Moments later after filling in with Lord Hater, Lil’ Bits carefully descended upon the planet that she found. She landed her ship in a cluster trees nearby where her tracker’s signal was and even cloaked it so she wouldn’t be spotted. After taking the necessary precautions, she ventured out away from her ship’s hidden location; carrying her bag of surprises and following the signal of her tracker. She soon found herself amongst a field of apple trees knowing that she was getting close.
“Just wook at this place; appwe twees as faw as the eyes can see. What is this, an appwe farm?” Suddenly feeling curious, Lil’ Bits swiped an apple from one of the trees and tasted it. Her eyes suddenly went wide as she savored what she was tasting and then swallowed. She looked at the rest of the apple in her hand in amazement; but then she just shook it off as she continued to eat it, “N-n-not bad. Its not wike I haven’t tasted an apple before.”
Lil’ Bits continued to follow the trail that her tracking device was taking focusing on her true goal. “I’m getting cwoser. Soon, I’ll finawy get my wevenge and get what I want. I won’t wet what happened wast time happen to me again.”
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After twicking that Hater with my cute wooks and escaping fwom his towtuwe for faiwing him, I took some time to think things over… and to give him time to coow down. Once I was weady, I came back to him pweading for a second chance to capture his enemies. But as expected, he wasn’t vewy happy to see me.
“Well well, look who came crawling back… and without an invitation!”
“Pwease, Word Hater; couwd you just give me another chance to hunt down your two most wanted enemies and brwing them to you for their bounties?”
“Hmmm… what’s the word I’m looking for? Oh yeah; forget it! You had your chance and failed miserably! Watch Dogs… take out the trash.”
I was suddenwy suwounded by Hater’s henchmen who were fixed to fowow orders and thwow me out. I twied to be nice, but now I had to show my nasty side. They all thought that they had the advantage because of their numbers, but I took them aww out before they all knew what hit them. The look on Hater’s face was pwiceless.
“What the…!”
Sure… I was being crazy, but I was despewate. There was no way that I was going to take no for an answer.
“Wisten, Word Hater; I twied to ask nicewy, but I guess you wanted your whole wrew to be knocked out. I wished to twy and captuwe Wander and Sywvia for their bounties again. I pwomise you… I won’t fail this time.”
Hater wooked quite impwessed of how I took out aww of his men at once. Either they let their guawd down or they were weally weak.
“Wow, so… you’re really determined to collect those two’s bounties, aren’t you?”
“It’s not just about the bounty anymore, it’s awso now pewsonal. I will not awow that stubborn zbornak, Sywvia to get away with making me wook wike a fool! Once I captuwe her, it will be aww thw sweeter.”
Pwetty soon… I got the answer I wanted.
“Fine, you can have another chance since you’re so eager to do so. But just remember… bring both of them to me alive; that includes Sylvia as awell. Undnderstand that?”
“Thank you so much, Word Hater. This time I pwomise… you won’t be disappointed.”
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“And what I said then was 100% positive. If I don’t catch my pwey this time, I don’t desewve to be a bounty hunter. I’ww get those two no matter what.”
Lil’ Bits kept following the signal’s path past more fields of Apple Trees; enough that almost made her sick to her stomach. But then she eventually atop a small hill; and from there, she suddenly caught the sight of a 2 story house and a single farmhouse; she couldn’t believe it.
“N-no way; this is an apple fawm! You’ve got to be kidding me. Well… nevermind that, Wander and Sywvia must be down thewe somewhere. They can’t hide fwom me now.”
Lil’ Bits smirked as she slowly went down to the farm grounds and was looking around for any signs of her target. But so far she had no luck.
“Whewe the heck awe they? Work, ya dawn wadar!”
But suddenly, she heard some heavy steps coming in her direction. A huge shadow was aproaching Lil’ Bits’ location and lightly startled her. Trying not to draw too much attention to herself, she hid under a nearby wagon and watched as she suddenly saw a huge, red stallion with a light-orange mane walk by.
