Twilight and Flash's Wedding

Fire Spark was down in the castle cellar, which he called his laboratory. Like his mother, he loved exploring the world of science. Since the castle library had so many books involving discoveries, he wanted to make his own. He had a lab coat on his dark yellow coat. He may have had his mother's passions, but he was a dead ringer to his father with a hint of purple to his mane. He wore goggles to ensure his safety as he was about to pour a liquid onto another liquid in a test tube.

"Fire?" a small voice came.

He was startled and almost dropped the tubes. He turned to see his little sister, Starling, who took after their mother except her coat was a deeper purple and she had blue in her mane.

"Starling! Don't do that! I was in the middle of a very important experiment!"

"Sorry, but I wanted to know when Mom and Dad will be back."

"Why?" he removed his lab gear.

"Because I wanted to ask them something."

"Well, maybe you can ask me. What do you what to know?"

"I'll show you."

Moments later, they were in the hallway seeing portraits of their mother. The first portrait showed her being a regular unicorn in the Canterlot castle observatory, the second showed her in the middle of the Golden Oak Library, the third was her being with her friends, their aunts, as it was a famous photo. The fourth showed Twilight flying through the air being a new princess. The next one showed her next to the castle. And then Starling pointed out the next portrait, which showed Twilight and Flash in their wedding outfits.

"I want to know when this was taken and what their wedding was like."

"Oh drat, I don't know the story to that; I never really asked. Looks like we are going to have to wait until they come home."

"Wait until who comes home?" said a voice behind them.

They turned to see their parents.

"Well, you, actually." Fire answered.

"Mommy, Daddy, can you please tell us about your wedding?!" she pointed back to the portrait.

Flash and Twilight looked at it and gave a smile.

"Sure." replied Twilight.

"Yay!" cheered Starling.

"I bet you guys had a nice and simple wedding, since you're into that." pointed their son.

Flash chuckled, "Nice, yes; simple, no." they looked up to the portrait, and it dissolved to reality…

Twilight and Flash had to stand in the Canterlot throne room while a pony painter was doing the portrait; he was quite gifted for a pony painting with his mouth.

It was hard standing still. Flash started sweating in his tux and Twilight was feeling weak in the legs. Her wedding dress was actually a prototype, thanks to Rarity considering that they wanted to keep the rule that the groom can't see the gown until the actual ceremony.

"Ah, belissimo!" the painter kissed his hoof and turned the painting over to show them, "You'll be pleased with the results, no?"

The couple awed to the work.

"We love it. Thank you." said Twilight.

"Anything for the princess and the new prince. I wish you a good life." he bowed and left.

Kibitz, Princess Celestia's royal advisor who watched from the sides, ordered to another servant, "Good. Have this portrait commissioned at once!" then, he looked at his pocket watch.

Twilight said, "If that's all we need to do…"

"Afraid not, princess. We need to go over the floral and banquet arrangements."

"Can we at least change out of our wear?" Flash asked as he was tugging at his collar.

"Of course, but it has to be at fast pace."

Minutes later, they were in the greenhouses next to the castle. They were given several choices of flower arrangements. Some were big, some were weird, and some were other plants. It took awhile, but they finally settle on carnations. Then when they went into the kitchen, they saw this towering five-layer cake.

"Um, think maybe it's too big?" declared Twilight.

"And look all this food!" pointed Flash, "It's enough to help parasprites multiply by the day!"

"Only the best for a royal wedding. It is after all an important event for all of Equestria." Kibitz stated while looking at his pocket watch, "Now we must overlook the guest list." He led the way while the couple sulked behind him.

That night, as Twilight had her fiancée over to her room, she said, "I'm so sorry about all this… I know we wanted a small wedding, but royal procedure had other plans…"

"It's okay. Besides, one should expect it if one is marrying a princess, especially if it's the princess who saved Equestria on quite a few occasions."

She blushed and nuzzled under his chin.

"I guess what we could do is elope."

She gasped in realization, "That's it!" she started moving around the room magically finding her things and putting them in a suitcase.

"Wait! I was just joking!"

"Joke or not, it's a great idea!"

"But what about our friends, your family, and the princesses! They'll be disappointed if they miss us getting married!"

Twilight stopped with what she was doing, "You're right… I guess I was just upset from all of the wedding preparations."

He comforted her, "I'm sure you're not the only bride who's felt this way…"

"I think you're right." they touched faces.

