It had been three weeks since Fixit had come to Ponyville and if nothing else he was learning, or had learned, that it was no ordinary small town in the sticks. And it wasn’t just because a Princess lived there. He was actually starting to think that the town itself had some sort of spell on it because it had odd happenings almost on a daily basis. From the town coming together to stop a parasprite invasion with the power of music, two days after he got there, to the, what he called, “The Great Muffin vs Cupcake War” a week after that, to the whole town having to stop what they were doing to find a lost cat and bunny rabbit who had to be saved from a hydra a couple days ago, Fixit couldn’t help but think things in Ponyville were much more exciting than they should be for a town of its size. Not that he minded since, if nothing else, it kept things from getting boring. Luckily despite all the craziness the town was pretty much completely repaired. There were still a few buildings that needed work but those should be finished by the end of the week.

As he walked into town from his tent on its outskirts Fixit looked around at everyone still working their hardest and he couldn’t help but be proud and happy. He had always been a fan of hard work and he was happy to find that these ponies didn’t mind either. But then again in his experience ponies in small towns were rarely lazy. He sidestepped a couple earth ponies carrying some wood and ducked under some potted plants being lifted onto a windowsill via a crate on a rope and watched for a moment. “Careful with those! Last thing we need is them falling on somepony’s head!” He called up to the Pegasus pulling the rope. “And don’t forget to reinforce the walls and floors, less something crashes into one of the aforementioned walls or falls through the floor. Oh and double pane the windows too.” He told the Pegasus who was joined by other ponies of the various races all of whom gave Fixit salutes.

“Yes sir boss!” They all said in unison before going back to work. Fixit then sighed and shook his head.

“You do not have to “sir” me. And I’m not your boss.” He told them before he started walking again. He had been getting a lot of that since he came to town and started helping rebuild it. At first the townsponies didn’t really trust him which was understandable. After all he was new to town and they didn’t know him and they were suddenly supposed to take orders from him? If he was in their shoes he would have reacted the same way. Luckily thanks to his work, and help from the princess and her friends he was able to gain their trust which made things a lot easier. As he continued to walk some ponies waved to him like the Cakes, and he waved back.

Ah the Cakes, they were some of the first ponies to welcome him with open arms since their shop had been completely demolished. Sure they could be sporadic, but that came with the territory of owning your own business which was in high demand. He was both surprised, and not really surprised, to learn that Pinkie Pie, who had spent Fixit’s time there telling him every story of every crazy thing that had ever happened in Ponyville from Nightmare Moon, too Tirek himself, to how the town was founded and the Flame of Friendship, worked for the lovely couple in their shop. He had learned this when Pinkie showed up as the General of the Cupcakes army on the MVC war. Which was actually a lot scarier then you might think. Fun fact, muffins and cupcakes fired from cannons and catapults although delicious, hurt. At first when he found out the Cakes had twins, a boy and a girl one a pegasus and one a unicorn, he originally thought Pinkie was their daughter too. But Fixit then found out that the pink party pony grew up on a rock farm and had a mom and dad, and three sisters. Like others Fixit asked the Cakes how two earth ponies could give birth to a unicorn and a pegasus, as twins no less and he actually understood Mr. Cake’s explanation, as crazy and convoluted as it sounded.
Fixit then cracked his neck and decided to focus on the task at hand. After all he had rounds to make. That was what he decided he would do that day, make rounds and give advice to any of the hard working ponies that needed it. He was tired of being cooped up in City Hall, where his base of operations, as it were, was being housed. Every day he went there and just gave out jobs and looked at building plans and such and it was starting to get majorly boring. He missed being in the field, getting his hooves dirty, and since the town’s repairs were in the home stretch he decided now would be the perfect time to get from behind his desk. But then as he was walking he spotted a particularly worried Fluttershy flying around lifting things as if looking for something.

“Oh where are you? Please come out. I’m sorry if I upset you, I won’t do it again.” The yellow winged mare said as she continued to search.

“Something wrong Miss Fluttershy?” Fixit asked as he walked over to her, noticing her distress.

“Oh!” She said noticing him and flying over. “Mr. Fixit you just have to help me! Can’t find Angel Bunny anywhere!” She said desperately, her big blue eyes on the verge of tears.

