Equestrian Eeveelution.by SymphonicdysoninceChaptersThe Polite Thing to Do.Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?If only there were Pokecenters....Sleep and Planning.Tracking the Trackers Tracking Trackers.What's in a Name?To the Over Worked, and the Under Paid.Voluntold.Bittersweet CandyNightmare Fallout.Discoveries.Dances with Eevees.Does This Still Count as Tree Sap?Taking Stock.Testing Limits.The Dog Days: Abes Nights, Bunny SecretsDog Days: Home on the Farm, Hot in the KitchenDog Days: Midnight Confessions, Sunset Bonds.Be Like Water.Desire Averted.A Friend in Need....... Is a Friend Indeed.Preparations.House of Confessions.Painful Addition.Dog Days: Ya Know What This Calls For?Greed's Excess Part 1Greed's Excess Part 2Aquarius.Dog Days: A Semi-Serious Sililoquy.To Sleep, Perchance To Dream.Letters To An Old Friend.Reacting to the Unforeseen.Racing Dynamos.Pillow Talk.Planning for Sleep.Tempting Fate.Murphy Hates Me.Oops, I broke It....Me, Myself, and IWinter's F*cked Up.The Worst Feeling of Déjà Vu.Wake Up Call.Bonus: Mother's Delight.Return of the Green.Mumbo Leo.The Butterfly Flaps.Thunderstruck.Electric Pincushion.Play Date.The Hurricane Became A Firestorm.Cinders to Ashes.Bonus: Odd Utility.Dark Specialty.To Follow the Beat of One's Own Drum.Forging New Bonds.Remember: Get the Message First!Bonus: Father's Pride.We Do What We Must, Because We Can."Do Not Think of How It Works. Just Do It."Theory Crafting.Bonus: The One Thing.Entanglement.Stopgap Measures.Gort!Like Elmer's!Side Effects Include:Dog Days: Leg Work.A Night at the Castle.Back to Town.The Squeezy!But... The Squeezy...We're All Just a Little Crazy.So, Three Speedsters Go to the Park...Leo Lancer and the Reading Rainbow.Dog Days: Love Sick"If Only, If Only." The Mockingbird Cried.Earthen Resolve.Theories of the Mind.The Practical Side of Things.Bonus: The Hammer and Anvil.End of the Royal Sleepover.Spreading Contact.Stick That Feather in Your Cap!Star Rise.Nimbus! ... Nimbus?First Cracks.A Kernal of Knowledge.A Kernal of Truth.Returned from the Ashes.Restyled Phoenix.It's a Not-A-Date!Why Am I Your Conscience?Yomegalovania.3, 2, 1, Smash!Luncheon with Dragons.The Express Way Home.Who's Bringing the Donuts?You Are Family.Every Parent Has Been There...Destello de la Luna.Rules for a Reason.Bonus: The Rubber Ducky Principle.The Equestrian Rain Dance.Bonus: A Wish.Hope For the Future.Dog Days: Imprints and Inspiration.Dog Days: Semblances.Let the Race Begin Again!We Really Need a Lakitu at These Things...Abes' Results.Getting Closer.They Baked a Pretty Cake.Not Quite a Locked Room Mystery.Reconciliations.Another One?!Dog Days: Wondering Minds.Dog Days: BamfDog Days: Exercises of the Mind.Matching Pair.Can We Skip It This Month?Dog Days: Developing Terror.One of These Months, the Darn Things'll Work.Introducing TraditionsJubilant Winters Passes into Somber Springs.The Invitation Was Lost Before It Got To Derpy, Oddly Enough...A Canterlot Invasion: Prelude To Disaster.A Canterlot Invasion: Strategy Meeting.A Canterlot Invasion: Right for all the Wrong Reasons.A Canterlot Invasion: The Hound of Luna.A Canterlot Invasion: Strike Through.A Canterlot Invasion: Lightning StrikesA Canterlot Invasion: Element BlitzA Canterlot Invasion: Star FallA Canterlot Invasion: Love BomberA Canterlot Invasion: Aftershocks.A Canterlot Invasion: Slip Away.Dark Thoughts.Mental PlagueBlackest Thoughts.An Unwanted GuestRestless Soul.Festered Remorse.Nothing Else Matters.Covenant of Remorse.Royal Sentence.Professional Help.Weather Changing Training."What Have I Become...?"Weather ResearchGo North, Young Eevee!Arctic Assault.The Other.Frozen Star.What do You Call a Group of Unown?The Unown Know.Meeting Southern Faces.Rock Farm RulesAlmost Fair.Escalation.Miracle Makers.Bonus: Another Odd Utility.The Polite Thing to Do.Eons. "Hey." That's how long I've been waiting to the seal to weaken. Or broken. The humans locked me away for interfering with 'their world'. And It's all gone down hill for them since. They forgot the old ways, when human and Pokemon would work together without confining my children within those damnable balls. "Hey." And the company I'm forced to keep could have been better. "Oi!" "WHAT?!" "Nothing much." That infuriating demigod had joined my in this near black void what feels like an eternity ago. "I just had a marvelous idea." ".... If I respond, will you avoid pestering me for ten minutes?" "Maybe." I sighed. "Fine." This had better be better then his "I Spy" idea... "So, I've been thinking, since that's all I can really do around here because someone won't talk to me, and I had a thought. It just came up to me and smashed a gauntlet into my snout, the rude thing." I rolled my eyes. "Still, it had some merit. I thought to myself 'How much longer do I have to wait for enough Chaos to build up to free me'? I know I don't want to spend another eternity here, so I'd need a cunning plan-" "Get to the point, Discord." "You're no fun. Honestly, first Celly, now you.... " He grumbled. "Fine, fine. I plan on setting things in motion to make my return even easier if they stone me again." "And how does that involve me?" "Well, I'm going to be using some of your children to do so. They won't actually be any of your children, just their identity." "You swear? You wont use any of them in your schemes?" "Cross my heart, and all that nonsense." "Then I see no problems with it." I reluctantly agreed. I'd hate to be the poor fool he ropes into this... I let the silence grow between us. "... You would have still gone through with this if I denied you this, wouldn't you?" "Oh, most certainly!" "Then why bother asking?" "It's only polite." Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"What the hell - " - Is it one of the new generation - "Oh, shit - "Scatter!" I ran. We all did. I barely remember anything from that first run. Except the howling, and the stench. (God, did those things stink.) But that's it. The next thing I know, I'm fighting to catch my breath, hiding in the hollow of some tree's roots. Once I had calmed down enough, I did a quick check of my new body. Two long, narrow ears: check. Four paws: check. Bushy tail: check. Brown fur: all there. Let me tell you, I was one happy Eevee, just for being alive. "In here!" Two more Eevee slid into the hollow with me. One was a couple of inches taller, and much wider around. The other had grey and white fur instead of the normal brown and tan. They were also good friends of mine, Villhiem and Yomega respectively. They didn't notice me right away. "What the hell were those things?" Villhiem panted. "Those things were made entirely out of wood." I watched the two smack their heads on the roots and dirt. "So they're grass types. What Pokemon do you know that looks like that that are grass?" "I think they must be part of the newest gen." Yomega looked back towards the entrance to our little bolt hole. "They certainly don't look like anything I remember." We spent another hour waiting, listening in case those things decided to come back. "Ya know," Yomega said at length, "those things looked kinda like timberwolves." Both Villhiem and I looked at him. "Way too big to be timberwolves." I stated. "No, we're just too small." "Guys....?" Villhiem raised a paw. "Be that as it may, why would we even come across one, let alone three?" "Bad trip?" Villhiem stood up. "Guys." "When was the last time you had any sort of trip?" I shot back. "HEY!" Villhiem interrupted us. "The fuck's a timberwolf?" Yomega and I traded looks. "Uh... You know that one show you said you'd never watch?" I began. "With the ponies?" He shuddered. "Yea, what about it?" "I think we might be in it." Yomega finished. Maybe I should start from the beginning. My name is Leo, and, before today, I was human. "Jesus, this blizzard just won't let up." I turned away from the window. "This makes it, what the third day?" "Fourth." Vincent corrected me. One of my roommates, he was tall and thin. Kinda like a less formal slender man with a face. "I fold." A chorus of "same" rang out around the table, with Yomega taking the pot. Other than Zann, Conner, and myself, everyone was enjoying a game of poker. Zann, with his close cropped hair and piercings, was grinding out match after match of League before the internet could cut out, and Conner, a fidgety teen who could rock a goatee, was watching him. He was also sitting on his hands to prevent him from playing with any random objects nearby. Me, I had just gotten up, throwing on an Eevee toque to keep my bedhead in check, so I couldn't buy in until this poker game was finished. Which is good, I never fully wake up right away anyways. Yomega was a rather large, but young looking man. Seriously, I'm surprised he doesn't get carded more often. Villhiem was tall and... Wide. The others stuck here were Lulu, a slightly short tomboy, Abes, a native teen with a Bloodborne addiction, and Cy, another tall and lanky one. .... I just realized that, Abes aside, my friends and I are the typical "white nerd" group..... After the game had passed and I had bought in (and I had properly woken up), I turned to Yomega as I dealt out the cards. "So, any progress on that rock I found?" "Yes and no." He paused to throw in some chips. "I think it might be some type of quartz, but I've never seen a sphere of it with a brown center before. Usually it's in shards or crystals." " So.... When can I have it back?" He looked at me over his cards. "Dunno. I still got a few sources I want to run down, but they have to wait until the blizzard passes" With a sigh, I focused back on the game. Chips changed hands. I lost again. And the day passed slowly. We laughed, played board games, anything to take our minds off of our growing cabin fever. Eventually, we turned in. If we had been awake longer, we may have seen the "rock" start to glow. "How the fuck can he sleep through this shit?!" I groaned. "Shut the fuck up, I'm tryin' ta sleep!" I felt something shove me off the rock I was on. Wait, rock? That got me to open my eyes. A brown puppy-like face with over-sized eyes and ears and a thick mane of tan fur around it's neck filled my vision. "The fuck we get a dog?" I mumbled out. Like I said, I'm not a "morning person". "Leo," The dog shouted, "wake the fuck up!" Brain? "Yes?" Is there a talking dog in front of me? "Yes." Oh, okay. Just checking. Can I freak out now? "I don't see why not." I pushed away from the dog-thing. "Holy fucking shit, what the fuck are you?!" In doing so, I could see more of the dog things behind it. "Not again." The only grey one muttered. "Easy, Leo." The one in front of me said in the tone that one would use to talk to a large dog or horse. "It's me, Vince." "Bullshit! Vince is a human, not a dog thing." I yelled, pointing a paw at it. Wait, paw?! I followed the leg from the paw to where my shoulder should be. All I saw instead was