Bonnie had demonstrated her skill by dodging the splash from Omi’s impact with the tree and she got away with making the Xiaolin Dragon Warriors thinking she could deflect fireballs. Overall Bonnie was bored that she didn’t have to go all out; her going all out was Planet Z and her mostly looking out for her hide was back on Trade World.
The dragon warriors had offered to transport Fluttershy and friends to Hawaii on Dojo, but the mare refused with several reasons. Surprisingly the reasons were not all about the fact that Dojo the dragon could grow to a large size.
The four dragon warriors of fire, earth, water and wing shrugged, said their goodbyes as they had other things to do and flew away on the wingless dragon. Foxglove was positively mystified that he could fly after growing to such a large size.
Since Beach City was much closer than Kokaua Town in Hawaii, Fluttershy pointed out it was better going there first to drop off the message while they were in the area. Bonnie and Fluttershy had to tell Foxglove that they were only going to take a slight detour to deliver a message and that it shouldn’t take them long once they found out who they were delivering it to.
Having said her goodbyes to Tammy, Foxglove and the others hopped into Cobra Bubbles car that had hidden alien technology built into it. Jake and Fu were along for the ride with them, they had directed Cobra to a nice place that served Chinese food made to go and the big man was paying.
Fluttershy got Steamed vegetables, with rice covered in a nice sauce and an egg roll that she obviously appreciated as her positive emotions shone through. Bonnie went for a nice vegetable lo mein, since noodles were kind of her thing when it came to food. Roller just got a greasy box full of beef and broccoli that he would eat at the pier.
Soft Echo had eventually woken up and screeched quietly, being attentive of the new little bugger Bonnie pulled a big juicy ‘medical tomato’ from the battered saddlebags that Fluttershy had left Equus with for the kid. The tomato survived for the next two minutes slowly filling up little Soft who rapidly sucked the juice out of it to the point that it eventually reduced to a size smaller than a raisin that went down her throat causing the little filly to burp. Tomatoes would officially become one of her favorite foods.
Cobra had always been partial to chicken chow mein. Knowing his partners tastes like he did, he ordered a large container of egg flower soup with her favorite things mixed into it. The big guy really tended to spoil Shush Jookiba as he had a large soft spot for the alien experiment. Both Fu and Jake went with a large box stuffed with assorted flavors of pot stickers that they shared between themselves.
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“So, why did you stand your ground Fluttershy?” As Bonnie lifted some noodles to her mouth with a pair of chopsticks, she stared out to sea.
“For several logical reasons, without a fear response I wasn’t going to be able to get my adrenaline up. Moving would have left me unbalanced and I might have been knocked over and it would have hurt Soft. So I decided that digging in and taking it was the better option, with the surrounding mud I would have been fine. I did not expect it to bounce off me… logically speaking I know it was the Lunar Locket that did that.” Fluttershy smiled happily after her flat delivery of why she took the fireball, she tickled the little filly who squeaked and giggled at the bigger pony mothering her before she went back to the second tomato she was sucking on. “In the long run it was better that I got injured as I was more likely to survive it than she was, I do care about my existence as life is so wonderful. Just like this food tastes great.”
“Positive attitude you got there, then again it makes sense considering the problems you have with your emotions at the moment. So can you take some time to bring up the Head Hunter onto the beach? I and Cobra are still working on an idea of what to do, we obviously can’t walk it south, it’s too noticeable on land and the ocean floor is too dangerous.” The pony nodded and passed off the little filly to her sister with a seagull for a hat before she left her food temporarily unattended, Bonnie turned to Mr. Bubbles with a smile and he growled. “What is it Mr. Bubbles? I’m sure your little sister knows I wasn’t going to do anything; do you just hate smiles or something?”
“We’ll need a way to move your ship without it attracting too much attention.” Cobra Bubbles paid clear attention to Shush and kept her on a tight leash so that she doesn’t run off and cause trouble. Ever since a certain video game came out, he’s been the butt of multiple jokes around his name from his MIB coworkers for treating Shush like his little sister. “Also, now is not a time to be joking.”
