Cat and Pony!

Allura looked at Sunny beside her in bed, they were in the basement where the others had set up a room for them. The room was decorated with Izzy's makeshift lovenest material and the bed was nice and frilly. The place had once been a storage space and it still showed despite Sunny's friends' efforts.

She was sensitive although she had learned to control her emotions. She knew how to cry when no one was watching, not even Twitch or now Sunny.

Sunny woke up and looked at Allura and asked, "Hey you look more disturbed than usual?"

Allura looked and answered, "Nothing, just a disturbing dream, I am fine?"

Sunny smiled and replied, "Can we be honest about our emotions?"

Allura asked, "Do you or your friends find me ugly?"

Sunny stated a little panicked, "No, Allura I like you for everything you are?"

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Sunny was walking through Allura's cave looking for the leopard.

It was beautifully ice-encrusted with Frozen Fractals like Sunny's favorite Walt Hoofny movie.

She came across the Leopard sleeping.

Sunny had her father's photo and some of his writings.

The Pony tapped the leopard's paw with her hoof, Allura awoke and and growled and slashed her hoof.

Sunny yelled, "What the hay!"

Allura said plainly and quickly, "Sorry. Instinct."

Sunny looked, "You really are a cat?"

Allura said, "Yep and I'll need breakfast."

Sunny asked, "Oh I should have brought some snacks?"

Allura muttered, "Unless little pony you have Meat Jerky or a juicy steak I don't think it would matter."

Sunny looked and meeped, "Oh..."

Sunny continued, "You're a carnivore?"

Allura said, "Does that mean you won't be my friend? Because I didn't care anyway."

Sunny said, "No! And I do think you care?"

Sunny started getting her things out of her satchel.

She hoofed Allura a picture of her father.

She asked, "Can you guess who that is?"

Allura muttered playfully, "An elderly faggot?"

Sunny said in a silly, "No it's my father? And how would he be a bundle of sticks."

Allura said, "Would he approve of you being in a cave with a member of another species?"

Sunny said, "I think so, he was very kind and understanding."

Allura asked a question, "Was' so he's dead?"

Sunny said sadly after a pause, "All my family is."

Allura apologized, "I wouldn't have called him that if I had known."

Sunny cheerfully said, "Why would you call him a bundle of sticks?"

Allura slowly gave her explanation, "I meant as in attracted to other males, you see in my society people saw that as a racial sickness and also females with other females, 'because it doesn't make healthy Purple Flying Leopard cubs, it makes shit, the only fruit of such a relationship is fecal matter,' that's what Dear Leader told us every day over the screens. He made out that racially mixed leopards like me were inferior. Every day the same exact thing happened, I wished the terrorist would get him, and I discovered later on the last day before the war, the terrorist had ten years before I was born."

Sunny looked and said, "So you lived in a society where being Gay or Lesbian was considered wrong?"

Allura muttered, "Didn't make sense, but I went along with it."

Sunny stated horrified, "I can't imagine a society that evil?"

Allura muttered angrily, "Don't worry they are all dead except my brother."

Sunny put her hoof on Allura's paw and said, "So, you are all alone?"

Allura said, "Yeah, tell me about your family from when they were alive, I want to hear something happy?"

She eventually fell asleep on top of Sunny out of comfort and finally felt safe after eons.

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Sunny said, "You're not ugly and I am sorry Pipp said that to you?"

Allura was holding both Sunny's hoofs and said, "I dreamed I was put in an incinerator, like the ones 'unfit to live' back when I was among my own. And that you ponies did it."

Sunny said, "And we'd never do that, they assumed that you had forced me to make love to you."

Allura cried, "Yes they assumed I was a rapist, like they showed the mixed-race leopards on the screens."

Sunny said, "Don't worry just go to sleep and we'll talk with Pipp in the morning?"

Allura cuddled up and went back to sleep. Sunny eventually did to despite Twitch's snoring.

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Allura was up in the morning making peanut butter and cave-made freeze-dried jerky sandwich.

Sunny muttered as she prepared breakfast, "I might go carnivore if that rabbit keeps snoring."

