Mystery started to slow down as he glanced behind him and noticed nothing was chasing him, or throwing things at him. "These ponies are CRAZY!" he shouted to himself. "I miss the isolated forest; it was much quieter there." he looked around at where he had run off to. It did have a bit of greenery around it with tall trees. One thing that caught his eye though was a tree that resembled a house. Of course, he knew better than to even try to knock on the door; unless he wanted to get chased out of town again. As he turned back to go back to his assigned home, the unicorn bumped right into Twilight.

"You're going to have to help AJ later," Twilight immediately said, not even stating so much as a simple 'hello' to him. "For now, you're going to try helping the local wildlife." She was being firm and right to the point with him. She had quite enough of the pony. "And this time, I'm going to keep an eye on you. Now come on." Twilight grabbed Mystery's hooves and practically dragged him to the front of the house. "You might remember Fluttershy. She's very quiet and gets nervous easily. Just let me do all the talking." She knocked on the door. "Fluttershy, it's me, Twilight."

The door slowly opened to reveal the yellow pegasus behind it, her pink hair the first visible thing. "Hello Twili-" she froze as her eyes shifted to catch sight of the gray pony that stood beside her. "YOU!" Normally, Fluttershy would have been scared straight knowing what such a pony did to Canterlot, or new ponies in general. This time though, Fluttershy remembered that day so well and she didn't want anyone to hurt her friends again. Anyone that even TRIED to hurt her friends became her enemy; and they were going to hear about it!

Fluttershy dashed out from her house to stand right in front of Mystery. She eyed him down and stepped closer to him. It was causing Mystery's own eyes to widen, let go of Twilight’s hoof, and move away from her as she started backing him into a tree. "I remember YOU!" Fluttershy shouted. "You tried to take over Canterlot. You manipulated that poor little squirrel, but most of all, YOU TRIED TO HURT MY FRIENDS!"

"Erm…Twilight…" Mystery said as he was backing away with his head lowered thanks to Fluttershy. His eyes didn't leave her own for even a moment as he tried to talk to her. "Could you come here for a moment?" he tried to maintain his composure, but it just wasn't working. His nervousness was obvious in his tone.

Twilight's mouth was wide just like her eyes. Fluttershy was not behaving like her normal quiet self. Then again, when her friends were in danger, she would always speak up for them. Considering what Mystery had done some time back, Fluttershy was unquestionably speaking up to him. Hearing Mystery's voice though, her horn glowed and she vanished in a puff of purple smoke to reappear next to Mystery. "What is it?"

"She scares me," Mystery said in a quiet tone, one that could compare to Fluttershy's own quiet voice.

Twilight rolled her eyes and looked at Fluttershy. "He's trying to be nicer to ponies, Fluttershy. We're trying to get him his mark and we need your assistance." Though she knew what answer to expect from an irritated pony such as herself.

"On one condition." Fluttershy suddenly stopped forcing the pony back. She stood up completely and turned her head away with her eyes closed. "He apologizes to us for what he's done."

"Forget it. I'd rather put all of Canterlot on wheels and drag it halfway across the globe by myself." Mystery huffed. Fluttershy was scaring him, but he still had a reputation to uphold!

"I can get you the reins," Twilight responded with an eye roll. "Anyways, look, you're willing to do anything to get your cutie mark, aren't you?"

"Just about anything." Mystery looked down for a moment and sighed. He knew where Twilight was going to go with this. "Fine, I'll say it. I'm…sally."

"Sally?" Twilight tilted her head with one brow raised.

"Give me a break, I'm new at this!" Mystery suddenly barked to her. Then she looked at Fluttershy again. By now, Fluttershy was eyeing him too with a glare on her face. "I'm sa…so…sor…" the pony just couldn't get the simple word out of his mouth. He tried it in a different approach. "I didn't mean to do what I did. I went absolutely insane over getting my mark. I'd like to make it up to you for everything that happened in Canterlot."

Fluttershy didn't hear the word 'sorry' at all. The way he explained his apology was enough to make her smile some. "Okay. I'll help you out. Let's go feed some bunnies."