a ruffle of tan fur. Brain? "I'm sorry, Brain is unavailable at the moment. Please leave a message after the tone...." The gathered dog's all folded back their ears -one even went so far as to cover them- at the pitch of my girlish shrieks of terror manly outburst of profanity. It took me a while to properly freak out and calm down. When it was all said and done, I was quivering in the midst of the dog things. "What the fucking hell happened last night?" I frantically looked around at the group. "No idea." Chorused back. "Whatever else may have happened," The one claiming to be Cy continued, "don't you guys think we look like Eevees?" Zann tilted his head to the side. "How the fuck does that even happen?" "Sounds like a bad fan fiction to me." I groused. Conner stepped forward. "As much as we need that answered, I wanna know where we even are." We were obviously in a forest of some sort. But the colors were off, like someone had come through and painted everything with dark pastels. And the place was completely overgrown. I think our little clearing was the only place the sun shone in the whole damned forest. "Somewhere far south, I think?" Lulu guessed. "I mean, there's no snow at all..." I was worried before. Now I was just plain scared. "So someone, somehow broke into our place, kidnapped us, dragged us all the way down here, and turned us into Eevees?" Vincent growled, stomping a paw. "How fucking long were we out?" We starting arguing back and forth about how we got here, and what we should do now. Eventually, we decided that we were going to find a river, and follow it until we came across someone who could help us. Hopefully. Zann had wondered to the edge of our little clearing to look for some berries or other easy-to-find food. He lifted his nose, and started sniffing the air. "Ugh." He looked back at us, tiny muzzle scrunched up and paw covering his nose. "Okay, whoever did that, own up. It fucking reeks!" We stopped talking, and took quick sniffs ourselves. Good god, what the fuck is that smell? I started rubbing my nose in the vain hope to rid it of the god awful stench. I was so busy rubbing, I didn't hear the bushes rustle. "Oh, shit!" Thankfully Lulu did. "Zann! Get outta there!" Zann bolted past me. I looked up to see three wolves step out of the bushes. They towered over us. "What the hell -" " - Is it one of the new generation -" The two outer wolves started to move around the clearing, while the bigger, middle one crouched down, ready to pounce. "Oh, shit -" "Scatter!" So, yeah. That's how that happened. Now, Villhiem, Yomega and I were stuck under a random tree in a forest none of us knew. "There is no fuckin' way we're in some little girls show!" And Villhiem was having his own little freak out. If only there were Pokecenters...."Calm down, Villhiem." I placed my paws on his shoulders. "It's just a theory." "Yeah," Yomega interjected, "we could be in Hoenn for all we know." Villhiem pulled back. "Then why even bring up the timberwolves?" He looked between us. "'Cuz their name is a pun?" Yomega answered. I turned back to our little opening. I pushed the roots to the side enough to get a clear view of the forest as I could. I could hear faint rustling, but I could not tell how far or where it was coming from. "Guys, shut up a sec. I think I hear something." The others pushed their way up beside me, shoving me to one side. We all perked up our ears to try and catch more sound. We heard some more rustling, all off to the right. It almost seemed as if they were all converging on one spot. "Oh shit! HELP!" The bushes seemed to explode as a frenzy of noise reached us. I tilted my head while Yomega and Villhiem shared a glance. "That sounded like..." Villhiem began "Conner!" We shouted together. "Over here, Conner, hurry!" I yelled. An Eevee with longer fur on its chin burst from the bushes, a timberwolf hot on its heels. Conner quickly spotted us, and tried to make his way over to us, but the timberwolf leaped ahead and cut him off. He started to back up, glancing side to side for an opening. One the rest of us tried to give, yelling and hollering in the hopes to get the wooden mutt's attention. Conner feinted, then broke right to try and get around the timberwolf. He wasn't fast enough. The 'wolf lunged, pinning Conner beneath its paws. The rest of us could only watch as it savored its next kill, slowly bringing its maw closer to Conner's neck. Is this what we can expect in this world? I was barely aware of myself growling, ears laid flat. Must we stand by when our friends are in danger? The world blurred. When my vision cleared, I was standing over Conner. The 'wolf had been knocked back. I refuse to stand by! I heard Yomega and Villhiem rush out of the hallow. A grayish blur rushed past me, and slammed into the side of the timberwolf. "Go 'elp Y'mega!" I looked to see Villhiem behind me dragging Conner towards the hallow by his ruffle. "I go' 'onner!" I nodded, and blurred towards the 'wolf again. The timberwolf, unused to its own tactics being used against it, couldn't handle our two pronged assault. It quickly fell back into the bushes. Yomega and I ran back to help Villhiem push Conner the rest of the way into the hallow. And none to soon either, as the timberwolf had found its courage with the return of its pack-mates. Villhiem let Yomega and I pass him by. I turned around in time to see him kick up a large cloud of dirt and sand. He slid into the hallow just as I heard three impacts with the tree above us. "How's Conner?" he asked. Yomega sat down, looking over the Eevee in question. "It looks like he's got bruising on his back, and some cuts on his neck. A few are deep." He shot a glare at me. "Next time you're gonna do something that hair-brained, do it before ya risk hurting one of us, okay?" "Wait, what even happened?" I looked back to the hallows entrance. It was far too small for the 'wolves to get through. So long as we stayed away from it, we shouldn't have to worry. "One moment, I was with you guys, the next, I was over Conner." Villhiem lay down beside our battered friend. "I think you used Quick Attack. And I think the boost in speed it gave ya was the only reason you two didn't come out even worse for wear. How are you two holding up, anyways?" I looked myself over. There was a large cut on my leg, and I could feel a headache coming on. I glanced at Yomega. "Other then the cut and a headache, I'm good." "No cuts, but my head is starting to pound...." Yomega gingerly put a paw to his head, before pulling it away with a hiss. "... Ow" "Okay, don't do that." Villhiem ordered. "Honestly, what else did ya think would happen if ya headbutted a tree? Repeatedly?" "Sunshine and flowers?" I snarked, lying down myself to lick at my cut. "Seriously, though. Now what're we going to do?" I pointed my tail at the opening, where the timberwolves were still trying to force their way past the tree roots. I was meet with shrugs and indifferent looks. "I think-" Yomega was cut off by the sound of breaking glass. We all snapped around to look at the entrance and saw wisps of greenish powder swirling where the timberwolves were. "Away with you!" A woman yelled out. "Go on, shoo!" We could hear the 'wolves run off into the bushes, then heard what sounded like heavy footfalls approach the tree. "It is safe to come out. I have sent the timberwolves away. But you must come quickly, That hallow is no place to stay." Yomega gave Villhiem a push. "Go take a look." "Why me?" "You're in the best shape." With a final glare, Villhiem cautiously poked his head out of the hole. ".... Uh, guys? There is a giant zebra wearing gold rings. Should I be scared?" I immediately started pulling Conner towards Villhiem. Yomega, realizing the same thing I did, started pushing to make things easier. We were so busy, we kinda forgot to answer Villhiem. "Guys? It's staring at me." I glanced over my shoulder to see his ears were plastered against his skull. "It's starting to freak me out!" "Freak out later, when it's safe." Yomega pushed past me. "She can help us with Conner!" "Yeah," I said around a mouthful of Conner's fur, "She'sh friendry!" Zecora had had a productive day gathering herbs and was on her way home when she heard an odd cry. She couldn't quite make it out, but it had sounded near. Letting her curiosity, and the noises in the bushes, guide her, she soon came across a clearing. She could see three timberwolves trying to dig their way under a tree, where she could hear faint noises coming from. Thinking that the Crusaders had gotten themselves into another mess, she pulled a vial of Wolf's Bane extract from her saddle bags and threw it into the midst of the 'wolves. "Away with you! Go on, shoo!" She yelled. The Wolf's Bane did its job and drove off the timberwolves. She quickly made her way towards the tree where the ground was scuffed and marred. "It is safe to come out. I have sent the timberwolves away. But you must come quickly, That hallow is no place to stay." She spoke softly, hoping to calm down the Crusaders and get them to her home quickly. What she didn't expect, was a strange brown furred canine to pop up. Its ears folded back upon the sight of her as it froze in place. "... Vee?" It squeaked out. "Ee~vee vee." Tilting her head to the side, Zecora watched as two more of the canines came out, pulling a fourth along with them. All of them seemed to have injuries of some sort. Without saying anything, she quickly shifted herbs around before taking the unconscious canine and putting it in her saddle bag. After picking up the one with a cut on its leg, she made her way to her home, the final two following close behind. Sleep and Planning.Sleep and Planing. "So," Villhiem said as he followed Zecora, "that zebra is...?' Yomega, walking beside him, rolled his eyes. "Her name is Zecora. She's a herbalist/witch doctor who lives in the Everfree, which is where we are now. If she can't fix Conner up, then she can get a hold of Fluttershy. Fluttershy is an animal caretaker, and has a knack for healing animals." "More like a compulsion." I lay on Zecora's back, keeping an eye on Conner. "Remember when she tried to fix up a phoenix without knowing that it was restarting it's life cycle, or even knowing it was a phoenix in the first place?" Chuckling, Yomega nodded. "Eeyup. Point is, we'll be safe with Fluttershy. We may even be able to use her cottage as a home-base to find the others with. So long as she doesn't put us up for adoption..." Villhiem just sighed. "Fine. I may not like it, but this sounds like the best we can hope for." He glared up at me. "Excepting that we could be up there with you." "Do you know how hard it is to stay balanced up here?!" I almost fell off as I tried to dramatically sweep a paw back. "Whoa, shit!" A bit of quick shifting, and I was safely balanced again. "See?! Besides, you've been walking for a while