Chapters X Pony does Y and Fluttershy Catches them in the act
Fluttershy was a very happy pony.
A very happy pony indeed.
Well, that was mostly while Discord wasn't paying a visit. That's when Fluttershy would become a very self-conscious pony.
A very self-conscious pony indeed.
"Um, Discord?" Fluttershy asked, approaching the Draconequus with a quizzical look in her eye. "What are you doing?"
"Ah, my dear Buttershy!" Discord exclaimed, slithering up to her and draping his arm around her shoulders. "What a coincidence to see you here! How have you been? Have things been as... repetitive as usual?"
"Um...I-I'm alright... I guess..." Fluttershy whimpered, very aware of how warm Discord's arm felt around her shoulders. Warm and comfy. "A-and I live here so... uh, I d-don't think it's strange to see me here... unless... uh... I mean..."
"Aw, don't worry about it, Fluttersky!"
"Fluttershy..."
"I am here to break your routine! Isn't that exciting?" Discord asked, picking up Fluttershy and looking her in the eye. "Let's go out, you and I and do as much chaos as we can!"
"I-I don't think so," Fluttershy said, finally pushing him away and fighting her blush. "I um, have things to do and I don't mind things being not-chaotic."
Discord frowned. "But that's no fun!"
Fluttershy smiled kindly at him. "Oh, but it is! I have a full day of things to do, and I just finished feeding the animals here, so I can go visit Twilight, stop at Sweet Apple Acres—"
"Boring!" Discord interrupted. "There's so much to do that is not organized or the same as always! I bet that you'll find Twilight doing the exact same thing as before: reading a book. Or Applejack doing what she always does: kicking trees. Or Rarity dragging somepony to the spa," Discord listed. "Why spend a life of order and dull repetiveness when you can spend some chaotic time with me?"
Fluttershy shrank, trying to hide just how much she liked the idea, despite not wanting to descend into chaos. "I um... I have to go." She quickly finished her tea and set it down, nodding politely to Discord.
Discord sighed. "Fine... go on, I'll be here with the alphabetizing iguanas decorating the toffee curtain with spaceships."
Fluttershy was about to ask when she noticed that the iguanas were indeed attaching spaceships to the toffee curtain.
She closed her mouth and slowly left the room. She had a schedule to keep.
After the door closed, Discord took a sip of his glass and spit it out immediately. Glancing inside, he frowned. "Wait..." Discord muttered after a moment. "Did Fluttershy just drink my Chaos Juice?" He pondered the question for a moment, poking it with his claw. "Eh, what's the worse that could happen?"
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The Crusaders Build a Spaceship out of Bananas and Fluttershy Catches them in the act
Further down the street, Fluttershy encountered something she really did not expect to encounter.
Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom were loading chocolate into a spaceship built out of bananas.
"Um, girls?" She ventured.
"Oh! It's Fluttershy!" Sweetie Belle called out, waving her hoof. "Hello!"
"Uh... hello!" Fluttershy waved back a bit worriedly. "W-what are you doing?"
"We're building a spaceship, duh!" Scootaloo rolled her eyes, stopping briefly to munch on some chocolate before throwing it into the ship.
"Ah think what she means to say is why are we doing it," Apple Bloom offered, looking at Fluttershy for confirmation.
Fluttershy nodded meekly, examining one of the banana wings in confusion.
"Well, we're tryin' to get fruit-bat cutie marks," Apple Bloom explained.
Fluttershy began to nod but stopped. Frowning, she looked at the ship, the chocolate and, finally, the fillies. "But, what do the bananas have to do with it?"
Sweetie Belle told her.
"Oh." Fluttershy looked from the fillies to the ship. "When you put it that way I-I guess it makes sense, but isn't it a bit dangerous?"
"Ha!" Scootaloo laughed. "Danger is my middle name!"
"Mine is 'Sugar'!" Sweetie Sugar Belle added helpfully.
"And mine is none other than 'Freakin'!" Apple Freakin' Bloom stated with a nod.
"Oh," Fluttershy smiled. Smiling was safe.
"Well, we're off!" Scoota Danger Loo hollered. She turned to Fluttershy as Apple Freakin' Bloom and Sweetie Sugar Belle donned their banana uniforms. "Do you want to join us and meet the great Banana Fruit Bat?"
