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// 5- Why I don't like babysitting 
// Story: The Fox and the Filly 
// by FrostTheWolf 
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The Fox and the Filly- Why I do not like babysitting




        “...And thats how I stopped the dark lords from conquering Equestria!” Leona boasted, wobbling about a bit from drinking an excessive amount of cider. Rarity herself sighed a little and Rena felt like she was having to do babysitting… which she highly doubted calling it babysitting if the baby you were referring to was in a drunken stupor like she was right now.

        “I…… see.” Sweetie Belle sighed before looking at Rena and then looking at the clock. “Oh man, I need to get ready for school tomorrow!”

        “I can take Button home and see you guys tomorrow,” Lyall told everyone from the position where he was before looking at Leona. “In the meantime, I think our little savior here has to have a much needed bath. She smells like she had one too many mugs of cider tonight.”

        “I can help!!” Sweetie Belle declared, holding up Leona in a magical aura as she trotted upstairs and brought the digimon with her. “Come on Leona, it’s bath time!!”

        “Huh? Why is everything spinning?” Leona wondered as she just dangled in Sweetie Belle’s magical grip before retching all over the floor behind her...

        And causing a particular fashionista to freak out of her mind. “Oh THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING!!!”

        All Rena did was just sigh, following the trail to where Sweetie Belle was and seeing her clean up Leona’s face while the water and the bubbles in the bath were beginning to rise… before she picked up Leona and plopped her in the tub.

        “GAH! WATER! I HATE WATER!” Leona suddenly blurted out before the bathroom was consumed with a sudden steam explosion. Sweetie Belle just raised an eyebrow, but it soon lead to Rena facepalming herself as she looked at the filly.

        “I almost forgot… Fire does not work well with water…” Rena said, looking back at Sweetie Belle.

        “Well how else are we supposed to clean her?” Sweetie Belle asked as she picked up Leona again in her magical grip.

        “There’s… one possibility… but it may require us to head outside.” Rena replied to her as the Renamon lead the filly outside while Leona was stretching out and leaving smoky burn marks on the carpet. Once outside… and facing away from the boutique, Rena used the most unlikely thing in order to wash her down. A gardening hose… besides, with someone like Leona, desperate times call for desperate measures.

        “Huh? what's tha… Snake! Die snake!” Leona shouted as she saw the hose, charging at it like an angry parasprite. Rena was able to wash the digimon off… but now she had a new problem. And that was Leona tearing the watering hose apart and still getting splattered in the process.

        “Sweetie Belle…” Rena sighed, looking back at her. “Can you go get the pointer?” The filly nodded, rushing back to her room before coming back down with something in hand and giving it to the Renamon. With a few clicks, Rena had the pointer working and a mini red dot was seen on the ground where Leona was, causing her to solely focus on that single light and that one alone. 

        Practically forgetting that the hoze ever existed leona started to chase the lazer, her drunken stupor now making her seem like some kind of cat… if a cat could look like a miniature sun that flew around like a deranged will-o-wisp. Even if it crashed into the side of a wall. “... help? I seem to be stuck in something…”

        “Well, that’s one way of trying to get her to calm down I guess.” Rena replied as she walked over and plucked Leona out of the wall. “Come on Sweetie Belle. It looks like this one needs some much needed sleep.”

        “But I don't wanna! And I’m… Much… older than…” Leona said before passing out in Rena’s soft paws. Causing her to chuckle in the process as she walked back inside. She then looked at Sweetie Belle and told her something that caught her by surprise.

        “Leona will be sleeping in your room tonight.”

        “Yay!!” She squealed, hugging the sunmon like a teddy bear before going to sleep in her room. This was going to be an awkward conversation by the time Morning comes back around.



        ‘‘Why do I feel like I’m being surrounded in fluffle puffs?” Leona thought as she groggily started to wake up, her memory of the previous evening completely blank. As she opened her eyes though, she immediately froze, her face just inches away from a soft white muzzle about as big as her. “Okay, why am I in a bed with filly Sweetie Belle and just how much did I have to drink last night?” She wondered aloud as she realized her current situation.

        “Too much…” She heard, turning her head to see Rena standing in the corner. “DO you need me to give you the entire list of damages?”

        “As long as it does not involve sun butt I may be able to atone?” leona said.

        “You threw up in Rarity’s living room, had Sweetie Belle and I resort to washing you down with a garden hose… before you annihilated it because you thought it was a snake and lastly, you were chasing a laser, crashed into a wall and passed out in my paws,” Rena explained, recounting everything from the night before. “Also, you almost kissed Sweetie Belle. May I say more?”

