Over a Basset, Part 2 [70]
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Over a Basset,
Part 2
Rahs frowned looking out the window of the caboose. Trains were not supposed to go backwards. Even more so this one was going backwards down a set of rails that was far too old and ill maintained to be part of the main line.
He was also certain that it had been Ponies pulling the train, not Buffalo pushing it when he had gone to sleep.
That really only meant one thing, that this had been a literal train robbery.
The pun amused him slightly, though he needed to figure out how to get out of this, he doubted the thieves knew he was here and he didn't like the idea of trying to fight his way past this many Buffalo.
What to do, what to do..... AH!
Pulling on his new coat, Rahs adjusted the white, ten gallon hat, he wore until it was just over his eyes. He plucked a twig from the tree to put in his mouth like an old cigar and hiked his belt up further. He shoved a couple of apples into his pockets before pulling the long coat over them to make it look like he was packing a pair of big irons or something. A small grin crossed his face which he quickly squashed down, fixing instead a thousand yard stare and an annoyed grimace on his face.
He could very well bluff his way out of this by playing the part of the 'Stallion Without a Name'. The Buffalo likely hadn't seen any plays like that, and even if they had read the book it was based on they might very well just add to the legend and make his getting out of there easier.
Rahs felt the caboose start to slow, clearly they were where they were going, he allowed himself a last small smirk at the plan before showtime.
He rather enjoyed westerns.
[Appleoosa ]
Mffmuff murffff!” Braburn exclaimed from around the magical energy wrapped tightly around his muzzle.
“Okay listen here Butt brain....” Twilight growled.
“Braburn.” Applejack corrected.
“Don't care.” Twilight responded without looking at her friend. ”I'm sure you have a job to do when someone shows up here, but my brother was dog napped by Buffalo and I have neither the time nor patience to put up with any delays to his recovery. Now I'm going to release your mouth and you are going to tell me where the sheriff is. Then you are going to get out of my way or so help me I will teleport you back to whatever landscape i was looking at outside my window before I went to bed. And since I don't remember it that well, you might wind up in the frozen north, or imbedded in a rock wall instead, understand?”
Braeburn nodded quickly.
“Good.” Twilight snapped, letting the magic fade from the stallions muzzle.”Sheriff, now.”
“There's someone in there.” Little Strongheart frowned from her perch atop the caboose.
The gathered Buffalo muttered to themselves as they clustered around the train car, some of them were a little upset that they had accidentally foal napped someone, though others seemed to be of the opinion that the more settlers they drove off the better.
None of them were prepared for the door of the train car to be kicked open with a crash and a large figure to practically unfold itself from out of the small train door.
Clawed rear paws of navy blue kicked up small puffs of dust as they landed on the dry ground under the door of the caboose.
A breeze blew by, making the dark green and gold trimmed duster the figure wore billow and flap against the figures legs. A dark furred tail flicked and whipped behind the creature, a small glowing point of light barely visible as it moved through the shadow cast by the train car. Long arms ending in clawed fingers rested at his side. His hands twitched as it seemed ready to draw something out from under his coat the moment there was any trouble from the Buffalo around him.
A large white hat rested low on his head, slits for his long ears allowing them to poke out of the side of the hat. The shadow cast over his face by the hat hid his eyes save for a soft glint of amber as his gaze shifted, sharp teeth gnawed on the end of a stick it had in his mouth. His head turned slowly taking in the herd as if carefully assessing how much a threat they were.
All eyes were locked on the imposing figure and when he took another step forward some of the herd flinched.
Somewhere in the distance an odd whistling sound could be heard.
“Pinkie Pie stop that!” Rainbow Dash hissed. The pair of them were situated behind a large rock having caught up with the train robbers.
“But he's doing The Hero, the Evil, and the Hideous thing, I can't not do the whistle.” Pinkie Pie protested.
“You're gonna get us caught and then we can't save him.” Dash growled.
“You mean like you're growling just did.” Pinkie Pie asked pointing at the Buffalo that now surrounded them.
“Buck it!!” Dash cursed.
[Appleoosa]
“So basically what yer saying is the Buffalo are demanding you cut down all the trees and leave?”Applejack frowned.
“That's about the size of it. This is probably the worst thing they've done so far, attacking the train?” The Sheriff muttered. “We've had some supplies taken and some property vandalized, but it's been pretty small scale so far. Robbing a train and foal napping is a new low for um.”
“Princess Celestia herself approved tha building of Appaloosa out here about twenty years ago, we finally got every thing working right and our orchard grown and now they wanna run us out? It ain't happening!” Braeburn added.
“We've not heard from Rainbow Dash or Pinkie Pie. I expect they both went after Rahs.” Rarity explained. “Not the pair I would send first into a rescue operation I assure you.”
