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// Friendship was Magic pt3 
// Story: My little Pony: Uncommon Connection II 
// by Spitfire16 
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“Stupid, how could she say that to me?” André asked himself as he angrily walked over a bush unknowingly entering the wilderness. “Becoming friends with her just to get close to Spitfire? Yeah, right. It’s not like I care anyway. Good riddance to that selfish brat. Then Twilight and the others blame me for it, I’m not the one who started that.” He started to realize what had happened not too long ago but there was still a little anger in him “Get real…” his voice slowly changed to sadness.

Just then he began thinking about what he said to his other friend back home.


“Get rid of all your pain and suffering as a human then.”

“I can’t him and his pathetic speeches.”

“I seriously can’t take him anymore….”

“We may just need to find a new hangout partner.”

“Until he change his ways I don’t even think I can call him my friend.”

“I gotta get a new friend”

“You know what, I don’t care. You all think it’s my fault then fine, I don’t need this. I don’t need any of you.”


The thought of how many friends he’s lost was enough to put his trivial frustration aside. “…First Khalil…now Babe and the others…what kind of friend am I?”

André tried not to think about his problem and placed his hands in his pockets but once his hand hit the bottom of his right pocket he felt something and it caught his attention. Curious to know what it was he took it out and was shocked to see that it was Rainbow Dash’s star charm.

“I’m sorry…” he said in sorrow, “Rainbow Dash, everybody, I’m sorry…I’m a terrible…friend.”

With the last apology he tightly held the star charm in hand before placing it on the ground. He felt unworthy of a gift created from the heart. Depressed, he continued walking farther into the forest not caring where he would end up.

“What’ve I become? After all the promises I made to them I just let them go as if it was nothing. I hurt Rainbow Dash’s feelings. There’s no way any of them will forgive me after everything I’ve done. They have every right to hate me actually. I can’t blame them.” His cold words and actions replayed over and over in his head, causing him to get frustrated again though this time it was at himself “AHH!” he yelled out angrily while clenching his fists “I’m so stupid, why did I do that!?”

Unable to control his anger André made a fist and punched a seemingly large rock. Strangely enough the rock he had just punched was soft and fuzzy.

André raised an eyebrow in confusion. “I wasn’t expecting this rock to be so soft…in fact it feels like it’s furry.” He took a closer look. “The design isn’t the same as other rocks in the show.”

A warm gust of wind fell upon André. He looked up and saw an Ursa looking down at him. Its eyes widened upon seeing André’s face.

“Uh oh….” He gulped nervously “you wouldn’t happen to be the exact same Ursa me and my friend’s ran into a while ago...would you?”

The Ursa nodded, understanding what André was saying.

André began to sweat, “Hehehe….um….s-so how’s it hangin’?”

“GRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!” The Ursa let out a horrifying roar.

“AAAAHHH!!!” André screamed like a scared little girl as he turned around ready to run the other way.

The Ursa was up and ready to finish what had started a few months ago. André ran through the forest with the Ursa hot on his tail. He didn’t know where he was going because the sun went down a while ago.

“I don’t even know why I went through this forest!” André shrieked as he continued running. Unfortunately he hadn’t seen the rock that was coming up. His foot hits the rock and he trips, falling to the ground, he looked back to see what he had tripped over “AW, COME ON! A ROCK!? HOW OFTEN DOES THAT HAPPEN!?”

The Ursa approached the barely breathing human. It stood over him with its fangs showing, completing its mischievous grin.

“….This would be a great time for an MlP plot device right now.” He checked his surroundings to see if there was anything he could use to defend himself but there was nothing.

The Ursa stared down at André, drool dripping from its mouth, making sure the boy was paralyzed with fear. The Ursa opened its mouth and was ready to feast upon the defenseless human.

A rainbow streak came from under the Ursa’s jaw and attacked it. The attack made the hungry Ursa fall onto its back. The Ursa was left in a daze. André recognized the streak and stood up. The streak came back down and landed in front of him. It was Rainbow Dash who saved him.

“That’ll teach ya!” Rainbow shouted out to the Ursa who threatened her friend.

‘Rainbow Dash…’ André thought to himself, speechless to see Rainbow Dash before him.

Babe came up behind André and placed his hand on his shoulder. “You ok?” he asked calmly.

André turned to Babe looking lost but inside he was overjoyed to see them. “Babe? Why’re you here?”

