//------------------------------// // Apple-Fluff // Story: The Misadventures of Fluffle Puff // by Chaos Phantasm //------------------------------// The Misadventures of Fluffle Puff By Chaos Phantasm Edited by Izanagi ===================================================== Apple-Fluff ===================== The rooster crowed at Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack woke up bright and early during the wee hours of the morning to get to work. She yawned and stretched, hopping out of bed and heading down into the kitchen to get some grub. Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom and Granny Smith were gathered around the table and digging into their meals. "Morning all." Applejack said as she passed them. "Morning, Applejack!" The other three said together. Applejack walked over to the bread bin and took out a loaf. She placed it on the cutting bored which rested on the table and cut two slices, put them in the toaster where she waited. Meanwhile, up in Applejack's bedroom, Fluffle Puff climbed in through her window, then up the wall until she was standing on the ceiling. The fluffy pony looked around on the floor for something soft, she spotted Applejack's bed and dropped. She missed her mark and crashed into a trunk that rested at the end of the sleeping space which made a loud sound of wood being broken and hard objects being smashed. Fluffle Puff had her eyes shut for the impact, but reopened them when she had landed. She wasn't hurt or fazed by it at all. "Pllplp" She poked her tongue out and raspberried. She sucked her tongue back in and caught sight of Applejack's hat. Fluffle Puff got up, all objects that clung to her fluff sank into the pink colored abyss as she imagined what it would be like to be Applejack for a day. She stared long and hard at the hat, drooling out of the corner of her mouth which she sucked back in when she made her approach. She smiled widely up at the hat and patted its rim with her hoof in admiration, her eyes sparkling brightly like stars at the very idea of being somepony else. She closed her mouth tightly when she heard Applejack coming up the stairs, talking out loud to herself about the noise. Fluffle Puff looked at the door then back at the hat with shrunken pupils and reached up to grab them when the orange earth pony entered. The door swung open and Applejack looked inside and around the room, her jaw dropped at the sight of her stuff all over the floor and her trunk destroyed. "W-What the hay..?... What..?" Applejack walked into the room and looked at the broken toys and wood, then looked up at her bedside table, her ears dropping. "What?!" The orange earth pony approached her bedside table, her left eye twitched and she was confusion. "W-Who in their right mind would want to take my hat?" The sound of stuff being knocked over outside drew A.J to the window. She looked outside and saw Fluffle Puff trying to lasso a trash can with a rope that wasn't tied to resemble a lasso. Applejack raised an eyebrow and headed down stairs and outside to see what the fluffy pony was up to. Fluffle Puff threw the rope at the bucket again only for it to fail once more. She had been growing quite annoyed by it and it started to show. She pulled the rope toward her and looked at it to see what she was doing wrong. "And just what do you think you're doing?" Applejack said as she stood behind Fluffle Puff. Fluffle Puff stood as still as a statue before dropping the rope and trying to run only to be stopped by Applejack's left hoof which she held out to her side, blocking the fluffy one who continued to run in place despite being stopped. Applejack rolled her eyes and pushed Fluffle Puff back in front of her, this time the fluffy pony stood still but had her tongue out again. "Pllplp" Applejack sighed. "Now what in all that's fluffy and cute are you doing Fluffle, does Chrysalis know you're here?" Fluffle Puff licked at the air, ignoring the earth pony's question. Applejack watched Fluffle Puff in a bemused manner, than swiped the hat off of her. The pink fluffy pony reacted by freezing, slowly opening her mouth and staring with wide eyes up at Applejack as if begging to have the hat back. Applejack continued to give Fluffle a stern look even when her leg was being touched by the fluffy sheep like pony of cute. Applejack moved her leg away only for it to be petted again, this time she lifted it. "Fluffle, what do ya want with my hat?" "Pllpl, Pllp pllp" The fluffy pony only blew raspberries. "You want to be me for a day so you can prank everyone into thinking I turned into you?" Fluffle smiled and nodded. Applejack didn't look sure about