The Life and Times of a Substitue Teacher

Chapters

Chapter 3: Behind Schedule
Chapter 4: The Letter
Chapter 5: Dear Celestia...
Chapter 6: The Morning After
Chapter 7: The Cider Effect
Chapter 8: Cheerilee's Unexpected Return
Chapter 9: Sleep Deprived and Stupid
Chapter 10: Commitment Issues
Chapter 11: Dazed and Confused
Chapter 12: The Test
Chapter 13: A Drink With Friends
Chapter 14:The Princess, The Teacher, and The Guard
Chapter 15: Back To Normal?
Chapter 1: An Early Start
Chapter 2: The Crusaders

Chapter 3: Behind Schedule

Chapter 3: Behind Schedule

The next morning you awoke at the crack of dawn, as you have done ever since you moved out of your parents house, and were happily surprised to see that Scootaloo was also awake.

"Morning Scootaloo"

"Morning!" she happily responded while bouncing around your kitchen.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing! Just, uh, don't come in here!" she said while barricading the door to the kitchen.

You decided it would be best to leave her be, and you also remembered that you had to quickly go over the notes for the upcoming school day, making sure everything is going according to Cheerilee's plan. You could hear the occasional banging from the kitchen, but you thought nothing of it, you knew how eager Scootaloo was to get her cutie mark, so you blew it off as her attempt at a cooking related mark. As you skimmed over the notes for the day you were pleasantly surprised, today was going to be a physical activity day, which means all the school children would be going outside and playing, rather than sitting inside the rather stuffy classroom all day. Just as you were putting your notes away you saw a little scribble at the bottom of the page:

I hope you see this Silver, but this day plan can only happen if you manage to teach them about the third century of Celestia's rein, which I know the kids should enjoy.

Sorry,

Cheerilee

"That's odd, I don't remember them teaching that before..." you thought aloud to yourself.

"Taught what before?"

Scootaloo's sudden interruption caused you to jump, which ended up sending notes flying across the room, and causing her to drop whatever she had been holding on her back. You saw her expression turn sour, and you used your magic to pick up the plate she had dropped.

"What was this meant to be?" you asked while staring at what was now on your floor, "And sorry for scaring you"

"That was meant to be a thank you breakfast for you" she said quite sadly.

"Oh, don't worry about me, but did you at least make yourself a plate?"

She shook her head. It seems as though she thought making it up to you was more important than feeding herself. "What was breakfast supposed to be?"

"Hay bacon strips and hard boiled eggs, but I guess that won't happen now..."

"Give me a few moments, just go take a seat on the couch"

She did as you asked and made her way towards your living room, and you made your way to the kitchen. You quickly picked up the egg shells she had left on the counter, and you began breakfast over again. Within moments you had everything set up, the eggs were boiling, the bacon strips were sizzling, and the bread was being toasted. With a quiet chuckle you remembered how hay bacon strips were invented. Apparently someone was going to make hay fries, but tried to cook them with some extra fat from his butter, and they ended up mixing together into what you were about to have for breakfast. How he came up with the name for them is a mystery only he knows the answer to, but the noise of the toast popping up brought your thoughts back to making breakfast.

A couple of minutes later you entered the living room, levitating two plates next to you. "Here you go Scootaloo, eggs, bacon strips, and some buttered toast"

"You didn't have to make this for me you know, I'm used to not eating breakfast" she answered while she eyed the plate with deadly intentions for what currently sat on it.

"That's no way to think! Every young filly like you needs proper breakfast to get you through the day, and especially Pegasi who want to fly one day"

Without warning Scootaloo suddenly devoured her breakfast, almost taking the plate with it, and happily burped. "That was really good..."

"Thanks, but it's better when you actually have time to taste it" you say while taking a bite out of your toast.

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"Hurry up Scootaloo! We're running late as it is!"

"Not my fault you wanted to make me eat breakfast before taking a shower!"

"Just hurry up!"

After around ten minutes of waiting for Scootaloo to finish her shower, the two of you left, her mane still a bit wet. Without warning she grabbed her scooter out of your saddle bag and took off towards the school. Before she could get very far she ran into a stallion who had just left his house a moment before.

"Stupid orphan, watch where you're going or else!"

"Calm down Richie, she didn't see you, no need to get worked up over it"

"Well, I say, you defending the poor little urchin that shouldn't be anywhere near this neighborhood, let alone a pony such as myself, you must have gotten soft since last we talked"

"Oh shut it Filthy, she's staying with me for the time being, now if you'll excuse us, we're late for school"

"What? The great Silver Star going back to school, surely you're joking"

"Yeah, I'm going to teach at the school, now please shut up and get out of our way"

"No one talks to me, Filthy Rich, like that, not even you!"

Your next response didn't come in words, but rather it came in magic. Before he could say anything more you lifted him off the ground and threw him into a nearby fountain. Scootaloo had been hiding behind you the entire time, but your actions had managed to make her burst into laughter.

"That was awesome, I've never seen anyone talk to him like that before!"

"It's a privilege that only me and his wife have" you responded with a wink.

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"Sorry class, I was running a little late today due to some issues at home, hopefully nothing happened before I-"

You were cut off by what you had seen as you entered the room. Right in the middle of the room were Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, huddled close together, and it looked like one of them was crying. Scootaloo had also seen this and was about to jump into the circle of ponies that were around the two fillies, but you managed to beat her to it.

"What the hay is going on here?!" you demanded as you teleported yourself into the circle.

"Well, we were just talking, and then Applebloom showed up late, escorted by Big Mac, and when he said goodbye, he gave her a kiss on the lips" Diamond Tiara answered.

"Not only that, but they held it for a while, their faces were really red, redder than he usually is I mean!" Silver Spoon added on.

"So, they probably didn't mean it, and sat there out of confusion, what does that have to do with all of you surrounding her and Sweetie Belle?"

"We did nothing wrong, all we did was state the obvious" said Silver Spoon, this time saying something before Diamond Tiara.

"And what would that be?"

"That her family is inbred" Diamond Tiara said smugly.

"WHAT!" you yelled, magic shooting out of your horn due to your anger at what the filly just said to you.

"It wasn't our fault, she suddenly jumped at me and then when I hit her away she started to cry, and we all came to watch the inbred cry" Diamond said, unfazed by your outburst.

"It was kinda funny" Spoon added on.

"ALL OF YOU, DETENTION EVERY DAY FOR AN HOUR! TIARA AND SPOON, GO HOME, GET YOUR PARENTS AND COME BACK!" you yelled, your rage taking over your thoughts.

"But..." one of the colts said.

"NO BUTS! EVERYPONY GO HOME NOW OR ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN EVEN BIGGER TROUBLE!"

Without any noise you saw every colt and filly quickly pack up their books and run out the door. You turned around to see Scootaloo now talking to Applebloom with Sweetie Belle, trying to stop her crying. You looked down in disappointment at how the kids had acted, but something freaked you out quite a bit. There was a black ring around you, as if someone had come by and lit fire to that part of the floor.

"Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, stay here with Applebloom, I'll be back in a second"

Before they could respond you were gone, suddenly appearing in the fields of Sweet Apple Acres. You quickly looked around for Macintosh, and when you saw him plowing the field next to you, you breathed a sigh of relief.

"MAC! I NEED YOU TO COME WITH ME!" you shouted at him when he noticed you were there.

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After three hours of talking with the parents of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, you were finally free to go find out what state Applebloom was in. After you took Mac to the school house and showed him Applebloom he quickly picked her up and ran back to the farm without saying a thing. As you approached the farm you could make out the sound of Applebloom's laughter, obviously something had managed to cheer her up again. When you got close to the farm house you saw Mac standing outside with Whooves.

"What's going on guys?" you asked as you approached them.

"Oh nothing, just staying outside while the elements talk up a storm" Whooves answered.

"I'm guessing that's why I can hear Applebloom laughing right now?"

"Eeyup" Mac responded, "So, why are you here?"

"Wanted to check on her, and was coming to see if you had wanted to go get a few drinks, because I know I want some"

"Okay let's go" Whooves said after Mac had nodded.

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"Dear Celestia man?! How much do you weigh?" you asked a now drunk Big Mac.

"I'm guessing a lot" Whooves said while he finished off his drink.

"It's a good thing I can hold my liquor, and that you only get girly drinks"

"Oh shut it, at least now you've had someone to talk to about the snobs you're supposed to be teaching"

"Yeah..." you trailed off.

"OH! Thanks for bringing that up!" you quickly said while snapping your head upright.

"What, the snobs in your class?" Whooves asked, obviously confused.

"Yeah. You're dating Derpy right?"

"Yes, what of it?"

"I need you to give this to her, I know she's a mailmare, so hopefully she can drop this off at the post office for me tomorrow" you said while handing Whooves a letter.

"Who's this for?"

"Cheerilee, I thought she might want to know her entire schedule's been thrown out the window thanks to those little snobs"

"Okay, I'll make sure she brings it with her in the morning, see you another time" Whooves said as he turned towards his house.

"Yeah, be seeing you"

You quickly dropped Mac off at the farm house, which was accompanied by Applejack's complaints about him being drunk, and then made your way home, managing to find that Scootaloo had been waiting outside your house for you, and she had fallen asleep. You carefully lifted her up and carried her to her bed, then you made your way to your own bed. As you fell asleep you wondered what Cheerilee would think of you yelling at her students the way you did, but you couldn't get very far into those thoughts, seeing as you fell asleep quite easily tonight.

Hopefully tomorrow with be better...

Chapter 4: The Letter

Chapter 4: The Letter

It's finally Friday! Ever since your little explosion on Tuesday the whole class seemed to come to order, except the occasional incident with Tiara and Spoon, who were still bitter about getting in trouble. You had managed to run through much of what Cheerilee had planned for the first week, and you were getting a few more questions from the kids, but there was still a very tense atmosphere in the room.

Right now you were finishing up a lesson on basic physics, acceleration to be precise. The class seemed to be taking it well, especially when you picked up Scootaloo's scooter and used magic to demonstrate with it, namely by making it suddenly fly across the room after you had told them that acceleration is the act of gaining speed. As you wrapped up the lesson you heard on of the ponies say, "Ow!", so you turned around and saw Applebloom pull a note out of her hair. Without warning you pulled it away from her and read it to yourself.

"Who wrote this?!" you demanded, receiving scared looks from almost everypony, "Tiara, Spoon, did one of you write it?"

"It was her idea, she told me to get it passed to Applebloom" Spoon said, still grinning like an idiot.

"Did you read what it says before you sent it?"

"No, I knew whatever Diamond Tiara wrote down would be something I would write down as well"

"Perfect, that means both of you are bringing your parents here after school tonight for another chat" you said while putting the note in your bag, "Also, class dismissed, you can all head home now. Have a fun weekend!"

As you headed out the door you noticed three little fillies standing off to the side. "What are you guys still doing here, shouldn't you be out trying to get your cutie marks right now?" you asked.

"Well, we, uh, wanted to see the note that you took from Applebloom" Scootaloo said sheepishly.

"Sorry, but that note is for my eyes only, it's not something a filly should read, let alone write!" you said while trotting away from them, "I don't even use some of the words she used!"

"Wow..." Sweetie Belle said, realizing how bad the note must be.

"Yeah, what she said," Scootaloo said, "Oh, and can you help us today?"

"Maybe after I meet with Tiara and Spoon's parents, but what would I be helping you with anyways?"

"Getting our cutie marks, duh!" Scootaloo said while getting on her scooter.

"Well, if I make it out before dinner time I'll help you guys," you said as the other two got into the cart that was attached to the scooter, "See you at home Scootaloo"

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"Oh, how lucky am I! Both sets of parents showed up at the same time!" you said gleefully as both Diamond Tiara's and Silver Spoon's parents showed up at the school house.

"So what is this about, hmmm?" Filthy Rich said while fixing his suit, "Some of us have work you know"

"Yes, you do have work to do, especially with raising you kids" you said, now sounding very serious, with a side of condescending, "Now if you'll come in, I'll read you the note they made"

As you brought them in you made sure to let Silver Spoon's parents know she didn't write it, but said she would agree with it because it came from Diamond Tiara. "Now, I hope you guys are ready, because this gets very vulgar as it goes on. Just a little heads up"

After clearing your throat you began;

"Dear Applebloom;

Me and Silver Spoon would like you to know that we still think you're an inbred hick. Actually, no, we think you're a retarded inbred hick who can't do anything right. You had to get protection from the teacher and your friends, you couldn't even hit me after what I called you. We both agreed that you are a lowlife pussy who can't defend herself for shit, and we believe you should just go kill yourself. It would make everypony's lives so much better, especially your family's, because then they wouldn't have to worry that their stupid ass sister might choke on her tongue and die. We're not joking by the way, no one loves you, not even your family, so you really should just go kill yourself, since all you are is a retarded inbred hick coward that can't do a single fucking thing.

Sincerely,

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon"

After you finished you burned the note with your magic and looked towards the faces of the parents that sat in front of you. Silver Spoon's parents had looks of pure disgust on their faces, but Diamond Tiara's parents looked as though they were proud of their daughter's writing.

"How can you look happy after hearing the horrible things your daughter wrote down?" you asked Filthy, who was very close to smiling.

"Well, I know it sounds bad with the words she wrote, but I agree with everything she said in that letter" he responded, sounding very proud of his daughter. His response ended up rewarding him with the gift of 4 ponies looking at him in pure disgust. Spoon's parents simply stormed out of the school house, and were soon followed by Tiara's mother. In his pride Filthy had closed his eyes, and when he didn't hear the sound of clapping that he was expecting he opened them, only to very quickly bolt out of the room after his wife.

After a few minutes of silence you turned to grab your bags. "Just so you three know, you definitely don't have cutie marks in being sneaky" you said as you headed out the door.

"Aw man, I thought we had you fooled" you heard Scootaloo say as she climbed out of the bushes.

"Sorry for spying on you" Sweetie Belle said while looking at the bush.

