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One morning in Ponyville, a pegasus mare called Tease Talk knocked on the house of her brother:"Quoty! Are you home? I'm out of food and nothing's open today. If I go to our parents, they'll complain that I should go buy food more often. It's true, but still..."
A voice was heard:"Come in!", but it wasn't her brother's. She came in and saw her friend, an earth pony stallion called Gear and his pet, a living first aid kit.
"Gear, Kit, what are you doing here?"
"Cyniquote asked us to house sit. He'll be in Canterlot for a few days."
"Why?"
"Air Travel told him something like:"I go to Ponyville all the time to see you, but you go to Canterlot so rarely." He's trying to make up for it."
Tease Talk chuckled, but said:"Let's hope he does."
Gear walked to Cyniquote's bedroom. Kit and Tease Talk followed him. Tease Talk asked:"What are you doing here?"
"Cyniquote told me about a magic blindfold he got from princess Luna. He said whoever puts it on immediately falls asleep for 6 hours."
"Heh, don't tell me you wanna try it out."
"I just wanna look at it.", Gear said as he pulled the blindfold from beneath the bed:"...but now that you mention it, I am a little curious. Then again, I can't house sit while sleeping."
Kit decided to help Gear out, so he jumped and took the blindfold with his "mouth". He struggled for a few moments, trying to put the blindfold on with his short bottom corner-legs, but he did it. He fell on the side and started sleeping. Tease Talk said:"Cute little guy."
"I thought he was immune to most spells... But who cares, that WAS cute."
Gear tried to pull the blindfold off, but since Kit had to put it around his whole body, it was kind of tight. Gear accidentaly made the string on the back snap:"Oh no..."
"That can be easily fixed.", Tease Talk said as she took the blindfold and tied the string back together using her hooves and mouth.
Gear put it on to see if it still worked, but he stayed awake:"Not good. It lost it's magic when it snapped."
"I think you just put it on upside down."
"Why would that matter? Now I have to go to Canterlot, find princess Luna and ask for another one. I'm not even sure if she'll say "yes"."
"You know, most problems have a simple solution."
"Yeah, but this isn't a simple blindfold."

Gear woke up Kit, jumped the fence of Cyniquote's backyard and got in his own. He put on a device with rope-powered wooden wings and a pedal-powered propeller on the back:"Hand me the blindfold so Luna won't doubt me."
"I've seen you fly with that and to be honest, you make it look difficult."
"Where would I be if I listened to everypony that called my plans stupid?"
"It's not stupid, there are just easier ways than this."
Gear said:"Please watch over Cyniquote's house while I'm gone.", and flew away.
Kit ran over to Tease Talk, wanting to play, but Tease Talk said:"Sorry, I'm allergic to dogs. And according to my past sneezes, you're close enough." Kit frowned and looked at the direction Gear went. Tease Talk said:"Umm... do you want me to tell you a story?"
Kit jumped a few times in excitement.
Half an hour passed:"...after we beat the possessed dragon, we had some trouble shrinking me back to normal, but we pulled it of. Let me explain you how we..."
Gear flew back, sweaty and tired:"Ok...I'm ready to... try out... your idea..."
"Great, let's go. I'll walk slower so you can catch up. Kit, you wanna come with us? And don't worry about my allergy, Gear will be between us."
Kit happily nodded, Gear took his saddlebag and the three of them went to see Caution.

The got to the house and Tease Talk knocked:"Snow Globe, are you home?"
A  unicorn called Caution opened, said:"Tease Talk, haven't seen you in a while!", and kissed her.
"Heh, as much as I wanna do that now, Gear needs a cloud ride from me. Can you preform your "walking on clouds" spell on him."
"No problem."
Caution used his magic on Gear and when he was done, Tease Talk asked:"Wanna come with us? I'm sure I can find a cloud for all for of us."
"Nah, It's pretty hot today and I don't like getting sweaty. Hold on, I'll get you a parasol."
Gear said:"I don't think we need that."
"Heat can be a real danger, you know. Besides, I own a collapsable one, it won't take up too much space."
Caution went inside and Tease Talk said:"He didn't mind getting sweaty last night."
Gear got the parasol from Caution and the trio was soon on a cloud going toward Canterlot. Kit was lying on Gear's back and Tease Talk was riding the cloud after pushing her hooves in.
She said:"Listen to this.", and mimicked Celestia's voice:"My farts are powerful enough to destroy Equestria."
Kit smiled and Gear laughed for a few moments, then said:"How are you so good at that?"
"Heh, I just like messing with others."

