Chapter 7
Mount Dragon
It was hot, well he was in the middle of a volcano surrounded by dragons. They tended to be rather hot and full of smoke. So, when a familiar Purple baby dragon bumped into him he raised an eyebrow in question. "Aren't you that dragon kid that's always around Sparkle?"
Spike looked up to see what he had bumped into. Whatever it was as hard as a rock. Looking up he saw A pony Pegasus just sitting in the lava, not burning or anything. After shaking himself out of his stupor he answered the question. "Sorry, and I am, I came here to learn more about what it means to be a dragon." The little guy puffs out his chest and tries to look strong. "I was headed over to those guys over there to ask about that, what are you doing here? And how do you know Twilight?" Silver looks over and sees him pointing at the teenage kids of the Mountain Gorge clan. "Kid those guys would be the worst people you could talk to, I would recommend an older and more experienced dragon. As for what I am doing here, that is my business." He ignores the question about Sparkle. Looking around he spots a Large purple dragon the size of three houses. He starts to head over their, Small dragon in tow. He was mellow for a dragon had had the patience to answer the kid's questions.
"Yosh, Fabian, How you doing?" With a melodic voice that barely belongs to a dragon. Fabian said "Good My kinsman. The last snows were good to me and mine, they now feast on the hydras as we speak."
"Good to hear, make sure to give my love. Anyway, I found this little dragon here. Apparently raised by 'proper pony' standards. So, he knows nothing about being a dragon." Pointing over at spike Silver goes over what he knows about the kid to Fabian.
"That is a travesty and rather dangerous. I shall help him." Smiling up the dragon beamed.
"Before you do, Spike was it, we need you to swear an honor oath that you will not reveal anything we tell you to anyone. Pony or otherwise. These are clan secrets and not something any pony has a right to."
"Aren't you a pony?' Spike asks in confusion. This was a pony, right? Then again spike thought back to the lava the Pony had been swimming in and thought that me he was wrong.
"Silver is rather special and has earned his place many times over." Stated Fabian. "I would warn you Little dragon that should you take this oath and break it, you will be punished by dragon magic. Even your life may be forfeit. Are you still willing to learn?"
Nodding Spike sat down as Fabian began to tell the bare minimum that a dragon would need to know. He learned the stages of dragon growth and how to deal with them, the various food groups as well as the various clans and attributes. Then he learned about what could offend most dragons. "Wait so saying Everypony is considered rude to dragons?"
"Not just dragons, Say the work of any race and it's all but guaranteed to piss them off." Said silver while he was gnawing on a bone he found somewhere. Not even Fabian knew where he got it. "But that small tidbit is something you can share since it affects any race. So, if someone asks you why you say everyone or every person, Tell them it's dragon culture or something." Returning to his bone he Listened to the same speech he got a few years ago. They continued into why some dragons migrate and What he should look out for in his growth. "If you have more questions seek out Silver, He may as well be a dragon at this point." Said, Fabian, as he got ready to depart giving Silver a look that said he had better. He may be patient but still didn't like the kid. "Love you to Fab, well kid it's time to go unless you want a quick dip in the Molten Lava."
They agreed and had a bit of a dip, He tried to ask who a Pegasus was able to swim in lava but would not get an answer from him. If he were a unicorn he could chop that up to their fancy magic, but this was a peruses. Spike will admit that today was the oddest but probably the most productive day of his life.
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"So Spike what happened?" Asked twilight for the hundredth time. "I can't tell you," Spike said now as an automatic response getting a little irked. "Ugh, why not spike I mean you know more about dragons than any pony else in equestrian. Help a pony out here." She begged as they entered the library again. Ever since spike came back and they had shed their disguises she had been bugging him about dragon culture. But all spike said was that he could not say anything about it. But also noticed what the dragons meant about everypony.
"Twilight dear I know you want to know but if Spike is so adamant about not speaking about it then perhaps he has a very good reason." Rarity interjected as Twilight looked like she and spike were about to go on their very last nerve.
