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// Chapter One 
// Story: Familiar Faces 
// by GlitchyProductions 
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Familiar Faces
Made by GlitchyProductions

26th of April 2011
Chapter One: Trip to the Park

The grandfather clock chimed, the sound of the hour has passed and it had been the third chime that she had been listening to. A little girl sitting down in a large living room felt the shade of sadness that stroked only the loneliest of people, a small patch of light made its way through the thick cotton curtains emitting a thin line of light which shined on her pale white face. Her short blonde hair had been radiantly glowing in the small patch of light it made her look like a goddess among others.

“I don’t know what you are worrying about; she will come back in a few minutes.” She said; her voice quiet and calm as ever but with the tone of spite and annoyance, her voice ringed with a posh accent from only the most socially acceptable families in Canterlot would have. Or the women down the street with the purple hair and the passion for fashion.

“I want my mom…” The girl whispered, wanting what she loved so much to be in her arms once more.

“She will be back from her rounds soon, I am sure you will see her in just a few minutes.” She replied to her.

“But I want her to come back now…” The girl whimpered.

“Dinky…”  She groaned, placing her hand on her forehead. “Your mother will come back soon; I don’t know how to explain that anymore.” She raised her voice; feeling like the situation had become dry out of options to explain the science between waiting and time.

“But what if she doesn’t come back? What’s gonna happen?” Dinky turned around as sharp as a needle to the woman.

“I told you, she will come back.” She groaned once more.

“How do you know?” Dinky asked.
She paused for a moment, thinking to herself why a mere child is getting worried about her mother returning from her usual week-end job. It was getting old and it was starting to get rather annoying for her to just explain that an hour isn’t the longest time to see her mother gone.

“Carrot Top?” Dinky asked her again, snapping Carrot Top out of her trail of thought.

“I’m going to explain again if you can’t understand that your mother has left for the postal service for ONLY an hour.” Carrot top put emphasis on the word “ONLY”, she wanted to explain the dilemma once more but she couldn’t carry on with such circumstances.

Dinky paused for a moment, putting her finger on her lip, giving off a sign to Carrot top that she was trying to think of the appropriate answer for her care taker, she couldn’t think of anything to say.

“Listen, Dinky. Your mother was urgently needed for the postal service, your mother had to go in and send off the mail around town because the usual working days postman is sick, meaning that she is going to take a little longer posting the mail because has to do all of the town. Do you understand now?” Carrot top explained, Dinky took full attention at what her care taker was trying to say to say. She couldn’t understand why the postman was sick at a time like this during the week-days, she had just came home from a bad day from school and expected her mother to be here but instead only her care-taker was here to look after her.

“Okay…” Dinky built up tears within her and tried her best to contain herself before letting out her tears and aggression somewhere else where Carrot top wasn’t present.

“Why don’t you go upstairs into your bedroom and play with your toys, I’m sure when you start playing with your toys then time will go rather quickly and then you’ll notice how fast time will go.” Carrot top gave Dinky a brilliant idea, the tears and sadness started to fade in her. It was too brilliant to give up, her face sparked with the amazement and sparkle of happiness. How did she not notice it before?

“I got a good idea Carrot top!” Dinky brought back her smile and looked up at Carrot top.

“What is it?” Carrot top crossed her arms, preparing herself for the worst.

“I make change the clocks and make them go forward, and then mommy will come home faster!” Dinky exclaimed; she couldn’t help herself but giggle at her amazing idea.

“No, Dinky…” Carrot top once again put her hand on her forehead. “Go into your bedroom and play with your toys.” Carrot top groaned.

“Oh…” Dinky leaned back on the couch, just realizing what Carrot top had just said, feeling a little embarrassed at the idea that she just came up with. “Sorry…” Dinky blushed.

“It’s okay Dinky, just go upstairs and play with your toys.” Carrot top ordered.

Dinky silently nodded and proceeded to hop off the couch, landing on the ground with a small thud she quickly ran to the other side of the living room past Carrot top and into the hallway. Looking at her target which was the stair way up to the second floor of the house she quickly dashed her way up to the top of the stairs without a challenge.





Dinky had been sitting on the floor for the entire time, playing with her toys in her bedroom. In her hands she had a plastic toy space ship which she thrown across the room desperately trying to make it fly like a real space ship, she imagined herself as an astronaut landing on the moon and fighting evil aliens that lived in her imagination. When she had to hide from the monsters and the aliens she took safe haven hid herself under a massive space rock which was in reality, her bed.

Dinky had heard footsteps coming from the outside of her bedroom, still stuck in the deepest part of her imagination, she was scared that an alien was inside her spaceship and was going to capture her and take her to the UFO outside her ship and then be made a prisoner on another planet far away in the galaxy.

Trying to hold her breath in her make-shift space helmet made out of a fish-bowl and an excessive amount of duct tape all wrapped across the helmet to protect her from the alien’s super powers. She curled herself into a ball and waited for the inevitable to come, her space ship known as her room was breached all there was standing between her and freedom was the alien that invaded. Who as it? And what did want? Was a question that was soon to be answered?

“No! The aliens are gonna eat me!” Dinky screamed under her bed, closely watching her wooden bedroom door slowly open to show a two legged creature that didn’t look familiar in the slightest.

“Dinky!” The alien shouts out, its voice booming and very deep in pitch.

Dinky quickly grabbed one of the card board boxes that lay under her bed and covered the front entrance to the underside of her bed to create a small blockade so she was safe from the alien invaders.

“Dinky!” The alien shouted out again, the footsteps getting louder with every call-out of her name.

“You won’t get me, you stinky aliens!” Dinky screamed; she managed to grab one of her toy pistols that she kept under her bed encase of an alien invasion.

“Dinky!” The alien roared.

The footsteps stopped, they grinded to a halt and Dinky’s heart had pounded for the last time. She was ready to pounce out at the alien menace and defeat them for once and for all.

“Alright you stinky aliens! You asked for it!” Dinky smirked, ready to crawl out of her bed and attack the aliens with her toy pistol.

“You have nowhere to hide Dinky!” The alien shouted, Dinky saw what the alien was doing to her barricade and she didn’t like it. Her trust card board barricade started to move all by itself, she knew it was the aliens trying to break through and take Dinky away from her mother and the rest of her family.

“Here I come!” Dinky whispered, she crawled up to the card board box and slowly nudged it forwards until she had a glimpse of her bedroom. She managed to see that the aliens hadn’t stolen anything from her room and it looked intact despite them apparently breaking down the door.

Dinky bravely crawled out of her hiding place looked up to see her room was still the same as It ever was, toys littered across the floor and a dim light was shining through the windows because of the very thick curtains. Dinky quickly held up her gun and looked down the sights just like a real army soldier. She slowly walked around the room feeling scared, knowing that aliens are in her room and she couldn’t just run for help because of the invasion. She heard a noise in her closet that she didn’t want to hear.

“I’m in the closet!” A strange voice echoed in Dinky’s bedroom, she didn’t know who or what made the voice but it scared her. But she had to be the brave space marine and find out if there was an alien in her closet. She walked up to the closet and slowly placed her hand on the closet door. Feeling the metal the doorknob was made out of.

“I-I’m coming in!” Dinky stuttered, she could hear her own heart beat her bedroom was so quiet.

Dinky slowly opened the door, the creaking sound that the old wood and hinges made was all the more of an experience and a movie-like one at that, she breathed in deeply and began to hold her breath, knowing that she didn’t want to scream in front of the alien because she was a brave little girl.

The inside of the closet was cramped with coats, board games and even a baseball bat. She looked at every corner to see that nothing was inside of the closet; it was pitch black and nothing large of creepy could have put itself in the closet.

“A-any aliens in here???” Dinky started to shake; her aim was taking the toll for Dinky’s lack of sudden courage.

“No…” The voice spawned behind her.

Dinky quickly turned around to see that a monster was standing in front of her in the darkness, blanketed by the dark it slowly made it’s move on little dinky and quickly made work of Dinky, she kept on taking steps back and the alien seemed to close in.

“Get away!” Dinky screamed, she pointed the gun at the face of the alien still silhouetted by the darkness.

“Or what?” The alien said.

“I’ll shoot you!” Dinky quickly aimed at the monsters head, waiting for its next move.

“Shoot me? Don’t be so stupid!” The alien shouted.

“I will!” Dinky shouted.

“I don’t think I will eat you!” The alien announced.

Dinky lowered her gun, confused at what the alien was going to do to her next.

“W-what?” Dinky asked the alien, rather confused.

“I think I’ll…” The alien paused.

Dinky closed her eyes, she imagined the worst, she would be a prisoner on another planet and she wouldn’t be able to see her mother. Even worse appeared when she thought that she would be killed and then thrown into a pit full of monsters that would eat her body. The torment was endless and it certainly frightened Dinky to her possible limits.

“HUG YOU!” The alien shouted.

“Who-?” Dinky opened her eyes.

The alien sprang out and pounced at Dinky, it quickly wrapped its silhouetted arms around Dinky tightly. She cried out preparing for the worst.

“YAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!” Dinky struggled to break free of the aliens grip. “DON’T HURT ME!” Dinky screamed.

“Hurt you? Why would I hurt my little muffin?” The alien said.