“Wouldn’t dream of it, although I was going to suggest you put on a big diving suit with a red light in the helmet and carry around a big drill that works underwater for a Halloween party. Are video games that leave earth still somewhat contraband? You’d be completely surprised at some of the things that get out there and past you MIB guys.” Bonnie got Shush to giggle with her words as the chinchilla continued to drink up her soup happily while trying not to get it all over Soft. “We spent a few hours in orbit looking up the state of things groundside. Not much have changed since I left Hawaii huh?”
“Actually a lot of people miss you Bonnie… they also miss ‘him’ and a few other ‘cousins’ that were allowed to wander around. Elastico still visits Lilo from time to time when he gets some vacation time from the circus.” Cobra was still trying to dodge around the issue of Clyde with Shush within earshot; she had an incredible range of being able to hear things within a radius of a few miles in front of her ears and provided they were focused a little it got a lot farther than that. “I’m serious, any real jokes about rapture and I will bring you in for questioning about how you found out about that game in the Galactic Alliance sector.”
Shush was always so easily distracted because she heard so many noises that were so far away it was hard to tell exactly if it was a grasshopper jumping or if it was some guy shouting about how his girlfriend cheating on him. She has heard a lot of things and didn’t repeat any of the meaner sounding stuff.
“Yeah, it’ll be good to see ‘little girl’ again, if this situation wasn’t so darn sad. It’s been what, at least more than a year since I’ve been on this planet?” It was obvious Bonnie had been away from the planet for a long time. “So you going with us as an escort down south to see these aliens we’re supposed to deliver a message to or are you sticking around New York?”
“I have pressing business and my next assignment is already lined up for me and my partner. I can make sure you get out of the city alright once I see what we have to work with, but after that you and you’re friends are on your own.” Cobra proceeded to eat his food in silence with Shush carefully watching out for Soft, Shush’s usual general ditzy personality had fled her when it came to helping take care of a child and she loved children.
“Yeah, I figured. Tell Jumba we’ve gotten a bit more time and that we’ll be heading his way soon enough, oh and don’t tell him about the fact that Fluttershy had a kid. I cannot stress this enough, I don’t need my father giving me the X, Y and Z chromosomes talk again!” It had horribly embarrassing the first time Bonnie had taken an interest in someone else, she never got into a relationship before and she sorely wanted to now. She was taking it slow with a certain four legged being she liked and would do just about anything for her. “Last time was so awkward after I figured out what he was going on about, it hurts my brain just thinking about it. I’ll think of something to tell him when I get there so he doesn’t do that again.”
It wasn’t long after that Foxglove came back from hunting bugs to feed herself with; she had to eat more if she wanted to keep her energy up. She silently watched as Head Hunter crawled out of the sea on its four telescoping legs. It kind of reminded her of Fluttershy’s head a bit; it crawled slowly up the beach on its four legs where it stopped. After a moment the front two retracted. The hind legs pushed it’s partially hovering form the rest of the way up the beach next to Cobra’s car where it finally settled down and a smiling Fluttershy appeared from the top hatch.
“The hover function still works! It still won’t be able to fly though.” One happy tone followed by a completely dull tone, Fluttershy wished she could have felt awkward about how her tone went bland when she wasn’t happy. She continued on with what she found out. “Another thing is that the hover function can’t be activated while it’s in water.”
“Hmm… I might just have an idea, but you’ll have to wait here until tomorrow. I’ll have some other MIB agents bring you some food this evening and I’ll get back to you tomorrow morning with my idea.” Cobra just looked at the alien ship just like he would any other alien ship; it was small enough that it could pass for something else. If his idea worked it would be rather brilliant cover. “Come on Shush! We have a few things to do to help out your older sister, you better watch out for them dragon.”
Shush finished off her mish mash of soup and then quickly cuddled up to Bonnie who still hadn’t finished her food and passed off a gurgling little filly that nuzzled her face happily. This left the group on the pier with Jake and Fu. A ringing phone was heard and Bonnie pulled out Fu’s phoned and answered.
“Hello… yeah I stole his phone and he’s here with me. Look he and the kid are on official business, he’s to protect us until we leave New York… no we’re not from the magical side, I’m an alien and my other two friends are both magical aliens. We’re going to be traveling with a bat that has a penchant for magic, she’s supposed to be useful but her size makes me a little edgy on her capabilities. Well it’s not like he was attentive enough around me, I am a galactic class nuisance of a thief after all. Hold on I’ll hand you over to him.” Bonnie held out her phone to Fu who swiped it back from her smiling form.
