Tail 23- Unexpected Surprises
Monkey Business- Unexpected Surprises
Fluttershy’s Cottage
Over the last few days, Sun and Fluttershy had been preparing for the first day that Beacon Academy was to be opened. They had been moving some boxes filled with some items that had been in her cottage for a significantly long time. Longer than she could remember to tell the truth. Now, normally she wouldn’t be so open to having to move some items that she would specifically cherish. But because of her coltfriend Sun, she had been more open into trying new things and also with spending more time with him. However, even with that said, one thing that had been on her mind recently had been really bugging her a lot because was unsure how her coltfriend would react if she told him. Fluttershy had already received advice from one other displaced shortly after accidentally summoning her using her token, but she was unsure whether to follow through with the advice from the displaced named Zinnia or not. It felt like she needed a second opinion, but then came the thought of how her friends would react if she told them.
“You okay there, Shy?” Those words from Sun this morning had snapped Fluttershy out of her personal train of thought as she saw him standing by the door with Angel Bunny.
“Y-yeah… just thinking to myself,” She weakly replied, assuring the faunus that there was nothing to worry about. “It’s still early, would you like some breakfast?”
“I would, but we’re trying something out today regarding Beacon…” He told her, surprising the pegasus for a moment as she lifted an eyebrow. “Asphyxious and I were thinking of trying a bit of… an initiation exam in order to see who can be accepted into the academy and what needs to be worked on. We already have a few other Displaced who have agreed to take part in the trials and I’m suppose to be helping proctor it today.”
“O-oh I see… Um… Can I come along?” She squeaked nervously, causing the faunus to chuckle a little and smile back at her.
“Of course you can, I wasn’t trying to say otherwise.” Sun insisted, letting the pegasus trot next to him for a little while as they made their way to Beacon Academy. Significant progress over the last few days have helped tremendously with the development of the academy and after releasing an application form into the void, they have gotten several replies back from other Displaced who were interested in being students or teachers. Some who had also came by to help with the development of the academy like Cruger had also taken it upon themselves to become teachers once the academy gets underway. But still, it wasn’t like any of them were going to help her with this scenario… after all, it was a little bit of a personal matter and if she tried asking the girls about it, they would cause the topic to spread like wildfire.
When the class first began, she saw a lot of recognizable faces from the last few days with a few more added into the mix. Including some furry like critters that were the size of Henry, Asphyxious from the past few times he was here, and a red haired human that stumbled into the classroom and considered his grand entrance to be having his foot smash into Asphyxious’ face. Fluttershy was mostly surprised though when she found out that Sun happened to know the boy, who went by the name of Nicko and asked for him to help proctor the initiation exam.
When the Faunus began to explain it, the test itself seemed simple enough. All the current participants had around eight hours until sundown to retrieve a pair of relics from Nicko somewhere farther in the Everfree Forest, using whatever skills and tricks they had to their advantage. They also needed to keep in mind that the Rune Slayer himself had also set up his own traps as well in order to catch them by surprise, meaning that they need to be careful if they wanted to traverse through the forest and come out in one piece. All while Asphyxious was able to bring out a huge tub of popcorn out of nowhere. A trick that made the pegasus think for a second that Asphyxious was somehow like Discord. Just a lot different from what she originally thought now that she tried comparing the two of them.
Now, as the pegasus sat alongside her coltfriend, she was thinking whether this would be the right time to share the news that she had for him. But when she tried to speak the first time, she heard a loud explosion in the distance, startling all the present instructors and causing one of the participants to shout out, “Holy sh*t, he planted landmines!!”
Somewhere in the distance, the Rune Slayer smirked as he leaned back in a relaxed manner against a tree. “Well, looks like they found the landmines.”
However, Sun wasn’t exactly calm with this new revelation. “Oh my god, HE PLANTED LANDMINES!?!” Neither was Fluttershy when someone else asked if they actually walked their dogs out there. Because all that did was make the pegasus worry about Angel and the other animals she helped take care of. Soon though, the faunus turned around to his fellow teachers, speaking up and mentioning something about the Rune Slayer’s strategies as they watched the training unfold. “No offense to Nicko, but he’s being awfully casual about this… I mean as casual as usual, but isn’t he dealing with an initiation exam mixed together with overwhelming odds and possible Angry birds scenarios given Coco’s approach?”