Allura said, "Ugh, this is the last of it, you said the pegasi royalty eat pickled fish, I can wait for Pipp to apologize if I can get some?"

Sunny said, "Zipp also has some?"

Allura looked around at Sunny and said, "So you have two products of inbreeding for friends?"

Sunny stated, "Don't call them that?"

Allura said, "OK, Pony, I won't."

Pipp suddenly came down the ramp.

Sunny approached Pipp and said, "We were just discussing you."

Pipp said, "Ok, uh, you and your cat marefriend are talking about me, why?"

Allura stated, "You called me ugly?"

Pipp muttered, "Well, I need my Coffee before I apologize."

Allura muttered back, "I knew Sunny was the sincere pony?"

Pipp looked, "OK, you seem to hate us, why?"

Allura said, "Because I was always told ponies were silly creatures that couldn't get anything done because they were constantly playing."

Pipp looked and asked, "Your parents told you that?"

Allura stated, "It was just something you were told if you lived in my society."

Pipp said, "Well as Pony, I am sorry and hope you weren't too hurt, and we did think you were a rapist."

Allura stared at her paw and muttered, "All mixed breeds are rapists?"

Pipp yelled, "WHA?"

Allura told her, "That's what the teacher would say, then point to me and my brother."

Pipp flew over to Allura and said, "I am sorry I said that too ok, you obviously suffered a lot of damage."

Allura looked at Pipp and stated, "Be glad you'll never know what it was like."

Pipp gave Allura a hug and said, "I know you have done a lot to survive, but I promise as long as you don't hurt Sunny you're safe."

Sunny asked, "Um, could you or Zipp give her some fish?"

Pipp said, "I guess."

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Allura and Pipp were walking through the town, Allura suddenly looked at some jewelry, and said, "That looks nice," and simply grabbed it.

Pipp stated looking to the side at the confused and scared kiosk owner, "Allura are you just going to take that from that shop owner with paying?"

Allura purred dramatically, "Why yesss!"

Pipp stated, "Girl if you don't want me to march back to the bright house and tell Sunny to break up with your butt pay for it."

Allura asked, "Okay could you give me some money?"

Pipp looked and gave her several pony dollars.

Allura paid and asked, "Pink Pony could I ask you to pay for several things I want to get today?"

Pipp stated, "First don't call me Pink Pony, second only today tomorrow you're getting a job. I think assisting Comet, one of the poor ponies you put under mind control, at the Smoothie Stand."

Allura looked and then answered, "I have no experience with fruit whatsoever?"

Pipp looked back and explained, "Well we can't have you help Hitch or Zipp because they enforce the law and you almost broke it, Izzy is a solo act, so, can you style manes?"

Allura looked and said, "I used to style my brother's fur and we got very good at it, but that was eons ago?"

Pipp replied looking back, "You'll mostly do janitor and clean-up work until I fully train you."

Allura asked, "Could we go get some cat stuff?"

Pipp stated, "Yeah, but you'll be paying me back at some point."

Allura then said, "Erm since Pink Pony is out of the question, Erm, what's your nickname again?"

Pipp droned annoyed, "Piiipp."

Allura stated, "Don't worry at one point I was calling Sunny just, Pony?"

Pipp looked and asked, "How'd you feel if I called you Purple Winged Snow Leopard?"

Allura muttered a little threateningly, "It's a habit, not an insult..."

Pipp retorted, "Don't get surly with me!"

Allura suddenly got really fearful and yelled stuttering, "No Sunny thinks it's autism and so did my mother, though she didn't get me diagnosed since, I might get declared, 'unfit to live!"

Pipp looked and asked, "First, why would Sunny say that second, 'unfit to live? Harsh?"

Allura said, "Hitch is the only one she's told this to besides me, but Sunny has had several pony doctors say she might be autistic, and I might have not been supposed to tell you that?"

Pipp said, "Oh I should get her some stem toys!"

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Sunny said to Allura in the bathroom, "Okay, so I have some stem toys now and, um, I feel better than I used to, but shouldn't be telling ponies all my secrets?"

