Pink, Yellow and Shy

The sun arose high above the horizon on this beautiful day in Ponyville, but something they never expected was about to come. Fluttershy and Cassie had already set out to Twilight’s to see how the lavender mare fared with her work. When they entered, the lab was once again in ‘organized chaos’ as Rarity would like to call it. The mare blasted through the room at Rainbow Dash speeds, too wrapped up in the works to notice the shy gals step inside.

“These calculations aren’t right. Ugh! If I don’t figure this out soon, I won’t be able to help out my friend in time,”

“Um…… Twilight?” the yellow mare whispered. No response.

“I don’t even think I got the coordinates to where her home is. This is terrible,”

“Twilight?”

“Of all the worst things that could happen, this is THE….. WORST….. POSSIBLE….. THING!” That was the last thing she said before fainting onto the floor, exhausted from her late night research.

“Oh dear,” Flutters said unamused from the alicorn’s mental breakdown.

“Twilight, are you alright?” a worried Cassie asks. No response.

“She was probably up all night doing all this research. She’ll be fine,” They carried the overworked alicorn up to her room to rest. “I thought Spike had already told her not to overwork herself. She obviously didn’t take the hint,”

“Well what do we do now?”

“We were supposed to meet Rarity today to pick up your clothes, remember?”

“Right, let’s go,”

Just then, something started glowing. It was so near to them.

“Oh my, my cutie mark. Someone must need my help,” Flutters cried.

“Who is it?” Cassie asked.

“I don’t know, but this could be important,”

They stepped back inside to the map room to see her cutie mark was right above the Everfree Forest. The timid pony was not pleased to see this.

“Whatever it is… I hope I don’t have to fight it,”

It was basically a solo mission, but Cassie had decided to tag along. It wasn’t long to figure out the problem, which was more dragons. These seemed to have come from the Land of the Dragons themselves. It looked like they were stealing some eggs.

“Oh dear, don’t they know it’s wrong to steal other animals’ eggs? Come on, let’s get them,”

The chase was long and exhausting, and Flutters was getting a little mad.

“Now look here, you bullies. I’m very tired of chasing you through this forest, so you better stop now or I’ll have no choice but to use the Stare”

The other dragons laughed at this, so they got what they deserved. Caught in the hypnosis, Cassie flew unnoticed and got the eggs back. Once the pink dragoness was sure she was out of the line of fire, both of them returned the eggs to their rightful owners.

“There. That wasn’t so hard,” Flutters said.

“That was kind of fun,”

“We should get back to Rarity’s. She’s probably wondering why we haven’t made it there yet,”

But the fight wasn’t over, as those bully dragons came looking for them, ready to fight.

“Hey you,” a red one said, pointing at Fluttershy. “You stopped our raid, and for that, we’re going to stop you!”

“Try it,” Cassie threatened.

“Or what? You two don’t look like you can lift a boulder,”

“Ok,” Flutters said. She closed her eyes as the wind began to stir. The punks looked on at what was to come. The yellow Pegasus soon turned white and in her place, a batpony. “You were saying?”

“Uh…… I think we’re in trouble,”

“Yeah. Let’s get out of here,” a blue one said shivering in fear.

The raiders retreated from their little errand, back to where they came.

“Well, I think that went well,” the pony said.

“What was that!? the dragoness yelled.

“Oh, that’s right. I never told you that I can turn into a batpony anytime I need to, and now seemed like a good time,”

“And how can you do that?”

“Well…..