“MUFFIN!?” Dinky froze; she knew who said that, no one else could replace the person that said that.

“Yeah! Muffin!” The aliens’ tone of voice slowly changed, from its serious and demonic tone to a happy and joyous tone. Dinky immediately opened her eyes once again and saw that the alien was no other than her mother. Derpy. She stood in the middle of the light that shined through the crack in the window which revealed her beautiful shiny blonde hair and her beautiful strangely placed yellow eyes.

“Mom?!” Dinky couldn’t believe who it was, she felt like doing a back flip. So much energy and relief had come over her after seeing her mother, it was amazing to see her, but the bigger question remains why was she was an alien.

“It’s just me Dinky, what did you think it was? An alien?” Derpy giggled.

Dinky felt a little embarrassed, after realizing that she was caught up in her imagination too far she believed her mother was an alien. She couldn’t help but giggled at the accusation for a moment and she walked over to her mother who smiled widely.

“Mommy, I thought you were an alien and then they tried breaking down my bedroom door and they were gonna take me to a planet far away in the galaxy and I wouldn’t have been able to see you!” Dinky tried to explain to her mother, Derpy on the other hand reached within her postal baggage and pulled out a small brown package. It had Dinky’s name on it.

“Muffin, I got a present for you. It’s from Mr. Whoovington; he said it was really important that you have it.” Derpy smiled, she lowered herself and stood on her knees at Dinky’s level. She handed over the package and gave it to her daughter.

“A present?” Dinky turned the package from side to side inspecting the naming and the post-code. She looked for a small opening where she could open the packaging and decided to rip the top layer of the package open to slide out its contents.

“He said to me it was very important, it’s for the fate of the galaxy he said to me. It sounds like a very big adventure.” Derpy got excited; she mimicked her conversation with Mr. Whoovington with her fingers, slightly bending them every time she talked.

“Fate of the galaxy?” Dinky stopped opening the package and looked up at her mother.

“Yeah, that’s what he said to me.” Derpy nodded.

“That sounds really cool! I bet it’s a ray-gun that blasts aliens from outer space… or… or… it’s a sword that you use to fight dragons…” Dinky now got over-excited, she wondered what was inside the packaging and now she completely ripped the top of the packaging off and then turned the packaging upside down and let it’s contents slowly spill themselves outwards.

As the contents spilled out, a large wrapping of tissue paper had fallen out, Dinky was rather confused at the tissue paper and noticed it was wrapping up something very thin. She undone the layer of tissue paper and managed to unwrap it all until she got to the core of her very prize.

“What?” Dinky asked, feeling confused and a little disappointed at what her new item was. “A feather?” Dinky shouted.

“A feather? That’s so cool!” Derpy cheered, throwing her arms up into the air nearly losing her balance.

“What can a feather do?” Dinky shouted.

Dinky was looking at a very large birds feather, wrapped in a very depressive grey colour. It shined in the sunlight and it looked like it was plucked off a very big pigeon.

Derpy looked at the tissue paper that Dinky had thrown on the ground and saw a splotch of ink on the tissue paper. She leaned forward and picked it up to see that a letter had been written on the tissue paper in black ink.

“Dinky look!” Derpy called out.

“What is it mommy?” Dinky turned around, feeling sad about her new present.

“There’s a letter from Mr. Whoovington!” Derpy exclaimed.

“A letter? What does it say?” Dinky asked her mother, wanting to know what the letter said.

“Dear Mrs. Derpy and Dinky.
I bring good tidings across the entire world as I have been very busy in my travels across the world have been with my team of explorers to the rain forest, it’s very wet and as I write this letter It is badly raining. Along my travels I found something amazing during my trip through the rainforest and I have found a rare feather that I believe belongs to a very rare race of animals. Despite the local tribesmen and people around town saying that the feather is not real, I have evidence to believe that the gray feather belonged to a rare animal that had long been extinct even before the appearance of man. Due to my employers not allowing me to say the creatures name, I must keep it as a secret for now until I return home. Therefore no other company will find us our discovery site in the rainforest.
As you read this letter it is most likely little Dinky has received the feather I gave to her, please take care of it as it’s a nice little present I sent you.
-	From Dr. Whoovington of the Canterlot University.

“Aww… isn’t that nice.” Derpy cooed after reading the letter from Mr. Whoovington.

“What was it all about, I didn’t really get it.” Dinky scratched her head.

“Mr. Woovington said he found a rare feather in the rainforest and he thinks it comes from a rare bird.” Derpy explained.

“You mean this feather is from a dinosaur?” Dinky asked her mother.

“I think so; I don’t know what he means by a rare bird.” Derpy scratched the top of her head.

Dinky had an explosion of happiness; she was the only kid on the block that had a dinosaur feather. She wanted to glomp her mother with a mountain and hugs and kisses. But she had to keep herself back from doing so.

“THAT’S SO COOL!” Dinky screamed as loud as possible when she felt her voice crackling when she tried her best to scream even louder than before.

“I’m happy you love it.” Derpy gave her a smile and decided to get off the ground and sit down on her daughter’s bed, she slowly got on her feet and walked out of the closet and walked over to her daughters nicely made bed.

“Thank you mom!” Dinky followed over to her mother and ran towards her; she jumped up into the air and pounced at her mother who was sitting down on her bed. Causing them to fall back together on the soft bed and hug each other as hard as they could.

“I love you too muffin!” Derpy smiled. “Let’s go downstairs and get your coat on!” Derpy announced.

Dinky looked up at her mother.

“Why? Where are we going?” Dinky asked her mother.

“We’re going to the park!” Derpy announced out loudly.





Carrot top was in the living room, she was on her break and she decided to sit down for a while and have a nice cup of tea while Derpy and Dinky were upstairs playing together, it was the only sign of peace when the two of them were upstairs playing together. It kept them concentrated and they weren’t able to break any of Carrot tops fine china and at least break into the fridge and take some of her specially done food.

She heard footsteps coming from behind them, she turned her head and looked over the couch to see that Derpy and Dinky were coming downstairs, it seemed that Carrot tops peace was only going to last for a few minutes before they started breaking the scenery around them.

“Hello Dinky, Hello Derpy.” Carrot top greeted them.

“Hello Carrot top!” Derpy waved from the top of the staircase.

“May I ask where you two are going?” Carrot top asked her friends, wondering where they are going.

“We’re going to the park!” Dinky screamed in excitement, she ran down the stairs as fast as her little legs could let her and she ran to the couch and sat down next to Carrot top.

“Oh really…” Carrot top seemed a little surprised, but felt unsure that their trip to the park would require her excellent supervision. Knowing how Derpy gets into accidents when she is around town and even in her own home.

“Do you want me to come? Just in case any accidents happen?” Carrot top asked Derpy who slowly made her way down the stairs.

“We won’t be having any accidents today Carrot top.” Derpy explained.

“Oh… How come?” Carrot top wanted to know.

“Me and Dinky are already wearing our pull-ups!” Derpy smiled. She too walked to the couch and sat down beside Dinky, her daughter soon enough followed and climbed on top of her lap.

“Okay.” Carrot top awkwardly nodded, strangely accepting the facts but still feeling worried for the both of them.

“We’re going to the park just to walk around, we shouldn’t be too long.” Derpy said to Carrot top.

“I could come; I have some money to buy some ice-creams or maybe I could get some drinks from the Sugarcube Corner.” Carrot top offered.

“No thanks, we’re just walking around.” Derpy smiled again.

“Are you sure you aren’t going to use any money?” Carrot top wanted to make sure.

“We promise, were just gonna walk around!” Dinky put her arms around Carrot top and leaned her head on Carrot tops arm.

“How long are you going to stay there? I don’t want to leave the house at sun-set just to find you both in a café of something.” Carrot top asked Derpy.

“Just for an hour, I’m going to bring my watch so I can tell the time.” Derpy lifted her arm and shown Carrot top her watch that was given to her by her boyfriend.

Carrot top decided to give in with the questions and let Dinky and Derpy go their own ways and let them go to the park. It shouldn’t be too hard for them to return home at the right time.

“Alright, just make sure you two come back home before tea time. I have a stew I’ve been cooking and I have the chance to use my new carrot recipe later tonight.” Carrot top smiled and lifted herself off the couch with the cup of hot tea in hand.

“Derpy could you please do me a favour?” Carrot top asked.

“What?” Derpy replied.

“Don’t go near Lyra or Bon-Bon, I don’t trust those ladies.” Carrot top instructed.

“Yes ma’am!” Derpy saluted.

Carrot top walked into the kitchen and quickly waved at Dinky before going into the kitchen and continuing her work on her famous stews.

“Dinky.” Derpy whispered; she frantically looked around making sure that Carrot top wasn’t around to see what she had.

“Yes mom?” Dinky turned to look at her mother.

Derpy reached within her postal workers shorts and pulled out a 10 dollar note, Dinky on the other hand smirked and giggled uncontrollably; she put her hand onto her mouth and closed her eyes.

“Carrot top won’t notice; I’m sure we can make her a nice big chocolate muffin to make her happy.” Derpy put the note back into her pocket and got off the couch and proceeded to make her way towards the front door.

