My Little WAAAGH: Friendship is Orky

Half conscious ork opened his eyes slowly and shut them immediately. "Zoggin' sun." He murmured to himself, yawned and stretched. He heard buzz of animal noises coming from behind the wall. He got up, swaying a bit after sleep which, judging from the sun's position, must have been quite long. When the ork left his room the everything fell silent. Dozens of critters were staring at him with fear in their eyes, all but a yellow pegasus wearing a white apron who was standing by the kitchen counter.

When she noticed the silence she turned around and saw the greenskin standing in the livingroom. Smile appeared on her face. "Good morning Warkot. How are you today?"

"Hi bo- Err... Uttershy!" In the moment he spoke all animals fled in fright through the windows and doors. The ork chuckled and Flutterhy shook her head.

"I made you breakfast and planned to wake you up soon. Please sit by the table and I will bring it to you in a moment."

"Okay." Warkot turned around and sat on big cushion, which was put there by Fluttershy who didn't want to test the durability of her furniture.

After few moments Fluttershy returned, carrying a tray with a bowl of cereals, pile of sandwiches and a jug of tea on it. When she saw happiness in the ork's eyes she giggled. "Good appetite."

Warkot dealt with the meal in the matter of minutes. He drunk the tea directly from the jug, devoured sandwiches by squashing them and throwing into his mouth several at once and ate the spoon with the cereals. He had to admit that it all tasted very good. The only drawback was the lack of meat, but he guessed that as long as he stays with these strange ponies he has to come to terms with it.

"Did you enjoy it?" The mare asked.

"Yeah!"

"Wonderful." She smiled and cleaned the table, then she sat in front of the ork across the table. "So what would you like to do now?"

"Urrrrr..." He scratched his head. "Go an' kick some 'eads." He shrugged with an expression that said: What else could we do?

"NO!" Fluttershy raised up, after a moment she realised that she shouted at her guest, then she sat down. "I'm sorry. I wanted to say that I forbid you to hurt anypony. Violence is wrong, you can't go out and beat somepony just like that."

WOT!? Thought surprised ork. Then he sighed and hung his head defeated. "Okay boss." Dis iz gonna be a long day.

"Fluttershy." Pegasus shook her head. "Tell me, what do you do everyday?"

"Weeell... I do wot da boss orderz."

"And when the... The boss is not around? When it's your day off?" The mare continued.

"We brawl with da boyz fer practise... Err... Eat an' drink watuver booze we findz... Sumtimes we snatch tanka boyz wagonz an' race...

None of these options seemed right to Fluttershy. "Do you play any games?"

Warkot pondered for a moment. "We 'ave Blood Bowl."

"What does this game involve?"

Ork grinned and started to explain the rules vigorously. "Dere iz two bands on da pitch and da ball. Da point iz to grind uver band to dirt." When he finished he smashed his fist into his open hand.

Fluttershy was staring at him expectantly

The greenskin realised that he forgot about something. "Oh. An' dere are pointz fer getting da ball behind da enemy line." He added with bored tone.

Pegasus thought for a moment. "How about we play a board game? I have some here."

"Why not."

The idea however appeared to have a flaw. Green, two metres tall and two hundred kilo heavy flaw. Despite her best intentions and angelic patience, Fluttershy was unable to explain the rules to the ork so he would remember them. After a fifth game she relented.

"Well... Let's just go to the garden. I will tend to my flowers and you could rest a bit, okay?"

"'kay boss!" Ork realised that pony was staring at him. "Ur... I meant, 'kay Uttershy!"

The day was warm and sunny. Flocks of birds were crossing the cloudless sky and the summer could be smelled in the air. Fluttershy's garden, usually vibrant with life, was quiet now. All because of a green giant laying on the grass. The animals living there made their best to maintain safe distance between themselves and this strange creature. Even more courageous ones, who now accompanied Fluttershy as she tended to her garden, were on their guard.

Warkot made effort to look relaxed as he discreetly watched yellow pegasus mare. Wot iz she up to? She'z playin' with weedz. Dat's job fer grotz not da boss! Strange... Despite the fact that he thought that any self respecting ork should laze about from time to time, he was uneasy. Being torn from the environment one has spent his entire life in and then being placed in the exact opposite of this environment would take it's toll on anyone.
If he were in the company of the boyz he would take a nap or get into a brawl. Here instead of orks there were some strange ponies, and to make it worse he had to stay close to one he especially distrusted. Weird git.

Fluttershy stopped working to take a look how is her guest doing. When she looked at him she saw that he was uneasy. Maybe he is bored? She thought as she walked to the ork. "Warkot is everything alright?"

The boy raised up. "All's good Uttershy!"

"Um... If it wouldn't be a problem for you... I received a shipment of firewood few days ago and I need some help to chop it and then put it in the cellar. Would you be so kind and do that for me?"

The ork's ears perked up a bit when he heard the word "chop". "Ay ay boss! It'z as good as done!" He replied with grin on his face.

"Oh. Thank you." She led him on the other side of her cottage, where there was a big pile of wood lying by the wall. "The axe is by the window. I will get back to tending to my flowers. When I'm finished I will come and help you. If you need anything, just call." The ork nodded and Fluttershy left him alone.

