A few days had past since the incident in the library. With Applejack's, Vince's and Cy's help, Fluttershy was able to quickly finish the extension of the hen house. Said 'extension' turned out to be a whole new separate room. Sharing a back wall with the coop, it was half the size of the room the chickens had and had its own entrance. Conner told me that Elizibeak had calmed the others down after he and Angel explained that we wouldn't actually be coming into the hen house.
Out of sight, out of mind, I guess...
Anyways, I had begun to find time to spend with my egg each day. Some days I couldn't spend more than a few minutes, but I treasured each one. Today, I had curled up around my egg, attempting to get some sleep.
"There you are."
Well, I did say attempting. I looked up as Cy, Villhiem and Yomega entered the room. "Hey guys. 'Sup?"
Cy glanced upwards. "The ceiling, the sky, some clouds. A bird or two."
Chuckling, Yomega lay down next to a wall. "Couple things actually." He began, waiting until Cy was comfortable against the other wall and Villhiem lay by the door where he could try to get some sun. "First off: Any ideas what to call this cozy little shack we have?"
"Heh, not right now, I'll think of something later."
Yomega shrugged. "Fair enough, get back to me when you've got something. Next thing is, I've gone through Twi's notes after you laid your most-likely-son here."
"You can read Equestrian?" I interrupted. "Since when?"
"Not long after I evolved." Villhiem supplied. Noticing my stare, he elaborated. "I asked him earlier today."
"That aside," Yomega said, "I read that everything about our DNA points to us just being normal mammals, vis a vis, bearing live young. So technically, your egg shouldn't exist."
"Yet most-likely-he does." I snarled.
Yomega slowly shook his head. "I'm not saying that most-likely-he doesn't, just that you've given Twi' another reason to drink. Not that she does, but Spike and I have caught her banging her head against the basement wall." He stared off to the side. "The night you stayed here, Abes circled it and wrote 'In case of enigma, rest head here'.... The indent only grew since then..."
Villhiem and I glanced at each other. "She can read English?" Cy asked.
"No, Abes wrote it in Equestrian."
I rested my head against my egg. "Uh, how?"
Yomega turned to us, raised a paw, then dropped it as a thoughtful look spread across his face. "That's a very good question...." He rapidly shook his head. "Getting back on track now. Twi's thinking of making a new genus for us that connects the Carnivora and Monotremata orders together."
"Please use your smaller words for the confused mother." I snarked.
Yomega rolled his eyes. "You know how scientists classify animals right? Apparently, Eevees are so fucked up, we can only be classified up to 'mammals' before everything goes to shit. She's begun classifying us as -warning, big words incoming- Mutis Enigmus Eevee Eevee. And that's going Order, Family, Genus, Species.
"Abes is an Eevee Umbral, and you," Yomega pointed to the Leafeon, "are an Eevee Filicophyta, which I think is a type of fern. She has yet to reclassify me, but her notes are pointing to her thinking I'm a subspecies."
I shrugged. "Well, you are a shiny."
"Moving on." Villhiem grinned. "You missed an epic freak out. Abes woke up the evening you laid your egg. Thing is," he chuckled, "thing is, he woke up with Twilight floating a needle up to him. Freaked him the hell out."
I nodded. "Sounds traumatizing. So..?"
Villhiem began laughing as he tried to get the story out. Yomega took up the tale. "Umbreon's have poisonous sweat. The table he was on got soaked. Twi's preserved most of it to study later. Scared the hell out of her when it happened, though. Abes left a trail of poisonous footprints behind as he hauled ass up the stairs. Spike found out that touching the stuff makes your paw go numb."
Villhiem got his mirth under control long enough to squeak out "Spike got a huge pile of gems from both Twilight and Abes to pay for it!"
I giggled, turning back to Yomega. "I've been avoiding the library, mostly from embarrassment, how're the notes being organized now?"
