A Little Smarty Problem
By
Sparknanator
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Things at the apple family’s farm had seemed to simmer down a bit and as Big Mac promised he gave Smarty Pants candy. The little filly was more than excited at first, not knowing what candy was; only being told, on the way back, that it was a treat. Big Mac did not think his plan through completely. Walking back into the living room Big Mac saw the filly laying on the floor gripping her stomach with a pile of empty candy wrappers behind her, “What in tha,’” Big Mac started walking over to the filly. “Smarty did ya’ eat all of tha’ candy at once?”Big Mac asked.
Smarty nodded groaning a bit, “Y-yes.” The filly just whimpered a bit, “Daddy my tummy hurts!” She whined, holding her stomach still, “It feels like my tummy is going to explode!” Smarty nearly shouted.
Big Mac chuckled a bit, shaking his head, “Smarty, ya’ shouldn’t eat that much candy. Eatin’ too much will give ya a tummy ache.” He poked her stomach lightly causing Smarty to burp. “Well come on Smarty let get’cha in tha’ bath” Big Mac said before lifting the filly onto his back despite the fact she was whining the whole time.
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Twilight smiled at her work, she had just finished putting a room together for Smarty. Looking around she noticed that everything seemed to be intact and in perfect order like it should be, everything in a neat pile, the bed made without a single crease, and the pillow centered perfectly. It looked perfect; unbeknownst to the mare Spike was right behind her, “Hey Twilight?” Spike said, causing the mare to jump and scream Twilight glared at Spike.
“Spike what have I told you about sneaking up on ponies?!” Twilight asked while glaring at the baby dragon, “Scaring me like that” Twilight thought to herself “Nearly gave me a damn heart attack!” Twilight looked at Spike and sighed, “Sorry Spike just today has been stressful to say the least.”
“Well umm Cheerilee is downstairs, she said something about a school registration form.” Spike said shrugging, “I’m not sure what she is bringing you one of those for.” Spike tried to contain himself, “Other than the fact you are finally enrolling me in school!” Spike thought.
Twilight blinked at the baby dragon, “A school registration form? Spike are you sure you heard her right?” Twilight asked and Spike nodded, “Alright I’ll go and check it out.” Twilight said walking downstairs and seeing Cheerilee sitting at the table Twilight had in the middle of the library.
Cheerilee smiled “There you are Twilight.” Cheerilee said, sitting the paper on the table “The princesses sent me a letter and asked me to bring this to you.” Twilight looked at the magenta mare, cocking an eyebrow, “She said its to get your foal signed up for school.”
“Oh! Thank you Cheerilee.” Twilight facehoofed cursing at herself internally “Do you want me to bring this to you tomorrow? Or do you want to just sit here while I fill it out?” Twilight asked.
“I wouldn’t mind sitting here so when I get to the school tomorrow I can get it in my files and have him or her on record.” Cheerilee said smiling. “If you don’t mind.”
Twilight shook her head, “No I don’t mind at all.” the lavender mare said, “Spike can you get us some tea?” Twilight asked.
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Big Mac huffed as he sat down on the couch; after he had gotten Smarty in the bath he had explained what shampoo and soap are for and not even a few minutes after he left he heard Smarty screaming. When he came in he saw that Smarty had taken a glob of shampoo and put it in her eye, she thought that she could clean her eyes with it too. When Big Mac had finally gotten it out and got Smarty to stop crying she hiccuped a bubble. Big Mac grabbed a picture of Granny Smith, “Granny, ah don’t know what ah’m goin’ ta’ do...” he looked at the picture somberly, “Ah fear tha' day when ya' come back home...”
Applejack walked out of the kitchen to see her older brother holding a picture of their grandmother. The orange earth pony sat on the couch, giving her brother a bottle of cider, “Ah figured ya’ could use that after tha’ day you’ve had.” Applejack said as Big Mac put the picture back down. “Mac, listen ah’m sure ya’ know what yer’ doin’, shucks ya’ helped Granny raise me an’ Applebloom.” Applejack laughed a little, “Ah remember when you were foalsittin’ us one time an’ ah thought it would be a good idea ta’ put Applebloom’s bottle in tha’ microwave fer’ ten minutes with tha’ settin’ on high.”
