Spike Has Three Mommies

Chapter Seventeen

Twilight looked over the note again. She couldn’t believe what she reading. Nor could she keep from grinning.

“Twily, it’s Shining Armor,” she read out loud. “Think maybe Cadance and I can come to your place for a visit? We could use a vacation and it’s so hard to go anywhere without drawing a crowd. Send us a note back for details. Love, your B.B.B.F.F.”

She looked up at Fluttershy, who still had a blue jay perched on her shoulder. Apparently, her brother didn’t even think calling her by phone was safe enough. But who would notice another bird flying overhead?

“There’s no time to lose!” Twilight pocketed the note and summoned a fresh checklist and pen to her hand. “Fluttershy, I’ll need you to run messages between me and Shining Armor. Rarity, you’ll be designing clothes for my brother and Cadance so they can blend in here. Applejack and Pinkie Pie can help with the baking. Rainbow Dash can provide a cloud cover for them to enter and leave town. And Spike—”

“Ugh.” Spike lifted his head up, still nauseous on the couch. “Y-yes?”

“I’m going to need you to buy more pens and paper from the store.” Twilight tossed aside the now-finished checklist and summoned another sheet to her hand. Her writing hand had barely stopped moving. “This is a huge opportunity and I can’t afford to miss a single detail!”

Spike raised his fist in solidarity. “You can… count on me!” Then he fell back against the couch and went back to being sick and exhausted.

Rarity, meanwhile, was prancing around the living room in joy. “Oh, can you believe it? I’m going to be a tailor for royalty! It’s a dream come true!”

“Please don’t go overboard,” Twilight advised, not bothering to look up from what was now her third checklist. “They’re traveling incognito. They can look good, but nothing showy.”

“Oh, but of course!” Rarity grabbed one of the curtains by the window and wrapped herself in it like a cloak. “Only the finest in stealthy attire! Beauty in simplicity, that’s my motto!”

“Sure it is,” replied Twilight. She scribbled her pen over the bottom of her list, but it was already low on ink. Then she glanced at Spike. “Did you get to the store yet?”

“I’m… getting there…” Spike twitched as though he were about to get up, but instead his eyes fell shut. Twilight smiled as she heard him begin to snore.

She decided that three and a half checklists would be enough. As soon as she scribbled one last footnote, she rolled up the papers into a bundle and handed them to Fluttershy. “Make sure this gets to Shining Armor right away.”

Fluttershy glanced at the blue jay on her shoulder and blushed. “Um, sorry about the weight. Maybe you can get your friend Rigby to help carry it?”

The blue jay tweeted something furious at Fluttershy, but grabbed the bundle in its talons and managed to fly out through the open window.

Twilight nodded her thanks at Fluttershy. But before her pink-haired friend could reply, Rarity had decided to jump into her arms and and pointed at the open window.

“No time to waste, darling!” she exclaimed. “We must return to the boutique at once!”

Fluttershy’s legs wobbled under her friend’s weight. “Oh, dear. Maybe we could get a cab?”

“At once!”

With a sigh, the winged girl floated off of her feet and into the air. Twilight reached for the window and pulled it further open to give Fluttershy room to fly out with Rarity in her arms. She shook her head and smiled as they flew off at an anxious pace.