“Here boy!” Rainbow Dash teased as she continued flying around the Ursa’s head, she mocked the beast with faces and taunts which only annoyed it even more however with her speed the Ursa was unable to catch her. “You’re too slow!” she continued to taunt “Come on what are you waiting for?”
André continued to hold on tightly as Rainbow held the advantage but it still made him nervous. Usually when she gets cocky things go wrong “Rainbow, please don’t make it any angrier.” He pleaded as he took a nervous gulp after seeing more of the Ursa’s drooling teeth.
“Right, sorry…” Rainbow said with a sheepish smile and giggle.
While Rainbow Dash kept the Ursa at bay Twilight and Applejack managed to find a very long piece of rope.
“Guys!” Twilight yelled out to her friends in the sky.
Fluttershy, who was keeping a safe distance from the fight, was the first to spot the two “Look, there’s Twilight and Applejack!” she told Babe as she pointed down to them.
Applejack waved at the two making sure she had their attention “Hey ya’ll! We’ve got the rope!”
“Excellent!” Babe shouted out to them “While Rainbow Dash and André have it distracted wrap the rope around its legs! Twilight, use your magic!” Twilight nodded and was preparing her magic, Babe tapped Fluttershy’s side to get her attention “Fluttershy, head down to the ground now.”
Fluttershy nods and descends to the ground as they’re descending Babe signaled for Rainbow Dash to wrap up her distraction. Twilight quickly wrapped the rope around the Ursa’s legs. Its legs were already tied together. Using the rest of the rope Twilight repeated the same process but this time it was for the Ursa’s claws.
With its legs and claws tied up the Ursa was now unable to move or attack. It struggled to keep its balance as it wasn’t good on its hind legs. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash landed on the ground. Babe jumped off of Fluttershy’s back and went over to Twilight and Applejack. Rainbow Dash followed behind him.
“So that’s what the rope was for, huh?” said André with a small grin.
Fluttershy turned to him with a look of hope in her eyes “Did we win?”
“I sure hope so. Come on. Let’s go check in with Twilight and the others.” André suggested as he started to walk his way over to the others
While André headed toward the others Fluttershy looked up to the Ursa, she was saddened to see the Ursa tied up and bound like a vicious animal despite the fact that it was. She believed that there was good in all animals, even in dragons. She knew tying the Ursa up was the only way to stop its rampage.
“…I’m sorry, I wish there was another way. I hate seeing you trapped like this.” Fluttershy lamented the Ursa. She looked away and began to walk over to her friends.
As the group was coming back together nearly all were accounted except for Fluttershy who took one last look at the Ursa and André who was already on his way.
“Hey, Fluttershy!” Twilight called out to Fluttershy “Come on, we-” Twilight stopped in the middle of her sentence and gasped. What she saw made her panic “F-Fluttershy! Behind you!!” she called out once more this time a lot more frantically.
Fluttershy heard Twilight yelling and looked behind herself. The first thing Fluttershy saw was the Ursa’s underside falling down toward her, she was frozen in fear. Fluttershy closed her eyes just before the Ursa could fall on her.
The others began to fear for the worse but didn’t hesitate in rushing over to the Ursa to check around for Fluttershy, all hoping she had moved out of the way at the last second. Much to the group’s joy on the other side of the Ursa Fluttershy was lying on the ground, a safe distance away from where the bear was going to unintentionally crush her. Babe quickly ran over to Fluttershy held her up close.
“Fluttershy, are you alright!?” Babe asked sounding worried.
“…I’m fine.” Fluttershy answered as she rubbed her forehead with a soft stroke “The Ursa…”
They all looked over to the Ursa. The first thing they noticed was a human hand slightly twitching from underneath the Ursa’s belly. The other’s eyes shot open upon realizing who it was. Their hearts began to race…
“André’s under there!” Applejack shouted in fear “He must’ve pushed Fluttershy out the way!”
Rainbow Dash was the first to run over to the Ursa to help her friend “What are we waiting for!?” she asked the others in a panic “We have to help!”