it. Fluffle's eyes sparkled and her mouth gaped open, she tapped her hooves together hoping Applejack would say yes. "Pllplp pllp plp!" Applejack lifted an eyebrow. "You mean you want to buck apples with me whilst looking like me and confusing the girls when they come to visit?" Fluffle nodded with a smile. "Well I suppose I could help out! Sounds like a lot of fun." Fluffle Puff gasped and did a back flip, splatting against the wall and becoming flat like a pancake. Applejack stood in surprise and watched Fluffle Puff peel off of the wall and float to the ground like a feather. When she face down on the ground she poofed back to normal and shook her head, smiled and looked up at Applejack who chuckled and put her hat on Fluffle Puff's head. "Now if we're going to make this work we're going to have to change your appearance. Come inside little fluffy, I have an idea." Applejack lead Fluffle Puff inside the barn and she followed quite happily behind the earth pony who shut the barn doors and prepared some things to help the pony out with her little fun. "Now I don't know anythin about make overs or that stuff Rarity enjoys, but I'ma willin to try." Applejack picked up some orange hair spray and got to work on Fluffle Puff who screamed so loudly it shook the farm. Two hours later Pinkie Pie came hopping up the path merrily to Sweet Apple Acres. She could see trees shaking in the north orchards from where she was looking and hopped her way over there to say hello to Applejack. Pinkie Pie hopped her way into the farm and turned toward the orchard. The sound of slamming and kicking was more audible now that she had gotten closer. "Applejack! Hey! Hey Applejack!" Pinkie looked around for the orange earth pony when she saw a tree shake. "Oh there there you are Applejack, I just came to ask if you-" Vwomp A loud sound came from the shaking tree which brought Pinkie to a stop. Her tail started twitching and apples fell from the tree like rain. Pinkie ducked under a bush while the apples fell to the ground and in baskets. Pinkie poked her head out when the apples stopped falling and looked over to who she thought was Applejack. "A-Applejack?" She looked confused. "Plllp!" Fluffle Puff stumbled and twirled with spirals in her eyes. She sat down and shook her head which almost made her hat fall off. Fluffle Puff's pink fluff was now orange, she had orange paper with three apples sticky taped to her flank, a blond wig and fake blond tail made of hair, sticky taped to her back and green eye contacts to get the full effect. She looked at Pinkie Pie, smiled and waved. Pinkie jumped up. "Oh hey Applejack I didn't recognize you for a second there! Did you cut your mane?" Fluffle Puff stared blankly at Pinkie whilst nomming on an apple she had picked up off the ground. Pinkie Pie watched Fluffle Puff eat the apple until she dropped it and started nodding in response to Pinkie's question. "I knew it!" She giggled and snorted. "I came by to ask if I could have a basket of apples to take back to Sugar Cube Corner for a yummy apple and jelly cake!" the pink pony licked her lips in delight. "Sure you can have a basket or two!" Said Applejack from behind a nearby tree, speaking for Fluffle Puff. Fluffle Puff moved her lips to the sound of Applejack's voice so she didn't look suspicious. Pinkie Pie beamed and hugged the fluffy pony. "Thank you Applejack!! I promise to give you three slices, my treat." Pinkie started hopping away. "I'll see you later!" She hopped toward the barn and was out of sight. Applejack emerged from her hiding place and looked at Fluffle Puff who had her cheeks puffed and her eyes wider then a cat's in the dark. "You okay Fluffle Puff? I think that went well, Pinkie didn't expect a thing." There was a short period of silence. Three slices of apple jelly cake continued to plague Fluffle's mind, Pinkies words repeating over and over. It sent Fluffle completely silent and still, her coat soaked up lots and lots of air. "Fluffle Puff, you alright?" Applejack nudged the fluffy pony who let out a massive gasp and back flipped with the force of a rainboom which sent her back flipping to Crystal Empire and back. Ponies pointed in awe at the sight of the back flipping pink cloud they came to regard as beautiful. Fluffle Puff made the papers all over Equestria in a short span of fifteen minutes. The ball of fluff managed to get a hold of one of these newspapers, and was reading it as she spun around the spire in the center of the Crystal Empire, and continued to twirl and flip in the air back to her spot where she landed perfectly. Applejack was leaning against a tree by that point with some warm