Big thanks to @qwertytf for the great art!
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Luna was super excited today. Why? Because they were going to the hands-on science place! She’d been there before once and had tons of fun, so her hopes were pretty high. Plus, she was with grandma. Grandma was maybe the bestest person in the whole world aside from her mummah. For one, she had puffy silver hair that looked kind of like cotton candy. Another reason why was because she let Luna get away with just about anything. Sadly, a wrench in these fun plans was the fact that her sissy was coming along for the experience. Yup, Sunshine was strapped into a princess pink booster seat and was acting like a prissy perfect mare. No fidgeting or yelling about how excited she was.
Getting a super sly look on her face, Luna angled one of her hooves out toward her sister. The chubby white and yellow mare was strapped into her own booster seat and couldn’t quite reach but it was enough to annoy Sunshine greatly.
“Gwamma! Wuna am bein’ bad!” She cried out from the backseat. Luna giggled as if this were the funniest thing in the world.
“Nu am touchin’ yew.” The impudent fluffy said in an impish voice. Which WAS true.
Once it was safe to do so, their grandma turned slightly to see that Luna was in fact not touching her sister but still chided her softly. “Luna, honey, leave your sister alone.”
Pouting a bit, Luna withdrew her hoof. Narrowed her eyes. It could have been perhaps the end of it but Sunshine gave her one of those ‘I got my way’ looks that made her churn with anger.
Fine. War it was.
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After grandma found a parking space and helped the two out of their booster seats, Sunshine stayed close to her and acted like the picture of a good fluffy. Meanwhile, Luna was losing her fucking mind.
It was the fun science center! How could she not be excited? Running in circles around her grandma, Luna grabbed ahold of her pants and tried to drag her faster along. “Huwwy gwamma!” She shouted, looking ready to gallop across the parking lot. Luckily for the fluffy this happens to be a hugbox story, because before she could get flattened like a pancake by running into oncoming traffic, her grandma snagged a finger against her collar.
“Hold your horses!” The old woman grumbled a bit. In fact, to avoid an accident from happening, she picked Luna up like a loaf of bread and kept her pinned under one arm while they made their way into the massive complex.
This of course made Sunshine put on a gloating expression. “Sowwy gramma. Wuna am a dummeh babbeh. Pwowwy nee’ diapies an’ miwkies.”
Struggling against her grandma’s arm, this accusation made Luna have a giant fit. Of course it did! “WUNA NU AM BABBEH! STAAWWWPPP!”
Regardless of the two bickering at one another, they entered into the science center. Grandma paid their admission and got two special bracelets put on each of their weggies. This was to prevent anyone from taking them out of the building without being their owner! Or more likely than not, to prevent them from wandering out of the building.
The inside of the science center had long hallways with colorful signage to designate the exhibits. Fluffies couldn’t read, of course, but they could make a pretty good guess as to what exhibit might be behind the sign.
“Wuna wan ohsheen. Wan wawa.” Waggling her hoof off to a sign with colorful sea life on it, she tried tugging her grandma off toward what she wanted. After being put down on the carpeted floor, of course.
Ever the one to play the foil to Luna’s fun, Sunshine perked her ears up and elegantly motioned off to a sign which had stars and planets plastered on it.
“Gwamma, Sunsheen wan spacies. Pwease an’ dank yew.” Flicking her tail around haughtily, she was elated to hear their grandmother agree that they’d be going to the space exhibit first.
Flopping down on the ground, Luna stuck her tongue out. Flailed her limbs around. Began pouting and crying. “Nu faiw! Dun wan spacies!”
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All the tantrums in the world couldn’t stop Sunshine from getting to go first. Space exhibit it was. Walking into a blackened hallway filled with twinkling starlight and ethereal music, Sunshine practically pranced inside.
“Spacies am suuu pwetty. Wub!” She said excitedly, getting grandma to stop in place so they could enjoy the peaceful beauty of the hall display. All the fun was inside though.
Luna didn’t understand what quiet reverence was. Or stop to think about how pretty things were. She wanted in on that sweet, sweet, hands-on fun that only the science center could offer.
“Wook!” Sunshine tilted a hoof up to point out a trailing shooting star effect that appeared on the video screens. It was so nice. You know what Luna thought of this?
Lifting up her tail, she cracked a fart that rent through the inspiring, low volume music.
What had once been an almost meditative moment had been ruined by her butt. Did Luna give a HOOT? No, she was giggling and stamping her hooves as both her grandmother and sissy were forced out of the hall from the sheer stink.