Relenting Twilight hung her head just as Derpy hooves zoomed over her head, crashing into the ground and whirling around till she spotted Spike. "Delivery for Spike Sparkle." She handed him a letter and small package and making him sign for it. Looking for the signature and then departed while making a few twirls in the air.
Opening the letter Spike started to read. "Dear Spike, our last meeting was quite informative and will no drought leave you a lot to mull over. It is a lot of information to sink in and I don't begrudge you taking some time to do it. If you have any questions, concerns or even just someone to talk to them feel free to stop by at 999 OakSteel Drive, In Canterlot. Or send a letter with any questions. Since you are acquainted with Mrs. Twilight Sparkle I assume she is trying to read over your shoulder at this very moment. Rest assured that only the recipient of this letter may read it. All she will see are random words. If you find this letter bursting into flames, then she has tried magic on it.
I eagerly await your response and hope you find some amusement at Sparkle being frustrated.
Sincerely Silver Tong.
P.S Enclosed is a letter writing set that is enchanted to also make letters unintelligible to anyone but the recipient. Have fun.
Opening the box, he indeed finds a stack of papers, pen, and notebook. This could actually be rather fun. Twilight hates not knowing something. It would drive her up the wall if he had a diary she could not read. And after being asked question after question he might actually enjoy it.
"Spike, why do you have a page full of random words?" Said Twilight as she was indeed looking over his shoulder.
"Unimportant, By the way, You guys ever hear of a Silver Tong?" Both mares gasp at the name. Rarity almost swooning into a faint.
"Why Silver Tong, is one of the most powerful ponies in all of the equestrian." Rarity said. As even twilight looked startled at that. "He's equestrians number one lawyer and combined with the ownership of dozens of business and reputation, well not even the princesses can always stop him from getting what he wants. And rather reclusive from what I heard. Why do you ask spike?"
"Well, he just sent me an invitation to come and talk," Spike said and nearly got bulldozed over when rarity snatched the letter out with her magic. "Sorry Spiky but I can't make heads or tails of this." She admitted giving the letter back.
"I think that's the point, He mentioned that no one would be able to read it but me." He said as he picked up the paper as well as the writing set. Stowing them all away for after he thought of some questions.
"No pony spike and why would Silver tong be sending you mail that no one else can read? It sounds a bit suspicious." Said Twilight. She knew he had forgiven her for their traumatic History but she had read about what happens to those ponies that had crossed him. She shivered at the thought.
"It might be but Silver has been known to value his privacy very highly. Almost to Pinky levels os insanity. It does not surprise me that he would go the extra mile and charmed the paper. Whatever did he want my little spiky wiki?" Rarity had been trying to get him into her studio for years, one word from him could do wonders for business. A sentence could make or break it.
"He said he I could come to him if I had any questions I have. Can't say much more. But I can say that it Is someone, Fabian made sure I know that all dragons say someone." Twilight was still concerned and would write to Princess Celestia at the soonest opportunity to ask for some advice.
Chapter 8
Mainhattan City
Violet POV.
Wow, Mainhatten was big. Like bigger than the biggest of mountains. She was currently visiting her brother today at his work where he was going to show her what he did most days. It was part of a class project where we shadow a family member during their work. She was going to ask ether mom or dad but they felt it would be nicer for her to go out with her brother.
She missed her brother a lot. At the Academy, at least they got to see each other but after the 'accident' and he became a law pony she saw him a lot less. Then he started to open his own business and suddenly he only had time to visit once every month. Lately he only had time to write them letters, and while fun and silly it was no substitute for her brother.
He used to always be there for her, to give comforting hugs, give good advice, teach her how to stare down bullies and get out of bad situations that her clumsiness sometimes caused.
She marched down the sidewalk with her little pink backpack full of paper and lots of other office stuff that she taught she would need. In fact, she was concentrating so much on trying to act professional and walk the walk she completely missed the light beam till she walked face first into it, giving her a dark purple bruise on her head.
