//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: A Web of Friends // Story: Of Copy Abilities and Friendship // by MeeM //------------------------------// Chapter 7: Twilight stared at Kirby in shock how had he changed color? How did he have a galaxy for a stomach? How did he summon a jester hat and a wand out of thin air! “What just happened?” Spike asked “that is one of the special puffball traits, it is unknown to me why each puffball has some kind of ability” Meta Knight sighed “but I digress, this is Kirby's special trait, depending on what he gets in his stomach he can take the special trait the thing has and copy it, for the most part.” “wait” Starlight asked “so since Twilight was in there does that mean he has magic now?” “No instead Twilight gave him an ability that he does magic with this one is known, as Kirby said Beam” Meta Knight clarified “what do beams have to do with magic?” Spike asked “he now has an ability that can do many things that use magic like swing a whip magic of energy, drop a barrage of energy balls in a downward motion, suspend himself in midair, and fire off channeled charge shots.” Meta knight clarified loud yells and insults snapped them out of the confusion and aww of Kirby’s ability. “Uhhh there's another aggressive argument in ponyville again isn’t there” Twilight said with an annoyed face held low “probably” Spike said “well come on everypony i’ll give you and Kirby a tour of town if you want after I work things out” Twilight told Meta Knight. But what they found made him gasp, Sectonia and Tranza were being attacked and yelled at by the residents of Ponyville! Meta Knight and Kirby sprung into action jumping in front of the angry crowd of ponies “Poyo!” Kirby said with a defiant look on his face “whatever you all are your going back to the everfree you monsters!” one of them said. Twilight attempted to calm them down but they refused, most looked to be visiting nobles from Canterlot of course Diamond Tiara and Filthy Rich were there to, looks like he had no choice. Meta Knight grew his cape to gargantuan size and engulfed them under it “KNOW MY POWER!” he echoed. He then launched a horizontal lighting bolt through his capes pitch black stunning them “looks like me, Kirby, and Zan weren't the only ones near here” Meta Knight said “Didn’t expect to be attacked by angry equine creatures either” Sectonia said with worry “Twilight, Starlight, Spike meet two of our friends Tranza and Sectonia the spiders” Meta Knight said “Hi” Sectonia said nervously waving a couple of her hands. Twilight's eyes twitched again "HOW DID YOU DO THAT!" Twilight yelled her mane falling out of place “fine, I guess I have more to give the tour to then” Twilight sighed “seems like it” Starlight said. Kirby then released his ability via a small star with an energy ball symbol on it, it bounced around on the ground for a bit before disappearing. “Poyo” Kirby said happily “then I guess we'll start here then” Twilight said with disappointment in her tone of voice. Starlight knew that Twilight must be frustrated in those ponies, especially after she taught them to be open with friendship over the years, Starlight could only hope that things would cool down soon. Fluttershy awoke and made her animal friends breakfast and angel bunny was impatient for it as usual. It seemed like another normal day with hopefully no evilness and no scary adventures, things were good, that is when she was washing the dishes, she noticed a strange hole in her front yard just in front of the everfree forest. “Where did that come from? hopefully mr bear hasn’t been digging holes again" Fluttershy said as she trotted out towards it and peered in she saw the most adorable thing she ever saw a giant hamster, owl, fish, and a strange blue thing. She thought about how they could have ended up there with scary thoughts coming in to her head and with a nervous look on her face as she approached the hamster first and tickle him the belly, all the hamsters she knew liked to have their tummies tickled and this one was no acceptation. The hamster squealed in delight as it stirred, stood up and tapped the owl and fish on the head with one of his paws, the owl and fish stirred awake. Fluttershy couldn’t take it anymore they were just to adorable! She ran up and hugged to giant hamster, his cheeks glowed a bright shade of red, he then nodded to the fish and owl and they took out stickers with names? “How did they do that?” Fluttershy thought each one put up their signs with names on each. The fish held one on top of its fins that said Kine, the owl held one on its wing that said Coo, and the hamster held one in its paws that said Rick, the blue blob used its tongue to hold up a sticker that said Gooey, Fluttershy invited the creatures to her cottage she’d have to ask Twilight about this sometime soon. Fluttershy assumed the names on the signs must have been their names, she first gave Rick and Coo a bath and put a few bandages on the cuts they had on them. Kine surprisingly had not sustained any injuries, so she just put him in the fish tank she had on one her small tables, she was surprised Kine could survive outside of water for so long, did he have the lungs that gave creatures the ability to breathe air? Gooey on the other hoof had cuts and bruises all over his body with a great gash cut into his left cheek, she used some gaws to patch the gash up it wasn't guaranteed to work well considering Gooey’s round, flexible, almost like octopus body but it would at least do it's job. “Dose gooey even have bones?” Fluttershy asked herself in her head she then remembered what insides look like “I guess it best not to know'' she told herself she then put on a few bandages on the other scars and cuts “how did you all get into so much trouble?” Fluttershy asked Gooey Gooey simply licked her face with his ridiculously long tongue. “Where did you even come from?” Fluttershy asked Rick the hamster simply tilted his head like a confused cat “hmm maybe Twilight will know” Fluttershy said before beginning to go to her desk to write a letter to Twilight about the strange creatures, angel bunny on the other hand wasn’t taking the new visitors very well, he had been very vigilant about the four and continued to try and say something she couldn’t quite make out, although from what she knew he probably was mad that she hadn't cooked up some breakfast "alright then angel i'll get on it right away" she said with a kind smile angel face palmed.