//------------------------------// // The Return of Har-meow-ny, Episode 2 Part 4 // Story: Twilight Gets a Puppy, Season 2 // by TDR //------------------------------// Twilight Gets a Puppy Season 2 By TDR The Return of Har-meow-ny, Episode 2 Part 4 [Sweet Apple Acres] WHUD! “Ow.” WHUD! “OW.” WHUD! To be perfectly honest, Discord thought, this would be immensely boring if it wasn't so painful. WHUD! The steroid ridden Moon Dog had been chewing on him for a good hour now and then upon getting bored with chewing he started smashing his new toy into the trees around him. Mostly by slinging the well chewed 'stick' as far as he could before playing fetch with himself. WHUD! Oddly, thought Discord, the only reason he seemed to still be interested in the mauled form of the draconequus was that Discord wasn't dying like he was supposed to and was still chock full of magic which the rabid moon dog was still trying to eat all of. WHUD! The gray furred beast was glowing brightly with all the excess magic he was bleeding out of his fur. Granted he was trying to eat all the magic of a Pickle Barrel level deity, so it was small wonder he had to bleed off the power. Granted the creature was drawing that magic away almost as fast as it could form and the added pain was more than enough of a distraction that Discord couldn't manage to just wiggle away. Anytime he started a spell that would be the first power that was sucked away by the gnawing mutt. WHUD! What the heck had little Lulu made when she designed this thing? WHUD! “Ow.” Discord stated flatly as he plowed into another tree, most of his limbs already gnawed off. So of course he now had a itchy nose that he couldn't scratch. WHUD! “ Can you perhaps fling me face first into the next tree, my nose itches?” WHUD! “Thank you.” [Ponyville] “This was a terrible idea, and I'm ashamed I thought of it!” Pinkie Pie screamed out, as she ran away from the treant, the giant lumber jack, and the ox. Who would have known trying to ask them politely for the Book with the Elements in it would have resulted in pissing all three of them off for interrupting their fight. As she galloped down the street away from the three massive figures running after her she wound up running next to a small purple mare with orange mane and tail on a scooter that was currently leaving a trail of butter cream frosting as the filly rode it. Pinkie Pie blinked looking behind her noting Rainbow Dash hot on their hooves and behind her was a massive crowd of irate monsters and animals. Pinkie Pie quickly grabbed Scootaloo off her scooter and tossed the filly into the air for Rainbow Dash so catch before hopping onto the scooter herself and slapping on a thundercats snarf, bike helmet. The scooter started spitting out confetti and cupcakes as it tore along with a new rider. Pinkie had to get one of these. “Where's Fluttershy and Twilight?” Dash demanded wrapping Scootaloo up in a mass of clouds and towing her along. “Fluttershy took them to her cottage for safety.” Pinkie Pie chimed up. “We found the tree.” “I see that..... it looks super angry.” Dash stated looking back at the crowd chasing them. The tree, blue ox, and lumber jack having joined the mob after Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. “I know isn't that cape cute?” Pinkie Pie offered glancing over as a Orange earth pony in a stetson ran up next to them with a filly bundled up in a spaghetti noodle on her back. Behind Applejack was a massive collection of food based monsters, Banana spiders that were offended by the comments about apples she made earlier, Kiwi birds, toucans made of odd loops of fruit, a flaky tiger, and a giant pony made of marshmallows stomping along after them. “Hi Applejack.” Pinkie Pie added.” We found the tree.” “More like tha tree found you.” Applejack commented. “It looks super mad too.” “I know but that's a great cape.” Pinkie Pie pointed out again as the group galloped down the main street of Ponyville with the thunderous rampage following them. “BWHAHAHAHAHA, YOU FOOLS, BOW DOWN BEFORE THE POWER OF DOCTOR DROPS!!!” bellowed a voice. A white unicorn mare whose fur was tangled with loose thread and had a smaller unicorn filly bound up in an eleven foot striped scarf and had her mouth stuffed full of jelly foals ran up along side the group. Behind her a plethora of horrendous animated fashion disasters rampaged along with a giant mecha pony that looked surprisingly like Lyra. Though the large window that made up the ponies eyes they could see grayed out Bon Bon with a odd scar on her face that looked like it was done with a red marker sitting in a large backed chair stroking Opal. Two unknown hench ponies in masks sat on either side of her driving the massive robotic pony. “Ahh hello there, seems we've found a bit of trouble.” Rarity panted. “Yeah, but we found the library.” Dash pointed out. “It's super angry.” Pinkie Pie added. “Yes I can see it's delightful cape from here.” Rarity added. “ I don't suppose any of you have a plan?” “Jus one.