Hitch sat on the couch in the brighthouses living room reading a book as Sparky slept in his lap while Sunny was over the halfway point to falling asleep with her head on his shoulder.
"aw, such a cute little family" Zipp teased as she walked past.
"I'd so hit you right now if a fire hazard and an alicorn weren't sleeping on me" Hitch replied before the white pegasus went outside.
a few moments passed as Sunny fully fell asleep and Sparky sneezed a small spark of orange fire.
"hey so I had the idea of doing a study on life when the crystals were separated. what was growing up without magic like?" CC asked as she teleported behind the couch, leaning on its back.
"well, I got stuck in an empty well for an hour when I was nine" Hitch responded, unfazed.
"oooo~" CC whistled before teleporting away.
she quickly reappeared sitting in the nearby armchair holding a notepad and quill.
"do tell" she smirked.
he sighed as he closed the book he was holding before placing it on the arm of the couch.
"it was a year after I got my cutie mark..." Hitch began, wrapping a front hoof around the orange alicorn and gently placing his other against the baby dragons head.
a colt Hitch trotted down the street, listening to Sunny talk about unicorn history.
"did you know they had to change the entire economy system because some unicorns were commiting counterfeit? fascinating!" Sunny exclaimed.
"more proof that unicorns and pegasi are nothing but trouble" Sprout interrupted as he walked up to the pair.
"not all unicorns and pegasi are bad Sprout!" Sunny replied with frustration.
"how do you know that? you've never met one" the red earth pony scoffed.
"neither have you!" Sunny responded, almost yelling.
"she has a point Sprout. you've never met a unicorn or a pegasus and as my mom always says, 'you should always assume the best'" Hitch stated, placing his hoof on Sunny's shoulder so he could pull her back if she went crazy.
"I hate your mom. her bakings the worst" Sprout groaned as he walked away.
Hitch scowled as he moved his hoof away from Sunny and placed it on the ground.
"I always get frustrated when somepony insults my parents so I decided to wander alone to cool off" Hitch continued, ignoring the hybrid as she wrote something down in her notepad.
"good to know" CC whispered.
"what's that supposed to mean?" Hitch asked.
"I mean it's good to know if I need an angry buff earth pony for…I dunno, something" CC replied.
Hitch rolled his eyes before continuing.
a colt Hitch walked down a path on the edge of town, focused solely on his thoughts.
he cried out as his front hoof tripped on something, causing him to fall over onto the edge of an old well.
he gave a small groan, only to fall in when he pushed his hoof down on the bricks.
the yellow earth pony made a small squeak sound before he fell right on his left front leg and passed out.
"I'm not exactly sure how long I was unconscious, probably somewhere between five to ten minutes" Hitch said, brushing his hoof against Sunny's wing.
"interesting. did you suffer any consequences from that?" CC interrupted, momentarily stopping her writing.
"yeah. now whenever somepony interrupts my stories I want to hit them in the face" Hitch remarked.
CC motioned the act of zipping her mouth and throwing away the key.
a colt Hitch groaned as he woke up.
he tried standing up, hissing when he applied pressure to his left front leg.
"oh Celestia" his voice echoed against the circular walls as he looked up and saw how far down he was. the well was at least 25 hooves deep and there was mucky water from the rain that was half a hoof deep.
"hello!? anypony up there!?" he yelled.
"I was yelling for like, half an hour. I'm surprised nopony heard me for that long" Hitch spoke as his ear twitched.
"me too. this is why magic is useful. you could've used plant magic to climb out" CC said as she waved her quill about.
"I never have and probably never will learn how to climb with three hooves" Hitch replied.
he then gasped when Sunny nuzzled up against him.
"well if magic was around at the time a pegasus could have flown down and helped you out" CC said, teleporting away her current quill and getting out another one from under her wing.
"well that's a problem" she mumbled when she saw the ink stain on her wing from the quill.
"will you just let me tell the story?" Hitch asked.
CC nodded as her quill and notepad began floating and the quill began writing by itself.
a wet cloth then teleported onto her hoof and she began rubbing it against the ink stain.
"hello? I'm down here!" a colt Hitch cried out, sitting in the mucky water while lifting up his left front leg.
he sighed, slouching against the bricks.
"oh Celestia, I'm stuck here aren't I?" he mumbled.
he winced at the pain he felt when he tried to move his leg.
"help! anypony? I'm stuck down here!" he yelled, continuing his cry for help.
a small thud went off as the book on the arm of the chair fell off and onto the floor, waking the orange alicorn.
"what are you two talking about?" Sunny mumbled as she sat up.
"we're talking about when I got stuck in a well" Hitch replied.
"oh yeah...I'm pretty sure I was chasing Sprout with a stick for saying that horn sinking disease is a good thing. I still have no clue how he learned about that" Sunny spoke, still partly asleep.
"what's that?" Pipp asked as she flew over.
"its a disease that only really effects unicorns. basically somepony born with horn sinking disease has a weaker skull, meaning as they grow older their horn slowly sinks into their head and its actually fatal if the horn isn't surgically removed before the age of five" Sunny explained.