“Why shouldn’t I be?” Babe asked before gently popping the back of André’s head “You ran off like an idiot earlier.”

“…..But-”

“Don’t worry about it.” Babe gave a small grin. He reached into his pocket and took out André’s star, “Here, you should really keep this safe.”

André held out his hand, Babe dusted the charm off before returning the star back to its owner.

Babe stood up and clapped, “Rainbow, you took out that Ursa in 10 seconds flat just like you said. Nice, but I think it’s time for us to go now.”

Rainbow turned around and stared at André with a slight look of disappointment. André noticed her stare and remained speechless as was she.

“You just ran off and left us all worried.” The mare finally spoke to him “We all split up to search for you. Babe and I heard you yelling and you’re lucky we got here in time. Why would you be so reckless?”

André rubbed the back of his neck trying to find a good answer to give to her, “Well…I-” he looked over to Babe for help. He didn’t know what to say.

“Don’t look at me.” Babe held up an open palm up to André in a declining manner “I’m not the one mad at you.”

Rainbow Dash started to make her way over to André. “You had us all worried sick…”

“I’m sorry.” He quickly apologized “I know you’re mad at me but please…hear me out-” before he finished his sentence Rainbow Dash was already up to him and on her hind legs and standing up to him. André hung his head and closed his eyes much to his own shame of not being able to answer for himself.

André was expecting a lecture and a kick to the pants but instead he was held closely. The feeling of being held made him raise his head and see Rainbow Dash hugging him.

“I’m sorry.” She apologized with a relieved look on her face, happy to see he was ok. She dropped the hug and took a step back to face him “I…I was out of line. I shouldn’t have jumped to any stupid conclusions and…I’m sorry.” Rainbow Dash apologized once more.

André nodded. “Same here, I’m sorry too…for everything I said and did. I actually have a lot more to say but I just can’t right now.”

“You’re safe. That’s all that matters at this point. Once we get out of here we’ll iron out all the details.”

“IF we can get out of here” Babe interrupted the two.

Rainbow and André looked at Babe in confusion. “What’s with the ‘if’?” Rainbow questioned.

André and Rainbow Dash’s eyes shot open as Babe pointed up to the sky. The two realized that they now had to deal with the rage of an Ursa, major, and judging by how angry it was the Ursa that Rainbow Dash had taken out was its cub.

Meanwhile in Ponyville Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy all met back up at the town square.

“Did anypony find anything?” Twilight asked the group in a shortage of breath.

Fluttershy shook her head “I’m sorry Twilight, I couldn’t find anything.”

“Neither could Ah….” Applejack added to the bad news.

Twilight stomped her hoof in worry. She looked over to Rarity hoping she’d have a different answer.

“Neither of us found anything. I hope André’s alright…” Rarity hoped.

Twilight lowered her head, ears slouched down as well “He must be alone and lost…I’d give anything to know that he’s ok.”

Suddenly Pinkie Pie’s body suddenly began to shake.

“Are you alright?” Rarity asked her with a slightly raised hoof.

“Uh oh….” Pinkie muttered as she started to shake again “WOOOO….” Her voice made a silly high vibration pitched tone as she shook.

“Wait. Isn’t that your Pinkie sense?” Applejack asked upon realizing the strange body patterns.

Twilight realized Pinkie’s strange behavior as well, she knew for a fact this was the Pinkie sense. “The shaking….doesn’t that mean we’re in for a doozie?”

Pinkie temporarily stopped shaking “Uh huh…and by the feel of it….it’s one BIG doozie.”

“What could it be?” Rarity asked while sounding a bit concerned. Last time there was a big doozie a hydra was involved.

Loud thumping was suddenly heard. The thumping became more and more frequent by the second. Now the ground began to shake. Twilight and the others began to fear for the worse the same went for all the other ponies in Ponyville.

Pinkie Pie shaking was out of control she was launched up to the sky leaving behind a trail of Pink…Twilight and the others were in awe at Pinkie’s random occurrence. This was a little beyond Pinkie Pie random. She turned into a gleaming light in the sky.

“Pinkie Pie!” Twilight shouted out to the sky as her friend disappeared into the sky.

“Look!” Applejack yelled out while pointing down the road “There’s Rainbow Dash and Babe!”

“André’s with them too!” Rarity happily added on.

Once Rainbow, Babe and André arrived in Ponyville the Ursa, major, made its appearance as well.

Applejack’s eyes widened at the sight of the Ursa, “W-W-WHAT IN THE HAY IS THAT!?”