"Did she really write all that?" you heard a depressed Applebloom ask from the bush.

"Sadly, yes, and I plan to show Celestia that letter tomorrow"

"But you burned it, and even if you hadn't, how you would you get it to Celestia?" Aplpebloom asked while coming out of the bush, her sadness destroyed by her curiosity.

"Well, for one, that letter was a copy, the real one is still in my bag," you said while pulling out the real note, handing it to Applebloom to prove it, "and second, I have old favors that I can call on so that Celestia will see this"

"Who would you know that would mean Celestia's gonna see this?" Scootaloo asked, doubting you.

"Lets just say Twilight is one of my less famous friends"

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After taking Applebloom and Sweetie Belles home, you began to make your way home, accompanied by Scootaloo. As you got close to the house you could sense that Scootaloo wanted to ask you something. "What is it Scootaloo?"

"Oh, uh, nothing, just thinking about the note, that's all" she answered honestly.

"Well, try not to think about it, that kind of writing could corrupt your young brain"

"No, I was thinking about how you said you would get it to Celestia," she said when you got to the door, "I mean, you said Twilight was one of your less famous friends, what did you mean by that?"

"Well, it quite simple really. I used to live in Canterlot, I even taught there for a while, and when you live there you meet some fairly influential people"

"Like who?"

"Well, you know Twilight's brother right?"

"Yeah, what about him?"

"I was his best friend in school"

"Whoa..."

"Do you know who Spitfire is?"

"Yeah, the captain of the Wonderbolts!"

"I dated her for a year back in high school"

"WOW!" Scootaloo yelled, her jaw almost hitting the floor, "How did you get so close with ponies like them?!"

"I was a pretty cool colt back in school, so having cool friends was just something I was allowed to have, sorta like my ability to tell Filthy Rich off" you said with a chuckle, "Either way, off to bed, it's late and you'll need lots of energy for whatever you and your friends end up doing tomorrow"

Without saying a word Scootaloo headed off to her room, and you headed to your study. It was time to think of a plan. You knew Twilight would go along with it, but who knows if she'll actually send it to Celestia, and with that you decided she would be the last ditch option, just in case your other favors don't work out. Now, who to ask first, you could ask Shining Armor, Spitfire, Soarin, and even Princess Luna, but who could you ask first?

After a few minutes of thinking you stood up up and made your way to bed, "Ah screw it, I'll figure this out tomorrow, for now, well deserved sleep..."

Chapter 5: Dear Celestia...

Chapter 5: Dear Celestia...

"So you can't help me?"

"Sorry man, but being the captain of the royal guard kinda takes it out of you, let alone dating a princess" Shining Armor responded.

"Well great, now I have to go to your sister for this" you say depressingly.

"Why? Can't you ask Spitfire or something?"

"Her and everypony else said no as well," you said while showing him the list, "It seems everypony is busy but me these days"

"Yeah, isn't that the truth, well good luck, I gotta go back to my position"

"Have fun, and I'll be in Canterlot soon, want to grab a drink when I'm there?"

"You know it, talk later"

With those final goodbyes you ended the magic call with Shining Armor. You remembered why this spell was even created in the first place. At some point during the later years of school Shining was told he could have to stay home because his marks were dropping a bit, so you and him worked on a way to talk to each other at anytime. In the end this spell was created, and it only worked between the two of you for some reason. Well, now was not the time to be reminiscing about the past, now you had to go find Twilight at the library and try to convince her to send a letter to Celestia for you.

"This is going to be a pain in my ass, I just know it" you said out loud, not talking to anyone but yourself.

"What is?" Scootaloo asked, obviously she had made her way into the room after you finished talking to Shining.

"Well, now I have to go talk with Twilight about this letter to Celestia, since everyone else is busy doing one thing or another," you answer while turning to face her, "and Twilight likes to make things harder than they need to be"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, one time me and her brother wanted to get a book out of the royal library, but we didn't have access to the section the book was in, so we asked her to get it for us. She made us do all sorts of weird things to get it, like sneaking into the library while wearing skin tight suits, and afterwards we found out that she could have just asked for it and she would have gotten it. Instead me and Shining were both arrested for theft and if Twilight hadn't felt so bad about it, I'm sure Celestia wouldn't have pardoned us and we'd still be in jail"

"Wow..." Scootaloo said in amazement.

"Well, off to bed for both of us, it's late and we have a big day tomorrow!"

"Okay!" Scootaloo quickly ran up to you and gave you a quick hug, "See you in the morning!"

"Well, that was new..." you said to yourself as she ran out of your study.

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It was just a bit before dawn when you woke up the next morning, seeing as today was an important day you had to be ready, and you were planning to spend the morning preparing your speech. After about an hour of coming up with ways to explain it to Twilight you heard a noise from Scootaloo's room. After another minute of waiting you saw a well rested Scootaloo make her way down the stairs.

"Slept well I see" you said as she yawned.

"You know it!" she replied as she made her way to the couch, "What's for breakfast?"

"Do you want something special, or can I just make eggs like usual?"

"Eggs are fine"

Without saying anything else you made your way to the kitchen so you could go cook up the eggs for Scootaloo. As you pulled out the eggs you noticed that there were only two left, which meant two things. One, you needed to get more, and Two, there was only enough for one pony. You quickly decided that you would just pick up an apple from Applejack's stall on your way to the library and made Scootaloo's eggs.

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"Breakfast is served" you said as you levitated the eggs in front of Scootaloo.

"Thanks!" she said as she was about to dig in, "Where's yours?"

"Didn't have enough eggs, so I'll just grab an apple from the market on the way to Twilight's"

"Oh, okay..."

You noticed her energy was gone after you told her that you gave her the last of your eggs, but after a few moments she was right back to her usual self. After she finished her eggs you put the plate in the sink and the two of you headed out into a rather busy Ponyville.

"This is weird, usually it's much quieter on the weekend" you said as you neared the noise coming from the market. Then you realized why. Right next to you on a wall you saw a poster for a party, but it wasn't just a normal party. It was a party for Princess Luna, apparently it was her birthday, and she had chosen Ponyville to be where she was going to celebrate it.

"Oh Celestia, why did it have to be today of all days?" you said while bringing a hoof to your face.

"Well, we didn't really have a choice in the matter" you heard somepony say from behind you. When you finally placed the voice you jumped so high that you could have hit a low flying Pegasus...

Princess Celestia herself had been standing behind you when you complained about her sister's birthday. All you could think about was how horrible your punishment would be for it, but when you saw Princess Luna standing behind her laughing, you figured you were okay.

"Princesses, what brings you to this part of town, so far from the festivities?" you asked as you lowered yourself.

"Well, we heard from Shining Armor here that you had something you needed to talk to me about, and since I was going to be in town I thought we could talk in person" Celestia said in her usual regal voice.

"Well, um, that would be an honor your majesty, but shouldn't the two of you be celebrating today?"

"Of course, but we have time to talk, seeing as we haven't arrived at the party yet" Luna said as she made her way towards your house.

"How do you know I live there?" you asked, completely confused.

"We saw you leave, so we followed you for a while to see where you were going" Celestia answered.

"Oh, well, uh, welcome to my home, I guess..."

"Why thank you"

After finding seats for everypony you began to tell the princesses about what had happened, and judging from their reactions, they were disgusted. Then you showed them the letter...

"HOW COULD ONE OF OUR SUBJECTS BE SO EVIL?!" Luna screamed after she finished reading.

"Luna please, do not use that voice indoors," Celestia said after she finished reading, "but I agree, how could somepony be so horrible to another?"

"Well, I think I have an idea why, and it would explain why I wanted to ask you about this" you said while putting the letter away again.

"What is it?" Celestia asked, looking genuinely interested.

"Well, the filly that wrote that is the daughter of Filthy Rich, one of the most egotistical ponies in town, and he believes that him nor his daughter, have done anything wrong"

"Now that is absurd, how does he not see how horrible this is?" Luna asked.

"It's his status that's blinding him. He's the richest pony in town, and even though I can act a bit rough to him, he still won't listen to me" you explained, "But I'm sure he'll listen to you. Heck, I think he'll only listen to you!"

"Well, then, looks like I'll be talking to him soon," Celestia said as she stood up, "Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I hope you and your sister have a wonderful day"

"My sister?" you asked, confused yet again.

"Was I mistaken, I'm sorry. I had thought the orange filly that's with you was your sister" Celestia replied in a somewhat embarrassed tone.

You and Scootaloo looked at each other for a second and then started laughing. "There's no way we could be related!" you both said as you rolled around on the floor. By the time you had managed to calm down the princesses had left and around ten minutes had gone by.

"I hope everything goes well at the party, and with this thing" Scootaloo said as she stood up.

"Yeah, me too..."

"So, do you think that was better than just sending her a letter?"

"You know what? I think it was better than just sending a letter!" you said as you clapped your hoof together with Scootaloo's.

"Well, I'm off to the party, are you coming?" Scootaloo asked as she made her way to the door.

"No I'm good, I think I'm going to go lay down"

"Okay, see you later!"

After she left you made your way back to bed, since you were still tired thanks to waking up super early that morning. It didn't take long for you to get comfortable, and you guessed that you would end up sleeping through the entire party. Too bad, some interesting things were probably going to happen there anyways...

Chapter 6: The Morning After

Chapter 6: The Morning After

When you woke up you noticed that you had managed to sleep all the way through the party, and even the night after that. Without thinking you made your way downstairs and made yourself a coffee, being tired despite having slept for over half a day. You went up to Scootaloo's room with the intent of waking her up, but she wasn't there, so you assumed she was out with her friends and proceeded to make yourself breakfast. After you finished eating you out your plate in the sink and you decided to make your way to Sweet Apple Acres so you could spend some time with Big Mac.

You happened to see the results of the party from yesterday, ranging from random streamers lying around, to ponies like Berry Punch lying in pools of their own vomit. When you saw one of them move you wandered over and decided to help them get cleaned off. As you got closer to the pony that was waking up you managed to make out some easily distinguishing features. A multicolored mane, cyan coat, a multicolored lighting bolt...

"Morning Rainbow Dash" you said as you levitated a rain cloud above her, and then you made it clean her off. You thanked yourself for learning the cloud control spell back in Canterlot, seeing as you knew it was going to come in handy as more and more ponies began to stir in the background.

"Urgh, what time is it?" Rainbow asked as she shook herself dry.

"By my guess, it's around eleven in the morning, and I can also guess that the party got pretty crazy last night"

"You guessed it, after all the fillies got sent home Pinkie brought out her newest invention: The Cider Cannon"

"Let, me guess, it shot cider at people"

"Pretty much," Rainbow responded as she sent a rain cloud to fly over everypony that was still around, "Only thing is, this wasn't normal cider, it was quite a bit more, uh..."

"Alcoholic?" you finished for her. After she nodded in response she left to go help some of the other ponies that were still passed out, and you continued on your way to Sweet Apple Acres. As you reached the edge of town you saw an orange pony passed out on the side of the road, and you assumed it was Applejack, Big Mac's sister, so you decided to pick her up and carry her towards the farm.

"Oh, thanks for getting her for me, I was just about to go into to town to find her"

"Oh hey Mac," you said as you turned to the red stallion that had been coming down the road, "I take it you didn't go to the party last night?"

"Nope, I stayed home and worked so she could go to that party" he answered as he pulled his sister off your back, "Did you go to the party?"

"No, I stayed home after getting surprised by the two princesses yesterday"

"Why did they surprise you?"

"Well, you remember that letter I told you about?"

"Eeyup"

"Well, apparently Shining Armor told one of them, and they decided to talk to me before they went to the party"

"Sounds like that was fun," Big Mac said as he began to make his way back up the path towards the farm, "So, what are they going to do about it?"

"I have no idea, but lets talk more after we get to the farm"

"Sounds good. Applejack doesn't look it, but she's actually pretty heavy" Big Mac said with a laugh.

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"... so then they said they would talk to him soon" you finished telling Big Mac about your meeting with the princesses. Just after you finished saying that you heard the sounds of fillies charging towards you. You and Mac managed to hide your serious faces behind smiles just as they turned the corner.

"Hey Silver, have you seen Scootaloo at all?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Not today, why?" you responded, now worried about Scootaloo.

"Well, we haven't seen her either, and we thought she would have gone home after what happened at the party" Applebloom said, clearly worried.

"What happened at the party?" you asked the two fillies while Big Mac made his way towards Applebloom.

"Well, Tiara said something to Scootaloo, and then she tried to fight her, but Scootaloo ended up losing" Sweetie Belle started.

"After that Tiara started to laugh at Scootaloo, and soon after everypony started to laugh, even Rainbow Dash laughed a little bit" Applebloom continued.

"Then we tried to help her and she told us to go away, and then she left the party" Sweetie Belle finished, with tears welling up in her eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll find her, you two go off and play or something" you said while you made your way towards Ponyville.

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"Twilight!" you yelled as you knocked on the library door, "Twilight I need you outside right now!"

"Alright, Alright! I'm coming, just stop being so loud!" you heard Twilight yell from inside the library. After about a minute of waiting the door opened to reveal a very hungover Unicorn. "What do you want?" Twilight asked, sounding very irritated.

"Scootaloo's gone missing after a fight she had with Diamond Tiara at the party yesterday, I was wondering if you could get the elements to help me find her" you answered in almost a whisper.

"What?!" Twilight yelled, it seems like her hangover went away at the mention of a missing filly, "I'll go find them right away, stay here, I should be back within an hour!"

She was right about only taking an hour. After around fifty minutes you heard the six elements enter the library, made obvious by Rarity whining that her head hurts and Pinkie was noticeable quieter.

"Well, we're all here, so now we need to know," Twilight said as she motioned for everyone to sit down, "Where could Scootaloo have run off to?"

"If I knew that I would have tried it already, that's why I came to you guys!" you responded angrily, which you quickly apologized for.

"Okay, so then, Rainbow, you look from the skies for her," Twilight began.