“Let’s go to the park, but before we do. Where is your coat?” Derpy asked Dinky.

“I don’t know mom.” Dinky said.

“Oh well.” Derpy shrugged. “It’s nice and sunny out.”





Derpy and Dinky had arrived at the park after a small trek through the streets of Rumsville, they passed many people and they were all greeted happily. Dinky was given a small lollipop by the head baker in the Sugarcube Corner and Derpy was greeted by the owner of the town library and her son, everyone in town was in a very good mood and it really made Derpy happy that everyone else was happy. When they managed to arrive to the park they found out that not many people were inside the park itself. It was confusing to them as they used to see large groups of families come to the park to have picnics and even enjoy sports. 

Dinky was the first to run ahead of Derpy and she was fast, she managed to out-run her own mother and managed to run over to the giant oak tree that was in the middle of the entire park. Derpy managed to catch up and grabbed Dinky in a playful manner and roll down the oak hill together.

After they were both finished with rolling down the old oak hill they continued their trek through the park to find two of Derpy’s friends who were sitting under a tree covered in shade. They had both set up a small picnic area around them and they had food to spare. One of them looked at Derpy and gave the signal to come over and say hello.

Derpy inspected her two friends and saw they were not wearing their usual assortment clothing; both of them were wearing swimsuits which confused Derpy greatly. Usually she sees Lyra wearing blue jeans and wearing a green hoodie with the icon of a musical harp on the front and the back of it.

Bon-Bon was also wearing a swim-suit; once again Derpy was confused at the sight and wondered why she wasn’t in her usual baker’s outfit that was colored in a slight cream color.

“Hello Lyra! Hello Bon-Bon!” Derpy ran over towards her friends and stopped in front of them. Dinky on the other hand slowly stood behind her mother, feeling shy and scared of her mother’s friends. She knew them for years as aunts but she was scared of them.

Lyra and Bon-Bon looked at each other and both giggled.

“Hello Derpy.” Lyra spoke first; she brushed some of her green hair out of the way so she could get a better look at her friends. “What are you doing here?” Lyra continued.

“Me and Dinky are at the park today!” Derpy cheered.

“Where is Dinky?” Bon-Bon asked, she took a sip of her lemonade and put it back down on the picnic basket.

Derpy looked from side to side and felt someone tugging on her postal workers shirt behind her; she looked to see that Dinky was gripping onto her t-shirt.

“C’mon Dinky, say hello to aunt Lyra and aunt Bon-Bon.” Derpy grabbed Dinky’s arm and pulled her to the front of it all. She saw her aunts wearing very revealing swim-suits; she quickly closed her eyes trying not to be rude by looking at near-naked ladies.

“Its okay sweetie, we’re just in swim-suits.” Lyra teased, she held out her arms ready to embrace the small child.

Dinky didn’t reply, she slowly made her way towards her green haired aunt and slowly hugged her, feeling her naked body and the soft cotton the bikini was made out of.

“So what are you going to do at the park today?” Lyra said with Dinky in her arms.

“W-walking around…” Dinky whimpered.

“Oh, is that so?” Lyra smiled, looking down at the child.

“You know, we saw a guy giving out free donkey rides for children if you are interested.” Bon-Bon suggested.

“Yeah, I bet you’d like to ride a donkey.” Lyra smiled.

“Some guy is giving out pony rides?” Derpy turned round looking at her friends.

“Just for one dollar, he will put a kid on top of either a horse or a donkey and he will take you round a lap his little pathway for a minute.” Lyra said.

“What do you say Derpy? Shall we all go there and watch Dinky go on the donkey rides?” Lyra cooed.

“Sounds like a great idea!” Derpy smiled.

“I’ll pack up all of my items and then we shall get moving.” Bon-Bon announced.

“Cool!” Derpy yelled out.





Derpy, Lyra, Dinky and Bon-Bon were walking side by side down one of the many paths that were found in the park, they all stood next to each other side by side. Although Dinky was given a piggyback by her loving and caring mother, she held on tightly and she didn’t want to let go for anything. After getting up on her mothers back she closed her eyes trying not to look at Lyra or Bon-Bon. Who on the other hand were looking at all of the men who passed by, winking and blowing kisses to them and each other it was all confused for a little girl like her.

“Are you okay muffin?” Derpy whispered, she continued to walk with her friends who were talking to each other.

“I’m okay mommy.” Dinky nodded.

“You aren’t talking much are you?” Derpy giggled.

“I don’t want to talk.” Dinky sighed.

“Okay muffin, Lyra and Bon-Bon say that we are nearly there. Don’t worry about a single thing.” Derpy reassured Dinky and they continued their way to the donkey rides.

Derpy turned her head and kept on walking with her friends, making sure she held on tight to her daughter and she looked at her friends who were talking to each other.

“Do you think that guy from the farm up the street is good?” Lyra asked Bon-Bon.

“I suppose, I don’t really talk to him.” Bon-Bon said.

“Farmers are the best kind, they always work their behinds off and they like to have fun when it comes to getting drunk.” Lyra winked at Bon-Bon.

“He is a little quiet, I have to admit.” Bon-Bon said.

“I’ve never heard him speak; he is always with his sister all the time.” Lyra said.

“I heard a rumour that the Apple family…” Bon-Bon paused.

“What?” Lyra asked; interested in knowing what was going on.

“I heard a rumour that they keep it in the family, if you know what I mean…” Bon-Bon said, nudging Lyra In the shoulder rather lightly.
“I don’t think they would do that.” Lyra interrupted.

“But think about it, they have a little sister who has no known parents and they are the only ones there to look after her.” Bon-Bon said.

Lyra and Bon-Bon didn’t speak for at least a minute; they continued walking down the pathway until in the distance they could see their destination.

“Hey Derpy, there is the animal rides.” Lyra pointed out to the animal rides in the distance, they could all see someone standing in front of a long line of fences and a small barn and finally, the animals themselves.

“Oh! Oh! Look Dinky! Ponies!” Derpy yelled out, she patted Dinky on the back causing her to wake up.

She raised her head and looked over her mothers head and saw what she wanted to see. Animals.





Derpy and Dinky walked up towards is what seemed to be a small farm that had been built in the middle of the park itself. Fences surrounded this little farm to prevent any of the creatures from escaping to their freedoms. Derpy had expected the regular basis of farm animals to appear, including chickens, pigs, cows and even ducks. But the only animals that were present inside of the fences and the small huts were horses. Lots of them. All ranging from different shapes and sizes, and strangely colours. Most of the horses that were present inside of the fences were made out of strange colours that no mad or woman would have thought up of for such creatures. There was a yellow horse with a pink mane, a very large blue horse with an opaque mane, a pink horse with a pink mane and even a little orange horse with a very weird looking purple mane. It was certainly strange.

Standing inside the fences was a man, he was tending to the horses daily needs and he looked very happy. He was smiling at the horses and he was stroking their manes slowly and carefully. He looked up to see the new visitors he had gained from his little show.

“Howdy ma’am!” The man waved out to his new visitors.

“Hello mister!” Derpy waved back at the man.

Dinky looked at the man and saw that he was wearing a large cowboy hat that covered most of his face and casted a dark shadow across his face. Silhouetting most of his facial features, he wore a leather cowboy coat and was wearing denim trousers. Whether he was someone who dressed up for the day or he was a real cowboy it was rather exciting.

“Ah’ see yer’ lookin’ at ma’ horses.” The man spoke.

“Am I supposed to be looking at them?” Derpy asked, rather confused at her current situation.

“If ya’ want.” The man smiled.

“Okay.” Derpy nodded.

“So, do ya’ wanna ride a horse or does yeh’ sister want to?” The man put his hands in his pockets and walked over towards Derpy and Dinky. He rested his arms on the fence in front of Derpy and smiled.

“My daughter wants to ride a horse.” Derpy felt a little embarrassed.

The man looked down and saw a little blonde haired girl wearing a white t-shirt grabbing onto her mothers legs hiding behind them.

“You wanna ride a horse lil’ girly?” The man spoke to Dinky.

Dinky silently nodded to the man.

“Alright.” The man rose up and looked at Derpy.

“Jus’ pay a dollar an’ she can ride for a minute or two.” The man smirked.

Derpy reached deep within her pockets and searched for the 10 dollar note, she grabbed onto it and pulled it out and gave it to the man.

“A tenner?” The man leaned back, rather surprised. “Well thank you lil’ lady.” The man smirked.

“No problem.” Derpy smiled, she waved a little at the man and started to blush.

“For bein’ so kind t’me, I’ll let yer’ daughter ride on any horse she chooses for two minutes straight.” The man gave a small nod at Derpy and looked at behind her legs to see the scared child.

“Do ya’ wanna go on a horsey lil’ girly?” The man asked Dinky.

Dinky silently nodded and gave a little smile.

“Thas’ what ah’ like t’see!” The man enthusiastically yelled.

Dinky made her way to the front of the fence where she slowly climbed over the fencing and landed on the soft mud with a quiet thud, she looked around wanting to know where the horses are.

“Excuse me, where are the horses?” Dinky asked.

“They are in the small shack that ah’ call a barn. Eatin’ up their oats and wheat’s.” The man told her.

