Pandemic: What you are Meant to Be

by Halira


You Decide Mini-Chapter

Days passed, and it was two days till the move to Riverview. Remedy, Rosetta, and the rest of the family were back in route to Riverview with intent on getting their own places picked out before the place was flooded with ponies and humans. Shelters were being set up and a tent city for the the migrants on the outskirts of Riverview. The ponies weren't as picky about having roofs over their heads right away, but the humans would have to housed. Technically there was enough housing in Riverview, but it wasn't up to code yet, so the shelters were going to be needed for a few weeks. The family was prepared to go into the shelters as well if need be, but there was still a chance that they might find somewhere habitable that they liked still.

"We could just buy something temporary. I don't mind spending money twice, and can just resell them as better become places available. I just got paid and the housing prices aren't that high right now," Wild Growth said as they sat in the back of the camper in route to Riverview.

"We might have to do that. I don't want to have your grandmother staying in a shelter," Jean said with a sigh.

"Abuelita's still doing okay back at the apartment?" Rosetta asked.

"Your papa went and checked on her the other day while you were sleeping. He did some grocery shopping for her and got her out of the house for a little while. She's been packing things for us and most of the house is ready to go. We'll all head over there to finish up and get her tomorrow, your papa has already rented a truck for moving," Jean explained.

"How're you planning on getting a truck, a camper, and the car down there? You have only two drivers. We ponies might have our licenses, but those are kind of pointless now as we can't reach the pedals," Wild asked, lifting her forehooves in front of her in demonstration.

"Driving is the bane of all ponies," Remedy agreed.

"They need to make you little cars so your feet reach," Miguel said helpfully.

"Hooves, not feet, and it would take more than little cars. The entire vehicle would have to be redesigned from the ground up if you expect us to drive it," Remedy said with a chuckle.

"I'm sure the automakers are already trying to figure that out," Jean said with a roll of her eyes. "In any case we're just going to hitch the car to the back of the camper and haul it. Your papa will drive the camper and I'll drive the truck."

"Alright, we just need somewhere to unload the stuff into then," Remedy said, and happily smiled as she realized the your papa talk included her as well. It was nice to be considered family.

She glanced out the window just in time to see the Riverview sign. The sign had removed all the numbers from the population listing and had a new poster put up over it with a question mark. Another poster was tacked on under that saying welcome home ponies. This made her grin wider as she pointed out the sign to Rosetta.

"We'll see about our own place later, but Remedy and I want to head to the town hall as soon as we stop. We have a marriage license to get," Rosetta said with her own smile.

"Is there going to be any trouble with that? Since your ponies?" Jean asked.

"Shouldn't be. We have all our documents and we have the money for the fees. I'm pretty sure we can even update our names at the same time. Getting married bypasses a lot of the hurdles in changing legal names," Rosetta explained.

"So what's your last name going to be?" Jean asked.

"I guess it's going to be Stone-Remedy or Remedy-Stone if we're going to a shared last name. We could flip a coin for it," Rosetta said with a shrug. Then looked at Remedy. "We might need to just call you Phobia around everypony to not cause confusion, but that's up to you."

"Why not? It seems that most ponies want to call me Phobia anyway," the grey furred night pony said with a shrug.