Pinkie Pie hummed to herself under the starry sky. It has been a few hours since her Pinkie Sense kicked in. A Doozie that she followed to the outskirts of Ponyville. It was very near from where Fluttershy lived. She tried to wake Twilight up, but the lavender unicorn was far too tired to deal with any silliness Pinkie was up to. Pinkie tried Rarity next but ended up having ponyquins thrown at her for disturbing the seamstress’s sleep. Pinkie then searched for Rainbow Dash. Usually she had good luck finding her multicolored friend, but tonight was an exception. No matter how hard she looked for Rainbow Dash, she simply could not find her. She later thought of going for Applejack but Sweet Apple Acres was too far, and she had a feeling that the Doozie, what ever it was, was going to happen very soon. Therefore, she decided to wait for it by her self and if she needed help, she could always go get Fluttershy since she lived so close by from where the Doozie was going to happen.
Not that Fluttershy was going to be any help if it was something scary but the more the merrier. Pinkie hopped and hummed in place while she waited making her dark pink cotton candy-like mane bounce with every movement. Even as late as it was, her energy did not seem to decay.
“I hope the Doozie isn’t a monster. That would be a bit scary. Unless it was a chocolate fudge monster than that would be super dooper looper, cause I like chocolate. Mmm chocolate.”
She said while she kept hopping in place. The pink pony could not keep her excitement down and began to sing aloud.
“Choco loco lattety do. Yummy, yummy chocolaty coco.” not her best song, still her grin began to widen at the possibility of becoming friends with a chocolate-made monster and of all the chocolate she would get to eat. Her hopping stopped when she heard the rustling of a bush at the edge of the Forever Free Forest. Pinkie smiled excitedly for her new chocolate fudge covered friend. Instead, a grizzly bear appear from within the tall bush.
“Oh, hi mister bears! You wouldn’t happen to see a chocolate fudge covered monster around here would you?”
she asked the grizzly as friendly as she could, which was very friendly indeed. The bear glared at her and growled fiercely. Its eyes glowed like two pieces of ember that were about to start a wild fire. Pinkie giggled to herself while the bear made his way slowly towards her.
”Oh, I’m such a silly filly. I forgot I’m not Fluttershy. You couldn’t answer me even if you wanted to.” she smiled at the now very near grizzly, who was still growling and heavily drooling. The grizzly bear began to rise to a stand on his hind legs and slightly spread his arms.
“Awww, Mister Bear wants a hug,” said the pink mare as she too rose on her hind legs and spread her forelegs widely.
Suddenly her Pinkie Sense screamed at her to jump to the side. As she did what Fluttershy asked her to do, she felt a strong gust of wind pass her head. Once she landed on her four hooves, she realized what happened.
“Hey! You tried to rip my head off, I need my head. You’re a big Meany McMeanypants. Wait, do bears even wear pants?” she asked her self while she tapped her chin with her right hoof. Pinkie’s train of thought was interrupted by a very mean bear‘s roar. Mister bear was now viciously irritated that his first attempt at murder failed, and so another strike came at Pinkie. Like the first time she dodged perfectly, thanks to her Pinkie Sense. “Stop that! You mean mister bear. I’m going to tell on you with Fluttershy!”, and so Pinkie Pie began to gallop towards Fluttershy’s cottage, not before turning her head to the mean mister bear and gave him a well deserved raspberry. Mean mister bear charged at her, still growling and still salivating heavily. Pinkie turned her head in mid gallop to see that she had put some distance between her pink self and the mean mister bear.
“Your in big trouble now mister. Fluttershy is going to beat you silly”, she said before giving him another big fat raspberry. She turned her attention back to where she was galloping. Fluttershy’s cottage was now in a visible distance from her, just on top of a small hill.
“Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Oh Fluttershy!” Pinkie yelled to her timid friend from a distance.
The dark interior of the cottage lit up at one of the windows, more specifically, the middle window of the second floor. Pinkie saw how the candlelight began to move from the top floor to the bottom. Once Pinkie arrived at front door, she began to pound on it rapidly.