They flew to the castle of the princesses and tried to walk in, but a royal guard prevented it:"Stop, this is private property. You can't go any further."
Gear said:"Please, let us in. I broke a magical blindfold created by princess Luna and now it lost it's magic. We need her to fix it."
"Do you know what a crowd would be in there if we let anypony with a broken blindfold in?"
Tease Talk said:"Yeah, a crowd of two ponies and a living first aid kit."
"Ok, maybe that wasn't the best choice of words, but you can't come in."
Gear said to Tease Talk:"This kinda sucks. We traveled to Canterlot for nothing, Cyniquote won't sleep as well and Caution preformed his magic in vain."
"Wait a minute, you know Caution?"
"Yeah, we've been friends for awhile now."
"He's a nice guy, I would totally let his friends in."
Tease Talk said:"Heh, we're a little more then just friends."
Gear said:"Wow, that was impossibly convenient."
Suddenly they all heard:"Hey, your shift's done, move over."
The new guard wouldn't let them in, so they had to go away. Tease Talk said:"Why did you have to say that!?"
"How is this MY fault?"
Kit approached Tease Talk in a desire to defend Gear, but Gear pulled him away:"Nah, I'm not THAT angry."
Gear thought for a moment and said:"I'll go to the library to find out how to fix the blindfold. Can you watch over Kit? I'm not sure if pets are allowed there?"
"How do you know where it is?"
"I'll ask a pony. I can use simple solutions too, you know."

Soon, Gear was in the library searching through books, and a unicorn mare was helping him.Gear said:"So, I leafed through this book on sleeping, and there was nothing on magic blindfolds."
"That's a really bad way to read it. Go again."
Tease Talk found him soon and said:"Turns out there's place where they'll watch over Kit, so I can come to tell you that you're making this too complicated."
The unicorn mare said:"Hey, don't underestimate what we're doing."
"Who are you and how does Gear know you?"
"I'm Moondancer. I'm helping Gear."
"Why?"
"He needs help and I like studying. It's a win-win situation. Besides, I'm trying to be more social."
"Makes sense, I guess..."
Gear said:"So, what if I read this book on how to sneak in a building?"
Moondancer said:"Do you WANT to get arrested? And why does the library even have that book?"
Tease Talk said:"To be fair, we just need to talk to Luna, that's it."
"Instead of that, maybe you two can somehow get her to come out."
Gear got an Idea and said:"You're a genius! C'mon, Tease Talk, let's go get Kit. We need him for this."
The two ponies got out. Moondancer thought:"You don't get to be a genius just by saying one sentence...", but smiled:"...still nice of him, though."

When Kit, Gear and Tease Talk were back together, Gear said:"I'm gonna need all of you for this." and unfolded Caution's parasol. He took a bandage roll out of Kit and taped it to the parasol so it writes:"LUNA COME OUT"
Gear handed it to Tease Talk, saying:"Now fly around the castle and the princess will eventually notice you."
"Huh, that actually sounds crazy enough to work."
Teae Talk flew up and Gear said:"Heh, and just when I though creativity was useless."
Tease Talk flew in front of the windows when a guard stopped her:"Stop, you're trespassing."
"I'm not in the castle, I'm flying near it."
The guard looked at her angrily for a few seconds and said:"You win this round..."
Gear waited on the ground and soon, Luna and Tease Talk flew down.
"There, I got her attention and explained everything."
Luna said:"Let me see the blindfold."
Gear gave it to her and she said:"I don't know what's wrong, it should still work even after the string breaks and get tied again... Are you sure you didn't just put it on upside down?"
"Really!?"
Tease Talk said:"Heh, told you most problems have a simple solution."
Gear groaned, said:"I wanna sleep through this anger." and put himself to sleep by putting on the blindfold.
Tease Talk asked the princess:"Can you help me carry Gear to the cloud, I'm not strong enough to carry a stallion."
Luna picked the sleeping pony up with her magic and walked with Tease Talk and Kit to the cloud. She asked:"I just have one question. Why didn't Cyniquote take the blindfold with him to Canterlot if he plans to stay a few days?"
"He's here with his girlfriend, I'm gonna guess he doesn't plan on sleeping much, heh."
After 4 stories, Tease Talk finally appeared in one. Considering the fact that I have only 5 or 6 main characters, I should do better. :)
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