Man, I thought you all would know what show that last bit last chapter was from! It was from How I Met Your Mother! (American sitcom for you non-Americans)
Disclaimer: I do not own many things in this chapter, which I shall now list: My Little Pony, Pokémon, XBOX, Wii, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Fallout New Vegas, Portal 2, or Call of Duty. Those belong to (sigh, so much typing): Hasbro, Nintendo/GAME Freak, Microsoft, Nintendo again, LucasArt, Obsidian Entertainment/Bethesda Game Studios, Valve, and Activision/Treyarch/Infinity Ward (Seriously, how many owners does CoD even have?)
I also have to give credit to the story ‘The Elements of Gaming’ by Ryden and Xephyre. Check it out, it’s an awesome story! Thanks to The Fanfic Stealer as well for assistance in this chapter!
(Sorry, but they won’t really be playing the games in this chapter. It’s more of a background topic)
Anyways….here’s the not-so-long-waited-for installment of “Chaos Descending” by yours truly!
The four ponies stared at each other awkwardly.
“Wait, you mean to tell me, you were talking about a game?” asked Rarity.
“Um, no! Of course not!” stammered Fluttershy quickly, waving her hooves. Applejack and Rarity looked at her with stoic expressions.
“Then what were you talking about?”
Fluttershy attempted to think of a good cover story, but none came to her mind. “Okay maybe we were talking about a game a little…”
Now Ash raised his eyebrow.
“Okay, more than a little…”
He remained impassive.
“Okay! We were because I play a lot! I like it, it’s fun!” spilled Fluttershy, immediately putting her hooves to her mouth.
Ash went over and whispered “Good job,” patting her on the shoulder. He got back up and then began thinking.
“Hey, why are you girls even here? Weren’t you supposed to be saboteurs in the battle earlier?” he asked perplexedly.
“Oh, that? Well, we have a perfectly good explanation for that!” Rarity said. “Applejack and I were…uh…applebucking-”
“Making dresses!” blurted out Applejack.
“Making dresses….for applebucking! Yes, that was it. We were making dresses for Applejack to use while
applebucking. A perfectly reasonable answer for your perfectly reasonable question,” said Rarity nervously. Applejack
nodded furiously in agreement as her eyes flicked around the room, unable to focus on one spot.
Rarity mulled that over for a second. “That actually gives me an idea…” murmured Rarity. Applejack heard her and frantically shook her head, mouthing “No no no!”
Rarity pretended not to see her.
“Hmm…okay! Sounds cool!” said Ash finally. “It’d be cool to see them in action!”
Rarity released a breath she hadn’t realized she’d been holding and sighed in relief. Applejack stopped fidgeting and
calmed down as well, although both heavily resisted the idea to facehoof at the boy’s inability to see through anything, Rarity especially. She’d witnessed Applejack attempting to lie on multiple occasions…and it wasn’t pretty.
“Though that doesn’t answer really why you’re up here in Fluttershy’s room?” Ash continued on.
“Well, you haven’t explained either!” retorted Applejack quickly.
“Um…okay then. Fluttershy invited me up to play some games,” said Ash, gesturing to Fluttershy.
“What now?” Rarity and Applejack looked at Fluttershy, who blushed and motioned to the table next to the TV, where a black box with green lights, XBOX along the side, and a strange camera-like apparatus on the top. The two mares looked at the two curiously.
“What are these Fluttershy?”
“Yeah sugarcube, what in tarnation are these? They look like something from them movies about the future!”
“Well those are what I play games on… the Xbox,” Fluttershy clarified.
“So, this black one is the… Xbox?” asked Rarity curiously.
“Yes,” responded Fluttershy.
“Fascinating! I’ve heard about these, but I’ve never really seen one in action! They’re all the rage in Canterlot since
they’ve been released from what I’ve heard…” muttered Rarity. Meanwhile, Applejack had gone over and began prodding the Xbox. She felt her hoof depress into the machine, and leapt back with a yelp as she heard the machinery begin to power up.
She stared at the machine buttons glow in fascination. As a country mare, she’d never really seen a device quite like this one. She’d heard about them though, from Rainbow Dash and her “Call of Cutie” games, and that they were “SO AWESOME!” Of course, Rainbow thought anything she liked was automatically awesome to everypony, so Applejack remained skeptical. She raised her hoof to turn it off when Rarity let out a fan-girl squeal.