now. I may not have made it back to Zecora's on foot." I finished with a point to my cut leg. "Oh, shit." I tilted my head. "It's not that bad." "You can walk that off, ya pussy." Yomega shook his head. "No, I just remembered Fluttershy's other talent." I closed my eyes and laid my head onto Zecora's flank. "Oh, fuck. That." "Sigh. What is 'that'?" Villhiem slowly shook his head. Yomega looked up at me. I waved him on to explain, then shifted about to stay on my elevated mobile perch. "Fluttershy can understand animals. She may be able to understand what we're saying." "What are we gonna tell her?" I groaned out. "I've got that covered" Yomega said. I hope you do... I settled down to enjoy what was left of the ride. The walk was uneventful after that. With myself and Yomega patiently waiting, and Conner being out cold, we were quickly bandaged up. Now, Yomega was sporting head wrappings, I had those and bandages wrapping my leg, and Conner was almost tied up like a mummy. His legs, head and tail were the only things sticking out. Fun fact: Eevees' bodies are thinner than their fur would suggest. Also, Conner looked hilarious as a white tube with large puffs of fur fluffing out from it. We spent the rest of the day being fussed over by Zecora. She wasn't hovering over us or anything like that, but she would regularly check up on us. The only hitch was in the late evening, when she tried to feed us. Of course, having not seen an Eevee before, she couldn't figure out what we actually eat. Villhiem solved that one. He was sniffing around where Zecora was trying to prepare our dinner, when she dropped some sort of berry. It didn't look like one of the Pokemon berries, but that didn't matter to Villhiem. He pounced on it and greedily shoved it down his gullet. We had learned a long time ago to never get between him and food. He looked up at Zecora, tail wagging, berry juice smearing his face. Zecora just filled a few bowls and put them on the floor for us, chuckling all the while. Lemme tell you, those berries were good! Imagine crossing a blueberry, a strawberry, a cherry, and a peach. That's just what it tasted like. She had to give us a bath when we were done. Soon, bellies full, we drifted off where ever we happened to be. I was over by the front door, Conner was in a small bed by the fire, Yomega was under the table, and Villhiem was curled up on Zecora herself. "You must awaken, my sleeping friend. I must go out to run an errand." I groaned and rolled over, curling up even further. "If you will not move by choice, then I shall move you with force." I just buried my face in my tail. "So be it." I felt something wooden bump into my tail, then push me across the floor. I eventually stopped and the wooden thing was removed. "I'll return in a bit." There was a sound of a door closing and the latch catching. I didn't move for about an hour, I think. I could hear the others get up and move around. I vaguely caught Yomega filling in a drowsy Conner on what happened the night before, as well as the general plan. "Now, remember," I tilted an ear to catch what Yomega was saying, "we cannot let the fact that we may know of future events slip. Even if Fluttershy can't understand us, it's better if we just let things play out like they did in the show. I'll tell Leo when the lazy ass finally wakes up." "It would be easier to sleep if you weren't talking." I growled at him. "Just get up, you lazy fuck." "No!" I rolled over and placed my tail over my eyes. "I'm asleep." "You could at least help us plan-" "I rarely got the chance to sleep as a human, I'm not passing this up now. An' with Conner as badly injured as he is, we ain't going anywhere for a while." I peered through my tail at the others. "Planning can wait. Our personal health can't." I listened to Yomega grumble something about stubborn mules, then I tuned them out. Just before I drifted off again, I realized that I was curled up that a human would never find comfortable, what with my face damn near in my crotch. Fuck it, it's comfy. I had just about drifted off when the door burst open. If I hadn't rolled over earlier, the door would've flattened me against the wall. Instead, I could feel my ears and tail flail in the breeze the door caused. I looked up to see a yellow and pink pegasus hovering Conner over to the counter. Yomega and Villhiem quickly followed and found places near by. "It's okay, little one." Fluttershy murmured as she gently peeled the bandages off Conner. I got up and made my way over. "I'm just going to take a quick look and-" She cut off. I jumped up onto a near by chair, and from there, the counter. I couldn't see anything through Villhiem. Fluttershy turned to the door as Zecora entered. "Um, Zecora. You, um, said that he was hurt badly?" "Of his wounds I did, their seriousness I did not kid." "But," Villhiem moved back as Fluttershy showed off Conner's torso, "there's nothing there." Tracking the Trackers Tracking Trackers.Zecora cocked her head to the side. “Lacerations to his torso was his suffrage. It took many of my salves and bandages.” She gestured to one of her shelves, many of the jars placed there near empty. “But, then why are they fine now?” Fluttershy poked and rubbed Conner’s stomach and sides. “If it wasn’t for the dirty bandages and dried blood, I would have thought he hadn’t even been- Oh, I’m so sorry!” Conner had started to squirm under her hooves. “Oh, you must still be hurt after all.” <> Conner managed to gasp out, <> “Tickling…?” I think we surprised Zecora with the synchronized face-paw Villhiem, Yomega and I did. <> Villhiem groaned out. <> “Oh, no, it’s okay,” Fluttershy gently patted Conner’s head, “I was just so worried about you. Especially after what Zecora told me.” <> Yomega pawed at the ground with his ears laid back. <> “Of course.” Fluttershy turned to the zebra. “I think they want me to thank you for them. They have this weird way of speaking that sorta makes them hard to understand, as if they were speaking with a Neighponese accent.” Zecora gave a small bow to us. “I did not mind. I’m glad they’re fine.” We gathered around Conner, whispering in hushed tones. Zecora went around her hut, taking stalk of her herbs. Fluttershy started to walk around us. Every now and then, she would give one of us a tentative poke. “Um, Zecora.” Fluttershy let my tail drop. “I’ve never seen anything like them before. Do you know what they are?” “I may know creatures near and far.” Zecora shook her head. “But I’ve never seen these before. Maybe, with that problem, Twilight could get to the core.” Both mares missed our eyes widen. Yomega and I had informed the other two about Twilight and how she might… obsess over trying to figure us out. I saw the same thought flit through the others’ heads: I don’t want to be a science experiment! “Oh, um…” Fluttershy seemed to shrink behind her mane, “I can still understand them, it’s just a little harder to understand them because I’ve never heard an animal speak like they do before. I’ll um, I’ll just ask them.” We let out a small sigh of relief as she turned to us. “Um, I’m sorry if this seems rude, but I was just wondering if you could tell me what you call yourselves?” <> Yomega murmured to us before taking a small step forward. <> Fluttershy tilted her head and opened her mouth, but Yomega cut her off. <> His ears drooped, Villhiem and I mimicking his movements. Villhiem had to nudge Conner before he caught on and lowered his ears as well. Thankfully, the mares didn’t notice. <> I’ll be damned, he even managed to get a slight warble in at the end there. I don’t think even Conner missed the verbal cue. <> Neither mare could withstand the full force of four puppy-dog eyes. Fluttershy quickly zipped forward and grabbed- Huh. I’d thought she’d’ve glomped Yomega. She nuzzled Conner, holding him in a tight grip. “It’s okay, just come with me and I’ll get the rest of the girls, then we can try and find the rest of your friends.” She put Conner down and made her way to out of the hut, with us quickly following. As we passed Zecora, Villhiem paused to bow to her before running to catch up. As we made our way down the path out of the Everfree, I dropped back and whispered to Conner. <> <> He shrugged. Villhiem leaned forward. <> I grinned. << Oh, I’ve got to tell Yomega about this! Ponies are suckers for cute things.>> I nudged Conner. <> <> I pranced ahead to share the news with Yomega, turning my head just enough to call back, <> I could hear Villhiem burst out laughing. I might have imagined feeling the warmth from Conner’s embarrassed blush. Once we left the forest, we made a beeline to Fluttershy’s cottage. She had wait outside while she fetched the first aid kit. We watched the animals around the cottage to pass the time. Until Yomega turned to look at the bridge. His ears stiffening up was the only warning we got before he pulled us into a nearby bush. “The fuck-” Yomega mashed Conner’s muzzle into the dirt, cutting him off. “Quiet!” He hissed. “Twilight’s coming down the road, and she looks like shit!” I peeked out from between the leaves. Sure enough, I could see Twilight just reaching the bridge. Her mane looked like she hadn’t brushed it that morning, strand sticking out at odd angles. She kept mumbling to herself, her eyes darting to and fro in time with her rambling. She was too far away for us to clearly hear her. “She kinda looks like she did during the Smartypants Incident.” I glanced at Yomega. “Ya think that’s where we are in the timeline?” He nodded as Twilight approached the cottage door. She started rapping her hoof against it in a light but frantic manner. She barely stopped in time when Fluttershy cracked the door open. “Twilight?” Fluttershy put the first aid kit down and opened the door fully. “What, um, what brings you out here?” “I was just wondering,” Twilight began with a too-wide smile, “if there was anything that I, as a good friend, could help you with?” Fluttershy nodded. “Yes, actually-” “FINALLY!” At Twilight's outburst, Fluttershy bolted behind her couch, and we cringed back and covered our ears. “Does that answer your question?” Yomega shot at me. I looked at him and answered with the most eloquence I could muster. “WHAT?” It took a few minutes, but we managed to coax Fluttershy out from her hiding spot. Twilight wouldn’t stop apologizing the entire time. It took us persuading Conner to go back there and use his Baby-Doll Eyes, but we did it. Now, we were back in the forest, Fluttershy just finishing catching Twilight up with our situation. “So, there are more of them in the forest?” Twilight asked. We all nodded. “Okay. I think I have a spell that can help. Hold still.” She pointed her glowing horn at us. We felt fur being pulled off, and watched as they floated up in front of Twilight’s face. Soon, a lavender arrow pointed off into the trees, our fur floating within. “There! That