Shaking her head, she reached into her backpack and reached for a bandage. She always had them on her no matter where she was.
It was at least better now than when she was a smaller foal. After a week of nonstop falling and hitting and generally being clumsy big bro had taken her for some 'training'. It was one of the only times she honestly thought she might hate her brother. So many labyrinths so many random poles popping up, so many wild dogs! But by the end, she was at least regained some sense of balance. So in a dangerous situation, she would be ok. Even better she discovered she really liked dancing afterwords.
As she walked up to the big building with the large ghost logo up front she came up to the front desk. Once she showed up they quickly ushered her into threw corridors with people rushing from place to place. Each person having ether note' papers or screens in hand.
Violet wondered how she had not hit anyone yet with how disorienting the crowd was. 'I swear that brother of mine makes the building confusing on purpose.' She finally made it to a large office space where her brother was…. Running around so fast she could almost see two of him as he read paper after paper then zoomed across the room to a computer. Just watching him made her dizzy.
"wow," She said as her brother all but threw a stack of papers across the room to land neatly in a pile in a box labeled, Accounts payable.
Hearing her for the first time Silver froze midair before looking to the side to see his sister looking adorable in her business suit. "Viiiiiii" He did not squeal her name, He was sticking to that even if the rest of the ponies in the office begged to differ. Silver launched himself to Vi and hugged the adorable little filly.
"Wow brother, your office is sooo big. Can I even help?" She wondered how on Equestria was she going to be able to help at all.
"Of course vii. I got some things planned for you, give me about ten minutes then we can go about the rest of the day." He set her down and went back to what She liked to call Work mode.
"Jameson, I need to marketing report. Butters get those Plans to R&D. Vi goes with the interns to get Coffee, lots of coffee. I want those mine contracts on my desk by end of the business day." He kept shouting some orders to certain people as well as looking over paperwork. Vi shot out of the room with two interns that looked a bit haggard to her. They walked over to a small café that was located only a short walk away. "So is that all you do Get coffee?" she asked Staple the gray mare to her right, Bobble the stallion to her left was placing their order. "I wish, no we have to do a lot of the trivial things that keep the office productive. Distribute office supplies copy paperwork and make sure everyone has what they need. Then in the afternoon when we finish all that we do the more important work like accounting, only the easy stuff at first but if we do well we can get promoted to full time. It's hard and stressful but the pay is good and for some reason, we all like it here." She went on to tell her some funny stories about what happens around the office. Some were funny while others a little confusing.
They made it back and almost immediately She was sat down with a couple of ponies that asked her odd questions like what she found popular or dangerous. After a half hour of this Vi was lifted by Silver onto his back as they quickly went out of the building. "We finished with company work now I need to get to by legal teams then look at the progress of the R&D department as well as speak with the governor about a co-project we have and then get some dinner." SO he dragged her from one place to another but kept her in mind during most of it. He made sure that she was somewhat involved in the work.
By the end of the day, violets head was spinning and she was exhausted. In only a day they had done more work then she thought would be possible in a week. Her brother just kept going and going, only taking a break on the ride from place to place. Even then he quizzed her on what she learned. Like why should she be worried about the next math test if the cities aquafer might run dry? She didn't even know what an aquifer was and yet her brother had solved the problem in less time then it took for her to find the word in a dictionary.
Suddenly not being around the house as much made a lot more sense and considering that when they took a five-minute break, five different emergencies popped up. Hoy Vey, she really did not want to be in her brother's horseshoes.
Mabey, she should draw him a picture or bake him a Cake, Wait no his cooking is the best in the world and I can't even cook toast let alone a cake. I can't get my brother a bad cake. Besides he hates the sweet stuff. Many I can make him a cape? Oh, I know what I can get him and it will help him at work too.
Rushing off to the clothing store she hit a lamppost again and got another bump on the head. Taking a heart-shaped bandage and stamping it on her head she decided that maybe she could go to the store, tomorrow.