Yomega chuckled. "Like a conspiracy theory. On an unrelated note, Twi's out of red string. Now, if Chuckles here can get himself under control, we can get to the next item on my list." We waited until Villhiem's laughter died away. Nodding, Yomega began with a question. "Where's Rainbow right now?"
"No idea." I smiled. "All I know is that I've got the afternoon to myself. Rainbow did mention that she had something she needed to do. Tank's getting used to that propeller of his, so he's not leaving the house." I rubbed my head. "Just so you know, taking a speeding tortoise to the head hurts as bad as headbutting a tree repeatedly. Found that out the fun way."
"Got some bad news for you, then." Villhiem's smile was kidnapped, beaten, and shot by the frown now adorning his face. "I had to ditch the Crusaders today. Apparently, today is the first official 'Rainbow Dash Fanclub' meeting. Which is a thing, that is happening now." My smile joined Villhiem's in death, funeral Sunday.
Yomega re-positioned himself closer to the room's opening. "We are here to keep an eye on you."
"W-why would you need that?" I asked, glancing around at the others.
"Gee, I don't know." Cy deadpanned. "I seem to recall you going crazy the last time we separated you from Rainbow for your own good. We got saddled with this," he motioned to the egg, "for our troubles."
Yomega placed a paw on my shoulder. "We'll be taking shifts to keep an eye on you."
"Please don't go crazy." Villhiem begged.
Night had fallen, and Abes, Lulu, and Conner had taken their places with me. We had run out of topics to discuss a while ago. Now, we were settling in to sleep. Well, except for Abes. He was here to make sure I didn't pull a runner in the night.
That plan was thrown out with the intrusion of a certain cyan pegasus. "You in here, Leo?" Rainbow glanced around until I lifted my head. "There you are. You wont believe what happened today! I rescued a foal that had fallen into a well! Ponies-"
<<Shut up!>> Lulu growled. <<Some of us are trying to sleep!>>
Rainbow glanced down at the irate Eevee. "What's bugging her?"
Just then, Abes made his presence known. The room was filled with a golden glow as he got to his feet. His glowing red eyes bored into Rainbow's.
"Um...." Rainbow's cocky attitude became overwhelmed by the unnatural unease that follows the Umbreon around. "N-nice doggy?"
With a snarl, Abes lunged at Rainbow, snapping his jaws shut inches from her face. <<Get going! They're trying to sleep!>>
"Nicechattingwithyou,youseemtowanttostaythere,seeyouwhenyougethome!" A fading rainbow contrail and rapid speech was the only reminder of Rainbow's presence.
"... Did you have to do that?" I asked.
Abes nodded, the glow dying down. "Odds were high that she was going to take you home, then we would've had a hard time tracking you down afterwards."
Conner poked his head out to watch the contrail fade into the night sky. "I think you may have over done it."
"Why am I under house arrest for what she's gonna do?" I groused tucking myself closer to my egg.
"It has been a few days since my sentence began." I narrated to my audience. "If I had the room to, I'd start climbing the walls. My last escape attempt of digging under the walls was foiled due to the lack of dirt inside my cell. My wardens have once again changed. These ones appear to ignore me."
For their part, Vince and Cy had stuck their heads out the door to escape my ramblings.
"I have a new escape planned. During the change of my wardens, I will use my superior speed to rush past them, make a break for the woods."
"Say something?" Cy called over his shoulder.
"Nothing!" I called back. "Just muttering to myself about failed escape attempts!"
Good job me, they don't suspect a thing. A plus.
"Don't even think about bum rushing us when we swap out." Vince called. "He tried that the first morning." He added to Cy.
They suspected a thing!
Grumbling, I rolled over onto my back. After staring at the wall in front of me for an eternity (about five seconds) I began to bang my head against the floor. Every time my head connected the floor, I muttered out a "Bored".
"She really doesn't like staying in one place, does she?" Cy said to Vince.
"Nope." I could hear the grin in his voice. "Her and Rainbow share that in common."
