//------------------------------// // 5: You're such a moron. // Story: My Little Digi-Cat // by Lucky Star Kona-chan //------------------------------// Tailmon speeded through Ponyville in search for Rainbow Dash, her eyes darting left and right, covering every inch of space on her way to find the idiotic horse that dared to hurt Derpy. She didn’t went livid about it, but she was highly disappointed on herself for letting this happen, if only she would have figure it out sooner, she probably could have prevented it from even happening in the first place. But then again, she didn’t expect Rainbow of all the ponies to be the one the mess it up, Tailmon thought that the punishment she applied to her during their battle was enough to keep the annoying pegasus at bay. The ponies around the area looked away when they crossed stares with her, all of them tried their best to ignore the annoyed digi-cat. Some of them even ran away after seeing her. Turning a corner she caught a glimpse of Rainbow in the distance and fixed her eyes on her. “Blue!!!” That shout was one of the loudest the ponies have heard, it wasn’t Princess Luna level of loud, but it was pretty loud. The prismatic mare came to a dead stop and turned her head to look back, to see the cat that she wanted to screw over running at her in the distance. It wasn’t surprising to see her making a beeline at full speed without caring for anything or anypony that was in her way just to get the hay out of there as soon as possible. “Yes Blue, run away. Make it interesting for me.” Zooming out after the scared mare, Tailmon had to go through a group of foals that were playing with a ball, this gave her an idea. “Hey kid, pass!” The colt unconsciously followed the order, throwing the ball just in Tailmon’s way; she stopped briefly in front of the ball with her right leg lifted high up. The wind up for the kick gave the ball an absurd amount of momentum, which closed the gap between the object and Rainbow Dash, it soon after hitting its target on the back of the head sending her spiraling down to the ground behind some houses. The angle in which the ball hit Rainbow send it back to where Tailmon was, she caught it in her paws and returned it to the foals. “Thank you!” The colt from before caught the ball and the group got together with excited looks, they waved at Tailmon happily while the adults looked in terror at what happened. Rainbow was fortunate to drop over some bushes which cushioned her fall, she was still dazed by the hit she received, but recovered enough to start walking. “That darn cat.” But almost immediately she heard a voice saying, “You called?” A chilling sensation went down her spine, she knew quite well who that was, she didn’t dare to look off the ground, afraid of getting face to face with the one she tried to mess with from the sidelines. “What’s wrong? Don’t you know how to greet an old pal?” Rainbow was scared, even if she was ready to mess Tailmon’s quest, she knew very well that she cannot take on Tailmon on a fight, their skills were on completely different levels. She heard Tailmon getting closer, she didn’t know what the cat was planning, but it couldn’t be good, a question crossed her mind, ‘why is she chasing me all of a sudden?’ the situation with Derpy earlier flashed on her mind as well, her eyes shrunk at the revelation, ‘is she after me for fighting Derpy?’ Her answer was obvious when she looked up and saw Tailmon sneering at her. Tailmon’s intense stare didn’t change but a smirk crept its way to her face, “you think you are clever don’t you?” she took a step closer, “you think you can do whatever you want as long as I’m not there to see it, right?” another step, “well, let me tell you something Blue,” she stopped in front of Rainbow, “is not a good idea to mess with my friends behind my back, because when I get to know what happened…” she closed her paw with force, “I get mad.” Meanwhile in Derpy’s house, Twilight was helping Derpy with her uniform folding it neatly with her magic, she would have to wash it later but for now this would suffice. As she told Derpy to take a bath to clean the dirt in her fur, she couldn’t take her mind off the fact that Tailmon was most likely already with Rainbow. She shivered at the mere thought of what the digi-cat would do to her friend for hurting Derpy. Twilight had to think of a solution, she was sure Tailmon wouldn’t go as far as to try to kill Rainbow, but if somehow she gets more enraged, that possibility is not that far off. She thought and thought, but she didn’t have that much influence in Tailmon to do anything, she just got to her good side just enough for her to ask a favor out of Twilight, but that was it. It wasn’t until she saw Derpy again that an idea came to her, ‘maybe she can do it?’ “Derpy” Derpy was drying her mane with a towel as Twilight called for her, “Yes, Twilight?” Twilight didn’t want to involve Derpy on this, but it was the only chance, “I know I’m supposed to help you until Tailmon gets back, but I need to ask you a favor.” Derpy tilted her head in confusion, but smiled at her nonetheless, “sure thing! What do you need?” Twilight gave her a grateful nod, “come with me, we need to find Tailmon.” “Huh, but Kitty said she wouldn’t take long, do you know what is she doing, Twilight?” Twilight felt bad for saying this to Derpy, since she became Tailmon’s first friend just a little back ago, “she went to fight Rainbow, she was mad for what Rainbow did to you. I’m sure she found her by now and it is most likely that a fight has begun.” Derpy stared in silence for a bit. Then she giggled some, “she wouldn’t do that, Twilight.” Her giggling started to fade, as a sad frown took over. Twilight could only look sympathetically, “Derpy… I know it’s hard to believe for you, but…” Derpy stopped giggling, “She feels so alone… like me. I don’t want to think she would hurt somepony.” Twilight put a reassuring hoof on Derpy’s withers, “I know how you feel, but this time she’s just reacting because Rainbow hurt you, I think if we go find her you can stop her from being aggressive, I believe she will listen to you.” Derpy was hesitant “Do you think so?” Twilight nodded with a smile, “she considers you a friend, Derpy. You saw her smile when