A purple pony mare stood in a large crystal room furnished in such a way that it could only be a small study. She was currently rubbing her index finger and thumb across the top of her muzzle while taking in the situation. Her hair and tail were a mess from being up all night studying as usual, and she was wearing a very plain looking pair of white pants, along with a white short sleeved shirt. Her long ears twitched in irritation at the eighteen year old dragon before her. In short Twilight Sparkle was very disappointed.
“Spike! You can’t expect me to believe Owilicious did all this!” Twilight exclaimed waving her arm over the pile of papers scattered all over the floor near her work desk. The young dragon just shrugged his shoulders, his scruffy green hair hiding his eyes. The tan pants and green t-shirt he wore were both scruffed up, with small splatters of ink upon them, clearly indicating he was the culprit. Despite this, Spike didn’t seem all that concerned.
“Maybe he was trying to make a nest? Who knows with those dumb birds?” He put his hands behind his head and looked to his left with a very non-caring attitude. Princess Twilight could only sigh as she wiped her ink-stained hands upon her shirt, a bad habit she had when she was frustrated. She wasn’t too worried about the fabric, she could easily fix it with magic if needed, what had her flustered was the fact her number one assistant and practical younger brother was lying to her, again.
“Spike I happen to know that Owlicious has been at Fluttershy’s all day helping her with some of the younger owls she rescued from the Everfree forest, and I really doubt he’d fly all the way over here just to mess up some of my papers before flying all the way back!” Spike winced but he didn’t back down.
“Okay, maybe it was some other bird?”
“Spike!”
“Alright! Alright! I did it okay? It was an accident!”
“I don’t care that it was an accident Spike, I care that you tried to lie to me about it!”
“So? What’s the big deal? It’s just about some papers. Who cares?”
“That’s not the point Spike!”
“Yeah yeah, look I’ll clean them up okay? I’m sorry I knocked them over.”
Twilight crossed her arms. “And?”
“And what? I should be more careful?”
Twilight shook her head.
“Um… No horseplay in the castle?”
With a sigh Twilight threw up her hands. “I give up! Just clean this up and come see me. I need you to pick up dinner.”
“Now that I can handle!" Spike exclaimed with a smile, "Coming right up!” With that he went about picking up and doing his best to re-organize the papers that were dropped. Twilight was thankful he remembered to check for that, but was still upset that he lied, and apparently didn't even see the problems with doing so.
“Twi? I’m done. Sorry again for knocking the papers off.” Spike said as he walked inside the kitchen where Twilight had been going over her stock for dinner. She wasn’t happy with sending Spike to do this right after his little episode there, but she feared leaving him alone in the castle even more.
“Just tell me the truth next time alright?” She said while fishing out the necessary bits Spike would need.
“Right truth, got it.” Spike held out his hand. “So what am I getting?”
“I have the list right here.” She said handing him a neatly written shopping list, complete with actual checkmark boxes. “Hurry so I have time to make everything.”
With a nod, he began to look over the list before making a frown. “Hey Twi? If you are making what I think you are, don’t you need eggs?”
“Eggs? But I have a full-” Twilight began pulling out a large closed carton of eggs. She stopped speaking the moment she realized it weighed a lot less than a full, or even what a partly full carton should feel, opening it revealed exactly what she feared.
“Spike! This carton was full this morning! How do we only have one egg left!?”
“Um, Fluttershy must have needed to borrow some when she came to get Owlicious!”
Twilght’s eye twitched.
“Oh and I suppose it makes more sense for her to raid my fridge without asking rather than go home and get some from the chickens who laid the eggs that I put in here in the first place!?”
Spike winced. “Right, I should have said Rainbow Dash”
“SPIKE!”
“Don’t worry, I’ve got some spare bits, I’ll just buy them myself! Bye Twilight!” Spike yelled running down the hall and out of the castle. He was long gone before Twilight could even attempt to stop him. With a sigh she set the empty carton down and buried her face in her hands.
“What am I going to do about him? He’s been lying nonstop for months now! He's eighteen already for Celestia's sake! If this is just a phase, I wish it’d end already!”
“Do I hear a cry of exasperation?” A gruff disembodied voice suddenly spoke from nowhere. Twilight however was very used to this particular annoyance by now.