Fixit then sighed. “He ran off again?” He asked her earning him a nod from the yellow mare

“I don’t know what happened, I was just trying to get him to eat healthy so he would grow up to be a big strong bunny but then he just pushed the food away and ran off! Please you have to help me find him.” She cried desperately. “You know, if you um want to.” She added quietly.

Fixit sighed. Angel Bunny. In his opinion that little bunny was nothing but a trouble maker. He was always getting into trouble from what Fixit heard and Fluttershy gave the thing way too much power over her. Now don’t get it twisted, Fixit didn’t dislike animals, they disliked him. He didn’t know what it was but the second he tried to pet one or just get close they either growled at him, attacked him, or both. Heck just in Ponyville He had been bitten, I.e. Pinkie’s gator, thank Celestia it didn’t have teeth. Had his face mauled, i.e. Rarity’s cat, and had his face jumped on, i.e. Fluttershy’s rabbit who proceeded to use Fixit’s face as a spring board to jump out a window forcing Fixit and Fluttershy to spend three hours searching for it. Where they found it on Fluttershy’s roof relaxing of all things.

Fixit looked at Fluttershy and saw her big doe eyes pleading for help, filled with tears and he couldn’t resist. “Aye, I’ll help ma’am, please just don’t cry. You look much prettier when you smile.” He told her with a bit of a smile. This caused Fluttershy’s face to turn completely red and for her to cover her face with her hooves to hide it. So, any idea which way he went?” Fixit asked walking past her a little and looking back at her.

“Oh uh um I-I think h-h-he we-went th-that way.” Fluttershy said pointing north while still coving her face with her other hoof still obviously flustered.

Fixit then smiled and gave her a nod before heading in that direction. “Alright then, let’s go” He encouraged the mare who followed him slowly. They made their way north and all around town calling out to Angel Bunny hoping he would come out of hiding but no such luck. And of course the longer they looked the more frantic and worried Fluttershy got.

“Oh I hope he’s ok and haven’t gotten into any trouble.” Fluttershy said as she floated behind Fixit as he walked. “What if he was bunny-napped? Or fell down a well? Or that mean old Hydra came back? Ohhhhh, Angel Bunny where are you!?” Fluttershy screamed out.

“Don’t worry Miss Fluttershy, if I’ve learned anything about that Rabbit since I’ve come to town it’s that he can clearly take care of himself.” Fixit told her as he looked behind a bush.

“Oh no no no, a sweet bunny like Angel shouldn’t be fighting or getting into trouble. I have to protect him.” Fluttery protested as she looked over Fixit’s shoulder.

“Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.” Fixit said unconvinced of this but kept his mouth shut about it and continued to search. He then looked over at Fluttershy and felt kind of sorry for her. She seemed really upset but then that was obvious. He wanted to help her, and not just with finding Angel Bunny, but because he knew what it was like to be shy, to be so nervous that you couldn’t even speak and all that came out was squeaks, to feel so shy that you want to shrink down and hide. He knew what this was like because he too was shy. You couldn’t tell from looking at him but one of the reasons he was so quiet around new ponies and in social situations, and the reason he drowned himself in work was because he didn’t have very good social skills and had no idea to interact with others. Sure his reasons for being shy were probably different then Fluttershy’s but that didn’t mean the results were different. That’s why he acted so extrovert, to not give his shyness a chance to rear its ugly head. Although sometimes his insecurities go the best of him and this didn’t work. But it was odd, more often than not, he found himself being the assertive one when around Fluttershy especially. He found himself egging her on and trying to force her out of her shell more than other shy ponies he had met or even himself. Maybe it was because subconsciously he knew that if they were both being shy at the same times nothing would get done, he didn’t know, but he did like the prospect of cheering her on and hoped one day to see her be assertive on her own. Preferably when dealing with something other than animals.

Fixit was taken from his thoughts when he heard Fluttershy cry out and point up at a tree. He looked to where she was pointing and saw Angel in a tree just sitting there like it was nothing.

