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// Entry 3 - Avian Assistance 
// Story: Project Feghootenberg 
// by anotheraccount 
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Pinkie Pie happily pronked down the main street of Ponyville.  She stopped in mid-air when she heard a very quiet and sad sound.  She turned her head to the left and saw a small arctic tern sitting on a window sill.

“Oh, you poor thing!’ said Pinkie Pie as she reached over and scooped up the small bird.  “You look hurt - let’s get you to Fluttershy!  She’ll make you feel better.”  Pinkie carefully placed the arctic tern into her mane and then allowed gravity to resume her path towards the ground.

Pinkie Pie carefully ran to Fluttershy’s house and knocked on the door.  She heard soft hoofsteps approaching from behind the door, and then watched as the door slowly opened.

“Good morning Pin...OH MY!” yelled Fluttershy in a very quiet voice.  “You poor thing, that must really hurt.”  Fluttershy carefully picked up the arctic turn with her wings and carried it into her cottage.

Pinkie Pie pronked inside and watched as Fluttershy collected her medical supplies.  “What happened?  Is it ok?” she asked.

Fluttershy carefully stretched the tern’s wing onto a brace and then wrapped it with gauze.  “He must have crashed into something, the poor dear.  His wing has a minor fracture.”

Pinkie Pie watched as the tern received medical treatment.  He was a very well-behaved tern...he did not move or fight Fluttershy as she applied the bandages.

“That’s a good bird,” said Fluttershy when she finished wrapping his wing.  “You were very good, and you didn’t even swear when I wrapped your wing.”  Fluttershy sighed.  “Unfortunately, you won’t be able to rejoin your flock until your wing is better.”

Pinkie Pie watched as the tern appeared to deflate.  “Why does he look so sad?” she asked.

“Well, it’s, uh…” Fluttershy said as she shuffled her hooves.  “It’s uh..let’s just say it’s a special time for his flock….”

Pinkie Pie’s eyes and mouth opened widely.  “Oh, my goodness!  Quick, Fluttershy, ask him what his special somebirdy looks like!”

Fluttershy nodded, and then conversed with the male tern.  She looked over at Pinkie Pie, and then told her what the bird said.  Pinkie Pie lifted her hoof in a salute and then ran out the door in a cloud of dust.


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“And so that’s where I’ve been the last two weeks!” Pinkie Pie cheerfully said as she bounced in her seat at the cafe.

Rainbow dash rubbed her forehead with a hoof.  “Let me get this straight...you search all over northern Equestria for this bird’s flock, and then spend the next few days looking for a certain one.  In a large flock of birds that are the same type of bird.  Then, once you found it…”

“Her,” said Pinkie Pie.

“Ok, so once you found her, you took her with you all the way back to Fluttershy’s cottage so that she could keep the other bird company?” asked Rainbow Dash as she lifted an eyebrow.

Pinkie Pie smiled and nodded.  “Yepperooni!  Now they can be together until his wing is healed.”

Rainbow Dash leaned forward over the table  and tapped her hoof on it.  “So, the question is...why go to all that trouble?”

Pinkie Pie leaned forward and patted Rainbow Dash’s hoof.  “Dashie, Dashie, Dashie...he was such a well-behaved bird.  I just had to help him...one good tern deserves another.”