• Published 19th Aug 2013
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Vegeta's Stay in Ponyville - GoodKnight



After beating Janemba, Vegeta thought he was going to suffer in hell again. Needless to say, he was wrong.

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Acception

Vegeta could not believe it. This could not be happening. This shouldn't be happening. It can't be true. He was still in hell, still paying for his deeds. This was just a punishment that he was taking. All that's happening never did! All of it was just very lifelike. It was like he was asleep. Yes, that's it! It was all a dream and would soon feel as such: forgotten, and never remembered. Any moment now, he would pop back to Earth and forget that any of this happened at all. None of this was real! All he had to do was wait.

Seconds passed into minutes, and the minutes accumulated together stretching into an hour. His impatience and paranoia flickered. He threw caution to the wind and fell back on the last tactic.

Vegeta punched his gut and coughed in pain. No, this definitely was not a dream. The saiyan circled the planet once more from the upper atmosphere, hoping to find an inkling of where home was. He flew at a quick pace, scanning the continents below. The land masses were all foreign to him, just like the last two swipes of the planet. He slowed down after feeling fatigue grip him again. The shocking truth took ahold of him and didn't let go. He was trapped on a planet with no real way of getting home, wherever home was. Vegeta snapped and screamed in frustration. He felt an urge to blow the planet beneath him to smithereens, but decided against it out self preservation. His fists shook with complete anger, looking around for a target. He only threw one ki-blast down at the planet, not aiming at anything really.

---Unrelated---

Somewhere in the minotaur kingdom, a small, skinny salesmen was setting up his cart to sell is life's-work. This truly was his passion. Sure, not many really appreciated him or even knew his real name, but so long as he was alive and he could sell his love and toil, he would be happy.

Too bad fate was cruel and had a very sadistic taste in irony. It just so happened that, as he just finished setting up shop, that a small, yet highly volatile projectile had him pegged. Soon, it hit the cart with a huge, fiery explosion, throwing up every kind of dust and debris imaginable. When it finally cleared, he saw the very distinct lack of cart and produce that he had worked so hard in growing. He simply just could not bear the sight of it. He fell to his knees, clutched his head in anguish, and cried out the only phrase that would voice his agony.

"MY CABBAGES!!!"

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When he finally calmed down and came to terms with the news, he had drifted to the lower altitudes of the upper atmospheres. Vegeta came up with the plan to survive as long as he cared to, which was until a ship crash landed somewhere or until he just died again. He was pretty sure that hell would still be waiting for him and would be pretty much the same thing. That was another thing he found out. He had a body, and was alive. Strange as this may be, the important thing that he was alive and well. Not really bad, and not really good. It was good because if the idiots on earth tried to bring him back to life, the dragon would say that he could not because Vegeta was still alive. It was also very bad, because the saiyan had no idea how long that would take, if they even remembered him. Vegeta descended further and soon a familiar forest was beneath him. He flew to the east already berating himself for even coming up with this plan. He felt fatigue again and slowed his pace a bit, grumbling under his breath.

The fact that he felt weak and hopeless made his self-hatred grow.


Fluttershy walked slowly down the dirt road. She couldn't stop thinking about today's events. First she found a new creature that, if Twilight was correct, had never been seen or heard of before. As she was caring for it, she had learned little of it which made her feel sad. During her early days of Ponyville, she would study all the woodland inhabitants of the surrounding area taking great pride and joy from it. Over time, the yellow mare had grown used to the same critters living in her home. When she learned that she could possibly have found a ne one, it brightened her mood. Then she learned that the creature had attacked most of her friends. This caused mixed feelings in her. While Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight agreed that the creature was dangerous, she couldn't help but think differently.

She had tried defending it once when Twilight was about to send the letter warning Celestia, only earning strange looks from three of her dearest friends. She had shied away, holding her tongue. Then, the look of the creature right before it flew away had reappeared in her mind. The rest of its posture all screamed that he was going to kill them all, end their lives, the final coil before a rattlesnake strikes...

