Inside the Cynder household, Spike was inside his room, playing a video game for the fifth time, with Ember too bust studying for the next pop quiz Cheerilee told everyone about, he finished studying an hour ago and decided to kill some time with some mindless, violent, video games. He already beat the last games he had and this was the last one, within a few minutes he was able to beat it all the while getting a new high score.

"Well, I beat the games." Spike said, tossing his controller to the side. "Now what else to do?" he had very limited options, he wished Ember wasn't so busy right now, she would no doubt come up with something to do, he just laid on his bed, until...

Screech

Spike sat right up at the sound of a bird, he looked to the window sill and saw a hawk on it, near its foot was a rolled up paper. Curious, Spike took the paper from the window and saw that it was a letter adreseed to him, he rolled it up to see what contents of had.

Dear Spike,

Sorry for not having to coming to your house in person, but I didn't want to bother you in case you were super busy with something, so sorry if you are, anyway I need some help with something, so I sent Peck out to get you. It's okay if you don't want to though, I mean you probably have much better things to do, but I would really appreciate it if you can't abd hemp out, I asked the others, but they said they were all too busy, so I thought of you next. Peck knows the way so you should follow him for directions, that is if you actually accept, it's ikay if you're not, I'd understand.

Love, Fluttershy. Did that say Love?! I meant from!

"Fluttershy?" Spike questioned, he wondered what the sweet and shy girl would want with him. Deciding to see fir himself, he got off the edge and put on his shoes, he opened his closet to take out his skateboard, which had a green dragon design on it. He left his room abd made his way downstairs and went out the door.

"Hey, Ember, I'm gonna go out for a bit, don't wait up!" he called.

"Okay, Spike!" Ember called back.

The green haired youth skated around the town abd followed the hawk to ey're it came from, which if he had to guess is also where Fluttershy is, waiting for him, he made jump and grinder on a bench and did a slim before landing, he looked up and saw the hawk begin to swoop down. He descended down to a few blocks away, he landed on the sidewalk in frkmt of some kind of store, he skated over and saw that it was as an animal shelter.

"Hmm, guess this is the place." she said as he walked over and opened the door, allowing the hawk to fly in.

"Who is it?" he heard Fluttershy ask.

"It's me Fluttershy, it's Spi-" he stopped as he found get, she was on all fours putting dog biscuits on a bowl for one of the animals, and he could see her tight butt and panties, it is as so round and plump, and get shaking it a bit was great too. He blushed immediately and couldn't help but stare, but he reminded himself that he's not some perv, with a lot of willpower, he got her attention. "It's......... It's me, Spike "

Fluttershy turned around and saw that it indeed was her friend. "Oh Spike!" she smiled warmly, the shy girl got up and walked over to the young boy.

"Hey, uh I got that lett-" he was cut off once again as the big breasted girl hugged him close to her buxom.

"I've been waiting for you Spike, oh thank you for coming, I didn't think you'd actually say yes." she said sincerely, unaware that she was increasing his blood pressure and was slightly cutting off his oxygen supply. "Spike, is something wrong." she looked and panicked a s she saw him pull his head back in a seemingly catatonic state. "Oh my! Spike, are you okay?! Do you need to rest!"

"What?" he numbly asked, but was able to regain his composure. "What, no I'm alright Fluttershy, just got winded a little."

"Oh thank goodness." she breathed a sigh in relief. "It would've broken my heart if I saw you hurt." she said a she let him go. "Anyway, thanks again for coming, I hope it wasn't too much of an inconvenience to you."

Spike waved it off. "Don't worry about it, truth be told I had nothing better to do."

"Oh, okay then." she was glad that he wasn't too angry or annoyed, then again she could never imagine a cutie like him with a mean look.

"So, that letter you sent, do you need me for something? Also, why couldn't you just text me?" he asked, more curious for the second part mostly.

Fluttershy twiddled her fingers. "Well, I find that using ariel travel can be more useful, that and my phone is charging right now." she explained. "Anyway Spike, I called you here because I kinda need your help with something very important, that nothing else matters." she took a minute to pause. "I want you to help me with the animals!" she grasped both his shoulders and gazed at him with a serious look.

"The animals?" Spike repeated. "You mean, you need help feeding them?"

Fluttershy waved that idea off. "Oh no, I already took care of that before you got here." she told him. "Here let me show you what i mean." she went to her bag and rolled out a map of the entire town, some places had red circles around them done by the meak girl. "See these locations? Well you see, they're the usual places where I find a lot of poor, stray animals, especially this are right here, that's where I'm going today." she explained.

"Really?"

She nodded. "I know, it's horrible isn't it? You wouldn't believe how many abandoned animals I come across, it always breaks my heart whenever I see how sick they look, weeks maybe even months of being left alone in the cold streets, I sometimes get help from the other volunteers at this animal shelter but they mostly have other plans so I though of you. So what do you say, you wanna help?"

"Yeah I'm in."

"Now, I know you may be hesitant and I can totally understand that, but-" she did a double take. "Wait you'll actually help?"