Dinky gave a small nod and slowly made her way towards the small shack, it looked very small and it looked like a small roof over the poor horse’s heads in bad or hot weather, Dinky leaned on the wall next to the entrance of the barn and peeked her head through to see what she could see.

“What…” Dinky close and opened her eyes multiple times, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. She looked inside the barn to see that the flooring was covered in a large amount of hay. There were two plates attached to the walls with nails that were filled with oats and carrots for the horses to eat. She looked at the second bowl to find a small amount of cold water in there, still confused at finding no horses inside of the barn when just a minute ago they were all spread out across the whole little farm area.

“Hello? Any horses in here?” Dinky whispered, she slowly curved her body round the entrance and slowly walked inside the small shack, she looked from side to side hoping that nothing was going to pounce out at her or even attack her. She didn’t want a bite mark on her clothing or even her pale white skin. In the corner of her eye she noticed something shining, it was small and it was stuck under the threshold of hay that was spread all across the ground. She looked down at the ground and got on her knees to pick up the strange object. It felt… feathery.

Dinky felt a little awed as she picked up the blue shiny item to reveal it was another feather, mixed feelings from Dinky were coming out of her. She didn’t know what to say, she has seen two giant feathers today and both of them were different colours. Today was certainly confusing for little Dinky.

“Ah’ see y’found a feather.” A voice springed out behind her.

Dinky turned around to find that the cowboy had been standing behind her all this time, she felt scared without the presence of her mother.

“Ah’ see that ya’ went into the barn lookin’ for a nice horsey to ride on. I’ll give ya’ the Grande tour of the barn and all of the horses inside if ya’ like.” The man offered; he spoke gently to the little girl hoping not to scare her.

“W-who are you?” Dinky asked.

“Ah’m a traveller from a very far away land.” The man said.

“Where are the horses?” Dinky asked.

“There through this way, ah’ keep them under the shade so they don’t get burnt by the weather.” The man said, he pointed towards a wooden door opposite both of them.

“How many horses do you have?” Dinky asked the man.

“Too many t’count ah’m afraid.” The man tugged on his hat and kept his shaded face from the light. “But anyhow! Les’ go through that door an’ find out who you’ll be ridin’.” The man continued.

The man was the first one to make the move, he slowly made this way towards the wooden door and reached within his pockets, he pulled out a giant silver key with the words “HARMONIZE” on the front. Dinky looked in awe at the key, feeling excited at where it would take her. The man put the key into the door and twisted it tightly; a massive clang was heard on the other side of the door and then the door opened by it self.

“Well… y’wanna ride a horse? Let’s go get you one!” The man smiled at Dinky.

Dinky was the first one to walk into the new room, she was blinded by the light that was coming through the cracks in the old wood that the shack was made out of. She blinked a few times and opened her eyes to see that she was in another room full of hay again, but not this time. It was full of very strange looking horses.

“These don’t look like horses…” Dinky said, feeling rather awkward at what she was seeing.

“They’re very rare types of horses, ah’ found em’ in ma’ travels across the country.” The man said, he then folded his arms and stood in front of the door way. “Jus’ tell me which one you wanna ride an’ then I’ll let them out.” The man said.

Dinky walked over to the first horse that was eating the hay off the ground, it consisted of a very strange and confusing colour scheme. It had yellow fur and it had a pink mane. Most notably this horse had what seemed to be wings; just like a pigeon a horse had wings. Dinky couldn’t believe at what she was looking at. The horse craned its head and looked up a little Dinky and quickly moved back without hesitation. Dinky thought of the kindest thing to do is to reach her hand out towards the yellow horse and be gentle.

“Hello horsey, can I ride you today?” Dinky whispered to the horse.

The horse instead quickly lowered itself and wrapped her hooves around her face, trying to make itself scarce of the situation. Dinky stood back a little and turned round to the man who had been watching the whole situation.

“Ah’ see y’met Fluttershy.” The man said.

“Fluttershy?” Dinky replied back.

“Yeah, thas’ her name.” The man nodded. “She is a lil’ shy herself, she don’t like people. Ah’m the only one she lets me go near. Especially when ah’ have food for her.” The man explained.

Dinky looked back at the horse and saw that she had hidden herself under a large amount of hay trying to hide from little Dinky.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…” Dinky tried to apologize to Fluttershy.

“Is’ alright, she’ll feel better soon. She jus’ need to interact with others a lil’ more an’ then she will accept more people.” The man said.

Dinky turned around and looked at the next horse that was on show; this one was a little different. This horse was very small and it seemed to be very energetic to say the least. When Dinky took a closer look at the little filly, she noticed it nearly had the same pair of wings that Fluttershy had. Not thinking to ask the man why the horses had wings she looked at the orange coat that the horse seemed to have along with its strangely done purple mane.

The little horse turned around to look at Dinky and quickly made its way to Dinky’s legs. She stood still just in case the little horse was going to bite or even try to pounce on her. But all the little filly did was rub her head against Dinky’s legs in affection.

“Aww… this one is so cute, it’s a baby horse!” Dinky squealed in excitement. She leaned down and picked the small filly and rested it in her arms and cuddled it tightly.

“That one is called Scootaloo.” The man said.

“Scootaloo? It sounds like a race car.” Dinky giggled.

“Scootaloo is a lil’ too young for riding on, ah’ mean she is as tall as yer knees, an’ she likes playin’ with the kids a lot. A lil’ bundle of energy ah’ like to call her.” The man explained.

Scootaloo licked Dinky’s arms in affection. Dinky replied by giggling loudly to the filly. She raised her hand and quickly tickled the little filly in the centre of her belly. Scootaloo responded by using her hooves to push Dinky’s fingers out of the way from her belly. It seemed to Dinky that Scootaloo was enjoying the attention.

“She likes being tickled!” Dinky screamed out.

“Does she now?” The man raised an eyebrow. “Les’ move onto the next horse. Put her back in her lil’ play pen and les’ move on.”

“Okay sir.” Dinky acknowledged.

Dinky lowered the little orange filly and put her back in her little play-pen for young horses. Scootaloo on the other hand wanted to play some more so she jumped up to the top of the play-pen and looked out of her play-pen. From Dinky’s point of view, Scootaloo’s head was popping out from the team of the play-pen showing off a massive smile.

“Bye Scootaloo!” Dinky waved at the filly.

Scootaloo copied her actions by raised her hoof and proceeded to wave back at Dinky while she was turning around.

“Movin’ on…” The man smirked.

Dinky walked over to the next horse and was impressed; she didn’t expect a horse to look so big before. This one was different than the last two horses that she encountered. This one was huge, and to Dinky’s surprise it had a very long horn along with giant blue wings.

This horse had a very deep blue coat that made her look very dark, this horse was certainly bigger than Dinky herself but she wasn’t nearly as big as the man who owned her. The horse was lying down in the hay all by herself not accompanied by any other horses. She had her legs crossed over as if she was not impressed. The horse looked at Dinky and didn’t react to her presence.

“Hello horsey, how are you?” Dinky greeted the giant blue horse.

The horse didn’t reply, but it kept on looking at Dinky and started to frown.

“That one is a very special horse, her name is Luna.” The man said.

“Luna?” Dinky thought to herself. “Like a space ship?” Dinky asked the man.

“Kinda.” The man shrugged. “She’s one of them horses that don’t like bein’ around other people, she likes her mane being brushed all the time an’ she usually get’s first pick on the food cause’ shes the biggest.” The man explained.

“Is she a bully to Scootaloo?” Dinky asked the man.

“Ah’ve never seen ‘em interact since Luna don’t like company.” The man said.

Dinky looked back at the giant blue horse and smiled back at it; the horse on the other hand turned its head away from Dinky and huffed loudly.

“Aww… come on Luna, please be happy.” Dinky said, reaching her hand out towards to the blue horse, she placed her hand on her large muzzle and started to slowly stroke it.

Luna quickly moved the humans hand away and turned her whole body round away from the humans in front of her.

“Don’ worry kid. Luna is a bit of a loner, she don’t like people as ah’ said.” The man explained.

“I think she should have a hug from someone and then she’ll know that people like her.” Dinky smiled.

“Luna is a bit too big for ya’ to ride anyways, she wouldn’t let you ride her without an accident happening.” The man said.

“You don’t have to worry about problems mister.” Dinky said.

“How come?” The man raised an eyebrow at the little girl.

“I’m wearing pull-ups; I think I’ll be okay.” Dinky giggled.

“Okay…” The man tried to ignore what the girl was saying. “Let’s move t’nother one.” The man tried to change the subject.

Dinky continued her inspection of the horses inside the shack and she moved onto the final one that seemingly was the most noticeable. This one was very strange compared to the normal horses that Dinky had just encountered.

“Ha-ha! That’s funny!” Dinky giggled and pointed at the horse.

“Ah’ wouldn’t laugh at this one.” The man said, his hand stroking his small goatee.

“Why not? Her eyes are really funny!” Dinky screamed.

“Would ya’ laugh at a disabled person in a wheelchair? Or even laugh at a guy with one arm?” The man asked Dinky.

“No.” Dinky replied.

“There ya’ go, this one is special compared to the others.” The man said.