“Th-th-that’s… a big… pony.” she said staring amazment, “He looks... kinda hunky too.” She then shook her head to clear her mind, “Ugh, what am I doing?! This is no time to google over creatures I don’t even know.” After a few seconds, the stallion she saw was gone and she was free to come out of hiding, “Okay the coast is clear.” She then to wander around the farm until her tracker took her into a certian direction, “About time it works properly. Based on this, Wander and Sylvia went down this path. looks like we’re back on track.”
She just stood there showing an evil smile feeling great of her soon to be accomplishment. But just then, another shadow sudden loomed over Lil’ Bits body. She froze as she suddenly hear a lowly growl that sounded so familiar to her ears. “Oh no.” She slowly turned around and her entire body went white as she saw a brown and white collie looking down at her baring her fangs. “Eep.”
With one mighty bark, the dog sent Lil’ Bits running for her life. She screeched as the dog was chasing her; but Lil’ Bits was not thinking clearly and wasn’t even striking back. “A dog! Why did there have to be a dog here?!”
Eventually, she ran up a nearby tree to escape from the dog and was clinging to a branch with her body vigorously shaking with fright. The dog had its paws up agaist the tree’s trunk while continuing to bark at the quivering cat. But then the same stallion that she saw earlier came walking up to the dog to settle it down.
“What’s up, Winona girl? Ya barkin’ at and chasin’ them squirrels again?"
The dog, Winona wagged her tail and was pointing her nose towards the top of the tree. The stallion smiled and guided her away from the tree towards the barn.
"Well come on, its time to feed ya anyway.”
Lil' Bits was still clinging on the tree feeling freaked out but also angered of her situation. “Wh-why... d-d-did I run away like that? I could’ve taken care of that situation easily. Man, I hate dogs.”
When the coast was clear, she came back down still slightly shaking, but then she just shook it off and continued to follow the signal trail. As she went down the trail, the signal got stronger and stronger; and pretty soon, she was finally on top of the signal.
“Finawy, I have them now. I shouwd be wight where they awe wight about… now.”
Lil’ Bits looked around and saw no one nearby. Just the dirt trail and some trees. She was becoming a bit impatient again wondering where Wander and Sylvia were.
“What; this can’t be wight,” she said tapping on her tracker screen, “According to this, they should be wight here; but I don’t see them!” She threw the tracker down and groaned, “Where are they?! They have to be here; but… where?!”
Just then at the corner of her eye, Lil’ Bits spotted something glimmering on the side of the path. She went over to it, and her eyes went wide upon seeing what it was.
“No way… it can’t be…”
But it was. She picked it up and saw that it was the same tracking bug that she planted on Sylvia. Her paw shook, and her eyes went narrow feeling her body tense up. and then she just shouted out in frustration…
“Are ya fweaking kidding me?! I put this on that stubborn beast for nothing?! Unbewievable!”
But suddenly, she began to pick up a strong scent from the bug and then picked up the scent in the air that led a trail in front.
“Heh, I fweaked out so much that I awmost fowgot that I have this baby. I’ll just sniff them out.” She took a little sniff on the ground, then a sly smile came on her face as she picked up the trail, “I got you now, Sywvia.”
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Meanwhile… Wander and Sylvia were following and walking with Fluttershy who was on her way to the main town of Ponyville. On the way there, she told them in short of the huge conflict they had against one who could have been their toughest opponent yet. Wander kinda wished that he was there to witness that huge occasion, but Sylvia on the other hand was kinda that they did missed it. She figured that they would have gotten in the way anyway.
Before long, they made it to the town and seeing it again brought a huge smile on Wander’s face. Seeing the many faces of the town again wandering, he suddenly stood up top of Sylvia’s head and shouted with a mighty voice…
“HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Ponyville!”
“Oh boy,” said Sylvia.
