Chapter 6; Fantia-screen and the Allies

This is a work of fiction and My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is property of Hasbro.

Fleur knew that it was going to be a long day but her little Buttons kept her busy. She had spent time not only playing with a rubber ball but then teaching him the Alphabet. She took in his changes, her changes his brown fur became darker his mane was slowly shifting. When she put Buttons to bed she was left alone, disguised, and in silence. That is when she felt it again, the fear of silence of nothing. Fleur shook her head and cleared her mind. Don’t worry this is just a quiet point the little ones will always need their rest and moments of silence are need to reconnect with friends and my beloved Fancy She reassured herself.

“Madam, If I may, have a moment of your time.” Haypenny got her attention. She was now aware of the stewards pressens standing in the nursery. She wondered if she was just so busy with Buttons not to notice him.

“Yes, Haypenny?” She asked.

“The twin unicorns, our technicians have come up with some interesting device that could help you. Right now they are using it to help fulfill our promises to some allies we made.”

“Allies? What allies?” Fleur asked. Shooting up from her little one’s crib and walked over to him.

“A group of ponies that agreed to help us if we could provide what we promised them.” Haypenny explained with a wave of his hoof. He started to walk down the rest of the train to where the twins were working on their devices. “

“And what is that they want?” Fleur said trying to sound curious but it came out more indigent.

Turning to her so that they were facing muzzle to muzzle. “In a similar way as you, they wish what they do not have. To put it very simply a family.” He answered.

“Family?” Fleur asked aloud.

Haypenny floated over a set of leather flight goggles that have violent glass in it. Fleur fitted the goggles on her head. “These are to protect you from the effects of the brother’s device. Now you must know that the twins, their names are Flim and Flam by the way.” Haypenny explained.

The two of them entered the brothers’ train car. It was full of machines, tools and a set of small coats in the corner. The car smelled of stallion, machine oils and greases. She could see several booths, one was obviously a control room of some sort then there were three had gigantic screens, they were swirling and churning colors and patterns. The twins worked in the control room not noticing their arrival, Haypenny opened the door.

“Here we are madam, now I believe that the twins can explain himself better than I can.” Haypenny said loud enough for the twins to here and now be willing to explain to her what was happening.

“Hello Flim, Hello Flam.” Fleur greeted the twin unicorns.

“Hello, madam.” Flim started.

“Just testing out our newest.” Flam added.

“THE FANTAISCREEN!” The twins shouted together.

“And what does this Fantaiscreen do?” Fleur asked.

“It is a device that implants subliminal messages directly into a subject mind without repeated hypnosis treatments.”

“That could be useful, how close are you to finishing it?”

“We are testing our latest prototype.”

“That’s right, our test subjects are in the three booths.” Flim said

Flam pointed to the first booth, the one to her left, had a mulberry mare with a light pink mane was sitting next to a pink filly with periwinkle mane, a little tira on her head. While the mare wore protective goggles like she did the filly was not, the filly was staring glassy eyed at the churning, swirling screen, her mouth was slightly a opened. Fleur watched has the mare was running her hoof through the filly’s mane and talking soothingly to her.

“That is the local school teacher, convincing an orphan foal to be her daughter.” Flam explained, with an arm pointing at them with a flare

Haypenny lowered his muzzle to her ear. “She is Ms. Cheerilee and her young ward Diamond Tiara,” He expanded on what Flam was talking about. “She will be helping us pick out suitable foals for you and provide you with information you need to know. So we don’t have to cover things up so much.”

“That’s a good idea, and no more hastily thought up plans on my part.” Fleur smiled.

“Yes, Ms. Cheerilee received Diamond Tiara’s parents decided to leave her in the young teachers care. I am not sure on all the details though.”

Flim then pointed to the second booth, to her right, had a khaki mare with a curly white mane who was cradling in her arms was a pink unicorn filly with a neon pink mane and a faraway look in her eyes. The khaki mare was wearing protective goggles, so she wasn’t affected. The magnta mare that was next to her was rocking backing back and forth, the mare was rubbing her sensitive area vigorously her eyes were just as glassy eyed as the filly but her head swayed, her deep berry mane swished back and forth as she worked.

“The Khaki mare is the mayor and she wants to have a family, so she decided to use the town drunk and her foal. Not sure why?” Flam told her still confused, rubbing his chin theatrical.

“The need of family is strong, I know. Maybe she see something in the mare we do not.” Fleur told them both.

“Maybe you can ask her later?” Haypenny spoke again. “The Mayor and Ms. Berry Punch, as well as Ms. Punch’s daughter Ruby Pinch. The Mayor will provide us with all the paperwork we need. So, we may see a lot more of them in the future.”

Flim pointed to the third booth, the one that was right in front of her, it had two mares and a filly just like the second booth. A yellow mare with a ginger orange mane was sitting in the middle, to one side was a gray pegasus mare with a blond mane. While the other side was a little lavender unicorn filly with a blond mane. The yellow mare was stroking the pegasus in a seductive way while she stork the filly in a motherly way. The gray pegasus mouth hung open and drool dribbled down one side of her face. The little filly was leaning closely to the screen like she was trying to have the screen fill her field of vision.

“The last is the town gossip, her roommate and her roommate's filly. She fell in love with them and wants make them 'her' family.” Flam explained with a little tap-dance.

“Ms. Carrot Top, Ms. Ditzy Doo and Ms. Doo’s filly Dinky. Ms. Carrot Top will be our eyes and ears and well love her best friend, who is a single mother.” Haypenny explained.

Fleur took in all that was going on, and thought about things for a moment. “Quite amazing, but how is the subliminal message being transmitted?” Fleur asked the twins.

“We’re still working on it that’s why we have them in there too.” Flim said cheerfully to her.

“You will fix this before I use it. Right?” Fleur asked.

“Of Course.” The brother said together.

“Good, now listen, I want you to set up a time out corner with some of your screens, but only until you get it all worked out.” Fleur told them.

“Yes, ma’am.” They said in unison.

“Good madam, I am glad that you approve and that you can use their device. Why not go back to your work. I’ll wait here and iron out any details we need. They all promised their aid and the Mayor even said that she was going to get in touch with an expert in Zebra potions.” Haypenny told her.

“That’s just great, this is such great news. I’ll go back to my car and continued my plans, as well as the nursery.” She told her steward with a smile.