"What do ya mean?"
Vince sniggered. "Sometime after the pony's version of Christmas, Rainbow's gonna have a nasty wipe out while practicing her stunts. She'll be stuck in the hospital with a broken wing."
"And..." Cy pressed.
Vince just waved a paw at me. I glared at him.
"Don't laugh at Rainbows problems." I growled, rolling back onto my stomach.
Cy turned back to me. "That. That right there is why you're stuck in here." Vince turned and nodded. Cy continued. "You freak us all out with your undying devotion to Rainbow Dash!"
"It's like you've decided that she's to be your trainer." Vince added.
I had to pause at that. Is she my trainer? I mean, I'm not in a pokè-ball.
"Neither were the ancient, tamed Pokèmon."
Now how the hell do I know that? I looked back at my wardens. "Wouldn't you come to the defense of that country hick you've saddled yourselves with?"
"You leave Applejack out of this!" They chorused.
I nodded. "Thought as much."
"At least we don't trample our friends to 'help' someone with a problem that we know will be solved!" Cy shot back.
Vince nodded. "Everyone else wouldn't have any problems sticking to the simple plan of 'we know whats coming, let it play out'. Everyone but you!"
"I just don't get you!" Cy cut back in. "You can be so, so." He seemed to grasp for the right word. "So mercurial!! You go from weeping over Villhiem's potential corpse, to happy go lucky when you show off your Sunny Day!"
Vince tagged back in. "And then you act like nothing was ever wrong to begin with! And then, you go absolutely bat shit crazy over Rainbow spraining her wing during her pet race when you knew Tank would've been able to handle it!"
"Tell us! Tell us what the hell goes on in that skull of yours!" They synchronized back up, the sunlight coming into the room behind them making them seemed to glow orange. "And tell the truth!"
"I worry for her!!" I roared back at them. "I know how she is! I see her at her best! And it hurts when I see or hear her acting like this, because I know that Rainbow's better then this!" I slammed a paw into the wall beside me. "And I can't stand her getting hurt! Do you know what she does when she heals?! She runs herself ragged with work, training, everything! To 'make up for lost time'! She's dedicated a hundred percent to everything she does!" My paw slid down the wall back to my side.
"And I feel the need to do the same..." I locked eyes with the two of them as best I could. " I can't not give her my all. Because she deserves it." I lowered my gaze. "Because of who she is, because of what she stands for, I would die for her."
[third person]
Rainbow moped on what had become a thunderhead. "All anypony talks about is Mare-Do-Well this and Mare-Do-Well that!" She grumbled, waving a hoof back and forth to her words. "What about me?" She complained as she moved to the side of her cloud. "How could everypony forget about me so easily!"
She sat up. "I mean, have I changed?" She stood, looking herself over. "Same sleek body. Same flowing mane. Same spectacular hooves! Nope!" She jumped into a hover, striking a pose in mid air. "I'm still awesome! They're wrong!" She declared, hoof pointed to the ground.
Her bravado fled her as she resettled onto her cloud. "But.. Then why am I all alone?" She dejectedly muttered.
"I hate being all alone." She pouted at the edge of her cloud. She closed her eyes to continue moping.
"... I worry..."
"Huh?" Rainbow looked around. "Who's there?"
"... It hurts..."
"What hurts?" Rainbow cast her gaze under her cloud. "Tell me how I can help!"
"... Getting hurt... Run... Ragged..."
"Where are you?" She cried out, frantically trying to find the ailing pony. "I can't help you if I can't find you. Why are you hiding? I just want to help!"
"... Because... Because... I WOULD DIE FOR HER!!"
Rainbow awoke with a start covered in a cold sweat. She frantically cast her gaze about, trying to get her racing heart under control. "Okay, that was weird." She murmured.
"Hey, Rainbow Dash!" She flinched as a voice called up from below. Looking down, Rainbow saw Scootaloo waving from the ground, a pair of fillies wearing Mare-Do-Well paraphernalia waiting a little ways behind her.