should lead us back to where you last saw the other… whatever you little guys are!” She start to trot off with a bounce in her step, the rest of us not far behind. The path the arrow took lead us through several thorn bushes and over a small creek. <> Villhiem looked around in worry. <> Yomega ducked his head under another branch, <> Soon, we came upon a familiar looking rock. The clearing we had woken up in the day before now sported small gouges in the ground from where the Timberwolves’ claws had dug in. We could hear the tinkling of Twilight’s magic as we spread out into the clearing, Fluttershy staying near Twilight. “Okay, w-we’re here. N-now what?” She stammered to her friend. “Now, I’m going to try a...” I tuned them out at that point. I started to sniff around the clearing. The stench of Timberwolf clung to the area, but I could smell something familiar coming from under it. I followed it around the clearing, nose to the ground and eyes closed. I could smell it getting stronger. Then I ran head first into Villhiem. We both sat on our hunches, rubbing our now sore heads. Villhiem was the first to recover, getting a thoughtful look before sniffing the air again. I was about to move past him when he buried his nose into my fur. <> I backed away from him. Villhiem just waved me off, before moving over Yomega. He then promptly buried his nose into the back of Yomega’s head and started sniffing. He then turned and marched on over to Conner, and doing the same. <> Yomega demanded while Conner hunched over wide-eyed. Villhiem placed his nose to the ground sniffing furiously. <> He moved towards the clearing’s edge, keeping his nose firmly pressed to the ground. Yomega and I let out a small cheer, and started following him. Soon, I could hear the two Mares following after us. This time, our “arrow” meandered back and forth. Villhiem even had to double back a few times to regain the scent. Finally, he stopped with a massive grin on his face. That grin fell when he looked up. At the tree he led us to. The same tree we had taken shelter in from the ‘wolves yesterday. We sat there, staring at the tree, while Fluttershy moved to the hole in the roots, cooing and making other such noises. <> I blurted out. <> <> Conner asked Yomega shook his head as Villhiem rushed to the hole. <> Villhiem emerged from the hole. <> Fluttershy nuzzled him. “Can you find a scent? Track them that way?” <> He shook his head. <> I draped a foreleg over Conner’s shoulders as his ears fell. <> I blinked. <> “Twilight!” Fluttershy gasped. “I need you to do that tracking spell again!” “What? Why?” Twilight looked at us all. “I can’t understand them like you can, what’s going on?” Fluttershy pointed at the hole in the ground. “They’re saying that there is a lot of blood down there, and that most of it’s from the other group! Oh, where would they go if they’re that badly hurt?” Zecora finished making a mental list of the herbs she needed. As she moved towards her door, she heard an odd barking. Cautiously, she peered through a nearby window. Outside her door was a group of those odd dog-like creatures, one of which was barking at her front door. That wasn’t what made her rush out though. It was that the other three were holding up the fifth that was missing its leg. With the oddly distinct twinkle of her magic, Twilight pulled a clump of dirt out from under the tree. As with the fur beforehand, it was soon encased by a large lavender arrow. There was a smaller arrow that pointed towards Conner, but the larger one led off into the distance. Without much thought, the pair of mares raced off into the undergrowth. We followed after sharing a worried look. I’m not going to lie, those mares can really run. We could only follow them by the sound of them crashing through bushes. Of course, the broken bushes were also a good indicator on where to go. We didn’t catch up until for a long while, and even then, it was only because they had stopped. We were right back at Zecora’s. The arrow moved slightly from side to side, but never past the tree she lived in. We didn’t stop for long. The world blurred around me as I rammed Zecora’s front door. I bounced off of it. I barely had time to clear my head when Yomega smashed into the door as well. All we had to show for our efforts was a pair of imprints on Zecora’s door of our faces, and a pair of splitting headaches. By the time the ponies caught up, Zecora had opened the door. With nary a word, she ushered us into her hut. While she went to talk to Twilight and Fluttershy, we found and launched ourselves at the other Eevees in the room. There was many hugs shared and tears shed. <> Conner asked. <> Vince stated. <> <> Cy continued. <> Abes continued the story. <> <> Cy spat. I did a quick head count. We were one short. <> Lulu shook her head. <> Vince pointed up to the counter Conner had lain last night. <> <> Villhiem asked. <> Abes replied, <> Yomega looked back at the mares. With a few final instructions, Twilight and Fluttershy left the hut, and Zecora returned to caring for Zann. <> He motioned us into a huddle, this is what you need to know…>> It was late that night. Fluttershy and Twilight had left long before sundown. Zecora had left several time during the rest of the day, gathering more herbs and roots and whatever she needed. From what we could over hear, the odds were not in Zann’s favor. She almost had to force Fluttershy out, promising her that she could look us over the next day. Her main argument was that there wasn’t enough room for us all to stay the night, and we Eevees weren’t leaving. After another very berry dinner, and a few necessary bathes, we bunked down for the night. I think only Zann actually got to sleep, Zecora would frequently check up on him, and rest of us were kept up with worry. When morning dawned, it was to a beautiful and heartwarming sound. <> Well, it was heartwarming at least. Zecora kept us from jumping up and crowding around Zann, but she almost intentionally kept up a running rhyming commentary for us. Long poem short, although he will never get his leg back, and he lost a lot of blood, he will recover. It was almost a complete turnaround from the day before. Fluttershy stopped by to check up on Zann near mid-morning, but Zecora rhymed her the cliff notes, and promptly asked to for her to take the rest of us with her. It took some effort on her part, but Fluttershy managed to ignore our pleading and Conner’s Baby-Doll Eyes. She led us to her cottage like a mama duck with her ducklings. The rest of the day was passed with her doing make work around her cottage, and us sulking, then fighting the stress out of our systems. I think it started when Vince was running around and ran Villhiem over, leading him to tackle Vince. Then Cy tackled Villhiem to help Vince, and Yomega got involved to try and break it up. I joined into the ball of violence after Lulu but before Conner. Fluttershy had to break us up when she found us scrapping near her chicken coop. She gave us all a very stern talking to, and made us all apologize to each other. The cease fire lasted about five seconds after she left. She did that a fair few times over the course of the day. By night fall, more than one of us was sporting band aids and bruises. Angel bunny won. She let us stay the night in her cottage. We ended up crashing on her couch in a large pile, though she tried to give us our own beds. Our sleep wasn’t easy, but we did sleep. When morning came, our cuts and bruises were gone. Most of us got up right away when Fluttershy brought us a large bowl of berries. I only woke up when I rolled off the couch. Needless to say, I’m lucky Villhiem left me anything to eat. Fluttershy did her morning chores in a rush, then made us promise to stay at her cottage. She left Angel in charge of us before she left. Fluttershy was gone for most of the day. She was briefly stunned when she came home. Her cottage and most of her animals were fine, but we were laying in a bruised heap with Angel sitting on top. She marched us all inside, scolding us the whole way. She washed your cuts out, then placed us all on her couch. Only then did she open her saddle bags, pulling a sleeping Zann out and placing him on top of the pile. “Zecora said that he’ll be fine now, and will wake up in the morning. She had to give him a sleeping drought to keep him from running off. He must have been really worried about you. And I come home to find you all had been fighting again.” She shook her head. “I hope you’ll be a better friend to him then you have been to each other.” <> Yomega yawned, <> The last thing I saw before I fell asleep was a surprised Fluttershy, gaping like a landed Magicarp. What's in a Name?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.To the Over Worked, and the Under Paid.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.Voluntold.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.Bittersweet CandySomething has gone wrong. 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The Polite Thing to Do.Eons. "Hey." That's how long I've been waiting to the seal to weaken. Or broken. The humans locked me away for interfering with 'their world'. And It's all gone down hill for them since. They forgot the old ways, when human and Pokemon would work together without confining my children within those damnable balls. "Hey." And the company I'm forced to keep could have been better. "Oi!" "WHAT?!" "Nothing much." That infuriating demigod had joined my in this near black void what feels like an eternity ago. "I just had a marvelous idea." ".... If I respond, will you avoid pestering me for ten minutes?" "Maybe." I sighed. "Fine." This had better be better then his "I Spy" idea... "So, I've been thinking, since that's all I can really do around here because someone won't talk to me, and I had a thought. It just came up to me and smashed a gauntlet into my snout, the rude thing." I rolled my eyes. "Still, it had some merit. I thought to myself 'How much longer do I have to wait for enough Chaos to build up to free me'? I know I don't want to spend another eternity here, so I'd need a cunning plan-" "Get to the point, Discord." "You're no fun. Honestly, first Celly, now you.... " He grumbled. "Fine, fine. I plan on setting things in motion to make my return even easier if they stone me again." "And how does that involve me?" "Well, I'm going to be using some of your children to do so. They won't actually be any of your children, just their identity." "You swear? You wont use any of them in your schemes?" "Cross my heart, and all that nonsense." "Then I see no problems with it." I reluctantly agreed. I'd hate to be the poor fool he ropes into this... I let the silence grow between us. "... You would have still gone through with this if I denied you this, wouldn't you?" "Oh, most certainly!" "Then why bother asking?" "It's only polite."