“Discord this isn’t a good time.” She said waving her hand. With a very non-ceremonial pop, a rather large chested female creature materialized in the center of the room with a start. She was a cross between many different creatures, noticeably something along the lines of a of a pony with her head, just with mismatched horns of both of what looked to be an antler and a unicorn horn almost? She also had a pair of wings that resembled one of a griffin and a dragon. Her body fur being mostly brown, but with a green right leg and a yellow left one.
It almost appeared as if she had just come from a beach, for all she was wearing was an itsy bitsy teen weenie yellow polka dot bikini and a pair of shades.
“Surprise!" The female creature spoke in a deep baritone, that one would expect to come from a male. Twilight's eyes nearly bugged out upon seeing the strange sight.
“W-What? But Discord? Boobs?” Twilight liked to think that she was prepared for most things, especially with Pinkie Pie as a friend, but this managed to get her brain to falter for a second.
"Ha! I knew it'd get you!" The female draconequus laughed, her voice now a light bubbly soprano. "Like the new look?"
"I..." Twilight groaned, another headache coming on. "Why?"
To her surprise, Discord actually blushed. "Well um, it seems Fluttershy is bi and-"
"Nevermind I don't want to know!" Twilight quickly said trying not to imagine the images currently going through her mind. Instead, she tried to turn her focus toward something else.
"Just... what do you want Discord? I'm having a bad day. " She grumbled attempting to get back to her meal preparations. She’d have to re-organize the steps in her head to compensate for the missing eggs. This was going to throw the entire ordeal off by... she didn't even know anymore. Female Discord was still something she was trying to process.
“Is that really the way you’re going to greet me? Even after all this time of being friends? Oh Twilight you wound me.” A large javelin suddenly appeared impaled through their body. It might have been horrifying if it wasn’t for the fact that there was no sign of it actually puncturing. In fact it was as if the Javelin was simply part of her now.
“Look Discord-” Twilight began but Discord held up a hand.
"I'm going by Eris while like this, and fine let’s just get down to business.” She said, taking a seat in the air. With a snap of her fingers a glass of chocolate milk appeared floating next to her with one of those really long silly curvy straws meant to amuse children stuck in it. Despite the fact that with its many twists and turns, it should be impossible for the proper measurement of well 'suck' to be achieved at the needed strength to move the liquid from the glass to one’s mouth when it was that long. Eris did just that as she took a sip.
“Now, it seems we have a common problem with a certain liar mc liar pants.”
Twilight raised an eyebrow. This was certainly not what she had expected from this visit. “Wait, are you saying you want to help me with Spike’s tendency to lie?” Party poppers went off, having just materialized in the room, Eris clapping in glee.
“Bingo! Correct! Give her the grand prize!” She cried getting back to her feet. “With your mind and my magic, I’m sure we can think of the perfect punishment for the little scamp.”
Twilight immediately began to study the female before her, trying to figure out what her game was. While a punishment against Spike for lying was tempting, she wasn’t sure if that extreme needed to be taken just yet, or why Discord, that is 'Eris', would even care.
“And you’re just going to do this why? And don’t tell me the kindness of your heart, you’ve tried that before.” Eris rolled her eyes.
“You know you could at least try and humor me, I do for you.”
Twilight crossed her arms.
“Yes, yes, always straight to the point with you, but luckily I don’t mind this time." Eris huffed after taking another sip. "You see I really do want to put that Spike in his place. Make no mistake I enjoy a good lie and the chaos it can bring, but we all have to draw the line somewhere.”
“Okay now I know something is up. What aren’t you telling me?”
“Well if you must know,” Eris said with a sigh, as she seemed to slurp the straw right into her mouth like a strand of spaghetti, “He had knocked over a birdhouse inside Fluttershy’s hut, and in order to buy himself some time to fix it, he told Flutters that Angel had run off upset into town, and that he ‘might be hurt’. Fluttershy spent an hour searching for him when the silly rabbit was merely asleep on her bed the entire time.”
“What?! Why wasn’t I told about this? How long ago did it happen? What-” She likely would have asked many more detailed specifics if Eris hadn’t held up her hand.
“Focus Twilight. Focus. To answer your questions, it was yesterday, and the reason you weren’t told because Fluttershy is still too much of a pushover. She was just glad Angel was alright. Well that and her and I were busy that night using one of her di-"
"ERIS!"