“THAT’S AN URSA MAJOR!” Twilight cried out in a panic as the Ursa continued to run amuck.

Soaring overhead were the Wonderbolts coming to counter the Ursa threat.

“The Wonderbolts, they’re coming to save us!” Rainbow Dash cheered as she saw her idols bravely making their way to the Ursa.

Babe was rather unimpressed with their daring dash. “If they put on the same act as they did in Secret of My Excess then we’re all doomed.” Despite the situation Babe remained calm can composed.

The group of fliers circled around the Ursa’s head to confuse it with their well-coordinated and quick flight patterns, the Ursa began swinging its arms around, swaying away at them like bothersome flies. Eventually the Ursa managed to hit Spitfire. Spitfire plummets out of the sky and crashes through the hay roof of one of the houses.

Seeing their captain fall caused the other members of the Wonderbolts to gasp in shock thus leaving themselves opened for the Ursa to strike. With one mighty swing all the members of the Wonderbolts were spiked to the streets of Ponyville.

Rainbow Dash’s eyes shrunk in horror, “NO!” she yelled out.

“I know I’m not the only one who saw that coming.” Babe said as he looked back to his friends who were too focused on the Ursa to answer.

With the Wonderbolts down everypony in Ponyville began to run off in a panic. Babe, André and the mane6 remained still. They knew the Ursa would be after them and leading it further into Ponyville would only do more harm.

“Nobody has a plan?” Babe asked as the group started to slowly take steps back.

“We could run!” Rarity suggested.

Rainbow turned back to her friends “You guys go. I’ll try and distract it as long as I can.”

“What?!” André was shocked from what he heard from Rainbow Dash. His fear for the Ursa was replaced with plans of making sure Rainbow was safe.

“If I can I’ll lead it away from Ponyville.”

André refused to allow Rainbow to handle such a problem on her own “What are you talking about? We can’t just leave you here t-”

“Just do it!” she spoke loudly before he could finish his sentence showing how determined she was .

Before André could debate Babe stepped in. “Rainbow Dash, you got this?”

“Of course.” She gave a confident smile.

The others didn’t want to leave Rainbow Dash but they knew it would have to be done for the good of Ponyville.

“Just make sure you catch up to us!” Twilight yelled out to Rainbow Dash as she led the group away from the scene. André was the last to follow after them, reluctant to leave his friend behind.

With her friends gone Rainbow now faced the wrath of the Ursa alone. She gulped before soaring up to the beast. After a brief run through town the gang eventually made it to the library, luckily it wasn’t too far away. Although safe they still had a big problem on their hooves/hands, Fluttershy frightened to the point of shaking.

Babe went over to comfort his scared friend. “Fluttershy, there’s no need to be scared.”

“But…Babe…that’s an Ursa, major.”

“I know but it’ll all work out. It always does.”

Fluttershy was surprised to see him so calm, it put her at ease though not enough to get over fear “…Aren’t you scared?”

“Not at all.” He smiled at her “I know everything’s going to be ok. Wait.” On their way back to the library Babe just realized they were a head short “Hey, guys, where’s Pinkie Pie?”

“We don’t know…” Twilight answered sounding even more worried “she just randomly launched herself into the air and never came back down.”

“Oh.” Babe crossed his arms trying to get a good mental imagine of how Pinkie Pie’s image. He envisioned a canon being involved. “Must just be another Pinkie Pie thing.”

Pinkie Pie wasn’t the only one they were missing, André was gone too. Only Applejack had noticed it so far. “Where’s André!?” she asked the remaining others.

“He’s not here?” Babe asked as he took a quick 360 look around the library “He was right behind us a few minutes ago.”

Rarity began pacing back and forth. With Rainbow Dash keeping the Ursa at bay, Pinkie Pie disappearing and now André going off at this dire time she found herself giving in to fear as well….they were losing too many friends and very quickly. “Where could he be?” she asked after she stopped her pacing.

As the Ursa continues its rampage Rainbow Dash was still at a huge disadvantage. None of her attempts seemed to even faze the mighty beast. The Ursa began to horse around with Rainbow by plucking her around and sending her flying into houses.

She hit the side of one building and fell to the ground below. “Darn it!” she quickly stood back up. Rainbow prepared to take flight but her attempt failed, the Ursa placed its finger on Rainbow’s tail before she took off. She wasn’t aware of this and flew a short distance before crashing back down into the dirt.

