//------------------------------// // Rebellion and Fluttermac // Story: My Little Pony: Adventures in Tyria. // by Mehnlo //------------------------------// Chapter Eight As the group of ponies were following Zecora through the forest, Twilight Sparkle couldn’t help but notice something. Her friend, Pinkie Pie, is being abnormally quiet lately. She slowed down a bit so that she can talk to Pinkie Pie. “Pinkie Pie, is something wrong? You haven't been talking much, it’s not like you.” Twilight asks. Pinkie Pie looks at her friend with a smile. “Oh, I’m fine Twilight. It’s just that the author hasn’t given me many speaking lines.” Upon seeing Twilights confused blink Pinkie Pie tries to elaborate. “This is all just a story written by a semi decent author! Obviously.” Twilight Sparkle just blinks. “Oookaay. Uhm, as long as you’re fine... I guess.” The purple pony trotted forward, extremely confused at her friend, but she thinks that it is best to just say ‘It’s Pinkie Pie‘ and leave it at that. Eventually, the group of ponies started hearing the telltale sign that Zecora had described as coming from the rip. Then, they all saw the source of the noise. It was just as Zecora had described. “Ah don’ like the look o’ that...” Applejack states, glaring at the rip in the air, unsure how to react. Whatdya make out of it, Twilight?” Twilight cautiously trots towards it, her horn aglow with a light magenta. “I... Don’t... Know. It is obviously magical, and unnatural. Princess Celestia said that it acted as a sort of... A sort of portal between two worlds.” “Darling, do you mean to say that the thing that attacked Zecora came out of this portal?” Rarity asks. “I think so. I also think we need to go in it.” Twilight tells Rarity, as she hesitantly walks forward. “I don’t know why, but I feel attracted to it. Like something is telling me to go in.” Pinkie Pie lets out a quiet chortle at this. “Oh, so cliche. Why Twilight? Why do you feel an urge to go in? You have a reason for everything! And you suddenly just feel like you have to? How odd, it’s almost like you’re being driven by a plot...” Pinkie leaves it at that, staring off into the distance with a knowing look. Twilight Sparkle lowers her head, so that her horn is pointing at the rip. It starts to glow magenta again, as the color moves from her horn into the portal. She stays like that for a couple of minutes, until she suddenly lets out a gasp, losing her focus and causing the magic to dissipate. Her reaction shocked the rest of the ponies around her. “What happened Twilight? Are you okay?” Rainbow Dash pokes Twilight, to see if she is fine. Twilight mutters something, more under her breath than to anypony. “It’s horrible. That world is... Awful.” “What is it Twilight?” Swiftflight asks. “The world on the other end of the portal. It is in such chaos. We need to help it, if this goes on both that world and our would could be destroyed!” Twilight says to the ponies with her. “We need to go back to my library, I’ll explain on the way there. There's a book there that I need to read.” With that Twilight starts walking back to Ponyville, and her library. Pinkie Pie just stands there staring off into the distance, and after everypony left, she starts talking. “I’m watching you... You may think you’re in control of this story, but if it gets out of hand I am going to fix it. I don’t want to take part in anything dark or scary. I never signed a contract. They may think this is real but I know better.” Pinkie Pie kept talking off into space for a few more minutes before - “Don’t you dare use a literary device to interrupt me! I will change this story if I have to! My voice will be heard, mark my-” -------------------- “Big Mac! Big Mac!” Big Macintosh looks up as he hears someone calling his name. Big Macintosh bucks the tree he was in front of, causing all of the apples to fall out of them into the buckets on the ground. “Ahm, ovah here,” he responds, looking in the direction of where the voice was coming from. A small orange pegasus, Big Macintosh remembers seeing her with Applebloom, Scootaloo was her name, her scooter comes to a screeching halt in front of Big Mac, she has been clearly worn out. “You need to come quickly! It’s Fluttershy, something wrong!” Big Macintosh eyes widen at this, his feelings for Fluttershy rising. “What? Fluttershy, what happened? Where? Take me to her,” he said urgently, as he looked around, fearing the worst. “Is it the monster? The one that attacked Zecora?” Scootaloo looked up at Big Macintosh, her eyes wide with worry. “Yes! Come on!” she shouted, as she took off towards Fluttershy’s cottage with Big Mac following close behind. On the way there, Big Macintosh decides that if the monster harmed Fluttershy in any way, he would kill it. I swear. If whatever that thing is that has been goin’ around spookin’ ponies has done anything to her, it’ll regret it fer tha rest o’ its short life. Eventually he and Scootaloo make it back to Fluttershy’s cottage, to find Sweetie Bell and Applebloom cleaning up the house. They both look up at Big Macintosh as he comes in, Applebloom with a large smile of relief. “Big Mac, you’re here!” she exclaims excitedly. “She’s upstairs sleeping.” Big Macintosh nods at his sister as he trots up the stairs and carefully knocks on the door to Fluttershy’s bedroom. “Fluttershy? C-can ah come in?” he asks. Big Macintosh hears a quiet whimper from the other side of the door. “B-Big Mac. Is that, that you?” Fluttershy says, as Big Mac hears her hooves land on the floor, trot up to the door and then the door unlocking. “Eeeyup,” Big Macintosh says as he opens to door, only to be embraced