Rarity had been checking Fluttershy’s little library of games and skimming through them, reading the titles aloud.
“Huh, Star Ponies: The Magic Unleashed, Call of Cutie: Pony Warfare 2, Fallout New Hoofington… ….Fluttershy, do you have anything that’s not somewhat violent?” asked Rarity, a little confused on the timid pegasus’ gaming preferences.
“Hmm….honestly, I don’t think so…”
Rarity continued skimming, but her eye caught on another title, but this one looked technical and different. The vivid colors and two robotic colts on the front seemed to catch her eye as well. “Huh, Portal 2…..I’ve heard of this one…”
“Ah reckon Ah’ve too. Back when we were in Canterlot, I heard some people talkin’ about how amazing it was…Ah heard that everypony thought it was the funniest and most entertaining game they’ve ever pla-”
“It’s popular in Canterlot?!” squealed Rarity excitedly. “Can I play it? Please please please please please?” she asked, literally bending over backwards to look Fluttershy in the eye.
“Looks like Rarity is willing to bend over backwards to get what she wants,” Ash thought. Then he snickered at his brilliantly original pun. And then Applejack knocked him upside the head because he’d said it out loud, and she thought it was stupid.
“Ow! Hey, that hurt!”
“That’s kinda the point there, smart one.”
“Well, okay I guess. If that’s what you want…” said Fluttershy hesitantly. “I’m not sure if you’d enjoy it as much though…You and Applejack can both play though…”
“Fluttershy,” said Ash, rubbing his head. “She wants to play it….what’s the worst that could happen?”
The two mares stared in horror at the other two ponies. Finally, Applejack spoke up.
“The worst thing that could happen? Everything.”
Applejack helped Fluttershy to prepare the Xbox while Rarity preened, pretending the camera (Which the girls had learned was called a Kinect) was interviewing her.
“So, I just stand….here?”
“No Rar’, ye gotta stand a little to the left. There’s more than one pony in this room, ya know?” said Applejack, trying to
make room to set up the Xbox.
“But, how is the camera going to see my magnificence?” replied Rarity slightly arrogantly, flipping her mane.
“Girls?” asked Fluttershy timidly to no avail.
“Ah don’t see how that camera is gonna see anything if yer butt is in the way!” retorted Applejack.
“Applejack! How dare you! If anything, if I’m blocking you, I’m doing the camera a favor!” said Rarity angrily.
“Girls?”
“Oh, you wanna play this game? Okay, we’ll play this game!” said Applejack, standing on her hind hooves. “Put em’ up, put em’ up!”
“To defend my honor as a mare against the likes of you? Gladly!” cried Rarity, drawing a rapier from….somewhere and clenching it in her teeth, staring Applejack down.
“GIRLS!” yelled Fluttershy, standing in between the two while Ash stood in the corner, silently laughing at their impromptu fight. “AND ASH!” Ash immediately stopped laughing and stood abashedly.
“Stop this now!” demanded Fluttershy. Almost as quickly as the argument sprung up, it was snuffed out like a candle and the two mares sat back down, looking at Fluttershy with a mix of respect and fear.
“Now apologize!’ commanded the yellow mare. The two immediately hugged, though now Ash wasn’t sure if it was out of fear or genuine sorrow. Probably the first one….because he was feeling it too. He shuddered. Mad Fluttershy is scary Fluttershy.
“Now….” murmured Fluttershy thoughtfully. “Where’s that disk?”
“The dancing one?” asked Ash.
“What? No, not that one. The other one…Portal 2.” Ash picked up a disk casing lightly with his teeth and showed it to Fluttershy, who responded, “Yes, that one.”
“Here,” he mumbled, his mouth muffled by the disk, and dropped it lightly on the table by the Xbox.
“Thanks Ash. Now, you two,” she said, looking sternly at the two mares cowering, each a touch disconcerted. “I want you two to get along today. No insults or anything, okay?”
“Yes ma’am!”
“You have mah word!”
“Good. So no insults,” said Fluttershy before turning to Ash and muttering into his ear, “I give it ten minutes into the game before they’re at each other’s necks.”
Ash’s eyes went up in mock surprise. “Why Fluttershy, I didn’t see you as a gambler! Betting is a fool’s game!” he declared while sidling up next to her and murmuring, “I give it five.”