"I—"
"Of course she does!" Apple Freakin' Bloom called from the entrance, using a lasso to drag Fluttershy in. "Come on!"
"B-but girls!" Fluttershy complained, struggling in vain against the ropes. "I can't go near fruit bats! I might have a relapse!"
"Too late!" Scootaloo grinned, pulling a banana lever. "The chocolate's loaded! We're off!"
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Tom dates Celestia and Fluttershy Catches them in the Act
The landing was a bit more painful than she had expected, but then again, she had never expected to see the Banana Fruit Bat either.
She didn't even know, until today, there was any such thing. But there was. And now not only was her eye twitching, she had had a relapse and her right wing had turned into a bat wing, while her fangs had grown out again.
And there were no apples to suck.
In a word, it sucked.
"Oh, so you like how warm my radiant heat makes you, don't you?" A husky voice emanated from the trees close by. Curious, Fluttershy followed the voice to its origin, finding Celestia lounging on top of a large, sun-kissed boulder. "I bet you tell that to all the sun-mares."
Fluttershy blinked as Celestia giggled.
Celestia rolled to her back, letting her long mane drape around the boulder like a rainbow of love. "Oh, Tom, you feel soooo warm." She started to glow, and Tom glowed in response from within, a light that felt weird to Fluttershy. She didn't see the snake slither past her, nor it being bathed in the same light, only to disappear.
Fluttershy walked away, testing the air with her forked tongue. Maybe she just needed to relax. A visit to the Spa should help.
Hopefully the unhealthy green aura around her would have dissipated by then.
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Rarity develops a Flagellum, Whips Spike into Shape and Fluttershy Catches them in the Act
...maybe it was time to go home.
She decided to take the long way, around the pond and through the forest. Best to avoid other ponies for now.
X Pony does Y and Fluttershy Catches them in the act
Fluttershy's day is finally over
Fluttershy was a very disturbed pony.
A very disturbed pony indeed.
Things had not gone well this day, and much of her understanding of reality had not only been challenged, but also shattered into small, intangible pieces of dimensional-sense that had fluttered away almost like little pink butterflies.
She had never imagined, upon waking up this morning, that things would go out of whack so effectively. In fact, the craziest thing she had expected today was to have to dissuade Angel from breaking Mr. Bear's arm.
But no. It hadn't happened as planned. In fact, right now, had she gazed into the mirror, she might have understood how deeply she had changed.
Her left eye twitched in asynchronous motions, while her right one remained in place, with little more than a pin-prick for what should be her iris. Her mane was a mess, with twigs and branches and pieces of mortar doting it; her tail was twisted into some sort of sapient whip that kept snapping at any random moving creature in its immediacy; her coat was striped with darker shades of yellow. Her wings, one bat-like and another feathery, rustled in an imaginary wind, and a little, branching horn was starting to show through the mane that covered her forehead.
She licked her lips with a forked tongue, looking up when the door to her room opened.
Discord stood there, grinning at her.
"Oh, my, little Fluttershy," he chuckled, floating up to her. "You certainly look... chaotic."
"Discord..." Fluttershy's voice seemed to caress his name. "You planned all of this, didn't you?"
"Moi?" Discord pretended to look innocent, by looking as guilty as possible. "I might have."
Fluttershy grinned, moving past him and slamming the door closed with a kick of her leonine hind legs. "Good." A quick motion and the door was locked.
Discord blinked. "Why did you lock the door?"
"Because." Fluttershy pounced on him, knocking him onto the bed. "I don't want to be caught in the act."
Author's Note
I have no idea.
Or maybe...
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Applejack and Big Mac are stuck in traffic and Fluttershy Catches them in the Act
"T-that was scary," Fluttershy said to herself, slowly closing the Golden Oaks Library behind her and thanking Celestia Spike was out. "That was very, very scary. And wrong."
Her left eye twitched.
"So wrong," she muttered, blushing brightly. She took a deep calming breath and set off to Sweet Apple Acres, trying to put what she had witnessed behind her.
It was soon after that she found herself in a bit of a problem. Somepony was blocking the way across the bridge again, and several carts had been stuck in the middle, with the ponies pulling them unable to get out due to how narrow it was, and right smack in the middle were Applejack and Big Mac, trapped and incapable of even moving to the left or right.
It seemed she wouldn't get those apples after all. Maybe later.
