BabyPoniesStory

The Baby Ponies and A New Land!     " And now, to kick-off our Spring Festival, here's the Baby Pony Dancers! With three new additions! Introducing : Baby Sparkler, Sweet Pop, and Scribbles! " announces Milky Way.

    " Yay! Go Babies! " shouts Sparkler from the crowd.

    As the music starts (courtesy of Spike). the curtain goes up and out prances six Babies. Babies Sparkler, Heart Throb, Scribbles, Surprise, Lickity-Split, and Sweet Pop.

    The number opens with all the Dancers doing moves together, then, one by one, did a solo. Lickity, who seems to be the best, does fancy twirls and graceful side steps. The applause at the end is thundering, and the Dancers finish off the show with a grand bow.

    The curtain closes. Ponies begin to file down the path to play games. But four Ponies and a Baby dragon go in the opposite direction.

The Dancers are backstage, all still in their leotards and tutus. All but one.

" Get this thing off me! " screeches Baby Sparkler. Her leo is still on one hind leg, and the tutu is not quite over her head. With one final tug, the tutu pops off and little Sparky sprawls out on the stage.

" Thparkee! Be gentwul! " moans Baby Heart Throb.

" Yeah Sparky, " pipes in Baby Sweet Pop.

" Yeah! Yeah! " shouts Baby L-S.

" Girls! " scolds Milky Way as she trots on-stage.

The girls turn their heads and whistle, as if trying to say, " We didn't do anything. "

Milky Way clears her throat. " You did very well out there. You all should be proud of yourselves. "

" Thank you Milky Way, " the Dancers chime in unison. Well, almost all of them.

Baby L-S gives Baby Sparky a light kick.

" Yes, thanks, " Baby Sparky says as she leaves, setting her costume in the corner.

" Baby Sparkler! Come back this instant! " her mother orders. " Don't leave things lying around! Now gently pick them up and take them to the nursery. The rest of you should go too. You don't want your costumes to get dirty, do you? "

" No Sparkler, " five of the Dancers reply.

" Humph! " Baby Sparky grumbles. Sort of reluctantly, sort of obediently, she picks up the costume, tossing it onto her back. Sparky then proceeds to stamp away in a huff.

Scribbles shakes her head. " Sparkler, I am very glad my daughter does not behave like your Baby Sparkler. "

Sparkler sighs, and smiles wanly. " She's like me. Independent, tough, and has a very very complex mind that nobody can understand. "

Scribbles prances out behind Milky Way, Surprise, and Baby Lickity Split.

" Great show guys, " Spike mews, breaking the silence, then following the other Ponies.

    Sparkler finds herself alone with the four remaining Dancers.

    Baby Scribbles steps forward. " It is all right Miss Sparkler. Mama may not like how Sparky acts, but we like her because that's what makes her special. "

    " You have alwayth been good with wordth, Thcribbleth, " comments Baby Heart Throb.

    " Right on Heart Throb! " cheers Baby Sweet Pop.

    Baby Surprise steps forward and giggles. " Yeah, if Sparky was different, I don't think we'd like her. Not one bit! "

    Sparkler laughs. " Now there's something I would have to agree with! "
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Baby Sparkler was just finishing up putting her costume away in her drawer when They arrived. The Three Snobs.

The Three Snobs were the Pretty Mane Ponies, or how Sparky also liked to call them, the Pretty Mean Ponies. Scribbles, the queen, Dabble, and Zig Zag. Zig Zag isn't a real Snob, she's just a Pretty Mane, so she was automatically put in the group, making the present trio.

" Well, well, well. Isn't it our little Sparkler? " sneers Scribbles. " Oh! Look girls! Baby Sparkler hasn't put her costume away! "

Stay calm Sparkins, Sparky thought. Stay calm! " I, I have put it away. It's right here, " Sparky stammers, tossing her head to the left.

Scribbles crosses over to her. She bumps Sparky away, sending her to the floor. She then yanks out the costume with a sickening RIP!!, flinging it onto the dresser top. Unfortunately, only the leo lands on target. The tutu lands on Dabble's head.

" My mane! " Dabble cries, almost in pain.

Zig Zag nudges the tutu off Dabble, and it flutters gently down into a ruffled mess on the pink floor.

" Why do you guys pick on me all the time! Would you like it if I rained on your recital? " yelps Sparky incredulously.

Zig Zag looks nervous. She has never really fit in with Scribbles and Dabble. Zig Zag is more like a shadow, following after the leader.

Scribbles looks as if she's about to bust a gasket in anger. " You think you're so important. Unlike Pegasi and Flutters, you can't go anywhere. Not far, anyway. Flutters have Flutter Valley. Pegasi can fly wherever they want. Earth Ponies belong in Dream Valley. Unicorns, have no origin, " Scribbles taunts.