“Why are her eyes so funny?” Dinky asked the man.

“Ah’m thinkin’ she was born like this. Ah’ think she can’t help havin’ crossed eyes.” The man said.

Dinky and the Horse Owner were looking at a gray horse, the horse was resting her head in a pile of hay when she looked up at the two humans who looked back at her. She stood up on all four of her legs and slowly made her way over towards the small wooden gate that kept her from escaping.

“Ah’ called this one Derpy.” The man said.

Dinky quickly turned upon hearing what the horse owner had just said, she couldn’t believe that the man had called his horse the same name as her mother. It was impossible in her books; she couldn’t understand how that would have happened.

“Hey! My mommy is called Derpy, that’s so cool! They have the same names!” Dinky screamed in realization from both names.

“Yer’ mother had the same name as the horse? Dang…” The man stood there, rather impressed at the coincidence of the naming choice.

“I can’t wait to tell my mommy about the horse’s name!” Dinky jumped up and down repeatedly.

“Would ya’ like to read this one? Derpy is a really friendly horse, she likes to play with kids an’ ah’ think she likes you…” The man pointed at Derpy who had jumped up to the edge of the gate and peeped her face over the gate to look at Dinky.

“Yeah!” Dinky screamed.

“Alright, les’ get you saddled up ready for ya’ mother.” The man smiled.





“Would you date that Fancy Pants guy who came into town last week?” Bon-Bon asked her friend.

“No, I would date a real hard-working man, y’know… like that guy from the Wonder bolts rock band or Big Macintosh from the farm up the road.

“It’s always about the men with the muscles isn’t it?” Bon-Bon teased.

“Nah, you obviously want a guy to look nice while working for his money.” Lyra said.

“I want a man who can do a back-flip.” Derpy interrupted.

Lyra and Bon-Bon stopped their conversation and looked at Derpy for her randomness.

“A back-flip? Why a back-flip?” Bon-Bon asked her friend.

“Because then… uh… I dunno… I just like back-flips…” Derpy smiled.

“Anywaaays…” Lyra groaned.

“Hey, check it out. That guy from the donkey rides is coming out of his little barn house.” Bon-Bon pointed.

The man was the first to exit his shack; he was holding a leash and some carrots in his hand. He slowly tugged the leash a little and soon after Dinky and a horse came coming out of the shack. Dinky was sitting on top of a grey coloured horse with a blonde haired mane that strangely had crossed eyes.

“Hey Bon-Bon, check out the retarded horse…” Lyra giggled.

“Lyra.” Bon-Bon said.

“Yeah?” Lyra replied.

“Shut up.” Bon-Bon sternly said.

Lyra leaned back a little, feeling a little awkward for not getting an audience to laugh with her about the cross-eyed horse.

“Why?!” Lyra yelled.

Bon-Bon tilted her head towards Derpy and then looked back at Lyra.

“Oh… sorry…” Lyra said, feeling embarrassed and really stupid about what she just said.

“Hey Mommy! Look at me! I’m riding a horse!” Dinky shouted out across the fence, she waved her arms feeling excited that her mother is watching her play.

“Keep on riding Dinky! Woo-hoo!” Derpy shouted out loud, she waved her arms from side to side at her daughter. Which in return Dinky waved back at her mother again.

“Now what ah’m gonna do is take you for two laps an’ Derpy is gone carry you all round the field, hold on tight.” The man announced.

“Yes sir!” Dinky saluted at the man and they started their little trip.

Dinky put her arms around the neck of Derpy and held on tight so she wouldn’t fall off and hurt herself in the process. The man began pulling the leash that was also connected to Derpy’s neck. And thus it started a magnificent adventure across the muddy field.

“Hey, do you notice something about that horse?” Lyra asked.

“I swear to god, if you make fun of Derpy I’ll kill you.” Bon-Bon quickly turned around to Lyra.

“No… it’s just… uh… they look a little similar…” Lyra moved back from her angry friend.

“What do you mean?” Bon-Bon said, while listening she checked the straps on her bikini bottom and tightened the small ropes up.

“I mean… well… look at the hair that the horse has got… it kind of looks like Derpy’s… heck it might even be the same…” Lyra paused for a moment. “Also look how the horses grey fur is the same colour of Derpy’s postal service clothes.” Lyra pointed out.

“I see what you mean.” Bon-Bon took a closer inspection of the horse and saw the differences and similarities too, it was very strange.

Lyra and Bon-Bon looked at each other for a moment, then both turned round and looked at their friend Derpy, and then they looked at the horse and then back to Derpy once more. Bon-Bon came up with the conclusion.

“Well… there is one thing I can say…” Bon-Bon gulped.

“What?” Lyra peered over towards Bon-Bon.

“You’re crazy!” Bon-Bon giggled.

“You can’t be serious!” Lyra folded her arms in anger.

“You’re jumping the shark!” Bon-Bon laughed.

“What?!” Lyra shouted out.

“You’re going overboard with this speculation stuff.” Bon-Bon slapped her knee; she couldn’t take anymore of this.

“Hey guys! Check out Dinky!” Derpy yelled over to her friends.

“What’s going on?” Bon-Bon asked; she wiped a tear that came down from her eye.

“Dinky is nearly passing by us!” Derpy shouted in excitement.

“Okay, calm down Derpy.” Lyra said.

Dinky and the man passed by Derpy, Bon-Bon and Lyra. They both stopped in front of them and the man opened the gate so all three of them could enter the area and interact with the horse. Derpy was the first to interact with the horse.

“Aww… the horse is so cute!” Derpy squealed out in joy, wrapping her arms around the horse’s neck trying to avoid hitting the leash.

Lyra and Bon-Bon stood next to each other watching Derpy interact with the horse that was said to look like her, they saw Dinky looking away from them as usual and the man was curiously looking at both of them.

“Like what you see?” Lyra asked the man.

The man snapped out of his thoughts and looked back up at the ladies in bikinis.

“Ah’ didn’t know what ladies were allowed to wear things like that in public.” The man said.

“Me and my friend are soaking up the sun as much as we can before the weather starts to change.” Lyra flirted, she winked at the man.

“Good fer’ you.” The man whispered.

“Why the job with the horses?” Bon-Bon asked him.

“Ah’m a traveller an’ ah’ like to please children by lettin’ them ride animals.” The man said.

“Don’t you have a home or someplace where you could stay?” Bon-Bon asked.

“Ah’ don’t like stayin’ at home. It’s too far away to go back to anyways.” The man shrugged his shoulders.

“Where do you come from?” Bon-Bon asked.

“Down south, near the dragon country.” The man said.

“Do you have anything to do with the Apple family?” Lyra butted in on the conversation.

“Ah’ don’t come from a family as big as that if that’s what yer’ askin’.” The man said, he looked down at Derpy and Dinky and smiled at their interaction together.

“Lyra!” Bon-Bon turned and whispered to her friend and nudged her in the chest with her elbow.

“Ow… sorry…” Lyra squeaked, she rubbed her arm and apologized.

“Is’ okay, ah’ know what it’s like t’be confused with others, jus’ b’cause ah’ have an accent don’t mean ah’ come from the Apple family.” The man reassured the curious females.

“I have a question if you don’t mind…” Lyra spoke up again before Bon-Bon could bore the both of them again with a serious question.

“What?” The man looked at Lyra.

“Why does that horse… not… look like a horse?” Lyra said; Bon-Bon quickly turned to her friend ready for another elbow in the chest.

“Ah’ don’ understand.” The man was confused at Lyra’s comment.

“The horses you have… they don’t look like a regular farm horse… the farm up the road has REAL horses, why don’t you have any real horses? They look like cartoon horses!” Lyra fully explained her question; the man understood what she was talking about.

“These are really rare horses from a far away land.” The man explained.

“What land?” Lyra wanted an answer.

“Well… I err…“ The man began to speak, but he was cut-off.

“OW!” Lyra yelped out again, rubbing her arm instantly.

“Lyra! Their exotic horses just leave him alone.” Bon-Bon defended the man; she curled her fingers and made a small fist.

“Since when does a horse have wings?!” Lyra wanted to know.

“Ah’ told ya’ missy, they’re rare types of horses that ah’ found some time ago.” The man said, he crossed his arms and looked at the angry greened haired woman.

Without replying, Lyra turned away from her friend and the horse owner and began to walk away from the entire scene, causing Bon-Bon to unravel her fist.

“Where are you going?” Bon-Bon yelled out, she cupped her fingers around her mouth to make herself sound louder like a megaphone.

“I’m going home…”Lyra yelled back.

“She sure is a ball a’ fire ain’t she?” The man commented.

Bon-Bon turned to the man still leaning on the gate with a small unsatisfied smile.

“Yeah, and she is my wife… sometimes I wonder why I married her…” Bon-Bon sighed.

The man instantly leaned back from his leaning position and stared at Bon-Bon rather confused. Bon-Bon reacted the same way but she didn’t lean back.

“Yer’ wife?” The man choked on his own words, he was curious why the two women had a relationship for each other.

“Yeah, same sex marriages are allowed in Rumsville.” Bon-Bon stated, trying to reassure the man by his confusion on relationships.

