Sunset stretched out her bed, looking out the hotel window at the pegasi flying to their respective jobs. She had always found it difficult to fall asleep in a bed that wasn’t her own. Or in this case, a bunch of clouds molded into a bed.

She had been given the option to have a bed made of an actual mattress like she did at the castle, but she chose to let Silver Spanner have it instead. The mare had been green the entire time she walked up the stairs to their room at the very top floor.

The sun wasn’t even up yet and Sunset quietly climbed out of bed onto the cloud, her hooves sinking a few inches into the soft surface. Silver Spanner was breathing evenly as she slept with a peaceful smile on her muzzle and Sunset tiphooved around her bed.

Celestia had taken the room next to theirs so she could apparently work late into the night on something. Whatever it was she didn’t tell Sunset and Sunset didn’t ask.

Sunset levitated a hotel key card with her magic and softly opened the door of her room, stepping out into the hallway and shutting it behind her.

Sunset looked around at the six police ponies in the hall outside each of their doors as she examined the dark blue uniforms and ties on them.

“I’m going to get breakfast from the Cafe. I take it you’ll be following me?” Sunset raised an eyebrow and the closest police pony nodded. “Why am I not surprised?”

The police stallion stayed silent as Sunset and him trotted to the elevator, the officer pressing the down button with a hoof.

“Don’t tell Silver Spanner I’m cheating and using the elevator, deal?”

“Yes Princess.”

Sunset rolled her eyes and stepped into the elevator with him, pushing a button with her magic before he could react. A small victory in her eyes, getting to do something herself.

Their eyes locked onto the numbers on the screen, ticking down to one and the door opened. Sunset stepped out after the police officer looked around and the pair trotted down to the cafeteria and Sunset glanced at the stallion.

“What would you like?” Sunset levitated a second paper plate in the air. “No arguing, you’re eating with me.”

“A waffle is fine with syrup and black coffee, Princess.”

“We can make that happen. Sit,” Sunset ordered and she levitated out a chair as she sat down on the opposite one. “What’s your name, officer?”

“Officer Fast Pace,” he answered and watched Sunset’s magic go about making breakfast for the two. The pegasus stallion folded his wings up.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Sunset Shimmer,” Sunset shrugged and smirked slightly. “But everypony knows that. Call me Sunset.”

They both knew that technically was against some form of protocol, but Fast Pace wasn’t entirely fond of refusing to follow an order that came from one of the Princesses. Or at least, it sounded like an order to him.

“Sure thing Sunset.” The word sounded foreign to him.

“We’re just two friends hanging out. Now tell me about yourself. I can see the ring on a necklace around your neck. Married?”

“Yeah.”

“Kids?” Sunset questioned and he nodded.

“One.”

“Kids are nice. Always did have a soft spot for kids,” Sunset mused as she leaned back in her chair. “Where’s the nearest orphanage at from here?”

“Two blocks south,” he answered immediately and Sunset nodded, placing two plates of waffles in front of them along with two coffees, one black and one with vanilla coffee creamer in it. “Why?”

“I like to visit as does my mom. The kids get excited to see Princess Celestia drop by. The looks on their faces when they see her are always memorable,” Sunset mused and pointed a fork. “Eat with me.”

He gave a brief nod and Sunset levitated napkins onto the center of the small table.

“Do you always insist on your security detail eating with you and you ask them random questions?” Fast Pace asked and Sunset nodded.

“Makes me feel like a normal pony instead of a princess. And besides, I enjoy the conversation with breakfast. I like knowing about the ponies assigned to protect me and my mom. As does she.”

Celestia had been the one Sunset had learned this from. She didn’t necessarily know if her mom had intended for her too, but knowing Celestia she probably did.

“What about you, Sunset? What’s life like for you?” Fast Pace asked and Sunset shrugged.

“Busy. Busy with schoolwork, Princess business. Stuff like being a judge for the BYFC is something I genuinely like doing. Unless the ponies who win are creepy. At least the Cloudsdale Police Department and the Wonderbolts known when to escort them away. God bless Wave Chill, am I right?” Sunset chuckled and she swirled her cut up waffle inside some syrup. “Thank you for being here, by the way. I appreciate you and your colleagues.”

“Thanks. You as well. I see why almost all of Equestria adores you now. You’re a very kind mare,” Fast Pace stretched out his wings and wiped off a syrup drop from his tie. “My daughter loves you. As far as having a picture of you in her room.”

“I’d love to meet her,” Sunset wiped her mouth with a hoof. “Name the time and place, I’ll make the time.”

Sunset popped a quill into existence, writing onto a napkin pushing it to him.

“The address for the castle for me and her to remain in contact.”

