New Life Flickers

by FruitiPebbei

We got supplies, a kitty, and a... Pony...?

I buzzed, I am bored... For crying out loud how far is the nearest town?! At this point I've closed my eyes and tried to imagen the smallest speck of something!

"Firefly! Stop closing your eyes for Clouds sake! we're here!" the sound of UVL's voice called out to me. I opened my eyes to see a dusty ah town.

{Ehem, please pretend Applejack is NOT in this image. Thank you for your time!}

Finally! We're here!

I got a bit worried... We could probably get some "food" to eat but supplies...? I doubt the things we needed was here.

"Should we go in disguised or actually disguised?" LightRay asked.

"Eh... Our Guiding Light(Flashlight) says that Changelings won't be discovered till a month time. If we fake a cloak, sunglasses and make sure we look friendly, I'm sure we'll be good!" I responded, waving a hoof in dismissal.

"Okay then... I hope this works..." Glow-Plankton muttered.

After some talking, in a flash of yellow fire, we all had similar "clothing". Black cloaks with yellow undersides just low enough to cover our holed hooves, We had a regular pair of sunglasses.(Except me who went with the more circular kind)

"Okay... Now the problem of currency... I wish the Cloud at least sent us some bits!" Glow-Plankton mumbled in annoyance. Like a wish come true, a brown bag tied with red rope appeared in front of them, it had a note attached.

Dear siblings

I am so terribly that I forgot to send you bits. Thank you GP for saying that as I would not have been reminded! This bag contains about 10,000 bits, enough for you to at least get on your feet and get a job. Yes, you are being watched by me like a tv show! And right now it is quite enjoyable!

Best regards,

Cloud

"Oh.. GP is a good nickname... I should start calling you by that, Glowie!" I teased. Ah yes, the best part of the day is to tease GP with many nicknames.

Glow-Plankton hissed a bit before turning towards the town. "Come on.. we can get to the town, spilt up and get what we need. When any of us are done, we'll send a Hivemind message, K?"

"Yeah."

"K"

"Mhm"

---

As me and UVL trotted beside each other, we got... looks I could tell as we where trotting through town that he was scraping of memories. I could also tell my the occasional comment from a pony like, "My head hurts" "My memory feels foggy...". Luckily, only older ponies made these comment which made them shrug it off to old age. UVL is good at Memory collection.

I also skimmed of the occasional, but not too much as too cause attention, I mainly let UVL do all the work.

We stopped near benches and sat down across each other. He grabbed a newspaper with his magic from a bucket and levitated it over to him. I presume he was pretending to read it as not to get attention.

I worked slightly as well but I mainly focused on watching the town as I watch ponies walk around. One thing that caught my attention was a poor, dirty mare just sitting and staring. She looked young too... I kinda feel bad for her.

"Poor Mare..."

"Hm?" UVL looked up

"Look." I indicated to the poor mare. The earth pony had a dirty, really light purple coat, dark purple, fluffy and unkept mane and tail. Her Butt-mark(as I call it) was covered up by a brown patch.

"Eh... I know it's bad but... Not like we can give her bits. Lightray and GP are the one with it."

...

"Let's kidnap her and wipe her memories." I whispere, to of course, make sure no-pony thinks we're evil.

"WHHHHAAATTT...!"

"We'll ask permission and then we can take her with us! There's still a lot we don't know about Equestria! Besides, I feel bad..."

UVL stayed quiet for a bit. Was he actually thinking about it?!

"This is something Flashlight would do!" he hissed. I drooped down a bit "But... I suppose it would be better for both parties... You can try to get her to come"

I jumped up in glee, suppressing the urge to buzz in excitement. I trotted over to her, the earth pony didn't even notice me. She was looking around, looking everywhere and at everything but me!

"Hey!" I called to the mare. She turned slowly toward me, she was nervous.

"Do you want help...?"

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I watched as GP talked to the owner of a decent cart. She just started selling a ton of her stuff. She is moving out from Dodge junction(The place we were in) and she didn't need most of the stuff.

Cactus Bloom, the pegasus mare with a green coat, pink mane, yellow eyes, and a cactus with a blooming, pink flower on the top cutie mark, was a bit spectacle selling stuff to creepy-looking, short-as-a-foal strangers. But after hearing out voice and intentions she agreed to sell most of them 'willingly'!