“Well… that’s weird… where ah’ come from, it’s not allowed.” The man said; he tugged his hat trying to reposition the silhouette that covered most of his face.

“Lyra is just a little hot-headed sometimes, she gets angry pretty quickly at pretty stupid things most of the time.” Bon-Bon wanted to change the subject as quick as she could, she didn’t want to explain why same sex marriages were allowed in town. It was pretty obvious if someone looked at the town’s female population.

“Okay, she is a nice lookin’ gal’ if ah’ were t’say.” The man sheepishly chuckled to himself, Bon-Bon didn’t laugh at his little joke.

“She can get the boys’ attention quite a lot of time. I’m sorry on her behalf for asking silly questions.” Bon-Bon blushed.

“Don’ worry miss, ah’ get a lot of tosh said about me an’ ma’ animals. Ah’ have little baby horses an’ some animal companies that are in the city come t’me and try to take away ma’ horses ‘cause them princesses don’t think ah’ should have them or somethin’ ah’ forget a lot.” The man said, he was calm about the situation and he needed to end the conversation to give Dinky her second horse lap.

“I’m sorry about people trying to take your animals away; I bet they mean a lot to you.” Bon-Bon felt a little sad.

“Ah’ look after them the best ah’ can, ah’ feed ‘em, groom ‘em, brush their manes, an’ even bottle feed the recent addition.” The man said.

“Bottle feed?” Bon-Bon asked the man.

“Ah’ got a new addition to the group an’ she’s a little baby horse.” The man smiled.

“That sounds really cute.” Bon-Bon cooed.

“Now if ya’ s’cuse me, ah’ gotta finish this lap for lil’ Dinky.” The man got off the part of the fence he was leaning on and he gave a small wave to Bon-Bon, which she waved back when he looked back at her the second time. The man walked over to little Dinky and saw her still sitting down on Derpy.

“This horse is so cute!” Derpy shouted, she giggled loudly and felt the horses wet tongue slide across her face.

“Hey mister! Why does the horsey like licking my mommy?” Dinky held on tightly to Derpy’s neck and hugged the horse at much as she could.

“Ah’ dunno, maybe she likes yer’ mother.” The man said, he gave off a small smile and he grabbed onto the leash that was still attached to Derpy’s neck. After rummaging through a small pile of left-over hay he picked up the leash and began slowly tugging the neck.

“C’mon little Derpy, we gets to take you for ‘nother lap.” The man cooed to Derpy, he patted her on the mane and ruffled through her mane hair.

“What?” Derpy perked up. “But I’m Derpy…” Derpy stood up and looked at the man.

“Ah’ called ma’ horse Derpy a long time ago, ah’m supposin’ yer’ also called Derpy?” The man asked.

“Yeah, it’s really cool there is a horse with my name! It’s so cute!” Derpy threw her arms into the air and waved them from side to side.

“How ‘bout we say Ditzy until this is all over, t’stop the confusion.” The man said.

“Cool!” Dinky screamed out.

The man kept grip of the leash and leaned down onto his knees and looked at Ditzy in the eyes, he patted her on the cheek and proceeded to stroke her blonde mane hair softly.

“Do ya’ like the name Ditzy?” He spoke to the horse.

Ditzy on the other hoof nodded randomly, her out of place eyes couldn’t help the man smile a little; he patted her on the cheek and raised himself up back onto his legs.

“Les’ do this other lap.” The man humbly smiled at Derpy and Dinky.





Dinky and the man had finally done the final lap and they were please will what they both achieved together with Ditzy, it was now time to put Ditzy back in her pen and feed her. But before Dinky, Derpy and Bon-Bon were to leave. The man had a little treat for little Dinky.

“So Dinky did ya’ enjoy yer’ ride?” The man asked the child.

“Boy, did I?!” Dinky screamed in excitement. “I don’t wanna get off the horsey!” She squeaked, grabbing onto Ditzy’s neck and hard as she could without trying to choke the poor horsey.

“C’mon muffin, it’s time to go home. It’s starting to get late…” Derpy cooed, she looked at her watch and saw that the time was five o’ clock. They really needed to go home before Carrot top would notice and shout at them for being so late.

“Aww… do we have to?” Dinky groaned; she didn’t want to leave the little horse that had the same name as her mother. She felt rather connected with this strange little horse.

“Yes muffin, we need to get home before Carrot top finds out we have been gone for a few hours. I need to get some sleep for my night rounds at the post office.” Derpy said, she climbed over the fence once again and walked over to Dinky and Ditzy, she leaned down and picked up Dinky like an infant and carried her in her arms.

Ditzy on the other hand had the idea of following them, she trotted over to Derpy and grabbed Derpy’s trousers with her mouth, she didn’t bite the post woman’s shorts but she slowly tugged on the adult to grab her attention.

“Aww… does Ditzy want a hug too?” Derpy cooed, she leaned down making sure not to let go of Dinky and slowly ruffled the horse’s mane. But Ditzy still kept on latching on to her trousers.

“Now, now Derpy, let go of t’nice lady.” The man said; he crossed his arms expecting better from her.

Ditzy soon let go of Derpy and turned around to her owned, her usual confused and happy galore turned to a sad and depressing frown. She looked up at the man and licked his trouser leg.

“Dinky, can ah’ ask ya’ somethin’?” The man said; Dinky soon turned around from her mothers grip and looked at the man, feeling tired from riding Ditzy.

“Yes mister?” Dinky whispered.

“Would ya’ like t’feed the horses b’fore ya’ leave?” The man suggested.

Dinky’s little golden heart exploded into pieces, never in her life someone asked her to do such an act of good will before, feeding horses must be important she thought to herself, it must be a very big honour if she is allowed to feed Fluttershy, Luna, Ditzy and Scootaloo.

“YEAH!” Dinky raised her arm into the air and screamed as loud as she could.

“Alright, how ‘bout ya’ feed Scootaloo, then we feed Fluttershy?” The man suggested to little Dinky who was on the verge of literally exploding.

“Mommy can I feed the horseys?” Dinky quickly turned to her mother and looked at her.

“Sure thing muffin, don’t take too long!” Derpy laughed, she lowered Dinky to the ground and placed her on her feet, she then looked at Bon-Bon who also looked tired.

“I’ll be back in a minute mommy!” Dinky ran off into the wooden shack without the man saying, she knew where to go and what to do. Derpy watched Dinky run inside and soon the man followed her soon after.

“I need to get back to my candy shop before sun-down.” Bon-Bon said to Derpy.

“Why?” Derpy asked.

“I’m still in a bikini; I need to go back before it gets dark. I don’t really think it would be the right thing to do if I were to walk around the streets in a bikini at night.” Bon-Bon yawned; she needed to really get back. She felt the nights wind blowing early enough, the orange sky was the tipping point for the night and it were to come soon.

“Are you going home now?” Derpy asked her friend.

“I think Lyra and the shop can wait.” Bon-Bon grinned.

“Okie-dokie!” Derpy nodded up and down, she gave her friend and thumbs up and Bon-Bon soon copied.





Dinky and the horse owner were walking through the same door that they walked through a few hours ago, they both looked at the same room that had Fluttershy and Luna inside and they had all fallen asleep in the giant piles of hay. While on the other hand Scootaloo was still rummaging around for something to do, she looked around the hay and dug her head into the massive piles.

“Scootaloo!” Dinky called out, she ran over to the orange foal and quickly picked her up, Scootaloo was unaware of the human’s presence.

“Scootaloo seems t’be the only one awake.” The man said. He looked around the room to see that Fluttershy had wrapped herself in the piles of hay to make a nice and cosy blanket for herself; Luna on the other hand had stretched her body out on top of the hay and was snoring quite loudly. He still had the leash that directed Derpy into her pen and he led her into her pen which consisted of little-to-no hay on the floor and a massive cardboard box that the mare usually hid herself inside of.

“But it’s only five; my mommy told me the time.” Dinky reminded the man.

“Ah’ know Dinky; they seem awfully tired even though they came out only once.” The man walked over to Luna and leaned down to tap her on the muzzle, Luna opened her eyes to see her owner had tapped her on the edge of her nose. She pushed his hand away with her snout and turned around to try and get more sleep.

“Luna sure is grouchy today…” Dinky said, she held the orange foal in her arms and cradled the little one slowly.

The man turned around to see what she was doing and saw that Dinky was holding Scootaloo like how a human would hold their infant child, it was a cute sight and he couldn’t help but chuckle to himself.

“When do I get to feed Scootaloo?” Dinky wanted to know.

“Right now.” The man nodded.

“Right now?!” Dinky exclaimed.

“Yeah, right now.” The man nodded again.

“Cool!” Dinky squeaked out, holding the orange foal tighter than ever.

“Lemme’ get her food.” The man said, he turned around to the entrance of the shack and walked over to the table that was near the door, he opened one of the drawers to reveal that a small fridge was hidden inside of the wooden table, the contents of the fridge were simple. Three bags of carrots, a milk carton and a large baby bottle that was full to the brim with cold milk.

The man picked up the bottle and held it upside down, letting some of the liquids spray out. He then turned it back upright and then looked at little Dinky through the doorway, he walked through and handed the baby bottle to her.

“Jus’ put this in her mouth an’ she’ll fall asleep in no time.” The man instructed her.

