Ren walked around the comicon, looking around for the perfect gift for his sister, Jenny.
...Aaaand looking for some other cool comic stuff to get, if he happened to see anything.
She was really into MLP and had begged him to bring her back a present from his trip, so, putting two and two together... Not that hard to come up with an idea for his gift.
"Nice Werewolf costume!" He heard a girl dressed as WonderWoman tell him as he passed by.
He bared his fake fangs in a grin at her and gave a quick, "Thanks!" before heading further on, looking for a gift to get Jenny.
He'd already done most of the cool stuff at the con, including getting an autograph from Stan Lee(Heck yeah!) and buying a smaller version of Thanos' gauntlet, complete with Infinity stones, which he currently kept in his back-pack, which was kinda chafing against the flannel he had on to go with the fake fur and teeth he had on.
As he continued walking, a booth in an emptier section of the con caught his eye. Stacked on the table out in front were numerous, high-quality items, that looked like exact replicas of the things they were based off of. Behind the table was a man in a dark cloak with wrappings around his face, as well as a backpack on over the cloak.
Ren immediately recognized him as being dressed as the Merchant from the Resident Evil games. Man, that costume's good...
Walking over, he saw many things from many series, including the One Ring from LOTR, a Spiderman mask, and even a magic wand that he suspected was from Harry Potter.
But of course, what really caught his eye was a very detailed plush toy over on the side of the table, one of a purple equine from his sister's favorite show. What's her name? ByeLight? KiteFight? TryWhite? In any case, it looked exactly like the character from the show.
Walking up, he took a look at the other things on display as the Merchant finished dealing with another costumer.
"...And remember, push the core down, don't slap it! It's a collectible!" He said as his previous customer stepped away, clicking some sort of watch over his wrist. Turning towards Ren, the Merchant asked, "And what can I do for you today?"
Looking over the items on the table, and thinking of his wallet that had gotten progressively skinny throughout the day, he sighed, reaching over and grabbing the purple plushie. "My sister wanted me to get a present for her while I was here today, and this looks like the best thing I've seen so far. How much would you say it costs?"
Looking at the doll, the Merchant thought for a moment before answering. "I'd say about $20 dollars sounds right."
Humming in thought, Ren set the plush down on top of a case of Baterangs and swung his backpack off and around his shoulders. Reaching past the gauntlet inside it, he grabbed his wallet before reversing his prior actions and opening it. Sighing with relief, he saw that it was just within his price range, if he factored in the cost of fuel on the drive back home.
Pulling out a few fives and some ones, he started handing them to the Merchant before he noticed something... Off.
"Uh... Where's the plush?"
The Merchant looked startled, glancing down at the blank spot on the table, where even the Batarangs had gone missing. He inwardly groaned at what happened. Not THIS again...
~Equestria: Fluttershy's Cottage...~
Fluttershy hummed as she walked Angel bunny away from her cottage, heading off to meet up with the other girls for another playdate with their pets. It was just a week since Rainbow Dash had gotten Tank as her new pet, and they had already gone on two wonderful playdates since then.
"Oh, I just have a feeling today is going to be a great day, Angel! The sun is shining, all the pretty little birds are singing, and when we get home from your playdate, I can settle down to one of those nice nature books Twilight loaned me."
Angel turned back to her, stopping and tapping his foot expectantly. Fluttershy chuckled at his antics. "Oh, right, and you can settle down to a nice salad, Angel!"
Satisfied with that response, Angel turned and continued hopping along, heading along the path to the clearing where they usually had their playdates.
Fluttershy smiled as she followed him. Yes, I have a feeling today is going to be won-!
Her line of thought came to a halt as she noticed something just a little ways off the path. Was that... Twilight? And had she shrunk herself?
"My goodness! Angel, do you see that?!"
Angel glanced over before jumping in surprise and looking again. He rubbed his eyes just to make sure he wasn't seeing things, then started hopping over to the small Twilight, Fluttershy close behind.
Now that she was closer, it didn't quite look as much like Twilight as she originally thought. Instead, it looked like a doll made of cloth that looked almost exactly like Twilight. ...Almost.
