Flutter's Shy
Flutters Shy
It was an early morning in Ponyville. It was early autumn, and the leaves had just barely started to turn. Applejack was busy working the fields with Carrot Top, as Applebuck season had already passed. Rainbow Dash was away in Cloudsdale, checking on the hoof crafted snowflakes for the upcoming winter, and would be back later that day. Pinkie Pie was hosting a Fall Fell party when she returned, to celebrate the season by having picnics under the coloured leaves, bird watching and such, a far calmer sort of party than she usually hosted, but a party none the less. Rarity was getting busy preparing her newest fall fashions, and Twilight was working on something or another, as she usually did.
Fluttershy, however, was asleep. She slept long into the morning, and only at 11, when the sun finally rose over the oppressive boughs of the everfree trees to cast it's warm rays through her window and on her face, did she finally stir from her deep slumber. Such was usual for the pegasus during this season, and while her animals understood, she was nonetheless frantic about having overslept and not fed them.
"Oh my goodness! Angel Bunny! I'm sooooo sorry! I slept in again and....." The little white rabbit, in a stark contrast to his usual mood, merely let out a sigh and followed Fluttershy as she went about getting food for the various animals. She fluttered up to the top cupboards and removed a bag of animal feed, but still feeling the dregs of sleep, did not notice that her actions had made the second bag unstable, dropping it on the poor mare's head.
Poor Fluttershy was knocked to the ground, and after a brief flash and a startled 'eek', she dove under the table and panted heavily, trying in desperation to control her breathing and regain her calm.
"Oh no. Not again. Please tell me nopony saw me. Angel?" She looked to her tiny companion, who made a series of complex signals with his arms to give the 'all clear' sign.
"Whew. Thank you so much Angel. You're a life saver." She cuddled the bunny, who merely stood there looking at his empty food bowl.
"Oh! Of course!" She quickly poured all the food the animals needed, then got to work on her daily tasks.
Outside in the warm sun, Fluttershy rolled her wings, feeling the breeze and the soothing rays. She felt good, despite her earlier close call. First, she began by checking last year's burrows, making sure they were clean, as well as large enough to hold their occupants, as many of the animals had new babies over the spring, and their winter dens would need to be large enough to hold them all during the upcoming hibernation. Then she made sure to bury a number of nuts, and show the local squirrels where she had hidden them so they could find them when they inevitably awoke from their winter slumber for a snack. Finally, she checked the nests for the winter birds, making sure they were stable. If they fell while their residents were asleep, they would be trapped against the frigid snow, and get hypothermia.
After each task was completed, the animals would give their thanks with a quick rub, causing the quiet mare to smile to herself before thanking them all for keeping her secret. They knew all too well what it was she required, and they didn't mind, as she helped them in turn. With that task finished, Fluttershy was feeling a bit peckish, so she decided to call her friends together for a quick lunch. She remember the Fall Fell party was later in the evening, and that all her friends were busy in the meantime, save for Twilight.
"Oh, Fluttershy. Done already?"
"Um, yes. The animals were very helpful in getting things ready. Oh, I do hope they aren't becoming like the everfree animals. If they can care for themselves, they won't need me anymore." Suddenly, she became very worried. If she wasn't needed by the animals anymore, what would she do? She would be ruined!
"Oh Fluttershy, they could never replace you. Besides, even if they did, we'd still need you." Twilight's assurance set her mind at ease, as she realized she was worrying over nothing. She couldn't let herself get flustered, or she'd might let out her secret.
"Twilight, I know we're having the picnic later, but, um, do you think we could have lunch? I brought some of those tea leaves you like."
"Oh, I don't mind at all. And what am I doing standing here in the doorway? Come in, come in!" The lavender mare moved to the side and allowed her entry.
"Are you in the mood for eggs? Spiiiiiiike, make some eggs for lunch please!" She called into the house for her assistant.
"Oh... um, no, I wouldn't want to be a bother. A salad would be fine. Spike already works so hard already."
"Nonsense. I'm sure he'd love to make it."
"Um... I really don't mind....."
Oh, please don't get mad. I don't want to argue with Twilight, but I don't want to make Spike do more than he has to, he might get mad. Oh, this was a bad idea.
"Don't worry about it. I'll get right on it." Spike replied, once again setting the timid mare's mind at ease. She didn't sense any hostility from him, or from her unicorn friend, so she quickly settled in on the couch.
"Alright Fluttershy, lets talk. I'm sure you came here for something other than lunch, although, I mean, that's fine, and I'm not accusing you of having an ulterior motive, but you're normally so shy and tend to spend time alone, it was kind of surprising when you showed up, so I figured there must be something you wanted to talk about, or maybe need my advice for, and it's fine if there isn't and you just wanted to have lunch and idle chatter, but if there is something you need advice for, I'd be glad to help!" Twilight..... was acting odd. She was speaking very quickly, not as fast as Pinkie Pie mind you, but still quite fast. Her mane was frazzled, and once Fluttershy had gotten over her own apprehension she then realized how bedraggled her friend was.