Fluttershy’s eyes began to fill with water. Babe continued to hold Fluttershy close to him while the others quickly went to save André from the Ursa. Applejack and Rainbow Dash managed to summon all their strength and lift up a little bit of the fat André was crushed under while Twilight pulled him out.
Fluttershy released herself from Babe’s grip to check on her friend’s situation. Twilight shook André in an attempt to wake him while the others gathered around.
“We finally stopped the Ursa!” Twilight exclaimed as she gently shook him “You’ve gotta wake up!”
“Please, wake up!” Rainbow Dash begged but to no avail.
Despite their efforts of trying to wake him André continued to lie motionlessly on the ground. They all began to fear for the worse. Fluttershy couldn’t help but be overcome by horrible guilt, thinking it was all her fault. She collapsed beside him and started crying. The other mares were still in shock and couldn’t believe it, they fought back their tears refusing to believe André was gone.
“It’s not fair! He was only trying to help me!” Fluttershy cried in frustration. Babe walked over to Fluttershy. He placed his hand on her side. She looked over at him, tears rapidly flowing.
“Please, give me some time with him...” he said in a serious tone “I grew up with him. I just need some time with him.”
Fluttershy nodded and stepped to the side, giving Babe his final moments with his friend. He got on one knee beside him. He could only look down at André as he remained still. Babe never wanted to see him like this…
He took a deep breath “André…..”
Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Twilight were on the brink of letting their sadness overcome them. Rainbow Dash couldn’t even finish her sentence and falls into Applejack’s arms. Applejack held her close and was ready to cry with the rest of them.
Babe slowly placed his hands on André’s shoulders “You need to-”
The tears in the remaining mane six’s eyes were now evident.
“You need to-” Babe repeated his last line before shaking André rigorously “Wake up because you’re scaring the girls!” he finally finished his sentence. Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy’s jaws dropped as they watched Babe shake André.
“Babe, NOOOOO!!” Rainbow Dash shouted before hitting Babe in the head with a strong swing of the hoof.
Babe stopped shaking André and rubbed his now aching head “Ow! What was that for Rainbow??”
“HOW COULD YOU TREAT HIM LIKE THAT??”
“Like what!? He’s fine!”
A certain chuckle was heard amongst the group “He’s the only one who caught me, huh?”
Rainbow Dash turned and saw André sitting up with a smile on his face. Her eyes widened in confusion.
“Of course he’s not dead.” Babe said to the group “If a fall from the sky can’t take him out then nothing really will, dem world physics.”
BOP!!André held his head after receiving a hit from the hoof “Ouch! What was that for Rainbow!?”
“You scared me!!” She shouted in anger but underneath it all she was overjoyed and extremely happy to see that André was alright.
Twilight then walked over to André “Wait…so, you’re ok?” she asked as André was ready to stand up and dust himself off.
“Yup.” André plainly answered as if nothing was wrong “Good job on taking down the Ursa by the way, well done.”
“….You….you….YOU-!” Twilight bopped André in the head in a similar fashion to Rainbow Dash, he fell back on his butt and rubbed the same sore spot.
“Ow!” he mildly cried out after receiving his second hit but that wasn’t his only punishment Applejack was up next... “OWW!” judging by André’s shout Applejack’s hit was harder than Rainbow and Twilight’s.
“That wasn’t funny! You had us worried sick!” Applejack shouted at him.
“Especially me!” Fluttershy said as she raised her hoof to André. Seeing this André covered his head but soon he felt additional weight on his body. He opened his eyes to see that he was being hugged by Fluttershy, Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
Babe stood on one knee and put his hand on André’s shoulder “What you did was dumb, idiotic and every other word in the dictionary that defines stupid but you saved Fluttershy and that was cool.”
“Well, you can’t be the hero all the time.” André playfully teased before he gave a small frown after realizing how much he scared Twilight and the others “Um, guys…sorry I worried you but I’m fine. I won’t do something like that again, I swear.”
All the ponies were relieved and got off of him, except Fluttershy “Darn right you won’t, I won’t let you!” Fluttershy squealed.
“UH!” André grunted from Fluttershy’s hold “You’re holding me kinda tight….”
