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Chapter 9: Bad kitty-bug-bat-thing

As the sun rose in Ponyville, I was starting to wake up. I rolled over on the bed and felt something.

I opened my eyes to see Twilight right in front of me. She was asleep, but her nose was touching mine.

I slowly moved of the bed, trying not to wake her. As it turned around, Jeff appeared in front of me with his wings crossed and a smirk on his face.

"Ok, I know what you're thinkin' and this isn't what it looks like" I quickly said.

"Oh really, looks to me like you slept with Twilight last night." Jeff said with his smirk growing bigger.

"Nothing happened last night; she was cold and she wanted me to keep her warm, that it." I said as I was getting embarrassed.

"Is that what she told you?" he asked still smirking.

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever dude, I know what happened." I then walked passed him and went down stairs.

"Well, somepony woke up on the wrong side of the love bed." Jeff said as he followed me.

That afternoon: The Ponyville market

Me, Twilight, Spike and Jeff where in the market shopping for fruit and vegetables, Peewee decided to stay at home today. I (being a gentlecolt) offered to carry all the bags.

I had two in my mouth, and two in each side of my saddlebags, not to mention Jeff and Peewee were on my back. They were heavy but I wasn't going to make Twilight carry anything, it was my way of saying thanks for understanding my situation yesterday.

As we were walking. We saw Fluttershy and Applejack selling apples up ahead, so we walked over to them.

When we reached them. Applejack waved her hoof "Howdy Twilight, Matt. What's crackin'?"

I spat the bags out my mouth. "Well right now, my spine." I said as I struggled to stand.

Twilight turned to me. "Are you sure you don't want me to carry anything?" she had a sound of concern in her voice.

I waved a hoof. "No no, I've got them. No girlfriend of mine is going to bust her back."

She put a hoof on my shoulder. "Matt, that's sweet of you. But, I won't bust my back because I can just levitate the bags with my magic. Plus, if I don't the only one who'll bust their back is you."

I didn't have time to say anything as my strength gave in and I collapsed to the ground.

Twilight then detached the saddlebags off of me and helped me back up.

"So, what can I do ya for?" Applejack said.

"We're just buying apples, how much is a full bag?" I asked.

She pulled a bag of apples out of her wagon. "3 bits." She answered.

I got the money out my saddlebag and gave it to her and she gave me the bag.

Fluttershy then walked up to Twilight. "So, do you have any plans for tonight?" she asked

"What kind of plans?" Twilight asked as she titled her head.

Applejack then joins up with them. "Ya know, special plan with a certain somepony."

Twilight suddenly got what they were saying. "Oh, no not tonight. But tomorrow night we're going out for a dinner date." She said with a smile.

"Oh, that's wonderful and so romantic. I wish I had somepony like that." Fluttershy said.

Applejack nodded. "Yeah, we could all do with somepony in our lives."

"Don't worry girls, you'll find your colts eventually. I mean, I use to think I wouldn't find somepony until I met Matt." Twilight said with a sweet smile.

Applejack and Fluttershy smiled and nodded.

Suddenly, we all heard a girl scream. I turned my head to face Jeff on my back. "Jeff, what's wrong."

He glared down at me. "Dude that wasn't me."

Suddenly, ponies started running passed us in fear. I looked in the direction they were running from and my eyes widened at what I saw.

A manticore with glowing red eyes was rampaging through the streets.

"Is that a manticore? But I thought they only stayed in the Ever Free Forest. What's one doing here?" I asked in a shocked tone.

Twilight turned to me. "I don't know, but its terrorising Ponyville. Fluttershy, go see if you can calm it down."

Fluttershy nodded and flew towards the manticore. Once she reached it, she started talking to it.

"Now now, calm down little pussy cat. It's alright, I won't hurt-OHF." Fluttershy was interrupted as the manticore whacked her with its paw, sending her crashing to the ground.

"FLUTTERSHY." We all screamed out.

Fluttershy slowly leaned up and froze in fear as she saw the manticore about to slam its paw down on her.

"Oh no you don't you miss matched sack of crap." I yelled as I flew off towards the manticore, picking up more and more speed with every flap.

And before the manticore could slam down on Fluttershy, I punched my hoof into its jaw, making it stumble back slightly.

I turned to Fluttershy. "Are you okay." I asked as I helped her up.

"Yeah. I'm fine, thank you. But why couldn't I calm it down?" she asked me.

"I don't know, but there'll be time to wonder later. Right now you and the others have to get out of here." I said as I turned to face the manticore, who was getting back up.

"What about you?" she asked in a concerned voice.

I turned my head to face her. "I'll hold it off, now go." With that, Fluttershy galloped towards Twilight and the others.

When Fluttershy reached them, Twilight had a worried look on her face. "What's Matt doing?"

Fluttershy looked at her. "He said he would buy us time and hold off the manticore."

Twilight's eyes widened. "HE'S WHAT?" she screamed.

Twilight turned to Applejack. "We have to help him; he can't fight that thing on his own." Applejack then nodded in agreement.

