The next day...

Boots was nuzzled up against Fluttershy as they both fell asleep on the couch until Angel shook them both awake, very impatiently.

"Wake up!" Angel glared in Animal language.

Fluttershy and Boots then woke up. Angel then angrily pointed to his empty bowl.

"Oh, my!" Boots gasped. "Mama, we overslept!"

"Oh, dear..." Fluttershy gasped back.

Angel began to wait impatiently.

"Come on, Boots, help me." Fluttershy said.

Boots nodded and went to the kitchen to get the bunny's food. Soon enough, they got Angel his breakfast. Angel then ate his food.

"Oh, my, it's not like me to sleep this late..." Fluttershy frowned in worry.

"Same here." Boots said.

Fluttershy then went with Boots to feed all the other animals.

"Sorry we're late, everybody." Boots told the other pets as she helped her mother.

"We're never this late." Fluttershy said.

The two then prepared the food for the pets who eagerly ate as they were nearly starving.

"Mama, what happened to your wings and cutie mark?" Boots asked, after finally noticing her adoptive mother didn't have either one.

Fluttershy tried to look back, but couldn't.

"Daddy!" Boots called out.

Discord teleported over, he had a smock on with a paint tray with a brush and was covered in purple paint.

"Could you make a mirror for Mama?" Boots then asked.

"Of course, my dear." Discord said.

Boots smiled. Discord then snapped his fingers and held out a mirror for Fluttershy. Fluttershy then shrieked to see her cutie mark and wings had vanished.

"W-Where are my wings and cutie mark?!" Fluttershy asked out of fear.

"What happened to Mama?" Boots asked her adoptive father.

"Must have been the same mysterious force that took away Twilight's horn, wings, and cutie mark." Discord said.

"Aunt Twilight's stuff is taken?" Boots asked.

"I'm afraid so, dear," Discord replied. "I'm not sure who it could be though... I mean, not even I would be so evil before I reformed."

"Maybe a magic mirror can help us." Boots smiled.

"Hmm..." Discord stroked his goatee with his claw. "That does sound logical, my dear Boots."

"Yay!" Boots smiled.

Fluttershy smiled back.

"I better see what's going down..." Discord replied. He soon use his magic to make a magic mirror appear.

Boots looked excited.

"Let's take a look." Discord stood with Fluttershy and Boots.

"Yes, let's." Fluttershy agreed.

Discord looked with Boots and Fluttershy to see what was going on.

---

At Sweet Apple Acres...

Applejack tried to buck against a tree, but she looked weak as her cutie mark vanished and she was unable to make any apples fall.

"You need any help, Applejack?" Atticus asked.

"Ah'd appreciate it..." Applejack replied. "Big Mac and Granny Smith are in town."

Atticus then came up to the tree and kicked with his back hind legs. "HiYAH!" And where all of the apples from the tree fell on top of them.

"Thank ya kindly." Applejack smiled.

"No problem, AJ," Atticus smiled back. "Well, me and Patch better get going; him and Apple Bloom are going to be bringing me and Granny Smith to meet their mysterious friend."

"Good luck with that." Applejack nodded.

Atticus nodded back. He, Patch, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith soon went to meet Timber.

"Like I said.. I'm so sorry..." Atticus said to Patch.

"I'm sorry too..." Patch replied.

"So, where is this friend of yours, Apple Bloom?" Granny Smith smiled.

"He should be around here..." Apple Bloom pouted.

They soon heard something coming and where it was Timber.

"Oh, there he is!" Apple Bloom smiled.

Granny Smith smiled back as she was excited.

---

"Everypony, meet Timber." Apple Bloom said as her friend came to meet the family.

Timber seemed a little hesitant.

"Don't worry, Timber, they won't you." Patch said.

Timber took a deep breath, trying to keep calm and then came over to meet Apple Bloom's family. The only ones he got to meet right now was Granny Smith along with Atticus.

"You must be Apple Bloom's sister." Timber smiled politely to Granny Smith.

"Sorry, oh, well, aren't you a nice young fella, even if you are a timberwolf pup," Granny Smith smiled. "Ah'm Granny Smith; Ah'm Apple Bloom's grandmother."

Timber smiled bashfully and shook her hoof in his paw.

"Ooh, that's quite a grip ya got there." Granny Smith smiled.

"Thank you, ma'am." Timber smiled back.

Granny Smith soon looked into Timber's eyes the same way Grandmother Willow looked into John Smith's eyes. Atticus and Patch smiled as this was indeed going so far so good.

"He has a kind spirit and he isn't too bad on the eyes either." Granny Smith winked at her youngest granddaughter.

Apple Bloom and Timber seemed to both blush at this.

"You know what, Timber?" Atticus replied. "Now that I'm getting a closer look at you; you don't seem to have any darkness in you at all, and I don't sense any darkness in you either."

Patch smiled to that.

"Um, well, thank you..." Timber smiled. "Sometimes I think I was a mistake."

"Oh, don't say that..." Atticus tutted.

"Besides, why would you think you were a mistake?" Patch added.

"I don't wanna be bad like everyone else..." Patch stared at the ground with a frown. "A lot of folks run away from me, expecting me to be bad... Like I'm a Changeling or something... They run away before they even get to know me."

"Well, the timberwolves haven't exactly shown any kindness to the ponies." Atticus said to Timber.

"I know..." Timber sighed. "I hate being a timberwolf sometimes."

"Well, maybe more timberwolves can learn to be nice." Patch smiled.

"I would love that..." Timber confessed. "And I'm sorry for what my father has been doing."