“Angel!” Fluttershy squealed before sweeping up the rabbit in her hooves and hugging it. “Oh thank goodness you’re safe. You had me so worried!” She said as she hugged it more. “Now let’s go home ok, I bet you’re starving!” Fluttershy then turned in the air ready to leave when angel squirmed from her grasp and hopped back into the tree, his twitchy little nose up in the air. “Angel?” Fluttershy asked moving closer to the bunny who just folded its paws and turned away from her.

“What’s going on up there?” Fixit asked curiously moving over to the tree and looking up at Fluttershy.

“I don’t know, he doesn’t seem to want to come down.” Fluttershy explained in a worried tone before going back to trying to convince her pet to come down out of its tree.

Fixit then raised an eyebrow wondering what the little rabbit’s problem was and decided to climb the tree to get a better listen and handle on the situation. When he got there she was trying to bribe the bunny out of the tree with the promise of carrots which didn’t seem to be working. “Come on Angel, you don’t really want to spend the rest of your life in this tree do you?” Fixit asked as he tried to balance himself on a branch which was proving more difficult then he first thought. After all, horses weren’t designed to climb trees. To this Angel just raised his nose higher and turned away again this time away from both ponies. Fixit and Fluttershy then looked at eachother and tried to have one more go at it.

“Fixit’s right, coming home with me would be much better wouldn’t it?” Fluttershy true to convince the critter to no avail.

“Well this isn’t working.” Fixit commented. “And to think, all this because you want it to eat its vegetables, which is ironic since rabbits are herbivores anyway.”

“Oh I don’t know what to do, Angel Bunny is really hard to deal with when he gets this way.” Fluttershy said sounding defeated.

“Ok Miss Fluttershy, I know you’re all about the kindness but I think it’s time for some tough love.” Fixit Advised.

“But…” Fluttershy started. She had never really gotten too touch on Angel. After all he was her personal pet, and as rambunctious as he was he always encouraged her and tried to help her in the end plus she didn’t want her sweet little angel to hate her. But then she was reminded of the incident with the breezie’s where she got her key and learned that too much kindness could be a bad thing. Her eyes were then filled with determination, it looked super cute but it was determination nonetheless. “Right, sometimes you just have to put your hoof down.” She said thrusting her forehooves.

Fixit then smiled and gave a nod. “Exactly.” He encouraged. When he saw next both scare him and confused him. You see, Fluttershy then turned to Angel bunny and gave him a strange stare. It wasn’t angry, it wasn’t hateful. It wasn’t anything bad but it did send a shiver down Fixit’s spine. It was kind of like that look your mother gives you to keep you from doing something you know you aren’t supposed to but a hundred times more intense. Upon getting this look Angel bunny then sat up straight at full attention then jumped into Fluttershy’s waiting hooves. While Fixit wondered what had just happened. He then realized that what he had just seen must’ve been Fluttershy’s legendary stare. He had heard about it from Pinkie Pie but figured she was exaggerating about its power. Fixit now knew that it wasn’t an exaggeration and hoped that Fluttershy never used it on him.

“Come along Angel, it’s time to go home.” She said and started to fly slowly back to her cottage. Fixit, still in awe at the whole thing, couldn’t help but follow her for some reason. Fluttershy’s cottage was a little out of the way, cozy place just outside of Ponyville. It had all manner of facility to handle all manner of animal and oddly enough, didn’t have any sort of strange smell. Which was a bonus in Fixit’s opinion. This was Fixit’s first time being here but he had to admit he liked it. As he passed the holding pens and fences that kept the animals from running amuck he held out a hoof to a few of the animals but was only met with growls and disinterest. Fixit sighed in defeat at this. He was trying to like animals, really he was but their dislike of him was making it hard.