"Come on ya'll, he needs our help." Applejack said as she turned to the others and then ran towards me with Twilight following.

Spike and Jeff looked at each other. "Let's kick some manticore butt." Jeff said before he flew off toward the fight with Spike following.

As the manticore slowly approached me, I was preparing to fight when Twilight and the others appeared beside me. "I thought I told you to run."

Twilight turned her head to me. "You're not doing this alone Matt."

"Yeah, if you're fightin' then we're with ya all the way." Applejack said with a confident smile.

I gave them a loving smile for this, I've never had friend that stuck by me like this. I'm so lucky to have them by my side.

The moment was ruined by the manticore letting out a loud roar as it charged towards us. We then charged towards it.

As we were getting closer to the manticore. It raised its front paws in the air and as it was about to slam them down on us, the others split apart from me and I rolled between its back legs.

The manticore spun around, grabbed me by surprise and held me up; it formed a fist with its other paw. But before it could punch me a watermelon slatted in its face.

Spike was throwing watermelons in the air and Applejack was bucking them with her hind-legs.

Two more watermelons hit its face, forcing it to lose its grip on me and I fell to the ground.

The manticore roared and charged towards Applejack and Spike. With a flash of light, Twilight appeared between Applejack and Spike, her horn then glowed and they all disappeared in a flash. Causing the manticore to crash into a house.

With a flash, Twilight, Applejack and Spike reappeared beside me.

The manticore shook the dust of its face and spun around to face us. It then charged at us again.

"Everypony scatter." I yelled before we split up around the manticore.

The manticore stopped charging and looked in different directions, trying to see which one of us would charge at it first.

The manticore then felt something at its back leg; it turned it head to see Fluttershy kicking its back leg. She saw it give her a fearsome growl and she let out a small scream, galloped off and hid behind Applejack's wagon while covering her eyes with her hooves.

The manticore walked up to the wagon, grabbed it and threw in the air. The wagon landed on a roof of a nearby house and dangled off it slightly.

The manticore raised one of its paws and formed a fist. But before it could throw it down on Fluttershy, Jeff landed on its nose, bit down on its whiskers and yanked them out.

The manticore roared out in pain and whacked Jeff off its nose, Jeff then crashed to the ground next to Fluttershy.

I then saw the wagon on the roof and got a crazy idea. I galloped up to the house and positioned myself under the wagon.

As the manticore was about to hit Fluttershy and Jeff, I picked up a rock and threw it at the manticore.

The rock hit it on the back of the head, it spun around to face me. "COME ON." I yelled encouraging it to come at me.

The manticore then charged towards me, I waited until the perfect moment before I jumped out the way, causing it to crash into the house. The vibrations on the house caused the wagon to fall off the roof and hit the manticore right on the head, knocking it unconscious.

I slowly approached the manticore and it started to wake up. I was about to get ready to fight again until I looked at its eyes.

Its eyes weren't glowing red anymore; they were back to its normal eyes. It then started looking around as if it didn't know where it was.

Twilight and the others then came up beside me. "What's it doing?" Spike asked.

I didn't take my sight of the manticore. "I don't know…..Fluttershy, it looks a little calmer now, see if you can talk to it!" with that, Fluttershy walked up to the manticore and started stroking it.

"There's a good kitty. Did that big mean wagon hurt your little head." She said in a sweet voice, the manticore then started purring. This was getting stranger by the second.

Afterwards, Fluttershy was taking the manticore back towards the Ever Free Forest.

Me and Twilight turned to each other, "I don't get it, why did Fluttershy's skills work now when they didn't work before? And what was with the glowing red eyes? I mean what was wrong with it?" I asked.

"It was under mind control." A familiar voice said behind us.

We turned around to see Celestia with a serious look on her face.

"Mind control? You mean somepony was controlling that thing?" I said

She nodded. "Yes, but that's just it; nopony, not even I can cast a mind control spell that powerful. So the question is….who could?" she said with a serious look.

Me and Twilight looked at each other in wonder.

Meanwhile: Far away dark mountains

Four silhouetted alicorn figures with glowing red eyes were watching us in a large green pool.

"Grrrr, they made me lose control of that beast. I can't believe it." A male voice said.

"How could you have lost that battle? You were up against small ponies." A female voice said.

"It was that Pegasus, he interfered with our plan. He must be punished." A second male voice said in an angry tone.

"Calm yourselves, he will perish just like everypony else, but remember our real target." A third deep male voice said.

"Yes, soon we shall strike and have our revenge." The female voice said.

"But what about those ponies? We can't proceed with them interfering, we have to find a way to keep them out of the way!" the first male voice said.

"Allow me to take care of them; they won't stand a chance against me." The second male voice said.

"NO, we cannot reveal ourselves just yet, but maybe we don't have to be the ones to distract them. I have somepony in mind who can keep them occupied, somepony tricky, deceitful…..and very cruel." The third deep voice said as he gave an evil grin.

Now how was that? Something's going down in Equestria.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and next chapter will be up soon.

Goodnight everypony.