"Well yeah, why wouldn't I? It would be great to help out all those animals, truth be told I've seen a few strays before and it kinda irks me that no one's done that much to help them, so yeah I'm down with lending a hand or claw." he told her with upmost conviction. "When do we start?"

Fluttershy stared at Spike in pure amazement, she's only met a few people who share the same views as her, and couldn't help but look into Spike's green eyes, then showed his kindness and caring nature and felt loss in them, those luscious eyes of his, his adorable little face and lips that she could easily...

"Fluttershy? Fluttershy!"

"Huh?" she was snapped out of her thoughts once Spike called her name.

"Aren't we gonna go now?" he asked.

"Right. Right, of course! Hahaha." she laughed nervously with an intense blush. "I was just wondering if you were ready."

"Well, I am." Spike responded.

"Good, we come on!" she went out as fast as she could, almost as fast as Rainbow.

"Wonder what got her so worked up." Spike scratched his head in slight confusion as he followed her.

The location that the duo went to was at an abandoned house that looked like no one's lived in it for 10 years, it looked as if it could give out and crumble to the ground at any minute, in the front yard was a FOR SALE sign that was covered with a lot of dust.

"Yeesh!" Spike cringed, looking at the house's poor state. "I don't think I wanna know what happened here."

Fluttershy nodded sympathetically. "It's s very sad story, an old couple used to live here for most of their lives, until they couldn't pay up their rent and were evicted, I heard that they kept a few pets but they couldn't bring them to the apartment building they moved to."

"So, they could still be here." Spike surmised.

"Yes." Fluttershy confirmed. "I've been meaning to come here for a while but.."

"But?"

She twiddled her fingers. "I'm-I'm too scared! This house looks so creepy and ominous, I couldn't possibly go on without someone going in with me! I'm sorry Spike, you must be so disappointed, I'd understand if you wouldn't want to go in."

"Hey, it's okay." Spike soothed.

"Really?" Fluttershy turned to him.

"Yeah." Spike nodded. "Truth be told, I'd be pretty nervous going on there too." he admitted. "But hey I told you I'd help out so I will."

"Wow, thank you Spike." she then started to blush. "Um hey, if it's alright with you could you maybe hold my hand?"

"Sure." he held it out for her to take it, cautiously they started their decent into the eerie house, when Spike opened the door it made a deep creaking sound as if they were walking straight into a horror movie, even the inside was as bad as outside, they both could see some cobwebs and dust bunnies passing by. The door slammed close with a loud thud making them both jump and hug each other tightly.

They seperated with heavy blushes on their cheeks and decided to look at different places. Spike we go to the kitchen and saw a lot of pans, broken pieces of plates, and chairs on the floor, the oven was covered with dust and he swore he just saw a spider crawl by. He moved to the cupboard and kneel down to open it, but found nothing, he tried using his enhanced sense of smell to see if he could sniff out any animals nearby. His nose led him to the fridge, opening it he saw a little puppy dog curled up, it looked a little dirty and it's fur was messy.

"Hey, little fella." he reached to touch but the canine recoiled in slight fear. "Hey easy there, I'm not gonna hurt ya." he carefully reached his hand to touch its fur, he gently rubbed it to show the pup that he was no threat to him whatsoever, the pup calmed down as Spike continued massaging him. "There see? I'm a friend."

He picked the dog up and carried it in his arms with the utmost care in the world, it looked like it went through a fire or something. "Spike?" he heard Fluttershy call. "Did you find anything?"

"Yeah, come over here." he called back. Fluttershy walked over to where Spike was and saw the poor little pup in his arms and gasped.

"Oh my, oh you poor little thing." she went over to take the dog into her own arms and rubbed it soothingly. "Where did you find him?" she asked Spike.

"Little guy was hiding in the fridge." he answered. "Did you find anything?" he asked.

Fluttershy shook her head in response. "Not really, this one may be the only one here." she surmised. However, the dog srambled out of her grasp and ran away. "Hey, where are you going?" Fluttershy and Spike followed it until it stopped at a basement door, barking loudly, it pointed its nose at it. "You want us to open the door?" Fluttershy asked. The dog nodded, Spike opened the door and they followed the dog down to the basement.

"Wonder what it wants us to find down hear." Spike wondered, dodging a few spider webs.

"We won't know unless it shows us." Fluttershy replied.

They made their way down to the basement, but it was too dark to see anything, Spike took out his phone and turned on the flashlight on the lens, he guided it until it shine over a switch. He pulled on it, making the light turn on all over the basement., they were greeted with the sight of even more stray animals. Cats, hamsters, dogs, birds, and other types were huddled together for comfort.

"Goodness." Fluttershy gasped, putting a hand to her mouth in pure shock, she's never seen so many lost animals in one place before. "You poor things, I didn't think there'd be so much of you."

"How are we supposed to get all these animals back to the shelter?" Spike asked, scratching his head.

"Don't worry, I came prepared." Fluttershy took out bird cages and leashes from her bag.

Spike raised an eyebrow. "You keep leashes and bird cages in your bag?"

"You'd be surprised by how many objects I have in my bag specifically for animals." Fluttershy told him.

"Okay, but I'm not sure we can handle so many of these guys fir the walk back." Spike pointed out.