Ash noticed that gaming began to change Fluttershy’s personality, but he had yet to witness the full-extent of the change. Right then, it was pretty insignificant anyways.
The two shook hooves and smirked, each confident of their own victory. Meanwhile, Rarity and Applejack had released each other immediately afterwards and gone back to setting up the machine for their game, but neither was very experienced with the functioning of the Xbox, and thus remained unsuccessful. Fluttershy trotted up to the Xbox and inserted the disk, which she had been holding for the whole time, and the machine began to load the disk. Rarity and Applejack watched with a bit of awe before realizing nothing was happening.
“Uh sugarcube, shouldn’t we be seeing something on the screen?” asked Applejack hesitantly. She was out of her element after all, not know the slightest thing about what Fluttershy was doing.
“Oops, I forgot to turn it on,” replied Fluttershy sheepishly, extending a hoof and pushing the TV’s ‘on’ button. The
screen slowly flickered to life, displaying the Xbox menu, which Fluttershy skimmed by with well-practiced ease, maneuvering to the selection she wanted and entering it, the game loading slowly.
The mares and Ash waited in suspense as the screen faded to black, and then a picture appeared of a pony with a gear stuck in the back of his head, and the word Valve in the corner.
“Creepy…” murmured Rarity as Applejack nodded in agreement.
“It gets better,” assured Fluttershy as Ash stared at the screen in fascination. After all, if you’re traveling most of your life,
you wouldn’t have much experience or knowledge about things like this.
The logo faded away as the screen flashed again, only this time to reveal a menu.
“Uh sugarcube? What’s all that mean?” asked Applejack, pointing at the screen.
“Well that’s-“
“Why Applejack it’s so obvious as to what that is! It’s the main menu!” interrupted Rarity. The orange earth pony glared at her as she smiled innocently.
“Not even two minutes in and I’m winning,” whispered Ash to Fluttershy.
“Oh be quiet!” replied Fluttershy with mock disapproval, hitting him lightly with her hoof. Ash then decided he’d have a little fun.
“Ahh! Oh, the pain!” moaned Ash as he fell to the floor, foreleg holding where Fluttershy had hit him. “It hurts so badly! Why would you do this to me Fluttershy! WHY?”
“Wha- Ash, no! I’m so sorry, do you need a bandage? Ice? Anything?” asked Fluttershy frantically, already opening a
bag full of medical supplies. Rarity and Applejack turned and snickered silently to themselves. Fluttershy may be the most caring pony they knew, but it didn’t mean it wasn’t entertaining once in a while to see her pranked. Unless it was too badly, like with Gilda. Then they’d step in…
Fluttershy grabbed a long, sharp needle and tapped it with her hoof, and turned to Ash. “Okay Ash, this will hurt a lot. I’m sorry, but I need to know how badly I injured you, and it’s easiest to do that if you’re unconscious. So, night night!”
She grasped it between her teeth and moved slowly towards Ash, who saw and immediately leapt up, protesting.
“I’m fine Fluttershy, see! I was kidding! I can walk and everything!” shouted Ash, jumping up and down to show her.
“Oh, now you’re hallucinating you’re okay. I might need to inject two needles to keep you down long enough,” said Fluttershy with a smile.
“No it’s okay. No, stop, I’m fine! FLUTTERSHY PUT THE NEEDLE DOWN!” Ash demanded.
Fluttershy actually stopped for a moment and thought as Ash sighed in relief.
“Uh…..nope,” said Fluttershy, advancing on him again.
“Oh good I thou-Wait what!?”
But it was too late. Fluttershy leapt towards him and Ash cringed in terror, closing his eyes as he felt a light body impact against him and straddled him. He clenched his teeth as he imagined the insane Fluttershy stabbing into his side with that long needle…and how badly that would hurt…and if she would please stop laughing like an insane doctor…
Why is she laughing if she hasn’t done it yet anyways?
Ash opened his eyes to another pair of wide teal eyes staring back at him. The teal ones reflected nothing but amusement and laughter.
“…I know I said this earlier, but you are an evil pony Fluttershy. An evil pony.”
“I know,” said Fluttershy happily.
The two stayed in that position for a few moments, with Fluttershy lying on Ash’s back and holding him down.
