My Little Pony: Will Of Fire

The Fire Element Alicorn

Chapter 19

Filly Flick

It is common knowledge that most boys like action movies and most girls like romance movies. An animated movie for fillies about a pony princess defending her candy kingdom from the evil bitter bugs is something Flareon would never go to see...ever, or so he thought. It all began one day in Ponyville when Flareon, Twilight, and their friends were about to see a movie called 'Extreme Ponies' that is about these ponies who perform extreme tricks. Rainbow Dash was the one who suggested they see it. "You guys are going to love this movie. I've waited months to see it," Rainbow Dash said as they were walking to the movie theater. As they got there, Twilight spotted a poster previewing a new movie called 'Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom', an animated movie for fillies. "Hey look...it comes out tomorrow! I loves these movies! I can't believe they are on the 3rd movie in the series already!" Twilight exclaimed. As the girls began to get excited about the new movie, Flareon began to laugh. "You're kidding me...right? An animated movies for little girls? I would never watch a stupid girly movie like that. Trust me...I've seen enough movie previews about movies like that. They always get low rating and poor reviews." Fluttershy then replied, "I'm sure you would like it Flareon if you gave it a chance." Unfortunately she wasn't able to change his mind on the subject as Flareon began to tell them about how his sister made him sit through a terrible chick flick. "Alright Flareon...we get it. We won't make you see the movie, but try to give it some thought...ok?" Twilight said. He once again laughed at the thought of sitting through a filly flick. It was never going to happen.

After purchasing their tickets, and then getting some snacks, they sat down in their seats and waited for Extreme Ponies to start. As the movie began, a preview of Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom began to play. Flareon was completely surprised, the movie didn't seem that bad, it actually looked really good. It had action, adventure, comedy, and even though it had romance, the movie overall looked amazing. Unfortunately, Flareon knew after what he said before, there was no way Twilight and his friends would ever let it go if they found out that Flareon was interested in seeing a filly movie. They would probably make fun of him for an entire week. He was going to have to see the movie without letting them find out. After Extreme Ponies ended, everyone was forced to list Rainbow Dash's speech of how awesome the movie was as they were leaving the movie theater. After everyone went their separate ways, Flareon decided he was going to see Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom tomorrow by any means necessary.

The next day, Flareon put his plan 'Operation: Princess Taffy' into motion with plan A, the direct approach. As he walked to the to the ticket counter, Flareon noticed there was an elder unicorn managing the tickets. Flareon walked up to him and whispered so that the ponies behind him wouldn't hear him. "One ticket for Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom please." The unicorn then put his hoof to his ear and replied, "What's that? Speak up Jimmy I can't hear you." Flareon tried again, "One ticket for the Princess Taffy movie." The unicorn moved closer to the window and said, "What's that sunny? You want a coupon for candy?" After losing his patience, Flareon yelled, "I want a ticket so I can watch that new filly movie called Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom!" Right away, he knew his mistake and turned around to see every pony in the line behind him with strange looks on their face. Flareon then realized his plan had failed and quickly flew away, saving himself from further embarrassment. As he landed behind a nearby tree, Flareon muttered, "What was a close one. Looks like I have to resort to plan B." Soon after, he decided to wait a while for the heat on him to cool down.

An hour later, Flareon returned to the movie theater. This time he put plan B into action, the indirect approach. As Flareon got in line, he quickly moved up and went inside a large group of ponies. This way Flareon could get into the movie theater without anyone seeing him. The group of ponies purchased their tickets and began to walk inside. So far, Flareon's plan was a success, that is until, they stopped at the ticket taker. After they gave the unicorn took their tickets, he asked, "Excuse me, but is that pony with all of you? I noticed that you're one ticket short." The group of ponies quickly gave him angry looks as one of them said, "I'm sorry, but do we know you?" After realizing plan B was a complete failure, He quickly ran away and hide on the other side of the theater. "Looks like Plan A and B didn't work. I didn't want to resort to this, but I have no choice. It's time for plan C!" Flareon said as he looked around the side of the movie theater to make sure he wasn't followed.

Soon after, Flareon decided to put plan C into action. After he flew and landed on top of the building, Flareon finally found what he was looking for, an air duct. His plan was to climb into the air duct and crawl through it until he found the room where the Princess Taffy movie was playing. Flareon then would just simply go into it and find an empty seat to sit in. As he was crawling through the air duct, Flareon said to himself, "This plan is absolutely foolproof. I should have done plan C from the beginning." Unfortunately, Flareon spoke too soon as the floor under him collapsed and he fell hard to the ground. As Flareon looked around, he saw some mares staring at him completely shocked. It turns out he accidentally fell into the girls' bathroom. "Um...hi?" Flareon said with an awkward smile, but it was too late as the mares began to scream. A couple of minutes later, Flareon was thrown out of the movie theater by a security guard. As the guard went back inside, Flareon rubbed his head and said to himself, "Plan A, B, and C have failed. I'm not giving up though...I will see that movie!" Flareon then decided he try Plan A once again, and if it didn't work, he was going to see the movie with the girls and be forced to endure their ridicule.

