A wooden door creaked; sunshine and fresh, fragrant spring air spilled through as a butter yellow pegasus trotted into a cozy cottage on the edge of the woods. "Oh, Angel Bunny! Where are you?"

A cute little nose twitched as a long, white ear snaked up out of a straw basket suspended from the ceiling by designer silk ropes. The basket swung as the napping inhabitant lazily dug himself out of the cotton bedding to peer over the lip of the basket.

"There you are, my little bunny!" Fluttershy said, smiling happily. "I have something very important to tell you!"

Angel cocked his head and swiveled an ear to face her.

"Rainbow Dash wants me to help coach the sprint squad for the Equestria Games, so I'll be in Cloudsdale for about a week. I hate to leave all my critter friends for that long, but Rainbow Dash needs me, and I couldn't say no." She paused. "Oh, but, um, I found a new friend to keep you company!"

A cute, fluffy pink bunny peeked out of Fluttershy's mane, blinking bright blue eyes.

Angel hopped down out of his basket and stood at attention, ears fully upright.

"This is Babs," Fluttershy said. "The poor little thing's tree home has termites, so I offered to bring her home and let her stay here." She smiled, nudging the little pink bunny out of her mane with a wing. Babs hopped curiously forward and looked Angel over, nose twitching.

"Now, you be good to our new friend, Angel," Fluttershy said. "And make sure all the critter friends don't go hungry or thirsty while I'm gone. If you need any help, just go get Spike or Apple Bloom, okay?"

Angel nodded rapidly.

"Good! Well, I'll just check to make sure everything's fine, then pack a few things, and I'm gone."

* * * * *

One week later, Fluttershy glided to a stop at the edge of her front walk and trotted to the front door. She smiled at the thought of seeing all her critter friends again, especially Angel Bunny. She hoped that Angel and Babs had gotten along well and become good friends while she was away.

She opened the front door...

And screamed as she was carried almost all the way to Sweet Apple Acres on a fluffy tidal wave. She gasped, staring around in a wild panic, at the thousands of baby bunnies pouring out of her cottage.

"Yes, I do believe Angel and Babs became very good friends," she said flatly, blowing upwards on her bangs as bunnies flooded past her.

Author's Note

My Little Coney was originally intended to be a separate story starring Angel and focusing on the critters of Equestria, but I never quite got around to getting it off the ground. So unless I decide to resurrect it in its original form, it'll be consolidated into shorts for Pony Fails.