Broken Bits
Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Warning: The following story will contain adult themes at a later time.
Twilight walked with a little pride, and a check in her saddlebag, through the streets of Ponyville. That was easy to see and she wanted to tell everyone about the great deal she just made. The first one to notice of course was a pink pony that just happened to bump into her.
"Hiya, Twilight, how are you? You seem happy and that is good cause I like seeing my friends being happy…" the cheery pony dragged on.
"Pinkie Pie! Can you do me a favor," Twilight quickly got a word in, Pinkie quieted down, "I would love for you to throw a party because I have some news to share."
The pink earth pony gasp sharply and exclaimed, "A Twilight-Has-Some-Exciting-News-To-Share-With-Her-Friends Party, I've never had one of those so I'll make sure to make it extra special with cake, and ice cream and balloons…" The pink pony bounced away quickly making plans for the evening. Twilight sometimes wondered how Pinkie managed to keep up all that energy, all the time.
Twilight was sitting on her bed check in hoof just smiling. With a quick glance at the clock she realized that she was almost late for the party she had asked Pinkie to organize. She put the check in question in her saddlebag and dashed off to Sugar Cube Corner.
The party was at full blast, there was dancing and games, a typical Pinkie Party; however, the time to sit down eat cake and hear Twilight's news had come. The pony friends had gathered round with their slices and the anticipation was so thick it could be scooped with a spoon. Finally the white unicorn spoke.
"Alright, darling, what are this magnificent news Pinkie Pie says you have?"
"Yeah, Twilight, did you find a super rare copy of some book or something, egghead?" this comment was made by certain cyan Pegasus.
"Ah, come on, sugar cube, ya'll know, ya'll can tell us." The country pony spoke.
"Alright girls," Twilight stated, "I know you are very anxious to hear this." After this statement everypony settled and listened. Twilight continued, "I have decided to start a business of my own and today I managed to get the finances needed to do so."
The room went completely silent for a full thirty seconds before everypony started to cheer. Once again everyone settled down and congratulated their friend.
Applejack spoke up, "Well, as a fellow business pony, Ah'm mighty happy for you Twi' and more importantly we should all thank the Princess, since it was mighty nice of her to lend you the money."
"Well that's the other thing," Twilight responded, "I haven't told the Princess yet. Since I wanted this to be a surprise and all."
Everypony looked confused. Silence once again, only to be broken Rarity, "Well then where did you get the bits, darling."
"Well look for yourselves," Twilight said as she displayed the check.
"This check is redeemable for twenty five thousand bits towards Twilight Sparkle," Pinkie read the printed words on the check cheerfully; however, as she was reading the second part her voice lost the cheer, " To be drawn from the account of Bits'n'Pieces from Bits'n'Pieces Lending Co."
There was silence again, except this was a heavy, solemn silence almost as if somepony had died. All the ponies shifted in their seats, with visible discomfort in their faces. Pinkie seemed to try and look at everything, but the check, Fluttershy let out an audible, "Eep", Rarity had a nervous demeanor and a shaky smile, and Applejack and Rainbow had scowls in their faces.
"Ah right, sugar cube, ah think ya'll need to go an' take that check back. That's one bull ya'll don't wanna mess with." Applejack said in a half growl, half command.
"Oh, Twilight if you needed bits you could have just asked, that is if you wanted," Fluttershy commented.
The murmurs of her friends continued. Twilight didn't understand why this was a big deal. She tried asking, she kept getting the same response, to take the check back. She explained her plan to her friends halfway convincing them, but it all just seemed to have been too much for everypony to handle. They all headed out to their respective homes. It had been a strange day the purple unicorn thought to herself, but the thoughts were soon replaced by the grand opening of her bookstore. Everything seemed peaceful yet again; however, Twilight did not know she was being watched by a hungry pair of crimson eyes.