A Spiked Life

Chapter 14 - A Bad Bunny
by LightningStrike34

Fluttershy's Cottage

It was a typical day in her homestead, Fluttershy was tending to her animals per usual when all of a sudden, a slice of cucumber had whapped the back of her head and yelped to see Angel Bunny tip tapping his little rabbit foot impatiently on the oak wood floor.

Fluttershy sighed, "Angel, please don't do this right now. Mama Fluttershy is very busy, now go on and eat your vegetables like a good little bunny." Fluttershy grabbed the cucumber slice in her hoof and held it out to Angel before he kicked it from her grasp as he chittered angrily, "Now Angel, I know how much you dislike eating your greens, so I got you something as a little incentive."

Fluttershy opened one of her wings slightly as she grabbed a carrot out from under it and held it in her hoof, "If you eat all of your food Angel, I'll give you this carrot."

Angel hesitated for a moment before chittering as he bit into a cucumber slice and chewed it whole giving of a brief smile before he began eating.

Fluttershy smiled, "Good boy Angel, now where is Hummingway? I know he's around here somewhe-"

Suddenly a loud crash had erupted from behind her door as the nearby animals fled in fear, Fluttershy realizing the situation tried calming them down, "Please don't panic Everycreature, let's remain calm and figure out what happened first." Fluttershy then made her way towards her doorstep to see an orange filly groaning in pain as she spoke up and said, "How many times has that been today? Owww..."

Scootaloo's POV

"How many times has that been today? Owww..." I said groaning in pain as I looked up to see a buttercream mare staring right at me.

She spoke up in concern asking me, "O-oh my, are you alright little one?"

I nodded before holding my throbbing head with a hoof, "I-I'm fine, it's n-nothing I haven't handled before. You don't need to worry about-" I felt bile fill up in my mouth before vomiting on the nearby floor.

I could hear her gasping before she replied, "I'll go get you a bucket!"

When I thought the vomiting stopped I replied before I began puking again, "Y-you don't need to-"

I heard hoofsteps rushing over towards me as a Bucket had been placed under my muzzle as the remaining puke fell into it.

The mare responded to me concerningly, "A-are you ok now?"

I coughed before responding, "I- I think so."

She stammered, "T-that's good I suppose," She sighed before asking, "Do you have a name, little one?"

I responded, "I'm Scootaloo, and who are you?"

The mare giggled, "You can call me, Fluttershy."

Fluttershy's POV
"Would you like to come inside, Scootaloo? I-if that's not a problem I mean."

Scootaloo responded, "Yeah, it's no problem. Thank you, Fluttershy."

Scootaloo and I walked our way inside to see Angel Bunny munching on a carrot as I spoke up, "Angel, drop that carrot right this second mister and finish your salad."

He spat at me as he ate the rest of it down whole and hopped away into the kitchen. Scootaloo spoke in response asking me, "Is he always like that?"

I sighed, "He's a bit of a cranky bunny, but once he warms up to you he's not so bad."

Scootaloo deadpanned, "If you say so." She took a couple steps inside before looking around and said, "This is a pretty nice place you got here, but what's up with all the animals?"

Harry gave out a growl in annoyance, "Well she is an animal caretaker, how hard would that be to understand?"

"Now Harry, she's just gotten to know me. Please be more considerate."

Harry groaned before responding, "Only for you, Fluttershy."

I replied, "Thank you."

Scootaloo glanced in my direction asking, "You can talk to animals?"

I responded, "Yes, for some reason I've always been able to talk to animals. It certainly helps with me being an animal caretaker afterall."

Scootaloo replied, "That's pretty cool I guess, Do you think I could learn to talk to animals like you can?"

I giggled, "Maybe one day, but try not to test your luck. You should just be happy being who you are."

Scootaloo groaned, "Ugh, you sound like my Aunt Holiday. I wanna be able to be more than just a no-talent pegasus who can barely get off of the ground."

I responded tersely, "Now don't go beating yourself up, I'm sure there's plenty you can do that other ponies could only wish they could do."

Gabriel spoke up, "Yeah! There's a lot of things you ponies can do that I couldn't even think I'd be able to do."

"See? Even Gabriel agrees. You're better than this, you just need to have a little faith in yourself."

Scootaloo sighed, "I don't know if I can though, what if I screw everything up or I make something worse?"

I gave off a comforting smile, "Then I know that you'll always have somepony to rely on when things get rough."

Looking over towards the clock, I could see it was 3:15pm as I got up and made my way over towards the back entrance, "Could you just excuse me for a moment? It's Elizabeak's feeding time."

Scootaloo looked over to me responding, "Huh? Oh yeah, I can do that."

"Thank you, Scootaloo." I then made my way outside as I headed off to the Henhouse.

Scootaloo's POV
When Fluttershy left, Angel hopped back into the room chewing a baby carrot in his mouth and looked towards me. Noticing this I spoke up in response as I trotted over to him, "Hey, didn't she ask you to lay off the carrots mister? She'd be pretty disappointed if she saw you doing this."

Angel spat at me and hopped on my head as I felt him yanking on my hair as I tried shoving him off, "H-hey! Get off of me!" I could feel a tighter tug on my scalp as I stumbled as my body threw itself towards the front door, I heard the sound of it opening and when I opened my eyes I could see him hop out of the doorway as he made his way outside.

I shouted, "No wait, come back!" But he didn't listen as he kept hopping forwards, realizing what I needed to do I made my way to catch up with him.