“Oh I’m sure they will all be fine.” Fluttershy placated. “Right?”
Twilight had been silent for a while reading over the documentation the Sheriff had shown her about the right for the town to be here.
“Right, Twilight?” Applejack said louder.
“Yes, right.... everything seems to be in order with this.” Twilight stated giving the paper back to the sheriff. “I'm not sure what the story is here with the Buffalo, but they live in Equestria and can't go against the Princesses ruling like this, so they are the criminals in this case.”
“Right.” The Sheriff agreed.
“That said I would still like to hear their side of the story.” Twilight continued her mane and tail starting to smolder causing everypony to take a step away from her as her tone darkened considerably. “ However if they have hurt my brother then no one is going to need to worry about Buffalo in these parts ever again.”
“Oh dear.” Fluttershy whimpered.
Rahs raised an eyebrow under his hat as Dash and Pinkie Pie were escorted over to where he was. Dash looked ready to fight her way out of there, Pinkie looked......
“Hi Rahs! Did you like the epic western score? My Granny taught me how to whistle like that. At first I was all like dun na na na NA, then wooo wooo wooo, only with whistling .. I forgot my maracas, but I shook this cactus and it sounded just like that.....” Pinkie rambled.
Pinkie looked like she always did.
“You!” Rainbow Dash shouted pointing up above Rahs' head.
Rahs ears twitched as he heard hooves scuffing on the top of the train car, but if he looked up he'd have to remove his hat to see up too far and that would show off the poofed mess of his hair so that wasn't happening. He remained where he was hoping to look cool and unconcerned.
“Crap...... look we didn't mean to hurt any one on the train... and you sorta hit the sign on your own so you can't blame me for that.” Little Strong heart protested.
“You Foal napped... “ Dash yelled.
“Dog napped.” Pinkie corrected.
“Whatever, you dog napped a friend of ours! Hows that not meaning any harm!?” Dash continued.
“We didn't know anyone was in the caboose, we only wanted the tree.” Strongheart protested.” the settlers have overtaken the land, far more than they had to start and planted an orchard all over our traditional stampeding grounds.”
“What” Dash questioned.
“We have a long and wide stampeding trail that we have run upon for generations. We use to to move along to our next camp for the changing of the seasons.” A deep voice echoed from behind them.
The rest of the Buffalo suddenly hushed and Strongheart looked worried.
A massive Buffalo with a feathered headdress approached, flanked by warriors just as large as he was.
“ I am Chief Thunder Hooves, this is my granddaughter, Little Strongheart. “ The Buffalo stated. “ The settlers have overstepped their bounds and set hoof into lands granted to my great great great great great great great great great great great great.....” Chief Thunder Hooves continued.
“Grandpa. It's only eight back.” Strongheart stated.
“How many did I just do?” The Chief questioned.
“Twelve.” Pinkie Pie helpfully offered.
“Hmm got carried away. At any rate My eight times great grandfather Chief Three Bear was granted this land by Ko'komiki'somma for his service as her protector. It rightfully belongs to the Buffalo. We did not mind when the settlers first showed up, nor did we mind the train as this land is wide and such transport is useful, plus they were not in the way of our migration and we could trade for what we might want. When they started planting their orchard across our sacred path is when things turned sour. We attempted to speak with them about their expansion, but they refused to move what they had already planted.” Chief Thunder Hooves continued. “As such some of my tribe have decided to take driving them out into their own hooves.”
Little Strongheart at least tried to look ashamed at that point.
“Woof.” Rahs said simply, still maintaining his stern gunslinger stance.
“What?” Chief Thunder Hooves asked looking to the Moon Dog for the first time curiously..
“He asked why you haven’t gone to the Princesses yet this is the sort of dispute that they regularly deal with.” Pinkie Pie translated.
“Because they claim Princess Celestia is the one who gave them these lands. And with no one but the word of our ancestors being given the land from Ko'komiki'somma, we do not have any sort of case for it.” Chief Thunder Hooves sighed.
“I didn't know Princess Celestia just gives out land like that, something seems fishy.” Pinkie frowned.
“You keep saying that word, but what does it mean?” Rainbow Dash questioned.
“It is the name of the Moon Goddess who granted us the land...” Chief Thunder Hooves stated blinking as Pinkie Pie smiled and Dash face hooved. “ What?”
“Bark.” Rahs smirked showing his fangs, something that made a few more Buffalo flinch again.
“What?” the Chief asked.
“Yeah, you're right that does sound like Princess Luna.” Pinkie Pie pondered.
“Yeah you are probably in luck chief. Your...... whatever name you said sounds like Princess Luna and she just got back from a unwanted vacation, so she'll probably be able to tell her sister that the land was yours first.” Rainbow Dash offered. “None of them will be really happy with what's being going on, but this should be settled fairly quickly.
