In a small, beaten shack, there was a old living room. In that old living room, there was a tattered, orange lounge chair. On that tattered orange lounge chair, sat an old man with an unusually orange nose and a red fez. In his right hand he held a can of Pitt Cola. Yes, Stanley Pines was living the life, butt on the chair and eyes on the TV screen. He couldn’t have asked for a better day. He made a whooping $10,000 off a couple of suckers from upstate, shoplifted a loaf of bread, and on top of it all, the season premiere of Baby Fights was on tonight.
As the smackdown between Joey and Tootsie began, The red-headed Wendy poked her head through the doorway.
“Ah, Wendy! Did Soos try to eat the dog treats we put out again?”
“Actually, he did, but that’s not why I came. Have you seen Dipper and Mabel? I haven’t seen them for like, the whole day. I think they went out in the forest to go mystery hunting or something and we were supposed to all hang on the roof tonight, and I know that that is something Dipper would never bail out on.” Said Wendy, internally giggling at the thought of Dipper’s massive crush on her.
Stan bolted upright. Oh no oh no oh no... The kids! He knew he was forgetting something! And the forest of all places? The kids could be in serious danger. So many times he had looked through his bro-
He shook his head. No, he shouldn’t be thinking about that. The kids were his top priority now.
He darted out the door, nothing but his blue striped underwear, white under shirt and pink slippers to clothe him. Outside, it was dark and windy, the stars bright. Wendy followed him out the door in a hurry.
Stan wheeled around and grabbed Wendy by the shoulders. “When was the last time you saw them?”
“Uh-uh.. I was at the cash register… They said they were going to sit out on the porch…”
Stan was no longer listening.
“KIDS!!!!”
“I’m sorry, princess. Through all my work in creature studies, I’ve never come across creatures such as these.”
Twilight sighed. “Ok, thank you m’mam.”
Twilight and the rest of the ponies were inside of Dr. Clawhauser, the creature specialist’s laboratory in Canterlot. She was a blue unicorn with a black mane and an animal paw as a cutie mark. Through her mane was a single green stripe. Several unbreathing and stuffed animals sat in jars and stands. This made Fluttershy very uncomfortable, her eyes towards the ground almost the whole time. A manticore X-ray was hung on the wall, labels on every part of the bone. The ceiling was fairly close to the ground, as Twilight thought that Big Mac’s head would just barely scrape the surface. Papers were littered across the counters, and DNA test tubes sat sprawled here and there. This made Twilight very uncomfortable, her eyes towards the ground almost the whole time. Shining Armour had set the two creatures down on and animal examination table. The medics and the guards had left them at the door of the lab, for they had other duties to attend to besides following Twilight around all day.
Shining embraced the creatures in his magic bubble once more. Maybe they would have to take these guys to the Princess. She is over 1000 years old, she must have seen this species before.
As they all began to take their leave Dr. Clawhauser called out to them. “Wait!” They stopped to look at her.
She trotted over to the bubble and tapped on it. “Since these creatures appear to be unclassified, I was maybe thinking we could keep them in my research fascility downstairs. Studying creatures is great, but finding an entirely new one, well, think how much research I’ll be able to accomplish! Well now that I think about, these animals look closely related to the chimpanzee family, or they could be part of…” She trailed off, lost in her train of thought.
Twilight turned to the group. “I actually think that it would be a good idea to keep them here. I mean, technically speaking, we haven’t exactly found a place put them and I don't think Shining wants to carry them forever.”
Rainbow Dash piped in. “I’m with Twi.”
Everyone else agreed and Twilight turned back to the blue, spacey unicorn and shook her out of her trance.
“Wha..hmm?” She said, startled.
“We’ve agreed to let you keep these creatures in your lab.”