“You mean like this?” Dinky tilted the bottle in one hand and the foal leaned her head up towards the amber nipple and began to plunge the nipple into her mouth. She then started to suck on the nipple and the white liquid began to dribble out of the nipple and soon enough the foal began quenching her thirst with the milk.

“Good job Dinky, yer’ doin’ fine!” The man gave a small thumbs up to the child as he climbed over Fluttershy’s pen and stepped in front of the large pile of hay that the yellow mare was sleeping in.

“I’m doing it! I’m doing it!” Dinky shouted, feeling happy for her good efforts so far.

“Yes you are.” The man humbly chuckled to himself, he repositioned his hat to cover up his silhouette and began to move some of the pile of hay that were in the corners of Fluttershy’s pen and spread the straws out across the parts of the floor that were naked showing the wooden flooring under the mess of hay.

Scootaloo’s eyes began to feel heavy, she tried to keep them as wide and awake as possible, but the milk’s effects were too strong. Human milk did its work and it caused her to fall asleep within a matter of seconds. Dinky took notice of the sleeping foal and managed to pull the bottle out of the foal’s mouth with the nipple still dripping with a small amount of left over milk that fell out of the bottle.

“Mister! Scootaoo has fallen asleep!” Dinky whispered to him.

“Has she?” The man turned around and cancelled his current actions to look at the little girl.

“Yeah.” Dinky smiled and looked down at the foal and saw that she had curled herself into a ball in Dinky’s arms.

“Lemme’ put her back in her play-pen an’ then you can go home.” The man said; he tried his best not to awaken the yellow mare that wrapped herself in the hay.

Dinky looked down at the sleeping foal once again and smiled; she lowered her head and kissed the foal on the top of her forehead.

“Goodnight Scootaloo.” Dinky giggled.

The man reached his arms out for the foal and Dinky complied, she gave him the little sleeping foal and he slowly made his way over towards the little play-pen that was full of old and ripped up toys and plushies that Scootaloo played with. In one of the corners was a little pillow made out of cotton, inside of the pillow was feathers. A small hole in the pillow gave the contents away and it was obvious to see.

“Ah’m gonna’ put her on the pillow an’ then she will sleep for the rest of the night.” The man said; Dinky watched as the man placed the sleeping foal onto the soft pillow. It was a heart warming scene and Dinky couldn’t help but smile and giggle at the sight of the foal lying on the pillow, instantly tossing the turning trying to find a comfort spot on the pillow.

“Now that ya’ fed Scootaloo, we’re gonna leave Luna alone fer’ now an’ so you can go home. Yer’ mother is waitin’ for ya’.” The man whispered; he put his finger on his mouth.

Dinky silently nodded.





Dinky and the man walked out of the shack with smiles on their faces, Dinky was proud of her achievement. She still couldn’t believe that she just fed a baby horse. Her friends at school would not believe what she did over the weekend; it was going to be the talk of the town as she imagined it in her head.

“Did ya’ have fun Dinky?” The man said to Dinky.

“Yes sir!” Dinky saluted at the man, he responded with a light chuckle.

“Y’know, yer’ really good with animals. ‘Specially babies.” The man said.

“I am?” Dinky said.

“A good care-taker if ya’ ask me.” The man smirked.

“Thank you mister!” Dinky and the man stopped in their tracks and the child quickly wrapped her arms around his legs in a very tight hug.

“No problem, yer’ mother might be callin’ ya’. Better get t’her before it get’s real dark.” The man blushed.

Dinky let go of the man and quickly ran ahead of him out of the shack to see that her mother and her friend Bon-Bon had been standing in the same place ever since Dinky and the horse owner went into the wooden shack.

“Muffin!” Derpy called out, Bon-Bon turned around to see Dinky running towards her mother on the other side of the gates.

Dinky ran as fast as she could towards her loving and caring mother and pounced into her arms as Derpy reached out for her child, both of them collided and Dinky was wrapped round in her mother’s soft white arms.

“Derpy, it’s nearly half five. I’m pretty sure we need to get you home.” Bon-Bon crossed her arms and looked at the mother and child hugging each other.

“Bon-Bon is right, let’s go home Dinky!” Derpy whispered into her child’s ear.

“Okay mommy!” Dinky whispered back.

Derpy put her arms under her daughter’s legs and picked her up like how a mother would pick up their infant child and carry them. Which is what Derpy did, she carried Dinky like an infant and Dinky herself wrapped arms half-way around Derpy’s neck.

“Lets start making our way down the hill back into town; I can see the street lights turning on!” Bon-Bon announced.

“Let’s move out!” Derpy turned around and pointed towards town, with a smile on her face.





Bon-Bon and Derpy had started walking down the park path; Derpy held little Dinky in her arms like an infant as she soon fell asleep during the walk home. The world around both adults started to fade as night time began sweeping over the land, the night time wind started to blow and it left a chill that went down all of their spines.

“It’s really cold, I should have worn more clothing today.” Bon-Bon shivered, she rubbed her arms together trying to warm up her skin.

“Don’t worry Bon-Bon were nearly home.” Derpy said.

“I know Derpy; it’s just that Lyra might be still mad at us. She has the keys to my house.” Bon-Bon worried.

“Why does she have the keys to your house?” Derpy asked her friend.

“Because I gave her the only spare set because she is better than me at keeping things in safe places.” Bon-Bon said.

“But you are a really good person; I don’t get why she would be a meanie and lock you out.” Derpy said.

“I don’t know if she had locked me out yet Derpy.” Bon-Bon said.

“Why is Lyra always angry?” Derpy asked Bon-Bon.

“I don’t know Derpy.” Bon-Bon shrugged, she once again tightened her bikini bottom and pulled them up so they wouldn’t start to fall down.

“Did you think that man with the horses was cool?” Derpy asked her friend again.

“I don’t know, seems like a nice guy.” Bon-Bon said.

“I thought the horses were cool.” Derpy randomly said.

“They did look strange for horses, although it’s just for kids and I suppose its good entertainment for them.” Bon-Bon said.

“Do you want to come home with us?” Derpy asked her friend.

“I need to get back to the candy store; I don’t want to keep Lyra waiting any longer. And I don’t think that Carrot top wants me around the house in a bikini at this time.” Bon-Bon giggled.

“I know Dinky had a good time.” Derpy smiled.

“She’s a little girl Derpy; she had a lot of fun.” Bon-Bon said.

As Derpy and Bon-Bon walked through the streets of Rumsville, they saw that the people of the town were starting to turn on their house lights and the late night clubs were starting to open for the music hungry young adults and teenagers. They passed by the Carousel Boutique, the Sugarcube Corner and even the Educational Library which Derpy and Dinky passed by this early afternoon.

“Does Dinky still get bullied at school?” Bon-Bon asked her friend, she didn’t want to bring up the subject of bullying but she just wanted to know what was going on with Dinky.

“She is doing fine.” Derpy gave a small smile, she hesitated to talk.

“I’m just wondering, because I heard from Lyra that she got into a little scramble with some of the kids at school during play-time.” Bon-Bon said to her friend. She looked at Dinky who was asleep in her mother’s arms.

“I don’t know; I didn’t really understand what her teacher was saying.” Derpy shrugged, obviously trying to get out of the situation.

“Oh…” Bon-Bon looked back at Derpy, she knew for a fact that Derpy was trying to get out of the whole conversation that they were both in. “If you don’t want to talk about Dinky’s problems at school, I can understand if you don’t want anyone knowing and stress is obviously being put on you. Because Cheerilee is trying her best to keep Dinky away from the kids because of their behaviour, maybe I can talk to Cheerilee and I can ask her what she is doing and we can try and help her both together.” Bon-Bon looked up at her friend.

“I don’t know; would I have to talk to Carrot top?” Derpy asked.

“Possibly not.” Bon-Bon said.

“My little muffin means a lot to me, I don’t know why those kids pick on her…” Derpy sighed.

“Is she having learning problems in class?” Bon-Bon asked.

“I don’t know…” Derpy shrugged again.

Derpy and Bon-Bon reached the Candy Store, it was a small building mostly made out of bricks and painted over to make it look eye-catching as possible. It wasn’t anything like the Sugarcube Corner but it had its up’s and down’s with the mega-company known as the Cakes Business.

“Listen, you know where to talk to me if you need someone to talk about these things, don’t trust Lyra. She’ll just give you bad advice. 
Understand?” Bon-Bon said to Derpy.

Derpy silently nodded.

Bon-Bon leaned down in front of the door mat and lifted it up to reveal a small pair of house keys. Bon-Bon picked up the house keys and turned back to Derpy.

“I’m going inside to change into something more…” Bon-Bon paused for a moment and looked at her body. “Suitable…” She blushed.

“Okie-Dokie!” Derpy nodded.

“You can go home now.” Bon-Bon reminded Derpy.

“Oh yeah…” Derpy giggled. “See you later alligator!” Derpy giggled again.

“Good bye Derpy.” Bon-Bon waved to her friend.

“See you tomorrow!” Derpy yelled as Bon-Bon went through the front door.