Fluttershy saw this and smiled a bit. She had to admit. When Fixit first came to town she was a bit apprehensive about him. After all she considered him a bit strange, not to mention he arrived under the guise of somepony else, sure it wasn’t really his fault and he didn’t actually mean to but Rainbow said that if he wasn’t trying to be suspicious he should have been up front from the beginning and she trusted Rainbow Dash’s opinion. Plus she had never been very good with Stallions, especially ones as…forward, as him. But as she watched him she learned he was actually quite nice He helped ponies without being asked or asking for a reward, he was good at leading and giving out jobs, plus he was one of the only ponies she had ever met who was able to calm Pinkie Pie down almost instantly. Plus he was also really smart, maybe even almost as smart as Twilight, and she was really, really, really smart. She had to admit, she looked up to him in a way. He always seemed so confident and cool, he reminded her of Rainbow Dash in the sense that he seemed to know what he was good at and exactly how good he was at it. But she also felt bad that her animals didn’t seem to like him at all since he was so nice. They continued walking all the way to her doorstep and Fixit stood and waited as she opened the door. “Thank you so much for helping me find my sweet Angel Mister Fixit. I really appreciate it.” She told him with a smile while still holding angel in her forehooves. Angel then jumped from her hooves and went into the house closing the door behind him. Both ponies looked at the door then at eachother and Fixit just shrugged.

“It’s no problem Miss Fluttershy. You know me, always willing to help. Oh and please no need to call me Mister, it makes me feel old.” He told her with a smile, not wanting things to be too formal.

Fluttershy smiled at this as her wings flapped faster signaling her slight rise in excitement. “Oh um ve-very well then.” She said with a bit of a blush. “Well if that’s the case then you don’t have to call me Miss since we’re friends.” She added with another smile. “You know, o-only if you want.”

Now it was Fixit’s turn to blush. “W-wait, we’re friends?” He asked her purely surprised. He had never really thought of it like that. Well he had hoped they could be friends, he wanted to think of them as friends but he didn’t think she would think of them as friends.

Fluttershy’s ears and wings then drooped causing her to land. “Unless you don’t want to. Oh I should have known you wouldn’t want to be friends with somepony like me.” She said in defeat, a bit dramatically.

“What? No! no no, that’s not it at all Miss, I mean Fluttershy. I would very much like to be your friend.” Fixit corrected waving his hooves in front of his body.

“R-really?” Fluttershy asked with a hopeful look. “You would?”

“I would consider it an honor.” He said with a slight bow causing her to blush again.

Fluttershy’s ears and wings perked up again and she began to float off the ground once more. “Yay!” She said quietly which Fixit somehow for some reason thought was meant to be a yell. “I have a new friend!” She added which he figured was also meant to be a yell. She then realized she was getting a little excited and her face turned red from embarrassment and her wings instantly stopped causing her to fall to the ground and land on her flank.

Fixit then chuckled a bit and looked down at her with a smile. “Yes I suppose you do, and so do I.” He told her then turned on his hind legs. “Well I guess I should be going now. See you later Fluttershy.” He said giving her a wave before walking back towards town.

When he got back to town Fixit let out a heavy sigh and stretched. “Well, that was certainly an adventure.” He said to himself as he went back to his rounds. Just another day in Ponyville he supposed. It was then that he heard a whoosh of air and found himself being tackled to the ground by a blue and rainbow colored blur. “Hello Miss Rainbow Dash, how may I help you?” He asked in a bored tone while on his back with her on top of him. This wasn’t the first time Rainbow Dash had done this, in fact, tackling him to the ground seemed to be her favorite way to get his attention. When he was first introduced to Rainbow Dash there were certain things he noticed immediately, such as her multicolored mane and tail. But there were other things as well such as her ego and tomcoltish- nature. In fact when they first officially met, if not for the natural physical differences between stallions and mares he would have thought Rainbow was a colt.

“Mayor Mare wants you to come to city hall, something about some pipes needing to be fixed.” She told him their muzzles extremely close.

“Right, I’ll get right on that but I can’t really go with you on top of me.” Fixit pointed out to her.

“Oh right, sorry.” She said and floated into the air.

“Shall we go then?” He asked as he stood up and brushed himself off. He then started making his way to City Hall with Rainbow Dash flying behind him watching him closely.