She started to hug him even tighter, it appeared that Fluttershy wasn’t even listening to what he was saying to her “I-if I lost you I-I just don’t know what I would do!” André continued to squeal and squirm against Fluttershy’s hug but it was futile…she was on him like glue.
“Wait, Fluttershy, let him go!” Babe said as he tapped on her.
Twilight slightly raised her hoof “Fluttershy-”
“You shouldn’t have put yourself in that kind of risk!” Fluttershy continued her embrace, unintentionally ignoring what the others had to say.
“Uh, Sugarcube…?”
Babe raised an eyebrow and cocked his mouth to the side “Fluttershy, you’re killing him.”
“I am?” she asked as she turned to Babe “But he’s not laughing.”
Babe shook his head “No. I mean literally, he stopped moving.” He pointed to André and just as he said André was still and unconscious.
Fluttershy wrapped her arms around him again….holding him in what now seemed like a vicious bear hug “No, no, no! You can’t leave us again!” hugging him like that wasn’t making the situation any better.
While things seemed to have settled down Spitfire steps out of the building she was knocked into “My head…..what happened?” she asked herself as she rubbed her sore head.
“Spitfire!” Rainbow called her idol and captain upon seeing her “Are you ok?” she asked as she flew over to her.
“Well, nothing broken, so I guess I’m alright.” Spitfire peeked over and saw the Ursa on the ground and tied up “Whoa…you guys took down the Ursa?”
Rainbow held her head up in a proud manner, holding her hoof up to her chest “Yeah. It was pretty intense but it’s nothing we can’t handle.”
“Nice going, you know, you really are a cool pony Dash. Wanna hang out after all this is done?”
“Sure! Wait, are we actually going to hang out or are you just going to invite me and then ignore me like at the gala?”
Spitfire raised a brow “You were at the gala?”
“…Never mind.” Rainbow said dully “Of course I want to hang out with you!”
“Awesome.” Spitfire smiled before noticing the others “Good to see your friends are ok too. Hey, Is that…André?”
“Lying on the ground? Yeah, that’s him. He had a little ‘accident’.”
“No…the Ursa didn’t…”
“Of course n-”
Spitfire ignored what Rainbow and ran over to André’s side in a panic. She looked down at him thinking he was hurt from the Ursa.
“What happened?” She asked the group.
Babe turned his head to Spitfire and back to André “The Ursa fell and crushed him but he’s cool. Fluttershy accidently went overboard and kinda bear hugged him to death.” Hearing Babe’s last sentence earned him the stare from Fluttershy, he shivered upon making eye contact with her and even felt sweat coming on. “I mean….hugged him until he lost consciousness.” He quickly corrected himself “W-Was that better?” he asked in cowardly state.
“Much.” Fluttershy replied.
Spitfire lowered her head in sadness “The Ursa did this…”
“No,” Babe answered as he turned back to her “didn’t you just hear what I said?”
“And we didn’t even get the chance to truly get to know each other.” She continued, not paying any attention to the others because of her thoughts on André’s condition.
Babe took a quick look to the others “What is she talking about?” they all shrugged in confusion.
“But even after all the small things we did he had a big role in my heart.”
“What?” Both Babe and Rainbow Dash asked without hesitation.
Spitfire’s eyes filled with water as she got closer to André’s unconscious body “Please…come back to me….to us….”
Twilight and all the others weren’t expecting this or what was about to happen next. Spitfire slowly went down toward André’s face, what happened wasn’t shown but with the sound of a cartoony kissing sound effect one could only imagine. Twilight and Applejack gasped.
“….Mm? Mm!? MMM!! MM!” André mumbled. Spitfire felt André’s mumbling and she quickly rose up. “Ah! Uh! Spitfire! What are you doing??”
“You’re alive?” Spitfire asked not believing her eyes…despite already being told her initial thoughts were wrong.
“Of course I’m alive! I was just unconscious. You didn’t have to give me CPR.”
“What’s CPR?” The celebrity pegasus asked as she tapped her lower lip with her hoof “Oh! It doesn’t matter! You’re alive!” she dove into André’s arms and hugged his still sore body, he softly grunted from the minor pain. She broke the huge and looked back at André with a smile “I’m so happy but I have to go find the others so I’ll see you later, ok?” she looked over to Rainbow “Hey, Rainbow Dash, wanna help me look?”
