The Social Rejects Squad: Little Adventures

“So uh, we saw a light in the sky!” The curly maned pegasus says to Starlight Glimmer as she sits on her haunches on the red couch.

The orange filly on her left wearing the dark blue magicians’ cloak over her head stammers out while nodding, “Yeah! A light in the sky!”

Cozy continues, “And well, it landed some distance to the south!”

“Not very far though!” The orange filly adds.

“Yeah!” Cozy nods, “And well, we walked to the edge of the woods that way!”

“The edge of Trixie’s woods!”

“Right!” Cozy nods.

“And well, we saw where it landed!”

“Yeah! We trotted out there and well, Little Snack here kinda ran to it really fast!” Cozy says while motioning to the left with her forehoof.

Little’s eyes widen and she says while jittering, “Yeah! I wanted to see what landed!” Little nods.

Cozy nods, “Right! And well, a pinkish whitish light kinda zapped Little Snack!”

“It knocked me on my back!” Little says emphatically with wide eyes before nodding slightly.

“Right!” Cozy nods, “And well, she got up and looked at me and well, uh,” Cozy turns her head to Little on the left and uses her left forehoof to lift Little’s cloak from over her head to reveal her horn, “she had that when she got up…”

Little’s eyes widen as she starts, “Yeah, I have a horn now!”

Cozy turns her head back to Starlight before the two fillies, “So uh, what do you think?”

Starlight’s eyes widen as she stares at the two fillies in her living room along with her best friend off to the left side, “I uh, think I’m gonna need some empathy cocoa!”

<*****>

Little sits on her haunches in the chair before the magenta unicorn standing on her left. Starlight widens her eyes as she asks, “Okay, so you say you were zapped by a strange beam of light?”

Little smiles dimly as she turns her eyes to stare at Starlight, “Yup!”

Starlight frowns, “And you have a horn now! Um, can you do magic?”

Little chuckles lightly while staring forward blankly, “Uh, funny true story! We don’t know!”

“I see…” Starlight frowns and furrows her brow. “Little! Look at the blue vase over on your left!”

“Over here?” Little asks when she turns her head to the right.

Starlight chuckles, “That’s your right, Little!”

“Oh! Sorry! I get those two mixed up sometimes!” Little says before looking to her left and seeing a blue vase there on the far table.

Starlight turns her body to the vase with a smirk on the left side of her mouth, “Now, see if you can lift it up with just your mind, Little!”

Little’s green eyes widen, “Oh, right! Magically use my mind, or whatever! Right!” before scrunching her brow and focusing on the vase.

The vase soon levitates three inches off the table as Starlight’s eyes widen, “You’re doing it, Little Snack! You have magic now! Real magic!” She looks back at the orange filly, “Okay, lower it down lightly, Little! We know you have it, now…”

Little tries to focus and scrunches her brow, as she lowers the vase, but she loses focus at the final split-second and drops the vase, causing it to chip on the bottom. She widens her eyes before turning to the unicorn, “Oh gosh! I’m so sorry, Starlight!”

Starlight flicks her right forehoof in the air, “Don’t worry about it! Those are just two bits at the market!” She lowers her hoof and stares intently at Little, “But you have magic now Little Snack! Real magic!”

Little widens her eyes, “Oh! Um,” her eyes widen more, “oh gosh! Uh, wow! This is, uh… Magic…” before scrunching her brows… She looks up to Starlight, “Why do I have it now, though? I mean, where did this horn come from?”

<*****>

Cozy sits on the red couch in Starlight’s foyer with her little hind legs dangling and forehooves together at her front when she looks at Trixie sitting on the couch to her right, “Hey mom?”

Trixie’s eyes widen as she turns to the pegasus, “Uh, yeah Cozy?”

“Remember when I had magic and we were practicing my destructive forces to the south from your house?”

Trixie’s eyes widen somewhat, “What about it?”

Cozy sighs, “Well, you remember when I shot that energy bolt into the sky, and we were both hoping it wouldn’t come back down?”

Trixie’s eyes widen all the way, “Wait! Are you saying that that beam of light was caused by the energy you sent up all that time ago?”

Cozy frowns, “Well, maybe? I mean, what if it finally came down? Uh, eleven days later?”

Trixie looks forward wide-eyed and frowns, “Oh dear!”

<*****>

Trixie and Cozy both trot into Starlight’s dining area as Trixie says, “Hey, Starlight?”

Starlight dismounts her chair from the left to her hooves and turns to Trixie excitedly, “Little Snack has magic now, Trixie!”

Trixie nods, “Yes, you remember when Cozy was turned into an alicorn?”