" So is there any importance for Unicorns? No, " Dabble pipes in.

Sparky is on the brink of tears, but she fights them back. " Oh yeah? Then I guess you've forgotten all of the Unicorn heroines. Let's see, how about Powder and Fizzy, just to name a few. "

Scribbles looks defeated. " Come on girls. There's no use talking to this Unicorn trash. "

The Three Snobs file out the purple door of the nursery, trampling the tutu on the way.

Sparky's hind legs give out as the door slams shut. Is the Snob Queen right? Is there no place for Unicorns? Where were Powder and Fizzy, anyway? Sparky starts to sob.

The door opens, and the five other Dancers come in laughing. Lickity, who is in the lead, comes to a dead halt. Scribbles plows into Lickity, and everyone crashes in a pile inside the doorway.

" Why are you crying Thparky? " Heart Throb says looking up.

Sparky gets up, picks up the tutu and ripped leo, and tosses them on her bed. " I don't wanna talk about it, " she states flatly, then stomps out the door.
~*~

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    " Good shot Sparkler! " cries Sundance.

    Sparkler was shooting a ball at at a ball throw game. The object was to throw a ball from a line into a bottomless basket tacked to a tree.

    " So what did I win? " Sparkler asks in a child-like voice.

    " Respect! " squeals Sundance, but Sparkler can tell she's only joking. Then she gets serious.

    " Sorry, but only the Babies get prizes. "

    " Miss Sparkler! " a voice shouts.

    Baby Scribbles is galloping toward Sparkler. But when she gets past the pie eating contest table, she trips.

    " Aaah! " she screams.

    SPLAT!

    And poor Baby Scribbles lands face down in a Bushwoolie fruit pie.

    With a sucking noise, little Scribbs releases her face from the thick cream. Pie filling cakes her mane, ears, eyelids, and has stuffed up her nostrils it seems.

    She licks her lips, and still in good humor, says, " Well, it sure is mighty tasty. "

    " Scribbs! " Sparkler squeals.

In no time, a circle of Ponies has enveloped the pied Baby. After what sounds like a flood of jumbled questions, Scribbs speaks. " I'm fine. Just let me go to the river to wash up, " she states solemnly.

The crowd vanishes in the bat of a Pony's eye. Sparkler turns away. " Miss Sparkler? " She turns back around.

" Will you accompany me to the river, please? " asks the pitiful little cream puff.
~*~

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" I had no idea what was going on, Miss Sparkler. I saw Mama and Dabble and Zig Zag coming out of the nursery before Sparky left. She was balling. Just balling, " Scribbs explains to Sparkler.

So far, Sparkler hasn't liked one bit of what li'l Scribbs has told her. " And where is she now? "

Scribbs hesitates.

" Where's my Sparky girl? "

Scribbs opens her mouth. " I - I don't - know...." she manages to squeak out.

Scribbs gets up. " I have to talk to Mama, Miss Sparkler. Bye bye. "

When Scribbs is out of view, Sparkler uses her Unicorn magic to disappear to an unknown place.
~*~

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It was nearly sunset when Sparky stopped running. After leaving the nursery, she didn't go anywhere she knew of. She just ran.

Now Sparky finds herself lost. She had followed one river, then turned back once she reached the bottom of a waterfall. A run - off of the river went far out West of Dream Valley, but she left it, turning South again.

" Hello! Is anybody out here? " Sparky shouts.

Only the sound of rustling leaves replies.

Sparky begins to cry.

SNAP!!!!

Sparky jumps and yelps, " Who's there?!? " Or on second thought, what's there?!??!

A Unicorn steps out from the shadows of the forest. She is white, with dark red hair. Her symbol is a silver crescent moon and several gold glittering stars.

" Hallo. I am Moondancer. You must be Baby Sparkler, " she says, introducing herself.

Sparky blinks, puzzled. " H - How do you know my name? I have never s - seen you in Dream Valley before. "

Moondancer smiles. " Aye, that is because I don't live in Dream Valley. I live in Unicornia, Valley of the Unicorns. "

This shocks Sparky. There is actually a place where Unicorns live! she thinks excitedly. Perhaps there is a valley where Pegasus Ponies live too!!

Suddenly worry clouds Sparky's joyful face. " I am lost Miss Moondancer. I don't think I'm even in Dream Valley anymore. "

Moondancer stamps a front hoof. " Aye, you are right. You are in Unicornia territ'ry now. You won't make it back before dark. Come with me. "
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" Scribbs, did Sparkins ever return? " Baby Sweet Pop asks her friend.