"It's okay, Timber, you can't help that..." Patch soothed. "I'm sure something will work right in the end, it usually does."

"He's right." Atticus smiled.

Timber smiled to Atticus. "So, what should we play?" He then asked.

"Oh, you two play togeter?" Granny Smith smirked to Apple Bloom. "Reminds me of the times when I met your grandpappy when I was a filly."

"Granny..." Apple Bloom blushed.

"Okay, okay, Ah'll stop." Granny Smith giggled.

Apple Bloom smiled sheepishly while Timber hid a giggle.

"So, what shall we play?" Patch asked.

"Hmm..." Apple Bloom and Timber thought about it before saying something together in unison. "House!"

Patch was surprised but then smirked at that. "Okay."

"I think we already know who are going to be the mother and father." Atticus smirked.

Apple Bloom and Timber smiled bashfully to each other. Granny Smith then went to shop and allowed Apple Bloom to go play with her friends and not run errands with her this time.

"I guess that would make me the grandfather." Atticus laughed a little.

"Yep." Patch smirked.

---

Apple Bloom took Timber to the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse and after a while, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were coming over, talking about the weird things going on in Ponyville lately, but then got distracted after they heard giggling from their other friend.

"Is that Apple Bloom?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Without us?" Scootaloo asked as well.

The two fillies opened the door and gasped as they saw Timber with Apple Bloom. "TIMBERWOLF!"

"Girls, calm down, Timber is nice." Apple Bloom told them.

"Timber?" Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo asked.

"Howdy!" Timber smiled to Apple Bloom's best friends.

"He's really nice." Patch smiled.

"A nice timber-" Sweetie Belle was about to ask.

"Yes, yes, we know it's weird, but Ah believe and trust him." Apple Bloom told her best friends.

"Well, if you're okay by Apple Bloom and Patch, then you're okay by me." Scootaloo decided.

"So, what are you playing?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"We're playing house." Timber smiled.

"You can be the aunties." Apple Bloom suggested.

"Yay!" Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo smiled.

Apple Bloom smiled back to them.

"I'm the baby..." Patch mumbled.

This caused for Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to snicker while trying not to laugh. Patch glanced to them and sighed as he was the baby in their game of house.

"What's for dinner, honey?" Timber asked, deepening his voice to sound like a father.

"Hayburgers and fries of course." Apple Bloom replied as she took out a plate with imaginary food on it.

"Your specialty dish." Timber smiled.

"Made with love." Apple Bloom smiled back.

Patch smiled himself as he could sense something between the two despite being a timberwolf pup and a pony filly.

"What are we going to feed the baby?" Sweetie Belle asked in an English accent.

"It's favorite, hot mustard with mushy vegetables!" Scootaloo replied.

"Now just wait a minute!" Patch called out before Sweetie Belle shoved a spoon in his mouth.

"Open up for Auntie Sweetie Belle~" Sweetie Belle cooed.

'Holy Dog Biscuits!' Patch thought to himself. He then opened his mouth and yelped as the mustard was spicy and he ran down the bridge into the clubhouse and dunked his head in the water.

"I guess I overdid it with the hot sauce." Scootaloo said as she took out a bottle.

"Maybe just a little." Sweetie Belle said.

Patch came back in while panting. "Guh! I am one hot dog."

This made the others laugh since they knew Patch was actually a puppy.

"Hey, I'm funny." Patch smiled.

---

They continued to play for a while. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were happy to be apart of this and glad that they gave Timber a chance. Sweetie Belle, Atticus, Scootaloo, and Patch decided to leave Apple Bloom and Timber alone.

"So, that's Scootaloo, huh?" Timber asked Apple Bloom. "I'm surprised that she's a pegasus."

"Why are you surprised?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Well, from the way you talked about her, I thought she was a chicken." Timber smiled sheepishly.

"Yeah, she's been meaning to try to fly," Apple Bloom said. "And where she finally got to fly."

"I'd love to see her fly." Timber agreed.

The two of them soon looked into each others eye's, feeling an urge. Their eyes glowed into each other's. The two of them were now going to want to kiss. Sweetie Belle realized she forgot something and was on her way back into the clubhouse and her jaw dropped as Apple Bloom and Timber had kissed each other on the lips. Unfortunately, Big Mac was going up into the tree house as well to see what was going on. Apple Bloom and Timber smiled to each other. Sweetie Belle was jaw dropped.

Big Mac was shocked, but then yelled out like an overprotective father. "APPLE BLOOM!"

"Big Mac!" Apple Bloom gasped.

"I think I should get going." Timber said.

Apple Bloom looked worried and surprised as Timber rushed away back into his home in the Everfree Forest.

"What's goin' on?" Applejack asked.

Apple Bloom shuffled her hoof.

"Apple Bloom was kissing a stranger." Big Mac told Applejack.

"Big Mac..." Applejack sighed and shook her head. "Ya gotta stop doin' that, yer not our dad."

"It wasn't a stranger, Apple Bloom kissed Timber." Sweetie Belle said.

"Well Ah didn't know who he was and worst of all, he was a timberwolf." Big Mac narrowed his eyes. "Apple Bloom, Ah forbid you to see that creature."

"But Big Mac, Ah love him!" Apple Bloom cried out before gasping as she admitted that.

This caused Applejack, Big Mac, and Sweetie Belle to gasp; only Sweetie Belle's gasp was an excited gasp while Big Mac's and Applejack's gasps were out of shock. Apple Bloom ran away.

"Apple Bloom, come back!" Applejack called out.