The bell rang to let the class out of school for the day. Young mares and stallions ran out of the schoolhouse like they did when they younger, and everypony went about their way.

“I want tah thank yah agin fer helpin' me Rumble,” Said Apple Bloom as the pair walked to Sugarcube Corner.

“Oh, it's nothing Apple Bloom,” Said Rumble politely.

For all of the teasing Thunderlane and the girls put him through, Rumble couldn't honestly deny their claims. Since the day they met, Rumble couldn't get the farm filly out of his mind. And now, Apple Bloom was the focus of his thoughts in his free time. She was beautiful, smelled like baked apples, and was the most kind Pony Rumble had ever met.

Her dark red mane and tail went so well together with her cream colored coat and dark pink bow. Shivers went down Rumble's spine when thought about her fathomless tangerine orange eyes, he could get lost in them for days and- “Ow!”

Rumble's focus was on admiring the filly he was walking with and not the walking itself, meaning he didn't see the lamppost.

“Oh gosh!” Exclaimed Apple Bloom, “Are yah okay Rumble?”

“Yeah, I'm fine. Just wasn't looking where I was going,” Rumble was glad that Apple Bloom didn't notice him looking at her. Rumble was even happier that she didn't notice that he was flushing slightly at her concern.

“How far away is Sugarcube Corner again?” Asked Rumble. Pinkie Pie was not allowed to host any welcoming parties until Noblesse Oblige turned fifteen. After all with the influx of Ponies migrating to Ponyville, Pinkie's parties would become more disruptive than they would be fun. Besides, it put the soon-to-be Ponyville Festival Hall good use.

“Yah see that ther buildin'?” Apple Bloom pointed to a building that looked like a giant ginger bread house.

“It's a fitting name,” Said Rumble admiring the building. Rumble was still new to Ponyville and hadn't had the chance to explore most of the town.

The two foals entered the famous bakery. The bell at the top of the door alerted Mrs. Cake to the presence of the two foals, “Oh, hello there Apple Bloom. Who's your friend here?”

“Howdy Mrs. Cake. This here is Rumble, I just it wald be nice tah have a friend halp with the twins. Yah don't mind do yah?”

“I don't mind at all deary,” There was a mischievous twinkle in Mrs. Cake's eyes, “But, are you sure she's just a friend?”

Both of the foals blushed, but Rumble was noticeably more flushed, “It ain't nothin' like that Mrs. Cake. Besides we only met recently, how could we even be crushin' on each other?”

Rumble was behind Apple Bloom, so she didn't notice Rumble's blush deepening more. Oh, she has no idea thought Mrs. Cake, “Alright deary, I left the list out for you if need help with the twins.”

“Come on Rumble, their crib is in the back,” Apple Bloom started to lead Rumble into the back of the store when she ran into Mr. Cake at the door.

“Whoops, sorry about that kids,” Said Mr. Cake as he stopped then moved around the pair.

“Come on teacup,” Said Mr. Cake, “Pudding's letter said that Red Velvet just went into labor. If we hurry, we can make it to Baltimare before our niece or nephew is born.” With that the married couple left their establishment with the door locking behind them.

“Oh my!” Said Apple Bloom, “Ah didn't realize that she was that fer along.”

“Wait, what's going on?” Asked Rumble slightly confused. He understood that one of their family members were going into labor. But didn't understand how they could know that if said family member was a three hour train ride away.

“Mr. Cake's sister, Red Velvet, got hitched to a Unicorn,” Explained Apple Bloom, “I guess he used magic to send 'em a letter. And she's just went into labor.”

“Speaking of labor,” Said Rumble, “Where are the cake twins?”

Rumble's question was answered by the crying of one of the aforementioned foals, “That answers my question.”

Rumble opened the door into the back of the building, only for an infant Pegasus to latch on to face and use it as platform to jump off and fly into the kitchen.

“Ow,” Said Rumble rubbing his muzzle.

“Are yah okay?” Asked Apple Bloom.

