“Housewarming!” Fluttershy timidly shouted, struggling to lift a large bag of feed as her wings flapped furiously, knocking her hoof on Rainbow and Anon’s new land faring abode. She waited for a few seconds before getting much of an answer at all.
“Ah! Oh- It’s you, Fluttershy, come on in!” the door answered with a wispy, masculine voice, cracking open with seemingly nopony to show for the answer itself. Inside, Anon was rushing about with his rather effeminate apron, trying to cook, clean, and rear anything and everything from a turtle to a full grown mare.
“Sorry to be rude-” Anon shouted from the kitchen. “Our foal is hungry and I have no idea where Rainbow flew off to!”
Fluttershy tutted her hoof on the ground and pushed her mane out of her face as she peered around, a flash of dust catching her eye as Rainbow Dash flew onto the scene.
“Finally, some useful help around here!” Rainbow said, rolling her eyes. “Flutters, you literally HAVE to help me!”
“Oh, with what?” Fluttershy asked.
“Well, you’re good with all of that ‘animal training’ stuff, right?”
“A problem with Tank?” Fluttershy mewled. She barely could say or prepare herself for what the response would be before Rainbow darted off into her usual prism of a contrail.
“Uh-uh.” Rainbow Dash shook her head before picking up her foal in her hooves. “This thing right here.”
“Rainbow, this isin’t really my area of expertise… You know, he’s not really an animal…”
“Nonsense! Twilie told me ponies are animals too. I was raising him pretty well for a while, but I tried to use your methods too and now he screams ALL DAY. Do you get that? All day. When I was his age, I was already training to be an expert flier!”
“Well um… I suppose that could be true.” Fluttershy said, trying to hide any indication of doubt in her tone.
“Well, what have you been doing for little baby…”
“Killdozer!”
“Right, little baby Killdozer…”
“Right this way, Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash announced, as she lunged across the room with grandiose flair, pulling off a tarp off a large box shaped object, revealing a crib.
“Um, Rainbow Dash… Why exactly was there a blanket over Killdozer’s crib?”
“Pfft. A blanket?!” Rainbow Dash laughed at Fluttershy’s observation. “It’s a bird cage cover! You really think i’d put a BLANKET over the crib? That’s rich, Flutters, it’s to make sure my foal isin’t screaming through the night! Anon even cut some holes through here so he can breathe better!”
“Oh! Um, yeah!” Fluttershy bumbled over her words and paused for a minute “That works on uh, my birds…”
Rainbow Dash picked up her foal, it’s eyes still adjusting to the daylight. “Killdozer here is kind of not working out for us though, he’s not really up to my standards. Anon and I are thinking of having another one! Wouldn’t that be just awesome, Fluttershy?”
“Um… If you think so, Rainbow.” Fluttershy looked around the house and quickly placed down the feed bag. Thoughts of how to let Twilight and the rest of gals know the many concerns she had with Rainbow’s parenting skills raced through her mind as she trotted over to the door.