Chapter 37: Diamond Tiara's Reformation
The weekend came and Tiara still hasn't come up to Lucky yet. Lucky figured this might be so, so she isn't going to bother Tiara anymore. She's made her decision and that's what she's sticking with. Lucky is in her office, it's 1:37 and Lucky's doing paperwork. She gets a call on her intercom. "Yes?" Mare said over the intercom, "You have a visitor, one who I think you'll be very surprised and happy to see." Lucky tilted her head, "Who is it?" Mare smiled, "You'll see. May I send her back?" Lucky shook her head smiling, "Sure, send her back." Mare chuckled, "Alright."
So after a minute there was a knock on the door. "Come in." In came Diamond Tiara. Lucky did indeed look surprised. "Well, Diamond Tiara. What did you come here for? To be mean?" Tiara gave Lucky a look, "No Princess. I came here because..." She sighed, not really looking too happy. "Can I sit down?" Lucky smiled and nodded, "Yes, you may." Putting emphasis on the 'may'. Tiara rolled her eyes and sat down. " I came here because... I thought about what you said to Silver Spoon and I. Silver immediately went to you after school the day you told us off, but I... well, it was harder for me. Nopony ever said that to us before, especially so angrily or anything like that.
"You got me thinking about all that you said, even what you said when you first started school at 5. I gave it some thought and now I think I want to be... g-good..." Lucky gave a scrutinizing look, "You know nopony is going to trust you, right? They trust Silver Spoon, only because she wasn't the main bully and the fact she was the first to clap at Granny Smith's presentation the year before I even came to Ponyville. I think I can say she was the nicer of you two, at least a little. Can you take the fact ponies won't be trusting you so easily?" Tiara looked down, contemplating. "I... I dunno... My first reaction is always to bite back at somepony, not literally obviously, I'm not that barbaric or cruel."
Lucky grinned, "I know what you meant. Well, how about you stick with me? If you get out of line, or say the wrong thing, I'll be there to correct you. Maybe within time, you'll start to be more nicer and you might be accepted and trusted." Tiara scoffed, "'Might'. Key word." Lucky got a solemn look, "I'm not promising anything, it will be your actions that will change ponies' minds. I'll just be helping shape your attitude." Tiara only nodded. "So, Diamond Tiara, after I finish up here, mind coming with me around town, just to hang out?" Tiara took some time to think about that one. "Well... I guess. Do I stay here, or do I leave and you'll come get me?" Lucky tilted her head, thinking. "Well, I think you can stay here, but stay in my office. We can talk or something."
"Ok..." So, until 2:30, they talked while Lucky did her paperwork. They left the office at 2:30 and started walking around Ponyville. Along the way, they met up with Vinyl Scratch. A rare sight to see the DJ out and about like this. "Hey Vinyl, what's up?", Lucky said. Vinyl looked in the direction of where the voice came from. "Oh, hey Princess, what's up? …." Lucky grinned, "The sky." Tiara rose an eyebrow. Vinyl and Lucky chuckled together. "Y'know, I gotta stop saying that. But you caught me off guard by saying the exact same thing that makes you say, 'the sky'. Kid, you're too smart for your own good." Lucky chuckled again, "Yup, got that from Aunt Twilight. I'm smart just like her."
"Yeah, you are. So, what's with you hanging with Diamond Tiara? I thought she was a bully." Lucky looked at Tiara, who didn't look too happy. "Well, she was, but on my birthday, at school, I told her and Silver Spoon off, you already heard the story at my party, well, Tiara took longer to think about what I said, even when I was 5 when I first went to school." Vinyl looked impressed. "You're a miracle filly, you know that? To get Tiara to even think about what she does is astounding." Lucky just shrugged like it was nothing. "Ever so modest huh Princess?" Lucky chuckled, "Maybe. So hey, do you wanna hang out with us too, or you going to see Octavia?"
"I'm about to go see 'Tavi, but you could come with us then the 4 of us could hang out if she doesn't mind. You hardly see us anyways, with me being a DJ and being booked a lot of places all the time and 'Tavi being in a classical music band and being booked a lot too. I think it would be fun hanging out with the Princess and her new acquaintance, or is Tiara a friend?" Lucky smiled, "I would say she be a friend, unless she does something or says something that tells me that she is not going to change." Tiara looked at Lucky disbelievingly. "You consider me a friend?" Lucky nodded. "Yes, I do. Do anything that tells me that you won't change, and you won't be and I will have given up on you and won't bother you about becoming good." Tiara, for the first time, felt a tiny pang at the 'given up on you'.
"'Given up on me'?", a tiny tiny crack in her voice as she asks. Lucky caught that. "Yes, I will have given up on you if you make one slip-up that you will stay bad." Tiara looked down at the ground, "Nopony ever gave up on me, actually nopony even thought to give me a chance at being good, but I would have denied them anyways, but you... I dunno, you must have had some way with your words that I even considered becoming good..." Lucky grinned. "Jeez kid, you really are a miracle. You should be proud of yourself, and Tiara that she'd even consider being good" Lucky nodded, "I am proud."