“Yer favorite intergalactic space duelin’ wanderers have returned! Shower us with yer praise as much as you want.”
Everyone that was nearby suddenly came over to Wander and Sylvia to greet them feeling glad that they were back.
“Yeah… yeah, we’re back;” said Sylvia with a slight smile, “no big deal.” She then felt a few little foals grab and tug on her tail from behind. She yelped a bit being caught of guard, and then looked back at them, “Hey, watch the tail; you don’t see me wanting to pull on yours, do ya?”
As everyone around them were trying to say hi to them, Wander stated, “Please please, contain your enthusiasm. There’s plenty of love and admiration to go around!”
“Speak for yourself,” said Sylvia as she held up her tail to Wander seeing some foals attached to it.
Pretty soon after most of the resident were clearing out, the Mayor of Ponyville approached the space duo wearing a light smile, “I see that you two have returned. Its quite nice to see you two again.”
“It a pleasure to be back, Miss Mayor Mare… um, mam’.” said Wander tipping his hat to her.
“Yeah, its good to be back,” said Sylvia as she dusted off her tail, “but maybe you should put a restraining order on some of those foals while we’re here.”
The Mayor just chuckled feeling that Sylvia was joking around, “Well, make yourselves welcome here. I’m sure Twilight and the others will be happy to see you two.”
“Later, Mayor!”
Fluttershy smiled seeing what was happening and felt pleased that everyone was treating Wander and Sylvia like their own kind and was showering them with friendship. “It definitely seems that everypony here hasn’t forgotten you two. Your presence here from before definitely made a huge impact on all of us.”
“How exactly;” stated Sylvia, “Wander’s little dedicated banjo number, or the fact that we led our number one enemy here and had him cause a lot of mayhem?”
“Um… b-both, I guess,” said Fluttershy nervously, “B-b-but don’t worry about what happened by accident, the fact is that you guys helped us out to send that bad guy packing. We think nothing less of you guys than what we thought before.”
As they all walked down deeper into the town, Wander and Sylvia suddenly noticed the burned and charred remains of a tree house.
“Um… isn’t that…” Sylvia started to say hesitantly.
But she didn’t have to finish her sentence as Fluttershy responded, “Yeah, Twilight’s old library; well… what’s left of it… a-after what happened.”
Wander was pretty shocked himself seeing the place destroyed. “Man, this Tirek guy sure must have been a real monster. What kind of bein’ would destroy such a vast place of knowledge?”
“The kind of being that threatens all of Equestria I guess,” Sylvia answered.
Suddenly, Fluttershy’s face lit back up as she saw her destination up ahead. “Ah, there’s the flower shop. I’m buying a bouquet of flowers as a birthday present for Princess Luna. I’m sure she’ll love it.”
Sylvia was abit unsure of that fact. “Are you sure a bouquet of flowers will be a good enough present for a full blown princess who probably has a lot of royalty-like stuff already?”
“Of course it will be, Sylvia!” Wander exclaimed, “Any present is a good present… as long as it comes from the heart.”
“And I had a feeling that you were going to say that; fair enough.”
After walking in the store, Fluttershy walked up to the store owner who knew exactly what she needed. “Ah, here for you flower bouquet order?”
“Indeed I am.”
“I’m on it!”
As that went on, Wander was looking all around the shop feeling shocked and attracted to all of the flowers that he saw. “Wow, look at all of these different flowers! Red ones, blue ones, yellow ones, green ones, black ones, purple ones, white ones, and… even some that I don’t even know about!”
Fluttershy overheard his excitement and decided to tell him, “Yes, well… did you know that there are over 400,000 types of flower species? That’s what I heard anyway.”
“400,000!!!? Wow, that’s amazing!”
“If you think that’s amazing,” said Sylvia with an impressed smirk, “try putting that number with the different flower species that we’ve seen across the galaxy.You’d need a book the size of pluto to fit all of those names in.”