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"What the hell - " - Is it one of the new generation - "Oh, shit - "Scatter!" I ran. We all did. I barely remember anything from that first run. Except the howling, and the stench. (God, did those things stink.) But that's it. The next thing I know, I'm fighting to catch my breath, hiding in the hollow of some tree's roots. Once I had calmed down enough, I did a quick check of my new body. Two long, narrow ears: check. Four paws: check. Bushy tail: check. Brown fur: all there. Let me tell you, I was one happy Eevee, just for being alive. "In here!" Two more Eevee slid into the hollow with me. One was a couple of inches taller, and much wider around. The other had grey and white fur instead of the normal brown and tan. They were also good friends of mine, Villhiem and Yomega respectively. They didn't notice me right away. "What the hell were those things?" Villhiem panted. "Those things were made entirely out of wood." I watched the two smack their heads on the roots and dirt. "So they're grass types. What Pokemon do you know that looks like that that are grass?" "I think they must be part of the newest gen." Yomega looked back towards the entrance to our little bolt hole. "They certainly don't look like anything I remember." We spent another hour waiting, listening in case those things decided to come back. "Ya know," Yomega said at length, "those things looked kinda like timberwolves." Both Villhiem and I looked at him. "Way too big to be timberwolves." I stated. "No, we're just too small." "Guys....?" Villhiem raised a paw. "Be that as it may, why would we even come across one, let alone three?" "Bad trip?" Villhiem stood up. "Guys." "When was the last time you had any sort of trip?" I shot back. "HEY!" Villhiem interrupted us. "The fuck's a timberwolf?" Yomega and I traded looks. "Uh... You know that one show you said you'd never watch?" I began. "With the ponies?" He shuddered. "Yea, what about it?" "I think we might be in it." Yomega finished. Maybe I should start from the beginning. My name is Leo, and, before today, I was human. "Jesus, this blizzard just won't let up." I turned away from the window. "This makes it, what the third day?" "Fourth." Vincent corrected me. One of my roommates, he was tall and thin. Kinda like a less formal slender man with a face. "I fold." A chorus of "same" rang out around the table, with Yomega taking the pot. Other than Zann, Conner, and myself, everyone was enjoying a game of poker. Zann, with his close cropped hair and piercings, was grinding out match after match of League before the internet could cut out, and Conner, a fidgety teen who could rock a goatee, was watching him. He was also sitting on his hands to prevent him from playing with any random objects nearby. Me, I had just gotten up, throwing on an Eevee toque to keep my bedhead in check, so I couldn't buy in until this poker game was finished. Which is good, I never fully wake up right away anyways. Yomega was a rather large, but young looking man. Seriously, I'm surprised he doesn't get carded more often. Villhiem was tall and... Wide. The others stuck here were Lulu, a slightly short tomboy, Abes, a native teen with a Bloodborne addiction, and Cy, another tall and lanky one. .... I just realized that, Abes aside, my friends and I are the typical "white nerd" group..... After the game had passed and I had bought in (and I had properly woken up), I turned to Yomega as I dealt out the cards. "So, any progress on that rock I found?" "Yes and no." He paused to throw in some chips. "I think it might be some type of quartz, but I've never seen a sphere of it with a brown center before. Usually it's in shards or crystals." " So.... When can I have it back?" He looked at me over his cards. "Dunno. I still got a few sources I want to run down, but they have to wait until the blizzard passes" With a sigh, I focused back on the game. Chips changed hands. I lost again. And the day passed slowly. We laughed, played board games, anything to take our minds off of our growing cabin fever. Eventually, we turned in. If we had been awake longer, we may have seen the "rock" start to glow. "How the fuck can he sleep through this shit?!" I groaned. "Shut the fuck up, I'm tryin' ta sleep!" I felt something shove me off the rock I was on. Wait, rock? That got me to open my eyes. A brown puppy-like face with over-sized eyes and ears and a thick mane of tan fur around it's neck filled my vision. "The fuck we get a dog?" I mumbled out. Like I said, I'm not a "morning person". "Leo," The dog shouted, "wake the fuck up!" Brain? "Yes?" Is there a talking dog in front of me? "Yes." Oh, okay. Just checking. Can I freak out now? "I don't see why not." I pushed away from the dog-thing. "Holy fucking shit, what the fuck are you?!" In doing so, I could see more of the dog things behind it. "Not again." The only grey one muttered. "Easy, Leo." The one in front of me said in the tone that one would use to talk to a large dog or horse. "It's me, Vince." "Bullshit! Vince is a human, not a dog thing." I yelled, pointing a paw at it. Wait, paw?! I followed the leg from the paw to where my shoulder should be. All I saw instead was a ruffle of tan fur. Brain? "I'm sorry, Brain is unavailable at the moment. Please leave a message after the tone...." The gathered dog's all folded back their ears -one even went so far as to cover them- at the pitch of my girlish shrieks of terror manly outburst of profanity. It took me a while to properly freak out and calm down. When it was all said and done, I was quivering in the midst of the dog things. "What the fucking hell happened last night?" I frantically looked around at the group. "No idea." Chorused back. "Whatever else may have happened," The one claiming to be Cy continued, "don't you guys think we look like Eevees?" Zann tilted his head to the side. "How the fuck does that even happen?" "Sounds like a bad fan fiction to me." I groused. Conner stepped forward. "As much as we need that answered, I wanna know where we even are." We were obviously in a forest of some sort. But the colors were off, like someone had come through and painted everything with dark pastels. And the place was completely overgrown. I think our little clearing was the only place the sun shone in the whole damned forest. "Somewhere far south, I think?" Lulu guessed. "I mean, there's no snow at all..." I was worried before. Now I was just plain scared. "So someone, somehow broke into our place, kidnapped us, dragged us all the way down here, and turned us into Eevees?" Vincent growled, stomping a paw. "How fucking long were we out?" We starting arguing back and forth about how we got here, and what we should do now. Eventually, we decided that we were going to find a river, and follow it until we came across someone who could help us. Hopefully. Zann had wondered to the edge of our little clearing to look for some berries or other easy-to-find food. He lifted his nose, and started sniffing the air. "Ugh." He looked back at us, tiny muzzle scrunched up and paw covering his nose. "Okay, whoever did that, own up. It fucking reeks!" We stopped talking, and took quick sniffs ourselves. Good god, what the fuck is that smell? I started rubbing my nose in the vain hope to rid it of the god awful stench. I was so busy rubbing, I didn't hear the bushes rustle. "Oh, shit!" Thankfully Lulu did. "Zann! Get outta there!" Zann bolted past me. I looked up to see three wolves step out of the bushes. They towered over us. "What the hell -" " - Is it one of the new generation -" The two outer wolves started to move around the clearing, while the bigger, middle one crouched down, ready to pounce. "Oh, shit -" "Scatter!" So, yeah. That's how that happened. Now, Villhiem, Yomega and I were stuck under a random tree in a forest none of us knew. "There is no fuckin' way we're in some little girls show!" And Villhiem was having his own little freak out.
