//------------------------------// // The Worst Feeling of Déjà Vu. // Story: Equestrian Eeveelution. // by Symphonicdysonince //------------------------------// We had returned from our trip to Canterlot, and the snow had deepened in the moon since. The snow was now deep enough to enclose the Daycare. We had carved out tunnels to the road to make travel easier. Conner had pushed me out of the Daycare, so I decided to stop by Rainbow's office to read up on the weather forecast. Where is it? I stood on Rainbow's desk, carefully moving papers around. I couldn't read the squiggles, but I knew what I was looking for. Rainbow had shown it to me a few times, and I knew what symbols to look for. Ah, got it! Let's see.... Sunny, sunny, cloudy, snowing, snowing with wind- "I think that means 'blizzard'." Great. I rolled my eyes. Now I want ice cream. Fine, then, blizzard, blizzard... Blizzard.... My eyes narrowed. Wait... Brain, are you seeing what I'm seeing? "I would hope so, I'm your brain. But yes, that does look familiar." Further thoughts were interrupted when Rainbow burst into her office. She flew over to me with her trademarked smirk. "I knew I would find you in here." She picked me up, glancing at her desk as she did so. With a swipe of her hoof, she collected her weather schedule. "Hey, awesome! You found it. I was looking for this this morning! Anyway, I need to take you to Twilight's, gotta do something with your collar." <> I nervously smiled. "Don't worry." Rainbow flew through the halls, before exiting the weather station. "It's only a cloudwalking charm, don't want you to need a pick up when I'm not there." Thankfully, it was a short flight to the library, so I didn't get too cold. Rainbow couldn't fly as fast as she wanted to, something about her feathers freezing together. Thankfully for Twilight's heating bill, Rainbow had the presence of mind to go through the front door. "You stay right here." Rainbow said, placing me by the fireplace. "I'll go find Twilight." I gave her a lazy nod. I listened to her hoof steps recede, then someone's footfalls return. I looked over my shoulder to see Yomega approaching. "You need to say something important?" "Yeah." I squinted. "Do you know about what?" "Nope." "In four days time, there is going to be a six day long blizzard." Yomega frowned. "And you without your quartz." He sighed. "Okay, once you're done here, go tell the Duo to drag Villhiem's flowerpot to the Daycare. Then book it back to town and help Zann stockpile food. I'll wake Abes up and grab Lulu, we'll let Conner know and start digging out storage space." Our ears swiveled to the nearest door as Twilight and Rainbow entered. "Okay, before I do this, what other enchantments does her collar have?" "Uh..." Rainbow looked up in thought. "A locator one, one that tells me if it's come off using a runestone, and another runestone one that restricts how far away from it she can go if I turn it on. I never do, though." "Of course you don't." Twilight mumbled. Her horn lit up as I felt a slight tugging on my collar. Soon, a familiar tingle spread from my neck. "There you go. I've integrated it with the others. They won't interfere with each other, fixed a charge-draw problem, and increased the locator spell's range." Rainbow whistled as Twilight turned to leave. "How far is the range now?" Twilight paused. "I wouldn't be surprised if you could pick it up in Dodge Junction." She continued on her way, muttering as she left. "I can't believe Rainbow thought of this first." The prismatic mare floated over to me. "You wanna stay here and hang with Yomega?" I nodded my head. Once Rainbow had left, I turned back to my shiny friend. "You... You don't think..." "Let's worry about that later." Yomega gave me a nudge towards the basement. "Go on.... Lets get the pack back together." I nodded, making my way towards the stairs. It wasn't long before I was jogging through the snowy streets towards the farm. My outer layer fur had become damp by the time I found the Duo behind the farmhouse, sharing a bonfire with the Apples. I plowed my way to them. <> I huffed. Vince looked me over. <> <> I waved a paw. <> Cy and Vince shared a look. < <> I interrupted. <> They nodded, and the three of us tore ourselves from the toasty fire. I split off from the Duo as they went into the farmhouse. Grumbling, I followed my, slightly filled in, path back to town. I only stopped my griping when I saw the heavily frosted gingerbread roof of Sugarcube Corner. I trudged my way to the back door, barely pausing as Pinkie opened the door for me. I nodded thanks to her before looking for Zann. I found him coming down the stairs with a large, pink bag. I raised an eyebrow at him. <> He shrugged. <> He trailed off. I blinked. <> <> I rushed past him. <> <> He shouted up after me. I didn't answer him. I made my way into Pinkie's room, rushing to the closet. Pausing only long enough to find the heaviest bag there, I made my way back down the stairs. It wasn't until we had left the building that I spoke up. <> I grumbled, re-clearing the trail for Zann. <> <> Zann asked. I stopped to stare incredulously at him. <> I continued to lead him when I saw the understanding in his eyes. After we had stored everything away, we didn't leave the Daycare. We had stored each of the saddle bags into hollows dug out of nearby tunnels. When the heaters shorted out, we huddled with the eggs and each other to stay warm. We had even parked Villhiem near the entrance where he could get the most of the feeble sunlight. Surprisingly, he really was in a flower pot. It was now day five of the blizzard. I lay between my eggs and Abes. Yomega rested his head on the Umbreon, with Conner pressing against Yomega's side. We were watching the snow fall through the gap we dug for proper sunlight while the others slept. "Well," Abes said, "this is it. We'll find out the truth tomorrow." "That's assuming this is happening again." Yomega sighed. "What do you guys think'll happen if it does?" I asked Conner shifted to look at me. "How do you mean?" I shuffled in my spot, curling up tighter. "I mean, would I turn back into a guy? What would happen to our eggs? Would they still be eggs, or would they change as we do?" "Would they even come with us?" Yomega asked. I shivered. "For my sanity, I hope so." I turned to look at the other two. "I can't speak for the others, but I would be devastated if I lost my children. I would rather be the human mother to Eevee children seeing them off to... I don't know, Hogwarts, than have to give them up." I sniffed. "It would break my heart." The other three were silent for a time. Eventually, Conner spoke up. "I don't want to go. I don't want to leave Fluttershy behind. She..." I turned, watching as he started to tear up. "She means too much to me now." Abes nodded. "I feel the same with Luna..." We fell silent, and began the long process of falling asleep. I was kept up by the worrying thoughts running rampant through my mind. Eventually, I rolled over to face Yomega. "Hey." I whispered. "You still up?" "Yeah." "If this really is what we're worried about..." I paused, trying to find the words. "I just wanted to say, that I'm glad that all that has happened, and all that might, I did with you. All of you." "Me too." With those words shared, I drifted off...