The next day a package appeared on Silvers Desk, opening it he saw a top hat with the words BEST BOSS on the top and a little card.
Hi Bro
Thanks for the awesome day yesterday. It was exhausting. I still feel tired. Now I see why half the office worships coffee! But I saw that sometimes ponies got a little scared of you so I got this hat to make you feel better.
From Violet.
Ps, Sorry for knocking over the filing cabinet.
Smiling to himself Silver put on the hat. The rest of the office had to do a double take when they first saw him that morning. It was like robopony suddenly wearing a Clown afro. Odd and somewhat adorable.
It at least made the pony more approachable. Latter Silver would wonder if that was a good thing.
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Silver was having one of his bad days. For the last month, he had been busy organizing his company, Making deals, doing research, finding portals and so on and so forth. In all the confusion and mess that having to leave, sometimes weeks on end had caused he had neglected to properly meditate.
Well, they did say hindsight was 20/20. Normally he would spare a few minutes to an hour in the day expanding his mental and physical chakras, working on improving his Ecto flow and hoping to break into higher levels of power. Truth was that he wanted his old power back.
He was nowhere close to the destructive force of nature he was before. In his old form, those Earthworms would have been little more than a nuisance. But in this one, it took all he had to just freeze them all solid.
But when he came back he was so swarmed with work that he had neglected his training. So he was surprised one morning to find that all the color in the world was gone.
Everything was just in shades of gray. His blue carpet was now a muddy gray, his pink tapestries now a bray white and even the stones looked a lot duller than normal. This must be a northern side effect of being a fallen. It was almost nauseating. All the joy and happiness in the world had been ripped out and replaced with dull boredom. Like a tapeworm, this sickness had burrowed into him and feasted almost unnoticed, Till it became too much to handle.
Silver banged his head against a wall, Hitting harder and harder. Then Harder and Harder. Hoping for some color, any color. Berating himself in self-loathing for letting this happen he continued banging his head till he slid down to the ground. His feet no longer able to support him as the blood from his now open head wounds caused him to weaken.
He did not know how long he stayed there on the floor but a quick look at the clock showed 20 minutes. He would have to miss his morning work, but he needed to get his head in order. He closed his eyes and began to channel his ghost energy into his mind.
His head nearly burst with pain as the ecto energy began to dig into his mind. TO describe what was happening was difficult as it was mostly a mental battle. The best he could describe it was as if the pathways in his brain had Hardened. When the ectoplasm tried to enter it was met with a far more resilient force than normal causing Silver to real back. It took an agonizing hour for Silver to Finally break down all the Blockages.
"Huff, Huff, Never Again. If I ever have to do that again it will be too soon." He opened his eyes to find that while the world was no longer the gray depression it was before, it still had a muted tint to it.
"Well, I can't see how this day can get any worse." His phone began to ring in the other room. Silver slapped himself for the stupidity of that statement and enacting Murphy's law. Walking over he picked up his phone singing the Uga chaka song. "This is Tong speaking."
"Ah, good Mr. Tong, Well not good, Bad Really really bad." The pony on the other end was really starting to hyperventilate and Silver was so tempted just to lay the phone down and go back to sleep and let the Stallion pass out form Oxygen deficiency. But he had a company to run.
"STOP, take a breath, that's it let it out now tell me what's wrong."
"We were attacked at research lab seven and experiment six-two-six has escaped." The man said.
"Who attacked us and who Is going after the experiment?"
"WE got one of the guys that tried to attack us and hunter are going after six two six."
"Good, Keep the man their till I can get there, leave him in a secluded room with only a chair and desk. I'll be there soon." He closed the phone and looked at his liquor cabinet. It was days like these he hated that rule he had about drinking under duress. Far too many nights of heaving his stomach had taught him his lesson.