...but didn't.

It was those eyes. Those simple, cold, little black eyes connected with hers for only a brief moment. In that gaze, she saw something that no other animal had given her. It was a look that she saw sometimes in her friends and some other ponies in town. She couldn't describe it, but it sent her chest aflutter when she thought about it. Clearing her thoughts, she ran over what happened after the letter was sent.

~~~~~~~~

The letter disappeared in a blast of green fire. Twilight turned to the mares in the room.

"Well, now what?" Rainbow asked with annoyance.

"Now, we prepare," Twilight answered levitating a parchment and quill in front of her.

"Applejack, Pinkie Pie you warn everyone in Ponyville," Twilight stated as a matter of factly. Applejack gave a quick nod and took off, followed by a bouncing Pinkie Pie.

"Okay, that takes care of the town..." Twilight mumbled scribbling on the parchment. "Hey Rainbow," she began. "Think you can tell the farmers on the outskirts to be on the look out?"

"Hay yeah!" She said before flying out the upstairs window.

"Alright, that only leaves one thing." She turned to the yellow mare. "Fluttershy, do you know anything else, anything at all about it?"

Fluttershy remained silent and looked away disappointedly.

"That's alright," she placed a supportive hoof around her. "Is everything alright?"

Fluttershy twiddled her hoof against the ground. "...yeah."

Twilight sighed. Fluttershy was one of the only ponies that lied worse than Applejack. "Come on, you can tell me. We're friends after all," she pressed.

Fluttershy looked up at Twilight and finally relented. "I guess I'm just worried..."

Twilight was about to tell Fluttershy that everything was well in hoof, and that the monster would be brought to justice. Then, Fluttershy spoke up again.

"I don't want to see the poor thing get hurt."

Twilight stared. An uneasy silence enveloped them. Twilight carefully worded the next statement. "Fluttershy... I know you love animals, but... well... It's not an animal we're dealing with." Fluttershy studied her a moment. "We're dealing with a monster. Remember Sombra?"

She shuddered recalling the oozing mass of dark magic. Slowly, she nodded.

"Well, it's sort of like that." Twilight looked hopeful for a moment, but then saw the look in Fluttershy's eyes. She sighed. "I know it seems a little unfair to say, but it's true." Fluttershy nodded again and turned to leave muttering a small goodbye.Twilight bade her farewell.

~~~~~~~~

Fluttershy cantered at a brisker pace. She sighed, earning the attention from most of her animal friends. They followed her all the way to the doorstep, when she finally noticed them. They all stared at her, and her mind it clicked.

"Oh, no need to worry about me. I'm okay," she lied. With that she began her afternoon chores. She began the process of cleaning her house. It wasn't as long as she anticipated because of the help from her animal friends.

Vegeta spotted the house coming into view more slowly than what he desired. He had felt surprisingly weaker for an unnaturally long time. Normally, after a quick rest he'd be able to break sound barrier and charge his ki to full. Something was definitely amiss but could wait. The normally sharp minded saiyan could hardly focus on that particular bridge. He felt his pride fall into his stomach and writhe about and fester inside it. He still couldn't believe what he was going to do.

He landed near the area around the back entrance to the abode. He spotted the rock he rested against before and slowly walked to it. Coming back to this place was the second most humiliating thing he had ever done. He heard a small noise from his left and glanced at it. He froze as his eyes met a pair of green ones.

Fluttershy felt two emotions wash over her. She was absolutely terrified and unreasonably happy. "Why would I feel happy?" Fluttershy thought. "This thing could kill me if he wanted to, but..." She thought back again to the situation from before. She looked into Vegeta's eyes and saw that look again. For the second time that day, the word escaped her. The creature grunted and sat behind the rock. Fluttershy shook her head of the thoughts. "Maybe Twilight was right." She contemplated going to Twilight when she stopped. She should be halfway to Twilight's to tell her the creature is here.

Why wasn't she?