        “Would it mean anything to you if I said it could have been worse?” Leona said sheepishly, ironically relieved that that's all she did even if she was a bit put off by the thought that she almost kissed a filly.

        “You were also sleep talking about me.” Rena deadpanned, causing a blush to appear on Leona’s face.

        “I know no-thing!” Leona shouted in a german accent while turning so that Rena couldn't see her face.

        “To be honest… It was kind of cute to hear you like that.” Rena replied. “Still though, it may be best for you to get out of bed. We got some stuff to help Sweetie Belle with and there's the fact that she may specifically need you for something.”

        Leona slowly nodded in response before floating out of the bed before freezing in place again. “Wait, help with what?” Leona asked nervously.

        “It’s with what she has going on at school today,” Rena replied as she pointed at the calendar on the wall. Specifically today's date. “Today is Twilight Time at her castle.”

        Alarms immediately went off in Leona’s mind when Rena said the name of a certain lavender unicorn. “W-w-what w-would you h-have me d-do?” Leona asked, this time terror filling her voice.

        “Mostly just making sure that nothing out of the ordinary happens… but I did hear that Twilight was going to have the girls do a show and tell today, so Sweetie Belle might be reluctant to use us for that part.” Rena replied, just as Sweetie Belle turned in her sleep and pulled the sunmon closer to her.

        “S-so warm…”

        “Gah! Cuteness levels overloading mah brain!” leona squeaked in surprise before giving in to the sleeping filly… Just as Rena opened up the curtains and let there be light in the room. Causing Sweetie Belle to slowly wake up as she rubbed a hoof to her face. 

        “Aww man. I was having the best dream!” Sweetie Belle asked. “I was laying down next to Leona and she let me pet her.” 

        Leona said nothing as she pretended that she didn't exist, her entire body consumed in the wrath of her embarrassment induced blush. That was… until Sweetie Belle noticed and then tilted her head. “Rena, why does she look like Rarity whenever she gets embarrassed?” Sweetie Belle asked innocently, causing Leona to become even more embarrassed. “Why do I always find myself in these kinds of situations!?” Leona cried.

        All Rena could do was just sigh for a minute before looking at the two of them. “Let’s get you some breakfast first before we go anywhere.” Almost immediately after Rena said that, Leona was gone from the bed and floating as fast as she could towards the door, taking full advantage of the change in subject. However… there was one problem for her once she got to the door. She couldn’t open it.

        “Gah! Open you blasted door! Let me free!” leona complained as she teethed the door handle to no effect after ramming it with her head about seventeen times.

        Rena sighed, walking to the door as she grabbed it. Leona was trying to push the door open… But the real catch was that the door needed to be pulled instead as she did so for the sunmon. Blushing even harder now Leona quickly zoomed to the first floor before getting lost in an attempt to try and avoid embarrassing herself further, which obviously backfired.

        “Something tells me that this is going to be a long day…” Rena sighed as she followed Sweetie Belle downstairs, going to the kitchen and trying to make sure that Leona did not start a fire on accident.

        Suddenly there was a cry of surprise as something in the lobby of the boutique audibly came crashing down. “LEONA!!!”

        Rena sighed, only able to get some toast out of the toaster before she and Sweetie Belle ran after the little troublemaker. They needed to keep her on a very short leash if they did not want her to cause this much ruckus across ponyville.

        Needless to say, it happened anyways. “MY CABBAGES!!!”

        “Flaming parasprite! Run for your lives!” A mare with a Daisy cutiemark screamed while running past the boutique, not noticing Sweetie Belle or Rena standing at the front door after having grabbed their breakfast in a rush.

        “Well great, it looks like Leona ran off to the market… this is going to be our day isn’t it?” Rena then asked, only to notice someone else coming over and holding sunmon by the head. “Oh thank god, Lyall got her first.”

        “Looking for this rascal?” He asked, tossing Leona to them as Sweetie Belle caught her in her magic again. “She not only messed up the market place, but almost set Mayor Mare’s home on fire in her attempt to escape.”

        “I know no-thing!” Leona said, denying everything Lyall was saying.

        That was when Sweetie Belle turned her around, had her look deep into her eyes and give her most intimidating look on her face. “I’m very disappointed in you Leona…”

        “... I plead the fifth?” Leona asked, deciding it was best to surrender to her current better.