The Ursa began to laugh.

“Now what…?” she muttered to herself as she tried to crawl away.

Placing its thumb and finer on the tip of Rainbow’s tail the Ursa dragged her back. The Ursa held Rainbow up by her tail and stared into her fearful eyes. The Ursa released Rainbow Dash allowing her to fall to the ground below. She was too weak to fly away.

“Can’t quit…” she told herself as was nearing the ground, luckily she was caught.

“Gotcha!” her adamant human friend managed to save her from the long drop. With Rainbow Dash in his arms he quickly retreated. “Don’t worry Rainbow, I’ve got you!”

After rescuing his weak friend he ran behind a building in a desperate attempt to hide from the Ursa. He put his back against the wall, trying to catch his breath, Rainbow Dash still in his arms.

“You should be with the others.”

“No, forget that. I had to come make sure you were alright.”

“You egghead, now the Ursa will be after you too…”

“I almost let you go once and not just you…Babe, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and all the others. I…I lost a friend back home and that’s one too many….I refuse to lose any of you.”

Rainbow sighed. “You’re an egghead.” André felt as if he was going to drop from the response but shrugged in alight agreement. “But you’re my egghead!” Rainbow brightly smiled as she playfully pet André’s head, “Thanks for the save.” She thanked him sincerely.

“Aw….” a familiar voice spoke up. To the duo’s surprise Twilight, Applejack and Babe were standing beside them. Rarity stayed with Fluttershy back at library because she was too afraid to leave and face the Ursa.

Seeing her friends made Rainbow facehoof herself, “Do you guys mind?” she asked sarcastically.

“Nope, don’t mind us.” The three replied in sync.

André was happy to see them and laughed, “What’re you all doing here?”

“We came out looking for you.” Babe placed his hand on André’s shoulder, “Good thing you’re not too good at staying hidden.”

Applejack giggled. “Either that or we’re just good seekers.”

Before the group could get the chance to rest the sound of the rampaging Ursa quickly got their attention.

“Right.” Babe looked from behind their cover “We’ve got to deal with that Ursa, so, suggestions?”

Rainbow’s determination resurfaced, now that her friends were here she felt a lot more confident and ready for the challenge. “Let’s kick this things butt. We’re not going to let some Ursa show us up!”

Babe nodded in agreement “Then I guess we should go out and meet it half way then.”

“Ah don’t see any other way past this.”

“Dashie, you ok to fly?” Babe asked.

Rainbow Dash was able to fly out of André’s arms showing she was ok despite the injuries she got earlier. “Yeah, I should be good.” She replied.

The Ursa continued to frantically look for Rainbow Dash by lifting houses and placing them back down when seeing Rainbow Dash wasn’t hiding in any of them.

“Applejack, I’m going to need you and Twilight to go out and find a really long piece of rope and once you do bring it back here.”

“Ah’m on it Babe but what’re you going to do with rope?”

Babe smirked, “Trust me on this. If I’ve learned anything from cartoons it’s that the bigger they are the harder they fall.”

“But this isn’t a cartoon Babe! This is real life!” Twilight debated.

André and Babe looked at each other, both with blank expressions on their face.

“Just make sure you come back with the rope.” Babe pointed the demand to Twilight.

“Fine…” the skeptical unicorn pouted.

Babe looked to Rainbow and André. They were the last pieces of the puzzle. “André, Rainbow Dash…we’ll have to distract the Ursa until Applejack and Twilight gets back.”

“Right!” Rainbow quickly accepted her role.

“Um…” André was undecided on the plan, being a decoy against an angry bear didn’t exactly make him feel at ease. He’d rather be the one to find the rope.

“Now…move!” Rainbow, Babe and André are the first to move out from cover. The three managed to get the Ursa’s attention allowing Twilight and Applejack to sneak away behind it. The Ursa growled at the trio.

André looked over to Babe and saw him smiling at the Ursa. “Think we have a chance against that thing?” he asked intrigued by Babe’s confident smile.

Babe laughed hysterically at his friend’s question. “No.” he bluntly answered.

“Somehow I knew you’d say that.” André replied, not sounding too surprised.

“Pull it together guys. I’ve got to avenge the Wonderbolts.”

“About that…” Babe hesitantly spoke after Rainbow Dash “Rainbow, instead of joining the Wonderbolts why not just make your own squad? The Rainbowbolts or something like that, you can do A LOT better than the Wonderbolts, believe me. Wouldn’t it be awesome to be your own cap-”

Rainbow Dash wasn’t paying Babe any mind. She crouched down over to André prompting him to get on her back which he does. “Let’s go on ahead.”

