Life in Ponyville side story: A Blast to the Past
1 month after the events of New Town, New Beginnings
“SURPRISE!!!!!” came the shout of twenty-one ponies, stuffed tightly in the visiting room of Sea Breeze’s home. Sea Breeze and her coltfriend, Thunder Bolt, stood at the front of the group. Beside them stood Sea’s brother and sister, Lightning Strike and Daisy Juniper. Behind stood Princess Twilight Sparkle, her parents, Twilight Velvet and Night Light, her brother, Shining Armor and his wife, Princess Cadence. To the side was the remaining Elements of Harmony, the Cutie Mark Crusaders and four other ponies as well: Sea’s paternal grandparents, Golden Oak and Sapphire Gem, her uncle, Fire Stone and maternal grandmother, Spring Rose.
Amethyst and Bass Tempo halted in the door way of their living room, wide eyed. They had just arrived home from a quiet lunch and movie date as it was their nineteenth wedding anniversary.
“Sea Breeze? Did you plan this?” Amethyst asked softly, tears threatening to spill over at any moment.
“Yep! With Twilight and Pinkie’s help, of course,” Sea giggled, placing her hooves around her foalhood friend and the pink party pony.
“I hope you don’t mind, Amethyst, Bass,” Twilight smiled. “Sea has been planning this for weeks,” Twilight praised her friend.
“Mind? Of course not!” Bass laughed, bringing the three mares in for a hug.
“Daddy! Can’t! Breathe!” Sea choked out as Bass let go, giving his daughter an extra squeeze. Pinkie jumped up and pulled out a cake from seemingly no where.
“C’mon! Less talk, more party!” The energetic mare exclaimed.
~~~
The family and friends socialized with each other, laughing at jokes and reminiscing of years past. Spike, Juniper and the Crusaders had a dance competition going on. Bolt and Sea snuck in kisses and nuzzles every so often while Lightning gazed lovingly at Fluttershy from afar. In the dining room, the stallions were in the midst of a hoof wrestling competition. Right now it was Fire Stone versus Shining Armor. Fire was loosing pitifully.
“Eeyow!” Fire pulled his hoof away.
“That’s what being the Captain of the Royal Guard will do for ya,” Shining grinned. Fire rolled his eyes and got up from the table.
“Ya wanna bet?” Applejack trotted up, flanked by Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. The unicorn smirked. “It’s your funeral.” The two got in place and put their hoof around the other’s. Bass stood between the farm mare and the guard stallion. “Okay, on three. One. Two.” Applejack smirked at Shining. “Three.” Applejack pushed down and Shining’s hoof hit the table. He sat wide eyed, his mouth ajar. The rest of the stallions also had surprised looks on their faces. Rainbow and Pinkie were failing at holding in their laughter.
“That’s what being a farmer will do for ya,” Applejack smiled politely, fixing her Stetson.
Meanwhile, Amethyst, her mother April Rose and mother-in-law, Sapphire Gem, Velvet, Twilight, Rarity, Cadence and Fluttershy talked about mare things. Eventually the party began to wind down. Most of the cake had been eaten, mostly by Pinkie Pie. Sea had no idea where the mare put it all. The family and friends congregated in the visiting room, Junie, Lightning, Spike and the Crusaders reclining on the floor while the rest sat on various chairs from around the house.
“Momma, Daddy? How did you meet each other?” Juniper asked out of the blue. Bass and Amethyst looked at her, once again wide eyed.
“Yeah, how did you guys meet?” Lightning asked as well, Sea Breeze nodding her head. Bass and Amethyst glanced at each other. The story of how they met was a unique one.
Twilight Velvet spoke up, “Well if you two won’t tell them, I’ll be happy—”
“NO!” Amethyst shouted, making the whole room flinch. Velvet sat smiling slyly.
“What do you say, Rosie? Should we?” Bass smiled at his wife.
“Might as well. They’re already curious,” Amethyst shook her head. She got into a more comfortable position. Once she was settled, she began.
“Bass and I met when we were just out of high school…”
Canterlot, 29 years ago
Two young ponies strolled down the streets of Canterlot. Amethyst Rose, a green eyed, white coated pegasus with a dark pink mane and tail with lighter pink highlights with a rose and open book cutie mark, stopped at a store to look at some summer dresses. Her best friend, Twilight Velvet, a blue eyed, light grey unicorn with a purple and white mane and tail with a cutie mark of three purple stars, trotted up beside her.
“Ooh, that’s a pretty one,” Velvet said, looking a light purple and pink dress with a lot of lace on the skirt.
“Eh, not my style,” Amethyst replied. “Now that’s a nice one.” The eighteen year old pointed to a butterfly printed yellow dress.
“You should get it!” Velvet pushed her friend into the store.
“Vel, stop shoving!”
“Here you go! Go try it on!” Velvet levitated both the dress and her friend to the dressing rooms.
“Fine.” Amestyst rolled her eyes.