        “We will talk about this later. Right now, let’s get to Twilight’s castle and hopefully not have anyone stop to question us…”

        “Lyall, Leona is not contraband. Please don’t refer to her like that.” Rena sighed, causing Lyall to look back at her and fold his arms.

        “If you say so… Now tell me how exactly are we going to smuggle her into Twilight’s castle? It is heavily fortified.” The Strabimon pointed out.

        “Lyall!!”

        “I refuse to become that madmare’s experiment!” Leona cried out in panic, struggling to get free suddenly.

        “She’s not a madmare,” Sweetie Belle sighed. “I’ve been told she’s a little too curious for her own good, but not a madmare.” However, that wasn’t exactly helping Leona right now as she was ignoring what Sweetie Belle was telling her.

        “I bet smartypants would like to disagree…” leona muttered after giving up in her attempt to escape the magical grip holding her in place.

        “If anything, she might think you look like Princess Celestia’s cutie mark.” Sweetie Belle said on the side as she began to walk to the castle. However, it did little to help calm Leona down. Especially when she heard the name “Celestia”.

        “Oh, don’t even get me started on THAT madmare! Me and Sunbutt do not get along, ever.” Leona deadpanned, not at all liking that she was compared with her ‘pony counterpart’.

        “That was your Celestia. This one may be different-.” Rena tried to reply back before being cut off in the process.

        “While that may be true, I will not risk being brought before another embodiment of the sun as they say. Especially if Luna’s around.” Leona groaned, remembering the ‘friendliest’ meeting she had ever had with the two alicorns back in her original dimension. 

        Soon though, they all arrived at Twilight’s castle as Rena and Lyall hid in Sweetie Belle's and Button Mash’s digivice, leaving Leona and the two younglings to see Spike open the door and walk them in. However, it was then that something dropped on the floor… and had Spike unknowingly pick it up.

        “Hey there Sweetie Belle, Button Mash. Thank you for coming!” Twilight said upon greeting them. “You can set your flaming stuffed animal over there and Spike can help put it away… once you use a fire extinguisher on it first.” She soon had a spring in her step as she pranced over to another part of the castle while Sweetie Belle handed off Leona to Spike.

        “Cool, I’ll place it in my room alongside one other cool looking toy that seems rather ancient.” Spike said, walking upstairs and placing Leona on his bed next to what he found earlier. “Now where’s that fire extinguisher? AH! Here we go!!”

        Leona wasn't paying attention though, because as she saw what Spike found she went into shock… it was her digivice, but it seemed different for some reason that she couldn't figure out at the moment. Because when she tried, she was soon blasted by white foam as the baby dragon tried to put her out with the fire extinguisher he found in the kitchen. “Gah! My eyes! It’s in my mouth! MY EYES!!!!” Leona suddenly cried out before flying about blindly while spewing out expletives.

        “Holy dragon scales! You can talk!?!” Spike snapped, soon grabbing Leona and taking her to the bathroom to wash out her eyes. “S-sorry!! I just thought you were a fire hazard!”

        Leona immediately froze after getting washed off and realizing that it was Spike that was talking to her tried to resume her stuffed animal act while sweating profusely.

        “Uhh… It’s okay to talk. I did hear you a few seconds ago.” Spike mentioned to her. “Are you okay? Are your eyes better now?”

        “Do you promise to tell Twilight nothing?” Leona asked, putting emphasis on ‘nothing’ when she said it.

        “Umm… Yes?” Spike answered. “Why?”

        “I am a being as powerful if not more powerful than Princess Celestia, but I come from another world which no longer exists and I’m living here in secret.” Leona said, trying to dumb it down for him.

        “That…… is……… AWESOME!!!”

        “Quiet! I don't want purple to find out about me and turn me into a research subject!” Leona hissed, trying to make him quiet down after his loud outburst. “Or report me to Sunbutt” She then added too quiet for spike to hear.

        “That’s fine. Your secret is safe with me miss…… who are you?”

        “Leona… you may call me Leona.”

        “I’m Spike. It’s nice to meet you miss Leona-.” He said, before Leona cut him off midsentence.

        “I knew your name already, but anyway… Congrats young dragon, you have recently become a very important person in your world alongside Sweetie Belle and I think his name was Button Mash?” Leona said, not too sure but wanting to get most of the details of what Spike had gotten himself into over and done with since the longer she had to explain stuff the higher the risk of being found and or captured was.

        “Ooh sweet! We all have a secret now!!” The baby drake cheered, causing Leona to drop her head into the floor and groan to herself. This was going to be a LONG day for her. That, she knew for sure.