Warkot picked up the axe. Weight of sharp tool in his hand immediately improved his mood, despite the fact that it was a bit too small for him and that his target would be just wood instead of something that could fight back. "Better grot in da hand than bomb in da drops." He murmured and started chopping.

About an hour later Fluttershy stepped away from flowerbed. "Done. All watered and in order." The mare smiled, proud of her work. "I wonder how is Warkot doing." The sound of chopping haven't stopped even for a moment, keeping it's impresive rate. When Fluttershy walked around the corner she stopped dead in her tracks.

The pile of wood was gone, only several pieces remained. Warkot was chopping block after block and kicking the pieces into the hole leading to the cellar.

Pegasus made few steps in his direction. "Warkot?" When the ork heard her voice, he turned around rapidly. Startled Fluttershy jumped up and backed. Greenskin was panting, squeezing an axe in his grasp. In his eyes there was the same murderous spark she saw in the forest when they first met. The mare was terrified. "W-w-warkot?" She stammered.

The commando shook his head and looked at the pony. "Oi boss! Almost done." Then he turned around and got back to chopping.

Fluttershy sat down, trying to calm her furiously beating heart. It's alright Fluttershy, calm yourself. He just got carried away. This incident reminded her that despite the fact that Warkot obeys her, he is still a wild soldier whose life is based on violence. I need to be more careful. I wonder if...

"Job's done boss!"

Yellow mare snapped out of her thoughts and looked at the ork. "Thank you Warkot. If I were to do it on my own, it would surely take me a few days." She smiled to him. "Let's go inside. You deserve a snack.

The boy hastily made his way to the cottage, Fluttershy followed him closely.

Fluttershy was happy that her cake tin was large as she was observing the ork devouring the pie she made at insane rate.

When the last piece of pie disappeared, the mare addressed her guest. "How was it?"

"Good 'un boss!" Warkot stretched and yawned. Then he remembered something. He stood up and walked to coat rack where his greatcoat was and started to search the pockets. After several seconds he grinned widely and pulled out a battered metal flask. When he returned to the table, he opened the flask and took a big gulp. "Good 'un!" Then he noticed Fluttershy's intrigued look. "Grabsnik's speschul! Here. Try it boss." He said while handing the container to the mare.

Fluttershy took the flask and sniffed the contents. Oh... The liquid smelled, to put it mildly, strange, it reminded Fluttershy the smell of paraffine mixed with pipe cleaner. She glanced at the ork who was looking at her expectantly. I shouldn't be rude... Besides, he likes it so it must be tasty. She slowly lifted the container to her mouth and dipped her tongue in the contents. "Eeep!" She quickly raised her head from the flask, the liquid burned her tongue and was suffocating. She smiled uneasy and returned the flask to the ork. "Thank you Warkot. Its... Umm... Nice. But don't worry, you can drink the rest." Then she heard a knocking to the front door.

Fluttershy left the ork relishing his drink and walked to the door. When she opened it she saw a familiar unicorn.

"Hello Twilight." She said happily and hugged her friend.

"Hi Fluttershy." Unicorn returned the hug. "I came to check how are you doing."

"Everything is alright, thank you."

"And how is our... guest?" Twilight asked in hushed tone.

"He's not that bad. I think I'm slowly overcoming the... cultural differences. He helped me a lot today, he is a hard-worker." Fluttershy considered if she should tell Twilight about the moment when Warkot "zoned off", but decided against it. She would start to worry. "Please come in. I baked a pie..." Then she remembered that the ork has already eaten it. "... but I don't have any anymore. Sorry Twilight."

The unicorn smiled warmly. "It's okay Fluttershy. I'll try it next time." Both mares entered the room where the greenskin was.

"Hello Warkot."

"Hi.... Errrr..." He started to mutter, trying to recall the unicorn's name.

"Twilight."

"Yeah! Dat's it!" He exclaimed proud of himself.

Twilight giggled and sat by the table.

"How do you find living here Warkot?" Twilight asked.

"Urrrr... Well..." It'z borin' like a dead squig and dat yellow un iz weird. "It'z okay." He lied, putting a false smile on his face.

"I was wondering if... Could you please tell me something about your race?" Twilight smiled widely.

Fluttershy sighed and shook her head. Twilight... Always researching.

"Okay." The ork responded with a note of suspicion in his voice.

"Fantastic!" The lavender mare beamed and conjured a notepad and a quil. "So... Are many of your kinsmen similar to you? In the term of your specialization I mean?"

"My job?" Unicorn sitting across him nodded. "Nah not much of uz even in my band. I'z a kommando, we sneak up, slit throats, blow stuff up, snatch wagonz and so on. Dere are also tanka boyz, mekz, dokz, storm boyz... A lot of stuff."

"And aside from warfare?"

"Ur... Them mekz mainly makes gubbinz and fix stuff... But they go to da scrap too to get sum ideaz from them enemies... Dokz patch us up when we got blasted, does dat count? Err... Dere are them rocker boyz who rockz between fightz... Well they too go to smash 'eads, sumtimez they even rock on da battlefield..."

