Ash and Pinkie was walking towards the park, both with a smile on their face. It had been a few days since Ash had been released from the hospital and the words spread around quickly in the small town and everypony they met those days, wished Ash a good recovery or wanted to thank him for being so heroic against that Ursa Minor. It even happened that a few mares, possible new to Ponyville, tried to flirt with him, but they quickly found out that hard way, from both Pinkie, and the mane six, that Ash was no free stallion and taken by Pinkie, who clearly stated she intended to keep him.
On the other hand, even though Ash had been released a few days ago, it would be a lie to say he was fully recovered yet, his muscles was still not fully back to strength and he still got very tired after an easy work day at Sweet Apple Acres. There for it happened that he was in a bad mood now and then, but he quickly turned back into his normal happy and friendly mood thanks to Pinkie.
He had of course held a small, but steady training schedule as the doctors advised him to do, this meant each morning, before he went to work, he would run a kilometre and do five push ups.
Now was one of those days where Ash had time to relax, mostly because AJ had given him a free day to relax and have fun, Pinkie, of course, was the first to hear this and instantly insisted they went to the park to have some fun. Ash had agreed with a smile and followed Pinkie as she bounced a few hooves in front of him, excited and happy over a sunny, sky clear day.
They arrived in the park, happy to see the skies was still clear of all clouds and the sun shining as ever before, they saw ponies, both fillies and mares, running around having fun, or just lying on a blanket, enjoying the nice weather and happily devouring a daisy sandwich.
Ash laughed as Pinkie suddenly got all excited and said with a grin “Oh what a beautiful day! We have to celebrate this with a party! Come on Ash! Help me count ponies!” Ash laughed and began to count silently, while Pinkie ran around in full speed and counted every pony within a mile. Ash noticed Rainbow Dash bouncing a ball on top of her head, also counting each time it went into the air and grinned, knowing she probably tried to set a record. He stopped counting and watched as Pinkie got closer to Rainbow Dash and began to count, ending in Rainbow Dash loosing count and got confused, having to stop bouncing the ball.
“Arggh Pinkie Pie. I was trying to set a record here!” She said, annoyed over the sudden interruption “Now I have to start over!”
“Don’t have time! Got to keep counting!”
She turned to Ash with a surprisingly accusing look and said “Can’t you keep control over your mare friend for a second?”
Ash just smiled in response and shook his head slowly as he replied “Dash… You should know by now that not even I can control Pinkie. Besides I like her for what she is. Uncontrollably and always full of energy.”
“That’s so sweet!” Pinkie, who had suddenly appeared beside him, said with a big smile and kissed him briefly, before returning to her counting.
Rainbow Dash, who had been startled by Pinkies ability to show up anywhere without any logical explanation for how she got there, looked confused around for Pinkie, before she asked “How does she do that?!” Receiving no answer from Ash, she looked at him and asked “Hey lover boy! Snap out of it and answer!”
Ash, who had been in a minor trance because of the sudden kiss, shook his head and smiled apologetic to Dash as he said “Sorry. But I have no idea how she does it, I once asked and her answer was ‘Sorry it’s a family secret.’.” Rainbow Dash just looked disappointed, but shrugged quickly after and went back to bouncing the ball.
Ash smiled and looked around again, but this time he noticed Fluttershy had arrived too, he smiled and went over to talk to her, but as he got closer he noticed her worried expression and panicking look. He frowned a little and picked up his speed, as he met her he asked, wanting to know the reason for her worries “What’s wrong Fluttershy?”
She looked at Ash and smiled as she with a scared and low voice “Thank Celestia you’re here Ash, we got a huge problem. And with huge I mean tremendous.”
“What is the problem?” He asked again, wanting to get to the point without being rude. In response she just squeaked in fear and pointed up. Ash looked up and his eyes widened in surprise and horror as he saw a massive black cloud, hanging low over the park and were headed straight for Ponyville.