Applejack and her family were ready to start apple buck season. Everything looked fine, but we were wrong. So wrong in fact, that it wiped out all of the apples at Sweet Apple Acres. We were all called to an emergency meeting, and that’s when she said, ‘They’re back’. We assumed she was talking about the fruit bats that stayed in the west orchard, but no. They were vampire fruit bats. They sucked all the juice out of the apples overnight, leaving nothing but the cores. AJ demanded we get rid of them right away, but I knew they didn’t mean any harm. They were just doing what was best for the orchard, but all AJ saw was the current feasting they were doing with her family’s apples. They didn’t listen. I tried to tell them, but they didn’t listen. We all went to Twilight’s library to come up with a plan. She had managed to make one that involved a spell and me using my stare. I knew it was wrong to take away the very reason vampire fruit bats existed, but I couldn’t let down my friends. The plan seemed to work after one of them rejected an apple, unfortunately, nothing changed. We tried again, and strangely the spell still worked, so that left us with one question: who did it. It had to be a fruit bat because of the fang marks in the apples, and not just one, but a lot of them. Maybe we didn’t round them all up, or maybe……

She paused to show the dragoness her fangs.

I stopped by one of the apples that remained good, and that’s when it happened. My friends were so scared to see me like that, and I had no control over myself the first time. AJ was forced to give up her most prized apple in order to get me back. Everything was back to normal, or so they thought…..

The dragoness was awestruck at the amazing story of the pony’s transformation. “That’s amazing,”

“Come on, we should get back to Rare,”

Meanwhile in a nearby cloud, another Pegasus was watching the entire show.

“I’m not letting you off that easily. You still have a long way to go before I can trust you with my lifelong friend,”

Later in the day, the pony-dragon pair stopped by Sugarcube Corner to arrange a small party. Pinkie was more than happy to do this. The other ponies got on down to the beats and played classic games. Rainbow Dash, however, was a little uneasy with their newcomer and watched her from afar. Twilight saw this and thought the cyan Pegasus should put it out in the open.

“Dash, what’s wrong? You’re looking at Cassie as if she’s a threat to us, especially Fluttershy. Why?”

Rainbow kept looking at the pink dragoness, waiting for the right moment to pounce. “Because she’s a dragon. Out of all of us, I’ve known Flutters the longest. There’s no way she should be this comfortable around one, except for Spike,”

“True, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give her a chance,”

“I AM giving her a chance, and the moment she messes up…..” she said, looking at her target with eyes of a tiger.

“Dash, don’t you think you being overprotective here?”

Rainbow was offended by this. “It’s not if your friend’s life is in danger as we speak!” her voice picking up with anger.

“But she’s NOT in danger. I can assure you,” Twilight’s voice was also started to rise with anger.

“HOW DO YOU KNOW?!” Dash shouted, stomping a hoof on the table. “I’ve been looking out for her as soon as me and her…” she said, pointing to Cassie. “ met, and what have you been doing? ‘Trying’ to help her home,”

Twilight was offended by this. “HEY, I try my absolute best to help out a friend in need,”

“And THAT’S where you’re wrong, Twilight. She is the enemy. She was probably sent here on a secret mission to spy on our world with that thing around her neck. Oh yeah. She’s probably recording us right now,”

“That is it, Rainbow Dash. You have got to let all of this go NOW!” Twi shouted on the verge of bursting into flames like that one time with Pinkie.

“Come you know I’m right. The only reason you’re calling her our ‘friend’ ……” she leaned in closer to the lavender pony, her face turning from one of rage to one of mischief. “ is because she put a spell on you. Remember that weekend?”

The alicorn babbled onto herself for a few seconds.

Dash continued by saying, “Now we have to get the potion for you! HA!”

That was the breaking point. Twilight eyes and fur turned white and her hair literally set ablaze while she said in the royal Canterlot voice, “FOR THE LAST TIME, SHE IS OUR FRIEND AND YOU WILL NOT DISRESPECT THAT!!!!”

Rainbow now cowered under the table shaking in fear at the sight before her. “okay,”

“That was intense. I never want that to happen to me,” came the party pony.

“Um, don’t mind my asking, but why don’t trust Cassie yet, Dashie?” Flutters whispered.

“I don’t think it’s good to”

“Well, now that Dashie has that out of the way, let’s go on with the party,”