“FluttershyFluttershyFluttershy…” she said with every knock of her right hoof. She heard the lock at the door turn and stopped her rapid assault to the door. The door opened to reveal a very tired looking Fluttershy. She held a candle in her left hoof; a sleeping hat covered her head and dangled to the right. Her eyes were puffy and half close from recent sleep. Fluttershy’s light pink mane was a little messy as well her butter colored coat. Not two seconds passed when Pinkie Pie began to assault the tired Pegasus with explanations.
“Fluttershy! Oh my gosh I’m so glad to see you. I was at home sleeping when my Pinkie Sense told me that there was a Doozie coming on so I went to Twilight’s, but she told me to leave. So I went to Rarity’s and she started throwing ponyquins at me and I started looking for Rainbow but I couldn’t finder her”, she paused to breath in a big gulp of air before starting again.
“And Applejack was too far away, so I decided to look for the Doozie by myself. I was humming and hopping thinking about what the Doozie was and I was like ‘I hope the Doozie isn’t a monster that would be a bit scary unless it was a chocolate fudge monster than that would be super dooper looper, cause I like chocolate mmm chocolate’. Then I started singing about chocolate and big mean mister bear appeared and…” by now, Fluttershy was a bit more awake. She wanted to go to bed but she was too kind to stop Pinkie’s rant.
“So he was like ‘RAWR’ and I was like ‘BLEGH’ and I started to gallop to your house and…” Fluttershy’s eyes popped awake when she saw a massive shadow come up from behind Pinkie. The shadow lifted it right arm in a threatening way. Right before the arm came down to slash at Pinkie’s hide Fluttershy grabbed her still talking friend and pulled her into her cottage. While doing so she saw the massive black arm turned into a blur that missed Pinkie just barely. A hot pink curl of hair slowly made its way to the floor.
Fluttershy slammed the door shut, locked it, and barracked the door with her sofa. “Pinkie Pie! What is that thing outside?”
“Didn’t you hear what I was saying? That’s mean mister bear.” Fluttershy started to relax. She gave herself a smile, thinking how silly she was. She headed to the window next to the front door.
“Oh that must be Mr. Cuddles. He must have been hungry or…”, once she reached the window, her ability of speech disappeared and her smile faded into a jaw drop in shock. “That’s Mr. Cuddles, but something is definitely wrong”, Fluttershy thought. His eyes were bloodshot. His mouth was salivating, no it was foaming! As soon as Mr. Cuddles saw Fluttershy, he lunged at her. She jumped back in horror and screamed, regaining her voice.
Mr. Cuddle’s claw crashed through the window but because of his massive body, he couldn’t go further. Confused Pinkie asked
“What’s wrong Fluttershy can’t you just calm him down?” Fluttershy looked at her pink friend with eyes full with terror.
“I can’t. Mr. Cuddles is rabid.” Pinkie tilted her head sideways in confusion. She then shook her head in disapproval.
“Fluttershy, Fluttershy, you silly filly. Mr. Cuddles is a bear not a rabbit. I thought you knew that silly?” the butter colored mare started to breath faster and shook her own head. “No Pinkie not ‘rabbit’, ‘rabid’ he’s been infected with rabies.”, again Pinkie tilted her head in confusion.
“What are rabies?” she asked as she saw her frantic friend grabbing furniture to add to her barricade.
“Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals that is most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal.” Fluttershy began to explain while she kept adding to her barricade and slightly flinching at the pounding and slashing Mr. Cuddles was doing at the door.
“The virus infects the central nervous system causing the victim to be delusional and at times extremely aggressive.” by now, Fluttershy was gasping for air. After listening Fluttershy’s explanation Pinkie fell to the ground in a giggly fit.
“Fluttershy you sounded like Twilight just now, hehe.” the Fluttershy simply stared at the giggling earth pony, who occasionally snorted. Angel Bunny, Fluttershy’s pet bunny, came down from the second floor, grumpy from being awakened by all the noise from down stairs.
He saw Fluttershy and hopped closer to her and began to thump the ground with his white furred back legs. Fluttershy finally noticed Angel.