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The inside of the space exhibit was filled with, what else, stuff to do with the cosmos. There were small booths where you could watch space shuttle launches and even a real lunar module that you could get into and pretend to be exploring in. A large diorama of the solar system was overhead, most of the light in the otherwise somewhat dim room coming from the sun.
“Gwamma, Sunneh wan pway dat.” The oh-so-perfect mare exclaimed, lifting a hoof over to a space shuttle landing simulator.
Huffing a bit, Luna had her eyes laser-focused on a bounce pad that supposedly simulated what it was like to be on the moon. Their grandma sighed, waved Luna off to go bounce as she wanted to. Having her wait in line for the shuttle simulator would be a pretty miserable experience.
Skipping happily over to the bounce pad, Luna peeked in. Other fluffies were already bouncing around happily, though worrying there was a talkie babbeh who was curled up in the corner murmuring about it being ‘tu bouncies’.
Well, she’d be the judge of that. Slamming onto the bounce pad, she barely even had to move her hoooves to be launched up quite high in the air.
“TEEHEEE!” Everytime her hooves met the material of the pad, she burst off it with all her energy. Soon she was even higher than all of the other fluffies. In fact…she was higher than the walls of the bounce pad! Bouncing sideways, Luna got launched over the play place and went soaring through the air.
Front legs hugging out instinctively, she landed on the Mars replica in the diorama up ahead. It swayed, creaked dangerously, proved gravity was still a thing when the wire holding it up snapped. Mars crashed down to the floor and uhh, well, it didn’t fare too well. Luna did though. Looking sideways to see if anyone had seen her destroying space, she giggled and went in pursuit of her sister.
Having finally gotten in place to do the space shuttle simulator herself, Sunshine sat in the captain’s chair and dutifully managed to be doing an actually pretty good job. Amazing since, you know, she was working with hooves and couldn’t read.
“Gwamma…Sunsheen am doin’ it!” She chirruped excitedly to the older woman beside her. Carefully, so carefully, the mare seemed to be doing the mission perfectly. Tongue sticking out in concentration, Sunshine didn’t account for one big problem: Her sister. Having pushed past the line and skittered into the shuttle simulator, Luna lurked in the shadows. Wriggled her butt around. Just went everything seemed to be at it’s most critical moment?
Launching herself at the control panel, Luna slapped her hooves around and flailed all around. “WUNA AM HEWPIN!’” She screamed as loud as she could. Sunshine could only watch as the shuttle she was trying to land apparently exploded into a giant fireball. Real national tragedy. A dark day for the history books.
“SUNNEH HAECHU WUNA!”
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After the space exhibit had worn out it’s welcome, the trio went along down the hallway to what Luna had wanted all along. Ocean! Now of course fluffies were scared of water, but Luna had been to the pool plenty of times. Water wasn’t so scary. For one, mummah said a shark wouldn’t eat her. For another, it was super fun to play around in.
Stepping into the Ocean exhibit, they found themselves surrounded by wall to wall tanks filled with all sorts of fishy creatures. Immediately Sunshine had to prove how smart she was because SHE went to school, going over to one of the tanks and tapping her hoof against it.
“Wook, gramma! It am stingway!” She said, pointing out said creature to her grandmother. This earned a pat to the head.
“Look at you! You’re so smart.” Grandma praised her, which made Sunshine get that look of hers that really cheesed her sister off. Like she was better or something. Well, she was smart too!
Pointing out an eel, Luna proudly declared: ‘An’ dis am sketti fish! Wook gwamma, Wuna am smawty tu.“ This earned her a head pat too even though she was just plain wrong.
Shoving past her sister and looking up to their grandma, Sunshine gave her bestest smile. “Ackshuawwy, dat am eew. Nu am sketti fish.”
Puffing out her cheeks, Luna was about to throw down with her sister over what that silly fish really was but grandma looked to the two of them.
“Girls, I’ve got to go use the restroom. Now I trust you’ll be good for a few minutes and stay here?” Well, of course Sunshine would. Luna had a wall-eyed expression that could mean just about anything. Sighing, grandma looked to Sunshine.
“Look after your sister, sweetie. I’ll be right back.” Giving the two of them a pat, she left the mares to look at the fish. Now Sunshine really had a look as if she were the queen of the ball.
“Sunneh am hab tu watch sissy. Teehee…am su smawties. An’ Wuna am jus’ widdew dummeh babbeh.” Sticking her tongue out at Luna, she just caused a growl of frustration from her sister who went trotting away. Of course, Sunshine followed right behind her.
