It was very early in the morning, barely a few minutes after the time Celestia raised the Sun. Twilight though was up and about, walking down the path to Fluttershy’s house. The yellow mare was back from her trip to Las Pegasus, although she was so tired yesterday from the whole experience that she didn’t show up in the castle to pick up the apetaur. Well, Twilight was about to find out because she needed her right now to take care of him again.
Twilight had really been behind her schedule and today she was required to go to Canterlot in order to give some presentations. Celestia wanted her to give the students a quick overview of the history of enchanted objects in Equestria, moreover, she needed to catch up with Starlight Glimmer’s lessons. She was an amazing student and her magic abilities were impressive, although, Twilight was starting to worry about the friendship lessons, and that matter needed to be addressed as soon as possible.
Long story short, she was going to be away in Canterlot and Starlight Glimmer was going to be busy socializing with Twilight’s friends, and the young alicorn was still uncomfortable about leaving the apetaur alone for the whole day. He had no magic and was probably vulnerable if something happened. Without anyone to bring him food, or take care of his needs, she was uncomfortable. At the very least, he was a guest, and she didn’t like the idea of leaving him to his own devices in the deserted castle. That’s the reason why she needed to make sure that Fluttershy would be taking care of him again, at least for a day.
“Hey, Twilight!” A particularly raspy tomboyish voice greeted Twilight from above, interrupting her train of thought.
“Hey Rainbow, how come you are up and about this early in the morning?” Twilight replied.
“Fluttershy has been to Las Pegasus and I wanted to hang around for a little while to ask her how it was. And probably she needs help with her animals and that weird creature.” Rainbow answered. “I’m kind of curious.”
Rainbow landed and they both walked the rest of the way to the cottage. In spite of the early hour, Fluttershy was in her garden, taking care of the early morning birds that came for their dairy rations of food.
“Hey Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash greeted the timid pegasus with her typical energy, scaring some birds away in the process.
“Um… hi Rainbow. And hi to you too, Twilight.” Fluttershy responded, noticing her visitors.
“Hello, Fluttershy, how is it going?” Greeted Twilight.
“A little bit tired, but fine. Las Pegasus was kind of exhausting.”
“I bet it was awesome.” Rainbow interjected.
“Um… maybe?” Fluttershy shied a little bit away from Rainbow’s enthusiasm.
“Uh… actually… Fluttershy, sorry to be so direct, but I came here to ask you a favor.” Twilight said.
“Uh? Of course, Twilight. What is it?” Asked Fluttershy, tilting her head to one side.
“Remember the creature you rescued from the Everfree? I would like you to take care of him again for a day or two while I’m busy catching up with my chores.” Twilight asked.
“Of course! I was planning to go to the castle right after I finished with my lovely birds here! Oh, I can’t wait to see Mr. Handy again! The poor little thing…” Fluttershy answered in excitement.
“Oh, and while you and Applejack were away, Starlight Glimmer and me did some interesting discoveries about him.” Twilight added.
“Um… What discoveries?” Fluttershy asked with a puzzled expression and her head adorably tilted.
“Apart from how adorable, nice and cute he is?” Rainbow rudely interrupted, snickering a little.
“We have discovered that he is a sapient being, just like ponies, maybe from a very far away civilization that even Equestria hasn’t heard of…” Twilight explained.
“That’s impossible! Pegasi have explored the whole world already! We haven’t found anything like it! Maybe he is just very smart.” Dash objected.
“At least that you know, Rainbow… But I think you aren’t the brightest expert in Pegasus History…” Twilight teased, making Rainbow remember her struggles with the History lessons to get into the Wonderbolts.
“Whatever!” Rainbow grumped, blushing slightly.
“Anyways… The point is that he is probably a stranger from a faraway place, so far that even Equestria hasn’t discovered it yet. He can’t speak because he doesn’t know the language, and that’s why he was learning some words from you, Fluttershy, and now he is learning from all of us and I asked Cheerilee to help him too.” Twilight explained.
“S…s…so… he is…” Fluttershy hesitantly stuttered.
“We have still a lot to investigate about him, but everything points us in the direction that maybe he is in reality a foreign stallion that belongs to a species and culture never seen before!” Twilight concluded.
“A… s… ssss… sta…” Fluttershy blushed at the particular way Twilight worded the situation.
“Uh… So, Fluttershy, you got him to bed the very first day you found him… Wow… that was fast.” Rainbow teased. “And me telling somepony she is fast is quite something…”
“Bu… bu… but I thought he was a lost critter, and he was ill and cold so I just used my body warmth to… to… It’s not like I… I…” Fluttershy turned into a trembling blushing ball.