He turned around and was just about to tell the ponies about the cloud as Twilight appeared on the bridge and yelled “Listen everypony!” Everypony turned and looked at her, waiting for her to continue and Ash couldn’t help but smile as Twilight returned to her natural leader state. A certain air of leadership and power surrounded her, leaving no doubt she was one to follow if you wanted success. Twilight continued when she was sure everypony listened to her “We have a possible disaster at our hooves!” Everypony gasped and looked around in panic, as expecting a major beast to jump out any second “A black cloud of smoke is spreading over Equestria!” Everypony gasped once again and looked up to see the cloud of smoke that just grew bigger and bigger “But don’t worry! It’s not from a fire!” Ash noticed Fluttershy let out a sigh of relief, but he secretly wondered what could make such smoke if it wasn’t a fire. “It’s coming from a dragon!”
Ash’s eyes widened in horror and he barely heard Fluttershy began to stutter “A-A d-dragon?”
An hour later
Ash and the group had met outside the library, Ash had wondered why Twilight had gathered them here, and even more confused, when he saw all of them dressed up. Rainbow Dash had two war stripes of rainbow colour on her cheeks. Rarity had some kind of hat and a scarf, the hat was like a army uniform with camouflage and the scarf was bright pink. Pinkie and Applejack had each two bags on their back and Fluttershy looked like she was about to join a rugby team with all the protective equipment she was wearing. He looked over at Twilight, who also had two bags and asked “Why are you girls looking like you are about to travel somewhere?”
Twilight looked nervously at him and said, not meeting his eyes “Because we are… We have been given the assignment from Princess Celestia to travel to the mountain and try to convince the dragon to leave and find another place to sleep…”
Ash sighed, not wanting to think why they should be doing it instead of some professionals and said “Ok. Just give me a minute to get dressed and I’m ready.”
Again Twilight didn’t look him directly in the eyes and said with an almost guilty voice “W-We had actually planned to only go as us six girls…”
“WHAT?!” Screamed Ash.
“Please don’t yell at us!” She quickly said “But you know you can’t climb up a mountain in your condition! You can barely handle a full out work day at the farm and no way would be able to climb a mountain. You are simply not in state to do it.” He still looked a little angry, but understood her point, he would probably only slow them down and there was too big a chance that he wouldn’t even make it to the top.
He sighed angrily and said with a determent voice “Ok. I’ll stay on two conditions!”
Twilight sighed in relief, not wanting to fight him and said “Ok. Name it.”
“First: I want each of you to take one of my pokémon with you. They will obey your order and fight for you. You can each choose one of the six I have.” She nodded, happy that they could still gain some extra help. Ash walked over to her and leaned in and whispered into her ear “And for the love of Celestia, take care of Pinkie. I hate to admit it, but she really doesn’t understand the danger of a full grown dragon and if I as much as find a scratch, I will slowly torture and kill whoever and whatever did that to her.” Twilight’s eyes widened in shock and she pulled back and looked at him in horror, only to see his eyes full of determination and seriousness. She gulped and nodded, not wanting to even dare being under his anger.
Ash gave a smile as he turned around and with a few quick movements stood the whole team in front of him, just from Glalie to Sceptile. He looked at them all and said “Ok team, we got a problem at our hands. A dragon has taken sleep in the mountain near Ponyville and is spreading a black smoke over the whole land. Our job is too make that dragon find another place to sleep, whether is it by talk or force. Sadly I can’t go with the girls as I’m still recovering from the accident with the Ursa Minor, but you can still go. Now each of my friends will choose one of you. You will obey their orders and fight with them. Understand that?” Everyone of his pokémon nodded, clearly understanding this was very serious business and not something to make fun of.
Ash turned around and faced the girls, who each looked at the pokémon team with a smile “Choose carefully, each of them had strength and weaknesses.”
“I choose the bird!” Dash quickly said with a smile towards Pidgeot, who gave a cry in offense.
Ash laughed and said “Better say sorry Rainbow. Her name is Pidgeot and she really doesn’t like being called ‘bird’.”
Dash looked at Pidgeot and quickly said “I’m sorry Pidgeot. I just forgot your name quickly…” Pidgeot smiled at Rainbow Dash, as a sign she was forgiven.
“Ah think ah take Sceptile.” AJ said with a smile, and Sceptile just gave the quickest hint of a smile back, each of them remembering the few times Sceptile helped at the farm and the mutual respect they had for each other.
“I-I think I-I take P-Pikachu i-if it’s o-ok of c-course…” Fluttershy stuttered nervously. Pikachu gave a happy cry and ran over and onto Fluttershy back and nuzzled against her. Clearly remembering her kind treatment when he was hurt or exhausted after a hard training session. Fluttershy smiled happily at Pikachu.