At breakfast, the girls and guys sat at the table, with newlyweds Discord and Fluttershy sitting together giving puppy love glances, obviously enjoying matrimonial bliss. In the still-dating category, Soarin' was showing Rainbow a trick with throwing a small oat to catch into his mouth. Cheese and Pinkie were showing off to each other of who can put the most spoons on their nose. Apple Jack and Spike were conversing while Rarity sat next to the engaged couple and was eating as proper as she can be. Twilight looked down at her oatmeal and could hardly eat; Flash noticed this and patted her arm.

Rarity magically wiped her mouth with her napkin and saw her friend's lack of appetite, "Darling, you haven't eaten a thing! A bride must keep her strength up!"

"Sorry Rarity, I just can't eat knowing without something going wrong with the wedding. Flash and I agreed to a small simple wedding with just friends and family, but a princess has to have more than that…"

Flash told them, "She was actually considering elopement last night."

The girls gasped and Pinkie's spoons dropped. The pink mare went into the alicorn's face, "You can't get married without a big party and your besties!"

"I know, that's why I'm glad Flash talked me out it. But I still worry… Cadence was taken over by a changeling queen and Discord nearly ran off. I can't help but feel something just as bad as those things is going to take place."

"Even if it does," say AJ, "we'll be with you all the way."

"But it's too big! It's too fancy! Any catastrophe can be attracted to that!"

"And what wedding wouldn't have a disaster?" exclaimed Discord, "Weddings are pure chaos; why else would I submit to one in the first place? Not counting ours, darling!" he quickly told Fluttershy.

"So I figured… Considering you had cold feet."

"Actually, they were freezing!" he mocked a shudder and showed his feet in ice blocks, "Ugh, this isn't helping me, is it?"

"No… but I know a way for you to warm up…" she said seductively.

"Ooh, do tell…" he moved his fingers through and twirled her pink mare.

Rainbow whispered to Twilight, "You taking notes?"

"Rainbow Dash!" she scolded back.

The rainbow-haired mare merely shrugged and turned to the newlyweds, "Hey, lovebirds! Please do that on your own time! Some of us want to keep our breakfast down!"

"Spoilsport…" Discord grumbled.

Kibitz burst through the door by then and had everybody turn towards him.

"Someone has stolen one of your wedding gifts!"

The group gasped as Twilight shouted out, "I knew it!"

"It was a present from Saddle Arabia! Oh, what would the delegates say when they find out their gift is missing! I'm so sorry about all this, Your Highness! The guards and I have been searching endlessly all morning, but no such luck."

"It's fine. We'll find it before the delegates arrive with the rest of the guests of nobility."

"Again, I am truly sorry."

"It's alright; at least you knew a gift was missing. You better go back and watch the other presents."

"At once, Your Majesty." he bowed and ran out.

"Sounds like this is a job for," Discord snapped his fingers and all of them were wearing trench coats, "Discord, Private Eye."

"Hilarious…" Twilight breathed, "But good idea, nevertheless. We should split up and look for clues. Rarity, go with Pinkie and Cheese and ask the Canterlot ponies if they've seen anything suspicious. Fluttershy, you and Discord check the grounds; maybe our thief left hoofprints. Rainbow and Soarin', take to the air; our thief could have easily flown away, too. And AJ and Spike, search within in the castle."

"What about us?" Flash asked.

"We go to the scene of the crime."

They took their separate ways as Flash and Twilight made it to a large room with presents of all sizes piled in it.

She questioned, "Now, Kibitz, when did you first notice that the present was missing?"

"Just this morning. I was overlooking the present count and made sure each gift was in alphabetical order from each place it came from. When going over S, I noticed the package from Saddle Arabia was gone and came to get you."

"Intriguing…" she rubbed her chin, "Why take that gift when there were several other presents like it…"

"That is strange…" Flash concurred.

"Let's see if our friends found anything out."

Moments later, they met back in the dining hall.

"Nothing?!" Twilight stated once the girls gave their reports.

"It's true," said Rarity, "We went up and down the street and were given the same answer. The Canterlot ponies saw nothing unusual and Fancy Pants was sorry he couldn't be of more help… He can be so kind…" she sighed lovingly.

"Focus, Rarity." Apple Jack waved her hoof in front of the fashionista.

"Me and AJ looked all over the castle even our old obsertory, Twilight." pointed Spike.

"But found no hint of foul play." finished Applejack.

Fluttershy said, "Discord and I searched all over the gardens. There were no hoofprints of the sort."