Sweet Pop and Scribbs share a bed on the first floor of the nursery, next to where Heart Throb and their missing friend had slept.

" No Sweetie, no, " Scribbs says shaking her head. " What I would like to know is this: Where is Miss Sparkler? I haven't seen her since before the midday meal. "

" Beath me, " lisps Heart Throb with a shrug.

The nursery door opens, and in ducks Scribbles. " Oh there you are dear! I thought you might have ran off after that ghastly Baby Sparkler. If she returns, I do not wish that you continue playing with her dear, or any other Unicorns. They are all the same, dear, " she flaunts.

Now that does it, Scribbs thought, plunging into a rage. " Oh Mother! I have had enough with that! I am tired of how you talk about Unicorns! So what if this is the first time I've actually heard you bad - mouth them, but I know what you and Dabble and Zig Zag were doing in here before Sparky left! You know nothing but to hate them! It's because of your attitude toward Unicorns that Sparky ran away! You know nothing but hate and contempt to show them! I don't want to speak to you until you say sorry to Sparky when she comes back! And she will come back! And that's final! So make like a tree, and leave! "

Scribbles is alarmed and taken aback.

" Leave! Go! Get outta here! " Scribbs shrieks once more.

Scribbles complies, and trots out the open purple nursery door, and into the still spring night sky.
~*~

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Sparky awakens to the sound of chirping birds. She sits up abruptly. All around her trees and plants and grass sparkle with dew, in bright colors. Sparky takes a second look, and she finds that it's not dew that adds the sparkle to the vegetation, but glitter contained within them!

" How did ye sleep? " comes Moondancer's voice from behind her.

Sparky turns. " Oh Moondancer! Everything here is so, so beautiful! I've never seen anything like it before! It's so magical! "

Moondancer nods. " Aye, that it is. But you have seen Unicornia before. You were only a wee little one, this is where you were you were born. " Moondancer frowns. " But that is a topic you'll learn about when you are much older. Now we must get some breakfast in ye. Then, my dear, you may see all of Unicornia again for the first time. "
~*~

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After Sparky's sightseeing tour, she knew a lot more about Unicornia. There is no appointed leader, unlike Rosedust, Queen of the Flutters. Unicornia became separated from Dream Valley because the Unicorns wanted privacy and wished to be left alone.

Sparky also learned something special that Unicorns could do. Unicorns can use their " magic " to " wink out (or in) " to different places, even create their own special place. And that was the beginning of Unicornia. Supposedly, that was the beginning of another world high in the clouds. Sparky had pleaded for more information about the special world, but Moondancer said it had been so long ago that nobody could remember.

The lay of the land for Unicornia was quite complex. Each Unicorn has a small plot of land for her ( or him ) to create a small house or hut. And since all of the Unicorns could create what they wanted, there are many different types of homes. Actually, all of them were different. Sure, two homes may be similar, but all were different. And since there are houses similar to each other, there are different sections of Unicornia for a particular sort of house.

Right now, Sparky was sitting outside Moondancer's hut. The hut had been fashioned in a celestial style. The walls were " clouds, " decorated with stars and ringed planets and moons. Her door is a deep hue of blue twilight, with a silver moon door knocker.

Now the door opens, and out steps Moondancer. " All right, my little one. It is time for you to go home. "

Sparky jumps to her hooves. " Oh, but I can't now! I just got here! Please don't take me back to Dream Valley yet! "

" I am not going to take you back to Dream Valley. Now that you are here, you may not go back. I am taking you to your mother's villa. "

" I can't even go back for my stuff? " Sparky says to herself.

" Follow me. "

Sparky has nothing else to do, so she follows. Moondancer leads her down Celestial Lane. At the riverbank path she turns left, and up Garden Path. At a halfway point, they turned right down Avalon Alley.

The Alley is reserved for two to three cave huts behind a large gray stone castle which contains villas. There are six villas on the main floor and three tower rooms. Sparky could see the stone path that wound around the back of the castle in front of a pond and a glittertree.

Moondancer walks up the steps to the open doorway to the villas and tower rooms. At the first villa door on the left, she stops. A small rainbow banner hangs over the door, reading " Sparky's Villa, No. 2. " Moondancer lifts the small rainbow knocker with her horn, and lets it
drop . . .
~*~

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Sparkler had been waiting for the knock to come. She trots over to the door, and pushes it open. Moondancer and Baby Sparkler and in the dim hallway.

" Welcome home Sparky. "

The End ~*~ or should it be The Beginning? ~*~ Next up: Star Castle: Reunions and Separations ~*~ Back to Ponyland Visit Back Home!