A/N: I hope I have all of you thoroughly interested. This is where the story takes a goofy turn now, what with Stratus and all. I hope you find what is to come funny and entertaining, because it starts now! On with the chapter!

Life has ways of throwing little things at you that can be extremely funny, or extremely irritating, mine was the first one. You know it is going to be one of those days when it all starts to happen at 2:30 AM. I don’t like 2:30 AM anymore!

I was asleep, dreaming about Stratus, Dash, and I going out for a day and taking a trip to the pond. It was a good dream, but then it ended. I don’t know what made me wake up, or look up at the ceiling above me for that matter, but when I did, I was in Pinkie’s way of saying it super-duper-yes-ho-my-gosh-this-scares-the-bricks-out-of-me mode. What has science done!? What is going on right now!? Get my son off the ceiling!!!!

Stratus was floating inches away from the ceiling looking down at me smiling. I was looking up at him with my mouth agape and my hands extended much like the Y U NO meme’s. Stratus, please don’t do anything rash now, you have the upper hand and I feel like you’re going to drop a brick on my head or something!

Rainbow must have woken up and she was looking at me looking at the ceiling with my hands extended upwards. “What are you….” She trailed off as she looked up towards the ceiling. She saw Stratus floating there and then started to laugh at me, complete with poking my side with a hoof. “Why are you so surprised at this? I told you he would be having little outbursts of flight! He has to be pretty smart if he can open his own door already” Rainbow Dash said as she giggled.

“Butbutbutbut…….ugh I’m going back to bed. I can’t handle the D’AWWWW right now” I said before I pulled my pillow over my head. Today is going to be one of those days! I don’t want one of those days!

Stratus must have been finding it funny, because he decided to stop flying entirely and land right square on the pillow over my face. All I did was reach up with my hands and began to tickle his stomach while he was on the pillow. You landed on my face! I am going to tickle you for that with my very sinister fingers! I could hear Stratus giggling through my pillow that was now crammed right up to my face from his weight.

“Ok, now that was funny! He must really find you entertaining, because he can’t get enough of you” Rainbow Dash said with another laugh.

He landed straight on my face! I already know that he is going to be a jokester like his old man when he gets older. Wait…….i called myself an old man! Where’s my walker? Back in my day penny candy costed -1 cents! “He is going to be just like me, I already know that! Do you think I should take him back to his room now?” I said through my pillow.

“Nah, he looks pretty happy as it is right now, he can sleep with us. Do you think that’s ok?” RD replied to me.

I had started to doze off “….huh, yeah, he can stay in the bed with us” I said before I picked Stratus up off of the pillow and set him on my chest. I moved the pillow behind my head again and then moved Stratus up in between us.

He lay down and started to doze off. RD and I each wrapped one arm and hoof over him and we all fell asleep. Now what is going to happen during the day before I go to work? On second thought….surprise me Stratus….surprise me!

When we woke up in the morning it was really peaceful. RD and I would watch Stratus as he slept, occasionally rubbing his little mane. He was still sleeping soundly and Dash and I decided to take a shower to get cleaned up. We left the door cracked open so we could hear if he woke up or anything.

I turned the knob and we both hopped in and let the warm water wash over us. She would lean up and kiss me every now and again and I would feel that same amount of passion as before. We would lock lips and hold each other in and embrace as the water washed over us. After a while we turned the water off and got out and dried ourselves. Ok, now to go see if our little hellion is awake yet.

We walked back out and saw that Stratus was indeed awake and was looking at us and smiling. He walked to the edge of the bed and Rainbow Dash scooped him up in her hoof. “C’mon little guy, let’s get you something to eat” she said to him.

Stratus smiled at this which made me smile. HHHNNNNGGGG, I can’t take that smile of his! It is overly cute, too cute if you ask me! We walked down the stairs and I started to work on a breakfast for Dash and I while Rainbow got Stratus a bottle of warm milk. “How about pancakes this morning RD?” I asked her with a smile as I held out a spatula.

“Sure” she replied to me with a smile.

Ok, I have never cooked once in my life. How to go about doing this? I really hope this doesn’t explode in my face! I took out the pancake mix and then some milk and poured both into a bowl. Then I started to whisk it and continued to do so until I was sure it was ready to be poured onto the sheet. I poured six pancakes onto the sheet and then got the spatula ready. I can feel his little eyes watching me work! He is going to make me do something stupid I know it! I began to flip the pancakes over so they would be evenly cooked, it was going well. Then I wanted to test something, I flipped one of the pancakes into the air and I regretted that decision immediately. SHIT, INCOMING SCORCHING HOT PANCAKE TO FACE! I REGRET THE BURNS I SHALL FEEL! The pancake flew up and landed on the top of my head and drooped down the sides.

“BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” Rainbow Dash laughed at me. Shut up Dash, this hurts a lot more than you think…..but I’m glad you think it’s funny! *sniffle*

Then stratus started to join in with laughing. I looked at him and ripped two eye holes out of the pancake and looked at him. I then made a smile in the pancake “Is this funny to you? Do I look like a clown……well you’ll find out eventually that I am a clown” I said to him as I rubbed his mane with my hand. Even my own son laughs at my pain! I don’t know what to expect from this family anymore! HNNNGGG!

I kept the pancake on my head to further my irritation; I made myself feel so stupid I will live with it for a little while. I finished the other hot cakes and set them on the plates that were at the table. I sat down with my pancake mask still on and my fake smile from the pancake was hiding the real one I had under it. “What? This is how I look now! I am going to keep it on all day!” I said to them.

Rainbow Dash come over to me and slapped the back of my head with her hoof. My pancake mask flew off my head and landed on the table. “No you aren’t, the table is!” she said before she sat down next to me.

Stratus laughed again and I looked at RD with fake sadness. “AWWWW come on Dashie that was my favorite toy, other than…..you know” I said with a sly grin. She looked at me and smiled before sticking her tongue out at me. Me gusta!

We ate our breakfast and Stratus finished his bottle, in which case he then threw it towards the sink. It landed in it and I jumped up at this. “How does he know what the sink is yet? And how come he has dead eye accuracy with his bottle? He has better accuracy than me!” I took my paper towel and wadded it up and tossed it towards the trash. It missed and I made the ‘are you kidding me’ meme face again. “And the crowd goes wild! Kyle lost the game!” I said sarcastically with a twist of my finger. Son, I am proud! You are better at me in accuracy!

Rainbow Dash laughed at me and then we got the kitchen cleaned up and decided to go out for a while and enjoy the day. It was 60 degrees, so it would be good to get out.

We decided to go and hang out by the pond for the day. It was really interesting; Stratus was looking at all of the sights outside, his mouth hanging open in wonder. He could walk already, he was a little unsteady right now, but he was walking none the less. Good on ya boy!

He had found a small creek and looked in the water at his own reflection. I walked up behind him and put my head behind his so he could see it in the water. Stratus put his hoof in the water right where my face was and was really interested in it. I smiled at it from behind him and then scooped him up in my arms. He giggled at me. HHHNNNGGG mixed with D’AWWWW!

I gently lifted off the ground and held him tight. He saw that we were slowly rising into the air. “Watch this Stratus” I said to him before I started to do a backflip in the air. I went really slowly and Stratus started to clap and laugh like a fool. “Weeeee” I said to him with a smile. We completed our flip and I lowered him to the ground again. I set him down and he walked over to Dash and hugged her and then sat down next to her.

I walked over to her, and even started to strut like Leo. I walked over to them and sat down next to Dash. We just sat there and talked for the rest of the day until I had to go to work.

When my shift ended I was happy to get out of there. I wanted to go home and see Dash and Stratus; Vinyl said congratulations, which made me happy. She must really like it when I work here; she is actually really nice when you get around her tough exterior. Yeah I called Vinyl a badass…..what are you gonna do about it!? I left the club and started to walk home, I don’t have to work tomorrow, so I will spend the day with them.

I walked up to my door and opened it. I walked inside and saw that Stratus and Dash were sitting by the fireplace and the soft light it was making was me feel calm. I walked up to Dash and sat down next to her. She turned to me and we gave each other a kiss. Stratus was looking at me and then he walked over and sat down in my lap. He always liked smiling at me for some reason. I rubbed his mane and then we decided to call it a night.

I walked with Stratus in hand and took him up to his room and set him in his bed. RD smiled at him and nudged me and we left his room to go get a good night sleep of our own.

A/N: I will be doing a lot more breaks now seeing as there is so much things going on. First break will be next chapter and it will be two weeks. I will eventually be doing a major break of about 1 and a half months because there will be a Hearth Warming Eve chapter and I want that to come soon. I’ll say that in about 10-12 chapters I’ll have Stratus be 2 years old so he can start playing a major role. I hope you like where this is going so far! Next chapter will be up in a while!

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