Did Sunshine let up even a little bit about her newfound responsibility? No, of course not. “Wuna am bigges’ babbeh. Haf tu watch ‘fo gwamma. Dun’ make bad poopies, babbeh!” She said meanly. Was she being cruel? Yes. Did Luna deserve it? Also yes. Remember the tragedgy that occured on her watch.
Clearly letting the insults get to her, Luna squealed angrily and began climbing up the steps to a long tank. Shallow, but running wall to wall. This was the touch the sea critters tank! Sand dollars, coral, starfish, sea urchins. Slugs. Even a horseshoe crab! Nudging up beside her sister, Sunshine poked her hoof in and nudged some coral.
“Dis am cowaw, widdew babbeh Wuna. Nu am wock.” Sunshine told her in an indulgent voice. Which was especially vindictive because Luna had just about to blurt out what a cool rock it was. Huffing, puffing, Luna leapt up over the small stairs leading over the tank and splished into the shallow waters.
Sunshine gasped. “Nuuu! Sissy, Sunneh am tewwin’! Bad fwuffy! Nu am s’post tu be in wawa!”
Did Luna care though? No. ‘Cause her mean, nasty spirited sissy wasn’t even the boss of her. To prove how much she didn’t care, the mare clumsily began scooping up sea critters from the water and tucking them against her fluff. Sea stars latched onto her sides, urchins were stuck up on her fur with their spines, a sea slug was allowed to grossly crawl on the top of her head. With a look of defiance toward Sunshine, she carefully picked up a horseshoe crab with her mouth. Angled it’s yucky looking underside toward her sister.
“EEEEEE!” Flailing around and beginning to cry at the monstrous thing, Sunshine lost her balance and went tumbling down the staircase leading up to the tank.
Just then, their grandma would return. Rush toward Luna with a shocked expression. “LUNA! You’re in big trouble!”
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Once grandma helped get all the ocean critters off her fluff, Luna had to stand in the corner while Sunshine pranced around talking about how much fun she was having. Well, Luna wasn’t having fun. Sadly looking over her shoulder, the mare lamented: “Wan pway tu?” but gramma didn’t pay her any attention.
The last straw came when her sissy was doing the crane game where you got secret treasure from the bottom of a tank of water. This was the entire reason why she wanted to come to the Ocean place to begin with!
“Gwamma! GWAMMA! Wet Wuna pway!” She asked pitifully, watching her sister work the crane clumsily with her hooves. Claw descending, it scooped up a tiny plastic treasure chest from the water tank and brought it up. Deposited it into a prize chute.
Looking over to Luna, grandma shook her head. “No. You’ve been rotten all day. You need at least a little punishment.” With that, she collected the treasure chest for Sunshine and opened it up. Inside was a black plastic spider ring! You know, those ones that you get at Halloween. Clearly the science center just used whatever for prizes.
Luna KNEW that Sunshine didn’t even like spider rings. They’d discussed it before, believe it or not. Even still, today she pushed the ring up against her snout. “Dis am bestest pwize ebah. Sunsheen am suuuu happy!” The fluffy gloated, turned toward her sister so that there was no way she couldn’t hear.
Huffing, puffing, Luna stomped away from the corner.
“Wuna am wunnin’ way! Nu am faiw! Wunnin’ way wite naow!” Taking a few steps away from gramma, she looked over her shoulder. Backed up slightly. Grandma sighed. This was all just an act. Lifting Luna up, she watched the mare squeal and kick her legs around.
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Well, she didn’t get to do much in the ocean exhibit but now they were going to the dinosaurs exhibit. This place wouldn’t seem like too big of a deal to a human but to a fluffy it was like stepping into another world. The air was heavy with heat and humidity, a bunch of exotic tropical plants positioned around. Speakers on the walls played random jungle sounds. Possibly what could be the sound of what a dinosaur was supposed to be like.
Animatronic dinosaurs were everywhere. Peeking out of the lush vegetation in the room, along the walkway, most of them bearing a panel you could push in order to hear about them.
“Wizzie munstahs.” Luna said with a tone of complete reverence. Was she kind of scared? Yes. Did she have something terrible planned for her sister? Also yes.
Smiling a bit and fluffing her tail side to side, Luna looked up to her grandma. “Wuna an’ Sunneh gu an’ see wizzie munstahs?” She asked, wanting permission to go off on their own to play around. Grandma narrowed her eyes at the mare suspiciously but a cursory look around gave her the idea that there wasn’t all that much trouble they could get up to. After all, the only real interactive part of this exhibit was a large sandbox toward the end where one could unearth fake fossils.