“Yeah, I'm fine,” Assured Rumble, “You go take care of the other one, I'll go get the Pegasus.”

Apple Bloom nodded her head and head into the twins' nursery as Rumble chased after Pound Cake.

After school, Noblesse went to find his older friends. Dinky Doo would most likely be helping her mother and or aunt with work, so his best bet was Ruby Pinch. The friendly – and frightened – townsfolk gladly told him that the bar that Ruby's mother owned and worked, was on the corner of Syrup Street and Maple Drive.

The Plastered Pegasus? Noblesse read the sign on the bar in front of him and laughed. What a fitting name thought the colt as he overcame his mirth and entered the establishment.

Noblesse enter the bar and looked around for his 'friend.' Though Noblesse didn't know much about this kind of business, it didn't take an entrepreneur to tell that today was slow day. Noblesse could see Berry Punch cleaning a shot glass.

Some of the patrons looked at the new comer, and were not expecting what they saw. The entrance to the 'Plastered Pegasus' was not as well lit as the rest of the bar, so all they could really make out was Noblesse's uncovered eye that seemed to be glowing in the darkness.

The gasps caused Berry Punch to trace their horrified gazes straight into Noblesse's one eye as he deftly made his way to the counter. Berry was startled like everypony else and dropped the glass she was cleaning.

“Let me get that for you,” Noblesse leaned over the counter as his horn glowed a stygian black. The pieces of the glass glowed the same color as they lifted into the air. If one could see into the black of Noblesse's magic, they would see that the pieces came together once again as a shot glass. The cracks in the broken the glass faded with Noblesse's magic and the shot glass was whole once more.

“T-thank you,” Said Berry Punch hesitantly, “Would you like something to drink,” Berry wasn't actually sure how old Noblesse actually was.

“Thank you, but I'm not old enough to drink,” Said Noblesse politely, though it was true, “I'm actually here looking for your daughter.”

“You mean me?” Called out Ruby Pinch as she came down the stair case.

Ruby stopped when she saw Noblesse's eye, but wrote it off as nothing, “What's going on?”

“I was hoping you knew where Dinky was,” Replied Noblesse, “Everypony else has plans for today.”

“Oh really?” Asked Ruby excitedly. Ruby turned to face her mother, “You wouldn't mind if I went with my friends again today, would you?”

Berry Punch did not like her daughter being around Noblesse. Never mind his appearance, the fact that highly trained killers were after him made Berry want to keep her daughter as fall away from him as possible. However, Ruby was legally an adult, and today was a slow day. Berry had no excuse to keep her daughter here and she couldn't legally keep her away from the noblepony.

“Of course not dear, have a good time with your friends,” Said Berry plainly.

Ruby thought that the lack of emotion in her mother's voice was strange, but made nothing of it, “Come on, I've memorized the mail routes both Dinky's mom and aunt work. Bye mom!” With that, the young mare and stallion went out to look for their friend, not noticing the distressed look on Berry's face.

Thunderlane was in the skies above Ponyville looking for Rumble. Up till today, Rumble had either gone home or looked out for Thunderlane on his own and made plans for the day from there. Neither Thunderlane, Cloud Chaser, nor Flitter had seen hide nor hair of Rumble since he left for school today.

While Ponyville's population was increasing, there had yet to be any unruly types. There had been a few pickpockets and party goers that needed to thrown into the drunk tank, but nothing too serious. So Thunderlane and Cloud Chaser only had some paper work to deal with and Flitter had the week off.

Thunderlane spotted a pair of familiar Ponies in one of the fields outside of Ponyville. The hawk like eyesight all Pegasi are born with, had allowed Thunderlane to identify the Pair as Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo.

With his destination set, Thunderlane glided down to the pair of surrogate sisters. If Scootaloo didn't know where his brother was, then she might possibly know who did.

“Alright Scoots,” Said Rainbow Dash ecclesiastically, “That was good effort. Resume the starting position and try again.”

