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// Scamp a Scamp 
// Story: Innavedr 
// by Imploding Colon 
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	"Nightyyyyy!"  Bellesmith shouted, howling as her forelimbs flung numbly through her slumber and clutched at her intact belly.  "Nnnng—Nightyyyy, help meeeee!"

Kera panted... hyperventilated.  She tried shaking Belle... yanking vigorously at her shoulder and neck.

"Belle!  Belle, wake up!  She's... She's gotten to you!  She's tricking you!"

"Nnngnh—guhhh—Aaaaghhh!"  Belle's head tossed left and right, her voice shouting in an uncharacteristically low tone.

Kera gulped, her green eyes blinking.  She flashed a look at the foals.

The twelve little ponies trembled in their seats, streams of tears quietly trickling down their sleeping faces.

Biting her lip, Kera flashed a look up.  See spotted several of the wires running up into the ceiling above.

With a determined breath, she turned towards Belle.  "I'll be right back!  Don't you crap out on me!"  Scampering, she dashed towards the stairwell leading up to the flame room.  In so doing, she paused only once... and that was to cast a forlorn glance at the door to the adjacent control room...