“Well…if your sister wants to.” She said, fully knowing that Sunshine might not even want to go off exploring with her sister. However, Sunshine proved herself once more full of grace and complete dominance in intelligence over Luna.
Cocking her head to the side, Sunshine gave a big smile. “Dun wowwy, gramma. Sunneh am keep sissy safe fwom dinysauws.” With that and grandma’s blessing, the two went scampering up over the walkway looking at all the dinosaurs.
Pointing out a stegosaurus, Sunshine explained what it was to her sister. “Dat am steggysawus.” To be honest, Luna was interested in it for a moment. Just a moment because there was only one dinosaur she knew about and wanted to introduced to her sissy.
“Teehee, fowwow Wuna. Wan see bestest wizzie munstah.” Luna mentioned, already having seen the animatronic that most caught her attention the moment they’d entered. Blinking a bit, sunshine nodded and trotted along.
Soon enough they found themselves in front a massive (to them, anyways) T-rex animatronic. Even Luna the big dummy knew the name for this one. It roared to show off it’s mouthful of teeth, bent down to the ground as if eating from a carcass, positioned itself back up to roar again.
Was Luna planning to feed her sister to the famed t-rex? Yes. That is exactly what she wanted to do. Before she could jump to the task, though, Sunshine thrust a hoof out.
“Wook! It am bibfoot!” The mare cried out, making Luna jolt.
BIGFOOT? Here? Well, she didn’t have her net but was willing to catch him without it. Eyes widening, Luna scampered off in the direction that Sunshine had pointed.
“Bibfoot? Am yew hewe? Hewwo? Wuna nu am catchies yew.” She lied, friskily looking back and fourth. What the chubby mare didn’t realize was that her sister had known she wanted to feed HER to the t-rex and led Luna to it instead.
Rubber teeth snagged up around Luna’s body, snatched her up from the ground. Brought up high, she squealed and kicked around.
“NUUHUUUU! TEE-WEX MUNSTAH AM NUMMIN’ WUNA!” Being in the animatronic’s jaws didn’t hurt at all but it was still scary. After all, she was being lofted up sky high and could be swallowed up at any moment! With a huge roar that deafened Luna for a moment, she was descending right back to the ground.
By now grandma had caught up with them. Caught Luna from the clutches of the animatronic, soothed a hand against her back as the fluffy began crying against her shoulder.
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Since Luna was getting into so much trouble, grandma decided to cut the trip short. Not before one last trip to an exhibit though. This one was simply called ‘TV’ and happened to be sponsored by FluffTV itself. Instead of being more scientifically minded, it was dedicated to Hasbio’s supposed successes in media.
It was possibly the most boring place that Luna had ever been in. Even Sunshine looked bored, and that was saying something because she happened to be a big suck-up who tried to act interested in everything.
What passed for activities here was a realistic Cinnamummah you could stand in front of and get pictures with. A large viewing area where groups could watch compilations of FluffTV’s Greatest Hits…which was mostly BABBEHS! This place was so lame that even a pillowed fluffy being dragged along on a wagon was crying to leave. You really had to make an effort to suck when something which spent most of it’s time staring at nothing sad to be there.
One saving grace was an exact replica of the FluffTV Action News set. Pretty much the only interactive thing here. There was a huge line but both Sunshine and Luna were willing to wait until they got to the front. After all, this was the last fun thing they’d be doing here.
Once they reached the front of the line, grandma helped usher them onto the set. This was really being filmed! An incredibly bored teenager was sat behind a camera which produced overpriced DVDs for people to buy as a souvenir.
The FluffTV Action News set was exactly as both of them knew it. A big desk with important looking papers stacked on top of it, plastic red coffee mugs, spinny chairs. There was a teleprompter facing the desk. Considering the fluffies couldn’t read it merely showed bright and happy images for them to babble about. Both mares climbed up onto seperate spinny chairs and the show would begin.
Teleprompter flashing on, Sunshine examined the cartoony images as they flashed on screen. “Hewwo FwufffTV ashun news! Dis am Sunneh!” Instead of saying who she was, Luna gripped onto the desk with her hooves and spun herself around on the chair.
“Uhmm, huggies am da bestest! An’ nummies am da tastiest!” Sunshine exclaimed happily as images of hugging fluffies and a bowl of kibble appeared on the teleprompter. Bored of spinning around, Luna suddenly stopped. Clung to one end of the desk, scrabbled and pulled until she was on top of it.