"On it!" Rainbow said as she flew off out the window.

"Pinkie, go ask everyone in town if they've seen her,"

"Okie Dokie Lokie!" Pinkie said as she ran out the door.

"Rarity, make some advertisements to let everyone know about Scootaloo,"

"Yes dear, it'll only take me a few moments" Rarity said as she elegantly made her way out the door.

"Fluttershy, go ask the animals if they've seen anything,"

"On it!" Fluttershy said as she rushed out the door, taking care to shut it as she made her way out.

"Silver"

"What?" you asked, confused what your role in her plan would be.

"Me and you are going to talk to Celestia right now"

"You expect to find her, how?" you asked, now even more confused.

"She told me that she was going to be going to talk to Filthy Rich today, hopefully we can catch her before she goes back to Canterlot" Twilight said as she rushed towards the door.

"Oh, she is going to love hearing about this" you mumbled as you made your own way out of the library.

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You followed Twilight as she galloped towards Filthy's house, and by a stroke of luck you managed to get there just as Celestia and Luna made their way onto the chariot.

"PRINCESS WAIT!" you shouted as you picked up speed, passing by Twilight at an insane speed for a Unicorn.

"Oh, hello Silver, is something the matter?" Celestia asked, unfazed by you suddenly running towards her with your horn glowing.

"Scootaloo's run away!" you managed to say between your constant gasping, "It was after she had a fight with Tiara last night!"

"Oh dear, and we just finished talking to her father too"

"We need to ask for your help Princess!" Twilight said as she caught up to you.

"We know Twilight, and we are willing to help you in your search for the young filly" Luna said reassuringly to Twilight.

"Yes, we will get the royal guard to scan around Ponyville and the surrounding area for her, but we need a description so they know what to look for" Celestia said, explaining Luna's response.

"Well, I knew her a bit, but..." Twilight said, sounding worried again.

"She's an orange Pegasus with purple hair, she can't fly, and she's very headstrong. She's probably a little scared and depressed right now, so they should find her and then tell me where she is, I'll talk to her. She'll listen to me, I'm sure of it" you said, sounding absolutely sure of everything you were saying.

"Okay, we'll make sure they all know that if they see a filly that fits that description that they should go and talk to you before anything else" Celestia said, now making her way to your house, "Oh, and can we stay in your house while we wait for this to be resolved?"

"Wha..." you said, completely dumbfounded, "I mean, of course! I would be honored to have you stay at my home!"

"Thank you, we'll try to keep our location secret so you don't get swarmed by ponies" Luna said as she began to make her own way towards your house.

"So, about how long will you be staying for?" you asked, now worried that you might make an ass out of yourself.

"We will stay here until this issue is resolved, if that is okay with you?" Celestia responded as she turned to look at you.

"Of course it's fine, I didn't mean anything by what I said" you said now embarrassed.

This is going to suck so much ass... you thought to yourself.

"What was that?" Luna asked.

"Did I say that out loud?" you asked Twilight.

"Yes you did, and they heard you as well" she answered.

"Did you hear what I said princesses?" you asked, now wondering how bad your punishment would be.

"Yes we did my little pony" Celestia responded, eying you suspiciously.

"Pardon my language, but..." you began, waiting for Celestia and Luna to nod at you...

"SON OF A BITCH!"

Chapter 7: The Cider Effect

Chapter 7: The Cider Effect

"So how was your sleep?" Celestia asked when you walked into your living room.

"What is this thing you call sleep?" you answer as you headed towards the kitchen, "I think when you have the two most important ponies in your house sleep is almost impossible"

"We apologize if we kept you up, we will be quieter tomorrow night" Luna said when you came back with your morning coffee.

"No, no, that's not it," you suddenly realized what she said, "Wait, what were you to doing last night that would have kept me up?"

"Nothing" Celestia responded deviously.

You gave her a confused look, but you knew better than to question the princesses. You went back to having your morning coffee, but you were interrupted again by a knock at your door. Before you could get up to go answer it Luna had made her way to the door and opened it, met by a familiar brown pony.

"Hello princess, is Silver home?"

"I'm here Whooves, something up?" you asked as you made your way to the door.

"Well, I heard about what was going on with Scootaloo, and I wanted to know if you wanted to go get a drink or something"

"I'm up for that," you turned towards Celestia, "If it's okay with you?"

"Of course, you need time like this to help you relax after such a traumatic event"

"Thank you princess, I won't stay out to late!" you said as you made your way out the door.

"Are they like your moms now?" Whooves asked jokingly.

"Oh shut up, at least I don't live with my girlfriend!" you said while shoving Whooves lightly.

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After heading around Ponyville you and Whooves finally arrived at Ponyville's only bar, only now you were now accompanied by Big Mac and Shining Armor. From what they told you they took a break from work so they could spend time with you.

"So is this place actually any good?" Shining asked when everyone stopped in front, "Twilight said they don't have a very large selection"

"Of girly drinks maybe," Big Mac said as he made his way inside, "This has an amazing selection of ciders, I should know!"

"Good enough for me!"

Within moments the four of you were seated and had already downed the first of many drinks. Your thoughts quickly turned to Scootaloo though, now noticing that you were sitting with the captain of the royal guard, which means any news of her would of had to have gone through him.

"So any news yet?" you asked as your second drink was delivered.

"News about what?" Shining asked back, trying to dodge the question.

"You know what, now tell me"

"Fine..." he answered reluctantly, "We got news of a Pegasus matching her description going towards the Everfree, but from there the news only gets worse"

"How could it get worse?"

"She was going into an area that's infamous for it's population of Manticores"

"Son of a bitch! How did she get that far out already?!" you shouted in surprise.

"From what the report said, she was riding on a scooter or something"

"How would she have managed to get her..."

"What?" the three stallions asked you in unison.

"If she has her scooter, then she must have stopped at home before she ran away..."

There were no words said after that, as it was fairly obvious that all 3 of your companions had the exact same thought, "Son of a bitch!"

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"...and then I told him to go fuck himself!" you mumbled as you were dragged out of the bar by Big Mac and Shining Armor. Before you could be told to shut up you passed out, only to find yourself laying in your bed at home.

"How did I get here?" you mumbled to yourself as you made your way out of bed.

"Good evening, how was your nap?"

"What time is it?" you asked groggily.

"It's nearly midnight, you passed out on the way home from what your friends told me"

"Who are you, if you don't mind me asking"

"You must really be out of it. I am princess Luna, and me and my sister are staying at your home right now"

"Oh shit-" you said, "I mean, my apologies princess, I forgot what was going on for a minute there"

"No worries, when you came home you acted, quite odd" Luna responded, now acting quite weird.

"What did I do?" you asked.

"Well, you came home, and I had been sitting here reading one of your books, and, uh..."

"Oh Celestia..."

"You tried to hit on me"

"Aw fuck!" you shouted at yourself, "What's my punishment?"

"You have no punishment" she responded calmly.

"What?" you asked dumbfounded, "But I acted indecent towards you, doesn't that earn me some kind of punishment?"

"Normally, but you did it pretty well, so you're forgiven" Luna responded with a giggle.

You were unable to respond due to your brain being temporarily unavailable. Did she just say I did a good job of hitting on her? you thought to yourself, What the hell does that mean?! You sat down to think over what was going on, when suddenly you felt something touch your neck. When you looked down you saw Luna leaning on your shoulder while she nuzzled your chest.

"Ahem"

Both you and Luna looked towards the door to see Celestia and Shining Armor standing there. Celestia simply made her way upstairs after motioning for Luna to go with her, and Shining replaced Luna on the couch.

"Hitting on Luna again?" he asked while laughing.

"No, I just sat down and she leaned against me, honest!" you quickly answered.

"Oh, don't worry about it, Celestia's just a bit angry that Luna didn't talk to her before she made a move on you"

"Why would Celestia care?"

"Because Luna's her sister, duh" Shining responded sarcastically.

"So, what's it like in the dungeon?"

"Don't worry man, if all goes well, you won't be spending anytime down there," Shining said as he put his hoof on his shoulder, "Besides, we think we found Scootaloo out by Appleloosa"

"WHAT!"

Without waiting for Shining respond you quickly used your magic to teleport yourself to Appleloosa, and you quickly gave yourself wings. You took to the air almost immediately, and you sped across the skies looking for a little orange and purple speck on the ground. Within minutes you saw her, or, what you hoped was her, zooming past the train that was on it's way to the Appleloosa station.

"SCOOTALOO!"

"Silver?!"

After hearing her voice you sped up, going so fast that the wings you had made were beginning to fall apart, and you charged her full speed, pulling her into a hug in the process. The two of you tumbled for a few minutes as you tried to use your magic to slow down, which was extremely difficult.

"What are you doing here?!" Scootaloo asked after pushing you away.

"I came here to get you!" you answered while taking a step towards her.

"Why?!" she shouted, "I'm useless! I couldn't even run away properly!"

"You're not useless, you're Scootaloo!"

"Shut up, just leave me out here to die!" she shouted, tears welling in her eyes.

THWACK!

You hit Scootaloo so hard she did a quadruple back flip before hitting the ground. "Never say that, you can't just give up and die every time a bully is a jerk to you!" you shouted back as you got closer to her.

"Why did you hit me?!" she yelled in response, not caring for what you said.

"Because you needed it"

"Why did I need to get hit in the face?!"

"Because you were so focused on every little thing Diamond Tiara said to you, you even said you should be left to die!" you shouted while holding her in place, "You're not useless! Sure you don't have a cutie mark yet, but honestly, who gives a flying fuck?! I sure don't and neither do your friends, so why should you?!" Suddenly everything you were saying got through to Scootaloo and she broke down.

"I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, just come home, we'll get this all sorted out" as you said that your horn started to glow, and suddenly you were back in your house. When the two of you opened your eyes you were greeted by Celestia, Luna, and the two other members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"SCOOTALOO!" the two fillies yelled as they ran to hug the little orange Pegasus.

"Congratulations Silver, looks like you managed to find Scootaloo all by yourself" Celestia said with a smile.

"Um, Silver" Scootaloo asked.

"Yes?"

"What about my scooter?"

"Fuck, be right back"

Cheerilee will be making an appearance next chapter, so that means this story is coming to an end...

Also, fun fact, I've written every chapter at midnight, which could explain the weird writing style ;3

Chapter 8: Cheerilee's Unexpected Return

Chapter 8: Cheerilee's Unexpected Return

After you quickly went back out to Appleloosa to find Scootaloo's scooter, you returned to find everyone but Luna asleep. You tried to sneak in past her, but apparently she was able to pick up the tiny bit of magical energy that was on you from the teleporting.

"Welcome back, did you manage to find the scooter?" Luna asked as you passed through the kitchen door.

"Uh, yeah, I found it" you responded confusedly, "How did you know I was here?"

"I felt your presence, and the magical energy that was around you"

"Oh yeah, I forgot you would be able to pick up on that," you said as you set the scooter down against the wall, "What are you still doing up?"

"Well, being in control of the moon makes you become nocturnal" Luna responded.

"You know you didn't need to answer that, it was a pretty dumb question after all" you said as you sat next to her.

"It's quite alright, I've heard sillier questions before"

"Oh, okay"

Awkward silence sat in the room for the next few minutes. You occasionally looked at Luna to see what she was doing, and there were a few times when you found her doing the same. Both of you knew why things were so awkward, but no one wanted to bring it up. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, which gave you an excuse to break the silence.

"I'll go get it" you said as you got up.

You made your way over to the door, and you opened it, now noticing that it was very early in the morning. You had expected to see Derpy standing there with a letter from Cheerilee, but instead you were greeted by Cheerilee herself.

"Um, hi, I thought you were still in Las Pegasus" you said when she smiled at you.

"I was supposed to be, but something happened that got the wedding called off" she responded in her usual cheerful voice.

"What happened?"

"The groom ran away after his bachelor party"

"Wow"

"Yeah, so I came back here so I could get away from the constant whining"

"Can I say one thing about the groom?" you asked Cheerilee as you let her into your house.

"Sure, why not? It's not like it's going to hurt anyone"

"Okay, then I'm just going to say this: He was a dick biscuit"

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After you welcomed Cheerilee into your house she told you more about what happened, and then was comforted by Luna. You had made yourself and Cheerilee some coffee, along with some tea for Luna seeing as she had to go to sleep in a little while. Just as everyone had finished off their respective drinks you saw Celestia and the Crusaders make their way down the stairs.

"Good morning" you said cheerfully.

"Morning" Celestia mumbled.

"Is everything all right princess?"

"Of course, it's just that these young fillies are quite the hoofful"

"Sorry princess, we didn't mean to be so noisy"

"It's quite all right, it's normal for fillies your age" Celestia said, now back to her usual self, "Did anything happen last night Silver?"

"Well other than finding Scootaloo, having a very awkward moment with your sister, and Cheerilee suddenly coming back, not really"

"Miss Cheerilee's back?!" Applebloom shouted happily.

"Yes, she's in the living room"

The three fillies suddenly ran towards your living room, and tell they had very quickly overwhelmed Cheerilee. You were about to go help her, but you were stopped by Celestia.

"Can we talk?" Celestia asked.

"Of course princess"

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"She what?!" you shouted, "How is that even possible?!"

"She is still a girl you know, and she can still fall in love with a stallion like any other girl" Celestia responded calmly.

"But I'm just a simple Unicorn, I'm no prince!"

"I think that's why she fell for you in the first place"

"What are you two talking about?"

Scootaloo's appearance caused you and Celestia jump. You hoped she hadn't heard the entire conversation, but thankfully Celestia came up with a plan, or so you thought.

"We were talking about nothing young one, now please, run back to your friends" Celestia said.

"Um, princess, they just left, I was coming to tell Silver that Miss Cheerilee wanted to talk to him about something" Scootaloo replied while pushing you towards the door. After she managed to get you into the living room you saw that Cheerilee was sitting alone, so you guessed that Luna had gone to bed at some point.

