A Very Special Canterlot High Holiday.

"The Mrs. and I will be be back by eleven,'' Mr. Lighting Flash said to the sisters standing patiently by the front door, they smiled and nodded listening to the adults as they informed them on the night's agenda. Flitter normally watched little Rumble on her own but her slightly older sister had opted to join her this time, sure they'd have to split the pay of one between them both, but it was worth it. They stood in the living room as Rumble and Thunderlane's parents prepared for a night out.

''Rumble is to be in bed by ten thirty...even it is friday, no sweets after nine, and the best part of being a babysitter, you girls can help yourselves to the fridge and we have premium cable, of course...don't let that distract you from the job of watching our precious Rumble.'' She said adjusting her long coat as her husband honked the car horn for her to move along. As Flitter and Cloud watched the car depart they closed the front door and turned to each other.

''So where's the little guy anyway sis?'' Cloudchaser asked as her sister stretched her arms up and strolling over to the doorway to the kitchen.

''Rumble's In his room, I'll start dinner, why don't you go up and introduce yourself to him?'' she asked as she took a can of Spaghetti-o's from the white kichen cabinet and a cooking pot from under the sink. Cloudchaser turned to the stairs and began to ascend them. What would she saw when she saw little Rumble?

''Hi little guy, I'm your baby-sitter's sister, wanna do something?'' She said making her way past the bedrooms. ''Come on girl, you're just saying hi to a younger kid, it's not hard.'' Cloudchaser was nervous mostly because while she liked kids, she always wanted to make sure she made a good first impression on them. With kids, a good first impression can often mean the difference between being friends, and having them take advantage of your short comings if it went off badly. Not that she didn't think Rumble wasn't a good kid, she just wanted their friendship to start off on the right foot. He'd decorated his door with stickers of the likes of Ben 10, a nearly door sized stickup of batman, and Optimus prime. She never understood why children loved things like this, sure she knew ''why'' just not what made her see things differently. She pushed the thought aside as she slowly opened Rumble's door.

The first thing she heard was this...

Then she saw him, Rumble had changed into his pj's, red one piece zip up flannel with attached slippers. He held an old SNES controller in his hands as a red cartridge sat in the console it was wired in to. Rumble had your usual ''little boy's bedroom.'' More of this wall stickups of Lighting Mccqueen, Bumblebee, Hot Rod, a poster for The Lego Movie was tapped above his desk which sat littered with unfinished lego projects, Transformers toys stuck in halfway between modes, and books. the original Captain underpants novellas, several of the old Goosebumps books, and an open hard cover Diary of a wimpy kid...the original. Though Cloudchaser was a girl, she couldn't help but feel a bit of a longing to be closer to rumble in age, if only for it to feel not as...''alien'' or to be acurate ''uninvited'' to be in a little one's domain.

''Rumble? hey...kiddo.'' She said making him pause his game and turn to face her. ''Hi kiddo, my name's Cloudchaser, it's nice to meet you.'' She said smiling warmly and waving at him. The little guy turned around, his game on pause to meet his new friend. The boy smiled and waved back.

"Hi Cloudchaser, you...wanna play a game with me? I'd ask if you wanna play Maximum Carnage but it's only one player." He said as he rifled through a drawer Cloudchaser heard the distinctive sound of plastic cartridges shuffling.

"Hey kiddo? Were did you get these old school games? I'm amazed a kid like you even knows about this stuff, she said picking a talkin Anakin Skywalker (yes from Episode III) and pressing a button to make it say, 'I shouldn't have done that, it was not the Jedi way.' "Wow...that was actually less plasticy than the real Hayden Christensen's acting." She said with a giggle.

"Why because I'm younger and into stuff people you're age only complain about I don't know any better?" He said taking a cartridge of NBA 94 and popping it in.

"Hey I didn't mean it that way kiddo, I just meant that...I didn't think a little guy like you know about stuff older than I am. I'm actually quiye impressed you do. She said as she took the controller be offered her. She smiled at him lovingly as tjey began to play.

"Can I use the New York Knicks?" Rumble asked as the game stared.

"Only if I can use the Chicago Bulls." Cloudchaser replied chuckling as the game started.

Flitter hummed to herself as she watched the pot of spaghetti-O's bubbled softly. She gave it a stir with her cooking spoon before taking a taste, her lips smacked and clicked as she tasted the savoury sauce. Flitter reached up to take three bowls from the cabinet above her, and poured out a portion for the three of them. She hummed again as she placed them on the table wolith spoons for them all and called.

"Rumble, Cloudchaser dinner is ready!" She took her seat and waited for them to come down to eat.

"Oh yeah Rumble its the last thirty seconds on the clock and Im going for a long shot from downtown!" Cloudchaser said as she made her sprite leap for the throw to the hoop. Almost almost and the buzzer in its 16 bit glory sounded, and...it missed.

"Aawww yeah the Knicks win!" Rumble said in victory. Cloudchaser smiled and chuckled as she patted him the back and hugged the little guy like a big sister.

"You did good kid...ya did good." She said as her hug tightened a bit. As Flitter called them to dinner.

"So you beat my sister at an old school basketball game on the SNES?" Flitter asked as she watched the little fella spoon pasta into his mouth. The three pf them sat at the table enjoying their company, for Rumble it was like he had two big sisters taking care of him, and for Flitter and Cloudchaser, it was like having a little brother of their very own.

"Yup, she almost had me in the last few secs but she missed and I won." He flicked aeatball like a basketball and bounced off Flitter's nose.

"Rumble don't play with your food!" Cloudchaser said in an almost...northerly way to him, "whoa...where'd that come from?" She said in surprise at her tone and mannerisms. They all broke into laughter. They spent the next few hpurs just hanging around. Rumble wanted to watch Spongebob, the girls happily snuggled up with him (in a purley platonic and easterly way) and watched with him, they didn't even mind it was a later season episode that they aired.

They weren't the kind of babysitters that only sat the kid in front of the TV and let it do the job fir them, especially Flitter. The girls took their job very seriously. When the show was ovee Cloud dug an old game of Operation from the back of the closet (you could tell it was old because the box was from Milton Bradley not Hasbro and the game was actually quite challenging) they took turns extracting all the classic pieces, water on the knee, charley horse, with that all too famillar red buzzer going off when they touched the sides.

"Wow, I thought it was fun just having you to take care of me Flitter, but your sis is...well almost more fun to hang out with." Rumble said packing the game away as Flitter got comfy on the couch again, a big book in her hands...E.B White's Charlotte's Web.

"Come on Rumble, sit with us and we'll read together." She said gently patting the couch with Cloudchaser on the opposite side. Rumble putvthe game away and shut the closet before getting comfy in between his new favorite sitters. Cloudchaser patted his hair lovingly as Flitter read the book chapter by chapter, the scene taken from a storybook itself as Rumble felt himself getting sleepy as Flitter read, her own eyes getting heavy as the words became harder to read.

Eventually they all dozed off, winter snow falling under the cloudy purple sky, the living room with its faux Persian rug, glass coffee table with fruit basket centerpiece, and the white marble mantel. A Christmas tree tucked away in a corner of the house not a creature stirring, not even a..."Flitter" Cloudchaser said reaching over the sleeping lad between them and tapping her siter awake. She opened her eyes smilning to see Rumble smiling in blissful sleep.

"I love thos job sis." Cloudchaser said to her sister before closing her eyes again.

"Me too sis...me too." Was all Flitter could say in response as she cuddled Rumble closer like a teddy bear and drifted back to sleep.