Tiara looked away, having a defiant look. Lucky and Vinyl chuckled, then the three of them went off to Octavia's place. When they were walking there, ponies were looking and whispering amongst themselves. Tiara looked mad. "Diamond Tiara, do not respond. Let them be. They're surprised just as I was when you came into my office telling me you wanted to be good. Let them whisper amongst themselves." Tiara huffed, but obeyed Lucky's order. When they got to Octavia's place, she was actually leaving. "Octavia!", Lucky called out. Octavia finished locking the door, then turned around, giving a surprised look at who is with Vinyl and Lucky.
"Hi Princess, Vinyl, and surprisingly Diamond Tiara." Diamond Tiara looked at Lucky, gesturing that Lucky is the influence behind her with them. Octavia knew that though, because Lucky told everypony at her party about what she told Silver and Tiara. "Well, would you two like to spend some time with Vinyl and I?" Lucky smiled, "Sure, Vinyl already said we could." Octavia nodded, then the four went off walking through town. "So Princess, how busy are you during tax time?", Octavia asks. "Very busy. I have everypony in Ponyville's taxes to do and return. Ponyville may be small, but there's still a lot of ponies."
"Yeah there are. So yeah, you would be very busy. How do you do it? Aren't you exhausted at the end of your work day?", Vinyl asks. "Yeah I am. I am now to be honest, but no tiredness can keep me from helping Tiara become good. I'll still help anypony no matter how exhausted I am." Vinyl and Octavia smiled. "You're a very good Princess Lucky. We're lucky to have you..." Octavia giggled, having been the one to say that. Vinyl and Lucky chuckled. Tiara didn't get it at first, but then thinking, she almost smiled. Lucky then said as she grinned, "I guess my luck is rubbing off on you guys." Vinyl said, "Yeah, seems like it." They ended up at the park and Lucky wanted to play on the playground. "That's for babies and toddlers...", Tiara said.
"No it's not. It's for anypony. It's for fun and anypony who likes to have fun can play on it. Come on Tiara, come play with me." Lucky dragged Tiara to the playground and Lucky started playing. "Oh, come ooooooon Tiara! Don't be such a spoil sport. Play!" Tiara sighed and joined Lucky hesitantly, but as time went on, she started to have fun. Vinyl and Octavia were impressed. Now Vinyl sees Derpy coming. "Hi Derpy." Derpy smiled happily. "Hi Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. What are you doing here at the playground?" Octavia answered, "We're watching Diamond Tiara and the Princess play." Derpy looked a tad surprised, "Diamond Tiara? Isn't she a bully?" Octavia smiled, "Not anymore it seems. Lucky seemed to have reformed her for the good."
"Yay! Alright Princess Lucky Fire! Woo-hoo!" Lucky heard Derpy, smiled, and waved, "Hiya Derpy!" Derpy waved back, "Hi!" Then more and more ponies came to see Diamond Tiara play with Lucky nicely. There were surprised and awed exclamations, which Tiara was starting to get tired of by the 10th exclamation. "Diamond...", Lucky said warningly. Tiara didn't look too happy, but she ignored them and went to swing on the swingset. Lucky followed her. "I hope all this shock and whispering will die down fast...", Tiara said. Lucky shrugged, "Who knows? It might, it might not. Just ignore the whispers and stuff. Just carry on as they are not saying a word or even surprised or shocked. Eventually it will blow over and everything will be normal again."
Tiara just gave one small nod this time. So, for the rest of the day the two fillies played, Tiara had a couple other of her moments, but Lucky calmed her and got her to behave. This will take a while for Tiara to be good on her own with no reminders from the Ponyville Princess. Lucky walked Tiara home, which Tiara took a bit to say thanks, and Lucky smiled happily at that, then she went home too. "Mom, ma, I'm home and guess what?" Rainbow came into the living room. "What?" Lucky grinned, "Diamond Tiara came to my office and said she wanted to try to be good, so we spent from 2:30 till now together and she made progress towards being good!" Applejack came in. "Wow, ya really have a way with ponies Lucky, ya know that?" Lucky smiled proudly.
"Ha, that's our girl, the one who can reform anypony. Where were you when we needed to reform Discord?", Rainbow said, and she said the whole, 'where were you' thing jokingly. "Kidding about the Discord comment, Fluttershy did very good with that. I'm seriously proud of you, and so is Applejack. You're doing a wonderful job as Princess and as a friend." Lucky smiled, then yawned. "I need sleep. I didn't have supper no, but tax season and a whole day's worth of playing with Tiara tired me out to where I'm too tired to eat." She gave AJ and RD a hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Good night, love you guys." Then she went to bed. Rainbow and Applejack smiled, they raised their filly exceptionally well.
A/N: yh... sorry :( I wasn't getting inspiration to write much and I finally had the inspiration, oddly enough while listening to and watching Rainbow Factory XD woooow, how grimdark is that? Lol. Finally got this chapter finished though. Also, I'm not sure if I will make Twilight an Alicorn... Lucky is already Princess of Ponyville... hmm... what should I do?