He walked out of the house and hailed a cab. The stereotypically Jewish and chatty cab driver was at least entertaining to listen too. But my resent ordeal coupled with nightmares was making my mood to heavy even for the happiest of cabbies. Driver Oldson was relieved when the brooding black stallion finally left his cab. Speeding away so fast he left a dust trail.
I walked into the Research building seven and found the lobby filled with ponies milling about, at least one or two guard ponies on each wall and entrance while the researchers were getting bandaged up. The room fell silent as everyone looked to the door to find Silver coming in like death itself.
A blue pony with a scale as a mark rushed over to Silver with a worried look and said "Boss you look like Tartarus, what happened to you."
Not In much of a playful mood Silver said: "Nightmares and a cold, Now report."
"Fine but after this, you got to take of-of your vacations, Or a date your always chipper after one of those." With a look form, Silver Beaker began to recite the damage.
"Two rooms were completely destroyed, No dead but we do have some heavily damaged ponies, At least three destroyed experiments and Experiment six two six has escaped and is being pursued by Hunter." Silver put a hoof to his head.
"Prioritize the medical treatments and then Backup Hunter. I want the guards to escort everyone in groups off to the hospital. I'll see the prisoner." Silver began to walk away and Beaker watched his red main. …. Wait red main?
Quickly rushing to Silver beaker put a hoof in Silvers main and brought it to his face. Red and thick liquid dripped down to the ground. "MEDIC." He shouted over as he realized that the boss was bleeding so much all his white hair had turned red. Blood red. "And You sire will sit here until the medic gets here. You are bleeding and have head wounds. I don't care how macho you think you are, You are going nowhere and if I have to sick Guards on you I will, or worse Red."
Knowing he would regret the decision latter Silver said. "Get me some bandages and call Red Blossom." He sat down so that at least he could get some first aid. He also had to winder when Beaker became a mother hen.
A soft red pony with a bandage for a mark came over and patched up his head. He resigned himself to look like a mummy as he was then led to the room that the attackers were stationed. "I'll take them in room four, Just one at a time with two guards to each pony."
Silver took the time to make sure everyone else was situated before going over to room four. Thankfully no one was permanently hurt. Even in his human times, which were getting harder to remember, he would take care of his employees.
Taking out his phone he dialed a number he had only put in as a precaution. "This is shining armor speaking." Said a voice on the other end.
"Good morning shining, Or night depending on how hard you worked again. I have a problem."
"You have many problems, which one are you calling about?"
"A group of ponies attacked one of my research facilities this morning. We have a few of them in custody and my people will hold them till you send in your people."
"Is anyone hurt or dead?'
"No, otherwise I would have called the mortician and only the mortician. I don't like my people being harmed. I'll see you soon."
With that Silver ended the call in front of room four. The room was spartan in nature, only housing a since desk and a lamp for light. No windows or ventilation. It was normally used for quick experiments but could do as an interrogation room.
Walking into the room Silver sat in a chair opposite the pony. The pony was a deep brown color. His face was hard set and his mark was that of a dumbbell. All in all, he screamed like a henchman.
"I have been having a really dreadful day. I won't go into details but suffice to say that this head wound was no welcome. Then I get a call saying that my research lab was attacked. Now I am going to give you one chance to tell me everything you know before I give you no choice at all."
Drum Dugan was perhaps not the smartest or strongest of ponies but he did have a decent survival instinct. You needed a good one to not get swallowed up by the underground. But it, unfortunately, failed him hear as he refused to look the pony in the eye. If he had he might have mistaken the black pony as nightmare moon herself. "Very well I don't need your permission anyway. Now let's talk." Silvers' eyes turned from their normal gray/blue hue to a pinkish red. He grabbed the pony by the head and looked deep into his eyes. "Now you are going to tell me everything you know!"
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Shining armor stepped off the carriage at Vlad Co Research facility 4. In any other city, the police would handle something like this. But in Canterlot the Royal guard handled all policing. Taking a sip of StarBit Coffee, another guard came over with a clipboard in hand.