“It all depends on who he fights first and who can last long enough for there team mates to show up. But they're not fighting as a team, Nicko planned this all out from the start.” Asphyxious said calmly.
“True. He was possibly for them to plan some kind of tactical assault, but instead had to deal with a frontal attack with a bunch of idiots walking into enemy territory,” Sun replied as he took some popcorn with his tail. To a certain extent, the Faunus was right. It still just seemed kind of crazy to Fluttershy that some individuals like the ones in this exercise would endure through such physical challenges that could inflict bodily harm. But there was another point added onto this that was expressed by Asphyxious before she could say anything. “Who knows what kinds of traps and other plans he’s laid ahead of them. Attacking mindless like that won’t get them anywhere.” Fluttershy briefly decided to look up, possibly to have her mind be elsewhere as she looked at the clouds that passed through the sky. But in doing so, one thing stood out amongst the sky that she had to tell Sun immediately.
“Um… if it makes him feel any better…” Fluttershy momentarily squeaked as she looked up at the sky. “There’s a giant meteor in the sky.” That caused both Sun and Asphyxious to look at each other and for the Faunus to almost choke on his popcorn as he saw what she was talking about. They soon realized that the meteor itself was actually one of the students that was trying to return from getting launched sky high only a few minutes ago, and her name was Leona. A digimon displaced… with a very fiery attitude.
Which made the faunus personally regret not setting any sort of limit on the amount of power the students could use… briefly. “Oh Sun, one of them figured out the landmines.” Asphyxious said, looking through the spyglass that he kept on his person..
“Thank god for that. At least she’s not completely insane…… completely being the operative word.” Sun sighed as he felt Fluttershy leaning next to him. Even with everything going on right now, there was one thing that Astra pointed out to him though that the faunus had noticed that was off. And that was the fact that Fluttershy was shivering to herself a little… But it wasn’t because she was cold. No, the faunus could tell that something was on her mind that needed to be addressed. “Fluttershy… is something wrong?”
His question had caused the pegasus to feel a little uneasy, especially with the other people that were around. So, in her lightest voice, she tried to tell Sun what had been on her mind this entire time. “Sun… There’s something I need to tell you… I’m pregnant.”
Those two last words in her sentence caused an uproar from the other staff members, especially Asphyxious when he heard the news. Sun tried to block out all the insane rambling from the others, but it was just hard to do so when Astra was doing the same thing. So instead, he focused his attention to the pegasus. The faunus didn’t quite know what to say, but smiled as he deeply pulled Fluttershy in a hug. “F-fluttershy… I’m so happy to hear that… We’re going to be parents-.”
Just as he finished his sentence, another explosion went off in the background as Asphyxious himself was getting a little more concerned for the safety of the participants in the exercise. So, while the Lich was going down there to make sure to cast a barrier to keep the violence contained, Sun had Fluttershy go back with him into the Academy. Towards the new settlement that they were living in.
Thanks to a little help from Discord, the Draconequus used his magic to relocate Fluttershy’s old cottage so it was within the grounds of the Academy. For an added bonus, it was even along the edge of the forest where a few of the animals that Fluttershy had taken care of would be and they were happy to see her. At this moment though, both Sun and Fluttershy got the chance to finally take a much needed breather… Until the spirit of chaos that was there soon came out of one of the side rooms that was on the bottom floor of the cottage, twirling what appeared to be a golden ring.
“Hey Flutters, I’m not to be asking about this, but have you started beginning to wear jewelry recently?” He asked, a little confused. “I mean, this would look real nice for a good manepiece.”
“Discord, that’s not a maneloop,” The pegasus sighed. “That’s a wedding ring.”
“Oh my! Who’s the lucky couple?” He asked, being oblivious to the answer to his question… until he realized that the answer was actually right in front of him. “Wait… are you…?”
“Yeah, Discord. For Hearts and Hooves day, I really wanted to make it special, so I had Raven help me craft a ring for her and I asked for her hoof in marriage. She accepted-” Just as the faunus said that, he soon noticed the emotions running down his face. “Wait a minute, are you crying?”