Later on, Flareon once again walked up to the ticket booth. This time though, there was a young stallion managing the booth instead of the elder unicorn. Flareon then decided it was now or never and said, "One ticket for Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom...please?" The unicorn smiled at him and replied, "One ticket for Princess Taffy coming up!" After the ticket printed, the unicorn gave him the ticket, and Flareon quickly gave him the money. As Flareon began to walk into the movie theater, he stopped to give the ticket taker his movie ticket. Even though he expected the unicorn to laugh at him, Flareon was surprised when he just smiled and said, "Enjoy your movie!" After Flareon purchased a bag of popcorn at the snack counter, he quickly ran into the theater and sat down in a seat. It didn't take long before the room was full with mares and fillies. When Flareon looked around, he noticed that there were a few stallions in the room, but they mostly were with their wife and children. It turns out Flareon was probably the only guy that was seeing the movie by himself. As the movie began to play, he heard a voice behind him that made his heart skip a beat. "Fluttershy...want some of my popcorn?" When Flareon slowly turned around, his face suddenly turned pale as he saw Twilight and his friends were sitting in the row directly behind him. He had somehow gone to see the Princess Taffy movie at the same time as the girls did. Since all the seats were full, Flareon knew he wouldn't be able to leave without alerting them. So after some thought, he decided to see the movie and quickly leave after it was done before they saw him.

Throughout the movie, Flareon was in awe of how Princess Taffy and her guards defended the castle from the bitter bug army. In a surprising twist, it turns out that Prince Mint of the Bubblegum Kingdom was actually the pony leading the bitter bugs. After the bitter bug leader corrupted the prince's mind, he used him to infiltrate Princess Taffy's kingdom. Half-way through the movie, a filly that was sitting next to him noticed Flareon hadn't finished his popcorn. "Um...excuse me sir, but can I have your popcorn please?" After Flareon have her his popcorn, she smiled and continued to watch the movie. In the end, Princess Taffy was able to snap Prince Mint out of his trance, and together they were able to defeat the bitter bug leader, saving their kingdom and the residents. As the credits began to roll, some ponies started to leave. Flareon knew this was the only chance he would get and quickly hid behind a family that was leaving. After he got out of the theater, Flareon let out a deep sigh of relief. He was able to successfully see the movie without letting Twilight and his friends finding out. When the girls came out of the theater, they spotted Flareon and walked over to him. "Oh Flareon you're here too," Twilight said, "Did you a movie?" Flareon quickly replied, "Yeah I did, I saw uh...Midnight Riders again. I couldn't help it, I loved that movie." Soon after, the girls started to discuss about how much they liked the new Princess Taffy movie.

As Flareon was nearly in the clear, the filly that he gave his popcorn to suddenly walked over to him. "Excuse me sir," she said, "I just wanted to thank you for giving me your popcorn." Right away, the others began to get suspicious. How was a young filly able to see a stallion rated movie like the Midnight Riders? "Hey kid," Rainbow Dash asked, "What movie did you see?" The filly turned to her and replied, "I saw Princess Taffy and the Bubblegum Kingdom with my mom and dad!" As they began to put the pieces together, Applejack asked the filly, "Was Flareon here watching that movie with you?" The filly simply smiled and said, "Yep! He was sitting next to me during the entire movie. He seemed to have really like the movie too!" As she returned to her family, Flareon was fully ready to endure all the taunting and ridicule from everyone and turned around. To his surprise, all of them were smiling at him, no one, including Rainbow Dash, were laughing at him. Twilight walked up to him and said, "So...you really liked the movie, didn't you?" Flareon was still shocked and replied, "I don't get it...why aren't you laughing at me and saying things like, Flareon likes girly movies, you're such a girl, and you're not as cool as we thought?" This time though, they burst in laughter. "What are you talking about Flareon?" Twilight said, "Is this why you didn't want to see the movie with us? You thought we would make fun of you? Don't be ridiculous, why would we ever to that?" After she walked up and hugged him, Twilight said, "Flareon...watching a girly movie doesn't make you a girl, just as watching a guy movie doesn't make you a guy. Movies are for everyone and we would never make fun of a friend, especially my husband, for seeing a movie for fillies." After she let go, Twilight said, "Next time...how about we see the next Princess Taffy movie together...ok?" As everyone began to leave the movie theater, Flareon promised them that he would see the next Princess Taffy movie with them instead of trying to crawl through the air ducts. They however, didn't bother asking why he attempted that and how it turned out.