"Report." "At five thirty in the morning, an explosion was heard in the eastern wing. Thinking little of it at first the scientists and guards went about their day. So they were caught off guard when a half dozen ponies and three griffons came barreling through the doors. They set out destroying all the research they could find and tried to harm the staff. At which point the guards snapped into action and subdued as many of the assailants as possible. The Griffons got away but five ponies were apprehended. We have been told by Mr. Charles Beaker that they have bene questioned already by Mr. Tong himself but we are welcome to question them ourselves."
Shining took a long sip of his coffee. He knew how this was going to end and it would not be good for anyone. Any case that had to do with Silver Tong often gave him a headache proportional to the amount of paperwork it would require. Now if only he was not one of his best friends he might have left it to someone else.
They met back in college and after he had asked for help with a paper they had been hanging out ever since. Silver did not stay long in said college but they kept in touch and hung out a few times a year. Heck, he even invited him to his wedding. With had a double bonus of having a buffer between him and all the political ponies as well as getting to see him punch a Queen in the face. Best gift ever.
So now anytime they have a problem such as Silver needing the guard or Shining needing legal help they gave each other a ring on the phone.
Shining walked over to a secluded office were the most amusing sight possible was taking place. "AND DON'T YOU EVEN THINK OF MOVING OR SO HELP ME CELESTIA I WILL TYE YOU TO THE CHAIR." It seemed Red got here.
Red was such a nice girl, calm and professional, at first. It made you wonder why such a sweet and loving thing was friends with what some call the Lawyer form Tartarus itself. It was a ridicules rumor that claimed that Silver Tong had learned how to be such a ruthless lawyer by living in that hole. A rumor he had no problem propagating.
Once you get to know Red you start to understand that she is as stubborn as a mule and a death glare that made even the Princesses not question her on medical matters. The one time he had seen one of his men not take her advice she had wrapped him up in a Cocoon and left instructions that he was to remain like that till healed.
At the moment the full force of her Sadistic mother hen mode was being directed at Silver. Not even he could resist when she came around. Walking in her watched as Red STAPLED a part of his head and then proceeded to lather it in a potion before wrapping it up. A soft glow of her horn made it evident that she had cast a spell on him.
"Well, I see you two are busy. I can come back later if you want."
"Nah, he'll be in pain but can talk. Just don't let him move, By the way, Howes Cadence doing?"
"Very well, she's making plans for our trip to the crystal empire after it mysteriously appeared again. So what's up Silv?"
"Too many dang things to go over, years of research gone and two pressing problems. First is that someone hired a team to eradicate this facility. Second, they let experiment six-two-Six out. A highly unstable life form with moderate destructive capabilities. But it is rather feral and needs to be dealt with."
"Speak with Beaker, He should be able to fill you in on who attacked us. Hunter's out looking for the experiment. I am going to rest….." With that Silvers, eyes shut and he promptly fell asleep. The rest of the room marveling how the boss seemed to get almost younger after falling asleep.
"Well get to it every pony, He needs his rest and there is a lot of work to do."
Shining nodded to Red as he and the rest of the Room left to give silver his peace. The pony looked like Tartarus. Shining called to Beaker and asked him what happened. "Well, Mr. Tong did the questioning himself and told me what he got. They don't know who hired them but were contracted by a Griffon named Middle Wing. We Suspect him to be the middle Pony in all this. They were ordered to do as much destruction as possible and even hurt anyone they felt like. Payment was to be given once the job was done via the mail."
"A risky way to be paid. I'll leave officer Quick quill on that route and have a few extra guards chase down the griffons that got away. I'll go help trace down this experiment that Silver was so adamant about. What does it look like?" Beaker opened his folder and looked at the document. Then looked back at Shining. "You may need some extra ponies. According to this Experiment six two six is a genetically engineered creature capable of eating anything, has night vision and superiors senses as well as heightened strength and speed. Has a terrible personality as well as a blue furry coat? Can lift one ton and run up to fifty miles an hour. Yah I don't know what they were thinking when they made it either."