“Rainbow…” Twilight warned, realizing how difficult this had become for the timid mare all of a sudden.
“…To warm up his body…” Rainbow continued between fits of giggles and snorts. ”Oh dear… Didn’t know you had such a liking for foreign and exotic stallions! Like they say, it’s always the quiet ones!”
Fluttershy ran into her cottage and closed the door, the lock clicking in place just afterwards. Rainbow Dash fell to the floor in a fit of laughter, Twilight deadpanning at her, a slight blush on her own face.
“Great…” Twilight mumbled.
“’Oh, dear… ‘And his paws felt so amazing!’ She told me the other day…” The blue pegasus continued rolling on the ground in laughter. Probably saying something Fluttershy told her, but out of context, obviously teasing.
“Rainbow!” Twilight scowled, stopping the laughing mare in the middle of another roll. Then she pointed at the closed door of the cottage.
“Oh… sorry about that…” Rainbow snickered, wiping away her tears with a fetlock.
“Now we are going to have to fix this too…” Twilight said, trotting to the door and knocking it gently.
“GO AWAY!” Came the distraught voice of Fluttershy.
“What are we going to do now?” Twilight asked.
“Uh… didn’t you have to go teaching Starlight something and go to Canterlot to do some egghea… err… stuff?” Rainbow asked.
“RIGHT!” One of Twilight eyes twitched. “Oh no, I’m going to be late… no no no nonono… And I still need to find someone to take care of the apetaur… Not this again… DASH! YOU APOLOGIZE!” Twilight pointed at Rainbow, then at the closed door, and then galloped away.
“Oh, boy… okay…” Rainbow snickered, then breathed deeply to calm herself and knocked on the door. “Fluttershy, it’s me, Rainbow Dash… err… you know I wasn’t serious when I said all that stuff… it was just…” Dash couldn’t help but snicker again to herself. “…A joke…”
***
Cheerilee was having breakfast as every morning. Simple coffee and some toast, nothing too fancy. Today she was going to really make an effort to cope with everything, with the help of some extra coffee.
In about one hour, the classes would start, and she needed to be at 100% of herself, her students didn’t deserve any less, and it was not their problem that she was so stressed out with her life in general, problems and situations to think about later, not now, now there was coffee to be had. If she was lucky, she would be able to grade all the exams the foals were going to do this morning, yes, she would do it this very afternoon, just before Princess Twilight appeared with that weird and gigantic creature.
All she wanted was this half an hour for herself, this tiny moment to relax before she had to go to class. A nice cup of an expensive imported blend of coffee, one of the few luxuries that she still could afford, and nothing at all could disturb her right now, the foals weren’t coming to the school in at least half an hour from now, and…
The doorbell rang.
The sound startled Cheerilee in the middle of sipping her drink and sent her into a coughing fit.
After recovering and wiping away a dark streak of her drink that had managed to come out of her left nostril, the mare headed towards the door. It can’t be, it can’t be… It just…
It was.
There, standing proudly and smiling widely was the princess and that… weird creature. The same creature that she agreed to give classes yesterday, but they weren’t supposed to show up until six in the afternoon, why? Why were they here just now? First hour in the morning?
“Good morning, Cheerilee.” Twilight greeted in that way-too-happy tone she gets when she is nervous but pretends that everything is alright.
“Uh… hey, Twilight…” The teacher tried her best to hide her discomfort.
“I have a really urgent matter to talk to you about.” Continued Twilight, more seriously.
“Oh… kay? What is it?” Cheerilee asked, fearing the answer.
“I’m far behind schedule and I need to catch up on a lot of things. The lessons for Starlight Glimmer, some chores and most importantly, I have to go to Canterlot to give a presentation… and, well, long story short… I need you to keep an eye on the apetaur today.” Twilight explained.
“Bu… but I have to work at school, the classes, the foals…” Cheerilee tried to talk herself out of the problem.
“Don’t worry, he is intelligent and won’t cause any troubles, I just need you to check if everything is alright from time to time. I’m just uncomfortable about leaving him alone the whole day yet.” Twilight continued. “Oh, and you can also give him his lessons once you have finished at school, I will be right back to pick him up this afternoon.”
“But… The… I won’t… FOOD! I have no idea what kind of food I need to give him!” Cheerilee was desperate to find a reasonable excuse in the eyes of Twilight, she couldn’t tell her outright no, she was a princess after all.
“Oh, right…” POOF! After a quick teleport, there was a bag of varied fruits and baked goods in front of her.
