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// Chapter 3: Hamster Riot 
// Story: Getting the Rainbooms Together 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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Later that day, Fluttershy, Sun and, Rarity are at the animal shelter. Tree Hugger is out of town for a few days, so they'll be taking care of them while she's aways. Rarity volunteers to give them a hand with animal care. They arrive at the shelter and put their back packs on the desk.

"Thanks for coming Rarity. The Rescue Center needs all the help we can get," Fluttershy says she turns on the lights.

She, Sun, and Rarity walk in to see the small animals and help take care of them.

"Oh but of course darling, helping cute little puppies and kitties will never go out of style," Rarity says as she puts a little puppy and snuggle a small white kitten.

"Yeah. Since Tree Hugger is getting some food for the animals, that will leave the animal care to us," Sun adds to the conversation.

"So what is it we need to do?" Rarity asks.

Rarity walks over to the next room as she turns on the lights and explains, "Well once a year, a lucky volunteer gets to clean the hamster habitat."

The three girls look to see a dirty and messy hamer habitat with a lot of monsters inside. Rarity is starting to have an unconformable feeling about hamsters.

"Sun and I'd signed up for it months ago to be sure we get it," Fluttershy adds as she goes to one of the opening to the habitat.

Then Fluttershy calls out, "House cleaning!"

Hearing the call, all the hamsters are making their way to the bottom of the habitat so they can be let out. However Rarity is still looking a bit unsure about hamster sitting.

"Oh, um, Fluttershy, Sun, darlings, aren't hamsters, uh, rodents?" Rarity nervously asks.

Sun looks at Rarity and says, "They are? You're not afraid of rodents, are you?"

"Maybe a little, usually rodents are not the best sanitary animals," Rarity nervously replies.

"Don't worry, they're pretty harmless," Sun replies with a smile.

Then Fluttershy happily adds, "They sure are rodents, but they're cute and cuddly like bunnies."

"Okay ever hamster, follow Rarity into the next room. She'll take good care of you while Sun and I give your home a nice scrub," Fluttershy informs the hamster.

Then Fluttershy escort the hamster to the next room so Rarity can keep an eye on them. With that Sun and Fluttershy start to work on the hamster habitat while Rarity takes care of them. Seeing how cute and adorable they are, Rarity decides to give them a chance and try to have a good time with them.

Sometime later, Sun and Fluttershy has clean up the last part of the habitat. Once they see the habitat is nice and clean, they think it's time to let the hamster back in now.

Sun says as she put the cloth down, "That was easy."

"Yes. Now all the hamsters will be happy to see their home all cleaned up," Fluttershy adds with a smile.

However, before they can do anything else, they hear banging sounds coming from the window behind them. They turn to see Rarity banging on it and looking upset. They then see stuff are being thrown as Rarity takes steps back looking worried. With that. Sun and Fluttershy decide to see what is going on here. When they check on the hamster and Rarity, they are shocked to see what is going on.

"Rarity, what happened!" Fluttershy asks with a shock.

They find that the hamsters are going out of control. Making a mess, and bothering the other animals. They figure that the hamsters are hard for Rarity to handle on her one.

Rarity scaredly screams, "Oh! Aah!"

"Well, uh, Carl Pettington's coat just begged to be accessorized…" Rarity explains while picking up one of the male hamster.

She then picks up a female hamster wearing a skirt and a wig, and explains, "But Emilia Furhart refused to be left out… "

"And got Curtis Pawpower to chew right through Carl's little scarf…" Rarity adds while seeing the bulk like hamster wrapping a scarf on his neck scaring the others.

Then Rarity hardly adds, "And before I knew it, I had a habitat-wide feud on my hands!"

"Also I named them," Rarity adds in a nervous tone.

Sun questionably replies, "You really named all of them?"

"Yes. Yes I did," Rarity says.

They then start to see that the hamster problem is not going to stop unless they do something about it.

Fluttershy calls out, "Lady and gentle-hamsters, please!"

Hearing that catches the hamster attention, so Fluttershy call them.

"Now I know you're all upset, but why don't we head back to the habitat and talk it over," Fluttershy calmly explains with a smile on her face.

However Fluttershy's suggestion doesn't seem to work very well. They just gone back to fighting with each other and making a mess. The gasp as the problem is getting out of control

"I'm taking that as a no!" Sun exclaims.

With that, Rarity and Sun empty out their bags so they can catch all the hamsters and return them to the habitat. Rarity manages to catch one, but Sun is not very successful. When Fluttershy empties out her bag, she accidently drops her tambourine by mistake. When the tambourine hits the floor and makes the rattling noise, the hamster becomes drawn to it, like they're hypnotized by the music.

Fluttershy then uses her tambourine to get the hamster back to the habitat and it's working well. As Fluttershy plays the tambourine, she glows a light blue aura around her body. She then grows pony ears, wings, and an extended tail. As she finishes playing, Sun and Rarity make sure all the hamsters are back home. Once they're all back home, Fluttershy closes the door and she and the others are glad it's over.

"Huh! I never would have guessed hamsters could be so touchy about fashion," Rarity says looking a bit confused on the hamster behavior from earlier and holding her backpack.

Just then, Sun notices something or someone in Rarity's backpack. In fact, she sees the bulk like hamster from earlier in the back pack.

Sun crotches to where the hamster in the backpack is with a grin on her face and asks, "And what do you think you are doing?"

Rarity is shocked to see that she has forgotten about the hamster in her bag. Fluttershy simply giggles seeing the little guy wearing the scarf on his neck.

Sun grabs hold of the hamster and says, "Come on little guy, let's get you back with the others."

After Sun takes the hamster to the habitat and closes the door behind her, Sun and the others leave the shelter and go home for the day. Sun is still a bit confused about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash using transforming the way they do. They only seen the wings once since the Fall Formal, and now two of her friend show magic within them. Sun brings up an important question in her mind, can there still be magic around since the Fall Formal.