"Twilight, you've run yourself ragged. Sit, sit. Please. Maybe you could, umm, tell me what you're working on while we eat?" Fluttershy suggested meekly. Whenever Twilight got into one of those moods, she wasn't just difficult, she was dangerous, and needed to be calmed before she continued, lest the town of Ponyville be subject to another...... incident.
"Oh, it's just, after the changelings invaded Canterlot, I've been working on a large scale version of the spell I used to unmask them. I think I've got it, but I haven't found a single changeling to test it on. So far, it works fine on ponies, having no effect at all, but I haven't seen what it does to a changeling yet. But it's perfectly safe on ponies. Pretty soon I'll be able to cast it on the whole town at once. Now, I'm not positive, but I THINK BonBon might be one, and.... Fluttershy? Are you alright?"
"Oh, um, yes. I'm fine, I just have a terrible feeling, like I've forgotten something.... Oh, now I know I've forgotten something, and I can't remember what it is, I just know it's important. Oh.. I'm so frustrated. I just know I'll remember it....... OH! Bonbon made some special candies for Nightmare Night! I finally decided to give out candy this year, dress up and everything! She wanted me to test them, and we made a day of it, and that's today! Oh, I'm so sorry Twilight! I need to go!"
"I understand. But, are you sure you won't stay for lunch, after all, Spike should be finished making now."
Oh, I wouldn't want to upset Twilight and leave right away, and after making Spike go through all that effort, they might be upset if I just up and leave.... oooh.....
"Well... alright. I guess I have time. Panicking over nothing as usual Fluttershy...." She berated herself.
"It's not nothing, if you have a date to keep, it is only fair to arrive on time, but if you really do have time, then stay."
"And lunch is served." Spike said as he left the kitchen wearing a frilly pink apron saying 'kiss the chef'. With a bow he lowered the platter containing two bowls of salad, and a daisy sandwich each, along with a small bowl of gems for Spike that he had prepared for himself. The three ate together, Twilight and Spike talking amongst each other, with Fluttershy only speaking when she was asked a question directly. Once they finished, she thanked them for their hospitality and smiled at the feeling of warmth she got from their own, before heading off to BonBon's.
"That's strange Twilight. She came over for lunch, but hardly ate anything."
"Fluttershy. So good to see you. Here to test the candies?" The candy pony allowed her friend entry to the house.
"Um... yes. That's why I'm here. Do you have a minute before we start?"
"Oh, of course, what is it?.... Did someone find out?"
"Twilight's working on a spell to drive off changeling disguises, for the entire town! Bonbon, it's horrible! If she does it, you'll be discovered, and...."
"I... was worried this.... I knew the time would come, but, we'll just have to tell her..... before she completes the spell. Well, when I say we.... I mean you. She knows you. She trusts you. If you tell her, she'll listen."
"I sure hope so. After what Queen Chrysalis did to her, her brother, and Princess Cadence, I'm not sure if she will."
"Hello everypony! I'm so super duper excited you all could make it!"
"Shh, Pinkie dear, you'll scare the birds. It's a relaxing, quiet party, like a tea party, remember?" Rarity reminded her energetic friend. "Although I must say, these colors really do go well with the changing leaves."
"Changeling leaves? Where?" Rainbow Dash jumped up and began shadowboxing.
"Chang-ing, not change-ling Rainbow."
"Oh.. um, right. Still, any changeling shows up here, I'll be sure to give em a good bucking!" Applejack looked at her incredulously. "With my hooves. You know, not the other kind." The five broke out into fits of giggles, while Fluttershy only whimpered and sank deeper into her mane.
"Fluttershy dear, what's wrong? You've barely eaten anything, and you've been quiet...er, than usual." Rarity asked.
"Well. Um... I... um...."
"Comeon sugar cube, is somthin wrong? Ya know ya can tell us anythin....."
"Well. um.... alright... here goes..... I'm a changeling."
"What was that darlin? Can't hear ya."
They're not making it any easier on me....
"I said.... I'm...*sigh* a changeling. I.. I always have been. Me. Bonbon, and any number of others in Ponyville, and the rest of Equestria too."
"Wha.... huh? No way! I've known you since flight camp, and you definitely were NOT a changeling!" Rainbow got right in her face and glared at her, while Fluttershy simply looked away.
"I always had trouble flying, because I had to learn with wings that weren't mine.... And, I'm shy all the time because I'm afraid of what ponies might think if they knew. And I'm scared of a lot of things because if something hits my horn, even when it's hidden, like this." She bopped herself on the forehead, and after being surrounded by green flames momentarily, standing in her place was a changeling, who looked much like queen Chrysalis, only shorter, her mane was styled the same as Fluttershy's, she had the same kind, blue eyes. That's where the physical differences ended, with the exception that flutter-ling still had her cutie mark of three butterflies.