If only there were Pokecenters...."Calm down, Villhiem." I placed my paws on his shoulders. "It's just a theory." "Yeah," Yomega interjected, "we could be in Hoenn for all we know." Villhiem pulled back. "Then why even bring up the timberwolves?" He looked between us. "'Cuz their name is a pun?" Yomega answered. I turned back to our little opening. I pushed the roots to the side enough to get a clear view of the forest as I could. I could hear faint rustling, but I could not tell how far or where it was coming from. "Guys, shut up a sec. I think I hear something." The others pushed their way up beside me, shoving me to one side. We all perked up our ears to try and catch more sound. We heard some more rustling, all off to the right. It almost seemed as if they were all converging on one spot. "Oh shit! HELP!" The bushes seemed to explode as a frenzy of noise reached us. I tilted my head while Yomega and Villhiem shared a glance. "That sounded like..." Villhiem began "Conner!" We shouted together. "Over here, Conner, hurry!" I yelled. An Eevee with longer fur on its chin burst from the bushes, a timberwolf hot on its heels. Conner quickly spotted us, and tried to make his way over to us, but the timberwolf leaped ahead and cut him off. He started to back up, glancing side to side for an opening. One the rest of us tried to give, yelling and hollering in the hopes to get the wooden mutt's attention. Conner feinted, then broke right to try and get around the timberwolf. He wasn't fast enough. The 'wolf lunged, pinning Conner beneath its paws. The rest of us could only watch as it savored its next kill, slowly bringing its maw closer to Conner's neck. Is this what we can expect in this world? I was barely aware of myself growling, ears laid flat. Must we stand by when our friends are in danger? The world blurred. When my vision cleared, I was standing over Conner. The 'wolf had been knocked back. I refuse to stand by! I heard Yomega and Villhiem rush out of the hallow. A grayish blur rushed past me, and slammed into the side of the timberwolf. "Go 'elp Y'mega!" I looked to see Villhiem behind me dragging Conner towards the hallow by his ruffle. "I go' 'onner!" I nodded, and blurred towards the 'wolf again. The timberwolf, unused to its own tactics being used against it, couldn't handle our two pronged assault. It quickly fell back into the bushes. Yomega and I ran back to help Villhiem push Conner the rest of the way into the hallow. And none to soon either, as the timberwolf had found its courage with the return of its pack-mates. Villhiem let Yomega and I pass him by. I turned around in time to see him kick up a large cloud of dirt and sand. He slid into the hallow just as I heard three impacts with the tree above us. "How's Conner?" he asked. Yomega sat down, looking over the Eevee in question. "It looks like he's got bruising on his back, and some cuts on his neck. A few are deep." He shot a glare at me. "Next time you're gonna do something that hair-brained, do it before ya risk hurting one of us, okay?" "Wait, what even happened?" I looked back to the hallows entrance. It was far too small for the 'wolves to get through. So long as we stayed away from it, we shouldn't have to worry. "One moment, I was with you guys, the next, I was over Conner." Villhiem lay down beside our battered friend. "I think you used Quick Attack. And I think the boost in speed it gave ya was the only reason you two didn't come out even worse for wear. How are you two holding up, anyways?" I looked myself over. There was a large cut on my leg, and I could feel a headache coming on. I glanced at Yomega. "Other then the cut and a headache, I'm good." "No cuts, but my head is starting to pound...." Yomega gingerly put a paw to his head, before pulling it away with a hiss. "... Ow" "Okay, don't do that." Villhiem ordered. "Honestly, what else did ya think would happen if ya headbutted a tree? Repeatedly?" "Sunshine and flowers?" I snarked, lying down myself to lick at my cut. "Seriously, though. Now what're we going to do?" I pointed my tail at the opening, where the timberwolves were still trying to force their way past the tree roots. I was meet with shrugs and indifferent looks. "I think-" Yomega was cut off by the sound of breaking glass. We all snapped around to look at the entrance and saw wisps of greenish powder swirling where the timberwolves were. "Away with you!" A woman yelled out. "Go on, shoo!" We could hear the 'wolves run off into the bushes, then heard what sounded like heavy footfalls approach the tree. "It is safe to come out. I have sent the timberwolves away. But you must come quickly, That hallow is no place to stay." Yomega gave Villhiem a push. "Go take a look." "Why me?" "You're in the best shape." With a final glare, Villhiem cautiously poked his head out of the hole. ".... Uh, guys? There is a giant zebra wearing gold rings. Should I be scared?" I immediately started pulling Conner towards Villhiem. Yomega, realizing the same thing I did, started pushing to make things easier. We were so busy, we kinda forgot to answer Villhiem. "Guys? It's staring at me." I glanced over my shoulder to see his ears were plastered against his skull. "It's starting to freak me out!" "Freak out later, when it's safe." Yomega pushed past me. "She can help us with Conner!" "Yeah," I said around a mouthful of Conner's fur, "She'sh friendry!" Zecora had had a productive day gathering herbs and was on her way home when she heard an odd cry. She couldn't quite make it out, but it had sounded near. Letting her curiosity, and the noises in the bushes, guide her, she soon came across a clearing. She could see three timberwolves trying to dig their way under a tree, where she could hear faint noises coming from. Thinking that the Crusaders had gotten themselves into another mess, she pulled a vial of Wolf's Bane extract from her saddle bags and threw it into the midst of the 'wolves. "Away with you! Go on, shoo!" She yelled. The Wolf's Bane did its job and drove off the timberwolves. She quickly made her way towards the tree where the ground was scuffed and marred. "It is safe to come out. I have sent the timberwolves away. But you must come quickly, That hallow is no place to stay." She spoke softly, hoping to calm down the Crusaders and get them to her home quickly. What she didn't expect, was a strange brown furred canine to pop up. Its ears folded back upon the sight of her as it froze in place. "... Vee?" It squeaked out. "Ee~vee vee." Tilting her head to the side, Zecora watched as two more of the canines came out, pulling a fourth along with them. All of them seemed to have injuries of some sort. Without saying anything, she quickly shifted herbs around before taking the unconscious canine and putting it in her saddle bag. After picking up the one with a cut on its leg, she made her way to her home, the final two following close behind.