“I think I would like to take Glalie, if I remember his name correct.” Glalie let out a happy rasp and floated over to Rarity, who smiled at the ice type.
“Oh oh! Can I get the big Gummy! Big Gummy!” Pinkie cheered as she bounced around Feraligator, who laughed loudly, enjoying his temporarily partner.
Ash chuckled too and said “Ok Pinkie, just remember his name is Feraligator and can use water attacks.”
“Well duhh!” She said and rolled her eyes “He is blue! Of course he can use water!”
Ash chuckled softly and turned around to Twilight and smiled to her as he said “And that leaves Charizard too you Twilight. You are possibly both the luckiest and unluckiest with that. He is quite a handful and often has some minor obedience problems when he gets angry or has his mind set on something, but he is my main power house and probably the most powerful of all my pokémon.”
Twilight nodded and looked over at Charizard, who looked at Twilight and gave a quick nod. At least happy he got to be helping the leader of the group.
“Ok girls let’s go!” Twilight said and each of them nodded, confidence added as they had just gotten a lot stronger with a pokémon each. Even Fluttershy nodded nervously, and looked at Pikachu who nodded to her with a reassuring smile. Ash watched as they left towards the mountain, Dash, Pidgeot and Charizard flying over them and the rest running on the ground. Ash sighed, already feeling the worry building up inside him, and decided to visit somepony he could talk too Getting his mind off things.
With the girls
They had just arrived at the foot of the mountain an hour later and looked up at the steep cliff they had to climb up. They silently began to climb up and as they were up they slowly began to fall into talk “I have heard that a dragons cave should be filled with the most precious diamonds in the world.” Comment Rarity after some time.
Pinkie Pie, who never ceased to fail on a joke, quickly made a fake roar and said with a dragon like voice “Welcome to my cave Rarity! Care for a diamond?”
This caused all of them to laugh, until Twilight yelled “Girls! This is no laughing matter! We have to get this dragon away and I can’t figure out how to do it. What do you think Fluttershy? Fluttershy?” She asked again, not receiving an answer first time. They all turned around and saw Fluttershy still standing at the foot of the mountain. Twilight looked at her and called “Fluttershy hurry up. We have to reach the cave before nightfall!”
“B-But it’s so steep…” she muttered with a very quiet voice.
“Well it is a cliff!” Rainbow Dash said while throwing her hooves up in the air “Besides can’t you just… You know. Fly?”
Fluttershy eyes widened a little and she quickly began to flap her wings, but as she went up in the air, a loud roar sounded through the air, she gave a quick meep and fell to the ground, her wings stiffly stuck against her side in fear. Rainbow Dash groaned and looked at Pidgeot and said “Pidgeot, would it be too much to ask if you could carry her?” The bird shook her head and went down and Fluttershy gently crawled onto her back and smiled slightly
With Ash
.He smiled as he finally reached Sweet Apple Acres. He entered the farm and saw, to his pleasantly surprise, Big Mac walking around, obviously nothing to do for now. He walked over and called “Hey Big Mac!”
The big red stallion turned around and smiled slightly when he saw Ash, they had encountered a few times before around Ponyville and had discovered they hit of quite well, and a friendship had formed between the two “Howdy Ash.” He said with a smile.
“So what are you doing?” Ash asked curiously.
“Nothing much. Nothing to work at and Ah have free the rest of the day.” He answered shortly, but then asked “Why aren’t ya with the girls? Weren’t ya supposed to drive some creature away.”
“Can’t go with them. The location is on the top of the mountain and I can’t possibly walk up there in my weakened state. I did give them my pokémon team as protection though.”
Big Mac raised an eyebrow and asked “What kind of creature did they have to chase away if they need protection?”
Ash looked at him with a surprised look and said “You mean Applejack hasn’t told you? The creature that makes that smoke over Equestria is a full grown dragon.”
This caused Big Mac to trip over his own two large hooves, he looked up, not even bothering to stand up as he asked in panic “Ya need to tell me mah sister and her friends is going against a full grown dragon? One of the biggest, most dangerous creatures in Equestria!? We need to help them!” He was just about to run to the mountain, when he felt somepony barely able to hold him back. He looked around and saw Ash pulling in his tail and asked, a little angry, but mostly because of fear “What are ya doing?! We have to help them!”