“ Applejack pointed out.” Keep running.” “Good Plan.” Rarity snarked. [ Fluttershy's cottage.] Angel Bunny raised a brow as he watched his owner pace back and forth looking over the grayed out pony on the couch. The other smaller figure, the dragon, was currently chewing on a table leg. Angel was keeping a close eye on Spike as the little dragon had made a grab for him first thing and tried to stuff the bunny into his mouth. Angel had a bit of an aversion to hurting foals, but if Fluttershy hadn't intervened he would have knocked that whelp into next Tuesday. Literally. His grand dad showed him how once. “Oh what am I gonna do....” Fluttershy whimpered as she paced. What little bit of confidence she had mustered in finding the tree had gone away completely once her plan to ask politely had failed. The tree had gone after Pinkie Pie and she had retreated here with the Sparkles. She had been surprised to find Angel Bunny unchanged, and a little less surprised to have found he had kicked out all the other animals who had changed, and then eaten their lunch. He could deny it all he wanted, but she could tell. She needed some way to bring Twilight and Spike back to normal, but she didn't know any sort of magic. She paced back and forth as Twilight simply lay there like a lump. Why did Pinkie Pie send them with her? “Damnit Pinkie, I'm an animal caretaker not a magician!” Fluttershy swore getting an odd look from Angel Bunny. “Okay... well I'll just do what I can.... first rule of treating animals is to make sure they are comfortable in their environment, make sure that their surroundings reflect or match their natural habitat.” Fluttershy pondered before smiling and darting off. She came back a moment later with some blankets that she draped around Twilight and all the books she could carry. Setting those around Twilight she was rewarded with a bit of movement from the pony as she looked at the books before she flopped face first back onto the couch. “I've read all these.... the world is ending..... no more books.” Twilight bemoaned. Fluttershy blinked at the comment, but this was the first real reaction she had seen. “Angel quick help me gather all the books in the house, there's got to be at least one she's not read.” Fluttershy stated before darting off to gather all the books she had. [ Canterlot] “ So what is this place?” Scootaloo asked looking around. “Secret tunnel.” Luna offered. “Secret tunnel?” Sweetiebelle repeated. “Secret Tunnel.... through the mountain.” Luna smiled getting more use out of that song than she thought she would. Pity she only recalled the chorus. The four of them, and Dr. Choppy, had finally gotten out from underneath Celestia by using Dr. Choppy's engineering doctorate to burrow through the tile floor under them. Evidently the CMC had some experience with mining and easily tore through the tile and rock floor. Still no cutie mark for it however. Currently they were in a tunnel system under the castle with a few odd crystals sticking out of the walls. Evidently the tunnel was a recent addition by the team of Dr. Choppy and Princess Luna, though Luna wouldn't say why and buried Dr. Choppy's head in a wall when he started talking about the mental problems that could cause 'secret snacking'. If they headed up the slope they would come out on the mountain side just east of Canterlot, if they went down the slope they would wind up under Princess Cadence's quarters, Luna advised that none of them wanted to go there. “Hey look at this.”Applebloom stated picking up a battered old brown hat looking it over. “Hey that's neat.” Scootaloo stated. “What's that doing here?” “Huh, it's a wide brim fedora.... Looks like a felt base with a rabbit fur in-lining.” Sweetiebelle stated matter of factly getting looks from the others. “What?” Sweetie asked. “Ehh, ah'm keeping it, looks like mah sisters Stetson.” Applebloom stated, putting the hat on her head.” Ah feel like ah need a whip or somethin to go with it though.” “Has your ear tip grown back from the last time you tried for a whip cutie mark?” Scootaloo asked. As Luna worked to remove Dr. Choppy from the wall every one froze at a loud ' SCHLORP' sound. The CMC whirled about scanning both ways down the tunnel, horrid memories of the O&O encounter they had with a Grape Jelly-ationus Hexahedron. Luna was more concerned there was jello monster down here given Discord's attraction to food this time. Granted she couldn't blame him for only thinking about food once he was freed. She nearly cleaned out the castle the first week after she came back trying everything new. Seeing nothing down either hall with the light given off by Luna and Sweetiebelle's tiny sparking horn. The four of them all turned their heads upward at the same time looking up the hole as the noise sounded again. Looking up the hole they had burrowed down they saw a white leg in golden hoof cover kicking feebly as the squishy mass of the sun princess oozed down the hole they made. “OH COME ON!!” Sweetiebelle screamed out as the trio started running with Luna and Dr. Choppy in hot pursuit. Celestia finally managed to drop all the way out of the hole, with a blorp, before starting to roll again down the slope after the group again as they ran towards Cadence's secret room. “TIA!!!!” Luna shrieked angrily. “Oh I am definitely going to be sick.” Celestia moaned as she rolled after them like a massive boulder.