Big Mac chuckled, “Ah remember. Tha’ thing melted an’ ah had ta’ clean it before Granny got back from workin’ on tha’ field.” the two kept laughing, “Ah never thought ah’ would be a father... Or not this soon at least.” While the siblings kept talking and laughing at old memories they didn’t notice a grey filly walking down stairs until she was right in front of them, “Smarty? Ah thought ah put ya’ down fer’ bed.”
Smarty rubbed her eyes “Daddy I’m thirsty can I have some water? Or juice?” Smarty asked.
“Ah guess, but then its right off ta’ bed with ya’ an’ no ifs or butts ‘bout it.” Big Mac said. Right as he was about to get up he noticed Applejack walking to the kitchen.
“Ah got’cha covered” Applejack said.
Big Mac decided, while they waited, to pick Smarty Pants up and place her on his lap but that’s when Smarty got an idea, “Ah’m not sure about this” Smarty said. Trying her best to replicate a southern accent. Big Mac looked down at the filly who just smiled back at him, “See I can talk like you!” Smarty said with a large grin just as Applejack came back into the living room with a small glass of juice, “Thank you auntie.” Smarty said taking the glass.
“Your welcome Smarty.” Applejack said as the filly started drinking the glass of juice. Within the blink of an eye, Smarty had finished off the glass. Applejack just blinked, “Wow ya’ must have been thirsty.”
“Ah’ll say.” Big Mac stared at Smarty “Well go on off ta’ bed with ya.’” The red stallion stated placing Smarty on the floor and giving the filly a playful swat on her rear end. Smarty galloped up stairs giggling.
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Twilight had finished filling out all of the forms and double checking them before giving them to Cheerilee. After the magenta mare left, congratulating Twilight on her new foal, but now Twilight had another mission: to try and get Spike to sleep in his room. Every night since Twilight and Spike had moved to Ponyville she had tried to get him to sleep in his own room, the same room she had spent hours setting up for him. It was clear to Twilight that he was ready for bed so Twilight decided to try at least once tonight. She was tired after the events that had played out during the day and would sleep as well.
Twilight walked over to Spike and nuzzled him in a motherly way as she had done for many years, “Hey Spike how about you try sleeping in your room tonight.” Twilight whispered sweetly in his ear. Spike, as always, answered with a simple ‘no’. She sighed before levitating Spike, walking upstairs to her room and placing Spike in his bed.
Spike quickly curled up under the blankets while Twilight went into her closet to grab a nightgown, it was just a plain white nightgown. As the lavender mare started putting it on she heard the sound of Spike snoring. Once Twilight had her nightgown on she walked over to Spike, seeing the baby dragon sucking his thumb Twilight giggled quietly, “Somethings never change.” she gently tucked Spike in “I guess thats not a bad thing” Twilight thought to herself as she climbed into her bed. “But...how are my parents...and Shining and Cadence going to take this?” Twilight had decided she would cross that bridge when it came.
It's all in bold...
3025538 thank you for pointing that out I am fixing it right now
It's all in bold...
And the writing style... It seems off. I don't know why, but...
~Skeeter The Lurker
3025569 I fixed the bold and I know this chapter is rushed but I was sort of in a rush when writing it
Nice to see you back, and I don't know if it was intentional or not but all the wording is in bold.
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Don't rush. NEVER rush. Take your time and make it a great one.
After all... We can wait. There are other fics we can read while we wait.
~Skeeter The Lurker
3025583 I'm not going to with the new chapter I've just had this idea for so long XD
3025579 I noticed and fixed it
Uhm... Granny was alive in the first two chapters. When did she up and die?
Granny Smith's dead???
Ha, AJ trying to burn the house down!!! Why is Mac worrying? It sounds like he's a great dad!! And I fear for Smarty when she stays with Twilight....
3025613 Are you sure about that? I don't remember having her in the first two chapters...I remember having trouble deciding what I was going to do with her from the start
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From chapter 1 and she is in chapter 2 as well.
3025613 So I just read over the chapters in question...And no she isn't alive I was just saying that she would get up and help out so I never said that she was alive nor nor dead until this chapter
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Yep... chapter 1.