The little group of friends were buying their time in the shop waiting or Fluttershy’s order to come. But then, Wander and Sylvia heard another familiar voice call out to Fluttershy. “Fluttershy, darling; I thought I saw you come in here… to get your pesent for Princess Luna no doubt.”
“Hey, Rarity,” said Fluttershy with a smile, “nice to see you.”
“And what this I see,” said Rarity with her eyes gleaming, “I am I the only one seeing our dear friends from the cosmos here again?”
“Nope, they’re here alright. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?”
“Indeed it is. How long has it been; almost a year? Its so wonderful to see you two again.”
“And its a pleasure to see you again too,” said Wander while tipping his hat yet again, “mam!”
“You two wouldn’t happen to be planning to go to the birthday celebration of Luna in Canterlot, would you?” Rarity questioned to them.
“We sure are!” Wander shouted, “Attending and having a bajillion of fun at parties is our specialty!”
“Kinda like your pink pony friend,” said Sylvia smirking, “Heh, am I right?”
“I’ll say;” said Rarity, “although I’m not sure who could be more excited to attend. Pinkie or your friend here.”
Sylvia shook her head and denied that thought. “Lets try not to dwell on that fact.”
After a while, the store owner came to Fluttershy with her order. After giving it to her, she complimented to her, “Thanks for coming, and do come again.”
“I will,” said Fluttershy as the owner went away. She then looked over at the others and stated, “Well, I done here. I guess we should head towards the castle. I’m sure the others are already waiting for us; and I’m sure they’ll be glad to see you two as well.”
“Guess its time to see what this new castle is all about; eh, wander?” said Sylvia.
“You bet it is, Sylvia! By the way, Miss Fluttershy, that is one lovely bouquet of flowers ya got there. Princess Luna is sure to shower you with her praise! Ooh, you should also give her chocolates to go with it as well! You can’t go wrong with flowers and chocolates!”
Fluttershy chuckled from Wander’s charming nature and just told him, “Well… I’ll think about it.”
As they were making their way to Twilight’ Castle, Rarity looked at Wander and Sylvia and stated in a serious tone, “By the way, I should let you two know that if that evil space jerk from last time ever shows his face here again, we will personally remind him of why he should never ever face against us. These hooves aren’t afraid to get a little dirty… most of the time.”
“Well I don’t think we have anything to worry about this time,” said Fluttershy, “No enemy of theirs is going to ruin our fun; right?”
“Darn right!” said Sylvia, “Although, even if someone did follow us here again,” she then held up her hand into tight fists, “these babies would get the job done just fine. Heh, yeah.”
“Heh, talking about violence and beating up other that truly deserve it to make yourself feel better;” said Wander, “that’s Sylvia for you.”
Rarity just smiled and shook head at the wandering duo, “Of course it is, darling.”
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While Wander and Sylvia were about to meet the rest of their friends, Lil’ Bits was still back in the forest trying to track her target’s whereabouts. She expected to find them by now, but she was now stuck sniffing the ground and the air just to follow Sylvia’s scent. The trail eventually brought her to Fluttershy’s cottage where she saw different creatures life lounging about… none of which she was looking for.
“What is this pwace,” she softly said to herself, “some kind of animaw sanctuawy? They don’t wook vewy bwight apawt fwom other species that I have seen or encountewed.”
She looked around the whole area trying to see if she could continue to follow Sylvia’s scent, but there was too many other animal scents around for her to concentrate and focus on it.
“Dang it, I wost the scent among these mongerels. Stupid sanctuay place.” She then sighed and said, “Well… those two have definatewy been thwough here; that’s for cewtain. But now I have to mannuawy go around until I can pick up the scent again. Ugh, darn it aww!”
Suddenly, Lil’ Bits turned around and noticed that a certain bunny was glaring at her; tapping his feet and feeling suspicious of her presence. Lil’ Bits scoffed at him and said, “What awe you looking at, ya stupid, disgusting wabbit cweatuwe?”
