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// Happy Hydra Hunting! 
// Story: Gravity Ville Season 1 
// by Moon song 
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Chapter 2
It was early morning, a few days after their first escapade, when Pinkie declared that her and Twilight should have a pancake eating contest. Twilight who was only half awake reluctantly agreed to participate. 
"Okay, go!" Pinkie shouted shoveling pancakes into her mouth. Twilight blinked before flopping her head onto the pancakes, her mane and hat getting butter on them. Pinkie who had now eaten all of her pancakes, looked at Twilight and giggled. 
"Twilight you silly filly, that not how you eat pancakes!" She shook Twilight, and Twilight bolted upright, her chair tilting back. Pinkie quickly grabbed the chair to stop it from falling over.
"Twilight have you been staying up late reading again?" Twilight blinked at her sister before rubbing her face with her hooves. 
"No." Pinkie looked at her suspiciously, and was about to retort when Flam came into the room wearing only his white undershirt, gold chain, and fez. 
"So, are you guys excited?" He walked over to a large crate and grabbed a bottle of apple cider out of it, twisted the top off and took a sip. 
"For what? Oooo! Are we going to bake giant cupcakes?" Pinkie said excitedly bouncing in her chair. 
"What are we doing today?" Twilight asked yawning and looking suspiciously at her Grunkle.
"Today is family bonding day, remember?" Flam turned back around to face the fillies who were sitting at the kitchen table. Twilight balanced and look at Pinkie, who shivered. "Do you remember what happened last family bonding day?"

Flashback

It was a bright and sunny day as Flam stood behind a fruit stand in the Gravity Ville market. He was selling apples that were a strange shade of blood red.  
"Blood apples, get your mysterious blood apples here! Courtesy of the Mystery Hut! " He waved his cane around and smiled when a pony dropped off a large sum of bits and grabbed a few of the apples. He glanced around, before turning , and disappearing behind a curtain the was behind that stand. In the small tent Twilight and Pinkie were sitting on crates while both working on painting or inspecting a lemon. Pinkie was excitedly painting a lemon a dark red color, while Twilight sat next to her inspecting the lemons that Pinkie had finished painting. After painting it she grabbed a small bucket from behind her and poured the contents onto the still wet lemon. The lemon now sparkled and was much more festive, since it was covered in glitter and confetti. Flam sighed, face hoofed and walked over to Pinkie. 
"Pinkie apples don't have that much shine to them, and I don't think that any apples have confetti on them." Pinkie giggled and handed the lemon to Twilight who leaned back at the intensity of glitter that coated the lemon.
"Silly Grunkle Flam, there is no such thing as too much shine, plus it's more exciting now!" She grabbed another lemon and began to paint it a bright pink. Flam rolled his eyes, and walked out to the stand. His eyes widened and he smiled nervously when he saw two cops approach the stand.
"Well hello officers! Would you like to try one of my alluring blood apples?" Flam smirked and tensed, preparing to run if need be. The shorter green police pony smiled. 
"Sure." He grabbed a blood 'apple' in his magical light orange grip. He took a bite before spitting it out. 
"Hey, this is a lemon!" 
"No it's not, it's an apple, I swear." The other taller orange pony took the 'apple' in his light green magical grip.
"It looks like an apple." He licked it before making a face at the sour taste.
"It must be bad." Flam suddenly kicked the stand sending 'apples' flying as he used his magic to grab the chest that held the profits and run behind the curtain. It took the officers a few seconds to recover after being hit in the head with a few of the 'apples'. When Flam emerged from the back of the tent he was followed by Pinkie who was covered in glitter, and Twilight who had bright pink paint smeared across her face. They galloped across the market towards the edge of town, the officers in hot pursuit.


Flashback


Pinkie shivered again. 
"That cell was so cold, and unfun..." Her mane started to deflate a little.
"Yeah, yeah, it's all in the past, I promise that this time it will be fun!" Flam nonchalantly waved a hoof and used his magic to hold up two pieces of cloth. 
"Now put on these blindfolds, get in the cart, and we can go on an adventure!"
"Yeah!" Pinkie and Twilight yelled.
"Wait, what?" Twilight spoke in a tired and surprised tone.