"You wanted to see me?" you asked as you sat down.

"Yes, I was wondering if you could take Scootaloo in" she said in a somewhat sad way.

"I already have, that's why she's here" you replied, but judging by her reaction, that's not what she had meant.

"I meant, could you adopt her?"

"Like how? As a parent, or as a sibling?" you asked, now concerned that your relationship with Scootaloo would be forced to change dramatically.

"I would prefer as a parent, then she would have someone to call dad" Cheerilee answered.

"But who would deal with her, um," you coughed quietly, "girl problems?"

"I'm not sure," she responded, "If you can't find anyone to settle down with before that, then I'd be okay with helping her"

"Okay, fine, but is she okay with this?"

"Of course I am!" Scootaloo shouted, now standing behind you. When she got there you had no clue, but now you had to go and make it official, Scootaloo was your daughter.

"Oh, and one more thing Silver" Cheerilee said.

"What?"

"Can you still teach for me until the end of the month?"

"Um, sure, but can I ask why?"

"I need sometime to recover from what happened in Las Pegasus"

"Fair enough, hopefully the rest of your vacation goes well"

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"So your a dad now, eh?" Whooves said while tossing back a mug of cider.

"I guess," you replied while staring into your own mug, "I'm not sure what that means though"

"Don't worry about, I know she'll love it" Big Mac said while he put his hoof on your shoulder.

"How can you be sure?"

"Well, considering she yelled happily about it to my sister and Sweetie Belle earlier today"

"You have a point, but what am I supposed to do about her mother figure?"

"Well, didn't you say princess Luna had a thing for you?" Whooves said after he ordered himself another mug.

"She's a princess, I'm sure she had better things to do than date some random stallion and help him raise his adopted daughter!"

"Don't worry, from what I heard she would love to help you out"

"Oh hey Shining, what are you doing here?"

"Not much, just came to talk to you on Luna's behalf" Shining Armor said as he flagged down a waitress.

"What does she want?" you asked.

"Well, for one, she wants to see you in Canterlot tomorrow," he said, interrupted by the waitress he had called over, "and two, she would love to help you with Scootaloo"

"Um, I can't go to Canterlot tomorrow, sorry" you replied, now feeling very embarrassed.

"How come?"

"I have to teach tomorrow, I'm only here because I wanted to talk to these two" you answered while making motions towards Doctor Whooves and Big Mac.

"I thought Cheerilee was back though?" Big Mac asked.

"She is, but she wants to let me teach until the end of the month so she can recover from the wedding disaster" you replied while handing Whooves your drink.

"Well that sucks, she really wanted to see you" Shining said before downing his drink, "Well, I have to get back to Canterlot or Cadance is going to kill me"

"See ya" you said just before he teleported away.

"I'm going to ask you three to leave" a waitress suddenly said.

"Why?" you asked, but it suddenly became pretty obvious why. Doctor Whooves was running around yelling something about a big blue box that could travel through time and space, all while occasionally asking people if they've seen his assistant.

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"Sorry about that guys, I didn't realize how much cider I had before I got really drunk" Whooves said as you and Big Mac pulled his head out of the river.

"No worries, we weren't drinking anyways" Big Mac said as he started walking towards the farm, "Well, see you guys another time"

"Yeah, I'm going home too" Whooves said as he started stumbling his way towards his house.

Since you had no one to talk to anymore, you started to head home, but were stopped by a pair of royal guards. "Um, can I help you?" you asked as they forced you to stop where you were. They never answered you, and they didn't need to, as you looked up to see princess Luna flying towards you. "Good evening princess" you said as she softly landed.

"Why are you unable to come to Canterlot tomorrow?" she asked.

"Because I have to teach tomorrow princess, I have no choice in the matter" you responded calmly.

"Fine, then I'm staying here" she said as she turned around.

"Are you sure princess? I could always go to Canterlot another day" you said as you ran up to her side.

"Yes, I'm sure, now lets go"

"As you wish..."

Chapter 9: Sleep Deprived and Stupid

Chapter 9: Sleep Deprived and Stupid

"Morning Mr. Star!" the class chimed as you walked into the school house. You mumbled in response, too tired to actually say good morning to the class.

"Has Scootaloo been keeping you up Mr. Star?" Diamond Tiara said as you flopped into your chair.

"Shut it Tiara" you said in response to her attempt to cause another incident. Thankfully she realized that you were not to be annoyed right now, and she sat back down, not saying anything for the rest of the day. Just as you sent the kids out for their morning break you noticed a pony that was too big to be in school, but your sleepy mind couldn't figure out who it was until they got closer.

"Cheerilee" you said while falling into the teacher's chair.

"Are you okay, you seem very tired" she said in a motherly voice.

"Well, apparently princess Luna has fallen for me, and decided that she would stay at my place for now since I can't go to Canterlot" you mumbled.

"Well that's has got to be tough, her being nocturnal and all," Cheerilee said as she leaned down to one of the drawers, "Sorry if this bothers you, I just need to grab something out of here"

Her apologies fell on deaf ears, and you had managed to pass out while leaning against the back of the chair. She didn't pay any attention to it and continued to search though the drawers, but as if fate had a very cruel sense of humor, a certain pink filly happened to look in from the window. From Diamond Tiara's vantage point you were receiving some special treatment from Cheerilee, and she was going to use this against you. It also didn't help her ideas when you were noticeably more awake after the break had ended.

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"See you tomorrow Mr. Star!" the class yelled as they all ran out the door to go play. You quickly began to pack your things, knowing that if you were fast, you could get home in time to sleep before Luna woke up, and then you wouldn't be as tired tomorrow. Just as you were leaving you heard a loud scream and suddenly the sky filled with dark clouds, thunder and lightening occasionally making appearances. Before you could move you figured out who the scream had come from.

"SILVER! I DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT YOU DID WITH CHEERILEE THIS INSTANCE!" Luna said in the Royal Canterlot Voice as she flew towards you.

"Nothing your highness" you responded while attempting to get out of her sight.

"That's not what Diamond Tiara said!" Luna said, now talking normal again, "She said she saw Cheerilee giving you a..."

"A what?"

"A blowjob!"

"WHAT?!" you shouted in surprise, almost matching the volume of the Royal Canterlot Voice.

Luna quickly explained what she had heard from the little filly, and you quickly told your side of the story. Thankfully you have a special spell that allows you to magically pull up anything that happened in the classroom, which you used to find out if they were passing notes or cheating on tests most of the time. You quickly brought up the break, and showed Luna that you had just fallen asleep, and that Cheerilee was grabbing a note out of the desk.

"Oh, dear Celestia," Luna said while hugging you, "I'm so sorry, I just couldn't bear to hear that you could be cheating on me!"

"We're dating?" you replied stupidly.

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"So, anyone want to help explain this to me?" you asked Big Mac and Doctor Whooves, who were with you in Sweet Apple Acres' cellar.

"Well, it would appear as though Luna believes the relationship is further along than it is, and she had thought that you felt the same way" Whooves answered.

"I get that part, but how could she have thought it was in that stage already?"

"Maybe it's because you weren't opposed to her staying at your house?" Big Mac said while grabbing mugs from a nearby shelf.

"What was I supposed to do? Say no?" you said while getting yourself some of Big Mac's special cider, "You can't just say no to one of the princesses!"

"True, but you could have given her a good reason to not stay at your place" Whooves said as he got up to get himself some cider.

"I tried that, but she still didn't leave!"

"What did you say to her?"

"That I was teaching and that having a nocturnal princess stay at my house would cause me to lose sleep, which meant I wouldn't teach as well as I could"

"She still stayed after that?" Big Mac asked.

"Eeyup" you responded, already a bit buzzed from the special cider.

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"Hi Mr. Star!" Applebloom said as you stumbled out of the cellar, "What are you doing here?"

"That's Doctor Professor Star to you!" you said, your speech heavily slurred.

"What?"

"Nevermind!" you started to stumble your way back towards Ponyville, "Oh, by the way, your brother and Whooves are still down there" Applebloom didn't need to ask what the three of you had been doing down there, seeing as it was fairly obvious just from the state you were in. You managed to start running for all of five minutes before the dizziness kicked in, and you went careening into a nearby ditch. Rather than trying to get up you just sat there, happily drunk, and stared up at the night sky, ad you started to fall asleep...

Suddenly you felt yourself get picked up, and when you looked to figure out who it was you nearly became sober instantly. It was Luna. Unluckily for you, you didn't actually get fully sober, and before you knew it you were saying stupid things like, "Hey beautiful" and "Can I have you as a bedtime snack?"

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"Silver wake up!"

"Five more minutes..."

"SILVER!"

"AH! I'm awake, I'm awake!" you shouted groggily as you looked around, "Oh, hi Scootaloo"

"Silver, what are you still doing in bed? You have to get ready for school!" Scootaloo said as she climbed off your bed, seeing as she had to jump on you so you would wake up.

"Sorry, just had a rough night"

"Yeah, so did she" Scootaloo said as she went out the door. You turned your head and saw Luna next to you, sound asleep. You immediately started to regret drinking last night, but you hoped that what you were thinking happened, didn't actually happen, because if it did...

"Morning dear" Luna said, causing you to jump, "Sleep well? I know I did"

"Um, Luna, what did we do last night?" you asked shyly after recovering from the scare she gave you.

"We did what all couples do at night" Luna replied calmly, "We got into bed, and then when nuzzled each other, and then..." Her face suddenly turned almost as red as Big Mac's. It would have been cute on different circumstances, but right now it only brought you fear.

"What exactly did we do?" you asked with fear in your voice

"Well..." she said as she leaned towards you, giggling ever so slightly.

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"Good morning Mr. Star!" the class chimed as you entered the room. Again you mumbled something resembling good morning to them, and sat down in the teacher's chair. Today was not the right day to be hung over and tired, but both were consequences of your actions. After Luna told you what you and her had done the night before you felt extremely tired, since you had learned that most of your night was spent awake doing things with her.

"So Mr. Star, how was the princess?" Tiara asked coyly.

"Tiara I swear to Celestia if you keep trying shit like this I'm going to kick you out" you responded, clearly not in the mood for her shenanigans. Again she quickly sat down, but just before you could start teaching two stallions entered the classroom, Big Mac and Doctor Whooves.

"Silver, you need to come with us right now!" Whooves ordered, and when you shook your head Big Mac charged at you, and knocked you out. You came to just as they were letting all the kids out of school, along with explaining to Cheerilee why they just knocked out her substitute teacher.

"What the fuck was that for?" you asked while rubbing your chin.

"Because, you really need to come with us, and we didn't have time for you to be stubborn about it" Whooves answered.

"What he said, but really, you need to come with us" Big Mac continued.

"I'm coming too!" Cheerilee said suddenly, only to be echoed by Scootaloo, who had apparently stayed behind to figure out what was going on. No pony gave them a reason to not come, so they ended up following Big Mac and Whooves with you. Within minutes it was fairly obvious why they had been so serious about you coming with them.

The closer to town the five of you got, the louder the cheering got, and eventually party streamers had begun to appear in the trees. When you all arrived in Ponyville you saw what the party was about. Luna had announced that she was getting married to somepony from Ponyville, and you knew who the (un)lucky stallion was. You were about to make a run for it when Luna appeared in front of you.

"Hello dear!" she said as she hugged you, "Look at the wonderful party Pinkie is throwing for us!"

You felt a small nudge in your ribs, and you turned to face the four ponies that had been with you, and after a minute or so Whooves asked the question that was on everypony's mind...

"Exactly how drunk did you get last night?"

So many breaks! Yeah, so sorry for the fragmented style here, it's just meant to show that time had passed between each "scene"

Chapter 10: Commitment Issues

Small time skip here, only around 5 minutes (Long enough for Luna to explain what's going on once)

Chapter 10: Commitment Issues

"Can you run that by me again?" you ask, still very confused.

"Well, I found you in a ditch, I carried you home, and you complimented me the entire time" Luna answered.

"We got that part, but why are the two of you getting married?" Whooves asked.

"Well, during the flight I jokingly said that it sounds like he's in love with me, and he said that he is, and then he suggested we get married" Luna replied as she pulled you towards her, "Then we got into bed and had some fun"

Everypony's reactions were what you could expect them to be, surprised, confused, and just a tiny bit of pity thrown into the mix. You knew that you would have to tell Luna that you were drunk off your ass when you said those things, but you couldn't bring yourself to say it. You looked over to your friends pleadingly, hoping that they could help you break the news, but none of them saw you.

"I told Celestia and she said it will be an even bigger wedding than Shining Armor and Cadance's!" Luna said cheerfully.

"Um, Luna, can I go talk to my friends for a minute" you quietly asked her.

"Why of course dear, just don't take to long"

Without any hesitation you ran over to them, hoping they could help you out of this mess. You looked over and saw that Scootaloo had been joined by the two other members of the CMC, and that Applejack had come over to congratulate you and talk to her brother. That meant the only ponies you could talk to were Whooves and Cheerilee, and you hoped that would be good enough.

"I need your help" you said as you stopped in front of them.

"With what?" Whooves asked nonchalantly.

"Take a wild guess jackass!" you shouted as you pushed him over, "I was wasted when I said those things, and now I'm going to marry her?!"

"Calm down, I'm sure it'll all work out" Cheerilee said with her hoof across your neck, "Think about it, she's one of the princesses that rules all of Equestria, and she wants to marry you!"

"I know I should feel honored, but, I'm not even sure if I really feel that way"

"Don't worry, we'll be there for you, we promise" she said reassuringly.

"You damned well better be, it's all because I had to fill in for you that this happened" you said, sounding angrier than you had meant to.

"I know, I know, and I'm sorry, but there was no way I could have known that Luna would fall for you just because you were a good pony"

"No no, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that" you said while lowering your head.

"Hey Silver?" Scootaloo asked out of no where.

"Yes?"

"Does this mean Luna is going to be my mom?"

"Uh..." you said while rubbing your chin, "I think, I'm not sure"

"Of course it does Scootaloo" Luna said from behind you, causing you to jump.