Meanwhile, Applejack and Rarity had become bored of watching the duo and went back to playing. With neither knowing how to play, they chose single-player mode and started a new game, alternating players on what the game called “test chambers”.
“Fluttershy, can you get off me?” asked Ash after a few minutes of watching Rarity fail and rage at ‘Wheatley’ for being an idiot, and Applejack slowly shifting away.
“Nope!” responded Fluttershy cheerfully.
“What do you mean “nope”?”
“Well, last time I checked, nope was a term expressing dissent or denial. Which I am doing to you right now.”
“Fluttershy, don’t make me sic my Pokémon on you. You know I’ll do it,” threatened Ash.
“No you won’t. One, because your Pokémon are all downstairs, Pikachu’s with Spike at Twilight’s, and you’d never attack me,” said Fluttershy with an innocent stare.
Ash cursed to himself. Even if he expected no danger, he should always have at least one Pokémon on him. But it
wasn’t him to sic his Pokémon on people anyways…or in this case, ponies.
“And two,” listed Fluttershy with an evil grin. “You know you like me on top of you.”
Ash, Rarity, Applejack, and the viewer audience all made a collective gasp, immediately followed by “WHAT?!”
Ash’s face literally exploded in red as he buried his head in his hooves, covering his ears. Rarity and Applejack stared at their friend’s forward approach in astonishment, Rarity actually holding her hoof over her mouth and attempting not to faint. Applejack actually just looked slightly green.
“Flut-Fluttershy! Don’t say things like that!” Ash squeaked out.
“And why not?” asked Fluttershy, slowly moving her head towards his, nuzzling his neck and whispering in his ear. “You know you enjoy it…”
“No I do not!” said Ash, his voice nearly high enough to be perceivable only by bats and particular gossip-loving ponies. “Please get off!”
“What?”
“I said please get off!”
“Beg.”
“What? No I will not beg!”
“Then I won’t get off. Simple as that Ashy boy, simple as that.”
Ash silently steamed at the Ashy boy comment, and vowed that Fluttershy would get off him whether she wanted to or
not.
“Okay Fluttershy, you asked for it. I asked you nicely, but I guess the gloves…or whatever you ponies use to keep your
hooves warm…are off! It’s no more Mr. Nice Pony!” yelled Ash as he pushed mightily off the ground and bucked
Fluttershy off his back.
Well, that was what he intended to do. Instead, he just fell back to the ground with a ‘thump’ and a wince of pain.
“Ooh…Geez Fluttershy, you have leg muscles of steel…”
“Thank you.”
“Now will you get off me then? I paid you a compliment! Will you kindly remove your posterior from my body and allow me the ability to move freely again?”
“Hmmm….lot of big words…but still no.”
Ash sighed. Fluttershy seemed intent on keeping him there…
Meanwhile, Dream Region
“Sup Celestia!” called a voice.
“Hey Arceus,” the white ethereal maned quadruped responded. Arceus noticed she was pretty focused on something, waving her hooves around as her horn flashed occasionally.
“What are you doing?”
“What? Oh this, it’s awesome! You remember Fluttershy, right?”
“Of course! Hard to miss her….actually, I take that back, it’s nearly impossible to catch her unless you knew she was there. It’s like ‘Where’s Waldo’ for my sake!”
“Where’s Waldo?” Celestia questioned.
“Oh, it’s an excellent game we have back in my world! You see, there’s a little human man, and he’s wearing a little red and white striped hat and sweater, and he’s in a group of hundreds of other humans and things, and you have to find him!” replied Arceus enthusiastically.
“Sounds like a game we have in our dimension. We call it ‘Finding Fluttershy’! When she was a model, she was all the rage, and some ponies just took advantage of the craze and made it a game,” said Celestia thoughtfully.
“Sounds like a hard enough game in real life!” chortled Arceus. “I’ve noticed, if that little pegasus doesn’t want to be found, it’s damn near impossible to find her.”
Celestia poked him in the chest. “Watch your language mister! You may be my friend, but I still don’t want to hear that language from you!”
Arceus rolled his eyes and smirked. “Or what?”
Celestia only smiled and pointed to the object she had been focusing on. “Or that.” Arceus inspected what seemed to
be a small pool of water, only with live video.
“Huh…didn’t know water could get cable…” muttered Arceus in thought. That earned him a whack on the head. “You suck Celestia!”