"You really need a boyfriend Twilight, anyway I wanted to turn him into a mouse and have one of her snakes threaten to eat him. I wouldn't have let it actually happen!” She added with a sigh seeing Twilight's reaction. "It doesn't matter anyway, Fluttershy made me promise not to confront him." Her mouth had become a frown while he spoke, only to bounce back into a wide grin as she continued. “Thankfully she never said not to have you confront him, or that I couldn't help you punish him! So here I am, and I promise you, I’m at your disposal.”
Twilight had to think about this. It certainly made sense now why Eris was offering to help, and if her story was true, then Spike’s lying was a lot more out of hand than she had originally anticipated.
“Alright, I’m listening. You obviously have an idea, so say it.” Eris just wagged a finger at her.
“And deny you the ability to use that brain of yours? Perish the thought dear Twilight.” With a snap of her claws an old book of fables materialized before them. Twilight recognized the markings on its spine almost instantly.
“Hey! Is that my copy of first edition Equestrian Fables that’s been missing for a month!?”
“Shhh, you’re missing the important part,” she said letting the pages seemingly flip themselves, “ah, here we go. Tell me, does this give you any inspiration?” Twilight peered at the page to see a wooden puppet sitting upon a workbench. She raised her eyebrow at him.
“Ponyocchio? You aren’t telling me I should make his nose grow every time he lies are you?”
“Certainly not, that’d just be copying the story. We need something much more original.”
“Like what?”
“Well-” She paused her finger in the air as if she was about to proclaim something, before simply shrugging. “Okay you got me, I have no idea, that’s why I came to you. You’re the most clever mare I know, surely you can conjure up something.”
“Based on that? There isn’t anything on him that I can really make ‘grow’” A blush crept over her cheeks as her mind zeroed in on one possibility. “Okay maybe one thing, but I’m pretty sure that would cause him to lie a lot more. Hmmm, unless I had it shrink…”
Eris shook her head.
“No no, nothing like that. If anything that’d most likely just upset him more. You know those males and their bodies, nothing but a big mess of hormones.”
Twilight wanted to say something, given Eris's 'new form' but no sooner had Eris said that, her eyes seemed to light up. “Now there is an idea. Ooo, and it’s a particularly interesting one!”
Twilight shivered. Eris had an ‘interesting’ idea. This could only end horribly.
“Oh don’t give me that look,” She said with a frown. Twilight could only guess what her expression must have been to tip her off.
“You’ll forgive me if I feel skeptical. I’ve seen your ‘ideas’ before, but I’ll humor you this time. Go ahead and tell me.”
“Well it’s actually very simple! Every time he lies we’ll turn him into a girl! Oh, it’ll be marvelous!” Twilight mulled over the idea. There were many flaws with that plan, but it wasn’t necessarily a bad idea.
“Hmm, I don’t know. We’d have to set a time limit or he could just lie as a girl. Also, he might use this power to purposely pull pranks and lie just to make it look like ‘Spike’ got away.”
“Oh drats, I didn’t think of that.” Eris admitted as she walked up the wall and stood on the ceiling. “I suppose he’d probably use it to get into a woman’s bath or something as well."
“Maybe not that.” Twilight said pulling a pen and paper from her pocket. She quickly began to jot down notes. “It took him forever to confess to Rarity, and he blushes anytime he walks in on me bathing. That’d be way too embarrassing for him to do.” Her hand flew across the parchment, calculating the necessary spellwork her idea would require. She hadn’t really meant to play along with Eris, but the idea she had given her was a rare chance for her to mold magic in a way she hadn’t before. It was all very fascinating and exciting.
“Well, you seem to be on to something!” Eris had floated down to stare over her shoulder. “Are you going to share with the class?” Before she could blink, there were a few rows of school desks filled with various ‘children’ that all looked like little kid versions of Eris in some way. All of them waited patiently for her to speak.
Twilight stopped and stared. “Well that’s disturbing.”
"Oh and I thought having little ones would be fun someday." The draconequus laughed dispelling the illusion.
“Anyway,” Twilight said holding up her parchment. “This is what I have in mind.” Eris quickly read it over, a grin slowly becoming wider and wider upon her face.
“Twilight, you are a princess after my own heart!”
* * *
“One dozen eggs please.” Spike said as he reluctantly dropped the last of his bits on the table. Stupid Twilight and her logic seeing through his lies. Why couldn’t she just take his word for it and dismiss it? What did it matter who knocked the papers over? He’d have to clean them up either way right? Who cares who took the last of the eggs? Twilight was a princess, she was rich! Even more, she got free eggs from Fluttershy all the time! It’s not like they couldn’t get more. Instead, he had to use what little money he had for this so she’d just chill.