What was different? She was still the same Fluttershy and the creature hadn't changed either. Then, it became clear. Nothing had changed at all. "I have to tell Twilight right away..." She took one last look at the rock. "Right after I feed my chickens."

She flew to her shed and grabbed the feed bag from the loft. A she flew to her chicken coop, a sudden thought struck her. "Has he eaten anything?" She thought for a moment, reflecting back on today. She nearly panicked at the answer. He hadn't! How could she be so forgetful? Finishing her chore, she quickly cantered into her pantry, glancing about for-

...for what? She had no indication of what he ate. Did it enjoy a tasty carrot, or a crunchy walnut? These questions and more kept her busy. She flew from one part of the pantry to the next, trying desperately to find something that he might want to eat. She forced herself into a calm state, and began thinking rationally. "Well, it does sort of remind me of a gorilla..." she reasoned. She had decided that fruit was a definite yes when she remembered reading a book on them. She threw an assortment of fruit into a basket when her mind thought back again to the book. "Now, the book also said that gorrilas need protein, but where did they get it from?" She tried recalling, but eventually gave up. She sighed in worrying defeat. "Harry kinda... looks like a gorilla, so maybe..." Fluttershy didn't like thinking about this. She had been taking care of animals for many years now, but the thought of a carnivore made her feel light-headed. She never thought any less of them. To each their own, as the saying went. She flew to her kitchen's ice box and pulled out the fish reserved for her meat eating friends. She also swiped a roll of sweet bread, remembering something about grains being an essential part of the diet. Putting all the food into the basket, she looked it over and felt somewhat better.

Taking the basket, she flew to meet her house guest...


Vegeta was lightly dozing against the rock. His mind was only half-awake, but even so his senses were ever aware. He could here the soft sounds of the forest nearby and an occasional breeze. Vegeta's mind was soon wracked with a few questions regarding his situation. How did he get here? Vegeta attempted to remember what he was doing before he came here...

Vegeta heard a small shuffling sound in his close vicinity and his eyes shot open and found what had disturbed him. It was the... Pegasus from before. She had stopped only 2 feet away from him. His face was expressionless, but he was actually quite shocked. She really snuck up on him. His stare was drawn to the basket filled to the brim with food. He stared at it trying to figure out what was happening.

"... if you, um... get hungry... I have some..." Fluttershy was unable to meet the gaze of Vegeta as she set the basket on the ground. It was strange. She usually could feel a connection to other animals, but with this one... This one was different. It was as if she were staring into a fog, trying to read something written in it. She still felt the connection, but her small bit of confidence dwindled. Vegeta huffed and turned back to his nap, leaving the mare to sigh heavily. She walked off slowly to finish the rest of her evening work.

Vegeta liked to consider himself patient. He had let a lot of things pass that have angered him greatly in the past, especially the immediate past. The saiyan could only stoop so low before his pride would straddle his throat. Vegeta couldn't just eat the food given to him. It was just too degrading. As he stewed on this thought, he grew inwardly angrier at himself. Here he was literally imposing on this pathetic and helpless creature to give him a place to stay. He hadn't asked, nor did he even mention anything to her. He grinded his teeth and cursed himself. It was a shameful and low act.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy had began the work of feeding the other animals in her care until the realization hit her again in the feeding of her avian friends.

She was still not at Twilight's.

She then resolved to go as soon as the creature had eaten. She glanced over at the rock. The basket hadn't moved and neither did the food inside it. She sighed and soon went to work once more. Periodically checking to see if the basket was empty, or moved. Each time though, her heart sank lower and lower.

Vegeta still sat brooding, until a breeze wafted a certain smell past him. He opened his eyes and shot a glance in the direction of the basket. It was still there. He could smell the bread. It was home made, and he could also smell raw fish, and all sorts of fruits. He shook his head at the thought, tearing his attention away from the temptation. He had to remember his pride. His stomach groaned in annoyance. His willpower fought back as an internal battle of pride and willpower struck against temptation and shame.