“Huh, look I’ve got something to ask you before you go into a tirade here old man. Do you know a dragon named Dojo Kanojo Cho? Yeah, he had a message for you; he said to watch out for this guy named Chase Young.” He covered the speaker on the phone and glared at everyone looking at him. “Do you mind, I’m on the phone here. Apparently he’s this crazy guy that is after dragons to stuff into an evil soup that renders him immortally young, if you don’t take it often enough you transform into a monster and drinking it once can likely turn you evil. Yeah, it’s pretty horrible… okay I’ll keep Jake away from him if we run into the guy, get the word out to the other dragons when you can get a meeting in. As for the aliens the MIB have a hand in this, they’ll help out so you have nothing to worry about old friend. Okay, I’ll give you over to Jake.”
“Hey grandpa… yes I know, I’m doing my job and taking it seriously. I’ve also found out that there’s more than magic going on in New York, when were you guys actually going to tell me about that? Oh great, now I have to learn all about aliens! It’s as if I don’t get enough problems from just dealing with magic all the time.” Jake wandered off with the phone held to his head; he and the others would spend most of the evening playing at the beach and trying to teach the filly how to walk.
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Little Soft felt her mom nudge her butt and soon she was barely walking, falling in the soft sand didn’t hurt and she was enjoying everything around her with a sense of wonder. The sand was icky so she didn’t eat it, she liked all the people around her. She didn’t know who they were, she simply knew that they loved her or else they wouldn’t have fed her those tasty objects full of liquids. She enjoyed every little nuzzle and licks her mommy gave her. She was halfway between the cakes foals and the Cutie Mark Crusaders in age and she was intelligent enough to eat when presented with food, she just couldn’t speak the same words her mother spoke and it was quite confusing.
Soft wouldn’t worry about her inability to speak; her mother could understand her clearly when she wanted something. She didn’t know why they had left the place she was born and took her first breath of air, but she was just happy to be next to the one who warmed her heart when it got really cold that evening and those two strange two legged guys came by with more food. Something about a J and a K and her mother saying friendly things to them that she didn’t understand came up.
Soon she was brought into the big thing shaped like her mother’s head and it was strange and a little weird, but it was warmer than the cold air outside. She was pulled into bed by her mother and she snuggled into her mother’s warm loving embrace. Her mother was so happy at the simple things she could do, but she couldn’t help but feel something was off about it all. She knew mommy would protect her though.
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Fluttershy already knew she was in a dream; soon she was joined by Bonnie and then Mr. Wheel. They were all sleeping together apparently and soon little Soft Echo appeared looking around a little confused and saw the hill with the little weeping willow, she galloped up to her mommy screeching happily and she was welcomed with open hooves.
“I swear, that Pearl is quite the strange one… her dreams are rather astoundingly silly and direly sad at the same time. She misses all her loved ones so much and she is so easy to upset. Fluttershy I have come to ask you why I have felt another pony so far from…” Luna paused and saw a shy little filly hiding behind a long haired Fluttershy’s leg; Fluttershy hid herself behind her mane more out of natural reflex than an emotional reaction at Luna’s quirked eye. Fluttershy’s blank face disturbed her for some reason. “I see much has happened since I have last visited; however, there hasn’t been enough time for you to be with foal or for it to be the age that it is. She is incredibly adorable none the less.”
“She also really is my child; we’ve had a bit of a problem landing on planet earth Luna. There’s a lot of violence here.” Fluttershy’s flat voice caused Luna to flinch and just stare at her. Her mood suddenly went from flat to happy which spooked Luna much further than the previous tone had. “I really do love her though.”
“Yeah, it still affects you even while you’re…” Before Bonnie could get any further Foxglove appeared and looked around honestly lost before she saw the majestic form of Luna before her. “We have a lot to discuss; to start with Fluttershy has no emotions other than positive ones. Hopefully the minor side effect wears off soon, it kind of bugs me really and I need to have a discussion with a clearly fully emotional Fluttershy. Little rag bat here can tell you more about the effects she’s under, since it happened to her at one point. By the way she’s cured of her affliction.”