Chapter 2.
3025685 Crap! Well then...I guess I will have to rewrite this chapter...sorry...
3025701 Thanks for pointing that out and sorry about that so I've minorly edited it so that way it won't hint that she is dead! Sorry again I've just been super busy lately and under a bit of stress but I will rewrite the chapter tomorrow
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No worries. Just noticed a consistency error and wanted to point it out to you. I hope it didn't add to any of your stress and if it did I do apologize.
3025753 No you didn't ^^ but yeah I guess I will have it so she went to...umm what is the place Breburn is from again? XD I can't remember
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Appleoosa or some spelling thereof.
3025780 She is there XD for now but other than that one mess up...did you notice anything else I messed up? With the characters?
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Nothing stood out as being off about the characters other than that. Mac seemed to be pretty consistent with what we could assume would be behavior of suddenly finding yourself the dad of a magically created child and Twilight seemed to be her usual self.
I have the feeling that issues with Spike will come up in the future though given that it seems he wants to go to school but that is supposition coming from a reader.
3025809 That thing wth Granny Smith though was an honest mistake and Spike...well I was talking to my editor and originally this was a joke about him being a baby dragon so he should be in preschool...I am thinking of doing that I'm not sure of course but I am thinking about it
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Go with whatever you want with that I say, if I might be allowed say (or rather type) so.
Well so much for Granny Smith's reaction to all of this. Still glad to see this fic is back.
3026143 She is with Breburn XD I know I messed up I am going to fix it tomorrow just go through rewrite it a bit
Well, seems like this story's picking back up. Good to see that.
Looking forward to more silly filly antics.
Well, Smarty should be happy to have parents like them.
A father who is hardworking and compassion, at the same time don't talk much.
And a mother who is intelligent and caring,myet sometimes overworks herself.
Yep, somehow that fits my parents.
Alright your back still loving the interaction between Smart Pants and her parents. Maybe Spike should go to school as well, I mean he would be the same age as Smarty Pants and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. And it would be nice seeing him hanging around his own peers
Twilight loves Spike, no question. but ...
I wonder if letting him go to school would help him grow physically. He sees himself as a baby so his body stays small and pudgy but if he goes to school he may think of himself as older and cause his body to grow to fill his new self image ... this is just an idea i had as a counter to greed growth ...
Twilight has probably educated him up to at least Jr high if not High school level. So he should not need to go to school to learn long division but he does seem like he wants to go for the social experience and a brother to watch over Smarty at school cant hurt. (they are about the same age after all. I think Spike is older by a few months not counting the time he was a egg... )
ya know... I never really thought of it, but that dragon should talk about that. seriously, can't blame him for not wanting to go to school-
I mean... he does have an awesome sister/ teacher/ colleague/ mother/ best friend.
oh thank gawd she calmed down... she still here isn't she?
Cool an new chapter now lets see what's going to happen next.
thanks a lot.
Good luck and best wish.
I can't wait for Shining Armor starts to Intimidate/scare to death Big Mackintosh, is the Big Brother's duty to scare manureless anypony who tries to date/have a foal with his sister after all, regardless how that foal was concevied in the first place
The most noticeable thing I noticed in this chapter is the part where Spike thought that Twi's gonna enroll him to the school.
Doesn't he study? Or is he homeschooled by the lavender mare?
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I suppose he was homeschooled by Twilight, ain't no other explanation. I also like how this story portrays spike as a real member of the sparkle family. Twilight has been both, a maternal figure and a big sister to him.
First off with big mac you raised your sisters yet you forgot the whole 'make sure they know not to eat candy all at once' thing?
Smarty coming down for her glass of juice
Spike wanting to be in school
Twi tucking spike in
Wow! This is a fantastic story, I've read quite a few "come to life" smarty pants stories, this one takes 1st place. 5 chapters in, I'm not sure I can stop.
Also... I hate to be that guy, but...
Cheerilee is Fucshia.
Well umm Cheerilee is downstairs
She said its to get
Your welcome Smarty
Somethings never change
1. You need a comma here.
2. It's.
3. You're. Or Yer since it's in an accent.
4. Forgot your spacing.
Where did Granny go? Wasn't she there that morning?