One-Punch Pony

Chapter 3

1-2 Hours Later

As Saitama was walking through the forest with the winged horse on his back, he had become increasingly confused. First was the wooden wolves, who only stalked him for a while then left probably thinking it wasn't worth it. And then a lion with bat wings and a scorpion tail came out of one of the bushes, probably trying to ambush him. Then surprisingly, it backed away without giving him any trouble after it caught sight of his luggage.

After a while of walking the horse over his shoulders started to tense up. He was glad it wasn't dead at least, but the thought of carrying a wild horse that would probably be thrashing around over his shoulder didn't really sound appealing to him. But, if it was to pay his soon to be due rent, then it would probably be worth it... Probably.

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As Fluttershy was starting to wake up, she felt that she was propped up on something that was bobbing up and down. At first she was thankful she was still alive, but she was still confused at what was happening. Opening her eyes, she saw that she was being carried by something, something wearing yellow clothing.

It didn't take long for her to realise she was being carried by the creature that killed the other. Her body started to tense up from fear, she didn't know what it was going to do to her. She could try to communicate, though if it thinks she's dead it might try to actually kill her once it realizes she isn't. So to say it bluntly, she was stuck. She couldn't risk trying to communicating with it, though she did think about her air supremacy for a second.

Though sadly, the idea was shot down by how unskilled she was at flying. Plus, she didn't know how high her captor could jump, so it was likely it would be able to take her down before she even got 4 meters in the air. So she thought of things, her life on the edge of the Everfree, her new found friends, and the honor of being an element of harmony.

Her eyes started to water at the thought of all the things she didn't get to do, or the people she wouldn't be able to see anymore is she would die today. Moments later, a steady stream of tears were coming from her eyes and falling to the ground.

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'Were forests usually this big in Japan?' Saitama had been walking for around 2 hours since he picked up the small horse and still no city in sight. 'I thought there was only a couple of small forests since Japan went through the whole formation of Cities A - Z, guess I stand corrected.' So with a long sigh and a little less spring to his step Saitama did the only thing he could do and pushed forward to see where he would end up.

*Sniffle*

"I-I j-just want to go h-home..."

'Did that horse just talk' This could almost mean the worst for Saitama because as a hero he only needed to do two things; protect the innocent and destroy the evil, simple. And since it could talk he had to categorize it as a sentient life, which also meant he had inadvertently kidnapped a sentient life who had done nothing wrong or more commonly known, an innocent.

This was only a small problem for him though. A couple of apologies and maybe a couple of favors later everything would be fine, but no amount of apologies could help with his rent. Admittedly, yeah, he was worrying too much about his rent, but when it's the only thing you have aside from being a class-C hero it starts to become very important.

Anyway, onto more current problems, he still had the talking horse on his back. 'Well, time to fix that problem.' And that he did, but as he laid the horse back onto the ground it's wings quickly extended from each side as it quickly took flight into the air and quickly vanished above the trees.

'Well, one less problem for me I guess.' Although, if it could talk, it probably lived somewhere or with it's owner if it had one, then hopefully get directions back to a city. The only problem was the canopy though, it was way too thick to see through and tell which direction with horse had taken, so with that in mind...

*Pomf*

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'I-I escaped... I escaped!' As Fluttershy was soaring through the air with new vigor from escaping from that... Thing. All she wanted to do was to go towards her cottage as fast as she could and be done with this. She would also have to ask Twilight if there was anything on that creature, but now all she could think of was going back to her home and having a nice, long res-

*Pomf*

...

*Thud*

She immediately looked behind her for the sounds. She saw nothing but trees and maybe some vines. She continued on her flight a little more cautious and faster paced, taking a look behind her every once in awhile. After a little while everything seemed fine, still, she kept the little amount of speed she had gained.

*Pomf*

...

*Thud*

It was closer than last. At this point Fluttershy had no restraint on speeding up and was going pretty fast, not as fast as Rainbow Dash, but still impressive for any other pegasus. Her head was also constantly checking back for anything, a little cold sweat running down her forehead

*Pomf*

As if in slow motion, Fluttershy could see what was coming out of the canopy... It was.

*Whimper*