she spoke to you before leaving? She likes you, Derpy.” Derpy remembered that moment, how nice and caring Tailmon looked for that brief moment. Derpy wanted to keep seeing that side of Tailmon; she didn’t wanted anypony to get hurt for her. She just wanted everypony to be nice with each other. She wasn’t sure if she could convince Tailmon, but she made her mind to go and try to stop her. She put up a brave face, which was still adorable and went out of the house to look for Tailmon. Twilight followed suit, “Wait for me, Derpy!” Rainbow dodged a blow to the face by jumping backwards. Pursuing her was Tailmon, “come on Blue, this is what you wanted isn’t?” Rainbow tried to keep the distance, “I want you to disappear! That’s what I want!” Tailmon managed to catch her by the tail, pulling she made Rainbow get momentum in her direction where her muzzle connected with patiently waiting paw. Rainbow got sent rolling backwards by the hit; she stopped by crashing with a tree. Her consciousness almost faded away, but she resisted it, she shook her head a few times, ‘I’m sick of being afraid of this cat, if things came to this…’ Tailmon lifted an eyebrow at the struggling pegasus, “are you really going to confront me, Blue? Look, I don’t know what stupid reasons you had in your underdeveloped brain to do what you did; maybe you’re just that stupid, but if stay far from mine and Derpy’s way, I’ll be willing to let you go if you can follow that simple order.” Rainbow felt something strange from that, “what are you trying to pull now? I know you’re just using Derpy to fulfill your own goal.” Tailmon huffed at her, “believe what you want, Blue. But I’m giving you a chance to go away here with what you received so far, take the chance and thank me for my generosity.” Rainbow eyed the cat with caution, “yeah, right. You think I’ll believe something like you? Not happening, I’ll do whatever it takes to not let you complete what you are trying to do, Kona made a mistake by forgiving you but I can’t blame her since it was Rinna’s wish.” Tailmon was getting annoyed and was reconsidering her previous offer, “you better watch what you say and just go away now Blue.” Rainbow still didn’t let her guard down, “ha! That won’t work on me.” Tailmon rolled her eyes. “Tailmon/Kitty!” the voices of Twilight and Derpy were heard and soon after came into sight from the trees. Tailmon was surprised to see them there, “what are you two doing here?” Derpy got closer and held Tailmon’s paws in her hooves and looked at her with worry, “Kitty, please don’t hurt Rainbow Dash, she did attack me but… I don’t want you to get more hate because of me Kitty.” Tailmon smiled at her, “Don’t worry Derpy, I’m not going to hurt her further, I already did enough. The story would’ve been different if you were seriously harmed, but you just had some light bruises on you. I mean I thought about punishing her harder, but you wouldn’t have liked that.” Derpy returned the smile and hugged Tailmon. Tailmon sighed, “You really like hugs don’t you?” “Uh huh!” Twilight went to check on Rainbow, “are you ok Rainbow?” Rainbow wasn’t happy, “Darn good plan to bring Derpy here Twi, now that cat is going to use her as a hostage!” Twilight didn’t know what to think about that statement, “What are you talking about Rainbow? Tailmon is not going to do that.” “We can’t trust that cat Twilight!” Rainbow prepared to dash off, “I’m going to save her!” “Rainbow no!” As Rainbow took off, Tailmon stepped in front of Derpy protectively, but Twilight managed to use her magic to stop her friend before she made contact. Rainbow struggled inside the magic containing her, “Twilight what are you doing!? Let me go!” Twilight dragged Rainbow closer to her, “Rainbow, calm down.” Tailmon softened her posture, “you should listen to her, Blue.” She narrowed her eyes when she saw Rainbow’s hind leg twitching. In a desperate attempt Rainbow tried to kick Twilight’s horn while she was distracted to free herself. But her hoof didn't connect with Twilight, it connected with something softer. Tailmon blocked her kick, “jerk move, Blue. Jerk move.” With a potent and precise chop hit in the back of the head, Rainbow was out cold. Twilight was quite shocked, “w-why would she do that?” “She’s not ok in the head.” Derpy joined too, “Kitty… that’s mean.” Tailmon sighed, “Derpy, I’m not gonna repeat myself at this point, I made clear what I’am before.” “But can’t you be a little nicer?” Derpy begged with puppy dog eyes. “Nope, unless I have a reason to change my attitude with someone, I will not be any other way with them.” Twilight shrugged, “I’d say it’s an improvement, over how she was before. At least she didn’t break Rainbow’s wing again.” Derpy didn’t know if she heard Twilight correctly, “wait, what was that?” “Twilight,” Tailmon called getting her attention and frowned at her, “shut up.” Twilight smiled sheepishly, “sorry.” “Don’t worry, just be careful,” Tailmon then pointed at the unconscious body of Rainbow, “What do we do with this one though?” “Can you help me carry her to my castle, Tailmon?” Tailmon eyed her suspiciously, “why do you want me to carry her, when you can just teleport with her there?” “I just want to have a nice chat meanwhile, is that too much to ask?” Twilight said with an almost legitimate sad expression. “You’re a terrible actress Twilight.” Twilight threw a hoof forward in offense, “Oh come on, give me some credit at least.” “Nope,” Tailmon replied making Derpy giggle. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t laugh but I feel so happy right now,” Derpy explained. The other two changed knowing looks. Tailmon then picked up Rainbow on her back, because of her size it looked quite uncomfortable, “Well, let’s get going anyway. But I won’t be responsible for any issues that this will produce.” Twilight got confused by that statement, “what issues are you talking about?” Tailmon deadpanned, “Twilight, you are smart I admit but… you also are such a moron.” Then she started to go in the direction of the castle, Derpy following behind with a happy smile. Twilight poofed her cheeks at Tailmon because she didn’t understood why the cat said that just know, even if it was quite obvious and just for that she deserved to be called a moron.