Foxglove nervously twisted her wings together as she looked at the tall imposing form of Luna and was a little put off by her size. The thing that eased her fear slightly was that little Soft was cuddling Luna’s tail and purring happily, which caused her to smile and ease up in the presence of an unknown entity.
“Do not fear me little bat and tell me of what the deplorable cretin does speak of, for I am Princess Luna harbinger of the night and protector of dreams on my planet! I cannot hurt you as you are far away from where I reside, Fluttershy’s true home and one I’ve heard she will eventually return to soon.” Princess Luna proudly raised her hoof into the air and Soft burbled in little screeches as she did the same thing having climbed on to Luna’s back copying her movements. Despite being a deplorable cretin, Bonnie just smirked at Luna in response to the accusation.
Luna was told a lot of things that had happened from the last time Fluttershy had talked to her and now, such as legally freeing Bonnie from jail. Something Luna couldn’t help but be a little disapproving of. The most intriguing topic of discussion was the Lunar Locket which was still around Fluttershy’s neck.
“The beings of that world are mad; do they not know what powers they toy with?” Luna was horribly upset at hearing what the locket could do and what Bonnie had found out about it based on some knowledge of Earth’s moon.
“The moon normally travels around our world by itself; the locket definitely has the destructive powers to take out our world. The passive abilities it grants are also quite useful. I believe it would be safe if the magical object that can control our moon was far away from our planet as possible though, we only need one mad person with a plan to destroy the world to really do just that.” Foxglove was quite acquainted with many mad people that the Rescue Rangers had dealt with on a regular basis.
Nimnul was the one to start off the mad science business that spread to the rest of the world to other like minded individuals. Kim Possible dealt with them all the time and using the ranger’s computer Foxglove had seen the news of bug growing experiment. She might have been hungry when she looked up the incident that Professor Nimnul had caused, it was eventually repeated by a lab assistant named Chester Yapsby. The method that caused each incident was different, the Pill Bugs were grown with a growth ray and nobody has managed to copy that feat do to the invention of the square cube law and the roach incident was caused by a chemical that caused insects to grow much bigger than normal. The giant roach incident was one of the more famous things that Ron Stoppable had managed to solve, there were still giant roaches out there somewhere though. It was a thankful thing that nobody has tried something similar since then because it actually was possible to make giant insects.
“Why are you asleep? Are you not a nocturnal creature?” Luna saw Foxglove perk up at the mention of her status and she took on a proud tone.
“Normally I would be, but my magic makes me capable of switching to a diurnal schedule. There’s someone I really like that is usually awake during the day, I know he likes me back because he gave me a nickname.” Foxglove was all heart when it came to the chipmunk named Dale; her heart went into trying to figure out how to approach him about a relationship beyond just being close friends. She was a snuggly little bat and she knew what she liked; besides she and Dale were actually genetically compatible thanks to several small side effects of mad science experiments that Dale had been hit with. “Before you ask I saw something odd was going on when I noticed everyone on the ship was cuddling up to Fluttershy. When I got too close her wing snapped up and pulled me down into the warm embrace and I couldn’t get free so I decided to go to sleep.”
Fluttershy’s peaceful countenance made for a really good pillow, hopefully no one would ever ask what position Bonnie was in compared to all the others. She took to spooning Fluttershy’s back since Soft took up her front. Roller had fallen asleep on her heels like a real puppy would, in all the scene was odd but heartwarming to see so many different beings coexisting in one spot. At least Foxglove didn’t say anything about their awkward positioning.
“Is there much more you would like to discuss? That planet you are on sounds intriguing with so many creatures like the ones on ours, yet very different.” Luna felt several tugs on her mane and her tiara fell from her head as little Soft Echo curled up on top of her. The filly without a mark was still very much adorable in claiming the top of her head as a place to rest.
“Actually I would like to know what’s going on back in Equestria and that you should give Pearl the news that we’ve made it to earth and will soon be delivering her message for her.” As soon as Fluttershy said this, a surprised and strange looking pony with a large white spherical object embedded in her forehead appeared amongst them.
“I think you should give her the good news yourself, just remember that she is an easily panicked individual. Everyone this is Pearl, she has decidedly taken the form of a pony to fit in while she is on our planet until she can return home to earth.” Luna turned to the pony looking around wildly with her namesake adorning her forehead as if it were a unicorn horn.