As Twilight gazed at the filly, her mouth fell open. This human could communicate with animals as well as Fluttershy, if not better!
"Come on Russell," she said to a little porcupine. "Stop being so... so serious all the time!"
The porcupine squeaked something in return, and turned his back on her.
"Fine, fine, just lighten up a little bit!" The human held up her hands in mock surrender.
Rainbow Dash cleared her throat loudly. The filly whipped around, looking alarmed. Twilight wondered if all humans could speak to animals.
"Oh, uh, hi..." the filly trailed off.
"Rainbow Dash," Rainbow supplied.
"Rainbow Dash. I knew that. What are you doing here?" she tried to keep her cool, but Rainbow looked at her with distaste, like she held a grudge with this filly.
"I'm looking for Fluttershy, Blythe," the cyan girl said flatly. "Do you know where she is?"
"Well, if she's not here or at school, she's probably in her room," Blythe returned Rainbow's icy stare. Twilight could tell that these two had history.
Blythe looked around Rainbow's shoulder to stare at Twilight. "Who's the newbie?"
"That's why I'm looking for Fluttershy," Rainbow sighed. "Now, if you'll excuse me-"
"Wait!" Blythe called. "I need to tell Fluttershy something about her shift. I'll just come with you."
"No, you can't!" Rainbow stared at Blythe, but the brave filly didn't back down. Twilight couldn't do that with Rainbow Dash. Whenever the pegasus was that fierce about something, nothing stood in her way.
"You can't stop me!" Blythe had to crane her neck to look at Rainbow, who stood over a head taller than her. "I'm coming with you, and that's final!"
The Equestrian marveled at how similar the two voices were. It was like they were both puppets played by the same actor.
The two girls had a little staring contest, until Rainbow Dash finally backed down.
"Fine," she grumbled. Then she got a gleam in her eye as she said "But you gotta keep up!"
Much to Blythe's amazement, she spread her wings and took off up the stairs.
"What the WHAT?!?" she gaped. Then she turned to Twilight. "Did you know about this?"
"Uh... hehe," Twilight ran up after Rainbow Dash before Blythe could interrogate her further.
Naturally, Fluttershy's cottage was second to the top of the building, if you could call it a cottage. All the doors looked the same, and if Twilight were alone, she would have never found her way out of the maze of hallways.
When Rainbow Dash got to the door labeled 37, she stopped and tucked her wings, waiting for Twilight to catch up. As the Equestrian rounded the bend, she knocked on the door.
It was answered by a petite girl with meadow yellow skin, while her light pink hair curled gently against her face. In her arms was a bag full of animal feed, and her teal eyes brightened up when she saw her friend.
"Hey, Fluttershy," Rainbow leaned against the doorframe casually. "Listen, we need to talk to you about something really important."
"We?" Fluttershy looked confused. "Who's we?"
Rainbow nodded her head towards Twilight, who came up right next to her, panting.
Fluttershy gasped. Her bag fell to the ground, spilling its contents all over the carpet.
"Oh dear, oh dear," she muttered as she struggled to pick it up. "W-what are you doing here?" she whispered.
"Fluttershy has been pony-" Twilight began, but her attention wandered to the plodding of heavy footsteps coming towards them.
"Oh no," Rainbow slapped her face at the human running towards the trio.
"You have WINGS?!?" Blythe panted as she came up on the Equestria Girls. She turned to Fluttershy. "And you, too?"
It was true. Now that Twilight was in the human universe again, Fluttershy had her wings, ears, and tail, and she hadn't even noticed until now.
"When did this happen?" she gasped. "You've never had wings before!"
"Uh, you see.." Twilight glanced around. "We were just coming to bring Fluttershy to..." she trailed off, looking desperately at her friends.
"A birthday party!" Fluttershy put in. "We were going to make some extra money at a birthday party, dressing up as ponies and doing face paint."
Blythe raised an eyebrow.
"She's not buying it..." Rainbow hissed into Twilight's ear.
"I know that!" the Equestrian whispered back. Her mind was running on double-time as she tried to think of a good story, but she knew almost nothing about this world. What did they do at birthday parties?
"Uh, it's for a little fill- girl. These girls wanted to help me get a job, so we all signed up for a birthday party!" Twilight smiled.
"Who's it for? I would love to help!" Blythe grinned back, but Twilight knew what she was really doing.
"Uh..." Twilight trailed off. "Funny, I guess I forgot. Oh well, when we go there, it'll jog my memory!"
"Where is it?" Blythe pressed.
"In the suburbs." Fluttershy smiled meekly.
"I mean, what's the address?" This human would never let up!
Twilight sighed. They were never going to fool her. "There is no birthday party," she admitted.
Rainbow and Fluttershy stared at her. Suddenly an idea struck the Equestrian. Perhaps...
"I'm from an alternate dimension, and whenever I come here, my friends all turn into pony-human hybrids, and I'm only here to rescue Fluttershy, who in my dimension is a pony, because she has been pony-napped by a psycho named O'Brian, and I need to rescue her because she is my best friend!" Twilight blurted out.
"Okay! I'll help!" said Blythe, to Twilight's amazement and despair.
"What? No!" Rainbow stomped her foot in anger. "How can you believe that story?"
"Because we're supposed to get a new animal tomorrow," Blythe grinned. "And she's a pony."