"The reason I love animals, is because I take care of them, and they love me, which keeps me fed. They keep my secret too, and they don't mind at all. And other than having different wings, the other reason why I couldn't fly at flight camps was... well...."
"All the other fillies and colts.... they were mean to you." Dash came upon the realization. "Nopony was nice to you, and.... they starved you." Fluttershy merely nodded sadly.
"That's also why I'm always so desperate for ponies to like me... which is why I was a push over.... and why every fall and winter, I sleep in so late. All the animals start going into hibernation and....."
"You mean that every winter, you go hungry?" She nodded again, tears welling up in her eyes.
"And it's why I don't eat very much. Changelings can eat food, but that's only to keep up the disguise. And then.... oh.... then when Iron Will came, and I turned into 'New Fluttershy', that monster, I felt like I could just die. I made everypony hate me! And then..., at the wedding.... when the changelings attacked. I knew Cadence had been.... but, I couldn't say anything. I...... I was so afraid. If I uncovered her, then she'd uncover me, and then... I couldn't..."
"Wait.... then when we were fighting...."
"Changelings can detect each other, even when they're in disguise, otherwise they wouldn't know who's who.. That's why when I pretended to be one of the ones in disguise, they fell for it. They knew I was a changeling, but they couldn't tell me from themselves. And, I felt so horrible about it, when the queen hurt the Princess. And I felt horrible that I was keeping this from you, and I couldn't take it anymore, and, I was going to tell you, but after the wedding, when all that bad stuff happened, I couldn't anymore! Everypony hates changelings now, so I got even more afraid of what would happen if anypony found out.... and then, today at Twilight's...."
"My spell." Twilight gasped.
Fluttershy nodded again.
"I knew it was only a matter of time before you used it, and I couldn't hide it anymore. You'd find out eventually, and... I'd rather tell you than have you find out the hard way that... that....." Her eyes welled up with tears again. "That I've been lying to you all my entire life! I understand if you want me to leave and never come back just please, please don't hate me" She collapsed to the ground and whimpered, before finding herself wrapped in soft fur.
"Fluttershy, we could never hate you. Whether you're a changeling or a pony, it doesn't matter. As long as you're still yourself. You are still our friend, and the bearer of kindness. You helped us beat Nightmare Moon, and Discord!" Twilight pointed out.
"And ya'll were tha one that told them rabbits ta stay off my farm, and found out it's cuz they were hungry, so ya took ta feedin em yerself." Applejack reminded her.
"And you're the one who kept patching me up after I'd mess up a trick." Rainbow Dash added.
"And helped me with modeling my latest fashions!" Rarity piped in.
"And you're my bestest-estest friend in the whole wide world! You even walked away from cave-sitting for Harry the bear to plan a surprise party for my birthday!"
"You're our friend Fluttershy, changeling or not, nothing can change that." Fluttershy's bug wings buzzed happily. And that was when the five friends took notice of something they had not seen before, what should have been the most striking feature on her insectoid body. Two somethings in fact. First off, there wasn't a single hole in their friend's body. She was wholly without holes. And two, she emitted a warm glow from her entire being.
"So, now that we know you're a changeling, can we finally meet your family?" Twilight asked.
"Um.... you kind of already have.... although it wasn't under the best circumstances." With that, Bonbon strode up to the group, before shifting into the form of a regular changeling.
"Princess Fluttershy! I'm so glad everything worked out."
"PRINCESS? You mean Chrysalis is your MOM?!?!?" Fluttershy awkwardly raised her shoulders before hiding further behind her now seaweed mane.
"Umm.... surprise?"
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Not bad, I see you removed the darker edges of it you had planned. I like the reference to Party of One with Pinkie still believing Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were house-sitting for a bear. Overall a very cute and likable story, though the reveal came a little too fast. Could've used more buildup and emotion on Fluttershy's part, I mean she's been keeping this secret for....roughly 10-15 years? seems like that would be alot harder to tell the truth about than you made it seem.
1457510 Aaaaaaand Blue Shell
My jimmies ain't even rustled. :c
for the warning: oh, its okay. cupcakes f**ked up my opinion on pinkie pie forever anyway. this can't be bad...
Edit: nope. i like it
1457514 Trust me, it's not. It's not bad at all.
1457518 i liked it,i liked it a lot
1457512 BOOOM
1457512I guess this story is kinda.....
...Wow. I can't think of a good one liner....That's a first.
Two things - one, I love the fact that there's nine comments, and yet 0 (0) views, and two, the first Warning in the description has a typo.
Woah...
Meh, it's non-canon, so even though this makes way too much fucking sense, the way I see Fluttershy still isn't changed, so that's all good.
