//------------------------------// // Fluttershy // Story: The Adventures of K-9 in Equestria // by SudokuBrony //------------------------------// It was a beautiful summer morning in Ponyville; birds were singing, flowers were fragrant, on days like these, ponies like Fluttershy were the most happy. She happily awoke with a silent yawn and walked to her bathroom to freshen up with a nice, warm shower. After drying herself off, she made her way downstairs and made her own breakfast, a bowl of oatmeal, before starting the day. Angel, her pet bunny, hopped up to her and stomped his paw impatiently for his breakfast. "Alright Angel, after I finish." After she made her breakfast, she quickly made Angel a bowl of lettuce and carrots, which only made him hopping mad and threw the bowl in disgust. This made Fluttershy a little mad. After using her stare as she was known for, and a lecture, Angel gobbled up all the salad and ran away. Afterwards, Fluttershy made her way to her backyard and started to take care of all her animals and watering her plants around the house. She started with Harry the Bear, cleaning his cave with him. Next, she went to the birds, filling their troughs with seed. She kept going with the rest, until she might have saw something from the corner of her eye, but continued with her work until she started to water her plants. As she tiptoed through the tulips and frolicked through the ficus, she thought she noticed something between the willow tree and the rose bushes but just ignored it. It wasn't until she got to watering the final set of grapevines when she heard beeping and rolling sounds. She could've just been imagining due to the heat, and since it was around 1:30 P.M and pretty much finished watering, she decided to take a break for lunch. Once after making her lunch containing apple slices and a hay and dandelion sandwich with an iced tea, she couldn't stop thinking about what she had seen or what she heard. She had assumed it was just one of her animals doing what they do or Angel was about to pull a mean-spirited prank. She hoped it was the first one. Just then she spotted a dog like figure going by her open door over to the sunflowers while also hearing that strange beeping and rolling. She had calmed down from the heat and this time she wasn't imagining. Having made up her mind, Fluttershy followed the tracks that strange creature left behind. They stopped near the birdhouses on the right side of her cottage, but no sign of him. She went to turn and leave finally believing it was her mad imagination, but as she did, a high, flat, robotic voice startled her and she ran behind a tree. "Sentient form of life inbound. Show yourself." said the dog bot. Fluttershy didn't know what to think of him. With his grey metal coat, multicolored collar and the big word K-9 in white on both sides. She slowly poked her head around the tree, shaking with fear. "H-Hello?" "Greetings, creature." the small robot dog said. His voice reminded her of someone from either Canterlot, although it could be Trottingham, she wasn't sure. "Who are you?" "I am K-9 Mark I. State your identity." "Um, it's Fluttershy" Fluttershy said softly. "State identity." "Fluttershy." She wimpered softly. "Speak up!" he said forcefully. ".,.,." she could barely say anything with what frightening vibe he gave her. "Very well then. As of now you are known as an unknown life form." he turned to roll away, but Fluttershy still wanted to know more. "Wait!" He stopped. "What is it, miss creature?" "My name is Fluttershy." "Affirmative. Now you are known as Mistress." "No it's Fluttershy." "Affirmative." "So, um, K-9, do you know where you're from?" "Loyal pet to a being known as The Doctor." "Doctor who?" "Affirmative." Although more curious about this "Doctor", she just left it a that. "So K-9, would you like to come in? "Affirmative, Mistress Fluttershy." As they made their way inside, K-9 observed the various knick-knacks, birdhouses, and little creatures running around, he took it all in and assessed his situation. "Well, here we are K-9." "Cozy, it seems. Why do you have little furies around?" "Well, um, I like to take care a lot of the animals from the surrounding forests like cleaning their habitats, fixing and healing wounds, and feeding them." "Would you happen to have a tribble?" "What's a tribble?" "Master describes them as little balls of hair and fluff." "Sounds adorable." said Fluttershy. "Not until they rapidly multiply before starting to eat anything they can and multiply again." K-9 bluntly stated. "Oh my." "Or perhaps you have a gremlin?" asked K-9. "No, they're too dangerous for me. Um, I had one once who was always hungry. I fed him water, but he multiplied. And when I accidentally fed them after midnight for a snack, they became the most horrifying of creatures! And then he brought all the rest of his friends and everything was almost ruined!" Fluttershy sobbed. "At least now you are safe Mistress, that is all that matters." "Thank you K-9. I needed that." "Affirmative." While the conversation was well and good, Fluttershy also had this strange feeling that she forgot something important today. So she made her way to the calendar and looked at today's date. It was one of Fluttershy's annual tea parties and this time it was special, because Rainbow Dash was coming over. "Oh my goodness! I forgot all about my tea party with Rainbow Dash! What do I do?! What do I do?!" panicked Fluttershy. "Calm down Fluttershy." "How can I when I don't have anything set up! She'll be here any minute! Or second regarding her speed!" "Take deep breaths and I may help you." So she did. Afterwards, K-9 and herself made sure to make the living room a nice little area for the party. As they finished the last of it, there was a knock on the door.