"So, uh, Fluttershy was it?" Grif asked.
Fluttershy turned her head slightly and nodded.
"So what do you do around here?" Grif asked.
Fluttershy looked at Grif, "Well, if you get bored you can always go to the town and-"
"No." Grif said, shaking his head slightly. "I mean, like, what do you do specifically?"
"Well." Fluttershy said. "I'm really good with animals so other ponies sometimes leave their pets with me while they're away."
"That's pretty cool." Grif said with a smile.
"I think you are the first one to ever say that." Fluttershy said, letting out a small smile of her own.
"I wonder why?" Grif asked. "I think animals are awesome. Take cats for example, all they do all day is sleep, and at night they grab a bite to eat and go right back to sleep. Who wouldn't want to live that life?"
"I actually think being a tree would be nice. You get to bask in the sunlight. And with enough care you can grow into something beautiful."
"You know what? I change my answer. I think I want to be a tree now," Grif said, sighing happily. "I think I'm going to like this place." At that moment, Sarge suddenly grinned for reasons unknown to him.
Fluttershy’s cottage entered their view as they rounded a corner. "So this is your place..." Grif trailed off.
"Yes. Why? Is it bad?" Fluttershy asked meekly.
"Not at all." Grif said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Seems like a nice place."
"Oh good. I was afraid you wouldn't like it..." Fluttershy said, letting out a small.
"Why worry about what other people think?" Grif said. "I mean, look at me. I don't give a fuck about anything and my life is great."
"My life is good too..." Fluttershy said.
"Sure it's good." Grif said. "But is it great? Have you ever sat down one day and decided to just not do anything at all?"
"Oh no, I could never do that!" Fluttershy gasped. "I have so many animals to look after every day, I can't just not do anything."
"Animals live in the wild with no help from anybody." Grif said. "I think they could handle a day of being left alone. You should try it sometime."
"Let's go inside." Fluttershy said, shaking her head.
"Okay, yeah."
Fluttershy opened the door and walked in, Grif following right behind. Grif took a quick look around and saw that there was a bird cage, a bed for a dog and a small structure for a cat to lay about in. He then looked around and saw a couch on the other side of the room and smiled.
"I'm sorry, but I don't have any spare beds here..." Fluttershy said, hunching down.
"That's okay, I'm perfectly fine with sleeping on a couch." Grif said, walking to the opposite side of the room.
"Are you sure?" Fluttershy said. "I could try and fin-"
"Nah, don't worry about it. It'll just be like my days in college... before I dropped out." Grif assured her. "And you got to stick to your guns. If you don't have a bed, make due. Don't go out of your way for everybody. Nobody likes a doormat. Just look at Simmons! He works his ass off and nobody pays him any attention."
"Isn't Simmons your friend?" Fluttershy asked, frowning slightly at Grif’s remark.
"Yeah, I guess." Grif said. "But we aren't exactly what you would call a band of brothers. Sure we've been through hell and back, not to mention Sarge. We were together, but other than that..."
Fluttershy stared blankly at him then shook her head. "I hope you sleep well." Fluttershy said, quietly cutting him off.
"Yeah, you too." Grif said, closing his eyes.
What a weird pony, Fluttershy thought to herself. How can you be happy if you have nothing to care about?
Grif was awoken by what he thought to be something dropping on his chest, but when he opened his eyes he found himself face to face with a bunny.
"Hey little guy, mind getting off so I can go back to sleep?" Grif said, pushing the bunny off of him.
The bunny promptly jumped back on his chest and thumped his feet.
"Dude, what the hell is your problem?" Grif said, now sitting up. "I'm trying to sleep here."
The bunny shook his head, jumped up and kicked Grif in the jaw. Grif grunted and rolled off the couch. The bunny stood smirking on the couch and it then curled up and went to sleep. "What the fuck just happened?"
"Oh I'm sorry." Fluttershy said, walking in holding many bags of animal feed. "That's Angel. He's my pet bunny. I forgot to mention that he likes to sleep on that couch for his afternoon nap."
"Yeah well I was having my afternoon nap too." Grif said, turning angrily at the bunny who had replaced him on the couch. He then let his shoulders sag. "Ah what the hell, I'm up now anyways. What are you doing?"
"I'm giving everyone their lunch." Fluttershy said. "I could make you something if you want."
"Really? That would be awesome." Grif said happily. "I haven't eaten in nine years!"
"Oh my," Fluttershy gasped, "a whole nine years?"
"Figure of speech." Grif said, rolling his eyes.
"Oh okay." Fluttershy said. "Follow me to the kitchen and I will make you a sandwich after I feed the animals."
"Alright." Grif said excitedly, following her into the kitchen. When she opened the door, he was surprised to see that the room was packed with animals.
"Wow, it's like you have your own petting zoo." Grif said sarcastically.
"Thank you."