Derpy arrived at the front door of Carrot top’s home, as ever it was a beautiful home in the middle of town. It was the size of a regular family sized house with one bathroom, three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen. And because of Carrot top they had a big garden that was filled with bright and luscious flowers that could brighten anyone’s day up. Derpy walked up the pathway trying to avoid stepping on the cracks on the cobblestone pathway. She managed to reach the wooden front door and rang the door bell. She positioned little Dinky so Derpy could hold her in one arm.

The door quickly opened as Carrot top came into the scene wearing her usual night gown and a sleeping cap with a little bob on the top of it. Carrot top wasn’t happy to see the pair and she was even more displeased when she looked at little Dinky.

“Where have you two been?” Carrot top said.

“We’ve been at the park.” Derpy smiled at Carrot top.

“I’ve been waiting for you to come back home a few hours ago, what took you so long?” Carrot top asked; she moved herself out of the way so Derpy and Dinky could enter into the living room. Derpy walked into the living room and slowly placed little Dinky onto the couch.

“What happened to Dinky?” Carrot top asked.

“She is just tired.” Derpy sat down besides her sleeping child and ran her fingers through her soft blonde hair.

“Tired from what?” Carrot top impolitely replied.

“Riding horses.” Derpy whispered.

“I thought you said that you didn’t have any money…” Carrot top said, rather confused.

“Err…” Derpy was at an edge, she had to lie. “Bon-Bon gave me some…” Derpy started to sweat.

“Bon-Bon?!” Carrot top yelled. “You mean that lesbian?” Carrot top was shocked; she leaned back from just hearing the name.

“Yeah, Bon-Bon.” Derpy nodded, unaware of Carrot top’s sudden disgust.

“Why were you with her? I thought I told you not to go anywhere near her with Dinky?” Carrot top felt ill, she didn’t want to resort to shouting at Derpy.

“We saw her at the park and we said hello to her.” Derpy lowered her head, realizing her mistakes.

“Bon-Bon and Lyra aren’t the right type of people that you should keep around Dinky, they might teach their lesbian ways to Dinky and you don’t want that do you?” Carrot top walked over to Derpy and put her hand on her should, which caused Derpy to look up at her friend.

“N-no…?” Derpy felt very confused.

“I knew I should have come with you, next time you are going to the park I’m coming with you.” Carrot top said.

“I-I’m sorry…” Derpy sniffled.

“It’s okay Derpy, its okay to make mistakes sometimes. I knew I should have come with you that’s all…” Carrot top sighed and turned to the kitchen entrance. “I’m pretty sure you and Dinky are hungry?” Carrot top walked into the kitchen, Derpy soon followed and walked with Carrot top into the kitchen.

“No thanks.” Derpy opened one of the cupboards; it was filled with boxes of cereal and a glass jar that was filled with tiny muffins.

“I’m just going to have a muffin and then me and Dinky are going to bed.” Derpy yawned.

“But it’s only half five, it’s barely sun-down.” Carrot top said; she looked at the kitchen clock to make sure of the right time.

“Me and Dinky are just really tired, we don’t know why.” Derpy stuffed the muffin in her mouth and began to chew on it.

“As long as you wake up early in the morning to help me with the carrots in the garden, those pesky rabbits from Fluttershy’s animal care home are starting to come over here and eat the carrots.” Carrot top explained.

“Sure.” Derpy swallowed what was left of the muffin and began to clear her throat.

“I’ll go upstairs now.” Derpy giggled.

“By the way…” Carrot top grabbed Derpy by the arm. “I bought more pull-ups for you and Dinky while you were both out. I put them in her drawer upstairs.” Carrot top said.

“Okie-Dokie!” Derpy nodded, she gave her friend a small thumbs up.

Derpy walked out the kitchen leaving Carrot top behind to pick up Dinky just like she did when they were on the way home, Derpy walked through the hallway and began at the bottom of the staircase and slowly made her way up, and she couldn’t help but notice that Dinky was making an adorable snoring sound that Derpy couldn’t help but laugh at. 

As soon as they both got to the top of the staircase, Derpy looked to the side to see Dinky’s bedroom, her door was left open just like earlier today and all of the toys were spread out across the room as usual. The wallpaper of the space ships and the stars started to shine in the moonlight that shined through the thick curtains.

Derpy made her way towards Dinky’s little wooden bed and she lowered her child onto the bed, she took of a piece of her clothing one by one until she was only wearing her shorts and her underwear underneath. Derpy walked over to her drawer and pulled it open to reveal her bed-time clothing. This was a blue pyjama suit that was a one-fits-all size. It was covered in images of stars and cartoony space ships that a child would love to see.

She looked under where she found the pyjama suit and found the pull-ups that Carrot top was talking about; she picked one of them up and closed the drawer with her hips by pushing the hatch closed.

Derpy walked over to Dinky and started to unbutton her trousers and pull them down to reveal her cotton white underwear, it was a careful procedure that Derpy had to follow to make sure that she didn’t disturb her daughter from sleeping and she had to be careful as possible.

She pulled down her daughters underwear exposing Dinky’s nether regions, Derpy looked away trying not to commit the act of rudeness to her own child and she pulled down her underwear without even looking and she managed to sweep them off her feet. Derpy then turned around completely and unfolded the pull-ups and slowly placed them on Dinky’s feet. Slowly but surely she slided it up her legs until it was in the correct position. She pulled the top of the pull-up to make sure no parts were sticking out and Derpy could finally look at her child.

“Good night little muffin.” Derpy whispered to her child, she leaned her head forward and kissed her on the forehead.

Derpy picked up her blue blanket had those images of space ships and even more pictures of things you would normally find in space and placed it on top of Dinky.

“See you in the morning.” Derpy whispered to her child again.

And with that, Derpy turned around and walked over to her drawer once and opened it, she picked up one of the pull-ups and closed the drawer door. She left her daughters bedroom in a hurry.





“I see that you are ready for bed Derpy.” Carrot top said.

Derpy instantly turned round to see that Carrot top had peeked her head through the bedroom door, smiling at her.

“I- I- uh… didn’t see you there…” Derpy quickly pulled down her t-shirt trying to cover up the pull-up she worn.

“It’s okay; I’m not going to laugh.” Carrot top entered the room holding a cup of tea in her hand. “Bladder problems must be hard.” Carrot top said.

“Y-yeah…” Derpy blushed; she couldn’t hold the weight of embarrassment.

“I see that you put Dinky to bed.” Carrot top smiled.

“Y-yeah…” Derpy sheepishly nodded.

“You don’t have to hide your pull-ups from me; I’m not going to tell everyone that you still have toileting issues.” Carrot top sighed.

“Y-you aren’t?” Derpy nearly choked.

“Yeah, may I sit down on your bed?” Carrot top politely asked.

“S-sure.” Derpy blushed.

“How did the trip to the park go?” Carrot top lowered herself and slowly sat down on Derpy’s bed, keeping herself in a certain position so she didn’t spill any liquid onto her friend’s bed sheets.

“I- It went f-fine…” Derpy muttered.

“Did Dinky have a good time?” Carrot top asked, giving off a nice smile.

Derpy silently nodded and looked at Carrot top.

“You know… I can’t remember the last time I had fun.” Carrot top sighed.

“W-what do you mean?” Derpy asked her friend, pulling down her t-shirt to cover up her pull-up once again.

“Well… when I was a kid, I used to have quite a few toys. You know the usual. A toy house here, and a teddy bear there… but when my mom and dad told me that I had to get rid of the toys, I was angry and very sad.” Carrot top paused to take a sip of her hot tea.

“I-I’m sorry…” Derpy apologized.

“You don’t have to apologize, it’s just life.” Carrot top paused again. “When I look at Dinky…” Carrot top paused. “It’s like I am watching myself in rewind, playing with all of the toys… going to school having fun. It’s pretty weird.” Carrot top tried to explain.

“That is weird…” Derpy said.

“She is six years old, and I’m what… 24? I wonder what it would be like when Dinky is all grown up and were old.” Carrot top wondered.

“I don’t know.” Derpy shrugged.

“But I have a question for you Derpy.” Carrot top continued.

“W-what?” Derpy wondered what the question was.

“What is that letter from Dr.Whoovington?” Carrot top asked; she took another sip of her tea.

“Dr.Whoovington?” Derpy replied.

“Yes. The man who sent Dinky the gray feather.” Carrot top said.

“He is uh… a friend of mine…” Derpy blushed.

“Really?” Carrot top looked back at Derpy.

“Yeah… he is uh… a- friend” Derpy tried to explain.

“Oh really?” Carrot top giggled. “How long have you known him?” Carrot top asked.

“C-can I go to bed n-now?” Derpy had enough; she wanted to be left alone.

“Okay.” Carrot top nodded, she understood that she was throwing too many questions at Derpy for her to handle.

Carrot top stood up and got off the bed with her cup of warn tea in hand, she walked over to the bedroom door and looked back at Derpy who was wrapping her herself in her blanket.

“Derpy.” Carrot top whispered.

“Y-yes?” Derpy whispered.

“I’ll make breakfast in the morning.” Carrot top winked.

“O-okay…” Derpy nodded.

Carrot top gave her final to Derpy and she closed her bedroom door behind her, she took a sip of her tea and smiled for the next bright and beautiful morning.

To be continued…