Discord turned to look up at them and indeed, tears were running down his face. But in addition, he was also laughing. “Silly Sun, these are tears of joy. Not tears of sorrow! I am really excited for the both of you and I really do hope for the best for Fluttershy. She was the one pony that helped me with my reformation and when I see you with her, I always see her smiling. You are perfect for her.”
“I see… Oh, that reminds me…” Sun spoke up, capturing Discord’s attention. “I’m still going to need a best man… Would it be possible that you can help fit the bill?”
“Me? What about your friends? Sage, Neptune, Scarlet?”
“All three of them are helping with newfound responsibilities at the Academy, so I thought you can step up to the plate. After all, I’m not going to lie, but I believe you still have some feelings for Fluttershy,” The faunus replied, causing the mare to look back at him in confusion. “Angel found your diary, Discord-.”
“THAT’S PRIVATE!!” He snapped, glaring at the bunny in response before sighing a little bit and returning his gaze to Sun and Fluttershy. “Well… This calls for a celebration. Maybe I can have Pinkie arrange a party to celebrate-.”
“Actually… there’s something I need to tell you two,” Fluttershy interjected, looking back at Sun and Discord. “I forgot to say this earlier because of what was going on at the academy, but I’m going to have to go on a trip with the girls this afternoon to the Crystal Empire. Cadence asked for us to come, so I need you two to keep an eye on Angel and the animals while I’m away.”
“Oh…” Both Discord and Sun were both equally surprised to hear that as they looked at one another. “How long would you be gone?”
“Probably two days. Twilight was going to tell you, but Spike said that she was busy with trying to get Starlight prepared for meeting Cadence later,” the Pegasus explained to both of them. “Sorry for telling you guys about this now. It sort of came up last minute.”
“It’s alright, Shy. Things like this happen a lot,” Discord replied. “It’s like when you and Twilight were called by the Cutie Map sometime ago. The same principle can be applied here.”
“O-okay… Just please keep an eye on things while I’m gone… and DON’T even think about causing any trouble, mister.” Fluttershy glared at Discord, causing him to swallow a lump in his throat and salute the pegasus as she sighed and excused herself upstairs. Probably to tell the news to Chrysalis, Kreed and the others. However, it was also when Discord deeply sighed and looked back at Sun.
“Something tells me that this might not go well.”
“Let me guess, the whole wedding fiasco a few years back?” Sun asked, raising an eyebrow and looking at the draconequus.
“Exactly… Plus, after she was betrayed, Chrysalis has been struggling to be reformed because she doesn’t think she would be forgiven for her actions.” Discord explained, looking at Sun as he raised an eyebrow. “She told me a couple of days ago over a tub of ice cream.”
“Seriously?”
“Yes, as it turns out, she has feelings… and it would be so kind of us to never mention it again in front of her.” Discord warned as he scratched his chin a little. “Still though, Fluttershy seems like she’s… changed a little.”
Sun raised an eyebrow at that, a little confused by what the Draconequus meant. “Change how exactly?”
“Well, she seems… different… Not to be specific or anything like that, but she reminds me of Princess Cadence while she was pregnant over the past few months.” Discord tried to describe what it was, but couldn’t find the right words.
“I think you’re talking about mood swings-.” He asked, only for the Draconequus to conjure a mini swing set with what appeared to be Emoji’s swinging on it. “I didn’t mean it like that, Discord.”
“Then how else do you mean it?” He asked, dismissing his creation and tilting his head.
“What I said was a figure of speech when someone or somepony has their feelings rapidly change from one emotion to another. Like if they are happy one minute, only to be demanding or upset the next.” Sun replied, explaining it to him.
“Well, thanks for bringing me up to speed on that…” He said, only to look at the faunus and raise his eyebrows a little. “Sun, is there something you aren’t telling me?”
“What do you mean exactly?”
“It’s impossible to hide secrets from me, yet there’s something that you and Fluttershy know that I don't… Care to explain?” Sun definitely felt like his back was against the wall in this part of the conversation. But he wasn’t quite sure how to make of it.