That was unexpected, Fast Pace thought as the two resumed talking.

Spitfire gave a tired sigh as she trotted around the small room in a circle, Soarin and Misty Fly idly watching from where they sat. The three had been flying for the last three hours to get to Cloudsdale. Normally they wouldn't be fazed, but they spent the previous day practicing for their next show.

“I swear, he can’t be on time for one day of his life?” Spitfire complained loudly and her wings fluttered in agitation. “I mean, come on. We scheduled this days in advance to go over safety procedures for this years Competition and the mayor can’t even show up?”

Soarin silently shrugged and nudged his goggles around his neck with a bored expression on his face, Misty Fly wearing a simple one. The pair both shared her sentiment, but neither were willing to voice them unlike their new captain.

“I suppose it is rather rude,” Soarin conceded after a moment. Soarin was pretty used to having to calm the fiery maned pegasus. He had grown up with her and seen her more angry outbursts.

At least Fleetfoot wasn’t here. God only knows what she would have said if she wasn’t back at the Wonderbolts HQ. Why Spitfire left her in charge and not Blaze was beyond Soarin. Rumor was that she was looking for a third in command after she made Soarin to her second in command.

The door opened and the three looked to the door, Spitfire pausing her pacing. Sunset stepped inside the room with a brown unicorn and the three hastily saluted her, Misty Fly and Soarin swaying slightly from standing up too fast.

“Princess,” Misty Fly legs hurt a bit from standing at attention too fast. “How are you?”

“Fine, yourself?”

“Fine,” Misty Fly answered and the three pegasi’ forelegs started to hurt.

“Oh. At ease?” Sunset mused and they lowered their hooves. “Mom sent me in her place. Where is Skyward Twirl?”

“Dunno,” Misty Fly answered and Sunset groaned, flinging herself onto a couch. “That was Spitfire’s reaction a minute ago.”

Silver Spanner looked around the room at the three, stepping closer to examine Soarin long enough for him to get uncomfortable.

“You’re right Sunset, he is cute. Now I see why you like him,” Silver Spanner commented and Sunset glared at her. Soarin made a choking sound as Misty Fly bit back a laugh and Spitfire’s eyes widened.

“Silver Spanner!” Sunset snapped and Silver Spanner snickered as she lifted one of Soarin’s wings.

“It’s gonna be pretty hard to get the weight of these wings down right,” Silver Spanner mused as she ran a hoof over his wing and Soarin gave her a confused look as she moved to Spitfire and gave her a similar treatment.

“What the hell are you doing?” Spitfire pulled her wing back and Silver Spanner scowled before moving to Misty Fly.

“I’m trying to make something that replicates wings for pegasi who’ve lost theirs or theirs don’t work. So naturally, I have to feel the wing of a pegasus,” Silver Spanner explained as the brown unicorn focused more on Misty Fly. “This is gonna be tough. Each pegasus has wings that weigh differently. Sunset, are you taking notes?”

A notebook whapped Silver Spanner upside the head before Sunset returned to writing with a bored expression.

“Ow.”

“Are we not gonna talk about what she said about me being cute?” Soarin asked and Misty hit him with a wing. “I don’t feel comfortable with literal kids saying that about me.”

“No,” Sunset muttered and glanced at Silver Spanner. “She’s never seen one of you Wonderbolts before. She gets a bit hoovsy when she gets an idea in her head. Silver Spanner, Soarin. Soarin, Silver Spanner. Silver Spanner, Misty Fly. Misty Fly, Silver Spanner. Silver Spanner, Spitfire. Spitfire, Silver Spanner. There, now we are all acquainted.”

Silver Spanner opened her mouth to argue before shrugging and rolled her eyes. She wouldn’t have necessarily introduced herself like that, but it worked as she shook each of their hooves.

“Okay, I’m done,” Silver Spanner sat down next to Sunset and took the notebook from Sunset, pausing briefly to admire her cursive. “Why is there a drawing of you on the top corner?”

“Got bored.”

The three pegasi gave each other looks as Silver started drawing something, glancing at the three occasionally before making a correction, tossing each ripped out paper into a trash can near Spitfire.

“Does this look good so far?” Silver Spanner levitated up the notebook to the three. “You’re experts with wings, you tell me.”

The three leaned forward slightly to stare at the surprisingly detailed drawing of a pegasus with a wing that looked to be made of metal.

“What about lifting the pegasus?” Spitfire asked and Silver Spanner cursed as the three stared at her in surprise. The only pony the three knew that could curse as colorfully as she just did was Blaze. “Wow.”

“Sorry, habit. I’ll need a metal that’s strong enough to withstand the wind and any maneuvers the pony does. But also something light enough to be comfortable,” Silver Spanner mused as she tapped a hoof against her chin.