“Uh… what!?” Cheerilee eloquently asked.
“He should be okay with this. Just give him some apples and bananas, he eats those.”
“Oh… kay… but… You just said he is intelligent; he is probably going to be okay if a day is all you have to…” If the creature was so intelligent, he didn’t need to get a babysitter…
“This is really important, Miss Cheerilee, he is the only one of his kind we know of! We need to keep an eye on him!” but Twilight didn’t look like she was in a good mind state for reasoning. That mare still needed to learn a lot about stress management.
“Yes, princess… I suppose I can do that…” Cheerilee sighed, looking to the ground.
“Brilliant! I will be back this afternoon, goodbye!” And just like that, Twilight trotted away merrily.
Cheerilee looked up at the ‘apetaur’ as Twilight called him. He had just taken a weird rectangular device in his paws and was checking something, and with a mild disappointment he put it back in his pocket.
Alas, still no signal.
Request for fat sunbutt joke soon
I like that he checks the signal from Cheerilee's POV. Very eager to see her be happy as he cleans her place. Or maybe does something else to make her happy. I'm gonna read more Cheery Cheesy Cheeky Romance again. Who knows? He might make her steamed hams...
Human x Cheerilee FTW!
So… important question time.
If the MC tried singing something in English, would the melody end up creating random equestrian words?
Meanwhile in the parallel universe:
Twilight: Cheerlie, I hope you are Ok-
Cheerlie: Grabs both of them and throws away
Twilight has no idea that this strange animal is carrying one of the deadliest weapons ever created.
Well, that was a long time coming. Poor Flutters xD
Well, i'm sure THIS isn't going to cause a scene...
Well, the one thing about that and her reaction in this chapter I don't get is that she considered him as like a pony and wanted a son in a previous chapter.
And yet in this chapter she is like she only considered him a simple animal and is horrified despite considering otherwise before and was happy about it to finally have a son.
Seems like a contradiction to me, but ok I guess.
Why hasn't he realized he's obviously not on earth?
Ohhhhhh yes we do! (slips a note under Discord's door after traversing the surreal unreality that is Discord's dimension... also known as Cleveland)
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This.
Not getting a GPS signal after finding yourself suddenly in a wildly different biome, timezone is allrady sus. Meeting an intelligent species of non-humans means you most likely are not on earth. (Some sort of hidden fey lands shenanigans aside)
Denial probablyy
That said if there are portals, you might get a signal. So it;s not really that silly to check from time to time.
Lastly I enjoyed this quite a bit and was smiling a lot while I was reading.
Still no signal 💀
You're being a bitch, Dash.
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Probably need some tweaking, I might change her lines in there, because that's true. This is what I get after so much editing, sometimes I forget what it ended up being and mess up in the following chapters. Yes, probably will change this in the future and make Fluttershy say other things, but the part will remain the same in general, she being embarrased about discovering he is a grown up member of other species with as much intelligence as a pony. And Dash teasing her causing her breakdown.
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A number of reasons, probably. I find it funny how most people assume he is on another planet as the first guess. But time travel, a version of the Earth in the future where humans are extint, parallel dimension, a magical land hidden by a spell just here on Earth, he having hit his head real hard... and so on. On top of that, I consider that he is not in the best emotional shape for reasoning and there is also a part of denial about his situation.
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So he gets to apologize for that... but yes, I imagine RD as tactful as a trainwerk in general.
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A very interesting situation indeed. Probably, if he tried to sing, ponies would have recognized some "harmonic patterns" and assumed THAT was his foreign language. Appart from that, maybe, some songs might end up forming some random words in Harmonic.
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We will get some shenanigans in here, even some RGRE going on from time to time. Also, girls are complicated, and I'm going to try to portrait that.
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how is he keeping his phone charged again? Solar powered battery ?
Amazing ch thank u it reminds me of the human pet by rushyfiction
Hmm to be honest I never liked the idea of discord going after fluttershy romanticly. I see him more likely to act like her father to any potential husbands and a crazy uncle to her future kids. Anyway short chapter but thank you.
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Yeah. Solar powered.
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It's one of the stories that inspired me, just like the 'Your Human and You' from Madmax.
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Me too, but if I got into the whole 'romancing Fluttershy' thing, I would have to deal with the people who think otherwise, and then do a damn good job at writing Discord. And this story is supposed to avoid romance for now, and if there are hints or traces of it, it's not going to be with FS. And Fluttershy x human has probably been done many times already.
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O como un abuelo abandonado en un geriátrico.