“Are you sure I can’t just come with you?..I could shrink down really small and even hide in your bag!”
Discord then shrank down to the size of a mouse as he stared at his now very large friend, Fluttershy.
Fluttershy giggled. "I told you this last time, Discord. Only me and the girls can go. It wouldn't be very nice if I sneaked you along and didn't do what Twilight wanted me to do. Besides, I need somepony to watch over my cottage and the animals. I think you'll have a lot of fun."
"Fun watching animals? I guess.." Discord pouted as he went back to his normal size, crossing his arms as he watched his friend pack a little bag for herself.
"Do you have all the lists I gave you?"
Discord snapped and three different lists appeared in his claw and paw. Although, they kind of ran to the floor and each had different things such as what food each animal ate and another list that was how to groom each individual animal. There was so much information Discord knew he wouldn't be able to read all of this.
"Yes but..I think this is a little too much."
"I know it looks like a lot but each animal needs different food and care."
Discord skimmed through a bit on a list. "Even animals of the same species?.."
"Yes, of course! A few of them have allergies so they can't eat the same food. They need something else."
Fluttershy zipped up her bag as Discord studied the list a little more thoroughly.
“Who’s..’Boppet’ and ‘Floppet’..”
“Oh! Those are my twin bunnies I’m fostering. Those two are actually a perfect example of allergies. Boppet can’t have carrots because she’s allergic to them but she can have lettuce. And Floppet can’t have lettuce because she’s allergic to it so she has to have carrots!”
“Uh..Twins?..You mean like identical twins?..”
“Yup. I took them both in to foster for a little while until they can go on their own.”
“How am I suppose to tell who’s who then..”
“Floppet has more floppy ears, hence the name.” Fluttershy grinned.
As Fluttershy trotted towards the door, Discord only simply rolled his eyes. Telling if a bunny’s ears were more floppy than the other was definitely not going to help whatsoever. He didn’t want to be rude towards Fluttershy but her tactics towards telling who was who was not going to work.
He followed her to the door as she swung her bag over her back.
“Alright, I’m all ready to go now I’m sure. Are you going to be okay with the animals?”
“As okay as I’ll ever be..” Discord replied, staring at a few birds that were zipping around a bird house currently behind him.
“Alright, I’ll be back soon, I promise!”
Discord grinned and opened his arms to Fluttershy. She giggled and jumped right into his arms as they both shared a hug goodbye. They waited a few moments before releasing and he gently put her back down on the ground. She waved goodbye and trotted out the door, leaving Discord to her cottage all alone.
“Alright..Time to TRY and do some of the things she wants me to do..”
“I’m guessing you’re Floppet and Boppet...Or Boppet and Floppet.”
He stood in front of two bunnies that looked exactly the same. They both had a little brown marking on their ear that kind of looked like a splotch of paint and they both were white bunnies. Even their eyes were the same.
“I guess I’m going to have study you both more thoroughly.”
He snapped up a magnifying glass and enlarged it to almost the size of his head. He crouched beside the two bunnies and looked at both their ears closely. He honestly saw no difference and they both looked equally floppy. He sighed and snapped away the magnifying glass, standing up at his full height again.
“I’m not spending hours looking at both of your ears.”
He snapped up two bowls. One had some carrots and the other some lettuce. He switched them insanely fast that all his claw and paw and the bowls looked like were colorful blurs. He then abruptly stopped and gave each bunny a bowl. They happily ate each one once they were placed down.
“Next!”
“Put bird seed in the bird feeders..”
He looked up to see a few birds fly in-between his antlers and land on a near by bird house. Right beside it was a hanging bird feeder that had only a few specks of bird seed left inside it. He looked at a bag of bird seed he was currently holding and then back up at the empty bird feeder.
“Should be easy enough.”
He flew up to it and levitated the bird seed. He made a grabbing motion with his claw as a handful of bird seed levitated out of the bag. He then flicked his claw towards the bird feeder and the bird seed began to fly towards it. Suddenly a bunch of birds swooped in and gobbled up all the bird seed before it could reach the bird feeder. Only one little piece made its way in.
“Alright, well, I guess we’re playing this kind of game huh?”
Discord snapped and he was now in a basketball player outfit. He grinned as he twirled a basketball on his finger and threw it behind his back. When he grabbed it again and brought it out, it was now a ball of bird feed. It was in a ball shape as he bounced it against the ground, weaving it between his legs as he stared up at the bird feeder. He grinned as he bounced it between his paw and claw and at the right moment threw it at the bird feeder. It soared through the air and past some birds before it then hit the floor and exploded everywhere into a mess. The birds came over and gobbled it off the floor.
“Oh..Oops..” He smiled sheepishly.
After sweeping the floor a little and cleaning up the mess of birdseed he moved on to another task. Although, he was getting rather tired of it at this point. The animals were more difficult than he thought. Perhaps it was because he was not their owner and was only taking care of them for today. Even with his chaotic powers though he still struggled with them.
"Brush Harry's teeth? Hm, sounds like quite the hairy creature."
He walked outside with a rather large toothbrush and some animal tooth paste searching around for the specific animal.
"Harry?"
He suddenly heard the pounding of ground as a rather large..Bear? A bear was running straight towards Discord on all fours. He frantically snapped a wall of sticks in front of him. Wait..A wall of sticks? Darn it, not sticks, a brick wall! That bear would surely be able to break through that. He cowered behind the wall, backing up and waiting for the incoming bear. There was loud snapping and crunching as the bear burst through the wall and roared in Discord's direction. It walked up to him as Discord stared up at it in utter fear. It then went back on it's hind legs and did a small roar happily.
"Wha-huh?"
Discord was suddenly swooped up in a furry hug by the bear and swung around in circles.
“AAAHH!”
Discord snapped himself out of the bear’s hug, stumbling around in circles dizzy. He shook his head as he took deep breaths to try and get rid of his sudden nauseous feelings from being dizzy. He sighed, rubbing his face with his paw. The bear stared at him confused.