“Angel! Thank goodness, you’re awake. Mr. Cuddle is rabid!” Angel stared at his master and frowned. He began to thump the floor irritated.
“Yes Angel I am aware the Mr. Cuddles is a bear. I meant the he’s rabid, he’s been infected with rabies.” at this Angel’s eyes widened and his ears fell to the back of his head in fear.
“Angel I need you to stay here and have a look out in the front door while I go get water. Um that is if you don’t mind.” the white bunny’s face grimaced and he made a salute to her butter colored master. Fluttershy turn her attention back to Pinkie who was still giggling. Fluttershy trotted towards her and said
“Pinkie I need you to help me fill buckets with water. Of course if you don’t mind.” Angel rolled his eyes at that last remark. Pinkie Pie stopped her fit, turned to the timid pony, and stared at her as if she were crazy.
“Buckets full of water? What for? You feel like taking a bath?”
“Um, no, you see rabid victims become hydrophobic which means their extremely afraid of water.” Pinkie stared at Fluttershy blankly still absorbing the new given knowledge. “Oh ok.” Pinkie said right before standing to her hooves.
Fluttershy nodded with worry on her face. She quickly made her way to the kitchen, followed by Pinkie. Fluttershy stopped in front of a door that opened to a closet. She pulled out four wooden buckets, which she then handed two to the grinning mare. Pinkie took the buckets with a smile and followed the panicky mare into the kitchen. They were too busy to notice that the heavy thumping at the door stopped. Fluttershy carried both buckets in her mouth, biting at the handles. Once in the kitchen she left one of the buckets on the floor and brought the other up to the sink. She quickly turned the handle to let the water flow into the bucket. Nothing. Not a single drop fell. Fluttershy looked back at Pinkie, who was humming a happy song, and said,
“There’s no water. I forgot that the plumbing in my cottage isn’t working.” she said while fear and panic began consuming her.
Fluttershy started to hyperventilate and kept repeating the same two words repeatedly “oh no”. Pinkie looked at her friend this time with concern. She moved her head down to let down the buckets that hang from her mouth. The buckets landed with a small clack on the floor. Pinkie came closer to Fluttershy and hugged her, trying to calm her down she said,
“Come on Fluttershy. It’s ok. Everything is fine.”
“No, no, it’s not. We’re too far from town. No one will hear us scream for help and with no water; we can’t scare Mr. Cuddles away. I can’t talk to him he’s gone insane with rabies.” Fluttershy said between heaves. Pinkie let go of her and stepped back still near the butter color coated mare, still with concern in her eyes. Streams of tears fell from Fluttershy’s sky blue eyes, wetting her coat, and fell to the ground with unheard impacts. Pinkie looked behind her crying friend. She saw a door to the far end of the kitchen and realization hit her.
“Fluttershy? Doesn’t your cottage have a back door?” she said still staring at the door. “Yes. Why?” said Fluttershy still heaving. She opened her eyes and saw Pinkie raise her left hoof and point behind the crying mare’s head. Fluttershy, still crying, traced the pink limb. She turned her head to where she was shown. In fact, that door could let them to the backyard where they could runaway and find help. The tears died and began to dry while her expression turned from despair to a shining glee. Fluttershy turned her head back to Pinkie and they both smiled, agreeing to the new plan that formed silently. The now happy ponies quickly made their way to the door, still unaware of the calmness outside the front door. Their happy bouncy steps stopped a few feet from the door after hearing a bone shuddering crack that came from the door in front of them. They both stared, waiting for what would happen next. The door exploded in a storm of splinters, causing the mares to flinch and back away a few steps. From where the door was, they saw a dark figure that covered the entire door’s frame. The figure stared at them with eyes that could strike fear in the bravest of hearts. Pinkie and Fluttershy looked at the figure in awe and terror.
“Mister chocolate-fudge monster?” were the only words that were heard before Fluttershy grabbed Pinkie in a tight hug. Fluttershy screamed in terror as Mr. Cuddles roared into the night sky.