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// 78 - Bonus Chapter: Quiet as a Fluttershy (non-canon) 
// Story: Synch 
// by sunnypack 
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Non-Canon just so you know.

Fluttershy knew Elder Gods. Apparently, she hooked up with a few of them and they taught her some neat tricks like ‘The Stare’ and how to tame any animal. She managed to become a part of Gruff’s network after being tipped off by a certain omniscient being that the fate of the world apparently was held in the balance on my own two hands.

“Quick!” she squeaked, waving an urgent hoof at me. “Over here!”

She pointed to a black hole that had formed to our right.

“Luna, are you seeing this?” I asked her, my words coming out measured and slow.

Luna was too busy gaping at Fluttershy.

“How-“ was all she got out before we were dragged into a different dimension.

“Woah, what the-“

I was interrupted by a deafening roar as a ten metre tall cougar carrying a massive chainsaw clashed with a gigantic tiger dual-wielding two katanas.

“This is just too weird”, I commented, unable to think straight.

The two massive predators clashed with each other sending massive sparks flying around and bathing the region with an orange glow. It was strangely beautiful and terrifying, kind of like looking at a nuclear explosion.

Luna tugged at my arm.

“Isn’t that going to drain the Tree?” I asked her.

“Different universe, different rules”, she shot back as we were sucked through a portal again.

We arrived at a desolate scene.

Buildings were dilapidated, wood was rotting, and cars were wrecked and abandoned everywhere. I would have been excited because it looked so much like Earth, but the abandoned abodes were creeping me out.

I heard a distant scream.

“Ah!! They’re coming! They’re coming, run for your lives!” I heard, as a pony dashed out of the alleyway followed by a horde of the undead.

You heard right. Zombies.

Nope, nope, nope! I thought to myself desperately shaking Fluttershy.

She was muttering to herself.

“I can fix this, I can fix this, I can fix this, oh my, oh my, oh my”, she repeated to herself.

“Fluttershy!” I screamed as the undead were rapidly gaining upon us.

“Got it! Fluttershy yelled, as much as the timid pegasus could.

The strange rip occurred again and we were flung into a different world.

“Hey, thanks for saving my hindquarters”, I heard a voice say.

I groaned. We’d picked up a passenger.

“Thou didn’t even charge thee”, Luna grumbled somehow blaming me. She was strangely okay in most part for a pony dragged on an inter-universal adventure but she was slipping back into her old speech. I think it’s a stress thing.

“Well we can’t send her back”, I said, as the mare relaxed.

“What’s your name?” I asked, addressing the panicking mare, I’d talk to Fluttershy getting us back home but it seems like she was tinkering with causality and the nature of space-time so I didn’t want to interrupt her.

“I’m First”, she replied.

“What?”

“First Aid”, she muttered, looking exasperated.

I chuckled as she gave me a look that could have evaporated bitumen.

“Okay, okay, First”, I consoled. “Tag along, I think you’re in for a heck of a ride.”

And that was how Equestria was made.