coffee beside her and a newspaper on her face when she heard Fluffle Puff land. The earth pony removed the paper and looked at Fluffle Puff, getting up and stretching when she did. "You done?" Fluffle Puff nodded and gave Applejack a smile. Applejack returned the smile and ruffled Fluffle puff's orange spray painted coat. The rest of the day was the same for those two, but for Chrysalis it was boring. She moped around the library in a dismal state of hunger, starved of love and the fun her fluffy partner provided. She sighed loudly many times just to annoy Twilight who was preoccupied with reading a book to be bothered by Chrysalis's attempts at attention. "sigh!!" Chrysalis looked at Twilight, her head hanging over the arm of the sofa while she laid on her back. Twilight closed her book without a word and let out a puff of air from her nostrils. The changeling's sighs had only now started becoming a distraction for the alicorn, who turned around and walked over to Chrysalis. "You know, there are things you can do around here Chrysalis. Watching me study is not one of them." "Meh, watching you study is fun, and fulfilling. I had no idea that I could feed off of the love of doing something you like. You love reading, I can eat that!" "Lovely... And you only chose now to discover that?" Twilight sighed. "Who knows, maybe when I feed off of Fluffle's love, I might also be feeding off of your love of books. There's really no difference in love if you really think about it." Twilight returned to her book. "You know, you could always look for Fluffle Puff." Chrysalis and Twilight were silent for a moment until the changeling sat up and cracked her back. She hopped off the sofa and approached the library's exit. "I guess so. I'll be back soon!" Chrysalis opened the library door and closed it behind her. Twilight sighed and stood still staring at her book for a moment before closing it, putting it aside and grabbing a book on emotions, turning to a page about love where she started reading. "'really no difference in love' my hoof, of course there's-" Twilight stopped at the sixteenth line on the page, eyes wide in surprise, her right eye twitching. "I call pony feathers on that!!" While Twilight raged to herself in the library, Chrysalis took a stroll through Ponyville singing to herself in her mind. "Takin a stroll through Ponyville. lookin at the ponies and suckin their love." She started humming to herself afterwards, and despite feeding off of love like getting a meal through a drive through from the citizens, she continued to feel starved and sighed. "Without that fuzzball around I feel hungrier then usual." She stood in the middle of the town square close to the Celestia statue which she looked up at and started thinking. "Didn't she mention where she was going..? Hmm..." The changeling looked over to a group of three ponies, a unicorn, a pegasus, and an earth pony, all three of which made her feel drawn and attached to them. She shook her head and walked over to Boutique where she started remembering Fluffle Puff had drawn three apples on some paper and was coloring the whole sheet orange while the apples red. She stopped walking and looked in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres unamused. "I wouldn't be surprised if I was right about that." Chrysalis looked over to Time Turner and whistled a very specific tune to call him over. He looked over at her and walked over to her. "Good day Ms. Chrysalis, how might I be of assistance?" "Have you seen my ball of walking lint around? She's pink, a bit hyperactive, acts like a kitty, pretty much a bottomless pit of love and affection." Time Turner nodded. "I've seen her, Fluffle Puff right? Yes she was heading toward the Apple's farm." Chrysalis laughed. "Oh, I love it when I'm right. Thank you Time Turner." Time Turner smiled. "You're welcome Ms. Chrysalis." Chrysalis walked away from the town square, and was on her way to Sweet Apple Acres. The earth pony, pegasus and unicorn watched Chrysalis and seemed to stare at her. They looked at one another and followed from within the bushes, hiding out of sight. Chrysalis walked the whole way to the farm and looked around to see where Applejack was. "Applejack!" Chrysalis called out, looking around for the earth pony who seemed to have vanished. Fluffle Puff was hiding in the barn with her mouth shut tight and her pupils shrunk. Applejack was trying to urge the pink fluffy pony to go along with the joke, but she refused. "C'mon Fluffle, imagine how surprised she'll be." Fluffle Puff shook her head, seeing only Chrysalis being angry at her for impersonating a pony. Applejack lifted