“Big Mac! Try to think! Even if we managed to catch up with them, what can we do against a dragon? Remember that those six are possibly our best bet against that thing as they are a perfect team and they got my pokémon team. A fully trainer elite warrior team that has been trained their whole life for combat and fights. I think they can handle it. Besides I’m pretty sure we will only manage to meet them on their way down as it will take a large amount of time, just to reach the mountain from here.”
Big Mac sighed and sat down on the ground, he groaned and said “Ah need a drink on this… Want to join me?” Ash nodded with a smile and they headed towards Ponyville, or more precisely, the pub called ‘The Left Hoof’
With the girls
“Be careful and quite girls. We are in the middle of an avalanche zone, even the smallest noise can cause an avalanche…” Twilight whispered as they all tiptoed across the valley. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Charizard and Pidgeot were in the air to reduce chances of making noise.
But as they were in the middle of the field, brushed Rainbow Dash accidentally against a branch on a nearby tree, causing a single small leaf to fall from it. Normally this wouldn’t have made any damage at all, but to their luck that single leaf landed on Fluttershy, who quickly fell to the ground in fear and yelled “AVALANCHE!!” All the girls quickly put their hooves in her mouth to stop her yelling, but the echo was quickly followed by a large rumble and the pokémons instantly went into action.
Charizard flew around and used powerful Fire Blast’s to burn down the smaller rocks. Pidgeot used her gust attacks to blow away rocks that Charizard missed. Pikachu kept jumping into the air and use Iron Tail against larger rocks, causing them to split over or crumble into many smaller pieces. Feraligator used his most powerful Hydro Pump, personally taking care of his masters mate was safe as he blasted larger rocks into the air again or just out over the cliff. Glalie used powerful Blizzard attacks to freeze the remaining rocks on top of the cliff, so they wouldn’t fall down too. Sceptile was in mean while using his incredible speed to safe the ponies from whatever stones that, against all odds, managed to fell through the defences and down upon the mane six.
After a few more minutes the avalanche stopped and all the pokémons stood and panted tiredly at the ground. Twilight looked at them in wonder and awe and said “T-Thank you… You possibly saved our lives there.” The pokémons each gave her a quick grin and for those who had thumbs, a thumb up too. After a few minutes, as the pokémon regained their strength, they returned to their journey and walked once again up the mountain, towards the cave.
With Ash and Big Mac
Ash and Big Mac sat at the pub ‘The Left Hoof’ and enjoyed a strong cider as they let the alcoholic liquid wash away their worry and fear for their friends, sister and mare friend. Ash was on his fourth glass, while Big Mac, who could drink a little faster than Ash, was on his sixth glass, and to say the pub owner was in a good mood would be an understatement. He was willingly serving them before any other customer and didn’t even bother to say anything. Ash, who had discovered he was a light weight when he was at his first party containing alcohol at the age of 16, was beginning to feel a little light headed. He looked at Big Mac with half a smile and said “So how have it been hanging lately Big Mac? I haven’t seen you in a while.”
Big Mac smiled to him, easily seeing the early signs of being drunk, and said “Nothing much Ash. Just been doing mah work on the farm, been a little around town, shopping. The usual.” He ended his answer with taking a big sip of his cider and put the empty cup down with a loud clonk. He gave a sigh and asked suddenly “So how’s it going between ya and Pinkie? Even Ah have heard yer two are quite close.”
Suddenly Ash began to smile dreamily and said as in a trance “Sweet Celestia I love that girl… She is the light of my life. The reason I choose to stay in this town. I would give my life and so much more if she even gave the smallest hint she wanted it!” it was quite easy to see the alcohol had finally began to affect his behavior.
Big Mac laughed, enjoying the company of Ash. Truthfully he had been quite lonely for some time before he met Ash. It was just there were few stallions in town and for those who were there, was not quite the type Big Mac could see a friend in, and even through he hated to admit it, he was too shy to try and befriend a mare. He may be big and looked quite rough, and that rumour didn’t help as he didn’t spoke very much, but he just couldn’t find himself the courage to talk more than a few sentences to strangers. Suddenly Ash looked up at him and asked with a grin “So Big Mac, any mares that have caught your interest? I mean there are plenty to pick off in this town.”