"This is going to be awesome!" Scootaloo said as she ran up to hug Luna. As you watched her and Luna hug you could swear you felt some sort of warmth from deep down inside, but you still had to tell Luna why you said what you said, no matter how much you didn't want to.

"Luna, can talk?" you asked as they broke the hug.

"Of course dear"

"Privately?"

Luna simply nodded, a worried look making it's way across her face. You lead her away from the festivities and towards a secluded part of the town so that no one could hear what you were about to tell her.

"Luna, you remember how you found me in the ditch, right?"

"Of course, why wouldn't I, it was right before you proposed!"

"Well, when you found me, I was kinda, uh, drunk"

"What does that matter?" Luna asked forcefully.

"I was really drunk, and I may have said somethings that I didn't actually mean" you said while looking away from Luna's face.

"So?! I love you, and you still said it, so you must have feelings for me too!" Luna shouted, tears flowing down her face.

"I know, but I don't think I'm ready for marriage," you said calmly as you pulled her into a hug, "Maybe we should start it off slow, and go from there"

"But we slept together!"

"I know, but I was drunk and I tricked you into it"

"But-" you cut her off with your hoof across her mouth.

"I don't even remember it, so how can I decide based off of it?"

This time Luna didn't respond, instead she just cried into your shoulder while you hugged her.

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After around an hour you and Luna both returned to the party, only to find that it had ended after Pinkie accidentally brought out her cider cannon instead of her normal party cannon. You turned to ask Luna if you could talk to Celestia so you could explain yourself, but as you did you saw Luna take off and fly towards Canterlot, fresh tears making their way down her face

"Great, now I feel like an ass" you said to yourself, "No offense"

"None taken" said a somewhat drunk donkey that appeared out of nowhere.

"Hey there's the lucky stallion!" You quickly looked towards the source of the noise and saw Whooves running towards you at full speed. Before he could hit you you jumped out of the way and he went flying into a tree. He managed to get his head stuck inside it, so you went over to pull him out. After a few hard pulls his head popped out.

"Hey, look what I found!" Whooves said after dropping a colorful ball on the ground.

"Whooves, where's everypony else?"

"Oh, everyone went over to you house to celebrate, I just here because I was looking for my TARDIS" he said as he picked the ball up again and wandered off. You didn't have time to help him, knowing that at this point of his drunkenness it was pointless to try and get him to think straight, so you ran off towards your house, hoping that the ponies there were still sober. As you got closer to your house you noticed that the number of drunk ponies lying in the streets had started to go down, which you hoped meant that you really would have some sane ponies to talk to.

Just as you got to your door you heard a loud pop and then saw pure darkness. It felt as though you were falling from the sky, and just as you had started to get used to the feeling it ended, and color was brought back into your sight. Although it was a color you would have rather not seen.

"Hello Silver Star" Celestia said menacingly.

"Princess" you said groggily.

"So, from what I have heard from Luna, you have called off the wedding" she said as she put you on your feet.

"For now yes, I'm just not ready for that right now"

"Then why did you ask for her hoof in marriage in the first place"

"I was drunk!" you shouted angrily.

"Yet you still asked, and I will not allow you to go back on your words!" Celestia shouted back while her horn began to glow.

"What are you going to do, force me into it?" you shouted back, louder than before, "You off all ponies should know that only brings chaos!"

POP

Again darkness surrounded you, only this time, you didn't feel like you were falling. You attempted to feel out your surroundings, but you couldn't touch anything, so then you tried to use magic, and nothing happened.

CRACK

You heard thunder, but it sounded as though it had come from inside your head. You felt around yourself again, this time feeling something soft and fluffy, almost like a cloud. This made you try to open your eyes, and you saw that you were miles above the Everfree, somehow standing on a cloud, but suddenly the cloud disappeared.

SNAP

How many people caught the jokes I hid in this chapter?

Chapter 11: Dazed and Confused

Chapter 11: Dazed and Confused

You woke up with a sharp pain in your horn and lower back, and after opening your eyes you found out where you were. It was a hut out in the Everfree, and it was a familiar one at that, but just as you were about to think about who's hut you were in, he walked through the door.

"Glad to see you're awake, you had quite the fall" he said in his rough voice.

"Hey Forrest," you said as you sat up, "How long have I been out?"

"Around three days, I found you just outside my hut one morning," he chuckled, "Your horn was stuck in the ground and you were leaning over so far yer ass was touching the ground in front of you!"

"That would explain the pain I'm feeling," you replied while rubbing your back, "Have you heard any news from Ponyville about what happened yet?"

"Nope, should I have?"

"It's a long story"

"I have time," he said as he pulled up a chair, "Let's hear it"

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"Dear Celestia man, how did you manage to do all that in under a week?!" he shouted as you finished your story. In all the years you've know Wandering Woods you've never seen him this worked up, nor have you seen him this worried.

"Why are you so worried, it's not like you're the one who turned down a princess" you asked as he checked out the window for something.

"You think Celestia just tossed you here for fun?" he shouted again, "She sent you here so you would die!"

"She would never do that! It's her job to keep us safe, not kill us!"

"You turned her sister down man, she's obviously pissed off at you!"

"So why are you so worried, she probably thinks I'm dead by now"

"She's probably going to have soldiers looking for you just in case you survived, and if they find you here..." he drifted off as he looked outside again.

"What's up, why did you stop talk-" you said as you got closer to the window.

"Oh fuck" you both said simultaneously.

Right outside of Forrest's hut stood Celestia herself, no guards, no escort, nothing. Just her.

"I know you're in there Silver, come out and things with stay peaceful"

"Well Forrest, it was nice knowing you" you said as you made your way outside, knowing that defying her would only put his life in danger as well.

"Your friend should come out with you"

"Ah fuck" Forrest mumbled as he came out after you.

"Ah, hello Wandering Woods, thank you for taking care of him for me"

"Uh, no problem princess, it was my pleasure" Forrest replied as he bowed down before her.

"Okay, now if you two would please stay still for a moment..." Celestia said as her horn began to glow.

"It was nice knowing you as well Silver" Forrest said as he closed his eyes, accepting his fate.

POP

"Ah, that went well, you can open your eyes now" Celestia said calmly. Both you and Forrest opened your eyes and realized that Celestia wasn't planning to kill you, she was only bringing the two of you to Canterlot.

"Well, that was better than what I thought was happening," Forrest said as he looked around, "Been ages since I was here, back then I still had both wings!"

"What did you think I was doing?" Celestia asked, sounding genuinely concerned.

"Um, princess, we thought you were um..." you started.

"Coming to kill us" Forrest said bluntly.

"Why would I ever do that?"

"Because you sent him into the Everfree," Forrest said while pointing a hood at you, "and just by looking at me you can tell it isn't a very safe place to be" What he said was true, he had scars running across his body, and was even missing a wing after an encounter with a Manticore, and it was safe to say that he'd seen more action that most of the Canterlot guard combined.

"Oh, well I wasn't actually planning to send him there" Celestia said with her cheeks turning pink.

"So, if you don't mind me asking, what happened?" you asked, now wondering how she made a mistake like that.

"I think it was due to my own anger, and it ended up affecting my magic. I am very sorry for what happened" Celestia said as she looked away due to her embarrassment.

"It's fine," you said as you walked up to her, "But can you do something about the pain?"

"Of course, where does it hurt?"

"My back and horn"

"Oh, well, I can take care of your back right here, but the horn..." she said as she slowly turned red.

"What?"

"Oh nothing, just remember to come by my chambers later, I'll fix your horn then"

"Um, okay," you said while looking at her with an eyebrow raised, "So why did you bring us here?"

"Oh yes, almost forgot," Celestia cleared her throat, "Luna would like to speak with you Silver"

"Really, even after what happened?"

"Yes, if you head up the stairs to your left you will find her chambers"

"Excuse me," Forrest asked as you made your way towards the stairs, "but that doesn't explain why I'm here"

"Well, for taking care of Silver while he was otherwise unable to," Celestia replied with a smile, "You shall be rewarded, so if you'll just come with me" After saying that Celestia made her way towards the stairs opposite the ones she told you to go up, which you assumed led to her chambers, so you quickly winked at Forrest, knowing what he was in store for. You remember the stories you would hear from Shining Armor when he first became Captain of the guard, about how stallions would enter her chambers, and then come out a few hours later while walking funny.

After you lost sight of Forrest you made your way up the stairs to Luna's chamber, half hoping and half expecting, that your time in a princess' chambers would be more foal friendly. Before you could knock on the door it opened, with Luna standing just on the other side.

"Good evening" you said nervously.

"Yes, um, good evening, could you please come inside" Luna said as she turned slightly pink. You did as you were told and made your way inside, only to find Luna making herself comfortable on her bed, and when she lightly patted her hoof against a pillow you knew she wanted you to join her.

"So, Celestia said you had wanted to talk?" you asked as you sat on the edge of her bed.

"Yes," Luna replied, looking somewhat disappointed that you didn't actually go onto the bed, "It's about our relationship" You nodded hesitantly, mostly since the last time you had talked about it she had flown away crying, and partly because of where you were.

"Last time we talked we were both a little emotional, so I think now we can actually talk" she said as she nuzzled against your back.

"Um, okay, so what is it you wanted to talk about?" you asked nervously.

"Well, actually, I was hoping we could do something other than talking" Luna said in a sultry tone. Before you could ask her what she meant you heard Celestia yell from the other side of the palace.

"WORSHIP MY PLOT YOU LOWLY PEASANT!"

"It seems my sister has already gotten started," Luna said with a giggle, "Shall we begin"

"But," you replied confusedly.

"Oh come on, you said you didn't remember the first time because you were drunk"

"Yeah, but..."

"Are you drunk right now?"

"No..."

"Then you have no excuse! Come over here and show me how much you love me..."

"But..." you said as she pulled you towards her, "What in the..."

Now for some information: Wandering Woods (aka Forrest) is a Pegasus, if you couldn't tell, and he tends the Everfree. Basically that means he makes sure that the Everfree doesn't grow, and he also makes sure the bests don't get out into the normal parts of Equestria

He is also the OC of Out of Place

Chapter 12: The Test

Chapter 12: The Test

Luna pulled you in close to her, nearly crushing you with her Alicorn strength, and she began to make her way down your body when your brain finally started working again. You quickly pushed Luna back, making sure to keep her as far away from your waist as possible, and you said the only word you could think of.

"No"

"What?" Luna asked with a confused look on her face.

"I, uh, we, can't do this" you said as you sat up, "I'm not ready for this, and you're a princess"

"So, I'm a princess who loves you" Luna said while moving closer to you.

"True, but you're a powerful Alicorn princess, and I'm just a simple Unicorn"

"But I love you..."

"I know, and I think I love you, but I just can't do this," you turned to face her, "At least not right now"

Luna tried to say something else, but instead she just pulled you into a deep hug, and she cried. It felt as if your heart was snapping in two, but you knew this was the smart thing to do, and you were about to say something to comfort her when the door suddenly slammed open. Standing there was Celestia, and she had a gigantic smile on her face.

"I take it he passed the test?" she asked as she entered the room.

"Yes," Luna answered between sobs, "Yes he did"

"Wonderful, I knew the plan would work in the end"

"What plan?" you asked, now confused as to what was going on.

"My sister said that if you really loved me, then you wouldn't want to do this with me" Luna said as she let go of you.

"So this was a setup?"

"Yes" Celestia answered while grabbing a box of tissues out of Luna's bathroom.

"Is Forrest involved?"

"No, he was just lucky enough to have been the one to find you," Celestia replied as she walked towards the door, "Now if you'll excuse me, I still have to get my reward"

"What?"

"She's, um..." Luna started.

"She's what?"

"Forrest's tree was the reward she was talking about" Luna blushed slightly.

"So the stories were true, about what your sister does to stallions?"

"Yes," Luna said as she moved close to you again, "Enough about that, I think it's time we talked about us"

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You woke up the next morning in a giant bed all by yourself. At first you couldn't remember where you were, but the moons on the bed sheets and wall made it fairly obvious that you were in Luna's room, so you quickly hopped out of the bed to go look for her. It didn't take long to find her, as she was outside standing next to Celestia with their horns glowing, so you guessed that they were raising the sun and setting the moon to start the new day. After a few minutes their horns stopped glowing and they turned around to see you leaning against the door frame.

"Good morning Silver" Celestia said as she took flight, "I would love to talk to you, but I must be off" She didn't stay very long after saying that, and withing moments she was completely gone, no sign of where she went. After deciding that it was pointless to try and find her in the sky, you turned to Luna, who was blushing again.

"Something up?" you asked.

"Well, uh," Luna looked down as she replied, "Celestia told me how to make your horn feel better"

"What?"

"Well, last night you said you hurt your horn, so she told me how to make it feel better"

"Really?" you said, happy to hear that the pain could go away soon, "So how do you heal it?" Luna didn't respond, but instead motioned for you to follow her, which you did happily. When she patted her bed you took that as a sign that you had to go onto the bed, so you did, and then Luna pushed you back, turning you ever so slightly so that your horn was pointing off the bed. Suddenly you felt a weird, somewhat wet, feeling on your horn, and when you looked in the mirror that was on the other side of the room you jumped up, trying your hardest to not hit Luna with your horn.

"Was I not doing it right?" Luna asked with a sad look on her face.

"Um, Luna..."

"Yes?"

"Your sister just tricked you"

"How?"

You made a motion for her to lean in so you could tell her in a whisper, not wanting to say it out loud fearing that someone might hear it. Luna's reaction was what you expected it to be, disgust and anger, so you quickly put your forelegs on her shoulders.

"Don't go yelling at her" you said in a calm voice.

"But she wanted me to give you a horn j..." Luna trailed off, not able to say it.

"It's fine, your sister was just having a bit of fun," you pulled her into a hug, "Do you have any tissues?"