“The Cozycorn!” pipes up Little Snack from her chair on the other side of the table with a grin on her face.

Trixie widens her eyes to the orange filly as Starlight stammers out, “Well, yeah. What about it?”

Trixie looks back at Starlight, “Well, I took little Cozy here out back from the woods to practice her destructive magic, so she wouldn’t randomly blow things up anymore…”

Starlight nods, “Oh-kay? Uh, go on?”

Trixie nods, “Right! Well, she sent one particularly powerful bolt of pinkish-white energy up into the sky at one point… She was startled by a farm pony who kinda, snuck up on us, you know?” Trixie frowns, “Anyway, we think that same bolt of light is what she and Little saw when they were hiking earlier?”

Cozy chimes from Trixie’s back right, “Golly! All the crazy stuff that happens when me and my friends go hiking! I’m honestly starting to think it’s just not worth it?”

Trixie turns her neck to the pegasus, “We’ll discuss this later!” and then back to Starlight, “Do you know exactly what Discord did to Cozy or what sort of magics were involved?”

Starlight scrunches her mouth as her eyes widen blankly, “How would I know?”

Trixie frowns, “Well, right! And we can’t bloody well just ask him either, now can we?”

Starlight smiles, “Nope! But I know who can!” She closes her eyes and teleports out of the room in a bright purple flash.

She teleports in a moment later, with a big purple alicorn standing to her left.

Twilight smiles when she gives a sudden wide-eyed start and asks, “Uh, yes! Can I help you?”

Trixie’s eyes widen as turns her head to the alicorn, “Uh, Princess Twilight! You remember that orange earth filly you got admitted into the School of Friendship?”

Twilight lifts her left eyebrow, “Yes?”

Trixie nods, “Right well, she has a horn now…”

Twilight widens her eyes and narrows her mouth, “What?”

Little Snack stares at the princess from her chair with wide green eyes, “I have a horn now!”

Twilight frowns at the orange filly, “Why does Little Snack have a horn?”

Cozy trots over to Twilight and looks up at her, “Well, right! She has a horn now! Um, you remember when I had a horn and all kinds of magical power?”

Twilight looks at Cozy and narrows her eyes, “Right! The Cozycorn 2 incident! How could I forget?”

Cozy widens her eyes, “Uh, right! That! Well,” she normalizes her eyes, “my mom here taught me how to control my destructive forces!”

“No more Cozy bursts!” Little happily chimes from the other side of the table.

Twilight raises her right eyebrow as she scrunches her mouth unsure, “Well, okay?”

Cozy nods and stares at Twilight with wide eyes, “Well, a farmer startled me and I sorta, shot a super-powerful bolt of energy into the sky and well, we’re thinking it eventually came back down and somehow infected poor Little Snack here…”

“And now, I have a horn!” Little exclaims with wide eyes while jittering.

Twilight frowns, “So I’m guessing you want me to call Discord and have him dispel this since this originated with him and his magic?”

Cozy nods, “Well, golly right! That was the idea behind uh, Starlight contacting you!” she stares up at Starlight on her right, “Right?”

Starlight stares at Cozy, “Well, right!” before turning her head to the princess, “Ahem, if you don’t mind, princess?”

Twilight smiles, “Well, this seems simple enough?” she looks up and says at a higher volume, “Discord!”

Suddenly, the motley form of a familiar draconequus pops into view near the entrance of the dining room, dressed in a tuxedo with a monocle on the smaller left eye and a top hat. Discord looks up with both his yellow and red eyes to Twilight as he says, “I do wish you’d warn me before you do that! They were having a particularly good get-together in the 23rd dimension and I was just about done getting ready!”

Twilight looks at Discord and calmly says, “Discord! Some of your chaos magic has infected this orange earth filly! We need you to dispel it!”

Discord looks at Little Snack as the earth filly stares up at him with wide green eyes and a big smile and he frowns as his snaggy teeth go different directions. He snaps his lion paw in the air and Little’s horn visibly disappears. Suddenly, the draconequus looks at Little intently as he scrunches his eyes around the monocle and snaps his lion paw in the air again, before bringing the paw to his chin and curving downward to frown and saying, “Okay, this is strange…”

Twilight looks at Discord and frowns, “What do you mean?”

Discord turns his head to Twilight as he floats and says, “Well, most of her horn is gone, but…” he floats to the right side of the orange filly and puts the index claw of his eagle talon on her middle-forehead and says, “there’s still some left…”

Little widens her eyes, “Oh no!”

Trixie turns her body left to face the orange filly, “Wait! This might not be bad?”