Big Mac suddenly blushed horribly, not that it was very noticeable under his high red fur. He looked at Ash and stuttered “N-No… Ah d-don’t have i-interest in any m-mare…”
Ash grinned once again and said “Your voice is betraying you Big Mac. Come on. You can tell your friend Ash.”
Big Mac looked at Ash with a nervous look for a few moments, before he looked around and saw nopony was listening into their conversation. He sighed in relief as most of the tables closely around them was empty and he looked at Ash and said “Promise me ya won’t say this to anypony else.”
“I promise bro. Just tell me.” He said with a smile. Big Mac smiled too, knowing that even through Ash was drunk he would not tell a living soul about the secret he was about to say.
“Ok… Ah maybe got a minor interest in Miss Fluttershy…” He said with a blush.
Ash’s eyes widened in surprise and he stuttered “I-In Fluttershy? Shy little Fluttershy? As in Applejacks friend?”
Big Mac smiled amused to him and said “How many with the name Fluttershy do ya know?”
Ash shook his head and said “You’re right. Sorry… It’s just a surprise. I mean I know she has her own kind of beauty and she is certainly sweet… It’s just hard to imagine Fluttershy in a relationship… Her name includes the word shy for Celestias sake!”
Big Mac blushed quietly and said “Ah know that… That is what Ah like about her. She’s just so sweet and caring…” He said with a smile. Ash chuckled softly and nodded his head in agreement, thinking the exact same about his dear Pinkie, while he hoped she was safe and sound. Only Celestia knows how many heads will roll if she ended up hurt.
With the girls once again… Is this beginning to annoy you?
Twilight and the group finally stood on the top of the mountain, looking into a huge black cave with a pillar of pitch black smoke slowly sipping out of it. They all looked with a little amount of fear at it, while the pokémon team stood behind them, all their expressions cold as stone and neutral, except Charizard who smirked slightly, happy to get a challenge. Twilight looked nervously at the cave and began to speak “So this is the plan… First will me and Fluttershy try to go in a talk to the dragon and maybe get him to leave…If we can’t talk to him and only if he gets violent I want you and Rainbow Dash ready to distract him.” She added the last part, while looking at Applejack, who nodded determent and proved her style as she threw two apples into the air and quickly kicked them, sending them over and hit a tree perfect in the middle. Twilight smiled and nodded, happy she at least got back up if the first plan failed.
She began to walk towards the cave and then noticed the lack of company, she looked around and saw Fluttershy trembling as she hid her head under her hooves. She walked over and said “Come on Fluttershy. We’ll have to stop the dragon from covering Equestria in a thousand years smoke!”
“I-I c-can’t…” She said quietly.
“Why not?” Twilight asked, now a little confused.
Fluttershy made a squeak and said “I-I-I’m….”
Unable to hear the rest of the sentence, walked Applejack over and placed a hoof on her back and said “It’s alright Sugarcube. Ya can tell us.”
“I-I’m s-sca…” Suddenly a loud roar from inside the cave penetrated the silence and made Fluttershy squeak in fear once again and she quickly said “I’m scared of dragons!”
Twilight’s eyes widened in surprise and she said “But Fluttershy. You have a wonderful talent with all sorts of animals.”
“Yes.” Replied Fluttershy, now looked at Twilight with a calm look “Because they were not a dragon.”
“But what about that manticore!” Pointed Rainbow Dash out.
“It wasn’t a dragon.” She replied again as that sentence was the end of every argument.
“Spike is a dragon. You’re not scared of him.” Said Pinkie cheerfully.
“Yes… Because he’s not a huge, gigantic, terrible, enormous, teeth-gnashing, sharp scale-having, horn-wearing, smoke-
snoring, could-eat-a-pony-in-one-bite, totally-all-grown-up dragon.”
“B-But Fluttershy, we need your help!” Twilight said with a desperate look.
Fluttershy looked at her with guilt and said “I-I-I…” Everypony looked at her and she sighed and continued “Sorry… I just can’t…” With that she turned around and walked away, her head hanging low.