Sleep and Planning.Sleep and Planing. "So," Villhiem said as he followed Zecora, "that zebra is...?' Yomega, walking beside him, rolled his eyes. "Her name is Zecora. She's a herbalist/witch doctor who lives in the Everfree, which is where we are now. If she can't fix Conner up, then she can get a hold of Fluttershy. Fluttershy is an animal caretaker, and has a knack for healing animals." "More like a compulsion." I lay on Zecora's back, keeping an eye on Conner. "Remember when she tried to fix up a phoenix without knowing that it was restarting it's life cycle, or even knowing it was a phoenix in the first place?" Chuckling, Yomega nodded. "Eeyup. Point is, we'll be safe with Fluttershy. We may even be able to use her cottage as a home-base to find the others with. So long as she doesn't put us up for adoption..." Villhiem just sighed. "Fine. I may not like it, but this sounds like the best we can hope for." He glared up at me. "Excepting that we could be up there with you." "Do you know how hard it is to stay balanced up here?!" I almost fell off as I tried to dramatically sweep a paw back. "Whoa, shit!" A bit of quick shifting, and I was safely balanced again. "See?! Besides, you've been walking for a while now. I may not have made it back to Zecora's on foot." I finished with a point to my cut leg. "Oh, shit." I tilted my head. "It's not that bad." "You can walk that off, ya pussy." Yomega shook his head. "No, I just remembered Fluttershy's other talent." I closed my eyes and laid my head onto Zecora's flank. "Oh, fuck. That." "Sigh. What is 'that'?" Villhiem slowly shook his head. Yomega looked up at me. I waved him on to explain, then shifted about to stay on my elevated mobile perch. "Fluttershy can understand animals. She may be able to understand what we're saying." "What are we gonna tell her?" I groaned out. "I've got that covered" Yomega said. I hope you do... I settled down to enjoy what was left of the ride. The walk was uneventful after that. With myself and Yomega patiently waiting, and Conner being out cold, we were quickly bandaged up. Now, Yomega was sporting head wrappings, I had those and bandages wrapping my leg, and Conner was almost tied up like a mummy. His legs, head and tail were the only things sticking out. Fun fact: Eevees' bodies are thinner than their fur would suggest. Also, Conner looked hilarious as a white tube with large puffs of fur fluffing out from it. We spent the rest of the day being fussed over by Zecora. She wasn't hovering over us or anything like that, but she would regularly check up on us. The only hitch was in the late evening, when she tried to feed us. Of course, having not seen an Eevee before, she couldn't figure out what we actually eat. Villhiem solved that one. He was sniffing around where Zecora was trying to prepare our dinner, when she dropped some sort of berry. It didn't look like one of the Pokemon berries, but that didn't matter to Villhiem. He pounced on it and greedily shoved it down his gullet. We had learned a long time ago to never get between him and food. He looked up at Zecora, tail wagging, berry juice smearing his face. Zecora just filled a few bowls and put them on the floor for us, chuckling all the while. Lemme tell you, those berries were good! Imagine crossing a blueberry, a strawberry, a cherry, and a peach. That's just what it tasted like. She had to give us a bath when we were done. Soon, bellies full, we drifted off where ever we happened to be. I was over by the front door, Conner was in a small bed by the fire, Yomega was under the table, and Villhiem was curled up on Zecora herself. "You must awaken, my sleeping friend. I must go out to run an errand." I groaned and rolled over, curling up even further. "If you will not move by choice, then I shall move you with force." I just buried my face in my tail. "So be it." I felt something wooden bump into my tail, then push me across the floor. I eventually stopped and the wooden thing was removed. "I'll return in a bit." There was a sound of a door closing and the latch catching. I didn't move for about an hour, I think. I could hear the others get up and move around. I vaguely caught Yomega filling in a drowsy Conner on what happened the night before, as well as the general plan. "Now, remember," I tilted an ear to catch what Yomega was saying, "we cannot let the fact that we may know of future events slip. Even if Fluttershy can't understand us, it's better if we just let things play out like they did in the show. I'll tell Leo when the lazy ass finally wakes up." "It would be easier to sleep if you weren't talking." I growled at him. "Just get up, you lazy fuck." "No!" I rolled over and placed my tail over my eyes. "I'm asleep." "You could at least help us plan-" "I rarely got the chance to sleep as a human, I'm not passing this up now. An' with Conner as badly injured as he is, we ain't going anywhere for a while." I peered through my tail at the others. "Planning can wait. Our personal health can't." I listened to Yomega grumble something about stubborn mules, then I tuned them out. Just before I drifted off again, I realized that I was curled up that a human would never find comfortable, what with my face damn near in my crotch. Fuck it, it's comfy. I had just about drifted off when the door burst open. If I hadn't rolled over earlier, the door would've flattened me against the wall. Instead, I could feel my ears and tail flail in the breeze the door caused. I looked up to see a yellow and pink pegasus hovering Conner over to the counter. Yomega and Villhiem quickly followed and found places near by. "It's okay, little one." Fluttershy murmured as she gently peeled the bandages off Conner. I got up and made my way over. "I'm just going to take a quick look and-" She cut off. I jumped up onto a near by chair, and from there, the counter. I couldn't see anything through Villhiem. Fluttershy turned to the door as Zecora entered. "Um, Zecora. You, um, said that he was hurt badly?" "Of his wounds I did, their seriousness I did not kid." "But," Villhiem moved back as Fluttershy showed off Conner's torso, "there's nothing there."
Tracking the Trackers Tracking Trackers.Zecora cocked her head to the side. “Lacerations to his torso was his suffrage. It took many of my salves and bandages.” She gestured to one of her shelves, many of the jars placed there near empty. “But, then why are they fine now?” Fluttershy poked and rubbed Conner’s stomach and sides. “If it wasn’t for the dirty bandages and dried blood, I would have thought he hadn’t even been- Oh, I’m so sorry!” Conner had started to squirm under her hooves. “Oh, you must still be hurt after all.” <> Conner managed to gasp out, <> “Tickling…?” I think we surprised Zecora with the synchronized face-paw Villhiem, Yomega and I did. <> Villhiem groaned out. <> “Oh, no, it’s okay,” Fluttershy gently patted Conner’s head, “I was just so worried about you. Especially after what Zecora told me.” <> Yomega pawed at the ground with his ears laid back. <> “Of course.” Fluttershy turned to the zebra. “I think they want me to thank you for them. They have this weird way of speaking that sorta makes them hard to understand, as if they were speaking with a Neighponese accent.” Zecora gave a small bow to us. “I did not mind. I’m glad they’re fine.” We gathered around Conner, whispering in hushed tones. Zecora went around her hut, taking stalk of her herbs. Fluttershy started to walk around us. Every now and then, she would give one of us a tentative poke. “Um, Zecora.” Fluttershy let my tail drop. “I’ve never seen anything like them before. Do you know what they are?” “I may know creatures near and far.” Zecora shook her head. “But I’ve never seen these before. Maybe, with that problem, Twilight could get to the core.” Both mares missed our eyes widen. Yomega and I had informed the other two about Twilight and how she might… obsess over trying to figure us out. I saw the same thought flit through the others’ heads: I don’t want to be a science experiment! “Oh, um…” Fluttershy seemed to shrink behind her mane, “I can still understand them, it’s just a little harder to understand them because I’ve never heard an animal speak like they do before. I’ll um, I’ll just ask them.” We let out a small sigh of relief as she turned to us. “Um, I’m sorry if this seems rude, but I was just wondering if you could tell me what you call yourselves?” <> Yomega murmured to us before taking a small step forward. <> Fluttershy tilted her head and opened her mouth, but Yomega cut her off. <> His ears drooped, Villhiem and I mimicking his movements. Villhiem had to nudge Conner before he caught on and lowered his ears as well. Thankfully, the mares didn’t notice. <> I’ll be damned, he even managed to get a slight warble in at the end there. I don’t think even Conner missed the verbal cue. <> Neither mare could withstand the full force of four puppy-dog eyes. Fluttershy quickly zipped forward and grabbed- Huh. I’d thought she’d’ve glomped Yomega. She nuzzled Conner, holding him in a tight grip. “It’s okay, just come with me and I’ll get the rest of the girls, then we can try and find the rest of your friends.” She put Conner down and made her way to out of the hut, with us quickly following. As we passed Zecora, Villhiem paused to bow to her before running to catch up. As we made our way down the path out of the Everfree, I dropped back and whispered to Conner. <> <> He shrugged. Villhiem leaned forward. <> I grinned. << Oh, I’ve got to tell Yomega about this! Ponies are suckers for cute things.>> I nudged Conner. <> <> I pranced ahead to share the news with Yomega, turning my head just enough to call back, <> I could hear Villhiem burst out laughing. I might have imagined feeling the warmth from Conner’s embarrassed blush. Once we left the forest, we made a beeline to Fluttershy’s cottage. She had wait outside while she fetched the first aid kit. We watched the animals around the cottage to pass the time. Until Yomega turned to look at the bridge. His ears stiffening up was the only warning we got before he pulled us into a nearby bush. “The fuck-” Yomega mashed Conner’s muzzle into the dirt, cutting him off. “Quiet!” He hissed. “Twilight’s coming down the road, and she looks like shit!” I peeked out from between the leaves. Sure enough, I could see Twilight just reaching the bridge. Her mane looked like she hadn’t brushed it that morning, strand sticking out at odd angles. She kept mumbling to herself, her eyes darting to and fro in time with her rambling. She was too far away for us to clearly hear her. “She kinda looks like she did during the Smartypants Incident.” I glanced at Yomega. “Ya think that’s where we are in the timeline?” He nodded as Twilight approached the cottage door. She started rapping her hoof against it in a light but frantic manner. She barely stopped in time when Fluttershy cracked the door open. “Twilight?” Fluttershy put the first aid kit down and opened the door fully. “What, um, what brings you out here?” “I was just wondering,” Twilight began with a too-wide smile, “if there was anything that I, as a good friend, could help you with?” Fluttershy nodded. “Yes, actually-” “FINALLY!” At Twilight's outburst, Fluttershy bolted behind her couch, and we cringed back and covered our ears. “Does that answer your question?” Yomega shot at me. I looked at him and answered with the most eloquence I could muster. “WHAT?” It took a few minutes, but we managed to coax Fluttershy out from her hiding spot. Twilight wouldn’t stop apologizing the entire time. It took us persuading Conner to go back there and use his Baby-Doll Eyes, but we did it. Now, we were back in the forest, Fluttershy just finishing catching Twilight up with our situation. “So, there are more of them in the forest?” Twilight asked. We all nodded. “Okay. I think I have a spell that can help. Hold still.” She pointed her glowing horn at us. We felt fur being pulled off, and watched as they floated up in front of Twilight’s face. Soon, a lavender arrow pointed off into the trees, our fur floating within. “There! That should lead us back to where you last saw the other… whatever you little guys are!” She start to trot off with a bounce in her step, the rest of us not far behind. The path the arrow took lead us through several thorn bushes and over a small creek. <> Villhiem looked around in worry. <> Yomega ducked his head under another branch, <> Soon, we came upon a familiar looking rock. The clearing we had woken up in the day before now sported small gouges in the ground from where the Timberwolves’ claws had dug in. We could hear the tinkling of Twilight’s magic as we spread out into the clearing, Fluttershy staying near Twilight. “Okay, w-we’re here. N-now what?” She stammered to her friend. “Now, I’m going to try a...” I tuned them out at that point. I started to sniff around the clearing. The stench of Timberwolf clung to the area, but I could smell something familiar coming from under it. I followed it around the clearing, nose to the ground and eyes closed. I could smell it getting stronger. Then I ran head first into Villhiem. We both sat on our hunches, rubbing our now sore heads. Villhiem was the first to recover, getting a thoughtful look before sniffing the air again. I was about to move past him when he buried his nose into my fur. <> I backed away from him. Villhiem just waved me off, before moving over Yomega. He then promptly buried his nose into the back of Yomega’s head and started sniffing. He then turned and marched on over to Conner, and doing the same. <> Yomega demanded while Conner hunched over wide-eyed. Villhiem placed his nose to the ground sniffing furiously. <> He moved