Fluttershy and Me: Remastered

Fluttershy and MeWritten by BioBoy619Act 1: A New Kind of Love

It would be unfair of me to say my life was nothing but misery.  I lived a normal lifestyle.  I had family and friends who cared for me, so I wasn’t lonely.  I went to an average school where nothing unusual ever happened, but hell I was pretty much guaranteed to get at least one laugh a day at school on account of my friends and their ridiculous ways.  When school ended, I would usually just go home and play video games or listen to music for the rest of the day, unless I had something like musical rehearsal after school.  If I wasn’t doing any of those things, I might have been watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.  I was a closet brony, so no one knew about my love for the show.  I didn’t have a job to worry about, but I was looking for one.  But this brings me to why my life was as miserable as it was.

You could probably say that I had an epiphany.  I don’t know why I hadn’t realized it sooner in life, but it seemed like life was nothing but work.  You are born into the world and pretty much from that moment forward, you are working.  You work to mature yourself, you work in school, and you work at your job after graduation.  Work.  That’s it.  That’s all it has ever really been.  I don’t care if I’m being bias for saying that.  Coming to that realization had changed me drastically, driving my life into the “same shit, different day” scenario.  I wasn’t depressed, like I said, but my life just felt lacking, and there was really nothing I could do about it.  But that didn’t mean someone else couldn’t do anything about it.

It was a normal Friday, which was great.  Fridays are like a blessing in disguise.  Fridays mean that the weekend has finally arrived.  But this was the Friday that would change my life forever.  Walking home from school took me about ten to fifteen minutes, which I was fine with.  Sometimes if my backpack was light enough, I would even parkour my way home.  If you’re like me and are heavily influenced by the Assassin's Creed franchise, you want to learn, or already know, parkour.  I wasn’t always so physically well built, so I trained myself in both parkour and fighting, and of course got myself more fit to use these skills more effectively.  However, this brings about a bit of irony.  My favorite game series are Assassin's Creed, Halo, and Dead Space, in that order.  I’m not a violent person, but my love for violent games and the fact that I have the physical abilities that I do seems weird for a brony (maybe).  The real irony is that my favorite pony is Fluttershy.  She is so innocent and adorable.  I was like her opposite, but then again so is pretty much every other pony on the show.  But I digress. This Friday wasn’t a parkour day.  I just wanted to walk home.

When I finally reached my block and turned the corner, something big caught my eye.  When I say big, I mean that literally.  A dumpster had been placed outside one of the houses on my block.  The only reason I had been surprised was because it hadn’t been there this morning and that it really just stuck out like a sore thumb.  I walked passed, thinking nothing of it, but it wouldn’t leave my mind.  Stepping into my house, I placed my bag on the bench in the mudroom, took out my headphones (I had been listening to my iPod), and proceeded to the basement where my Xbox was waiting for me.  I tried to drown out the thought of that dumpster with some Dead Space 3.  But this didn’t help, so I shut off the console and proceeded to my laptop to listen to some music.  This proved to be much more effective.

Fridays meant two other things as well.  Pizza and hanging out with my best friend at night.  These were two Friday practices that I always followed unless something came up that interfered with my normal plans.  When my mother finally arrived home, I knew it was pizza time.  She walked in and I thanked her for the pizza, as usual.

“I’ll be out all night, but if you guys want to come back here, that’s fine,” she said.

I nodded my head and took my two slices into the basement, where I had been listening to some Breaking Benjamin.

After finishing my pizza, I put my plate in the dish washer, went to the bathroom, and left for my friend’s house.  But it just so happened I would once again have to pass that damn dumpster.  I was going to actually parkour my way to my friend’s house, but only when I got to the long stretch that I would have to walk to get there.  I walked down my block passing the dumpster.  I stopped for a second to scan it over.  Nothing seemed strange about it.  I just shook my head and continued walking.  But just as I started walking, I heard a very distinct whining.  I stopped and turned my head to see if there was someone walking a dog close by.  I couldn’t seem to find anyone.  I stared at the dumpster for a second, shrugged, and continued on.  Then I heard it again.  Now I was getting a little peeved.  What the hell was that noise, and where was it coming from?  My attention was drawn once again to the dumpster.  I decided to have a look inside.

As I looked in on the more open side of the dumpster, all I could see were old, broken pieces of furniture, some crappy knick-knacks, nothing out of the ordinary.  I was so confused.  But then I saw it.  It was colored cream yellow.  It seemed to have pink hair too.  I think I knew what it was, but I wouldn’t allow myself to fully realize it.  That quickly changed after I heard that whining once again.  That could only be the whining of my favorite pony.  Fluttershy.

I couldn’t believe my eyes.  Lying beneath broken down furniture in a dumpster was my favorite pony.  Something was a little off though.  She seemed younger than in the show, maybe about as old as she was in episode 23.  I couldn’t tell if she had her cutie mark, but that wasn’t important at the moment.  I didn’t know what to do.  Let me just say though that she was absolutely adorable.  I usually would give a little squeal when watching her in the show if she did something cute, but in reality, it was so heartwarming.  I couldn’t really make out if she was a cartoon or actually 3D.  But if I wanted to find out, I had to get her out of there.  I needed to start somewhere.

“Hey there.”

As soon as I said that, her head shot up and her eyes beamed open.  As quickly as her head went up, it went back down.  She was shaking, either from the cold or from seeing me.

“P-Please, don’t hurt me,” she said, sounding scared half to death.  I couldn’t help but get teary eyed after hearing her speak.  I was a little surprised as well to actually hear her speak so readily like that.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to hurt you,” I said, trying to be as reassuring as possible.  She looked up at me, and we locked eyes.  We probably stayed that way for about 30 seconds.  I was the one to break the silence.

“Hey, maybe we should get you inside somewhere.  It’s getting late, and it’s supposed to get really cold tonight.  C’mon, let’s get you out of there.”

I held out my hand and she jerked backwards.  I could tell she was afraid.  You would have to be blind to not be able to.

“Please, I just want to help you.  I won’t hurt you, I promise.”  She was shaking a little less now, and she started moving forward.  She lifted her hoof, slowly inching it towards me.  When she finally placed her hoof in my hand, I could feel how cold she was.  I pulled her out from under the furnishings.  She appeared to be 3D as I kind of expected.  I was actually thinking she might look like the model of herself that people can use in Gmod or Source Filmmaker videos.  But that didn’t matter.  She was beautiful.  I cleaned out some of the dirt in her hair.  I think I actually saw her smile, but she hid it so well that I wasn’t completely sure.

As the wind blew on by and rustled her coat, she shivered.  I knew she must have been cold from being out there for so long.  Well, actually, I had no idea how long she was out there.  I would have to wait and ask her when we got home.  I removed my sweatshirt and wrapped her up, praying that no eyes were watching me.  She got comfortable and rested her chin on my arm.  I felt a warmth flow through my body that I don’t think I had ever felt before in my entire life.  I stood there for a moment to smile.  Soon after that, I began to walk back home, wondering what I had just gotten myself into.