Honestly she didn’t know what to make of the stallion. Rainbow Dash kind of thought he was an egghead like twilight since he liked using big words and complicated explanations to things like she did. But unlike the recent unicorn turned Alicorn he also dumbed down his explanations for ponies who didn’t understand them Plus, he seemed a lot more laid back then her and less prone to freak outs. He also seemed a little too nice. Sure there was nothing wrong with manners and such but it felt odd coming from him. Like for instance he called her Miss and talked all formally like Rarity, which really didn’t fit his look. It made her wonder where he was from. She wondered what his deal was. Sure Twilight, Rarity, and some of the others seemed to trust him but to her he just seemed really weird. That being said he did have a few moves, like that one time she saw him scale a building, or that other time he somehow dodged a whole barrage of muffins that she launched at him with a catapult, or when he saved Rarity from that piano when he first got there. Which he then fixed a few days later saying music is with everything or something like that.

They finally reached City Hall which had ponies running in and out of it at every turn. Fixit looked around but didn’t actually see Mayor Mare. “Where’s is Madam Mayor anyway?” Fixit asked looking around for the older, but in his opinion, very pretty for her age older mare.

“Don’t know. I think she said something about going to the castle to talk to Twilight.” Rainbow Dash explained as she continued to follow him.

Fixit then stopped for a moment and shrugged. “Oh well I’m sure it’ll be fine.” He said. “So where are these pipes I’m supposed to look at?” He asked the blue Pegasus mare.

“Uh in the basement I think.” Rainbow said tapping her chin before leading him down a long flight of stairs. Well he walked she floated.

The basement was a bit dark but there were offices and other looking rooms there as well. They then came to a small corner and to a door that said “Maintenance” The two ponies looked at eachother before Fixit opened the door and they walked inside. “So what exactly am I looking for?” Fixit asked the mare as they made their way through the maze of plumbing until Fixit spotted some rusted leaking pipes. “Nevermind, I think I found it.” He said walking over and examining them. “Hey Rainbow Dash?” He called out to her.

“Huh? Uh yea?” She asked giving him her attention but surprised he had spoken to her.

“Could you do me a favor and get me some spare pipes? Preferably…” He then paused and measured the pipes. “Of varying sizes while I find out where the shut off valve for the water is?” He asked her.

“Huh? Oh sure, back in a dash!” She announced then took off.

Fixit then went to find where to shut off the water. Or at least he started to, he then decided to tell the people in, and going in and out of the building that the water would be off for a while. And so he went to the front desk and asked if the mare there could let others know. By this time Rainbow ash and a pair of earth ponies had delivered the supplies that Fixit had needed, led there by Rainbow Dash and Fixit used his magic to carry everything down to the maintenance part of the building. Fixit then laid everything down and took a deep breath. “Ok, let’s kick this out.” He said to himself then went to go find the water shut off valve. Once he did, it was actually just on the other side of the room, he returned to see Rainbow Dash sitting on the ground as of waiting for him and looking quite bored. “Lemme guess, nothing else to do today?” He asked her.

“Not right now.” She said while shaking her head. “So I figured I’d just hang out here, see if you’re really all you’re cracked up to be.” She told her.

“I see.” He responded while setting things up. “Well then guess I’d better not disappoint.” He said and started getting to work. As he did some he couldn’t help but hear noises from the mare behind him. He figured Rainbow was the kind of pony that had trouble keeping still and his perceptions were right, she was doing all manner of thing to distract herself. She whistled, she flew around a little and even started banging out beats on pipes, which actually weren’t half bad but nevertheless it was starting to get a bit distracting to him and he was losing focus on his work. He then stopped for a moment and gave a sigh. “Would you like to help me Miss Rainbow Dash?” He asked turning to look at her, who happened to be making faces for some reason.

“Oh uh sure I guess.” She said stopping with the faces and moving over to him. “And don’t call me “miss”, I’m not a miss.” She told him. “So, what do you want me to do?” She finally asked.

“Oh nothing much just pass me things when I ask for them.” He told her and went back to work unscrewing a rusty pipe.

”Uh ok.” Rainbow Dash said giving him a nod. She then sat there for a few minutes staring at him as he worked, waiting for him to give her something to do. “Ugh! This is so not cool! I’m so bored! He said I’m supposed to help but he isn’t even giving me anything to do, this is so lame. Does he even remember that I’m here?” She thought to herself in a bored tone before deciding to find out if he was paying attention. “Hey!” She called out.

“Yes?” He asked her as he continued to work.