"No, Celestia took them last night, but why do you need them?" All you did was point at your saliva covered horn in response, and Luna understood what you meant. "They should still be in her room, I can take you over if you want"

"Thanks, that would be awesome"

"Okay, just give me a second," Luna said as she moved out to her balcony, and then crouched down, her flank sticking up, "Hop on, I'll let you ride me over there"

"Wha..." was all you could manage to say, as your brain decided to stop working again, but you quickly came back, "Oh, uh, yeah, just give me a sec" You quickly ran over to her side and then climbed onto her back, which was surprisingly large. She quickly checked to make sure you were holding on, and then she took off, doing a few loops around her tower before she made her way to Celestia's balcony.

You climbed off and made your way to the door, which was thankfully unlocked, but you never went inside. Before the door had even opened half way you shut it, afraid of what you had seen.

"Something the matter?" Luna asked.

"Let's not go in there"

"Why not, don't you need the tissues?"

"No, I'm good, I think I can live with it," you said as you walked away from the door, "Here, let's go, I don't want to stay here"

"Um, okay, but what was in there that made you change your mind so suddenly?"

"You don't want to know, trust me" you said as you climbed back on, getting ready for her to take off again. Just before you left you thought you had heard Forrest groan, but you knew he wasn't going anywhere for a while. Your thoughts were now focused on what you and Luna, who was now flying away from the castle and towards Ponyville, had talked about the previous night.

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"Silver!" Scootaloo yelled as she ran towards you. Within moments you had a little orange Pegasus hanging from your neck, hugging you as hard as she could.

"Hey Scoots" you said as you hugged her back.

"Where were you?!"

"I was, uh..." you weren't sure what to say, knowing that it might not make sense to her, seeing as you still didn't exactly know what happened either.

"He was with me" Luna said from beside you.

"Oh, uh, hi princess" Scootaloo said as she bowed down.

"There is no need for that Scootaloo," Luna said as she put one of her wings across your back, "I think we're close enough now"

"Ohmygosh!" Scootaloo shouted, "Does this mean I'm a princess now?!"

"Possibly, but we'd still have to get married first"

"But I thought you guys were getting married?"

"Not yet Scootaloo," you said as you started to walk towards your house, "Maybe in a few months though" You turned around in time to see Scootaloo jump onto Luna, giving her a hug of her own, and the hug was returned by Luna. You wanted to run over to them and join in, but you knew that would only make things awkward.

"WHAT THE HAY?!"

Everypony quickly turned towards the sudden shout, only to find Diamond Tiara standing there, her face contorted into a scowl. "Why does the chicken get to be so close to the princess?!" Tiara said as she began to cry, "It's not fair!" Before anypony could say something she ran off.

"Is something the matter?" Luna asked, "Should we go talk to her?"

"No it's fine," you turned towards Luna, "It's just Diamond Tiara"

"But she looked so sad"

"Don't worry about it, she'll get over it eventually, she just overreacts to everything"

"Ugh, what a Drama Queen" you heard somepony say from behind you, "Oh hello Silver, it's good that you're back"

"Oh, hi Rarity" you replied.

"Yes hello, now that you're back, I can finally be rid of these destructive fillies!" she said as she levitated Applebloom and Sweetie Belle out of your house, "Here take them, you know how to deal with them better than me!" Rarity didn't even wait for a response, and after she tossed the two fillies at you she quickly ran towards the Ponyville spa as fast as she could.

"What was that about?" you asked the three fillies.

"We kinda got her to watch us while you were gone" Scootaloo said first.

"Yeah, and then we decided to stay at your place so we would see you when you got back" Sweetie Belle continued.

"And we were really crazy" Applebloom said as the three of them looked at the ground in shame.

"Well, it's good to know that you guys haven't changed at all" you said as you turned back towards your house, "Shall we go inside? I want to know what I've missed these past few days"

"Okay!" Scootaloo quickly said as she ran past you into the house, but she quickly turned around, "So, are you and Luna dating?"

"I would like to think so" you said as Luna nuzzled your neck lovingly.

"That is so cool!" the three fillies said in unison.

"It's good to see that she doesn't mind me being your special somepony" Luna whispered into your ear.

"It's fine, I'm sure everypony would love to find out their dad was dating the princess of the moon"

"I guess" Luna said with a giggle.

"Shall we go inside my lady?" you said while bowing down.

"Oh, why of course my good sir" Luna replied as she made her way inside.

"Ew, I think they might have had some love posion or something" Scootaloo said from the doorway to the living room.

"Uh, oh..." Applebloom said quietly.

"I think we're fine, so how's school been?" you said as you sat in a chair.

"Good, Miss Cheerilee is teaching again" Sweetie Belle answered.

"Okay, anything interesting happen in town?"

"Well, Big Mac confessed to Fluttershy two days ago" Applebloom said with a smile.

"Took him long enough, anything else?"

"Nope"

"Okay, so," you said as you leaned forward, "Anything you girls want to know?"

"Yeah!" the three of them said.

"Where to begin..." you trailed off as you tapped your chin in thought.

After that the rest of the day was peaceful, the girls were extremely happy to hear what had led up to your and Luna dating, and about how Celestia had actually gotten mad and dropped you into the Everfree. You made sure to not mention the other things Celestia did, knowing that them hearing those things would scar them for life. At around noon Luna went back to the castle, and you spent the rest of the day helping the crusaders with their cutie marks. By the end of the day it was decided that they were not handyponies, nor were they gardeners, and after they became tired, everypony was put into bed, including yourself. That night you slept peacefully, now happy that your life was going to be somewhat normal from now on.

Chapter 13: A Drink With Friends

Chapter 13: A Drink With Friends

The next morning you woke up to find the Cutie Mark Crusaders attempting to get their "breakfast in bed" cutie mark. You decided against going in to scare them, seeing as Sweetie Belle was holding a pot of soup near Scootaloo. You quickly looked around to find a way to sneak in and grab a bit of bread, but they were everywhere. Just as you started to walk away you were seen by the filly Earth pony.

"Mornin' Silver!"

"Morning Applebloom," you said as the two others turned to see you, "Scootaloo, and Sweetie"

"Morning!" the other two said before they turned back to the now burning breakfast. You decided to go and look at the state of the food, but Applebloom was pushing you out of the kitchen.

"I take it things aren't going well?" you asked as she finally got you out of the door.

"Uh, yeah" she said quietly.

"Okay, well, have fun?" you said as you glanced into the kitchen, "Your brothers at the farm right?"

"Eeyup" Applebloom quickly remembered something, "Oh wait, he might also be at Fluttershy's cottage"

"Oh, I guess he would be there too" you quickly rubbed her head, "Well, she you later, don't make things to messy"

"We won't!" she said as she ran back into the kitchen after hearing Sweetie yelp.

You quickly looked in to see what was going on, only to see them putting out a fire that started on the eggs. After they turned off the stove top you knew there was a very small chance that they weren't going to burn down your house if you left them alone. Before leaving you saw Spike, Twilight's assistant dragon, running towards your house.

"Silver!" he yelled after he saw you.

"Hey Spike, what's up?" you asked as he skidded to a stop in front of you.

"I. Got. A. Letter. For. You" he panted out, nearly choking on his breath.

"Oh, thanks, who's it from?" you asked, even though you knew the answer.

"Princess. Luna"

"Thanks Spike, I'm guessing Twilight sent you over?"

"Yeah, she said it was important" he replied after he caught his breath. You went to open the letter, the moon stamp on it confirmed your suspicions about who it's from, so you quickly took a seat on the stairs outside your house. Just before you opened it Spike quickly asked, "Can I go now?"

"Of course, why would you have to stay?"

"If you had wanted to reply to her"

"No it's fine, if I need to I'll stop by the library later" you replied with a smile. He quickly ran off, obviously happy that he might have a chance that he might be able to get in another hour of sleep. After he was out of sight you opened the letter.

Dear Silver,

I hope this letter gets to you soon, as it is very important that you do get it. Princess Cadance has asked me to get you to come back to Canterlot so that she can meet you. She told me that she would like to meet you after what she has heard from me and Shining Armor. From what my sister has told me, Cadance would just like to figure out if you are right for me or not, and she believes her ability to make people love each other, also means that she would be able to tell me if you really do love me.

I hope to hear back from you soon,

Princess Luna

You quickly reread the letter to make sure you had read it right. It was the dreaded sibling interview, something that you had seen many relationships end at. Although you knew that it would be one of the biggest obstacles in your relationship with Luna, you felt happy that it was going to happen. No matter how much you thought about it you never found out why you were happy about it, but you didn't really care either way. You knew it would all be fine in the end. You had thought about writing the reply letter right then, but you had to go and tell your friends about your new relationship, starting with Big Mac.

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After Applejack had told you that Big Mac had gone to see Fluttershy earlier that morning you made your way to her cottage. As you got closer you heard Big Mac's telltale laugh coming from inside. You knocked on the door, which had scared Fluttershy, or so you guessed as you heard her squeak. A few seconds later the door opened, Big Mac standing on the other side.

"Morning Mac" you said when he looked down at you.

"Mornin'" he moved you to let you inside, "What brings you here?"

"I had come to talk to you actually"

"About what?"

"Me and Luna"

"What's going on with Luna?" Fluttershy said from her couch, obviously interested in what you had to say.

"Well, where to start..." you said as you sat down on another couch.

"Well, what's happening with the wedding?" Fluttershy asked.

"It's not happening"

"Oh..." her face dropped.

"Well, not now at least, but we're still going to be together"

"Dating?" Big Mac asked as he nuzzled Fluttershy so she would cheer up.

"Yeah, but the way we figured it out was really weird"

"Why was it weird?"

"Well..." you then proceeded to tell them about the weird plan Celestia had created.

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"Wow, that was a very..." Big Mac said as you finished, "Interesting story"

"Yeah" Fluttershy said quietly.

"So, any news on what happened to Forrest?" Big Mac asked.

"No, but I'm sure he's fine, I think I heard him moan as Luna took off"

"Oh dear..." Fluttershy mumbled.

"Don't worry, he's been through worse things, trust me"

"Oh, okay..."

"So, Mac, I was wondering if you would want to go get a drink with me," you said as you looked at the two of them on the couch, "but it looks like you have other plans"

"Eeyup, maybe next time though"

"Sounds good, for now, I'll go and find Whooves, I know he'll have free time" you said as you made your way towards the door.

"Thanks for stopping by" Fluttershy said just before you went out the door. You didn't say anything back as you didn't want to keep them from being alone for much longer.

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"Dinky stop throwing things at me!" you heard Whooves yell when you got to his house. You knocked on his door, expecting to hear him yell towards you, but instead the door opened, with his marefriend Derpy standing on the other side.

"Hi!" she said happily, a giant smile on her face.

"Hi, is the Doctor in?"

"Yeah, just a second, you can go wait on the couch over there if you want"

"Thanks" you said as you made your way to the couch she mentioned. You didn't have to wait long for her to return with Whooves, who had a filly Unicorn hanging from his neck laughing happily. After Derpy pulled the Unicorn off of him he came over to talk to you.

"So, what's up?" he asked as he flopped onto the couch next to you.

"Not much, but, I was wondering if wanted to go get a drink"

"What's the occasion?"

"Me and Luna going steady"

"I thought you two were getting married?"

"It's a long story, want to hear it over a cider?"

"Sounds good, let me go tell Derpy I'll be going out, then we can go" he said as he ran into the room he had come out of. You heard a few cries from the filly, who obviously didn't want him to go, but he still came out a few minutes later.

"She didn't want you to go?"

"No, she was having fun throwing her toys at me," he pulled a toy chariot out of his hair, "Apparently my cutie mark should have been 'target practice' or something"

You laughed as you made your way to the door, thinking of where to go. Within minutes you and him were downing mug after mug of cider at the usual drinking place. Between drinks you told him what happened between you and Luna, to everypony's surprise, since everypony could hear your story thanks to the cider progressively raising your volume.

Around an hour of drinking you were interrupted by a hoof on your shoulder. Sadly your drunken happiness quickly disappeared when you turned around to find out who it was. Shining Armor, your friend and Captain of the Royal Guard, was standing behind you, with a rather large frown on his face.

"You should come with me" he said in a very serious tone. Of course you in your drunken state you weren't able to think correctly.

"Why?" you asked stupidly, grinning at him. He didn't answer you, but instead he just dragged you out of the bar, leaving Whooves to pick up the tab.

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"What the hell are you doing?" Shining Armor shouted at you after he dragged you behind the bar.

"Well I was drinking with one of my other friends, but then you showed up and dragged me out here" you said.

"I could see that, but you were saying some things that you shouldn't have been saying"

"What, about how me and Luna are dating?"

"No, what you were saying about Celestia"

"That she had wild sex with Forrest?"

"Yes!"

"Well, I had to tell Whooves what happened, and it was part of the story" you answered, your drunken happiness now returning.

"Oh shut up!" he shouted at you as you stupidly grinned back at him, "You have no idea what this means for us!"

"Does it mean you guys can make some money off Celestia's fun?" you asked stupidly.

"I SAID SHUT UP!" he shouted, raising his hoof up to show you he was serious, "Oh fuck"

"What?"

"The night guards have shown up, and they're looking for you!"

"Silver Star! You're coming with us!" one of the night guards shouted as they landed their chariot.

"They don't sound happy" you said as they landed in front of you and Shining Armor.

"Shining Armor, what are you doing with him?" one of the night guards asked.

"Well, I was here to collect him, as he was making Princess Celestia look bad" Shining Armor replied in his guard voice.

"We know for a fact that Celestia doesn't know of this yet," the night guard said menacingly, "So what are you doing here?"

"I'm also friends with most of the guards here in town, so they told me what was happening"

"Lies, what are you trying to hide from us?"

"Nothing, I was here to take him in myself!"

"Do you think me daft?!" the night guard shouted, "I'm the Captain of the night guard, I know you're friends with this idiot!"