Angel dashed towards her feeling angered by her insult and was going to take her down. But when he got close enough, all Lil’ Bits did was step to the side and stretched out her leg causing Angel to trip over it and flew right into the nearby pond. After smirking a bit, Lil Bits was making her way to get away from her present location to continue her mission.
“Enough, of this; I’m suddenwy getting annoyed of this pwace aweady.”
But just when she was about to leave, a puff of smoke suddenly appeared in front of her blocking her path. When it cleared, in front of her was a tall and demented looking creature; the Draconequus, Discord. He looked down at the alien cat and said, “Well hello there, you cute little thig.”
“Ahh!!!” shouted Lil’ Bits freaking out, “A giant fweakish mumbwle jumbwled mixed-up monster!”
“I prefer the name Draconequus, thank you very much,” Discord responded, “In any case, you seem a little lost.”
“Me, wost?!” Lil’ Bits protested while getting herself together, “Heh, I’m not wost; I’m just… figuwing my way awound this stupid pwace.”
“Now now, Lil’ Bits, it’s not healthy to lie like that; heh… but it can be a little fun.”
Just then, Lil’ Bits’ eyes went wide seeing that this creature that he never met somehow knew about her. “Hey, how do you know my name, ya fweak?!” She then took out a laser gun from the bag on her back and pointed it at Discord, “Start tawking!”
But he was gone; mysteriously vanished. However, he suddenly peered his head from the spout of the gun and stared back at her. “You know, you shouldn’t point dangerous weapons all willynylly like that; its quite rude.”
“Ahh, what the…”
Lil’ Bits swung her gun flinging Discord out of it, and he landed back on the ground on his own two feet. “The name is Discord, I can sense that you’re not from around here… or of this world for that matter.”
“What’s it matter to you?” Lil’ Bits brooded.
“Nothing much, but I am a spirit of chaos; making mischief and causing some mayhem is sorta my thing. And looking at you, I can tell that you’re quite the mischief maker yourself. I bet your size means absolutely nothing to your skills.”
Lil' Bits smiled while putting away her gun feeling great of being complimented on. “Heh, well… at weast someone finawy weawizes my tawent." But then her mind went back to her original objective as she suddenly turned away from Discord, "B-b-but fowget that, I’m too busy wooking awound here and searching for a couple of tawgets that I’ve been after for a while now.”
As she walked off, Discord got her attention again by saying, “These couple of targets you speak of; they wouldn’t happened to be named Wander and Sylvia by any chance… would they?”
“What?!" Lil' Bits shouted as turned back torwards Discord, "You know who they awe? Thewe’s no way that you know that just by guessing.”
“But it was by guessing. I mean what… I can believe in your skills but you can’t believe in mine? I’m starting to lose faith in you.”
It was obvious to Lil' Bits that this creature seemed to know quite a bit about who she was looking for. So this time she took out a mini rocket launcher and pointed it at him and gave him a light glare as she demanded, “Alwight, start tawking and tell me which diwection those two went… and don’t think that I’m scawed of you just because you awe some kind of chaos... cweature thing.”
“Oh yes,” said Discord sarcastically, “because you are so intimidating yourself. And did anyone tell you that you have the cutest sounding voice lisp?"
Lil’ Bits growled and then pulled the trigger on the launcher shooting a single rocket at Discord. IN her eyes, the rocket made its mark igniting an explosion that startled a lot of nearby animals.
“Ha! How’s that fowr intimidating?” Lil’ Bits shouted with a smirk on her face.
Suddenly, she heard a voice from behind her, “Pretty nice shot, but your angle could improve.”
She turned around and saw Discord leaning against a tree looking and waving at her. Lil’ Bits groaned while putting away her launcher and said, “Now you’re just being downwight annoying.”