Twilight and Fluttershy exchanged shocked glances and turned their attention back to the ork. "Are you trying to say that your entire race concerns itself with war and war only?"

Warkot pondered for a moment and replied. "Yeah datz right."

"But why?" Twilight's eyes widened. Her mind could comprehend such absurd concept.

"Why not?" The greenskin shrugged. "We'z da orkz! We'z tough, made ta fight an' win! 'sides itz fun."

Two mares stared at him with terror and slight disgust. After what seemed like eternity Twilight spoke. "F-fun? You think that hurting other creatures is fun?!"

"Yup! Datz wot Gork an' Mork sayz."

"Gork and Mork? Who are Gork and Mork?" The unicorn spoke again.

"Da godz. Gork iz da god of cunnin' brutality an' Mork iz da god of brutal cunnin'."

Ponies were staring at him dully.

Being unable to find any hint of understanding in ponies looks, the ork continued. "One kickz ya in da 'ead when ya iz lookin' at 'im an' da other kickz ya 'arder when ya're not. Simple."

For several seconds there was a total silence in the room. Twilight's left eyelid twitched few times before the mare was able to say anything. "How about we talk about something else, okay?" She knew that her mind would not survive learning anything more about the greenskins. "How is your bird choir Fluttershy? I heard that some birds caught cold."

The pegasus was relieved when the topic changed. "It was difficult at first, but they are almost healed now. A few days more and they will be as good as new."

Warkot tried to listen but ponies talk blurred into hum. He had no idea what they were talking about so he decided to pretend that he was listening and returned to emptying his flask.

"... that I should replant it into..." Fluttershy was interrupted by loud snoring coming from the other side of the table. Mares turned in that direction and saw that Warkot fell asleep while sitting.

"He must have been tired."

"Let him sleep. Lets move to the kitchen." Fluttershy said and they walked to the next room.

After a few moments of silence Twilight turned to her friend with serious face and spoke. "Fluttershy... I think that keeping him here is too risky."

"W-what do you mean?"

"You heard what he said about his race. I knew that he was dangerous, but the things they do... This crosses all the borders. " Fluttershy was looking at her expectantly. "Fluttershy... I think we should give him into princesses hooves until I find a way to send him back. We can't risk by keeping him here."

Fluttershy hanged her head, hiding behind her mane. She remained like that for a few moments an after that she whispered. "No."

"What was that?"

The pegasus raised her head and looked at the unicorn with determination on her face. "We will not send him to Canterlot."

Twilight was shocked. "What? Why?"

"Twilight, I know that it's not nice to say that but... Most ponies in Canterlot are not as understanding as we. Somepony could say or do something that would hurt him.

"Hurt him? Fluttershy did you even take a look at him?"

"Just because he is big and scary doesn't mean he has no heart... Even if he was doing something bad in his past. They would have to keep him under lock and key and I can't agree to that. I've seen what idleness do with him. Besides should he feel imprisoned he could do something stupid, and we don't want that."

Twilight sighed and nodded. "Well... You're right Fluttershy. It was a stupid idea.

Yellow mare walked to her friend and hugged her. "It's okay Twilight. I know that you are worried, but I will manage." She broke the hug. "From the time we met him in the forest... When I shouted at him and used... the stare... Warkot seems to obey me, even without me raising my voice. I don't know why and I chose not to question him about that. I think that while he is with me, he is no threat to anypony or himself."

"Well in that case... I trust you Fluttershy, I know that you can handle it."

"Thank you. It really matters to me." The pegasus smiled. "I have one problem though..."

"How can I help?" Twilight spoke without hesitation.

"As I said... Warkot doesn't take idleness well, and there are no chores here that he could help me with. I tried board games but it didn't go well. I don't know what to do."

The unicorn pondered for a moment. "I have an idea. Fluttershy I think it's time to introduce Warkot to Applejack. There is a lot of hard work requiring strength on the farm. Warkot would have something to do and Applejack would gain extremely strong worker."

"It's a wonderful idea! Thank you Twilight."

"Magic is not my only talent." Twilight giggled. "I'll bring Applejack here tomorrow and we will explain the situation to her."

The mares were talking for some more time. When it began to get dark, Twilight left the cottage and went home. Feeling tired, Fluttershy decided to go to bed. Before going to her bedroom she walked to the ork, who was still sleeping by the table, and covered him with a blanket. After a quick shower she was laying in her bed and reflecting on the past day. She was uneasy with the knowledge shared by Warkot. The fact that his race... She didn't even wanted to think about it. Then an instinct sprung to action. An instinct she cultivated in her since she remembered, and which was often forgotten by many ponies. Understanding. She accepted that the greenskin was a member of cruel race and he had probably committed many reprehensible things but... No one should be rejected... Even monsters... I wonder if... If I would be able to teach him the life as we know... That though shined in her mind. Maybe if I try hard enough I will be able to show him the other way... Smile appeared on her face. Fluttershy always believed in second chances, according to her, no one was too bad to be rehabilitated. Yes! I will show him how to be kind to others... And that it's better than constant violence. She looked determined. She had a mission. And she wasn't going to give up.