Chapter 30

“Shit shit shit! What did you do Flutters?” Sunset cursed frantically as she paced back and forth in her bedroom. She was dying to know what happened…why would Fluttershy expose herself like this?

Her heart was racing as she thought about her friend, who was surely being either arrested or captured and being forced to expose her boyfriend at that moment…who knew what was really going on out at that house aside from the shy girl herself…

*****

It was just before noon. Fluttershy had just finished beating on her pillow and had finally decided to take matters into her own hands. She came back out to the main room, scowling at the chair with the bug under it.

“If I take it down, he’ll know I’m onto him…” she thought to herself, processing the situation again. What she really wanted to do was bend down next to the chair, put her mouth right up to the bug and scream ‘FUCK YOU, CODY!’ She snickered at the thought of him jumping out of his skin as he heard her scream in his earpiece after getting nothing but silence from the girl all week.

She continued to stare at the chair, tapping her middle and index fingers gently against her bottom lip as she thought.

Suddenly, a solution fired into her brain like a lightning bolt. She quietly scampered back to her bedroom, then opened the bedroom window that faced the backyard and leaned out, closing her eyes and listening. She was looking for a specific voice…out in the woods.

Her eyes suddenly popped open when she heard it. With a smile on her face, she leaned down, reaching out with her hand, waiting patiently.

Finally, an animal scampered out of the bushes towards her. It was a young wolf, only grown to slightly less than half size. It came over to her as she reached down and picked it up, hooking her hands behind its front legs to lift it up into her bedroom.

“Hi there little guy, how are you?” she whispered quietly to the animal, holding it like a baby, standing next her bed as she affectionately scratched its chin.

She bent down after a moment, setting the young wolf on the floor, silently staring into the animal’s eyes for a few moments as the wolf stared back motionless, with the exception of its ears occasionally twitching as it continued to listen to the sounds outside. Finally, a smile crept across Fluttershy’s face as she slowly stood up again.

The young wolf pup suddenly took off, scampering towards the front room.

*****

Cody was sitting in the SUV, listening to the silence in his earpiece. This girl had to be the most boring thing he’d ever had to observe. She didn’t talk, she never went out, she never even sang to herself…but worst of all, she gave him nothing to work with…not a single hint of the whereabouts of his target whatsoever. He had been so sure the pink-haired girl was the one described by the bouncer who was working outside the front door at the bar that night, the same bouncer who positively identified his target from the photograph…but this stakeout was starting to look like a dead-end, despite how promising the lead was. Cody was sure this was going to be his lucky shot…the target almost never surfaced, especially engaging in acts of violence in public. What could possibly have driven him to commit such a brash demonstration of his power?

It was getting hot in the sun, sitting there in the black vehicle, so he had rolled down all the windows to let some breeze in. He blew a gust of heat-exhausted air from his mouth as she loosened his tie and undid the top button of his white shirt.

Then he heard something new over the microphone. He placed his index finger onto his earpiece, frowning as he listened intently, trying to figure out what the sound was.

It sounded like the clatter of dog claws on a hardwood floor. It got louder very quickly…as though whatever it was was heading straight toward the bug. Suddenly he heard loud gusts of breath directly on the microphone, like the sound of a dog sniffing in your ear…followed by the deep, wet sounds of licking…then the scraping of teeth.

“Shit…” Cody thought as he shifted his eyes onto the quiet looking house through the windshield of his vehicle.

There was a loud pop, then the sound of crunching plastic followed the screech of feedback, then finally nothing but loud static colliding with his eardrum.

“AAH!” he shouted, cringing the loud noise. He pulled the earpiece from his head and threw it at the dash of the truck in anger. “Fuck!” he cursed. “Since when does she have a damn dog in there??” he said as he rested his head on the palm of his hand, leaning on the center console with his elbow.

His eyes shifted over to the laptop screen sitting on the passenger seat, noticing there was a new window that had popped up across the screen that read: ‘connection lost’

He closed his eyes, letting his head droop as he rubbed his brow with his fingertips. “Now what? The rest of this week’s gonna be a waste of time…” he muttered to himself.

He looked up to his left suddenly as he heard the loud chirping of a bird sitting on a branch a few feet from his open window. He watched the bird for a moment...it seemed look right back at him, then it suddenly flew away towards the house. Cody put his head back down, thinking about what he should do next…he’d lost his eyes and ears on the subject and now, sitting there in the truck, looking at the outside of her house was almost guaranteed to be a fruitless endeavour. Cody was now kicking himself for not bringing more equipment with him…although he had already pushed his luck, if the CIA knew that he’d stolen that bug from them, he would surely face a heavy penalty...a penalty that he felt was worth the risk, however…

*****

Fluttershy was sitting at her table, at the end closest to the front door, near the window. The bird that had just been perched on the branch next to Cody’s truck flew up and landed in the windowsill.

