Doctor Horrible is Adorable

by Scarlett Haze


Act 1, Scene 1

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QUICK FIX PRESENTS

FLUTTERSHY

GILDA

RAINBOW DASH in

DR. HORRIBLE IS ADORABLE

"Ahh, ha, ha, ha, ha!" I was getting better, I could feel it. In fact, I no longer needed a vocal coach for exuberating my evil laughter anymore. I had minions, power, and the influence that came from being a member of the Evil League of Evil.

I still took comfort with my camera attached to the computer however, you know the old saying: Old habits die hard.

"Hello again, followers," I expressed with ease and cockiness, letting the fear settle in with those that watched me. "I have decided that today will not be a day for hostile takeover of Australia. In fact, today is a day of retribution! Behold!" I lifted a ziplock bag of watery gold, a prize of mine that I, in the past, took great pride in. However, looking at it now only served to make me cringe slightly, looking back at the camera, I figured an explanation was needed.

"B-because, this was from the bank that I robbed, couple of months ago, with a transmatter ray, seventy-five percent..." my voice petered out, another bad habit that I had when I was forced to explain myself. I managed to get my volume back up again in time however, "That is why, I have reworked the ray so that it is at a full ONE hundred percent, so that I can make this-" I pointed at the bag that smelled like cumin and then lifted up a gold bar from another heist to finish the example, "-to this."

I set the bag carefully down and went away from the camera to get the transmatter ray, I was no longer a failure, I was Dr. Horrible, villian, mastermind, and heartless. As I went back to the watchers with the transmatter raygun, I paused at the picture I still had of Penny... I stood still, my heart still beating for the love I had for her, and the regret that it was I that killed her in a fight with Captain Hammer. I shook off the feeling by ripping the picture down and stuffing it into my science coat.

"Ta-da." I lifted the ray from below the camera, still hiding, so that I too would rise up and go back to my chair. "This is it, this is the one. I figured out that all I needed to do was give it settings," I leaned into the camera and shifted the view of the ray so that they could see, "Gas, Liquid, Solid, and even Plasma, because no one seems to care about the ionization of gas just as much as I do."

Taking the bag, I moved a table into the view of the camera and set it down, trying to make the bag stand up before I took aim. Going over to the other side, I began warming up the transmatter ray, waiting for it to give me the confirming sound of clicking to let me know it was finished, "Now! In front of your very eyes! I am going to make this liquid gold into actual, solid, gold!" I yelled out over the sound of the device, hearing the clicking, I pressed the trigger and felt the recoil fling me back, but not into a wall, if anything it just sent me propelling into... what I had figured then, hell.

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"I can't die!" I yelled out, "The Evil League of Evil would reincarnate my corpse, laugh at me, and then kill me again!" It was then I found myself on the floor. A wooden floor in comparison to my cement floor of the basement. The walls were also exceptionally bare of any of the little liquids and mechanisms I had strewn about normally. Even the sound of my voice was more girly than I had before. The transmatter ray must've really took everything around me for a ride, because everything felt out of place for me.

"Fluttershy! Come upstairs for dinner!" I heard a voice call down the stairs and then shut the door. When I had realized I was shaking in fear underneath my lab coat, I started trying to put things together, for both the good of science and for evil. For starters, the hair, it was pink, long, and kept getting over one of my eyes, perhaps the pigmentation took a heavy beating and the length of hair was only caused by rapidly decaying cells that also were able to restore themselves rather well. Next, my height. As I lay there, I could tell that by stretching out my legs, it wasn't enough to poke out of the coat, which led to the next discovery, I had small fur that lined my body, all of it yellow. And finally the last piece of investigation let me see hooves, so taking this all into consideration, I was a small horse or pony that sounded girly, had long pink hair and yellow fur.

I began hyperventilating and shot back into the lab coat that I now called home. This wasn't good, I would've rather died and be mocked by the Evil League of Evil rather than this. I was the equivalent to an imaginative horse that a little girl would fawn over, and when you were previously a man like I was, it killed a lot of pride. I could even recall the voice of Captain Hammer as he would look down at me from his therapy bed, "So, the powerful Doctor Horrible became his own undoing, that just shows that when you're evil, you become some little cute puffy pony in the end, and a good guy gets all of the ladies."

"Fluttershy!" The female voice called down again, "It's time to stop playing and come to dinner right now, little filly!" I poked my head out enough just to let whoever was out there see my lips.

"Okay, mommy, I'll be there in a second." I tried to call back, finding my voice was really cut back in volume and couldn't get higher than a breathy tone. Pulling back underneath the coat, I began debating against why I called that voice 'Mommy' and who this 'Fluttershy' was that she was talking about. That's when the coat came flying off and I was staring up at a darker yellow pegasus with a pink-purple mane that was looking down at me with concern.

"Oh no, Fluttershy, you hit your head?!" She scooped me up and started staring at what I could now tell was a nasty knot on my head, it must've been from when I got hit by the recoil of the transmatter ray, but how could I explain that to this mare that I was believing to be my mother?