Allura said, "But I made you feel good, and you're the first pony I could do that without casting a spell on."

She high-paw Twitch, looked at Sunny, and said, "What?"

Sunny replied, "You know you shouldn't joke about that?"

Allura said sadly, "Yeah there are a lot of rules now?"

Sunny said, "As Hitch says, 'Living in a Society has Rules.'"

Allura replied, "And the powerful are immune to them in a Society!"

Sunny reassured her, "Pony Society isn't like that."

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Sunny in the cave yelled, "So Flying Snow Leopards had a society like Pegasie with mass media everywhere?"

Allura asks, "So some ponies live in a society that broadcasts speeches and propaganda all over the walls with live executions aired weekly?"

Sunny looked surprised and stated horrified, "Live executions?"

Allura muttered looking down, "Oh so this was a different kind of society than mine?"

Sunny said putting her hoof on Allura's head, "What you're describing is disturbing, but I was taught in school when I was little that the pegasie and unicorns were cannibals, and only my dad told me otherwise. Listen I am sure that you are not a monster, just someone who got a bad start."

Allura looked and asked, "Could I ask you something?"

Sunny said, "Shoot."

Allura said, "No you're another species and the same sex."

Sunny looked and asked, "Are you attracted to me?"

Allura raged and yelled, "It's probably just because I haven't seen a female of my own species in forever!"

Sunny looked and asked, "I think we could try it out, let's kiss?"

Allura stared into Sunny's eyes and said, "You think that's normal?"

Sunny stated, "I know your society believed it was wrong, but I could be the pony to show you who you could be?"

Allura yelled, "Fornicating, picking up STDs, molesting she-cubs, making out with animals, excreta?"

Sunny looked disgusted and asked, "Who told you such hateful things about lesbians?"

Allura looked at her paws and said, "The damned screens!"

Sunny looked at Allura and told her, "Just plant a kiss on me?"

Allura timidly kissed Sunny's cheek and then Sunny kissed hers.

Allura asked, "Why do you smell like wild berries, I was told Ponies smelled like their horse ancestors, all musty and such?"

Sunny pipped, "Pipp gave me a shampoo earlier and you're not the first one who thought I'd smell?"

Allura and Sunny laughed together.

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Jazz was a green pony with a red and purple mane and Allura was training with Jazz's mane. Jazz sat with her hair in the shampoo and water. She was terrified of the Snow Leopard.

Jazz winced and said, "PLEAZE Do not cut my mane with those claws?"

Allura looked and joked, "My claws aren't for cutting hair, they're for disemboweling my prey?"

Jazz looked frightened.

Allura reassured her, "My species doesn't even eat horses, so a pony like you would definitely be off the menu."

Jazz told her, "Wow I now know why everypony is scared of you?"

Allura muttered sillily, "Because I am naturally intimidating?"

Rocky said, "Because you're something out of a horror movie?"

Allura looked and ask, "Do I actually look like something in your horror movies," cocking her head to the side.

Rocky said, "Sorry Jazz is my girlfriend and I don't like you scaring her?"

Allura pried, "So you love an earth pony, but pegasie used to only a few years ago believed earth ponies were inferior?"

Jazz yelled, "HEY!"

Allura replied, "That's what you eat!"

Rocky looked at Jazz and told her, "It's okay baby."

He then looked then said to Allura, "I once thought earth ponies had small brains and were violent, I was expecting the place to reek when I got to Maretime Bay, but the immediate second Jazz started being nice to me and being kind whenever I did something dumb the way no fellow pegasus had, I felt more at home than ever."

Jazz then stated, "And just to be fair, I thought he was gonna eat me a few times?"

Allura looked and said, "I am certain he has, as you look like a happy mare?"

Jazz snorted and Rocky blushed.

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Jazz was stylish and Rocky was beaming over her.

Jazz told Allura, "You did well!"

Allura said, "So can I style already?"

Jazz said, "Not yet, we need to get you adjusted to socializing with ponies, but I think you could fit in?"

Allura thought happily, 'I can be with Sunny!'