"O-oh, Hey Squirt!" Rainbow paused to get her nerves under control. "What're ya here for?"
"To invite you to join us!" Scootaloo beamed. "We're heading off to the thank-you parade for Ponyville's greatest hero, Mare-Do-Well!"
"No!" Rainbow answered as her built up resentment resurfaced. "I'm just fine being alone right now!"
"Oh." Scootaloo turned to rejoin her friends. "Okay, then."
Rainbow waited until Scootaloo had moved out of earshot before grumbling to herself. "Why would I go thank her? She ruined everything, and I don't even know who she is! I-" She cut herself off as her brain finally caught up to her words. Taking off from her cloud, She flew off to catch up with her number one fan.
"Hey, Squirt! Wait up!"
Joy's Eevee Egghome
Poor Twilight. She has no idea that she's barking up the wrong evolutionary tree...
As for the name, being that it's where they're keeping the egg, and Leo's 'trainer' has left her there for a while, I'd go with the Day Care.
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dont you mean eeveeution tree
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Y'all should be ashamed.
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i should be but im not
House of Eeveelution?
How about "The Eevee Center"?
I would suppose to simply call it "the Nest"
I know in the games that’s true I think even in the show it was the same?
So, will they ever reveal the truth?
Eevee Operation Evolution Center for Taking Over Equestria. Or simple E.O.E.C.T.O.E
The Rookery
(Gargoyles reference FTW)
im surprised they didn't make a sanctuary yet to get a break from the world away from ponies and another place just their own.
I am legitimately pissed that the other eevees are confining Leo. I'm actually infuriated by that and the fact that there semingly has yet to be a valid reason for it. I don't know how you did it but you are ether the best author or the worst author on this site.
I have a feeling leo is going to be either espeon or sylveon
The daycare. Dub.
Le Shack Del Eevee
So there is a link between them. Interesting.
Twilight Sparkle journal entry:
Mutis Enigmus Eevee Eevee seem to share responsibility over taking care of their young, or at least their eggs, indicating a high possibility of them raising their cubs communally like foxes. And according to observed data, they seem highly protective of their nests.
Nice chapter, good work.
The Egg- travagant Eeveelutionary hotel.
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I'll see myself out.
The Eeveelysium
PS.: Wouldn't Twilight try to breed the eevees, to test if there will be another egg? And the egg was the Pokemon way, so if, just hypothetically, two of them would have a "roll in the hay", would they get pregnent, or lay also an egg? Just curious.
The "den" or the "nest"would work.
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The Eevees dna points to them being mammals, therefore having a heat cycle. Since they are laying eggs, it seems obvious to Twilight that that part of the cycle has past.
Of course, I could be screwing everything up here. I'm not a biologist.....
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They might have "past one", but like it said, it's a cycle. So Twi would try to find out the periods bitween them, and they should actually have a heat cycle. You know, cause of biology and comedic convenience. And if not, there is always the possibility of artificial insemination. *Insert manical laughter*
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I still say glacion
The 100 Eevee Wood
I was thinking we need more Pokémon... More characters to fill in the story because it’s awesome to have Eevees but I think another Pokémon would be cool like a rival?
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Boo...
The Batcave for they are a bunch of nerds who got a pad to call their own.
The party house! That's a perfect name for the room!
Friendly reminder that THIS DOCUMENT exists, and I love to hear other's ideas on why who will become what!
And I didn't say it last chapter but what is up with Vincent and Connor's eyes? Dust? Pink Eye? Aside from both being with outdoorsy ponies (AJ and Fluttershy, respectively) there's not much to go on for it...
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I approve of "The Nest" "The Den" and "The Daycare" since the name is only going to be between the Eevees themselves and they would probably end up referring to it as something simple for simplicity's sake. But I think it'd be funny if they listed off names that people are submitting for their own "vote" until they decide whatever it is you pick. Like the E.O.E.C.T.O.E. that PlatinumPony suggested.