Shining gathered the data and went off to find Hunter Trap to help find 626.
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Canter lot Park.
Violet Tong was playing by herself in the park, exploring all the unusual places and nooks that she just found so fascinating. Normally she would be playing a game with her friends but today they were busy.
After the third time of banging her head on a low hanging branch, she became bored. "Owie," She said as her head hit a branch for the fourth time. She swirled in place and collapsed onto the ground as the world sped by. "One day, one day I will run in a park and not get a headache." She said as she raised her head and hoof into the sky, with fire and passion clear to see.
She jumped back up and into a fighting position when she heard a rustling of leaves and a snarl. It sounded vaguely dog-like, not Dimond dog but actual dogs. Being the dog person, she was she looked around for the pooch. He brothers and parents where cat Ponies. But she loved them anyway, despite this obviously evil trait.
Violet looked around for the pooch and finally found it around a patch of thorn bushes. It was an odd little puppy. Its fur was blue for one and it had two antennae sticking out of its head. Right over two big expressive eyes. It had two big fluffy ears on its head that were as long as it was tall. Its teeth while not razor sharp were very thick and looked almost too big for its body. It paws? Hands? Whatever was clawed and looked like it was desperately trying to claw its way out of the Thorn bush.
However equestrian thorn bushes are really prickly and really hard to get off. She should know as she got stuck in them a lot. Getting tangled in equestrians leading weed was not anyone's opinion of a good day.
Violet reached out a hoof to try and get the bush off the strange dog but retracted it soon when the dog snarled at her. "Shhh little guy doesn't worry, Ill get that mean old bush off you in a jiffy. These bushes can really be trouble if you don't know where you're going. Just last week I got stuck in some and had to fight it for a good hour to get out….." Looking down Violet noticed she once again was also trapped in the Bush.
The dog that was snarling before was now smiling at the little creature that got stuck in the same trap.
"Don't worry I'll get you out of their anyway. I got loads of practice getting out of these." Almost like liquid Violet began to move around the prickly thorns and made a hole that she and the dog could use.
Very happy the dog started to jump about in wild excitement as Violet joined him outside the bush. "So, what's your name little fella?" The blue creature tilted its head before saying 'Name?"
Violet was a little startled that it could talk but consider the wired things that always popped up in equestrian. Well, it was no Perasprite invasion.
"Yah a name, Mines Violet Tong. Because of my violet fur, I guess we can name you Blue?" The creature thought it over but shook his head in the negative. She kept saying different words for a good while. "Tree? Argent? Swirl? Sun? Rocket? Blubber? Heavy?"
After an hour she was running out of ideas. She looked down at her hooves and notices that she got a few cuts. Dang, she hoped that would not be necessary this time. At least she didn't any more stitches this time. "How about stitch?" He was about to shake his head again but stopped. He considered the word "Stich?" He said testing the word.
"Yah a stitch, I got on my hoof here from falling off a roof. Not sure how I got on that roof but hey that's life."
"Misa Stich. Mia Stich. Misa STICH." He yelled out as he finally found something that fit. He was about to jump again when a pair of warm hooves wrapped around his middle. Looking down he saw the Pony was really tired and looked very drowsy. He wanted to break the hug and run away but the hug felt so good.
So, he laid down and went to sleep. As he slept his teeth retracted and his antennae were reabsorbed into his body. His ears wrapped around them like some sort of overly cute bunny. They woke up an hour later feeling a bit groggy. "Hug, it's getting late, do you want to come to my house? We can have a sleepover."
Stich considered this and nodded. He was only a few weeks old, he would need to learn a lot of things. On the way, back to Violets House, She noticed something. The entire journey whenever she was going to hit a post or do something clumsy Stich would lightly push her out of the way or warn her of a problem. When she got home she managed to sneak her into her room where they both promptly fell asleep.
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Research building four.