“Oh Fluttershy…” Twilight said with a sad look, not really disappointed in her. She turned around and faced the cave again, suddenly feeling very nervous as she didn’t have any real talent with animals and especially not dragons… How she wished
Fluttershy was there right now… She gulped and walked into the cave, and her eyes widened in fear as she saw the enormous red dragon, lying on a huge pile of gold… She carefully coughed politely and said with a weak voice “E-Excuse me sir?” The dragon grunted and didn’t even move an inch. Twilight felt her hope drop slightly, but she continued anyway
“Sir. Can you please listen? Would you be kind enough to find another place to sleep…? You see, your snoring is causing a lot of black smoke and pollution and has become a health hazard to ponies all over Equestria. So if you would be kind enough to find another place to take you nap, it would be much appreciated…” She looked at the dragon in a little amount of fear, and gulped as the dragon yawned loudly and stood up, towering over her and scratched his back lazily.
Twilight smiled slightly and said “Thank yo-“ She would have ended the sentence, but was cut off as the dragon fell to the grown again and continued to sleep and even let out a breath of black smoke at her, causing her to cough for fresh air. She turned around and walked out of the cave, only to be met by her friends who looked at her hopefully. She shook her head sadly and said “Didn’t work…” They all looked down sadly.
“Let me try.” Said Rarity with a sudden smile “If trying to talk him to leave won’t help, maybe a little flattery would work otherwise.”
Twilight watched as Rarity went into the cave, unable to stop feeling a little worried for her true motives behind her sudden courage against the dragon. She was a good friend indeed, but sometimes her love for diamonds and jewels… Could shadow her mind just a little bit and cloud her judgement… True to her thoughts was Rarity sitting out on a rock in front of the cave a few minutes later, angrily muttering about how close she was to getting that diamond. Twilight, even through she felt a little annoyed, couldn’t help but smile and roll her eyes, until she suddenly heard a loud noise behind her. She turned around and to her shock saw Pinkie Pie in a downright ridiculous outfit, it was consisting of a large gift covering her body, a pair of fake glasses with a moustache and one of those things where you blow in it and it makes a weird noise. She had several balloons attracted to her tail and mane.
“Pinkie. What in Equestria are you wearing?” Rarity asked shocked.
Pinkie smiled widely and said “I thought that dragon might need a little fun, so I’m going to bring a smile to his face! Everyone loves to smile!”
With that she began to walk towards the cave, only to be lifted off the ground by Twilight who said tiredly “No way you are going in there Pinkie. I promised Ash, I would protect you, and if you get hurt by that dragon there is no way to tell if that dragon will survive for another day. Or me for that matter…” She added silently. Pinkie looked a little sad, but smiled and nodded anyway. At least happy that Ash made sure of her safety before they left. She moved back again and smiled to Twilight, who smiled back at her energetic friend. Happy that she had found somepony to look out for her.
“Ok!” Rainbow Dash suddenly said impatiently “We have tried to talk!” She pointed at Twilight “We have tried flattery!” She continued as she pointed at Rarity, who nodded “We tried… Whatever Pinkie Pie does!” She pointed at Pinkie Pie, who mysteriously had attained a balloon and was trying to blow it up. “It’s time to do something!” With that she flew into the cave, ignoring the cries for her to stop, she flew right up in front of the dragon, with a fierce look she yelled “GET OUT!” and gave the dragon a heavy kick on his nose. It opened its eyes and looked at Rainbow Dash, who repeated herself “Get out you overgrown reptile!”
Suddenly the dragon stood up once again, but this time it didn’t have the lazy look in its eyes or yawned. Instead the look was filled with anger and annoyance and it growled angrily at her. Her eyes widened in fear as she looked at the now angry towering dragon. Suddenly the dragon let out a loud roar. Rainbow Dash grinned nervously and said “Errhhh… See you!”
With that she quickly flew out, but was forcefully pushed out as the dragon let out a loud roar, which caused a loud smoke explosion in the cave. It intense force shot Rainbow Dash out of the cave and she accidentally hit into the others, who waited outside the cave. They all got forced to the ground and could only watch in terror as the huge dragon stood up angrily and glared at them all for awaken him from his deep slumber. The dragon looked at them with narrowed eyes and let out a huge raw, blasting them with a huge cloud of black smoke. The pokémons immediately jumped into action, when they finally got over the shock of the size of the dragon alone. Pidgeot and Charizard immediately flew into the air and began to blast the dragon with several of different attacks, all from Rock Throw to Air Cutter. Feraligator stood from the ground and blasted with water and ice attacks at the dragon, who roared in pain and annoyance of the damage he was getting. Glalie was also floating around and using his most powerful ice attacks, all from Ice Beam to Blizzard. Sceptile, who didn’t think his grass attacks would work against the large dragon, used his speed to once again get the ponies to safety and out of reach from the dragon.