an eyebrow and looked out around the corner of the barn entrance to see Chrysalis coming over. The earth pony looked at Fluffle then at Chrysalis then back to Fluffle again and realized why Chrysalis would be mad. She took her hat back and stepped outside. "Howdy Chrysalis." She leaned against the door frame. "Um... Hey... Have you seen Fluffle Puff around?" "Nope, can't say that I have." Applejack said with a nervous smile, sweat on her brow. Chrysalis noticed the sweat and opened her mouth to question it when she heard the pink fuzzball's sudden gasp. A butterfly flew out of the barn and was chased by Fluffle Puff who happily tried to grab it and fly like it, jumping and falling flat on the ground face first. Chrysalis chuckled to herself which alerted Fluffle Puff to her presence. Fluffle looked up to Chrysalis and Applejack on her right and gave a nervous smile. "Found you." Chrysalis smiled smugly but her smile was short lived as she was suddenly glomped on shortly after. Fluffle Puff absorbed Chrysalis into her coat and stood up and looked around in confusion. Applejack laughed at the Fluffy Pony's attempt at being a funny one and bit her lip when Chrysalis's head popped out of Fluffle's back, she had a pink afro on her head which clashed with her dark cerulean mane. She shook her head and the fluff vanished into the air only to be sucked back into Fluffle's fluff from which Chrysalis emerged from and stood near Applejack. The earth pony was laughing at how absurd this all was and shook her head. "You two are more random together then a case of poison joke." Both Fluffle and Chryssi looked at Applejack then at each other and started building up to a laugh. Fluffle only stared at Chrysalis while she did most of the laughing. "I guess we are kind of like that. Only difference is I make it look better." Fluffle Puff furrowed her eye brows and puffed up her cheeks. She smacked Chrysalis's leg and the changeling retaliated by nudging the earth pony who simply rolled away like a beach ball. Chrysalis smiled and let out a soft chuckle and stood in a triumphant stance only to to be knocked over and carried off by Fluffle Puff who had launched herself at her changeling partner as fast as she needed. In some bushes nearby, the three pony were hiding. They glared toward Fluffle Puff but looked lovingly at Chrysalis. Chrysalis got back up and giggled, she ruffled the fluffy pony's head, getting orange paint on her hoof which she was not too happy about. Chrysalis looked at Fluffle and sighed. The fluffy pony suddenly hugged the changeling getting more orange stuff on her. Chryssi smiled and returned Fluffle's hug, only to be flipped afterwards when the pony did a back flip gasping as she did. Sometime after that, Applejack and Fluffle Puff bucked trees together in the east orchard field, Chrysalis tagged along and bucked apples with the other two. Fluffle Puff's bucking always ended with her falling on her face which was amusing to both changeling and earth pony, they would laugh with Fluffle Puff as she hit the ground. Chrysalis happily helped the fluffy pony off of the ground and patted her on the head. Fluffle purred and made a kitty face while Applejack watched. Fluffle went back to work once Chrysalis stopped patting her. The pink little pony looked at her small legs under her fluff, then at Applejack and Chrysalis who were bucking the proper way. She puffed up her cheeks, took a few steps back and charged at the tree and slammed into it head first which shook the tree violently until it was dropping apples all over the ground. Applejack looked at the apples falling out of Fluffle's tree which were falling into her tree and Chrysalis's tree, causing the apples to fall on the earth pony and changeling. The red shiny fruits fell on their heads,forcing them to duck down while the juicy red fruits fell around them like rain. Many apples got stuck on Chrysalis's horn while others just bonked down on Applejack's head. Fluffle Puff remained unharmed, as the apples only sank into her fluff like void, coming out from her underbelly. Applejack and Chrysalis looked up at Fluffle Puff and laughed loudly while the fuzzball looked on in confusion. The pegasus, unicorn and earth pony who hid away, were in a pile atop one another in a daze underneath a pile of apples that fell on them during the apple rain caused by Fluffle Puff. The three ponies suddenly changed in a green flash into three changelings who soon snapped out of their dizzy state. and glared in the direction of Fluffle Puff, thinking of how they were going to set their plan in motion. =====================================================