“Did he buy it?” she asked softly.

The bird chirped a couple times.

A smile grew across the shy girl’s face. “Good.” She then took a deep breath and turned her head toward the window, looking at the bird. “Now…” she said with a devilish look darkening her innocent features. “Time to bring down the rain on this mother-fucker…”

The bird chirped once more before suddenly fluttering away.

Fluttershy watched out the window for a few moments, looking out at the black SUV parked there, under the trees. Her eyes slowly climbed up through the branches above the truck, watching nefariously as a bird swooped in and landed, perching itself amongst the leaves…then another. And another. Then two more.

More and more birds started flocking to the tree, their chirping and the beating of their wings started to become audible to Fluttershy inside the house, sitting at her table as the grin on her face became wider.

*****

I was walking in the woods by myself. It was cooler where I was now; a few days drive north of Canterlot in the middle of the mountains. I had left my truck at a storage site, locked inside a bay which I had paid for in advance for two weeks. I knew it was overkill to come out this far, but I didn’t want to take any chances, being discovered now would ruin everything…I could lose the home I had grown into, as well as the seven lovely women who I was now sharing such a powerful connection with.

I had my phone with me, but the battery had long since died after leaving civilization and I had no way to charge it out here. Not that it mattered. I wouldn’t be hearing from anyone I cared about. I thought about my pink-haired princess…I wondered how she was doing there by herself, being watched by Cody while I was up here alone, walking around in the woods, helpless to do anything but wait. I wondered if it had been a mistake to come out this far…what if something happened she needed my help? No, that won’t happen…Sunset and the girls were there. They were smart, and I knew they could handle themselves.

I missed Fluttershy’s scent, her custard-toned skin, her body heat, her pink hair, soft voice, teal eyes…

And Rarity. I was surprised by how much my mind lingered on the indigo-haired beauty and her smooth, marshmallow-coloured skin. Whenever I saw a crystal-clear blue pond, a river or a sparkling waterfall, the image of her sapphire eyes would flash into my brain, hypnotising me, causing me to hear her sexy voice and her properly chosen words inside my mind.

I was worried that she might complicate things, but then I would remember that Fluttershy obviously thought about her a lot too, as well as the fact the she herself had encouraged me to engage in romantic acts with the fashionista on more than one occasion.

I really didn’t know what to make of it. I’d never been in a situation quite like this before.

I was walking along an old quiet road, singing Black Sabbath’s ‘Never Say Die’ out loud to myself as I watched the sun flicker down on me from between the tree leaves. I had always felt as though this song was written specifically about me…as though the members of the band knew my story and wanted to tell it to the world. I had sung my way through the song about forty times already, just finishing the last line one more time…

Then I saw something in the distance: a brown object on the side of the road.

I walked up to it, wondering what it was. As I approached the motionless form, I realized it was an animal…dead and bloodied from being hit by a car while trying to cross the road. It must have been an extremely unlucky creature, I hadn’t seen a single car that entire day on this road.

I stopped and bent down to look at it. I thought about what my girlfriend would have done if she was there with me. It was still fairly fresh looking, but there no was no heat left in it…I was surprised that nothing had carried it off yet as a free meal. I then noticed it was female, as evidenced by the engorged teets on its belly…it must have given birth to young ones recently.

I looked around the area, wondering if the young ones were close by. They shouldn’t have starved yet, the mother hadn’t been dead for that long…hopefully some other predator hadn’t made a meal out of them yet.

I decided to get up and try to find them…I had nothing else to do anyway. I left the side of the road, venturing into the woods in search of the helpless creatures.

*****

Dinner turned out to be at Rarity’s, or RAD, as Rainbow Dash had started calling it. After Dash had learned of her friends’ immortality and the fact that they don’t sleep anymore, she started calling the fashionista’s place ‘Rarity’s after dark’, or RAD for short.

Rarity hated it at first, but it was starting to grow on her a little bit after hearing it a few too many times.

Everyone was there, except for Fluttershy. Even Twilight Sparkle had made it down that afternoon and was brought up to speed on the situation by her friends…she was fascinated by the fact that my immortality had spread to others, and wished to learn more about why it happened.

Sunset was pacing around non-stop…wondering what had happened with Fluttershy since the text she’d gotten earlier. She hadn’t told the others yet, not wanting them to worry about the shy girl.

“Where is Fluttershy?” she wondered. “Hey Rarity, you sent Fluttershy a text telling her dinner was here tonight, right?” Sunset asked, stopping her pacing for a moment.

“Yes I did, darling.” Rarity replied. “What is the matter with you, Sunset? Please have a seat and relax.”