Pikachu probably had taken the most dangerous job of them all; he jumped around on the dragons’ body and continued to hit it with electricity and physical attacks as Iron Tail. The dragon once again growled in a fit of anger and in a violent movement he swung his arms and Pikachu was sent flying directly into a huge rock. He hit it and let out a cry of pain and the rock slowly began to crack and crumbled into smaller pieces that fell from each other. Suddenly Fluttershy’s head popped out behind the rock, she looked around in a small amount of confusion and looked down, she gasped as she saw Pikachu, lying on the ground unconscious. Her eyes flared a little and she looked up at the dragon and saw all Ash’s pokémons… All his friends fighting to protect her and her friends. She felt a spark ignite in her and a rare anger flow through her body, giving her courage she would never have imagined she had before.
“How dare you…? HOW DARE YOU!” She yelled angrily and quickly left the ground and flew up to the dragon, who had frozen in shock over the frightening and dangerously angered voice, even the pokémon team had stopped fighting the dragon and looked at Fluttershy surprised. “ Listen here, mister! Just because you're big, doesn't mean you get to be a bully! You may have huge teeth, and sharp scales, and snore smoke, and breathe fire... But you do not, I repeat, you do not! Hurt! My! Friends! ...You got that?” The dragon whimpered and lowered its head “Well...?”
“But that rainbow one kicked me…” He said gently, surprising everypony as they didn’t except him to be able to talk. Rainbow nodded her head proudly, but was stopped when Twilight quickly pushed her head down in the dirt with her left back hoof.
“And I am very sorry for that, but you are bigger and you should know better. You should also know better than to take you sleep a place, where your snoring can become a health hazard to other creatures.” She said gently and patted him.
“But I-“ He began, but got interrupted by Fluttershy.
“Don’t you ‘but I’ me mister.” She said with a warning tone. The dragon gave a little sniff and suddenly began to cry, making it seem like it rained upon the ponies on the ground, which they didn’t really notice as they all stared in awe at Fluttershy. Twilight had wide eyes and her jaw hanging, Applejack also looked a little surprised, but smiled proudly at her friend,
Rainbow Dash was too in shock and she hadn’t even noticed she still had her head in the dirt as she looked at her quiet, shy friend, who just made a full grown dragon cry. Pinkie didn’t even look at Fluttershy as she jumped around in the rain, made by the dragons tears. Rarity was equally surprised as Twilight and wouldn’t believe what she just saw if she hadn’t seen it for herself.
The pokémon team was staring at Fluttershy with proud smiles and approving looks, even Charizard had one of his rare smiles and a shine in his eyes, looking at the yellow pony in a whole new light than a few minutes ago, where he would have seen her as the weaker link of the group.
After a few more minutes the dragon stopped crying, and gently sniffed. Fluttershy patted him once again and said “There there, you not a bad dragon. You just made a bad decision.” The dragon nodded and quickly left the mountain and flew away.
The rest of the ponies ran over to her and hugged the daylights out of her, each of them thanking her for saving them and asked how she could do that. She just meeped and blushed in returned, making them laugh as they now knew the old Fluttershy was back again.
A few hours later, the time it took to travel down the mountain and talk Rarity out of taking a few diamonds from the cave as it would surely mean Ponyville’s destruction, they all arrived, tired and ready for bed, in Ponyville. Twilight looked at the others and smiled tiredly and said “Good job today girls, especially you Fluttershy.” She blushed at the praise “How about we go find Ash? He must be worrying his flank off.” The girls snickered and nodded with a smile.
The task of finding Ash was actually proven harder than originally thought, they realized half an hour later. They had literally searched anywhere, just from the Cake’s house to Sweet Apple Acres. Not one of those places was he to be found and it was easy to see Pinkie was beginning to get worried. “You think he is ok girls?” She asked with a worried look in her eyes, and her lips formed a little pout.