"Hey!" you shouted, getting everypony's attention, "I'm not shtupid" Nopony said anything after that. Instead one of the other night guards lowered his head, his horn beginning to glow, and next thing you knew you were on the ground, unable to move.

"Did you just paralyze him?!" Shining shouted.

"Yes, and now it's your turn" the night Captain said as his subordinate fired a spell at Shining.

"Son of a bitch!" Shining shouted as he fell to the ground, hitting his head on a trash can in the process. After that you blacked out, partly due to the Cider, but mostly thanks to one of the night guards whacking your head against the side of the chariot they were putting you into so they could cart you off to the castle.

Chapter 14:The Princess, The Teacher, and The Guard

Chapter 14: The Princess, The Teacher, and The Guard

"Wake up Silver!" you heard Luna shout as she shook you.

"Five more minutes..."

"WAKE UP NOW!"

"I'm up, I'm up!" you shouted as you got up, "Wait, where am I?"

"The dungeon" Shining Armor said from somewhere behind you.

"Why am I in a dungeon with you and Luna?" you asked, not being able to remember what had happened the night before.

"Well, it would appear some of the night guards are staging a coup d'état" Luna said, sounding very tired.

"A what?" you asked, not knowing what she meant.

"A coup d'état," Shining said as he made his way out of the shadows, "They're trying to overthrow the princesses"

"So why am I here, I had no idea this was going on"

"You are here because you are in a relationship with me" Luna said, now sounding depressed.

"Great, I finally get a marefriend, and it gets me tossed in a dungeon" you said sarcastically.

"Don't worry, I've been thinking of a way to get us out of here" Shining said, making a nod towards the corner her was in before.

"Can't we just use our magic..." you started, then it occurred to you that things were never that easy, "They put an anti-magic spell on us didn't they"

"Yeah, they did, we tried before you woke up," Shining said turning to Luna, "All we figured out is that Luna can use a small bit of magic, but it's only really good for giving us light"

"Really?"

"Sadly, yes, not even my power can get through their spell" Luna said, now standing next to you.

"Great..." you mumbled as you fell to the ground. You quickly thought about how you got into this whole thing. Those three fillies from Ponyville, Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle, the three fillies had told you to watch out for. If it wasn't for you being so nice to Scootaloo you would never have let her stay with you, Diamond Tiara might not have caused her to run away, which wouldn't have brought you to Luna, and she wouldn't have even known you existed. "Looks like Cheerilee was right, those three are trouble"

"What?" Luna asked.

"Oh nothing, just thinking about what got me into this mess" you said truthfully.

"Actually, I've been meaning to ask you about that" Shining said from the corner.

"Well, I was told that Cheerilee was going to be out of town for a while due to family matters, so I had to go and teach in her place. On my way to the first day I ran into Scootaloo, well, actually she ran into me, and then I ended up learning that she was an orphan, so I took her in. I treated her like a father for a week, and then Diamond Tiara wrote a note that caused me to get the princesses involved, then Tiara caused Scootaloo to run away, and I ended up getting close to the princesses. I think you know the rest"

"So I'm guessing the three you had said were trouble were the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" Shining said as he once again left the shadows.

"Yeah, in her notes Cheerilee had said that they always caused trouble, and look where I am now" you said, waving your foreleg in front of you.

"Seems like Cheerilee really knows her students" Luna said.

"I wonder if they teach you how to understand ponies in teacher school?" Shining said with a chuckle as he went back to his corner. Suddenly you remembered something that you had done during your time in university. Your parents never wanted you to be out all night, so they would stay up, making sure you came back by ten. One night you stayed out late while you tried to get yourself a marefriend, and when you got back they put you under a spell that was similar to the one you were under right now. For the next week you tried everything you could to break their spell without them knowing, and eventually you got it, allowing you to roam free. You knew your parents were nowhere near as strong as the night guards at magic, but it couldn't hurt to try.

"Luna, can you use your magic to momentarily break the anti-magic spell on me?" you asked.

"Possibly, but why?"

"I have a plan to get us out of here"

"Oh, well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try then" Luna said as her horn started to glow. Suddenly there was a flash of light, and you quickly attempted to pick something up with your magic. When you saw a chair from across the room fly into the air you knew the spell was off, and so you quickly figured out how much time you had before it kicked back in.

"Five minutes, perfect, that's all I need" you said as you crouched down.

"What are you trying to do?" Shining asked.

"I'm going to break the spell they put on us"

"They're going to know it was broken"

"No they won't" you replied with a grin. You quickly began to think back to the night you were trapped in your room, and within moments you remembered everything you had done that night. To everypony's surprise your horn began to glow, brighter than it had ever before, and you could feel yourself being pushed into the ground.

"Here. Goes. Nothing!" you grunted, the stress of the spell making it hard to breath.

SNAP!

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You opened your eyes, finding yourself on the floor of the dungeon with Luna crying over you.

"Did it work?" you asked groggily. Luna suddenly snapped her head to look at you, tears flowing down her cheeks.

"Oh thank Celestia you're alive!" Luna said as she pulled you into a hug.

"What happened?" you asked, not knowing what was causing her to act this way.

"Well, thanks to you the coup was prevented"

"What?" you said as you turned around. Celestia had been standing over you as well, with Shining Armor and Cadance at her side.

"Well, after you broke the spell Shining Armor quickly teleported to Cadance, and they brought the night guards' plans to my attention" Celestia said as she helped you and Luna up off the ground.

"Within minutes she had every night guard detained, none of them were even allowed a chance to escape" Shining said.

"I have to ask," Celestia said while wiping the tears off Luna's face, "but where did you learn a spell like that?"

"I made it myself when I was in university"

"Well, I must congratulate you on that achievement, thanks to you a revolution was prevented" Celestia said as he made her way out of the cell.

"I was also able to figure out how you feel about Luna" Cadance said with a grin.

"Really?" you asked, surprised that she actually was able to figure it out.

"Want to know how you really feel about her?"

"No, I already know myself," you said as you moved to Luna's side, "and I think I should be the one to tell her"

"As you wish"

"So, as the hero, can I have one wish?" you asked while facing Luna.

"Of course, what is it?"

"Can I go back to my normal life now?"

Chapter 15: Back To Normal?

Chapter 15: Back To Normal?

It was an average Monday morning, just like every other one for the past month. You wake up, make yourself a coffee, then you fight with Scootaloo to try and get her up so she can get ready for school. After she leaves you usually wander around Ponyville in a vain attempt to find something to do. Every once in a while you stop by the library to see if Twilight has any letters for you, which was exactly what you were doing today. As you got to the library you heard Twilight shouting at Spike about something, which was normal seeing as Spike was pretty laid back.

Knock, Knock

"Spike!" Twilight yelled from inside.

"I know, just give me a second!" Spike shouted in response. The door suddenly opened and you were greeted by Spike, who had a book stuck on his tail.

"Going for a new look?" you asked jokingly.

"Oh shut up," Spike said as he let you in, "Silver's here!"

"Oh!" you heard something hit the floor in the other room, "Be right there!"

"What's she doing?" you asked as you sat down at the table in the middle of the room.

"Reorganizing her personal books" Spike answered as he sat down across from you. This ended up making things pretty awkward, seeing as you and Spike don't really see eye to eye, that and the two of you have very different personalities. Although the awkward atmosphere didn't last long as Twilight quickly ran into the room, her mane in disarray.

"Hi Silver" she said, sounding like she had just run a marathon.

"Hi, I'm guessing you know why I'm here?"

"Yeah, Spi-" she started to yell.

"You know I'm right here, right?" Spike interrupted her.

"Oh, well, can you get the princess' letters?"

"Yeah, just give me a second" Spike said as he left the room.

"So..." Twilight started, obviously wanting to ask you something.

"'So...' What?"

"What's it like?"

"What's what like?"

"Dating the princess of the night"

"It's really awesome considering the fact that every treats me better now"

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, and from what I've heard from Cheerilee, Tiara has stopped making fun of Scootaloo and her friends"

"That's good..."

Awkward silence...

"Hey Silver..." Twilight started.

"Yeah?"

"Can I tell you something?"

"Of course"

"Well, I, uh...." Twilight started to blush, "I kinda had a crush on you when we were in school"

"Really?" you asked, not believing her.

"Yeah, I thought you were really nice, but then you left Canterlot and..."

"Oh, well, I guess there's nothing we can do about it now"

"Yeah..."

"Well, actually, there is one thing I could do for you"

"What's that?"

"Get you a coltfriend!" you said happily, just as Spike came back into the room with a pile of letters.

"Here you go, all of Luna's letters for the last two days"

"Huh, there's less than there normally is, she must be busy"

"Yeah, whatever, I'm going to Rarity's" Spike said as he made his way to the door of the library.

"And I think I'll be off, I need to read all these letters" you said as you made your way to the door as well.

"Okay, see you later" Twilight said as she went back to work.

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"Urgh..." you groaned as you put down the last letter, "Why does she have to write so much?"

"Hey Dad!"

"Hey Scoots, how was school?"

"Good, Cheerilee told me to give you this" Scootaloo said as she pulled a piece of paper out of her bag.

"Parent teacher interview..." you mumbled as you read the top of the paper.

"Yeah," Scootaloo said as she dropped her bags to the floor, "Well, I'm off to meet with Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, see you at dinner!"

"Stay out of trouble!" you shouted as she raced out the door. After hearing the door slam shut you went back to the paper she had given you. You knew what it meant, you had been a teacher for a while, but you never thought you'd have to go through it on the other side of the desk. You ended up spending the next hour thinking about what it meant, and you would have done it for longer, but a knock at the door interrupted you. After putting the paper down you went to answer the door, only to find a night guard standing on the other side.

"Sir Star"

"Captain"

"Princess Luna has asked for you to come to Canterlot"

"Ah, I'm guessing you were supposed to be my escort?"

"Yes, the night chariot is waiting for you" the guard said as he moved to the side, revealing the rather terrifying looking chariot behind him.

"That won't be necessary, I have a faster way to get there"

"What do you mean?"

"Just watch" you said as your horn started to glow brightly, and then you disappeared right before the guards eyes.

Thud!

"Damn it, I always aim to high" you groaned as you pulled yourself off the floor. You looked around the room, hoping to find Luna there, but obviously she wasn't expecting you so soon. Knowing that it might be a while before she finishes her royal duties, you hopped onto her bed and drifted off to sleep.

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You awoke to the sound of running water, which you knew was coming from Luna's shower. After debating on joining her or not you got up, just as the water stopped running, so you sat back down. Within moments a wet Luna came trotting out of the bathroom, her mane dripping wet.

"Hello there Silver" Luna said as she noticed you sitting on her bed. Sadly you couldn't respond, as this was the first time you had ever seen her just after her shower, and you had to admit, she looked hot! She obviously picked up on it, as she quickly dropped the towel that she had wrapped around her haunches, and then began to trot seductively towards you.

"Well well, it looks like my knight in shining armor is standing at full attention..." Luna said as she made her way onto the bed, pushing you down in the process, "Well, I think there is a damsel in distress right here, and she needs her knight's sword"

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"That. Was. Amazing" you panted after Luna rolled to the side.

"Same for me..." Luna said faintly.

The two of you just laid there, not moving at all. After a few minutes you sat up and headed towards her bathroom to clean yourself off. Just as you started the shower you were joined by Luna, who was obviously still in the mood.

"You know we can't do it in here right?"

"Yes, but I would also like to get clean"

"Oh, okay" you said as she climbed in.

"Is something on your mind?"

"Well, Cheerilee is having a parent teacher night at the school, and I was wondering if you might want to go"

"Why of course, when is it?"

"Next Wednesday"

"Perfect, I'll make sure to be there"

"Okay, now then, let's clean ourselves off"

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"C'mon! We're gonna be late!" Scootaloo shouted at you from the bottom of the stairs.

"Just give me a minute, I can't decide which tie to wear!" you shouted back as you pulled a dark blue tie out of your closet.

"I think that looks good" Luna said from behind you.

"Ah!" you shouted in surprise, "When did you get here?!"

"Just a minute ago, why?"

"You scared the shit out of me"

"Oh, sorry, I didn't think you would be this tense"

"It's fine" you said as you turned back to your ties, "You look good by the way"

"Thank you, and I really do think you should wear the dark blue one"

"Well, then that's what I'm wearing" you said as you put the tie around your neck.

"ARE YOU COMING OR WHAT?!" Scootaloo yelled.

"We're coming, hold your horses!" you shouted back, "Shall we?"

"Of course" Luna said as she put one of her wings across your back. The two of you quickly made your way down the stairs, only to find Scootaloo staring angrily at you.

"What took you guys so long?" she said as she trotted up to you.

"I couldn't pick which tie to wear" you said honestly

"Yeah, yeah, let's go, Cheerilee said she wanted us at eight, and it's 7:30 now" Scootaloo said as she ran out the door, leaving you and Luna standing at the bottom of the stairs. You quickly began to walk towards the door with Luna at your side. As you got outside Scootaloo ran to your side, and together the three of you went to the the first of many parent teacher nights as a family.

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Author's Note

This chapter may seem a bit rushed to some people, but it's meant to show that Silver's life has pretty much returned to normal, except for the fact that Scootaloo now calls him Dad, and the fact that he's dating Luna.

This is the longest story I've written so far, and probably one of the weirdest one's too, but nonetheless, it's finished, and I will start thinking of my next idea very soon...

Chapter 1: An Early Start

Chapter 1: An Early Start

Today was a great day! The birds were happily chirping and the weather was amazing, your normal morning routine went perfectly, especially when you woke up thanks to a large cup of coffee. You quickly looked over the notes Miss Cheerilee left for you while you happily trotted through town. Your name is Silver Star, and you were a substitute teacher in Ponyville, but seeing as Miss Cheerilee rarely misses work, you normally just do odd jobs around town. The only reason Miss Cheerilee was missing school was because one of her relatives was getting married in Las Pegasus, and she was going to be spending around a month there, using the opportunity so she could take a paid vacation. Thankfully you were a Unicorn, so looking at the notes she left while walking to the school house was fairly easy, until you noticed a little orange filly flying towards you on a scooter.