Sunset shook her head. “Did you ever hear back from her?”

Rarity shook her head. “No darling. I’m sure she’ll be along soon. Please don’t worry. She probably just wants to keep her texting to a minimum.”

Sunset continued pacing as the other girls started watching her more closely.

“Uh, Sunset?” Dash asked. “Is there something you’re not telling us?”

Sunset stopped and looked at them, suddenly noticing they were all staring at her intently with worried looks on their faces. She felt like she needed to tell them about Fluttershy…they had a right to know.

Sunset opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by the sound of Rarity’s front door opening. She turned around to see who it was.

It was Fluttershy. She had shown up after all, looking normal as always…wearing her white tank top, green skirt and green boots. She emerged from the front hallway with her pink hair covering one eye as usual.

“You see, darling? You were worried over nothing.” Rarity said, as Sunset stared at the shy girl with her aqua eyes open wide.

Everyone except for Sunset was sitting on the couch, and Rarity was relaxing in her big purple chair.

“Hi girls…sorry I’m late.” Fluttershy said softly.

“Hey, sugarcube.’ AJ said, sitting on the couch, leaning back with her feet crossed and her legs stretched out, her arms folded behind her head. “How was your-“

Sunset cut her off. “Fluttershy! What the hell happened??”

The other girls were shocked by the outburst, confused by Sunset’s frantic questioning.

“Oh,” Fluttershy said, idly playing with her hair. “Didn’t you get my text?”

“Yes!” Sunset shouted. “What were you thinking, getting rid of the bug??”

AJ sat up suddenly. “Whoa! You got rid of the bug?” she asked, suddenly showing concern of her own.

Fluttershy shrugged. “I had a little wolf friend come into the house through the back window and chew it up.” She explained with a proud grin.

Sunset cocked her eyebrows. “Huh?” She started, then she paused as she thought about it. Her eyes slowly lowered to the floor as she rubbed her chin, thinking it through out loud to herself. “Wait…so the wolf chews up the bug, severing the connection to the phones…Cody hears it, and thinks it was a pet that found it…” she turned to her shy friend. “And he thinks you had nothing to do with it?”

“Mm-hm.” Fluttershy nodded innocently.

Sunset looked up at the shy girl…after a moment, a grin slowly appeared on her face. She suddenly laughed out loud and charged at Fluttershy, giving her a hug, lifting her off the ground.

Sunset set her friend down, then ran her fingers through her own hair, holding it up in a fire-coloured pile over her head. “Flutters, that’s…you’re a fucking genius!”

“Why thank you, Sunset. But here’s more…” the shy girl replied.

“More?” Sunset answered, looking confused again as Fluttershy took out her cell phone and handed it to her friend.

Sunset looked at the screen. There was a picture on it. It looked like Fluttershy’s driveway. She could see what looked like Cody’s truck parked there, but it was covered in white dots…and there were more dots speckled on the ground all around the vehicle. Sunset tried to focus on it to see what was going on, but the phone screen was too small to make out any real detail.

“I don’t get it, Flutters…what is that all over his truck?” Sunset asked, looking up at the shy girl.

“Bird shit.” she replied.

Sunset stared at her for a few seconds before she snorted and covered her mouth as she started to laugh. “Haha, did you do that? With your magic?”

“Mm-hm.” Fluttershy nodded. “I got all the cute little birds in the area to land in that tree above his truck and unload their asses on him.” she said in her sweet voice.

The rest of the girls were sitting on the couch, their mouths gaping open…then after a few seconds, Dash rolled back, clutching her stomach with her arms as she laughed hysterically. “Hahaha! Oh my god, Flutters, that’s the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen you do!”

The other girls started laughing as well.

“Wait!” Fluttershy said to everyone. “You haven’t heard the best part…”

Sunset looked back at her. “What’s that?” she laughed.

Fluttershy leaned in closer. “His sunroof was open.”

*****

The Saturday get-together actually had a light-hearted feel to it. The girls all had a good time, laughing, sharing stories from the week, listening to Twilight’s stories about her finals and her time with her family…although she admitted that things had been much more interesting there in Canterlot.

The girls each hugged Fluttershy as they left for home that night. Everyone had a much better feeling about the upcoming week than they did the week before, knowing that Cody now had no way of keeping tabs on her, other than just sitting there in his truck outside her house. On her way out she gave Rarity a small nod, which was returned by the purple-haired girl signifying that she was impressed by the shy girl’s tactics that day, as well as giving a confirmation that she’d been practicing with her own magic as well.

Fluttershy drove home in the dark, waiting to see if the black SUV would still be there. As she pulled into her driveway, she saw that he was indeed still there, however she was relatively care-free about it compared to the week before. She had a small chuckle at the fact that he had obviously left to go wash his truck and had parked in a different spot.