He thanked the clerk as they handed him his eggs and got ready to head back. Twilight was likely still peeved about his lies, but he knew she wouldn’t bother him during dinner. He just had to avoid her for the rest of the night after that.
“Hey Spike, what’s up?” Came a voice from his left. Confused, Spike searched the crowd for a familiar face, only to have both Rumble and Pipsqueak practically appear before him. He grinned at the choice of apparel for Pipsqueak. His grey t-shirt read ‘Pirates > Ninjas’. Rumble was just wearing a plain blue shirt that looked a little faded. Probably a hand-me-down from his big brother Thunderlane. Both of their jeans had various grass stains on them, indicating they had most likely just gotten back from playing a sport.
“Last minute dinner supplies.” He answered giving both a fist bump. It was about the only way they could have a handshake without it being lame. “Speaking of which shouldn’t you guys be getting home for your own meals?”
“Yeah we’re heading back now, just wanted to grab some juices after playing soccer all day.” Rumble replied while pulling out a jumbo-sized juice box from a black messenger bag he was carrying. Spike wasn’t very surprised to see it was apple juice, with Sweet Apple Acres right next door, it was the cheapest fruit product around by far. Rumble tossed the box his way. Most would say they were too old for juice boxes. Those creatures hadn't had ones from Sweet Apple Acres.
“Hey thanks,” Spike said catching it, “So we still on tomorrow afternoon for the arcade?” Pipsqueak shook his head.
“I’m not. Sorry guys but I’ve got to help my mom with her work. Dad threw his back out again.”
“Aww man that sucks.” Spike replied while rubbing the back of his neck. He never really knew what to say about that kinda stuff. Thankfully Pipsqueak just shrugged.
“It is what it is, speaking of which I should probably go see if she needs help with dinner. Catch you guys later!” Spike was barely able to utter a goodbye before Pipsqueak disappeared into the crowd, leaving him alone with Rumble practically towering over him. Spike tried not to be the jealous type when he knew how well he had it, but the fact that Rumble was nearly half a foot taller than him really bugged him. Course Rumble towered over everyone their age, and it wasn’t like he was trying to brag about it.
“Sooo... “ Spike trailed. Rumble nodded.
“Truffle and I are still in, no plans.”
“Oh, cool.” Spike breathed trying to think of what to say next. Thanks to Ponyville, even being of the dragon race he was still able to make friends and generally be accepted by the town. Unfortunately, being with Twilight and joining them on their adventures he had grown up more around girls than guys. Spike was great friends with many of the females his age. Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Applebloom, and even Ruby. Dinky, and Nor would also hang with him from time to time. It wasn’t until last year that many of the guys had suddenly started asking him to hang with them.
At first, Spike was ecstatic, but soon realized they were only doing it in hopes that he’d introduce them to his female friends. He tried to help at first, but it became clear the girls he was friends with didn’t really want to hang with the boys he was friends with. In the end he just started lying about that too. Saying he was busy with work or something. Most of the boys got the hint that he wasn’t going to help them. Only a handful of them kept hanging with him for actual friendship.
“So, making something with lots of eggs?” Rumble said, snapping Spike out of his thoughts.
“Huh? Oh no, well kinda I guess. We needed more because I used them all this morning making a giant omelet with sapphires. It was delicious!”
“Oh yeah, I hate it when I use up the last few eggs and forget to buy more.” Rumble said, running a hand through his hair. Spike grinned slightly. Out of all the guys he knew, Rumble was the only one he’d actually try to set up with a girl if asked. The guy was a nervous wreck half the time, probably something he got from being around Cloudchaser and Flitter growing up.
Whatever the case he’d always make awkward conversation like he was now. The guy didn’t even realize that many of the girls in town thought he was cute, just a bit too jittery. Even now with his hair all messed up, Spike knew girls found him attractive. It added a bit to his jealousy. If he woke up with bed head, he’d be asked to comb it immediately. If it was Rumble, they’d probably want to run their hands through it.
Then of course there was the major thing he envied the other guys in town for. He could deal with the height, the hairstyles, the body types and all that, but the eyes. The eyes always got him. Most ponies didn’t even think about it unless they were staring into another's with hints of affection or the like. Spike’s own however, well most people didn’t find his green iris’s all that surprising given the vast amount of colors one’s eyes could be, though it was very rare. Only found in dragons apparently. No, the ‘issue’ came from the fact his pupils would constrict into slits when he was excited or angered. He couldn’t count the number of times it had freaked someone out.