She didn’t answer. She gave a hard stare at Spitfire, the look made Spitfire felt as if something was wrong.
Babe shook his head and placed his hands in his pockets “All’s well that ends well I suppose.”
While the weird gathering between the ponies and humans were happening they all failed to realize that the Ursa was freeing itself from the rope.
“GRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!”
The Ursa stood tall against the small group who all shouted in fear thanks to the jump scare the Ursa put on them, all except for Babe “Funny how we completely forgot about that thing…” was all he said.
“Anymore idea’s guys??” André asked as he slowly started to back away with the others.
“WE COULD RUN!!” Fluttershy suggested in a rare shout.
“S-Sounds good to me!” Twilight agreed.
Before the group could move the Ursa raised its foot above them, they were all preparing for the Ursa to deal them the final blow.
Suddenly a pink star twinkled in the sky, it came crashing down into Equestria and it was aimed for Ponyville…before the Ursa could crush Babe, André, Twilight and all the others the star that was shown earlier smashed onto the top of the Ursa’s head with great impact. The Ursa froze up and fell backwards like a flat plank in a comedic cartoon fashion.
Once the Ursa hit the ground dust and dirt shrouded the area where it fell. The air began to clear and a shadowy figure started to give form in the dust. “That was fun!”
“…..That voice!” André spoke with wide eyes.
Babe rubbed his eyes and took a closer look at the shadowy figure “No, it can’t be.”
The dust cleared, the Ursa was defeated, and Pinkie Pie stood at its feet unknowingly victorious “That ride was awesome! Out of this world!” she chanted.
“P-P-P-P-P-P-P” André continuously stuttered, unable to speak properly.
“Pinkie Pie!” Babe chained together André’s words “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?”
She thought for a second “I don’t know, but it sure was a lot of fun! I was soaring and soaring and soaring! What have you guys been up to?”
Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Spitfire, André and Babe were speechless…
“The silent treatment, eh? Or is it the silent game? I can play that game too! Ok, here we go! Ready, set-wait, we’ve already started! And I talked, well, I’m talking! I guess that means you guys win! Maybe next time! I’ve got to use the little filly’s room! So I’ll be back!” Pinkie Pie quickly ran off and was out of sight leaving all of her friends in awe and confusion…it was a very long day for them.
“Did she….did she really just save us and Ponyville?” asked André as he scratched the back of his head
Babe exhaled and tapped his forehead with an open palm “Yo….I’m….I, you know what…forget it. I just need to lie down….”
Spitfire flapped her wings and started to take flight “…Right. I’m going to go look for Soarin and the others.” Babe nodded and waved to her as she took off.
“Guys,” Babe sighed as he looked at the others “let’s head home.”
Twilight and the others slowly walked away “Sounds like a great idea.” Twilight said with an exhausted look on her face.
The boys stayed behind for a second, Babe turned to André “Today was just a really weird day. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again or at least for a really long time. I officially hate Ursa’s now.”
“Dude…I think I’m going to have to wash my pants when I get back to the library.” André mentioned looking exhausted as well.
“HEY, guys!” Pinkie Pie said to the two as she appeared out of nowhere. Surprisingly she didn’t scare either of them by her sudden appearance.
Babe turned his head to his left and faced the hyperactive pink mare “Pinkie, what’s up? I thought you went to the bathroom.”
“I did and it’s all taken care of! But, I’m glad I caught you both. Look guys, I’ve got something to ask you.”
The two looked at each other and then back to Pinkie waiting for her to explain.
“It’s more of a request really. So far this season I haven’t gotten much show time. It’d be nice if I could get an episode y’know? I mean, I didn’t even get an invite to the Halloween special…well, other than being briefly mentioned anyway. You guys wouldn't mind putting in a good word for me would ya? What am I saying? Of course you wouldn't! I know you guys won’t let me down!”
“……”
“……”
The boys didn't reply.
“To be continued!” Pinkie Pie happily exclaimed as she bounced down the road, Babe and André briefly watched her off before following, both not saying a word.