She motioned him to turn back. “Keep watching.”
“What exactly am I watching? Is that Ash and Fluttershy?”
“Yep.”
“And is Fluttershy…oh no, what are you doing to her? That’s just…oh me…that’s just gross!”
“Yeah, so watch your tone with me! I can make you do that easily.”
“Well that’s just weird and wrong!’ retorted Arceus.
“Well I was bored!” whined Celestia.
“Still, that’s wrong! Release her at once!” demanded Arceus with all the authority he could muster, stamping his hoof for dramatic effect. It worked well, with the stone underneath him rippling with power and the walls trembling. Celestia
would be sure to listen to him.
“No.”
“Good. Okay then, we’ll- Wait, what?”
“I said no. It amuses me,” said Celestia, crossing her forelegs and sitting down.
“I don’t care about your amusement! We have to keep Ash sane and intact, and your silly pranks may scar him for life!”
“Well it’s too late. I put a spell on Fluttershy releasing one of her alternate personalities, and only I can choose to change her back. So there,” said Celestia, sticking her tongue out at him.
“Well two can play at that game!” shouted Arceus, sending his wheels spinning.
“Arceus, what are you doing?” asked Celestia nervously.
“Well…” Arceus grunted. “If you’re going to do that to Fluttershy….I’ll just have to…give you…. a taste of… your… own…
MEDICINE!”
Light erupted from his body as it enveloped Celestia, who cried out-
“Arceus, when I get back to normal you are so dead!”
Arceus merely raised his forelegs to his side and calmly said, “Come at me brony.”
“That was a terrible excuse of wordplaaaaaayyyy…..”
Finally, Celestia’s voice faded away, and the light dissipated. Arceus looked and saw Celestia standing there, looking
perfectly normal.
“Huh, I wonder if it even worked. Hey Celestia!”
The alicorn slowly turned towards him, an evil gleam in her dangerous looking eyes. She stalked towards his frozen body ever so slowly.
“Uh Celestia? What are you doing?”
“Well, in about a minute…” she whispered into his ear. “…you.”
“No! No, back away! Do not touch that! DO NOT! Back I tell you! BAAACK!!”
Back in Fluttershy’s house
Fluttershy blinked slowly, her eyes adjusting to the light.
“Ooh, my head…why does it hurt so badly? I’ll just lay down on this nice soft pillow..”
She put her head down and crinkled her nose at the warmness of her pillow. How it felt nice, with some coarse edges but overall softness, and how it smelled like Ash….
“Mmmm….Ashy…”
“Er…yeah?”
Fluttershy’s eyes shot open again as she looked down and saw Ash lying there, looking up at her with a pleading look in his eyes. With an audible ‘eep!’ she rolled off of him and scrambled to a nearby table, frantically whispering to herself with a visible red hue to her face.
Ash sighed in relief as he stood up and stretched out all the kinks in his back from Fluttershy. He looked accusingly at the two ponies that were now playing what looked like ‘Cooperative Mode’ on the TV.
“You two could have at least helped!”
“Ah’m busy,” yelled Applejack, shooting an orange portal into the top of the ceiling in the game as Rarity’s player ducked into it and they finished the level.
“As am I darling. This game is simply magnificent! The colors, the puzzles, the intricate details!” gushed Rarity.
“Plus,” added in Applejack. “We never get in the way of Fluttershy if she wants something. Have you seen the Stare?”
“The Stare?”
“Well, it’s this… stare Fluttershy does to make basically anything listen to her.”
“That’s ridiculous!”
“It took down a full-grown dragon.”
“…not so ridiculous!”
“Yep.”
Ash felt a soft hoof nudge his shoulder and glanced into Fluttershy’s eyes.
“Hey, what’s up?”
“……”
“What? I couldn’t hear you…”
“I’m sorry…..”
Ash asked again, his voice completely void of sarcasm. “I honestly don’t know what you’re saying. Can you talk louder?”
Fluttershy wailed and dived into a thoroughly surprised Ash’s arms. “I’m sorry for how I acted! I don’t even know what came over me! I’ll understand if you never want to see me again…”
She began to hover in the air and started to fly away, tears threatening to form before Ash gently grabbed her hoof and pulled her back down.
Ash smiled at her and pulled her head up to look directly into his eyes. “Now Fluttershy, what kind of idea is that? Why would I never want to see you again?”