Twilight was jolted awake, as the cart hit a rock and flew slightly into the air, before roughly landing on the road again. She rubbed her face and wondered for a second why it was still dark even though her eyes were open. She then sighed when she realized that she was wearing a blindfold, she turned her head to the right as Pinkie giggled, and the cart hit a bump again.  
"Grunkle Flam, where are we going again?" Twilight spoke in a weary tone.
"I can't tell ya that, or else it wouldn't be a surprise." He adjusted his glasses and hit another bump. Pinkie giggled again.
"Grunkle Flam, are you wearing a blindfold too?" Twilight nervously pressed her hooves against the seat to steady herself. Flam chuckled.
"No kid, but with these glasses I may as well be." He squinted and leaned forward. "What is that? Is that a bush?" He looked at the white fence confused before driving through it.



Flam smoothly pulled the cart into the clearing reserved for parking and got out.
"We are here!" Twilight and Pinkie stumbled out of the cart and pulled off their blindfolds to see that they were at Froggy Bottom Bog, Gravity Ville's local swamp. Various ponies were milling around either checking their golf or small wooden carts, or chatting to one another. Flam then ripped off his suit to reveal a tan vest with many pockets, and he threw off his fez to plop a medium green ear muff hunting hat on his head. He then pulled two smaller versions of his hat out of the cart and handed them to the twins. They took them with raised eyebrows because they had their names sewn into the brim in neon orange block letters.
"Thou shalt lend us thy ear! Nopony should venture into yonder swamp, lest they be slaughtered or feasted upon by foul Hydra!"
The voice with the strange way of speaking came from a strange looking pony indeed. The pony was a medium gray, with a long white beard, mane and tail, and a blue hat and cape with various jingling bells. He was running from the swamp, and through the ponies gathered there, his ragged cape bellowing out behind him, and his horn glowing yellow, random bursts of magic lancing out and hitting ponies, and knocking things down. He slowed down and panted near a shack next to the parking lot. A grayish blue earth pony with a whiteish gray- blue mane galloped out of the shack and dumped a bucket of water on the crazy pony. He scowled, and yelled at the pony.
"Dad, stop yelling nonsense, and chasing away my customers!" He then huffed, pushed up his purple sunglasses and walked away. The crazed unicorn grabbed his son with his erratic yellow magic.
"We have proof of the monstrous beast!" He raced over to the edge of the clearing , his son in tow, and most of the ponies following him in curiosity. He pointed, panicked at a small wooden cart that looked as though it was torn to shreds by many sets of teeth.
"The foul Hydra devoured our cart, and scurried towards ghastly geyser!" All of the ponies looked at the cart in slight awe.
“It hadest multiple heads, and twas scaly like a dragon! Thou must believe us!” Two police ponies were standing nearby. The shorter green one spoke, with a smirk.
“Attention all police ponies in the area, we have got a serious case. A serious case of a crazy old stallion.” All of the ponies laughed, except for the Pines, and the crazy ponys son, who just shook his head. The crazy pony mopped away, and the rest of the ponies went back to their business.
“Well that was weird.”
Flam then used his magic to plop the hats he made on the twins heads before messing with a smaller cart that was parked near the foliage in the swamp.
“Grunkle Flam, what can we even do in a Swamp?” Twilight asked with a small yawn.
“Why hunt for plants of course.”
“Plant hunting, that doesn’t sound fun at all.” Pinkie frowned.
“Well it is fun, it will be the best fun that you have had in ages, especially because I brought a book of puns!” Twilight shivered.
“And you're gonna be spending it with your Grunkle Flam for 5 hours!”
“5 hours?!? Why are we gonna spend 5 hours hunting plants?”
“Because the plants here are great for attractions, and I can sell them for high prices at the market, if I change them a little and say that they are rare.” Twilight groaned, and looked at Pinkie.
“We have got to get out of this somehow.” Twilight spoke in a whisper to her twin.
“I know, plant hunting won’t be fun at all, and summer is supposed to be fun.” They both looked to the ground in thought. Flam had gone back to organizing the contents of the cart. Twilight suddenly looked up towards the middle of the swamp.
“Hey Pinkie didn’t that crazy old pony say something about a monster?”
“Yeah, something like a hyper monster?”
“No, A Hydra… don’t you think it would be more fun to hunt that instead of plants?” Pinkie nodded excitedly.
“Hey Grunkle Flam, me and Pinkie were just talking, and we decided that we should all go hunt that Hydra, instead of boring plants.” Flam narrowed his eyes and was about to reply when a loud horn sounded, and a large cart pulled up next to them. They all looked over to see Spike riding in an large open bedded cart.
“Hey guys!”
“Spike!” Pinkie exclaimed and hoof bumped him.
“I heard you guys talking about a monster, and hunting it. If you want, you can come with me in my cart, it’s got comfy blankets, lot’s of room, and snacks.” Flam frowned before grabbing the twins with his magic and turning them towards him.
“Now kiddos, don’t be so hasty. You could hang out and bond with me while we identify plants, and try to not eat the tasty looking ones, or you could go on an boring hunt after that Hydra with Spike.” The Twins looked between Spike, who was sitting comfortably in his cart, while holding up some chips, and sodas, and Flam who was standing next to his cart crammed with old bottles, and rusty tools, as well as a few dead bugs. They then looked towards the center of the Swamp, which looked to be filled with adventure.
“So what do you say kiddos?” Flam opened his eyes shocked when he heard the horn and Spike’s cart drive away with the twins who were whooping and cheering.
“This choice is gonna be much more fun!” Pinkie exclaimed as the cart barreled into the swamp. Flam looked after them in surprise before, frowning.
“Aww... forget them, I have been collecting plants for years without them!” He then opened the back of the cart to grab a few things.
“I have all you dead bugs to keep me company!” He shuddered as one of the bugs twitched. He then slammed the back of the cart shut and went around the the front.