Silver was nudged awake and woken from another fitful nightmare. This one is a particularly bad one were the GIW were testing his cell regrowth rate via incisions. Cracking his head, he looked around at Red, Shining and Surprisingly Spit Fire looking at him with concern. He cursed himself again, Not only to have a nightmare but to show such weakness to others. That was a shameful display. Turning to red he said, "Please tell me that I wasn't screaming or anything."
"Yes you were, What were you dreaming about that made your stitches pop?"
"I'd rather not talk about it. How have things been going and why is my manfriend here?" He got up from his chair and went to go get a glass of water.
"We called her in when we needed more eyes In the sky. She figured she could turn this into an exercise for the cadets. Their out they're now whizzing about and scoping out the forest." He nodded at that and hugged Spit Fire.
"How are the recruits anyway? Are you settling in?"
"Yeah, they're a bunch of wimps but I can get them into decent shape." She said as she looked at the colt friend. He tried to look strong but she could tell from his letters that he must be exhausted. It was a lot of responsibilities he piled on himself and while coffee helped. It was no substitute for sleep.
"Now mister, You are going to go home and sleep, I don't care how much work you have to do, you are still clearly exhausted. So, get to bed or else I will have you doing laps around Canterlot till your hooves fall off. "
"Oh, will you be joining me for this Sleep?"
"NOPE, I got work to do. SO MOVE IT SOLDIER."
Smirking at her flustered appearance he called for a cab to take him home.
The next day.
Silver sat at his Kitchen table making breakfast. Sunnyside up eggs over a vegan hashbrown skillet and some pancakes off to the side. He disliked breakfast meats but made some bacon anyway. While most ponies did not eat meat they could. He was finishing up making freshly made orange juice when the door to his sister's room opened. His parents would still be asleep and might not realize he was here.
In his sleepy stupor, he had given directions to this house rather than his own home.
When gave him pause, however, was Experiment six two Six walking beside his sister and steering her towards the table, without tripping over once. OK, let's do a little math. Dangerous experiment in his home with his little sister. The experiment was helping her rather than mauling her. This is Equestria land of happiness. Then there are the extra appendages that 626 was missing. That soft sleepy look in his eyes. Equals the magic of friendship?
Deciding to just roll with it he brought over the stack of food onto the table. "So Violet whose your friend?"
"Oh, this is Stitch He's my new…. Dog, Yah dog." Stitch off to the side went "Woof, Woof." To play along and seemed to be reasonably intelligent. Making a mental note to cancel the hunt he put a plate of bacon in front of Stitch. "Eat up stitch."
Was his life ever going to be normal? He hoped not. Normal was boring.
"Stich before you two go, id like a word with you in my office." "Woof" he responded to as an acknowledgment.
Finishing up the skillet Silver washed the dishes and served the rest up for his parents to eat later. Violet went off to the bathroom while Stitch was left with Silver.
"My name is Silver Tong, the owner, and proprietor of the lab you escaped from." He holds a hoof up before Stitch could pounce. "Don't worry you don't have to go back. You are now a fully formed living being. When we made you, you were a byproduct of a genetics experiment. But here you are, so you can stay with my sister and I will pay for whatever upkeep you need." Stitch gave him the stink eye. He did not like that lab, it was boring and stuffy. Too many white clothed ponies sticking sharp things into him.
"Protect my sister. Yesterday when you escaped someone tried to break into the lab. They succeeded. I don't know who or why and that scares me. So protect Violet and I'll make sure you have everything you need." Reaching out a hoof Stich shook with it. "Chulla na la quista." He said. Not a nice thing but a confirmation non the less.
"Good, in reward you can expect a lot of good food and bacon." At this Stich nearly flew out of his chair in excitement. Large globs of saliva falling out of his mouth at the thought of all that food. "Mias be good, Stich protects nice pony." He pounded his chest in confirmation.
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So this was made a bit different to my other chapters. I wanted to try a bit of a different style and Think it fleshes things out more. If it works out you can get some more like these.