The chief was going to respond when a stray cloud lazily drifted across the sun, casting the land in a brief shadow. While there were a number of clouds in the sky this was the first one to manage to darken the land by any significant amount. This was also the first time Chief Thunder Hooves had been looking at Rahs when there was enough shadow for him to notice the points of light at the end of his tail and ears as they poked out of the top of his hat.
The dark furred buffalo paled considerably, his eyes widening as big as plates as he stared at the Moon Dog.
“Sik Imitaa.....” The Chief uttered.
The response was immediate, every Buffalo who heard the Chief took off running in a massive stampeed away from the caboose and the creature standing before it. The only exceptions to this were a few of the younger Buffalo and Little Strongheart.
The two ponies and the Moon Dog looked around curiously wondering what was going on.
“What the frik was that?” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“Yeah, what did he say? What's Sik Imitaa mean?” Pinkie Pie asked.
Strong Heart blinked looking over at Rahs her ears flattening to her head as she stared at the confused Moon Dog, moving to keep the two ponies between her and Rahs.
“Sik Imitaa, means 'Black Dog' they are seen as omens of death.” Little Strongheart swallowed.
“Rahs isn't black silly, he's more of a navy blue color.” Pinkie Pie pointed out.
Twilight checked her bag and then the map she was given to the Buffalo camp a last time before trotting out into the waste, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity following close behind her.
“Darling, do you really think this is necessary?” Rarity asked.
“You don't have to come.” Twilight stated.
“Yes, went over this before, back during the Nightmare Moon fiasco.”Rarity rolled her eyes.”I am not letting you go alone. But I simply think you may be overreacting a bit in storming off to the camp for a rescue.”
“Rahs should be fine...” Fluttershy added her two cents in.
“Really, what would you do if your brother was kidnapped by a known hostile force?”Twilight asked continuing to march into the desert.
“I wouldn't know, I do not have a brother.”Rarity sighed.
“Hope they only returned an ear and we never saw the rest again.” Fluttershy said softly.
Every pony stopped to look back at Fluttershy with a bit of worry. Fluttershy however, didn't notice as she was helping a beetle climb a nearby cactus to get to a flower at the top.
“OOOkay, Applejack?” Twilight continued.
“Head out tah help him, a fore he did something stupid.” Applejack stated flatly.
“Right. I am quite sure Rahs will be fine on his own, but given the situation he might still need help.” Twilight agreed. “It should be noted I'm quite glad Spike didn't come, it would have been far worse had he been the one to get nabbed.”
“Seriously?” Rarity rolled her eyes.
“Yep.”Applejack added.”Think about what you'd do if Sweetiebelle was foal napped.”
Rarity pondered a moment as they trotted before finally nodding.
“I suppose I would see if the Griffon empire was still on that hamburger fad they had for awhile.” Rarity finally offered.
“They're not, I considered that though.” Twilight commented.
“Ain't hamburger a fancy name fer cows?” Applejack questioned.
“It is.” Fluttershy stated. “For a specific way of cooking cow flesh to be exact.”
“Yeah well, now I'm glad I didn't eat anything a'fore we left....” Applejack muttered turning green at the thought.
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JESUS CHRIST, GIRL!!!! Of course, if we go by canon, that point of view is awfully tame. And healthy. For him.
…wow. Just. Wow.
Well, Pinkie knows where it's at
Fluttershy is a surprisingly violent pony
I had to stop and giggle at the mental image here.
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I don't blame her. Zephyr is awful.
Sounds like the buffalo still remember the Witch Wolves.
Didn't you mean 'Stallion With No Name'?
Wow, this Twilight is really subtle about her intention.
Always the quiet one. Really wonder what's going in her mind at that moment.
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I'm reminded of that one Red Dead Redemption Trophy/Achievement for wiping out all the Buffalo. Could just see it popping up, if Twilight did wipe out the Buffalo ^^;
Fluttershy's reaction doesn't surprise me, her brother's not exactly 'Grade A' sibling material.
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But I thought she was on a good term with Rahs, probably like him to some degrees.
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He's talking about Fluttershy's brother; Zephyr Breeze. Very annoying lad, so I can't really blame Fluttershy for her view
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She's talking about Zephir.
Holy crap Flutters
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my thoughts exactly
Can't wait for the next chappie also just realized auto correct has been turning my chapters to crapters lol
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8783528 Fun fact time. I have yet to see the episode with him in it. All my knowledge of her brother is from other fics i've read. BlueBlood is more highly regarded than Zephir. Not current Blueblood after the comic, first two seasons Blueblood. No one likes him.
Despite that she's mostly just venting, she'd never do anything to her brother...... She might look the other way if some of her animal friends did though......