Meanwhile Spike and the Twins were slowly moving through the Swamp looking for signs of where the Hydra went, and where the ghastly geyser might be.
“Spike, have you been in the Swamp before?” he nodded.
“Yep, but I have never seen the Hydra , that crazy pony was talking about. Do you think it's a dangerous, as he said?”
“I don’t know, but if it is that means that it will be more fun to hunt, right Twilight?” Pinkie turned to her sister who was dozing in the cart, her hat tilted over her eyes.
“Twilight, we can’t hunt the Hydra if you are sleeping!” She repeatedly booped her sister on her nose, to wake her up. Twilight wrinkled her nose, and tilted her hat up a little to look at her sister tiredly.
“What-” Twilight yawned. “Do you want?” Pinkie pouted.
“What’s the plan to catch the Hydra?”
“Well I was thinking that you and Spike could distract it while I snap some pictures with my camera… and we could try to see if it’s sentient.”
“Hey, why do I have to do the distracting? Also what is sentient?”
“Because you are more brightly colored, but I promise that you won’t get hurt, we will stay a safe distance from the Hydra, sentient means that a creature can speak and think for itself.”
“Hey Twilight, why are you trying to see if it’s sentient?” Spike asked from the front seat of the small cart.
“Well if we are hunting the monster I want to be able to do more than just catch it, I want to be able to research it up close, and if it’s sentient, then I can ask it some questions that will help me understand it better.”
“Hmm, that sounds kind of nerdy dude.” Twilight looked at Spike a little bit annoyed while Pinkie and Spike laughed.



Flam was pulling his cart near by, and heard them laughing. He frowned, and scrunched his eyebrows together.
“Traitors… I will find my own plant hunting friends..” He looked around the Swamp searching for other ponies that were hunting for plants. He spotted a couple pulling a cart together. The couple consisted of a mint green unicorn and a cream colored earth pony. The mint green pony had her back turned to the cream one, and was holding a small box in her golden magic. She hid the box on her back before turning to her significant other.
“Bon Bon?”
“Yes Lyra?”
“There is an important question that I have been meaning to ask you…” The mint green unicorn spoke in a soft voice while blushing.
“Oh, Lyra, what is it?” The cream colored pony asked in a love struck voice.
“HEY!” Both of the ponies turned to see Flam pull up next to them in his small and rickety cart.
“You gals wanna hear a joke?” They both looked at him in disbelief, before the unicorn opened her mouth to answer, but was interrupted by Flam.
“Here it goes. My Ex wife still misses me…. But her aim is getting better!” He paused and threw up his hooves in comedic emphasis.
“Her aim is getting better!” He paused again as the couple hugged each other in confusion, as to why this strange old stallion was speaking to them.
“You see, it’s funny because marriage is terrible.” The couple then huffed and quickly pulled their cart away.
“What?!?” Flam yelled in disbelief, throwing his hooves in the air again.



