//------------------------------// // The Parasprite's Story // Story: Villains United // by juststeph //------------------------------// Nightmare Moon had intended for this group to support each other, but she had forgotten that they were villains. They weren’t only evil to those annoying Elements of Harmony—they were evil to each other. Even she had rolled her eyes at Trixie’s tale the other day. But they had returned to meet again. The villains, the evildoers, and the mischief makers gathered around a large red dragon to hear his story about how the rainbow pegasus kicked him and woke him up, and the ponies made him leave his comfy sleeping spot. Instead of comforting the creature, the others had told him that he was not really a villain, just an annoyance, and they’d all faced worse than being kicked. They had all fallen to arguing, Nightmare Moon joining in, but then a chirp came from across the room. All eyes turned towards the small creature, which looked just like a puffball with wings. The parasprite chirped again, clearly trying to communicate something. And then, one of the actual Elements of Harmony—those who they had gathered to hate—appeared from under the parasprite’s chair. No one would be able to exactly say how the pink pony got there, but everypony prepared to attack. “Don’t worry!” the Element of Laughter said quickly. “I’m just here to translate for this little guy. Then I’ll go away. Pinkie Promise.” The draconequus was the first to relax back into his seat, with the rest slowly following. Pinkie Pie grinned widely. -- Okay! So, this little guy says his name is Parry. Did you even know parasprites had names? ‘Cause I didn’t. Although I guess Parry is a better name for a parasprite than something like Fred or Joe. Anyways, Parry here was the very first parasprite that came to Ponyville! So he knows the whole story. Parry first met my good friend Fluttershy. She thought he was so cute! Of course, Fluttershy thinks every animal is cute, even gross ones like spiders or snakes. Plus, she takes care of all the animals in Ponyville, so she tried to take care of Parry here. She didn’t know anything about parasprites, because obviously if she did, she would have made this one go away before everypony had to deal with them! Oh. Sorry. Parry says Fluttershy was very nice to him and let him eat her apples. And he got so full that he burped out another Parry! And another one! And ano-oh, just two? Okay. Then he was really hungry again so he waited to see if Fluttershy would feed him and his new brothers. Then this is when I came in! Fluttershy showed me Parry and I knew right away what he was. And I knew that it was up to me to stop the parasprite infestation! But this is Parry’s story now. So he stayed with Fluttershy and another one of the little Parrys went over to Twilight. She was there too. Parry was still really really hungry. But Fluttershy took him home and let him wander around her house. She’s way too nice. Parry found the food for her sick birds and ate all of it. And then he was full again so he started burping out more brothers. He really hoped that his brother that went off with Twilight wasn’t hungry. He wasn’t, because parasprites can eat anything from cupcakes to carrots, but Parry didn’t know if Twilight had any food, which is silly because of course ponies have food! Or else how would we eat? Back to Parry. He and his brothers kept eating all night and kept burping more new Parrys! It was a Parry-palooza! And when poor Fluttershy woke up, she didn’t know what to do! She pleaded with them and asked politely, and Parry says they would have listened, but they were all really hungry. So they just kept eating until Fluttershy didn’t have any food. She called Applejack to bring over some apples. Okay, all Parry said was a bunch of other ponies came too, but I know what happened! Twilight and Rainbow Dash and Rarity were all there too. I wasn’t there because I was looking for instruments. And they all had a bunch of parasprites with them. Applejack had apples with her which Parry and some of his brothers ate really fast. And then they were still hungry! Applejack took most of the parasprites and rounded them up and took them woosh! all the way out to the Everfree Forest! But Parry stayed in Fluttershy’s house because he wanted to find more food, and Fluttershy let him because she thought he was cute. That poor, poor girl. Parry found a little bit of food in Fluttershy’s house while she was out helping Applejack get rid of the rest of the parasprites. So he ate it and burped out more Parrys and it was all starting again! Because no one listened to me! Sorry. Rainbow Dash tried to help too, but she just sent the parasprites right into town. So then Parry and his new brothers went all over town eating all the food and they were really happy because there was finally enough food for them. Of course, they were eating everypony out of house and home, but parasprites just don’t care about that. What? It’s true. Then Twilight thought she was helping by doing a spell so that parasprites wouldn’t eat food anymore. And she was helping! The parasprites, anyway. Parry says they were so happy because suddenly there was a lot more for them to eat! So they ate all of it. They kept eating and burping out new parasprites and it was all really happy for them, but not for us because they were eating all our stuff! And nopony could figure out how to stop them! But then Parry says they heard some really fun music coming from somewhere, and they saw this pink pony—oh! that was me!—playing the music, so they all had to follow her. I mean, me. The parasprites followed me all the way out of Ponyville and into the Everfree Forest. Parry says they went to Fillydelphia next, but then Twilight’s spell had worn off and they wanted real food again. But they were out of Ponyville, so that’s the end of the story! -- Parry gave a triumphant chirp at the end of his story, and flitted from the top of the pink pony’s head back to his chair. Pinkie Pie just gave a blithe smile at all the villains around her. “You poor thing!” the sea serpent cried. “All you wanted to do was eat!” Nightmare Moon turned to glare at the serpent. “Didn’t I tell you not to come back?” “That was last week,” Steven Magnet reminded her. The alicorn gave a derisive snort and turned to look at the parasprite again. “You faced the Elements and you were defeated by them. But you, and your…brothers, you have all survived. That is something to be commended.” A few of the figures around the room nodded their assent. The pack of dogs began a light bit of applause, but that quickly died down. “And as for your translator…” Nightmare Moon looked to the empty chair where Pinkie had once sat. She’d vanished without a trace, just as she had Pinkie Promised. “Well, never mind.” Parry only responded with a satisfied chirp.