Now Rainbow Dash was caught. She honestly didn’t expect him to answer. Atleast not with the first call, so her brain worked for her to find something to say. “Uhhhhh.” She started. That was when she noticed a jet of fire coming out of his horn which he was using to cut through a pipe and thought it was pretty cool since he had never seen it before. “Hey, what kind of spell is that?” She asked pointing at his horn.

“It’s a blow torch spell.” Fixit answered as he finished cutting through the pipe and caught it with his hooves. “Pipe please, 2 feet.” He said to her. He would have grabbed it himself but he noticed the bored look on her face and remembered he asked her to help.

“Oh uh right!” She said looking for it for a second before passing it to him. “So where did you learn that spell I don’t think Twilight knows it, or atleast has never used it.” Rainbow Dash speculated.

“Well Princess Sparkle probably doesn’t have a reason to learn a spell like this.” Fixit said coming up with his own speculation as he sauntered the pipe.

“Yea true, but that doesn’t really answer my question dude.” Rainbow Dash pointed out. “So? Where’d you learn it?” She asked again.

Fixit then began to fidget a bit and shrugged as his face turned red. “I uh well I kinda came up with it myself.” He admitted.

“Wait you did?” Rainbow asked in surprise. “Dude that’s awesome!” She said and flew into the air. “I thought only somepony like Twilight could do something like that!” She said excitedly, maybe this guy wasn’t as lame as she thought he was.

“Pease,” Fixit said finishing with the pipe and grabbing the supplies and tools to move to another area to make sure there were no other problems. “It was a challenge from Master Inventous and its hardly all that amazing.” He told her as the spell dissipated. “Sometimes it doesn’t shut off for hours and sometimes I can’t get it to work at all, sometimes the flame is too strong and sometimes it’s too weak. So as you can see it still has a lot of bugs that need to be worked out.” He told her as they walked. Fixit then spotted a pipe that had some gross goop dripping from it and both ponies made a face. “Mind seeing if you can find a bucket?” He asked Rainbow Dash.

“Right!” Rainbow said but also was still clearly grossed out. Fixit while fixit put on some gloves and started removing the pipe. A really bad smell was coming from it. He then figured it was a “waste” pipe and waited for rainbow to come back with the bucket. When she returned he levitated the bucket but then remembered that he needed a ladder as well so Rainbow wouldn’t have to hold him up in the air. So Rainbow got him a ladder as well. He climbed the ladder with Rainbow floating next to him as he finished removing the pipe. “You might want to cover your nose.” He said to her before he finished and their noses were hit with a disgusting smell. Fixit coughed ad gagged and Rainbow turned green for a second but both ponies pushed forward as fixit began to clean the pipe. It took a little while and neither pony came out of it feeling completely fine. But they were able to get through it and walk out of City Hall not completely scarred for life. Fixit was able to finish his work with the help of Rainbow Dash and now it was time to move on. “Once again, that was certainly an adventure.” Fixit said to himself.

“Once again?” Rainbow dash asked looking at him with a confused raised brow.

“Uh nevermind, don’t worry about it.” He told her with a sheepish smile.

“Oh well ok I guess.” Rainbow said. “You know you’re pretty cool for a total geekwad.” She said bucking him in the shoulder lightly with her forehoof.

Fixit chuckled and decided to take it as a compliment. “Yea whatever you say Skittles.” He told her. He then watched as she smirked and took off into the sky to do something else. He then took a deep calming breath and looked up at the sky. “Its good to help.” He said thinking outloud. He then adjusted his goggles, brushed himself off, and got back to making his rounds. After all, no rest for the wicked, or wickedly amazing.

Author's Note

Whew! Finally done! This chapter took a little longer then I wanted it to since I wanted to get Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash just right since I’ve always had trouble portraying existing characters so sorry if they seem a bit out of character. If anyone has any ideas on how I can improve please let me know. As I said before criticism is always welcome. That being said I want to explain some things about my MLP world. They do have technology like for instance Vinyl Scratch’s wub washing machine and bass cannon, and indoor plumbing as well as construction vehicles like cranes and such but they don’t use cars or cell phones because things like that are super-duper rare since they are considered cutting age technology. Also skittles, soda and things like that also exist as well. Once again thank you for reading and see you all in chapter 4!