by Fluttershy as she puts her head under his neck and starts silently crying, her wet tears hitting the floor. Big Macintosh, for his part, takes the situation well despite his usual lack of tact around females, tilting his head down so that his muzzle touches the top of Fluttershy’s head as he whispers in her ear. “It’ll be okay Fluttershy. Ah came as soon as ah heard what happened. Ahm here fer you, ah’ll do whatever ah can to help ye get through this. It’ll all be fine.” This causes a low moan to come from Fluttershy as a new wave of tears fall onto the floor, however she releases Big Macintosh from her embrace and looks up at him, right into his eyes. “Thank you. . . Thank you Big Mac,” she gets out in between whimpers. She then turns around and slowly trots back into her room, Big Macintosh following behind her as he closes the door. Fluttershy slowly climbs into bed and looks at big mac with those big sad eyes of hers. Big Macintosh carefully moves over to her, as he covers her back up with the sheets of the bed, before he himself climbs onto the other end of the bed, and they both just stare into each others eyes for minutes. Big Macintosh was the first one to speak. “Fluttershy... Ye’ need tah talk to me. I want tah help ye but I can’t if ye don’t tell me what happened.” This caused a whimper out of Fluttershy as she looked up at Big Macintosh, silently begging him to not make her have to relive the event. Big Macintosh stared at Fluttershy, knowing she is shy and, while he doesn’t want to make her sad, he knows it will be better for her to get it off her chest. Fluttershy stares back at him, not angrily like she did with Drub, but with a look of utter despair in her huge watery eyes. Big Macintosh falters, and then lets out a sigh as he gives up. I can’t do it. I can’t force her to relive whatever happened. I just need tah help her with out knowin’ wha's happened. “Alright, ye don’ have tah tell me. But just know, that no matter what happens, ahm here fer ye. Ah will always be here for ye, Fluttershy. If what ye need right now is just silent companionship, then tha’s what ah’ll do.” With that, Big Macintosh lays down by Fluttershy, still separated by the covers, him on top of them and her under them. However, despite this, Fluttershy does her best to cuddle up with Big Macintosh. Her muzzle in his mane, Fluttershy lets out a weak sob, her tears running down her face into Big Macintosh’s fur. “Thank you.” Even though it was only a couple of minutes, it felt like hours to Big Macintosh before Fluttershy went to sleep. He lets out a sigh of relief as his whole body becomes less rigid and he looks at the mare that he secretly loves, snuggled up against him. It’s a dream come true, Big Macintosh is afraid that it is in fact just a dream, and he hopes beyond hope that he won’t wake up in his bed back at the farm. He gently nuzzles Fluttershy, as he too falls asleep next to her, completely forgetting about the three fillies still downstairs. -------------------- Sweetie Bell looks across the room, satisfied. “We’re done! Finally.” All three fillies look at their flank, hoping that they may have gotten a cutie mark in cottage cleaning, but give out a collective sigh as they see that they still have a ‘blank flank.’ “Well, what now?” Sweetie Bell asks. Scootaloo looks at her friend as she flops on the couch. “I don’t know about you but I’m pooped!” Applebloom looks outside, only then do the three friends realize how late it is. “Huh. It’s so dark out. Maybe we should just stay hea’ for the night.” Both of her friends agree, however Sweetie Bell looks rather upset when they suggest sleeping downstairs. “Uhm. Why can’t we sleep upstairs like we did last time we stayed the night here? I’ll go see what Bic Mag and Fluttershy are doing.” Sweetie Bell says, as she starts climbing up the stairs. She then trots over to the bedroom door and slowly opens it. Her eyes open wide, seeing Fluttershy wrapped up in Big Macintosh hooves. She doesn’t notice that Fluttershy is under the covers and Big Macintosh is not. Her cheeks start burning red as she very quickly shuts the door and gallops back downstairs, almost tripping on the bottom step. “Are you okay?!” Applebloom asks. “Wha’ happened?” Sweetie Bell looks up at Applebloom sheepishly. “Uhm... Nothing. Nothing at all! Big Mac and Fluttershy are uhm, just asleep. Thats all, just asleep next to each other! Let’s just sleep down here like you said,” she says as she curls up on the end of the couch. Applebloom gives her friend a look of confusion, but she just crawls onto the couch also. Shortly afterwords, all three fillies go to sleep. -------------------- It was really late by the time Twilight Sparkle and the other ponies make it back to the library. Spike looks up from his book as he hears the door open, and sees all the ponies come in. “Oh, you’re all back. Did you learn anything good?” he asks, only to be ignored by them all as they quickly go into the back of the library. “What- That wasn’t nice. Why would they ignore me?” he wonders. Pinkie Pie quickly walks back into the front room and wraps her left hoof around spike in a hug. “Sorry Spike. We are very busy, but don’t worry none of us are ignoring you! We love you!” She then looks away from Spike, off into space as she sticks her tongue out at nothing. “Oh I know you know who I am sticking my tongue out at,” she mutters to herself. “Thanks Pinkie Pie. And, what? Who’re you sticking your tongue at?” Spike asks, confused. “Oh, no one. Bye Spike, I need to catch up to the group.” she says as she trots to the back of the library where she is supposed to be. End of Chapter Eight.