Little looks up at Trixie and says excitedly, “How is this not bad, Miss Trixie? I’m not supposed to have a horn, but I do! Oh gosh! This is bad! This is very bad!” before looking down at the table and pawing there with her forehooves, right and then left, and then bringing her forehooves in and looking back at the blue unicorn.

Trixie smiles, “Both of your parents are unicorns, correct?”

Little blinks, “Well um, yeah?”

Twilight widens her eyes and exclaims, “A late bloomer!” to the middle of the room.

All ponies and the draconequus turn their attention to the alicorn as Cozy asks, “What?”

Twilight looks at Trixie frantically, “I read about this! Sometimes, when a unicorn is born, they’ll believe they’re an earth filly until they hit puberty!” she turns to Little, “This is nothing to worry about, Little Snack! You’re just growing up!”

Little frowns, “So uh, I have magic now?”

Twilight nods, “More than likely!” she leans to the orange filly and asks, “Okay, go ahead and concentrate now! Let’s see what you can do!”

Little narrows her eyes and scrunches her brows as she grunts, “HNNG!” and suddenly, a bright light shines up from her green mane. She looks up at it with her eyes and says, “Hey! I got a light now!”

Cozy is watching this intently with her head turned to the right and says, “Golly! So Little Snack has magic now?”

Twilight smiles at the pegasus, “Well, with a horn that small, I doubt she’ll ever be any sort of powerful wizard? She just has a light and probably some modest levitation abilities? But late bloomers seldom have very powerful magic…”

Little turns her head left to Cozy, “Yeah, I’m an earth-icorn! Uh, no! I’m a unith pony! Yeah! Or uh, wait…” she furrows her brow as she tries to think of a name for her species…

Twilight snickers and shakes her head before looking down at Little, “Right! Something like that!”

Discord straightens his back and sighs, “Well, if we’re through here, I simply must be going now! I don’t have time to dilly dally!” before snapping his eagle claw in the air and vanishing in a puff of smoke.

<*****>

Trixie, Cozy, and Little Snack all stand on Little’s 10-foot-wide by 5-foot-long front porch. Trixie is closer to the house while Cozy stands at her right on the left side of the porch while an orange filly faces them from the other side and says wide-eyed, “Okay, so the plan is, you guys tell them I have magic now and I don’t say anything!”

Cozy leans forward with open brown eyes, “Golly! Are you nervous?”

Little looks over to Cozy with a start, “Um, I don’t know? Probably?” before looking down and pawing at the porch with her forehooves, right, and then left, and then looking back at the blue unicorn in magician’s attire.

The pegasus and unicorn both turn their heads to each other as Cozy says, “Yeah! She’s nervous!”

Little looks at the pegasus, “Well, wouldn’t you be nervous too?”

Cozy smiles as she trots forward to get close to Little and says with her face close to the orange filly, “Hey, relax filly friend! We’re all here for you and this is gonna go well!”

Trixie trots to the door just 3 feet to her front left, faces it, and knocks with her right forehoof.

Little looks Cozy in her auburn eyes and says, “Uh, thanks! I guess I’m not really alone anymore?”

Cozy widens her eyes as she grins slightly, “That’s new, huh?”

Little giggles, “Yeah! I thought I’d have to tell my parents by myself!”

“No filly friend of mine is doing something scary like that alone!” Cozy exclaims before she takes the final pace with her left forehoof and embraces Little in a tight warm hug.

Little smiles, “AWW! I love you too, Cozy! Um…” she works her forehooves out and begins to hug Cozy back, “There we go!”

Soon, the door opens to reveal a tall brown unicorn stallion with a wavy blond mane and tail. He looks at Trixie, “Oh no! Is everything okay with Little Snack at school?”

Trixie’s eyes widen as the fillies disengage and turn their bodies to the door and Trixie says, “Oh, we’re all fine! Everything is fine! But uh, there’s something you should know about your daughter!” before giving a wide, nervous grin…

Tasty raises his left eyebrow, “Oh-kay? Uh, what did you need to tell me?”

Trixie stammers anxiously, “Well uh, that is to say, I uh, er…”

Little suddenly looks over at her dad, smiles, and says, “I got magic, and a horn now!” before scrunching her face and grunting, “HNNG!” before a small light shines from her mane. She opens her green eyes wide to her father as she smiles proudly with her mouth open.

Trixie turns her head back to the orange unicorn before swinging it back left to Tasty and widening her eyes, “Yeah! Apparently, she’s a late bloomer, and didn’t get magic and a horn until puberty! Go figure, right?” and then grinning mechanically as her eyes stare forward intently.

(To be continued…)