Thirty minutes later the mares trotted out of the store, each wearing their new dresses.
“We should wear these to Starlight’s party tonight!” Velvet exclaimed. With it being the last day of school, a school mate, an orange unicorn named Starlight, would be throwing a party at her family’s mansion on the outskirts of Canterlot.
“I don’t know Vel, Starlight is pretty immature and her parents let her do what she wants. There’ll probably be alcohol and colts and you know how alcohol and colts don’t mix,” Amethyst said.
“Oh come on Rosie, it’ll be fun!” Velvet pushed.
“As long as we leave if she brings out the booze,”
“Deal.”
~~~
“LET’S GET THIS PARTY STAR-TED!” shouted Starlight, turning up the stereo as her guests, minus Amethyst, shouted in excitement.
“I am so killing Velvet,” Amethyst grumbled under her breath. She really didn’t like parties, especially parties hosted by Starlight. The two mares had had a mutual dislike of each other since the start of high school, mostly because Amethyst was the one who got the most attention from the colts, despite Starlight being the head cheerleader and Amethyst being head of the science club.
“C’mon Rosie! Dance!” Velvet shouted over the noise from the dance floor, aka Starlight’s rearranged living room. The unicorn had two colts dancing beside her.
“No thanks,”
“Fun killer,” Velvet stuck her tongue out.
“Too bad,” Amethyst retorted. She reached for a punch-filled cup; taking a whiff of it to be sure Starlight hadn’t doused it with vodka.
“Mind if I sit here?” asked a masculine voice
“Go ahead,” Amethyst didn’t look towards the owner of the voice, her eyes on Velvet to make sure the colts she was dancing with wouldn’t get too touchy-touchy.
“Nice party, huh?” the voice said again.
“Uh-huh.” Please go away, Amethyst added in her head.
“I’m Bass Tempo,”
“Amethyst Rose, now can you buzz off or something?”
“Geez, fine.” The colt stood up and trotted over to a group of mares. For the rest of the night the colt, a dark blue coated, blue eyed unicorn with a blonde mane and tail with a drum set cutie mark, kept his eyes on the white mare. He had seen her around school, always with a grey unicorn mare. He thought the unicorn was cute, but the pegasus? Now she was drop dead gorgeous. Amethyst Rose, huh? Bass Tempo thought. She has a bit of an attitude, but holy Celestia is she beautiful.
~~~
3 years later
Amethyst Rose, now twenty-one years old, was dancing with her best friend, the now Mrs. Night Light. Velvet could thank her old school-mate, Starlight, for bringing her and her now husband, Night Light, together. The two had met during the unicorn’s End of School party three years before. After meeting up with each other a few times, Night asked if Velvet would be his marefriend. After dating for two and a half years, Night finally popped the question.
The song came to an end and Amethyst and Velvet, who was a couple months pregnant, sat down at a table, laughing joyously with each other.
“I can’t believe my best friend is married!” Amethyst laughed, hugging Velvet.
“Hey, you’ll be getting married soon! With your looks, I’m surprised you don’t even have a coltfriend,” Velvet said as Amethyst let go.
“Vel you know that I’m not marriage material, much less marefriend material,”
“Anything is possible, Rosie,”
“Not for me,” Amethyst sighed.
As the night went on, the friends danced some more and ate cake, Velvet stopping every so often to kiss her new husband lovingly or rest. After the latest song ended, Night Light trotted up with a unicorn behind him.
“Velvet, Amethyst, this is—”
“YOU!”
“YOU!” Amethyst and Bass Tempo exclaimed at the same time.
“Well, apparently you too already know each other,” Night said quizzically, his brow raised. “Did I miss something?” Amethyst sat wide eyed as the colt, now a stallion, she so rudely told off three years before at Starlight’s party. Bass Tempo stared back, equally surprised that his high school crush was sitting right in front of him.
“I—I need to go,” Amethyst said quickly, lifting up her bridesmaid dress and flying off.
“I’ll go talk to her,” Velvet said, getting up to follow her friend.
“See you in a bit,” Night kissed his wife, turning to his friend.
“So, Bass. Anything you want to tell me?”
~~~
Meanwhile, Velvet chased Amethyst to the parlor of Velvet’s parent’s home. The house was not the largest, but it had a beautiful view and garden, which is where Velvet’s wedding party, was currently going on. In the parlor were several comfortable looking chairs and a couple tables where Velvet’s mother would have tea and biscuits with friends. The walls were covered in pink flower print wallpaper and the shag carpet was a creamy white color.
Amethyst was sitting on one the high backed chairs, in the midst of a panic attack. Velvet carefully walked up to her friend, placing a calming hoof on her shoulder. After a few minutes, Amethyst calmed enough to speak.
“Why didn’t you tell me Night knew Bass Tempo?” she asked.
“Well, one, I didn’t know the two of you had met and two, Bass was supposed to be on tour,” Velvet said, looking Amethyst in the eyes.
“On tour?”