Fluttershy took out her phone. "I can call a friend of mine, he owns a truck that can carry most of them, while we handle the rest."

"Oh. Okay then."

About a half an hour later, Fluttershy's friend arrived and took half of the animals, while the two of them took the remaining half to the shelter, as they walked they conversed for a bit.

"Man, I still can't believe that old run down house had so many animals without having any homes." Spike said with a sympathetic and sad tone.

Fluttershy understood that sentiment "It's truly heartbreaking isn't it? That's why I try to do everything that I can to help those animals. Not many people care about stray animals, they just shrug them off as filthy creatures, but I know better, I can understand how the animals feel."

"Really?"

"Yes." Fluttershy confirmed. "Ever since I was little, not many kids were willing to make friends with me because to them, I was a pushover, I really did try to be assertive, but it was always hard for me. I guess they don't like shy people." she sighed.

"That's not something to be embarrassed about." Spike said.

"It isn't?"

"Of course not, everyone's insecure about something." she told her. "Heck, I've been bullied a bit by some older boys before, I was luck to have Ember around to defend me. Though, now that I think about it, no girl has ever picked on me."

Fluttershy chuckled. "Well of course not. How could they hurt a cute little thing like you?" she gently stroked his face, making him blush up.

"Hey, Fluttershy, I gotta ask. How did you if all people get roped into this whole thing with fighting magical creatures?"

Fluttershy thought about that question, sometimes she would even ask herself that question, a long time ago, she would say that she'd outright refuse to participate if the circumstances were different. Now she knew a straight answer. "Well, that's bit of a long story..."

Months earlier...

'Like I told you before, I was quite reserved in school, I only ever talked to kids who were more like me, like the Eco kids. When I'm not being so shy, I mostly try to rally support for any event related to saving enough money for the shelter, or give enough support for any fundraiser other students were trying to rally themselves.'

'Wow, that's really kind of you.'

'Thanks, when I was a little girl, my parents always taught me that showing kindness is the best way to express yourself, and despite my timidity, I try to muster enough courage to show whenever possible, it's not easy, but I've gotten used to it. If I see a child who scraped his knee, I'd put a bandage on it, if someone was starving I'd share my food with him or her, when it came to sharing kindness, that was the one thing I wasn't afraid to do.'

'Perfect candidate for the Element of Kindness.'

'Twilight and the others seemed to think so. One night, they invited me over to Applejack's house, they told me everything. At first I couldn't speak, but then, well, things got a little complicated to say the least.'

'Let me guess. Monster attack?'

'Yes.'

"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" Fluttershy let out a terrified scream as a horned 4 legged creature the size of a hummer charged at them. Rarity provided defense with a blue diamond shield that pushed it back. The rest of the team ponied up, Rainbow Dash sent electric blasts at the creature, while Applejack slammed her hands together, creating a sound wave blast abd struck it. "W-W-What is happening?!" Fluttershy shrieked, hyperventilating.

Twilight put her arms on the panicked girl's shoulders. "Fluttershy, calm down, look go somewhere for cover, we'll handle this and protect you!"

Still panicking, Fluttershy complied with Twilight's order without hesitation, she went behind a tree and watched as the fight unfolded; the horned beast stomped its hoof down creating a seismic wave that made Rarity and Applejack fall over. It looked at Rainbow in the sky abd fired an energy beam from its horn at her, making her fall down. Twilight fired her own beam at the beast but it countered it, for a while both beams tried to one up the other, in the end it was the beast that looked like it was going to win, Fluttershy was frightened by this, she couldn't just stand here scared while a group of giris were willing to risk their lives for her. She prayed for something that could give her the strength to help in anyway possible, that's when she was enveloped in a pink light gaining Twilight abd the beast's shared attention. Once the light died down, it showed Fluttetshy with wings and pointy ears, with a glow of her eyes, she raised her have abd vines from the ground sprouted and they captured the beast. She approached it as it growled venomously at her, but she put an arm on its forehead, and miraculously the beast calmed down. Seeing this, Twilight summoned a portal abd the heart went away.

"After that, I find Twilight that I was on board with her proposition to join her." Fluttershy finished her tale. D

While she was telling her story, the both of them had already dropped the animals off, and we're now outside the shelter.

"Wow." Spike said in amazement. "You walked right up to a monster without even flinching? You're tougher than you let on."

Fluttershy started to blush. "Oh, I don't know about that."

"I'm serious, you're pretty brave." Spike then motioned to walk. "Should probably get home now, bye.

"Spike, hold on." Fluttershy stopped him.

"What is it?" his answer was Fluttetshy leaning down, cupping his chin, and gave a warm kiss in the cheek, it was soothing and reminded him of how his mother used to kiss him as a child. Fluttershy also liked this, it made her heart jump a bit; kissing Spike felt nice. She let go and smiled warmly at him. "Have a safe trip back.

Blushing, Spike returned the smile. "Thanks, by." he walked away and after a few minutes, made it to his house, he opened the door abd made his way up to his room, after changing into his pajamas he laid on his bed with a content sigh. He touched the place where Fluttershy kissed him abd shyly smiled as he drifted off to sleep.