        It was only a few moments after finally getting finished up with Twilight and when Sweetie Belle returned to her saddle bag, she knew that something was off right away. Taking out her digivice, she then spoke up so her partner could hear her. “Hey Rena? Where did Leona go?”

        “I thought she was with your saddle bag.”

        “That’s what I thought too. Now she’s not here… Oh dear Celestia, please don’t tell me that she’s going to cause some more problems like what happened this morning.” The filly groaned as she recalled that small series of unfortunate events on the way to the castle. Once outside, she caught up with Button, who was waiting for her as they began to trot back to the boutique. “Hey, Button? Have you seen Leona anywhere?”

        “I thought she was with you.” Button replied honestly.

        “She wasn’t in my saddle bag when I last checked… Oh man, I have a bad feeling about what kind of chaos would happen if we left her alone out there.”

        “Well, if it is anything like what we had to deal with this morning… I think she’ll be fine.” The colt replied back. “Besides, I was going to ask if you wanted to look over my card deck with me.”

        “Card deck? What is this, some children’s card game?” Sweetie Belle questioned Button as the two of them came to a clearing outside of Ponyville where nobody was able to follow them.

        “No, not necessarily,” Button shook his head, letting Lyall and Rena emerge from inside their digivices. “Lyall told me that Digimon Tamers use special cards in battle to enhance a digimon in combat and also perform digivolution. Of course, mine is probably different from yours, but the concept is still the same.”

        That part got Rena confused as she looked back at the colt. “How different?”

        “Well, my digivolution process relies on spirit evolution and the spirits of the ten legendary warriors in the digital world. Button has some cards in his deck that allow me to undergo spirit evolution, which is my equivalent of digivolution,” The Strabimon began to explain. “Remember when I turned into Lobomon? Well, based on the cards, it would be similar to if you digivolved into your champion form, Rena. However, they are referred to as hybrids.”

        “What about your other evolutions?” Rena then asked.

        “Button and I have only figured out our champion form, but if I was to turn into an ultimate level digimon, my best guess would be that I would be KendoGarurumon. But then again, this is hypothetically speaking.”

        “Hypo-what? Are you trying to hypnotize somepony?” Sweetie Belle asked.

        “No no no, Sweetie. He was saying that as a theory. He believes that the outcome would be what he said, but he’s unsure about it.” Rena then clarified for her. “That also brings up another point… do you think we would be seeing more about those ten legendary warriors anytime soon?”

        “Legendary what?” Sweetie Belle asked again, even more confused than before. Only causing Rena to facepalm herself as she looked back at Lyall.

        “You got some explaining to do, brother.”

        “Fine fine…” He groaned as he cleared his throat. “The ten legendary warriors are a group of heroes that represented the ten elements of the world and fought against an ancient evil in the past. The elements are fire, ice, wind, thunder, light, dark, steel, water, earth and wood. I myself am the legacy that remains of the Legendary Warrior of Light. Which only means that there is a possibility for more to be out there… and for more tamers like you too.”

        “Hunh… Interesting…” Sweetie Belle said to herself before looking around to notice something in the distance. “Hey, is it just me or am I seeing Leona laying on top of Spike’s head like a hat?”

        It was indeed Leona… and she looked both annoyed and troubled at the same time for some reason as Spike ran over to the group. “Oh sweet! You weren’t kidding Leona when you said they had partners.”

        “Help me…” Leona mouthed while attempting to give Rena the best puppy dog eyes she could muster.

        “What happened to Leona?” Sweetie Belle asked. “She looks like me whenever I get dragged along on one of Rarity’s shopping expeditions.”

        “My guess is that either Twilight got to her… Someone used a fire extinguisher on her… or somehow it involves her digivice being in Spike’s claws.” Lyall pointed out to them, causing everypony to see what he just told them.

        “The first of those options has yet to happen… the rest are right on the spot though.” Leona whimpered.

        “Well, as least he’s been able to keep your cover hidden right?” Rena then asked.

        “Yup. Had to get creative at some moments, but I was good nonetheless,” He smiled, wiping what appeared to be a bit of dirt off of Leona’s head as he looked back at them. “Who knew that Leona’s best disguise would be a basketball?”

        “I still have yet to forgive you for that…” Leona growled, hovering away from the young drake and over to Rena. “I have an owie… can you kiss it to make it feel better?” She said as cutely as she could as she snuggled up to the Renamon, making sure to give her a clear view of where she had made impact with the ground when Spike had used her as a basketball to trick a group of kids who had gotten a little too curious.