Scootaloo crouched and spread her wings as far as she could in a similar manor to a formal Pegasus bow, only her wings were perpendicular to her body instead of parallel. Scootaloo leaped up and flapped her wings once before she started to hover, only fall back to the ground after a few seconds.

Rainbow Dash clicked her stopwatch, “Awesome Scoots, nine seconds! You've improved your hovering duration by three whole seconds this week.”

“Oh really!?” Said Scootaloo happily, “At this rate, it won't be long before I'll be flying.”

“You bet Scoots,” Said Rainbow Dash quickly, skillfully hiding her concern.

This just made no since. Sure, Scoots' wings were stunted, but that shouldn't hamper her flying abilities this much. Rainbow Dash could also feel the magic her wings exuded when she hovered or propelled herself on the scooter, so Scootaloo didn't have compromised meridians. Rainbow Dash was taking a moment to ponder what could be wrong with her little sister when another familiar Pegasus landed close to them.

“Hey Rainbow Dash,” Said Thunderlane as he landed.

“Hey Thunderlane,” Said the polychromatic mare back, “Is there something weird with the weather?”

“Nah,” Thunderlane waved a dismissive hoof at the notion, “I actually just need to talk to Scootaloo here, if you don't mind.”

“What?” Asked Scootaloo, “But it's been a few days since I went on a Crusade,” Scootaloo was completely confused as to why the head of the Ponyville Peacekeeper Corps wanted to talk to her this time.

Both of the adults chuckled at her instant assumption that she was in trouble.

“No, it's nothing like that,” Assured Thunderlane, “I was just hoping you knew where my brother was.”

“Brother?” Asked Scootaloo. For Ponies like her and Rainbow Dash, physical exertion went hoof and hoof with mental exertion.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, “He means Rumble, you silly filly.”

“Oh!” Scootaloo had actually forgotten that Thunderlane and Rumble were brothers the day after he joined the class, “He's helping Apple Bloom foalsit the Cake twins today.”

“How did that happen?” Asked Rainbow Dash. The Apples and the Cakes were close family friends, so it wasn't that uncommon that they'd ask one of the Apples to watch over their store or foalsit when they needed it. But why would they trust Rumble, a fairly new Pony in town, to watch over their young?

“Apple Bloom had already agreed to watch over the Cake twins today last week,” Explained Scootaloo, “But didn't know that everypony else would be preoccupied today, everypony except Rumble. And I guess those two foals would be a hoofful to care of by yourself.”

“Did Apple Bloom ask for help, or did Rumble offer?” Asked Thunderlane, eliciting a curious look from Rainbow Dash.

“He offered actually, why?”

Thunderlane started to laugh uncontrollably, “HAHAHA! My brother the dog! HAHAHA!”

Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo looked at each with concern written on faces, “Is he always this weird?” Asked Scootaloo.

“It's new to me,” Said Rainbow Dash.

Thunderlane gained control over himself and wiped a tear from his eye, “Thank you Scootaloo, I'll get out of your manes now. Wait 'till the girls hear about this,” Thunderlane flew off laughing.

Rainbow Dash shook her head at her crazy friend. She then crouched next to Scootaloo, “Hey Squirt.”

Scootaloo looked up at her honorary big sister expectantly, “Do you think we can make it to ten seconds today?” Asked Rainbow Dash.

“You bet'cha!” Exclaimed the orange Pegasus as she leaped into the air from the starting position, not even needing her coach/idol/big sister to tell her to do it.

Author's Notes:

Hello readers! I have posted Chapter 19 and I would like to thank everyone who has read my story up to this point. I would also like to thank everyone who has given me their opinions on my story, and I would like to thank everyone who has liked and favorited my story. It really means a lot to me when people do that.

Oh, and for future reference: Yes, I am shipping my best pony with my favorite background character. I also have no idea how long the story is going to end up being, and I would like to apologize to people who have been hooked onto this story and do not like longfics, this is probably going to be longer than your average fanfiction.