"We were given an all clear from Manehattan to Las Pegasus." proclaimed Rainbow Dash.

"Geez, it's almost as if there was never a thief to begin with." said Flash.

The princess gasped as she had a glimmer in her eyes, "Flash! You're a genius!"

"What'd I say?"

"Everything to solving this mystery!" she snatched him up and kissed him full on the lips, causing him to be in a daze.

Discord whispered to Fluttershy, "Whoa, remind me to do that later."

His wife gave him a bashful grin.

Twilight led them back into the gift room, "The thief left no traces of stealing anything because there never was a thief!"

They gave her confused looks saying, "Huh?"

"There may be another reason as to why the present is missing. It was simply misplaced!"

"Misplaced? How?" questioned Spike.

"Kibitz had organized the presents in alphabetical order; some pony must've accidentally placed it in the wrong spot!" she looked over the S category and emerged with a small rectangle shape gift. On it was a label saying, 'To Princess Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry. From Saddle Arabia.'

The friends were stunned.

Flash smiled, "Of course! The gift was so small, it was hardly noticeable!"

"Thus the mistake of thinking it was stolen, and just look at all these other presents; they're so big that it was only natural."

"Well," said Rainbow, "aren't you guys going to open it?"

"We have to wait until after the ceremony." answered Twilight.

"Oh, please!" floated Discord, "After its disappearance gave you trouble when you could have done better things on your wedding day, you deserve it!"

"Twilight, he's right." Fluttershy agreed.

She turned to her fiancée, "Well, only if you want to…"

"We'll open it together."

They grabbed one end of the wrapping and rip it in half. They saw a jewelry box and Twilight opened it up, revealing an onyx gem necklace and diamond cufflinks.

"Ooh…" the girls admired.

"Snazzy." said Cheese.

Rarity pointed out, "Why, that necklace will go perfect with your gown!"

"It would, wouldn't it?" she then gasped, "The wedding is five hours!"

"Oh, my goodness!" Rarity shrieked, "Girls, march upstairs this instant!"

"Excuse me…?" the country pony glared.

"March!" she ordered again.

The girls quickly gave their lovers a quick 'see you later'. The bride and groom stole one last glance and Twilight gave Flash the cufflinks before departing.

The moment was at hand; Flash stood in place at the altar the same place where Shining Armor had stood. Speaking of his future brother-in-law, he was in the front row with his wife, Princess Cadence, and their little girl, Princess Skyla. Next to Flash was Princess Celestia to preside and behind him, Spike was handling the rings as Discord, Cheese, and Soarin' stood side by side as the groom's ushers. The bridesmaids were already in place, waiting for their friend to walk down that aisle.

Knowing it was time, Fluttershy conducted her bird choir to start the march and the unicorn guards opened the doors wide open. The former Cutie Mark Crusaders jumped up and down throwing the petals. Then, she walked in with her crown on her head with a veil to it. The dress was simple with the onyx necklace at the neckline and in the back of the dress were purple jewels. Flash slack-jawed until Discord used the tip of his finger to close it up as he smirked.

When she made it, they gave each other loving glances and then turned to Celestia.

"Mares and gentlecolts, we gather today to join together in union of Princess Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry. These two have had an unusual bond to each other, but have always known they were meant to be… The rings, please."

Spike did his part as Celestia magically took the rings, placing one on Twilight's horn and the other around Flash's neck.

"I now pronounce this couple Mare and Colt…"

A great cheer aroused as Twilight and Flash moved to the balcony waving down to the citizens of Canterlot and other major Equestria cities. As they did that, their friends joined arm in arm with their lovers.

Starling sighed happily to her parents as they finished their story, but Fire Spark had a confused look, "So what happen to that present from Saddle Arabia?"

"Oh, we still have the gifts." said Twilight. She used a teleportation spell and the jewelry box came, opening it to show the necklace and cufflinks, "And now, they're yours." she magically gave Starling the necklace and Fire the diamonds.

"You mean it, Mommy?" her daughter asked with hope.

"Of course." Twilight smiled.

The kids hugged their parents in gratitude while they enjoyed the embrace.

AN: Two down, four to go! Not much to say other than this is my intake of why Flash would be a good partner to Twilight. He's just as smart as she is. I'm sure he has to be if he's in the royal guard; you have to work hard to get in. And also the fact he could be her rock; (Pun not intended to Maud) while she stresses out, he calms her down. Apple Jack and Spike are next!