        “I said I was sorry!” Spike proclaimed, only to be interrupted by something else. “Oh hey look, your digivice is glowing.”

        “Huh…” Leona muttered, looking towards the rusted old digivice in Spike’s claw. The old device soon began to shed away all of the old exterior trimmings as it now became a digivice similar to Sweetie Belle’s and Button’s. With the only difference being that the color scheme was similar to Spike’s scales.

        “Congratulations on finding your newfound partner in crime Mr. Leona. We hope that you and your new partner Spike will become a good pair of tamers and take on any challenge that you see in front of you. Have fun.” The voice that came from the digivice said, which reminded Rena of the AI lady from Borderlands 2 that was in charge of the New-U machines for everytime a player dies and respawns in game. Going as far as saying things like “Between us, the guy who killed you is a total d**k. Please disregard this message if you’ve committed suicide.” and so on. Rena and Lyall before they were displaced were lucky enough to play these kinds of games sparingly at the local recreation center.

        However… now was when Leona was no longer whimpering… but downright angry.

        “What… How… This… NO, no no no no! That better bucking not mean what I think it does!” Leona began to rant, “If that whatever it was means what i think it does… I COULD HAVE BUCKING PREVENTED THIS-!?” She then snapped, just as she glowed a little and began to change back into her rookie form. Which was now the same size as Spike as the dragon looked at the Coronamon before looking back at both Rena and Lyall briefly

        “To be honest… I thought you would be taller.” Spike then mumbled, the only ones hearing that being himself and Leona… resulting in her sending him flying across the field they were in with a swift punch to the gut.

        “You better hope that by the time I regain the ability to go Mega I have forgiven you… or I will step on you like Rena would step on a bug.” Leona warned, a vein in her forehead pulsing violently. That was when Rena went over and kissed her forehead as she looked at everyone for a brief moment.

        “Well… now that there’s three of us… How about we head back to the boutique and get Spike caught up on what’s going on. Because I have a feeling that from here on out… the next few digimon we’re going to meet are not going to be as friendly as we are…” Rena suggested.

        “I know where Rarity keeps her Ice Cream stash!” Sweetie Belle gleefully pointed out.

        “Ice cream does sound like a good way to cool off right now. The heat’s really making me sweat.” Lyall replied, before clarifying something. “And no, I’m not talking about Leona.”

        “Don't test me kid.” Leona growled as she clung to Rena’s leg for some reason, “And it's been years since I had actual ice cream so I will gladly join you.” With that, all of them soon made their way over to the Carousel Boutique for some much needed cold treats and a way to beat the summer heat.



Later that night...

        “Applebloom, don’t forget to feed Winona before bedtime!” Applejack called out to the filly as she put on a pair of goggles around her neck while making sure to feed the Apple Family’s pet dog. However, the filly was not so much done yet. Even when it was this late, there was one more hungry mouth that she needed to feed and to do that, she needed to take some of the bread she got earlier from the dinner table along with a few apples and bring them with her in her saddle bag.

        Carefully, Applebloom snuck out the back side of the barn, the darkness providing enough cover for her to hide from Big Mac out on the porch with Granny Smith in her rocking chair as she trotted all the way to the shed where the Apple Family kept their old tractor before it broke down a long time ago. It was not quite the best place to find something you might be looking for… but it is if there was something you didn’t want found in the first place.

        Slowly, Applebloom opened the creeky metal door as she stepped inside. One hoof at a time as she looked to the back of the room. “Hey there… I brought you some food. Do you like Apples? Maybe some bread?” What she was talking to soon moved through the dimly lit shed as it took a moment to sniff each of the things that was brought to it. Snatching the bread, but completely ignoring the apples as it ate the entire loaf whole.

        “Whoa nelly… You must be starving… Did that help you out?” She asked as the creature moved a little closer before licking her face. It’s red and black scales lit up with the light of the moon. “Hehe… I guess that answers my question.”

        “Thank you, Applebloom-mon!” It said, going as far as to hug the filly before it looked at her with a sad pair of eyes. “Applebloom-mon?”

        “Yes?” She said, going up a little closer to the creature.

        “I miss Buttercup.” Hearing the name had Applebloom freeze a little. But she kept herself calm as the filly them snuggled up beside the reptilian creature and let a tear from her eye fall down.

        “I miss mama as well, Guilmon… I miss her so much.”




End Chapter 5