Hello, ModernDayBard here! Yes, I'm still working on my YJ fanfic, but I hand-wrote this story a bit ago, and wanted to type it up before something happened to the paper copy. This story will be updated every Friday, and I will admit up front that it is quite a bit shorter than 'If I'm a Hero, Why Don't I Feel Super?' though it was much too long for a one shot.
As for the disclaimer, I don't own My Little Pony, though the CosmiColts are products of my own imagination.
Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship, tried to be quiet as she arrived back at her new castle after a long day of traveling. She'd heard Spike snoring as she tip-toed past his room, and she had to hope that the little dragon wouldn't wake up before she was finished. Although, the lavender alicorn had to admit, the little dragon was more likely to go to the kitchen than the library if and when he awoke in the middle of the night.
The castle's library wasn't unoccupied though. Owlowicious was perched on a writing table, glancing around at the half-empty shelves sadly. Twilight came up beside her pet and stroked his back gently. "I know, Owlowicious," she said quietly. "I'm traveling all across Equestria whenever I can to replace the books that were destroyed, but some are just plain impossible to find." She fell silent as she surveyed the cavernous room. It was depressing to see a library so empty, and served as a painful reminder of the home she'd lost only a few months before.
"Even with Celestia, Luna, and Cadence helping, there are some books that I just can't find a copy of. Who knew a small town like Ponyville had so many rare books?" Twilight sighed, as she lifted her heavy saddlebags to the table and began to levitate the books out of them, shelving them as she continued to talk to her silent companion. "Speaking of rare and impossible to find—I'm having no luck with our little...project." The princess dropped her voice even lower, into a true whisper, on the last word.
Her finds now put away, the alicorn sat at the desk, resting her head on it in weariness and disappointment. "Spike's birthday is in two weeks, and I've been to every comic store in every town I've visited, and I can't find a copy of his favorite issue. I so wanted to be able to replace it for him. He lost a lot of rare comics in Tirek's attack, and he's never complained. I thought it would be the best present I'd ever gotten him, since it was a book he liked, but I can't find it anywhere!"
"Whoo!" Owlowicious hopped over to where Twilight sat slumped and affectionately pecked at her mane.
"He loved that book so much: CosmiColts Volume 3. I remember the first time he read it, and when he got to the end, he was so excited, he ran to the room where I was and started jumping up and down, saying 'Jinx isn't a Humdrum!' over and over again." At the owl's confused glance, Twilight elaborated a bit with a slight chuckle. "The Power Ponies and the CosmiColts are written by the same creative team, so he was afraid that one of the characters was going to turn out like Humdrum. Spike was so excited when Jinx actually started being a useful part of the team. He read that one so many times, he knew it by heart. Heck, he made me read it with him so many times, I probably know it by...heart..." As the alicorn trailed off, she sat upright, a crazy idea beginning to grow in her mind.
*Could I replace it by re-creating it? Spike really loved that comic...* The Princess of Friendship shook her head—she couldn't draw like that, and anyway, didn't those kind of comics take a long time to draw? She only had two weeks. *But maybe I could still replace it in my own way...*
Now determined, Twilight took flight for one of the writing nooks on the second floor of the library—a place she knew Spike would never come. There, she pulled out quill, ink, and parchment, and then sat still, eyes closed, picturing how the comic that the little dragon love so well began.
*I may not be able to draw it, but I can write the story out like a more traditional book. It won't be the same, but it's the best I can do for my Number One Assistant!*
So, yeah. This is an MLP fanfic that doesn't actually feature most of the 'mane cast' we know and love so well, but when I came up with the idea, I thought it would be just the sort of thing Twilight would do for Spike, and I had a superhero story I'd written that could be pony-fied pretty easily, so here you have it: just a cute little fic that I wrote just for the fun of writing it. If you like it, or see something I can fix, don't hesitate to leave a review letting me know!