I know about my mother, she left me when I was becoming twelve, she died in a car accident as I watched her pull out of the driveway, and she was an only mother! But there I was, snuggling against the chest of this mare that my head was telling me was my mother as she took me up the stairs to dinner.

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After some awkward eating situations that involved me having to learn how to use forks again with hooves, I went back down to the basement, back to the lab coat that had came with me. I had to figure out something, anything to get out. I was not a filly, I was not a pegasus, I was a man! I mean, I am a man... right?

I began scanning the basement, I needed to set up operations for a way back, something to do with dimension hopping, or perhaps I could make another transmatter ray the same way I did back home and could get ricocheted back, or into another place I was unfamiliar with. Then, I had managed to find the pair of goggles I kept close to my head and picked it up, it was badly damaged, much like my head was at that time.

Something else survived the jump, it was the computer and camera I had used constantly to make my blogs, and it seemed to still work fine, despite the fact that there was no power source for it to run off of. I figured, the best I could do was at least finish the video that was still running. Sweeping the now oversized coat and goggles on me, I tried reaching up to the camera by moving a few crates that were around and plopped myself in front of the camera, giving out a nervous chuckle before I frowned in panic. "Help me."

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I didn't get sleep. My mind was racing too much. I had become a small filly that was named Fluttershy, who was apparently the daughter of Bunny Angel, also a single mother, but one of the nicest creatures I could've ever been with. I was in a house in the town of Cloudsdale, a place completely made out of clouds that I could actually walk on. Everything seemed out of place, out of reason, out of the question. Not only that, but there was a hanging calendar that told me that tomorrow I was going to Summer Flight Camp.

I did manage to close my eyes at some point and then got awoken by the sun coming up. I didn't want to get up, not like this, not to some summer camp for flight, I could barely walk right now.

"Fluttershy, are you ready to go? The bus is here to pick you up!" Bunny Angel called from downstairs, forcing me to get up and take a shaky breath, maybe I was taking this the wrong way. In fact, it may work out, if I could find at least one minion to help in my plan to get back to Earth, the embarrassment, the humiliation, all of it would become worth it. Packing the coat, goggles and even the camera into a suitcase I came down the stairs and approached what would be the ride to my tormentous journey.

Click me!

"Love you much," Bunny Angel kissed me on the forehead and led me into the horse driven bus and I was forced to take a seat. I couldn't control myself from singing a little bit.

Summer Camp. See you there.
With my hooves. Twid-dl-ing.
Wanna say "Like your mane."
Here I go (mmmrrhhrr) mum-b-ling.

With my freeze ray I could stop - the bus.

With my freeze ray I would find the time to find the parts to

Make machines. Get back home.
Go to bed. Ignore this craze.

I'm no foal. Kinda sick.
Wanna cry. Anyways.

With my freeze ray I will stop - them all

It's no death ray or an ice beam that is made of snow

I just think they need time to know
That I'm a guy and I am real
These feelings I don't wanna feel
I won't bend down to their will
If only time would stay sti - ll

Have no plan. She looks cool.
She and I. Any time.
Love your mane

The rainbow-maned pegasus beside me gave me a tired look as if she had just woken up. "What?" I felt the need to backtrack right away.

"No, I- I- I hope it won't rain." I gave a small laugh and the pegasus turned her head away again.

Anyway.

With my freeze ray I would stop-

The bus came to an immediate halt and I bonked my head into the seat in front of me. A gray pegasus with skewed eyes in front of me popped her head out to look at me. "You okay?"

I couldn't speak a word, it was too shameful. Here I was, singing a song about trying to go back home and thinking back on the freeze ray. I hoped they didn't hear a word of it, but it seemed that thanks to the sound of the bus in comparison to my now soft voice, nopony seemed to pay attention to me. That's when I looked around and got to see a griffin in the back, seemingly careless to the ponies that were around her. She had a letter in her claws and had been opening it slowly, the two deliverers being a dark brown pony with nearly white mane covering his eyes and a caramel colored pony with a brown mane surrounding both sides of his ears.

The griffin pulled the letter out and began reading it when...

Another song? So soon?

Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse.

We ride across the nation, We're Thoroughbreds of Cool.
We got the application that you - just - sent - in.
It needs evaluation, so let the games begin.

A heinous prank, a show of force,
A leader would be nice of course!

Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, We're Bad!

The Counselors are watching closely so beware.
The grade that you receive will be your last we swear!

So make the Bad Horse gleeful, or we'll make you our mare.

You're saddled up. There's no recourse. It's Hi-Ho Silver!

Signed Bad Horse.

That tune made me shake in fear, Bad Horse was the greatest villain that ever lived, and some of these kids made a group that used his name? However the sky blue pegasus beside me squealed in happiness. "This is going to be so awesome! That means I'll have another member of my gang!"

"Um, your gang?" I questioned, doing my best to recapture the attention of my seating buddy. She looked over at me with a smile on her face before pulling me in closely.

"It needs some work, so far it's only me, but I've been able to sniff coolness a mile away, and that griffin has tons of it," She then gave a once over at me and then poked me away. "You don't have an ounce of it in you."

This was going to be high school all over again...