//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Fluttershy // Story: Princess Changeling Rainbow Magic Pants // by Justice3442 //------------------------------// Princess Changeling Rainbow Magic Pants Chapter 3: Fluttershy -ooo- Magic Pants, her magical, dark, shining fur glistening in the sunlight, pointed out towards Ponyville. “I’ve spotted another element bearer! We must make haste!” Twilight’s face tightened slightly. “Okay, but you still haven’t explained—” Magic Pants suddenly, but majestically, bolted from her cloud off towards the town. “HAAAAAASTE!” she cried as her gossamer wings shimmered brilliantly in the sun. “Oh dear…” Twilight uttered as she broke into a gallop after her, Applejack close behind. Applejack began to chant to herself. “Don’t be Fluttershy, don’t be Fluttershy, don’t be Fluttershy…” The mares galloped as fast as their hooves would carry them as they kept an eye on the being that shimmered with a magic light flying above them. As Twilight and Applejack crested a hill, they heard Magic Pants’s melodious voice above them. “Ah! The element of kindness!” Magic Pants announced in her harpsichord-esque voice. No sooner had Applejack spotted the butter-colored pegasus looking from side to side with a slightly confused look than she shouted, “Don’t look, Fluttershy!” “MEEP!” Fluttershy cried as she quickly fell to her stomach and covered her eyes with her forehooves. Applejack breathed a sigh of relief. “Thank Celestia we found you, Fluttershy,” Twilgiht said. “We need you for… uhhh…”  “… What sounds like a talking harpsichord?” Fluttershy asked. Applejack sighed. “It’s Magic Pants…” “… Magical talking Pants?” Fluttershy said. “No,” Twilight said. “She’s like… uh… a pony?” “… Erm… Like a pony?” Fluttershy asked. “Yes,” Applejack said. “Like… a big pony that’s been blended with a bunch of other stuff.” “… Like Discord?” Fluttershy suggested. Applejack paused and thought about this. “Well, it’s more like Discord was also thrown in with the big pony and the other stuff. Like when you’re makin’ apple surprise, and it’s mostly apples —which is the pony parts in this here case— but then Discord and a buncha other things get in there.” “Oh…uh… erm… okay…” Fluttershy said. Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Applejack, that made basically no sense.” Applejack wrinkled her muzzle at Twilight. “Hey! Do you know how hard it is to come up with a different farm simile e’ry time you have to make an example?!” Twilight rolled her eyes. “Have you tried not inserting the fact you work on a farm into every conversation you have?!” “Uh…” Fluttershy uttered, her forehooves still over her eyes. “Should I start crawling away? This is getting kind of awkward for me… You know… more than usual.” “Friends!” Magic Pants said as her face shined with infinite concern for the situation. “Shall I intervene? I have plenty of forgiveness spray for everypony!” Twilight and Applejack cringed and as their faces tightened as if being sucked towards their muzzles’. “We’re fine!” Twilight said as she quickly threw a leg around Applejack. Applejack nodded her head up and down vigorously. “Why, we’re better friends than a cow and a milking machine!” “Ew! A.J.!” Twilight exclaimed as she quickly removed her foreleg from around Applejack's shoulder and gave her a slightly disgusted look. “Hey!” Applejack protested. “That was a good one and you know it!” Twilight raised an eyebrow. “I think it oversells the nature of our relationship just a bit.” “What?!” Applejack cried. “I’m jus’ saying our friendship is like a doohickey one sticks underneath them that sucks and massages away all the pressures of life.” Twilight face went crimson. “Uh… girls?” Fluttershy uttered. “Can I at least uncover my eyes so I know which way to run away from this conversation?” Applejack and Twilight sighed. “Maybe she should just look for herself,” Twilight suggested. Applejack shook her head. “Ah still don’t think this is such a good idea…” “Oh relax,” Twilight said. “Fluttershy is used to all kinds of things others consider scary. Remember the manticore?” Applejack raised an eyebrow. “I do. I also distinctly remember no one throwing up when they saw it. Heck… Rarity ran right up and kicked it in the face. I don’t think—” “Fear not!” Magic Pants said, her voice echoing melodiously in the warm Ponyville day. “The element of kindness is very accepting, and though I am nothing special to look at, I’m sure she will befriend me immediately,” said the very humble, but still beautiful rainbow-maned mare. Applejack rolled her eyes. “Right, cause it sounds like a good idea to listen to the strange mare who looks like Los Pegasus after an earthquake.” “Applejack!” Twilight said in a chastising tone. “That’s not nice! Magic Pants can’t help the way she looks!” Magic Pants opened her stunningly good-looking word hole. “Actually, as part changeling—” “Anyhow, we shouldn’t pass judgment based on how Magic Pants looks,” Twilight said as she pulled her face into a look of slight panic. Her eyes still covered, Fluttershy nodded. “Oh yes! Just because something looks different, doesn’t mean there’s reason to be afraid.” Applejack sighed. “Arlight… jus’… Don’t say I didn’t warn ya…” Fluttershy uncovered her eyes and stood up, staring straight into Magic Pants’s beautiful eyes. Her right eye had turned pink to signify Magic Pants’s heartfelt joy at meeting Fluttershy. “Hello, element of kindness!” Magic Pants said as she smiled inspiringly at Fluttershy. “I am so glad to make your acquaintance.” Fluttershy took one look at Magic Pants, smiled warmly… “BLAAARAARAAAAGRGHGHGURRGLEGARAAAAAGRAAAA…!” … and lost her lunch. “Consarn it!” Applejack cried as she quickly took off her hat and threw it on the ground. “Oh, come on!” Twilight exclaimed. Applejack shook her head as she reached down for her cowboy hat. “Ah honestly can’t believe you expected anything else to happen.” Twilight looked up towards the sky and let out an exasperated “UHHHHHG!” She looked back down at Fluttershy. “Fluttershy, we just—” “BLUHHGHGHGHGCH…!” “WE JUST WANT TO—” “GLLLAARAARAAGHGH…!” “PLEASE! JUST STOP LONG ENOUGH TO—” “BAAAARPHPHRAAGHGHGHCHCH…!” Twilight sighed. “Never mind…” “BRAAGHGHARAGHGHARRRAGHHAAAARRRRPHCHCHCHCRAAARRAPGFFFFAAAAAR…!” “Hey!” Applejack said. “Maybe Pinkie can help! I mean…. If anyone can put up with weirdness, it’s her.” Twilight looked up to the sky thoughtfully and tapped her chin. “Good thinking, App—” “GLARPH…!” “Oh come on!” Twilight exclaimed angrily as she turned towards Fluttershy. “I’m not even…” “ERGRERRPHAARRRRFFF…!” Twilight sighed. “Let’s just go…” “RAAGRAAARAPHFFFRAAAACHCHC…!”