The day approached dusk as Fluttershy found her chores done. She wiped her brow in relief. It was a tiring job, but she didn't mind it. She soon began walking back to her cottage, before a thought crossed her mind. She should really check to see if he ever touched the basket. "Why bother," an internal voice argued. "He didn't touch the last time you checked, so it probably hasn't changed." The voice made a good point, but she couldn't help but at least humor the thought. She turned her head and stared in disbelief. Thinking that it could've been a trick of the setting sun, she approached the basket silently.

It was no trick. All the food was gone. There weren't any peels, cores, or pits. Even the bones weren't there from the fish. She quietly gasped. "He really WAS hungry!" She then smiled, feeling somewhat proud that she had done good on feeding her newest friend--

"...do I really consider him a friend?" she paused, taking the basket in her mouth.

"... Vegeta..." said a low, scratchy voice. Fluttershy looked all around before finding the owner. It belonged to the creature.

"Wh-what?" she stammered, her mind running blank.

"You told me your name, s-so it's only fair that you know mine!" Vegeta quickly stated defensively. His pride had suffered greatly this day, but if there was anything that the saiyan valued more than his arrogant pride, it would be his unalienable honor.

Silence descended over the two.

Fluttershy's grin was not seen. All of her doubts and fears were suddenly gone. With a slight spring in her step, she made her way back to the cottage.


Twilight's library was a veritable base of operations as charts, graphs, and maps were strewn about. The unicorn was currently studying a map of the Ponyville area marking areas and mumbling. Her assistant was currently sorting and grabbing books about defensive spells. Neither of them took notice of the time. They were too engrossed in their respective tasks to care. Both of them were shocked out of they're tasks when there came a knock at the door. Twilight, being the closest opened the door to reveal Fluttershy.

"F-fluttershy? What're you--" Twilight made an audible gasp. "Did you find it?"

"Y-yes." Fluttershy winced. She stepped inside the tree library. "If it's okay with you, I'd rather talk about with the rest of the girls."

Twilight smiled. "Great idea. We can talk strategy! I actually learned a cou..." Twilight began to prattle on about some spells, but Fluttershy drowned it out. She was put off by all the trouble Twilight was going through.

"... I'll just go and invite--" Twilight was interrupted by a knock at the door. Confused, she walked over to the door once more as Fluttershy took a seat. Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were on the other side of the door. This was also the point in time where Twilight became aware of the late hour.

"This better be important...": Rainbow grumbled lazily flying through the door.

"Oh, don't be that way Dashie!" Pinkie said in her normally, bubbly tone. She bounced past the very perplexed purple unicorn.

"If Fluttershy came to get us herself, then it's got ta be important," Applejack reasoned stifling a yawn. "Right Twi'?"

"Y-yeah," Twilight stuttered snapping out of it. She cantered to the table her friends were gathered around. The five exchanged tired glances between each other. They were soon joined by Spike as well.

"So... I assume you all know why we're here," Twilight stated.

"No."

"Not really."

"Nope!"

Twilight sighed. "Isn't it obvious?" Spike asked. "This is probably about 'The Monster of the Everfree Forest!'" The drake made his point by making ghost noises and wiggling his claws. Twilight rolled her eyes.

"Yes, well, um..." Fluttershy fumbled with her words. She debated on sugar coating the topic. After all, it worked well with her animals. If the medicine was too bitter or they wouldn't take it, she would often hide it in their food, or follow it up with a spoonful of-

No! Not this time. Her friends need to know the truth.

"I need to say something," she stated. Fluttershy's normal apprehensive look was lessened. She took a calming breath to ease the pounding in her chest. "I have found the creature..."

All her friends looked at her expectantly.

"...And I-I think that I can tame it."

"WHAT?!" Rainbow, Twilight and Applejack said at the same time.

"Oh, that's great!!" Pinkie cheered. "That means we CAN have a party! We can have cake, balloons, and- Oh! we can call it a 'Welcome to Ponyville Mr. Monster!' party! I hope monsters can eat cake..." Pinkie's rant was left uninterrupted.

