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// Epilogue: Derpy Delivers the Mail 
// Story: Fear and Loathing in Las Pegasus 
// by VitalSpark 
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Since moving to Ponyville from Las Pegasus, Derpy didn't really have any friends. Her little sister Ditzy came to visit her once in a while, but it was lonely when she was on her own.

She had her job, controlling weather fronts in the Ponyville area. (It was useful to be able to keep an eye on a warm front and a cold front at the same time.) But she didn't really interact much with the other pegasi who were always busy shuffling about the clouds, a job that Derpy Hooves could never manage with her poor judgement of distances.

One day, while sitting on a bench in the town square, looking glum, a bright pink earth pony bounced up to her. "Why so sad?" asked the stranger.

"I'm not sad," said Derpy, "just a bit bored. My job only takes a few minutes each day, and I don't really have much else to do. I don't know anypony around here to hang out with."

"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie," said the earth pony, "now you know me! Squee!"

"I suppose I do," replied Derpy.

"As your new best friend, can I ask you a special best friend favour?" queried Pinkie.

"I don't have anything else to do. Why not?" said Derpy.

"Can you deliver this letter for me?" asked Pinkie, stretching her neck and using her best grin. She placed an envelope in Derpy's hoof.

"Yes, I suppose so," said Derpy, her eye scanning the envelope, "who is this Sunshower Raindrops? Where do I find her?"

But when she looked up, Pinkie Pie was nowhere to be seen.

"Great!" thought Derpy.

Derpy walked around the town square, looking for somepony who looked like they might be called Sunshower Raindrops. "What kind of pony would a pony called Sunshower Raindrops be?" she thought to herself. This was no way to find her.

Using all of her courage, the shy grey mare approached a brown stallion with an egg timer cutie mark. "Excuse me," she asked, "do you know where I can find Sunshower Raindrops?"

"No," replied the stallion, "but from her name, she sounds like a pegasus. Try asking Blossomforth over there. She might know." He gestured across the market to a pretty grey pony with a pink and green mane.

"Thanks," said Derpy.

Blossomforth didn't know, but directed her to a cloud where a couple of other pegasi were resting. Flitter and her sister knew Sunshower, but didn't have any idea where she was. They told her that Orange Swirl was better friends with Sunshower. When Derpy found Orange Swirl, she said that she'd heard from Berryshine that she'd seen Sunshower on the way to work that morning.

After meeting half the pegasi in Ponyville, as well as plenty of earth ponies and unicorns too, Derpy finally tracked down the elusive Sunshower Raindrops and delivered the letter.

Sunshower opened the letter. It read:



This pegasus is bored. Please find her something fun to do. Love, Pinkie.



Sunshower blinked, and then smiled. "Thanks for delivering this message," she said, "Do you think I could ask you another favour?"

"Sure," said Derpy.

"I'm supposed to be helping some ponies move house. Could you lend me a hoof for a while?"

"Great!" exclaimed Derpy enthusiastically, "helping ponies do their jobs is fun!"