“Right.”

Rainbow Dash flew up into the air with André, leaving Babe behind.

Babe reached his hand out to them but they didn’t go back “Wait! You forgot…me…” he called out but gave up halfway through.

The Ursa tried to keep up with Dash’s movement but thanks to Rainbow Dash’s speed they were able to stay one step ahead of the Ursa.

“Nice work Rainbow. Think you can keep this up?” André asked as he held on tightly.

“I hope so.”

“RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAHHH!!!!” The Ursa roared out. The roar from the beast forced André and Rainbow Dash to hold their ears. The roar also forced Rainbow to be stationary.

“Geez, that thing’s angry…” André looked out to the Ursa and saw its paw coming down. “Rainbow, look out!!”

“We won’t make that!” Thanks to Rainbow’s quick thinking and bronco bucking Rainbow managed to save André by shooting her entire rear end into the air, making André fly off of her back. André was fortunate to have landed on the Ursa’s head unbeknownst to the huge bear.

The Ursa struck Rainbow and sent her flying out the sky once again. In a desperate attempt to save her André was prepared to jump after her but to his surprise Fluttershy arrived with Babe on her back and together the two caught their falling friend. Rainbow opened her eyes and found herself in Babe’s arms.

“I can’t believe you two really left me on the ground!” Babe childishly complained.

Rainbow had to shake her head to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, seeing that it was Babe who saved her she perked up and shook off the Ursa attack as if it was nothing. “Babe! Man, am I glad to see you!”

Babe rolled his eyes and smiled. “Suuuure.” He said sarcastically, already getting past Rainbow Dash and André leaving him.

“Fluttershy, you’re here too!?”

“I had to be…I couldn’t live with myself if I let you all go against an….an Ursa, major, all by yourselves. I may not be of much help but I’ll be there!”

Rainbow was a bit speechless at Fluttershy’s words and attitude. She was determined and ready for the challenge ahead, which was rather rare for Fluttershy. “Wow…that’s some fierce attitude Fluttershy.”

“Oh…I’m sorry, was that too much?”

“GGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRAAAHHH!!”


“Mommy’s very angry…”Babe made comment on the Ursa’s rage.

“André’s still up on the Ursa!” Rainbow reminded herself in a mild panic. “I’ve got to go and help him!”

Babe took a quick glance at the Ursa’s head and saw André hanging onto the Ursa’s ear. “Go get him.” He told Rainbow.

She nodded and charged straight for the Ursa. On the Ursa’s head André was holding on for dear life, thankfully the Ursa didn’t realize André was hitching a ride.

“What am I gonna do now?” he asked himself fearing he was out of options.

“Jump!”

Hearing the voice André checked his surroundings, “Rainbow Dash?” he asked himself not sure if he was hearing things but when catching sight of Rainbow flying around the Ursa’s head he knew she was alright and still kicking much to his joy.

“Quick, you’ve gotta jump!” she called out to him.

André looked down from the Ursa’s head and saw the life threatening drop. “Um…I’m pretty sure that’ll kill me.”

Rainbow was quick to dodge the Ursa’s paw swaying and keep herself safe while at the same time trying to get André to safety. “Trust me!” she yelled out to him.

“I don’t want you getting-!” The Ursa found out that André was on its head and began scratching. André keeping low to avoid begin scratched. “Never mind!” Before getting himself caught he jumped off of the Ursa’s head.

Fluttershy and Babe got back a good distance and saw Rainbow Dash catching André from free falling. Rainbow Dash and André rejoined with Babe and Fluttershy afterwards.

“Phew…thanks Rainbow.”

Rainbow giggled “I know you must hate falling out of the sky by now.” referencing both his entrances in Equestria.


“GRRAAAAHHH!!!” The Ursa let out yet another angry roar.


Babe covered his ears and looked on in annoyance, “That roaring is seriously getting old….WE GET IT! YOU’RE ANGRY!”

“We shouldn’t make it any angrier…” Fluttershy suggested in her casual soft voice.

Babe shrugged, “Just sayin’…”

“Stay focused, we’re not done yet.” Rainbow said to the two as they all focused back on the Ursa. With Applejack and Twilight still away they’ll need to continue to buy as much time as possible but how long before they’re eventually outmatched…