She parked and went into the house, without even turning to look in Cody’s direction. She did have a small twinge of fear as she opened the door that he might actually be in the house waiting to ambush her, but she brushed that thought away since she knew he had no evidence against her to justify a direct attack. Not to mention he was out of his jurisdiction out here, as well as the fact that he was technically off duty, his entry in the house without invitation would have been highly illegal.

She stayed in bed all night again using her phone for entertainment, knowing the light from the TV would be visible out the front window to him outside.

In the morning when Fluttershy went outside to feed the animals, he was still parked there. She could see him through the windshield as he lifted his head up when he saw her come out, then become less interested when he realized it was one of the things she did everyday.

Once she was finished with that and got back into the house, she went to her bedroom window to meet the bird from the day before.

“Yes please.“ She said in response to the bird’s chirps. “Just keep a steady stream going on him. Not too much, we don’t want it to look too unusual or he might get suspicious.”

The bird chirped and flew away to continue its mission of tormenting the spy. It would have been too much to continue the barrage they gave him the day before…it was such an oppressive rain-down of white globs that happened so suddenly he didn’t even have time to turn on the key so he could close the windows and sunroof before there were white splatters all over the interior, on the door panels, the dash, the seats and all over his laptop and surveillance equipment.

Fluttershy busied herself for the rest of the Sunday doing laundry and looking after the typical things she needed to do to get ready for another work week. Later in the afternoon, she left for town to get groceries. As she left, she could see a few spots of white on the agent’s truck…upon her return, however, there was a significant spattering all over the black paint of the vehicle.

She giggled as she walked back into her house, bringing the groceries with her. She continued on with her day, finishing her chores and making herself some supper. She did feel lonely as she ate, sitting at her table alone, still wishing I was back there with her. She couldn’t wait for the week to be over. She hoped desperately that her plan to drive the spy away was going to work sooner than later, after all, he was doing nothing more than wasting his time now…just sitting there, staring at the outside of her house.

Monday passed by much the same way. The black SUV had accumulated a fair amount of shit splatter by the morning when she went outside to feed the animals.

She went to work, had a productive day and came home at her regular time. As she pulled in the driveway, she was shocked to see the black SUV gone.

“Maybe he went to wash it again…” she thought to herself.

She went through another night without seeing his return to the yard, cooking and eating supper alone, watching TV for a while, having a hot shower, then laying in bed playing on her phone all night.

On Tuesday morning when she got up and went outside, she was ecstatic to see the SUV still gone. She went into the back yard to feed the animals as usual, but this time she called for a Bald Eagle and a couple Peregrine Falcons to come and perch close to her in the yard so she could instruct them to search the area for the day while she was at work and report back to her when she returned home in the evening if they had seen the black truck anywhere.

When she returned home that night, she met the birds again in the backyard who gave her news that made her squeal with delight. There had been no sign of the agent or his truck all day…he hadn’t been spotted anywhere within a twelve mile radius of Fluttershy’s house by the birds while they were continually searching the area looking for him.

Just to be sure, she had the birds repeat the process the next day as well. When she got home from the shelter on Wednesday night to find her driveway still empty and receiving another positive report from the majestic birds, she thanked them with a few meaty treats, sent them on their way and rushed into the house.

The first thing she did was pull her phone out and send a text to the person she missed more than anything else in the world. She sat and watched her phone for a response with excitement in her heart. After a few moments passed, she thought about sending another, but decided not to, remembering that I could be anywhere…quite possibly in an area with no reception.

She decided to text the person she wanted to see the most after me.

FLUTTERSHY: Hey

RARITY: Hello Fluttershy! How are things out there?

FLUTTERSHY: Great! Mr. Cody seems to have left. I had the birds continue shitting on him the whole time he was here. Haven't seen him since Monday morning. I even had some birds circle the area for 2 days and they couldn't find him anywhere.

RARITY: That is splendid news! I'm so proud of you! :)

FLUTTERSHY: What r u doing tonight? R u working?

RARITY: No. I’m well ahead of the orders this week. Unless something changes, I don't have any plans at all during the next few nights.

FLUTTERSHY: Want to go out to Riverfield?

RARITY: Are you certain Mr. Cody is gone? Suppose he's abandoned his vehicle and is sneaking around on foot?

FLUTTERSHY: Don't worry, he can't hide from the forest. The woodland cuties will tell me if he's around.

RARITY: Very true. Brilliant, Fluttershy! You can consider me there. I actually have somethings I wanted to show you.

FLUTTERSHY: Neat! See you soon. Bye!

RARITY: Ta-ta!

Author's Notes:

Never Say Die...this is actually a cover by Megadeth, it has a bit more grit to it, so I like it a little better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM6RgKkXzVM