I shift the bag of bits closer to my body with my tail. Turns out, you can show parts of yourself without get glares from ponies, just a few turns to see the weird pony-creature before turning away, at least, for now.

The deal was "4,000(3,500 after some haggling) bits from most of my stuff". These stuff include; the cart, rope, wood, leather and cloth, nails, a hammer, some gardening tools(I have no idea why Glow-Plankton needs it), so on.

I turned my head back to see Cactus Bloom heading behind her house, Cart in tow, and GP returning back to me. He sat beside me and grinned in satisfaction.

"Cactus is getting the stuff now! I thought we'd have to go all around this place to get the stuff we need! But now we can go back early! I just hope UVL doesn't take his sweet time..."

Something caught my eye...

"Yeah.."

"Hm? What are you looking at?"

A cat. A big, fluffy, dark brown cat with lighter red-brown head, flank, tail, and back legs, with stripes, speckles and a brindle. It wore a sky blue bowtie that matched it's ice blue eyes with a yellow star in the middle. But it was a cat. I love cats, and this one, this one was staring at me with a curious gaze! That means it was interested in me!

Alright, LightRay! You got this

I slowly approached the cat, it didn't run! In fact, when I got closer, it even came closer and sniffed me! I knelt down and started petting it with my hoof. It purred. It fucking purred! I would be jumping in glee right now but I did not want to scare the cat.

Suddenly, the cat backed away a bit. NO! Do you not like me already?!

"Amazing... Never seen anything like it!"

I turned to see Cactus Bloom standing over my shoulder. Perhaps she scared the kitty? That'd be a relief

"What...?" I asked, trying by very best not to sound irritated.

"That cat right these is Vermillion! He barely lets anyone get close to him no matter who fed him the most... The most I got to him was a few hooves away while feeding him! I bragged about it for months." she smiled, looking down at the nervous cat. "No offense, but that mighty strange for a cat in Equestria to let a creature like you get close to him. Perhaps Vermillion was raised by you creatures!"

"Eh, none taken! Call us Sparklings. And no, I've... never heard of any hives with cats." after some thinking I 'put my hood down', I mean, the changelings are going to attack in a month, better to get yourself known to be friendly rather than be stereotyped as 'evil-love-eating-creatures'. The pegasus' eyes widened for a bit before going back down to normal. "Hives? Really? Never heard of these 'Sparklings' before!"

"We come from a diffrent land."

"Well, before we get off topic. how about you take Verm in? He seems to like you! I can get you some cat food before you leave!"

"Uh... really? Thank you! I guess, and it depends if Vermillion wants to come with me."

"No worries! Consider me a friend, I've given your brother here the cart and stuff. But stay for a bit, I'll get you some cat food and you can be on your way!" Cactus bloom trotted off to her house. Once the mare was gone, the cat started rubbing against me. As you can expect, I was practically bursting.

Glow-Plankton called out to me and I hesitantly left the cat to go to my brother. To my surprised, the cat padded after me.

"We should be-" he looked down at my front hooves to see the cat besides my legs. Vermillion didn't react to GP either! "Looks like you got a new friend! I'm surprised it's a cat!"

"Me too. And, if you didn't hear, Cactus Bloom is bringing cat food for us to take for Vermillion."

"Vermilli- Oh the cat? You don't possibly think we can take the Vermilion?"

"You do realize if I tell Flashlight she will kill you. And quite frankly, me as well."

"Now that you phrase it that way, yeah, we can take Vermilion."

Cactus Bloom came out with a medium-sized bag of cat food. The cat, upon noticing the Pegasus mare went between my legs, which I was surprised he fit in, though I could feel the fluff.

"Here, you go! There's a cup in there, I find 4 cups of the food every morning, afternoon and evening. I do hope you visit me, I'll be in Ponyville when you find a place to settle though!"

"We'll, or at least I'll try to, Cactus." When I saw GP holding the cart with his magic, I signaled him in the hivemind to stop as I overtook it and waved a hoof in goodbye. "Bye!"

"Bye... Oh dear, what friend I am to not ask your name! What's your name, friend?"

"LightRay!"

"Okay. Bye, LightRay!"