Dr. Clawhauser let out a squeal of delight. “All right now, I want you to follow me downstairs to the…”
Mabel slowly groaned and opened her eyes. She saw bright pink everywhere she looked. She half sat up and took in only a portion of her surroundings with bleary eyes. She saw little spots of color outside of her pinkness and heard a couple of voices. She groaned and flopped back down. She knew exactly where she was and what was happening, and she did not like it. These jerks had come back for her, to haunt her once more. She scrunched up her face and inhaled deeply, preparing to release all her anger on these monsters who had come to torture her again.
“...facility where I keep my live subjects.” Clawhauser said.
Right as she finished speaking, the female groaned and sat up. The silence in the room was unmatched. Everypony was watching the creature slowly open a part of her eye and look around. No pony dared moving. The female then flopped back down and let out a bigger groan then began to grow angry. Everypony took a step back and became nervous.
“Twilight? Wh-what are they doing? Do they know…magic?” Applejack stuttered.
Twilight gulped in response.
The creature inhaled. Everypony flinched and…
“I WILL NEVER EAT YOUR PAW EVER AGAIN, YOU POSSESED DEVIL DOG! STOP HAUNTING MY DREAMS, TURDBLOSSOM!!!!”
Then she rolled over and went back to sleep.
Everypony opened one eye and cautiously returned to normal standing position.
“Whaaa…..?” Rainbow began.
“She was sleep talking, guys.” Twilight said with a face of relief. “Probably dreaming, but this means they might wake up soon, so let's get down to the facility and confine them.”
They all nodded and began walking down to the end of the hallway, where a staircase to the lab basement was located.
Dipper was faintly aware of someone talking. Probably Grunkle Stan, He thought.
Making Stancakes, or something. He rolled over. “Grunkle Stan, can you keep it down? I’m trying to sleep.” The noise stopped. “Thanks.”
The ponies were really moving now. This is the second time the creatures had stirred. After running down the stairs, Clawhauser slid open a metal door and inside the room, and quite a sight was seen.
Several centipedes were crawling around in cages. A timber wolf was asleep on the floor of another. A couple fruit bats hung from the ceiling in a large steel box. Everypony gasped at the many animals around them. The racket coming from the animals never seemed to die down.
“There! My last empty cage!” Dr. C said, pointing a blue hoof at a large iron, hollow cube with a swinging and see-through door attached to it. It was about 10 feet tall and sat in the back of the basement. Everypony trotted over to the cage then looked at Shining Armour, who was still carrying the creatures in his magic bubble.
With a look of concentration on his face, he moved it slowly into the cage, and began to make it descend. Until a fly landed in his ear, that is.
Concentration broke, his eyes snapped open and he reached to scratch his ear instinctively. The bubble popped, and both of its precious dwellers fell hard on the metal ground with a THUNK!
The male began to rub his hand on his head and groan softly.
“Shining, what did you DO?” Twilight hissed through her teeth to an apologetic looking unicorn.
They didn’t have time to bicker though. The male creature was getting on his feet. Twilight quickly closed the cell door. Everypony took a couple steps back and watched in awe as the male began to stretch out his hands and yawn, as if done taking a nap.
He began to open his eyes sleepily and slightly crack open one eye.
“Mabel, how many times have I told you. Don’t roll me off the bed when I’m slee… Wait a minute…”
With eyes wide open now, he began looking at the steel walls enclosing him and panic came over his face.
Dipper began hyperventilating. Where were they? They were… Imprisoned… Or stuck? And where was…?
His eyes found Mabel, laying on the ground and unmoving.
“Mabel!” He cried rushing over to her. “Mabel wake up wake up wake up!” He shook her shoulders back and forth with a ton of force.
“The horror…… Kermit the snowman……no lunch breaks...”
She was apparently not about to wake up.
“Oh man oh man oh man oh man…”
He was cut short of his muttering with a sneeze.
He froze. Every muscle in his body stood at a standstill. Only now, through his peripheral vision, was he aware of the transparent fourth wall, and the colorful… Things that he could see looking at him through the door. Slower than a snail, he turned his head to the right, getting an eyeful of the creatures mirroring his expression of shock. There were……. Rainbow unicorns…...and some giant, lizard thing?