towards the clearing’s edge, keeping his nose firmly pressed to the ground. Yomega and I let out a small cheer, and started following him. Soon, I could hear the two Mares following after us. This time, our “arrow” meandered back and forth. Villhiem even had to double back a few times to regain the scent. Finally, he stopped with a massive grin on his face. That grin fell when he looked up. At the tree he led us to. The same tree we had taken shelter in from the ‘wolves yesterday. We sat there, staring at the tree, while Fluttershy moved to the hole in the roots, cooing and making other such noises. <> I blurted out. <> <> Conner asked Yomega shook his head as Villhiem rushed to the hole. <> Villhiem emerged from the hole. <> Fluttershy nuzzled him. “Can you find a scent? Track them that way?” <> He shook his head. <> I draped a foreleg over Conner’s shoulders as his ears fell. <> I blinked. <> “Twilight!” Fluttershy gasped. “I need you to do that tracking spell again!” “What? Why?” Twilight looked at us all. “I can’t understand them like you can, what’s going on?” Fluttershy pointed at the hole in the ground. “They’re saying that there is a lot of blood down there, and that most of it’s from the other group! Oh, where would they go if they’re that badly hurt?” Zecora finished making a mental list of the herbs she needed. As she moved towards her door, she heard an odd barking. Cautiously, she peered through a nearby window. Outside her door was a group of those odd dog-like creatures, one of which was barking at her front door. That wasn’t what made her rush out though. It was that the other three were holding up the fifth that was missing its leg. With the oddly distinct twinkle of her magic, Twilight pulled a clump of dirt out from under the tree. As with the fur beforehand, it was soon encased by a large lavender arrow. There was a smaller arrow that pointed towards Conner, but the larger one led off into the distance. Without much thought, the pair of mares raced off into the undergrowth. We followed after sharing a worried look. I’m not going to lie, those mares can really run. We could only follow them by the sound of them crashing through bushes. Of course, the broken bushes were also a good indicator on where to go. We didn’t catch up until for a long while, and even then, it was only because they had stopped. We were right back at Zecora’s. The arrow moved slightly from side to side, but never past the tree she lived in. We didn’t stop for long. The world blurred around me as I rammed Zecora’s front door. I bounced off of it. I barely had time to clear my head when Yomega smashed into the door as well. All we had to show for our efforts was a pair of imprints on Zecora’s door of our faces, and a pair of splitting headaches. By the time the ponies caught up, Zecora had opened the door. With nary a word, she ushered us into her hut. While she went to talk to Twilight and Fluttershy, we found and launched ourselves at the other Eevees in the room. There was many hugs shared and tears shed. <> Conner asked. <> Vince stated. <> <> Cy continued. <> Abes continued the story. <> <> Cy spat. I did a quick head count. We were one short. <> Lulu shook her head. <> Vince pointed up to the counter Conner had lain last night. <> <> Villhiem asked. <> Abes replied, <> Yomega looked back at the mares. With a few final instructions, Twilight and Fluttershy left the hut, and Zecora returned to caring for Zann. <> He motioned us into a huddle, this is what you need to know…>> It was late that night. Fluttershy and Twilight had left long before sundown. Zecora had left several time during the rest of the day, gathering more herbs and roots and whatever she needed. From what we could over hear, the odds were not in Zann’s favor. She almost had to force Fluttershy out, promising her that she could look us over the next day. Her main argument was that there wasn’t enough room for us all to stay the night, and we Eevees weren’t leaving. After another very berry dinner, and a few necessary bathes, we bunked down for the night. I think only Zann actually got to sleep, Zecora would frequently check up on him, and rest of us were kept up with worry. When morning dawned, it was to a beautiful and heartwarming sound. <> Well, it was heartwarming at least. Zecora kept us from jumping up and crowding around Zann, but she almost intentionally kept up a running rhyming commentary for us. Long poem short, although he will never get his leg back, and he lost a lot of blood, he will recover. It was almost a complete turnaround from the day before. Fluttershy stopped by to check up on Zann near mid-morning, but Zecora rhymed her the cliff notes, and promptly asked to for her to take the rest of us with her. It took some effort on her part, but Fluttershy managed to ignore our pleading and Conner’s Baby-Doll Eyes. She led us to her cottage like a mama duck with her ducklings. The rest of the day was passed with her doing make work around her cottage, and us sulking, then fighting the stress out of our systems. I think it started when Vince was running around and ran Villhiem over, leading him to tackle Vince. Then Cy tackled Villhiem to help Vince, and Yomega got involved to try and break it up. I joined into the ball of violence after Lulu but before Conner. Fluttershy had to break us up when she found us scrapping near her chicken coop. She gave us all a very stern talking to, and made us all apologize to each other. The cease fire lasted about five seconds after she left. She did that a fair few times over the course of the day. By night fall, more than one of us was sporting band aids and bruises. Angel bunny won. She let us stay the night in her cottage. We ended up crashing on her couch in a large pile, though she tried to give us our own beds. Our sleep wasn’t easy, but we did sleep. When morning came, our cuts and bruises were gone. Most of us got up right away when Fluttershy brought us a large bowl of berries. I only woke up when I rolled off the couch. Needless to say, I’m lucky Villhiem left me anything to eat. Fluttershy did her morning chores in a rush, then made us promise to stay at her cottage. She left Angel in charge of us before she left. Fluttershy was gone for most of the day. She was briefly stunned when she came home. Her cottage and most of her animals were fine, but we were laying in a bruised heap with Angel sitting on top. She marched us all inside, scolding us the whole way. She washed your cuts out, then placed us all on her couch. Only then did she open her saddle bags, pulling a sleeping Zann out and placing him on top of the pile. “Zecora said that he’ll be fine now, and will wake up in the morning. She had to give him a sleeping drought to keep him from running off. He must have been really worried about you. And I come home to find you all had been fighting again.” She shook her head. “I hope you’ll be a better friend to him then you have been to each other.” <> Yomega yawned, <> The last thing I saw before I fell asleep was a surprised Fluttershy, gaping like a landed Magicarp.
To the Over Worked, and the Under Paid.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Does This Still Count as Tree Sap?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Dog Days: Abes Nights, Bunny SecretsSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Home on the Farm, Hot in the KitchenSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Midnight Confessions, Sunset Bonds.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Friend in Need....Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
... Is a Friend Indeed.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
House of Confessions.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Ya Know What This Calls For?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Greed's Excess Part 1Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Greed's Excess Part 2Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: A Semi-Serious Sililoquy.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
To Sleep, Perchance To Dream.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Letters To An Old Friend.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Reacting to the Unforeseen.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Oops, I broke It....Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Worst Feeling of Déjà Vu.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Bonus: Mother's Delight.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Return of the Green.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Butterfly Flaps.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Electric Pincushion.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Hurricane Became A Firestorm.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
To Follow the Beat of One's Own Drum.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Remember: Get the Message First!Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Bonus: Father's Pride.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
We Do What We Must, Because We Can.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
"Do Not Think of How It Works. Just Do It."Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Bonus: The One Thing.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Side Effects Include:Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Night at the Castle.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
But... The Squeezy...Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
We're All Just a Little Crazy.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
So, Three Speedsters Go to the Park...Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Leo Lancer and the Reading Rainbow.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
"If Only, If Only." The Mockingbird Cried.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Theories of the Mind.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Practical Side of Things.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Bonus: The Hammer and Anvil.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
End of the Royal Sleepover.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Stick That Feather in Your Cap!Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Kernal of Knowledge.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Returned from the Ashes.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Why Am I Your Conscience?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Luncheon with Dragons.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Express Way Home.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Who's Bringing the Donuts?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Every Parent Has Been There...Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Destello de la Luna.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Bonus: The Rubber Ducky Principle.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Equestrian Rain Dance.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Hope For the Future.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Imprints and Inspiration.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Semblances.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Let the Race Begin Again!Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
We Really Need a Lakitu at These Things...Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
They Baked a Pretty Cake.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Not Quite a Locked Room Mystery.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Wondering Minds.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Exercises of the Mind.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Can We Skip It This Month?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Dog Days: Developing Terror.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
One of These Months, the Darn Things'll Work.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Introducing TraditionsSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Jubilant Winters Passes into Somber Springs.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
The Invitation Was Lost Before It Got To Derpy, Oddly Enough...Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Prelude To Disaster.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Strategy Meeting.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Right for all the Wrong Reasons.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: The Hound of Luna.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Strike Through.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Lightning StrikesSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Element BlitzSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Star FallSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Love BomberSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Aftershocks.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
A Canterlot Invasion: Slip Away.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Nothing Else Matters.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Covenant of Remorse.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Weather Changing Training.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
"What Have I Become...?"Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Go North, Young Eevee!Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
What do You Call a Group of Unown?Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Meeting Southern Faces.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
Bonus: Another Odd Utility.Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