Spike drove the cart while munching on some gem flakes that he had brought along with him, while Pinkie was bouncing up and down and looking out the back of the cart, and Twilight was drinking a soda that she had found, while tiredly scribbling notes in a spiral note book that she had pulled out of her vest.
“Pinkie have you spotted anything yet?” Twilight looked up when Pinkie didn’t reply, to see her blowing up balloons.
“Pinkie you're supposed to be keeping a lookout for the ghastly geyser!”
“I am, lookout!” She then hurled the balloon at Twilight, who yelped in surprise. Pinkie laughed , before grabbing a cupcake from Spikes pile of snacks. Twilight hit the balloon away after it hit her in face.
“But, seriously I got this.” They all yelped as the ground started to rumble and they were sprayed with water. Pinkie was the first to recover.
“See, it’s the ghastly geyser.” Pinkie pointed at the geyser a few feet from them. Twilight jumped out of the cart, her notebook back in her vest, and landed on the muddy ground before slipping. She got up and shook the mud off of her as Pinkie and Spike got out with no problem. As the geyser began to stop spraying water the swamp gas got thicker to the point where it became hard to see. Twilight grabbed her lantern out of her vest and went over to Spike.
“Hey Spike, could you light this, so that we can see better?” Spike nodded, grabbing the lantern and breathing his green fire into it, before handing it back to Twilight, who held it in her mouth. They then looked in the area around the geyser, looking for any sign that the Hydra had been there. It was Spike who had finally discovered the large reptile like footprints leading further into the swamp. He called the twins over and the trio ventured after the multiple headed beast. They followed the footprints until Twilight’s ear twitched as she heard a roaring to the right. She turned from the path of footprints and trotted excitedly towards the sound, Pinkie and Spike hurrying after her. They hid in a bush near where the sound was coming from, Pinkie and Twilight quietly hoof bumped, and Spike sharpened his claws, ready for a fight. The looked out from the bush to see a large figure with multiple heads. Twilight set the lantern down, before pulling out her film camera. She held it in her hooves before grabbing handing the lantern to Pinkie.
“Okay guys, you ready?” Spike and Pinkie nodded. They all tensed before bursting out of the bush and rushing at the figure. As they got closer the lantern light revealed that the figure was actually a giant pile of mud and sticks, that had multiple sticks, poking out at odd angles, with large bundles of leaves that looked like heads. All over the mud pile were frogs hopping amusingly. Twilight looked at it in disbelief. While Pinkie dropped the lantern and pouted.
“Then what was that strange sound? I swear I heard roaring.” Spike shrugged.They heard the roar again, they all started and looked towards the source, which was just a  large frog, that when it crocked it sounded like a dragon roar. Pinkie growled as he struggled with a bird the had suddenly grabbed the lantern, and fell back with and huff as the bird won, and flew away with the light. Twilight sighed.



“Now most people use this moss for cleaning up messes, but I find that it can be a great insulator, and you can use it to easily scare ponies, if you wear it like a hat. That’s a trade secret from one plant hunting friend to another.” Flam indicated to a bright orange  moss, before nudging the colt near him.
“Umm… do I know you?”
"No, but you can call me Grunkle Flam!” The mother of the colt, who had been smelling a flower looked over, and trotted over to them.
“Sir, why are you talking to my son? If you don’t leave us alone right now, I will call the cops.”
Flam started at them nervous for a second, before, quickly galloping into some bushes and away from them.
“Go bother your own family!”