"Are you crazy?!" Rainbow Dash yelled. "You saw what that monster could do!"

"His name is Vegeta!" Fluttershy said firmly. No one deserved to be called a monster or to be treated like one. She learned it the day she received those "assertive lessons."

"You named it?!" Dash shouted incredulously.

"Darlin'," Applejack began. "I think I speak for all of us when I say that he isn't a sick little critter to care for." AJ rubbed her still aching legs from her first encounter. "He's dangerous."

"And besides," Twilight interjected. "I don't think Princess Celestia would let you."

Fluttershy opened her mouth to say something before an idea popped into her head. She took a moment to think. What if... the princess did let her? Why would she though? Soon her mind formulated a plan unbeknownst to her.

She stole a glance at there friends who were currently focused on a plan of their own. Even Pinkie's attention was brought to it. Her eyes scanned the tables, until they rested on a certain dragon.

"Psst..." Fluttershy did as subtly as possible. To her relief, it worked. Spike looked over at her. She quickly waved him over away from the table to the other side of the room.

"What's up, Fluttershy?" he asked waddling over to her.

"Can you do me a favor?" she asked, pensively rubbing hooves together. She began doubting this idea.

"Uh... sure. What do you need?"


"Alright," Twilight beamed. "So when the guards on the east side have it distracted, I'll cast the third imprisonment charm as quickly as possible to minimize the destruction of the town-"

"I still say that we should just go right for him and kick his sorry-flank!" Rainbow interrupted emphasizing her point with a slam to the table.

"Rainbow..." Twilight groaned. "The point of planning ahead is to alleviate as much unneeded attention and destruction as possible."

"Exactly!" Rainbow pointed out her plan on a map. "If we just go to him directly and take him out, then that will cut the time it takes in half."

"But at the same time, ya practically destroy half the town along with it!" Applejack countered.

"Alright, alright! let's just go over-" The attention of the discussion was diverted to the heat of magical green flames crackling about.

An awkward silence washed of the room.

"Spike...?" Twilight questioned walking over the dragon. "What did you send?"

"A letter to the princess..." Spike said with an uneasy expression watching her big sister/mom intently.

I know that..." Twilight's magic surrounded him blocking out any hopes for an escape. "What I meant was who was the one who wrote it sent it?" Twilight felt herself beginning to slip. Her overprotection of the rules were being pushed to the maximum. Celestia told her as filly to never abuse the power of sending personal messages to her. Twilight could already se it. It started out with one, but then one would be two and soon two would be five and then the entire palace would be filled to the brim with potential junk mail, so much that the princess would have to probably send it--

"Oh, I did Twilight..." Fluttershy sheepishly whispered. The purple unicorn looked at her sharply, half of her questioning the grounds for it and the other half was, well-- the less said about it, the better. "I uh, wanted to see if what you said was true or not."

"What 'what'?" Twilight snapped, trying to retain her composure.

"What?" Fluttershy was genuinely confused.

"What do you mean? What did I say?" Twilight took a few shaky steps toward the buttery mare, a nervous twitch in her eye.

"Well... you said that Celestia would probably not let me, so I thought about it and-- you did say probably, so I sort just asked her..." Fluttershy lowered her head low to the ground, not daring to break eyesight of her semi-delusional friend. "I'm sorry!! I didn't know... that... you..." Fluttershy stopped and just watch the unicorn.

Twilight drowned out the world. Her pupils had shrunk to pinpricks and a neutral line across her muzzle. Silence fell and tensions rose for the inevitable boom to come. Her friends could almost see the cogs and gears grinding away in her brain and the smoke churning out of her ears. Then, it happened.

Twilight fell over laughing hysterically. Soon, Pinkie Pie joined her earning confused looks from the others. Twilight eventually calmed down enough to stand and speak again.

"I'm sorry..." she quickly . "Fluttershy, I know she won't becau-"

There was a large belch and whoosh of fire followed by a small scroll bearing the royal seal. Twilight walked over to it and picked it up with her magic. "How about I just read it," she said rather than having explain it. Twilight cleared her throat while subconsciously opening the rolled parchment, and began to speak.

