//------------------------------// // Tocxi // Story: Secret Agent Flutters // by KnightSpiritWolf //------------------------------// I shush the Doctor as we walk even closer to Tocxi's hideout. I trot up to the door quietly and tap it with my yellow hoof. It opens with a quiet creak. Maybe that's how Clutterflim got out. I walk inside, the Doctor close behind. We stay as close to the cold ground as we can. "Who's there!?" A familiar voice screams throughout the entire hideout, "I can smell you! Fluttershy?" The voice sounds closer. "Yes, it's is I, Agent Shy-" I cut myself off and stare at the Griffon before me. Tocxi isn't a Griffon! That's Gilda! Memories of the past swallow me into the darkness and I stare at her with fear. "Gilda the Griffon!" I force myself to sound fearless. "Who is Gilda?" The Doctor sounded curious as usual. "Who is this?" Gilda asked with an angry expression. "Oh, hello," the Doctor smiled, "I'm the Doctor." "Oh, yes, the traveling pony in the Police Box!" Gilda looked away then back at us. "I know why you are here!" Gilda walked forwards a bit, "and I'm not happy about It!" Gilda ran at me with a great force and she knocks me off my feet. I go flailing in the air and fall on the cold floor. Pain burned my stomach and I looked up at her. I still am haunted by that Day of the Darkness, I call It that. Whenever I was walking in Ponyville and bumped into Gilda, she yelled at me! I don't know why but I kept having nightmares about it! I get up on my hooves and charge at her. I suddenly fall limp and she hits me with her large wings. I go blind. "Fluttershy! Long time no see!" Pinkie Pie gets ready to throw a vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting at my face. "Oh, yes." I smile and get ready for the sugary-good taste of frosting to fill my mouth and smother my face. "Totally!" Pinkie smiles and throws the cupcake. I awake with a jump and the Doctor stood before me. "Run." He grabs my hoof and we race off somewhere to hide. Gilda roared behind us. "What's wrong?" The Doctor asks quietly once we were hidden for a few moments. "I- I keep remembering a dark memory of the past with me and Tocxi, I mean Gilda!" I say still frightened out of my hooves. "You can do this. Don't let the past haunt you," the Doctor suddenly looks to the floor, "even if it's somepony you love." "Somepony you love! Doctor, what's wrong? Gilda sneered, "you loved somepony once didn't you!? Roseluck, wasn't it? Where is she now?" "She's gone..." the Doctor stared at her with such power and anger. I stared in amazement. "But where?" Gilda stepped forward. "Somewhere safe!" He grabbed a peculiar object from his saddlebag and pointed it at her. It made an odd buzzing noise. Gilda hunched down and winced. Still, the Doctor stood there. It felt like hours. "Doctor! You can stop now!" I joined in, "Doctor!" The noise stopped and he put the object back. He stepped back and looked at me. "You need to go out there and defeat Gilda. You have too. I have seen the future. This is a fixed point in time. They can't be changed. I'm sorry." The Doctor stared at me. 'Fixed point in what now?' I thought hard for a moment. "Something is going to happen. I can see it in your blue eyes." I stared back at him, "what is going to happen?" The Doctor sighed with a ting of sadness, "Y- you might now be able to fly again." he forced out. "What... I- N-n-no!" I sigh and fix my gaze on Gilda then back at the Doctor. 'I have to save Equestria...' "I'll do it..." I say, I start trembling with fear. A tear filled with determination falls out of my eye as I face Gilda. "There you are!" Gilda turned and faced me. "Good luck..." the Doctor sighs. I extend my wings and float up. I know what I had to do. Anger pulsed through me. The darkness that had once frightened me shall no longer scare me! I look towards my wings. They were on fire! I didn't feel a flame. I look back at Gilda, trying to look like I knew what was going on. She stared in defeat. The red flame made the dark hideout seem much lighter in the rundown room. I close my eyes. I imagine my friends and smile. My eyes open and I hit Gilda with such a force from my wings. I had too. All of Equestria would be ruined. But now, no. My wings grew brighter as I flapped my wings once and hit Gilda even harder. Darkness swallows me whole. I feel pain. But do I really? Am I dreaming? I open my eyes. I am in the agency. Wait hold on. The agency hospital. My 5 PFF's stood there. The Doctor was behind all of them. "Fluttershy! You're all right!" Twilight smiled with relief and exhaustion in her eyes. I must have been out for a while. Pain came from my stomach and wings. I stare at my sore wings. Blood still came out of them. Feathers were torn and the reek of the red blood filled the room. I scrunched my yellow nose. "But your wings..." Rainbow Dash stared at them, "we know what happened." "Oh..." I say with such weakness. I didn't think it would come out like that, "Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Twilight, you all are here for me! I am so sorry for not telling you!" "Oh, It's mighty fine, Sugar Cube." Applejack smiles with affection. "I love you all!" I sniff with happiness. "Well, I have to go now." The Doctor sighed, "see you later, Secret Agent Flutters," he smiled and winked at me then trotted out of the room. I knew where he was going. I will see him later on in my life but as a different looking pony.