“Bass is the drummer for The Delegates,”
“Who?”
“You know, The Delegates,” Amethyst looked at Velvet with a confused face.
“Oh c’mon. Don’t tell me you don’t listen to rock,” seeing Amethyst’s face, Velvet continued. “Oh boy. Okay, let’s see.” Velvet sang a few lines of one of the band’s most popular songs.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Amethyst said, slightly freaked that her friend was just singing. Velvet didn’t have the best voice in the city.
“Celestia, we have a lot of work to do,” Velvet sighed, shaking her head.
~~~
After attempting to explain what The Delegates were, Velvet finally got Amethyst to come back out to the garden.
“So let me get this straight. Three years ago at the same party where Velvet and I met, you met Amethyst, she told you off, but you had seen her around school and thought she was totally hot. Is that right?” Night asked Bass, the two stallions seated where Amethyst and Velvet had been before.
“Pretty much,” Bass replied, leaning his head on his hoof.
“Ouch,”
“You can say that again, bro,”
“Hi boys,” Velvet smiled, nuzzling Night as she passed him to sit at another chair. Amethyst sat across from her, as far away from Bass Tempo as possible. Bass glanced at Amethyst a few times, trying to figure out how approach her.
“Amethyst Rose,” Bass finally sighed.
“Yeah?” the white mare asked quizzically.
“Uh, can we go somewhere more private for a moment?”
“O-okay,” Amethyst replied, taking a quick glance at Velvet, who made a “go on” motion with her head. Amethyst led Bass to a secluded area of the garden, though she could still here the music and talking of the ponies.
“So, what is it?”
“Look, I know we had a…bumpy beginning, but I-I hope that we can, like, start over,” Bass stumbled over his words, blushing all the while. Amethyst thought for a few moments. Should I? Amethyst looked at Bass. The poor guy was sweating slightly and shuffling his hooves. Well, everypony deserves a second chance.
“Okay then,” Amethyst stuck her hoof out. “Hi, I’m Amethyst Rose. I love to write, read, cook and I had no idea who The Delegates were until literally thirty minutes ago.” Bass laughed at the last part. Taking Amethyst’s hoof, he smiled, “I’m Bass Tempo. I love home-cooked meals, I’m the awesome drummer of The Delegates and I have no idea how you could not know about us.”
The two ponies laughed and made their way back to the wedding party.
~~~
8 years later
“Her name is Sea Breeze,” smiled a twenty-nine year old Amethyst Rose. Beside her stood her proud husband, Bass Tempo. In Amethyst’ hooves laid a tiny light grey filly with a burgundy and light blue mane and tail. Her eyes were direct copies of Amethyst’s emerald green ones.
“She gorgeous,” Velvet cooed, holding a three year old Twilight in her hooves while Night Light struggled to contain an energetic eight year old Shining Armor.
“Yeah, she’s really cute,” Night panted as he finally caught his son.
“Daddy!” Shining whined.
“Hush, Shining,” Velvet reprimanded the young unicorn.
“Yes, Mommy,”
“Good boy.” Velvet smiled at her son. After speaking with Amethyst and Bass for a few more minutes, Velvet, Night and their children left the couple with their new daughter.
“I never thought I would have a baby girl,” Bass smiled, tears threatening to pour out any second.
“I never thought I would have a handsome husband like you,” Amethyst grinned up at Bass.
“I love you, Rosie,” Bass leaned towards his wife.
“I love you, Bass.” Amethyst kissed her husband lovingly, Baby Sea Breeze sleeping peacefully between them.
The Present
“And that’s how we met,” Bass Tempo finished, nuzzling his wife softly.
“Stop it, Bass, you’re making me blush,” Amethyst giggled, patting her husband’s hooves away.
“I can make you do a whole lot more than just—”
“OKAY! Hey, look it’s pretty late. Good-bye everypony!” Sea got up quickly and ran out of the room, trotting back in to grab Thunder Bolt and then pulling him out behind her. Bass and Amethyst began laughing, the rest of the group laughing along with them. Lightning and Spike had disgusted looks plastered on their face while Junie and the Crusaders laughed, mostly because they had no idea why Sea had run out like she did.
~~~
Outside, Sea and Bolt sat on the swing on the front porch of Sea’s home. Sea still had the remnants of gradually disappearing blush of embarrassment on her face.
“You know, one day that could be us,” Bolt said suddenly, making Sea’s blush come back in full force.
“BOLT!” Sea giggled, lightly pushing the pegasus away.
“I’m just say’in,” he smiled. Sea rolled her eyes at her coltfriend.
“Just shut up and kiss me,” Sea pulled him back towards her.
“Now that I can do.” The couple kissed each other deeply, completely oblivious to the ponies that were currently looking out the window at them.
“That’s my girl,” Amethyst sighed.
“You mean, our girl,” Bass said, pulling his wife in and kissing her deeply as well.
“Seriously!?!” Spike and Lightning shouted, both completely grossed out.