“Okay, but can you please keep this a secret for right now? I rather not have the entire place town find out about this just yet,” He said, causing Discord to nod his head. “Discord… we’re going to be parents.”
That left the spirit of chaos utterly surprised as he looked back at Discord. “Wait… you don’t mean what I think you mean… do you?”
“If that thought is that Fluttershy has a child on the way, then yes,” Sun said to him. “Please though, with everything that has been going on recently, I don’t want anything to get out of control because of this. So, like I said, can we keep this between us for right now? I want to tell everyone once Fluttershy feels comfortable to do so.”
The draconequus nodded in approval, smiling a bit and then shaking his hand. “Don’t worry… I promise not to say anything just yet.”
It took a few hours for everything to settle down back at the academy before Twilight and her friends were able to travel to the empire, but once they left the station, it was Sun’s job along with everyone else in the academy to make sure that everything that happens at Beacon… well, stays in beacon. This included combat training, the underground lab built by Asphyxious that he just found out about, and also a extremely long list of guests from different worlds and places beyond comprehension.
Most of this though was not quite surprising to Sun around this time… But later that afternoon, while he was training on new ways to channel his semblance, his practice was short lived when someone caught his attention. “Hey Sun, can I tell you something real quick?”
Turning around, Sun soon found the voice of the speaker as he saw Sage standing not that far from him. “Hey man, what’s up? Anything I can help you with?”
“Well… that’s what I came here to tell you about,” He said, folding his arms a little. “There’s somepony on the edge of the grounds near Beacon that’s been acting very nervously. I tried talking to him, but he was… well…”
“Skiddish?”
“Sort of…” Sage sighed in response to Sun’s question as the faunus stopped what he was doing and put his staff away.
“What’s his name? Maybe I can try to talk to him.” He offered.
“The stallion didn’t quite exactly say his entire name, but he did say that his name was Zephyr,” He explained, describing him briefly. “Should I send him your way?”
“No need, I’ll go see him myself. He sounds a lot like Fluttershy and judging from how nervous and timid he might be, I’m going to him so I don’t startle him.” Sun explained as he got up and began to walk to the courtyard of the academy. As he was walking, he soon noticed the stallion that Sage was talking about as he slowly approached him.
“Excuse me, are you Zephyr-?”
The stallion flinched at hearing his name as he backed up a little, a little startled by the faunus knowing his name. “Who-?”
“Easy there, I didn’t mean to startle you,” Sun insisted. “My friend Sage told me that you were out here and lost, so I thought I can help you.”
Breathing a sigh of relief, the stallion went up to his feet as he looked back at the faunus. “Oh uh… O-okay. I’m t-trying to find my older sister… can you help me?”
“Yeah sure, that sounds simple enough,” Sun smiled, trying to show to Zephyr that it wasn’t that big of a deal. “What’s her name?”
The response that he got though, was not quite what he expected at all. “H-her name is F-fluttershy…”
Raising an eyebrow, Sun was surprised to hear that. “I beg your pardon?”
“Fluttershy… that’s her name.” Hearing that caused the Faunus to look back at the stallion surprised, before chuckling to himself a little. “What’s so funny?”
“Well, she never told me that she had a brother actually, so yeah… still trying to get my head wrapped around that first.” Sun replied, looking back at him. Before he could even reply, the Faunus sighed. “She’s my marefriend… and I’m going to guess that your mother’s name is Raven right?”
“Y-yes actually.” The stallion replied. “C-can I see her?”
Sun nodded his head in a agreeing motion as he helped the stallion with his bag. With that said, things got to be a little bit easier as Sun was able to take Zephyr back to Raven. At first though, she was overwhelmed to see him… But just as Sun left, he heard her giving the stallion a long overdue talk about how freeloading off of his grandparents wasn’t going to help him now… And Sun did believe that it was one long and serious conversation… since he could hear it from the other end of town because of Raven’s booming voice.
When he got back to his cottage though, there was one more surprise that he wasn’t expecting… and that was a visitor outside Fluttershy’s cottage. It wasn’t Sage, Neptune, Scarlet, Ruby or even Weiss for that matter… But surprisingly, it was someone else. “Hey Sun? Are you busy right now?”