“Because I’m a perverted monster! I’m horrible! Just like when Iron Will came-“
Ash remembered that day…..not the best memory.
Last week
Ash wandered around town, looking for something to do. He’d actually found a job as a moving pony as a temporary job, but he and his Pokémon were enjoying it. He was thinking about maybe helping Fluttershy with her animals, but he didn’t want to take that time away from her.
He’d just finished moving a nice couple of mares into their house. He’d gotten used to the idea of mares together
rather quickly, considering the fact that he had grown up in a dimension where it wasn’t the norm.
“Thanks Ash!” called the mint-green unicorn, Lyra. “I enjoyed our human discussions! Can I see your Pokémon later?”
“Lyra!” scolded the second mare, a white mare with a striped mane. Bon-Bon, if Ash recalled correctly. “How old are you?”
“Four!” came the cheery response.
“Urgh….look what I have to deal with here Ash!” complained Bon-Bon. “Can you sic some of your Pokémon on them to make her shut up?”
Ash chuckled. “Sorry Bon-Bon, no can do. I’m busy all day. Plus, I think my Pokémon enjoy Lyra’s presence for some odd reason.”
“Somepony besides me enjoys Lyra’s company?” gasped Bon-Bon theatrically. “Lyra, do you know what this means?”
Lyra jerked her eyes away from the clouds and turned back to Bon-Bon. “What?”
“It means you might have friends!”
“Oh ha ha Bon-Bon. You’re hilarious.”
“And that’s why you fell for me,” murmured her marefriend, nuzzling her.
“Ew…that’s so cheesy. But so true...” said Lyra back, resting her head on Bon-Bon’s.
The two stood like that for quite some time before Ash interrupted awkwardly and the two tipped him nicely and went inside their house as Ash walked around.
“Huh, what to do….” he muttered to himself. “Eh. I guess I’ll go find Fluttershy.”
Ash spotted a crowd in the distance and wondered what it was. He was about to find out when a goat rudely walked into him.
“Oof, excuse me sir,” said Ash.
“Shut up kid, I’m busy working,” responded the goat arrogantly.
Ash silently steamed, but pretended to ignore him and tried to walk by. But the insufferable goat got into his way again.
“Get out!” Ash demanded, starting to feel his Aura flare up the smallest bit.
“Whatcha gonna do about it kid? Hit me? You don’t have the gu-“
That’s about as far as he got before he was flung into the air by a certain pink and yellow pegasus pony.
“YOU DO NOT MESS WITH MY FRIENDS! DO YOU HEAR ME?”
The goat merely whimpered and curled up in a fetal position. Ash was also fairly sure that if the goat had been wearing pants (if anyone wore pants in Equestria) then they would be wet all down the front. Heck, he was kinda scared!
“I SAID DO YOU HEAR ME?”
“Y-y-yes miss…”
“Good. Now go!”
The goat scrambled away and ran for the hills, presumably to never be seen again. (He actually resurfaced later as an evil super villain intent on taking revenge on Fluttershy and the brown earth pony with the hat, but that’s a story for another time).
Ash flashed a nervous smile to Fluttershy and said “Thanks…Although there were slightly better ways that could have been handl-“
“No need for your thanks Ash! Assertiveness is what I do!” she proclaimed, as she proceeded to hail a cab, have a pony cut her in line, throw said pony out of said cab, and zoom away.
Ash shook his head to get out of his flashback, and silenced her with a hoof to her mouth. “Now Fluttershy, there’s a big difference between changing your personality completely and changing it temporarily. You’ve just changed a little, but every time, you changed back to the Fluttershy we all know and love.”
Fluttershy’s heart skipped a beat. “He said he loves me! Well, not technically, but it’s implied!”
Fluttershy slowly drifted off as Ash continued on before he noticed her unfocused eyes and ‘looking off into space and imagining what Luna would be doing if she was still there’ look on her face.
“Fluttershy?”
“Wha-? Oops, sorry….got distracted,” said Fluttershy apologetically.
“By what?”
“Um…..Rarity and Applejack’s playing!”
Applejack turned to Fluttershy. “Sugarcube, we stopped playing once Ash began giving his wonderful speech…”
Rarity dabbed an eye. “It was truly heart-stirring Ash…”
Ash blushed as Fluttershy silently became angry with herself for missing the amazing sections of Ash’s speech.