Grif rolled his eyes.
"It will just take a minute for me to feed them all." Fluttershy said, opening a package of food, pouring it into a bowl.
"Here let me help." Grif said, grabbing another bag.
"Thank you." Fluttershy said. "What do you plan on doing after?"
"After what?" Grif asked.
"After you've eaten." Fluttershy replied.
"Once you get to know me, you'll feel pretty stupid asking me that." Grif laughed.
Next up is Tucker and Dash.
Oh god my sides! The next one will slay me from what I've read. Also, first!
I'm an idiot, I just realized I was spelling Grif wrong the entire time.
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I just changed it. There is even an episode where Sarge said that Griff is a girls name and Grif corrects him saying that there is only one f in his name, making it sound manlier.
296280 Caboose was very specific about that second f
once you called grif sarge, and right after you have another little mistake where fluttershy just kinda stoped her line, other then that awesome!
Here let me help." Grif said, grabbing another bag.
lies grif never helps
634618 I have to agree.
There's definitely some funny stuff in this fic, and at times the characterization is perfect, but then we get chapters like this one, and the previous one with Sarge and the one where Caboose is sad... and the RVB crew go VICIOUSLY out of character. Caboose starts talking all lucid, like the adorable-dumbass thing is an act he plays along with, now Sarge and Grif, a few of the more volatile of the Blood Gulch guys, are being POLITE and COOPERATIVE amongst a bunch of multicolored pony-people they've been FORCED to be put under the supervision of.
Personally, I think Sarge would be criticizing damn-near everything until a certain point, and Grif would NOT be a grateful guest. Rather than offering Fluttershy advice, I'd expect his awareness of her as being a Simmons-style doormat to be something he'd use to milk the situation for all that it's worth.
"Nine Knackered Souls" wasn't the longest or best crossover fic I've ever seen, and the constant action scenes detracted from the interaction a bit, but the characters were down-pat. At best, the Reds and Blues only ever found a grudging respect for the Mane 6 and vice-versa. They're just not good people, they're volatile and confrontational as HELL. In that fic, Twilight sums it up amazingly well when she notes that the RVB crew are practically the antithesis of friendship and harmony.
I'm still liking this fic, because when it gets good, it gets REALLY good, but I have to mention this. Because I'm me, after all.
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Actually the fact that they are more docile is going to be a point that I bring up later on, so while I should have still made them more in character, there is a reason they aren't fully hating everything like they should be.
I have another one hundred and forty chapters to go, your quality to quantity ratio for your writing is absolutely astounding.
oh Grif (Who's voiced by Geoff) you lazy sonuvabitch
Y'know what? That was boring. Good, but it's Grif, so... yeah. He's the embodiment of boring.
Let's play some Grif-Ball!
Perfect except for one error:
"Oh good. I was afraid you wouldn't like it..." Fluttershy said, letting out a small.
Lazy old Geoff... Ah I mean Grif
This is amazingly written. Each character, both from MLP and RvB are near perfect. They fit their charactar and say exactly what they are expected to you. Well done sir, extremely impressive job
Must haz moar reads...
but i has to sleeps nao...
g-night,
Really great story! though there are like many other stories a few errors like on "Just Relax" on line 11 down it says Sarge instead of Grif. Just a heads up!
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no because sarge was bucking trees and grif wants to be a tree get it?
Lol
1891859 And he did say he would pretend all the trees were Grf
"...band of brothers..."
I see what you did there.
"Once you get to know me, you'll feel pretty stupid asking me that."
That's Grif all right
...Not gonna say it.
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Somehow, I feel Grif will get the element of laziness.
Grif... Offering to help...
Unless he's eating that food himself, that's a large load of ludicrous horse shit.
Wait...
Grif...working?
2868561 YOU... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if Grif hadn't eaten in nine years, most likely his spartan suit just gave him the bare minimum nutrients to keep him in fighting conditions. The suit would gather the nutrients from the ground of course, like how plants do but more passive and with fewer roots. But thats just a theory, a game theory! That I came up with right here.
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Plus he's been a robot cyborg ever since the accident with the tank and the puma.
5270960 it's a warthog, as shown by the tusk shaped hooks on the front
5270960 Uh, That's simmons right? Not grif... he's the one who got simmon's extra... stuff... Right?
5448710 Correct. Grif got Simmons spare parts after Simmons got upgraded to Simmons 2.0. Also, Grif eats constantly, that's why he's a fat-ass.
Grif seems like the kind of person to piss off nearly everything (except fluttershy).
5453818 Except all that got reset by Celestia's spell. Now Simmons is no longer a cyborg and Grif isn't obese while living with Simmons' limbs and organs. Oh, and Epsilon has a body of his own, too.
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*narrows eyes* While I may not agree with you sir(or lady) I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
7359483 Good use of quotation.
This feels like Forshadowing.