“Well, it’s quite a surprise to see you Pyrrha. And no, I’m not busy,” The faunus said, opening the door to the cottage and then motioning to hold the door for her. “Wanna come inside?”
“Sure… I would like to talk to you about something… though, can we please keep it between us for right now?” She asked, making Sun raise an eyebrow as they walked over to the kitchen table.
“O… kay, sure. What would you like to talk about?” The faunus asked, a little confused by what she wanted to discuss with him. The words soon forming from her mouth as she asked him something.
“Sun… do you believe in destiny?” She asked, looking at the faunus as he took his time to answer. But after almost ten minutes or so, he then finally came up with a reply that he thought was best for him.
“Destiny… is strange.” He told her, thinking clearly. “It’s a strange thing really… many people believe that it is predetermined, but I don’t necessarily think that… I believe that we have the power to forge our own path and to make our own destiny instead of letting it be made for us. I’m not one for having something like that be given to you because I believe that your hopes, goals and dreams will be what you're destined to achieve as you progress through life. Sometimes, life has a way of knocking us down, but we need to make the motion of getting up again if we are ever going to go far in life… Does that answer your question, Pyrrha?”
“I… I’m not sure if it does,” Pyrrha said, looking back at him. “I’ve only been with you and the others for a while, but I still have many questions that I feel need answering… A lot of things here don’t make sense to me than they did back home.” The last part of that statement though was what really made Sun a bit confused as he looked back at her.
“Hang on… what do you mean by… back home?” Sun asked her. Pyrrha turned away for a short moment before looking back towards the faunus as she tried to keep herself composed. “Pyrrha, what are you trying to tell me?”
The answer that she had for her was nothing like he ever would expect. “Sun… Unlike you, who might’ve came here as someone accidently, none of that happened to me… You might’ve been someone else before you became Sun, but none of that ever happened to me. Who I am is not someone being somebody else… I am that someone… It’s hard to explain, but I really hope you can understand.”
“No no, I’m getting it.” He insisted, trying to assure her that he wasn’t lost in translation. “Just answer one question for me… What do you last remember before coming here?”
The answer he got though… was something else. “I…… remember dying at the top of Beacon Tower… in the world of Remnant.”
End Tail 23
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What the whaaaaaa?! P-Phyrra is actually from Remnant?! Well that's a twist... Also, when do the Students come in?
Nice twist! Though I figured that there would at least be one.
Name drop, let me know when you're ready for me
hhmmm...
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Can some one gimme a "DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUN!" SFX in here?
...(dun dun duuuunnnnn!)
7300375
7300426 AH ha ha! There it is! Thank you!
7300426 KO awesome chapter and shocked, the REAL Pyrrha has somehow been transported to Equestria instead of an Displaced. Can't wait to see what happens next.
what the actual fuck!?... you sir are a mastermind.
have a cookie
*Give you a cookie*. good job and keep up the good work
7308895 xD. Thanks
And that my friends, is how a skilled author comes around and blindsides us with a bomb shell from nowhere. Fantastic cliffhanger and now I hope the next chapter is soon. And as always keep up the good work mate!
7388812 Go for it
7388846 huh?
7389617 PM me and I can submit you an application for you to fill out
7389783 um, can you do that? I'm not good at sending pms
7391870 the other Pinkie being called Pinkiplier. it reminds me of Markiplier
-Dark
7391877 That was BronyParasite's idea xD
7391883 oh. okay. I have a question though
-Dark
7391884 ?
7391927 why did I have to do that application thing?
7391937 We'll be adding to that soon. It's a whole MASSIVE project, so I need to keep track of entries
7391947 ah. Okay then
That scene where they found out about the landmines. Was that another Helsing Ultimate Abridged joke?
So....let me get this straight. Beacon is now open, Sun and Fluttershy are going to have a baby, they're getting married, and Pyrrha is the actual character. Did I miss anything?
7394518 Yes he is.
And so... the plot thickens!
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7432852 lol
Wai- wha- HOW?!?! PYRRHA, WHEN WERE YOU GONNA TELL US THIS SHIT?!?!
Also, gr8 chaptur m89
Let the feels begin ;-;