“Actually I used the entire carton. Guess I should have replaced them before Twilight found out and got mad. She didn’t buy my ‘Fluttershy took them’ spiel.” Rumble raised an eyebrow.
“Why didn’t you just tell her you used them? I don’t get it.” Spike sighed. Was he really so clueless?
“Duh, because then I’d get a lecture about not wasting food despite the fact we have more than enough bits to buy more.” He waved his hand dismissively. “Who has time for that?”
“Well I don’t think that’s really fair. I mean she bought them in the first place right?” Spike rolled his eyes.
“Please Fluttershy gave her those eggs. Fluttershy always gives us a lot of eggs, I just happened to use the carton this time.”
“Look man, I’m just saying that they were for the house, not just you. That’s probably why she got mad.” Spike shrugged.
“I guess, doesn’t matter now. I used my own money to buy these, so it’s good.” Rumble shook his head.
“You really think that’s the end of it?”
“Well it should be,” Spike said defensively, “I paid for them now, what more does she want?”
“Er… not to lie in the first place?”
“Who are you my conscious?”
Rumble held up his hands. “I’m just saying man. I remember this time I lied to my brother about using his cologne. I thought it’d make me more manly or something. Of course he could smell it on me because I used way too much. Not only was I stuck smelling like that for the entire day, but he told not only my parents but Cloudy and Flitter as well. It was a nightmare!” Spike just shrugged.
“We live alone, I don’t have to worry about that. Besides the worst she’ll do is give me extra choirs. I can handle those.” It looked like Rumble wanted to say more, but Spike was bored with the conversation. “Hey, it’s been real, but I should get back with these eggs before Twi gets really mad.”
“Oh, uh, well I’ll see you tomorrow then.” Spike gave a thumbs up.
“Yeah see you then.” With a final wave he took off back toward the castle. With luck Twilight would have calmed down by now, and he could avoid another of her lectures. He was certain she’d find another wall of books for him to organize tomorrow instead, which might make him late by fifteen minutes, but whatever he’d manage.
* * *
Spike had to admit, he was a little confused. Upon arriving back, Twilight had simply thanked him for the eggs and gotten to work on dinner. He even stuck around and helped her out, with no mention being made of his recent lies. This wasn’t like her. Usually she’d attempt to lecture him about his habits every chance she got. Even when she did start talking to him, it was merely about his day and plans for tomorrow.
He mostly told her the truth about that. He was to help Rarity in the morning, then he merely changed ‘going to the arcade’ to ‘I have to help my friends with something’. She was probably trying to find the most inconvenient time for him to be burdened with a task. Well she wasn’t taking his arcade time from him.
Finally, at the end of the meal, Twilight stood up and stared at him. Spike sighed, so much for hoping she’d just let it drop.
“Why did you lie to me?” He rolled his eyes.
“Are the eggs really that big a deal? Geez I won’t use any next time!”
Twilight groaned. “Spike, this isn’t about the eggs! This is about the fact that you keep lying to me! Why?”
“Because it’s always over stupid things!” Spike yelled back. “You scold me for knocking over papers. Big deal, just pick them up! You scold me for sneaking an extra bowl of ice cream. It’s just one more bowl!”
“I scold you because I want you to run these things by me first! Yes, I got frustrated that my papers were knocked over, but all I wanted was for you to tell me the truth.”
“Why? Then you just look at me with disappointment and just do that sighing thing. I’m sorry I can’t be perfect Twi. I’m not like your books.”
Twilight lowered her eyes. Was that really how Spike saw this? That she was being overly organized again?
“Spike, I’m not wanting perfection from you, just for you to be honest with me.”
“Hey I’m honest. I’m honest where it counts aren’t I? I’d never lie to you about stealing or something.”
“Spike you just lied to me about the eggs!”
“Hey! Those are for the castle! That's not stealing!”
“You should still ask me if you are going to use them all! I thought I taught you better than this!”
“Twi, you’re making a big deal out of nothing! You have magic and are a Princess! You can get more eggs! With a wave of your hand the papers would be fixed in a jiffy!”
“Spike you are missing the point!”
“Well it’s true!”