“AN’ DA MUNSTAHS AM NUMMIN’ EBBY FWUFFY! IT AM SUUU HUWTIES AN’ SCAWY!” Luna said, deciding that she wasn’t going to be part of the fake news cycle ANY LONGER. Kicking stacks of paper off the desk and the coffee mugs too, she watched as it all flew to the carpeted floor. Luckily, the coffee mugs were plastic and didn’t break. Poking out of one of them, a blue babbeh with a spider ring on it’s tiny snout crawled away and looked to the camera for a moment before going back on it’s mission of espowin’.
“LUNA!” Grandma shouted, going onto the set to collect the belligerent fluffy.
As she was being pulled out, she kept yelling at the camera. This outburst had of course made Sunshine cry because she wanted to be a serious news fluffy.
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Despite how freaking rotten Luna had been the entire day, grandma was letting her pick out something at the gift shop. Sunshine had already chosen what she wanted: A real chemistry set!
“Sunneh am goan make science.” She said in a very irritating tone, but whatever. Luna was surrounded by too much junk at the moment to even be too annoyed by her personality.
What about a t-shirt? It’s not like she wore clothes but would perhaps be very cool if she did.
Oh! Or a model rocket? Pressing one hoof toward it, grandma immediately shot that idea with a clipped ‘No’.
Hmm. Well. There happened to be a giant kiosk filled with huge trays of candies.
“Wuna wan dis!” She said excitedly, and that was honestly one of the least worrisome things she could get. Grandma helped her fill up a plastic bag full of the bestest treats. Fizzy cola bottles, cheap pieces of chocolate, hard candies shaped like little dinosaurs, gummy hamburgers.
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The trio had returned back to grandma’s house without much more fret or worry. Immediately, Sunshine wanted to play with her new chemistry set.
Grandma opened up the garage, got a tarp out and laid it along the driveway. Assembling the chemistry set with it’s plastic beakers and different vials of chemicals, she proudly watched as Sunshine went on to make science.
Well. Something like that. Being a fluffy, she couldn’t read but did mix blue and yellow together. It made green!
“Wook, gwamma! Sunsheen make science!” She exclaimed excitedly.
Meanwhile, Luna was cruising around in a bright pink Barbies Powerwheels truck. A white helmet covered with flower stickers was strapped onto her head, because safety was key in life. Making the vehicle lurch along the long driveway, she was pretty much leaving everyone else alone. After all, cruising and eating from a giant sack of candy was pretty nice and getting into trouble would ruin that.
Mouth filled with gummies, face smeared with melted chocolate, she turned at the end of the driveway. Saw Sunshine loudly bragging about how she had made green. It wasn’t really clear WHY she wanted to, but she’d decided right then and there that she was going to cause trouble!
Hoof sinking down against the plastic pedal, she made the Powerwheels shoot out with a surprising amount of speed. Toward her sister!
Still proudly showing off her vial of green water, Sunshine’s eyes grew big as she found her sister’s vehicle bearing down on her fast.
“EEEEEE!” Sunshine managed to get out before the toy truck slammed right into her chemistry set, crunched and squealed it’s wheels all over it, made various chemicals combine.
Now, this was a chemistry set for children. It was surely not dangerous. Well, maybe there was a mix-up at the factory. Maybe God just loves chaos. As chemicals mixed together on the ground, something ignited. A flash of light, a woosh of sound! There was an explosion that sent Sunshine sailing through the air and landing upside down in a bush.
Don’t worry. She’s just fine! Despite the smoldering, it turns out Sunshine was quite resistant to being blown up.
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After making sure that Sunshine was OK (and cleaning some soot off her fluff), grandma put the two fluffies to bed. At least one of them needed a nap and would pitch an absolute fit if her sissy wasn’t included in on that.
“Wan huggies.” Luna said, inching up along the mattress to her sister.
Understandably, Sunshine was a little shellshocked. Not only had her precious new chemistry set just been destroyed, she’d almost been too! Still, she let her sissy snuggle her. Was too tired after their big day to really complain much about it.
Twenty minutes later, both were completely conked out. Sunshine, of course, in that prissy fashion of hers. Body in a catlike curl, tail neatly tucked up against her frame. In contrast was Luna who was sprawled out like a murder victim waiting to have a chalk outline drawn around her.
Grandma sighed from the corner of the doorway. Why had her own girls gone with fluffies instead of children?
Oh well. One might be an actual domestic terrorist but she was dedicated to giving them all the love she’d give real grandkids. In just a few hours they’d be up fighting all over again. Before that happened, she needed a nap of her own. Maybe even a drink.