Nice job by the way, it was a good read.
Very nice story, interesting concept. And it actually makes sense! I like it!
However, question is: why was Fluttershy not thrown out of Canterlot with the rest of the swarm?
On a side note, I admit that I was confused for a second there...
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Congratulations, you've found the biggest plot hole with the "one of the mane six is a changeling" idea.
Funny story though.
1457584 Because the spell was designed to repel 'Invaders' In general, not changelings in specific, because they had no idea it was changelings to begin with, and the barrier kept them out, as well as anyone else trying to get in the city.
1457703 Nope.
1457708 All right
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1457518
Why did my brain narrate this in Morgan Freeman's voice?
Nice little twist in the story. Thumbs up my friend
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1457762 Because Morgan Freeman. That's all.
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You make a good point.
I am entertained.
Is the warning in the description supposed to be sarcastic or make us pay attention or something?
Doesn't seem to make much sense otherwise. Or perhaps make one curious enough to read the story?
1457538
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It says Incomplete Blackly.
1458499What's the Blue Shell for?
1458808 You were first... Well, not first in the litteral sense! Of course, Blackwing already got rid of that problem.
You were first in not being able to think of a reply.
It was a first indeed.
I can't really describe how I feel about this. I can't say I hate it, because I can't find anything actually wrong with it.... But for some reason I don't like it.
I think this is a decent description:
WARNING! TV TROPES LINK! FOLLOW AT OWN RISK!
1457514 You know, there's a surefire method for completely repairing your opinion of Pinkie Pie....
It says "quick oneshot" but the story is tagged incomplete.
What's real, what isn't? How can I know?
It wasn't magically stupendous or mind blowingly bad, just a good read.Solid but not revolutionary and sometimes a story just doesn't need to be that way for it to be likeable.
-Sturrn
Very nice... I've seen lots of Changeling fics... but the
at the end was definitely a new one for me, I liked it
Pretty good. Another "One of the Mane Six is a changeling" story, but it's pretty well done. I also kinda liked the bomb you dropped with Bon Bon being Queen Chrysalis. A mustache for you!
1458925 With that, Bonbon strode up to the group, before shifting into the form of a regular changeling.
REGULAR CHANGELING
She's not the queen. She's just a drone.
1457512>>1458499
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1458925
No, Bon Bon is just a regular changeling, she referred to Flutters as "Princess", which is why the others in the Mane 6 mentioned Chryssy.
1458946
I misread.
Oh...
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If she's a changeling, why does she have a cutie mark?
1458833 what is it?
1459276 It's called Pretty in Pink.
You read that story, you will love Pinkie again.
Truthfully I feel that ever since the changelings were introduced in the show that the idea of one of the characters being a changeling the whole time has been kinda done to death. Yet, who am I to say, I've done that idea for a minor character in one of my stories. So I guess I'm a bit of a hypocrite.
1459291 i hope so...
Is cute. I actually hope to see a sequel someday, maby make a short series of it should the inspiration take you.
1459302 It's beyond awesome.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/455/Pretty-in-Pink
"My spell." Fluttershy nodded again.
Since it was Twilight saying "My spell," the Fluttershy nodded again part should be moved down to the next paragraph.
1459302 It's beyond awesome.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/455/Pretty-in-Pink
1459359 oh my god, that was beautiful.
thank you for restoring my faith in pinkie pie, is there anything i can do for you since you helped me?
1459383 You love our Pink Party Pony again. That's all the thanks I need.
You want to know what you can do?
You can pass it forward.
Help others to love her again.
I actually just recommended it to rbdash47, and he's got it in his queue for entry into the Pony Fiction Vault.
1459393 she used to be last on my favs, and now she is third. this is my list
i will pass this to others... but what was even worse than cupcakes was rainbow factory. *shudders* after a minute of reading it i was crying in a corner. but good thing no permanent damage was done...
twi and dashie tie for first...
1459416 Ah, bloody Rainbow Factory....
You know.... I remember reading its opposite a while back....
I can't quite remember what it was called, though, and it didn't give as strong an impact as Pretty in Pink, but it was still decent.
Redundant phrase is redundant.
Not a bad story, though. I imagine family reunions are odd for poor Fluttershy though.
At first I thought the secret was that she IS a tree... Autumn, tiredness and all...
Very good! You managed to capture Fluttershy perfectly. Your portrayal of the others were, less than perfect. Then again, that's pretty average for a non-mane 6 episode.
The best part of the whole thing is the way you cite actual events, and explain them away.
(And given the duplicates in background scenes, I'm sure almost everypony is a changeling.)
As for the writing itself, many of the dialogue walls seemed very fast and sudden. I would suggest adding actions into those paragraphs, it breaks up the dialogue, and allows a little more description.
Good Flutterling story.
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