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Really? Why do you think that? I've got who I think is going to be what and why, but I'd love to hear your reasons for why you think each one will be what! And just so you know I also think Leo will be a Glaceon. Or Vaporeon. Or Jolteon. Or stay an Eevee. Honestly Leo has the most signs in the most directions, but Glaceon is my primary.
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I wouldn't mind a chapter or part of a chapter that has some of Twilight's notes, or her progress to Celestia, just to see where her mind is on things. Or a chapter from the Mane 6's perspective to see what they all think of them. Like how Rarity feels about a fox and a cat living together peacefully, or the Apple family's impressions of Vince and Cy. Or how Luna is with her long-distance relationship with Abes.
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What was?
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There was a point made early on that they would try not to interfere with the events of the show unless things happened that, for their safety or the safety of others, they had to intervene. They are currently keeping Leo under house arrest because of how she reacted to Rainbow getting her wing hurt during the events of May the Best Pet Win and since the current chapter occurs during another Rainbow episode of Mysterious Mare-Do-Well they are trying to prevent her from freaking out again and running to her rescue. Vince and Cy even say so in this chapter why they are guarding her.
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Probably. But I'd imagine it won't until everyone is evolved.
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Neither were the ancient, tamed Pokemon.
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For what I remember glacion is from sort of stone or something and not only was leo likening the fost grapes (or berrys) a bit to focused on to ignore i think the connection to rainbow is to high for leo not not have a evelution base or similer to weather but her/his laid back mostly personality seems a bad match for a jolteton and she likes swimming if I recall correctly a lot so some thing water related would fit im leaning for glacion but a vaporeon could work
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Glaceon, in the games, evolve near the icy rock on colder routes and leafeon evolves near mossy rocks in forests.
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fixed, thank's for the catch.
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Hmm so she would evolve near some where cold
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Hey, the Hearth's Warming play would be a good time, and Leo could help with the play since Glaceon is the "Fresh Snow" pokemon. Or if there's ice packs during Read it and Weep, maybe? Or I think there's an ice mountain during Dragon Quest, and Rainbow, Rarity and Twilight are all there for that one...
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High up could also work since the sky can be quite cold at high altitude
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I also think the one who lost his leg(there are so many I forgot most of the evees name a bio would help) would be slveon (the fairy type) both since he lost his leg the rippons that i have seen work as limps would help counter the leg it could also fit with pinkie pie
Man, this is awesome!! I can't wait to read more from ya!!
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Or it could be a fortelling of what that Pokemon will evolve into.
So I just binge read the entire story, and it's really good. A+ to you Symphonic, for keeping a story alive for 2 years! My only major complaint is I never felt the charcters were truly "established" and I still don't have them mentally separated until they evolve. Still, you've got a fine story here, and I can't wait for the next portion!
The Burrow
Don’t know how I found this but I glad I did
I vote for "The Burrow" or "The Daycare" also I liked the suggestion someone put of the Eevee's having their own vote on what to call it
Hideyhole. Hatcher's Haven. The foxhole. Bonker's Bunker. Eeveebunker. The Foxhouse. Foxbox. Yeah, i know I'm late to the party but since nopony's suggesting anything namewise... foxpen. Penhouse. Placeholder. Sitout. Nopebox. The Hole. Puppypenthouse. The Eevee Mansion. Eevee hatchery. Eevee house. eeveebox. Eevee Egg Sitter Site. I fits I sits. Probably too late to do anything with these storywise so i'll just leave these here. Carry On!
Okay, that's better. Twilight doing something actually professional as a scientist.
... I totally missed the evolution. Someone point me to it please, i feel like a moron
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Abes evolved at Nightmare Night, Villhiem evolved when defending the Crusaders from the "water elemental" and Yommy is a shiny eevee, so he looks different from the others.
And thus the bond is forged ...
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Psychic stuuuufff!!