8783452 This Twilight doesn't do subtile well. Well to be honest she doesn't do many things well. But she's getting better. We know Twilight can be pissed off an violent [Remember the destruction of the library?] TGaP Twilight has just been through some shit and Rahs and Spike are the closest family she has. Despite the fact they fight a lot, if one of them is in trouble the other two will go through hell and high water to help. While this includes Shining as well, he's not around enough to be relevant, but if he was here, he'd be marching right along with Twilight after the Buffalo.
“Really, what would you do if your brother was kidnapped by a known hostile force?”Twilight asked continuing to march into the desert.
(...)
“Hope they only returned an ear and we never saw the rest again.” Fluttershy said softly.
GO FLUTTERSHY!
Rahs you drama hound XD
TBH, I kind of like this alt take on the situation being a long-long-long drawn out clerical error.
Okay, this is so much better than the episode.
Plus it answers some possible questions about why the Buffalo never pleaded their case or sent a letter to a Celestia about the problem.
Also nice reuse of the name for ‘The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’.
Along with the western sounding whistle. You could have added a video or sound effect to it by linking the words to it.
Great chapter
I love how aggressive Twilight is in this story
Also, I always saw the buffalo as a cross between the Lakota and Charakee, but I can see Black Foot.
Now THIS is an interesting addition. That Princess Luna granted the Buffalo these lands. I wonder what connection that they have with her!
Every time I've read a new chapter on my phone ( like I'm doing now ) there has been an ad for dog flea and tic drops at the end. Just had to share this
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No I'm saying he's an asshole for saying that the author needs to change the story just for him. Even though he probably didn't mean it that way, that's the way it comes off to us authors.
By all rights we don't have to do anything for our readers, but since we care about them we strive to improve. But this guy says that what TDR has done (writing an entertaining story, for free) isn't enough, and he should go back and use his time to edit the chapters, so that HE can read it without his grammar nazi ocd kicking in
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Also you read this so you understand better.
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Alright . valid point.
spartanpony007 deleted his message at 12:19 3/9/2018 because he acknowledges he was getting much too salty.
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I was rather hoping he would ponyup and help me edit
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Haha, I dunno maybe he just hasn't been on. Or maybe he just dipped as soon as someone said something he didn't like.
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I've got an ad for a basset breeder on mine atm.
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Stories in stone, its written by TDR i believe, so if you want to check it out just go to his stories.
I have to say, there's been a couple parts here where Flutters gets dark, and I love it.
Wow, I’m caught up.
This is really great so far, keep up the amazing work!
I know it is the quiet ones you have to watch out for, but damn.
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To be fair, it is Zephyr Breeze.
I don't think he'll marry a middle aged mare only to have his father marry his stepdaughter.
Oh dayumn, this chapter belongs to Fluttershy. No competition.
Oh. Oh dear.
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Well, apparently he was a dick in cannon from what I have heard about him.
*nope
Also wow u really don't like zephyr huh
Never change pinkie
Yah know, I'm starting to get the feeling that you may have altered fluttershy's history with zephyr breeze a little bit. Simple dislike really isn't enough for multiple comments of this caliber, especially from someone as soft spoken as her. I have family members that I strongly dislike a lot of the time, but I wouldn't wish death upon them. I'm pretty sure that there's some kind of known history beyond what's known in canon.
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One of the reasons comes up in Dragon Quest next season. But at the time. I just thought it was funny.
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I guess that's fair, it was a little funny... more foreboding for me though. Makes me worried about the possibility of abuse, or something like that; as the comment doesn't seem particularly joking or jovial (and Flutters really doesn't seem like the kind of person to make that sort of joke anyway). Plus, with multiple comments of similar magnitude and seriousness, Fluttershy must be harboring some a grudge something fierce, and for likely good reason; as she's got a kind nature, and is generally more apt to forgive (Discord being a prime example). I'm not entirely sure I wanna know what would cause her to have that kind of hatred...
And I guess I'll see the reason you mentioned when I get there, should be quite interesting.
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Take Zephyr's attitude and put it in a child's body.
Upon realizing what was going on I immediately went and pulled this up. Clint Eastwood, how would you ponify that...
My man I grew up on Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns. Also this tickled my fancy in all the right ways and Rahs would probably get a kick out of it. I know I did.
Laughter of a hyena was to hear... Strange sounds like me having a blast...
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If you have to deal with him you would be to...
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To bad Luna is proven wrong there never existed Witch Wolfes
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Its all understandable.
Twilight wants to keep her brother in one piece.
Fluttershy wants her brother in pieces.
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Must interessting possible developments
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When Fluttershy want him gones hes Sombra levels of disgusting ( evil versions )
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Well can you blame her with that brother of hers?