Spike was holding two of the frogs, and trying to make them kiss while Twilight was sitting near a stream that was beyond the mud pile. Pinkie was standing near Twilight drawing in the mud, while Twilight stared dejectedly at her reflection.
"What are we gonna say to Grunkle Flam? We totally caught a monster!" She gestured at the frogs.
"Look how frightening they are!” She spoke in a sarcastic voice, before closing her eyes from weariness.
"Yeah... this wasn't very much fun."
Pinkie frowned and moved forward to comfort her twin when the ground suddenly shook, and ripples appeared in the brown swamp stream. Twilight’s eyes snapped open, and she looked through the swamp gas in excitement. She pulled her camera from her vest where she had put it, put the strap around her neck, and pulled out her notebook and quill with the other hoof, her hind legs squelching a little in the mud. Out of the gas appeared a huge dragon like creature with four heads, supported by long, scaly brown necks. While Pinkie and Spike moved back, Twilight moved forward and snapped a quick picture, before smiling.
“Umm, Twilight don’t you think we should be moving away from that thing?” Pinkie stuttered.
Twilight turned her head to face them.
“Did you guys forget the plan? You two are supposed to distract it while I try to see if it’s sentient.” She turned back to the Hydra.
“So Mr. Hydra, I have a few questions to ask you. First of all do you know why you have more than one head? Is it a mutation or- " Twilight was cut off as it roared unintelligently, and snapped at her head. Twilight screamed and spun around, dropping her note book in the process.
“It’s not sentient, it's not sentient!”
She galloped away from the stream after Pinkie and Spike who had already started running. The hydra chased after them. One of its heads ripped into a tree, throwing the derbies at them, the tree almost squashed Pinkie but, Twilight grabbed her and they rolled out of the way before resuming running. They managed to catch up with Spike and ran beside him, dodging other falling trees and plants.
“Quickly, back to the cart!” Spike yelled in panic.
Pinkie yelped as one of the Hydra heads almost got her tail, she leaped onto Spike’s back, and they ducked, as another Hydra head tried to grab them both. Twilight who was ahead of them, remembered her notebook, stopped and spun back around.
“My notebook!” She started to galloped back towards the pond. The Hydra heads snapping at her. Spike grabbed her by her vest as he passed her.
“If it helps, I got a lot of information on those frogs!”
“How does that help me?!” She yelled glaring, annoyed at Spike. The hydra was very close behind and they all had to repeatedly duck or dodge as all of it’s heads snapped at them. When Spike spotted the cart he sped up. When he got to the cart, he threw the twins in the back before jumping into the front seat and using his fire magic to start it up.
“Drive!” Twilight screeched as Spike backed the cart up and sped away from the geyser, that was spouting water again, sadly it did not stop the Hydra, who barreled after them. Twilight who was still tired dozed off for a moment before Pinkie shook her awake.
“Twilight, this is no time to sleep!” She was throwing snacks and balloons as the Hydra.
“Right!” She then remembered that her camera still hung around her neck, and snapped a picture before rolling away as the Hydra snapped at them again.
"Spike drive faster!” Twilight screeched throwing snacks at the Hydra as well.
Spike put as much pressure as he could on the pedal, and the cart sped up.



Flam was sadly inspecting a red flower when he overheard a young colt talking to his Grandpa in admiration.
“I want to hear all of your funny puns!”
“Anything for you guys, my plant hunting buddies!” The old grandpa pony chuckled and lightly patted the twin little ponies heads. Flam looked over,  and glared at them. The colt lightly hugged his grandfather's leg, his eyes widening in love, before speaking in an adorable voice.
"Grandpa… I just realized. That I love you.” Flam snarled.
“Are you serious? Boo you guys suck!” The grandpa pony looked at Flam.
"Hey, now that’s not very nice.”
“Maybe he doesn’t have any pony who cares for him.” The young colt spoke.
“Yeah, well my-” Flam was cut off as Spike and the twins sped past him in Spike’s cart, the Hydra not far behind. Both Flam and the other family got covered in large amounts of dust and plant debris. Flam spit out the flower that had gotten in his mouth, he then yelled in frustration and used his magic to throw down his hat. He then plopped down dejectedly in the dirt, the cart creaking a bit from his movement, on the side of the old brown cart Flam’s name was written, two other things had been written as well, before and after Flam’s name, but they had been crossed out.



