

"Are ya sure? Rainbow couldn't move fer a while after that" the earth pony asks, looking at her orange friend

"Sure I'm sure! Have I ever steered you wrong?" Scootaloo asks, her smirk turning to smugness

"Well, there was that one time ya thought it was a good idea to try gettin' spelunkin' cutie marks an' led us into that cave with the Ursa Major" Applebloom replies, the pegasus huffing

"Snips and Snails said it was safe!" Scootaloo yells, arms outstretched

"An' they also think that eatin' out of the trash at sugarcube corner is safe too, but ah'm not crawlin' in there for baked bads" Applebloom drones

"But it is!" a nasally voice yells from under the yellow filly "What th-" a dark yellow face with green hair lifts up the whole square foot of earth that she was sitting on "Good morning madams, how are you today?" Snails says, sophistication dripping from his voice as opposed to his usual slow and short speech

"Snails?! Why are you underground?!" Scootaloo yells, when Sweetie raises her head "Why aren't you?" she asks, a thin smirk adorning her lips

"The young Ms. Belle is correct in asking, but to answer your question, Snips and I are creating an underground water resevior. It is to ensure that none of the wells go dry from overuse like last summer. And it also lines our metaphorical pockets with bits from the city for this service that none could do without resorting to dangerous magic. We volunteered because we knew of one already started around the half-way point of lord Discord's reign, so we are just finishing it. Snips, mark this area for reinforcement for when we line this next passing will you?"

"Got it! Should I start the next fork to the resevior to the left?" The nasally voice asks, followed by some scratching

"No, We have yet to mark the opening point for the other crew" Snails replies, lowering back into the ground before raising it again, "And good day m'ladies"

"...Ya'll saw that too right?" Applebloom says, eye twitching and a few hairs spring from her mane

"Yeah... and what was with Snails? He acted like one of those nice old stallions that Twilight invites to the library whenever she discovers something" Scootaloo says, shaking her head

"Maybe he fell in some poison joke?" Sweetie suggests, raising the section of dirt that snails came from and looking around

"Maybe... wanna forget what we saw and just buy some icecream?" Applebloom suggests, the other two nodding as they walked back to ponyville, filing Snail's strange behavior under "Stuff we may never understand"

Author's Note

honestly, I have no idea where most of this came from but it is hilarious
And why would pumpkin pick the carousel boutique's locks?
I don't know and don't care at the moment... lyra, put the giant magnet away
*Yes, I made a clever two-fold reference-pun. and it is also funny because ponyta evolves into a unicorn... now to work in Girafarig, Blitzle, Zebstrika, Rapidash... anyone know of a pegasus pokemon?