“I would love to point you in the direction of Wander and Sylvia,” said Discord in an overly dramatic fashion, “but I am suddenly not in the mood to tell you since you were being so rude to me. I mean shooting a rocket at me… that is just bad manners.”
“Forget you then;” Lil’ Bits shouted, “its not like I needed your help anyway!” As she walked away from him, she thought to herself, “Spirit of Chaos my furry butt. What is something like him doing in a place like this anyway. It doesn't add up.”
Just then, Lil’ Bits’ clothing attire had suddenly caught Discord’s attention. Unknown to him, it was the same outfit that Wander made for her from his fur when she was deceiving him and Sylvia to bring them to Lord Hater. But because of her failed mission, she wasn't able to gain the means to a new outfit. Discord felt the outfit would be a problem, so he shifts the ground underneath Lil’ BIts to bring her back to him.
“Hold up a moment. You’re not seriously going to out like that, are you?”
“Well excuse me if I can’t exactly show a fashion statement," Lil' Bits grunted, "I’m not swimming in cash you know.”
"Then how do explain your little bag of violent toys?"
"I stole them using my cuteness to succeed... not that its any of your business."
“But going back to serious for a moment, going out there like that might ruin things for you… since some of Ponyville’s resident knows about your appearance.”
“And let me guess," said Lil' Bits rolling her eyes, "Wander and Sylvia is responsible for telling them, right?”
“Well… I can only assume so.”
“Well what do you cawe? Its not like you’re on my side seeing that you won’t even give me the info I want.”
Discord suddenly slithered himself beside Lil' Bits and smirked mischievously as he bopped her on her nose, “And who said that I wasn’t on your side?”
“What?”
“Sure, I won’t tell you where they are; that’s all part of my own personal fun. However, what’s the point if you’re easily recognized by your enemy?”
Lil' Bits scoffed as she turned away from Discord again and walked off. “I can handle mysewf, thank you. You wet me wowy if I ever get caught.”
“Very well; but just in case…”
Discord suddenly twirled his finger and caused the present outfit that Lil' Bits was wearing to change into a pale white lace dress with a white hairbow on her ear to match. She was freaked out by the sudden change and yelled at Discord...
“Ahh, what is this monstwosity of an outfit?!”
“Just a little change of clothing from whatever that piece of rags that you were wearing before. And for extra precaution…”
Discord then snapped his fingers, and Lil’ Bits fur color suddenly turned light blue.
“Y-y-you changed… my fuwr?!” Lil’ Bits exclaimed, “How can you even do that?!”
“I can do anything,” Discord said proudly, “Spirit of Chaos here; hello. Besides, any well magical user in this world could easily do the same thing.”
Lil’ Bits went over to and looked at her reflection in the pond’s water. She was actually starting to admire her new look a little and smiled a bit feeling the bow on her ear. “Well... at weast its not a bad fit; and does go well with my eyes.” She then turned back over to Discord with a little light scowl, “Fine, I’ll go with this new wook; but don’t think that I owe you anything… ya weirdo.”
“I ask nothing from you, my darling,” Discord admitted, “just… put on a good show. I’ll be watching.”
Lil’ Bits wasn’t quite sure of why this weird creature was so fond of her, but she didn’t care to find out. But she went off, she saw that same bunny glaring at her again but keeping his distance.
“And keep that wabbit out of my business,” she protested, “He’s smawter than he wooks.”
“Leave it to me,” Discord chuckled.
The rabbit, Angel made his way past Discord still squeezing water out of his ears and fur. Discord chuckled at him stating, “You know… trying to go up against an assassin, not exactly smart of you.”
Angel lightly growled at him and then went inside of the cottage. Meanwhile, Discord continued to watch as Lil’ Bits went on her way to continue her search for Wander and Sylvia. He smirked mischievously as he was remembering something.
“It seems that our little friend is planning to do anything to get what she wants. Kinda reminds me of my old self. Ah yes; good times… good times.”