Spike and the Twins had been chased back to where the frogs had been, they crashed through the mud pile, and the cart got covered in frogs. One of the frogs leaped at Spike's face and he lost control of the wheel, Pinkie quickly bounced forward and grabbed the wheel swinging the cart around and steering it right into a meadow in the swamp, while Twilight tiredly fought off frogs. She managed to swerve around a lot of other ponies hunting in carts, but the Hydra, with its multiple heads, damaged a lot of the carts. Pinkie managed to steer them away from the crowded area and back onto a deserted trail. Out of things to throw, they were no longer able to fend off the Hydra, and it multiple heads tore into the cart, ripping pieces of the wood off and ripping the roof off the front seat. Spike was still struggling with the frog and Twilight was groggily trying to not get bitten. Pinkie sucked in a sharp breath, as she noticed that they were quickly approaching a cliff.
"Twilight what do I do!” Pinkie screamed, briefly turning to her sister. Twilight shook herself, before quickly pulling the journal out of her vest and flipping through it.
“Um... Crap! Keep going, this should be a small cliff, and there is supposed to be a giant bubble that will soften our landing.”
“Supposed to be?!” Pinkie yelled in panic. They all screamed as the cart flew off the cliff. The cart landed on a giant bubble, the bubble popped sending the cart onto dry land next to the large pool, that the bubble had formed in. They all quickly got out of the cart as the Hydra leaped off the cliff after them, it landed in the pool, it strained forward, but found that it could only move it's heads. The pool was full of quicksand.
"Hey I think it’s stuck!” Pinkie exclaimed. They all moved closer to it, Twilight grabbed the Camera around her neck and began to snap pictures.
“Even if I don’t have notes, these pictures should help with my research!” She smiled tiredly. Pinkie just barely pulled her back, as the Hydras heads snapped at her. Pinkie and Spike began celebrating when Twilight noticed something. The hydra began to glow a strange yellow color and it seemed to fade. The glow grew brighter and the Hydra began to entirely disappear, starting with each of its heads. After the hydra had faded the only thing left stuck in the quicksand, was the crazy gray pony from earlier. He was standing in a large cart, that had multiple magic conductors strapped to it, and long wooden planks, with balls of the end of them, sticking out from the front of the cart. He was still pouring his yellow magic, from his broken horn into the conductors. He looked up as the twins and Spike came nearer, looking at him in disbelief.
“You? You were they Hydra? Why?” Twilight exclaimed. The crazy pony looked at them before looking down shamefully.
“We desired attention…”
“I still don’t understand?”
“We have been studying and practicing magic for years, and we used a complex and powerful illusions spell on this chariot, and learned how to maneuver one of these chariots, with our tail.”
“Okay, but why did you do it?” Pinkie asked leaning closer to him.
“When thou grows old from the ravages of time, less attention is gleamed upon us. We haven’t had the admiration from our own offspring in many moons. So we choose to capture his attention with spells of wonder and destruction.” He smiled manically before frowning again.
“Now that we have committed the deed, it does seem a bit contrived." He looked down in thought.
"Thoust, does not know the toils and struggles, ancient ones go through to have time with their kin.”
Twilight and Pinkie looked down in shame and pulled out the hats that Flam had made them, they had stored them in their articles of clothing earlier. The both looked at each other before sighing.
“I guess the real monster here is you two.” Spike spoke up. The twins looked at him sadly.
“Sorry, I just realized that.”
The twins turned back to the crazy old pony.
“So didn't talk to your son about how you felt lonely?”
“Neigh, I began preparations, for our spell. I have cast a many spell of illusions upon others in my life. When our mate left us, we created many illusions of the creature she feared most. And when my companion did not come to my party of rest, I constructed a spell that caused a cloud to follow him, and douse him constantly with rain and lighting.” He chuckled maniacally, before using his magic to teleport himself to the shore, and used his magic to levitate the magic conductors form the cart, as the rest of the cart sank into the quicksand.
“Well so much for my research…” Twilight and Pinkie sighed.
"Do you still have film?”
“Yep about one roll.”
"What should we do with it?”



Flam sighed and slowly trotted towards the front of the swamp, his whole body slumped as he walked.
“Hey, behind you!” A voice yelled. Flam turned around to see Twilight,Pinkie and Spike trudging along in a cart that had only two wheels, and looked as though it was about to fall apart. They pulled up besides Flam.
“Kids? I thought you two were off playing some stupid make believe game with Spike.”
“Well we spent all day trying to find a legendary creature.”
“But we realized that the only legendary we want to spend time with is right here.” Pinkie reached out to Flam. Flam huffed.
“Save your pity, I have been having a grand time without you. I made some friends, talked to the plants and my reflection, ran into the police.”
“So does that mean that there isn’t any room for three more in your cart?” Flam glared at them and huffed.
"You have legs, you can walk.” The twins plopped on the hats that he had given them, on their heads. Flam looked away before looking back.
“You kids ever seen me identify all the plants here without a fancy guide?”
“I bet you 5 bits that you can’t identify half.” Twilight got off the broken cart and climbed into Flams
“5 more bits, says you can’t do it without a guide and me talking about all the types of sweets.” Pinkie climbed in the cart, Spike following. Flam smiled.
“I like where this is going.” Twilight hopped down from the cart and went to stand in front of Flam
"Okay, everyone gather around Grunkle Flam." They all huddled together and Twilight snapped a picture.
The rest of the day consisted of the Pines and Spike, plant hunting together. Twilight either sleeping or learning how to identify each plant for later use when exploring the forest, Pinkie was learning about how she could use each plant in some kind of arts and craft, or to spice up her baking, and Spike was just enjoying the company of the Pines. They had few incidents, one with the police ponies from earlier, and one with the grandpa pony and his adorable twin grand ponies, but all in all it was a fun and bonding experience.