SMACK!

You weren't able to move out of the way or stop the little filly before she hit you, presumably at full speed. You quickly got to your feet and noticed the thermos of coffee you were planning to bring had been cracked open, but luckily your notes landed far away, so you didn't have to worry about those being ruined. You checked yourself for any injuries, and when you found nothing but a slight bruise you began to look for the one who hit you. You didn't have to look very far as you saw an orange Pegasus being levitated by purple magic a few feet away from you.

"Scootaloo! What have we told you about speeding through town on your scooter?!" you heard a familiar voice yell towards the filly.

"Sorry Twilight, I didn't mean to, but he didn't get out of my way either!"

"I'm so sorry about that sir, she's a little bit reckless when she's on her scooter," you heard Twilight say, "Are you okay, she hit you fairly hard"

"It's fine Twilight, it'll take more than that to hurt me, you should know that" you responded while levitating your notes into your saddle bag.

"Oh, sorry Silver, didn't realize it was you. What are you doing out here this early in the morning?"

"I'm the replacement for Miss Cheerilee while she's out of town, so I was heading towards the school so I could get set up" you responded while turning towards Scootaloo, "and I believe Miss Cheerilee left me a note about you and your friends"

"Oh no..." Scootaloo said, obviously afraid of what Cheerilee had told you.

"Anyways, are you okay Scootaloo, you did hit me fairly hard," you saw her scooter mangled a couple of feet away, "and looks like you won't be using your scooter for a while"

"Aw man! Why did I have to hit you of all ponies?"

"Well, maybe now you'll watch were you're going," Twilight said, "anyways, I have to go help Rarity with something, see you two another time"

She was gone before you could say goodbye, obviously this whole ordeal made her quite a bit late, and from what you remembered from school, she cared about tardiness quite a bit. As you picked up your thermos you saw Scootaloo staring at her scooter, tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll fix that up for you, since I was in your way after all" you say with a wink.

"Really? Even after I hit you, you'll still fix it?!"

You simply nodded while you fought to fold the mangled scooter in half so you could put it in your bag. After a few minutes of fighting and a few swears said through your teeth, you managed to get it into your bag.

"I should have it fixed by either tomorrow, or the day after, depending on how much work I end up with after today" you say while turning back to Scootaloo, who had been laughing the entire time.

"Thank you so much, I'm really sorry for hitting you!" she said while giving you a quick hug.

"Now then, off to school we go," you say while turning back towards the school, "Don't want to be late do we?"

"Nope!" Scootaloo said as the ran ahead of you, "Race you there!"

"You're on!"

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"You're fast" Scootaloo said between panting fits.

"It helps when you have full grown legs, and not little filly legs like yours" you respond with a chuckle.

"Ya, but you beat me by a lot, and you're not even winded!"

"Comes with practice, maybe one day you'll be faster than me, but now then, inside we go"

You opened the door to the school house with your magic and let Scootaloo go in ahead of you. You pulled the notes out of your bag, set them on the desk, and dropped your saddle bag next to the teacher's desk. It's been a while since you were here, but it looks like not much has changed, other than there being newer books on the shelves. You quickly wrote Mr. Star on the chalkboard, and began to pull out the materials you needed to teach, but you were interrupted when a young school filly got your attention.

"Look, Scootaloo's already gotten in trouble with the teacher!"

"No I didn't!"

"Then why does he have your scooter, huh?"

"Because I, uh..."

"Excuse me, but what does that have to do with you?" you asked the somewhat snobby filly that was arguing with Scootaloo.

"Nothing, it's just funny that the girl with no parents already got in trouble with you, before school even started too!"

"Hey, don't talk about me like that you stupid bi-"

"Enough!"

Your sudden outburst caused every filly and colt to stop where they were and look towards you and the two arguing fillies. You noticed Scootaloo try to shrink away, and the other filly, who was, if Cheerilee's notes were correct, Diamond Tiara, was standing there looking triumphant with a grin on her face.

"Wipe that grin off your face" you ordered, which was obeyed, but she quickly decided to give you puppy dog eyes, obviously trying to make you go easy on her.

"You're staying after class with me for what you said to Scootaloo," you said to her puppy dog eyes, "and Scootaloo, come talk to me outside right now"

"Yes sir" both fillies responded at the same time.

"Now, Diamond Tiara, right?" to which you received a nod, "Go to your desk and sit there quietly, no talking to anyone or you're staying inside for recess as well"

She didn't even try to fight you, and made her way to her desk, obviously Cheerilee was a much nicer teacher than you, as she looked like it had never happened before. After making sure she was going to stay in her seat you headed outside with Scootaloo.

"So, what was that all about, and where did you learn such bad language?" you asked Scootaloo once her schoolmates had gone inside.

"Well, I heard the word from Rainbow Dash one day when she was complaining about something not working," of course she would have heard it from Rainbow, you thought to yourself, "but the other thing is that I don't have any parents"

"Then where do you live?" you asked, now afraid she was living on the streets.

"I jump from place to place, wherever I can get into, or I sleep in a cave not far from Ponyville"

"That's not right, and we'll talk about that later, but why would Diamond Tiara mention that just because I have your scooter?"

"She uses any excuse to bring it up, she likes to torment me and my friends because of who we are, and about how we don't have our cutie marks yet"

As if on cue you heard two young fillies walk up behind you, most likely the friends she had mentioned.

"Everything okay Scootaloo?" you heard one of them say with a slight squeak in her voice.

"Yeah, just talking to Cheerilee's replacement"

"So, you're the one who they got to replace Miss Cheerilee?" you hear the other mystery filly say with a southern accent.

"Yes, and I take it you two are Applebloom and Sweetie Belle?" you said while turning to face the two fillies behind you.

"Yeah, how did you know?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Miss Cheerilee warned me about you three" you said in a monotone voice. Looks like you were going to get to see if Cheerilee's warnings were true or not...

Chapter 2: The Crusaders

Chapter 2: The Crusaders

It was a fairly uneventful first day, there was the occasional laughter as Snails wasn't able to grasp the fact that your name was Mr Star, not Mr Cheerilee, and on one occasion Pinkie Pie had entered the classroom looking for gummy, who had found his way in and was on the back of Snips' chair. After dismissing the class you talked with Diamond Tiara for about 10 minutes about her treatment of Scootaloo, and then prepared to head home. Just as you were putting away the last of your papers you heard a knock at the door.

"Who is it?"

"Someone you know"

"Big Mac?" you said while heading to the door.

"Eeyup" he responded as you opened the door, revealing the gigantic red stallion you knew as Big Mac.

"What can I help you with? You know we can't go drinking tonight since I have work tomorrow and all, right?" you asked while you grabbed your saddle bag and threw it across your back.

"I came here to talk to you about my sister"

"Oh, right, Applebloom is your youngest sister if I remember correctly. What is it you wanted to talk about?"

"Well, I think I have something to show you, just to let you know what you got yourself into"

"Okay, so what you going to show me?"

"Just follow me"

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After around half an hour of walking you recognized the surrounding area as Sweet Apple Acres, but it was far into the field from the looks of it. Just as you were going to ask why he took you out here you saw a little tree house come into view, and you could faintly hear the laughter of young fillies.

"What are we doing all the way out here Mac?" you asked, now even more confused.

"Be quiet, you'll see in a minute"

You listened to what he said and shut up, and you obediently followed him up the stairs of the little house and up to the window. When he motioned for you to look inside you quickly did as he said, and you could now make out what was being said.

"Mr Star is so nice! How come we've never met him before?!" Sweetie Belle said.

"I don't know, from what I heard he does odd jobs most of the time. He even knows Twilight!" Scootaloo responded happily, "He even said he'd fix my scooter after it broke from me running into him!"

"Wow, that sure is nice of him!" Applebloom said while looking at a list on the wall, "He knows my big brother, since I see the two of them together some times, so he's gotta be a really good guy!"

"Maybe he can help us get our cutie marks!" Scootaloo suddenly yelled, now standing on the small table that was inside the room.

You were intent on listening to the rest of their conversation, but Big Mac pulled you away. He made a little nod to the farm house that was barely visible from where you currently were. He either meant he'll be going there, or he wants you to go there with him, but it was most likely that he wanted you to go with him, so you did. After a few minutes of walking you made it to the old house and were welcomed inside.

"So, now do you see what you got yourself into?"

"Well, I can see that your sister and her friends really like me, which is always a good thing for a substitute teacher, but I don't see anything wrong with that"

"No, the problem is that since they like you, there going to try to get you to help them get their cutie marks"

"Again, I don't see what's wrong with that"

"You'll find out soon enough"

Almost as if they knew someone had been talking about them, the three young fillies appeared behind you at the door to the farm house.

"See! Told ya he was a friend of my brother" Applebloom said while pointing at you.

"Ya, ya, whatever, let's ask him now since he's here!" Scootaloo said, surprisingly happy to see you.

"Hey Mr Star, can you help us get our cutie marks?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"I don't see why not," you said while making your way towards them, "and outside of the class you can just call me Silver"

"Awesome!" Scootaloo said, taking her place next to you, "What should we try first?"

"We could try to fix this scooter of yours, maybe one of you is good at repairing things"

"Yeah! Cutie Mark Crusaders Scooter Fixers!" the three fillies said all at once.

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"Well girls, looks like this may not be your special talent after all" you said while looking at the three tired fillies and the thing that was once a scooter. After they got to work on it they had begun to add a lot of unnecessary pieces of wood to it, and plenty of extra wheels. One of the wheels was a square from the looks of it. The only part that looked correct were the parts you had told Applebloom to patch up.

"Although, maybe Applebloom's talent is fixing things, since her work was done well. It looks better than what I could have done anyways" you said while staring at the perfectly carved handles.

"This sucks, all we did was make it worse!" Scootaloo said while looking at what was once her scooter.

"We'll never get our cutie marks at this rate!" Sweetie Belle cried out in terror.

"Now, now girls. Don't think like that, you may already have your special talents, but you may have not realized it yet, that's all" you said while patting the two fillies on the back.

"But we can't do anything right at all! We're useless" Applebloom said while looking at the ground.

"Don't worry, you'll find out what your special talent is one day, I'm sure of it!" you said while messing up Applebloom's already dusty hair.

"Thanks Mr Star" the three fillies said while they hugged one of your legs.

"Please, call me Silver, Mr Star is my teacher name"

"Okay Silver!" Scootaloo said while giving you another tight hug on the leg.

"Now it's getting late, you three should be heading home"

"Okay, bye, see you guys tomorrow!" Applebloom and Sweetie Belle both said while they ran towards their respective homes.

"So, Scootaloo" you said after the two fillies were out of sight.

"Yes Silver?"

"Want to stay at my place tonight? I have a really comfortable guest bed you know" you say while smiling at her.

"Thanks Silver!" she said while hugging you once again.

"Anytime Scootaloo, I'll always be here if you need me"

As you walked towards your house you could see Scootaloo's eyes getting bigger and bigger the fancier the houses got.

"Do you really live in this neighborhood Silver?" she asked while looking at the gigantic houses that were surrounding the two of you.

"Doing odd jobs pays off every now and then," you said as you stopped outside one of the larger houses, "and here we are"

"Whoa..." was all Scootaloo could manage to say.

"Come on inside, it's starting to get dark out" you called to her from the door.

Without hesitation she ran up the path and into your house, and within moments she was zipping around the house, looking at every nook and cranny. You quickly made your way to your work shop and began working on the scooter. After around an hour it was finished, and looked good as new. You headed back into the house to find Scootaloo playing with something she must have found during her investigation of your house.

"Having fun?" you ask as you bring her scooter into the room.

"Yeah, I found this..." she saw the scooter behind you, "Is this my scooter?! It looks so awesome, thanks again Silver!"

"No problem, now, did you finish the homework I assigned today?"

Her expression made it easy to see that she hadn't. "Go finish your homework, if you do I'll cook up a nice big dinner for you to eat, maybe even give you a cupcake if you finish it all before I'm done cooking" you said while levitating her books in front of her. Without a word she quickly began to do her work as you made your way to the kitchen to make a delicious salad for you and your new house guest.

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After you finished the salad you were happily surprised by Scootaloo. All her homework was finished, and it was all done correct, so as you promised you got her a cupcake. You grabbed one with a rainbow coloring to it, including some multicolored sprinkles that were on top. She grabbed it hesitantly, and then you remember the story Lyra told last Nightmare Night about Pinkie making Rainbow Dash into cupcakes. You then remember being the only one who was able to tell her to stop telling kids that story since it was making everyone vomit everywhere.

"Don't worry, the coloring is just for show, it's actually a blueberry cupcake" you reassured Scootaloo, who had begun to look at you suspiciously. Without any care in the world she ate the cupcake, all in one bite, and then happily smiled.

"You were right! I guess Lyra's stories were fake after all! Thanks for the cupcake by the way" she said while liking the crumbs off her face and hoof. As you carried the dishes to the sink you heard a knock on the door, but it was a special knock that only one person ever did.

"Hey there Whooves, can I help you with anything?" you asked the brown colored pony that was now standing outside your house.

"Well, I was in the neighborhood and was wondering if maybe you'd like to go get a drink with me and Mac" he said as he moved to the left, revealing Big Mac standing on the road by himself.

"Sorry, I can't, I've got a guest over tonight, and not to mention that I have work tomorrow"

"Oh yeah, I forgot you were filling in for Cheerilee," Doctor Whooves said as he made his way back towards Big Mac, "Well, see you another time!"

You waved goodbye and then headed inside, managing to find Scootaloo passed out on your couch, probably just tired from running around with her friends after school. Rather than waking her up, you decided to levitate her to the guest bedroom, and you tucked her in under the sheets.

As you left the room you turned back to the sleeping filly, and something felt right about it. Looks like you were going to end up spending a lot of time with the "Cutie Mark Crusaders".