Fluttershy Attempts To Mow Her Lawn

by NoteStretch

Rating: teen
Tags: Random, Dark, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Fluttershy, Tragedy
Length: 1028

Fluttershy mows her lawn and nearly commits animal genocide in the process.

Mowing your lawn is dangerous to the small animals the reside in the protection of grass and dirt. Fatalities are a given.

Fluttershy doesn't take this very well.

Published 2014-07-19 02:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2014-07-19 02:00:02 UTC

Violence.... And Then Some

It was a sunny day in Ponyville, as it always is. And on these days Fluttershy liked to sit out on her lawn and watch the birds and the bees do their thing.

But today was different. Today, her grass was too long for her liking and it was too rough and it would give her a rash if she were to sit on it. When this would happen her gardener would take care of it, but unfortunately for Fluttershy, he was sick. while he was out he found a mare at DJ PON-3 and Bad Baby Dragon concert. Long story short, he got mono. So it left her to do the job herself.

"Do I even own a lawn mower?" She thought aloud.

After a trip to Filthy Rich's Barnyard Bargains and 56 bits later, she was ready to go.

Now how does this work? She thought to herself.

"... So all I have to do is put my snout into mowers patent pending Snout Holder, so I can keep my snout in easily and comfortably while I mow, than push and go huh? Oh what's this?"

She turned her eyes toward a very large warning sign placed on the side of the mower.

WARNING: TO AVOID SERIOUS INJURY TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS KEEP A DISTANCE OF THREE HOOVES BETWEEN YOU AND THE MOWER BLADES. TO AVOID MUTILATION ALWAYS USE THE PATENT PENDING SNOUT HOLDER AND ALWAYS REMEMBER TO REMOVE YOUR SNOUT FROM THE PATENT PENDING SNOUT HOLDER FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO MOVE ABOUT FREELY WITHOUT MOWING.

An eep escaped Fluttershy’s lips after reading the warning. She had no idea yardwork was such a dangerous activity.

After a few minutes of trying to bring herself to use the machine of death, she tried using an old Iron Will technique she learned (Gotta mow your lawn? Don't act a fawn, just keep calm and carry on!). She took a deep breath and swallowed her fears.

"I can do this!"

She put her snout in the Snout Holder and pushed the mower easily across the lawn.

This isn't so hard!

Just as she began feeling comfortable, her grasshopper friend, Hopper, jumped into her field of vision and chirped a happy tune!

That tune, however, was cut short by the sound of whirring blades and him being decapitated. His body then began to twitch as guts start to shoot out of where his head once was.

Hopper's wife and kids jumped over to his headless, twitching, gut gushing copse and begin to cry. Fluttershy shrieked and backed up to look at what she'd done but forgot the warning to take of the Snout Holder.

She backed right into Hopper’s family.

"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" Fluttershy screamed at the top of her lungs. "The cute little grasshoppers- my friends! They’re dead now... because of me. DEAD! Why?! And the kids were so young and Grassy will never even know she was adopted! I'M A MONSTER!"

After an hour of sobbing and whimpering, she managed to finally pull herself together.

"I must bury them out of respect and tradition."

Fluttershy found a patch of loose dirt and began digging with her patent pending Hoof Holder shovel. She shoveled the last of the dirt then looked in hole, mortified at the scene before her. The hole she dug was full of worms she just cut in half with the shovel by accident. She then proceeded scream at the top of her lungs.

She tried to fly away but hit a hummingbird that then careened towards the cobbled path below, and hit it with a sickening splat. Then her wings suddenly snapped to her sides and then became as unmovable as a two-ton boulder.

When she got up after hitting the ground she tried to run. But she then stepped on a field mouse that met its fate with a sharp loud, crunching noise.

She began to scream once again, but realized a moment too late that the fruit bats were migrating over head from the Everfree forest to Sweet Apple Acres. The scream then confused the bats in the front because of its high-pitched frequency, and they thought their echolocation was revealing a wall so they hovered for a second. But, alas, it was a second too long because the back end greeted them by running into one another, and suddenly they started raining from the sky, only to hit the ground.

THADUNK

She began to cry, but unfortunately for the ants’ nest in front of her, she was about to rain on their parade. Her tears were so big and so great she flooded the ant hill and was forced to watch the corpses float out of the hill.

One. By. One.

She cried till she had no more tears to shed and then drifted off to sleep...

Three months later...

The gardner whistled a happy tune, glad to be back to his life's purpose and not home with mono.

The tune slowly faded as foul stench suddenly greeted his nostrils as he made his way onto Fluttershy’s property. He looked at the horror laid out before him. There was grass as tall as Princess Celestia herself, with only parts here and there cut out like a foal finding a barbers buzzers and shaving their coat. He saw a hole dug right where he planted some rose seeds he planted for his now ex-wife the day before he got sick.

To cap it off, though, there were hundreds of dead animal skeletons strewn about.

He started to cross the bridge over the water that now runs red with the blood of innocent animals. Bunnies who drank the blood had died and floated down the river making the cutest yet most horrifying dam in the history of Equestria.

He noticed something on the door of the cottage he saw a note, and it read:

"I now see why you enjoyed your job so much, you sick bastard! Your services are no longer needed!"

Author's Note

'Sup, guys. First story, so put your criticism below. It's the only way I'll get better. ;) Keep it real.