“Well Fluttershy…..stay? Come on, nopony here wants you to leave and be miserable.” He raised an arm to motion her to him. “Come here. Come on.”
Fluttershy hesitantly trotted over to Ash, who spread an arm over her shoulder and squeezed her tightly. “There there….come on Fluttershy, I’m not mad. In fact, I found that pretty hot…”
Fluttershy gasped and turned away.
“I’m kidding! Ponies can’t take a joke like humans can, huh?”
Fluttershy nodded and moved herself closer to Ash, feeling his warmth envelop her. She knew right then that this was the moment to tell him her feelings. She’d never have a better moment. She had the opportunity during Hearts and Hooves Day....but it was still too awkward to tell a colt you just met you think you’re falling for him…but now…
“Ash, I have something to tell you…” she began.
“Go for it. After all, what are friends for?”
“What are friends for….”
The words repeated themselves over and over in her head. Fluttershy’s heart broke as she heard him say the words no pony ever wants to hear from their secret crush.
“He thinks I’m only a friend….nothing more, even after I’ve fallen for him harder than anypony …”
Fluttershy began to feel moisture well up in her eyes and she began tasting saltiness in her mouth.
Stifling a sob, she managed to say “Ash, I…I have to go somewhere. Don’t follow me… I’ll talk to you later.”
“What? Why-“
But it was too late. She was gone.
He turned to Rarity and Applejack. “What just happened?”
The two mares only shook their heads and sighed, putting down the game controllers and shutting off the system. Ash had to figure this one out…alone.
Depressing end to a section…..well to me at least. Anyways, to brighten things up a bit, let’s go back to Arceus and Celestia!
Dream Region
“No, I am not putting that on.”
“I can make you Arcy….you’d look pretty sexy….”
“Eww! No! That’s just wrong Celestia!” Arceus said forcefully. “I’m changing you back to normal!”
Blasting her away from him with enough damage to knock her out, he quickly harnessed his energy and sent golden light enveloping her again. After the light disappeared, Celestia opened her eyes looking dazed.
“Ugh…Arceus, you freakin’ suck! I’m going to kill you!” she screamed as she lunged towards Arceus, arms extended in a deadly embrace.
“AAHH!!” bellowed Arceus, running for what he believed was his life from the insane alicorn coming after him. “Wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP!”
Arceus tried to force himself awake, but it didn’t work. “Crap!”
“Oh no Arceus, things are going to get a lot worse from here!” yelled Celestia.
Arceus wheeled around, only to receive a faceful of alicorn falling onto him and pinning him to the floor face up. He groaned in pain as he felt Celestia’s full weight heavily slam him into the ground.
“Ooooh…..why Celly….why?” moaned Arceus.
“That’s what you get for trying to cast spells on me!” shrieked Celestia.
“No, I meant why are you so damn heavy? OW! Damn it, I need that leg for walking!”
Celestia punched him in the stomach. “You have three more.”
“Ow! That’s not the point; it’s the principle of the thing….hey wait! What do you mean by try? It worked perfectly!”
He glanced at Celestia’s face, noticing her attempting to hide her expression and remain stoic.
“What do you mean, try?” asked Arceus in a serious tone.
“Weeeelllll......”
“What. Do. You. Mean.”
Celestia whispered as she moved closer to Arceus. “Maybe I never changed personalities in the first place….”
“Wait…you mean, when you did that thing when you moved and made me do that thing with my….Oh me…You’re a sick, sick pony! You make me feel all dirty!”
“….I know,” she responded sultrily, inching closer to him. “So since you’re dirty, you won’t mind if I” –she licked his ear and he shuddered in both fear and (he’d deny this forever) arousal- “clean you up a bit?”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
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Celestia winced as she gingerly moved around. “Ouch Arceus, there was really no need to unleash the elemental powers of every possible thing in your world on me!”
“YOU WERE TRYING TO EAT ME!!!”
“….”
“….”
“…so?”
That awkward moment when your best friend attempts to eat you.
And there it is! Sad Fluttershy and strangely aroused Arceus.
…..Not gonna lie, I felt weird writing this chapter.
(Also, some of you may think Fluttershy overreacted. But this is a pony that’s scared of her own shadow at some points and is completely inexperienced with romance)