"sounds sad. bye!" Pipp responded before flying out the open front door.
"as I was saying..." Hitch trailed off as he took a deep breath to continue.
a colt Hitch sat in the half hoof deep mucky water, holding up his left front hoof with his right.
"eighty-eight boxes of cake on the wall, eighty-eight boxes of cake. take one down, pass it to Tom. eighty-seven boxes of cake on the wall" he sang with a disappointed voice.
"eighty-seven boxes of cake on the wall, eighty-seven boxes of cake. take one down, pass it to Tom. eighty-six boxes of cake on the wall" he continued, not noticing the faint sound of somepony approaching the well.
"hello? somepony down there?" a male voice asked.
Hitch looked up, a smile appearing when he saw a blue earth pony cautiously looking over the edge down at him. his tied back mane was a mix of darkish blue and purple, along with a chunk of white. his coat was a bluish teal and he wore a necklace with a wooden circle with a sparkle cut into it.
"mr Starshine! I've been stuck down here for almost an hour! I think my leg is broken!" Hitch yelled.
"I'll go get help! I promise you'll be out soon!" Argyle replied before disappearing from the yellow earth pony's sight.
Hitch sighed at the knowledge he would be stuck for a little while longer.
"eighty-six boxes of cake on the wall, eighty-six boxes of cake. Take one down, pass it to Tom. eighty-five boxes of cake on the wall" he sang.
"I was there for about ten more minutes while they got prepared to rescue me" Hitch continued while Sunny hopped off the couch and headed to the kitchen.
"did you cry at any point?" CC asked.
"why do you ask?" Hitch queired.
"I'm just saying, if I had been stuck in a well with a broken leg for an hour without magic as a kid I would've cried my eyes right out of my head. if I had the same shapeshifting powers as my dad I probably could have. wait, forgot about the without magic thing" CC laughed.
"um..." he trailed off as Sunny walked over.
"hey, what do you want to have for lunch?" Sunny asked.
"oh, we could have pancakes" Hitch suggested after giving the hybrid a nervous glance.
"good idea! wanna help?" Sunny questioned, accidentally flying up from excitement.
"do I? just let me put Sparky down" Hitch replied.
Hitch cautiously and carefully picked up a still sleeping Sparky off his lap.
he then put down Sparky next to him on the couch.
CC scowled at him as he then left the room.
"do you have the rope?" a orangish yellow earth pony asked.
the reddish orange earth pony walking over to the old well nodded, reaching into his saddle bag and pulling out a wildly long rope.
he then began lowering the looped part of the rope down into the well.
when he stopped the small crowd seemed to hold their breaths.
after a few moments somepony inside the well tugged on the rope.
the reddish orange earth pony then began pulling up.
a few moments of pulling later, a colt Hitch's hoof managed to grab the edge of the well.
he then climbed out, wincing when he used his left front leg.
"Hitch!" Sunny cried out, running up and hugging him.
"hey Sunny" he sighed.
"are you okay? How's your leg?" a light red coated earth pony stallion asked as he walked over.
"I think it's broken" Hitch replied.
"do you know where the sugar is? I can't find it" Sunny asked as she rummaged through one of the lower kitchen cupboards.
Hitch shrugged in reply as he stirred the unfinished pancake batter.
"dad stop!" CC yelled from the living room.
the yellow earth pony and the orange alicorn rushed out of the kitchen, only to see a long bearded draconequus holding a dragon sneeze flower being restrained by CC next to the couch, where Sparky was sneezing orange fire wildly.
"where the hell did you even get that thing!? Dragon sneeze trees have been extinct for a millenia!" CC yelled, holding back the draconequus by his paw.
"I had one in my pocket dimension!" the draconequus cackled.
"Discord!?" Sunny exclaimed from next to a very confused Hitch.
"you're crazy!" CC screamed, ignoring both Hitch and Sunny.
"no, I'm the lord of chaos!" the draconequus replied with a laugh.
CC then opened a portal behind her leading to a mysterious dimension with floating islands and some guy's skeleton drifting about.
the hybrid then cried out as she threw Discord into the portal before quickly closing it.
"sorry about that. Guess my dad got a bit too excited when I told him about Sparky at our last tea party" CC awkwardly shrugged.
"you've been telling your dad about my son?" Hitch queired.
Sunny then placed her hoof on his shoulder.
"Sunny, I'm not going to get mad about that, you can take your hoof off my shoulder" Hitch said as he gently pushed her hoof off of him.
she said nothing in reply.
"of course I've been telling him about Sparky, he's the second dragon in over a thousand years to be born naturally!" CC explained.
"anyways, what 'cha making?" CC asked as she returned to standing on all four hooves.
"pancakes, you want some?" Sunny asked.
"of course! But quick question…would either of you like to accompany me to the changeling hive?" CC questioned.
"sure!" Sunny replied.
"when is it?" Hitch asked.
"either tomorrow or the day after" CC responded.
"sounds good" Hitch smiled as he turned around to enter the kitchen.
credits
writing: hanhanlovesbananas
inspiration: my little pony make your mark, my little pony a new generation, my little pony friendship is magic