Sunset watched her pacing briefly before turning her attention towards the opened door as a black stallion trotted in wearing a deep purple cape and she visibly rolled her eyes, Soarin laughing softly behind a hoof.

“Sorry to keep you waiting,” Skyward Twirl hung up his hat and Spitfire internally scoffed. “Had a meeting. Surely you all can relate?”

“Hm.”

Sunset stood up and trotted to his desk, examining a piece of paper on it and she moved some others out of the way with her hoof casually.

“Says here you had a clear schedule for the last thirty minutes. So you either left us to sweat as a way to establish dominance, which is a very poor decision if so. Or you were out and about doing God knows what to hold us up further in hopes we’d eventually leave,” Sunset mused and she sat down at the couch again, crossing her hind legs and she folded her forelegs behind her head with a smug grin. “So which was it?”

“I was having lunch with a colleague in an impromptu meeting down the street,” Skyward Twirl answered after a moment of awkward silence and Silver Spanner examined him with a raised eyebrow.

His hooves and torso pointed at the door as their conversation faded to the background. He shook his head a few times and he shifted awkwardly on his hooves.

Silver Spanner titled her head as Skyward Twirl glanced at the clock and gave a small smile. She frowned and bit her lower lip a few times hard enough to taste the coppery taste of blood.

“I assure you, we have police officers all over the event and a heavy security checkpoint at the entrance. Unicorns will be getting magic disabled, no metal items will be allowed in excluding travel mugs or horse shoes. Obviously, you and your party will be excluded.”

Silver Spanner wasn’t entirely fond of ponies getting their magic disabled. While she did use her hooves a little bit more than her magic, magic was still a part of her. She was a unicorn for crying out. Magic was her whole thing. She would have turned away if she wasn’t excluded because she was with Sunset and Celestia.

“Well, it looks like everything is covered,” Sunset mused and Spitfire nodded after the unicorn looked to her. The three Wonderbolts had tried hard to hide their smug grins as they watched Sunset lay into the other pegasus. “I guess we will be out of your mane now.”

Silver Spanner opened the door with her hoof, shooting the stallion a flat look before following Sunset out with the Wonderbolts and she closed the door behind them.

“He’s lying,” Silver Spanner announced as they trotted down the hall.

“About?” Misty Fly asked softly as the yellow pegasus flicked her tail back and forth.

“Everything except the security part.”

“How do you know?”

“Ponies have certain tells when lying. Bis torso was pointed at the door, his eyes were moving around a lot and he stared often at the clock. He moved a lot too. And besides, it’s a gut feeling I got. Something feels off with him,” Silver Spanner frowned back at the door behind them. “Not here.”

“She can just sense when ponies are lying?” Soarin asked nervously and Sunset gave a nod. “That’s scary.”

“Oh, you have no idea. Nothing gets by her.”

Author's Note

Name: Silver Spanner.

Age: 15(currently as of right now.)

Motto: One mares trash is another mares treasure!

Coat color: Brown.

Eye color: Gray

Mane color: White.

Element: ?

Bio: Silver Spanner is a unicorn from Ponyville and is easily recognized by her wrench cutie mark and her country accent that's often hard to find in Canterlot. Silver Spanner is a student at CSGU and considers Sunset Shimmer and Twinkleshine her closest friends at the school. She later graduated alongside the pair and is offered a job at the castle as a head engineer by Princess Celestia. She's quick to give her opinion and values being honest over anything else.

Silver Spanner can often be found dumpster diving at night for discarded metal she can repurpose for her experiments, often to her parents annoyance. She often partners up with Twilight and Moondancer when "tinkering" as she fondly calls it.

She is close friends with Rarity, Big Mac and Berry Punch, the three attending the funeral of Big Macs parents years before Silver Spanner left for Canterlot.

She later becomes one of the Elements of Harmony, but which one is currently unknown at this time. She temporarily acts as one of Cadence's bridesmaids and serves as bridesmaids on two more occasions for White Lightnings wedding and Berry Punchs later on.

Silver Spanner later takes part in helping with search and rescue after Baltimare is hit by a series of tornadoes alongside Sunset, Redheart, Berry Punch and White Lightning. She assists later on helping defend Canterlot against the changelings and witnesses the Changeling Queens defeat.

Abilities: Silver Spanner is physically very strong due to having two earth pony parents and prefers to use her hooves over her magic. She is very intelligent. She's very athletic and flexible.

Weaknesses: Silver Spanner can have a temper when one of her creations doesn't go as planned or when her tools go missing. She is known for cursing loudly and creatively during both instances.

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/05/say-something-nice-about-silver-spanner.html

Credit for one of the pictures.