“Spike! I- GAH!” Twilight cried throwing her hands in the air. “I may be a princess but I don’t want to flaunt it! You know that! You also know that magic can’t solve everything!” Spike merely groaned inwardly. At this rate she’d be lecturing him all night. Time to pull out the coup de grace.
“You mean like your chest size? Or are you keeping them small on purpose?” Spike was careful to hold back his grin as he watched Twilight cover her breasts with her hands. Like Rarity she was only a B- cup, something he knew she fretted about from time to time as he had found her researching ‘growth’ magic for that area. Not only did he think it was funny that Twilight would be self-conscious about such a silly thing, but it was the perfect topic to throw her completely off.
“W-what? That has nothing to do with anything!”
“Riiight, that’s why you’ve been studying growth spells for them.” A small blush appeared on her cheeks. Spike actively grinned this time. He had her now.
“I- It was only because-” Twilight tried to say to the floor. This was his cue to escape.
“Oh look at the time. It’s time for me to get a bath, I have been working hard all day to re-organize the books you told me to. Guess I’d better get going!” He was out the door before Twilight had a chance to recover. Given the time, she’d likely just let it stand as is till sometime tomorrow. That'd give him plenty of time to figure a way out of it that time too.
“The perfect plan” Spike chuckled to himself as he walked down the hall.
* * *
Later that night, Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship and element of magic sat on her bed looking down at her chest. It wasn’t that she tried to be envious of Princess Celestia, or Princess Luna, or even her old foal sitter Cadance, who was now the crystal princess of the Crystal Empire. She knew it was just a coincidence that every Princess of Equestria had a large cup size but her. Really it shouldn’t have bothered her at all, it was a silly thing to get upset over.
“Oh who am I kidding?” She said out loud slapping her hands on the mattress. She wasn’t the type of pony to let that get in the way of the friendships she had with any of her friends. It’s just that she did feel a bit of jealousy in some of their sizes, like Fluttershy’s or Pinkie’s. Of course a person’s size really had little impact on the type of person they were, or how others would accept you. She knew this, but still, maybe just a couple of sizes more.
With a sigh she got up and went over to her call mirror, a marvelous invention her pupil Starlight had come up with. She already had the runes typed out. Somehow she knew it’d come to this. Still her hand hesitated from completing the ritual to make the call. Spike knew she was sensitive about her breast size. It’s the thing he always brought up when trying to throw her off. He’d just lie about something again tomorrow and do the same tactic to get out of her lecturing him.
“Not this time Spike” She spoke out loud to herself, letting her words spur her on. “I gave you your chance. I really did.” She had hoped he’d come clean that night, just told her about what he’d done, or at least be willing to talk to her about them. She placed her hand on the call symbol. Eris was quick to answer, her eyes gleaming.
“So have you made your decision?”
Twilight held up three fingers. “One, you promise to watch her and keep her out of trouble?” The grin on Eris’s face widened. She now knew her choice.
“I promise. I’ll keep an eye on Spike and make sure no harm comes to him during the punishment.” The busty creature replied, only frustrating Twilight more. Even Discord as a girl had larger ones.
Twilight nodded pulling a finger down. “Two, we stick to the plan, only deviating if Spike doesn’t stop lying.”
“Agreed”
Twilight waved her index finger, the last one up. “Three I approve ANY changes. Understood?”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way. So shall we get started?”
Twilight closed her eyes one last time preparing herself for the spell they were about to cast. You should have just been honest with me Spike. I never wanted to take such a drastic measure, but something has to be done. As her eyes opened she stared straight into the draconequus's eyes.
“Begin.”
Spike was in for a very rude awakening.
Author's Note
So this is something I posted on my Patreon and it got good reactions, so I decided I'd work on it bit by bit over there. When I have enough of it done I'll post chapters here after I re-edit them and get them polished. This was actually written a while ago, so it's still a bit rough around the edges, but future parts should read much smoother.
The next little bit is already up in it's un-polished form FOR FREE on my Patreon now.
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I'm ashamed to admit I had a thought to have this behind a paywall for a limited time as a thank you to backers till I realized that yeah. Copyrights. Can't do that. So the posts over there WILL be public.
There is also a 'vote for how it goes' story over there. The story posts are free to read, but the voting is behind the one buck pay wall.
This was based off an RP with a friend a while ago. I'm still working on the next part of "Rule of Comedy Law" but since I plan to write a bit of this every month on my Patreon, I figured I'd go ahead and post this here.