Fluttershy quirked an eyebrow as she asked the obvious question. "Uh... Twilight doesn't have wings, does she?"
Her question went un-answered as Angel slowly approached it, lightly poking a winged appendage on the doll. Of course, that wasn't the smartest thing to do...
Suddenly, as soon as he touched, both Angel and the doll started floating upwards and glowing, casting off a white light as they twirled in the air around each other.
"Angel!" Fluttershy shouted as she ran forward to save her pet, only to be rebuffed by some sort of magic field around the two, causing her to stumble back and land her plot on something the felt hard and plastic-like. She suddenly froze as she felt something slither over her body, enclosing her in it's embrace. Looking down, she saw it coating her hooves and move up to her barrel, a steady black stream of fabric making it's way up her body towards her head.
With a scared whimper, she closed her eyes as it fell over her head...
"Fluttershy! Fluttershy!" Twilight and her friends searched up the path, calling out their yellow friend's name. "Where are you?"
Fluttershy was usually the first one at their meet-up spot, but as it steadily got later, and more and more of her friends arrived, they all started to get worried and went looking for her.
"Wherever could that poor mare be? It's not like her to miss a scheduled playdate for our pets." Rarity added in.
Pinkie Pie nodded. "Yeah, usually she's REEEAAALLLY early, but this time she's REEEAAALLLY late, and that makes me REEEA-!"
Rainbow Dash's hoof in her mouth cut off the rest of her sentence. "We get it, Pinkie. We're all worried. Let's hurry up and find Fluttershy! I don't know how long Tank can wait."
"Hey, what's that?" Twilight called to the others, pointing at something a little ways off the path. It looked like a charcoal-black form splayed out in the grass, with something small, purple, and... Furry, next to it.
"Looks like somepony got into a bit of trouble, Twi." Applejack stated. "Let's go see how we can help."
As they walked over the unconscious pony groaned, before lifting their head a little, which was currently faced away from them. Looking over themselves, they let out a little, "Eep!" Correction: A very familiar, little eep.
Twilight's eyes widened in amazement. "FLUTTERSHY?!" She and the rest of the girls ran the rest of the way to in front Fluttershy, and sure enough there was a bit of pink mane sticking out from an opening in the front of the black... Outfit, she had on, exposing just her yellow mouth.
"What happened to you?!" Twilight exclaimed. "Are you all right?!"
"And why in Celestia's name are you wearing such a garish cape?" Rarity said, holding the offending item of clothing up in her hoof.
Fluttershy immediately said, "BECAUSE I'M BATMANE!"
Everybody immediately blinked for a few moments, shocked. Fluttershy looked the most confused out of all of them. "Uh, um, why did I do that?" She said in her normal soft voice.
Pinkie Pie pounced on the opportunity. "Because you're Batmane!" Everybody gave her a small glare. "Whaaaat, It's true!"
Sighing, Twilight turned back to Fluttershy. "Ignore her. So, what happened, Fluttershy?"
She took a moment to think on this. "I- I don't know. One minute, me and Angel were walking along to get to the playdate with you and your pets, when suddenly-! Gasp! Angel?!" She leaped up to her hooves with nearly super-pony speed and looked frantically around, her eyes finally settling on the lump of purple fur next to her. "Angel!"
Everypony gathered around her, looking down at the the puffy purple fur. It was certainly SHAPED like Angel... Except for a very prominent horn and very obvious pair of wings.
They stood in silence till Twilight finally broke it. "Did Angel... Become an Alicorn rabbit?"
"How can we be sure that this REALLY IS Angel?" Rainbow Dash broke in.
"Wait, no-!" Twilight futilely tried to stop her but was interrupted by-
"BECAUSE SHE'S/I'M BATMANE!" ...Yeah. You can guess who said that.
~Meanwhile, back on Earth...~
Ren walked away from the booth, stuffing his money back in his backpack, making the Merchant sigh in disappointment.
"So much potential with that one..." He sighed before turning back to the next person in line. "So, what can I help you with today?"