Fluttershy went into her house for a moment before coming out with a bag on her back. "Here's the food. I'll lead the way." Fluttershy then led Mystery and Twilight away from her house and over to a clearing nearby. The clearing was neatly arranged in a circle and had a few holes dug in the ground that looked as if they were dug up by very small paws.

"The rabbits live here?" Mystery glanced at the holes curiously and peeked inside one. He was interrupted by Fluttershy who jumped right out in front of him before he had a chance to look and see what was inside.

"Yes," Fluttershy said with a nod. "But you have to be careful. You have to be very quiet and very gentle with bunnies." She proceeded to walk over to a tree that had a tiny bell placed on the side. She grabbed it with her teeth and rung the golden bell. From one of the holes, a rabbit popped out curiously and immediately hopped over to Fluttershy.

Fluttershy put the bell back and leaned her head down to the white furry creature. "It's dinnertime my little friend. Today we're going to have a special guest to help me out feeding you." She tilted her head slightly towards Mystery and Twilight that stood side by side.

The bunny eyed the two ponies for a moment. It tilted its head to the right, then left. Then the bunny suddenly started chattering to Fluttershy, speaking a language most ponies wouldn't be capable of understanding. Except Fluttershy that is.

Fluttershy nodded. "Oh? Why yes, that is the same pony. How did you-" she was suddenly cut off by more chattering from the bunny. "Well, yes. He did. But he didn't-" she was cut off, yet again by even more chattering. This time though, the chattering was sounding angry. "He didn't hurt him though! He just-" more chattering continuously interrupted her.

"Twilight." Mystery turned his head towards her. "You speak bunny? I don't get what they're saying." Was it really this difficult to feed an animal, a bunny no less? He recalled owning a goldfish once. Not even he had to have a conversation with it before feeding it something.

"Fluttershy has a way with animals." Twilight didn't even look back at Mystery. She was just eying the conversation between Fluttershy and the bunny. "I don't get what they're saying either. It sounds like they're talking about you though."

"Even the bunny knows me huh?" Mystery chuckled. "I didn't think I'd be so famous that even the local wildlife would be aware of my existence."

"Infamous," Twilight mumbled under her breath.

"No!" Fluttershy suddenly cried out. "You don't have to do that! Really!" She wasn't getting through to the angry bunny though. Suddenly the bunny let out a loud whistle, causing many bunnies to pop out of a variety of burrows that surrounded the clearing. The bunch of bunnies bounced over to the one that let out the whistle, pushing Fluttershy out of the group and to the other two ponies that were watching. The bunny that let out the whistle proceeded to chat angrily before pointing at Mystery with an outstretched paw. Each bunny turned to him with a look of pure anger on their face.

It was obvious to Mystery what was about to happen. He didn't know how, he didn't know why. He didn't speak animal! Still though, he glanced over at Twilight casually. "Twilight, if you please?"

Twilight's eyes were wide as she stared at the bunnies. She glanced at Mystery with a surprising look on her face. As if she could read his mind though, she knew what to tell him next. Her eyes and tail lowered into a grimace. "Run away in terror," she said with a sudden groan.

"Oh, Twilight, you're getting good at this." Mystery grinned at her. Then his face suddenly turned into that of panic before he dashed off towards Ponyville. It wasn't long before the large group of bunnies chased right after him; raising a cloud of dust as they did.

Once the gray pony and the bunnies were gone, Twilight looked up at Fluttershy. "Care to explain?" she said with her ears lowered.

"The squirrel he um...did things to, told the bunnies of Canterlot…then those bunnies told the ones in Ponyville," Fluttershy said worriedly. She dropped the bag of food she was carrying for the bunnies and suddenly took off after them. "Dear bunnies, please stop chasing him and come back." She said in her hushed tone. "Oh dear, I'm sure Mystery is sorry for what he did, but he's going to have to spend a lot of time with the bunnies and myself to prove it to them."

Twilight sighed before starting to slowly walk after the, once again, chase scene. Pinkie Pie's was a disaster. Rarity's home had an abomination. Applejacks farm was nearly completely ruined. Now, a herd of cute white bunnies were chasing after him angrily. She was running out of options with how to help this pony.

Author's Note

I know 'Sally' can be used as a name, but it's not used as a noun in this case. I was unsure if it should be capitalized in the sentence or not.