Twilight nodded “I’m sure he is ok, I noticed Big Mac wasn’t at the farm either. Maybe they are hanging out together somewhere?” The girls nodded in agreement and Pinkie smiled a little, happy that he wasn’t alone at least.
“Pinkie! Applejack! Thank Celestia I found you girls!” A voice sounded from behind them, they turned and saw a stallion with a rough yellow colour and a brown mane. His cutie mark was a bottle filled with cider.
Applejack smiled and said “Howdy Cider Joe. What are ya looking for me for?"
“I need you and Pinkies help. We got a couple of passed out stallions at me pub and I think you are quite familiar with them.” He grinned with a gleam of amusement in his eyes. The girls groaned loudly, knowing exactly who the two stallions were, while Pinkie giggled, already excited to see a new side of her coltfriend, a drunken coltfriend.
They followed Cider Joe to his pub and true to his words, inside lay Big Mac and Ash over the table, surrounded by empty bottles, most of them still standing but a few of them had fallen to the floor. Twilight rolled her eyes as Pinkie walked, still giggling, over to Ash and gently pushed a little to him saying “Wakie wakie Ash.” He drunkenly grunted in annoyance and looked up with a tired expression.
His eyes widened as he looked at Pinkie who smiled amused to him and giggled a little. Before she could even say another word, he took her head with both his hooves and pressed his lips to hers in a passion filled kiss. Her eyes widened in surprise at first, but after a second she returned the kiss with just as much love. The other girls reactions were mixed, Twilight and Applejack smiled widely at the sight, while Rarity giggled madly with excitement. Rainbow Dash made a few gagging noises, while Fluttershy blushed furiously and looked away. After a few more seconds, pulled Ash away and looked at Pinkie and said “I love you Pinkie…” Before he fell down in front of her, unconscious once again.
She giggled and said “I think I like drunken Ash, he is a little more forward and taste of cider.” Fluttershy squeaked and blushed a little further.
Applejack gave a soft chuckle and turned to Big Mac, who was still asleep and couldn’t help but smile. She wasn’t really angry at him for getting drunk, even Big Mac had the right to get some fun once in a while and truthfully she was very happy he had finally found a true friend. She had been a little worried over the months as he had spent all his time at the farm without hanging around in Ponyville and having fun.
She gave him a shake and said “Hey! Big Macintosh!”
His eyes snapped open immediately and looked up in shock, he stared directly at Applejack and before anypony could see what happened, he pulled her into a crushing hug. Applejack looked shocked and asked “What are ya doing?”
He pulled away as fast as he pulled her into the hug and glared at her with annoyance and growled “Don’t. Ya. Ever. Dare. Go. Fight. A. Dragon. Without. Telling. Me!” Applejacks eyes widened in shock and gulped, following by quickly nodded. True she was a brave pony, but she was not stupid and if Big Mac was this annoyed, it was best just to agree with him as quickly as possible.
He pulled her into a new and much easier hug and said “Ah was so worried about ya. Ah might have lost mah big little sister!”
In response, smiled Applejack a little and returned the hug. Happy to hear her brother was worried about her so much. She gently pulled away and said “Let’s go home Big Mac, ya tired and need sleep.”
“Right…” He said and swayed a little, following Applejack slowly, he slowly looked around and saw Fluttershy, looking at the ground, still blushing a little from the kiss Ash and Pinkie shared a minute ago. His eyes widened and he smiled gently and began to move towards her. Applejack turned around and looked at him a little confused.
Fluttershy looked up and saw Big Mac standing over her, her eyes widened a little and she couldn’t help but blush when she saw his kind smile. He looked down at her and smiled, before saying to everyponies shock “Ah always thought you were and still is the most beautiful and cutest mare Ah have ever seen.” He quickly gave a small kiss on the cheek and turned around and excited the pub, leaving behind a shocked group, except Ash who was sleeping at the hooves of Pinkie. Fluttershy was blushing furiously and tried to hide under her hooves, but if you looked closely you could see the small warm smile she had.
After a few awkward seconds, regained Twilight from her shock and said “I think I’ll help Pinkie get Ash home… Applejack, can you make sure Big Mac didn’t pass out somewhere in the streets?” She nodded with a smile and they all parted to go home.