Dear Fluttershy,

Thank-you for your concern in this ordeal. It brings me great joy to hear that you wish to care for this, by your own words, misunderstood creature. I would have preferred to thank and accept your offer face to face, but I must calm the guards I have scrambled.

I cannot express the relief I feel. You truly are a braver pony than I had anticipated originally. If it were any other pony, I would have a hard time believing them. I'll admit I was skeptical at first, but then I remembered that you were the one I had trusted to reform Discord. If you were able to bring him to our side, then perhaps your kind heart can cool the heat of this "Vegeta's" unruly nature.


Sincerely,

Princess Celestia

"WHAT?!" Rainbow shouted leaping into the air. "She can't be serious, right?!"

Pinkie took a sharp breath inward, and began a new rant as Twilight flipped the parchment over and back rereading it as if she were trying to decipher a code.

"Well... she does have a point," AJ said apprehensively. "Anypony who can reform Discord has to have somthin' to show for it. Right?"

"Whatever," the sky blue Pegasus mumbled coldly before flying through an upstairs window.

Twilight set the letter down and opened her mouth to speak several times making unique expressions to match them before sighing in defeat. "Yeah, no," she said wearily. "The princess is right, and we just overreacted a little." Twilight rubbed a half-lidded eye.

Sharply contrasting the purple unicorn's mood was the yellow Pegasus in the same room. Fluttershy's smile could've rivaled Pinkie's. She exploded into the air cheering, "YES! YES! SHE SAID YES!! WOOHOO!!!" She swooped over to Twilight embracing her.

"Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you! Don't worry! I won't let anypony down!" With that, she flew out the door with at incredible speed. The remaining friends laughed at the antics of their friend.

"Well, it's pretty late. I won't keep you guys here any longer," she yawned, clearing off the table. "You can head to bed Spike. I've got this."

"Thanks' Twilight. Night girls," he said turning to the staircase.

"Night Spike! Night Twi'!" Pinkie said before bouncing through the open door.

"Yeah, it's late. and I do have chores to do in the mornin'," AJ mumbled. She paused at the door before calling out, "Hey Twi'?"

"Yes?" Twilight answered not turning away from the table.

"I was wondering how you feel about all of this." The cowpony shifted her gaze to the floor of the library. "I know what the princess thinks and all, but what do you think?" AJ specified quickly.

Twilight looked at AJ with the look of exhaustion clear on her face. "I don't know, AJ," she sighed shaking her head. "I just don't know."

"Oh, well... okay then..." Applejack shifted around nervously before closing the door to the unicorn's home. "Goodnight Twilight."

Author's Note:

Alright, I'm addressing this now!
You complain, and now, I respond.

Don't know what I'm talking about? I'll tell you.
Certain individuals are upset that Vegeta isn't "up to par" and should be going the speed of light (especially this one), blowing up the planet, slaughtering the ponies, etc.
Let me explain this as thoroughly as I can.

Scenario: Vegeta flies off after Rainbow. Catches her. Kills her. Fluttershy runs to tell Twilight. Twilight tells Celestia. Celestia sends royal guards. Vegeta kills guards. Celestia and Luna confront Vegeta. Vegeta kills. No one to raise sun and moon. Half the planet freezes to death, other half burns in hellfire. Vegeta dies. Story ends.

My point?
HORRIBLE STORYLINE!!! :twilightangry2:
I will address why he can't move at the speed of light in a later chapter, but for your sake and my (lack of) sanity, just be patient.
End of rant

Okay, got that out of my system.

Quick apology for a chapter long overdue. I just wanted to make it awesome enough for you guys. Big chapter though. Bigger than I anticipated anyways...
Overview: Yep. Vegeta accepts his fate, Twilight accepts her teacher's judgment, AJ is still cautious, RD is being RD, Pinkie is happy, and Fluttershy learns her houseguest's name...

Anyone else realize that I've forgotten somepony? :trollestia: